#then it was downhill from there lol

[atypicalshele]

I've seen people post their versions of their player character from Pokémon Reborn and decided to join in! I haven't finished it yet, but I wanted to show off Mar anyways. I made little changes to differ them from Decibel, if it wasn't obvious lol

Mar tends to not emote not that, if at all. They were pretty sheltered as a child, so they lack social skills. This makes them not bother with any type of conversation. Why should they when they don't know how?

But, that isn't to say they don't care. They prefer action over words. So, they'll perform acts of service to those they care genuinely about.

Eventually, they start emoting being around their friends/rivals, but their expressions are still rather subdued.

The earring is only in the right ear and was a gift from a friend in their old town/city.

[demonkinguwu]

I love Estelle's design!!! She's so pretty! However, I have a question; you said she was born AFTER the freezing, how?

TY WAAAH ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´Д｀ﾟ)ﾟ｡(〃´ω`〃)

I actually didn't think of it, but I wondered how a post freeze fanchild situation would go since I've seen several fanchildren born before freezing. I'm not actually sure right now, but she's born 100 years later.

It's either

Through etc. etc. magical means:

But it was more likely that they had a moment of weakness one night:

How the parents feel at first:

Vanessa: She is absolutely devastated that she has to have the idiot cheater's child because she was swept up by his words and loneliness. But the more she thought about it, she understood that this child could be the only person who could ever truly love her as long as she would never be like her own mother..

unfortunately, she also realized she had to co-parent with the moron because she didn't want her own child to be abandoned by her father like she was. Weighing the cons and pros, she decided to keep it as she already deals with Snatcher annoying her. Real responsibility will straighten him out, hopefully.

Snatcher: My dude is STROKED for all the wrong reasons. Vanessa is gonna suffer for the next 9 months, growing something HE put in there??? Something that is verified proof that she needs him???? YES

But seriously, after a while, the thought of being a dad was a bit troubling, but hey, it wouldn't be too bad, especially after speaking to Vanessa. They'll be the exact opposite of their parents, and this kid will turn out okay. Yes, co-parenting and acting nice for too long is a pain but he's positive they could pull it off for his little shackle to his hopeless soulmate.

[averycutesalamander]

so after boots, what other hsr characters do you like?

hm. well. hmmmm. ahhh.. uhhhhhhhhhhh

[o-i-w-u]

theres no way in hell the cookie game made me cry

[roscoehamiltons]

LHFW 2024 graphics: pre-testing at Bahrain

[sysig]

If the rules are “Catch them all” ZEX already has a leg up (Patreon)

[crazy-ache]

Day 4 - High Society

Summary: One moment. All it takes is one singular moment to change the trajectory of fate. Following the events of Hybern, everything changes when Lucien instinctively grabs his mate—Elain Archeron—and brings her back to the Spring Court with Feyre and Tamlin. 

In the midst of war and ruin, Elain and Lucien will have to face the bond that connects them together if they hope to survive the unintended consequences. To do so, they’ll have to prevail through games of deceit, powerful forces of magic, and deadly enemies. And hope their hearts survive the journey. 

A retelling of A Court of Wings and Ruin (ACOWAR) and a Canon Divergent AU. 

Notes: Happy @elucienweekofficial!!! Chapter 5 is for Day 4: High Society.

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“Don’t test me.” Tamlin let out a growl that echoed down the hall. He stepped past Lucien on the way down the stairs, his shoulder shoving against Lucien to knock him out of the way, and to remind him exactly what the prowess of a High Lord felt like when pushed.

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[power-chords]

Events of the past year have put a lot into perspective, and I watch how my father behaves and reacts and find myself wondering, "Is this generational trauma and the intrinsic intensity of expression, the gushing pathos that is native to Postwar American Yiddishkeyt? Or is this of that other substance I inherited, the kind that gets into more critical biological hardware and overclocks you until you crash (and/or start corresponding with the spirits of historical sages who basically operate like the titular specter from Ghostwriter, yes as in the old children's television series, yes it got that bad)?" Maybe she's born with it! Maybe it's method acting/a mood disorder. They gave my Vaudeville comedienne grandmother electroshock therapy for a "nervous breakdown," so I can probably circle either one, what difference does it make!

