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What Makes You Different (Makes You Beautiful)

Summary: Kyoko has never thought school dances were an appropriate use of time.

It does not matter that Junko asked her to go to one. She will simply refuse to go.

...except that Junko is oddly persistent.

For DR Rarepair Week 2024 Day Two: Summer Outing/School Dance, hosted by @dr-rarepair-week-blog.

Rating: T.

AO3

Kyoko doesn’t do school events.

She’s never thought much of them, likely because she wasn’t raised in a school environment.  Her grandfather taught her everything she needed to know while carting her around the world on one case after another; festivals and school dances and talent shows are things she read about in books, saw on television shows, and – on occasion – investigated the after-effects for suspects in light of one (or more) murders.  They’re things that happen in the real world, but they don’t happen in her world.

Not until White Day and Valentine’s Day the first year she was in middle school, when her grandfather decided against all probability to send her to a Catholic school back in Japan; not until Christmas mass that she skipped with Yui to peer down on the lights and people from above, snow blanketing the world as the bright colors filtered through stained glass (right before being interrupted by one of the worst detectives she has ever met (in terms not of ability, but of something else that Yui, not her grandfather, instilled in her); not until taking time out to notice and buy exactly the cake that Yui wanted, until being gifted ribbons to hold her braids in place after—

When Kyoko ties the only ribbon she has left from that short time with Yui into her hair, she does so like a promise, like a shield, like a stronger reminder than her gloves could ever be.  (Those only remind her of her own mistakes; this reminds her of Yui’s sacrifice.  Both a failure of sorts.  Both at a cost.)

Kyoko doesn’t do school events because they are frivolous and useless and a waste of time and money that the school could funnel into a thousand and one other things that aren’t this.  It doesn’t matter that it’s assumed necessary to help her classmates relieve stress or to bolster friendships between them or what have you.  In a few years’ time, who will honestly care about any of this?

“You just hate them because no one ever invited you,” Junko says into Kyoko’s thoughts as though she can hear them (and sometimes, Kyoko’s certain that she can, more than Sayaka ever could).  She stands in front of Kyoko, who sits still at her desk long after the other students have left for the day with a mystery novel in her hand, but leans against the back of her own chair, arms crossed.  “You just hate them because you’ve never been.”

Kyoko flips a page in her book like she isn’t paying attention.  (She already has the mystery figured out; it’s easier with narratives than it is with real life.  Narratives have to make sense.  Real life doesn’t.)  “I’ve been to plenty of—”

“Don’t lie to me, Kyokyo!”  Junko makes a tsking noise, striking her tongue against her teeth.  She’s the only one bold enough to try and talk to Kyoko while she’s reading.  It should be infuriating.  (It isn’t.)  “You’ve never been to a dance a single solitary day in your life!  And you absolutely cannot know what it’s like until you’ve been to one!”

“They sound boring.”

Junko scoffs.  Rolls her eyes. “Everything’s boring if you look hard enough.  That’s no reason to be a party pooper.”

“I’m not a party pooper if I don’t go.”  Kyoko flips another page.  She’s skimming the book at this point.  It’s not even good.  If she put her own experiences to paper, it would be better than this trash.  Why would Toko recommend it to her in the first place?  Just because it’s a mystery novel?  And she’s a detective?

Sometimes she thinks no one will ever think of her as anything other than her ability.

(Which is fine.  Her whole identity is wrapped up in being a detective, just as it always has been.  The only one who ever thought that was bad was—)

“Sure you are.”  Junko pushes herself straight and walks over to the windows just next to them.  She stares out at nothing – at something, maybe, although Kyoko fights the instinct to turn and look – and then says, “Hey, why don’t you go to the dance with me?  I’ll make sure you have a good time.”

Kyoko sighs and sets the book on her desk.  “I don’t dance.”

Junko rolls her eyes.  “No one our age dances.  Except for Sayaka, but I don’t think that even really counts.”  She considers for a moment and then taps her chin with one long, skeletal finger.  “Or Saioniji-senpai, but that’s a different kind of dancing, and she’s not going to even be there because she’s got, like, a prior engagement or something like that.”  Then she gives a shake of her head, her characteristic twintails flapping back and forth so fast they might as well hit her in the face.  “Not that it matters!  Dances are about having fun, Kyoko, and half the time you act like you’ve got a stick up your ass, and you should have some fun once in a while!”

Finally, Kyoko glances up, only to catch Junko grinning down at her.  “If no one dances, then what’s the point of calling it a dance?  They could call it something else and be much more accurate.”

“And have no one show up.”  All of a sudden, Junko gets on one knee next to Kyoko’s seat, takes one of Kyoko’s gloved hands in her own, and stares at that hand as she says, “Kyoko Kirigiri, you would make me the happiest girl in the world, if you would—”

“Stop that.”  Kyoko flicks Junko’s forehead.

Junko flings her head back like Kyoko’s actually hurt her, like she’s some sort of super-powered ninja assassin from some secret village in the whatever, she hasn’t even seen this show, she’s just seen the image a billion times since Hifumi got distracted with it and Mukuro started binging it with him.  Junko flings her head back, and she covers her forehead with both hands as she settles again, and she pouts as she glances up at Kyoko with the biggest puppy dog eyes that might actually have a bigger effect if she weren’t half covering them by reaching up to cover her forehead.  “What did you do that for?”  She sniffles as though she might cry.  “I was just trying to be nice.  You didn’t have to hit me!”

“I didn’t hit you that—”  Kyoko cuts herself off and sighs.  “If I agree to go with you, will you stop this—”  She gestures with one hand at all of Junko.  “—whatever this is?”

“And one dance.”

Kyoko stares, blank-faced at Junko, who doesn’t quite meet her eyes.  “No.”

Junko’s pout deepens, and her hands drop from her forehead, where a very red mark appears bright against her pale skin.  She wraps her arms around herself.  “Bu-bu-but…if you’re my date and you don’t dance with me—”

“I didn’t say it was a date—”

“Kyoko Kirigiri, you think a girl like me would ask you to a dance and not give you the full experience?”  Junko’s feigned sadness disappears, replaced by shock, her mouth dropping open, eyes wide.

“I—”

“Honestly, you think so little of me.”  Junko sniffles again.  “It’s not like you’re ever going to go to another dance ever again, since you think they’re all boring and bad and a waste of time and whatever, so yes, this is a date, and yes, you are going to dance two dances with me—”

“You said one—”

“—price goes up the longer this goes, Kyokyo, you should know that, and besides, you can’t have the full experience if you don’t do a line dance and a slow dance and just a, you know, normal dance, so yes, you are going to dance at least three dances with me—”

Kyoko covers Junko’s mouth with one gloved hand.  “One dance,” she says, meeting Junko’s eyes and holding up a finger with her other hand.  “I will dance one dance with you.  And you will stop this ridiculous…bartering.  You understand?”  She presses her lips together and then states, “And it’s not a date.  Don’t call it that.  We’re not….  We’re not.”  Then she waits.

After a few minutes where Kyoko is absolutely certain that Junko is licking the palm of her glove, Junko finally scowls (or as much as she can with her mouth covered), crosses her arms, and gives a nod.  Then, when Kyoko removes her hand, Junko grabs her fingers.  “Two dances,” she says, “and you have to dress up.  Date or no date, you have to dress up.  That’s part of the experience.”

“One dance,” Kyoko insists.  Then she sighs, “And I let you dress me up.”

“Great!”  Junko gives Kyoko’s hand a shake and then leans forward.  “Only I can’t be the person who dresses you up.  I can’t see you until I come to get you.  Then I get to be wowed by how you look.”  She reaches out and gently tucks strands of Kyoko’s hair out of her face.  Then she stands, brushes her hands on her legs, and says, “I’ll send Sayaka to take care of you.”

Kyoko blinks again.  “Wait.  No.  You won’t send anyone to—”

Junko just waves behind her.  “Gotta go see the school nurse for this awful blemish.  See you in a few hours!”

The door clicks shut.  Kyoko stares at Junko’s form until she disappears from the classroom door.  Then she picks up her mystery novel, groans, and shoves it under her arm.

Fine.

Fine.

It’s not like she has any choice.

Apparently.

~

The dance starts at 7:00pm exactly, which means that Junko should arrive to Kyoko’s dorm to get her at no later than 6:45pm if they want to be on time, but Kyoko notes when the clock not only hits that but passes it, when it hits 7:00pm and passes that, when it continues even further.  She fiddles with her phone, debating whether she should text Junko or not and eventually deciding against it; it’s not like she really wanted to go to the stupid dance anyway, so if Junko never shows up, then so much the better.  Maybe this is what Junko meant by the full experience: not going but being stood up.  That’s part of the school dance experience for a lot of people – it’s certainly part of the dating experience (although she insists, even if it’s just to herself, that this is absolutely not a date) – so why shouldn’t this be part of what Junko has planned?  Why wouldn’t it be all of what Junko has planned?

Then the knock comes on her door at precisely 7:37pm.

Kyoko debates even answering.  By now, she’s already started removing the far too much jewelry Sayaka let her borrow and setting it on her desk to return to her later, and she’s just starting to unzip the outrageous dress she’s dressed in. It’s not a bad dress by any means; Sayaka certainly did her best in terms of trying to find something that not only fit Kyoko but went with her personality.  It’s not overly frivolous, it’s not covered in ruffles or bows, it’s not extremely low cut.  She just….

She doesn’t feel like her.

The knock comes again, and Kyoko sighs.  “You’re late,” she calls out as she walks over to the door.

“Duh.”  Junko is rolling her eyes.  That tone of voice means that she is rolling her eyes.  Kyoko can see it even before she opens the door.  “I’m the Ultimate Fashionista, Kyokyo.  I have to be fashionably late.  It’s, like, my whole thing.”  Of course, all of that is muffled, coming through the door as it is, only the last bit clear as Kyoko opens the door.  Then Junko pushes past her, one hand – gloved, Junko is wearing gloves – held aloft before she spins and settles on Kyoko’s mattress, hands pressed down on either side of her.  “Let me look at you!”

Kyoko blinks.

There are no words – but, for once when it comes to Junko, there are no words in a good, nearly appreciative way.

Mostly.

A long, expertly tailored dress hugs Junko’s form, the fabric a deep shade of midnight blue but threaded through with a purple so light it might as well be white, mimicking the color of Kyoko’s hair.  Thin strips like ribbon in that same purple linger off the shoulder, tight around her bicep (Junko has muscles; she didn’t know that Junko had muscles – which sounds idiotic; everyone has muscles – but Junko has defined muscles, which doesn’t make sense given how skeletal she is – not rippling like Sakura’s, but lean and…and Kyoko doesn’t care, why does she care); that same light purple ribbon carries in a straight line across the curve of her chest.  Along her torso, the midnight blue fabric is tied together like a corset with more ribbon, tight enough that Kyoko doesn’t understand how Junko can breathe, and there’s barely any fabric between that and the extremely long slit in the fabric through which most of, if not all, of Junko’s leg can be seen.  Embroidered flowers dance up the edge of the slit as though trying to draw attention to it (which is absolutely not fair, in Kyoko’s opinion, but honestly, what did she expect from Ultimate Fashionista Junko (the answer is she expected something flashy and loud and attention-seeking in an entirely different way, not this elegance)), and those same embroidered flowers dance up the length of her silk gloves.

