#treasured mutuals

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obSESSED W>ITH YOUR TAGS I HAVE to put order in my thoughts but i love the magic concept of it's same energy but just faster with the lace thing ? since i was little i was like SLAY fucking slay. ALSO ELVA????? ELVA??????????? anyway as an adult i like ertagon a lot he's just a fucking fifteen yo or whatever. I ADORE NAsuada. and Glaedr. and everything. anyhow ive been going down this hole because i wanna read the new book that came out last year so YEAH i guess. Also murtagh baby boy very zuko if i must be cookie-cutting him

REAL SO REAL nasuada fucking RULES!! elva being an enigma to everyone except angela is downright hilarious to me ,, they just have zero clue what to make of her. And glaedr and oromis!! I wanted nothing more as a kid than to learn from them (i used to try recreate that scene where eragon has to meditate on a tree stump and try and sense all the creatures around him. Id just sit in a field for 20 minutes and try and hear everything and identify all the sounds i could pick out.)

Also deeply loved seeing glimpses of the urgals culture in later books its so interesting to me !! And the dwarven clans and gods!!! Im just a sucker for that good good worldbuilding 😌

Murtagh my favourite emo *slaps his head* this boy can fit so much trauma angst :D and damn youre right he really is zuko...

Ive had The Fork the Witch and the Worm for years and the Guide to Alagaesia too, but ive not read Murtagh yet 😔 ive loaned my bookset to my friend in an effort to get them to read it after 4 years of begging xD so i have to wait till they finish so i can reread the whole thing before the new book unfortunately T.T (its been almost a year. To be fair i also borrow books from them for a year at a time sksjsj were both terrible at remembering to read them)

[caprisun-wizard]

Danny phantom gang rise up!!!

My favorite episode was the purple back gorilla one

hell yeah nice dude! my fave one is the freaky hospital where everyone gets random ghost powers

[longeyelashedtragedy]

I was tagged by @eddietheeagleeriksens !! thank you kindly!!

Tagging: @mwrieke @purefractals @echthr0s @lamperry4ever @bsaka7 (on whichever blog if u want) @colorsofmyseason note: i say if any of you don't want to post a selfie you can post your pet or your Fav Person or idk anything you find cool!

Last Song: guajira guantanamera - compay segundo

Favourite Colour: pink, black

Currently watching: ...absolutely nothing. when i feel like watching something i either watch football commentary videos or get seriously trashy and look up youtubers talking about youtube drama. i have 10/29/2011 chelsea vs. arsenal game queued up to watch when i'm in the mood

Last movie: sincerely have no idea. if memory serves, i think i watched "the golden compass" on my flight to amsterdam in june. (the book was worlds better.)

Sweet/Spicy/Savoury: savo(u)ry!

Current Obsession: well, football! i've been into it for quite some time now, which feels so nice. more specifically, well, uh. i think you guys already know 🙈🙊

Last thing I googled: "retro DOS games online." wow, my cool levels are off the charts

Selfie: below the cut! i finally got my hair re-straightened after a year so i look...different. (this is why i had the braids and hat on sunday. the situation was dire.) apologies for the tits; if only they were as nice as Lampsy's.

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BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD! Once you are given this award you’re supposed to paste it in the asks of eight people who deserve it. If you break the chain nothing happens, but it's sweet to know someone thinks you’re beautiful inside and out! 💙

Oooohh!!!! Ohh you are so sweet 🥰💕🥰💫

[vulpinesaint]

Hey yo thats some kind of pretty boy a handsome man one might say

pretty boy sighting 😳 cute boy spotted in the area…

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7 14 and 30?

hi danny ily!! 🥰

7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate?

oh there are lots of things i don’t work in but i think are extremely cool! for example, textiles!! i don’t know how to embroider or sew things bigger than fixing a button or sewing up rips, adding patches to my jackets, etc. that’s something i really truly admire because it’s so cool to me and also seems really hard

14. Any favorite motifs?

YES YES YES i love vampire/monster imagery (fangs!!!) sun/moon imagery and religious imagery (haloes, wings, angels, blood tears, etc etc etc) (typical mcr fan). i love seeing them in other people’s art and i love trying to incorporate it into my own 💕

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated?

i did already answer this here HOWEVER i’ll pick another one…just scrolling through my art blog there are some pieces i quite like but if we’re truly talking underrated…i would probably pick this poison ivy drawing from a couple years ago, i still think it holds up really well and is possibly nicer than anything i’ve drawn recently but has less than twenty notes so it fits the bill :}

thank you for the asks danny ily!! ❣️💕🩵💛🩷

send me art asks from this post! (i’m @ravenxbones if you guys didn’t know!!)

