#so prompt 158 is in here which is

[depressedhouseplant]

🔞 Kinktober Day 8 / JFW Day 158 🔞

Prompt: Voyeurism

Tags: Masturbation, public sex, Chanlix don’t know Jake is watching

A/N: This is based off this entry. Also @simjs-alibi this is for you

“Let’s go somewhere a little more private,” Felix suggested, looping his arm through Chris’s and weaving their way through the crowd. Jake knew he shouldn’t follow them. They could spot him at any time. He tried to give them enough space that it wouldn’t look like he was following the couple even though he was very much following them. Felix wasn’t dressed like that just to take Chris somewhere to talk. Jake watched as Felix took Chris into one of the back lounge rooms. He carefully positioned himself in the shadow of the door so, in theory, they wouldn’t see him if they checked to see if someone was watching.

“So now that you’re officially single,” Felix slid into Chris’s lap, his long pale legs on either side of Chris’s thighs.

“Yeah?” Chris looked up at him.

“Maybe you can finally act on some of what you texted me. You know, all that ‘hypothetical’ stuff?” Felix leaned down making it harder for Jake to hear. He felt his cock stir to life. He heard something about Minho, Chris’s recent ex, and best friend.

“And yet you’re the one who texted me that, hypothetically, you’d fuck me against a wall just to see if you could hold me up until we both came,” Felix sat up so Jake could hear him. “Or did you mean the one where you said you’d buy me expensive lingerie just so you could fuck me while I’m wearing it? You know, since Minho isn’t into that.”

Chris Bang was one dirty minded fucker. Jake loved it. He carefully reached into his pants to start playing with the tip of his dick. Chris pulled Felix’s head down and said something which only made Felix turn to kiss his cheek.

“Right now?” Chris asked.

“Wasn’t fucking me at a party and seeing if anyone noticed on that list, too?” Felix leaned back and looked at him. “Wait you meant fucking Minho at a party, but you just happened to send that to me.”

There was a beat of silence. Jake watched as Chris obviously considered what Felix said. Jake’s hand went deeper into his pants.

“Shut up and get on my dick, you whore,” Chris said. Felix cackled with glee, his drink still in his hand.

“That’s more like it,” he said. He lifted his hips up just enough for Chris to put his hand between Felix’s legs.

“What the fuck?” Chris looked up at him.

“That would be a plug. I knew you were going to fuck me so I decided to come prepared,” he took a sip of his drink and lifted his hips up even more. Jake pushed his underwear and pants down to release his cock. If someone walked down the hall, they’d catch him with his dick in his hand watching another couple fuck. Of course, this was a Jackson Wang party. Jake had seen far worse things in his one semester as a freshman at Jackson’s parties.

“Fuck,” Chris crashed their lips together.

“I can’t sit on your dick if it’s still in your pants,” Felix pulled back. Chris fumbled to get his jeans open. Felix watched with thinly veiled amusement as Chris finally got his cock free.

“Lube?” Chris asked.

“What? You think I put that plug in dry?” Felix gave him a look.

“Oh,” Chris said.

“Yeah, oh,” Felix replied. He set his drink down on the arm of the couch and sat down hard on Chris’s dick. “Tell me what you’re thinking.”

“You look…so hot…that skirt…those panties…fuck…” he panted.

Panties? Felix was wearing panties? Jake had to stop himself from nutting on the spot.

“I took notes on what you said you liked. I wasn’t about to walk in here in sweatpants when I found out you were freshly single,” Felix nipped at Chris’s jaw. At the moment, Jake was very happy he’d decided to wear sweatpants.

“You did this for me?” Chris stared.

“You really are dense,” Felix rolled his eyes. He began grinding his hips and Chris made a choking sound. “How awful was your sex life that a little squeeze gets you?”

“We haven’t…had sex much…lately,” Chris gasped.

“What a shame. You’ve got a spectacular cock,” Felix kissed him. Jake hadn’t seen Chris’s cock, but he knew Felix’s reputation and he was probably sitting on an excellent cock right now. Chris put his hands under Felix’s top then froze and looked up at Felix.

“Surprise,” Felix grinned.

“Have you always had these?” Chris asked.

“Long enough that if you decide to play with them it won’t hurt. At least, not in the bad way,” Felix replied. Jake was furiously pumping his cock by this point, but at the same time didn’t want to come until they did.

“Take your shirt off,” Chris said.

“Wouldn’t that spoil the fun of not getting caught?” Felix leaned over and took a sip of his drink.

“I said take your fucking shirt off,” Chris growled.

“Aren’t we bossy?” Felix replied. He pulled off his top and Chris immediately took one of his nipples into his mouth. Nipple piercings. That’s what stopped Chris in his tracks. That was even sexier than Jake expected.

“Fuck,” Felix dropped his head back and started riding Chris harder.

“Did you want to tempt me with these, too?” Chris asked.

“No, but it’s clearly working to my benefit,” Felix replied. Chris took the other ring in his mouth and tugged. Chris said something, but Jake couldn’t hear him.

“Only sluts have their nipples pierced?” Felix asked sweetly.

“Why else would you get them other than for someone else to play with?” Chris bucked his hips up into Felix’s. The smaller boy grunted.

“Maybe I liked how they looked,” he suggested.

“Bullshit,” Chris held Felix’s hips in place and began fucking up into him. Jake was convinced his cock was going to be completely raw by this point. A few moments later, Chris came loud and hard. Jake finally let himself go, releasing come all over his hand and pants. He bit down on his fist to stay quiet as he watched Felix come in Chris’s lap. Jake noticed a bathroom further down the hall and quickly ran in there before they got up. As he wiped himself down as best he could, it mused this was the hottest thing he’d ever done.

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2024 Fic Review

I was tagged by @kimium (see her post here) and thought this sounded fun to do!

Statistics:

My Top 5 Fics by Hits:

Obviously We are Engaged VS I Wonder if Silver Likes Me? - Twisted Wonderland Silbek fic co-written with @kimium

Inconvenience Store - Blue Exorcist haunted convenience store au

It's Because of You - Haikyuu merfic from forever ago that I finally felt up to continuing!

Everything is Perfect - Link Click Cheng Xiaoshi wears a dress fic :D

Cheka's Big Adventure - Twisted Wonderland birthday fic for Kimium

My Most Bookmarked Fic:

Obviously We Are Engaged VS I Wonder if Silver Likes Me?

How Many Words I Wrote in 2024: 158 050

Question Stuff:

What was the most surprising thing about writing in 2024? Hmm, honestly I would have to say the amount of Diasomnia in my Twisted Wonderland fics this year. I don't have a bunch that are Diasomnia-centric, but I do have them featured a lot more in fics this year as compared to last year. I'm not disappointed by that; I'm actually really happy because I really love writing things from Sebek's perspective (when he will *let* me) and I'm wanting to become more comfortable with writing both Malleus and Silver; as I find I struggle more with them.

What was the most enjoyable to write? I had a TON of fun writing the single Whumptober fic I did this year. Your Black and White needs a Little bit of Red is a Haikyuu! cannibal fanfic featuring my fave couple: Bokuto and Akaashi :D. It was so fun to write Akaashi becoming worse and worse the more he frets about staying close to Bokuto. I love reading and writing cannibalism as a metaphor for love, and I love love love the imagery of red on white. I'd have to say that my favourite parts are the scenes where Akaashi is bleeding in the tub.

Which fic is the most underrated? Well, when I consider fandom and how popular a ship is as well as how long each fic has been posted, I feel like my underrated fic this year is My Little Vampiress, a Link Click Halloween fic where Lu Guang dresses up as a Vampiress and Cheng Xiaoshi dresses up as a Vampire Thrall. I had a lot of fun writing it and I put a lot of work into it. I posted it on October 31, of course, lol. The Christmas shopping fic for that same series that I posted in December (Shopping in a Winter Wonderland) has already flown past that one in hits, kudos, and bookmarks. Of course, it's not that I'm really upset over that, because I wrote both those fics and I love them both! And, I am so happy anytime someone leaves a kudos, comment, or bookmark! I just really love Halloween and really worked hard on the Halloween fic too, so I would be overjoyed to see it get more attention and love :) That being said, I totally understand not everyone likes Halloween, and I would never want to force people to read something they don't like!

Which fic(s) had something "cut" or an idea that never happened? We'll Light up the Dark, the Twisted Wonderland fic I gifted Kimium for Christmas, was originally going to have Yuu walking Sebek through each step to putting out the grease-fire. I decided to scrap that version because 1. I figured Sebek would know at least a little fire safety and be able to think enough to turn the heat off and know the difference between a grease fire and a regular fire, and 2. it felt far too clunky for the scene. I also toyed with the idea of another scene in Don't Take These Beautiful Things That I've Got, a Blue Exorcist BonRin oneshot. I thought about adding a small flash-forward to the wedding, but in the end I liked where it ended and decided to discard that idea. I also considered describing their night out more, but it wasn't so pertinent to the story so I left it vague.

Which fic(s) did you want to write but didn't get around to? I wanted to write a second Whumptober fic, for the Body Horror prompt. I love horror, and I love body horror. I had an idea involving an ominous garden (again) and was thinking about using Haikyuu boys (again) but I ended up not having the energy and then my will to write the idea kind of died after November. I think that's the only one I didn't get to working on this year that I really really really wanted to do. Other fics may not have been published but they definitely got some work done on them, so I won't count them here.

Any WIPs that never got published? Oh, a few! - Pomefiore Poison fic for the Saw AU Kimium and I write. I have put a substantial amount of work into this one, but unfortunately it is not ready for posting yet. I am hoping to have it done and posted before the end of January, as I now have a few less other projects going on and can focus more on it. - 2 of my 3 merperson AUs for Link Click have multiple chapters written but nothing posted yet. (I need to be able to bounce between writing projects when my brain won't brain for certain ones, so when that happened I would write a few paragraphs for those wips and then bounce back to my other ones). I want to keep those ones not posted until I have my Inconvenience Store finished because posting too many multichapter things at once makes it hard for me to keep up with what I'm doing and make sure I'm working on them both instead of favouring one over the other... - my vampire Idia x human Kalim fic. There are, again, a couple chapters written, but I haven't gotten to posting it and I do want to wait because as I said, too many multichapter fics at once is more stress for me than it's worth, lol.

Share a snippet from a WIP fic? From my Pomefiore Poison fic:

               Silence greeted her. She glanced around again, looking for any hint of movement or any sign of a hiding place. She ignored the ringing in her ears and the tiny voice in her head that whispered none of her friends were the prankster type. She tried again. “Really, guys, I get it. It’s a good one! Lock the reporter in the murder trap. But, I have things to do. Let me out, kay?”                No one answered. Nothing moved. Jessica’s heart sped up and the room started to spin. She stumbled over to the table and sat in the only chair in the room.                The chalices were tall and elegant, like something from a themed dinner. She looked around again, for something – anything – that would give away who had done this. There was nothing.                With trembling hands, she set the tape recorder on the smooth table. “Alright, fine,” she mumbled, trying her best to sound annoyed rather than scared. “I’ll play your little game. This is an escape room thing, right? You guys know I hate puzzles. Fuck you.” She pressed ‘play’.

8. Which fic was the one you were most excited to write? I'd have to say I was most excited to write Stay With Me, Darling, a Link Click wing-fic oneshot; based on the sheer fact that it was less than 24 hours that I saw the inspiration, had the idea, and wrote and posted the fic. Like, I don't know if I've ever been that possessed by an idea. Kimium showed me the promotional music video 'Break' since I hadn't watched it yet, and within 16 hours of watching it with her, I went home and wrote that wingfic, lol. Definitely felt like I was but a vessel for the story, hahaha.

9. Fic hopes for the New Year? I want to write *more*. I didn't write/post as much this year as I have in past years, and that kind of made me sad, even though there were a lot of external factors impacting my abilities this time around. I just love writing so much and I have so many ideas I want to put out there and I have so many fic ideas that I'm in the planning stages on. I have so many fic ideas that I've started. I just want to write them all so much. Maybe I should start a spreadsheet...

Tagging: @thestorieswesay, @voxofthevoid, @queenarahbo, @the-positive-area, @honeii-puff, @kyanako5972; no pressure my friends, but I thought maybe this might be something fun you would enjoy!

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2024 fic writing roundup

Total 2024 Word Count: 4,099 published words, but 46,009 words for the year Total 2024 Hits: 2,268 Other 2024 AO3 Stats: Kudos: 248; Comment threads: 25; Bookmarks: 54; Subscriptions: 5.

Total 2023 Word Count: 95,451 published words, but 116,360 words written for the year   Total 2023 Hits: 25,513 Other 2023 AO3 Stats: Kudos: 1,272; Comment threads: 198; Bookmarks: 252; Subscriptions: 158.

links and titles to 2024 works

[never have i ever] stuck in a year-long feeling (2,288words) - a 3.09 insert

[bridgerton] to rest (1,811 words) - i really liked bridgerton season 3a, and this happened.

Favorite Fic: so, what's not represented here is the fact that i worked on a couple long-form fics that i didn't finish because i was also preoccupied with original fiction and poetry. (most of my writing this year came in the form of poetry - which is not represented in my word count because i handwrite it most of the time.) anyway, i logged some good work on devi the vampire slayer, and that was probably my favorite of the year.

Hardest Fic: all of them, idk. i wasn't in a fannish headspace this year.

Do You Plan to Take Prompts in 2025? as of now, no. but life moves in peculiar directions.

What was the best thing about 2024? i started to take my potential to write/publish original fiction seriously.

What was the worst thing about 2024? i simply did not feel like writing many days. ultimately, that was fine, but i do feel a little displaced without that to focus on.

i did read more as a result, though.

Any last thoughts for 2024? i'm not that sad to see it go.

Goals for 2025

original fiction!!!

