#to be fair tho i don't think this is the Start of it per se XD

[fedoraspooky]

So glad to witness the start of Spooky's Furry Arc, and to think all it took was cartoons!

I mean, aint that how furries kinda started as a modern fandom to begin with? XD Funny Animals and all that?

[riddlemearose]

hello i have come to ask more about wild with magic he cant controll

i love that hc so much and it fits him so well! like no one taught him bc hyrule was mostly empty, and he wouldnt even know he had it himself because why would he! its genius!

Sure, I’m happy to info-dump lmao.

I know other people have already come up with the "Wild has magic" headcanon about botw before, but for me it honestly started as a series of jokes with a friend. Basically it made sense to me since all the other Champions’ abilities are either outwardly shown to be magic like with Mipha and Urbosa, or at least implied to be, as in the case of Daruk’s magic being hereditary, and Revali’s being something no other Rito has managed to achieve.

So we were both like “oh yeah, he’s got to have magic” *cue shitposts and memes*

There’s minor evidence to support its existence in botw; Teba says to Wild “it was as if time stopped with every arrow you let fly”, and Daruk’s Training Journal mentions that Link once told him that it feels like time slows down when he focuses. Some people take this to mean Wild has really good reflexes and others went with magic. I’m in the ‘Wild has magic’ camp bc someone did the math and worked out he’s like… almost moving at super-sonic speeds when he closes the distance to start a flurry rush.

The reason I say he can’t really control it is bc the only time he’s ever shown being able to do so is to enter and exit bullet time. That’s literally it. If you dodge at the right moment, even if you don’t want to flurry rush, it’ll still trigger and give you the opening to perform one (which ends after like 1-2 seconds of inaction). Wild also doesn’t have a magic meter like some other Links do; he uses his stamina. He’s literally brute-forcing his way through his magic (which, side note, Urbosa must’ve hated watching). And, to build off that last sentence, this means that Wild probably doesn’t have a lot of magic, but he does recover it incredibly fast – especially compared to the others who have to use potions. More on this last part in a moment.

It’s true that no one was there to teach him per se, but I think it’s a tad more complicated than that bc botw has an odd thing where it shows a lot of magic users (at least as far as I understand when compared to other games) but doesn't go into detail, which is fair given the Calamity. This means we don't really have a concept of how prevalent magic usage is in the grand scheme of things.

Looking at the series in a whole, for hylians/humans magic is largely limited to the Royal Family (specifically the women of the Royal Family), and they seem to mostly wield light and divine magic, very different from time magic. (The Ocarina of Time is there, but that’s an heirloom and not severely limited with its function based on whether its user has royal blood or not.)

And given how the Sheikah have been treated in botw's Hyrule's history, as they are the only other hylians aside from Flora and Wild who are shown using magic, I'm guessing it's not a skill you want to encourage, and innate magic users, even if they weren't Sheikah, were probably affected by the roll-on effect of the genocide for a very long time. This would create a long, deep-set history of missing knowledge that eventually affects the present.

If you ignore the potential loss of magic teaching, honestly I would assume it’s still hard to teach someone magic when you don’t share that particular type bc it probably requires knowledge that you don't have in regards to how it flows and can be controlled in order to be used. I do very genuinely believe Wild knew that he had magic before he died tho, bc I think Urbosa would’ve told him. It was the only time she ever heard him speak and the convo went something like Urbosa: you have magic. You just did magic. Link: nuh-uh Urbosa: FYM NUH-UH

This lack of training and general knowledge of how magic works is what I partially attribute to his weapons breaking as fast as they do. Attunement doesn’t actually exist obviously, but in fantasy worlds where it’s a part of the magic system, it’s a conscious step. It’s only seems to become an involuntary one when the person attuning the item has a lot of experience with the field that item is used in.

What I mean by that is Wild’s obviously never learnt actual theory (and it might be too late to fix the groundwork he's already laid), so he’s only ever been able to make his magic work in conjunction with the one thing he’s already being trained to do: weapon-fighting.

This is why he has flurry rushes, bullet time, and his fast recharge time. His magic manifests alongside his physical capabilities (so it will recover just as fast as his stamina does) and is attuned to flow through physical objects that simply aren't designed to withstand prolonged exposure to it (so his weapons, bows and shields will degrade and break faster).

I do believe his magic is something he has the ability to train (take the change to how bullet time uses stamina between botw and totk for example), and I personally like to write him getting a one-hit-swing second of slowed down time whenever he parries, but I think these ‘upgrades’ would honestly just come from fighting more and pushing himself in those situations, not from learning basic magic principles lmao.

And honestly, Wild’s magic is just really funny to me bc it has shenanigan potential that’s really only limited by your own creativity and his stamina wheel.

I say that because part of this magic headcanon actually grew from a post-totk headcanon where I whole-heartedly believe that Wild and Flora end up sharing the Sage of Time title, since there’s one extra Secret Stone floating around and they both specialise in different types of time magic. The joke w/ my friend has now become “well, if Wild can’t even willingly activate his magic unless highly specific circumstances are met, wtf is going to happen when it's amplified?"

Answer: he has literally no idea what he’s doing. He has accidentally slowed time on several pots/ladles/plates/etc that got knocked over, mistakenly frozen a yiga sword which yanked it straight out of the yiga’s hand – he meant to freeze the yiga whoops – and intentionally managed to slow time on one (1) bokoblin (and has not managed to replicate that result since). … he’s getting there. Maybe.

(Additional follow up lore can be found in this reblog. Also adding this to prevent future confusion at my accidental vagueness on this: yes Wild knows he has magic.)

[butmakeitgayblog]

Based on what you said about how you think the end of the pike blockade would go down, how do you think Lexa would react to Clarke being injured/nearly killed by Pike?

Bear with me here because I'm sure there's a lot of people who thin it would go down differently lol

But to be honest, I think a lot more would happen than just a Pike vs Clarke showdown of sorts. I think in the scenario that I gave - Pike ultimately losing his shit and going after Clarke for "treason" - that would force the entirety of the remaining Skaikru to really face themselves and the future of who they want to be as a clan/a people.

Bluntly, I think it would cause a flashpoint civil war.

By that point enough people would fed up with the living conditions under the blockade, fed up with Pike and his guard's power plays, fed up with constantly being pitted against each other exactly as they had been in space and every day since reaching the ground. Every day is fear, every moment is struggle. Because now not only are they expelled from the coalition AND the lands around them AND confined to yet another prison with limited resources and freedoms just as they were in space, but they're also being told point blank 'even if you wish to leave and start over outside of us, you can't. You're stuck here whether you like it or not.'

And pair that up with what Clarke has done to help them (despite their, whew, overwhelming tendency to blame her for goddamn everything 😒), I think enough people would just be so fucking done with it that it would indeed evolve into the chaos of a civil war.

And I think the first pop of gunfire would have Lexa and her army throwing themselves into the action. Not because is Lexa is terrified (tho she is) and not because Lexa would do something as foolhardy as throw herself into a gunfight if she thought Clarke were in danger (ha ok lesbian we've seen that play out 😐). But rather because, this has been the inevitable outcome all along. Pike was always going to make sure of that.

I don't think it'd be a popular decision. I don't even think Lexa would outright command her army to fight. But with her warriors already hungry for battle, what I believe Lexa would do is present the situation as a choice to follow her into the fray or not. Simply put: to show allegiance to the coalition or not. I think she'd remind them that despite the blockade, Skaikru is still one of the coalition's clans. That, just as she had promised, those who were still loyal to her sovereignty and the 12 clans had been working from the inside to unseat the rebel murderers - the same ones who had cut down their own fellow in arms. That the already growing number of Skaikru prisoners of war/refugees were a testament to that struggle and the will of the people trapped under an unjust, tyrant leader, and how they were proof of those machinations currently at play beyond the walls of Arkadia. The proof that they had allies inside.

But also, such as with most any uprising and revolts against injustice, more often than not in this gruesome world, blood must be spilled. And that this moment was their time to collect what is due. In the name of their fallen brothers and sisters. In the name of the coalition, and everything they stand for.

(Basically an emotion filled and lowkey manipulative call to arms 👀)

So between the coalition loyalists and those simply hungry for 'blood must have blood' payment for those they'd lost to Skaikru and Pike, a fair descent amount of warriors would join the fight to besiege Arkadia. Between the might of the coalition breaching their gates and the war raging inside among each other, Pike and his supporters who haven't defected themselves would be divided and spread too thin to cover all their sides, and eventually they'd fall one by one. Until surrender wasn't even a choice. It was a forgone conclusion.

And it would be very bloody, and very quick.

Ultimately, I don't think Clarke would necessarily have needed Lexa to intervene per se, because it would surprisingly(?) still be Octavia who kills Pike. In this she wouldn't be killing him as revenge for Lincoln (well not entirely, he's not dead, just locked up and treated like shit), but rather to set in motion Skaikru's final symbolic fall to the ground. Because in that moment, with Pike's gun pressed to Clarke's head, still desperate and deluded that he can use her pull as leverage to grasp at control even as the sounds of war rage on around them, I think Octavia would realize that was the moment when she had to choose where her allegiance lies: earth or sky. Past or future. Coalition or chaos. Clarke or Pike (and by proxy, Bellamy).

