#would they be shitty because he's broke af?

[leafyloveslaughing]

world of zero. but what if kim dokja also spoiled the company members sometimes.

yjh only looked away for a few minutes.. tho to be fair sys only got a scratch. dokja's just (mostly) being a little shit.

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

miscellaneous fellow honest headcanons

These aren't following any prompt in particular, these are just thoughts I had when I saw the guy hammin' it up and then turning on us.

Some of these headcanons are informed by fan art I've seen and discussions I've had with friends, while others are purely me.

Curiouser and Curiouser...

He calls people “little lads” and “little ladies”.

Fellow has a very noticeable laugh. Like, he grunts and snorts and has tears rolling down his cheeks. (He tends to laugh at others’ misery, thinking of it as “retribution” or “payback” for the injustices he has suffered himself.)

Bro shaves using a knife (yes, he shaves because he is a grown ass man) because razors are hella expensive.

He uses that cheap cologne and cakes it on THICK. This, in his mind, gives off the impression that he’s a well-off and put-together individual you should tooootally trust.

Also the type of person that lays it on thick with his words. If he’s trying to impress a date or something, he’ll shower them with so many compliments it almost seems fake. But no, he’s just the type to simp hard when he happens to be genuine 💀 most of the time he’s faking it though—

He’s very street smart, but in a way where he confuses hostile people by talking over them and acting overly friendly. They usually stuns them long enough for him and Gidel to skedaddle.

If he gets dumped, he'd be the pathetic whimpering boyfriend that begs for his ex to take him back. When they inevitably don't, he mopes all day about it.

He chain smokes and aggressively drinks as a coping mechanism on his bad days 😔 and sometimes he gambles (like, on those scratch-off cards) hoping that he'll strike it rich and buy him and Gidel a better life...

Basically, he generally does not have his shit together but tries his best to pass like someone who does (and usually succeeds at it).

Fellow appears in public wearing his full suit, but at home (ie whatever ratty temporary housing their boss found for them before they move on to the next place) he just wears a T-shirt and lounges around in boxers (and sometimes socks with holes in them).

He uses those disposable eyeshadow wands that snap in half at the slightest bit of too much pressure. Fellow acts like the Claire’s kid makeup he uses is the luxury stuff, but Vil can tell the pigmentation isn’t all there and there’s MAD fallout.

He may be broke AF and have his moments of emotional spiraling, but he has pretty decent budgeting skills. Fellow lives for sales and does extreme couponing to stretch their money as far as it will go.

He invests in other cost-saving methods like wearing shoes until the sole is literally flopping off and just adding water to residual soap in a pump bottle to make the soap "last longer".

Fellow is really good at cutting food (bread, beans) thin to conserve it. Yes, this is a reference to an old Mickey Mouse cartoon—

When he was younger, he had dreams of being an actor (and, more specifically, starring in musicals). That's why he's often humming, swinging around his cane, and/or whistling as he's on the prowl for idiots to sucker—they're remainders of his thespian days before his dreams were crushed into itty bitty pieces.

Man looks like he'd be great at tap dancing.

Before his current gig, he tried a bunch of other scams including a MLM at one point to get by. His signature spell came in pretty clutch in those days too.

Fellow’s not that good at reading or spelling—in fact, he was never a particularly strong student. (“I didn’t fail school!! The schools failed ME!!”) He’s easily frustrated by academics and thinks there should be more hands-on and practical skills taught in learning institutions.

I think it's a given that he and Ruggie would be besties since they both want to eat the rich but I also think Fellow would kiss ass to Azul and then rage about how shitty + entitled Azul is (Azul reminds Fellow of his boss)💀 Scammers hate other scammers because they're both competing to scam the same people--

Even though Fellow is an asshole to most others (well, when he’s not flattering them to lure them into a trap), he’s always nice to Gidel and puts him first. If there’s ever a situation where they’re short on something (clothes, food, etc), Gidel gets priority. This is why Gidel has a full outfit (even if parts are patches or mismatched) whereas Fellow himself has a glove that is so worn out there’s a hole in one of the pinkie fingers.

Fellow may not be blessed with a bounty of magic, but he’s quick on his feet and good with words. Because of these skills, he’s talented at spinning bedtime stories, which he often tells to Gidel to help him fall asleep on nights that are particularly cold and nasty.

Gidel still believes in Santy Claws and wishing upon stars, and Fellow doesn’t have the heart to tell him the truth. He’ll figure it out on his own one day, Fellow thinks. He just doesn’t want to be the one to ruin those childhood joys for him.

Playing pretend is another shared past time of theirs. It helps Fellow get into character before he goes off to swindle people, and it gives Gidel a way to express himself in spite of being mute. They have a routine they do together where Fellow pretends to be a doctor diagnosing a patient and Gidel takes down notes for him as his medical scribe. Yes, this is a Pinocchio reference—

They actually have many more games they play (mainly because they cannot afford other forms of entertainment). Some of the games are clever ruses conjured by Fellow to teach Gidel survival tips and tricks: the who-can-make-their-piece-of-bread-last-longer game, hide-and-seek (from the authorities), etc.

For special occasions, Fellow saves up some money on the side to grant Gidel little luxuries, like a box of crayons to doodle with.

Gidel hugs Fellow’s leg or waist to cheer him up when he’s upset. He also hides behind Fellow when he’s scared or feeling shy.

He’s just really attached to Gidel cuz they have no one else in this cruel world, just them against the world 😔 He sees a lot of his younger self in the little boy… the opportunities lost because of their circumstances… “It’s alright, Gidel. Leave it to Fellow-sama.”

[chillinglikeashilling]

Anyway it's not my otp but I think Sam x Evan would be fun because I keep picturing Sam being the very famous very beloved host of a TV show that is internationally acclaimed and the obssession her fans would have with the fact that she's dating Evan, who to them is 'just a dude'.

I think Evan would see Sam's fans call him boring but nice enough and speculate why Sam broke up with Timothee Chalamet to date a nobody, and be so stunned that such a large number of people could be aware of his existence and have the prevailing opinion that's he completely uninteresting that he may start crying tears of joy.

