#this has actually happened to multiple friends

[xylusbible]

never leaving — caleb x reader

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💫 content: post-fight/making up with caleb 🤍 reader is mc (ig). established relationship. xavi mentioned (as your best friend)

💫 word count: 2.4k

💫 content warning: MDNI ‼️🔞, smut, make up sex, sex on the floor (lol), intercourse, possessive caleb (👅)

💫 xybb notes: everytime i think the caleb rot has left me, i’m wrong… i originally wrote this for another fandom with another pairing, but never posted it because i thought it was ooc but it actually worked perfectly with caleb so here we are. its slightly unfinished but i think its good enough. i’m also so obsessed with his ‘Rain’s Embrace’ bond date, as well as his possessive ass in chapter 9 of the homecoming wings main story. so this is an amalgamation of those. i’m sorry it’s not like a full complete thing but i had to stop there because i thought it would drag on otherwise…. hope you enjoy x (hoping to god next thing i post will be xavi, sylus or raf cuz this has to end lmfao)

this fucking rain. when you left for work this morning you wish you had bothered to check the weather for the rest of the day. now after your hellpawn of a shift (even as it was only an in-office work day), you got off the train to a torrential downpour. lucky you.

your week couldn’t get any worse.

work has been so rough the past few days. you’re exhausted after every shift, and barely have the willpower to get up the next morning to do it all over again. on top of that, your landlord sent a message that rent would be raised after your next payment. it’s not that the job doesn’t pay well, but this means less money for leisurely things (arcade tokens, kitty cards gacha, etc.), and that really wasn’t helping your mood. lastly, you haven’t talked to caleb all week..

you got into a fight with him over the weekend. things had been a bit tense between you lately and a smartass remark of his was apparently your last straw. well it was anyway… but after the shitty week you’ve had, you’d kill to be wrapped up in your boyfriend’s arms right about now. but you’re stubborn and headstrong, and you’re tired of forgiving him so easily when he doesn’t deserve it. he should have to work for your forgiveness.

you’ve been ignoring his messages since the fight and you were wondering how long it would take before he decided to give up and try a different method. you’ve been rolling around the idea of talking to him again throughout the week, but on top of everything else going on, you’re anger and annoyance towards him stayed at the forefront of your brain.

you cursed softly as you thought over everything again on your soggy walk home.

the fight began after caleb read a text on your phone from xavier. it was a harmless message, asking if he could come over sometime in the next few days after work to finish a tv series the 2 of you have been binging. you were in the kitchen grabbing a water when your phone went off and you asked caleb to see who it was. he made some snarky remark about how xavier seems to be over at your place more than he himself is these days, and you were just so tired of having this conversation over and over again.

xavier is literally your neighbor, and coworker and close friend. that was it. you’ve known caleb basically your entire life and you’ve been together for years now, so you don’t understand why he still has the audacity to be so possessive when it comes to your other guy friends.

so you blew up at him. you couldn’t help it. it had been a long time coming, since you’d already had multiple conversations about this topic before.

you both end up arguing for what seems like hours. you bring up trust, and a ‘how long do we have to be together for you to understand that i don’t want anyone else but you ?!’. both your voices are raised and it ends with you saying you want a break and kicking him out.

you sigh in frustration after going over the argument in your head for what seems like the thousandth time since it’s happened. you kick a rock.

stupid caleb. as soon as you see your apartment building come into view, you decide you’re going to turn your phone off as soon as you get home, take a hot shower to get all this rain water off of you, and then sleep the whole weekend and hope that everything will be better when you finally get out of bed on monday.

except, those plans all get thrown into the trash, as the closer you get to your building, you see the unmistakable figure of your boyfriend standing outside the lobby, equally as soaked as you.

you stop walking and stand still as he looks up to make eye contact with you. he stands up straight and jogs towards you, a look of concern evident on his face as he places both hands over your head as if that will actually be enough stop the rain from hitting you.

“where the hell is your umbrella?” he asks, or more like scolds. you roll your eyes.

“where’s yours?” you say back, fully noticing his drowned rat appearance.

