#thread : over and under

[elalalune]

Buggy in Wonderland AU

An AU where Buggy is Alice and Shanks is the Queen of Hearts/Red Queen

//yan!shanks

• when Buggy was younger he ends up in wonderland and befriends a red haired boy with a straw hat

• years later he thinks it was just his active imagination and forgets about those adventures

• but then he sees a rabbit running around wearing a familiar straw hat

• he follows it down a rabbit hole and ends up in wonderland

• after some adventures and meeting wonderland's residents, he reaches the queen's castle

• the ruler seems friendly but also feels familiar and Buggy isn't sure why

• he's very accomodating — always inviting Buggy to tea parties or extravagant balls, giving him a nice room w a large bed, sending him expensive jewelry and valuable gifts everyday, things like that

• but the more Buggy spends time with him, the more he realizes that Shanks seems intent on keeping him in this world

[finalacts]

thinking about the different ways indigeneity is represented in utb…how both cam and warren are disconnected and isolated from their indigenous identities…how this has led to cam becoming a cop, essentially becoming a footsoldier for the same system that failed her + is continuing to fail these kids, and her journey to recognizing the limits of policing + limits of doing good within a fundamentally violent system…how for warren (irl, i know, but hopefully also represented in the last episode?) reconnecting w his métis identity was crucial to reaching accountability for his role in reena’s death via restorative justice circles…how indigenous practices might provide insight into how we can imagine accountability and justice outside of carcerality

[rotzaprachim]

I’m very aware that this song is about partition & Pakistani experience & diaspora rather than the Shoah but my fucking god every time I think about

jumping down wells from the rapists, show us your foreskin, check what his faith is, neighbors you played with digging your graves yeah our bodies can still keep the score we can taste it

[truly-quirkless]

[ @modeinthemiddle | From here!]

Fin sighed quietly, glancing off towards the side at the comment.

"...thanks." They didn't believe her, but it was nice to hold on to all the same. The brunet wasn't willing to look at Mode as the two walked side-by-side, feeling the breeze moments after it danced through the tree leaves nearby.

"Well...yeah." He couldn't let anyone know about the extent of what his Quirk was, after all. "But Yagi is quiet from time to time...and it's not that awkward silence where I'm tryin' to find somethin' to say. It's always...nice. I guess he just likes having some time where he doesn't have to speak, since he's so used to having to pick and choose his words with the public." Though Fin hoped that Toshi never felt like he had to pick and choose his words around them...that was probably asking too much.

"...y-yeah...apparently,...his eyes glow when he experiences a really intense emotion...I'm pretty sure it's a side affect.." And by God, did that make their heart skip every time.-- Well. Their face was blazing now. Fuck. "--It's so cool."

"...'m not 'cute'. But...thanks. It's kinda hard not to be smitten for him..." Fin grinned a little. "...I hope you get to find someone too, Mode.- You're the best catch I know, after all!" They turned their head towards the other, smiling up at her. "And if anyone ever breaks your heart, lemme know and I'll stab 'em." They were joking, of course...

They were just glad Mode was willing to put up a little with them rambling- even if it was over their simple love life.

"Oh! Do y'wanna head to the cafeteria? I heard Lunch Rush was making boba tea for whoever heads in today." And they'd absolutely be trying to snag some with popping pearls instead of tapioca... While it wasn't the least quiet place to hang out, it was still food- without having to venture into the streets right now. The last thing Fin wanted was a paparazzi swarm.

[duskianfae]

N o r a

[everymadara]

Chapter 622

[navree]

gonna be entirely honest the ten shitmillion 'can't believe they abandoned adding queerness to alicent because she has sex with a man' takes accompanied by all the screaming and crying and throwing up absolutely REEK of biphobia, and that's not a good look for y'all during pride

[ohbo-ohno]

short nsfw ghoap idea below cut. (cw for super super mean ghost, some cbt, and topping from the bottom)

i read a (dark romance) book once where the Dom let the sub fuck him, but he wanted the sub to never want to fuck him again so he made him wear a condom - but he coated the inside of the condom in like, itching cream or icy hot or smth like that so that while the sub fucked him he was just miserable, couldn't do anything but lay there in pain while the Dom rode him to hell and back

anyways. ghoap, right?

soap who begs for weeks to fuck ghost, wants to try topping so so badly, and ghost keeps shutting him down every time. until he's getting a little too bratty with it, and out of nowhere ghost says yes. soap is taken off guard, but obviously he still wants to fuck ghost so he's all in

except ghost fucks with him :/ makes him wear a condom coated with [something], maybe even makes him wear a second just to make sure that none of it leaks through. so all soap can feel is the discomfort, really to the point of pain.

and soap is sooooo miserable beneath ghost :( whining and crying and writhing, pitching such a fit because he's just so so so upset. and ghost is riding him, keeps rolling his eyes and slapping johnny across the face, asking him why he's bitching so much when he's been begging for this for weeks? tells him to suck it up, has to keep pulling off and jacking him so he doesn't go soft.

