#that already hit hard but then they showed the doctor having to tell his mom and dad and just

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Ngl, while I do mock Eastenders at times for how it goes about character exits, Leo Taylor's death hit pretty hard.

[girliism]

i need preggers user x Art

art donaldson x pregnant!reader

-

“is this real.”

art actually couldn’t believe what was in his hands at the moment.

you had to resist the urge to roll your eyes. “yes, of course it’s real.”

a sigh of shock from art filled your dorm room. it was your last year at stanford, and art had already dropped out to focus on his professional tennis career. you two were barely together due to the long distance and now after of one night where you had missed each other too much to worry about things like protection, you were pregnant.

“how -uh- how far along are you?”

“two months.” the baby would be born sometime after your graduation.

art nodded, taking it all in before standing up in front of you. “i know i’m on the road a lot right now, but whatever you need i’ll be there. i promise.” he placed a comforting kiss on your forehead you melted into.

-

art kept his promise. using whatever free time he had to spend on calls with you.

“how’s the baby, did it kick yet?”

“first, they’re not an it, and i’m pretty sure it’s too early for that.”

without fail he was at every doctor’s appointment, leaving wherever he was on tour to fly in to come sit with you in the cold doctors office.

“alright mom and dad are you ready to find out the sex?” your sonographer who’s been with you since the beginning of your pregnancy having bared witness to art’s breakdown at the sound of hearing your babies heartbeat for the first time asked.

you and art shared a look, it suddenly all becoming real.

“yes.” was said in unison.

“looks like you’re having a girl.” she said

twin gasp fell from you and art. a girl.

-

it was probably not a smart move for where art was in his career, but during the last four months your pregnancy art decided to take that time off and stay with you. his coach thought it was a bad idea, but art didn’t care. promising he’d make it up by playing extra hard next season.

“what should we name her?” art had his head resting against your belly, and his hand under your shirt stroking it. you guys were watching some shitty reality tv show that you both couldn’t help but be obsessed with. “i hadn’t really thought about it.” there was so many names to choose from, you were kinda hoping it’d magically hit you when you say her the first time.

“what about…. april?” art lifted his head catching you scrunching your nose up. “what? i’m keeping it on theme with an ‘a’ name.” still you shook your head. “maybe…” you twisted your fingers around in arts curls, thinking. “lilith? can do lily for short.” art opened his mouth to talk, but was cut off by a harsh kick.

“did you feel that?” you whispered. art nodded. of course he felt it, she hit right in the center of his palm. art let out a laugh when she did it again.

“i guess she likes it.”

-

during late nights when he thought you were asleep, art liked to unborn fetus, having read is was good for development.

“hi, baby it art, your daddy. mommas asleep right now which means i have you all too myself.” he whispers into the belly. “don’t tell anyone this, but i’m really fuc-freaking scared. i’ve never dealt with a baby before so please go easy.”

you bit back the smile creeping on your face.

“i can’t wait to meet you. keep thinking about all the things we’re gonna do together. you’re first walk, you’re first word, you’re first tennis racket. just hoping you don’t inherit my back hand, it’s shit.” he laughed, before catching what the time was. “it’s getting late i’ll let you sleep, but just know i love you forever.”

you felt him place a kiss above your belly button. you had to quickly snap your eyes closed when he came to lie next to you.

“and i love you too.” he whispered right in ear, whether you heard it or not. you did.

-

the bigger you got mixed with your emotions being on ten had you feeling insanely insecure. but art thought this was the hottest he’s seen you.

“did you know.” art interrupted your reading by placing kisses on neck. “that having sex can naturally induce pregnancy.” you hummed, mildly amused by his actions. “really?”

“mhm.” art brought his head out of neck to kiss your cheeks and the corner of your mouth. “not that i’m trying to rush the ‘baking’ process. just thought we should try it, you know, bust some rumors.” he wiggled his eyebrows at you.

it was impossible for him to be around you sometimes, but he never acted on it until he saw how you were now. laid out on the bed fresh from the shower with only your bra and panties, it was likely you got too tired to finish getting dressed. you look so round and glowy, it had art’s heart breaking and his cock hardening.

“i mean, if that’s what they say what’s the harm in trying.” you sigh, arching up into art’s touches. the book you were reading now forgotten.

-

the last month has rough. you were a box of nerves, the knowledge that she could come at any time any where was freaking you out.

it was just four days before your due date, and somehow you let art convince you to come watch him practice at the tennis court.

“this one’s for you two!”

art yelled across the court dedicating a back hand hit to you and the baby that ended up hitting the net.

your laughter gets cut off by a particularly hard kick to your abdomen. at first you ignored it but then another came and shorty after that another one.

“oh shit oh shit. i think the baby’s coming.” you hissed.

art’s never driven as fast as he was driving now. red lights and stop signs be damned, he was getting you to that hospital.

you ended up getting there on time, and was changed into a hospital gown, hooked up to multiple machines and given your pain reliever of choice. then before you knew it they were telling you to push.

art was positive you were gonna break his hand from how hard you were squeezing, but he held on equally as tight.

“i can’t do it.” you cried. you were so close to the end, one hard push away from this being over, but you were so tried.

“just one more, it’s almost over.” the doctor encouraged you, but you shook your head.

“come on, baby just one more. one more push you can do it.” art cupped your sweaty face in his hands locking eyes with you as gave one more push. soon the loud cries a baby filled your ears, and fat tears fell down yours and art’s faces.

-

[sourrpatched]

༒ p.js LOVE BITES (TEASER)

Release Date > October 19th READ NOW!

Sypnosis > After surviving a brink of death, Park Jisung must navigate his new life as a Vampire, and what that means for the one sided love he’s had on his best friend’s sister for his entire life. Oh, and there’s also an army of freshly turned Vampires trying to wipe out the entire city population, leaving Jisung and his group of friends to try and put a stop to them.

Warnings > Blood (duh), Cults mentioned (like thrice maybe?), Cursing (like a lot), Loosely based in the late 90s, This is also very RomCom coded but add Vampires, Appearances from Chenle, Renjun, Xiaojun, and more!

Word Count > predicted around 15-20k

A/N > This is such a different more comedic approach than Like A Virgin was, but it’s mostly cause I fear that’s just where I strive best… Leaning towards making this more SFW btw, i’m not very good at writing smut…

Preview Word Count > 635 words

Taglist > Let me know if you want to be added!

Jisung felt like his entire body was going to explode, not figuratively speaking but literally. Only this wasn’t because of some weird food combination Xiaojun stuffed down his throat during a hot pot, no this was serious. The sun was shinning way too bright, everything was way too loud, and he still couldn’t help the weird intense smell of iron, this time coming from everyone.

Chenle asked if he had been drinking, that it seemed like he had a hangover, to which he replied he wished it was. A hangover felt like paradise in comparison to the overwhelming pain Jisung was trying so hard to hide. He didn’t want to be a buzz kill and make you feel uncomfortable by his presence.

He felt bad enough that Chenle had mentioned to you that he went MIA and that’s part of the reason you booked a flight back home sooner. You were planning on visiting anyway, but still, he felt guilty knowing he caused you distress.

“She should be coming out soon,” Chenle says waiting by the luggage carrier, he glances over at Jisung. “Calm down already, you’re making me anxious.”

Jisung frowns, “I told you this wasn’t going to work, if anything I feel worse than before.”

Chenle shrugs, “Let’s see how long that lasts.” Before Jisung can respond the sound of a yell shakes him to his core, not particularly because of how loud it was, but because he could recognize that squeal from anywhere. He’s sure he’s memorized just about everything about you.

You run towards your brother jumping into his arms, Chenle feigning disgust but carrying you anyway. “Gross, get off of me you animal.”

You hop back onto the floor, slapping his arm playfully. “You are still just as bitchy as before. I’m telling mom that you called me that by the way.”

“Go for it, she’d agree with me anyway.”

“So full of yourself no wonder your head just gets bigger everytime I see you.” you gesture an explosion with your hands.

Jisung lets a laugh slip out, Chenle and you finding his eyes in the next second. You run over to Jisung in a millisecond, clinging to him like a bear. He smiles to himself wrapping his own arms against you tighter only letting go of you once he notices the questioning look Chenle gives him.

“Where have you been? Lele told me you went ghost and I was like Park Jisung? What better does he have to do that he can’t answer the phone you know?” Chenle chuckles at the accidental insult, you’re too busy rambling to tell him to knock it off though. “I was worried for you! So then I was like no I have got to go back sooner and make sure he’s okay.”

Your eyebrows furrow finally processing the state of him, his clothes are sleeping clothes full of wrinkles and complimentary to his under eye bags that make it seem like the clothes were just for show.

“Jiwi? What’s wrong?” His stomach flutters at the use of his old nickname. “You look so pale.” Your thumb traces his cheek. “Should we go to the doctor?”

His breath hitches at the contact. “That’s really not necessary.” He feels the nausea hit him once again this time stronger than it’s ever been along with a sudden lightheadedness making his vision go blurry.

“You’re not okay.” You step closer to him holding onto his arms. The feeling only gets worse. He smells a hint of sweetness coming from you, his stomach churns, only this time he realizes how hungry he really is.