(keeping this from last year, but it's ever-relevant) continue writing devi/ben even if the audience for it dissipates entirely

[crehador]

for asks, 5, 11 and 30

for 11, I mean longest maybe not time wise, but which daily stumped you the most overall? maybe an idea took a while to finalize but after that it was fast to write?

thank youuu for the ask! (っ˘ω˘ς )

5. what work of yours got more feedback than you expected?

honestly i think i will have to go with the one with the clones for this one because it was just. such a ridiculous crackpot fever dream idea that spiraled wildly out of control all thanks to the encouragement of my lovely horny regulars

i definitely didn't expect to spend as much time as i have with the clones (and would have probably tackled their story in a different format if i had) and i probably wouldn't have if not for the feedback! so thank you to everyone who has been following along with that hot mess lmao

ALSO HELLO ARKNIGHTS AU?! i mean that didn't get a ton of feedback or anything but it definitely got more than i expected, which was none. it is such a niche fusion that honestly i didn't expect anyone to like... read it while also knowing what arknights is, so i was thrilled to see you there lol and i want to write more of it one day!! snow leopard samatoki distant cousin of the silverash clan my beloved

11. what work took you the longest to write?

so whenever i sit down to start a daily, i create a new page in scrivener and title the page with the number. so if i'm working on daily 123 for example i'll title it "123." then start writing and add a more descriptive tag to the title after it's complete

but if i start writing something and don't finish it on the same day, i'll often just add another page above it and make that the new 123 without changing the previous one...

which is basically to say sometimes, when one idea stumps me for a while, my numbering system ends up looking like 156, 157, 158, 159, 123 lmao

anyway all this is to say, this has definitely happened a few times throughout the year, where one number just kept getting pushed down and down. i can't say for sure which one took the absolute longest

BUT ONE THAT I KNOW took a heinously long time was the prince/pirate request from a beloved mutual! i wanted to write that like as soon as the prompt came in because prince/pirate! what could be better!!

it wound up taking months, i think. (once again sincerest apologies dear mutual who had to wait. for. months.) i went through a whole bunch of different ideas, i think largely because each one wanted to be something bigger than a daily. something longer, more plotty, more substantial

(and so there may be at least one prince/pirate au coming next year lol)

so to answer the actual question here, it might have been that one, but more broadly speaking when a daily took a long time it wasn't usually for lack of interest in the idea, it was usually just Too Ambitious ideas that got me hung up

30. biggest surprise while writing this year?

honestly just... the fact that i actually did it. one fic a day. for samaichi/ichisama. every day. FOR A WHOLE YEAR. i mean okay the year is not quite over yet and i don't want to jinx it but it's pretty much mid-december already and i haven't missed a day?!

like. i had covid for the first time this year. and i didn't miss a day. not even god could stop me at this point. i'm fine. i'm normal

i've done "write every day" challenges before and even challenged myself to write and post every day before this at one point, but my longest streak lasted 50 days. and i'm coming up on 350 now so... yeah. definitely a surprise and a pleasant one at that lol

in terms of specific works... i'm a little surprised by my whole, like. high school au fugue state from earlier this year. where i committed to writing high school aus only for the entire duration of the samaichi high school au event in arb (which wound up being even more samaichi than it originally seemed WHAT DO YOU MEANNNNNN IT WAS ICHIRO'S DREAM ahem. anyway)

like i have nothing against high school au and i find it generally cute and occasionally fun to write, but i don't think i would say it's one of my top favorites. so a bit of a surprise that i was able to keep it up, and i remember having a ton of fun with it too! yes i cheated on occasion and had them as teachers instead of students BUT IT WAS STILL IN A HIGH SCHOOL SO. i say it counts lol

ao3 wrapped asks

[42donotpanic]

WIP GAME

Tagged by: @auofgoldandfantasies Thank you!

Rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your wip folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have wips

I have like... endless amounts of WIPs, so, behold:

We're doing this like last time and I'll make it nice and colorful for reasons. Everything that is purple is posted or partly posted and everything that is red is part of some sort of collab with other people.

Alright, here we go:

Bangs:

Double Kill

Multiversal Mess

Pod_Together Soulmates AU

Support you all the way

Not just a Mask

Different Kinds of Love

Bad Decisions

Building a Relationship

Does this count as a Polycule?

Familial Love

Talking about Romance

Domestic WinterHawk AU

Love Bites

No Prompt Left Behind

Foggy 157, 158, 187 Monster/Demon under the Bed

Matt 157, 158, 187 Monster/Demon under the Bed

Multiversal Mess

7: Daredevil Fanfiction

Podfic

Every Last Piece

Safe Place

WSBB

Posted WIPs

25 Reasons Clint Barton is not crying anymore

26 Ways to break Matt Murdock's heart

Amputee!Clint

Comfortember 2023

Hawkdevil AU

Matt recognises the WS

Now I wear my scars just like tattoos (scar)

Nur Ein Echo der Zeit

Soulmarks and metal arms

Sound and colour

The crossover one

The one with the breakup

the ones no one asked for

To see the bruises

Tortuga Inn

Vampire AU

WarHawk

unposted WIPs

(Don't) know who you are

A Pack of Wolves

Cover Up V2

Coverup

Doctor!Tony

Don't try to fix us

Double Shot Coffee

Facial Difference

I will only slow you down

Nightmares

No Voice, still on T

Snow Fall

Stolen Keepsake

The blind Hawk

The deaf and the blind and the deafblind kid

The one they will hate me for

Firefighter AUs

AUgust 2024

Random Oneshots

Nipple Piercings

Be my Doll

Panic Attack Matt

Bucky Tentacles P*rn

Last Minute Gift

Bucky's Trigger Words

Bedtime Stories

Blanket Nest

Branded Bucky/Bruce

Cutting

Diet Culture

I don't like you

Sometimes I wish I can strangle you

Matt didn't cry

Music Festival

Oral Sex

Sin

Support

soft

too loud

the prank

WarHawk Smut

Matt goes Deaf

Scars

A Quick note at the end, as you may have noticed, there are two docs called "Multiversal Mess", so if you're interested in either (or both) of them, please specify which folder you're referring to, since it's not the same fic.

And as always, please don't hesitate to send me asks about this game, or really anything else, I always love answering them!

No pressure tags: @heretherebewolves @flowerparrish @endlesstwanted @ravenmold @evenfallwriter and everyone else who sees this and is interested!

[sluttyten]

Taeil with 98

Taeil + “I love you, idiot”

When you met Taeil it’s because you were friends with Yuta. Newly friends through another friend, but still, you knew Yuta first. He brought Taeil along when you decided to meet up with him for coffee one day, and after that, you were hooked on Taeil. He was funny and smart, the best vocalist you’d ever met, handsome, a good cook, and you quickly learned that you had a few other similar interests.

It was no time at all before you decided you had a big crush on Moon Taeil. You started trying to convince Yuta to invite Taeil to things, or trying to get him to invite you over to their dorm so you could see Taeil, anything at all that would let you spend more time with him. You even asked for his number, but Yuta informed you that Taeil had literally just gotten a new phone and Yuta didn’t have the number yet, and he wasn’t allowed to give out Taeil’s contact info anyway unless Taeil told him he could.

But at least Yuta did usually bring Taeil around when you asked. He orchestrated run-ins with you while he was with Taeil. Yuta was like the perfect wingman for you.

And it’s during one of those run-ins while Yuta’s in the middle of saying something to you about how you never answer his messages (which is blatantly untrue) that you blurt out to Taeil, “Can I have your number?”

Taeil looks taken aback, but he exchanges his contact info with you.

You make use of it, messaging him a couple days later to see if he wants to hang out. You know he likes Pilates since he’s talked about it with you before, and you’ve been wanting to do Pilates, but you hate the idea of going to the gym alone and you have no idea what equipment to use at home.

Truthfully you’d not thought of doing Pilates before you heard Taeil talk about it. You just wanted an excuse to be with him without Yuta. And it works. Taeil agrees, and then after that you and Taeil go to Pilates at a gym halfway between both of your places every Thursday.

But that’s just it. Just Pilates. No bright and beautiful relationship blossoms out of Pilates class. You still don’t see Taeil other than for class or unless you’re with Yuta, and that starts eating away at you because you really, really like Taeil.

“Maybe you should talk to him,” Yuta suggests one day. “Tell him how you feel.”

“No. Why would I do that?” You can’t make the first move that would be terrible. What if Taeil completely shoots you down?

Yuta rolls his eyes. “You like him, right? It’s been months now that the two of you have been friends, going to your Pilates class on Thursdays. Maybe you need to invite him to do something else, and while you’re there, talk to him about how you have feelings for him. I don’t know. Maybe he’s scared to make a move on you, and maybe he feels the same way. This is all weird to me, and I don’t like to know about my members’ romance lives. He’s my roommate, you’re my friend. I don’t know what advice to give you.”

He’s probably right. You’re kinda in love with Taeil by this point. You like everything about him, you miss him when you go too long without talking to him, and you want to tell him the most exciting parts of your day because every time you do Taeil always gets excited with you. You feel like your world got brighter after you met him.

But making the first move scares you.

Before you have the chance to even attempt to build up the nerve for it, you run into Taeil at your favorite cafe.

He’s sitting alone at a table, and at first you aren’t sure it’s him, but when they call your name for your drink, he looks up.

Taeil smiles at you and waves, so you claim your drink and walk over to him. “Hi, Taeil.”

“No Yuta today?” He asks with a hint of something sharp in his voice. “Aren’t the two of you attached at the hip.”

“Not really.” You laugh, a little surprised at his tone.

“It seems like you’re always together.”

You don’t feel like you are. Though, maybe most of the time you see Taeil, you are with Yuta or meeting up with Yuta or you mention plans to go hang out with Yuta. But it’s because being around Taeil makes you nervous, and when you’re nervously searching for a topic to talk about, you latch onto your mutual friend.

“I’ve got to go, I’m sorry,” Taeil says as he stands up suddenly, grabbing his drink and his phone from the table. “I’ll see you around.”

And then he’s gone, and you’re left standing there a little confused about what just happened.

The next time you see him is almost two weeks later.

Yuta invites you over to the dorm, telling you he’s tired of you pining after Taeil who keeps refusing to tag along when Yuta invites him to hang out with the two of you. “He can’t run away if we’re in the dorm.”

“We’re gonna drink,” Yuta tells you when you arrive. “So I hope you’re thirsty.”

A few of the other members are there too, everyone drinking and laughing, and when Taeil comes out to join in the drinking and laughing, you wonder if it’s wishful thinking alone that has you feeling like his eyes are on you as you laugh. The other members come and go until it’s just you, Yuta, and Taeil and you’re not drunk yet but you’re really close to it.

Yuta however has had his fill, so when he curls up on the sofa and passes out, you cover him up with a blanket and keep drinking with Taeil until you are drunk.

You wake some time the next day, squinting against the pale light, your head pounding, your mouth dry, and your body feeling very heavy and weighed down.

Because it is weighed down, you realize. There’s someone sleeping in this bed with you, their arm and leg sling over you.

You turn your head, and your gaze lands on Taeil.

“Oh, shit,” you whisper, trying to untangle yourself from his bedsheets, trying to make sure that you’re still clothed and that you didn’t have sex with him last night because if you have sex with Moon Taeil you would like to remember it.

You’re moving around wakes him up, his arm flexes around your middle, hand curling against your side in an attempt to draw you closer to him. And then he freezes. He opens his eyes and for a moment neither of you move, just staring at each other.

“Taeil,” you break the silence first, “Last night….”

“You crawled in here.” Taeil says quickly. “You were drunk, and since Yuta was passed out on the sofa, I tried to get you to sleep in his bed, but you just crawled in with me and immediately passed out. I wasn’t gonna try to move you. Nothing else happened. Thank God.”

Your heart sinks. Thank God, he’d said. Was the idea of anything more happening with you so disgusting to him?

Taeil must see your thoughts plain on your face because he quickly says, “I just mean, like, I would hate to face the wrath of your boyfriend.”

“My boyfriend?” When have you ever told Taeil you had a boyfriend? You’ve been single since before you met him.

“Yeah, Yuta’s a jealous guy ordinarily. Having you just sleeping in my bed is probably enough to set him off,” Taeil says. As if just then remember he his his arm around you, he suddenly pulls it back, putting some space between the two of you.

You want to reach over and drag his arm back around you, but you hold yourself back. “I don’t think Yuta would care at all if he found me here, not even if I was naked, not if we’d had sex. Because I’m not in a relationship with Yuta.”

Taeil scoffs. “Okay, but you basically are. The two of you are always together. Even if you aren’t in a relationship yet. Like, you’ve got to be in love with him at least to spend that much time together.”

You sit up and look down at him. “Taeil. I’m not in love with Yuta. I love you, idiot. Why do you think Yuta always invites you with him to hang out with me? Because I asked him to. And why I asked for your number?”

“I thought you were trying to make Yuta jealous with my number,” Taeil mumbles.

“And me asking you to come to Pilates classes with me? Taeil, honestly, I don’t like Pilates, but it’s an excuse so I get to see you at least once a week.” You sigh. “I really, really like you. Like a whole lot. Yuta’s been telling me I should confess to you, but I’ve been holding back because you didn’t really seem interested and—“

“I’m very interested.” Taeil cuts you off. “I just thought you were with Yuta, and I didn’t want to get in the way of that.”

“That’s so stupid,” you laugh, and you slide back down so you’re lying in the bed. “So you’re telling me this whole time we could’ve been something more if it wasn’t for this miscommunication?”

Taeil nods and he lifts his head up on his palm, looking down at you with a warm crescent smile. He asks, “Can I kiss you?”

“Oh, Mr.Moon.” You curl your fingers in the front of his shirt, lifting yourself up as he lowers his head. “You can do even more than that, if you want.”

Taeil’s lips meet yours in a sweet kiss, and you cling to him, grateful that the truth is out at last.

[avatarvyakara]

Strands of Webbing

A Spiderverse Fanfic

Prompts 157-168

“Traversing the Web”

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157. Genealogy

"Richard and Mary Parker," says Peter B, writing the names at the top of a piece of paper next to his own.

Noir nods. "Same here. Never met them, though."

"Curtis Parker and Hida Haraka," says Peni.

"I think my mother's name was Susan? She left us a note next to the egg sac."

"Ranjit and Mina Prabhakar," says Pavitr.

"…Peter Parker and Marie-Jane Watson," says Mayday, pointedly.

"Reinhold and Miriam Pauker," says the Cob.

"Albert and Claire Reilly," says Mabel.

"…how did this start?" Miguel asks Miles, from the other side of the room.

The other Spider-Man shrugs. "They started talking about blood types in case anyone needs some for transfusions, and it turned into making a family tree."

Miguel blinks. "But…they're from different universes, so the blood would glitch out of existence inside their bodies anyway—"

"They'll figure it out," Gwen reassures him. "Eventually."

"Why's Pavitr there?"

"Apparently he's got some English blood on his mom's side and they think he might be related."

"And El Porquito?"

"He just turned up. He does that."

"And we wouldn't want it any other way," says Miguel fondly.

158. Tribute

Peni doesn't accept payment for her work. So whenever someone needs something, or has been given something, they leave her snacks and treats instead. Gray has a bit of a minor advantage here—the textures of smells and tastes work on overdrive in his world to counteract the sparsity of colour—and candy buttons from his universe are the most stolen item in her workshop. But she's also developed a taste for peda, which has started a minor black market trade from Pavitr and Roshni's worlds.

Miguel would happily accept payment for his work if literally any of the Spiders around here had any money.

("Put your wallet away, Porquito.")

159. Quarantine

"Dude, if your world's really shutting down because of a global plague…" Gwen begins.

Peter sighs. "Nah, it's fine, guys, it's fine. Spider-Man's still out at work, I can still write science articles, MJ's been editing papers, the villains have actually been lying low for the most part…the only thing that's a bit frustrating is that May gets cranky if she can't go out. Buuuut I think I've found a way around that."

"…Peter."

"What?"

