#went ape shit in the tags again whoops

[screechingfromthevoid]

that was an exercise in "who's going to tell Orym and Dorian to fuck" chicken

[onetwosevensquad]

Good Enough For You: Chapter Six

Doyoung x reader

Summary: You are your brother Yuta’s songwriter and Doyoung is his best friend and manager. When your brother gets his chance to go on tour, what happens when you have to spend two months on the road with your long time crush and scheming brother?

Warnings: cursing, bad writing whoops

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Yuta had a good night. Hell he had a great night. He had met Sicheng briefly when he was at the Seoul concert. And damn was he interested. But he was cautious. He remembered all too well what happened last time he dated a guy and didn’t know if he was ready. But when he saw Sicheng smile at him, he decided what the hell.

Him and Sicheng finally talked at the Busan concert and hit it off immediately. They got something to eat at an all night diner and then headed back to the hotel. One thing led to another, and after a few drinks they ended up in Sicheng’s bed and you get the rest.

When Sicheng’s alarm went off at five am, him and Yuta sprung up saying that they should do this again. When they made their way back to Yuta’s room so he could get some clothes, they did not expect to see Mina busting out of her room.

“Yuta! Have you seen Y/n?” She said grabbing onto the man’s arm. Yuta panicked. And when he panics he goes to Doyoung. He fumbled for his key and quickly shoved it into the lock. Flinging open the door, the two others following behind, he yelled Doyoung’s name. He did not expect what he was confronted with.

“What the fuck?” Yuta said. Doyoung slowly came to his senses and immediately shot up when he realized who was in the room. He started moving but soon realized that you were still asleep on his shoulder.

“I’m sorry,” Doyoung said quietly, not wanting to wake you. Yuta couldn’t help it. He started to laugh. Doyoung shot him a confused look and so did Mina and Sicheng.

“Don’t be sorry,” Yuta said chuckling. “This is the cutest shit ever!” He exclaimed. In all honesty, Yuta has been wanting Doyoung and you to get together.

“No, I-“ Doyoung couldn’t come up with something. He was so embarrassed because in all honesty he kind of liked you. He’s just been to scared and worried to tell you for obvious reasons.

Soon enough Doyoung felt your head lift from his shoulder and heard you mumble something. He turned to see you rubbing your eyes and couldn’t help but think how adorable you looked. Stop it Doyoung.

“Oh god,” you said, finally fully awake. You shot up from the bed, Doyoung’s bed, and walked towards the door. You grabbed Mina on your way out, smiling up to the unknown man.

“So care to explain?” Mina said opening the door to your room. You both quickly changed out of your pajamas while you mumbled something about an accident. You grabbed your bags and hurried Mina out of the room.

“We don’t speak of this,” you said walking side by side with Mina. She just giggled, struggling to pull all of her bags along. The two of you finally got down to the lobby and returned your key to the front desk. You and Mina joined your brother, Doyoung, and the man you assumed was Sicheng near the door.

“And this is my little sister, Y/n, and her friend Mina,” Yuta said gesturing to you and Mina. Sicheng introduced himself formally and he seemed very nice. You and Mina said hi and stood with the boys waiting for the cars to come.

You caught Doyoung’s gaze and he gave you a small smile. Jesus Christ heart. You returned it with one of your own, and you could see a small blush creep up his cheeks. You both looked away and you caught Mina’s knowing look. You just ignored her and waited on your phone.

The cars finally arrived and the five of you piled into one. You and Mina both fell asleep while the boys talked about who knows what. You arrived at the airport a short while latter and went to go find your terminal. The five of you and the rest of the staff stuffed yourselves into a random corner and got comfortable for the wait.

You and Mina finally got board after about 30 minutes and decided to get breakfast from somewhere in the airport. The boys gladly tagged along. You all decided to go exploring and found a small cafe. Yuta, Sicheng, and Mina went to order while you and Doyoung found a table.

There was a heavy silence in the air between the two of you when you sat down. When one of you would glance up, the other would look away. It was awkward to say the least. Which you didn’t understand. You didn’t regret falling asleep. But did he? Maybe that’s why you felt awkward.

“Hi,” you heard. When you looked up, Doyoung was looking right at you. You couldn’t help but giggle. That’s the best he’s got. Hi? It was cute.

“Hi,” you said between giggles. Doyoung couldn’t help but crack a smile. You two were finally able to get a small conversation going that continued when the others came back. Everyone enjoyed some decent airport food and light conversation. You all got to know Sicheng better and so far you liked him. He also seemed to make your brother happy which was nice.

