#there's a lot of other shit you should do to prepare for 5 star raids like be leveled and at least ev trained (ivs help too)

[adhdvane]

:) picking a pokemon to be supereffective against a 5 star raid’s terra type is great but PLEASE for the love of fcuk PLEASE THINK ABOUT THE TYPE THAT POKEMON IS AND WHAT MOVES THEY HAVE I DON’T CARE IF THAT TALONFLAME IS DARK TERA! IT’S GOING TO HAVE FLARE BLITZ; IF HALF THE PARTY BRINGS TINKATON WE’RE NOT MAKING IT BC SHE’S GETTING ONE SHOT (SURPRISE FLARE BLITZ IS A PHYSICAL MOVE AND TINKATON IS STEEL TYPE AND A SPECIAL TANK! NOT PHYSICAL TANK)! thinking about the physical/special shit is important but please just at least think about ALL the typing involved. pokemon also STILL GET STAB for moves that match their original type. please take into consideration what type moves the pokemon will have and try to avoid bring pokemon that are weak to them

[imaginesmai]

THIS IS MY OLD MY MASTERLIST, IS NOT UPDATED ANYMORE. CHECK OUT MY SIDE BLOG @imaginesmaimasterlists FOR THEM

💕:Fluff

🎈: Funny

💋: Smut

😭: Angst

⭐: Personal favourite.

🥇: The most popular fic in each category (it might change).

Angst Alphabet

Fluff Alphabet

Prompt List 1

Kink-November

AVENGERS

PETER PARKER/SPIDERMAN

A phone call away:  Peter is having a hard time sleeping, and doesn’t know how to tell you. Eventually, someone catches him sleeping on a public place and you find out. The thing is, you love him and Peter should know that you’re always there for him. Even if it’s just by a phone call. 💕

⭐  Autistic love (autistic! Peter x reader):  there is something weird about Peter, but that doesn’t make him any less lovable.  💕 

⭐ Autistic love (autistic!Peter x reader): Peter and you have decided to meet your mother for lunch, and he’s going to discover how much you and your family care about him. 💕

Beautiful:  study break is better if Peter is with you.  💕

Breeding kink (November Kink) 💋

Check: He had a date for the homecoming dance, he had the perfect suit and a proper preparation. Peter Parker didn’t think about the winged man  😭

Dating Peter Parker would include...  💕 🎈

⭐ De-aging (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) :  you get hit by a de-aging spell, and Peter has to take care of you while trying not to break down completely. (COMPLETE)🎈 

Europe (1) (2):  Europe is being great, and it would be even greater if Peter could just follow his plan. (COMPLETE) 💕

Sometimes, once in a while: even heroes need saving sometimes  💕

Far from home:  Peter Parker has just been run over by a train. However, he has biggest worries. Like, Beck having you in his grasp. 💕

Finally: Peter’s strange behaviour hasn’t gone unnoticed by the people around him, but he has a very, very, good reason for it. Or, in which Peter and you plan a date for Friday’s night and he can’t stop thinking about it  💕 🎈

⭐  First kisses:  Peter Parker’s and yours first, or five, first kisses. 💕

Fluff Alphabet

Friday Night:  you want to have a quiet Friday night, and Peter is just swinging by to make it better.  💕

Fuck you Beck:  You had been given strict orders, yet you couldn’t ignore Peter’s call for help, even if the boy was too stubborn to do so; and even if you can be the one needing help at the end.   💕 😭

⭐  Hold you: fighting is always hard, but Peter didn’t think it would be that hard. 😭 

No more fondue on my watch: Peter and you have been together for a while now, but nothing can go past Captain America eagle’s eyes. 💋 🎈

Peter Parker having public sex  💋

🥇  Peter Parker making you squirt for the first time 💋

Peter’s Tingle:  Peter’s tingle must always be trusted; through the good and bad. 😭 💕

Praise Kink (November Kink)  💋

Promises   💋

⭐ See the light (Tangled AU): Pre-view (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12 - epilogue): Peter Parker has lot a lot through the years, and has become a shell of the bright boy he used to be. A serie of unfortunate events lead him to you, a naive young girl who has a dream. Slowly, he starts to realize that you might be that light at the end of the tunnel he needed so much (FINISHED) 💕 🎈

Short fic 1  💕 🎈

Skip (1) (2): Peter’s new life couldn’t be better. College, aparment for himself, you. Still, Parker’s luck is not on his side, and the memories are coming back. (ON GOING) 😭

Soul Stone:  Peter and you are sent to Vormir, to get the soul stone  😭

Tried (not enough): Tony had developed a cronic anxiety every time Peter calls in the middle of the night. He knows it gets bad; just not so much. 😭

Worry:  you’re sick and Peter is worried. Maybe a little too much 💕

TONY STARK/IRONMAN

⭐  According to the plan:  Tony Stark has a plan. Tony Stark builds a plan. He couldn’t have known both of them could go to shit in an abandoned HYDRA base in Siberia, by the hands of his ex-best friend.  😭

⭐  Family:  Tony Stark doesn’t have a lot of nice things nowadays, but his family make up for all of what he has lost. 💕

🥇 ⭐  Feeling old:  you say something that tiggers Tony’s inners insecurities and doubts.  💕 💋

Heartbeat: Tony has a heart attack, and you’re the only one around. 😭 💕

Imagine 1

Long way home: the final battle is over. Thanos is dead. Tony is alive. Everyone has payed the price, but some are having a harder time than others.

