#supportive little sister rapunzel

[nebuliias]

— hope is a thing with feathers!

ft. sunday and robin as your older siblings (headcannons)

cw: youngest sibling in the fam, gn! reader, family fluff, reader is between ages 12-14, PLATONIC, i went silly on some of them, reader is a halovian but no specified appearance other than halo and wings

a/n’s note: sunday and robin’s relationship mean sm to me its not even funny like HOYO PLZ MAKE THEM REUNITE I WILL SCREAM IF THEY DONT :((( honestly wish i had them as family yk

SUNDAY:

— even though he’s the leader of penacony and doesn’t have time to always spend time with you, sunday always makes up for it when he can.

— if you ever need help with an essay or math homework, he’ll assist you with it. even if it’s fucking 2+2, bro would still help you. heck at this point, he’ll do the whole worksheet for you. sunday loves you that much dawg.

— sunday would be rlly supportive for you, no matter what!! he’d encourage you to pursue your dreams, whether that’s becoming a nameless, a performer for the iris family, or something else entirely, he’ll be there alongside you every step of the way :3

— he’d be a bit strict with you, since you’re still young. would probably give you a curfew for when its night, like making you go to bed at 9pm at least. maybe a little later on the weekends. (does time even exist in the dreamscape i dont remember.)

— if you ask sunday VERY politely, (he’ll still oblige), he’ll sing you a lullaby for when you have trouble sleeping. tuck your blanket under your chin too while he’s at it, hehehe.

— LMAO IDK WHY THIS IS SO FUNNY TO ME but imagine you’re dating someone and introduce sunday to your significant other, I FEEL LIKE HE’D BE POLITE AND ALL THAT BUT AS SOON AS YALL DILLY DALLY OR WTV HE’D BE GIVING THEM SIDE GLANCES EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE.

— like i said, he IS protective of you and will go on a rampage if they’re toxic or hurtful to you. :)

— btw, if you watched robin’s trailer, you can catch a glimpse of sunday polishing her halo. and yes, he would polish your halo too, since you’re also halovian, sometimes even preen your wings too if he’s not too busy.

— if you take band or theatre arts in school or figure skating, acrobatics or just SOMETHING that includes performances, sunday doesn’t give a shit if he has something to do, he will find a way to go to every single one bc he doesn’t wanna disappoint you as an older brother :(

— pats your head. a lot. literally a mom-sibling, you can’t tell me otherwise. will occasionally pick your outfits and asks for your opinion before you go out or make sure your school uniform is crisp and unwrinkled. (if your school has uniforms.)

— overall, sunday is a doting and compassionate older brother. he loves you with his whole being. <3

ROBIN:

— the best, nicest, loving, caring older sister you will ever have in your entire lifespan.

— like sunday, she would help you in any way possible. but she’s not the best when it comes to math homework :(( if you want, she’ll give you a pep talk though!! and trust me, robin gives out the best ad most encouraging pep talks ever like..

— if you do something hella devious, even if its 101% your fault, she’d side with you no matter what. this girl hardly gets to be silly due to her superstar reputation but when she has the chance, plz just let her be. (yall can be devious together.)

— would brush your hair for you!! it doesn’t matter whether you have short or long ass rapunzel-looking hair, she will somehow find a way to style it.

— definitely sang you songs during your childhood, and she still does! robin would hum a tune when you can’t sleep, or you simply just wanna destress and don’t feel like doing anything else. <3

— also like sunday, since she travels a lot, she’ll always make up for the lost time by brinking trinkets and gifts, maybe even bring you along with her during her one of her tours!

— also incredibly supportive in your passions! want to become a performer like her? she’ll be there rooting for you on the sidelines! wanna learn to sing and follow in her footsteps? sure, she’ll gladly teach you for free! (not like you had to pay anyway teehee.)

— robin would be somewhat protective of you as well, just not too strictly. after all, you should experience as much of the outside world as you can. 🎀

— i feel like she’s a horrible money spender.. (same..) if robin sees you glance at a piece of jewelry or smth hella expensive for 0.00001 nanoseconds, suddenly it’s in a gift bag at your desk when you get home from school with a little note from her along with some pastries she thought you’d like.

— if you gift her something, whether its handmade or you bought it with your own money, chances are she’ll keep it for the rest of eternity and repay you with a gift of her choice as well!!

— overall, robin is a sweet and soft older sister and is always there for you, no matter the distance that separates you!

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[sboochi]

Omg had a heartbreaking idea. So you when the TTS gang is all stranded on the island, and they find that device that shows them their happiest moment over and over again. What if

A - it doesn’t work on Jack because he’s the Guardian of Fun, and so the magic is too similar and it protects him from seeing anything.

B- He still doesn’t see anything, but that’s because his “happiest moment/greatest desire” is so impossible for the magic of the talisman that it isn’t strong enough to conjure it. Plus, Jack still doesn’t remember a lot about himself. So it’s like trying to use his memories from the tooth box, but if the tooth box was broken. He hears Mary (his human little sister’s voice) again and just sees a shadow. The shadow glitches a lot before disappearing. What would that should be? Jaime and the guardians? Or Mary, and the answer to his question of what she looked like (cause he only got a glimpse) and her name.

c - It DOES work and you have a very very very depressed and bipolar Jack on an tropical island which is now turning into a winter doomsday and no one else gets a turn because Jack is literally so desperate for answers he will in fact snap to get them.

Which tbh I feel like since Merida has her villain arc later, Hiccup has his depression arc without his emotional support dragon, Rapunzel with Varian and Cass, Varian with his Dad and villian arc, Cass with her Villain arcEugene with the whole Dark Kingdom being his birthplace, I would very much like to see Jack go through the runner and I don’t know if it’s here on the island of misfit toys or in Athollhan that he snaps and breaks down crying and causes the universe to go “yikes.dot.yikes”

You know, I've thought about the Happiness is... episode before, and the interesting thing is this: the idol seems to focus on temporary needs and desires.

Eugene sees himself as captain of a ship, not him happily married to Rapunzel in a big castle. Rapunzel sees her parents, not the black rocks mystery solved. Cassandra's vision is the one that feels more deeper-desire-y.

So considering that, I think Merida would see some adventurous scenario where she'd get to run around doing fun action stuff and Jack would see an apparently innocent snowball fight with the Burgess kids and the Guardians, because this is when he'd really start getting nostalgic for home.

That leaves out Hiccup, who at this point has spent the first third of the season sulking and being really depressed.

And not only I've been neglecting his part in the story, with the antagonist!Merida plotline and moonstone!Jack shenanigans, but this is the perfect moment to put Hiccup under the spotlight. Because of course he'd see Toothless.

And after a healthy amount of yearning, self-doubt and guilt, really making him feel terrible, and the reveal that it was just the idol making him see things, he snaps. But not in the tragic way. Instead, this is what shakes him up and makes him find the will to fight again.

Cue epic construction montage where Hiccup builds a boat/raft helped by everyone, so they can finally leave the island.

[floweunoia]

Please do not forget about Fairy Tales

Please don't forget about fairy tales. Please don't forget about all these bravest princesses fighting with their own swords or frying pans.Please don't forget that Bella loved the beasts before and Rapunzel was able to get out of the tower on her own. Elsa loved her sister more than the crown and everything else, and the Smurfs never left each other in need. Donkey stayed with Shrek even when he pushed him away. Merida never let them extinguish her burning flame and the Little Mermaid wanted to know the truth and see with her own eyes not someone else's. Winnie the Pooh always supported Piglet even when he made no sense and Bear was ready to sacrifice himself for his brother out of pure love and there will always be someone worth melting for. Always someone who will give us a hand and believe until the end, someone who will support us when there is no one around. They taught us to believe. So please, let us not forget, not now or ever.

Happier, 2023

[sleepyselkiesims]

Part 20

????? What the hell, guys????

At least Ariel was super supportive!

She even invited Rapunzel to the Humor and Hijinks festival! Which was much more in character than her chosen outfit.

Rapunzel left Ariel to the mischief, and joined the comedy team.

She headed straight to the microphone, for a really awkward comedy duo.

But comedy didn't pay nearly as well as singing!

It wasn't everyone's taste, but Cassandra would always be her biggest fan!

Except when the crowd thinned a bit, Rapunzel noticed her little sister seemed sad.

Rapunzel stepped away from the mic to receive the sad news.

The benevolent god didn't even know Attina had gotten old! Let alone old enough to die before he last of the triplets!

Their momma was the last of the OG Queen teens left standing. At the least the grieving would end soon, and they still had their moms.

Well, Cassandra did. Rapunzel's alien mom only reached out properly after death.

R.I.P., Attina. You're the only mean sim I've ever liked, and you will be missed.

Back at work, there were still so, so many children...

Hey, Rapunzel knows this not-child!

Pania was one of those weird spellcasters who sometimes was really friendly to Rapunzel, and sometimes needlessly mean. And at this point, that was basically a best friend for Rapunzel.

In this case, her closest thing to a best friend seemed really happy about Rapunzel's stomach ache.