I think that Evan would take Sam seriously, because he's fundamentally aware of how capable Sam is, and more importantly of how afraid and aware she is that other people don't. Evan wouldn't let thoughtless or intentionally rude/snarky comments about Sam slide regardless of what setting they were in, and this would be good for Sam because she has someone to back her up and remind her those people are being shitty to her. (This would also endear a large part of her fanbase to Evan).

Also I'm still of the opinion that Sam and K dated before Gowpenny so I think it's absolutely very funny and in keeping with my own queer friend groups to think of one person's exes starting to date each other but also that person's current dynamic with each ex are wildly different.

And finally, I think Jammer would be extremely glad that he is not involved in any of that but he would send Evan all the funniest memes Sam's fans make about her boring af boytoy and listen to K panic about what to get their exes for Christmas.

[xyfanficarchive]

I'm really curious to hear your thought's on this scenario...

How would Jimmy be with a gf that's far more privileged than him? Grew up in the suburbs, wealthy parents, a very stable family life, pretty spoiled.. But still makes sure that he knows that she really loves him.

honestly… one of the most salient points about jimmy’s character is his massive inferiority complex. he would try a relationship, if he thought you were attractive enough. and i’m not saying he’s entirely using you, but he does recognize that getting with you would be a huge benefit for him, cause he’s broke af. i think he does crave real love, and it could be sweet, in his own way, for a little while at least. your affection feels good. he wants it to work.

but eventually, this huge jealousy and resentment would come bubbling up. he’s mad as hell that you had life handed to you on a silver platter, and it’ll come out in snide little remarks, just this bitter undertone to his interactions with you. much like his relationship with curly. and i get the sense that like, he’s a guy who’s trying so fucking hard to prove himself to everyone around him and has a hard time believing that people who care about him don’t see him as lowly as he sees himself. so that resentment and paranoia are gonna make a toxic chemical reaction where even though you show him how much you genuinely love him, he’s gonna have a harder and harder time believing it. because like, why would you? your life was gilded growing up and he came from nothing, and he has an unsavoury past, and everyone in your life thinks youre too good for him. so there must be some ulterior motive to you being with him, like making yourself feel better and look better by comparison next to him and he’s gonna needle you about it and make all sorts of shitty assumptions about you and you’ll be hurt because, what the fuck, Jimmy? yah nobody needs to have someone lower than them to feel good about themselves but you and every other traumatized fucked up human being like you. the man needs extensive extensive therapy.

[babydin]

Love in the Middle of a Firefight - PART TWO

The pregnancy is easy, despite the circumstances. The pregnancy was the easy part, Joel was supportive, he helped out, he ran around like a Retriever whenever you asked him to and Ellie asked a million questions every single day. But when the baby arrives Joel doesn't know if he remembers how to love something so fragile. - Joel Miller x f!reader - 18+, minors DNI! - (2/?) - Joel is dad, Joel is Daddy, paternal postnatal depression, pregnancy sex, oral. Not necessarily in this chapter, but for sure in this series!! Trauma references. Domesticated af. Angsty in places! - 1193 words - Comments/likes appreciated. Requests are open! - A/N: I didn't think too hard about the timeline, just vaguely after the events of S1, they go to Jackson to Tommy's place and live there and nothing bad happens. This will be in multiple parts but I haven't planned for how many! There will be time-jumps in each of the parts because I'm impatient™️

Ellie looked blankly between the two of you. She had that look like she was waiting for the punchline of one of Joel’s shitty dad jokes. 

PART ONE

“We’re home!”

    Joel and Ellie walked home from school every day. He always took her to school, and he always picked her up. Walking was just their thing. You had been anxiously waiting for Joel to announce their arrival because he had promised he wouldn’t say anything to her until you were all together, you wondered if he had kept up that bargain. “How was school?” You ask, watching Ellie hang up her jacket and then walk into the living room to flop onto the couch. “Some kid pushed another kid into a garbage can and a fight broke out.” Ellie explained, her lips pursing slightly and her brows raising. Joel frowned a little and you asked “Were you either of the kids in that story?” “I was not.”

You took Joel’s hand and sat down with him on the coffee table in front of the couch. “Babygirl,” he said, “we have somethin’ we need to tell you. Somethin’ important.” Ellie’s eyes darted between the two of you as she tried to figure out what was going on before either of you said anything, “I’m not leaving. Fuck off, Joel. I’m not going anywhere. I like it here, I have friends!”  Ellie had fallen into the habit of calling him Dad, unless she was furious with him then he was always Joel. 

