#twigger warning abuse

[theyanderespecialist]

Taking Care (Headcanons) Yandere Striker X Injured Reader (Helluva Boss)

[Hello, My Sexy Muffins! I am here with a new chapter! This one was requested off of YouTube 11 months ago! I will have more in the video version on YouTube and TikTok (TikTok might die but I post videos there as well)  I hope you all enjoy this chapter here my muffins!] 

(Disclaimer: Striker is not yandere in canon! This is just for fun and not to be taken seriously at all! Simping for fictional characters and yanderes is fine, just do not be illegal or gross about it. You know who you are, you dirty flaky biscuits! Yanderes are not ideal partners to have in real life. Also, remember to separate fiction from reality and headcanon from canon!) 

(TWIGGER WARNING: Mentions and Themes of Physical Abuse, Please Read this, or watch the video with Caution!) 

-Headcanons With Yandere Striker X Injured Reader From Helluva Boss- 

.Now striker would take care of you for sure, but let's be honest there is at least a 50 percent chance he was the one to injure you... so let's talk about it~  .If he was the one to injure it is likely you tried to run away.  .But also he could have been jealous and accidentally hurt you.  .Now if it was you trying to run away I am certain your leg is at least broken! Can't run from him now, can ya? .If it was him getting jealous and accidentally hurting you it may have been a backhand or pulling your hair or dragging you back home by your wrist leaving bruises.  .He of course feels awful if he accidentally hurt you, though he would gaslight you still and make you feel like it was your fault. .And if he punished you and injured you, he will also continue to gaslight you, saying if you were a good darling then you would not have been punished.  .He rarely if ever takes the blame for injuring you, so be ready for that.  .But if hurt you on accident and caused serious damage, the cowboy would have so much damn guilt and he would try extra hard to pamper you and treat you right.  .Yup Striker is that type of yandere where he may cross a line and hurt you, but he buys your favorite flowers, cooks your favorite meals, and pampers ya.  .This is what an abuser does and what he does as his yandere side. 

(DISCLAIMER: If a man, woman, or whatever else hits you, then is all sweet and nice to you, until they get angry again and hit you, that is abuser stuff. I had a coworker who had a boyfriend who did that, she would get random flowers delivered every few weeks, one day she sweated off makeup and had a black eye, we got her to talk to us and she explained what was going on. I won't share any more of that BUT This is something you need to get out, if it starts with something small but that person can lose control more and more, how long will it go on, do you want his anger to be the last thing you see? if you are in a situation like this and can't get out I am not shaming you! It is hard especially when kids are in the picture and my heart goes out to you all! I pray for anyone in this stuff to be safe and sound, love you my sexy muffins) 

.Truth is he does not want to hurt you and he hates himself for it.  .But he still does it cause he does not want to lose you and it is the only way he knows he can keep you in line.  .He still tries his best to use it as a last resort.  .Now if you were injured from falling down the stairs be worried and make sure the stairs are baby-proof so you don't slip on them again.  .If you cut yourself or burn yourself while cooking he would clean them up and bandage them, he would scold you but make sure you were okay first.  .If someone else was to injure you, they would be tortured for weeks if not months on end, he would shatter whoever dared harm you. 

.He might have to get rough with you, but he for sure as hell would not let anyone else lay a hand on you. 

.Hell be damned. 

.He is protective and caring but when the time comes for it, he will do whatever it takes to keep you, even if that means he has to lay hands on you and your family. 

[YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS another chapter is done! I hope you all enjoyed this, and stay sexy, all of my sexy muffins!] 

[average-sewer-rat]

TWIGGER WARNING ⚠️⚠️⚠️

Please read with extreme caution as the link contains graphic depictions of animal abuse towards cats.

It has become a disgusting trend in china to mutilate cats. Unfortunately China does not have any animal protection laws to help these innocent cats from being tortured. When I say this please know that it is 10x worse that what it seems like. Bellow is a link to help support the cause of an anti animal cruelty law in china. Please be careful as there are some gruesome (censored for the most part) images of what sick people have done to cats and kittens alike. As if it couldn’t be worse people have started putting bounties on PEOPLES OWN PET CATS. I cannot stress this enough but PLEASE spread awareness about this. Send it to everyone you know, friends, family’s, local animal shelters, EVERYWHERE.

Link: https://sites.google.com/view/savecatsinchina/take-action/posters-postcards?authuser=0#h.wesor7gjtj6m

[gothams-problem-children]

Twigger Warning: Stabbing, thoughts of self mutilation, thoughts of cannibalism, talks abuse, PTSD, talk of underaged drinking, and under aged drug use, talk of panic attacks, talk of smoking, depression.

Occ: Basically it’s the holidays I’ve decided my gift will be a angesty facts about my ocs anyways I will put this here.

