#sk8 for ts

[babysgarage]

i love how reki and langa's relationship is written, the little details of reki making langa decorations for his room to make it more homely, them chilling watching videos on their phone and passing the ketchup with their skateboard, tending to each other's injuries, they're genuinely nice to each other and also tease each other, love to see it

[that-was-anticlimactic]

it's like a fire, a stranglehold

When he didn’t answer, Oka sighed. From the corner of his eye, Reki saw Oka drag a stool over to his work space. Great. He propped an elbow on the table, putting his chin in his hand (his stupid, tapping, rubbing, shaking hand) then looked away. His other hand bounced in his lap. “Reki,” Oka spoke again. There was a familiar edge to his voice, the kind of edge Reki heard every time Oka tried talking about feelings, ugh. “What’s up?”

“Nothing,” he grumbled, a slew of cooing following the word. He sounded so stupid. His fingernails gripped his thigh, pinching angrily.

It hurt like hell.

He couldn’t stop.

[or, reki's hands hurt so much & oka helps him out]

🛹2,737 words | reki & oka🛹

happy last day of ts awareness month!

[elmaxlys]

AO3 Fic Meme

@tellmewhatyouc tagged anyone who wants to so here i am :3

Rules: Go to your AO3 account and find the following:

What ratings do you write most of your fics under?

Teen And Up Audiences (9) - General Audience and Mature are right behind with (8)

What are your top three fandoms?

Tenkuu Shinpan (15)

Tokyo Ghoul (9)

SK8 the Infinity (4)

What is the top character you write about?

Rika at 13 fics out of 15 TS fics

Special mention to Donato who appears in 9 of my works, considering I have 9 TG works lmao

What are your top three pairings?

Honjo Rika/Juo (7)

Amon Koutarou & Donato Porpora (6)

Adam/Langa (3)

What are the top three additional tags?

Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence (9)

Post-Canon (8)

Catholicism (4)

Does any of this surprise you?

I'm surprised "Pre-Canon" doesn't make it in my top 3 additional tags. What do you mean I only have 3 Pre-Canon works with how obsessed with Pre-Canon...

After checking, turns out there are at least two fics that could have taken the labels but I haven't given it to for some reason ("Fathers" and "Nightmare" - then there's "Blood is Thicker" but it's a Canon Divergence take on Pre-Canon so idk if it'd count) so I'm gonna say Pre-Canon does hit the top 3 😤

Tagging @pinepickled

[in-a-faith-forgottenn-land]

about me :)

hiii <33 welcome to my blog!!

ella, minor, bi, she/her, and a cancer

a swiftie since i was 6( fun fact: first ts song i heard to was blank space) (also i miscalculated bc i mixed it up with smth else lmao 😭😭)

hyperfixated on many things

multifandom

young royals, heartstopper, aogg, tsoa, tshoeh, greek mythology, banana fish, pjo, hoo, toa, tfota series, buddy daddies, sk8 the infinity, spy x family, yuri!!! on ice, not so shoujo love story, howl's moving castle (both the book and the movie), given (anime)

achilles apologist (he’s a babygirl ok)

fic writer

reputation, speak now, and evermore are my top three ts albums (debut supremacy!!)

filipino

i love watching anime so recommend me some of ur favs!!

we stan eiji okumura in this blog

sometimes i affectionately insult my fav characters

curses sometimes

could speak english and tagalog (im learning how to speak swedish because of my obsession with young royals adjkasjkadjk)

sometimes i make playlists for my beloved blorbos

sometimes hp and the marauders

comfort characters: achilles, prince wilhelm, ash lynx, nick nelson, ginny weasley, annabeth chase, percy jackson, jude duarte, rei suwa, mateo torrez, yuri katsuki, reki kyan, sophie hatter

if i don’t like u i’ll just block u

will block any jkr enthusiasts

i also have a side blog: @itsjusta-thousandcuts which you can go and follow if u wanna see stuff that i write :D (and also some nonsense stuff lmao) and my AO3 just_a_local_fangirl

