#why the hell would i. tf would that benefit me

[doyouknowwhoyouare13]

Nyx reads Six of Crows (pt.1)

I didn't want to annoy anyone with too much spamming so this is just my general thoughts while reading! (PLEASE DON'T FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE TO READ THIS HALF OF IT IS GOING TO BE ME BEING DUMB AS HELL SO)

(updating every day, so you guys can keep up with my thoughts in real-time without TOO much spam :))

LIKE I SAID THERE'S NO PRESSURE TO READ IT AND HONESTLY IF IT GETS ANNOYING JUST BLOCK THE TAG #★nyx reads soc! AND YOU WON'T SEE IT ANYMORE I GET IT'LL PROBABLY BE TOO MUCH CONSIDERING THERE ARE 40 SOME CHAPTERS NO HARD FEELINGS 😭

part 2

SPOILERS BELOW!!!!

Started reading: 1/18/23

Finished reading: 2/4/23

Alright, since I didn't start this at the beginning of the book, I'm gonna summarize my thoughts from Chapters 1-4 in a few sentences:

AWWW JOOST AND ANYA SO CUTE, omgggg I'm in love with Inej AND Kaz, is this new? Nope. Uh oh, the girlfriend is gonna get killed. DAMN KAZ THE THREATS 💀 Jesper is so me. NOOOO JOOST. AND ANYA??? Who the hell is that. WHO TF IS JORDIE???? SLAY INEJ!!! Aww, new ship you guys!!!

Ok, that's all hope people understand it and if you don't, too bad. JOKING LOVE YOU GUYS!!!

Starting at chapter 5 guys

Kaz is actually so smart

Oh Jordie is older-

I mean I assumed he was his brother but I thought he was younger

MEETING NINA!!!! (Ives said I'd like her)

omg. I'm in love with her. She has said one thing.

HIM BUYING STOCKS FROM THAT OLD MAN BECAUSE OF NINA💀

I can't believe they're only 17

I'm trying to be like Kaz

interested in Matthias like a lot

chapter 6 now

I wonder what Matthias did

omg another new ship

I'm still confused about the costumes

this prison feels like hell

so many gangs

WTF IS THAT THING

ROARS LIKE A LION

LOOKS LIKE A SNAKE THING

WHAT

AHH WTF I'M GONNA CRY

NOT PEKKA AGAIN

who would actually think of something like this 😦

It's sick

not sick in a cool way

sick in a WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL way

YOU'RE RIGHT NINA IT IS DISGUSTING

HOW ARE PEOPLE WATCHING THIS IN GOOD CONSCIENCE

ok maybe for the sick fucks

THEY CHOOSE TO DO IT

FUCK THE BENEFITS NO WAY I'M DOING THAT

omg they bet on it.

crying, screaming

"I'm mad at you, too" "I don't know yet. I just am." -me coded

oh Nina...this won't end well

ENEMIES TO LOVERS!!!

my two sides fighting ^^

NOT HIS HAIR

oh she down bad

Don't tell me killing wolves is against his morals- or his country's morals-

Omg. IT'S AGAINST HIS FUCKING MORALS- SOBBING SCREAMING PULLING MY HAIR OUT WTF

WHY DOES THIS HURT SO MUCH

HE'S WISHING THEM FAREWELL 😭

IT'S TRYING TO KILL HIM AND HE'S PRAYING FOR THEM

AHHHHHH-

HE'S CRYING.

HE. IS. CRYING.

😭😭😭😭

I'm hurt, you guys. Very hurt. Might cry. Probably will.

Do you guys see how sensitive I am yet?

WHAT DID YOU DO NINA???

HIS MOTHER 😭 KAZ I CANNOT RN

Kaz is a slay per usual

I love the word barbaric

such a funny word

Kaz is literally a genius

No I won't stop saying that because he is

I just rolled my eyes so much I could see my fucking brain

Am I the only one who hates when guys act tough?

"I can take it" STFU AND LET HER DO HER WORK 😡

WHY TF IS HE CALLED GOOD BOY I WANNA BE CALLED GOOD GIRL BY KAZ WTF 😡

y'all I don't know who said that cause it wasn't me.

anyways

...oh such a lovely reunion!!! how romantic!!!!!

Chapter 7 ALONG WITH Part 2!!!!

first pov from Matthias!

we left off where he was choking her and now he's dreaming of her???

trying to be like them fr JOKING JOKING

Matthias would like Taylor Swift

I mean he used one of her song titles in one of his first sentences!!!

He's so me

just realized that said hunted instead of haunted

crying actually

I thought we had something Matthias.

now with me those instances would be switched, kissing Nina sounds very pleasant actually

oh Matthias is down bad too

SLAYYYY

MATTHIAS YOU HORNY BASTARD

Sorry that's rude BUT TRUE APPARENTLY???

OMG MATTHIAS GET OVER YOURSELF AND JUST KISS HER HOLY SHIT

Me thinks this is a enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers again arc

JESPER'S HERE TOO? WOOHOO, THAT'S MY FAV FR!!!

I say that about everyone idek which one is actually my fav

"Boys like you weren't meant to get ideas, Helver," YOU TELL HIM KAZ!!!

"that Jesper character" HE IS CERTAINLY A CHARACTER INDEED BUT I LOVE HIM FOR IT

My girl killed something that no one had survived before her

Love her sm ❤

Kaz is a lot of things but at least he's honest about it 💀

LEARN HER NAME MATTHIAS 😭

I LOVE JESPER SM

my lord I think he wants to kill Nina, just a thought though

bro Nina fucked him up

GRISHA CORRUPTION??? HOLY SHIT THEY DO HATE THE GRISHA NINA WASN'T EVEN EXAGGERATING

Matthias drop the witch thing, it's getting annoying

A STORK- HE JUST CALLED JESPER A STORK 💀

THE DEMON. MY GOD HE LOVES NAME CALLING

SO SET ON THE KILLING THING MY GOD

oh he's so salty I love it

me thinks she will think about you, often (it's disgusting and I can't stop)

my lord Matthias, never getting on your bad side

does he genuinely think Kaz is a demon? like a demon demon?

New character y'all

OMG ANOTHER REMINDER THEY'RE ALL HELLA YOUNG

THEY SEEM SO MUCH OLDER

VAN ECK???

Chapter 8 IN JESPER'S POV!!!

I love Jesper he's so me

WTF HIS CHAPTER IS SO SHORT (I say as I've been complaining to myself about how long the chapters are)

Jealous? I know what you are Jesper.

It's ok me too

JOKING JOKING

or am I?

Y'ALL LEAVE THIS POOR KID ALONE

THEY'RE ALL GOING IN ON HIM

don't have a repeat of Joost. Istfg I will sob. don't try me.

hey, hey. flute is cool too. (ok not as cool as piano but don't tell him I said that)

JESPER 😭

Wylan give me all your belongings rn.

Ofc Kaz is unfazed, it's Kaz tf do you expect?

JESPER I LOVE YOU SO SO MUCH

Nina provoking him won't do any good 😭

God the dynamic between Jesper and Wylan

I want what they have

"You're all horrible" YOU WOKE UP AND IMMEDIATELY STARTED TRYING TO STRANGLE SOMEONE YOU HAVE NO RIGHT. 💀

KAZ IS SO. SMART.

OMGGGG WYLAN 😭

"No" "it looks like a target" NOW THAT'S A SLAY

Chapter 9 ANOTHER SHORT ONE!!!

HA KAZ PAIRED JESPER WITH HIM

I feel a new ship brewing

Kaz ships Jesper and Wylan confirmed

KAZ IS SO FUNNY

Can you guys tell I like Kaz yet?

MATTHIAS IS ADORABLE

He'd probably try to kill me if I said that to him

But I only speak the truth!!!

I take that back

how stupid do you have to be to attack Kaz?

Kaz being the best per usual

Chapter 10, INEJ!!!

MY GIRL HAS RETURNED!!!

Can't believe I've already read like 5 chapters today

But some of these have been short, this chapter is too

And it has still taken me like 4 hours I think, I'm a really slow reader 😭

anyways

Inej and Kaz's dynamic never fails to make me laugh 💀

oh...guys now why would you say that

oh no the silent treatment 💀

KAZ WHY WOULD YOU SAY THATTTT

Inej's parents were the blueprint

THE FLOWERSSSSS

omg that place sounds horrible.

AHHH NO INEJ

oml my heart is racing

LYNX IS NOT HER NAME 😡

omg she names her knives I love her

I want to know more about her Saints

her knives mean as much to her as Jesper's guns mean to him

WTF DO YOU MEAN IT EXPLODED

NO. NO WAY.

Chapter 11, JESPER AGAIN ❤❤❤

y'all gonna explain the explosion???

WHO ARE YOU SHOOTING AT JESPER

OMG.

"Not a kid" me too Wylan but I also call everyone kid so ����

omg Kaz you're a lifesaver, literally

ok it's official, yeah there's def 3 ships here

I know what you guys are.

Matt DIDN'T use his first opportunity to kill Nina? DEVELOPMENT!!!

I am calling him Matt from now on

IT'S TOO FUNNY

AHHH JESPER-

IS HE INSANE?

BETTER THAN WINNING AT GAMBLING?

I'LL TAKE THE CARDS PLEASE WHAT-

"you can't kiss me from down there" SO YOU WANT HIM TO KISS YOU?????? CAUGHT YOU BITCH/j

OH YEAH WYLAN!!! PROVE THOSE BITCHES WRONG!!! YOU ARE USEFUL!!! SLAYYYY

Lawd this chapter brought my heart rate up

Chapter 12, MY BELOVED AGAIN!!!

WHY ARE THESE CHAPTERS SO SHORT

the ones in the beginning were so long

wtf happened

Who cares PARTAY

I hate long chapters

aw not the fucking black tips again

MULTIPLE GANGS?

WITH HIS BARE HANDS 😦

AHHH SO MUCH STRESS- INEJ ISTFG

OMG INEJ SLAY I LOVE THAT FOR YOU I CANNOT

INEJJJ

Omg you worried me.

Kaz to the rescue again

omg.

crying.

she's not gonna die but lord-

ISTFG.

AHHHHHHHHH

this book has a habit of ending the chapters on very worrying notes.

anyways.

Chapter 13, Kaz

scared fr ngl

another short chapter as well

omg he loves her so much

but I love her more so he can fuck off.

JOKING LOVE YA KAZ

trying to steal my girl though 🙄

HIS WRAITH

SOBBING, SCREAMING, PASSING OUT, RIPPING MY HAIR OUT.

STOMPED 💀 HE'S SUCH A CHILD I LOVE HIM

Awww they're so cute together... (Wylan and Jesper)

oh...now Kaz....his eye socket?

OH HIS EYE.

KAZ.

OH HE JUST- THREW IT OVERBOARD- NO CARE IN THE WORLD-

OH AND THE HANDKERCHIEF.

OK I LIKE IT PICASSO.

KAZ. ISTG. I CANNOT.

FUCKING ROLLINS? I SWEAR THIS MF JUST NEEDS TO GET THE FUCK OUT OMG-

well bye ig

Don't mess with Inej guys you get your eye taken out and get thrown overboard

deserved

KAZ IS SCARY THOUGH HOLY SHIT

AND THE MY WRAITH THING AGAIN

I CAN'T.

JESPERRRR

I need to know what tf happened with Jordie.

