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ayayiiie · 2 years ago

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I’m not worried Pt.2 - Y.Jungwon

Scenario : You and your little family are facing an Earth Apocalypse. Everything around you is desert as you search for a safe place. But at what price ?

Words : 2k.

Pairing : survivor dad! Jungwon x survivor mom! reader.

Genre : tiny bit of fluff, overall angst, Major Character Death.

Warning : Non Identified Monsters Apocalypse, cursing, violence, blood, mentions of covid-19, a lot of crying lmao.

Author's notes : I have two things to say : I’m too lazy. And… : Please forgive me for it. 😭 Also I recommend you to read Pt.1 here before reading this one ! I pour my everything in this one lmao.

This is a work of fiction, it is not a reference to reality. I do not copy, or had plagiarized any work, every scenes familiar to other works are just pure coincidence ! Reblog if you like :p

Tag list : @hiqhkey (I know you waited for part 2 TT)

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*now play Tori Kelly - Paper Hearts*

April, 2029.

A few days after his departure…

« Where did Daddy go ? » asks your son of three years old. You can feel your heart breaks into millions of pieces at the sound of his innocent voice and big doe eyes… just like him. « Did he go to work ? Is Daddy working ? » he continues to ask, slowly tugging at your sleeve. You nod and hum, caressing his chubby cheek ever so gently. « So Daddy will come back, he will come back. » You show him your best smile, trying to hide your anxiousness and sadness. He shouldn’t know at all cost. Your daughter then comes besides your son, tugging at your other sleeve, « Mommy I’m hungry… I want to eat curry ! » Just like him. Every time you look at your children, they remind you so much of him, from the way they talk, their favorite food, their round faces and habits, indeed he is their father. Damn how much you miss him right now. It’s like a part of your world is missing. Feeling like someone take out a part of your heart. How you wish to have him by your side, playing hide and seek or tag along with the children. How you wish nothing happened this day.

*Flashback in February 2029*

Children's laughter were heard from the garden as you hang out the washing on a clothes horse. It was a beautiful day, a sunny sky with not a cloud in vision. You took a day off to spend some time with your daughter and son while your husband, Jungwon was at work. He promised to finish earlier so you were more than content.

Your family was perfect for you. No, your life was perfect. Being a doctor, Jungwon a succesful taekwondo athlete and soon a to-go coach, your children were happy and healthy. Everything was perfect.

Until you turn on the television during dinner time.

Oh you wished you never turned it on.

Reporters were asking people to stay inside their house for emergency circonstances. Was it a situation like the Covid-19 ? Or even worse ? Up to where humans were able to commit crimes ? As you were asking those questions in your head, panic slowly started to make its way into your veins when you saw one of the reporters being assaulted by someone. The camera was then cutted right away.

You took out your phone to scroll through Twitter, only to see the chaos. People were screaming and running everywhere, giant hideous dark monsters with a slim body, multiple eyes and bony fingers were trying to infiltrate the houses.

You were petrified and your first reflex was to look at your husband. Jungwon seemed deep in thoughts. You didn't know if he was thinking or if he was shocked, you were too anxious to tell.

What will happen now ? Unknown creatures ? They are not zombies, nor aliens ? This is a dream right ? You will wake up in your bed while hugging Jungwon tightly... right ? Your children will be sleeping in their own bed and everything will be perfectly fine, like it has always be.

« We need to leave. Our house is not a secured place. » your husband finally spoke.

« Then where are we going ? » you respond, stressed.

« Mommy , what is happening ? Why are you scared ? » ask your daughter.

« Mommy is tired birdy. It's getting late, take your little brother with you and go wash your teeth. » he smiled at them and did some silly movements to tell them to hurry up. They giggled and run away towards the bathroom.

After making sure they were away, he took your hand in his and stared deeply in your eyes.

« Firstly, we need to calm down. Everything will be perfectly fine darling, okay ? »

« B-but- » you stuttered, on the verge of crying.

« Calm down, I'm right here baby, I'm not gonna let you down. I'm right here and I will protecting you all at all cost. » he reasured you as his hand was caressing the back of yours.

You took a big breath before nodding. It wasn't the time to break down. You were the mother of two children, they were more important. You didn't wanted to show them how much you were scared. You had to be strong.

You and your family officially left your house two days after the news broke.

*End of the flashback*

« (Y/S/N), you need to wear properly your protection. » you said as you adjust your son's piece of metal on his chest. Not long after your departure from your house, you found out those creatures were feeding themselves with humans' hearts. That's why y'all have a piece of metal around your chest constantly.

« Mommy... What is this ? » you heard your daughter soft voice while she points at something far away.

You feel your hairs ruffling and quickly look at the direction she pointed. You saw the familiar slim body and bony fingers’ monster standing a few meters away, looking around. You inform her and your son to not make any noise by putting a finger infront of your lips and silently start to gather up some of your belongings while looking at it. You then inform them you have to leave. As you do silently, you scrach your knee, a few droplets of blood falling. But it was your least concern, you just hope your son will not make any sound.

*Flashback*

« (Y/S/N) » called strictly Jungwon with a frown, « don't make any noise when we tell you, understand ? » he said.

« Understand Dada. » answered your son, a pout on his face.

Jungwon kneeled down and ruffled his hair, face now adorning a smile, « Good job, little hero. »

*End of flashback*

As you're now running in the woods, hands clutching with your loves, your daughter suddenly speaks up.

« Mommy... » she calls, almost inaudibly.

« What is it sweetheart ? » you stop and look at her.

« I forgot my binky... » she confesses, looking up at you with big doe and tears in her eyes. You know how much she can't fall asleep if she doesn't have it and you can't afford to make her cry.

« Shit... » you silently curse. You have to go back and get it.

You were now standing at fifteen meters from your previous camp, and was tetanized. If before there was only one, now there were five. They were smelling and one of them was licking the ground. « Shit, my knee », you thought while looking at your bruised knee.

« Listen up babies. You have to stay here, understood ? No matter what, you ARE staying here, well hide behind these leaves, did you understand me ? » you insist without actually yelling.

They just nod at you. « Good. (Y/D/N), count to 300, you know how to do that right ? », she nods again. « Good girl. If Mommy is not here after you finish, you know where you need to go, right ? Do like Mommy and Daddy teached you, alright ? » you tell her and hug them tightly, not wanting to let go. The tears are welling in your eyes but you stopped them before they fall.

« I love you so much my darlings » you lastly say before kissing their forehead. You hope it won’t be the last time you will see them. You can’t imagine your two babies running in the forest without protection, without you, without nothing.

You quickly stand up and go far at your right, heart about to explode. Five minutes. You can do it.

You gently place a phone on the ground. It was situated far away from your children and enough from the camp. You then return to your previous position and wait for the alarm that you set to ring.

You began to sweat, tension at its peak. It was not the time to flinch. You steady your breath and focus.

*Ding ding ding ding*

The five of them rush towards it while you run towards the camp. Quickly entering it, you grab the binky and come out. But what you did not expect is that the precious bracelet Jungwon gave you on your first anniversary got stuck with one of the corner of the tent. Wanting to remove it, you are suddenly expulsed from where you were. Feeling dizzy, you hurry yourself up, grab the sword on your back and try to defend yourself against the monster facing you, a smile on its face.

« You fucking bastard, come on. » you say, preparing yourself.

Blood is spurting on the floor.

*now play - Westlife - I’ll See You Again*

*Jungwon POV*

I was finally running towards the camp where my family is when I saw a bunch of monsters in circle.

« FUCK ! Y/N ! (Y/D/N) ! (Y/S/N) ! » I scream while running towards them. One of them turn around and I saw its mouth, full of blood. Rage is taking over me as I take my gun and shoot them all. Fuck it if I end up bringing them all. I want to see them and check if they’re fine. As I come closer, I only perceive one body lying on the ground, I feel my heart stopping at the view infront of me. She has blood everywhere and is severely injured. Her right foot is missing and the blood is flowing endlessly… No… tell me it’s a lie… Plus the children are nowhere to be seen, she must have hide them.

« Baby can you hear me ? It's me, your kitten. Darling please, tell me you hear me » I cry while holding her head on my laps.

« J-Jungwon...? Is that y-you ? » she replies, faintly. Her eyes slowly opening as I see the emptiness in them.

« Yes baby, it's me, I'm right here ! Stay with me, will you ? Please don't close your eyes ! » I say, cupping her bruised face in my hands, making sure to be careful.

« The babies... They are... in the forest, around fifteen meters... from here. Give this... Give this to my princess... » breathless, she handed me the binky with a trembling hand, she protected it, so it wasn't soak with blood.

« You will give it to her yourself, okay ? Stay with me, hold on tight, I will treat you baby. » I tear a piece of my shirt, put it around her calf, tie it then take a little stick of wood and turn it as hard as I can before putting her on my back. Her moans and grunts of pain were broking me.

« Darling... They got my leg... The chances to survive... from an haemorrhage are poor... » she says, voice trembling, as if it will fade out anytime soon.

« No ! You can do it ! You will do it ! You're strong I know it ! » tears were already streaming down my face at this point as I walk quickly towards the hiding place that is shelting my children.

« (Y/D/N) ! (Y/S/N) ! Come out ! It's me ! Daddy ! » I shout, voice cracking. They quickly complied and run towards me.

« Daddy ! » they call, happy to see me. They hug me tight and look at Y/N on resting on my back.

« What happened to Mommy ? Is she sick ? » asks your son. Our daughter was too shocked to speak, being old enough to understand your situation. She slowly take her mom’s hand and squeeze it.

« We need to run little guys, Mommy is sick okay ? Hurry up ! » I say and start running.

« Jungwon... My kitten... My lovely husband... Thank you for everything... » I can feel her faint breath on my neck.

« Stay with me baby ! Don't leave me ! I need you ! We need you ! No..! I love you ! » I cry desesperately, still running alongside the children, vision blurred by the tears. I don’t even know what I’m supposed to do, we are in the middle of a wide forest, where can I find the necessary to heal her ?! The place I come from is too far from here and monsters can appear at any moment. With her on my back I will not be able to protect the children !

« Take care of them for me, will you ? I love you all so much, thank you... for making me feel love... for » she grunts, « for making me your wife... thank you for those beautiful children... Tell them that I will always... always love them... and... » she coughs up, « and... I... will always be... by... their side... » the weight on my shoulder indicates me that she gave all her strenght left. I stop and lay her down.

« Baby ! Answer me ! Please ! Y/N !! Y/N !! » I call out, looking like a mess, tears won't stop and the children start to cry. I shake her by her shoulders, scream, I try everything to wake her up.

She opened her eyes one last time before whispering…

« I'm not worried... I Love You... » were her last words.

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*You have reach the end of the story ! We invite you to chose another world or another story here !*

Hohoho I hope you enjoyed the work of our majestuous Queen ! She will be delighted if you write down your feelings on this paper !

Hoping that you, my Highness, try other worlds suggested.

Please may I be excused.

