#really i like all of their designs and i think they're all cute. hoarding them under me like a chicken with eggs

[cosmic-luka]

okay i think i like enstars now ! (<- has played a few songs and stared at pretty cards for 3 days)

[ddejavvu]

ok so obviously we have a well established stranger things hybrid hive on here which is so flourished and lovely

but it recently got me thinking abt mauraders hybrids. like ofc ik they have their animal counterparts and animagus selves already, but it could be a super cute play on too!!

like, tell me u cannot see remus lupin as a sweet, slightly grumpy, otter hybrid who’s life purpose is to hold hands as often as possible!! he loves bathing and just floating around on his back in the bath, blank stare as u try ur hardest to shampoo the bubbles into his hair, content with not helping even a bit. brings u little trinkets that he often steals from sirius’ hoard stash, smile on his face and so proud of himself until sirius stalks over (which either leads to a small brawl, or sirius hogging you for the rest of the night - if Remus has the audacity to give you his treasures, then you’ll become one of siris treasures too. no backsies)

sirius black being a little pedigree cat, all proud and yowling and getting into cat fights over even the briefest look that he could consider as sour. he’s the type of cat who’ll bat bat bat his owner with his paw if he feels even just slightly under appreciated. he can make do with regular food, but he’ll definitely prefer the richer ones. absolutely throws a fit if you don’t give him enough kisses, or if he thinks you’re favouring a n y o n e over him. he will straight out tell everyone he’s your favourite, because the more he says it, the likelier it is to be true in his head

horrifically clingy, albeit a little co dependent, nanny dog james potter. like the dog from Peter Pan, 100%. he’s big and slobbery and just full of love. let’s sirius bat at him whenever he feels the need to; james thinks it’s bats of love. will sit at the door when u bathe Remus, unsure if he’s pouting bc he wants to help you, or get in the bath himself, or if he wants to get in the bath with you allll. the ungodly amount of slobber this man tries to lay on you in relaxed moments is insane. maybe it’s one of those days where u come home or wake up and ur heads pounding, and u just need to nap, all lethargic and sore throated. u best believe james is gonna become a weighted (sloppy) blanket for as long as he feels. not u. him. he knows what u need better than u do (really just a ploy to let u get loved on, especially if ur more of a reserved, shy, quiet, touch-avoidant or easy breezy kind of person)

ALSO: sirius definitely finds a little bell on one of his treasure hunt adventures. u decide then that maybe he’d love a sleek little collar/necklace with a bell on it if he loves this throwaway bell sm, it also can’t hurt that sirius goes a little wonky at the idea of being owned or belonging to you anyone. he goes quiet when u give it to him, zones out stare, but quickly put it on etcetc. sirius’ biggest rival, remus, immediately is jealous and want one too. sirius concedes but only after a lengthy battle and only if you promise he’ll have a completely different design to his own sleek, black, pleated leather one. remus gets a thicker, greener, band with a bell. James is just happy to be there (but it’s a little unfair, he’s been so good about all of this so you get him a cutesy braided red one with a little golden bell, and also treat him to matching baby blue ribbons bracelets!!)

can also see them wanting an even more perm any form of this, insisting u all go out and get proper matching jewellery:,))

cw: hybrid au with poly!hyrbid!marauders. don't like don't read, or block the tag 'hybrid au' below. hybrid au faq

OH WHAT :(( my dream <3

otter!remus what if i cried!! he's a cuddler for sure, his hand is always always always in your own and he's a big clinger if you ever try breaking away <3 omg yes he lives for bath time, but he won't get in unless you promise you'll be there to shampoo and scrub his hair :') also, james and sirius are not allowed in the bathroom during bath time, because they're too rowdy and demanding of your attention and hey that's remus's >:(

omg cat!sirius!!! i think i've only ever gotten dog hybrid!sirius before, bc of his animagus, but i adore little black cat hybrid sirius who hates everyone but you kind of thing :') he's a menace, he whacks you all the time (never to hurt you, just to get your attention), and yes james lets him so he's the most common target, poor guy </3 he pitches fits every day, but he does know your limits, and if you're having a particularly bad day, he'll be all grumbly butting his head into your chest like was gonna complain about how cold it is but didn't wanna piss you off. jus' keep me warm instead.

dog hybrid!james !!!!!!!!!!! omg, i think the dog in peter pan was a st bernard, right?? biiiig buff beefy dog hybrid james who has massive arms and an even more massive heart <3 smooching is his favorite hobby, you're pretty much always under barrage of either his puckered lips or messy swipes of his tongue, no matter what you're doing. you could be sweeping the floors and he'll find a way to kiss you up. he's a big snuggler too, he loves just flopping his entire body on you and snoozing away, probably drooling into your neck

omg omg omg you propose the collars as, like, bracelets or something, but sirius takes it SO seriously (hehe). he puts it on faster than you think is possible, latches it proudly, and keeps stretching his neck out so everyone sees it standing proudly against his skin. and yeah, remus is pissed. you have to shut down their arguments and get them to the shops that night because Remus refuses to sleep without one. Personally, James doesn't need one, he knows any hybrid who tries approaching him will be able to smell you all over him from how much he flattens himself on you, and that's enough for him, but he really does loooove the red one you get him, he makes you put it on for him and he'll shiver when you trace your fingers over it while he's flopped on top of you <3

