#people have all these damn opinions but don’t wanna do it themselves

[decaffeinatedpartymuggoop]

“Draw Percy with black hair” “Book accurate Annabeth” pick up a pencil and do it yourself.

[zvtara-was-never-canon]

https://www.tumblr.com/xabura/752028677741608960/bryke-confirming-that-katara-loves-aang-like-a?source=share

What do you think of this? Apparently Bryke themselves said Katara loves Aang like a babysitter or brother. I don’t understand it? This is coming from the actual creators of the show even though I never got that vibe from Kataang despite what the ZKs say. Does that mean they were right?

If Bryke had said "Ozai is not abusive, he is just strict" it would not suddenly erase the canonical proof of abuse that is literally burned into Zuko's face. Yang can say he didn't write Zuko to be an abusive piece of shit in the comics, but I saw him literally throwing Azula in a place that, by Yang's own admission, only made her condition worse.

I saw Katara get jealous when other girls were paying attention to him as early as episode four of the first damn season, and then ten episodes later looking intrigued and even happy at the possibility that maybe they are fated to get married when they're older.

I've seen her blushing next to him like she did with Jet and Haru. I saw her doing a romantic dance with him. I saw her wanting to kiss him and then getting offended when he said he didn't want to kiss her.

If I saw a babysitter doing that to a child, I'd call the freaking cops. And if Katara had done any of that stuff with Sokka, Nickelodeon would not have let Avatar air (I'm still surprised the bedroom scene in The Awakening didn't get scrapped or at least severely altered).

And speaking of Sokka, I never saw Katara teasing Aang in a sisterly way like she did with Sokka, and with Zuko. I never saw Aang say that, when he thinks of "mother", he thinks "Katara" like Sokka does.

Instead I saw Aang and Katara hanging out, and him reminding her, IN THE FIRST EPISODE, that she was ALSO a kid. And then Katara immediately got attached to him because, in her own words, he had brought FUN back to the vilage.

(And before someone inevitably brings up her dressing up as his mom in "The Headband" - she also dressed up as Sokka's heavily pregnant wife. Read into it if you want, but be consistent. You can't cherry-pick one aspect of the scene and ignore the entire context).

They're children. They're peers. They're friends. Maybe Bryke wanted to add a "But she's also the mom/older sister/babysitter" aspect to it, but if that really is the case, then they fucking failed at it in an absurd way.

Like, if you want her to be "the babysitter" make her baby him, not treat him as an equal even when she's in the role of Sifu with him as the student.

Now, if Zutarians want to use this word of God moment as undeniable proof that Kataang is "weird", fine by me. I'll disagree because I actually DO like "weird" ships and Katang didn't interest me for the longest time exactly because it LACKED any weirdness, but whatever.

But if they expected that shut down differing opinions, once again, they gotta be consistent: Bryke also said that Zutara is toxic, would have no future, and that characters don't like each other like that.

If they want to have the right to disagree with them on that, they can't turn around and say "But you gotta take their word as law when it validates half my point!"

Either everyone is free to agree to disagree, even if they're disagreeing with the creators of the show, or no one is. Either everyone can engage in Death Of The Author when they genuinely think the intention doesn't match the text, or no one can.

If they wanna disagree with Bryke on the anti-zutara thing, but agree with them on the babysitter thing, fine. But they don't get to act all shocked when people do the reverse and pretend it's somehow hypocritical of us to do the same thing THEY are doing.

(Also it's very funny of zutarians to constantly cry "Male gaze" because "Oh, it's just young boy having a crush on an older girl" like they aren't CONSTANTLY using "What girl goes for the younger guy instead of the older one?" as an argument for their ship. Funny how fantasies and tropes are only bad when it's not THEIR fantasy or prefered trope)

[mini-jiminie]

No because again, leaving room for doubt is erasure and does invalidate them. They are literally out there showing us themselves in the show and you are still casting doubtful opinions about them. Are you insane? As another blogger said it’s like having your cake and eating it too. I don’t care if you’ve been here since 2017 or the year zero, doesn’t make a difference to the fact you’re invalidating them for your own benefit.

It’s not about being right or wrong, it’s just appreciating them as they are, respecting them. You’re answering asks about theories which have no valid basis, touting your opinion as fact, and it’s not. You don’t know they have been in other relationships, there is no evidence whatsoever, you’re believing a grainy video above everything Jikook have ever done, and that is homophobic, no matter what you say. You need to check yourself there. They literally spend the later half of 2023 travelling together and then enlisting and therefore there was no distance. They spent lives talking about each other, hugged like crazy at Hobi’s enlistment, went to Yoongis concert, they saw each other, so you think they made the decision for the show and enlistment in a vacuum? Grow up. You are the very definition of an insecure jkk, because you’ve also just said about JK being bi and with a women, that’s literally a paradox, bc he’s not going to leave Jimin if he loves him, for a women just bc you said it’s safer (again homophobic) and I’m sorry but that is so obvious, he’s obsessed) Jimin didn’t write letter for just anyone and get just anyone to sing on it, that shit meant something.

These men obviously have something incredibly special going on with each other, no matter your view point, or the aroace person or mine. Whatever we say or whatever our opinion has no mind to that.

They not only enlisted together but made this show for us to enjoy and all you keep doing is shitting on it, offering nothing more than doubt. You should truly be ashamed.

Suck my fucking dick omfg.

Yes, Jikook are gonna announce their very gay relationship through mf Disney+.

I’m only ashamed of the fact that I have to share this space with such shallow minded imbeciles such as yourself.

I’ve been replying to ‘controversial asks’ because, people like you are not the self proclaimed leaders of the tumblr Jikook space like you wanna believe you are.

You sound like a fucking cultist, did you know?

People can share their opinions whether you agree or not. Plus, bold of you to claim that I’m stating my opinion as fact when you are damn well doing the same thing.

Please touch some grass. Being so obsessed with two people who could give less of a rat’s shit about you is unhealthy.

[abundancewithher]

3 de agusto de 2024

hey stars and hearts! Mimi here and I didn’t post these past couple days because my mom went to the hospital and I was more so worried about her health. she slowly but surely getting better and I pray that she has a quick recovery to get back to her normalcy.

yesterday I had a couple of thoughts that I felt were downloads today once I thought back on them. as we all know, I do slang chicken minis, and hashbrowns in the mornings, from 6 to 2. while I like my job, I don’t want to work there anymore and I don’t want to continue to convince myself that I do. it’s only been a month since i started.

by this point, it was between 7 AM and 9 AM and my feet were hurting me so bad to the point they were going numb. I was walking back from taking orders outside to walk inside the building and I was thinking “I can’t do this any longer, I can’t keep standing on my feet for eight hours and only getting a 30 minute break. I deserve more than that.”

The second thought I had, I was back outside, taking orders. by this time, it was about an hour or two before I was getting ready to go home. I just received the ordertaking tablet and my coworker was setting up the fan for me so that I don’t go hot and pass out at work.

It was really, really hot! and I said “oh damn, I’m standing directly in the sun I don’t wanna burn up!” my coworker, who I suspect has a crush on me because he’s much nicer to me than anyone else, offers to get the sunscreen for me and he does.

but then again I could be thinking too much into it, he could just be really nice. but I am also very intuitive and I know how people act around me, especially when they show interest. no I don’t think it’s my beauty in particular, while I do think I’m beautiful, that’s a given. I would hope anyone thinks that about themselves and if you don’t, it’s time to change your mindset! but I really think it’s my energy.

just past a few months alone. I’ve been told by people that I know that they crave me, they need to hear my opinion, I bring light and peace to them, I’m a breath of fresh air for them. so I thought, if others think of me in that way, why can’t I think about myself that way? so I did, i believed it to be true. i’m getting emotional while I’m typing this lol.

but back to the conversation I was having with my coworker, he comes back with the sunscreen and I think I ended up saying “now I’m shining” but I really think my coworker was the one that said it. but he goes “yes, well, more than you already are.” and of course, this confirms that he does have a crush on me that and I am a shining star. today i felt I am meant to do more than this.

The pieces really didn’t come together until I was talking to my boyfriend about me thinking that my coworker has a crush on me. and then I ended up saying “of course he does. I like myself too, I’m such an amazing person.” and when I was saying that I felt it wasn’t conscious, I felt this came from my subconscious. by the time, I actually realize what I said my boyfriend tumbled over and laughter because he said it sounded conceited.

and of course, he knows me personally I’m not some conceited person so I didn’t take it personally, in all honesty it was hilarious! I have never consciously spoke that way about myself because usually I’m so convinced that I’m not this genuine person that people think I am. I realized at that moment that I had finally changed my subconscious for me to feel deserving of more.

for a while, I felt I was being fake, but in actuality, it was my new mindset fighting with my old mindset. I was going through a sense of impostor syndrome, but I am really proud that I said that even if it may sound conceited. when I said it, it felt genuine. It didn’t feel like anything i was combating how I felt in that moment, and that was very important to me. I am now my real self, no longer being a picture of niceness and that others can run over because of my past people pleasing tendencies.

it felt rewarding to say that genuinely. I finally feel I am in alignment to my manifestations now as I am becoming the person, I am meant to be to receive them. Slowly, but surely, I am still changing my mindset about money and my finances but I definitely feel this is the start. but I will talk about that in my next post, until then my loves,

ttylxoxo, mimi💋

p.s this is the notification i received as I was writing this at 7am!

[sparklecryptid]

hey moose you wanna share your thoughts on fontaine now that things have had time to settle? they should have brought more of Childe's nonsense, in my opinion. you?

