#this has probably been done but it’s fun

[bloomseishiro]

LOCKED OFF — NAGI SEISHIRO

౨ৎ — after returning from blue lock earlier than expected, nagi feels emotions of anger and despair for one of the first times in his life. thankfully, he at least has you to lean on.  

nagi seishiro x reader. fluff, established relationship, not spoiler free!!, nagi is taller than reader, just a small comfort drabble

a/n. has this been done already ?? probably HAHA but we all need more comfort after ch302 AND no more episode nagi?!?!!! ;-; hugs all around

You would think that reuniting with your boyfriend after months of being apart would be a joyous occasion, but for both you and Nagi, it was anything but. 

On the screen, you cheered him on in the U-20 match, going so far as to make t-shirts that said, “Nice to meet you Japan” on the front and distributing them to your classmates in school after the Blue Lock Eleven won. 

During Nagi’s downtime, he would use his phone to play his gacha games and watch videos, but also check in on you, giving small updates about his day and asking about yours. Even through the phone, you could see how much more invested he became playing soccer. Though he wouldn’t admit it at the time, you thought Nagi was enjoying himself there with Reo and his new friends. And that made you happy. 

But now, when he was here in front of you, the rush of happiness you felt at finally being about to hug him and hold him again was crushed the moment a few stray tears trickled down his face. 

“Sei,” you murmur softly, surprised as he buries his head into his hands and grits his teeth. “I’m sorry.”

Nagi shakes his head in defeat and you reach out slowly, gently stroking his hair in a continuous motion. There are no words you can say to help him feel better, but you hope that showing Nagi you’re there for him helps ease his frustration, if only a little. 

“I don’t know why I’m crying,” he sighs after more tears stream down his face. “Cleaning up will be a pain.”

You chuckle lightly, amused that is his most pressing concern at the moment. Wiping a droplet from his cheekbone, you say, “Don’t worry. I’ll help you clean up. So cry as much as you need, okay?”

He nods, shooting you a thankful look amidst his feelings of sadness. The glassiness in his eyes makes your breath hitch— He looks like a puppy that had just been kicked. You want to wrap him up in your arms and promise him everything will be okay, that he will return to Blue Lock like he wishes, but you know better than to cheer someone up through baseless words. 

You love being Nagi’s partner, but you recognize he has a lot of growing up to do. All you can do is be patient and support him through the process. 

“I want to say I quit soccer,” he says quietly, after moments of silence pass between the two of you. “I was to give it up forever and forget about it. But…I can’t.”

Taking his hand, you interlace your fingers between his and nod encouragingly. “You had fun playing soccer over there. With Reo. With Isagi. Do you enjoy playing it on your own?”

Nagi shrugs, face rubbed red but the wetness in his eyes finally showed signs of stopping. “I don’t know yet. I think so. But right now I just want to make it back to them.”

You smile sadly as he plops his head onto your shoulder. “I believe in you. That Wild Card person was able to make it back, right?”

“Kunigami,” confirms Nagi. “Yes. But I don’t think I want to make it back like that.”

Your eyes widen in surprise as you push, “You don’t?”

“No.” He straightens, no longer leaning his head on you, but making sure your hands are still interlocked. “I don’t know how yet. Is that ridiculous?”

“Of course not, Sei!” you say indignantly. “You’ll figure out a way! We can figure out a way.”

Nagi’s gaze locks onto yours. His eyes are tired and weary, but it was better than how lifeless and void of emotion they looked when you first saw him back home. Now, with you by his side, there is the hint of hope in his eyes. 

“Choki can help, too,” you chime in, giving him a small side hug. “Both of us missed you while you were gone.”

He envelopes your body into a fuller embrace, his large frame engulfing yours as he just stood there and took in your presence. “I missed you, too. Thanks for cheering me on. I’m sorry I let you and Choki down.”

“Sei!” you scold, looking up at him with a fiery glint in your eye. “You did not let anyone down. You are talented and amazing and, one day, you are going to kick Ego’s ass and make him eat dirt for all he said to you!”

Nagi lets out a noise of surprise, a grateful expression on his face. “You sound so sure of that.”

“I am,” you say confidently. “Because Japan hasn’t finished getting to know Nagi Seishiro just yet.” 

[beehunterkisser]

What do you think the PnF kids get up to during the non-summer months?

THIS IS A FUN ONE. Since it's not summer I'm assuming you mean like school 'nd stuff so here's my musings from the perspective of someone who only knows Ireland School

Phineas and Ferb def strike me as kids who have relatively good attendance at school but that doesn't mean they like it all that much. obviously whenever it'd be shown in the show they have to be good examples so they'd love it But Phineas in particular strikes me as someone who would get REALLY bored in a class setting. frustrating teachers worldwide by not doing homework doodling during class but getting insanely good results no matter what. Ferb seems more diligent in that regard so he'd probably do just fine but their hearts aren't rlly in it yk. Outside of that I can imagine their 'big ideas' during the non-summer months are a lot less common since they just get the weekend and the occasional seasonal holiday to make anything.

Isabella I think is probably also a good student and takes it a lot more seriously than PNF. I don't really know much about how girl scout troops work cause they're like non existent here unless ur in a city apparently so I can't really think about that too much. You know she LOVES extracurriculars though. she's in sports teams for sure I drew her in a GAA jersey in one of my doodle pages this is so real to me. Head of a bunch of the girl teams and everything I literally cannot imagine a situation where Isabella would Not lead a group it's just in her blood.

Baljeet has had perfect attendance since he began learning anything. Not a single day missed every single piece of work done to perfection and then some. he's crazy. He's def a teacher's pet type too you know they all love him. they had to pull him aside and be like You gotta let the other kids answer things every so often and he was just like 😐 Ok ..... He also totally does like really advanced after school classes. he's got a rigorous schedule if you wanna hang out during the school season you ask weeks in advance. Colour coded binders and detailed journals and completely neat intricate notes. he has it all down to a T he's an academic force to be reckoned with. And sometimes he even gets 6 hrs of sleep on a good day!!!!!