Joel reached out with both his hands and took hers, looking at her in a way that almost forced her to keep eye contact with him, “We ain’t goin’ nowhere. We’re safe here, okay? We don’t leave.” He sits up a little and you look between the two of them, they are thick as thieves, they talk without words and there is so much that remains unspoken between them but they know. “Are you getting divorced?” Ellie asked, her chin dropping down into her chest and her eyes looking from you to Joel and back again rapidly. You open your mouth to correct her but decide against it. You and Joel weren’t married, not by any technicalities anyway; you talked about it once, it was always in passing, until one day you set a date with a priest and a chapel but the priest died and there wasn’t anyone else ordained to perform a wedding. That night Joel cooked chicken wings on a barbecue in the yard, you drank beer and sat and cuddled under the stars. You shared your vows, you exchanged rings that you had both made from scraps of metal from the junkyard. Joel had helped you with yours, he was so clever with tools, the ring he gave you was perfect and looked as if it could’ve come from a store; he scratched coordinates inside the band from the spot you had shared your first kiss - they could’ve been coordinates to a burnt out Wendy’s and you’d have been none the wiser, the thought was painfully romantic and you cried when he told you. Yours was a little jankier, but he didn’t mind that, he said it suited him. From that night on he always called you ‘the Missus’. You supposed in a broken world that was about as official as it was going to get. “How would you feel about bein’ a big sister?” Joel’s voice had softened slightly as he presented the question to Ellie. He didn’t know how she would react, she’d grown up in this pandemic, she navigated the world so much differently because of the situations she had been forced into and now they were safe in Jackson, Joel only wanted her to be a kid, catch up on the years she had missed. Ellie looked blankly between the two of you. She had that look like she was waiting for the punchline of one of Joel’s shitty dad jokes. “I’m pregnant.” the words leave your mouth so abruptly that it even catches you off guard, and it’s the first time you’ve said it out loud.  Suddenly it all feels real. The man you were playing house with by your side, the orphan you’d both somehow adopted as your own, in the middle of a war, your found family was about to grow by one more. Ellie giggled in her child-like way and fell back into the couch in a way that made Joel sit up defensively. “It’s difficult for me to believe that someone willingly reproduced with you.” Ellie teased. It’s clear that she thinks her leg is being pulled. “It was an accident, but you don’t need to be a dick about it.” You swatted Joel’s thigh, “Joel!” He turned to face you with an expression that was full of apologies “Obviously I didn’t mean it like that.” Ellie sat up again and leaned forward, her eyes narrowing a little as she looked at you with a calculated gaze, “Are you serious? Are you pregnant? For real?” Your eyes find hers, and your hands reach out to wrap around her own as you nod earnestly, hoping the message gets through. Joel reaches into the breast pocket of his shirt to show her the print out from the ultrasound, he points to the blip inside the hollows of your uterus and makes a sound that might’ve been him saying ‘there’ if he had opened his lips a little more. Ellie’s expression changes. You remember again that she’s experiencing a lot of things for the first time and this is the first ultrasound she’s seen, this is the first pregnancy she’s been this close to. “That’s a baby?” she asked, sounding utterly enchanted by it, unable to take her eyes off of it. “It’s so little.” “The nurse reckoned I’m about 7 weeks along,” you explain, “so in another 30 or so weeks it’ll be fully cooked.” “That’s a long time.” Ellie looked back at you, she sounded disappointed at the idea of having to wait so long to earn her role of big sister. “Trust me,” Joel added, “it’ll fly by.” Ellie’s eyes drifted back to the ultrasound, and Joel pushed it a little closer to her. She pulled her hands from yours and took the photo, bringing it up to her face for a closer inspection, “That’s so fuckin’ cool.” You and Joel both breathe out a sigh of relief in unison. That was all you had both wanted, Ellie’s approval. You were a family, and a team, you had to do everything together or it just didn’t work; you’d fought too hard to get to where you were. Joel put his hand on your thigh and his earlier promises that everything was going to be okay echoed in your mind. But then Ellie reminded you both of just how much of her education she had missed being in her situation and then traveling with Joel when she looked up from the photo and asked, “So when it is fully cooked, will the doctor have to cut it out of you?” Joel pulled a face and took a sharp inward breath as he patted your knee and pushed himself up off the coffee table, kissing your cheek on the way “That is all you, I am going to start dinner.”

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Oh look another unhinged wonder boy Stan who thinks every scene with Bakugo and Deku has to deal with romance. Once again I’m not revealing who this person is to protect their identity but you’ll most likely find them on Twitter if you search hard enough. Three things in particular that proves that they don’t care about what’s happening in the story or if it even makes sense. The only thing that’s important to the eyes of these people is whether the Green Jesus and the Creator’s pet will bang or not.

I’m not sorry.

“Katsuki being overly protective in their relationship, he's always making sure to keep Izuku in line. In an actual relationship it's good to have a partner who is making sure you're not mistakingly saying anything private or personal.”

This person tries to claim that after their second fight, Bakugo was being over protective to Deku as in the way he acts and treats him moving forward is another sign of love. Yeah because him throwing his sharp head piece into Deku head causing him to bleed is a sign of protection and love. Deku in that scene wasn’t even talking about his improvements with Blackwhip out in the open, he said that all in his head. The only I can think of as to B***h boy doesn’t like to see Deku be happy about anything. How romantic.

There was also that one scene in the Endeavor Agency arc where Deku was explaining his quirk and how he wants to improve to Endeavor and Bakugo gets triggered. People like to make the argument that Deku was telling him way too much information about OFA, but does it really matter? Endeavor surprisingly understood what Deku meant and didn’t reveal anything that would get him caught.

I know that Deku almost revealed OFA out in the open(USJ Arc), but that clearly on accident and was in fear for All Might’s condition. And after that he clearly understood how important it was to keep the secret hidden, until the neighbor’s Pomeranian decided to step in and make things insufferable.

So basically Deku was actually being the smart one with these situations and Bakugo was just full of s**t.

“Being vulnerable in a relationship is also important because you feel safe and comfortable enough to show your true emotions around the other, which is Katsuki in this case.”

While being vulnerable is essential in a relationship, that does excuse your behavior and how you treat your partner especially if it’s extremely toxic and stressful. This series can go on all it wants on how Sweaty Pits here feel insecure and vulnerable when he doesn’t get what he wants, but none of that changes that fact that Bakugo had no right to defend himself or justify his shitty behavior when he knows what he’s done is wrong. And even after he EXPRESSES his emotions after losing in technicality to Deku in the battle trials and throwing a child like tantrum all because he wasn’t picked to be All Might’s successor, it doesn’t really matter cause the story finds a way to reward him and guilt trip Deku for no reason.

“Katsuki wants to spend the rest of their lives chasing each other. He wants a future with Izuku and he broke down in front of him cause he's scared they won't be able to.”

Yeah cause apparently there aren’t enough moments where D**k cheese here wins against Deku. All the physical and mental torment Deku had to go through has no meaningful conclusion and are now pointless because the story now decides it wants to support the worst kind of deviant behavior. We have to go through another damn fight/situation that goes through the same process.

1. Deku and My Sweaty Pits git in to a fight.

2. Deku despite being broken AF loses to Bakugo

3. More gloating

I just accepted that Horikoshi will never let his main character beat his most popular character ever in a fight. We’re just supposed to accept the idea that Bakugo is able to beat Deku despite the fact that his victim has several different quirks that could have killed him. I can only imagine if get another round with these two idiots, we all now who’s going to come out on top.

In conclusion, this person and the rest of these stans are delusional.

[mswyrr]

“The Bear” 2x10 SPOILERS

“I don't need to provide amusement or enjoyment. I don't need to receive any amusement or enjoyment. I'm completely fine with that. Because no amount of good is worth how terrible this feels.“

This quote and the whole performance is one of the best examples I’ve seen in film/tv of the way anxiety and trauma can hurt internally enough that you’d rather try to be less alive--just cut off entire parts of life--than feel it.