Okay I do have thoughts about it but they’re all mainly character focused. And yeah, I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO SEE MORE OF CHILDE HOYO! I NEED MORE OF HIS LORE! I know you are saving that for Snezhnaya but COME ON. COME ON. THE WHALE THING. SKIRK! STOP DROPPING HINTS AT ME DAMN IT IM OUT HERE WITH THEORIES

Okay. So here’s some thoughts on the actual Fontaine characters.

(Save for the House of Hearth siblings. Because I haven’t done Fathers character quest yet.)

(Neuvillette)

You’re the heir to an Authority. You are born knowing that you should have this Authority and that it was robbed from you. You are born and you do not care for humans and their existence. What are they to you but ants living in a world that isn’t theirs? What are they but something you must deal with sooner or later! What are they but stepping stones?

(They are so much more than that. You are the Judge and Justice and you cannot grow attached to those you know you must cast aside one day.

You should not become attached to the humans.

But you do. You do! You learned to love them. You cherish them and their small lives and the echoes of themselves that fall like water into your hands. You learn to love them.

You love them so much you save them. They are yours now.

You think that is the greatest gift Focalors could have given you.)

(Furina)

You are an actress. You play a leading role in this tragic performance - it’s not a tragedy it cannot be a tragedy you trust that divine self you’ve splintered off from too much to believe it’s a tragedy. So you act and you play the part of a god. You act and lie and force yourself over the edge and pass your own limits again and again and again and you will do it until the prophecy is stopped. You will continue this farce until Fontaine is saved.

You have to. These are your people. This is your mission. You are alive to protect them. You are alive and living for this duty thrust upon you. You are the leading lady and the performance falls apart if you stop.

(You are human. You push yourself beyond mortal boundaries because you have to. You don’t have a choice. It’s your comfort or the destruction of the nation you love. It’s an easy choice.

Yet you are still human.

You should have never lived this long.)

(You break.

You rebuild yourself from the rubble.)

Anyway this is to say I very much did enjoy it! It was fun! It had lore and characters that I enjoyed and while I hate underwater combat it’s beautiful down there.

[theredpharaoah]

The misogyny always comes out. Vermithor was not wild and definitely tolerated people being near him. Rhaenyra the least courageous of all Targaryens? Be fucking serious. The fact that she, a woman, decided to push her claim to the iron throne when it was usurped by her male brother - her enemy having Vhagar and Dreamfyre - makes her one of the most courageous Targs of all. She wasn’t just fighting a war against The Greens, she was fighting a war against Westerosi culture. Who do they think is strong and courageous? Aegon the Sex Offender or the One-eyed baby? Maybe Sweet Helaena?(I just peeped this is a Greens subreddit. How do you read the books and end up a Green? Ppl wanna be different so bad. It’s okay to have common sense.)

Also, what is this narrative that the Dragons just kill anyone who enters their general vicinity? That makes no sense. The Valyrians domesticated dragons to have a disposition toward those with Valyrian blood. I mean Viserra had them damn boys in the dragon pit. The keepers intervened, but they were in the damn thing so I’m assuming there were dragons around. And Rhaena was clearly able to be around Balerion without issue. The dragons don’t seem to enjoy being overly bothered, and they don’t let anyone other than their riders or those with Valyrian blood ride them, but other than that they mind their business. Viserion, Drogon, and Rhaegal don’t randomly attack Dany’s attendants - Viserion even likes a couple of them. Even the wild ones aren’t going around killing people willy-nilly. Grey Ghost(my poor baby) was shy, Sheepstealer kept to herself, and The Cannibal ate baby dragons. The dragons that had riders would obviously be even more accepting of company; they’re constantly surrounded and “controlled” by the Dragonkeepers. Of course Rhaenyra, a Targaryen and a dragon rider would be able to control the dragons. Remember when Daemon flew Vhagar back? How would he have been able to do that if she just refused to listen to him? And what do they mean make it possible for the Dragonseeds to ride dragons? She can’t force the dragons to take riders they don’t want. Vermithor was Jahaerys’ dragon and we saw Daemon visit him too; maybe they’re visiting him for spiritual reasons? The Valyrian spirituality/religion has never been developed. Maybe they think Vermithor still has some aspect of Jahaerys in him and wants advice?

Furthermore, I think people are really attached to this Eragon idea of dragons and bonding. Based off of the material; the ONLY prerequisite to claiming a dragon is Targaryen blood. There doesn’t seem to be no “it’s the dragon who chooses the rider” mess or anything like that. The dragons don’t seem to attack Targaryens coming to claim them or even be around them. I mean Baelon lil bad ass bopped Balerion on the nose and he ain’t do anything. If they were as volatile as yall would like us to believe, Baelon would’ve been ashes or a snack. And when the Alyssa went to claim a dragon, the dragonkeepers had to convince her not to claim Balerion. And I’m assuming it was probably because they knew Jahaerys would be pissed if she claimed him, or they wanted to prevent an Aerea thing from happening again. But I have no doubt she could’ve claimed him. In my opinion, the only thing that holds back Targs from claiming dragons is themselves and their families. I think they’ve bought into this idea that dragons choose their riders. And I think a lot of that stems from Jahaerys’ reign.

[notafunkiller]

Any one comes at my girl Flo over Annabelle I’m not holding back I saw the body shaming and I was livid these are the same people who talk about Annabelle as if she were nothing more than incubator to say what? That she’s the love of his life? Sorry no fans of a celebrity couple who actually can see how in love they are act like this lmao so that just shows they know that seb and Annabelle aren’t in love the constant rumors after pointing out how unhappy he looks with her compared to anyone else is pathetic. It’s one thing to like a celebrity couple but let’s be real they don’t even actually like her because if they did they would show up for her projects (I know someone will bring up how her movie went number one but the reviews don’t match the views 🤣) she’s been in the industry for about as long as Sebastian has and her only mark is the men she’s linked too which shippers show again they only like her because she’s linked to Sebastian shippers with how they act are also to blame for her kind of not being liked people see how they act because of her and it’s like oh these are her fans? She must act like that too. But they aren’t her fans they just like her so they self project their fantasies onto her she’s a self insert for them which is why when any argument is said about why Annabelle is liked they scream jealousy because they are the ones actually jealous of her but kiss her ass but you are right they show exactly what kind of people they are Margo and ale got the absolute worst hate because why? Sebastian was happy and showed they made him happy. He showed he was in love and now he’s distanced himself from his fandom which i completely understand why. Let them take this burn book to him. Shippers have went to extremes to try and prove Annabelle is the love of his life and when it ends they will not know what to do with themselves. The next girl I really send my sympathies to because the level of hate she will get will be so bad. Especially when she’s seen out with Sebastian and he makes it known he’s in love and happy which is the complete opposite of how he acts with Annabelle. Pr is always going to be in Hollywood. All singers and actors do it. While some looks more genuine like when Sebastian was papped taking flowers to daisy that was pr would have done it anyway? Yes that’s who he is. He’s a sweet guy which he’s known for but that instance was used for him and for Daisy because that was for her nomination for the golden globes I believe and I would also like to say bragging about a length of relationship doesn’t show commit and or how love a couple is and two years really isn’t that long tbh “it’s his longest relationship” and that means what exactly? All shipper’s arguments show is they have never been in a serious relationship tbh and don’t even get me started on how they have acted towards other fans and even leaking Sebastian’s damn address to prove a point this fan war over trying to prove Annabelle is important to him when he hasn’t even shown that is so gross I’m disgusted and ashamed to say I was ever part of this fandom

THIS!!! Gosh, this, thank you for writing this!

I have the same opinions and I wanna add that they say: longest relationship = serious as you said, but she was with pine for what? 5 years.

Also, he and his friends actually defended Ale and Margarita. So if he wanted to defend AW, he'd find an indirect way how.

I really feel like I am not alone & "paranoid" at all after reading your message.

[dekusleftsock]

I am begging you and every other MHA fan to raise your standards cause Kohei gave everyone a yuri couple only to immediately kill one off.

…how many times has horikoshi faked deaths in this series. Because it’s A LOT. Afo, allmight, izuku losing his arm, bakugou, touya, Ochako literally last chapter, like… the story isn’t done yet my dude.

BUT HEY IF YOU WANNA ACTUALLY CRITIQUE HORIKOSHIS WRITING THEN IM ALL FOR IT HAHA

So how do I think horikoshi has seriously failed mha… hmm…

1: her

Her entire character. Well, not entire character. She GOT a lot of screen time and development don’t get me wrong, especially later in the series, and yes I love the fact that bakugou and dekus relationship was more prioritized than Izuku and Ochakos, but does that mean he prioritized her character? No! Nope! NADDA! Ochako is repeatedly sidelined throughout the story, and is also somehow excluded from a lot of arcs that SERIOUSLY RELATE TO HER CHARACTER.

Imagine if ochako was a part of the stain arc at all. She joined for selfish reasons like iida, he has a blood quirk like toga (which could’ve EASILY been foreshadowing to her not being freaked out by blood like most people), could’ve been a great way to show some nuance to her character….

And yet… AND YET…

That brings me to mistake number 2: Shoto Todoroki

Do I think shoto’s character is written badly or wrong? No! Of course I don’t! The entirety of the todoroki storyline, especially with its connection to hawks and the dirty parts of heroics, is really really good! I think it’s one of the most well handled abusive families in all of fiction. It understands EVERYONE in the family, and horikoshi is still able to show so much character and development in just a few scenes, like Natsuo or Rei.

So what IS my problem?