Buford. Does not gaf. Busted ass bag ruined books etc he's the opposite of Baljeet. The school calls Biffany and they're like ur son hasn't been going to school for the past 2 weeks and she's like Yea ik he's right here he's carrying in my groceries for me. he just doesn't go and she doesn't care either cause she's def the type of mother to just be like in the morning . do u wanna go. And if he says No she's just like Ok. Whenever he does come in obviously hes terrorizing Nerds/His Nerd all day so he has his reputation he's also just winning the idgaf war on the side. He probably spends his time like being a mild nuisance to retail workers/trying to convince his friends to mitch too and trespassing into people's fields. Probably when he's older and actually important exams come up he crams everything in the car on the way there and actually does decently well. Buford wins by doing nothing.

[moonofmercury]

We meet Law after the same 2 year time skip as the other characters, so it's kind of interesting to think that he probably had the same training arc as the other characters! Like he's clearly stronger than on Sabaody, partly to keep up with the epic scale of the post-time jump, but he's also simply done some growing! He's filled out just like the rest of the characters who got older, and feels more like he has a plan than he was just there and got caught up in a fun 'lil brawl.

He is a doctor, and even though he picks and chooses who he treats, I always kind of thought that maybe the kinds of people he had to hunt to get 100 hearts would have stressed him out on top of pushing his growth. Law seems to have a different kind of complicated relationship with Marineford because he found out Cora was a marine but was kind of abandoned? by Sengoku perhaps, and Vergo on top of all of that. Like at the best he finds them rather useless and if we're sticking with the theme, he finds them guilty of myriad small to medium-large evils.

All that to say, picking 100 people bad enough to permanently put at the mercy of the navy probably isn't hard per se, but it might make someone a bit upset to interact with them, and he was supposedly setting up his big bring Doffy down plot in the time-skip, so he was directly confronting trauma he may have otherwise been sailing around avoiding while doing piratey things for almost 14 years.

I need to re-read One Piece soon, but here's a thing.

I think the biggest bit of unplanned foreshadowing of the series is in the Sabaody arc, and it's the fact that Law's first big appearance after his introduction is in the auction house.

It's foreshadowing because that auction house was under the jurisdiction of Doflamingo, and we know how strongly these two characters ended up being connected to each other.

It's unplanned because Law and all the other supernovas were a last minute add, created a couple of days before their debut chapter was published.

It's still a crazy coincidence to think about though. And it's also crazy to think that Smiles were name dropped right at this point.

[cute-little-fly]

Now that some people have been discussing some stuff about HB again… I think I understand another reason why the criticism people make about the hellaverse and Viv as a creator bothers me in a different way than the criticism made for another shows, that I didn’t mentioned in a post I made a while ago…

One day I watched a criticism video about the last episode of the indie series “Murder Drones” (if you haven’t watched it go for it, it’s fun!) and the way the critic framed the criticism was very different.

For example, people in the hellaverse critical community will often say things like: “Viv doesn’t make her female characters compelling or developed enough, and that means she is probably mysoginistic or has a yaoi preference or a fetish”.

Contrary to that, this critic said this about about a character of Liam Vickens: “Uzi relationship with her father it’s rushed off, and Uzi’s father doesn’t do anything at the end and never redeems of what he did to her at the start. He is kinda ignored in the final battle and that was lame.” Which is a normal criticism imo.

However, imagine that he would have said: “probably Liam Vickens has daddy issues, and he projected those issues into Uzi’s father, therefore this is probably why he was framed as dumb and coward from the beginning to the end.”.

Like… do you see the difference here??? I really hope you see the difference, because in that way you would be close to understand why we struggle with the criticism.

It makes me a little but uncomfortable that sometimes people project things like that onto Viv when they don’t agree with her work. Like, I get that this could be because of how she sometimes calls out antis, and defends some of her characters like Stolas but like… you are looking worse in my eyes by doing these comments.

The critical community has normalized this at an extent that I find weird… no matter how flawed and wrong Viv can be seen sometimes, and how she openly talks about things like this. Like sex and fetishes… Is weird the way people project a lot as if they knew her irl.

What I am saying is that it’s different saying this: “I really question why Viv is so resistant to give her female characters in helluva boss development or spotlight, I think it’s a flaw of her work”. I would be completely fine with this criticism. Even agree at some extent (though I personally think the female leads are fine and just need more development and screentime)

That she puts more attention to male leads can have a lot of other reasons. Some female authors have admitted struggling to write women, and this might be because of our complicated feelings of being a woman in a patriarchal society. But… god forbid give the woman a benefit of the doubt in something.

This is what we mean when we talk about bad faith criticisms or comments… People act as if Viv purpose was to make a bad show, and not to care about it. Or like she is so incompetent that she shouldn’t even try… and I find that discouraging, because if even with its failures these shows have gotten so loved and popular by a portion of the fans… this means they are kinda covering a niche that wasn’t being filled.

Maybe the reason why people like HB it’s because Blitzø it’s not the typical protagonist asshole some people wish he was. Maybe because Stolas it’s not the typical love interest. Maybe because it reuses a lot of tropes but in an unexpected and weird way.

Like, if Blitzø was another shitty father like Dr Venture, I wouldn’t be as invested in this series. This combination of silly humour and drama it’s great. It could be done better but it’s great for some of us and is also not nice when you talk about us as if you understood our appreciation.

For me at least, It’s completely fine that people make blogs about their frustration of some not being how they expected originally if they didn’t do this stuff. I just wished that the criticism sometimes wouldn’t get as personal for her and for the fans of this show.

Sometimes we make analysis of certain scenes and moments, how that we claim to understand some of the characters deeply because we really feel we can understand them! But, we are being told that we are able to enjoy it because we project headcanons and fill the gaps of bad writing.

