#y’all already know I stan ally

[dreamersparacosm]

ummmmmmmmmmmmmm.

what the actual fuck.

im literally gagged BY THIS KSKSKDSK like ur writing is so good. it was so intimate even tho it didn’t have direct smut and I am amazed???

also this line: There is just you and a bed with half of it cold. There is just you and no Austin. There is just you and your mind. There is just you and the ghosts of people who are dead or still living but have themselves burrowed into your very psyche.

THIS IS AMAZING! the emotions, the comfort, everything is so perfect. we love dove and austin

can I request a consider! or a blurb or hc or full on fic of austin looking after p!a during a sub drop 🥺

satisfied and empty inside

summary: austin swears that he'll never let you have a sub drop after hearing your horror stories. he fails this one time. fandom: austin butler | elvis ( 2022 ) rating: t? this is tricky because sexual things are described but they don't really have sex. so i suppose high t? pairing: austin butler x priscilla actress reader ( little dove verse ) word count: 2441 warnings: the normal warnings apply for this verse. daddy kink. dom/sub dynamics. choking. brief mentions of past relationships that were not at all pleasant. sub drop. anxiety. negative self talk. author’s note: consider this faintly canon for the main verse? i always make the argument that austin never really ever lets dove experience sub drop but maybe that's only for when it's caused by papi. time frame is post met and cannes but pre press tour. you know that little tiny bit of time between them. beyond that, christ anon i adored this prompt and adored you for giving it to me. i truly hope you enjoy and deeply apologize for the wait. also welcome to my first time in forever and an age since i've written a sub drop.

The first thing you notice, the first thing that you notice when your body slowly drags itself into the land of being awake is that you're cold. There's no reason you should be cold, it's a practically balmy 73 degrees outside and Austin wasn't one to keep the house you two now owned together cold. That would always take some getting used to. The fact that you and Austin after every single ounce of bullshit that you and him put in your way have come out on the other end of things together. Sure, there's still so much you both have to work on with your own therapists and your couple therapist but here you are with your boyfriend, your dom, your- Austin.

Except, you're not here with him in the moment, are you? He's- he should be here in the bed but he's not, he's- where is he? Did he leave you? Were you that bad last night? You had- the scene was fine you thought, everything about last night was fine- almost perfect even but you're waking up alone in bed and Austin- Daddy hasn't been there for long enough for his side of the bed to get cold.

Maybe- no, Austin promised. Austin had said the two of you were fine, that things were going to get- going to be better. It wasn't perhaps the healthiest thing that you two had immediately gone back to being wrapped up in each other, you deciding to move at least temporarily to LA even while keeping your apartment in New York. It was just that being apart from one another after everything, after you had called his phone in the hotel shaking and so needy that you'd have thought his touch was the only thing that could cure you. That was the thing though, Austin knows that you- Austin knows more than anything at least for right now, you need to feel him touching you more often than not. You might not have been touch starved with other people, but you had missed his so much that it was like a missing limb. You had missed him like a missing limb in those hours you weren't busy and he wasn't talking to you because of course, just like Elvis and Priscilla somehow you break up and can't even do a clean break.

It's different now, it's supposed to be different now because you're here and he's here and you're supposed to work things out, make things better between the two of you so that you can build a truly solid relationship. The relationship is supposed to be between you and Austin, not you as Priscilla and him as Elvis or between Priscilla and Elvis. Having a solid relationship means not leaving the person alone when you said you wouldn't without a note or a little text or a voice memo. Austin would leave a message somehow someway but here you are with an empty bed and no note. You roll over, shivering despite your best efforts of curling into the covers as if they'll protect you from the thoughts that are starting to swirl around in your mind like a witch's brew in a pot. There's no missed calls, no missed messages, nothing missed on your phone or on the nightstand near it.

There is just you and a bed with half of it cold. There is just you and no Austin. There is just you and your mind. There is just you and the ghosts of people who are dead or still living but have themselves burrowed into your very psyche.

The crash hits you like the sudden drop of an elevator and you kept help the way a quiet whimper leaves your lips at it. You can feel where Austin's hand was around your neck, clenching and flexing and whispering such filth into your ear. "My good girl, taking my cock so well even when she can't breathe. Think I could leave a mark? Think the paparazzi would ask you what you did to earn that?" You can feel the sting of where his hands had slapped your ass, where he had palmed your ass and squeezed. You can feel the burning trail of his kisses only to be replaced by the cool air against your skin right now. None of those things are happening right now, the person you did them with isn't here right now. You're alone.

You're going to be alone forever aren't you? He's going to break things off with you like you did with him. This is him breaking things off with you like you did to him. Leaving him without a word until you decided to talk. You- He doesn't love you, he loves the you he met on set. He loves you as Priscilla not you and you and only you. He's probably meeting up with Kaia or some other new girl. He won't come back until you've left the bedroom. Or maybe he just wants you to fuck- to let out his dominant side- his daddy side so that whatever girl he's dating doesn't have to take it because they don't want to. Maybe him and Kaia never had broken up. It feels as if your chest has caved in on itself your lungs struggling to bring air into your body as you start to cry. He promised- He said he loved you, why isn't he here with you. Why are you alone again? Why isn't your collar on- nevermind that Austin had taken it off the night before because you had wanted to just feel his bare hand against your neck.

The tears start to fall before you realize what's happening as you curl even tighter into the blankets. The ceiling fan that's circling above you makes the subtle creaking noise it always does and it feels like the loudest thing in the room. A reminder that as much as you want to try with Austin again he has to want to try with you, has to want to be with you. Time passes as you cry, you think, the numbers on the clock by the bed not really registering until you hear your bedroom door open and a cheerful oh you're up before you swear you hear a curse.

It just makes you cry harder and has you sitting up and curling your knees to your chest as best you can as you try and wipe your tears because it hurts and you feel everything right now and you can't shut off your brain and and and-

"Dove?" Austin's voice feels like it's in a tunnel, like he's in the far away place you're certain he's in. After all, his side of the bed was cold when you woke up without him. You register his side of the bed sinking with his weight and his warm hand on your shoulder. Austin always does feel like your own personal furnace. You wonder if he felt that way for the other girls he's been with. "Oh my- my little dove."

Austin is there. Austin is touching you. Austin- Daddy is there. Breathing comes back in a rush and you take one, two, three shaky breaths before you feel Austin's arms wrap around you and you choke out a single word. "Where?"

He's confused for a moment before he realizes that you're asking him where he was. Asking him where he had run off to and left you alone. He doesn't know what time you woke up only that he came into the bedroom ready to wake you up with a kiss and instead found you crying looking as small as you could in the bed. You tense in his arms, still unsure that he's actually there or that you deserve having him around you but you don't shake his arms off, don't force him to stop touching you. "I- I thought I told you, little dove. I had a bunch of early interviews, didn't want to wake you up. I was going to take you out to brunch or lunch when I got done. You- I'm here."

"But you weren't." You hate how it sounds coming out of your mouth, all pectualance and sadness and you sound so much younger than you are when you say it. "You left me alone and it's- it's cold, Austin."

His arms tighten around you as he starts to stroke your back slowly, his lips kissing the crown of your head. "I know- and Daddy's sorry about that, dove. So so sorry about that. I should have written a note for you or sent you a text. I haven't even left the house. I've been in the office." He pauses, exhaling a little shakily. "I'm warm, Y/N, my perfect little dove, my girl- no my woman who puts up with me being an idiot and who's had my heart since our first hello."

Your fingers move to the dove necklace on his neck, it's almost identical to yours, but just subtly different enough that it's uniquely his. You press your own initials into your thumb as you fiddle with it and Austin does the same thing with your necklace around your neck. Neither of you speak for a moment, your tears turning into a sea of shivers before you finally muster up the ability to speak. "I thought- I thought you changed your mind."

About us is what goes unsaid. Because you've been there before, this isn't- he isn't Papi but it feels like it in the moment. Feels as if you're abandoned all over again. Feels as if you're tossed in the trash because you're not useful anymore, you're not the one for him any more and it crushes you. Austin lets out a huff of air and shakes his head.

"I didn't change my mind when you left me in Australia, if I didn't then, I don't think I ever really will." The way he moves to tilt your head up, grabbing your chin lightly and looks at you betrays the fact that he knows you're going to try and argue with him. "Ignoring the girls, dove. Just like I ignore the dates you went on."

A hint of a smile crosses your lips before you frown again, still shivering and trying to burrow into his arms, almost as if you want to become one with him. "Promise? I know I'm being stupid- and you know I'm not-"

"Dove- Y/N- you're not stupid. And I know you're usually so strong and tough and I love that about you but I left you alone and you- you dropped without me here. Because I wasn't here to see what was happening." He pulls you in for a soft kiss. "I promise. You're stuck with me until you get tired of me, because I'm not getting tired of you any time soon."

You still feel drained, still feel like the world has closed in on itself but there's a glimmer of sunshine there, a glimmer of hope your mind is latching onto in an attempt to pull you up from the depths that only brightens as you look at Austin and feel and smell Austin all around you. "Can we take a bath?" You ask softly, knowing the heat of it will help you calm down, will help bring you back up quicker.

Austin hums before nodding. "Can I get you to eat a snack first? I'll order in some food, we'll run a bath and we can just-"

"Yes." You answer, cutting him off before he can finish and looking a little alarmed when you do. "Yeah, I'd- I'll eat something and I don't- I just don't want to be alone. I need you, Au-Daddy."

Austin doesn't say a word for a moment before looks at you like you hung the moon and the stars. It's a little mind-boggling to see that look even after everything and your lips finally actually do fully form a smile so touched that you can't do anything but. When he finally speaks nuzzling your hair. "I always give you what you ask for and need, Dove." He moves to get off the bed despite your groan and whimper of protest at the loss of his body heat and his body in general. Once he stands up on the side of the bed he pulls you over and up next to him. "Come on, quick snack and then bath."

It doesn't take you a second to burrow yourself back under his arm as he pulls you close to his chest. In fact, in a fit of what he likes to pretend is genius he maneuvers you to be in front of him and allows himself to just walk with you holding onto him in the front. It's silly and a bit uncomfortable but it works well enough and makes you happy enough that he deals with it. You eat a bagel because it's easiest thing to scarf down in the kitchen before you and him make that same walk back to the bedroom and into the bathroom.

He takes his time as the water runs to take off your nightgown, placing soft kisses at every bit of exposed skin as he reveals them. You're still shivering a bit but sometimes it's from your own emotions while other times it's from the kisses his lips give you. Climbing into the tub after he manages to get in there is a bit of an adventure with how fuzzy your brain feels but you manage, Austin's arm snaking around your waist and pulling you up against his chest. "Starting to feel better?" He asks, his lips caressing your ear in a gesture you can't help but enjoy.

"A little." A simple answer but it's the only one your brain can wrap itself around. You pause and realize that you've stopped shivering. "I'm warm."

Austin's lips curl into a smile that you can feel against your skin. "I don't know, I think you're pretty hot."

That glimmer of hope, that thing your brain started to cling to explodes like a supernova, filling your brain with just enough happiness to make you actually laugh. It's not fixed- you know from experience pulling you out of this state takes a bit longer but it's a start.

His smile widens and he nips at the back of your neck. "There's my little Dove. Love you."

You hum a little happily and drowsily as you lean back and settle yourself against him as he slowly starts to bathe the both of you. "Love you too, Daddy."

