#these isn't even times new roman 😭

[43-moonshadow]

Spoilers for ii s2 ep16 under cut

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Damn bestie what a ride, I even drew digital for once crazy...

Edit: I figured out how to do the cut thing yippee!

[richeeduvie]

Baby coincidentally changing her locks around the same time Roman gets with Tabitha. I remember reading something here once that he just makes himself home at her place even if he is with Tabitha 😭 he has such a hard time being told no and Baby just goes “oh right,, i had to change my locks recently because I uhh lost my keys ??yeah” and he just stares at her like yeah?? Well?? Wheres my duplicate then🤨 and she just sighs 🧍‍♀️

Dog at Your Door

So we do know he's panicking, right?

It's after a slight conflict, Baby's secretly tense and insecure after witnessing Roman's affections towards Tabitha and was in his words "Acting pussy-hungry."

"Eat a cock. Preferably mines, who elses?"

And Roman, in all his fuck-assery and annoying, attention seeking nature, knew that got to Baby. He didn't know why, but it did. His shit-eating smirk faltered a little, barely noticeable to most. He scratched the back of his neck, watched how Baby walked off into the hall with a fucking attitude.

It just didn't help Baby at all to see the way Roman still holds the belief that he's safe in their friendship to have sex and act as if they're joined by their genitals and hearts while playing boyfriend-girlfriend with Tabitha. It isn't fair, not to her or herself - but Roman holds it so tightly that she knows it's genuine. It's not spiteful, as if he's saying "I own your heart, what are you going to do about it?"

It still hurts.

And all those blood-gushing moments of when Baby pretends to be angry or disappointed in Roman to get him small, insecure, and panicked? It's there when she changes the locks. But it's not purposeful. Not fully, at least.

Roman goes over to her place with almost fully forgetting their little stunt in the day. He knows she's not home, but it's routine to make himself home when she's not there. Sometimes he'll jizz on her pillowcase, or play a game on his phone. Sometimes take a nap, even though naps are for people who are about to turn to dust or toddlers.

But the door doesn't budge. The knob barely moves.

"What the fuck?"

And Roman tries again. And again. The vein along his forehead appears, there comes the thinly-pulled lips and the look in his eyes gets more childishly strained.

"What the fuck?"

So does his voice. It'd make Baby smile if she was there.

After the thirteenth door jam, Roman begins to pull at his hair.

"Fuck!"

It's about a hour worth of constant text messages when Baby reached her place.

'why the fuck can't I open the door to the pent'

'hey'

'what the fuck'

'What the actual fuck?'

'literally what did I do? It's an actual different lock too'

'fuck you seriously'

'I didn't know you were that pussy hungry but I didn't do anything and what?'

'What are you trying to say with this?'

'or can you tell me the lock broke or something?'

'hey'

'why can't I open the door?'

"Roman."

It's Baby standing over him in front of the door. He's rested, casually pissed and passive aggressive.

"I lost my other key."

His fingers play nervously with themselves. Baby watches Roman's chest rise and fall, it's even. But she knows him. It's manic. Not a good enough answer for him. He needs complete assurance that she's not going to leave him or filter him out - that and a kiss, an arm wrapped around his stomach while he sleeps.

"Why didn't you just get a new key?"

"That would mean a place where a stranger could have my key to my door. Changing the locks is safer."

He blinks up and scratches his nose.

"...That's fucking stupid. I'm here in like...belief? Belief you want me out and fuck Roman and his tiny, occupied cock that is perfectly available but I won't accept because your womanly ego convinced you someone might pick up your key and think you're worthy enough of a sex crime."

She looks the knob above his head, scratched up. She assumes (and assumes right) that that came from Roman growing increasingly more frantic and kept missing the keyhole when trying to open it over and over.

"You were about to break in. And what? Wait for me naked to pounce on me? Which would be more like begging. I'd reject which would get you huffy and then I would have to rub your chest like you're a fucking baby who had a bad day with Daddy."

Baby unlocked the door over Roman's head.

"If you were the cautionary scenario I was imagining when I was changing the locks, Rome, I'd keep the door wide open. It's all a pathetic, corporate nature."

"...I didn't even say anything."

"Say hi to Tabitha, and tell Shiv tha-"

"I wanna come in."

"Rome."

He steps in, tense and needy and every other word to describe and man stepping a panic, doing what needs to be done to be the center of her love and affection and she can't leave him outside the door.

And Baby knows that, and she's been so lonely that she'll indulge for the sake of herself.

Roman butts his head into her neck nearly-softly, like a cat. He smiles, not in smugness, but relief.

Sometimes a dog and his bone, other times a cat who gets what he wants anyway.

[all-too-unwell-13]

the seven (+ nico and reyna) if they were children if minor gods/goddesses

percy - i'm not gonna lie, it was so hard to find a minor god for percy. the best one i found is basically just another god the sea: nereus. he was a son of primordial gods; gaea (sorry for that, percy, omg 😭) and pontus, primordial god of the ocean. anyway, nereus was also a god of wisdom, prophetic visions (so it would kind of make sense for percy to be a 'prophecy child' if his dad was a prophecy god ig), and change. also! nereus valued loyalty (and, if we excuse demigod children lmao, he was loyal to his wife), and loyalty is percy's fatal flaw.

annabeth - themis, the greek goddess of justice, order, and overall fairness (not unlike nemesis), which are all values that i think annabeth holds close to her. themis is also depicted to be extremely wise (and sometimes she's also called a goddess of wisdom), another trait that annabeth believes in.

jason - aiolos, roman god of the wind (the greek version is aeolus). he's also known as the 'keeper of the four winds,' meaning he also controlled storm winds, so jason would likely have similar powers to children of jupiter. also, his name means 'quick-moving.' jason already has powers relating to storms and winds (those are his main powers, other than lightning), and being a son of aiolos would likely just increase his power over wind.

leo - i honestly couldn't find any minor gods that suit leo, but i think pallas, greek god of warcraft/handcrafts (and in some cases - 'useful arts,' which i'm taking to mean machines/mechanics, etc.). pallas is often also related to athena, goddess of wisdom, but i believe he's depicted as more of a 'quick-thinker,' which suits leo a lot.

piper - psyche, greek goddess of the soul; she's described, in mythology, as a mortal-turned-goddess whose beauty rivalled aphrodite's. the goddess represents passions, as well as misfortunes. this means piper could likely still have charmspeak because of psyche's close relation/similarity to aphrodite.

hazel - i feel like this one's sort of obvious; hecate. not only is she goddess of the mist and magic, but also ghosts, so hazel would have similar powers to a child of hades/pluto. hazel is already shown to have powers over the mist, and hecate is often associated with gemstones/crystals, which hazel can also already control.

frank - i really couldn't find many gods for frank, but i think honos, the greek god of honour, works well. he also represents glory, and in some cases, bravery. these are all some of frank's best qualities - ones that he himself actually values a lot too. additionally, honos symbolises victory and achievement, which are more qualities that frank would need for his role as praetor, etc.