And she'd choose Clarke.

And Lincoln. And Indra. And the anger for what her her brother had become. And her hatred of being boxed in yet again. And the realization that without Pike's death, there would be no moving forward to truly build a new life on the ground.

So with Pike dead, and the Skaikru ~rebels~ rounded up, and the 13th clan surrendering to the coalition, it would be a quite a politically messy situation to tidy up. To say the least. But after Lexa issues orders for the remaining Skaikru to be tended to by healers, and brought food and water (and maybe a lil booze from the encampments to help them wind down) in good faith of their loyalty and return to the coalition, Lexa would nonchalantly escort Clarke back her personal tent (that she had failed to mention in her notes) at the frontline... and do everything she could to not fall to absolute pieces as she personally tended to Clarke's wounds.

But oh. Oh, Clarke would feel the way her entire body was shaking...

[frankenjoly]

fanfic writer interview!

tagged by @anticidic & @aurorahrt tyy <3

How many works do you have on AO3?

so far it's 123, and the number is going up always lkdjf. to be fair, i've been on ao3 for araoun 7 years, and a lot of stuff is drabbles.

Your top 5 stories by kudos/likes:

Connecting the dots. arcane/lol, genfic + baby timebomb.

people yearn(ed) for fluff after arcane, and so do (and did) i. family shenanigans ft. baby powder's puppy crush.

Between the pages: part 2. bsd, misc of ships.

2nd batch of bsd drabbles (and damn, the collection has grown A LOT).

Misread. genshin, jealuc.

jealuc from barbara's pov, relationship reveal kinda since she gets full confirmation there.

Remnants. arcane/lol, jinx-centric timebomb.

post-s1 bit of a character study vs pinning and regrets. it's not unrequited, we know now more than ever that it's not, but it kiiinda looks like it from her pov.

Por el amor de este presidente... bsd, fukumori & (vs) fukufufku.

the bsd Crack Fic so far, mori and fukuchi team up to crash any dates fukuzawa has with other people (since both want him back) but are also rivaling each other (since both want him back), pm members & hd try to avoid overwork.

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

always! i need to give my thanks lskjdfl.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

remnants maybe? and it's not full-on angst. neither are, tho, i'm a pussy.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

here i cannot choose, most are pretty happy lksjf.

Do you write crossovers?

oh, yeah. i even have a whole-ass series dedicated to that (aka the dnd-ish au, and i'm very proud of it.

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

not straight up hate, but i've had someone coming to my fic tagged with 2 ships involving the same character (gojohime and shokohime) to say one is canon and the other are "just friends gal pals etc" lkjsf. my sibling in christ, none are canon.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

i've dabbled in smut in rp (not super explicit tho), but i don't think i could go past suggestive/pre-smut making out on fic lkjf. it's like, more ppl are gonna see it there.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

save from that one page who reposted everyone and their mom's fics some time ago, not really.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

nope.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

no, but if it happens, @rashomune is my #1.

What’s your all-time favorite ship?

this is a terrible question for someone as indecissive as i am lksj. i do tend to have a fav ship tm from all of my favs in each fandom (for example, if i had to choose just one bsd ship it'd be sskk), but choosing just one at all from every fandom? i can't.

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

rather than a started wip, it's a concept that could be sooo good but scares me (but also haunts me). aka: the sskk call of the sea au.

What are your writing strengths?

i'm confident in what i do in general, i can improvise easily (i think rp influences this), and i've been told i'm good at characterization + showing which character it is by their speech.

What are your writing weaknesses?

english nerfs me. like, i don't think i do bad per se, but i'm even better in spanish.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

i'm used to mixing english and spanish for dialogues in rp, but i don't really do that in fic. i do add some words here and there, and use the honorifics for japanese characters and so on.

What’s a fandom/ship you haven’t written for yet but want to?

mhmm... a ton lksjfl. a very specific example is yelan/emilie (genshin), aka very rare rarepair i got into just bcs they have the same jp voices as shokohime.

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

again, i can't choose lksjdf.

tagging: @ashenaura @littencloud9(no pressure ofc)

[peacefulemoyearnings]

My Problem with Friends to the End

ok i'm well aware the Lion Guard has its struggles with applying human morality to animals. i'm also aware it's a preschool show and i am in no way expecting it or the characters to be perfect. i am also not expecting the characters to never have conflict. that being said though:

Friends to the End is legit the least enjoyable Lion Guard ep for me. i'm aware of how controversial Bunga is and it's perfectly okay to love or hate him or both. i happen to be in the third camp but i digress. anyway, what bothers me the most about this episode is how Bunga was written. he is supposed to be Kion's best friend since they were very little. for the most part, the show does a decent job of showing that, except in this episode.

the Disney+ episode description says that "Bunga worries that the venom in Kion is turning him evil!". but..... he doesn't come across as worried, per se. throughout the episode, instead of showing the mentioned "worry", at times it feels as if he is rooting for Kion to turn evil. instead of coming off as worried for his childhood best friend, he instead comes off as actively searching for a spectacle out of Kion's jerkish behavior. Fuli tries to rein him in, but when he says it out loud, Kion is briefly angered and then runs away in shame. The rest of the team starts defending Kion not becoming evil by lecturing Bunga with a somewhat patronizing song about how "we stand by and encourage our friends, not calling them evil mmkay?" then they go to find Kion in danger and Bunga gives him an apology that is kinda heartfelt but still a bit iffy given the way his concern from Kion comes off as casual.

to be fair tho, this probably is how Bunga expresses his concern even if i may not agree with the way he does it. given Kion's behavior throughout the day, Bunga is right to be concerned. does the Guard listen to his concerns? not really. it's true they do call Kion on his jerkish behavior but Bunga is constantly having his concerns dismissed by Fuli bc her role in the show seems to be to try and rein him in when he's being too much. they don't stop and ask about Bunga's feelings. they call Kion out for his behavior and then sing a song about sticking by your friends no matter what. (granted the song didn't exactly imply condoning shitty behavior but it kind of glossed over it a bit).

the message in this episode is kind of portrayed in sort of a broken way in my opinion. Bunga's worries about Kion come off as weirdly casual, which means the rest of the Guard doesn't take his concerns seriously because of how those worries are coming across. (especially Fuli, I think her main role in the show is basically to just be fast, sarcastic, and constantly annoyed at Bunga but I digress). idk. if this episode is enjoyable to other people, that's great! /gen. this is just my silly personal opinion that I don't enjoy this episode. again, i'm aware this is a preschool show and that i don't expect writers and characters to be perfect, i just kind of wanted to rant a little about the problems i personally have with Friends to the End.

[quetzalpapalotl]

Getting my thoughts on Skybound out before the tgcf ad comes out tomorrow and takes over all my mental headspace

OKAY last word I said that's what I was hoping we could get more to bridge the past nice guy Starscream from issue 13 to his present self who relishes in evil.... and I'm dissapointed.

Now, I've seen some people talk about how Megatron's mind control leaves him with no agency and also puts into question the agency of other Decepticons. And to be fair, they weren't super clear on how it works so it could be, but it doesn't read at all like that to me. It doesn't seem like Megatron can control anyone when he's not been held and even then, they don't lose their awareness. What the page full of Starscream's expression slowly changing as he shoots Autobots after Autobot communicates to me is that Starscream was forced to kill people against his will until he learned to like it to cope.

Which isn't exactly bad, I wish he had more agency still. But the idea is a good compromise on letting the Megatron have an alt mode that necessitates to be wielding, without feeling weird that he would just be willing to lose power like that. My main problem is that it still feels very disconnected from what we saw of him before. Like so far the issue #13 backstory feels pretty pointless, any Starscream, especially a self-serving Starscream who desires power would be deeply hurt at being controlled like that. That was a really good page, but perhaps if we have had a more detailed exploration of his moral degradation, I wouldn't be feeling like this.

And speaking of agency, something similar is happening with Optimus. You know me, I'm a big fan of Optimus fucking up on his own, so him messing up because of some weird Matrix corruption is not ideal. Then again, this isn't IDW1 and this isn't an Optimus for whom it makes sense to give in into random fits of anger and it is a way of introducing conflicts. We still have to really understand what's going on so something interesting can come up. Tho it does beg the question of why isn't he taking off the Matrix when it doesn't even have power now? Is it that he can't or???

We were talking on Discord about what could possibly be happening and if it has to do with some Megatron influence due to the arm. I do not think this has anything to do with Megatron, at least not directly. Because this only started after Sparky fused with the Matrix and none of the visions seem to have anything to do with Megatron (and neither does it have to do with Megatron's personality, which from what we've seen so far he isn't impulsive). I do like the idea that just having the arm has an effect on Optimus because it is so strong is very easy to choose violence, especially when there's now some consciousness in Optimus that defaults to it.