Chapter 14!!! Nina is backkkk

This one is VERY long and by long I mean 15 pages so honestly I'm being dramatic.

Honestly the gang tattoo sounds like it'd look really good

YES NINA SEES IT TOO

Inej and Nina together>>>>

Best friends I say

I wonder if people ship them

I mean I guess I can see it idk yet though

Jesper and Inej 🤝 finding comfort in deathly weapons

Oh Jesper please don't start crying cause I will too

they're all so smart

how tf she know all those languages

y'all I don't think I like Zoya all that much

ONCE AGAIN SHE'S SO SMART

MATTTTT

omg she said he looks like a painting

crying, screaming

oh Nina..

um...everyone makes mistakes! you'll be ok!

ew. um. I would rather die, actually.

Me thinks Jarl Brum is a little bitch

I wish I understood all the words they're saying

NO. FUCKING. WAY. I'M GONNA LOSE MY MIND IF THEY DO WHAT I THINK THEY'RE IMPLYING.

oh some boy to the rescue

oh nvm.

NINA YESSSS SLAY

WHAT DID SHE JUST SAYYYY UGHHHHH

omg she's going to kill him!!!

I support women's rights but I also support their wrongs

joking I know she won't kill him

ooh she called out the name calling too

glad I'm not the only one

OMG NINA YOU DID WHAT

YOU'RE RIGHT HE DOES HAVE A RIGHT TO DISLIKE YOU 😦

I don't though, still love you SUPPORT WOMEN'S WRONGS!!! (/j)

OMG THIS HURTS.

I'M GONNA CRY-

Last chapter of this part, Chapter 15, Matty boy's perspective

Back to the short chapters

oh...violent per usual

WYLAN BITING THE DISK 💀

oooh Brum died? YIPEE!!!

omg Kaz 😭

HE'S SO IN LOVE

Kaz scary sometimes

AWWW HE'S WARMING UP TO WYLAN

"my ghost won't associate with your ghost)" MATTYYY 💀

CHAPTER 16, along with part 3, AND AN INEJ POV!!!

oh she's crying-

BEST FRIENDS!!!!!

3 DAYS?????

HELPPP THIS FRIENDSHIP IS EVERYTHING

I feel like Kaz has a death wish

OMG I NEED THEM TOGETHER. SHE CARES SO MUCH FOR HIM.

I LOVE INEJ AND NINAAAAA

not her bullying her singing 💀

THEY LITERALLY KIDNAPPED HER

THESE POOR CHILDREN

Chapter 17, AND JESPERRRRRRRR

I'd probably jump too, seems boring

HELP BOTHER WYLAN

they love each other

ok Wylan, come on now

JESPER IS JUST LIKE ME BRO

oh the lovers are quarreling

HELP "You're not dead!" JESPER 💀

Y'all...it's a good thing I'm a multi-shipper.../hj

"YOU'RE NOT INVITED" 💀

am I though?? I love waffles

Jesper is a people watcher

LIKE I SAID JUST LIKE ME FR

"Would it kill him to smile every once in a while" "very possibly" YALL 😭

Inej and Jesper friendship supremacy

omg Jesper loves Kaz

me too

AND HE ASKS ABOUT WYLAN

THEY'RE IN LOVE

WHAT

WITH HIS TUTOR???

SLAY WYLAN

SHE READ THE LETTERS I CAN'T

HE DOESN'T LIKE THE OCEAN EITHER????

JESPER WE'RE JUST SO CONNECTED

I told you Jesper has a crush on Kaz. "feeling his cheeks heat" I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE

idek if I'm joking at this point not

THEY'RE THE BEST CHARACTERS OUT OF THE WHOLE BOOK

I LOVE THEM YOU GUYS I LOVE THEM

alright day 2 (or 3, can't remember) of you guys putting up with my total BULLSHIT

Chapter 18, KAZZZZ

my husband fr

and Inej's

TRYING TO FIND AN EXCUSE TO TALK TO HER 😭

Kaz always has something over someone 💀

"tell me you know that. He needed her to say it." "He needed to know she believed him." HE WANTS HER TO TRUST HIMMMM

NO.

JORDIE.

OH THAT BITCH

BRO ISTFG

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

CRYING SCREAMING PASSING OUT OMG I LOVE THEM SO MUCH I WANNA-

BE RID OF THIS DISTRACTION? KAZ BREKKER. ISTFG IF YOU LOSE HER BECAUSE OF YOUR STUPID TRAIN OF THOUGHT I'LL CRY.

KAZ BREKKER. 😡😡😡

BRO "He didn't want Inej." YOU JUST FUCKING SAID-

OH. THAT'S A HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE- POOR KAZ'S DAD-

HE GREW UP ON A FARM.

KAZ IS A FARMER BOY.

THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY.

this is gonna be sad.

oh he liked the omelets :(

OMG HES SO INNOCENT

FUCK NOT WCS

OMG I CAN'T DO THIS RN

HE BLAMES HIMSELFFFFF

I'M GONNA SOB

JORDIEEEE

NOOO YOU JINXED IT

actually about to start crying

knowing Jordie dies hurt

WHERE IS SASKIA NOW

"That seems like cheating" and he does it now :(

omg Filip not a good idea

AHHH

he didn't.

he didn't just trick some helpless CHILDREN right?

OMFG HE DID.

OH THE RIBBON

OH THE METAPHOR

OMG OUCH HOLY SHIT

Chapter 19, Matty boy is back

Feel like it hasn't been his pov in forever

It's only been 4 chapters.

Embarrassing on my part 💀

anyways this chapter is so long

20 pages this time

still not that long but longer than the last time I complained about it

anyways

I love Nina

HE CAN SMILE???

He's such a child

it's so funny

Finally they're having contact without them trying to kill each other

OMG HE'S SO IN LOVE

AHHHH in a good way this time

uh oh running out of romance tabs

you ruined it Matty boy

I love that they say that

"Strange people" PLEASE

So real Jesper

Kaz has his priorities straight

money>>>>everyhing/hj

HE LEFT HIS CANE????

omg they just keep going 😭

sometimes I forget they're technically speaking another language

do none of them have mothers

If Matty betrays them istg

Don't pull a Peter Matty boy

Ah fuck I'm out of post-its for my in-book annotations

ugh I should've been better prepared 😭

omg I'm ALSO always in charge of making sure people don't start fighting

ONCE AGAIN, KAZ IS A FUCKING GENIUS.

omg Matty, I love you, but you're getting on my fucking nerves

KAZ PAIRING WYLAN AND JESPER TOGETHER AGAIN

PLEASE TELL ME I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO SHIPS HIM

THERE'S NO WAY I'M THE ONLY ONE

AT LEAST YOU FOUND SOMETHING TO AGREE ON 💀

Matty, they ARE crows

HIM IMITATING THE BELLS

Because you're in love Matty boy, that's why

HOW LONG WAS NINA PULLING HIS HEAVY ASS BODY WITH HER? AND USING POWERS?? DAMN

awww they're so cute

if we look past the fact they are very close to death

um...

HE TURNED AROUND FOR HER

Nah I don't think it's intentional I think you just have a dirty mind Matty boy

"Then you're as stupid as you look" SLAY NINA!!!!

OMG MATT GET OVER YOURSELF AND TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES.

IT'S NOT NATURAL FOR SOMEONE TO BE AS STUPID AS HE IS TALL 💀💀💀

A BURLY SQUID????? NINAAA

AHHHH

"He lied. He did like the way she talked."

MATTY

oh god

GO OFF NINA!!!!

HOW IS ONE OF THEM ALIVE?

oh poor Nina

YES NINA STAND YOUR GROUND

Matthias. Yes I just said your real name. That is such a fucked up thing to say.

SLAY NINA

Chapter 20, NINAAA

the ending of the last chapter made me really angry at Matty boy so

also I'm officially halfway through the book!!!

oh Nina loves him so much :/

so down bad

I LOVE THEM

well I get why he hates Grisha if his family was killed by them

WE DON'T EAT BABIES 💀

Matt you do not have fun you seem like the most boring person ever

I DIDN'T KNOW YOU COULD LAUGH I'M CRYING

Nina is so relatable

"Do you ever doubt yourself?"

"All the time." "I just don't show it."

OMG NINA JUST CALLED HIM OUT

fuck out of romance tabs

so cute though

OMG THEY NAME SHARED

AHHHHH

oh he angry

honestly has the right to

Nina now wtf come on

INEJ TO THE RESCUE!!!!

I might actually cry I found more tabs and I don't wanna go back

At least I have them for the future?

I DIDN'T EVEN THINK OF CHECKING MY BAG OMFG

IT'S A NEW FUCKING PACK TOO I'M GONNA START SOBBING

Switching general note post-its too BECAUSE THERE WAS A WHOLE FUCKING THING OF THOSE TOO

MY GOD 😭

how do you view Grisha as less than you WHEN THEY ARE LITERALLY BETTER THAN YOU IN SO MANY WAYS

ARE YOU CONTROLLING THE ELEMENTS? I DIDN'T THINK SO

CAN YOU KILL SOMEONE WITHOUT TOUCHING THEM? NOPE.

STAY IN YOUR FUCKING LANE

oh that's fucked up Kaz

ok well Nina is justified in all that

HE DOESN'T WANT IT???

WOOHOO

YIPPEE

HOPEFULLY THEY WON'T TRY TO KILL EACH OTHER NOW

Summing up what I read in school! (so ten pages)

That food was probably disgusting, CANNONS? "WHO KNEW I HAD A TASTE FOR LITERATURE" JESPER 💀. Good plan, but also so incredibly stupid wtf. NINA. Inej's discussion with Matty is so true.

alright continuing chapter 21, INEJ!!!

my wife fr

Bro Jesper is just so me

Bro, I'd give this man the most amazing, mind-blowing, leg-shaking, eye-rolling, breath-taking, sheet-grabbing, sloppiest head he's ever gotten in his entire life

Who said that cause it wasn't me

Def not

anyways

OH NO HE FLINCHED

oh shit they're pressed together

his touch thing

oh fuck

don't cry, don't cry, don't cry

Matty boy scary

"IT LOOKS LIKE LEAVING THEM IN A DITCH" 💀

Nina and Matty boy are so cute 😍

IDEAL FOR FAKING SUICIDES????

This book gives me stress

OMG KAZ I'M GONNA CRY

FAINTED??? SOBBING SCREAMING RIPPING MY HAIR OUT

Chapter 22, KAZZLE DAZZLE

SCARED FR

oh their story is so sad :/

NOOOOOO JORDIE

OH MY GOD.

HE'S SO YOUNG

THIS ISN'T FAIR

I'M ACTUALLY CRYING

HE HAD TO USE HIS BODY

OH HONEY YOU'RE NO MONSTER DON'T SAY THAT

OMG HIM AND INEJ I'M GONNA SOB

OH NO HE'S PANICKING CAUSE INEJ ISN'T THERE

TANKS?

Kaz slays with the quotes per usual

JESPER 💀

OH LORD KAZ I'M GONNA CRY AGAIN

THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR JOKES JESPER

oh Kaz :/ I FEEL SO BAD

"Kaz knew the word for cripple in plenty of languages" KAZZZZZZ 😭

SLAY KAZ YOU DO THAT!!!

Chapter 23, JESPER!!!!!