nico - ok. so. the best one i could find was erebus; primordial god of shadows and darkness. he's also the god of a particularly dark part of the underworld, so it's likely he'd also have control over ghosts and bones (like nico does). this probably also means children of erebus could shadow-travel. and, although he isn't always perceived as powerful, erebus is. one interesting thing about erebus - even though he is not explicitly evil, his name is often used interchangeably with tartarus (which, if we're talking about experiences with tartarus: this could be an added factor as to why nico went to tartarus so confidently. if he didn't know enough about his father, he might've assumed he could be okay through tartarus.)

reyna - fides, roman goddess of loyalty and trust. fides is said to represent everything 'required for honour and credibility.' throughout the heroes of olympus, it's clear that honour and trust are two things reyna values deeply. it's also said that fides embodies everything needed for soldiers in rome, which, as praetor (for a long time), reyna is to be considered a soldier of new rome. additionally, loyalty and faithfulness are two qualities valued by artemis and her huntresses.

[superkooku]

I’m still rather new to Greek mythology and so I need confirmation 😞

What is the difference between Apollo and Helios?

Is Apollo like light or what?

IM SORRY 😭😭😭😭😭

Hi ! No problem. We all start somewhere. So let's see each god separately, because they are indeed not the same. The line gets a bit blurry in later times (roman) but they are distinct in Greek mythology.

Helios

Is the god of the sun. That's his main attribute. He's the brother of Selene, the moon, and Eos, the dawn.

They're all children of the Titans Hyperion, the light and Theia, the goddess of sight.

Helios is the father of figures like Circe, Pasiphae, Phaeton and Aetes (Medea's dad). He has a few lovers, all of them being women.

He's shown riding a charriot of four horses, that even have their own names.

Helios appears in the Odyssey for example, as Odysseus' men steal and eat his cattle, then anger him

Little off topic but idk if you're a fan of Epic the musical but the fandom often confused Apollo and Helios. The "god of the sun" in the end of Mutiny is Helios. Because he's the one offended in the original Odyssey.

Just saying that so you know you're not alone in this.

Anysays, back to the myths.

He's also the one to snitch on Ares and Aphrodite when they sleep together without Hephaestus knowing. Then he snitches on Hades for kidnapping Persephone.

Helios sees everything and he's not afraid of telling everyone if asked. Because he's the sun. Iirc Selene also has this capacity in the nighttime.

Apollo

Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, as well as Artemis' twin brother.

He isn't really the god of the sun, at least that's not prevalent until roman mythology. His thing is more music, poetry, healing/diseases, truth, mathematics.

Edit : and he's a god of prophecy. Very important detail that I forgot in the original post.

As an Olympian, he's more prevalent than Helios and appears more often in the myths.

He's in the Iliad for example, as a protector of the Trojans. He also appears in plays like Alcestis from Euripides or the Oresteia from Aeschylus.

He also plays a role in many isolated stories talking about his love life, his exploits, him punishing mortals or just people that annoy Leto. Because he cares about his momma.

You're absolutely right in the fact that he's related to light, most notably with his epithet Phoebus/Phoibos, which means shining or brilliant.

Funnily enough, he also has a cattle story, but it's related to his younger half-brother Hermes being an absolute scallywag of a baby and stealing them (this myth always makes me laugh 😂).

Apollo also has a bunch of lovers, with a lot of high and lows. Most of them being women but there are also some men : Hyacinthus being the most well-known. There's also Cyparissus, Admetus and Adonis for example.

For the women, there's Cyrene, Urania (the muse), but also stories that ended badly like with Cassandra or Coronis. The former rejected him despite a promise and the latter cheated on him.

And then there's Daphne, but that story is pretty well-known.

Among Apollo's kids, there's figures like Asclepius, Aristaeus, Idmon, sometimes Orpheus and even Chiron as an adoptive son (his biological father is Kronos).

Btw Apollo is involved in the life of every single one of these kids. Yes, praising Apollo as a father is important to me personally.

Fun fact: his daughter Chariclo even married Chiron. That's sweet :3

Fun fact n°2 : Apollo let Chiron raise his sons Asclepius and Aristaeus.

Because I won't stop rambling about Apollo being a dad, here is this post so I shut up :

Apollo tends to react pretty strongly when offended, a trait he shares with many Olympians. Just don't mess with Leto, Artemis or any of his kids and normally you should be fine.

[skitskatdacat63]

hier kommt die Sonne 🎶

+ some lore

I'm obsessed with her actually :))))

I can't believe her outfit stayed consistent since hmmm at least 2019, and then randomly I'm like I NEED TO CHANGE IT. But I really like the new one :) it's not TOO different but I think it looks a lot more majestic

Some fun facts:

First of all, she is the Sun Goddess: Sola.

She obviously isn't directly in charge of a planet and people of her own, so she's a lot more detached and distant from humanity than other gods.

She claims to hate humans, yet has a human form that's...suspiciously sexy. If she really wanted to, she could just permanently be a disembodied voice and never come up with a human form for herself, and yet she chooses not to, curious!

Even though she doesn't run a planet, she still has human followers. Worshipping most gods in this AU is not really like religion, it's more like a more connected relationship to a monarch or something like that. However worshipping a god like Sola is like the Roman concept of a cult. So even tho she ostensibly HATES human, she's secretly soooo pleased that she has so many dedicated followers

She kinda just sees humans as depraved animals? Through her duties, she only really sees humans at their absolute worst, so it's really soured her opinion of humanity. She feels like: "We gave you the chance to make life whatever you desire, and you do this?" But this is why she has her human form, and likes to hang around in it. Humanity itself might have squandered it's chances but she's not gonna let the beauty of the design go to waste.

However, she would never admit it but she has such a fascination with human depravity. Rip Sola, you would've loved true crime podcasts </3

She works alongside Luna, the goddess of Earth's moon, and they're basically passive aggressive coworkers/frenemies. Luna, even though she too sees the worst of humanity, has a much more romanticized view of humanity(mostly because for most of her history, she just hung around her sister, the goddess of Earth. So she spent a lot of time just observing humans from afar, and squealing over their mundane little actions like they're something magical.) They really hate each other's views, and can't really find a middle ground, but still somehow work efficiently together

If she met a somewhat decent, nice, normal human, she would probably become obsessed with them and see them as like the peak of humanity 😭 but she prefers to never really interact with humans personally.

She does hear her followers prayers, and sometimes dotes on them from afar. It's a very complicated relationship. It's just ego, like "Well they can't be too bad if they like me so much!" but it doesn't really change her opinion on humanity, bcs theyre just random outliers to her(even tho there's probably BILLIONS)

Oh also look how much she's evolved! I'm pretty proud :)

[chaoticdelinqueerwithglitter]

I just thought a dumb hc because I have insomnia and Tokyo Revengers is my roman empire.