I do think this is entirely due to Sparky and the Matrix having some weird reaction to having an organic with it. Especially with how the random visions Optimus has when he gets like that seem to have his memories mixed in. Also the Sparky we meet at the start was deeply troubled and I did not how he had a very toxic mentality and was quick to violence. Like the indecent that almost kills Spike was brought on because he immediately decided to attack the robots and wouldn't listen. This coincidences with how Optimus flares due to anger when people are being harmed. And I do like that because was is not a bad guy per se and was capable of deep compassion and didn't meant ill, but that doesn't mean he isn't capable of harm and I like the idea of the corruption force not being something that's fundamentally evil.

But the last vision of someone being trained connected to a bunch of cables was super weird. Can that really come from Sparky???? What's up with that???

I am so anxious with every issue because nothing can go right for the Autobots, oh my god. The first issues also felt like this and then we got a respite but we're back to tension just rising and rising and now Megatron is here!!!! Oooh no

It says a lot that even when lacking an arm and with his eyes outsourced, Optimus is still scared shitless of him showing. He stops Starscream and Soundwave immediately like they're unruly children. He has so much presence!!! This is exactly what I want from a Megatron. Especially love how different of a leader he is to Starscream, he looks far more composed and has the good sense to appreciate those who serve him. Like yeah he is Megatron and is evil, but there must be a reason for him to inspire loyalty.

I can't wait for the megops to talk and for Megatron to comment on the arm thing. So excited. I hope they beat the shit out of each other <3

Also, everything regarding Soundwave vs Starscream was great. Nothing like some good Con on Con violence.

Absolutely adore everything they're doing with Elita. Like yeah!!! Yeah!!! That's how anyone would be after being left to lead some hopeless resistance in a planet dominated by Decepticons. She is so jaded, suffering 24/7 and has to keep it together bc if she doesn't who will???? I love her SO much.

Thundercracker deserting. Love that for him, always. This is stupid, you're all stupid, I'm leaving.

Bit worried with what they're doing with Beachcomber that reminds me of a lot of anti-war media that's like "both sides bad. War is bad" even when like, one side is clearly the aggressor and is the other supposed to do?? Just let them have their way??? But let's see where it goes.

While we're at it, would love to have some context for the war, actually.

[puhpandas]

(not the same anon)

matpat said Gregory "may not be as innocent as we all hoped/wished he'd was" when discussing the GGY book

to be fair, he said "WAS a villain", so my guess is that Gregory did some really bad stuff in the past but has moved on from it. then again, we don't know how much it affects the current events of the story.

he said "Not AS innocent" so I think Gregory is a morally gray at least and is staying there for the rest of the story. Not guilty, not innocent, iykwim

it does seems like the robot theory has been completely debunked tho

and no, he can't tell us anything directly, he can't even say how much he knows. Not even the Game Theory team knows lmao

everything is on "FNAF Is FINALLY Solved?!" GTLIVE, skip to minute 17 onwards when he starts talking about it

thank you anon you're a godsend🙏 this rlly helps me get a better understanding.

so I'm personally going to take this as us being in the same position. we all know Gregory is morally grey because of the animatronics + the possibility that he dropped cassie, that's no secret. but also ggy would make him not as innocent as the games show him lol. ggy/dr rabbit would still be a huge reveal in the games since it hasnt been shown and only implied in a book. I think we're safe

if Gregory WERE to have been just evil on his own, it would contradict with the cutout of him comforting cassie and when he cried over Freddy and hugged him and when he saved vanessa. so my thinking is that in that scenario he would be like Thomas from the maze runner. he would have been bad voluntarily and then gotten memory loss that wiped his brain and then become good voluntarily. not a bad character per se but I dont think it's right for Gregory. him being glitchtrapped explains and makes sense for literally every part of his story so I think that's still the case :)

like in Freddy in space Gregory was a boss that threw discs at you, so like. clear patient 46 reference there, but my point would be that hes framed as a villain like vanny is, and vanny wasnt even truly a villain because everyone knew she was secretly unwilling/mind controlled. that's changed now since the killer rabbit alter egos are now separate entities from people like vanessa, but my point still stands

[txxfiles]

hello?

I don't know what to write about this month! so I’m just going to stream of consciousness and see where we go. 

I was going to write about my holiday but I started a travel journal and did like 2 days and then was so exhausted every night that I didn’t do it! It was an amazing holiday tho, like once in a lifetime sorta shit. it was a bit hit and miss if we would even go but we did and it was wonderful and I appreciated having so much time with my brother as I miss him. It was so full on tho like it was a group tour thing and it was like go go go and we walked 20 thousand steps one day bc my brother and I were like ‘Yeah sure we’ll climb that mountain with u no stress’ and then basically got lapped by the American women over 60 who came with us lmao. I was so careful as well with putting on suncream and shit and I STILL got burnt!!! the curse of being so fair burdens me every day. I am mostly nicely tanned and the redness has gone down so we chill but it’s so funny bc everyone else in my family is so nicely tanned and then there's a tomato girl walking around with them. my freckles have come back tho so that's nice. 

it gave me a lot of time with my thoughts tho, which I hate. Also being forced to spend that much time with my parents is always interesting. the other people in our group were telling them how good of a job they did raising myself and my brother which always makes me feel weird. I don’t think the good parts of my personality have come from my parents, I often value all the bad things about it to them which may seem harsh but my instinctual politeness and willingness to help wasnt fostered by them teaching it to me, it came from fear of getting yelled at if i wasn't this way and getting in trouble for doing anything other than cutting myself in half to do what was asked of me. I hate the person I become when I spend so much time with them as well like I become so angry and snappy and my tolerance for shit just plummets and I come home and it’s like a wave of relief because I feel so much calmer instantly. And then the next minute I feel awful for not seeing them very often and like guilty for having my own life and actually enjoying not seeing them very often. My mother makes a point of talking about not seeing me and missing me and I struggle to wrap my head around the idea of them missing me because when I see them they don’t talk to me! they don’t ask me shit they just take it in turns complaining about the other to me and I’m sat in the middle with my head in my hands wanting to die! I told them both at separate points that I wasn't getting involved and then got the silent treatment and I was just soooooo doneeeeeeee. I’m so grateful I could go on the trip and the highlights totally outweigh the bad bits but it’s hard to remember the good parts when the last 4 days were spent in a state of tension and arguments that I couldn't walk away from because there was nowhere to go! it’s like a constant battle of being grateful and then being annoyed over and over again and I don’t know how to deal with it so I just don’t! 

Going away with your family at my age is weird as well. my brother and I look very young so everyone else in the group very much assumed we were younger than we are which was funny and I guess a blessing. no shame in it but one of the other ppl in our group wasn't much older than me and she’s married with a house and a stable job and I just sat there like ahahahahahaaaaaaaaa. I know it’s bad to compare yourself to others and I’ve gotten better at not doing it but in situations like that, it’s hard. I said last time how I feel like I’m behind everyone and that's still stuck. I’m not doing bad per se but I’m not really making any money and I’m no closer to starting the career I want and that’s not for lack of trying like I keeeeeep applying for jobs and getting turned down on no response at all and it hurts. I worked so hard for my degree and some days it feels like it was for nothing. I know something will come up soon but the waiting is slowly killing me. 

I didn’t smoke the entire holiday either as I couldn’t because my parents don’t need another reason to be disappointed in me and now I’m back in the UK I can’t afford to buy any cigs but GOD DO I WANT SOME PLEASE. I know it’s bad for u and shit but I just want a little treat. I didn’t miss it when I was away and because I literally couldn't get any it didn’t even really cross my mind bc I was so busy but now I’m back and the corner shop is 5 minutes away i’m like uwu yes pls gimme the lil death stick. I think that's one of my biggest issues, if something is within my reach I literally cannot deny myself it. goes for food, people, drinks whatever, if I can get it I’ll have it even if it’s not a sensible thing to do within the budget I have. I think it stems from my childhood but I’m not getting into that right now. 

In other news, I’m actually having a birthday party for the first time since I was a kid!!! wooo!!! hopefully, I won’t cry this birthday other than from happiness!!!! everyone I’ve asked is well keen as well so I was like yay amazing! and then one of my mates whom my relationship with is so complicated I wouldn’t even know where to start was like ‘Yeah sure I’ll come’ and I was like fab ok and then the NEXT TIME he messaged me he was like ‘oh it’s the FOOTBALL FINAL SO I DON’T KNOW IF I CAN COME’?????????????? HELLO???????????? I’m honestly fuming. I get it, your team might not get to the final again fine whatever but the matches are like in the afternoon so u could still come after???? oh my apologies for thinking I, your friend or whatever whom you have been through an insane amount of shit with, might be A BIT MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE FUCKING FOOTBALL???? I hate men oh my god I’m actually mad and maybe that's selfish but what the fuck. I’m currently leaving him on delivered because I’m not about to start shit between us for the millionth time but considering the conversation we had about new years and how he had fomo you would think he’d wanna come but no. If he does end up changing his mind I’m so tempted to be like ‘nah don’t bother’ but that goes against every single particle of my being so WE’LL SEE. if he tries anything imma whack him (probably) but regardless, it should be fun and it’ll be nice to see all my friends in one place and shit. I’m very nervous about it bc I’m convinced no one will come but everyone I’ve asked has been enthusiastic so hopefully, it goes well. hopefully. I don’t want another birthday where I end up feeling upset or like a burden or whatever. thinking about it reminded me of one birthday I had where my so-called friend made out with the guy I liked when we were in the cinema knowing full well I liked him. good vibes!!! 

anyway, that’s me! once again not particularly positive but I’ve realised I use this as a way to get things off my chest I’m not sure how to properly talk about in person. which I think is kinda the point of this anyway. but regardless, I’m tanned and travelled and back to the grind like the alpha male I am. 

peace out homies

eucalyptus ᡣ • . • 𐭩 ♡

[thesecretoflivereactions]

E-Excuse me? How can you say that? No wonder every other girl ran from you, if your first conversation includes a sentence like this.