“Hey we should get back,” Doyoung said checking his watch. You all cleaned up and began to walk back to the terminal. The whole walk back you and Doyoung continued a conversation you had earlier. It was nice getting closer to him.

Finally after a little more waiting you boarded the plane and got smushed in between Mina and Doyoung. Though it was only a two hour ride to Japan, you and Doyoung talked practically the whole time while Mina enjoyed a nap.

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Rose: Chapter Six baby! I’m not as proud of this part but ya know it’s all good. I have my Ap Euro exam on Wednesday so wish me luck (I’m screwed). Anyway, enjoy!

[chimeleyh]

I’ll be honest, I wrote this in a blind rage when I beat the main game and found out that the villain(s) once again just get yeeted for reasons?? I’ll be just as mad when I play Brilliant diamond and see Cyrus hate rise again since, unless the remake team is adding characterisation like in ORAS, he’s going to stay the “depressed bad guy who clearly needs therapy but we’re gonna put him in a pocket dimension instead.” Seriously, I hate when Game Freak starts to write an interesting villain then just backs out. Cyrus, original RSE Maxie and Archie, Rose, and Lusamine all suffer from “hey what if we made this one cool personality aspect, but oh wait we don’t want to actually explore the implications so um, here you go.”

Seriously, I don’t mind Game Freak writing the villains out once the main game ends, Giovanni and Ghetsis are great examples of rounded characters who have a good reason to disappear and we felt satisfied with the characterisation we got. But like, Rose and Oleana have so much potential but the main story doesn’t spend any time on Macro Cosmos until the interaction with Bede on Stow-On-Side and the mad dash to cram plot in during the finals. Game Freak kinda threw all Rose potential away because “oh we want this CEO to be evil but not /evil/ evil, we did that in X and Y” which means whoops, there goes any interest in Rose unless you’re one of the select few chosen to lurk in the depths of swsh tags clawing at the pant legs of any Pokémon blog to give some sort of decent Rose content. Oleana got lucky because even though she gets the same lack of character as Rose, but she’s a tall wife who will stab someone with her stilettos so we’re all simping for her and crying in the mines wishing she did more post game than hand you Rose’s rare baseball card. She doesn’t even get her own league cards which is a literal tragedy.

So for me, to see two really cool character designs who have some amazing personality potential just...fade into nothingness only to be replaced with two characters who have even less time built up to their reveal was a slap to the face. But then I really felt like they were kicking sand in my eye when I found out that in the Star Tournament we don’t even get Oleana. So I sort of went ape shit at Sordward and Shielbert when fans of any of the game’s villains all got collectively screwed over.

Sordward and Shielbert are...definitely not utilised how they should have been. There’s plenty of others here who lay out better plot reimaginings than I could, but it is worth saying that everyone in the game got shafted, hard. And I think their designs were rushed to all hell. The game is based off the UK so I get royalty wearing plain suits, but they look very 70s game-show host without nearly as much flair. GF should’ve either gone all the way with hammy game show designs (which their dialogue totally supports, plus don’t they have a mic on their lapels? It would’ve been great to see some atrocious plaid patterning on the vest, or some tacky accessories, not only is that completely British but it’d make them so much more interesting IMO), or their designs should’ve been more regal and “traditional royalty.” As they are, I want to vibe with them because they have all the chaotic dumbass energy that I’m here for, but they’re so...underdeveloped. Like the entire game if I’m honest.

Also I love me some bad hair styles, Colress is literally one of my favorite characters and he looks like internet explorer’s evil twin brother, but Sordward seriously needs something other than a sword. Shielbert’s hair isn’t the worst, but it ends up looking worse than it actually is because of how weird Sordward’s hair looks. If they really wanted to give him pointy hair, I think they could’ve gone beehive or something other than “I slept in super glue and now only the back of my hair goes up” which is physically improbable and, as someone who actively styles gravity-defying wigs, deeply unsettling when it jiggles.

((Sorry for the mega post, I’ve been dying to rant to literally anyone about how much wasted potential is in the game’s villains and apparently it’s all coming out right now))

I’m upsetti that SWSH really went “players don’t want Oleana or Rose endgame interactions, clearly they want these two fucks who look like the physical embodiments of God abandoning us. Yeah let’s give the players team ups with Sordward and Shielbert, they’ll love that”

[fureniku]

The return of my blog or something idk

Looks like in my last blog I said I’d not post my semi-private stuff here, only to a private blog.