He just like me but my father doesn't understand so 🤷🏻‍♀

THE LEG WAS ASKING FOR IT????? WHAT????

I WANT MORE WYLAN 😡

Love Jesper and Wylan so much

SINCE WHEN IS HE A FABRIKATOR

I LOVE THEM

THEY'RE BOTH FARM BOYS

Y'ALL THAT'S TOO FUNNY TO ME

THE FLIRTINGGGG

Chapter 24, NINA!!!

my other wife

so pretty much all of the Fjerdan are hella tall? scary

THOSE CELLS ARE HORRIBLE

poor Nina

UH OH UH OH UH OH

NOT AN ALARM OMG

Chapter 25, Inej!!!

even his gloves are genius

AH ISTG IF SHE FALLS

THE SHOES???

omg Kaz and Inej 😍

I hate this place.

EW HELEEN IS DISGUSTING

Flexing like a goddamn acrobat

"Better terrible truths than kind lies"

so real for that one

please Inej, keep going 😭

THANK YOU RAIN OMG

THE STRESS

YES INEJ, YES IT IS!!!

Chapter 26, my husband

the only thing keeping him alive rn is revenge

KAZ YOU BIT HIM??? 😭

Genius at 9

A ROCK??? BRO KAZ WAS AS RUTHLESS AT 9 AS HE IS NOW

Rietveld

Kaz Rietveld

Idk doesn't have the same ring to it but that might just be because I'm used to Brekker

Kaz should teach me cards imagine how much money I'd get

OMG HE'S HERE?

KAZ

ok y'all I'm gonna start struggling I've used too many images so I have like 3 more chapters I can go between and then I'm gonna have to start a new post

I'm gonna cry

anyways

chapter 27 JESPER!!!

OH I FORGOT ABOUT THE ALARM

ok they're all good

for now

HELP JESPER IS TOO FUNNY THIS IS A SERIOUS SITUATION

NOT THE MENAGERIE 😡

chapter 28, INEJ!!!!

my wife fr

DEMON AGAIN 💀

bro how are they all geniuses

so we have a new plan!!!!!

WDYM MISS THAT LOOK YOU'LL BE SEEING IT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE

RIGHT? RIGHT??????

I like shiny things

omg I hate this

DON'T SAY THAT

omg Matty said it

JESPER 💀

Omg she's gonna leave.

OMG HE TOUCHED HER.

AHHHH

HE DIDN'T PULL AWAYYYY

omg she'd be such a good captain

they all have horrific backgrounds

I love Nina sm

HELP

"all I can see is your ass" 💀

THEY CALLED HIM A TULIP

BRO THAT'S BETTER THAN THE STORK THING

I CAN'T RN

DON'T FLIRT WITH HIM FLIRT WITH ME

OMG INEJ ISTG IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO YOU

this is the last chapter I'm doing on this post

BUT CHAPTER 29!! MATTY BOY

I love Jesper

Bro loves her so much

we just moving past that??

HE DIDN'T SHOOT!!! WOOHOO!!!

[atlasisntdead]

Like honestly sometimes it hits me and that doesn't mean I'm cured or whatever but like... why tf do I even feel inferior? Of course I shouldn't feel superior, but like, I literally know for a fact how many good qualities I objectively have, and how many times I handled things better than a lot of people would, so... even with all of my flaws and limitations, doesn't it seem more rational to at least not feel inferior? Like who am I doing that for, past abusers and people who I'm definitely not inferior to? How does that benefit me? I mean with being trans things only got good for me when I stopped living according to the bullshit rules I was subjecting myself to, when I listened to myself instead of people I knew for a fact were wrong...so what the hell am I doing? No offence but most people in my place would've killed themselves or went down a very dark path, and I don't even give myself credit handling everything way better than that because I...failed some things? Of course I did, I was literally in hell! The fact that I managed to stay in college still, I should get a medal, but instead I feel like a failure, and for what? I'm more than capable academically, I just have trauma and ADHD. I was a great student, and not even just in terms of grades, in general. I was curious and intuitive and same was true for personal life. Yeah I have negative traits, but I'm clearly hyperfocusing on them to the point of not only exaggerating them but inventing those that don't exist.

And like, genuinely, for what?

[cloama]

This is a test for everyone on how committed you are to actually understanding other groups when they express offence. Do you immediately give the powerful group the benefit of the doubt or do you take a second to put yourself in the shoes of the offended group. You can do both if you're not done developing your politic.

For me: It wasn't a joke it was an analogy of what happens when men/power/patriarchy comes into play. The whole movie is a metaphor for the actual horrors that weren't allowed to be named...so why name this one? Why was that allowed?

I 100% understand where OP is coming from.

I'm sorry that native people were chilling in a movie that seemed to be trying to do right by everyone and they caught a stray, yet again They get to feel a way about people not mentioning or including their group until it's time to bring up old hurtful shit. There is absolutely something to that.

I'm literally having deja Vu while writing this bc it never ends.

This is a classic case of "keep my name out your mouth."

Not a single indigenous character is in the movie but the first time they're mentioned is for an analogy. You're watching Inclusionfest 2023 but you're still outside the rope. Yeah, it's careless. You sitting in the theatre thinking how tf did I get in it, on some Nene shit. It's unfair. I have been there. Tryna enjoy a show or a movie. Tryna support people who claim to want to do right and here comes some shit where my Black ass is in it and I didn't ask to be. I get to be offended.

I definitely understand being pissed off. So yeah keep their name out of your mouth.

We need to get more comfortable with people expressing their discomfort. Sit with it and go be better. Getting called out is not a death sentence. No one is sending Noah and Greta to the chair. Hell I think I missed that line initially which made me question my own desensitization towards native commentary. But that's on me to work on myself. Wasn't until this post that I realized there were no indigenous Barbies. Again a callout is not a death sentence. It's just a call out. Would you have rather OP stayed silent? Changed their tone?

If it weren't for their tone, I likely wouldn't be here writing this. Their tone let me know if was serious and I needed to take a beat and examine myself.

We are supposed to express ourselves. I feel like I'm talking to my pre-k students because everyone is so underdeveloped these days.

You are supposed to feel uncomfortable. You are supposed to want to change.

YOUR FAVE IS ANTI NATIVE: BARBIE

There was a joke about smallpox in the Barbie movie:

GRETA GERWIG AND THE BARBIE MOVIE: YOUR FAVE IS ANTI NATIVE

[mari-guri]

IDOLiSH7 Ep. 7 - Ray of Light

They had to remind us of their moment just to also remind us of their fall out LMFAO

You know what i get it yeah when it comes to members in groups that get super popular. It basically happens in every single group, it’s almost unavoidable (and don’t come at me saying any insert group bc you know that’s a lie). I know when it can get super biased towards one member and a company pushes them to the front and center too much it can cause not just a rift between fans but also within members themselves. Like obviously, I can totally see why a company would want to capitalize on a member’s fame because logically it makes the most sense. More exposure to them means more money, but if there’s anything i learned about trickle down economics (is that it’s a fucking joke) is that this kinda thing doesn’t work in the long term for the benefit of an entire group. This kind of dynamic has no right way to go about it, but it needs the cooperation of the whole group for it to work. Popular members NEED to also advocate for their peers and set it straight. The times i see this happen in real life I find generally really benefits the whole group. They gain more respect from their fans and their other members get appreciation. But anyways that’s just a small little anecdote. Not super well thought out, but there’s probably more i could say but yeah.

WHAT THE HELL YOU TWO ARE TALKING TO HIM

DID NO ONE TELL YOU TO NOT TALK TO STRANGERS

Don’t fall for it

BRO THATS WEIRD

PSA RESEARCH IS NOT LOOKING INTO PEOPLE’S FAMILY. THAT’S JUST STALKING AT THAT POINT.

BRO THAT’S FUCKED UP

BUT WHY ARE YOU THE ONE WHO LOOKED THAT UP YOU WEIRDO

BROOOO LISTEN TO HIM THIS IS BLACKMAIL

ALSO THIS IS CALLED IDOLISH7 NOT IDOLISH6

That’s right. ✨ Communication is key ✨

God bless Nagi

DEBUT OKDESU

THATS RIGHT YOU GOTTa wait what

Ur separating them

YEARS?

DAMN LIKE A REAL ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY I GET IT

That’s right IDOLiSH7 not IDOLiSH2

Where are his eyes i just noticed

Hold up i gotta see these names

WSHLASH, Strawberries, DuO (??? cmon you can do better than that), Re:vale looks like they could be another group of characters here lol, oh and there’s TRIGGER and there’s our seven. WITH RIKU NOT WEARING A SHIRT A G A I N

Lmaooo mr capitalist assumes there were connections involved which indicates that’s how he’s able to raise his talents to popularity and not necessarily just from his own talent

Not a diss to trigger btw, they probably would have been popular regardless but they’ve already made it clear that they’ve crushed everyone in their path to the top

Who tf are you

High key both groups songs aren’t amazing so like LMAO

IS HE GONNA STEAL THE FUCKING SONG LMFAO

betting on that

A slow… debut song… interesting ?

Or is it not their debut

Idk how this works

Y’all just need to utilize his cuteness I guarantee it’ll work

YOU CAN BE CUTE DO YOU KNOW THE POWER OF CUTENESS IN THIS KINDA INDUSTRY ITS A REAL SKILL FRFR

Damn this ship is crazy

Wish I knew what it was called

IoRiku ? Idk don’t come for me

Everyone shut up nagi’s singing

Oh it’s over (i know i say this every time)

Episode 6 - Triumphant Return in the Rain

Episode 8 - Please, Music

Return to IDOLiSH7 Page

[milimima]

It’s okay bro fr. Idc. Ik who I am. My car gon be sweet and Ik I’m kicking out sun bread for it duh. It’s a car.

If anyone thinks I’m manipulating or putting magic on you fuck you. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 you think if Ik how to do magic like that is waste it on ya 🤣 let’s be really fucking fr. I do NOT want sum dat don’t want me or tryin to run game or compete w me dat shit really for da birds. And yk what so funny when I heard dat bitch first reading ain’t nun scream opp to me more but yk me I like to give ppl benefit of doubt in shit. Bro whatever. Idc bout watching tarot boi if I need to I can deal my own cards.

You is NOT that important to try to cast a spell on 🤣🤣🤣🤣 this ain’t bewitched nigga I ain’t dumb. Ain’t ever been. I like to sit an observe just like you bitch and just see … just see exactly what type of mf u really are. I be having to much faith in ppl and I always thought that was a gift in mine to see ppl beyond what they can see for themselves 🤣🤣🤣🤣 my bad who knew me loving you would make you just think and act so evil on my behalf.

I ain’t mad. I’m protected. I could have a 1on1 w anybody who want it. Y’all know where df I be.

I ain’t God, he know my heart. And bitch you over here reading tarot cards talking bout “twin flames like believing in Santa clause” 🤣🤣🤣 bitch you dealing cards thinking you tellin somebody future sdfu 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I have real discernment sweetheart. Everything got a lil truth to it bitch OOoooooo I wish I could see sun ppl in real life cause boiii I feel like I be hearing ppl thoughts and I be like bro say it out loud so we can square up fr. I will go toe to toe w anybody bitch!!!!!! And I don’t need no weapons !!!!!!! Cause I got God on my side in REAL LIFE so play w me somebody if you really want to cause if G let you get close to me it’s cause he giving me permission to release hell on you. So pls.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 boy. Idk and idc shit soul mates … twin flames …. Heaven… hell who knows ghost and spirits… demons shit it’s all fake idk why we try 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Bitch suck my dick from the back :.. I’m done, I said I wasn’t gon let a nigga ruin tarot for me and he’s not bitch.