johnny is sobbing by the end, teary and wrecked and begging ghost to just get off :( simon says he can't, says soap isn't fucking him good enough, rolls johnny onto his stomach and fucks him - leaves his dick wrapped up though. gets himself off and finally sighs contentedly, rolls off soap and relaxes like everything's right in the world

and poor johnny is just the picture of distress. he's on his back as soon as he can move again, pawing at ghost and nearly shouting as he begs for the condoms to be taken off, but refusing to do it himself because he's scared of more punishment.

ghost acts like it's a hardship, like johnny's just the neediest little thing, but he tugs the condoms off and smiles when johnny sobs out thank you over and over again.

ghost makes him go wash himself off in the bathroom (alone, cause he's far too comfortable to get up), and holds his arms open for johnny to dive right into when he comes back. it takes a while for him to calm down, but simon holds him the whole time, teases him for not being able to handle fucking him <3 johnny never asks to again

[cliveguy]

censored tweets because it's too horrible for me to casually put here but it's so infuriating how people on twitter who build their entire brand on usamerican trans issues literally have 0 empathy for trans people in other countries. these two accounts have hundreds of thousands of followers and erin reed is major source on trans news in the us. so disrespectful and flippant to be using this case (and this thread. which contains graphic details of the murder of a trans teenager. the censored tweet contained slurs.) to make a stupid point about how you think another country's legal system is stupid and wrong because it's different to yours.

[bellshazes]

OK I've been all over the place today and I know I'm not the first to make a post abt the hbomberguy video. but was anyone gonna tell me the Courier Jorunal is in it on account of the kentucky cave story segment when I have a really long outline for some work of writing that connects al capote, the great Gatsby, the band squirrel bait, why bourbon should legally he restricted to this geographical area, Kentucky route 0, and 17776 eleven Jones cave? my parents had their honeymoon at mammoth cave. I've done multiple trips there even disregarding confusing it with the little loom house

[dragonji]

have to be honest guys its actually going Really Badly again.

[whentherewerebicycles]

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[lctibule]

tried to do some writing but i got all of like three sentences out before i got frustrated and gave up, so 🤷

[pastafossa]

Hi Pasta!!

I have a random question that popped up in my head the other day

Does Jane do the thread work in every city she's lived in? Like, does she ever do random jobs for anonymity purposes, ones that aren't linked to her abilities? I imagine it's much easier to track down a psychic than it is to find someone who has been working as a preschool teacher or someone working the front desk at a dentist office.

Again, just a shower thought that came to me during a reread🤣

Oooooh now this is a good question and it's not one I think will ever come up in a meaningful way in the fic so I feel free to answer it, too!

So she doesn't do exactly what she's doing in every city, no, although she often finds ways to use her threads to her benefit - I've mentioned before when she first hit Los Angeles as a teen, she got roped into a new-agey sort of shop, doing tarot like a very poorly paid trick pony - she'd use her thread abilities to make accurate enough predictions that she was worth keeping around. She pulled similar tricks in other cities early on (she's quite good at reading tarot now for others, ironically), and then on and off in various cities after, because it's hard to walk away from all the money on the table. The psychic business category alone is, if I remember my research correctly, around 90k businesses in the US, and makes about 2 billion annually. It's likely even bigger of a business in the TRT universe since the existence of enhanced people might encourage more people to go looking for psychics to help with their problems. That means billions and billions of dollars changing hands.

And money, as we know with her, is a big lure. BUT, as you said, yeah, she quickly figured out hey, I can't do this every time because that forms a pattern (which is bad). Some of it also depends on where she is - there might be way more (real or not) psychics around for her to hide amongst like in NYC, or there may be fewer. The latter cities are where she's more likely to find a different job - and she's not above faking her qualifications to get in, as long as it's a job she can actually do. She knows how to manage a store, she knows how to draw blood and so has done a round or two as a phlebotomist. Hell, she did construction under the table for a bit in Pittsburgh.

But she keeps coming back to psychic.

She's got a method for those cities now - there's a reason she's working alongside Maya, and why Maya's name is the big name on the business and hers is advertised by reputation only (hiding herself beneath two extra layers of names, essentially). There's a reason she targets specific kinds of rich - she wants the rich who are either smart enough to follow contracts (Wesley), or wary enough that they're worried about others stealing away their favorite psychic and so keep their mouths shut (or decide to hire her on at a high enough rate that she can work solely for them). And above all, her rule is to run before she gets too big. Essentially playing psychic is a tradeoff - a larger payday in exchange for a shorter timeframe in the city, as opposed to the slow and steady trickling of another job where she can stay longer. She's followed that rule for years now - either quiet jobs to take the heat off, or short bursts of psychic activity that make her a ton of money before she fades out and vanishes in 6 months to a year, finding a new name, and a new city.

Until New York City...

And until Matt...

Click go the dominoes.

[shikai-the-storyteller]

I know Quackity said "Don't stress if you can't watch every single POV and if you don't know all the lore" and all that, but it genuinely frustrates me so much that I cannot, realistically, know every single detail of the QSMP storyline. Even trying to just focus on the "main" story isn't possible since so many people are doing things tied to it, and so many unexpected things happen.

I don't really have a point to make with this post, I'm just venting my frustrations. I like knowing complete stories and knowing I can't do that with QSMP frustrates me so much.