#simon is going thru it huh

[oh2bloved]

THE NEW EPS ARE SOO FUN

[tea-you-later-losers]

playing thru the orca case properly for the first time and Simons really out here saying "its a ruthless killer its nature cannot change blah blah" hey buddy. hey. youre really invested in demonizing this black and white colored creature people are painting as nothing but a devious and purposefully evil thing huh? you alright there? wanna go to therapy about it yet?

[hxneyfarm]

wip wednesday

i was not tagged by anybody but because i have finally been given permission to talk about my steddiebang project, i'm goddamn gonna.

RULES

Post up to five (5) filenames of your WIPs; not titles, file names.

Post a snippet from one of them. Snippet must be words you wrote in the last 7 days. We’re posting progress here. This is an opportunity to flex your steddiebang - DO THAT.

After you’ve posted, people can send you an ask with one of your file names. You must then write 3 sentences in that file.

That’s it! You can invite others to join in or just post.

*Optional: Respond the the ask with the lines you wrote. (This is me holding myself accountable honestly)

WIPS - all my file names already have titles

batter up! (steddiebang!!!)

greatest hits (final update forthcoming... at some point...)

for the bit (fake dating au, currently going thru a full rebrand)

Early in the week, Wrigley Field welcomes the press for interviews about their upcoming games, the spring season now well underway, and a reporter from ESPN actually has the nerve to ask Steve about it.

“Yeah, of course I’ve listened to it,” Steve tells her, forcing a smile. “Eddie and I graduated high school together. He’s really made a name for himself, huh?”

“Well, you do know what the rumor is, don’t you? It’s been all over Reddit all week.”

Of course Steve knows what the going rumor is. It’s him, he is the rumor. He puts on his best doofus expression. “No, I hadn’t heard. I don’t spend much time online these days.”

He waits for her to say it, for the ESPN reporter he once went down on in the locker room after everybody else went home for the night to tell him that he is the subject of even more gay rumors, less than a year after he’d been caught fucking a teammate in the very same locker room where he fucked her.

What’s her name again…? Shelby? Sara? Samantha? Steve can’t fucking remember. She doesn’t say it, though; she puts a finger to her earpiece and smiles once again at the camera.

“Looks like that’s all we have time for,” she says instead. “This is Simone Tindell, signing off for ESPN.”

Simone. That’s right.

The camera shuts off, and Simone smacks Steve on the arm. “You do know, don’t you?”

“Off the record?” Simone nods. “Of course I know. That asshole hasn’t been subtle a day in his life. The album art? Cheap Cubs uniform? Number seven on his wristband? He practically gift-wrapped the rumors for me.”

“Is it about you, Steve?”

“You think Robin would let me say one way or another?” Steve asks, holding his hands out in a placating gesture. “And you can say as much as you want that you won’t tell anyone if I confirm it, but you’re a reporter above all else, Simone. If you get the scoop, you gotta run it.”

“Can you tell me what your favorite song is, at least?”

“No,” Steve says, short and simple. “I’m not talking about it. If I talk about it too much, the rumors will just get worse, and I really, honestly wanted to keep a low profile this season.”

“Are you mad at Eddie for releasing the album when he did?”

“No comment, Simone, okay? Let it drop already.”

“Are you done flirting?” calls one of his teammates.

“Fuck you, Carver.”

“Fuck me yourself, Harrington,” Jason Carver says with a wink.

“Better stay away from that one this season,” Simone teases. 

“Learned my lesson last year,” Steve says, nodding in agreement.

It got really bad last year. Carver had been deeper in the closet than Steve at the time, with the gold crucifix practically glued to his neck and the sign of the cross in the batter’s box every time he stepped up to the plate. 

The media storm overshadowed the team’s eight-win streak and put Steve in a vat of hot water.

Not both of them, just Steve. Because he already had a reputation before Carver even joined the team. And now on top of being a bitch and a slut, here he was corrupting a good Catholic boy from the Bible Belt, tempting him into sin. The accusations had sent Steve reeling, because they were the very same types of accusations Eddie had gotten after… well, after everything. 

With Carver last year it was never serious, so after getting caught it was easy for them to put a stop to it, but it has been months and they are both still being asked about their relationship. And Jason fucking Carver is still doing the absolute fucking most when there are cameras around that might see him within arm’s reach of Steve. Carver’s stats are garbage, so like… anything to have his name in print, right? Even if the only leg he’s got left to stand on is whatever relationship they may have had last year.

There never was a relationship, is the thing. They fucked around a couple of times here and there, and Steve was finished with him the one singular time he brought Carver back to his condo and watched him push his cat off the bed. Petty? Maybe, but he was never worth the headache in the first place.

In the months since the thing between them that had never even been a thing to begin with, Steve has continued to date around. He went out with a tattoo artist for a few weeks before dropping him when he realized he hated the way the guy laughed. And then there was the girl he’d gone out with a few times that had a cockatiel. He dumped her because she had a cockatiel. 

That’s another thing; Steve Harrington, serial dater, can’t commit.

It was never like that with Eddie. Sure, things between them ended badly, and way sooner than either of them would have liked, but that was justified. When you’re eighteen, threats about college and a beating from your dad outweighs every good thing in your life. Especially when every good thing runs away from the fight and leaves you to deal with it on your own, even after all the promises you made to each other.

Steve doesn’t know if he’s ready to reconcile with Eddie; he doesn’t know if he should. They were good in high school, an unlikely but compatible match in almost every way. They argued sometimes, about what they were to one another, because Steve wasn’t ready to be out, but the time they spent alone together remains some of the best memories of Steve’s high school career. Not even state championships could compare.

tagging literally all my followers and mutuals who are taking part in the bang. please join in, today's the wednesday to do it! even if you're not doing the bang and working on something else, please join in!

[zot3-flopped]

Had a good laugh scrolling thru silverfox and other Louie blogs I've stayed away from for ages because there's only do much repetitive conspiratorial nonsense and weird thirsting over the most basic looking man I've ever seen one can take. What kills me is the Melodrama of it all. Louis has been let down over and over! He deserves an apology!! Bc idk the other guys (now they're included in the Judas camp too, not just Harry?? Huh) all split up and *checks notes* dared to have their own careers?

Pt 2 Like ik Louies are salty over his lack of success but I just don't get wtf they expected the others to do about it. Should they all have refused to work again in solidarity or some shit until he was handed success - like a bunch of record deals initially and backing by syco that he um, squandered& a label he ended up leaving himself to go be an "indie" star. Oh wait it's almost like he WAS helped. By lots of people for years. They just choose to rewrite history and forget that part.

Pt3 Lots of way more talented ppl would kill for the chances Louis got. But no, the rads act like the minute the band broke up Harry personally paid a million dollars to every label and music critic in the world to make sure the other guys never saw success and then walked out cackling evilly and then his security ripped the shirt from Louis' back and kicked him out into the winter night and left him weeping in the cold.

..............

Love this! Agree that Louis was spoilt with different opportunties. Simon Cowell seemed to genuinely like him and signed him up to Syco when he'd been rejected by the other majors. As for Harry, he would be bankrupt if he'd paid off all the people Rads say he has. That numpty on Letdown still thinks he purchased his own Grammy, as if that's possible. Beyonce is five times as rich as Harry so why didn't she buy one or all the other majorly wealthy artists who've yet to be awarded Album of the Year?

[braintapes]

that last rb is shattering me. simon and catherine’s dynamic is oso so so SO the dynamic ever. two ghosts of ghosts of ghosts sit at the bottom of the ocean as the last vestiges of humanity who have no one and nothing else and they’re not friends. not really. they don’t understand each other and they want wildly different things and yet...yet they’re all that they have. they need each other in order to cling with gnarled claws onto the last idea of hope they have left. but they don’t see each other.

i made a tweet after i got thru theta and couldn’t stop thinking about the whiplash of going from learning about simon jarrett’s life to. ‘hey let’s extract information from this brain clone in a very specifically cruel way’ and catherine just being SO chipper about it. but like this is really just their whole dynamic in a nutshell huh.

