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I have one question for the Rise!Fandom thatâs been burning me alive for a while:
Why does Casey Jr. look so much like Lou Jitsu?!
#watching yt and a vid icon w/ CJ was right next to one with LJ#and I promptly choked on my drink#and that pointy chin is not a common look on this show#I donât think LJ is CJâs dad though#if I remember correctly I believe Splint has one human kid in typical tmnt canon#so maybe that applies#my other thought is that the turtles like⌠became human for a day or something#which would explain why Mikey has hair#though odd thing to experiment with during the apocalypse#and just weird in general to even consider#anyway I do not ship Cassandra with any of the boys#but if one MUST secretly be his dad#I vote Donatello#I refuse to even consider Mikey#and I just donât want to give Leo the satisfaction#Raph is likeâŚ. 10% chance#rottmnt
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Of the many, many plates of pancakes* that were offered to the listener in magp 1-07, this one may be my favourite
[ID: A screenshot of an unofficial transcript to The Magnus Protocol. CELIA is saying "Yeah. I mean, it's an old system, but it could have been worse. It's not like we're wrestling with tape recorders and manila folders." /end ID]
When we meet TMA-Celia for the second time, she's lost her name. She was Lynne Hammond, and now she's not. She doesn't seem to remember Martin, either, but it's not clear how much of herself and her life from before the change she does remember. She's freaked out by the tape recorders that start showing up, and there's no indication that she associates them with the Institute specifically.
If Celia Ripley is, as we are clearly intended to believe or consider, the same Celia as in TMA, why is she making knowing comments about manila folders and tape recorders? Tape recorders in particular are hardly standard equipment at what seems to be mostly a text data-entry and cataloguing job. She could have said typewriters, or carbon paper. Fax machines, if we're dunking on Freddy specifically.
She says "tape recorders and manila folders." Celia Ripley is referencing The Magnus Institute, particularly the outdated technologies in use in the Archives.
Maybe she learned more from Melanie about what the recorders were and did at the Institute, sometime after MAG 190. Maybe she has those specific memories of giving her statement in MAG 100, and little else. Maybe Martin grew an apocalypse beard and she remembers everything, but just didn't recognise him out of context and in a tunnel and during A Pretty Weird Time Overall.
Maybe she stuck around with Melanie-Georgie-Basira for a while after things returned, and that's how she learned about the particular significance of tape recorders.
Maybe she found some tapes and listened to a couple hundred of them.
Or maybe she's simply an AU Celia, with a knack for oddly specific and kind of clunky comparisons, drawn into this through the powers of metafiction and string theory.
Or maybe someone filled her with spiders and sent her to finish the job of spreading Fear to this particular world.
And the reason this particular plate of textual pancakes** (short stack, butter and nightmare syrup) is one of my favourites from "Give and Take" is because I genuinely have no idea! None of these are theories because there isn't enough evidence to point me in any particular direction. It's a mystery!, Jon voice, etcetera.
If you cornered me and paid me to have an opinion about it I could say which options I thought were more likely, I guess. But the odds are high that I'd be wrong, and I think the boat for me getting paid to interpret texts probably sailed fifteen years ago, besides. I'm in this for the love of the game.***
November is the true spooky season in the northern hemisphere.**** Yeah, October ends with Halloween, but you know what month starts with Halloween? Mmhmm. By November of 2019 TMA had been on my list for a few years, and someone I was getting to know and really liked recommended it to me specifically in the days after 159 aired. The conditions were correct for me to get into something new, is what I'm saying. I still remember listening to "Anglerfish" for the first time, walking home from my office job in the blustery November dark. I got home starry-eyed and red-cheeked and thrilled by the story I'd just heard.
It took a couple of months for me to catch up, and though I loved having so much to listen to there were times when I wished I'd started earlier, to have the experience of seeing things unfold.
And now we're back at a beginning, and get to experience the horrible joys of finding out.
[ID: A screenshot of an unofficial transcript to The Magnus Protocol. LENA is saying "Of a sort. I hope you're as ready for it as you think you are. Consider yourself "in." /end ID]
*Sabrina pancake meme
** the best kind, especially if it's a contest between textual and fluffy pancakes. Keep those spongy bastards away from me, I'll take the kind with a typeface instead
***Being a huge nerd
**** For more of my opinions on November, see https://www.tumblr.com/almostmolly/188799234276
#tmagp#tma#the magnus protocol#celia ripley#celia tmagp#lynne hammond#tmagp meta#loosely. this is neither litcrit not analysis nor speculation in the sense that i don't subscribe to any of the possible paths as true#and also realise there could be a dozen other things i haven't talked about here#i know I've said spiders celia twice but I'm kind of like a person who makes red string boards for the aesthetics#it's part of the decor y'know?#sorry for the link to my tumblr poetry blog but also: I'm not bad at it so. not that sorry#pancakes (derogatory)
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Shane suffers from undiagnosed PTSD, depression, and anger management disorder. Though he never felt the need to go to a therapist or psychiatrist for help before the outbreak, he's very much aware of his mental health and conditions. He knows that he's not "wired correct." He knows some of screws are undoubtedly loose. More so than the other two conditions, Shane's PTSD felt like, to him, it came out of nowhere. Maybe was always there - seeing his best friend get shot traumatized him, his experiences while on the police force were not always so cheery - took the apocalypse to really break through.
Sometimes, he can't sleep. Wakes up from nightmares that seem so real, that knock the wind right from his chest. Sometimes during the day he gets flashbacks, certain sounds or smells trigger the memories. Makes Shane go completely immobile for a second, frozen in time with a wide-eyed distant stare. He avoids things and people that bring back the awful memories. Hides himself like a wolf, sometimes with bared teeth and a dangerous gleam to his eye, runs back to his cave, his lonesome. Hopelessness and negative thoughts plague him. Feeling detached or emotionally numb, too, come quite often to Shane. It makes him irritable, angry, always on guard. It overwhelms him with shame and guilt.
It's like carrying three of the heaviest crosses imaginable. All kept on the inside, polluting his mind, his happiness and joy. Shane feels trapped - and there is no escape. The world won't let him. But he does try. He really, really does try to beat the odds.
#Heart Of A Soldier || Headcanon#// His mental illnesses make him hate himself#// He hates what it does to him#// He hates how it turns him into a prisoner of his own mind
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Jamie Prompt: Nightmares during an overnight trip so one of the teammates or multiple hear and help him. OR they find old bruises/scars from his dad's abuse. Just want to see the effects of the abuse and the team seeing those effects/helping him.
Hahahaha angst my favourite.
Gonna be honest not sure I nailed this.
Enjoy!
They just won a match against Nottingham Forest. It was a brutal match. City Ground was filled with jeers and cheers from both sides. Probably inspired by the horrific loss at Wembley. Richard nearly got taken out by one of the Nottingham players, Dani had received a dubious yellow, Sam was covered in more scrapes and bruises than should be possible, and Jamie had gone full prick without even waiting for a signal. It was a shit match. Roy grumbled the whole way back to the hotel how they were probably going to have to flee in the dead of night. Jamie just feels like shit. They should be happy. They won. Jamie thinks itâs because maybe some of the insults got a bit too personal. Maybe because at half time after one of the players had shoved Jamie and called him a pussy, the whole team had shot him looks of concern. Jamie had ignored the looks, the pounding of his heart and tried to listen to Ted. Maybe because it was just a shit match. The point is Jamie feels like shit.
âMovie night?â Ted asks, lightly, like he wouldnât mind if they said no. There were nods, murmurs of agreement, because none of them wanted to go out really. They all cram into a big room and settle in for a movie. The choice is given to Ted, who always seems to nail the film choice. He puts on My Neighbour Totoro, probably because itâs all cute and shit. Jamieâs got to admit, itâs pretty hard to stay angry watching some fluffy thing be stupidly cuddly and friendly. Itâs just a nice movie. Heâs a bit apart from everyone else, half curled onto a pillow he nabbed from his room. Heâs dead sleepy. If he closes his eyes just a little, itâll be fine.
It fucking isnât.
Jamieâs had nightmares for years. Theyâre pretty fucking consistent actually. His fears havenât really changed from childhood. The same man appears. The same insults. Injuries. Pain and memories swirl into one.
Years of experience have ingrained it in his mind and body to not be loud. The vulnerability that comes with sleep keeps his mind in a state of stress. Heâs never been a heavy sleeper. Too wary of footsteps in the night. If he wakes the sleeping horror in his house he knows heâs in for worse. Apparently though, he moves, a lot. And whimpers. Itâs pathetic really. Heâs an adult. He shouldnât be fucking like this. Heâs always in motion anyway, so it occurring in his sleep doesnât seem like a big deal. The odd twitch is probably ignored. The violent twisting, whimpers, and arms raised in defence are not.
Heâs not sure how long heâs out but thereâs hands on his shoulders as he almost bolts upright. He nearly takes Isaac out. Jamieâs breathing heavily. He wrenches himself from Isaacâs grip, hands on him too much to bare.
âYou alright bruv?â Isaac asks, almost gentle. Jamie just nods, not trusting his voice to come out strong.
âThe fuck you are.â Roy growls. Jamie canât help the way his body tenses. Canât stop the way his eyes flit around in panic.
âJamie.â Someone says hesitantly. Itâs Sam, crouching down next to him. âAre you sure you are alright?â Jamieâs eyes slowly make their way to Sam.
âYeah, fine mate.â Jamie manages, glad he sounds tired rather than scared. âJust tired yeah.â Thatâs enough for some of the team who drift away slightly. But Sam stays crouching next to him. Isaac barely moves from his spot almost directly above Jamie. Roy slumps in a chair slightly away, most likely because of his knee. Dani has a frown marring his face, Zoreaux appears to be debating the benefits of crowding Jamie with the others, Richard cocking his head at him almost thoughtfully. Jan is fixing Jamie with a look reminiscent of an x-ray, while Bumbercatch is chewing on his lip in apprehension. Colin is sitting right behind Jamie, face almost carefully blank.
âYou were making strange noises.â Jan says bluntly. Thereâs lots of way Jamie could reply. He could crack a sex joke, ease the awful tension. Brush it off as not important. Instead he shrugs.
âSo?â He asks. Heâs not a fan of the looks exchanged between his teammates.
âYou sounded like you were⌠having a nightmare.â Sam says cautiously. Jamie scoffs like thatâs complete bullshit. Like he didnât just have exactly that. Itâs stupid to act like this. But that childhood fear of pissing someone off remains forever present.
âDo you want to talk about it?â Colin asks softly. Jamie hates it. Theyâre treating him like one wrong word will make him shatter. Heâs not fucking soft.
âIâm fine.â He insists. Heâs getting really tired of the looks.
âItâs okay to have nightmares man.â Bumbercatch interjects. âItâs not like embarrassing.â Fuck no it is. Itâs shitty, embarrassing, frustrating, and probably many other words.
âTalking about these things usually helps.â Sam offers quietly.
âDonât worry amigo, we wonât judge you.â Dani says, Jamie just wishes heâd smile. Dani not smiling feels like a sign of the apocalypse.
âWeâre here bruv.â Isaac adds.
âWas it the dickbag?â Roy asks with a low growl. It doesnât exactly narrow it down. The Nottingham fans? The Nottingham players? His dad? Jamie shrugs again.
âIâm just gonna go to bed yeah.â He tells them, twisting away slightly. He almost trips getting to his feet, Zoreaux reaches to steady him. He flinches, hating himself slightly. He grabs his pillow and tries to leave again. Roy stands up to block him.
âWas it James?â He asks, voice lowering. Like itâs just him and Jamie in the room. âLook Jamie if you need to talk about what that dick did to you-.â
âI donât.â Jamie says quickly. âI donât need to talk about him.â Thereâs a tension in the room that you could cut with a knife.
âWe didnât talk after Wembley.â Roy says, clearly remembering how Jamie had just shut everyone off when anyone asked. âLet us fucking help you.â
âIs your father always terrible to you?â Jan asks bluntly. Jamieâs eyes shoot daggers at him.
âNone of your fucking business.â He snarls. Internally he cringes, thinking it sounds too much like James. Jan merely raises an eyebrow.
âJamie if he hurt you when you were younger then maybe you should talk about it.â Sam offers. Like bringing up the past is going to make things better. Like talking ever fucking helps. Jamie wants to scream.
âSo he beat the shit out of me when I was a kid. So he was a useless fucking parent. â Jamie snaps, tears prickling at his eyes. The open looks of horror on some of his teammates faces makes him cringe. He canât stop though, canât just leave it as is. âHeâs my fucking problem.â
âFucking hell Jamie, he shouldnât have done that.â Roy growls. Richard grumbles something in French that Zoreaux nods in agreement with. Itâs sounds angry and Jamieâs pretty sure he hears the name James muttered.
âIt doesnât matter.â Jamie insists.
âOf course it matters.â Sam replies. âYou matter.â He probably shouldnât scoff but Jamie canât help it.
âJamie, do we need to talk?â Roy asks, voice low. Jamie drops his pillow and flings his arms up.
âFuck sake canât we just drop it yeah? My dads a dick. We all know that.â He snaps. If the conversation continues he knows heâs going to cry. Heâs going to sob like a little kid, fucking embarrassing. Roy steps closer, making Jamie shrink back. He wants to disappear into the ground. Thereâs nervous eyes all around.
âLet us help you amigo.â Dani says. âWe are a team yes?â He offers Jamie a small smile. Jamie wishes he was yelling. Or that someone was angry, mad. Any fucking negative emotion. He knows how to deal with those. Instead everyone insists on huddling round him, offering support, caring about him.
His dad isnât here but he can hear him calling him soft.
âItâs not⌠I donâtâŚâ Jamie struggles to find the words. The ones that wonât make him cry and get everyone to leave him alone. âI just want to go to bed.â
âNo way bruv.â Isaac shakes his head. âNot until you talk to us.â
âItâll just be quicker if you do.â Colin says with a shrug, his face soft as he looks at Jamie. Jamie shoves his hands into his hoodie and blinks hard. âOtherwise weâll just hound you til you break and tell us anyway.â Jamie stares at his team, that are standing round him like theyâre worried heâs going to break if they get too far away.
âWe wonât judge you.â Zoreaux says. âWe just want to help.â Jamie is weak. Heâs weak to them caring, with sad eyes, horrid glances. He doesnât deserve a team ready to catch him when he falls but heâs lucky. He takes a deep breath.
âIâve had nightmares for years.â He mumbles. âBout him. I donât⌠Iâm not gonna talk about what theyâre like about.â The team is nodding in understanding. âI just get so scared. And itâs stupid. I fucking hate it. I hate it so much.â Jamie sniffles, Sam and Dani move closer, both offering comfort. Jamie moves slightly out of reach, dropping onto his pillow and pulling his legs to his chest. âI donât wanna talk about him.â Itâs said into his legs but he knows they hear him. He hears a horrible cracking sound as Roy sits next to him. An arm snakes itâs way around his shoulders, he canât help but tense. He feels someone else sit on his other side.
âPuppy pile.â He hears Bumbercatch say and suddenly thereâs nine grown men leaning on him as heâs pushed close to the floor. Jamieâs pretty sure Isaac is behind him playing pillow, Colinâs on his left shoulder. Sam is on his left leg and so is Dani. Bumbercatch is somehow across both legs. Roy is looming by his right shoulder. Zoreaux is half resting on Jamie, half on Roy. Richard has managed to curl up practically on Jamieâs stomach. Jan is somewhere around his knee.
âFuck Richard, ease up a bit.â Jamie grumbles. âI canât breathe.â
âNo.â Richard says sweetly even as he adjusts a bit so that Jamieâs lungs can actually work.
âBro you have really bony ankles.â Bumbercatch says.
âFuck off.â Jamie mumbles. He twists slightly, leaning into the collar of Royâs jacket. He feels safe in the pile of people. Jan complains that he is too much person to be forced into such a cramped position. Colin cracks a joke about being too much person to handle. Theyâre giggling a little, letting Jamie feel at ease.
The nightmares stay away for once.