Or

An endgame fix-it of how Tony Stark survived the snap, but with the reality about a traumatic experience as losing a limb and almost dying. 😭 💕

⭐  On sale:  Tony has a task: bring nuggets to satisfy your pregnant cravings. The obstacle: they were on sale.  🎈

Out in space: Tony is trapped in space, and his biggest worry is not how to get back home, but rather if you’re going to make it. Because there is more than one problem he has to face 😭

Recovery:  Tony Stark has a problem. Actually, he has a lot of them. Tony Stark has always been surronded by problems. But now it’s different, and he has found the will of getting out of them.  💕

Things we don’t mean: a mission gone wrong, and Peter gets hurt. It hits Tony where it hurts the most, becuase he sees the kid as a son, and he blames it on you. Hard words are exchanged and apologies are muttered.  💕

Whatever it takes:  something in Tony’s gut tells him that this recording is neccesary. He doesn’t want to think about it, but he does it anyways  😭 💕

BUCKY BARNER/WINTER SOLDIER

A lash for a dog:  after a failed mission, things only gets harder.  😭

🥇  Beautiful ballerina:  Hiding your relationship with Bucky from the world was not easy. The worst part of it was hiding it from the mightiest heroes in the world; the Avengers. 💕

Imagine 1

Imagine 2

The first rays of sun: a short fluffy blurb with your moment with Bucky before a mission  💕

STEVE ROGERS/CAPITAN AMERICA

🥇  Be Okay:  HYDRA takes Steve. When you get back to him, he’s not the sweet boyfriend you know. 😭

Photograph-song inspired  💕

Perfect: your date is about to get ruined and not even your perfect boyfriend might be able to do something against it.  😭

THOR

My hero: you didn’t believe in heroes. Those strong, brave men that always wanted to save the day, only to cower away when the real problems began. You didn’t like heroes, who wanted to save the damsel in distress; you could save yourself, thank you very much. You didn’t fall in love with heroes, until a certain blonde one stumbled into your life. (1) (ON GOING)

New Asgard: life in New Asgard is peaceful, but the past always comes back.  💕

🥇 ⭐  Nightmares:  the final battle had made a mess out of the God. Nightmares fill his mind, but you’re always there to make it better. Until one day, you aren’t.  😭  

LOKI

Imagine 1

VENOM/EDDIE BROCK

Friends:  Eddie and you have been friends as long as you can remember. He has ruined your life, but it’s not like you can hate the man you love.

Imagine 1

🥇  Imagine 2

Imagine 3

VIKINGS

UBBE RAGNARSON

25th of December (1) (2) (MILITARY AU):  When Ubbe’s gone, the only thing you have left is hope. (ON GOING) 😭 

Dance Teacher (1):  Ubbe’s Friday is not going as well as he would have liked it. Yet meeting his daughter’s dance teacher is going to change that. (ON GOING)💕

First time being a dad (MODERN AU)  🎈

Heartbeat AU (1) (2) :  your heart doesn’t allow you to have a normal life, but it does beat faster when you meet your new doctor. (COMPLETE) 💕 😭

Imagine 1

Imagine 2

Imagine 3

Imagine 4

⭐  I’m with you:  Ubbe wants to make peace with the Saxons. He doesn’t care what it takes, but when you decided to follow him in the middle of the night, he’s not so sure anymore. 😭

⭐ Lagertha’s Daughter (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) :  Lagertha plans on attacking Kattegat, soon, and you, her daughter and Ubbe’s lover, just ask her to make you a promise (COMPLETE) 😭

My Viking Prince (1) (2) (3) :  you’re Alfred sister, princess Y/N. All your life, you have believed that love is all about pleasing your husband and making him happy or that’s what your mother told you. Now, prince Ubbe is making you see things differently. (COMPLETE)💕  💋(3)

Say that again:  Ivar has never liked you, Ubbe Christian lover, and he makes that very clear.

⭐ The sweet baker and the bad biker (1) (2) (3) (4) (5): (vikings x SOA crossover)  Ubbe, as the new president of SAMCRO, goes to the new bakery to see who is the owner and if he or she is a threat for Charming. He finds you, a sweet, cute and innocent girl who doesn’t hesitate to make him fall in love (COMPLETE)  😭

🥇  They learn about periods   🎈

Together:  Sigurd’s death threaten to tear not only your world but your relationship apart. 😭

What you deserve (1): Ubbe knows that you’re pregnant with his son or daughter and that he needs to leave Kattegat if he wants to protect you. What he doesn’t know is if you’re going to make it. (ON GOING)

Winner’s prize : Ubbe has put his life again at risk, but this time there are things in between that makes it different💕 😭

Your daughter’s first boyfriend  🎈

HVITSERK RAGNARSON

⭐ Angst Alphabet (Tattoo Artist!Hvitserk) (1)   😭

- N for Nothing  😭

- O for Offended  😭

- P for Pressure  😭

- Q for Quake  😭

- R for Rob  😭

- S for Surgery  😭

- T for Time  😭

- X for Xx  😭

Crush AU (1) (2):  shitty job, shitty life, too much stress. What’s better to solve those problems that your hot, handsome and funny roommate’s brother? (COMPLETE)💕  💋(1)

⭐  First time being a dad (MODERN AU)   🎈

Him (MODERN AU): Hvitserk and you are seeing each other behind your boyfriend’s back, his half-brother Magnus. And leaving the latest isn’t easy.  😭

His lady:  You’re his lady, he’s your prince.  😭

Home:  What do you call home when you have lost everything? You come back to Kattegat to fight Ivar, but it’s hard to know that Hvitserk will be there too.  😭

Imagine 2

NSFW Alphabet 

Octopus: Hvitserk is sick and just wants cuddles. (can be read as the second part of him)  💕

Rewrite the stars (Song inspired)  💕

Soon to be husband:  Hvitserk’s back from raiding only to find you promised to another man. It’s up to him do something or not about it.  😭

Taken : you are taken by the saxons, along with your soon to be husband, Hvitserk. And you do not hesitate in protecting him, not caring about the consequences  😭

🥇 ⭐  They learn about periods    🎈

⭐  Your daughter’s first boyfriend    🎈

IVAR RAGNARSON

Angst Alphabet  😭

Checkmate:  Ivar hasn’t always been the murderous king we know. There was a spark initiating the fire.   😭 💕

First time being a dad (MODERN AU)   🎈 

Quiet days: Ivar is in a bad mood and it seems like only you can fix that  💕 💋

🥇  They learn about periods    🎈

Your daughter’s first boyfriend   🎈

BJORN RAGNARSON

Angst Alphabet  😭

First time being a dad (MODERN AU)   🎈

Imagine 1

🥇  They learn about periods   🎈

Your daughter’s first boyfriend   🎈

ALFRED

Something that there wasn’t there before (Song inspired)   💕

ACTORS

TOM HOLLAND

Back home (1) (2):   Five months ago, you broke up. Five months ago, you walked out of Tom’s house because it was all too much. Five months ago, Tom left his home without you. And now he’s back, realizing you shouldn’t have never broke up. (COMPLETE)💕 😭