[grisen06]

Reading 1/2 STar Reviwes On Books I Liked

Frist of all I'm slowly coming to terms with teh fact that My Tumblr, My Rules. Noone is going to care what I post and if it doesn't concern them so let's go

(Spoiler warnings for each book will be marked out if they appear)

#1 Love, Simon

So most people's hate towards this is that one paragraph about 'Lesbians and Bi women having it easier since men only likes that' and I GET HOW IT CAN BE EEN AS PROBLEMATIC BUT BECKY IS LITERALLY A BI WOMAN CHECK UR FACTS

Tho I get the people saying the book is to a big part just made to be cute

#2 Carry On

'There's no plot' WHat????? There is???? What???

Everyone saying it copies Harry Poter too much, well I can't really have an opinion here since I read HP when I was 7 and have since forgotten some parts but it was more like she took HP and spun it in her own *better* way so I don't see the problem.

People complaining about the magic system. *SIghs* If I'm 100% honest this is probably one of the best spellcasting systems I've read cause it makes sense compared to system where it's like 'Oh let's just use fucking latin' like where di the latin spells come from??? How did someone figure the spells out in the first place??? What about before latin was invented??? It??? Doesn't??? Make??? Sense???

Someone saying it realises too much on HP nostalgia. It didn't for me at least.

#3 Red, White and Royal Blue

(First I would just like to clarify that while a lot on this list is mlm, I myself am a lesbian and doesn't fetishize them, I just relate to queer books more and the book world lacks a lot of wlw books)

Soooooo 99% of the hate towards this comes down to one thing

Politics

and once again I do get what people mean. The world isn't nearly as black and white as the politics in this book is but that doesn't make it bad enough to hate on it? Like yeah I get why you wouldn't like that particullar part but come on, this book wasn't meant to be Oh The Perfect Describtion Of American Politics. It's a love story. Also it's narrated by the son of the president. I have a feeling he isn't gonna start disliking his own mom and his own political party. And I also get that having Democrats vs Republicans being Allys vs Homphobes isn't really correct but to be frank the real world is basically Republicans - Homophobes, Democrats - A little less Homophobic soooooooo yeahhh.

If you read this for the politics alone, I apologise.

#4 Six of Crows

(Goodreads really should have a 1 star filter function cause it's getting hard to find these 1 star reviews)

People complaining about them being teens. I have a feeling this mostly is adults complaining and to 80% of them I just wanna say that you badly underestimate the power of a group of teens. Especially teens growing up like these 6 did.

This reviewer just called Kaz a male version of Alina. I'm speechless.

Same reviewer said that Wylan was forgetable do they wanna be punched. ANd now they insulted found family wHaT.

Reviewer: *Says the characters feels older than teens*

Also reviewer: *Complains that Kaz did an unmatture thing*

Like dude, ur aware they are teens??? That while teens can be better than you seem to think they are they also are hormonal???

Someone complaining that Kaz's leg injury and having to use a cane is unrealistic? One google search and Oh! The author uses a cane to! Who knows best about them now, huh?

Complaints about the teens being the only moral ones while the adults don't have morals. Personally I really like this seeing as from me (As a teen) and a lot of my friends pov, adults are seldom the best people and therefore from the pov of these teens I think this can be quite realistic.

Complaints that it's sexist that Kaz and Matthias goes thru trauma and becomes monsters while Nina and Inej does and doesn't. Well yeah could it be seen as sexist that it's this boy/girl devide? Sure. Do I think It's more of a character thing? Yes.

I was gonna continue this but I'm out of argument juice for today and also I just went through like 6 books on my goodreads list without finding a single one with an argument I could actually write about so yeah I'm not gonna do more :/

[simplaertes]

so baz grows up with parents who love him, right? kind of. sure he’s not really allowed to talk about the whole “being a vampire thing” outside of super-serious talks, but that’s okay. they love the parts of him that aren’t taken over by being an undead monster.

he also, however, grows up knowing that his mother -- his idol in everything -- would kill him in an instant if she had lived. if she hadn’t literally taken her life to avoid becoming what baz is. and like. that has to suck. 

don’t even get me STARTED on that boy’s suicidal ideation. he grows up being told he’s going to have to kill simon? the chosen one? and then realizes that chances are much higher that simon will be the one to kill him in the end. of course, baz doesn’t lay down and give up, but still. he believes wholeheartedly that simon snow is going to be the one who kills him. 

AND THEN HE FALLS IN LOVE WITH HIM. baz loves someone that he’s certain wants to/will kill him.

...sorta like baz thinks his mom would, huh?

okay this thing wasn’t supposed to be abt baz’s weird connection between “wants to kill me” = “i love them.” but it is important to the rest of it.

baz is a vampire. that’s a fact he’s had to hide his whole life - even kinda from people who KNOW he’s a vampire. he never explores that part of him beyond what he absolutely has to in order to stay alive. for the most part, unless he can use it (vamp lair strut) he ignores it himself. just like he was taught to. 

as a consequence of this (and the fact that vamps are illegal in britain) baz knows almost literally nothing abt a very important part of him. and for a while, it seems like he’s never going to find out.

no one else even attempts to suggest that baz explore it, either. and baz has spent his entire life ignoring it, so he’s not going to go out looking. wayward son establishes that, after carry on, baz and penny still find most of their lives revolving around simon - this time around his depression. his whole life, baz has used simon to distract him from his own issues and emotions. that isn’t going to stop without a push.

so, the trip to america was mostly for penny, but it really did help simon. it gave him a purpose again. but i think the person it changed the most might have been baz. bc before vegas, baz didn’t know anything, really, about ½ of who he is. he’s a vampire, but vampires were a mystery to him. he didn’t know how old he could get, or even how he could be killed!! 

vegas showed him a lot of things. it was certainly the first time he saw vampires unafraid of showing who they were - vampires as a community rather than as monsters. he also learned how old he could live to be, that vampires could “sip” from humans, and even something as simple as how to control his fangs while eating.

obviously vegas wasn’t all good, but i think that’s the point. baz has been repressing himself for his entire life. he never even knew there was another option. i think vegas will force him to confront how he feels about who he is and what he can be. the whole of him - vampire included. 

i doubt he’s ever going to leave simon, especially not for something as wild as a community of vamps in vegas. but he will have to come to terms with being a vampire, learning abt who he is, and ultimately his choice to be alone. bc that’s what choosing simon means - being the lone vampire around for the rest of simon’s life. and being alone afterward, if simon chooses not to turn. it’s an awful thought, but honestly, i really enjoy the ambiguity of it.

baz is a tricky, complicated character who literally never puts himself first. his two biggest loves are people who either wanted or would want to kill him. he basically just ignores a huge part of himself for years until they visit america. he was so enamored with everything lamb was telling him bc it was all brand new to him - he’s been hiding in one way or another his entire life. i don’t think that can continue thru any way the wind blows. baz is going to have a lot of things to confront and decisions to make before he can even begin to deal with his vampirism.

[lighthausen]

tma liveblog lets go

-im 8 minutes in, and ooo they mustve entered london what is that sound?

- What are they? Oh shit camera sounds, ooooh spooky. 

- Jon’s a celebrity lol. Oh, Elias’s personal welcome wagon? Huh. 

- Buzzing drones? Ah they in a tunnel?

- Wanna show so badly? Oooh spooky intro. Statement time.

- Carmen I feel you. Most surveilled city in the world. It makes me wonder, is the eye more about knowing and watching or the fear of being known and watched? 

-Carmen’s just going thru her routine. Good for her. Aww know they’re laughing at her :(. 

-! Green LEDs! Hell yeah!! Aw man no curtains that sucks. Door was open. Ooh. Who’s Carmen’s flatmate? This is not acceptable wtf? Bro. Wow I would hate to be in that domain. 

-Oh yikes is that a shower sound. Uncomfortable. She’s watching herself in the mirror, judging herself. Poor Carmen. 

-Wardrobe only drew attention. Yikes. I wonder if anyone can see anyone else. OOooh the camera was soft wtf yuck. Camera creatures. 

-People took vidoes while she had an asthma attack? pricks. wow. 

-Recognition? Anticipation? Hm. Important to them? I love the judgy people. NO WONDER SIMONE LEFT YOU -random little girl, oh man poor Carmen. 

- Oh she’s going to a therapist? Good? Seed of lust?? Ooooh, she’s into her therapist? And the therapist knew? AFfdlskjf, poor Carmen... “everyone’s counting on you,” hmm. 

