#sorry it’s not great guys… you could almost say this one was… total trash… hahaha

[gunwhale-rotary]

sonic youth if i set them on fire FWOOSH 🔥🔥

[shinsoussimp]

hi 💀🤠🤠!! can I request something? may I request a Iida x male reader, where when reader confesses to Iida initially he gets turned down but it’s obvious the speed man likes him (but poor bby Iida is in ✨denial✨) and Uraraka (and maybe deku if he isn’t too pussy ykyk) make this plan to make Iida ‘fall in love’ with yn? (Even though he already is HAHSHD he just doesn’t realize it) sorry it’s a...odd request but it’s been plaguing my mind for forever 🥺 and it’s totally fine if you don’t do my request, no hard feelings !! Love you and YOU CAN USE COLOR IN THE ASKBOX NOW LOOK HAHAHA

a/n: mr mizunetzu i’m sorry it took so long for me to get this out 🥺🥺 i hope you like it!! this is such a fun request :D

Iida in denial

literally everyone knew about your massive crush on iida

and you had already come out as gay, nobody had a problem with it

the only problem was iida was oblivious 

speed man had no clue

you just had lunch with uraraka, todoroki, deku, and iida

ya know, the gang

and uraraka pulled you aside to talk about iida

“you have to tell him at some point! lord knows he’s not gonna figure it out on his own”

after her being on your ass for like the past two weeks you decide to finally do it

you’re gonna confess

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after all of your classes finished for the day, you and the rest of 1-a were walking back to the dorms. you decided that this would be the best time to get iida alone.

“iida? can i talk to you?” you ask awkwardly after tapping his shoulder to get his attention.

“uh, sure.” he shrugs, “but make it quick we must have out trash ready for bakugou in half an hour.” you smile and nod as you lead him off to the side of the dorms.

“there’s something i’ve been wanting to tell you... for a while now.”

“what is it?” he tilts his head slightly. you take a deep breath and stuff your hands in your pockets.

“i really like you. like a lot. i just had to get it off my chest.” iida’s face turned bright red and he had a weird feeling in his chest the second those words left your mouth. but he had never felt like this before, he didn’t know what it meant.

“i-i’m sorry, y/n. i don’t feel that way about you..” he felt weird saying that but it was the truth, right? so he patted your shoulder and promptly made his way back to his dorm to clean up a bit. you sat down by the tree behind you and sighed. you figured something like this would happen, being gay did significantly cut down your dating pool, but this one stung. 

you waddled all the way up to ochaco’s dorm, pouting the whole time. you knocked on the door and once she let you in, you flopped down face first onto her bed.

“i’m gonna assume it didn’t go well..” she placed a comforting hand on your back. you shook your head and groaned.

“i thought i had at least a bit of a chance! i mean no straight man cares about organization that much..” deku’s laugh makes you jump, you didn’t even realize he was in the room but there he was, sitting at ochaco’s desk.

“maybe he’s just confused right now.. i mean if i’m being honest it kinda seems like he likes you.” deku says softly trying to comfort you as well.

"whatever i'm gonna go take a nap." you groan as you mope out of the room.

"denial!!" ochaco shouts once the door shuts behind you, causing deku to jump.

"what are you talking about?"

"iida's in denial! he likes y/n it's so obvious, he just doesn't know it yet."

"i knew i wasn't the only one who saw it!" deku cheers as ochaco pulls out a blank pieces of paper, "what are you doing?"

"we.. are going to get y/n and iida together." she smiles devilishly as she pulls the cap off of a pen.

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ochaco and deku were on their third try to get iida to realize his feelings. they had set up for you and iida to train together but last minute, iida cancelled.

"uraraka.. they say third times a charm, our third try didn't work."

"no! i have one more idea! this one's gonna work, trust me." they decided on a blind date to make iida realize he likes you. deku's job was to get iida to go and ochaco for you. she barged into your dorm and slammed the door behind her.

"Y/N!" she shouts so loud you almost fell off your chair, "you're going on a date tonightt~" you shake your head and put your face in your hands.

"don't you think it's kinda early for something like that? i mean i just got rejected.."

"nothing like a cute stranger to act as your pick me up am i right??" she could tell how upset you really were about this whole thing so she squatted down next to you and put her hand on your shoulder calmingly, "y/n, this guy is a friend of mine and he's super sweet. why not just go have fun and relax? if nothing comes from it at least you get free dinner."

"ughh fine. i'll go.. only for the free food."

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after showering and getting ready, you decided to do something nice for whoever your date was and go get some flowers. you picked up a nice bouquet and made your way to the  restaurant with ochaco still by your side.

"are you sure he'll like them?" you asked softly.

"they're his favorite color! i know he will." you smiled and asked once again what this guy's name was, and of course ochaco tells you that it's a suprise. once you get to the front door you see deku standing there as well.

"he's here before you so he must be excited!" ochaco cheers.

"he's at the booth by the side window." deku says with a suspicious smile on his face. you say bye to them both as they wish you good luck.

you take a deep breath as you walk inside, and when you get up to the booth deku mentioned you see none other than tenya iida.

"y-y/n!" he stammers with wide eyes.

"iida.." you quickly hide the flowers behind your back as heat creeps up the back of your neck, "what are you doing here?"

"deku said he was setting me up on a blind date. what are you doing here?"

