#that was badly phrased but it��s late

[kieranxvalentine]

Trouble. [Yandere! Player! OC x Reader]

༻♡༺✎ You knew he was trouble, but he wanted you. ༻♡༺✎ Yandere! Player! Oc x Reader ༻♡༺✎ 17+ (Kidnapping alluded to at the end, blackmailing) ༻♡༺✎ 0.7k words ༻♡༺✎ Authors note: Please request fics guys! Also I may be opening a kofi where more longer fics about these characters will be posted! (This has not been proofread!)

“Oh my god he’s finally back!!”

“Look at how cute he is~!”

Franklin rolled his eyes in irritation as he walked through the school, he was just coming back after a vacation with parents, and now that he was back. He was looking for a particular person. 

His Princess.

Franklin had dark green hair with unnatural purple contacts that he wore and simply refused to take out (especially after his princess had complimented him on them).

He had soft tan skin, his right eye was bandaged, covering a scar he’d gotten when he was younger. Freckled cheeks with dimples that showed when he smirked or smiled that always made the girls swoon.

He wore a white/blue collared shirt with dark blue pants and blac heels boots {That he truly didn’t need! He was 6’1, he just liked being taller}

He ignored most of his fangirls, pushing past them as he made his way to the (h/c) girl who made his world.

Those innocent (e/c) eyes looking up at him whenever he talked. The way your skin glows in the morning light when he would watch you walk to school. The way how you would try to avoid eye contact, making him have to move just so he could look at your pretty face fully.

Franklin Whetsone, or Frankie as everyone else called him was a player, He was a player. He was known around the academy as a heart breaker. Girls around the academy wanted so desperately to be with him, and he would humor them for a bit before moving on to the next.

He was known to date multiple girls at once, having them over to the apartment that he had. Girls would constantly fight over him. Saying that he belonged to them!

Oh how stupid they were..

Normally, Franklin wouldn’t allow himself to be tied to one girl for too long. He hopped around from girl to girl not allowing himself to become attached to the girl he is in pursuit of.

That was…

Until you decided to come along.

You were the girl he just couldn't get. You would reject him each time he would come up to you. You were that forbidden fruit that he wanted so badly to get a taste of. It would cause Franklin to stay up late at night, dreaming of the day that he would finally have you in his arms. Not one of those other annoying bitches.

Franklin was obsessed with you in a way. Girls usually would fall for his charms and he would simply talk them into his bed. But You? You would always reject his advances with the same phrases with that sweet voice of yours.

“S-sorry, I don’t think I’m ready for a relationship..”

Or “A-aren’t you seeing someone?..”

WHY COULDN’T YOU SEE HE WANTED YOU!? All those other girls he was with didn’t mean a damn thing to him, they were just to pass the time until you would finally give in.

But he was tired of waiting.

Franklin approached you with a smirk on his face, just like he would always do. Leaning down to face you, just inches away from those plump lips he loved so damn much.

“Babycakes~ Just who I was hoping to see~! I surely missed you,” He says noticing the blush on your face and how desperately you tried to avoid eyecontact. Oh no no, he loved eyecontact, he craved it…especially with you. He forced your chin so you could face him, and have no choice but to lock those pretty (e/c) jewels with his. 

“Let’s move to the rooftop. I have something i need to discuss with you. And ONLY you.”

You didn’t even fight him. You allowed him to guide you up to the roof. He smirks as he brings you upstairs. When he got you upstairs, he wrapped his arms around your body and hugged you tightly.

“My princess…my baby…you don’t know how much i’ve missed you.”

“You-”

“Shh. Shut up right now. I want you to listen how my heart beats for you…”

He doesn’t care how uncomfortable it makes you. He holds you against him, little do you know he already had plans made.

He’s going to ask you to be his. And if you would refuse?

He would threaten your education, after all, his grandfather is the dean, and has gotten rid of a few problems for him previously. He chuckles internally at the thought.

You were stuck with him~! He wasn’t ever going to let you go. Franklin doesn’t care how many girls he’s flirted with in the past that try to throw themselves at him. He would ignore them all because he finally has his baby in his arms~!

“Hmm? Maybe you should just quit school all together! I’ll take care of you? You would like that right? You always complain about how school is so cruel to you baby…”

“Don’t worry…your frankie is gonna take care of you..”

©kieranxvaletine 2023 <3 Hope you all enjoyed!

[arianamidnight]

Outburst

Hazbin hotel fic

My AU that's why it's OOC and pretty far from cannon

Warnings: swearing, mention of violence, ships (Varlie), tickles

Summary: Vaggie had enough of hotel residents teasing her about Charlie. But, what if the person she'll fall out on, didn't mean it? And, moreover, will take it personally?

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Vaggie growled, sitting on the sofa in the lobby. She was so done! Whole this week, after Charlie went to the VoxTec to help Angel Dust and came back... Ugh, so annoying!

Vaggie stomped her foot. After Angel Dust gave her Charlie with "I think this is yours" phrase everything went fucking bad. At first she didn't pay attention to this. But, shit!

Next was Alastair. Charlie got really emotional towards one of his usual puns, and started sobbing. Radio demon didn't think about anything better than call Vaggie and give her Charlie, with "I assume, this is yours, my dear". That already made Vaggie's eye twitch.

Next was Husk. That time he gave princess a bit too hard alcohol, and she while getting drunk started crying because Niffty killed the bug. And again, what happened? Vaggie was called, Charlie was tossed into her arms and told: "This is yours. Not my problem."

Vaggie stood up and started walking around the lobby growling. Yes she was Charlie's girlfriend, but that didn't mean that she was the only one who would calm princess down!

Vaggie rapidly turned around to walk towards the opposite side of the lobby, and... Almost bumped into Lucifer, who was carrying something.

"Sorry, your majesty" sighed Vaggie and took a deep breath to calm down. She was Charlie's first helper, so she couldn't let herself show so inappropriate behaviour infront of the ruler of hell.

Sob

Vaggie blinked. Did she hear a sob?

Vaggie looked up from the floor and noticed that the "thing" Lucifer was holding turned to be... Charlie, warped in the blanket, in tears.

It was the last drop for Vaggie. She growled in fury.

"I swear to Edem, if you would say this is yours I won't look that you can kill me in one go, and won't hesitate to try to rip your throat!"

From this harsh words Lucifer gasped, and even Charlie stopped crying.

For Lucifer it was worse then a blade into the heart. Ruler of hell looked down, and his body started shaking.

"O-oh... Actually I was about to ask how you calm Charlie down in such situations, because you were with her for so long... And I wasn't in her life at all and am the worst father ever..." after finishing this sentence, Lucifer was barely holding his tears.

Vaggie gasped when she realised how much she fucked up. Fallen angel gently put Charlie on the floor, covering his pain with slight smile.

"As I see my Little Apple calmed down, s-so I would b-better l-leave..."

Lucifer took a deep breath, tears falling down his cheeks, and teleported away with spark of golden light.

"Dad, no!" Charlie tried to stop him, but it was too late.

Vaggie blinked in shock. She felt so much guilty right now. She knew HOW Lucifer loves his daughter! And how badly ruler of hell regrets not being part of her life for so long! Of course seeing Charlie cry for the first time in his life he would panick, and look for someone who has experience. For someone like Vaggie!

Charlie looked around, hearing a strange sound. Princess of hell sighed, when she noticed her girlfriend on the floor with wide eyes.

"C-charlie... I... I'm s-sorry! I'm s-so s-sorry... I d-didn't mean t-to! C-charlie! I swear, I...." Vaggie wasn't able to talk straight. Guilty, fear, sadness. All this feelings overwhelmed her at once.

Charlie walked towards her girlfriend and sat near her. Princess of hell hugged Vaggie.

"Shhhhh~ It's okey, Vaggie. I know you didn't mean to" Charlie whispered into her ear.

A few minutes passed in silence, Charlie and Vaggie cuddling on the floor. Finally Vaggie took a deep breath.

"Thanks Babe... I'm really sorry for hurting your father's feelings. Just..." Vaggie sighed.

Vaggie never talked with Charlie about those situations, but looks like now was the time.

"Wait, what?!" Charlie gasped after her girlfriend explained reason of her outburst.

Vaggie nodded with a sigh. Charlie shook her head softly.

"Silly. You should have told me about this much earlier. Please, don't hide from me if something is making you uncomfortable. Deal?" Princess of hell stood up and landed her girlfriend a hand.

Vaggie grabbed Charlie's palm and stood up with a smile.

"Deal. From now on I would immediately tell you if something will get on my nerves" Vaggie chuckled. But after, she remembered Lucifer and got a bit nervous.

Charlie immediately noticed it and smiled.

"Don't worry, Vaggie. I know how to cheer dad up. And... I will need your help~" princess of hell giggled misciviously.

Vaggie snickered. This girl was definitely a ball of cheer and mischief.

"I'm fully in, Princess~" Vaggie winked to Charlie, making her blush.

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Lucifer was curled up under the blanket in his room. Tears were running down fallen angel's cheeks. He fucked up, again. Normal father must know how to deal with his own daughter in tears! But, Lucifer didn't know... When Charlie entered his room, in tears, he started panicking. So pathetic! Ruler of hell, panicking because his daughter is sobbing! All demons would lose any respect if they'll find out! And the fact that he can easily kill half of them won't do a thing.

Fallen angel whined. He was so done. Probably, Alastor was right and he is pathetic piece of shit. Charlie deserves so much better than him...

Suddenly the door opened slowly. Lucifer stuck his muzzle out from under the blanket. Fallen angel saw that person who entered his room was Charlie.

Oh, she wasn't alone. Vaggie was there too.

When Lucifer noticed Charlie's girlfriend he got back under the blanket. No, no, no! He didn't want to be called pathetic and bad father! Now again! Now now...

"Daddy?" Charlie called softly, sitting on the bed corner.

Lucifer didn't answer.

Charlie and Vaggie looked at each other. Vaggie sighed.

"Your majesty, I wanted to apologize. I really didn't mean to yell" Vaggie walked towards the bed and kneeled down on the floor near Charlie.

Lucifer slightly peeked out of the blanket.

"R-realy?" hesitantly asked ruler of hell.

"Yes" Vaggie nodded. "I didn't mean to remind you of the past. And now I feel really bad for hurting your feelings. It's just..."

Vaggie sighed. Charlie put her palm on Vaggie's shoulder for emotional support. Vaggie smiled gratefully.

"It's just that during last week, Charlie got emotional and cried a lot of times. And all those times I was one calming her down. I got really tired that everyone would just think that it's my duty to calm her down" Vaggie growled slightly, getting annoyed again. Charlie started playing with her girlfriend's hair to calm her down.

Lucifer got out from the blanket. Fallen angel nodded to himself. This explained a lot. Vaggie always was really polite with him. Why he didn't think that something must have happened to make Charlie's girlfriend aft this way?! But no, he must have started overthinking!

Lucifer sighed and shook his head.

"I forgive you, Vaggie. And I apologize for the bright reaction. I was pretty stressed lately" ruler of hell looked down, feeling embarrassed that he was acting like a child.

