#this is so out of character

[soleilapproves]

Rich boyfriend Nanami learning about happiness in the mundane. He is so out of touch with reality, and he’s glad to have you in his life to teach him about it. In other words, you take Nanami to a hole-in-the-wall restaurant.

For a man who is extremely educated about finance and corporate politics, your boyfriend did not know anything about the real world.

You stared at him as he struggled to flip a pancake. He was insistent on making breakfast for you because he wanted to prove you wrong.

Nanami is the type of man who genuinely does not know how to do his taxes because he has a person hired to do that. He doesnt know how to do laundry because he has a team of housekeepers who baby him (out of kindness because he’s a great employer). He has no idea how to tip so when he’s told to give one, he’ll casually hand out fifty or hundred bucks like it’s nothing.

You’ve had to dig your nails into his arm to prevent him from doing the last one. There’s only so much money one can spend on a simple cup of coffee.

You sighed as you nudged the man to the side with your hips, and took the pan from him. “It’s simple, like this.” And you did a flawless flip, retaining the shape of the pancake.

“I could’ve done that easily.” Your boyfriend grumbled while staring at the pan- his mortal enemy for the past five minutes. “It’s alright, hon, why don’t you set the plates?”

You never realized it but Nanami was embarrassed that he didn’t know how to do simple things. At least not until you saw his red face and downturned eyes. The poor man had more than half the city in the palm of his hand but he still didn’t feel capable enough for you.

You put your hand on his as you placed a stack of pancakes on the counter. “How about we go on a special date?”

“Good, I’ve been meaning to take you flying in one of my newest planes. I found one with a cup holder that can fit your humongous thermos,” Nanami says nonchalantly, like spitting out hundreds and thousands of dollars for an airplane with insignificant amenities is the norm for him.

Which it is, but you just never got used to it, being from a humble background and all.

“No, I was thinking more…. local. I wanna take you to the restaurants I went to when I was in college,” you say as you pour him another cup of coffee (made with beans from an expensive supplier).

[disastertriowriting]

*The squad is asked what they would do with 5 children with only 3 chairs.*  Wrecker: Get two more chairs! Hunter: They can get their own chairs. Tech: Make them fight for it. Omega: You only need one chair to beat them all with. Echo: I would never be near children. Crosshair: Kill two.

[thecosmosproject]

Winter contemplating life: Omfg... Weiss, work on your timing, Blake learn those cords by the end of the month or so help me I'll throw you out like a flee infested cat! Yang, don't get cocky and drift into your own little world! And Ruby...

Ruby: *gulp* Y-Yes Winter?

Winter: Don't you dare, no, don't you even THINK about flirting with Weiss or so help me I will make you sound like a dying horse that's been on life support for the past 18 years!!

Ruby trembling: Y-Yes ma'am!

Winter: Good... That being said, make us proud. *She walks off*

Ruby: (；´д｀)ゞ

Weiss: That's my sister for you

Yang: I'm not gonna lie... I find that kinda attractive

Blake: Ahem. (●-`Д´-)

Yang: N-Not as attractive as you Blake! Hehe!

[howmanydeaths]

take this one with the premise that something WILL go horribly wrong if Setsuna is busy planning a party

[palebloodcvrse]

Vergil is a masochist...?

[color-ns]

Sometimes tweeter people know their stuff- this is the right kind of toxic angst I want to read.

[nathaniacolver]

arcane ships be like

i love a show that teaches equality (😭😭😭)

[cowboysmp3]

there’s something sooo sickening about how dunmeshis whole energy is like sometimes something terrible and awful happens to you and it changes you forever and nothing can make you the person you were before but there’s still love and there’s still sharing a meal together and there’s still living

[churroach]

Full of Desires

[thelostmoongazer]

i was gonna do more with this but i think this is about as far as ill go. maybe. who knows. happy late valentines <3

[t3arcatch3r]

ive been on a weird gym class heroes kick lately??? like i forgot how much i REALLY like their stuff

[reaandull]

(inspo)

[gongyussy]

(✿◕‿◕) die (ꈍ ꒳ ꈍ✿)