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sorcerous-caress · 11 months ago

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Omg Reef!! Same kink, what the heck!? That's wild! 🤣 I will be happy to provide you tword drow content!!! I also have had Lee! Human brainrot. Once I get my side blog all transferred so it's a main please send me tword related asked about bg3 and dnd races! Can't believe I literally started a Bully drow tword fic cause I got inspired only to come back to this after getting embarrassed and stopping cause I thought it was too self indulgent.

I write exclusively x reader for my stuff and often it's got elements of self insert because I write for comfort. From really obscure fandoms like Creepypasta or Angels of Death to just being out there concept wise. Please, don't feel ashamed! This community is such a chill place, genuinely, and we'd love to have you!

Author; you're genuinely so great! Please keep being you and writing what makes you happy! Thank you for being so accepting btw 😅 Very used to being judged or people being weirded out, so I appreciate you more than you know.

Hope your side effects get better soon; make sure to stay hydrated! I'm also sick Atm- COVID's a bitch and my Mom who's a travel nurse had a patient who tested positive after she treated him so it was inevitable. Taking Nyquil and Dayquil sucks- I have to work myself up to taking the liquid every time because I can't take large pills but that stuff is nasty haha.

Anyway! Forgive my rambling I just wasn't expecting to check back at your blog and low-key get called out 😅 -S

I hope you have a safe recovery! Make sure to rest well and yeah taking a lot of meds really sucks and ruins one's appetite so fast.

Thank you for this sweet message <3 I hope Reef sees it.

#♡-S

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formulinos · 2 years ago

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hello. i actually have something serious to talk this time.

as some of you might know, i’ve been working on a piece i call “the elusive hyperfixation corner” as a sort of working title - i don’t really want to discuss what it is about until i post it. i started researching and developing the concept back in may 2021, which means that in 2 months time i’ll complete two years working on it.

logically, i didn’t devote myself full time to it: i’ve moved to france in the meantime and studying/working here demands way more time than back at home. i’ve also had several health struggles i’ve talked about before (special shout out to covid last year, didn’t kill me but surely made me wish i was dead!) and family issues that i had to navigate while being in a whole different hemisphere. all of that means i didn’t have a lot of time available for starters, and occasionally i had other ideas that were more viable to work on because they didn’t demand as much time. take the last HC for example, i read capitalist realism in roughly a week while taking notes and then completed the whole thing in three days. anyway.

this doesn’t mean, however, that i’ve set it completely aside. on the contrary, i frequently went back on the notes and time actually gave me perspective on what was missing, and this is the point i wanted to get at: i felt my amount of source material was pretty scarce. mind you, when i first started writing it properly, i had already done a chunk of work i’d say is similar to the 1982 championship series (if any of the guys who i did talk about it in detail want to correct me on this, feel free to!). but i constantly remembered other places i could go and books i needed to fetch to find maybe a bit or a piece that could fit into the text.

it got to the point where i needed to stop myself because it’s akin to self-harm, truly. it doesn’t feel good, i got paranoid thinking there is stuff missing and i lose out on days that i could be working on writing because i’m reading or watching stuff that will translate in barely a line of the final product. the result is that i got over 18k words just in notes plus two parts out of five theoretically written, but i’m not satisfied at all with them, so i’ve decided i’ll rewrite what feels wrong. i haven’t stopped checking content entirely since there are some videos i need to go through so that i can gif stuff, etc. but this is legit where i’m halting this part of the process. i hope you can forgive me if it still feels like i wasn’t in depth enough.

i wanted to have posted this so, so much before. there was a specific date that really crushed me not having anything to deliver to you - you’ll understand when i post it. ideally, i’ll be able to turn it in before the summer break, but this might as well go all the way to december since i’ll have to wrap up my interniship and move back home in july/august and my whole month of may is pretty full too (i’m taking a girls trip for monaco e-prix, then my family will come to france and i’m thinking about surprising them w a short stay in london, and i’ll go to berlin at the end of the month. oh! and arctic monkeys concert somewhere in between).

i feel like george r r martin talking about the winds of winter here, but i do think it’s important to give the three of you that care a small update on how things are going. please wish me luck! i promise i’m working hard and hopefully the result will please you. cheers and forza ferrari.

#long post #hyperfixation corner

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reachforgodly · 2 months ago

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For the Christian asks, 15 and 29 please? 💜

Thank you!

15 - What is something that has made you question your faith?

Being a queer teen in the early 00s. My stepmom telling me that I couldn't stay in the church or ever experience healing by faith unless I renounced my (at the time still mostly hypothetical) sexuality -- that was very, very nearly the final straw, and twenty-odd years later I'm still struggling to find forgiveness for that particular cruelty. She was wrong, I know that she was wrong, and I've settled the matter of my orientation and my faith in my own heart, but for a few years I felt quite estranged from Christianity because of it all. What finally helped me through it was the process of learning and internalizing that other people are not in control of my relationship with God, and so it doesn't matter what my stepmom or anyone else says about it -- if God disapproves of my conduct, that's something I will discover through diligent prayer and study, not through being threatened with homelessness by the woman who married my biological father.

29 - Do you have a favorite place or spot that you like to sit or relax in while spending time with God? If so, describe it!

It depends! When I'm relaxed and praying from a place of contentment and peace, I am happiest on the couch with my cat in my lap. The cat is the really important part; her unconditional affection is a reminder to me that God's love is expressed in so many ways, and that all His creations get to partake in as much of His nature as they have the ability to access. When covid hit and I started listening to Sunday services online, we developed a routine where she would come sit on my lap or drape herself around my shoulders as soon as she heard the stream start.

Conversely, when I'm struggling or feel turmoil, I like praying while walking, especially outside. A few years ago I was on the jury for a murder trial, and the whole thing was a fairly harrowing experience emotionally and mentally. As soon as I got home on the last day, after we delivered the verdict, I grabbed my walking shoes and said aloud, "I gotta go talk to God" then walked for nearly two hours until I was limping, praying the whole time to try and settle everything in my head & heart.

#reaching originals #thank you for the ask!!!

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bumblesimagines · 3 months ago

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The lesbian from earlier

I’m going through your blog, reading your works from series that I’m familiar with and some of your asks.

The anon who criticized you for using pronouns, what did they think they’d achieve with that comment? I’m f dead 😂

The reaction they wanted with their rude ass comment:

Oh wow, this is soul crushing… you won’t read my work because of pronouns. I can’t believe this, 😔how could I have inconvenienced you like that? I can change, please come back, forgive me 😭 I can fix us babe

The reaction they got:

….okay? 😂

On a serious note though, anon here’s the most fascinating thing about content authors share on this app, you don’t have to engage with it if that’s what you’d prefer. I know I probably just blew your mind with that one but yeah, you can just scroll past it rather than voicing your displeasure to someone who’s gracious enough to share their work with us.

Sorry author if I sound rude but just a PSA ✨

I have honestly grown to have such an indifference to people voicing their opinions 💀

Like I love when someone tells me their thoughts on a work and everything they enjoyed and whatever theories they have but complaining about pronouns and poly relationships? Come on now.

Somewhere along this year and last and maybe when covid started people have begun to develop this 'me me me' attitude toward content online whether it's through writing, music or content on places like instagram and tiktok.

They hate something if they don't understand it, they hate something if it's not for them, they hate something if it doesn't benefit them in some way. It's really sad and annoying for content creators.

You can still enjoy media even if the representation isn't representing you but don't complain if you're in the majority because you've still got some privilege over the people in the minority who are getting scraps. Some people don't get that.

I do still laugh about that pronoun anon 😭 how are you not going to understand I add pronouns because A) someone literally asked me to like a year ago and B) it's for the readers to know so they can skip scrolling if it doesn't interest them. Literally the biggest non-issue thing they could've taken an issue with.

I'm just assuming they were a transphobe because they sounded and acted like one 🤷🏻‍♀️ you know what they say if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck.

#bumbleanswers #i did genuinely cackle when i saw that ask #this is also my blog and i can do whatever i want with it 🤷🏻‍♀️#i share my works because i *want* to not because i *need* to

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rosetintedkaleidoscope · 2 years ago

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im so mad about this im reblogging it again to put my takes in a real post and not just the tags. also i have covid and currently cant drink much milk or it does terrible things to my mucus so i am currently Suffering from a state of Milk Withdrawal. so please forgive me if i insult your tastes. anyway:

all of the fruit/nut/grain "milks" are NOT milk. you can call them that but they ARE not the same. they do not belong in this poll. let's prove it:

how do you define two foods as the same? there are a few options. you could say, foods that taste the same are the same type of food. you could say, foods that have the same nutritional content are the same type of food (i think this one is stupid but let's just say for the sake of argument). you could say, foods that were created from the same source are the same type of food.

taste: NO. no. how dare you. NONE of these alternatives are even remotely similar to True Milk. you may like them, but they taste Completely Different.

nutrition: fortified soy milk is maybe similar, but none of the others are.

source: nope. need i even explain. i don't want to be vulgar but oats do not have tits

QED this poll is perverse

Doing an experiment

Please rb to expand my sample size!

#sorry OP #im sorry if this is hostile there are very few things i am passionate about #but milk is one of them milk is my favorite thing #also im sick and have nothing to do but post inflammatory opinions on tumblr #if you're lactose intolerant im sorry my heart bleeds for you but that doesnt change the truth

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amicidomenicani · 2 years ago

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Question Hello Father, My name is F., I am a 13-year-old boy, I will soon turn 14. I am a strong believer, and I wanted to ask a few questions. 1. I have a passion for video games and during the lockdown due to Covid-19, I connected online with my friends to play video games like Fortnite, an online shooter video game that has become famous recently, where you shoot at your opponents and whoever remains the last one alive wins the battle. At first, we spent about 2 hours in front of the screen every day, then I decreased the time by playing one hour a day every other day. (…). I was wondering if it was a sin to play such video games or if it was possible, perhaps also by limiting the hours of play, to play these games. 2. Now I ask you some questions of a different nature. This summer, attending the Summer Oratory and going out with some friends once the Oratory was over, and also with my classmates, I witnessed some blasphemies or obscene words that day after day began to resonate in my head, accompanied with blasphemous thoughts or profane images about Holy matters like the Blessed Sacrament, the Blessed Virgin Mary or the Saints; I try with all my heart to push away those bad thoughts when they come to my mind and I try to reject them as much as I can, because I absolutely don't want them in my thoughts, by striving to think about something else. Listening to some blasphemies from friends or relatives, I felt the need to atone for them, offering prayers of reparation and prayers of conversion for the person from whom I heard those blasphemous things. I ask you this: since I am a boy who strongly believes, I read the Holy Scriptures; until recently, I did it every day, while lately I skipped a few days every now and then. I would like to resume reading every day and I hope to be able to find the time, given that schools are reopening! As of today, I have been committed to trying to recite one Holy Rosary a day, and on Wednesday to recite the Holy Rosary to Saint Joseph. I ask your forgiveness for this email being written with some errors and for being very long winded. I hope to receive an answer as soon as possible and I ask you to pray for me. Thank you, Father, I send you a warm greeting. Pray for me. F. Answer from the priest Dear F. 1. I begin from the second part of your email, replying about the blasphemies and obscene words that you are forced to hear when going out with your friends. Unfortunately, these words wedge themselves into memory more than others because they touch our sensitivity more intimately. After some time, you still remember these words spoken by your friends, but you no longer remember the contents of the discussions you had. Not only do they remain in our memory, but they resonate within us even if we do not want to. So far, on your part, there is no sin because there is no consent. However, you see how easy it is for so many of your friends to slip and start talking in that way, driven by what they feel ringing inside their memory. 2. Instead, I am happy for you because not only do you not consent in any way to those words or intend to take up the way of speaking of your friends, but much more because you try to atone for them. If we love the Lord and if we remain saddened because he is once again crucified in the hearts of many (cf. Heb 6:6), we feel the need for ourselves to make amends and to pray for the conversion of those children. 3. In the apparition of July 13, 1917, Our Lady in Fatima, after showing hell to the three little shepherds, told them: “You have seen how poor sinners end up. Many go down to hell because there is no one who prays and no one who sacrifices for them.” Carlo Acutis, of whom you have certainly heard, after knowing about these words of Our Lady, with even more fervor began to recite the Holy Rosary every day. Keep doing this too for the rest of your life. Do not turn back from this intimate attitude, which is very pleasing to the Lord and draws to you many graces from Heaven.