And the second Rapunzel left for a coffee, Pania transferred herself to a different doctor, which the benevolent god didn't even know sims could do.

But Rapunzel still tried to be reassuring and gentle as she treated her somewhat-friend.

Hey, looks like that worked!!

Hopefully she could tackle her other "friends" soon...

And when she got home, guess who was already there waiting!

Karim sure knew how to cheer a girl up after a rough time!

[theocddiaries]

"They can't order me to stop dreaming" or Why Cinderella isn't weak or a bad role model

Cinderella, as the other clasicall princesses, has been so overlooked. Sure, she doesn't stop a war like Pocahontas, saves her country like Mulan, saves her prince like Ariel and Belle, puts her foot down fiercely like Jasmine or confronts her abuser like Rapunzel did.

Which helps me elaborate my point: Rapunzel was able confront Mother Gothel because she has had growth outside her tower - where she has spent her 18 years of life, under narcissistic abuse and constant gaslighting - she has met many different people throughout her journey. She has seen thieves that were more than met the eye, has been treated kindly by Flynn, has had Pascal through thick and thin and was able to fulfill her dream of watching the lights first-hand. And later on, she could grow even more because she had her true parents, who loved her and never stopped believing she could come back to them.

Cinderella… Couldn't do as much (at least in the original 50's film, in the third one, she snapped at the stepmother and stood up to her).

Let's see what her life has been like: she had a loving mother, until she didn't. She had a loving father, until she didn't. And the only family she has left is an evil woman who has poisoned her biological daughters into believing their stepsister is the devil just because she was physically attractive. I dare to say she even envied the love Cinderella was given by his father, which meant 'less love' reserved for her, the wife. (Yes, it's sad, but there are parents like that).

So, Cinderella was left, from a very young age, to deal with solitude and ostracism in her own home. Her father remarried so she could have a loving mother, because he felt she missed a femenine figure in her life, and he chose wrong because abusers are just like that: they're chamaleons that won't show their true colours until they have you under their control. She can't count on her sisters because Tremaine has made sure to break the relationship even before it could be built.

The only things she has is her mice/birds friends and her dreams. She can't abroad these issues properly because of the time period and the lack of support system at home. How many children have gone through this? How many young and full-grown adults are dealing with the awful consequences of such upbringing - and even worse?

I didn't even realised I was verbal/emotional/mentally abused and neglected until very recently. And that's with the progress psychology has had in the last years. It's easy to judge actions of a past period with present eyes. We don't know what we'd have done had we been in that same situation in that time period, and being a woman, no less.

But coming back to Cinderella, I think she is one of the strongest princesses there is, not because she has done any of the brave things the princesses mentioned at the beginning of this rant had had in their movies, due to different backgrounds and personality traits. She could've turned bitter, mean, envious and cold-hearted, and instead, she remained good. That takes true courage. To still be good and see the good in people even when the ones who were supposed to take care and shelter you were the ones to bring pain upon you in the first place. Our homes and families, indirectly, shape the way we will perceive the world once we grow up and go into the real world. Since little, she has received nothing but dismissiveness, indifference and abuse, and yet, she never stops smiling, never stops believing, never stops dreaming.

Which lead us to a scene I think people overlook due to the famous song that comes afterwards. After her stepsisters ripped her dress - the last thing she has of her biological mother, mind you - so she can't go to a ball that was for everyone in the kingdom, she just breaks. Understandably so. (Which reminds me that she never wishes for a man or anyone to save her from her situation, at least, she wasn't vocal about it, but I'm sure she thought of it like anyone who has felt so alone, abused and hopeless, and there's nothing wrong with that. You have to do that before you realise you were strong all this time along). Seeing the shreds her late mother's dress is now, by the hands of her stepsisters, due to her stepmother's venomous tongue, is just too much for her.

She runs out and cries her eyes out, claiming that now "she doesn't believe in anything." And yet… her godmother appears, consoling her, replying: "If you truly didn't believe in anything, I wouldn't be here."

That right there, is the main example of Cinderella's true character and why she's so strong and why Tremaine wanted to make her forget about it: even when you stomp on her, repeatedly, relentlessly and mercilessly… She will always have some spark inside her, some voice, no matter how tiny, that refuses to give up hope and faith of a better future, of nice things coming her way.

That's Cinderella, that's her message. It's a story of inner strenght, of getting up each time people, life or your own mind kick you down. She's helping me a lot and I'm sure she is helping a lot of kids to this very day. Her story is inspiring, not only the Disney one, but the story of Cinderella in general.

In the original Latin Spanish dub, there's this beautiful adaptation of the lyrics to the song "A dream is a wish your heart makes", which I want to leave for y'all, for anyone who has had the kindness to read all this rambling about a fictional character.

"To dream is to wish for the happiness of our future. It doesn't matter who might erase your path for destiny is already written, and your dream will come true."

What is yours, will be yours. Keep on working, keep on believing.♥💪🏻

[zonerobotnik]

There are some ships I've seen art of that I would like to know your thoughts about.

Hugo x Nuru

Hugo x Rapunzel

Varian x Kiera

Stalyan x Caine

Rapunzel x Nuru

Hector x Zhan Tiri

Quirin x Ariana

Gothel x Cyrus

My personal opinions? Ooookaaaay. HugoxNuru - Kind of cute, but I hc that Hugo is strictly gay, not bi. He more sees her as a little sister once they grow past the "annoying princess/stubborn ex-thief" stage. HugoxRapunzel - Same with Nuru, I hc him to be gay, not bi. I know some people hc him as pansexual, but I personally think he's only into guys. Anyways, I could see him tolerating Rapunzel's happy-go-lucky nature as a friend, but he would need to excuse himself to take a break from it after a while. VarianxKiera - Again, sibling relationship, not romantic. Kiera never showed the same interest in him that Catalina did beyond messing with his inventions and teasing him along with Lance. StalyanxCaine - Okay, this I am listening to. Especially fun if you go with my hc that Eugene briefly dated Lady Caine, so they can share stories about how much of a selfish lover he was and show each other how selfless THEY can be in bed. RapunzelxNuru - Okay, uhm...first of all, Nuru is TWELVE when Rapunzel is eighteen. That's a literal preteen, that is Dipper and Mabel age, that is Yong age. Would you ship Varian and Yong? No. That's gonna be a big age-up for Nuru, or Rapunzel is really looking at robbing cradles, as if fourteen-year-old Varian isn't young enough. Secondly, with how sheltered she is, to the point of not even coming to the Contest of the Crowns, I doubt Rapunzel and Nuru would ever meet before Rapunzel is already married to Eugene. I think they could be pretty good friends, though. She seems to get along better with younger princesses than ones her own age, if the comics are any indication with Princess Narcissa compared to the Contest of the Crowns. HectorxZhanTiri - As if Gothel isn't bad enough? What's with all these old ladies going for Hector? What would Zhan Tiri even get out of messing with Hector? I don't ship it, she wouldn't bother with him.

QuirinxArianna - ...Why? He barely acknowledges her existence in canon and has more history with Frederic. The only reason I can see him going for her is as a middle-finger to Fred, but we got adult Varian to do that and she doesn't deserve that anyway.

GothelxCyrus - Donella will burn that cradle-robbing witch to the GROUND if she lays a HAND on her little brother! Yes, I hc that they are brother and sister and he was with them for the Trials before as support and works with his sister after they, uh, went their separate ways from Ulla at the Eternal Library.

But, these are just my personal opinions, based on my headcanons and lore, and you don't have to share them or agree.

[twotangledsisters]

For the Ask Game: A Chance to Raise Them?

A Chance to Raise Them, one of the fics I've talked about on this account quite a lot actually! And yet, I fail to write the final arc to the fic so I can start publishing...

It's a fic where Cass and Rapunzel were together in the tower, but only for three years before Gothel was caughts, questioned and Corona's Guard go to the tower to rescue the lost princess!

Arianna sees the two sisters and is like, "Well, seems like we have two daughters now."

And Frederics takes a minute to adjust but not too long.

A year into living in the palace a duo of thieves tries to steal Rapunzel's hat while they're out and Cassandra chases them down. Frederic requests Captain help them see what an honest life looks like and eventually Captain decides to keep them.

So it's a kid fic with Cass and Rapunzel being under Arianna and Frederic's care.

Eugene and Lance under Captain's care.

It shows two different pairs of children who need a bit of extra support and two different parenting styles that fits each child. Cassandra and Rapunzel need a lot of love and to be given some extra freedom after the tower. Eugene and Lance need structure and security after the street.

Cassandra and Eugene have a little rivalry.

The Barron comes back for Eugene and Lance at one point but the adults actually take the reigns in protecting these children because it's a kid fic and that's what should happen!

It's cute, it's sweet, it's one I should definitely get on with!

I've shared quite a few snippets in the past and I usually try to share snippets containing all four children so it's like, equal? But I've shared so many I'm running low so here, you can have two snippets one with each family unit!