While this happens sometimes, like how we fill the gaps of how the non-shown Full Moons go that are basically all, it’s not only because of that that we like it. We also appreciate a lot of things directly shown in the series and we talk directly about them scene by scene and frame by frame.

At the end… this post is like a reflection or opinion about why I think talking about the shows in this particular way it’s something that creates a bad climate for it, and that the reason why there is so much friction in the community it’s the way the criticism is phrased for us (the fans) and the creators.

[daizyblood]

//SPOILERS// For today's E.A.P.S episode

Mmmmm, hahaha- People are partly right when they say Charlie isn't to blame

The adults (minus Eclipse) are to blame.

HENRY is to blame.

Everyone saw how Charlie was behaving and did jackshit. (Again, excluding Eclipse)

But more specifically, Henry didn't correct his own daughter's behavior. Children are who you mold them into (typically) so her having no regard for personal boundaries or an understanding of consent is heavily reflective of what kind of parent Henry is.

Eclipse took care of her while Henry was out of the picture, which was nice but Charlie is no longer his responsibility outside of helping her with her powers, he shouldn't have had to give her so many warnings (not turning him into a baby for example, he did tell her not to do that), Henry should've stepped in before it got to this point.

Charlie however is not an idiot or an innocent child, she is a preteen, 11 is far too old to be acting like this, even without Henry actively teaching her boundaries she should've been able to learn them by interacting with other children or people generally.

Eclipse shouldn't have told her that the best thing she did was die, that was absolutely not okay, but him saying that doesn't suddenly make him part of the problem, it's a blip in contrast to how he's been treated before.

It's still bad regardless, and I have seen some people say it was probably the virus-

Oh right, that, the world-ending catastrophe that Eclipse is responsible for keeping at bay and/or getting rid of.

Charlie's powers are important but not as important as THE END OF THE WORLD, yes a lack of attention can cause children to act out, especially when it's someone who previously spent a lot of time with them, but hitting him in the face with a... What was it? A hammer? Whatever it was, she still hit him, turning him into a baby and making fun of him? Bothering him non-stop during a high stress situation? Like c'mon, wtf-

Apart from Henry, there are so many people who could be teaching her otherwise, who should be explaining to her why what she is doing isn't okay, but, once again, she is also too old to be doing this shit.

And that "apology" was baffling, girly pop, respectfully... No-

I get she was just doing what Ruin asked (distraction 💃🪩) however she could've done literally anything else.

Charlie may be a child but she still needs to take accountability (as does Henry for lacking in his parenting)

And virus or not, Eclipse should apologize for saying smth like that, cause that was wild 😭

NOT ONLY THAT Charlie needs to redo that apology and be given an appropriate punishment (grounding, taking of a privilege, extra chores JUST SMTH-)

Eclipse has his own responsibilities, his children, the virus, himself- so on, he can't always be dealing with Charlie nor should he have too when she has a present parent.

OMG AND ROXANNE oh you- WHY I OUGHTA- Girl, you cannot be there enforcing said behavior, cause that's not okay either.

She has seen Eclipse in his darkest moment and still treated him like that.

Fucking crazy, some friend 💀

Anyway now that I've got that off my chest... Maybe I'll go draw? Idk still not feeling great... Mkay baaiiiiiii

OH and for anyone confused on the episodes I'm talking about (y'know, for future when this post is no longer relevant-), the one where Eclipse gets hit is "Charlie Becomes A DENTIST!" The one where he turns into a baby is "ECLIPSE BECOMES A MISERABLE BABY!" And the one where shit really hits the fan is "ECLIPSE HATES CHARLIE!!!"

[babykittenteach]

I'm never going to fault someone bringing up dicks in Ed's orifices. This is another good and complicated topic. For illustration, story time? A couple years ago, I made a fandom predictor in a google sheet. For fun. I make spreadsheets of things for fun. I have been doing fandom since I was a preteen, it's been a couple decades since then, and you notice trends. The predictor had Character A, Character B, and you filled in stuff like who was taller, who was older, who was stronger, who was more booksmart, who wore darker or lighter clothing, etc. At the end it predicted which one the fandom was going to declare The Bottom with degrees of certainty like "probably" or "definitely", etc. I ran it through some friends and we checked the results against ao3 for a bunch of fandoms. It got it right for most things, except iirc Disco Elysium? Not my fandom, I can't comment, but that was fun. Fandom has habits. And those habits come in a suite of things, where no one thing has to be true all the time but probably several others are. The associations we make about gender roles, about sexual preferences, about sexual roles, about race, about disability are formed by the societies we grew up in and the cultures and subcultures we live in, and we carry them through the world like this set of filters we pull out to look at things. The human brain likes shorthand because it speeds things up and frees cognitive capacity. No one is bad or wrong or guilty for having a brain that instinctively does this because that's how it's supposed to work. But it strips nuance and when it comes to the shorthand you learn from your society, it comes with a whole lotta baggage about marginalized people Women are dumb and passive, black and brown people are aggressors, disabled people don't deserves agency, etc. Tropes and assumptions whose function isn't understanding but diminishing the respect and social power people are given. Sometimes it's even about something you are, and you have learned to, like I reference in another reply, minimize yourself. You have internalized the shorthand. When it comes to fandom's associations, you probably know the general shape of it. Femme = bottom = weak = weepy = passive = incompetent and so on. Maybe one or two things aren't true at any given time, but probably more are than aren't. Like I said, google sheets predictor.

But, that's describing a trend. Trends are not the fault of one specific person, and moreover, fandom's full of both weirdos and nerds. People who might not have taken that socialization exactly the same, people who have innate quirks and preferences that color their associations, or people who actually are in some process of looking at and dismantling their associations. It's really hard to know off a single data point around here if, to use the plushie example, any given person who gives Ed a plushie is also imbuing him with the bog standard cloud of associations that are the overall trend but may not be this one person's thing.