Back to you (Song inspired) 😭

Caterpillar:  there isn’t ice-cream on the fridge, and that only makes your day worse. Until Tom comes home to fix it all. 💕

⭐  Christmas Present:  you recive a call in Christmas and your world lights up like a Christmas tree. 💕

⭐Fawn (Mob!Tom): GENERAL SUMMARY  (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)💕 😭

⭐  Fluff Alphabet (Tom Holland)  💕 

Forgotten aniversary:  working so hard had consequences.  💕 😭

Football incident (college!Tom):  Tom gets hurt in a game, although it might not be an accident after all.  💕

Gift wrapping:  gift wrapping is the worst part of Christmas. Tom is the best one.   💕

Lost kid:  Tom and you spent your last weekend before going home in Disney World, and he turns out to be one of those boyfriends who end up in the ‘lost kids’ deparment.  💕  🎈

Mushy Pancakes:  morning sex and breakfast in bed is the best way to wake up. 💕

Relax:  Tom is driving you mad without knowing, but that’s about to change after an stressful day. 💋

Short fic 1: everyone is cooking in the quarentine, and even if Tom knows he can’t do shit, he’s going to try.  💕  🎈 

Shower time: the quarantine is the perfect time to tease, until you have enough and Tom is alone in the shower. 💋 💕

⭐  The Impossible (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6):  Your relationship with Tom is on edge. Work, paparazzi and not seeing each other for months is making you tear apart from each other. Thankfully, he’s an amazing boyfriend and propose you what you thought it would be the perfect holidays; Thailandia. The hot sun, the beach, a cute hut and privacy to mend your relationship. Neither of you thought you would be witnesses of one of the greatest natural dissasters of history (COMPLETE)  💕 😭

Training Day:  Tom’s morning hasn’t been the only thing hard that day.   💋

🥇  True love kiss: “I tricked your little sister telling her Ursula has stolen my voice because I have a massive hangover, and now we have to kiss in order not to break her innocence”

or

Au were Tom works in Disney store, has a massive headache and can’t talk, and now he has lied to a little girl and she wants to get him a ‘true love kiss’; which happens to you, her older sister and Tom’s highschool crush.  💕  🎈

ALEX HOGH

Attention: Alex just wants to cuddle with you. 💕

🥇 ⭐  Friends don’t love each other: when feelings and sex are mixed, nothing good can come out of it. Alex and you have been doing it for a while, and the bubble if about to explode. 💋  😭

Good Boy: Alex has been a naughty boy and he needs to earn his reward. 💋

Imagine 1

CHRIS EVANS

Bananas: your daughter seems to have a strange fixation with bananas   💕 🎈

Bananas’ worries:  Banana the plushie is making another appearance in your life, and this time is bringing worries.  💕 🎈

⭐  Banana’s new friend:  little Nathan is the new addition to the Evans-Y/L/N family, and Banana is having troubled feelings, along with Claire.   💕 🎈

🥇  NSFW Alphabet 💋

MARCO ILSO

🥇  Imagine 1  

Imagine 2

You’ve got my heart : Marco is your best friend, your neighbour and your crush. One night at your house changes everything for the best; but you’ve taken different paths and life might never reunite you again.💕  💋  😭 

TOM HARDY

B for Baby: you’re pregnant and something happens  😭

🥇  Imagine 1

Imagine 2

SEBASTIAN STAN

Gorgeous: Sebastian is doing and interview and can’t keep his eyes away from you (short blurb)💕

🥇 ⭐  Wired Autocomplete Interview: fans watching your interview with Sebastian are going to get more than what they bargained for. 💕

BEN HARDY

⭐  Interview :  you’re exicted for your first solo interview about the End Game movie, but it’s not going to be as good as you thought it would. 😭 💕

Trust:  Ben is your bodyguard and you’re his client, and both of you have some unspoken feelings. And what best way to confess, that without words and just after a bomb have blown up the building you were in? 😭 💕

TARON EGERTON

Hypothetically:  you find something that you didn’t mean to in Taron’s tablet, and you wish it had been porn.  💕 🎈

SONS OF ANARCHY

JAX TELLER

🥇  Break in:  your family night turns into a nightmare morning when some guys break into your house threatening your family  😭

Dating Jax Teller   💕

Embarrasing moment with their child  🎈

Imagine 1

🥇  Imagine 2

Imagine 3

Imagine 4

⭐  Injury:  Summer mornings with Abel are always unpredictable.  💕  😭

Lucky (Zombie apocalypse) (1) (2): after the “fall”, everything turned out to be dangerous. You have been lucky enought to find Jax and a group.

Safe: in your mind, it’s not his fault. It’s never his fault, becuase he’s your dad and he loves you. But there is one person who loves you more, and is willing to prove that what Clay does is not right  😭

Short fic 1: after a shooting, the most important thing Jax has to do is to pick up the pieces.  💕  😭

HAPPY

🥇  Dating Happy Lowman  💕

⭐  Embarrasing moment with their child   🎈

PEAKY BLINDERS

ALFIE SOLOMONS

🥇  Bad words and bad luck:  Alfie and you have a bet going on; if he doesn’t say any bad words until night, you’ll let him do whatever he wants in bed.  💕  😭

Imagine 1

NSWF Alphabet    💋

MICHAEL GREY

Attached:  there isn’t much to say, just a cute rotten fluff day with the Shelby family  💕 🎈

Beach days:  Michael’s and your honeymoon is going to take an interesting turn in the beach  💋

🥇  H for Humillation:  you have a nice life, with a quiet library and a loving boyfriend. But some people don’t know how to respect that  😭

M for Mistakes:  you’re Michael’s world and he’s not ready to lose you yet  😭

Umbrellas (C for Catcall)  😭

THOMAS SHELBY

G for Grounded:  yours and Tom’s son is a spoiled kid, but his father hasn’t really noticed that. Until one night when, after a fight, Tom recives some harsh words from him.  😭