So... after that... how the hell is this going to work out? ^^'

I am not sure what to think about the fact that they kept this "supernatural" - part away from us in the first episode. I did know from spoilers I've seen that one of the reasons she has been treated so badly, even by her own father, was because of the fact that she doesn't have any kind of powers, so I was surprised when in her sad flashbacks of the past, this wasn't even so much as hinted at.

I wonder if they didn't want to start out with anything supernatural in the first episode to focus more on the "normal" reasons for Miyos unhappyness.

No wonder they all ran away from him. She got up early to make breakfast and he immediately presumes she poisoned it. What an A**hole! I mean, I guess we do not know what happened to him in the past that he is so weary, but he could still have handled it differently. Like... making it less obvious that he assumes there is poison in the food and find a way to make her test it in a less obvious way or try something to make it sound less like she is someone who just came into his house to murder him. Gee...

She really needs to get out of this "I am the one to blame" - habit. She did nothing wrong. He was the one being all mean and paranoid for no apparent reason.

To be fair here, that is so not what he said and I am sure also not what he meant. It is perfectly reasonable that if he has firepowers, he makes the bathwater hot instead of someone else doing it. He is not telling her that she is incapable, he just told her not to do things that don't need to be done. Which makes sense. Why spend time and energy on something that he can do much easier and much faster?

(The translation says she calls him "sir" but I think she actually uses the word for "Husband", even tho he is not yet her husband.)

Poor girl. She is so happy about that praise that she started to cry and couldn't help but apologize for it, even tho he told her to stop doing it - its a bad habit I had too when I was younger. It is hard to stop doing that.

Lets move on to the third Episode in this post.

He is suspicious of her background and all that, but he still started to treat her nicely. (He said that the previous woman were all after his wealth and his status, so I get why he was weary. But it still doesn't make any sense that he though she would poison him. After all, as long as they are not married, she would hardly get anything from killing him. But maybe he is just paranoid per se and that just added up to not trusting any woman who comes to marry him.)

I am upset. Our pretty title cards are gone.

I am not a huge fan of the message that girls need make up to be pretty but I do understand that some girls need make up to feel pretty. So... I will not complain here, because I guess that is what the old lady was going for.

A headpat... always causes me to think of and miss my Rean and feel like I should go right back to Erebonia XD (I decided to NOT replay CS3 for once this year and pray to Aidios for a Rean cameo in Kai no Kiseki instead. So... I need to be strong here.) BY THE WAY, I think this is their first body contact. Like EVER.

Awwwww.

Oho! Then doesn't that mean that he wants to marry her regardless of what her true background is?

That got me a bit teary-eyed. She is finally treated with love.

So he found out that she doesn't have any abilities and what bloodline Miyo was truly from, but he doesn't seem to care at all. He actually wants to "heal the wounds in her heart" instead it seems. Really cute.

[thornetabris]

hi! okay so i just finished ahsoka, LOVED it (mostly bc all of it was completely female led which you don’t see often these days). i loved ahsoka, sabine, shin, baylan and thrawn particularly. i’m a major wolfwren shipper lol.

okay but here’s the thing; watching ahsoka has made me want to consume more star wars media. before ahsoka, i only watched the sequels and the other movies before when i was like 12. soo i have no idea where to start.

i believe beginning with star wars the clone wars would make sense, but do i need to rewatch the prequel films in order to understand the clone wars (i basically remember nothing from the prequel movies) or can i jump right into it? and after that there’s all these disney plus shows, like the mandalorian which doesn’t seem connected to the movies as far as i can tell - and then there’s star wars rebels! idk, i guess i’m asking if you could give me any advice on where to start and follow on from there? pretty please???

sure!!! im just going to give you where I, personally, would advice on beginning. so I'd say to look around with some other blogs aswell!

disney+ has a chronological list set up if you want to watch everything as a marathon of some sorts. I'd say now is a good time for a marathon too – the next tv show is only coming out in 01/24/24, so you'll have plenty of time to catch up on everything.

there's also the infamous Machete Order, which takes off tv shows and focuses solely on the movies. I wouldn't personally go this route if you wanna really get into star wars as a whole, but if you just want to be up to date, it's a good place to start too – a bit confusing, maybe. They flip the order quite a bit to make it all flow better as a narrative; the prequels are, actually, just an elongated flashback.

Here's how it goes: a new hope, the empire strikes back, the phantom menace, attack of the clones, revenge of the sith, return of the jedi, the force awakens, the last jedi AND the rise of skywalker.

If you don't want to go Machete but per release, it's just the Original Trilogy, The Prequels, The Clone Wars cartoon and then The Sequels. It's very confusing though. I only do it like this if I'm watching it with someone I know has no knowledge whatsoever of the franchise, Vader's identity… all the nice little retcons disguised as plot twists.

Now, if the person does know about it all, which I think you do by the question, I'd say just go chronological order as it's put into the disney+ list. if you just wanna watch the movies first, it's prequels, original and then sequels. I'm gonna write the list with the tv shows sprinkled into it:

Phantom Menace, Attack of The Clones, The Clone Wars, Revenge of The Sith, The Bad Batch, Solo, Obi Wan Kenobi, Rebels, Andor, Rogue One, A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Mandalorian s1-2, The Book of Boba Fett, The Mandalorian s3, Ahsoka, Resistance, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi aaaaaand The Rise of Skywalker.

Oof! big chunk. Adventures of Young Jedis is a fun little cartoon that before everything, but it's very much targeted towards children beneath, say, 11 years old. But still fun to watch if you want to. Visions are independent and non-chronological episodes, so you don't need to include it if you don't want to. I recommend it tho. They're very well done. Tales of the Jedi are also non-chronological, but they follow and study characters such as Ahsoka, Dookan, Qui-Gonn. I highly recommend watching it after the prequels, but again, they are not necessary per se to understand the scope as a whole. Resistance is… Resistance. I didn't enjoy it as much i wished i could (i love the rebels, i love everything about them as a storyline), but they do provide some much needed information that bridges the original trilogy and the sequels.

Now. The Clone Wars. TCW has their fair amount of filler episodes, and it is a seven seasons big chunk. It also was not released with episodes as chronological, so you'd have episodes that released first but were placed before in the timeline. so no judgement if you decide to go Machete on it. Here's a list to the episodes that contains all the most important arcs in it:

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2023/07/the-essential-clone-wars-episodes-every-star-wars-fan-should-watch/

I think. I think that's it!! Hope this helps you anon. I'm always here if you want to!!

[kendrixtermina]

I don't think this is an issue with feminism per se as it is a problem "privilege" rhetoric currently popular in leftist discourse. (tho ppl who emphasize the label are often some of the worst offenders so that I can understand why someone would sour on it.)

Privilege (like "gaslighting", "cultural appropriation" or "Mary Sue") is like one of those ideas that started with a useful, specific & concise definition, but then ppl started yelling it at everything they don't like until it lost all meaning.

Originally it was simply the idea that you might underestimate forms of discrimination you don't directly experience because you wouldn't know all the little ways it grinds on you, & don't have it weighing on you on top of everything else.

But when ppl started flinging it as an accusation it ended up morphing into something resembling the Christian idea of original sin, where it seems to mean you're evil & tainted and not allowed to have an opinion & you better repent & feel bad...

At that point you've horseshoed back around to a position that's not so different from far righters, where there is some insurmountable essentialism proposed that one category can never fully understand or credibly emphasize with another. So the only option is to be in competition or enemies.

And at that point, haven't we lost the whole point of morality? If you can be 'guilty' for something you have no actual influence over and cannot change with your actions? Morality is not supposed to make ppl feel bad for the heck of it, it's supposed to encourage & incentivize good actions & help you how to make them, right? If you behave in a pro-social way & play fair, you reap the benefits of society, if you do not, others won't like or help you. If you put anyone in a position where they start out 'bad' and cannot possibly become 'good', the system breaks down.

Plus, it's just dumb on a rhetorical level.

Because to get equal rights, you need to convince... not everyone, but enough ppl that the remainder can be kept in check by being shamed or punished. You need to convice men. If you're just calling for equality, you have a good chance of appealing to natural sense of justice that even little kids have or empathy for their friends, mothers & sisters, but if you're telling them they're rotten & bad and need to accept that or else you will mock them, it becomes a much tougher sell.