[tourettes-swag-tournament]

i would love. the fic recs if you would like to give them <3

hi, anon! i would love to give them!

hey, little songbird, give me a song

i wrote this one😅 it's prolly one of my favorite fics that i've ever written, tbh! it's very special to me! basically, it's post-canon and basically is reki has been acting weird since his beef w/ ad*m and the sk8 fam is concerned and they soon realize that he's suppressing his tics and. they find out Why and :)

let the sun come streaming in

written by @zukkaoru ! it's amazing! five times someone lent reki a fidget toy + one time he lent one to someone else! it's v sweet and amazing <3

i ain't gotta tell him, i think he knows

written by @sapphicstruggle is a v sweet, domestic renga fic ft. ts reki <3

close your eyes, you'll be just fine

written by @zenithpng is another sweet, domestic renga fic fr. ts reki <3

these are a compilation of tumblr ficlets written by @milf-harrington and there are some ts reki ones in there!!! (theo has also drawn some art of reki w/ ts!!!)

in this place above the clouds

also written by @zukkaoru and it is so cute and it's a shadow & ts reki friendship fic <3

I Hope We Never Fade by k0dxuken

i actually didn't know this one existed! v excited to read it!

Koyomi Kyan's Nail Salon by setyourheartablaze

a cute fic where reki has trouble painting his nails and koyomi helps him <3

suddenly there's sunlight all around me

also by me lol this is more about reki w/ chronic back pain (thank you @backhurtyy for this incredible hc <3) but the ts reki is pretty prominent i'd say <3 it's about reki's back hurting and his body is just ow and langa is v nice and oka is a menace (affectionate)

and this is just a compilation post of all the ts reki content i've creatd/seen!

lastly, any sk8 fic i write includes tourettic reki and the same pretty much goes for sk8 fics that @zukkaoru and @milf-harrington write, too <3 and y'all should check them out anyways because they're both so very sweet and amazing and i love them <3

[tamlovesfashion]

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[gemtesager]

Vans UA SK8-HI Navy

[milf-harrington]

final push up count

cherry: 50 (only bc he chose that number)

joe: 150 (cherry wanted to get off)

langa: 5 and a half

reki: 25

[babysgarage]

so they made sure to tell us langa is a rlly talented and skilled snowboarder to the point where there's talks of him making the national team of a cross-over sport in a matter of months and he's so competitive he gets tunnel vision about it (literally and figuratively), so it's not a stretch for me to assume that he has a cabinet of trophies back in canada and that snowboarding wasn't just a fun weekend thing for him and his i quote excellent instructor dad

[tobgan]

me, always being obsessed with the red and blue dynamic ships have:

“YOU’RE NEXT-“

[elmaxlys]

5, 8, and 24 for the fandom asks!

5- something you see in fics a lot and love

I mean, I filter a lot so what I see a lot is what I love XD My favorite thing is never ending one-sided pining for a sex friend (or just endless pining straight up ngl sksksksks)

8- you hope more people will come to appreciate ___ (a ship, a trope, an episode, etc)

TG: The Clowns

TS: the sequel!!! it deserves more love!!! it has such cool characters!!! (also: Rika)

sk8: Tadashi as a pup... I struggle to find fanworks that fit me because they make him a lover rather than a pet (I don't really mind him being both but most often I see this side of him completely erased which is so sad to me because this is a man that looked at his happiest being told he'd get to stay his master's dog)

(he's so cute, help)

24- how has fandom positively impacted your life?