ARTHUR SHELBY

B for Baby:  For being a Shelby, having twins was one hell of a lucky strike. Arthur couldn’t be any more happy and exicted about it; yet as always, luck is not very common in a Shelby’s life.  😭

QUEEN (BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY MOVIE)

ROGER TAYLOR (Ben Hardy)

🥇 ⭐  Freddie’s best friend (1) (2):  being Freddie’s best friend means supporting him on everything, and being in love with Roger Taylor means suffering in silence, doesn’t it? Maybe a little trip to the fields can change that, but not in the best way (COMPLETE)  💕

To let you inside my heart (1) (2):  when you have your heart broken, you build walls so high that no one can climb them. Roger Taylor’s purpose is to show you no walls can stop a loving heart. (ON GOING)  💕

What I love:  Roger was a confident guy; full of girls and empty of insecurites. But now, he has a girlfriend and when an insecurity knocks at his door, all of them enter into his head.   💕

GAME OF THRONES 

JON SNOW

Imagine 1

ROBB STARK

🥇  Betrothed :  you have know since you were little that prince Robb Stark would be your husband one day. It’s time to meet him, and to discover if being promised to an unknown man is good or not  💕

Imagine 1

THE ORIGINALS/THE VAMPIRE DIARIES

DAMON SALVATORE

Back to you: Damon and you broke up two years ago, thinking it was for the best. When a threat to your life becomes too real, he’s forced to come back for the only woman he loves

KLAUS MIKAELSON

B for Baby  😭

🥇  Imagine 1

⭐  The Painting (ANGST ALPHABET):  your anniversary is coming up, and Klaus is determinated to put into a painting your relationship. Someone might finish it before he gets the chance  😭

SUPERNATURAL

DEAN WINCHESTER

Imagine 1

Imagine 2

Love you (small drabble)  💕

🥇 ⭐  Please Don’t:  while Dean and you’re trapped, he starts to realise that not everything is under control. 😭

Sub!Dean (November Kink)   💋

OTHER FANDOMS

STILES

Angst Alphabet   😭

🥇  Being Liam’s older sister and having a crush on Stiles  🎈

AQUAMAN

🥇  Imagine 1

Imagine 2

EGGSY UNWIN

Imagine 1

DARYL DIXON

Imagine 1

JACE WAYLAND

Daddy Kink (November Kink) 💋

⭐  (Don’t) Care: Jace’s carefree attittude is going to have terrible consequences for once 😭

Strawberry:  two assholes feel the right to ruin your day, but Jace isn’t going to let that happen. 💕

🥇W for Weak (1) (2):  your relationship with Jace is on edge, so you decided to wait and see if things get better. Not knowing that waiting can be your death sentence. (COMPLETE)  😭

JAMES DELANEY

Devil (1) (2):  James isn’t sure if he loves you or he tolerates you. He trust you with something really important to find out. 💋 😭

MAD MAX

Imagine 1

[ruffsficstuffplace]

And The AWRD Goes To... (Part 5)

“So what? You’re just going to shoot me?” Sucy asked calmly, the expression on her face as neutral ever, her hand in her bag and whatever she had in it.

“I will if I have to do it to stop you!” Akko cried, scowling as she held her weapon steady.

“You realize this is going to be a high crime if it kills me, right? That’s going to be a great way to start your fours years at Haven, dealing with a murder charge.”

“I’m pretty sure it’ll count as justifiable homicide once they realize what it is you brought here...” Akko growled, her grip on the front of the barrel tightening.

Constanze and Weiss looked at each other. The tension in the air was growing worse by the second, and there was a sinking feeling in Weiss’ gut that someone was about to get shot for real. She touched Constanze shoulder, the two of them shared a meaningful, wordless exchange; then, Constanze silently loaded her dust magazine into a collapsible submachine gun, Weiss lowered her weapon, and slowly made her towards them.

“Akko, Sucy?” she asked coolly. “What the hell is going on here?”

Akko turned her head, nearly swinging her gun towards Weiss before she froze, kept it pointed at Sucy. Sucy spared her a glance with her one visible eye. “Oh, it’s crazy girl’s friend,” she said, frowning as Constanze stepped up. “… And she’s brought company.”

“Her name is Akko, and in case you’ve forgotten, I’m Weiss,” Weiss said as she stepped up between them.

“And she would be?” Sucy said.

No response, as Constanze kept both her hands on her gun.

“Great, another weirdo,” Sucy said. “Well, at least she doesn’t try to talk your ear off.”

“What do you have in your hands there, Sucy?” Weiss asked.

“Oh, so you’re going to assume the worst of me and the best of your friend, even though she’s the one that’s got a gun pointed at me?”

“I’m fine being accused of bias right now, thanks,” Weiss snapped. “Now what’s in the bag?”

“Cursed bait,” Akko spat.

Weiss’ eyes widened. “Shit. Seriously?”

“It’s not cursed bait,” Sucy said cooly.

“What is that?” Constanze asked, a curious look on her face, her gun lowered though she kept her finger near the trigger.

“Like I said, it’s not cursed bait,” Sucy said. “I based the initial recipe off it, but this is ‘Manbavaran Grimm Bait’ now.”

“I bet it’s just going to be as awful as the original, though!” Akko said.

Constanze scowled. “What is that?” she repeated.

“Cursed bait was one of the worst things to have ever come out of the Great War,” Akko said. “Some scientists from Mistral discovered a concoction of herbs and chemicals that attract Grimm like kids to an ice cream truck—only way deadlier.

“It’s only because someone sabotaged the original batches and had Grimm swarming the original lab that it didn’t get even worse.”

“So put it down on the ground, leave it, and we’ll pretend none of this ever happened, Sucy,” Weiss said, pulling up her sword.

Sucy’s scowl deepened. “I don’t think you two realize just how much work, resources, and effort I put into this, how much I have at stake here...”

“And I don’t think you realize that I wasn’t asking.”

“How many Grimm will it attract?” Constanze asked.