Jacob

He is cannonlly immune to fear toxin. Because when he was little his father always tested fear toxin on him some many times that he ended up being immune but is still plagued with terrible nightmares.

2. He has cannonlly drank twice and used drugs once at a party he was invited to. He immediately felt extremely guilty and ended up having a panic attack and the middle of the party. He never told anyone.

3. He hates Christmas but puts in a happy face so others don’t worry about him.

4. He hates the smell of smoke. Since he’s mother used to smoke.

5. He struggles to talk to people especially about his emotions. He wants to be more open but is scared others we’ll judge him since he is always the one looking out for the others.

6. No one has very told him that they’re proud of him. And if someone told him that he wouldn’t believe them.

7. He hates his last name but is too afraid to change it.

Cameron

They may not show it but they despise acting so carefree and all the time.

2. They stabbed Jacob when they first met him. Because he came up behind them and they panicked and stabbed him in the arm. Both refuse to tell anyone about this.

3. They sometimes think about all the lives they indirectly took. And even though they try to forget it never goes away.

4. They are very overprotective especially of their siblings and friends because they had no one to truly protect them.

5. They despise their universe father. Which was they were so hostile when they first met the other Slade.

6. They used to have bruises up and down their arms from their universes Slade gripping them too hard.

7. They never want to do therapy in fear of burdening others with their problems.

Micheal

Ever since he found out he was an Angel he feels like an outsider in his own friend group.

2. He despise the way his wings have almost matured into a snowy white. As it gets closer to the color he thinks about how easy it would be to just cut them off.

3. He has smoked one cigarette before when he was 8 but refuses to smoke again.

4. He wonders if Julian still loves him.

5. He has anxiety especially in storms but refuses to tell anyone.

6. He sees Lucifer as his brother but is scared to call him brother since he believes Lucifer might look at him differently.

7. He is depressed but as basically gaslit himself into thinking he’s fine. Though he knows deep know he’s not.

Evelyn

Thoughts of what human flesh tastes like have crossed her mind before but she has never acted on it.

2. She is very motherly because her mother was never really home so she basically raised herself.

3. She isn’t a huge fan of thanksgiving. Since she never had a normal thanksgiving since her father was is Arkham and her mother was working.

4. She is very much not a good person. And she knows that but she doesn’t want others to know that.

5. She was a thief. She used to steal jewelry and food when she was younger. Not because she needed it just because of the cheap thrill she got.

6. She has anger issues but hides them very well.

7. She used to have a girlfriend but they broke up since her girlfriend was extremely emotional manipulative.

Cyrus

He doesn’t remember his mother very well but has never thought much about it.

2. He’d a lot more observant than he looks. He can tell that the others are upset but doesn’t know how to tell them.

3. He has a strained relationship with his universe’s father as he always tried to reach out to him but got no response.

4. He knows that Santa and other holiday figures aren’t real but he still acts excited when he sees the gifts.

5. He is not at innocent as he was when he first met the others.

6. He misses Julian a bunch but doesn’t mention it as to not set off Micheal.

7. He misses still being pure and innocent. Of he’s still innocent but just not as much as before. His eyes have been open and he wants to close them again.

Occ: That’s all for now happy holidays peep!

[shouta-aizawow]

this one fic has a “bakugou katsuki gets what he deserves” tag

apparently “what he deserves” is to be sexually abused, kidnapped, and raped bc he was mean to a kid in middle school???????

there’s a tag that’s literally “my hate for katsuki transformed into a sexually abusive fic” like?????? he’s 16?????

[theyanderespecialist]

Overprotective Worry: Yandere Striker X Injured Gender Neutral Listener (Helluva Boss) 

[ignis-et-equi]

Tonight, it happened.

My mother finally blew the fuck up and caused my sister to break down sobbing, which caused me to sob, while my father sat idly by and said absolutely nothing in no one's defense.

For the sake of clarity, we call my sister Fred. I can't remember seeing her cry even a single tear that wasn't the time she broke her arm (even then, she was more upset about the horse who was responsible than she was about having a broken limb). She's only 18, basically forced herself through highschool, and the only thing she's ever given a damn about is animals. She was doing all of the household chores before I got here; laundry, cleaning, keeping the farm going, cooking, caring for our sick mother and insisting to no avail that my mother see a doctor.

Today, my sister and I both agreed that we were going to wait a few days to do some farm stuff so that we could prep and make sure we had everything instead of trying to scramble and get it all done today after being told at 8pm yesterday that it needed to be done. My mother was furious that we weren't prioritizing what she wanted us to do over things we'd already been planning to do today. So she screamed at the both of us about how irresponsible we are and how no one can be trusted to do anything. Then, against all of our protests, she decided to go do it herself. (Did I meantion the fact that I've been taking care of the major family errands and whatnot because my mother is terminally ill?) So my sister went with her to make she she didn't hurt herself. I went to my room to cry and whine about my mother being absolutely fucking nuts because I knew if I went too, it would make the situation 100x worse.