#fanfiction#fanfic#ask#submisison#ted lasso tv#ted lasso#Jamie tartt#roy kent#moe bumbercatch#thierry zoreaux#richard montlaur#Colin Hughes#isaac mcadoo#sam obisanya#jan Maas#Dani rojas#afc richmond#child abuse#nightmares#I just want to hug Jamie#and so does afc Richmond#if I could kill James Tartt I would#swearing#affection#hurt comfort#angst#Iâm so sorry if anyone is a Nottingham forest fan
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not really a question exactly, but this is a free ticket to say anything and everything you want to about Dory.
kissing u rn;
let's get into some season three Dory shenanigans.
when the Hargreeves family gets back to the modern time they take Dory with them, thankfully. most of them â mainly Diego and Luther â still don't exactly trust her, but it's a work in progress. during season two she's managed to convince Five she's truly on his side now and they've been slowly falling back in love again. when it comes to Five retiring, he decides he wants to spend his retirement with Dory. she goes along on the Pennsylvania road trip, and she's the one that gets him excited about all the silly tourist traps they could look at. most of the moments between them are spent acting like a complete old married couple, exasperated with all of the chaos.
Dory shows a lot more of a human side during this season, to the surprise of everyone. she's still rather weary of Viktor in the beginning, so when he has his realization Dory is right there. instead of being weird about it, though, Dory is actually surprisingly comforting about it all. this is about the last thing Viktor expects, so he ends up tearing up a little as he explains it all. Dory goes with him to get his hair cut, and they workshop potential names together. Dory and Viktor grow unexpectedly close during this season, something that both confuses but also warms the hearts of the other Hargreeves kids.��
Diego and Dory also grow a lot closer this season, though it's a lot more comical than it is with Dory and Viktor. Diego, in full dad mode, suddenly starts parenting Dory from time to time, mainly because he tends to forget Dory is actually a whole lot older than he is. While he's trying to navigate parenting Stan he will accidentally try to parent Dory as well. this results in many threats and several near-death experiences for Diego, and several talks between Dory and Five about how she really needs to stop trying to murder his siblings.
she argues that they have to stop making it so easy.
Lila and Dory go all mean-siblings on each other during this season. they don't really have a big arc and it's mostly sarcastic comments and the odd genuine kind word between the two of them, but they are a fun and dynamic duo together.
the dynamic between Dory and the Sparrows is an interesting one, as well.
she's all excited at the prospect of having an enemy she's actually allowed â and emotionally capable of â hurting, but then she gets into it with Jayme and her crazy hallucinogenic venom powers and it does dampen her excitement a little. what it doesn't dampen is her anger, and she gets kind of angry and jealous with Harlan when he's the one that kills Jayme instead of her.Â
she ends up really taking to this version of Ben, though. mainly because she never knew the original Ben, and she really likes this emotionally insecure, evil little guy. if she's being honest, he reminds her of home. Ben hates her with a passion and calls her all kinds of derogatory nicknames from child to vermin. Dory laughs at every single one of them. it drives Ben insane.
also some random highlights for this season;
â she calls Reginald a "pathetic little excuse of a person" and almost kills him on two separate occasions.
â her and Five dance at the wedding and it reminds Five about the last time they danced, during the apocalypse. it's the first time he kisses her again since season one.
â she actually makes friends with Stanley, of all people, and teaches him how to get better at pickpocketing and building bombs. this causes another Diego dad-speech.
â Sloane attempts to be a bit of a mom-figure for Dory and braids her hair for the wedding party. it's the prettiest Dory thinks she's ever looked.
â her and Lila bond when talking about Five. the moment is sweet, and weirds both of them out enough to not talk for at least a few hours.
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Campfire Of Horrors
It was Summerween and The Third Summer for The Mystery Twins. After Weirdmageddon Summerweenâs tradition was nearly extinct thanks to the copious amount of PTSD generously given by the ruler of the Nightmare Realm and considering no one was in the mood of reliving that experience by cosplaying as monsters, even though the citizens of Gravity Falls have become well-acquainted with the Supernatural inhabitants there was no Summerween Holiday for some time. Fortunately, thanks to the magic of therapy, The Stans, a couple of rebellious teens and time the Holiday has returned during the Twinsâ Third Summer, with the teens in question including the Pines siblings having a campfire together in the woods. It wasnât an easy task thanks to the Mayor becoming a sniveling mess every time he is reminded of Odd-Apocalypse and it was a long process, yet eventually, Cutebiker became comfortable enough to let the Holiday be brought back.
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Dipper and Mabel with other teens which included their best friend Wendy, the girls Candy and Grenda, the emo of the group Robbie and his on and off girlfriend Tambry(Letâs just say their relationship had a lot of ups and downs), Thompson(because why not?), Gideon who was now technically almost a teen, Pacifica the heiress of her now somewhat rich parents(who she blackmailed by bringing the âBellâ thing to child services which made her father both annoyed and proud at the same time), and the two doofuses Nate and Lee all were circling around a campfire somewhere outside of the town swapping stories, having laughs and sometimes like all teenagers having sparred with each other, like seeing who has the worst track record on relationships.
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â-Believe me, Paz, no one tops on having a disastrous romance life as me.â Dipperâs sister informed Paz with a slight cringe at being reminded, with Gideon looking sheepish with Dipper glaring at him.
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âNot as atrocious as the Princess of the wild woodsâ relationships I doubt,â Pacifica noted in a ridiculed tone.
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âHEY!â Wendy outraged.
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âThe tattoo guy, the Volleyball jockâŚâ The blonde counted with her fingers âhim.â She nodded to Robbie.
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âHEY!â Valentino outcried.
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âYou canât blame me for this, itâs true.â She shrugged.
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The Redhead groaned âI swear you make some bad choices in pursuing relationships and everyone would hold you for life for itâŚâ she muttered with Robbie muttering as well, although much emo-ish.
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âWelcome to womanhood,â Tambry said with a smirk at her best friend being made fun of for her rather low standard in pursuing relationships.
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âAh, enough with teen drama will ya? Thisâs Summerween, weâ suppose to swamp horror stories, not beinâ swapping scandalizes like some Beverly Hills movie.â Gideon suggests to the group, getting really tired of all the teenage drama.
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âYeah, the little dude is right, this is the perfect time for spooking!â Nate agreed.
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âOr We can do that game in which each time someone loses a bet, they would lose their clothes!â Candy advised with a rather too-looking forward tone, after that everyone looked at her with weird looks âOr not.â She decided to drop that, feeling the weight of everyoneâs gaze.
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âAGREE! NOTHING PUMPS YOUR BLOOD LIKE A GOOD HORROR STORY IN THE WOODS!â Grenada concurred.
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âE-everyone hold me if I get a panic attack, I donât do well with horrorâŚâ Thompson stated.
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âDude, are you still haunted by that movie? It wasnât even a horror one, it was a comedy!â Lee bellowed out.
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âIt gave existential crisesâŚâ The chubby boy stated in a fearful tone.
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âI swear if you mention that Road Trip fiasco, I will matchmake you with a Leprecorn!â Mabel threatened Candy from talking about their trip on a van with Stan during the first summer which she drew back to do so, to this day that event made Mabel, Dipper, Grenada, and Candy recoil at how stupid everything about it was like some poorly made fanfiction, Candy had a temporary crush on Dipper, Mabel was a hypocrite and a jerk, Dipper took the worst lessons from her sister and grunkle, there were spiders and that was an astounding achievement considering the very idea of having a road trip when Bill was still around and the Unicorn shield was activated just then came from the supposedly self-proclaimed genius of the Pines Family Ford Pines! Not to mention they basically left those Spider-people to continue feasting on humanity until some chainsaw-loving lunatic decided to have a visit there, letâs just say since then the JorĹgumo race learned to fear humans, and later the news said that the place got lit up in fire by some freak accident.Â
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âWhat about you dude? I bet you saw a lot of scary stuff!â Nate looked over to Dipper, who was like a little brother to him.
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âOh, you have no idea! In fact, let me get my phoneâŚâ He put his cup on the wood and brought his phone from his pocket and proceeded to search for a video he was looking for, he got a new phone to stop Mabel from her continuous teasing and being privy about his media history.
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âAh, right here.â He showed the screen to everyone as they turned their eyes on it, it was one of his Dipperâs Guide to the Unexplained videos he had with his sibling during the First Summer and it just happens to be about The Island Beast which they come across, the video was of them running on a boat frantically running and shouting from a giant disgusting Island with a mouth of human-looking teeth and glowing milky eyes, seeing that promoted everyone to startled and disgusted with Tambry leaving her phone and Thompson with a yelp fall backward.
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âThatâs one ugly fudger right there.â The dyed-haired girl commented.
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âEw, it looks like one of those creatures from Never Mind All That but with a severe deformity.â Pacifica was repulsed by seeing this creature.
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âI guarantee you, it gets even scarier if itâs played backward!â Mason played it backward which turned the entityâs gibberish into a comprehensible speech.Â
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"YOU DARED INTERRUPT MY SLUMBER! ENTER MY MOUTH CHILDREN! ENTER YOUR DESTINY!"
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Everyone sit silent, Robbie was paler than usual, Gideon looked at it with morbid fascination, Tambry for once left her phone, Wendy looked outraged at the fact that his two favorite people were nearly eaten and had thoughts of ways to make the abomination pay, the now returned Thompson was agitated in fear sweating, Grenda and Candy were holding hands, Lee and Nate looked in fear.
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"DudeâŚthat's straight out of a horror movie!" Nate uttered.
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"I think I'd rather go to the pool from now onâŚ" Tambry muttered, throwing any idea of swimming there.
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"Don't worry, our great uncles have dealt with it," Mabel assured them.
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"Dealt like how?" Thompson questioned.
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*Â bang!bang!bang!*Â Â a series of superheated plasma hit on a small island, burning one of its trees and a bush, resulting in the Island floating up and revealing its hideous true form
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It was cut short upon seeing a boat with two angry old men with the intent of murder, one had his brass knuckles ready and the other with a blaster still smoking from the shots now leaving it and readying a much bigger scifi rifle and pointing it at it.
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A powerful beam of energy hits after the rifle is charged and it with everything got swallowed by an intense light.
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"Let's just say, you're lucky you've never been on their bad side." Mabel's brother informed everyone with everyone accepted that explanation.
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"Next me! Next me!" Gleeful brought one hand up.
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"Alright Gideon, it's your turn." Dipper gestured.
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âThere was one time a boy wanted to get his hands on a limited edition train toy, he holds money, especially for that. Until some kid older than him bought it just the minute the boy set foot in the shop with his money, he at first tried to use the money in bribing the older kid to give him the toy but he refused, anger at such a prospect of not getting what he wanted he used his money to buy a grimoire from an antique shop, he summoned a demon to get that toy and made a deal with him; however, the demon done more than that and brought his corpse, the boy was not pleased so he said âWhy did ya do that?â so the devil said âYou didnât put any limits on the contract.â so he disappeared out the blue leaving the kid to drag the corpse and bury it in the backyard of his when his parents were out of the house, by then maggots were feasting upon it and reeked, the police never found the corpse after the boy buried it as fertilizer for his garden.``
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Everyone where quiet, this time for a different reason, everyone looked at Lil suspiciously with Thompson nudging a bit away his seat from him, and that was when the white-haired boy registered what this is all about.
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âOh come on! do y'all think I would low myself to deal with otherworldly powers over some toy like a petulant child?â he protested scandalized.
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â Yes.â  everyone at the same time answered which caused the Gleeful boy to sour, even to this day no one let him forget about his â Phase â.
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âAnywayyyyy, I have a story to tell so everyone listens!â Sometimes Tambryâs boyfriend decided to tell one. âIt was during a storm, a guy got stranded in a snowy mountain due to his plane crashing, he was the only survivor, after hours of scavenging around the crash site for food, equipment and anything that could help him, during the night, he heard the flaps of wings of something big near him when he was cooking some meat on a stick near a campfire. He looked around and saw something in the dark.â By then he grabbed his phone to shine a light on his face as everyone looked in anticipation. âHOOT! It was the Owlman stealing his biscuits!âÂ
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âI told you messing with time is a horrible idea!â a redhead boy remarked.
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âWell, it's not like I intended for us to meet our younger parents! I was meaning to go back in time during the 19th century for my history assignment!â a 12 years old redhead girl refuted.
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âNormally, Iâm all for chaos but I would rather not accidentally stop our parents from ever tying the knot, there is no telling what would happen if that happens! What if we cease existing, creating multiple timeline branches, or heck, end up being someone elseâs children!?â another 12-year-old girl with puffed-style hair and glasses widened her eyes at such implications.
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An AU of DC with a mass crossover of PS4 properties.
Provisional name: Players Searching for Detectable Changes (Get the pun?)
The setup:
This is the future of DC, a world where the old guard has slowly withdrawn and the newer generations have risen to the occasion. The original Titans in particular, most of which have formed the new Justice League while many other, very similar teams had started to form across the world. One of which was a resurgence of the Teen Titans, led by an older and purified Raven. She wanted to make the Teen Titans something akin as it was for her, a place to belong and learn to use one's powers.
The first 'class' of such individuals include:
Stargirl (of the now-disbanded JSA and still getting used to the Starrod)
Blue Beetle III (Freshly attached to his alien symbiote and freaking out a bit)
Robin V (to work on his anger issues, mostly at the new Batman's request)
Kaldur (a half Atlantean half metahuman who is struggling with his identity and the surface world, Aquaman feels a kinship for the boy seeing their similarities)
Static Shock (a promising new hero but little experience working outside his city or in groups)
Mary Marvel (she's... she's going through alot. Fresh from a coma, her brother is distant as he acts as the new Wizard, and she may be, sorta kinda, being corrupted by Black Adam's gifted power)
The team was rough and there was plenty of head butting (Mostly between Stargirl and Robin/Damian as one is almost the unanimous leader while the other thinks he should be) but they were getting there. They were more of a clean up crew for the Justice League, they did more than the "kiddie missions" that the Outsiders didn't do, and they meant more than the PR grab that was the International team. Though they didn't seem to amount to more than that. They still did their best, pushing past the silent ridicule, as they went about their missions.
This may be why tempers were so high that day.
One day, outside a little city by the name of Weller's Point, the prisoner transport for the villain Plasmus had an "accident". Released and awakened the creature went on a rampage, heading ever closer to the populated area. Luckily, the mentor of the New Teen Titans could teleport. The new team did fairly well in the fight, though they did struggle a bit as Plasmus was not a being where simple brute force would work. It made the fight tricky and more than a bit... messy.
Messy enough that juvenile and emotionally compromised Mary Marvel lashed out against the downed villain but was stopped by her teammates... things escalated from there. Restraint turned blows and the whole team struggled to stop their powerhouse without hurting her. The ones who do the best are Raven, Stargirl, Blue Beetle, and oddly Static.
While both of the former could use their abilities to restrain her to a very effective degree Static was actively draining her of strength, or at least of the electic aura she was radiating and blasting with. Frustrated, done with the situation, and a bit petty Mary launched her largest attack yet by saying her magical word.
SHAZAM.
Virgil did what he did best, he handled that lightning as it came crashing down towards Mary and the Titans restraining her. Well, he tried. The bolt was just too powerful, too unlike anything he had ever encountered. He could not handle it and it was dissipating, if anything it clung to him or tried to jump towards the girl. He had to get rid of it and he had to get rid of it quickly, safely too if he could help it.
He shoved it into the ground, into the power lines. He did it as carefully as he could, trying to prevent overload or flashover as guided the charge into the power grid.
What happened next was a combination of a few things. 1. The Mystic and transformative properties of the Lightning, 2. It is effectively being filtered through a bang baby, 3. The kryptonite power plant owned by, provided by, and operated by Lexcorp.
This interaction, this new charge, cycling through the power grid interacted strangely with a number of devices but none more so than PlayStation 4s and the devices connected to them. This new electricity changed things, literally. It brought fantasy into reality.
Whatever game was loaded into became a part of our reality in a small way. Sometimes TVs, Controllers, and even the system changed to reflect items from the game but the bigger change came with the Players. If a person was playing their console during the surge then they would become a metahuman with abilities based on the playable character they were playing.
The city, the county even, was now flooded by an abundance of metahumans and items of varying power of devastation. Static felt horrible.
He couldn't help but compare what has happened here to what happened in Dakota City but on a wider scale. And this time it was his fault. His sense of responsibility wouldn't, couldn't, let that stand. He had to fix his mistake and his team was dragged along for the ride.
The story to follow is a mix of Final Crisis and Kingdom Come with a bit of the Young Justice cartoon in events and themes, a few twists and likely a bit lighter in tone but to the DC geeks this should give a rough idea⌠Maybe a bit of Marvel's Civil War but hopefully not the rushed knee-jerk mess that that ended up being.
But it's here that I start having issues with my planning. One part in worry as outside the set up we start to follow the perspective of OCs (something rarely smiled upon) and another part in wondering which OC to focus on.
Now, one thing I love in fiction is progressive powers and the conflict escalating from the different paths people take in said progression. In that vein, I have a pair of protags in mind as well.