If equal rights is the goal, this is not an efficient way to get to it.

It feeds into the worst human tendency to just completely reduce ppl to single labels & then justify cruel acts through it. Few situations can be boiled down to a black & white contrast of absolute power dynamics. Child rape, maybe, slavery, extreme state violence... but not every single interaction between different gender ppl.

No one is ever just 'a man' or whatever, you lose sight of the entire complex person.

One of the things that distinguishes humans from animals is that they can be part of different, contradictory identities and pseudo-hierarchies. A 'them' can turn into an 'us' in a moment, an 'inferior' to a 'superior' depending on context. Sometimes it's not unambiguously clear who 'has the power' in a given interaction.

I used to be one of those ppl that would whip out the Dictionary definition & go "feminism just means equal rights", but then I gradually realized the hard way that there are ppl who don't want to get rid of the teams, but just want their team to win, & how can you get rid of something that you're actively reinforcing?

Kinda why I was never a fan of quotas. (at least not as a long-term issue)

Well, I guess one possible criticism of that is not everybody wants to 'get rid' of everything, might find something personally meaningful about traditional gender roles or traditional culture, for that matter (something I don't have a problem with as long as its voluntary, cause the alternative is someone telling everyone how they should live, and I have no right to do that nor do I want it done to me...

plus you can't completely stop ppl from forming groups/tribes, it's pretty basic psychology.)

In practice feminism is not that useful as a label cause it's very broad and can mean many different things, and as a movement has so many branches and offshoots that it's hard to say much at all about its position.

It's about as descriptive as saying 'contemporary music'... ok, it's not classical music but there's so many sub genres. Or "protestant christianity", ok you're not hindu or catholic, but lutheran & pentecostal are very different beasts.

Broad overgeneralizing statements never sat right with me; Nowadays I think of this article where the author draws a comparison between that sort of 'all men are evil' radfem rhetoric & some of the anti-muslim talking points he had to live through, & he says this:

when you’re being associated with a crime you can’t even imagine committing and told it’s your problem to solve, you tend not to feel enlisted. Instead, you feel incapable. And when you cast a social problem like that as a problem of identity, lots of people will retreat and defend an identity they feel is unfairly maligned.

Which just seems patently true to me.

It's often much more helpful to label/call out behavior than to label people, lt alone paint large groups with a broad brush, because the latter gets ppl defensive about their egos.

Sometimes labelling people might be appropriate with some extreme evildoer, but with the majority of well-meaning, everyday ppl who are maybe a little flawed or ignorant but mostly trying their best, you'll just drive them away by being hostile to them.

Also, it basically functions indentically to this:

Just substitude "men are trash" for "bodyshaming" and the last bit with "14 year old boys who already feel lonely & unwanted."

I've just seen a TikTok video that made me remember why I first started to reject feminism as idealogy (despite being 100% supportive of women and their rights). It was a video of a male feminist sneering at a mentally ill man for daring to ask for empathy. Literally calling him all kinds of gross victim-blaming shit. Why? because - according to him - people from the "privileged, oppressor" class do not have the right to ask for empathy.

It reminded me of when I first realized that feminist idealogy views gender dynamics through the lines of class struggle. It categorized males as a different "class" from females. And the class difference is only ever that of "oppressor" and "oppressed" (very similar to the Marxist class exploitation/struggle, with all men cast as the bourgeoisie and all women as the proletariat).

This is very dangerous for many reasons. Mainly because we all know and accept that the oppressed class is not and should not feel empathy for their oppressors. And this is exactly the message that feminists internalized about men, all men.

I've seen way too many videos of feminists sneering at mentally ill men asking for help and literally saying that the oppressed should be asked to care about the oppressor.

Society can not function properly if one gender lacked empathy for the other and cared exclusively about their own issues as a "class".

This is such a disastrous worldview - itself a response to another disastrous worldview (toxic masculinity) - and we've seen how it greatly damaged gender relations in the modern world. Sexist men took this damage as an opportunity to further justify toxic masculinity, and women hurt by toxic masculinity took it as a justification to continue categorizing men as an inherently oppressive class of people.

[ssa-atlas-alvez]

5 times the brothers competed against each other and one time they acted as a team. With something to do with Hotch, Jack & son! Reader, please ?

Dad fluff; both of them helping out when they see him at a low point :0 (mere alt idea, do what you wish tho uwu/gen) /nf

Also the werewolf!reader fic? Absolute love, it was hilarious at the end lmao — please do remember that if the request is too much, your requests are closed or you just don't feel like it, don't feel pressured to do it! Stay hydrated, have a nice day and keep your head up! uwu

A/N: credit to loud House for the +1 operation name idea/inspiration

You were twins, both highly competitive in nature and it drove your dad up the wall. The team however, found it absolutely hilarious. Here are just a few examples of the mischief you and Jack have gotten up to over the years:

1.

"Race you down the stairs!" You exclaim, bolting off down the BAU stairs. You laugh, hearing Jack protest and your dad sighing deeply trying to call after you to stop.

Care flying out the window, you sprint down the stairs. Thankfully, you appeared to have good spatial awareness. Jack was only a few stairs behind you, so you let gravity do its work. Soon enough, you're on the last set of stairs. Your ankle gives way and you tumble down the remaining stairs.

Morgan, who just walked into the hall, approaches you in concern. "You okay, kid?" You grin up at him.

"Yeah! I won!"

"That's no fair!" Jack exclaims, making it down the stairs, "I didn't know falling counted! I could have fallen a few floors ago!"

"Whatever, you're just jealous, loser!"

"Oh thank God you're both okay," Aaron mumbles, finally catching up to the pair of you.

"I won."

"You also fell down the stairs,"

"I call it tactical thinking,"

2.

Wrestling. An amazing sport that both you and Jack were obsessed with at the age of twelve. Something had possessed the pair of you to wrestle in the halls - both claiming you'd be the one who would win.

It ended up being a tie, two teachers separating you and walking you to the principal's office with a phone call to your dad. None of the teachers seemed to care that you weren't fighting per se, but competing for your homemade championship belt.

3.

"I bet I'll get a higher score on the maths test than you."

"What?" You scoffed, looking at Jack. "We both know I'm better at maths than you!"

"Yeah, then prove it!"

Whilst Aaron didn't usually approve of your competitive nature towards each other, if it got you both a good math grade (and you were still sleeping, eating, etc), he wasn't going to complain. Jack had won in the end.

4.

"I would totally run a marathon faster than you."

"Bull. Shit." You responded.

"Language," Your dad called, looking over his shoulder.

"Prove it." Jack said. "Come on. Let's join dad in his next marathon. Whoever wins has to buy the other a comic."

"Deal." You both shake hands, Aaron hangs his head in defeat in the background.

You both train effortlessly. When marathon day rolls around, the entire team show up to support you both (and Aaron, but mostly you two). You're both shooting cheap insults at each other up until the start of the race. After the race, however, you're not as energetic - you do both manage the occasion 'idiot' to each other, but that's about it.

When the results are in, however, you're immediately full of energy - you had beaten him by a whole thirty seconds.

5.

"I bet I could take you in a fight," You said, turning to Jack. You were watching the BAU have a rare brush-up on their self-defence and since your dad was taking part, you had to come along and watch. Your dad didn't exactly feel like he could trust you home alone at the minute as the last time you and Jack were left alone, the house ended up in complete chaos from your baking competition (who could bake the most cookies before dad got back - that one was a tie as the kitchen caught on fire).

"Oh god..." Aaron mumbles to himself before he looks on the bright side, at least here he could make sure neither of you died - and it wasn't at school (again).

+ 1

"Dad's sad," You look up from your text book.

"What?"

"Dad's sad," Jack said, "He phoned me to let me know the team had just finished the case and were just boarding the jet and he sounded defeated. I don't think it went well."

You close the text book, biology could wait. "Okay, Operation 'Work together to make dad less stressed and also think of a shorter name' is a go!" You exclaimed. "Up first on the agenda: tidying. Quickly clean rooms and then living room? We can clean the kitchen last and then make dinner."

"My room's already clean," Jack said, rolling his eyes. "I'll start the living room while you deal with this," He motioned vaguely at the growing pile of clothes on your floor. You scoop them up, placing them in the laundry basket - they would go into the wash as soon as you finished cleaning your room.

It took about twenty minutes and then you're joining Jack in the living room, washing on. When that was done, you both made your way out, Jack into the kitchen and you to put the laundry into the dryer. The kitchen is cleaned in thirty minutes and you both begin to cook.

Admittedly, being only fifteen, you weren't the best chefs, but you tried your best. Besides, you may or may not have phoned Rossi for pasta advice (you both hoped he kept it a secret from your dad).

And so, by the time Aaron got home, dinner was nearly ready. You both greet him at the door and Aaron is immediately suspicious.

"What have you done?"

"Cooked dinner," Jack answered with a shrug.

