#some i didnt add bc of space are like

[poempaw]

specify which and bonus points if you say why!

[simplydnp]

can you plz explain the iceland theory and how it originated

i'll do my best! (and @goldenpinof might have to fill in some blanks for me)

the driving theory is iceland wedding (which, all of our best theories are wedding theories aren't they)

the last show for WAD was supposed to be in iceland, and pj, sophie, and phil were all supposed to be there. they were also planning on spending some time there after the show 'exploring'.

dan was very, very disappointed about the cancelation of that show in particular. based off of his communication at the time, it 1 didn't seem like his idea to cancel it, and 2 came across like he found out when we did.

being that the plan was to be the 4 of them, and that dan vowed he would be there some day... it just seemed Very important.

[bisexualdinahlance]

That post that's like, talking about a real phenomena in fandom spaces but then ends with a screenshot of someone saying that fandom got bad when "normies" got into fandom during COVID lockdown has been driving me nuts. Why are so many people reblogging it. Like yes there are things that used to be more common in fandom I miss but almost every post like this is just blatantly ahistorical to make fandom seem like some magical safe haven that outsiders are invading. I wish I could form more coherent thoughts on this but jfc the weird superiority some fandom folks have over non fandom folks is baffling

[3416]

okay. SO! i’m not a veteran hockey fan i’m a relative rookie (haha) and i would very much appreciate your expertise… i feel like bertuzzi is a good player?? i know he doesn’t have any goals but the way he plays and seemingly gives it his all is crazy impressive and i thought he was really good with mitch and auston? but he’s no longer with them in the starting line and so i’m wondering am i missing something or is this a keefe thing or maybe both… also i don’t like reaves how do you feel about him im so sorry for unloading all of this I JUST LOVE YOUR OPINIONS ON THE LEAFS!!!

JFLKDSJKLF I'M AFRAID I WOULDN'T CALL MYSELF A VETERAN EITHER, LOL, but i do appreciate that people want to hear my opinions, though they're evolving as i learn more and more. but THANK YOU FOR ASKING MY OPINION, I LOVE TALKING, LET'S GO. SORRY FOR THE LONG POST.

bertuzzi basically became a big name at the trade deadline last year as one of the most viable guys being moved around bc teams were trying to bulk up for the playoffs. he was traded to the bruins where it took him a bit of time to warm up tbh.. he played 21 regular season games with them and only scored 4 goals 12 assists, but then scored 5 goals 5 assists in their 7 playoff games before elimination... that made him a really big target during free agency this summer bc he kinda popped off under the most pressure w the playoffs, and the leafs were basically looking to acquire forwards who can do that and bring "grit". now personally..... i don't think watching 1 round of playoff performance is like the wisest decision when he's actually a VERY injury prone player.. like he's good when he's healthy but that's not smth you can predict. but i was also kind of fine with it bc we do need left wingers on this team and it's only a one year deal. at this point i'm feeling very ????? about him because... like the underlying numbers aren't horrible but he's just not finishing. he DOES have 2 goals and 1 assist so far, but plays aren't really like... being completed it feels like when he's out there. keefe's obviously not happy with him after demoting him to 4th line last night and saying he wasn't listening to the way he needed to simplify his game, and idk anything in depth abt the leafs setup or systems or technicalities to their game specifically so. IDK.... i don't know if it's just gonna take him some time to warm up here like it did in boston? or if he's being deliberately ornery/doesn't like it here like boston fans were implying yesterday lol (i doubt it... lol he wants good stats jsut as much as anyone going into ANOTHER contract year lmfao...). there's just no way to know... idk a lot about him personally besides the anti-vax stuff but i've mostly just been... kinda unimpressed with him both on the ice and off it. i don't think he's doomed, i think we just need more time to see.

reaves... i'm gonna be honest and say i have NO clue why he was a target for us or treliving this summer, lol. there is so much discussion about bringing an intangible 'toughness' to this team despite us bringing in some mean players like simmonds and muzzin in the past ... tried it last year at the trade deadline under dubas too with schenn and ror... didn't REALLY work.. and i'm like ? why did we think it was a good idea to overpay and overcommit to a player like reaves who does nothing but offer fights on the ice and good vibes off it. like treliving hadn't been around the leafs long enough to know what they needed in the ~room~, although he did know they lost guys like holl and kerfoot who were universally liked as people so??? maybe that's what he was trying to fill?? i like ryan a lot as a person, but i do think he's actually doomed from a hockey player/stats perspective like.. we will not be getting anything more out of him as a player, and frankly after yesterday where he didn't really fight or get pushy with anyone after the marchand thing... and hasn't since the second game... i'm not sure we'll get the fighting aspect much either.

[phagodyke]

i keep getting irrationally miffed at ppl 😐😐

[koushirouizumi]

{YU-GI-OH!} Duel Monsters Type: AMV ~ Yuugi & {Ace-implied!}Yami {Atem*} (*This AMV mainly contains 'Yami''s form) [Reading in Aro-Ace or Aro-Acespec!Yami is also Fine] {Just please respect my own headcanons too!} Title: "Taking Over Me"

Summary: "You saw me M o u r n i n g my {xxxx} for YOU, and T O U C H E D MY H A N D..."

"...Just to F I N D Y O U--"

Music © E.v.a.n.e.s.e.n.c.e/Amy Lee

Spoiler Info: -Leads up to End of Anime-only “DOMA” Arc's Yuugi & Yami Duel {Anime-Only sequences; not included in original manga} -{Mainly} D.M. Only Eps -A single clip from the original 1st series by Toei opens it, but nothing else from it is included.

*Any Lip-sync'ng was unintentional {+Any similar Might be removed in any future Remake}

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[roseboysstuff]

tis' me again, the one and only anon who req the shiro fic 😎 anyways could u write another shiro x ftm reader making out passionately but shiro forgot to put protection bc hes sooooo into it.

Then timeskip to where reader gets preg and Shiro was SUPER DUPER guilty bc he didnt want to add more responsibility to reader bc yknow abt the galra and paladin war stuff... again, u can do this req anytime!! hava good day/night

(i should put a name for myself so i shall b named 🌹 anon!)

OOoooo me likey Shiro is so fun to write

Also I added a cut at the timeskip coz this got long hehe

CW // mentions of vomit, ftm pregnancy

You and Shiro spend many a nights like this. Liplocked, unable to let go of each other. He loved you, you loved him, and there was nothing anyone could do to tear you away from each other.