The fact that Ochako, her story, her CHARACTER AS A WHOLE… becomes sidelined due to horikoshi’s choice to prioritize his character over her’s. Again, it’s a great story and I wish he could balance both of them in mha, but he COULDNT, and he made the choice to sacrifice a woman’s character over a man’s.

Though I will say, a note on how ochako could’ve been in the stain arc: toga as a concept was created later and for ochako specifically, so it does kind of make sense as to why she wasn’t involved. Plans change and writers change, their ideas for their characters and what direction they go will ALWAYS change, and sadly you can’t predict that you won’t change a character or it’s direction at any point. It sucks! But that’s how a lot of these really long manga’s go. They have to write and then draw it pretty fucking fast.

And tbh I don’t really know what id do in horikoshi’s shoes with ochako and shoto! But it is definitely a critique we can acknowledge. It would take some seriously extraordinary writing skills to be able to balance, what, 3 deuteragonists? Katsuki, Ochako, AND Todoroki? Especially since one of those characters has a very complex trauma storyline that involves like five other characters? I honestly wouldn’t know what to do in his shoes!

I just wish he had picked the woman out of the two of them, but I think everyone knows that his manga wouldn’t be half as popular were he to have made it focus on two guys and a girl, instead of three guys, one of which is conventionally attractive and has major main character energy.

Anyway number 3: the overhaul arc

Ugh I have such mixed opinions on this arc. On one hand it has some really interesting storylines… when they’re on their own.

From what I understand, horikoshi did this arc because he wanted to try his hands at a longer arc and he had never really done that before. And while it’s great and very obvious he learned things from this arc, it just… takes up so much god damn space and gives us absolutely nothing long term.

Like yeah it makes a few points, like how high schoolers shouldn’t be involved in all of this and kinda sets up the ending rn where the actual adult heroes are sacrificing themselves for the next generation (ex: the guy that I forget the name of who’s now bakugous heart, allmight for deku, midnight for Mina/all the other kids, Mount lady, Aizawa for deku and all the other kids, Mirko for bakugou, etc etc), where as villains sacrifice the next generation for THEMSELVES (ex: afo and shigaraki, overhaul and eri, the gun arm girl for deku, also afo for dabi, etc etc) which is really good to do!

It’s just. Yk. Done by basically every other arc.

AIZAWA REPEATEDLY SHOWS THIS, ALLMIGHT REPEATEDLY SHOWS THIS, ENDEAVOR REPEATEDLY SHOWS THIS. Like it’s the entirety of Mount ladies arc, learning to be a hero and sacrifice for the next generation. Sacrifice and the fact that we forget 1-A are high schoolers is constantly shoved down our fucking throats; we don’t need this arc that takes so god damn long, only adds more characters that aren’t that important, TAKES AWAY FROM YOUR MAIN CAST OTHER THAN DEKU AND ALLMIGHT, JUST for it to tell you explicitly that “kids shouldn’t be fighting the battles of the previous generation, but they have to”. It just. Ugh.

There’s so much time in that arc fucking WASTED on nighteye or mirio’s character. Do I think the big three are really interesting? Of course! The contrast between mirio to deku is fascinating! It really shows how much deku can’t become allmight.

But you know. We talked about that a season ago mha. Yk. When he learns to use kicks instead of punches. Or yk. Gran Torino’s entire arc surrounds that. Everything about deku is nothing like allmight. That’s the entirety of their characters together. It’s repeatedly shown to be dekus biggest insecurity. He’s not allmight. YOU DIDNY NEED THIS ARC TO TELL YOU THAT AGAIN.

It’s like, everything that matters in this arc has already been shouting at you throughout the entire show, and everything else is never really used again outside of a mention here or there. It’s REALLY CLEAR Horikoshi was just doing this arc to try doing a long arc, not thinking about the long term of said arc.

Hmmm what else is there to complain about…

Eh, I guess the fan service? Which is, yk, in every other shonen anime/manga out there. Sometimes with people far younger than anyone in mha.

Ugh it’s like people like you just want me to be screaming “horikoshi did this! Horikoshi did that!” Every five seconds. I read the manga, I’ve talked about these flaws before on my account. Sorry if I… enjoy the manga???? Wait… omg!

It’s almost like I’m an mha account and it says RIGHT HERE IN MY BIO! Crazy!

Like seriously, what was your point? You were mad at drawings on a screen and someone enjoying that story and just… wanted to make someone’s day worse?

Did you expect me to heave over and be like “yes master anon! Toga is the worst written character in mha and horikoshi is a bad writer!” He’s a capable writer who understands his audience more than people give him credit for.

EVERY story has flaws. Every. Single. One. And because mha is literally everywhere and the fandom can get annoying because, it’s literally everywhere, I can understand getting annoyed sometimes. But you can’t sit here and expect me to solely focus on how bad horikoshi’s writing is because you’re mad at one thing. Toga SHOULD be selfless for ochako, sorry that it means thinking that she’s going to die???? What do you want from me?

I don’t have to “raise my standards” because horikoshi uses a lot of subtext and symbolism. I have other gay media I watch or read.

But like every single lgbtq movement that’s ever happened, it takes BABY STEPS. There aren’t many, if any, gay shonens out there, and if mha wants to be the first one it has to play by the rules. It has to make you think this is every other heterosexual shonen ever.

Shojo didn’t just become gay, it had to have shows like sailor moon censor a lesbian couple to be “cousins” so that other shows could exist. Madoka had to be at least semi subtle about its queer coding.

That whole meme where it shows one show saying “x show walked so that y show could run”, yeah that’s how every gay genre was made. Horror didn’t just become gay, it had to have community and relatability build up over the years, along with those new gay writers remembering where they came from, who paved the way.

My point being: I don’t give a shit if you think horikoshi is an awful writer who you think I can’t criticize. However I DO KNOW that if toga and ochako fully get together you’ll NEVER be able to avoid mha. And that thought makes me smile so much more than just the fact that they’re canon.

[pizzagranni]

back to tumblr, cause it was either this or blogger and I’m not even sure that still exists (fact check later).

I think I’m sick of all the upgrades. Bigger, better website, phone, car, life, etc.

I DON’T CARE.

I just want to share my real thoughts, unencumbered by everyone else’s opinions. I want real conversations about real life, and not all the bad shit either. All of it. The good, the bad, the messy, and the clean. But never too clean. I’m not that type of person, but I also don’t think it’s always honest.

This year has been weird. I’ve had so many thoughts, more dark than light, and I’ve finally gotten to a place again where I love that about myself. High school was actually one of my favorite pastimes because I didn’t care about others’ opinions enough to stop me from fully expressing myself.

I was creative. I was bold with my speech. I wrote boldly and shared it. I painted my thoughts and feelings and gave it away and people liked it.

But ya know, somewhere along the way I started to care too much and that basically put a cork in my creative flow. I had “friends” who took what I loved and turned it into profit for themselves. My sacred practices became tainted with bitterness and resentment. I had YEARS where I hated even the idea of painting because I had been burned so badly. That’s super shitty, by the way. To have something special to you become something for someone else’s gain. It hurts in a fiery way. Like the brushes would burn my fingers if I grabbed them.

I always feared my thirties because I was so afraid of getting older and not knowing how the hell I’m supposed be function at that level. But now I near 32 and I’ve realized how much of a gift they are because they’ve set me free from the chains that my twenties put me in. I’m not saying that the whole of my twenties was bad, but they did a lot of damage. A lot of stock was put in people who never meant to stick around, never meant to build me up, just use me as a stepping stone. A door mat.

I’ve had a lot of lessons learned this past year (how weird is it that 2023 only has 3ish months left? Ugh), and I’m certainly still learning most of them (thank god), but hot damn. When they say drinking from the firehose, that’s exactly how I feel. An ocean’s worth of water coming out of my Nalgene.

But hey, I’m grateful. It means I’m alive and pursuing something more than this consumerism minded life I’m supposed to be living. By the way - fuck. that. shit. I could on and on about how this society is doing more damage than good, but I feel like a broken record. You don’t need the stuff they’re selling to you. You certainly won’t be happy with it, cause *news flash!*, there’s a new version coming out next week, month, year, whatever for ever and ever.

Back to the point…

I wanna get back to this. I wanna document like I used to because I wanna remember this. I want to slow down enough to experience my life. I want to prioritize the things that matter. Like my family and my friends that are like family. I want to host meals to remind people we were made for community. I want to create art that shows people how beautiful their souls are. I want to write words that speak life and question the status quo. I want to shift this god-forsaken paradigm.

This is only scratching the surface of all the thoughts I’ve held back for the last decade, but it’s coming. And if you want, you can read along and maybe we’ll have conversations about it. I’ll make you a cup of tea (or coffee, if that’s your thing) and we can just be in this space together.

So yea.

Until next time.

x Hannah

p.s. I’ll spell check when it matters. like when I write my book.

[the-cat-and-the-birdie]

Proship isn’t brand new, it’s a label that emerged ca 2016, TikTok wasn’t as popular as nach then and it was coined as a response to “anti shippers” who called themselves that FIRST

Before that the label didn’t exist. We had no need for it because not harassing people over fanwork or ship was the default stance (and mostly still is).

But this new weird culture of “everything I don’t like is immoral” caused people to be attacked, harassed, shamed, threatened, stalked online and in real life, some lost their job, some their life because they liked the wrong ship or fanfic and were isolated and called a sexual predator

I WISH I was just stupid online discourse, but it stopped being that the moment some loud and terrifying voices decided to help conservatives in criminalizing lgbtq+

Thats whats SOO crazy to me.