[rillils]

“having thoughts about his moles as per usual” omfg u are so real for that

(referring to this post)

AKSHDJGF THANK YOU HONEY 💖💖💖

see, my thoughts inevitably turn shippy right there, because ehhh, that's who I am - but truth be told, I find it quite the entertaining process:

imagine bucky.

imagine bucky growing really, exquisitely fond of those moles.

imagine bucky kissing those moles, every single one of them, sweetly and reverently, any chance he gets.

imagine bucky tracing invisible lines between those moles with his fingertip, as if they were constellations only he could name, only he could craft a story for.

imagine bucky who's spent so long learning steve's face, with his eyes and with his hands and with his lips, he could find those little beloved marks in the dark.

imagine bucky spending many leisurely minutes just loving on those little moles, calling them pretty, and sweet just like stevie is sweet, giving them cheesy petnames just to watch steve get more and more flustered, just to feel steve's skin get warmer and pinker under his touch, until he's sure he'll see steam come out of steve's ears just from sheer embarrassment

just!! HGNHFK!!!!!

[rouyn]

For those of you who have enjoyed me posting Tom Burke/Athos gifs, as well as love a good chart.

[soulful-simmer]

Let the sibling competition begin

[vanitasaurus]

uh uhm uh paula and 2d lesbianese 😳

including murdoc as the party crasher bc i like my poly

slight nsfw (BOBA) under the cut

they take turns on her ☺️

[trashlie]

ILY FP 258

I can't believe we're actually passed episode 250 lmao I Love Yoo is truly the never ending story (affectionate). I appreciate how much of the story we really get to dig into at this pace and while I know a lot of people have long-since dropped it, I imagine the rest of us (those reading this post because why else are you here?) also appreciate it. And that's what is even more refreshing about this episode - if refreshing is even a word we can use to describe it. Getting the extra scenes from other characters, a look at their lives and from these glimpses, what we can glean in the unsaid between the lines.

Can you believe I used to prey on Kousuke's downfall? There's so many posts of me talking about him from a different view, believing that the only way he could grow and develop and make the changes necessary to make him a better person was for him to crash and burn, to fail so significantly that he would be forced to pen his eyes to reality. But here we are, me, fervently swaddling him up like a baby and shoving him into my pocket because GOD he needs to be protected.

I don't even remember when it was, that my view on him began to shift, when I went from "he's interesting but awful" to "GOD THIS IS MY SON AND I WILL FIGHT EVERYONE YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH ME" but.... lol there's no going back!

That's enough rambling, let's jump in.

There is something so painfully devastating about every time ILY confirms to us something we have long-since known or suspected through nuance, foreshadowing, reading between the lines, etc: That Kousuke isn't Rand's biological son, that Shinae was at the formal for Gun Kim, that Kousuke has been manipulated his whole life. Nothing in this episode regarding Kousuke is actually new to us. We have known, and talked about, for months and months long before the confirmation reveal that Yui drugs Kousuke - that he has been manipulated by her his entire life, that she orchestrated his life to manipulate him into situations she could take advantage of. It's the way she spoke about Rand's affair around Kousuke, the way she commodified Rand's love so Kousuke became convinced he'd never earned his father's love, the way she spoke of their family vs others and convinced him from such a young age that everyone was out to get them, to destroy them, and that he couldn't let them get close, couldn't let them near - and how Nol was very much a target planted in his mind.

But it's the fact that he is speaking of this and acknowledging it! Until now, Kousuke has heavily lived in denial. Again, we know this. We talk a lot about the chasm between reality and the reality he believes in. We talk a lot about how Kousuke couldn't face reality, even though on some level he knew everything he believed and was told was not quite true not quite real, but that he was so afraid of the truth, he couldn't do it. Kousuke admitting that he's been driven by fear and envy explains everything about him, and why he could not accept the only unwavering unconditional love he was offered.