4. I am also happy with your almost daily reading of the Holy Scriptures. When you pick up those texts it is as if the Lord were leading you into the desert and speaking to your heart, as he said through the prophet Hosea: “I will lead her into the desert and speak to her heart” (Hos 2:16). You do not even know when doing this how many are the heavenly blessings that descend on you at that moment, and through you on many others. Keep doing so by listening every day to the most precious and brightest words you can hear, those of God. 5. I am also happy that you recite the Holy Rosary every day and that you dedicate it to St. Joseph on Wednesdays. I have already told you about the Rosary in what I wrote above. Now, however, I emphasize the preciousness of your devotion to St. Joseph. I do this by reporting the experience of St. Teresa of Avila, doctor of the Church: “I clearly saw that his help was always greater than what I could have hoped for. I do not remember until now that I have ever prayed to him for a grace without having immediately obtained it. And it is a wonder to remember the great favours the Lord has granted me and the dangers for soul and body from which he delivered me through the intercession of this blessed Saint” (Vita, chap. 6,6). 6. Later in your life you will understand even more the preciousness of the practices we talked about, and you will also understand that it was not simply a matter of good will on your part, but of singular graces that the Lord wanted to grant you. It is He who inspired you to do so. And it is He who moves you to open your heart to him to always fill it with his most sweet and enlightening presence. So, keep it up. 7. Regarding your first question, the video games with your friends during lockdown and even those you play now are nothing wrong. However, it is always necessary to limit oneself with regard to the time spent, so that the day is not all spent in that way, also making sure that one’s mind is not totally absorbed by them. We must also devote ourselves primarily to our duties of study, prayer, and attention to the needs of the family. I answer you today, 8 September 2021, the day dedicated to the Nativity of Mary. May the grace that descended on the world with the appearance of Our Lady abundantly descend on you today as well. I gladly pray for you, I bless you, and I wish you well. Father Angelo

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putschki1969 · 2 years ago

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Hi putschki! Now that all the girls have released their first album, it could be interesting to compare their respective 1st album in terms of style, lyrics maturity, publication period in their career, etc. What do you think?

Great question! Thank you!

Forgive me for taking so long to reply but I really wanted to do this justice with a thorough analysis and of course I thought it would be nice to include the Oricon weekly chart results for Hikaru's album (~930 copies sold within the first week). Please note that this is not really a professional analysis. I’ve tried to provide all the key data in an objective manner but at the end of the day, these are just my personal opinions.Without further ado, let’s get to it〈(•ˇ‿ˇ•)-→

Wakana - 1st Album "Wakana"

Label: Victor Entertainment 2019.03.20 RELEASE [~1 month after her major solo debut] 11 tracks (9 previously unreleased; lyrics provided for 6 tracks) RE ¥3,300 | LE-A ￥3,850 | LE-B ￥5,280

Discussion: Wakana and her team really did not waste any time which was definitely a good idea since they were able to make use of a lot of the left-over Kalafina momentum. There was a ton of media coverage with all sorts of appearances which helped promote the release. The ensuing VOICE tour was also a great incentive to make people buy more copies. It’s a ballad-heavy album with little to no experimental or challenging stuff and as such quite homogeneous but that’s not necessarily a bad thing since people already associated her with this sort of music. Not straying too far from people’s expectations with your first few solo releases is actually a really smart move if you wanna keep your loyal fans happy and continue to sell copies. Despite the arguably overwhelming amount of slow songs, the album has some really solid tracks and is surprisingly well-balanced with a variety of styles that all suit Wakana’s voice very well. Overall, I would say that it is pretty reminiscent of “Kalafina’s Wakana, i.e. ballad queen” and as such has made it relatively easy to slowly ease her fans into her solo work. My only nit-pick, I probably would have replaced “Toki no Ne” with “Ato Hitotsu” which is a much superior song. As far as bonus content is concerned, this is a very good release since it includes a PV, a making-of, instrumentals as well as gorgeous photo booklets/books. No matter which version you go for, you get your money’s worth and in this case it actually pays off to buy all three versions because the RE contains some of the prettiest pictures in its lyric photo booklet. I do not presume to be an expert when it comes to lyric writing but I think for a first attempt, the lyrics are pretty good and she did more than half of the songs herself which I find impressive. They are unpretentious (dare I say simple?) and mostly coherent but at the same time quite poetic so what’s not to like?

1. 約束の夜明け (4/5) 2. 翼 (4/5) 3. 瑠璃色の空 (1/5) 4. 流れ星 (2/5) 5. 記憶の人 (4/5) 6. 時を越える夜に (5/5) 7. Hard Rain (3/5) 8. 金木犀 (5/5) 9. 僕の心の時計 (4/5) 10. 時の音 (1/5) 11. 愛の花 (5/5)

Keiko - 1st Album "Lantana"

Label: Avex Trax 2020.12.02 RELEASE [~6 months after her major solo debut] 11 tracks (7 previously unreleased; lyrics provided for 3 tracks) RE ¥3,300 | LE-A ￥4,950 | LE-B ￥9,020

Discussion: Keiko’s timing was a little unfortunate since she started her solo activities at the height of the pandemic which may or may not have affected sales negatively. There was a considerable amount of media appearances, an online release event and a small live but COVID regulations most likely stopped them from doing even more. Among the three of them, Keiko had the most traditional release schedule. First she released two singles to whet everyone’s appetite and then after a reasonable amount of time, she dropped her album. Not sure if this was such a good idea since the style of her singles felt a bit jarring to long-time fans, it definitely wasn’t what fans were hoping for. Which I guess is the running theme for her entire album. The whole thing feels like a mixture of randomly thrown-together mediocre tracks, no overarching theme, no structure, no personality, nothing that screams “Keiko” to me. For the most part the music doesn’t do anything to highlight Keiko’s vocals, quite the contrary actually, the key of some of these songs is outright unflattering. Having Yuki Kajiura attached to the project helped a bit in terms of promotion but even her song wasn’t outstanding so it didn’t do much to increase the overall quality of the album. It also felt like a cop-out to include an acoustic version of “Akane” just to get to 11 tracks. The bonus content (including a PV, some live footage as well as a mini LP) is pretty good but I am not sure it justifies the rather steep price for the limited editions, especially since they don’t even come with different fancy photo booklets. There is literally no point in getting the regular edition or even the LE-A if you want all the juicy content. It’s a shame that Keiko only did the lyrics for three songs. Again, I wouldn’t wanna judge her skills but one thing is for sure, I have a very hard time translating her lyrics because they are often a bit too vague. Make of that whatever you will.

1. Be Yourself (3/5) 2. 七色のフィナーレ (5/5) 3. 始まりは (3/5) 4. 茜 (3/5) 5. 溜め息の消える街 (1/5) 6. Ray (3/5) 7. 夕顔 (4/5) 8. エンドロール (3/5) 9. Change The World's Color (1/5) 10. 命の花 (4/5) 11. 茜 -acoustic ver.-(2/5)

Hikaru - 1st Album "Kaihōku"

Label: NBC Universal Entertainment 2022.06.29 RELEASE [~2 years after her major solo debut] 12 tracks (5 previously unreleased; 4 tie-ins; lyrics provided for 7 tracks) RE ¥3,300 | LE-A ￥4,950

Discussion: This album is long-overdue and I fear Hikaru has lost a lot of her momentum throughout the years. They probably wanted to wait until she had collected a bunch of anime tie-ins but I am afraid that backfired a little bit. Despite three of her four anisongs being pretty solid, they were sadly all used in mediocre shows so it’s not like they were any good for proper promotion. Speaking of promotion, as of the time I am writing this, there has been zero substantial media coverage of her album release, no media appearances whatsoever. At least they organised release events as well as an online sign event so kudos to her promotion team for that! Regarding the album as a whole, I am quite satisfied with the outcome. A majority of the tracks have had time to marinate so the release feels more earned and personal I guess? The album is not as edgy or daring as its title would suggest though which is a wasted opportunity. Still, there is a decent variety and some cool new styles. However, I am low-key offended that they didn’t include her best B-side, “Determination”, in the album. While I don’t mind “landscape”, it’s slightly boring compared to the epicness of “Determination”. Or they could have just dropped “Pulsation”? I understand the wish to include her unofficial debut song in her first official full album but let’s be real here, the song isn’t anything to write home about. The bonus content on the LE is neat but the RE is absolutely useless. Again, no fancy photo booklets. Why? Hikaru is probably the most skilled when it comes to lyric writing and story-telling or at the very least, the most devoted? This is another reason why this album feels very much like it is representative of the current “Hikaru”. It’s just a shame that she didn’t write the lyrics for any of the new songs.

1. Altern-ate-(4/5) 2. 螺旋の繭 (2/5) 3. The Sacred Torch (1/5) 4. Ambient Border (4/5) 5. イエスノウ (3/5) 6. カナシイケダモノ (5/5) 7. かわいそうだよ (5/5) 8. disclose (5/5) 9. clea-rly- (3/5) 10. JUST DO IT (3/5) 11. landscape (2/5) 12. pulsation Eng. Ver. (1/5)

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jjheejz · 3 years ago

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About 13.8.21

This is an ongoing update about the case from start to development. List of all related posts can be found on this blog's pinned post (link provided at bottom of each post as well).