[higgyisobsessed]

big fakemon post??

when I was in high school, I wanted to make a fakemon region based on Canada. I still kinda do, but not nearly to the extent of interest I did then. Anyway, I have drawn and designed some fakemon that I am pretty proud of and thought it would be neat to share some of em

Geodot, Ohkoden, Minerodon > this pseudo-legendary line is based on the idea of a dragon with a den and hoard of gold, except the dragon is both! It starts as a smol geode, similar in appearance to Roggenrola. > ohko stone (aka dragonstone) is a rock that has a unique texture from water erosion. Erosion and refinement plays a role in this Pokemon's evolution, as it reveals the treasure hiding within. > the wing talons (?) gave me some trouble. I knew I wanted rocky, cavernous wings, but they originally looked very disconnected. Then I figured that, instead of having the talons on some arms from the serpentine body, I'd put them on the ends of the wings, giving this dragon similar anatomy to that of a wyvern. That choice really made the wings look cohesive. > I was originally going to have it be different colours rather than just gold, one for each stat (based on what its nature boosts). The forms would be called Amethyst Form, Ruby Form, Gold Form, etc. The thing about this was that I thought gold was the most relevant, since it is a dragon and gold is the goal in alchemy and all that fun stuff.

Migopu > Ice/Flying bc it lives in cold climates. > ptarmigan + lagopus makes its name. This is a mix of ptarmigans and the snowshoe hare, with ideas of snowshoes and skiing. The genus name Lagopus comes from hare+feet, based on how fluffy ptarmigans' feet are. That inspired me to give it the feet of a snowshoe hare, which are big enough to spread the hare's weight so that it does not sink in snow. > the colours are meant to reference rock ptarmigans, which have a bright bit of red on their faces in winter plumage. These Pokemon are excellent at walking on and sliding across the surface of deep snow.

Arboreelis > an eel that flies in the night skies of the region! it is meant to look like the colours of an aurora. There are two theories to how these Pokemon work: either they are drawn to the electricity that creates auroras, or they use their electrical powers to form auroras. > name comes from aurora borealis and eel. Ice/Electric because auroras are electrical phenomena in polar locations

Glubmerge, Glubmarine > fish + compass + sun dial + toy boat + submarine. kinda a random mix, but I think it's really cute. Water navigation fish! > Water type. glub + submerge, glub + submarine

Inkuaill > ink + inkwell + quill + quail > quills come from birds. this bird evokes paper, ink drops, inkwells, and the inking pens > I know I know I KNOW I already have a game bird but. they're completely different concepts ok > Normal/Poison because ink?? and because while it can fly, game birds are more known for being on the ground and running.

Frigeret, Boreabbit, Harfrost > HOARFROST! I mean mr rime has rime in its name which is the same thing just formed differently but,,, IDC we need some hoarfrost rep > what is winter throughout life? As a wee baby, it's a threat. The ears are meant to be like muffs or mittens, working to protect the blue-nosed baby. Frigeret (Normal) does not yet have mastery over ice. Even when awake, this little guy looks like it is permanently asleep, as if frozen. Frigid + leveret. (Note: hares are born with their eyes open. Frigeret can open its eyes tho?? idk i wanted it to look more frozen and cold, so the closed eyes thing is closer to rabbits here) > as a child, winter is the season of fun! Snowmen, snowballs, snowforts, sledding, skiing! When I was a kid, winter was my favourite season. The fun in this form is also based on Jack Frost, a sprite-like figure meant to explain the snow and cold in winter. This is what makes Boreabbit an Ice/Fairy type. Boreas + boreal + rabbit > getting older (even just as an adult), winter becomes more of an inconvenience. From driving to the cold to the later sun, the fondness of winter fades even before the aching bones from changing weather. Grouchy, Harfrost is meant to be closer to the idea of Old Man Winter. Still Ice/Fairy. hoarfrost + hare (ALSO the 'hoar' in hoarfrost means showing signs of aging!)