Hear me out: I was thinking, what if Manila Izana (after Mikey dies) talked to Bonten Mikey?

(look at them, they are deffinitly not okay! 😭)

They need each other for comfort! I guess I don't need to explain why Bonten Mikey needs to have a sibling alive, right? I always hc that Manila Izana actually loved Mikey. In a twisted way mixed with guilt and jealousy, but I'm sure he loved Mikey.

How couldn't he? When Mikey probably opened to him after Emma's death. It's canon that he was always happy to have more family. I can imagine him completly broken, unable to sleep. Calling Izana on the phone, long night talks. This Mikey trusted Izana more than he trusted Draken, I'm sure Izana comforted him after what happened to Emma (ouch, ouch and ouch). While Draken pushed Mikey away (not judging, just saying that Izana used this for his own purpose).

Manila Izana, looked at this young Manila Mikey that trusted him, that loved him like an older brother even if they just met...And he hated himself for this, because he was liying to him. About Emma, about them being siblings (he never told him what Karen said, scared of losing him). He was doing the same thing that Shinichiro did to him: liying about being brothers, pretending to be a good big brother when he isn't (this is Izana's mind, not my personal opinion on Shin, he did what he could for his age and well, being our dear reckles Shin xD)

So... Izana hated himself but he loved Mikey. He lied to himself about it too, 100% sure. He kept telling to everyone, to Kakucho, to Kisaki, that he's only using Manila Mikey. Sano siblings doing denial? That's also canon!

But after Manila Mikey dies, he lost it. He looked like he was spiraling when Naoto and Takemichi died, tbh. He realized how much he loved Mikey after losing him. And he lost his brother. Again. He's freaking spiraling.

Exactly with this Izana at this point, is where I hc this, because I need healing for coping! (so yes, that means Izana had to touch rock bottom for being open to healing first,I'm so sorry 😔)

Bonten Mikey telling to Izana that he loved him, even after knowing about Emma, knowing everything... He loved him. Izana has being death for more than a decade and this Mikey stills loves him.

Oh, and Izana's reaction finding out how he died? Finding out his friends. No, his family... Did that memorandum to him that was Bonten? That Kakucho had the hanafuda where his heart was? Izana is uggly sobbing at this point, we all know it.

Manila Izana telling to Bonten Mikey that he loves him? That he feels guilty for what he did? For killing Emma? For being a bad older brother with Manila Mikey? (He feels guilty as fuck, specially if he found out at some point that Manila Mikey wanted to die) Izana loves him and wants to be a better brother this time? Hell yeah, Mikey is also crying because he has family again! (and I'm ignoring some minor things like curses, this is happening in a neutral and cursed-cleaned space in my mind)

Edit: I think Bonten Mikey would help to Manila Izana with his guilt. Because he blames himself for the way Mikey ended and seeing that Bonten Mikey it's also broken and even less there... Well, not saying Izana didn't have responsability on Manila Mikey, but he would see that it wasn't only him.

That made me imaging Izana saying "Wtf happened in your timeline for you to end like this?" And I just laughed for not crying because... Well, Tenjiku happened and we're all living it 😭

Since curses and time-leaping exists, my new headcanon is that this two talked in dreams, or something. I don't know, time magic or some angsty cursed connection. I don't understand the logic, I'm not trying to understand it. I just need to think that some nights, this two comforted each other in dreams. 🥹🥹

@just-sp-in-inginthevoid feel absolutely and completly free to add to this brain riot. Anyone else is more than welcome to add to, please.

[duchess-of-oldtown]

House of the Dragon, Season 2, Episode 3 thoughts

Just clarifying, these are my own thoughts, you don't like them, don't bother telling me so. Also, I'm not a book purist, I like adaptions taking putting their own spin on things - if it makes sense to do so. So, here were my thoughts. Obvs, this post is dark and full of spoilers.

I like the Bracken-Blackwood thing. I like the injection of a little bit of history but also like pettiness.

Jace, get out of your mother's ear. Can you even tell which one is Arryk or Erryk?

Rhaenys giving us slay as usual. Eve Best really gets the greatest lines.

I really like Criston Cole's squire. I don't know, he reminds me of Pod.

Criston pulling that managers face right there. We've all been on both sides of that.

Ironrod, they could never make me hate you. Master of Shade

Tyland stop bullying the Grand Master.

Harrenhal is giving all these guys a hard on. It's not even that nice a castle (before yall come for me, I know it's importance)

Aemond teasing Aegon at the Council, that younger sibling grin

Mysaria's gown looks so comfy. Her scenes are alright, better than before

Rhaenyra vs Mysaria has to get away from the whole Daemon thing. That vibe is still there and it gives me two exes sniping at one another.

I get Rhaena's annoyance but it's also an opportunity.

The Harrenhal scenes were perfect. The ambience, the setting it's all *chef kiss*.

I hate the whole Prince Consort vs King thing. For one, it's completely against etiquette and the rules but also in the book, Daemon never needed to be King, he was supporting his Queen.

There's Alys.

Daemon "I'm claiming harrenhal". Yes, girl we see

Simon I give you this castle, also dinner is on the table, it's not great but it's good" Strong, you were the best thing in this episide. " Also, this exchange feels written by George RR Martin.

Grover Tully is getting it tonight

Daemon defending an ill lord paramount's abilities, he's thinking of Viserys

Gwayne Hightower, you're giving me Harry Hardying had a baby with Alfie Allen vibes

Cole's hair... I don't know how to feel.

Alicole doing the whole courtly love shit, as if Cole wasn't on his knees that morning. She pegs him, Your Honour

I need whiter Kingsguard Cloaks.

If they fucking mansplain, ridicule or correct Rhaenyra one more time, I fucking Harrenhal them. Who the fuck are these men?

Rhaenys, eating as usual, mic drop

Rhaenys and Corlys, I know they're setting us up for what happens, but *mournful screaming*. She's standing on a little crate 😭 Corlys beefing with baby Joffrey. Corlys grabbing his lady's hips while talking about heirs is my new roman empire

Let me see Stormcloud and Tyraxes

I wanted a little more conflict with Baela and Rhaena. But Baela assuring her is top tier.

Joffrey with his mummy 😭😭😭 Jace too. It's the last time Rhaenyra will see Viserys.

Helaena's speech, I think I know what's about to happen there. The families of the rat catchers + that riot. Also Helaena isn't forgiving Alicent for Cole, she's forgiving her for the war

Aegon looks so lil in his armour.

DID THEY SAY THE ARMOUR WAS VALYRIAN STEEL? MOTHERFUCKERS

Kingslanders partying as only Kingslanders can

Ulf the White's scenes are good but Baelon the Brave? You want me to believe that Baelon the Brave cheated on Alyssa?

I did not need to see Aemond's dick. Aemond you should be out committing atrocities not getting it wet

FUCK HIM UP MOONDANCER, FUCK HIM UP

Also Baela the trees are flammable.