-She’s trying to keep everyone out. Inch resting. Why does she still feel watched?  oh something’s wrong with the wall. Oooh an eye in the bricks hm? Eyes in the fabric of the world. Yup, you right. 

-Time to stab the eye. Hmmm void eye that’s cool. Ooooh shit is the eye eating her. Ooooh geeez yiiiiikes. 

-Statment ends. 

- Oooh interesting

[cicadabooks]

The Good Place “Help is other people”

Spoilers as usual.

Wow I actually felt bad for Brent. Or, no, wait -- I felt emotion from Brent? No, wait, maybe a mix. Like he was, for the first time, genuinely being a person and feeling something.

(That is my weakness -- fictional baddies actually feeling/showing emotion, aaaargh. Like when I was hit by Spinel or Jasper breaking down in Steven Universe. I might not want hang out with Brent or a baddie IRL, because they are in fact scary/insufferable/villainous, in case we forgot that -- but these turn of events in a story always get me.)

At the same time I am still annoyed that all this (the rift in the ground so on) had to be staged to try and get something from Brent. I guess the rift was staged to get good points from everyone, technically, in the story. But on a broader character arc, events got aligned to get something from Brent -- and it’s kind of annoying to watch all these characters, esp characters of color, scramble around for an insufferable white man. Also, Chidi and Simone split ways because of this conflict. :(

(I did very much like Chidi and Eleanor being a pair. But I also like Chidi and Simone being cute together. Wait, didn’t Eleanor flirt with Simone in a simulation? What’s the solution here -- poly? I don’t actually know poly culture in depth, is this where we can suggest it?)

Also I kind of love Simone just being completely analytical. I love that she’s figuring everything out. Not a fan of her running off, tho... I hope that next episode, we can see Simone and Gossip Man (names? huh? what are those?) do something really good in the last 10 minutes of the experiment.

...Wait, if this is the turning point of how Chidi and Simone break up for reals in the story, so Eleanor can be written with Chidi again, I’m kind of not happy about this turn.

Anyway, very fun watching Eleanor and Michael bust out that twin evil giggle and turn evil! And you know what, I still appreciate Michael specifically saying “you big white oaf” to Brent -- to make that aspect just a little more normalized and heard out loud. Also Jason making some pretty sound football arguments, and Tahani and Jason just pal’ing around, all fun stuff.

What a cliffhanger ending (pun intended)! Yikes! Also we’re only halfway thru the season, right? Are there more inter-dimension weird places to go and reality bending? I’m very here for that, if there is.

[mythologymonsterlover]

Male! Porcelain Doll Lover (pt.1)

This is about a single mom in the 1980s looking to find work. Due to an unfortunate situation, she comes across a man who claims to be made out of Porcelain?! what will she and her son do in this small town with a man like this..

warning: some swearing

female reader X Male monster

It was never easy for Jason and me. We had to survive on the food banks because I was not working. My bank got robbed last fall, and they took everything I had left. The children agency been telling me to give Jason to them since, obviously, I can’t even take care of myself right now. However, I managed to find a job suitable enough for me to work at and give me enough time to take care of my son.  It’s located in Kansas in the far East and the owner had hired me as a cook who can work though 8AM to 5PM, every Monday through Friday. Really, it a blessing that we only live in Garden city. The rent there is a high so I need to find other ways of making money while working as a cook.  We need money badly and I don’t want my kid not wanting to go to school anymore. I can’t get him new clothing and the kids there started to make fun of him for it, to the point where Jason would start begging me not to take him to school. It makes me feel disappointed in myself. So right now, am going to give him and me a good job that gives me a good check.

We left our home on a Sunday morning so we could go job searching. I took a shower at the house and I put on one of my old dresses that was clean enough to put on. Its light blue and original but has this beauty to it that people usually say they love. I also put on some black shoes that were a little worn out, but still look good. I feel bad for how Jason shoes where dirtier than mine though. Just looking at them makes me feel guilty for not being able to provide for my son. He look like he comes from a poor household with nothing in it, but the things he does have are his books and his toy.

When we are ready to leave, he runs out of the door with one of his books and sits in the back. I smile wryly at him and start the car up and headed onto the  road.  

After 20 minutes on the road Jason turns to me and asks “Mom can we get McDonald please? I’m hungry.” 

He looks at me with those eyes of his, I sigh. “Hey, how about we just wait a little bit longer until we eat okay, like an hour or so?”

 I am also a bit hungry, but we just need to drive for another hour to get to the main road.  I look at him and his giving me one of his pouts faces but it disappears.

“Okay, fine.” He turns his attention back to his book and starts quietly reading.  “Thank you.” I said in a soft voice and bring my attention back onto the road. 

After an hour of driving to get to the main road, I see a McDonald’s and pull into the drive thru. I look at the cars’ clock and it says 11:40, we just missed breakfasts.

 “Hi, what can I get for you today?” a man voice says through the little box, and Jason and I order a double cheeseburger and a Dr. pepper.

 I pay for the food and pulled over so we could eat, but suddenly I see the car’s gauges lights come on. “Dammit, why now?” I said in a low irritated voice.

 I look on my phone and try to find the closest mechanic and how cheap they are, but the connection around here is bad. 

As I keep scowling at my phone Jason looks up at me with a concerned look, “Mama what’s wrong, is everything okay?”  I sigh, “yes, everything fine but  I’ll need to run into the restraint and ask one of the employees if they have a number I can call. Wait here for just a minute, alright?” 

He looks at me a bit puzzled but nods, “Okay.” 

As I exit out of the car I look at the McDonald and notice how odd it looks in this environment that we are in. It’s the only restraint in this whole valley and there is nothing else around it except the road. I don’t put too much thought into it since right now I need to figure out where the town is located. I go up to open the front doors of the restraint, but there locked shut. Then I notice words in big capital letters in front of the window that says, CLOSE. I find this extremely odd since ten minutes ago we ordered food,  but I look around to see if there are any cars that might belong to one of the workers. Sadly,I don’t see any. I then started to get irritated, but I take some deep breaths to prevent myself from panicking, I try thinking what I can do. 

“God, this is almost about to turn into a comedy about a sad middle age mom and her kid asking for a strange man to pick them up off the side of the road.”  Saying that I decided that won’t be the case, since Jason and I will just have to walk to the next town. 

I spotted a sign saying if we keep going straight, we would enter a small town. looking at the sky, I see it still light out and can make out a building. I sigh once again and close my eyes, I hope there is someone in those buildings that can help us, and I hope Jason and I don’t have to deal with any weirdos.

 I head straight to the car to tell Jason what we are going to do. Jason frowns, “Mama you said that everything was okay, what’s wrong with the car?”  I look at him a bit guilty, “Nothing really, I just think we need to walk to the next town and ask them if there is anything wrong with the car, that’s all.”

 I say in a persuading voice, but to be honest I don’t know if i believe myself.  All I can do is say it not a big deal and hope it’s not. 

He looks at me suspiciously and gets out of the car, “Are you telling me the truth?” I crouch down to his level. “Yes, everything is fine Jason. We just need to walk a little bit farther to the next town, alright?” I stand up and grab his hand. He looks at me one more time, than he nods and squeezed my hand. “Okay mama.” he says in a sweet voice. As we start walking I look one more time at that McDonald, thinking how its  a weird place to put it.

As we kept walking for about 30 to 50 minutes we make it to the little town. It was very quiet but I saw a car parked in front of one of a building.

 I smiled a little, “Oh thank god, it would have been terrible if no one was here.” I said to Jason and he nods. As I read the sign on the top of the building it said “The Museum of History.” Huh, I also notice it feels out of place too. 

“Mama, this place is kind of creepy.” Jason says has he squeezes my hand harder, I nod. “Yeah, It's alright, this museum does look really old but we will be okay.” I do wonder however if we could go somewhere else, but, as i’m in deep thoughts I hear Jason say something.

 “Mom, the door.” I look up and see that the door is open a little. “Huh? Hello?” I say loud enough to be heard, but hear nothing in return. As I loosen my grip around Jason’s hand, he suddenly runs inside the museum. 