"Don't worry dad, it's okey. You don't need to apologize~" Charlie hugged her father. Lucifer hugged his daughter back with a smile.

"Thanks Little Apple" fallen angel closed his eyes. His daughter was one and only person who can make him feel comfortable really fast.

But then...

"But I am not happy that you were all stressed lately. You definitely need some cheering up~" Charlie giggled misciviously, and hugged Lucifer tighter, keeping him still.

"L-little Apple! W-what are you..."

But fallen angel wasn't able to finish the sentence. Suddenly he felt Vaggie squeezing his knee.

"Eeeeehihihihik! Nohohohoho! Vahahahaggie! Nahahahahat... Eeeeehihihihik, thehehehere!" ruler of hell immediately burst into giggles, squealing from every squeeze.

"Whoa, you vere right Charlie. It seems like a baaad spot~" Vaggie chuckled playfully, as she continued squeezing Lucifer's knees.

"If you think this is bad, then look~" Charlie giggled and took a deep breath.

Lucifer's pupils went wide as he realised what is about to happen.

"Chahaharlie, plehehease mehehercy!~" begged fallen angel, giggling from the knees tickles.

But, actually both Lucifer and Charlie knew that fallen angel he can easily teleport away, or shapeshift into the snake. But ruler of hell was really enjoying the tickles from his daughter and her girlfriend.

When Charlie blew a raspberry on the side of Lucifer's neck, he burst into bubbly laughter. Vaggie even stopped squeezing his knees, facinated with the sound.

After the second raspberry, fallen angel got hiccups, what made his laughter more rapid and high pitched.

After hearing her father hiccuping, Charlie stopped with raspberries. She let Lucifer go, and he fell on the bed in giggling and hiccuping mess.

"Dad, you okey there?" Charlie snickered.

Vaggie was looking at this interaction with soft smile. Those two definitely needed father and daughter bonding.

"Yehehehes, I'm hic fihihine" Lucifer bubbled and then took a deep breath.

"I wanna apologize again for my behaviour, your majesty" said Vaggie softly.

"It's okey Vaggie. Thanks to your sneak attack I feel much better." fallen angel rolled his eyes with a smile and sat on his bed.

"Oh, about that..." Charlie look down with guilty smile.

Vaggie and Lucifer shared a look.

"Little Apple?"

"Babe?"

Charlie giggled nervously and shrugged.

"I just wanted to say that I didn't cry for real this time. Sorry dad, but I just wanted to prank you." princess of hell admited.

"Whaaaaat?!" Vaggie and Lucifer growled simultaneously.

Charlie looked at her father and girlfriend with puppy eyes and ingratiating smile

"I'm sorry?"

Vaggie sighed.

"Babe, it sounds like a question, rather than as apology." Vaggie tried to sound stern, but couldn't help a soft smile.

Lucifer shook his head, embarrassed. How came he didn't notice that Charlie was pretending?

"Little Apple, you're so naughty!" playfully pouted Lucifer.

Girls giggled.

"I'm so getting you back for it" added fallen angel with miscivious smile.

"Now I at least know who she got this miscivious attitude from." sighed Vaggie, and all three of them burst out with laughter.

[karliahs]

fic writer interview!!

tysm @plusultraetc for the tag!! <3

How many works do you have on AO3?

50 exactly!

What's your total AO3 word count?

234,906, almost half of which (110k) was written/posted this year. insane!!

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

darken your door (12,832)

walk a mile (5642)

swan dive (4857)

rescue (3905)

something else to pretend (3,572)

there's a theme here and it's bnha fics i wrote in 2019/2020

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

yes!! with several asterisks i'll get into in a minute. i try to respond to every comment i get because:

i genuinely really appreciate that anyone takes the time to tell me they liked a fic when they could just consume it and say nothing with 0 consequences, so i want to say thank you

some comments have a rly big impact on me - change the way i feel about stuff, contain phrases i remember for a really long time, make me cry, etc - and just like how if someone writes a fic that impacts me then i want to tell them, i want to tell people how much their comment mattered

i often only figure out why i did something or made certain choices in a fic until someone prompts me to talk about it. it's such a useful exercise for understanding my own work better

i genuinely adore rambling about my fics, it's arguably more fun than writing them in the first place

it's really nice getting to chat to commenters and get to know people!

however. there is a 3-4 year period where i didn't reply to any comments at all because i got overwhelmed and then felt like it was too late to try and catch up. this still haunts me a little bit because i got some really lovely impactful comments in that era but it just feels too weird to reply literally like 5 years late 😭

2nd asterisk is some fics i feel kind of embarrassed about and so don't reply to comments on, 3rd is that i'm bad at managing my comments inbox so i'm sure i miss people out by accident sometimes, and 4th is that if i don't have anything nice to say then i won't respond...i get almost no comments i think are intentionally meant to be rude, but sometimes i get ones that rankle for one reason or another and i won't reply if i'm just gonna be tetchy bc again, i don't think they're meant badly

so very much a yes in theory but not in practice 😂

What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?

bargaining chips i think. the funny thing about that series is that in some ways i think things would ultimately turn out better than in canon (there's a reason the 2nd fic has akechi promise to contact ren if he does survive, a thing that would have paid off in the 3rd fic i never finished). but as of bargaining chips it's very much...this is the POV of a person who thinks the only power they have left in the world is to hurt people

What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending?

my usual ending is like bittersweet and/or hopeful, so for example i feel a lot of things about the cathertic (for me at least) endings for redux and something else to pretend and unwanted, but idk if they can exactly be called happy.

going to my pure silly fluff fics instead where we pretty much start happy and end happy: to work, to rest which ends with the gang being happy about stickers, or class pets which ends with class a getting three (3) cats

Do you write crossovers?

nope!

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

not really! probably the closest was someone commenting on pathologised with just "WHERE IS YUSUKE?" in all caps 🙄 "why isn't my fave dude in your fic" is not a genre of comment i enjoy, though it's usually phrased more politely than that at least

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

nope!

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not that i'm aware of, though it's apparently fairly rampant in bnha fandom with those "what if deku [x]" youtube videos. i think those are reserved for fics with actual plots though

Have you ever had a fic translated?

i think i've been asked for permission for people to do so before, but i don't think i've ever actually seen anything posted...someone did translate a little section of one fic into spanish in a bookmarker comment once, which was very fun because i remember little bits of spanish from school & years of sporadic duolingo

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

no but i think it would be so fun 👀

What's your all-time favorite ship?

mannnn i just cannot care about romantic ships the way that seems to be so ubiquitous in fandom. even when i try and write romance it ends up as like ambigious tenderness or Friendship With Vibes. the few times i've even written kissing it's been just a build up to a kiss after which the fic immediately fades to black, which is really funny in retrospect like...buddy, is that because you stop caring about what's happening once the kissing starts?

i am fond of erasermic, jontim and shindeku, though i enjoy them as platonic dynamics pretty much the same amount

What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?

it mostly doesn't bother me to have tons of unfinished WIPs, i don't really put that expectation that everything i start will or should get finished/posted.

so the only one that genuinely bugs me is the third fic in seen and not heard, because i feel like i kind of promised it to people and then didn't deliver, and because it would have properly concluded a series i know a few people really connected with...and because the draft got to like 80% done but i could just never finish it off in a way i was happy with. maybe someday though

there's also a more recent bnha fic draft that i am really fond of in some ways, but i just could not take the discourse i think it would inspire. i might finish it just for me someday

What are your writing strengths?

cribbing all these from comments honestly but i think i'm pretty good at real-feeling emotional responses to situations. emotional realism, maybe? and writing introspection/people thinking and feeling things in general.

my characterisation gets complimented a fair bit, which is funny bc i think i actually take a lot of liberties with canon characters, but i guess i'm decent at couching those liberties in a way that makes it pass muster most of the time. like passing off a counterfeit watch as genuine

i'm somewhat good with grounding things in sensory detail, but that's one of those things i think i'll always be trying to get better at

What are your writing weaknesses?

i've never met a plot in my life and i don't want to. i also can't write longfic. in real-world terms i'm a short story writer and not a novelist - all those structural narrative things people do to make a long-form story work are just mystifying to me. part of that is just driven by what interests me though - i don't read a lot of plotty longfic either

i'm also still working on improving syntax and flow in my prose in general, but that's another one of those endless projects i think

oh also having more than two people in a prolonged dialogue scene is wildly difficult to me

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

i have no thoughts on this matter!

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

merlin! i wrote probably bad merlin fic on ff.net back when i was like 15/16. it's actually the reason i joined tumblr in the first place, bc my fave merlin fic writer had a tumblr and i got curious

What's a fandom/ship you haven't written for yet but want to?

i'd like to write more about my silly little video game OCs. i've dabbled in it a bit before but i've never really invested in it because i know no one would read it/care. but i'm getting better at writing for myself and it is really fun to have records of these OCs that i love, so i hope i can write some stuff about the protag i make for new dragon age that i'll inevitably get deeply attached to

it's also kind of wild to me that i've never written for homestuck or dangan ronpa given the impact those two things had on my psyche

What's your favorite fic you've written?

my answer to this changes depending on the day but right now...something else to pretend my beloved

wow that got long. not tagging anyone but if you'd like to do it, consider yourself tagged!

[capn-twitchery]

7, 8, 23 for Twitch and Grace

7. How often do they see each other? Where do they usually meet?

discounting the first phase where they really didn't get along that well, they are around eachother So Much. they're on twitch's ship most of the time,so there's not much escape from eachother in such a small space

plus grace had no other neath connections for a long time so he'd just. follow twitch like a lost puppy if he was onboard bc he didn't know what else to do with himself. and twitch didn't mind the extra company, their crew doesn't want to talk 24/7. they get bored!

it was a gradual change over Years, but eventually it felt weirder Not having eachother around. so now they're a package deal, and it happened so slowly they didn't realise til it was too late. oops?

8. How do they communicate with each other? Are there any recurring phrases or gestures unique to their relationship?

they don't<3 communication issues gang rise up!!!!!

they do get a little better, with a lot of time and a lot of fuck ups inbetween. but they're both godawful at it-

for unique things though, i think they're surprisingly good at recognising nonverbal cues from eachother.

grace knows if twitch stumbles a certain way, there's red honey pain setting in and he has to get them out of there Now. twitch knows the Exact way grace gets quiet if he's on the brink of an anxiety attack & how it's not his Usual quiet

they will not talk about things like normal people. but by god will they spend so much time together that it makes them unintentionally read each other, entirely by accident

23. Do they have any mutual friends? Mutual enemies?

well, it's definitely more than Friends but they both have a mutual Indefinable Thing going on with @letheology 's riaan<3

but a few mutual friends too!! you usually won't know one of them without the other bc twitch wants grace to know more people so badly. they Will introduce him to you if they have even the slightest idea that you won't hate him (too bad half of their friends do)

i don't think they have mutual enemies. the new sequence hates them both, if that counts. and they both dislike the masters (& the captivating princess, probably-)

asks from here!