He loved touching you, everywhere. Your hips, your waist, your thighs. Everywhere that he could touch, he would touch. Mostly because he loved how you felt under his hands. Soft and yielding to his touch, and gods, the noises you made when he squeezed the sensitive parts of your body. How he could reach a hand up to cup the back of your neck, pulling you either further into him. Tangling his fingers gently in your hair to make sure you couldn't escape.

Not that you wanted to. It was your favourite thing. To just be sat on his lap while he made you feel so loved, so wanted, so his.

"Can I, baby boy? I want to... want to make love to you." he would ask, half-pleading, half-tender. And for you, saying no would be denying not only his desires, but yours. You wanted him so badly. So both of your pants were discarded, underwear thrown onto the floor as he lowered you to lie on your back on the couch. Seeing you under him, knowing you were all his, ready for him to make you feel so good. Yeah, it's too much for him.

He would line up his cock with your entrance, smirking at how wet you already were. He's a little smug, but he just loves knowing you want him just as badly as he wants you.

Neither of you remembered protection, but it didn't occur to your lust-addled brains to find a condom. He was focusing on how wet and tight you were, the exquisite clench of your boycunt on his cock, how easily he could just slide in and out, how beautifully you were taking him. And you, you were focusing on how he was stretching you out, the ridges and veins sliding against the walls of your cunt.

It was only when you felt his seed spilling into your deepest parts, that you remembered. But you didn't panic much. It was one time, and you weren't ovulating. No need to worry about getting pregnant... right?

Timeskip ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Well now, 4 weeks later, you were bent over a toilet, vomiting your guts up, painful acid and bile forcing it's way up from your stomach.

After emptying your stomach, you assumed you'd caught a bug. But that made no sense, you'd been in space with Shiro and everyone else for months, and no one else had caught anything. Then your gaze fell on the pregnancy tests in the cupboard.

There's no way. Surely.

A few minutes, some peeing on a stick, and a panic attack later, you were sat on the toilet lid, staring at the positive pregnancy test. Part of you was happy, as you had always known that Shiro would be the father of your kids if you had any. But would he be happy with this? Only one way to find out.

Ever the carer, he noticed the tension in your muscles as soon as you walked into his room. But he froze as he looked at what you were showing him. A pregnancy test. Positive.

A baby. His baby. You were pregnant with his baby.

"Oh... baby boy... I'm so sorry. This is all my fault. I should have remembered to wear a condom. You don't need this, you're busy and you're saving us all. You're so amazing, gosh... have I ruined your future?" His words came out all at once, and you had to hug him, to stop him from talking. Blaming him wasn't even on your mind.

"I'm not blaming you, Shiro. I thought you'd be mad at me. I'm more than happy to have and raise this baby... if you want that too?"

His smile was radiant after that, as he just scooped you up in his arms and kissed your face all over.

"Yes! Oh, my little prince, my handsome boy! We can raise this baby if you want, together. Our little family. I'm so glad, I've wanted a baby with you, so badly. I was willing to wait for as long as you needed, but to know you want this too... I'm overjoyed."

Hugs and kisses were given to each other that night, talking about baby names, how to tell the rest of your friends, the logistics of pregnancy and childbirth in space. But mostly, reassurances of love and care.

[saiintvalentiine]

Summary: In the aftermath of the 100 days in the End Barrens, Wato can't help but want Wifies's company. It's a double edged sword.

Notes: spoilers for wato's 100 days in the hardest minecraft biome!!!!!!! anyway. huh. wuh. i feel like i wrote this possessed. this is a rough and quick fic, using my partial voidwalker clonefies headcanon bc uhhhhh teehee it'd be funny???? definitely not a perfect work and i didnt explore everything id have liked to but i think it's fun. enjoy! divider

Wordcount: 3,165

Wato doesn’t usually spend all their time with others. Not that they’re antisocial, just that escape room planning and building can become an all encompassing set of tasks that pull them away from talking to people. It's involving, fulfilling, and sometimes a quiet, singular endeavor.

But Wifies is here.

He's been here all day, even, filling up Wato’s space, though he does so quietly. He sits across from them on the other side of their desk, writing notes over the plan for one of the rooms Wato is working on. He breathes evenly, though his breath hitches with frustration when things don't add up on paper, and he writes with an easy rhythm that Wato can just about tune out when they focus. He's wearing a black and white sweater, and his headband glints silver in the light, and he's real, and he's here, and he's been here all day because Wato asked, and he's never said no to them.

Wifies glances up. His eyes are a deep, dark violet that makes Wato's skin crawl. Their ears pin back before flicking back into place. He looks back down to his blueprints without comment.

He's so good to them. Wato knows that they've been staring a lot. Wifies takes it in stride, had laughed awkwardly at first before accepting that this was just how Wato was today.

“Is it turning out well?” Wato asks. The silence is getting to them.

“It is, just a couple things that I wish would work better,” he says with a sigh, tapping his pencil on the page. “Like here. I know that it's impossible, but I wish there was a way to guarantee a player left their wool behind, because carpets would be basically an ace for the next room. They'd barely have to puzzle solve if they have carpet.”

Wifies's voice has a kind of consistency that unnerved Wato once upon a time. It reminded them too much of the factory for a while. Now, it's the most comforting thing in the world, the perceived consistency actually crackling with emotion and variance, always soothing and never raised. Wifies is talking and Wato is listening. It's good.

“— and that's all I can think of doing right now, but adding a skulk sensor is kinda a whole different can of worms isn't it?”

Wifies rests his head on his fist, looking at his blueprints like they personally offended him.

“Maybe it's time for a break then. Tea?”

Wifies perks up and Wato laughs. Wato likes tea fine, though they really drink more coffee than anything, but they keep some of the good stuff around just for Wifies. They make their way out of Wato's office and Wifies is behind and his footsteps are muffled, despite Wato’s exceptional hearing. Wato keeps looking over their shoulder at him. He's there, of course, slightly shorter than Wato and not nearly as sleep deprived.

“Hi,” Wifies says as he catches Wato's eye, a little awkward, mostly sincere.

“Hi,” Wato says back. “I have a new tin of rosehip tea.”

Wifies makes a pleased sound, happy and high, though high for him is still pretty low. He loves his teas. Wato doesn't get rosehip, the flavor a bit bland and unlikable to them, but Wifies likes it well enough.

“Rosehip with jasmine is good, they give each other extra flavor and body,” Wifies says, reading Wato's mind as usual.

The kitchen is a small, tight, highly decorated space. Wifies navigates it effortlessly, just as easily as Wato can navigate his kitchen. They're intertwined like that. Easily, effortlessly. Wato measures out coffee grounds, sets his coffee machine up, loses track of Wifies in the noise of the kitchen.