A few weeks ago I saw a video on instagram of this father talking about a conversation he had with his daughter, who was feeling a little uncomfortable with her friend group. A new girl started to play with her and her best friend and she said she wasn't exactly jealous, but that maybe it was that she was afraid that there wasn't enough love to go around. Her dad had to explain to her that love is not like a pizza - it's not finite, a limited amount that could be taken and hogged by someone else. But Kousuke never learned this. His father's love was commodified and he was made to fear this other kid who he mistakenly believed knew a version of his father he'd never been privy to. He never learned that love is finite, that Rand could have enough love for the both of them, and feared that Nol would hog it all - that he WAS hogging it all because whether or not it was good or bad, Nol received more attention that Kousuke did. And that speaks VOLUMES about how Kousuke sees Rand, what he thinks of their relationship. In his mind, he is still unworthy, that he's not noteworthy enough.

This part gets to me so badly. We, as omniscient readers, know that Rand has tried his best, but that Yui runs a spectacular interference with which he can't compete, largely because of the roles their family have placed them in - Rand the busy businessman, Yui the mommy homemaker. But no matter how hard he tries, it isn't good enough. Rand tries to reach Kousuke, but the manipulation and paranoia are so far gone that the times Rand does have the chance to convey his feelings, Kousuke can't even believe it, because he thinks he's not good enough to deserve that love, that he hasn't fully qualified for it yet. And despite that, Nol, who Kousuke feels hasn't done half of what he has to deserve Rand's love, gets the attention. It doesn't matter that it's negative attention, that Rand barks at Nol, that Nol feels Rand hates and regrets him, because ultimately, it's still more than Kousuke receives. And worse, to him, every time Rand is busy reprimanding Nol, he turns away from Kousuke to do it.

I want to make it clear that this is a deep trauma point of Kousuke's. He's never learned healthy love and the only person who gave him healthy love was someone he was set to fear and fight. Something I think about a lot is the flashback to Kousuke, in the bushes, watching Nessa and Nol's display of warm affection, before Yui appears literally looming before him. In that moment, he witnesses something he's been deprived of. "We're not like other families"'. He's told from a young age he shouldn't compare himself to those healthy families, to warm and affectionate relationships that he will not cultivate in this household. From such a young age it is normalized, that they aren't like others, that they are cold and distant. From a young age, he's made to stuff down his feelings, his tender wants and desires, in order to earn them. To be a good little boy who makes his parents proud. To make his father look his way.

There's also something about the way he says "I've been a good boy" that echoes Shinae learning she's been manipulated by Yui, devastated and angry and yelling about how she's been a good girl so why do these things keep happening to her, all she wanted to do was help her dad. Two people who, from a young age, felt they had to be so obedient, so good, to not be a burden, and despite following the rules, despite doing as they were told, despite trying to be whatever version of "good" they believed in, the world still beat them up and mistreated them. The world still punished them.

As Rin in our discord server pointed out, though, to some degree, Kousuke is very much a person who can - and does - act out, when he's emotionally high-strung. He's a volatile man, and it's largely to do with the fact that he's been drugged to placate him for so long. He never learned emotional regulation, he never learned how to deal with high-stress situations or to face conflict or to own up to things. This is something that some readers who hate Kousuke and expect him to act a certain way because of his age are missing. You don't just learn these things with age. You learn them with experience and Kousuke was deprived of the opportunity TO have those experiences. He never had to learn these behaviors, and now as an adult he cannot function when overwhelmed.

Idk this whole episode is just heartbreaking. It's devastating. I remember when I was someone praying on Kousuke's downfall and now I want to take it all back ;___; I always believed he had to crash and burn to be able to see the world for what it really was and to face his fears, but this is somehow so much worse.

And even though he's drunk, I don't think he's going to forget all of this in the morning. Rather, I think what he's voicing are things that have been plaguing him since waking up in the hospital. From that moment, we saw him wary and distrustful of his mother, we saw his concern for Nol rising above everything else, but grappling with the understanding that he doesn't deserve to stand in front of Nol anymore. These aren't epiphanies coming to him just because he's drunk; it's more like he's only voicing them because he's drunk. But even when he sobers up, he will probably still be haunted by these fears, these agonies, these truths, this understanding.

How does he face his mother after this? How does he face anyone? He may not even feel like he can trust Jayce - who while very kind to him, is still employed by his family. He may not even feel like he can trust Hansuke (though I really hope that's not the case).