Honestly, I can’t remember the name of the private blog; let alone the login/password. I think I only made one post there, to zero followers, and kind of lost the point of doing it. So fuck it, lets just go back to being here.

Days since last post: 614 Todays date: 30th September 2019 Start time: 20:39

Well, I guess we have some catching up to do.

I don’t know how many people on here were following me before. So, I guess I’ll start with a sum-up. My previous blog was just me ranting about anxiety/depression related things. It was a good platform for me to vent my thoughts without real life friends knowing; I had a few RL friends who followed it which was great as they could give me some support, but most of them didn’t know about the blog, which was also great as they then didn’t know a side of me I’d generally prefer to keep private. That blog was deleted in early January 2018, when the drummer from my then-band found it. I had made some comments about my frustrations in the band which were true, and I stand by them - but naturally it caused drama. I deleted the account, and instantly regretted it - I only had maybe 50 followers, but now I have two, so yeah.  Life since then has been... chaotic. Not specifically in a bad way, just a lot of things happened. When the blog ended I was; - Single - Playing guitar in a band - Working a dead-end job in a Warehouse - Had no ambition/drive to progress life

Three of those things have since changed; I’m still single (not for lack of trying but whatevs). I guess I’ll cover a timeline? Jan 2018: I deleted my old blog, and made this one, and a second one with a more secretive/anon name. I made a couple of posts on each, then abandoned it. Instead, I started relying mostly on just one friend to help me. May 2018: I got a new job, working for a games developer. It literally changed my life. Anxiety/depression started to clear up a lot, things just generally improved. June/July-ish 2018: I left my band. There was an argument about the fact another band was using our space for free, after we had offered it to them at a split rate and they declined. I instigated the argument, other members didn’t see eye to eye with me, so I quit. It was a final nail in the coffin kind of thing, but it was certainly the healthy thing to do. The whole situation had been kind of toxic for a little while, but I now get on just fine with all of them - I think if I had stayed much longer, that might not be the case. Our vocalist left very shortly after me as well - I don’t know the reasons why, but it seems the terms were... less happy.

September 2018: I started taking Japanese classes. Met a girl, had a crush on her for a bit, it didn’t go anywhere as usual. No biggie.

December 2018: Depression came back a bit, as it always does around then. Not much I can do about it so I just power through.

February 2019: I got made redundant from work. I was cool with it, I could see it coming for a while and there was like 12 other people too, my boss had fought hard to keep me but the game wasn’t doing so well, so I totally get it. I got a nice redundancy pay (which they by no means had to give me, so I’m super grateful). I applied for a job with another studio; quite a big one called Jagex. They were far from me so it would’ve involved moving and stuff, so quite scary. I made it to the final stages, but didn’t get it.

I now had a fair lump of cash (I had been saving for a house anyway), but not quite sure what to do with it. Followers of my previous blog can probably guess what I decided to spend it on...

April 2019: I went back to Japan! My mental-health-reset trip mark 2. I spent about two and a half weeks there (despite fucking up and accidentally buying a ticket to return mid-may... whoops). I got detained in China on my way home too but that’s a whole other story (it was all sorted and fine in the end).

While in Japan, I had time to clear my head and think. I decided I wanted to go back to university, so started thinking about how that would work. Here in the UK, we get a student loan to pay for university. It’s a bit complicated, but the way it works is you get your course length plus one year of funding. The day you set foot on campus, you use one year of funding. Now, I had already been to university previously - I studied music production. Totally dead industry, I dropped out about three weeks into my second year. That meant, I only had course length minus one year’s funding left available. So I have to pay the first year of university myself. At a cool £9,250.

My dad agreed to pay one term, so one third of that. I managed to save up another terms worth by working over the summer. I’m sat in my uni dorm right now, still not quite sure how I’ll pay for the third term... but I’ve got 6 months to figure that one out.

May 2019: I returned to my original job, back in the warehouse. Picking and packing sacks of bird food, so much fun. My mental health naturally slipped again, although everyone was really friendly to me while before it was kinda like I didn’t exist, so that was nice.

Around this time, I also joined an Overwatch team. It was a pretty big team with maybe 14-15 members, it was cool to make some new friends. Except one guy, was a dick. This OW stuff is like a whole side story from hereon... Anyway, I said to my squad leader (We’ll call her SN) that this guy is a dick. She said ok and she’d go talk to him. She said do you agree you’re being a dick, he said no. She said do you acknowledge one of the squad members thinks you’re being a dick? He said no again. Some other stuff I don’t know happened, and he got kicked off the team. He turned a load of people against her, caused loads of drama, and everyone blamed her when it was 100% my fault. So that was fun. The only reason I didn’t leave the team right then is because if I had, the entire drama would’ve been for nothing.