“Jason, what are you doing!?” I run after him, but I paused at the front door. It has very dim lighting coming from the windows, so it was hard to see, but I could make stairs going up. As I start to walk in slowly I make out a wooden front desk, but no one’s there. Then I see some old looking red furniture in the corner of the room, and in the center there's an old statue of a man with a sword in his left hand who looks strong. I look around a little more and I call for Jason.

 “Jason, come here please!” I keep calling until I hear feet running upstairs.  “Jason…?” I say in a low tone. The atmosphere suddenly becomes very cold. I than worry even more for Jason’s safety in this creepy place, and i’m scared shitless. Yet, I don’t let my fear eat at me and reluctantly go up the stairs. 

Each step I take makes a creaking noise, like the wooden boards will break any minute. I make it to the top though, and see a light at the end of a hallway. It engulfs the end of the corridor very brightly, and very faintly I can hear murmuring between two people. One sound like a man’s voice and the other a kid’s voice. “Jason?” I whisper. 

I walk down the hallway to were the murmuring is coming from. When I come closer to the noise I see a wooden door that has a very bright light coming from underneath the crack, and for a strange reason the door looks very familiar to me, but I don’t know why.

 “Mommy?” I hear a voice say. I notice it Jason’s voice and I could hear the door knob beginning to wiggle, and a moment later Jason comes out and gives me a big hug. “Jeez Jason, why did you run off like that? You made me worried.” 

He looks up at me momentarily, “Sorry mommy..” I inhale a big breath and sigh; I don’t know why Jason would just run away, even when he said that this place freaks him out too. Am about to open my mouth again, but he cut me off before I can say anything.

 “-Oh mommy, this man wants to talk to about the car. I told him that we were tired from walking to this place.” he says this and I pull away and feel I chill go down my spine. 

“Jason, what man were you talking to?” Jason points his finger inside the room. Sure enough, I can make out a man’s figure seating in a chair.

 I take a sharp breath when the figure turns around and looks at me, he looks very much like a… porcelain doll. He has a nice figure and a very clean face, but his eyes were dead like fish.

 “Ah…” the strange looking man says suddenly that breaks the silence between us. He gets up out of the chair and walks toward Jason and me. As the man get closer, I grab Jason’s’ hand and bring him closer to my side. 

The man notices my reaction and stops about three steps away from us. He looks me straight in the eyes, and I can see him more closely to where I notice his strange white hair as well, which are the color of clouds. 

“u-mm…” I say very awkwardly as he stares at me. He smiles a little, “Hello, my name is Simon, and am the owner of this museum. Your son was talking about you looking for someone to fix your car, correct?” 

he says in a deep but gentle voice. I open my mouth hesitantly, “Yes, um, we were just looking for a phone.. that we could use?” Simon glass face shapes a smile and his glass eyes beam. “I see.” He lifts one of his sleeve up and look at his a watch and frowns a bit, but then he put his sleeve down and looks up again. 

“It getting quite late, it probably would be best if you stayed here for tonight, the towing company is closed during these hours anyhow and you both look exhausted.” He walks past us and out into the hallway, “Please, have a seat and I will get you both some food and drinks if you like.” I see that there are two other chairs beside his, but I look down at Jason and try and figure out how to escape this situation. 

I clear my throat I say with a smile, “No, I think we are alright, but thanks anyhow.” I try to walk out of the room with Jason, however the man stares at us more worriedly. “ I understand that you would probably feel a bit uncomfortable about staying here, but I promise you it’s more dangers to go outside right now.” He then comes up to me and places his hand carefully on my arm. Even his hand looks like glass.

 “Please, I have a room upstairs that you and your son can stay in; if you like I can show you it right now.” Simon walks past us and goes up the hallway to were another set of staircases is. I look at him questionably, “Why… do you want us to stay?” he flickers his eyes to Jason and then looks at me with emotionless eyes and sighs, “I would like to tell you but I rather we did it in privet, you know, not in front of your boy.” I raise an eyebrow and let go of Jason hand, he gives me a worried expression. 

“Mommy?” His startled eyes look at me, but I pat his head with a smile.

 “It okay baby, this will only take a minute.” He looks at me with uncertainty but speaks up to him. “U-Um sir, where should I sit at while you and mommy talk?” he says this very shyly. Simon eyes simmer and he forms the softest smile I ever seen. “Jason, if you could please sit in that room, that would be great.” Jason nods and heads off.

 I look at Simon and he walks to the edge of the stairs and sits down. “Please sit.” I come to where he points at slowly, being very cautious. As I sit next to him, the air becomes cold again and sends a cold sweat down my spine. To say he didn’t give me the creeps would be an understatement. 

He began to speak gently. “To tell you why you shouldn’t leave, I need your full attention.” I nod, and he lets out a sigh and starts talking. “You see, this town has a lot of death in it…Its seems that people who come to live here die in many ways, however, no one knows why so many people die here.”

 I look at him very surprised. Did he just say people die here for some strange reasons? He notices my expression and begins to keep speaking. “I know this may sound strange and frightening... But am not kidding. A lot of people have died here and it usually happened during the night.” 

He was looking at me sadly now, and I didn't know how to react. “What do you mean by people die here? Are you saying there is a killer on the loose?” he looks at me very worriedly and begins to speak again in a slower tone. 

“I…I am not sure why a lot of people are dying here, I don’t remember...” He says this with a very forlorn look on his face. “To be honest, I don’t even know what day it is…” I’m confused by his words and frown a bit. “What do you mean you don't know what day it is?”

 Simon gives me another emotionless face. “I been here a long time, I barely know what it's like to see another person.”  I feel almost saddened by his words but also worried.  He gives me a calm look. “I’ve been here for about eighty-nine years...” He says casually. I’m taken aback by his words, since he not only looks to be in his late thirty to early forties, but because his seems so serious about it. “ what are you trying to say?” I prompt him, but he suddenly moves his hand to touch mine. “Do you not remember me?” I am startled by his touch, but do recall of a man in my head, a man who looked just like Simon. 

However, instead of telling he did look familiar, I pulled my hand away. “I’m sorry, but I think I should grab my son now.” He doesn’t say anything for a moment, but then shrugs. “Alright, that’s fine.” He looks at me very sadly, and before I can stop myself I speak out some words unexpectedly. “Listen, since it does look really dark now, I think I will take you up on that offer. Jason and I will probably stay the night.” As I sit their questioning why I said that, his eyes light up and his up on his feet in no time. “ That very good news to hear, let me show you two to the room.” 

well, I think to myself, too late to speak up now.

 As me and Jason stay the night, we are greeted with breakfast in the morning and all of us sit at the table. Simon makes us food a couple of more times throughout the day, and his cooking is amazing. Yet, I have this undying question to ask him why he looks so much like a porcelain doll. He doesn't look bad at all, to be honest, he looks stunning, But from what he said last night about being eighty nine years old leaves me baffled. I take him to the side of the kitchen and speak to him privately. “ Simon, you said you are eighty nine years old...and you asked me if I know you? why?” He almost looks relieved when I asked him, and turn his head toward me. 

“You see, I'm not human, I’m a porcelain doll... Also, you look like my former wife.” I look at him like he just slap me in the face. 

“Your joking right? Sure you look different, but you just had plastic surgery right?” he shakes his head back and forth. 

“No, I was cursed when I was thirty nine, and I now live in this shallow shell of a body darling.”

 I step back from him, thinking he must be on drug or something. Okay, maybe this was a bad idea to stay here with this guy. He frowns softly and steps closer to me. “You don't believe me, do you?” 

he grabs my hand and places it to his face, and I could feel it. The glassy touch of his skin, and I become frozen with fear. “I’m sorry, I know this is hard to understand, but i'm being honest.” He slowly and delicately moves some hair behind my ear. he leans forward  a little more until our faces are just inches apart, and I can hear my heart hammering in my rib cage. 

“You look so much like my wife, before the years took her away from me...In fact, I dare say you must me her.”

 I suddenly feel light headed and before i can say anything, everything turns black.

 I wake up in a bed not mine and see Simon next to me worriedly, as well as Jason. 

I react fast, grabbing Jason by his arm and bring him close to me. “mommy?” he says surprisingly. “What the hell are you Simon? huh!?” 

I look at him with daggers in my eyes and he calmly sit at the end of the bed. “I’m a cursed soul inside of a glass shell, my lady.”