He backs away from you, almost tripping over his own feet. “What the hell is wrong with you?” Chenle’s voice sounds muffled. It’s the last thing that he makes out before he loses consciousness.

[simplesoup]

An Apple A day keeps the doctor away (If you throw it hard enough)

Doctor Izuku x G/Nreader (dirty mentions 😉)

Food is the way to a man’s heart it heals… it shows love~

You mom had told you that even since you could remember. You’d sit on the counter watching her cook while having a singing party

“Remember the secret ingredient love”

you grinned thinking about all those memories why you were thinking about them in the scariest place possible…. Him?… your… doctor… the man you purposely got sick just to see him…

“Y/n L/n Doctor Deku will see you now…”

you stud up walking to you usual room sitting on the bed grinning ear to ear you didn’t have anything wrong with you but this time you planned to make a move so you wouldn’t have to keep coming back to this dreadful place… the doctor could come take care of you in your own bed enough of this bull shit already..

you crossed your arms determined to say what you needed and if all failed you had a backup plan more like pun but it had to work! How could it not!….

soon a knock came followed by the man himself he walked in and crossed his arms giving you a cheeky grin “Oh let me guess stomach ache? Sore throat? Stubbed toe again?”

you blushed and shook you head god he probably already knew you were obsessed who the hell would go to a doctor for stub toe?! You! YOU BITCH! Especially if the doctor was this damn fine!

You giggled “Listen gonna be honest I’m not sick I just wanted to tell you something” you blushed feeling like you were rushing this. You pulled out a apple from your bag and tossed it to him “A apple a day keeps the doctor away too bad I don’t want you to go away” you flipped you H/L hair and winked at him

he caught the apple with ease looking at it then back at you “I’d be rich if I got a penny every time I heard about the apple part… that last part though that’s new~” he chuckled and bit into the apple looking in your eyes as he licked his lips “You really came here just to tell me you like me?”

you nodded you head innocently he narrowed his eyes and shook his head “Y/N I already put a ring on it stop doing thiss!” He whined crossing his arms at your antics god you were engaged to this man but you still had to mess with him in someway! Plus this was how you had gotten him in the first place granted…. Last time the apple may or may not have slipped and hit him right in the face…. Oops?

he kissed you cheek “Jesus…. Yes I’ll be home in time for the date” he rolled his eyes already reading you mind

You grinned “My throat hurts you should at least check it!~”

he raised a eyebrow walking towards the door “I’ll check it when I get home” he winked at you “You open up better in the bedroom~”

you were left stunned this…this was the man you were marrying!

(Plot twist!? What do we think? This one is idk tbh.. not my fav))

[wanderingmind867]

Hiii it's ask wave time~ who are ten of your favorite characters? Don't worry it doesn't have to be ranked in order, and it doesn't even have to be ten if you don't want! Just who stands out to you? If I’ve sent this already, my bad 😭

You may have sent it before, but my memory is not great (when you have 17,000+ posts, it becomes incredibly hard to find old ones). Anyways, ten of my favourite characters? Glad you didn't say top ten. I could never do top ten. But I can try to pick out ten random ones. I might end up going overboard and doing 10-15, though. I may also end up mostly pulling from Comic Book media and Rick Riordan books for now, but I know your blog is mostly about Bob's Burgers, so I'm gonna throw in two of those characters too. I like Bob's Burgers myself too, but I just haven't watched it as much lately (and haven't posted about it due to other hyperfixations, anyways).

Martian Manhunter: He's just always appealed to me, ever since I was a little kid. Something about this incredibly lonely superhero, the last of his kind...it really hits me in the heart. I relate to it.

Two-Face: Two-Face was the first supervillian i loved. I think my parents used to tell me I raced about him as a kid after seeing a rerun of his 90s TV Show episode. I don't think I could say his name right, though. This story can't be fact-checked, because my dad currently isn't at home (and I don't know how I talked way back when i was 4-5).

Mister Freeze: I've always liked Mister Freeze, but I like him even more than usual now. His grief over losing his wife, and his obsession with curing her...god, that's relatable. I lost my mom in 2022, and it still affects me. Not always in ways you'd expect, but it definitely still affects me. So I understand Freeze's pain and heartache. I really feel for him.

Cyclops: Cyclops wasn't my favourite X-Man as a kid, but he's definitely my favourite now. I see so much of myself in him. He's intensely relatable. Lonely, awkward socially, obsession with routine and with order, Cyclops is like the most relatable character you could give me. I love him.

Doctor Octopus: Doctor Octopus was my favourite Spiderman villian as a kid. I always read into him as being very relatable. This timid scientist who just goes along with whatever his boss tells him to do (largely because he's too scared to be assertive and take charge of operations), he eventually snaps and becomes a genius supervillian. I feel like that can be said to reflect my anger issues (which I hide whenever i'm in public, too). So he was really relatable.

The Hulk/Bruce Banner: Similar to the Doctor Octopus explanation above, The Hulk appeals to my sense of dual natures. My anger issues, depressive episodes, my negative emotions generally all end up repressed unless i'm alone or around my dad. So a character who pretty much has two split personalities (both of which embody my public vs my private persona), it almost feels like it's designed to be relatable.

Electro: i almost chose Mysterio (since I love his theatricality and sense of style with his crimes), but I feel like Electro popped into my head slightly easier. I still vividly remember the Electro episode of The Spectacular Spider-Man, despite not seeing it in years. A man who's now trapped in a body made of pure electricity, electro can't touch people, eat or drink things, he can't do anything a normal human being would do. And so he snaps, broken by his transformation. That type of story is so sad that I still remember it. I love Electro. His old comics aren't as good as that episode of the TV show, but I still love him.

Nico di Angelo: Nico di Angelo is a character I've loved since I first read the Percy Jackson series (whenever that actually first was). A lonely outcast, never accepted by anyone else, who closes himself off from the world after losing family and beginning to feel unaccepted. He really, really speaks to my soul.

Frank Zhang: Besides just being from Canada (like I am) and having self-confidence issues (also like me), he really is just a character I find fun and relatable. Not too much else I can say here, but I do relate to him.

Jason Grace: Jason Grace is a character who I love so much. He's a genuinely good and selfless person, a really great guy. His rigid sense of order (due to growing up at the roman camp) really appeals to me, too. I like order and some sense of rules. I go to bed at around the same time every night, I eat at similar times every day, I just like order. Chaos is stressful. We're getting off topic, but yeah. I love Jason Grace, and his death really got to me. I couldn't read the riordan books after that, because i missed him too much.

Teddy (Bob's Burgers): Probably the most relatable major character on Bob's Burgers, this man plagued by neuroses and issues really reminds me of myself. I'm only 20 (and he's like 50 or something), but I still really feel like I'll end up like him one day. Few friends, a therapist, awkward and lonely, etc. The only major difference between us is that I hate hands on work (like the stuff he does as a handyman).

Aunt Gayle (Bob's Burgers): The other big-ish character on Bob's Burgers who I relate to. Really, that show knows how to make me like and relate to characters. Just give them an infinite number of neuroses and mental issues, and you're gonna end up with a character who I feel speaks to my soul. A lonely woman who's got no friends besides her extended family, a lady who lives alone (besides her many cats) and who's incredibly sensitive to criticism... she's very, very similar to me. Very similar. Well, except for my strong allergies to cats.

Thank you for the ask, by the way. I now realize I could probably make an infinite number of lists like these, if given time. It'd become exhausting to do all the time, but I do like so many characters. I've dabbled in so many fandoms over 20 years, I could make a list at least 50 characters wide, if i had to. I just think i'd slowly begin to feel tired and agitated as I wrote it. But still, you give me this prompt again one day, tell me to try and pick new people, and we'd probably be able to get something out of it. Idk, that's just a random thought i've had.

[katsublast]

In Another Life

Chapter One: Yuga Aoyama: Origin

“Mama, Papa, why am I different from everyone else?”

Yuga had come home from school crying again. He was five years old and still didn’t have a quirk. His parents had taken him to the doctor. They did a whole bunch of x-rays and tests. Yuga was honestly a little scared. The doctors were saying some big words to each other in hushed tones. Yuga didn’t know what most of them meant yet, but they sounded serious. Was something wrong with him?

The doctor eventually came back into the exam room, carefully closing the door behind him. The doctor sat down on the stool in front of Yuga and his parents, a solemn expression on his face.

“I’m sorry, but it doesn’t look like Yuga is going to develop a quirk.” The doctor’s voice was grim but his eyes were kind. Yuga could tell he was genuinely sad to be telling him this. “Based on the x-rays that we did, Yuga only has one joint in his pinky toe. As you know, that usually indicates that he doesn’t have a quirk gene. That’s why we did an additional blood test to be sure, and sure enough, Yuga doesn’t have a quirk gene. I’m sorry, but it appears that your son is Quirkless.”

Yuga felt like a knife had been twisted in his gut. He wasn’t going to be like the other kids. Everyone at school was already making fun of him as it is. It was only going to get worse now. Yuga began to cry.