So people can argue about plushies and that plushie carries with it both their own associations, and what they assume other people associate with it. People can argue about babygirling and it's really about the suite of things they've brought to it and have experienced other people bringing to it.

Best I got on combating this is you should try to be specific and narrow about what you're talking about and do your best to, in good faith, figure out if you and who you're disagreeing with are working on the same assumptions.

Probably. Lol, idk, that sounds like something wise, but I do sometimes just block people off those assumptions instead of bothering to figure out if they've Done [X] to Ed because they're treating him like a helpless dumb caveman or Done [Y] to Stede because they're slotting him into weepy nerdy forever bottom, etc etc. both for things I just don't like on taste or things I find insulting. You can just avoid digging into shit a lot of time as long as you're not going to then argue with people in public without trying to understand them or explain your position.

Not in response to any one specific take, but how much of the grey area for people in the back and forth about the ethics of babygirling is due in part to the conflation of cuteness and incompetence? The girls and the gays and especially the bottoms can't math can't drive need jars opened etc etc etc type humor that I would say is rampant on tumblr and tiktok, because it is, if that didn't obfuscate that it's an old trope across like all of society.

Because there's a lot of other sources of cuteness, most of which aren't demeaning --personally I'm a fan, one will note, of dresses and plushies and sparkly eyes, etc.-- but there's a lot of internet culture built up around treating helplessness as charming. And perhaps on this specific part of the internet, there's a somewhat high rate of neurodivergent people who are invested in various inabilities being treated as lovable.

Stick that in a blender with race and you can have at the exact same time both the legacy of black and brown people not being allowed the affection of being seen as cute/pretty and the legacy of black and brown people being seen as incapable. Add in a general lack of specificity, and while we're at it, some people who just don't seem to like certain tropes because it's just not their thing holding grudges and some other people defensive because it is their thing, and honestly, any time I stick my eyeballs back on tumblr it doesn't seem like anything like actual synthesis is happening.

Idk, but this late night post is not actually in defense of or accusatory towards any Thing Someone Did so much as general meta musing about how people talk about things.

[suzukiblu]

hi

has anyone done a podfic of your one where maws Clark meets baby Kon and immediately affectionately tackles him into the sidewalk scaring the food truck lady cause she doesn't know how kryptonian bonding goes and thinks superman is mad at the kid and not about to immediately adopt him/ accept him unquestioningly as his son

cause I really wanna listen to that one rn. probably I will podfic it later but I haven't done it yet and am not currently in a good state to be doing so, so in order for me to listen to it someone else has to have podficced it already so I'm asking hopefully? has someone?

Unfortunately if they have I have not been informed, sorry. Screen reader situation, maybe? Not as much fun to listen to as a podfic, I know, but needs must.

[still-breathing-au-p3r]

Some of his boxing teammates roped him into hanging out with them today. He’d tried to duck out at first, unsure if he was really up to that much socializing– but he has to admit it had turned out to be a good thing. Being away from Shinji and Mitsuru for a bit has given Akihiko a desperately needed chance to at least try to get his thoughts in order. The distraction doesn’t last long, but it’s a welcome reprieve from what feels like multiple, overlapping ploys from the universe to drive him insane.

Running into Mitsuru has brought that reprieve to its end, but it’s also cleanly dissolved a fear that Akihiko hadn’t even realized he’d been holding onto. Seeing her up close, he can be sure now that it hadn’t been a trick of the light last night, and he hadn’t just been projecting his hopes onto her– her eyes are bright and clear again, like a spark that had been snuffed out is rekindled now.

Between the general bustle of their classmates and Junpei’s impromptu photoshoot, he hasn’t been able to talk to her upfront, and he doesn’t want to miss the chance. So before she can rejoin the other girls and wander off, he excuses himself from his teammates and jogs over, reaching out to catch her by the sleeve.

It isn’t until she turns to look at him with a slight frown that he registers just how rude that probably was of him. A second glance is enough to confirm that her folded mouth is meant to conceal amusement, not annoyance, but he still feels shamefaced and off-balance.

He’s rambling. He knows he’s rambling. Knowing that he’s doing it doesn’t make it any easier to stop though. Where’s Shinji the one time Akihiko actually wishes he was here to knock him upside the head and tell him to shut up?

What the hell is the matter with him, anyway? Why is he suddenly so tongue-tied? There shouldn’t be any reason for him to feel this nervous over checking on his friend’s wellbeing.

Thankfully Mitsuru still doesn’t look mad or annoyed, but she also isn’t bothering to hide her amusement anymore. His face blazes with heat like he’s got a ferocious sunburn from the top of his head down to his collarbone, but at the same time he’s so intensely relieved that it leaves him a little dizzy.

In all honesty, he’ll gladly take Mitsuru being entertained at his expense over her being faded and out of it any day of the week. He can handle being embarrassed if it means he gets to see her smiling again.

He takes a deep breath– in through the nose and out through the mouth, like he’s preparing for a bout. He may as well be, anyway. His heart is certainly pounding as hard as it does in the ring.

Of course she’d try to apologize for something like that. She’s ridiculous sometimes, but–

Akihiko shakes his head. Even exasperation comes with a warm, soft edge when it comes to her.

Akihiko clears his throat. That isn’t exactly what he’d meant, but it’s not like she’s wrong either.

Even he can’t miss the way the atmosphere between them has changed, the burst of melancholy sharp and sudden like a static shock. Now would be the time to change the subject, before the mood can go further downhill.

God, now that he thinks about it, when was the last time they’d all hung out? Talking in Shinji’s hospital room hardly counts, and they haven’t been able to manage a conversation between all three of them since the one they’d had outside Shinji’s room on the day he’d been discharged. Not unless he counted one that Shinji had participated in entirely through snoring, anyway.

And on top of that, when had they last gone out and done something fun together? Acted their age, as Shinji would put it? He can’t think of a single time since the beach trip they’d taken during their first year, which was… over two years ago.