In 2016 I was graduating high school, and had been writing fanfic for half a decade, so I really lump it in with 'vine-tiktok' era but it really is a culmination of a lot of different internet cultures colliding really

like damn i remember when you could read the most heinous ass shit in fanfic and someone would be in the comments like 'you should torture the character next :) just a thought'

The rise of that culture is one of the reasons why I choose to not show my face online or rather in fandom and why I don't talk about my personal life here at all.

Tiktok really erodes that barrier ESPECIALLY having tiktoks of you outside where people can surmize your location

but that aside-

Hot Opinion but I like immoral things in fics.

It's a critical and cructial part of fiction, not all fiction, but a lot, and immoral situations and relationships can absolutely be presented as bad even when from the abuses POV (good yandere fics get this right)

even then, if you wanna write some off the wall shit, do it! honestly if you're guarding people from a whole sector of writing that actually enriches fanfic and original work because you're too chickenshit to write it yourself im just gonna assume you cant write for shit and your range is low but that's just me.

AND THEN THE POLITICAL OLYMPICS OF IT the uninformed analyzation of media and characters through skewed understandings of oppression and then using that to attack people in the weirdest ways AHHHH

In short: You mfing right!!!!!!

[bicheetopuff]

Dynamight and All Mights Character Arcs

⚠️MHA Manga spoilers⚠️⚠️Discussion of ch362⚠️

Okay… this is the only serious post I’m making regarding Katsuki’s death scare. I’ll answer any asks about it but other than that I’m not gonna make anymore posts about this particular topic. Mha isn’t within any of our control and predictions are just that… predictions. In reality, this is Horikoshis story and if he decides to truly break all of our hearts then so be it.

Also I’m not gonna talk about OFA theories and more so their characters themselves. Mainly cuz OFA is complicated and it’s difficult to pinpoint what might actually be happening to it or what it’s doing. I’m just going on based on what would make sense as their arc resolutions and why I think so. Anyways…

Contents:

I: Unfinished business

II: Katsuki’s Stubbornness

III: All Mights incomplete arc and Nighteyes vision

IV: Horikoshi’s writing style

V: Quirk Society

VI: Some Parallels

I: Unfinished Business

So I’m pretty sure we all came to the conclusion that Katsuki’s arc is incomplete and this supposed “death” feels abrupt, rushed, and unsatisfying. Not that if he died at another point it’d be satisfying but with how Horikoshi has written other deaths (which I’ll bring up again later) it’d be very out of character of Hori to present the second male lead with a death that feels so incomplete and tragic.

I’m gonna cut straight to the point: Katsuki has been reflecting on himself for almost 250 chapters. Slowly accepting that he’s in fact, not the best. Thinking about what he did to Izuku when they were younger and finding ways to atone for it. Learning that showing you care about someone isn’t a sign of weakness. Overall trying to be less of an asshole. And most important (in my opinion) learning how to accept help from others. I wanna talk about this point specifically.

Izuku is “win to save” right? His thing is about helping people even when they don’t ask for it, and at the beginning that’s what bothered Katsuki the most about Izuku. Izuku tried to help him when Katsuki didn’t need it and Katsuki thought it was offensive because why would a kid who is good at everything with an amazing quirk need help from a quirkless loser?

This development is what stemmed the “if I can’t save myself, I’d rather not be saved” attitude that he has at the beginning because having to be saved makes him feel just as—if not more—inferior as losing.

(Is this picture recycled from another meta I posted? Yea… yea it is. But the highlighted parts still apply)

It took him a while to be even somewhat okay with accepting help from someone else and the first example was Kirishima in the hideout raid. Y’know, that time where Izuku let someone else be the one to reach out to him no matter how much he wanted it to be him. He said it had to be Kirishima because he knew that Katsuki wouldn’t have accepted his hand. Because he never has. And still hasn’t (no, heroes rising doesn’t count until proven otherwise).

After DvK2 Katsuki became almost hyper-fixated on the fact that he’s been misunderstanding Izuku for damn near 12 years. But also after DvK2, Katsuki hasn’t been given another chance to accept Izukus hand. And yea it’s pretty sappy but it’s an important part of their relationship and Katsukis development that theoretically can happen in the vestige world but wouldn’t make sense in terms of an actual resolution (in my opinion).

II: Katsuki’s Stubbornness

Katsuki is persistent and always has been. Aizawa and All Might have pointed it out several times. He’s grownup being good at everything and at UA is when he starts to be told there’s things he can’t do. He starts to get a taste of failure and tries his best to do what he’s told his incapable of anyway. The earliest example I can think of is during the sports fest when Tsuburaba tried to block Katsuki with his solid air and Monoma’s team is like “heh he can’t break through that.”

And he did anyway.

Or final exams when he was determined to try to beat All Might. Even though he didn’t he still tried his damnedest which I think is the best example despite not winning the way he wanted to. It’s also the first time he accepts Izukus help no matter how much he doesn’t like it. (The amount of parallels from this fight to 362 is crazy when you look at it closely)(we also get a taste of the actual frustration he feels when someone tells him he can’t do something).

“We had no hope of beating you without taking a few risks.”

“Even if it messes me up, I chose this path to victory.”

(…and we call Izuku the self sacrificial one)

Seem familiar? This quotes seem oddly relevant in light of 360-362. He’ll break himself if it means he tries his best for the outcome he wants and…

Meaning: as long as he’s able, he’ll fight to win. It’s apart of his character to not go down easily. He’s simply too stubborn to and it’d be extremely unfulfilling to go down mid-fight and not get back up. Yea, he didn’t get up a second time in his final exam because he passed out but, Izuku still made sure he claimed a victory even if it wasn’t the way he wanted. Plus he didn’t need to get up a second time. Katsuki deserves a victory to actually go his way this time, not for the victory itself but to prove his own expectations of his strength. He wants to be the strongest, right?

Who is Katsuki Bakugou if not someone that lives up to their own word?

If not for himself then for Izuku. To be the person Izuku looks up to.

III: All Mights incomplete arc and Nighteyes vision

So All Might has always been one to keep secrets from most people. When Izuku found out that All Might kept the fact that Nighteye knew about OFA and didn’t like him before they even met, he was offended, remember? And offended by the fact that Mirio was supposed to be the successor that All Might was settling with. Emphasis on settling.

Nighteye made it clear that he thinks Izuku is a lousy choice in a successor because he thinks “the burning desire to help people” isn’t enough to be a suitable candidate despite the fact that that’s how All Might was metaphorically born. And he still believes that despite Izuku’s quick improvement (up until his dying moments at least, but that’s beside the point).

So theory time:

I’ve actually been thinking about this for a while I just didn’t think Katsuki would have to get so hurt for it.

Some of Nighteyes dying words was about how Izuku proved that the future can be changed but during the Chisaki battle Uraraka and Izuku also proved that it takes will and conviction to change the future. To change fate. However, All Might has already secretly accepted that he is going to die which is why he never told the foresight to Izuku.

However…

He’s fighting to live for Izukus sake. Not his own. From this point in the story, yea Izuku needs him and All Might knows that. But later, after endeavors agency arc All Mihht starts to slowly believe that Izuku doesn’t need him anymore and in Izuku’s vigilante arc, All Might starts to see his thoughts being proven correct.

“You won’t need to look back to me.”

All Might began to realize that he’s not someone Izuku needs anymore, as harsh as that sounds. He became someone Izuku sought out to protect rather than the other way around and being aware of that is frustrating for him.

The panel of All Mights response was small and on the next page so I didn’t add it but all he said was “thank you.” He didn’t go on some kind of tangent about continuing to fight to live.

He recognizes that he’s not keeping the promise he made to Inko. He’s supposed to be the one protecting and teaching Izuku but the table turned (in a more obvious way since Izuku has been the one protecting and teaching All Might in the first place). But in the same way that he recognizes himself as not being someone Izuku needs anymore, he recognizes the people that Izuku does need. I think when it comes down to protecting himself or protecting someone he knows that Izuku still needs in his life, he’d choose the latter because he’s dedicated the rest of his life to doing things for Izuku’s sake. Not his own. And who’s the person that’s been most recognizable to All Might as the most important person in Izuku’s life?

I think All Might is gonna see Katsuki on the ground and be prepared to die for him just as Katsuki was prepared to die for Izuku (ch285). It would come full circle from when he was unwilling to try to save Katsuki in chapter one until he saw Izuku go for him first.

This is where I’ll start to sound desperate but it’s a legitimate thought I’ve had for a while. All Might can still go into his muscle form. And there’s no proof that OFA is completely gone other than ‘a feeling’ All Might had in his fight in Kamino. The original theory about why All Mights vestige is still ghostly was because he’s still alive but, what if it’s because he still has shreds of OFA and since he still has it, he hasn’t become a true vestige yet? This is something I thought of way before 362 because something just never felt right about it? Why would Nighteyes vision take place after All Mights retirement?

Nighteye didn’t say he’d encounter AFO again, assuming he knows what AFO looked like and what state he was in after All Might “beat” him 6 years ago. Just like All Might was able to recognize AFO immediately, Nighteye would too.

Do you remember his run in with stain? How stain threatened to kill him for talking down on himself? Stain showed All Might that despite feeling useless, there’s still people that believe in him. And he hit him with this:

A hero only exists for the sake of others…

That’s what he’s been doing, hasn’t it? Except in the state he’s in, he can’t be a real hero anymore can he? He’s felt useless. Like a Deku.