"What?" says Miles, before the answer dawns on him. "Oh. Peter, you didn't…"

"What? She likes the fresh air. You can't get fresh air on the ground in this city." Peter lifts his ten-month-old daughter up to the camera. "Here, May, say hi to Auntie Gwen and Uncle Miles!"

"Baaah!" says May happily, on general principles.

"Aw, hi sweetie!" Gwen coos. "Look at how big you're getting! Peter B. Parker, we are not done here. How are you!"

"Gah!"

"She's gonna say my name first."

"Nuh-uh, it's gonna be me. Hey, May, it's Uncle Miles!"

"Mmmmah!"

"See?"

"You're already daddy's superhero," murmurs Peter to May, who giggles.

160. Student

"You can really teach me?"

The kid has potential, Olivia can admit that to herself. But Carolyn Trainer is a Doctor Octopus for a very different sort of world. She's much more into blending virtual reality and physical than looking for new ones. Reasonable, but not the most transferable of skills. Besides, she's already got a pretty good student back at home, even if she's still waiting for the right time to involve Mr. Morales in her…off-the-books research.

Still, she can definitely pass on a few tips.

"Well, I'll try, kid. First of all…actually, first and foremost, don't get too attached to your mentor figures. You might end up kidnapping them without their realizing it, then having a car thrown at you by their super-powered nephew whom you're now not allowed to kill yourself. That gets annoying."

"I…what?"

161. Forward

"This is Peter Pauker," says Miguel, prodding the Cob forward. "Please don't show him any pirate holos."

Peter, who looks like a half-crazed shaman with a moustache worthy of a cowboy, shiny white glasses, and a raggedy red cloak with a tight hood, is still looking around in astonishment.

"Welcome to Brooklyn, my man!" says Miles, cheerfully.

He's still in his spider-suit. So is Gwen, and Peter B., and Billy, and Ham.

Peter leans over to Miguel.

"You're sure I haven't just joined a cult of demons in Hell, right?"

"Seriously? Not to put too fine a point on it, but you're the one with the fangs."

"To be fair," says Miguel, "this is Brooklyn."

Miles looks mildly insulted. "Hey, not cool."

"What can I say, parcero, the Bronx has you beat no matter the century."

"Just please tell me Staten Island has remained the same," mutters the Cob. "We just managed to get rid of the British a few years ago. You know, the bad ones. It's still got that strength of spirit, right?"

The other Spiders look at one another.

"Dude," says Miles, putting a friendly hand on Peter's shoulder, "I am so sorry."

162. Gradation

“I’m serious,” Peter insists. “Whenever I’m around, the universe just won’t let people swear. If you think it’s a swear word, you can’t use it. It’s a curse. I’ll prove it.”

The pig goes to the fridge, and takes something out. “Miles, what delicious delicacy do I have in my hands?”

“Uh...applesauce?”

“Very good! Tall, dark, and breezy, your turn. What’s this?”

“Miles just said it was [bleep].”

The other Spiders blink.

“[Bleep]. [Bleep]. Jumping catfish, what the...[bleep]. [Bleep].”

“I rest my case,” says Peter, walking out of the room. (With his snack, of course.)

But not far enough that he doesn’t hear Noir suddenly roar, “GODDAMN APPLESAUCE!”

“Peter! Language!”

“...sorry.”

This is apparently too much for the other Spiders, who burst out laughing.

Being a cartoon is fun.

163. Similarity

Sometimes, diplomacy is required.

It's nearly midnight, it's probably somewhere in Japan in the mid-19th Century, and there's a spider-demon at the bottom of a crevice near a waterfall. Trying to hide.

Keep away!

It sounds deep and yet surprisingly feminine. It also manages to sound both alluring and deadly while at the same time conveying a terrible panic.

"Hey, hey, it's okay," calls Peni in what she hopes is the right Japanese for the time. (SP//dr's helping to translate and feeding her the words in her head, but it's not always perfect.) "I'm a friend. I'm not gonna hurt you."

Jorōgumo, down in the crevice, stares at her—and then shakes her many-eyed head in puzzlement.

You're…you're like me?

Peni smiles. "Kind of."

Jorōgumo waves her front legs around in confused despair. But…you're not like me. You're human. Nearly.

"Oh! That extra bit is probably from Takara here," she says, patting SP//dr on the leg. "We're SP//dr—that means, well, spider. We're best friends. And you're a jorōgumo, right? A golden orb spider?"

The spider-spirit nods, miserably. I didn't want to be. I still don't.

Peni sighs. "I don't think you have a choice. But it's okay, you're not alone. There's a whole bunch of us. We can help. It's going to be alright."

There's silence from the crevice.

Can you stop it from happening? whispers Jorōgumo. It gets so hungry. I try to only go after bad guys, but…it keeps coming back.

"I don't know," says Peni. "But I'll try. I promise you. Just…come out. It's okay."

There's a pause, and then a scuttling noise. Slowly but surely, the giant golden spider climbs out of the crevice. As it does, it changes into a young woman, wearing a raggedy red kimono with blue and white wave patterns. (It is August, after all.) She looks strangely familiar.

Peni holds out a hand, which the other Spider takes, and pulls her to the surface. It's not so bad a place, this waterfall, in the moonlight.

"My family name is Pākā. Pākā Peni." She beams, and bows.

The girl—she can't be much older than seventeen (or thirty, or seventy-five)—smiles nervously and bows as well.

"Haraka. Haraka Hida."

…well, that she wasn't expecting.

164. Magnetism

“He’s not too bad-looking,” muses Mayday. “You know, for a guy from the 18th Century.”

“He’s also your father,” says Hobie, bluntly. “Sort of.”

“May has a point, he is right comely,” muses Billy.

“...for you, I have no words.”

“Do you think someone should tell him those are replicas?”

“I want to see how long it takes him to find out.”

Peter Pauker, swinging away at what he knows to be automata dressed as pirates but hoping to put on a decent show for his new friends, is having the time of his life.

165. Dybbuk

"You're actually Peter Parker?" asks Olivia in amazement.

The Superior Spider-Man snorts. "Hardly. I merely took over his body and let his consciousness decay in my own dying form. I like to think I'm putting it to good use."

"As…Spider-Man."

"The Superior Spider-Man, thank you very much."

Well, someone’s proud.

"A psychic transfer…" muses Olivia. "Huh. Do you still have the schematics for that device?"

"I might do. But these are fascinating." Spider-Man is poking at her arms. "A fluid-filled polymer with pulses running through to control movement…oh, marvellous." The mask is removed. Peter Parker stares at her work with a peculiar interest that Olivia's only really seen in the mirror. Even Rosie and Carolyn and Luke were more interested in the person their counterpart was, rather than her tech. Not that she’s one to talk, give her science over people most days of the week, it’s just that it’s…

…actually she's not too sure how she feels about this.

"Guess you didn't need yours anymore, huh." She slowly retracts her arms.

"Oh, you'd be surprised,” says her counterpart, not seeming to notice. “I just swapped them out for a more…lightweight model. Not dissimilar to your own. Now," and Peter Parker sits down while Otto Octavius looks up, "what can you tell me about the multiverse?"

166. Crier

“HEAR YE, HEAR YE! THE MASKED DEMON KNOWN AS THE COB HAS ONCE AGAIN STRUCK UPON OUR BELOVED ISLE! TWO INNOCENT THIEVES WERE...innocent thieves, who wrote this garbage?...TWO INNOCENTS FRIGHTENED NEARLY TO DEATH BY THE SPAWN OF SATAN!”

“...wow,” says Mayday. “Old J. Jonah Jameson actually found his niche. Deafened by the sound of his own voice.”

Peter Pauker laughs, and they go back to leaping across the rooftops.

167. Mayfly

Life is measured differently in the ‘30s. Peter is nineteen; that’s old enough to hold a job, be working for several years, be an adult for two. His older counterpart is thirty-eight; by that age, Peter’s half-surprised he doesn’t have kids already. (Only half; Parker luck probably came into play.) Porker is...actually Porker is probably timeless, which is helpful because it marks him as that much less likely to die on the job. And the rest are just...okay, not children, nearly adults, but so small.

Peni sees it differently, he knows. What to him is the insurmountable gap of years she sees the same way as being born in different weeks of the same month. Kid’s basically got three times the lifespan he hopes for, six times the lifespan he expects. To her, they’re all kids.

(And yet she’s working a job deemed too risky for most adults even in her time. At fourteen—she started a year ago, same as him, but was bitten at nine. For him, a child; for her, basically a baby.

Sometimes he wonders whether her uncle, nice as he seems, actually is Doc Ock, only out to torment his own niece instead of the unsuspecting “lessers” of New York in general. He's half-worried that he'll find out her Aunt May looks like another super-villain—and one-eighth-worried that she wouldn't need to.)

168. First

It is Peter Pauker's terrible misfortune to be in his home dimension when a black portal opens in the air, and three figures drop out over the southern shore of Manhattan.

A black-and-white giant, flashes of red lightning crossing its featureless ebony face to make a hideous expression. A white wraith with terrible burning eyes, smallest—human height—and possibly most terrifying. An enormous black spider—no, not a spider, a harvestman.

They land on the nighttime rooftops, barely seeming to touch the surface.

itsnotthesamewithouthimisit

That's the giant's voice. It bypasses the ears and scares the mind into remembering it. It sounds…oddly feminine. And young. And familiar.

noitsnot

imisshimtoo

That's the harvestman, deep voice sinking through to the bone and freezing it solid. And also familiar.

focus

werenotgoingtoletKarnturningtraitorspoilourhunt

besides

weneedourstrength

theOneWorldsarecloserthanever

That's the wraith’s voice. Familiar, and terrifying for it, because Peter's heard that one in his own universe and he doesn't like the implications one little bit.

icansmellit

itsclose

The black one twitches, glitches, and suddenly is looking directly at Peter.

dontplaywithyourfoodtoday

letsjusteatit

The wraith again. She sounds distinctly annoyed.

icalldibs

The giant's lightning-mouth has split apart, revealing a deep red cavern and a deep black tongue.

youalwayscalldibs

The black harvestman is already spinning out a line of thread between its front limbs. It sounds amused.

imagrowingspider

ineedsomethingsweet

There’s no time for banter. Peter has two choices at this point. Make a jump, and try to fight off these monsters on his own. Or take the Gizmo Device and hide in another world. Get help.

He wouldn't be the Cob if he let others get hurt (again) for work he should be doing. The burden of capacity, Uncle Bernhard always called it.

“You dare to come to my world?” he shouts. “Stealing the voice of the woman I love? You are not welcome in this place, foul impersonators!”

The three demons look at him like cats watching a very angry one-legged mouse.

thevoiceofthewomanitloves

ihopeitsnotyouagainJennix

rememberthatlasttime

That’s...that’s Gwyneth’s voice. Twisted and warped, but it’s her.

hahahaaa

iremember

itwassofunny

iloveyouyouknowido

youcanfightit

iknowyourestillinthere

wellofcourseiamsilly

whereelsewouldibe

howdidittasteMorlun

High-pitched and giggly.

likeautumnleavestumblingthroughasilentcity

Rumbling and soft.

betyouthisonetasteslikecowardice

italreadyreeksoffear

theseshadowsgetmoreandmorerealisticeverytime

“Coward? Hah! Better insults have been spluttered by dying rats!”

oohfeisty

Peter draws his sword and revolver, and leaps. The Cob’s special abilities push him hundreds of feet into the sky...

It occurs to him, as he's high in the air, perhaps a split second too late, that perhaps he's still the Cob in spite of never backing away from a fight—

[wonpilsonefeel]

Here’s a prompt list for request.

Ask for a minimum of one number (can be more) and pairing. Also add if you want it to be angst, smut or fluff.

ALSO MY ANON PART AINT WORKING BUT I WILL KEEP YALL ANON.

I didn’t come up with these prompts.

1. "How long have you been staring at that screen?"

2. "Do you really want to test me?"

3. "How did I end up watching this?"

4. “I’m sorry. I guess I’m just worried someone is going to take you away from me.”

5. “I just want to hug you and never let go.”

6. “You’re an adult! Act like it!”

7. “Did you seriously patch up a stab wound with scotch tape?”

9. “Are you stuck?”

10. “Man, you sure got knocked around a lot today.”

11. “Just the idea of anything happening to you makes me feel physically sick.”

12. A miscommunication leads to everyone being told Person A is dead, and Person B does not handle it well. When Person A shows up completely fine, Person B is overjoyed. 

13. “It shouldn’t be physically possible for me to love you this much.”

14. “What would you do if I died?” “Can we not talk about this?”

15. “They’re too good for you.”

16. “You look so cute in pajamas

17. “You’re my favorite person ever.”

18. “I love you so much I don’t know what to do.”

19. “You need to be more careful!”

20. “Why are we on the roof?”

21. “I know it’s wrong, but I love you.”

22. Why are you like this?”

23. I can handle myself. You don’t need to protect me.”

24. I miss you.” 

25. You are not fine, you’re bleeding!”

26. Look, I really screwed up and I need advice.”

27. I hope you’re here to apologize.” “Is there something you want to tell me?”

28. You are sick, therefore I am going to take care of you. End of discussion.

29. I’m fine. It was just a nightmare. You don’t need to worry.”

30. I just want to cuddle.”

31. Every day I get to spend with you is the best day.”

32. “Why are you looking at me like that?”

33. “You have the most amazing smile.”

34. “You’re just not intimidating. Sorry.”

35. “Stop whacking me with that stupid rubber chicken!”

36. “Stop kicking me under the table!”

37. “What are you, five?”

38. “I heard a loud sound. Are you okay?”

39. “Why are you wearing my shirt?”

40. “How on Earth did you get so muddy?”

41. “Close your eyes. Don’t peek.”

42. “You know, it’s hard to stay upset when I’m holding you this close.”

43. Person A spends the entire day throwing things at Person B, just for fun.

44. Person A keeps stealing Person B’s snacks.

45. You should really get some sleep.”

46. I just want to make sure you’re safe.”

47. I hate children. They’re the worst.”

48. If you’re happy, I’m happy.”

49. I wish you’d stop saying that.”

50. Person A tries (and fails) to convince everyone they aren’t in love with person B. 

51. I’m having a long day, okay?” 

52. Stop treating me like a child!”

53. I hate it when you rhyme my name with things.”

54.

55. Small kisses littered across the other’s face.

56. A small, fleeting kiss - which is immediately followed by a passionate, hungry kiss.

57. A breathy demand: “Kiss me” - and what the other person does to respond.

58. An accidental brush of lips followed by a pause and going back for another, on purpose.

59. Throwing their arms around the other person’s neck, hugging them close before kissing them passionately on the lips.

60. Wild, breathless kisses brought on by a heartfelt gift.

61. French kisses where they trace every tooth with their tongues as though trying to memorize them.

62. Laying a gentle kiss to the back of the other’s hand.

63. A kiss that lasts so long, they are sharing each other’s breaths.

64. A hello/good-bye kiss that is given without thinking - where neither person thinks twice about it.

65. Morning kisses that are exchanged before either person opens their eyes, kissing blindly until their lips meet in a blissful encounter.