"ochaco set me up on a blind da-" realization hits you and you look down at the floor awkwardly, "y-you uh... you don't have to stay. i'm sorry about all this."

"what's behind your back?" iida asks with a hint of red on his cheeks. you laugh awkwardly and reveal the bouquet of blue flowers.

"i promise i didn't know about this. i know you said you didn't feel the same way but, heh.. deku and ochaco can be very persistent as you know."

"you.. you can sit. if you'd like." you sit down across from him, setting the flowers down on the table. iida takes them and looks closer at them, smiling softly.

"this can be just as friends you know? like i know how you feel so-"

"you picked these out for me?" you laughed awkwardly and explained that ochaco told you his favorite color so you thought they would be nice. but your words fade out when you see how sincere iida looks while looking at you.

"is everything okay?" he takes a deep breath and stands up and bows to you.

"please forgive me. i'm stupid! you're amazing and awesome and great and i shut you down. but i realized i like you too! so, will you give me another chance??" he's literally at a 90 degree angle in front of you trying to win you back, you can't help but laugh.

"iida sit down!" you giggle. instead of sitting down across from you like before, he sat down on your side of the booth, grabbing you hands softly.

"i'm really sorry for the grief i put you through, y/n.. i-i would like to be your boyfriend please!" you smile, looking right into his eyes.

"i would like that too." once he hears this, he can't stop himself from pecking your forehead. he pulls away with wide eyes and a red face.

"i'm sorry i didn't ask if that was okay! was that okay?" he asks softly.

"it was more than okay."

[winged-fool]

RNM Create Week 2020 Day 7: Cheerleaders

For six days, creators have been reveling in all the love, so now it's the moment to give some of that love back. Tell us about those people who have helped you through your creative process, whether it's your beta or that particular person who's reblogged everything you've posted or commented on everything you've shared, or that person who's been holding your hand all the time while you worked hard on your creation. We want to know everything about them! We want to know those wonderful people who are helping you as a creator. You guys are an essential part of this fandom!

Sorry not sorry this is so long 💙

@exploring-in-space: Alix is my number one ride or die. She encourages me endlessly and in ways that I can never really articulate. Every time I come up with a crazy idea and bring it to her, she never judges me, she’s right there with me trying to figure out the best way to bring it to life. Not only that, but she’s an incredibly talented writer and I’m so lucky to have her as a sounding board. She deals with all my RNM rants and if you think I rant a lot on here just imagine all the garbage that she has to listen to first.

My Salt Squad: @insidious-intent @caitlesshea @themoonwhenimlost the best salt people I could ever ask for. Every time I come to them with a salty take they all validate me and don't make me feel like a horrible person hahaha you all are some of my favorite people in this fandom!

Finer Things Club: @el-gilliath @christchex @nielrian who distracted me and cheered me up when RNM was breaking my heart. A special shout out to Tove who held my hand through almost every episode and constantly encourages me! We’re co-writing our Big Bang and even though I’m the slowest writer ever, she is so understanding and patient 💙💙

@female-overlord-3: an absolute sweetheart 💙 I look forward to your comments on my fics and always enjoy every post you send my way

@bamfalexmanes : my favorite tormentor hahaha Gabrielle is constantly picking on me and it's just so fun. You'll never get me to love forlex! 😂 And of course my pic crew pal 💙

@usbournejez: you are always so kind to me, you believe in my writing in a way I don't think I deserve haha but it means so much to me because I love your writing so much 💙

@hmd023: this isn’t just a shout out for being an amazing person to me but to everyone in this fandom! I’m always seeing you in people’s ask boxes complimenting their writing or sending prompts and it’s so wonderfully refreshing to have all your positivity in this fandom. And I always remember you as my International Relations bud 🤣

@grampire: we haven’t been mutuals for long but I am soo glad that we are! You have been such an awesome cheerleader for me and so supportive of my dark fics. Dark fics can be a little niche which I totally recognize so it’s always so awesome when I find other people who love them as much as me 💙

@captainsorryimabadass: same as above! you’ve been such an incredible supporter of my dark fics and it makes me so happy! Plus we’re both hannigram trash and that automatically makes you one of my favorite people :D

@habibinasir: We don’t talk that often, but when we do, we have some of the funniest conversations. I feel like you really get my stupid sense of humor which is an automatic plus in my book! Plus we commiserated with each other every week when RNM Season 2 was airing and had a lot of the same what the fuck thoughts hahaha

@queersirius: you make some of my favorite gifs in this fandom and I absolutely love seeing them! They’ve inspired me to write little blurbs that eventually become longer fics! And you’re so generous with your time to create such an incredibly comprehensive list of recs that I’ve been lucky enough to be featured on. You’re such a positive person in this fandom, I absolutely love seeing you on my dash.

To the amazing authors in this fandom that still take the time to read my stuff, you all are so amazing because I know you’re busy with your own stuff but you’re still so generous with your time: @aewriting @prouvaireafterdark @spaceskam @chamblerstara/@manesalex @lambourngb @ninswhimsy

And of course my treasured mutuals: @lovecolibri @sungbeen @draculaspetbee @fairymonk @imrollingmyeyes @i-had-a-marvelous-time @ravens-world @fiona-glenanne-westen @bisexualalienss

I know I’m missing others and I’m sorry if I did forget you, it’s not personal I’m just a mess who is always forgetting things! I could say something about every single one of my mutuals and followers. You all are so great. Every time you like or reblog my nonsense, every ask and message I receive, I consider us friends. I know this fandom can be a little negative sometimes but I’m honestly so grateful for all the wonderful people in my little space. You all are the best 💙💙💙

[bilgisticallykosher]

Prediction for this episode; REMUS TIME! That's it, that's my prediction. 