Junko is, unexpectedly, beautiful.

…other than the twin buns her hair is tied into with midnight blue fabric, which gives her a childish look, like she’s cosplaying some anime character that Kyoko doesn’t know but, again, has seen pictures of here and there.

And in spite of everything else going on with Junko’s appearance, that is what Kyoko comments on: “Your hair looks stupid.”

Junko’s face falls.  “Really?  You really think so?”  She sucks her lower lip between her teeth, averting her gaze.  “I thought it was cute.”

“It doesn’t fit.”  Kyoko’s eyes roam along Junko again, examining her.  “Your entire look is one thing, but your hair is something entirely other.”  She doesn’t know how to put it into better words than that.  Fashion isn’t her thing.  So she just says it again, hopelessly, “It doesn’t fit.”

“You saying you know fashion better than the Ultimate Fashionista?”

“No, I—”

“Man, it’s a good thing I didn’t mean to leave these in, then, huh?”  Junko flashes her a grin.  Then she pats the mattress next to her.  “Wanna help me take them out?”

Kyoko doesn’t understand.  “We’re already late.  Don’t we need to—”

Junko waves a hand dismissively.  “It’s fine, it’s fine.  The dance will be going for hours, so it’s fine if we take a little longer.”  She gestures for Kyoko to sit with her.  “C’mon, c’mon.  You’re going to love how my hair looks when it’s out of these things!  It gets all wavy and, well, not curly, exactly, but it’s really, really pretty.”  As Kyoko sits next to her, she continues, “Almost as pretty as you, but not. quite.”

A flush spreads hot across Kyoko’s cheeks.  What does someone even say to that sort of thing?  Does she counter it?  Deny it?  What good would that do?  Does she redirect it and turn it into a compliment?  Junko gets enough of those; hearing a pat one from Kyoko just to avoid the one she’s been given doesn’t feel like it’s a great idea.  Should she just ignore it?  That seems rude.  Of course, Junko probably doesn’t even mean it.  She’s probably just—

“It’s not nice to joke about that sort of thing,” Kyoko replies.  “You might hurt someone’s feelings.”

“Yours?”

Kyoko shakes her head as she reaches up and gently unties the ribbon from the hair bun closest to her.  “No,” she murmurs, despite the flush still scarleting her cheeks.  “I don’t care about that.  Besides, I know you’re joking.”

At her words, Junko turns, eyes wide.  “But I wasn’t joking, Kyokyo.  I was being completely honest with you!”  She pouts, fluttering her eyelashes.  “It really hurts when you don’t believe me.”

“Then maybe quit joking around all of the time, and I’ll take you at your word.”

Junko considers that for a moment.  She runs her fingers gentle through her hair as she carefully unwinds it, unpins it, from the opposite bun.  “You do look good,” she murmurs, turned away from her.  “Especially in that outfit.  What do you think?  I had it specially made for you.”  Just as Kyoko opens her mouth to answer, she says, “And by specially made, I mean I made it, so if you’re going to tear that dress to shreds, you better consider my fragile sensibilities and try again, got it?”

Her voice is chipper.  That means that’s probably a joke.  Probably.

Kyoko considers her own outfit and on doing so realizes that it’s nearly the opposite of Junko’s.  They’re a matching set.  (How long did Junko plan this?  She couldn’t have known Kyoko would give in.  But these must have taken months to make.  So how—)  Unlike Junko’s midnight blue with lavender accents, Kyoko’s is lavender with midnight blue accents.  But it’s softer, not as form-fitting as Junko’s is: lavender ribbon straps instead of off the shoulder; a longer, thinner silhouette with a thin slit; the midnight blue accents only seen in the embroidered flowers just at her left hip bone, the lace just beneath the slit, and the edges of the ribbons used to construct her gloves.  Unlike Junko’s gloves, which are one long piece with embroidered flowers along them, Kyoko’s gloves have the outward appearance of medical bandages wrapped completely around her hands and up to her elbow, only the bandages are ribbons with that midnight blue thread along their edges; beneath that appearance, there’s only soft midnight blue velvet, with the exception of the compression aspects she needed for her burns—

Junko was paying so much more attention than Kyoko ever thought she would.

And yet.

“Sayaka gave me a lot of jewelry, but I took most of it off.”

“Yeah, she tends to over accessorize.  You were right to take it off.”  Junko turns just enough to meet her eyes.  “But the dress, Kyokyo.  The gloves!  What do you think?”

Kyoko swallows.  “I like the dress,” she says, and she pauses, gaze flicking to the not bandages wrapped around her hands.  This time, she doesn’t flinch.  Barely.

(Every time she sees them, she remembers waking in the hospital alone.  Every time she sees them, it hurts.  Every time she sees them, she thinks of Yui, which….)

“Why bandages?” Kyoko asks instead, letting her gaze flick to Junko’s face as much as she can, pretending she doesn’t.  “Do I seem that frail to you?’

“No, no!  Not at all!”  Junko takes Kyoko’s gloved hands in her own.  She rubs her thumb along one as though she could soothe her (and it does help, the slightest bit).  “I thought it made you look stronger.  Like how Sakura wraps her hands all the time!”  Her face flushes, and she turns away.  “I mean, I know she doesn’t wrap her hands at all, but you need that, right?  Because of your, um.”  She hesitates, but says it anyway, her voice softening, “Your injuries?”

Kyoko presses her lips together.

After a few seconds of silence, Junko places a hand on Kyoko’s.  “Will you let me fix them?  It won’t take long – not for me – and like you said, we’re already late.”  She smiles gentle.  “I’ll even close my eyes while you change them.  I know you don’t want anyone to see.”

It takes another moment before Kyoko nods.

~

“I’m sorry,” Kyoko murmurs as she strips the gloves off.

Junko’s head tilts to one side.  “What for?”

“For ruining the image you had in mind.”

Junko giggles.  “You didn’t ruin anything,” she says.  “I was worried something like this could happen.  I mean, you probably had to wear stuff like this for ages while your hands were healing, so it can’t have felt good to suddenly have bandages all over again.  I thought about it, but, like.”  She laughs again, darker, lower.  “Guess this is why Celeste is the Ultimate Gambler and not me.  Whenever I take a risk, I lose, you know?  Not that this is losing, or anything.  This is just….”  Her voice trails off.

Kyoko sets the gloves gently in Junko’s lap.  She hesitates before brushing strands of Junko’s hair back out of her face.  “Can I do something with your hair?” she asks.  “It isn’t bad like this, but I….”  She hesitates again.  “I’d like to braid it, if you don’t mind.”

“Like yours?”

Kyoko’s hair hasn’t been touched.

Well, it has, but she wouldn’t let Sayaka change her normal, standard way of wearing it.  The best she’d let her do was tuck all of it back into a low ponytail, that singular braid struck through on its side.  It’s different, but it’s not special.

“No,” Kyoko says, “not like mine.  Something befitting your elegance.”

Junko cracks an eye open.  “You think I look elegant?”

Kyoko very nearly smiles.  “I think you look beautiful.”

~

They turn heads when they finally arrive.

Kyoko is described as ethereal – it’s the pale of her skin and the pale of her hair and dress (sure, there’s the light sheen of purple to it, but not much) that makes the midnight blue stand out so starkly against everything else – the twin ribbons woven through the braids in her hair, one on either side, tucked back into a singular braid in the back; the gloves still that same velvet around her hands but stripped of the ribbons like bandages, now fading into lace from her wrists up, a corsage in mixed lavender and midnight blue around her left wrist.

Junko’s described as many things, but the one that makes her laugh the most is angelic.  Without the ribbons, her hair shouldn’t draw as many eyes to it as Kyoko’s does, but Junko’s entire appearance (even the boutonniere pinned to the ribbon at her chest) forces people to look up, to look at her, to look at the soft pink of her hair and the stormy blue-grey of her eyes.  That is where the sparkle is, the excitement and energy captivated in her grin, in her laugh.

Junko is angelic because she plays with the people; Kyoko is ethereal because she stands off to the side away from the rest of them.

In fact, Kyoko would spend most of the dance by the punch bowl if someone hadn’t spiked it (none of the upperclassmen are here, but she knows Mioda-senpai gave them the booze, knows Saioniji-senpai would laugh at the half of them who couldn’t hold their liquor).  Hiro drinks probably half the bowl before he vomits next to the stage, barely hiding himself behind the curtains, while Celeste laughs at him.  Makoto walks him off.

But before that, Junko leaves the dance floor breathing heavy.  She grabs Kyoko’s hands in hers with a grin as the music softens and says, “Okay.  First dance.  You have to dance with me now.”

“You want my first dance to be a slow dance?” Kyoko asks, one brow raising.

Junko tugs her forward, and Kyoko nearly stumbles against her.  “Slow dances are easier than the others,” she whispers.  “You just put your hands in the right place and sway and pretend that you’re not looking at each other.”  She chuckles.  “Or you look into each other’s eyes the whole time if you’re, like, hopelessly in love with each other.  Not that I’ve ever done that.”  She backs onto the dance floor, and Kyoko follows helplessly.  Then she nods to one of the couples near them.  “Like Togami and Celeste.  They’re probably going to run the world someday.  Won’t that suck?”

Kyoko barely glances over to them before turning back to Junko.  “You have to tell me what to do.  I’ve never done this before.”

“Okay, okay.”  Junko takes Kyoko’s hands and tucks them around her own neck.  “Keep your arms here,” she murmurs before placing her hands on Kyoko’s hips.  “Then just lean into my hands, and you’re fine.”

But Kyoko barely even hears the end of that sentence, too caught up in the sensation of Junko’s hands on her waist.  Her face blushes a bright red again, and she’s glad that it’s dark, that no one else can see it.  As Junko sways with her, she stumbles over her words.  “This is…this is it?”  She averts her eyes – pretend that you’re not looking at each other indeed – and continues, “You don’t…you don’t find this boring?”

Junko shrugs.  “It’s alright.  Sometimes I like how it ends.”

“How it....”  Kyoko clears her throat.  “How it ends?”

Junko just shrugs again.  “Yeah.  Sometimes it’s pretty cool, if things go well.”  Her face falls.  “Sometimes…sometimes it’s not so great.”  Then her face lights up.  “You should lean your head on my chest!”

“Wh-what?”

“It’s part of the whole experience!” Junko says animatedly with a grin.  “Here, c’mon—”

When Junko tugs Kyoko forward, Kyoko suddenly doesn’t know what to do with her hands, her face is an even brighter red (because actually Junko is really soft and she should not be thinking about this), and she doesn’t know what to do until Junko gently guides Kyoko’s hands to her waist and leaves them there.  Then she takes a deep breath in and forces herself to settle, rearranges herself, and then….

Then, well.  That’s okay, isn’t it?  To just…lean against Junko and…sway?  Like Junko told her to?  That makes it okay, right?

And then the song’s over, and Junko’s running a hand through her hair, and she’s saying, “See?  That wasn’t so bad, right?”  She steps back and gives Kyoko a bright grin.  “You did really good!  The next time there’s a slow song, you should do it again!  That’ll make it easier in the future.”