[thespectralvision]

I typed up a little thing on Facebook, where I'm trying to be more open about my struggles and less internal, and I wanted to share it here too, since this is my space to be my weird little robot loving self:

It doesn’t take long for most people to realize I’m a Marvel fan. Usually that comes with a follow up question- who is your favorite character? I love watching the reactions; it’s clear people expect me to say Spider-Man or Iron Man or one of the other, more ‘popular,’ heroes. My favorite reaction when I said it was Vision was a comment made of “That’s a bold choice.”

The Vision certainly isn’t the most popular Avenger, it’s true. I’ve talked with artists at conventions who don’t bother bringing prints of him because they just don’t sell and space is limited. I see the comments on conventions where Mr. Bettany is a guest saying “Is Vision the best you can do?”. It sucks seeing that, and upsets me because every character is important to someone. Yes he’s not the most exciting or action packed hero. He’s kind of silly looking. He’s a thinker more than a fighter. And he’s been treated pretty badly in writing since the late 80’s and forgotten until very recently.

Trying to explain why he’s my favorite would take me days. Even choosing my favorite comic run/issue is hard. I would argue that Tom King’s series The Vision from 2015-16 is my favorite series of all time. I’ve read it over and over, and while it’s contested by some as being out of character I think it’s one of her few times Vision (and more importantly his trauma) has really been explored. I’ll talk about that run in another post maybe. I’m also very fond of some one off issues, like Avengers Spotlight 40 from 1990, where (White) Vision finally seeks help for everything he’s struggling with.

The comic I always reread on really bad days though, the one that really explains what Vision has become for me, is Avengers: No Road Home 10, the finale of the run. When I met Paul Bettany I mentioned this story to him - I don’t know if he’s read it or not, but he was kind enough to listen. In the run the godess Nyx wants to engulf the world in darkness, silencing everything. As someone who fights depression and has for a long time she feels almost symbolic of that. Quiet, calm, darkness and the end of light. She plans on doing this by finding The House of Ideas and destroying it, and at that point the run becomes somewhat metaphorical. Vision is the only Avenger able to follow her in before she closes the door, and ends up in the house - another dimension made of stories, where he faces Nyx alone. Now some context for the run - it begins with Vision, broken beyond repair and almost seeking death, believing he will finally be human if he can find a true death. Wanda and Monica and the others are very upset by this, trying to stop their friend and help him understand that death is not what makes us human (It is Vision after all, who always strives for something he can never truly be, while endlessly embodying the best of humanity despite that). He followed Nyx in because he wanted to die…And then we get this panel.

I won’t spoil much more, it’s a personal favorite run and I highly recommend it, but Vision eventually finds, and then becomes the light that defeats the darkness…using the power of stories, and memories, of his friends. And that’s what he became for me. I think about his stories, and the stories I want to tell about him to fight my own inner darkness. I paint images of him in bright colors and focus on the lights because it makes me feel better. He’s powered by the sun in the comics, and even in the MCU often symbolized with light through hologram like effects and the glowing Mind Stone. WandaVision made it clear he was the bright spot in Wanda’s life too. That’s just who and what Vision is in the Marvel-verses. One issue used the phrase "You were meant to be a Vision of mankind's brightest future" to describe him. And that’s one of the many reasons he’s my favorite. That’s what super hero stories are for I think, inspiring us and showing these silly spandex clad heroes against impossible odds to inspire us to fight the seemingly impossible things in our lives too.

I really love thinking about and writing these sorts of things. I tried blogging about comics and Vision for awhile but people didn’t seem interested. I think I’m going start doing it again for me, because much like my art it makes me happy sharing this silly Synthezoid with the world. Thank you Marvel, I never expected I would be so emotional about a red robot man but here we are.

[topsyturvy-turtely]

SNEAK PEEK at chapter two of MISSING!

A/N: happy birthday @safedistancefrombeingsmart!! 🥳🥳🥳 originally wanted to finish chapter 2 of missing (which is based on smartin''s edit) for you but life is too busy for me lately. however i wanted to prove i am actually (kinda) working on chapter 2 surprise you a tiny bit so here is the shortened version of the beginning of chapter two!! i hope you enjoy it. guess i'm kinda glad to know you 😜😘 hope you are having a wonderful day!

please keep in mind, that this is a draft! "[…]" signals that this is a part that i am not yet publishing. the word document got about 2100w so, i am really not that bad at writing ch2! (if we ignore that i didn't even get to the important part yet…)

WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER ONE! read first chapter on ao3!

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Even before Sherlock had left the hospital building, he called Lestrade. He started talking before Lestrade could start an unnecessary greeting phrase, “Tell me every little detail you know about this case. And I mean everything.”

“Sherlock?!”, Greg asked. “Where the heck are you?! One minute you were here looking at the-“

“Charing Cross Hospital. John is hurt. Badly. In fact, he is-“, Sherlock’s breath caught in his throat.

He exhaled, seeing John unconsciously laying in the hospital bed, the bloody arm- arm stump. It wasn’t the blood that bothered him so much. It was the bones, the veins, the tendons - everything that was supposed to be attached to John’s hand for god’s sake – that made him feel sick, angry, and terrified. What if John was never gonna have his hand back? Never be able to cook, read, tie his shoes again? Sherlock knew for a fact it would make John miserable, absolutely heartbreakingly miser-

He had to focus. Find the hand. To find the hand, he had to know more about the case. He finally finished his sentence. “John is missing a hand. The doctor said she can reattach it, but it has to be quick. Give me everything you know. I am not going into details.”

“Shit, Sherlock. That is horrible- holy shit. Are you sure you are okay searching-”

“Greg.”, the consulting detective’s voice was sharp, intolerant. He could not lose any more time. “This is not the time for compassion towards me. This is about John. Finding his hand is my first and foremost priority. Tell me everything about this case. Now.”

Lestrade finally seemed to overcome his temporary attack of compassion and started to lay out the case to Sherlock.

[…]

"That’s it! That’s their connection!”, Sherlock concluded after their conversation.

“You- That’s true. Thank you, Sherlo-“

The consulting detective hung up on him. He raised a hand to call a cab. He got one immediately. “Just over Hammersmith Bridge. Drive fast, I’ll double the fare.”

"In a hurry, mate?”

Sherlock glared at the cabbie through the rearview mirror. The cabbie’s smirk left his mouth, because he hurriedly shifted into first gear and drove away. He was fast but not as fast as Sherlock would have liked. Sherlock paid with a generous amount anyways. Thames Path, secluded somewhere between the trees. That’s where John was found. The nurse had given him coordinates and with his phone Sherlock found the place pretty quickly.

Branches were snapped, dirt was posched up, a pool of blood was in the middle of a clearing. Sherlock got close, knelt down, tried to find more clues.