“That can’t be possible. We’re fourth generation quirk users!” Yuga’s dad shouted, hitting the exam table in frustration. “There has to be some kind of mistake! Run the blood test again! I’m sure Yuga has some kind of quirk gene!”

Yuga’s mom tugged on his dad’s arm. “Enough, Kiyoshi. You’re scaring Yuga.”

Kiyoshi’s eyes softened somewhat as he looked back at Yuga. “I’m sorry, Yuga. I didn’t mean to yell.”

Kiyoshi turned back to the doctor. “Please forgive my outburst. It’s just so hard to believe that our son could be Quirkless. Neither of us have any Quirkless relatives.”

“It’s quite alright, sir.” The doctor said with a smile. “You’d be surprised at the number of people who yell at me every day. I deliver a lot of unfortunate news to people on the regular. Such is the life of a quirk specialist.”

Kiyoshi sighed. “Even so, that was unbecoming of me. I apologize. I don’t wish to set that kind of an example for Yuga.”

“Like I said, it’s alright.” The doctor said, standing up from his stool. “You’ll be happy to note that Yuga is in perfect health otherwise. He’ll be able to live a perfectly normal life. He doesn’t have any dreams of heroics, right? It’s not like he’d need a quirk for any other career, especially not with your connections.”

“Of course Yuga doesn’t want to be a hero,” Yuga’s mother said, letting out an anxious chuckle. “He’s a sensitive boy. Heroics would be too much for him, even with a quirk. I’m just happy to hear that being Quirkless won’t be too hard on him.”

Yuga didn’t talk during the car ride home from the doctor’s office. His mom tried to cheer him up, but all he could think about was the fact that he was going to be different from everyone else. He didn’t want to be different. He just wanted to be normal.

At school, all of the other kids wanted to play Heroes and Villains. It was an excuse to show off their new quirks. Most of the kids had flashy quirks. Some of the students at his school were even kids of Pro Heroes. Yuga felt left out. He was already an outcast, and they didn’t even know he was officially Quirkless yet. They just thought he was a late bloomer.

“Yuga, once you get your quirk, you can play with us!” One of the students said. “For now, you can just keep being our damsel!”

“I’m not going to get a quirk,” Yuga said quietly. “The doctor said that I’m going to be Quirkless.”

“Quirkless?” The student repeated, blinking back at Yuga with a confused expression. “What’s that?”

“It means that he’s going to be lame and boring his whole life,” Another student said. “That’s what my daddy always says. He says that everybody that has weak quirks aren’t any good at anything. They should all be garbage men or something.”

“Garbage men are cool!” Another student retorted. “Yuga isn’t cool enough to be a garbage man. They drive those big trucks and stuff! So cool!”

“Yeah, Yuga’s always been kind of a wimp, so him being Quirkless doesn’t really change anything.” The first student said. “He can keep being the damsel for now.”

“Yeah, I bet it’ll give him practice for real life too!” The second student laughed. “I bet the heroes are going to have to save him a lot! He doesn’t have any powers, and he’s a total wimpy crybaby. Talk about lame!”

“Yeah, Yuga’s never gonna be a hero or a garbage man!” The third student chimed in. “I get to be one of the heroes this time! You guys made me be a villain last time, so it’s my turn to play Hero!”

Yuga came home from school feeling defeated. Is he really just going to be a boring wimpy crybaby for his entire life? Is he going to have to live the rest of his life knowing that he’ll always be different from everyone else?

“How was school today, Yuga?” His mom asked him. The smile on her face was tighter than normal. He could tell that she was putting on an act. She was worried about him.

“It was fine, Mama,” Yuga said with a smile. “There’s no need to worry.”

If he was going to be forced to be different from everyone else, he was going to choose to stand out on purpose. And what other to stand out than choose a path no one could see him taking?

“Mama, Papa, I’m going to be different from everybody else. I’m going to be a hero. The first ever Quirkless one.”

Nine Years Later

Yuga’s father brought him on a business trip to Musutafu. He was still trying to discourage him from becoming a hero. Yuga was well aware that his father didn’t believe it was possible to be a Quirkless hero, but his father at least pretended to support his dream to his face. That doesn’t change the fact that his father keeps bringing him along on all his business trips in hopes that learning the ropes of the family business will change his mind.

Nothing will change Yuga’s mind. He refused to be different from everyone else in such a boring way. No one would ever really respect him no matter what he did. Even with his father’s connections, they couldn’t erase discrimination. Yuga would be an outcast no matter what he did. At least trying to become a hero made him stand out on purpose. He would force people to notice him, no matter what.

If Yuga had been born with a Quirk, he probably wouldn’t even want to become a hero. Though he doubts he would ever have been content working for his father. Yuga never wanted to be that boring.

“You should be paying attention, Yuga.” His father sighed. “I suppose you can take a break. Go buy yourself a snack or something. I have to meet with an investor soon.”

“Yes, Papa.”

Yuga was walking to a nearby convenience store when he heard a loud explosion nearby. Was that a villain attack? His feet seemed to move on their own, turning around to arrive at the scene.

Fire engulfed the shopping district, a sludge monster rampaging in the center of it. Yuga covered his mouth with his hands. It looks like he took a kid hostage. The kid looked to be around Yuga’s age too. Yuga felt for the kid. What should he do? He wanted to be a hero, didn’t he? He was going to stand out if he was just some bystander. He had to act.

Yuga charged at the villain without any sort of plan. In that moment, he realized what an idiot he was. How was he supposed to defeat such a strong villain with no quirk and no support gear?

Right, support gear!

Yuga’s eyes searched the area for something he could use as he ran towards the villain. His eyes landed on a pipe on the ground. One of the sludge villain’s large hands lunged towards Yuga, threatening to grab him.

Yuga slid on the ground, narrowly dodging the villain’s outstretched arm. He managed to grab the pipe on the ground as he rolled out of the way of another of the villain’s arms. Yuga leaped to his feet, thankful to the training he had done with the personal trainer that his parents had hired last year.

Yuga swung the pipe at the villain’s eye, temporarily blinding the sludge monster. The hostage used that moment to get his mouth free from the sludge, taking a much needed breath of fresh air.

“What the hell are you doing?” The hostage yelled at Yuga.

“I’m saving you, obviously!” Yuga shouted indignantly. “You should be honored. You’re being saved by the world’s first Quirkless hero!”

The hostage’s yelling distracted Yuga for long enough for the sludge villain to strike again. Yuga didn’t have enough time to dodge this time. Merde. I’m so dead.

But the finishing blow never came. Yuga slowly looked up to see no other than the number one hero in front of him. “Fear not! Help has arrived! Why? Because I am here!”

“All Might,” Yuga whispered in awe. He wasn’t a Super Fan by any means, but anyone who didn’t find All Might awe-inspiring was either lying or a villain. And Yuga was neither of those things.

All Might punched the villain into the sky, the force from the punch so powerful that it even changed the weather. Yuga couldn’t help but stare up at him in shock.

The heroes chastised Yuga for being reckless, which Yuga could agree with. But he wasn’t going to stand out if he stood by and did nothing. While his actions were reckless, he hasn’t done anything illegal so he was allowed to leave.

Yuga knew that his father would be furious with him for putting himself in danger like that. But even if he got in trouble with his father, he knew that his father couldn’t ignore that he was dazzling out there. He made an impact. He managed to free the hostage, even for a moment. His training had paid off.

Yuga felt a tap on his shoulder. “Young man, can I speak with you for a moment?” He turned around to face a skeletal looking man in a white T-shirt and cargo pants. “I work for All Might. I have a proposition for you.”

From the shadows, green eyes narrowed with concern. A proposition, huh?

[crazyunsexycool]

Hi Val!

I have a question. With Mama Barnes and Bucky about to be married, and with Charlotte’s eagerness to get a sissy, at what age, or if ever, will Henry and Charlotte become aware that the reader is not their biological mother? Will this impact them, knowing that their siblings not only are reader’s actual children but that they were born as a result of their parents’ love and were not experiments (unlike them)?

Uuhh what an amazing question!

So Henry is already aware that Mama Barnes isn’t his biological mom. It doesn’t bother him though because she takes care of him and loves him. It’s not until Mama Barnes has the first biological baby that Henry is going to get jealous. He’ll think that now because there is this other baby he’s going to get replaced. Considering his early childhood though it’s a valid feeling for him. I think in the first few weeks of their sibling being born he’ll be cautious. Henry will see how Mama Barnes and Bucky both give the baby so much attention he’ll be unsure of his place. Really mama Barnes and Bucky have never handled a newborn so they’re just freaking out! When they settle into their routine though and things go back to a new normal. Mama Barnes will sit down with him and calm all his worries and tell him that even though he wasn’t in her belly he’s still her first child and she loves him. Bucky will also have his own conversation with him and remind him how much he’s loved.