[shesthespinstersimmer]

List 5 facts about a favorite sim of yours, and send this to 10 simblrs whose sims you adore ♥♥♥

As you probably know, I stan Drucilla from The Deep Down and I’m mildly obsessed (okay, a lot) with Jude from Weird & Wonderful. But this one and I have been spending at lot of time together of late, and I’ve developed a whole new level of respect for her. So here goes:

1. Alcina was named after her grandfather Alvin, and she hates it. As a matter of fact, she made her friends call her Allie in high school. But the way Raj says it makes her melt.

2. She was crushing the game as an entertainment lawyer, but she’s always wanted the picket fence on the low and was kind of ashamed to admit it.

3. She’s always been terrible at dating; work always came first.

4. When she and Raj started dating, she didn’t tell anyone (because he’d slid into her DMs) … until he proposed.

5. She’s closer to Geeta than she is to her own mom.

This was fun, @wannabecatwriter ! Thanks for the ask ☺️

If y’all have the time (or the inclination) : @therichantsim , @shanisims , @cinamun , @xldkx , @madeofcc , @99simproblems , @vay2008 , @lre333 , @storiesbyjes2g , @rebouks

(If not, or you’ve already been tagged, no worries 🖤🤘🏾)

[allyreactions]

NCT 127 Reaction | They Have a Crush on You

- MASTERLIST REQUESTS : OPEN

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boyfriend headcanons are CLOSED

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║ A/N : okay, before y’all yell at me for not including Winwin, it’s because I already wrote his for my WayV post. I promise I’m a 127 ot10 stan! So if you wanna read Winwin’s, here’s the link to my WayV “they have a crush on you” post. 

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Taeyong : 

⤳ Taeyong would start acting really nervous and on edge. He’d unknowingly blush around you, like you’ll just be casually talking and his ears just turn red outta nowhere. Ultimately though, Ty is so soft around you all the time. He’s always looking out for you in a protective sense, making sure you’ve had all your meals and asking how well you slept last night. He’s just got a big soft spot for you and would do anything to make sure you’re safe and healthy.  

Taeil :

⤳ Taeil would still be his normal self around you, but he’d be slightly more confident around you. I mean, he’d still be a little awkward as usual, but he would be walking around with his chest out. Confidence is sexy, yeah? But Taeil would also start subtly hinting that he’s into you by being more affectionate. Like bringing you coffee to work, asking to hang out with you more, maybe set up a weekly tradition like movie nights (which make an easy transition into a weekly date night). 

Johnny :

⤳ Johnny starts acting really confident around you. Like he might even confess his feelings for you at some point, he’s that confident. He starts dressing up more than usual in an attempt to impress you. He would take you out on more, just for a short meet up at the cafe or for a quick lunch while you’re at work, just so he can spend more quality time with you. Johnny would just start acting more romantic and sweet towards you leading up to his confession.

Yuta :

⤳ Yuta would start acting a little protective around you, just sort of looking after you in a sweet way. If you need help with something, he’s right by your side. He’ll basically offer to do anything you ask, like this guy is lowkey simping over you. If you’re ever upset, he’ll make all the pain go away and put a smile on your face. He’s just extra sweet with you, he wants to be that person you always turn to. 

Doyoung : 

⤳ Doyoung’s action wouldn’t change much, mainly because he already does everything for you. He already offers to pay for your coffee, and brings you lunch to work, and picks up some medicine for you when you’re sick. Basically, he’s already your boyfriend, but you just don’t realize it. And Doyoung already knows he’s a catch, so he would let you come to your senses when you’re ready to have him. 

Jaehyun : 

⤳ Jaehyun wouldn’t change much either. (@kpoppwriter​ - Max already said this but I’m copying it b/c we have the same thoughts) Jaehyun is the type of guy that you just slowly slip into a relationship with without realizing it. So it makes sense that his actions wouldn’t change when he has a crush on you. He’s always attentive and caring towards you, making sure you’re taken care of 24/7. The only thing that would change is that he would constantly have heart eyes for you. He just can’t stop staring at you. 

Jungwoo : 

⤳ Jungwoo starts acting more confident as well. Jungwoo has constantly been coming out of his shell since debut, and he would do the same when he realizes his crush on you. He’d start cracking more jokes around you, trying to impress you. Funny guys are hot, right? But he would also have the softest heart eyes for you. Like he just can’t ever stop thinking about you, ever. And he let’s that soft side shine through but being extra sweet with you. 

Mark : 

⤳ Mark would be a little giggly around you, not on purpose though. Some of his laughs are out of pure nervousness, because he’s so self conscious around you. He’d act a little more awkward than normal, he just can’t help but embarrass himself around you. He wants to desperately impress you, but the words never seem to come out of his mouth in the right way. 

Haechan : 

⤳ Haechan would act a little more playful with you, just sort of teasing you. It’s kind of like the “he’s mean to you because he likes you” sort of thing. Sometimes during group hugs with the other members, he’ll just pinch you randomly. He thinks it’s really funny when he teases you. He loves when you playfully fight back. He thinks you look so cute trying to put up a fight. 

[zoufantastical]

I feel like your homophobic because ereri and eruri are one of the most popular ships and you saying that and putting in the tags is so unnecessary and really harmful. Ships dont hurt anyone there not real. We dont need to see this in the tags so like could you please stop because we’re not paedophiles. Its a harmful stereotype to the lgbt community to be saying our ships is paedophilia. Eren and Levi have a lot of development and moments together in the manga and anime it didnt come out of nowhere.

Lord give me strength!

You sound really young HOWEVER I am not going to go easy on you just because, but I’ll try to be a lil more gentle.

Here it goes.

If you want more context read this and if you want an explanation in more depth and detail consider reading this ask.

Tl:dr I basically said why using the “it’s fiction” is not a valid excuse to ship morally and even legally wrongful relationships that you will (hopefully) not accept in reality, as fiction does have an affect on our lives in terms of our views, opinion and even values. That the 104th scouts have been “of age” (4 year time skip;still very young) for around 3 years and before that they were shipped with full grown adults over 30 when they were 15/16 for nine years and how even the author does not approve of these types of “relationships” based on an example of a previous scene in the manga/anime.

Now onto what you said to me.

First of all what does eruri have to do with this? You know what it’s good that you brought eruri up. Erwin and Levi is a good ship. Not only to they have history and character growth, but these are two grown adults who’ve known each other for years and yet... from the sounds of it you prefer ereri, which is shipping 15/19 year old Eren with his (now former) Captain, a mentor and man of power. A man of power who (for good reasons we didn’t know at that time it happened) beat Eren up in a courtroom as their first introduction.

You know another reason I despise ereri despite the obvious reasons like it promotes grooming and pedophilia, is fans especially western fans who identify as straight allies ™ have taken this ship and have oversexualized and promoted the violence (courtroom beat down) in such an oversexualized manner. You all can’t sit here, lie and say gay relationships in the media is not oversexualized. Just search ereri artwork and cosplay. It takes these characters and oversexualizes them, sensualize the violence and worst of all...most of the artwork is with 15, as in FIFTEEN, year old Eren.

You see the issues here? A gay ship born out of violence and pedophilia. Y’all don’t see how bad this actually looks instead to the LGBTQ+? You bring these up and these ereri stans will bark at you but all they can bring to the table is the “it’s fiction” line and the “wholesome” ereri crumbs in the manga (most taken out of context).

I don’t care if Eren is 19 now. Because it is STILL WRONG. Reasons I already discussed in the previous posts that I linked.

Don’t bring the LGBTQ in this. Just don’t. I trust that in the context that I’m hating these ships for good reason, you’ll say more harm than good in defense to it.

This is the second ask I get about this. If it’s not thought provoking, I’m not going to bother entertaining you. If you want to talk shit just message me instead. At least there I can see who you are and block you 😂

Oh and I don’t care I’m still going to add those tags 😌

[musclesandhammering]

I’m gonna get kicked out of the Loki stan community for this, but your tags are spot-on.

I interpreted it as the staff was cranking his negative emotions (that were already there, that were all his after Thor1) up to 11- more so than it did with the Avengers in the lab scene because he was exposed to it a lot longer- but there was zero literal mind control. Saying it’s the same thing as what happened to Clint and Selvig is just… wow lol.

And to take it a step further, all my fellow fans just assuming that Loki fell from the bifrost and immediately crash landed on Sanctuary and was taken into custody and made into a slave by Thanos, or that Thanos kidnapped him and forced him to go to earth…. y’all be serious. Loki willingly agreed to work with Thanos of his own volition. You can argue that he didn’t know the full extent of what he was getting into, but he still went into it as an ally of Thanos, not a slave.

Now I don’t necessarily believe there wasn’t physical torture involved- but I think the “torture” was just the rigorous training process getting him ready to go to earth. Which, again, Loki willingly submitted to, because he was willingly participating in the plan.

Now if you wanna say Loki’s terrified of Thanos? I agree. You wanna say Thanos had it out for Loki after the invasion failed? I agree with that too. But there’s a big difference between choosing to go in kahoots with a mafia boss knowing full well that he’ll waterboard you if you mess up his plans… and being a helpless captive with no agency.

And what OP said about stans being the ones who deny him redemption because they deny that he did anything that would need redeeming from is just accurate as hell. But the one quibble I have with that is: is redemption really necessary though?? Why does everyone always push for chaotic neutral characters to be “redeemed” (translation: turned into chaotic goods)?? Loki was charismatic and creepy and cool as hell as a villain, and the thought of him ever turning into a full-time hero is just gross tbh. Him being a villain (at least some of the time) is such a huge part of his charm and I don’t understand why so many fans go to such lengths to prove that he was never a villain in the first place. Like… that’s so uninteresting.

While I firmly believe that he was genuinely wronged in a lot of different ways (by Odin, by Asgard, by his family, by society) and that a lot of the grievances he expresses in the movies (being in Thor’s shadow, Odin using/not loving him, being raised to hate his race, etc) are completely accurate and very valid….. that doesn’t contradict the fact that he chose to do terrible things and hurt innocent people for his own purposes. Those two things can be true simultaneously. Just because Loki deserves a big apology from several people, doesn’t mean he doesn’t owe a big apology to several other people.

A character can be a villain and a victim, and that victimhood makes their story so extremely relatable and sympathetic to the viewers and makes us almost root for them in their wrongdoings…. but it ultimately doesn’t excuse or justify the bad things they do. It makes their bad actions more tragic and frustrating and complex.

TLDR- Loki’s badness is a gigantic part of his character, and his instances of villainy can and should coexist with his tragic backstory- they give him more agency, more edge, and make him even more human.

both The Avengers and Age of Ultron make a point to demonstrate how someone's eyes change when under the direct influence of Loki's scepter. Loki's eyes were unchanged. years later, Loki flat-out says early in his series that he does and has done horrible things out of cowardice. every single thing he's done in canon with any impact on narrative can easily be understood as some combination of self-defense, self-aggrandizement, and/or love.

what I've seen of Loki-centric fanfic over the years loves to portray him as a victim of all manner of mistreatment, an innocent deprived of his agency who deserves forgiveness because nothing he did was his fault in the end. I see it in fandom directly, too, and I find it fucking hilarious, because nobody's denying Loki his agency except the stans themselves. they're the ones denying him the redemption they so want for him--the multiple redemptions!--because they refuse to acknowledge what he did wrong to necessitate being redeemed.

anyway, all of this is just to say that it has been literally eleven years since The Avengers came out and there was never a shred of evidence within the canon itself that Loki was brainwashed by Thanos. the most support the notion ever had was word of god, which has long since been contradicted and which was probably only said to shut people up in the first place. Loki is a backstabbing, triple-crossing bitch who wants to be loved and respected but is too deep into his own head to recognize when he is, and I love him for that.