He's so miserable and it genuinely hurts to have him lay it all out for us - everything we've known and suspected, like how it was so painfully clear he WANTED Nol's friendship, their brotherhood, but feared it, didn't believe that there was enough love to go around, that there could only be one of them and that even if it was for good or bad reasons, Nol cast him in the shadow. And all these years, watching as Nol, as Yeonggi, grew into this person who sounded so very much like this unknown version of their father, someone funny who makes others laugh, someone goofy, someone so boyish in the ways Kousuke was never allowed to be. Watching as he gathers friends, while Kousuke, so unlikeable, is wanted only for his money, for his status, for the clout.

He doesn't even know WHO HE IS! Questioning his own traits he's believed of himself, wondering if this is even him, if these parts of him are real or does he just act it, say it, pretend it, while trying to fulfill a role he was shoved into. That makes me feel SO deeply sad, because it's something I've been anticipating for so long: Kousuke wondering WHO he really is, how much of him is real and how much of it is the result of manipulation.

And that moment that he catches himself and says no no that's offensive and rude you can't be like that. ;AAA;

For him to admit how much he envies others, how much he craves the kind of connection others have, the kind of family others have, to feel that love and warmth that he's been deprived of, forced to endure this solitude because, as he believes, he didn't get the good parts of Rand. And what will happen when he learns that Rand isn't his father? That he never stood a chance to inherit any of those traits. Kousuke has operated on this belief that, if he tries hard enough, he can earn the things he craves, but I fear learning about his parenthood will make him think that no matter how hard he tried, he would never earn that, because none of it was ever him, could have gone to him.

I think this is where Shinae, in the future, will come in. I feel so very strongly that she will be someone who helps Kousuke to see that this isn't true, that these kinds of personality traits aren't something inherited, but rather something learned. For him to one day realize it's the paralyzing fear that holds him back, not his genetics. Of course, I acknowledge this will still take a lot of therapy but...

Something else very remarkable to me is the way Kousuke recognizes Shinae in Shinhye, because their eyes "feel the same" and he opens up to her - on some level, whether or not he is consciously aware of it, Kousuke knows, or maybe just wants to, that he can trust Shinae. That she is someone who is safe. He even knows how she feels about his mother. I don't think we'll see a lot of Kousuke and Shinae's friendship until we're passed our timeskips, but it makes me feel a little hopeful about it, that she'll be able to reach him, because she feels like someone who is safe. It's the way he sees Nol in her and wants to try to have that do over, a relationship with someone who  has unconditional love for him. It's the way he knows he mistreated Nol, that it was wrong, that he took it all out on this kid he was so afraid of because he had no other outlet, and he wants to do better but knows that there's nothing to salvage anymore.

But also, it just makes me hope more and more that in the future we WILL see a reconciliation between the brothers. As I say every time, it doesn't mean they have to become brothers or friends, but I just want them to see each other fully. Kousuke knows what he did to Nol. He doesn't deny it, even if he might not say it out loud unless he's drunk. But Nol is still so in the dark. Yujing is trying to tip him off and make him aware of it, but I hope one day when Nol realizes it, when he finds out that Kousuke, too, was Yui's victim, that he wasn't the only one, that Kousuke was made to fear Nol's love, he might.... understand. I'm saying understand here loosely because I don't want people to get the idea that I mean Nol will forgive him and Kousuke will be justified, but rather that Nol would be able to understand why Kousuke felt that way, and move on. But I can't help but hope that it will lead to an understanding, a reconciliation, where maybe they can try to be in each other's lives.

I think it's also interesting that Shinhye was somewhat honest, even if she wasn't very forthcoming, with Kousuke about her own family. It sounds like her mother has been gone for a long time, that she's been on her own the whole while, and I think it reinforces the idea that she believes both that Simhan is her father and that he rejected her, that he didn't want anything to do with her. It lines up, too, with how she feels that he wouldn't react well if he saw her (although I think she credited that to looking like their mother). In the same way that Shinae has felt abandoned and cast aside by their mother, Shinhye probably thinks their father never tried reach out, to find them, to maintain a relationship with her. Or perhaps it's that her mother fed her lies about him, made her believe him a different type of man, made her believe there would never be anything of their relationship to salvage. And given that she's the one who Kousuke opened to, it makes me think that there must be some kind of parallel there; the way she mentioned her own mother feels like maybe her mother, too, was a manipulative - or at the very least, dishonest - person.