I have friends now, which is mind boggling to think about. I love you guys. Smoochies. 💚💚💚

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Love your fandom asks

[that-was-anticlimactic]

reki with tourette’s headcanons

[ID: it’s reki from sk8 the infinity wearing a yellow sweatshirt with his hands on his hips. he’s wearing a red bracelet on his right wrist and he’s smiling. behind him is a touette’s syndrome awareness flag. end ID.]

so. @zukkaclawthorne got me hooked on reki with ts and now imma post headcanons i wrote oops

okay so first—that little skateboard he plays with??? stim toy, actually.

he likes the sound the wheels make—that whirrrrrr sound. it makes his arms flappy :)

he also finds the rolling motion soothing and relaxing and it always calms him down—it takes his mind to a happy place

he rocks back and forth and shakes his legs a lot. that also contributed to why he was terrible at skateboarding the first few times he tried—because his body would be like “time to rock back and forth!” and it would mess him up

neck twitches for days :)

no but for real—neck twitching is one of his worst tics because sometimes—if he’s in a bad mood or if he’s sad or anxious—it gets harsh and violent and really strains his neck.

so, langa gives him neck / upper back neck massages to help with the pain

he went through this phase for a couple of months where whenever his neck would twitch, he would snap his fingers two times.

he has a lot of hand tics which can be stressful when he makes skateboards because sometimes he’ll be in the groove and then suddenly he’ll mess something up

speaking of messing things up, he has a tendency to dig the bottom of his palm into his forehead whenever he feels like he does something stupid—he doesn’t even realize it until someone points it out.

he feels like even more of a failure of a skater because of his tics because they can hold him back and make the course more dangerous.

if his blinking tic resurfaces, sometimes the blinking gets so intense that he literally cannot see for anywhere between five seconds and a minute depending on how bad it is. that is how he got some of his worst scars.

or sometimes he’ll make a really aggressive hand motion and it throws him off balance on the skateboard due to the intensity

anyways back to hand tics: he points a lot and does symbols like the “rock on” sign or certain numbers (for some reason, the most common number for reki to throw up is four—though sometimes he throws up whatever number he hears) he also grunts a lot as a tic so he sounds angry even when he is’t.

sometimes, his hand tics really hurt and his hands become shaky and his fingers start to feel the way his heart feels when he’s anxious. langa helps in different ways—he holds reki’s hand, he gives him something to fidget with to try to distract him (sometimes it’s his own fingers—he’ll just set them in reki’s palm and be like “let me carry some of the pain”—no, reki didn’t totally cry when he said that what)

sometimes, reki sticks pencils in his ears. his teachers have been trying to stop it since he was young, but he always did it anyways—he couldn’t help it.

his hair is also long enough for him to chew on. yes, he chews on the tips of his hair because i say so. sometimes, to stop him from doing that (and from swallowing his own hair), langa will try to make him laugh so it falls out of his mouth and then he’ll scoot close and tuck the hair behind reki’s ears… once they start dating, he kisses him too. but also that’s one reason why he wears the headband—to try to keep his hair out of his face so he doesn’t chew on it.

reki’s favorite form of stimming (other than his skateboard toy, that is) is stress balls. he’s got a couple of stress balls in his room or backpack—even one with string attached so he can carry it around his wrist. he just really likes the texture of them.

after his second race against adam, cherry and joe were so proud of him and also impressed and worried dads that they bought reki a big stress ball, like, the size of a stuffed animal. it was a blue cat. he uses it all the time.

speaking of fricking adam, we all know he would so use reki’s tics against him during a race. like, when he grabbed his wrist and “danced” with him, he would mock reki’s tics or say creepy things about how his verbal tics are music and his motor tics are him dancing along and it makes him so uncomfortable and like even more shaken

oh and adam purposely does things to trigger his tics, like when i mentioned that number tic??? yeah, adam will purposefully say numbers to make reki do the hand gestures

one time, reki wanted to tell langa that he loved him but got nervous so he signed it in sign language instead. but, since reki’s tics are occasionally hand gestures, langa thought that it was just a tic and mentally was like “i wish that was for me…” and reki is like “i wish he knew it was real…” and joe, cherry, shadow, and miya are all facepalming and groaning at their obliviousness

reki prefers taking hand written notes to electronic notes because he draws / doodles to stim and he can’t really doodle well on a laptop. so, he’ll doodle in class all of the time

sometimes, his pictures / notes turn out pretty bad / illegible depending on how bad his tics are, but that doesn’t phase reki. it used to when he was younger, but it doesn’t bother him at all anymore. in fact, he thinks it adds personality

during class, he’ll draw pictures for langa and slid them on his desk. they’re usually really random things like the teacher or the back of someone’s head or squiggly lines or whatever he sees outside. more often than not, it’s abstract art. langa loves these drawings and he keeps them all on his desk in his room.