[tumblezwei]

forget every other LGBT character on the show - in the show the only confirmed lbgt characters are illia who was originally a jealous terrorist who tried to kill her crushes parents, Jaunes sisters the background characters, and May who I will admit is great rep. Word of god and canon are two different things. While they are hinting at BB neither is confirmed lgbt. They don't have to be in a relationship but they still haven't been confirmed as lbgt.

Whatever you feel about the writing the marketing team and the animators did confirm they were coding Clover as gay. Remember at the time even homophobic fans 100% believed Clover was gay and Qrow and him might hook up. His death does set a precedent on how the show handled mlm. The fact the team never considered viewers would read the relationship as queer shows how for mlm they are unfortunately heteronormative. How they handled the fallout also set a precedent.

You DO NOT have to like Clover. You can hate him for any reason what so ever. But being a good ally means shockingly understanding mlm and the other lgbt fans who were hurt by everything that happened. Instead of getting mad at them for their reactions continue to encourage RT to include more lgbt rep especially rep for mlm that isn't based on stereotypes like Scarlet. Truth is many mlm actually hate Scarlet and don't appreciate him being their rep.

Fucking finally, I was wondering when one of y'all would see that post. I was starting to worry that I'd have to go without someone trying to devalue the LGBT rep on the show in order to lift up their favorite cop.

And despite what this ask is trying to imply, neither Ilia nor Saphron and Terra are bad rep. And I guarantee you that if this ask had come before the latest episode, this person would have tried to claim May was bad rep too. Also, I've said this so many times, you'd have to be acting deliberately obtuse to claim BB isn't canon yet. And it being canon is confirmation of them being wlw.

And I'd like to know what makes Ilia bad rep when she's incredibly similar to Clover. They're both characters that were part of a group that's doing morally questionable things because they think that what they're doing is right. Why is Ilia stuck with "ex-terrorist" as a reason for why she's bad rep, but Clover can't get "the leader of the secret police?" Almost like you're trying to downplay the show's rep so you can be more justifiably mad that your ship isn't canon.

And even taking away all that, the point of my post wasn't to say "look at all this great rep, we don't need gay Clover," it was to point out that there are other LGBT characters in RWBY, none of which have died. So Clover stans acting as if their no confirmed cop fave should be the standard for how we view CRWBY's treatment of LGBT characters and death is annoying.

The marketing team did jackshit. They sold Qrow and Clover pins, that's it. Because they are complimentary characters and Clover was an important player in Qrow's arc.

Animators shipping a pairing means jackshit. Kara likes White Knight but you don't see anyone using that fact as confirmation that WK is canon. Weird how Word of God doesn't count for the other characters, but it's fine to use as evidence for Clover being coded gay.

I'm gonna need a citation on that homophobic thing, and even if that's true, it means jackshit. I can already predict that these people were only talking about it as a way to shit on RT, something that they will use literally anything for, especially if it’s complaining about a popular gay ship in the fandom whether it’s canon or not. 

And no, Clover did not set the precedent for mlm rep, because he wasn't rep. It's not heteronormative for men to be friends, it's not heteronormative for them to support each other. Y’all were shipping the two of them from day one, before they even had the chance to talk at all. Don’t pretend like you picked up on some subtext that CRWBY didn’t when all it took was Clover having a good luck semblance and winking to get y’all to proclaim them as endgame. 

And bitch I am LGBT, and I know what queerbait looks like. I’ve been baited before, I’ve seen other fans of shows I don’t watch be baited, I know what it looks like for a company to use and exploit a relationship to draw people in. This wasn’t fucking it. Don’t you condescendingly explain to me what it means to “be a good ally” when all I see from FG shippers is attacking CRWBY and trying to downplay the other rep in the show to make Clover’s death worse than it is, kind of like what you’re doing. It will never be CRWBY’s fault that y’all took a wink, an ambiguous smile, and a semblance and decided FG was endgame. 

And I’ve said before, I want there to be more mlm rep. But understanding Clover wasn’t gay and his death wasn’t queerbait can be synonymous with that desire for more mlm on the show. 

Anyways Clover wasn’t gay, he was a fascist lapdog from beginning to end and died a stupid death due to his overconfidence, over reliance on his semblance, and refusal to disobey Ironwood’s orders for even a second. Cope. 

[isoldmysoultojonahclemence]

JONAH’S EVER AFTER ON IKEREV TW

I CAN’T I--

HIS RELEASE CAMPAIGN CAME OUT YESTERDAY BUT I ONLY SAW IT A FEW MINUTES AGO BC I WAS ON VACATION I CAN’T BELIEVE I MISSED THIS WHAT KIND OF JONAH STAN AM I

THIS MEANS THAT JONAH’S ROUTE CAMPAIGN WILL BEGIN SOMEWHERE AROUND LATE OCTOBER OR EARLY NOVEMBER IN THE ENGLISH VERSION SO MARK YOUR CALENDARS

I’m putting the rest of this under a cut for length bc I HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY

[Translation:

“On the 1 in a hundred million chance that I cannot marry you into the Clemence family, then I’m prepared to abandon my family.”

Whether it’s to build a family together, or to receive happiness together. For the one you love, the path you should take to the future is...

“You’re really too much. Don’t say something like...I’m sorry.”

The eyes that are brighter than the fireworks in the sky overflow with tears, and turn into strength to overcome the mirror blocking our path.

“When it’s only the two of us, I’m just Jonah...and I want to spoil you as much as I like.”]

ASDFKJWEIH;KAFJJE;LSAKFSD

I CAN ALREADY SENSE THE ABSOLUTE ANGST IN THIS ROUTE

IN HIS ORIGINAL ROUTE HE HAS TO ABANDON THE RED ARMY AND NOW IN HIS EVER AFTER HE HAS TO ABANDON HIS FAMILY TOO????? ESPECIALLY AS WE ALL KNOW HOW MUCH THE CRIMSON LINEAGE MEANS TO HIM??????????????????

And something I also really like is how the themes from the original route extends into his sequel, like the parts about “never apologizing” and “I can only be myself when I’m with you.” It just makes it feel more like a sequel and adds a better sense of completion uwu

ALSO JONAH’S TEARS ARE GOING TO DESTROY ME Y’ALL WILL SEE ME SOBBING ON TUMBLR WHEN I GET TO THAT PART

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Here’s the mini talk list:

Luka + Sirius: please tell me about your families!

This one is already out, so here’s the screenshots!

[Translation:

Sirius: My home is always full of flowers, it’s a place that makes your mood lift.

Luka: Yeah...as opposed to Sirius’s family, mine was very quiet.

Luka: Even though it had always been pretty quiet...but ever since “that person” left home, it became even quieter.

Luka: Maybe it was because my family weren’t interested in me, so that’s why it feels so quiet.

Sirius: Haven’t you ever had experiences of playing noisily with Jonah in your home before?

Luka: No. We’re different from Sirius’s family...but there was only one time.

Luka: When I was young, that person had brought me out secretly before.

Luka: The both of us ran around and played in the secret courtyard that person found...

Luka: Until the skies grew dark.

Sirius: ...Is that so. Where is that courtyard full of memories? Is it close to your home?

Luka: I don’t know, I can’t remember...but, it doesn’t matter if I can’t remember it.

Luka: Now I think...it’s alright if that courtyard only exists in my memory.]

*deep breath*

ALKL;KCVKNCKDSA;KWOIWQOIK;FDMX;LZDS;ALKSJFA;LKJ

AKD;XJCEWQ8RJEIU;ANFVDFJSVVF’WDOIJ

;NWEFFKKGDMZXCKCERTIIUIBRI;JDSFJSMF;JLAEKF;LEQKJBNCM

FIRST OF ALL

A SECRET COURYARD???????? THAT JONAH FOUND?????????????? AND BROUGHT LUKA THERE TO PLAY???????????????????????? BUT ONLY ONCE???????????????????????????????????

I wonder how he managed to find it? But also it was to be expected that he would bring Luka bc he always wants to share what he loves with Luka (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ♡

Also just imagine the little Clemence bros running around and playing (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ♡ ♡ ♡

But like...

OH MY GOD LUKA WHAT HAVE YOU GONE THROUGH ˚‧º·(˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )‧º·˚

It’s so sadddddddd to think that the Clemence house got even quieter when Jonah left. Also I can’t figure out if Jonah “leaving” means that he left to go to boarding school or if he left to join the Red Army, but that was probably when Luka started to hate Jonah for abandoning him. I can’t imagine what it’s like to grow up in such a quiet and cold place and to have it grow even quieter and colder when the one person you thought cared about you left because now he has other things that are more important than you (/□＼*)・゜

Edgar + Kyle: can love between people of different social statuses exist?

The rest of these aren’t released at the moment I wrote this, so I’m mainly just going to be addressing my predictions!

So it’s clear that Jonah and MC are considered to be from different social ranks, even though MC is “Alice the Second” and has the power to nullify magic. She’s probably considered as a “commoner” in the Red Territory, so I can see why it would be difficult for Jonah and MC to get married.

And you know what else this reminds me of??? If we look at Seth’s route, we finally find out that the whole reason Cradle got divided into two was because a Red noble fell in love with a girl from a different social rank. And that romance tore a country apart, so.

Dean + Dalim: about family

Aight here we go. Are Dean and Dalim really family??? Do we finally get to find out??? Or at least get some sort of clue??? Bc I’m torn between the theory that they’re twins with amnesia or if Dean was some sort of clone created by the Magic Tower when they experimented on Dalim. And I have no idea when their routes are gonna be released, so I really hope we get more hints throughout each Ever After route.

Lancelot: Jonah’s tears

THIS IS THE SECOND MINI TALK THAT WILL DESTROY ME AFTER THE LUKA + SIRIUS ONE.

Also this is a reminder that Lancelot was probably the only one who has seen Jonah at his weakest before MC came along. It’s probably to be expected, since they’ve known each other for literally more than half their lives and also since Lancelot saved Jonah.

And technically Luka has known Jonah for the longest time, but I doubt that Jonah will ever show weakness in front of Luka because he considers himself as Luka’s protector, but it’s different in front of Lance. I feel like he can show his weaker side to Lance, and it just emphasizes how deep the relationship between them is.

SO GET READY FOR THE JONALOT FEELS WHEN THIS ONE COMES OUT.

Jonah: what is your ideal proposal?

OK I feel like this one is either gonna be super romantic or super cheesy. Or both, considering the type of person that Jonah is. But I’m gonna love it no matter what bc 1) Jonah can make even the most embarrassing situations funny and touching and 2) I’m too weak for my mille-feuille boi.

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The screenshots for the “Peek at Romance” thing is here:

[Translation:

My dear Queen of Hearts, Jonah Clemence.

Jonah: In that party, every heir of the Clemence family will...

Jonah: Publicly introduce his fiancee, receive the acknowledgment and blessing of the whole clan, and finally step into the halls of marriage.

“What is a happy ending?”

--It’s when, the person who cannot be replaced becomes family.

Luka: Even though my brother is troublesome, and sometimes overly enthusiastic, but from now on please take care of him.

--It’s when, you become allies with the person you met.

Levie: Who hurt MC!? I’ll destroy that guy...!

Jonah: Calm down, Levie Castell. See who’s your true enemy clearly!

When he couldn’t provide an answer, it made tears overflow from his eyes.

And--while looking for an answer, it’s also possible to lose something.

Dalim: Thanks. Goodbye, princess.

Dean: I couldn’t ask any of the things I’ve been wondering before he ran...

But even so, we will still advance forward bravely.

This is all to receive the answer--to have a happy ending.

Jonah: From now on, everyone will see you as...