Well, while they were out there, Fred said the thing we have all been thinking and told my mother that she's been narcissistic.

Fast forward about 5 hours and now my mother is screaming in this demonic, shrieking, harpy kind of way about how she's not a narcissist and How Dare we think that about her when she's "done everything she can to benefit this family." She backs my sister into an argumentative hole, spinning the conversation in circles, demanding that my sister explain herself before telling her that she's wrong and to essentially try again.

I'm doing dishes in the same room as them, muttering to myself. My mother whipped around and threatened to throw me out for laughing. I found nothing about this humourous aside from how nihilistic the situation was.

My mother continues to insist that my sister doesn't know the definition of narcissism. She pushes and prods Fred, accusing her of percieving things incorrectly and falsely accusing my mother of things that she supposedpy never does. My poor sister keeps a civil tone then entire time as she expresses calmly why she used the term and is only met with brute force and domination tactics.

My sister finally broke into tears and raised her voice for the first time. You could hear her questioning her own sanity at this point and I cried with her, still doing dishes with my back turned to them.

She and I cried for the duration of the conversation and I watched as my mother turned the her yelling into pleasant songs of miscommunication and misunderstanding. She told us that she never forced us to do things with her (a lie), how she's only ever cared about us and that's why she's done everything she has, and how yelling is a healthy part of a family dynamic (a drastically unhealthy opinion).

After listening to this go on for two hours, I had to get out of earshot. I couldn't say anything the entire time for fear of actually being kicked out by her (not for the first time). I feel like shit for not standing up for my sister, but I know anything I would have said would have escalated things to a physical level. I could have sworn she almost either hit me or grabbed my hair while my back was turn doing dishes.

The thing that really kicks me in the gut is that she was parroting everything she told me while I was growing up. My sister and I are entirely different people, but according to my mother, we don't have the ability to percieve anything properly and haven't the slightest idea of what it's like to have an emotionally manipulative parent.

[glitterrhowell]

Chapter 10

Title: Seized

Pairing:  Daniel Howell & AmazingPhil (Phan

Word count: 2k

Warning/Genre: Rape/extreme violence/ depression/PTSD/Degradation/torture/ Non-consensual pretty much everything/Little!Dan/Daddy!Phil/Kidnapping

Summary: What starts out as a day in the Park for Little Dan and Daddy Phil turns into something terrifying when Dan is suddenly kidnapped. Will Phil be able to find and save him before it’s too late? Heavy trigger warning

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They were both quiet the whole ride home, Dan snuggled into Phil, and Phil aimlessly staring out the window. When the cab pulled up in front of their apartment, the driver helped get Dan's wheelchair out and waited patiently for Phil to transfer him over. He thanked and paid the driver and rolled Dan up to the door.

The elevator ride up to their apartment was quiet, and when they got there Phil fumbled trying to get the keys in the door to unlock it. Eventually, he was successful and he pushed the door open and rolled Dan inside.

"Ok, bear, what do you want to do now that you are home?"

"I want to watch a movie!" He said, throwing his hands up in the air excitedly.

"Ok let's get you into the lounge and get you situated."

"Can we watch Frozen?" Dan asked Phil as pushed him into their lounge.

"Of course." he said as a small smile crept across his face.

Phil helped Dan onto the couch and put the movie into their Blu-Ray player. He quickly settled down alongside Dan and wrapped his arm around his waist, pulling him closer.

Dan wasted no time resting his head on Phil's shoulder and melting into Phil's body. Not paying attention to the move, Phil was startled out of his thoughts when Dan started softly snoring. He smiled a little—Dan always looked so cute when he slept.

Phil turned his attention to the movie, realizing that they weren't even halfway through yet.

He didn't want to get up, but wanted to take this opportunity to get a few things done before Dan woke up again. As carefully as he could, he slid Dan's head off his shoulder and replaced it with a pillow. Dan stirred, but quickly rolled over and continued to sleep. Phil was as quiet as possible as he left the lounge, headed for the bathroom.

The doctor had instructed him to wash around his own stitches twice a day and to wrap it up afterwards. He had spent so much of his time taking care of Dan that he probably could have been taking better care of Phil's own stitches, but Dan was more important to him than himself at the moment. But with the few spare minutes he had, he figured he should probably try and take care of them. He unwrapped the current bandage that was wrapped around his hand.

He hissed in pain as the bandage stuck to the wound a little bit. The stitches were red and the edges of the wound were tinged green. Phil wasn't stupid—he knew that meant they were getting infected. He cursed. This is all he needed right now. He took a deep breath and started cleaning around the stitches. Once he was satisfied, he gently dried it with a towel and wrapped it back up. He hoped that if he started taking care of it now that the infection would go away. Phil walked back into the lounge, looking at Dan to make sure he was still asleep before he headed to their office. The work had piled up over the last few weeks and he hoped that he could answer a few emails before Dan woke up.