Then he heard shouting, he looked up but his vision was blocked by darkness, a heavy smell stung his nose and then Sherlock hit the ground with his back.

~~~

A/N: i hope you don't mind me tagging a few more people? and i hope the people don't mind either xD it's just that most comments on ao3 were like "OMG CONTINUE ASAP!" so i thought... that would maybe nice of me to tag other people? even though i did yet another cliffhanger with this teaser... whoops.

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[thatgirl4815]

I found it hilarious that Jojo has been loosely touting a Taylor Swift parallel when it comes to Mew and his relationship with Top (and it's obviously a surface level joke) but if you actually listen to the songs in Reputation and Lover...the storytelling is 100% Ray. It's finding love at your lowest. The self-loathing, seeking love as salvation, blowing up good things in fear and realizing too late, secret rendezvous where neither knows what game is really being played, finding their purported last love in a world that hated them--who is all of these things but Ray?

The Taylor Swift thing is mostly just an entertaining observation for me but the thing that the thematic elements and imagery in her music prompted me to re-think was that famous final scene in episode 10. While you watch Ray's eyes morph the therapist into Sand, there's a stoic golden glow to imaginary-Sand as he sits in the therapist's chair like a throne, as though you've walked into a temple dedicated to him--a temple Ray has dedicated to him. It's almost like Ray has always seen Sand as a god.

Throughout the confession that follows, Imaginary-Sand is mostly emotionless, minimally responding to Ray as Ray maintains an incredibly reverent face despite breaking down in tears. The apology contains so many reused phrases as though Ray were reciting some sort of prayer, and even while sitting in the sofa, the camera kind of points up at Sand rather than at the even level he is really at when you see things through Ray's vision. Finally, when Ray gets on his knees and imaginary-Sand appears to console him, it's not clearly romantic or friendly. There's a godliness to it. The point is, the whole thing just felt akin to a religious awakening to me. And then I realized I felt those same feelings emanating from Ray in the caravan, in the music room, at the party, drunk in the parking lot, on the rooftop, in the kitchen(s), when they wake up together for the first time...

I don't know what this means for the relationship Ray and Sand have and whether it will ever really be healthy, but it certainly made for poetic cinema. Has Sand eclipsed the unattainable Mew? Has he become the unconditional heavenly father (I say, mostly in jest)? Another point of consideration is that Ray always seems to be wearing a cross. Just saying.

Anyway this theory is pretty out there, and in any case, it's less about proving the idea and more about seeing what others thought about it as a vantage point of discussion, and whether it colors how Ray, and Sand and Ray as a couple, are interpreted.

Those are such great observations! Taylor Swift's lyricism is so fascinating and complex to me, and I agree that there are so many lyrics that could easily apply to Ray.

In my opinion, Ray is easily the most complicated character in this show. It's no wonder they chose Khaotung to play him because there are so many feelings he has to work through, especially in these emotionally-charged scenes. When the camera pans behind Ray's head and Sand appears, Ray slowly looks up at him with tears in his eyes. That first moment when he meets eyes with him and says his name just speaks to how agonizing this confrontation is for Ray, because he's confronting himself through the image of Sand. This entire scene is the acceptance of just how much Sand means to Ray, just how badly Ray has screwed up yet again, and just how much gratitude Ray has for Sand in his heart.

Your analysis of the religious aspects of the scene is so compelling. The golden coloring behind Sand echoes a lot of what @thewayuarent has analyzed about the contrast between cold blue lighting and warm gold lighting for both Sand and Ray. Also interesting your point about how the camera is slightly angled up at Sand rather than at eye-level. Originally I wouldn't think too much of this but contrasted with the shots of Ray at eye-level, it seems super intentional.

"Religious awakening" is a great way of describing it. There's been a lot of discussion about Ray putting Mew on a pedestal and idolizing him, but I think we see a similar kind of reverence being displayed here, but with some notable differences. With Mew, it felt like he was always something distant, something Ray wanted but could never quite touch. But in this scene, we have Ray facing Sand, on his knees for him, embracing him. Despite the whole thing being imaginary, it feels very real in a way I struggle to articulate. There's a worshipping aspect, I agree, but there's also a realism in the way Ray is very honestly considering his emotions. With Mew, I'd argue those feelings of idolization were allowed to grow out of Ray's fantasy, but with Sand, it isn't something Ray has blown up in his head. My main point being--I don't think it's necessarily suggesting an unhealthy power imbalance with Ray as the worshipper and Sand as the godly figure (in the way we saw with Ray and Mew), though I think this scene does an excellent job of emphasizing how Ray views Sand as someone honestly and purely good.

Another reason I think Khao delivers this so well is that he speaks through his eyes in every one of those scenes you mention. He sees all of Sand's goodness, but I don't think he's directly confronted his own behavior until this moment. Yes, he's apologized and yes he's realized that he was in the wrong. But here he is laying it all out on the table. Following the topic of religion, it almost feels like a confession. In Ray's imagination, this is a space where he can expel all of his feelings to the image of Sand. It's almost better that Sand can't react here (seeing as he's imaginary) because it brings the focus back to Ray. Even though Ray is crying to Sand and about Sand, it's all a reflection of his own flaws in their relationship and otherwise.

[qqueenofhades]

Off the back of your other great politics/history posts, I was hoping to ask...do you have any insight or explanation into how the hell literal Nazis have had such a resurgence in recent years? I don’t even mean general right-wing or fascist bullshit - sadly we all know that some people have shitty shitty views - but *specifically* Nazism. As in, the Nazi imagery and ideology that every kid in the western world has been taught is Awful. Like, I know a lot of western countries didn’t care about what Nazi Germany was up to in the 1930s, which points to strains of lingering fascism around the world – but post-WW2 Nazi Germany has been the world’s definitive Bad Guy. As a Brit I’ve known kids in the *90’s* get bullied because ‘they’re from Germany and Germany was bad in the war’; from Casablanca to Indiana Jones to the Blues Brothers to Dad’s Army there are literally so many examples in popular culture of how Nazis are evil and stupid (not to mention the oft-quoted American phrase of ‘Europe would be speaking German if it weren’t for us’).

What I’m trying to get at is that throughout the late 20th century, western culture has overwhelmingly been Nazi Germany = Bad, Awful, Evil, Stupid, Had Their Asses Kicked Buncha Losers, and the Allies = Good For Standing Up To The Great Evil Thing (regardless of the nuances of historical reality). So how on earth have we reached a point where so many people see being The Evil Bastards Who Famously Lost as something appealing? And show off the Nazi tropes of as heil signs and swastikas, the most famous symbols of Bad Guys in, arguably, human history? And *then*, to top it all off, claim that they’re patriotically aligning with their countries' proud histories and traditional values...even though their countries famously fought against the people they're now emulating? How do you wrap your heads around the logical disconnect?

(apologies for the long ask, I’m just genuinely flummoxed. I can wrap my head around people falling into right-wing lines of thinking, horrible as that might be. but wanting to be seen as one of those Awful Bad Guys Who Then Were Humiliatingly Beaten Before The Entire World …how do you end up wanting that?)

As you point out, there is an enormous logical disconnect as to how you can end up wanting to associate yourselves with the most obviously Bad Guys Who Got Badly Beaten ever, but that is the poison of white supremacy for you. This mindset also still exists in America: whereas the Confederacy also only existed for five years, got its ass humiliatingly kicked, and lost, the very fact of them losing has been central to its continued mythologizing as the "Lost Cause." They were just innocent noble Southerners, they got mistreated by the evil Yankees, the very fact of them being oppressed by power shows that they didn't do anything wrong, etc etc. You can make endless excuses as to how the actual losing is a good thing, because it means the world wasn't ready for your noble virtues, so on and so forth. But as ever, it is virulent racism, and in the Nazis' case, the ability to so effectively weaponize and institutionalize that racism that they killed literally millions of people. The alt-right desires that same power and effectiveness, and they've been helped by the endless movies that show Nazis as maybe genocidal, but also cool, suave, effective, and fearsome. They want to emulate that general impression, more than being seen as the bunch of mean-spirited incel mass-shooter losers that they are.

Loathsome neo-Nazi toads like Nick Fuentes are also young, have no personal memory or attachment to WWII, and are coming from a generation of aggrieved young white men who are, for the first time, having to contend with the fact that they won't automatically get everything they want just by virtue of being white and male. They are easy to radicalize online, and are able to adopt the Nazi symbolism and mindset without having to seriously reckon with either what that meant or how it was defeated. It is also, as with the Confederacy, to strip any and all historical context from it and just treat it as the ideal institution to enact your beliefs (since after all, the Nazis WERE very good at killing people, even if nothing else). Likewise, their one and only goal is to "own the libs," and since they treat people's outrage over the Nazis as a signal that it's working, they align with the Nazis even more, just to be contrary.

Basically, as with the Confederacy, it's a project of massive historical revisionism and alternate memory, with racism (and the desire to effectively weaponize racism) at the core. They don't care about whether the actual Nazis lost, whether their own country fought against them, etc. It's an appealing way to be seen as "cool" and dangerous, to own the libs, and to effectively put their abhorrent views into practice, so they create a fantasy version of that identity and double down on it even harder every time they're challenged. Which is why we're now in this mess, so.... yeah.

[sam-glade]

Find the Vibe Tag

Tagged by @sarahlizziewrites - her post is here.

Tagging (no pressure!): @aether-wasteland-s @talesofsorrowandofruin @awordchemist

Rules: share any excerpt from your WIP that fits the vibe of the given phrase.

Your vibe to find is: you have come too late.

My vibe was: so bad it's good. Damn. The closest thing I've found was this anecdote from the Days of Dusk trio, a few years after the story begins.

CW: brief mentions of death threats

[Gullin's POV]

"All right. You've been dancing around the subject long enough, so spill, what the hell is the problem with him?" Lissan asked impatiently.

Ianim glanced at Gullin, and Gullin gave him a decisive nod.

"Lissander, you know that Lord Saelin was my Adamant Guard until his presumed death," Ianim said. "You also know that Gullin and I were courting back at the Academy…"

"Yeah?" Lissan rushed him.

Elements, Ianim was going to make a right hash out of this story. Gullin shook his head and took over:

"All right, picture this. Young stupid me has fallen head over heels for the Princeling, and we have to spend over two months apart for the summer break, before our last year at the Academy. About a month in, I decided to put my rusty whisper agent skills to use and pay Ianim a visit. But of course I didn't want to deal with the princes and all the staff." He grinned when Lissan's eyes lit up.

"Don't tell me…"

"You know that ancient wisteria at the front of the greathouse?" Lissan nodded. "I decided to climb up that, sneak in through a window on the first floor, and find the Princeling's room. At night."

Lissan snorted.

"How far did you get?"

"I had one leg over the window sill when Lord Saelin hit me with his basic release."

"What was it?" he asked lightly, engrossed in the story.

"Gunpowder explosions, a bit like your full, but on a smaller scale. And pure Fire. Thank fuck my Knife was developing ahead of the schedule, because I probably wouldn't have survived a fall like that without it. Anyway, I ended up with singed eyebrows, bruised backside, and badly tattered pride."

Lissan burst out laughing, to Ianim's astonishment.

"Oh, Elements. Then what?" he pressed, barely managing not to spill his drink.

"He tied me to a chair in a shed–"

"In the carriage house," Ianim corrected weakly, preempting Lissan's comment. Gullin had an idea what the comment was going to be. He continued with a wry smile:

"And beat me bloody to get information on who sent me and what they were after."

Lissan laughed without reservations, the brandy sloshing in his glass up to the edges. Gullin couldn't imagine him reacting differently.

"Ianim was told in the morning, and somehow managed to convince Lord Saelin to let it slide, but not before Lord Saelin swore he'd never let me join IntSec and would kill me on the spot the next time he sees me," he concluded.

Lissan shrugged off the threats. In all fairness, Gullin didn't think that the old lord would deliver on them fifty years later either.

"All right, but it wasn't such a bad plan. You got to see Ianim after all," was Lissan's verdict.

"It was stupid," Gullin said, shaking his head.

"Couldn't have been that stupid if it worked."

[asahicore]

get to know me game !!!

omg i love things like these cz any opportunity to talk about myself is a good opportunity !! thx for the tag @ozymandia-s i was reading thru ur answers like it was the morning paper, i'll tag @bbujiikseu and @ethereal-engene if u guys wanna do it <33

birthday: dec 13

favourite colour: purple-ish like lavender 