“Wato, can you—”

Darkness, violet, the staticky scent of void and its magicks— Wato jumps, knocking over the sugar container in one fell swoop.

“Fuck,” they say eloquently.

“Sorry! I didn't mean to scare you, let me help.”

Wifies cleans up the sugar on the counter, rights the container, and refills it, all while Wato breathes through their initial panic. It was just— they know, they know they're home, they know the End Barrens are long gone, server deleted off the face of the universe, but for a moment, Wifies was just—

“Sorry,” Wifies says again quietly. “I noticed you were jumpy, I should've been more careful not to scare you.”

“No, it's— you're fine. It's fine.”

Wato shakes it off, or at least tries to. Wifies is looking at them the way he always does when he isn't sure what he's done wrong but knows for a fact something’s gone awry. He's surprisingly expressive when he wants to be, eyes round and warm and violet. God. Wato suppresses a flinch, tail lowering.

“Sorry,” Wifies says again.

Wato feels bad. They pat the top of Wifies's head (touch is like an ache, in a way, it's been so long since they've really been skin to skin with anyone, but Wifies's hand touched theirs as they exchanged blueprints and it almost hurt, so deprived of it that it's presence becomes painful) and revel in the springiness of his curls.

“I didn't mean to react so harshly, sorry.”

They finish making their tea and coffee in a spiderweb of thin silence. Wifies stays in their line of sight, leading on the trip back to the office and holding the door open. Wato appreciates it. They work until the sun sets and the daylight sensors activate the redstone lamps in Wato's ceiling.

“I should get going,” Wifies says, which Wato hates to hear. “I need to edit some footage, see if I can get some work done. But, uh, I'll be back tomorrow?”

The way his voice lilts is soft, hesitant. Wato would prefer to not be away from him at all. How could they even explain it? Hey, I was so lonely I imagined you, and now I can't stop myself from wanting your presence to know that you're real and I'm free. And also I missed you. Also your voidwalker traits set me off. Wato hasn't even told him anything about the challenge! Wifies didn't ask. Wato had messaged him, please help me with blueprints?, and Wifies had come with a single minded determination to do so.

Wato thinks maybe that's why it was Wifies and not anyone else. Wifies is kind, thoughtful, always holding his hand out for someone to take. He helps. Even back in the factory, the little Wato remembers of it, the clones were meek things that always wanted to know what Wato was doing, if they could help. Wato could never respond, the mask uninterested in such mindless puppets, but they remember the feeling of it.

It always felt good. Felt like being seen.

“Uh, sure, yeah,” Wato drums their fingers on the desk. “Yeah, bright and early. Or whenever you can I guess. I would— I'd really appreciate it.”

“Of course. Bright and early.”

Wifies smiles. He still leaves, and it still sets Wato’s stomach rolling, but Wato spent most of a hundred days alone, and one more day won't kill them. It won't. The isolation had tried and failed.

At least they can sleep here. Their petal pink bed has never been so enticing a sight. They keep the lights on in their room these days, daylight sensors connected to every room through newly opened redstone channels in the roof and walls. The dark is— it's not good, uncomfortable, they don't want to say the word that comes to mind at first.

Wato pops blocks into a jukebox. It's the longest disc they have and it fills the room with whimsy as they lay in bed and try to sleep. It's kind of hard, sleeping with noise and light, but it's more comforting than it is difficult.

They don't dream.

Wato couldn't be any more grateful for that as dawn cracks the sky open and the redstone lamps shut off. They’re sure that the morning will pass like a blur until Wifies arrives, routine deeper than bone taking over, but there’s a knock at the door as they’re eating. When Wato opens it, it’s Wifies. The morning light makes him golden, but only just; he’s so pale and dark that gold doesn’t work right on him.

“Bright and early,” Wifies says after a beat of silence.

“You took that so literally,” Wato says, opening the door wider and waving Wifies in.

Wifies walks in and he jingles. It’s the strangest thing. Wato looks down and sees a glint of silver on his boots. Wifies notices of course, and he kicks up a heel. Hanging off the loop at the back of his boot is a silver hoop decorated with a colorful feather charm that rattles against the hoop every time he moves.

“Parrot got them for me,” Wifies says, lifting up his pant leg so it’s more visible. “They come in pairs, but I took the other one off and put a different charm on it.”

He shows off the other boot, and Wato sees that the hoop has a black and white yin-yang charm instead.

“You’re so predictable,” Wato says with a snort, closing the door behind them.

“I like having a brand.”

“Yeah yeah, c’mon.”

The irregular weight of each charm makes them reasonably noisy as Wifies walks, makes it easy for Wato to keep track of him with a flicked ear, and they don’t want to ask why he’s suddenly started wearing them.

Their day goes the same as yesterday— time spent at Wato’s desk, scratching through blueprints and discussing different solutions. Soon it’d reach the point where they’d have to start building to fully work out any kinks and get it running.

“You think Ken is gonna break it?” Wifies asks at one point. He’s chewing on the end of his pen— his pen, because Wato banned him from using their pens after he popped one with his teeth a few months ago— and he’s not looking at Wato.

He knows he’s done something wrong. Or, he thinks he knows he’s done something wrong. He’s dodgy the way a dog might be, still committing the crime but looking preemptively apologetic about it.

“Ken. . . I’m not sure if I’m gonna ask Ken to do anything for a while,” Wato says carefully. It’s not like they want to string Wifies between them like a knot. “The 100 days. . . Ken left me alone before the first quarter was even done. So I’m not really in the mood to share with them right now.”

Wifies stops chewing on his pen long enough to say, “Oh.”

“Yeah.”

Wifies doesn't continue to chew on his pen.

“So you finished 100 days by yourself?”

“I did.”

“Must’ve been hard.”

He means it too. He's not placating or trying to push the conversation, he means it, he knows what the End Barrens are like and he means it.

“It was.”

“Was there— like, what even spawned?”

“No structures or anything. Just. . . a lot of Endermen. Lots and lots of Endermen. Wandering traders, pillager patrols, that kind of thing. Um, underground there was some copper and iron too actually. They generated with blobs of granite and such.”

Wifies nods along, hums at the right times, but he's looking at the blueprints again and not at Wato.

“Must've been really, really hard. How'd you get to the Nether then?”

“Y'know how like— how wandering traders will turn invisible at night? And then in the morning they drink milk? I killed one just as they drank the milk and it dropped the bucket, and I used that to create a Nether portal. I had to haul lava over and over again to spawn, it was so tedious. And then the pillager patrols, the ominous banner they drop? I used that and some lava to light the portal.”

“And from there it was probably easier.”