The main two/co-protagonists:
The Lawkeeper- a cop before the change and now a member of a task force made up largely of those affected by the surge. A gamer, a man of color, and a believer of the spirit of the law. He doesn't always get along with his fellow officers but he believes in what the blue does. He believes that an organized response is what is best.
His abilities are based on those of Jesse Fades of Control. Meaning he has tremendous psychic potential but he needs 3 things to reach his full potential.
1.Items to bond to so he can generate these psychic abilities. Jesse's used altered items of her universe to get thematic abilities from them (ex: a safe to generate a shield, a carousel horse for a dash ability, ect). Here he can use items generated by the surge.
2. A patron/partner entity to help guide, give insights, and empower. It also let's the user enforce reality, basically becoming an anti reality warper.
3. A bonded morph weapon or a weapon to come to his hand when called.
The knight- a recent college graduate who instantly decided to go the route of the caped hero. She, after figuring out how to get her powers to work, instantly went the route of a caped crusader. Going out to the streets, saving lives, stopping instances of surge item abuse, and (in the humble opinion of the local Police Department) getting in the way of operations. In her opinion they were taking too long to get things done.
Her abilities are based on those of Prince Noctis of Final Fantasy XV. This means she has tremendous physical and magical potential but like the above she has a number of check marks needed to gain access to the character's full power.
1. A gem/crystal to draw power from.
2. 13 magical weapons to boost strength. The generated game weapons will do and I have most picked out in a way that likely would help the plot progress.
3. The blessing of 5-6 gods.
4. A power ring of some king to channel all this power.
I keep debating the two above as I do like the idea of both of them climbing in power and clashing over conflicting ideals of what to do with their power. At the same time, I think that just smooshing aspects of both into one (which is actually where they started, a single character) and play off the different ideologies of how best to help people from within her friend group and precinct along with internal conflict. Maybe have the one be a fellow officer they butt heads with because of the... precarious nature
Another OC I was thinking on, keeping with the theme of what to do when you have power, is a thief who played Persona 5. Like both of the above they would be crippled in their ability to use their abilities without a way to fake the connection to. In this case, without the Mementos App, they would need an item that could affect or enter the hearts of others. Luckily, more unlucky really, there are plenty of items floating around that can do just that. Namely Keyblades.
Most other Players are an odd mix but most are variations of the Shooter build. Peak physical humans who heal quickly and often have bullet time. But there are enough other variations to cause trouble. Demigods of unreal strength, men and women who can easily tap into a patron for powers from the outside, 2 variations of spider powers, cat eyed men and women who can cast magic with simple gestures, and so much more. But the real issue was the first two, the demigods without a parent to protect them and those easily connected to a divine source.
The disembodied New Gods of Apocalypse were very happy with those groups. For how bad this can be please look at what happened to Mary Marvel in canon Final Crisis.
Thoughts and opinions would be appreciated.
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hello ! just wondering, how are warlock and adam doing ? any hcs that didn't make it into the fic? or any thoughts on them that you haven't mentioned? it has been a while since you wrote them so i understand if there's nothing that comes to mind !! just searching for maybe a few crumbs bc i haven't found anyone who writes them nearly as well as you do.
haha, wow, i haven't properly thought of that fic since i wrote it but i do love warlock and adam. let's see what i can offer.
updates on warlock and adam:
they've been fucking around trying to test adam's subconscious control over his powers, with varying degrees of success. adam's longest stretch a full week without any supernatural interference of any variety, but for the moment they are decisively not trying to replicate that success because once the week ended adam's powers went into overdrive and caused global upset as well as leaving warlock thoroughly disney-fied for weeks after the fact, to his profound irritation and adam's supreme amusement. brian enjoyed the veritable zoo of animals tailing him around, though. pepper did not enjoy the constant musical cues. wensleydale thought it was kind of cute. adam insisted that he was powerless to fix it after the 'exhaustion' of fixing the global upset part, which warlock absolutely did not believe given the absolute smugness on his face whenever warlock started sparkling.
on a less consequential level adam and warlock enjoy messing around trying to see to what degree adam can suppress his powers without concentrating on it too hard, but no one else particularly enjoys this because (as pepper puts it) 'you are not fooling anyone into thinking this isn't some kink thing'. warlock pleads the fifth. adam doesn't even bother.
adam is extremely intrigued by warlock's misappopriated demonic/angelic powers, which warlock finds supremely embarrassing given that they can do almost nothing, leave him with a horrible headache, and are in any event completely ineffective on adam himself. adam finds it fascinating, though- for one because despite angels and witches he's in short supply of supernatural friends, for another because he can actively feel that the power does not belong there and adam quintessentially enjoys prodding at a bruise, and of course because he finds warlock's embarrassed pride about his repertoire of tricks suffocatingly adorable. despite warlock's reluctance he does at least appreciate the ace he has, because even though his powers don't work on adam whenever he gets to the point of using them adam knows he's serious, and also adam will inevitably stop being mad at him in the face of his subsequent nausea. never let it be said he's above naked manipulation. gotta make nanny proud.
they've definitely had some extremely melodramatic fights since the fic ended, as is the nature of two antichrists(ish) dating each other. a lot of it is predictable- adam tries, but his powers have less of a conscience than he does, so there have been Incidents, like the time the oxford rowers capsized violently during a race. on a lesser scale the demonic powers are jealous to a fault, which adam really actively isn't (or at least not consciously), which warlock knows full well he should find less charming. it's just sometimes they kind of feed into each other's vices- adam doesn't keep a tight enough rein on his powers and warlock gets mad but also kind of maybe encourages it and then adam gets irked at warlock and...
adam takes great pleasure in being the boyfriend-iest boyfriend of all time, naturally, so reality bends for warlock's convenience if he so much as frowns to himself. warlock is really trying to be less flustered every time because he knows full well it only encourages him, but he's kind of a complete sucker for attention and affection, so it's not going very well for him. he would hate himself more if he wasn't so busy trying not to melt into the floor. adam is horrible and will fully just sit there chin in hands observing him dreamily as warlock fights to regain his cool. still, warlock gets him back as best he can- he's starting to combine crowley's vicious revenge plans with aziraphale's 'kill em with kindness' moves, which results in him darkly plotting just for the purpose of doing something nice that'll catch adam off guard. adam is always thrilled by being hoodwinked, and then also not actually all that used to people making a concerted effort to draw emotions out of him, so he falls prey to these shenanigans more easily than you'd expect. unlike warlock he never offers any resistance, though, so warlock has to content himself with the victory of watching his powers go wonky- blossoms bursting out of the walls or fireworks outside the house or the whole room going sort of liquid and pink.
crowley and aziraphale are both horrible teases with regards to the boys (as they should be, since they get it far worse in return). crowley likes to make pointed comments about lustful auras or needle them about the freudian implications of their behaviours, whereas aziraphale will just go on at length quoting love poetry or asking them about their feelings with the utmost tenderness until crowley takes pity and informs them he's doing it on purpose. they both find them intensely cute, though aziraphale is just delighted by this where crowley is trying very hard to appear less thrilled than he is. warlock is mostly weirded out about their commentary about the supernatural aspects of the whole ordeal, where aziraphale will be like 'oh, my, that poor demon fellow who hit you really seems to be taking badly to the dismembering and hot pokers in the pits of hell. could you pass the ladder?' and crowley will be like 'unholy hell, adam, control yourself, if i have to see one more demonic apocalypse murder-beast turned into an adorable stray cat i'm going to be sick'.
the them, obviously, are also weirdos and like to observe the whole warlock-adam dating debacle with the interest of scientists observing an experiment in a lab, mainly in terms of adam's never-ending capacity to reveal new and exciting facets of his personality and/or powers. brian takes it all in stride the easiest, so he'll just be like 'oh, neat, a peach tree' and take himself a peach when it erupts in the middle of the library. wensleydale somehow winds up playing confidante so he sits through all the over-sharing and also all the fighting details and then does deep research to attempt to provide them with a helpful answer. sometimes he just reads cosmos. he thinks warlock is onto him. pepper's very secret and very dark fear is that one day adam will decide kids would be fun and hellspawn will just pop into existence fully-formed and dangerously adorable. they are all very impressed by the odd occasion on which warlock actually gets adam to decide he was wrong about something, though pepper is firm that it does not count when adam is only agreeing because he's too blissed out to pay attention.
i hope that you enjoy these crumbs-and thanks, incidentally <3 comms are always open, if you're looking.
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tell me about an oc!
Letâs see. I have a zombie apocalypse story I like a lot where the POV character shifts throughout the story to whoever is leading their group (people die or get separated or injured, etc), with the idea in zombie stories â especially gamesâitâs often hard for the audience to have a deep connection to the minor characters, because they die so much. Thatâs fine, but itâs really fun to have supporting cast you love, and I thought it would be fun to have the reverse of that, where the PC or POV character, depending on format, is often the one you know least one the group, and eventually by story end most of the people you know best/have been there longest, and you are invested in and helping story arcs complete (or reading complete if book vs if game), are the supporting cast members. Thereâs a few people who cycle in and then back out of being squad leader, but thereâs also a dad and his toddler, and two kids around age 12.
The kids are Andres, and Koko. Koko is not a real name, but the kid went âstranger dangerâ when she met adult randos night one, and made that up (her real name is Cammile, but she doesnât tell anyone that for ages, and the only person who knows for a long time is Andres, who was her neighbor before things began. She also doesnât trust anyone, and lied initially and told everyone she was with that he was her cousin, because she didnât think theyâd risk their lives to save her neighbor, so she pretends theyâre related for a few months. Sheâs an odd kid).
Anyway, Cammile I am very fond of, or Koko I guess I should say, and the sequel story is about her. She gets separated from her group in an attack and stranded a ways away, but she knows where they were headed, and determined theyâre still alive, tries to make it to there (a ship heading north), before the date it is supposed to set sail. (It shuttles survivors to a collection of communities in Canada, and goes once every few months, but her best chance of finding any survivors would be to find them at the specific voyage theyâd been traveling to hope to make, instead of hunting for where theyâve gone after landing a different month).
She is fourteen at the time and gets kidnapped by a group of raiders, because they donât have enough girls in their little biker gang to be sustainable. Her shitty guard is bad at his job & she manages to get his gun and shoot him, then cause enough noise to call a huge horde of zombies down. The gang flees and she manages to escape, but the guy she shot is only injured and freaks out and begs her to take him with her because heâll die alone and heâs injured and itâs almost winter. Sheâs like âYouâre literally the worst and itâs not my fault your friends abandoned you. Go to hell.â But heâs extremely pathetic and weak and a loser and keeps following her begging because heâs scared to die. She has changed a lot over her two years in the apocalypse, and originally was a very very harsh and mistrusting person (IE, a member of her OG party was bit day one, but that was before there was a common disease strain, and his was the weakest out there, so he went two full months before even /starting/ to turn. He still flipped her out though, and she was afraid heâd go feral, so one night when they were all asleep, she picked up a Boulder and was going to drop it on him and crush his head, but he woke up right when she was gonna do it and she couldnât. He didnât tell anyone though or hold that against her, and was super sweet to her about it, and instead did stuff to make her feel safer, like wear a mask to sleep so if he somehow turned during the night, heâd have great difficulty biting someone through it).
Her experiences in the first story make her slowly change. She is inspired by the different team leaders, and wants to be more like them herself, but sheâs also a baby teen, and thatâs always a time struggling with identity. So she doesnât really know who she is, or how to be, only, by story two, that she wants to be like her friends. Not really sure what that looks like practically, but trying to guess what theyâd do and be like them, she agrees eventually to take pathetic injured adult man loser with her (Gillis), until she can find somewhere with people to dump him, and helps him survive, and they become a weird team. That one is more a collection of short stories, with each segment being a self-contained stop on her way to try and find her party, the only constants being her and Gillis, and their relationship.
I love her a lot. She carries a crowbar even though she a short 14 year old, and sheâs crazy (complimentary). Also very funny dry wit. First mini arc, they find remnants of a fight, a few bodies, and one is some human man shot in the chest, not head, so stooping to stab the brain so he wonât come back, she sees heâs alive and is like âOh shit! Okay letâs save him I guess.â And Gillis is like âUhm this guy is a strange adult man you know nothing about except that /another/ living, breathing human had reason to try and shoot him in the heart. Do you know how dangerous taking him with you on blind faith is?â
And sheâs like âGillis do you ever. Do you fucking think before you speak. Oh heâs a strange man someone had reason to shoot??? I shouldnât take him with me? Dumbass, YOUâRE a strange man someone had reason to shoot, and I KNOW the reason there because I was the one who shot you!! âI know nothing about himâ?? Well at least I donât already know heâd help kidnap me as stock for sure! That gives him a solid leg up on you!â
And Gillis just has to shut up because sheâs 10000% right.
Anyway. Sheâs an angy little girl with a crowbar, very strong, mean, doing her best. I love her.
EDIT: this is what she looks like
I love her design. All triangles and squares. Hereâs her with her shitty coward companion.
Thanks for asking! đ
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đś H/D WIRELESS FEST - REVEALS đś
At last, the day youâve been waiting for! Itâs the REVEALS!Â
Come check out the talented people who created your favourite Wireless fics and artworks!
Massive thanks once again to all the 54 creators of our 64 works (yes some people created multiple works! Special mention to cloudlesslysky who wrote FIVE fics!). And thanks also to all the readers, betas and supporters of H/D Wireless! Itâs been a bumper year!
Without further ado...
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đť Stuck on the Bridge Between Us (G)Â by pygmy_puffy @pygmy-puffy
đľ Song prompt: Talk Me Down by Troye Sivan
đľ Summary: finding the courage within themselves to be vulnerable, so they can stop hurting the other and start loving each other as they so deeply want and need to
đťÂ So Let's Dance, Take a Chance, Understand Me (T) by Dazed_and_Inked @dazedandinked
đľ Song prompt: T.Rex, Get It On
đľ Summary: The War is over and everything has changed.
After a few of years of travelling around the world, Harry decided to move to Muggle London, looking for peace and a place where the scar on his forehead doesnât have a meaning. His new flat is in a perfectly normal neighbourhood close to the centre, quiet during the day but full of students at night.
He really likes the small bar down the road, a place that serves cheap, awful drinks and plays good old classics. Itâs always crammed with people talking, laughing or dancing along with the riff of electric guitars.
From the first time he crossed the threshold, Harry thought it was perfect, the right mix of noise and warmth to be alone without feeling alone. Just what he needed.
He couldnât imagine that someone else was there for the very same reason, looking for a place where the Dark Mark was only a tattoo.
Blame it on the alcohol, on the music or whatever you want, but when Harryâs eyes landed on Dracoâs slim figure, swaying on the dancefloor, something warm and inexplicable possessed him.Â
đťÂ The Pass (T) by julchen_in_red @julcheninred
đľ Song prompt: The Pass, by Rush
đľ Summary: Draco, lost in darkness, seeks a guiding light.
đť  If you knew⌠(T) by gnarf @gnarf
đľ Song prompt: Young Folks from Peter Bjorn and John
đľ Summary: The war had left scars on all of them. Some were obvious. Some only if they looked closely. But the worst ones were those they couldn't see. Those that were hidden inside.
đťÂ an ode to the boy i love (G) by nettleforest @nettleforest
đľ Song prompt: Animal - Troye Sivan
đľ Summary: an evocation of vulnerability, trust and tenderness
đťÂ Home Sweet Home (G) by gnarf @gnarf
đľSong prompt: Radioactive - Imagine Dragons
đľ Summary: In the middle of a Zombie apocalypse Harry made it his main goal to find a safe home for Draco and himself.
đťÂ Turn back time (T) bt erlasart @erlasart
đľ Song prompt: If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher
đľ Summary: Draco's had a rough few years, if that's what you call falling in with a bad lot, attempted murder and a close brush with death. Now facing the weight of his misdeeds, Draco tries to pinpoint when it all went wrong.
đťÂ Time to Get Out (T) by SoldSeperately @secretartlair
đľ Song prompt: My House - PVRIS
đľ Summary: A few years post-war, Pansy convinces Draco to go on a night out at a muggle club. They run into some familiar faces.
đś H/D Wireless Art and Fic đś
đťÂ A Different Kind of Meaning (E, 17k) by p103 @p103 (art by Zigster)
đľ Song prompt: Outnumbered - Dermot Kennedy
đľ Summary: The ceiling doesn't hold any answers, but there are cobwebs scattered across the corners with shadows tangled in their threads. The rug against his back is rough and scratchy, threadbare and devoid of colours other than various shades of brown. Harry takes it all in, absorbs the dingy and depressed state of his home. There's a pointed moment of decision, a note about to be played, a silence about to end, and then he rolls to his feet and sets to cleaning.