Jonah: The Queen of Heart’s...and also the head of the Clemence family’s wife.

Jonah: But, when there’s no one else, and when it’s just us two.

Jonah: We’ll become Jonah and MC again, and we can love each other as much as we like.

Jonah: I love you, MC.

No matter what happens, he, who is the most beautiful and pure in the world...

Will only accept a future that is even better than a happy ending...!]

I just...literally cannot express my love for this summary.

First of all I’m just gonna talk about the tone. Right off the bat MC calls him “my dear Queen” and it was just. So. CUUUUUUUUUUTE.

Also, the question and theme of “a happy ending” is brought up, and the rest of the sneak peek answers that question (it’s when the people you love become your family and the people you meet becomes your allies), but also explores how they could find those answers (Jonah crying when he couldn’t find an answer and advancing forward bravely because they just want their happy ending). And finally we finish it off with a super Jonah-like statement, announcing that he’ll accept no less than the most perfect ending of them all!

Moving on to the information revealed...it’s pretty cool how there’s a special party for the next head of the Clemence family when they’re ready to announce their marriage and gain approval. Also, it’s kinda wild to think that Jonah will eventually become a head of the family just like his father and his grandfather before that.

AND THE PART WITH LUKA AND LEVIE ARE LITERALLY SO ADORABLE. LIKE, LUKA INSULTING JONAH BUT ALSO LEAVING HIM TO MC AND LEVIE DEFENDING MC FROM PPL WHO WOULD HARM HER IS 10/10 PERFECT

Also it seems that Dean and Dalim’s backstories might be explored more but won’t be resolved just yet. I guess we really do have to wait until their routes get released to find out.

In short, this was an amazing summary of the route. WHY DO I HAVE TO WAIT ANOTHER MONTH UNTIL I CAN FINALLY READ THE WHOLE THING???????????????????????????

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Also FYI, this is all completely new to me. For the other characters’ sequels, I played it through on Ikerev JP bc I can’t wait until the releases in the TW and English version that’s like, a year later. But I didn’t read Jonah’s sequel bc my Japanese isn’t super good and I wanted to read my man’s story in a language that I can completely understand so I literally have no idea of what to expect apart from what I found out in the campaign release :3

Also also I’m probably gonna be posting for every part in the story I’m going through BC I JUST LOVE JONAH THAT MUCH. I guess it would make up for my inactivity this month ^^;

[starry-skies-116]

Elizabeth/Vanessa/Vanny Playing Fire Emblem Three Houses (The Sequel That Literally NOBODY Asked For :’D):

Plays as F!Byleth, recruits Sylvain immediately when arriving at the Monastery even though she doesn’t really need him- “free unit lol”

*Fodlan Winds starts playing on the first level* “DOOT DOOT DOO DOO THE FIRST LEVEL~” (Michael/Freddy’s ears are destroyed by her terrible singing lmfao-) 

IMMEDIATELY becomes an Edelgard stan and joins her army of simps: “Adrestian Empire, the obviously correct choice.”

*takes one look at Hubert and turns to Glitchtrap* “He reminds me of you, Daddy…” (William inside: ‘I’ve been compared to a goth kid by my own daughter… heart been broke so many times y u do dis to me ;-;’)

Is suspicious of Rhea from the beginning, but the archbishop’s motherly nature kind of makes her miss Eleanor, her own mother *cries*

“Black Eagle Supremacy all da wae, ride or die lol”

Yells “ZA WARUDOOOO” every time she divine pulses

Hilda cannot be recruited on the Black Eagles Route *cue Liz being held back by Michael from breaking her switch lol*

Doesn’t know how stat-buffing items and weapons work, so she just does some random bullcrap combinations and hope that they work-

“How does one bait mage aim without my squishiest character dying please help me.”

“The hell is def and res level-ups” (doesn’t know how instrumentally that’ll help her down the line even with how many times she gets screwed over)

Axes and Reason Magic, the ONLY correct choice. :)

“HOL UP DARK SPIKES INSTAKILLS THE DEATH KNIGHT!? Y’ALL ALREADY KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS”

“WE KNOW BITCH, YOU ARE FERDINAND VON AEGIR.”

“KAHEEHEE DARK SPIKES T TIME BOIS”

“Ooo glowy bone sword what it do- DAMN SON IT’S A WHIP”

*gets sniped by that one mage halfway across the map for the uptienth time. Again.* “How is Evan so good at this game”

Doesn’t trust the Crest System in the slightest, agrees with Edelgard on her later conversations and supports. Later learns about Edelgard’s past (spoilers so I won’t mention it), and basically brandishes the dagger she got on her utility belt <3

“Bernadetta do be sniping everything in sight tho never listen to the meta kids”

*having a mental breakdown mid-map* “AHHAASDGHAAHAH I CAN’T DO THIS"

Evil laughs alongside Hubert every damn time he evil laughs, 10,000% ships him with both Bernadetta and Ferdinand (I just think they’re cute together okay??)

“Miklan’s map is shit uwu- WHAT THE HELL IS THAT KILL IT BURN IT OH GOD”

“The hell are gambits”

“I wasted like four divine pulses and restarted my save file two times just to stop Lindhart from dying”

Least favorite characters: ofc Catherine and Cyril bc she’s young and opinionated lmfao

Actually builds a healer, unlike her brother, but that only helps her a little bit since she still doesn’t have her tanks and dancers- (its Lindhardt lol)

“FIRST PARALOGUE BABY LET’S GOOOOO- wait wdym I can’t control allies on main story maps what kind of tomfoolery is this”

“Holy Tomb map is shit and I hate it uwu- wdym protect the Crest Stones does this look like the face of a remotely decent strategist to you I hate this game”

“ᵒʰ ᵍᵒᵈ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ'ˢ ᵃ ᶠᵒʳᵏ ᶦⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ʳᵒᵃᵈ”

Obviously protects Edelgard lol

Crimson Flower uwu <3

*trying to be sensible for once and scanning enemy stats pre-battle* “Dedue Molinaro stay the hell away from me”

“SHE’S SCARED OF RATS THAT’S SO CUUUUUUTEEEEEE”

Obviously very much pissed at the artificial difficulty of the final boss map, but begrudgingly agrees that it makes sense due to Rhea’s true nature as per the game lore (again, spoilers so won’t talk about it here)

Almost sacrifices every single unit she has due to the entire map being on fire and the knights flanking Rhea with their stupid stats, but Edelgard’s her closest thing to a tank and Lysithea snatched Thunderbrand from Catherine, and Lindhart chillin in the back so she’ll be fine lol (except for the GODDAMN ARMORED GOLEMS, OH BOY WE LOVE GOLEMS DON’T WE??)

S-Supports Edelgard bc she a disaster bi/pan

“Why don’t we get more chapters I wanted to see Skillrex sountrack and ICBM’s at Shambhala come on guys”

*Edge of Dawn end credits theme starts playing* “y’all mind if I praise the lord…?”

[laukora1030]

Captain America: The First Avenger pt. 1

First off, spoilers if you’ve never seen the movies and you want to. And, english IS NOT my first language, so excuse me if I make mistakes.

I guess I should start by saying that this is my favorite movie of the trilogy. Steve might not be my favorite character, but this is the perfect origin story for the character he was supposed to be before the Russo brothers destroyed his character arc. 

Before I go head first into the movie, I should talk a little bit with what I already know and remember of both Steve and the movie.

It angers me that people made Steve to be some type of saint when he’s always been quite the selfish guy. And I don't mean that in the “I’m the only one that matters and everything I want I should have” type of way, I mean it mostly, centering on this movie, with how everything he wishes he could have he does illegal things to get it. Looking at you, Steve lying on his application forms several times. And the problem is, he gets what he lied for. I will not take it away from him, he is extremely persevering, but I don’t think getting a reward after doing illegal things to get it, is the best thing that could happen to him, because after that he believes that he can do anything without repercussion. That’s not how the real world works for most of us. Now, onto the movie.

I love the beginning scene. I don’t really know why, I just happen to love it. I mean the scene where they find the plane. It's eerie, I think that’s why I love it so much. I enjoy this scene so much because of this phrase: “This one’s waited long enough.” When they find the shield, I like to believe it was a light of hope for humanity. I’m talking about that universe. It’s sad to know that Howard was already dead when they found the one thing he spent his entire life searching for, but I like to believe that, at least to the people who knew he was alive (aka SHIELD) finding Captain America’s shield was, hopeful, for a lack of better words.

I really like the scene in Norway, where we first see the villain of the story, Redskull. I think he is perhaps one of my favorite villains in the MCU, because he has ambitions, and he’s not a fucking idiot (looking at you, Thanos). Johann Schmidt was a well written character, in my opinion, and to learn his fate for such ambition, I think it was both a good ending and a good punishment. This scene shows how intelligent he is, and not only that, how much he knows about the universe, which, admittedly isn’t much as it could have been in the present, but it was so much knowledge to have in the 40s. I wonder though, how did he find out about the Tesseract, and how did the Tesseract end up on Earth. Isn’t it supposed to be something of incredible power? He was observant and analytical, and no one can take that away from him. Sometimes I wonder what would have happen of he was a Nazi double agent, or if he worked for the Allies, because he was such an intelligent person. 

One thing I NEED to mention before anything else is that I loath HYDRA’s symbol. That’s not a fucking hydra you dweebs, that’s an octopus with two extremities. Who exactly was the dumbass who designed the logo? I just wanna talk.

Meeting smol Steve is fucking hilarious to me, because he has such a thick(?) voice, and you have this tiny thing that, with just one look, makes you wonder if he can actually walk more than just 10 meters. And then they go and tell you every single way he can die, and, damn, I’m surprised he lived that long before getting the serum. He could have died in 12 different ways (I count them) and still wanted to enlist. Gotta give it to Tiny Steve, he was one persisting motherfucker, but God, I hate it sometimes. 

I get that Steve wished to serve just like his father did, but didn’t he understand that trying to get on the Army was just pure selfishness? I’m talking about how, had he’d been accepted, he could have gotten an asthma attack in the middle of the battle, putting everyone else in his battalion (I have no idea if that’s what they’re called, please correct me if I’m wrong). He wanted to be part of the battle, to be able to help, but fighting wasn’t everything. I really think it’s incredibly selfish to do something you know will put others in danger. He’s one brave motherfucker, and I have to give him that, but putting others in dangers crosses the line between brave and stupid. His “I can do this all day” used to be so endearing to me, if I’m being honest. I thought it was brave that he would fight for what he believed in, blame the Russos for my hate for it. 

James Buchanan Barnes was a hot piece of shit. Look at him in his military suit, gorgeous. I love the Jersey slander. Why do people hate Jersey? That’s a legit question, I’d love an answer. I think Steve, as much as he loved Bucky, was at least a bit envious of him. Steve wanted to be in the Army, on the 107th, on the front lines, fighting for the innocents, yet he couldn’t because he was born a weakling boy. Yet here you have his best friend, James Barnes, a tall strong man, who clearly got accepted in the Army, who was stationed on the 107th, and was being sent to England. Bucky was everything Steve wasn’t at the moment, and I can’t help but think Steve was jealous of his best friend, no matter how much he loved him. 

Howard Stark is a bitch and y’all can’t change my mind. He was a genius in his time, that much is obvious, and the flying car is extremely cool, even if it didn’t work, but he, unlike Tony, loved the spotlight, he loved to be seen and noticed. And yeah, he came from a poor family, and he became a self made millionaire, but his entire life he was what Tony used to be. I’m glad Tony changed, even if it was because he almost died. I guess I cannot blame him, because there’s a part of me that gets that need for attention and for the spotlight when I do something that might change my life. 