Nimbark, Halestial, Cirruscruff > cloud dogs? CLOUD DOG EVOLUTION LINE > Nimbark (Normal) is a lil spaniel with the big ears! These ears are so fluffy, they evoke clouds! One must be very careful when grooming because the ears are delicate but tangle easily. > Halestial (Normal/Flying) is a papillon dog! The big rounding ears are colourful, based on sun halos, also called sun dogs! These are rainbow circles around the sun, indicating a very cold day. > Cirruscruff (Normal/Flying) is a Newfoundland dog! Super big fluffy boy. It's super reliable and loyal to its trainer. These clouds are darker bc every image I see of a Newfie has dark fur > these bred dogs also represent the two main colonizing forces in Canada! Cavalier King Charles Spaniels are British bred dogs, and Papillons are French bred dogs. Newfies are Canadian dog breeds. > the idea of a fluffy, loyal, guardian angel cloud dog is based on my own dog, Merlin. He is a Morkie Poo, which doesn't really relate to this, BUT he is whitish and fluffy and soft and makes me think of clouds and I love everything about him and if I have a guardian angel dog it's this boi

[drjdorr]

Hey, you know how Cyber Monday happened? Well I was weak and my pin collection grew(also got other stuff, but this is a pin collection post.

Firstly, from a shop we've seen in my other pin collection post, we have stuff from starfishface's shop

Nice simple design for a nice simple concept, yes, please ask about my OCs. Very nice

As mentioned before, Star's shop

And as most if not all of her pin have, a rubber star shaped back

In contrast to the last one, this one is somewhat busy, which fits with it being a hoard of dice and yet doesn't over power anything. And of course being called a dice hoarder is an accurate description. Again, very good

Link to get your own

Again, rubber star, staying on brand

Of course I got other stuff from the shop that is really good so go check it out. Again, link. I admit I did not realize I already had a Vector key chain when I got this one. Oops, guess I have to get someone else into Castoff to give them it as a gift

Next up we got some from Ikumaru's shop

A nice chibi Todaroki, cute but serious looking with that ice and fire, what more can you ask?

Both pins from Sunny's shop came from the same page so that's convenient for looking between pins

A pair of metal clips, stick this think on and it won't go anywhere

Chibi Midoria, cute and determined, ready to take on the world

Both pins from Sunny's shop came from the same page so that's convenient for looking between pins

Again 2 metal backs, very secure

I also got some stickers from Sunny's shop, they're cute and they have alot more fandoms than just my hero so go check them out

Next up is Ada Marie jewelry which I'd go check out fast as I learned about it on a post mentioning they were closing shop

It's an apple pi, what I like a good pun and the apple part of apple pie more than pumpkin pie

Link

Single metal

It's a brain. Simple, easy, doesn't try to over complicate it.

Link

Single metal, but the pin itself is rather long. I don't know why

A little camera shy, had to angle it just right or the letters would black out or glare themselves into unreadability. Still good pin, good message

Link

Metal. Also a long pin, but still not as long as the brain's

Also got some tardegrade stickers and it also came with a little pink bag(I assume for the pins but I have far to many to fit in the little bag) feel free to check out the rest of there stuff before they close for good

[evilblot]

Fandom ask game, Resident Evil! I was thinking Village, but feel free to pull from the series as a whole!

Well, despite knowing basically everyone in the series personally (and some of them... carnally hfhfhf), I don't think I'm ready to open the REvildora's Box™ just yet, so instead I shall curse you with my very based opinions on RE4 and Village instead for they are my beloveds <3c

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most)

RE4: The Merchant! My bestie, my pal, my boinky spunge... God I love him so much <3c Best comfort character to ever step into a RE game, I wish I could snatch him like the purse and take him home with me. Also Capcom if you're reading this... Bring him back. Tell me he's all right. Explain how the Duke knows about him. I NEED ANSWERS FFS >:(

RE Village: No thoughts, only Sturm frolicking free within the walls of my skull, bouncing around my brain like the DVD screensaver dispensing dopamine like a murderous vending machine... We shall be married in spring <3c

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped)

RE4: Regenerators! They're shaped like friends and they give the best hugs! Sweet toothy babies, there's not a single thought behind those eyes and we're all absolutely thankful for that jddhk Also shout out to my guys the Garradors. Absolutely fucked up choices have been made for y'all's design but you're still my fave thing to crash into in the Castle 💜

RE Village: 《 *covers the mic* Can I say Sturm again? ..No? Aight, fine, I still got this dw 》 Call me based but the Soldaten are my squad and I will hoard them like a crazy old lady gathers stray cats. Sure, they're a little blood-thirsty and they definitely don't smell good but I don't care, they're so dear to my heart I can ignore such trivialities <3c (also I'm armed with wet towelettes and I ain't afraid to use them fhfhgh)

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave)

RE4: Ingrid. She's not really a "fave" of mine but I do like her, she was there for us when no one else was and honestly she's quite the most beautiful sight we get to see on screen imo... too bad everyone is obsessed with Ada instead smh 🙄

RE Village: Donna Beneviento. Maybe it's the gay panic, maybe it's her chapter being one of the most amazing things I've ever witnessed in a RE game or maybe it's just the sad Italian bitches solidarity™ but she's really grown on me ngl. I just wish we had seen a little more about her though :/

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I will not ever shut up about it for a week)

