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Looked through the She-Ra tag and immediately found someone who thought Catra didnât deserve a redemption arc .
I thought we went through this already with Azulaâs poorly handled end.
SHE IS A TEENAGE GIRL.
A TEENAGER.
an ABUSED teenager at that. ABUSED. A lot of people react with extreme anger and withdrawal when they are abused and abandoned over and over again!!!
Also it is a CARTOON. Not everyone is going to be horribly gruesomely punished and ostracized like someone who got canceled on twitter for fuckâs sake! The whole POINT of the show is that friends, family, love and connection are what make us strong.
And itâs reiterated over and over and over again throughout the WHOLE SHOW that the Rebellion are KIND and FORGIVING people. And while yes, Catra may not have been âpunished enoughâ by the people she hurt⊠she also paid so many high prices for what she did. And ultimately sacrificed herself even when she couldâve benefitted from just following along the next big bad.
#I am so frustrated about how people treat Catra in general YES I KNOW SHE SUCKED FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE SERIES#BUT SHE WAS A SCARED AND HURT TEENAGER AND NO THAT DOESNT EXCUSE HER ACTIONS BUT SHE WAS T R Y I N G TO CHANGE#spop#spop spoilers#she ra princess of power#she ra princess of power spoilers#she ra#she ra spoilers#like I get itâs not the best show ever but also this is a hugely openly queer show that fought tooth and nail for a FULL five seasons ok???#nothing will EVER be perfect and if you dedicate your life to trying to force everything to be ââperfectââ you will NEVER be satisfied#or happy#or all around fun to be around.#youâll end up reflecting Calvinist Christianity to its finest;#making yourself and everyone around you miserable for the sake of some bullshit puritanical standards.#AND FURTHERMORE can we NOT make a laughably near satirical mirror of the obvious representation of oppressive Christian regimes?????#like hello did we watch the same show????
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IF YOU EVEN FUCKING CARE
#first RA song i ever listened to my dad showed it to me when i was like 8#shes still literally probably one of the best songs ever and i mean that#like shes everything. Literally everything. Shes got bass and everything#(and the bass is stupid fun too. fun chord progression and rhythm and theres a little fill at the end and the fun backing vocals)
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HBCU CONFESSIONS.
Part Three
Valencia: You ready?
Erik: You wanna come down to my room? Iâm almost finished, I just hopped out of the shower.
Valencia stood in front of a mirror propped up against her side of the dorm room. The idea of going to Erikâs room excited her. Biting down on her bottom lip, Valencia quickly typed a reply.
Valencia: Of course âșïž
She checked out her attire one last time. That yellow dress on her body was sure to have Erikâs attention. At least thatâs what the blog said.
-Erik loves sundresses or anything showing off legs and hugging curves. Bonus points to bold colors that pop against brown skin âșïž
Valencia grabbed her black crossbody bag from her bed and she left her dorm room. She shut the door softly, waiting until a group of students talking closely together walked by. The RA dorm room was at the very end of the hall near the bathrooms. Valencia walked down the hall, keeping a lookout for anyone who would be spying on her. Not that anyone really gave a fuck. Rochelle was messing around with a few male students regularly.
Her footsteps came to a halt in front of his door. Valencia raised a fist and knocked with uncertainty. Valencia withdrew her hand and fiddled with her bag. She rocked back and forth on her heels, clicked her tongue, looked from one end of the hall to the other. The door opened and Erik peeked his head out, smirking at her. She could tell that he was trying to conceal himself. Was heâ
âCome in.â
The door opened enough to let her in. Valenciaâs eyes scanned the room first and then they landed on Erik. She had to close her mouth before she drooled down her chin. If there was a word to collectively describe how delicious he looked at the moment, Valencia would say it. His locs were flesh against his forehead. His skin was glistening and moisturized. He was shirtless with a single gold cross chain hanging between his pecs. His jeans hung low on his hips teasing her.
âIâŠhello.â
Erik chuckles, âLet me grab a T-shirt and we can head out, okay?â
âUh-huhâŠâ
Erik turned to grab a folded white T-shirt from his bed. He didnât take his eyes off of Valencia as he pulled the T-shirt over his head. She peeled her eyes away to look around the room. She had to calm herself down because it was getting heated. Her skin was flushed, body temperature increased, breathing rapid. She noticed a pair of gold boots haphazardly placed in a corner near his closet.
âYou ready?â
Valenciaâs cafe noir eyes fell on Erik. He was fully dressed now, holding a denim jacket in his hand.
âI figured we could go to this bomb ass diner I found about a week ago. Best milkshakes I ever had.â
âIs it Mackyâs Diner?â
âIt is,â Erik smirked at her, âDamnâŠâ
âWhaâwhat?â
âYou. Thatâs what.â
Erik moved closer, literally standing over her to the point where he had to crane his neck. Valenciaâs eyelids fluttered and she looked up at Erik through her lashes. She dropped her eyes to his lips, then his neck.
âThis color on youâŠâ
Valencia blushed, âYou like it?â
âItâs one of my favorites.â Erik gave her a lop-sided grin.
His hand reached down to twirl one of her braids around his finger. Valenciaâs sharp intake of breath didnât go unnoticed to Erik.
âYou got some explaining to do, baby girl.â Erik said with a playful glint in his eyes.
âOh,â Valencia giggles, âThe pictureâŠâ
Erik tilted his head and looked at her.
âThe one with your face down and ass up. Yeah, that picture.â
Valencia was shrinking beneath his gaze. A nervous feeling tickled her belly. She tried to come up with a remark in her head.
âNo need to be all coy about it.â Erik laughs.
âIâI thought you might want to have something to look at whenâŠwhen Iâm not around. So you donât forget about me.â
Her small voice, timid yet sexy eyes, and voluptuous lips had Erik in the strongest chokehold. He had the biggest crush on her in two days time.
âI couldnât forget you even if I tried.â
Erikâs hand reached past Valencia and turned the doorknob. Her beautiful smile at his words warmed his heart. Valencia turned her back towards Erik and he used his hand to hold the door open so she could walk out. She stood back and watched Erik shut and lock his door before they walked down the hall side by side.
The lounge area was surprisingly empty. They took the elevators down and Erik walked ahead to hold the door for Valencia. He shocked her by gripping her dainty hand in his much larger one. She looked from their hands to his face and nibbled on the corner of her bottom lip to fight the urge to smile hard. Holding his hand made he blush uncontrollably.
They finally made it to Erikâs car. He released Valenciaâs hand to open the door for her. She lowered herself into the seat, the smell of mahogany teakwood filling her nose. The leather seats were warm against the back of her legs since his car was within a shaded area. It was clean inside minus a gym bag tossed in the backseat. She secured herself while Erik slipped into the drivers seat. When he turned on his car, the car vibrated from the music Erik was listening to on max. The Scotts by Travis Scott ft. Kid Cudi filled the interior of the all black Hellcat Challenger. Even in low throttle, the supercharge whine was the best automotive sound Valencia ever heard. She felt like she was in a race car.
Erik turned his music down a little, laughing at the expression on Valenciaâs face. One hand whipping, Erik sat his other hand on Valenciaâs thigh. Die Young by Roddy Ricch was next on Erikâs playlist. She loved trap music. Her own playlist would probably shock Erik. He started stroking her thigh and Valencia had to distract herself with fixing her hair in the mirror so she wouldnât shudder.
âWeâre five minutes away.â Erik said.
_________
They walked into the diner hand-in-hand. They came in at the best time. The hostess led them to a booth seat right next to the window. Valencia sat across from Erik and two seconds later, their waiter, a stout, curvy black woman with cropped curls came over to their table.
âHello. What can I get you to drink?â
Erik stroked his soul patch down to his goatee in deep thought.
âIâll do a cookies and cream milkshake. No Cherry with extra Oreo.â
âOkay. And you?â
âCan I have the same please? And a water.â
âIâll have a water as well.â Erik added.
âAlright. Iâll be back with your drinks.â
The waiter sauntered away. Valencia scanned the diner, avoiding Erikâs gaze because he couldnât keep his eyes off of her. She placed a hand over her belly to calm the butterflies. She really needed to relax.
âAre you enjoying the date so far?â Erik questioned, breaking the ice.
Valencia finally looked at him. She gave him a warm smile.
âYes. Iâve never been on a date before soâŠâ
âReally?â
Erik furrowed his brows at her in disbelief.
âMy ex before college never asked me. A guy I was talking to during my sophomore year stood me up. And Isaiahâthat was a mistake. Pretty much no experience in what it would be like until now.â
Valencia shrank in her seat. She started overthinking again. Her inexperience probably turned him off. Once again, she was proven wrong.
âHere are your drinksâŠâ
The waiter who Valencia recognized to be Pam from her name badgeâ she didnât give them her nameâsat their drinks down.
âReady to order?â She clicked her pen.
Erik motioned for Valencia to go first. She was so distracted by Erik she hadnât even looked the menu over. She opened her menu and skimmed.
âOkayâŠIâll do a cheeseburger with french fries. Extra salt and pepper on the fries please.â
The waiter jotted that down and turned her eyes onto Erik.
âIâll do the same but make it a double cheeseburger.â
Both of them handed their menus over. Pam walked away to put their orders in.
ââŠTo respond to what you said, they didnât deserve you. Iâm happy to be your first date though.â
Erik smirked at her causing his dimples to pop.
ââŠAnd donât feel ashamed of your inexperience. Ever.â
âThank you,â Valencia hunched her shoulders and blushed.
âYouâre a swimmer? I noticed the bathing suit you had on beneath your shorts today had the school logo on it.â
âI do! Iâm on the swim team. Swimming is a real passion of mine. Iâm not looking to go pro or anything like that. Iâm amongst a few family members of mine who can actually swim.â
Erik nodded his head, âI love to swim myself. Havenât been in a while. I used to go night swimming in the pool at TSU. I was cool with the coach at the time. Now, since Iâm a TA, I can just badge right in.â
âHm,â Valencia drew in a slow breath, âWhat else do you like to do?â
Erik looked away and down at his hands on the table he smirked to himself.
âI really enjoy poetry. I used to write my own and recite it at Poetry Live. Most of my work is sexual. Anyone can talk dirty, but thereâs an art to painting erotic images in anotherâs mindâŠâ
Valencia didnât know if there was even a kink to describe what Erik was explaining to her. If it is, she may have discovered a new kink of hers. She rested her chin into her hand and focused on him.
ââŠWhether itâs my warm voice whispering into someoneâs ear, or amplified. Through words I can arouse a reader. I just think thatâs powerful.â
Silence filled the space between them while they enjoyed their shake. Erik licked his lips and then he started talking again.
âWords may be primitive shapes, or puffs of spoken air, but a mind can transform them into a force of thrilling potency. It imbues them with a sexual power. Our mighty mental engines are voracious, they yearn for novelty, new instructions to drive the looms of our imagination to weave stunning new patternsâŠâ
Valencia gawked at Erik. He chuckled.
âI can be very eloquent when I choose to be.â
âI can see that,â Valencia giggles.
The waiter returned with their food. Valenciaâs eyes widened at the portions. She wasnât going to finish all of that. Erik and her reached for the ketchup at the same time. They both laughed and then Erik passed her the ketchup first. Valencia ate her fries while thinking of something risky to do to tease Erik. She was taking advice from the blog earlier after sharing that she would be going on a lunch date.
-You should tease him some more. Maybe eat your food in a sexy way. Slow, make noises.
Valencia grabbed a fry and when Erik glanced over at her she bit down on her fry slowly, drawing it into her mouth with her tongue. Erik rolled his lips, his dimples deep in his cheeks.
âMm, that is so good,â Valencia closed her eyes, âMmmâŠI love French fries.â
âI can tell.â Erik laughs.
Valencia paused, a nervous chuckle escaping her mouth. She sat her fry down and rubbed the back of her neck in embarrassment.
Remind me to never do that again, she thought.
âSo, how long have you had a thing for me?â
Valencia darted her eyes across the table at Erik like sheâd been caught. Erik laughed with all his teeth.
âWhat makes you think I have a thing for you?â Valencia quipped.
âOh, I donât know,â Erik spoke sarcastically, âThe constant blushing. The way you canât even look me in the eye.â
Valencia rolled her eyes. She looked away and back to her food.
âHow long?â
âMonthsâŠâ
She swirled a french fry in ketchup.
âI wish I would have known. Iâm glad I do now.â
âWhy?â
âBecause Iâm feeling you too. Iâve seen you around campus. Iâve peeped you out for a while now.â
ââŠwhat?â
Valencia gave Erik an incredulous look.
âYeah. Might as well throw it out there. I didnât wanna make it obvious because I saw you with Isaiah. I didnât think you were available. Probably thought I was too old for you or some shitâŠâ
Valencia could not believe it. Erik had been interested in her this entire time?
âAre you being serious?â
Erik chuckled.
âErik?â
âYeah, Iâm serious. Why would you think that I wouldnât? Youâre gorgeous.â
Valencia turned her face away, giggling. She covered her mouth to contain her laughter. They went back to eating their food and the entire time, Erik would look over at her and Valencia would look up at him. Her foot brushed against Erikâs beneath the table and she held her breath when Erik did the same to her but intentionally. Valencia clenched her thighs together to calm the throbbing between her legs.
âI was thinking we could hit up this black-owned library before going back to campus. Is that cool?â
Valencia bobbed her head, âIâm down.â
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Ding.
The bell alerted to their arrival. Valencia loved the smell of a library. Itâs a combination of grassy notes with a tang of acids and a hint of vanilla over an underlying mustiness. A customer slipped past them after purchasing a book. The cashier looked up at them and gave them a welcoming smile.
âIâm Simone. Let me know if you need anything.â
Erik and Valencia thanked her. Everything was neatly placed and organized. Hand in Erikâs, he led her to the back of the library, and between two stacks beneath a low ambiance.
âThis is where I find the best poetry.â
Erik released her hand and he walked up to the shelf to his left first. His thick, pointer finger moved from book-to-book. Valencia followed him, her eyes scanning the books. There was one sticking out from its spot so she paused, grabbling it from in between just so she could read the front cover.
âVerbal Stimulation: An Intimate Collection of Poetry. Sounds promising.â Valencia whispered.
Erik turned towards Valencia. He studied the front cover of the book.
âIâve read this oneâŠactually, I think I may have thisâŠâ
Valencia handed him the book. Erik opened it, turning the pages a few times before he found one that he really liked. Valencia leaned her shoulder against the shelf, veering closer to Erik. He cleared his throat and his voice took on a much lower timbre.
âi like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones,and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
againâŠand againâŠand again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you.â
Erik looked down at Valencia and a smile slowly crept up his lips.
âE.E. Cummings. He writes a lot of erotically charged love poetry celebrating self-love and the excitement of a love affair.â Erik informed Valencia.
âI liked that one.â She replied with a hushed tone and tempting eyes.
Erik placed the book back on the shelf and they continued down the aisle. His footsteps paused again when heâd noticed another book.
âThis one is Pablo Neruda. One of his booksâŠâ
âCan you read to me again?â Valencia pleaded.
Erik gave her a once over with a smirk. He opened the book to the first poem.
âI crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.
I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.â
The more he recited poetry to her, the more her panties grew wet. Erik noticed, and he inched closer to Valencia. She placed her back against the shelf and Erik loomed closer, his chest almost touching hers.
âIsaiah called you poetâŠâ
Erikâs eyes danced over her face. Valenciaâs eyelids fluttered.
âWe have nicknames. Poet is one of my nicknames. My brothers know that Iâm a man of words. They used to crack jokes until they realized that my words had an effect on women. They didnât have much to say then.â
Valencia tucked her chin and quietly giggled.
âWell, I like the nickname,â Valencia looked up at Erik shyly, âCan I call you Poet?â
âIf you want,â Erik licked his lips, âYou can call me anything you wantâŠâ
Erikâs face drew closer to Valenciaâs. She released a shaky breath. A tickle crept over her skin when he pressed his lips against her ear.
âI have another one I think youâll like. Itâs one of my favoritesâŠâ
âOâOkay,â Valencia shivered.
âLike one slutty little horny slave
listening to her master.. she behaves
he mind keeping hidden what she craves
one hard black dick her pussy loving ravesâŠâ
Valencia closed her eyes. Her hands came up to rest on Erikâs chest. She could feel his hands on her waist now. He drew circles with his fingertips, eliciting a whimper.
âI want to unleash on to you
Not out of love but because you know how to receive
Teeth digging into your fair fragile skin, rupturing
I feel hunger ever more
Your little wet mouth lingering in obedience yet I strike with punishment
Feeling your breath withdraw under the pressure of my hand wrapped around your throatâŠâ
His hands leisurely smoothed up her waist until his hands were flush against her back. Valencia slowly opened her eyes and Erik was staring down at her through his gold-rimmed glasses. Her glossy, full lips parted slightly and her eyes focused on his mouth as he recited erotic poetry to her.
âThe sight of her makes my mouth drool
So tempting, so irresistible
I take her in my arms
I lick my lips in anticipation
Pulling back the cover
I gaze at her pretty pussy
I canât wait to taste her pretty pussy
The flavor of her arousal so deeply embedded on my appendage.â
Valenciaâs chest heaved up and down, her breasts pushing against Erikâs chest. Now, they were playing into her size kink. The way he crowded her space with his much bigger and stronger body made her phat pussy quiver. Erik used one hand to stroke her chin with his thumb while the other now took its place on her ass.
âDid you like that?â He whispered.
âYesâŠâ
Erik dropped his onyx eyes down to her lips. His top lip twitched slightly with anticipation to taste her juicy mouth.
âYou have the most beautiful lipsâŠâ
âSo do you.â
Erik smirked at her and then he inched closer. Valencia titled her chin up and closed her eyes. The moment his plump lips graced her full lips, a spark ignited within her. Her arms came up to wrap around his shoulders. She stood on her tip toes in her sandals. Erik wrapped a single arm around her waist. Their heads tilted to the left, both of their plump bottom lips sinking into each other like wet cushions. Erik sucked her lower lip into his mouth and dragged his teeth over it before using his tongue to trace the inside of her lip.
Valencia moaned softly into his mouth. Her dress hiked up beneath her ass, almost exposing her black thong. Their lips made moist, smacking noises. Both tongues hot and wet. Erikâs other hand squeezed Valenciaâs buns, so much that her pussy opened up. The cool air of the library against her heated pussy caused her to moan.
âMmmmâŠâ
It was a mixture of a whimper and a moan. The sexiest fucking sound Erik had ever heard. He broke their kiss and his eyes scanned her body.
âThat pussy wet?â He asked with a husky voice.
She nodded her head with a pout of her lip.
âTell me that pussy wetâŠâ
He dragged his tongue over her tongue.
âTell daddy that pussy wet, babyâŠâ
ââŠDaddyâŠmy pussy is so wetâŠâ
Valenciaâs face was hot. Sheâd never been talked to like that. Ever. She couldnât even believe she said it. Erikâs hand sat beneath the under cuff of her left cheek and he made it jiggle. She pressed her face against his chest, her shyness something she was unable to control.
âCan I touch that wet pussy?â He whispered.
Valencia nodded her head again, unable to meet his gaze. Erik didnât force her to say it this time, only because he was so anxious to see and feel that wet puss for himself. He hadnât been this excited and aroused in a long time. Valencia turned her back towards Erik and poked her butt out against his crotch.
Erik looked both ways to make sure there wasnât anyone lurking. He could hear voices so he needed to make this quick. Erik brought a hand around and between her legs. The temperature there made him groan against her hair. Valencia braced herself on the shelf in front of her. Erik started off by stroking her pussy lips up and down through her panties. There was a heated damp spot right in between as if her panties were sitting right in the middle of her phat lips.
Using his middle finger, eyes still looking around, Erik stroked from the top of her pussy, all the way to the back. He did it a few more times before he pinched her pussy lips between his fingers. Valenciaâs forehead fell forward and she quietly moaned. Erik did it again. His dick was twitching. He flicked her pussy lips with his fingers and in his mind he couldnât believe how phat her pussy was.
âDamn, ValenciaâŠâ
Erik carefully slipped the crotch of her thong to the side. Valencia inhaled. They sat perfectly to the side and Erik didnât waste time touching her. When the flesh of his fingers graced the flesh of her bald pussy, Erik exhaled a longing breath. He took his time stroking her outer lips. She had inner folds that poked out between her outer lips. Like a pretty flower. He was shocked when heâd noticed that she had a clit piercing.