Probably. The Nether had so many more resources to use. But the lava had been too lustrous and the days too long and Wato had stepped right off that cliff and ended it all.

“Yeah,” they say with a shrug. “Now I just kinda wanna focus on escape rooms again though. These are easy for me at least.”

“It's coming together real nice,” Wifies says. He's back to chewing on his pen.

“We can probably start building it tomorrow. I'm pretty sure we're almost done.”

There's a cracking noise and black ink splatters all over Wifies's mouth and clothes. He curses, and Wato scrambles for some tissues, the acrid scent of ink filling the air. They hand the tissues over, and Wifies presses them to his mouth. Wato finds a trash can and comes around to dump the popped pen into it. Thankfully, the now ruined blueprint Wifies was working on is one Wato has duplicates of, so they dump it out too.

Wifies keeps the tissues to his mouth though, and Wato gets concerned.

“Let me see,” Wato insists, placing the trash can down and turning Wifies's chair so they're facing each other.

Wifies glances up, his eyes are so violet, and then back down. The black ink stains right through the tissues, looks bloody despite the fact it's too dark to be blood.

Endermen don't bleed. Wato hadn't really realized it before the 100 days began, but Endermen don't bleed. They collapse into a dry pile of crackling scales and bones and eyes before poofing out of existence. Despite that, enderpearls are always a little slick with something like blood when first picked up; it's thin, periwinkle, and so quick to evaporate that you almost never get to feel it once you pick the pearl up. Wato had plenty of time to get acquainted with it, though.

“ ‘s okay,” Wifies struggles to talk, clearly holding his mouth open under the tissues so as to not swallow ink. “I just gotta clean up.”

Wifies stands up in a single jagged jerk, and Wato has to scramble back to not get hit by him. He leaves so quickly that Wato is shocked.

“Did you get hurt?” Wato calls out after him, shuffling to the doorway to peer down the hall where Wifies presumably ran off to the bathroom.

Wato waits and waits, but Wifies doesn't respond. Maybe he's just embarrassed? Wato hesitates for a moment longer before making their way to the bathroom. The door is shut. They knock.

“Wifies?”

“I'm good!” Wifies calls out, opening the door and peeking around it. “I'm okay, sorry for scaring you. The— I think a piece of the plastic split my lip, but it's all healed now.”

He's managed to get the ink off his face, and there are wet spots on his gray sweatshirt where the ink has stained it. There's a smudge of wine colored blood left on his upper lip though. It has a blue undertone, much cooler looking than Wato's own. Another reminder of the fact Wifies was made with void.

“Looks like you missed a spot,” Wato says, and Wifies turns back to wash his mouth again.

Does the water sting? Not everything from the End is allergic to water, and Wifies isn't explicitly spliced together with Enderman genetics. The cloning process was a mix of different things— technology, genetics, magic, there was even skulk involved at one point. Each clone was, ironically, unique in how it was made, no formula working the same twice in a row. This Wifies smells like void and the pseudo-citrus of chorus fruit, sees better in the dark, breathes out plumes of frozen breath when he's upset and can't always keep eye contact when angry.

Why did Wato cling to him so strongly?

Wifies turns around again, wiping at his mouth. They lock eyes and Wifies looks away. 

“Did I get it?”

“Why won't you look at me?”

Wifies startles, eyes wide as he forces himself to stare at Wato.

“What?”

“You’re avoiding looking at me. Why?”

“I'm not.”

“I'm not— you are, Wifies.”

“I,” Wifies looks away again. “You look. . . unhappy when I look at you. So I don't want to.”

It's easy to cling to Wifies. Gentle voiced Wifies who wants to be liked more than anything, facing Wato’s unconscious ire and not saying a word. Of course it had to be Wifies, because who else would put up with any of Wato's unsure madness? Who else would avoid Wato's gaze and put— put what are basically catbells on their boots just because Wato’s scared?

And that's the word, isn't it? Scared. Wato's scared. Now that it's over, now that the walls of their prison have fallen, they're scared of going back, of being alone, of fucking Endermen ruining their shit.

But really, they're not scared of Wifies. Hugging him is easy. 

“I'm sorry,” Wato says.

Wifies clams up. He barely hugs back. Contact burns, touch feels heavy, foreign, an unknown country that Wato only remembers as a blur.

“It's okay.”

“When I was almost done with the challenge, I imagined you being there,” Wato confesses. Wifies makes a strange, clicky noise. “I showed you around the world, and you listened to me, and told me little facts, and asked me questions. I was so alone, and I had to imagine you there. I've never wanted anything more than to just see you again.”

Wifies holds onto them in earnest now, tight and warm. There's nothing truly void-cold about him; he may run cool, but it’s nothing Wato can't help with.

“I missed you. The Endermen couldn't even compare.”

“But I remind you of them,” Wifies murmurs. “Not forever, but for now, I remind you of them.”

Wato imagines Wifies pulling away. They imagine him insisting that he doesn’t want to startle Wato so much, that maybe he should leave. Wato shudders at the thought.

“Please don't leave,” Wato's voice cracks, and now Wifies is holding them as they slump further into his body. It’s such a selfish request, and they know Wifies won’t say no, but they can’t stop themself from asking anyway. “Please. I'm sorry, I know I can't be pleasant to be around right now, but please don't leave me again.”

“I won't,” Wifies says. “I won't, you don't have to be alone.”

They don't want to cry. It would be— they didn't cry in those 100 days, even when they thought there was nothing left to give but tears. But Wifies is real, and here, and he's holding them so tightly that he has to be real, and for the first time since Wato got out of that wretched, rotting house of a world, they weep openly into a shoulder that won't leave.

Wifies doesn't say much. He's not the best with these kinds of strong emotions. But he hugs Wato, and hums a tune into their ear, and lets them ruin his sweatshirt even more, and it's more than Wato has had in over a hundred days.

Wato let's themself have this. Have Wifies. It feels good to have someone stay.

[elainsgirl]

you know, im actually tired of azriel's bonus chapter being talked 24/7 like its the most major thing ever. I never seen people get worked up on a bonus chapter that didnt even happen at the end of the book! acosf is the reason why this fandom is so toxic!

Hey anon 🫶

I definitely agree. Bonuses aren’t meant to be given such significance as Azriel’s bonus is given. At this point, His bonus seems to be more important then the foreshadowing in ACOSF it self.