June 2019: My old boss who didn’t work there appeared at the end of may. I have a job for you. Ominous... but ok. Turns out, there was a new system being implemented on another contract. As I had experience with QA, and had done some IT stuff for them before, they wanted me to help with the testing and implementation. It was a job that would test my brain, while requiring little physical work - it was perfect for me. I really enjoyed it. It was supposed to be a four week thing, but we found lots of niggly little problems in the system... as far as I know, it’s actually only just gone live - but may have been delayed further.

While working up there, obviously there was downtime while waiting for fixes to be implemented. “What, you want this label a different size? oof, that’s gonna take about three weeks”. However, I got to stay in the office, doing odd jobs and stuff. One of the “odd jobs” ended up being a full on Android app, that my boss and me developed together. It was super fun to work on and really rewarding. That was worked on on-and-off between June and August.

July 2019: an interesting month. There was a major incident at work where a shelf holding very heavy metal shit stirrers collapsed. (The contract was a water treatment etc company, who provide all the clean water and water recycling for my local area. The things on the shelf literally stirred shit.) No one was hurt but it was a lot of drama, which was kind of entertaining to me as I was totally bunking off for the whole week where it happened. Not just the occasionally check Facebook on your phone at work kind of bunking off; I literally just messed about on Discord and worked on Minecraft mods for about two weeks straight. They had given me quite a big project to do, I automated the process... gg ez.

Around this time, the game I had been a part of before was to be officially cancelled. My old work invited me down to the studio to be a part of the formal funeral for the game, which was a big honour. I even got to fly the sky-whale which was awesome. It was bittersweet though, as the game meant a lot to me and had literally changed my life.

August 2019: haaaaaa august was a meme. I’d gotten kinda close with a girl (we’ll call her AP) in my Overwatch team. Like, we’d arranged to meet up at the end of August anyway but yeah, she was the first crush in a long time who actually knew I liked her. And she had certainly implied she felt the same way... like she’d been sending lots of hearts and stuff and talking to me 24/7, tagging me in “X has to take you on a date to Y place” memes and so on.  Anyways, so SN had apparently picked up on the fact I liked her, and started getting super pissy with me. I was pretty good friends with SN and we got on well, but in August she suddenly started getting crazy angry with me over tiny things. It all came to a head when I let AP kill me in a game (long story). Turns out, SN was like in love with me... despite breaking up with her boyfriend of over a year like 2 days before this conversation. So yeah, she told me to fuck off and that was that, she left the team etc, which thanks to chain of command meant that I was then in charge. fun. 

Anyways, get to the end of August, and I was due to meet AP. We met up, it was pretty cool. We hung out at a gaming festival, then suddenly like half way through she was like “lets split up for a bit” and I was like ........ok thats weird but alright. We didn’t meet up again until literally when she had like 2 mins to go, but it seems like she had a lot more fun without me being there. Clearly I’d done some major fuckup, which I still don’t actually know what it was. I had an anxiety attack before I even reached my car... and not a little one either. It’s quite possibly the biggest anxiety attack I’ve ever had, I barely made it to my car before having a total meltdown. It was the first one I’d had for about a year and it hit hard. It took me about 30 mins to calm down, then I headed home. 

I messaged her that night and asked her what happened, and she replied with “oh I never said I liked you”. It hurt a lot, like I’d been totally lead on. But hey whatever, that’s my life in a nutshell right? “Oh you want this happiness? this happiness right infront of you? HA nah”.  She said in the same message that I “seemed cool” and she’d like to hang out again sometime. But literally within a week she was clearly interested in another guy, so yeah whatever. We’re still friends and play games from time to time but I know she likes this other guy, so yeah. I still like her but whatever, not much I can do about it.

Work was a meme as well. I got taken off the fun and interesting projects to do paperwork. Literally, my job was to scan 35,000 documents because they couldn’t find a couple of bits of information. I suggested much better and more efficient ways, but the boss of the contract was like “no thats bad do it this old fashioned way we don’t want any fancy apps or anything” (I had suggested a spreadsheet or database). It took me about 3 weeks of just standing by a scanner which would jam up every 15-20 sheets in. It was mental health hell, especially in the last week after all the AP stuff had happened.