reki also started drawing pictures for the rest of the sk8 crew and gives it to them during races. when he gave everyone their first doodle, he was like “i’m not the best artist ever and sometimes my tics mess up the doodle, but i thought of you while i drew it so i want you to have it”

(shadow didn’t shed a couple of unwilling dad tears when he got home that night what)

anyways, they all keep them. every single one. miya puts them in their school binder so they don’t feel as alone / isolated at school.

although shadow and miya give reki a lot of crap / teasing about not being as good as everyone else, the second they hear anyone comment about “the weird red head that makes noises” and comments on his ts in a negative way, oh, they will stop you.

sometimes, reki whispers words he hears under his breath as a tic (echolalia, baby~) and when he overhears people saying stuff about “that redhead that always follows snow around” or about him not being good enough or how he’s an idiot to face adam, he ends up muttering that too. and it’s not a one and done kind of thing—like. he does it for days. it makes him so upset (and i already hc him, with depression so it just makes it worse)

having tics while having injuries is not a good combination—especially if it’s with a broken arm. the crew made sure to keep an eye of reki’s comfort / pain level after adam broke his arm and literally tried to kill him in their final race. joe let reki squeeze his hand whenever he felt the urge to tic and cherry would ask him how much pain he was in after he ticced and depending on how bad it would be, would make joe or shadow fetch a heating pad or an icepack for reki.

joe also taught reki about the magical thing called physical therapy tape and helped him put it on his shoulders, neck, and back one time. it was his idea to use the tape on reki’s fingers when he was injured to make him feel better (because it literally makes my fingers feel better)

also langa kisses each of reki’s fingers and knuckles, slowly and tenderly, soft so he doesn’t hurt him or trigger a tic. a way of showing that he loves him not despite his tics, but even with his tics and that he loves him and his tics.

cherry isn’t always the best at showing he cares, so he’ll wear a ts ribbon sometimes in a way to show support (and it makes reki beam)

shadow once gave reki a flower shaped stress ball because there were “extra at work” (not true—he went looking for one)

miya didn’t really know much about ts at first and asked why reki made those noises and made weird movements all the time and langa explained so then that night when miya got home, they did research on ts so they could understand it better. later, they told reki that whenever they called him a slime, they meant it purely about skateboarding and it had nothing to do with his tics—even that his tics didn’t make him less of a skater

all his life, reki had been the different one: the one no one wanted on the team because sometimes his tics messed him up, the one who was asked to leave classes during tests because his tics were too distracting and made him take the test in the hall, when sometimes he’d get too overwhelmed by how close people were in the halls or at races and would have panic attacks, how he rocked in his chair and adjusted his position seventeen times an hour and sat on his feet while the other kids didn’t, how he shook his legs more aggressively than others, how he couldn’t skate as well as everyone else because of his tics and because he wasn’t good enough

which is probably part of the depression that weighs on his shoulders

the first time reki had a panic attack during a race due to closeness and overstimulating noises (and this is the first one after the sk8 crew happened) langa was racing and wasn’t there to help, so shadow kind of panicked and like picked him up under the armpits and carried him away from the crowd since reki could barely process anything other than panic and the sound and feeling of static and they sat in shadow’s car for the rest of the race and once he felt better, he gave shadow a huge hug and shadow returned it.