4 December 2021 update: Added ZZH's mothers official address about the matter

9 September 2021 update: Updated major events part

22 August 2021 update: Updated 'thoughts' section

21 August 2021 update: Updated small content

16 August 2021 update: Added paragraph in purple and an important read there

Originally posted on 14 August 2021

[Disclaimer: The purpose of detailing is to let international fans know why it was a deal in China for a clearer picture, this is a cultural and political case with Internet Water Army play(link) involved, so I think having some detailed knowledge is essential.]

The huge event that broke out yesterday (13 August 2021) with him is actually a series of events related to his trip to Japan before covid-19, of which China does not condone. Yesterday was the biggest catalyst and final.

Here's a list of major events that compiled (they are all debunked and proven out of context now, this information remains here to serve as what transpired this day) - and this post link that ZZH's mother officially addressed the accusations on 3 December 2021. This is the ultimate debunk.

- Uploading a Rising Sun Flag(link) car among a spread of his Japan trip's photos on weibo in 2017

- [DEBUNKED LINK HERE] Took a photo outside Yasukuni Shrine(link) and uploaded on his 2nd instagram account in 2018. He lost this account's login details, last post update was 2018. Visiting is alright, praying (by entering) is not. This shrine is also near a tourist attraction so it's easy to think it's another attraction. The shrine angle taken in the picture, was at an unobvious angle of the Shrine.

- Attended a friend's wedding at Nogi Shrine(link) in 2019 (he is NOT a right-wing member as claimed). One of the attendees is a political figure:

- Dewi Sukarno(link), of whom ZZH took a photo with (Circulation raised only of her controversy, but note that she is a respected lady in her country)

- [DEBUNKED LINK HERE] Photo leak of ZZH sitting on Su Xiao Xiao's(link) (a famous ancient Chinese courtesan and poet) - photo seemed to be taken in his early twenties. *Note that it's an empty tomb

- [DEBUNKED link here] Posing hand gesture, with Zhe Jiang Memorial Hall of Revolutionary Martyrs(link) at the background in 2019

- Mermaid image bebunked to be photoshopped

(Please read these places and people online, Wikipedia is also fine - added the link for your quick click underlined too. Generally, the shrines' knowledge are thought by the general Chinese as basic knowledge and taboo offline, so happening consecutively every year is also seen as too coincidental that to them, ZZH did it on purpose).

Other magnified issues unless otherwise seem normal to any non-public figure:

- Took a series of photos in front of Japanese Shrines for 3 consecutive years until covid happened (it could just be a niche interest)

- Learning and speaking a bit of Japanese at his friend's wedding

- Some photos of him in Japan in 2017 uploaded on his second instagram account etc

Reception by China-Chinese:

- First of all, ZZH himself made an official apology on weibo at about 1.39pm yesterday (13 August 2021). Reception by Chinese was getting bad after the issue broke out, and at 5.35pm, he followed up with a repost by a Major Chinese Media reposting his apology, and stated his reflective attitude towards his past actions as a citizen of China. Of course, the comment section and sentiment started to become even more aggressive.

About 8 Major China's official news account reposted his apology post and they generally don't sound forgiving.

After the 6pm news, all brands withdrew their collaborations with him and by midnight today (14 August 2021), all 27 brands had cut ties with him.

- Secondly, to understand this reaction, we have to look at his fans demographics: the major age group of his fans are in the thirties to forties. This explains him topping charts for fan purchase power because this group are mostly working adults. Which also mean, closer familial ties to the after war era about 70+ years, which meant their parents or grandparents may be directly involved during the war. China was a major victim in war, thus the sentiment is very high and the hatred inbred both online and offline is extremely strict and serious. This is why the Shrines that housed the war leaders were seen as taboo. Do read up on those two Shrines, Wikipedia is okay too.

As we all know, China-Chinese place utmost importance in family, it's not limited to father & mother with siblings, it's extensions to uncles, aunt, cousins, grandparents, grandparents' siblings etc (this explains why pre-covid, Chinese people would flood the transport system to go back to their hometown for family reunion), so this war sentiment is really close. International Chinese place a somewhat lighter importance than them.

- Thirdly, (if am not wrong), he is the first celebrity to break out with such amount of political collision. Therefore, his case is deemed one of the, if not the most serious case in the industry as well. Far serious than the other shenanigans lately.

Added on 15 Aug, updated on 18 Aug post update - The Internet Water Army in China

After reading a comment and thinking through, I'm adding this because this is something I neglected to add to draw a bigger picture.

Internet Water Army is prevalent in every Entertainment industry: Phrasing, click-bait titles, twisting context, baseless assumptions, pulling down any celebrities etc.

This needs a post of its own here (link), please read and keep this in mind as well. There's nothing to beautify here, the topic itself is a cloud of negativity and played a huge role.

Maybe just a note to all that, even after this news of him broke out and there was a huge choir of Goodbyes, ZZH's followers did not dropped much at all. (Based from what I rmbed before and after the issue) His official Weibo account dropped merely from 18.9m, to 18.7m in 2 days. So if the backlash was supposed to be such a National serious Political issue, it should have at least caused more unfollows than just a mere 200,000+. Pair with 15.8.21 issue, the Internet Water Army did very well acting to their own script.

ZZH's background

Aside from the event and issue, we also have to look at ZZH's background to understand certain things before concluding.

1. Before WOH, he is a traveler. Adventurous and has many big connections internationally which not a lot of people in their thirties have to his scale. Because of his passion in basketball, he met a number of famous basketball players worldwide. In the Chinese-Korea sports show, he knew some Koreans, and his later changed interest in Golf which I believe also gained him some international golfer connections, and his connections, you can't deny is more than most people's for his age.

Those who came from an ask: 11 years in the entertainment industry

Travelled to not just Japan but Rome, Australia, Taiwan, France, Germany, Greece, Tibet (famous cycling-only trip) and a lot more in his own country etc, I'm sure for Sports purposes there are many more, everyone can tell he is a man before 29 years old, with a fulfilling travel experience, so his world, is definitely wider than the average China-Chinese.

Won't conclude to what extent, but I'm sure he is much more open-minded, and might, i stress the word 'might' be more internationalised than the average China-Chinese.

He seemed more outward that he could have neglected inwards.

2. Before he was famous, or even before WOH (which also means before meeting GJ), he is someone who shares a lot on Weibo. His opinions, his emotions and his life (eating, going out) etc. Very outdoor-sy person and open to share. But because of his looks (manly image) and certain straightforward things he said, he has a history of being cyber bullied/scolded online, by his own fans and maybe some passer-bys. During filming of WOH, his Weibo saga was just one of the many. Also, because of his straightforward captions, this issue arose.

He had represented China in the China-Korea sports show and clearly stated how he should help his teammates score back points for China (can't rmb if it was also the same for his MVP basketball period as well). His face was injured, plastered with bandages but he insisted on completing the competition for China in the sports show.

He is very passionate in both basketball and acting that he had a serious injury to his knee caused by a basketball match, then because of acting, he missed the crucial moment for recovery and went back to filming till an accident occurred again (this drama never got aired), causing permanent damage to which he can never touch his favourite basketball again (in the sense of competitive playing).

Left: Drama snippet that never got to air

Right: ZZH's dunk (not related to the injury)

In recent interviews before the whole situation, he pronounced certain chinese words wrongly, and admitted before he couldn't focus on studying much in school. So in some ways, you could tell he was more an active kid, doesn't like words.

3. After he was ZZS and got famous, and maybe also after meeting GJ, he changed. He isn't as open to sharing much online (which is normal, considering fame can increase wealth, decrease privacy) and his personality obviously internalised and became more sensitive. Much more introverted and less adventurous than last time (covid could be the reason). Reading books, concentrating on singing (mostly melancholic) and putting on a colder front (personally to hide or suppress his sensitive side) etc became much more common.

The sparks and lights of burning passion from his past isn't very visible even during February's interview or even last year (that passion is very prevalent in sports). Personally, i think he became mature, and just, quieter publicly (maybe because it's not sports and the event's nature), except when he's with GJ.

Back to topic

Bringing up his background was not to defuse what he had done. As I said from the start, knowledge is essential, even the person involved and the Media because it helps people to understand and see a bigger picture.

The fact that war's cruelty and hell hole is not fiction and happened in this one generation where there are still people alive to tell their experiences, is a magnitude of its own.

Politics between China and Japan is very strained also mainly because Japan never admitted to the war and certain memorials of their war leaders are still controversially honored which is why it is a huge thing.

The Internet Water Army is also a cause of concern because in this case, they were definitely hired.

Conclusion

You can make your own whole conclusion no matter your background on this but please do so with enough information from all sides: The political aspect, ZZH himself and the Internet Water Army (link).

Thoughts (on 14 August 2021)

For those who had moved on from the Political aspect, you may scroll below for bonus or read about Internet Water Army.

22 August 2021 update: The landscape has changed so this part onwards may be irrelevant (due to IWA). If anyone would like read on, feel free to.

We are all humans the first time, we experience every year and age for the first time. To me unless one did lowly things or killed a person, they are still forgivable. Then again, I'm just an international fan, but ZZH's career is in China.

Knowing ZZH for 5 months and will still continue to, I find he has changed. It's like seeing your son or brother or friend growing and changing after WOH happened. While he did what he did in the past, I'm sure the him now even before this situation arise, would be more cautious on these.

The line between a public figure and commoner is one step across but the difference in reception to the same actions are astronomical. He wasn't famous before, it's more forgivable, he didn't do it when he was famous, but should his past determine his future and his person now?

As an international chinese fan, his whole situation isn't a problem to me in the first place. My first reaction was barely just "Oh. So?" So painting a bigger picture got me to understand more. After learning, it became more of wanting to be there for him. Forgive, dont forget.

My own family lineage has a fair share of war stories directly in China, they are running in my blood real and utterly painful. How can it be easy for those directly involved to move on?

If anything else for me now, it just adds one thing to note about him. That's all. Move on.

Generally, he did something not right, so he will need to bear the outcome, as long as he learns from it, is there a reason not to forgive?

Having done the Fate Series before, I'm once again appalled by it. It may be negative this time, but the scale is also...and how much the whole landscape changed because of his case in a span of one week. Lie down everyone, the road before was paved by IWAs, the road foreward will be their consequences. Lie down and watch.

Bonus

Since today (14.8.21) is Chinese Valentine's Day, one of ZZH's buddy posted this:

"Although many things happened lately, I still hope everyone can spend a happy Valentine's Day on this (beautifully) great occassion.

Wishing everyone a Happy Valentine's Day~"

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archived-kin · 4 years ago

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you go to a devildom zoo and a penguin attempts to seduce you (the brothers are not happy)

note from kin: this was meant to be out way sooner but covid-19 and a whole lot of catch-up coursework said no to that idea >:(

anyway formatting on mobile is actual ass so let me know if this ends up unreadable!

enjoy, darlings!

fandom: obey me!

character(s): gn!reader, lucifer, mammon, leviathan, satan, asmodeus, beelzebub, belphegor, diavolo (mentioned briefly)

pairing(s): demon brothers/reader, penguin/reader (one-sided), a bat also very briefly tries to seduce you

warning(s): reader really loves deadly creatures which i know isn't really a warning but just as a heads up for those who can't relate i guess??? also this is ended up WAY longer than i intended lmao

genre: fluff (but also crack)

oh the pure joy you felt when you found out that there are zoos in the devildom

zoos full of sphinxes, chimeras, hydras, krakens, manticores, basilisks and griffins, but zoos nonetheless

in fact, you’d argue that the fact that the zoos here are full of potentially lethal legendary beasts is even COOLER

so, naturally, you begged lucifer to let you go to one

his response?