He spent a total of about thirty minutes trying to answer emails from their management and Youtube. He just couldn't do it—he had no idea what to say to any of them. He sighed deeply. He wasn't going to get any of this done today.

He pulled out his phone and almost found himself clicking on the little blue twitter icon, but he caught himself before he did. He wasn't ready to see what people were saying yet. He hadn't even been able to go on twitter and tell the fans that Dan had been found. Like a coward, he had let Louise and their friends tell everyone and deal with it all. Of course, no one knew exactly what had happened, so most of the answers they gave were very vague, but he figured Dan would want it that way anyway.

Phil looked at the time and realized he had been gone for over an hour, so he figured he should probably be getting back before Dan woke up.

Over the next few days, they settled into a routine. They spent most of the time playing with Dan's toys or watching movies. During the daytime, Dan was fine, but sleeping and night-time were a different story. Two or three times a night Dan would wake up screaming and crying, near a panic attack. Of course, Phil was there every time to comfort him, but whenever he asked what his dreams had been about, Dan said he couldn't remember. It broke Phil's heart every time this happened, but he made sure that Dan didn't pick up on it.  

During the times Dan would let Phil out of his sight, he spent most of his time either on the phone to the detectives or his mum. Each day he grew angrier and angrier—the police still had no idea who Seth's accomplice had been, and they wouldn't admit it to Phil, but they had pretty much given up trying to get anything out of him. Not only was Phil angry, he was terrified. Every time he closed his eyes, all he could dream about was his Dan being taken away from him again. He couldn't help but think back to his and Dan's pictures up on the wall at Seth's cabin. The men had been obviously been stalking them for a while. Phil was terrified and hadn't left the apartment since they had gotten home a few days ago. But as it reached their fifth day home, Phil had no choice but to leave the house, as today was Dan's first therapy appointment.

He hadn't mentioned this to Dan as he was worried his little brain wouldn't be able to comprehend exactly what therapy was. So all he told him was they were going to go visit a friend.

Phil spent the whole morning tense and on edge, even snapping once at Dan when he whined that he wanted Phil to play with him. Phil had felt guilty immediately and made it up to him by letting Dan help him make some cookies. But it was soon approaching the time that they had to leave. He sighed—they might as well get this done and over with.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Daniel Howell." Phil looked up from his phone as Dan's name was called out. He looked at Dan "Will you be alright back there by yourself?"

Dan bit his lip and slowly nodded his head, "I think so, daddy."

"Ok." he gave Dan a smile and squeezed his hand. "I will be waiting right here when you come out ok?"

"Ok, daddy." The nurse took ahold of his chair and pushed him along, and he gave one last look at Phil before he was pushed around the corner.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Hi, Dan, my name is Dr. Miller, but you can call me Lela."

Lela hadn't been told much of anything about this patient. The only thing that she had been told was he had been through a very violent and traumatic ordeal. She had been selected to be Daniel's therapist because she specialized in people with different head spaces. She hadn't dealt with more than a few people who liked to let their minds slip into little space, but she had never worked with anyone who as stuck in that state.

She quietly observed the man who was currently putting together the puzzle she had gotten out for him. Neither one of them had broken the silence since Daniel had asked to put the puzzle together. If she didn't know better, she wouldn't guess the man sitting in front of her had gone through any type of ordeal. He looked like he didn't have a care in the world, giggling every once in a while when he would try and put together two wrong pieces.

She let him play for a few more minutes before she broke the silence.  

"So, Daniel, who was the man with you in the waiting room?"

Dan's eyes didn't even leave his puzzle.

"That's my daddy."

"Oh, that's nice. Daniel, what does your daddy do?"

Dan looked up from his puzzle and looked at her like she was stupid.

"He's my daddy he takes care of me and plays with me."

Lela smiled, not taking any offense to his tone.

"So, Daniel, why are you here today?"

He shrugged his shoulders "I don't know, daddy just said I had to talk to a friend of his."

So he didn't know what he was here for. Interesting.  

"Well, Daniel, I am here for you to talk to. Is there anything you would like to talk about?"

He shrugged his shoulders again.  

"I don't know."

His attention now back on the puzzle.

She sighed. It didn't look like they were going to make much progress this session. So she spent the rest of the session getting to know Dan and trying to earn his trust. She learned that both him and Phil were youtubers and that Dan loved to play video games. She also learned that pink was his favorite color while little, but he was aware when he was big he liked black. It wasn't much, but therapy took time and she was just glad Dan hadn't shut her out completely.

When their session was over she called for some help to wheel Dan back into the waiting room, following closely behind.

When they entered the waiting room, Dan quickly grabbed on to his daddy, whispering softly in his ear. She watched for a moment before she cleared her throat.