Weiss and Akko turned to her, stunned, then horrified. “Are you fucking serious right now?!” they both cried.

Constanze grunted. “Yes.”

“Only a small pack of beowolves, herd of boarbatusks, maybe a single ursa—provided someone lets me use it properly, in the sane, easily handled amounts I planned to use it in,” Sucy said. “And if one of you does the stupid thing and tries to steal this bag from me, end up spilling it all, I’ve got enough firepower to level a mountain in this bag, handle whatever Grimm will come coming.

“If you manage to spill it on yourself, though, you’re on you’re own.”

“Do it,” Constanze said as her robotic arms started helping her rebuild her cannon. “Field testing.”

Sucy smiled victoriously. “Great—at least another one of us have sense here.”

Akko and Weiss just stared at her in disbelief and anger, Constanze stepped up to Sucy. “We’re leaving.” Weiss said flatly as she turned around.

“Yeah...” Akko muttered as she followed suit.

“What happened to working together with anyone you run into?” Sucy asked.

“I’m pretty sure my grandpa said that with the assumption that one of us WOULDN’T be recklessly endangering our lives on an even more irresponsible project!” Weiss said.

“Do you know how helpful this can be?!” Sucy snapped. “Getting Grimm exactly where we want them, steer them off from raids on settlements, lead them straight into traps—hell, we don’t even have to have huntsmen and huntresses risking their lives any more, we could just set up a whole lot of firebombs, and clean up the stragglers afterwards!

“We could save so many lives with this!”

Weiss and Akko just kept on walking, Sucy sighed and shook her head. Weiss cast a quick glance over her shoulder, saw Constanze stepping up to Sucy and the two of them trying to communicate, before she turned away and shook her head.

“… Well, it looks like you were right, Weiss: that girl really is nothing but trouble,” Akko muttered. “I’m sorry.”

“Don’t be,” Weiss said. “I tried to make friends with Constanze earlier, too.”

Akko groaned. “Dust, just—why would anyone try to make that stuff again?!”

“Just let it go, Akko,” Weiss said. “They’ve made their choice, let’s not get tangled up in it.”

They stopped as they heard the unholy roar of a beowulf in the distance—a call to action for every Grimm that happened to be lurking in the area.

Akko frowned. “You… you think we should stick around and help? Just in case?”

“Ah...” Weiss frowned, looked over her shoulder back at the way they came.

A rainy, windy day, water gushing and pouring down the storm drains, the upper levels of the city kept dry and safe while the residents in the bottom rung sighed to themselves as they prepared to wade through waist-deep water, their homes to get flooded, possibly even drown if the storm surged and the rickety, poorly maintained safety features weren’t up to snuff.

A girl Weiss’ age, surrounded by thugs with weapons.

“Weiss! Help me!”

That same girl, running away from the scene, Weiss watching her on the ground, through the gaps in the legs of the gangsters before they descended on her.

“Weiss?” Akko asked.

Weiss flinched, startled. “Ah—no, let’s not… help yourself before others, right?”

Akko frowned.

“She did say she has enough firepower to handle what’s coming—and if not, Constanze is with her, and trust me, her backpack is packing serious punch, too,” Weiss said. “I’ve seen it with my own eyes! Whole pack of beowolves, all by herself.”

Akko nodded, though she didn’t look totally convinced. “Okay, if you say so, Weiss.”

“Let’s go hunt for relics...” Weiss said, ignoring the sounds of explosions and fighting just behind them.

“When you go hunting for relics, you’d think to yourself: temples, caves, ruins of pre-War civilization, and you’d be right—there will be relics there, but only because your grandma, myself, and a handful of other professors planted them there,” Nick said in the days leading up to initiation.

Boom.

Fire exploded out the exhaust vents on the back of Shooting Star’s axe head, sending the blade straight into the side of an Ursa’s head. The beast flinched, roared and swiped at Akko as she broke off the stuck blade, blocked its attacks with the shotgun-handle. Weiss rushed up its back while it was distracted, plunging her sword straight down its head, Myrtenaster crackling with electricity.

The Ursa roared and convulsed, before it collapsed to the ground. Weiss hopped off, Akko grabbed the blade and pulled it out of the fast evaporating Grimm; they gave each other thumbs up and smiles, until they noticed a boarbatusk already rolling towards them.

Weiss jumped out of the way, Akko holstered the shotgun across her back, holding onto the blade like a set of brass knuckles. The boarbatusk crashed into her, Akko started to glow golden as she grabbed it, and suplexed it into the dirt. Stunned, the boarbatusk sprawled out on its back.

It tried to get up, Weiss stabbed it in the gut; the Grimm squealed, before it started smoking, and disappeared.

“If you really want to find something that’ll impress us, think about the history, the context behind why all these precious works of art and culture were abandoned here in the first place. Imagine it: it’s the middle of the Great War, your government has just declared an all out ban on all art and forms of self-expression, where the hell do I hide these expensive, valuable paintings, my ancestor’s statues of the gods, and my personal collection of erotica for later retrieval?”

An alpha beowulf lunged at Akko, tried to wrap its body around her and hold her down for the rest of its pack. Boom. Fire exploded from the new hole in its gut, it staggered back. Akko rammed herself into it and knocked it down, before she detached Shooting Star’s blade, jumped on top of it and started punching it.

The other beowolves tried to jump her, but they were quickly perforated by a barrage of icicles from the side. Akko braced herself, surrounded by the golden aura once more, the icicles harmlessly crashing on her.

The fallen alpha tried to lunge upwards and bite her, she shoved the blade straight down its mouth; it reeled from the strike, Akko pulled out her hand, and shoved the barrel of her shotgun in instead.

Boom. Boom.

The alpha’s head fell slack, before it started to smoke and evaporate; Akko got up, dusted herself off, and she and Weiss carried on.

“The answer: down dry wells, buried underneath the foundations of houses or in trap-doors, and especially inside tunnels. Now and then, the people of Mistral LOVE themselves some motherfucking tunnels for everything—and by that, I do mean everything, so apologies in advance when you happen to see some shit.

“Not ‘if.’ When.”