“absolutely not, you could be killed.”

well now that’s just unfair

there are so many things down here in the devildom that could kill you! the heat, the food, the dragons just wandering around in the skies, your fellow students at rad, belphie, not sleeping enough, the stupidly narrow staircases, lucifer himself! in fact, you’d argue that lucifer has already come close to killing you more times than any of those creatures at the zoo

unfortunately that was entirely was the wrong thing to say because now lucifer’s gone all broody on you

you just KNOW he’s gonna spend all of next week either drowning himself in work or sulking in the music room if you don’t cheer him up quickly

so you guess it’s time to pull out the puppy eyes and hope that they work

spoiler alert: they do. you also end up being stuck in lucifer’s arms for about five hours afterwards as he cuddles out all of his negative thoughts, but that’s not a bad thing, so you’re not complaining

the next day, however, you are BACK on your bullshit

and you are back with a vengeance!

you are getting a trip to that zoo whether lucifer likes it or not and you will not rest until you succeed

your first idea is to go to diavolo for help because.... he’s diavolo and lucifer would listen to that demon before anyone, including himself

unfortunately that doesn’t work because diavolo is out on a business trip to the human world with barbatos

(which means your butler buddy, who could probably have helped you make your case, is also out of the picture)

you suppose that you could try getting simeon in on the scheme but you’re pretty sure he’d end up making it worse with his insatiable penchant for teasing lucifer

your final solution?

cry

and it worked a treat too!

lucifer is just a sucker for his human and he doesn’t like seeing them sad okay :((

he finally agrees to let you go to the big zoo just north of RAD since it’s directly under diavolo’s jurisdiction, but he also makes you promise that you’ll take at least one brother with you

(he’s hoping you’ll choose him)

but then you uno reverse card him!

jokes on you, lucifer, your human wants a family day out!!

lucifer would be lying if his heart didn’t swell slightly when you proclaimed you wanted all the brothers to come with you so that you could all spend the day together having fun

although you may have just made a mistake because now lucifer is going to do everything in his power to make sure the day goes perfectly, and if that means smiting the rude demon in line in front of you, then what about it?

(luckily you stop him from the killing someone before you’re even inside, but it was a close call)

the moment the eight of you step into the zoo satan whisks you off to look at the devildom equivalent of big cats

which means the sphinxes and manticores first, then the giant fire-breathing tigers

he’s planning to have a nice heart-to-heart conversation with you while the two of you stroll along the exhibit, but then you both get distracted by how cool the animals are

so the two of you just end up dragging each other back and forth to look at one creature after another

not the romantic scene satan initially had in mind, but he’d be lying if he said this wasn’t also absolutely perfect

holding your hand while you talk enthusiastically about how majestically that manticore leapt thirty feet into the air with your entire face lighting up like the most beautiful lantern in the world? stunning. outstanding. he wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.

meanwhile, back at the entrance, levi is sulking, mammon is fuming, beel is already stuffing himself with overpriced food stall delicacies, belphie has crawled under a bench to nap while he waits for you to come back, asmo is taking pictures with the extra long-legged flamingo billboard, and lucifer is so preoccupied with trying to figure out just how the hell the walking system here works that he hasn’t even noticed that you and satan have just disappeared into the void

in the end the remaining brothers split off into pairs, all agreeing that whoever is the first to find you and satan will get to have some one-on-one time with you next

and, drumroll please, that lucky pair turns out to be... beel and belphie!

(really they have an unfair advantage though since beel can smell out anyone he knows from a mile away)

meanwhile satan has just spent just about all of the grimm he brought with him on a hideously overpriced plush version of the manticore you were so fascinated with

but the smile on your face when he gives it to you?? the LIGHT that exudes from you when you declare that the plush’s name is now greenie because it has green eyes just like his?? worth it. absolutely worth it.

but uh oh, the moment is soon to be gone, because guess who’s here?

beel and belphie can’t let satan have all your attention! beel is a little more forgiving, but belphie is going to make sure he’s the first to get a kiss today, anti-lucifer club alliance be damned!

he’s not going to admit that of course. instead, he’s going to very subtly hip-bump satan out of the way so that he can hold your hand instead (beel can have the other hand, but if he tries to pull you away, he’s getting what-for.)

normally satan would be pretty miffed by this, but hey, he’s in a good mood right now and he doesn’t want to spoil the day by getting pissy, so he lets the twins get away with it. younger sibling privilege, am I right?

belphie wants to take you to his particular favourite exhibit here, the giant carnivorous cattle with horns the size of chair legs

beel, on the other hand, suggests that maybe you don’t want to see a gargantuan mammal tear apart a giant piece of meat that may or may not have been sourced from a human graveyard (the giant carnivorous cattle are picky, okay? at least they’re not murdering people for the meat)

you, however, are absolutely fearless

besides, what harm can a giant carnivorous cattle with horns the side of chair legs do to you when it’s being kept behind six inches of hellfire trench, with three of the devildom’s most powerful demons close by to swoop in to your rescue?

beel begrudgingly agrees to go see the giant carnivorous cattle, but makes you promise to stay slightly behind him so that he can jump to defend you should they get out of hand

your big strong demon standing in front of you, protecting you as you get to look at a super cool and also deadly creature? you are absolutely on board with this.

(satan is slightly concerned by your willingness to go near creatures that could tear you to pieces in a second, but if he gets to see you smile like that again then... well, what can he say, he’s a simp)

so off you go!

the giant carnivorous cattle are AWESOME. you get to watch a trio of them eat what appears to be an entire car in, like, two seconds, tops, and they don’t even look bothered by the metal disappearing down their massive gullets.

(you ask belphie in an undertone why the cattle are eating cars if they’re carnivorous. his response is that even giant carnivorous cattle need their minerals, so the zookeepers feed them a bunch of the metal stuff you get in human scrapyards.)

(sounds like an RSPCA violation to you...)

you’re practically tumbling over the fence as you lean forward to get a proper look at them and their adorable tiny wings, so belphie ends up having to pull you back

just as he does it, however, he has a very bright idea

so instead of gently tugging you back as he’d originally planned, he practically yanks you into him, conveniently slipping your hand out of beel’s in the process

listen, it’s not that belphie resents letting beel hold hands with you at the same time as him. a demon’s just gotta get his hugs sometimes, alright?

of course you’re a little miffed about being so violently yoinked, so you’re about to turn around and give belphie a piece of your mind, but then he pulls you close to him and nuzzles his nose into your hair

how are you supposed to scold him for that???

he seems so content and he’s even doing that adorable little purring thing demons do when they’re happy that he never does in public

you can’t just pull out of his arms! it’s probably illegal!!!!!

belphie gets a pass for being cute this time. only this time. no more.

(as an aside, this sort of thing happens at least once a day because belphie’s a whiny little baby who can’t go twelve hours without your love)

anyway now beel looks a little downtrodden which you are not having

your solution? wait until belphie lets go of you on his own and then you can give beel a hug of his own.

unfortunately belphie doesn’t seem interested in separating from you

luckily you don’t end up having to deal with that, because then satan steps in

partially because he feels bad for beel and also partially because okay that’s enough touching now, know your boundaries

which means it’s BEEL’S TURN TO SHINE

does this demon want you to die? because that is what’s going to happen if he keeps being so friggin sweet

first of all he buys you a bunch of treats from the nearby food stalls with his own money and offers every single one to you

is he on drugs? is that what’s happening here? what happened to the avatar of gluttony who ate first and asked questions later???

of course you aren’t going to be so cruel as to take every single one of the treats he’s offering when you can physically hear his stomach rumble as he holds them out to you

instead, you take a handful or so and tell him to eat the rest himself because he deserves it

beel almost tears up he’s so happy he loves you so much in that moment

some may say he’s being dramatic but beel says that every moment with you is a treasure and he has every right to be emotional

belphie is a teensy bit pissed that satan simp-policed him when he’s just as whipped but it’s beel so... he’ll stay down

satan, meanwhile, starts snapping pictures of you at every opportunity, most of them candids, to save to the album he has dedicated especially to you, and also to send to the brothers’ group chat to brag

asmo responds to each one with even more heart emojis than the last, levi always has some kind of jealous comment to make, lucifer stays silent (satan knows he’s saving the photos to his own gallery to gaze affectionately at later though), and mammon just keeps sending angry stickers and then quickly adding that they’re not aimed at you but at satan for having the audacity

anyway, the four of you end up leaving the giant carnivorous cow exhibit after spending a few minutes just sitting together on one of the giant benches while you and beel (mostly beel) eat the giant pile of food he purchased

(beel’s not evil so he offers satan and belphie some obviously, but he makes it clear that you’re getting first pick)

beel’s about to ask where you want to head next when

here comes trouble

and make it double

asmo and levi are IN the building (zoo)

levi, having gotten so antsy waiting for you to show up, disregards all subtlety and basically throws himself right at you, scoops you up, and takes off

leaving behind your poor manticore plush, a stunned satan, beel, belphie, and asmo, who immediately starts running after the two of you, shouting ‘hey, that isn’t fair!’

satan, belphie and beel are left to exchange disbelieving looks and attempt to follow

(don't worry about greenie, satan picks him up and vows to keep him safe until he meets up with you again)

meanwhile you are being quite literally swept off your feet

“levi. levi stop i can walk. levi i’m coming to aquarium with you. you don’t need to pull me. levi i’m getting a little dizzy over here. levi please”

luckily you are saved from your impending doom (because, realistically, there is no way mr hasn’t-exercised-in-several-millennia can carry someone halfway across the biggest zoo in all three realms without tripping) by asmo

now, asmo does not like exercise. it makes him all hot and sweaty (and not in the sexy way) and it’s just... not it. however, because it’s you, he will make an exception just this once.

so he grits his teeth, pins back his long-ass fringe with a cute butterfly clip, and runs for it

normally jealous-mode levi will not stop for anything, but a running asmo in the right situation is even more terrifying than a quiet angry lucifer, and a quiet angry lucifer normally means multiple people are getting burnt alive

so what does levi do? naturally, he stops in his tracks, lets out a scream of such a high frequency that he disturbs a flock of deathseye hawks nesting in a tree nearby, and almost drops you on your head

asmo immediately stops running, takes a moment to dab off any sweat on his forehead with his dainty little pink handkerchief, and lets his hair back down

because he is not exercising for a second longer than he has to

anyway, now that you’re not being torpedo’d halfway across the world, you can finally take a second to breathe and actually ask levi what he wants

he goes pink and stares shame-facedly at the ground and refuses to say a word, especially with avatar of lust ‘i like teasing my brothers to the point where it might be sexual harassment’ asmodeus Right There behind you

but you want your purple boy to be honest!! which means it is puppy dog eyes time again

finally, staring determinedly off to the side, levi mumbles, “you promised we’d go see the fish...”