Snippet One with the Royal Family:

Cassandra was the first to wake up in the morning. The room, which was slowly becoming familiar to her, still made her heart sink. It wasn’t the tower; it wasn’t the safe space her mother had bought her to at four-years-old. Which meant her mother was still gone and instead replaced with strangers. She pulled the blanket over her head to muffle the sound of her crying. Rapunzel would be the second person to awaken. She’d move from her bed to Cassandra’s, wiping her sister’s tears with her hand, like any three-year-old who’s understanding of empathy was limited, with the tears now dry she considered her work done and moved to wake her new parents. Rapunzel was a little aggressive with her wake up call, throwing herself atop the king and queen like a very badly trained wrestler. Frederic groaned and Arianna leaped up, thinking there was some sort of anger only to encounter the giggling three-year-old. Despite the rude awakening, Arianna couldn’t hold back a bright smile as she brought her baby close to her chest. “Oh, were we taking too long to wake up?” Rapunzel nodded. “I’m sorry, my darling.” She kissed the girl on the top of the head before glancing over towards Cassandra, who covered her face with the blanket. Frederic sat up. “I guess you’re desperate for breakfast?” Rapunzel nodded. “Cassandra said she wanted hot chocolate and cupcakes.” “No, I didn’t,” Cassandra’s mumbles were barely audible through the blanket. Arianna giggled. “You’re very cheeky, darling. Why do you think Cassandra asking is more likely to get you what you want than just asking yourself?” Rapunzel frowned. “Because Cassandra’s in charge.” Frederic shook his head. “Not anymore.” “What?!” Cassandra threw the blanket down. Frederic smiled and knelt down so his eyes were level with her. “I know your old mother left you in charge of Rapunzel, but that’s not how things are anymore. Me and your mum are going to take care of both of you. You don’t have the pressure of responsibility anymore.” Cassandra glared. “You aren’t replacing me.” Frederic frowned. “No, of course not, darling. You’ll always be Rapunzel’s big sister.” This seemed to calm the girl down as she finally came fully out from under the blanket, lifting her arms so Frederic could pick her up. “Shall we go pick out an outfit for the day?” Frederic smiled as he took Cassandra to the wardrobe.

And a snippet from Captain and his boys:

The next week went well, the boys enjoyed learning to fight proper, they enjoyed going out on the town with the captain and most of all they enjoyed the attention, the food. However, all good things had to come to an end and captain told them one night that in just a few days, if they managed to not steal anything, they’d be ready to go home. He thought this was good news. Then he came back from getting dinner to see boxes poking out from under the beds. He put the food down and pulled the boxes out. Trinkets from around the castle. “Oh, no!” Eugene gasped. “You found our stash of stolen stuff…” He put big eyes on. “Guess we haven’t learnt our lesson yet…” The captain raised his brows, sighing. “You two aren’t that bad of thieves… Nothing here is even worth anything!” “What do you mean we aren’t that bad of thieves? You’re seeing it!” Eugene gestured. The captain sat down. “Why are you two trying to get into more trouble?” For a moment neither answered, but then Lance decided to be honest. “Because we like it here.” The captain frowned. “This is supposed to be a punishment, a learning opportunity.” “And we’re learning, we’re learning to fight, but we’re also learning what it’s like to… To sleep in a room without another ten children some of which are crying babies, what it’s like to not go hungry if we don’t like the food, what it’s like to… To feel safe.” Lance looked at the ground. “We’re sorry.” The captain hesitated. “You could probably stay a couple more days if… If you want to.” “Really?” Eugene looked up at him. The captain nodded, surprised when both boys leaped forward to hug him. “But… you have to put those things back where you found them, alright?” he pointed to the box, and both boys nodded, picking up the box and running off. “After supper?” But they were gone. He smiled.

I think I haven't shared either of these snippets before but if I have, tell me because I have plenty more!

Maybe you'll get the entire story in short snippets rather than organized chapters... Okay, no, I can finish the final arc xD

Thank you for the ask!

[theatrekidmonologues]

American Salon

By Ephraim William

Hi, welcome in, have a seat. I’m just finishing up with my last client. Alright Sam, just a little more off the top and we are done. There. It’s like a sculpture of art. I bet even that Billie Eyelash would want a date with you now. I’ll see you in two weeks, Sam. Sorry about the wait. You’ve brought a pretty big camera here. Make sure you get my good side. Trick question, they’re both good sides. I know you wanted an interview about Fatima, but I’m not sure what to tell you that I haven’t already on the phone. If you want to hear it again, I’m glad to talk about it. I know it would make Fatima happy to talk about it. Just about what happens if you wear a hijab in America.

Fatima was muslim. She had green eyes and a perfect smile. She had a mole just to the left of her eyebrow and when she wanted you to know she was serious or angry about something. She’d say “Look at the mole. The mole is unhappy.” And Fatima would scrunch her face until you stopped doing whatever you were doing and looked at the mole and apologized. “I’m sorry, mole. I am unworthy. Please forgive me.” It was just one small thing about her but love is about the small things. The little details that fill up in your hands like sand. Fatima’s hijab was another little detail. She wore a head covering for her faith and not that it was all of who she was, but it was a part of her. It was an important part of her. She was very religious about wearing it. “Religious about it”, eh, I never make any good jokes. Like when Fatima was taking too long getting ready or untying her shoes and then retying her shoes and then putting on another pair of shoes, I’d say “Fatima! Your shoes are good. Allah does not want you to try on ‘allah‘ the shoes.” By all accounts a dumb, no, a very dumb joke. And Fatima would turn to me, and she’d say, “Look at the mole. The mole is unhappy.” Most men are dumb, but I am above average. “More dumb than man”, Fatima would sometimes say before putting her cheek to mine and laughing. Laughing was another little part of us. 

I am not muslim. I am not muslim, but I still prayed next to her rug some days. I fasted with her. I also learned how to wrap a hijab. I think being a part of something is not necessary in order to give support and be comfortable around it. We all could learn to be more comfortable around people who are different than ourselves. It is so simple. It is! Yet even my brother, he looks at me like a camel and doesn’t want to understand. I say, “Brother! You know Fatima is muslim. Why did you bring two bottles of wine for dinner? Muslims cannot drink but you, you cannot think.” People do not want to understand, and ignorant people are scared. Fear turns into anger and anger turns into hate. And hate… Well, hate is like giving yourself a haircut. It’s ugly. There are many ugly people. 

I know. Because I cut hair. It isn't that I love hair, but I like talking and cutting away the ugly things people hold in their head. If you let me cut your hair, I can make your true love fall in love with you. All for the low price of $20.99? Not a bad deal, huh? A haircut can change your life. That's how I fell in love with Fatima. My sister said her friend needed a haircut, but since she wore a headscarf, she wanted someone to cut her hair at her house. We didn't even take her hijab off for that first haircut. Fatima just let some of her hair out, she had such beautiful hair. My little Rapunzel. We couldn't stop talking. I would go every few weeks and cut her hair. I'd make bad jokes and she'd laugh. One day, she took off her hijab entirely… Which for a muslim woman is the most intimate gesture. Because for outsiders a hijab is only removed for the man she loves the most. Fatima removed her hijab for me. So yes, these scissors can bring you to your true love. It worked for me. For you, $20.99, not bad huh?

In Iran, women wear the hijab so that they are not harassed. If only it were that simple in America. Instead of camouflage it has the opposite effect. It was always hard for Fatima to wear the hijab here. The stares. The whispers. The people who ask if she even had hair underneath. Of course Fatima has hair! But her hair was not for you. The night the attack happened, she shouldn’t have been there. I asked her to grab my scissors from the shop. She was walking to her car when those men followed her. The store camera saw it, saw everything. They called at her and she tried to ignore them, but they didn’t like it. They grabbed her hijab and pushed her against the wall. She tried to fight with the scissors, but the other man, he took the scissors from Fatima. They pushed her face into the wall and took her hijab off. They started cutting her clothes away and cutting her hair. They, they left her on the ground and, and… the police. They couldn’t find the men. And they did not care, they did not care because Fatima was muslim. Because no one wants to talk about muslim women. So I have the faces of these men but I cannot do anything but to do this interview and ask you to do the police’s job. And you only wanted this interview because Fatima wore the hijab. Because when I called you, you wanted nothing to do with me and Fatima even though I told you what happened. You didn’t care about Fatima. You didn’t care about her when she was just my wife. Or even a woman who was attacked. It was only after I told you Fatima was muslim and you asked if she wore a hijab. Do you think I am dumb? Do you think I don’t know that reporters want to talk about muslim women only now that Iran protests the hijab? I don’t care. I don’t care why. I just want you to show the footage of the men, and if the people who watch your show can find these men then that is enough. This footage is what it means to wear the hijab in America. I am not doing this for you. I am doing this for me. Because if I don’t yell, then no one will listen. 

Because all I wanted was to cut my Fatima’s hair, but her last haircut was taken from me. I will never laugh with her again. So, please, take it and go. Even if you do not show me, show Fatima. Show Fatima and find those men.