OFA is a power all about will and love. Katsukis in trouble and Katsuki means something to Izuku so… he’ll pull through despite thinking he can’t. Just like he did here:

Yes, it’s sad. But in my brain it makes sense and it’d complete All Mights character nicely. I think he’s being brought up to often in this fight for him to sit there and continue to just watch.

I’m sure Katsuki isn’t the only person that’s realized this about Izuku and has been inspired by it. And I think All Might being able to use OFA immediately with no drawback when he got it adds a tinge of irony there.

Do I think he’ll be the one to save Katsuki? No. But I think he’s gonna “face that other villain” while someone else heals Katsuki and OFA does whatever it does. And hopefully Izuku will be there eventually to lend a hand that Katsuki can finally accept.

Also I’d like to point this out before moving on:

Beginning of the story, rain started. The beginning of this shitshow.

Right after Izuku was found by Katsuki and brought home by his classmates. All Might letting someone else protect and raise him because he knows he can’t do anything that he considers meaningful for him anymore. The rain stops. When All Mights attitude changes after Stains lecture.

Weather has a sudden change again and it’s about to rain. What if it’s All Might heading to the battle field? He accidentally caused the rain before when he protected Katsuki (ch1). So what do you think will stop the rain once it’s started? I personally think it’ll be All Might accepting his unfortunate fate and dying happy doing something he always loved doing again. Being a hero and dying a hero. Not dying as some retiree.

Anyways…

These next two points are a little more logistical.

IV: Horikoshis Writing Style

There haven’t been very many deaths in mha. But each time they died with someone they cared about around or someone that cares about them (minus midnight).

-Twice saving Toga and compress and giving back Togas Handkerchief

-not a death scene but Mirio and Tamaki using each other as crutches when they were both really injured.

-Nighteye dying in the presence of All Might, his sidekick, disciple, and the kid that changed his negative attitude about his foresight (Izuku changing the future but not dying to Chisaki).

-again not a death scene but Kirishima sacrificing himself for Mina when Gigantomachia tried to grab her.

-not a death scene again but Katsuki sacrificing himself for Izuku.

A sudden change in that pattern just wouldn’t make sense in my opinion. Katsuki taking a senseless beating and dying is inconsistent writing to me so he’s gonna get back up cuz I say so.

V: Quirk Society

There’s not much to this so I’ll get straight to the point:

Recovery Girls existence

Best Jeanist survived a massive hole in his abdomen from AFO despite not being able to be healed for damn near half an hour (and we didn’t know he was still alive for like 150 chapters). Izuku gets his shattered bones healed in minutes despite it taking months to heal that kind of injury naturally. Katsukis injury seems healable when you take the verses medical care into consideration.

In terms of strategy when it comes to this fight I think it’d be dumb to not have Recovery Girl and a medical team on standby in AFO or ShigAFOs battlefields. I’m sure there’s medical and rescue on standby at the other battle fields too for after fights but it’d be dumb not to have at least someone at the fight against the biggest threat.

VI: Parallels

This is just stuff I haven’t already pointed out

heh yea…

Half-assed Conclusion

Katsuki accepting Izukus help and Izuku potentially saving his life isn’t him being a damsel. It’s a resolution to his character and is purely his own. I don’t think any other conclusion to his character arc would be satisfying until he accepts help from Izuku. Will it kinda be a test of Izuku’s control over his heart? Maybe. Will Izuku probably go ballistic? Probably. But whatever happens with Katsuki is Katsuki’s development only (and some all might).

Idk this may be me being in denial and desperate but this last chapter kinda screwed me up and made me think about the story a lot and how weird and out of place this chapter feels. It makes me feel better to word dump and put my thoughts somewhere that isn’t my brain so. This post probably doesn’t make much sense cuz I wrote it pretty quickly. Sorry in advance I guess lmao.

I’m not talking about this anymore and I’m probably gonna take a little break from mha for a bit. I’ll still be updating my fic for anyone that’s keeping up with that but other than that I’ll be avoiding the manga for a bit which is why I won’t be talking about this subject for a while.

[hhhecates]

Okay, hear me out, I have this hc about inumaki that I need to share bc I like to make my thoughts everyone's problem,,,

What if inumaki knows sign language, he learnt it all by himself while growing up to be able to communicate with others (cause it's canon that amongst his family they communicate with their hearts, pliz i wanna cry). And well, he uses sign language mostly when he's out and about in his daily life cause man can't really be talking in onigiri ingredients to strangers. Thing is that with his friends, he doesn't really use it??? He's so so grateful that they manage to interpret what he means, it fills his heart with a new type of warmth when he literally speaks food but yūta nods along attentively, maki mostly rolls her eyes at his misplaced and quite sarcastic interjections (because you can feel the attitude coming from that tuna mayo sometimes), megumi never misses a beat and answers him right away and reader loves having conversations with him and ever so often asks inumaki his opinion on anything and everything and they just look at him with stars in their eyes as he rambles in ingredients.

Sometimes inumaki even relishes it, he likes leaving his friends hanging and arguing over what he says because he's just a fucking menace and he knows it.

But inumaki sometimes gets insecure, sometimes he does throw in a couple of signs hurriedly to make sure that he is understood, sometimes it's even mindlessly, signing his favourite words or the ones that he uses more often just because he is used to it. Some other times it can even be desperate, during fights against curses when he wished he could cry out his friends names but restrains himself because it's too dangerous, and then it's big, hurried and shaky motions, his hands trembling and eager to shout safety when his voice can't.

But inumaki never tells, never asks his friends to learn sign language for him, he doesn't want to burden them with that, so instead he limits his use of it around them as much as he can, because he knows they would pick up on it. He just knows by the way they always make sure never to speak over him or how they hush others whenever he does speak up.

What if reader notices anyways?? And it's not like the others don't care as much, they do, they really do. But maybe reader already knew a little sign language themselves, maybe they just like learning languages in general, maybe, just maybe, they find themselves looking at inumaki a little closer, a little more attentively.

And then reader decides to start learning sign language too. They watch videos, read articles, buy books (that they have to hide under their bed because inumaki is a nosy fucker with the people he's comfortable with, hell, I'm pretty sure reader has to erase their youtube history otherwise inumaki would quickly find out whenever they binge watch videos together). And at the beginning it's hard, it's so hard learning on their own, and it's hard also for them to restrain themselves from using it around inumaki, from asking him if they're signing correctly and wondering if inumaki could teach them all of his favourite words. But they manage to keep their mouth shut, to wait until they get better so that they are sure they could have an actual conversation without inumaki having to worry about using words too complex for reader to understand.

But then, it's yūta finding reader one afternoon while they're struggling, borderline crying, over compounding and reduplicating and sentence structure and it's all getting to their head so they're  f r u s t r a t e d. And yūta, like the absolute fucking sweetheart he is, he immediately offers to help them and ofc bby wants to learn too cause inumaki is his bestfriend too >:/

And please, I just know that these two would end up dragging the entirety of Jujutsu High in their plan and teach all of them sign language.

JUST IMAGINE, study nights in reader's dorm room, with snacks and energy drinks cause they gonna need them for sure, yūta and reader are teaching the others with like 12 different books strewn all over the floor, 3 different videos playing in the background and it's so damn chaotic. Megumi is probably a natural cause he already uses hands gesture to evoke his shikigami, so he can remember hand signs very easily and can do them so cleanly while like nobara and yuji be struggling and just yell at fushiguro cause "it's not fair" and "he has an advantage". Panda is there just to support them cause he can't really sign with his paws, but he just manages to instill more chaos by teasing and poking fun at Maki (poor girl has zero patience).

And gojo would 100% join them just to sprinkle more chaos and be the absolute menace that he is. (But lowkey he wants to learn too ofc).

And ofc, they're probably so outwardly secretive about it that inumaki notices it right away and he just has to be a nosy little shit about it (cause how dare they leave him out of it) so one night he quite literally bursts into reader's room only to find Maki and Itadori yelling over "how the fuck non-manual modifiers work" and Gojo and Nobara laughing their asses off and making jokes about their awful awful hand coordination, reader and Yūta are probably so fucking done, Panda is enjoying them freaking out like it's the last season of his favourite tv show.

And it's honestly hilarious how quickly they fall silent in complete and utter horror at the sight of inumaki standing there.

And then they all kind of fumble around and try to greet inumaki and like introduce themselves or say something in sign language one by one bc that's what they had been preparing for, right?? And it's probably so messy but inumaki doesn't give a fuck and then, he just starts crying.

Prob they take it the wrong way too, and they all start panicking, but he is quick to try and reassure them, hands shaky by how overwhelmed he is, that warm feeling he had learnt to associate to his friends is back, but tenfold, and it makes his cheeks burn and a smile so big break on his face. And then he signs back "hi everyone, I'm Inumaki Toge".

[phoenixyfriend]

OKAY so on the topic of Star Wars takes wrt “character ends up in an A/B/O universe where they’re an omega, but they were previously a cis male in their canon”

@atagotiak and I had some Thoughts on discord

So, obviously, Anakin would make a good omega and he’s also incredibly murdery. Foregone conclusion that we're using him for this.

There is no preexisting Anakin in the Omegaverse. He shows up JUST as the war is starting. Canon timeline is in the third year of the war (he’s 22), but whatever dumped him into omegaverse also tossed him back a few years. No de-aging, just a bit of mismatched timeline stuff.

He's... really good at war, and clearly a Jedi, so the Temple just kind of goes "WELL OKAY THEN, SURE, YOU'RE IN, EVERYONE PRETEND HE'S BEEN HERE THE WHOLE TIME." The Jedi, by and large, don't care about omegaverse dynamics beyond 'what do you need, medically, to be happy and healthy' and 'what do you need to be aware of so you can be prepared for biases you encounter in the field?’