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my troubled perfect princess who deserves 400 years in jail <3

[egophiliac]

@enderfore replied to your post “What do you think of Rook's savanaclaw card? <333”:

Chenya pic where???? I can barely see anything in that room there so much going on, rooks such a lil freak (affectionatr)

​he's under the row of flags on Neige's side of the room, next to the big Neige poster with the yellow background (look just to the right of the hand holding the apple)! he's REAL little; once you know he's there you can kind of see him in-game, but I only noticed him in the first place because I took a screenshot and was having fun zooming in on all the details!

I think that's either Hop or Snick and Dominic on either side of Neige, but if the others are meant to be anyone in particular I don't recognize 'em. though I do love all the absolutely terrifying implications of Rook having this. was this some kind of officially-published merchandise (and if so, why) or did Rook like...go hunting through the RSA trash to find this random student lineup just because it included Neige, and has had it hanging proudly on the wall ever since. (I mean, he definitely did do this, I don't know why I'm asking. the real question is why he hasn't cut out little pictures of his own face and stuck them over everyone else's yet.)

there is seriously SO MUCH in this room. how did Rook manage to keep this hidden for three years. also, somebody give this background artist a raise immediately.

[chinzhilla]

Marc Natarit as Pond and Poon Mitpakdee as Sand in Perfect 10 Liners e02-03

[finn-shitposts]

just dropping by to let you know i'm laughing like a hyena at all your ides of march posts 😂 10/10 would rb all of them but i don't want to scare away my exo mutuals lol (i'm too lazy for a sideblog 😬)

🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 glad we all had fun stabbing together skksjs

N yeah i feel it im far too lazy to make sideblogs for anything new these days T.T i just got into kpop way after i made my og blog so i keep it (mostly) seperate for the sanity of my long suffering mutuals 😌

[longeyelashedtragedy]

Happy birthday from the -verse! May the sad pathetic men stay hairy and round, may their thighs still be Strong, and may we find many more pics and interviews that would prove our deductions right! Besides all the -verse stuff, I hope you can celebrate and rest and enjoy not just this day but all those to come!

(PS. There will be a birthday fic eventually where hopefully the sad round hairy men will feature in full glory).

THANK YOU! 🥳💛🎂🍕🍔🍗🍼

you know we will keep finding those--because our deductions are right! (Fate, up against your will, through the thick and thin...)

but more importantly, thank you so much for the birthday message, i appreciate it so much! a few years ago when i first read about how 💛💛ivan wants to do something else💛💛 i could never have envisioned the -verse!

(and i'm looking forward to it whenever it happens! there's nothing like a Sad Round Hairy Man except...multiple ones!)

[perditious]

!!!! MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY, GUMDROP!!!

guess who turned 25 half an hour ago :>

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22. Have you ever met someone in person that you met online?

23. One thing you haven’t done sexually that you are hoping to try.

22. Yes! I have met a couple mutuals before!

And

23. More actual piss play with partners!!!

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tagged by @sleevesareforlosers AND @paralytic-states AND @agentcherricola to post 5 songs i’ve had on repeat lately SO here they are:

1. Desperate Measures by Marianas Trench

2. Everything Moves by Bronze Radio Returns

3. Erica Western Teleport by Emperor X

4. Keep It Simple by Cobra Starship

5. All to Myself by Marianas Trench

those are just the ones i thought of off the top of my head! obviously no pressure to participate and i don’t have many people to tag since most everyone i’d usually tag tagged ME but @ribombeee @cherricloverr @grxffiti-on-your-grave @tiredstressedemotionalmess if you would like to do this feel free!

[isawken]

logging back onto social media after disappearing for several weeks due to another round of mental distress

[longeyelashedtragedy]

had this waiting for me all throughout the chaos of yesterday and OH. this is devastating. it sneaks up on you.

"This is a love story where the lovers come second" if that's not one of the most perceptive things ever said about Xhakarteta. it turned out that's exactly what happened. and thinking about how granit and mikel are--that makes sense. so that's the tragedy of it--that the love story that you slowly build on here, such a love story has to come second.

I never should have gone to bed!