oh your poor heart

you’re inclined to start pressing kisses all over his face, but you just know he will immediately blow up on the spot if you do in such a public area, so you settle on giving him a subtle hug and reassuring him that yes, you will go see the fish with him

now, asmo’s a hoe for attention, we all know that, but even he has his moments

so, making you promise to go see the birds of arcadia with him later, he departs with a wave and a very sneaky kiss planted on your cheek to let you and levi have your time together

thanks asmo

so off you and levi go!

the aquarium FUCKS

sorry that was too strong

the aquarium is GORGEOUS

it’s got this beautiful deep blue-green ambient lighting, and there are enormous tanks for the giant sharks that essentially make up the walls and ceiling

and there are SO MANY FISH!

rainbow fish, neon pink fish, fish with tiny markings that make them look like they have moustaches, fish with scales that change colour every five seconds, glow-in-the-dark fish, fish the size of a small car

literally any kind of fish you can imagine? they HAVE THEM

you’re almost too distracted to notice levi tugging aggressively on your sleeve

when you do, though, he quickly ushers you over into the tunnel exhibit, where the dolphins live

devildom dolphins look pretty similar to regular human dolphins, except they live in what’s essentially hydrochloric acid and are pitch black in colour with bright purple eyes

you’re pretty confused as to why levi wanted to drag you in here so quickly - you’d have thought he’d go for the goldfish, or the venomous water serpents, or even the special hydra exhibit they’ve got for a limited time

but then levi pulls you over to the very edge, taps his fingers lightly on the glass, and... starts clicking and chirruping?

you’re about to very concernedly ask if he’s feeling alright when something amazing happens

the giant male with scars all over it who, according to one of the signs along the tunnel, spends most of his time skulking as far away from the glass as possible and will eat any demon who comes too close, swims over to him

then, wearing the gentlest little smile, levi turns to you and tells you to say hello to captain

you almost yell out of sheer excitement, but you manage to collect yourself

instead, what comes out is an aggressively whispered:

"hello!! hi, captain!! it's lovely to meet you!! i love you!!!!"

and captain loves you too!!!!!

he swims right up to you and butts his nose against the glass

well you can't not immediately press your face against the glass as well so it looks like you're bumping noses with him can you???

so you do exactly that

all the while going "hello!! hello!! you're such a pretty boy!! what a handsome boy!!"

levi almost cries because you are just too perfect

you love captain? and captain loves you too? he seriously has to hold himself back from dropping to one knee and proposing right then and there

after taking a moment to get his heart to calm down, he translates what you're saying to captain, who immediately starts clicking back

and guess what??? captain says you're the prettiest!!!!!!!!! you’re the handsomest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

now you're going to cry

you and levi spend ages in that tunnel together, just talking to captain and holding hands and exchanging little kisses now and then

levi is so in his element here in the aquarium that he isn't even as nervous and stuttery with his affection as usual

it's almost jarring, but are you complaining? absolutely not

when and levi emerge from the aquarium, both a little giddy and still enthusiastically talking about all the other creatures you said hi to after captain (who you are most definitely coming back to visit sometime), asmo is waiting outside so impatiently that he's getting a lot of irritated looks for his aggressive foot-tapping

levi wants to go see the reptiles now, but then asmo plays the 'i let you get away with having alone time, now let me have mine, bitch’ card

and to be honest levi's pretty sure that even self-proclaimed romance expert asmo can't top the mini-aquarium date you've just had with him, sooooo...

buying you a little keychain replica of captain just to get a final one over his brother, he bids you goodbye and goes off to the reptile house on his own, pulling on his headphones on his way so that he won't accidentally end up talking to some stranger again

it is now asmo's time to shine!!!

and so off the two of you head off to the birds of arcadia exhibit

however, it seems that asmo doesn’t have much interest in the birds themselves apart from for taking pictures with them for his devilgram

the birds are beautiful indeed, but guess what else is also beautiful? here is a short and concise list:

1. holding asmo’s hand

2. giving asmo kisses

3. receiving kisses from asmo

4. giving asmo hugs

5. receiving hugs from asmo

6. cuddling with asmo

7. sleeping with asmo (in the literal sense)

8. sleeping with asmo (in the not so litera—)

this has been a short and concise list of things that are very beautiful and you should absolutely do right this second (not ghost-written by asmodeus, avatar of lust, not at all)

anyway, it’s kind of hard to concentrate on that adorable neon striped pecker sitting close by to you when asmo is draping himself all over you like a damn scarf

it’s cute! it’s cute. but.... the birds...... you want to see the birds.........

in the end the two of you settle on a compromise: asmo will let you have some time to just look at the pretty birds as long as you keep holding his hand, and then the two of you will go and get matching face paint together

asmo’s kinda pouty about it at first, but he quickly changes his mind when he sees how enamoured you are by the birds

you really are too cute!! he just wants to scoop you up and cover you with kisses, but he’s already promised to leave that for when you aren’t in the middle of a busy public space

(he definitely isn’t the slightest bit jealous of them because he wants to be the only beautiful thing that you look at like that. he knows he’s prettier than those birds.)

(but, like... he’s still gonna puff up his chest a bit when he catches one edging just a bit too close to you. he may be the avatar of lust, but he does have his moments of jealousy as well… even if they’re at blooming birds.)

finally, when you’ve decided that you’ve had your fill of gorgeous birds, asmo immediately pulls you off to the face-painting booth

all the designs the demons managing it have come up with are pretty beautiful, so he’s not bothered about which one to get as long as you two are matching

which means you get to choose!!!!

at first he thinks you’ll ask for the super popular one that imitates the feather pattern of the most popular bird of arcadia, the lesser spotted spectra

but then you turn to look at him, think for a moment, turn back to the demon doing the painting, and ask if they do custom designs

asmo can only watch on, confused, as you and the demon whisper conspiratorially back and forth for five minutes

then the demon has started painting, and the cheeky little grin on your face is making him a little worried that you’ve deliberately asked for a really stupid design just to mess with him

but then, as the strokes and colours all come together, he realises something that might make him a little teary eyed. just a little bit.

the design you’ve asked for just so happens to be the gorgeous, swirling pattern of the avatar of lust’s pact mark

and it’s not just that, either. he takes a closer look and realises that the little flowers added around the edges are his favourite kind of rose as well

and THEN the demon doing the painting turns to him and tells him with a smirk that, by your suggestion, the paint he’s using has been enchanted so that it goes rainbow when you kiss the person who’s wearing it

oh, he really should have had more faith in you! this is even better than anything he could come up with!!!

(he takes about a million photos of you while he’s waiting for his own turn and sends at least a quarter of them to the group chat)

asmo is practically vibrating with excitement as he sits there getting his own face painted

and if you think he doesn’t drag you off to some secluded corner for a good half an hour just pressing little kisses all over your face and giggling when he pulls away and your face paint has gone all the colours of the rainbow, you are severely wrong

of course, he wants kisses as well. this is a give-and-take system and he wants just as much as he gives!!!

unfortunately, there is one disadvantage to spending so much time just canoodling

the others haven’t heard from you or asmo in a good hour and they are beginning to PANIC

mammon in particular is practically shooting off the walls and just constantly spamming you with ‘WHERE ARE YOU’ and ‘COME BACK’ messages

asmo doesn’t want you to go but he’s also kind of running off a high right now so he decides it’s okay and sends you off you find mammon with a cheery wave (and a love struck sigh once you’re out of earshot)

you find mammon just walking in circles in the communal area outside the cannibalistic not-zebras exhibit

he almost bursts into tears when you come up to him and tap him on the shoulder because it feels like he hasn’t seen you for what feels like hours and hours and he just,,, he missed you okay

after five minutes of him just furiously rubbing his eyes and refusing to admit why, he gathers himself and asks you what you want to go see

you have to think for a good long while because, while you’ve been to plenty of zoos in the human world and know by now the sorts of animals most of them have, devildom creature species are unpredictable

you could jokingly say ‘hyper-aware empathetic goose’ and they’d probably have one

but then you have a look around you and see the big map

and what is the first thing you see on that map?

‘vampiric venomous bats’

oh fuck yeah

mammon is a little concerned because the vvbs are known to randomly swoop down and attack the people who walk into their exhibit

he knows you can protect yourself!! but when you’re being swarmed by a horde of more than fifty giant bat creatures with enormous teeth full of venom that can kill you in seconds, there’s really not much you can do

and there is no expressing the amount of absolute misery that would descend on him if he let you get hurt

so instead, you make a compromise and decide to go to scheduled talk on the vvbs in ten minutes instead

normally mammon finds these zoo talks boring as all hell, but heck, if he gets to hold your hand for a whole forty five minutes without having to make an excuse to do so, he’s down

so off you go to the talk!

you’re having the absolute time of your life as the keeper shows you one of the more lethargic bats and describes exactly how it paralyses its prey with high frequency screeches and then kills it with a single bite to the neck

mammon, on the other hand, is honestly kind of spooked

that bat may be half-asleep, but it’s got the eyes of a murderer

so what if he shuffles a little closer to you every time the bat moves?? it’s not like he’s scared of it or anything! no way!