Akihiko suddenly feels awful all over again (what kind of friend is he to not even have noticed that until now?)– but it only lasts for a moment, because Mitsuru’s smile has returned and the sting of guilt dissipates under it, like a fever soothed by the touch of a cool hand.

Akihiko watches Mitsuru make her way back over to the girls, feeling a little stunned. ‘Yukari,’ huh? Whatever had happened yesterday must have gone beyond burying the hatchet– they’re friends now. 

Irritation flickers briefly– she’ll call Takeba by her given name, but not Shinji? He snuffs out the flare of insult quickly, though. Mitsuru has always been… weird when it comes to propriety (he tries desperately to think of a word to use other than ‘weird’ to describe it, and fails). The standards she holds herself to are incredibly strict, which is understandable given the social labyrinths she grew up needing to navigate.

Shinji can be the exact same way, actually (although anyone who doesn’t know him the way Akihiko and Mitsuru do would never believe it). Their reasons for continuing to use surnames with each other are probably almost identical.

Akihiko spots Shinji with Junpei, Arisato, and Mochizuki. Most likely Shinji’s griping at them about the picture he was forced to endure. Mochizuki acts sheepish even though it hadn’t even been his idea, but Junpei couldn’t look more carefree– he knows Shinji too well by now to be intimidated by his blustering. Arisato doesn’t seem to be paying attention at all, focused instead on a small bird hopping around on the cobbles nearby.

Shaking his head, Akihiko bites down a little smile. Shinji’s always hated getting his picture taken, ever since they were kids. Hell if Akihiko knows why. Maybe he should ask someday, when Shinji isn’t already so worked up about it. 

Before the juniors’ ears start to get singed, Akihiko swoops in to intervene, hooking an arm around Shinji’s shoulders and bringing the whole tirade to a halt.

Junpei cheerfully waves them off as Akihiko drags Shinji away; they’re back at Mitsuru’s side before Shinji even has an opportunity to start complaining. He looks surprised at first when Akihiko says that he and Mitsuru want to join in on his little history excursion, but then he sighs that particular world-weary sigh that he keeps in reserve for when Akihiko annoys him.

Mitsuru and Shinji fall into a discussion about their destination as the three of them head off; she apparently knows more about the castle than Akihiko does (which granted, isn’t saying much– he knows the name, and that’s only because Shinji mentioned it). Akihiko trails slightly behind, taking the opportunity while they’re preoccupied to quietly panic to himself.

It’s only occurring to him now that the situation he’s created here is suspiciously… date-like.

But of course it isn’t one. That would only be the case if they all agreed on it beforehand– it isn’t as though he could rope them into one without their knowledge.

He can’t imagine they have any reason to think of it in those terms, anyway.

Akihiko is yanked out of his thoughts and back to the real world so abruptly that his neck twinges. The space between him has indeed widened significantly; Shinji and Mitsuru are over a meter ahead of him now.

Akihiko sighs and jogs forward to close the gap.

What does it say about him, he wonders, that this is the type of person he’s tying himself in knots over the idea of going on a date with?

Maybe it’d be best not to think about it too hard. He isn’t sure he really wants to know the answer.

[simplystupidfreak]

Why I Personally Don’t Want SonAmy in Sonic Movie 4 (and it’s not because I hate the ship)

Okay, so before anyone gets heated, I do NOT hate SonAmy. I totally get why people love the ship. They have chemistry in various games and shows, and Amy’s introduction at the end of Sonic Movie 3 basically cracked the fandom wide open. This post isn’t here to bash anyone’s fun. Ship what you want, love what you love. This is just my take, mostly from a storytelling/writing perspective.

So here’s the thing: I’ve always seen Sonic and Amy’s dynamic as more platonic than romantic. They're friends, teammates, and they support each other in high-stakes situations, but I never saw it as “endgame couple” material.

Let’s start with Sonic himself. He’s not a romantic character. He never has been. Sonic’s whole personality revolves around freedom, speed, and moving forward. Romance has always felt kind of out of place for him, not because he’s incapable of love, but because it slows him down in a way that doesn’t fit his core character. He’s not the “hero saves princess, falls in love” trope — and that’s the point. He is the subversion.

So then, what’s up with Amy? Why is she the way she is with Sonic? Why the chasing, the obsession, the love?

Well, let’s rewind to Sonic CD, where Amy was first introduced. She was sweet, optimistic, a little naive, and yeah, she got kidnapped by Metal Sonic. Sonic saved her, and boom — instant admiration. But I don't think her love for Sonic was ever just romance. I think it started as idolization, gratitude, and a genuine desire to be more like him, to be someone who helps others and makes a difference. That’s what Sonic did for her. It inspired her to find her own strength.

And over time, she did. Amy has grown a lot. She’s no longer a helpless character chasing her crush, she’s fierce, independent, and can totally handle herself. Her feelings for Sonic have evolved too. She doesn’t need him, but she respects him.

So here’s where Sonic Movie 4 comes in.

I honestly think they’re setting up a role reversal from Sonic CD. In that story, Sonic saved Amy. But in the movie timeline? I think Amy’s gonna be the one who saves him. We already got a glimpse of this in the Sonic Movie 3 end credits. She looks strong, capable, confident, definitely not someone who needs rescuing. And I think that’s gonna be key.

Sonic’s next arc might center around growth, vulnerability, and maybe even needing help for once. Amy will probably play a huge role in that ,as a catalyst, a friend, maybe even a mentor of sorts. Not as a love interest. Not as “the girl who gets the guy.” But as someone who challenges Sonic to grow.

That’s way more interesting to me than a shoehorned romance. Again, if they do go SonAmy, I hope it’s done well. But I personally think there’s a more powerful, more meaningful story to tell if they don’t.