Charlotte is a whole different story. Her memory of the beginning of her life is much different. Yes she hates the medbay and the doctors because she remembers being surrounded by them but she spent most of her life in cryo so most of her memories really start at age 3 when she was with Mama Barnes and Bucky. She’s also so innocent that she thinks the way she gets siblings is by her parents going out on missions (that’s how she got Henry). Once she sees Mama Barnes with a belly and she feels the baby move and kick (which she’ll be obsessed with by the way and when she learns the baby can hear her… forget about it) Charlotte will start asking questions like was she in mama’s belly. But it won’t be until she’s older, somewhere around 11 or 12, that she’ll start to look at her siblings and notice the differences in their appearance. She’ll be slightly insecure about if her parents love her as much as they love their biological kids. Those insecurities will get shut down quickly though.

Lottie and Henry will be a little jealous that their siblings didn’t have to go through what they did at the beginning of their lives but overall they know it wasn’t their faults (siblings or themselves). And with how much the younger kiddos love them they know they weren’t just place holders for any “bio kid”.

Also mama Barnes finding out they had these feelings of insecurities that maybe they aren’t wanted or don’t belong will hit her hard. It’s definitely something she’s gone through and she’ll do everything in her power to let them know how much she loves them and that her not having given birth to them changes nothing for her.

On top of that just imagine having to have the talk with Charlotte about the birds and the bees. When reader’s belly is showing and Lottie is feeling the baby move for the first time and she just goes:

“Mama eat the baby?”

And Mama barnes is just like 😳😱🫣 “what?”

“Baby in mama’s belly. Mama eat the baby’s?”

“That’s not how babies end up in a woman’s belly Charlotte.”

“Oh kay. Why is baby in belly? daddy help?”

Meanwhile Steve is sitting there trying not to laugh at mama Barnes face.

[duhragonball]

JoJolion Ch. 89-94

"What are you boys doing up there?"

"We're having a delicious breakfast, mom!"

So where were we? Oh, right, Josuke was on the run from the police, so Rai told Yasuho to head off by herself and link up with them later. I guess Rai and Josuke are sticking together since they'd have a harder time finding one another than Yasuho would with Paisley Park. Somehow, they got Josuke's Lambroghini up in a tree. I'm thinking Soft and Wet could do that, but we don't get much of an explanation. Anyway, Rai bought a paper on his last trip down the tree, and it says that Satoru Akefu is doing some sort of public lecture at the TGU Hospital. They see this as a perfect opportunity to get a look at his face, but as soon as they agree to do it, the Enemy Stand appears in the back seat of the car. It vanishes almost as soon as Josuke sees it, but they soon realize that even thinking about pursuing the Head Doctor will trigger the Stand's ability, which is to inflict misfortunes on the target.

So they get down from the tree lickety split to get clear of the car before something hits it. But then it starts to rain, and even the raindrops hit them hard enough to cause injury. The only shelter available is...

... inside one of the police cars currently searching for them. The boys agree to surrender themselves, but they refuse to step out of the car, which creates a standoff. For some reason, Rai and Josuke have a whole conversation during this, like the cops are just standing there waiting patiently for them to make up their minds.

Rai's a realist, so he's concluded that pursuing Dr. Akefu is a non-starter. His Stand is too strong, and too sensitive to hostile intent. They can't even come up with a plan to go near him without getting attacked from all directions. He doesn't give up, but he's not exactly coming up with any better ideas, either.

But Josuke's too stubborn to quit. He reminds Rai that his name, "Josuke Higashikata", is just a placeholder he was given until he could find out who he used to be. But now he knows he's a mix of Yoshikage Kira and Josefumi Kujo, and he's essentially a whole new person. The police won't find any records of him anywhere. The only thing that gives his life purpose--"proof of existence" as Josuke puts it-- is his quest to save Holly. And so he refuses to stop pursuing Dr. Akefu, regardless of the danger.

Brave words, but he only makes it a few paces out of the squad car before the rain injures him enough to knock him out. So the cops send Josuke to the hospital in an ambulance, while Rai gets taken to the station. On the way, Rai realizes that Josuke's play was actually brilliant. This way, he gets a free ride to the hospital, where Dr. Akefu will be delivering his lecture. Well, it's not that brilliant. They were all together in the hospital when this chase started, remember? And it went so poorly that they wound up in this mess. At best, Josuke's starting over from square one, only he's in worse shape this time around.

As Yasuho tries to track down Josuke and Rai, she gets a visit from Toru, who continues to try to rekindle their relationship. He tells her about something she said once about power lines that inspired him to invent a way to recharge a cell phone without cables. This technology is widely available in 2024, but I think in 2011 it was still in the early stages. Anyway, Toru tried to take the idea to big tech firms, but they dismissed him as too inexperienced and behind the times. The idea had already been developed, and no one really had any confidence in someone his age.

When he sees Yasuho trying to get a lead on Josuke and Rai, Toru offers to show her a photo he once took of Dr. Akefu at the hospital, and Yasuho recognizes the other person in the picture as Mitsuba Higashikata.

This intensifies Yasuho's belief that the Locacaca Branch is at the Higashikata estate. I'm not quite sure how this proves anything that Yasuho didn't already know, but she asks Toru to drive her to the Higashikata mansion right away. It's almost like Toru wanted her to do this... hmmm...

At the Higashikata place, Mitsuba sees how stressed out Tsurugi has been, and she reads about the death of whatsername and Ojiro Sasame, and she starts to put everything together, but she can't quite make sense of it all. I think Mitsuba has most of the pieces, but she'd need someone like Yasuho or Josuke to connect the dots. To be fair, this is all pretty complex, and she's been absent for large swaths of this story. Also, she keeps seeing Dr. Akefu outside the window, and that makes no sense to her at all, since she doesn't know how he fits into any of this.

Finally, she checks on Tsurugi and finds him in this state, and he says it must be the Rock Disease, although it seems to have advanced much more quickly than it did for his father or grandfather. This visual made no sense to me the first time I read this chapter, but now that it's in color I can tell that Tsurugi's body is turning into some sort of half-human/half origami crane. This is probably due to him losing control of his Stand, since Paper Moon King lets him turn other objects into origami, like cell phones and such, but now it's turning him into an origami crane.

This is what Tsurugi was talking about when he told Yasuho about the bunker's purpose way back in his earliest appearances. It was designed to contain the eldest son whenever he succumbed to the Rock Disease. That didn't make sense to me at the time, but we know it causes mental problems and memory loss, and everyone in the family is a Stand User, so yeah, I could see Tsurugi or his ancestors getting potentially dangerous to be around in this condition.

It's also possible that Tsurugi's rapid onset of the disease may also be partly due to the presence of Dr. Akefu. No one in the mansion is pursuing him, but he seems to be having some sort of effect on them anyway. I look at it like a kind of probability warping. The Stand makes accidents more likely and more dangerous, so it's conceivable that it can make Tsurugi's illness progress more quickly than it normally would. Also, his sudden decline has gathered the entire family together in the hallway, so that may also be part of the enemy's plan.

What about Josuke? Well, his dumb plan doesn't work. He wakes up in the hospital and manages to incapacitate the police watching him, but as soon as he tries to get on with his search for the Head Doctor, the calamities start all over again and he falls flat on his face before he can do anything.

But just as he's about to give up hope, who should come to his aid but.... Dr. Holly Joestar-Kira?! But how? Turns out her coma was only a temporary situation. Parts of her body have turned to rock, but they're constantly moving. When they reach her brain, she goes into a coma, but she's been dealing with this for a while, apparently, which is why she wrote a bunch of notes on her body with a felt-tip pen. I once wondered why we never saw any of this before, but in her previous appearances she was always covered head-to-toe, and she had some sort of head scarf over the side of her face.

Okay, so how to sum all this up? Somehow, Holly managed to come out of her coma just in time to find out Josuke was in the hospital, and she threw on a uniform and a pair of sunglasses so she could go to his aid. She only has two minutes before she goes into another coma, but she plans to take him to the secret room where they store Locacaca. Not the plants this time, but the vials of Locacaca 6251, the new pharamceutical version that Dr. Akefu is announcing in his lecture.

Here he is now, explaining the drug and medical implant which he developed to provide this revolutionary treatment. The whole presentation seemed half-baked to me, since this is just a refined version of the Locacaca fruit that the smugglers were selling, and it's a gamble at best. Why would you go to market with something as unpredictable as this?

Then I realizes that Akefu isn't trying to sell this product here. He's just telling people that it exists, and that it's currently still being studied and submitted for approval. Akefu isn't making a sales pitch here, he's giving this talk to attract investors. They get excited about the drug, pour a bunch of cash into the TGU Hospital, and Akefu gets richer and more powerful without putting a drop of Locacaca on the market. It's brilliant, really.

So how does Holly know about this? Well, Dr. Wu said that Holly once did research on Locacaca herself. He called her efforts a "failure", but I think the implication from her story is that she was actually investigating something fishy at the the hospital. By the time she found out anything substantial, she was already beginning to succumb to the effects of her illness, which appears to have been caused by the Locacaca drug. As her health declined, the Four Rock Human Doctors joined the staff, and she never had a chance to tell her son, Yoshikage Kira, what she had discovered. So Kira had to discover the Locacaca Fruit on his own, and he tried to steal a sample, never realizing that it had been the cause of Holly's illness from the beginning.