Daemon take Dark Sister out of there it's too damp for her

YOUNG RHAENYRA - this is how guest stars should appear, with no warning and with the actors swearing they aren't ever coming back.

Also, Alys is American?

Rhaenyra slaying in her Septa Unella cos play. I wonder whether that's the same wimple

I loved the Rhaenyra and Alicent exchange but it was still such a dumb idea. This exchange is heartbreaking, there are parts that feel sitcomy and I love it.

Rhaenyra's lil face when she thought Viserys changed his mind

Alicent's lil... "oh Aegon the Conqueror... '

Over all 9/10

[justallihere]

AHHHHHHHHH

Before I get into my thoughts(I freaking LOVED this chapter): I hope you find this amusing. I took a post-work nap and was super excited to hopefully wake up to the new update... I then had a very strange dream involving me reading the new chapter but it took a very strange and morbid turn where a lot of people ended up dying in your fic? 💀 I was very confused 😭 bc at some point it wasn't even FW-related anymore, it just had the characters and they were all dying and then i was fighting for my life trying not to die???? I blame the mix of caffeine I had before my nap and my chronic pain. Safe to say i woke up sweating and very confused BUT i grabbed my phone and was very happy to see the notifications for the update.

Moving onto my thoughts (Alli, the way i was LITERALLY screaming throughout the entire chapter) Strap in for a LENGTHY ask. I just love you and this fic so much can you tell my parasocial relationship might be getting out of hand

Xaden woke up and was like "Where is my wife and why isn't she here and in bed with me so I can secretly cuddle and admire her beautiful face and hair 😞", man is whipped

Violet being very grouchy and uncomfortable bc she is in pain and probably didnt sleep well? Honestly so relatable bc i was like, same girlie same. I love how you continue to highlight how Violet deals with chronic pain and how people around her are stunned by how she continues to function (i.e Garrick) It's so realistic and I love it (looking at you RY, some days ppl can't just push through and put it inside a box all the damn time) Xaden is so in tune with her needs, he's frothing at the mouth for the chance to take care of her

“It’s called taking care of you. My sincerest apologies if you’re unfamiliar with the concept.” I FREAKING SCREECHED. The fact that Xaden verbalized this to Violet's face, it just shows how he is already starting to try to re-write the narrative between the two and their relationship

Even though you already gave us the snippet of the divorce convo, I still ate it up, I can't get enough of these two!!!!

Big brother Brennan coming in clutch and telling everyone that she can only stomach fruit so Violet doesn't have to do it herself!!!! wonderful detail and it shows Violet that Brennan cares and remembers. He's trying Violet!!!! But Violet still hasn't forgiven him and I am living for it. Make him suffer girlie

I am so honored that my comment has now contributed to this fic 😭. This will be my Roman Empire for a HOT second. Of course, Xaden was able to deduct that she's good with poisons, its only right 😌. I imagine this is the progression of Garrick's face during this (🤨🤯😧😳) and Brennan has the biggest internal grin 😭 I am a sucker for older siblings being proud of their baby siblings

DON'T PANIC, THE BOOK OF FABLES WAS MENTIONED. WE ARE SO CLOSE TO THE REVEAL!!!!!!! Brennan is stirring the pot whether he knows it or not. I'm cackling manically for the havoc that is about to be unleashed on their poor souls.

Did Xaden want to wring Brennan's neck for talking about the wyvern? Or he is secretly happy that he didn't have to do it himself. I remember there was an ask about how in the contract Tyrrendor wasn't allowed to disclose that information to Violet?

freaking frack... Xaden taking care of Violet will always make me weak. The fact that Violet lets him???? Girlie deserves to be pampered after the absolute shit she has and will go through

“Have you ever considered that I like putting my hands on you?” Xaden asked.  -- I would fold so fast, Violet is so strong 🫡. Xaden is so in tune with her nonverbal cues. She doesn't have to say a word and he's ready to be at her service. Man is down BAD for his wife and I am fully supportive of men being absolute simps for their hot wives

the fact that we get the backstory to how Xaden learned to braid and how Sloane MADE him redo it until it was good???? *chefs kiss* Of course Brennan would do Sloane's hair. He needed it as much as Sloane needed someone to do it for her. I am SOBBING. How do you keep making me feel things Alli??? I DON'T DO FEELINGS!!!!!

Deigh feels like a pseudo uncle or older brother to Andarana and I am LIVING for it. Andarana's like "Mom and dad need to bone so I'll make Deigh hang out with me" 😭

Of course, Violet comes up with a new way to implement runes. THATS MY GIRL! You are a genius for thinking that!!! (unless that's canon then please ignore me. I think I've reached a point where fanfics almost become canon for FW and I can't differentiate them rn)

 "Disappointment washed over him, entirely illogical; he liked the sight of her wearing something that belonged to him." You poor soul Xaden. Its only downhill from here. Emotions are never logical smh

"For that alone, Xaden didn’t complain when he took the gloves, and Liam just grinned like he knew it." I bet Xaden would murder her brother if he wasn't important if it would ensure her laugh and smile like that

geez. if you read through all of this and still answer me, thank you 🖤🖤🖤🖤 (I'm re-reading this and realized I actually wrote an essay....) I hope you can rest up this weekend and take it easy!!!!

I also took a bomb nap before posting this chapter yesterday, I love that we were on the same page about it 🫶🏻 (also it’s not parasocial if it’s reciprocated, we’re besties now)

So many beautiful thoughts here thank you!!!!! Xaden is a simp and he and Brennan are NOT prepared for Violet to find out secrets and start demanding answers from them. They should be more scared than they are

I like to let Garrick learn some new scary fun fact about Violet every so often, it keeps him humble. He deserves to be scared of this woman half his size (and as soon as he figures out that keeping her happy means Xaden will do anything, he’ll take so much advantage of it. So will Mira when she starts spending more time with them).

Deigh has been roped into this strange little family and he’s like “okay this is fine I guess” because he respects Tairn and Sgaeyl and also likes Andarna but is a little scared of her at the same time

Honestly the runes in the book confuse the fuck out of me, I tried my best, I don’t think it’s canon but Violet strikes me as the type to have all these extravagant ideas about how to use them except she’s not good enough with them yet to do it herself so she asks Xaden who will do literally anything for her

[paper--machete]

idk if you did this before but ummm rank all qotsa albums including them crooked vultures

I'll do you one better! I'll include the desert sessions 11+12 cus imo it's too thoroughly produced to not include

10. lullabies to paralyze

no hate on lullabies but honestly the whole vibe of the record is just sooooo 2005. in my head has to be their worst song just because of how embarassing that chorus is and also there's just a lot of fluff, even the deep cuts on this album feel like throwaway tracks (which I would even say about my favorite songs on the album, tangled up in plaid and broken box). the whole album just feels like a radio-friendly attempt to prove they still had their edge after Nick was kicked out

favorite songs: tangled up in plaid, little sister, i never came, the blood is love, broken box