It's the first constructive thing he's done in years.Â
đťÂ Keep Holding On (M, 33k) by gnarf @gnarf (fic) and MaesterChill @maesterchill (art)
đľ Song prompt: Welshly Arms - Sanctuary
đľ Summary: After the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry and Draco both fall into their own battles with their mental states. Draco is sent to Azkaban, and Harry turns to drinking, hoping to forget.
Months later, Harry visits St Mungoâs new ward on request of a friend, only to find Draco in a deep vegetative state.
Not willing to give him up, Harry stays by his side, while simultaneously dealing with the Ministry's newest grand idea to make everything worse.
Making new alleys, and losing old ones on the way, would hopefully be worth it in the end.
đť Fic : Modern Love (E, 61k) by tackytiger @tackytigerfic
đť Art : Our Love Song (G) by chachisoo @creeeee
đľ Song prompt: Modern Love by David Bowie
đľ Fic summary: Harry Potter, of all people, knows that life isnât always fair. And no one gets to be happy all of the time. But surely thereâs something moreâsomething betterâthan a rubbish Ministry job, and a lonely old house, and that feeling that everyone out there is doing a better job of living than Harry is.
And it really doesnât seem fair that Draco Malfoy is back in Harryâs life, all of a sudden, and even though heâs wandless, and living with Muggles, and making his mother cry with his lifestyle choices, heâs happy. So what's he doing right, that Harry isnât?
Because things donât really change, do they? And if Harry canât be happy, heâll settle for a good nightâs sleep, some posh antiques, and the opportunity to find out what Malfoy has been up to for all these years.
And thatâs what starts it all. Â
đľ Art summary: Harry and Draco enjoying a Sunday morning bus ride in London.
đťÂ For the Thousandth Time (T, 14k) by bluefay @thesleepiesthufflepuff (fic) and mehroomiyat (art)
đľ Song Prompt: Lucky by Aurora
đľ Summary: When Draco's wand refuses to work after the war, he turns to Harry for help.Â
đť Fic : Returning Tides (E, 24.5k) by Zigster @zigster-ao3
đť Art : Love Will Tear Us Apart (G) by Zigster @zigster-ao3
đľ Song prompt: Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy DivisionÂ
đľ Fic summary:Â
Is my timing that flawed? Our respect run so dry? Yet there's still this appeal That we've kept through our lives
đľ Art summary: Art piece to accompany the fic âReturning Tidesâ, based on the song claim, 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' by Joy Division ***** Harry's brooding while straddling a motorbike. Need I say more?
đťÂ That Sweet Sweet Craving (E, 33.2k) by TheUltimateUndesirable @ultimateundesirable
đľ Song prompt: Bleeding Out by Imagine DragonsÂ
đľ Summary: Harry is miserable living a lie because he thinks being a gay role model is wrong. Fake dates raising money for a charity that ends up putting him in a situation he had never expected. Draco Malfoy appears back in his life by some odd chance trying to flip his world upside down and he isn't sure it's a good thing. Malfoy always worked that way to him. Mental health issues, sex, escaping, and that sweet sweet craving of happiness.
đś H/D Wireless Fic đś
đť Â Follow the Water (T, 38.2k) by xanthippe74 @xanthippe74
đľ Song prompt: âFollow the Waterâ by Calexico/Iron & Wine
đľ Summary: Harry Potterâs life is fine. Maybe a little dull and predictable, but he shouldnât complain about that, right? When he unexpectedly finds himself at Lunaâs house one afternoon, Harry gets invited to join the secret wonderland that sheâs creating with a surprising group of friends. Maybe a summer outdoors is just what a former hero needs to bring some zest back into his life.
đťÂ Life goes not backward (T, 8.8k) by shealwaysreads @shealwaysreadsÂ
đľ Song prompt: Daughter by Loudon Wainwright
đľ Summary: Harry still isnât used to gifts, but this one is different.
A story of coming home, finding safe ground, and the wild courage of putting down roots.
Leaving one life behind isnât always a sacrifice, and sometimes the greatest good comes from embracing the people you love.Â
đťÂ The Way We Used To Love (E, 5.3k) by Zzzara @big-draco-energy
đľ Song prompt: 'Used to Love' by Martin Garrix & Dean Lewis
đľ Summary: Is there hope when what is not enough for the one happens to be too much for the other?Â
đťÂ but if you close your eyes (T, 3.3k) by cloudlesslysky @cloudlesslyskyÂ
đľ Song prompt: Pompeii by Bastille
đľ Summary: The New Magic Order is trying to take over Wizarding Britain. They're not the Death Eaters, but they're not any better either.
The lines of alliance have shifted, but Harry is still on the front lines working tirelessly to stop them.
đťÂ Haunt the corner of my eye (T, 23k) by harryromper @harryromper
đľ Song prompt: Echoes of You - Marianas Trench
đľ Summary: Harryâs life is very much on track. After a successful career as an Auror, heâs set to become the youngest ever Minister for Magic. But strange things are starting to happen at Grimmauld Place. Items he doesnât recognise are appearing left and right, and somehow he never feels quite alone. Thereâs only one thing Harry knows for sure: it has something to do with Draco Malfoy.
đťÂ Now that the spring is in the air (T, 5.7k) by cloudlesslysky @cloudlesslyskyÂ
đľ Song prompt: Seasons in the Sun by Westlife
đľ Summary: A surprise attack in Diagon Alley leaves Draco struggling to make peace with the fact that he won't live long enough to experience his own wedding.
đťÂ Seven Days to Monday (M, 11.7k) by static_abyss @static_abyss
đľ Song prompt: Say Something - A Great Big World
đľ Summary: There are seven days before Harry has to meet Draco for the final signing of their divorce papers. It's been months and the surprise at finding nothing but more cold sheets and an empty pillow next to him still catches Harry unaware. He doesn't know where they go from here. Whether it's possible to go anywhere after everything that's happened between them.
đťÂ Blond Brew (E, 30.4k) by MicheleBlack @micheleblack
đľ Song prompt: âBlondesâ by Waterparks
đľ Summary: A blond roast with soy milk makes Draco's morning, but a pair of green eyes makes his week.
đťÂ A Series of Nonsensical Events (T, 12.8k) by CoffeeCurse @coffee-curse
đľ Song prompt: My Gospel by Charlie Puth
đľ Summary: Malfoy is up to something. When Harry and the other Aurors are called into a Gringotts break-in and find him the culprit, Harryâs at a total loss.
But things only get weirder from then on.
đťÂ Ignore the Truth (E, 2.6k) by static_abyss @static_abyss
đľ Song prompt: Dangerously - Charlie Puth
đľ Summary: "Longtime on-again-off-again lovers Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy were caught in a compromising position in one the Ministry's lifts yesterday evening. While fans of the couple are optimistic, there's still doubt as to whether or not this particular reconciliation will last. When asked directly about the nature of his relationship with Draco Malfoy, the Boy Who Lived had simply this to say, 'Fuck right off, we're busy.'"
- The Daily Prophet, "Love Is In The Air," 28th Oct. 2005.  Â
đťÂ Your Daddy Knows (You're A Flame) (E, 27.8k) by Ladderofyears @ladderofyears
đľ Song prompt: Babyfather by Sade (2010)
đľ Summary: It's just over a week until Draco's twenty-fifth birthday party and Harry Potter is a busy wizard. Amongst all the excitements of fatherhood, work and friends, Harry realises something special about his husband Draco. He is pregnant with their second, much wanted baby.
There's only one problem: Draco is entirely oblivious to the fact and seems determined to remain so.Â
đťÂ Don't search me in here (E, 6.7k) by Sassy3 @sassy-sassy3
đľ Song prompt: Gone - Charlie XCX & Christine and the Queens
đľ Summary: Draco spotted him in a corner, crowded by Ministry employees. He looked like an animal, trapped in a cage. He had a strained smile on his , and his eyes were looking everywhere else than on the people in front of him.
Draco canât quite help himself, watching Potter from afar. Just out of curiosity, of course. Heâs happy with his life, nothing is missing, and if heâs lonely itâs entirely by choice.Â
đťÂ I Can Be Your Lighthouse (T, 4k) by orpheus87Â
đľ Song prompt: The Lighthouse by The Used
đľ Summary: When Harry gets called to investigate reports of Dark magic, the last thing he expects to find is an almost unconscious Draco Malfoy. After multiple instances, he resolves to find out what's going on.
đťÂ Drop Everything Now (T, 21k) by parkkate @parkkate
đľ Song prompt: Sparks Fly by Taylor Swift
đľ Summary: After accidentally bonding himself to Malfoy, Harry finds himself in an utterly precarious situationâŚÂ
đťÂ No one fucks with us (T, 3.3k) by Laura_Sinele @laurasinele
đľ Song prompt: NFWMB by Hozier
đľ Summary: Draco Malfoy wonders for how long has Harry Potter been a terrifying force of nature. Harry Potter thinks Draco Malfoy has been a badass MF all along. If the world has to end so they can have some peace and quiet, be it. They'll set it on fire.
đťÂ Will You Stay with Me? (M, 10.2k) by EvAEleanor @eva-eleanore
đľ Song prompt: âRunâ - Daughter
đľ Summary: Ten months ago, Draco had found none other than Harry Potter blindly drunk and bleeding outside a Muggle pub. He'd brought him home and hasn't left his side ever since. He looked after him, took care of him when yet another nightmare plagued him.Â
Harry is sure that Draco will leave him at some point, and he canât let it happen. He canât have another person leaving his life unexpectedly. So, Harry forces him to leave â after they spend one last night together.
đťÂ until the sun has changed the colour of my hair (T, 4.9k) by cloudlesslysky @cloudlesslyskyÂ
đľ Song prompt: Jag saknar dig mindre och mindre - Melissa Horn
đľ Summary:Â Draco's life has been one big mess ever since Potter broke up with him. He doesn't want to see his friends, he's too ashamed to see his parents, and his apartment is one giant mess. He's constantly prepared for disaster, and spends his time either alone in Muggle parks or in his apartment. But one day... One beautiful day... He will forget Harry, surely.
đťÂ Love Found (E, 7.5k) by peachpety @peachpety
đľ Song Prompt: I Found, by Amber Run
đľ Summary: During Harryâs sixth year, Draco Malfoy joins the Order as a double-agent and continues with his task to get the Death Eaters into the castle as assigned by Voldemort. Draco succeeds with his mission the evening Harry returns from the caves with Dumbledore. The boys reunite on the Astronomy Tower and, with the Death Eaterâs arrival, are forced to engage in a fight, driving Harry to come to terms with his feelings about true friendship and romantic love.
đťÂ On the Third Day He Took Me to the River (M, 14.4k) by pixiedustatsundown @pixiedustatsundownÂ
đľ Song prompt: 'Where the Wild Roses Grow - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ft. Kylie Minogue'
đľ Summary: This is a story of two lonely young men falling in love.
This is a story about dreams and duty, about witches that give purpose to the one and doom the other.
You think you know how the story goes, but this is a different story, and it doesn't end well.Â
đťÂ (When They Only Hear You Whisper) I'll Be Loud For You (T, 2.8k) by VeelaWings @veelawings
đľ Song prompt: There for You - Martin Garrix/Troye Sivan
đľ Summary: Potter must have been having nightmares again. He was restless in his bed across the room. Moonlight shone through his open bed curtains and highlighted the contours of his body, the grimace on his face blatant. His thick blanket was kicked down, one leg still covered by his twisted sheet, the musk of his sweat pungent in their small dorm. Low grunts accounted for the majority of the noise he made, but it was peppered by the occasional groan or unclear shout of words. However, âNo,â was always clear.
Draco hated it.Â
đťÂ The Interview (T, 17.3k) by Cibee (Cibeeeee) @cibeewastaken
đľ Song prompt: Just Say Yes - Snow Patrol
đľ Summary: One interview had Draco realizing how naĂŻve he was for thinking he deserved Harry.Â
đťÂ Lookalike (M, 1.4k) by Zzzara @big-draco-energy
đľ Song prompt: 'Lookalike' by Conan GrayÂ
đľ Summary: When you look in his eyes, Do you think of mine? And when you look at that smile, Do I cross your mind? I know in your head You see me instead 'Cause he looks a lot like I did back then Baby, don't lie, He's just a lookalike... Š
đťÂ As Fascinating As a Slap Bracelet (T, 13.2k) by acupforslytherin @acupforslytherinÂ
đľ Song prompt: Have It All - Jason Mraz
đľ Summary: Who would have thought that a wacky little Muggle toy would lead to an unlikely friendship between Harry and Draco? Not Harry, certainly.
Who would have thought that this friendship would bloom into something more? Well, Ron, for one.Â
đťÂ If Sex Is the Drug, Then What Is the Cost (E, 3.8k) by EvAEleanor @eva-eleanore
đľ Song prompt: I Almost Told You That I Loved You - Papa Roach
đľ Summary: For quite some time, Harry has been seeing Malfoy. Well... Actually, he's hired Malfoy, to keep him company, in his bedroom. It's only sex â honestly â and since Malfoy is the best, he's the only person Harry wants. That's all it is, right?Â
đťÂ I Grow Fonder Every Day (M, 21.6k) by Drarrelie @drarrelie
đľ Song prompt: One and Only by Adele
đľ Summary: Draco still doesnât know if itâs a blessing or a curse, sharing a flat in Muggle London with Harry Potter.
Itâs all Dracoâs ever wanted â more than heâd ever wished for. And if it entails suppressing his inconvenient feelings for the man, so what? Heâs perfectly happy with his life as it is, perfectly content with just having Potter close and enjoying his company.
That is, until one Friday evening at the beginning of April when the end starts.Â
đťÂ How Can I Live Without you? (G, 2.2k) by ununquadius @ununquadiusÂ
đľ Song prompt: "So Far Away", by Avenged Sevenfold
đľ Summary: After Draco's death, Harry wonders how can he live without the one he loves when he's so far away.
đťÂ Following the Arrow to Your Heart (E, 10.9k) by goddessofthehearthÂ
đľ Song prompt: Give Me Love by Ed Sheeran
đľ Summary: After the war, Draco is recruited into the Department of Love (aka Cupid's Arrow). His job is to bring together witches and wizards whose magical signatures are only compatible with each others' (essentially soulmates). As they all learned during training, Cupids are chosen because they do not have soulmates.
Six years later, Draco's convinced himself that he's perfectly fine with not having a soulmate. But his latest client turns out to be Harry Potter, and he's forced to reconsider in light of his old feelings.
đťÂ cos I only need your name to call the reasons why I fought (T, 6.6k) by cloudlesslysky @cloudlesslysky
đľ Song prompt: War, by Poets of the Fall
đľ Summary: Ron and Hermione leave the Horcrux hunt, leaving a hurt Harry behind.
But at least Draco is still there with him.
đťÂ Madness (M, 10k) by tigersilverÂ
đľ Song prompt: House of Fun by Madness
đľ Summary: A desperate search for contraception all around Diagon Alley.
đťÂ Between Myth and Man (E, 16.2k) by slytherco @slythercoÂ
đľ Song prompt: Why'd you only call me when you're high? - Arctic Monkeys
đľ Summary: Draco, lost and a little broken, navigates post-war reality convinced that people like him should not be allowed to make their own choices. To solve the problem of his self-sabotaging tendencies, he starts taking a few drops of Veritaserum every morning.
A story about the complexity of choices, repressed desires that come to the surface when we least expect them, and the utter hopelessness of truths built on a foundation of lies.
đťÂ stay awhile (stay here with me) (T, 3.1k) by panicparade @panicissharpâ
đľ Song prompt: I like me better - Lauv
đľ Summary: "Then when?" Harry tries again. He's not sure if he really wants to see the photo or if he just wants to keep talking to Malfoy. This Malfoy, who is so different from what he was expecting. In his Muggle jeans and smartly pressed sweater, with an air of vulnerability around him that Harry isn't used to seeing, Malfoy looks approachable in a way he never has before.
Harry stops his fidgeting as Malfoy looks up to meet his eyes. Through the hum of the crowded pub, he has to strain a little to hear him. "Maybe," Malfoy starts, hesitating a little but never breaking eye contact, "one day?"