"Mr. Lester, can I please speak to you for a few minutes in my office?"

With a confused look on his face, Phil told Dan he would be right back and followed the therapist.

She held out her hand once they were in her office.  

"Mr. Lester, my name is Lela Miller, but you can call me Lela."

Phil took her hand.

"Hi, call me Phil."

"Alright, Phil, I justed wanted to go over Dan's progress with you."

"Ok." Phil shook his head at her, nodding

"Dan didn't tell me much, mainly he told me the fun things you two like to do together. But Phil, are you aware that Dan has no idea why he was brought here today?"

She watched his face for a reaction, but there wasn't one.

"He hasn't talked about anything since he was rescued. He says he doesn't remember anything."

"Well, this isn't incredibly rare with people who have suffered a traumatic event. The real thing we need to focus on his making Dan feel comfortable and safe, because he will remember eventually and he will need support and someone to talk to."

He shook his head.

"I also wanted to ask you how you were doing, Phil."

He looked at her startled.

"Why?"

"Because I know how difficult this can be on family members. This didn't just happen to Dan, but it happened to you as well."

She watched as a tear rolled down his face.

"No one has asked me how I was doing, and I have been putting all my energy into Dan—I'm not really sure how I'm feeling."

"That's alright, Phil, take your time."

They sat in silence for a few minutes before Phil broke it.  

"I'm mostly angry, but also scared."

"What are you scared of Phil?"

"I'm scared because they haven't caught the second guy yet. I'm scared that Dan will never be his old self. But mainly I'm scared that I'm not good enough to take care of him anymore."

"Why do you feel like that, do you think?"

He shrugged his shoulders.  

"Because it was my fault he was taken in the first place. If I had been paying attention then none of this would have happened."

Lela had met plenty of people who blamed themselves for traumatic things that happened to their partners, but this case especially broke her heart. She didn't know much about what happened, but she could tell that Phil loved Dan, and it was most certainly not his fault. They spent a few minutes talking and she gave Phil some homework to have Dan try and complete like drawing her some pictures and bring them back to Dan's next session. She said their goodbyes and Lela watched Phil push Dan out of the building. This was going to be a really tough case.

[a-casual-kpopfan]

"Since when did you stop loving me?"

A/N: Twigger warning alert, talks about abuse and hitting.

"Tell me when." You slam down a glass bottle on the table, but not enough for it break.

Sooyoung didn't say a word, the pink hair idol is in your shared, well soon to be yours alone, bedroom, packing up all her clothes in a luggage bag.

"WHEN SOOYOUNG?!" You slammed a fist down on the table, enough for the bottle to fall over and spill of what's left of it's contents.

Your yell and the table being hit startles Sooyoung ever so slightly, but the flinch triggers something in her, it couldn't be held in anymore, the tears start coming down.

Sooyoung couldn't stop herself from crying but she continues on packing, packing to leave, packing to survive. Sooyoung stretches her arm out, revealing a bruise.

Sooyoung's eyes widen in shock, seeing the bruise again in the state she's in right now makes her rush her packing.

She wants to leave.

She needs to leave.

Sooyoung zips up the luggage, struggling to rush out of the bedroom, she makes her way to the door. The tears aren't stopping, her body is in pain, sore from all the bruises.

"Where are you going?" You slur out as you lay your head in the dining room table, looking towards the door. Sooyoung stopped in her tracks, looked at you, she was looking at a sad excuse of a man that you are.

"I'm leaving you." Sooyoung said softly, though it was loud enough for you to hear it. "So... You finally grew up and decided to leave." You were drunk, as usual. Every night you would be coming home from work, fight with Sooyoung, arguing every night.

You lose control, you become more violent.

This isn't the first time you hit her. It's been happening for a long time now, Sooyoung endured this for years but now she's had enough, Sooyoung finally had enough.

"I'm moving back in the dorm. We are done." Sooyoung turns and reaches for the door handle. "No one will accept you." She stopped, started to hesitate on leaving. "No one will know you like the way I do."

You stood up from the chair although in a tipsy manner, you swayed yourself towards Sooyoung. "No one is going to love you like how I love you."

"You're right." Sooyoung turns around, her eyes are shooting at you like daggers. "I hope I don't meet someone who would love me the way you did. I deserve real love." With that Sooyoung grabbed the doorknob and without hesitation, left without another word.