Akko threw herself against an ancient, sturdy wooden door, slamming a creep into the doorway. The Grimm was unfazed, still gnashing its teeth and attempting to bite her, the others inside trying to escape with it. Weiss slipped Myrtenaster in through the gap, summoned a glyph on the tip and started spewing flames at the Grimm inside.

Horrific screeching filled the air as creeps burned, Weiss pushed alongside Akko when they started ramming at and frantically scratching at the door; even the stuck creep stopped trying to bite them, struggling to get free, until finally, it stopped moving, and turned to smoke.

Thud.

The door slammed shut, Akko and Weiss fell against it. After a few moments of listening in for stragglers, they opened the door, let the smoke out, and peered in with a flashlight. Their eyes widened, they slowly closed the door again, and proceeded to leave as quickly and as they could.

“Of course, it obviously won’t be easy. There’s tons of Grimm infesting all these forgotten tunnels, attracted to the security, or that smell of fear and despair that never really leaves some places. And of course, us professors don’t restock them, knowing that students aren’t likely to find them any time soon, so if someone before you already got to them and cleaned the place out… well, tough luck, kiddo.

“But, if you do find something, and come back with it…” Nick smiled. “Then you’ve have earned your place in Haven and then some.”

“Bah!” Akko cried as she let herself all to some grass just outside the entrance of a tunnel. “Let’s take a break: my flashlight’s batteries need recharging and I’m hungry...” she said as she laid her weapon across her lap, flipped out her flashlight’s solar panels.

“Agreed...” Weiss muttered as she sat down beside her in a much more dignified pose, checked the vials on Mytrenaster’s revolver.

“Umeboshi, Weiss?” Akko said as she pulled out a jar full of the stuff. “Myrtenaster isn’t the only thing that needs recharging,” she said as she cracked open the lid, held it out to Weiss.

“Thank you,” Weiss said as she picked up a handful of them, popped them into her mouth. “Mmnn…!” she squeezed her eyes shut and shivered. “Times like these I can see why Mistralian huntsmen and huntresses insisted they never left without these things...”

“You mean aside from the fact that they’re delicious?” Akko asked, before she shoved some into her mouth, giggling and squirming in delight.

The two of them spent a while eating, resting, reloading, and doing some cursory maintenance on their weapons. “Where do you think we’ll find our artifacts?” Akko asked as she honed her weapon’s axe head. “It feels like we’ve searched everywhere Uncle Nick told us we’d probably find an artifact.”

“I don’t know, but we’ll find them,” Weiss said as she cleaned out some excess dust with a stick-like tool. “For sure, though, we’re not going to find them just sitting here—it’s not like the gods will just decide to start ‘dropping gifts from the heavens on us mortals’ again right?

“… Akko? Is something wrong…?”

“Do you hear that?” Akko whispered as she tensed up.

Weiss frowned, and nodded. They put down their tools, stood up and readied their weapons, listening to the mysterious sound, getting louder and louder, a high-pitched, continuous noise like a scream, until finally--

Thud!

A red and black blur crashed on top of Weiss, knocking them both to the ground. Akko jumped, pointed her gun at them both, then gasped. “Ruby?!” she cried.

“Oh! Hey, Akko, good to see you!” Ruby said, a little dazed, a folded Crescent Rose across her lap. She paused, looked below her, and quickly scrambled back up. “Oh, shit—I’m so sorry! Are you okay, Weiss?!”

“I’ll live...” Weiss gasped as Akko helped her back up. “Worst case scenario: my family has great insurance when it comes to artificial limbs and skeletal reinforcements.”

“What were you doing up there” Akko asked as she pulled Weiss’ arm across her shoulders.

“I was actually just about to get to that--” Ruby began.

Weiss and Akko flinched as they heard the sound of a Nevermore screeching, followed by a different, distinctly human scream:

“RUBY…!”

“Ah, sorry to ask you guys a huge favour so soon, but could you help me save Diana?” Ruby said as she frantically reloaded Crescent Rose. “Everyone else I’ve run into is busy trying to hold off this GIANT horde of Grimm and a King Tajitu, or running away while they’re occupied.”

Weiss and Akko readied their weapons, their fatigue and injury forgotten. “What happened?” Weiss asked as she helped Akko stuff their equipment back in her satchels.

“Well, it turns out that if someone asks you to help test some experimental Grimm bait, you really should just say ‘No,’” Ruby said as they began to run through the forest, jumping over fallen logs and branches, weaving around trees, crunching leaves underfoot. “Especially if they’re trying to see just how much Grimm you might attract with a certain amount of bait!

“Turns out, there’s a point where it stops luring in MORE Grimm and just, uh, starts luring in BIGGER, meaner Grimm.”

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#DemDebate night one:

Everyone's way too prepared.

So I said I wasn’t going to live-tweet the debates because I did that in 2016 and MAN did it make me insufferable online.

Buuuuut I also didn’t make a full write-up, I just scribbled a shit-ton of notes on my laptop and now I’m looking back at it the next morning and holy shit I must have been drunk as hell by minute three because I made no sense so fuck it I’ll just keep doing this.

here we go kids

BETO DID HIS ENTIRE SECOND PHRASE IN SPANISH UH

woo woo pass the ERA

Everyone's answering with such long lead-ins - the first person who gives an ANSWER in the first quarter-sentence gets an award

Bill De Blasio keeps grinning DIRECTLY at the camera. I'm deceased.

And GIVE HIM THE BONUS Bill De Blasio answered the question in the first 5 words. What a mans. AND HE CALLED IT OUT. he CALLED OUT THE PARTY-LINE TOEING. WHY AM I OKAY WITH BILL DE BLASIO NOW??

Jay Inslee said unions give him the award too. I mean, he didn't say a thing about the minimum wage, but he did say some nice stuff about clean energy, sticking it to Trump, and some other stuff. I do like him, I guess?

Tim Ryan says "China" in the same tone as Donald Trump hee hee

WoW! so it turns out if you ask Liz a specific question she gives you a FULL answer and I fucking love it god damn keep doing that. Stop giving her the junk questions for lead-ins and complaints.

Healthcare! It's time. Is it time to abolish private health insurance? Looks like... Bill, and Liz? Why do I like them?