âYou got your clit pierced?â Erik whispered, his tone laced with shock and arousal.
Valencia chewed on her bottom lip.
âThatâs not what I expected at all,â Erik chuckles.
âItâs a VCH. I got it a year agoââ
Erik used his fingers to spread her pussy open wide. He fingered her clit and Valencia almost shouted. He flicked her clit non-stop, her mouth opening and closing like a fish out of water. She had to bite down hard on her lip to control herself. He then used his middle and ring finger to circle her clit.
âUhhhhhâŠâ
Valencia almost pulled books from the shelves. Her inner thighs quaked. She could feel her nipples harden.
âErikâŠâ
âYouâre right baby girlâŠthis pussy is wetâŠâ
Erik massaged her clit over and over and since it was so quiet in the library, Erik could hear her pussy making creamy noises.
âThat pussy talking nowâŠfuckâŠâ
âIt feels so goodâŠâ Valencia spoke with a hushed tone.
The smell of his cologne and the warmth of his body against her back had her dripping.
âI wanna feel it deeper, babyâŠâ
She knew what he meant. She was a little nervous because all the times sheâd been fingered by her ex, she never enjoyed it and always avoided it. Valencia relaxed her body, but her heart was racing. Two of Erikâs fingers sat at her entrance. She stilled her body with anticipation, gaining the courage to look back at Erik. The second her cafe noir eyes met his, those thick fingers were pushing up inside of her.
âOh my goshâŠâ
He sank his fingers deep. He started stroking her spot.
âDaddyââ
Erik placed a hand over her mouth to keep her quiet. Her ass pressed into his crotch and she writhed against him. The sound of her pussy was so loud and obnoxious.
âYouâre making too much noiseâŠI know it feels good, baby, but you gotta stay quietâŠâ
The way he fingered her made her fall in love. He knew where to touch and stroke. She was clenching around his fingers. Uncontrollably. She could feel herself dripping down her inner thighs. His hand must be soaked. It had to be with the way he easily went in and out. His wrist didnât get tired. His fingers didnât cramp up. She mumbled something against his hand but her words were lost on him.
âThis pussy is deep and fuckinâ wetâŠyou lovinâ this shitâŠmy mouth is droolingâŠâ
Erik had to bite down on his lower lip. She gripped his fingers again and he could see her eyes crossing.
âIâmâŠâ
She hung her head and pressed her face into her arm. Erikâs fingers sloshed in and out of that wet fucking pussy and when she climaxed it was the most beautiful thing heâd ever seen. She fell back against him, reaching behind her to grip his arms. Her knees almost buckled and a thin layer of sweat made her mocha skin glisten. Erikâs fingers carefully withdrew from her pussy. Even though her panties were pushed to the side, the amount of creamy goodness that came from her stained them.
Erik looked down at his hand and his fingers were dripping wet and creamy. He could smell her pheromones, the scent of her pussy wafting his nose. She smelled amazing. Erik loved the smell of freshly fucked, horny, wet pussy. Bonus points if itâs clean, well taken care of pussy. Valencia turned and braced herself against the shelf. She stared up at Erik through her lashes with low, wanton eyes.
âYou made a big ass messâŠâ
Valencia watched Erik suck on his fingers. He cleaned them off like it was a sweet treat. Her mouth dropped open in shock. He licked between his fingers, the palm of his hand, and sucked on his own lips to get any remnants of her onto his tongue. All while looking at her intently.
âMm,â Erik licked his lips again, âYou taste amazing.â
âTâThank you.â
Come here so you can taste itâŠâ
He curled his finger for her to come to him. She tilted her chin up.
âStick your tongue outâŠâ
Valencia did as she was told. Erik touched tongues with her and then they french kissed. Valencia whimpered into his mouth. Sheâd never tasted herself before. This was the nastiest thing and she loved it. Erik drew back to stare her in the eyes. He was so horny. His dick was fat and long between his legs.
âTake your panties off.â Erik commanded.
He wasnât asking, he was telling.
âRight here?â
Erik chuckled, âYou let me play in your pussy right here, didnât you?â
Valencia giggled. He had a point.
âOkayâŠâ
She slipped her hands beneath her dress. Valencia pulled her thong down and stepped out of it. She held her panties out in her palm for Erik. He snatched them and balled them up before placing it inside of his pocket.
âMineâŠâ
What was he going to do with fhem? Valencia felt a little self conscious. Used panties? Erik could sense her nervousness.
âThank you for letting me touch you like that.â
Erik kissed her cheek softly. She smiled up at him and swayed from side to side.
âThank you for making me fall in love with fingering. Iâve avoided it for so long because I didnât like it when my ex would do itâŠhe made it hurt.â
âItâs never supposed to hurt, ma. That nigga didnât know what he was doing.â
Erik stroked her cheek with the side of his finger. She was so precious. It made him feel good that he was her first date and first great finger-fucking partner.
âIâll show you what itâs like anytime you want. Whatever you want, Iâll show you. You have my numberâŠâ
Valencia swooned at his words. Erik couldnât resist the urge to kiss her one last time before they left with one of his favorite poetry books for her to read. When the both of them appeared at the front of the store again, Valencia expected the cashier to mention how theyâve been gone for so long, but surprisingly enough, she simply smiled knowingly at them.
âFind everything okay?â
âYes,â Erik replied.
She rung them up and they left hand-in-hand back to the dorms.
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Back at the dorms, Erik and Valencia stopped in front of her dorm room. She hesitated to enter, and Erik was reluctant to leave. The car ride over, Valencia would catch glimpses of Erik smelling his fingers. The reason for that is because his fingers found their way between her legs again. Heâd only done it so he could smell and taste her. It was the most primal thing sheâd ever seen. The recollection of her thong in his pocket turned her on and she pictured him smelling her panties. He even questioned if her STD panel was up to date and how often she got tested. Very mature and necessary considering the amount of unsafe sexual activity going on. They exchange info and that was the final green light to go further. And boy was Valencia thrilled about that.
âIâm not gonna lieâŠI wanna eat your pussy.â
His boldness was too much. She hid her face behind her hands, only for Erik to move her hands away.
âYour dorm or mines?â
Erik quirked a brow at her. He was dead serious.
âUhmâŠwe should go to yours. Only because I donât know if Brielle is in there or notâŠâ
âSmart.â Erik said.
He grabbed Valencia by the hand and led her down the hall. They made it to his room and he unlocked the door. They slipped inside quickly and Valencia sat down on his bed while Erik shut the door. He told her to get comfortable so she removed her sandals. She couldnât believe this was about to happen. If Valencia had ever created a list of things sheâd never done or things sheâd had bad experiences with, pussy eating would be one of them. Her ex had little to no experience with it and Valencia didnât care much for it. Isaiah was flat out terrible at it. So far, Erik had proven to her that he could easily change her mind so she wasnât worried about his pussy eating skills. With a mouth like that, he better be a pussy monster.
The walls in the dorms are thin. Erik decided to put on a playlist of his from the TV in the dorm. He opened Apple Music and found a random rap song for background noise. One she hadnât heard of but the beat was good. It was definitely something she would shake her ass to. Erik sat his jacket down and kicked off his shoes. Valencia watched him pull his shirt over his head and his abs flexed. One thing for sure, Isaiah has a nice body, but he wasnât touching Erik.
He walked over to Valencia and climbed onto the bed. She backed up towards his pillow and giggled when he pounced her. They started off with a make out session again. Valencia opened her legs and rubbed her inner thighs along Erikâs waist. His kisses trailed down her neck while his hands pushed her knees back. He sat up on his knees and then his eyes dropped down to admire her pussy. It was smooth, wet, and phat. Pretty chocolate with a pink center. The VCH piercing popped against her flesh.
âThe prettiest pussy.â Erik praised.
âThank you,â Valencia looked away.
âAight, rule number one, donât look away while I eat itâŠâ
âYes sir,â She replied.
âRule number two, donât push my head away. I hate that shit. You want it, you take it.â
That scared her. Valencia didnât know what she was in for.
âLay backâŠâ
Valencia relaxed against his pillow. She looked down at him, watching him lay flat against his abs. He kept her thighs pushed back and then without further ado, his tongue licked a long trail up her pussy. Valenciaâs mouth opened. She locked eyes with Erik and he spread her lips before doing the same thing with his tongue to her inner folds. She curled her toes and fought to shut her eyes.
âFuck,â She whispered.
This was a real challenge. Keeping eye contact while his tongue flicked, twirled, and glided all over her clit. He knew how to work that tongue on areas she didnât know could feel so good. He made sure each spot got equal attention.
âFuck, you taste so damn goodâŠâ
âMhm,â Valencia nibbled on her bottom lip.
Erik planted kisses on her clit before those same lips started softly sucking. Valencia took in a sharp breath. Erik flicked his eyes up at her and then they rolled shut. Valencia threw her head back. Her legs were shaking like she had Parkinsonâs. When he released her clit, they both stared at how stiff and swollen it was. This is the moment when Valencia knew she was in trouble. The VCH piercing made her clit extra sensitive. Thatâs why every time she used her vibrator, she could never last. Two minutes into masturbating and she was cumming.
Erik flicked her clit just a little and Valenciaâs body jerked like she was doused with cold water.
âItâs too sensitiveââ
Erik wasnât trying to hear that. He started sucking again. His sucking this time was more like french kisses. Slurping sounds filled the room. He forced her thighs back harder now. He gave her another break, her clit popping out of his mouth.
âYou gotta take it. Donât keep this pussy away from me.â
His voice was huskier and it had Valencia in a trance.
âOkay, daddy.â She replied with a small voice.
He went back to munching. Valencia moaned loudly. The sweetest moans. She fought to close her thighs despite Erikâs words. Her body seizes and she clawed at the sheets. Her eyes almost rolled to the back of her head.
âUnh! Uhhhnnnn!â
She climaxed. Valencia couldnât believe how hard sheâd cum. He finally came up for air. His beard was soaked. Pupils dilated, he looked like a pussy eating savage. Valencia sat up and stared between her legs. Sheâd never known that her pussy could tremble but she watched it in real time. One look at Erik and she knew he wasnât finished.
âMm,â Valencia whimpered.
âTurn over and put that ass in the air.â
She moved towards the center of the bed and arched her back deep like she did in that photo. Erik stood behind her, shaking his head at how fucking beautiful her wide open pussy and ass looked from the back. Valencia peeked back at him. They locked eyes and then Erik whacked her ass with both hands. She flinched and moaned. He jiggled her cheeks while spreading them at the same time.
âThis my pussy to play witâ now. I better not find out you giving this up, hear me?â
âYes, daddy.â Valencia replied.
âIâm not joking, girlâŠâ
She knew he wasnât. His tone alone told her that. And why would she? Heâs the best she ever had.
Erik got down behind her and started slurping her from behind. The position and the way he did it felt more intense for Valencia. She curled her lower legs up and went flat against the bed, reaching behind to hold her ankles. Erik slapped her cheeks before continuing his feast. She moaned into the bed.
âYes, daddy,â Valencia cried.
She started moving her hips with the motion of his eating. She felt her body shake out of control and she couldnât hold her ankles any longer. Valencia moaned on a loop, falling onto her side on the bed. Erik tilted his head and ate that pussy from the side. She held her thigh back and pressed her face into her knee. She was shaking out of control.
âI canât, I canât, I canât,â Valencia begged.
âMm-mm,â Erik hummed into her pussy.
She felt herself squirt a little and Erik licked that up. His tongue would push inside of her, his lips would suck whatever he could, his saliva mixed with her juices added a sensation mixed with heat. It was amazing.
âSo goodâŠIâŠso goodâŠIâm cumminââŠIâm cumminâŠâ
She almost closed Erikâs head between her thighs. He finally stopped and the visual with his messy locs and wet face was beyond sexy. Valencia rolled over onto her back and covered her face with her arm. Erik stood up and his jeans were hanging low on his hips. Valencia moved her arm away from her eyes and she stared openly at his print. What was he holding back in those jeans? A python? He was big. She sat up on her knees and reached out a hand to stroke him. Valencia gripped him and squeezed. That elicited a grunt from Erik.
âI can return the favor.â Valencia said.
âAs much as I would love you to, I have to get ready for tonightâŠâ
Time was lost on her. She hadnât realized how late it was. Valencia tried to hide her disappointment but Erik caught her face in his grip and forced her to look up at him.
âI promise. Daddy will give you this dick tonight, baby. After the party, okay? I promise.â
Erik kissed her lips and Valencia stood up to fix herself. She still had to figure out what she was going to wear tonight and it always took her forever to do her makeup. She also needed another shower. Erik helped her with her shoes and then he walked her to the door. He grabbed her by the hand one last time, pulling her into another kiss. Valencia smiled against his mouth.
âIâll see you later, aight?â Erik said.
âOkay.â
She waved goodbye and left his dorm room. Walking down the hall, Valencia squealed. This was probably the best day of her life so far. At her dorm, she opened the door and found Brielle sitting on her bed on her lap top.
âWhere have you been all day?â Brielle pestered.
âWent for lunch, got some fresh air, thatâs allâŠâ
Valencia was happy that whatever had Brielleâs attention stopped her from noticing the big, goofy grin on her face.
âThis blog is hilarious! Listen to thisâŠIâm fucking my professor for an A in his class. He got me pregnant. I donât want an abortion, but he has a wife and kids. The sad truth is, I know he wouldnât leave his wife for me even though he complains about her having wack pussy. I donât know what to do.â
âThatâs wild! What school?â
âMorgan State.â Brielle replied.
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A Delta is, whatta AKI ain't. What a Zeta wanna be and whatta Sigma can't. What a Alpha likes, whatta Kappa loves. and whatta a Que Psi Phi can't get enough of. THAT IS A DELTA!!!!
Delta Sigma Theta kicked it off with their stroll through fhe party. Andrea lead the way proudly. Knuck if You Buck filled the party and everyone had their phones out recording the ladies. Body rolling and hands forming a pyramid. Their competitive chant had the other sororities, like AKA, dismissing them and rolling their eyes. The Kappas wolf-whistled, The Alphas watched with proud stances, and the Omegas shouted.
âGet it Get it.â
âAYE! AYE!â
âThatâs right!â
The room was packed from wall to wall. It smelled like weed and sweat. Valencia took her place as a wall flower, dressed in a sparkly bandu with black high waisted jeans. She accessorized with large silver hoops and a layered chain necklace. Her braids were down her back and her face was beat to the gods. She added body glitter as a final touch to draw the look together. Brielle and Skai were on the dance floor, grinding all over each other. Cindy was there with her boyfriend who is a Kappa, chatting with him closely with drinks in their hands.
Dior was standing with the AKAâs sheâs an AKA just like her sister Jeanette. It was too crowded to try and watch them do their entrance so Valencia stood back and waited for Erik to do his thing. The crowd erupted when AKA took over.
âSKEE-WEE!!! SKEE-WEE!!!!â
Valencia could see them a little from where she stood.
âA-L-P-H-A
K-A-P-P-A
A-L-P-H-A
Whooo those AKA's
An Ahhka is what a Delta ain't
What a Zeta couldn't
What a SGRho can't
What the Kappas like
What the Ques love
What APhiA can't get enough of us!!!!â
âValencia, you okay?â
Cindy tapped her shoulder, startling Valencia. It was so loud she could hardly hear Cindy.
âIâm okay! You know how I get with crowds!â
âYou wanna grab a drink?!â
That sounded good to Valencia. She nodded her head and grabbed Cindyâs hand. She led the way over to the open bar stock piled with alcohol. Valencia asked for a mixed drink with tequila. The bartender whipped something up for her and she sampled it to see if she liked it. It was strong but very good. Now that they were standing by the bar, Valencia could watch. The Zetaâs were doing their thing now.
âThe men, the men, of Black and Gold
1-9-0-6 too cold, too cold
They came to a Zeta and they said to me
They said, âIâll never be as COLD as a Z Phi B.â
The men, the men, of KAPsi
Phi Nu Pi âtil the day that they die
They came to a Zeta and they said to me
They said, âIâll never be as PRETTY as a Z Phi B
The men, the men, of Q Psi Phi
Down dirty dogs âtil the day that they die
They came to a Zeta and they said to me
They said, âIâll stop being NASTY for a Z Phi B!!!â
They performed a choppa style stroll that went so hard Valencia had to cheer them on. Her mother begged her to be a Zeta but she wasnât interested in pledging.
âALRIGHT LADIES!!!! LET THESE MEN DO THEIR THANG!â
The Que Dogs stepped up. They all wore skull masks in their colors to conceal their faces so Valencia didnât know which one Erik was.
âFUCK IT UP!!!!â
Down in the valley, woh ohh ohh ohh!
There is a place that I long to go!
The name of this place rings in my ear!
Omega, Omega, Omega, Omegaaaaaaa!
Land of the Purple and the Gooooold ohhh!
Land of the Purple and the Gold!
They marched up with heavy stomps and enter-linked arms. The room was filled with flashlights from cellphones.
I kNEW THIS GIRL! (bruhs say Yeah)
SHE DATED AN ALPHA! (yeah)
HE BOUGHT HER A HOUSE! (yeah) HE BOUGHT HER A HOUSE!(yeah)
THE SAME GIRL! (yeah)
SHE DATED A SIGMA! (yeah)
HE BOUGHT HER A CAR! (yeah) HE BOUGHT HER A CAR! (yeah)
THE SAME GIRL! (yeah)
SHE DATED A KAPPA! (yeah)
HE BOUGHT HER A BLOAT! (yeah) HE BOUGHT HER A BOAT! (yeah)
THAT SAME GIRL! (yeah)
SHE DATED A QUE! (yeah)
HE GOT HER THE HOUSE, THE CAR, THE BOAT; AND THE PUSSY TOO! AND IM GONâ AIGHT! AIGHT! AND IM GONE AIGHT! AIGHT!
Valencia clapped and cheered with a big smile on her face. She recognized that voice. It had to be Erik leading that chant.
They circled each other, barking and howling. It was a turn on for sure. They finally removed their masks and tossed them to the side. Seeing Erik perform had Valencia feeling extra giddy.
The charismatic dance that included jumping, splits, torquing bodies in the air â itâs called âhoppingâ â is a very athletic show that requires extensive practice to get the mostly synchronized routines down. Those are the videos that pop up on social media, the group breaking out in a routine in the middle of a crowd. The bent just-so elbows and hands pointed at a specific angle â the pose to signify an Omega â thatâs what overwhelmed the crowd. The tongue featured in nearly all of those photos â sticking out at odd angles, hanging down â thatâs because people in the fraternity consider themselves âdogs.â Atomic Dogs.
The way Erik led the stroll had Valencia stunned. She wasnât the only woman that felt that way. When they finished, the applause surrounding them was deafening. Erik dabbed up his brothers excitedly and even when they finished, they continued to bark and stick their tongues out savagely. That same tongue that was licking her pussy earlier. Erik scanned the crowd and he spotted Valencia. He made his way over towards her, Cindy watching with nosy eyes.
âDid you like our stroll?!â
âYEAH!â Valencia shouted.
âYou look amazing,â Erik pulled her in, âYou gonâ have all my attention nowâŠâ
Cindy gave her friend a look before slipping away to watch her man do his thing. Andrea cheered and jumped up and down when James stepped up to perform with his Kappa brothers. Erik stood behind Valencia with his arms wrapped around her waist while they watched. Valencia sipped from her solo cup, the tequila already making her tipsy. She scanned the room and noticed Dior and her older sister, Jeanette, watching her with hard eyes. Valencia gave them a strange look before Erik distracted her with his lips on her neck.
What is a nupe? Is it a name understood by few, used by many,and respected by all? Is a NUPE a man of Kappa third, a "son" Diggs second and a child of God first? Is a NUPE a Greek Step Shower, a Lady Mind Blower, and a Pretty Ass Bow Thrower? it is also ever man dreams to become one and every woman desire to have one beside her! It's what a Alpha wanna be and a Que Dawg aint. It's what a Sigma try to be and what an Iota aint.!! YO YO!