"YOU'LL COME BACK, I KNOW YOU WILL."

~~~~~

Loona World Tour starts in LA. You stared at the photos through your phone.

You missed her.

You had her.

You lost her.

"When did you stop loving me?"

[the-resurrection-3d]

so what was ever good about acotar anyway?

For some reason, I’ve been very tempted to reread ACOTAR lately, and so I’m going to just make a quick list of what I remember specifically endearing the book to me back when I first read it in 2016 so we can compare notes later. This will, however, also include some retroactive criticisms now that we’re four years on from ACOWAR ruining everything forever. 

Twigger warnings for discussions of abuse, csa and neglect, as well as me using my complimentary R Slur Pass.

For some context: 

>Be 18yr me in 2016. 

>Be in your first semester at college. 

>Be so fed up with YA romance that you avoid books just for hinting at them in the summary. 

>Be also brainstorming a series with your roommate called The Cuckmaster Saga. 

This is probably going to sound embarrassing, but I’m being completely sincere when I say that part of why this book excited me was simply the novelty of finding a YA romance book that I liked. 

I’d fallen out hard with YA in general by this point in my life, partially because of a string of fairy tale “retellings” that clearly gave zero fucks about the source material beyond using the iconography in its marketing. Folklore had been my special interest for a while, and my excitement for the series and all its little extra niche references coincided with finally getting to study folklore in a true academic setting.

Which leads me to point one:

I love the idea of combining BatB and the Tam Lin ballad. I know some people have complained about this, but honestly, I enjoyed finding a retelling that mimicked the mix-and-match structuring of a lot of folktales. ACOTAR isn’t even the messiest or least coherent mash-up by a huge margin. Unfortunately, this aspect of the series severely lessened as it went along — remember when we all thought ACOWAR was going to be a Snow White retelling and then there was just one scene with poisoned apples? Lmao.

[If anyone wants an author who does YA mash-ups that are actually YA, I’d recommend Rosamund Hodge, whose books are always interesting in their sheer weirdness even when the story itself slightly falters. I mean, I wrote a whole 20-page thesis on her Red Riding Hood/Maiden Without Hands retelling and still didn’t cover everything I had thoughts on. (Tragically, however, I must inform you all that she is a Catholic Reylo. Rest in pepperoni.)]

It is fucking hilarious in retrospect that SJM clearly knows a bunch of different folktales and folkloric creatures but thinks it’s believable for shadowsinger powers to have no theorized origin “even [in] the rich lore of the warrior-people” (ACOFAS 65). Bro fuck outta here. 

But this leads into point two — Feyre and her family. It’s very obvious that SJM based Nesta and Elain’s dynamic with Feyre off the common folktale trope of having the youngest sibling be the only competent person in the room (and Katniss Everdeen). I thought it was honestly a lot of fun to see this trope done with some interiority; you can practically hear Feyre seethe about what useless hoes her sisters are between every line. I genuinely giggled through these parts on my initial readthrough. 

I’ve seen some people complain that Nesta and Elain’s behaviors aren’t realistic in this situation, but au contraire! Nesta and Elain’s actions in book one are (...almost) perfectly realistic. Without revealing too much, my grandmother grew up in poverty with a few older sisters, and yet my great-grandmother would make her do all the work and constantly force her to give up her possessions (like her car) to the older sisters whenever they wanted them. Even to this day, when they’re all in their 70s and 80s, one of these sisters still relies on my grandma to do basic shit like balancing her checkbooks. I’ve also observed similar dynamics play out plenty of times between an adult child and an overindulgent parent, with people literally ruining their lives and bodies all for the sake of sitting at home all day buying furry porn off the internet. 

Nesta and Elain are basically the psychology of this type of person split in two — Elain the soft, delicate, perpetually victimized front they put on for the world, and Nesta the ice-cold, bitter, and aggressive bitch they truly are. 

Honestly, the only thing I would change about this set-up is either keep Ma Archeron alive or give Papa Archeron more personality than a plank of damp wood. What’s truly missing here is a parental figure enforcing this fucked up dynamic — I don’t remember it being clear that Feyre’s always had this role, just that she took it on after her mom’s death. Making it clear that Feyre’s always been forced to be this way — alongside giving the mom more characterization — would have gone a long way towards making this dynamic feel more realized and less like the narrative using trauma and pity as a shortcut towards reader engagement. 

Then again, that would require SJM to have a female villain in this series who isn’t a rapist, and quotes I’ve seen floating around from ACOSF make it pretty clear SJM doesn’t know same-gender sexual abuse even exists. 

Anyway. 

Point Three (or rather 2B): Feyre realizing she doesn’t have to hang around her family just because she feels obligated to love them was a fucking banger. I loved it so much; having a story, especially a YA story, that showed you aren’t obligated to love a family that treats you like shit was so special to me. Especially since I was also leaving my family for the first time, and going home to visit them every other weekend felt like being hit point-blank with a Psyduck blast. 