 He then gets up and walks to the door. “We can talk more once you feel comfortable enough, until then, relax.”

[taeyongsbalenciaga]

NCT 127 reacts: Having a nasty argument w/their S/O in front of the other members.

Taeyong: “Taeyong! I’ve literally been so panicent with you! I know I fucking deserve better than being ignored, so you can go flirt with other people,” You lowered your voice, as his members went silent. 

“Maybe if you actually fixed yourself up for me, I wouldn’t be interested in other people!” Taeyong snapped. You were going to talk back, but were so tired of fighting and you just walked out. “Hyung, they’ve been so loyal to you...” Jisung said softly. Taeyong’s stomach turned, regretting his every action and words.

Jaehyun: Your naturally flirty personality finally got you in trouble. “Why do you have to flirt with everyone?!” Jaehyun whined. “Excuse me? When have I ever flirted with anyone, but you?” You said slightly embarrassed, as the group stopped practicing. “Fucking everyone,” Jaehyun chuckled. “Sorry for my natural fucking charm Jaehyun!” You scoffed.

“No, you’re just a hoe (Y/N),” Jaehyun rolled his eyes. “Fuck you.” 

“I’m pretty sure you crossed the line,” Johnny pointed out. 

Taeil: “Maybe if you weren’t, so depressed I’d actually would want to spend time with you,” Taeil said loud enough to make the room go silent. You chuckled, “fine Taeil, go fine some other bitch that’ll listen to your family fucking problems.” You grabbed your sweater and left him speechless. He stabbed you in the back so, you stabbed back and harder.

“Did she just break up with him?” Mark asked softly.

Jungwoo: “Stop being so fucking clingy, gosh (Y/N) I need my own fucking space!” Jungwoo pushed you as you tried to kiss him. “Said the softest boy in the world,” You chuckled, “Shut the fuck up, oh my god! You’re so annoying,” Jungwoo groaned. 

“How about I give you some space permintally-” “That sounds fucking amazing!” Jungwoo threw his arms in the air, relived. You smiled at him and walked out. 

“Jungwoo, you do realise that they just broke up with you right?” Taeyong asked.

Mark: “Want to know why I’m so stressed?” Mark raised his voice, catching everyone’s attention. You didn’t answer, not wanting to cause a scene. “Fine, (Y/N) I’ll tell you because I’m so tired of holding it back,” Mark sighed. 

“Mark calm down,” Haechan chimed in, trying save you both from a fight. 

“I’m so tired of walking on eggshells around you. Get over your fucking trauma, stop being the fucking victim! I happened 10 years ago (Y/N)!” Mark yelled. Your eyes started to get teary, “We’re thru. Don’t ever talk to me again Mark Lee.”

“Dude,” Haechan and everyone else was disappointed. 

Yuta: “Stop fucking calling!- Maybe if you weren’t so fucking insecure you wouldn’t act like a bitch,” Yuta yelled at you through the phone. Everyone heard you hung up. “I think you should called her back, as someone who’s heard you non-stop gushing over (Y/N),” Winwin advised.

Johnny: “Stop fucking following me! Go get a life of your own (Y/N)! damn you’re always all up in my shit,” Johnny complained. “Oh yeah, no. Sorry, I fucking used my lunch break on your bitchass to come check up on you,” You scoffed. “No one wants you here! Leave already!” 

“Delete my fucking number Johnny,” You shook your head. Awkward silence fell in the room. “Johnny she hasn’t seen you in forever..�� Yuta reminded him. Johnny sighed, “fuck.” 

Haechan: “Shut up already, damn you talk so much. How the fuck did I love you?” he accidently said out loud. They all stopped laughing at your joke. “Past tense huh?” You scoffed, getting up from the circle you joined the guys in. “Bye Haechan.” 

Jungwoo wanted to fix the mood, so he got up to play Simon Says. Simon says you’re a real vibe killer. Mark laughed at the impeccable timing, but Haechan glared at him, so he shut his mouth real fast.

Doyoung: “You really want to know why I lied?” he snapped. “Yes, Doyong please enlighten me on why you lied to me on our anniversary to meet up with someone else,” You really wanted to hear his poor excuse. “Because I wanted a break from you,” Doyoung couldn’t lie anymore. “Well thanks for wasting a year of my life,” You choked out and slammed the door behind you. 

Winwin: “Oh my fucking god, why he still texting you? Why are you still texting him?” Winwin rolled his eyes. “I’m not texting him!” You threw your phone at him. “Shut up, yes you are! All you want is fucking attention and you never care who it’s from,” Winwin chuckled clearly annoyed.

“Winwin check my phone if you don’t trust me!” You sighed, it was the second time today you’ve heard about this. “No, I’m so done with you. I can’t do this anymore, how the hell am I supposed to trust you when you’re texting other guys huh?”

You felt like you were choking holding back your tears and the other members noticed. “Hey (Y/N), want a ride home?” Johnny asked you softly. “Yes please,” you answered softly. The other members put some snacks they had in a bag for you. “Um I printed out two plane tickets earlier, at your dorm.- I’ll pick it up tomorrow..bye guys,” You waved, accepting the plastic bag Jungwoo handed to you.

Winwin was dumbfounded, “what plane tickets?” “They’ve been talking to their travel agent, planning you mini vacation when they notice how sad you got over promotions,” Lucas explained, playing his fingers awkwardly.

Sorry, some are short, I wrote some of these running on fumes. <3

[kosmicdream]

Long time reader, first time questioner. What type of life did Knife, Spoon, and for the last chunk of it Fork have together on the more civilian end of things? Like, did they have a house, apartment, move around a lot, was the money from agenting enough to make them rich or just middle class, who bought the groceries, etc. Thanks!

Oh my GOD thank you i absolutely adore this kind of question because i maladaptively daydream the mundane life of my fav cutlery trio on a daily basis so this gives me an outlet.

As far as the living situation it went a bit like this. Knife has an apartment on thumb HQ, I’d say he’s been living in that building for hundreds of years as its one of the oldest buildings on that moon. He used to jsut go where he pleased but he’d eventually start to gather his crap there and eventually it ended up being where he lived. Originally that building was not even made to be an apartment but as the population grew (and also because he was living there) it was remodeled and the area around it also became more of a city.

Spoon first lived in the same building but a diff floor when he was first starting being an agent, but eventually Knife invited him to room with him and this was when Knife finally put the moves on Spoon which was funny bc at that point Spoon had resigned to just being Totally in love with knife but never having those feelings resupricated.

As spoon lived with knife he noticed how badly knife took care of himself and the apartment and started to get very Domestic and learned how to cook for him. Id say he did a lot of the groceries but eventually he was comfortable enough with making knife do it with a shopping list or going out together ofc. but knife at first was kind of a chronic shoplifter bc he just kind of would put things in his pockets and forget that things, ALL THINGS IN THE STORE, must be paid for. money has always been kind of a ????? whatever concept to knife but spoon has always taken money matters very seriously which u wouldnt expect by how much he spends. (at least he has taken it seriously once he became an agent and was like.. earning HIS money from what he was DOING vrs hiding under a fake alias or whatever. once he was making it himself thru his actual job he worked hard at doing, it became something he valued.)

Knife appears to not get paid very much as he doesnt want many things and sort of just takes what he needs at times, since no one can really stop him. But he is actually incredibly wealthy. He knows money is a tool to humans but he also knows its important to make sure no one knows how much you have really, since that makes it easier to be stolen if they do know. So he acts like he doesnt care about it and doesn’t have much at all. If he decides to flex it its for very rare occasions or when hes accidentally destroyed simons car for the 50th time and has to pay for repairs or simons going to cut his favorite coat up for REAL THIS TIME IM WARNING YOU

After simon was kicked out, Knife and Fork lived together for quite a long time until fork grew up and realized that bringing dates over kind of didnt work out well with knife around. Knife kills all moods. especially when its his son’s date. he literally will not tolerate any of that shit under his roof. So fork moved into a new building so they could have some space, they still lived close by however. To this day Fork still lives there.

Simon moved into a new apartment when he got kicked out and it was like incredibly lavish and huge so he could host giant parties at and pretend he wasnt sulking over not being at Knifes anymore. He later blew up that entire building (lol) and now he lives in the same building Fork does now and has resided there to this day.