Okay, and Janus is going to be involved this time (see previous post). Not sure of the status of Virgil and Patton's relationship…Let's see, Roman was really confident and relaxed in the first Asides, so I'm placing the Distractions episode in like early season three, if not in between two and three, so I'm prepared for it to be more volatile. Okay! Thumbnail impressions. 

Oh my gosh I love everything about it. First of all, anxiety! That means Anxiety! And there's Virgil. And! The little, cartoony, uh, definitely Virgil and Roman, and I'm not sure who the middle boy is. Is that Logan? I don't see a tie, maybe it's Patton. Although, is that a beard?? But the subtitle!!!!! That's amazing. I feel like I know that style. Bed In The Morning artist? Gosh, I'm in love with this already. 

Oh, flirting, not like flirting with the idea of social anxiety, like, 'how do I flirt when I have social anxiety?' Okay okay. Roman's face in the thumbnail, oh my gosh. Also, can I just point out that last time the team was like "Haha, yeah, the Asides were only supposed to be ten minutes, they'll be shorter next time." 

ONWARD!

They call me Sanders, oh boy. Was. Was that his flirting? OH! It's essential to the overall story? Huh. Fascinating. Now I'm even more excited than I was! And hey, yeah, Ellen Kelley, I was right about the artist! And ABD, nice, Brei Grace, also very nice! Mazel tov, all three of you! Noooo, I totally want to see it in live action, too, but money...Hnrg. Oh well. I'm already screaming about the little promo just now. It's Roman versus Virgil again, looking to be like My Negative Thinkingish. SALT! YES! That got me way too happy...

Flirt or Fight, ahhhhhhhhhh. Haha, yeah. That's really not a big deal. Hey! As someone on the other side of the counter, we do that stuff, too. I ask "Anything else?" a lot, and then once customer responded, "No, that's it, thanks." So of course I said "You're welcome, may I get you anything else?" And it took me three seconds to realize.

This was not an isolated incident. I do it so often. Anyway. R+, senior, haha. PFFFT, Roman. Oh, the senior was an intentional thing, not just a joke. And look! They agree!! "He's in his 30s, he might as well be 60." I'm going to be quoting that so often. 

NEW SCENARIO! Thirty times a day again. HAHAHA, I love Roman. Omg, I love all this. "I'm not stinky." Oh, hm. A lot of liar accusations. I wonder where in the series this Asides takes place… Suddenly flirt mode activated. "We don't know that he's not gay." Point for Roman. OH that's the glasses and beard guy. Okay cool. Ooooooh, that last sticker. AND I got that Blink-182 reference. Nice! More introvert clues. Roman's old jokes are great. Sticker button system. Pintrovert, nice. Commentating! "Now I'm telling you you're being a freak!" Ha, Jack-y. I love their banter, IT'S THE MILLENNIUM PUZZLE AHH, oh cool, and there's gay. Their very different reactions to this is also fascinating. Boiled...mayo carrots? 96, because table 69 would've been too obvious a joke…………. But it would've been Remus-y. Roman. With an R. Gay eyes? Oh I'm so glad that Virgil asked, I wasn't sure if that was actually a thing. RIP the artists having to animate gay eyes. 

I just. He looks so much like Picani. Oh, no, he looked behind himself! The You Failed voice is excellent. Haha, nah, I was just panicking. I… call bs on that actually being a lie. Yeah that just means he likes basketball. Oh man. This. Oh. No. No, this is not ending well. Gerard Gay. HA, yes, Thomas apparently. Forget pulling his heartstrings, they're pulling his arms. 

THOMAS, NO, YOU DID NOT JUST WRITE ROMAN THE LINE "I'll add it to the list" oh my gosh, how could you???? Okay, I laughed way too hard at "I 'unno. Plant!" Oh this is definitely going to end in disaster. PFFTAHAHA what is that awkward Irish accent? But that ""buddy"" is totally Joan. Yeah, 100% that's them. "Search for treasure for good measure." Sigh, that's the only Remus content I'm getting this episode, isn't it. Sty??? Yes, hide in the garbage, perfect. 

You need a game plan for flirting? *shrugs in awkward* Bird puns, pretty tweet. Haha, cyber stalking in real life. Can't he just casually walk by, and casually notice a pin? I legit thought Roman was going to stop at "You're going to have to try… speaking." From the heart? "Hey, you're cute and I'm gay, plus your backpack says that you are, too?" I'm so concerned that the bathroom stall is gonna open now. 