Mikel / Granit NSFW work of fiction etc etc not edited. No warnings :)

Happy early birthday @longeyelashedtragedy unless you hate it, then hold out for Frank and Jamie Jamie Jamie.

Or just type “I hated it” no matter what and pride will compel me to finish Frank and Jamie (there’s magic)

Mistaken for Strangers

As long as you know Mikel loves Granit, and Granit loves Mikel, you know all the important things. There is nothing else you need to know going into this.

You can switch any of the lesser facts to something you understand better or like more. That’s fine. It doesn’t change anything really if they were rugby players instead. It’s just a forty minute half instead of forty-five. Should still work though. Both ball sports.

You don’t need to know the offside rule. You don’t need to have memorised the top goal scorers by season. They don’t even have to be sportsmen, if you don’t want.

It also ends. In every telling it ends. You have to know that as well. The weeks have run out of days.

I want to assure you: You don’t have to know anything else about them to understand this story.

It might be better not knowing some things. For example: it might be better if you didn't know that Mikel was Granit’s boss.

Mikel has dark hair and dark eyes. He ages slowly, he has a scar on his knee that hurts when it rains or when he stands for too long. He’s vain.

Mikel can easily be a blonde though. He could be Michael and have an arm injury that would make typing difficult for long periods, if you’d prefer. He’d still be Granit’s boss. Even if they worked in an office. Even if they were architects.

He’s Spanish. He could be French though, if you think that accent is sexier. (It’s not, but it’s fine if you think that.)

Granit has a temper. Mikel looks like he has one. Mikel looks hot blooded and impetuous. (He might be better as a redhead than a blonde. If he is ‘Michael’ that is.)

He isn’t. Hot blooded or impetuous. He is impatient and slightly arrogant. But he’s quite handsome so he can carry it off. Granit is though, both hot blooded and handsome. (You could make him a little more handsome. You could make his teeth a tiny bit smaller and his chin slightly less prominent.)

Granit is also married. You can skip that, but, It’s important. But it’s fine to pretend.

Mikel is married too. (That isn’t the most important thing through. What is the most important is Mikel loves Granit and Granit loves Mikel and you already know that this ends).

Granit has daughters that he loves. He wouldn’t mind a son, so it’s okay if you give him one instead. Or as well.

They are both dog people, but cats are acceptable. They meet because of football. Fairly important. If you keep this story in London it should be football. And if it is going to stay football in London it should be Arsenal. Along with love, Arsenal is non-negotiable.

Love and Arsenal and endings. This could potentially happen at Chelsea. Definitely not at Spurs. Fundamentally not a West Ham story. This could never have happened at Fulham.

This is a love story where the lovers come second. There was a chance, once, this could have happened at Spurs. But that player never slammed his hand down on that manager's desk. That player never leaned over and sneered in his manager's face. That player never spread his legs wide and sat his ass down on the corner of that manger’s desk with his chin lifted up like “try me.” Maybe he should have.

If you hate England (fair) this could also be Athletico Madrid. If you want them to be drinking beer the night before Granit leaves you can set this in Germany. But it would have to be Dortmund if you did.

Look: I don’t make the rules for love and love and Arsenal and endings. Contracts run out of seasons. I hope you like bees if you move this to Germany. I hope you like the colour yellow.

Mikel is shorter than Granit and he has to press up on his toes to kiss him. Mikel is Spanish (or French) and Granit is Swiss (and Albanian. Or Swedish and Croatian, that could also work).

You can say: the Spaniard pressed up on his toes to kiss the taller Swiss man. You shouldn’t, not because it isn’t true, it’s very true. You just… shouldn’t say things like that.

However, you’ll have to keep that bit now. Not just for the aesthetic, the beauty of how it looks, Mikel the boss, (or the gaffer or the mister) but it also informs the ending. This always ends. It does end with a kiss. But first it ends with Granit turning his head away when Mikel presses up to kiss him.

There are ten years between them and that is perfectly acceptable. They didn’t meet when Granit was young. There isn’t the messiness of say, fifteen year old Granit meeting nearly twenty six year old Mikel.

This isn’t that kind of story. If you wanted it to, it could be. Granit knew about twenty six year old Mikel. If not football - could be Paul Maurice or something he could coach the Panthers - Mikel is still well known.

You could scooch the ages up and down a bit if you like. Granit thirty to Mikel’s forty becoming thirty-one to thirty-nine. Thirty two to thirty eight.