I pity Tiny Steve. He wanted to be so much more than he was, and he knew that it would probably not happen because of his medical conditions. I, once again, get why he was so stubborn with getting into the army. When you want something so hard and realize that you will definitely not get it because of the conditions you were born into, it becomes an obsession and there is a deep desire of doing what you can’t. I guess we’re the same that way. 

I know he says that his wish of being part of the army isn’t about him, because “there are men laying their lives down”, but it is about him. His entire personality up to this point in the movie is “I cannot be what I wish to be, so I’ll do anything, and I mean anything, in my hands to get it.” Steve is not a bad man, he just wishes he was so much more than he is, and I guess that’s exactly why Erskine chose him. A young naïve man, who would do anything to get what he wants? It was way too easy, and if I had been looking for the same thing Erskien was looking for, I would’ve definitely gone for Steve. But Bucky knew. He knew that Steve was so manipulable, that he would do anything to get what he wanted, even stuff that wasn’t good for him. I think that’s where the “Don't do anything stupid until I get back” phrase comes from.

Erskine knew how easy it would be to manipulate Steve. He knew exactly what words to choose, how to act like a “nice man” to get him to open up. I don’t doubt that Erskine was a good man, but this was war, and we just tend to forget that at war, everything is legal, even, apparently, pardoning 5 illegal enlistment forms because the man who did them was the perfect rat lab for an experiment that by all means shouldn’t have gone according to plan. I believe that is the only reason Steve didn’t end up in jail. 

Just a comment, I like the change in audio when Schmidt took the Tesseract out of its box. I feel like it’s the perfect way to show you that this thing is really something from legends, not just a mere object created by mortals. 

I wonder how similar Zola’s and Erskine’s investigations are? Do they say it in the movie later on? I guess I’ll find out. 

Unlike every single scientist in SHIELD, Zola was a complete genius. I guess that’s why he could infiltrate HYDRA into SHIELD for years before Steve realized. If you remember Avengers, no one was able to both understand and stabilize the Tesseract, meanwhile Zola wasn’t just able to stabilize it, he was able to use it to power every single one of his weapons. It wasn’t really a surprise when the SSR recruited him.

Peggy Carter is a motherfucking queen, and whoever says anything slightly different can come fight me behind a Denny’s. She is one of my fictional role models because she just won’t take shit from men, especially assholes like Hodge. She’s beauty, she’s grace, she’ll punch you in the face. I thank God for the creation of Peggy Carter and Hayley Atwell, everybody please say thank you. Awoman. But no, seriously, Peggy Carter isn’t only a badass, she fought for her place in the Army, she knows she deserves to be there, and she won’t take shit from others because that is her rightful place. We stan.

Just stating something. Phillips reaction to Steve is fucking hilarious. He was expecting the “best man” and he got a child who is clearly 4’11. 

One thing I will never take away from Steven Grant Rogers is how persisting he is. It’s admirable how he doesn’t let anything get to him. Not the other idiots bullying him, not Phillips clearly not believing in him, not his boss (how is that guy called? Like, what’s his title?). He keeps on fighting, because he knows he can do it. I like that of him. He is also extremely intelligent. Not Howard Stark or Arnim Zola intelligent, but he looks for a creative way out of problems. I love that way of thinking. The whole flag scene is perhaps one of my favorites in the MCU, and definitely my favorite in the movie.  And I love how proud Peggy is of him. 

Can we please talk about how quick Peggy was to go to the fake grenade? Like, of course Steve was gonna go for it, he made it very clear in the end of this movie that he is willing to lay down his life to save others, so I wouldn’t have expected anything less than throwing himself at the grenade. But we tend to overlook how Peggy was just as willing to do so. I honestly had forgotten how much I admired Tiny Steve. Like, yeah, his need to go to war was kind of selfish, but he still was ready to just die to save others, and not everyone is. I love the Steve from this movie. I honestly think this was the exact moment Peggy Carter understood the value of Steve Rogers. Like, of course she knew he was intelligent and persistent and persevering, but I think it’s this exact moment when he sees him as more than a soldier. 

Erskine chose the perfect person for the experiment. I’m not talking about the manipulative bit from before. I seriously mean it. The serum was supposed to enhance everything, and he chose a rather selfless, amiable man, who would not hesitate to use his newfound strength to save others from death and destruction. Steve was the perfect person, no doubt. 

I wonder what Steve felt in Avengers when he was fighting gods. I wonder if he remembered Erskine talking about how Schmidt thought all these myths were real.

“Not a perfect soldier but a good man”, said by Erskine to Steve, reminds me deeply of “Do not waste your life”, which is what Yinsen said to Tony. In the end, Steve went back to being a good man. (I’m not even gonna touch the whole time travel thing).

Schmidt was supposed to be the head of the research “branch” of the Nazis. Then how did he become the head of a whole organization. We know, or at least this is what I was told in world history some years ago, that Hitler was great giving speeches and convincing people, which is how he won so much power to begin with. So, does that mean that Schmidt is way better at that than Hitler? Or did he kill enough people to make others join HYDRA, and when they saw all the power they could have they stayed there and gathered more people for the group (is that a correct word to use?)

Steven Grant Rogers has no fucking idea of how to talk to women. I’m honestly not surprised, the only woman he interacted with before Peggy was the girl Bucky set him up with at the beginning, but bitch, ya kidding me? Really gonna tell Peggy you’ve no idea why she joined the army because “she’s beautiful”? Poor choice of words. At least Peggy didn’t get completely mad. 

The code to get in is stupid as fuck. I’m sorry, I had to say it. Sounds like they watched a movie and that was in it and they were like “you know what would be a great code for a secret lab? Talking about the weather and saying you always carry an umbrella.” Pure genius, who’s idea was it? They need a raise. Morons. 

I like how everyone is surprised with Steve when he gets in. And of course, the senator saying “somebody get that kid a sandwich” is a whole mood. 

This experiment should not have work. I have no idea how long it took Erskine to perfect it, but by all means this looks impossible. Then again, in the future Steve will deal with gods, but still, his chances of survival were really slim to none. And, we saw it with Banner, this should not have gone as good as it did. But it did. I really wonder why. 

So, the serum is supposed to enhance everything, right? It enhanced his height, his weight, his muscles. But what exactly happened to his diseases? Shouldn’t they have been enhanced too? Or was there something on the serum that was created precisely to erase every sort of disease or create an immunity to each one of them? There is no physical way someone as weak and sick as Steve could have survived that. 

Hot reveal, hot reveal, hot reveal!

Erskine’s death scene is a big parallel to Yinsen’s death scene. I will not take criticism. Let’s be real for a moment. Tony and Steve have a lot of similar traits, they just let them drive them in different ways. This scene specifically is one of the ways they’re the same. The pure anger Steve feels in this moment is what drives him to follow the other man, because Erskine died in his arms. Same goes to Tony, but I’ll get into that when I get to Iron Man (at this pace I’m never gonna make it). But yeah, Steve was driven to fight even harder because of the death of a friend. I guess this is what makes him break the rules and go for Bucky later on, because he is not willing to lose another friend. 

In other news, I cannot believe Peggy Carter is the only person in the army to have a nice shot. Like, what the fuck? But also, we stan a queen.

Note to self, I hate HYDRA, but I love the small one-person submarine the spy uses. It’s cool. 

I still hate whoever designed the HYDRA logo. Who was it? I just wanna talk about your stupidity. It makes me irrationally angry. 

Going back to Schmidt. Erskine mentioned that him and Hitler were friends, but Hitler was the face of the Nazis, so Schmidt, full of envy, jealousy and ambition, had to become The Red Skull. He wanted everything, and he betrayed his friend to do so. Still better reasons than Thanos. 

I never really did like Phillips. He was an ass. He wasn’t mean or condescending to Peggy, which is a lot because, after all, Peggy is still a woman in the 40s, but he always treated Steve like he wasn’t a valuable asset, and that is not good. I get it, he wasn’t his first option for the experiment, but he didn’t have to be such an ass. 

Something completely out of topic. Why is it written Colonel but pronounced “kernel”. America, explain. 

I find it hilarious that Big Steve was so desperate to do something with his life, especially now that he had the physical strength to do so, that, in that desperation, he accepted something he didn’t even want. This is what I mean when I say Steve is manipulable. His desire to be someone in life gets him to extremes such as becoming the government’s monkey. 

Another question. Was Steve ever really made a Captain? Like, I don’t even know if he completed bootcamp, let alone become a private. So how, pray tell, did they make him a Captain when he didn’t have a training for it? Or was the title of Captain just for his shows? Please, if someone has answers, I would love to hear them. 

Steve is the most awkward human being in the 40s. Also, love the song, whoever wrote it, I salute you. Honestly I feel a little bad for him. He was doing something he didn’t like, and while it was for a good reason (bonds, for those who’re wondering), it’s never nice when people make you do stuff you’re not comfortable with. I love the dancers’ suits, they’re beautiful and the girls all look gorgeous. But Steve, oh dear, he looks hilarious. 

He was doing something good, perhaps not what he expected to do, but he was making the Americans livelier, and children looked up to him. I don’t know you, but if that wasn’t good I really don’t know what is. Also, can we notice how, the longer he did it, the more elaborated his show became? I have no idea how long he did this, but clearly it was at least a year if he got to have confetti and bikes and all the paraphernalia.

Who’s idea was to send him to perform in front of soldiers? Like, really, who went “you know exactly what will make soldiers happier? A dancing man with a pretty title”. No one can be that stupid, yet people always surprise me. 

Note to self, buy red boots like Steve, cause they’re not only emblematic but extremely cool. I need them.

Going back to the movie. I love Steve’s drawing, because it’s the perfect representation of what he is at the moment, a dancing monkey. Peggy Carter is more than just a physically strong woman. She’s intelligent, capable, courageous, and not only that, she is a damn great friend. She knows exactly the words Steve needs to hear, and I believe she knew they’d have more impact if they came from the one person who didn’t judge him in the past. 

For the longest time, it was always Steve and Bucky. Their friendship went on to the 2020s, and his face when he learned that most of the 107th, Bucky’s platoon (is that the word? Am I using it right?) had been kidnapped or killed, well, I would have done something illegal too if I’d just found out that my best friend was kidnapped or killed. I get his pain. 

I had not forgotten about fondue, but the scene is so freaking ridiculous I love it. And yes, that’s all I’m gonna be talking about the plane scene, because the rest is just me wondering how they didn’t get shot down the moment they got into enemy territory. 

Steve Rogers, if you see this from the underworld, were you really made a Captain, or was that just your show title? I need answers!

Zola impresses me. There is no other way of putting it. To have mastered what SHIELD couldn’t, to have made the Tesseract work at his command, basically, it’s impressive. I need a peak at his mind. I need to know more.

The scene of Steve in the cargo truck gave me big Natasha in Civil War vibes, when Crossbone tosses her onto a truck. And basically yeeting someone with just one shield hit, gold. Steve Rogers isn’t a stupid man. He is actually extremely intelligent, and such a gifted strategist. I would trust this Steve to save me if I’m ever kidnapped. (I’ll talk about future Steve later).

I’m leaving it here, dears. I’ll continue in the next part, because this is gonna be longer than I expected it to be. If you read it up till here, I love you and thanks for reading it.