"We phoned Uncle Dave for some pasta advice, don't worry," You added, "Jack said it sounded like the case was a bad one, so we pulled together to make things a bit easier for you tonight,"

"So you've not been suspended for wrestling in the halls again?"

"What? No," Jack laughed.

"Wrestling is so last year anyway, dad. It's all MMA fighting now,"

"Please don't joke about that," Aaron chuckled, "I don't think I could deal with that phone call."

[kingdaddydaichi]

NSFW Alphabet || Katsuki Bakugou

I had so much fun with this! Vodka may or may not have been involved in the making of this little ditty. 🍸 I hope you shameless hussies enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it. 😩

*Exhibit A:

(Source)

A = Aftercare (what they’re like after sex)

I feel like he gets clingy asf, but plays it off like it's something he's doing for your sake. He'll probably never admit that he feels so vulnerable after sex, but he does. If it was a rough session - which it usually is with him - he'll ask if you're okay, if you're hurt anywhere, kiss any marks he left on you - he's such a protective hero boi.

B = Body part (their favorite body part of theirs and also their partner’s)

His: he's not gonna lie, he's fully aware of how well-endowed he is. He really is proud of his cock, the way it makes you sing when he works it - and he knows how to work it okay? Favorite non-sexual body part - his arms. He works hard to keep them cut (as in lifting, not cutting). 😬

Yours: listen, Katsuki is an ass man through and through. Go ahead and tell me I'm wrong, I'm 👏🏼 not 👏🏼 listening 👏🏼. He loves to watch the subtle ripples he sends through your ass cheeks when he's driving into you from behind. Also, our big scary boomboom man appreciates a nice, thicc pair of thighs. Bonus points if they're muscular/toned - he loves the way it feels when your thighs have such a strong grip around him.

C = Cum (anything to do with cum, basically)

Let's just say our boy's orgasms are explosive. He cums hard and loud, shooting long ropes of his hot seed. Consistency is about average, not too thick, not to thin, but there's a lot of it. He doesn't taste too bad - salty, but not too bitter. You're more likely to gag from the sheer volume and force of his cum hitting the back of your throat than the flavor.

His precum gets honorable mention here. It's fucking delicious. That is all.

D = Dirty secret (pretty self explanatory, a dirty secret of theirs)

It took him no less than 2 years into your relationship to tell you this, and if you ever tell anyone he might actually kill you, or at the very least make your ass bleed. He hasn't gotten to the point that he's ready to try it yet, but he's not entirely opposed to the idea of you pegging him. Someday. It kinda does make his balls tingle a little just thinking about it tbh. He hasn't yet, but he thinks he might be ready to try working up to it and is really close to asking you to stick a finger in his ass and stroke his prostate. He's heard how good it feels and he's super curious to find out for himself.

E = Experience (how experienced are they? do they know what they’re doing?)

Not very experienced, actually. He's only had 1 or 2 lovers before you, BUT he's determined to be #1 at everything. Couple that with how perceptive he is and you've got yourself a winner of a loverboy. He's going to make damn sure that, even if things don't work out between you two, he will always ALWAYS be the best you've ever had. No other man will outdo him, E-V-E-R.

F = Favorite position (this goes without saying)

Doggystyle all the way, baby. As stated before, he loves watching your booty jiggle every time he slams his hips against it. He gets off on spreading your ass cheeks to watch his slick-coated cock slide in and out of you. God he just loves hitting it from behind, makes his dick so fucking hard.

Bonus 2nd Favorite Position (couldn't help myself): you on your back with your ankles on his shoulders, your ass lifted off the bed, him on his knees and hugging those thick thighs of yours, keeping them closed as he reams into you. (Slight variation of this one: he leans over you, nearly folding you in half, putting you back on your shoulders with his hands pressing into the mattress beside you, angling you such that his prominent corona rubs over your g-spot as he drills down into you. 10/10 you're gonna scream his name when (not if) your liquid gushes all over him.)

Tell me the truth, am I a disgusting human being? Here are all the fucks I give:

G = Goofy (are they more serious in the moment? are they humorous? etc.)

Bakugou is serious asf about his sex game. This is not the time to joke around or poke fun at him, understand me? If you do he will get pissed and either fuck the silly out of you, or if he's feeling particularly ruthless he'll just stop altogether and let you ache for him as punishment until you beg him for release.

H = Hair (how well groomed are they? does the carpet match the drapes? etc.)

He takes care of his body, paying a lot of attention to his hygiene, which includes manscaping to keep his pubic hair trimmed and kempt. The carpet's just a shade darker than the drapes, like a honey blond. If he lets it grow out, it sticks straight out just like his head hair. It's actually kind of funny and he hates it.

I = Intimacy (how are they during the moment? the romantic aspect)

*sigh* Let's be honest. Katsuki is not the super romantic type, at least not outwardly. However, if he realizes something he's doing is hurting you - physically or emotionally - he's going to stop dead in his tracks and hold you close, push his fingers through your hair, and tell you how much he loves you and how safe you are. He can be rough and he can be an asshole, but if he thinks he's genuinely hurt you at all, he's all over you, doing everything he can to make you understand that he will never let anyone hurt you, especially not himself. Got that?

J = Jack off (masturbation headcanon)

He doesn't jack off very often. You two share a very active sex life so he doesn't see the need to. If you have to be apart for more than a day or two, he'll rub one out. Or if the need hits him particularly hard and you're not available or in the mood, he's not above closing his eyes and reaching into his pants to wrap his thick fingers around his cock and start tugging.

K = Kink (one or more of their kinks)

Lord Baby Jesus, where do I even begin? Kinky, kinky Katsuki. This man should come with warning signs and disclaimers.

First of all, he dom asf okay? Even if he lets you play with his ass someday, he's gonna be bratty about it. He's going to top from the bottom, hashtag facts. And trust that he WILL own you afterwards to securely reestablish his dominance.

Giving and Receiving: Hair pulling. DIRTY TALK - you think he's got a potty mouth in the streets? His mouth is downright filthy between the sheets. Loves it when you dirty talk right back to him. "You love taking my fat cock, don't you princess?" "Mm yessss, fuck me, Katsuki! Your cock feels so fucking good babyyy!" He eats that shit up.

Giving Only: Degradation. Praise. Spanking. Cockwarming. Dom/sub/power play. Shibari/ropework (he tried it bc you wanted to and he fucking loved it). Creampies. Begging. Discipline. Ravishment.

L = Location (favorite places to do the do)

Literally anywhere inside your home/homes - bed, bathroom/kitchen countertops, kitchen/dining table, office desk/chair, any piece furniture is fair game really, up against a wall, washer/dryer, the fucking floor, ugh just all the places to fuck. Not one square foot is sacred tbh.

M = Motivation (what turns them on, gets them going)

Wear something that showcases the curve of your butt. Doesn't have to be revealing per se, matter of fact he'll get possessive as fuck if you're showing too much skin in public. At home/privately though? He can't help himself. Dat ass tho...he is going to smack it hard enough that it stings and that's final, understand?

Tease him. You can't be obvious about it though. If he senses that you're doing it on purpose, it'll just backfire. But if you just so happen to brush against his crotch when you squeeze past him, it'll drive him crazy. Go commando in short shorts/skirt and cross your legs just so, his dick will twitch. Even better if you do shit like this in public where you know he won't act on it. But when you get home you best believe he's going to dick you down so hard, won't even bother to take said shorts or skirt off.

His ears and neck are his most sensitive erogenous zones. Whisper in his ear or kiss his neck and he's going to grit his teeth in an effort to fight back the shudder that threatens to rattle his bones.

N = No (something they wouldn’t do, turn offs)

Let's get one thing straight. Katsuki Bakugou does not share. This is non-negotiable. He will not agree to anything involving additional people - cuckolding, threesomes, orgies, exhibitionism, voyeurism (unless it's him watching you pleasure yourself - that he will gladly do, and probably start palming himself in the process).

O = Oral (preference in giving or receiving, skill, etc.)

Loves giving and receiving. Giving puts him in full control of your pleasure, receiving makes him feel like you're worshipping his cock, which you probably are. Have you seen this man's cock? Of course you have. Gatdamn.

Y'all, Katsuki's so good at eating pussy. Like how does one get that good at eating pussy? I don't even know, but god the way he flicks his hot tongue over your precious, tiny bud before wearing it down like a fucking feed bag? It's unnatural. Like it could be his backup quirk if blowing shit up doesn't work out. You've seen the way he licks his lips when he gets excited, everyone has.* He doesn't even bother swallowing while he's feeding on you so you just be dripping in slick and saliva and he's just slurping away. It's lewd.

*See Exhibit A above.

P = Pace (are they fast and rough? slow and sensual? etc.)

You already know this, but I'll say it anyway. His go-to fucking style is fast and rough, dominant and relentless, hard and dirty. But every once in a while he'll want to take you slow and deep and passionate. He'll hold you so tight in his arms and chest, you'll have to tap his shoulder sometimes to let you breathe. And he'll just roll his hips so fucking thoroughly both of you will feel every last inch, his pubic bone rubbing your clit so hard. You've told him so many times how much you love it when he makes love to you like this, but he maybe makes it a rare treat on purpose. 😈 Little shit.