So i guess they didnt really move around a lot, although for spoiler reasons i cant discuss the sort of secret honeymoon spot that simon and knife also lived at when they had secret romantic vacations. Knife also has a spaceship that he, spoon and fork have all spent time living in off and on, which appears in chapter 8 during the flashback scene. When he “died” kurt legally inherited it. its basically like a flying apartment. Knife personally finds woodsy areas uncomfortable and so he feels much more happy near cement and buildings so thats why he doesnt like, own a cabin. Beaches are cool tho.

Oh right when fork and knife lived together theyd play rock paper scissors (ha) to decide who would go grocery shopping bc they both hated doing it and then would just order take out for a week. knife was very good at taking care of kurt when he was a kid but as soon as they both became adults they just became true slobs and knife couldnt really keep up the ‘cleaning the house and taking care of chores’ parent thing anymore.

when fork lived on his own he realized his dates judged that all he had was ketchup packets in his fridge so he started to work on being better at that stuff.

knife’s apartment was incredibly flithy when he lived alone with both fork and simon moved out, and wouldnt let anyone visit which made fork concerned. when it was discovered that knife died and ppl went into his apartment, they found it was covered in discarded skins. like. knife’s bad habit for hygiene is to just cut off his skin instead of showering and regrowing it so when he was left alone in his bad depression he just did that constantly so it was probably pretty disturbing to see the floors cluttered with his shedded skin like he was a snake LOL

anyway the three of them are rich. simon is the only one who really tried to ~act~ super rich tho and do like.. flaunt his richness by having..  parties on a yacht thing. (when he was single and no longer valued all his hard earned money lol BURN IT ALL AWAY HUH SIMON) then when he exploded he had to pay so much fucking property damage and medical bills so he really lost like. everything. HAPPY NOTE TO END THIS ASK ON YAYYYYYYYY 

[indigoimpulse]

so,, selfship positivity day huh,,

@queenieships yall know this bitch my best friend,,, lets not think abt the fact that ima see you iN PERSON IN REAL LIFE VERY SOON IM SO NERVOUS (help) my lovely lovely bff youve always been there through anything, with your bright personality and enthusiasm! everything about you is adorable. your momiji collection and your wardrobe and your fACE OMG fuck youre beautiful and your ships and art style all the bright colours and shiny eyes? your ships are basically a living embodiment of the best tropes ever (fwb to lovers, height differences)and yeah i literally love you so much and i know i can talk to you about anything 💕💕💕 youre amazing my lovely

@love-fromthevoid SIMON. FUCKINF CHRIST. you are the sweetest nicest little ray of sunshine ive ever had the good fortune to meet. your art style is simplistic yet charming and unique and memorable. im so glad that we started talking because you are a genuine good impact on my life and whenever i see that little ponka icon in my notifs im like 💕💕💕💕!!! my fav boy! also ur rlly handsome and im Blessed by god whenever u post a selfie. the gumball cookie to my yoga cookie, amazing, adorable, Good

@hardcoresshippingmyself ur fucking adorable firstly,,, your art style KICKS ASS SECONDLY, i could go on honestly! tbh i mainly see you thru notifications and on my dash but STILL YOURE SUCH A BEACON OF LIGHT LIKE HOLY SHIT! your ships are fucking great when i was watching deadpool 2 i was all like ,,mmhmm,, thats nadine's man... and PAPYRUS DUH!! all of your boys love you so much (so do i hehe) and i hope you have an amazing day!

@musical-selfshipper yOOO MADDIE ur super funny, we both stAN BNHA AND YUUGA AOYAMA WITH OUR WHOLE HEARTS and youre an awesome friend. your ships are so cool even though i know jackshti about any of your fandoms,, and your self insert designs are the bomb ,, so creative :3 you make jokes in that straightforward way thats honestly the best kinda humour i love talking to you and carry on doing what you do cause its freaking great <3

@limey-blue-arty-do youre so sweet to me all the time honestly limey. i feel like youve got my back whenever (likewise, trust me) and i owe you so much! im obsessed with your writing and youre probably my favourite traditional artist in the community. youve always been here with a kind word or gesture and im so so grateful for you. from the bottom of my heart have an amazing day big sis 💕💕💕

@gamzeeismyboyfriend an icon in the self ship community istg,, ur sososso funny i keep on picking up mannerisms from u lul and ur art gets 100+ notes for a reason! gamzee loves u. lapis loves u,, chahut loves u...! every time u post im like shTI SAVE ME THATS TALENT (especially oli hinthint make me head of the oli support club plspls) we dont talk loads bUT STILL IM BLESSED whenever u appear in my notifs/ dash/ when u rb my stuff 💕💕 have a good one

EVERYONE HAVE A GOOD DAY im lowkey typing in a rush bc im need to meet queenie scREAM but all of your ships are legit i assure you. no matter what you look like, whoever your f,o is, dont let anyone dim your shine because youre amazing and strong and beautiful. if yall ever need anyone to ramble to about .. anything. hit me up and i will 100% scream back at you. love u all! you all make me feel so so welcomed im literally an ugly lil gremlin mess what did i do to deserve yall

@selfinsertheaven @tarushipping @chisakisses @nanoshipshake @atmospheric-light @insomniasqueen @botts-ships you lovelies have a gREAT DAY TOO hnfdldjd 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

[professional-anti]

Chapter Eight: Weapon of Choice

Heyyyyy!! Sorry, life has been cray, and it’s never gonna change, unfortunately. But guys, dw, I am dedicated. Also, weirdly, doing this has made me appreciate books even more? It’s so much fun to talk abt books, and I learn so much, even if it’s a book I hate. Okay, getting started (pray for me):

We last left off with Clary jumping thru the surprise door, like one does. Jace lands on top of her, yay, OTP moment, gag me. There’s a nice little detail where “Clary coughed hair (not her own) out of her mouth” which kind of captures the chaos and would be cute if it were an actual good ship. I hate when that happens. Jace criticizes Clary, FINALLY for a valid reason.

It turns out they’re at Luke’s house. Oh, classic, he lives in Williamsburg, the gentrified hipster paradise. Where else would a man who wears flannel live? Even more classic, he lives behind a bookstore. Clare is obviously one of those heavy-handed authors who has exactly two professions for her Intellectual Men™: bookseller and evil Giles.

I’m going to shake Clary. She doesn’t know why they’re here, despite having thought “I want to go where my mom would have gone” right before jumping. Like, bitch??? Do you have a brain? I’m cryingfff

Clary decides she wants to leave, even though there’s cleary something super sketch abt Luke. He’s so obviously protecting her, so he must know something, right? Well, Clary rubs her two brain cells together and decides, nope, nothing to see here! Time to go home!

Jace, being reasonable for once, is like, yo, maybe we should stay. They run into Simon, so you know there’s gonna be Dramaz. Jace and Simon apparently devolve into primordial wild dogs driven by the intense urge to fight for the girl dog so they can screw and produce puppies that are as annoying as they are. Here is what everyone is doing:

Clary is fixing Simon’s hair bc she’s a Woman Simon is pushing Clary’s hand away bc he’s Annoyed Jace is using his stele to file his nail bc he’s Not Paying Attention

There’s some horrible forced tension between Simon and Clary, where he’s all, “Clary, you ran away from me, I thought I and my dick upset you,” and Clary’s all, “Never, Simon, I love you,” and Simon cums. Not actually, instead he slut shames Clary:

“Yeah, well, you clearly also couldn’t be bothered to call me and tell me you were shacking up with some dyed-blond wanna-be goth you probably met at Pandemomonium”

On the one hand, draaaaag him, Simon!! Jace IS a peroxide blond who listens Evanescence (I almost wrote MCR before googling it and learning that if I wrote that, about a million punks would stream into my inbox in tears).

Simon’s eyes are “dark with suspicion”. which is just annoying. Yes, I would be so fucking annoyed if my friend ran out on me and then disappeared and then reappeared with a blond guy. But I’d also do some more questioning of the situation. Is she okay? Why is she with such a rude guy? Is he hurting her? Was she kidnapped? Is she being held against her will? Is this a drug thing? Does she need my help? Why did Luke cover for her? Is something deeper going on? Instead Simon is all possessive Nice Guy.