“i didn’t check the weather before i went out,” he said with a frown.

“neither did i,” you sigh. you avoid eye contact and cross your arms.

“what are you doing here, caleb?”

“i came to talk to you. you haven’t answered any of my messages all week.”

“well i don’t want to talk to you unless you’re here to apologize.”

he sighs and moves to take your hand in his to pull you underneath the tiny awning of your apartment building. as soon as you’re under, you shake your hand out of his. he looks at you with a hurt expression.

“that’s why i’m here,” he says. “well?” you ask, eyebrows raised as you wait for him to continue.

“i’m sorry okay? i’m sorry for being a dick about xavier. it’s just— we don’t get to spend that much time together these days. we’re both busy with work all the time and xavier gets to see you practically everyday, while i only see you on weekends and random weekdays, and it ticks me off a bit that he gets to live right above you while i’m train rides away.”

“that doesn’t mean that you get to take it out on me. you know i don’t like xavier like that. you act like i’d rather spend more time with him than you. i spend time with him because we’re always around each other so it’s easy, but that just means i cherish whatever amounts of time you and i have together because i don’t get to see you as often.” a frown takes hold of your expression.

“with what little time we do get to spend together, the last thing i want to hear while we are, is you complaining about my friends,” you huff.

caleb gives you the saddest puppy dog expression you’ve ever seen and you have to look away to avoid forgiving him instantly.

“i understand that now. i didn’t meant to make you feel like i think you like him more than me. i’m just frustrated with the lack of time we get to spend together. i just can’t get this stupid idea out of my head that you’ll realize one day that i’m not worth the time and effort, when you already have someone else so close to you that you’d be able to see more often,” he admits. you notice his fist clenched at his side as he speaks.

“idiot. ever since we graduated from high school, we’ve been apart. there’s been times the past few years where i’d only see you every few months, and we made it work then, so i don’t know why you’re acting like it’s hard now,” you say.

“i love you, caleb. whatever time we can spend together, i’m happy to have. i just wish you’d pay attention to that instead of worrying about others.”

his expression softens at that.

“i’m sorry, pipsqueak, really. every moment we spend together is like a gift. i shouldn’t be taking it for granted. i love you with every cell in my body, i just can’t stand the idea of someone getting the chance to spend more time with you than me.”

you blush and scoff quietly at the cheesy way he talks.

“then make the time we spend together worthwhile and stop thinking about xavier.”

he moves one hand up to place under your chin, tilting your head upwards so you’re forced to make eye contact with him.

his expression is dead serious as he speaks.

“from now on, when i’m with you, i’ll make sure you know that you’re the only thing i ever have on my mind.” he uses his thumb to wipe a raindrop off your bottom lip.

you realize then how much you’ve truly missed his touch.

“do you forgive me?” he asks, letting go of your chin and placing his hands on your waist loosely, as if he’s prepared for you to push him away again.

“you’re going to have to prove it to me,” you say, stepping a bit closer.

“show me that you trust me, that you trust my love for you. prove to me that you love me enough for the distance not to matter,” you tell him.

once he seems to realize that you’re not going to pull away, he pulls you closer. you place your hand on the front of his shoulders as you hold eye contact.

“i will baby, let me start right now,” he says, squeezing your waist a bit.

you nod and he closes the distance between you. you slip your hands around his neck as he kisses you deeply. the only sound being the backdrop of the rain around you. you stay like that for who knows how long before he pulls away slowly, placing his forehead against yours.

“anything you want, i’ll give it to you,” he whispers.

“i just want you, caleb,” you answer easily.