9. villains

villains gets too much hate. people always point to Mark Ronson for ruining the album but honestly I'm glad we live in the alternate timeline where qotsa made a pop album. the way you used to do is awesome (ESPECIALLY the live version), domesticated animals is awesome, un-reborn again is one of their best songs. hideaway has always sucked tho and I hate the ending of the evil has landed because it just sounds like they were trying to do 3s and 7s again for some reason (with the slide guitars and Josh going "way-ee-ay") but otherwise also one of their best songs. also I wanna mention that Jon Theodore is at his best on this album, you can really hear his background in prog shine through on certain songs

favorite songs: the way you used to do, domesticated animals, fortress, un-reborn again, the evil has landed

8. desert sessions 11+12

first and foremost noses in roses forever is one of the best songs jho has ever written. DS11/12 basically feels like josh decided he wanted to do his own Gorillaz style collaborative project thanks to the increased production values and honestly it just makes me want another desert sessions release just like it.... which contradicts the other thing I wanted to say which is that there's really no album that sounds like 11/12 out there. nowhere else will you hear a song like chic tweetz because any other album would’ve left it on the cutting room floor for being too stupid. i love it

also I wanna say that i think crucifire is for royal blood what ultralight beam was for chance the rapper lmao

favorite songs: noses in roses forever, chic tweetz, easier said than done

7. in times new roman

damn I'm surprised the recency bias isn't getting to me on this one lmao. ITNR has a lot of really good songs on it but put together into an album it really feels like they’re just treading old ground. (I was originally gonna write a review of it when it came out titled “new dog, old tricks”). despite this there’s a lot of great stuff, paper machete and emotion sickness are two of my fav qotsa songs and straight jacket fitting might be their best closer? idk. this would be higher if it didn’t just feel like a “more of the same” type album

favorite songs: paper machete, negative space, made to parade, emotion sickness

6. self-titled

this placement hurts so much because like a year and a half ago this wouldve been #2 😭 anyway i love the self titled so much because it sounds so different from the rest of their discography… you can hear alot of the leftover kyuss influence in the heavier songs and riff writing, plus what other album is gonna try some crazy shit like walkin on the sidewalks or hispanic impressions? (btw hispanic impressions is their most underrated song) also the expanded edition is better for having spiders and vinegaroons but worse for having droids

favorite songs: regular john, avon, how to handle a rope, hispanic impressions, you can’t quit me baby

5. songs for the deaf

i’ve always had beef with songs for the deaf…. i’ve always felt like the best songs on it are so good that they make the lesser songs seem worse in comparison. like another love song is great but when it’s sandwiched between god is in the radio and song for the deaf its like. well obviously this is one of the weaker songs on the album. anyway it’s still good, being the other nick-era qotsa album you can really hear the collaboration between the band’s all-star lineup across the whole thing

favorite songs: hanging tree, go with the flow, god is in the radio, song for the deaf, mosquito song

4. them crooked vultures 

TCV is just a really, really solid album. the sequencing is great, the songs are all great, the musicians are all at their A game, ESPECIALLY josh as it’s not an unpopular opinion to say this album is where he really started tapping into his skills as a vocalist. while i consider TCV to be the honorary bonus qotsa album, i feel like it also manages to stand on its own thanks to the creative contributions of dave grohl and john paul jones.

favorite songs: mind eraser no chaser, dead end friends, bandoliers, warsaw, spinning in daffodils

3.5. over the years and through the woods

maybe I'm biased cus qotsa brainworms but the dvd of this is the best concert film/album I've ever heard. there's a perfect balance between songs being played as they are on the record and songs having things tweaked or even reworked entirely, which is something i’m picky about when it comes to concerts (i saw jack white two years ago and he changed waaaaay too many songs :P) also there’s a lot of neat little bonus things in the set, like an early version of make it wit chu, another desert sessions track (covered in punk’s blood) and of course the live performance of fun machine which is a top 3 song for them and always will be

favorite songs: feel good hit of the summer, avon, little sister, you can’t quit me baby, the fun machine took a shit and died

3. rated R

rated R is a perfect album! i think its greatest strength is its sequencing tbh, it succeeds at both giving the impression of it being a concept album (while not necessarily conforming to the concept) as well as having a super diverse tracklist where no two songs sound alike. also characteristic of nick-era qotsa, i love how rated R isn’t afraid to have short songs or long songs, though unlike on songs for the deaf the short/long songs here feel like they don’t sacrifice length for substance relative to other songs. 

favorite songs: feel good hit of the summer, leg of lamb, auto pilot, better living through chemistry, i think i lost my headache

2. era vulgaris

there is no album that sounds like era vulgaris. why does misfit love sound like that? why does battery acid sound like that? WHY DOES I’M DESIGNER SOUND LIKE THAT??? it’s so fucking weird and rich with ideas, there isn’t a single moment on era vulgaris where the band isn’t trying something new. even my least favorite songs on here have something new and unique to offer while also being the most fucked up little beast creature thing youve ever heard.

favorite songs: turnin on the screw, i’m designer, into the hollow, 3’s and 7’s, run pig run

1. ...like clockwork

i’m an artsy kid, i like artsy albums, and i love like clockwork for how mature it is. every song feels like a statement, an emotion concentrated into a 4-minute masterpiece. while the lows on here are lower for me than on other albums, they still make important contributions to the album experience as a whole (not to mention the highs soar, i appear missing and fairweather friends are top 5 material for them. I appear missing might even be top 1 tbh.) i’m out of things to say so uhhh yeah like clockwork is my favorite :)

favorite songs: i sat by the ocean, the vampyre of time and memory, fairweather friends, i appear missing

[darkfictionjude]

hello!! i actually just found your blog while surfing for interactive fiction stories (and i'm very new to the IF community as a whole// it's so cool to see just how much content and authors there are, and i'm a little sad because i had no idea it existed!! only visual novels before for me-- and so many of these games are free to play?? i'm having too much fun reading and i'm even thinking of learning how to write and code games like this just to try it...)

oh, but basically, i saw some posts saying the game wasn't very reader-friendly-- but all the font choices here are so standard in graphic design (i mean times new roman? calibri and garamond? even if you went farther and used comic sans you'd still be using the same fonts google docs uses...) that i wanted to come and say that i think you did amazingly in trying for accessibility... then there's text sizes and colors-- i don't see what's wrong with a light and dark mode with a creative twist on it.

the only thing i could possibly find difficult is purple against black for text colors (the values of these colors on a light-to-dark scale are both dark so visual contrast between text and background isn't as clear as a light purple/lavender/lilac/white on a black background), and even then changing the brightness can help, so it's no big issue and nothing to worry about!! also, you don't have to have this on your blog wall, but i hope you aren't deterred at all by navigating these design choices :"D wishing you well!! and thank you so much for this game!!