Amy Klobuchar is weird and she's dodging the question every time she gets asked. They asked her why she wasn't going to abolish private insurance - she made a beer joke and talked about big pharma. That's... not the answer we were looking for.

Talking with Liz about Medicare for all! They asked her a direct question and she went FULL policy on them! Numbers on medical bills! Numbers on people who do and don't have insurance! I know why we elected her here and it's because she does THAT. (Also nice jacket Liz big ups I like the purple ^^) Healthcare is a human right!

Talking to beto! Let's see if he does THE THING again. He has a good anecdote! I like his opinions on universal healthcare, but he's not signed on for Medicare for all. Good notes on mental health care!!! Thank u!!! and Planned parenthood shoutout! Not replacing private insuranceandthenholYSHITOUTTANOWHEREEVERYONE JUMPED ON IT

TULSI showed up and actually talked some sense. The policy matters are important, but if we're going to stand on a stage arguing about what parts we're doing, we're not getting actionable.

JAY INSLEE COMING OUT SWINGING TO PROTECT ABORTION RIGHTS AND CONTRACEPTION

JULIAN CASTRO TRIED VERY HARD AND I SUPPORT HIM BUT ALSO DROPPING TRANS WOMEN INTO THE DEBATE WASN'T THE RIGHT MOVE

BIG dodge from Liz on the "limitations" on abortion question.

should drug manufacturers be held criminally liable for the opioid crisis? Cory says big yes. I imagine a lot of the candidates will. But, I do like that he's mentioning that arresting your way out of the problem is a huge problem. Beto gets the same question, and starts with aaaaaaaaaaa weed answer but also he has the same god damn point so big support

Immigration after the commercial break! Scores in the first round - Liz lost a point for a lack of full-throttle support for abortion rights. Castro gets the you tried star but also a starbucks gift card for good trans support. Jay Inslee gets some union patches. Beto gets an A- in Spanish class. Bill De Blasio gets a smol flag with ancom stars and a "fuck tankies" t-shirt.

back from the break - let's get to immigration. Specifically, the concentration camps, and the pitable kid pictures.The commentator is trying his best to spit full vitriol at DHS. Castro is banking off his immigration plan, and said "pissed off" on national television. Big ups, but also - he's using executive orders to prop up most of it. Pls say something about legislative reform for the border. Honoring asylum claims! Get them through. Plans for central american refugees! Cory isssssss pulling a Beto and took a DAMN long time to pull it up from his brain. Ending the policies of ICE and bringing back DACA options for current arrivals. Helping the northern triangle and working better with governments in central america. (castro jumped in I'm glad everyone's so support remove 1325 of the nationality act! Don't criminalise desperation! Seperating children is barbaric. and then CORY pulls that out to point at the planned raids this week. I support this discussion but also PLEASE folks stick to point of order. and here's BILL again all but QUOTING A GRANDSON SONG GOD BLESS. I love his tirades but also YOU WEREN'T CALLED ON

TAME ASKED BETO A QUESTION IN SPANISH AND HE'S RESPONDING I NEED AN TRANSLATOR MY SPANISH SUCKS

Beto's the first one to literally say the words no wall. He's still talking and castro's talking OVER HIM. Family case management sounds good but also cost??? Naturalising ALL the DREAMers

Castro is banking off the use of sec.1325 in this debate and I agree with him wholeheartedly. beTO on the other hand is dodging the question like crazy. And Castro's... calling him out on it? I love it!

TOO MUCH YELLING.

JOHN DELANEY KINDLY SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Amy Klobuchar has opinions about border crossings woo woo. You'd want to make sure that you have provisions in place to go after human and drug traffickers - WE HAVE SECTION 18 OF THE US CODES. annnd now she's talking about CEOs and F1 visas. IDK I mean it's important but also NOT THE QUESTION. But hey, first time someone said anything about legislative support.

who the fuck is Tim Ryan seriously and why the fuCK does he say things with such a weird voice sometimes. HOW DOES HE THINK EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY WORKS HE'S LIKE "order Doctors to go to the borders and save the kids" like I like the idea but what the fuc k?

The cameras keep WHIPPING back and forth and it's cracking me up.

Jay Inslee - there's no reason for detention and separation - but... what're you gonna do to REUNITE PEOPLE. (Also dude Charlie Baker stood up to Trump against the muslim ban and he's a republican) "The other DEEEaayyyy" (Oh he's also the gov. that Trump called out on twitter and "threatened" to send muslim refugees to)

CORY BOOKER DIDN'T RAISE HIS HAND BECAUSE HE WANTED TO TALK WHAT A FUCKER. I SUPPORT THE GRIFT BUT WHAT A FUCKER LOL

They tried to send a Hezbollah question to Tulsi Gabbard and she just drove it straight into the ground. I stan but also wooph. She is the person that folks were saying was in the pocket of the middle east, right? She's like cozy with Assad?

oh my god they had to cut them off with the commercial break

it's a goddamn cage-match of prostration to the base - "LETSSSSS GET READY TO HUMBLLLLLE"

I had to take a break and go get a glass of water jfc I'm getting parched.

CHUCK TODD AND RACHEL MADDOW HAD A TOTALLY SEPARATE DESK AND THEY FUCKING /ZOOMED/ OVER TO IT AT WARP SPEED I ALMOST PEED LAUGHING.