None of the civilian natborns (mainly politicians) want to put him on the field because of those biases. Anakin, being Anakin, is VERY blatantly an omega in scent, has never been on suppressants (because it wasn't a thing he fucking NEEDED), is incredibly emotional as a person, loves kids, etc.

Like, nobody wants an omega fighting a war anyway, but THIS one is like PINNACLE omega, and those awful Jedi are making him FIGHT just because he's good at stab!

The Jedi: Actually, it's because he's got several years of war experience that we don't, and he's a good tactician that works well with the clones-- Coruscant: You MONSTERS The Jedi: Look, we gave him the option to not stab and he looked absolutely devastated. Anakin, several days earlier: You don’t want me? I’m not good enough??? Jedi: Also he can beat up at least half the temple.

He doesn't know a damn thing about dynamics, but he DOES know that sometimes he's so horny he wants to stab HARDER. The clones are largely disinterested in their generals' dynamics because between mostly-Mando* trainers and no-dynamic Kaminoans, they only really care if a person can shoot.

* Mandalore approves of Fighty Omegas. As far as (traditional) Mandalore is concerned, you want an omega that will kill the threats to your children as well as you do.

Anakin: You know more about being an omega than I do. Rex: ...I'm an alpha. Anakin: Yeah. Let that one sink in a bit.

We have two options for Obi-Wan!

Omegaverse local Obi-Wan (beta) has never met this man before, and is very unnerved that the immediate default reaction Anakin has to his presence is releasing Family pheromones as if Obi-Wan is his DAD and like. This strange, too-tall man from another dimension has got absolutely NO control over what he projects in the Force OR in his dynamic.

Obi-Wan was ALSO transplanted from canon to omegaverse, and is also an omega, for contrast reasons. He is nice and friendly and and likes poetry and that sort of thing... but also he has the highest dismemberment count in the movies. Also he doesn’t prioritize romance.

We went with the second one because it's hilarious.

Someone watching them spar: Wow, omegas from that universe are terrifying.

As previously mentioned, now with some tweaking to account for both: Obi-Wan and Anakin just straight up don't exist until they drop headfirst into the council room, already covered in blood. (It's mostly not theirs.)

Nobody realizes either one is an omega until they "naturalize" to this dimension and Anakin goes into heat... and doesn't realize it, actually, because his primary symptom is heightened protectiveness and aggression. Everyone else with the right nose realizes, because the man has no control over his pheromone production, but Anakin? No. He just stabs. He’s angry and horny and he will cut someone.

Ahsoka has no reaction to human pheromones but basically everyone smells Anakin's "my child!" reaction to her, so... Cool. Have a padawan, we guess.

Anakin ends up sparring a lot with Aayla and Ahsoka, because only humans and near humans have dynamics, so these two don't REACT to the pheromones situation.

(Palpatine is a Kindly Old Beta who tries to treat Anakin the way he EXPECTS Anakin wants to be treated, which is. Not. Accurate.)

(Anakin hates it.)

I'm just so in love with "An omega can't fight." "You wanna fuckin' bet?"

There are plenty of omega Jedi, by the way, it's just... most of them can keep it relatively low-key instead of Anakin's jet-engine broadcast. Some, if they're known to be omega, probably take advantage of being underestimated, like Obi-Wan probably (and especially a version of Obi-Wan that was always an omega, unlike this version). They have a very different way of presenting themselves than Anakin, who's not subtle about being an omega and also not subtle about being all aggressive and stabby.

At one point, Anakin has to protect some Very Traditional Individuals who get all "Stay back, Omega, it's not safe!" and he's just... so tired of this shit. “You are squishy civilians and I'm a trained Jedi Knight and accomplished GAR General who's killed more people in one sitting than there are in this entire palace. Sit the fuck down and let me do my job.”

It starts making the rounds that Anakin insisted on fighting in person, and the rumors shift from "how dare the Jedi force an omega to fight" and over into things that are deeply hurtful in-universe in the vein of "broken omega" and some people try to say it to his face but like...

He didn't grow up here.

He doesn't care.

Say that to one of his friends and he's going to rip out your spleen, probably, but say it to him and he's just staring at you flatly and asking if that's a negative on getting away from the encroaching battle droids, sir?

"You're rather unpleasant for an omega, aren't you?" [deeply offensive] "I literally could not give less of a fuck about your opinion. Move."

It's not that there aren't omegas that act like Anakin, either, it's just that most of them aren't, you know, Jedi who regularly interact with the upper crust, or capable of his level of destruction. Unbeknownst to Anakin, everyone clocks him as Outer Rim based on his behavior, well before his accent gives him away, and certainly before he mentions he's from Tatooine, because Core Omegas Don't Act Like That.

Someone they meet in a more diplomatic setting says something decently passive-aggressive about how at least Obi-Wan acts more like how an Omega should. Then a battle breaks out for some reason, and... well. Anakin and Obi-Wan cause such a scandal by keeping score of kills in a battle, don’t you know?

Turns out sending Anakin to fight Ventress is great because she keeps expecting him to react a certain way but NO he's here to STAB.

I like the idea that Obi-Wan's favorite opponent these days is Grievous because the cyborg doesn't have a nose, and thus gives zero fucks about dynamics or heats. Dooku is a rich old man who has opinions heavily influenced by Sith Juice Making Him More of a Dick, and the Dathomiri can smell dynamics even if they don't have them, and so they have biases about those things. Meanwhile, Grievous is just there to Kill, and Obi-Wan genuinely appreciates the lack of commentary on his dynamic.

Dooku’s probably an alpha, or a beta who's used the whole "we are more level-headed" thing as one of several angles to keep himself the public face and supreme commander of the CIS.

On to more fluffy things that have less to do with political biases.

There's a lot of "I'm upset that my loved ones don't know me," but also please understand the appeal of Obi-Wan marching up to Quinlan like "Yes, hello, I understand you've been read in on the full situation behind myself and my former padawan. I was close friends with your alternate universe self, which I feel is necessary disclosure before I propose the following: Would you like to join me for my upcoming heat, as I have minimal experience with the dynamics situation and even fewer people I actually trust, and I believe I can put my faith in you to treat it as casually as necessary while still having control and respect for my person."

(The Team is in a fairly safe place to process stuff, but having sudden unexpected changes to your biology has gotta be a little traumatizing, on top of ending up in a universe where none of your friends know you and people have a whole host of unfamiliar forms of sexism to point at you.)

Obi-Wan, who wasn't quite touch-averse but was much more easily overwhelmed by physical contact than Anakin (who craved it), suddenly finds his body switching gears and insisting on cuddles with Trusted Loved Ones, which is.... mostly Anakin, on account of nobody else really knowing him yet. Also Ahsoka, who is aware that she's something of a replacement for her alt-universe self, but Anakin explained it as "I love you so much no matter which dimension I'm in or what you're like, and I'd like to get to know you the way I got know her."

(It's rather eloquent for Anakin. He got Obi-Wan to help him draft up the script for when he pitched taking on omegaverse Ahsoka as a padawan.)

Anakin gets a more intensely sexual heat than 'usual' at one point for Reasons (IDK it could be as innocuous as 'we got better food than the usual rations and my body is reacting to the higher fat content with the belief that it's safer to have a baby now'), which nobody takes a whole lot of notice of because they're in a WAR, and also this is only his fourth one so it's not like he's got a lot to compare it to... except then the predominantly alpha clones can't stop themselves from reacting to the pheromones, mostly by wandering past his door and asking if he needs anything, offering up alpha-scented blankets and stuff for the nest to soothe the hormones, bringing snacks and electrolyte drinks, and like, Anakin is flattered, really, but fuck off please.

(He got a warning from medical a few hours before it hit that it would be different, so he actually does have alpha-scented fabrics to help him out. Apparently that's a thing you can just ask friends for, so he asked Rex if he had anything on hand that he could spare. He now has one of Rex’s recently-used sheets and a bodyglove in the nest.)

(Anakin has no idea how to feel about the nesting instinct, but at least it’s warm.)

Tia asked "Oh hey, who has the scared and horny reaction to his carnage?" and like.

Listen. I'm not saying I've been low-key imagining this as Rex being a very subby alpha who's really into Anakin's whole Thing but...

At one point Anakin gets injured in a way that requires painkillers and he ends up whining to the point of almost crying about the fact that nobody is cuddling him right now in medbay and Kix just gives up and comms Ahsoka to come hug her weird older brother.

And Then There Is Purring.

That’s a Thing Now.

Rex ends up in the pile somehow. He came over to check on Things and ended up yanked in by half-asleep, half-high Anakin, who has a grip like an octopus and no impulse control and is purring like a pod motor while NUZZLING HIM.

There’s a lot of blackmail photos featuring Rex’s very intense blush as he’s cuddled by his commander (giggling at him) and general (clinging like a tooka and rubbing himself all over).

Anakin is deeply offended that ANYONE thinks he'd want to get pregnant by just any old person, NO he needs to fall in LOVE there needs to be EMOTIONAL DRAMA and if Padme won't have him (apparently she's in a relationship and no he's not BITTER) then he'll find someone else to have a whirlwind romance with!

People think Anakin's a slut because he can't control his pheromone production (he has NO practice and for health reasons he can't go on suppressants) so he always smells open and ready for flirtations, which Obi-Wan also has to a somewhat lesser degree (he's older so his body just naturally produces less), and then someone tries to cross a boundary and grabs his ass and ANYWAY Anakin has to now fill out an incident report for breaking a civilian's arm.

