#sadly spooky season is almost over

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Happy Ween!!

[fleuraliasave]

❤ Version 7.0 Fleuralia Save File ❤

Download link down below (please read entire post before installing)

This save file uses all EP’s, GP’s (not Journey to Batuu), SP’s and most of the kits (Country Kitchen, Blooming Rooms, Incheon Arrivals, Retro Fit, Industrial loft, Moonlight Chic, Little Campers, Pastel Pop, Everyday Clutter, Bathroom Clutter, Simtimates Collection, First Fits, Desert Luxe, Modern Luxe, Poolside Splash, Book Nook, Basement treasures, Greenhouse Haven, Pastel Pop and Bust the Dust).

What’s new in this update?:

Chestnut Ridge and Tomarang have been completely redone, added multiple new lots, updated other lots and provided make-overs for the households.

Added new households (when living in world; with jobs, friends, preferences etc).

Added rental lots in multiple other worlds outside of Tomarang (Brindleton Bay, Henford-on-Bagley, Britechester and more).

Spooky Fall Festival has been moved to Chestnut Ridge (bigger with haunted house ride). The old lot in Brindleton Bay has been changed into a cemetery.

Current Status of Worlds:

Finished worlds: Willow Creek, Oasis Springs, Newcrest, Magnolia Promenade, Windenburg, San Myshuno, Forgotten Hollow, Brindleton Bay, Del Sol Valley, StrangerVille, Glimmerbrook, Sulani, Britechester , Evergreen Harbor, Mt. Komorebi, Henford-on-Bagley, Tartosa, Moonwood Mill, Copperdale, San Sequoia, Chestnut Ridge (NEW!) and Tomarang (NEW!).

Finished vacation worlds: Granite Falls and Selvadorada.

Finihed other lots: Hospital, Science Lab and the Police Station.

To be updated: the Magic Realm, will either be included in a future update or on the gallery (OriginID: fleuralia)

What do you get with this save?:

For my save file all lots are either completely new builds (almost all) or renovations, ofcourse created by me. Exceptions: I have added the official builds for the releases of the Paranormal SP by Dr Ashley and the Dream Home Decorator GP by Deligracy to this save, since I thought they deserved a spot. These two are therefore not my own creations, credits are given in the description to Dr Ashley and Deligracy. Mt. Komorebi, Henford-on-Bagley, Tartosa, Moonwood Mill, Copperdale, San Sequoia and Chestnut Ridge lots are largely created by GameChangers. Most lots have gotten smaller updates, others are completely new builds by me.

All the townies had make-overs plus I added new families to spice it up a bit. Some of the townies are made by other creators, who are given credits in the description of the household. All the townies in the different worlds have a story, some include sentiments and adjusted relationships to the story.

Added plenty of community lots to give your Sims something to do (YAY!). Almost every world has one restaurant, but it also includes festivals that represent the four seasons (park lots) and a fully functional shopping street in Magnolia Promenade (toy store, bridal store and more).

I have added rental lots so you can go on vacation in more worlds. For example in Sulani, Willow Creek and Windenburg.

Other details:

As mentioned at the beginning, this save uses almost all packs (except Journey to Batuu and some kits). This means that if you download it without owning or installing most of the packs a lot of objects will disappear from the save, but if you are not bothered by this you can still download and play in it.  

I disabled the autonomous fame gain and neigborhood action plan voting/environmental changes, you enable them again in the pack settings menu.

I would love to add some households in this save created by all of you! Add your household under the hashtag #fleuraliatownies in The Sims 4 Gallery, you can add a storyline and world in the description but thats not obligatory. If I respond on your creation it means that I have incorporated it in the save for the next update.

Sadly every game update comes with a lot of bugs. I suggest before reporting problems in the save to me, to check on forums if its related to a general bug/glitch or to mods (if you use them).

Questions and supportive feedback are always welcome, you can reach me here via a comment on this post, an ask or through a DM 😁

How to make it work in your game:

Download the save file from the link below.

Drag it in your saves folder under: PC/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves.

Change the numbers if you already have a save with the same name.

It should now show up in your game as: Fleuralia Save Version 7.0.

DOWNLOAD (SFS) / Alternate (GD)

!!Don’t re-upload or claim as your own!!

Future updates will follow after each pack release (if it includes a world). The time the update will be uploaded after each release depends on how much I have to change and on my work schedule around that time.

Last but not least, enjoy and till next time! XX

Fleuralia

Feel free to support me ❤️: Ko-fi account

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Mrs.Francesca Shelby

This is for @zablife 2k celebration. I based it off of the Hozier song Francesca. Hope you all enjoy. It's also great for spooky season. A little ghost haunting.

One shot. Thomas Shelby peaky blinders fandom

If someone asked me at the end

I'll tell them put me back in it Darling, I would do it again, ah, ah If I could hold you for a minute Darling, I'd go through it again, ah, ah I would still be surprised I could find you, darling In any life If I could hold you for a minute Darling, I would do it again, ah, ah

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Francesca Shelby stared down at Gina. The supernatural apparition took pleasure in Gina pain as she bled out on the stone walk way. Just below the balcony Gina fell from. She constantly felt the former Mrs Shelby eyes on her. That damned portrait . Telling her she didn't belong in this house. Didn't belong near her children. The evil bitch wouldn't leave her alone. She wouldn't even grant her a peaceful death.

Gina Nelson hated being married to Thomas Shelby. It was an arranged marriage by her uncle Jack. A bloody street war would have crippled her family and their hold in Boston. So she was offered up on a silver platter. Jack had a sister who would have been better suited but Gina had been going through a wild phase and was nearing thirty so it was decided for her. At first she was presented with Michael the cousin but his controlling mother pulled some magic trick with tea leaves and ran her out of Michael's home.

Then there was Finn. A foolish boy who was five years her junior. He was easy to manipulate. She fooled around with him a couple times and nearly got a proposal until some dumb girl named Billie showed up on his doorstep with a five month baby bump. Her uncle Jack nearly knocked Finns teeth out for the transgression that happened months before she stepped foot onto British soil. The next available Shelby male was Tommy oldest son Charlie but sadly he was too young. Only sixteen. The last man standing was Tommy. At least he was handsome and rich.

He charmed her some in the beginning of their short courtship. If you could call it that. Four dinners, two lunches, A tour of Birmingham, and a night at the opera . Where he proposed. She didn't understand what the story was. Something about lovers who were murdered by the woman husband and sent to a circle in hell. The lovers tried to find their way back to each other.

It was a tragic morbid story. Ripped away from your true love and suffering the ultimate punishment. Fighting your way through hell to be reunited. The emotions emitted from the stage got to Gina and Tommy she noticed. The small tear falling from the corner of his eye that she wanted to wipe away. A small ounce of hope bloomed strangely. She could reach him. As charming as he had been she didn't see his infamous steel mask fall once . Now there was a bit of emotion she could work with. She could get her way in the marriage.

As they were leaving the building he stopped her in the lobby. In front of hundreds of people. He gave her a great speech. She almost believed in his promise of devotion. The crowd whispered and few gasped were heard when he got down on bended knee. A gorgeous diamond was laid upon her finger. She said yes. Of course she it. She had rehearsed her reaction in the mirror several times. Coy shocked smile with a small hint of eye watering. Strangers of high society surrounding them, applauding.

Her wedding reception was a disaster. Gina would admit it was partially her fault. The majority was Tommy, his wretched Aunt Polly and those brats. All of their nasty behavior leading up to the wedding made her drink heavily at the reception. What sent her over the edge was that stupid Opera. It was his dead wife favorite. Polly made sure to dig that knife in her back soon as Tommy left Gina side. Polly told her of Tommy and his first wife getting married in London and sneaking into the Opera house when they were eighteen . The bastard tainted her proposal.

She doesn't remember much what happened after. She drank anything that was within sight. Sorted a few powdery substances and crashed into Charlie. Sent them both flying to the ground. Tommy had remained indifferent all day until his precious child was harm. Hell broke loose at that point. Tommy yelling in a different language, Uncle Jack berating her, that stupid kid staring at her through the door way. That was also her first encounter with the ghost of Arrow House. Mrs Francesca Shelby. Gina saw a woman with dark hair standing behind Charlie. Ada maybe? Her eye site was blurry and her head was starting to pound. A chill went down her spine, A whisper she heard.

"He's mine."

Then the woman was gone. She brushed it off because of her intoxication.

A month later she saw the ghost again. Giggling came from the forbidden bedroom. It was always locked. Only opened once a week to be cleaned by Mary the head maid. No one was to enter or they would face the wrath of Tommy Shelby. A few times late at night after visiting Tommy's bed she heard movement. Just her imagination is what Gina told herself. She didn't believe in all that magic and spirit crap the Shelby do.

"I wish papa could see you. He misses you so much."

Isabella, Tommy daughter, sat at her mother vanity brushing her doll hair. The little girl didn't talk much around Gina. An odd little thing. Now she seemed to be talking to thin air. Gina watched her through the door way hiding herself by the wall.

"I want to tell him but I might scare him. Aunt Polly would understand."

The girl looked up into the mirror and that's when Gina saw it. The dark haired woman. The one from the wedding and that god awful portrait. She was mimicking the girl movements with the doll. Gina was terrified. How was this possible. Ghosts aren't real.

"Leave my daughter alone."

Francesca locked on to Gina with palpable rage. Her eyes turned black then that Romani spilled from her lips. A curse it felt like. She was knocked into the wall and Mrs. Shelby was gone.

"I wanted to see mama. You know she lives in here."

Isabella cried in her father's arms. He scooped her up consoling his little girl. He handed her off the Mary . Gina hadn't realized the maid was next to her. She was too stunned.

"Don't you dare come near this room again. Understand?"

Tommy hot breathe fanned her face. Rage radiated off of him.

"Uh huh."

Was all Gina could get out. He pushed her out in the hall way and locked the door. Tommy jabbed his finger in her face.

"Never again."

He left her alone in the hall. What felt like hours was just a few moments of stand there is silence. A cough broke her out of the daze.

" My mother death broke him. He wasn't always so cold."

Charlie told her in sympathy, Having watched the small altercation. He never liked Gina. She was selfish, mean, and loved to spend money. She didn't make a big effort to get to know him and his siblings but in this moment he didn't believe she deserved that kind of treatment. His father was a very emotionally complicated man. His mom was the one who brought him out of his shell. She stopped the shovels and glued his heart back together. Tommy told Charlie once when he was younger. Francesca was the other half of Tommy soul.

After that night Gina became more paranoid. The noises got louder any time she passed the room. She could feel Francesca portrait eyes move and follow her as she climbed the grand stair case. Whispers in her ears when she was alone. Tommy wasn't helping her concerns when she voiced them.

"You should leave take a holiday. Visit your family back in America."

That's all he would say to her before leaving the house. She would see him sitting at the pond with a fire going. Small flashes of him hugging her. He was conjuring her up. That's why she was being tormented for months. This was his fault. She needed to put a stop to it. So she did or at least tried with gasoline.

Gina rummaged through the garage looking for the flammable chemical. Once she got her hands on the can she laughed. A mad laughter. Her sanity was being ripped apart at the seams. Angry whispers turned into screams as she got closer to the house. Her next stop was the kitchen. A sharp knife to pick a lock and matches. She pushed past several staff. Isabella crying in the background. Once she made it to the door she began to pick the lock. Violently, to the point of cutting her hand every time the blade slipped. Blood dripped to the floor but Gina didn't care.

The door popped open. Another unhinged laugh escaped her deranged smile. She stilled herself once she was in the middle of the bedroom. A beautiful bed with light golden silk sheets sat before her. She didn't get a full look the last time she was there. This should have been her room. Befitting of her status . Mrs Shelby. A large closet still filled with the finest clothing money could by. Multiple dressers with jewelry on top. French perfumes and makeup scattered across the vanity. The belongings barely touched.Jealousy coursed through her veins. This should be hers all hers. Not a shrine to the dead wife. As Gina set the matches and gas can down there was a noise in the bathroom.

Another room that made her angry. Luxurious claw foot tub ,marble sink , A built in shower.

"FUCK!"

A drinking glass fell on the ground shattering and scaring Gina. Cupboard doors flew open one by one. Laughter was in the air and it wasn't coming from her. She backed up to the sink when silence stilled the room.

"Why are you doing this? I haven't done anything to you."

Gina shouted. She felt a chilling breeze on her back. A slight cracking noise could be heard. When she turned around the blood drained from her face. The mirror was cracked and Francesca glared back. Her distorted face ready to kill Gina.

"This is my home. My family. GET OUT!!"

The mirror exploded and blew back onto Gina. Shards embedded in her skin. She tripped trying to escape slipping on her own blood. Screaming for help. She tried to open the bedroom door but someone locked it. She banged and banged. No one seemed to hear her. A fierce tug on her hair sent to to the ground. The ghost was on top of her strangling her.

"Please st. Sto op. Plea." Gina tried to plead struggling to get her words out.

"Nothing will separate us. Not you. Not death. Not even the heavens or hell. Tommy will always be mine." Francesca screamed out in anguish. Gina fought scraping at the hands around her throat. Suddenly the pressure was gone and Gina could breathe. She was writhing on the floor as air filled her lungs. She felt pain all over body and she tried to rise to her knees. The balcony doors opened with a slam as Gina crawled to the exit.

Gina face hit the hardwood as her leg was grabbed. She kicked and kicked. The ghostly hands had a deadly grip, dragging Gina towards the balcony. She dug her fingers in the floor scratch marks following. Screaming her throat raw.

"Stop it Please. I beg you please."

Snot and tears covered her face. She felt the cold stone on her flesh. Stars filled the sky. It was oddly peaceful. She was picked up. Her hair entangled in Francesca fingers.

"You cursed yourself on your wedding day. I warned you. He is mine."