He had two trauma triggers (Mom being invited and being in a situation that reminded him of the abusive chef) and boom. This hurts so much I don’t want to be here. I can’t stand being here. Michael killed himself; Carmy buries himself alive emotionally. That’s why he’s never had friends or dated before.

It’s a powerful depiction of mental illness and the like “was he being a jerk in x moment?” stuff doesn’t work for me. Because until he gets some help... uh, sadly, this is literally the best he can come up with to deal. It’s sad af but that moment where Sydney is like “well just don’t be shitty” and he’s like “oh, okay, I’ll just do that then” captures it: sometimes a person literally doesn’t know what better is and/or cannot physically get there because their brain/biochemistry is FUCKED and won’t let them any more than someone with an untreated broken leg can run a marathon.

And, sorry, no - Al Anon chatting with other family members of addicts is not anywhere near the same league as getting actual therapy. Though this show is right: a ton of Americans like Carmy work hard and yet cannot afford to access actual therapy. So they self-medicate with substances or engage in super fucked emotional numbing self-destructive behavior like Carmy is doing.* Other tools are literally out of reach - Which is pretty fucking ugly, huh? Though probably some of the right anxiety medication from an MD would help a fair bit if combined with the Al Anon meetings. But meetings alone cannot do it when there’s this clinical physical problem. Again: you can’t fix a broken leg with PT.** The PT comes after you’ve treated the physical damage.

*isolating yourself and denying yourself any joy in life is a form of self-harm 

**and Al Anon isn’t even PT!! Therapy would be PT in this analogy and he can’t get to that because he’s broke

[devilishmango]

My poor Sin.. aww that nightmare scene broke my heart. And Sin still out here confused af. Like there's Will... then I really want my Mc to remember being hopelessly inlove with Murmur because they are just everything and then I'm like hella intrigued by Dani. So many playthroughs because Devi can't write shitty ROs.

Let's be honest tho if you wrote an asshole RO you would probably find a way to write them appealing anyway 😒

😂 to be honest, my favorite characters tend to be assholes with a secret heart of gold... I'm unsure if any of the ROs in either story could fit it? All the ROs in SoS are kind of all... nice? But, as you'll see a little later in the story, Dani can be a bit unpredictable.

I guess Hal can be a bit of an asshole... But whether he has a heart of gold or not is to be seen. lol And Demo was kind of an asshole too, I guess.

Anyway, I'm glad you're liking SoS so far. Your comments always make my day!! 😊

[smokeygrayrabbits]

I have no explanation for this, but it needs to be out of my notes app.

I've been thinking about modern au trigun. stampede specifically but take your pick.

just . . . divorced dad vibes older brother knives trying to spoil the heck out of tiny little broke vash who is moved out on his own and is also really bad at money

like,,,, maybe SEEDS was a cutting edge tech company from forever ago. maybe vash and knives are still immortal, and so when the giant rich company that raised them (experimentation? adoption? who knows.) went under after a massive fire, vash and nai saverem inherit everything. but it's locked away until they turn 18 because idk bank stuff or something, so they're functionality broke, homeless orphans for a while. maybe vash lost his arm in the fire or something. maybe the sold it for parts idk.

little genius babies become the only plant engineers in the world overnight, with plants having been a new cutting edge technology only in development by the seeds corporation. baby nai starts inventing stuff and maybe becomes a mob/cult boss or something and drags them out of poverty.

nai wants to get back to the tech industry luxury and rebuild, vash has fallen in love with humanity and life and wants to live with the people and be part of society.

they grow up. nais doing some sketchy stuff and is now the head of his own company. vash is,,, idk college maybe? couch surfing? NO I GOT IT! HES LIVING OUT OF A VAN!!! for fun, but also because it's how he grew up and he feels most at home on the road not in the big empty house where nai is never home.

nai is very exasperated by his brothers lifestyle choices, but also very over protective, so he's always sending vash fancy expensive things and making sure vash has connections wherever he goes.

also!! vash wasn't/isn't oblivious to nais illegal dealings. he helped him run the mob for years when they were younger, but never liked the violent side of it

he mostly delt with like, maintaining relationships between smaller local gangs and organizations in other cities, all of whom adore the funky lil baby who would come visit them and consult on their crimes

so yeah. rich people wanna be the saverems, and crimy broke people love them! (because of course any mob partially run by vash would take care of the community). nai makes a point of bringing people from his illegal buissness into his fully legal and very profitable professional one, mostly at vash's request and recommendation.

after a while of this, vash is like "I wanna see the world!! :D".

nai is very worried about this. his baby brother is leaving the nest!!! nai knows how dangerous the world is, heck, he runs half the danger! but vash is stubborn AF so he goes on tour.

probably ends up meeting Meryl and wolfwood and Roberto and/or Milly somewhere along the line, all of whom are very confused about the rich tech mogul who lives in a van and eats packaged ramen with wagyu beef. Meryl smells a story. Roberto smells a rat. wolfwood is a simp.

shenanigans ensue.

throw in a little livio tried to steal from one of nais operations, and to work it off wolfwood took the fall and now has to babysit vash.

nai looked at wolfwood and was like "ah yes, protective big brother, knows how to do hard things for the greater good. he will be good to teach vash the importance of sacrifice" or something, but then on their first time meeting wolfwood watched vash bribe a cop, threaten a mob boss, and inhale a whole box of really shitty gas station donuts within like 2 hours and was head over heels immediately.

at some point, nai gets kidnapped or something and is freaking out about who will look after vash now, only for vash to come in and save the day really epically

nai remains in denial and sobs all over him.

nai also totally like, flys his private jet out to wherever vash is when he's having a bad day because he's a fraud and is actually just as big of a baby as vash is

after wolfwood and vash get over their inevitable idiots to lovers arc, wolfwood will randomly wake up on the floor of their little van bed to find that nai kicked him out in the middle of the night with no warning that he was gonna show up

nai sends them anniversary or holiday gifts and vash gets like, a truckload of super expensive currated stuff and wolfwood gets a handful of Cheerios nai found a pigeon eating on the subway that's shaped like a middle finger or something

or like, a half eaten hotpocket

motherfucker would give wolfwood a half eaten cup of instant noodles

or just the empty styrofoam cup which nai saw a pigeon eating, it reminded him of wolfwood, so he went over to personally wrestle the cup away from the winged rat. in a buissness suit. in the middle of the day. it was videoed, which then went viral.

sticky note on top "happy holidays fuck you wolfwood"

that link was the best present Wolfwoof ever got. he teared up a little.

vash was touched by the amount of effort nai put into wolfwoods present. he did it personally Nick! that means he likes you!

wolfwood does not believe it for a second.