Erik threw up a fist to cheer his friend on. Others joined in as well. They finished and the Alphas did their thing. Valencia downed the rest of her drink and asked for a refill while Erik was on his second drink of the evening. He was drinking on Hennessy mixed with Hypnotic. A drink he said was nicknamed âIncredible Hulkâ. When they finished their strolls, the party commenced.
The tequila gave Valencia some courage. She was bent over with her cup in her hand, shaking her ass on Erikâs crotch. He had his cup in one hand and his other hand on her spine, guiding her. He would roll his hips so she could feel his bulge. They werenât the only ones getting down. D9 parties are known to be wild. Sex-filled and rowdy.
âLet me get you another drinkâŠâ
Valencia didnât need another one but she agreed. Two drinks in and she was feeling loose. Erik disappeared with her cup and Valencia waited. Someone bumped her shoulder hard and she stumbled in her heels. A random girl with a big natural fro helped her and they both looked towards the direction of who did it. Valencia noticed Jeanette giving her a dirty look.
âBITCH!â Valencia yelled.
âWhat the fuck is her problem?â The girl questioned angrily.
âI donât even know that bitch!â
One thing about Valencia, she can throw hands. Donât let her shyness fool you. Erik returned with her drink and noticed the rage on her face.
âWhatâs wrong?â
âSome stupid bitch bumped me on purpose. I donât even know this chickâŠâ
Erik searched the room. Valencia took her drink and Erik leaned down to kiss her lips.
âIâll be fine.â Valencia said.
âCome dance with meâŠâ
They went to the dance floor again and her ass was on him again. Erik held her hand up while she expertly whined her hips. They locked eyes and Erik bit his lip at her. She loved seeing him in his glasses, but when he didnât wear them she could really get a good look at his eyes. Dark and sexy. Erik pulled her up and he started touching all over her openly.
âYouâre the most beautiful girl in hereâŠso damn fine.â
Valencia blushes.
âThank you, My Poet.â
âYAâLL READY TO GET NASTY?!!!â
âAhhh shit,â Erik noticed his line brothers approaching him, âHere yâall niggas go!â
Valencia stepped to the side, laughing at Erik trying to fight off his friends playfully.
The crowd parted like the Red Sea and the woman that bumped Valencia started to perform for Erik. Erik looked her up and down with amusement. Valencia looked between them both, her smile replaced with a look of annoyance. The chick got up in Erikâs face and hopped up, wrapping her legs around him. The room got loud and wild. Valencia was almost knocked down. Granted, Erik wasnât her man officially, but who the fuck did she think she was? Erik laughed and the sight of him laughing pissed Valencia off. He put her down and the bitch kissed him. Valencia turned to walk back to the bar. She was livid.
Valencia sat her cup down and shook her head. She tried to calm down. Maybe she was over exaggerating. She walked away so fast, she probably missed Erik telling the chick off. But still, it hurt a little. Valencia knew all too well about being cheated on and played with. It happened to her twice. If she was going to give Erik a chance, he needed to be honest and not lead her on.
âValenciaâŠâ
She turned and came face to face with Dior.
âWhat is your girls problem?!â Valencia argued.
Dior snorted a laughter.
âThatâs my sister Jeanette. I heard from Skai that you had a crush on himâŠtoo bad heâs not available, sis.â
âLet me guess, heâs dating your sister?â
âYeah, pretty fucking much. Thatâs his ex. They broke up because he was going to the military. Now that heâs back, theyâre tryna connect again.âïżŒ
ïżŒValencia glared at Dior. She didnât believe any of it.
âDonât believe me? Go ask him then.â
Valencia looked towards the crowd She hesitated before turning her eyes back towards Dior.
âWhy the fuck are you even telling me this? Because if itâs to piss me off itâs definitely working.â Valencia quipped.
âI just thought you should know. Better sooner than later, right? How would you feel if you found out about it later?â
âGirl, please. I can see right through you. I donât want Isaiah, so why are you so mad? Give it up.â
Valencia walked away. She had to before she did something reckless. Plus, it wasnât worth it. Erik wasnât her man and she wasnât going to fight over him. Sheâll simply walk away, no big deal. One thing for certain, Valencia can move on and never look back.
She left that party as fast as she could.
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Fresh face and in pajamas, Valencia sat at the desk in her dorm, the only light coming from her laptop. The tequila had given her a headache. She massaged her temples while ignoring her phone. Erik had called and texted her, wondering where she was. She was in her feelings honestly and wanted nothing to do with him and that party. Maybe she needed to sleep it off. It hurt so bad because she really liked him. He didnât have to play along. If thatâs your ex, why even entertain that mess? These are the games sheâs not willing to play.
-Howâs everything going with your crush? đ
Valencia typed a reply.
-Not so good. He isnât my crush anymore đȘ he just played in my face. Men ainât shit.
She shut her laptop and climbed into bed to try and get some sleep. Dreams of Erik took over her mind in slumber.
You see that q-dog over there? Play with emâ if you want to and heâll break your heartâŠ
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Clearing out the WIP folders, have this one that didn't go anywhere.
It wasnât the first time too curious of outsiders had found them, will not be the last either, which is why there were policies in place for such situations.
At least theâŠvisitorsâŠcause thatâs what they were for now, here to see then leaving very soon even if it wasnât the same way they arrivedâŠat least they were entertaining.
Talia just smiled at the other woman across from her as they enjoyed a morning cup of tea, the red head continuing on and on with her theories and âscientific" findings.
Most were so very wrong but a few conversations in had already proved that their guest were set in their beliefs despite evidence proving otherwise.
The mountain of the man had trapped some of the more unfortunate servants in his own rant, the poor thingsâŠ
-*-
She missed her son, she missed being a motherâŠ
The duo of siblings were at least more wary of their surroundingsâŠ
Danny and Jazz didnât trust the hospitality, wary and ever watching everyone and everything.
They had potentialâŠ
-*-
Danny was staring at her, eyes hard, âWhere is my mom?â
âHmm, dear, there is some tea and fruit waiting for you-"
âStop ignoring me, where is my mom?â
-*-
Raâs did a lazy hand wave to show off the room, Jazz didnât seem impressed.
âOur library is filled with knowledge from around the world, constantly updating, after all, knowledge is power.â
âIs the whereabouts of our parents in there or is that something you already have on hand?â
-*-
The vase of roses like blooms were placed in front of Danny, Talia slightly and amusingly smiling at his paling face.
âThe flowers are beautiful arenât they, a rare and exotic breed, once believed to be extinct.â
âBlood blossoms butâŠhow?â
âJust a little research, they look lovely donât they, especially when places around windows and doorways, we have a few hidden away in certain rooms to keep there pleasant aroma floating around.â
âWhatâŠwhat rooms?â
âHmm, mostly the ones near the perimeter, we havenât moved into the inner sanctuary yet, donât want anyone from within to get sick do we?â
ââŠnoâŠno we donâtâŠâ
-*-
Raâs took a sip off his tea, casually watching Jazz silently shake with rage.
âYou are very perceptive, now we will begin lessons in utilizing that.â
âI just want to be a psychologist, I want to help peopleâŠnot thisâŠâ
âTo help them, you must first break them down.â
-*-
âDanyal, your grandfather is expecting us soon, your sister will be joining as well, it has been too long since we have enjoyed a family meal together-"
âStop it! My name is Danny, Danny Fenton, my mom is Maddie Fenton and my dad is Jack Fenton, you are not my mother, that man isnât my grandfather!â
ââŠit seems that we need to increase your training, perhaps helping with the gardening will quell your temper.â
ââŠIâŠmy apologies MotherâŠâ
âHmm. I expect you'll be on your best behavior then, Danyal.â
âYes, Mother.â
-*-
âYou did well in this lesson, Jasmine.â
âYou poisoned the tea and had me guess which one was the safe oneâŠâ
âAnd you recognized the smell and avoided it.â
âThere are two others deadâŠâ
âThey should have noticed this was a lesson, assassination could come at any time from anyone, by tea orâŠby a slow drawn out poisoning by one's home environmentâŠâ
âMy parents werenât poisoning us!â
âNow we both know that isnât true, your Mother just had you and brother start your resistance training.â
âThat's not-"
âYou can continue on and risk punishment or take your earned reward and enjoy the rest of your afternoon.â
ââŠyesâŠGrandfather...â
-*-
âThis is Danyal. Forge him, bring him to his full potential.â
âBy your order, I shall make him into a weapon worthy of your legacy.â
âI expect that and more.â
-*-
Talia couldnât help but hum happily to herself, perhaps there was something to her belovedâs habit of taking in strays.
There wasnât the consequences of ones own blood being of failure and any misgivings could be deducted towards past raising.
Really, those Fenton's were clearly unaware of the potential they had on their hands, it was fate that brought them here.
âDanyal, Jasmine, my dears, I believe you both have earned rewards for your recent accomplishments, a believe a trip to see your brother is in order.â
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My most important sapphic ships post before Pride Month ends
What the title says, studying kept (and still keeps me) busy so we gotta go fast lol
Bumbleby (RWBY)
to the surprise of absolutely no one, they get first place (despite me not going in a particular order) because of reasons. They're perfect. Soulmates. Slowburn of all time. Yin and Yang. Eyes the color of each other's souls. Truest OTP to ever OTP in my book. â/10
Konosetsu (Negima!)
I already talked about them in their own post, this scene changed my life leading to my self-discovery and it still lives rent-free in my mind.
Kyosaya (Madoka Magica)
I'd also add MadoHomu but I'm trying to keep it to just one for each fandom. That said, they still make me mentally unwell. I love them, and I did for a long time now. I can't wait for the next movie to come out and suffer.
Ruby and Sapphire (Steven Universe)
These bitches had the first cartoon gay wedding and kiss DO I NEED TO SAY MORE???
Korrsami (Avatar)
Still down the queer cartoons making history path, these two made me insane back in the day because I still didn't understand I was queer and lots of sapphic couple were starting to appear in media, and I remember jokingly say how "lesbian ships were hauting me". All I can say now is "Thank you" lol. Anyway, they were incredibly important and all the people criticizing how little queerness there's in the show will never understand just how massive this scene was.
Catradora (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)
Friends to Enemies to back to Friends to Lovers. Iconic. I still want a movie with their adventures bringing magic back to the universe.
Hollstein (Carmilla)
My third beloved blonde with a cat gf ship. I miss this web-series every day. Also, Natasha Negovanlis played an immense role in my gay awakening.
Ellie and Riley (The Last of Us: Left Behind)
Ellie and Dina are adorable and I love them, BUT I just will never get over these two. That dlc fucked me up. (also, they're in the same category with Korrasami as "gay ships that hauted me before I realized I was queer" lol)
Lumity (The Owl House)
I remember starting this show feeling it as the successor of Steven Universe, at least to me. We could say that at level of mistreatment from its parent company, it defenitely surpassed it, but at least I'm glad I was right and we got Luz and Amity becoming canon. I love these two and not a day passes without me yelling at Disney for what it did to them.
Bubbline (Adventure Time)
I actually watched Adventure Time fully only recently, but I always loved them even when I watched the show randomly when it appeared in tv back in the day. Getting to see the progression properly just made me love them even more.
Yasammy (Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous/Chaos Theory)
Incredibly recent addition, but I am so glad that I checked out Camp Cretaceous and got into it. It's a nice show and these two are a really cute couple, their confession and especially Yaz's internal turmoil were just so on point. I was really happy to see them go still strong in Chaos Theory, and I can't wait for next season.
Pricefield (Life is Strange)
These two caused me pain in the best possible way. I felt literal heartbreak at the Bay Ending, and I was just as emotional at the Bae one (Bae > Bay Forever) I hope the new game will respect their relationship OR ELSE.
Wow, this is quite the list. I do have an amazing taste, if I do say so myself, ahah!
Well, I guess this is it for now, glad I could make it before Pride Month was over! Knowing myself I might have actually forgotten some though, so keep an eye out for possible updates (what makes me even think that you'd care? lol).
That would be all, be gay and do crimes! Bye!
#rwby#bumbleby#mahou sensei negima#konosetsu#madoka magica#kyosaya#steven universe#rupphire#avatar the legend of korra#korrasami#she ra and the princesses of power#catradora#carmilla series#hollstein#the last of us#rellie#the owl house#lumity#adventure time#bubbline#jurassic world camp cretaceous#yasammy#life is strange#pricefield#happy pride đ
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i donât ever wanna see you with him ~ roman godfrey;hemlock grove
word count: 2551
request?: no
description: after he gets jealous of her best male friend, she decides to put him in his place
pairing: roman godfrey x female!reader
warnings: swearing
masterlist (one, two, three)
Roman Godfrey was spoiled and entitled. Everyone in Hemlock Grove knew that. He was the heir to the massive empire in their small town, so it wasnât a surprise that he had a sense of entitlement. That entitlement tended to extend to his romantic relationships, too. Roman was often very possessive and jealous over his girlfriends. Most of them liked that, most of them viewed it as hot and endearing.
(Y/N) was not one of those girls.
She and Roman had met through (Y/N)âs best friend, Peter. He was enamored with her the minute he laid his eyes on her, and, secretly, (Y/N) had felt the same way. Not that she would ever tell him that. She had been warned about Roman before she met him. She wasnât about to give into him so easily; she made him work for it - for her. And he really did put in the work until (Y/N) trusted his commitment to her and agreed to date him.
There was one issue about Roman, though, and that was his jealousy towards (Y/N) and Peterâs friendship. He thought he kept it lowkey, but both Peter and (Y/N) knew. They both knew Roman better than he thought they did. They could see when his eyes darkened whenever he looked at them. They could see his jaw tighten whenever (Y/N) laughed at something Peter said. They could see the way Roman always needed to be touching (Y/N) whenever the three of them were hanging out.
It wasnât that Roman didnât like Peter. When it was just the two of them, they were the best of friends. It was Peter with (Y/N) that Roman didnât like. And that was what pissed (Y/N) off. Peter had been her friend long before he was Romanâs, and long before Roman and (Y/N) started dating. And thatâs all they were - friends. There had never been any sort of romantic feelings between them, and there never would be.
Thatâs why (Y/N) was walking up to Peterâs trailer on her own on a sunny afternoon. He was laying in a hammock, his eyes closed as he soaked up the sun. Upon hearing her footsteps, he opened one eye and peered over at her.
âWhereâs your shadow?â he asked.
(Y/N) rolled her eyes. âHeâs not that attached to me.â
âHe may as well be a wart on your ass, (Y/N). Especially when it comes to me.â
âHeâs certainly a pain in my ass,â (Y/N) muttered. âMove over, I want some hammock.â
Peter chuckled and shuffled over slightly. (Y/N) got into the hammock, laying with her feet towards Peterâs head and her head towards his feet. The hammock swayed with the motions before it settled again.
âHe doesnât know Iâm here,â (Y/N) said as her body relaxed into the swaying fabric.
âWhat?â Peter asked.
âRoman. I didnât tell him I was coming.â
âIs that healthy? Like, for your relationship.â
âI didnât lie to him or anything. Heâs busy with some family shit, so I havenât even heard from him yet today. If he were to ask, Iâd tell him Iâm here.â
âAnd then heâd show up and kick my ass.â
(Y/N) sighed and rested her head back against the hammock. âDo you think heâll ever stop being so...â
âSo Roman?â Peter finished. (Y/N) nodded. âItâs hard to tell. His entire life heâs been surrounded by enablers, or heâs been under the control of his insane mother. I think weâre the first people to treat him like an actual person and not like he owns the world. So either we could help him, or heâll annoy us both to a point where we canât deal with him anymore.â
The latter option was what worried (Y/N) the most. She loved Roman, other than his jealousy he was an amazing boyfriend who loved and cared for her so deeply. She didnât want to lose him, but she knew Peter had a point about if Roman couldnât control that jealousy. She couldnât live the rest of her life wondering how Roman was going to react to every guy she interacted with, whether it was friends, co-workers, or just random guys she ran into on the street. And she definitely was not going to be made to choose between Roman and Peter when she had known and been friends with Peter the longest.
She didnât say anything, but she didnât have to. Peter knew what she was thinking. It wasnât the first time they had this conversation.
They fell into a comfortable silence. There really didnât need to be any conversation. This was the first time in quite some time that the two were able to spend time together and actually enjoy it. So thatâs what they were doing: enjoying their time.
The enjoyment didnât last too long, though, as they heard a car pulling up in front of Peterâs place. Peterâs momâs car was already in the driveway, so there was only one person it could be. That suspicion was confirmed by a car door slamming and Peter rolling his eyes when he saw whoever it was approaching. (Y/N) huffed out a sigh as she prepared herself for the argument that was undoubtably coming.
âYou two look comfy,â Roman commented.
âWe are,â Peter responded. âWanna join? you can lay across us.â
Roman glared at him before turning to (Y/N). âI was trying to call you. Why havenât you been answering your phone?â
She looked down at her purse where her phone was, which she had left on the ground when she climbed into the hammock. She gestured to it. âItâs too far away for me to reach. And my phone is on vibrate, as it always is, and you know that.â
His jaw clenched. (Y/N) felt her frustration reaching its peak.
âWhy didnât you tell me you were coming here?â Roman asked.
âWell, for one, you havenât responded to my texts at all today, so itâs not like Iâve even been talking to you today,â (Y/N) retorted. âAnd two, you donât own me, Roman. Iâm not required to tell you every single thing Iâm doing or where Iâm going.â
âYou do if youâre hanging out with other guys by yourself.â
(Y/N) swung her legs over the side of the hammock and stood up so quickly that Peter nearly flipped out of it. She approached Roman with such ferocity that Roman took a step back before she reached him.
âLet me tell you one thing, Roman Godfrey: Iâm done with this jealousy bullshit. I am not your property, I am your girlfriend. You do not control where I go or who Iâm friends with. Especially when the person in question is my best friend who Iâve known way before I met you. This dark, entitled rich boy bullshit might work on other girls in this town, but itâs not working on me. If you want someone to put up with that, then you may as well find someone else to be your girlfriend, cause I canât do this anymore.â
She picked up her purse and put it over her shoulder.
âWhere are you going?â Roman asked as she started walking away.
âAnywhere thatâs away from you!â she hissed. Over her shoulder she added, âIâll talk to you later, Peter.â
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(Y/N) was home by herself that night. Her parents had gone out to some kind of function, and had asked if she wanted to tag along, but she told them to go on without her. She felt like she needed some time alone to come to terms with what had happened that day.
Peter had texted her asking if she was okay, but she hadnât responded. She wasnât upset with him by any means, as he didnât even do anything wrong, but she just felt like she didnât want to talk just yet. When she did respond, it was going to be to tell him she wanted to forget everything that had happened that day and to move on as if everything was normal, minus the fact that she and Roman were no longer together.
Roman hadnât texted or called at all. She wasnât sure if it hurt more that he hadnât, or if it had hurt less.
She was sat in the living room, half paying attention to some movie that was playing on TV, when a knock came at the door. The sudden sound startled (Y/N). She wasnât expecting anyone, and she knew her parents werenât either as they werenât even home. She figured it might be a door to door salesman, or someone trying to talk to her about the Lord, although it seemed too late at night for any of that. Either way, she stood from the couch and went to answer the door.
Standing there, leaning against her doorway, was Roman Godfrey.
âWhat are you doing here?â she asked him.
âCan I come in?â he asked in return.
âNot until you answer my question.â
âI came to talk to you.â
âYou have a phone, which I know you know how to use because you were blowing mine up before you came to attack me and Peter.â
âI wanted to come talk to you in person. Youâd be more likely to answer the door if you didnât know I was coming than to answer your phone if you knew it was me calling.â
Okay, he has a point.
(Y/N) reluctantly stepped aside and gestured for Roman to come in. She closed the door behind him and led him towards the living room. She had been sat with all the lights off before Roman knocked and hadnât realized just how dark the room had become. She switched on a small table lamp and muted the movie before sitting back in her spot on the couch.
âYour parents arenât home?â Roman asked.
âNo, theyâre gone to some gala for dadâs work,â she responded. âDonât get any funny ideas. Weâre not together anymore, remember?â
Roman winced, as if her words had physically harmed him. âYeah, I know. Thatâs what I came to talk about.â
He sat down next to her on the couch, but left a respectable distance between them. She appreciated that it seemed like he wasnât trying to be too pushy towards her or anything, at least not yet.