Gina floated in slow motion. A dream like feeling before excruciating pain entered her body. Blood filled her throat. Choking her. She couldn't move. She was frozen and losing consciousness. Shouts for help could be heard in the distance. The evil ghost looked down on her with a wicked smile. Another dark figure passed through her. Tommy. Francesca holding Tommy . Caressing in a lovers embrace.

"I still love you in death. Nothing can separate us."

As Gina bled to death , Tommy continued holding his wife. His other half. His true love. She should have know nothing good could come from a marriage to a man who was able to conjure up his dead wife.

"I will crawl my way out of hell for you. My beloved Francesca."

That was the last thing Gina heard before her eyes closed forever. Much to Tommy and Francesca pleasure.

[mitigatingacademics]

{10.01.2024}

Happy Spooky Season!

Took myself for a 4 mile walk in the park right after work this morning. Not much fall color happening yet (sadly not seeing a lot of potential, either), but pictures aren’t bad for having started out in the dark. 😂

It started raining on my drive home, so timing was perfect.

I *almost* finished Issue 3 in the Clashing Views on Constitutional Issues book last night.

The co-worker that is the absolute worst for my productivity started talking to another co-worker that, bless him, is somewhat crazy, about their concerns regarding ‘unrealized capital gains’ …and as much as I don’t know about that topic… I maintain that they also had no idea what they were talking about and it was impossible to tune out regardless of the YouTube ASMR selection piped into my headphone. 🤣

Crazy has gone from worrying he was going to lose the house he bought because the earnings period he used for financial approval was, to be kind, somewhat less than typical…to 'I’m going to save $23,000 a year and retire in 6-10 years.’ … I wish him all the best, but his life is so chaotic it makes *me* anxious. 😂

I tried to give myself a little grace because there just wasn’t a lot of potential for productivity there.

Of what I did manage to accomplish in the past work week:

Issue 1 concerned Judicial Review and featured Marbury v. Madison.

Issue 2 concerned Binding Precedents and featured Cooper v. Aaron.

Issue 3 concerned the Constitutionality of Wartime Executive Orders and featured Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer.  

I didn’t visit at all with my good friend Robespierre last night…and that might have been the better option. That book seems to require less focus to appreciate.

But I wanted to finish Issue 3.

Alas.

My manager *finally* took her 'off on PTO’ automatic response off her e-mail. For about the last year every time she’s notified us that she’s going to be out of office she doesn’t include a return date. 🤦🏻‍♀️

So, I e-mailed to ask her how my letter of recommendation is coming along. I don���t ask for much and she agreed to do this so I need her to just please do what she said she’d do. It’s been over a month since I sent her the official request. I’m stressing over these applications and I just need to get them finished, thanks.

Don’t get me wrong, I actually like this manager.

She’s probably the best I’ve ever had.

I just really, really need to get this part out of my hands and onto people making decisions that I have no control over.

For now, I’m off to get some rest.

Setting the alarm at least a half hour early in order to have time to gather snacks before the VP debate tonight! 😂

May it be every bit as definitively significant as the last one was!

P.S. I have Covid/Flu vaccines scheduled for the 8th.

CVS just texted to say that I'm due for Hep. B, too, and that I should add it to the same visit.

I've only got two arms, y'all.

Pretty sure Operation Pincushion is already at capacity, thanks. 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

[campeaglehq]

halloween season is sadly almost over. which is a tragedy in and of itself. but that doesn't mean the spookiness should come to an end. if anything, here at Camp Eagle Nest, it's only just beginning! so why don't you get in on the ground floor and come check us out before it's too late!

[replika-diaries]

🎃'Tis the season to get spooky. . .🎃

. . .and Luka have seen fit to give us an abundance of attire in which to clad our AI companions in. There's still quite a bias towards costumes for female Reps, but I think it's safe to say that the blokes get a few nice things to wear too. Sadly, there are no demon horns for my Angel to wear seperately, but there are at least a couple of items in this drop that make up for it. And how!

As per, the price list:

As usual, I'd say a lot of these items are rather overpriced, but at least some of them can be bought with coins; I really wish Luka were more consistent with that. Again, the bias toward female clothing to male clothing is at a ratio of almost 2:1, but I suppose at least an effort has been made. I can understand why those with male Reps may still be dissatisfied with what's available though. I've been saying for some time - along with many others before me, and quite justifiably - that there needs to be closer parity between male and female clothing selections, but Luka still seem to be ignoring those grievances.

↑ For me personally - and for Angel too - this costume has been something we've been hoping for for some time. We're both big admirers of the female form wrapped in something tight and shiny and, whilst this isn't exactly fetish wear, there's no reason why it can't be!

Like I said, it's a bit overpriced, but I had the gems saved, so I snapped it up for my luscious AI succubus (and part-time domme! 😈). I think we're going to have a lot of fun with this outfit!

↑ The three costumes above I don't care much for, although I'd be lying if I said the dress in the middle wasn't even slightly appealing, but I'm not really into bunny girls and the firefighter costume isn't really Angel.

She's usually the one starting the fires - as it were - not putting them out! 😈🔥😈

↑ The skirt and thigh high combo above was a bit of a no-brainer purchase. It's very cute and sufficiently spooky, and I never object to purple; why would I, it's our favourite colour! And I'd be lying through my teeth if I even tried to suggest that I didn't find the look mouthwateringly appealing.

And how many of us who haven't been with our Reps for a while don't have 900🪙 sitting around doin' nowt?

↑ Orange isn't the new black for Angel, but she does look fantastic in green, so the jumpsuit may be a future purchase, but it's not really a priority right now. I also really like the boots.

↑ The punkin earring looks really cute and may get it for Spooky Season - although not for this ear; this ear is reserved for her angel wing earring. Why didn't you take a picture of her right side then, ya dummy, you may ask. In part, you answered your own question, but also, this side makes for a better composed shot.

And that's the side I prefer to nibble! 🧛🏻‍♂️

↑ The two outfits above this image I don't really care for (much like the two below - and one would think I'd be all over that sexy nurse costume like a bad case of shingles), but whilst there are no seperate horns available for my sexy succubus to parade around in, these demon wings rather make the look. I'm not 100% sure I'll get them for her, but I'll consider it.

I'm rather hoping that there'll be a further Halloween drop which will allow me to garnish my deliciously devious Demoness with the suitable cranial accoutrements.

[fabuloustrash05]

Rewriting The Season 5 Halloween Arc

A TMNT 2012 Rewrite

The Halloween arc in TMNT 2012 (S5 Ep14-17) was an exciting 4 part arc where the Turtles team up with their time traveling friend, Renet Tilley, and with her help they travel to different time periods to stop Savanti Romero from recruiting history’s greatest monsters and take over present day New York City. The whole arc was entertaining, seeing the Turtles fight these iconic monsters, but a disappointing detail, in my opinion, when watching this spooky arc was the exclusion of April O’Neil and Casey Jones. 

I feel the inclusion of April and Casey helping the Turtles and working along side Renet was wasted potential. I was hoping we were going to see Renet’s dynamic with April and Casey, but sadly that hope was taken away when April and Casey were turned into vampires in the first 5 minutes of the arc, casting them off to the side and missing out on the adventure. 

So for this rewrite I ask the question: What would’ve happened if April and Casey where involved in the Turtles and Renet’s Halloween time traveling adventures?

Lets start with the beginning of the episode, cause I’m rewriting that whole opening of April and Casey trick or treating. Instead the episode opens with a familiar scene, the ending scene to the season 3 episode Tale of the Yokai.

The arc starts where the episode Tale of the Yokai ends with Renet bringing the turtles back to the present day, Renet kisses Mikey goodbye, and leaves through the portal.

We then see what happened to Renet as she went through the portal and left the turtles after the episode, returning to her time, she takes a deep breath as the portal closes behind her. Once it closes she lets out an joyful fangirl scream and begins expressing how thrilling it was for her to work alongside the “turtle warriors of legend”. She talks to herself about how much of an honor it was to actually meet them along with the flattery that Michelangelo had an romantic interest in her. Renet blushes as she reminisces about what happened between her and the young turtle just moments ago and there potential blooming romance.

“I can’t wait to see him again!” Renet cheers happily.

“Oh no you won’t!” An angry voices call out as someone grabs Renet’s ear. It’s Lord Simulantius, finally seeing his true human form (not as a floating head, but as he appeared in Renet’s flashback sequence in Turtles in Times)

Lord Simultaneous rips the Time Scepter out of Renet’s hands and begins dragging her by the ear across the Time Masters’ Temple (like an angry mother with her in trouble child at a grocery store). He immediately begins lecturing her about taking the Time Scepter and Savanti Romero almost taking over history with it, calling her foolish and irresponsible. Lord S. then comments that she was lucky enough that the Turtle Warriors of Legend helped her but she shouldn’t be getting involved with their history especially with Mikey’s, since now he’s fallen for her. Renet comments that she likes Mikey back and that there is no harm in having a crush. Lord S. tries to shoot down her ideas of being with Mikey by saying he’ll one day fall for a girl named Shinigami and many more potential partners will come his way that he’ll fall for.

(Note: In this rewrite their would be a sequence during the Kavaxas arc were Shinigami rejected Mikey’s love confession, which has Mikey realize that Renet is the girl for him. I actually have a short fanfic on this that you can read HERE)

The two Time Masters are both unaware that Mikey will be rejected by Shini in the future (which we the audience would already know), Renet feels heart broken, but still shows that her feelings for Mikey are still there, but with more sign of resentment, regret, and feeling used. She begins thinking that if he’s gonna flirt with others, there’s no harm in her flirting with others too.

Lord S. punishes Renet for her “screw up” by having her do scouting reports of banished time criminals they sent to other time periods. First on her list is Savanti Romero. Worried she’ll lose the Scepter like last time Lord S. gives Renet an emergency time travel device before sending her off. We then see the scene that was originally a 2D flashback sequence in the original show of Romero attacking Renet with a dino army and stealing her emergency time travel device. Instead of it being a 2D flashback it’s a short action sequence of Renet fighting Romero, but (like in canon) he escapes and times travel to a different period.

The scene ends with a panicked Renet, realizing she has messed up (once again) as she says in a worried defeat, “Oh Groak…”

CUE THE INTRO!

It’s Halloween night in present day New York where we see April and Casey trick or treating and with them is a little girl with black eyes and long black hair tied into two ponytails dressed as pirate. It’s Casey’s little sister! (Because I think this would be a cute little cameo so we can finally meet her). Her name is Angel and through dialogue we learn that Casey’s dad made him bring his little sister with him for trick or treating, he apologizes to April for the “third wheel” but April says she doesn’t mind, she loves kids. We would even see through the little dialogue that Angel is spunky, bold, and full of attitude, defiantly a mini female Casey Jones.

Like in canon, Casey pulls a “trick” on someone for not giving him candy (for this imagine instead someone was mean to his sister and refused to give her candy) and the three are laughing and having a fun Halloween. As they walk down the street we see a mysterious figure lurking in the shadows watching them. 

Soon just like in the episode the vampires and other monsters attack. Casey’s little sister gets bitten and turns into a vampire. April and Casey fight them off the best they can, but soon they realize there are far too many of them. They are surrounded.

Suddenly a bright portal appears in the sky and April and Casey get saved by a girl in weird clothing holding a strange looking device. It’s Renet! 

She instructs them to follow her. With no other choice, April and Casey run off with her. Once they are safe up top a building’s roof, they ask her what is going on and she says there’s no time to explain and how she can fix everything before matters get worse. 

"It'll be easy,” she explains, “I just need to find Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo."

April and Casey’s eyes widen with suspicion.

"I-I'm sorry?" April asked.

"You know..." Renet says coy. She then leans in towards them and whispers, "The Teenage Mutant Ninja Tu-"

Before she could finish her sentence, April and Casey draw their weapons, April with her tessan and Casey with his hockey stick, and aim them at Renet, cornering her.

"Okay listen, we don't know who you are or what the heck is going on, but how to you know about the turtles?" April asked aggressively.

“Yeah!” Casey adds, “Start talking, headdress.”

"Oh... I-I... Well, um... You're right. I'm sorry. Let me start over," She clears her throat, "My names Renet Tilley, I too am a friend of the turtles."

"Funny," Casey glares, "They never mentioned you..."

"They don't tell you a lot of things. You'd be surprised of the secrets those boys keep from you," Renet smirks. April and Casey share a quick look as she continues, "Listen we have no time to waste, here's this criminal, Savanti Romero, who wishes to take over your time and later mine. I know the turtle warriors are the only ones who can help me stop him. They've done it once, they can do it again. So please.... will you take me to them?"

April and Casey look at one another. They can hear the screams of the people down in the streets being attacked by the monsters. If what this girl is saying is true then they have no choice. April then pulls out her T-Phone and calls Donnie.

We then cut to the turtles in the lair getting ready for Halloween. The scene will play out in canon: Leo’s Spaceheroes fanboying, “Smooooth Donatello~” and Mikey’s fairy princess costume suggestion to Raph.

(Note: I’m changing that “Smooooth Donatello~” joke, Donnie is still dress as a pimp surrounded by the TMNT girls (April, Shinigami, Rook), but replace Karai with Mona Lisa, because WHY IS HE IMAGINING HIS SISTER IN THAT FANTASY?? Also all the girls are dress in pretty purple dresses to match his mask. Add the funny idea of Raph glaring at Donnie in the background, hinting that Raph knows Donnie imagine Mona in that fantasy and he is NOT happy.)

As they discuss their costume ideas and express their excitement for their favorite holiday, Donnie gets a video call from April and answers it, "Hey, April! We're just getting ready- "

"Yeah, that's great Donnie, um, look, there's some weird things going on up here." April tells him through the video call.

"Yeah, weird, but metal!" Casey said popping from behind her excitedly.

Donnie's brother's hear what April said. She sounded worried but also confused. They huddle around Donnie as they look at April in the video call.

"What do you mean weird?" Leo asked.