do you have pets? yaaaaah i have a white cat who's evil but also really cute and a dog named elbow

how tall are you? 160-2 cm i'm not sure

how many pairs of shoes do you own? a bunch but i mostly wear my platform docs, my beige platform converse, my black regular super old and beat-up converse or my knee-high brown boots that i got at a thrift shop for such a good price

favourite song: this is like the most impossible question everrrr but invu by taeyeon was my most listened to song in 2022 and i still levitate whenever i listen to it

favourite movie: twilighttt the girls who get it get it but i have lots of movies i love

who would be your ideal partner? my 2 most important things r someone who makes me laugh but also finds me funny and someone with good communication. i dont really care about stuff like sharing hobbies or styles or whatever but as long as we can have a good time doing whatever i'm in love (my ex...)

do you want children?  yessss not now for sure but in a few years like 2 or 3 i think

have you gotten in trouble with the law? i dont think so..?

what colour socks are you wearing? rn they're black

favourite type of music: kpop... 97 of my 101 most listened to songs were girl group kpop lmaooo but just pop in general

how many pillows do you sleep with? 2 !!!

what position do you sleep in? i try to sleep on my back but being on my tummy with one leg up is so much comfier

what don’t you like when you’re sleeping: people who snore like i'm not a particularly light sleeper but it wakes me up immediately and keeps me from falling asleep

what do you have for breakfast: coffee most of the time but earl grey sometimes, i dont usually eat breakfast but if i'm feeling hungry i'll have a fruit or something. i'll also have a pastry at the uni café if i really cant wait until lunch to eat lmaoo

have you ever tried archery? i dont think i have but it looks cool

favourite fruit: lately i've been obsessed w physallis but that shit is expensiveee. otherwise i'd say mango and cherries

are you a good liar? nooo u can see it right away if i'm lying i get so tense and if i'm lying just to take the piss out of someone then i can only keep it for like 10 seconds cause 1 i start laughing and 2 i feel bad for making someone believe something untrue lmaoo

what’s your personality type? enfp i think?

innie or outie? (it really depends on my mood but i'm usually an outie i think, i just need a day in the week to really relax on my own) i’ve been informed this is about the belly button… well it’s innie then… why do u wanna know that about me tho

left handed or right handed? right handed. left handed ppl freak me out...

favourite food: it is so impossible to choose a fav meal but i'll say tiramisu cz its my fav dessert

favourite foreign food: sushi ig

am i clean or messy? i'd say clean

most used phrase:  i have no idea probably whatever stupid phrase i've coined as mine for the week

how long does it take for you to get ready: not too long cause in the morning i basically just make my bed, wash my face, brush my teeth, get dressed and do my makeup.. but if i decide to have coffee at home or to read before leaving then it can take a while

do you talk to yourself? all the damn time bro i was actually tripping over the fact that you can hear a voice in your head without actually speaking just the other day i think its so weird but im thankful for my inner monologue.. shes a queen

do you sing to yourself? if theres music i'll sing along but i dont usually just sing out loud randomly

are you a good singer?  no lmaooooo but i love singing badly and my friends and i go to karaoke every week which is super fun

biggest fear? this is weird but my legs being wobbly like not havign control over them, so like when you're on those inflatable games or when the ground is slippery.. hate that

are you a gossip? yes lmaooo but only when theres reason to be

do you like long or short hair? ive been growing out my hair and its slayinngggggg but on other ppl idc

favourite school subject: i think french (not as a second language but as a french person studying french at a french school lmao) and english lit

extrovert or introvert: extrovert, like im sociable but also if you're a strange man dont talk to me

what makes you nervous: university deadlines also the amount of books in the world i'll never be able to read </3

who was your first real crush? i think when in like 4th grade i had a crush on this guy named matt, but ive had plennnttyyyy of crushes since then

how many piercings? eight and they're all on my ears !

how many tattoos? 0 but im debating getting one

how fast can you run? not fast lmaoo

what colour is your hair? dark brown

what colour are your eyes? dark brown

what makes you angry: misogyny <3 i had to watch this video of a debate between pro-choicers and pro-lifers.. i was gonna explode listening to the pro-lifers' arguments they're so fucking stupid man

do you like your name? its very unoriginal lol but i dont mind it, also my middle name is my grandma's which is genevieve and i think it slays

do you want a boy or a girl as a child? one of both tbh

what are your strengths? hmmm i think i'm fairly reasonable? like when i have an outburst (and i have a lot of those) after some time i'm able to calm myself down and reason with myself so usually im able to stay somewhat level-headed lol i also don't wallow, i get back on my feet pretty quickly and my friends have told me i'm generous :)

what are your weaknesses? this might sound like the opposite of what i just said lmaoo but i overthink too damn much and i jsut cry all the time like everything pains me but then at the same time im able to get out of that mindset quickly.. so idk bruh

what is the colour of your bedspread? i have like 3 houses but the one i currently am at is my uni dorm and the bedspreads are either white and grey or green/blue/pink and they're both floral patterns

colour of your room: at my moms and here they're white but at my dads they're a light greyish brown

this was fun and took me forever lmaooo good way of procrastinating tbh

[the-firebird69]

There's a lot of things happening here people realizing it's dangerous and what he's doing is dangerous you guys are having him do it to try and kidnap him and they keep pouring it on and they're idiots so we're going to take them to task and get rid of them they're spent in their assholes they want to do things backwards we've actually had it with them they want to get there Tower ships off of Saturn and threatened Earth with bombings and we don't want them doing that this time around and we are going to get rid of them and Tom Cruise goes out there and blows them up the whole fleet's gone except for a couple ships and they don't make it far You're such vermin Trump that you should understand your son can see that I don't know why you can't figure it out you're such a huge sleaze ball and he's not and just sit there saying all this dumb s*** and we can't stand you you're so arrogant about being dumb

He wants to stop talking to him in about him to a degree and take whatever else he has left to stop him from blithering his two or three phrases all day and night that he memorized and we agree with that and strongly and we're going to set those meetings up and he's going to think that he's going to use our money against us any such thing badly. Now we understand his piece of s*** plan it's almost a joy but we have a lot of other people to deal with that are not so easy and stopping them is not so cut and dry because we can just kill your ass you know and it's really simple you're driving out there with stuff

-couple more things to add to this morning's messages we are sick and tired of you that's one thing but we have a few other things to discuss Charlotte county is experiencing a sharp influx of people that's right there's a ton of people coming in right now going to be here momentarily and the state that they are coming here to bring people in the hard way and it's not the right thing to do it hasn't produced results but they have been flowing in quite steadily and taking hardware from the pseudo empire and they think that they're going to get away with taking over by force and doing things they want to our son and he says I don't see why I would sit there with someone like John remillard without blowing his head off and we understand that too because the guy is in his face already today just now. You're very insulted as well and his blood is going to flow like a river in his clan Trump within a slaughter him and so is Tommy off and it's right there right next to him and he doesn't get it and we're going to take him apart and we're going to blow him away. And he tells him his plan he says it looks like Tom Cruise gets out there and destroys most of your asinine fleet and you don't have the hole you had before and we're hoping to proceed so we can annihilate you and your asinine plan and he's going to do that too we realize that you're a very dumb person but you should acknowledge a little more that he can kill you right now will you sit because you're a wimp and he doesn't like you but you tend to not understand it until it's too late we heard later that you died because you're trying something and we heard later that he knew you were going to and you ended up dead in the bathtub which filled with your blood and he left you there for about 10 hours and you didn't take anything over and now you're back again saying stupid s*** aren't you a wonderful person for being dumb and the answer is no you're just stupid and people are sick of it everybody is sick of it

I'm going to relieve you of command trying to be my Lord and we're going to take everything you have and we're going to make sure that you don't make it there's a few things in life you should know about Tommy f is dangerous and you set him on fire to try and bother our son and became a disaster and you knew it would and you're after his ships and we don't want you aboard those ships because you don't know how to pilot yours correctly that's the main reason that you're incompetent as a pilot that you don't know how to fly and it's our decision and we making our decision and it works. Of course it causes you to try and invade more but you're in an ineffective person in combat. And you ran up there and your people got toasted before they engaged even bja is engaging and he usually doesn't right now people are working to get you out of here because you're a massive failure. Now Tommy f lunch revenge on you for you constantly trying to grab him and telling him and on Dan and her son does too and there's a lot of people who want revenge on you for your a****** idiotic way of trying to kidnap people as a sleaze ball and trying to drag people down to where you are to try and kidnap them. We're going after you today very hard here to remove you as is the pseudo empire and empire and foreigners and other morlock groups taking apart for your attitude and actions on our son and daughter and his subject to all sorts of things that you should not be doing and we are going to advance using you and your asinine forces as motivation and it is a real eye opener what do you people do and we have to take over and we have to get rid of you and we have to make sure you don't come back those are things that they don't want to happen but they're happening continuously still even the small percentage of your idiots left behind enough for us to simply decimate them and to take over the area using them you're a poor and pitiful group we do inform you that what you're saying now is going to cost you your life today and you say you don't care but as you're dying you say you care by saying other things but it's far too late and we're going to start pursuing you now

Nuada Arrianna

Olympus

[lakesbian]

CROUCHES DOWN HEAD IN HANDS INHALING DEEPLY OF COURSE. REGENT TAKES OVER THE POSITION OF POWER. OF COURSE.

me when i was trying to do some sort of seven dimensional chess connecting it to convoluted symbolism with his dad and then tumblr user shakertwelve walked up and was like. Body Jacking, In Charge While Rightful Ruler Is Incapacitated. ah fuck yes of course. do you think in-universe there were prt members who sat bolt upright after his real power had become more widely known/used and were like "AHHHH FUCK OF COURSE" or was it just us

i think he's like. you could loosely describe it in terms of being a redemption arc, i guess, but that would also inherently imply that the state of being an abused child coerced into a cycle of violence is a state of moral failing that necessitates redemption. and i think worm is good because it never really insinuates that--it just presents him exactly how you said. as one of many traumatized teenagers fumbling through surviving and growing up in violent, complicated circumstances.

although i do think that the idea that he's "upfront about how he isnt a good guy, he doesnt intend to be a good guy, and hes done bad things and will do more" isn't so much a summary of his arc as a whole, but of something he tells himself sometimes for completely dysfunctional and somewhat self-deceiving reasons. it's, like. here's a list of Connected Facts

in alec's interlude, he not only brags about being a self-aware asshole, he implicitly compares himself to his father ('you know i'm heartbreaker's kid') as a threat

out of the entire book, one of the very few times he ever appears even remotely shaken is when taylor casually asks him if he "really want[s] to follow in [his] dad's footsteps." her phrasing implies not only that she thinks there's a chance of him turning out like his father, but that she thinks he actively wants to turn into his father. it startles and upsets him so badly that he goes silent, completely turns his head away from her for several long seconds, and then comes back with "you're a little bit of an asshole, aren't you?"--a massive reaction, coming from alec

in alec's interlude, he monologues about how he's completely fine with not being close with any of the undersiders, and it actually suits him perfectly, and it's on purpose, thank you very much

prior to alec's interlude, he was clearly constantly attempting to strike up conversation with taylor, assign her an affectionate nickname ('dork'), and otherwise form a friendship with her. shortly after his interlude, he latches onto aisha with a similar attempt at befriending her, including moments such as inviting her over to his place, throwing an arm over her shoulders & declaring that they should split away and form their Own team after she says she's not sure where her place on the undersiders is yet, etc.

in his interlude, he repeatedly establishes that he doesn't feel bad about doing this, that he's doing this as revenge for taylor & as a favor to the team and not for personal reasons, etc