[therealslimshakespeare]

Ok since you said you like this sort of feedback: Something that kind of leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth re. Maureen and that sort of has me agreeing with some of these anons that I just find her annoying is all this pent up bitterness and resentment she has towards Ida because of flight school. Which manifests into her being so shitty towards Ida when she was at her lowest. And to my knowledge, literally all that happened was that Ida failed her when she did her test flight? And like was apparently sort of hard on her? But the reason why I don’t get it is I don’t know what Maureen expected. This is the ARMY during a war. Of course it’s not gonna be like every aspect of your life has been so far? And like of course you wouldn’t just be allowed to be a pilot because you can fly leisure planes? I just don’t get that and it just generally puts me off because I feel like you have to be a really specific kind of person to be that entitled. And to think you’d be entrusted with the lives of so many people and literal BOMBS because you’ve flown your dads plane a few times 😅

Hahaha, I get this and she’s such a damn drama queen for it. Because, legit your arguments are exactly right.

Bombs Maureen, bombs. And nine mother’s sons.

I based this tiff of hers from a guy’s bio from the pacific theatre, he held onto that bitterly for a long while and that’s sorta the attitude a lotta of folks who didn’t quite know what they were signing up for possessed. Yes there were the sober and the patriotic too, and I tend to admire those guys more which I think is understandable?! But there were the others that were entitled and naive af and eventually either broke or rose to the occasion or had one happen before the other. Their stories are out there too and I find them rather human even if they’re alarming.

And like Gale told her -Ida was knocking her down a peg just to the promote her? And Maureen had never been denied something like that before and that’s shitty but it’s real, and it would throw someone like that. And as Gale said again, getting promoted was the first compliment handed her without faux ass kissing due to her privlidge and she hardly knew what to do with that.

I know some people who are like her and it’s sad. And I’ve also seen some change. And that’s beautiful and worthy of support imo.

[moon-thething]

Hello, so, I just thought of this. Maybe you could do headcanons for the childhood friend trope, but with Kevin? I'm not sure how to describe it exactly, but I basically just mean headcanons for Kevin if he were childhood friends(like either since they were both literally in daycare, or since they were in elementary school, they've known eachother) with the reader. You have the option to either make the headcanons in a platonic way, or if your into the whole childhood friends to lovers thing, you can make it in a romantic way.

Hello :D this is an absolutely wonderful request, since I'm feeling nice today why don't I do both platonic and romantic headcanons?

So, let's get started

Romantic or platonic?: platonic/romantic both

Reader's gender: Gender neutral

Type: Fluff

Warning: not proof read

Hope you enjoy

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Platonic

You two met at the sandpit in daycare, no questions asked. The two of you just seemed to click that day

That specific sandpit was your go to place, every single time at daycare the two of you would meet up there

That is until Kevin started ranting about you one day to his mom and she suggested for the two of you to have a playdate

Kevin was so excided nd you could guess your friendship grew from there

When it was time for the two of you to start your first day at school Kevin and you made a whole presentation on why you sould go to school together

Both of your parents seemed impressed, since how can literal children make a whole ass presentation?

Never the less your parents agreed and the two of you jumped around in excitement

When you were at the school gates Kevin was nervous af, like he couldn't move type of nervous. But of course, you were there to calm him down

"Kevin, are you okay?" Y/n asked as they looked at Kevin with a confused expression

Kevin stayed silent as he stared at the school with wide eyes, his hands tightly gripping onto his back pack straps. Y/n let out a sigh and hugged Kevin, making him get out of his trance

"I know it's scary, but you've gotta come in with me." Y/n mumbled against his shirt, "Because if you don't I'm gonna stay here with you." Kevin's eyes relaxed as a smile spread across his face

Wrapping his hands around you you two stayed like that for a while

"I think we sould go in." Kevin broke the silence, Y/n let go of him and quickly grabbed his hand

"C'mon, let's go then!" Y/n yelled in excitement as the two ran into the school, holding hands

The two of you made friendship bracelets at school in art class 100%

Kevin would wear that bracelet anywhere and everywhere with him. And if anyone asked about it he would proudly say that his friend made that for him

Now, let's have a little time skip

The two of you finished school with great honers. But while Kevin was stuck working at a candy shop, you moved up in the world

You somehow managed to make your own company!.. well it was only a coffee shop but it was quite popular in the town

You always felt bad for not having the same job as Kevin to support him, to be by his side. But Kevin assured you multiple times that it was alright

You would constantly worry that the two of you will eventually drift apart, that was always on your mind. But the two of you never did. You always stayed together

You would always visit where Kevin worked to talk with him, and to try and give him a job offer of course

No matter how many times you insisted he would always turn you down. Yes he had a shitty job, but he'd rather work for his own money than to have the easy life and work at their friends coffee shop

"Hey Kev!" Y/n burst through the door as Kevin let out a sigh of anoyence, but he could help but let a smile form onto his features

"What do you want Y/n?" He questioned and continued to clean up the counter, but Y/n quickly stopped him as they quickly snatched the napkin out of his hands

"I'd like for you to work for me." Y/n said with a cheeky grin. Kevin let out a sigh as he grabbed another napkin from behind the counter and continued to clean up

"I already told you once Y/n. No." Kevin sighed Y/n let out a groan as they threw the napkin in a near by bin

"Yout can be boring sometimes Kev." Y/n whined as they dramatically walked iut of the door

"I'll see you at lunch break?" Kevin asked, tilting his head slightly. Y/n stood in their spot for a while before turning their head towards him

"See you at lunch break."