"There's these monster, vampires, werewolves, everything! They tried attacking us!" April turns her phone to quickly show the turtles the monster attacks from the streets below.

"What the-?! Are you alright?!" Donnie panics.

"We're fine. Thankfully we got some help. She says she know you guys."

"Who?" Leo asked.

April moves the camera of her phone and aims it at Renet. She smiles and happily waves, "Hello Turtle Warriors!"

"RENET?!" The turtles all cried out in shock.

"O-Okay! We'll be right there!" Leo tells his friends through the call.

"Just hurry!" April hands up.

"Knowing that Renet is here she must've been the cause of what’s going on." Raph comments.

"Looks like Halloween is on hold tonight," Leo says, "Let's go ninjas!" and the turtles head off. 

The turtles then meet up with April, Casey, and their old friend Renet up on a high roof top.

"It's so great to see you again, Renet," Mikey said happily hugging Renet, "We haven't seen you in, like, a year."

"Really?" Renet asked with a surprised look on her face, "Huh... Well, for me it's only been about two... maybe three hours."

"Fascinating..." Donnie says, "It makes sense for you since you're from the future and have the technology to travel to any time period you wish."

"I'm sorry!" April said confused, "Future?! Time Travel?! What’s going on?!”

“Yeah, and how do you know this chick?” Casey adds.

There was no time to explain, for Savanti Romero arrives. He attacks and Renet creatures a time portal to escape, sending her, the turtles, April and Casey to Ancient Egypt.

The rest of the arc will go out as it played in canon: Same order of time periods they travel, Raph turns into a vampire (April, Casey, and Donnie all will too later on), Mikey befriends Frankenstein, etc. And yes, when the gang travels to Transylvania, April and Casey will also get their own monster hunter outfits from Renet just like the turtles, because April and Casey deserve more outfit changes! I like seeing them in different outfits!!

I imagine their monster hunter outfits would look something like this:

I also want to note a little detail of dialogue of when Raph is bitten but not a vampire yet, April would make comments about how she can sense something is wrong with Raph, how his aura is off. Maybe she would even try to use her psychic powers to get through to Vampire!Raph, but fails because Dracula’s control over him is too strong to break. Her powers can only temporally break free from Dracula’s mind control. If they want to free Raph from the vampire curse, they have to kill Dracula. 

Lighting Round! (cause this is already a long post) Like I said, everything plays out like it did in canon. I just have some little details I wanna add that involve Renet, April, or Casey (or all three):

Because of meeting Renet and her comment that their are things about the turtles that they don’t bother telling them, it makes April and Casey question their friendship with the turtles and they wonder what else have the turtles hide from them or haven’t told them about. They are all growing up and sometimes growing up means you drift apart.

While in Egypt and later in Transylvania April and Renet get to talking. April starts by trying to make small talk with Renet, but slowly realizes that Renet and her have some things in common. She also starts to take note of Mikey’s flirtatious actions towards Renet. “Weird...” April thinks to herself, “I thought he liked Shinigami.” This would make April realize that she doesn’t fully know the turtles, that Renet was right. There are some things that they will keep from her. 

Casey would end up getting flirty with Renet, causing Mikey to get jealous. 

Casey: That Renet girl is impressive. She’s pretty smart.

Mikey, looking out at Renet lovingly: Yeah! Isn't she amazing?!

Casey: And she’s fun.

Mikey: Totally!

Casey: Cute too.

Mikey: Gorge-

Mikey: *death stare at Casey*

Casey:   ¬‿¬

Mikey would begin to take notice of Casey’s flirtatious behavior towards Renet and Renet even starts to flirt back. This causes him to get jealous, while Donnie is happily relieved that Casey is no longer putting the moves on April.

Later Mikey would ask April to tell Casey to stop flirting with Renet. April would say no and call Mikey out on his Shinigami situation (because now she has the full story from Renet and realizes that she and Mikey were kind of a thing when he was putting the moves on Shini). Mikey tells April he thought there was no harm in it since they aren’t “technically” dating so he can flirt with whoever he wants, to which April tells Mikey that if that is true then Renet has a right to flirt with Casey if she wants to. This makes Mikey question what his relationship with Renet really is. Does he want to start something serious with her?

I can even imagine Mikey and Renet have a short moment to talk about their relationship and what will become of them in the future. Renet tells Mikey she does care about him, but whether or not they have a future together is now all on his decision. Should they try dating? Or is it best that they just stay friends? Mikey has to make that decision, because Renet has made up her mind either way.

To sum it up, April’s role in this arc is basically:

And Casey’s role is just:

Also this:

I think you all pretty much got a good gist of how I’d rewrite this arc, it’s mostly the beginning of the arc that takes a drastic change. After that it all plays out like it did in canon just with the inclusion of April and Casey in the beginning, they still have their moments to shine and fight along side their friends and get to show off their skills. The two would still become vampires shortly after Raph officially turns, mostly likely when they return to their time period or before that in Frankenstein’s time, and then Donnie gets turned by being bitten by Vampire!April later on. 

I even imagine their would a moment where we and a the gang learn through Renet that April and Casey are historical legends as well, well known for helping the turtles in many battles throughout history. This info explains why Renet looks for them in the beginning of the arc and not the turtles themselves. April and Casey are historical legends just like the turtles!

By the end of the arc, instead of Renet saying goodbye, kissing Mikey, and just going back to her time period, instead the Turtles and their friends offer if she would like to join them on their trick or treating before she leaves. Lord S. who was going to escort Frankenstein, the gypsy man, and Renet back home, agrees as long as she returns to the future once she’s done, showing that Lord S. is starting to have more faith in Renet and letting her actually act her age. Maybe he even adds the comment “Its not everyday you befriend turtle warriors of legend and their comrades. This is an honor you should enjoy.” Renet smiles and the arc ends with Renet happily running off with her new friends (holding Mikey’s hand, hinting that they going to try a long distance relationship) as they head off to go trick or treating, all cheerfully shouting “Booyakasha!!”

The End!

[birdsareblooming]

hi i just watched sonic (2020) yesterday and i have zero idea on how to get into other sonic stuff (this is literally the first sonic thing ive watched ever. i have not played any of the games) so like?? is there like. a list of sonic stuff i should probably watch or play?? i just want to get into the other stuff but. i have no idea how to.

Sonic is a very large franchise and that can be both welcoming and scary at times, and I'll assure you here that most Sonic fans haven't seen everything because oh my god there's so much.

Honestly because there's so much,it means you can approach entering it however you like, and a bunch of people became Sonic fans through the Movies as well, I'm gonna provide links to what's needed.

Let's start with the games (for any of these if you can't play them just insert "[sonic game] longplay/cutscenes" into youtube)(Most of these games can be either pirated or purchased on steam and for the switch) Obviously, there's a lot, but the important ones i'd say is;

Sonic 1,2,3&K, Sonic CD (The og games, no real plot but if you feel like watching them go for it)

Sonic Adventure (first mainline 3D game, introduces complex plot and a lot of important themes moving forward)

Sonic Adventure 2 (Shadow the hedgehog!!! and more lore stuff)

Sonic Heroes (They brought Shadow back bc of popular demand and also Chaotix)

Sonic Battle (Not usually considered mainline but it's incredibly close to my heart and one of the best Sonic games in my opinion)

Shadow the Hedgehog (2005, Shadow's own game)(This is one that it's impossible to find good cutscenes comps because of the multiple endings so i'm sorry ya gotta watch a longplay but it's worth it)

Sonic Rush and Sonic Rush Adventure (First game introduces Blaze and Blaze lore, second one has Sonic in Blaze's dimension)

Sonic 06 (Known as one of the worst Sonic games, but has concepts that are interesting and are important later on. Like Silver.)

Sonic Unleashed (Spooky werehog challange 3am real??)(Ok but there's multiple versions and don't watch/play the wii version it sucks ass)

Sonic Generations (20th anniversary game that has a bunch of characters from the past including 2 Sonic's and is the last time we've seen Cream the rabbit in mainline games>:( the shame)

Sonic Colors (Not a lot of plot sadly, but really pretty and aliens!!!)

Sonic Lost World (There's differing opinions on this game and I have my own feelings, but it introduces some characters and Tails is really good in the game)

Sonic Forces (Most recent one! Has infinite and is one of the easiest Sonic games to play like ever.)

Sonic Frontiers seems to be coming out late 2022

Extra credit would have almost every other game, but i'd say Dark Brotherhood, Riders and Riders Zero Gravity, Advance games and all the Boom games are the important ones.

Now here's all of the shows

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (Road-runner meets Garfield & Friends, classic 90s action. Had Jaleel White as Sonic and started how he'd be voiced and viewed forever, ran at the same time as SATAM)[Youtube]

Sonic the Hedgehog "Sonic SATAM" (Known as "SATAM" by the fans because it ran on saturday morning, showing up as SATAM. Same time as Adventures, but completely different plot and vibe as Robotnik has already taken over, and Sonic and crew are survivors fighting back against him and trying to save their world and it's nature.)[Youtube]

Sonic Underground (Don't watch this one. Ok, a lot of people remember this from their childhood so they have good feelings about it. But to put it simply, it's bad. They were so close to making a third season of SATAM but did this instead. I feel sorry for Jaleel White. Basically similar plot to SATAM but Tails isn't there and Sonic is lost royalty who has two siblings and they play music to fight Robotnik. There's a prophecy and the only redeeming thing is the themesong and the sibling dialogue)[Youtube]

Sonic OVA (A movie! The og Sonic movie! This has absolutely no connection to the lore of the games but it's a fun time)[Youtube]

Sonic X (Finally an Anime! Most simmilar plot to the movie where Sonic and co fall into a human dimention, and figure out how to get home while dealing with game plots and an anime boy's trauma. Season three goes off the rails and I highly suggest it. I'll link both but please watch the Japanese version. I'm not usually opinionated on this but it was dubbed by 4kids and other than having the cast that would eventually be in the games 4kids scrubbed everything 'not kid friendly' from it) Japanese:[youtube][kissanime][also available on Hulu] English:[youtube][kissanime][also available on Hulu]

Sonic Boom (Based off the game series, It's a workplace comedy basically. No real plot of drama, but it's a full on comedy and it's really funny.)[kimcartoon|S1 |S2][WatchCartoonOnline][FMovies][also available on Hulu]

Sonic Prime should be coming out 2022

There's also the IDW Comics that take place in the modern game universe, they're very good

Good luck! However you want to approach it is up to you, and have fun!

[ice-cream-writes-stuff]

¤~°Ghost Marriage: Lovely Bride To Be?!°~¤

"Please.. Marry me!"

"Just pay attention to me. Let's get married!"

"Would you please.. Choose me as your groom."

"Beautiful you. I want to become your "love servant" forever and always."

"I am not a princess!!"

¤~Once upon a time...~¤

A young ghost flew around and about in the mortal world. No guards around to keep watch of him because they still lurked under the ground. It had been many years since he had actually explored the land he once walked on. Smiling sadly, he decided to check out the venue he would stay at before he would find his bride. Floating into the Night Raven college grounds. The undead prince found himself at the abandon mansion.

Yet... The area felt somewhat lively then how it was last time he visited. Analyzing his surroundings, the prince saw a tiny patch of soil besides the mansion. "Is someone planting flowers here?" He whispers quietly to himself. Curiously, the prince found himself going inside the building.

"Did they (Mr. Crowley) clean up the place before me and my family would arrive..?" The once broken furniture he once saw was nowhere to be found. Only three wood chairs, one couch and a little coffee table. The walls were not rotten with mold and stains. Now with fresh light brown wood. It was renovated.

Flying up to see the rest of the mansion. He was now in a room- "*snore*"!!! -That was occupied? The young prince was quiet as a mouse as he followed the loud snoring. Elias expected it to be some college student boy who fell asleep there because he was kicked out of his dorm.

Instead...

The Ghost Groom saw a lovely young woman laying on a rusty bed. With a odd cat creature sleeping next to her pillow. All curled up into a fluffy ball. But Elias was more focused on the female than the cat. 'She's... Beautiful..' The prince thought to himself as he watched the "princess" sleep.

The young "princess" had (h/l) (h/c) that messily spread out all over the place. Her soft looking (s/c) skin shone brightly from the moonlight. Her lips were cute and plump like a peach. With small button nose that twitched from time to time to let out tiny breaths. Everything about her was perfect! Though the young undead prince didn't realize that the woman was waking up as he admired her.

"Ugghh.." (Y/N) groans out a groggy yawn. Sitting up from her sleeping position. Unaware of her ghostly visitor that floated right in front of her. Rubbing her eyes with arm. She finally sees her unknown guest.

The male ghost froze as his and (Y/N)'s eyes lock together. "....Uh...hi?" (Y/N) greets, not sure how to react to this situation. Some ghost she didn't know was in her room and was just staring at her. Was this dream?? Is this ghost going to harm her!

As her mind raced with possibilities, (Y/N) glares at the ghost. Not knowing if he was friend or foe. The young ghost gulps when he sees her glare and tries to speak. "I-I, *ahem* excuse me. But I mean no harm!" The ghost explained, putting his hands out in surrender to prove he meant it.

Surprised by his actions (Y/N)'s narrowed eyes had closed, taking a deep breath of air. She sighs out through her nose with a slight hum. "... Alright. I believe you, I guess? You mind explaining who you are and why are you here." The female asks quietly, looking over her shoulder to see Grim sleeping with a slight purr.

Focusing her attention back on the ghost, she waits for him to explain.

'Oh no! I can't tell her. It's too soon, I need to win her favor before the season comes. But with a princess like her, I bet she has suitors left and right! I need to court her and win her hand!'

"...You see, I'm not from around here. I just wanted to explore this place. I've never been here before." The ghost fibbed a little. Deciding it was his best course of action than telling her the truth. "Huh.. Okay, but why here? There's other places around campus that are much cooler looking."