[sunshinem0ths]

club meshis

[aphel1on]

i have such a love for characters who descend into madness or villainy out of deep, deep empathy. characters who fundamentally cannot cope with the cruel realities they find themselves in and blow up about it in spectacular fashion. fallen angel type characters with tears of outrage in their eyes. characters who break before they bend, and break so badly they splatter blood all over their noble ideals. every variation on it gets me so good

[tearlessrain]

please help me- i used to be pretty smart but i’m having so much trouble grasping the concept of diegetic vs non-diegetic bdsm!

gfkjldghfd okay first of all I'm sorry for the confusion, if you're not finding anything on the phrase it's because I made it up and absolutely nobody but me ever uses it, but I haven't found a better way to express what I'm trying to say so I keep using it. but now you've given me an excuse to ramble on about some shit that is only relevant to me and my deeply inefficient way of talking and by god I'm going to take it.

SO. the way diegetic and non-diegetic are normally used is to talk about music and sound design in movies/tv shows. in case you aren't familiar with that concept, here's a rundown:

diegetic sound is sound that happens within the world of the movie/show and can be acknowledged by the characters, like a song playing on the stereo during a driving scene, or sung on stage in Phantom of the Opera. it's also most other sounds that happen in a movie, like the sounds of traffic in a city scene, or a thunderclap, or a marching band passing by. or one of the three stock horse sounds they use in every movie with a horse in it even though horses don't really vocalize much in real life, but that's beside the point, the horse is supposed to be actually making that noise within the movie's world and the characters can hear it whinnying.

non-diegetic sound is any sound that doesn't exist in the world of the movie/show and can't be perceived by the characters. this includes things like laugh tracks and most soundtrack music. when Duel of Fates plays in Star Wars during the lightsaber fight for dramatic effect, that's non-diegetic. it exists to the audience, but the characters don't know their fight is being backed by sick ass music and, sadly, can't hear it.

the lines can get blurry between the two, you've probably seen the film trope where the clearly non-diegetic music in the title sequence fades out to the same music, now diegetic and playing from the character's car stereo. and then there are things like Phantom of the Opera as mentioned above, where the soundtrack is also part of the plot, but Phantom of the Opera does also have segments of non-diegetic music: the Phantom probably does not have an entire orchestra and some guy with an electric guitar hiding down in his sewer just waiting for someone to break into song, but both of those show up in the songs they sing down there.

now, on to how I apply this to bdsm in fiction.

if I'm referring to diegetic bdsm what I mean is that the bdsm is acknowledged for what it is in-world. the characters themselves are roleplaying whatever scenarios their scenes involve and are operating with knowledge of real life rules/safety practices. if there's cnc depicted, it will be apparent at some point, usually right away, that both characters actually are fully consenting and it's all just a planned scene, and you'll often see on-screen negotiation and aftercare, and elements of the story may involve the kink community wherever the characters are. Love and Leashes is a great example of this, 50 Shades and Bonding are terrible examples of this, but they all feature characters that know they're doing bdsm and are intentional about it.

if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.

this difference is where people tend to get hung up in the discourse, from what I've observed. which is why I started using this phrasing, because I think it's very crucial to be able to differentiate which one you're talking about if you try to have a conversation with someone about the portrayal of bdsm in media. it would also, frankly, be useful for tagging, because sometimes when you're in the mood for non-diegetic bodice ripper shit you'd call the police over in real life, it can get really annoying to read paragraphs of negotiation and check-ins that break the illusion of the scene and so on, and the opposite can be jarring too.

it's very possible to blur these together the same way Phantom of the Opera blurs its diegetic and non-diegetic music as well. this leaves you even more open to being misunderstood by people reading in bad faith, but it can also be really fun to play with. @not-poignant writes fantastic fanfic, novels, and original serials on ao3 that pull this off really well, if you're okay with some dark shit in your fiction I would highly recommend their work. some of it does get really fucking dark in places though, just like. be advised. read the tags and all that.

but yeah, spontaneous writer plug aside, that's what I mean.