one time it happened and cherry was nearby and he saw the signs before it got bad (remembered from the previous time / his own experiences) and helped talk reki down before it got bad (he has a soothing voice)

usually, though, when / if it happens (because reki usually feels safe there), langa is the one who helps

but it got so much worse after skating against adam the first time because he no longer felt safe and suddenly everyone cheering adam’s name even after witnessing what he did to reki was too much but langa was racing adam so langa wasn’t there and this time it was joe who kneeled in front of him and started talking just loud enough for reki to hear and he was like “you’re safe—we won’t let anyone hurt you. we won’t let him hurt langa. you’re safe. i’m here and so is cherry and shadow and miya and langa will be waiting for you at the end of the race…”

it happens again at the next race he goes to—and this time it’s miya who notices and they tug on langa’s sleeve and is like “i think you need to take reki somewhere else” and langa does :)

okay i’ll end on a positive ts note or two—langa asks reki to add the ts ribbon to the design on his skateboard

shadow finds chewelry at the store one day when he’s shopping and buys it for reki (and gets a matching one for langa!)

once reki came back after his mental health break, the first thing joe said to him was, and this is nonnegotiable “reki! i missed you and your tics!”

miya once overheard reki muttering to himself about his annoying tics were, so they intervened and was like “your tics aren’t annoying. they’re you and anyone who think s they’re annoying is an idiot”

and for the first time in his life, reki doesn’t feel alone and isolated and so different from everyone (at least, he’s working on that last one) and he’s finally found a group of people who want him on their team and a boyfriend who always supports him and makes him feel less isolated, tics and all <3

i uhh I have a lot of feelings,,,

[hannahdra-ws]

langa with 1b 💙💙💙💙

MILO I LOVE YOU SO MUCH THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME DRAW THIS HANDSOME FUCKIN MAN

(from art request meme here)

[retrogradedreaming]

… could i request “Here, drink this. You’ll feel better.” + platonic joe and reki👀

(our conversation made me joe and reki friendship brainrot sjdbesjbdkw)

COREY!!! <3 I'm sorry this took me so long, I started it ages ago, but I STILL think about our conversation about Joe and Reki being friends because they WOULD

18. “Here, drink this. You’ll feel better.”

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Usually, it was Kaoru who stayed late after Sia la Luce closed. But tonight, as the clock ticked slowly on toward eleven, Reki sat at the corner table up by the counter while Kojiro finished cleaning and prepping a few things for the morning crew. Reki had two textbooks and a notebook open before him, and as the minutes wore on, Kojiro watched the hand that once held a pencil switch to drumming his fingers in a pattern across the table while his leg bounced beneath it. His hoodie strings made their way between his teeth, and he chewed until the ends frayed. Every so often, when Kojiro was close enough to hear, Reki made a low noise, one Kojiro no longer mistook for murmuring the way he did when they’d first met.

Kojiro had pretended not to notice the dark circles beneath Reki’s eyes when he entered the restaurant with Langa and Miya, had avoided drawing attention to the way Reki fell just shy of his usual energy, but that didn’t mean he failed to notice altogether. No, when it came to the kids, he knew their tells almost as well as he knew Kaoru’s after so many months spent at S, so many evenings in this very restaurant. It was Kojiro’s home turf, so to speak, and here, he knew when things weren’t right.

Which was why, after he packed all the prepped ingredients away and cleaned his workstation and washed his hands, he finally turned his full attention to Reki.

“I was gonna say I’m closing up for real, but I think I’d feel too guilty if I kicked you out,” Kojiro said, leaning back with his hips against the counter, arms folded over his chest. “So why don’t you tell me what’s up?”

Reki let the hoodie string fall from between his teeth as if he’d been caught doing something wrong. He hadn’t, and Kojiro hoped that by now Reki knew that he didn’t have to suppress around him. He also knew how hard it was to believe that someone accepted a part of you that so many others had demanded you hide.

“Nothing, I’m fine,” Reki said with a barely veiled moody undertone that Kojiro had become all too familiar with.

“Don’t insult me, kid,” Kojiro said lightly, letting a small smile play across his features. “You haven’t been yourself since you got here, and I’d bet you haven’t read a word of that in the past two hours.”