I don't speculate a lot on Shinhye because frankly I don't think I know enough about her to really try to talk about her, but I do think that it's very likely there's some kind of connection between Shinhye and the Hirahras or Gun. To be clear, I don't believe she's working with Yui at all. I think it's more like... Alyssa isn't the only girl who has been trafficked by Gun. What's the likelihood that Shinae and Shinhye's mother was? Given her history, the gambling addiction that was so egregious her reputation haunted Shinae and chased her to a new neighborhood and school, was she seeking money somewhere else, somewhere more dangerous? Is that part of why they had to change their name? There's so many questions left about them, and I look forward to learning more about her, but, much like with Alyssa, I think it will take time and be dropped in little tidbits like this - things to read into and try to glean something from.

And maybe we'll see more of this duo in the future? It would feel a little weird to give them this one single run in, but I'm not entirely sure. Quimchee likes to keep us on our toes. After all, Minhyuk and Shinhye have also had only the one run in. Still, I think it would be interesting to watch, if Shinhye ever felt.... I want to say maybe compelled? to dig in more to Kousuke, ever feel a kind of kinship. I don't think she'll open up to him at all, but rather, maybe she'd keep going back because a. he's wealthy and there's more she can nick from him (assuming he doesn't realize she stole anything while in his apartment, if he even remembers any of this) and b. wanting to gather more intel.

Like I said though, she's hard to read so I don't want to cling too hard to any ideas and, instead, sit back and enjoy the show.

[teecupangel]

Was wondering how a HayDes AU might work... Maybe Desmond gets sent to the past and while looking for Ratonhnhaké:ton he stumbles upon Haytham instead?

So @fanworldbuildingfun and I did have a HayDes idea that we posted in the comments of one of my fics but I cannot remember where XD

I do remember the broad strokes of what we talked about though and it went something like this:

Desmond is transported into the past before Ratonhnhaké:ton is born. To be more exact, Kaniehtí:io is like about to give birth or just gave birth.

Desmond got this idea that the best way to give Ratonhnhaké:ton the best kind of life is to tell Haytham about him.

This backed fire on him because he’s now stuck as the middle man of a it’s complicated it’s not a divorce since they never married but they have feelings for each other but this entire thing is fucking that up between Haytham and Kaniehtí:io.

Desmond starts becoming Haytham Kenway’s ‘plus one’ who acts as both his conscience and also the peanut gallery. I think he also inadvertently helped Shay patch things up with the Assassins or something? Main point is that Desmond is not a Templar and has no plans to be a Templar and he’s really there to fuck Templar shit up and Haytham doesn’t kill him for it for some reason.

By the end of the entire thing (or like middle of the plot), Desmond has become Haytham’s sugar baby sub (I can’t remember if we ever thought about how he would become that XD), Ratonhnhaké:ton’s third parent (stepmom) and he spoils him every chance he gets, Kaniehtí:io’s best friend who uses her BFF privileges to make Haytham’s life more annoying than it has to be and accidentally created a truce between the Assassin and Templars.

Desmond becomes what can be considered as the local councilor to Haytham (trying to make him understand that the Order’s way of doing things is not good), Kaniehtí:io (well, more like the one she complains about her ex to) and Shay (some crying might be involved).

[akkivee]

This is something I just noticed, but there is 100% a shift in the way Kuko is drawn lately and I think its because of ARB (namely the halloween one), but Kuko's neckline is WAY lower than it used to be. Like if you compare his original PNG with the newest CD art as well as his model for the 3rd DRB movie its lower and he's given visible cleavage. Kuubies can not be contained!

LOL canon’s finally catching up with the way everyone, and i mean that lmao his actors the games his fans who draw him, depicts him and that’s making sure you know he has 🅱️oobs

tho if you ask me???? i think the movie modeller like, wants kuukou lmao like you don’t draw kuukou like this and with that low of a neckline if you don’t desire kuukou carnally tbqh LOL

[lokh]

i dont know if i can finish this movie