“then i’m all yours. i’ve only ever been yours,” he says.

he kisses you one more time, before moving back and taking your hand once again to pull you into the lobby of your building. you both rush quickly to the elevator; and do your absolute best to keep your hands to yourselves as you make your way up to your floor. you hand him your keys as he once again leads the way.

as soon as caleb unlocks door and you’re inside, he’s slamming you up against it, shutting it quickly and attaching your lips harshly this time.

you gasp and use your hands to tangle into his rain-wet hair.

he holds a tight grip on your hips as he shoves his tongue into your mouth which you greedily swallow around, desperate to take as much as you can get from whatever he’s willing to give you.

within minutes of heated kissing (more like swallowing) caleb moves to undo the buttons of your ruined blouse and you follow suit by moving to rip open his belt from his pants loops as quickly as you can manage.

you finish before he does and move to shove his soaking wet pants and underwear down before finally breaking the kiss to drop down to your knees in front of him. you use one hand to take hold of his half hard member and the other to cling onto his thigh desperately as you look up at him with pleading eyes as if asking for permission.

to your surprise though, he shakes his head and dropped to his knees as well, taking your face into his hands and kissing you again.

“i can’t- take the foreplay, baby, just let me have you,” he says into the kiss before pulling back the slightest amount to be able to look you in the eyes.

you nod easily, hurriedly, and he wastes no time in pulling you into his lap and moving you to lay on the floor, you back against the doormat.

it took him only seconds to flip your wet and heavy skirt up to reveal your equally soaked panties. he moves down quickly to bite at the waistband of the undergarment and use his hands to rip them right across the middle, freeing your midsection, not having the patience to take the time to take them off properly.

you gasp at the display of strength and with the dismay of a ruined pair of her underwear, but before you could say anything, caleb moves back up to kiss you once again—easily batting away whatever thoughts you had about your underwear. you wrap your arms around his neck as he pushes your legs apart enough to fit between them, using one hand to lift one up and forward, leaving you slightly open.

you exchange no words as caleb breaks the kiss momentarily for you to both look down between you as he uses his free hand to take his now fully hard length and place it at your entrance. he bumps the tip of his dick against your cunt a few times to get it more wet before slowly pushing it inside.

you moan unabashedly at the feeling of the head of his cock nestled inside of you, feeling like it’s been literally forever since he was there last.

“come on,” you breathe out heavily, not wanting him to wait any longer.

he moves his head up to look at you in the eye again and uses a hand to cup the side of your cheek gently, before moving his hips forward in one quick thrust, bottoming out instantly. you let out a shaky yell and roll your eyes back a bit at the action.

caleb leans in again to take your bottom lip between his own and suck it into his mouth before pulling his hips back slowly, just to slam them in again. you moaned around his mouth and move one hand up to his hair again to grip it tightly as he starts a quick and rough pace, fucking you into the floor beneath you.

caleb lets out soft grunts of his own into your mouth before you can’t focus on kissing any longer and he moves to mouth at your neck instead.

“i’ll never let you leave me, pips,” he whispers into your neck as you tug on his hair.

“you know this is where you’re meant to be,” he says, moving his head up to meet your half focused eyes with his own.

“yours,” is all you can manage to get out between moans.

“that’s right baby. you’re mine. only. always will be,” he says.

you nod frantically, as you shut your eyes tightly.

“never wanna- be anyone else’s..” you say between moans.

“good, cuz you can’t. i won’t let you..” he moves to whisper directly into your ear before moving down to your neck once again, but this time, to bite.

[scribz-ag24]

I've recently seen again a post talking about the Sableye and Dusknoir's relationship so i'd like to put my two cents in the discussion, for I love screaming into the void about PMD. (this isnt meant to discourage any other interpretations btw this is just my take on theirs and Dusknoir's relationship, bc I think they're very fun characters and I am very glad the game actually gives these minions a bit of relevance in se5).

Tbh I don't buy that Dusknoir treats the Sableye nicely, at least not out of kindness. I don't think he's a tyrant or inexplicably mean, of course, and I think his minions ADORE him, but i also believe that doesn't mean he's nice to them, sth that i consider meaningful for their character arcs.

Throughout the entire game he's exclusively giving them orders, in se5 he concocts a plan that involves thrashing them MULTIPLE times (he's lucky Grovyle isn't one to try and kill enemies in battle ig), and the cherry on top is that the first time we see him being fully genuine he does this:

(yes, he is in turmoil in here, but there's not a single thing implying that 1. this is an unusual response towards the sablye, 2. dusknoir feels bad for it at some point or is surprised at himself, 3. this has any impact in the sableye at all. You can argue these reactions happen off screen and we don't see them, they don't happen bc they have pressing matters to attend to or they happen after they return to life, and that's perfectly valid, but i'm sticking with what the game shows us, here.)