âGo on then,â she said, waving her hand at him. âStart talking. What was so important that you had to come down from your castle to speak to the commoner?â
Roman scowled at her. âYou know youâre not a commoner.â
âCompared to you and your wealth I am. But thatâs not the conversation weâre having right now. Whatever it is you wanted to say, say it, and then Iâll decide whether or not I want you to leave immediately.â
Roman sighed and ran his hands through his hair. (Y/N) quickly glanced at the dark brown strands that were between his fingers. His hair was always incredibly soft. (Y/N) always loved to run her hands through his hair and seized every opportunity to do so. She had to look away just as quickly and shove down those painful memories. She couldnât let herself break and go back to him just because of something so trivial.
âIâm sorry.â
The words shocked (Y/N) so much that she almost physically jumped when he said them. They were words she had very rarely ever heard said with such sincerity coming from Romanâs mouth. She had heard it in sarcastic mutters under his breath whenever his mother chastised him for something stupid, or said to defuse a situation that was getting a little too heated, but this wasnât in either of those ways. This time, he actually meant it.
âCan you say that again?â (Y/N) asked.
Roman chuckled and rolled his eyes. âI said Iâm sorry.â
âOne more time.â
â(Y/N), I do have more to say.â
âYeah, but this is what I want to hear.â
Roman shook his head at her, a smile threatening to break out across his face. âLook, what you said earlier, at Peterâs, you were right. You are my girlfriend, not my property. I shouldnât have been so possessive and attempting to control your friendship with Peter. I just...every time you two are together, Iâm reminded about the fact that you and Peter are close, and that youâve been close for a very long time. I know that Peter isnât as much of a prick as I am, some would say heâs an actual nice guy I guess. I know thereâs nothing between the two of you, but thereâs always been this fear in the back of my mind that maybe...maybe that could change. That you would want Peter more than you want me.â
There was hurt in his big green eyes. His confession surprised her because Roman always seemed so confident in himself. It was one of the first things she had ever heard about him, about how cocky he was.
âWhy did you never tell me before?â she asked.
Roman shrugged. âI donât know. I didnât want to seem like a crazy, possessive boyfriend. I didnât realize I had already been acting like that. I actually thought I was hiding it well.â
âYeah, because showing up to Peterâs place because I didnât answer my phone is totally not a crazy, jealous boyfriend move.â
He chuckled. âOkay, touchĂ©. That was not one of my better moments.â
âNone of how you were acting was one of your better moments,â (Y/N) said. âI wouldâve much preferred you to have told me how you were feeling instead of bottling them up and allowing yourself to treat your best friend like garbage whenever we were hanging out.â
Roman cringed. âI did treat Peter pretty terribly, didnât I? God, he probably hates me.â
âYouâre definitely not his favorite person right now, but Iâm sure you can get back in his good graces by acting like an actual person and not like a jealous piece of shit.â
âWhat about your good graces?â
(Y/N) thought to herself for a moment. He had come to apologize in person. He knew the way he had acted was wrong, he actually apologized for it, and it seemed like he was willing to make a change. Thatâs what she wanted, wasnât it? For him to work on the jealousy and actually change it.
âI think you can get back there,â she said. âYouâll just have to work for it again.â
âIâll do whatever it takes.â
(Y/N) smiled. She moved closer towards him and unmuted the movie. âYou can start by cuddling me and finishing this bullshit movie with me.â
He smiled back at her and put his arm around her shoulder. âI can do that. But why are we finishing the movie if itâs bullshit?â
âBecause Iâm invested in the bullshit.â
Roman chuckled and pulled (Y/N) towards him. She rested her head against his shoulder and he put his head on hers. He tested the waters by placing a kiss on the top of her head. (Y/N) didnât argue. Instead, she turned her head to kiss his cheek before settling against him again.
#Roman Godfrey#roman godfrey imagine#roman godfrey x reader#bill skarsgard#bill skarsgard imagine#bill skarsgard x reader#hemlock grove#hemlock grove imagine#imagine#one shot#fanfiction#fanfic#fandom
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Bonzle is 100% without a shadow of a doubt a trans allegory. People have been trying their best to say Sora isn't transcoded, but Bonzle is 2 scenes away from looking at the camera and saying "Hello. I'm a trans allegory." I shall now go into detail on every piece of evidence for this claim because fuck you.
EPISODE 5: Bonzle is afraid of how her found family will react to learning she's a spell (trans) and worries she will be rejected because of it. Easy parallel to trans people being afraid of revealing they're trans post transition. There's also her conversation with Bitch Boy Master Wu, with her saying she feels great loneliness, and only after gaining a physical form (transitioning) she feels happy and her true self. Very common trans experience. Gonna also put all of the quotes for my evidence as well since I know there's transphobes (filth) that like Ninjago and will be scrambling to deny it when people start coming to this conclusion too.
"Bonzle: I-- I was afraid of what you'd think if you knew about my past... Wu: It's called loneliness... Bonzle: I feel like, for the first time ever, I've become who I was destined to be... Bonzle: I was afraid if you found out I wasn't a real person, you wouldn't want me to be in our family anymore."
EPISODE 6: Bonzle is apprehensive about meeting with Gandalaria, seeing as how she's only known Bonzle as a spell, aka pre transition. She worries if she will respect her identity, much like how actual trans people fear how their family, more specifically a parental figure, would react. Bit of a light episode but an important aspect, here's the quotes;
"Bonzle: The Sorceress. She only knows me as a spell. What if she doesn't believe in me as a real person?"
EPISODE 7: This episode is the sauce. Bonzle is reunited with Gandalaria and their conversation is nothing short of magical. Gandalaria immediately recognizes Bonzle, saying she was her greatest creation and had always hoped she'd come home, shattering Bonzle's fears. It's a fantastic contrast, showing how this interaction can go well for some people, while others get an interaction much more akin to Sora's parents. When she's informed of Bonzle's chosen name, Gandalaria immediately starts using it, saying it's a great name. However, for that juicy authenticity, Gandalaria accidentally says spell before quickly correcting herself saying Bonzle. IT'S LITERALLY SO FUCKING OBVIOUS BONZLE'S BONES MIGHT AS WELL BE BLUE PINK AND WHITE. Oh yeah, here's the paragraph of quotes;
"Gandalaria: It's you! My dearest! You've come home! Bonzle: You... You recognize me? Even in my boney physical form? Gandalaria: Oh, I would know your true essence anywhere. Bonzle: I was so afraid you wouldn't accept me for who I am now. Gandalaria Are you kidding? I put my heart, my soul into every spell I weave... The most complex spell I've ever woven, and the first of my creations to ever come back to me!.. Bonzle: I'm Bonzle. That's the name I chose when I became a person. Gandalaria: Well, that's a splendid name... If this Ras times it right, he could reverse the power spell-- uh, Bonzle here--."
EPISODE 9: This episodes importance comes from Jordana, who acts EXACTLY how transphobes do. She constantly calls her a spell (some sort of derogatory term), says she's playing person (like pretending to be a girl), and says she's helping her do what she was made for, like transphobes very creepy beliefs in reproduction. Literally you half expect Jordana to ask which bathroom Bonzle uses since she was a spell. THE QUOTES;
"Jordana: Settle down, spell. I don't know what you think you've been doing, playing person with your fake family, but I know your true purpose... You should thank us. We're helping you to do what you were created to do."
In conclusion the silly lego skeleton girl is one of them spooky transgenders. Lmk if there's anything I missed. Thank you for reading.
#ninjago#lego ninjago#ninjago dragons rising#lego ninjago dragons rising#dragons rising#dragons rising season 2#ninjago spoilers#dragons rising spoilers#ninjago bonzle#ninjago Gandalaria#ninjago sora
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"i've watched everything on netflix!!" no, you haven't. you're just getting recommended the same four things over and over again.
a list of shows on netflix you should watch and why:
- ever after high: WATCH IT WATCH IT!! it is for kids but also not really at all- the only reason its marketed like that is because its by mattel and unapologetically girly. they got it right i want cute dresses and dolls and a plot that will emotionally destroy me
it's about the descendants of the fairy tale characters at a school. raven queen and apple white, the daughters of the evil queen and snow white respectively, are roommates. raven does not want to be evil like her mother, which apple white, the headmaster and others are upset by because then their stories and happy ever afters may be affected. SO GOOD, THE PLOTLINES ARE PEAK
- alice in borderland: a japanese show about three friends who are hanging around tokyo, when everybody suddenly disappears. after a couple hours, a bright sign pointing them to a nearby "game" appears. they begin playing the game, but slowly realize that if they lose, they die. ITS SO GOOD WATCH IT RIGHT NOW I AM OBSESSED WITH IT (esp after the third episode)
- school spirits: basically, the main character dies at their school and has no idea how. she meets the other ghosts that have died at the school, but all of them seem to remember how they've died. MYSTERY ~~~~ its so good i keep saying that about these shows, but this one is literally amazing
- heartbreak high: i don't even know how to explain this one. basically, a girl gets caught for a sx map her friend and she made, and gets sorted into a health class with them. the energy and humor of this show is amazing and also they all have australian accents so. tbh, a coming of age type show
- alrawabi school for girls: a jordanian show about a girl who comes back to school after being bullied, beat up and humiliated by these three girls. she gets revenge. SO GOOD AJDNWHSNSH
- camp cretaceous: another kids show...but its just so good. six kids go to jurassic park for a camp- but we all know what happens there. i have never watched jurrassic park or world and i love this show
- she-ra and the princesses of power: adora, a girl who trains for the Horde, finds a magic sword and meets a village terrorized by the Horde and realizes she might not be on the right side of this battle. JANSBSHABS JUST WATCH IT (also slow burn queer love story what)
- anne with an e: by accident, anne shirley arrives at a farm to be adopted by two siblings. living in the late 1890s, anne's a yapper. coming of age and also historical this one's not super obscure but still so underrated
- dash and lily: a quick, heartwarming love story between two teens during christmas with witty banter through a journal they hide at different spots with clues. SO CUTE I WATCH IT EVERY YEAR DURING CHRISTMAS AND I LOVE IT
- alexa and katie: two best friends going into high school's plans change when one of them gets cancer. so cute, coming of age and humor.
- kipo and the age of wonderbeasts: same vibe as she-ra, it's about a girl who's lived underground her whole life, accidentally finding herself above ground in a post apocalyptic earth searching for her old home with friends JUST WATCH IT
#THERE.#GO WATCH THEM.#netflix#she ra#kipo and the age of wonderbeasts#alexa and katie#alice in borderland#camp cretaceous#dash and lily#anne with an e#school spirits#al rawabi school for girls#ever after high#heartbreak high
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"You're my son and I will always love and support you," Talia said, surprising her son.
Talia picked up Damian from school, after showing proof she was his mother without using a weapon. She infomred Bruce of this after she had left the school with him and while he wasn't happy about it, Damian reassured his father he'll protect himself in case anything bad happens with his mother.
Although Talia wasn't there to convince him to join the league of assassins, she took him out for lunch, much to his surprise.
Damian and Talia sat together on the roof top of a random building eating vegetarian burgers.
Talia: This meatless burger isn't bad.
Damian (chewing): Told you. That place does a good job at making vegetarian burgers.
Talia (sincere): I'm so proud of you for sticking to your convictions on not eating meat and found good options like this.
Talia gave Damian a gentle pat on the head before returning to her burger. Damian focused on his feet, steeling himself as he prepared to ask his mother a question he had held in for years.
Damian: Mother... question.
Talia (turning to her son with a smile): Yes?
Damian: Do you see me as weak or inferior?
Talia (confused): Of course not, why would you ever wonder that?
Damian (hesitant): I... don't like killing, I don't eat meat, I like animals more than people. When I was living with you, you wanted me to be a better version of my father and Ra's definitely sees me as inferior. He sent it in a birthday card once.
Talia (rubbing her forehead frustrated): I knew I should've read that card before he sent it out.
Talia placed her burger on her lap and wiped her hands.
Talia: I battled through the same concerns with my father, and for the time you were with us I made the mistake of wanting you to be what Bruce refused to be. I look at those days with regret now and I am sorry for instilling that mindset in your head. As for grandpa, there's a big difference between me dealing with him and you dealing with him. Want to know what it is?
Damian: I'm triracial?
Talia (giggling): Yes, but I'm your momma, all that matters is what I think of you! Not Ra's. That man is a strict, mostly unhinged man with a god complex and while I do love him very much, I wouldn't take what he says to heart, tifl. I like the young man you are... You've never given me a reason to be disappointed in you. He looks down on my son? I will deal with him accordingly and have in the past. I love you because I see that you aren't weak. You're making your own path. When I let Bruce keep you, it wasn't simply to get you away from my father, it was because even though I don't agree with Bruce's no-kill rule, he's a man that can raise you to be a good man. That man may be traumatized, but him and his family are a support system I knew would be right for you.
Damian: Is that why you keep stalking him and trying to get back with him?
Talia: That and I want to get rid of the no-kill rule. I'll admit I'm crazy in love with that man, but do you think if I keep trying he'll change his mind and join the league.
Talia playfully elbowed her son on the arm making him laugh.
Damian: Sorry to tell you, but you'll lose that battle.
Talia shrugged with a smile.
Talia: Then I still have you and he... has you. We love who you are. I will ask you one question though, do you see yourself as weak or inferior?
Damian (shaking his head): No, I can beat Superman if I get the right tools.
Talia: Then you're doing good in life and if Ra's says anything to make you doubt yourself, please go to me.
Damian nodded with a smile.
Talia: I am at a point in my life where I love you far too much to be upset that you make decisions I don't always agree with. My father hurt you, I hurt you, and you never got a say on who you wanted to become. Bruce may not be perfect, but he was the best man to take you in. But Damian, I never want you worry that I think of you as a weak imitation of either of us. Okay?
Damian (nodding with a small smile): Mm... um... mother?
Talia: Yes?
Damian: I... love you. Even when you're a smother mother.
Talia: And I love you more.
Talia planted a kiss on her son's cheek, and Damian leaned his head against her shoulder, bringing a smile to her face. She might be a villain, but her love for her son was unwavering; she would never do him any harm.
#talia al ghul headcanon#talia and damian#talia al ghul#batman#damian wayne headcanon#damian wayne is a vegetarian#this is just my headcanon#bruce wayne#batdad#batmom#talia being a good mother#talia al ghul is doing her best#talia being a good mom#headcanon batfamily#part of my batfamily microseries#batfamily funny#batfamily#Batfamily Adventures - The Series#batfamily shenanigans#batfamily fluff#microfiction#flash fiction#batfamily comedy#batfamily headcanons#script fic#part of my batfamily flash fiction#dc fanfiction#batfamily microseries#batfamily fanfiction#batfamily fic
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Animated Series ending tier list
Okay this is based on a discussion with @j4gm, kim and mifil the other day
These are all cartoons with the exception of Homestuck. I'll admit I don't get invested in a lot of TV shows, even animated shows, so this is limited to stuff I like. Maybe i forgot something but if i did it's probably not worth talking about.
Here's the list if you're interested in building your own.
So I'll go through each item one by one and explain. Yes, I did arrange them based on better (left) and worse (right) for each tier. I'll start from top to bottom so I have the most energy for the better show endings.
I'm rating them both in how they respect the stories of their show, and how entertaining/cohesive they are as a piece of media. To be honest, the former matters to me more than the latter, but some of the shows at the top of this list aren't even ones I particularly like, because their endings were just that well written.
Astonishing
Owl House. This show got better and better with each episode. I don't know, I was blown away by how bad it was at the start and how great it was at the end. And of every item on this list, this one's ending episode had the best pacing. There was lots of room to breathe, lots of reminders of the connections between various characters, and the villain was taken care of in a satisfying way. And we got a beautiful epilogue. The only reason Owl House is in the same tier as She-ra and Gravity Falls, instead of being its own category, is because I felt it had some shortcomings, particularly s3e2 focused on a bunch of characters nobody has ever had any reason to care for, and a lot of the cast don't reach the potential they could do because they lack focus, so I don't have as much emotional attachment to it as a lot of other shows listed here. Anyway here's my favourite moment:
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2. She-Ra and the Princess of Power. This is my favourite show on this list because I think it's the most cohesive of the lot. Even though it has a rough start, and often follows cartoon logic, from the very beginning of She-ra to the end it focuses strongly on the same themes. The cycle of abuse and pain and that feeling you will need to earn love, you need to earn the right to exist. It does so with a wide cast of characters, but it's also very good at trimming down to a smaller cast when it needs more focus. There are a lot of good decisions to make sure it worked in the small runtime it had. The ending of she-ra is basically its entire final season. It's one long arc. It doesn't have any major weak spots like The Owl House's final season did, and it has more room to breathe, with 13 incredible episode of about 20 minutes each, more than twice the length. And it delivers on every single character. Every member of the cast gets a moment to shine across the season, yet it isn't so distracted as to pull attention away from Catra and Adora. What makes She-ra's ending a bit weaker than Owl House's is the pacing of the final episode. Heart part 1 and 2, while great, is absolutely rammed, and one of the weaker episodes of that season because of it. You don't get enough room to breathe, you don't get to soak in the characters' emotions quite as much as in the episode prior, Failsafe. But I would count Failsafe as part of the ending. So while season 5's finale isn't even the best finale of She-ra (s3 and s4 were harder hitting), the final season as a whole is incredibly strong. And it's a very entertaining piece of media too! Ugh. I love it.
Here's this powerful scene of Catra whispering and yet screaming to Adora to stay with her, even in the end.
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3. Gravity Falls.
To be honest I'm not much of a Gravity Falls fan, so I don't have as much to say as I do about the other two shows, but this ending is highly regarded across the cartoon community. It works perfectly within the smaller scope of the show, bringing a wide, crazy calamity for the characters to work with.
My problem with Gravity falls is Mabel. Not that she's a bad character, but that they don't spend enough time making her a good one. And the ending reflects that - it shows her doing something very major, overturning the world, and that's interesting, but it keeps presenting Mabel's problems as rather shallow instead of focusing on her psychology and why she's making these mistakes. Meanwhile it spends a lot of time on Dipper and explaining and justifying his teenage boy mentality and it drived me crazy how much more of a main character Dipper is than Mabel. Because it's Mabel I relate more to. She's more like I was when I was 12. It's a teen boy's show for teen boys, so I don't like it as much as Owl House or Amphibia. Other than that the ending is a good time and I love the themes of family, I love that Dipper has such low self worth and is grappling with the idea of what manliness even is, facing misguided pressure from other relatives like Stan and Ford. And I love the relationship between Stan and Ford, the mistakes they made, and how Stan ultimately takes responsibility for being an obstructive little shit by removing his memory, taking Bill with him!
Yeah, perhaps this show's ending could've been further strengthened by Stan having his memory lost forever, or having a harder time regaining it. But it makes sense in the stakes of Gravity Falls, where the world resets after every episode even if there was a zombie invasion. I don't see them having Stan forget his great nephew/niece as the ending of the show.
And it has a nice scene with the characters driving off in the bus... Heartbreaking. I love that Stan and Ford go adventuring together afterwards. And I love the theme song.
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Remaining rankings below - I think these three should be celebrated most. It's gonna be a shorter summary from here.
Genuinely Good
These are endings that blow you away, but do have a couple nooks and crannies stopping them from reaching the top tier. Another person's list might put them at the top.
Adventure Time Distant Lands: See what's crazy about Distant Lands is that anyone one of these episodes might be the best in the series if it was a different show, but Adventure Time is such a good show that the way Distant Lands is different stands out to me. Like, Together Again, you might think I'm crazy for not putting it above Owl House, but while it's a fantastic episode, really emotional, it's not even my favourite Distand Lands episode. That would be Obsidian which I felt was a more honest resolution to the characters of the show itself, showing the limitless future ahead of the cast instead of what TA did which was demonstrate that Finn really didn't go much further after the end of the show. I felt TA was very limiting in that sense, it contradicted the ending to Adventure Time, which had the strength of "the adventure never ends". Which means that growth never ends. Finn is supposed to be an ever changing character, but in Together Again, he's stagnant.