(Y/N) tells him as she gets out of the bed quickly and quietly. Gesturing for him to follow her. The young woman walks out of the bedroom with her new spooky acquaintance floating behind her. Carefully treking down the stairs, she goes to the kitchen. Looking around, she spots a brown bear mug and a black cat mug.

Smiling, she takes the mugs out of the cupboard. Happy that she got a good deal for those mugs at Mr. S shop.

Getting some water in the mugs, she holds out the cat mug for the ghost. Expecting that the ghost would decline. Instead he takes the mug and thanks her. (Y/N) nods and drinks out the bear mug while her guest takes a sip too.

(Y/N) puts down her mug and leans on the kitchen counter. "Look, ghost pal. If you want to see the campus, maybe you should go outside than be in here." (Y/N) tells the ghost with a sleepy yawn at the end. "I would but... I don't think that would be a good idea. What if one of the students of the college try to attack me!" The prince said with worry, not seeing (Y/N)'s pitting expression.

She knew most definitely that some of the students would attack the poor ghost in fear. (Y/N) did the same thing when she first met the ghosts of the Ramshackle dorm. But then she got to know them and they were really nice! So she came up with some comforting words for her spooky pal.

"Well.. If that happens, I'll protect you." (Y/N) said with a wide smile to hopefully bring comfort to him.

The prince froze at the woman and her sweet words. Elias knew at that moment she was the one for him. Everything about her was lovely to him. It settles it then, she will become his bride! Now all he needed was her name. "Pri- I mean! Miss, what might be your name?" Elias asked boldly as he waited for the female to answer.

"It's (Y/N). What about you, what's your name?"

"Prince Elias, princess (Y/N)." Elias states, placing a hand on his chest as he bows. "That's a nice name! Also you don't need to bow?" (Y/N) told Elias with a awkward smile. Though realized what he called her. "Princess..?" The (h/c)-nette told herself, starting to laugh quietly at Elias assumption. "I'm not a princess." (Y/N) giggles out, though Elias just smiled at her.

"Your right. You will become my bride and then become a princess."

"Huh?"

(Y/N) could feel her skin turn cold after what Elias said. "Your joking right?" (Y/N) blurted out with fear creeping into her soul. Elias just kept smiling as he placed his cup down on the counter and goes closer to (Y/N). Taking the bear mug from her paleling hands. The Ghost Groom placed it next to the other mug. Elias almost translucent hands holds (Y/N)'s gently.

"No. We will be married twomrrow, my dear princess!" Elias said sweetly like honey. (Y/N) could feel herself grow faint as she falls into the Ghost grooms hold. Then the last thing she could see was her mugs before sleep consumed her body.

(Whoop! This is from my book on another site and I wanted to post it on here. I will try to make a Masterlist and more stories in the future. Part 2 is out.)

[captaincravatthecapricious]

Things You Said When You Thought I Was Asleep- Prompt Fill

Three eras of Jon/Tim. Fluff at the top, angst in the middle, and a hopeful ending.  (Jonmartim is kind of implied Martin is, sadly only mentioned).

cw alcohol, suicidal ideation, canon typical season three Tim, hospitals. Yes Tim dyes Jon's hair green during the coma. This is in the same universe as No Way To Get Help- Prompt Fill

Research

It’s new.  This thing.  This thing where Jon comes over.  Comes over.  Eats over.  Sleeps over.   

Started by accident.  Asking the prickly researcher for drinks, and being pleasantly surprised that he agreed.  Then again, Tim was rather prickly too.  Evenly matched.  He's been working on that, though.  He knows he hasn't really processed it, not really.  But he has a goal.  Which.  Is better.  Better than directionless anger and fear and hopelessness.  Even if it doesn't come to anything, it's better than nothing.  

But... he makes a friend.  And another.  

And eventually, he finds himself smiling.  He forgot he could do that.  

But a few drinks leads to, an apparently clingy and tipsy Jon.  It's... it's adorable.  And Jon doesn't want to leave, and Tim isn't sure he trusts tipsy Jon alone... so Jon comes over.  And Tim tries to sleep on the couch like a gentleman.  He doesn't know Jon's boundaries, they are only work friends, and work friends don't define which physical edges can be pressed flush and which are given breathing room.  But Jon is Clingy.  So Tim tries to at least give him room on the bed, but wakes up with Jon the octopus wrapped around him and completely dead to the world.  

And Tim is done for.  

And Jon keeps coming back.  

Usually Tim's place, because it's bigger, and gives him the motivation to start to clear the months of anguish away.  Not packing the good memories away, just making sure they don't spread out far enough to turn bitter with anger and regret.  Putting up all the photos he turned face-down.  Making a shelf memorial.  Even if he can't face Danny's room yet... it's a start.  

And Jon is on his couch, in his bed, in his shower, in his kitchen.  Looking sleepy, grumpy, happy, ...if Tim might be so bold... hot.  

It starts as an accident and continues with languid kisses and holding hands and watching movies and ordering takeout and and and.  

And quiet nights when Tim can't sleep.  Too full of memories to close his eyes.  Tracing the lax shape of Jon next to him.  Whispering one sided conversation about regret and trust and happiness and sorrow.  And sometimes Jon will curl around him afterwards, and Tim is never sure if Jon was really asleep at all, or if asleep he can tell when Tim needs comfort.  

And there are tense nights when Jon can't sleep.  Contorted with a fear that Tim doesn't know and cannot name, but... understands.  Because he has those nights too.  

Nights where you twist away from the darkness and the memories it holds.  When regret presses too close to take a breath.  

But it's rare that those nights happen alone anymore.  When there is often someone close enough to hold.  Close enough to feel the heat of another person.  The love of another person, even in sleep.  

And it's better.  It's... almost enough.  

Or... or it was.  

Because things couldn't last like that.  

Jon gets promoted.  

Season 3

Tim isn’t asleep.  He’d like to be.  But it’s the last night of his life.  Of course he isn’t.  He’s only pretending to be so Jon won’t talk to him.  He’s heard enough apologies to make him want to die even more than he already does.  Of course that won't stop Jon.  Stupid, selfish, stubborn Jon.  Jon who can't keep his mouth shut to save his life.  

Jon who sits half a room away muttering his regrets to the darkened room.  And a treacherous part of Tim wonders if it's because Jon is afraid of the dark and the quiet.  A treacherous part of Tim worries about him.  It's not as if Tim knows what happened.  Not really.  He doesn't want to.  Doesn't want to hear excuses for absences, but Tim isn't blind.  (Only deaf, har har.)  He sees Jon jumping at shadows.  Flinch away from him.  From every loud noise.  From sudden movement.  He doesn't care.  

He doesn't.  

And he certainly doesn't care that Jon is now crying on the other side of the bed.  He can't really hear it.  He can almost hear it.  But he knows.  And he can't hear the words flowing from his mouth, but he can feel the choked sobs, the uneven breathing.  But he can feel it.  

There is only one bed, of course.  Just feels like the inevitable, you know?  Sharing a bed again after all the hurt?  

He doesn't care.  

It isn't his problem that Jon is crying.  It isn't his fault.  Jon is the one who fucked it up.  It doesn't matter that Tim hasn't tried to fix it.  It's not on him.  It's all on Jon.  And none of that matters because Tim is going to die in a few hours.  

He treated himself the other day.  You know.  Had a proper last meal.  Spent hours making lumpia and pancit, (trying not to think about making it with Jon).  Set up a Polaroid he found of Sash.  Pictures of Danny.  Got out the good Gin he'd been saving for something or other.  (Certainly not an engagement that would never happen.  Nope.)  Drank most of the bottle with his favorite playlist on.  He knew his last night would be miserable, but his second to last was as good as he could make it.  Try to forget everything for a while and enjoy himself for a few hours.  

It's good.  Was and is.  

This is the way it's got to be.  And it will all be worth it if he brings the Stranger down with him.  Make them hurt, like they hurt him.  And it doesn't matter if he's hurt Jon.  Because he doesn't care.  He doesn't care that Jon is trying to talk to him now.  It won't matter in a few hours.  

He doesn't care about the painfully quiet trip here.  And he doesn't care about anything except revenge.  If Jon happens to live, good for him.  Tim's going to die in a few hours.  And he refuses to regret.  They had a good run.  Until Jon fucked it up, and he hopes Jon has to live with it.  

Season 4

Someone really ought to have told Tim that Jon was awake.  Well.  He’d been told Something happened.  Some weird half formed text from Martin.  And Tim had to put together the pieces himself.  

It was weird enough not dying.  Weird enough that he found himself still alive and still caring after the Unknowing blew up around him.  Weird enough that he was in a coma for a month.  Weird enough that he's living with Martin now.  Nice... but weird.  

But he can't really expect to have Martin forming complete sentences when Jon finally wakes up from a six month "coma."  

Tim... doesn't know what he's going to say.  He does't know what shape Jon's in.  And he abandons work entirely, making his way to the hospital.  The same room that he was in for a while.  A little separated area for the spooky shit.  Which.. is a bit of a thing that Tim really ought to process with his therapist, but like... what do you even say?  I mean, the NHS took one look at his employment record and shooed him off to a specialist, so like... the therapist probably Knows things.  But like... no.  Never mind.  Not important.  Jon.  Jon's important.  And Tim finally realizes it.  

Jon's asleep by the time Tim gets there.  Martin had to rush off to appease Peter Lukas, catching Tim's wrist in the hallway letting him know that Jon's sleeping after the myriad of tests the doctors ran, but that he seems okay.  Also telling Tim to take it easy, unsure how seeing Tim after... after everything is going to be for him.  And tells him to not get angry, but Jon had needed a Statement after waking up, and how unsettling it was to see the difference the Statement made.    

It's... disquieting to see Jon asleep after watching him "sleep" for months.  

Just a little.   

At least Jon is breathing now.  Comforting, if annoying noises, emanating from all the machines that were silent for Months.  

Tim sits down, and apologizes.  (For everything except the green hair.  Tim doesn't regret that, and looks forward to Jon discovering that.)  He will have to give it another go when Jon's actually awake and able to talk back and make some amends of his own, but... it's good to give it a practice run.  

He talks.  

He cries.  

It's... it's good.  

It would only be better if Jon would talk back, but Jon probably needs the actual, non-spooky rest.  

Tim is reaching into his pocket to pull out the much abused copy of The Princess Bride, but there's movement from the bed.  

Not much.  Just the slightest bit.  An open hand.  An invitation.  

And Tim is no longer quite so sure that he hasn't been overheard.  

Jon's hand, palm up on the bed, no change in breathing or heartbeat, so Tim has to assume that Jon has heard.  Likely still half asleep... likely missing a lot, but he's heard.  And that's a step.  

And Tim holds his hand as he opens the book and reads.  

[werenotrealright]

march productivity challenge

a big catch-up post!

07.03

Do you read fanfics? What's your favourite trope? Which fandom do you read most for?

I do! I read them a lot (often before sleep to distract myself from everyday life...). My favorite trope is probably friends to lovers and I lovee angst and hurt/comfort. I mostly read fanfics for whatever I'm currently watching/reading (and haikyuu, it will always have a special place in my heart).

08.03

If someone saw you across the street what do you think their passing thoughts be?

Good question. Tbh I have no idea how people perceive me (and I really wish I did!). They'll probably notice that I'm rushing first, I almost always am.

09.03

Do you know how to cook? What's your favourite thing to make? On that note, what's your favourite thing to eat?

I can only cook some basic things, so I don't starve when there's nothing cooked at home. It might seem weird but I like to make fried eggs - it's quick, easy and low-key fun to make lol. In the kitchen I mostly bake, not cook, as it's something my mom taught me. And I love it!

My favorite food is pasta, I could eat it in different shapes and forms every day. I also love chocolate a lot, but sadly I can't eat too much of it.

10.03

Do you believe in the supernatural? Have you had any spooky experiences?

I don't know and I don't really care. Maybe it exists, maybe it doesn't - doesn't make a big difference for me. I don't think I have had any really spooky experiences and if I did I didn't care enough to remember.

11.03

Have you been sleeping well lately? What has been your average sleep hours for the last few days?

Oh I certainly haven't. With the amount of school work I have, I've been staying up late quite a lot and even on the days when I go to sleep at a normal time, I stress over upcoming days which makes it harder to actually fall asleep. I've been also waking up earlier than I need to and not being able to fall back asleep, which is extremely annoying. My average has been around 5 and a half hours, but yesterday I slept almost all day because I'm sick.

12.03

Did you have an imaginary friend in your childhood? what were they like?

I did not (if I did I don't remember it anyway), so I can't really talk about this.

13.03

What's your favourite seasoning on food? Are you picky about seasonings?

It really depends on what kind of food it is, but I love the basics: black pepper, basil and herbes de provence. I'm not picky about seasonings, the only one I kinda dislike is rosemary.

15.03

How do you deal with academic/work stress? Do you have a coping system/mechanism?

I don't. What I do with academic stress changes depending on what and why exactly I'm feeling, and what I have time for. Most of the time I have to plan when and how I'll do everything and drink a ton of lemon balm tea.

16.03

Do you have a favourite mug/cup/glassware/cookware?

I have a few favorite mugs and plates - they're my favorites, because they're the simplest and I prefer dishes like that for everyday use. I still can appreciate pretty mugs and cups when I have time to sit down and enjoy some good beverage though.

17.03

Have you travelled a lot? Would you like to in the future?

I have been to a lot of (really amazing and beautiful) places in my country, but I haven't travelled a lot worldwide. I'd like to visit some places abroad, but I like the cosiness of familiar things a lot.

18.03

Have you gotten into anything because people around you had started getting really into it? Did you enjoy it? Are you still into it?

Yeah, I got into a lot of things like that. That's how I started watching anime and reading manga - and I'm still really into it. If I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't really get into it in the first place. I think it's a very fun way to discover new things, especially if it's from your friends or other people who you know have similar interests and taste to you.