66. Sneaking away to a hidden corner to share a secretive kiss.

67. Butterfly kisses against the other’s cheeks.

68. A kiss so desperate that the two wind around each other, refusing to let go until they are finished.

69. A fierce kiss that ends with a bite on the lip, soothing it with a lick.

70. One person pouting, only to have it removed by a kiss from the other person.

71. Tucking their hands beneath the other person’s shirt, just to watch them break the kiss and gasp in surprise at the sensation of cold/warm hands on their skin.

72. Teasing kisses where one person blows air into the other’s mouth and runs away.

73. One person stopping a kiss to ask “Do you want to do this?”, only to have the other person answer with a deeper, more passionate kiss.

74. Kissing in a stairwell, giving them an artificial height difference.

75. A chaste kiss given to each other because they are in mixed company.

76. A kiss that is leading to more, but is interrupted by a third party.

77. A kiss that tastes of the food/dessert they are eating.

78. Deep kisses where they have their hands tangled in each other’s hair to pull them closer.

79. Wet kisses after finding refuge from the rain.

80. Brushing a kiss along the shell of the other person’s ear.

81. Kisses exchanged while one person sits on the other’s lap.

82. One person tracing the other’s lips with a fingertip until they can’t resist any longer, tilting their chin towards them for a kiss.

83. Staring at each other’s lips for a moment before moving closer, as if drawn together by some unseen force.

84. Weak, sweaty kisses because it’s unbearably hot.

85. Pulling away from a kiss, whispering words of love against each other’s lips.

86. A kiss so passionate, so perfect - that after they part, neither person can open their eyes for a few moments afterwards.

87. An unexpected kiss that shocks the one receiving it.

88. Kisses that start on their fingers and run up their arm, eventually ending on their lips.

89. An awkward kiss given after a first date.

90. Starting with bunny kisses before moving on to soft kisses.

91. Cleaning the other person’s lips with a lick and a kiss.

92. Whispering “I love you” before a chaste, delicate kiss.

93. Kissing tears from the other’s face.

94. A gentle kiss that quickly descends into passion, with little regard for what’s going on around them.

95. Kisses shared under an umbrella.

96. Distracting kisses from someone that are meant to stop the other person from finishing their work, and give them kisses instead.

97. A kiss pressed to the top of the head.

98. Tentative kisses given in the dark.

99. Kisses exchanged as they move around, hitting the edges of tables or nearly tripping over things on the floor before making it to the sofa, or bed.

100. A lingering kiss before a long trip apart.

101. A kiss paired with a tight hug, knocking the breath out of the person being hugged.

102. One person has to bend down in order to kiss their partner, who is standing on their tip-toes to reach their partner’s.

103. Short and sweet kiss after meeting up for a date.

104. A kiss, followed by more that trail down the jaw and neck.

105.

106. Little one jumping in puddles wearing rain boots.

107. Shopping for nursery furniture for little one.

108. Holding the little one for the first time.

109. Being immensely proud when little one takes their first steps alone.

110. Little one’s first reaction to seeing/feeling snow.

111. Singing nursery rhymes to get little one to sleep.

112. Finger painting with little one.

113. Little one getting food all over their face.

114. Going on a walk together with little one.

115. Little one coming to sleep with you after having a bad dream.

116. Picking out little one’s first Halloween costume.

117. Little one’s first birthday.

118. Keeping little one from trying to eat crayons.

119. Little one’s first trip to the zoo or aquarium.

120. Showing little one a lightning bug for the first time.

121. Little one sticking their toes in their mouth.

122. Little one pulling on your hair with surprising strength.

123. Helping little one go down a slide at the park.

124. Little one needing an emergency bath.

125. Tickling little one’s chubby thighs until they laugh.

126. Singing songs and rocking little one to sleep.

127. Reading a book with little one on your lap.

128. Having to show little one that the food tastes good by having some too.

129. Playing airplane/train to get little one to open their mouth and take a bite of food.

130. Little one chasing after bubbles to pop them.

131. Playing peek-a-boo with little one.

132. Little one snuggling with a stuffed animal.

133. Playing “This Little Piggy” on little one’s toes.

134. Having little one help mix cookie dough.

135. Little one eating a slice of fruit and getting juice all down their chin.

136. Kissing little one where they got hurt to make the pain go away.

137. Little one stripping their clothes and running around in their diaper.

138. Waking up to little one crying out in their sleep.

139. Little one biting everything they can stick in their mouth as they teethe.

140. Little one sticking pretzel sticks up their nose.

141. Little one leaving sticky fingerprints on everything they touch.

142. Having little one help flip pancakes.

143. Giving little one a raspberry on their tummy after changing their diaper.

144. Watching little one go in and out of the kiddie pool.

145. Little one pointing out colors and shapes that they recognize.

146. Having little one wear their first formal wear.

147. Little one drifting off to sleep with a smile on their face.

148. Little one settling down after you finally figure out what they need.

149. Choosing little one’s name together.

150. Watching little one attempt to blow the seeds off a dandelion.

151. Little one getting in a laughing kick where everything is funny.

152. The first time little one picks their own outfit.

153. Little one chasing down the pet to rest their head on them and hold them tight.

154. Being unable to stay mad at little one when they give you puppy dog eyes.

155. Little one playing dress up with a grown-up set of shoes.

156.

157. Holding their hands when they are shaking.

158. Tucking the sheets around them when they stir during the night.

159. Traveling long distances just to see them.

160. Making their favorite meal when they are having a hard day.

161. Giving them a kiss before going to work and they are still in bed.

162. Tucking your head into their neck during a hug.

163. Lightly kissing on top of a freshly formed bruise.

164. Buying them something unrequested because it made you think of them.

165. Participating in their hobby even if it doesn’t personally interest you.

166. Sitting in comfortable silence while eating a meal.

167. Telling them a dumb joke just to see their smile.

168. Following their family traditions that they enjoy.

169. Playing your fingers through their hair while sitting next to them on the couch.

170. Singing and dancing to their favorite song.

171. Calming them down when they have a bad dream.

172. Having a tickle fight until you’re breathless.

173. Folding their clean laundry and putting it away.

174. Sharing a soft smile across a crowded room.

175. Bringing them a plate of their favorite sliced fruit.

176. Washing their back/hair in the shower.

177. Sharing your umbrella with them in the rain.

178. Listening to them while they vent.

179. Taking a picture together to print and hang later.

180. Tracing your names together in the sand.

181. Wearing clothes in their favorite color.

182. Doing a chore for them that you know they aren’t fond of.

183. Leaving a plate of food in the microwave for when they have a late shift.

184. Sharing a drink with them from the same straw.

185. Tucking their hair behind their ear to help them get it out of their face.

186. Helping scratch that itch on their back they can’t reach.

187. Pulling a chair out for them to sit down at the table.

188. Wrapping a blanket around them when they are sitting on the couch and watching a show.

189. Throwing away their piles of tissues when they have a cold.

190. Mending an item of their clothing that was ripped.

191. Running out in the middle of the night to get a food item they’re craving.

192. Helping brush their hair after a shower.

193. Making sure to be quiet while they’re taking a nap.

194. Letting them warm their cold hands under your shirt.

195. Giving them your dessert when you eat out because it’s their favorite.

196. Making a goofy face until they notice and laugh.

197. Giving them space when they express wanting to have some time alone.

198. Holding their hand while walking, even if there isn’t a crowd.

199. Holding shopping bags that are too heavy for them.

200. Standing between them and a busy road.

201. Rubbing the back of their hand with a thumb.

202. Giving them a back massage when they flop on the couch or bed.

203. Staying up half the night to finish a game with them.

204. Getting them a coffee just the way they like it.

205. Giving them a tight hug that makes them lose their breath.

206. Buying them a special treat when you go out shopping.

[midnightactual]

Critical Analysis & Tactics IV (CAT-4): Yoruichi vs. Soifon Part B

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06. There are two highly interesting points during this fight where Yoruichi and Soifon’s perspectives of one another undergo a shift, which reveals the extent to which they had misunderstood one another. Yoruichi’s occur in chapters 157, as she increasingly realizes that Soifon not only isn’t playing around or trash-talking, but is actually serious about trying to kill her:

Here she goes from surprised to fairly pissed-off looking, in a way that almost seems to suggest: You’re taking this rather too far, aren’t you?

This is probably the moment when she fully realizes Soifon’s commitment, and it’s confirmed by a similar moment in chapter 158 when Soifon actually stabs her with Suzumebachi.

Soifon’s realization that she hasn’t quite understood Yoruichi comes earlier, in chapter 154. After trading a few introductory blows with Yoruichi, her first real move is to summon the Onmitsukidō:

I count at least 20 soldiers here. As we all know, Yoruichi dispatches them with ease. One must wonder then why Soifon tried this approach at all. Look at how relaxed and confident she looks while talking down to Yoruichi. Look at what she says. She wasn’t sending at least 20 guys in to get beat up for the hell of it—she legitimately thought it would work!

She’s completely surprised and very clearly shocked when it doesn’t.

Yoruichi then (very playfully!) chastises Soifon for this. However, the truth isn’t that Soifon has forgotten who she’s dealing with, it’s that she never knew in the first place. As we later see in Soifon’s flashbacks in chapter 159:

Whenever Soifon thinks about feats that qualify Yoruichi as being “frighteningly strong,” the very best she can remember is Yoruichi beating up three guys. If the best you’d ever seen someone do was beat up three men, then sending twenty at them would seem like a pretty reasonable course of action! This tells you how thoroughly Yoruichi hid her actual power from Soifon during the latter’s time as a bodyguard (for reasons I’ll explain later), and how woefully Soifon underestimated Yoruichi.

The reason Soifon was cocky throughout the fight, to the extent of even suggesting that she was a better warrior than Yoruichi had been then, is that she had absolutely no idea as to what Yoruichi’s actual capabilities were. She seemingly allowed herself, with hindsight, to believe Yoruichi was a talented but spoiled rich noble brat whom she had surpassed by leaps and bounds in the century since. But she believed that because she had never seen any evidence to the contrary—Yoruichi had never let her see it.

This might sound absurd. After all, who would believe that a Taichō could only defeat three opponents at once? But nonetheless it is, as we have seen, something which Soifon behaves as though she believes. Maybe we’re supposed to imagine these are larger numbers (although, as I’ve said before with the size of Las Noches: why not just draw that if that’s what you wanted to show?) but it bears mentioning that Soifon literally never questioned why, if she had invented Shunkō, the keisen shōzoku was already perfectly suited for it:

I’d suggest that Soifon’s own remarks in chapter 138 that, “Right or wrong, it doesn’t concern me. All I care about is my honor and my duties as a Captain of the 13 Court Guard Companies,” reveal that she isn’t particularly interested in questioning her own experiences, let alone her orders.

07. All of the above points come together when the battle escalates to the mutual Shunkō reveal in chapters 158 and 159. Skipping over the explanations regarding it, we come to the real crux of this fight.

We discover that Yoruichi was not only prepared to use Shunkō during this fight, but that she could have used it at literally any time—she just didn’t want to.

We discover that Yoruichi had sufficient skill to curve her blasts with Shunkō around Soifon, immediately after she’d said, “I still can’t control it very well.” This leaves one to wonder what controlling it ‘well’ would look like, as well as making it clear that this was just a demonstration of power—Yoruichi didn’t miss. (Nor did Soifon block; she’s standing there simply dumbfounded.)

We discover that Yoruichi kept Shunkō from Soifon for the latter’s own good, presumably much as she kept other things form Soifon for the same reason.

We discover that although Yoruichi is surprised and impressed by Soifon’s growth, she’s of the opinion that Soifon isn’t ready to use Shunkō. (Perhaps, just like bankai takes at least a decade of training to really use efficiently, it takes a century or two—or more—to really use Shunkō without endangering oneself.)

We discover that Yoruichi is indeed vastly more powerful than Soifon, being able to easily nullify Soifon’s Shunkō using Hanki. (Notice Yoruichi’s growing discomfort visually from this page onward, with her expression becoming increasingly concerned.)

We discover that Soifon without Shunkō stands no real chance against Yoruichi. (And although she can turn it back on, it’ll just be nullified again.)

We discover that in total, Yoruichi remains just as far above Soifon in the present as she’d been in the past (not that Soifon’d had any actual idea how far that was then), and that the seeming equality between the two earlier in the fight was nothing more than a mirage created by Yoruichi’s physical weakness, not any actual parity between them.

And we discover that Yoruichi could’ve killed Soifon at any point in the fight had she so desired, a fact which Soifon herself becomes intimately aware of, cracking her morale and prompting her to begin asking “Why?” only to finally reveal the source of her animus: “Why didn’t you... take me with you?”

In the face of that question, we see Yoruichi having another realization. She realizes that all of Soifon’s hostility stems from a sense of abandonment and betrayal (which we learned from Soifon’s own flashbacks, as she herself characterized it as, “... A betrayal... by my personal god”).

And finally, after Soifon has fallen to her knees in anguish, we see Yoruichi looking genuinely sad for the first (and to my recollection only) time. It’s because she realizes that this is all her fault. Yoruichi’s priorities in the past with regard to Soifon seem to have been to:

protect Soifon from emotional harm; she went out of her way to include and nurture Soifon within her bodyguard unit’s activities, and far more remarkably, concealed the extent of her own abilities so as to not make the existence of her bodyguard seem pointless

protect Soifon from physical harm; Yoruichi concealed an ability like Shunkō from Soifon not just for the sake of the above priority, but to prevent Soifon from considering its use too early and thus injuring herself

protect Soifon from political harm; Yoruichi didn’t leave any kind of message or say goodbye, let alone take Soifon with her, precisely because she didn’t want Soifon in the line of fire of Aizen’s conspiracy

Her overriding agenda with regard to Soifon was to protect her from things she wasn’t ready to know, but making that judgment was a kind of patronizing hubris on Yoruichi’s part, and what she missed was that she failed to protect Soifon from psychological harm. She didn’t seem to fully understand the degree to which Soifon idolized her, and thus didn’t anticipate the kind of effects her departure would have upon Soifon in the long term.

Yoruichi entered this fight expecting to pick right back up where they left off with maybe some token resentment, only to find her protégé trying to kill her and to soon discover that she’d hurt and twisted her grievously... and that it was all her own fault. In trying to protect Soifon, she’d turned her into an enemy.

Soifon, meanwhile, was forced to reckon with the fact that in a certain sense, she never truly knew Yoruichi, because Yoruichi had never allowed her to. Given the importance Soifon places on martial prowess and being a warrior, that must be a hard blow to take. Soifon is ultimately in a superficially similar position to how Momo is to Aizen, but Soifon is forced to realize that fact herself, in a deep and visceral way. She herself is forced to understand that, “Adoration… is the state furthest from understanding.”