RE4: Mike. We met for a short time but I loved you from the first moment... To bad you had to die so soon waaaa 😭💔

RE Village: Angie, who just like her creator hasn't received the right space she deserves within the narrative. Her design is top notch, her character is literally through the roof and the fact that she's the unhinged part of Donna? Fuck Capcom, why don't we explore that a bit more uh? Why don't we get to know more about this dynamic uhh??? Justice for Angie and Donna when 😤

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave)

RE4: Fucking Osmund Saddler. He's slimy, he's nasty, he's got tentacles in places they shouldn't be... He's the cult leader we don't need but surely deserve basically fjhd. Love to babygirlify him one day, I think that would fix him for good uwu💅✨

RE Village: Uhh I'm gonna regret this but uh.. Mother Miranda. Girlboss, gatekeep, gaslight queen am I right? I really like her character (that design... Yes!), her motivations and overall her story arc which, despite not being flawless and could've been better managed into terms of writing, I do find quite interesting :) She still gives me kinda the homophobic vibes though so hmm. I'm conflicted fjfhh

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason)

RE4: Salazar. I have nothing against him, I actually kinda like him but he's short and a brat so I'm just compelled to poke fun at him (and perhaps risk the fury of his bodyguards maybe even being manhandled by them, oh noo whatever shall I dooooo hrsgahg 👀🥴). Aaand Bitores too. Like to slap his bald head reblog to slap his bald head 🎱🙋

RE Village: Heisenberg, and this time it's personal >:3c

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell)

RE4: Krauser. He's a half-naked annoying crummy bundle of toxic masculinity whose perky nipples have harassed me on screen long enough. It's time to STOP. Go to therapy. Please?

RE Village: I think everyone should take turns in there. Not because I hate any of them but because I want to see the ensuing chaos unleashed down there uwu

Aaand we're done, tènkius so much for the ask, I've had a lot of fun with this one (despite taking an hour to come up with an answer that wasn't just copy-pasting Sturm and the Merchant for every category fjfhhf) and ofc if any of y'all is a RE fan you're more than welcome to come here and roast me for my life choices djfbdhfb <3c

[pot8toqueen]

Just some dumb headcanons I thought of while showering! I'll go in order of the only three adults that play with the children to the children of 1a + Shinsou. This is about them all being in a Minecraft server all started thanks to Kaminari Denki!

Aziawa Shouta:

•His skin is just Steve, he won't change it even when asked. Kaminari made him a new skin a few times but he stays Steve just out of spite at this point. (He might change to a sleeping bag with legs one day, that was a cool skin design on Kaminari's part)

• He was the main reason the server started, Denki discovered he'd never really played video games growing up so he begged Aziawa to play with him on his server.

• Aziawa had no fucking idea how to play, and only wielded a wooden sword. He just attacked any mobs/animal that came close to Kaminari or him.

• Kaminari then took him to a village, and had to help as his teacher *decimated* the town.

• Shouta learned how to play by the third attempt, he still only wields swords and attacks mobs. He doesn't slaughter everything though, Kaminari taught him about pets and showed him how to tame each one. He keeps hoarding cats, has one white bird and a pink axolotl for Eri.

• He doesn't sleep in beds, took him a week before he actually went to bed in the game. He'd rather fight the night away and protect his students from the mobs.

• When he goes to find things in the game, he often comes back with pets on leads or in boats for his students. He only takes back the ones he knows his students want or like.

Present Mic:

• His skin is just straight up a bird, he loves it

• He joined because he saw Aziawa playing one weekend and asked about it.

• Kaminari thought it was a great idea and told his teacher about it, during English the next time. (Yes they're all in a discord call)

• Hizashi, doesn't hoard pets he prefers to build random structures. But Shouta will come up to him with birds and seeds and wait until Hizashi tames the pet then leave. So there are a bunch of tamed birds sitting throughout the sever.

• Hizashi hides indoors and freaks out because of the spiders. Until Kaminari got him a texture pack that made them not look like spiders. (They look like large crabs now)

• Hizashi built so many weird things on the sever, there is straight up a Wendy's and a Panda Express. He also built a strip club, it has a glitched out creeper as a stripper. (Shouta hates that it's built, especially because they're on a server with children) The Creeper was nicknamed by Bakugo as Princess Murder.

• Hizashi keeps finding temples and other things, so he has cool shit and all the nameplates. He trades them for building supplies. Or in Aziawa's case birdseed and free pets.

Hawks:

• He was Steve for like two days before Tokoyami took over and changed it to a Hawks skin. Hawks also is named Chickenlover because he really had been craving chicken that day and he's embarrassed about it.

• Only one who wasn't invited in by Kaminari! Tokoyami had brought the hero onto the group, when he had expressed needing a way to relax.

• Never playing video games growing up, Hawks had no fucking clue what he was doing and cried when a creeper exploded.

• He also fell into Katsuki's pet creeper pit (that was fenced off for this reason) and killed all the nicknamed creepers, also made the server lag from the multiple explosions going off.