Bitch noones waiting for you. Me and God already talked about it. I don’t wantchu unless you you’re highest self or walking towards it. Walking w God bitch. Cause Ik what tf I saw. Idgaf . Bitch you wan play w dem hoes gooo pls I will throw da bone to da woods so you can get the entire fuck. Here bitch goooo.

He says it’s keem and then it’s keem bruh. Idgaf truth be told he might ever get over it shit 🤣🤣🤣🤣 df and it’s like aw I will always love him for loving me so much baby but shit he ain’t da one bruh. We had our time. It was fun right ? 🤣🤣🤣 he know it was.

I’m getting me together for me. Cause I gotta do me regardless of him df 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I got a mission regardless of anybody else who want to come and go 🥱 so leave plsssss stop being all in my energy tryn suck it alll up df. Ya wan suck on sum cum suck on dis fat 🐱 bitch y’all can take turns df

I’ll be nice. Ole bitch assses I’m over everybody trust. It’s just me n mines.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

oh another thing in my Negative Je Ne Sais Quoi….

i’m like. im fiery baby!!! im passionate!!!!!enthusiastic. i have a zillion words to say and sometimes they are weird. i’m weird. i’m a weirdo. have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on, thats weird, etc etc etc

like for STARTERS its like ive said before; i like to jokeabout. goofaround. and this is all mostly in the hopes that ppl will play along rather than just laugh or point out that something was funny like. no! get in on this!! a funky thing is that, i generally don’t like ppl to be drunk around me or at least not tell me they are, but at the same time i actually sometimes jive w drunk ppl better coz they’re yknow, laughier heh heh……it’s like this running gag in my life where someone’s being regaled w the story of some instance of me just like having fun and being spontaneous and theyll be like lol were you drunk?? and im like nah…thats just my personality. thats just me enjoying myself

like ACTUALLY this may come as no surprise but, just as like i am fairly social but don’t really talk to people, i am generally quiet In Practice when at heart i am so. so chatty. like ppl will think i don’t talk ever or even think i don’t have opinions or thoughts to talk about and THAT is just like hahahhahahahahahahhaaaahhahahaa ohhhhh no….no no no. that is. false. aahhh..

i do really talk too much sometimes so this makes me quieter even if i don’t mind talking around the ppl im with coz like…i’ll be like oh god i’ll say too much if i start talking now so i’ll just keep it to myself. i’m not an amazing conversationalist lmao…like most things it is all or nothing with me

but also i have, of course, learnt to be embarrassed abt being Passionate!! or just too high energy or whatever. too pumped!! goofin too weirdly!! like oh man if i have a theme it is called: looking at any aspect of myself and thinking that it Doesn’t Count. i’ll feel like being Enthusiastic = being immature, as if maturity rides primarily on your demeanor. like being cool tempered is the universal trait of adulthood. and, i mean, all the ways in which i’ve had an Unusual life experience is just like, ope, i don’t Really count! like how i was saying its so weird i didnt go to high school and i feel like i missed essential things and im secretly not REALLY a proper person lmao its just…imposter city over here. also the thing where i’ve never dated anyone coz i haven’t wanted to and i’ve never had sex coz i haven’t wanted to & that stuff is SO SO associated w maturity and Essential Life Moments and i’m like, well, i’m not valid then lol. just playin in the sandbox over here. if you’re not having sex in your teens n twenties you’re not leveling up past middle school. (not really obviously!!! but thats how it feels like its supposed to be. and it feels like the only kinds of ~seeerious~ emotional experiences are the ones involved w capital r Relationships, so, yknow, i must be less of a real person or what have you.)

what’s funny is that i’m like. i love people man, like i’d sooo love the idea that i Do get to like, be enthusiastic about people at them and support them and all that good shit. i don’t figure for sure that’ll ever happen! but hey. to put a positive spin on it, if it ever does, fuckin hooray. It’ll be great

just like how if i’ll ever get to channel my Fieriness into a project, which i won’t, it’ll be a pleasant and total surprise

anyways my thesis statement tho is i’m a little higher wattage than most shit is wired for but i don’t care at this point. i’m not really gonna tone myself down. if ppl aren’t interested in the way i am then wtf do i give a shit abt pleasing them for. i’m working on just fucking. talking. saying shit coz who cares. and NOT feeling like there’s a problem w just how tf i am like. i’m passionate babbebeyyy!! if people have already decided they like you, then they don’t tend to view that as a bad thing lol. im just not good at having ppl find me interesting, and hell, I’M picky too. jokes on u, im used to being an independent unit and so i’ve learned to like myself regardless of other rando’s input.

kpow!!!!!!!!

[murfpersonalblog]

THIS.

Especially in light of the DELUGE of negative reactions AMC got for Ep5. That was a HUGE risk AMC took that we're still feeling the aftershocks from today, even after TONS of interviews, metas, comments, etc.

Even if AMC walks it back, none of us will know that's what was always planned, or was done out of necessity to keep the ratings and viewership from tanking.

Anne Rice retconned entire BOOKS when she caught flack from the fandom or didn't like where the story was going. So AMC watering down or even revising the SV and DV in Ep5 wouldn't surprise me at all.

However, it would beg the question was it worth it? Look how many people stopped watching the show after Ep5 entirely. They're not getting those people back, regardless, so who's this really benefitting? They added POC MCs to make the show more inclusive for POC audiences. Why TF would they piss off that demographic by making the POCs out like people whose every word needs to be verified by the same white man they've been so busy making look like their oppessor?

Ok, the fight was one big ole elaborate hoax, and we're about to get GATCHA'd like a mofo once Lestat comes in and sets the record straight, cuz lord knows those darkies are a bunch of psychos who can't be trusted. Lestat didn't beat the hell out of Louis so bad he went blind in one eye; and dragged him out of the courtyard by his effing JAW so bad Louis could barely speak when he yelled "Let go of me!"; and dropped Louis a million miles from the frikkin air so Claudia had to find frikkin goats for Louis to chase around the house to learn to effing WALK again. Fine. Weird flex, Rolin, but ok.

But tbh, I'll still enjoy IWTV regardless of them retconning the fight/drop scene, cuz contrary to popular opinion:

Ep5 was not the only instance of Lestat being an awful abusive spouse & father.

What will these petty fans REALLY be proving/winning by AMC altering ONE albeit major fight, when Loustat's relationship had been in shambles for YEARS prior and YEARS afterwards?

Did Lestat get kicked out of their house for 6 whole years for NOTHING?

Did the mantelpiece get busted and Lestat's coffin get smashed and Louis' coffin get dented by the raccoons running wild in the house or what? (I know they're vicious little beasties, but SHEESH!)

Did Lestat send countless mea culpas admitting to what happened "that night" being entirely his fault or nah?

Did "I am cursed with my father's temper" "clean up the mess and come to coffin!" "blame the teacher not the student!" Lestat verbally abuse Louis and demean Louis' status in their household by treating him like the housewife or nah?

Did Lestat disrespect Louis' intelligence by SNEAKING off with Antoinette (like a CHEATER does, not someone in a mutual open relationship) and literally look GUILTY/CAUGHT when Claudia said she'd been following him or nah?

Did Lestat chokeslam Claudia MULTIPLE times or nah?

Did Lestat physically force Claudia to watch "the only love she'll ever know" get boiled down to "soup" and then make fun of her for it or nah?

Did Lestat take Louis for granted by demanding sex from him even in the midst of his open grief/depression; more worried about his "considerable considerables" being squandered than where TF their missing daughter was for almost a decade or nah?

Did Lestat chase Claudia down on that train like a cracker hunting a runaway slave so she wouldn't make it across that railroad, Harriet Tubman style, or nah?

Did Lestat have a complete violent outburst trashing the chess set over losing a freaking GAME and going into hysterics verbally abusing both Claudia AND Louis--not just to Antoinette behind their backs as he did in their seedy hotel room, but to his family's FACES?

Did Lestat literally LIE to Claudia and Louis about killing Antoinette or nah? (Was her finger healed/replaced in S7 when we see her hands during the final showdown, or was that an oversight by the production team?)

Did Lestat literally tell Louis that they'd be better off with Claudia dead and her killer (Antoinette) brought in to replace her or nah?

Ep5 constantly gets treated as the end all be all to Lestat's reputation and his fans being vindicated that Louis & Claudia & Armand completely fabricated everything bad about him--but we can believe them when they say Lestat had a way about him, and show him as funny or charming or sweet or loving!

But the red flags about Lestat were all over S1, not just in one episode. So like, I just wanna know where the buck stops for LeStans with "toxic abuse."

A fundamental thing that people don’t realize is that if Louis is exposed as a liar then that’s not a fucking own. It’s literally just bad and clumsy writing to set up a black character being abused by their white partner with slave symbolism and shit all thrown into the narrative only for it to be back tracked but people in this fandom who have goldfish dick for brains think that’s a good thing because it validates their theory when the theory itself is monkey water. Like yaay cool the white guy gets a slap on the wrist for being a piece of shit and his black partner is made to look insane wow how original.

[emmyrosee]

based on this tiktok. teehee

bff!Suna x gn!reader

A/N- my mouth is in so much pain, why did no one tell me wisdom teeth surgery would hurt so bad I need atsumu head smooches STAT-

ugly 🙄💍 bae. sugar. my darling. pls. call me and pretend it’s an emergency. i have to get tf out of here.

ugly 🙄💍 he smells like old pizza pls save me.

he could practically feel the urgency emanating through your text.

the tv show he’d been watching meant nothing to suna now as it drones in the background, his focus on your well-being (well- the drama you were involved in, anyways) and he shakes his head as he ponders your circumstance.

it wasn’t as if he hadn’t tried to warn you against going out with this sleezeball from the other team who gave you his number at the last game; suna had told you, repeatedly, that jerks from that school were nothing but trouble.

but naturally, your stubborn ass didn’t believe him.

and he wanted, briefly, to leave you there to suffer the consequences of your actions, you’d forgive him in time- but he also knew of his scarily stoic captain’s deep rooted crush for you, and he was not about to get on his shit list for “abandoning” you.

ugh.

SENT: how bad is it?

ugly 🙄💍 i asked for steak. And he said that i should get the salad.

SENT: EW.

VETO.

send me ur location. im scooping

pls punch him for me.

ill call

he doesn’t wait longer to toe on some shoes and grab the keys to his beat up old car, calling a quick “mom! I’ll be back!” and heading out into the chill of night, being your knight in shining armor in sweat pants tucked inside of his socks, and slides to adorn his feet.

the engine sputters to life, and as soon as he’s backed out of the driveway, he quickly dials in your phone number, clearing his throat as he allows the monotonous dial tone ring in his ear.

there’s a click, and he instantly fakes hyperventilating that actually hurts his chest to do. “Rin, I’m on my date, can I call-“

“HE TOOK THE CAT!” He blubbers, slowly coming to a red light. He hears you gasp, though he knows from the shakiness of your breath that you’re trying not to laugh. “What- w-who!”