After some time you stopped persisting for him to work with you, but you did still visit him at the candy store and buy shit ton of candy and made sure to tip him really well

You'd be there for him for literally anything. And you made sure he knew that

You'd answer all of his calls, even though he'll sometime call at three in the morning and wake you up you still picked up the phone

You'd listen to him ranting about how the children were anoying as always and how the parents were snobby

And of course he would listen to you rant about stuff. He'd always laugh at your stories when Karen's tried to talk to the manager, even though you were the boss of the coffee shop

Even after all of these years, you two still kept the friendship bracelets you made all those years ago, you would wear it with honor, while Kevin was a bit more embarrassed to wear it. But he still tried his best to wear it outside of work :)

Romantic

The two of you met in elementary school. You had switched classes because your past classmates were absolutely garbage and the teacher introduced you

Kevin was the only kid that had an empty seat so you were the lucky one to sit next to him. You would try to start a conversation but get interrupted by the teacher

You'd overthink the situation you were in. Wondering if you sould write something in a peace of paper and hand it to him, or to just leave him be

Y/n sat next to the raven haired boy, anxiously tapping on the table as milions of thought, situations and possible outcomes rushed through their head

Everything around Y/n became a blur as the only things they could hear was the teacher's mumbled voice and the voices inside their head telling them to make a move on the boy, while other voices ruined the possible friendship with their deskmate by negative scenarios

Y/n's thoughts were quickly interrupted by a light tap on their shoulder. They turned towards the boy only to see him looking at the teacher while holding a neatly folded small peace of paper with his pointer finger and middle finger

They quickly grabbed the paper and glanced at the teacher before opening the note

'Hey :)'

The small and almost meaningless note sould have ment nothing to Y/n, but somehow a smile managed to form on their face as they grabbed a pencil and started to write

And for the rest of the class Kevin and Y/n exchanged notes and got to know each other better

Every single class the two of you had you would exchange notes, you were honestly surprised on how the teacher didn't notice

Or maybe they did notice but they didn't care... Who knows

Since that moment the two of you hung out all. the. time!

It got to the point where your parents had to force you two apart

Kevin didn't know the reason on why he just felt so connected to you, that is until one day

The two of you were just chatting happily and eating ice cream at the park

Kevin then suddenly heard you giggling while looking at his face. He of course question you and when you say that his face was covered in ice cream he'd be embarrassed

"don't worry, I got it." You'd say s you grabbed a napkin and lean towards Kevin getting real close to his face. Kevin could feel his face heating up but he didn't dare to move, almost as is he wanted to gain contact

When you finished whipping his face he'd emidiatly miss the feeling of your hands on his face

That's when it hit him. And I mean it hit him hard

After that day he kept denying his feelings for you but he just could keep them down anymore. He had to face it

He was falling in love with his best friend

Of course, that didn't change much in your friendship. Because Kevin never actually confessed

Any as the years passed, the two of you slowly drifted apart, he started to work at a candy store and never saw you again. He was too embarrassed and worried to call you, so he never did. He had to deal with the guilt of not confessing to you sooner

After at least two years of the two of you not seeing each other and not speaking to one another, one beautiful morning changed all

Kevin has just clocked in for the day and he was waiting at the counter for his first customer

The door opened and as Kevin turned to greet the person his eyes widened as he dropped the item he was holding

There you stood, just as shocked as Kevin was

"Kevin?" You'd question, and at that moment the two of you started to talk. It was like the two of you never drifted apart

But something slipped out of Kevin's mouth, and oh he was so glad that it did

"To be honest, we were both a mess in highschool." Y/n laughed as Kevin laughed along with her, the two were behind the candy store as another employee was covering Kevin for a while

"Yeah, but you were the mess I was in live with in highschool." Kevin laughed, emidiatly regretting the words that left his mouth, Y/n laughed along with him but looked at him with a questioning gaze

"Yeah? I was as well." They said, letting out a dry chuckle

The two stayed in and awkward silence. You tapping onto the wall of the candy store as Kevin desperately tried to restrain himself from saying the words that repeated in his mind

"Y'know... Those feeling never actually.. faded away I guess." He said, sweating bullets as he looked in to their gorgeous eyes. Y/n's mouth was slightly parted as a smile desperately tugged at their lips, they looked at the concrete below as they let the smile finally spread across their face

"I guess mine never left either." Y/n mumbled, at that Kevin's face lit up as he reached his hand to their face. Gently grabbing their chin as he made them look at him

His lips pressed into a thin like as he switched his gaze from their eyes to their mouth

"M-may I kiss you?" He stuttered. Y/n playfully rolled their eyes and grabbed his face, pulling it towards theirs as the two shared a deep kiss

When they parted they just stared at each other for a moment before Y/n let a smirk spread across their face

"Y'know, you were always kind of a wuss-"

"Don't ruin the moment"

When the two of you started to date ,he would be the most loving boyfriend ever

But I think that's for another request ;) (I don't know why I put a winky face, just ignore that)

[pen-and-umbra]

Hey, I wonder what would sephiroth do if he wasn’t forced into project S, being a soldier and dealing with Hojo. like what sort of occupation would he choose if he had a xhance NOT take part in shinra's shitty fighting? So depressing seeing him go thru all of that in ec chapters!

Heya.

Yup, his is not a pretty story for sure. And it's a difficult question to answer because Sephiroth's origin, in its most literal sense, defines him as a character. Without the Jenova project, there is no Sephiroth, so for the sake of answering, I'll go with the experiment happening, but then ShinRA either cuts funding or ends the SOLDIER program in favor of Scarlett's arms development.

Sephiroth may then choose a path purely to annoy Hojo, being petty af about what he had to go through as a child, while honoring Gast's legacy. After all, whatever glorified Gast by default reminded Hojo of his place. With that in mind, I believe Sephiroth could devote himself to scholarly study of Cetra, continuing Gast's work. His obsessive search for his own roots helped him develop a habit of meticulously digging for records and documents, handling files, and piecing together the whole picture with only the bits — not dissimilar to a historian or archaeologist. The most basic understanding of the Ancients begins with the origin of materia, so Sephiroth could collect the remaining legends and folk tales that shed light on Cetra's way of life, rituals, beliefs, and so on. He comes across mentions of a mysterious "calamity from the skies" on several occasions, which both intrigues and unnerves him for some reason. Naturally, it would be hard to study Cetra’s belief system without touching upon Lifestream and, consequently, planetology. But if it’s an **affront** to Hojo’s science, then all the better.