Nooo I need this on the blog because I love when new people find this space! It’s so incredible to me how IF has managed to remain relatively obscure in the 10+ years it’s been in this form. It’s still so niche and I envy that you get to play so many games I’ve played, you’ll have entertainment for a while 😭

Thanks your saying it smarter than I could’ve by the way

And I’m glad you found the game! Hope you create one I think we can never have too many authors 💜

[day-mark]

I love Voltron with my whole heart but yeag,,, it had a lot of flaws. I love that it genuinely tried to address that Killing Zarkon wouldn't be enough to stop the entire Empire and end the war. The show had a good balance of politics, crazy weird magic, and fun family bonding for the first two seasons.

I also think it's kind of insane that the show sidelined Three Entire characters after s3-4 (Shiro, Keith, and Hunk <- especially) but didn't develop the others with that new space and time.

Allura dying just made me sad. She was such an amazing character. I was insane back then so I can't really look at Lance with an analytical eye without rewatching the show, but I can tell he didn't get the moment he deserved either. He should've been Black Paladin!! Keith in my opinion, should've switched from Shiro's right hand to Lance's!! Keith just fundamentally didn't work as a leader (to me) and the focus of his arc should've been his mommy/being Galra issues!!!

I dunno wtf happened with Shiro. They kind of scooped out his guts by the end of the show. (My in-world explanation is that by s7 he's just so beyond traumatized to think all that much.) Hunk's also been done dirty. He's like, amazing, he's so sweet and kind but also an asshole when he wants to be. He deserved way more attention, he had insane amount of potential!!!

This show had so much to offer! Genuinely awesome worldbuilding, comedy, the team who grow to love each other even with all their neurotic issues, and the Galra themselves were fucking icons!!

vld will always have my heart, I love the mall episode it was so beautiful sorry for rambling so much (but the juiciness of dteamxvld ooooiughgh)

my memory of it isn't so great anymore but yeah your feelings do line up with mine pretty well from what i remember 😞

the characters were definitely my biggest gripe cause they were so interesting in the first couple of seasons!! but then in the later ones they were so flat?? uninteresting ??? like idk what happened but nothing makes me more irritated than when characters start getting butchered. and yeah hunk getting that treatment in particular was Very noticeable

i didnt watch the last season cause i heard it was so bad and by that point the previous seasons already disappointed me so i just couldnt be bothered to watch it, but yeah ??? killing allura was... definitely a choice 💀

and lance my fucking lance, he was my favorite and seeing him get done so dirty made me so sad 😭 black paladin lance was my damn roman empire... anfd fucking farmer my ass HE WANTED TO BE A PILOTTTTT

and ngl i really dont remember what happened with shiro near the end of the show but i know at some point i started thinking of him as just being there for torture porn 😭

but yeah, despite the Many gripes i have with the show it was still really neat to be apart of and will have a special place in my heart. i did really like the premise and ideas they had. they had a solid set of characters, designs, and dynamics that i do still really love! and i still love the beginning seasons and the fanartists and writers definitely helped carry with their amazing art and fics.

[jennibeultimate]

The state of Team Canada is maddening worrying...

I thought about this for a while but especially Canadian Nationals made me think about it again...so here are some thoughts...or here is a rant

Can you believe that 5 years ago Team Canada won Olympic Team Gold? They had skaters in every field who fought individually for medals. And now????

The only discipline that works fairly well is ice dance with Gilley/Poirier, Fournier-Beaudry/Sorensen and Marjorie Lajoie/Zachary Lagha (they also have some junior teams who do well) BUT Gilles/Poirier and Fourier-Beaudry/Sorensen are past 30 years old and won't be there for much longer (at most until 2026 Olympics and that's stretching very far) but at least there is some future...but in all other disciplines???? HELP

Women skating is kind of dead. One women for Team Canada at Worlds and Madeline Schizas is the only Canadian female single skater that has some technical content to keep up with the middle of the field. (She may be able to place Top 10 at Worlds but only bc the field is smaller in general) and also sorry to say that Madeline has basically never two good skates.

Pairs is dead as well. They have 3 spots for Worlds but all 3 spots are occupied by ppl who have little experience internationally and are a far cry from the technical content you would need to fight for top spots in an already weak field. (Pairs is kind of dead atm in general with the field being extremely weak in technical content)

With Keegan gone (I watched Canadian men free skate and Keegan made me cry because I will miss him dearly...😭😭😭) Canadian men skating is actually kinda lost or also almost dead...sorry but as much as I like the male Canadian single skaters none of them is even slightly consistent - NONE (Keegan wasn't the most consistent either but at least he didn't implode completely and still had superior technical content to most Canadian men skaters) I mean I don't expect skaters to have clean skates all the time but can I at least expect them to not fall apart completely at every competition? There are ofc inconsistency issues from skaters in every federation (and show me one male skater except maybe NC who consistently delivered) but it's not simply making some mistakes, it's close to disaster every time.

Especially the case of Roman Sadovsky is maddening - like how can such a talented skater always implode in one of his segments in competition? One disaster can happen, but at each and every competition? No way. Something is fundamentally going wrong. And his teams "longterm" (he's not 18, he is 23 years old!) plan is not working. You cannot continue like everything is fine and not change a thing about it when you produce the same bad competitions all over again. It's not his basics being bad, it's just mentally it's not working at all. Lots of ppl after Nats said that he should change coaches and that could be one solution BUT I also think there is more to it than a new team could solve. We can't look behind closed doors and I don't want to assume bad things about his environment or coaches - honestly it doesn't mean a change of coach would mean better results, it's not that easy - BUT something has to change...Romsky seems to be on a stand still and isn't moving forward in any way neither technically (his 3A is not stable at all and his technical content basically is the same for a few years now) nor mentally (you would assume a skater with his age and experience would make progress in keeping up with nerves). And pretending that those things are part of a plan? Who are you kidding? Yourself? (really love Romsky's skating but I am not even sorry for saying this as it's sadly true)

BUT also honestly Romsky isn't the only one with a consistency problem...Stephen Gogolev, Corey Circelli, Conrad Orzel, Wesley Chui...it's all the same (they are younger than Romsky but that's all that is different)

Why am I so hung up on the men? Because there is talent, there are the technical abilities to compete for medals, but the reality is that men skating isn't more successful or less worrying than Pairs or Women Canadian skating.

I really wonder with Romsky in particular but with Canadian skating in general if there is not a systematic issue behind it all.

Like how is such a politically strong skating nation with lots of well established coaching teams not able to reproduce their former successes in the slightest???

What happened???

Not enough financial support for the skaters for enough training ice time? I think I read that they have to finance everything on their own until they have international success but you can't get to international competitions without being able to afford to concentrate on your sport fulltime to learn the technical level to go . But is this really the issue for those who are already competing internationally?

Is the financial situation the reason Canadian skaters hardly train abroad in foreign countries? But would that help?