Holly even knows about Damo's group smuggling the fruit into Japan, but they didn't know about the Four Doctors, apparently. Akefu was using their smuggling ring as a "clinical trial". He was also, most likely, using Holly as a guinea pig too. Josuke asks if they were dosing her with Locacaca, but she never directly answers. Maybe at this point it's obvious.

Wait, so if Holly's been to the Locacaca room before, why didn't Yasuho find her credentials in the security system for the room? That's because Holly has a special key to get in the room, and it's shaped like a motherfuckin' ax! Part 8 Holly is hot as hell.

Holly gives Josuke a dose of the Locacaca 6251 and explains how it works, though Josuke already knows. As far as I can tell this version is just safer to use, as it only forms rocky growths on the skin instead of inside your brain or your uterus or whatever. But even as she warns Josuke not to pursue the Head Doctor, he still feels compelled to go after him. This causes another calamity, and the drug petrifices his mouth and nose before it can heal him. So Holly pours another dose in a hole in the side of his face. This time it works, since she's the one pouring, and she has no intention of chasing the Head Doctor.

I'm wondering if this might have something to do with Holly's illness. Maybe she had tried to use Locacaca 6251 during her conflict with the Four Doctors, and Afeku's power caused it to backfire on her in a way that led to the illness she has now. I'd almost describe her current state as a perpetual equivalent exchange, with parts of her body turning to stone then flesh, then stone again without ever settling on a single configuration.

The last piece of advice she gives Josuke--whom she keeps addressing as Yoshikage because she doesn't know what's happened to him-- is that he can make the Head Doctor pursue him. It won't activate the Stand if Josuke is the one being pursued. As she goes back into a coma, Josuke thanks her for her help and acknowledges her as his mother.

Okay, one question before we move on: How did Holly just happen to wake up just in time to tell Josuke all of this, and how did she even know he was here?

I'm going to chalk all of that up to her unseen Stand. We know Holly has a Stand because she was aware of other Stands in this story. She asked Yoshikage to use Killer Queen to remove a blood clot from Josefumi Kujo, and then when Yasuho visited her in the hospital, Holly noticed Paisley Park before Yasuho had realized it herself. She also knows a lot about Dr. Afeku's ability, although his power seems like the kind of Stand that even non-Stand users could perceive.

So we know Holly has a Stand, but we never learn anything about it. We never see the Stand, nor find out its abilities. That's frustrating, but it also works out very nicely for explaining Holly's odd behavior throughout JoJolion.

For example, she said certain encouraging words to Yasuho back when she was a child. Yoshikage dismissed them as nonsense, but Yasuho recalled them later and realized they were what led her to pull Josuke up from the soil in Chapter 1.

When Yasuho visited Holly later on, Holly seemed to recognize Yasuho as someone who would be a great help to her son. She was right, but how could she have possibly known that?

Holly also had a profound influence on Josefumi Kujo, which is why Kujo was so devoted to Kira's plan to save her. So maybe she said some inspiring words to Josefumi back when she saved him as a child.

I'm just spitballing here, but it feels like Holly contributes more to the plot than she ought to be able to contribute. It's like she somehow intuits all of these fated connections that don't get realized until she's too sick to get involved herself. Maybe her Stand can see the future, or maybe it just recognizes people who are destined to do good later on. Her illness may have compromised its ability, but it still had enough power to lead her to Josuke in this scene. I think she just has some sort of special insight. This might explain some of the markings she put on her body. Her Stand may have helped her know where to put the tick marks on her face.

So Josuke is healed--aside from some rocky growths on his face-- and he follows Yasuho's advice. He calls a courier and sends him off with a package, and then he sits down in the Locacaca room and waits.

... like a BAMF. Look at this cool dude with his adorable li'l sailor outfit. Yasuho's a lucky woman, I tell you what.

Speaking of Yasuho, she arrives near the Higashikata house and sends Paisley Park inside to scout around for the branch. But when she finds Tsurugi and discovers how sick he is, she also finds...

A TRAP! Jobin was expecting her to try something like this, so he grabs the cell phone she was using to contact Tsurugi and drops it in the toilet! Paisley Park can't jump into any other devices to get out, and as the phone gets soaked, Yasuho begins to drown and disintegrate.

Tsurugi begs his dad to spare Yasuho, but Jobin explains his intention to use the new Locacaca to cure Tsurugi and every other generation of their family. I think he plans to cultivate the fruit in secret, and with the Rock Disease out of the picture and his "might makes right" philosophy, Jobin thinks the family will be unstoppable in the future. All he has to do now is keep Tsurugi alive for a few more hours, and give him the fruit when it's ready for harvest.

The thing is, he says that there won't be any further need for "sacrifices", like the way Norisuke's mother died for Norisuke, and Caato killed that bully to save Jobin. Except, yeah, the new Locaca totally works that way. You can only remove the Rock Disease from Tsurugi by sending it into someone else. I don't know why Jobin doesn't seem to understand this, or maybe he does understand, and he's just become so cool with murder that he doesn't see it as a problem anymore.

Mitsuba sees Paisley Park in the toilet, begging for help, and Mitsuba is moved at first, because she still owes Yasuho for saving her from Dr. Wu. But her loyalty to Jobin and her fear of everything going on is stronger, so she shuts the toilet lid, apparently consigning Yasuho to her fate. I'm not sure I understand why Yasuho must die for Jobin's plan to work. Maybe he's just that paranoid about Josuke showing up to screw him over, but right now he doesn't even know where Josuke is.

So Yasuho's stuck out in the yard, drowning. Then she sees the Head Doctor nearby, and the calamity hits her and lops off her arm. This sucks.

Well, it's still better than riding around in Joshuu's pants.

As for Mitsuba, well... I guess it comes down to her being too scared for her family to do the right thing. She tries to use her Stand to force Paisley Park down the drain, but then something goes wrong and her Stand misfires. She recognizes the calamity from before, when she saw the Head Doctor outside, and I think she believed that Jobin's "Kill Yasuho" plan was supposed to resolve that, but no. Jobin doesn't know jack shit about the Head Doctor.

Instead, her force beam shoots the wrong way and blasts a hole in the wall that reveals the New Locacaca fruit that Jobin had been hiding. And it just so happens that the whole family is there to see it. Oops.

[the-firebird69]

That was helpful and s*** a light on it and I heard it before but this all makes a lot of sense now and the Star wars rendition makes sense and Stan gets it back together is amazing and becomes James Bond and it looks like he goes completely nuts on bja he figures out he needs to do things but really you don't see him bothering him too much and he's going after Trump quite a bit and then you see him going after Vader yeah and with a vengeance he seeks him out. We think that he captures him but my husband says somebody else is doing these things you can see them on the Isle of doctor Moreau but he thinks that Justin hits his father and tries to take over the role it's not really doing much on the island take credit for it and Tommy goes hog wild and our really is a nutcase he's already a nut and he puts them in primates and Justin has a real hard time becomes Forrest Gump and some other things but stand tracks down Vader a bunch of times eventually Vader becomes Luke Skywalker for some reason I'm just saying no that's actually Luke we don't think so

Hera

I look different than that character that fights kylo Ren and I do different things he's just sitting there provoking him and I'm doing something else wow this is a pain painful it looks like the end for people and he says that the empire notices that you or Sue each other too much you pursue each other too much attracts people too much and they can't put you in the pyramid and our choice was to do that and we're going to die because of it

Bg

It's better to do that than be there permanent slave as a dead person too

Trump

Maybe but this is destroying us I don't want to go anywhere this is you can't be president unless you leave the house it's probably other code it makes more sense in other words dad was working on people and Mom to install them and that makes sense and I sort of get something they know how it works and stuff

Bg

Good very sounds interested and this is crazy but we treated as our house and he was a baby there and grew up we had some wild times and he grow up real fast and he says it doesn't seem like I was there that long and that's also true saying it was years and he was very young in westborough we moved there it was really years but he was a baby for 3 years he thinks then he started to grow a lot by the time we got him over there he was the size of a 8 year old child and put him a nursery school and he said I can't stand these little babies so we have to pull them out and put him in kindergarten so they're trying to push me around all the time and I'm big and it's just saying no and they're gross and weird Jason's kids and they start saying things really awful stuff said one of them said I'm going to eat you up if you don't let me have this toy so I knock you down and throw you out the window and it says what floor it says shut up the kids show up and moved away started crying my son started laughing and the kids like trying to tell on him and can't speak this is not supposed to it's like an hour and the latest what did you say to him and said he came up to me and said something really bad so I told him to leave me alone and she was and she said it too I heard you say it and you're out of here and he said screaming and you can hear some things coming out of our son said wow that is painfully annoying like that later we found out that the kid didn't make it disappeared and Christ said who cares that's idiocy and they heard good to know and yeah they moved them out cuz I came and picked him up said what are you sticking in a room full of s*** heads for he's got to hold him somewhere and I got that and he was at home for a little bit and he was doing great then kindergarten this is I don't want to go there I don't learn anything you don't do anything all day it's not really true you just didn't like them Kenny wong really stupid s***