Q = Quickie (their opinions on quickies, how often, etc.)

Quickies are difficult for our boy. It's not that he's against them, it's just that he savors every drop of sensuality, he has a tendency to draw the pleasure out as long as possible. He can’t help it.

R = Risk (are they game to experiment? do they take risks? etc.)

The idea of having public sex turns him on, but he's only done it with you a couple of times when he was 10000% sure you wouldn't be caught. He can't risk doing anything that would tarnish his reputation and goal of becoming the #1 Hero. He might be freaky as hell, but he needs a sex scandal like an Alaskan needs a refrigerator.

S = Stamina (how many rounds can they go for? how long do they last?)

He loves you long time. He's a Taurus for fuck's sake (well, Aries/Taurus cuspie, but that just sweetens the deal). Great stamina. Grinds you down like a whetstone. Can last as long as he needs to to ensure you cum for him as many times as it takes for you to beg him to stop. If he feels himself getting too close while you're blowing him, he'll stop you and go down on you instead. If he's inside of you, he'll pull out and start kissing all over your body, sucking, nipping, licking until his urge to cum passes, then he pushes it right back in and keeps going.

If on the off-chance he does cum before you, he'll be ready to go again in about 20-30 mins. Just give him some motivation, he deserves it.

T = Toys (do they own toys? do they use them? on a partner or themselves?)

He didn't own any toys when you first got together, but you did. He hated the idea of you using them though, especially when he's right there with you. You've since assured him that you don't want to use them to replace him, but to enhance the pleasure. So now you do use them from time to time.

The first time you managed to coax him into using a toy together, it was a small wireless bullet with a remote. When you brought it out and showed it to him, there was a wild glint in his eye. He carefully inserted the vibrator into you, his cock slowly following suit. He loved the fact that he had complete control over this thing, but later complained because the sensation of it against the head of his cock made him cum too fast. He still wants to use it sometimes though. 😏

U = Unfair (how much they like to tease)

Oh he can be so unfair. He loves teasing you until you're begging him to put his cock inside you. He's not so much into orgasm denial per se; he just loves to hear you beg him for shit - to let you cum, to suck his dick, to stop fucking you when you're overstimmed, etc.

V = Volume (how loud they are, what sounds they make, etc.)

Lol he's fucking LOUD! And he's going to make you cum so hard that you're screaming his fucking name. There was a time when one or both of you lived in an apartment and the neighbors would bang on the wall behind your headboard.

Shit, what sounds does he NOT make? He growls, moans, grunts, groans, yells, swears, fucks you so hard you can hear the wet sound of slapping skin, hell even the bed protests. Another reason he doesn't fuck in public - he can't stay quiet enough to be discreet about it.

W = Wild card (a random headcanon for the character)

Okay, as much of a wild sex beast as he is behind closed doors, he gets embarrassed so easily when your sex life is so much as hinted at around others. It's legit funny how flustered he gets about it.

If he goes into work real tired and Kirishima says, "Hey Bakubro, you look like shit this morning. You and (y/n) stay up too late?" while doing the finger in the hole gesture, Katsuki will just "Shut the fuck up, Shitty Hair, or I'll blast your ass right through that fucking wall!"

Or if you two go out together with friends and the girls are talking about sex-related stuff, Katsuki will just roll his eyes and try to ignore it. But if one of them is all "So, (y/n), does Bakugou ever like accidentally let off explosions while you're doing it?" and you wink and say, "Only when he's especially *cough* frustrated *cough*". Katsuki will go red from his neck up to his hairline and start stuttering, sparks flying from his palms. "H-hey, d-don't tell them sh-shit like that! I-it's none of their god-goddamn b-business, (y/n), what th-the f-fuck?!" Meanwhile, you and the girls are in stitches while he stomps away, just mortified, bless his heart. When you catch your breath from laughing you'll follow it up with, "Looks like tonight's gonna be one of those nights", and you all lose it again.

X = X-ray (let’s see what’s going on under those clothes)

As has been mentioned, Bakugou's well-endowed. I figure he's packing about 7.5-8" in length x just under 2" wide. He takes some getting used to, that's for damn sure. Oh, and he's more of a shower than a grower. Like around 6" long x 1.5" wide when flaccid. Katsuki + sweatpants/basketball shorts = swinging dick print, alright sis? Take notes, this motherfucker visibly jumps when he does, class dismissed.

Y = Yearning (how high is their sex drive?)

Eh, he's surprisingly not ridiculously horny. Maybe a little above average sex drive? A lot of times hero work just takes it out of him and he comes home utterly exhausted and just needs a soft place to land, and you provide him with all the love and nurturing in your heart. ❤

Z = Zzz (how quickly they fall asleep afterwards)

Depends, really, on the time of day and what type of day it's been. If it's late (like past 9pm lol) and he fought more villains than usual that day, he's probs gonna pass out pretty soon after. If it's earlier in the day - especially first thing in the morning - it gets him pumped and almost comically genki.

[ultrakatua]

Lmaooo same person from the Claude's parents ask, I was hoping for more of your opinions (if you have any. All good if you don't tho!)

I mean, it’s more like there’s not much to add… I think they are just shitty lol 

But if you want me to elaborate, here is my tea.

I think it’s pretty clear they were abusive to some degree both physically and emotionally. At best neglectful. Maybe because of the warrior culture of Almyra, maybe because of their own dispositions (I haven’t done the Cyril support, but apparently his father is portrayed as an irresponsible asshole there??). 

I don’t think telling your child to stand-up for themselves is bad advice per se, in that you definitely don’t want them to turn into a doormat either, but it’s clear Claude was pretty much alone in this fight and he got neglected by his parents. Like, there’s a middle ground. The most infuriating thing to me is that his parents should have been the ones to understand him better than anyone else because of their own situation. And they were in a position where they could have protected him! But they did neither. 

I mean, it probably wasn’t done on purpose, they probably thought their “advices” were the right way to deal with the situation. But when you look at the result… It did nothing for him. All he learnt was how to lie and manipulate people… It’s useful for survival ofc, and you could argue it’s the sole reason he’s able to achieve anything in the first place (which isn’t wrong), but at what cost… Like, he wouldn’t have been involved into a fucking 5 years war without that in the first place. He did exactly as they told him, he stood for himself, he fought his haters (and we know Claude hates violence), but it didn’t stop shit at all. He ended up emotionally damaged for life and he still got abused to the point he flew away at the first occasion… He compares his situation and feelings to Marianne’s, and the girl is suicidal ffs.

Also it may be only to keep his cover intact, but he says at some point he has no contact with his parents while in Fodlan. And in his endings you can see that taking the throne really wasn’t something he could achieve just like that either, he has to prove his worth and in every cases but the Byleth ending, it takes him YEARS to get there. In the S support he explains he will have to struggle alone to take power in Almyra because while he has contacts in royalty, it won’t be easy. Which is like, fair enough, until you realize his “contacts” are THE FUCKING KING AND QUEEN. Dude just won a war at a strong disadvantage and it still isn’t enough for those assholes.

So yeah, that’s pretty much my detailed thoughts about them lol And don’t get me started on the physical abuse. (EDIT: apparently that was a translation mistake. The horse incident seems more similar to what Dimitri went through in his childhood, ie harsh training conditions, which at least make sense in the context of the game)

(also slightly off topic, but I think Claude got bullied for way more than just his lineage. He’s a calm and collected person raised in a warrior nation, which probably didn’t help. He mentions several times he hates conflict and confrontation, his hobbies are more that of a nerd, etc. And in Fodlan where no one knows about his mixed-blood, people still talk shit about him because he’s different. He was never meant to have it easy)

[la-paritalienne]

Don't know if the anon wanted it but I do want the review for Fine Line 👀

oh yayyyyyy! there it goes! fair warning, i’ve written it upon my first / second listen as i do w all my reviews, bc i feel like that way it manages to include a first impression kind of vibe without it being superficial. i’ve reread and i agree w myself (hehe) and i’ve lifted a few grades bc i’ve been feeling some stuff more lately, but yeah, this was not written now so. just to clarify.

golden: okayyyyy i wasn’t expecting for his voice to sound like this!! like, low and raspy? it sounds more intimate this way, i think? as for the sound, it’s kind of funky and think as an opener, this song really represents the sound he chose for this album… i could be wrong tho, let’s see how it goes on. slightly repetitive but the voice won me over and overall, i really like it.

fave lyrics: i’m out of my head and i know that you’re scared because i’m so open.