[ddaenggtan]

666 Butterfly Kisses | ksj | m

The Most Unedited™️. I wrote this straight in Tumblr drafts like a heathen so I barely got a word count for y’all. Entirely here because @personawife loves 666jin despite having known nOTHING about him and also because @minyoonkeeks is the biggest jin stan ever and deserves jin smut on her our birthday, even if its the unedited trash this is dammit, so happy birthday keeks, i hOPE it isn’t awful and lives up to the Jin Standard

-note: this can be read as a standalone, but is part of my 666verse, with the same MC as the other two, which I really should make a masterlist for at this point. This is set somewhere around Renaissance Italy, but like, not really. I know nothing about history except what I know from Assassin's Creed so.

Warnings/Genre | vamp!reader, fae prince!jin, historicalish, sword fighting (not an innuendo), oral: female, throat riding (yes, you read that right), unprotected sex (you are not a vampire or a fae or in renaissance Italy, but you cAN get stis and babies, plEASE use condoms), creampie, multiple orgasms, overstimulation, dirty talk, praise, slight blood drinking mentions at the end but nothing graphic

pairing | ksj x reader

word count | 4.7k

Cool air brushes your shoulders as you strut onto the balcony. The ballroom is crowded and loud and hot, especially with the several layers to your dress. The twilight air is soothing against your heated skin, and you do your best to ignore the way the lace at the edges of your mask tickles your skin.

You only stay outside for a minute; there's too much to do for you to keep to yourself for longer than a moment. Your friends - if you can call them that; you have no doubt they would stick a knife in your back the moment it became beneficial to them - are still suspicious and on edge. Not without reason, either. Tonight would be the best night for an assassination; crowded and masked and distracting as the ball is, it's almost too easy to sneak inside.

As proved by the man wandering in from the courtyard.

Your eyes stay on him as he enters the ball and begins to mingle; whatever fabric his clothes are made of is transcendent. They sparkle in the candlelight and ripple like water as he struts around the room, accented by the golden accessories and trim. His mask matches, a beautiful gold with black around the edges designed to mimic a butterfly, and it all sets off the tan of his skin in a most beautiful way.

It's curious; you would know if you'd seen him before, you're sure, yet someone as starkly noticeable as he would be a terrible assassin.

Nevertheless, you're here to do a job and gain a favor, so you make your way back into the ballroom. You catch his eye for a brief second, sending a coy smile before curtsying lightly and disappearing into the throng of dancers.

The dancing of this century is much more structured than before; it brings you comfort to know that so long as you know the steps, you can't make a fool of yourself. Your partner for the moment is a well-known merchant. He's not particularly handsome, or charismatic, but he's kind enough, and his hands don't wander.

Still, you catch the mysterious stranger's eye several times as he joins the dancing himself. The light catches on his jeweled throat-piece nearly much as it catches on your own ruby that's situated on your chest, just shy of being proper.

The partners change, and you catch his eye once more. You bite back a smile when you see him dancing with Lady Montilyet, a sweet girl who knows more than she should about you but never fails to get flustered when you wink at her. Her cheeks tint when you catch her eye, and the Butterfly looks intrigued when he next looks at you.

Too soon your partners change again and you lose track of him, distracted with keeping wandering hands away from the dagger stored in your bodice and the poison stashed in your hollowed ring. They're there as precautions, of course, one can never be too careful, but there are a handful of people here who are acutely aware of just how willing you are to use them, should the situation arise.

"Someone is deep in thought." You blink and smile when you find Butterfly before you, bowing deeply for the start of the dance.

"I was," You agree as you curtsy in return. "Surely you don't wish to hear about a lady's idle thoughts, though, good sir."

"You may call me Farfalla," He says easily, taking one of your hands in his and leading you in the steps. "May I have your name in return?"

"You may call me whatever you wish," You tell him; it's habit at this point. You don't think anyone there knows the name you were born with, and it's been so long ago that even you only remember because you force yourself to do so.

"Well then," Butterfly - Farfalla - says with an amused grin, "I shall call you Fiora. All butterflies are attracted to flowers, are they not?"

"Some," You agree. He spins you in the air in time with the others and you ignore the rush of elation that comes with it. It's a new feeling; you're usually better than this at remaining impartial to potential assassins. "Now what is a butterfly such as yourself doing in a garden such as this?"

"I could ask the same of you," He counters. "I'm sure I've never seen such a beautiful flower. Not in a Medici garden, for sure."

"Is a Medici garden somehow lesser?" You ask, surprised. He may as well have just spat in their faces, at their own event no less. Your allies have their fair share of enemies, but none so bold as to insult them so obviously.

"Not at all," He says as he steps back into a deep bow. "Merely an observation that they tend to choose their blooms for popularity, when the most stunning of gardens are cultivated for the rarity of the blossom and the beauty of the petal."

You dip into a curtsy but before you can ask him anything else, he's whisked away by the giggling wife of some beaurocrat and you're left to politely decline the invitation to continue from someone in a swan mask. Instead you turn and make your way carefully towards the back of the room, where you know Niccoló is lurking, and you oretend you can't feel the weight of the Butterfly's eyes on you the whole way.

--

The night is calming down slightly. The drunkards have either passed out or left and now all that's left is the hundred or so people who have actual business to conclude. You can see Giovanni near the doors to the balcony, chatting amicably with Leonardo. At least, it looks amicable. You never know with Giovanni; he tends to smile while he watches people drown.

You run your palms over the skirts of your dress, cursing the fabric. It's the softest silk available and yet it still feels coarse to the touch after feeling the Butterfly's garments. Even if he is an assassin, you really need to find out who his tailor is, because snyone that can stitch the night sky together and drape it over someone's shoulders like that needs to be in your employ. Speaking of the Butterfly, your eyes dart around for the millionth time, doing their best to spot the tall man amidst the crowd. It's curious that you haven't been abke to, because he's done nothing but draw your eye all night. He's proven charismatic and charming, always ready with a witty quip or a perfectly chosen compliment, and you wish it didn't make heat roll under your skin.

The waning candlelight has you nervous; the wicks are burned nearly to the base, and the smell of it always makes your stomach turn. It also adds to the shadows in the room, providing ample areas to hide away. It's useful for you, of course, but also for anyone else.

Particularly butterflies.

With a sudden gust of air, the balcony doors burst open; the scent of camellias drifts in with them and you frown at the familiarity of it. You're already moving, taking advantage of the way everyone has stilled as half the remaining candles have blown out. You remember where Giovanni and Niccoló were, for the most part, and when you get close, you can only just catch the glimpse of gold darting away.

When you get there, Niccoló is cradling Giovanni on the ground and waves you off.

"He's fine, just startled, go, now," Niccoló tells you. You bristle slightly at being given orders from a mere human, but you also know that he's right. You're off down the halls without another moment wasted, chasing the twinkling stars kf fabric down the halls. It's pitch black and you're glad for your superior vision as you run, otherwise you'd likely have lost your target long ago.

You turn the corner into a long entryway and barely duck out of the way as an ornately carved dagger flies at your face. You pull your own out and tuck it against your arm.

"I see this butterfly bites," You call. There's a stifled laugh from the room, and you hate that you're endeared by the sound.

"Says the flower who hid her thorns," He calls back. You dart inside and behind a column, avoiding another dagger in the process. A careful peek around the stone shows that he's had a similar idea; you can just catch a glimpse of his soft brown hair peeking out. The glint of light against steel catches your eye and you realize he's picked up a sword somewhere. That won't do at all, not when you've just got a dagger. You look around and smile when you catch sight of two of Giovanni's rapiers mounted on the wall.

"Did you really expect me not to have thorns?" You call to him, tiptoeing your way around the column and towards the one beside it. Your footsteps are muffled against the marble floor, and you're hoping your voice does more to distract from them.

"No, flowers that pretty always have thorns," Butterfly says with a laugh in his voice. You can hear him moving as well, and you dart towards the rapiers as another dagger slams into the stone where your head was.

You rip the blade off the wall and duck behind a column again, doing your best to ignore the fire burning under your skin. No one's gotten to you like this in a long while, and you'll be damned if you let a would-be assassin do so.

"So tell me," You call into the echoes of the hall, ears straining to hear if he's moving. "Why would a butterfly want to kill one of the de Medicis?"

A noise almost like a scoff echoes around you, bouncing off the marble. You can't pinpoint where he is, and your eyes strain to see him even with your enhanced vision.

"Why would a flower?" He whispers into your ear. You jump and turn, dagger swinging wide toward where his voice was. It's a useless attempt, too easy for him to dodge as his own rapier slices through the air towards you. You parry and step back, doing your best to regain control.

"Flowers can be poisonous, but only to those who treat them wrong," You tell him, attempting a thrust and jab only for him to sidestep.

"Butterflies are the same, and yet I'm left with no real answers." He attempts his own jab that you quickly deflect, and the banter quiets for a while as you both focus on the swordfight. He's a skilled opponent, definitively better than you are; he moves with a grace and fluidity you've never seen before, and it only makes the heat in your belly that much worse. The hunger begins to seep in as well, and your vision clouds as your mind wanders to what he might taste like.

It's a poor thing to think, especially since it gives him the opening he needs. Moments later he has you against the wall, the blade of the rapier balanced carefully against your throat. You bite back a curse, but he can no doubt see it in the twitch of your nose and curl of your lip.

"So do I get an answer before you kill me?" You ask him. "Why would you want Giovanni dead?"

"Me?" He asks, a laugh in his voice. "You're the one trying to kill him." You cock a brow, barely visible over your mask.

"I assure you, I am not. It's a terrible businessman what kills his customers."

Butterfly frowns and his eyes narrow slightly. He reaches a gloved hand up and runs his thumb across your cheek, a light touch that makes you shiver nonetheless. It's only a breath later that he's tugging your mask off and studying your face.

"You," He says softly. "Vampire?"

"Yes," You say, letting your mouth hang open slightly so he can the fangs at each side. "And how do you know of me and mine?"

He grins, amused and secretive. "I trust you aren't one to bite the hand that feeds you, then." The wink he sends almost has you laughing at his joke.

Almost.

"No promises about the hand that has a blade to my throat," You warn. His lips quirk in an unvoiced laugh and he steps back, sliding his rapier back into place on his hip.

"I'm not trying to kill Giovanni," Butterfly says. "I owed him a favor that I'm repaying, much as I suspect you are, by being a watchful eye at his events for the time being."

It makes more sense than him being an assassin. He'd be a terrible assassin; he draws too much attention.

"You were running because...?"

"I thought I saw someone run this way. And then I was being chased, and assumed you were trying to kill me instead now."

"Fair assumption, I suppose." You can still feel his chest against yours, the scent of peach blossoms on the air around him. He hasn't stepped away at all, and your mouth is watering with the need to taste him.

"You look hungry, petal," He whispers. There's a laugh in his voice and you have to admit, it only makes him more attractive. A vision appears, him sprawled underneath as you taste him, but he steps back a ways before you can. "Go get dinner. I'll tell Giovanni and Niccoló that there was nothing to worry about tonight."

He's gone before you can protest. You didn't even see him move; one minute he was there and now he's not, no sign that he even existed save for the mask at your feet.

Your hands tremble slightly as you pick it up, and you don't know why but you hold on to it the entire way to your home.

---

Weeks pass. You haven't seen him again, not at any of the parties that Giovanni throws or the meetings that Niccoló organizes. Nowhere, no matter how much you look.

You mourn that fact as you sit at your vanity, silk sleeping gown cascading down your crossed legs. Your mirror is useless; its made with silver and offers no reflection, and you hope that there will be something better in the next hundred years so that you can stop relying on your maids to make you look respectable.

The window to your room clicks open with a breeze, the scent of peach blossoms strong on the air before he appears. You watch it happen in the mirror; the swirl of shadow and mist and flowers before he steps inside completely.