Thankfully, my relationship with my family has gotten a lot better, but I’m still really disappointed that Nesta and Elain were forced back into the story, rather than them reaching out to Feyre and making amends because they wanted to do better.  The closest we got to this was the revelation that Nesta almost made it to the Border by herself after Feyre was taken, which was definitely badass, but also unfortunately the only Nesta scene I’ve liked in this entire fucking series. If SJM was going to force Feyre to regress into being Nesta and Elain’s tardwrangler again, then she should have followed up on Amren’s line in ACOWAR that Feyre treats Nesta and Elain the way Tamlin treated her. 

“I asked them to help once—and look what happened. I won’t risk them again.”

Amren snorted. “You sound exactly like Tamlin.”

[. . .] and I said, “She’s right.”  (169-170). 

But I’m sure everyone who’s read ACOSF knows how well that’s going. 

Point Four: the femindhjdfhfdh I can’t even write that with a straight face. I mean let’s be real, I too enjoy seeing female characters I like become queens and all that other stuff, but it was clear to me even on my initial reading of ACOMAF that it was all shallow and designed to help delineate good guys from bad guys without much in the way of nuance. It certainly took me out of the experience a little, but at least it ties into the books’ themes of recovering from abuse and shacking up with a Certified Women Respecter. 

My actual point four: Truthfully I only bought this series for the meme of having the first shitty love interest getting cucked in the second book. ACOWAR gave me some complicated feelings on Tamlin, and I honestly think he should have just stopped appearing in the series after that — BUT, having him be dragged back in once per book just to call him a cuck and cockslap him around a little bit is fucking hilarious. Pointless! But hilarious.

I also think that this kind of arc is a great critique of the standard “happily ever after,” acknowledging that in real life, you’re much more likely to just pass from one abusive household to another because you don’t know what healthy love, communication, and boundaries are. (Arguably many folktales are the fantasies of women who are well aware of this reality but want to imagine a world that’s otherwise). I definitely have a lot of problems with SJM’s claims of “sex positivity,” but acknowledging that Feylin used sex as a means of avoiding communication was another great touch.

I wish that this whole King of Hybern shit was completely cut just to focus on these themes more; it’s very clear SJM only included it because fantasy series = BIG EPIC WORLD-ENDING STAKES!! I've read maybe ten pages of Throne of Glass, so I can't speak for how she handles epic fantasy there, but I know for me and a lot of other stans, the Hybern plot had licherally nothing to do with what we liked and connected to in these books. 

But I must soften here, because I totally empathize with feeling like big stakes are “necessary” for a fantasy story and that no one would want to read your books without them. YA fantasy is the reason why TV Tropes coined the term “romantic plot tumor,” after all. (Source: I’m making shit up.) 

What else… what else… uhhhhh. I think that might be it, at least for substantial things I don’t have to qualify too much. I of course have plenty of little things I used to like but have now been tainted because ACOWAR ruined everything forever and ACOFAS danced on the graves (such as how I liked Lucien but everyone in the books shits on him now to the point it’s stopped being funny). But this post is too long anyway.

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✿ What do you think about public call out posts?

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✿ What do you think about public call out posts?             

// What they are meant to be used for: Warn people about actual threats (pedophiles, people with a toxic behavior, scams, viruses, etc.) with solid and real evidences.

What the tumblr rpc numb nuts do: UWUWUWUWU THIS PWERSON TWIGGERED MEEEEHHH!!! BC I SAID SO!!!! UWUWUUWUW THIS PERSON WRITES X SUBJECT AND THAT’S PROBLEMATIC UWUWUWUWUWUW THIS PERSON IS RACIST BC THEY DIDN’T USE X FACECLAIM FOR Y CHARACTER AND THAT’S WRONNNGGGGG UWUWUWUWU HERE HAVE A BUNCH OF TOTALLY NOT FABRICATED/TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT/ETC. SCREENSHOTS UWUWUWUWUWU

Fuck call out culture, fuck people who abuse something that was meant to be helpful. Instead only contributing to the current toxic state of the tumblr rpc in general that has spread to all the fandoms.

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V3 - Plato's Cave

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by Gars

"In Plato's Cave prisoners have been arranged in a row...The prisoners even know each other through the shadows they see and the voices they hear...Now imagine one of the prisoners is released. (ERE pg. 2)

Korekiyo Shinguji is quite familiar with situations many others reject. Humanity is beautiful in everything it does, including some of the more...unsavory activities. It is with this that upon waking in a unfamiliar location he is able to adjust, adapt and in turn further his goal of finding friends for his dear, dear sister.

He meets another boy, Rantaro Amami who seems to share similar qualities such as appreciation and familiarity of other cultures. The two form a bond, but something is amiss. Paranoia and distrust seep out of Rantaro and the other boy eventually acknowledges his concerns including how much he distrusts his own memory. Soon after Rantaro passes and Korekiyo, compelled by some force, decides to map out all of his memories in an assessment. Upon completion he realizes that according to the math of his memories he is over 21 years old.

But he is 18.

Watch as Korekiyo Shinguji realizes his memories are fake and the ensuing breakdown and aftermath of such a revelation.

Words: 2169, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types, New Dangan Ronpa V3: Everyone's New Semester of Killing