Again.

[jaykayblr]

Anon asked : Hey 💕 What are ur observations on rising signs?

Note : these are just my observations of the rising signs - won't resonate with everyone.

[ Aries rising ] - see I don’t know that many people who have Aries as their rising sign. But from what I have seen, I think they have this very look that makes them look like they are angry, even if they aren’t, this can also go for mars in 1st house.

[ Taurus rising ] - I think these people are the ones who are very like meek (??) Like they don’t wanna offend anyone or be a pushover. They also look very cute and they have this very athletic build to them. I have a real life friend who has a Taurus rising, and she is very stubborn, like a kid. And she always seems to look very like ‘naive’. Prominent shoulders are usually seen with this placement. Square or oblong face shapes.

[ Gemini rising ] - see I don’t know anyone who has a Gemini rising in real life, but from what I know, they seem to have very flirty and almost like this child-like wonder in their eyes. They seem to look very seductive even if they don’t do anything. I think they love wearing sunglasses, and they tend to be smooth af, like they know what to say at the right time, they also seem to be very magnetic especially if they have some cancer in their chart.

[ Cancer rising ] - they seem to look like they belong from a royal family, they have the most kissable lips, they seem to look very motherly even if they might not be that nuturing, they seem to like the old fashioned or vintage clothes, I think they like lipsticks that are pink. They might like dressing up in clothes that are simple and basic but yet chic.

[ Leo rising ] - their hair!! Damn! They have the best hair!! They have this look of mischief in their eyes, like they are very playful and romantic, they have this whole notion of saving the world, and they might do a lot of volunteer work. Usually well liked among people. Beautiful and attractive smiles. Little crackheads. They make mundane things fun and playful. Very confident about themselves.

[ Virgo rising ] - very analytical, they notice everything, they might be very blunt and critical, which pushes people away, they are no nonsense people, who have a sense of dignity within themselves. They are probably loners. Low-key seductive. They are amazing people to be friends with. After you get to know they are the most funniest people in the group. Low-key crackheads.

[ Libra rising ] - they are the sweetest people, they are probably the ones who overuse emojis in their texts, sometimes it becomes very cringey, they smile a lot, who are very unproblematic. They are also very elegant and flirty, they flirt with their eyes, very charming people, I think they probably like a lot of pastel colours. They are also very good with words. People seem to genuinely like them.

[ Scorpio rising ] - Ok, its hard to get a reaction out of them, at the maximum, they will just give a nod as a reaction, they have very defined collar bones, they seem to be very flexible as well, they are also very athletic or good at sports, it seems like- even if they don’t work out that much, they seem very fit and healthy. They don’t smile a lot, if they do, it comes off more like a smirk. They are very good at reading people and they only interact with people who they think are good and trustworthy. They seem very strategic, like they are plotting a revenge against people, they seem evil and devilish.

[ Sagittarius rising ] - they are the loudest people in the place, happy go lucky people, they seem very egoistic though 🤔 they are the clowns of the group, they one with a lot of friends, the one who is always surrounded with people, they have the brightest and the widest smile, they want to know everything, they are also very open-minded and accepting, they are very interested in spirituality.

[ Capricorn rising ] - they look like they are always serious, they look like they are always in between of a business deal “ yeah, yeah, buy Canada too ” but I think they look very experienced like, you probably don’t wanna mess up with them, same like Scorpio rising, they don’t give too much of a reaction to a situation, I think they probably have the habit of rolling their eyes.

[ Aquarius rising ] - they look ethereal! They don’t even look like a human 😳, they are very cold and detached but they don’t like interfering with other’s problems, they are very unproblematic, they like to do a lot of volunteering, they are also very open-minded, they almost are like nerds, but they are also very social, and they do academically great.

[ Pisces rising ] - one of my close real life friend has this placement and she is literal angel, who is very patient and calm with people, she is very social and friendly with people and other’s always seem to rely on her and trust her, she is also very open-minded and romantic…. She has opinions too but she doesn’t like to force it on people, she doesn’t like to confront, but she is very reliable and fun person and we get along very well, we are almost like siblings - we both are water risings so, she likes to sleep a lot and she always looks like she has just woken up. She has a very calm, soothing and sweet voice. Doesn't wanna come off as Rude. She is lazy and really slow when it comes to work. Always in her own imaginary world. Loves anime. Looks beautiful and has a lot of admirers. – She is the only one having a boyfriend in our friends group. Do you all hear that? Get me a scorpio boyfriend someone! 😭

So that's all I guess?

[orionsangel86]

Lets talk about the Bare Minimum

Okay guys, obviously there is a huge divide here among those of us that are super positive and excited and those of you that are really doubtful the finale will give us anything remotely worthwhile. So lets break this down okay? Perhaps it can get us all on a fairly level playing field?

What is the absolute bare minimum the Supernatural Finale can give us to satisfy us?

Everyone will have different ideas of course, but if we dismiss all our wildest dreams and high expectations and consider the fact that yes, this is still Supernatural and they do tend to run on a mix of batshit crazy, profound and poetic beauty, and things seemingly falling into place so perfectly it was clearly 100% accidental (eg: The Monster at the End of this Book) then we should probably try to find a centre point. A point that we can use to gauge how the episode will fair overall.

So what is the bare minimum?

Castiel returns

This is it. This should be the bare minimum we should expect in order to make this finale meaningful.

If we are given nothing else, Cas returning should be enough for us to nod and say “okay Supernatural. You tried. You got him back. He was there for the finale. That’s the main thing.”

If Castiel isn’t back and the finale is just Sam and Dean driving around looking for generic MOTW hunts like in Season 1 in some sort of bronly wet dream, that would be a massive anticlimax and miserable way to end the series. It will be the worst ending of a show since GoT.

BUT we know Misha filmed 20. I will hear no more to the alternative. Misha filming 20 is and always has been a fundamental FACT.

So Castiel returns. Bare minimum met? Right? Of course there are caveats to that key point.

Castiel returning in flashback form only, or as a memory or dream, whilst the actual Castiel still remains in the Empty is NOT an acceptable option. If the show takes this route, this is still below the bare minimum. This would be deemed a failure in my opinion just as if the finale is just Sam and Dean being bros on the road.

What really needs to happen for the bare minimum to be met, is for Castiel to be rescued from the Empty. Whether that is by Jack, by Dean, or by himself or some other means, Castiel must return from the Empty to fix the only actual loose end not tied up in 15x19. We should also finally get the Empty being sent back to sleep, because having just binge watched episodes 12-18 all in one week, let me tell you, the amount of times it is repeated that the Empty desperately wants to go back to sleep is a LOT. From what I have been told, the Empty isn’t even mentioned in 19, so that is the only plot point actually still hanging over the series.

Of course, had Castiel not confessed his “homosexual feelings of love” for Dean in 15x18, then at this point I would have said that the bare minimum I needed was for Cas to be saved, and for Dean to give him a heartfelt hug and a look of love and to say “lets go home” off into a future where we know the story ends with Dean and Cas together in an ambiguous relationship. (Honestly, for a long time, this is the ending I thought we would get).

But Dabb and Bobo have written themselves into a very specific corner.

Castiel’s confession was not ambiguous. Because of this, the big question hanging over the final ever episode of the longest running genre show on TV, isn’t about whether the heroes will stop the big bad, it isn’t whether or not they will live or die, nope, it’s whether the lead male character will reciprocate romantic love for his “equally male” (Note - I’m talking in terms of mainstream here don’t @ me) best friend. The big question Supernatural has gone and put to its audience is “is Dean Winchester also in love with Castiel and therefore, is he also queer?”

This is an unpresedented situation that the show has put itself in.

Because of this, the bare minimum is no longer just Castiel being saved. It’s also Dean answering that question that the show has put to us.

Castiel must be saved, and the love confession must be addressed. These things are the key points going into this final episode. If either of them are glossed over in any way, the show would have fundamentally failed it’s audience, its characters, it’s cast, and everyone involved in it. Given how optimistic and happy everyone who works on the show seems to be currently, I highly doubt that is the case.

So. Castiel must be saved, and the confession must be addressed. Do we accept Dean rejecting Cas?

There is I suppose, a very slim chance that this could happen. If the Network let their own homophobia get to them (before you come @ me, no I don’t consider the CW’s many young attractive lesbian characters to let them off the hook for years of avoiding any non stereotypical queer men. IT’S TOTALLY DIFFERENT) then they may have greenlighted Cas’s queerness whilst refusing to do the same for Dean. They may consider simply saving Castiel and therefore #resurrectingyourgays as enough to satisfy the queer viewers, even though Castiel’s love was not returned. Perhaps in the final episode we will get a flashforward to years down the line and Cas has got over Dean and is living it up with another man? It’s possible right?

It would also cause utter outrage in the fanbase. Dabb and Bobo are far more savvy than fandom gives them credit for. I personally think that had the network said no to Dean reciprocating Castiel’s love, then Dabb and Bobo would have kept it ambiguous, and simply strongly implied that they end up together in an ending like the one I always thought we would get when my hopes for Destiel were at a low point.

So Dean reciprocating Castiel’s love also falls under the bare minimum requirements for the episode to be a success.

How they go about showing Dean reciprocating Cas’s feelings I don’t know. Do I absolutely need a kiss? No. It’s not a bare minimum requirement. Anything beyond Dean simply telling Cas he loves him back and Cas smiling at him is a bonus. Perhaps they could show it the way they showed Jesse and Cesar in 11x19. Through affection and care, but no actual kisses.