[inamindfarfaraway]

@nerdasaurus1200 Actual plot ideas for my Dog Owner Cass AU:

They still get the ‘one of Rapunzel’s party will turn against her’ message, but it really is just Eugene. Also, they don’t ever seriously suspect Cass because yes, she hasn’t forgiven Raps for the hand thing and the constant-oblivious-devaluing-of-her-wants-and-needs thing and is actually able to say that here, but she keeps doting on her puppies and it’s impossible to think that way of her watching that. Since the puppies have catalyzed the group’s emotional communication, Raps actively takes steps to reaffirm their friendship, like fully, sincerely apologizing for the many ways she’s hurt her. You know, the both logical and nice thing to do if at all worried your friend will betray you over a grudge?

I know it’s been theorized that Rapunzel would have been killed by the cosmic power overload if she as the Sundrop had touched the Moonstone, and in a more angsty AU I would subscribe to that theory because the show doesn’t really give any alternative and instead supports it with Zhan Tiri’s demise. But this isn’t an angsty AU. This is the ‘puppies make everything better’ AU. So while the successful moment of contact in “Destinies Collide” is very dramatic, Raps survives. She rises into the air, the two powers’ magic crackling around her, her floating, glowing hair streaked with bright yellow and blue, one eye a solid luminous blue and the other similarly burning yellow - that kind of dramatic. The black rocks all grow toward her. Eugene and Cass look on in awe and fear. Then the blue and yellow light concentrates into twin beams that shine from her eyes and combine. Twisting together, they blast straight through the roof and up into the stars. Raps drops to the ground, hair brown. Every black rock disintegrates. Eugene has just enough time to carry his girlfriend’s unconscious body back across the black rock bridge before it too is gone. Raps is now entirely devoid of magic.

Raps may have survived, but that doesn’t mean she’s okay. The experience - channeling two opposite, primordial cosmic powers at once and then having them ripped out of her - was extremely painful and terrifying. It helps her empathize much better with how Cass felt when her arm decayed. Another major source of pain is that she’s no longer the Sundrop. She’s always been the Sundrop. Even once Eugene cut her hair, its magic remained passively within her. Now she has permanently been stripped of a previously fundamental part of herself, that’s defined her whole life and caused her immense happiness and suffering alike. And now that it’s just gone and her “destiny” is completed, she isn’t sure who she is or what to do. Overall she’s left shaken, afraid and lost. This turmoil is her emotional drive in “Rapunzel’s Return”. She first tries to bury it and act chipper; then she runs off attempting to retake the kingdom alone to prove she’s still just as capable and useful (keeping her hair long consciously so she can fight and stuff with it, subconsciously because she can’t accept the change). Rather than grieve Cass’s betrayal, she must confront her trauma of fearing and resenting her own destiny. The final scene of the episode is her cutting her hair to reach her ankles in acceptance that she can’t hold onto a version of herself she’s moved beyond, even kinda forcibly.

These identity/change acceptance issues continue throughout Season Three, dealt with in a gradual, non-linear process. This arc parallels Eugene’s similar issues about being the prince of the Dark Kingdom, and later Cass’s about discovering she’s Gothel’s daughter. It’s like, the big external adventure is mostly done, on the ‘destiny’ front. Now the heroes have to face… the psychological fallout! Dun dun dun! A much more character and relationship-based story than canon. Not that there won’t be proper villains, like the Separatists, the Stabbingtons, the Baron, Hector (who gets a proper resolution and reconciliation with Adira and Edmund), but no huge Zhan Tiri-scale ones.

The presences of Cass and the dogs allow Raps to defeat the Separatists in spite of her lack of magic. How? I don’t yet, some cunning plan. Cass helps get through to Varian. She understands and validates his grudge against Raps and desire to erase everything and move on, but teaches him the importance of seeing from different perspectives, and that internalizing all his guilt and shame forever is… not good. Do you want to stroke the puppies, Varian? Why don’t you stroke the puppies for a bit and then you’ll calm down. (For comedy points, the Separatists, being the weird combination of terrorists and flower children they are, drop everything to gush over the dogs in the middle of a battle. Then instantly go back to trying to kill the protagonists - possibly even cheerfully assuring Cass they’ll look after the dogs once they kill her.)

Wait! If there’s no Moonstone magic, so no Decay Incantation, Quirin can’t be freed! No! Why is the PUPPY AU turning out so angsty? Hmm… this is also the Magic Out, Therapy In AU, all about learning to live with pain and change and things you at first think you could never accept. Varian and his friends continually working on freeing Quirin and in the meantime getting/giving him the support he needs might work, thematically? They do free him eventually! I promise! But how? Varian stays at the castle until then, by the way.

At the end of “Rapunzel’s Return” Cass is promoted to be Rapunzel’s official bodyguard due to her service on the road. She naturally receives a new uniform: with the main colour a brighter red and Coronan sun embroidery, similar to Eugene’s captain uniform, but still incorporating some of the old armour (unhealthy emotional coping mechanisms symbolism) and the red offset by a substantial amount of black. It also has a special brace and compression glove for her bad arm. She trains the dogs to be police assistant dogs throughout the season, their progress or struggles frequently symbolic of her own competence at dealing with her trauma and dismantling her toxic coping mechanisms that day.

Snarl, Scratch and Bite complete their training after six months, halfway through the season, and Cass joins the royal guard, promoting them to Captain Snarl, Colonel Scratch and CO Bite. “Why do they have different titles if they’re doing the same job?” Eugene asks. “Not now! Let them have this!” says Lance, tearful with pride. She wears an individualized guard uniform with golden armour (mature, healthy emotional coping mechanisms symbolism). And a new and improved glove and brace system.

As mentioned above, Cass does find out about her biological mother. She’s looking through her really old childhood things to see if she can regift any toys to the puppies. Among the miscellaneous keepsakes she finds the green dress the Captain found her in, kept to remind him of how small she used to be. The dogs are eagerly sniffing everything, but that dress makes them extra excited. Cass doesn’t understand why. Cap realizes they’ve got the lingering unfamiliar scent off it, but before he can stop them or explain to Cass the trio are racing after the scent’s source and Cass is chasing them. Raps and Eugene join him chasing Cass. Hijinks ensue. Raps has a subplot so the primary plot doesn’t get boring, somehow connected to the themes of family, dishonesty and trust. Maybe Frederic’s returning memories of the bad things he did is reopening those wounds and she’s revising her quick forgiveness of him in “The Secret of the Sundrop”, but also doesn’t want to add to a recovering amnesiac’s pain and thus won’t communicate that? And Frederic knows she’s upset and wants to fix it, but her avoidance isn’t letting them get anywhere. The hijinks end up getting Cass very suspicious about her origins and angry at her dad for keeping that she was adopted secret and his hasty half-explanations (Raps’s presence makes it doubly awkward) without letting him tell the whole truth. Right when she’s losing her temper at him, they see dogs lead them to the cottage. Cass trails off and stares at it. Her eyes shift from mystified to haunted. Everyone else, who had been in the middle of an argument over the morality of family secrets, stops dead to watch her in concern. She wades through the stream and wanders inside in a trance of awakened memory. Examining the dusty remains of the music box triggers a full flashback, with “Waiting in the Wings (Reprise)” and everything. She’s left sobbing on her knees. While the others and dogs all comfort her, Cap explains everything and profoundly apologises for hurting her in his attempt to protect her. Coincidentally, the exact type of apology Raps wants from her father. Cass needs time to process and hides deeper in the cottage. She begins to recall details of her mother’s abuse and, finding her, Raps shares some details of her abusive childhood with Gothel. She confirms it wasn’t that Gothel didn’t love Cass because she was unlovable and Raps was. Rather, Gothel was always incapable of love, and both her daughters worthy of it. She assures Cass that this doesn’t make her a different or bad person. If Raps knows one thing for certain, it’s that how Gothel makes you feel about yourself is not true. Family is more than blood, it’s choosing to love and listen to and understand and help someone over and over again, even when it’s uncomfortable and messy… [internally] ohhh shit, she needs to talk to her dad. Cass is heartened and admits she already thought of Raps as her sister. The episode ends with Cass embracing her real family, knowing she deserves them.

This episode makes Cap realize how badly his focus on his career and emotional distance has damaged his and his daughter’s mental health. He retires to engage in self-care and be more involved in Cass’s inner life. Eugene takes the mantle, and though Cass mocks him to no end and may hold a more serious jealousy, she recognizes his worth when they work together on a case and ultimately agrees he’s the best choice her dad could have made and congratulates him. She still mocks him, however. He’s relieved - he didn’t want this to mess up their dynamic.

I’ve got it! Gothel’s alchemical and magical resources are what finally melt the amber. She had that corrosive chemicals in her catacombs and we know she could do magic because she enchanted her mirrors. Varian gets his dad back, and Raps and Cass get some closure about Gothel by making something good come out of her selfish pursuits! And not just anything, but specifically the restoration of a loving parent and child relationship, the exact opposite of everything she represented! Friendship, love, healing, altruism, a dash of spite at Hell’s Mother of the Year, and the symbolism that what Gothel left behind (which includes Raps and Cass themselves) can overcome her dark influence and do good.

In the finale Raps cuts her hair to its neck length after she concludes her character development. Cass’s happy ending in “Happily Ever After, After All (Reprise)” is opening a police dog training academy.