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Characters: Shinguji Korekiyo, Hoshi Ryoma, Amami Rantaro, Akamatsu Kaede, Tojo Kirumi, Yonaga Angie, Chabashira Tenko, Gokuhara Gonta, Iruma Miu, Oma Kokichi, Momota Kaito, Shirogane Tsumugi, K1-B0 (Dangan Ronpa), Yumeno Himiko, Harukawa Maki, Saihara Shuichi

Relationships: Harukawa Maki/Momota Kaito

Additional Tags: Twigger Warning's: Suicidal Ideation, Homicidal Ideation, Past Sexual Abuse, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Your fave is going to die, You've been warned

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Twigger warning: Rape and sexual harrasement mention.

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Let me tell you the nerve when men are touching you, and keep doing that, even if you let it very visible know by your body language alone that you're absolutely not comfortable.

It's terrifying and alarming that too many men think they, arrogantly, can take whatever they desire, and have the audicity to feel entitled because you, especially as a woman, don't like it when men —be it strangers or not— touches you; regardless if you got a history of sexual harrasement or not.

They (men) don't care about the boundaries of others (women). In addition if you point out their out-of-line behaviour then their fragile ego will get so hurt, that they will harrass you for it. I speak this from my own experience too.

The fact that the only way how these type of men —which is a majority of them and then some, even more if you count the enablers—can cope with it is to (passive)- aggressively letting you know that they can't handle of being rejected or being educated about it. And that should be terrifying. And seeing the history itself concerning violence against women, that should be a good indicator.

I think, and I know, even in the current climate we're living in in regard to sexual harrasement, that too many men still get away scot-free from this, for the reason that a lot of them are protected, as I mentioned before, by enablers who are more than willing to victim-blame you. And gaslighting you about it too.

Also, a lot of these men are grown too. Too grown. It's that reason I never compare them with boys, who are still children. Because it simply distract from their position as actual adults, the consequences and the responsibilities. Furthermore, it opens up an unfortunate implication that the male species are always dangerous and it starts as soon when they're old enough to walk. Yikes. You can understand why I absolutely loath the enablers' most favorite phrase 'boys will be boys". They aren't underaged teenagers anymore. Many are well into their middle-age and yet they still don't comprehend how to be a decent human being.

If they do get called out, then they will blame how times have changed and bemoan that they can't do or say anything anymore, resulting them to be seen in a sympathetic light. However, what these men need to realize and understand is that type of behavior stems from abuse, thus never facing real consequences from their despicable demeanor because of it, and that they are never taught some form of respect and decency from childhood. While this certainly doesn't excuse their behaviour, especially well into their adulthood, it simultaneously shows that teaching your sons, from infancy, what (emotional) boundaries and common decency are is important, among others.

That being said, as a 40/50/60-year old man, you are a piece of shit if you pull this stunt though. Heck, at any age be it 13, 19, 25 or 34, you're still a piece of shit. Regardless what I mentioned before, even as kids, both men (and especially men) and boys should hold accountable for their actions.

Sexual harrasement isn't just straight up rape. It's also knowingly touching people on their shoulders, backsides or unnecessarily caress their arms, kiss their foreheads/back of their hands/cheeks without consent, even if the recipient physically show their discomfort and/or never reciprocate the unwelcome physical contact.

Don't be that person. Stop touching women and girls, and especially girls, without their approval. And if you see they're physically uncomfortable, don't try to push yourself into touching them. Period.

You're a grown man, get over yourself and hold yourself accountable. Educate yourself why you are taught that these unhealthy behavior were normalized in the first place.

Oh, and enablers, yes including women, you're responsible too. Outside these abusers, it's people like you that continues these kind of harrasement.

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Book Review #1 Everything Everything

Genre: Romantic Drama

Author: Nicola Yoon

POV: First

Pages: 305

Grade level: 9

Everything Everything tells the story of a girl with SCID who is not allowed outside. She falls in love the boy who moves in next door and wants nothing more than to know him. 

The novel is written in an interesting way. The chapters are short, some being only a couple sentences long. There are drawings and diagrams throughout the book, too. The characters are interesting as well. By page 42 you will have been introduced to all the main and supporting characters. They are well written as wants and their motives are clear and logical. Personally, I’m not a fan of heterosexual romance novels, but this story kept me interested. The ending was a little bit predictable, but still plot twists nonetheless.

Characters have sex, but it is not too graphic. The narrator describes foreplay and making out in first person but there is not much written action. If that would make you uncomfortable then I would advise skipping the chapters All The Words and the beginning of This Time.

As for diversity, this book does a good job with dealing with the subject. Our protagonist is half African-American and half Japanese. Another supporting character is Latina. A gay character is in one chapter but his sexuality is never explored and his first appearance is also his last. 

Twigger warnings: abuse, hospitalization, fatal car crash (not graphic at all).