I must say, though, the fact that the Sableye, despite having been almost mindless pokémon up to now, STAND UP TO AND ATTACK Primal Dialga for their boss and even try to look after him despite him ordering them to check on Grovyle and Celebi first is SO important to me. they are goons to the bone and they love that scheming ghost so much.

My own view is that Dusknoir is generally polite to them (you wouldn't randomly break your own revolver or weapon without any reason, would you?), but is quicker to get mean with them than with people he doesn't know or he is seeking to manipulate. He doesn't care about their behaviour as long as they get the job done, which is why I think the anime thing of the Sableye climbing onto his shoulder isn't that remarkable, rather it's a very cute moment, one that is showing how they've been working together for long and how their size difference affects their interactions, but it is not necessarily conveying an affectionate bond (this is a bit random, but it reminds me of Disney's Jafar with Iago lmao. throw your pet sableye at your enemies so they mock them and then return to your shoulder). Additionally, Dusknoir letting the Sableye onto his shoulder is probably as close as we are gonna get to a villain turning around in his chair while petting a cat in PMD lol.

[this isn't meant to be a one-to-one comparison, it's just a detail i find cute and shows that this gesture can have multiple interpretations, with none being the only right one]

Leaving that aside, I hesitate to claim Dusknoir trusts his Sableye as allies, as Grovyle makes a point in the main story of how the Sableye (your Sableye, he says, as if objectifying them; not friends, but tools, weapons at Dusknoir's disposal) are lacking compared to the way hero/partner/grovyle support one another (power of friendship and hidden information babyyyy). The Sableye are used to Dusknoir's way of doing things, though, I'm sure. They know what happens when he's displeased, after all.

I think, most of all, the Sableye are meant to look disposable: they are 6 identical pokémon that almost act like a hivemind, and we are not supposed to think at all about how we may hurt them in battle any more than we do with the angry Manectric pack or random dungeon pokémon. This, I believe, is why the game has them stand up against Dialga and gives them unique dialogue at the end of se5. They're meant to show their inner shine, just as Dusknoir managed to do. They suddenly gain an individuality they had never shown while they were working to maintain the dark future.

Where they abandoned Dusknoir in the Old Ruins, now Grovyle has motivated them to look for their dignity and fight for a better world, and that starts with protecting their leader from Primal Dialga's rampage, and supporting his new objective and allies in their quest to save the future. In their own small way, they've also grown as characters throughout SE5.

I believe that, overall, Dusknoir saw the Sableye as tools, but thanks to their growth and clear care for him, there's a possibility he might start to see them (and by extension other pokémon) in a more genuine, less pragmatic / objectifying way in the future. Now that Dusknoir has the chance to live a fulfilling life, he may learn to care for others without surrounding himself by so many walls. If anything, I think their future is quite bright. Not that the Sableye would mind if he still thrashed them around, though lol, they're clearly not bothered much by it (special episode 0 had a great depiction of the sableye imo, you can check that romhack if you haven't yet).

In conclusion, look at these little guys who adore their can-get-mean-but-is-mostly-polite boss and probably have a body count but now are good, they're so cute:

[cowboyidiot]

something about oMarks “request” backfiring because he didn’t see the innies as equal to him and yes that includes iMark and “Heleny” but that also includes Petey… oMark had almost all of the answers to the questions iMark was asking (or at least proof that the reintegration is appx. 50/50 split and he wouldn’t be dying nor giving up most of himself for his outie) as well as more reasons for iMark to trust him because of their shared relationship with Petey. oMark has been repressing his similarities with his innie in both his ability to love deeply but also within his relationship with Petey that took up multiple episodes of s1 (attending Peteys funeral, letting him stay in his basement, feeling drawn to June) because he doesn’t want to admit that iMarks feelings for Helly/Helena could be incredibly real in the face of getting Gemma back. so, Petey becomes just some dude that sent him down this path towards Finding His Wife, not someone to take seriously as his innies best friend who he also felt a connection with and as someone iMark still doesn’t know is dead. Petey could have been a bridge between them if oMark cared at all about iMarks feelings and had gotten over his own insecurities that resulted from a surgery that he specifically chose in order to forget his wife in order to assuage iMarks reasonable doubts with actual information instead of belittling him and his relationship. however, in order to do that he would have to admit that the reintegration process would give validity to both of their identities and loves, and that if it happened he would be willing to accept and act on iMarks wishes just as much as his own but he’s a child and incapable of doing that because he sees himself as the one true Mark lol