It seems obvious that the two immediately reconciled to an extent, given they’d soon confront Aizen together, and that they likely talked about these things at least some in the following week which Yoruichi spent in Soul Society. However, that doesn’t detract from the facts that:

Yoruichi was never in actual danger during this fight

Soifon’s parity with Yoruichi only manifested in basic abilities

Soifon only had that parity in basic abilities because Yoruichi was out of shape

Yoruichi still heavily outclassed Soifon as a fighter overall

Soifon had radically underestimated Yoruichi’s abilities in the past because Yoruichi had concealed the true extent of her power

Yoruichi’s earlier and later performance of basic abilities were as far removed from Soifon’s as were their abilities to use Shunkō during this fight

It is furthermore evident that Yoruichi’s control of Shunkō would continue to remain ahead of Soifon’s into the future. Soifon, while having improved dramatically beyond Yoruichi’s wildest expectations, never actually caught up to Yoruichi or posed a truly lethal threat to her. (And this is perhaps part of why Soifon seems to easily settle back into a deferential role to Yoruichi in the anime, omake, and subsequent materials, although they never share time together in the rest of the manga.) This fight ultimately wasn’t really about abilities so much as a failure to understand one another.

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Every single prompt I have written?

I think that this is every prompt that I’ve done so far, as of 28/03/2020

1.         “Come to bed with me?”  

2.         “Do you even still love me?”  

3.         “I think you’re bleeding…”    

4.         “Get off my foot!”

“Get your foot out from underneath my foot.”

5.         “Shh, it’s okay, you don’t need to cry.”

6.         “I can’t sleep.”    

7.         “Why did you lie to me?”

8.         “Don’t move, they hit your head really hard.”    

9.         “Have a good day.”

“Don’t tell me what to do.”

10.      “Do you want a bedtime story?”

11.      “Are you sure that you have enough blankets?”    

12.      “Get out. I am done with you.”    

13.      “That looks broken. You need a doctor.”

14.      “Oh, you can go to hell.”

“Stop threatening me with a good time.”    

15.      “[mama/papa]’s got you.”

16.      “I need a hug. Please?”

17.      “Isn’t it your bedtime?”

“Hypocrite.”

“Come to bed with me then.”

18.      “I love you, but please, shut up.”

19.      “Don’t touch me.”

20.      “I can’t stand the sight of you right now. Get away from me.”

21.      “I said that I never wanted to see you again. Why are you here?”

“I just wanted to help!”

22.      “Please… I am begging you, just open your eyes. Please. You can’t die.”

23.      “I’m not hurt.”

“You are actively bleeding.”

“Oh. So I am.”

24.      “Don’t pass out on me now, we’re nearly home.”

25.      “Isn’t this illegal?”

“Yes, but technically no.”

26.      “Penny for your thoughts?”

“If my thoughts are only worth a penny, I shall keep it to myself.”

27.      “Did you just stab me?”

28.      “…How on earth did you manage to get up there?”

29.      “Put the cookie down, eat your dinner first.”

30.      “I think I can feel them kicking!”

31.      “Are you asleep?”

“Not anymore.”        

32.      “What if I don’t get better? What if I am broken?”        

33.      “That is going to leave a really nasty scar.”          

34.      “Nothing could go wrong, you said. Well guess what? Everything has gone wrong!”    

35.      “Quick, I think the baby is coming!”

36.      “You made me breakfast in bed? What did you do this time?”

37.      “I trusted you.”        

38.      “I don’t… I don’t feel good.”            

39.      “Come any closer and I will hit you with this book. I swear to God!”

40.      “Where did you put your blankie this time.”

41.      “Can you check for monsters under the bed?”

42.      “You broke my heart.”        

43.      “Hey, are you alright?”

“Do I look alright to you?”  

44.      “That best not be the last of the milk… Oh you bastard.”          

45.      “One little shoe. Two little shoes. All ready to go out.”

46.      “It’s just a bad dream. I’ve got you, it’s okay.”        

47.      “I wish that I never had met you.”    

48.      “It’s so cold.”

“You need to hold on a bit longer, you are going to be fine. Just stay awake a little longer.”  

49.      “Roses are red, violets are blue- ow. Fuck you!”      

50.      “They have grown so much, it’s hard to believe how little they used to be.”

51.      “Have you stolen my shirt?”  

52.      “Stop lying to me!”    

53.      “I can’t breathe.”        

54.      “Okay, start from the beginning, you lost me right after you said that you punched someone.”

“That was the first thing that I said.”

55.      “I want another baby.”

56.      “I never want you to feel like you are alone.”            

57.      “You are the worst mistake I have ever made.”        

58.      “Where am I?”            

“Are you day drinking?”

“It’s apple juice, not whiskey.”        

59.      “Say goodbye to mama and papa, they’ll be back soon.”

60.      “Kiss me.”

61.      “You loved me!”

“Loved. Past tense.”        

62.      “Don’t go. Please. I can’t lose you.”        

63.      “Do you pinky promise?”

“What are you? Five?”    

64.      “Stomach bug?”

“No, morning sickness.”

65.      “I feel safe in your arms.”

66.      “Am I just a game to you?”          

67.      “I’ve got you, you are going to be okay.”            

68.      “Lunch?”

“It’s half seven. In the evening.”

“Dinner then?”    

69.      “It could be worse?”

“They got jam everywhere!”

70.      “I dreamed about you last night. I woke up happy.”

71.      “Stop pretending to care.”            

72.      “Please tell me that isn’t all your blood.”

73.      “What are you reading?”  

74.      “You really are your [mother/father]’s child.”

75.      “I was thinking, you, me, the bottle of wine in the kitchen and sitting in front of the fire. Thoughts?”

“Yes please.”

76.      “You hurt me!”          

77.      “You’re burning up.”

78.      “I don’t mean to alarm you, but the spider in the shower is frankly massive.”    

79.      “So… the baby is fine, I want you to know that first, they are absolutely fine.”

“What did you do?”

80.      “Thank you for looking after me.”

“For you I would do anything.”    

81.      “Wouldn’t you rather be with [him/her/them]?”

82.      “I think you need to see a doctor.”

83.      “You didn’t see anything.”

“Yes, I did. I saw all of it.”    

84.      “They won’t stop crying and, in a minute, I think I am going to start crying too.”

85.      “Are you wearing a new lip balm? It tastes really good.”            

86.      “You ripped my heart to pieces. Did it even hurt when you left?”  

87.      “It’s just a bit of blood. I’m fine.”  

88.      “I will make dinner if you don’t speak for the rest of the afternoon.”  

89.      “Stop wiggling! I need to get you changed!”

90.      “Do you have a reason to get out of bed today? Let’s just stay here as long as we can.”    

91.      “Did you ever love me, or was it just an act?”      

92.      “It’s just a nightmare. I’ve got you.”          

93.      “Can I adopt the stray cat out in the street?”

“Do you want fleas? Because that is how you get fleas.”          

94.      “You are perfect, my little [pet name].”

95.      “Stop smiling at me like that, I am trying to concentrate.”        

96.      “I feel like no one could ever love me.”    

97.      “Take a deep breath.”

“It hurts.”

“I know, but you have to breath.”  

98.      “Do we have any cookies in? No? I’m making cookies.”

99.      “Did you have a bad dream?”

“Uh huh.”

“Come on, get into bed with us, you can sleep in bed with us tonight.”

100.  “Can I kiss you?”      

101.  “Leave me alone. I don’t want to talk to anyone right now.”    

102.  “You’re going to be okay, just breath. Oh god… is that bone?”

103.  “What would you do if I said that I may have burnt the dinner?”            

104.  “Take a break. I’ll stay up with them, you need some sleep.”

105.  “Yes, you look great in my shirt. But I kind of need it back.”            

106.  “Go ahead, leave, I am not going to stop you.”  

107.  “That hit hard, are you okay?”      

108.  “The amount of alcohol I am going to need to forget this is going to kill me.”

109.  “How did you get pen that high up the wall?”

110.  “I am madly in love with you.”

“Why?”

“I don’t have a clue.”      

111.  “You’ll come crawling back to me.”

“Never.”  

112.  “Please breath, please… oh god.”  

113.  “I may have… mildly panicked?”

“You shot at me!”          

114.  “Please don’t vomit on me. Please don’t vomit on me. Please don’t… You vomited on me.”

115.  “Kiss me. Now.”        

116.  “Please don’t say that, I don’t think I can take it.”          

117.  “Did you get shot?”  

118.  “You drank my coffee? Why must you hurt me in this way?”          

119.  “How many coffees is that?”

“You try having a toddler who refuses to go to bed.”

120.  “May I have this dance?”    

121.  “Fuck off and fall off a cliff.”          

122.  “Don’t you dare die on me, you promised me!”  

123.  “What do you mean you aren’t interested in me, it’s me!”        

124.  “It’s your bedtime.”

“Can I have a story?”

“I just read you a story.”

“’nother story?”

125.  “Hold me, please?”  

126.  “I’d have stayed, if you had asked me to.”          

127.  “It hurts.”

“I know, it is going to be okay, I promise.”

“It burns, please… Make it stop.”  

128.  “Hungry?”

“Depends on if you are cooking or we are going out.”    

129.  “I just put them down for a nap. We probably have an hour of peace.”

130.  “Did you make me breakfast in bed? I think that I love you.”    

131.  “I’m sorry, but I didn’t have a choice.”

“There’s always a choice!”  

132.  “Your nose is bleeding.”      

133.  “No, I am not playing spin the bottle with you.”

“But it will be fun!”

“There are only two people here!”

134.  “Fuck.”

“Fuck!”

“No. Don’t repeat that. It’s a naughty word.”

“Fuck.”

135.  “Happy birthday!”    

136.  “After everything you put me through, you come here and ask for my help? How dare you!”          

137.  “Hey, you passed out, stay laying down for a bit longer.”          

138.  “Did you just get dragged through a bush, or are you always this messy?”

“I couldn’t find a comb.”

139.  “If the kid can nap, am I allowed to as well?”

140.  “Look up. Mistletoe.”          

141.  “Bite me.”      

142.  “How did I get here?”

“I had to carry you. You hit your head really hard.”        

143.  “How do you feel about killing spiders?”

“Where is it?”            

144.  “When mummy and daddy love each other very much…”

145.  “Don’t you just look absolutely stunning?”

“You are biased.”

“I am your partner, I am allowed to be.”

146.  “I hate you so much.”

“I know. I deserve it.”          

147.  “I’m calling the doctor.”

“I am fine.”

“You really aren’t.”  

148.  “Why are you on the floor? Did you fall?”

“Would you believe me if I said no?”        

149.  “Can you tidy your toys away please? Preferably before I break my neck tripping over a stuffed turtle.”

150.  “Did you sleep last night? At all?”

“God no, what do you take me for?”    

151.  “Get out!”

“Please let me explain.”

“Out!”  

152.  “it could be worse.”

“You aren’t the one bleeding.”

“Look, you are still alive. Stop whining.”  

153.  “Pass me that would you- no, no the other one. On your left. No… your other left.”

154.  “Hush little baby don’t say a word, mummy has a headache and your crying hurts.”

155.  “You and me, together. We’re unbeatable. We can go against all odds and come out on top.”

156.  “Who the hell do you think you are?”

“Well-“

“That was rhetorical.”    

157.  “Are you bleeding?”

“We don’t have time to deal with it. I’ll be fine.”

158.  “Is this heaven?”

“Well, judging by your presence here, hell.”

“Oh. So I am dead?”        

159.  “Is it wrong for me to wish that they never grow up and I can keep my baby forever?”

“I kind of want that too.”

160.  “Why are you looking at me like that?”

“I am just… speechless. You look beautiful.”        

161.  “Don’t touch me!”          

162.  “Walk it off.”

“I don’t know if I can walk.”      

163.  “Alright, which one of you idiots left your shoes out for me to trip over again?”  

164.  “Open wide. Come on, eat your dinner!”

“It probably tastes awful.”

“It doesn’t- okay. No, it is pretty bad.”

165.  “I’ve had nightmares. That was like a living hell.”

166.  “Did you sleep well?”

“Only because you were with me.”

167.  “Love me!”

“I love you. Now shut up and go to sleep.”

168.  “Don’t move. The spider is on your shoulder.”

169.  “How many stitches?”

“Eight. But I think I just ripped two of them out.”

170.  “Can I sleep in here? I don’t like the storm.”

“Scared of a little thunder?”

171.  “You’re dripping blood everywhere.”

“Sorry, is there a place you’d prefer I stand and bleed?”

“The bathroom. It’s easier to clean up.”

172.  “Let’s play a game.”

“Oh no, you are a cheat. I’m not playing against you.”

173.  “Bite me.”

“Have you ever said that and been bitten?”

“More times than I’d like to admit.”

174.  “Pour us a drink would you? It’s been a long day.”

“Whiskey, brandy, wine or water?”

“If you pour me a glass of water I may actually leave you.”

175.  “Get out the shower! You’ve been in there for hours!”

176.  “I’ll get the first aid kit.”

“I’m fine.”

“You’re a liar. Sit down and let me patch you up.”

177.  “Mama.”

“Did they just… Was that their first word?

178.  "I’m going to the shops. Needs anything?”

“A will to live. And coffee.”

“A will to live sounds expensive. I’ve got a tenner.”

“Coffee and chocolate then. Close enough.”

179.  “Shit it’s on fire.”

“What did you do?!”

180.  “How’s the baby doing?”

“They won’t stop crawling underneath the bed.”

181.  “How do you feel?”

“Like I’ve been stabbed.”

“Have… Have you been stabbed?”

“A little bit.”

182.  “Why are you in a tree?”

“Why aren’t you in a tree?”

“Are you stuck?”

183.  “Let’s get a pet.”

“There’s a spider in the kitchen. That’ll do.”

184.  “What time is it?”

“Way too early.”

185.  “Bed time.”

“I’m an adult.”

“An adult who has been up for nearly thirty six hours, go to bed. Before I drag you up there myself.”

186.  “Did you have a good dream?”

“Yeah, you were there.”

187.  “What did you do this time?”

“What makes you think I did something?”

“The black eye is a bit of a give away.”

188.  “I’m begging you. Please. Please. Just wake up. I need you to wake up. I can’t be without you. Wake up, please.”

189.  “What did you do to [her/him]? Tell me!”

190.  “I’m actually going to smack you in a minute.”

“Go for it.”

191.  “What are you doing?”

“Wasting time.”

192.  “You’re bleeding.”

“I know.”

193.  “This is going to really hurt.”

“I know, just do it.”

194.  “Let’s just get really drunk.”

“Bad day?”

“Bad doesn’t cover it. We have wine in, right?”

195.  “Tuck me into bed?”

“You are an adult.”

“So?”

196.  “Kiss me, please?”

“Nah.”

“Fine, I will kiss someone else.”