Kyoko doesn’t know what to say.  She doesn’t feel nearly as uncomfortable as she thought she would.  If anything, she feels…okay.  Uncertain, but okay.  And when she finds herself nodding, she’s surprised at herself.

(Back at the punch bowl, Kyoko rethinks this.  She shouldn’t have agreed to more slow dancing.  That’s really not fair, Junko.)

~

Nearer the end of the dance, after Hiro’s thrown up and Makoto’s carefully walked him outside for some water and maybe back to the dorm, after Makoto’s returned to his own date with Sayaka, a song starts that Kyoko knows full well, so when Junko comes running out to her, her arms are already crossed, her face already firm.  “No.”

“Kyokyo,” Junko whines.  “It’s my favorite song, and you’re my date, so you have to dance with me!”

Kyoko glares at her.  “No one else knows this song.  You put it on the playlist, and you waited on it to start so that you could drag me out for it.”  She frowns.  “You asked me to be your date.  You could have picked anyone else.  Anyone else would have loved to dance to this song with you.”

“But I didn’t ask anyone else,” Junko whispers.  “I asked you.”

For a breath, Kyoko glances out on the rest of the dancers, laughing, excited, waiting for the exact moment.  More than a few of them are staring at Junko, as though wondering what’s taking her so long.  Then she sighs.  “I hate you.”

“You love me.”

“No,” Kyoko says as she starts out to the dance floor, tugging Junko with her, “I’m pretty sure I hate you.”

Junko kisses her cheek.  “If you hated me, you wouldn’t do the Time Warp.”

“Shut up.”

~

Afterward, when Junko walks Kyoko back to her dorm, there’s an air of tension between them.  Kyoko can feel it, but she doesn’t know what it is or why it’s there.  Then she remembers the conversation earlier, about how things end, and realizes that maybe Junko didn’t actually mean the dance itself but what comes after it.

Then, suddenly, Kyoko grows afraid.

Then, just as suddenly, Kyoko relaxes.

But when they make it back to her dorm, Junko just pats her on her shoulder.  “Alright, thanks for the good time!  I’ll see you tomorrow!”  Then she turns as though to walk off.

“W-wait!” Kyoko finds herself saying, panicking, face flushing as Junko turns back to her, head tilted to one side, curious expression on her face.  “You….”  Her gaze drops.  She shakes her head.  “Never mind.”

Junko’s eyes light up. “Oh.”

“I said never mind.”

“You want the full experience, huh.”

“No, I don’t.  I just thought—”

“Well, I figured I wouldn’t make you do something you didn’t want to do, and I didn’t want to make you super uncomfortable, so I figured you’d rather me leave so you can get out of all the fancy stuff, but.”  Junko comes back, reaches out, and then hesitates, searching Kyoko’s eyes.  “I wouldn’t say no.”  A soft, gentle smile crosses her lips.  “You really are beautiful, Kyoko.”

Kyoko doesn’t look up.  “I thought you said I was pretty.”

“Changed my mind.”

Kyoko doesn’t say anything more.  She’s confused.  Probably this is exactly what Junko wants.

After a few seconds, Junko’s fingers trace Kyoko’s jaw, and she slowly lifts her chin.  “Do you want me to kiss you?  It wouldn’t be taking advantage or anything.  I mean.”  She hesitates, tugs her lip between her teeth again, and then says, “I’d like to kiss you.  If you wouldn’t mind.  I just figured, you know, that you’d mind.”

Kyoko’s breath catches.  She hesitates, looks everywhere else, and then finally meets Junko’s eyes.  Her heart beats once, hard, in her chest.  “I wouldn’t.”  A pause, then, “You can.  If you…if that’s what you want.  I…I’d like that.”

Junko grins.  “And you said this wasn’t a date.”

Immediately, Kyoko’s brow furrows.  “That’s because it’s not a—”

Before she can finish the sentence, Junko kisses her.  The grin is still there – Kyoko can feel it against her lips – until it isn’t, until she’s not really thinking about that.  All she’s thinking is that Junko is gentle.  She leans into the kiss, shivers as Junko’s hands find her hips the way they did during the slow dance, and panics, stops, steps back.

“Sorry.”

“For what?”

“I don’t know.”  Kyoko reaches up to brush her hair back.

Junko stops her, does so herself.  “You don’t have anything to be sorry for.”  She smiles kindly.

It isn’t fair – it isn’t right for Junko to be so kind with her.

“Will you….”  Kyoko hesitates.  “Do you want to come inside?”

Junko’s eyes widen.  “Kyoko, I love you, but I’m not here for that sort of—”

“No, no, no, not that.”  Kyoko’s face flushes a bright red.  “I don’t know all of the stuff Sayaka did to get this dress to stay on, and I don’t think I can get it off without help.”  She glances up and then away again.  “That’s all I want.  Help.”

“Oh.”  Junko’s smile returns, then.  “Of course.  That’s all I ever want to do for you, Kyoko.  Help.”

Kyoko nods.  “Okay then.”  She opens the door and gestures with one hand.  “Please.”

~

The thing is that Junko also needs help getting out of her dress.  Kyoko would’ve thought the Ultimate Fashionista would have better designs than this, ones that let you get in and out of a dress on your own, but no.  Fashion, as always, requires an extra hand.  Then Junko doesn’t want to walk back to her dorm with her clothes as they are – that’s asking for a scandal, Kyokyo!

So Junko borrows clothes, and Kyoko pulls out a mystery novel and reads it aloud until Junko dozes off resting against her.

This is normal.

Kyoko’s certain that this is normal.

Maybe not for anyone else, but….

But….

[gallus-rising]

mp100 horror fic recs 👻🎃

For a while now I've been thinking about mp100's amazing horror potential and how it really doesn't get enough attention. SO! For the spooky season why don't you settle down with a nice scary story ;D

All of these fics are complete and have no shipping. I've only linked 1 fic per author so this list doesn't get bloated, but all of these wonderful authors have other fics just waiting for you to read them ❤ Some definitely freaked me out more than others, but I'm not gonna give any particular ratings since "scary" is so subjective. All fics are properly tagged and you know your own limits better than I do.

Also feel free to add on your own recs!! My general reading preferences and parameters when making this list is only a small sampling, so please share any and all of your favs ❤ Hope you enjoy!

If you see an "N/A" instead of a Tumblr UN that means there wasn't one linked in either the fics' notes or author's bio. If you know the author or are the author yourself feel free to let me know so I can edit the post :] And now in no particular order I present:

The Immeasurable Dark: @tinkertoysdamn Immediately breaking my own "no ships" rule just this once because I can't resist a good House of Leaves inspired story! If you've read HoL is you know what's up. If not expect a fucked-up house and impossibly large spaces, funky text formatting and footnotes, maybe a minotaur. Ship featured is background established serirei.

a pilgrimage: @tooomuchtofu Divine Tree arc bad ending. Told from the PoV of an unnamed worshiper on their first visit to "the capital" aka an overgrown Seasoning City. Uses second person pov wonderfully to build the dread.

And Who Is Killing Me?: @sammisafetypin Koyama beats the shit outta Mob a little harder than in canon, hospitalizing him and delaying the 7th Division rescue arc by [TIME NOT FOUND]. The Awakening Lab kids are so minor I tend to forget they even exist, but oh my god does this author make you care about them! This fic is written with great suddenly swapping PoVs that keep you feeling off kilter without making you lose track of the story. It's the longest fic on this list by far but 100% worth every second of it. A real gut punch.

Adoration: (N/A) The Divine Tree takes a particular interest in Reigen. I don't think I've ever seen anyone properly touch on how creepy the Psycho Helm constructs themselves are like this fic has. God, those things freak me out so much. Features "shipping" in the sense of a sentient broccoli becoming fixated on a guy. Keep in mind that the Psycho Helms look like Mob if you think that'll squick you out, but for me personally it added to the horror.

Similarities: (N/A) Reigen receives a fucked up email. Ends on the sillier side, but BOY is that email fucked up!

The Water Ran Clean: @bandtrees A Mogami-mentors-Mob AU and a damn fine one at that. Love the sort of fragmented style it's written in, and the exploration of Mogami's fucked up moral code is great. There's some Choice viscerally described imagery here 👌👌 Features a drawing of Mob covered in blood just in case that freaks you out; but worry, it's not his :]

An Outlier Among a Sea of Common Denominators: @hebezunet A rewrite of the early Divine Tree arc that asks the question we've all been too scared to consider: What if the brainwashing was like cordyceps? In particular I want to highlight the opening scene where after eating the broccoli powder cookies Teru has to physically rip florets out of his body to resist being brainwashed. Very gnarly stuff.

Prison Surveillance: (N/A) Touichirou was a very bad boss so Hatori pulls a The Ring to torment him in Psychic Supermax Prison. Was written pre-season 3 so Hatori doesn't work for the government.

Stairs: (N/A) Reigen and Mob have a job in the woods. There are some stairs. Inspired by an r/nosleep story which the author links to if you'd like to check that out as well.

Fight, Flight, or Fraud: @cowardlybean So everyone's got a really specific supernatural fear, right? Something that could absolutely never happen in real life but when you see it in media it freaks you the fuck out? Mine is someone I know being killed and replaced by an evil doppelganger and I'm the only one who knows. I've not seen anything since The Magnus Archives that's properly captured that fear like this fic, which is some of the highest praise I can bestow.

In Quicksand: @ghoststrawberries Reigen catches a nasty cold and by that I mean he gets possessed. Very fun the way Reigen's train of thought and feeling shifts around as the evil spirit tries to influence him while he's unconsciously resisting it. The scene where the gang realizes Reigen's been possessed is a real "OOOOOH, SHIT!!!" moment, but I won't spoil ;D

Playing Human: (N/A) Espers and psychic powers might not be real but spirits are. Poor baby Mob is a ghost possessing his own dead body. Features Dimple as the bad guy.

Mithridatism: If I may be so self-indulgent to list one of my own fics here :3 Absorbing evil spirits while still alive was actively killing Mogami and I wanted to dig into that! Features my Signature™ (lol) "HEY, DON'T EAT THAT!!" style of body horror.

[olderthannetfic]

Let me start by saying I love femslash and have a few favorite F/F ships myself, and *most* femslash fans are not who I'm talking about with this.

But there really is a certain contingent (not all, not even the majority) of femslash shippers who feel personally victimized when M/M ships have the audacity to exist. Sometimes they'll get mad at authors for only mentioning a female pairing as a background reference (and tagging "background [ship]" as appropriate or clarifying in the description that it's a minor appearance, I know it's annoying to see it clogging the main tags, but I have literally seen people effectively complain that the author hasn't written an entire fic of their favorite pairing when they have done their due diligence to properly label their work) when it's like... dude, do you not want me to put them in there at all? I could just omit them entirely if you want, although the story would probably lose something for it. because no matter what, I'm gonna keep writing my favorite M/M pairing, and I might give background shoutouts to other pairings I also hc even if I don't really have a complete story idea just for them.

it's like these people think writing is just a product that can/should be churned out to meet some kind of market need (for free! on a fanfic archive!) and not just an idea that strikes someone that they choose to write about for the joy of it alone. My brain worms just didn't tell me to write femslash, idk what to tell you. If you have a story you need to read, the best way to make that happen is to write it. Sorry if you feel like that's too hard and you need other people to do it or something, but all it takes is practice, and it's not my job to write your stories for you - do it yourself. M/M authors didn't choose for femslash to be underrepresented. We didn't do that. We didn't create systemic lesbophobia, and honestly, I think straight up having lesbian relationships in our stories is the least complicit we could possibly be without directly writing lesbian-centric fic. We're literally just vibing. Us (e.g. gay/mlm authors such as myself) telling our own stories is not hurting anyone even if those stories are well-represented already.