The kid was a mess and was trying to talk to her son and her son saying it's nice but I can't understand where you're saying not one word and you kept doing it says why don't you go over there and her son needed it went over his house and says I don't understand what your son's saying at all and she says you're not really the greatest friend he doesn't have any friends and our senses I don't want to be mean but I can't figure out what he's saying and she goes oh and he's Chinese no it's just idiot Dan and he starts to slow down and he's talking and he says wow I can understand you yes what's the matter you're not listening to know it's not coming out in English and he said oh yeah so they talked to they were kind of friends and he became massively abusive not long after that we think that he put the rock in the path and we are going after the piece of s*** A lot of people are

Mom and auntie

Olympus

[lighthousenewsnetwork]

Since Elon Musk can’t tell a joke to save his life, he is now trying to acquire more fame by doing things only a C-list celebrity would do to try to get back on top and be loved again. He’s going to try and beat up another techno nerd who also wants publicity to be a “good guy” again. Billionaires don’t like to be criticized by the poor, after all, so it’s time for them to beat each other up! Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, is ready to take on Elon in an octagon cage match, where they will both put on the gloves, hike up their satin shorts, and do a little Mohammad Ali dancing in the ring, to see which computer geek is the GREATEST!! Seriously? Have you ever watched two nerds fight? Hilarious. First, they have to take out their pocket protectors and calculators and Dungeons and Dragons maps and creased photos of the high school cheerleaders who called them nerds and made fun of their Adam’s apples … and then finally, they fight. One throws a punch … and hurts his hand. Five-minute break, doctors in the corners of the ring checking the “fighters”, and lawyers are on phones waiting to sue (these are billionaire nerds, after all). Once they drink plenty of fluids so as not to get too dehydrated, check for nose bleeds and popped zits, they wobble on their oversized shoes again and trudge out into centre ring. Elon swings a punch and hits himself in the side of the head! Almost a K-O! Mark swings a hard left and it just keeps swinging and spinning until his feet leave the ground – and Mark has dropped himself to the mat beside Elon, who’s rubbing his sore ear and sniffling and thinking about building bigger and bigger rockets to take him farther away from his many Earth-bound enemies – to the moon, Alice! Both fighters are down! The ref wants to call it, but he can’t stop laughing! The audience is also laughing their asses off as Elon and Mark struggle up the ropes, pulling against their rubber legs and all that sweet laughter. They are both sweating heavily, and snot is running out of their nostrils – and Mark has just taken his inhaler! There will be a ten-minute break while bruises and scrapes are heavily bandaged to make these “warriors” look impressive to the TV cameras. Is anyone watching? Do we want this to go on? My stomach already hurts, and I’ve been farting as I laugh so I’ll take a bathroom break and come back to see if … wait, what’s this? The fight is over! No winner! No one is getting sued. Elon and Mark are both crying and their moms are on the phones pissed off and telling them to get home immediately, their dinners are getting cold – and their stock has plummeted! And there you have it, another publicity stunt gone wrong. Now if only Fox could create a show where computer billionaires fought tigers! Can’t sue a tiger, Elon and Mark. PS: the cheerleaders are still laughing at both of you looooooooosers! https://lighthousenewsnetwork.com/when-two-nerds-go-to-war-moms-get-mad-and-cheerleaders-laugh/?feed_id=13103&_unique_id=678e5bb9b348a

[the-silver-peahen-residence]

I wonder if Bradley tried messing with Ophelia again? I bet her kid was not happy seeing a stranger near her.

@demon-blood-youths

"Oh we tried to...but still failed. She's changed a lot too but...she was also one of the hotties taken sadly." he said with arms crossed. Though, at least he got to see her.

"Alright, you should be healed up pretty well. Just be sure you take it slow and be careful." Ophelia smiled to the man as he nods wanting to pay her as thanks but she shook her head.

"Oh no, you don't have to pay for this. Just be careful the next time." she said sweetly.

"Thank you miss....." he said getting up to head out. Ophelia smiled happy to help another while wearing her doctor coat. Seems her husband was doing something in the other room with their daughter Sarah.

"Alright, that should be-"

"Oh gosh...hello hello hello~" she blinks hearing a voice to turn only to jump seeing a male so close to her.

"Oh my....sir, your a bit too close." she said but Bradley pouts to see that it was indeed her. The same cute look and beautiful eyes too.

"Sorry sorry but....I wonder if you remember me. It's me!" he said.

"Uhhhh....who are you?" she asked seeing him sweatdrop.

"Oh my..it's me! The cutie that tried to hit on you....Bradley!" he said.

"....." Hold on, wasn't he Mineta's friend? If that's the case...she right away looked nervous with him being here.

"Okay...so why are you here Bradley? I'm sorta busy right now." she said to see him pout looking at her. Though, she grew up lovely in his eyes which was pretty nice.

"Hmm? Why am I here? Oh yeah! I wanted you to 'heal' me since your a healer. I won't try anything stupid if your worried doll." he said showing off his smile but Ophelia was not phased by it.

"Uh huh...well, if you need treatment I can get my husband to help you." she said.

"Huh?! Your husband! Don't tell me you got married too?!" he said.

"I did...." she said.

"Uggghhh...why!? Why can't I Have the luck here! Well, are you really sure your married-"

"Yes. -_-." she even shows the wedding ring on her ring finger. Bradley blinks to see the ring but looks to her before looking upset.

"Well..I don't believe you so I wanna marry you myself....you don't mind that right?"

"What? I think you got it wrong Bradley. I'm already taken and married. You can't do that and try to win a married woman's heart." she said but he pouts more to look at her.

"Oh come on! It's not that hard. I'm sure that loser of a husband won't do shit to me. Besides, we can make beautiful kids together-"

"I already have my precious little one, Bradley. Now I'm going to ask kindly. Please leave." she said.

"Not till I get married. So it's either you come with me...or I force you to." he said to look at Ophelia. As he was about to brag her, something hits him on the leg to make him look down. He saw a little girl who was trying to 'help' her mother.

"Get away from my mom. You meanie!" Sarah said but Bradley sighed to look at her.

"Look kid. Why don't you buzz off. I'm trying to woo your mom here. Now beat it!" he said but Sarah shook her head hitting his leg with her hands.

"Let mama go! Let my mom go!" she said but Bradly stares now picking up the kid to glare at her.

"I'm not. Now as I said..buzz off!" he said dropping her but he begins carrying Ophelia away. Sarah looks to see but she was crying to see some small particles show.

"I said leave my mommy alone you m..meanie! I said...LET HER GO!" she shouted causing some demonic butterflies to show as they were huge. Bit as a car. Bradley tense from this only to back up.

"Uhhhh, lets not be rash little girl.I was just talking to you-" that's when another hand shows to grip his shoulder showing it was Hex.

"Hex!"

"Daddy!"

".....Ummm hi?" he said scared seeing a male but he had a arrow aimed to his face. He sweatdrops scared. "...."

"Unhand my wife.." he warns as Bradley got scared to quickly go ahead and lets her go but Ophelia pulls Sarah away as Hex was ready to beat his butt.

"Hey hold on a second! I was just playing! Don't please!" he begs only for Hex to drag him away that he quickly tries to run only to get caught. He was scared before Hex takes care of him while beating him up. HIs screams were heard but Ophelia and Sarah sigh to see this.

"Are you okay mom?" she asked seeing Ophelia nod.

"I'm alright honey. Thank you..." she said petting her head while Sarah smiled happy to be there for her. Even now, the two were pretending not to hear Bradley's screams for help since he did deserve it. And for being a pervert too.

[benefits1986]

ingriefta, ingratuhtuh

"Hindi halata" = My most favorite vice & my deadliest sin

2018. Kayangan Lake. Freedive. My most poetic suicide attempt.

Why is it the worst one? I'm with my dad and he literally dipped his face as he watched me emerge from the otherworldly blue lake. It was also the first time we actually reconciled after a season of passive-aggressive encounters.

No, I didn't want to punish him. No, I didn't want to take revenge. No, I didn't want to burden him.

At that time, all I remember is that I can conveniently say adios and ensure I up my chances of dying a natural, unstaged death.

I got a message in time for New Year telling me that all those fucked up years that turned into more than a decade seemed all too well. LOL. Hodor.

"Hindi halata." >> Meaning, it appeared as though I've got my shit cleaned up real good.

This hit home hard, and for the first time, I am coming in peace.

The thing about losing a parent is that the emotions that are unpacked are totally new, even when you know that it's but part of life. There's no classes or crash course that enables you to get a solid starter pack. There's not much content that has airtime that deals with its nooks and crannies.

"Hindi halata." >> A testament that indeed, my most favorite vice which is avoiding feelings has come in full circle. I've succeeded in dressing my grief to the nines not just because I want the world to see I've come through. Nope. I wish it was that simple.

I did not want to accept the fact that the hall pass given to me by my purple people. I felt too fragile, too frail.

I did not share my innermost thoughts because I was cancelling myself especially when I felt that I could have done better, but failed so miserably.

I did not allow people to love me as I am because I did not love myself at all.

I indulged in travels to mask my aching for a home. All the rare snaps and moving snaps were celebrated by viewers. Little did they know that those cropped frames were delusional attempts to fill the void that's unfathomably hollow and painful.