“The shadows were ready to strike Nesta when she insulted Elain during their fight? Doesn’t matter because In Azriel’s bonus they disappear therefore that’s the only proof I need to claim that they absolutely despise and fear her 🥸”

Its a BONUS chapter, that too it was only part of a limited special edition. Let’s be realistic for a second - if someone hadn’t posted it online for everyone to see, those of us who hadn’t brought the SE, we would not know the contents of the bonus. If someone hadn’t kept up with SJM and JUST picked up acosf after reading acotar but is unaware of any bonuses, they too would not know about what occurred in Azriel’s bonus, why? Because its information that is not required to know. Its just an EXTRA. That confirms some suspicions in SF. I can go into detail to prove the irrelevancy of the bonus but ACOSF already tells you everything you need to know for the next book. I hadn’t read Azriel’s bonus until two years ago. Before reading it - elriel, much like Nessian, were blatantly obvious. After reading it? Elriel is still endgame. The reason the bonus is so talked about is due to the fact an entire ship relies on it. Gwynriel’s do not have anything in acosf to prove their ship, its just a bunch of out of context scenes and dialogues that aren’t in any way romantic or foreshadowing. Add in the bonus and GA have something to grasp onto even though it contradicts the book and well…the bonus itself lmfao. Then you have eluciens using the bonus as some concrete proof elriel is toxic and a future abusive relationship. That Azriel is an incel who only wants Elain superficially and Elain is just a little, clueless child who walks around lying to people about what she wants.

Antis CLUTCH onto the bonus as most of their arguments and claims use it as “proof” for whatever anti elriel bs they want to spread. But their points only make sense with the bonus, not without which tells you all you need to know about how valid their arguments are.

Feysands bonus is not talked about bcs it easily disproves gwynriel/elucien. Wings and Ember is only used as a way to show how “toxic” Cassian is otherwise its kept under wraps bcs once again, it disproves antis takes. If you had something that dismissed your entire ships within a couple of lines - ofc you’d avoid it like the plague. Its only Azriels bonus that can give them some hope that their worst nightmare won’t come true. That too, the hope is given after they twist and turn the scenes to fit their narratives.

It’s so important to understand elriels bonus sorry, Azriel’s bonus happens during acosf and not after. Its not the end of the book, after the bonus - there is no change or shift in the dynamic between Gwyn and Azriel. They remain as your usual mentor/mentoree duo. Even more important to remember is in regards to Gwynriel, nothing in the bonus is mentioned. Not their session, not the “spark”, not the necklace. Absolutely nothing. Why? Because it is irrelevant. Yet we get told about Azriel’s mood being off which relates to the elriel part of the bonus directly paralleling Cassian after his bonus w Nesta. Because THAT is relevant.

YEP. The fandom was toxic pre-acosf but it’s nothing compared to now. Unless you’re surrounding yourself with content you like and want to see - you can’t just enjoy general fandom spaces anymore.

Acosf brought up:

Anti Feysand agenda

Nesta vs inner circle

critique of the IC

Pro Tamlin apologists to the point of invalidating Feyre’s trauma

The infamous ship war

Anti Nessian vs pro Nesris

Readers opinion being pushed more then Authors intent.

I hope after Elains book - the fandom goes back to being semi-toxic again and more tolerable/enjoyable then it is now.

[is-on-its-way]

My very definitely insane but perhaps accurate theory on Samuel (né William) Mulder's paternity.

(sorry but william scully doesnt have the same ring to it lalala)

okay so we know from the first ep in s6 that humanity has some latent alien DNA, and some people have that DNA activated? turned on? idk ykwim. Think gibson and that stigmata boy from air bud. My theory on mulder and scully is as follows:

Mulder has latent alien dna stronger than most people.

Scully (and her family possibly just the female members) has latent alien dna stronger than most people and also mulder.

Mulder's symptoms: he has a BA in psych from Oxford but his intuition on the causes of cases and perp motivations and [] are almost certainly due to the fact he has a connection with them, in some way mind reading adjacent. Like he gets a feeling in his stomach about what the situation is and goes with what he and scully would call intuition. there are plenty of funny as hell memes on this site about this. So it follows easily that when his DNA gets activated he is overwhelmed by everyones thoughts, Buffy Summers in Earshot style.

Scully's symptoms: she sees dead people... lol but honestly she sees her dad in season 1, she sees the dead multiple times in Elegy and it's not an omen of death bc she lived. She sees her daughter multiple times. She also sees a legit angel, and a demon or devil however you want to look at it, and I would argue an alien spirit? (old dude in amor fati) who maybe has been on earth waiting for the "chosen one" since his space ship landed in the garden of eden... (lol thats my most favorite of all my unhinged head canons)

Im gonna add the other scully's too

Maggie: she has prophetic dreams or feelings about things that are going wrong

Missy: girl is straight up tied into other realities and knows it and embraces it. I find it such good characterisation how her family treats this, that scully is shown to be scared of this and completely ignores the fact she is also tied into this ability.

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onto the paternity...

My unorthodox theory is that CSM had nothing to do with healing scully. Or magically giving her ovum out of nothing. En ami could technically be lifted right out, bc ew assault, or just disregard or believe csm was lying about the extra stuff cc retconned in the revival.

Enter the alien spaceship in cote d'ivore from the amor fati trilogy...

so Mulder touched an etching of a part of the ship and had his shit rocked (alien DNA activated) which begs the question, what would happen to Scully being that she actually touched the actual ship?

my theory? The ship has some sort of mystical power. If I was super spiritual or Melissa Scully id argue the ship gives what you deserve. In amor fati we see it bring back to life a bag of shrimps, zombify a dead man, and boil people like ocean soup.

Why then would we not assume scully touching the ship didn’t activate her very obvious not really latent, alien DNA? And what did she deserve? oh the world, but also to be healed. of cancer, and whatever those men did to her reproductive system.

Now you might say well mulder got superpowers but scully didnt? you said she was more powerful than mulder... and to that dear reader, I submit she did get an extra alien ability. We see the alien bounty hunter have all kinds of abilities, including healing mulders mother on her deathbed. I think Scully got that ability in addition to her old seeing ghosts thing.

The evidence? So, mulder on his deathbed, metal halo of faux thorns is dying of overactive alien abilities, his brain juices or something were transferred into that weird old man, but even I, a layman has trouble understanding how this would cure him of his overactive alien abilities. unless every bit of his Cerebrospinal fluid had been drained, which he'd actually probably just die, there is no way that surgery cured him of anything.

Enter Scully and the literal fairytale-esque tear on his face that wakes him from his sleeping-beauty slumber, and seemingly cures him all in one go. I posit Scully is now a healer on top of her ghostly abilities. but being terrified of the paranormal within her and possibly not knowing how to work them mulder is her only one, thus far.