Oh it's getting sad. And Roman's so sad, no. Oh this is real close to the end of POF. This might be a little much, tbh. OMFG. Who is that? Oh no, oh no, ohhhhhhhh nooooooooo. Omfg. I didn't wanna ruin the moment. "Yeah, I gotta stop wooing strangers in bathrooms." I MEAN, YEAH, RUDE, THOMAS! Oh boy they're going in strong on the lying thing. It's still so fresh, but Virgil's okay with Thomas, so? WOAH man. Was this before DWIT? Virgil said deceit, but did he say deceit or Deceit? That's some faux-concern there. Or should I say...foe concern. Oh boy that turned quickly. Maybe Patton's acceptance of Janus is why Virgil's all stiff with Patton in Distractions? I mean that's been theorized anyway, but

YO IT'S CUTE GUY HE HAS A VOICE! Screaming. Nevada. Anaconda. Oh my gosh, nooooooooooooo. Thomas. Repeat after me, "Sorry, you're cute and I'm very gay, could you repeat that?" And sad Roman. VIRGIL'S GONNA DO SOMETHING! Yes, good. "Do you want this food?" NO, bad. OH! Nice! Flirting maybe yes possibly? Mister. Nico! Feeling like a trash bin! Excellent! Pfffffffft, I like Nico. "Shut up." "Shut up." "Shut up!" SHUT UP! Virgil helped!!! And Roman's so sad and I'm teary and bravery!!!!! Ugh, I'm taking a moment. Oh there was that thing that Joan wrote that Thomas was really excited about. The soliloquy in the bathroom maybe? Nico's trash metaphor? 

Ahhhhhh, omfg I'm wheezing. Old. It's funny that he referred to Thomas in third person. Like. Interesting funny. What! It's Janus's theme!!!! Oh. WHAT.  What Janus's collection what. Corridor of stored rewards aauuuugh. Love that font, btw. And the J especially! EXCUSE YOU I JUST SAW MY BOY SMASH A PLATE OVER HIS HEAD but like in front of a blue screen so that's new content, shut up. Oh no commentary, I love commentary. Woah, that's crazy, writing contributions. JANUS SHADOW! Aw, Thomas. 💚💚💚💚💚 Oh, post-mall screaming. They're all the same, I love them. The little hand over mouth thing. WOAH DOES VIRGIL HAVE SPARKY EYESHADOW? I assume that's Talyn, truly a wonderful contribution, he's beautiful. Ha, delete immediately. Oh. "What if things are never the same again?" That was almost a happy inflection, mayhaps? Yeah, sparkly. Join me! No thinking! Oh hey, I was doing the hand flappy thing a lot, too? Are you sure you don't have to pee? Uh oh. Virgil's facial expressions… that's concerning. Demon! Thirty times a day joke! Hmmmmmmm.

Ahhhh, this was really cute, I can see the importance, I don't know where it is within the episodes, but yeah, it'd have been hard to do live action. Patreon. Maybe one day. But some very sad and concerning things! I am concerned. 

The animation was so good! I hope they told the artists to do it transparent if they needed it transparent. But! Really! So good! I know there were three different artists, and if I looked for it, I can kind of see some stylistic differences sometimes, but for the most part, I can't! They all managed to go into one style near flawlessly, it's amazing. They were incredible. 

The prinxiety is going to be flowing out of this fandom, man. Also, unrelated, but I demand more stupid idiot Thomas in fics! I get that we respect him and want the best for him, but we're missing a huge opportunity! Look at this disaster! Look at this awkward dumb dork, the boy can barely function at times! So much potential!

[risereigncorp]

Olivia was dragging Diana to the new gallery just Diana told her. It was not surprising to Lena see the little girl like that but was kind of funny because every time Diana tried to talk to Reign she interrupt them calling Lena while she was exchanging words with Clark.

It was Clark’s day off and wanted to surprise her girlfriend -Diana- at the museum. This was more in England than Metropolis. Lena found out how adorable was seeing Olivia get shy every time the tall good looking man smiling at her or talking. When they entered to the gallery there was paints, sculptures and at the end of the room a huge sculpture of Eros. His eyes were little dark stones with an inscription in a plaque in the wall

Olivia ran into it followed by Diana with a grin on her face and Reign but she began to feel a kinda dizzy when she got closer looking at the sculpture. Clark was talking to Lena when he started to sweat a little bit only 8 footsteps away from were they where.

“Are you okay?” Lena placed a hand in his shoulder

Clark gave a quick gaze to the sculpture then to Lena and nodded taking off his glasses to rub the bridge of his nose.

“I’m sorry” Clark smiled quickly “I’ve been having headaches lately, I think I need vacations” Clark cleared his throat wearing his glasses again “I’m going for a bottle of water, if you don’t mind I’ll be back in a couple minutes” Clark excused himself leaving Lena

Reign had this weird sensation running all her body, this discomfort she had never felt before, maybe once back in Smallville in a forest when she got lost and fell into a hole and a lot of black stones turned into green making her feel sick but she felt better around the stones 10 minutes later, she looked at the eyes of the sculpture and these turned into a green shadow. She gazed her hands and saw her veins turning a bright green for a moment easily disappearing but a side of her hands turned grey, Reign inhaled deeply closing her eyes thinking hard -please go away-

“Olivia, do you like Eros sculpture?” Diana crossed her arms looking at her smiling “He has wings!” Olivia was looking up with her mouth full open “Come here Liv” Lena held Olivia in her arms to bring her a best look “His eyes change color?” Olivia wrinkled her nose in confusion “What do you mean sweetie?” Diana haven’t noticed Clark leaving them when she looked closely to the sculpture but she almost saw the green of the stones “They were shining green tho” Olivia scratched the back of her head “They were?” Diana frowned and looked back to Clark but he wasn’t there any more then looked at Olivia putting a smile on her face “let’s see more, later I will tell you the story of Eros” “Yay!!”