[asneakyfox]

i asked this because i was thinking about jack and realized this is going to sound weird but to me jack's biggest..."redeeming characteristic" isn't quite the right term, but what makes him a little easier to forgive than izzy, is the extent to which he does not mean well.

like ftr i do think all these reasons are to some degree on the table for him. i think he does want ed to not get killed by the navy because he likes ed and then he'd be down a drinking buddy, but that can't be his only or even primary concern because then he'd just tell ed izzy sold you out to the navy. and i do think he sincerely thinks ed's weird little infatuation with this fop is very embarrassing for him and intervening right now is doing him a favor and ed will probably agree once he gets over it. but that's not the main reason he's here; the reason he's here is this whole thing sounds hilarious. and furthermore he thinks what he's doing is fully within bounds of the normal ways he and ed are always in the process of fucking each other over, stealing each other's ships and sleeping with each other's exes and so on and it's all in good fun, none of it really matters, it can't really matter because in the time jack has known him ed has never cared about anything before in the way he's already starting to care about stede. that's why jack is so genuinely shocked by ed's fury, he thinks ed is going to react to this the way he's always reacted to jack's other pranks in the past, the way jack himself would react if ed showed up to ruin a budding relationship and get his crew arrested for a laugh.

(i do also think izzy bribed him fwiw but that's basically irrelevant to his actual motivations, he would have done it anyway. i just think jack is the kind of guy who would never agree to do izzy a favor without at least trying to extract a bribe for it and he's enough smarter than izzy, especially when it comes to social intelligence, that i cannot imagine izzy out-negotiating him.)

but i do not think that jack is like izzy in the sense of having any sort of deep investment in protecting the Legend of Blackbeard. he doesn't particularly want to hurt ed in any kind of serious way but he's also not specifically motivated here by a belief that he has a duty to control ed's life and this is in ed's best interests. and i would hate him so much more if he was. there is something so uniquely horrifying about the way izzy's sincerely convinced himself he's doing this for ed's own good; that's why so many of the canyon takes on izzy always end up making him look much much worse to me by insisting his motivation is selfless unrequited love, and that's why it was such a relief when izzy's apology included specifically admitting that his motivations were selfish and deep down he'd known that all along, he would have been so much harder to forgive if he'd died telling himself he was always just trying to help.

jack's an asshole, but he's not lying to himself about it. that's not much, but it's something you can work with.

[ironworked]

911 season 8

Athena: other than a few moments in the premiere emergency, her story doesn't really kick off until Bobby's death, giving Angela Bassett material to shine and Athena a reset.

Bobby: so much wasted time in 8a especially, but his send-off was beautifully done and true to his character.

Maddie: Dispatch was pretty much a non-entity this season, and Maddie herself didn't have an arc, just a couple of episodes to showcase JLH's talents.

Buck: practically a season-long arc about him feeling/being alone... and no pay-off; even worse, he loses yet another thing. One has to believe this is also meant as a reboot for Buck, to move him from Little Sibling to Lead Male status, with my strong suspicion that the show agrees with Eddie's 'you make things about yourself'.

(Buck)Tommy: with that in mind, the lack of Tommy/reconciliation in late 8b makes some sense. I also wonder if renewal news or any bts negotiations with other cast member might have altered the timeline here. At any rate, a 4 month hiatus (ample time to check audience reaction to 8.06) and we had Tommy back; 1 month after 8.11 and he was back again, and again next episode. Every opportunity to close that door, and they didn't.

Chim: probably the Most Improved, in the sense that he's finally been given material to work with unrelated to Maddie.

Hen: what should've been her season-long arc (or at least until midseason) was deal with in 2 seconds, and after that they didn't give her, or Karen, much to do or set anything up for next season (unless she does rethink the captaincy) :/

Eddie: ...sigh. He could've spent the last couple seasons in a coma for all it would've changed things for him or the plot. Might have been better, even, because he wouldn't have lost the progress made wrt Shannon and his anger issues in previous seasons. Can't say I care to speculate where they're going with him, at this point.

Ravi: always glad to see him, and he's proved to be a good fit with the 118 and with Buck in particular. Hopefully he'll have more to do in s9.

Overall, lots of promise with a mostly poor execution and baffling time-management (BRAD??!!!), which isn't new but is especially egregious and hard to ignore when on top of that they go hard for the drama instead of the found family and/or lighter plots.

The actors were mostly on point, the couples were great, the Bravi friendship as well. Shout out to the new cinematographer too, because that has been unimpeachable. There's some good set-ups for s9, but who knows what'll happen with those *sigh*.

On the Bucktommy front, we're still in the will-they-won't-they until they say otherwise (we've recently had a front-row view to what it looks like when something is shot down). It's our choice whether and how we wait around for it to land on one or the other.

What I do reiterate is firstly that speculation isn't about being right, it's about having fun with the theories, and secondly and most important that I advise (WISH) that we enjoy what we have while it lasts because even beyond Minear's whims and faults, changeability and uncertainty are the nature of the beast (ongoing shows). So can we PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE stop bringing Twitter bullshit over here, paying attention to antis, and giving a platform to hateful/trolling asks?

Happy summer hiatus, everyone! and see you around for fic/art/events/etc!

[wings-of-ink]

Status Report and things to come...

Hello all! I wanted to check in and give some updates and links and all that jazz.

Things are cooking! I'll probably be fairly quiet off and on in the next month or so, but that will change. I just have a lot of stuff to do and get through before I'm at a stage where I can unleash hell. I am also planning on opening up asks more after I get adjusted (perhaps mid July).

The last couple of weeks were super busy for my personal life. Nothing terrible, just a lot of things all at once that needed to be done ASAP. There isn't much news on the production front, other than the May subscriber extras were posted today. The spicy one features male Rune and a new MC customization which I am testing for implementation into the the main game. The side story features a gender selectable Rune but is a fairly streamline cute story. Links are at the bottom if you are interested!

As I said before, I'll be kicking up another project as soon as time allows this season. And I've had an idea...