So yeah, the ship cured her infertility and activated more latent alien abilities in her DNA, and she's so highly evolved she doesn't have the poor reaction to it that mulder does. Samuel Mulder or whatever you want to call him was their biological child with alien superpowers because both of them had activated alien abilities when they conceived him.

Anyway CSM has never been anything but pathetically inconsequential to me. So much so I think hes the one who is infertile. I could probably rant about it, but will spare you that for now... all I'll say is senator matheson is who mulders dad will always be to me. They look SO similar, the jawlines? Hello?

And so i rest my case.

[bruteanarchy]

What is Sally's relationship with Harumi and Nya? It seems a bit... Longing

Why does she see such enormous admiration for both of them that it becomes a Paranoid?

(Hope you can answer this one🙏)

HAHAHHA OF COURSE I CAN ANSWER!!!! hi artemis 😚

my personification of sally came to me a long time ago in the form of short glimpses of the future…. i didnt care for her much and actually felt irritated at her character 😅i hated her pop singer gimmick and wanted to transform her into something different for fun, like a complete switch of musical genres just to see how i’d feel with the design transformation. thats where it ended for a long time, i didnt add any personality other then her thinking shes hot shit when shes really just a weird kid teenager finding her place in life. just a random redesign for fun one day when i was bored in class.

but recently (a couple weeks ago idk) in the middle of the night, me and coasty randomly thought of a what if; “what if sally had a funny parasocial attachment to nya and harumi.. especially harumi.” i usually sit on my headcanons and “what ifs” for a couple weeks/months before telling coast, then my little space on the internet .. but this time i wasted no time and drew sally fangirling over nyas punk riot grrrlness lololol

to me, my interpretation of sally is lighthearted and not meant to be taken too seriously. just a girl who’s finding her identity, and has the money (and the compulsions.. and graying moral compass bc a main joke of hers is buying fast fashion and switching “aesthetics” often) to mess around, also with a taste for chasing fame as a small musical artist ^^

sally admires harumi and nya because of their respective coolness and the fact that both of them are sorta celebrity figures who are constantly surveillanced and their every action is presumed and thought upon. sally just longs to be just like the cool girls she sees on tv — she doesnt actually know who they are as people, she only knows them as the water ninja and the quiet one..the idealized and shown parts of themselves on tv. also, sally just thinks harumi’s documented plight as the jade princess turned evil is #relatable (when the worst sally has ever done is run away from her parents to pursue singing)

like i said.. sallys supposed to be a lighthearted joke character to me, like somebody on tiktok who is really invested in subgenres/cultures like punk, but don’t actually take the time to know the history and commit to what it means to be that subculture.

heres some doodles i did of sally as a bonus bc i dont think i posted them here, ty for asking!!

[lucksea]

I quite like your Astra design it’s very interesting, I would like to know more about it if you would not mind sharing!

YES ID LOVE TO SHARE!! first of all i wrote the very beginning of his AU here and he has a very newly finished plot-based spotify playlist here if you're interested ! and ill explain a bit of said plot below:

Mad Prince Astra is the result of me wanting a foil for Tregear in my bigger oc-based AU and also wanting astra to be more relevant bc i like him. so in some ways hes kind of the opposite of tregear? prince astra is very prideful, arrogant, and intentionally hypocritical, doing whatever he wants and usually killing anyone who tries to stop him. leaning a lot on the prince title here. but he doesnt just deal in destruction-- he still has morals that he follows, and is still compelled to help people at times. he wanders around, enacting himself on any situation he likes (or dislikes). hes aware that he is no hero, but he doesn't care. the difference between his own justice and that of the ultra warriors is just a matter of perspective, anyways.

astra is desperate for control of his life, and for meaning in a universe where his home was burned to the ground and he could do nothing to stop it. now, he has literally infinite power, and infinite knowledge of the multiverse, granted to him by the shadowy being using its own body to bandage him.

this creature is sapient, but uncaring of the world. it knows everything, but it lacks understanding. it attached itself to astra because it could sense powerful emotions inside him that it didnt understand. it responds to his every wish, whether he notices or not; the powers astra thinks of as his own are simply the being acting on his behalf. it is so deeply intwined with him that he has never noticed the difference. essentially, it's holding him in a constant state of undeath-- if it were to be forced out of astra, he would die in minutes. it COULS heal the wounds that would kill him, but it hasnt thought to do that. they have something of a symbiotic nature. astra thinks of the creature as his friend and companion. technically, he's named it Nous, but i have yet to draw or write anything in which he acknowledges its presence or name... i don't know if you're familiar with The Golden Compass, but Nous was inspired by the alethiometer. specifically, a scene in The Subtle Knife:

although when astra had asked who tregear was, Nous had replied, "He is a liar." which began a streak of fascination that would forever change the world

astras relationship with tregear is a lot of fun to play with and is impossible for me to not bring up . one of the reasons for that is because astra knew tregear Twice ! he encountered the tregear from his own universe at some point before the events of taiga took place there. he was originally just intrigued by a handsome stranger (as my astra is a bit more promiscuous than his canon counterpart as well just to add to the Entitled Prince attitude), but upon talking to tregear, astra was instantly fascinated by him. tregear is made of contradictions, and astra wants to rip them out of him, straighten them up, and see what's left of tregear when he's done. there are plenty of points that they genuinely disagree on, and plenty more that astra argues simply to infuriate tregear.

after the tregear of his original universe died, astra got bored and discovered he could travel through the multiverse. after some wandering around, he encountered the showtime universe just to find another tregear about to die. so astra pulled some strings and twisted space and mixed a little bit of Grimdo into tregear's fading soul, just enough to send him falling down to earth rather than disappear entirely........ and that's how ember's key starts

astra has his own dedicated tag both here [#per astra ad coronam] and on my showtime blog, @ultrashowtime under #Astra <3

[aroaceacacia]

Hello! A friend has sent me in your direction to ask my bothersome research questions! (context being: I'm doing a project for school about how aro and ace characters are portrayed in formally published fiction verse in fandom, focusing on MCYT because-> my hyperfixation)

The questions:

How do you think the fandom's feelings on (romantic) shipping have changed over time

When and why do you think those changes happened?

How, if at all, do you think that history has affected how we deal with shipping today?