"At least I ask for an invitation first," You tell him. "Imagine the scandal if anyone were to know you sneak into an unwed woman's rooms at the dead of night."

He steps forward and presses a soft kiss to the top of your head. "Apologies," He whispers. "It did take me a fair while to find your abode, though. And I am a very busy man." He looks up into the mirror and smiles at where your reflection should be. He's even more gorgeous without the mask; full pillow lips, soft brown eyes, bone structure that humans would kill to be born with.

"I suppose the fae prince is indeed a busy man." The way he stiffens only confirms your suspicions, and the fact that you were right just spurs you on. "I can't imagine what he would be doing here with me."

"Maybe he likes not being treated like a prince for once."

"Maybe he should tell me what he wants so we can make an arrangement that will suit both of us."

"Is it not enough that I want you?" He groans, burrowing his nose into your neck and inhaling. "Won't you give yourself to me?"

"No," You tell him simply. He pouts as you stand, but he doesn't fight you as you push him towards the lush bed at the far end of the room. "But I will give you this one night."

"I'll take it," He says.

His lips are on yours in a heartbeat, sealing your deal and encouraging the fire between your legs. You push him back until he sits on the bed and you climb up to straddle him, his hands gripping the backs of your thighs to keep you steady.

"You're radiant," He tells you. "Breathtaking in so many ways."

"Stop talking," You respond as you dart down to suck a bruise onto his neck. You've not been able to stop thinking about it; marking it, drinking from it, his throat has featured in nearly every fantasy that you've had lately and you're more than ready to taste the real thing.

He goes without resistance when you push him onto his back, pulling your hips down to grind against the tent in his pants. Your wetness is already seeping through the silk of your gown and you can't find it in you to be embarrassed.

"On my face," He says, panting. "Want you to ride my tongue." Heat hits you again and you nod. You like to think you're always graceful, but you know how you must look, scrambling to hike your gown up to your waist and plant your knees on either side of his head.

He isn't afraid to tease, giving soft kitten licks to the sensitive skin of your thigh before darting in to lap at your folds for real. Your moans can't be contained so you don't try; you've had several bed partners, but none have felt like this between your legs.

"Christ, Butterfly-"

"Jin," He says, hands gripping your ass to lift you up. "You can call me Jin tonight." He's back to work in no time, tongue dipping into your tight heat to swirl around before licking up to your clit so he can suckle on it.

"God, Jin, yes!" Your hands grip his hair tightly and he moans into your folds at the feeling. It only spurs him on, sucking hard on your clit before he starts to fully fuck you with his tongue. It's a glorious feeling and you nearly cum just from that as you grind yourself down onto him. It's been too long since you had a partner as enthusiastic as you are, and it shows with the way your legs tighten around his neck.

A strangled choke comes from between your thighs and you lift off him immediately.

"I'm sorry, I-"

"No," He interrupts. With a brief scoot, he's watching you with eyes blown black, your wetness dripping down to land on his neck. His chin is already soaked, but something about seeing yourself on his neck - something you've already fantasized about tasting - has your hips moving in aborted thrusts.

He notices and cocks a brow. It only lasts a moment before realization creeps over him, eyes turning impossibly darker as his grip on your thighs tightens. He moves one hand to the small of your back, guiding you carefully down until your folds rest against his throat.

"What...what are you-"

"Ride," He commands. There's power in his voice, an authority that even you can't question, so you do. Your hips are guided by his hand on your back, and you can't lie, it's heavenly. His throat is thick and firm against your heat, and provides the perfect amount of pressure to your aching clit. His Adam's apple hits you just right, and you're moaning before you can even register the sound. Jin himself is clearly into it; the hand not on your back has disappeared, and if you cared enough to pay attention, you might look back to see it rubbing gently at his hardened length.

As it stands though, he's gasping for breath against your weight and the way it makes his throat clench makes you clench in return. You grind hard against his throat and he moans - loud and unabashed; the vibrations go straight to your clit, and the heat inside of you nearly explodes at the feeling. It's one thing to hear someone moan, and it's another thing to feel them moan while they eat you out. But to feel their throat vibrate with pleasure as you ride it?

Transcendent.

You raise slightly to allow him to breathe, hips still grinding mercilessly against his skin for any sense of friction. He pushes you back down and gives you a taunting smile.

"Are you close, petal?" He asks, vibrations from his voice making you whine. "You're so close just from grinding on my throat. I wonder what would happen if I touched you right now. Would you cum for me so easily?" You whimper and nod.

"Please, Jin, I want to cum," you gasp. Something about it strikes a nerve in him, because he groans again. You're already half-gone, but then he swallows; his Adam's apple hits your clit hard and your orgasm explodes through you.

Jin waits until you're finished spasming on top of him before he flips you around, carefully laying you back on your bed before stripping out of his shirt and unlacing his leather breeches to pull himself out.

You'd heard rumors about the fae, of course; everyone said they were supernaturally gifted in certain areas. You'd previously thought that was all a trick, one of the many ways they use their magic to goad humans into selling their souls. Looking at Jin, though, is a learning experience. There's no magic in the way that he weighs down his hand, or the throbbing purple of his head. Not in the way he strokes it slow and languid as he settles between your thighs.

The stretch as he slides into you is all too real, and has you quaking around him.

"Oh my god, Jin," You gasp, hands darting up to grip his broad shoulders. "Fuck, you're huge."

"Thank you," He chuckles, continuing to press his length into you. It isn't hard; you're soaked and relaxed after your orgasm, and all too willing to take every inch he gives you. When he finally bottoms out, you both groan, your pussy contracting around his thick shaft.

No one that big had ever been inside you, and he was reaching places nobody else ever had.

"Fuck, my pretty petal," He whispers as he slides halfway put before pushing back in. "You're so wet for me, petal. Did you like that then? You liked riding my throat so hard you came on it?" You moan and your walls flutter around him, and he takes the opportunity to speed up.

It doesn't take long for him to begin really pounding into you. Your legs are hitched up around his waist, ankles crossed over his lower back as he slams into you over and over again. The curses you spew are in so many languages you can't count them all, a mixture of all the ones you've learned in your time on this earth, and Jin sounds like he's praying, the way he's moaning softly above you.

It's minutes before you can feel the string inside you growing taut once more. Jin must notice because his palms push at your calves until your knees are as close to your shoulders as they can get, and suddenly he's that much deeper inside. You can feel him up to your cervix, fucking hard and fast into you, and he watches as you bring one hand down to tease circles into your clit.

"Beautiful, petal. Love watching you touch yourself for me, watching you cum for me. Come for me, let me feel you come on my cock, give me another and I'll give you all the seed you could ever need. Does that sound nice, petal?" You nod, fingers speeding up as his thrusts become more pointed, searching.

It takes four. Four thrusts for him to find that spot inside you that makes universes bloom behind your eyelids. You scream when he does, pushing down hard on your clit so that the constant pressure might distract you, might prolong the feeling.

"Oh no, sweetheart," Jin tuts gently. He drops a hand to push yours away from your clit and resumes the teasing himself. It's different when it's him; where you had been keeping rythm with his thrusts, he doesn't bother, instead moving slowly and teasingly against the bundle of nerves as he continues to pound hard and fast into your heat. "No, I want to feel this sweet pussy come around me. I want to watch you fall apart on my cock, and then I want to fuck you full of my cum. Will you make that happen for me, my sweet petal? Will you be a good girl for me?"

You don't even get a chance to warn him before you're coming, contracting so hard around him that you're worried he might get pushed out.

It doesn't stop him though; he continues his thrusts. He changes it though, shifts so he's sitting back on the bed and you're in his lap, propped up against his chest so he can thrust up into you. His hands are on your hips, lifting you up just to pull you down to meet his hips as they fuck harder into you.

"Very good, petal," He murmurs. "You were so good, so now it's my turn, right? I get to use your pretty pussy. God, you're too fucked out to even speak, aren't you?" You manage a quick nod and he laughs, sweet and lilting, and pinches at your nipple. A third orgasm rushes through you and you're jolting against him, riding the waves as he continues fucking you through the overstimulation.

"Fuck, you're so good for me, the perfect flower. Can you give me one more, petal? One more orgasm. I know you can do it."

"No," You whine, even as your hips grind down to meet him. "Can't, I'm, too much."

"Okay, petal, okay," He whispers, massaging the muscles in your back as he fucks you. "Fuck, you're so fucking wet, the perfect pussy for me. You take it so well, like you were made for me."

"Was," You mutter, too high on your own orgasms to manage proper words. "Made...just for you..." There's more you want to say, like how the smell of peach blossoms has always been your favorite and how you've never seen anyone handle a dagger or a rapier like he does, but it won't come out.

It seems to do the trick though, because a minute later, you can feel him coming inside you. It triggers a fourth orgasm, both of you shuddering as you ride the highs. You pant ass he slides you off his dick and lays you back; he groans as he watches his cum slide out of you and stain the sheets underneath.

"Fuck, you're so beautiful like this," he whispers as he throws an arm over you and pulls you close. You don't respond, already half-asleep. "I'll have breakfast ready when you wake up, petal. You rest."

You manage a nod, a mumbled 'thank you' barely making it out before you're asleep.

--

When you wake the next evening, the scent of peach blossoms hangs in the air. Your thighs are almost as sore as your pussy, the bed is cold next to you, and there's a beautiful woman sitting at your vanity, brushing her hair. You frown at her, rubbing your face. She hears you moving and turns with a bright grin.

"Oh, you're awake. The Prince mentioned you might be hungry when you woke, so I'm here with breakfast." She stands, the silk nightie leaving nothing to imagination as she slides into the bed beside you.

"And where is the prince?" You ask her, already leaning forward to press kisses to her neck.

"He left you a - ah! - a note," She says as you sink your fangs into the tender flesh of her neck. You drink until you're sated and refreshed, and you wave her out after she's done cleaning herself up.

There is indeed a note left on your vanity, in the quick scrawl you imagine is Jin's.

Thanks for a good time, petal. I won't forget it. -Butterfly

[supercalime]

Running With Lions Commentary pt. 1

Guess who’s back with another commentary that no one asked for? You’re damn right it’s me! I found this book kinda on accident and I decided to give it a try. Here’s the first part, hope you enjoy my rambling!

Chapter 1 to 10:

- Oh it’s present tense. Alright, I don’t thing I ever read anything like that. This should be interesting

- Hey, comparing feelings to Katy Perry songs is very valid. “Teenage dream” is an eternal bop and shall not be disrespected

- How many pop artists are gonna be mentioned in only the first chapter, cause I already lost count.

- I like the dynamic between Sebastian, Willie and Mason. There’s no toxic masculinity, we love to see it

- And we stan ally and father figure Coach Patrick as well! What a team!

- I’m really interested to know what happened between Sebastian and Emir. I bet I’m gonna have some ✨drama✨

- Dude, I know you haven’t seen him in years, but the gay yearning is breaking the charts, chill out

- “Do you need a little alone time?” Look, I know boys are gross, but still, ew

- So many characters... I know I’m gonna get them all confused. Just bare it with me okay

- “The gays approve” indeed, indeed

- Oh no. Grace, sorry, my bad, GrEy is “not like other girls”. Can we throw this trope in trash and light it on fire? Thanks

- I really want to like Grey, but unless she’s got a good reason to refuse anything feminine, it makes it so weirdly misogynistic. Cause, newsflash, you can like girly things and still be a strong, independent person who gets shit done. But I don’t want to be to harsh on her character yet because it can go ✨somewhere✨ interesting. Like, maybe the character is trans? Let’s wait and see

- Who’s gonna tell our protagonist he’s got a big fat crush on emir? Cause even I’m noticing and I’m the most oblivious bish there is!