He might travel the world, studying artifacts of the Ancients, eventually sticking around the dig site near Bone Village. His prior SOLDIER bootcamp training comes in handy and gives him an impressive edge when it comes to exploring various ruins and caverns. He also takes upon himself protecting the dig site and researchers there from occasional monster or raider attacks, which earns him quite a reputation both among fellow scholars and the local folk.

Eventually he writes a paper on Ancients, detailing the deciphered lore about their spirituality and the concept of Promised Land. It utterly busts ShinRA’s claim of it being a real location and instead reveals it to be a spiritual state of mindfulness and illumination. The paper is prefaced with a dedication to the late Professor Gast.

If he broke free in his late twenties, though, that'd be another story. He’d be directionless and lacking capacity to be anything other than a sword-wielder for a loooong time.

[pacifymebby]

Do you have any fave LGBTQ+ literature, tv, movies, content creators?

Okay so I'm still trying really hard to find queer books that I like because beyond Allen Ginsburg in college we weren't taught any LGBTQ+ authors/poets (except Carol Ann Duffy but the only thing I'd recommend about her work is to stay away because I hate it haha)(I probably hate it because of school tbh, sorry Carol) so anyway yeah, when it comes to this I've had to do all the searching myself and I don't really know how well I've done.

But for books:

🍂 Orlando / Virginia Woolf

I kind of can't believe Virginia Woolf wasn't on my other recommendations because The Waves is one of my favourite books (again I think you have to have a lot of patience but it is beautiful) and this one is brilliant too. A man wakes up in a woman's body and gender roles are revealed to be a little bit silly.

🍂 Thérèse and Isabelle / Violet Leduc

Erotic novella about two girls at boarding school, low-key spoke to me as a bi girl who kind of started realising her bisexuality when exploring sexuality was sort of thrust upon me by female friends at school I guess. It's just a good example of feminine sexuality and desire written by someone who knows.

🍂 Chelsea Girls / Eileen Myles

I'm very into Eileen Myles as a poet and these stories are so so so so so fucking good too!!!!

🍂 In The Dream House / Carmen María Machado

I got into this because it's what Google recs when you finish The Dangers of Smoking in Bed / Mariana Enriquez and honestly, I didn't enjoy it as much but it was still amazing. It's gothic horror af but also a really important work on abusive relationships within the queer community which the author has personal experience of and thinks isn't spoken about enough. Its really haunting, did fuck me up a bit but ultimately in a good way. But be careful because it does chronical abuse and that can be upsetting.

🍂 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous/ Ocean Vuong

Another one where I love their poetry and think they can do no wrong tbh, I haven't finished this yet (I keep getting distracted but don't be put off by that I'm just really easily distracted!!) And I think it's wonderful idk. It's also written in quite a cool style which is always a bonus I find.

🍂 Our Wives Under the Sea / Julia Armfield

I actually only read this because I read an essay on the Exorcist and body horror by the author where she talks about her experience with having a cyst that had to be operated on twice. The essay was so stunning that I was like damn, gonna have to read that book everyone's talking about now and bestie, was worth it. The books class also.

🍂 Sister Outsider / Audre Lorde

I just think everyone should read Audre Lorde, Audre Lorde should have been on the curriculum instead of endless Simon Armitage idk. I read this and Your Silence Will Not Protect You as a 19 year old and they changed the course of my life idk.

🍂 Communion / bell hookes

Read this and broke up with my shitty ex boyfriend. It's not entirely about lesbianism but more kind of, love in general, platonic, romantic, what it really means to love. She talks about the feminist choice to choose lesbianism which was a phenomenon in the 70s and also discusses a lot to do with how misogyny impacts womens ability to love and be loved. It was a really important read for me, made all the more important because when I picked up the book my boyfriend ripped into her name and tried to be like lol what would you read her for...and then I read it and was like oh HE'S the problem.

Poetry:

🐇Howl / Allen Ginsburg

I know he's problematic but for me Howl was the prototype, the first massive poem I read and loved as an adult, the first one where language really sounded musical to me, the first poem I heard that Hurt. If you can you should listen to the YouTube of him reading it in San Francisco,that's amazing.

I also really like A Supermarket in California.

🐇 Sappho

Just all of it I guess, I think we're all eventually pushed towards Sappho and for good reason.

🐇Emily Dickinson

Read her letters to Sue, Open Me Carefully. I read these one summer between school years and I think they changed me. Her poetry in general is wonderful, some of it occasionally comes off as very old fashioned (shock horror our girl was born in the 1800s) but there's much to savour there. Also apparently there's a TV series about her life on Apple TV, I don't have Apple TV though so I haven't seen it.

As for TV and movies I don't think I have anything at all. I don't watch a lot of TV and I mostly only watch the same 5 old man movies on repeat. I think books have always been my thing, I can concentrate on reading in a way I can't concentrate on TV and also just the fact you can put your book in your pocket and get it out on the bus, in the staff room, at school, at the pub when you're waiting for your pals etc... I was always a headphones and books gal so I don't really have any recs for TV. Sorry :/

EDIT: Kill Your Darlings!!!! As in the movie, if you're into the beats you should watch it, it's very good and a real insight into what was in reality a pretty nasty little scene.

[iris-sistibly]

The Witcher but make it modern part 2

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Ciri just had her first heartache after finding out her jerk of an ex-boyfriend cheated on her with her ex-bff.

Geralt is the fearsome witcher with a soft spot for his pup, he's the type of parent who would listen to how Ciri found out about her asshole ex's ugly ass side chick while she chows down a pint of chocolate ice cream. Ciri ends up asking, "Am I not enough?"

"You are more than enough Cirilla, he is the one who isn't good enough for you."

Then proceeds to give her a comforting hug because she needs it.