8/10

watermelon sugar: when this song starts i’m like ok… i like everything about it… but then the chorus comes in and idk, something annoys me about the ‘watermelon sugar high’, i think it’s hyper metric so that doesn’t sit right w my ears, and then worst lyric ever goes to ‘i want your belly’… so overall it’s a meh from me. the breathe me in / out part sounds so lovely thoooo.

fave lyrics: baby you’re the end of june

6-/10

adore you: this is my fave out of the singles! it’s just boppy and cute, a feel good song. it doesn’t amaze me but i wouldn’t mind listening to it often bc it’s just a happy song and it’s sooo catchy, it’s the only single that truly got stuck in my head. it does sound like a zayn song – like, a lot – in some parts, which isn’t bad per se just… unexpected i guess?

fave lyrics: you don’t have to say you love me, i just wanna tell you something, lately you’ve been on my mind

7,5/10

lights up: at first this song disappointed me very much so idk if i can be completely objective on it, rehearing it i actually really like it… like maybe as a song it’s better than adore you but less catchy so i liked it way less at first? here too, major zayn vibes. it’s growing on me, although there’s still something that i’m not a fan of, idk what it is exactly… maybe the strophe?? i love the ‘shine’ part, not sold on the verse and ‘la da da’, but overall maybe listening to it again i like it better than adore you… it grew on me!

fave lyrics: it’d be so sweet if things just stayed the same

8/10

cherry: oh??? i almost didn’t recognise him, there’s a reverberation in the voice or something? i’m no expert so i’m sorry if i’m bullshitting, i’m just trying to describe what i hear. i feel like i like the music more than i like the words (not the words per se, although the songwriting is kind of childish here, tbh, but more like the delivery). i don’t like this… it’s boring and whiny. (also the ‘coucou’ as a background sound kind of irks me) but it’s a good song, maybe just not memorable or not my personal fave. the ending audio doesn’t make much sense to me bc it’s not something you say in like a voicemail, it’s something that requires a response like, as if he’d recorded a conversation and removed his own voice? or just kind of staged? but i like how the final word fades into music.

fave lyrics: i just miss your accent and your friends (let’s be real, the lyrics are so unimpressive, it was hard to pick a line).

5/10

falling: oh woooooooooow, i love the way his voice sounds without any effect on it… to me, the lyrics just hit deeper this way, but it’s also that the lyrics here are really something else! and the lyrics……. wow again. i’m loving it! it does that thing where it makes me sick to my stomach in a meaningful, beautiful way. oooh there’s a loooong high note too! nothing to add, this is perfect for me.

fave lyrics: [everything wtf. but especially] what if i’m someone you won’t talk about?

10+/10

to be so lonely: i wasn’t expecting where this was going when it started, very beatlesy, soothing sound and soothing voice! there’s something dreamy about it, the pre-chorus especially, that makes the chorus surprising. and then it’s insistent and like… gets groovier and groovier. veeeery beatles, definitely. i’m a fan!

fave lyrics: i’m just an arrogant son of a bitch who can’t admit when he’s sorry

8,5/10

she: oh i looove psychedelic rock!!!! my genreeeee! beatles again, and pink floyd of course as the most obvious influences. (i want you / she’s so heavy?? it reminds me of the lacrosse the universe version also). and i feel like pink floyd for something in the sound, but the whole thing like voice + sound is more beatles, the descriptive side to it… it reminds me of eleanor rigby like… the way the song makes me feel, kind of anxious in a way that’s not necessarily bad? it just makes me feel things. flexing w that instrumental!!!!! wow. i mean this is my jam, i also love the lyrics so it’s a big big yes from me, although i mean, not groundbreaking as in – it’s been done a lot over the 60s and 70s especially… which is why it’s not a ten, but still, great song.

fave lyrics: she lives in daydreams with me

9,5/10

sunflower, vol. 6: cute!!! the lyrics, the sound, the light falsetto part, the funkish beat! oooh and there’s some funky instrument that i’m too ignorant to define, but nice! maybe for my taste it’s kind of messy, i guess in a good way but also in a way that it’s not something i want to listen to a lot, i think? the hooting and howling in the end… interesting… not really my thing and the beatles did it in the 60s but like… cute.

fave lyrics: i’ve got your face hung up high in the gallery

6,5/10

canyon moon: this sounds too much like italian masterpiece ‘acqua azzurra, acqua chiara’ for me to take it completely seriously, but per se it’s quite nice to listen to, it feels almost country? i swear every time the guitar comes in i kinda lose it bc it’s just… sooo much alike, so i’m sorry i can’t really say more about it. cool lyrics and it’s a nice song!

fave lyrics: the world’s happy waiting

7-/10

treat people with kindness: ok this is……… i’m sorry but i’m cringing a bit (a lot). when he comes in it’s not bad, it’s just… the idea of making a song out of a slogan is not genius, to me, like, it’s bound to sound weird and inorganic i think?? i’m sorry, i’m trying to like it but i can’t, like there’s some nice screaming (all together now, just a little bit of kindness) and the gospel chorus per se is amazing but i can’t unhear the lyrics and overall it sounds a bit messy.

fave lyrics: and if we’re here long enough we’ll see it’s all for us and we’ll belong

3/10

fine line: i feel like this is a very fine (hehe) stylistic excercise, again, kind of psychedelic, lots going on w the music, lots of falsetto and some powerful lyrics, but somehow i get distracted while listening to it… kind of (very) boring? especially w how long it is, i guess it aims to make a statement but if so idk, i expected some powerful change throughout? a bridge or something? the mind wanders as you listen to it, one of my least faves for sure.

fave lyrics (these are impressive tho!!): put a price on emotion, i’m looking for something to buy, you’ve got my devotion but man, i can hate you sometimes

5-/10

thank you so much for asking! i do these for myself and like the few friends that care bc i find it interesting and ‘challenging’ to put my thoughts down and grade stuff but also a relaxing pastime at the same time. let me know what you think of course if you want♡

[runawaykotaro]

Sakagin!! 😀 if you don't mind? 😊

I absolutely DO NOT mind!! Sakagin is GOOD

Gives nose/forehead kisses: I think this one is Gintoki! like, especially after Sakamoto gets injured doing something stupid… like, sakamoto will finish telling gintoki what happened and gintoki will sigh and brush his hair back and press a kiss to his forehead and be like ‘whatever moron” be more careful is implied

Gets jealous the most: Sakamoto I think. like. Not… jealous, per se? but i’m thinking about Sakamoto’s inner monologue during the rakuyou fights when he’s watching gintoki and takasugi/ gintoki takasugi and zura.

Takes care of on sick days: Gintoki!! After the obligatory five minute period of ‘get your plague infested face away from me.’ Sakamoto is more of a ‘Hey I heard you were sick so I picked you up some soup/cough-drops/whatever Feel better soon!!’ type person. Usually by the time Sakamoto hears Gintoki has been sick, he’s already over it though. Space-time and all

Drags the other person out into the water on beach day: SAKAMOTO aljkdf;alksjdf;lsdkjf he sometimes forgets Gintoki can’t swim.

Brings the other lunch at work: lol Gintoki but it’s only like ONCE when Sakamoto was staying over at gin’s during an extended stay on earth and forgot his lunch at the yorozuya so gintoki dropped it off for him (and told him it was a one time deal and he’d just have to buy lunch the next time goddammit gintoki wasn’t some kind of delivery boy)

Tries to start role-playing in bed: I could see this one going either way. and also i could see this one going Horribly either way

Embarrassingly drunk dancer: Neither of them particularly LMAO they’re embarrasingly drunk SINGERS catch them stumbling down an alley at three a.m. waking up all the neighbors

Firmly believes in couples costumes: Gintoki believes in staying in his house with a bowl of candy and the lights off on halloween so…… Sakamoto!!! Sakamoto and the kids also team up to drag Gintoki out of the house on halloween lol (with otose’s help- she tells gintoki that she’ll knock a month off his rent if he runs a booth at the street carnival for a couple of hours- obviously timed so that they can all go do stuff after :’))

Breaks the expensive gift rule during Christmas:SAKAMOTO LMAO Gintoki couldn’t if even if he wanted to (he doesn’t)

Makes the other eat breakfast: They’re both really good at remembering to eat!! Gintoki always remembers to eat (even if it’s only something small) because of living with Kagura. Sakamoto is conscientious about taking care of himself

Remembers anniversaries: Both of them!! But Gintoki won’t say anything about them if Sakamoto doesn’t first (Gintoki doesn’t want him to feel like. tied down by them or that he’s obligated to celebrate if there are other things that he wants/needs to do. Gintoki ALSO doesn’t want to buy him anything.)

Brings up having kids first: Neither of them. Gintoki’s got Shinpachi and Kagura (and every other character eighteen or under who waltzes through the yorozuya) and Sakamoto spends too much time traveling- it wouldn’t be fair to any kids when he and gintoki spend most of their time like. on seperate planets + he has a business to run! regardless of how much of that business is handled by mutsu.

Kills the bugs: Either or. Gintoki usually finds them first tho

First to define them as a couple: Sakamoto!! He brought Gintoki to a business function  (it was a disaster. Gintoki picked a fight with three people, broke a table, and made of with AT LEAST $3000 of valuable prototypes that he later sold for $30 at that one pawn shop) and introduced him as his fiance (the f was going to start a different word but mutsu stomped on his foot)

Who hides their guilty pleasures longer: Neither of them i think LOL if i had to choose i’d say gintoki but they’re both pretty shameless

Snorts while laughing: also gintoki :’) but only a little bit