đťÂ All it needs is messing it up and stars (G, 5.9k) by a_reader_and_writer @harrypotterfanfictionwriter
đľ Song prompt: Tongue Tied by Faber Drive
đľ Summary: After the war all the Malfoy's came off with light sentences. Now during 8th year Draco is finally free to be himself and date his crush; Harry Potter. Or at least so he thought..
A letter from his father rips that happiness away.
But maybe in the end it will take just a bit of messing up and some stars to get that happiness back.
đť Â I'm gonna let it happen (E, 12.3k) by tomoewantsdolls @tomoewantsdollsÂ
đľ Song prompt: Florence + The Machine - Shake it out
đľ Summary: And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road And I'm ready to suffer and I'm ready to hope It's a shot in the dark and right at my throat 'Cause looking for heaven, found the devil in me Looking for heaven, for the devil in me Well what the hell I'm gonna let it happen to me
đť Â I feel it in my bones (M, 6.3k) by cloudlesslysky @cloudlesslysky
đľ Song prompt: Radioactive - Imagine Dragons
đľ Summary: Harryâs heartbeat is loud in his ears as his heart pounds in his chest. His lungs burn as he pants for air. His legs are screaming in protests as he continues to push them to their limit, forcing himself to run ever faster.
đťÂ Born in the U.S.A. (M, 9k) by KittyCargo @kittycargo
đľ Song prompt: I'm on Fire by Bruce Springsteen
đľ Summary: âYou need to come home, Draco.â
âWhat? Why? Whatâs wrong?â
âNothingâs wrong, I just have an opportunity for you, and you need to come home to take it.â
When Draco's mother insists he comes home, he drags his feet and convinces his friends to take a road trip.
đť Â just tell me when it's alright (E, 23k) by M0stlyVoid @bonesliketambourines
đľ Song prompt: Teeth, Lady Gaga
đľ Summary: Harryâs been fighting tooth and nail for any bit of normalcy he can get his hands on. Heâs sick of feeling like somethingâs wrong with him, tired of feeling different. He thinks heâs finally gotten to the root of it, and has settled into a routine that makes him happy. Naturally, thatâs when Draco Malfoy walks back into his life and upends it once again. Has Harry bitten off more than he can chew with his former rival?
đťÂ The Courting by the Pureblood Who Only Has Five Milligrams of Romantic Intelligence and Thinks Heâs Real Smooth (T, 19.4k) by Cibee (Cibeeeee) @cibeewastaken
đľ Song prompt: Cupid - Amy WinehouseÂ
đľ Summary: Draco could grab Potter and shove him into a stall before proceeding to suck his soul out of his dick, but secretly, deep down, in the part of Draco that he will never admit to anyone, he is (everyone pauses to shudder) a romantic. Potter is not someone Draco wants a one-off with. Potter is â Dracoâs beloved!
So Draco decides to boldly go where no one has gone before: to put himself through scrutiny; their friendsâ teasing and pranks; unsound romantic advice from a house-elf; wearing pretty clothes; all to try and win Potterâs heart through courtship.
(An unnamed ginger bastard can be heard yelling from afar: âThis is actually a detailed guide on how not to court someone!â)
But who cares about the opinions of redheads? Literally no one.
đťÂ What Will We Do With a Drunken Harry? (E, 4.9k) by Thunder_of_Dragons @thunder-of-dragons
đľ Song prompt: "Drunken Sailor" by The Irish Rovers
đľ Summary: A victorious Quidditch match, a claimed Quidditch Cup, and a wild House party can mean only one thing. Will the aftermath lead to one excruciating hangover in the morning, or will it perhaps lead to something more?
đťÂ Though Your World Is Changing, I Will Be The Same (E, 15.9k) by hephaestiionsÂ
đľ Song prompt: Slave To Love by Bryan FerryÂ
đľ Summary: âI shower after work,â Harry had told him once when Draco had asked what cologne had such longevity as to be effective after a full day of gruelling Auror work.Â
âFor me?â Draco had asked. Teased, just a little. There had been a smile lingering on the edges of his consciousness, threatening to traipse onto his mouth.Â
âFor Ginny,â Harry had said, voice flat. âShe hates it when I come back sweaty and crackling with other peopleâs hexes. Did you know magic has a smell? I didnât until she told me.â
â
It's all fun and games, till somebody falls in love. Given his luck, it's obviously Draco who has to go and do it.
đťÂ I Can't Help Falling in Love with You (NR, 4.8k) by readdreamwrite26 @readdreamwrite26
đľ Song prompt: I can't help falling in love with you - Elvis Presley
đľ Summary: Harry stood up and set his hand out to Draco. âDance?â âI didnât know you danced, Potter.â âHm, Iâve danced a lot in my time," Harry replied smugly. âHow do I know you wonât step on my feet?â âYou donât, but I think the risk will be worth it.â
đť Â Searching For a Place to Hide (T, 12.5k) by Erin_Riwen @erin-riwen
đľ Song prompt: Love Will Keep Us Alive - The Eagles
đľ Summary: After the war, there were threats against the Malfoys. Needing them kept safe until the trials are over, the Ministry puts them in protective custody but a murder attempt proves thereâs a Ministry leak. Desperate, the Ministry decides a safe house is best, but who to trust to keep it secret and keep them safe? Narcissa calls in a life debt, the Minster calls in a favour and Harry Potter wonders why his life continues to hate him.Â
Along the way, the Malfoys learn how to be a family again, Harry learns that some things are not how he thought and maybe never were, and the touch-starved boys discover that they may be each other's forever answer.
đťÂ Isolated Thunderstorms and Scattered Showers (T, 21.3k) by triggerlil @triggerlilÂ
đľ Song prompt: Iris - the GooGoo Dolls
đľ Summary: Post-war, Harry needs space. Everything is too much all at once, and time and time again, he finds himself pulling the invisibility cloak over his head, just for a bit of peace.
Returning for eighth year is hard, especially when you're considered a war hero, and your name is Harry James Potter. It's just that things go a little wonky when Harry starts following Malfoy, and finds that he can't (or doesn't want to) stop.
đť Â Kiss It Better (E, 1.5k) by articcat621 @articcat621
đľ Song prompt: Kiss It Better by Rihanna
đľ Summary: When Harry's injured, Draco knows there's no place he'd rather be than by his side.
đť Â (shut up and) dance with me (T, 7.9k) by punk_rock_yuppie @punk-rock-yuppie
đľ Song prompt: Shut Up and Dance - Walk the Moon
đľ Summary: Four dances Harry and Draco share.
đť Â In Love with the Ferret (E, 21.9k) by Pineau_noir @pineau-noirÂ
đľ Song prompt: I'm Yours by Jason Mraz
đľ Summary: Harry has never been the most observant bloke. Sometimes to the point of him not realising his feelings for a particular pointy, pale git. And it's not his fault if literally everyone else knows about said feelings except for Harry and the git in question. So it's really not his fault, when faced with the scope of his feelings, he suddenly has a hard time talking to one Draco Malfoy. Or looking him in the eye. Or not being a total weirdo around him.
There's nothing to do but take the advice of his friends and try to woo Draco over dinners with friends, Ministry cases, and an unfortunately named Italian restaurant.
Harry just can't stop the flutter in his chest when he sees Draco smile.
đť Â Dance with me? (M, 8.2k) by Aylaar @accioxanxiety
đľ Song prompt: I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston
đľ Summary: Draco had given up on love, until one day sitting outside the usual gaudy cafe he frequented 'people watching' he spotted Harry Potter lurking, a suspicious Draco investigates and a series of events ensue.
đť Â The Cupid Incident (E, 12.6k) by meandminniemcg @meandminniemcgÂ
đľ Song prompt: Can' Get You out of My Head - Kylie Minogue
đľ Summary: Draco gets into the way of a potions attack and can't get Potter out of his head.
đť Â Carouse (E, 19.9k) by Drarryismymuse (Hatchersn) @drarryismymuseÂ
đľ Song prompt: Dead by Madison Beer
đľ Summary: Carouse (verb): To drink plentiful amounts of alcohol and enjoy oneself with others in a noisy, lively way.
Harry finds himself using alcohol in increasingly dangerous ways to cope with the stresses of life. When he is put on leave from work to sort out his issue, he instead falls head first into a lively club scene where he can drink and fuck his worries away. That is, until a certain blond from his past reappears and throws off his entire routine.
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you got any rare kliego fic recs? iâve probably read the first five pages of most kudosâd results but i know there are a ton that slip thru the cracks
ok, i'm sorry for replying so late, nonny, but i guess looking at the list you'll understand why â¤
i'll be honest with you once i've gotten into kliego i read through their entire tag of ao3 [at least those fics where i was ok with the tags and summary felt intriguing] so now i literally went through it again and picked those of the fics the names of which i remembered, and there's A LOT đ some of those are really popular, some not at all, but i remember loving those â¤
at first i thought i would tell you a bit about every fic on the list, but it would take me forever, so i will just give you titles/links, authors and summaries, hope it's fine ⤠look out for the tags tho, to know if youâre fine with everything! and some of those are benkliego â¤
i'm sure i forgot or missed something, but i did my best, trust me â¤
so without further ado i present to you:Â
bee's big kliego rec list (in no particular order)
till you can breathe on your own by iwishii
Diego has never been more frightened than he is now, trying to help his brother reach the surface in time.
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practice makes perfect by iwishii
Klaus doesn't want to show up to parties totally inexperienced and virginal, so he asks Diego to help him get some practice in.
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master of my domain by achilleees
âYouâre asking five 13-year-old boys not to jerk off for â it canât be done,â Luther says. âNow that weâre older, it would be different, but back then ââ
âExcuse me, I could do it,â Five says. âI could certainly outlast all of you.â
They all look at each other.
âOh, no,â says Allison.
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the year that wasn't by achilleees
Diego turned to Five. âIâve already, uh, lived today. This has already happened.â
Everyone went still.
âOoh, thatâs a mind-fuck,â said Klaus.
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The Weight of Himself by sarkywoman
If he could, Diego would unfurl his middle finger.
For the 'can only move the eyes' square at badthingshappenbingo. Reginald's experiments have devastating consequences on Diego, but both he and Klaus refuse to let that be the end.
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Laid Bare by MilenaDaniels
âSo,â Five continued matter-of-factly, âyouâre in a cramped, human sized box, in a graveyard where you canât see light or hear sounds. What are the odds that youâre above ground?â
Diego blinked. He thought heâd been smelling the iron of his blood pooling and drying under his head but it was humid in here, and musty.
âFuck,â Diego said.
Diego and Klaus are buried alive together.
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Flies in the Kitchen by yourfearlessleader
Klaus is sixteen and love is a rot.
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Before, During, and After by yourfearlessleader
Before the apocalypse, life was making the best of a bad situation, and Klaus found that he grew up to be very good at it.
During is, for lack of a better word, hard.
After they try to kill Vanya, after the apocalypse, after they jump through time to avoid it, after they survive and make up and a million and one other things, here they are.
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break it like you're breaking a code by findyourfortunefalling
"Are you planning to sit in a chair like a person today, or are we all eating our breakfast off of you this morning?"
"Kinky," Klaus purrs, but he rolls off the table anyway, and piles himself into a seat near the head of the table. Diego puts the plate of pancakes in front of him; he's put blueberries in them today. "Thank you, chef."
"Eat," says Diego. "Quietly."
Instead of replying, Klaus picks up a pancake with his fingers, stuffs the entire thing into his mouth at once, and chews noisily.
Diego sighs, and goes back to the stove. "Man, I remember a time when you were house trained."
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two boys emerging from shadowed hallways by spikeymarshmallows
After Ben dies, Diego drags a broken Klaus out of the Academy. They're both determined to never return, to find their own way out in the world.
Things are not as easy as they would like.
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the things i can't say by  spikeymarshmallows
"Diego, wait!" Klaus shouted, clutching Diego's arm.
"You look like Antonio Banderas with long hair," he choked.
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Five times Klaus doesn't say 'I love you'.
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Into the Night by  spikeymarshmallows
"Hey," Klaus whispered, "hey, Diego, wake up." Diego grumbled, dragging his blanket higher up his body before settling again. "Hey." Klaus tried again, voice a little louder. "Hey, wake up." He poked at Diego's arm insistently.
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The Hargreeves siblings go on late night adventure to get doughnuts
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all tangled close by spikeymarshmallows
They were all going to have to deal with the pheromones for however long Klaus' first heat lasted.
Diego was, in a word, screwed.
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Five times Diego and Klaus have heat sex; and one time they don't.
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the kliego genderswap/sexswap by spikeymarshmallows
The name speaks for itself.
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The Fools' Journey by sweetstuff
After his release from prison on a manslaughter charge, Diego tries to leave behind the life he adapted to survive on the inside. He finds himself drawn to a beautiful and peculiar sex worker named Klaus in a local bar, and when danger strikes Diego makes a decision that will have them both running for their lives.
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and death i think is no parenthesis by laiqualaurelote
âYou guys seem really chill about all this,â observed Ben. âBy this point most people are running around screaming.â
âOccupational hazard,â said Klaus.
âIâve lost a lot of blood,â said Diego. âIâm just accepting everything at face value right now.â
Allison is the best damn realtor in the business, and she is going to sell the Hargreeves Mansion if it kills her. Never mind that itâs packed to the rafters with the ghastly relics of grisly murders, or that thereâs a vampire in the basement who looks like a 13-year-old, or that the medium she hired to exorcise its inhabitants keeps flirting with some of them, i.e. the one with the knives and the one with the tentacles. Or that if they all spend enough time together, they just might cause the apocalypse.
NotSiblings!AU that is basically The Umbrella Academy as American Horror Story: Murder House, though you need not have seen any AHS to read this.
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i got troubles (they won't let me be) by antipathy
âI donât understand why youâre hung up on this.â Five didnât bother to mask his scowl. âLet me spell it out for you: either you two fuck, or we all die.â
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Eye Of The Storm by shadowhive
Diego decides to surprises Klaus by taking them on a weekend trip, but it doesnât go as planned.
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Mine, All Mine by Electra_XT
âNo!â Klaus said. âMove the other way.â
âWhat are you trying to get a good look at, exactly?â Diego said.
Klaus blinked at him. His eyes were wide and kohl-rimmed, as fetching and alluring as the rest of him. âWhy, your ass,â he said. âThat thing is fine.â
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On Sight by Electra_XT
âOh,â Klaus said, stopping in his tracks with his hand on the mouse.
Ben leaned over his shoulder. ââCute Latino camboy gives a showâ?â
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Practice Makes Perfect Sense by punk_rock_yuppie
âPractice⌠kissing?â Diego asks.
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Aftershocks by punk_rock_yuppie
Saving the world is hard work, is Klausâ last thought before succumbing to the heat of the puppy pile he and his other siblings have formed.
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Passenger by Cunninglinguist
âAnd youâre sure thatâs okay?â
âI mean, yeah. Itâs fine with me. All we have to do is ask Diego.â
âAnd you think heâll be...cool with it?â
âDunno.â Klaus shrugs and stirs his smoothie with his straw. âBut Iâm on board with it, and he usually gets on board with whatever Iâm on board with, so. Iâd say itâs at least worth an ask.â
Klaus feels Benâs eyes burning into him as he sips his beverage. Sure, the idea of Ben possessing him had initially been about as appealing as a coffee enema, and the first few times in practice had been more than slightly traumatizing. But once theyâd established ground rules and worked to get more in tune with one another, Klaus had come to find the experience to be...interesting. It could be pleasant, almost zenâthere is no sensation in the world quite like being a passenger in one's own body. And to be privy to both his own sensations as well as Benâs? Well, thatâs something else entirely.
Which is why the idea of Ben possessing his body during sex both freaks him out and turns him on in equal measure.
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i am a dark and wicked thing by Cunninglinguist
Klaus is staring at Diego with hollow eyes, straw still perched between his lips. No reaction, not even a spark of joy or schadenfreude as he watches Diego disrupt breakfast. Diego shifts. Heâs seen corpses before, and were Klaus not sitting close enough to touch, chest rising and falling visibly with his breath, Diego could easily mistake him for one.
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The Diamond Sinners by Cunninglinguist
Another drink and a half later, heâs finally back on the right side of numb. The house lights dim and a new dancer is announced. Heâs gazing across the club, eyeing the buffet with semi-tipsy hunger, thinking that itâs probably time to call it a night, when suddenly, his heart stops dead in his chest.
There, onstage, rolling his lithe body sensuously against the pole like he was summoned out of one of Diegoâs wet dreams, is Klaus.