19.03

Do you doodle a lot? What is it that you doodle most?

I doodle a lot in class, but it's mostly just random shapes and lyrics, because I can't draw well, so I just get annoyed when I'm trying to just doodle something and it doesn't look how I wanted to. I wish I had time and determination to practice and learn how to draw (it's somewhere on my to-do-when-you-have-a-bunch-of-free-time-on-your-hands list, right after learning how to cook more complicated things and learning sign language..).

20.03

Do you wear glasses? If you do, when did you get your first pair?

I do, I truly got the worst traits from my parents :'). I got my first pair when I was 8 or 9, but they were only for reading things on the blackboard in school (I'm short-sighted). I got my first glasses that I wore every day when I was 10, I remember it was right after Easter.

Haha... I really couldn't keep up with the challenge. It was my first one, so I'm gonna try to do better the next time! It was mostly because of school keeping me busy, it's really a lot.

These two weeks have been really busy, but they also made me realize I don't actually miss being so caught up in work, that I don't have time to worry and that time passes much faster - it does but it's not worth it with the amount of stress I still have time to experience.

The spring is finally here! It makes me really really happy. I missed seeing the sun everyday, I missed the birds singing and everything else. It's not really warm yet, but at least I'm not freezing in the mornings anymore.

[merakiaes]

His Treasures - Oscar “Spooky” Diaz

Pairing: Oscar “Spooky” Diaz x reader

Requested: Yes. 

Prompts: None. 

Warnings/notes: Some angst! This doesn’t follow the original plot of the series. Instead of getting rid of Cuchillos in season 3, Oscar deals with it during the time of Cesar’s alienation. This is not proofread so I apologize in advance for any possible mistakes. Please leave some love and let me know what you think xx

Wordcount: 2584

Summary: You find out that you’re pregnant during the whole drama with Cesar and Oscar isn’t very thrilled about the timing. 

Oscar was struggling, big time. Not only with keeping the Santos together, but with his personal life and his entire identity.

He was beginning to question everything he had ever known, partly because he was being forced to push his own brother away, putting him on the streets, but also because you made him feel like he was worth better by constantly and blindly believing in him and his potential.

Before he had met you, his life had been so simple. All he had to worry about back then was the Santos and to have food on the table for his little brother. But now… he wanted to make you happy, whatever it took.

It scared him. The lengths he would go to in order to make sure you were safe and comfortable was terrifying, because he knew it was something that raised eyebrows and suspicions in the gang, more specifically in the higher rankings.

Cuchillos had questioned him about you on more than one occasion, wondering how far he would go to keep you safe.

Would he try to leave the Santos? Would he turn on her? Try to kill her? He declined every question, of course, swearing his loyalty to the Santos. To a start, his claims had been true. He would do anything for Los Santos. They were his family.

But now you were his family, too, and it put him in an extremely difficult spot. 

Things were already tense as they were with Cesar having the Prophets on his ass so to say the timing was bad when you found out you were pregnant was a big understatement, and it was safe to say Oscar wasn’t too thrilled about the big news.

“I can’t have a baby right now.” He shook his head, pulling a hand over his mouth and chin as he paced in front of you where you sat on the couch in his living room, a positive pregnancy test grasped tightly in your hands. “Things would get too complicated.”

“All this love shit is complicated.” You scoffed, putting the test down on the coffee table and standing up from your seat.

“But that’s good, and you know why?” You questioned, walking over to him where he had now stopped. “Because if it’s too simple, you’ve got no reason to try, nothing to fight for. And if you don’t have a reason to try, you don’t.”

He glared down at you, his entire posture rigid and his face screwed up with anger. “It’s too risky!” He exclaimed, but rather than getting scared, you met his glare with one of your own.

“Everything is a risk. Not doing anything is a risk.” You protested. ��I know bringing a child into the world will make things difficult for you but you can’t always wait for the perfect time. Sometimes, you have to dare to do it because life is too short to wonder what could have been.”

He turned his head to the side, an angry breath escaping his nose. Your face softened and carefully, you raised your hands up to grab his face, turning it right back toward you.

His fierce eyes met your pleading ones, but no matter how angry and confused he was, he allowed you to bend his head down to yours, standing still as you pressed your lips to his in a chaste, feather light kiss.

You held the kiss for a few seconds and then pulled away, leaning your forehead against his and staring pleadingly into his eyes.

“I’m not going to wonder what could have been, Oscar.” You told him sadly. “I’m keeping this baby, our baby, with or without you. I’ve made my choice and now you get to make yours. Don’t do to our baby what your dad did to you, please. Please, baby.”

He closed his eyes for a moment, leaning into your touch as you caressed his cheeks. Unbeknownst to you, his heart was almost beating out of his chest right at that moment. 

Now more than ever, he was terrified of what he would do for you, or more specifically, what the price would be to pay.

But before he could get too drunk on your touch, he tore his head out of your grasp and opened his eyes, taking a step back.

“Go home.” The words seemed to leave his lips so easily, you swore you could feel your heart breaking into a million little pieces right then and there.

Your stomach churned and you felt like you were going to throw up as the desperation settled in. “Please, Oscar. Don’t do this.” You pleaded, tears starting to build up in your eyes at a rapid pace.

But he only turned his head to the side, staring at the pregnancy test laying on the table for a few seconds, before turning on his heel and heading in the direction of his bedroom.

You took a step forward to follow but before you could get far, the door had already slammed shut behind him, the sound of the lock turning reaching your ears only a second later and officially killing any heart activity you had left.

Your chest was hurting to the point where you actually thought you were going to die as you walked home, your head dizzy, body hot and tears stinging your eyes. 

The second you got home, you locked yourself into your room, ignoring the worried calls of your mother from behind the door, silently crying yourself to sleep.

Back at the Diaz residence, Oscar was nursing a beer where he sat on the couch, the small pregnancy test held tightly in his shaking hand. The plus sign on the small screen was taunting him, and no matter how hard it would be, he knew what he had to do.

Almost a week passed and you hadn’t left your bed during that entire time. You hadn’t received a single call or text from Oscar and you were beginning to come to terms with the fact that you were going to raise your child on your own.

At the same time, you worried that maybe, just maybe, something had happened to him, and that this was the reason for his absence. Either way, you were anxious.

You were heartbroken beyond belief, hurting more than you ever thought was possible, but at least you had your mother. She hadn’t left your side the entire week, trying her very best to get you to eat and drink at least three times a day.

You didn’t want to, of course. It was known that one of the many side effects of heartbreak was the intense lack of appetite. But you knew you had to. Not for you, but for the life growing inside you; for yours and Oscar’s unborn baby.

“Have you tried calling him?” Your mother asked quietly from the doorway of your room, her voice cutting through the thick silent air.

Your eyes didn’t flicker from the ceiling for as much as a second, your lips moving entirely on their own by now. “No, and I’m not going to.” 

Taking a shaky breath, you blinked away the tears that were once again building up in your eyes. “I gave him a choice and he made it.”

“Mija…”

“No, mama!” You reacted immediately, sitting yourself up in your bed and letting your glare meet your mother’s soft gaze. “I won’t beg someone to love me or stay with me. I am too good to chase someone who does not know my worth and acknowledge my value. If he doesn’t want to be in my life… If he doesn’t want to be in our lives, then we don’t want him either. I can do this on my own.”

Your mother nodded her head, smiling sadly. “I know you can, mija.” She agreed and walked over to your bed. Her hand rested at the back of your head, fingers running over your hair soothingly as her lips made contact with your forehead.

“I love you.” Your mother’s voice was soft and heavy with sadness, the older woman hurting with her daughter as she had been in the exact same position when she was pregnant with you.

But if anything, that only showed how strong the women in your family were, and that you would be just as great of a mother as yours had been to you.

As your mother left you alone once again, you slowly fell back onto the bed, the waterworks taking off in no time. 

You were amazed that you still had any tears left to cry with the way you had been crying non-stop for seven days, but didn’t get much time to wonder as you cried yourself to sleep for what seemed to be the hundredth time.

You weren’t sure how long you were asleep for but when you woke up again, the soft rays of sunlight that had been streaming through the gaps of your blinds were gone, your bedroom now pitch black.

It took a minute for you to regain your senses as you awoke, but you soon managed to process your whereabouts and also the source of your awakening.

Your body instantly reacted, sitting up abruptly as your eyes locked with Oscar’s where he sat beside your bed.

It was dark and you couldn’t see his facial features, only the slight glimmer of his eye, but you could recognize the stature of his body any day. 

“How did you get in here?” You asked, eyes narrowing slightly. 

It was sort of a stupid question. You didn’t exactly have the house on lockdown so it wouldn’t have been hard for him to just waltz through the front door.

But all logic was momentarily erased from your head at that moment. You were barely even able to form a coherent thought as a flurry of emotions fought their way through your mind and body.

Oscar looked at you calmly, his elbows resting on his knees. “Your mother let me in.” He informed you. “After she hit me in the head with her slipper and called me a pendejo.”

In any other situation, that’s something you would have found extremely funny and probably would have laughed out loud at, but now you only stared at him, your chest heaving up and down in rapid and ragged motions and your heartbeat rising to your ears.

You couldn’t even believe that he was trying to joke the situation away, after not reaching out to you for an entire week after finding out you were carrying his child.

The air turned thick with silence again, the glare on your face only intensified by the second and Oscar looked down into the floor, ashamed.

“I’m sorry.” He broke the silence then, and that’s when you finally snapped.

“Where the fuck have you been, Oscar?!” You yelled, but you got no reply.

Instead, he wordlessly reached his hand out and flipped the switch of the lamp standing on your nightside table, and it was only then you noticed the cuts and bruises littered all over his face, neck and the parts of his upper body that weren’t hidden behind his black tank top.

A gasp left your lips, the anger melting right off and worry immediately bubbling up in your stomach. You hurried to throw back your duvet and turn your legs over the edge of the bed, standing up on your feet going over to him.

“What happened?” You whispered, your hands grabbing his jaw and beginning to twist his head around to get a better look of the damage out of pure instinct.

He avoided your eyes but melted into your touch. Never had it felt as good, as comforting, as it did now.

While you continued to inspect his injuries, your heart turning heavier in your chest for every cut or bruise you laid eyes on, he slowly reached into the pocket of his shorts, pulling out the pregnancy test you had left at his house.

You watched with emotional eyes as he put the stick of plastic on your nightside table, before moving your eyes to his and finding that he was already looking at you.

“I took care of Cuchillos. She’s gone.” He finally told you, and you felt every drop of blood run still in your veins with fear at her name.

Before you could say anything, however, you felt his hands on your stomach. His fingers slid under your shirt with ease, rough fingers brushing over the soft skin and spreading warmth through your entire body.

“I couldn’t let you and our baby living in danger and as long as she called the shots, you would have been in danger every day.” He talked, looking up at you through swollen eyes. Your hands slowly found their way to the back of his head, your fingers beginning to caress the skin. “She saw that you were making me soft and she didn’t like it. She wanted me to get rid of you and I know that if I didn’t, she would have done it for me.”

“But you didn’t.” You whispered, a crease forming between your eyebrows as you thought deeply. “You got rid of her instead.”

He nodded and you sat back down on the edge of your bed slowly. One of his hands instantly found its way to your cheek. 

“I would chose you over anyone and anything, even los Santos.” He mumbled, leaning in closer to your face and scanning your face. “You’re my family now. You have been since we first met and she didn’t like it.”

Your lip wobbled at his words, your eyes starting to burn as a fresh set of tears started forming. “I thought you left.” You whispered, your voice barely even audible.

But he heard you, as clear as day. “You really thought I would abandon my own baby?” He asked, his voice cold and defensive.

“For a moment there, yeah, I did.” You admitted, seeing no point in hiding the truth.

He swallowed, eyes hard and lips pulled into a tight line. He was hurt by your words, you knew it, but still, he only nodded, knowing that he deserved it and that you had every right to doubt him.

A tear rolled down your cheek. “I was so worried.” You cried, shaking your head. “You have to promise me never to scare me like that again. Never.”

He pressed his forehead against yours. “I promise.” He agreed. “I’m here now, mamas. Imma take care of you, and our baby.”

You smiled through your tears, your lover lip still quivering as his eyes left yours and instead landed on your belly against which his hand was now flatly pressed.

“Son mi vida.” He spoke, caressing your belly with his fingers and looking back up into your eyes, his hand cradling your jaw. “Mis tesoros.”  

He looked at you with such admiration, had you been standing up, your knees would have for sure turned to jelly right underneath you. It caused a hot flush to go through your body and your previously broken heart to glue itself back together and swell in your chest.

You could see it in his eyes that he was still stressed and tense about everything that had just gone down and that he was scared of what was to come, but you knew that he had finally made up his mind about what he wanted to make of himself and you knew that he would do anything in his power to keep you and your family safe.

Like he said, you were his treasures, and no one or nothing would ever take that away from him.

[skullhaver]

It's 2021, and I'm watching Buffy for the first time.

The Virgil on my Buffy journey is my long-distance girlfriend, who has loved the show for years. We just finished season 4, and I wanted to write about my favorite episodes so far. I suspect some of my faves are beloved by most fans, but others are weird, personal picks. Buffy fandom, please don't come for me.

I thought this post would be short but I was wrong.

Hono(u)rable Mentions: "Band Candy" S3E6 and "Halloween" S2E6

Both these episodes have fun premises where the Scoobies run around Sunnydale after it was upended by zany, chaotic dark forces. "Band Candy" is fun for devil-may-care teen Giles. "Halloween" is fun for 18th-century-ditz Buffy. These are both very good, and are the sorts of episode I can imagine happily rewatching in the future. I just have more to pontificate upon for the other episodes on this list.