• Hawks doesn't play with them often, only because when he joins Bakugo kills him like four times for revenge of his babies.

• Hawks is really bad at the game, but is great at finding diamonds. Though he dies like two seconds after obtaining the diamonds...

• He does enjoy playing with the class, but he has a sort of fan crush on Present Mic and doesn't function properly when in a call with the voice hero.

•The whole class, even Shouta tease him for it. Present Mic just thinks it's cute, because everyone has had a crush on this man at least once.

Aoyama Yuga:

• He likes flowers and other pretty things, his pets are all colour coronated.

• Aoyama does the baking, and has a pet cow in his room. He also a sheep of every colour in his own sheep pen. One is named Dinnerbone solely because he wanted an upside down sheep. He also has a jeb_ sheep.

• Yuga isn't as active in the server as others are, but he'll pop on once in awhile to give flowers randomly (Not even Bakugo throws away the gifted flowers)

• Yuga's skin is a sparkly pink knight, it was expected.

Ashido Mina:

• She likes collecting slimes, has a few baby slimes as pets as well as panda's.

• Her skin is literally Alien for AvP, but a pink version.

• She often attacks Bakugo and starts mini wars with him, that end in the two just throwing rotten flesh at the other.

• She gets attacked by Aziawa with his (Stupid Stick) the most, especially when he finds her throwing diamonds at Princess Murder in the strip club.

• Mina is one of the ones who builds Aziawa his gear so he can fight, she keeps extras so if one breaks she'll throw another at him.

Asui Tsuyu:

• She collects Axolotl and frogs. (I know there adding that soon I believe don't quote me)

• Tsyu is the least violent one on the server, she also tends to do her own thing. Though she also helps others if they're struggling.

• While most of the server lives in one big house that Iida and Present Mic built together. (Expanded on the small cobblestone house Denki built originally for everyone) Tsyu lives in a swamp biome a good ways away. Her house is a mushroom.

• Tsyu hates Midoriya's house because it's filled with all sorts of animals and she keeps getting headbutted by his goats he refuses to separate from the other animals. But she also finds it endearing how he is emotionally attached to all these animals.

Iida Tenya:

• Denki, Tenya, Present Mic, Aziawa, and Momo all have admin rights in both the discord server and Minecraft server.

• Iida bans the most people for short periods of time. He'd banned Present Mic and Mineta both. Mineta for all the inappropriate builds he's made, he'd also banned Mineta from the server for a few hours when he came across the strip club then let him back on when he found out who built it, then banned Present Mic for a day.

• Iida tends to do most of the building and enchanting, especially for Aziawa who still refuses to sleep at night, and cursed everyone to suffer Phantoms. But no one really minds.

• Tenya also collects flowers similar to Yuga, but he plants them around the main house (stops by Tsyu's place to give them to her) He only takes the ones he knows everyone likes because seeing and hearing them when they come to the house and see their favorite flower makes him secretly happy. No one knows he's the one leaving them, except Yuga.

• Tenya sometimes helps fight the mobs with Aziawa, especially when their teacher is trying to lure a creeper into Bakugou's new Creeper pit.

Uraraka Ochako:

• One of the few other miners, she often helps Bakugo with mining and is more trusted with not dying when down underground.

• She's also a good shot with the bow, preferring that to the sword.

• Uraraka is great at parkour and has killed Bakugo many times by him trying to follow her, but missing a jump and just falling to his death.

• She may prefer mining, but loves going on adventures with Midoriya and Tenya, only because the three of them get up to mischief and Aziawa has had to help them find their way home to many times as they never bring a map.

• She and Midoriya both agree ghast's shouldn't fucking exist but both for different reasons. She is scared of them, and Midoriya wants one as a pet.

[f1ck-em-all]

hi!! long response ahead (sorry <3)

for the growth i've seen, it's largely comments lando's made to the media concerning female engagement in the sport, and the way he handled a few misogynistic interview questions this season. they might be small moments, but it all adds up to a bigger picture imo. all the drivers on the grid have said questionable things about their sex lives and women in general, but they've all (for the most part...) moved on to set better examples to the point where i can feel largely comfortable supporting most of them (bar the obvious one of m*z*p*n)

he was told he was the no.1 popular driver for women after the f1 global survey and he talked about being happy to get girls and women engaged in the sport itself, bypassing the implication of a few interviewers (who implied the whole "isn't it nice to have hoards of women fawning over you" kinda thing, and the "oh they think you're cute and that's why they watch" sorts)

"Especially, I guess, with the women. There are so few women in motorsport and racing, so the more I can hopefully impact on that and give them the chance to believe they can be here in Formula 1 – maybe not just as a race driver but also engineering or mechanic-ing or whatever – there are plenty of spaces for them to do that,"