I want you to know, Granit loves Mikel. And Mikel loves Granit. And they both love Arsenal. Eventually.

Sometimes football is just a job, a stopwatch that runs out of seconds. Before Mikel, Arsenal was just a job. So it could be any job. Could be a coffee shop or a call centre.

Granit isn’t the kind of person to just go through the motions but he needed to learn to feel it the right way.

Mikel’s hands are always soft at first and Granit had to learn that first, how to receive softness.

I don’t want to dwell on the ending, even though it’s inevitable. The beginning was beautiful. Cold. Cold like winter and cold like losing. Cold like your own fans turning on you.

Granit sitting on the edge of Mikel’s desk leaning back. Like it was his office, like it was his desk. Mikel stepping between his legs. Like this, Granit leaned back, they are closer in height. Mikel stays off his toes and Granit is caught flat footed. A shy man running out of bravado, a lover running out of bluff.

Desks and offices aren’t made for first times. Too many hard angles, too many corners. Mikel and Granit half stripped, grinding against each other, hands grabbing then trailing away just to grab something else.

Too fast, too awkward, after a ringing threatening silence. A timer running out of time. Then the glossy soft sound of them kissing again.

It didn’t have to be an office. Granit could have stormed into Mikel’s kitchen if he was a cook. Could have slammed his hand down next to the precisely diced onions. Could have fronded each other against a stainless steel bench being careful of the knives.

Or if they were mechanics- they are very good at their jobs if they were mechanics they would be formula one - maybe they would have kissed that first time next to a car jacked up with one tire constantly, lazily rotating. Kissed until the car ran out of racetrack. Until the wheel ran out spins.

There will always be a middle. There will always be a redemption.

Always Granit- Swiss /Albanian - possibly Swedish / Croatian - going from villain to hero. Always eventually accepting the cheers of the crowd.

Granit would always have called Mikel to hear him breath down the line when it could have been a text. Mikel will always slide his fingers into Granit’s hair with its soft curls (or glide his fingers through his long flaxen locks, or smooth his hands across Granit’s shaved head for preference). This will always happen with eternal gentleness.

Even the times they are angry and fuck. Even when Granit is drunk and raging. Even the time when the title has been awarded and they can’t look at each other and they can’t stay away from each other.

Ifyou don’t already know, they didn’t win that title. Even though this is a love story and a redemption story this isn’t a fairy tale. (So it couldn’t have happened at Spurs then).

Mikel will always touch Granit’s hair softly first. They will always break the law to see each other. It might be Covid protocols. It might not be wearing a mask when they are near each other. (Hardly worth a mask is it? When they are breathing messily into each other's mouths and blowing each other in the office in Mikel’s garden.)

If it were some other crime, an elaborate Las Vegas heist when they maybe would have stolen a golden statue and had sex, with it sitting on a side table in a dingy hotel room with a “welcome to fabulous Las Vegas” cap covering the top of it.

If they were in the Mafia perhaps they would have killed someone and gone home to have grim terrified -exhilarated sex with the smell of blood still in the air. If they had committed actual crimes , not just the moral failings, Mikel would still press up on his toes and slide his hands behind Granit’s ears into the softness of his hair.

There is a part before the ending. A part before the race ran out of racers. When it was almost like they could have it all. When they had a trophy almost on their fingertips, and their wives were clueless, and when Granit had looked down in wonderment, his hands planted on the bed next to Mikel’s head. The distant thump of their bodies together, the counterpoint of the headboard. A song running out of beats.

Granit caught in only a sort-of lie. Where was he? With Mikel (cook, mechanic, late night TV host).

What were they doing? Talking about football (menus, wrenches, the Supreme Court).

Why so late? (The season is teetering on the brink, the restaurant is teetering on the brink, democracy is teetering on the brink.) In no universe does Granit consider telling the truth.

‘We made love on the couch. We kissed all the way through. Mikel fucked me, and before he did he used his fingers to make it easier and becuase it feels amazing. Also the season is on the brink and democracy is fading.’

A comedian will run out of jokes. A drunk will run out of excuses. A husband will not run out of wife.

They come second, Arsenal not the wife. And in the early summer Mikel presses up on his toes and Granit turns his head to the side. He gets a new job, he moves to head office, “spends more time with his family”.

I’m sorry. It turns out there is no other story. There is only this Mikel. There is only this Granit. There is only their story. And it ends.