in late worm, aisha mentions that alec confessed about shadow stalker to her shortly after he did it, and that he had only realized after the fact that he 'went too far' & did so because he was upset + envious of the fact that she had a family that loved her and didn't appreciate it (& we as readers can also extrapolate from how much he's flashing back to memories of childhood abuse while puppeting shadow stalker that thinking about how sophia abused taylor triggered some anger about his own abuse, which he's projecting onto her.)

there's a series of contradictions with him. in moments of unexamined hurt and anger, he falls back onto what he was taught while he was coerced into a cycle of abuse, and projects his emotions onto + ruins a vulnerable girl's life to make himself feel better while actively conflating his behaviors with his father. in a slightly better spot, with a friend to talk to and while not actively experiencing overwhelming emotions he doesn't know how to parse, he's horrified and hurt by the idea that anyone would think he wants to be his dad. when he's alone, he convinces himself that he likes it like that, but he still acts deeply lonely and fervently seeks out friendships with others. he insists he isn't a good guy, and doesn't intend to be, and then he spends a week percolating about it and half-realizes that maybe he was only telling himself that because, in the moment, he didn't know any other way for him to be. i think you really nailed it with the idea that he's fluctuating between fumbling to figure out What To Do Now and simply being too tired and too broken down to know the right thing to do, let alone pick it. and i don't think he even understands himself well enough to acknowledge the tension between what he's been taught is an inevitable fact of his upbringing and what he wants to be, because he's had to put literally all of his feelings away into a tightly padlocked box at the bottom of his brain to survive. so it's still an uphill venture for him, but it is at a crawl, and he doesn't always know he's taking it, and he's not immune to backslide.

putting microphone in your mouth do you have any overall Thoughts on alec vasil. on his arc any favorite moments any analysis etc

im still formulating my thoughts on the name regent and how the regent is the temporary ruler of a kingdom until whoever is supposed to rule can come into power. What do u think he meant by that.

BESIDES THAT when he immediately called out amy on what she did to victoria i think him being so blunt with what kind of violation happened is so interesting bc he very much is a character that doesnt seem to want to be Vocal in situations like that but him speaking up is like oh yeah. Oh god you are too familiar with that.

hes literally just a little guy and nothing is his fault

AND HIS SACRIFICE UGH everything with him and aisha warmed him up so much to me (beyond the initial “something is interestingly wrong w you boy” impression) like the trust from aisha to let him control her like WHAT!!!! WHAT!!! They make me SICKKK

[trashyslashers]

I saw your requests were open and I’ve read some of your posts so I figured I’d ask something? Anyway how do you think Michael, Thomas, and Jason would react to a s/o who bounces on their tip toes when excited! :)

This was cute....

Apologies it took so long - I hope you don't mind that I added a couple little examples of things that might've made you/someone excited in such a way! I went a little nuts for Tommy's because I've been such a simp for him lately.

Thank you for sending this in!

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【Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and Thomas Hewitt with a partner who bounces up and down/on their tip toes when excited】

Michael Myers:

He's looming in the doorway of your kitchen the first time he sees such a display from you, his immediate reaction being only that signature head tilt of his. You're hopping up and down out of pure excitement just because he dropped by your house? Michael doesn't entirely get it, but then again, it had been about a week since he'd last been around - and so, you were almost literally through the roof to see that he finally returned to you, as you had phrased it.

It's this sort of thing that really gets him hooked, over time; this sense of innocence and joy. There's a sort of childishness to your choice of expression that Michael finds both so adorable, but also so, so damn corruptible.

And you're with him, of all people - Michael Myers, the damned Boogeyman. Rarely does he understand why someone who appears as wholesome and innocent as you do would ever want to be with him. But it's almost enigmatic, and he likes that.

Still, something about it prods at that tiny, tiny spot deep in Michael's heart that can feel warmth. He finds himself hoping that such a reaction is one reserved only for him to see - and watch out, because I wouldn't put it past Mikey to sometimes pull a disappearing act - just to see your excited little hops once he turns up. Again.

Jason Voorhees:

Jay already thought of you as one of the most innocent things on the planet, but now? He knows you are. It's one of the sweetest things he's seen, and all it does is amp up his love for you - if that's even possible.

He hangs around, looming peeking around corners or trees whenever you're in a particularly good mood, hoping something will excite you so he can catch a glimpse of your excited bouncing. You and your mannerisms are pretty much the only things that make his cold, dead heart feel warm and alive again.

Would LOVE it if in the midst of your hopping, you sprang into his arms. He'll always catch you, and having you love on him out of excitement makes his heart swell. He's always wanted, even if for quite some time he wasn't aware of it, that sort of love and affection, and you fill that need perfectly for him.

He can't help but feel a tinsy bit possessive of you, once he's experienced this; happy that you're staying with him, safe and secluded in the cabin, away from the nastiness of the world.

Thomas Hewitt:

This sweet man absolutely adores this about you. If there's one thing Thomas craves, deep down, it's softness. Less blood, less brutality, less anger and screaming - and you and your little mannerisms like such are just the perfect dose to counteract the roughness that typically makes up his life.

The first time he saw you react to something in such a way, the way you leapt into the air made the poor guy think something startled you badly enough to make you jump. Tommy is extremely protective by nature, and thus was immediately concerned that something was frightening you - but what he absolutely was not expecting was for you to turn to him, hopping up and down on your toes as your hands cupped the small flowerpot you'd been checking on for the past week. You'd been nurturing a small, nearly dead plant of some sort that you found, and after days of careful tending the little thing appeared to be back on the mend and recovering, its newfound liveliness exciting you in a way that he hadn't seen occur in the Hewitt household before.

Needless to say, his heart skips a beat each and every time you bounce over to show or tell him about what excited you. Knowing that you trust him and feel safe enough around him to not only show that side of yourself, but to also show him (and in a way, share with him) what's made you so happy makes him melt inside, and he wishes that more things would happen to draw such antics out of you.

Tommy, though, won't always want to just wait around for something to happen and hope he's lucky enough to catch a glimpse of it, no - Thomas is well aware that not much excitement (or, at least, excitement of a positive nature) happens very often in the house, and so he'll find himself becoming mentally preoccupied at times, wondering what he could possibly do to get you all bubbly and hoppy more often.

Please, share more wholesome moments like these with Thomas. Show him that you trust him enough to let your guard down in such a way with him and that you want to share the excitement with him. Not a whole lot else in his life, prior to you (apart from Luda Mae), has made him feel as loved and cared about.

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[cosmictulips]

Come With Me I'll Take You Now... to A Place that You Fear (PAC)

I have a whole laundry list of disney and animation themed pacs in general, feel free to check them out.

but this is based on the scorpio moon happening on the 16th I do believe. it's a Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse of all things lmao. (also lets talk about how the gif I'm using is one that I personally uploaded LOL)

but also you can read this anytime you feel something powerful or something calling you to change. that's essentially the whole point to this pac. it just so happens that we have a moon perfect for it lol.

This is LONG. it answers 5 different questions. so there are three piles. I feel like i kind of owe it to my audience considering I've been nothing but a ghost recently.

So, Pick the transformation::

...we really can't line three gifs up anymore? lololol fine. the top left is one, simba is 2, the beast is 3.

Here is a riddle to guess if you can, sing the bells of notre dame. what makes a monster and what makes a man?

what is coming to an end?

06 of wands, 09 of Cups, 02 of Swords

A choice. for the majority of you I keep hearing the phrase "choosing between happiness and the mundane". some of you have felt stuck for awhile. wondering when your big break was coming. when you were going to feel happy. the thing is, you might have to choose literally. literally choose to be happy. literally choose to change the direction that you are on.

what's coming to an end is the lack of clarity of what you need and want to be happy and successful. if you've been working your ass off lately and not seeing the rewards, you'll start seeing them soon. for others also, this could be no longer having to choose between wanting to spoil yourself and bills. do you understand the general gist of this?

what is coming to an end is simply the fact that you no longer have to choose to be successful, to be happy, to be fulfilled. because it's clearing up. it's coming for you. and you no longer have to sacrifice anything.

What Must be Left behind? Queen of Swords, 04 of Pentacles, The Empress

You know what's interesting, this really does line up with the movie lol. Quasi wanted so badly to be accepted for who he is. and to do that he had to get out of his comfort zone and show the world who he is and that's exactly what you have to do.

You need to start standing up for yourself more. some of you literally need to tear out old foundations that you had built. in its place, you need to build better ones. this idea of catering to other people needs to be left behind. the anxiety from your past needs to be worked on.

You NEED to speak up for yourself more. you also need to stop judging other people before actually giving them a chance. some of you have an instinct to strike first and think later. and that's not going to work any longer. if you want better connections, if you want people to respect your boundaries, you gotta build those better boundaries and work on yourself.

You gotta start giving trust away if you want trust back. make sense? there's heavy themes here of needing to put yourself first for once. to speak up for others and for yourself. to build those better foundations. leave behind the ones you feel comfortable with because they aren't helping you anymore.

What is emerging in your life? the High Priestess, King of Swords, 07 of Swords

Surprises. first thing that just jumped out of me. Knowledge, wisdom and power. point blank and period. some of you are learning to open up spiritually. you're learning in general and you're stepping into this very powerful, very wise person.

others of you are going to be getting an opportunity to learn the truth and to stand firm in your own truth. surprises, rude awakenings -though I think a lot of you KNOW something. you're doubting it but in the end you're right. so if someone has second guessing, take this as your sign to drop it. because you're right. you've always been right and it's time to go-.

What needs to be transformed?

Ace of Swords, 04 of Swords, 03 of Cups

So what I heard intuitively was "the idea of yourself". and given all the air energy this reading has been given me. this could very well be about how you speak of yourself. the thoughts that you share, how smart you think you are.

I think you just need to transform your perception. of the world around you, of your past, yourself, of other people in general. there's a wall that I'm getting here. either people have shut you down too many times, you don't trust other people, etc etc etc. what is being transformed and awakened in your life, is this undying ability to know your truth. to know your boundaries and being able to communicate.

what's also being transformed here is how you see other people. who you should trust, the signs of deception. you are growing wiser. and you need to transform this idea that no one wants to listen to you. because people do enjoy you. they enjoy what you have to say. and there are people who want to hear it.

What is my new beginning? The Emperor, 05 of Wands, 03 of Wands

I heard "fighting" but let me clarify this for you lol. the 05 of wands can literally be about arguments. and the thing is, given how much this group needs to start speaking up for themselves, and how they're going to learn to be more vocal, it's bound to shake some things up.

but also, the 05 of wands is about training. reinforcing your boundaries, seeing what works and what doesn't. you need to train your voice, and sometimes that's going to lead to people giving you pointers like "it's not what you say it's how you say it" so this new beginning is going to feel a bit like a challenge.

but it's expanding you. it's giving you this new growth to fully step into this Emperor, this High Priestess and these swords energy. you can't grow if you never try ya know? and the Emperor is asking you here to stand firm in your power.

you're a lot wiser than you know. you're a lot stronger than you think. and you're going to love yourself dammit lol. you're going to set those firm boundaries and not have people stepping over them. a lot of passion is also coming in for you. new ideas, new people in general. have some fun with it.

Also some other notes

I think this pile is very much in their head. I keep hearing "mental health" so for some of you, or a good chunk of you, this could be about seeking help for your mental...health lol.

I think that for some of you who are stuck in your head a lot, you're going to be finding an outlet. a new friend to help, a therapist, someone wiser.

