#they know they're in love

[smolangeryboii]

"Sophie and Ella said that Shauna and Jackie aren't in love and still played them that way" "how can Sophie and Ella say that Jackie and Shauna aren't in love?" have y'all ever been part of the She Ra fandom? Because AJ and Aimee called Catra and Adora sisters for the entirety of it to hide the fact that they would end up with eachother.

[minteayoongimakesmewoozi]

regarding the fits royalty au... what would post-finale battle tanyame be like? (also I'm in love with fits!! your work is so wonderful to read, and Ayame is written so well. she feels like a real person. I love your writing!!)

lemme just be the first to say thank u so much for loving fits!!! it's always an absolute joy to hear how much you enjoy it, and i'm always relieved to hear that ayame feels like a real person. she feels like a real person to me sometimes too ^^

now onto the ask!

how would post-final battle tanyame be like?

hmmm........

funnily enough, i haven't given it much thought until now! but now i have to think about it and i am enjoying myself very much.

if we compare them to fits canon, then i suppose they wouldn't be all that different. except, maybe, for the part where tanjirou sort of proposes to ayame before they start on their journey to okutama. i can see tanjirou injecting some form of ceremony in it, maybe even dropping down to his knees in deference to his hime, only for ayame to pull him up to his feet so she could kiss him.

ayame would have to take a lot more initiative, that's for sure. tanjirou has to work very hard to squash down the little voice in his head that screams, "That's O-Ayame-hime! You are not of the same standing, don't do something ridiculous like hold her hand or press your lips to hers!!!" and as a result, he's less likely to do things like reach out to her or even ask her out on dates.

ayame is a lot more confident overall. she's pretty harsh on herself in canon, but in royalty au, she would be both more and less so on herself. she's certainly stricter on herself, but she also allows herself more leeway to make mistakes. as a result, her confidence is less easily shaken.

for tanyame? this mainly translates to less hesitation on her part.

by the final battle, tanjirou would have been more aware of how ayame didn't need a guard or protector because she was perfectly capable of doing the protecting by herself. however, it doesn't erase an entire lifetime of learning that ayame is kuge and tanjirou is buke, and those don't really mix. it's something that is easier for ayame to discard, since she's already renounced her claim to the title, and isn't it usually easier for nobility to marry beneath their station than for a commoner to marry into nobility? although i guess it would be nobility marrying into royalty, but same diff.

there might be some friction in the first few days after ayame wakes up, post-final battle.

tanjirou would pull away. it was one thing for him to pull her into a kiss in the heat of the moment, because he was worried one of them was going to die without him revealing what his true feelings were (yeah, he still does The Kiss in the infinity fortress), but it's another thing entirely to pursue a relationship with his hime. even if the thought of her finding happiness with another person makes his stomach turn. and also makes him mad as hell.

but you know tanjirou. he was a man of duty. the eldest son endures, and a royal guard protects his hime no matter the cost. it doesn't really matter that his hime can protect herself, or that he certainly isn't in any position to be protecting her since he only has one working arm. it's the thought that counts!

so, obviously, he should pull away from his hime and wish her happiness with whoever she chooses! it might even be giyuu-san! he's fine with that! (he isn't fine with that. of course he isn't, but what can he do?)

zenitsu and inosuke would have to intervene. so would kanao. they're the only ones who can do anything about tanyame circling each other, because they don't have to wrestle with duty versus heart like tanjirou and ayame (and to some extent, nezuko) have to.

also they wouldn't be as publicly affectionate like canon tanyame are, but that just means that they're. um. well. u know. repressed. i can't elaborate on this without blushing sorry -

[glitter-stained]

Random goon: Hey boss, were you the one to pick that name as an alias? And why this one?

Red Hood : I used to have another name, before... A long time ago. But that person is dead now. I get to choose for myself now, they can't take that from me. I won't let them.

Goon: Huh.

***

Random Goon: Say boss, why do you never take off your shirt in front of us?

Red Hood: Well uh, I actually have that really fucked scar on my chest and I'm not comfortable with...

Random Goon: Don't worry boss, we get it, you don't have to explain yourself to us.

***

Red Hood, high on some toxin: God, I wish my family...

Random Goon (on boss-sitting duty): why not try reaching out to them?

Red Hood: They would never accept me as I am now... They wouldn't agree with my so-called "life choices". Besides, they don't miss me, they miss the person they think I used to be... I wasn't even a man when I last saw them.

Random Goon: Damn boss, that sucks.

***

And then the goons throw the Red Hood a party on trans visibility day and Jason is so confused he straight up cries.

