#that would be lit

[chaoticillness]

Proms and Pawns

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Featuring: modern au! Diluc, gn! reader

Warnings: None. Yoimiya says ass /j

Director’s Cut: I haven’t written in so long I forgot my own damn formatting lol. Anyway, sorry if you don’t like chess because it is sort of a plot point on this one. Enjoy my first oneshot!

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Proms are kind of overrated, in your opinion.

Honestly, why do people make such big deals about the mediocre music and weird food? It’s some high school ritual or something. Passing your eyes over the couples on the dancefloor, you spy Yoimiya, bustling around checking on decorations and volunteers and whatever else student council members do. She shoots a look in your direction that obviously says, “I will deal with you in a minute.”

After aggressively retaping the streamers to the wall, she makes good on her silent promise and marches over to you.

“You look like you’ve suddenly been told that you have to go clean out the school dumpsters. What is up with you?”

“Yoi, c’mon. Proms are boring,” you sighed. “I don’t even have a good date.”

“Oh, says the one who rejected the guy who asked them.“ she retorts. “He was nice!”

“He was desperate,” you deadpanned.

As you and Yoimiya move toward the food table (mediocre, but better than watching random people be horribly lovey-dovey), she whips her head around and stage-whispers, “Look at him.”

You glance in the direction she’s looking. It’s a guy sitting, very awkwardly, in one of the plastic chairs the council stole from the teacher’s lounge. It’s been moved from the tables covered in plastic tablecloths to the side of the room, and he’s got the look you imagine was on your face about ten minutes ago. Absolute boredom. “What about him?”

“Go talk to him, babe! Maybe you’ll hit it off,” she says. “Obviously you’re both miserable, so…”

“I’m wounded, Yoi,” you jest. “But fine.” Diverging from your route to the cupcakes, you stride over to the guy and pull another chair from the nearby empty table.

“Hey, what’s with the long face? Another prom hater?”

He spares you a look and says, “Brother dragged me here.” Taking a better look at him, he does look like an annoyed brother. He’s obviously not particularly comfortable in the suit, and his red hair is up in what you think was once a ponytail. It’s a surprisingly attractive look. Maybe you’re into the whole tall, dark and handsome thing after all.

“Right. Uh, so, what do you like to do?” This is horribly awkward. You are absolutely going to get Yoimiya for this tomorrow, you swear.

“I like to play chess.”

Okay. Okay, this might be redeemable after all. You can play chess with the hot guy. Suppressing a quip about weird hobbies, you ask, “Do you have that online chess app on your phone?” He nods, and a few minutes later you’re bested in a checkmate. Apparently you are not as good at chess as you thought.

A bit away, sitting at the council table in the corner, Yoimiya cracks the biggest smirk of her life.

“Prom is boring, my ass.”

[m4rzthescenekid]

do yall think that the s2 contestants are gonna be like hella mad at mephone when he comes back?

[justlesbian]

Media I will 100% watch even if the ratings are 100% negative

- Period dramas involving lesbians and also period dramas that queerbait

- Anything set in an all-girls boarding school or college 

- Anything set in women’s prisons

- Anything with Anya Taylor-Joy in it

- Anything with Kelly McCormack in it

- Anything with GNC lesbian representation 

[valtsv]

are we still doing this because i have a late submission

[tarutaruga]

please hoyoverse give this man a british accent you don't know how much I NEED this

[benevolenterrancy]

Zhuzhi-Lang, sincerely, what the fuck do you think gratitude means? I'm just curious. I just want to talk.

[tsuutarr]

Falling in love with you was an accident. Something that shouldn’t have happened.

The day was just like any other, really. As usual, Lovell had been conducting his cupid duties with scary accuracy, hitting his targets one by one. At the rate he was going, he would have been able to clock out early, too. But then you just had to walk in front of his target, right after he had shot his love arrow.

Instinctively, he dove in front of his own arrow, blocking you from getting hit. 

Unfortunately, that meant he got hit by his own arrow. And you were the first person he saw.

So now here he is. Lovestruck with you. Literally. Accidentally.

He shouldn’t be in love with you.

But oh – oh. You’re so cute. You make his heart flutter, his stomach tying in knots. His world is dipped in pretty cotton candy pinks and blues when he sees you. 

It’s really not his fault that he begins to follow you around instead of focusing on his tasks. It’s really not his fault that your potential suitors get hit by love arrows and end up falling for someone else. It’s not his fault that you’re just so darn cute.

So, yeah, maybe he should get some help for his little… issue, but you’re just so, so, so wonderful!

He doesn’t wanna let go of the way he feels for you. He doesn’t wanna let go of being able to watch you. He doesn’t wanna let go of you. 

So, is it so wrong that he’s making a plan to make you his? To make sure you can see and perceive and love him? Is it so wrong that he wants to make you lovestruck for him like he is for you?