“No, don’t do that!”

197.  “Come to bed. I sleep better with you there.”

198.  “It would be better if you just forgot me.”

199.  “I don’t want to talk about it, just leave me alone.”

200.  “I love you.”

“But I don’t love you.”

201.  “Where did you get that scar from?

202.  “Hold still, I think it’s broken, I can set it, but this will really hurt.”

203.  “I haven’t slept in days. The nightmares won’t stop.”

204.  “Wake up, I think someone else is here.”

205.  “One drink, two drink, three drink, floor!”

206.  “How is the hangover?”

“You can great straight to hell, do not pass go, do not collect two hundred pounds.”

207.  “I love mummy.”

“What about me?”

“Just mummy.”

208.  “Your brat keeps kicking me in the kidney.”

“How come you say they’re mine whenever they are doing that?”

209.  “First day of school, are we excited?”

“No.”

210.  “Stay in bed a little longer. It is warm here.”

“Alright, five more minutes, then I have to get up.”          

211.  “I want to hate you, I really do. You repulse me. So why can’t I stay away from you?”              

212.  “Does it hurt here?”

“Everywhere hurts.”      

213.  “Are you cheating?”

“What makes you think that?”

“Because you cannot have three aces when I have two.”

214.  “They’re asleep. We finally have some time to… and you are already asleep.”

215.  “How do you always look so kissable?”    

216.  “How could you do it? To me?”

“I’m sorry.”

“I don’t think sorry is going to fix this.”    

217.  “Oh god I think I am going to throw up.”

218.  “Cup of coffee?”

“God?”

“I… I don’t think I am.”  

219.  “Is… Is it mine?”

“Bastard, of course it’s yours!”

220.  “I just want to steal you away to somewhere private and have my wa- oh! I didn’t see you there.”

“I gathered.”      

221.  “I wish that I had never loved you.”        

222.  “I can’t stop the bleeding. Please, I need help.”

223.  “Ow shit!”

“Language.”

“Ow Merde!”

224.  “I go away for six months and I come home, and you have a baby.”

225.  “Will you be my Valentine?”

226.  “I got you a gift.”

“Why?”

“It’s Valentines day today?”

227.  “A candlelit dinner?”

“Anything for you my dear.”

228.  “Why are there roses all over the bed?”

“Valentines day?”

“You can tidy that mess up.”

229.  “I made dinner reservations.”

“So did I. Surprise?”

230.  “Supri- oh shit you’re not [insert character name].”

“Oh god! What the hell? Where are your clothes?”

231.  “There are flowers on the doorstep.”

“Who from?”

“I think that you have a secret admirer.”

232.  “I guess that you could say that I am a hopeless romantic.”

“I would have just stopped at hopeless.”

233.  “I love you.”

“I know. No, I’m just joking! I love you too!”

234.  “Happy Valentines day.”

“I didn’t think we would do anything for it.”

“I changed my mind, I wanted to treat you.”

235.  “You. Me. Quarantined for two weeks. Anything could happen.”

“Yeah. I may kill you. Or we may both get sick.”

236.  “You know, in thirteen years, we could get a quaranteen out of this.”  

“I think that I would rather just get sick. Thanks though.”

237.  “You have quite a high temperature.”

“Do… Does that mean you think I’m hot?”

“And you are clearly delirious.”

238.  “You are coughing an awful lot, you really should be in bed.”

239.  “We should do what they did in Edinburgh.”

“Which was?”

“Anyone who was sick got bricked into their homes and left to die.”

“Oh… No, we aren’t doing that.”

240.  “We are running out of milk.”

“God, I hate black coffee.”

“Maybe someone shouldn’t have got sick then?”

241.  “Is this necessary?”

“You sneezed. You get locked away.”

242.  “If you cough on me, I will end you.”

243.  “If this kills us, I am glad that I got to spend my last few days with you.”

“It’s a bloody cold.”

244.  “I wonder what the world will be like when we can go outside again.”

“It’s two weeks, not two decades.”

245.  “I made you some tea.”

“Thank you.”

“But I am not coming into your room, I’ll leave it out here.”

246.  “I made you some soup. Open your mouth, I just want to check your temperature first.”

247.  “I just want… chocolate.”

“We have three days left. Then you can eat so much chocolate that you are sick.”

“That is the plan.”

248.  “I have nothing to read.”

“What about those books on your bedside table?”

“I’ve been inside for ten days. I’ve finished them.”

249.  “I can’t believe that I want to be exercising right now. Anything that isn’t these same four walls for another week.”

250.  “I am so bored. I would do anything right now.”

“Anything?”

“Anything but you.”

251.  “How many rounds of snap have we played?”

“Um… Thirty-six. It’s not my fault you’re bad at any other card game.”

252.  “How long will we be inside for?”

“Fourteen days.”

“This isn’t enough coffee.”

253.  “I swear there is mistletoe everywhere.”

254.  “Close your eyes. I want to surprise you.”

“I hate surprises.”

“You’ll like this one.”

255.  “Mince pie?”

“Raisons disgust me.”

“I made them myself.”

“I suppose that it couldn’t hurt to try one.”

256.  “You are awful with wrapping paper.”

“I nearly gave up and just wrapped myself up instead.”

257.  “What are you doing?”

“Tying a ribbon around you.”

“Why?”

“You’re a gift.”

258.  “Do you think you can survive Christmas with my parents?”

“Can you?”

“We are going to need a lot of alcohol.”

259.  “I think it’s snowing.”

“I think I am not leaving the house today.”

260.  “We need hot chocolate, cream and marshmallows.”

261.  “We should go ice skating.”

“I don’t know how to skate.”

“That’s fine, I could do with a good laugh.”

262.  “You forgot to get them a present, didn’t you?”

“I didn’t realise that we were actually doing anything for Christmas!”

“A fool’s error.”

263.  “Do I get a kiss at midnight?”

“Depends.”

“On?”

“If I am still awake. And sober.”

264.  “I think that I am on the naughty list.”

“Oh yes, you definitely are.”

[holdthosebees]

Reasons: A Study

So. I want to talk about anchors, and parallels, and That Line from mag 167. 

MARTIN: So, when you say Gertrude wouldn’t have been able to go on without a reason-- JON: Yes, Martin, you are my reason. 

First, while we’re all melting down about the adorable queerness of this exchange, I want to nail down exactly what they mean. 

On one level, it’s a declaration of romantic devotion. It seems pretty clear also that what Jon is alluding to is that, without Martin, he wouldn’t be going to the panopticon; he wouldn’t be trying to fix the world at all. Instead, he would be “resigning” himself to “ruling [his] domain,” which is a fancy and way of saying ‘going full Beholding, turning full monster, and spending the apocalypse siphoning the suffering out of his victims. In short: having Martin around, having someone prompting him keep moving in a semi-linear fashion towards a concrete goal, and having a relationship he cares about protecting is what’s keeping him human. Or, as close to human as he can get, anyway. This is... complicated. There are people who are reading it as super romantic, and I get that! I don’t in any way want to say that they’re wrong, and this post isn’t about how Jon and Martin’s relationship is secretly Bad and Doomed or whatever. But TMA has consistently shown itself to be a show willing to dive into the messy bits of relationships between traumatized people, and ‘this one person is the only thing keeping me from spiraling into monster hood’ is definitely messy. 

There are a few parallels that immediately spring to mind, and I’d like to go through them one by one.  First: the obvious parallel, and the one that most people are drawing, is to Martin’s line in 158:

[MARTIN]: And then Jon came back, and suddenly I had a reason...

This is a line I see quoted out of context a lot, in the ‘tumblr likes to take bits of text and mash them together to make moodboards’ way. Often, in more Jon/Martin-y contexts, the sentiment behind it is filled in based on the line that came before it: “Maybe I just thought joining up with you would be a good way to get killed.” The implication drawn, then, is that Martin is saying that Jon coming back gave him a reason to live.  That is, however, not actually what he’s saying! This quote is actually rarely quoted in its entirety; what Martin actually says, specifically, is

[MARTIN]: And then Jon came back, and suddenly I had a reason to keep your attention on me. Make you feel in control so you didn’t take it out on him. And if that meant drifting further away, so what? I’d already grieved for him. And if it meant now saving him, it was worth it.

By drifting further away, he doesn’t just mean from Jon--he’s talking about his choice to keep working with Peter, to keep pushing himself into the Lonely. Jon coming back, in context, didn’t so much give him a reason to live as it did give him a reason to sacrifice himself. He was still aware that he was losing himself, and might wind up dying; Jon being around just made that feel meaningful.

This, I feel it should be noted, is exactly what Elias was counting on. Martin made the choice to continue on his own, to try to jump on the grenade without telling anyone that it was there, and this turned out to be a huge mistake. It was one heavily influenced by grief, by trauma, and by the impact the Lonely had already had on his mind. 

It was also the exact opposite of what Jon’s saying now--except for the ways in which it isn’t. They both cite one another as their reason for working towards a goal that they know might be impossible, because the act of protecting each other gives meaning to a potentially meaningless existence. For Martin, though, that meant courting avatar-dom, while Jon is trying to push it away. For Martin, this singleminded devotion turned out to be unhealthy; his prioritization of what he thought Jon needed from him over his own wellbeing wound up causing both him and Jon a lot of grief. And as for Jon...

Well. We don’t know yet. Jon and Martin are alone together in a horrific apocalypse landscape, so singleminded devotion is kind of par for the course. Martin is literally the only good thing Jon has left in the world, so I’m not going to say that he’s wrong for using Martin as a grounding point. And we know, from previous seasons, that focusing on building positive, trusting relationships is one of the things most effective in maintaining humanity! 

At the same time, though, there’s another parallel I’d like to talk about--and that’s the parallel between Jon and Martin’s relationship and Daisy and Basira’s.  The first thing that “you are my reason” pinged for me, right off the bat, was the memory of Elias calling Basira Daisy’s last tether to humanity in season 3. Their relationship for the latter half of season 3 mirrored Jon and Martin’s season 5 relationship in a number of ways; mainly, the more monstrous partner (Daisy, Jon) who’s thrust into the thick of things (fighting monsters, trying to manage the Beholding) to protect the human partner (Basira, Martin), who meanwhile is anchoring said monstrous partner to their humanity while basically hanging out and making big picture plans anti-Elias plans. 

It’s not a perfect parallel, obviously, but the dynamics are there. They’re both avatar-human relationship based around that idea of a single anchor point--and, whoo boy, did Daisy and Basira problematize that dynamic. Daisy killed people, and Basira turned the other way. The fact that Daisy was so reliant on Basira to act as her moral compass means that, in the cases where Basira didn’t interfere, her own moral compass degraded. Her reliance on Basira to anchor her meant she wasn’t anchoring herself, and, combined with Basira’s enabling, that lead her down an extremely slippery police-brutality lined slope. 

Why is this relevant to Jon and Martin? Because the justification Martin gave when trying to convince Jon not to feel guilt after Not!Sasha--that it’s fine to kill monsters, as long as you aren’t going after innocents--is extremely reminiscent to how Basira and Daisy justified Daisy’s actions for a long time. 

In Mag91, when preventing Daisy from murdering Jon, Basira tells Daisy that she’s always known what Daisy’s been doing, but she was alright with it, because she thought Daisy just killed monsters. Like Martin turning Jon’s tape over to the archives crew, she steps in once she realizes that someone she thinks of as a person is also in danger. Later, when confronting Jon, she seems to draw a firm line between Daisy’s actions, which were compelled and so required no guilt, with Jon’s actions in going after innocents. Compare this line from Martin, in Mag166:

[MARTIN]:  This isn’t like it was before! We’re not talking about innocent bystanders in cafes here, Jon; these things are - th-they’re just evil, plain and simple, and right now they’re torturing and tormenting everyone! If you want to stop them and have the power to, then - then, then yeah, let’s do it, let’s go full Kill Bill!

Once again, we’ve got a clear black and white moral boundary: if you want to kill monsters, that’s fine, because the things you’re killing aren’t human. There’s the differentiation between compelled attacks on innocents, and the choice to go after things that are evil. Both Martin and Basira brushed aside their partner’s guilt, on the basis of compulsion; both Martin and Basira encouraged them to use their powers to go after monsters, which they considered morally justified. The circumstances are different--Basira didn’t want Daisy to die, while Martin wants Jon to stop blaming himself for the end of the world--but the choices they’re making are in some ways very similar.  

We know where that goes for Daisy and Basira. Basira, while initially Daisy’s reason for staying human, also becomes her reason to return to the Hunt. She, like season 4 Martin, makes the choice to give up on her humanity to save the person she’s anchored to; unlike Martin, nothing stops her before she goes through with it. We’ll have to wait until the Hunt episode of this season to see how it ends, but it’s definitely not going to be happy. 

All of which is to say--it was a sweet moment that shows some great development in their relationship, but if Martin is Jon’s one reason for staying grounded, we have historical reason to believe that this isn’t necessarily a good thing. It is, at the very least, a complicated thing, and something that probably won’t escape the same exploration of codependency, us-vs-them mentality, self destructive behavior, and interpersonal responsibility that has shown up in almost every relationship in the podcast. This time, though, the stakes are even higher--if Jon loses himself, he doesn’t just kill a few people, he becomes what the Beholding intends for him to be. 

(This also isn’t even getting into the weeds of codependency in regards to Martin’s caretaker trauma, and what it means to be relied upon as the sole person keeping another human being grounded and together, or how that ties into the ways in which trust in their communication seems to be slowly eroding over time and under--but that’s another post entirely.)

[elisaphoenix13]

Antlord Drabble 8

Drabble prompt: “Please don’t say that about yourself. Please don’t believe that. You’re so much more than that. You’re so...”

By: @daisypoisonpen (posted with permission).

Quill was having a difficult day, and now to top it off, he got the letter.

A stupid, innocuous letter with his name on it was bringing his whole mood down.

“Quill? What’s wrong? Oh—did you get it?”

Scott’s excitement was honestly the only thing he was still on this planet for. Normally he would have fucked off as soon as the clean-up with Thanos was over but something made him stay...this weird, fucked up family that reminded him so much of his own, the Iron Man and his spouse that Scott followed around like a lost puppy, their kids and the Avengers...he suddenly had the desire to stick around and re-establish his identity here.

Tony helped him—had his lawyers find the social security and birth certificate information, had him set up with a bank account and other essentials, signed him up for this.

He was only holding the closed letter but he could already feel the word “FAIL” burning his fingertips.

“I shouldn’t have done this,” Quill mutters. “I should... I should just go back to space where at least my skills are useful. Scott, how could I be expected to pass this?! I’m just that poor kid that got kidnapped by aliens in the third grade.”

“W-what?! No! Hey, that’s not true. You survived and you became a space pilot which is an impressive achievement in itself!”

Quill smiles a little. “The best space pilot, I don’t care what Rocket says.”

Scott pats his arm. “I’d trust you to fly me anywhere in the universe.”