Subscribers this month also got access to what was essentially a prologue for another IF. If you've been kicking around a bit, I did a poll a while back where I spun different ideas and everyone voted for their favorites. Number 1 stole the show, but all ideas had an outpouring of support. The prologue mentioned is actually for #3. I started writing it just for fun to play with how that IF could start (I was in a mood, lol). I got some good feedback on it, so then I got another idea.

I think I want to do this for each of the new project ideas that I have and want to run with. Writing an intro for them will help me form them in my mind and give them some life and structure. As I get these done, subscribers will have the first crack at them, but they'll eventually go public. And then...then we vote. This gives me a chance to know if I am just not going to enjoy one idea or the another and such, and it gives you a chance to sample new stories to see what interests you the most in practice.

I will be doing one for each story idea from the poll PLUS one more. They will be very plain. Using no templates and just super basic coding to give the idea and feel of the actual project. The pretty stuff will come later. I don't know how long they will be. My guess is from 6k-10k words. I will work on them when I can but for the rest of May and all of June, Chapter 6 of GC is my priority. I would really like to have it done soon. This year has been obnoxiously busy so far, but things are going to slow down soon so my schedule opens up more.

Also to come are more character portraits! Subscribers get the first look and then a week later, they will go public. I'm a bit behind on that, and will have some super secret art to post after this!

Other than that - I'm hanging in there, I see some things in my Tumblr inbox I will get to soon, my shoulder is the same and I'm still doing therapy, and my kitty cats are great!

That's all for now! Take care!

~Lunan ^_^

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[setaretjd]

Being in a Toxic Relationship with Members of the Bonten Gang

Trigger Warning:

This post explores the dark, lawless side of the Bonten gang. If you're not into tragic or heavy stories, it's best not to read further.

Angst / Violence / Physical Abuse / Mentions of Death

This story is inspired by Tokyo Revengers and all characters belong to Wakui-sensei.

If you’d like to read more of my work:

Sukuna X You (Past life)

Izana X You X Reader (Izana is your toxic bf)

Mikey

I think it’s obvious—

If he ever starts a relationship built on toxicity,

it might just be the worst relationship in the entire world.

If Bonten’s Mikey doesn’t feel even the slightest obsession or weakness for you,

then, like the other women who died along the way,

you’ll probably end up the same—dead.

Without hesitation, without caring how much you might love him,

he’ll likely put a bullet through your head once he’s done with you.

Mikey, who seems so cold and violent,

would never even consider you a part of his life in a relationship like this—

except for the seconds he wastes on you.

Just a tool.

Just a body to pass a few minutes with.

Like someone sent into that room—a faceless, forgettable slave—

meant to entertain the man inside and then die once the fun is over.

That was the fate of anyone who dared form a bond

with the monster of Bonten.

Disobeying his orders?

It meant body parts of a woman surfacing in bags under the dock—

the kind of bags police already knew were linked to Bonten,

so they didn’t even bother taking the case.

That was all you’d get for defiance.

But either way,

they’d get rid of you eventually.

So most of the girls there probably chose to die a little later.

Sanzu

Sanzu Haruchiyo of Bonten

is, without a doubt, the worst possible person to even think of starting a healthy relationship with—

let alone when he slides that infamous contract across the table with that wicked smile,

asking you to stay loyal to him.

Being his lab rat,

for every syringe and substance he injects into your body,

just so he can watch you collapse and tremble with a twisted joy—

it’s probably the most pathetic way he proves that after signing that contract,

you’ve lost all control.

But that’s the difference between him and Mikey.

Sanzu won’t let you die.

You’ll suffer—

long enough to taste every emotion he’s ever endured in his miserable life.

And when you’re utterly weak, stripped of will, defenseless—

he holds you close.

So you start to hope.

So he can break you again—completely.

So he can gift you the belief that no one,

no one in this world but him, will ever care.

He brings you so low

that you’re forced to beg on your knees

just for a sliver of his attention.

Watching you lose your smile,

knowing you’ll never find it again without him—

that’s his pleasure.

He is, without question,

the most effective hallucinogen to ever wash someone’s brain.

The last time he drove you to the edge of madness

was when he lied and said he’d been with other girls.

And when he saw how, in a fraction of a second,

you went from quiet and soft

to someone seconds away from burning everything down—

he held you like a madman

just to calm you.

He probably knew then

that he’d never be able to walk away from you—

that he was taking a huge risk.

Because when a man already has his favorite doll,

he doesn’t really need another.

But he still enjoys pressing his toy

against the glass of the new display case.

So when you were out with him,

Sanzu forced you to watch strippers dance just for him.

And when you broke down crying,

he pulled his gun and fired shots until the whole place cleared—

just so your smile would belong to him again.

Being with Sanzu

is like running toward a noose—

one that only snaps right before it strangles you.

Ran and Rindou

These two brothers—

they're not as cruel as Mikey,

nor as psychologically twisted as Sanzu.

But they make it painfully clear,

through words and actions,

that everything depends on how much patience they have left

to tolerate your presence.

You’re definitely not the only girl hanging around for them—

but the first time you crossed paths with them,

you realized you were never going to live here quietly,

never without being watched.

Dare to speak to Ran,

and he’ll put out the tip of his cigarette on your shoulder.

Dare to cry in front of Rindou,

and he’ll make sure not a single tear rolls down your cheek

until the sound of your fingers breaking

echoes through the room.

During meetings at the Haitani tower,

some of you girls sat beside the brothers,

while the rest served the other gang members.

And if things didn’t go the way the brothers wanted—

you were the first one Ran would drag across the floor by your hair.

Rindou would smash bottles against the wall,

his angry eyes scanning the girls,

as the usual wave of tense, choking silence filled the air again.

That’s how it always went.

That’s how it always ended.

The bruises never had time to fade.

And after unloading their rage on you,

things only calmed down once they realized

no girl in that building could satisfy them anymore—

and they’d bring in new ones.