Apparently Simon spied on Luke packing a duffel bag of weapons. So he couldn’t give Clary any benefit of the doubt? It sounds like her family is caught in a bad situation! Maybe she had to hide for her life! Simon, use your brain!!

kajlkfaklsdjfalksdflk Clary tells Simon everything, and Simon asks if they kill all these different magical creatures, and Jace says ONLY WHEN THEY’VE BEEN NAUGHTY a;dlfjals;kdjfl;asdjfl;aksdjf hahahahahahahah This image that Clare is going for is just sooooo overdrawn. This dialogue, omfg.

Simon loses his mind and excitedly compares everything that’s been going on to D&D. Let’s totally forget abt the fact that Clary’s mom is missing, or that Luke just filled a duffel bags with murder sticks, shall we?

Jace and Simon have a bizarre conversation, and then they walk. In. The. Back. Door. Bc Luke doesn’t lock his back door. Bc that’s totally not something that someone who fills a duffel bag with weapons would do. At least the door to the bookstore is locked, though Jace opens it pretty easily with his stele. Why didn’t Luke have Jocelyn fix up some wards or something?

Simon asks Clary how she stands Jace, and she’s like “he saved me life” and he’s like “huh?” even though she told him everything that happened. Why is Simon so dumb. I guess all his blood is in his dick? Wouldn’t surprise me.

They find manacles in the wall, so either Luke and Jocelyn have (even more) hidden depths, or Luke practices

Luke’s apartment is filled with books. Of course. Look, I love books. I have about 500 in my room at this moment. I buy them constantly, I get from the libarary, I read and read and read. I think most of us on booklr do. But when every single Good Character in your book has books, it’s boring. And no one has unique book taste. What if all of Luke’s books were nature books? Jack London? Travel guides? That would paint a picture. Instead he has a bunch of fantasy and other fiction. That’s boring. I learn nothing, bc every goddamn person in this goddamn book reads fantasy. It’s so fucking generic. I totally approve of “good” characters admiring and liking reading bc that’s how you get ideas, and that’s how Lemony Snicket rolls, but there are more books than fantasy and mystery (the other main type that Lucas has) in the world. Justice Strauss has an inexhaustive library. Uncle Monty has all those books about snakes. Lucky Smells just has that one history of Lucky Smells. Already, you know so much abt each person (and place) by what books they have. We learn nothing about Luke.

Clary finds the overnight bag she leaves at Luke’s and changes clothes. I mention this only bc she puts on “a blue tank top with a design of Chinese characters across the front” bc of COURSE she is That Bitch. I hope it translates to something like “Radishes” or “Bridge”.

Luke’s bedroom has a shelf of “Indian statues and Russian icons” which, idk, makes me a little uncomfortable. These sound like things that are holy to someone. But I think the worst part is that Clary says, “Luke collects stuff. Art objects. You know … Pretty things.” I just googled it, and Hindu statues, like the one Luke has of Kali, are seen as actual avatars of gods. Clary is diminishing someone’s god to a “pretty thing”. It’s not a nick-nack or a trinket. (If you know more abt this, like if I’m wildly off-base, feel free to send me an ask!)

Jace finds the Metaphor known as a smashed picture of Luke, Jocie, and Clary, which Clary threw at the Ravener in her apartment, so realize that Luke went back through the apartment. Jace says that Luke must have gone through the Portal-potty last, so it brought them here. I’m still team Clary Asked to Go Where Her Mother Would Have Gone and Therefore the Portal did What it Was Supposed to Do and Brought Her Where She Wanted.

Luke and some warlocks show up, so Clary and co. hide behind the super convenient silk screen. Jace uses his sonic stele to make the screen transparent and we get this gem:

Jace shook his head at them both, mouthing words: They can’t see us through it, but we can see them.

Bc mouthing works that well. You don’t mouth compound sentences!! You mouth something simple like they can’t see us. Simon and Clary already know they can see Luke and the warlocks bc they’re looking at them right now! And this spell or whatever that Jace did takes the tension in the scene waaaaaay down. If they can’t see Luke, then everything becomes more tense. Are the voices getting closer to the screen? Is somebody about to reveal them? Instead, all the tension is drained in a dumb quick-fix.

Bc Clare thinks we’re stupid, she adds “It was frightening even though [Clary] knew [Luke] couldn’t see her, that the window Jace had made was like the glass in a police station interrogation room: strictly one-way.”

GD ARE YOU THERE??????? STOP THIS.

Jace realizes that the warlocks are actually Shadowhunters dressed as warlocks. Idk how he can tell, but whatever. He conveys this by whispering, so I don’t know what the mouthing nonsense was earlier.

The Shadowhunters are named Blackwell (redhead) and Pangborn (gray mustache). What sorts of names. It’s like Clare used a fantasy-name-generator. Who are we kidding, that’s totally what she did. Pangborn picks up the Kali statue and this conversation happens:

“Ah,” said Pangborn, taking the statue from his companion. “She who was created to battle a demon who could not be killed by any god or man. ‘Oh, Kali, my mother full of bliss! Enchantress of the almighty Shiva, in they delirious joy thou dancest, clapping thy hands together. Thou art the Mover of all that moves, and we are but thy helpless toys.’” “Very nice,” said Luke. “I didn’t know you were a student of the Indian myths.” “All the stories are true,” said Pangborn, and Clary felt a small shiver go up her spine. “Or have you forgotten even that?” “I forget nothing,” said Luke.

So the Shadowhunter mythology is that all religions are true? Inch resting. I vaguely remember this. Idk how I feel about this. The Shadowhunters are still gonna be super Christian no matter what lip-service Clare pays to other religions. She has angels! And demons! She’s trying to be inclusive, but it’s never really gonna work, bc she’s doing it in name only. But at the same time, I wouldn’t want her to mess with any religion but Christianity or, sigh, Judaism. Christianity bc it’s the dominant religion and can’t be marginalized (different denominations can be, but not Christianity as a whole) and Judaism bc she’s Jewish. There’s not very much Jewish in these books, though. Yeah, there are angels in Judaism, but it’s not really the Jewish Vibe. A book influenced by Judaism would have a lot of magic based on specific wording, and arguments, and Hebrew and Hebrew-derived languages. This book uses Latin and is into angels. It’s Christian-influenced, which is fine, I guess, but the lip-service to other religions doesn’t ring true. But also, saying “Christianity is the one religion!” is super upsetting and she shouldn’t do that. I don’t really know where I’m going with this, I’m literally thinking on the page. Do you guys have any thoughts on this? Please hit up my ask box or talk about this in the notes! This discussion really interests me, and I want to get diverse opinions.

Luke asks if Valentine sent them (he did) and if their clothes “are official Accord robes” “from the Uprising?” (they are). Wow. The Uprising. What a descriptive name! We don’t call things “the Uprising” in real life. It’s more like, “The French Revolution.” “The Cultural Revolution.” “The Revolutionary War.” “The Civil War.” Am I being unfair?” I guess someone right after one of the French Revolutions might just say “the Revolution.” But something about The Uprising is so boring. And aren’t there more than one Uprising? There should be. The Warlock Uprising. The Vampire Uprising. It doesn’t have to be all internal. Any organized group would rise against the Clave. The Clave is legit the worst.

It turns out Luke’s real name is Lucian AND. I. AM. DYING. Luke is Lucius Malfoy, confirmed!! Let’s do a list of what we know so far:

Clary: Ginny Jace: Draco Jocelyn: I’m getting Bellatrix vibes? Bc of the whole in-love-with Voldemort thing? Valentine: I don’t know?? I can’t think of who he could be??? We’ll have to leave this blank for now I guess :/ Hodge: Giles. Not a HP character, but this is a crossover event with Buffy. Isabelle: Pansy Parkinson Alec: I actually don’t know here. He’s the GBF. Simon: Does Harry make sense? They’re both boring nice guys (don’t @ me!)

This game is getting boring, let’s move on. Luke apparently used to fight with B and P, so we know he’s a Shadowhunter (or, if you’ve read this book before, you know he used to be one). Then he tells them he doesn’t know where the Mortal Cup is (they think Jocelyn hid it).