Other than that, it's absolutely top tier. But not good enough for me to call it the best of the best. Even if I think Finn's character writing was a downgrade, or harmed the main show, I think where DL and TA did better than Come Along With Me is it was actually coherent and had strong themes rather than being a mishmash of random parts of Adventure Time that they wanted to shove in before it was over. It was a better tv finale, one of the best and most emotional ever made, but it's hard to call it a better Adventure Time finale, because AT's legacy hinders on so much more. 2. OK KO: Let's be Heroes: This is a show that went under the radar. It was coming out at the same time as Steven Universe, which was far more popular. So I'll explain it to you: OK KO has two endings. KO has grappled with his alternate persona, TKO, for the entire show. In the first ending, TKO takes over, and starts fighting everyone in a giant tournament. He literally kills all the cast, while KO is struggling to regain control. KO's epiphany is that TKO is a part of himself he buried long ago. KO has always tried to be the sweetest kid possible, so all his rage and fire, all his strength, was neglected and buried. That became TKO. It's similar to the ending of Celeste. They fuse together, but KO is crying because he killed all his friends. So he makes a wish to the God of the Universe to give everyone a happy ending. Then you get a really nice ending montage of all the characters from OK KO having the time of their life. One interesting touch was Venomous, KO's bastard father, had very little to do with KO in this timeline. KO clearly wanted nothing to do with him. But Venomous is shown raising his adoptive daughter Fink and doing a fantastic job. The final episode of OK KO has KO seemingly stuck in time acceleration. Time is flying by, his friends are achieving their goals, leaving the town, way before he can begin to process what he's even doing here. Everything is going faster and faster and it's like he's jumping forward! He doesn't know what's going on!!! But when he explains his plight, he's told... This is normal. This is a normal part of growing up. What seems like time acceleration is just time passing by. Then the rest of the episode show KO going through his life in the same manner. A big gag of the show is KO is age 6-11. That's his age. It's the same as the target audience for OKKO. But you see him grow up. His twelth to fifteenth birthday... 18th to 24th birthday... 25th to 35th birthday... At the end, he's in charge of the Bodega, a full adult looking after runts just like Mr Gar did. I dunno, I felt this was a very meaningful way to end the show. Even if it's not the most emotionally heavy hitting series, even if it's way too short, it did something that stays in my mind to this day. Time goes by in such a flash that you don't notice it was there to begin with, so appreciate the good things life throws at you.
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3. The Legend of Korra: The show Korra wasn't particularly great, if I was rating the media as a whole it would probably be at the very bottom of this list. Yes below Star and Homestuck and Kipo. It's not remarkable in the slightest and constantly fumbles.
However I was at the edge of my seat during the series finale in Season 4. I was excited by the conflict between Korra and Kuvira. I loved the metalbending battles. I loved Korra's actualisation, how Kuvira is a very good rival, how their whole conflict plays out with Korra demonstrating such an INSURMOUNTABLE LEVEL OF STRENGTH both in power and character to save Kuvira from her own mistake.
I love how Korra decides to take a break and leave with Asami into the spirit world through the portal she just opened. It was a nice relationship in a show that has so heavily fumbled its prior character dynamics.
And you can't forget how it felt watching this the first time. Afterwards, Bryke made a post on tumblr saying "Korrasami is Canon". You have to remember, this was long before Bubbline was anything more than subtext in two episodes. This was before Steven Universe's "Stronger than You". This was the first time two girls were confirmed to be in a relationship in a kid's cartoon in America. I was so happy. You have to understand Korrasami did a lot of good things and made a lot of the queer representation in these other items possible.
Did the job
These are endings that were OK. They were satisfying but they weren't anything special. They weren't the best episodes or seasons of the series they're from.
Avatar: The last Airbender: I will be honest this show is in a similar realm to She-ra wherein its whole final season is one big buildup to a couple of fast-pased episodes. And honestly its final episode might be better than She-ra's in a pacing sense? But... The simple part is I don't like Avatar as much. I didn't feel particularly strongly about most of these characters. It's a very competent tv finale, with strong scenes - the Agni Kai, and Katara's capture of Azula, are particular strong points. But it's quite long and there are a lot of scenes I don't feel much about, like Aang vs Ozai. Back in the day lots of people were unhappy Aang spared Ozai, and I get that it's not in character for him to just kill him, but it was the original "deus ex machina" for Aang to find a way to get out of it and get what he wanted. It isn't particularly interesting. And then Aang x Katara... I don't care. So yeah ATLA does the job. It's a great final season but I don't care for the finale itself and the characters. while great for the time - by far the EARLIEST show to release on this list - are more childish and cartoony than most. They don't have depth required to compete with more modern cartoons. You've only got maybe two outstanding characters in a tight story vs She-ra's one dozen in a looser story, and honestly I value character more than cohesion because that's what you remember. That's what makes you feel things. Anyone can make a story where things happen but what makes you care? Being a bit harsh here because a lot of people call this the greatest show of all time blah de blah and throw away everything all the other shows do better. But the ATLA finale isn't even in the top ten most interesting episodes of the series. This part went hard though (couldn't find a video of it alone):
Azula starts the scene dominating Katara, and then Katara turns the tables and restrains her using the very ice which fire is supposed to melt, which is mentally destroying for Azula. All she can do is scream and breathe fire when she is restrained, unable to let out all her rage and pain. And Katara spares a moment to witness this, looking troubled, before she runs off to Zuko, attempting to save his life.
2. Adventure Time original ending: Why is my favourite show of all time listed so far down? Why? Well it's because while that AT finale is emotional, hits a lot of themes, it's... a fucking mess. The first part is a war which has only been relevant for two episodes, the second part is a dream sequence which destroy any tension you might've had, and the rest is an unrelated battle against GOLB because we needed a real final boss.
It's a really bad tv finale. And it even does harm to my favourite character in the show, Princess Bubblegum, by making her seem irrational. She's someone who has had the entire series for us to get to know her, to see her biggest flaws and see her struggle to overcome them. So for her to fall back on them yet again, nearly fuck everyone over, with such little buildup and justification and literally throw a child tantrum when Finn interrupts it, it's an injustice to her. She deserved better than everyone thinking she's a fascist forever. The AT crew should have respected their own work on that character better instead of leaving her off like that.
But... even despite these issues, despite being so incoherent? It's a great Adventure Time ending. It makes perfect sense. Of COURSE it's anticlimactic! Of COURSE there's a ten minute dream sequence of crazy shit happening! Of course it's so sudden, things happen so quickly without much time spent to reflect on them! It's Adventure Time! This is what we're HERE for! And the emotional heart of the episode, it isn't really in the Great Gum War or the battle against Golb. It's in Shermie and Beth, and Future Ooo. The fact that the world will end again, but even then.. it's fine. Everything changes. Everything grows. Nothing can stay as it is forever, but letting it go might allow something new and beautiful to take its place.
It's in Jake trying to protect his home, freaking out, and BMO coming in... instead of being looked after, BMO decides to reassure jake, even in certain doom.
It's in Time Adventure. We may not be able to go home, turn back time, relive the past and return to how things were, but... you and I will always be back then.
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3. Scavenger's Reign: I felt this show started stronger than it ended. The ending wasn't offensive but it wasn't good either. Honestly I don't have shit to say about the ending, other than that Barry is an annoying stereotype of an autistic character with no agency of his own and it breaks my heart. I liked how relentlessly bad Kris was and I liked Azi struggling to save the day. I liked how her character evolved from being straightfoward and pushing down Levi's curious, kind traits, to embracing those very things in her memory.... while maintaining the strength in adversity needed to challenge someone like Kris. The baby alien thing sure was there. I dunno, the earlier eps with those two hit harder than the ending. The worst part is the sequel bait. We are not getting a sequel. Why is there sequel bait? Seems like the crew were a bit too optimistic for a team of cartoonists working for HBO Max.
But the show as a whole is incredible and has left a strong impression. So, an inoffensive ending is completely fine. I like how everyone is still stranded because of Kris, who meanwhile is dehydrating to death in space because of the organic Levi invasion, and all the people they left behind are chilling in the alien wonderland, learning how to live comfortably.
4. Fionna and Cake: We're now moving into the endings I dislike for one reason or another. I liked Fionna and Cake's themes with Simon and Betty, how it showed a bit more from Betty's side, how obsessive she was with him and he didn't even know.
This does have a weakness though. It removes agency from Betty. It was her choice, in the finale, to sacrifice herself to become GOLB. She was chasing Simon over and over and over again, SHE was the obsessive mad scientist, and she finally achieved her goal at great cost even though could've given up at any time. It was a tragedy. But here it kinda shifts the blame on Simon, even though he was a victim of Betty's obsession. I'm not accusing it of victim blaming, more that I really liked that it was Betty making her own terrible mistakes. It added a lot of character and conviction to her. I don't think Fionna and Cake undermines this much. Kim was a lot more bothered. Besides the Simon plot, the rest is.. ok. It was very predictable Fionna would want to protect the boring, happy world she came from. It fits and it has heart. But it's not remarkable. The ending montage is... weird. Why is Jay and Little Destiny here? Why is Baby Finn here? What about their worlds? Won't they be missed? Did Farmworld Finn fucking die? And the big problem with Fionna and Cake is.. it's such a meanspirited show, even compared with Adventure Time. It relies on you finding tragic shit really funny, like BMO having a horrible gory deeath in jerry. When Fionna and Cake has desensitized me this much, it's hard to feel emotionally invested in this world anymore. It made mistakes by showing too many alternate universes and undermining the world of Adventure Time itself, and I have issues with how Marceline was completely absent from the series - AGAIN - despite allegedly being so important to Simon. It's an outright BAD Adventure Time ending!!! I do love the presentation of Casper and Nova, how it was revealed it wasn't Simon Petrikov but the little Fionna and Cake fan who was able to write the story that finally got through to him and made him realise he needed to stop holding betty back.
"You were a good experience, Simon. Goodbye."
Mistakes were Made
These are the endings that fumbled, disappointed people. They still have value in them but theyre largely disliked by the fanbases involved. I'll explain a bit of why.
1, Arcane: This one just ended last night and is the reason I'm making this post.
I explained a bit here and here, but the issue is: Arcane's a much better show than it has any right to be. It's a league of legends cartoon. But season 1 is so heavy hitting, a tight ship from start to end focusing on the dramas of Vi, Jinx, and the people around them. The main weakness of season 1 was Jayce, Viktor, and Mel. It would distract from the main story in order to focus on them, but wouldn't spend enough time making them compelling characters. Season 2 has this issue tenfold where it seems the scope of the season was so big that it had very limited time to have those amazing scenes from season 1. And there certainly some heavy hitters, like Ekko save-scumming his conversation with Jinx to find a way to stop her killing herself, or Caitlyn and Mel's battle with Ambessa, or Jayce and Viktor yetting themselves into arcane oblivion, but... the finale itself seems very disconnected from the rest of the series, having a generic big bad in Possessed Chaos God Viktor. It lacks any of the intrigue of the Piltover vs Zaun conflict that was so important from s1e1 all the way to s2e4, after which it was promptly discarded in favour of other distractions. And as a result, Jinx and Vi are left as side characters in the ending of their own series, with a lot of their internal struggles left behind. Instead of the tragedy of season 1's ending, we are left thinking of the tragedy of how much better the ending could've been if they had just one more season to give these characters justice.
The strongest episode of the season is probably episode 6. If you know, you know.
2. Ducktales: So if you were a casual viewer of Ducktales you probably had no issues with this one. It's a competent TV finale where stuff happens and all the characters get involved and there are emotional themes.
What's weird about this one, and why it's so far down, is because of Webby's role. Webby is a misfit because she's not a member of the Scrooge family. She's a wannabe. She wants to be part of them, part of the siblings, and she has more in common with Scrooge and Della's brilliance than the other three, but she will never have that blood relationship. Her own parents are dead too, so she has feelings about watching the triplets reunite with their mother.
But in season 3... Ot's like the Ducktales writers were told they only had one episode left to work with and just made something up, and what they decided to do was take the "found family" trope and say "actually it was real family the whole time because Webby was Scrooge's secret clone daughter".
It leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The show did such a good job before this point showing Webby's development as she gets loved and accepted into the family. But for her to have always secretly had that blood relationship undercuts it fully.
It also undercuts her relationship to her grandmother, who tries to move out of the picture as soon as the truth comes out. The show does have Webby embracing her gran to show theyre still family. But we already had this story told in a better way with Webby and Scrooge and the triplets.
The fact the finale has nothing to do with the rest of the season is also why it's so far down. The season 2 finale was pretty spectacular by comparison and had compelling scenes like Della freaking out over protecting her kids and "running to the moon" with them, recycling her trauma (yes a ducktales character has trauma).
If you're not bothered by it, it's an inoffensive, fun finale. But more obsessive Ducktales fans and Webby fans were quite upset, myself included.
3. Kipo and the age of Wonderbeasts
I can't remember much about how this show ended. Honestly that's part of the problem. The first season was far more intrigueing than anything that followed and the whole thing came out across 2020 and it was a forgettable experience despite Karen Fukuhara voicing the energetic Kipo.
What I do remember is being pissed off about some things. Like how a lot of the talking animals were turned into non-talking animals and that was how things ended for them, and no vaccine or anything was made. It pissed me off somehow? Please kipo fans tell me your feelings on this.
I also disliked the final villain. She's a lot like Kris from Scavenger's Reign but even more generic and disappointing.
I dunno, to me the finale represents the wasted potential of this show. How it takes place in a world that rivals Adventure Time's, but Netflix did away with it so quickly, releasing three entire seasons in one year and leaving it with a generic end.
The peak into everyone's futures is nice, but it's not intrigueing like with The Owl House or Adventure Time.
4. Steven Universe: What a hot mess of an ending that threw out so much potential for the wider Steven Universe world. The motivations of the main villains were narrowed down to "we have emotional problems". Steven Universe has a consistent issue where it has emotional scenes at the expense of characters and story.
But I rate this more highly than the SU Future ending, despite that one having perhaps more cohesive writing, because I felt that the SU end had some incredible scenes that carried the spirit of the show while SU Future constantly undermined the original series without providing enough value of its own.
In particular, the scene James Baxter animated of Steven and Steven. This was mind-blowing, it was the climax to the most important part of the story, the truth of Steven's identity and whether he was his own person.
In retrospect that scene brings more value to me than all the bad parts of SU... but SU had so many amazing characters. It's a tragedy that Steven was the only one of them that the show still loved by the end.
Hardest line:
She's GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!!!!
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5. Amphibia: Season 3 was plagued by being worse than season 2. The opening episodes on Earth were kinda bad, just "Amphibia season 1 episodes but in a far more boring setting". I hated anything involving the secret agents.
The fact Kipo, Scavenger's Reign, and Amphibia all have corpo villains at the end, and the fact I didn't like any of those endings, shows to me that it's not a particularly great thing to add to a fantasy story.
The first sad part is "the magic is destroyed". A popular theme in Disney shows. Well, what happens here is Sasha, Anne, and Marcy lose their magic abilities, and they decide to stay on Earth and lose the ability to travel to Amphibia. It's not massively offensive but it's kind of played out and generic and it does the sad thing of separating the trio from their found family. What's controversial is the epilogue shows that Anne, Sasha, and Marcy stopped hanging out after the end. They just broke off from each other's lives, it was easy as that. It wasn't a lifelong friendship. They do reunite in the end but it's been like ten years. It undermines the emotional turmoil that was present across the whole show. What Matt Braly wanted to show is sometimes things happen. Despite how much you want to be best friends forever... you stop being close to people, you lose touch with them. But this isn't a story that makes much sense when the characters have been through so much together in a fantasy world. It's like Marcy's worst fears have come true, and while that's a point of growth for her, it's frustrating for the viewers who believed the endgame bonds between the characters were better than that.
[Edit: Other than that, a lot of characters weren't delivered in justice s3 with how they had been built up in season 2. Sasha is hardly present in season 3 and Marcy is genuinely not present at all, and when we watched it we really thought they were gonna do more with Marcy when she came back. Swim in that emotional trauma a little bit! But no she's fine even with her evil father figure gone. It could've been better, should've been because season 2 was so stellar.] And I wasn't a fan of how Anne was portrayed at the end. I don't like how these stories make their characters "grow up" in such a way that they come across as love-all hippies instead of having anything resembling their original personality. Where's her sass? Why is she so melancholic and only melancholic? But that's a personal problem I haven't seen many others talk about.
Other than that, it's a competent episode. But it's the ending to a weaker season compared to what came prior.
The cat in this drawing has been my discord icon since we watched it though.
What the Hell?
These are the endings that shat the bed. I hate them! Everyone else probably does too.
Steven Universe Future: Unlike the other endings of this section, I did feel like Rebecca Sugar was going somewhere with SU future. They had a specific goal in mind for what they wanted to do, and every episode reaches towards that goal in some way. That's why a lot of people think Steven Universe Future is better than the more disjointed, huge tv series that came prior. It had a set start middle and end and carried through those themes. Unfortunately, those themes suck. Yeah, it's great deconstructing the impact Steven Universe had on Steven as a character, showing the damage that was done to him, the ways he's been let down. In isolation, it's a great way to show how a difficult childhood can affect you in adulthood, in ways that you would have never expected. This is the value SU Future has. It also has good sections showing how some other characters have recovered, how Pearl for example is healing and far more social than she ever has been but still has a ways to go, and finally talks to someone about her feelings over Pink Diamond, the previous Pearl that served her. Volleyball is a great episode. Unfortunately it takes the wrong lessons from the mistakes of the show. Steven Universe really wanted us to fall in love with its many characters, but it spent so much time showing Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl's flaws, spent so much time showing them failing Steven, that they ultimately came across as incompetent and sidelined. This is an issue with the original show. Steven Universe Future: "You know what? You're right! That was bad!" Me: "So are you going to do those characters justice and show them having growth and being competent and caring for Steven?" Steven Universe Future: "No. We are going to show them BEING EVEN WORSE and COMPLETELY FAILING to connect with Steven!" Me: "... For the entire thing????" Steven Universe Future: "Yes. this is never fixed and Steven leaves the county because of it." Me: "What the fuck?" Even people who were really into the whole thing were taken aback that Steven's kaiju transformation, the manifestation of his deepest fears about himself, was resolved with a hug. Just like the major conflict in the original show. And instead of a meaningful denouement, the show skipped all the resolution and went to Steven running the fuck away in an episode that would've had equal emotional value if it was in season 1 episode 1, or a competely different series. It was cheap and easy to make a bittersweet ending of Steven leaving the city. And it made it feel like the tragedy of Steven's mental breakdown was more important than his healing. Like they couldn't make an interesting story of him getting better because they're incompetent writers. I did like the scene of Steven crying his eyes out after he detransformed. And a lot of scenes in Future did go hard. But the Crystal Gems deserved better. Hell, Jasper deserved better.
Hardest scene:
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2. Star vs the forces of Evil: Hooo boy. In the animation community this is HERALDED as The Worst Ending. It is the flagship of disappointment.
It disappointed people who loved the magical world the show took place in. It disappointed people who wanted to see Star reach her potential. It disappointed every shipper of every ship, not that I ever cared for the romance dramas but they took a lot of screentime on the show to its detriment. It disappointed people who like to apply basic logic to the things they watch. What a disaster!
Okay so why is it so hated?
Well, Star had been on the decline for a while. It had a fantastic start to season 3, with a great big war for Mewnie where everyone had great character moments, Star died and came back to life and utterly annihilated the villain. Toffee was a great villain, by the way.
There had been a bit of romantic tension between Star and Marco and they both had crushes on each other but refused to ever admit it and Marco thought he was into some other girl, and Star let him go at the start of season 3 and started dating... her ex... this shitty guy called Tom... he's a good character but a terrible boyfriend who kind of suicide baits Star back into his life. And Star would become a terrible girlfriend. I dunno, people really thought that pairing would be endgame but it was clear to me it was just an artificial obstacle in the way of the inevitable Starco ship. Like Kelly. Who Marco dates for a whopping half an episode before they break up offscreen. Great?
Anyway the romance in this series is on the same tier as Korra, though it does try to build up its endgame pairing from the start.
But from season 3 onwards Marco felt more like a joke character. I don't know, they didn't treat him with much respect.
The thing that EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT with Star, oh god it's going to be the longest thing on this list, is Moon and Eclipsa and Mina and the atrocious decisions the characters made.
I'm going to bullet point it so it's vaguely readable:
Star's mother, Queen Moon, goes missing following the events of the start of s3 special.