As he readies his arrow, he can hardly agree that this is immoral.

Oh, no. After all, you should take some responsibility for making him like you so much.

[mikashida]

it's a russian taunt

[thewalrusespublicist]

So didn't realise that people didn't know about the John Lennon 1980 'dear one' thing. As we're all here though I wanted to mention that the phrase 'my dear one' potentially has a bit of a story arc when it comes to John's relationship with Paul. For those familiar with British English, 'my dear one' sticks out as it's not a used term of endearment at all. So where does it come from? It could be a non-straightforward Victorian throwback, but more likely its hearkening to the use of the phrase in Eastern meditation to denote your nearest and dearest. Great, already off to a sweet start (and lines up with Yoko having Paul on the next-of-kin list with Julian and Mimi when John died).

It POTENTIALLY gets a bit more layered than that though once you add in the idea of hugging meditation. Contrary to what Paul says (sorry Paul, I do believe you on most things, just not this) despite being 'Northern men' TM the Beatles were a huggy bunch. John mentions it in the 1967 Hunter Davies interview:

''We used to be embarrassed about touching each other. We’d do an elaborate handshake just to hide the embarrassment… or we did mad dances. Then we got to hugging each other. Now we do the Buddhist bit… arms around. It’s just saying hello, that’s all.''

As pointed out in @thecoleopterawithana and @monkberries amazing posts, the Buddhist bit is hugging meditation which became popular in the 1960s. In hugging meditation, you

''have to make him or her very real in your arms, not just for the sake of appearances, patting him on the back to pretend you are there, but breathing consciously and hugging with all your body, spirit, and heart. Hugging meditation is a practice of mindfulness. “Breathing in, I know my dear one is in my arms, alive. Breathing out, she is so precious to me.”''

We know physical touch was important to John. One of the plusses of being with Yoko was being affectionate with his best friend, he tells Paul that touching is good whilst hugging him and in the Get Back sessions he delightedly asks Paul about a vivid dream where he was touching Paul (whether platonic or romantic this always read to me as a blatant subconscious desire for increased intimacy with Paul). The desire for intimacy is still present in the 'Real Life/Love' demo in 1977 where John muses about holding a mysterious has-a-baby-expecting-another-lives-on-a-farm someone in his arms as if it was only yesterday (another piece of media I still cannot believe we have on tape).

With John's evident desire for physical intimacy in mind and the focus on holding dear ones in hugging meditation, I don't think it's too far to think that John would associate this term of endearment with a certain level of both physical and emotional intimacy. Whether its a slightly bittersweet ironic recollection of those times together in the late 60s or a sincere statement of their current relationship, Paul as his dear one could be seen as continuation of John's suppressed, resentful but ultimately present desire for reignited intimacy with Paul on multiple levels (again romantic? Platonic? Choose-your-own-adventure there, I'm not in charge of you).

Or I could be talking shit. Who knows? It's just fun to think about!

[haomnyangz]

[1800s newspaper seller voice]: low quality gifs of some high quality boys smoochin’ come and get ur low quality gifs of some high quality boys

[qui-gg]

Studied the actual lavender chamomile candle that I have she is very pretty

Bonus this extremely old bald candle art

[silusvesuius]

[tevanbuckley]

eddie is queercoded the same way the protagonist in a gothic novel is, tormented and weird about women. which is simultaneously a very compelling reading and imo not something the network procedural show 911 is likely going to explore on screen.

meanwhile buck was ogling his shirtless co-worker whilst what-a-man played in the background and was repeatedly mistaken as queer, deep or not, that's a much easier sell than trying to convince Janet (47) from Wisconsin the root cause of eddie's problems are the shackles of heteronormativity.

[theofficialpresidentofmars]

started watching Death Note yesterday and have come to the conclusion that if Hamlet had access to a death note, literally nothing in the play would change or happen differently in the slightest

[thatneoncrisis]

harrows a sped kid but gideon is a girl who should by all accounts at LEAST have a 504 plan but all adults dismiss her as merely combative and disruptive, at Best theyll throw in a "not utilizing her potential to the fullest." multiple teachers have vaguely alluded to her having ODD rather than think for a second about why she might be acting like that

[sare11aa11eras]

Selyse Florent Baratheon as a character is just fascinating to me. She’s like 6’5”, she’s a religious zealot AND a late-in-life convert to a foreign religion, in fact she’s very close with the spooky foreign priestess who’s having sex with her husband, she’s severe and her husband is nearly ascetic but she has lots of jewelry and finery, she’s deeply insecure about her appearance, HER SISTER FUCKED THE KING ON HER WEDDING DAY, there’s a non-zero chance she’s going to sacrifice her only child to a fire demon god for like,, basic scouting information, she’s this very cold and prissy wealthy woman unhappy in her marriage— and yet what passion, what fire burns beneath…!