Something tells me that you might have some personal insight on the aroace parts of the fandom (why such a high proportion and/or writing characters as aroace) I would love to hear them! And if there's anything else you want to add I really appreciate it, thank you!!! (I have a list of people I will be sending this ask to, if you feel compelled to point me towards anyone I absolutely must ask that would also be appreciated. Thank you again!!)

omg hi I might be able to help! but i admit ive been fairly disconnected from mcyt for a while. All views expressed are my own and may not account for everyone elses perspectives or even statistical data

really when talking abt shipping I can only really start with 2019 at the earliest but mcyt has a longer history than that (i was a yogs fan in 2012-2014 or thereabouts but didnt participate in fandom and then didnt get back on the mc boat until 2019). also I think the youtuber shipping culture has had an influence on shipping as well.

anyway. mcyt fans even now are very skittish about shipping and a lot of it, as of 2019, was rooted in the anti-rpf culture we saw post-septiplier. i think. I never watched either of those guys. But it was this sense that RPF and shipping can Ruin Peoples Lives or friendships or whatever. (I think it's more nuanced than that.) And of course the infamous callmecarson serious stream in 2019 when he told off his stans for writing a danganronpa AU fanfic of him and his friends. I think that started a lot of negativity toward fans engaging in fairly normal fandom things, people extrapolating things out of what he said a bit. The nature of being a mcyt fan is that you're almost never a fan of just ONE thing within the genre so of course the sentiments branched out a lot into other fandoms.

Then with dream smp we saw the rise of the "boundaries" concept: fans asking creators what they are ok with and not ok with. And I dont hate that idea in concept but I personally dislike some of the execution. (I think fans should recognize on their own what a creator should and should not be privy to and take necessary precautions to keep potentially sensitive things hidden/separate from other fanwork. I dont think we should be asking them these things directly bc it just exposes them to it.) I dont think Dream was the first one to talk about boundaries, but he was the first one to provide a full detailed list of boundaries that I know of. In late 2020, he was also the first creator to suggest/introduce the bang path ! to denote the fictional characters being discussed on the Dream SMP, so that nobody thought he was actually abusing cc!Tommyinnit in exile.

But the fictionalization is important because over the past 2 years or so fans who disliked shipping said "these are real people", and the rise of clearly defined roleplay ("lore") in MCYT spaces allowed fans to say "these are characters". (In reality it's kind of both. It's like kayfabe I think. I'm not into wrestling but its kind of like that I think.) So then you have some fans shipping some creators whove said they're ok with it, some fans not doing it at all, arguments over whether less lore-heavy servers are RP or not. It becomes a minefield. Hermit fans create a boundaries list that says the only Hermits you can ship together are Rendoc and ONLY if you ship them with each other. The funniest development from this era was, of course, writing c!Tubbo and c!Ranboo (who were canonically married with a child) as "platonic husbands" simply because the actors were both 16-17 at the time. They were actually groundbreaking teen parent representation and we should respect that (silly!)

I think the biggest turning point for Hermit/hermit-adjacent fans was actually Third Life, and I'll say it loud and proud: Flower Husbands walked so everyone else can run and I'm soooooo serious. I remember when people tried to "/p" (platonic) flower husbands. Having Jimmy and Scott, two adult men, roleplaying a married couple in a series where every person was storytelling to some extent was hugely important. FH and Third Life in early 2021 gave fans permission to engage with the story as a story, with these characters as characters. Treebark cropped up a little later (we were simmering toward the end of 3L's run and then had such a great summer that it really began to crystallize in Aug/Sept of that year. Shoutout to Redacted) but was really only able to do so because of FH, and because of the way Ren and Martyn RPed so much.

Hoo boy this is getting long SORRY. I think by 2022 and 2023 Tumblr audiences specifically were getting tired of self-policing all the time and really started to just say "fuck it we ball block tags if you have to" and embraced a "what were YOU doing at the devil's sacrament" type of attitude. Specific catch-all tags for shipping started to emerge. On the other hand, twitter audiences stayed fairly conservative with shipping - they did Not like it one bit. This is still a problem in some corners of the MCYT fandom over there, afaik. Personally I think this is in part due to lack of a real tagging system; this is also why I think "duo names" exist as a kind of alternative to ship names (also because of standom crossover). The other aspect here is proximity to creators: everyone and their mother has a Twitter account, but Tumblr is our house, and if they want to play with us, they need to understand our culture. Twitter is more interested in keeping things clean in case the creator sees it because in all likelihood they will.

Quick sidebar to mention QSMP, which had several on-screen, developing roleplayed romances, including dates and a wedding, and all of them were gay and involved people from different cultural backgrounds. I just think that's neat. 2023 was a wild time.

All of that being said...... I actually dont feel like shipping (or the lack thereof) and its history has a very significant connection with aroaceness. I can see how the bunch of terminally online young people who gravitate toward MCYT content are more likely to be aroace than the average person just because it's a very queer fandom overall (I genuinely dont think a single friend I've made in this space is cishet). I can also see how MCYT content overall is kind of "safe" if you're averse to sexual or romantic stories in the media you watch, because most of the time, MCYT creators arent super comfortable roleplaying their cubitos making out with their friends on screen for an audience to watch (MythicalSausage and most members of QSMP nonwithstanding).

I feel like, from my experience with the fandom, rather than engage with these characters as asexual or as aromantic, it's sort of a de-sexing: either they are off limits, or they are Schrodinger's Sexuality, because they're a Real Person and it's weird to headcanon Real People. If they're a real person then they should be married to the person they're married to IRL, and we don't know them, so instead it's like sexuality does not exist. But the creators are still making dick jokes anyway. And that's because sex is a joke and isn't real 😁

Again, QSMP is a bit of an exception I think - I recall Cellbit's character being canonically gay and asexual (the creator would later come out himself as asexual). <- Some fans kind of ignored this/didnt touch on it, other fans deliberately included it as an aspect of characterizing q!Cellbit and his relationship with his husband. Mikethelink also said once that his character was off limits for shipping, I think?(because Mike is IRL married and his partner was an occasional guest and presence, shoutout Barb), so fans often interpreted this as q!Mike being an aromantic character. You see a lot of interpretations of q!Mike and q!Pactw where they're in some kind of queerplatonic relationship, sort of as a result of that. I cant talk about QSMP without mentioning jaiden jaidenanimations. I love u queen xoxox

Oh my god wait how could I forget the queerplatonic emerald duo era. Wasnt there discourse about that (people trying to ship queerplatonically because it was seen as less egregious than shipping romantically)

Anyways I think double life is a deeply aromantic series and I love the divorce quartet. Shoutout messy relationships and choosing who you want to be with under the terms you decide with yourself and the people you love.

EDIT TO ADD: i think tumblr culture has been more accepting of RPF as of late i think the next big development will be a rise in genuine mcyt RPF shipping. we saw some of that in the dsmp era (just bc that fandom was huge at its peak) but ever since it's been fairly fringe. I dont think itll ever be mainstream but i feel like we'll be seeing more RPF in the next couple years to come

[phagodyke]

my god. new contender for most shite day at work this year so far

another morning another free bus journey..