Star learns that the throne was stolen from monster-fucker Eclipsa and wrongly given to her own family line so she gives the crown to Eclipsa, to great controversy. Eclipsa is a dark magic user who is 300 years old and she's pretty cool but the show takes a sharp turn from this point to being about a racial conflict - Monsters being discriminated against by Mewmans and how a lot of people want to keep it that way.
The council which was previously on the side of good really HATES this decisionn and is now portrayed as bad.
Conflict breaks out and people are against Eclipsa and her giant person-eating husband leading the kingdom.
People have their homes given back to the monsters that they were stolen from hundreds of years ago. It's a silly cartoon form of reparations but it is shown giving them hardship because they are made homeless. By the way nobody in history has been made homeless because of reparations.
These homeless or disgruntled mewmans find Moon, who has re-emerged and decided to stay away from the kingdom. They want their old queen back and side with her, and she thinks they need someone to represent them. She also hates Eclipsa for various reasons.
Moon decides the best way to deal with Eclipsa is to arm the biggest fascist monster-killing character in the world with an invincible undefeatable army of magic soldiers, and retake the kingdom and go to war against the side her own daughter is on.
Moon gets a surprised pikachu face when she realises she can't undo the spell she used to make this fascist evil super army.
Star decides the best way to resolve this is to delete all magic. Kill it. They go to the source of all magic and use a spell to kill everything there. Lots of reindeer die.
Then every magical thing in the universe gets deleted. Every single magic-born creature. The entire council is murdered. All of the creatures in Star's magic wand die. Countless portals to other worlds are closed down, meaning many of the characters can no longer go and see their friends anymore. This is directly shown, by the way - not just inferred.
Somehow, Ponyhead survives.
Then this is capped off by Marco and Star wanting to reunite... and in a scene that is supposed to be emotional, they cleave their universes together. Mewnie lands on top of Earth. Normal humans are screaming as they are chased around by giant creatures.
The story ends.
Yeah do I have to explain any more why this one was unpopular? It's the biggest fumble you can speak of.
My biggest issue is how dumb they had to make Moon in order to achieve this outcome.
But Starco is kind of cute, even if Marco wasn't half the character he used to be by the end.
3. Homestuck: Which ending do you want me to discuss? Act 6? The epilogues? Or HS^2?
Let's start with the main work, as that's what makes Homestuck qualify as an animation.
Act 6 was a vast disappointment because it sort of ended. We had so much talking for so long that we were hoping something cool would happen and then we got a flash where the characters hit each other with sticks. There were no stakes in Collide, not really.
Then we got the Frog flash. We watched a frog for 8 minutes.
Then that was it!
There were so many unanswered questions. What the hell happened to the final boss and the MAIN CAST, for example. We had learnt earlier in the story that in some point of the future, the main cast all get stuck in a little homestuck house which Vriska fires at Lord English. But we never learn when, we never learn if they're ok, we never learn if English is killed or what happens to Vriska. So for a long time there was this disturbing implication that the cast would all die not long after the series ended.
We had the Credits which were much better but further solidified this implication, and it had Terezi fly out into the void looking for Vriska forever, which made me sad and depressed but that was because of my personal involvement in the story really.
Act 6 is more of a "mistakes were made" ending, but it's the Epilogues and HS^2, and the actions of creator Andrew Hussie, which are why it's rock bottom here.
I don't want to give my breath to those items. Let's just say they were the most meanspirited, intentionally offensive, hostile, character-destroying sets of stories every done, created by people who accused every homestuck fan who didn't like them of being "not really trans" or "pedophile harborors" or "deserving to be lined up and shot" (real quote).
And then the fact Hussie fired his entire crew twice and blacklisted them if he ever had any suspicion they complained about his leadership or financial decisions anywhere.
And the fact the entire whatpumpkin team were left uncredited in the original release of Hiveswap Act 2 because Hussie didn't want to give them any credit because he wants his friends to be a hivemind.
I have so much hatred for what Homestuck became. It's tragic because this series was such a big part of my life for so long.
It's also tragic because the main work is a masterpiece. Even Act 7, despite the criticism, is Guzusuru's masterwork with how much effort went into the animation. How much heart went into each illustration the old Paradox Space team made.
So that's it. Homestuck is the one that is not just a little bit worse than Star. Leaps and bounds worse.
But that's it. I have a lot of opinions on endings because they can colour how you view the entire previous work.
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This post is talking about the designs (and the designs only, I haven't read anything from the authors and dont even know who they are so this is design based only) released for the new Damian Wayne comic - The Boy Wonder. I will be heavily critical and btching about these, but please tell me your thoughts as well. After Damian, the others are under the cut. Please read because it's important.
Damian's design is actually really good and the best one, which is probably good since this is a comic about him. And I love how he's not whitewashed, which is something that happens way too much in comics.
Now, to Nightwing, his design is okay for a Nightwing design, but he just looks off in this style. I think if they tried to stylise him more, it could look a lot cooler. So I think he's just got wasted potential. Also, he's probably whitewashed as well to make damian more special as the "only" POC in the family (probly why Cass, Duke, Luke, and Luicus aren't here as well).
Babs is next, and this is the main reason I made this post. They abled her. DC authors stop abling disabled characters, please, for the love of me, I can't stand it. She can be disabled and still be relevant in the plot. I swear the only reason authors do this is because they don't know how to write disabled characters. If they need a Batgirl, use Steph or Cass because they are more than capable of doing it. I know they aren't as iconic as Babs, but move on DC. She's so much more interesting as Oracle.
Batman, I'm not a fan of his big blocky design. I just don't like it. He also looks really irrelevant and giving this is a comic about Robin (his son!) I think he should be relevant or look like he isn't a background character who just grunts, like for the design it looks like he doesn't talk. Don't like it.
Jason now, I actually love his Red Hood costume it looks sick, and the R on the chest *chefs kiss*. But his robin outfit is too gritty, and from that, I can tell he's going to be mischaracterised as the "angry Robin," so Hood looks cool, but that's all it is, his looks.
Tim. There is so much to say, omg. Where is his hero outfit! Everyone else got them. Why didn't he? You can actually see RR in the preview, so why wasn't that design put here? Why is it just Tim? And why does kid Tim look homless you know he grew up rich, before and after his adoption sure he has a style but his cloths wouldn't be friad he'd still look sleek and scruff not on the verge of his cloths falling off his back. For this, I can tell he'll also be mischaracterised as just like Jason since this is a Damian comic they are doing to do him so dirty. :( Sad day for a 90's Tim Drake fan (like every day, tbh save my guy). His RR design also has a shitty mask, but other than that, it seems fine, I like the wings/cape for it that looks pretty cool.
Alfred is a stereotypical old man. He's got no individuality what so ever and will proble be in one panel, say something sarcastic, and never show up again.
Ra's is okay. That's all.
Talia doesn't even look like herself . If you showed me her design with no context, I would not know who she is.
Carrie. Why is she here? Like honestly, why? There are better characters to include in a comic like this, like Steph or Cass or Duke or Helana. They would all be better chooses than Carrie. I'm not the biggest Damian fan, but ofter, Damian fans have been wanting him and Huntress as in a comic for a bit. I do like her design, but I just don't get why she's here. (I'm not including her image because of the limit bit is on my previous repost)
#dc comics#the boy wonder#damian wayne#robin#dick grayson#nightwing#barbara gordon#batgirl#batman#bruce wayne#jason todd#red hood#tim drake#red robin#alfred pennyworth#ra's al ghul#talia al ghul#carrie kelley#character design#character sheet#dc stop ableing disabled characters challenge
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ahhh congrats on 1K!! you deserve it all :D
for your concert, may I suggest got my mind set on you for eren with a friends to lovers type trope? like maybe eren has a bit of a past as a fuckboy and realizes now that he's in love with his friend. she doesn't believe him given his history, so he is determined to woo her, but really he just needs to show her that he's serious about her (because she has already loved him this whole time hehe). OR whatever you want to do!!
got my mind set on you
eren x f!reader
**part of my debut concert event
content: drinking, reader gets her periods and leaks on her sheets, eren is a manwhore, hitch is a hater, jean and marco are masterminds
an: thank you sweet sweet anon! you deserve all the love in the world. I hope you like it <333
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âY/N. White wife-beater or black wife-beater?âÂ
You peek up from the top of your textbook to glare at him and he has that stupid, stupid grin on his face. The one he uses to get anything he wants.Â
âMan. At this point youâre just trying to sound like an asshole.â mutters Jean, taking Arminâs pillow and smacking it straight into his face.Â
Mikasa and Armin laugh in response, agreeing as Eren makes his way over to you, flopping on his bed next to you. Heâs leaning directly into your space, that musky cologne enveloping your nose as he starts talking.Â
âY/N.âÂ
âEren.âÂ
âBlack or white?âÂ
âAss or face?âÂ
âWhat?âÂ
âDo you want me to punch you in the ass or in the face?âÂ
He laughs as he bends over, sticking the aforementioned ass into your space as he knocks your textbook out of your hands and you push him away. And you try to fight the smile trying to make its way on to your face, trying to feign as much anger as you can.Â
But you canât be mad at Eren. You canât be anything but a jumbled mess of feelings at Eren lately.Â
When you moved to college, you were looking forward to getting a fresh start from the town that you grew up in. Not that it was ever a bad place but it was never really a good place either. And you were ready to let it all go, to move away from your parents, to find out who you were.Â
And just your luck, the one boy from your highschool going to the same college as you ends up in your orientation group and never leaves you alone after that. Dragging you to random club meetings for free food, taking you to mixers that your RA hosted, trying to sneak into frat parties together.Â
At some point, you were just always together. And maybe some small part of you really liked having him around. That he wanted to be your best friend, told you all the little inner workings of his mind instead of someone else. That he thinks the Loch Ness Monster is made up, that he likes the Twilight movie soundtracks a little bit too much, that he loves mystery books.Â
And heâs dorky - snorts when he laughs too hard, canât drink beer without spilling it all over his shirt, and is so weirdly passionate about these little sea animals that heâs spending the entire summer doing an internship at the marine biology research lab at your university.Â
But heâs also sweet - trying to memorize all the little facts about you, picking you up from class as a habit, telling you that youâre prettier than some shit guy who wonât come by.Â
Heâs your friend. Your sweet, secret little dorky friend. No one looks at you. But no one looks at him either. Maybe you guys only look at each other.Â
Except when you come back from the summer, his dork is replaced withâŠcharm. Charisma, an appeal, a magnetism. And maybe he was always really charming, but no one paid attention to it. It was just for you.Â
But now they do - because heâs grown out his soft brown hair into this sunkissed loose man bun and spending all summer swimming in tidepools has defined his muscles. Because he was always gangly and a little awkward but one summer has him looking fit, in all the right places.Â
Thatâs when it starts raining on your parade. Because when you and Eren go to parties, youâre talking to him less and the girl who's drunk and throwing up in the bathroom more. Heâs too busy talking to the pretty girls, twirling their locks of hair in his hands and batting his pretty eyelashes at them.Â
And he still picks you up from class with an iced coffee in hand, except the barista scribbled her name over your cup because she wants Eren to call her later. And you know Eren leans into it, because this newfound attention only gives him confidence to show off more.Â
To tell girls about the creepy little slugs he spent all summer looking for so they can coo over how cute it is that he cares, to show off those ridiculously defined muscles, to gleam at people the way he does.Â
Youâre interrupted by your train of thought as Historia, the girl Eren met at a club meeting knocks on the door, shining sunlight at Eren as she smiles at him. And when he flicks the top of your forehead and stands up to press a kiss to her cheek and run out with her, you stick your face back into your textbook.Â
And pretend it doesnât sting.Â
You peer over your notebook again to find Jean hanging upside down on the bunk, his eyes staring into yours.Â
âHi Y/N.âÂ
âHi Jean. The blood is rushing to your head. You look like an overly ripe tomato.âÂ
He laughs as he flops off the bunk and next to you, leaning his head in to read your textbook.Â
âA tort is a civil law that causes a claimant to suffer loss orâŠ.this shit is so fucking boring.âÂ
He snatches the textbook away from your clutches and flings it off the bed, giving an innocent smile as he does.Â
âI was reading that.âÂ
âAnd now youâre not!âÂ
âDo you want something from me, Jean?âÂ
âYeah. Letâs go on a date.âÂ
âYou have a boyfriend.âÂ
âYeah. It was his idea.âÂ
He pulls you up by the wrists as you both shuffle out of Armin and Erenâs dorm room, giving half-hearted goodbyes to Mikasa and Armin as he dragged you back to your hal. Trying to convince you to go on a date with him.Â
âNo.âÂ
âListen. You make this mopey sad face whenever he brings a girl around. Itâs really ugly.âÂ
âThanks, Jean. Youâre such a gentleman.âÂ
He pinches the bridge of his nose as he swings your door open, the two of you flopping onto your bed.Â
âI just mean- I hate that you wait around for him. And Marco does too. I think it would be nice. For me to take you out, to make you feel special, to remind you that you donât have to hopelessly pine over that idiot and wait for him to look at you back.âÂ
âJean, I just-âÂ
He stands up, locking his fingers with yours, as he tries to use his boyish charm on you. And itâs entirely different from Erenâs. Where Eren oozes pure charisma, like you canât help but give in because you just want to know what heâs getting at.Â
Jeanâs charm is moreâŠboyish. Innocent. Because heâs smiling at you, all soft and genuine. Like you want to give in because you know he means well. Itâs sweet. So you agree.
--
âEren.âÂ
âHm?âÂ
âPink dress or white skirt?âÂ
You hold up the options as Eren looks at you for the first time - even though heâs been in your dorm for the past three hours texting Historia in your bed - and squints at you.Â
âAre you wearing makeup?âÂ
âYeah. Iâm going on a date.âÂ
He stands up, placing his hands on your cheek as he moves your face around in the air, taking in the product on your face. A soft glitter on your eyelids, black around your eyes that makes your eyes look infinitely bigger, and soft pink on the tops of your cheeks.Â
âWith who?âÂ
âWell, Jean for now. But itâs practice before I start going on real dates you know?âÂ
âYouâre going on dates? Why?âÂ
You roll your eyes as you turn back in the mirror, holding up the options to your frame as you weigh what to wear.Â
âBecause. I want to get out there and Iâm likeâŠdeeply touch starved or whatever. I just want someone told hold me or something. And it feels weird to do it cold turkey so Jeanâs taking me.âÂ
âYou could have asked me. I could take you.âÂ
You roll your eyes as you push past him, reaching for your flowery perfume that you spray on for special occasions. Erenâs leaning against your bedpost, his eyes scrunched up in frustration that for some reason is really annoying you.Â
âYou have a girlfriend.âÂ
âHisuâs not my girlfriend. Weâre just talking.âÂ
âOkay, yeah. Same thing.âÂ
âJean has a boyfriend.âÂ
âThis was Marcoâs idea, Eren. Heâs not going to care if I actually go on it and I think heâs probably the one who bought the flowers Jeanâs going to bring me.âÂ
You hold the two options up in the air again, boring your eyes into Erenâs as you gesture for him to respond again.Â
âIâm not picking.âÂ
âI literally pick your date outfits for you all the time. You could pick for me.âÂ
And Eren mutters something that sounds like pink under his breath which you smile brightly at as you duck into your closet to slip the dress on. And when itâs all fresh and pressed against your skin, thereâs a knock on your door and a very smiley Jean waiting for you.Â
As you predicted, heâs holding a pretty bouquet of pink flowers in his hand, wearing a nice buttoned up shirt as opposed to his usual lame t-shirts.Â
âHi. Donât you look pretty?âÂ
He reaches for your wrist and lifts your hand up to spin you around, the pleats of your dress whooshing in the air and a stupid laugh falling out of your lips.Â
âJean. Youâre laying it on a little thick there.âÂ
He shakes his head dismissively as he places the bouquet on your desk, giving a small nod to Eren as he walks back to you, pinching the side of your cheek.Â
âYouâre getting the full Jean Kirschtein experience. I have to set the bar high so you donât settle for a whole idiot or anything.âÂ
And Eren watches you and he hates it. That he has this angry, green little monster simmering in his chest. That youâre smiling at Jean, that heâs taking you on a date to set your standards, that youâre wearing a pretty dress and laughing with someone who isnât him.Â
And he knows itâs wrong. That he has no right to be jealous when heâs talked to other girls ever since the summer ended while youâve remained steadfast and true. And it wasnât like you were staying true to him because Erenâs positive that you donât feel that obligation, that loyalty to him, but some part of him feels like you do. Or wishes that you do.Â
But suddenlyâŠheâs feeling it for you. That he shouldnât be with anyone but you, that heâs the person who should be taking you on cute dates, twirling you around in pretty dresses, having you spread glitter all over your face for him.Â
Eren texts Historia as he watches you and Jean duck out the door.Â
âUh huh, Kirschtein. Iâm sure this is gonna be the best date of my life.â
âThatâs a promise, baby girl.âÂ
âEw. Baby girl?âÂ
âDo you prefer sweetheart instead?âÂ
âYouâre so fucking corny, Jean.â Â
And when the door closes, he sends the text.Â
I want to see other people. Sorry Hisu. Â
--
You return from your date with Jean to find Eren slumped over in your bed, typing away on his laptop. Your roommate, Hitch, is glaring bloody murder at you as she flits her eyes over to his direction.Â
âEren.âÂ
âAh. Youâre back. How was it?âÂ
âWhat are you doing in my room? I left hours ago.âÂ
âJust wanted to see you when you got back. And I was spending time with my best friend, Hitch. Sheâs just so riveting to talk to and I just love her so much.âÂ
She throws her portable fan at his head, which he catches before it makes contact and then throws it back at her.