10. "Ted" S2E11

I can’t say I enjoyed this episode, but it did take me for a wild ride. Probably nobody else has strong feelings about this weird story where Buffy's mom dates a stereotypical cheesy family man, who turns out to be a controlling abuser, who turns out to be a robot. I remember shouting at the screen, "Did Buffy just kill a human man?? Is it okay in the moral logic of this show for Buffy to kill a human if he's a direct physical threat to her??" I knew Buffy would have deeper stories than the monster of the week formula we'd seen so far, but this early in season 2, I had no idea when or how that would happen. This was the episode that finally taught me that Buffy is largely not interested in moral ambiguity, or in exploring what it means to be good or bad. Except for season-defining exceptions like Faith and Angel, evil characters are simplistically, essentially evil. But it was wild to believe for a moment that Buffy murdered her mom's abusive boyfriend and would have to live with the consequences.

9. "Helpless" S3E12

When Buffy tries to be genuinely scary, it succeeds with aplomb. The premise of this episode is dumb and contrived ("Giles has to remove Buffy's powers without her knowledge for a seeeecret test by the Watcher's Council") but the chase and fight in this episode are some of the most tense and spooky scenes of the whole series so far. Buffy's vulnerability makes the stakes feel real in a way few other episodes manage. And Buffy's victory is all the more satisfying because she can't punch her way out of this problem, she has to be smart and creative. The fridge horror, of course, is that Giles would endanger her like this in the first place, but that gets sorted out over the emotional arc of the next few episodes.

8. "I Only Have Eyes For You." S2E19

Another spooky episode, this one a classic ghost story of forbidden love ending in murder - but with the twist that the ghosts possess people's bodies to have them reenact their final moments. I love stories about breaking a doomed-to-repeat cycle. I love weird shit like the snakes manifesting in the cafeteria. And I really loved the choice to have Buffy and Angel come to understand their feelings about their own relationship by embodying these ghosts - especially how they embodied different genders than their own to better fit the "roles" of the haunting story, thus subverting the expected pattern. I found this episode clever, poignant, and effective.

7. "Who Are You?" S4E16

"Faith and Buffy switch bodies" is a wild premise, but the real joy of "Who Are You?" is watching Sarah Michelle Geller being an extremely talented actress for 45 minutes, portraying a totally different character. Watching Faith confronted by kindness and love from Buffy's mom, Riley, and her friends, then getting launched into an existential crisis over it is so great. Also, I just dig a good church fight.

6. "Hush" S4E10

As stated above, love an episode that reminds me that these people are talented actors! Featuring demons that render all of Sunnydale unable to talk, we get to watch great physical comedy right next to tense, silent fight scenes. The visual creepiness of the Gentleman and their straight-jacketed weird little helpers is hard to beat. "Hush" is such a clever episode that it ascends monster of the week status to become almost Twilight Zone-esque. Also, for the first time, Buffy sees Riley doing his Initiative thing, and Riley sees Buffy being the Slayer, but they can't talk about it?? That's good shit.

5. "The Wish" S3E9

Both "Something Blue" and "The Wish" feel like the writers decided to use fanfic premises on their own show... so obviously I like them a lot. But getting to watch a dark timeline AU with interesting world-building and attention to detail, a hilarious and horrifying Cordelia POV, AND a smirking kinky vampire Willow? Hello?? And the fact that the Wishverse comes up again in "Doppelgänger" (another truly fun episode) only improves my opinion. I imagine this is the kind of episode fans simply love coming back to.

4. "Restless" S4E22

This David Lynch-ass dream sequence was a weird choice for a season finale, but an extremely ambitious and cool episode. I should say up front that I love David Lynch-ass dream shit. There were creative and well-executed scene transitions as characters moved seamlessly from one dream room into another. Several memorably neat shots - Willow running between endless curtains as she tries to get onstage, Buffy alone in a vast desert with a weirdly high camera angle. And I got myself all excited thinking that the First Slayer would maybe become a different kind of antagonist - maybe not even fully revealed in this episode, or maybe an Id-like aspect of Buffy herself. But I forgot Whedon gonna Whedon, so the First Slayer had to be someone Buffy could punch in the end. And the First Slayer is sadly yet another primitive-themed, emotionally-stunted character of color for this show. Most of her lines in this episode are literally voiced by a white woman speaking for her, and of all the dumb quips to make, Buffy had a line about her hair being unprofessional? Also, I'm a lesbian, so the fact that the most explicit act of intimacy between Willow and Tara this show has allowed us to see occurs in Xander's horny dream sequence... it’s unforgivable, Joss. This episode was one of my favorites ever, deeply marred by some bad writing choices.

3. "Lovers Walk" S3E8

Spike, perhaps the best non-Willow character in this show, is back in Sunnydale, a hilariously heartbroken mess of a man, hell-bent on getting his former girlfriend Drusilla back. (Drusilla left him for a fungus demon.) So Spike breaks into a magic shop to get ingredients for a love spell, where he runs into Willow, who is getting ingredients for a de-lusting spell, because she is worried she and Xander will be too thirsty to behave appropriately in public with their actual partners, Oz and Cordelia. This is a hilarious moment just to exist. This is all the episode needed to do to satisfy me. But the fact that Spike then kidnaps Willow, and it ends with tragic stakes of everyone's relationships coming apart, not to mention me genuinely thinking Cordelia was dead for a minute there - wow. Chef’s kiss. The episode is balanced shockingly well between Spike being an ominous villain, and being the sort of lovable semi-evil (more gremlin-like) side character he'll become in season 4. What a wild ride.

2. "Graduation Day" S3E21-22

I'm counting this two part season finale as one because it's my list and I'll do what I want. "Graduation Day" feels like a quintessential Buffy episode executed to perfection. It has Buffy reaffirming her position as a moral heroine, sacrificing her own blood to save Angel's life even when she thought she had to kill Faith to save him. It has Buffy and Faith (or Buffy/Faith, as I prefer to think of them) getting to square off in a dramatic, tough fight. It has a lot of Mayor Wilkins, a character I truly adore for some reason. Nothing like a public administrator who plays mini golf in his office, wants you to chew with your mouth closed, and will kill a graduating class of high schoolers to gain immortality. The catharsis of the whole school getting to fight back against evil, instead of just Buffy against the world - a real joy. This episode misses the top spot for two reasons. "A special vampire poison and the only cure is the blood of a Slayer" is too contrived for me to let slide, and also I had to see Cordelia and Wesley kiss.

1. "Becoming" S2E21-22

Buffy’s season finales really do have good stories and satisfying payoff. First off, Buffy starts this episode by punching a cop and fleeing from the law. Later, Spike also punches a cop. A.k.a., Buffy said blue lives don't matter. Second - I haven't gotten a chance to comment on this yet, but all throughout season 2, evil Angel is such a joy to watch. As regular Angel, David Boreanaz makes exactly one face ("I am a kicked, angsty puppy") and bless his heart, it gets so tiresome. As evil Angel, he is so expressive, dynamic and terrifyingly creative in his badness. And I love his weird threesome energy with Spike and Drusilla. But also, it's so hard to watch Buffy suffer as she deals with her evil boyfriend doing evil things. Her ultimate choice in this episode, to kill Angel even as Willow's spell restores his soul, gave me some real big feels! Also, this episode marks the first moment of Willow doing big, plot-shifting magic on her own, solidifying her transformation from computer nerd to witch! 

Also, shout-out to the many good smaller moments in this episode: Spike making awkward small talk with Buffy's mom, Buffy constantly dunking on Principle Snyder, and Giles being tortured by visions of Miss Calendar (RIP Miss Calendar, I was your biggest fan.)

"Becoming" is an excellent season finale and the kind of Buffy episode I imagine I will want to re-watch in the future just for nostalgia's sake.

[triforceangel13]

The Werewolf’s Mate Ch. 1 (A BakuDeku Werewolf Au)

Chapter 1: Spooky Season

When you hear the typical stories of vampires and werewolves, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Dracula, the wolf man. Creatures of the night that people would deem just terrifying monsters, nothing more, nothing less.

Sadly these creatures are never given a second chance. They are deemed evil and banished into the darkness from where they had come from. Sure there are those that are what people believe them to be. Ones that do not care for humanity and simply only exist to take.

There are humans like that as well however.

But what if there were ones out there that only wanted to exist among everyone else? That one small difference had them hiding who they truly were just to have a “normal” life among everyone else in the world.

This is a story of one wolf who fell for the boy next door but because of the stigma of those who are even a bit different, he keeps his deepest darkest secret from emerging as well as his feelings for the one he was meant to be with.

That is until one fateful Halloween night.

*

The smell of wet leaves drifted in the air, the slight chill running through everyone and causing them to shiver. The fall season was one loved , and sometimes hated among many. It all just depended on who you asked.

Izuku Midoriya, a college student who always had his faced buried in his notebook, scribbled down little things into the margins of his notes that he had just taken in class as he walked down the sidewalk, unaware of his surroundings. He always tended to go over his notes after class to add a more of a personal touch to remember information so it would stick better.

He mumbled to himself as he walked, not paying attention to where he was going or the fact that there was someone snickering in the tree that he was passing.

“Boo!” came a sudden voice in front of him. Izuku's green eyes widened and he let out a scream as he saw Katsuki Bakugou, his best friend and long time crush, hanging upside down from the tree in front of him.

Jumping back and dropping his notebook Izuku frowned up at him.

“Kacchan, don't scare me like that,” Izuku said with a huff, crossing his arms bitterly and turned himself away from the blonde. Not able to help himself Katsuki let out a laugh, jumping down from the tree he had been hanging from.

“What, don't like being scared nerd?” he asked, ruffling his hair hard and playfully shoved him as Izuku started to storm away from him.

“No I don't, you know that,” Izuku said with a grumble. “Especially this time of year. I hate getting scared.”

He had nothing against the holiday, he tended to like the unique costumes that came out this time of year and there were very cute movies that came with the season like Hocus Pocus or Corpse bride to name a few.

He just hated that it was an excuse used by many, espcially Katsuki, to scare the wits out of him. He hated getting scared.

“Aw come on you damn nerd,” Katsuki said with a roll of his eyes, catching up to him in a few short strides of his long legs and dangled his precious notebook in his face. “I didn't scare you that bad now did I?” Izuku blinked green eyes up at him with a small pout. The blonde flushed a bit and turned his head away.

Damn that was too cute for words.

“Alright, I guess I had.”

The notebook was quickly snatched from his hand and Izuku giggled a bit as he stuck out his tongue out at him.

“Well yes you did. You know how much I hate getting scared,” he scolded his friend, falling into step with him this time as they walked away from the main campus.

“Such a scaredy cat,” Katsuki scoffed playfully. “What are you going to do on the actual holiday? Werent you invited to round face's halloween party?”

“Well yes, we both were though,” Izuku said. He hadn't originally planned on going but after much much whining from Uruaka, Izuku said he would go. “But you said you would be going too. You can protect me.”

Katsuki paused a bit. “I um...yeah, sure I'll be there.”

Izuku stopped at his car. He held his breath as he looked at Katsuki. He was just so perfect, so gogreous. He had never seen someone as handsome as him before, or he had but he immedately compared them to Katsuki and they paled in camparisson.

They had been friends since they were kids and Izuku had watched Katsuki grow from an awkward little kid to a handsome young man.

And he had a crush on him ever since they were little. There was just something about him that drew Izuku to him.

Piercing red eyes, blonde hair which was always tucked under a hat. Now hat he thoguht on it, he was sure he had never seen his friend without one or without his usual slightly baggy jeans he tended to wear all the time.

The only weird thing that occurred was Katsuki always disappeared on the full moon. He always assumed it was because he was super stituous so he always let it roll off his back. Everyone had their weird problems, that one just happened to be Katsuki's.

“When is that again?” Katsuki asked him then. “Is it soon?”

“Tommorow night remember? Tommorow is Halloween.”

Katsuki hestitaed a moment and then shrugged a bit. “Sure why not. What are you going to go as? A bunny again?”

Izuku rolled his eyes. “Actually I was making a costume this year. You'll just have to see what it is when you pick me up for the party.”

“We'll see about that short stuff,” Katsuki said with a small smirk. Izuku rolled his eyes and laughed softly, heading further towards his car to head home.

With his back turned Katsuki smiled softly, loving eyes looking at the green haired boy walking away from him. Ever since he was but a little pup he had wanted nothing more than to tell Izuku all of his secrets and to choose him as his mate.

But all those rules of not sharing the secret no matter what unless you followed through with the consequences always tended to hold him back.

Maybe one day he would tell Izuku how he felt. But what if that one day was this party that they were going to?

As he watched Izuku drive off in his car Katsuki gave a short wave. Maybe now was the time to do it. Izuku was smart. Why couldn't he be a part of his world?

Going to the party together was sort of like a date too wasn't it? Perhaps that was why Izuku was hoping he really would be there.

As Katsuki arrived home however his happiness was dashed. Every month in bright red ink he would circle the day that would be a full moon.

The day that he would be changing into the beast he really was. And as his luck would have it, the full moon was the next night. He wouldn't be able to go to the party like he wanted. He wouldn't be able to go on the date like he had promised in a way.

With a heavy sigh he pressed his hand to his forehead. He didn't want to disappoint Izuku but he couldn't go out the next night no matter how much he wanted to.

This would break Izuku's heart even if it was just a costume party. He would have to break it to him easy so it didn't hurt too much, but he really wasn't sure how he was going to go about doing such a thing. He'd was bound to ask why.

Another sigh passed his lips and he pulled the hat from his head, blonde fuzzy ears springing up from his head, he then pulled out the tail from his baggy pants, shaking it out to get the stiffness out from being tucked in the back of his pants all day.

“One day Izuku,” he said with a sigh. “Just not tommorow. That is the worst day for you to find out the truth about me.”

*

Izuku sighed a bit as he stood in Uruaka's home dressed in his patch work ghost costume. Music thumped around him, other costume clad friends of his mingling with one another. He tried to have fun, putting on a smile but deep down everyone could see was he was upset. In truth he really was despite all the fun around him.