[spideycents]

Listen, I love Jun Ho. I do. But he’s a floppy green flag with no pole to support him. Man’s is walking around more in his own little world than Young Woo is. Like at least when she feels something, SHE SAYS SOMETHING. He couldn’t even connect the dots that maybe their breakup had something to do with his bitch ass sister or how other people have been treating them. Like does he really believe Young Woo is oblivious to all that??? He’s sweet and adorable, but there’s so much dramatic irony where we know, we KNOW that he adores her, but she has no idea. It’s the Flynn Rider staring longingly at Rapunzel moment. Like she doesn’t have eyes in the back of her head! She only knows what he tells her and he’s not saying shit until she does. He needs to speak up first. Like go run to her again and do like Attorney Jung said and hold onto that love and never let it go. TELL HER YOU LOVE HER YOU DIMWIT I SWEAR TO GOD IM GONNA

[rere-the-writer]

Title- 'I want crazy'

Pairing- Kol Mikaelson x F!Human!Reader

Warnings- just fluff and Kol being in love with his lady

A/N: Hunter Hayes's 'I want crazy' is like one of my favorite songs of his and I was listening to it and was l like Kol fic. So here we are.

When you started dating Kol Mikaelson, your friends weren't really supportive unlike his siblings as they saw how you seemly tamed the wildest Mikaelson. You and Kol didn't see yourselves being with anybody else but with one another.

"I wish she didn't date him." Elena huffed watching you being picked up by Kol and him jumping into the pool with you. Your squealing laughter rang out in the air as he held you grinning.

"Don't worry she'll come to her senses." Damon said equally upset with your choices.

Kol brought out a wilder side in you while you bought out a calmer side of Kol and there was one thing everyone agreed on was that Kol was unbelievably deeply in love with you.

I'm booking myself a one-way flight, I gotta see the color in your eyes. And telling myself I'm gonna be alright. Without you,baby, is a waste of time. Yeah, our first date, girl, the seasons changed. It got washed away in a summer rain you can't undo a fall like this. 'Cause love don't know what distance is. Yeah, I know it's crazy

You tried not laugh as Kol stood outside in a coat standing in snow under your bedroom window while your sister Elena was asleep with Damon.

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel jump out of your bedroom window to join me for the night!"

"Okay, keep it down though." You giggled getting dressed in warmer clothes and got ready to jump which Kol caught you with ease. Both Damon and Elena frowned watching you run off laughing with Kol for a night fill with mischief.

Kol found he didn't want his usual relationship with a woman but that he wanted one that last. As you changed how he saw relationships with every passing moment.

"Let me stay the night Kol? I don't wanna go home."

"Okay." Kol answered you with a smile as that night Kol had made soft romantic love with you and not his usual fuck and leave. No you made him want everything about you and this not be a one off thing.

But I don't want "good" and I don't want "good enough" I want "can't sleep, can't breathe without your love" Front porch and one more kiss, it doesn't make sense to anyone else. Who cares if you're all I think about? I've searched the world and I know now it ain't right if you ain't lost your mind. Yeah, I don't want easy, I want crazy. Are you with me, baby? Let's be crazy, yeah

Your laughter rang out though the Mikaelson home as Kol chased you through the halls annoying Klaus, Rebekah needing to leave and Elijah found it adorable.

"Kol!" You squealed when the vampire caught you picking you up smiling brightly and eyes twinkling seeing your face flushed from running. You cupped Kol's face and kissed him lightly making his smile bigger.

"I love you, darling."

"I love you more."

"I love you to the moon and back."

"I love y....."

"Yes you both love one another now stop it! It is sickeningly sweet and adorable!" Klaus called from his studio making you and Kol burst in a fit of laughter falling onto the couch relaxing.

Well, I wanna be scare, don't wanna know why. Wanna feel good, don't have to be right. The world makes all kinds of rules for love I say you gotta let it do what it does. I don't want just another hug and a kiss goodnight catching up call and a date sometimes. I love that we're rebels and we still believe we're the kind of crazy people wish that they could be, yeah. Uh, and I know we're crazy, yeah

It was a cool spring morning as Kol stood at a altar filled with excitement as Klaus put his hands on his little brother's shoulders. Kol's excitement got worse when the bridal march started.

Elijah held his arm out to you with a smile as you too were bouncing with excitement to see Kol.

"You both were made for one another." Elijah teased as you giggled stepping out and Kol looked at you. Klaus swore the vampire stopped breathing when Kol saw you walking down the aisle in your beautiful wedding dress.

"Breath Kol."

"She is prefect Nik." Kol whispered when you finally reached him and he took your hand. Kol couldn't focus on anything but you and once he heard the prist aounnced you as his wife. You squeaked when Kol wasted no time pulling you into a kiss. Kol pulled away placing his forehead on yours smiling eyes twinkling as you smile back brightly.

"I love you Always and Forever, my wife."

"And I love you Always and Forever, my husband."

"Yes yes, this is cute now run off to your honeymoon." Klaus ushered you both off and for old times sake Kol picked you up running off with you.

"You say you are annoyed but you are happy for Kol."

"I am Elijah and if you tell him that I'll dagger you." Klaus tells Elijah who held his hands up in mock surrender and then looked at you and Kol seeing both dancing in the rain ready to start your forever after.

[princess-of-the-corner]

Okay. I’ve started making bnha ocs too. Just to fill out a few roles in my AU. I’m putting them in a separate post than my other OCs for my main Crossover Universe as these are bnha specific. 

And yes they are absolutely fucking jokes but they serve a purpose!

Note: For purposes of Timeline, I have decided that Canon(1-A's first year) happens in the year 2X66! So the age listed will be how old they are in Spring of 2X66, with an added birth year.

Retasu Hanako (レタス 花子)

Age: 17 (Born 2X49)

Quirk: Rapunzel - she can make anyone’s hair grow, even to comical lengths. Unfortunately also grows her own hair when she does so. Hair glows gold when Quirk is active

Occupation: UA Student, Support Course, Costume Designer

Notes: Retasu is in class 3-F at UA. She intends to go into costume design, and has designed for a handful of students already. Due to her Quirk, she ends up designing for Hero Students whose Quirks are unique and need their costumes to be able to function with them. Students include Mirio ‘Lemillion’ Togata, Toru ‘Ultra Violet’ Hagakure, and Himiko ‘Vampire Bat’ Toga. 

Yosuke Hanako (陽介 花子)

Age: 19 (Born 2X47)

Quirk: Mercy - pretty basic healing Quirk. While he's not currently powerful enough to heal major injuries or be much help in an emergency, he's capable of patching people up fairly well. However, he's noticed that his Quirk can help ease long-term conditions, speeding up healing over multiple sessions.

Occupation: med student

Notes: Yosuke seems very energetic, but also constantly tired and running on caffine and spite. Though he is getting general education in the medical field, due to his Quirk he plans to focus on longer-term care. Restoring mobility and feeling to injuries and fixing scar tissue are within his wheelhouse(though he can't do so instantly, only speed up and enhance the natural process). Despite high inteligence in other areas, Yosuke will be a ln absolute moron for someone he loves, being very ride or die and will get in over his head to help out a friend.

Brennan ‘Sky High’ Griffin

Age: 17 (Born 2X49)

Quirk: Sky High - Basic flight Quirk. Some protection from the environment of high altitudes(thinner oxygen, colder temp, etc). 

Occupation: Streamer

Notes: The main server host for the Minecraft series ‘Herocraft’. American-based. Charismatic little shit who loves building and will prank the hell out of the server. 

Vega ‘Nyoom’ Griffin

Age: 22 (Born 2X44)

Quirk: Quirkless

Occupation: (Currently unknown? I think I want her to be involved with horses somehow. No idea why.)

Notes: Brennan’s older sister. Mom friend to the server. Will fistfight anyone who is creepy toward the server members. (Is later tempted to buy a ticket to Japan and fistfight ‘Wallmaster’)

Lauren ‘Lunacy’ Talbot

Age: 14 (Born 2X52

Quirk: Lycanthropy - allows the user to turn into a wolf. Can do partial transformations. Comes with an allergy to silver. While actual transformation is not dependent on the lunar cycle, the user does get a boost in physical abilities at night which strengthens closer to the Full Moon.

Occupation: Student

Notes:  The youngest, and newest, member of Herocraft. London-based. Her two favorite things are Minecraft and Heroes, including looking into foreign ones. While her Quirk does allow her to look human, she tends to prefer having wolfish features.

Hikari Aomura (光 青村)

Age: 19 at age of death (Born 2X19, Died 2X38)

Quirk: [Redacted for spoilers]

Occupation: Former Pro Hero Kirakira (キラキラ)

Notes: Hikari was a Pro Hero roughly 28 years prior to Canon. As a rookie, she found a lead on a case and got very in over her head. Ultimately she was killed by AfO, who took her Quirk in the process.

Raiden Dentasu (電圧 雷電)

Age: 24(Born 2X42)

Quirk: (Currently unnamed Electricity Quirk)

Occupation: Pro Hero Voltage

Notes: Yes this is the Pro Hero that appeared for all of 10 seconds in the beginning of Heroes’ Rising. But I have plans for her because fuck just look at her how can I not?