Olivia was happy smiling big. Lena put the kid in the floor seeing this going around Diana while walked but Reign was still in front of the sculpture like froze. She went next to her looking for her face and the taller woman had her eyes closed.

“Reign?” Lena put her hands in Reign’s arms making her open her eyes staring at her “hey…what’s…” “You have such a beautiful eyes” Reign complimented Lena “Your are ridiculous” Lena smiled big shaking her head

Lena rolled her eyes smiling shyly. Reign hated to be the center of the attention, in the Orphanage she hated when kids surrounded her laughing at her. Lena was different she was worried. Reign was hearing the voices of everyone in the museum speaking at the same time, this was making her anxious but the only thing she didn’t wanted was to show that. Lena checked Diana and Olivia for a second looking that they were talking about some paint so she had the opportunity to cup Reing’s face with her hands only to kiss her softly feeling how the tension Reign had was holding going away.

“What’s wrong” Lena placed one of her hands in Reign’s neck looking at her eyes

Reign blinked focus in Lena’s mouth and voice and shook her head being quiet for a couple seconds before feeling better. The touch of the woman’s hand make her better, the discomfort of her body disappearing, sound of the voices going off just a little

“I don’t know how do you do it” Reign had her eyes looked at Lena’s lips “How do I do what, Reign?” Lena was confused “You make me better” Reign felt her heart pounding hard. It was true “Hahaha, alright Olivia, we can go for a drink but we have to ask your mothers” Diana laughed

Lena was about to melt down, Reign being this soft was sexy but they were in public. Also the word -mothers- distracted the dark hair woman stepping back from Reign.

“Mommy can we go for a drink? I really want juice” Olivia asked catching Lena’s hand staring at her mother “You daughter is delightful” Diana smiled “She’s not my…” Lena mumbled “Of course Liv, let’s go get some juices” Reign accepted she really wanted to leave that place “Great!” Olivia giggled

All the way to the museum’s café Diana was walking with Olivia holding hands sometimes they stopped because Olivia wanted to know what a piece of art was and Diana explained it in a easy way. Reign was acting weird, she was quiet, Lena didn’t like so much when she was that way. The woman was walking with her hands in her pockets while Lena had her eyes on her not knowing what to say.

When they got there Clark was with a blonde woman Lena know the best sitting in a table talking. Lena smiled and looked at Reign but this was only looking at Oliviaand felt a sting in her heart. Reign could heard them say from far -How can they have kryptonite in here- -I don’t think they know the eyes of that thing are made of kryptonite- She was feeling much better and that was the last thing she could hear before all the amplified sound going off

Lena compose a forced smile when Kara stood up smiling after seeing them.

“Lena” Kara had a grin in her face before hugging her “I totally forgot this was your weekend in Metropolis, how’s Michael” Lena hugged Kara back “Fine, I guess, he decided at the last minute to stay in National City” Kara shrugged “his lost” “I don’t like this guy this much you know” Clark was true the first comments that came out of the mouth of Mon-El made Clark want him to punch him hard “Come on, he is ok, he is not perfect as Diana” Kara pointed making Diana raise her brows in surprise “nobody is perfect” Kara mumbled “You are supergirl!” Olivia said out loud going next to Kara

Clark once again pushed up his glasses giving a glare to Kara that didn’t know what to say or do as all frozen giving the attention to Olivia and Kara. Lena, Diana and Clark laughed giving no importance to the comment.

“Hey…” Kara tried to remember Olivia’s name “… you” “No one believes me…” Olivia pouted “Sweetie come here” Diana made Olivia sit in her lap “She can’t be Supergirl, Supergirl is super strong and can’t feel pain, look” Diana pinched Kara’s arm making her hiss in pain “Diana…” Kara rubbed her arm seeing Clark contain a laugh “But she look like her” Olivia leaned her head at Diana’s chest “Her glasses are fake” the girl crossed her arms “People says that everyone has a doppelgänger out there or a person who looks alike” Diana made the girl think about it even though she was totally lying “What’s a doppelbanger? Olivia asked curios "A doppelgänger is a person that looks exactly like you” Clark explained

Lena was enjoying the view the most, it was rare to see Kara in that environment. She only saw once Kara and her sister Alex at her home but was kinda awkward, Alex didn’t trust her at all.

“If you excuse me I have to go a second to the toilet” Reign excused her “Lena please take an eye on Olivia”

Reign walked fast not giving time Lena to response. The waitress got their orders to eat and drink a minute later. 10 minutes later they were joking, talking about work, but Reign haven’t even had came back from the toilet. Lena checked her phone and nothing. Olivia was making Kara a lot of questions catching her off of guard. Maybe she wasn’t Reign’s biological daughter but they had the same style.

“Kara do you mind if I go to look for Reign? Just check Olivia for a while, please” Lena asked “Olivia I’m going to look for Mommy, I will be back in a minute”

Kara nodded, Lena know that she would do anything for her. Kara was showing Olivia a picture of Mon-El seeing Olivia do a dislike face. Clark & Diana were having the best afternoon of their life. The little girl was beyond funny.