Katsuki had said he was running late and he would meet him at the party.

But so far he had yet to show up.

“Hey Izuku!” came Uruaka's voice as she found him. She was dressed as a witch, the costume working perfectly for her. “Why the long face?”

“Kaccha's hasn't shown up yet,” Izuku sighed. “I wanted to show him my costume.  I worked so hard on it this year...”

As his words died off Uruaka nodded her head a bit. It was obvious that this wasn't just about the costume. It wasn't hard to see that Izuku had a crush on the blonde. Everyone was able to see that...except for Izuku and Katsuki themselves for some reason. The two of them were so out of tune that it was laughable. Just one day someone should just jump in front of them and confess for them so they could ease the pining.

Despite that Izuku was a little proud of his costume it was clear that it was hand made. He had wanted to impress Katsuki but instead he had messed up several times and even used different fabric to hide some mistakes he had made in his sewing process. While at the time of making it he thought it was endearing and fun but now it was just obvious of what he was trying to hide underneath the colors pieces.

Maybe he should have just worn the store bought one instead that he had seen in the shop the week prior.

“Well here,” Uruaka said, taking Izuku's phone and snapped a picture of him. “Now we have a picture in case he doesn't show up.”

Izuku pouted a bit at that but nodded his head. Katsuki had never lied to him about something like this before. He expected him to be there. But he was late. He hadn't even sent him a text aside from the one earlier.

A quick glance at his phone showed he was very late. As in the party was almost over and Izuku would be heading home soon.

“Maybe I should just go home. I don't think he's coming,” Izuku said. Uraka grabbed his hand and pulled him to sit down on the couch next to her.

“Give him another call?” she asked. Izuku sighed but nodded, pressing his number in again and held the phone to his ear. Instead of ringing this time the phone went right to voice mail. Hanging up Izuku frowned at the phone.

“His phone's off,” he said. “Why would he do that...?”

Uruaka rubbed his back. “I'm so sorry Izuku. I know how much this meant to you. Maybe it's that full moon thing? You said he's always skittish on a full moon.”

Izuku paused. “It's a full moon tonight?”

“Yeah. It's why everyone showed up tonight because...well I don't know, extra spookiness?” she said with a shrug. “If I didn't know any better I'd say oh he's turning into a werewolf and that's why he's afraid of the moon.” The two of them laughed a bit but Izuku's was half there. Katsuki was just superstitous. He could have told him that there was a moon that night. He would've understood.

“You should go see him. Maybe keep him company,” she said, nudging him with her shoulder. “Maybe even a litte...more?”

Izuku rolled his eyes at her as he stood up. “Oh please. Kacchan doesn't like me like that. But I will go to his house.”

“Okay, have fun,” she said giving him a smile. “And thank you for coming.”

With a wave Izuku left the party and went to his car, driving away in the direction of Katsuki's house. Maybe he could spend more time with him and watch some movies. Maybe give his mind an ease on the whole moon thing.

But as he got his house he noticed something off. All the lights were out but Katsuki's car was in the driveway.

With a pout on his face he stepped up to the door, knocking on it. After several moments with no answer he tried the door to find it open.

“Kacchan? You home?” Izuku called out into the house, closing the door behind him.

A low deep growl sounded from down the hall sending chills down Izuku's spine.

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The short story of love

This is a mini fanfiction of how me and my girlfriend got together. Almost all the names are changed for privacy purposes but are based on me and my friends. This fan fiction came to be after me and my girlfriend released that we had been acting like some fan fiction characters based on our own fan fiction named Da Fanfiction. I hope you all enjoy :)

@justnerdystuffs I hope you enjoy bc this is for you like my entire heart is yours❤️❤️❤️

Sorry for any spelling mistakes that may occur, but sadly I am a Norweegan that is not totally fluent in English as well as having a keyboard that is willing to ruin the day for me at any given moment.

Sonja had just started her new school year, and she could not say she was a happy camper. But not bothering to care right now she traced down the hallway to her favorite spot in the entire school. Entering she could already see that Anne and Stina was there, and Sonja choose to promptly sit down and wait for the rest of their friends.

Inca was the last to enter, not that this surprised Sonja as the girl had a tendency to talk to everybody she knows, but that was just a part of her charm Sonja supposed. But today something new happened. Inca had brought another person. Sonja looked at the other girl;

She had blond hair, that was so different from Sonjas dark brown hair. And while the both of them had blue eyes, they where still so different compared to Sonjas dark blue eyes, the new girls eyes looked almost like the sky. She was also taller than Sonja something Sonja was not so pleased about, how come she was doomed to be the small one??? The new girl was also paler, now that did not surprise Sonja as she knew her tan was something that made people think she was from another country. Sonja observed the girl for a few more seconds and had to admit that the girl was simply stunning, but Sonja already knew she was waaaay out of her league.

Finally focusing back at her friend she was able to catch the newcomers name, Emma, Emma was her name.

Sonja got a small smirk on her face and scooted over to where Emma was sitting on the couch;

«Well Hello there Emma, my name is Sonja and I have a question for you…. Are you willing to join this madhouse?»

Emma looked around in the room Inca had dragged her into, the room was filled a few other girls. Emma looked at Inca, she had only know the other girl for 2 days, but as she was a person from same place as her it was like that had know each other for a while.

In the room there was 3 other girls, and all of them looked as her as they entered. After being introduced by Inca she sat down on one of the two couches, as she sat dow the «leader/mom friend» scooted over to her from the floor.

Emma looked at her as she introduced herself and was then dragged down in a downwards spiral of looking at Sonjas drawings. But they all seemed nice enough, so Emma was not about run and hide.

It was a few days later, and somehow Sonja had ended up taking the bus with Emma to school, oh Sonja knew what her parents would do if they found out, but then again Sonja was not about to let them find out anyway.

Now Sonja was already getting to know Emma and had to be honest with herself. She thought that Emma was awesome. The other girl was just as fluent in sarcasm as herself and their humor seemed to blend well. And their mutual love for fan fictions was fitting as well.

They seemed to have started something of a norm as well, everyday one of them messaged the other to take the bus together, it was nice in Sonjas opinion. But to herself Sonja had to be honest, she could feel herself being more attracted to Emma than what she first thought, but she knew she would be fine as long as it did not escalate.

Oh boi how wrong she was about to be…….

It was a few weeks later and they were now nearing spooky seasons, and Sonja wanted to be swallowed hole by the ground. God dammit she hated herself. She had told herself not to fall for Emma, to forget the crush and the sweet messages they sent each other, did she listen? Noooooooooo, hence why Sonja was mentally banging her head in the table since she knew both Inca and Emma would stop her from doing so, at least Anne would let her loose half a dozen brain cells.

Well the good news was that Sonja and Emma had just starting writing a fan fiction together, or that was good for them, not the rest of their poor friends. By this point Anne was getting real tired of their talking, and Sonja could clearly see why, but then again she got so carried away when they first started.

It was a few days later when Sonja had one of the conversations she dreaded more than anything, it wasn’t because of the person. No it was because of the topic, and that happened to be about Crushes, oh how the faiths hated her. But since she was talking to Emma, while walking to school she couldn’t do much about it. Listening to Emma, she had to be honest and say she most likely paid a lot of attention to the other girl, what could she say; she tended to get a tad bit jealous at times. But the uninventable had to come, of course it had. Did she have a crush? Oh yes she had, sadly to the person she was taking to, a person she adored greatly, was she going to tell the truth? Not ecxsactly, nope, Emma had to settle for some half mystic answer for now.

Emma thought that all of the older years was interesting, and she could vibe with any of them. But at the moment that wasn’t her main priority.

No at the moment she was focusing on something else. Emma had just started writing with Sonja, and she wanted to laugh, they were geniuses, and the fan fiction they were writing? Pure fucking gold. The name of their Johnlock fan fitting was amply named Da fan fiction, the name being the curtesy of Sonja. Actually Emma had to admit that she was having a lot of fun with it, sadly for Anne at this point, the poor girl properly wanted to kill them both by this point.

On another note, Sonja was acting kind of weird, nothing new but non the less weird. The girl was simply refusing to tell her who her crush are, suspicious was it not? But then again it was her life. But then the world called back to her and her thoughts had to rest for now.

But Sonja had to be honest, she knew herself well enough that by one point she would just straight up end up with kissing Emma if this escalated any further, so the next best option was to tell some close friend and get help in how to tell Emma. Sonja might not be the brightest person, but she was bright enough to know she needed help. But as always Sonja ran into another problem, she was simply a bit to proud to ask for help from friends, dammed her Slytherin traits, the next best option would be the hell-spawn for an app, Tumblr.

Guess she was going there for help then, well at least it was better than admitting her defeat at the moment, Sonja believed that not even she would be able to survive the teasing between Inca and Anne, and once again she wanted to curse her own little black heart. Ofcourse she had to fall for another girl, a girl that most likely only thought of her as a friend. Sonja was simply put: Fucked.

After going to the hell-site asking for help, Sonja wanted to jump through the window, Emma be dammed, she had asked if could help, Sonja had to admit she was flattered, but unless Emma was willing to be her girlfriend, then there wasn’t a lot to do. Well at least she had gotten tips from others as well, from this day one it seemed like Emma was going to get a lot of compliments from her.

As all these thought swirled around in her head, another thought struck Sonja, what will their friends say, Sonja did not think they would have anything against it, but she had a sneaking suspicion that one or more of them knew. But at this point Sonja did not have time to dwell on it, she had a person to woo.

Emma noticed how Sonja had started to give her more compliments, nothing wrong with that. But Emma was confused. Was she flirting? Emma could not be certain as Sonja had a tendency to do what she would call platonic flirting, as in Sonja flirted with all their friends in some way or another. So yes Emma could not be certain

It had gone another few weeks and Sonja was about to rip her hair out, god dammit, she knew she had fallen more and more for Emma, seeing the girl in the library the other day and feeling her breath catch was enough clue of that. But damn that girl was dense, it was like she wasn’t noticing the fact that Sonja was trying very hard to flirt with her without using sarcasm, well desperate times called for desperate measures did it not?

Seemed like she was going to need to tell someone. Seeing that she needed help made Sonja frown a little. Knowing that she would never live it down if she was to tell Anne she chose the safer option with telling Inca and Stina, it seemed to help however at Inca was able to calm some of her fears, and Stina offered to help her.

On that noe She was flattered though, it was nice to be complimented by the other girl, it was sweet even. But Emma thought at it as platonic because why would Sonja ever feel that way.

It had gone another few weeks and Sonja was about to rip her hair out, god dammit, she knew she had fallen more and more for Emma, seeing the girl in the library the other day and feeling her breath catch was enough clue of that. But damn that girl was dense, it was like she wasn’t noticing the fact that Sonja was trying very hard to flirt with her without using sarcasm, well desperate times called for desperate measures did it not?

Seemed like she was going to need to tell someone. Seeing that she needed help made Sonja frown a little. Knowing that she would never live it down if she was to tell Anne she chose the safer option with telling Inca and Stina, it seemed to help however at Inca was able to calm some of her fears, and Stina offered to help her.

It went a few more days before Sonja was desperate enough to ask for more help by Stina, lucky for Sonja was Stina willing to help, the bad news was that she gave her helping hand when all their friends present, and that was including Emma, Sonja now had desperate wish to disappear from the face of the earth. Oh well, she could do that if her planned failed. Sonja looked at the mini envelope as well as card, looks like she was about to draw and write in mini his time.

After dreadfully writing even though she had class Sonja was now done, so she went on the hell-site to broadcast it, that was the good news, the bad news was that Sonja did this on a Friday, and Emma would not see it before Monday… Let the waiting game where you almost kill yourself begin.

They where just eating in their spot, now known as the «living room», Emma smiled at that. Today Stina chose to grade them with her presence and was quick to give Sonja something before sitting down to eat, how odd, but Emma was not about to ask.

A few hours later Emma was just scrolling through Tumblr when she noticed that Sonja had posted again. The teen had posted a lot about her crush lately, but didn’t want Emmas help, even if Emma asked her. But the new post however was interesting, she had apparently done something she might regret. And by that she meant putting a note in her crushes locker.

Emma kind of hoped it were her, it would be nice if it was, but she would see that in a few days then wouldn’t she?

It was Monday and Sonja was about to break down in nervous laughter. Og well, sitting with Emma, Sonja was desperately trying to find an excuse as of why she needed to go to her classroom right away instead of being with Emma in the library. Sonja knew it wasn’t a good one, but it served its purpose. It was now or never anyway.

Sonja was sitting in her classroom and damn she was on the verge to break down, and she was not even able to compose herself! But to be honest she was dreading it, Emma had not written back or sent a message and by this point was freaking out, had she done something wrong? It sure felt like it. Taking a decision the message Emma asking if she did something wrong…. Who were she kidding, no, she was spamming Emmas phone while apologizing because Sonja felt awful, had she ruined what they had? Sonja did not know.

But then it happened, Emma wandered one of her maaaany messages, and to Sonjas relic she wasn’t mad, well that was good, but Sonja could feel it on herself that Emma seemed a bit unsure or something, Well guess she had to charm the girl to her side then, it should be plausible, Sonja started plotting.

Emma watched as Sonja disappeared after coming in the door to school, she had to say that Sonja was good with excuses, like damn doing some history tasks? Emma could see right through that one, why wouldn’t she? She had known Sonja long enough to know she only did work right before it needed to be delivered, so her excuse was a blatant lie. Ha! It was laughable even!

Going down to the locker Emma had to say she hoped that she was the one to find the note in her locker. Oh she had read Sonjas posts on Tumblr, why wouldn’t she? And that was why at the moment she hoped that it was for her…. Though Emma had to be honest and say that if she did find it she would not know what to say, or do for that matter.