(please hold him or he may cry)

but then... DISASTER strikes

the keeper looks out across her bright-eyed audience, listening attentively to her explanation of how the vvb detects prey through the slightest vibrations in the air... and asks if there are any volunteers who want to hold it

everyone goes quiet. they’re all looking at the floor and avoiding eye contact like students who don’t want to be picked to answer a question in class. they may be demons, but even they know danger when they see it.

except...

mammon is just commenting to himself in amusement about how quiet everyone’s gotten when he looks to the side and practically feels his heart freeze

your hand has flown straight up into the air, and before he can pull it down, the keeper has called on you

mammon may be just as terrified of that bat as everyone else, but he isn’t going to let you go near that thing without him to protect you

the keeper looks a little befuddled as to why one of the most powerful demons in the devildom is following you up to the front like a very attached duckling, but luckily she goes along with it

first she gives you a super thick dragonhide glove to wear, just in case the bat gets violent

then she attaches the little lead around one of the bat’s feet to the end of the glove, so that even if it tries to attack an uncovered spot on your body, it’ll just get pulled back

(meanwhile, mammon, standing just behind you, is just barely holding back from bursting into demon form and wrapping himself around you to protect you)

and so, as you watch in anticipation and mammon in terror, the keeper slowly moves the bat from her arm to yours

at first it just kind of sits there and blinks and... doesn’t really do much

the keeper, however, seems very happy about this

“it means she already trusts you!!!”

and she tells you to try a simple little trick

“just flick your wrist up and she should swing down to hang from your hand!”

mammon is very pointedly whispering to you that that’s enough, you’ve held the bat, come on let’s get out of here

but you are determined to continue putting your life in danger, it seems, because you do exactly what the keeper says

and it works!!!

piki, which you have learned is the name of this particular bat, lets out a quiet squeak and drops to hang from one of the enormous fingers of your glove

you immediately go ‘wooAAAAAAAAAH’

mammon almost bites his tongue in half because of how on edge he is, but it turns out that he doesn’t need to be

because the bat turns to you, blinks once, and suddenly puffs up around the neck

you panic a little at first, but the keeper seems incredibly excited

“she’s displaying!!!!!!! she likes you!!!!!!!!!!! she sees you as a potential mate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

okay mammon is not having any of that

he is not about to be upstaged by a goddamn bat

and so the instant the bat and glove is removed from you, he grabs you by the hand and charges right out of that room, shouting something about it being urgent

leaving poor piki the vampiric venomous bat squeaking sadly because her new crush is gone

sad :(

now mammon is buying you a giant plush to make up for dragging you away like that

happy! :)

and you KNOW this means a great deal because mammon does not part with his money very easily. in fact, most of the time, one would have to physically threaten him into buying something for them

and the fact that mammon bought you a ridiculously expensive enormous plush that probably dug a pretty big hole in his savings without you even asking??? your heart basically melts on the spot

now you definitely can’t get angry at him for pulling you away so suddenly

so instead the two of you go to see the giant narwhals

you’re fascinated, but mammon is too distracted to even look at the narwhals

he just keeps staring at you looking so happy hugging the giant plush he bought for you so close to yourself with this giant dopey grin on his face

(s i m p)

he’s shaken out of his infatuated daze when he hears a camera shutter directly behind him

at first he whips around ready to fight because he’s expecting levi or asmo, but then he looks up slightly and comes face to face with none other than his beloved older brother

lucifer doesn’t even try to hide the tiny grin on his face as he very slowly raises his phone and takes a photo of mammon’s half shocked and half irritated face

mammon is so dumbfounded by how much kinder lucifer looks when he smiles like that. he doesn’t even recover in time to tell you who’s just showed up - you end up noticing by yourself

you should have given lucifer a bit of warning because the moment you turn around and and greet him with such a bright and happy smile on his face he is DECEASED

all you and mammon see is his cheeks going pink but let me tell you this man is screeching like a trapped possum on the inside

lucifer may act like he’s a Big Important Unfeeling Demon but everyone else knows that this man would quite literally bring you the moon if you asked (he probably wouldn’t be able to pull down the entire moon, but damn him if he isn’t going to try)

he has to stay silent for a moment because he knows that if he speaks his voice is going to crack and mammon absolutely would NOT let him forget that for the rest of his long life

once he’s managed to get his puddle of a heart back to a state where he can speak without sounding like the physical embodiment of being smitten, he’s quick to offer to take you to the nearby penguin exhibit

he’s paid attention to the messages he’s been receiving periodically from the other brothers throughout the day about the things you’ve been getting up to with them, and he has seen a pattern in the sort of creatures you like the best

that pattern is: the more deadly, the better, with bonus points if it still looks cute

and lucifer has been to this zoo enough times to know most of the best exhibits pretty well (especially since diavolo’s taste in deadly creatures is very similar to yours, so he knows that any of the demon prince’s favourites will probably end up pretty high in your list as well)

therefore he knows that the devildom’s penguins are about two and a half meters tall, with millions of retractable fangs in their beaks and venom sacs in their necks that they can spray so violently and quickly that they’ve become known as ‘venom machine guns’

and you are ALL ABOUT THAT

you’re so excited by the concept of these penguins that you don’t think twice before tucking your arm into lucifer’s outstretched one and following him off to the exhibit

leaving mammon pouting furiously behind the two of you

now, while the avatar of greed doesn’t dare to directly interfere with his older brother, he most certainly dares to inconvenience him

what does that mean? it means that mammon is immediately whipping out his DDD and shooting a quick message to the group chat specifically made without lucifer to let everyone know what’s going down

and, within ten minutes, every single one of the other brothers are heading right for the penguin exhibit as well

lucifer is in the middle of listening to you excitedly talk about piki the bat when he feels something hit him in the back

he turns to see, with great dismay, that the six other brothers have started following behind the two of you, and have begun taking turns throwing things at him. satan doesn’t stop even when he realises that he’s been spotted.

lucifer feels a vein pop in his cheek when satan manages to nail him right in the middle of the forehead with a screwed-up ball of paper

unfortunately for lucifer (and fortunately for the other six brothers), you quickly take notice of the group following behind you

the avatar of pride can only watch in dismay as you call out for the others to come join you to see the penguins

well, obviously, the others are coming now that you’re inviting them over!!

asmo immediately jumps to give you a little kiss on the nose just so he can see your face light up in all the colours of the rainbow again

(which earns several surprised noises from the other brothers since, while they knew from the pictures from asmo that the two of you had gotten your faces painted, they didn’t know the paint did that)

belphie subtly shuffles up behind you to give you a little prize figurine he spent way too long trying to win on one of the zoo’s mini claw-machine games, while beel attempts to find a stealthy way of sneaking the bag of treats he’s carefully sourced for you into your pockets, but ends up giving up on that and just hands you the bag instead

levi is still on a bit of a high from the mini aquarium date, so his face immediately goes fifty shades of red when he sees you, but instead of running off like he usually does when he’s flustered, he just offers you the WIDEST smile

satan is a little disheartened when he realises just how much bigger the plushie mammon got for you is than greenie... but who cares!! greenie is small and cute!! he most definitely isn’t puffing up slightly like an indignant owl when he sees you hug that plushie to yourself like it’s the softest thing in the world!! no sir!!!!!!

mammon is being kinda whiny about lucifer barging in and ruining your one and one time together, but then satan reminds him that they’ve all just interrupted lucifer’s one on one time with you before it could even really begin, and also points out (a little saltily) that, judging by the giant plushie in your arms, he’s already spent more than enough time with you

(luckily mammon isn’t exactly perceptive so he doesn’t pick up on it or else satan would be in for one hell of a teasing)

you, meanwhile, don’t miss the way that lucifer not so subtly presses himself closer to you as the eight of you are walking to see the penguins

so close that your arms are physically touching

it’s not like lucifer to be this clingy (well, clingy by his standards, anyway), but you aren’t going to bring it up considering that he would probably immediately move away out of ~pride~ if you did

unfortunately the other brothers don’t need you to point out lucifer’s behaviour to immediately start attempting to sabotage him

by the time you all get to the penguin exhibit, you’re surrounded completely by all seven of them, and they appear to be executing a genuine attempt to crush you if the pressure on all sides is anything to go off of

looking on the bright side of things, though, the penguins are SO CUTE

sure, they’re about nine feet tall with beaks full of millions of tiny serrated teeth and very toxic-looking feet-claws. but they’re ADORABLE

you love them so much!!!!!! but now the brothers are being big MEANIES and aren’t letting you get close to the fence

“those penguins can shoot venom up to twenty feet, we’re not taking any chances” so WHAT you just want to see the goddamn penguins!!!!!!!! you’ve survived countless near-death experiences down here, you can manage a bit of venom!

eventually your very pointed complaining finally gets most of them to relent (asmo is still against it, but majority vote says you get to get closer to the penguins, so HA) and you are allowed to go right up to barrier that separates the attraction from the spectators

you’re absolutely delighted, but the brothers quickly realise that their concerns about this whole thing were not unfounded

because that fucking penguin over there is totally giving you the googly eyes

levi is the first to notice - as the general of hell’s navy, he has a natural connection to all animals of the seas, even the ones that are only semi aquatic

satan notices soon after him - he’s been to plenty of ‘taming dangerous creatures’ club meetings, and he knows how to recognise attraction in animals

you yourself are pretty clueless until you suddenly notice that one of the flock is now sliding beak-first on its belly towards you

levi silently hopes you’ll be scared into leaving, but instead you just lean right up to the barrier (lucifer hurriedly grabs you by the arm before you fall over it) and whisper-shriek “hi baby!!!!!!!!!!!”

oh the brothers did not like that at all

but the penguin seems absolutely THRILLED

you’re pretty sure you see its eyes light up. like physically light up, not in the metaphorical sense - its eyes glow

(do devildom penguins understand human/demon speech?? you could swear from the penguin’s reaction to your greeting that they do, but when you ask satan about it later, he just scowls and shakes his head, proclaiming that devildom penguins have ‘a brain smaller than a tangerine and the motor function of a slightly bent paper clip’)

(damn satan you didn’t have to do the penguins like that)

anyway, this penguin, now thoroughly convinced that you are its destiny, hops to its feet, nods its head several times, then proceeds to start making the weirdest noise at you

you don’t even know how to describe it. it’s like a laser beam has been combined with a motorbike combined with a vacuum cleaner combined with levi when his favourite idol group releases a new song combined with that godawful screeching violin satan has been playing on repeat for two weeks just to annoy lucifer combined with, i don’t know, a turbo-charged printer or something. and then the whole thing’s been shoved through a dubstep filter.

it’s such a rattling sound that asmo, mammon, levi and belphie clap their hands to their ears, beel frowns so hard his entire face squishes inwards, satan recoils so far backwards that he’s about two feet further away from you than he was at first, and even lucifer actually physically flinches

(short break for a personal headcanon of mine but hear me out here: this man probably listens to nothing but full professional orchestra classical all day. he absolutely has that thing where his ears are sensitive to poorly played notes or just harsh grating sounds in general. you know, like how lan wangji and lan xichen in mdzs are physically repulsed by the sound of bad music? yeah that)

you wince slightly, but the pain in your eardrums is overpowered by your thrill about the fact that this penguin is actually talking to you

you smile wide and reply, leaning right up to the banister, “hello!! hi!! it's nice to meet you too!!”

if the penguin was happy before then it’s absolutely over the MOON now

it makes the weird honking sound again, nodding its head furiously at you, all the while shuffling closer and closer to the barrier

you are positively delighted by this development, but each of the demon brothers seem to be taking the penguin’s approach as a personal threat both to them and to you

beel’s expression is steadily scrunching up more and more in displeasure as each second passes, asmo’s glare could probably boil the penguin alive, and you’re pretty sure you just heard levi hiss at it

you turn around to try to tell them off for getting jealous over a penguin out of all things, but they are just not listening to reason

the penguin meanwhile is desperately trying to get your attention back by nodding even more frantically and honking so loudly that lucifer actually reels back a little

you try to turn back to it but then belphie decides that he’s going to shove his way right between you and the barrier and block the penguin’s line of sight

the penguin immediately sets up an extremely loud complaint, but belphie refuses to give it any rope at all

at this point the other brothers begin catching onto what he’s doing

mostly because of his weird twin telepathy thing, beel is the first to join belphie’s quest, with his giant frame being substantially more effective as a barrier, while asmo and satan work together to not-so-subtly start ushering the entire group backwards and away from the penguin

you’re attempting to protest, but lucifer is practically shouting over you about how interesting and fun you’ll find the giant giraffe exhibit, which just so happens to be on the other side of the zoo

the penguin is positively screeching at this point, but a moment later is suddenly goes silent. for a moment you’re afraid that one of the brothers have lost their nerve and actually killed it, but then you manage to spot it sliding away again around beel’s massive shoulder

turns out that, though his brothers don’t seem to care about his status and power placement at all, the avatar of greed’s glare is enough to silence even the most passionate of penguins

while the brothers exchange triumphant looks as they lead you away from the penguin exhibit, though, you’re more than a little upset by this whole ordeal.