“If I can have an influence on them, that’s great. But I guess the more fans the merrier as well. It’s a nice thing to see,"

a smaller thing, where when he launched his kart he talked in a very inclusive way to include young girls in his interviews about the "next generation" getting on to the motorsport ladder

"Anything I can add to that to allow more boys, more girls to take part in racing if they can, and help them achieve their goals, then I’d love to be part of that. It's a cool thing to be part of and see over the next few years,"

a misogynistic question at his karting launch (which involved a random, unrelated picture of a few women in swimsuits) asked about how his popularity must make it easy to "get girls", and he circumnavigated it in a respectful way without devolving into the kind of 'locker room talk' that twitch clip involves, at most saying it was "nice" (lol) to have the girls present the trophies on the podiums during his karting days.

i think there was an event in austin? maybe mexico idk, where crofty asked him a similar question in the context of "you must have so many women throwing themselves at you", essentially almost pimping him out (?? idk it's hard to describe) and he once again navigated the question, if somewhat visibly uncomfortable, respectfully.

it might not be enough for you, which is totally fine!! but i at least gather some maturing has been done, and he's figured out a way to talk about these things without coming out and sounding like a bit of a twattish 16 year old lol

i just think it's important to remember that all the guys are just... rich, largely privileged men at the end of the day. there will inevitably be some questionable comments throughout their careers stemming from the cultures they've grown up in, but if they can go on to show that they're better people (even if it's up for interpretation from person to person) then i see no reason to not support them, but also no reason to tell others they're "wrong" for not forgiving or forgetting. but it does pay to be reasonable about these things, as we never really know the whole picture!

anyway... sorry for the long response!! and hopefully this has been a little helpful in explaining my thoughts :))

have a lovely day xx <3

Hi again anon! Don’t apologize for the length of this post, thank you for taking the time out of your day to detail all this, it’s quite a bit of info. All in all, I agree with you! Lando does occasionally just give me the ick as he clearly is still a young guy navigating a space that was never actually designed for people as young as him, and as a result has made quite a few mistakes over the course of the past few years.

Watching people coddle him from criticism is what rubs me the wrong way most of the time, as he is no longer a kid and should be made aware of the moments he fucks up, as we all should be. As I like to say, he’s not a child or a god, so there’s no reason to coddle or worship them. But also he’s a person, so there’s definitely ways to go about criticizing without perpetuating cancel culture.

Thanks again anon! Very few people in my asks have been as sensible as you today. Mwah!

[austennerdita2533]

How do you think Rory and Jess are celebrating New Year's? Because they're together, right?! I like to think they are by now!

I’d like to believe they’re together, too! In fact, I’d like to believe it so much that I wrote a thing about it…a oneshot, if you will. The damn thing just poured out of me yesterday. I don’t know what happened, but there was no stopping it lol. Sorry not sorry.

(A03) (FF.net)

Happy New Year, my lovely friend! Here’s some post-revival Literati for you to start off 2019 right. 💗

xx Ashlee Bree

Like A Calendar, The Heart Skips Forward

With drunken crowds, ugly tinsel streamers which hang in windows, and snow that’s beginning to stick to the city streets in inches as deterrents, they decide to spend the night in. At home.

The baby’s with her grandparents tonight, probably high on too much sugar and Dr. Seuss. Knowing Luke, he’s likely baby proofing everything again to be safe while Lorelai’s using scary voices so her granddaughter never goes near the stove (but hey, neither did Rory, and she’s turned out fine, hasn’t she?), so she and Jess have plenty of time to themselves. That’s a rarity these days, especially with a toddler in the picture. Alone time seems possible only at ungodly hours in the morning anymore, or during nap time, or in stolen minutes between hectic work schedules. So they’re grateful to Mom and Luke for the offer to babysit every now and again. And they love to do it, to spoil her little angel rotten with small town affection and attention. All the people of Stars Hollow love it, too.

As for Rory and Jess, they enjoy these adult-only nights. It’s a time to revel in intellect, in intimacy.

They love to tune into the timbre of the other’s conversation and fade into each new day talking, listening. It’s exhilarating to them to share new ideas. To uncover deeper feelings in their relationship, but also for them to reach further into the world to figure out what more they can do. Experience. Be.

Parties hold no charms for them this evening. Neither do bars or over-priced concert tickets. Invites from friends go unanswered because they forget to read their messages. They’re more than content to spend the night far away from the end-of-the-year bombast, anyway, with nothing but each other and the hum of this ratty old radiator for company.

They live in an old building so it’s no one’s fault when a malfunction occurs, as one often does.

Luckily, the heat works fine thanks to Jess and his patient tinkering. (Rory never says it out loud, but she swears he’s inherited this from Luke.) Countless hours he spends bent over tools with a concentrative crease in his forehead because their super, Mel, is a slovenly middle-aged coot who binges too much Netflix and refuses to answer knocks on his door from any of his tenants past 9 P.M. Mel likes to blame this incompetence on narcolepsy, but truthfully, it’s because the couch has molded to his prone body by that point, the television playing episode after episode of Frasier or The West Wing, so why trouble himself to move? Better yet, why not put his ringer on silent and ignore all the incoming calls he receives?