[alatismeni-theitsa]

hello ! Here the french hijabi who asked monthes ago if it was safe to visit greece :)

Since in a few monthes i will go on erasmus i was thinking of a few countries to go and greece was one of my thoughts. When i went to greece recently it went very well and people were nice but it was the capital and a few very touristy islands, i didnt spoke the language and looked like a tourist from miles away lol, so im a bit paranoid that if i go as a erasmus student, granted i wont look like a tourist 24/7 and will learn the language i may be treated way worser. For exemple in france (unless you never leave your muslim urban bubble) hijabi very often get insulted outside, spat on, hijab snatched, physically attacked, it isnt unheard of murder attempts, you will be harassed into leaving public space and treated as an outcast BUT as a tourist you would never think of it bc you see muslim stuff a lot, wont understand the language and in touristy area it would never happens, so i thought it might also be the case in greece

So im asking this because im kinda paranoid lol (even if french might as well be the exception in treating muslim women like that) and also for knowing if i should learn greek or just give up and go somewhere else ^^'

Hello! You are doing well to check what the situation is before coming since it's a matter of safety.

The situation in France sounds tense and extreme compared to Greece. I don't think there will be such attacks here. What you described is an extremely rare case in Greece and I don't think it's likely that you experience it. Mild verbal harassment would be the maximum and it may happen once the whole time you are here.

To give you and the followers more context about how Greeks view the hijab, due to the 600 years under the Ottoman occupation and slavery, many Greeks view the hijab as the symbol of that historical oppression and the more recent genocide and the Greek cultural erasure by the Turkish state. Of course, that doesn't mean that they will do anything when they see a hijabi. Most likely they will not blame the woman herself for wearing the hijab but will assume that men in her family forced her. That's why a woman is less likely to be attacked. And, of course, attacking young women here is seen as something extremely negative, hijab or not.

Some Greeks may ask you why you wear the hijab, but it will be people you know, not randos on the street. It will be out of curiosity because for many Greeks the hijab is an oppressive thing of the past.

I have personally not seen hijabis harassed out on the city streets, or public transport. That doesn't mean it never happens, but I am bringing it as an example of many cases of hijabis existing in public in peace. I have heard from a hijabi friend that a man harassed her verbally while on the bus - but other people stopped him fast, and it's also a very rare occasion (once in a few years).

I don't know how people in every city and town will take it but mostly Greeks mind their business on this matter. They may be curious, but that's all.

Also, we get tourists the whole year, so, depending on the area, they could even assume you are a tourist no matter the month. And of course people know that foreign students come here to study. Additionally, we are close to Muslim countries so, even if the sight of the hijab can bring negative feelings, Greeks are not as alienated by hijabs as much as the French.

Greek is very difficult to learn so it's very likely locals will still clock you as a foreigner even months later. Please don't feel discouraged in your learning of Greek! I'm just mentioning that it's very difficult to get fluent in Greek and it will take many years before you pass as a local linguistically.

Hijabis in Greece or people who know hijabis, feel free to add your experiences.

[myshiptrashcan]

Director's cut of ⭐At His Side⭐ plleeaaasseee

I love how flushed out this au is. Which always begs the question, is there anything you wanted to add in and didnt get the chance? Or anything that you unfortunately had to cut bc it didnt fit?

Hmmm. I did think about what the main story would be like if they were wing people. If they fell in the earth, then why not fly out? I figured the battle would keep one from flying not wanting their wings to get shot.

Like Merwin getting stuck in the wire and his wings are fucked. Keeping most of the characters grounded is causing me to really think. Like when Rachel fell why not fly? Were her wings slightly hurt causing Eric and her to use climbing gear instead. Obviously they need space for their wings to fly as well.

I did want to talk about Zain and Jason relating to each other more on how they feel about their wings and their parents . But instead I only made it a conversation they had that Salim heard as he woke up in little pieces. How Zain hates that he looks like his mother, his face and his wings and wishing with all of him to be like his father that he just adores. And if course Jason pointing out just how much alike Zain is to his father.

Sometimes it feels like they don't even have wings in this story. I honestly would have liked to draw better things for the story just to flesh everything out more. This world is built mostly the same as our own. I did mention things like proper baths and beds are something you have to pay more for. Bird baths and nests.

I actually added a few things to the story than I had intended. Like Jason being a Star trek fan. Which I have a wing au for as well lol.

I did want some kind of interaction between other strangers, them looking at Jason and Salim and perhaps causing some sort of trouble.

I did do more research than what was necessary for a fanfiction. Hours worth of studying for like a paragraph of words.

Also while Jason's military contract is probably the second shortest you can pick, he does have to go into base. Not sure if marines have drill, as my knowledge comes from my mom being in the Army national guard. But light military work is something Jason still has to do. Also also, maybe one or both of them finding a kind of job to do. Not wanting idle hands.

Wish I would have mentioned their nightmares a little more. It's the reason they're sleeping in the same bed together after all. Idk.

I didn't really want their relationship to be so focused on physical attraction but I did put some in there a little bit. Wanted to make their love feel a little deeper.

Jason has more stuff going on internally in ways of conflict and misbeliefs, while Salim's has more to do with perceived rejection of love while at the same time dealing with the trauma and shame of having his wings forceful clipped on top of the shared trauma of the temple.

Zain felt like a fun character to write for the first time, considering how little we know of him in game. I had hoped to get across how much he connected Jason with his mom. Even though he knew that Jason was not in fact his mother. Human brains are funny like that.

I do think Jason's father was interesting for me. Because while at first Jason saw only the bad, Jason's father did have many moments in his life where they actually cared and loved each other. Jason having happy memories with someone who at the same time hurt him so much is interesting to me. Idk. For as much as Jason resents his father he still loves him and still has this need for his approval, idk.

Oh and how I wanted to call Nick, Eric and Rachels new relationship the three kings even though I don't think they all can marry. Them three were all dating for sure. I did keep Rachel a bitch though in this. So she didn't really care for Salim in this story. Eric being a romantic legit thought that Jason and Salim were a thing and because he wanted them to succeed he did try his best to help Salim out too.

Jason's friends legit thought that they were a bonded pair. And although Salim didn't really lie about Habibi, Jason eventually used it as a affectionate term on his own. Which is how the word is used anyway. He felt like it was his little cheat at calling Salim darlin'. Which is funny because he was.

As it is. I always actually quite satisfied with the story and for the most part wrote everything that needed to be written. But I think that's all, at least all I can think of at the moment.

Thank you for the ask!!!