“Shinsuke!” He wails, knowing his volume probably is hurting your own head. He wants to laugh, he hasn’t ever looked at his captain that way- he makes a mental note to never let his first name slip so casually from his lips again- let alone be romantically involved with him. But, when inspiration strikes, Suna knew to answer. “I-I-I came home and he had that BITCH ex of his bent over the couch, I told him to l-l-leave and I drove around to calm down, and when I came b-back, he took my CAT!”

he hopes the complete ridiculousness of his story is working to his benefit.

“Rin, I will be over when I’m done, I promise, please calm down-“

“WAFFLE!” He shrieks, adding a couple of obnoxious sniffles and wails to accompany his fake grief. “HE TOOK MY BABY!” Around his theatrics, he hears you whisper something along the lines of “are you sure?” and “I’m so sorry,” and he can only assume that your plan worked, and you are now free from this hell of a date. “Okay rinnie, can you pick me up? Then we’ll go find Waffle, my location is- oh my god I can’t believe that fucking worked.”

the relief in your voice and your choice of words makes him stop his fake crying and cackle along with you, making snide comments about how bad the date went and how he “told you so!” to stay away from the creature you had gone on the date with.

“I’m here dumbass, hang up and get in the car,” he snickers, hanging up first and unlocking his car to allow you to slip into the passenger seat. you look good, too good to be going out with trash from another school, but the exhaustion under your eyes doesn’t go unnoticed.

“were you crying?” he asks with an amused lilt in his voice- even if the idea of you crying while waiting for him makes him feel sick to his stomach.

“Shut up,” you snort. “I was just worried about waffle.”

it makes you both fall back into a fit of laughter, and, sure, you’re both going to hell for lying on Kita Shinsuke’s perfect name, but Rin is almost positive Mr. Perfect will learn to accept that it was for your benefit.

“C’mon, I was supposed to meet the twins for McDicks, you’re coming,” he says flatly, leaving no room for discussion.

“Rin, I’m severely overdressed-“

“It’ll give Tsumu somethin’ to stare at while Samu and I steal his nuggets.”

“You steal his nuggets?”

“Hey, you’re my best friend- you enchant my teammates, I exploit that for self-gain.”

[inriospocket]

last request for now i promise! i love the idea of y/n as rio’s girlfriend meeting his family for the first time officially as his girl after he feels like she’s the one. she encounters nick and he ends up asking rio if she could be his plus at a charity benefit and rio’s just like “nah.” and then nick says “always taking what i want” which is what i think he says in the scene while they’re eating in the bar? SO NOW as the family trying

*ask continued* to eat, make small talk, and find out how in the hell rio could have landed home girl, he’s hella protectively jealous now especially since his girl and brother/cousin whatever tf is having a charming conversation and rio’s just seething 🙃. also the idea of this moment seeping into a few days of rio only being cordial with her and keeping her at bay /being assertive to her @ work intrigues me especially if either nick stops by their shared home since he knows it’ll get on rio nerves/or he catches y/n trying out dresses with the notion of attending this event with nick bc she doesn’t underdtand the big deal (+she likes when rio’s possessive but obvi not like this?) and rio’s mad mad but not at her😅. feel free to do whatever you’d like with this. it mostly sounds like angst and possessiveness so can you mush everything together if it’s easier for you.

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❀❤ enjoy!!

word count ♡ 1,237

summary ♡ Rio finally takes reader to meet his family but tensions rise as Nick invites reader to a charity benefit.

warnings: possessiveness, aggressive behavior, fighting

situation ♡ angsty

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You could already see how tight-knit his family was when you and Rio both walked into his grandma’s house. So much laughter and shared conversations. It eased your nervousness until they started staring once you walked in.

You started to feel a bit insecure but Rio knew they were just staring at how beautiful you were. As cocky as he was, even a little part of him wondered how he got you.

“Close your mouths before flies get in!” You heard an older woman coming from the kitchen. You saw the resemblance between her and Rio and figured this was his grandma.

You smiled when she first came up to Rio and kissed his cheek before hugging you next. “You must be Y/N. It’s so nice to meet you, carino.”She smiled.

“Likewise.” You hugged her back.

Before sitting down for dinner, Rio introduced you to everyone individually, letting you get comfortable.

You started to connect all the characteristics that Rio had to his family. There was a lot of subtle influences but you finally figured out why Rio was the way he was.

Nick.

“You’re not going to introduce me?” Nick asked Rio, smiling towards you. You could feel the tension coming from Rio.

“Y/N, Nick. My cousin.” He said, reaching for the bowl with the rice.

“Brother.” He corrected, giving him a cold stare.

“Cousin.” Rio corrected again, dumping a ladle full of rice on your plate.

“Nice to meet you.” You said, trying to ignore the quiet battle between the two.

You continued answering questions that everyone had for you. What you did, where you met, etcetera.

“Oh, you’re a councilman.” You said to Nick after he was discussing a city issue that no one could seem to solve.

“I am.” He said, noticing your intrigue. You started to engage yourself in the conversation, giving pointers on the issue that no one had thought of yet.

Rio was proud that you had so much knowledge and insight about every topic but he knew Nick and this conversation made him seethe. He hated that everything he had, whoever he had, Nick always wanted it.

“I like this one, Rio,” Nick laughed.

Rio narrowed his eyes at him. “Yeah, I do too.” He said and you could feel the tension rising again.

“Say, Y/N. There’s a charity benefit next weekend. Why don’t you come?” Nick asked. He was charming, you noticed. Too charming and you realized that there was an underlying evil lurking.

“Oh, um...” You didn’t know what to say. You were so taken aback that he would make a subtle pass at you in front of Rio.

“Always want what I have, huh?” Rio pursed his lips. You saw Rio’s grandma shake her head subtly.

“Always get it too.” Nick smiled.

The next couple of days following and you noticed Rio distancing himself from you but also being unusually possessive.

“Rio, it’s just a benefit. Your grandma even asked if we were going to be there.” You said, placing the call on speaker while you tried on another dress.

“I’m not going to that shit and you aren’t either.” He said, his tone letting you know how serious he was.

You rolled your eyes. “What’s up with you? Your grandma’s expecting us so we’re going Rio.” You said showing him that you can be serious.

“I’m not going to say it again.” He said, getting more upset.

“You’re not my dad, Rio.” You shook your head as he laughed in response.

“That’s not what you were saying the other night.” You could hear his smirk through the phone and kissed your teeth.

“I’ll see you when you get home.” You said before ending the call.

You examined the dress in the mirror and decided to just take it off but before you could, you heard a knock at the door.

You hurried to open it and was taken aback to see Nick standing there. He made a quick glance at the way the dress hugged you before you said something.

“What are you doing here?” You asked.

You noticed how Rio’s smirk was not just a him thing. It ran in the family and also meant that Nick was up to no good.

“Just picking up a package.” He said as he invited himself in, scanning the room around you.

“Oh, well Rio isn’t home right now.” You said, closing the door behind him.

He didn’t seem to mind waiting and you started to wonder what his ulterior motive was. “Oh, the issue we were discussing the other night. What you said surprisingly worked.” He told you.

You smiled proudly and you were just about to say something before you heard the door open indicating Rio was home.

You felt the tension in the room similar to the other day. Rio hid it as much as he could but he wanted so badly to put his hands on Nick. His house, his girlfriend. Everything sacred to him belonged here and Nick still found a way to weasel in.

You told Rio he was here to pick up a package.

“I told you I would give it to you myself." Rio said, dropping his keys. “Well, I was in the neighborhood.” He smiled.

"Your business is on the other side of town.” He said, not buying his story. “Like I said, I’ll give you the package.” He said, emphasizing that it was time for him to go.

Nick laughed to himself and walked to the door to leave. He turned towards you.

“You should go with the red.” He said, hinting towards one of the dresses you tried on. You already saw it coming but you were too far away to stop it.

You flinched once you saw the punch landing on Nick’s jaw.

“Rio!” You called before Nick threw a punch back near his eye. You contemplated how you were going to try to stop their fighting.

You knew it was a possibility of you getting hurt but you tried your best to put your body between them to stop their fists.

“Stop now! Stop!” You yelled, trying to push Rio away. Luckily, they had enough self-control to make sure they wouldn’t hit you and stopped.

“Nick, leave.” You told him. He shook his head while holding his jaw.

“You’re gonna regret that.” He said once more before he left for good.

You pushed Rio, visibly upset with him. “What’s wrong with you?!” You yelled again.

“Y/N, Nick is not trying to hear your opinions on gun control. Dude’s showing up to my crib knowing I’m not home, trying to get you to some charity benefit because he wants you.” He explained, wincing at the soreness in his face.

“I don’t see the big deal.” You said and walked to the freezer to get an ice pack.

“I know you ain’t slow, Y/N.” He said feeling like you weren’t even listening.

You walked back over to him and held the ice to his face, holding it there. “I don’t see how it’s a big deal when you and I both know he can’t have me. You’re so wrapped up in your head that you don’t even realize he’s already succeeding in pissing you off.” You said.

You could see Rio’s defeat. “Yeah, exactly. Look at you.” You rolled your eyes at his blackening eye.

“Sounds like you might be the slow one, dumbass.” You laughed.

[robinofinashiro]

drabble: daiya boys getting jealous to you wearing another guys jersey ! 

characters: multiple characters x fem! reader

request status: OPENED / all fandoms pinned to the top of my blog as well as rules and req status! happy sending! 

Miyuki Kazuya: 

- mans so confused? why are you wearing Eijun’s jersey. he had specifically gotten you a jersey that had his number for you to wear and the fact that you were wearing his pitchers jersey was completely throwing him off. especially because it was a game day and you were helping the girls with their cheering today and he wanted you to be in his jersey while you did it. 

- you were talking with Eijun and Nori, trying to get their pre-game jitters to settle the tf down. it didn’t even seem like you bothered by the fact that you wearing Eijun’s jersey and although Miyuki did not want to cause a scene, a part of him wanted a explanation. 

- as he was about to walk to you for an explanation, you got dragged away by the girls as he was called onto the field. he saw you a bit later on the stands, you were talking with the girls, every so often, the in field camera would pan to you and show off you wearing Eijun’s jersey. his eye continuously twitched at it and it wasn’t until the end of the game when he finally got the chance to approach you about it. 

- “why are you in his jersey?” he asked, lifting the jersey as if it was dirty. you laughed, sensing that he wanted you to take it off so you did, “i got Red Bull over the spare one you gave me and Eijun offered to take me to the locker room to get another one of yours but i guess i grabbed his spare by accident,” you laughed. Miyuki sighed understandingly but took his sweaty jersey off and putting it on you, “yours stinks you know,” you told him, giggling at his possessiveness, “i know but i’d rather you smell like dirty me than to have that idiot smelling line you.” you laughed, kissing his cheek as you heard a few of the girls call you over to catch dinner, “i’ll see you after dinner!” you screamed as he watched you, finally satisfied that you were wearing his jersey now. 

kuramochi youichi: 

- you thought you got off easy with miyuki? MANS WAS PISSED. you were adorning Shinji’s jersey when he had specifically given his to you. kuramochi walked up to you, seeing you talking to a few of your friends in front of your home room. he didn’t even ask, he practically dragged you over to a corner. 