Whilst I personally believe we will get a kiss, it’s not a bare minimum, and if we don’t get one I will still be satisfied so long as we get all of the following:

Castiel is saved from the Empty

Dean reciprocates his love

Dean and Cas end up together (whether that be to live lives together on Earth, or both go out fighting and reunite in heaven together. Whatever the case, they must end up together)

My 3rd point here is the only other bare minimum requirement I need to not feel like they have screwed it up. I don’t care whether Dean and Cas end the show alive or dead. What I DO care is that regardless of where they end up, be it Earth, Heaven, or even Purgaytory, they are together. They must end the series together.

There are of course many other things I want. I want Cas to give up his grace (by choice) and become a human (I really wanna see him in Winchester plaid at least once!). I want to see them slow dancing like Garth and Bess did in 15x10. I want Sam to reunite with Eileen and also get a happy ending. I hope they get to keep the damn dog too. Ideally, I want a soft epilogue, because these boys are good people, and they’ve suffered enough. Whatever else may happen though, so long as those bare minimum requirements are met, I will consider the ending a resounding success.

Personally, I don’t think I’m asking for much.

[zackcollins]

baby, you’re my person || matt chapman

Author’s Note: Okay, so. Somebody asked me to rewrite an old fic and use a different player. This is that. I went with Matt because one of my best friends is having a rough go of it and I wanted to surprise her with something that would make her feel better. Hope that’s okay with the person that requested the rewrite!! Anyways. GIF credit to myself LOL

Warnings: Nothing, in my opinion. But it’s about a pregnancy reveal so I shall put a blanket warning for that just to be safe since I know not everyone vibes with that. If I missed anything, let me know!!

Word Count: 1.7k+

Title: My Person by Spencer Crandall

Additional: The premise is a pregnancy reveal but the language about the reader is vague. They should be able to be read as gender-neutral!! I know not everyone that can and wants to be pregnant is feminine so I made sure I did my best to be vague about it so people of any gender who wanna be pregnant can envision themselves. As always, enjoy this and feedback is welcomed!!

Tagging: @whimsical-daydreams​ (surprise! hope you enjoy!)

The bag you had meticulously put together at the beginning of the week had been sitting in your bedroom closet since then. You had placed it in there because you didn’t need it until your boyfriend, Matt, returned home from the road trip he was on with the Jays. Waiting for him to get back was driving your stomach crazy with nerves, anticipation, and making the nausea from the reason the bag was put together feel twenty-six times worse. It wouldn’t last all that much longer, though, seeing as Matt should be home from the road trip some time this afternoon.

When you heard the door to your apartment finally swing open, you felt some of your nerves relax. You knew it could be nobody else besides Matt so that made you better about this whole situation. That meant that it was finally time to get this show you had orchestrated all by yourself on the road. To do that, you rushed into your bedroom to grab the bag from where you had carefully hid it in the closet. You double checked the contents to make sure they were correct. When you were satisfied that they were, you squeezed the bag against you chest and took a steadying breath while closing your eyes to calm any remaining nerves you had. After mumbling ‘you got this (Y/N)’ to yourself, you walked out of the bedroom, bag in hand, to greet Matt.

You found Matt in the apartment foyer holding an Iced Capp and a little brown baggie that said Tim Hortons on it. Knowing him, you could hazard a guess that it was probably one of the fruit muffins.

“What’s in the bag?” You both managed to say at the same time.

Matt chuckled, a small smile on his face. “A s’mores doughnut. Don’t tell the nutritionist though. They’ll have my damned head.”

You smirked playfully, shaking your head dismissively. “I won’t tell a soul. You deserve a treat. Speaking of which. Come sit at the kitchen island and I’ll show you what’s in this bag.”

Matt raised a questioning eyebrow but didn’t say anything as he followed you through the apartment to the kitchen, taking a couple slurps from his Iced Capp straw as he went. The sound was something that you were well used to from how often the both of you would get one but right now the noise was making you want to take the straw and shove it where the sun didn’t shine on Matt. It was just grating your nerves because of how hormonal you had become in the last few weeks. Of course, you weren’t going to tell your boyfriend that because it would ruin the surprise. You’d just tough it out because you’d worked too hard on this surprise to ruin it over the sound of Matt drinking something.

When you arrived in the kitchen, Matt slid into one of the barstools at the island. He placed his drink and the doughnut bag on on counter. He looked at you expectantly, drumming his fingers against the granite. You smiled softly as you handed him the bag and pulled your phone out of your pocket. After fiddling with it for a few seconds, it had started to record the visual of Matt in front of you.

“Alright,” you said, motioning to the bag. “You can look in it now.”

The moment Matt stuck his hand in the bag was the most nerve wracking moment of your life. This was the moment you had been waiting for all week. Hell, the moment you’d been wanting for the last couple of years. The fact that it was finally happening was making you want to break down crying before anything had even really transpired. It was a lot to process and you were doing your best to keep composure so you didn’t give anything away to Matt.

As soon as Matt’s hand came out of the bag with the smallest pair of cleats you had been able to find, you felt your knees shake. You leaned on the archway next to you to keep from falling over and ruining the video and the surprise.

“Mini cleats? Are you—”

“Keep looking; there’s more in there.” You cut Matt off with a nervous chuckle. You were almost one hundred percent positive what he was about to say but you had to see his reaction to the rest of the items before you heard him say it.

Matt raised his hands in a show of surrender, chuckling softly as he grabbed the bag with one hand and reached inside with the other.

Even though you were a good ten feet away from your boyfriend, you heard the tissue paper that you had placed inside as filler rustling as Matt moved his hand around. You were dying from anticipation for what Matt would pull out of the bag. When he brought his hand out a moment later grasping a piece of fabric, you swallowed around a thick knot in your throat. That was what you subconsciously had wanted him to pull out next.

Bringing his other hand up, Matt grasped both sides of the fabric. He tilted his head to the left a little and you saw his eyes dart across the fabric; it was as if he was trying to process what he was reading. A moment later, he placed the fabric on the counter before he wiped the corners of his eyes with his thumbs.

“What was that, Matt?” You asked, your voice dangerously close to breaking.

“A baby onesie,” he said as he picked it back up and turned it to face the camera. “It says: ‘Future Third Baseman.’”

“There’s one more thing left in there.” You pointed at the bag, your hand shaking like a leaf in the wind.

Matt nodded as he stuck his hand inside. Your heart hammered in your ears as you heard the tissue paper rustling again. Your heart felt like is was going to simultaneously jump out of your throat, your ears, and your chest with how hard the beating was resonating. It was making you feel like you wanted to pass out, throw up, and have a panic attack all at the same time. This surprise was for something you had wanted for as long as you could remember; now that you were actually getting it, it was making you feel so many things at once that you were certain you were going to pass away from all of them.

When you were able to focus back on Matt, you saw that he was looking sideways at the bag. That made you swallow thickly because that told you that he had found the last thing you had put in there for him.

As your boyfriend’s hand came out of the bag, you felt your legs start to shake. You gripped the archway so tightly with the hand that wasn’t holding your phone that you thought that you were going to crush your bones from the sheer force of it. Looking intently at Matt, you watched as he examined whatever it was that he was holding in his hands.

His face went through a range of emotions. It started with outright shock, quickly shifted to unabated happiness, and finally ended on pure, unadulterated love as he turned to look at you. When he put the item down, you swallowed a thick lump in your throat.

“What… what was that last item, Matthew?” You asked. You knew full well what it was because you had put the bag together. You just wanted to hear Matt say it; needed to hear what his voice sounded like as he said the words.

“It was a positive pregnancy test,” Matt replied, his voice laced with as much happiness and positive emotion as you’d ever heard from him.

“And what does that plus the other two things mean to you?” You bit your lip as you gripped the archway as hard as you possibly could. Your legs felt like they were about ready to cave underneath the weight of the current situation and you needed to grip that archway for dear life to keep from falling to the floor in an emotional puddle.

“That my partner is having my baby.”

Matt’s eyes were shiny and a few stray tears spilled from the corners of them as he stood from the barstool and walked over to you. He wrapped you in the tightest hug he had ever given you and softly ran his hands along your back. Not a moment later, you felt him start to vibrate against you. That told you that your boyfriend had started to cry. You stopped the recording and slipped your phone back into your pocket before you brought your hands up and ran them soothingly along Matt’s sides. Matt brought his head up connected his lips with yours. Smiling into the kiss, you moved your hands to your boyfriend’s back and gripped gently to get a better kissing experience. When Matt stopped kissing you, he stepped back a couple of steps. He brought a hand up and gently slotted it over your stomach, a fond smile on his face.

“I know this is probably a little premature,” he started, rubbing his hand along the tiny bump that was already forming. “But I love you already little one.”

Your heartstrings pulled incredibly taut in your chest as Matt continued to rub gently along the tiny bump. You leaned down and pressed a kiss to Matt’s cheek, a soft smile on your face. Matt hummed as he gently ran his thumb along your stomach.

“I love you so much, Matthew,” you said as you put both of your hands on top of Matt’s hand over your stomach.

Matt smiled, bringing his free hand up to gently cup your cheek, running his thumb along the cheek bone. After staring longingly into your eyes for a moment, he leaned forward and pressed a kiss to your forehead.

“I love you way more than you’ll ever know, (Y/N),” Matt said. “And I’m so ready for us to be parents to this baby.”

You felt your entire body fill with fondness and warmth at the fact that Matt felt the same way you did about becoming a parent. It was so nice to be on the same page about this. It was so nice because you and Matt becoming parents is everything you could ever want.