[sleepyselkiesims]

Part 8

The next morning, Cassie came by to visit! And Melody couldn't waste the chance to complain about the direction her life had taken.

To her surprise, Cassie just started laughing! Had Melody forgotten what day it was, and why she's come to visit?

...yeah. Yep. Totally forgot her own birthday, ironically.

Melody hurried to make herself a cake, and Erika arrived just in time to help out!

Melody was more than happy to show off her amazing baking skills to the people who loved her no matter what. Even if only one of them actually cared about cooking.

Erika was the only person to cheer as Melody approached the candles. Ariel seemed to have forgotten why she was there.

As per Queen tradition, the birthday princess had to make a wish. And Melody knew exactly was she was wishing for: friends. She needed to be liked so, so badly.

Happy birthday, Melody! I really really hope your wish comes true. Especially cause the power of friendship is really important to Rapunzel's story...

Melody could start practicing her friendship making skills with the backyard rabbits! Grandmama had always said, be nice to the animals and the world will be nice to you!

Wow, really?? That seems a little harsh! Seriously, not even the rabbits want to be friends!

Even her own mother kept laughing about her emotional state.

But hey, at least her other mom, who she'd never even met or previously been contacted by, was finally gonna send her a birthday gift!

...and so were her beloved, dead grandparents. this was fine.

But hey, at least she had a step-mother and younger sister who had done nothing but love and adore her from the second they'd entered her life.

Cassandra even went around the house to pick up and wash all of Melody's depression dishes!

As a thanks, Melody made sure Cassie got her own set of house keys. She would really love to see her little sister more!

And as a special birthday present from the benevolent god, Melody got to get rid of her fear of disappointing her parents! She wasn't the scared teen she had been, and she knew by now that she had Ariel's full support.

She also got a special potion to remove her curse! She'd've been completely house-bound otherwise, what with everyone trying to fight her on sight...

....well huh. Is there nothing she can't level up ridiculously quickly??

Anyway, with that pesky curse out of the way, Ariel could take her family to the Spice Festival! Time for Ariel to defend her spice-champion title! But could Melody handle the heat?

Oooo looks like Ariel's last victory was just a fluke! She was the first to succumb to the flames!

And in a surprise twist, Melody won the spice challenge on her very first try!! And Cassie held strong too!

Like any good Queen descendant, Melody couldn't pass up a chance to toss a coin for a wish! Please, please let her make her friends...

As always, Ariel couldn't pass up a chance to show off her.... uh... awesome dance moves. This would totally woo her wife!

And it looks like Cassie inherited her mothers funky dance moves.

Listening to the music, Melody was struck by inspiration. She just needed to practice a bit first.

After yet again boosting a skill at lightning speed, Melody wrapped up her birthday by taking over the busker's spot and earning some lovely tips. Overall, a good day! The best she'd had in a while.

[liviavanrouge]

Meet the Girls

Evonie White

-Twisted from Snow White

-Livias bestest best best best girl friend

-Strong

-Girlfriend to Azul Ashengrotto

-Loves Apple flavored food

-Singer

Allison Futterwacken

-Twisted from the Mad Hatter

-One of Livias most trustful friend

-Hyperactive

-Girlfriend to Deuce Spade

-Enjoys tea parties a lot

-Prankster

Pocus

-Twisted from Pocahontas

-Wise

-Single

-One of Livias most loyal friends

-Has a pet racoon

-Usually seen outside late at night

Jinlong Dragon

-Twisted from ???

-Livias most loyal and best friend

-Dating Silver

-Stubborn and sometimes headstrong

-Likes to spar with Mei

-Ru's sister figure

-Dependable

Ru

-Twisted from Mulan's horse

-One of Livias closest friends

-Likes to read outside

-Gets along well with Sebek

-Single

-Strong legs

-Usually seen outside with Pocus or Jinlong

Delia

-Twisted from Cinderella

-Had a crush on Livia but stayed one of her bestest best friends

-Loves to design clothes for Livia

-Single

-Follows Livia around a lot

-Admires Livias fashion design work

-Finds Vil and Crewel a little scary

-Traumatized but has Livia as her moral support

Virva Laddin

-Twisted from Jasmine(Partially)

-Livias bestest best best best girl friend

-Sassy at times

-Dating Kalim Al-Asim

-Always ready to defend her friends

-Dresses Livia when the girl is too lazy to

-Helps Jamil keep Kalim from partying to much

-Loves to tease Her friends about their embarrassing moments

-Had a pet leopard

Mei Lan

-Twisted from Mulan

-Livias loyal and trusting friend

-Single

-Sword fights Silver or Sebek to practice her skills

-Horseback rides with Livia at times

-Protective

-Enjoys being about her best girl friends

-Always on the alert when outside

Sophia

-Twisted from ???

-Livias gossip gal bestie

-Single

-Hates bad gossip

-Always gossiping with Livia and Vil

-The best at getting the latest gossip

-Knows everyone's darkest secrets(Azul is jealous)

-Gets along well with Epel and Rook

-Loves Epels apple carvings

Cerulan

-Twisted from of of Ariel's sisters(Rielle's sister)

-Livias adventurous best friend

-Dating Sebek Zigvolt

-Loves pearls and shiny stones

-Goes swimming with Livia

-Childhood friends with Jade and Floyd

-Protective of Rielle

Rosaline Beast

-Twisted from Belle

-Loves to read

-Livias book bestie

-Single

-Borrows books from Livia

-Almost always seen in the library

-Talks about certain books with Livia

-Gets along really well with Azul and Ruggie

Perrie Princess

-Twisted from Tiana

-Livias cooking bestie

-Single

-Usually found cooking with Trey or Ruggie

-Makes a mean Gumbo

-Always let's the girls have the first taste before letting others try some

-Enjoys being around the others girls and cooking with or for them

-Hopes to open her own restaurant one day

Riley

-Twisted from Rapunzel

-Livias funny yet loyal best friend

-Single

-Loves to paint

-Had a book filled with sketches

-Has her own art room, a gift from Livia

-Usually sketches her best girl friends or nature

-Has a pet chameleon names Penny

Esme Ralda

-Twisted from Esmeralda

-Livias bestest best best best best best best best bestest best best girl friend

-Enjoys being around Livia and showing her how to make wooden carvings

-Dating August

-Loves to dance

-Meets Rollo through Livia and warns her to be careful around him

-Thinks Rollo is a stupid jerk but relieved he cares so much about Livia

-Protective and always ready to throw hands

-Has Livia and the girls back whenever they need it

Vajana Mona

-Twisted from Moana

-Livias bestest adventure buddy friend

-Single

-Thinks Leona is a lazy jerk

-Finds Malleus fascinating showing no fear of him

-Enjoys swinming

-Water manipulation

-Always seen around a lake or by the beach

-Takes the girls on mini adventures

-Has a collection of photos in her room of her and the girls adventures

Eliza Leech

-Jade and Floyd's younger sister

-Livias chaos bestie

-Dating Epel Felmier

-Prefers to be on land

-Wrestles with her brothers which is how they show their love for each other

-Wrestles with Floyd the most

-Gets her scariness from Jade

-Thinks Rollo shouldn't be trusted and always keeps her eye on him when he visits Livia

[shemarmooresfedora]

Rebuilding Family

Summary: Y/N and Spencer were college sweethearts at Cal-Tech but once Spencer got accepted to the FBI Academy, he ended things deciding it was not fair to make Y/N wait for him. When they meet again years later, he discovers something unexpected.

Pairing: Spencer Reid x Fem!Reader

Warnings: brief mentions of alcohol consumption, allusions to sex

A/N: so you know how last chapter i said there was going to be like 4 chapters left…sorry i lied. as much as it pains me to admit since i’m so attached to this little family, i feel this story is coming to its natural end and i don’t want to drag it out (i may do one-shots of this series in the future though!) that being said, this is the second to last chapter. i appreciate all of your continued support throughout this series <3

Masterlist

Chapter 36

You opened the front door to the house after your therapy appointment. You had been making a lot of progress.

Spencer and the kids used to go with you and then wait at the park across the street until you were done but you had decided that this time you could go alone. Spencer hugged you tightly before you left and said how proud of you he was, reminding you of your calming exercises for the waiting room, and to call him if you got too overwhelmed. Luckily, your anxiety had not gotten the better of you and your appointment went fine.

You could hear the opening notes to Golden by Harry Styles playing. Once the beat dropped, you heard Spencer say, “Okay, go babies, go!”

You rounded the corner to see Spencer conducting a dance party for the twins in their bouncy jumpers and Jo who was wearing her Rapunzel dress.

“Ollie,” Spencer crouched down to the rather stationary baby, “Look at your sisters! See, copy them! We’ll all bounce.”

While Ophelia was very audible and energetic, Ollie was more reserved. This concerned you and Spencer a bit because he would hardly cry and you had no idea what was going on with him or if he needed anything.