- “what up with the jersey?” he asked, pointing to Shinji’s number. you rolled your eyes, “um, this is the one you gave me? what the hell are you on?” you asked, trying to see the number. he shook his head, “the fuck it’s not. you’re wearing Shinji’s jersey!” he exclaimed, “take it off,” he stated, as he yanked your back pack off you and watched you annoyingly take it off.

- kuramochi looked at the time. you had about ten minutes before class started and that gave him enough time, “come with me,” he said, dragging you out of the hallway and basically darting to the boys baseball locker room. you were screaming at him, asking him where the hell he was dragging you off too. it wasn’t until you saw the boys locker room approaching when you finally realized. 

- he told you to wait a second and not even a minute after, he walked out of the locker room, holding his jersey in his hand and throwing Shinji’s into the hallway, not caring where it landed. Mochi put it on for you, making sure his number was showing. you looked at him and saw a blush on his cheek, realizing that he was flustered by how you looked with his jersey on. 

- you leaned up, giving him a kiss on the lips before smiling, “i like this one better,” you giggled. he gave you a hearty laugh, before returning the kiss, “you better because it’s mine,” he said in-between kisses. the kiss seemed to go on longer than you had realized as the two of you heard the two minute bell ring off, “race you to home room,” you told him as the two of you basically darted off to class. 

Narumiya Mei: 

- GODDD, you got the whiniest of the bunch, omfg. he sees you wearing Carlos’s jersey and he immediately starts getting dramatic. he complains to Itsuki about why aren’t you wearing his and when he finally approaches you, you could see the whiny look on his face, “why are you wearing Carlos’s jersey!” he said. 

- “i decided to wear everyone’s jersey as a way to support the team as the manager,” you said, not bothering to play into his attitude. he could tell you were annoyed by his attitude and figured since you were being this way, two could play this game. he knew you found his fan girls annoying as FUCK so he went to the common area and immediately got flocked with attention. 

- you had walked into that same area to get a water for yourself and saw the commotion around Narumiya. you saw the way girls were basically hanging off of him and realized this was his way of revenge for wearing Carlos’s jersey. you felt slightly annoyed, kinda jealous but knew the best way to get him back for it. and that way was to openly flirt with Carlos when he finally made his way to the dugout. 

- once you got Carlos into the plan, he waited until Narumiya arrived to take his shirt off in front of you. you had seen this plenty of times before but acted ‘flustered’ to get a reaction from Narumiya...which is exactly what you got. you flustered expression around Carlos made Narumiya pissed as he saw Carlos basically laying it on thick. he was being extremely flirty around you and even wrapping his arm around you for a few seconds at a time until Narumiya finally had enough. 

- he, without hesitation, took off his own playing jersey and yanked Carlos’s off, “wear it....now,” he stated, darkened jealous eyes showing. you had never expected his reaction from him before but giving yourself the benefit of the doubt, you slipped his on but still saw the expression written on his face, “we’ll deal with this later,” he murmured as crashed his lips onto yours, giving everyone in the dugout a free show. you were stunned with silence as Narumiya let you go and wiped away the lipstick you wearing in front of Carlos. 

Sanada Shunpei: 

- you were wearing Todoroki’s jersey and frankly, he was upset but not as much as he should’ve been bc i mean, it was Todoroki, you couldn’t get mad at that cinnamon roll for a long time. it was hard when Raichi was basically a walking two legged version of the sun but that was besides the point, he hated seeing you wearing another number that wasn’t his. 

- you were talking to Todoroki, giving him a few tips on how to keep his bat in decent care when Sanada finally approached the two of you. he had a tight lipped smile as he sat next to you and putting his hand on your thigh and giving it a tight squeeze, causing you to squeal slightly in the process. Todoroki hadn’t noticed as he continued to blabber on about his precious bat. 

- finally, his dad had called him over for something, causing Todoroki to run over there as Sanada looked down to you, “what up with Todoroki’s jersey?” he asked, making sure he emphasized his name. you shrugged, still smiling at him, “felt like supporting him,” you explained, “he’s like a little brother to me and i wanted to make sure he knew he had someone’s support on the stands.” Sanada’s heart fluttered, any sign of jealousy leaving his body as he heard what you were saying. 

- he loved the fact that you were so sisterly to Raichi. there would be days where you would bring all three of you lunch on the field as you knew that if Raichi didn’t eat school lunch, he’d practically be running on a banana diet for the entirety of the day and you were not about to have that happening. 

- you leaned up, giving him a quick peck on the lips, “don’t worry, the only other person’s jersey i would wear is yours,” you whispered into his ear, “and if you win today’s game, you can see me in just that and nothing else.” Sanada instantly perked up up, agreeing to what you were saying as he got dragged up from the bench by a few of his teammates. 

hongou masamune: 

- he’s seething and that doesn’t even begin to explain it. one of the first things he did as your bf was give you his jersey to make a statement that you were his and to back THE FUCK off and now here you were, wearing Renji’s jersey for some god awful reason. he knew Renji was his best friend but seeing you wearing Renji’s jersey just ticked him off more than usual. 

- Hongou approached you, dragging you away from the team as you tugged yourself back, trying to get him to explain why tf you were getting dragged away from everyone. when he finally got you to himself, he didn’t even hesitate to yank off Renji’s jersey, “why?” was all he asked as you sighed in disbelief, “why am I wearing Renji’s jersey?” you asked as he nodded, “because i lost a bet with the fucking idiot and my punishment was to wear his jersey to a game.” 

- Hongou didn’t really like the idea of this bet so he practically gripped his best friend’s jersey and took his off in the process, “you’re wearing mine and that’s final,” he stated, walking back to the loccker room to get his spare jersey from his stall. he shrugged his on as the two of you walked back to the team and he practically whipped Renji’s jersey back to him, “take yours back idiot,” he screamed to Renji making you laugh. 

- you shrugged, not really knowing what to say to Renji as he was caught off guard, “told you he’d react that way!” you exclaimed, laughing now, “you act like you don’t know your own best friend,” Renji silently agreed knowing you were right. you saw Hongou on the field, practicing extra harsh as you silently apologized to the other team for the ass kicking they were about to receive bc of Hongou. 

- you waved to Hongou throughout the game, whispering ‘i love you’s’ you him to try and get him to calm down but you knew that was no use. being Hongou’s gf meant that you were going to have to get used to dealing with his constant angry attitude and you knew that nine times out of ten, you were going to repay for your little bet with Renji bc of it. Hongou’s punishments on the other hand weren’t as bad as you liked to make it seem tho. you usually got some pretty good aftercare from him when it was all said and done. 

[theroundbartable]

Gcozfutfuv don't give me ideas!!!!! Op, I'm adding my few cents, just brainstorming along.

So, Uther is a high ranking angel first then who started the war against hell. He was made a seraphim only because he somehow managed to have a child with another angel. This was unheard of and technically impossible.

That Ygraine died because of it was kept a secret. She was "send to earth" to take care of things there. It's very like Uther to abandon an entire Planet to hide his shame.

He also hides the fact that he made a deal with the devil to have his son Arthur. (He then killed the demon who would otherwise have gotten his soul) Part of the deal was that Arthur would not have any satanic attributes and the other side was that demons would get earth for themselves. Which is the part Uther now agrees to, to not have angels find out that ygraine isn't there.

As Arthur grows up, he becomes more and more curious about his mother and goes to earth in secret to search for her.

There, he meets Merlin. He thinks Merlin is human. And he also thinks Merlin is the kindest most thoughtful person he's met on earth yet. Sure to become an angel one day. And he reveals his powers to Merlin (which Merlin had sensed already) to ask for his help to find her.

Merlin, king of hell and resident on earth, tells Arthur to shake on it.

Arthur: do humans make deals? That's a very demonic thing to do

Merlin: oh yes. We have contracts and everything.

Arthur: well ... I'm not very good at all these customs and my father told me not to make deals.

Merlin: well, how about I write you a contract and we read out every single Detail together and customize it until you're satisfied?

Arthur: i don't know ...

Merlin: Look, the First thing I write into your contract is that I'm not allowed to deceive you about anything that's written in this contract.

(making a contract with a devil always ends with losing your soul. It's not written IN the contract. This is standard procedure)

Arthur: oh... Okay.

They write the contract together, or rather, Arthur writes most of it. Merlin watches this happening with a few concerns because Arthur writes stuff like: stay by my side. Teach me about the humans. Take care of me. Protect me and warn me from devils if possible. Etc. Etc.

But the worst part comes at the end: This contract ends once we find Ygraine de bois.

Merlin is hesitant to sign it at first. Because yeah... To get the soul of an angel, that's quite the accomplishment. No one managed to do so before. But Merlin has to give up a lot of his freedom for this. And who tf is Ygraine de bois? But that can't be a problem, right? Because she's probably easily found. At most, he'll stick around with Arthur for a couple weeks.

The contract is sealed and signed and Merlin now spends years patiently at Arthur's side, trying to help him find this "human" woman.

But slowly, very slowly, Merlin's feelings begin to change. Even though Arthur's contract also somehow makes him wash Arthur's socks, he begins to like the angel. His visions and hopes for humanity.

Merlin knew angels to be fierce and beyond such things as humans. They cared about demons dying. They saw humans as collateral. "The good ones will become one of us! The rest deserves their fate."

The reason why demons wanted earth, millenia ago, was to have peace and freedom to do whatever and chill without being killed by Angels or suffer in hell all the time. The humans were all for it too. Without angels to intervene, Merlin could let some of the well behaving demons live on earth for a while and make contracts with humans. There would be progress and most of these humans would then help renovate hell while benefitting from the changes themselves. Hell isn't so bad anymore.

Merlin had worked himself up from the bottom and now reigned over both hell and earth. And he had believed that his ideas were great. But Arthur's vision went further than his. He was kinder, more helpful without asking for contracts. He wasn't selfish or murderish like the other angels were. And slowly, Merlin fell in love.

Merlin: who exactly is ygraine de bois to you?

Arthur: she's my mother

Merlin: ... An angel?

Arthur: yes

Merlin then realises that his contract was now eternal. Because there were no angels on earth. And this one disappeared.... She was either dead, in heaven or hell. Neither of which both Merlin and Arthur could follow together. They were forever bound to earth.

Merlin: I see. (He's unsure how to feel about this)

Arthur: I never met her. But I'm glad I found you!!!!

Unbeknownst to Arthur, who is an oblivious angel, he's fallen in love with Merlin very quickly. And he's sure that Merlin will become an angel after his human Mortal death. And he hopes they can stay like this forever.

Arthur doesn't know how long humans live. And after 200 years or so, after building humanity up to it's peak, Merlin has to invent more and more lies why they can't meet up with old friends.

It's 300 years later, that angels invade earth and destroy everything Arthur and Merlin built together.

Arthur is hurt and confused and irritated as he confronts his father about it.

Uther: what on earth were you thinking?

Arthur: i'm sorry! I just wanted to find mom!

Uther: *in shock* and what is that?

Arthur: this is merlin. He's my... Friend. He's a good friend. He helped me build all this. Why would you have it destroyed?

Uther: that THING is... Please tell me you didn't make a contract with that thing

Arthur: why? Sure I did, but humans do contracts too-

Uther: you sold your angelic soul to the KING OF HELL!!!!

Arthur: what? Merlin? A demon? Seriously? Merlin is human. Aren't you, Merlin?

Merlin: ...

Arthur: Merlin!!!

Merlin: I'm so sorry, Arthur.