[nottsangel]

I’m sorry that you’re being accused of being a stalker when it’s very obvious that the stalker is the person that posts about you all day every day. You had every right to address them for not leaving you alone now they’re over there claiming you’re the Twitter stalker, but she continues to screenshot and post the Twitter person when if it were serious, she should have just gone to the police station. It’s just been her all month shitposting about you and others unprovoked. Clearly, she’s unstable.

thank you so much, i completely agree with this. i have no regrets about standing up for myself. i genuinely don’t understand what was expected of me when she kept bringing me up on her blog and falsely portraying me as a stalker.

just to clear this up because im tired of it: @/sweetproclivity keeps calling me a stalker because i supposedly ‘admitted to stalking her for a year’. i’ve included a screenshot under the cut so you can see for yourself what i actually said. i’m done with her twisting my words into something they’re not. (buckle up, this is a long post)

i am not a stalker just because other people came to me about her. i never once asked them to. her own mutuals reached out to me, saying they thought she was posting about me and/or my friends. i never sent anyone to check on her blog like she claims. i was minding my own business when people came into my dms saying, ‘hey, i saw this and wanted to let you know.’ and every time, i let it go because i didn’t want to get involved. but trust me—by that point, everyone was already done with her.

but when she made a shit talking post and even included screenshots with my name clearly in it, blacked out, i had enough. especially since i’d already had issues with her in the past, i wasn’t going to accept her talking about me like that on her blog. it was completely unnecessary, and i wanted it to stop.

so that’s when i sent the dm, planning to move on after that and feeling relieved that she would stop, or so i thought. but immediately after, she completely twisted my words and used them however she wanted publicly on her blog, without even addressing my point at all. and now, i’m the new ‘stalker’ for telling her that i don’t accept her behaviour.

and no, i am also not a stalker for knowing about her public hockey blog. i have friends in the hockey fandom too, so i don’t know why she keeps claiming i saw a privated post where she announced it. her blog wasn’t some hidden, private account—it was public, on tumblr. i was trying to find a way to contact her because i was done with her behavior when one of my friends pointed out that they saw a new blog of hers appear on their dash. so, i dmed that blog to reach out to her.

after making multiple posts about me being a stalker and announcing it to all her anons, just because i sent her one dm, i still tried to ignore it. i know exactly how she is, she blows everything out of proportion to get attention from the unaware people on her blog.

but when she started to so clearly hint that it was me, saying she was talking about a rafe writer who left the fandom and had a fallout with her, but still has friends in the obx fandom (along with other descriptions), i couldn’t let it go anymore. anyone who’s been here long enough could figure out exactly who she meant. and even if they couldn’t, the posts she kept making about me were completely out of line.

(at this point i also found out that she blocked all my newer friends from the harry potter fandom who have never even heard of her before. i have no idea how she even knows who my friends are, because she even blocked the ones i only talk in private with. they have absolutely nothing to do with this situation and weren’t even aware of what was happening.)

anyway, that’s when i made this post addressing her. i wasn’t going to sub-post about her, i wasn’t going to vaguely hint at a situation. no. i wanted it to stop, and i couldn’t see any other way to make her stop than to tell her publicly. i’ve tried privately already, but as you can see, she’ll twist my words and completely changes the narrative to make me look bad.