I kept running away from the home that is built on love in sickness, and in health... because death may have parted me and mother dragon, physically, but the parting was just too graphic and horrific... even when I knew it was for the best of all of us.

I punished myself secretly as I chased every high. Instant gratification led to severe burnout that only I and a very few people knew about. Work became my addiction. It's so convenient and it makes sense... plus it pays the bills. I was able to "buy" happiness after so many years of not being able to afford it.

I allowed my body to suffer in the hopes of seeing it fall because I felt that breathing was killing my insides -a prolonged agony.

However, I saw a bleak ray of light when I whispered to the universe one time that I didn't want to die sad. I slowly saw people who consistently showed up no matter how fucked up my avoidance was. I call them my lifesavers. I gradually allowed them to hear pieces of my fucked up storylines. I eventually got the hang of reaching out even when it felt like I was "burdening" them in this already complicated world.

And as I try my best to reach the 4.0 road, I wish I could be more attuned with the lessons that are birthed from 12 years of fuck ups na "hindi halata" 'di umano.

I replied: "Hayaan mong ako naman ang umagapay sa'yo."

These aging millennials are facing more and more episodes involving death, sickness, and grieving.

Back then, I questioned why I had to face these in my 20s, my supposed "prime" era. I lambasted my timeline not just because I compared it with what my algo feeds me. It was worse than that. I thought that back then, escaping death without an Invisibility Cloak was manageable if I got strategic and tactical at all times. I got addicted to green lines and pulled all tricks to avoid yellow and red lines.

Most graphic example: Keeping mom's water intake to the doctor-prescribed amount even during the most sweltering summer days and nights. No buts, no ifs. Focus lang tayo sa stats niya. Period. There were times when she begged me, which is a rare one as a towering Taurus, but this bitch didn't budge. My logic was plain and irrefutable: Steroids and water don't mix.

Oh, the stats, the math, and me. Chemistry lab gone wild, indeed. See? Worse gone worst, yes?

However, I am choosing to come in peace. It's not easy but this time around, as I look at those moments, I cry... and laugh already. Not always, but getting there. And most importantly, I share these vulnernable icks to people who matter, and those who need or want to have this "cake", too. I keep failing, but I'm slugging a la Caterpie.

That said, I think I'm off to a real fresh start this 2025. Cheesy as it may seem, may this be a very important and kinda urgent reminder that I ought to go beyond all derivatives of "hindi halata" because I deserve better, and people who matter most to me, deserve better, too.

This ingrata noona is off to new heights, super frights included.

Thank you, purple people. Now, let's pay it forward.

PS1: I need an ink in Palawan. :p PS2: I've been dearly praying that I make it to the B event. Look ma, no more attempts. Sabi nga sa akin a few months back ng isang old soul --'wag ka masyado poetic sa attempts mo... darating din 'yan, in time. Enjoy mo lang muna.

[reashot]

After Fall + Lancaster

Jaune: H-hey are you okay. Do you need me to take you to the doctor?

Ruby: J-Jaune what are you... I mean why do you looks so young!?

Jaune: Uh you feeling okay? I mean I'm always been young. And how do you know my name?

Ruby: Jaune stop kidding around! What happened to me after I drunk the tea? Are we still in the ever after? And where is that fu***** Cat!?

Jaune: W-wait a moment. Tea? Ever after? And what Cat are we talking about?

The only thing I can answer is that we're in Beacon and I actually just enroll here so I can't tell you about this place. I'm sorry.

Ruby: You just enroll here... But that's impossible. Beacon is gone...

No way... T-this is impossible. Where - I mean, when are we?

Jaune: Okay... I think you might hit your head a little too hard after that explosion. Don't worry I will help you find the academy infirmary. Oh I know you already know my name but let me introduce myself anyway. My name is Jaune Arc. Short, sweet, rolls of the tongue....

Ruby: Ladies loves it...

Jaune: Uh... Have we met somewhere before?

Ruby: .... No. I'm sorry but I think I really did hurt my head so bad. I'm Ruby by the way. (*grabs Jaune's hand*)

Jaune: (*pulls Ruby up*) Then we better find the infirmary. To have you checked.

Ruby: Oh no, please there's no need. As you can see I'm completely fine now. I'm just a bit dazed after the dust explosion... Me being a dumb "Crater Face" and all. 😋

Jaune: You shouldn't called yourself "Crater Face." That would have been if I called myself "Vomit Boy" because I pu... Oh! You were at the Bullhead when I puked all over the ship! I'm so sorry for puking next to you.

Ruby: Oh you don't have to apologize. Motion sickness after all is a lot more common than we realize. 😊

Jaune: I know right! I can't believe there's no motion sickness pill inside the Bullhead. That's just asking for trouble if you ask me. I'm surprised that there isn't more people puking on the ship.

Ruby: (He's such a dork😏) Jaune this might seem to come out of nowhere, but do you want to be my friend? 🥺

Jaune: Sure after all stranger are friend you haven't met yet. That's what my mom said anyway.

Ruby: (I knew he would say that. Oh Jaune why did I never have the courage to pursue you back during the Academy.😞) Thank you (*hugs Jaune*) 🥰

Jaune: Oh. Usually I don't mind when a cute girl is hugging me. But isn't it all too fast?

Ruby: (He called me cute!!! I knew it, I knew he likes me! 😫) Didn't you said that stranger are just friend you haven't met? And Jaune you can pat my head if you want. 😘

Jaune: I guess I did say that...

Ruby: Eh, he, he. I'm never letting you go Jaune... (Never...)

Jaune: Oh stop kidding around Ruby. We have to find the rest of students.

Ruby: No need. I know where they are. How about we take our time before we meet the rest of them? There's some place I want to take you to.

Jaune: Uh okay, I mean you seems to know more about this place than me so lead on Ruby.

Ruby: (Yes! I'm finally going to go on a date with Jaune. Don't worry Jaune I will make sure things are right this time. I will make sure you never have to lose anyone ever again. I'll save Pyrrha, Penny and everyone. Maybe I start by killing Cinder first... He, he, he. Oh I can't wait to see the look on that bitch's face as I behead her. Oh and maybe I'll help with Jaune's training too. That way he can be the hero he always wanted and I don't have to be alone. Oh the possibility are endless. 😈)

C'mon let me show you around the academy....

The scene pans out as Ruby drags Jaune by his arm to show him what Beacon has to offer.

[harrowharkwife]

so, um.

i've been thinking about "pilgrimage" for a while now. and about how we still haven't reached much of a consensus on what we're expecting from that episode.

pilgrimage. definition: a journey, especially a long and difficult one, made to some sacred or important place, typically as an act of devotion, or in search of deeper meaning, healing, or understanding.

the way this show works, i'm expecting to see all the characters on their own personal pilgrimages. some of them are easier to imagine than others.

maddie and chim taking jee-yun on her first beach trip, maybe. maddie, reconciling and processing both her harrowing, terrifying time in the ocean and her fear of jee near water. chimney, there to support her. both of them anchoring and grounding themselves in each other's presence, in the security of their family, and in the comfort that comes from teaching jee-yun to swim. watching her safely doggy paddle and splash and play in the shallow water, a lifejacket on her shoulders and a smile on her face, with the knowledge that she's safe and happy with both of her parents.

hen, finishing med school. becoming a doctor, finally, after her long journey of stress and studying and sleepless nights. she worked so, so hard to get here, and it was worth it. she doesn't necessarily have to leave her job and her home at the 118- she could be captain there someday, after all! but she's armed with so much more knowledge now, knowledge and training that will help her save even more lives, whether that's in a hospital or out in the field. and that medical license? it will help her advocate for every patient she treats, especially the ones overlooked by the medical system- her mom comes to mind. it forces everyone to take her seriously, to give her the respect she deserves, from the moment she introduces herself to them. and above all else, she will have proven to herself that she can do it. that she can chase each and every one of her dreams, at her pace and on her terms. just like she quit her pharma job, just like she became a firefighter despite eva's lack of support- only now, she has the support and encouragement from all her family and friends.

bobby, taking a trip to minnesota. maybe athena's with him, maybe may and harry. or maybe not. the fire at dispatch brought back a lot of old pain for him, even as saving may helped heal some of his oldest wounds. a karmic balancing of the scales, in a way- we know bobby tends to see things that way. but may isn't brooke. bobby buried a wife, a son, a daughter. and visiting their resting place to pay his respects, to tell them about his sobriety, about his new family, about how he creates families everywhere he goes now, about how much he misses them every day but despite it all he hasn't stopped living- that's a pilgrimage. and one i think he sorely needs to take, in order to heal.

for a while, i thought buck might take a trip back to hershey in this episode. but now i'm not so sure. eddie's already been back to el paso, and aside from that, i wasn't sure what a pilgrimage might look like, for him.

but then it hit me.

buck and eddie, going back to the site of the shooting. together. talking about it, processing it- as frank put it, "maybe you should talk about your pain with someone who shares it. think about your trauma. and then talk to someone who can understand exactly what you've been through."

that would be a pilgrimage, wouldn't it?

there's this scene in survivors, that i don't think we talk about enough- understandably, considering everything else going on in that episode. it's a quiet, blink-and-you'll-miss-it little moment between bobby and athena, that takes place only a handful of scenes after buck hauls eddie into the fire engine and desperately tries to keep him from bleeding out. and it goes like this:

athena: you know, after i was attacked, we never really talked about it.

bobby: well, i always got the sense you didn't want to.

athena: no, i mean... we never talked about what it was like for you.

bobby: there's that thing people say... 'i don't know what i'd do without you'. because losing someone you love is such an alien concept. you don't want to imagine what it's like. and i was sitting in that engine thinking i was listening to you dying. and i didn't need to imagine anything. i knew what my life would feel like without you in it. and it scared me.