the disrespect? abundant. the lack of sympathy? rampant. the audacity? sheer.

you make your displeasure very clear by scrunching up your face, crossing your arms, and refusing to respond to any of the brothers when they try to ask you something

goddammit, it was supposed to be a good thing that they saved you from the so obviously dangerous penguin, but now you’ve got them feeling bad

in the end, though, you still can’t stay mad at your boys for long

they all apologise (well, all of them except lucifer, whose pride will forever be his downfall, and belphie, who genuinely doesn’t think he’s done anything particularly wrong), and you can’t bring yourself to keep dampening the mood

so, with a short scolding that’s really little more than a light slap to the wrist to remind the boys that you don’t need to be protected from everything like some sort of delicate glass case despite how much they might think that’s the case, you’re back to your previous happy self

thank fuck

the rest of the day goes smoothly! the eight of you do indeed go to see the giant giraffes, which you actually get to feed, and beel somehow manages to knock down an entire row of rigged carnival targets to get you a pretty wooden carving of a super cool dragon

(you’re still not entirely sure how that happened but it was probably the sheer willpower)

you convince all of the brothers to take about three hundred photos with you in the cheesy green screen safari booths (it was mostly levi, lucifer and belphie who needed convincing, since beel and satan weren’t too fussed about it either way, and mammon and asmo were downright thrilled to do so)

lucifer buys the whole group matching keychains, despite the fact that they were pretty basic wood-and-plastic affairs but still cost a good fifty grimm each

(you’ve noticed that he seems to like doing that, considering the harrison porter keychain you’ve still got from that trip up to the human world back during the whole body swap fiasco)

he gets himself a fire-breathing peacock, mammon gets a gold-hoarding crow, levi gets a sea serpent, satan gets a good old regular cat, asmo gets a lesser spotted spectra, beel gets a manticore (since they’re known to eat more than three times their body mass on good days), belphie gets a giant carnivorous cow, and he begrudgingly lets you pick out the giant penguin design - as an apology for his actions earlier.

(you don’t fail to notice the slightly irritated looks levi and satan in turn both send the keychain as you tuck it safely into your pocket)

all in all

a lovely day out

10/10 would do again

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mack3030 · 3 years ago

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Are you okay?

Seriously CWB, are you okay? Because you seem to have lost touch with reality and I am starting to get concerned. Let me break this down for you.

PEOPLE ARE PISSED BECAUSE YOU DOXXED PEOPLE. AND TRACK THEM. AND YOU HAVE A HISTORY OF ACTING HOMO/TRANSPHOBIC. AND YOU TREAT THE COMMUNITY/YOUR CUSTOMERS LIKE SHIT WHEN THEY QUESTION YOUR ACTIONS. THE MESH ACCUSATIONS....DON'T MATTER.

This community can forgive you for mesh shit. I mean look at how well Leosims is doing even though they're a blatent thief. Sonyasims got a slap on the wrist even though she was copying from SL and from other sims creators side by side in blender. That's not the issue chicka. Never was. The issue is, instead of dealing with it like the professional you claim to be, posting your mesh proof and letting it be, you then posted my personal information, lied and changed your story continually, posted doctored images, got a whole bunch of shady sock puppet accounts to help you, and misgendered a trans man. All while your history of trans/homophobic comments have been made public. Then you had the fucking audacity to make vauge legal threats towards the community as if a lawyer will remotely take a case like this where you openly posted information to harrass someone. And what's funny is, in your mind, you are so out of touch with the possibility that you could have FUCKED up that you have to concoct some sort of story that this is all my fault. That somehow I am behind all of the accounts coming after you. Because to admit that all of these people are different people who are pissed with you, would be admitting that you have wronged the community you claim to be a part of, and they are giving you the consequences of your actions. So what's your legal plan. Please tell me. You gonna sue anyone who reblogged my post? Anyone who remotely spoke out against you and told you to apologize? How about the moderators of the sims 4 facebook groups and reddits who've banned you recently? Are you going to go after them? What about all of the discords moderators and admins that have been warning people away from your content? Are they going to get summons? How are you going to find the information of these people? Because I promise you twitter, discord, tumblr and reddit are not going to give you their information over an internet fight over sims items. Because if they've not taken down posts for harrassment/slander/etc, they don't see that there's any legal reason for it to be considered that.

By the way, this is just my unofficial count here but I can count at least fifteen DIFFERENT individuals from various states/countries, etc who have all spoken out against you during this. Not just me. My quarentine is registered with my work and my county of residence. It's an official record in my state that I was sick with COVID and forced to stay home during certain dates (12/10-12/16 of 2021). You can ask multiple friends of mine here on simblr that I have on discord, they'll tell you I was not on simblr or twitter at all during that time and was in bed sleeping or playing minecraft. I do not have the time, nor inclination to try to hack your twitter or make sock puppet twitter accounts. And considering the fact that Twitter probably I.P banned the person that made that account to harrass you...if it were me, I'd not have access to twitter. Plus, twitter could check the I.P of the person who made that account and check it against my own I.P address. They'd not match. Ask twitter support if you're so damn sure it was me.

^ Proof I still have access to twitter.

You are literally here trying to say that I'm here messaging all your supporters....

Here's the people I've messaged here on tumblr most recently. Only one of them is someone who is a former supporter of yours, and they messaged me first, because they are sick of your B.S.

And here's my twitter messages. Proof I'm not sending shit to your followers.

And here's my lastpass vault, showing people that I literally only have one twitter account to my name that is public. Because I don't remember shit when it comes to passwords so I use a password keeper.

And here's proof that myself, lovechildllama, and u/mommy-fetish are not the same people, as we're here talking on discord about useless shit. Having bonded over being needlessly attacked by you. :) Oh, and let's also talk about what will happen if this goes to an actual courtroom. YOU WILL HAVE TO STATE, UNDER OATH, THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST YOU. INCLUDING THE DOXXING AND TRACKING OF PATRONS. BECAUSE THE MESHES SWEETUMS, ARE ONLY A PART OF IT. You will have to admit if you shared patreon information with other creators, and name those creators that you shared that info with. You will have to admit to harrassment and posting of information for the purpose of harrassing. You will have to admit to posting obviously doctored screenshots. You will not be able to legally lie and change your story. You will have to be honest. You will have to admit to breaking the TOS of Patreon, which could very easily end your career as a creator. Plus you'd have to prove damages, which is hard to do since you've only gained patrons. How do you think your creator friends who are outside of the line of fire...the ones you've been sharing your tracking info with...will feel when they hear you might have to name them if you pursue this? That by accepting information from you about patrons and then banning them, they are participating in something also against Patreon's TOS? Also, you'd have to prove that I was out here with malicious intent intending to come up with something completely false without any sort of evidence or data to back it up. But when other reasonable people see your stuff and compare it to secondlife meshes and assume you either made them or copied them....

It's really not like I pulled these accusations out of "thin air". It's similar enough that a reasonable person might doubt you. So here's my advice, my honest to goodness, well meaning, intending the best for you advice. If I were you, I'd do this: 1) I'd apologize, publicly for the trans/homophobic comments, and apologize to u/mommy-fetish for calling them by their dead name and repeatedly misgendering them. And I'd mean it. Really mean it, because the community's gonna be pissed if you fake it. 2) I'd use those "awesome" mesh skills of yours, and make sure that when you make shit, that it doesn't look remotely close enough to any secondlife item. You decide you wanna make a lamp that has a log base? You look up log base lamps on secondlife and make sure your mesh can't be mistaken for those and that you make it look original enough that people can't assume that shit. 3) I'd lay low. And by that I mean I'd stick to posting on your patreon and not post in sims groups or on twitter or discord. I'd leave the community alone and give it time to forgive you for your shit. Since this community seems to have the memory of a flea. Because right now, people are not happy with you, and if you post trying to shill your wares, you will get the wrath of those people on you. I'm sure you've seen that recently. 4) I'd reflect, and I mean REALLY reflect on your choices as a creator and the company you keep and if you want to surround yourself with the people you've got around you now. Because I can tell you, that the people you've chosen to align with right now are people who are out for themselves, and not out for you. They will give no fucks about you if it means they are in danger themselves. That goes for your creator friends, and for your patrons. Think about what choices you've made as a creator and if they actually allow your patrons to care about you for you and your creativity/personality, or because they are dependant on you to give them pretty things. Hint: Right now, it's the latter, and that's the only reason they're kissing your ass. 5) I'd give up on the idea of a lawyer entirely because the amount of people you'd have to prosecute and the amount of countries you'd have to figure out laws/jurisdictions for would be enough to make a lawyer want to scream. And that'd be assuming they'd take the case of someone who literally is using money made by violating a company's TOU/EULA to pay them, and that's assuming you could afford it with the amount of people you'd have to go after. Also the people you'd prosecute would also be able to possibly get Patreon, EA, and maybe even some of those social media companies on their side as part of the defense, since your actions on those sites have been less than stellar, resulting in you being banned from certain communities. (I mean you publicly posted someone's info for the purpose of harrassment to reddit, instagram, twitter, etc? Do you think those companies would be happy with that?) 6) I'd stop lying to yourself. Admit you fucked up, accept it. Grow from it. And move the fuck on. Stop trying to lie to yourself and spin tales making yourself the victim. Admit you were human. And move the fuck on. And last .... 7) Stop doxxing and fucking tracking your patrons and treating people like shit in the community. Because here's the deal. Pirates are gonna remove your fucking trackers as they find them anyway because they know you track, so there's no point. You're only losing people by making them worry about tracking, so stop it. The people who are using your items from your patreon without paying probably wouldn't have paid you anyway regardless, so stop having a stick up your ass and stop violating people's fucking privacy.

All this crap is, is the consequences of your actions and choices. So stop digging your hole, and do better. You are at the point where you can still repair your reputation with the community before it's damaged forever, but you're quickly circling the drain and it will get worse unless you put a halt to the shit show now. Eat your humble pie, admit you fucked up, apologize to the community, and do better. Because otherwise, people will never forget the shit you did, and you will be untrusted for a long time. Because you're already on the shit list of some of the major mod creators/communities

You have the power to stop the shit. Only you. Because while you're here claiming I'm tearing the community apart, I'm actually here bringing it together, and although they may not agree on maxis match versus alpha, or which sims game is best, they CAN agree that you've been acting like a jerk. Again. Do better.

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