But that night—

when Rindou kicked your door open,

with Ran leaning against the hallway wall behind him—

you finally understood.

They didn’t want to punish you this time.

Not like before.

They just made you swallow those pills,

then both of them laid down in your bed,

quiet, still,

while you curled into Rindou’s chest,

and Ran held you from behind,

occasionally scraping his teeth against your skin in a drunken daze.

And after that night—

they never came back to the Roppongi tower.

They left you and the rest of the girls behind,

like forgotten toys in a haunted room.

Just as people expect from the yakuza—

those two probably don’t even remember

what kind of nightmares they left behind for the ones inside that building.

Kakucho

After being chosen as the only girl brought into Kakucho’s estate,

things didn’t go the way you’d been warned.

He gave you a choice.

Compared to the others you’d been with before—

he seemed calmer, more composed, more deliberate.

But his eyes—

his face when he delivered a command—

they made you shiver.

He looked patient, right up until you agreed to what he wanted.

But he was never going to act like a gentleman until the end.

The way he pulled your hair from behind,

the grip of his large, calloused hands around your throat,

his breath hot on your shoulder as he pressed his head against it—

whispering threats that you were never to do this with any other man but him.

When you needed space,

he didn’t argue.

He just knew.

Sent his men to find you at exactly the right moment.

You’d sneak out of his room while he was sharpening his knives by the tall window,

and you wouldn’t see him again until the next week.

He never became more than that.

Never let his emotions reach you.

Just a cold, unreachable man

who called you to his room when he wanted—

but never gave you a hug.

Never touched you with anything close to tenderness.

The only time you reached for him—

the morning he was leaving,

your hand wrapping around his arm—

he slapped you hard enough to remind you

you weren’t allowed to touch him anywhere but his bed.

But when the maid brought your clothes that day,

and he realized it was your birthday,

he said nothing.

Just sent a bag—

shoes, a purse, and flowers

delivered to your door.

When you thanked him the next week,

he said nothing.

Didn’t even look at you as you prepared for that night.

By then, you knew.

The wall he’d built around the two of you—

it was never coming down.

Not while he kept himself locked away in that frozen silence.

So you stopped trying to make him notice you.

"Thank you for reading my writing.

I’d be happy if you joined me again in the next ones."

[vinbitism]

(making grabby hands) vinny headcanons .... if u have any ur itching to share i wanna think about him

I have so many thoughts about him but putting them into words is so difficult so please forgive me these are really self indulgent ... if you want specific scenarios just ask bc I will write for anything. like vinvan or vinbit things or just Vinnie by himself bc when it comes to hcs I always forget what I wanna say bc I have so many and I get embarrassed of alot of them

Princeton Vinnie and his dog Molly probably used to go on walks on the time and she probably would try to follow him whenever he would be lead outside by slenderman. and I think after Vinnie disappeared Roger was left with Molly and he took care of her for him, he deff tried to call Vinnies family but no one would answer when he called.

Vinnie probably really likes to draw I think, he doesn't boast about it or show anyone he just kinda keeps it to himself, if not drawing maybe writing of some sort, something creative that he probably would get embarrassed of if someone found it, like poetry or something but idk if he's much a poetry guy. Maybe he's tried writing a few songs but gets embarrassed bc he doesn't actually know what he's doing

Vinnie definitely sings to himself alot or hums, he doesn't really think about it he just does it subconsciously. It's probably one of habit's favorite things about him, especially when Vinnie can't stop humming songs habit plays.

Vinnie loves reading so much, I feel like he's willing to read anything and he would read those really weird monster romance books just bc he simply HAS to know what's happening. He's deff a Colleen Hoover hater tho trust

I like to imagine he wouldn't mind having his make up done, it would probably awake something in him and he'd have some sort of gender crisis (I think everyone around him would encourage him to explore himself and yes that includes Habit.) I personally like to imagine got to explore that with Lexi and he eventually confessed to Evan and they also got to explore that side of Vinnie together

Vinnie actually enjoys working out I think, but not too much. He likes to run and breathe in the fresh air. He probably begged habit to atleast get him a treadmill. He needs to do something and be active or he's gonna get really depressed which is just not great for him or habit.

Vinnie definitely loves little collectables so whenever habit brings home little trinkets he's thrilled. He rarely ever wants to know where habit got it from but if it's something Vinnie has been asking for he'll ask to which Habit will just zip his lips and act like it's a big secret

Vinnie bites his nails and probably has some trouble maintaining his hygiene and health and habit has to help him take care of himself bc Vinnie can get so lost in his own world that he'll forget he has needs too

Vinnie is probably a wine drinker or like a fruity alcohol drinker that dude hates beer or straight up liquor he can't do it, he needs it to be SWEET and it's really rare that he drinks too, he prefers to smoke weed probably

Probably trolls people online for fun sometimes idk when you have nothing to do in a house alone and habit forgot to turn the wifi off he definitely will go stir some shit up. Maybe he'll just play videogames but he likes to cause chaos. He also thinks all of his fans are IDIOTS so he probably thinks its funny to fuck w people

He probably was in theater or marching band in highschool and it really shaped who he is as a person

Vinnie canonically has premonitions and stuff but I think there's alot of shit he can do without realizing like if he gets really overwhelmed or something maybe a lightbulb will break or the tv channels/radio stations go to static and get really loud. And he will almost never notice too until his nose/eyes/ears start oozing with black sludge

probably did drag once or twice bc he lost a bet with jeff and Evan, or atleast had to cross dress bc they thought it'd be funny. IT WAS THE 2010S PEOPLE EVERYONE WAS LOSING BETS AND DOING DRAG

I literally couldn't think of what I wanted to put bc I know I have some really good ones but DAMN i can't think today!!!

[bingqiv]

inspired

DOCTOR WHO (NUWHO) SPIN THE WHEEL.

[mellosghosts]

hes a little confused, but hes got the spirit 🫡