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[inkskinned]

she's singing in another room and my dog is asleep at my feet. my grandma asked me why i haven't found a man yet and i laughed. oh, you know. i like my house clean.

my girlfriend is also my man is also "my partner" if i'm in a professional setting. yesterday we went to a ren faire and a man mimed at me - you're together? and at my delighted nod, his baffled, you're gay? made me laugh. a woman with rainbow hair said i love the two of you together. you're both so beautiful it's absurd.

my dad introduced my partner as my "..... friend. or whatever" the other day. he knows we're dating. in the same way, i was never able to get my sister's husband to stop saying that's gay like it's 2008. he still uses the word fa***t, and my sister's defense of him has always been well, he's just kidding.

my lover and i dance to old music in a tiny kitchen. we judge new music together and take food critique very seriously. we watch love is blind before we fall asleep and agree that if they had a queer season, it would be bloody but also make for excellent tv. of fucking course queer people would know someone for only 2 weeks and agree to get married. what are you saying.

at a bar with friends, a man puts his hand on my wrist. got a boyfriend? and yes, i do have a boyfriend, she's amazing. i am texting her while i wander around a gas station named after geese. i am visiting a swing state for a wedding. in the candy aisle i overhear: she's actually like a lesbian it's disgusting. two teenage girls with packaged sandwiches in their hands, giggling. no literally, like. i'm not, like. okay with her being there while we're all, like, naked and changing.

my girlfriend and i tailgate, drink gin and cider out of cups. from the frat group beside us, a man corrects himself with one of his friends: bro, i mean, nonbinary entity, and it makes everyone around him laugh, myself included. he razzes his friend the same way i would have killed for at 19 years old - like nothing happened, he continues: you apply sunscreen like an alien. he does a little sassy (and fairly accurate) dance interpretation of the motion. his friend is laughing so hard they're crying.

i am lucky, i live in a safe neighborhood in a safe state. my masc passenger princess comes up from DC. i drive her for an hour to where all the leaves are a violent arrangement of color. we walk along the trails, letting autumn into our blood. in this part of the state, there's a lot of pickup trucks and trump signs. when we chastely kiss before getting into the car, i accidentally make eye contact with a woman holding her child's wrist. she looks disgusted. she looks fucking pissed.

two hours later my girl and i are eating dinner on a patio, soaking in the last warmth of new england sun before the chill of winter sets in. we are giggling and trying to talk through plastic vampire teeth. at another table, i see a young woman sit up straighter. i watch her watch us. she blushes and takes her partner's hand from across the table. shy, like the taste of evening has just become something deeper.

it's worth it for this moment, i think. my lover is still humming the same song she's been singing for four days straight and i don't want to kill her for it. her guitar is beside my bed. her toothbrush is in my bathroom. in a few moments i will make us lunch. we are lucky enough to have found each other. it is lucky enough to be in love.

[s0up1ta]

"so grunkle ford how do you know bill?"

"... that's not important."

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

the werewolf stan is amazing btw thank you

No, thank you!!! In fact, here's more just because you sent this ask (and probably the other one too, I love you)!!!!! More!!!!!!!!

They are liars <3

Part one is here!! ;P

Part three is here!! 'cause I can't control myself 😔

[soappox]

they're amusing to me

[fer3112]

Based on recent events

[secondbeatsongs]

source

[somewhereincairparavel]

"jason is a knockoff watered down percy" NO hear me out, jason actually parallels annabeth immensely, sharing SO many similarities with her personality, not percy, in this essay I will-

edit: my full analysis is out now! here

[theballadofmars]

I love how mqf's oficial description is something like: a good heart who wants to help others but then you read the novel and his reaction to lqg trapping ten infected men who are crying in panic is "great now I can start to work in my experiments with decomposed people to find a cure" and gets out a lot of needles, which makes the man cry even harder.

Even if we only get bits of the other Cang Qiong sect leader's we can reach the conclusion that no one there is normal, sqq is just biased.

[pokimoko]

Asexual bird? Please

How about two asexual birds?

[kaahmbem]

legend has it that the young witch circe and the once beautiful nymph scylla shared a complicated past...

[hollis-art]

fem hilson is attacking my brain like they're seagulls and i happened to bring food to the beach,,,

and in regard to my original fem hilson post where i mentioned that wilson for sure had an impulsive pixie cut that she very much regretted:

women,,,,

[cuntylouis]

I feel like many people have a fundamental misconception of what unreliable narrator means. It's simply a narrative vehicle not a character flaw or a sign that the character is a bad person. There are also many different types of unreliable narrators in fiction. Being an unreliable narrator doesn't necessarily mean that the character is 'wrong', it definitely doesn't mean that they're wrong about everything even if some aspects in their story are inaccurate, and only some unreliable narrators actively and consciously lie. Stories that have unreliable narrators also tend to deal with perception and memory and they often don't even have one objective truth, just different versions. It reflects real life where we know human memory is highly unreliable and vague and people can interpret same events very differently