(Spoiler alert: he does.)

Encountering one of the Seven Deadly Sins in an actual person still seems a little ridiculous to Rory, borderline unlikely here; especially in a city teeming full of worker bees who supposedly never sleep, but they’ve managed well enough with the radiator on their own. And by well, she means she’s prone to kicking the darn thing any time it roars like it’s a beast straight out of Kevin McCallister’s nightmares in Home Alone.

It’s cozy and comfortable in the apartment tonight, however. Just the way they like it.

That means Rory’s in her favorite pair of slippers, big cumbersome things with floppy ears and shaggy puppy faces curiously similar to Paul Anka’s. Her hair’s loose, fallen past her shoulders, and her arms are stuffed into an oversized Cashmere sweater. Meanwhile, her boyfriend’s walking around barefoot, half-naked in a pair of boxer briefs and a green v-neck tee, his jeans in a ball near the door, seemingly impervious to the December weather.

Is he secretly a werewolf or something, she wonders? An alien? Or just some weirdo who sweats when it’s only sixteen degrees outside, a furnace for girls like her who huddle closer for warmth and never utter a word of complaint?

Music plays low in the background. It’s a playlist curated on one of their phones. Songs from Bjork, the Clash, the Distillers, so many other new and old bands - their favorites - add to the ambiance of this eclectic space they call home.

A half-edited manuscript perches on the edge of the coffee table. Its pages are blotted with black ink and arrowed notes that spill wide into the margins because Jess had spent the morning editing his latest draft, unsatisfied because his characters aren’t where he wants them to be yet. Books litter the kitchen counter. They sit scattered across the floor in organized piles near shelves that are already overflowing, some still stuffed in paper bags because they’d pilfered a thrift shop earlier and now can find nowhere to store the bulky bastards. (Typical for a pair of bookworms who will never have enough reading material between them.)

Appointment reminders and cute little post-it notes stick to the refrigerator in an array of colors. Most are in Rory’s hand, flourished in cursive or silliness, except for the few Jess added by famous authors or musicians because the words moved him; or because he thought they’d start her day with a pretty thought. A smile. A laugh that’d brighten the blue of her eyes.

The living area’s a messy snapshot of their family life with its stench of stale coffee, cologne, and baby lotion. There’s a jacket thrown over the arm of a plush designer sofa and way too many half-empty boxes of Pop Tarts fighting for space in the cupboard with jars of smooth peanut butter and pureed carrots. A laundry basket holds many of the little one’s toys: choo-choo trains, baby dolls, a Batmobile, three sets of ABC blocks, a Wonder Woman figurine, and a stuffed robot aptly named Bee-Doo.

The remote control is always lost somewhere unknown. They might as well attach a key finder around its middle. Or perhaps they should rip up the floorboards instead - a lá the Tell-Tale Heart - because it never takes less than twenty minutes to find the stupid gadget. Either it’s buried under cushions, kicked under miles of folded clothing or prose, or it’s stuffed beneath pillows with spare kernels of popcorn and pens attached to the buttons. Worse than all of that, though, is how the lost-and-found treasure hunt never seems to diminish their scrolling-for-something-to-watch minutes at all. Not in the slightest!

Later, they order takeout from five of their favorite places. It’s too much food for two people to consume in one meal, but who cares? It’s never stopped her or her mother before, so why start now?

There’s pizza, burgers, Thai, Chinese, and one heaping order from that Indian place she’d found around the corner about a month after they’d moved to Brooklyn. It has the most delicious, pungent food so naturally that leaves Jess scrunching his nose and Rory twinkling appreciatively because he’s caved to her doe-eyed pout for once, her belly and heart happy for getting their way.

“See here, mister: victory is mine! I knew you loved me too much to deny me. Admit it,” she says before pecking him sweetly on the cheek.

“Yeah, yeah,” he says after he pays for the delivery and dumps the bags on the table. “Whatever you say.” He remains noncommittal, but the truth shines in his eyes. “Just don’t complain about the cold when I open all the windows. It’ll take weeks to air out the stink in here—weeks. Probably three.”

“Two.”

“Three,” he fires back.

“Two.”

“Okay, two…maybe.” He brushes hair from her face and lets his fingers linger, then smiles her favorite crooked smile. “If we’re damn lucky, anyway.”

After dinner, they eat cheesecake with a bottle of wine. Ice cream with cones is Jess’s dessert preference usually, but they’re out, so they settle for booze and a tasty variation on dairy to help them compile their to-read lists for 2019. He’s on the left side of the sofa, her on the right. Call it a private, serious exercise. Extra points docked for peeking or flirting.