Reign was still in the bathroom she waited long until a woman exited the place. She had been watching the side of her left hand returning to her natural color from being grey. She checked herself into the mirror looking for something unusual. Nothing. Reign heard a creak in the door and in speed light the turn on the sink washing her hands

“Reign? Are you here?” Lena stepped inside the bathroom seeing Reign’s back “Lena?” Reign turned around with her hands wet “You’ve been here for long, I was worried” Lena was now a step far from Reign “There were a few ladies… old ones” Reign wanted to joke “Let me dry my hands”

Reign dried her hands with towel paper and just when she put it into the trash Lena took one of her hands. Reign hold her breath but Lena just pulled her closer making her wrap that arm in her waist. Lena was staring at Reign’s mouth with attention waiting.

“Hey…” Reign breathed relieved “You okay?” Lena tilted her head to the left graze into Reign’s lips “Now I am” Reign liked this game she almost always was the one who started the foreplay “Where’s Liv?” Reign left the tip of Lena’s tongue in her lower lip “With Kara, Diana and Clark” Lena whispered biting Reign’s lip “Good lord” Reign pinned Lena against the wall in a heated kiss “if we…” Reign couldn’t end the sentence after hearing the creak of the door opening

It was an young woman with her little boy Reign was already a few steps far from Lena. The dark haired woman made a gesture to follow her and she did and just when they were about to go out, Reign with one hand caught Lena’s ass squeezing it gently whispering to the ear -I can’t wait us to be alone- Lena felt a wave of heat running through her body seeing her -girlfriend- walk out first.

Lena had a smirk of satisfaction on her face thinking about the word -girlfriend-

“Mommy!” Olivia ran happy into Reign when she saw her entry to the café

Reign picked her daughter up in her arms holding her tight with Lena behind her

“Have you had fun with Lena’s friends?” They where walking to their table “Clark is cute” Olivia whispered to her mother’s face “I have to say it once again Reign” Diana had a napkin in her hand “Your daughter is delightful does she have been always this curious?” “Yes, since she was three years old” Reign nodded

Lena and Reign sit together. Kara occasionally peeked at them with curiosity. The blonde woman wasn’t sure was going on, maybe was that Reign was a little touchy feeling, or maybe that Lena was so comfortable with her that when she could notice them looking at each other talking without words.

Clark was laughing about an story Kara tell but suddenly he had this stern look on his face focused in something, this was noticed by Diana. He stood up, looking at Kara making her stop for a second

“I’m really sorry I forgot I had to go to the Daily Planet and leave a camera I borrowed from Lois desk before she can notice” Clark explained convincing “I told her I would take it a couple hours but…” he hit his forehead softly “it was really nice to meet you Lena, it seems that all the Luthor are not the same” Clark offered his hand taking his bag from the side of the table

It was being often people recognized Lena was far different from her family in every aspect and she loved that

“It was my pleasure Clark” Lena smiled shaking his hand “Reign…” Clark did the same “Olivia” He tickled the little girl making this giggle “Diana, I’ll see you later” he kissed his girlfriend earning an ewww from Kara

Clark jogged to the nearest exit. Olivia laughed making Reign look at her lifting a brow.

“He runs fun mommy” Olivia giggled “So, what are you gonna do guys?” Kara asked curious “Later I mean, are you staying in Metropolis?” “I should go back to my hotel” Diana excused “I hope to see you in another time” Diana told the women and kneeled before Olivia “I will send you a book about Greek mythology” She winked at the little girl making her smile confident “You don’t really have to” Reign didn’t wanted to bother the busy agenda of the woman “She deserve better stories aside a man getting his powers from a spider” Diana checked the hour “it was really a pleasure to met you” “The pleasure were ours” Lena felt gratitude “thank you”

Diana placed a kiss in the top of the head of Olivia before leaving. Her happy expression changed to a serious one when she gave her back to them

“As I told you Kara I have to visit Lex” Lena said annoyed “We don’t really have to, if you want to hang out with your friend, Olivia and I can go somewhere and maybe later we can say hi” Reign looked at those green eyes “You don’t mind?” Lena wanted to kiss Reign when she shook her head with a smile “Let’s go baby girl” Reign kissed Lena’s cheek and Olivia gave her a hug “I will call you when we are over okay?” “Bye Kara” Olivia and Reign said at unison

Reign made tickles to her daughter when they were leaving being followed by Lena’s sight and this bit her lower lip.

“What’s between you two?” Kara asked curious “Huh?” Lena torn her head to Kara “Between you two” Kara made a hand gesture pairing her index fingers “I… I don’t know” Lena was relief to finally tell this to someone “I like her and I can tell she likes me too” Lena extended her arms in the table “and Olivia… she’s so smart” “Awww that’s so cute!” Kara was so excited to see Lena that happy “Her ex-husband is an asshole” Lena complained “What about him?” “I can’t tell you much about him, but every week we are together he calls only to annoy her” Lena shook her head tiredly “They share her custody” “Since when are you seeing each other” Kara this time was surprised Lena haven’t told her this before “For a while” Lena didn’t wanted to give more details before set it clear with Reign

They kept talking in the museum a little bit more. Then they went to Metropolis Park near there, Kara was happy for her friend’s happiness. Around 21:00 they said goodbye and Lena called Reign but after a few tries she didn’t picked her phone. She called four times again but nothing. The woman felt a sting in her heart again like something wrong was happening.