and if you’re about to ask, ‘why did you immediately assume it was you when she talked about her new stalker?’—in her dm back to me, she mentioned adding me to her lawsuit. immediately after that, she made a post on her blog saying that she has multiple stalkers now, with the tag ‘adding another name to my lawsuit?’. this, along with the descriptions she gave about the ‘new stalker’, it really couldn’t have been more obvious. anyone in my position would’ve seen that.

i refuse to let her walk all over me and make me her new target on her blog. i didn’t do anything wrong, and she knows i didn’t. i don’t understand why she has this tendency to turn everything into something it’s not, but she chose the wrong person for that. and like i said before, when it comes to her twitter stalker, i genuinely hope she resolves that. from what i know, she is taking legal action against them, and rightfully so. but that has nothing to do with me.

anyway, that’s all. i needed to get the full truth out there, because everything about this situation is ridiculous and blown out of proportion. i just wanted to set the record straight so thank you for reading, and i really appreciate anyone who took the time to understand my side. seriously, thank you, it means a lot <33

these screenshots are just a fraction of the posts she made, by the way.

[harmless-variety-of-garden-snake]

I was just talking about this last night!

I've second-guessed my intentions in friendships because people will not stop asking if I'm in love with a straight guy I'm friends with so much that I've started to wonder if the way I'm acting around them is actually questionable. This is happening to me right now as we speak, but this has happened multiple times.

You start to worry you can't be affectionate or authentically yourself with your own friends because of how it might be perceived by them or people around you. It can ruin a friendship.

That's why I'm so much less patient about Buddie takes from this last episode coming across my FYP because of lazy or outright incorrect tagging. At this point, it's evoking an actual emotional response from me not because I care that much about fictional ships but because the things I'm seeing are putting me right back in this entire headspace. I have lost friends over this, I've had friends hang out with me less, I've become less naturally affectionate with some of my own friends over the years because I don't want people to think I'm trying to "turn" them.

I've fucking had it with this shit.

Okay you know what I am pissed with the buddie shippers because what do you mean Buck is in denial and he is actually in love with his STRAIGHT best friend?!!

Do you know how many gay/queer men have been accused of being in love with their straight friend? A lot! Me included. That's why it struck a nerve with me because I've been in that position. Let me tell you it's really really not a nice feeling.

This take of gay men falling in love with their straight friends and eventually turning them gay is just downright homophobic!

Homophobic on both Buck's and Eddie's part. Eddie (and Ryan) have consistently been saying that he is straight. Ignoring one's statement and assuming their sexuality just to feed into your fetishization of a gay couple is dead wrong.

And Buck, why can't he just say that he loves his friend as a brotherly figure and you just take it as what it is. Like do you not have fucking friends that you can't even say that you love them platonically?

This is me just ranting but fuck you Buddies shippers. Just fuck you guys.

[r0semultiverse]

this recently happened to one of my friends

[noheteroexplanation]

AO3 Milestone: 100,000 hits <3

Thank you so much to everyone who has read my works, who has left kudos and comments! It means so much. It is actually kind of insane to me that so many people have read my fics.

For my own documentation and for those who are curious, these are my current top 5 most read fics:

you don't need no air (you can just breathe me) – Galinda/Elphaba (Wicked)

i'm always afraid (but never to die) – Galinda/Elphaba (Wicked)

lately i've been crying (like a tall child) – Rhaenyra/Alicent (HOTD)

A Thin Line between Love and Hate – Penelope/Josie (Legacies)

tripping, falling with no safety net – Galinda/Elphaba (Wicked)

On that note, I am so grateful to Rhaenicent and Gelphie for inspiring me to start writing again. It has been amazing. I am currently on a short break, but I have a lot more ideas to write for both of these ships and I look forward to writing them.

Special shoutout to my friends who read and comment on everything I write! Reading your thoughts and discussing my ideas with y'all inspires me so much. Thank you💗 @invisiblue @anticurses @dykefyre @mistoffeleesisawitch

[dysgraphicprogrammer]

The Siblinghood of the Friends of Bromax

As all gods, Bromax was born, lived a human life, and died. And as with most Powers who seek entry to the world, His mother bound him with an Oath even before his conception.