TL;DR representation discourse is kind of stupid when it involves shitting on other marginalized communities for not being you.

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[masked-artist-xp]

MEET THE ARTIST!

I am a minor.

Art requests are currently closed.

Asks are open!

I am open to answer just about anything.

My birthday is oct 23rd.

In a relationship fr fr

I am a maine coon and husky therian

My pronouns are he/they/it/neos

Refer to me by Ash/Vix/Masked !!!

My persona's name is Fang. (But there is also my creator sona and Corruption who are seprate sonas)

My fursona's name is Vix

I have ADHD, Autism, hypermobility, and a few more mental issues ^^

I am a bisexual demiboy(but it's totally chill to call me transmasc or nonbinary)

If you do submit an art rq I may put it off for a bit-a while cuz I tend to be working on a bunch of things at once.

There's gonna be probably a lot of cussing on this blog- so- don't follow if you don't like cussing- QvQ

I am a scemo kid >:P

We don't say slurs on this blog!

You can absolutely tag me in posts with Horror Sans cuz I absolutely love him <3 (/p) cuz Horror is my comfort characterrrr

I'd love music recommendations if you have any!!! (just not country music or slow songs- not my pace lolz)

I do tend to post a few of my outfitzzz(especially if I feel like they're popping off that day)

If you submit an art rq, plz specify who a character is by/where it's from that way so I can draw the proper character, also make sure that I can get a good ref of whatever I'm drawing if it's not my own oc lmao

If you're not welcome on my blog, I will very clearly let you know.

Majority of my necessary information is in my bio!

DNI IF:

You are homophobic/transphobic/racist/a pedophile/a predator/a proshipper/a TERF/a zoophile/anti-furry/anti-therian/abelist

Art request information!(if I open them again)

I WILL DRAW:

-characters, skeletons, suggestive stuff, animals (even if it looks funky), furries, doodles, gore, ships(if they're acceptable), ect.

I WILL NOT DRAW:

-NSFW, overly complex poses or scenes, bare feet(cuz ew no), backgrounds, sanscest or papcest(sorry y'all), anything homophobic/transphobic/sexist/racist, or against religions, or anything that stands with absolutely profane acts(rape, sexual assault, abuse, pedophilia, incest, ect.)

RULES FOR ART REQUESTS!!!

Don't send more than 1 at once, don't ask for a request if requests are closed, don't pester me to do a request, don't send the same request more than once, don't request me to draw anything that is in the "will not draw" section.

Feel free to talk to me! Askz and Dmz are open for a reason! (I promise I'm not that scary)

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[lizardlicks]

Nine People You'd Like To Get To Know Better

I was tagged by @blu3berrydraws, @erisenyo, and @paramouradrift lol thanks guys!

Relation Status: Married to my best friend and high school sweetheart

Favorite Color: green. any green. give me a green I will show you how beautiful it is

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Sweet tooth is currently satisfied. Spicy is just kind of a bonus. I think savory is looking good rn.

Three ships: Zukka is the obvious current answer, but I am a habitual multishipper by nature, so here are three ships that I very much enjoy which might not be on your radars!

First is @ablueeyedarcher's fault: How/Piandao. The SS CapyPanda. Are they minor characters who only show up for two or three episodes a piece? Yes. Do I care? No. Let them smooch.

Number two is Jee/Bato. Look. Jee is a tired gay man, He has served his time. Let him get out there and get the good dick. He's not a home wrecker though, he's not gonna get between whatever Bato has going on with Hakoda... unless maybe they invited him to get between them more literally.

Third is Zuko/Kuei. I know the the post canon comics pitted these two sad bitches against each other but listen, here me out. They're both young, inexperienced leaders dropped head first into navigating attempting to deescalate their countries post a century of hostilities with minimal helpful guidance, and they were also both used and betrayed by the father figures they we supposed to trust and rely on. What if when left alone, face to face, they bonded over venting their similar frustrations? What if that bonding turned into an unlikely friendship? What if that friendship tripped and rolled down a rocky hill of something more and they ended up in a secret affair between the heads of two of the world's most powerful states? What if it all came crashing in on them, but they couldn't untangle their very real feelings from their duty as leaders? What then?

First ever ship: Oh snap this is reaching back into Ye Old memory banks here. If I'm being totally honest I think it was the pink and green (later white, much later all the rest of the damn colors) rangers from the original run of the American version of Power Rangers. The internet didn't exist as we know it today so it was just a group of a half-dozen 7-9 year olds G O S S I P I N G on the playground between rounds of pretending to be actual velociraptors.

Last Song:

(Two Steps From Hell is my go-to writing times tune everything out music)

Last Film: Technically it was me and the rest of the adults post Thanksgiving diner keeping a running background commentary going on the worldbuilding choices in the Paw Patrol Movie that the little kids insisted on watching. Real answer, the last movie I sat down to watch with intention was Across the Spiderverse.

Last thing I Googled: solar chistmas lights. My coworker was complaining that her only outdoor outlet shares a load with an indoor one (which?? rude!) and her partner wouldn't let her put up more Christmas lights. I had to show her. The way her face lit up as she IMMEDIATELY zoomed to Amazon and started filling her cart. Apologies to her poor family and neighbors, but I definitely made her week and possibly her entire New Year.

Currently Reading: Hey did you know that @erisenyo is already releasing stuff for zukki week because she is. you should definitely go read that.

Currently Watching: Rewatching Blue Eye Samurai while spouse watches it for the first time. He's been big into old samurai and wuxia films since I can remember so I'm just sitting here anticipating his reactions to every easter egg and trope call back they've stuffed into this show and also spotting things I missed on the first round.

Currently Consuming: Peppermint mocha and a cheese, egg and sausage tornado. Don't question me.

Currently Craving: My cozy bed. Also a nice big bowl of curry.

Currently Working On: The next chapter of Learn to Carry Love. I'm so so so close to the finish aaargh!

Current Obsession(s): *Gestures at my blog*

And with that I'm gonna taaaaaaag @ablueeyedarcher @rainbowbarnacle @paintsplattere @allgremlinart @saccharineomens @thepioden @siggymcpissyface @curlicuecal and @yandereleorio! No obligation of course, just for a fun time if you wanna :D

[nobodysdaydreams]

I FINISHED SEASON 2 OF WOLF359 AND I HAVE SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS (or my reaction to Episodes 27-28 of Wolf359).

Tagging the mutuals who got me invested in this, and if you want to be tagged or untagged from these posts, lmk, or you can follow my blog or simply follow the tag "#bods wolf359 reactions". Anyone who has followed me for a while knows my updates are inconsistent, so I apologize in advance for that and for any spelling/grammar mistakes in my posts.

@sophieswundergarten @oflightningandstars @acollectionofcuriousreblogs @herawell

I just looked at the episode titles for 27 and 28 and oh my gosh I am so excited in the sense that I love these titles, but I'm much less excited for our characters to be in mortal peril.

Episode 27: Knock, Knock

"Knock Knock" indeed.

Is it the Empty Man?

Now where did we leave off before the live show? OH RIGHT THE STAR TURNED BLUE AND BLASTED THEM! ��🌠

ARE THE ALIENS TRYING TO TALK TO THEM?

Uh. Lovelace. Why are you leaving when the star is blue? You can just wait for a bit.

...what happened? Eiffel what was the noise? It was faint, and it's not Lovelace this time.

"Explain in terms Eiffel could understand" I know that's an insult, but honestly scientific research gets spread to the public WAY better when put in "plain language". It's more understandable and accessible for people with learning and intellectual disabilities. Hilbert I hope you're taking notes on this. If you want a redemption arc, you're going to have to earn it.

I love it when Minkowski imitates Hilbert's accent.😂

"Minor deviations" Yeah, they bring that up a LOT. Every other episode: "nothing from the star, just a few minor deviations". I bet they thought I wouldn't notice, but I did. And lo and behold. It just goes to show you kids. Notice something mildly strange? It's 100% a conspiracy or scientific phenomena. Well, not really, I was wrong about the empty man, BUT if you take that approach to everything, one day you are gonna be very right about something. Eventually. And now here comes my sweet sweet payoff.

🎶 Twinkle Twinkle Scary Star, Please Hit Cutter with a Car. 🎶

(I don't know I did it for the rhyme)

What have you been hearing Hilbert? AVOID WINDOWS AND STARLIGHT? oh boy...

Star. What do you want?

DOUG! Don't yell at Hera when you could both die! She's your best friend.

Uh oh. Looks like communications aren't going well...

Why are Hilbert and Doug hearing things? Virus exposure?

And where is Blessie? He's needed starlight for a while. This is his moment.

The star is getting bigger?

"This is astrological phenomena not plot twist for bad science fiction series"

Nice fourth wall you got there. Would sure be a shame if somebody were to break it. ;)

"We don't have a lot of time" Y'all have two more seasons, and Doug, you're the main character. I think you should be fine. Well, not "fine" but around. Doing stuff.

"I'm not giving the devil a free pass" Now Doug, that's a bit harsh. Cutter is the devil. Hilbert is more the devil's bumbling assistant.

Come on Minkowski. Put it together. Doug and Hilbert are hearing things.

"Let's get rid of our weapons" is that wise? I hope so.

Yeah...that is a suspiciously good plan Doug. I love Minkowski 😂

"I'm gonna start thinking YOU'RE plotting something" it's the screwdriver all over again.

Hera is the only one holding the ship together. Probably helps that she is the ship.

"MY LIFE IS THE TRUMAN SHOW" Eiffel has snapped.

"You paranoia little man" "We all are!" ...um what's with the Whispering in the background? Guys. Guys. GUYS.

DO NOT DO WHAT CUTTER WANTS. DO NOT-

Thank you Hera. I hope she's immune to the effects of the star since she's an AI.

Well, it seems like the team's gotta work together to get out of this one.

Dr. Hui? Energy signals? Limbic system?

Now that is something I understand! The Limbic System effects emotions, but primarily aggression and fear.

...uh oh.

And yeah...Lovelace DOES seem strangely calm...

...FOR AN EVIL CLONE ROBOT. 👀

"I don't know. Maybe my body has a resistance." "Or maybe you're at max paranoia"

Something happened to you Lovelace. I want to believe it is something good. But I don't think it is. Hopefully it will still be useful now.

"The big bad wolf" - that's a great name for the star.

"There's no off switch I've checked" ...what does that mean.

I love Zach Valienti interrupting himself. He does a great job.

"Who doesn't know the comms aren't working?"

Probably command or the aliens.

But I hope it's Blessie 🥰

We're all here. So...how can...

THE EMPTY MAN IS HERE.

TRANSMISSION FROM THE STAR? WELL I WONDER WHAT MR. WOLF HAS TO SAY.

I hope he doesn't intend to huff and puff and blow the Hephaestus out of the sky.