- we're less than 50 miles from Parkland. Assault weapons ban? - EVERYONE'S MICS ARE ON. - EVERYONE'S MICS ARE STILL ON. - EVERYONE, EVERYONE'S MICS ARE STILL ON. LESTER SHUT THE FUCK UP. - TIME FOR A COMMERCIAL FUCK ME DEAD - poor chuck todd but also I'm deceased

alright we're back. More robust plans, and teenage activism. What do you do about the hundreds of millions of guns already out there? - Liz is talking town halls - what's the hardest question? "when you're president, how're you going to keep us safe?" - This is a good response, and she's talking about it in the context of a HEALTH EMERGENCY good FUCKING lord THANK YOU lift the CDC moratorium. Should the fed take guns back? no... no answer to the direct question. But, I support her answer! Thank you for not treating it as an across-the-board answer kind of thing. - Booker has a buy-back programme. I think that's good? But he also said assault rifle so now we gotta shame him or something idk I'm not a fucking gun nut. We've let the gun lobby define the debate! Thank you for also touching on it! - Castro gets a question about active shooter drills, and is it a questions of what he's going to do to turn it around. Also awwww his daughter is in the audience we stan. But also LITERALLY no answer besides "we're gonna take back two of three branches on day one" literally what does that mean. - Tim Ryan is saying stuff about... mental health care for kids scared of shootings and supporting the kids who would do shootings? Wait why am I okay with this thank you. - Beto is about to talk about guns this'll be good. background checks good. gun show sales bad. assault rifles no bueno. red flag laws good. Throw it to the kids? I... guess? - Chuck Todd really wants someone to talk about TAKING YOUR GUNS. - Amy Klobuchar thinks about her uncle who hunts deer idk I mean I guess so also GUNS ARE LIKE GAY MARRIAGE OH BOY.

SENATOR THANK YOU

- We're talking supreme court now but CORY STILL WANTS TO TALK GUNS. Licensing is already a requirement up here in the northeast jfc. - SUPREME COURT - we're going to get to 50 votes in the senate to nominate a justice because stacking the senate lol thanks for at least saying it out in the open. - BILL BILL BILL if you nominate someone for the supreme court would you think TurtleMitch would let you nominate someone but he WANTS TO TALK ABOUT GUNS and police for some reason. Oh right also he has mixed race kids that's actually something he should have leaned on a bit more earlier.

HOW LONG DO THESE PEOPLE THINK 20 SECONDS IS.

- Senator Warren - if TURTLEMITCH is still there whatdoyado. WE ARE A DEMOCRACY. the answer is campaign finance reform to get a democratic majority in the senate. I guess. - Mitch McConnell gets called the fuck out lol - How are folks gonna beat the turtleman we'll never knooooooo - JAY INSLEE TRIED TO INTERRUPT AND THEN RACHEL MADDOW CALLED HIM OUT AND TOSSED HIM A CLIMATE CHANGE QUESTION I'm PISS he then TURNED IT ON MITCH. Also, he's staking his claim on climate change and y'know what I'm totally fine with it. - Climate Emergency! ten points to inslee. - Beto has a good plan for removing the dependency on fossil fuels I like - Chuck Todd all but went full hbomberguy and yelling FUCKING AQUAMAN on stage. - Bonus points to Castro for PUERTO RICO - Also paris accords - both castro and klobuchar have said they'd sign back on

Everyone keeps RAISING THEIR HANDS like they're allowed to yell as soon as they've got their finger up.

Time to punch on Tulsi Gabbard for her shitty stances on queer issues woo woo. Let's see how this goes. CORY BOOKER MY BOY CALLING OUT NOT TALKING ABOUT THE KILLING OF BLACK TRANS WOMEN AND SUICIDES OF QUEER KIDS GOOD TALK GOOD TALK BIG LOVE.

time for VOTED QUESTIONS guy asked if we shouldn't do the rwandan genocide again. Beto literally only knows the Rwandan genocide. Someone say Kosovo and watch his head explode. Bill says some stuff about going to war without congressional approval idk man Ryan made himself look like a big dumb doofy doo in front of two service members on stage lol I don't like Tulsi but GET HIM GIRL and NOW he's SUPER anxious and talking about ATTACKS and shit. Him and Tulsi are gonna eat each other. JFC THIS DEBATE.

Threats, right to left:

(IN AS FEW WORDS AS POSSIBLE, PEOPLE)

Nukes

Trump

Nuclear War

Economic threat - china/actual threat - destabilisation of the middle east.

climate change

climate change

nukes and climate change

china and climate change

china

russia

Beto wants to prosecute Trump. This'll make news tomorrow, mark my words. Not saying he's totally /wrong/, but it's going to be front-page news tomorrow.

45 seconds wrap ups 

GET IT DONE PEOPLE let's see WHO KNOWS HOW TO TELL TIME.

(Ratings are based on the wrap-ups only and are a direct reflection of my mental state and random musings at the time whatever)

Delaney did some neat stuff and said saving the world and unions and shit. 2 reminders, 3 thank-yous. C+

Bill: it matters in the fight for the heart and soul of the party to nominate someone who bad upbring and also WAGE PROMISES. Also free preschool idk man. No reminders! 1 thank-you. B+

Jay Inslee is running because he wants his grandkids to survive climate change. Get committed to making it the top priority. Save ourselves and our children, and our children's children. 1 reminder, 2 thank-yous. B+

Tim Ryan: something about forgotten communities and a throwaway trans comment about running away with the gold and playing offense... he sounds like Jim Webb lol also lET'S PLAY SOME ALPHABET GAMES 3 thank-yous. D-

Tulsi: service above self is what defines the US, but that's not what we have right now. So this must end. "Our White House" 4 times good christ. Lot of random promises and also new??? Century? no reminders 1 thank-you. C+

Julian's is in spanish awesome but also interpreters pls. Also his brother's in congress, too. He wants the nomination but he's probably going to be another housing pick. NO THANK-YOUS :(((  B+ 

Amy: I listen to people. I pass bills. I listened to people and acted. I listen. Listening. I'm someone that can win. Because I listen. I keep winning because I listen. I'm not establishment and I listen. Something about listening. And integrity. 1 thank-you. D+

Cory's family had to move because redlining and he's kinda neat. Lots of lawyering. We win fights by being the best. Stop making it into a high/low fight. This is a referendum on us, and on Trump. I'll show the best of who we are. 1 thank-you. C+

Beto's daughter turned 11 this week and that's cute and also free the kids in concentration camps. We need a new kind of politics directed by the urgency of the nest generation. 2 thank yous A-???

Liz being raised in oklahoma dreamed to be a school teacher, didn't have money for college - and went to commuter college and got involved in law that way. We believe in making government work for everyone. I will fight for you as hard as I fight for my own family. NO THANK YOUS :((( B+

I’m going to do this again for the next few debates, I think? Depending how long my sanity holds out.