Bromax's Oath was to the Protection and Betterment of Men. This does not exclude others from his care. To care for Men is to care for those who love and are loved by Men, and for all who share community with Men.

So what was Church of Bro to do when the Ones In Between approached them? What of the Manly Women, the Feminine Man, the inconsistent, the in between, and the children who's very bodies seemed indecisive?

What to do, except to make a place for them?

Some would think that the wife of a God of Masculinity would be a Goddess of the Feminine. They would be mistaken. In his mortal life, Bromax did not choose a wife who matched Feminine ideals. Eylia was an Ex-mercenary. She had lived a hard life of fighting, fucking, drinking and travel. And when she tired of that life, she found comfort, peace, and family beside Bromax's steady kindly strength. But she always remained what she was. Eylia never showed much femininity in her dress or manner. To the children they adopted, Eylia was seen as a second father as often as a mother.

And when they died together, she ascended to Sainthood (as often happens with the spouses of Those Who Will Be Gods.)

Now, the Siblinghood of the Children of Eylia is a home for the genderless. All who will Swear to Code of Bro, but can not or will not take the Pledge of the Priesthood, are welcome in this Order of Monks.

The Eylian Siblings serve many functions in the Church. From temple guards, to researchers, to liturgical aides, there are few places where you won't find the Siblings in Broish life. But there is one responsibility for which they are particularly suited: The construction, testing and and repair of Belts of Gender. Who else will you find willing to test a different Gender each day? Who will put on a half functioning Belt and not only endure, but actually enjoy the mismatched effects?

The Eylian Monks, that's who.

Of course, if it's a genderless deity you seek, there are options there as well. Best known, of course, is Valion the Goddex of Beauty and Art, sworn to create and preserve Beauty in the world. Lesser known is the Squeak God, who has somehow incarnated as a large colony of rats, and has multiple simultaneous genders. Both have declined dominion over Genderlessness, lacking even that minimal interest in gender. Both welcome all genders in their Priesthoods and lay followers.

The Belt of Masculinity/Femininity

Bromax is a god of positive masculinity. The priesthood is open to all men who wish to live a manly life, by the Bro Code, and in brotherhood to all thinking beings. One of the Trials acolytes go through to join is called the Cross-Pilgrimage. They put on a Belt of Femininity, travel to the Shine of a Feminine Deity and make an offering there. This is expected to take 2 or 3 months for a round trip. There a several open reasons for this. The most obvious being an Empathy exercise. To be the best man you can be and a spiritual advisor to other men, you need to understand the differences between masculine and feminine directly. Acolytes also get to see how men in the world react to women, and how it feel to receive that attention, good or bad. And there is an important philosophical point that the Bros are making about the essential unity of the Masculine and the Feminine and how neither is complete without the other. But the thing they don’t mention ahead of time is just as important. A small number of acolytes decide not to come back. Instead they choose to keep the Belt, and possibly join the Feminine temple at their destination. See, some people are having problems with their life or identity, and try or solve it with more Masculinity. They go to the Bros and say “Teach me to Man better!”. Sometimes that fixes it. But sometimes the problem is different.  The Bros find it most important to have everyone in their best place. It tends to even out anyway. A certain number of pilgrims show up each year wearing Belts of Masculinity, asking “Um, so how do I do this man thing? Because this feels right, and I’m not going back.”

[yume127]

Despite all his talks about not caring about not being chosen by the Keyblade, Sora seems to tie a lot of his worth into being a Keyblade wielder. 

The time when he lost the Keyblade in Hollow Bastion was devastating for Sora. Not only his best friend had turned against him, but Donald and Goofy briefly abandoned him.

Although he seems to get over it pretty quickly, there were hints implying that moment hurt him more deeply than he let on. In KH3, he says that when he lost the Keyblade, Donald and Goofy had to go on without him, which I don't think is true? What was stopping them from following Riku with Sora instead of leaving him there alone?

I think that moment might have affected Sora a lot, leading him to think that not only he is useless without the Keyblade, but his friends are going to leave him if he can’t use the Keyblade.