"Is anyone there?"

"Does anyone copy?" DOUG EIFFEL. Wait, this is old audio I think. Didn't he say that before? This is a recording right?

Oh boy.

Episode 28: Who's There?

"That's not me" ... It might be a recording. The radio was from...I think they said the 20's. This is more recent.

I hope the aliens were able to translate his messages correctly. Because Doug uses a LOT of pop culture references, metaphors, exaggeration, and hyperbole. That don't translate well at all.

Mini rant incoming, but um...just to illustrate how bad this could get even from a few simple phrase. For example, the phrase "it's raining cats and dogs" in English or at least among some older people in America, means "it is raining very hard" or "it is raining a lot". Now if you speak, say a difference type of English, you might from context be able to infer what I'm talking about. Like if a British person says they pushed a trolley in the grocery store, I can infer they are talking about a shopping cart, not a street car they drove through a storefront like a maniac. However, someone who doesn't speak English and is not familiar with metaphor can't use context clues as easily and may conclude from my earlier phrase (best case scenario) that it is either literally raining cats and dogs, that I'm an insane person that believe that to be true, or (worse case scenario), if the word "raining" is also used in their language to mean "splattering" or "pouring" in regards to wounds, they might think I'm talking about torturing animals.

Again, showing the importance of the simple and plain language thing I suggested earlier. Not that I'm one to talk, as I, like Doug, greatly enjoy the use of hyperbole and exaggeration, which in this case, is very very bad. I can see why they gave him this character trait now.

Hopefully the aliens draw a good conclusion from it, and Doug hasn't inadvertently doomed the human race.

"We have no voice of our own, so we're borrowing yours. To communicate"

So the aliens mastered AI voice stealing. I suppose in their case it might be necessary. But why can they talk on their own? They seem to have a sense of hearing and can pick up sound waves, so wouldn't they have a way to utilize that for communication? Unless of course they're translating it into something they CAN perceive.

"We've received your long distance calls"

So...these are the listeners?

DOUG YOU TRANSMIT YOUR LOGS INTO DEEP SPACE.

"Would it have killed you to speak English like a normal person"

"It's a long story you wouldn't get it" WELL THEY ARE DYING SO YOU BETTER TRY TO EXPLAIN MR. WOLF.

To communicate...I think they think that means to fall or burn or die or something. Wait.

Doug. Please tell me you at no point said "this job is a death sentence", you know what, he says that every other episode. They're doomed.

"Dear Listeners"

I don't think they even know what that means! They don't seem to understand that dear is a term of affection or another word for "to", because they don't seem to be adopting either meaning and are just using it as a part of their name.

I hope there is a way to translate "We don't want harm, we just want to go home. We are a peaceful people, expect this one dude name Cutter. He's evil. You can have him. Thank you!"

LOVELACE? LOVELACE NO!

Why couldn't it have been Hilbert? 😢

We didn't even get a chance to find out why the star didn't effect her.

OH RIGHT THE BOMB I FORGOT ABOUT THE BOMB.

Please tell me its not a real bomb.

Oh no. Lovelace.

Hey Dear Listeners...maybe some help about now?

Or maybe Lovelace really is an evil clone robot, and she'll be okay?

Okay Hilbert. Good work on the redemption arc. Let's hope you keep it up.

Doug. You removed the door's sensor. Remember?

Outside the ship? Where the big scary star is? Eiffel.

I'm honestly surprised he hasn't stolen the jet pack earlier. That's a pretty big temptation.

Also I forgot to mention this during my first reaction, but I love that they named him "Eiffel". Like "Eiffel Tower", "Communication Tower", "Communications Officer". It's clever. I know I've talked a lot about Hera's name, but the others are great too.

The Dear Listeners better not respond by making the star even bigger. They better not.

...

Eiffel?

They're good? Hera can fly? But what about Eiffel? Oh. He's good, but isolated.

"Go us, not dying"

Yeah...right...what a calm way to end the season...that's what the show is known for sure.

So then. What's it gonna be? What's the next disaster?

"Not dying...yet"

Good point Hera, the time you have left in the episode doesn't look good.

At least Lovelace is stabilizing...oh no. Cutter or the aliens did something to her didn't they? Well, we already knew that, but whatever they did is about to take effect, isn't it?

Did Lovelace just die for a few minutes? WAIT NO THE BOMB!

Speeding towards deep space? HOW WOULD HE TURN AROUND HILBERT? DOUG!

NO! DOUG! DOUG!

GONE?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Just when they escape, just when they make it out okay!

Final Thoughts:

Actually, you know what, I'm not too concerned about Doug. He still didn't tell us about his family, which means he has to come back and share his secrets. I'm sure he'll be fine.

Although..."deep space"... that is where he was sending the messages...which is where the aliens live...and he's going faster and faster...oh dear...

I think things are about to get a whole lot worse for Doug before they get better. IF they get better.

Many questions about Lovelace. Also starting to wonder about Cutter. Wolf359 is one of the nearest stars to the sun, so on one hand, it makes sense to send a space mission there. On the other hand? How did Cutter know to send a mission there specifically? That's very precise. And for a man who loves space so much, he seems to have a lot of suspicious side projects that have nothing to do with space and doesn't seem inclined to see the stars himself.

Then we have the self-appointed "Dear Listeners" aka "Mr. Wolf" himself, (if there's another name, please let me know). Would bringing them into the star actually save them? Did the boxes that feel into the star actually get to them? Were the boxes designed to teach the aliens about human culture? If so, that seems like an odd and strange way to do it. Do the aliens hate humans, love them, want to experiment on them, it's unclear. Were they influencing human brain waves on purpose? Testing biological warfare? Or was that an unintended consequence? Are they aware that their actions were endangering the humans, or is this nothing for them?

Of course, I also need to know about Blessie. How has he been holding up through all this?

Well, I guess I'll find out. Stay tune dear readers.

[ohyesididnotjustdothat]

PLEASE tell me more about armporsche it's always been kind of on my radar but that gifset and your tags SOLD me and now I suddenly NEED more armporsche to add to the army of ships so..... pretty please?🥺💜

Ok, so i'm gonna touch on some points where arm seemed to interfere on Porsche's behalf more than you'd anticipate from a bodyguard who theoretically should have no stake in it, so i'm gonna preempt this w my basis for the pairing.

I believe Arm is the one who performed the background check on Porsche. I think this allowed Arm some insight into Porsche before anyone else--not just into Porsche's baggage, but Porsche's personality. The sweet, kind, hardworking older brother who is constantly struggling to provide for his baby bro in a cruel world that left him adrift after the tragic passing of his parents, prey to the sharks circling in the water. A man forced to be a father, a mother, a brother, a fighter, a lover--all in equal measure until he's bursting at the seams w all the facets of himself he's forced to internalize and exaggerate just to survive.

w that in mind, this will likely get long and rambly and i'm gonna take a lot of liberties, but this is just how i choose to read into the text to rationalize this pairing lol

so first off, when tankhun is seeking retribution for his koi. the stakes aren't nearly the same, but arm's expression of suppressed panic reminds me of kinn w the minor family conflict (where the gears are working in overdrive to find an out), and in the end, it's arm's quick thinking that saves porsche (albeit only temporarily)--just like kinn

also, when porsche takes tankhun out and kinn calls him to follow, everyone thinks porsche is in trouble, but note what pol (left) tells him, and what arm says

pol is understandably concerned for porsche, but doesn't rlly consider himself in a position to do anything about it, bc he's not. arm isn't rlly either, yet he explicitly gives porsche an avenue to confide in someone, despite their relationship still being relatively new and porsche already having pete (ironically, when porsche does eventually offload onto someone, it ends up being kinn on the pier)

then we have arm physically protecting porsche from tankhun's wrath at the expense of his safety

so u may have noticed i like comparing arm and kinn. i like to place them side by side bc i feel it provides a nice parallel, tho u may notice the drastic contrast in stakes; this dichotomy actually enhances the parallels for me, bc i feel it reflects the distinction between kinn's feelings, which have the capacity to develop into something intense and passionate (bc of porsche's reciprocation) and arm's, whose feelings are kind of doomed to just fade into the background bc they're unrequited

these i'm including to note that, at some point off-screen, porsche and arm obviously are bonding, bc their relationship has quickly gone from just working together to spending time w each other outside their duties and comfortable enough to be more tactile (in other words, closer to actual friends outside of work)

I'm gonna go ahead and link ur reblog of @kinnbig's gif set to save myself time, but the concern and care arm takes towards porsche in these scenes drives me insane, so there's that (the gif set that set me down this rabbit hole lol)

HEY!! what's this have to do w arm?? he had nothing to do w this ep--he barely even showed up!!! well this is another one of those off-screen extrapolations i'm prone to. particularly kinn and porsche's date. how can kinn and porsche move around together w no one in the compound knowing? likely they can't. and if anyone's gonna know kinn's whereabouts, who would that be? kinn may not have told him the specifics, but i assume arm was keeping an eye on them via gps, and arm still kept it under wraps, despite likely knowing what had already developed between the two (we know he kept this a secret bc pete and pol know nothing of what arm's talking about when he mentions helping porsche w tawan). i'd argue that i wouldn't be surprised if arm actually caught them on the cctv before (they weren't subtle) and just opted to keep it to himself for their sakes

speaking of supporting porsche, even w the excitement of their relationship becoming public, arm is still concerned about what will happen to porsche (tbf to pol, i think it's just bc he doesn't think in that context, not bc he wasn't worried lol)

so imma start winding down, bc i've spent enough time showcasing how unhinged i am about this concept, but i'd be remiss if i didn't call to attention how INSANE the insinuation here is. arm is a professional. he is tactful. he is ready to throw it all away bc porsche is a petty bf LOL. like i am reeling at the implication that arm was gonna bust in on his boss flirting it up w some twink and do. what?? WHAT WERE U GONNA HAVE ARM DO, PORSCHE, THAT'S HIS BOSS AND UNLIKE U, HE'S NOT FUCKING HIM!! HE CAN'T SHAKE THAT ASS AND GET OFF THE HOOK OMFG ASLFKJ

Anyway, it's difficult to do in a BL, bc there's rarely any focus outside of the pairings, particularly after they become established, but that's some insight into how i've constructed an unrequited love narrative between ArmPorsche. I'm still first and foremost a KinnPorsche girly, but i love turning over the possibilities of the secondary relationships in my head like a rotisserie chicken, so if you've stayed this long, i hoped you enjoyed my ramblings X'DDD

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Fresh Crops! February 26 - March 3, 2024

This week's newest fics and chapter updates for Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons on AO3!

Story Of Seasons: A Wonderful Life - by OmegaRain_Productions; Complete, 1/1, 1.9k

Rating: Mature; Archive Warnings: Major Character Death; Categories: F/F, F/M Fandom: A Wonderful Life Summary: Following the Death of her father; Ashley Natsume moves to Forget Me Not Valley with one goal in mind; revive her fathers farm back to its glory days; no mater what.