Reki deflated the longer Kojiro went on, and by the end, he’d given up and rested the side of his face against the pages of the nearest open book. “Fine,” he relented. “I skipped a few classes last semester and it’s really hard to focus when I am in class because it’s way too quiet, so every time someone does something, I get distracted, and then I forget most of what the teacher said, which means I basically have to teach myself how to do all this stuff, but it’s Japanese lit and none of it makes any sense because it was written by a bunch of old guys.”

Kojiro let him finish, though he’d suspected as much. He remembered this happening with Kaoru when they were in high school, the two of them skipping classes—Kaoru more often than Kojiro—and Kaoru struggling through lit classes while Kojiro tutored him with his own mediocre understanding of the stuff. Kaoru’s big brain couldn’t always compete with the anxiety. The core of Reki’s trouble with old Japanese poetry might’ve been different, and there was no way Kojiro could tutor him more than ten years out of high school, but he could think of one thing that might work.

“Hang on, I’ll be right back,” Kojiro said and slipped back into the kitchen, plucking a few fresh leaves from the lavender plant by the door on his way.

He switched on the kettle to boil, took a mug down from the rack, and bruised the leaves in a bowl before dropping them into the cup. On top of them, he added a spoonful of honey that dissolved when he poured the water in, and he steeped it until it was just a little too strong and cool enough to strain into a glass over ice. He finished it off with sparkling water—lightly fizzy, but nothing like the sharp, painful carbonation of soda. This drink, he’d always found, was a comfort more than anything else, and he couldn’t count the number of times he and Kaoru had stayed up late drinking them in Kojiro’s kitchen when they were younger.

He brought the drink out to Reki and set it on the table, the glass immediately creating a ring in the warmth of the restaurant. “Here, drink this,” he said. “You’ll feel better.”

“This isn’t some weird Italian grandma recipe is it?” Reki asked, peering at the glass as he ran one fingertip over the crease between the pages of his book, pressing until his knuckle turned white.

“Who knows?” Kojiro said. “But I’ve tested it myself, so that has to count for something.”

Reki still looked skeptical, but he raised the glass to his lips and took a sip. Kojiro watched his reaction, pinpointing the moment that Reki realized Kojiro had actually given him something good.

“Man, I didn’t know you could make drinks, too!” Reki exclaimed, downing a third of the glass. “I thought you could only cook.”

“A good chef knows how to balance a meal with a drink,” Kojiro said, though he left out that his real expertise was pairing food with wine. “It has lavender in it, so it should help with the stress.”

They sat together in silence for a while, save for the sounds of Reki’s tics in the otherwise empty room. Reki drank as Kojiro had told him to, homework abandoned for the moment. And whether it was the drink working its magic or simply the effects of being given a sort of permission to take a break from analyzing books he didn’t want to be reading, Reki’s shoulders slowly relaxed and his leg stopped bouncing beneath the table. When the glass was empty, Reki pushed it away toward the edge of the table and glanced forlornly back at his books. Kojiro could practically feel the stress seeping back in.

“How can I help?” Kojiro asked, sliding one of the books toward him while Reki stared wide-eyed. “I haven’t read Japanese poetry in a while, but I’ll give it a shot.”

Reki pointed out passages that gave him trouble, and Kojiro listened. Occasionally, he offered the little bits of knowledge he could remember from all those years ago, but he knew how this worked. He let Reki talk it out, tell him his thoughts, reminded him to write them down, and by the time Kojiro really did kick him out around midnight, he’d finished the assignment.

[zenithpng]

Reki forgets his headband one day and keeps digging his nails into his scalp so Langa braids his hair instead so that Reki can't get his fingers to his skin underneath aldsfkahsldfh they're gay your honour

[jasdiary]

japan apple store for the love of god pls let me download a3! so i can see the sk8 collab when it’s up pls pls i rlly wanna see the mankaification of my gay little skater boys