This comes up again in KH2, when Sora is completely lost when he learns that defeating Heartless with the Keyblade is exactly what the Organization wants. He says that he doesn’t know what he’s supposed to do if he can’t use the Keyblade and once again he feels useless, albeit he’s able to overcome this fairly quickly.

Then he has to face the Mark of Mastery, and it’s the first time he’s on an adventure on his own. Although he doesn’t seem to care much about becoming a Keyblade Master, he’s confident that he’ll pass the exam as he sees it as a formality. Except, the Organization hijacked themselves into the exam, tricked him and he ended up having to be rescued and failing the Mark of Mastery, losing most of his power in the process.

He tries to brush it off, focusing on his excitement for Riku, but when Yen Sid talks to him after the exam, it’s obvious that Sora is devastated. That experience left him feeling very insecure in his strength, and the constant remarks from villains and allies alike only amplified this insecurity. 

What happened during the Mark of Mastery deeply affected him and he never truly recovered from it (at least not yet). He has lost all his confidence in himself.

The Keyblade didn't choose him, he failed the Mark of Mastery, he's not as reliable as the other wielders, so, to make up for it, he ties his worth uniquely in his connection with other people. His friends are his power, therefore if his friends are gone, he’s worthless. He doesn’t believe he’s able to make it on his own. Not anymore.

[theragamuffininitiative]

So... are you trying to tell me I should put Numb3rs on my To Watch list? :)

-Rain

...

Me coming over to your house with my Numb3rs dvds:

You resisting:

The Eppes Family and Co. winning you over:

(I know that flipped povs there just go with it ok) And then we say:

And watch my dorky math friends and their fbi besties solve crimes in increasingly ludicrous plots, where the fake draw is math... (and lots of fun guest stars!)

and the real draw is the familial relationships between the characters...

....

... The answer is yes.

Absolutely, yes.

[casscainmainly]

CASS PLATONIC SOULMATE!?? people would say steph and i totally see it but like, stephcass shipper over here soo... yeah! any thoughts xo?

Honestly I'm not sure!! Canon-wise Steph is definitely the platonic soulmate, but only because they refuse to make it romantic. Excluding her (because I'm holding out on a very small hope they will confirm StephCass), I don't actually think Cass has many close friends.

We've seen her friendships with Clayface in Tynion's 'Tec run (which was great, but very much contained in that run), and Big Barda in BoP (not long/entrenched enough yet). Otherwise she has very few close friends outside of the Batfam, which has always been kinda sad but very much in character.

'Cause Clayface/Big Barda (and Steph, Tim, Jean-Paul, Duke, Harper etc.) are either people in a team with her or a Bat-associate. I think she's not great at maintaining relationships when it's not directly in front of her, which makes sense because she was never taught how to do so. Most of her foundational relationships in Batgirl (2000) required the other person (thinking particularly Steph and Babs) to put in a lot of effort, and they very easily fell apart.

The one exception is Brenda, who (besides Steph) was the first person Cass consciously formed a relationship with, and who is very important to her journey of self-discovery. But that didn't last either :(.

So in short I don't really think she has a platonic soulmate, because most of her friends are either Batfam or extremely short-term and limited to one run. Crossing my fingers that Brombal's new run introduces more long-lasting Cass friends!

[thatisaloaf]

Frogs

[herenvibing]

cr3 is gonna end and the pc’s still feel like the same people to me :|

(crcritical content in the tags feel free to skip)

[amomentpassed]

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[throwing-roses-into-the-abyss]

anyway if weird shit could stop happening in my life for a while that'd be great

[wr0ngwarp]

absence of feelings voiced is not absence of feelings felt

zero beat moment. i have many not-really-canon thoughts on this silly robot

hex translations under the cut

"can you guys SHUT THE FUCK UP for a minute??"

"i'm booooored…"

"all of you guys are morons and your plans are stupid"

"why does anyone even still care about beat when i'm RIGHT HERE"

"man who even gives a shit"

YES it is just him moping around and thinking mean thoughts towards rokkaku group (he is not allowed to complain out loud but that will NOT stop him from having strong opinions in the privacy of his own code.)

have a :zeap: as a present for opening the readmore