Such a silly idea it is, really, this hoarding then exchanging of lists. Yet it’s a fun way to pass the hours before midnight. Even more fun when they discover the selections that align, and those that don’t, sending them into a tizzy’d discussion about literature and writers the other still needs to know. Pretty soon, another list follows full of recommended titles Jess thinks she should read in the New Year, and vice versa.

Lane had called them a cute agoraphobic couple once, many years ago, if Rory remembers correctly. And by golly, what a label! If only she were here to see them right now, tangled in warmth and limbs and solitude.

She beams at the memory because that’s what she and Jess were back then. It’s what they still are. It’s who they want to be this New Year’s Eve, and the next…and the next…and for every one after for as long as they can live them like this: in love, happy, and together. They’d live this way forever, if only wishes like this could be granted.

“What I wouldn’t give for a Fairy Godmother right now,” she blurts out without thinking, all wrapped up in blankets and curled tight into his chest. “To have a dash of Disney magic or two in my possession would be supercalifragilistic.”

“Why? You don’t need saving.”

“That’s true.”

“So is it Prince Charming you’re after?” Jess asks with a quirk of the eyebrow.

Frowning, “What kind of girl do you take me for? I’m a feminist.”

“You want to freeze the world like Elsa then, huh? Is that it?”

“No.” Tracing his lips with her forefinger, Rory pauses. Reconsiders. “Well, I mean…only if I got to spend all of that time skating across it with you.”

“You mean falling,” Jess mutters.

“Rude! Read my lips: skating.”

He shrugs then. It’s followed by a smirk. “Impossible things are happening every day…or so it goes.”

Giggling, she shoves him, then covers her mouth with her hands.

“Wow, I can’t believe you’re quoting Whitney Houston from Roger and Hammerstein’s Cinderella. Who are you?”

“Like you haven’t seen it. Give me a break.”

“Many times,” she says, “but that’s not the point. The point is you’ve given a Gilmore ammunition to mock you for the rest of your life. Hasn’t Luke warned you about this? We’re unapologetic mockers, Mom and I.”

“Jeez, you’re mean,” Jess says with a shake of his head and an affectionate pinch to her side. “I should start calling you Grory.”

“Hey, no fair! I’m no Grinch. No Grendel, either.”

“Pre-coffee, that’s arguable.”

“I demand a re-write,” she says, crossing her arms, determined for her pout to win out for a second time.

“No way,” he replies. “That’s too much work, Green One.”

“Fine. As long as you realize you’re stuck with me regardless.”

“Am I?”

“Aren’t you?” Rory asks like a question that dangles then deflates. Her voice catches with uncertainty. The sound’s worse than the squeal a lobster makes in a boiling pot as she shifts onto her ankles on the sofa to pin him with a wide-eyed look, her heart pounding, mouth drier than Death Valley in the middle of a drought. Color rushes to her cheeks because Jess remains silent before her…because he reaches for the tattered copy of Persuasion that’s perched near his feet so he can underline one of Captain Wentworth’s most famous passages in black ink. I can listen no longer in silence, it reads. You pierce my soul. She knows the quote well. She knows it by heart.

However, it’s not until Jess scribbles down his own line onto the page with some rogue pen he’s found teetering on a shoe with no mate, his hand trembling, the apple in his throat bobbing like it’s been pinched by some invisible force he never saw coming; and it isn’t until he places the book in her lap so she can read what he wrote, that joyful disbelief betrays her. That her tears start flowing and flowing. They cover her face in red-eyed tenderness and devotion.

One look back at him, and she knows he feels the same. The love between them so real and so right, it fills the calendar with fulfillment they no longer wish to live without.

Marry me?

Two words, and the jerk’s a poet. Two words, and it’s only him she sees. Two words, one question, and Rory’s faced with an answer that takes no energy to give at all.

I’d be honored to be the Anne to your Wentworth, she writes back with shaky fingers and a grin so big she can barely see. So yes! Yes! A million times yes!

Wine switches to scotch sooner rather than later after that. Then talking turns to kissing, kissing moves to roving touches without either one of them noticing.

Both hands of the clock reach nearer and nearer to twelve as Rory pauses the movie they weren’t actually watching with a yawn, her sapphire diamond sparkling in the T.V’s muted light. Then she stands to refill their glasses one final time before 2018 ends, slippers scratching against the carpet. Jess wraps his arms around her waist while she pours. He smells of booze and sex and home.

Eyes closed and body rocking, he places a kiss against her arm, her shoulder, her neck, her mouth. He leaves a promise there that tastes of all that awaits them and more.

Together, they watch the snowflakes fall and drift to the fire escape outside their window, a moment of quiet before they pack the rest of the leftovers away so they can head to bed with this year lapsed behind them like another chapter closing. The page turns, and before they know it, December endings become January beginnings. The calendar’s blank and in wait for prose that has yet to be written, both of them looking forward to another 365 days full of learning, laughter, commitment, and so many more family firsts along the way.