I think a lot of you are gaining confidence in something as well. new ideas are littered in this reading.

ALSO some of you are REALLY going to be fighting someone. this person is manipulative, cold, and they don't like to listen. cut them out. like I mentioned earlier. someone is doubting their own intuition right now. bby, if you're getting messages that this person is holding something back. stop giving people the benefit of the doubt. they are showing you who they are. leave.

It is time.

what is coming to an end? 07 of Cps, King of Cups, Strength

So... the thing is, I heard "stepping out of winter". someone is feeling very disconnected. whether that is in a form of writers block, spiritually, emotionally. Idk. someone just feels far away from their own emotions or passions or a person.

that is coming to an end. it's like the floodgates are opening and you're just going to be so overwhelmed. I'm literally seeing someone calling someone and just sobbing. like, love is here. confidence is here. this emotional ice age you have been in is finally releasing its grip.

for others of you, this could be a period of indecision. and that is also coming to an end. you're tossing and turning on an idea. and well, something better is coming in for you. and i think you're going to take it.

What Must be Left behind? 05 of Wands, Ace of Swords, 10 of swords

Soooo I heard "fight or flight". someoneee is probably here from pile one lol. so hello. but I think some of you are fighting yourselves or other people. like you feel like everything is being nitpicked. or like nothing is just right or perfect enough. that mind set, is going out the door.

For the Majority of you though, this is just the fear of failure. fearing that nothing is going to be good enough. that you'll fail at it. that people aren't going to like you and just criticize you. all of this doubt is not serving you any more. and it's time to let it go.

What is emerging in your life? 09 of Cups, 08 of Wands, Page of Wands

Soooo much exploration, traveling, new ideas. something is coming in reallllyyy fucking fast for this group. and I heard that for some of you, it's independence. emotional maturity, a group of people who accept you.

for others of you this is more physical independence. a reunion with someone, for others it's love. there's a lot coming in for this group. and it's coming in hot. I think once you guys decide to fight back on this idea of failure, you'll start to see how good things can get. and for some of you I'm hearing the phrase "wow that wasn't so bad at all".

so seriously, just take a leap of faith and do the thing you're thinking about. it's going to turn out better than ya hope.

What needs to be transformed? 03 of Cups, 05 of Pentacles, 06 of Cups, the Hermit

That you are alone in this life. that you are poor whether physically, mentally, emotionally. etc. that you don't deserve love.

You have way more than you think you do. and there are people who truly want to help you and get to know you. there is so much in this life that wants to come in for you. but you are feeling lost in this darkness. darling, dear, you are on the right path. it's hard to see now, but fearing what lies ahead isn't going to get you closer to the destination.

Your poverty is soon to end. it really is. there's a helping hand -or three? I'm seeing three-. that wants to come in help you. be open to others helping you. no matter what you need. transform the idea that you are alone. because you are not.

What is my new beginning? Wheel of Fortune, the High Priestess, 08 of Pentacles

Your new beginning literally lies in your hands. that Wheel in the Wheel of fortune stops where you put your effort into. YOU decide where it gets to land. do you stop at the insecurity? or do you keep pushing?

Your new beginning also comes in the form of recognition. whether that is at work, whatever you are working on, SELF LOVE. there's a lot of patience and slow moving energies here. that's important. because your journey is meant for greater things.

You are meant to get more than what the world has been giving you lately. and now you're being asked to put it into yourself. start loving yourself. start recognizing the potential that you have within you. ya know?

let others compliment you and help you grow. ALSO some of you are growing spiritually, emotionally and intuitively. like I feel like some of you are starting college or some sort of classes soon. it feels like a return to what you once loved doing.

...

I keep seeing a wheel spinning. like.. I think it's a steering wheel. like a car of a boat. so some of you could be taking a trip that really changes your life. some of you are learning to do something that has scared you for awhile.

what I think separates this pile from the first is that this is more action oriented. this more like, you have the plan but you're fearing the worst. don't. keep pushing because your rewards are coming in for you. you are meant to be here at this moment. don't hold yourself back.

You came back.

what is coming to an end? The Hanged Man, Ace of Pentacles, 07 of Pentacles

Straight to the point, indecision. there's something you've either been waiting to hear back on, or a choice you've been declining to make. I think it's the first one because the story I'm seeing here is that someone is working really hard on something. and

this could be a new job, this could be about school, but things have slowed down. and maybe it's because you're waiting to hear back from someone. or you're hoping the right answer will come to you. but something feels off.

and you're waiting as long as you can. this could also be about roadblocks in life. this could be about feeling as if you have no direction to go in life.

regardless of what it is, there's a new beginning coming in for you. I think it's something physical. like a letter, a job opprotunitiy, a text, an email about a party or something. it's just something that you're going to physically see. and that is going to get things in motion for you. whether that's an ad that inspires you to write a scene for your novel, or a red flower that makes you get back into photography. ya know what I mean?

like there's going to be this push that gets you over the hump and to the final stage of whatever you're trying to work on.

What Must be Left behind? 04 of Wands, the Sun, 07 of Swords

I want to stress that the 04 of Wands came out in reverse. I don't often read reversals but I do make note of them. so when I saw that card the first thing that came to my head was "I can't be happy."

Darling, yes you can. people are hurting you. life is unpleasant. I get that. I see that. people are trying to dim your light. but the thing is, YOU create the life you want. if someone is hurting you, you gave them that power to.

You need to leave behind this idea that your happiness, lies in someone elses hands. cause it doesn't. YOU CAN have what you want. you need to stop allowing yourself to fall for the same things over and over again. you're being self destructive. and I have a funny feeling that most of you know it too.

Now for others of you, because this is general, your world came crumbling down because... Plan A didn't work out. or the person you thought was forever, suddenly wasn't. right. this isn't the toxic thing I was just talking about. this is simply, Life sucks. and shit happens.

and in this case, I need to tell you that you can rebuild. you need to mourn that loss, but understand that living in the past isn't where you're meant to be. you need to keep moving for something as bright as the sun can come in for you.

What is emerging in your life? Queen of Pentacles, 03 of Cups, the World

An inevitable ending. for some of you, this has been going on for awhile. shit is crumbling because it has to. because it needs to so you can get to a more nurturing, loving, and stable part of your life.

But with that cycle ending, there is something even better coming in for you. A chance to get out of the place you're in, a chance to go out and enjoy life. new beginnings.

for some of you, this is going to be in the comfort of someone you care about. for others of you, it's taking that role of that queen of pentacles. of enjoying the rewards that you finally get to have and deserve.

and for some of you, I think it's a much needed vacation. there are somethings that are coming in that the Guides won't tell me but they're saying that it's a very stable future that awaits for you guys. full of love that won't hurt, and physical abundance.

What needs to be transformed? 08 of Swords, 08 of Wands, 04 of Pentacles, 03 of Pentacles

What did I say about that self sabotaging, self destructive streak some of yall have? you need to transform the idea that you are stuck in the situation you are in...forever. cause you're not. the thing with the 08 of swords is that YOU DO hold the key to escape. these are chains we force ourselves into.

Much like how the 04 of pentacles can be about the walls we build around. the thing is, as quickly as you build them up, they can come down. You need to change the idea that those who are helping you, seek something in return. if you've had to deal with that all your life, I promise you, that that's not always the case.

Better foundations are being built for you. they are coming in quickly. you don't have to wait forever to free yourself. it simply starts with affirming your ideals and your beliefs and then running with them. it's a painful process, but I think things are going to pick up rather quickly for you once you decide to heal.

What is my new beginning? The Tower, 07 of Wands, 03 of Wands, 02 of Pentacles

Stability!!! Partnerships! things moving towards you in a much rapid pace. perseverance. the final battle so to speak. and much, much needed alone time. some of you, I feel like are getting very overwhelmed with the amount of crap that is falling around you. the amount of people you feel like are against you.

Let them come and let them go. some of you need to just keep pushing because once this earthquake subsides, you will see the stability. you will see the balancing act of a good relationship and independence. you will see that you can have it all and you can do what you want.

this new beginning is going to be worse before it gets better. okay? trust in this process. if you're feeling exhausted, just step away. HELL, might I advise that some of you literally just step away. if you're standing firm in your boundaries, and someone starts to fight you, just let them. block them.

this life is YOUR experience, and this new beginning is going to show you how peaceful it can really be if you just let someone go. like I said in pile 2, if someone is showing you their true colors. don't lie to yourself. don't keep vouching for them. just let them go. and feel that peace.

[rocorambles]

Until Death Do Us Part

Pairing: Akaashi x Reader

Genre/Warnings: Yandere, NSFW, Sea Warlock!Akaashi, Mermaid Reader, Non-Con/Rape, Mind Control, Body Modification

Summary: As a little girl you’ve always dreamed of marriage, but maybe you should have been more careful of who you decided to exchange eternal vows with.

This is for @terushimooo's Aquatic August collab. Happy swimming~

You love Itachiyama, love waking up and seeing the endless sea of blue, love waving down at all the sea creatures, sirens, mermaids, and so much more who cheerfully greet you. You love Itachiyama and Itachiyama loves you, the citizens of your kingdom eagerly calling your name and shoving free samples of tasty food and merchandise in your hand as you swim by the marketplace, excited to interact with their favorite (and only) princess.

But as much as you genuinely love your realm, you’ve always been too curious for your own good, your sheltered life forcing your imagination to go wild as you listen intently to merchants and travelers from out of town who tell you about corners of the ocean and sea creatures you’ve never even heard of.

There’s a limit to how much pretty words and mental images can satisfy you and your cousins Sakusa and Komori roll their eyes and sigh when you begin to repeatedly try sneaking out from their protective watch, eager to experience what lies beyond the borders of your safe haven.

It’s a comic joint effort between the citizens, your cousins, and the royal guards as they all work to keep you as safe as they can. It becomes a game of sorts, one that they all begrudgingly begin to enjoy, and laughter fills the kingdom when citizens take turns cheering for you or your cousins as Sakusa and Komori rapidly swim after you, leaving ripples and bubbles in your wakes as your tails flick back and forth.

They’re hesitant to let you wander off on your own at first, the creatures of your realm and the palace guards begging you to at least let them accompany you when you’re insistent about exploring the surrounding areas. Sakusa scolds you, always dragging you back to the palace when you do manage to escape, although you hide your smile when you see how he wordlessly takes all your new discoveries from you and carries them back for you. Komori also nudges you back when he’s the one sent to find you, although he always lets you wander around for a while longer when he does locate you, indulging your whims before finally enticing you back home with the promise of a new seashell necklace, his treat.

But over time they begin to relax, just wishing you safe travels and exploring when they do see you ready to slip past the border, Sakusa and Komori reminding you not to stray too far and not to stay out too late when their schedules don’t permit them to leave with you.

You love meeting new people, exploring new towns, seeing the sights outside of the bubble you’ve grown up in. But novelty wears off and even the surrounding territories begin to become familiar to you, an old itch beginning to creep inside of you once again, a desire to see even more churning inside of you. And it’s that yearning inside of you that has you secretly wandering in a different direction one day, going far further than you’ve ever been before, leading you to Akaashi’s lair.

Akaashi sees you long before you even realize you’re in his territory and he’s intrigued to say the least. He can’t even count the number of greedy, selfish, desperate souls who’ve sullied his grounds, disgustingly groveling at his feet, whining for their wishes and desires to be granted. But you? You’re different. He can tell just by how unaware and genuinely curious you are as your eyes flit about the unknown area, ooh-ing and aah-ing at the site of different coral and species of fish you’ve never seen.

You’re not here for him. He’s sure you don’t even know exactly whose lands you’ve naively fluttered upon. And before he even realizes what he’s doing, his legs have transitioned into a mass of swirling tentacles, rocketing him towards your direction.