âIâll walk you back to yours, Eren. And youâre buying Hitch coffee as an apology.âÂ
He rolls his eyes as he grabs his bag, blowing fake kisses to Hitch as she flips him off. Youâre both trodding through the hall, the building quiet. Itâs Friday night. Everyoneâs partying.Â
âDidnât want to party tonight, Eren?âÂ
âNah. Didnât feel like it. How was your date?âÂ
You smile as you twiddle with your fingers.Â
It was nice. To feel special, to have someone tell you that you were pretty. And sure he didnât mean it in that way and it was entirely platonic, but it was nice to have someone look at you. Who wants to make you feel special, try to coax you into doing things you donât usually do.Â
And youâre positive itâll feel even better when the feelings are reciprocated.Â
âReally nice, Eren. Iâm excited toâŠmeet people. Date them. Have someone make me feel special, tell me Iâm pretty.âÂ
âYouâre pretty.âÂ
You look over to find Erenâs cheeks burning pink, the tips of his ears red as he avoids eye contact with you.Â
âThank you?âÂ
âYe-yeah. Sure.âÂ
You make it to Erenâs door and he swings the door open, dragging you in by the wrist. From the looks of it, Arminâs not home, Erenâs desk light flickering on the desk. He drags you to his bed, the two of you sitting on his plush duvet.Â
âEren. I was just walking you here. Iâm kind of tired from the painting.âÂ
âYou went painting?âÂ
âYeah. It was like a pottery type thing. We picked out mugs and just painted on them. Talked about stuff. Shared an ice cream together after. Jean and Marco gave me very sweet kisses on the cheek when I dropped him back off to his dorm.âÂ
Eren pushes his hand through his hair as he asks, the question making the air in his throat burn.Â
âAh. Would you everâŠgo on a date with me?âÂ
And you laugh. Quite literally laugh, because he cannot be serious.Â
âGod, Eren. Donât be a cliche right now.âÂ
âWhat?âÂ
âYou see your best friend go on a date with another guy and suddenly youâre interested in her. Itâs like every corny rom-com.âÂ
You lean forward, pinching the plush of his cheek.Â
âYou just want what you canât have, Eren. Iâve been waiting for you to notice me for two years. And of course, you only look at me when you canât have me.âÂ
âWait, but I-âÂ
âEren. I want someone who makes me feel special. And youâve always been special to me, but I want to be special to someone too. Letâs not make our friendship weird. And hey, maybe we can actually be equals this time.âÂ
âEquals?âÂ
âTwo people who care about each other the same amount. Not one person hopelessly pining over the other.âÂ
You give his cheek one last pinch as you pad out his door, giving him a smile before you slam the door shut.Â
--
The next morning, Erenâs standing outside your Civil Law lecture with a coffee in hand. And a shy smile pressed across his face.Â
âGood morning, Y/N.âÂ
âHi Eren.âÂ
Despite your admission of your feelings and your swift rejection of Eren, heâs still standing here. And you were expecting it, because you know that Eren wasnât really saying any of that in earnest. And itâs nice to admit your feelings, as a way of letting them go before you give in and like someone else.Â
You take the cup from his hand and shove the much needed caffeine into your mouth, the two of you strolling to your next class. You look over to find Eren with a pinched look on his face, like heâs constipated.Â
âEren.âÂ
âHm?âÂ
âCat got your tongue? Whatâs wrong with you?âÂ
âYou didnâtâŠlook at the cup.âÂ
You look back down at the cup to find handwriting scribbled on it in green sharpie.Â
you look pretty today, sweet girlÂ
You laugh, holding it up in the air.Â
âNo way. The barista called you a sweet girl? Itâs that long ass hobo hair you have.âÂ
âWhat? That wasnât the barista, that was me!âÂ
âYou wrote on the cup? Why?âÂ
âFor you, stupid! Iâm trying to romance you.âÂ
You spit the coffee straight into your cup, looking back down at the cup again. And holy shit heâs right - the way the g is looped and the writing is slanted, it really is Erenâs handwriting.Â
âEren.âÂ
âWhat?âÂ
âItâs cute. But youâre going to do it for like one week. And then get bored of waiting and see some pretty girl at a party and change your mind.âÂ
âIâm not! Youâre it for me.â
âEren. Bullshit. You wouldnât last a month.âÂ
He leans forward, pressing you into the hard of the wall as he looks down, green eyes glinting in yours.Â
âBet.âÂ
âWhat?âÂ
âIâll bet on it. Prove it to you. That Iâve got my mind set on you.âÂ
âUh huh. That takes a lot of patience, Eren. Time. Something thatâs never been your fortĂ©.âÂ
âIâll make it my fortĂ©, if itâs for you.âÂ
You give into the bet. A month for Eren to romance you, to prove that heâs really only got his mind set on you.Â
You give in because you know youâll win. He gives in because he wants to prove the stupid, silly girl he loves that he can do it right.Â
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eren: good morning silly little woman. fit check pls :DÂ
you: no.Â
eren: cmon. ive got back to back classes and im missing that cute little face of yours :(((Â
you: just ask ur hoes. im sure theyâre cute too.Â
eren: no hoes. im allergic to gardening.Â
you: you should start stand up comedy. youâd be really good at it. Â
eren: you want me so badÂ
you: shut up
eren: im waiting!!!! time is ticking doll, i will show up to your club meeting and start gushing about how pretty my girlfriend is in front of all your little prospective club members if i donât get a fit check in ten seconds
you: not your girlfriendÂ
eren: yet. three weeks to go.Â
you: do you not have anything else to do?
eren: picture and iâll be out of your hair.Â
you: sent one attachment
eren: eren jaeger found dead at twenty-one.
you: thank god.Â
eren: cause of death - the most beautiful girl iâve ever seen in my life. absolute heartstopper
you: EREN. YOUâRE SO GROSS AND CORNY STOP.Â
eren: ok ok see you after class sweet girl. and thanks for the picture. corniness aside, it really did make my day. youâre my favorite thing to look at.Â
You ignore the pounding in your chest as you throw your phone into your purse and head to the coffee shop. And what you hoped would be an uninterrupted study session is interrupted by a certain green eyed idiot, smiling at you as he takes the seat across from you.Â
âHi doll.âÂ
âEren. You have class.âÂ
âGot canceled. The planets and the fates and all the stars aligned. You and me, free for a little study date at the same time.âÂ
You crinkle your nose as you lift your backpack from the seat next to you, Eren sliding in and taking a sip from your watered down coffee.Â
âDid you just rhyme? How long did that one take you?âÂ
âThe whole walk over here. Did you like it?âÂ
âNo.âÂ
Eren opens up his laptop, the two of you working in silence. And in the smallest of ways, Erenâs making it hard for you to focus.Â
Tangling his legs with yours under the desk, resting his hand on your thigh every time you work out one of your homework problems with him, tucking your hair behind your ear every time it annoyingly flops forward.Â
âOh! I have something for you.âÂ
He holds out a tiny little candy, a twisted mango strawberry pop. The one you can only get in Shiganshina, a four hour drive away.Â
âWhat the fuck? You had Mindyâs the entire time and your greedy ass wasnât sharing?âÂ
You take the little candy in his hand, twisting the ends open and letting the flavors melt on your tongue. And the nostalgia hits your head, running in the grass as a kid, your mom keeping a little box on the top of the microwave for you two to share at the end of the day.Â
âJust got them. I drove all the way to Shiganshina to get them for you.âÂ
âUh huh.âÂ
âIâm being serious. I went on Sunday, after my lab meeting. Got the box, hung out with my dog for an hour and came back.âÂ
âYou were probably just running an errand down there. I bet Zeke just needed your help with something.âÂ
âMy parents and Zeke are in Hizuru, remember?âÂ
You feel your mouth go dry as you shuffle the candy in your mouth, huffing back in your chair. Corny ass idiot. They are in Hizuru to meet Zekeâs new girlfriend. But thereâs no way in hell he drove all the way there just to get you a candy.Â
âThereâs no way you-â
âIâve got my mind set on you. In my mind, you and I are already dating. Iâm just kind of waiting for you to catch up.âÂ
âOh, quit i-âÂ
âWhen youâre my girlfriend, weâll go together. Make a little drive out of it, see your parents and my parents. Get Mindyâs. Bother that lady who works at the aquarium.âÂ
âEren.âÂ
He pinches your cheek as you frown, rolling your eyes at him.Â
âFor now, I'll just drive down there alone to get you candy. Three more weeks, stink.âÂ
--
Your stress is building. Youâve got two term papers due next week, a club meeting to plan, a project to go over with your research advisor, and groceries to do. And really, really all you are is bone dead tired. That you can feel your bones dragging and your eye bags deepening and the panic shuffling every time you breathe in and out.Â
Your final straw? Forgetting you were going to get your period and leaking onto your bed sheets.Â
And you know itâs not a big deal. That you can wash the sheets and get the stain out, that you can take a shower to feel better.Â
But this tiny little thing, this red blotch on your sheets, is enough to push you over the edge. Because youâre tired, because so much is going on, because this is just another thing you donât have time to do but have to.Â
You can feel the tears streaming down your eyes, burning the sensitive skin underneath your eyes and flushing your cheek.Â
Thatâs when Eren finds you. Curled up on the ground, tears streaming down your eyes.Â
âWoah, hey. Hey, talk to me. Whatâs wrong?âÂ
He falls flat on the floor next to you, opening up his arms which you roll into and start soaking his shirt in your salty tears. Heâs whispering into your ear, whispering sweet nothings and his warm arms are holding you.Â
âTell me what happened. Use your words.âÂ
âI-I have a lot to do. The Civil Law paper and the entire plan for the-the club meeting. Dr. Smith wants to meet with me about my-my research plan and Iâm not ready and I got my period and leaked on my sheets and I donât have time to clean and-âÂ
âOkay. Itâs okay.âÂ
His warm, calloused hands are rubbing into the small of your back, his hold still firm against you. And he drags you up, opening the shower and warming it up for you. Heâs rummaged through your closet - pulled out a stack of clothes and set them on the counter.Â
âAre youâŠgoing to leave?âÂ
âOf course not, Y/N. Outside when youâre done, okay?âÂ
And you take the shower. Spend too long standing underneath the warm water, letting the shower scald your skin in a comforting way, relishing in the smell of your springy body soap washing you clean. Of the tears, of the blood, of your frustrations.Â
When you towel up your hair and reach for the stack of clothes on the counter, you only now realize what this cheeky bastard did. Left a pair of your pajamas and the hoodie he was wearing on the counter.Â
You pull it on, his musky smell mixing with the scent of your flowery shampoo, as you pad out of your room, Eren folding your laundry on your bed.Â
âEren.âÂ
He turns around and gives you a warm smile, walking forward to lock his fingers with yours.Â
âYou look so cute right now. Pouty little face and your hair in this stupid towel.âÂ
âQuit it.âÂ
He leads you over to your bed, climbing on as he pulls you forward.Â
âCleaned the sheets. Did your laundry. And made a plan for you to finish the paper and emailed Erwin from your account that youâre not free until the week after and-âÂ
You can feel your eyes burning, the tears welling up in your face. You lean into his arms and he rests his chin against the top of your head, his hands snaking under your hoodie to press against your cold skin.Â
âEren.âÂ
âHm.âÂ
âThis is a really elaborate plan to get into my pants.âÂ
He laughs, the sound vibrating through his chest as he talks.Â
âI know.âÂ
âI knew it, you dick. You only want to get in my pants.â Â
âWell, thatâs part of it. I am very attracted to you. Iâm not going to pretend like I donât want to be in your pants.âÂ
âCharming. The whole âIâve got my mind set on you thingâ is really working.âÂ
âI'm being honest! I want to be in your pants and in your head and all your little dreams and your heart too.âÂ
You rest your head against his chest, his heartbeat hammering against your ears as he finishes talking. And when you drift off to sleep, you can still feel it beating in tandem with yours. And try to forget why you and Eren are waiting two weeks to do this for real in the first place.Â
--
Heâs done it now. And youâve caught him in the fucking act. The sweet, sweet satisfaction of proving this idiot wrong - that he would get bored of waiting for you and move onto another girl is standing right in front of you.Â
Itâs Erenâs friend Reinerâs birthday. Eren had told you in advance that he couldnât see you Friday and you obliged.Â
Except, Hitch invited you to the party the day of, claiming she needed someone to walk in with so she didnât look like an idiot. Some guy Marlowe sheâs really into is going to be there and she has to be at her best.Â
And when you get to the party, you lose Hitch in all but five seconds, left in this awkward, sweaty mess of a room alone. But when you walk over to the kitchen, you see it.Â
Eren leaning over the counter, talking to a girl. Short brown hair, a mass of freckles over her face, the two of them smiling at each other. And when you march over there, youâre all but too happy to rub it in his face.Â
Because youâre right. And you knew you were right. That Eren, all hot and toned and sexy from his beach summer, would not give it up. The attention, the girls, the love he gets from all of it for you. That he would look at other things and not at you, that you couldnât be enough for him. And he can buy you coffee and do your laundry and be there for you all he wants, but you know deep down youâre right.Â
âYou little son of a bitch. Week three and I win.â you say, crossing your hands over your chest.Â
âHuh?âÂ
âI win. Youâre at a party, flirting with a girl. Meaning, you donât have your mind set on me. Meaning, Iâm right. That you canât let go of being a manwhore for me, that you surely have your eyes wandering elsewhere even though you claim to be only looking at me.âÂ
âY/N-âÂ
âYou think driving to get me candy and doing my laundry and giving me your hoodie would buy me over? Youâre not getting into my pants for a quick fuck just because you know you can and-âÂ
He pulls you forward, clamping his hand over your mouth. Heâs squinting his eyes at you, almost like heâs confused at your outburst. And when you look over at the girl, you realize why.Â
Itâs Ymir. The president of the Gay-Straight Alliance Ymir. Like literally the gayest girl youâve probably ever met in your life.Â
âOh.âÂ
Eren smiles, rolling his eyes, as he drops his hands to lock his hand with yours.Â
âYeah, oh. Did you not see it was her when you walked over?âÂ
âNo. Hi Ymir.âÂ
Ymir smiles, reaching forward to mess with your hair as she turns to Eren.Â
âYouâre right. She really is stubborn.â Ymir says, smiling at him.Â
âTell me about it. She does this every time I do something nice for her.â he responds, squeezing your hand as he talks.Â
âWell, you are a manwhore.âÂ
âNot anymore, Ymir! Iâm only a whore for her.âÂ
She pinches your cheek as she walks off, linking arms with a certain blonde as you walk away. And when you look over, Erenâs lazily making a drink for you on the counter, swirling it in his hand before he gives you the cup.Â
âItâs Jungle Juice. Thereâs like three different liquors in it but you canât really taste it s-â
âYouâre not mad?âÂ
âHuh?âÂ
âI justâŠyelled at you. Really unfairly. And youâre not even mad?âÂ
âGot my mind set on you. Like you said, this thing takes patience. And time. Iâll wait for it. Youâll come to see Iâm surprisingly good at this patience understanding when itâs something I really, really want.âÂ
And as he tilts his head back, pouring the drink into his mouth, like the entire outburst you had didnât happen. And thatâs it. You crane your head around the kitchen, looking for it.Â
âWhatcha looking for?âÂ
Eren watches you mill around the kitchen, opening drawers, lifting picture frames as you look for it. And when you find it - the calendar posted on Reinerâs wall - you rip it off and place it in front of Eren with a marker in your hand.Â
âWhatâs this, Y/N?âÂ
âDid you know that I can move time forward?âÂ
âHuh? How much have you had to drink?âÂ
You reach forward, crossing out through the entire week. The last week of the month, for the bet you and Eren had.Â
Because heâs convinced you. That his mindâs set on you. That even if he used to like other girls, the girl he likes now is you. Enough to drive hours to make you happy, take care of you - bloody sheets and all, and gush at a party about you to other people. Like heâs proud to be around you, like youâre the only thing he looks at.Â
âI donât follow, sweet girl.âÂ
âThe bet started three weeks ago. And I crossed out the last week, so itâs over now. And I want to be with you no-âÂ
He leans forward, pressing his warm, plush lips against yours as he canât help but smile through the kiss. All warm and fruity, surely from the drink Eren just made. And he whispers against your mouth, eliciting a laugh out of you.Â
âThank fucking god. You were driving me insane, you little heathen.âÂ
You reach forward, tangling your hands with the collar of his shirt as you pull him down again, pressing your lips against his, trying to memorize the feel, the sensation of him against you.Â
And when Hitch comes home from the party, all buzzed, to find you two under the covers, watching a movie, she says one thing and one thing only.Â
âNo fucking in my bed.â
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BORDERLANDS COLLEGE AU
Stupid idea I had a few nights ago, don't think too hard about the inconsistencies in ages and stuff. Probably just doing Vault Hunters and a few other characters.
ROLAND
Majoring in cybersecurity. Good student, studies and gets consistently high grades. Has a well-formulated meal and workout plan. Also an RA on campus. Roland is the guy you go to if you have issues. He might not be great at "talking you through them" or "showing empathy" but he always has solid advice and is well-respected by his peers.
BRICK
I was going to say "Brick wouldn't go to college in canon" but this isn't canon babeyyyy. Brick is going into veterinary medicine. You may think this is completely off as a major for him, but I argue that his love for dogs is far greater than any challenge he may face in his education. Still a gym maniac. Roland is his RA, which means Roland is in charge of calming Brick down when he gets mad. Dating Mordecai. Also, unrelated but Brick in a philosophy class:
"Brick, can you tell us what you think about what Descartes said?"
"I PUNCH Descartes."
LILITH
Y'all are going to hate me for this but Lilith is a chemistry major. Girl loves fire, electricity, and acid so you can't tell me she wouldn't be a menace in her labs. (Also, before the first game was released her full title was "Dr. Lilith Cashlin, Mercenary Scientist") Only goes to class half the time but still does really well. Rooms with Mordecai and Brick. Huge crush on this RA she keeps seeing around
MORDECAI
BIRD MAAAAAN. Y'all already know this guy is doing two things on campus. 1) Majoring in Ornithology 2) Going to parties to get drunk. This man is the epitome of "college is for partying". Keeps birds in campus (not allowed) and is doing okay in his classes (he is hung over 80% of the time) (Mordy pls) Dating Brick.
PATRICIA TANNIS
Honestly, what field of science ISN'T this girl majoring in? She's insane(ly smart) and constantly gets perfect scores on all of her exams. Closest friends are Roland and the gang.
MARCUS
Why is he here??? What??? Marcus is the guy who runs the restaurant that is directly across the street from campus. *Phenomenal* food, but GOD is it pricey. Tends to not care about many of the students chilling (as long as they BUY SOMETHING)
SCOOTER
Doesn't go to this college but he's good friends with Roland and his pals. Likes to go out drinking with them on the weekends and is just all-in-all a cool guy to hang around with. Friends with Janey.
AXTON
BMOC. Captain of the football team. You can trust him! (He's the water boy.) Total jock but he's not an asshole about it. Majoring in Rehabilitation Science. He's... not the *best* student, but he does try and genuinely care about what he wants to do. Lives with Salvador, Maya, and Zer0 in a dorm.
SALVADOR
Culinary major. My man can COOK. He's the best cook in the dorm and no one will ever argue if he offers to cook. Really good student even though he parties all the time with Mordecai, Brick, and Axton. Lives with Maya, Axton, and Zer0.
ZER0
*Insert weeb joke here* They're a literature major. Not just because of the haiku, either. I feel like Zer0 would be fantastic in literature courses and understanding thr deeper meanings in texts. They are seen as a "weird kid" on campus. They do not care. Lives with Maya, Salvador, and Axton.
MAYA
The reason I made this list (big surprise, V does a huge post and it's Maya's fault), Maya majors in entomology. (S/O to @forbiddenpurplesoda for this because I've always thought Maya would be a bug girl) Maya is a phenomenal student and she always gets great marks in her studies. Lives with Axton, Sal and Zer0. Has at least one pet beetle that makes Axton panic.
GAIGE
Mechanical Engineering/Robotics major. Obviously built Deathtrap as a buddy because she felt a little lonely in her dorm. Calls her Dad every night. Has a huge crush on a girl in one of her math classes. Lives with...
KRIEG!!!!
Listen. Listen. Krieg majors in psychology. The *actual* football captain. Doesn't talk much and when he does, it's complete nonsense. (Everyone just goes "haha classic Krieg") Gaige gets along with him extremely well. Maya and him have a thing where they will just look at each other and think "holy shit they're so gorgeous). Always wears a face mask.
TINA
Child prodigy chemistry major, buddies with Lilith and Roland. But seriously, who let this kid in the lab? Like, okay, yeah, she knows what she's doing, but what she's doing is COMBUSTION REACTIONS. How is she still in school.
ELLIE
Engineering major. Lives in the building across from Roland and the gang. Absolute sweetheart and huge flirt but will also drop you on her ass if you threaten her friends.
MOXXI
I could see Moxxi as a professor of engineering, actually. Every student thinks she's gorgeous and she's learned to ignore it. Scooter and Ellie's Mom. Thinks their friends are funny.
HANDSOME JACK
Oh man, this one was tough. I decided on absolute tool you meet in college who's the head of a frat and thinks he's God's gift to women. Lives in the same building as Roland, Lilith, Brick, Mordecai, Salvador, Axton, Maya, Zer0, Gaige, and Krieg. Constantly getting into arguments with... basically everyone listed above. Majors in business.
ANGEL
She's an art major!!! She's super intelligent and aces all of her classes but she absolutely loves art. Jack is her brother in this AU. Has a crush on the cute punk girl in her math class but could never tell her. Lives in a single.
ALISTAIR HAMMERLOCK
Double majors in conservation biology and zoology! Finds the creatures that he studies absolutely fascinating and always has a bright disposition on his face. Lives in a single that looks exactly like you think it does (his room on Sanctuary III). Strained relationship with his sister.
ATHENA
Acient History Major, specifically interested in Ancient Greece (wonder why?). Works at Marcus' restaurant. Hates it. Pay her more. Has her eyes on a girl that frequents Marcus' restaurant. Tried to live with Wilhelm, Jack, Nisha, Timothy, and Claptrap for a semester, she is now a commuter. Still friends with Timothy.
WILHELM
Jack's second-in-command. People look at him like he's a dumbass, big hunk of meat, but he's also in a robotics major. Aside from being buddies with Jack, he's... kind of chill? Man likes what he likes and he works out pretty often. Boxes in his free time. Lives with Nisha, Jack, Timothy, and (formerly) Claptrap.
NISHA
Criminal justice major, naturally. Jack's girlfriend and the baddest and scariest bitch on campus. Likes watching old western movies. Never, ever shows up to class but still passes. No one knows how. Lives with Jack, Timothy, Wilhelm, and (formerly) Claptrap
CLAPTRAP
Theater major! Always has a smile on his face, even though he's nooooot very well-liked. Tried to get in with the popular guys but eventually figured out he was being used. He confronted Jack and Jack kicked him out of the dorm đ Lives... well, he kind of just lives around Roland's dorm. Roland's too nice to say no.