Quill’s smile widens. “Thanks.”

Scott takes the envelope. “Want me to read it?”

Quill shrugs. “I dunno. I feel like it’s just going to say, ‘you’re a failure and you don’t know anything.’”

“God—please stop. Stop saying that about yourself! This test doesn’t define you, okay? You’re so much more than this. This is a bunch of numbers to determine what you’re good at and where you need some work, that’s all. And there are like 7 genuises in this building to help you so you’ll be okay.”

“Promise?”

Scott smiles. “You studied your ass off for this. You’re going to be fine.”

Scott tears open the envelope without further preamble, sitting up straight and scanning it quickly and smiling brightly. Quill watches him read and realizes in that moment that he’s falling for this man, this best friend he found in a roommate, that believes in him so unconditionally. Gods, he will never be able to look away from him again.

Scott turns the paper around to show him. “Look, this is how GED testing works. Blue is good, it’s a base passing score. Green is “you can get into college with this” which is better. Purple is “we’ll even give you college credits if you want, you nailed it.”

Quill nods and scans the paper. he knew his reading and language arts would probably be low because he dropped out of Hooked on Phonics when he was 8. But he studied hard and he was happy with the blue 158 under Reading and 145 under Language. He had lower scores in social sciences too but his maths and science scores were highlighted in purple.

“I did it,” he breathed. “I passed all the sections and I—“

“Congratulations,” Scott cheers, “you’re a high school graduate! We have to throw you a part—mmph—”

Quill leaned forward and pressed his lips against Scott’s soft ones, hearing him gasp sharply and then moan a little, clinging to his shirt.

When they break apart, Quill whispers, “I couldn’t have done it without you.”

[bi-bi-want-dragon]

Hello my beautiful followers!

I am so incredibly excited and blessed to say that you lovely people have gotten me to 500 followers!  I made this blog in October 2018 not long after I rediscovered HTTYD and found this wonderful fandom.  I posted my first one shot in March 2019, just over one year ago; it was an Astrid POV prompt that I doubt a lot of people saw, but it got me interested in writing more.  So I wrote another oneshot in my own world with my own headcannons just to see what would happen.  That one shot was Nesting, and it now has 158 notes (from last time I checked).  Only one other one shot of mine has passed that, and it was Brothers with 190 notes.  I started writing fanfiction just to get back into my love of writing, as a way to relieve some stress and find myself again, and instead I found this amazing fandom and the incredible people in it.  I stayed and continued writing because of the support I got from all of you, and I could never thank you all enough for that.  Your comments and support, here and on FF.net and AO3 as well, have meant more to me than words could say.  

And now, over 40k words, 19 chapters, 187 kudos/favorites, 99 bookmarks/follows, and 96 comments/reviews later between Life After They Left and Meet the Ingermans on FF.net/AO3, I’ve found an incredible community that has helped me through some rough times over the last three years.  I never expected to meet all the amazing people and mutuals and even friends that I have made along the way.  So thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

And to celebrate 500 followers, I have decided to move up an announcement for a project that I have been sitting on for probably 3 months now.  So...

I am officially announcing my first true regularly updated multi-chapter fic! (No, not just a bunch of semi related one-shots like I have now. An actual connected running story line and everything!) It’ll be a bit of a long post with the fic announcement, so I’ll put the details below the break.  I have mentioned this title before in tags for a few posts I wanted to be connected to this work, and I’ve mentioned that I’ve been working on something in author’s notes for LATL and MTI. Not necessarily something I expected anyone to pick up on, but this is that piece I was referring to for anyone that had.  Though it has been a WIP for a few months now, and it is not finished, I have enough outlined and drafted that I’m (just about) ready to start sharing it with you all!

Wingless and Warbound

Zephyr knew from her earliest years that she would be the one to take her father’s place as Chief.  Well, Chieftess.  Whether the people of New Berk were ready for a change like that or not.  Unfortunately, it seems that more people were not ready for that change than she had hoped.  But with a new threat slashing its way through the Archipelago, eyes set on New Berk and the secrets that flew away 2 years before Zephyr was born, she would have the chance to prove herself to her people soon enough.  Whether she was ready for a change like that or not.

This fic will be set in the same timeline as Meet the Ingermans and Life After They Left; though it wasn’t the plan initially, I have basically been using those oneshots to set the stage for this fic.  However, Wingless and Warbound will be set later in the timeline than the current oneshots; for reference, when the Haddock family first makes their appearance, Hiccup and Astrid are 37 years old, Zephyr is 13 (2 months before her 14th birthday), and Nuffink is 10.  Ruffnut and Fishlegs are also 37, and the second chapter takes place 2 weeks before Nutmeg’s 9th birthday (for my MTI readers).  It absolutely won’t be necessary to read the oneshots that make up Meet the Ingermans and Life After They Left for any kind of reference or background, but it will provide history and a bigger picture of the family dynamics and such if that is something of interest.  But if anything comes up that I want you guys to know about, it will be explained within the chapter, and I will more than likely let you know which oneshot the reference came from in author’s notes in case anyone wants more background.

Of course, Snotlout, Tuffnut, Eret, Valka, Gobber, and all of the Berkians we love will be included fairly regularly in Wingless and Warbound, which is something I am very excited about because I haven’t really played with their characterizations much in LATL and MTI.  In addition, there are original characters of mine that I have created for this fic (such as Nutmeg Ingerman), as well as appearances of many characters from Race to the Edge.  We’ll see Dagur the Deranged, Mala from the Defenders of the Wing, the Wingmaidens, and Alvin and the Outcasts.  I’m not sure how long this fic is going to be yet, but I can definitely guarantee 20 chapters.  Past that, I will absolutely continuing writing as long as there is a story to tell; it all depends on how the storyline expands as I write it and if any inspiration hits past the plot I have outlined currently.

The first chapter will be posted Friday, June 5th, at 12:00 noon EST.  From there I will plan to post every other Friday at the same time; I may adjust that to every week depending on what kind of buffer I can build up between now and then, but I will do my best to keep it at every 2 weeks max.

Now I know that’s a little ways away...  And the biggest reason for that is because it gives me a chance to finish out with my college classes before summer break, write and outline as much as possible, and come back from modified-vacation (dang this quarantine).  That will let me stay focused on this fic once I start posting so I can keep on the schedule I’ve made for myself.

So until then I will post a teaser every week on Friday around noon EST (just like the chapter posting schedule, but this will be every week instead of every other!).  The teasers may be anything from a short excerpt to a character description to a piece that I’ve written for the story but decided not to use or to only use chunks of.  On top of that, I will answer any asks/comments/tags/whatever else you think of that you guys send/post about Wingless and Warbound to the best of my ability without spoiling any big plot points.  Depending on what the ask is, I will include it in the weekly teaser, or I’ll just answer it when I get it.  Everything will be tagged with “#wingless and warbound” so you can find it easily on my blog!

Thank you all again for your amazing support!  I’d love to hear anything and everything you guys think/want to know related to this fic, especially if any of you are as excited as I am!

Keep being amazing, and I’ll see you soon :)

[that-weird-fandom-girl]

Prompt List And Who I Will Write For

When requesting a oneshot you can but are not required to choose a prompt off this list (which is one of @marauder-exe‘s prompt lists that im using because i physically cant produce prompts lol) and just tell me what character you want it with (i will list characters and ships that i write for at the end)

Send requests here

Angst 

1. “I love you ! Is that what you wanted to hear ?”

2. “I love him/her, and I know that I shouldn’t.”

3. “Can you just shut your mouth ?” 

4. “wHY DO YOU KEEP LYING TO ME ?” 

5.“We both know that I should walk away, but I can’t.” 

6. “Wait, he/she has a girlfriend/boyfriend ?“

7. “I lo—-” “No, please… Don’t say that. You love her/him, not me.”

8.  "Could you just take this pain away ? It hurts, so much… Help me.”

9. “You’re safe here, I got you.”

10. “Don’t ask her out again, please… You’re killing me, every single time you ask that.” 

11. “Look, he/she wants you, just make him/her happy.”

12. “If you go, I’ll know that you never loved me.” 

13. “We never were just friends, and you know it.” “I know it, but you deserve someone better than me.”

14. “SHE WAS CRYING BECAUSE OF YOU!!!” 

15. “You love me like I’m the person who actually deserves your love.” “But you are the only one who deserves it.”

16. “I know for a fact that you’re not “fine”.” 

17. “You’re looking at me like.. you’re disgusted. What did I do? Just tell me what I did, please!” 

18. “What happened between us?” 

19. “Nothing has changed!” “Yes it has, and you know it.”

20. “Love isn’t supposed to hurt this badly.”

21. “You said you needed space. You were 5,000 miles away for a year, and you’re still unsure. I’m starting to think that an entire universe apart wouldn’t be enough space for you.” 

22.“I remember when he/she/they used to look at me that way” 

23. “I want you to list every lie you ever told me. Then I’ll forgive you.”

24. “I don’t hate you. I hate that after all of this, you’re still trying to lie to me”

25. “I can’t keep this secret for you anymore.”

26.. “I’m sorry I’m not what you signed up for.” 

27.“Why she/her/them? It could have been anybody, and you chose to betray me with her/him/them.” 

28. “This will be the last time you lie to me.” 

29.“You never loved me, did you?” 

30. “You made me miserable and I still loved you.” 

31. “Everytime something goes well, I momentarily forget how much I despise you.”

32. “We’re never going to have a happy ending, just remember that.” 

33. “Don’t pretend like you’re not happy to see me like this.” 

34. “Your mind must be a horrible place.” 

35. “Hand me the gun and I’ll kill him myself.” 

36. “And I thought you loved me.” “ And I thought I loved you.” 

37. “ Aren’t you even going to cry?”

38. “I didn’t expect you to wait forever. I just hoped…”

39. “Did you always know that you were going to leave?” 

40.“If you cry, I’ll stay, and if I stay that will just give you another reason to hate me.”

41. “I’m addicted and at this point I don’t think anything could make me stop.” 

42. ”If you wanna know, then ask.” 

43.“You never asked because you knew I wouldn’t tell you what you wanted to hear.” 

44. “We grew apart, and at this point I’m glad.”

45. “Find somebody else to kiss your ass.”

46. “When are you going to stop clawing for something that’s never going to happen?” 

47. “What you’re doing is going to kill you one day.” 

48. “It was easier to believe that the you I knew was dead than deal with the fact that I still have to see you every day.” 

49. “What you’re doing is going to kill you one day.” 

50. “Why do you have tO BE SUCH A HYPOCRITE ALL THE TIME” (this is my prompt bc the numbers were being weird)

Fluff

 51. “You’re hair is really soft after you wash it.” 

52. “Ssh. Stop fussing. I’m just braiding your hair.” 

53. “You smell really nice.” 54. “Would it be all right if I borrowed your sweater? It smells like you.” 

55. “I might have slept with your robe when you were gone.” 

56. “If you steal the blankets, I am going to put my cold feet on you.” 

57. “Here, let’s share the blanket.”

 58. “You’re comfy.” 

59.“You are very endearing when you are half-asleep.” 

60.“But I want to hear you sing.” 

61.“Don’t get up - I’ll do it.”

 62.“Care to give me a back scratch?”

 63.“I think I love you.”

 64.“Your bed head is really cute.”

 65.“How about a kiss?” 

66.“You made this for me?”

 67.Aw, you’re blushing.” 

68. Uh oh, I know that look. What do you want?” 

69. “Let me help you with that.” 

70. “I don’t want to forget this moment.” 

71.“Are you really flirting with me right now?” 

72.“I like the way your hand fits in mine.”

 73.“You have something in your hair, umm… Do you want me to get it out?” 

74.“It’s nice that your voice was the first thing I heard today.” 

75.“This movie is really scary, but you’re into it so I’m trying not to cover my face the whole time, but- WHAT IS THAT?” 

76.“Wait, don’t pull away… Not yet.” 

77.“Half the time I get too embarrassed to say anything” 

78.“No, it’s fine.  I can wait until you’re done talking to them.” 

79.“No, like…. It’s just, I can’t believe you’re actually wearing my clothes.” 

80.“You’re a big piece of inspiration for this, honestly.”

 81.“I’ve been trying to get ready for like an hour and a half, because I know you’re going to look so good and I need to try and match up.”

 82.“I wanted to say “I love you” for the first time without stuttering, but that failed.” 

83.“My friends get so annoyed by how much I talk about how sometimes.” 

84.“No, mom, don’t tell him/her I said that about him/her!” 

85.“I can’t get over how a few months ago I wanted to learn your name and now you’re having breakfast with me in my sweater.” 

86.“ You are so beautiful — So fucking beautiful. “

 87.“And just WHERE do you think you’re putting your hands?” 

88.“Wow, you look even better in the daylight.” 

89.“I don’t remember ever having this many hickeys. But I don’t mind.”

 90.“We could order pizza and just stay like this all day.”

 91.“It was always you.” 

92.I love you in every possible way.” 

93.“I didn’t mean to love you so much.”

 94.“Don’t you hurt a single hair on his/her/their head.” 

95.“Duck, you idiot!” 

96.“Hey. Pal. I’ve got a wand and I’m not afraid to use it.” 

97.“Shh, you’re safe. I won’t let you go.” 

98.“It’s not a double date. We’re just third and fourth wheeling.”

 99.“Look, I know we don’t know each other that well, but I’m still worried about you. No one deserves to be alone.”

 100.“I remember practicing how to ask you out in the mirror..” 

Sarcasm 

 101.“Define normal.” 

 102.“Do I get bonus points if I act like I care?”

 103.“Just remember if we get caught, you’re deaf and I don’t speak English.”

 104.“Don’t look for any redeeming qualities. I don’t have any.” 

 105.“It’s amazing how fast the world can go from bad to total shit storm.” 

106.“I love you. You enormously stubborn pain in the ass.”

 107.“And you wonder why you’re still single.” 

108.“Remind me to kill you. Please.” 

 109.“That’s a little melodramatic, don’t you think?”

 110.“She’s crazy. And just when you think you’ve reached the bottom of her craziness, there’s a crazy underground garage.” 

 111.“She may seem like lollipops and rainbows but I bet behind close doors she’s latex and whips.” 

112.“If my day gets any worse, I’m asking hell if they’re having an exchange program.”

 113.“Sorry. I don’t speak skank.” 

 114.“My middle finger salutes you.”

115.“I don’t have enough middle fingers to let you know how I feel.”

 116.Somebody’s cranky.” “Somebody needs to shut up.” 

 117.“Oh darling. Go buy a brain.”

 118.“Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

 119.“All due respect, but that’s a bunch of crap.”

 120.“I am one of the few people in the world who can murder you and leave no forensic evidence behind.” 

121.“Excuse me. I have to go make a scene.”

 122.“What did I tell you about calling her/him the devil?” “That it’s offensive to the devil?”

 123.“I heard that!” “You were supposed to!” 

124.“I need therapy after this.” 