CLARY IS SO FUCKING DUMB OMFG. P and B talk about how Jocelyn hasn’t regained consciousness and Valentine wants to see her again (using her name) and Clary goes:

Jocelyn? Can they be talking about my mother?

NO THE OTHER FUCKING JOCELYN. CLARY HOW RU STILL ALIVE.

CC must think her readers are really dumb and can’t figure anything out on their own:

“I’ve never felt any way about [Jocelyn], particularly,” said Luke. “Two Shadowhunters, exiled from their own kind, you can see why we might have banded together. But I’m not going to try to interfere with Valentine’s plans for her, if that’s what he’s worried about.”

He might as well have said, “Jocelyn and I were both exiled. EXILED. We were exiled. We were exiled as fuck. Do you get it? Reading context clues is hard, so I’m saying WE WERE EXILED.” The quasi-warlocks should have responded like, “Yeah? We know you both were exiled? We were there?”

Blackwell refers to Jocelyn as “that bitch” bc institutionalized mysoginy is the absolute best! I love when vicious sexism is included for no reason! Bc also these guys aren’t any worse than Luke! Bc may I remind you that Luke was basically a supremacist! Just like them!

For some reason, these idiots believe Lucius when he tells them that he’s not close with Jocie. Then please explain why you both live in Brooklyn.

P and B threaten to make Luke stay in the city, and Luke threatens them, and somehow they let this happen? In other news, Clary is still dumb as rocks. She’s super hurt that Luke said that he doesn’t care about Jocie bc she has about 0 critical thinking skills. We’re talking none. She could have someone whispering the answers in her ear and still bomb the SAT.

Jace thinks that P and B think Luke “knows more than he’s telling” so why would they let him go???? Then Jace reveals that P and B murdered his dad, and this chapter is OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Someone bring me a Bloody Mary. It’s how I feel inside.

[zandyin]

Some DBH plot hole and general not fun rambling (spoilers)

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD HE DID NOT JUST HAVE A BLACK PERSON GO “my people were made to feel bad too” HE’S GONE BEYOND SMACKING US IN THE FACE WITH A FRYING PAN AND TURNING OUR COLD CORPSE INTO A PILE OF MUSH WITH HIS HAMFISTEDNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was also talking to a friend earlier that it’s verrrryyy hmmmmmm that Kara and Alice are afraid of Luther at first, cause... well. Kara wasn’t afraid of CREEPY MURDER HOUSE ON A RAINY NIGHT, not at all creeped out by the guy who answered the door with the most villain name ever and BLUE BLOOD ON HIS HANDS (Zlatko? really?), but here comes Luther, just approaching them like anyone else, and the camera angle makes it a point to show you how Luther towers over the two of them. :/ Very unsubtle, Cage.

I’m beyond sick of how “do you get it? ze slavery!!” cage has been with his writing, I’ve kinda accepted the fact that androids have been serving as a representation of the working/lower class for a while, but this is just... too much. Someone pointed out that Luther could possibly be... a reference to... Martin “Luther” King and I’m. HNNNNNNNNN.

Also, Cage, y’know that police officer that asks to come in to see if there are androids? Do you know what a warrant is? I’m assuming laws are generally the same in the future, so any thing that cop found would be inadmissible in court anyways. No warrant? Fuck off! Bye! I guessss you could argue those characters present wouldn’t know about the law, but... it’s all so convenient, lol.

Ah, I’m jumping out of order but I’m writing this as it comes... so Markus? Infiltrating that building. He looked GREAT. Where did he get those new threads, tho? Am I supposed to assume he stole those too? Lol. ALSO... WHY HIS MOUTH MOVE WHEN THE RECEPTIONIST RIGHT THERE?? It was established androids can just link up mentally and communicate that way, how is hacking into a phone any different? Why can Markus hack so much, anyways? Will it be explained? I read some comments that say “not really, it’s just implied” and that’s cheap haha. We’ll see, tho. THE SCALING THE BUILDING SCENE PAST THE “RISE” SIGN... HHHHHUDDUSDFKJSDFLK CAGE PLS I’M ALREADY A BLOODY PULP FROM THIS MERCILESS BEATING OF OVERT SYMBOLISM. Why didn’t they just take the window washing scaffold thing? Who hid the uniform, btw... was it a human? AH JUMPING BACK TO KARA’S THING, how is there already an “underground railroad” when it seems deviancy is relatively new? Apparently the whole game takes place over the course of a week and now I’m even more B0 about it.

Speaking of that break in, why.... how... Simon and Josh? How did they just breeze thru security? How’d they get on that elevator, lol. Also North is just human at this point. Her little “ladies first” quip is... far too human. I don’t like how Markus and Kara got shafted into just BEING human after their first scene. Connor’s going a lil faster than I like, but he’s been more of an android than those two at this point. I heard Connor’s parts were the least touched by Cage, haha... Markus and Kara tho? Oh boy, you can tell he’s all over those. Yikes.

Someone pointed out it’s funny that Markus is the poster boy for the android rebellion cause he lived a (relatively) privileged life. I don’t think they ever touch on this? I think it’d be a cool thing to explore.

Ah, when Alice says “why do they hate US” i’m like... alright cage, we got the hint of him never reporting his daughter missing, so she’s probably an android you bought to abuse, huh? can androids not identify other androids? Or is it just Kara?

Y’all I’m just about androids who actually act uncanny valley and not like Markus and Kara. They are still cute, just... victims of a cage game, y’know? I can see why people draw/write them better stuff. It’s ALL better than their canon, lol.

In other news, we have talked about a android AU for Raidou/Dahn and the other problematic rarepair, so I’ll probably write something about that later.

[mostlymaudlin]

ok @captain-aralias im ready now LOL

this took me a while because i had to reread the fic, and then i got distracted a million times, as i do. but i love these ask memes because i always go "oh hey i forgot i wrote that" and its fun to dive back into something that obviously consumed a lot of brain power at one point in time. upon revisiting, i gotta say, im still proud of this one!!

this is my entry from last year's remix fest of @tea-brigade's sports au Always, Almost! i decided to remix it by changing the setting to SPACE lol.

also, i just find it funny that at the time, i was SO EXCITED to write a sports au. and now there are sports scenes in like 90% of the fics i write for aftg hahaha.

ANYWAY! questions --

4: What’s your favorite line of dialogue?

most of the dialogue in this fic is adapted from korinne's! and a lot of it is glorious. this is one of the conversations that i spun to be more space-y (originally theyre talking about doctor who), and i think its funny:

“I’ve never seen it,” he says.

“What? You’re literally in training to pilot spacecraft!”

“It’s not like it’s a training manual,” Baz snaps. “We’re not rebels training to battle the Empire. I literally want to be a library courier.”

“And I want to pilot commercial flights. So? It’s still space travel. Also, you’re talking about Star Wars, not Star Trek.”

“There’s a difference?”

5: What part was hardest to write?

i have not read much sci-fi, so it was really difficult to make the setting seem real! in general, i don't do much world-building. but to make this work, i had to figure out why they were in space, why they were playing a sport in space, what SPORT they were playing in space. it was definitely difficult, but i had a lot of fun inventing "laserball," which is just a more sci-fi-y version of soccer. there is flying. and lightning. and fireworks!

most of the time spent i spent on this fic was in the pre-work. i think i actually sat down and wrote the actual prose in one day lol.

14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?

ooooh. since the original plot wasn't mine, i think that i'm not responsible for the things this story says about trust & family (which are really great things).

i think perhaps what i have given this fic thru the sci-fi element is almost, like, a level of love for earth?? hahaha. i remember reading it back before posting and being like "yes this is sci fi but i kind of popped off when they come back to earth huh." the most vivid scenes in this story, to me, take place outside baz's and simon's childhood homes, and i liked looking at earth from the perspective of someone who maybe hasn't been outside in a bit. and just being like. wow :) planet :) i appreciate you :)

from this list of fic Qs!

rory! i have loads of your fics bookmarked, but i'm going to ask you about Approximately to Infinity [the pew pew remix], as i thought it would be interesting. questions 4, 5 and 15

OH NO I PRESSED ENTER ON THIS BEFORE I FINISHED ANSWERING. stay tuned for the actual answer LMAO

4: What’s your favorite line of dialogue?

5: What part was hardest to write?