> L.L: Your friend indeed is a beautiful complex woman. You should have come earlier. The little girl quite interesting. -.picture attached.-

Lena saw the picture and it was Lex at his piano with Olivia by his side playing. Lena called Reign once again

“Lena?” Reign picked up her mobile “Fuck… where have you been?” Lena began to walk fast to call a cab “why you didn’t picked up the phone?” “I only had a 1% of battery” Reign was at a hotel room “I’m sorry, we… we are in a hotel next to the Metropolis International Airport”

Lena took the first taxi she stopped “I’m on my way… do not talk to anybody until I get there” Reign wanted to say something but Lena hang off

A half hour later she was in the hotel, she had the number of the room in a text message. Lena run to the room her heart was about to jump off her chest until Reign opened the door slowly. When the woman fully opened the door Lena touched her face then the shoulders. Lena’s arms roamed her arms till her hands.

“You are okay” Lena said almost not believing what she was seeing “Where’s Olivia?” Lena came into the room closing the door behind her pulling Reign into a hug

Reign felt Lena agitated so she hold her tight, not knowing what was going on. After a couple minutes she let Lena go trying to search in her face an answer.

“Is Olivia okay?” Lena asked “Yes… she’s sleeping in her bed” Reign lead the way.

Lena saw the girl KO in her heavy sleep, she brushed her hair with her fingers. She turned around seeing this bemused expression on Reign’s face

“I’m really sorry I was worried something happened to you or Liv” Lena walked towards Reign and kissed her hard, she didn’t care anymore if the curtains were open or if people see her. The only thing she wanted was feel Reign’s soft lips and hands on her letting her know everything was ok…

[electricdazemag]

Hello, I’m Sorry: Interview

by Tasha Bielaga

The sadboy party rock genre you’ve been missing is finally found, thank god. Seattle based indie pop/trash band Hello, I’m Sorry has been stirring up the Washington DIY scene for a little over 2 years. Songs like Good’s Not Great feature that panning of guitar lines between speakers, you know, the one’s that make your brain feel like it’s spinning when you listen to it with headphones. Vocalist Seth Little, drummer Paul Rhoads, and bassist Cam Richardson all live in Bellingham, WA, where their daily antics are filled with schoolwork and pestering their guitarist Alexander Henness, who lives south of Seattle, to come work on music. The band’s fuzz pop feels reminiscent of warm summer nights full of friends and basement gigs. It’s the embodiment of what goes on in most youth’s heads, set to a tune you can dance, or mosh, to. We talk about saying goodbye to Seth’s beloved 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee, the best cassettes printed to date, and their janky mic set ups, the epitome of DIY.

Electric Daze: How do you balance making music, working, and going to school?

Paul: School is the only reason I live in Bellingham actually, I’m from California. As much as I would love to just do music 100%, I’m paying a lot of money in tuition and I know what I’m studying, so a lot of my life is based around school. I always make time for music on the weekends though.

Seth: Music is the funnest thing for me, it’s what I enjoy doing the most. But, I am paying a lot of money to be here and should probably be putting more work into school. Whenever I have down time I always try to write something or be productive with my music.

Alex: I think it’s definitely worth it to find a good balance between everything. Since I drive up here all the time to play shows and hang with these guys, music is the most important thing that I want to spend my time doing when I’m not working.

ED: What was the first DIY house show you played that really pushed you to get into this scene?

Seth: We played the Karate Church in Bellingham with Roar Shack back in February of last year! It’s this church that, I don’t want to say renovated because it just looks like half of it got torn down on one side, but you know. There’s this basement part that has a dirt floor. That was definitely the first show where I was like “this is tight, this is such a cool DIY scene”

ED: You guys have obviously played a lot of different shows, from bars to house to dirt floor basements. What makes you want to keep pursuing the house show scene vs. a different approach?

It’s sweatier, they’re more fun! I’m a huge fan of the DIY scene. All the music we’ve recorded has been on laptops, and the DIY part just seems like people are always there more for the music. It’s a lot more intimate.

Are there any songs you particularly like to play live?

Bodies, Sleep by the Phone, Little Plan. People go wild to those. We played a house show with the band Cruise, and it got really crazy really fast. Somebody spilled FOUR LOKO on Alexander’s pedal board, SO sticky man. And then I was worried for the foundation of the house, I felt like I had to be a dad about it you know like “Yo! Let’s be safe out there!” and then give a thumbs up and play the next song.

You do so much releasing on cassettes, which is super tight! I saw there was a mini zine that came with one of them, what was the inspiration for that?

Our good friend Mimi Jaffe actually did those! She also did the cover art for Consolation Party, she’s one of my favorite artists in Bellingham. She did a page for each song and I printed them for the cassettes.

How was working on the Z-Tapes cassette compilation? How’d you get in on that and why’d you pick that song to cover?

Filip from Z-Tapes hit me up and originally wanted to put out some of our tapes, but he had a lot back ordered. I ended up putting ours out ourselves. Anyway, he asked if we wanted to cover a theme song to be included on this cover compilation, and I thought that was tight so we did. I originally wanted to do (Theme from) The Monkees, but it was taken. So I really dug deep and found this mini 70’s tv series that used a Sex Pistol’s cover of Eddie Cochran’s Somethin’ Else, and I thought ehh that technically works, so we covered it!

What’s your favorite cassette that you own?

Alex: There’s this rapper on Stone Throw Records named Koreatown Oddity, and he made a mixtape that’s him rapping from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air's perspective with these really late 90’s beats on it. It’s a 1/100 copy.