September 2019: I had one week left at work. I finished the hellish scanning project on Monday afternoon. “Oh as a thanks for your massive hard work we’ll make sure to find you things to do for the rest of the week” No it’s fine, I’m happy to just finish a few days early so I have more time to prep for uni. “No no no, we’ll find you stuff to do” They did not find stuff for me to do. I literally sat there, with nothing to do bar a few odd jobs “hey can you fix this printer”, for four days. It was incredibly mind-numbingly dull. The only thing ticking me over was “hey, maybe they wanna give me a card on my last day or something to say good luck and bye and thanks for doing this literal £20/hr job for half that because you’re agency staff”. But nah, a few people said cya later, but a lot forgot I was leaving entirely. So that was a fun way to finish what had mostly been a decent job...

I then had two weeks of freedom, before moving to university on the 21st. I was nervous; who wouldn’t be? but it was cool. I finally moved out of my house, and had a place where I could make a lot of new friends (LOL). On the day I moved in, I met up with someone I’d spoken to online a few times who was living in the same building as me, we’ll call her S. She was nice, we got on well, and it was kinda cool to have a friend who was a girl that for once I didn’t have a crush on (coz I’m still totally hung up on AP). We ended up going to a club in the evening which I’ve literally never done in my life, and she brought me out of my comfort zone a lot. She was great for my anxiety and really helpful. We’ve hung out a few times since, but I kind of feel like I was just a “filler friend” until she made new friends. She actually totally blanked me when I walked past her today, so that was fun. She has my Switch atm too coz I let her borrow it, I’ll probably just get it back later this week and then be done, its like I put in all the effort to be a friend and she couldn’t care less.

Anyways, so as I said I moved in on Saturday. I met one of my four flatmates on Saturday and another on Sunday, but hadn’t seen the other two at all. It gets to Thursday and I’m tidying the kitchen a bit, my mum’s about to pick me up so I can move in my last few things, and one of the mystery people appeared - she hadn’t actually moved in yet and was just unloading her stuff. She had loads of kitchen stuff, seems she’s really into her cooking.

Anyway, mum picks me up, we go to get my stuff, then we’re driving back, and my phone starts blowing up. S: Are you in? Me: No, why? S: Your building’s on fire. Me: lol nice joke S: no really *picture of everyone evacuated with fire engines outside* S: It’s your floor too, idk which flat. I wasn’t far out, so found her outside when I arrived. I’ve seen people going in, not being funny but one of them looked like [one of my flatmates]. Shit.  A few mins later, the girl who had just moved in came over. You know it’s our flat right? Shit. Turns out the extractor fan on the cooker malfunctioned. I won’t share the video itself coz one of my flatmates is in it, but yeah it just started spraying molten something all over the hob and surfaces. (They said it looked like molten metal, and they were there - but I don’t see how it would’ve gotten hot enough to melt any metal. My best guess is fat that hadn’t been cleaned from last years tenants)

So yeah, we got moved into another flat. The open cupboard right there was my one - I rescued my custom cup from it that the games studio had given me. It’s no good to drink from now, but it still looks ok so I’m glad I can keep it for decorative purposes at least. The rest of the food is waste, and I have to wait for the plates etc to get cleaned. I’m currently eating ready meals out of their cook-in containers, because I don’t have any plates, and only one fork and spoon. I bought some paper plates today though so I’ll use those from tomorrow, but I still don’t have any saucepans or anything.

I wasn’t around when they sorted out the replacement accommodation. Because of that, the other four from my flat went to the same new flat together, with one new person. I was put into a different flat which also had one other person in, my building manager assured me they’re “really nice”. I asked if they knew I was coming, BM said “they’ll know when we get up there :)”. That was Thursday, today is Monday. The only food in the kitchen is mine, I’ve not seen anyone. I’m 100% positive I’m alone in this flat.

And so yeah, that’s my uni experience so far. I had my first lectures today, it was cool because I already knew all the stuff so I got to feel smart (I’m doing computer games programming, and it was mostly about design docs which I read through extensively while working at the studio, so I knew exactly how they worked etc). But, I didn’t really make any friends. I kind of joined in with a couple of other people in each lecture, but it seems like they weren’t really interested, so whatever. I had an anime society taster this evening as well, and it was when I was on my way to that that S blanked me and I just got hit my like a wave of loneliness. I didn’t make any friends at the anime society, so I kinda just gave up and came back to my flat, and started writing this. As I was getting the fire picture from above though someone asked me if I wanted to hang out, so guess I’ll see how that goes. Not holding out much hope tbh and I’m at the point of becoming a full on hermit... I mean hey, at least I’d get a perfect score on my degree if I just focus on that and eliminate any social aspect right?

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