The Language of Flowers - by spoopybat; WIP, 76/?, 186k

Rating: Explicit; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: F/M Fandoms: The Tale of Two Towns Relationships: Cam | Kamil/Lillian the Farmer | Sato, Chelsea/Vaughn | Waltz Additional Tags: **NOTE: Some tags have been removed to remain Safe For Tumblr. Please see AO3 for complete listing** Tags Contain Spoilers, POV Alternating, Background Relationships, Starting Over, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Other Ships Not Mentioned in Tags, Friendship, Friends to Lovers, Friendship/Love, Minor Character Death, Minor Violence, Minor Injuries, Physical Abuse, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Hurt/Comfort, Socially Awkward Characters, Cliche, Mutual Pining, Awkwardness, Awkward Flirting, Emotional Baggage, References to Depression, Dysfunctional Family, Melodrama, Family Drama, First Love, First Relationship, Sharing a Bed, Loss of Virginity, First Time, Morning After, Morning Cuddles, Morning Sex, Christmas, Domestic Fluff, Kitchen Sex, Unplanned Pregnancy, Pregnancy, Morning Sickness, Emotional Hurt, Emotional Constipation, Arguing, Medical Conditions, Medical inaccuracies but I'm gonna do my best, Panic Attacks, Engagement, Couch Sex, Wedding Fluff, Weddings, Honeymoon, Body Worship, Making Love, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Mental Anguish, Spa Treatments, Fights, Making Up, Mental Health Issues, Depression, Language of Flowers, Emotional reunion, Reunion Sex, Pregnant Sex, Therapy Summary: Lillian, a young woman from the Sunshine Islands, left her home and moved to Bluebell. In hopes that moving to this rural farm town to escape her troubled past and find the happy life she had always wanted.

Brown - by CreationsGoneAwry; WIP, 2/7, 5.1k

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences; Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings; Category: F/M Fandom: Trio of Towns Relationship: Female Farmer/Hinata; Characters: Female Farmer, Hinata, Komari, Yuzuki, other characters make minor appearances Additional Tags: Romance, Friendship, Family Issues, Female Friendship, Male Friendship, Drama Summary: Three childhood friends - Hinata, Yuzuki, and Komari - have let the newcomer, Holly, into their circle, and the four are very close friends. As time goes on, though, Holly realizes she wants to be more than friends with Hinata, who is also not-so-secretly crushing on her. Light teasing and frustration from Komari and Yuzuki ensue when either of the idiot pair continues to deny the possibility that the other has feelings for them.

Orange Candy - by buckwheatseeds; Complete, 1/1, <1k

Rating: General Audiences; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: F/M Fandoms: Animal Parade Relationship: Chase/Molly the Farmer; Character: Molly the Farmer Additional Tags: Cooking, Drabble, Short One Shot, Backstory, Falling In Love Summary: Sweet, sweet orange candy. Molly makes a gift in return for Chase's gift to her.

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K this is from the star (literally) (im also gonna section this)

Characters and their headcanons

im gonna leave this one to you unless you specifically ask

Fanfics

ATYD- wolfstar, flowerpott, minor or background

Just Lovers (like we were supposed to be)- sunseeker, wolfstar, m/bg

Crimson Rivers- sunseeker, wolfstar, minor of backround

Only the Brave- sunseeker, wolfstar, minor or background

Kill your darlings- sunseeker, wolfstar, minor or background

Cadence of Part - Time Poets- wolfstar, flowerpott, m/bg

The Hand That Feeds- seameadows, minor or background

Every Lovers Game- seameadows, minor or background

I'm not going to teach him how to dance (sequel to ^)- rosekiller, m

ATYD - Sirius POV- like ATYD

Best friend's brother- sunseeker, wolfstar, m/bg

The Black Mass over highway 90- wolfstar

Art Heist, Baby!- sunseeker, wolfstar, minor seameadows, m/bg

Choices- sunseeker, minor wolfstar, m/bg

the rest is your choice but these are all the classics (that i can think of rn)

Ships

Jily / Flowerpott

literally the cornerstone of the fandom (along with wolfstar) amazing ship but the fans hating on jegulus made people hesitant to ship it

wolfstar

you already know BUT a little controversy surrounding tonks and how it "excludes her" and "not acknowledging her is a product of misogynism" (which i am prepared to give a whole debate about. Otherwise the PARENTS AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF THIS ENTIRE FANDOM

jegulus / starchaser / sunseeker

VERY popular ship - no controversies as far as I can think of except flowerpott fans hating on them

dorlene / seameadows (marlene means star of the sea)

the very first RIVALS TO LOVERS (sunseeker is enemies to lovers imo) the very first marauders era wlw ship to emerge AND A BEAUTIFULL DYNAMIC I LOVE THIS

marylily / cherryflower (queen mary is a type of cherry)

i dont know much about this so consider some marylily blogs if you wanna RESEARCH TO THE CORE but this is the fluff induced friends to lovers (wolfstar is angst induced friends to lovers)

pandalily / mythflower (pandora's box is a myth)

i also don't know much about this so same advice as cherryflower but this is the fluff induced rivals to lovers (seameadows is rage + angst induced rivals to lovers)

rosekiller

popped out from god knows where - didnt even have a confession or anything just randomly started making out or smt (dont have a clue pls read some blogs or smt these are just my hc). unhinged serial killer vibes

i could tell you about the rarepairs / extras but i think this is probably enough information to digest

Info about Authors

idk how to classify this so lets just get into it

Zar and Green are both amazing writers who have deleted/privated all of their fanfics because people were selling them/publishing them onto different sites/ generally doing stuff with their work which they had not given permission for.

SO PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT DO ANYTHING TO A WRITER'S WORK EXCPET READ IT AND INTERACT WITH IT. THERE IS NO NEED TO PUBLISH IT ELSEWHERE, OR SELL BOOKBINDINGS, OR DO ANYTHING WHICH THE AUTHOR HAS NOT GIVEN PERMISSION FOR. IF YOU FIND SOMEONE DOING THAT - PLEASE ALERT THE AUTHOR.

also, if you are contributing in this fandom (or any other) whether by posts, fics, arts, literally anything PLEASE DO NOT TAG THINGS THAT ARE NOT MENTIONED IN IT.

eg. if your post includes 2 characters ffs do not tag the characters who are not mentioned - even if they are from the same fandom

this goes for fanfics as well - do not tag relationships if they only have a minor focus

also, please please please make sure that if you are writing a fanfic that you tag tws and cws appropriatly

i think that is all?

i mean i dont think our friend will write ffs but ok

making a powerpoint presentation for my friend who isn’t into marauders, need some core things/headcanons to mention. HELP 😭😭

[strifesolution]

How much hints around RTs and Wilbur's implied relationships are you planning? I only spotted to but I'm also kinda dumb and maybe forgot another couple. (In my head when I first seen Dan thinking about Wil's letters, I thought 'when will a letter showing up saying Wilbur died' even though I don't think that will happen) (I am bad at english)

Gonna talk more in detail about this fic, but it'll only be spoilers if you're not caught up, so you can do so HERE!

okay there's your warning. anyway.

you clever bastards keep saying things that are impossible to respond to without directly confirming or denying if said thing is going to happen or not, so i am very pointedly and intentionally refusing to acknowledge the last part of this ask.

first thing: Dan and Wilbur. we'll get a few more hints going forward but it's essentially: Wilbur was the first person in Dan's life after [SPOILERS] his entire family died. so he gets very attached in a short period, especially with as young as he is (almost everyone in this au matches up with the IRLs CC age, Dan would've been 20 and Wilbur 19) Wilbur's a total hotshot so of course Dan gets a tiny crush, but then Wilbur has to leave before anything develops and they only interact through letters after that, so of course Dan is left with unresolved feelings.

actually, now's a GREAT time to bring up the pre-canon timeline!

obviously a few things are missing because they haven’t been revealed, but hopefully this helps visualize it better! but again. wilbur will continue to be brought up, we just can neither confirm or deny how much closure you (or dan, for that matter) will get.

HOWEVER. LOL. the Ambiguous or Implied Relationship(s) tag isn't even there for RTSoot, it's there because Dan and Kevin are. literally sleeping together. they kiss. in chapter 10. but it's unclear of how far that's gonna go/if it'll stick around/etc so we're not tagging them as a pairing. not to mention all the other ""questionable"" moments between all 5 of them in this au.

we decided when developing this fic that revealing any end game pairings from the get go would be putting our cards on the table, hence that disclaimer at the beginning like "you signed up for whatever that tags ends up turning into" basically

last little thing, the Minor or Background Relationship(s) tag will probably get added... next chapter, actually? they weren't originally planned but there's at least two ships that naturally formed between characters that aren't any of the lads. so look forward to that! :P

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Transformers: Harbingers

The Pirate Scream AU

Before I talk about it you guys are the best thank you for indulging me and my AU from this post xjdjd. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

@badlydrawntransformers @cosmic0de @warrioroffandoms @measlyfurball13 And a bonus thank you to those encouraging me in the tags as well ❤️

I plan to do art for it as well as accompanying written bits and maybe even an animatic but till then have some general info under the cut.

Also there is transformers: Prime spoilers below so open at your own risk.

TRANSFORMERS: HARBINGERS

So this AU comes from the same place many AUs heavily involving TfP Starscream come from: the unfulfilled potential in our boy Scream. Now deeper discussion of that is not gonna be in this post. It'd be a whole essay.

It also comes from just how salty I was that the Team's kindness never really benefitted them much and they kept getting slapped for it. And OP really wanted to win over a con and Starscream kept wanting a partner. ALSO ALSO Optimus was portrayed as keeping his emotions in check and then never really gets a message that it's okay to be emotional so... I'm doing that here.

And the Starscream Pirate AU was born...

Aka Transformers: Harbingers (maybe idk if it's catchy enough djjsw)

Why Harbingers? ''It's just a SHIP Starscream chills in for awhile in the show' ' I hear you say. WELL HANG ON!! I got two very good reasons!! .

First off: Starscream, with the help of some Cybertronians who he wins over one way or another (Ill get to that), help him essentially use the remains of the Harbinger to put together their own functional ship. It's smaller than the Nemesis and will take some pirate ship inspiration. While it is a hardy beast it's a bit jury rigged.

Second of all:

Imagine being a fictional character living in a ship with a name that basically means 'Foreshadowed bringer of change' and then going back to Megatron and his bullshit. I'm gonna grab this and run all the way with it. Highway to Hell just came on my Spotify so... That may be an omen.

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NOW LISTEN

I feel like Starscream and Optimus could really have had such an interesting dynamic but we never really got to see that in TfP and I feel cheated. Also both could have mutually benefitted a great deal.

So what do I do? I shove them together to be sorta begrudging Co-Captains. As a result there's a lot of shenanigans to be had!

How this happens OP has some run ins with cons and, through a way I'm still deciding, has the opportunity to extend a hand to Starscream. Starscream, being kindness starved, doesn't entirely know what to do about Optimus being nice to him one whole time with no sarcasm or ulterior motive and sorta starts trying to get his attention.

Starscream and his crew are a bit of their own team at this point. MEANING sort of new LOGOS!

I'm yoinking the crossed out Decepticon logo from the Dark Energon Starscream and Dark Energon Knockout toys cause I mean... It's right there and also kinda like a skull and crossbones. It fits too well guys.

Starscream essentially manages to win over the autobots enough so they can sorta make a mutually beneficial, if strained, alliance to aid their aligned goal: killing Megatron and revitalizing cyberton. This is aided by some slight changes to the plot of course. It's also a benefit, much to Ratchet's delight, since they finally get some cybertronian tech to work with.