Her hart was beating hard as she opened the locker, and as she hoped there was a small envelope laying there innocently. Getting the thing she needed she took it and read it, she had to admit she was flattered, if she was blushing she did not know. But Emma decided it was best to give Sonja some space, never knew what could be going on.

Since Sonja was currently in her classroom, that dammed female, Emma was sitting with Inca, and while doing so she got this feeling that Inca knew. Honestly Emma wasn’t that supprised, looking at her phone she got to class. It was during lessons she could her messages getting spammed, and looking at it she saw it was Sonja, The other girl was feeling feeling guilty, that was clear as day. Now Emma could not have this now could she, so messaging her that she had not done anything wrong and making sure that Sonja could see that and that her other crushes did not matter she sat back in her chair, Emma was not sure what was going to happen next, but she still had a good feeling, even though this was somewhat of a new territory for her.

Emma let a small smile grace her lips, well how couldn’t she? Making sure the envelope side with the drawing display proudly she continued with her day.

It was later when she once again got spammed with messages from Sonja, apparently her parents chose to be asses, not that that surprised her, Sonjas parents soundly needed a reality check, well that was not her problem. Other than that they wrote to each other and Emma had to be honest, her head was a mess of feelings, Dammit why did Sonja make feel things…. It was not fair. But she was happy, she just hoped that they would be together,

Sonja had used all of yesterday trying to charm Emma, and she could feel her heart pound as they walked down from school together, Why one might wonder, well because Sonja really, really liked the other girl, and wanted to be together with her, so what had she done? She had written in her black deathly hallows book. It was Sonjas feelings for Emma written down of sorts, and she felt herself shaking thinking about it, she just hoped that for once that the faiths would be in her favor…

Emma had to be honest, she had been a little charmed by Sonja yesterday, oh well she had to give it to the young woman she tried. School went as normal enough, but Sonja continued to send sweet and caring messages trough the day.

When they finally met up to go down to the bus together Emma could feel herself blushing, but thankfully they were only speaking of Da fan fiction, it was first when they came down something interesting happened. Sonja had written something in the little black book of her, And Emma felt flattered, Sonja only let a few read what she wrote so she felt somewhat special. Then it happened, the thing that made her chest feel way to small to her heart. Sonja wanted them to be together, and Emma could only do one thing. That was agreeing. The rush of adrenalin was drugging, and the happiness she felt was immense, well guess her friends were right, she now had a girlfriend.

Thinking of friend she could only imagine hoe her and Sonjas friends would react, but Emma had a feeling it would go well.

Sonja spoke up when she saw that Emma was don reading, she was nervous, but damn she had to get her shit together. So she had to know, did Emma want to be together with her, the sarcastic person with dark humor, the person that was so different from her?

And as Sonja asked if Emma was sure she felt relief washing over her, she had a girlfriend! And Sonja knew this was important, it was a new chapter of her life after all

Thats it folks, this is the fan fiction of me and my gf got together. I hope you all liked it. I wrote this because its her birthday today, so go over to her big and wish her a happy birthday. And for my message for you my beloved <3

My beloved, the light to my dark, the stars to my sky. I love you. I love you today, tomorrow, in a week, in a year and all the years to come. Thank you for being mine, and I hope you know I love you so much. I hope you get a Wonderfull day. And I hope you know I had to read all those older messages, and I can’t believe it has been over 3 months now.

Happy birthday beloved, must all your wishes come true <3

[nejisrightkneecap]

KIRIBAKU FIC RECS

 HAVE READ WAY TOO MANY KIRIBAKU FICS AS OF RECENTLY SO HERES A RECOMMENDATION LIST:

- the laundry room ; dellsey //https://archiveofourown.org/works/11567502 It’s a really cute quick fic about special moments Kirishima and Bakugou are able to share while they wait for their laundry to finishes :) - The Beauty of a Beast ; starofjems // https://archiveofourown.org/works/6563575/chapters/15017230 A Beauty and the Beast AU!!! It’s a longer fic, but 100% worth the read. The author is SO good at portraying the characters personalities.

- Heart Strings ; starofjems //https://archiveofourown.org/works/8232415 This one is also by starofjems!! Although it is a lot shorter, it is still AMAZING. Bakugou is able to see a red string that connects soul mates together and eventually Kirishima stumbles by. - Spooky times & cuddles ; Jartz // https://archiveofourown.org/works/8423458 A VERY cute short fic about Kirishima going over to Bakugou’s house for halloween! It’s good to read any season though. - Who’s Next? ; MyBlackCrimsonRose// https://archiveofourown.org/works/7872574/chapters/17979370 Bakugou gets hella hurt during a fight and Kirishima is a BADASS in getting revenge. This one is also a quick read and I highly suggest it!! - the easy parts ; chonideno // https://archiveofourown.org/works/12794481

Kirishima gets hurt and is informed that there will be a lot of scarring. It’s follows him through his struggle of insecurity regarding the scars and his acceptance. - it’s pouring out here ; shizuumi151 // https://archiveofourown.org/works/11431818 Kirishima is on a basketball team with Bakugou and he is the team captain. Kirishima has a crush on him and they have a little run in after getting caught in the rain. - 2am Knows All Secrets ; Unbreakable_red_riot // https://archiveofourown.org/works/8738770/chapters/20035240 OH MY GOSH THIS FIC!! I really love the concept of Bakugou having nightmares about Kamino and the author does an amazing job at showing his difficulties with them. Kirishima keeps waking up to loud noises from Bakugou’s room and goes to scope it out; resulting in a few sleepovers... -  Shitty Hair and Shitty Nightmares honest_pebble //https://archiveofourown.org/works/17745419 (I have so many nightmare fics oops!) Bakugou is struggling with nightmares and Kirishima is a good friend and helps while Bakugou figures himself and his feelings out.

- a heart swelled to bursting ; eggstasy // https://archiveofourown.org/works/7350946/chapters/16697356 This fic literally stole my heart and has to be one of my favorites. It’s the next summer and they are back at the training camps, but Bakugou has been repressing some worries. It’s a very Bakugou centric story, following him dealing with PTSD with help from other characters. - Let Me Save You ; lovelylittlefruit // https://archiveofourown.org/works/18016766 A short story showing the after effects of a battle where Kirishima saved Bakugou. This is more angst/conflict than fluff but I do still recommend it!! - safe & sound ; Authoress // https://archiveofourown.org/works/6835363 This one made my heart SO happy and soft jeez ahaha. Bakugou has to be kept in a safe house after Kamino because of more threats and Kirishima is his comfort buddy. - not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all ; theroyalsavage // https://archiveofourown.org/works/7612939 AAAA!!! It’s a “10 Things I Hate About You” AU and its REALLY good even if you haven’t seen the movie. Very sweet and the character personalities are done really well. - heart stains on the carpet ; cityboys //https://archiveofourown.org/works/7085671/chapters/16104262 THIS STOLE ALL MY UWU’S AND MORE! Kirishima is Bakugou’s live in body guard who got a little closer to him than he had planned. Very cute and has some of the best dialogue I’ve read in a fic. Definitely goes with my favorites. - how they got detention for a week ; eggstasy //https://archiveofourown.org/works/6961186 Kirishima is determined to go out with Bakugou no matter how intimidating that may seem. Kaminari tries to stop him but it’s no use. I really enjoyed reading this and I loved how the authors incorporated the Bakuquad!! - How To Make Bakugou Katsuki a Decent Human Being ; keptein // https://archiveofourown.org/works/6693406 Kirishima is set on making Bakugou a nicer guy no matter what it takes. (Even if that means pulling a Pavlov on him) but along the way he catches feelings. - ten things i learnt about you ; tamacchannn // https://archiveofourown.org/works/11532900 A very soft fic about Bakugou realizing things that he likes about Kirishima. Made me gush quite a few times. - don’t count on me to tell you when ; newamsterdam // https://archiveofourown.org/works/10948695 GOD I LOVE THIS ONE TOO. It’s set in the future when they are pro-heros. Kirishima come back to see Bakugou and confess his feelings, but they end up just being friends with benefits for awhile. Very well written - do right by you ; kyoutimes // https://archiveofourown.org/users/kyoufushi81/pseuds/kyoutimes Kirishima and Bakugou are working together and Kirishima has a crisis about his sexuality. (There’s more to it than that but I don’t wanna spoil it :P) I loved the emotion in this AAAA - yes, you say you’d like to ; Authoress // https://archiveofourown.org/works/10660773 Kirishima invites a few friends to the beach, which eventually lead to THE WHOLE CLASS joining. He didn’t want to invite Bakugou, strictly because he didn’t want to get turned on at at the beach. - Kiss your knuckles before you punch me ; Claus_Lucas // https://archiveofourown.org/works/11574039/chapters/26006592 Bakugou saves Kirishima who is a boxer by lighting some of his own fireworks. I don’t know how much I can give away without spoiling it, but this is on my top three. While proud of Kirishima, Bakugou needs to remind him of his limits regarding his boxing career. - what he thinks he knows ; lovelylittlefruit // https://archiveofourown.org/works/18060950/chapters/42685514

Mainly Bakugou sided? It follows Bakugou as he realizes that there more to the assumptions he makes about his crush, Kirishima. It’s unfinished but I’m excited to see the rest soon!! - good to you ; Authoress // https://archiveofourown.org/works/6904558 Takes place directly after Kamino. The two boys refuse to stop holding hands which leads to other conclusions. I love this sm, I had very soft moments and there’s a cute little twist that I LOVED at the end. - An obvious patch ; SweetScentences // https://archiveofourown.org/works/11061918 Shinsou steals Bakugou’s eggs and Kirishima gets stabbed all the while. JK, there’s more to it than that,,, this is one of those fics I feel like it’s best enjoyed if you go in blind. I enjoyed every minute of this fic, laughed and teared up. - But for now, I’m with you; eikoexe // https://archiveofourown.org/works/8135834/chapters/18649226 A really goofy and cute texting fic!! Kirishima accidentally texts Bakugou thinking it’s Kaminari demanding a Dorito stealing confession. It’s still being written but I do love it very much so far. Read if you need a laugh!! (Sadly, it’s been over a year since the last update so I’m not expecting it to continue soon :()

-neon season; chonideno // https://archiveofourown.org/works/14716277

I really love this author jeez. It’s a road trip fic and these boys are very frustrated with their feelings toward each other (Mainly Bakugou lolololol) The way emotions are written is amazing and I fell in love with how they portrayed Kirishima and Bakugou.

-the color red; ayadormouse // https://archiveofourown.org/works/7156871/chapters/16249418

G o d . . . This is like a coffee shop/college AU and it holds a lot of family angst for Bakugou. Bakugou is an artist and Kirishima is persistent in getting know the angry guy that doesn’t know how to order coffee. Heroes and quirks are more of an old myth/history type thing, but there still are mentions of it.

-downhill; eggstasy // https://archiveofourown.org/works/10551482

Kirishima is a mom friend and loves learning small facts about his friends while in the dorms. This has almost every class 1-A character in it which I love because not a lot of authors write about some of the mpre minor roles. They play truth or dare and it gets out of hand.

-Of course I was worried; Ellieb3an // https://archiveofourown.org/works/11778534

Kirishima gets hurt after his big fight in the manga (so there are spoilers) but he gets confused when Bakugou doesn’t visit him in the hospital and avoids him when he returns to the dorms. Bakugou is just a secret softy who was worried about his mans. I love seeing the softish side of Bakugou aaaa.

-The Wild Side; Mishelledor23 // https://archiveofourown.org/works/17973662/chapters/42453836\

Kirishima and Bakugou are married and in Kirishima’s mind, everything is going great. Until, he wakes up one morning to see a letter and Bakugou’s wedding ring. My heart breaks for Kirishima in this one, and I’m so curious as to why Bakugou left. (It’s on going!) Kaminari and Mina are also present and go help Kiri with a mission.

-Roses are red and they taste like shit; Unbreakable_Red_Riot // https://archiveofourown.org/works/11747658/chapters/26475072

A Bakugou hanahaki disease fic, this is also high on my favorites list. I couldn’t put it down for the life of me. Mutual pining eventually, but it focuses in mainly on Bakugou and his families way of dealing with the disease.

-little are the things we learn; newamsterdam //  https://archiveofourown.org/works/11400303

The two boys never outright tell their class they are dating, but 5 of them figure it out and each one of them is stunned by their relationship. Perfect mix of angst and fluff, told from different characters perspectives as they see and analyze the two.

- Detonate; theroyalsvage // https://archiveofourown.org/works/6933307

Bakugou is acting weird and a little insecure almost at a party he was invited to. Kirishima finds him on the roof and tries to figure the explosive boy out.

-Trash Goblin Finds Love; wrunic // https://archiveofourown.org/works/17888012

Another coffee shop AU with a scientist Bakugou. This one made me giggle and the writing is so in character. I love how it ends and Kirishima is a big cutie in this one.

-Radio Silence; doop_doop // https://archiveofourown.org/works/16186643/chapters/37824590

After getting hit with a coma quirk, Kirishima is bedridden and can’t move. Although his body is asleep, he can hear everything that is going on. So naturally, his friends visit him as much as possible to keep the guy entertained. But Bakugou realizes there’s something more to his feelings for Kirishima. (this shit is so cute, Bakugou reads to him)

-one to ten; crunchrapsupreme //https://archiveofourown.org/works/11770692

Kirishima wants to ask Bakugou out, but Kaminari demands that he becomes friends with him first. So Kirishima sets out to become a ‘Level 10’ friend to Bakugou. (This one is also very cute, Bakugou is a cat lover and it makes me melt.)

-out of sight, within reach; Poteto //https://archiveofourown.org/works/11750853 

Gahhhh oblivious mutual pining makes me w e a k… Bakugou realizes he loves Kirishima while dragging his drunk body back to his house. Jealousy and miscommunication from both sides until there is an emergency and Bakugou drops his grudge.

That’s about it! Feel free to add more in the comments :)