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Broken Like Me by Starrstruck_64
âThis s-s-stuff will kill you,â he says plucking the cigarette out of Klausâ fingers, delighting slightly in the fact that heâd only partially stumbled through the sentence.
Klaus smirks and itâs such a far cry from his fun loving brother he had two weeks ago that Diego nearly flinches.
âEver stop and think thatâs the plan,â Klaus says moving to stand and reaching to snag the cigarette back.
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sing it out, hard as you can by plingo_kat
The first time it happens, Klaus doesnât notice.
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Soft by Dirty_Corza
Sometimes, between the boxing matches and vigilante business, Diego likes to be soft.
Klaus and Ben surprise him by liking the softer side of him, too.
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Wait for it by nishiki
A mission gone wrong, a dream shattered.
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all that i have to lose by UnrememberedSkies
Diego does some good, and Klaus pays the price.Â
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Diego is scared of bugs, Klaus saves the day.
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Friday at Four by Kliegology
Diego's life takes a nosedive when he's forced out of work and into an art therapy class. He's clinging to his last shred of normality when he meets Klaus, who takes one look at him and threatens to tear it away.
âI think youâll find you have a lot in common with the other people there,â The Therapist said, watching him shrewdly.
Diego was vividly reminded of the jittery, barefoot man in the pink fluffy cardigan. He snorted. âI donât think so.â
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Top 5 Dumbest Things in The Final Season
Iâve played TWDG a lot, and I can confidently say that The Final Season is my favorite installment, and Iâd argue that itâs the best of the series in terms of visuals, controls, characters, and storyline... but that doesnât mean itâs a perfect game by any means. In fact, there are a lot of issues and inconsistencies you could pick out within the story and the arcs of our characters.
But today I donât wanna tackle the big problems. The issues on todayâs list arenât a big deal and wonât ruin the experience of the game-- theyâre minor and just really, really dumb. Theyâre things that you probably wouldnât even notice during your first or second playthrough of the game. Honestly, most of these probably could be easily explained with âshhhh, donât think about it.âÂ
But Iâm thinkinâ about them because theyâre dumb. So, here's my Top 5 dumbest things in TFS. Do note that these Top 5â˛s are all in good fun, and theyâre my opinion. Obviously.Â
[also, most of the screenshots used here are from @pi-createsâ-- if you havenât checked out Piâs blog, I highly recommend you do! :D]
5. Doors make no sense.Â
The doors in this game are dumb and make little sense. And you might be scoffing like, âReally? Doors?â and to that I say, âYES DOORS OKAY!â
If youâre like me, you like to look at everything in hopes of finding interesting details and maybe an easter egg. If you look at the all the doors after breaking out of the dorm in ep1, they all have different locks which... why?Â
Wait, shouldnât Clem be able to open this one...? The lock is right there on the outside.Â
Why are they different? Also, why are the dorms lockable from the outside? Like, okay, I get it-- ya gotta lock up the troubled youth so that they donât escape. Fine. Cool, I can accept that... except does this mean that someone had to go around and unlock all the dorms every morning before the apocalypse? What if you forgot a door and a handful got stuck in there for the day? What happens if you lock all these children in their rooms and a fire starts??
And donât you look at me and try to be like âPfft, thereâs not gonna be a fire--â excuse me?? With Aasim hanging around, and Mitch for that matter, youâre gonna tell me that the odds of fire happening are 0%?
Well, yâknow, fine. If thereâs a fire, then the kids can just escape through the windows... oh wait--
Weeeeeell fuck the troubled youth, I guess.Â
But the dorm doors arenât even the dumbest doors here-- no, no. That would be the god damn basement door that apparently locks from both sides because gameâs gotta game and I guess Marlon has the key?? This dumb door makes no sense.Â
Again! I feel like this is a safety hazard?? Sure hope no one gets locked down there, otherwise, youâre fucked I guess?? because thereâs no way to unlock or open it from the inside?? After Brody dies and Clemâs looking for a way out, youâd think that she should be able to just open the door at the top of the stairs now that sheâs inside but nooooo-- gameâs gotta game.Â
Ugh, dumb doors!
4. Abelâs magic shotgun
Did you guys know that Abel actually has a special shotgun? A magical shotgun, if you will?
Itâs true, he does. He uses a shotgun that, when he fires it, the buckshot curves around to hit the target when the plot demands it.
Itâs true! And itâs dumb!
I know this, because if you yell for Violet to shoot Lilly in ep2, Abel will throw AJ to the grab, pull the shotgun out of nowhere, and fire at both her and Louis.... but somehow--
--only Louis manages to get hit.
Soooo.... I guess the buckshot swerves around and above Violet to ONLY hit Louis? Like, I know she ducks a bit but I still feel like something shouldâve nicked her as well?? At least?? Like, are lesbians immune to shotguns and thatâs why nothing hit Violet?? Am I only learning this now??
Not only that, but it only got Louis in the arm?? H-how??
But thatâs not all!
After Louis and Violet flee the scene, Clementine and AJ are on the run with Lilly and Abel shooting BEHIND them... sooo...
If Abel was behind them.... how is it that AJâs shot in the FRONT of his stomach??
Like, I guess Abel couldâve been at an angle when he shot but they only ever show him behind them soo?? Do I just not know how shotguns work? Do they curve to hit people in their front rather than shooting straight forward?? Because what??
On top of that, how is AJ not dead?? I know, I know, protagonist powers and whatnot but?? the boy took a shotgun to the belly?? other characters have survived lesser things??
But yâknow, the dumbest part about this is the fact that I canât take Abelâs magic shotgun for myself after the Ericson crew capture him. I couldâve just finished off every delta member if the shots curve and travel to hit their targets.
Or maybe Abelâs the only one who can harness its power.
Either way, Abelâs dumb shotgun is dumb.
3.You canât hug Louis and Violet during their romance routes.Â
Sigh.... Why?
Yâall know that Iâm a clouis shipper, and now lemme tell you a fun story that isnât actually that fun-- Do you remember when the trailer dropped for ep3? And we got some teaser screenshots, with one of them being a shot of Clementine and Louis hugging? Well, I was excited for a plethora of reasons, and that hug?Â
I could not wait for this hug.
Then I got through my first run of ep3 and... no hug? Wait, no hug? Why not? I thought--
Oh. Oh, it turns out... it turns out you can only hug Louis if you donât romance him.Â
Ummmm. Huh. Wha- why?? Do you know how dumb that is?? What dingus who worked on this episode forgot to implement the hug option for the romance route?? Rather, what dingus thought it was a good idea to only give the Louis romance two options outside of doing nothing-- Slap Louis, or kiss him?? Whereâs my hug?? Why is Clementine not allowed to comfort her boyfriend with a hug when heâs clearly anxious about everything thatâs about to go down?
Look, the smooch is great and all BUT itâs not what Louis needs in this moment, ya dingus.Â
Iâm sure if I asked Kent for answers about this, heâd do one of two things-- go into a long winded essay about how the lack of hug and slapping him totally makes sense within the context of Louisâ character arc and route because of this and that and this subtle detail here... or heâd give a shrug and say âI dunno, reasons??â
Ugh, okay, well maybe they let you have the choice in Violetâs romance route--
...Why??
Again, if I choose to romance Violet, why am I not allowed to comfort my girlfriend with a hug before we do this rescue mission?? Sure, I can reassure her that Iâm not going anywhere, which is definitely a better option for a love interest than, oh I donât know, slapping. But the HUG!
They couldâve implemented the hug option into the romance routes but they didnât and thatâs incredibly dumb.Â
2. Magic tree is magic.Â
Know what I donât like? The dream theory. Yâknow, the theory that the overly happy ending we got at the end of TFS was all just a dream in AJâs head to cope with the devastation of the real ending-- the one where Clementine died. Â
Now, I can already hear you scoffing at me once more like, âDream theories are dumb, CJ.â and this time, I do agree with you.Â
However, thereâs actually some compelling evidence that could subtly point at this theory, such as the backward graffiti in the dorms that was present in Clementineâs nightmare, or the fact that Clementine is, yâknow, alive despite being seconds away from death in the barn...
Oh, and then thereâs this fucking magic tree.Â
Oh, you know... the tree that magically grows in in ep4! The one with the tire swing!Â
Episode 3 vs Episode 4
This tree is dumb and makes no sense. What, did they just... plant a tree there? Did they push the tree up that was on the ground and use some magical wood glue to fix it?? Clementine said that Willy helped her with the tire swing so like... is Willy some sort of tree whisperer??Â
Or is this just further evidence of the dream theory where AJâs lamenting the fact that Clementine never got to push him on the tire swing back at the train station and now she never will because sheâs fucking dead??
I donât wanna think about it. In fact, Iâm pretty sure thatâs what the devs would tell me-- âShhhh... donât think about it.âÂ
This tree is dumb!Â
1. What even is the greenhouse??
So.... the green house. Itâs dumb. And inconsistent, both in the story and actual location of it.Â
First of all, as you can see in the concept image above, it should be within the walls of Ericson, yeah? And if youâre like, âWell, itâs CONCEPT art so it might not be totally accurate CJ.â and I say, âFair enough, letâs look that the actual in-game map the characters use then.â
Look at that-- still within the walls of Ericson, though in a different location than the concept art. Make sense? Sooo....
Where the hell is it?
Because itâs not within Ericsonâs walls. No, no--
It is WAAAAY the hell out here! You can see the bell tower in the distance so like... huh? Where are we?? This is a long as walk to the greenhouse!Â
Oh, and if the weird inconsistent locations werenât dumb enough, there are different conflicting stories surrounding it, as well!Â
First, Marlon says that they had it functional with lots of vegetables, but then it became over grown so they donât go out there anymore. Then, if you go fishing with Violet and Brody, Vi will tell you she worked in the greenhouse the day the twins were killed last year, which... doesnât add up? Especially when we actually go there in ep2 and see that Ms. Martin died and became a walker inside, but she died a while ago??Â
Also, how did Ms. Martin get tied up like that? Did she get bit, barricade the doors-- wait, that doesnât work because how did she barricade the science lab from the inside when thereâs a shelf in front of the door?? In fact, shouldnât the walkers that are inside be students that died??Â
âSshhhh... donât think about it.â
Ugh, nothing adds up about this greenhouse and that makes it the dumbest thing in TFS.
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Honorable Mentions
AJ magically teleporting behind Marlon with the gun. Because plot.
The dumb padlock on the gate Louis/Violet/Tenn climb over in ep4 that they couldâve easily broken
Louisâ jacket that somehow holds Chairles
The padding on Violetâs boot thatâs rendered useless because they put it on the leg she doesnât use to kick walkers away
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Those are my Top 5 dumbest things in TFS, do you agree or disagree? Do you have anything from this game thatâs dumber than what I have listed? Let me know!Â
Next weekâs T5F Top 5 Characters in ANF Who Wouldâve Made Better Love Interests Than Kate
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âNocturnal silenceâ | cjs.
â ITZYâs Lia. 2012!au.
â Word count: 1854.
â This short follows the events of âLiquid mirrorsâ.
The worst part about the overcrowded cabin has to be the snoring woman. The very same one that just a few hours ago complained about the lack of fresh brussels sprouts on a ship - the last ark of humanity after the end of the world. Humankind has gone mostly extinct, and she had the guts to be angry at frozen greens. Looking at her through half-closed lids, youâre itching to throw a pillow at the woman. Nothing can stop her from going on, like an old tractor, choking on its own engine every now and then. The very pillow youâre trying to deafen the noises with, does nothing to your sensitive ears. Youâre growing more and more irritated with each passing second.
Others seem to not mind. You look down, at the bunk underneath yours, where a mother with her son are sound asleep. The boy has kicked thin blanket off of his body, as if to prove how much space he can take. His mother is lying on the very edge, somehow calm despite her tragic situation. A man, lying above the snoring woman, has earplugs. Lucky asshole.
Your body thrashes around for an hour or so. At least it feels like it. The duvet is in desperate need of changing, but who cares about laundry during the apocalypse? Youâre all sticky from sweat, annoyed by incoming headache and ready to commit a murder, which is just a figure of speech, donât worry. The fact that nobody else is as affected by the snoring? A perfect way to drive you insane.
At some point you canât take it anymore - the night feels useless. You miss the rays of sunshine, the sign of life, the reason to stay away from the cabin. Tonight, just like many times before, you jump off of bed, barely avoiding the snoring womanâs husband. He has made himself a sleeping station on the ground. You wonder is he really asleep or just way more patient than you. Either way, you donât plan on staying around a second longer. As soon as the door closes, youâre welcomed by sweet silence. Itâs an odd contrast to the loud snoring. Its lack has you almost creeped out.
The floor is cold under your naked feet. To the point where you canât touch it for longer than a few seconds. Jumping from one foot to another, you look down the dark hallway. Its only source of light are small windows in the cabinsâ doors. Circle-shaped rays fall on walls, like headlights, showing you the way across narrow scene.
Nobody will mind you getting lost in the shipâs hallways, right? Youâre just another survivor, struggling to find their place aboard the ark. There are no perspectives. Exploring it seems to be the most compelling thing one could busy themselves with. So you travel down the scene, stepping inside the circles of light and looking inside the cabins as you pass. Thereâs no other soul up. Everybody is sleeping. Itâs sort of weird and you wonder whether itâs just a dream youâre stuck in. How come youâre the only one unable to fall asleep?
Humming some tune you faintly remember makes the night feel more bearable. Youâre tired of the crowded spaces, of eyes settling on you, even if theyâre just traveling. Theyâre a tiresome phenomenon that does nothing, but fuel your anxiety. The worst part? Aside from the night, thereâs nowhere to escape. All-ocean has made sure of that.
Step by step, you move forward, never putting a foot down for longer than two seconds. Youâve already observed that, but now it reminds you of the past. The tiled floor of your balcony during Winter. Dusting used duvets while cursing at temperature. Welcoming the texture of a carpet with relief. Digging your toes into the fluff. Itâs weird to miss carpets in the middle of the night, but you do. Their last reminder is the one snoring womanâs husband uses as his mattress, an object completely out of your reach. What interior designer forgot about additional carpets onboard a luxury ship?
In front of you a door opens. Some silhouettes leave their cabin in hurry. Hushed giggles resonate down the hallway. You can neither make out a sense to their conversation nor put faces to dark shapes. But they do sound familiar. The silhouettes disappear behind a corner in the hallwayâs other end.
Heart beating fast, your steps speed up. A thought, string of memories, collection of pictures swims in the back of your head. Common sense is the only thing keeping you from describing them. Number 203 is meaningful, though itâs just a number.
Youâre just by the door when it opens again.
âOh!â Jisoo. Jisoo? Jisoo! âYou scared me!â She laughs, eyes morphing into crescent moons. But as soon as her voice raises in volume, Jisoo covers her mouth, worried she will wake up other residents.
âI see there are more night owls around the ship?â You motion at where the two silhouettes, you can now safely identify, disappeared.
The girl looks in the same direction. Her eyes stay there for a longer time, while you watch her profile. Perhaps (you wonât admit it), you should be thanking the snoring woman for a chance to see Jisoo at a different time. Her hair is disheveled, but the little mess is a beautiful one. Eyes glossy, lips dry, t-shirt creased. Sheâs a painting you enjoy watching. Even when her smile disappears as she returns to facing you.
You grow nervous instantly, because the mood shifts and you slightly prefer the easy-going Jisoo to solemn and serious Jisoo. The easy-going one loves joking, which is much better, as it consists mostly of laughing at yourself and your inability to form proper sentences.
âUh, yes. I donât know why Ryujin and Yuna left though. They didnât tell me. Probably to spy on Yeji.â Pause. âOr something...â
âSo, are you going to follow them?â Jisoo seems to consider your question.
Then she steers the conversation to your person.
âI donât know- Why are you up? Came to spy on Yeji too?â
âAs if it has ever bothered me what's Yeji doing at night. I have my own problems, mainly, a snoring roommate.â
Jisoo nods her head in understanding, mouth opened to build on the effect. Youâre stuck in nocturnal silence, both scared to break it. Frankly, you donât even have any idea where to go from here. Maybe you should just return to exploring the ship, but then again, itâs not everyday that you catch Jisoo alone.
âIâve been walking around, you know, exploring.â
Again, she nods.
âSo youâre looking for some place to rest?â
âIn a way, yes. Do you happen to know any?â She smiles.
âActually, I do.â
Youâre surprised by her boldness. Jisoo lies down on her bed and youâre watching her with an awkward surprise.