And so they gotta work together to take Megatron out and there's much bonding moments esp later when the autobot base is destroyed. Starscream extends his hand to them and offers them a more permanent position onboard. (rubbing in how unfortunate their situation is and how this is such a big favour but he's paying Optimus back.)

And insert team dynamic stuff!! Like cons teaming up with Bots, Starscream and Optimus trying to stick with it leading their own teams but keep accidently backseat-leadering one another. I will write some other ex-con and bot dynamics cause there's a lot of chaos to be had.

Optimus doesn't open up to his crew for morale sake and masks his emotions well, and Starscream is... well Starscream is Starscream so he masks what he truly feels a lot and doesn't share a lot of personal stuff besides complaints with his team either. So there's a lot of tension.... That is until Starscream has had it at just how good a poker face Prime has.

Because he's absolutely paranoid got a harmless curiosity about Optimus's ulterior motives and wants potential dirty secrets he can use as blackmail to have power over the Prime, he essentially puts cybertronian booze (but kid friendly version of course fbejek) in Optimus's energon heavily expecting him to spill the beans when heavily drunk. What he doesn't expect is that Optimus is just... LIKE THAT to his core. He's smart but very sad and guilty. And maybe a bit weepy and exhausted cause this man has not shown an emotion for eons now. /s. Starscream doesn't know wtf to do but swayed by how earnest Optimus is he sorta softens up and does open up. Might have helped that he took a swig of the tainted energon to get on his level though. But it also helps that neither is the others subordinate so they don't need to maintain their image as badly with the Co-captain as they do their team.

The ex cons sorta accidently absorb some of the autobot's morals over time. The cons help the autobots have some fun. There's a lot of stuff learned both ways. Also the cons realize how cool humans can be and after a lot of argument and forced time spent with the kids, they want to protect earth too.

Starscream, helps Optimus open up a bit more and allow himself to be emotional. He also shows him how to be a little selfish. Optimus in turn helps him with self confidence and making friends. Both help each other with the shit Megatron put em both through and overall boost one another up. (This also does change the start of the war a bit but I'll get to that in another post.)

Miko tries to fight all of the cons at first but quickly changes her tune cause "BOOYAH PIRATE CONS!!"

Other bits about this AU:

Starscream will eventually get a slight design change. It'll be less scrappy and look more confident and put together. It'll be minor

Because they are on a flying ship but have less energon than the Nemesis, everyone gets equipped with mods for flight. There is a jetpack upgrade one can get or Knockout can straight up help change their alt mode surgically.

I'm working up a list of who gets what flight mod but... Ya'll should know that Wheeljack dares Knockout to make him into a flying car. Largely cause I just got the image of Wheeljack flying above vehicons and just turning into a car and dropping on them. That and driving up the side of the Nemesis and confusing the fuck out of Megatron. Out of all the characters you know that would be a Wheeljack thing.

Arcee and Knockout grieve together.

Knockout loves bugging the hell out of Ratchet. It's extra fun for him cause Ratchet often can't do shit about it since they both need the room and tools.

Knockout and Wheeljack become an insufferable duo with the nicknames they have for everyone.

Wheeljack won't leave Starscream alone and keeps coming up with worse and worse nicknames like he did with Ratchet.

Starscream and Ratchet become complaining buddies.

STARSCREAM'S SEEKER SQUAD REJOINS. Well some of them. Skywarp, Thundercracker and maybe other peeps.

Miko manages to befriend Skywarp and Bulkhead now has to watch both Miko AND Skywarp. Wheeljack refuses to help Bulkhead round them up.

Raf hits it off with Thundercracker.

Knockout: "FINALLY a team with fragging MANNERS!"

Instead of Beeftimus Prime from the forge, Optimus actually gets access to a third alt mode and.. Idk something else primely. So he actually gets wings.

Starscream and the other fliers are greatly amused because Optimus, as great as he is at his poker face most of the time, hasn't yet figured out how to not emote with the pair of wings he gets from the forge. Thundercracker is the one who eventually informs him while the rest of the crew are booing loudly in the background.

I actually do have designs of TFP Skywarp, Thundercracker, and Ironhide in the works.

Fowler and Starscream have insult battles. Oddly both grow a weird almost fondness for these verbal sparring sessions

They frequently raid the Nemesis

Miko keeps talking in a pirate voice. Smokescreen has joined her.

AND A LOT OF OTHER STUFF I'LL GET INTO WITH MORE DETAIL AND ART. I'll also talk more in depth about some of these things that isn't a ramble like this post is. xnwjskw.

Feel free to ask about anything you're curious about.

[csmeaner]

WARNING: GROSS

Might as well submit this now so I can take a break off the blog for a bit after digging up that Densy shit.

So, I'll bite: /post/694191943132053504/who-is-jesse-and-why-does-everyone-hate-him-so 

post related

posts tagged jesse

Gross stuff at the end.

I wouldn't say I hate Jesse, exactly. That would imply he takes up a lot more active space in my head than he does. His antics, however, do live in the more passive part of my brain and no amount of sandpaper's gonna get that out, so I, uh, am not fond of the guy.

1. Hides behind his mental illness as an excuse to be a POS. Was Jesse mean to you? Did he blow up at you? Was he a shitty friend? Is he bitter as fuck? Does he only talk to you when he wants something? Well, he has mental illness so he has an unspoken expectation you just shrug your shoulders and move on. (In his response to the CCCat-Peakit thing, it read to me like he was explicitly expecting it. You'll have to decide for yourself.)

2. What he did to his "friend", Caravan. While she was around, he was happy to receive gifts from her and defend her. But the moment they had a falling out and he was, like Densy, sure Caravan was gone, he sent screenshots of their personal conversations to Densy. 

I don't care how much you fucking hate someone. Private messages between someone you call a friend should stay private unless there's a very good reason for them not to (ex: someone's telling you they're going to end their life). Print them out and burn them if you need catharsis.

It's also super hypocritical. Caravan was one of the most blatantly mentally-ill people I've seen whaling in CS but because she made Jesse mad, he's excused himself for doing it.

3. He's caused trouble in other communities. Since it's not CS, I won't go into details. He's so aggro and unwilling to back down from anything.

4. Some people still hate him from his hoarding and foddering days. He was never Caravan-level, but he was just about everywhere like her. At least he was usually fair about trades.

5. Mad shit-talker in general. Oh the shit he published following the initial days of the 20K Grem callout. I bet if Caravan released some of her private chats with Jesse, we'd see some real tea.

BUT THE BIGGEST REASONS

6. I'm uncomfortable with his thoughts about minors given how he tried to talk around himself for having a relationship with a 16 yr old when he was 19 yrs old, and how he visited this 16 year old and they "kissed and mildly fooled around". His background story is eerily similar to Soyu-k's. Warning for talks of CSEM and abusive religion: https://archive(.)ph(/)oc1M0. Further response from Jesse (same warnings, just to be safe): archive(.)ph(/)IdG27.

I really don't know how to feel about the last two links. On the one hand, maybe he didn't know, and he's open (as far as we know) about it? Then again, he only came out with it when he couldn't deny it anymore, like Soyu-k. But everyone is different. There's just something about both those posts that doesn't sit right with me. You'll have to decide for yourself.

To be clear, I don't think Jesse is dangerous. I think he's a narcissist (in the general sense, not the personality disorder sense) who's willing to...wriggle around a bit to get himself out of something he'd never forgive someone else for.

7. Related to the above, he has one instance (one is all it takes to make me hate you) that I know of what looks like graphic pro-shipping material in his Toyhouse, which was drawn by his boyfriend(?), Xiphos. Censored version (warning as it's still pretty rancid if you're sensitive to this sort of thing): pasteboard(.)co(/)FnTM1kmrVlmU(.)png.

I know someone who archived the original, uncensored image. I'm not in the mood to dig it up for obvious reasons but lemme know if you just HAVE to see it. And I'll get back to you in a couple days. Or go look it up for yourself before it's inevitably hidden.

It seems clear from the TH profile that the character is intended to be an adult and the image should be interpreted as "size play" or maybe "macro". Knowing how some people treat size play/macro, I avoid people who draw it out to this extent. The character in this image has borderline-child proportions.

Actually, Jesse seems to share Xiphos's tastes in general. For example, this naked human's encounter with a rather large anthro. Censored version: pasteboard(.)co(/)Z5MXE9Cqnnz4(.)png.

Again, I know this is supposed to come off as size-play or macro, but it's something that comes down to your own perspective. Is it bestiality to draw a human having, um, relations with a giant anthro? Is it nasty or just incredibly weird? That's for you to decide.

As for me, I'm going to go play video games or something and hope this heartburn goes away.

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Qiran's and Shou's relationship.

The magic post.

World building in Avril Quinn n Bones story.

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Mechas

{🥀Rules bout it🥀}

I'll take my time w em, so please don't come for them, I never know lmao. For asking for em ya just got to go either dm me for It or ask in my inbox w references for It(Pose; character and general idea y'know)

That's all for now, It'll be updated if anything changed though 🤍

I'm adding at the end my discord simpery apology video cuz shit Is funny alright

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by That_Gay_Shit_jpeg

the irony in the title is not lost on me thanks.

These are gonna be a series of drabbles in no particular order of Kaede and Maki and their adventures and experiences living together :)

They're cute and I love them sm. this is also My first time writing for this fandom so the charachters might be a little ooc, sorry.

I'll try to progress the drabbles so they get like more intimate/significant as they progress, but again, no real order to them. Except the first two chapters. deff read those first as they're introductory.

I have a list of prompts i'm filling out for them kind of but if i ever run out i might let some of yall request something since i know the newcomers to this fandom are content starved as hell.