Yennefer is the typical mama who would be like,

"I told you he's trash!" and "Block him and that bitch!"

then proceeds to lecture Ciri about how shitty people can be which is why it is incredibly important to be careful who she trusts. But Yen is also the one who encourages her daughter to love herself a little more because seriously, she doesn't need anyone else to define her worth *insert lyrics of "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus* She never fails to check on Ciri from time to time, and Yen always...ALWAYS tell her how much she and her two dads love her and will always be there for her.

Jaskier was just fuming with rage,

"WHO THE FUCK DOES HE THINK HE IS MAKING OUR BABY CRY?! CIRI, I SWEAR TO THE GODS THAT ASSHOLE WILL NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY! I WILL CUT HIS BALLS OFF! I WILL AVENGE YOU MY DARLING. HE BROKE YOUR HEART, I'LL GIVE HIM HELL!!! *insert low, raspy voice* THIS. IS. WAR."

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A/N: This is just another random AU scene that keeps popping in my brain every now and then. I was actually thinking of writing an expanded version of this scene but I'm feeling lazy af so I'll leave this here 😂😂😂 Also, Ciri is already studying at a university in this timeline 😁.

[just-jess-78]

I finally looked the girl up today. It was so much harder than I expected because she was nothing like I expected her to be.

I expected her to be young and blonde and bubbly and beautiful.

She’s my age so still older than him. She’s skinny but not the kind that makes you miss your pre kid body. She had weight loss surgery ten years ago and is an avid gym goer. She’s definitely earned her skinny. She’s a golfer. She honestly seems like a decent person. Their personalities make sense together. I don’t mean this with any kind of anything in my heart but I didn’t know how it would fuck me up to see that I’m actually prettier than her or just as pretty (I don’t mean that though she’s plain af) and I say that because then I started to spiral and think holy shit…all this time he made me feel like I was ugly and gross and I thought it was because he wasn’t attracted to me physically but what if it’s because I’m ugly inside. And that hurt me worse than anything has ever hurt me. I started to feel crazy like did I not try enough was I not affectionate enough. Should I have tried to go do shit with him that he wanted to do even though we never did anything I ever wanted to do. He never even listened to the stuff I was interested in. Was it as bad as I remember it or am I fucking crazy.

Then I remembered that when things were good and everything was perfect and I was in a good mood things were (seemed) really good. The ONLY times he’s ever EVER been cruel to me were the times when I needed him. When my aunt died he wouldn’t even hug me and I remember knowing that was fucked up and being too ashamed to tell anyone. I tried to talk to him about it and he said he “didn’t like being told what to do?”

I broke my arm skiing one year on vacation with friends and he was mad at me about something dumb that I can’t even remember now and he drove so crazy on the way to the ER because he was still mad and then wouldn’t carry my purse in for me. He put his cap over his eyes and never looked at me the entire time. It was so bad that one of the nurses pulled me aside and asked if he had done it to me.

So even though the good times outweighed the bad, the bad times were so hurtful that I never could get over them. And we certainly couldn’t talk about it because then the fight was really on because he’s “sorry he can’t do anything right” 🙄

Idk. Maybe the truth is just the fucking truth. They’re compatible. We were not. Romantically or sexually. If so then I’m honestly happy for him. And I mean that with everything in me because I get it. I’m so excited to fall in love again someday and do it right this time. I love love and I love that he feels that because it’s probably his first time. I always knew he didn’t love me that way because I know what that feels like and it was never what we had. For a minute it made me sad that he had to be so shitty to me because I would absolutely love to be able to tell him that I hope that’s his forever and I hope she fills the voids for him that I couldn’t or didn’t want to.

The part that hurts the worst is knowing that he would never ever have loved me enough to let me go gracefully if the script was flipped.

I didn’t love him like you should love your husband because no matter how hard I tried I never could respect him as my husband because he wasn’t a leader to me. There was nothing I could respect about him as my husband. He provided financially but he never protected me he never made sure I didn’t have to pump my own gas. He never let me pick one fucking movie. He only got me off 13 times in 15 fucking years.

But I did love him like you love your best friend. I took care of him and I took care of his heart. I wish I didn’t feel so stupid for doing it for so long.

[erin-bo-berin]

A moment that isn’t talked about enough is when Steve thought Jonathan hurt Nancy and he forced his way into the house to help her.

Yesss! I know it’s hard to see because of his more asshole ways back in season 1, but with as many times as I’ve rewatched ST now, I pick up little things all the time that he did. He wasn’t just an asshole that turned good, that goodness was always there, even in little amounts. I feel like his King Steve persona was just an act, maybe so he could feel like he finally fit in somewhere.

But things like that, the fact that he came to check on her when she was acting weird before her and Jonathan went out to the woods and Nancy ended up in the Upside Down for the first time, when he asked about Barb during that previous encounter, asking her if she was okay at his party after they went inside after being in the pool. Even the times when he offered to take her to the movies in season 1 and then asked her to go to Tina’s Halloween party in season 2. At first, it really did come off (to me at least) that he was just ignoring the whole situation, but the more I’ve seen the scenes, I’ve interpreted it that he was just trying his best to take her mind off things and cheer her up the only way he knew how to. Considering in that scene in season 1 he didn’t yet know about all the Upside Down stuff and by season 2, he knew and thought maybe the party might help take her mind off things for a night. He just had no idea how much she was truly suffering/just how much she was unsure about their whole relationship.

Granted, I know he did do some shitty things—like breaking Jonathan’s camera after the weird pictures, although I would say that would be a valid reaction considering Jonathan was violating Nancy’s privacy. I really hated that whole ordeal, it was just weird and I kinda wish they hadn’t included that scene and made it that Steve broke his camera or did something else to Jonathan in another way that didn’t involve taking the pictures. Then the whole movie marquee thing. Not saying that Steve was perfect in season 1, but I definitely think he was heavily influenced by Tommy and Carol (who were annoying af lol) to do these things. Especially the movie marquee thing because Steve was hurting too, thinking Nancy was cheating on him.

Okay sorry I got on a tangent there lol all to say that it’s the little moments like you pointed out anon, that made me realize that Steve didn’t just “become” a nice and good guy, he was there all along, even if it was in brief flashes.