👀

so, yeah. pilgrimage. i'm a firm believer in buck and eddie having their first kiss in the kitchen- i'm ready to tell you that i'm in love with you, so i'm telling you now, because i need you to know how loved you are, but i also know you need more time, and i will wait right here until you're ready for me too.

but when it comes time for a mutual display of commitment, that we're really doing this, i'm all in if you're all in, for better or for worse moment? i can't think of a better spot than the intersection where everything changed. episode one gave us a call where a man was shot by what looked to be a (large caliber) bullet, but was revealed to be a symbol of gay love and commitment- life saving for one man yet simultaneously life threatening for another. the thing that hurts is sometimes the thing that heals.

remember the funny little thing eddie said to buck in survivors, right before it all went south?

should have gotten here sooner.

pilgrimage: that street corner, no blood in sight. foreheads pressed together, leaning close, shaky hands on each other's faces, teary eyes. a kiss, maybe, or maybe not- the meaning's still the same.

buck, to eddie: nah. we're right on time.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

I was reading that story in Eleutherophobia where the Berenson extended family all gather and I'm wondering, do you have any thoughts/headcanons about the Berenson brothers' relationship? No, not Tom and Jake, but the generation before them: Steve, Dan, and George.

I do.  So much.

We don't know a ton about George (Saddler's dad) but the contrast between Dan (Rachel's dad) and Steve (Jake's dad) has always been striking to me.

Steve seems like this incredibly balanced guy: "Always nice. Always gentle. Joking with the kids and reassuring the moms and dads. Staying calm while the littler kids screamed bloody murder and vibrated the very walls" (#31). And it's not just sick kids he's that nice toward; when there's some guy screaming in his face and threatening to hit him over a parking spot, Steve remains level-headed and even comforts the dude when he gets upset over getting attacked by a cockroach (AKA Jake). Sure, Steve can be a clueless at times, tolerating some Weird Shit from Tom especially without showing any sign of worry that his kids are acting so erratic, but he's this responsible and steady dude.

Dan, on the other hand, is... flaky. Rachel says "My dad does these little outings where we all get together every second weekend. Sometimes it's just me and my dad... I don't get to see him as much as I wish I could" because "he cancels sometimes” (#7). We also find out that he talks openly about Rachel being his favorite child, which suggests the reason he doesn't always bring Jordan and Sara on his twice-a-month visits. Dan will buy Rachel room service (#12), but when she calls to say she's "not doing good", Dan responds "Have you talked to your mom? She's pretty good with this kind of stuff" (#32). He'll take her to the circus, but he expects her to cater to his emotional needs ("No, it wasn't pity or guilt... my dad was feeling lonely") without considering hers (#7). He puts the hard conversations on Naomi, letting her be the one to tell their kids about the divorce (#2), give them The Talk (#32), and announce that he's moving away (#7). Frankly, no wonder Naomi dumped him.

Also, look at their jobs. Steve's in a career that requires 12+ years of post-secondary education, and highly active in the lives of his own kids. Dan apparently spent years pursuing a gymnastics career that went nowhere ("almost made the Olympic team," #7) before pivoting to become a "hotshot" reporter, and still can only carve out two afternoons a month for his girls. Reporters are heckin useful to society, but it's also not a career that requires the same selfless consistency of effort as being a pediatrician.

Anyway, my headcanon to explain all that: their parents have traditional ideas about traditional roles. I'm thinking these are upper-class Yugoslavians who immigrated as teens, then were caught up in the assimilationist zeitgeist once in the U.S. The ‘rents emphasize the traditional role for the oldest child, AKA Steve. He's to provide for them in their old age, and therefore they need him to go the doctor-or-lawyer route. Steve is (like Jake) a rule-follower and a people-leader, never rebellious unless he has a good cause. Steve's also a nurturer who loves kids, so he goes along with his parents' plans... until it comes time to choose a specialization, at which point he quietly shunts from surgery into pediatrics. He fails to mention this fact to his parents until it's already been a done deal for a few years and there's nothing they can do about it.

Dan, meanwhile, has Steve and George sheltering him from the slings and arrows of his parents' good intentions. The first two sons turned out okay (I headcanon George being a marketing manager) and so the parental units will let their baby indulge his dreams in a non-lucrative sport for a while. And then pay for him to get a degree in media studies. And then still approve of him, since he brought them grandchildren, even if he supports them less than Steve.

[semisolidmind]

Soo what’s the slasher boys back stories if you don’t mind me asking? Why are they undead?

hoo boy here we go

(warning for abuse, maybe gore? idk)

Peter: we all know peter didn't have the best childhood; absent dad, abusive mom, little shit of a little sister, no friends, being treated as less than human...all that shit combined can turn a kid real bad real quick.

it'd really be no surprise if he snapped, would it?

but his mom was surprised when she found him holding a large knife, standing over his dead sister in a kitchen covered in blood. she screams in anguish, wrapping her hands around the boy's throat, throwing him to the ground and holding him there. she squeezes his throat as hard as she can, all her hate for her son channeled into her iron grip.

"Shoulda' killed you the second you came out of me," she hisses. "Shoulda drowned you as a baby!"

peter feels no remorse when he drives the knife into her stomach. no remorse when he pries her cold, dead hands from his neck and scoots out from under her body. he feels nothing when the neighbours snoop around and find him bloodied, nothing when he's inevitably hauled off to the youth detention center.

peter feels nothing when all those years pass and he becomes less and less human, his mind changing and morphing the longer he's held captive. and while he enjoys tearing out his terrible doctor's neck with his teeth (as retribution for soldering that ghastly, awful mask to his face, retribution for years of injections of that horrible drug that killed his body and remade it), it isn't enough to satiate his rage.

so he kills more and more, ripping and tearing his way through the holding facility until he's outside, running through the woods, and there are sirens blaring in the distance.

DJ: he was alone when it happened. and as much as it hurts, he understands that it's not his father's fault the garage has him working late into the morning, or his grandmother's for being made to stay late and finish someone else's paperwork.

it's not their fault they weren't there for him when he needed them most, and honestly, he's glad they weren't in the crosshairs.

the day started off normally, as it does. DJ went to school, ate lunch with his friends, went to basketball practice, and then to the rec center to train in the ring. all the while knowing that when he got home, noone would be there.

but he knows he has to go home eventually, so when the rec center supervisor tells him it's time for lights out, he packs up his gear and starts the walk back. it's dark out, and the street lamps are flickering and weak on his street.

his dad insists they leave all the lights off in the apartment when they're not there to save energy, but DJ would argue that if at least the kitchen light was on, he would've seen it coming.

he doesn't have time to react before the assailant hits him across the head, and the room goes darker than it already was.

DJ wakes up hours later strapped to a chair in a dingy, industrial room; a warehouse he thinks, pulling at the leather binding him. try as he might to keep a clear head, he's scared. he may fight, he may know how to take down a high school bully, but he's still a teenager. and he knows he won't have much of a chance if these guys have guns.

when his captors show themselves, they don't speak to him. his questions and pleas for freedom are met with silence, and the 3 or 4 people he can make out in the darkness whisper amongst themselves. something about drugs...? DJ can't help them, if that's what they're after; he stays clean for basketball.

but it becomes clear once they pull out the syringe.

dread hits him like a wave as the realization sinks in. these people are going use him as guinea pig to test whatever's in that vial, and there's no telling what it does. DJ struggles, they tear his jacket off his shoulder, he's held down as the needle sinks into his arm-

and DJ swears that this is what hell feels like.

the experience is torture. his whole body feels like it's on fire, every nerve is lit up in pain and overstimulation, he's shaking so much the heavy wooden chair is shaking too, his agonized yelling bounces around the warehouse and rings back in his head...

and something in DJ changes.

he can feel himself dying, he can feel himself getting weaker, he can feel himself living, he can feel the strength he's capable of in his fingertips. his eyes glaze over, he hangs his head, and then he's still. the leader of the shadowy figures move in slowly, likely thinking that he's dead.

DJ breaks the straps on his hands and grabs the man's head in one movement. he snaps his neck in another.

he does the same to the others, catching them easily when they try to run and mangling them beyond recognition. he's faster, stronger now. the blood on his hands doesn't bother him. he understands that the power that he's been given could be a gift, that he could use it to protect others. he understands that it's a curse, that he wants to kill people like the ones that killed him.

he can't go home now. he leaves the warehouse and his home city, utterly changed.

he no longer cares about who he used to be.