Words: 1304, Chapters: 3/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types, New Dangan Ronpa V3: Everyone's New Semester of Killing

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi

Characters: Akamatsu Kaede, Harukawa Maki, Amami Rantaro, Iruma Miu, Mioda Ibuki, Koizumi Mahiru, Saionji Hiyoko, Nanami Chiaki, Sonia Nevermind, Hinata Hajime, Kamukura Izuru, Komaeda Nagito, Oowada Mondo, Hanamura Teruteru, Shirogane Tsumugi

Relationships: Akamatsu Kaede/Harukawa Maki, Koizumi Mahiru/Saionji Hiyoko, Hinata Hajime/Komaeda Nagito, Hinata Hajime/Nanami Chiaki, Hinata Hajime/Komaeda Nagito/Nanami Chiaki, Chiaki Nanami/Sonia Nevermind, Minor or Background Relationship(s), pretty much all of them are minor or background relationships, except Kaede and Maki, this is a kaemaki fic, Harukawa Maki & Kamakura Izuru, Amami Rantaro & Harukawa Maki, Harukawa Maki & Owada Mondo, Akamatsu Kaede & Koizumi Mahiru, Akamatsu Kaede & Nanami Chiaki, Akamatsu Kaede & Mioda Ibuki, Akamatsu Kaede & Iruma Miu

Additional Tags: Akamatsu Kaede-centric, Harukawa Maki-centric, Kaemaki roomates au, And they were roomates!, oh my god they were rommates, pretty much all of the charachters are minor or background charachters, some might not even get mentioned idk i'm still fleshing this out, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, Lesbians smh, Useless Lesbians, Kaede is bisexual actualy, wlw, wuluwuh, Maki is a lesbian, Le$bean?, LeDollaBean, Bisexuality, Kaede plays piano at a bar bc ofc she does, Mahiru owns the bar because fuck you I do what I want, Kaede's work uniform includes a bowtie, Kaede doesn't know how to tie a bowtie, Maki knows how to tie a bowtie, lesbianism ensues, oneshots, Gay, Gay as hell, Love, two girls, just two girls in l, they are two girls in love, they live together, Roommates, its a roommates au, Falling In Love, why are all the recomended tags from fuckign supernatural, I feel like I'm missing something, How Do I Tag, Angst, Menstruation, yes because I'm afab and it hurts so I'm going 2 vent about it, Trans Hinata Hajime, Trans Izuru Kamakura, because fuck you a second time, Maki and Izuru is an underrated friendship concept i think, wow this has a lot of tags, maybe if i just keep typing them I'll come up with some that are actually relevant, Maki litteraly needs someone to tell her she is whiped, like this girl is down so bad, I Will Go Down With This Ship, Kaede plays the piano for her <3, So back to that angst tag, panic attakcs, :), Kaede is on antidepressants because fuck you again for like a third time, also she wears contacts, Kaede is the Messy Roomate™, Izuru and Hajime are twins but their last names are different because they grew up in seperate homes, if you were wondering, also the komahinanami thing and the sonianami thing are both cannon at the same time, shshshs let chiaki love three people, even if it's just in the background, idk might fuck around and give chiaki her own chapter trying to flirt with sonia, no update schedule, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Non-Despair (Dangan Ronpa), I hc chiaki mumbles all star lyrics as an idle stim, deff not bc i do that, AHAHAHA, cries in adhd, this is my current hyper fixation lol, god how many tags do i rlly need, ffs, okay but did I cover all the relevant ones???, Living Together, Spoilers, maybe?? - Freeform, idk man, i mean maki's talent might get spoiled idk, if you're here tho you've probably already gotten to that point, I say as I havent even gotten passed v3's first trial, okay I think that's all, I'm lazy, Coming Out, also also not to project or anything but, she is deff the type of bitch with 5357928479752 cups in her room, V3 is so emotionally draining, if i hear one more upsetting spoiler i think i will begin aging rapidly, I would put this tag ->, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, except I probably /wont/ do that

[ao3feed-danganronpa]

I'm falling in love with my roommate. (She has a bisexual flag in her closet.)

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3kN2S27

by That_Gay_Shit_jpeg

the irony in the title is not lost on me thanks.

These are gonna be a series of drabbles in no particular order of Kaede and Maki and their adventures and experiences living together :)

They're cute and I love them sm. this is also My first time writing for this fandom so the charachters might be a little ooc, sorry.

I'll try to progress the drabbles so they get like more intimate/significant as they progress, but again, no real order to them. Except the first two chapters. deff read those first as they're introductory.

I have a list of prompts i'm filling out for them kind of but if i ever run out i might let some of yall request something since i know the newcomers to this fandom are content starved as hell.

Words: 1304, Chapters: 3/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types, New Dangan Ronpa V3: Everyone's New Semester of Killing

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi

Characters: Akamatsu Kaede, Harukawa Maki, Amami Rantaro, Iruma Miu, Mioda Ibuki, Koizumi Mahiru, Saionji Hiyoko, Nanami Chiaki, Sonia Nevermind, Hinata Hajime, Kamukura Izuru, Komaeda Nagito, Oowada Mondo, Hanamura Teruteru, Shirogane Tsumugi

Relationships: Akamatsu Kaede/Harukawa Maki, Koizumi Mahiru/Saionji Hiyoko, Hinata Hajime/Komaeda Nagito, Hinata Hajime/Nanami Chiaki, Hinata Hajime/Komaeda Nagito/Nanami Chiaki, Chiaki Nanami/Sonia Nevermind, Minor or Background Relationship(s), pretty much all of them are minor or background relationships, except Kaede and Maki, this is a kaemaki fic, Harukawa Maki & Kamakura Izuru, Amami Rantaro & Harukawa Maki, Harukawa Maki & Owada Mondo, Akamatsu Kaede & Koizumi Mahiru, Akamatsu Kaede & Nanami Chiaki, Akamatsu Kaede & Mioda Ibuki, Akamatsu Kaede & Iruma Miu

Additional Tags: Akamatsu Kaede-centric, Harukawa Maki-centric, Kaemaki roomates au, And they were roomates!, oh my god they were rommates, pretty much all of the charachters are minor or background charachters, some might not even get mentioned idk i'm still fleshing this out, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, Lesbians smh, Useless Lesbians, Kaede is bisexual actualy, wlw, wuluwuh, Maki is a lesbian, Le$bean?, LeDollaBean, Bisexuality, Kaede plays piano at a bar bc ofc she does, Mahiru owns the bar because fuck you I do what I want, Kaede's work uniform includes a bowtie, Kaede doesn't know how to tie a bowtie, Maki knows how to tie a bowtie, lesbianism ensues, oneshots, Gay, Gay as hell, Love, two girls, just two girls in l, they are two girls in love, they live together, Roommates, its a roommates au, Falling In Love, why are all the recomended tags from fuckign supernatural, I feel like I'm missing something, How Do I Tag, Angst, Menstruation, yes because I'm afab and it hurts so I'm going 2 vent about it, Trans Hinata Hajime, Trans Izuru Kamakura, because fuck you a second time, Maki and Izuru is an underrated friendship concept i think, wow this has a lot of tags, maybe if i just keep typing them I'll come up with some that are actually relevant, Maki litteraly needs someone to tell her she is whiped, like this girl is down so bad, I Will Go Down With This Ship, Kaede plays the piano for her <3, So back to that angst tag, panic attakcs, :), Kaede is on antidepressants because fuck you again for like a third time, also she wears contacts, Kaede is the Messy Roomate™, Izuru and Hajime are twins but their last names are different because they grew up in seperate homes, if you were wondering, also the komahinanami thing and the sonianami thing are both cannon at the same time, shshshs let chiaki love three people, even if it's just in the background, idk might fuck around and give chiaki her own chapter trying to flirt with sonia, no update schedule, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Non-Despair (Dangan Ronpa), I hc chiaki mumbles all star lyrics as an idle stim, deff not bc i do that, AHAHAHA, cries in adhd, this is my current hyper fixation lol, god how many tags do i rlly need, ffs, okay but did I cover all the relevant ones???, Living Together, Spoilers, maybe?? - Freeform, idk man, i mean maki's talent might get spoiled idk, if you're here tho you've probably already gotten to that point, I say as I havent even gotten passed v3's first trial, okay I think that's all, I'm lazy, Coming Out, also also not to project or anything but, she is deff the type of bitch with 5357928479752 cups in her room, V3 is so emotionally draining, if i hear one more upsetting spoiler i think i will begin aging rapidly, I would put this tag ->, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, except I probably /wont/ do that

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3kN2S27

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Fresh Crops! June 16 - July 2, 2023

This week's newest fics and story updates for Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons on AO3!

From Dusk to Dawn - by SinMints; WIP, 1/5, 1.6k

Rating: Explicit; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: M/M Fandoms: Animal Parade Relationship: Wizard Gale | Mahoutsukai/Luke; Characters: Luke the Carpenter, Wizard Gale Additional Tags: Porn With Plot, tags will be added as chapters are added, Body Worship **Note** Some tags have been removed to remain safe for tumblr. please check the tags on ao3 for a complete list Summary: This work is part of a series. The Moon and Sun Dynamic is the main fic, and these are just snippets of NSFW scenes that happen during or between chapters. Not much of what happens here will make sense without reading the parent fic, sorry!

The Moon and Sun Dynamic - by SinMints; WIP, 15/21, 35k

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: M/M Fandom: Animal Parade Relationships: Luke/Wizard, chase/maya(background); Characters: Luke, Wizard, Kathy, Jin, Dale, Bo, Maya | Mai, Chase | Chihaya, Wizard Gale Additional Tags: the story of this ship is hella long, dont rp two opposing personality types in a group chat at the same time it hecks you up, alcohol mention, wizard has some social anxiety issues, lukes an idiot ofc, Rating changed for Language, Slow Burn, the slowest burn, Minor Character Death Mention Summary: The moon and sun, two beings destined to never meet. However, a turn of fate brings them together one day and... the sun's kind of annoying... and the moon's kinda spooky.

Story Of Seasons: A Wonderful Life: Cecelia. Chapter 1: Beginning - by OmegaRain_Productions; Complete, 1/1, 1.5k

Rating: Mature; Archive Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warning, Major Character Death; Category: F/F Fandom: A Wonderful Life Relationship: Cecelia/Megan Summary: Following the Death of her father, Megan inherits her fathers farm in Forget-Me-Not Valley, Wanting to keep it running and get away from the City Life, She agrees to run it, not expecting to run into the love of her life there.

The deleted heart cutscene - by phantomick; Complete, 1/1, 1k

Rating: Explicit; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: M/M Fandom: A Wonderful Life Relationships: Rock/Male Reader; Character: Rock Additional Tags: I Don't Even Know, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Aftercare, I'm Sorry, Sounding, Situational Humiliation **Note** Some tags have been removed to remain safe for tumblr. please check the tags on ao3 for a complete list Summary: After going on several dates, Rock and I became close. He had a very specific schedule, so it puzzled you as to why he hadn't yet walked by the farm. You decide to pay him a visit…

The Language of Flowers - by spoopybat; WIP, 73/?, 172k

Rating: Explicit; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: F/M Fandoms: The Tale of Two Towns Relationships: Cam | Kamil/Lillian the Farmer | Sato, Chelsea/Vaughn | Waltz Additional Tags: Tags Contain Spoilers, POV Alternating, Background Relationships, Starting Over, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Other Ships Not Mentioned in Tags, Friendship, Friends to Lovers, Friendship/Love, Minor Character Death, Background Character Death, Minor Violence, Minor Injuries, Physical Abuse, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Hurt/Comfort, Socially Awkward Characters, Cliche, Mutual Pining, Awkwardness, Awkward Flirting, Emotional Baggage, References to Depression, Dysfunctional Family, Melodrama, Family Drama, First Love, First Relationship, Sharing a Bed, Loss of Virginity, First Time, Morning After, Morning Cuddles, Christmas, Domestic Fluff, Unplanned Pregnancy, Pregnancy, Morning Sickness, Emotional Hurt, Emotional Constipation, Arguing, Medical Conditions, Medical inaccuracies but I'm gonna do my best, Panic Attacks, Engagement, Wedding Planning, Wedding Fluff, Weddings, Honeymoon, Body Worship, Making Love, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Mental Anguish, Spa Treatments, Fights, Making Up, Mental Health Issues, Depression, Language of Flowers, Emotional reunion, Therapy **Note** Some tags have been removed to remain safe for tumblr. please check the tags on ao3 for a complete list Summary: Lillian, a young woman from the Sunshine Islands, left her home and moved to Bluebell. In hopes that moving to this rural farm town to escape her troubled past and find the happy life she had always wanted.