 125.“You didn’t get in trouble for lying. You got in trouble for lying badly.” 

 126.“I turned out liking you a lot more that I originally planned.” 

 127.“I think you’re weird.” “I think you’re boring.” 

 128.“I’m afraid I’ve been thinking…” “A dangerous pastime.” 

129.“Wow, there’s a big surprise. I think I’m going to have a heart attack and die from surprise.” 

130.“I’m gonna hit you so hard, it’ll make you ancestors dizzy.” 

 131.“Sarcasm is the body’s natural reaction to stupidity.” 

 132.“Well, excuse me, psychic wonder!” 

 133.“Don’t look in her eyes, she might steal your soul.” 

 134.“She’s hot, but she’s evil.” 

 135.“Do I regret it? Yes. Would I do it again? Probably.”

 136.“I already know that I’m going to hell. At this point it’s really go big or go home.”

 137.“I’m not a damsel in distress. I’m a damsel doing damage.” 

 138.“So stick that in your juice box and suck it.

” 139.“Never take life seriously. No one ever comes out alive anyway.”

 140.“Sometimes I question my sanity. Occasionally it replies.” 

141.“Why should we date?” “Because we are attracted to each other.” “I am attracted to pie, but I do not feel the need to date pie.” 

 142.“Neither one us is drunk enough for this conversation.” 

 143.“You’re questioning my methods.” “I’m not questioning it, I’m saying it’s stupid.” 

 144.“Wow, somebody needs a Happy Meal.” 

 145.“I didn’t do it!” “Then why are you laughing?” “Because whoever did it is a freaking genius.” 

 146.“Idiots. I’m surrounded by idiots.”

 147.“You couldn’t handle me even if I came with instructions.

 148.“Obviously you have mistaken me for somebody who gives a shit.”

 149.“Rule number one: don’t bother sucking up. I already hate you, that’s not going to change.” 

 150.“You make no sense to me.” “Welcome to my life.” 

 Drama

 151.“Can you stop thinking about yourself for once?” 

152.“Can you stop thinking about yourself for once?” 

 153.“Don’t think I forgot about what you did last time.”

 154.“I know you lied to me.” 

155.“I’m not even sorry.” 

156.“You backstabber!” 

 157.“I never want to see you again.”

 158.“You never mattered to me.” 

159.“I knew this was a bad idea.” 

160.“Rot in hell.” 

161.“It was supposed to be a secret!” 1

62.“No one loves me.” 

 163.“He/she/they is/are so petty…” 

164.“You made me cry.” 

 165.“I don’t know who you are anymore.” 

166.“How DARE you?!”

 167.“I know you’re not talking to me…” 

168.“I SAW you with him/her/them!” 

169.“Just leave me alone.” 

170.“What did you do?!” 

171.“I told everyone that I didn’t want to talk but I’m actually dying for attention.”

 172. “Just admit that was extra…”

 173.“I forgive, but I don’t forget.” 

174.“Did you see what he/she/they was/were wearing?”

 175.“So what if I had sex with your ex?” 

176.“There’s something I have to tell you…” 

177.“I can’t do this anymore.” 

178.“You weren’t there for me when I needed you the most.” 

179.“I never loved you.” 

180.“It’s too late.” 

181.“Quit ignoring me.” 

182. “Don’t you get it? It’s because I love you!” 

183.“I love you. I’m sorry.”

 184.“I don’t want to be friends.” 

185.“Can we please pretend I never said that?” 

186.“Friendzoned again.”

187.“You should’ve loved me when you had the chance.” 

188.“Fuck you for toying with my emotions like that.” 

189.“I was there for you when no one else was!” 

190.“Alright – I can tell a ‘no’ when I hear it.” 

191.“I’m sorry I acted so creepy.” 

192.“Fuck. It’s like what they say – nice guys finish last…” 

193.“I’m tired of keeping this secret. Even if you don’t love me back.” 

194. “I knew that’d be your answer. That’s why I never told you before.” 

195.“When I said I loved you, I meant it.” 

196.“Is there any part of you, deep down, that might love me back?” 

197.“You were the one that left all those notes for me?” 

198.“You’re in a relationship with another person – you know this can’t end well.” 199.“We agreed this was just physical!”

 200.“I love you. I know you don’t love me, so don’t say it back.” 

Characters/people i write for 

Marvel

Steve rogers 

Clint Barton

Scott Lang

Tony Stark

Sam Wilson 

Thor Odinson 

Loki Laufeyson 

Bucky Barnes 

Peter Quill

Peter Parker

Pietro Maximoff

Bruce Banner 

Stucky (ship)

Criminal Minds

Spencer Reid

Derek Morgan

Aaron Hotchner 

Greys Anatomy 

Alex Karev

Mark Sloan 

Andrew Deluca 

Actors

Matthew Gray Gubler

Chris Evans 

Tom Holland 

Tom Hiddleston 

Johnny Depp 

Jensen Ackles

Sebastian Stan 

Daveed Diggs

Colin O’Donoughue 

Once Upon A Time

Killian Jones 

Jefferson 

Harry Potter

Fred Weasley 

Sirius Black 

Remus Lupin 

Draco Malfoy 

James Potter

 wolfstar (ship)

Miscellaneous

Steven Hyde (That 70s Show) 

Jack Sparrow (Pirates Of The Caribbean)

Dean Winchester (Supernatural) 

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🌸Prompt List🌸

1.“Pull over. Let me drive for a while.“ 

2.”It reminded me of you.” 

3.”No, no, it’s my treat.” 

4.”Come here. Let me fix it.” 

5.”I’ll walk you home.” 

6.”Have a good day at work.” 

7.”I dreamt about you last night.” 

8.”Take my seat.” 

9.”I saved a piece for you.” 

10.”Take my jacket, it’s cold outside.” 

11.”Can I have this dance?” 

12.”I made your favorite.” 

13.”It’s okay I couldn’t sleep anyway.” 

14.”Watch your step.” 

15.”Here drink this. You’ll feel better.” 

16.”Can I hold your hand?” 

17.”You can borrow mine.” 

18.”You might like this.” 

19.”It’s not heavy. I’m stronger than I look.” 

20.”Try some.” 

21.”Drive safely.” 

22.”Well, what do you want to do?” 

23.”One more chapter.” 

24.”Don’t worry about me.” 

25.”It looks good on you.” 

26.”Close your eyes and hold out your hands.” 

27.”That’s okay. I bought two.” 

28.”After you.” 

29.”We’ll figure it out.” 

30.”Can I kiss you?” 

31.”It’s three in the morning.” 

32.”Why are you helping me?” 

33.”Just trust me.” 

34.”I’ve been waiting a long time.” 

35.”You’re in love with her.” 

36.”Come here.” 

37.”What are you thinking about?” 

38.”You’re never going to let that go, are you?” 

39.”I’ve missed this.” 

40.”Sometimes, being a complete nerd comes in handy.” 

41.”You’re trembling.” 

42.”Don’t say a word, just dance with me.” 

43.”I promise you: Your head is the only thing spinning right now.” 

44.”Hey, hey, hey, I’ve got you. I’ve got you.” 

45.”Can you two stop embarrassing me?” 

46.”I just wanted to hear your voice.” 

47.”I’m not taking you to the hospital just because you stubbed your toe.” 

48.”If you won’t do it, I will.” 

49.”Your hair is so soft.” 

50.”It’s to cold. Come back.” 

51.”No, I’m not letting you go. It’s too early to get out of bed.” 

52.”Come here. You can sit in my lap until I’m done working.” 

53.”I’m not going to stop poking you until you give me some attention.” 

54.”No no- it’s alright, come here.” 

55.”You need rest.” 

56.”You should be in bed.” 

57.”You look terrible.” 

 58.”Are you sure you’re okay?” 

59.”How are you feeling?” 

60.”Let me help you.” 

61.”I swear that will be funny.” 

62.”I didn’t get much sleep last night.” 

63.”It’s just a cold.” 

64.”Let me take a look at you.” 

65.”You mess with her/him you mess with me.” 

66.”That’s it, you’re staying here until I can get this sorted.” 

67.”I don’t want to sleep alone tonight.” 

68.”I love you, you know that right.” 

69.”Cuddle me you weirdo.” 

70.”I’m pregnant.” 

71.”You’re part of the family now, don’t ever think you’re not.” 

72.”You belong to me.” 

73.”You’re mine.” 

74.”You’re being too friendly with them.” 

75.”I can’t stand how there looking at you.” 

76.”You’d be a great dad.” 

77.”You’d be a great mom.” 

78.”I want to protect you.” 

79.”Did you do something different with your hair?” 

80.”You’re so beautiful.” 

81.”Stop being so cute.” 

82.”They’re going to love you, don’t worry!” 

83.”Are you jealous?” 

84.”Let’s run away together.” 

85.”I’m not leaving until you tell me what’s wrong, and don’t try lying to me.” 

86.”Will you marry me?” 

87.”I wish we could stay like this forever.” 

88.”I need a hug.” 

89.”You’re special to me.” 

90.”Let’s have a baby.” 

91.”Is that my shirt?” 

92.”Go back to bed before you hurt yourself.” 

93.”You do realize we’re locked in, right?” 

94.”You’re safe now. I’ve got you.” 

95.”You don’t know how long I’ve waited for this.” 

96.”You think you’re getting out of this that easily?” 

97.”You can’t be serious.” 

98.”I’m just pregnant you don’t have to treat me like glass.” 

99.”I’m sorry for your loss.” 

100.”I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to.” 

101.”Can you please come and get me?” 

102.”I’m at the hospital.” 

103.”Hey, don’t do that you’ll hurt yourself.” 

104.”How long has it been since you’ve sleept?” 

105.”You’re burning up.” 

106.”No, don’t cry, I hate it when you cry.” 

107.”Because nobody cares about me!” 

108.”Because I care about you!” 

109.”You look sad.” 

110.”Please, don’t leave me alone.” 

111.”Oh god, you’re bleeding.” 

112.”I heard you scream. Nightmares again?” 

113.”Hey, just look at me. Breathe.” 

114.”You need to eat something.” 

115.”Stop telling me you’re okay.” 

116.”I don’t know where I am. Help me.” 

117.”I could use a hug.” 

118.”Why didn’t you tell me?” 

119.”Don’t touch me!” 

120.”You told me that you were okay! You promised!” 

121.”How long have you been covering this?!” 

122:”Who did this to you?” 

123.”(y/n), this is serious!” 

124.”Cut the crap and tell me what happened.” 

125.”You’ve been trying to deal with this yourself?” 

126.”You idiot!” 

127.”Why did you lie to me?” 

128.”We could have prevented this!” 

129.”If you didn’t want to be a burden, you should have gotten it treated right!” 

130.”You didn’t think it was that bad? Are you looking at it?!” 

131.”You are not fine!” 

132.”I should have told you a long time ago.” 

133.”You have to leave right now!” 

134.”I thought you were dead.” 

135.”I can explain.” 

136.”Love is overrated.” 

137.”I don’t believe you.” 

138.”I want an answer goddamn it!” 

139.”Kill me now, because I’m done saving myself.” 

140.”Stay. I need you more than you think.” 

141.”And suddenly we were strangers again.” 

142.”Nobody wants me. Not even myself.” 

143.”That does not sound healthy.” 

144.”I don’t know. I’ve never seen [Character] like this before.” 

145.”Stop following me like a lost puppy!” 

146.”They’re going to kill you when they find you.” 

147.”Why have you been so secretive lately?” 

148.”I’m dying.” 

149.”Don’t push me away anymore.” 

150.”Shh, you’re safe. I won’t let you go.” 

151.”I think I’m in love with you and I’m terrified.” 

152.”I’m not going to leave you. You’re never going to have to suffer by yourself again, I promise.” 

153.”You can hardly breathe.” 

154.”You need a doctor.” 

155.”You look like you’re about to fall over.” 

156.”You’re so pale.” 

157.”I’m coming to get you, stay there.” 

158.”You’re hurting me!” 

159.”Can you please stop?” 

160.”Why did you come back?” 

161.”Help.” 

162.”You didn’t call. You didn’t text. Nothing.” 

163.”I can’t stand the thought of loosing you.” 

164.”I want you, right here, right now.” 

165.”I know you want me just as much as I want you.” 

166.”We didn’t even get to use the toys last night.” 

167.”Say the words and I’m yours.” 

168.”I had no idea you were into that stuff…I’m glad I found out.” 

169.”My clothes look better on you than they do on me.” 

170.”Close the door.” 

171.”We have to be quiet.” 

172.”Don’t pretend like you’re asleep. Should I find a way to wake you up?” 

173.”I don’t remember ever having this many hickeys, but I don’t mind” 

174.”Behave” 

175.”What? Does that feel good?” 

176.”Don’t Kink shame me!” 

177.”If you can’t sleep…then how about we have sex?” 

178.”Really? Here?” 

179.”Feel like another round?” 

180.”I’m feeling generous so I’ll let you pick which instrument you get punished with tonight.” 

181.”What did you just say?” 

182.”You know it’s rude not to look someone in the eye when they’re speaking to you.” 

183.”Where’s your underwear?” 

184.”Mmh, what a pretty sight.” 

185.”Mind if I have a taste?” 

186.”We could get caught!” 

187.”…or we just get naked.” 

188.”I’m still sore from last night.” 

189.”No panties, babygirl?” 

190.”All I can think about is ripping that dress off of you.” 

191.”Don’t hide from me, I want to see you.” 

192.”Always so fucking tight for me.” 

193.” Look at what you did to me. I’ve had to deal with this all day.” 

194.”I’ll be gentle, promise.” 

195.”Just relax.” 

196.”Sorry I’m late.” 

197.”I’ll wait.” 

198.”Look both ways.” 

199.”Hold my hand you’re going to be fine.” 

200.”It’s really not that complicated.” 

201.”We could get arrested for this.” 

202.”Was that supposed to hurt.” 

203.”Watch me.” 

204.”I don’t own you an explanation.” 

205.”You have no idea who I am, do you?” 

206.”I don’t need to be able to stand. I just need to be able to shoot.” 

207.”I can sleep when I’m dead.” 

208.”This? This is just a scratch. I’ve had worse from my sisters’ kitten. Don’t worry.” 

209.”I’ll get you home safe if it’s the last thing I do.” 

210.”I’m gonna regret asking, but uh…why are you so good at giving yourself stitches?” 

211.”This is illegal?” 

212.”Your tutor is pretty hot.” 

213.”How come you’re the only one who can see me?” 

214.”Did we sleep together?” 

215.”I can’t remember anything.” 

216.”Just pretend to be my date.” 

217.”Am I supposed to be scared now?” 

218.”You have her/his eyes.” 

219.”I feel strange.” 

220.”I’m not a thief. I’m just really good at acquiring things that aren’t mine.” 

221.”They say they were trying to protect me.” 

222.”You don’t seem to realize…I’ll get you in the end.”