When’s the last time he’s talked to someone outside of the lowlife scum who begged and pleaded for his help? When’s the last time he was able to enjoy another’s company? The warmth of another’s body entwined with his?

There’s a painful tug at his heart when he sees how you tense at his presence, fear lacing your gaze when you connect the mass of glossy black tentacles on his lower half and his piercing blue orbs to his true identity.

It’s not hard to understand exactly who you’re face to face with, the rumors of the sea warlock’s appearance and reputation having spread far and wide. You’ve always been horrified by the stories you’ve heard. Maybe it’s because you’re far too simple-minded, far too easily satisfied as both your cousins fondly tease you about. But you can’t imagine wanting anything enough to give up your voice, your tail, your ability to love and laugh.

You know Akaashi only takes from those who seek his help, that you technically have nothing to fear. But you still cower in front of him, folding your tail in front of you and clutching it to your chest, a small silly part of you scared that he’d snatch it away from you.

The gesture makes Akaashi laugh and you stare wide-eyed at the handsome creature in front of you, your tail slowly flopping from your arms and floating freely as you let the lovely tinkle of his laugh echo around you.

“Don’t worry, I don’t plan on taking your tail. Unless you’ve come here for me to grant a request?”

You furiously shake your head from side to side, still a little apprehensive as he sends a small amused smile your way. But as he continues talking, you can feel the tension ease from your body, your body matching Akaashi’s pace as he gives you a tour of his neck of the woods. He’s so well-spoken, a soothing tone to his voice that easily lulls you into a sense of peace as you eagerly listen to him tell you about the local wildlife and terrain.

He tells you stories of worlds and creatures you can’t even begin to fathom. He tells you of life above the waters and in the sky. And you find yourself returning back to him over and over again, although it would be a lie to say it’s purely out of a desire to learn more.

Your curiosity is as insatiable as always, but you get distracted more often than not when Akaashi speaks. You get lost staring at that striking face and into those gorgeous eyes. Your eyes glitter in awe as he effortlessly transitions between gracefully swimming upon a mass of tentacles to fluttering two human legs in the sea, appendages you’ve never seen before.

You’re falling fast and hard for the sea warlock and you don’t think there’s any going back.

Akaashi knows there’s no going back.

He’d fallen for you the second you had opened up to him, the moment you had seen him as just another creature to befriend instead of a wish given genie whose only purpose was to dole out wishes. And he’s not ignorant to the way your eyes wander across his figure, his face, how you badly try to hide your growing attraction to him.

So it only makes sense that he doesn’t resist temptation anymore now that he knows the feelings are mutual and he hungrily lets his tentacles wind around your waist, pulling you towards him so he can embrace you in his warms, closing his eyes in bliss as your barely covered torso presses against his own bare chest. One of his hands snakes to unclasp your seashell top while his lips devour yours, sighing at how sweet you taste.

But he grimaces in displeasure when your tail begins to wildly flail from side to side, your hands annoyingly pressing against his chest. And he pulls back, brows furrowed as he tries to understand what’s wrong, only to scowl when he sees hesitation tinged with fear in your pretty eyes.

He thought you were far beyond this point. What is there to be scared of? Why are you so skittish? But he hasn’t gotten as far as he has by blowing his fuse so he forces his tentacles to relinquish you, lightly replacing them with his hands as he brings you over to his bed, letting you sit on his lap and tuck your head under his chin as he gently rubs his thumbs soothingly over your waist.

It’s a good sign that you feel comfortable enough to bury your face in his chest and he lets you sit there silently, waiting for you to speak up. And his patience is rewarded when you nervously draw aimless partners on his skin as you begin to talk.

He bites back a laugh when you ramble on about how you’ve never even had a boyfriend before, never done more than platonically hug and kiss your family and friends. This is all so new to you and isn’t it too fast, too soon? What even are the two of you? Does he even like you? Love you? You don’t want to be just a notch in his bedpost. You want to date, get married, have a family. Only married people can do the things...the things that…

You trail off in embarrassment, unsure how to even phrase things you’ve only whispered about in hushed voices with your friends, that you’ve never experienced for yourself before. But your face heats when a low chuckle reverberates in your ears, gasping when one of Akaashi’s hands digs into your skin, the other traveling sensually up your spine before roughly grabbing the back of your head and pulling you in for a kiss that’s all heady hunger that leaves you breathless.

It would be so easy to just give in, to melt and moan as his nails threaten to pierce your skin, his arms caging you against him until all you can feel, see, and smell is him. Your tongues entangle with each other and you gasp when his fingers begin to slip under a seashell, the other hand teasing the transition of skin to scale. But when he begins to tweak a nipple and palm your ass, you’re jolted back to reality, the morals of chastity and purity you’ve been raised with battling against the temptation of Akaashi’s touch.

“Wait, Keiji. Wait!”

This time there’s no hiding his irritation and you flinch at the annoyance in his eyes as he stares you down, a coldness in his face you’ve never seen before. But you press on, believing that if he truly cared for you, he’d understand. All your girlfriends had told you that if you found the right one, they’d be patient, they’d wait until you were ready.

“I- I really like you, but I don’t think I’m ready for this yet. I want to go on dates, get engaged, get married. And maybe it’s old-fashioned, but I want our first time to be our wedding night, after we’ve said our vows and promises to be together forever.”

“You want to be together forever?”

Akaashi can’t help but smile at the hopeful look in your eyes when you nod your head in affirmation.

“Then until death do us part.”

You’ve always wondered what magic would look or feel like and now you know. You whimper as you feel something powerful, something foreign surge through you, Akaashi’s eyes glowing far more than they should, the shadows of his cave seeming to grow and loom over the two of you. There’s a searing pain on your lower abdomen and the expanse of your chest and you scream as it fills like your tail is being torn into two.

And suddenly there’s a feeling of something wrapping around your heart, an ache between your legs-

Your legs?

You stare in horror, tears forming in your eyes when you see your beautiful tail replaced by two legs, strange black markings permanently engraved over your womb, the scrawl of Akaashi’s name taunting you from its loving placement above your heart.

“Don’t cry, my love. Look we can match now. Consider it a reminder of our new beginning together, the start of the rest of our lives.”

This is a mockery of everything you’ve believed a marriage to be and you only sob harder as Akaashi pins you on your back, his legs in between yours pushing them apart. But he tires of your pained and agonized cries and you gasp as the new markings decorating your skin begin to glow blue. Fear is replaced with lust and all you can think of is Akaashi, all you want is Akaashi, all you need is Akaashi.

There’s just enough of your own will to know this isn’t right, this isn’t truly you. But you can’t do anything against your body and mind’s cravings, the way you instinctively lean into every kiss, every touch. Is this how it always feels? You can’t tell if the delirious pleasure you’re feeling is normal or if it’s being heightened by whatever incantation Akaashi has you under. But you can’t bring yourself to care about the details, not when your eyes are rolling back in your head, something slick leaking from between your new limbs as Akaashi makes his way down your body, mouth and fingers lapping at your new slit.

Your chest heaves, nipples standing at attention, gleaming with Akaashi’s saliva as your body contorts as he continuously pumps in and out of you, adding finger after finger until it feels like you’re going to burst. You don’t even recognize the wanton cries in the air as your own, lewd whines of “Keiji, Keiji, Keiji” filling the air. And then there’s a snap, your body going rigid as something coils tight inside of you before you’re wailing, body thrashing and convulsing around the four digits stuffed inside of you, your arousal coating Akaashi’s fingers and dripping down his wrist.

You hate how wrong it feels to be empty, a whine escaping your lips at the loss of his fingers as he pulls them out. But you flinch at the sight of Akaashi seductively licking his skin clean of your mess, desire making his eyes dark as he contently hums at your taste. You try to use his distraction as a chance to slowly crawl away, but you let out a surprised cry when strong hands drag you back in place, spreading your legs once again.

“We’re not done with our wedding night yet, darling.”

Something hard and thick nudges at your entrance and you struggle anew to no use as your markings glow blue once more. And suddenly you’re pliant and aroused all over again, overwhelmed tears streaming down your face as despair and lust mix together, only heightening the dizzying feeling of having Akaashi’s cock balls deep inside of you. It’s too much, too soon and yet it’s not enough, desire pulsing inside of you, need making you go mad.

But it doesn’t matter what you want or how you feel and Akaashi reminds you of that as he uses your body to chase his own end, hips thrusting in and out of you, cock dragging against your oversensitized walls. On and on he goes, following through with a relentless, brutal pace, spurred on by your lewd moans and the way your nails draw blood as you claw at him, body trying to ground itself in any way.

You’re tumbling over the edge once more and what husband would he be to not join his lovely new wife over that precipice of pleasure? So he follows you down, groaning and burying his face in your neck with a kiss as he thrusts one last time, sinking deep inside of you as he fills you to the brim with his seed.

Reality sinks in as the blue glow emblazoned on you begins to dim until only skin and dark markings are left and disgust makes your guts churn. All you want to do is curl up into a ball. All you want is to be back home with your cousins, joking with Komori, being a brat to Sakusa. All you want is to go back in time, go back to the carefree days of innocence and fluttering your tail when Akaashi was just a faceless name.

But there’s no going back and all you can do is lie there and accept your fate as Akaashi reverently kisses and caresses his marks on your body.

Until death do you part.

[scripted-downfall]

Love, Need, and Reciprocation

I don’t know how well (or badly) received this is going to be, but I feel the need to comment on that scene from s08e17 “Goodbye Stranger” where Dean breaks Cas out of Naomi’s spell with the whole “I need you” thing.  I know it’s a pretty popularly cited fact that the initial line was “I love you”, and I’ve heard a surprising (to me) number of people lately saying that the latter phrasing would have been better, and I just… don’t agree.  This scene has probably already been analyzed a bunch, so I’m left hoping this isn’t repetitive/annoying; it’s partly a way of composing my own thoughts on the issue.  (To be clear, before I get into it, I very much do ship Destiel.)

Because the thing is.  Obviously, Dean is very, very bad with emotional communication; we know this from the very beginning, what with the “no chick-flick moments” line and all.  But there’s also the fact that I’m willing to bet a lot that he has next to no experience with actual spoken love.  I mean, yeah, maybe Mary said it when she was alive, but that was only four years (at most, since, technically, his memory was bound to be near-nonexistent for at least some of that time).  After she died, John Winchester — whether you side on the hate-him side or on the he-did-his-best side — definitely wasn’t saying it.  Dean’s exchange of endearments with Sam basically consists of the bitch-jerk call-and-response, so I highly doubt there were “I love you”s exchanged there unless things were going really wrong (and that’s Dean’s closest relationship, since his entire life is built around his brother, so the lack of verbally-expressed love in that relationship is telling).  And then, finally, Dean’s romantic pursuits have mostly been the results of dispassionate one-night stands, with three possible exceptions, and most of those lasted under two weeks (judging by his answers to the therapist in “Sam Interrupted.”)

On the other hand, you’ve got “I need you.”  And, to break things down for this the same way I did above, you’ve got the same rough stages.  Before Mary died, he was called upon because Mary needed support to deal with her and John’s fighting.  Once she died, John needed Dean to look after Sam because Sam needed his brother (read: brother, father, mother, etc, etc).  Dean had to go into hunting because there were civilians who needed help.  Hell, Dean’s love language is, in large part, acts of service, principally because responding to being needed has always been an important part of his character.

And, adding on to this by going back to the very-bad-with-emotional-communication thing, Dean never admits weakness if he can help it.  He doesn’t even tell Sam about that stuff most of the time; he needs a ton of pressure for him to even let his “game face” slip.  So to admit to needing someone is basically the most vulnerable Dean Winchester ever gets (with a few very notable, usually end-of-the-world level exceptions… which also brings up the point that the fact that Dean is getting to this level of emotional vulnerability means that something is threatening his world… I’ll leave it there.)

Anyway… I kinda get where people are coming from with confirmation-of-reciprocation-would-be-nice, but I feel like the decision to replace “I love you” with “I need you” was both a lot more in character and a lot more meaningful given the character saying it than the reciprocal would be.