Do they not have a good support system from their federation? Imo they have supported and relied on their "old" batch of winning champions for far too long that they forgot to develop the younger generations. (I love the old champs Virtue/Moir & Patrick Chan btw) If there was one talented junior skater they kind of put too much pressure and ambition onto them they couldn't hold up too instead of giving them space to grow into their careers. Nam Nguyen and Stephen Gogolev both couldn't produce much success after turning senior, both struggling mentally, technically and with consistency. The latter still has a chance while the former retired with no Olympics experience and the last really good result being in 2015. (Romsky was also one of those very talented juniors but I don't think he was hyped to the extent of Nam and Stephen) Like how can a federation screw up their young talents so much?

We don't know what all of the issues are - I only named what is sort of told and known - just this has to change...whoever is in charge of solving these problems I hope they interfere....

This current Canadian team is weak and the downward spiral is continuing and it's sad and seems unnecessary...

[vitaminseetarot]

Hiii, I hope ur well! Please can I participate in your new game?

A.F., 🧚🏽‍♀️😭

Thank you, have a nice day :)

Hello, AF 🧚🏽‍♀️😭. Thank you for playing and for waiting.

Your card is Sky:Storm:Earth. Your air element is filled with thick clouds of smoke and the remnants of thunder. This reminds me of the popping smoke from a fuse shortening out, or the ghostly haze left behind by ignited fireworks. There's an earthy burning smell reminiscent of campfire wood wafting through the air. But the Storm:Earth card appears very similar to the beacon of fire from roman candles. I'm seeing both a huge draw and a surging release of a psychic energy at random, sometimes inopportune, times when things get tense. I got an image of Goku going super saiyan, lol. So it's like you can hold and unleash a lot of emotional power in one go. But overuse of this energy can result in a rapid burn out. Sometimes it feels like energy going as soon as it comes, which can get frustrating when it comes to taking life on especially if you deal with a chronic issue like fatigue and brain fog. I feel like some of this is coming from a particular place. What this is may be unique to you, it may be something close to home. What I pick up on is the negativity of what other people say near you, even if it isn't directly about you it still feels sticky. The fuse sparks when people wrap you up in their drama when you'd rather rest, or when people try to goad you into being overly nice and agreeable. I feel like this burn out is the result of trying to please those who never intended to be pleased. There's an outside chaos or issue that is affecting your peace of mind. The message here is to find a way to ground this massive flow of energy and stabilize it. Prioritize taking care of your personal needs first. 4 of Wands is giving me the image of being cozy at home, protected by walls from all the nonsense being thrown about. I'm picturing you throwing smoke balls, so you may use this element to get out of sticky situations quickly, or to shroud your protective environment in a fog of mystery. This element is to help you protect your energy from being drained. When you're able to sustain this energy flow, and keep harmful influence out, you may notice a change overtime in your energy levels. The air is crisp and smoky from the burning tree, but keep the roots steady and strong and soon a beautiful new tree will rise with purified clarity.

3 Sky:Storm:Earth, 4 of Wands, Love

[haruakotranslations]

REC Footage！Yumigeta Ako (23.09.07)

Good evening🌛

I'm Yumigeta Ako🛑

Thank you very much for your comments yesterday！

Your favourite desserts…

Were surprisingly varied…！

I think out of the comments I saw Japanese desserts were mentioned a lot！

I get that〜 I love Japanese desserts too💕

I especially love nerikiri that have heart shaped jellies on top❗️

I always eat those ones first 笑lol

Today on UpComing、

I Yumigeta Ako

Appeared in my recording footage for

「Nanzansho Souzansho」！

At the shoot for our new album、I was able to take my first two shot with Ishida-san💙

I like Ishida-san's eyes〜��

I feel like I could get lost in her sharp and sparkly eyes！I think that those of you who have met her in person will understand…❗️

Her eyes are even more sparkly during LIVES because of the lighting💙

I remember being really entranced by Ishida-san's cool performance during the '19 Hello Con of 「Roman〜MY DEAR BOY〜」…🥹

I want to talk more about UpComing！

I was super anxious about that REC footage being shown 笑lol

I had a dance lesson before the REC so my hair and clothes were all scruffy🤣

But I think you can tell that I was working hard！

It's clear how focused I was on this REC… I think。

I still need to improve my rhythm and my elocution and my body movements so I'll keep working hard💪

I hope that you'll watch it ✨

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Well then it's time for today's 【Gettaa Life】✨

Yesterdayー I received the letters you all sent me〜✨

I'm still not used to my new life since coming to Tokyo and I'm experiencing a lot of tough things、but then your letters arrived、and they helped me feel more positive😭

I'll read them so many times that I'll wear holes in the paper👍

Really thank you very much for everything！

Communicating with everyone who supports me is my ultimate motivation…！

I'm looking forward to out talk events at the end of this month！

Please keep an eye out for your health〜❗️

Today quite simply

I Getted 「Energy」✨

First up is Yoyogi the day after tomorrow！

I'll do my bestー❤️‍🔥💪

That's all！This has been 【Gettaa Life】！

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T/N News and information has not been translated

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This morning I decided to eat some granola but when I poured it out onto the plate it had lots of dried fruits which make me happy♪

Isn't that rareー？？

It's like when you get lots of hiyoko in your furikake…！

It's interesting thinking about how these sorts of small happy things vary so much from person to person！

By the way one of my small happinesses is

「When my contact lense goes in perfectly the first time」💕

What small things make you happy？

Please let me know in the comments〜‼️

Well then I'll see you tomorrow！

This has been YumiGettaa Ako！Good night🐧🐧🐧

[millenialfanfictionaddiction]

🦊Being Inarizaki's Manager 🦊

😍Miss Manager is Adorable 😍

Inarizaki x Female Manager

Warnings: Swearing, fluff

AN: This is a request from @times-new-roman-in-pastel! This was requested in addition!

🌠 Please Like, Reblog and/or Share to help support my writing 🌠

How does one describe Inarizaki 🤔

Hmm words like scary, intimidating and strong come to mind

The essence of a power house

Plus Atsumu 😅

Please I'm barely starting and I can't resist 🤣

Let's be honest, they are blunt, loud, outspoken and super intimidating

Kita says whatever is on his mind, Atsumu and Osamu have no filters

Suna is essentially the Tsukishima of Inarizaki

Omimi is just like Ushijima 😐

There is literally nothing soft about Inarizaki

That is 👀 until they met you 🥰🌈🌸

Being a new student at Inarizaki is hard on its own, but when you are the most adorable, softest human on earth 🥺

Well it's extremely difficult

Their uniforms are dark colors mixed with some white

Nit really your style but thankfully there is some room to accessorize 💅🏼

Some adorable tights with hearts or bows

A colorful hair ribbon 🎀

Maybe a colorful necklace or undershirt 😍

Sorry YN but you stick out like a sore thumb

But hey, sticky out isn't all bad right?