âDonât make it weird, Iâm just sharing a bed with you. Okay, perhaps it does sound weird. But weâre just going to sleep, not- do anything weird? Okay, ignore me. I donât know what Iâm talking about.â To be honest, her joke doesnât make you feel any better about the situation.
After a defeated sigh, you walk over to the bed, eyes never once meeting hers. Jisoo holds the edge of her duvet. Sheâs patiently waiting until your stiff posture joins her side. Then she slowly follows your lead.
The first thing you register is the smell - Jisooâs smell. Itâs an overwhelming sensations youâre eager to breathe in after many attempts at small doses. Now that you can experience it in its full form, you can safely say itâs bound to become one of your favorite sensations. It causes you excitement, one that youâre embarrassed to show. Maybe she will call you a creep if you donât stop yourself from smiling? Suddenly worried, you look for other things to focus on. Like the coldness of her skin against your left handâs knuckles. Frankly, itâs stuck. The bed is meant for one person and you canât just sprawl across its surface.
A moment of hesitation passes. Then you turn to lie on your side, facing Jisoo.
At first youâre both stuck in shy silence. Jisooâs looking down, perhaps thinking over something. But you donât plan on disturbing her. Itâs as if youâve forgotten your tongue - you canât even feel it. The darkness is all-consuming and you wish to stay hidden in its embrace, so Jisoo never learns of how hard it is for you to say a word, but also look away.
âSo.â
Her eyes, so hesitant to meet yours, finally reach them. Sheâs surprised to find you staring back.
âHow bad is it?â
âBad?â
âYeah, how bad is lying next to me on a bed?â Dark eyes pull away to avoid you.
Your brain orders you to be smooth. âItâs not bad.â isnât the type of smooth you had in mind.
âBut not good either? Ah, forget I said anything-â Jisoo laughs nervously through clenched teeth. âIâm just nervous. Because I made you come here with me! Thatâs why Iâm nervous.â
âJisoo,â The silence returns. âyou donât have to be nervous around me. I know, my magnetic personality and good looks are to die for,â She snickers in disbelief at your words. âbut Iâd rather you felt comfortable around me. Which doesnât mean our current bed situation- I mean, I donât mind it.â
Thereâs a blunt taste on your tongue. As if you have just finished your entry for a spelling bee and were in dire need of some water. Some actually meaning a lot.
âDo you think your roommates will make fun of us?â
âDefinitely.â
âThatâs what I thought.â
Silence.
âUm-â She dares a look into your eyes before dropping them again. âLetâs go to bed then, hm?â
You donât think youâll be able to fall asleep next to her. At least not with the possibility of seeing her face at the cost of merely opening your eyes. Jisoo seems to have the same idea. Her turning around causes a way too powerful sting somewhere in your abdomen. Before you know it, instead of her soft face structure, youâre looking at void-like black of her hair.
Your left hand sticks to your chest, but what about the right one? Keeping it on your thigh feels tiring. Placing it on Jisooâs side? Too wonderful and too dangerous. Even if youâre itching to offer yourself, you cannot imagine the amount of courage it would demand from you. Instead, you rest it in the hold of your left hand. That way, perhaps, it will be stopped before any unconscious action takes place.
For a moment, you wonder, would she mind? Still, itâs a question you have no answers for. You also have no idea what will happen in the morning. How will the girls react? What will Jisoo do? How will you feel in the morning and will your left hand let go because of that damn itching...
Perhaps, the snoring woman is weaker than your true enemy - your vivid imagination.
âGoodnight Jisoo.â
âGoodnight.â
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Good Omens Fic Rec Masterpost - Part Two
 Hello hello I have read MANY MORE fics in this fandom now so itâs time to add on to my previous recs. Part One can be found here: https://flameraven.tumblr.com/post/187742832545/good-omens-fic-recs-masterpost General info! No fics rated higher than M, and thatâs usually for violence not sex. I headcanon the husbands as being in an asexual relationship, so any fics I rec will have no sex, or only have sexy stuff alluded to or briefly mentioned.
The Soft Zone (TM)
all the days - G / darcylindbergh
War of Attrition- G / out_there / 8k - 3 gifts Crowley gives Aziraphale
A Meddling of Houseplants - T/ wingedspirit / 6k - Ophelia (a peace lily) is tired of Crowley and Aziraphaleâs hopeless pining, and takes matters into her own leaves.
Sweetest in the Gale - T / wingedspirit / 3.8k - Gabriel can sense Aziraphaleâs love for Crowley, and confronts âAziraphaleâ about it before his execution
Deck the Halls - G / forthegreatergood / 18k - two idiots attempt to acquire mistletoe for the holidays in order to convey their feelings for the other.
Tartan Wrapping Paper - G / Arej / 2k - Crowley may not have quite gotten the message about the tartan all those years ago
a prize-winning philodendron - G / Elsajeni / <1k - Crowley does look, and sighs heavily. âAngel,â he says, âof all the plants you could have tried keeping, why did you start with something this fussy?â
Silver and Gold - G / asparkofgoodness / 1.5k - Crowley buys a ring.
Futile Devices - G / ticketybye / 3k - Yes, Crowley has imagined. He has craved. But being in Aziraphaleâs close proximity has had to be enough. Heâs not even sure he deserves that. But this, this feels like it felt to be commissioned the stars. It feels like being entrusted with something precious and fragile.
The Weight of Words Unspoken - G / rattatatosk / 1.8k - Aziraphale has always hinted to Crowley when he needed to leave. After the Apoca-wasnât, he asks Crowley to stay.
JâAime (I Love) - G / yourpaceangel - Crowley is searching for what the âJâ means.
the other way round - G / darcylindbergh / <1k - Aziraphale gets hair pets for once.
Take My Hand (Take My Whole Life Too) - G / soft_october / 1.5k - Crowley is trying not to go to fast, ends up stalled out completely. Aziraphale decides he will have to get creative.Â
In Good Hands - G / Sunjinjo / 14k - Aziraphale was created wearing a golden ring. Itâs now the last remaining aspect of his original attire.One day, he tries to take it off. The rest follows naturally. (Marriage Proposal)
One Golden Glance (Of What Should Be) - G / Sunjinjo / 8.5k - Crowley takes up painting after the Apocalypse.
Misfit / Safe Haven - G / Mothfluff / 2k - Aziraphale provides a safe space for the Soho queer community to gather
seasons, changes - G / the_pen_is_mightier / 2k - In the autumn Aziraphale and Crowley go out apple picking.
on the necessity of a temptation - M / darcylindbergh / 4.5k - Crowley squinted at him. He said, slowly, as if sounding around the words [...] âBut doing things is what we do. Why wouldâwhat would be the point of me being here otherwise?â
In Other Words, Baby, Kiss Me - T / mikkimouse / 4.5k - Five times Aziraphale kissed Crowley and one time Crowley (finally) kissed him back.
It's Getting Hard, This Holding Back - T / ZehWulf / 13k - Crowley decides to lure Aziraphale into Explicit Gestures of Romantic Affection. Aziraphale sets a cuddle trap
give you more to hold on to - T / cryptidkidprem / 4k - Crowley nods. "It's..." He looks down at their joined hands, and takes a long, deep breath. âWeâre notâ Weâre not supposed to need this, yâknow?â He lifts their joined hands up, lets them fall again. âYou and I. Angels, demons. We're not meant to need all this. This touchy-feely stuff, all this affection, thisââ a hitch in his breathâ âLove.â
two parallel lines -lineffability
donât let me wake up - acuteangleaziraphale
how to let go - jlmarch
Mornington Crescent -politeanarcy
Wingfic
Symmetry in Favor - G / kedreeva / 8k - Five times Crowley preens Aziraphale's wings, and one time Aziraphale preens Crowley's.
London Calling - G / forthegreatergood / 30k - Come for Crowleyâs ridiculous 1970â˛s bed, stay for Feelings and extensive wing pets.
Hurt/Comfort
Be Ye Therefore Merciful - T / AmberDiceless / 9.5k - Book!Verse. Crowley does something utterly unexpected, and Aziraphale must face an opponent who cannot be thwarted.
Pigeon Girlfriends with a Long Preamble - T / SleepySelfLoathing / 8k - All Crowley wanted was to spend a nice night in with his husband, so of course he ends up summoned by a bunch of cultists instead. Why would he expect anything different....This would probably be a lot easier to deal with if he wasn't wearing Aziraphale's fluffiest bathrobe.
All Creatures that Have the Breath of Life - G / Elsajeni / 4k - Aziraphale fishes a very sodden Crawly out of the water during the Flood.
Touched by an Angel (And it Bloody Hurts) - GÂ /hedgehog-o-brien / 7k - Aziraphale canât touch Crowley without burning him.
Douse the Fire, Help Me Breathe - G / Arej / 1.5k - Even demons fear fire, when they've watched their world burn.
In a City Under Aerial Bombardment - G / battle_cat / 3k - After the church and the bomb and the books.
Small Mercies - G / rattatatosk / 4k - Crawly gets smited. Aziraphale lends a hand.
Easier Than Air - G / A_Candle_For_Sherlock / 3.5k - The world hasn't ended, and everything is fine. They're fine. It's terrifying.
attachment - T / artenon / 4.5k - Crowley crosses over to open the passenger door for Aziraphale, and Aziraphaleâs attention is drawn to Crowleyâs uneven gait, the light, too-quick steps and the rocking back and forth on his heels as he holds the door open and waits for Aziraphale to get in.âOh, Crowley,â Aziraphale says, heart sinking, âyour feet.â
Hell Freezes Over - M / charliebrown1234 + Turcote / 18k - The year is 2002, and Crowley and Aziraphale are sent to Alaska to investigate a decommissioned entrance to Hell. What could possibly go wrong?Â
Better The Demon You Know - T / mikkimouse / 1.2k - When Crawly falls out of the sky and into the flood, he gets help from a very unexpected source.
Gently, gently - G / the_pen_is_mightier / 3k - Heaven is cold and lonely. Hell is filthy and crowded. Aziraphale badly needs to be touched; Crowley needs fresh air, and light, and space. They canât seem to connect on days after theyâve returned from their respective head offices.
Of Firsts and Foremosts - T / kedreeva / 6k - Aziraphale is left vulnerable and injured as his first molt approaches. Crawly comes to the rescue for the first time.
The Brazen Serpent - T / ImprobableDreams900 / 11k - Some other angels come to help Aziraphale at the end of the Isrealitesâ 40-year exile in the wilderness, unfortunately for Crawley.
hold my hand tight (we'll make it another night) - G / cryptidkidprem / 3k - The night at Crowleyâs flat. Heâs having a hard time not panicking.
Harbours of My Own - T / wingedspirit / 30k - Crowley knows that, as a demon, his freedom is limited. He doesn't get to have a home; he doesn't get to love. Aziraphale would very much like to change that, but he, too, is limited in what he can do. It takes the better part of six thousand years, but they'll get there.
crack me open, feel me shatter - T / rattatatosk / 2.5k - Crowley dreams of the Fall. Aziraphale is there to catch him when he wakes.
Angst (w/a Happy Ending)
Where His Angel Dares to Tread - M / PinkPenguinParade / 16k - Crowley is taken by Hell. Aziraphale disguises himself as best he can for the rescue mission. Newt and Anathema help.
Remembrance of Things Past - T / Fyre / 18k - Hell takes Crowleyâs memories all the way back to Eden as punishment for his crimes.
Drunk Theology - G / battle_cat / 3k - Aziraphale had been hoping tonight for Giggly Drunk Crowley, which was his favorite drunk Crowley. That didnât seem to be how things were working out, though.
Like a River Flows - T / kedreeva / 15k - Five times Crowley was not allowed to love Aziraphale, and one time he succeeded.
The Cultivation of New Growth - T / Vitreous_humor / 3k - âI mean,â he said carefully, âif you want a plant, let me give you one of the snake plants or maybe the big coleus. They'd be good for the shop, pretty stalwart in the dark...You don't want this one, it's rotten.â âActually,â Aziraphale said firmly, âI do want that one.â
The Holy Essence of Experience - T / Dragonsquill / 4k - They know how they feel, but giving it a name would be too dangerous. Â Ineffable husbands from the beginning to the end of the world, aware and wanting.
AUs/Crossovers
be mine tonight (be mine forever) - T / artenon / 11k - Human!AU. When Aziraphale finds out his coworkers have made a bet that he wonât bring anyone to the company party, he asks his best friend Crowley to go as his date just to spite them. Things quickly spiral out of control.
Sirenâs Song - T / kedreeva / 30k+ (WIP) - Siren!AU. Crowley, a lone siren, calls a ship to wreck upon his reef, but finds when he meets pirate captain Aziraphale that sirens are not the only ones able to lure another creature to their heart's desire.
Adopt Donât Shop - G / lucky_spike / 6k - Cat!AU based on Chekovâs âGood Meowmonsâ comics.
The Ones Who Walk Away From Nevaeh - T / soft_october / 15k - AU based on âThe Ones Who Walk Away from Omelasâ
The Grinch Who Sold Christmas - T / darcylindbergh / 60k - Human AU / Hallmark Movie AU. Crowley is a big city lawyer sent to seal the deal that will destroy the quaint town of Tadfield forever, right before Christmas... and then he falls in love with the town, and a certain bookshop owner. Ridiculously sappy fluff that hits all the right notes.
The Odd One Out T / RainyDayDecaf / 2k- A meeting of many different Crowleys and Aziraphales.
Beat Again - T / TeaCub90 / 7k - Human AU. Two neighbours keep each other and their respective conditions company in the dead of night
Outsider POV
Ophidiophobia - G / lyricwritesprose / 7.6k - Pepper is afraid of snakes. When this is abruptly revealed in an encounter with Crowleyâs serpent form, she immediately goes about trying to cure herself of it.
Whatâs in a Name? - G / lyricwritesprose / 4k -Â âYou do realize,â Brother Francis said, âthat Warlock is just your name, not some sort of, of directive?â
Damaged - G / lyricwritesprose / 6k - Aziraphale is struggling after the Apocalypse. Madam Tracy offers some advice. (Very good spooky/nonhuman Aziraphale in this one.)
Angelâs Favor - T/ PinkPenguinParade / 10k - A hundred years ago, Aziraphale gave one of his feathers to a woman who helped him. In the modern day, her descendant calls in the favor.
Protective Camouflage -Â G/ politeanarcy/ 2.3k - The Antichrist isnât the only one with defenses against being noticed.
Disposable - T / lyricwritesprose / 7k - Eric the Disposable Demon attempts to become Crowleyâs vassal after the Apoca-wasnât. Nothing goes the way they expect after that.
on deceiving appearances - G / asideofourown / 2k - The Disposable Demon realizes the truth of Crowleyâs deception in Heaven.
Anthony J. Crowley, Retired Demon and Airbnb Superhost - G / TheOldAquarian / 3k - What are you supposed to do when you've been fired from your sweet job in Hell for thwarting the schemes of Satan, you've got a swanky flat in Mayfair, and you're looking for an excuse to spend all your time in someone else's bookshop? Obviously, you turn to the dubious world of short-term vacation rentals.
Other
the best laid schemes - T / asideofourown / 4k - How Crowley got his Rat Army
Incongruous States of Being - T / ZehWulf / 8k - âWho would win: Aziraphale or Crowley.â âOh!â Aziraphale startles. âWellâsuch a question. Itâs not as though either of us has engaged in so much as fisticuffs in ages, and one does need to keep up practice with these sorts of things.â His fretting dies abruptly when Crowley cuts over him clearly, baldly: âAziraphale.â
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition - T / WoodsWitch / 12k - The Arrangement is 500 years old, and Crowley and Aziraphale have been having a fine time in Renaissance Florence. Things start to go a bit pear-shaped with the arrival of a Friar Savonarola, so Crowley suggests that they meet up in his favorite refuge from the rest of medieval Europe: Spain. ((Donât let the title fool you, this is an incredibly in-depth and well-researched historical fic and deserves way more hits than it has.))
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Thoughts on Loki, Gender, Sex, and Identity
So...I've seen a few posts on transphobia embedded in Loki and I wanted to examine my own thoughts on this a bit. I'm not going to dig too deeply, just hit on a few of my thoughts on the matter regarding my own positionality as a demisexual, demiromantic, bisexual, nonbinary, gender funky human.
To begin, my own relationship to sex and gender is complicated, based on my own experiences. I'm fine with people not having this same interpretation because of differences in experience and I'm not going to sit around and listen to anyone bombarding me with statements about how wrong they think I am. Go write a post with relevance to your own experience and please don't shit on mine. The purpose of this is to share my own thoughts on this matter, not to get into an argument. I have enough real-world stress regarding these things and don't need them on Tumblr as well.