Arthur: *pauses in shock*how could you?! *Devastated* I thought we were -

Merlin: we ARE! It's my nature! Contracts is our entire life! Yes, I wanted your soul, but your mother is dead! I can't meet the conditions of this contract. I can't end this contract. I can't claim your soul.

Arthur: *teary* she's what? Is that why you stuck around for so long? Because you had to?

Uther: get that thing away from my son!!!!

But the contract makes it impossible to separate them.

Merlin: I don't want it to end, Arthur! I want to stay by your side. This contract couldn't make you Mine, but it made me yours. Please! Please don't destroy it.

Arthur: ... I can do that?

Merlin: *hesitant*... Yes. Only you can do that now.

Arthur: and you didn't tell me that to stay with me?

Merlin: yes

Uther: Arthur, break the contract, now!!!

Arthur: i had a right to know! I had a right to know about that contract!!! *Turns to uther* and about my mother!!!! And YOU had no right to destroy what we built down there!!!

Arthur then destroys the contract and uses his divine powers to send the angels back to heaven and arrest his father (because he's more divine than anyone lol).

Then he turns to a devastated Merlin: i want a new contract

Merlin: you do?

Arthur: I demand your soul to be mine

Merlin: ... You realise... That I will get yours in return?

Arthur: *softly* that's the plan.

merthur angel demon au where merlin is a demon and arthur is high ranking angel (maybe canon timeline happened when they’re alive but they have no recollection of each-other)

[throwaway-yandere]

🎐 anon

Wait, wait, orange friend has a point. Killing off tighnari would be peak angst because no matter what route is chosen from then on, capo is confirmed not gonna live for a long time so theoretically, whichever guy picks up capo after tighnari's death is just picking up a rotting corpse, one that has been crushed of all their dreams and hopes and is a shell of their former self. I still cannot see benefit to keeping alhaitham alive other than to save myself a broken heart but 🐠 anon brings up a good point, bullying alhaitham is really fun and if capo manages to convince dottore to save him, they would undoubtedly become attached to him, which would make it even more angsty if he were to die after they tried so hard to keep him alive.

🤔🤔🤔 Hm, well Kaveh hasn't made his debut yet so I will hold back from making drastic decisions. Tighnari is now on even thinner ice and Alhaitham shall have a bit more sympathy from me for the sake of a fellow anon.

"whichever guy picks up capo after Tighnari's death is just picking up a rotting corpse" oh look you described diluc's route– /hj. No but seriously, Diluc's route is short but phcked up lmao. You can guess why.

Technically Cyno, Tighnari, AND Alhaitham were researching Eleazar (they have a list of who's infected, etc). Although they're not the only ones who's interested in finding the cure (it's pretty easy to know who's the 4th one lol), if Tighnari dies the reader's fate is indeed sealed. That's why as much as possible you should probably find a cure before the common route ends. But that's a very hard thing to accomplish, no? Just keep Tighnari alive ig lol

"I can't see any point of keeping Alhaitham alive other than to save myself a broken heart–" The Akasha Terminal. Hints. That's his reason why he should be alive gameplay wise lol.

"bullying alhaitham is really fun" IT IS HAHAHAHA. Rosaria is my spirit animal I'm sorry alhaitham, that really wasn't Rosaria's words those were mine (also, i fricking laughed so hard when Dehya did the same in the archon quest "So what if you're a scribe?" Hrjwidos I'm Dehya fr–)

Purple friend:

(no alhaitham ain't dying (i think? Idk I'll check the polls later) we're just playfully slandering him)

"Kaveh haven't made his debut yet–" my sweet sweet bby boi, literally never done anything wrong in his life like evah~ 💅 He just slaying hell yeah hold tf that's not what i was tryina type phck i forgot my thoughts uh oH right yeah kaveh's a fun yandere. He protecc with his sharp tongue I stan.

Okay but for real, trust me though, once Kaveh debuts you'll have to make a drastic decision if you want to keep him. I'm not saying anything else, it's fun to keep everyone in their toes.

Extra bullsht:

mostly Cyno appreciation:

As y'all can tell, I don't spoil sht to my friends either lMAO–

[kmclaude]

Forgive me Father, I have no awful headcanons for you, only a general question on comic making. How do you do it, writing-wise/how do you decide what points go where, how do you plot it out (or do you have any resources on the writing aspect that you find useful?) Not to get too bogged down in details, but I attended a writer’s workshop and the author in residence suggested I transfer my wordy sci-fi WIP into graphic novel script, as it might work better. (I do draw, but I don’t know if I have it in me to draw a whole comic—characters in motion? Doing things? With backgrounds? How dare, why can’t everyone just stand around looking pretty)

I was interested but it quickly turned into a lot of internal screaming as I tried to figure out how to compress the hell out of it, since novels are free to do a lot more internal monologuing and such compared to a comic format (to say nothing of trying to write a script without seeing how the panels lay out—just for my own sake, I might have to do both concurrently.)

As an aside, to get a feel for graphic novels I was rereading 99RM and was reminded of how great it was—tightly plotted, intriguing, and anything to do with Ashmedai was just beautifully drawn. I need more Monsignor Tiefer and something something there are parallels between Jehan and Daniel in my head and I don’t know if they make sense but it works for me. (As an aside, I liked the emphasis on atonement being more than just the word sorry, but acknowledgment you did wrong and an attempt to remedy it—I don’t know why that spoke to me the way that it did.)

I thought Tumblr had a word count limit for asks but so far it has offered zero resistance, oh well. I don’t have much else to say but on the topic of 99RM, Adam getting under Monsignor’s skin is amazing, 10/10 (about the Pride picture earlier)

wow tumblr got rid of the markdown editor! or at least in asks which means the new editor probably has no markdown....god i hate this site! anyway...

Totally! So first, giant thank you for the compliments! Second, I have a few questions in turn for you before I dive into a sort of answer, since I can give some advice to your questions in general but it also sounds like you have a specific conundrum on your hands.

My questions to your specific situation are:

did the author give any reason for recommending a, in your words, "wordy" story be turned into a graphic novel?

is the story you're writing more, like you said, "internal monologuing"? action packed? where do the visuals come from?

do you WANT it to be a comic? furthermore, do you want it to be a comic you then must turn around and draw? or would you be interested in writing for comics as a comic writer to have your words turned into art?

With those questions in mind, let me jump into the questions you posed me!

Let me start with a confession...

I've said this before but let me say it again: Ninety-Nine Righteous Men was not originally a comic — it was a feature-length screenplay! And furthermore, it was written for a class so it got workshopped again and again to tighten the plot by a classroom of other nerds — so as kind as your compliments are, I'm giving credit where credit is due as that was not just a solo ship sailing on the sea. On top of that, it got adapted (by me) into a comic for my thesis, so my advisor also helped me make it translate or "read" well given I was director, actor, set designer, writer, editor, SFX guy, etc. all in one. And it was a huge help to have someone say "there is no way you can go blow by blow from script to comic: you need to make edits!" For instance, two scenes got compressed to simple dialogue overlaid on the splashpage of Ashmedai raping Caleb (with an insert panel of Adam and Daniel talking the next day.) What had been probably at least 5 pages became 1.

Additionally, I don't consider myself a strong plotter. That said, I found learning to write for film made the plotting process finally make some damn sense since the old plot diagram we all got taught in grammar school English never made sense as a reader and definitely made 0 sense as a writer — for me, for some reason, the breakdown of 25-50-25 (approx. 25 pages for act 1, 50 for act 2 split into 2 parts of 25 each, 25 pages for act 3) and the breaking down of the beats (the act turning points, the mid points, the low point) helped give me a structure that just "draw a mountain, rising action, climax is there, figure it out" never did. Maybe the plot diagram is visually too linear when stories have ebb and flow? I don't know. But it never clicked until screenwriting. So that's where I am coming from. YMMV.

I should also state that there's Official Ways To Write Comic Scripts to Be Drawn By An Artist (Especially If You Work For A Real Publisher As a Writer) and there's What Works For You/Your Team. I don't give a rat's ass about the former (and as an artist, I kind of hate panel by panel breakdowns like you see there) so I'm pretty much entirely writing on the latter here. I don't give a good god damn about official ways of doing anything: what works for you to get it done is what matters.

What Goes Where?

Like I said, 99RM was a screenplay so it follows, beat-wise, the 3-act screenplay structure (hell, it's probably more accurate to say it follows the act 1/act 2A/act 2B/act 3 structure.) So there was the story idea or concept that then got applied to those story beats associated with the structure, and from there came the Scene-by-scene Breakdown (or Expanded Scene Breakdown) which basically is an outline of beats broken down into individual scenes in short prose form so you get an overview of what happens, can see pacing, etc. In the resources at the end I put some links that give information on the whole story beat thing.

(As an aside: for all my short comics, I don't bother with all that, frankly. I usually have an image or a concept or a bit of writing — usually dialogue or monologue, sometimes a concrete scene — that I pick at and pick at in a little sketchbook, going back and forth between writing and thumbnail sketches of the page. Or I just go by the seat of my pants and bullshit my way through. Either or. Those in many ways are a bit more like poems, in my mind: they are images, they are snapshots, they are feelings that I'm capturing in a few panels. Think doing mental math rather than writing out geometric proofs, yanno?)

Personally, I tend to lean on dialogue as it comes easier for me (it's probably why I'm so drawn to screenwriting!) so for me, if I were to do another longform GN, I'd probably take my general "uhhhhhh I have an idea and some beats maybe so I guess this should happen this way?" outline and start breaking it down scene by scene (I tend to write down scenes or scene sketches in that "uhhhh?" outline anyway LOL) and then figure out basic dialogue and action beats — in short, I'd kind of do the work of writing a screenplay without necessarily going full screenplay format (though I did find the format gave me an idea of timing/pacing, as 1 page of formatted script is about equal to 1 minute of screentime, and gave me room to sketch thumbnails or make edits on the large margins!) If you're not a monologue/soliloque/dialogue/speech person and more an image and description person, you may lean more into visuals and scenes that cut to each other.

Either way this of course introduces the elephant in the panel: art! How do you choose what to draw?

The answer is, well, it depends! The freedom of comics is if you can imagine it, you can make it happen. You have the freedoms (and audio limitations) of a truly silent film with none of the physical limitations. Your words can move in real time with the images or they can be a narrative related to the scene or they could be nonsequitors entirely! The better question is how do you think? Do you need all the words and action written first before you break down the visuals? Do you need a panel by panel breakdown to be happy, or can you freewheel and translate from word and general outlines to thumbnails? What suits you? I really cannot answer this because I think when it comes to what goes where with regard to art, it's a bit of "how do you process visuals" and also a bit of "who's drawing this?" — effectively, who is the interpreter for the exact thing you are writing? Is it you or someone else? If it's you, would you benefit from a barebones script alongside thumbnailed paneling? Would you be served by a barebones script, then thumbnails, then a new script that includes panel and page breakdowns? What frees you up to do what you need to do to tell your story?

If I'm being honest, I don't necessarily worry about panels or what something will look like necessarily until I'm done writing. I may have an image that I clearly state needs to happen. I may even have a sequence of panels that I want to see and I do indeed sketch that out and make note of it in my script. But exactly how things will be laid out, paneled, situated? That could change up until I've sketched my final pencils in CSP (but I am writer and artist so admittedly I get that luxury.)