As Spencer backed up to start dancing as well, you pulled out your phone and hit record just in time to see Spencer accidentally bounce into the couch and trip and fall flat on his face.

Ollie giggled. Spencer shot up from the ground. Ollie had never done that before. Ophelia’s first laugh was a few weeks ago but nothing seemed to be funny enough for Ollie until his Daddy fell.

Spencer scrambled to get his phone, “Jo, can you record for Mommy? I’m going to fall again.”

You decided this was the time to make your presence known.

“That won’t be necessary,” you announced with a smile, ending the video you took.

“You heard?” Spencer beamed.

“Yep, got it on video too,” you walked over to the jumpers and lifted up Ollie, giving him a bunch of kisses, “You were really going to hurt yourself again just so I could have a video of our son laughing?”

“Absolutely, I was,” he grinned.

“You’re an idiot,” you chuckled.

“You’re the one who fell in love with an idiot,” he replied.

“I guess that makes us both idiots then,” you sighed happily.

“But idiots in love,” he kissed you.

You blew a raspberry and tickled Ollie’s little belly and he started giggling hysterically again.

-

Spencer was with twins on the floor on a blanket doing some ‘tummy time’ while Jo sat on the couch watching cartoons.

“Why can’t me and the babies come with you and Mommy for dinner like we usually do?” Jo asked.

“Because a year ago today, Mommy and I got married so we want to go out to a fancy restaurant and celebrate our love for each other. But, we’ll go out together as a family soon again and Uncle Derek and Auntie Penelope will be watching you tonight.”

“Okay,” Jo instantly agreed.

You clicked down the stairs in your high heels, carefully holding the railing. Spencer stood to help and offered his hand to you for support.

You were dressed in a midi A-line black corset dress with a white floral design.

“You look absolutely stunning as usual, my love,” he kissed your hand.

“As do you, my husband of officially a year,” you beamed.

He kissed you on the lips this time as the door opened.

“Kids night!” Penelope exclaimed, running into the house with Derek in tow. “I brought board games, ice cream, and every Disney movie DVD I own.”

“Auntie Penelope!” Jo hugged her and then Derek.

Then, Penelope turned to you both, “What are you guys still doing here?”

“Emergency numbers are on the fridge. We’ll both have our phones on the whole time,” you repeated the information you had told them many times before as you were pushed out the door by Penelope.

“Oh, also recent development!” Spencer added as he tried to resist Derek’s pushing, “The twins are avid crawlers now so if you set them down for a second and look away, they’ll be gone.”

“Good to know. Enjoy your night, you two,” Derek winked as he shut the door.

“So where are we going?” you asked as you walked hand and hand to the car.

Spencer opened the passenger side door for you, “We are going to the restaurant where we had our first date, my dear,” he smiled.

-

Spencer had rented a private patio for the two of you with lit candles, fairy lights, and a bouquet of wildflowers similar to the one you carried down the aisle a year ago.

You gasped when you saw the set-up, “I love you so much, Spencer Reid.”

“I love you more, Mrs. Reid.”

You and Spencer ordered the exact same dishes that you got on your first date for maximum nostalgia.

“There is something I wanted to talk to you about,” Spencer spoke mid-meal.

You set your fork down to show him he had your full attention.

“So I was thinking about what I want to do this summer. You’re off of work for the summer so we’ll both be home with the kids. I figured I should take up some sort of project to keep my mind stimulated,” he explained.

“Go on...” you took a sip of your wine.

“I think I want to become an author,” he stated.

“I think that’s a wonderful idea. Any idea what genre?” you smiled softly.

“At first, I was thinking about something related to my time at the BAU but then I realized I’ve had enough of that as is and I don’t feel like reliving it. Now, I’m thinking more along the lines of fiction because during all my years of schooling, I never really got to explore my creative side. I think a kid’s book could be fun for me to write. And I could work on it whenever the kids were napping or at school,” he explained to you.

“Whatever makes you happy, love. I can’t wait to read what that beautiful brain of yours comes up with,” you grinned, “This also makes my gift for you even better.”

“Y/N, we agreed no gifts,” he rolled his eyes playfully.

“It’s just something small that made me think of you,” you pouted, reaching into your purse.

You handed him something wrapped in a thin layer of pale purple tissue paper. Inside was a beautiful leather journal. It had a quote inscribed on it.

‘Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken away from us; it is a gift’ -Dante Alighieri

“You just saw this and happened to think of me?” he asked, amused, “How is it customized with our initials and wedding date then?”

“Fine,” you relented, “I ordered it off Etsy a while ago.”

“Good thing I also didn’t listen to our agreement,” he smirked, “But mine isn’t as sentimental and it’s really a gift for us both.”

“I’ll love it just the same,” you assured him.

“We are not going home tonight. The fairy godmother volunteered her and Derek’s services all night so I booked us a room at a bed and breakfast and I already packed you a bag in the backseat of the car.”

You started stuffing pasta into your mouth, “Eat faster. I want to go as soon as possible.”

Spencer chuckled at your eagerness.

-

Spencer felt you trying to sneak out of bed to get your phone.

“What are you doing?” he mumbled at the loss of your warmth.

“I just want to check on the kids. This is our first night away from the twins,” you grabbed your phone, putting on Spencer’s button up, and facetiming Penelope.

She picked up on the second ring, “Hello, my lovely.”

“Hey, Pen. Are the kids behaving for you guys?”

“Yes. They’re all sleeping soundly now. Me and Derek are just binging episodes of The Bachelorette now.”

“That’s great to hear. No spoilers though!”

“How is your night going?” she inquired.

“It’s good, it’s good. Dinner was nice. The hotel is nice,” you tried to avoid the obvious.

“Y/N, your makeup is completely smudged and I can see the collar of Spencer’s shirt around your neck,” she replied.

You heard Derek laughing in the background, “Proud of you, lover boy.”

“Okay, we’ll see you in the morning,” Spencer hung up the phone for you.

“What did you do that for?”

“Round 2,” he smirked.

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WOWM

so What Once Was Mine came out and I read it.

My General Thoughts are that this book was something of a rollercoaster but in like a pop up carnival with dubious safety regulations and diseases in the DIY log flume water kind of way. I had some fun reading it but I also feel like I picked up a rash.

If you're like me and you enjoy picking a book apart for morsels of interesting concepts then you might enjoy it, if you think holy shit why the fuck is a literal real historical serial killer in this book I need to see this then you might enjoy it, if you care about engaging plots and character beats then you probably won't.

If you want to ask me anything specific go ahead, but otherwise for more in depth thoughts: spoilers ahead

Basic Summary of the Plot

Okay so here's the deal. The story has the framing device of two siblings in a cancer ward, where one tells the other a story. I'll get into that later, but that's how it starts. Our actual story starts with a pretty long prologue: We learn that the King & Queen got the Moonflower thinking it was the Sunflower, Rapunzel was born with silver hair, and then baby Rapunzel kills a maid who accidentally hurt her when brushing her hair.

Oh, by the way, Max is a human man named Justin Tregsburg. Yeah.

Anyway, the royal family puts out feelers for legit witches who can safely take care of Rapunzel because the baby is too dangerous, and Gothel shows up to take her away. Queen Arianna visits Rapunzel once (but is only allowed to watch through a peephole) and decides watching another woman raise her child is too painful and throws herself into restoring the kingdom's orphanages instead.

Now we're in the present. Rapunzel is nineteen and she wants to go and see the lanterns (a mourning tradition of the Dead princess in this story). She tries to argue with Gothel but gets shut down, and Gothel makes her kill a chicken to prove the point that she can't go outside because she's too dangerous. However we as the audience already know Gothel plans to sell Rapunzel off as a bride or a servant or a weapon to some other nobles, because she's evil.

Also by the way Gothel still has access to our Sundrop Flower and is using it to live forever that's just a thing that happens in the background.

When Gothel is gone Rapunzel watches as a man (Flynn) stores a satchel in a tree outside of her tower, and that motivates her to leave the tower for the first time. Then she goes back inside the tower with her prize of a crown, and a skink she found and named Pascal. Rapunezl and Gothel have another spat, and Rapunzel decides she will run off to see the lanterns and she will find Flynn and make him her guide.

She ends up at the Snuggly Duckling and she doesn't find Flynn but she does find Gina, a young career criminal girl looking to break the glass ceiling. Gina agrees to help her find Flynn. They find Flynn, and he agrees to help guide Rapunzel to see the floating lanterns for a split reward of the crown with Gina.

The Snuggly Duckling gets burned down by Countess Bathory (yes that Elizabeth Bathory) and the Pub Thugs are pissed about it and also they're helping Rapunzel even though she didn't sing the I've Got A Dream song don't worry about it. We learn that the nobles that wanted to buy Rapunzel are now hunting her down so she can go to auction.

Gina takes them to her adopted mother's cottage. Gina's mother is a white witch, who goes by the name of Goodwife. She doesn't get an actual name she's just The Goodwife. Anyhow, the cottage is a magic safe space (for now) and Goodwife teaches Rapunzel that her hair isn't inherently evil and may not even be all that deadly! Rapunzel learns that her hair has other powers too, like the ability to turn skink Pascal into a sentient Chameleon. Yeah.