Seth: I’m really into The Replacements, but I’m not huge on the album “Don’t Tell A Soul”, but that album has a song titled “Asking Me Lies” that is Paul Westerberg’s attempt at a pop song and it’s SO awful and amazing at the same time, especially on cassette, so that’s my favorite right now.

Paul: When I was a little kid I had a cassette of The Lovin’ Spoonful that I used to listen to in the car, that’s probably my favorite.

ED: You guys did a west coast tour back in August. How do you feel the cities music scenes vary?

Well LA was hands down the best city we played it. They were very receptive to new music that they probably hadn’t heard before. We ended up meeting with mutual friends in most cities, which made the whole tour very cohesive, and not vary a lot surprisingly.

ED: Do you have a wild story from your tour?

OH! We bought a new car! This tour was very very DIY, we didn’t even rent a van. We had Paul’s 2009 Scion xB Box Car, that he just loves, and Seth’s 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee. On the way back up it was so cramped in the jeep, the engine light was flashing, and the gauges would go all the way up and then all the way back down, and we’re just thinking something’s wrong, something is terribly wrong. So we pulled over on the side off the road in Weed, California, and Seth found a dealership that would trade straight across. We get a 1999 Volvo cross country, and that car, was the worst car, in the entire world. It had a coolant leak, so we pulled over every 45 min from northern CA to Seattle, WA, to pour coolant in. At one point one of the covers for the headlights just flew straight off while we driving, and there was a huge semi truck that had exploded, so the drive just took forever.  We got into bed at 7am the next day.

ED: You guys have accomplished so many cool things in 2016, like playing with Together Pangea, playing EMP Sound Off, and more recently you played with TV Girl. What goals do you hope to accomplish this year?

Playing with bands that we really like is always a goal of ours. We also really want to play a festival this year. We’d love to do, you know, like, Coachella, hahaha. Touring again and more shows! We have to figure out how our summer’s going to look individually and then work around that.

ED: Good’s Not Great has 20,000 views on YouTube, and 107.7 has been spinning it lately, which is so cool. Were you expecting that song to kinda be your single and the one people listed to the most?

Seth: Honestly, no. When I recorded it, I recorded all the instrumentals and I was super hyped on it. Then I recorded the vocals and it just sounded fucking awful, I was like this song is the worst thing I’ve ever made in my entire life. I remember going “holy fuck, these vocals suck, I forgot that I can’t sing” and I was super depressed for like two days. And then I went in and redid the vocals and went “alright these are better, this song is passable now”.

ED: Do you have a specific writing process? I know you do a lot of half done demos, what’s the process for that like?

Seth: Yeah! I don’t know how to say this without sounding like a total tool, but recording for me is part of my writing process. I normally have a half baked idea and I go in, record it and work with it. I send a lot of small ideas to the rest of the guys and they’ll give me feedback on whether I should continue it or not, and that’s what drives my song writing.

ED: Do you do most of the song writing yourself then?

Seth: Yeah, I do almost all of the writing and recording. We always rework the song live though, and sometimes they end up having a completely different energy which I’m a huge fan of. What I’m trying to new with the new album is make demos and then play them and work through them as a band, and then re-record them to match what we do as a band.

ED: What’s your mic set up like? I know small bands always have the coolest (shittiest) mics.

Seth: The jankiest for sure! I have two mics that I use for recording, one’s a Sennheiser condenser mic, and I think the other is an Audio Technica that I use for vocals and drums, sometimes everything. Sometimes when we practice, I take a 1950’s ribbon mic and run it through a solid state 80’s fender amp with chorus on it for a while, because I didn’t have an amp that could take the xlr input. That was probably the jankiest situation.

Paul: Sometimes when I’d use a vocal mic, we’d string it over the rafters in the basement because we didn’t have another mic stand. So it would just kinda dangle in front of my face.

ED: How do you guys feel about music videos? Any plans to do some soon?

We’re doing a live recording of our set today with Bellingham Sound Check actually! That’ll be nice to have a video of how our songs sound live vs. what Seth records. As far as our own music videos, we’d like to do one for Good’s Not Great. We like to sit around and talk about what would be a cool video for each song.

ED: Is anyone a different kind of artist? Obviously you’re all musicians but is anyone acquainted with other forms of art?

Seth: I am definitely NOT.

Alex: I play soccer, and I think Soccer’s an art.

Paul: Well I’m in a jazz band! Which is still music, but a different kind.

Cam: I have a friend who lives in Texas who asks me for beats that he can rap over. So I send him some terrible beats to rap over.

ED: Would you ever make beats for Hello, I’m Sorry, maybe less lofi more terrible rap? If you had to cover a rap song, what would it be?

I feel like we could rap. We could cover Gangsta Gangsta, or definitely Rap Snitch Knishes. Maybe Mathematics by Mos Def but it would be hard. We could take a stab at it though! We’ll make a bad demo and follow up.

photo by Emma Hatwell

Connect with Hello, I’m Sorry on Instagram at @hello.imsorry and on Facebook here.

You can listen to their music on bandcamp at helloimsorry.bancamp.com and on Spotify here.

The cassette with the mini zine can be found here, and the ZTapes compilation here!

This is the first installment of features on Seattle based bands. Check back here soon to read the rest!

Check out Tasha’s work for the magazine here.