Definitely not 🤩

You get alot of attention for both females and males in your class as well as above and below you

You're a second year- forgot to mention that 🙃

You are dubbed the cutest thing to ever walk the halls of Inarizaki

You are so sweet and kind YN

You help your fellow classmates with homework

You are there when anyone needs a hug

And you are, somehow, the only thing that can prevent the twins from fighting 🤨

I'll repeat it...

YN LN is essentially a miracle worker

One day, your bobbing down the hallway when you see Osamu push Atsumu into the lockers

You 👉🏻😳😱🏃‍♀️

Before Atsumu can turn around and punches Osamu, you are there

Your hand goes to Atsumu's cheek

Atsumu 👉🏻😃🍭 whet-

"Oh my gosh are you ok?? Do you need a bandage? I have all different types right here in my bag! Here have a piece of candy while I look for the bandaids"- you, handing Atsumu a piece of candy while you dig for your most colorful bandaids

Osamu 👉🏻😲

Please Osamu is so jealous

You find a small blue bandaid and place it on Atsumu's cheek

"There! That should make it feel all better! Bye now"- you, skipping away lile a freaking cherub 👼

Thankfully Kita and the gang saw the whole thing

Please Atsumu and Osamu are still frozen 🤚🏻

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"- Aran looking at Kita

"I'm thinking we just found our new manager"- Kita 😀

So that's the origin story of YN's ascent to manager status 🙌🏻

What I say next, I mean

Yn you literally become these boys life blood 🥺

They think you are the most adorable and cutest manager around 😍

Suna calla you "smol sunshine"

Omimi gives you constant headpats

Michinari and Riseki THRIVE off your praise YN 🤗

You are just so bubbly all the time I can't 😭

I like want to squish your cute little cheeks

BTW Atsumu totally does that to you

"Awe YN you are just so adorable"- Atsumu

You 👉🏻🤩🌸🍭🌈

Literally, I'm pretty sure you sprinkle flowers when you enter the gym YN ✋️

You are always doing special things for your boys

Baking cookies 🍪

Making onigiri for Osamu because you know he loves it

Cleaning the volleyballs before Kita can even think about it

"Oh Kita I already polished then for you since I had extra time"- you 🤗

Kitas all like 👇🏻

You let Suna lay his head on you while you knit or draw

Ginjima needs a hug sometimes and there's our little YN ready and waiting 🫂

Aran is constantly just stressed and you are there with a cup of calming tea 🍵

Seriously YN these boys would fall apart without you

At tournaments, these boys turn from big ole softies to hard asses real quick

Inarizaki👉🏻 😠😤👿

YN 👉🏻 🤸‍♀️💃💐💕🌈🌞

It's quite the sight 😅

Since you have to wear the traditional, white pants, black shirt and maroon jacket, you often wear your hair super cute

Space buns perhaps 🤩

Maybe with some cut clips 🥺

Please I want to be you YN

You made pins to put on your jackets so that you could distinguish yourself from the other managers

Like it would be that hard 😅

However, these boys are so protective of you YN

They think you are fragile and soft and they need to protect that at all costs!

So when you are filling up water bottles-

Water bottles, I might add, that you have decorated with stickers 🤗

Please I'm 33 and put stickers on everything 🤚🏻

When you back up into a yellow broading man

Seriously you have to look up because whoa is he tall 😅

"Oh im so sorry!! I didn't see you there! But I really like your jacket! Yellow is one of my favorite colors"- you, 👐🏻

Side note: Tendou would love you 💞

The tall man just glares at you behind is mask

➖️⬜️➖️

That's my mask glare face 😐

I have little to work with people 👏🏻

Anyways, you are just staring at Sakusa like 😃🥰

And he's just a big ole grump grump

Suddenly the ball of sunshine known as Komori approaches

"I'm sorry about him. He doesn't know how to act around pretty girls. I'm Komori and this is Sakusa"- Komori says, waving at you

"I'm YN!! Inarizaki's Manager 👐🏻"- you, being so cute

"Oh nice! I didn't know Inarizaki had such a cute manager"- Komori, shooting his shot

Honestly, you go king 🤴

"Komori- get away from my YN!"- Atsumu, barreling towards you two

"Our- OUR YN idiot"- Osamu following behind

"Hi guys!! 👋🏻 "- you, completely oblivious and so freaking cute

Suna comes up from the left and puts his arm around you

"Hi suna!"- You giving him a big hug 🫂

Please he's smirking over your shoulder at everyone 😏

"I just met Komori and Sakusa!"- You

"Yeah that's great YN- time to go"- Atsumu glaring 😑

"Whoa man chill"- Komori, hands up ��🏻🖐🏻

"Come on YN"- Osamu grabbing your hand

"I'll see you guys later"- you waving 👋🏻

"No you wont"- Suna

"What?"- You

"Oh nothing-" Suna, the smug asshole

Later, after a day of hard games your boys come in 2nd place at Interhigh

You were seriously crying 😢

I mean, I would be too!

YN, our queen, was crying, screaming and hugging all her boys 🥰

At the meeting later that night, you ask the coaches if you can say something

"I- I just wanted to say how proud I am of you guys and to show my appreciation, I made you all foxes with your jersey numbers on them"- you, showing the boys your creation

PLEASE, YN KNITTED THESE BY HAND

Atsumu and Osamu immediately run to you and hug you so tight

Kita, Aran, Omimi and Michinari are all crying 😭

Ginjima is sleeping with his every single night

And Suna 👀

Suna just smiles at his, thinking about how Inarizaki had the best manager in the entire world 🥰

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This is obscure history stuff but, I need to talk abt it so you must deal.

So I was reading about the first Habsburg emperor, Frederick III, and oh my god, it seriously read like a comedy. He had the longest rule of any Holy Roman Emperor, right? So im like wahhhhh he must be a pretty good ruler. And granted, he was pretty pragamatic, and would try and make treaties instead of starting conflicts. But the hilarious thing is that he basically succeeded by just outliving all of his adversaries. His strategy was basically "alright, let's see what happens." And it always just worked out for him????

Every single time I started thinking "uh oh this isn't going to work out for him," whoever was in his way would just die??? And not even in a way that involved him, literally just happenstance. First, he becomes the head of the family after two fortuitous deaths. Oh he's having a conflict over land in Austria? Boom his main opponent happens to get assassinated for a completely different reason, and Frederick III is there to reap the inheritance rewards. Oh, the kid he's the guardian of, who happens to be the heir to the Austrian throne, dies of illness? Well, don't worry, Frederick III is there to be the new heir. While trying to sort out the Bohemian throne, one of the potential candidates just uh dies midway through. Okay. Oh, Frederick III's brother is challenging his rule? Well, he just dies suddenly, leaving Frederick III's rule unchallenged, yay! Uh oh, the guy challenging him for the throne of Austria is actually winning rn??? Don't you worry because he just ends up dying suddenly halfway through.

I'm not saying he never made any good decisions or wasn't clever, but so many of his successes just panned out bcs all the people opposing him just died randomly 😭 Truly the most 15th Century narrative ever

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