Also Goodwife tells Rapunzel she's the dead princess but this isn't like, an immediate call to action. Not a lot happens until we get this story's version of the Mother Knows Best Reprise where Gothel finds Rapunzel again but has to flee, but this Rapunzel has a bigger support network and isn't buying it. Flynn and Gina decide the safest course of action is to bring Rapunzel to the castle, but along the way she gets kidnapped by the Countess.

Gothel is pissed because she still wants the money for Rapunzel, so she rallies the armies of all the opposing bidders. Flynn and Gina convince Max the Man to send for his troops, and he joins them in going to the enemy castle. Flynn tries to sneak in, gets caught, and meanwhile there's a bloody battle out the front between the noble armies. Max jumps into the fray, Gina turns around and rallies the Pub Thugs.

Rapunzel uses her shrinking magic (!) to disappear half the castle and escape with Eugene, and the Pub Thugs arrive and basically end the battle. The Captain is dying but it's okay! Rapunzel turns him into a horse :) Also Rapunzel sees Gothel and tells her to fuck off.

The story ends with a tearful reunion between Rapunzel and her parents, Eugene and Gina are implied to be biological siblings, and things are good but of course in direct parallel to Cass Gina leaves at the end to become an adventurer. The end.

(There are a few other smaller plot beats, but you get the idea.)

MY THOTS

So here are my thoughts™.

Framing Device

I'll just state that I didn't like that the story was told via the vehicle of an older brother telling his 16 year old sister a different version of the Tangled Movie in a cancer ward. From what I've heard it also isn't normal for the Twisted Tales series to use a framing device for the AUs either.

I sympathise with the author's personal story, of course I do. That doesn't mean I'm stirred with compassion every time the flow of the story is interrupted to remind you to be sad because this is a story being told to a girl sick with cancer. It feels more than a little tragedy-porny rather than emotionally touching, and maybe that's because I'm too burnt out on real life tragedy to waste emotional energy on fictional cancer patients but we don't need to do Fault In Our Stars discourse again.

Real World References

This story goes heavy with Real World references. And another issue with the framing device as above is that you do feel like this is a story being told by someone namedropping every historical figure they know which makes it harder to get into the story.

There's like... a lot of references to Christianity, particularly in the prologue. There's a priest that thinks Rapunzel's hair is the work of the Devil or whatever. It's a lot. The Patriarchy is a thing. And that's not even getting into the Countess. I put it very succinctly in my notes so I'll paste it here:

I wish she’d just been an OC who could exist to chew scenery because the fact that she was a literal historical serial killer is super. Off putting. Like, she could have been an obvious reference to Bathory, but it feels like Miku Binder Hamilton levels of uncomfortable to me.

I miss Lady D.

Which basically sums up my problem with trying to take the setting of Tangled and put it somewhere in the Real World and somewhere on the Timeline. Who thought this was a good idea.

Misc. Thoughts

So, I used the five highlighter colours my ipad allows to organise my thoughts and organised them accordingly: Yellow for out of place IRL references, Blue for worldbuilding/character points that aren't plot relevant but still interesting, Pink for when something I find personally amusing happens, Purple for when the story feels like it's trying to 1-up the movie in some kind of way and Green for Heterosexual Nonsense. I'll touch on those last two in the Character sections but be prepared.

Also: for a book about giving Rapunzel killer hair, her hair isn't very dangerous. I wanted to see Rapunzel kill someone, and I'm disappointed that I didn't.

Characters

I'll do a deep dive into my thoughts about the characters before wrapping it up. I'm starting with Gina because she's honestly the easiest to get through.

Gina

Gina is a new character introduced for the story. She's a young woman trying to make it as a career criminal but keeps hitting that glass ceiling. So here's the down low, for all those who want to know: Gina is basically Cass, only not really. She's implied to be Eugene's biological sister, as previously mentioned, but you can imagine she's Cass the entire way through without breaking your immersion because if you imagined Cass if she were adopted by a Goodwitch rather than the Captain and had a looser, more wilderness survivor than trainee guard upbringing then you get Gina.

I liked Gina! I think she's fun as her own character too, and her best moments are when she's interacting with her mother Goody Goodwife, and she of course picks up a natural sibling rivalry with Eugene, but I was disappointed with how little she really bonded with Rapunzel because she needed to make room for Eugene and Rapunzel's romance.

Rapunzel

Okay, here's our protagonist. There's a notable effort to make Rapunzel more active in her destiny and whatever, and sometimes it works but sometimes it doesn't. I was worried they'd try to go full butt-kicking girlboss with her but I was pleasantly surprised that Rapunzel was pretty useless in most scenes, genuinely love to see it.

With a more intimate look into Rapunzel's psyche through the medium of prose, we see Rapunzel really questioning Gothel's behaviour even before she leaves the tower, and while I appreciate that she can develop her own cynicism I feel it starts unnecessarily early. This is my purple colour; the movie needs to be "fixed" by showing the readers that this Rapunzel is quicker to distrust Gothel. She's also quicker to hatch a plan to go outside of the tower on her own, and she makes a plan to make Flynn her guide for the lanterns even though he never stumbles upon her in the tower- and even though she has a perfectly rational reason not to trust him which is that he is a stranger and a Wanted Thief.

In the moments where it does work is when Rapunzel is surrounded by her new support network: Flynn, Goodwife and Gina, who encourage her to question Gothel's sincerity, and Rapunzel comes up with her own defences for Gothel so that she can poke through them herself.

I have some other thoughts about Rapunzel's hair and her powers, like how the story provides the interesting concept that her hair gets different powers with the different phases of the moon, but a lot of the powers are uhhh stupid and also I feel like it really robs the story of the whole gripping conflict of "Yes I'm Rapunzel Yes my hair kills people what of it".

In as far as just Rapunzel herself though, she still felt pretty in character nonetheless, and maybe that's all I can ask.

Flynn Rider / Eugene Fitzherbert

My boy I am so sorry. They neutered my boy.

Long story short: Eugene in this story is the sexy lamp. He contributes nothing to the plot except to be there for Rapunzel to drool over. And of course because he won't get any character development, he starts from the very beginning as a sweet soft boi with none of the Flynn Rider characterisation from the movie because we don't have time for that, he needs to be husband material stat.

His whole character is the colour green for Heterosexual Nonsense.

So, here's the problem. In the movie, there's not a lot of time for ~friendship~ between Rapunzel and Eugene because they kind of immediately see each other as a romantic prospect. And whatever, it's a movie and there's only so much time. But this book had the opportunity to take things a bit slower and instead chooses to make Rapunzel get jealous whenever Eugene and Gina interact and for her to be constantly wishing he was holding her hand.

Say what you will about Lost Lagoon, but it tells a good romance story just by virtue of not intending to be a romance story, because the author is trying to convey a strong bond between Rapunzel and Cassandra without using "and they kiss" as a cheatcode. What Once Was Mine says "he was a boy, she was a girl, could it be any more obvious?" and leaves it at that.

Now as for how this all pertains to Eugene's character? Well, it just robs him of any flavour. In the movie there's a clear distinction between Flynn and Eugene, when we learn Eugene's real name about halfway through. We see a clear difference between the Flynn we knew- kind of an asshole, wanated to drop Rapunzel off at the Snuggly Duckling and get rid of her- and Eugene, who is sincere and chooses Rapunzel as his New Dream in opposition to his Old Dream of living alone on an island with a bunch of money.

This version of Eugene is basically Eugene all the way through, because the plot doesn't really need Eugene there but he has to be there because it's a Tangled AU so there's no Rapunzel rescuing Flynn from the guards and healing his hand scene, he just loves her immediately and that's that. They have a little spat at one point but it's cleared up later and not because they actually communicate but because they kiss.

Rapunzel only learns Eugene's real name at the very end of the story, and gives a speech about how Eugene is the real him, but it's just so flat because 'Flynn' has been sincere this whole time? Anyway he does nothing of value for the entire story except be there for Rapunzel to lust after. Eugene I'm so sorry.

Gothel

Gothel's sort of the Big Bad and is characterised as an abusive asshole, the usual. I wish there were a bit more nuance to her character but then again in this story she's not just being passively evil- taking care of Rapunzel for selfish reasons but nevertheless maintaining the status quo- she's being actively evil in trying to sell Rapunzel off.

It's notably funny that Gothel sees the Countess Bathory and is like "what the fuck".

Anyway Gothel in this story also feels very weak in part because this Rapunzel is more critical and in part because this Rapunzel has a new support network. It's for that reason the Mother Knows Best Reprise scene doesn't really work, because the original has Gothel pit Rapunzel against Eugene, whereas she can't do that here so it remains a Gothel vs Rapunzel thing.

She gets a boring death as an epilogue addendum that someone rips out the Sundrop flower, which tbh? lame. It would be a lot more fun if it were open ended but I am also preferential to Rapunzel actually using her killer hair to kill someone. Please

Captain Justin Tregsburg

It's Max. He was a human but then he got turned into a horse. what the fuck you guys