TIMOTHY
I feel like Tim would be a Biology major. I don't know why but I can see him in that field. Looks SCARILY similar to Jack, and hates this. Unfortunately put into a room with Jack, Wilhelm, Nisha, and (formerly) Claptrap. Misses Athena greatly and wishes she still lived on campus. They're still good friends.
AURELIA HAMMERLOCK
Oh good lord, who let her on a college campus. Has an extravagant single room because she's *rich* and she's not sharing with someone else are you insane? Studies law because this bitch wants to be a judge someday. Absolutely hates to be seen with her brother Alistair. Rivalry with another rich law student makes this even more tense.
JANEY SPRINGS
Doesn't go to this college but she knows a few people around campus and hits up Marcus' restaurant for a bite to eat every so often. The food is just so good, right? No other reason. None at all. Friends with Scooter.
RHYS STRONGFOK
Rhys is a business and economics major. Is in Jack's frat. Is getting increasingly sick of Jack's shit. Buddy buddy with Vaughn, Fiona, and Zer0. Dating Sasha.
VAUGHN
Accounting major. Man has a mind like a steel trap, and also enjoys bodybuilding. Best friends with Rhys, good friends with Fiona and Sasha.
FIONA
I genuinely feel like Fiona would be a nursing or Healthcare major. I have no basis for this, it just feels right for her. Hates Jack and keeps telling Rhys to tell him to fuck off. Friends with Rhys and Vaughn, Sasha's older sister.
SASHA
Social work major! Loves helping people and wants to make a change in the world after she and Fiona grew up in less-than-ideal circumstances. Dating Rhys, also keeps telling Rhys to get away from Jack. Friends with Vaughn.
MOZE
Transfer student. Served in the military for a while before deciding she wanted to go to college. Undecided major but she's just trying to focus on the pretty women I mean her grades haha am I right? ALWAYS at Marcus'. Always. Lives with Zane, Amara, and FL4K.
FL4K
FL4K has Mr. Chew, Broodless and Meat-Thief as emotional support animals. I can see FL4K as a double major in zoology and veterinary medicine. Loves their pets. Super chill unless you speak badly about them or their pets. Will shank a bitch. Lives with Zane, Moze, and Amara.
AMARA
Healthcare studies major, with a focus on pathology. Also a bodybuilder. Also a boxer. Amara is that girl and she knows it. Always asking Moze to work out with her and she is completely oblivious to Moze being head over heels. Will fight someone being mean to a customer service worker. Lives with Zane, Moze, and FL4K.
ZANE
Pop pop went back to college! No but in this AU Zane is probably older than everyone but not that much older. His major was tough for me, but I honestly think he'd be a good candidate for a major in rehabilitation science with Axton. Also LOVES parties.
WAINWRIGHT JAKOBS
His Father wanted him to go into Business to take over the family legacy but he decided to go into law to "protect the little guy". Has daily arguments with this stuck-up, pretentious "harpy" that's in most of his classes. She's awful. Has a crush on this well-spoken man in zoological studies. At least that will take his mind off of the harpy.
TROY CALYPSO
Troy is a media and communications major. Has a fantastic time making videos and being admin of many social media pages but doesn't do very well in class because he dislikes most of his professors. Has a very close relationship with his sister, Tyreen.
TYREEN CALYPSO
Double major in Art History and Theater. Loves to be the center of attention and often stars in her brother's videos and projects. She loves it. A little full of herself. Close with her brother, Troy.
TYPHON DELEON
OKAY WAIT WAIT DON'T CLOSE THE POST HEAR ME OUT.
Cringe boomer history professor that can be easily distracted by him telling his stories of his many adventures (no one knows if they're true or not). Troy and Tyreen's Father. NOT a piss poor Dad in this AU, just embarrassing as all hell. Pretty decent guy but he's okay as a professor. (Please guys let me have my "Typhon is a good cringe embarrassing boomer dad to the Calypsos" AU)
OKAY this was a really long post and I probably forgot someone but I'm sure I'll hear about it LMAO. Also I don't know every single college major and its appropriate title, I just went off of vibes. Pls be nice 2 me
#borderlands#borderlands 2#borderlands the presequel#tales from the borderlands#borderlands 3#roland the soldier#lilith the siren#mordecai the hunter#brick the berserker#patricia tannis#marcus kincaid#scooter hodunk#axton the commando#salvador the gunzerker#zer0 the assassin#maya the siren#gaige the mechromancer#krieg the psycho#tiny tina#ellie hodunk#moxxi hodunk#handsome jack#angel the siren#alistair hammerlock#athena the gladiator#Wilhelm the enforcer#nisha the lawbringer#claptrap the fragtrap#timothy lawrence the doppleganger#aurelia hammerlock
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"You just hate that Catra got a redemption arc!"
Wrong.
I hate that Catra got a bad redemption arc. Where everyone is just suddenly cool with her because she gave a very unconvincing and very unspecific apololgy. Once.
S1-4 actually did a good job of setting it up. It's made clear multiple times that, yes, while Catra did have a shitty childhood and most of her issues can be chalked up to Shadow Weaver being a horrible mother, it still doesn't mean she's automatically in the right. Both the narrative and the characters contiuously call Catra out on her actions and on her insistence that everything bad she does is actually someone else's fault. Adora literally gets a whole-ass speech in the s3 finale where she tells Catra that, no, the bad things Catra has done and does aren't on Adora, or Hordak, or even Shadow Weaver - it's on Catra. It's always been on Catra. She doesn't get to pretend to be a victim. She made her choice. And she has to live with that. S4 has Double Trouble repeat those exact same points word for word.
S5 is where Stevenson completely fumbled it. Because starting with s5, Catra is suddenly absolved of the most important thing in a redemption arc: Taking accountability.
"But Celty," I hear you say, "Catra does take accountability! She apologizes to the people she's hurt! She says she's working on her anger issues!"
Yeah, one measly "uwu I'm sowwy" isn't enough to make up for, let's see: kidnapping, torture, attemtped murder, actual murder, attemtpted genocide, actual genocide and years upon years of physical and emotional abuse.
Two characters in the cast react to Catra suddenly showing up in Camp Good Guy like they should: Frosta and Netossa. And both are immediately convinced that Catra is actually nice now, because Adora said so and so all is forgiven. No need for Catra to actually work to earn these people's trust. No reason to elaborate on how complicated Catra's sheer presence must make everything, because how are the Princesses supposed to feel about suddenly having to work with the ex-leader of the Horde? The woman who took an active part in attacking and destroying their kingdoms?
Other SPOP crits have pointed this out, but it's very convenient that both Scorpia and Mermista, two people Catra has hurt in a far more personal manner, (the destruction of Salineas and the continued abuse toward Scorpia) are chipped and therefor absent from the Good Guy team once Catra and the Best Friend Squad return to Etheria. Once again, Catra is absolved of having to put any work into redeeming herself. Even when everyone unites in the finale, Catra doesn't get to apologize to Scorpia because Scorpia forgets all her character development from s4 and just hugs Catra like nothing bad ever happened between them. Mermista meanwhile is stuck making a joke about Hordak just being let off the hook for war crimes, which is doubly ironic because Catra is right fucking there being portrayed as an uwu poor kitty-cat. We don't get to see how Mermista feels about the woman who destroyed her homeland suddenly being acquitted because she's She-Ra's girlfriend now. Let's not even start with the non-reaction Entrapta has to seeing Catra again. Catra, who Entrapta genuinely believed was her friend, and who not only had her shipped off to Beast Island and, in her mind, certain death, but also let Hordak, who Entrapta had a bond with, believe that Entrapta betrayed and abandoned him. Gentle reminder that Entrapta was so heartbroken about the fact that she really was abandoned on Beast Island by everyone that she started to succumb to the signal in an instant and would have actually died if Bow hadn't snapped her out of it with her hyperfixation. Gentle reminder that Entrapta is capable of holding a grudge, as in s3 she calls Adora out for seemingly having left her behind in the Fright Zone. But because it's Catra, suddenly Entrapta magically doesn't mind having to tend to the woman who shocked her unconscious and had her shipped off to a violent death.
Oh and let's not forget the elephant in the room: Not once, in the entirety of s5 does Catra ever take responsibility for killing Angella. Glimmer suddenly forgets all about Catra being the one who indirectly murdered Angella. She doesn't bring it up once and instead is slowly browbeaten into making nice with Catra through solitary confinement. The Glimmer/Catra friendship in s5 is so forced and so out of nowhere. Bow also forgets that Catra kidnapped him and his best friend/love interest to the Fright Zone and that because of her, Glimmer was suffering from her powers going haywire for quite a while, which, may I remind you, left her with spasms painful enough to have her writhing on the floor unable to move. What is Bow's reaction to Catra when she joins the team? To gush about how cute her sneeze is. I hate it here.
As for the whole "she's working on herself" - no she isn't.
S5 Catra is the exact same person as s1-3 Catra. Only now she gets away with her bs because the writers decided she's a good guy now.
S5 Catra is still a violent, self-serving, abusive asshole. She still blames others for her fuck-ups, still resorts to verbal and physical abuse to deal with her emotions, still would rather have the entire world destroyed than have Adora's world not revolve solely around her. Honestly, Catra saying that she always loved Adora is laughable, because like an episode earlier she left Adora in the woods, crying her eyes out and begging for Catra to stay, during possibly the hardest time of Adora's life. "But she came back!1!!" She came back after, once again, making Adora feel like absolute shit for trying to save people. Not to mention one of the reasons Adora was so deadset on stopping Horde Prime, even at the cost of her own life, was that Catra literally begged her to. Catra told Adora that if Horde Prime wasn't stopped, they'd all be looking toward a fate worse than death. Then suddenly towards the finale, Catra changes her tune and whines that Adora has decided to take the Heart, making it out like Adora just loves playing hero, when the show literally spells it out that Adora is the only one who can do this. Everyone else would literally die if they took the Heart. Adora/She-Ra is the last hope Etheria, no, the universe has at this point. Again, that's not just in Adora's head, that's something the plot itself confirms over and over again. But we're still supposed to side with Catra when she pushes Adora into the dirt and victim-blames her.
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Sword gays showdown, final round of bracket three
Propaganda:
For Gideon:
she's incredibly good w/ her two hander and less good with her rapier but she's still pretty good!! she is a horny lesbian who's taste in women seems to exclusively be "girls who have tried or are going to try to kill her". she's a redhead. i love her
Gideonâs a HUGE Butch lesbian and literally always wanted to use a broad sword. Specifically a broad sword. She said fuck rapiers. Uhhh literally dies to save the girl she cares for and the sword she uses then becomes like an altar for said girl. Gideon Nav Supremacy <3
oh she is the most badass swordswoman lesbian in media. sheâs her gfâs cavalier, defends her in battle, sheâs incredibly butch and buff
C'mon shes THE sword lesbian like... canonicallyÂ
Loves her broadsword more than anything on her home planet and practices whenever she can. Spoiler itâs possessed by her mom. Gave everything so her best enemy could eat her soul and become the new saint. The character of all time child of two separate threesomes, child of the god emperor, sheâs dead, sheâs butch, sheâs a dork, sheâs doomed by the narrative. Sheâs my favorite.
girlie is literally the swordswoman supreme. sheâs the cavalier primary to her necromancer. she has a fuckoff huge longsword. she gets absorbed into another person SPECIFICALLY to swordfight for them. in a gay way too.
While everyone else was developing common sense, she studied the blade. This dyke's main weapon and true love is the long sword, but she's also passable with a rapier. The sword is, in her own estimation, pretty much all she's good for. That and her smoking hot bod and terribly charming sense of humor.Â
"While we were developing common sense, she studied the blade." (Direct quote from the book). She's the most useless lesbian to ever exist, and she's obsessed with an absolute wet cat of a woman. Learned longsword mostly on her own and is such a genius with the sword she learned rapier in a few months (by personal experience, it's really really hard)
Most badass broadsword wielding lesbian easily slaying bone monsters and evil space wasps
The cavalier to her necromancer. very gay. in a complicated codependant lovehate relationship with the only other person her age she knew growing up.
For Adora:
Finding the sword kicks off the whole show. She transforms into a giant magic lady and is now in charge of saving everyone from the big bag guys (which she used to be a part of). A bunch of stuff happens, but eventually her identity is now tied to having the sword. She is fully convinced that w/o the sword (and therefore She-Ra) sheâs worthless. This culminates in having to destroy the sword or the world ends. Sheâs super depressed bc her whole self worth was tied to the sword and being she-ra. On the way to save her gf, she turns into way cooler she-ra (her own version of it that is not controlled by the sword which was made by her colonialist ancestors). Her sword is now part of her identity instead of her identity revolving around the sword.Â
lesbian chosen one who was given a sword that activated her powers and made her into a living weapon, but she destroyed the sword to save her planet - and then made her own sword with her magic and saved the entire universe
#sword gays showdown#gideon nav#adora#she ra#spop#gideon the ninth#the locked tomb#she ra and the princesses of power#tlt
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Destiel Trope Collection 2024 | Day 9: Empty Rescue
his and mine are the same | @cascigarette Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 1,510 Main Tags/Warnings: Post Canon Fix-It, Dean Winchester Has Abandonment Issues, Alcohol, First Kiss, Newly Human Castiel, Castiel and Dean Winchester Have a Profound Bond, Castiel and Dean Winchester Use their Words Summary: Dean rescues Cas from the Empty. They end up having to talk about that final confession.
Two lesbians, two bicons, and their cat walk into super turbohell | @nuttysaladtree Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 2,038 Main Tags/Warnings: crossover with She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, the Empty, Fix-it, first kiss Summary: And they bury one person and zero gays. 15x20 "Carry On" finale fix-it that Castiel deserves. Mentioned Bow/Glimmer. Sam Winchester shows up, too, as well as the OTP Dean x pie. Melog is best kitty, and good riddance to the Empty/Shadow/Cosmic Entity and Horde Prime.
sometimes you just don't know the answer (wait for me) | @cassiecasyl Rating: General Word Count: 7,992 Main Tags/Warnings: Canonical Character Death, Episode: s15e18 Despair - Castiel's Confession Scene, Grief/Mourning, Album: evermore (Taylor Swift), Grieving Dean Winchester, Episode: s15e18 Despair, Alternate Ending, Inspired by Orpheus and Eurydice (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Reunion, Castiel in the Empty (Supernatural), Castiel Loves Dean Winchester, Dean Winchester Loves Castiel, Angst, Hope vs. Despair, Love Confessions, Angst with a Happy Ending, Inspired by Hadestown, Song: Doubt Comes In, The Fates (Hadestown) Cameo, First Kiss, Reunions, Epic Love Summary: As Dean grieves, Jack tells them of an old story, one that has been told and sung over and over again anyway. Two lovers challenge the universe to escape death. They walk the long way home, but the one in front is not allowed to turn around for the whole way. Every entity of grand power knows this, for the pact has to be respected were it ever to be attempted again. Of course, Dean goes to find Castiel, because if anyone can do this, it's them.
Can't Stop Lovin' You | @teeparadigm67 Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 9,512 Main Tags/Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Castiel is Saved from the Empty, First Kiss, Castiel and Dean Winchester in Love, Castiel/Dean Winchester First Kiss, Happy Ending, Fix-It, Idiots in Love, Love Confessions, Dean Winchester Saves Castiel from the Empty Summary: On paper, the plan seemed simple. Jack opens the portal between the worlds. Dean walks into the Empty and makes it loud enough to wake the dead. Drag Casâs feathery ass out of there. Simple, right? Cloaked in Casâs grace, tape deck in hand with Van Halen blasting out its little speaker, he plans to bring the angel home and tell Cas all the things left unspoken between them for all these years. Now they have a chance, he canât throw this all away. The only problem is, the Empty has other ideas. It doesn't stop Dean however, itâs his turn to be the one who drags Cas out of perdition. Inspired by: Van Halen - Can't Stop Lovin' You
Bring Me To Life | @Taymarpigeon Rating: Explicit Word Count: 10,960 Main Tags/Warnings: Post-Canon Fix-It, Angel Castiel (Supernatural), Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Gratuitous Smut, Castiel/Dean Winchester First Kiss, Castiel and Dean Winchester Have a Profound Bond, Dean Winchester Calls Castiel "Angel", Bottom Dean Winchester/Top Castiel (Supernatural), Interrupting Sam Winchester Summary: In 2008 Dean Winchester met a man who changed everything; he says a man, Castiel Angel of the Lord was so much more than a man and not just because of the whole halo and wings thing. November 5th 2020 Castiel sacrificed himself to save Dean and by extension the world, but not before turning the hunter's life upside down one last time. In 2025 Dean was... moving on, let's put it that way. He hadn't forgotten Cas, spending the past five years trying to be all the things the Angel said he was in that teary goodbye. He put one foot in front of the other, day by day, because as Frank Devereaux once said: 'that's what you do'. This life only ends one way for most hunters though and Dean was no exception. Skip four months into the future and he's back, only this time he's done playing by the rules, done pretending his life didn't end with Cas that day in the dungeon. He's done. Time to do what he should have from the beginning...
stay | @thisisapaige Rating: Explicit Word Count: 15,073 Main Tags/Warnings: Fix-It, Post-Canon, Minor Eileen Leahy/Sam Winchester, Light Angst, Happy Ending Summary: Standing on the bridge beside his brother, Dean looks around. Somethingâs wrong. Because this Heaven, this place Dean supposedly deserves, just seems so... empty.
The Little Issue with the Mission to Perdition | @amaranthhiding Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 16,460 Main Tags/Warnings: Canon Universe, Post-Ep 15x19, Jack and Amara Try Fixing Things Together But Make Everything Worse (at first), Amara is Part of Team Free Will, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Temporary Major Character Death, Angst with Happy Ending, First Kiss, DCRB 2023 Summary: Chuck is defeated and his power now belongs to Jack and Amara. They struggle with adjusting to their newly-shared existence, and with big questions such as, how can (almost) all-powerful beings avoid becoming what Chuck was? What even is all that power good for when it doesn't allow Jack to save someone from the Empty who absolutely deserves being saved? Who thought it was a good idea to hand all that power to two beings who, together, have spent less years on Earth than the average human child? ...And why is there suddenly black goo everywhere?
Until the Moss Had Reached Our Lips | @alulangel Rating: Mature Word Count: 20,543 Main Tags/Warnings: Fix-It, Everybody Lives, Lake House, Saved from the Empty, Groundhog Day Loop, Castielâs True Form, Castielâs handprint, Creepy forests, Inappropriate use of pie Summary: After everything with Chuck went down, Dean thought he deserved some time off. Not a retirement, just a break. A little cabin by a lake. Fishing. Baking. Time to process and reflect. Except he doesn't remember exactly how he got there. And he doesn't know why he can't leave. And there's something about the woods around the cabin, creeping closer and closer and closer every day...
one working part | @mittensmorgul Rating: Explicit Word Count: 40,051 Main Tags/Warnings: Inspired by It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Episode Fix-It: s15e19 Inherit the Earth (Supernatural) Angst and Fluff and Smut POV Alternating Not Canon Compliant with Episode: s15e19 Inherit the Earth (Supernatural), Human Castiel Summary: Wherein they actually inherit the earth. Again. Because I will never be done retelling the end of their story in more sensible and satisfying ways. This time, via the power of a classic holiday film... with a slightly demonic twist.
Empty Earth (WIP) | @amaranthhiding Rating: No Rating Word Count: 102,437 Main Tags/Warnings: Post-15x18, Epic, Plotty, Angel True Forms, Consensual Possession, Enochian, Apocalypse, Rebellion in Hell, Angst with Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Slow Burn, Witch!Sam, Destiel and Samwena, Jack & his three fathers, Crowley & Jack Summary: After Castiel's confession, Dean carries a spark of hope telling him this can't be the end. This spark is the strongest weapon for Dean, Sam and Jack in this final war. The enemy is God. The battlefield is an Earth devoid of humans, a Hell in rebellion against its queen, and a Heaven betrayed by its creator. And the stakes are everything and everyone they have ever cared about.
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