How do I compress from novel to comic?

Honest answer? You don't. Not really. You adapt from one to another. It's more a translation. Something that would take forever to write may take 1 page in a comic or may take a whole issue.

I'm going to pick on Victor Hugo. Victor Hugo spent a whole-ass book in Notre-Dame de Paris talking about a bird's eye view of Paris and other medieval architecture boring stuff, with I guess some foreshadowing with Montfaucon. Who cares. Not me. I like story. Anyway. When we translate that book to a movie any of the billion times someone's done that, we don't spend a billion years talking at length about medieval Paris. There's no great monologuing about the gibbet or whatever: you get to have some establishing shots, maybe a musical number, and then you move tf on. Because it's a movie, right? Your visuals are right there. We can see medieval Paris. We can see the cathedral. We can see the gibbet. We don't need a whole book: it's visually right there. Same with a comic: you may need many paragraphs to describe, say, a space station off of Sirius and one panel to show it.

On the flip side, you may take one line, maybe two, to say a character keyed in the special code to activate the holodeck; depending on the visual pacing, that could be a whole page of panels (are we trying to stretch time? slow it down? what are we emphasizing?) A character gives a sigh of relief — one line of text, yeah? That could be a frozen panel while a conversation continues on or that could be two (or more!) panels, similar to the direction [a beat] in screenwriting.

Sorry there's not a super easy answer there to the question of compression: it's a lot more of a tug, a push-pull, that depends on what you're conveying.

So Do I Have It In Me to Write & Draw a GN?

The only way you'll know is by doing. Scary, right? The thing is, you don't necessarily need to be an animation king or God's gift to background artists to draw a comic.

Hell, I hate backgrounds. I still remember sitting across from my friend who said "Claude you really need to draw an establishing exterior of the church at some point" and me being like "why do you hate me specifically" because drawing architecture? Again? I already drew the interior of the church altar ONCE, that should be enough, right? But I did draw an exterior of the church. Sorta. More like the top steeple. Enough to suggest what I needed to suggest to give the audience a better sense of place without me absolutely losing my gourd trying to render something out of my wheelhouse at the time.

And that's kinda the ticket, I think. Not everyone's a master draftsman. Not everyone has all the skills in every area. And regardless, from page one to page one hundred, your skills will improve. That's all part of it — and in the meantime, you should lean into your strengths and cheat where you can.

Do you need to lovingly render a background every single panel? Christ no! Does every little detail need to be drawn out? Sure if you want your hand to fall off. Cheat! Use Sketchup to build models! Use Blender to sculpt forms to paint over! Use CSP Assets for prebuilt models and brushes if you use CSP! Take photographs and manip them! Cheat! Do what you need to do to convey what you need to convey!

For instance, a tip/axiom/"rule" I've seen is one establishing shot per scene minimum and a corollary to that has been include a background once per page minimum as grounding (no we cannot all have eternal floating heads and characters in the void. Unless your comic is set in the void. In which case, you do you.) People ain't out here drawing hyper detailed backgrounds per each tiny panel. The people who DO do that are insane. Or stupid. Or both. Or have no deadline? Either way, someone's gonna have a repetitive stress injury... Save yourself the pain and the headache. Take shortcuts. Save your punches for the big K.O. moments.

Start small. Make an 8-page zine. Tell a beginning, a middle, an end in comic form. Bring a scene to life in a few pages. See what you're comfortable drawing and where you struggle. See where you can lean heavily into your comfort zones. Learn how to lean out of your comfort zone. Learn when it's worth it to do the latter.

Or start large. Technically my first finished comic (that wasn't "a dumb pencil thing I drew in elementary school" or "that 13 volume manga I outlined and only penciled, what, 7 pages of in sixth grade" or "random one page things I draw about my characters on throw up on the interwebz") was 99RM so what do I know. I'm just some guy on the internet.

(That's not self-deprecating, I literally am some guy on the internet talking about my path. A lot of this is gonna come down to you and what vibes with you.)

Resources on writing

Some of these are things that help me and some are things that I crowd-sourced from others. Some of these are going to be screenwriting based, some will be comic based.

Making Comics by Scott McCloud: I think everyone recommends this but I think it is a useful book if you're like "ahh!!! christ!! where do I start!!!???" It very much breaks down the elements of comics and the world they exist in and the principles involved, with the caveat that there are no rules! In fact, I need to re-read it.

Comic Book Design: I picked this up at B&N on a whim and in terms of just getting a bird's eye view of varied ways to tackle layout and paneling? It's such a great resource and reference! I personally recommend it as a way to really get a feel for what can be done.

the screenwriter's bible: this is a book that was used in my class. we also used another book that's escaping me but to be honest, I never read anything in school and that's why I'm so stupid. anyway, I'd say check it out if you want, especially if you start googling screenwriting stuff and it's like 20 billion pieces of advice that make 0 sense -- get the core advice from one place and then go from there.

Drawing Words & Writing Pictures: many people I know recommended this. I think I have it? It may be in storage. So frankly, I'd already read a bunch of books on comics before grabbing this that it kind of felt like a rehash. Which isn't shade on the authors — I personally was just a sort of "girl, I don't need comics 101!!!"

Invisible Ink: A Practical Guide to Building Stories that Resonate: this has been recommended so many times to me. I cannot personally speak on it but I can say I do trust those who rec'd it to me so I am passing it along

the story circle: this is pretty much the hero's journey. a useful way to think of journeys! a homie pretty much swears by it

a primer on beats: quick google search got me this that outlines storybeats

save the cat!: what the above refers to, this gives a more genre-specific breakdown. also wants to sell you on the software but you don't need that.

I hope this helps and please feel free to touch base with more info about your specific situation and hopefully I'll have more applicable answers.

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Realistically, yeah. A.J needed a community for the resources and support that Clementine just did not have at the time. So ultimately, how it all went down was for the better.

…however, I will raise one thing: no way in HELL would I have trusted the New Frontier either.

Clementine joined these people for the security and community they provided, and there’s nothing to suggest that she didn’t give her time and effort. She likely did odd jobs for them, and in return, she wanted that medicine for AJ (no duh).

But like?? These people are whack. Listening to how they talked to Clementine, associated AJ with someone who’s not worth the medical support to the point where any treatment beyond whatever tf Lingard was doing (Imma get to that twit) was considered a waste. Even though you’d think in an apocalypse, children are the priority because they’re who needs to live on.

I understand having to juggle vancomycin between a person who could immediately help in survival (an adult) vs on who can’t (a baby), but it’s the attitudes behind that. Especially since David had a family?? Hello?? Would you not want to give Gabe and Mari the chance to survive??

But then there’s Lingard whose addiction actively feeds off of their medical supply. His “medical attention” is the waste. Not AJ. But he gets to get away with it because…buddy system.

“Oh but he’s a doctor.” I don’t want a doctor treating/operating on me while high, thanks.

It also brings into question why David thought AJ would be in good hands with an addict?? Who steals their own medical supplies for his own benefit? Like I’m sorry, David. Do you or do you not hate thieves?

Lingard giving AJ off to the ranch was the one thing anyone in the New Frontier did anything worthwhile for the boy, because it actually meant a good community so bless him for doing that. Sure there’s the whole thing with the winter, but I also think it’s because he knew better than David and knew he wasn’t suited to take care of a baby.

But. Eh. Whatever. Lol.

I don’t blame Clementine for reacting the way she did, and holding a grudge. Nothing in how the New Frontier treated her and AJ told her that he was safe, hence why she was so surprised to hear that David did actually take care of him. All she got was these people will put their own interests first, and will come up with excuses about “we hate thieves” all while having an addict doctor right there, and then (on Joan’s part) turn out to be the faction stealing shit from other communities.

AJ was better off. …at McCarroll, not the New Frontier. Maybe David, once his fatherly instincts decided to kick in.

I will never understand why people get mad at David for giving AJ to the ranch after he explains that winter destroyed all their food

“He should’ve tried harder!” The fuck is he supposed to do, use magic to stop winter and grow new crops?

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i didn't write this to you yesterday bc i didn't wanna flood your inbox but before i forget: aside from the fact that i love the ideas you proposed for the genshin disney au so far general xiao and dumb buff greek hero itto??? like sign me up for some reason the first thought i had when i read disney and genshin in the same phrase was robin hood tighnari. like this thought has now obsessed me for two days with you as marion ofc

also you now have prompted me to write a beauty and the beast au with scara as the beast lol :3 it's gonna stay in my note app forever probably but it's nice to have a spark of inspo lol also i just love the idea of scara as the beast lol

with this i'll sign off, but if you needed a supporter for your idea, here i am :3

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If it’s you, flood my inbox all you like my friend, I know you’d never push my boundaries with being overwhelmed 💞

But THIS IS SO GOOD?? Why didn’t I think of this;;;

At first I thought of the fox and the hound for cyno and tighnari, but I was stuck on how the hell a reader would fit in that-

But Tighnari as Robin Hood? Oh my god that makes perfect sense, it both fits into his morals and his aesthetic. He doesn’t exactly rob people but he doesn’t agree with the sages and actively goes against them to spite them, I could see him doing thing to benefit others even if he could get in trouble for it.

(I’m blushing so hard thinking about me as maid marion hvyfyguj /)////(\ I know you meant the reader but ohhh the thought of being rescued and held in his arms as he whisks me away from danger like in the movie? I’m swooning sigh;;;) I’ll have to think of a way to make this gender neutral but I’m in love with Robin Hood tighnari already;;;; sassy boy being best boy :,) he’d look so cute in the outfit too !!

I was toying with Scara in beauty and the beast, but Childe foul legacy was calling me OTL but personality wise, Scara fits almost perfectly for the beast??? He’s a spoilt brat with a temper who learns to care about others and falls madly in love with someone where he’ll then show a softer, sweeter side to himself. And if he really loves you, he’ll try his best to be better, if it would make you happy. And that means letting you go, too. (Who tf is Gaston? Childe probably lmfao)

I don’t know where Scara is going to fit, me and a friend thought of cinderella with him in her place, but it might be difficult to write, so I’m still thinking about it. He’ll be here !! Just unsure of where to put him. He’d make a pretty good scar lmfao

(scar… scar-a… I’ll see myself out)

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talking about how my mother just told my doctor that i had 'mood problems' bc i reacted like a living person to her traumatizing me.  ..venting and i'm a little pissed and lost..

so i had a doctors appointment today and my mother was saying that 'when i get upset or angry i will be there but then not remember it later' and what she was talking about apparently is when they forcibly sent me into a meltdown/shutdown when they're yelling, screaming, and THREATENING me like DUH i don't remember thats was trauma !! but yeah she's blaming my asd & adhd as a 'behavioral problem' on my part?? like no of course i zone out when my father is yelling at the top of his lungs that im a girl, you don't get to blame me for that, tf ? i'm so distraught, my doctor just went with it and said i had some work to do, bc she wasn't given the context

yes i need to work through my trama but my mother literally said '*** has some mood swing problems, when *** gets upset *** doesn't remember it later on' and that it was a behavioral problem, specifically talking about me shutting down the night they chewed me out bc i exist and i can't recall everything that happened bc it was so much?? like it was my fault, i feel so awful, she made herself the victim of me, she did that to my doctor, she used my disabilities to make me a bad person, she lied to a medical professional for her benefit why the hell would someone do that?