I've seen the argument that Loki is gender fluid and it is wrong to say he is sex fluid or that sex fluidity is a way to undercut or deny the validity of gender fluidity. I don't see it this way. To begin, we don't actually see Loki display gender fluidity, even though shape-shifting is clearly within his skill set. MCU Loki shifts into Sif once in The Dark World, but other than that, there is little evidence outside of his word at this. I know those creating this story did refer to him as gender fluid, but I question whether those who stand outside that fluidity might not be as well-versed in how gender fluidity comes in a myriad of experiences. I am fine with the idea that perhaps Loki still uses traditionally male pronouns while in other shapes. I am not considering comic interpretations of Loki in this, as there are so many different storylines that I think they would be hard to sum up into this character. And it is fine if you don't see this the same way.
In myth, when Loki transforms into a maiden during the marriage of "Freya" (Thor in disguise) to Thrym, the book I reference (Neil Gaiman's retellings of the myths) does, at one point, refer to Loki as "he." When the mythological Loki transforms into the mare to lure the horse Svadilfari away from the builder of their wall, the references to the mare indicate "she" (and it is worth noting that in this retelling, the mare is never referred to as Loki by name), but when Loki returns he is referred to using male pronouns yet still as Sleipnir's mother.
In the television show, Loki's file lists his sex as fluid. As gender and sex are entirely separate, I took this into consideration as a part of what defines a Loki- they may change physical sex. I did not see an entry for gender on the file. I may have missed it. But to me, the lack of listing gender and the inclusion instead of sex leads me to believe that the TVA doesn't much care for the gender of a variant, but rather the body in which they are most likely to inhabit. In this case, it would seem that knowing if a Loki is more likely to appear as a physical type without regard to pronouns or gender might be considered more important data than gender identity and pronouns. I examine this as someone who has to handle grant data that requires a sex marker in the demographics- not a gender identity, but an assigned-at-birth or otherwise legally documented sex.
I don't see these two things as mutually exclusive or an erasure of one another. I would see it as a way for the TVA to try to classify a variant without regards to any sort of identity. After all, if Lokis are destined for pruning, who cares how they see themselves? It's not like they are going to have an extended conversation with them- process them, judge them, prune them.
In the context of the Lokis we meet, and the note that they haven't met a female Loki, I do wonder why they haven't met one yet. Is it because they don't catch every Loki that comes through? Is it because they themselves have only ever experienced being Loki as men and and haven't assumed otherwise? I don't know. But I don't see it as impossible to explain, either. How many Loki variants have come through? And how many haven't survived? We don't see every variant in the Void that we see in Mobius' briefing holograms. Who didn't make it, and who is missing? Yes, the comment that she "sounds terrifying" could be read as incredibly sexist, but at the same time...Lokis grew up with stories of the Valkyrie, powerful warrior women who they likely looked at with awe, wondering why these towers of strength were no longer with them. The Valkyrie predate them and are mythic figures- we see how Thor reacts to meeting one of these warriors in Ragnarok. Given that this line comes from Loki the Elder, someone who leans into the power of sorcery and the capabilities of magic, wouldn't it make sense that the combination of these skills would seem terrifying? A warrior of the legendary capabilities of the Valkyrie combined with the might of a Loki sorcery? I mean, I'd probably think the same thing, and I think this is possibly one reason why the variant Loki we come to know would agree with him- she has been jumping through time, surviving apocalypses that likely terrify him, enchanting anyone she needs to use, and she can run circles around him. Given the tonal shift in the delivery of the line "and she needs me," I interpret this as the blustering Loki does when he wants to feel more important than he really is- he's trying to justify why he needs to find her to someone else (and possibly to himself) instead of just saying it's because he cares deeply about her and wants to know what the hell that means. Sylvie can clearly take care of herself and doesn't really need rescue. He wants to feel important enough to go back and to convince the others he is as well. That she could render him irrelevant is something that would be terrifying to someone who craves attention and affirmation.
Mobius says that the most common iterations of Lokis look like the one standing before him, yet Loki does encounter a variant file from California in the early 20th century that refers to Sylvie. So the TVA knows that there is a rare chance that a sex fluid Loki could exist (and they have, presumably, pruned them). While I wish this had been explored further, I don't necessarily see it as a transphobic intent. Did it resonate that way with some people? Yes. And that's fine. Their feelings on the matter are valid.
Another element of my interpretation of this comes from my own experiences of gender expression. Most of the time during which I have been out as nonbinary, people have read my gender as a woman. I like my long dresses and I have an extensive collection of vintage women's clothing. I also have a decent collection of corsets and well-tailored suits that fit my body type. I don't bind my chest. My hair varies from very short to as long as it will grow (not far past my shoulders). I occasionally wear eyeshadow, regardless of what gender I am on any given day. I very rarely read masculine and when I feel neutral, I still don't bother to alter my body shape, only sometimes choosing a bra or bra tank top that decentuates my curves (which, granted, aren't dramatic). So the concept of a gender fluid individual choosing gendered pronouns and reading as male during the (relatively short) time in his lifespan during which the audience knows him doesn't seem odd to me, as it is how I've existed (and I, too, used gendered pronouns for a few years on my nonbinary journey- they were a default while I searched for something that suited me better). But I have known nonbinary people who have exclusively used gendered pronouns and it does not invalidate their gender identity, nor does gendered expressions of that identity. The concept that we would only see a male presenting Loki doesn't seem very odd because I have lived a stretch of my life during which I, too, presented a very femme gender expression and used traditionally female pronouns. But that did not make me less nonbinary.
And, of course, this is assuming that gender fluidity is part of his identity, which we are never told in the text of the story. I reject that everything a creator says must be added to the text of a piece of media simply because the piece also has to stand on its own and be interpreted on that level as well. We do know that Loki shifts sex, which makes sense for someone who shifts bodies, as sex is tied more to bodies than gender is.
The point in this is that we can't assume the gender of a fictional character, just as we can't assume from appearance the gender of a living human. I may read as a woman, but this is not my gender identity and no one should be assuming that my clothes are meant to project gender. Reducing gender to an outward and bodily expression of sex is not something with which I am comfortable, and it seems that some people are conflating the two in their interpretation. Again, your experiences may differ from mine and it's fine to see this in another way.
But here's another very important thing this show can demonstrate. Allow an anecdote. My children watched this show with me. My son is nearly 7, my daughter a few months from being 10. She is very femme- loves makeup, frilly dresses, dolls, princesses, My Little Pony, the whole shebang of activities stereotypically associated with the childhood of girls. At this point in her life, she very much asserts that she is a girl. The same goes for my son- he very much asserts himself as a boy. When we were watching together, we talked about Loki being gender fluid, just like their Mum. We talked about Loki being bisexual, just like their Mum. They understood that just because Loki looks one way, it doesn't mean he is that way...again, just like their Mum. There is power in the idea that some of us are in this same position- we are assumed to be cisgender based on our appearances, but our identities are more complex than that. I thought this was a good window for my children to see through and one I could turn into a teachable moment about all the different sorts of people there are in this world. This is the blessing of imperfect media- we can find ways to learn from it and to share opportunities in it for open interpretation with those around us. And the lesson of not jumping to conclusions about gender or sex based on appearance is a deeply important one for young children to understand.
Is this an area in which I have a problem with the show? No. Does this mean the show couldn't have done more or better? Also no. We do need a variety of types of representation. But seeing the possibilities of this being someone a little more like me (though alas, I can't shift shape)? That was nice.
Hopefully we can see more of this in the future, but if we don't, we can create transformative works to fill in the gaps. It's what fan communities have always done and will continue to do. When I fell into fandom years ago with Harry Potter, long before the movies were all out, so many works were there to add queerness, racial diversity, language diversity, disability representation, all of it, into the series. It didn't stop us from still enjoying what it meant to us in those times and places and I don't think we have to outright reject this show for the imperfections we see in it. It can still thrill us and speak to something in us we've been lacking.
And in my case, that is the affirmation of wearing traditionally gender coded clothes while still asserting my pronouns are ze/zir/zirs and my gender is nonbinary, though also gender fluid, gender optional, or gender funky and that my oft-assumed-to-be-hetero relationship makes me no less bi or any other piece of my complex relationship to sexual orientation (and sharing that affirmation with my kids).
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Something Left (Part 1 of the series Is There Anything Left of Patton?)
Fandom: Sanders Sides
Relationships: Virgil & Logan, Logan/Patton(?)
Characters:Â Logan, Virgil, Patton(?)
Summary:Â Virgil has been living in Loganâs house for 3 months and they get along pretty good. Their abilities seem to balance each other out making them a good team for the apocalyptic world outside their door.
Then he finds the secret in Loganâs basement... He almost wishes that secret was as simple as he first thought it was.
In which I set up a world where Logan is probably crying like 85% of the time.
Notes: Zombie Apocalypse AU, Past major character death(?), Look itâs a zombie AU so you can probably guess why thereâs a question mark after everything involving Patton.
Three months. It had been what passed for a normal three months, a good three months even. Especially when compared to the three months before it and even more to the three months before that. Donât even get him started on the three months before that; those months had been the shittiest months. Those three months had started out with him working at a coffee shop trying to pay rent while look for a better job and ended with him almost dying because he had to jump off a bridge into running water to save himself from a pack of zombies.
These last three months had been good comparatively. This was mostly because heâd been living in Loganâs house for almost the entire time. Loganâs house had actually been his (as far as Virgil could tell) from before. That or heâd bothered to lug cases of old college textbooks with his handwriting scribbled in the margins and boxes of photographs with him in them through the zombie apocalypse.
It was a nice house even now and sat on the outskirts of what used to be a town. Virgil had no idea how heâd managed to hold down the fort during the outbreak or how heâd managed to not get overrun after it. He imagined that the population of the dead in the vicinity of his house was a lot smaller now than it had been at onset, but it was still sizable enough that Virgil had almost gotten eaten while scavenging in a neighboring house. That is how his met Logan.
Virgil had been certain heâd been about to die since heâd just barely been holding back teeth from chomping his face, when a single bullet had gone through the zombieâs head and embedded itself right to the left of Virgil��s own skull. Even just the one gunshot, of course, alerted every mindless carnivore in the area of their location, so theyâd scrambled into his house to wait it out.
Virgil had just⌠not left. Heâd never really been invited, but heâd also never been asked to leave so heâd just stayed. He contributed of course. Virgil was pretty good with the little garden out back while Logan seemed to have⌠whatever the opposite of a green thumb was. He seemed to appreciate Virgil taking it over. Virgil was pretty sure the plants themselves cried in relief.
Despite his lack of skill in the gardening department, Logan was pretty good at things like hunting (managing to only kill the zombie and not also shoot Virgil had not been a lucky shot) and keeping the house structurally sound. They both were okay at scavenging which was much easier with two of them and they worked well together.
Also, Logan was nice to talk to, especially since Virgil had been alone for a long time during the last year. He was a good guy if a bit eccentric. Heâd disappear for hours into the maze that was his house and Virgil often found him reading in odd places, but he was chill and smart.
Well.
At least, thatâs what Virgil had thought.
âGod dammit. Youâre one of those people. Fuck.â Virgil said.
âIt,â he said standing in his secret, fucking, dead body prison basement, âIt isnât like that.â
âYou know, Logan,â Virgil said. âThatâs what they all say.â He gestured at the thing in the cage. Even though he knew there was nothing going on in its head, Virgil couldnât help but feel a bit of pity for it all trussed up like that in the corner, squirming and making horrible sounds behind a gag. âSo, what? Huh? Is it someone you think you care about too much to put out of its misery even though it might kill anything it comes into contact with? Are you keeping it for some sort of last-minute defense for your house? Do you do science experiments on it out of some perverted need to know more about them? Tell me, because Iâve honestly run the gambit of crazy assholes in the last year.â
âNo,â Logan said. âIâŚâ he sighed. âYou donât understand.â
âOh, I donât understand?â Virgil scoffed. âWhy donât you explain it to me? Why do you have a zombie in the basement of your house. The house I lived in for the past three months without you thinking to tell me about this?â
Logan looked at him for a moment. âVery well.â He grabbed a set of keys on the wall and moved over to the enclosure.
Virgil lunged forward to grab his arm when he moved to put the key in the lock. âDonât you fucking dare!â
Logan didnât try to pull away from his hold. He just spoke calmly, face neutral. âHe is restrained well on the other side of this cell. I will lock the door behind me. You wonât be in danger.â
âYouâre fucking nuts,â Virgil spat. âWhat am I supposed to do. Just stand on the other side of the bars and watch you get ripped to shreds by that thing?â
âI will not get ripped to shreds,â Logan promised. âIâve been in that cell many times. I know how to deal with him. Please let me explain myself.â
Virgil cursed, but released him. He took a few long steps back while Logan unlocked the cage. His warry eyes went to the creature who was stirring at the noise, but it did seem well restrained. As he had promised, Logan locked the door behind himself.
The thing grew more agitated as Logan approached, straining against its bonds and making sickening noises behind the gag. Logan went to his knees in front of it, a sad smile on his face. âHello Patton.â Logan reached for the handcuff locks.
âYouâre so fucking nuts!â Virgil said, but it did not deter the other man and it was not like Virgil could stop him from the other side of the bars. He didnât even have the keys if he wanted to enter the cage. When Logan released the thingâs arms, it reached forward, its fingers grazing Loganâs cheeks in a move Virgil recognized. Heâd seen people get pulled in with motions like that. Mindless dead fingers grabbed and grabbed, pulling you toward deadly teeth so they could tear you apart. The only thing keeping Logan from being a snack was the gag in the things mouth, but as Virgil watched, he reached up a hand to take that out. From experience, Virgil expected it to lunge directly towards Loganâs neck, but it⌠but it didnât.
It continued to reach for him, and the raspy moans got even more haunting without the gag smothering them, but it did not attack. Despite all rational thought, Virgil felt himself draw closer to the bars of the cell to watch. Logan calmly set the gag to the side as though he was not being clawed at by a mindless dead thing and then, he reached up to press the inside of his wrist to the creatureâs mouth. âI donât know why,â Logan said, very much not being bitten. The creature seemed discontented with this new thing covering its mouth and titled its face to get away. âPerhaps it is a different strain of the virus or something went wrong with the turning. Maybe itâs just him. He was a good man in his life. He wouldnât even let me kill bugs he found in the house. Perhaps there is an echo of that leftover that keeps him from hurting people. Or maybe itâs just me; I wouldnât risk anyone else to test out if heâd attack another. Thatâs why I keep him restrained here.â
âIâŚâ Virgil said. âFuck.â
Logan looked up and Virgil was shocked to see that despite the level tone heâd been using the whole time, there were tears leaking from his eyes. âYou can see why I canât just finish him off though. Even if perhaps I should. I justâŚâ and his voice finally wavered as he gave an aborted sob. The creature reached and reached mindlessly for him, brushing his face again and again with its fingertips. Logan grabbed its hands and held them between his own. âI-I donât know what you want, dear,â he whispered. The creature wiggled and pulled against the grip. Logan cleared his throat. âVirgil would you perhaps mind sliding me the first aid kit on the table over there?â
Virgil obeyed, grabbing it and sliding it through the bars to him. He took it and opened it with practiced ease. âYouâve hurt yourself again,â Logan said at a volume that made Virgil sure it was not meant for him. âHere, Iâll fix you right up. Itâs okay.â There was a minute pause in the sounds it made. A reaction to the words? To the tone of them? Or did it just finally need a breath? Virgil could not be sure. It did not pause in the reaching, and the moaning started full force again right after. Logan rubbed some sort of cream into a mark near the creatureâs elbow.
âDoes that work?â Virgil asked. Most zombies heâd seen didnât appear like they ever healed. They were often rotted and limping.
âHeâs still living in some sense of the word. He heals if wounds are properly treated and he has enough nutrition. In fact, he seems to heal faster than before.â
Nutrition. âAnd uh, what do you feed him?â
âMeat. He doesnât seem to have a preference for cooked or raw. He wonât eat anything else. Well, except for baked potatoes for some reason.â
âBacked potatoes?â
âHe wonât eat mashed or fried.â
The creature stopped reaching for Logan in favor of attempted to get at the cream on its skin with its mouth. âNo,â Logan scolded. It did not respond. He pushed its head back and picked up bandages to start wrapping the area.
âYou know this is crazy, right?â Virgil asked.
âI do, but what do you expect me to do when there is something left of him?â
âI. Fuck,â was Virgilâs response. âFuck.â
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