- Of course emir has a British accent. Why am not surprised

- Mason is a whore, haha

- Emir just had a gay panic, oh sweetie

- “I promise it won’t get us arrested this time“ this book is funny 😆

- Sexuaaaaaaaal teeeeeeension

- Look, I don’t feel sexual attraction and I don’t have a penis, so I can’t speak for those two things, but like, do y’all just get b*ners this easily? Is that really a thing? You can’t just not make it happen? I’m honestly asking cause I don’t buy the b*ner plot device

- As a former catholic, i can assure that Rivera is very relatable when it comes to using the religion in vain, haha

- How old is Grey supposed to be? Idk if I should be uncomfortable shipping her with the other characters or not

- Why does this book hates women? What did they do to you?

- Drunk antics are only fun in fiction huh

- Way to ruin things, ZACH!

[diangeloyoyok]

my review on pjo movies

first up with have The Lighting Thief obviously

 Poseidon’s entrance lowkey kinda fire but high key weird

‘it’s been many years’ didn’t y’all just have that winter solstice party together ???

‘if your son if the thief i will send him to the pits of tartarus’ ouch that hurt ngl

logan lerman 🥺

he would’ve been such a good percy if they did the movies when he was younger IDC IDC IDC

i stan black grover and just grover overall

i wish we got to see my bitch nancy

sally and percy sallY AND PERCY SALLY AND PERCY SALLY AND PERCY

gabe to me is just *hmm* perfect in this movie, he’s not as mean in the movies but he’s still an asshole ehehehe

i love Chiron actor i think it’s very accurate

also wtf chiron is bros with the big three lols 😹

y’all know jenna davis?- that’s who the girl who plays ms dodd’s looks like

so they just gonna ignore him and tak ab him while he’s RIGJT. THERE.

‘This is a pen. This is a pen.’

‘Are you guys crazy? This is a pen man!’

the scene with gabe makes me uncomfy bc percy says in the book gabe never hits percy in front of sally but ok 😗✌️

leaving percy was the *mOST* difficult thing poseidon *the GOD of water* has ever done wow percy is that cool

‘You’re half donkey?!”

i am da wittlest minotaur 😳✨🙈

such a subtle entrance to the camp love it

why y’all give percy the pen before he supposed to be a badass and rip the horn off wjth his hands but ig

wait so in this dumbass movie percy doesn’t even do anything to get the horn goodbye

i’m still very pissed that they took the scene of annabeth sayjng ‘you drool when you sleep’ but it’s fine i’m NOT fine

why is no one wearing camp shirts 🤬

they may be wrong but i didnt know it was ‘brUnner’ not ‘brUNner’

it’s kinda cute how when percy first sees annabeth he’s like ‘ooouuu who’s that name now 😌😏”

brown haired blue eyed looking ass BITCH

‘A real horses ass’ laughed a LITTLE

so the poseidon cabin is just *THAT* open poor percy no privacy

oh wait wth they already know his daddy poseidon 🤨

like everyone just knew ????

when did percy get new clothes the fuck

why did everyone laugh and shake their heads when chiron introduced percy what whores

omg luke 🥺

i know everyone knows this but it’s *SOOOOOOOOO* unrealistic annabeth and luke aren’t on the same team. like i’m pretty sure in the first book annabeth said they had a permanent allies type thing with the hermes cabin

‘that’s a sword! that’s a sword’ aw baby luke why’d you have to be evil 🙁🤚

where the FUCK did that bitch tryna be annabae come from

she realky said ‘i love trees🌲☺️❤️’

why does annabeth act like clarisse during capture the flag

also the fuCK WHERE MY BABY CLARISSE

why are there like actual 30 yr olds at camp

luke was so excited when he saw percy get up he said ‘omg no way✨’

so suddenly percy just knows sword play 😀

and deFEATS ANNABETH WE ALL KNOW HE CANT EVEN DO THAT NOW

y’all red heads a bunch of babies

i already know it’s coming

shit no

i hate it

i hate it so much

already ew’d out

‘i definitely have strong feelings for you, i just haven’t decided if they’re positive or negative yet.’

‘well you let me know when you figure it out’

‘you’ll be the first’

why they just drinking nectar for fun?? like bruh you tryna die or sum

after that i can’t watch anymore tonight

it’s been like 3 weeks but let’s not talk about that

i’m not even gonna comment on the campfire scene anymore my god

i like how in movies everyone is like “omg the underworld so scary percy you can’t go that’s so dangerous you will DIE”

and in the books they’re like “yeah it’s dangerous but whateva you 12 yr olds have fun down there bring me a souvenir!!”

why does luke have?? video?? games?? in?? his?? cabin??

WAIT LIKE A WHOLE ASS TECHNOLOGY SETUP WHAT

why is luke the only one in his cabin like where’s the stolls and chris 😳

you mean to tell me luke broke into hermes house just for like funzies and to steal shit?

sounds like travis and connor but ok✨

what the fuck even is the whole pearl plot

i don’t even wanna talk about the medusa scene

percy has an ipod 🤡

“i’ve only been in the outside world a few times” did you fucking practice driving those few times or WHAT

if percy could actually heal people with water wowie imagine how useful

why did percy bring swimming trunks on a quest

can this brown haired bitch shut up already

sally never took gabes last name excuse you 🤣

ofc it’s fucking fox news giving us that bullshit info on sally

they in nashville wee-doggie 🤠

‘hey it’s your mom’ obviously dumbass she has eyes

so they hid in the potty room for like 5 hours? huh

yeah let’s jus facetime lukey real quick 🥰

silly boy percy

“how flipping awesome was that”

does percy even know he can bend water in the first book

that’s gonna be an unexplainable statue for the workers tmrw

lotus hotel baby

the only reason this movie is watchable

vegas be lookin kinda fresh i wannna go

i wanna stay at the lotus hotel this place looks sick asf

lotus flower treats yummy yum

here comes gaga 😮

why they laugjing so much

wonder if nico likes gaga

imagine like 10 yr old nico just straight vibing there

grover pulling out the dance movies yessir 🤩

“no❤️ percy don’t eat the flower”

why didn’t percy just like grab the flowers and throw them

OOOO KESHA WE LOVE TO SEE IT

TIKTOK ON THE CLOCK BUT THE PARTY DONT STOP NOW WOAHWOAHWOAH

i’m bored ✨

ooo skeletons

charon my queen 👑🥳

“we drowned in a bathtub, all three of us” 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

i wish that was in the movie

i wish a lot of things were in the movie hit that is high

we’re in the same boat in the very same boat

how do you get seasick in an elevator- BOAT?

the way to the underworld is over the styx it’s a river

i know, you show off chicks

sexist much? go make a splash

i’ll splash you

it’s like watching titian’s clash, they’ll kill each other it they’ll kiss if we’re lucky they’ll end up in an abyss

um

anyways✨

hades do be looking kinda cool tho

that’s a cool ring you got there hades

omg mommy sally 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

how did percy not notice the lightening bolt in the damn shield befORE???

“it’s luke shield he betrayed us”

damn she switched sides real fast

this phoney bitch why does she want power and a war sis go plant shit

i refuse to believe hades is abusive sorry sis you ain’t fooling me

god where’s Juniper when you need her

so no fight between percy and aries 🤡

instead we have lukey pukey

omh he’s the lightening thief i did not see that coming ong 😳

^^ me on twitter after it’s revealed on the percy jackson tv show

can this luke character chile

percy pulled a harry styles and said “i’m falling” 😔

i’m thE SON OF POSEIDON I NEVER ASKED TO BE BUT IM THE SON OF POSEIDON

“yeah, i think i am the son of poseidon”

okay 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

omG i goT bUtTerFliEs

how does s-dog jusy know how to get to olympus did y’all get freaky up there or

that’s actually kinda how i imagine olympus looking so

i guess

good job

maybe

what is this ant man why they so small

“i have no connection to poseidon”

p-dog looked kinda hurted 😳

as if zeus would ever compliment percy

has athena ever told annabeth *or any of her kids* i’m proud of you

“i need to speak with him” “just this once”

yet we got poseidon showing up once in awhile just to say hi

7 months? 😀

percy was 7 months old?

now i don’t remember much but i don’t think it was that long luv ❤️

“always”

i thought i was watching percy jackson not harry potter tf is up

sally and percy have my whole heart

g-man got his horns

chiron 🥺✨

missed my main hoe 😍

why are there so many fucking campers

there’s like 500

let’s take a chill pill shall we

annabeth and percy look like siblings in this

 incest 😳

they bouta fiGHTshe better have won

k well that’s it thank the gods 😘

i’ll be back in like 4 months to review sea of monsters i need a break of bullshit

OH ITS NOT OVER

it’s gabe

he pulled a demi

stone cold

stone cold

everyone will be happier without him

[quincywillows]

CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE, SEASON 1 ✮ “The Space AU”

They didn’t know if they would ever make it to the ground. They didn’t know what they would find there if they did. All they knew was that Adams Station was failing, and they needed to make a desperate attempt to save the human race as they knew it.

One ship. Six pioneers, known only as “the clique,” would venture back home to reclaim the Earth. To volunteer for the journey meant glory, recognition, and the chance to be the first to establish the new world. An honor greater than the first adventure into the stars.

Only three volunteered, however. The others? Well…

There’s no telling what they’ll discover on the ground.

Genre: Science-Fiction, YA || Rating: TV-14

Mains: Riley Matthews, Lucas Friar, Farkle Minkus, Zay Babineaux, Maya Hart, Isadora Smackle, Asher Garcia, Eric Matthews, Topanga Lawrence

Main pairing: Riley x Lucas (though it’s mainly an ensemble story)

Yes, my friends, it’s true! I’ve finally found a way to share the main elements and story of COTU at a level that feels manageable for my current writer load. It’s unlikely that I’ll get to write it at a full prose or script format at this time, but I so wanted to give y’all the story after dropping the idea for it like a year ago and ruminating on it and sharing it with some folks in AAAGC.

It’s a bit unconventional in terms of formatting, as the story is told through screenshots of our group chat, exactly as I told it to them. In particular, the first couple of eps are a bit hard to follow, but if you know the gist of the AU already then you should be okay -- just get to 103, or especially 104, and you’ll get into the flow of it.

Special shoutout to the peanut gallery of COTU stans, @paigemelendez, @lorelaisrorys, @leoleofitz, and @cassiehatheway, whose hilarious and apt reactions you also get to see play out while reading in this format. Additional links are included below if you’re feeling confused. Without further ado...

Episode Listing

101 - DOWN TO EARTH (Pilot) // The Quincy dropship hits ground on Earth, the Alpha and Zeta crews meeting for the first time. On Adams Station, mystery surrounding the Quincy launch festers even five years later.

102 - HEROICS // New terrain may prove less than friendly for the Quincy pioneers. The crew carries their own secrets. Meanwhile, Asher pursues an unlikely lead. Five years earlier, Maya makes a bold declaration to save the one she loves most.

103 - POTENTIAL ENERGY // Farkle’s plan to power the radio requires a treacherous trek. Asher makes a surprise ally. Pre-Quincy launch, Zay attempts to outwit a dangerous adversary.

104 - THE CALL // The divide between Alpha and Zeta widens when a working radio offers the chance to reconnect with Adams. Will the message go through... or will interference stop the signal before it starts?

105 - HOUSE DIVIDED // With the group split, Riley makes a plea for unity. A mistake traps Isadora in a dangerous state. Adams debates what to do next. Isadora relives the horror that landed her on the Quincy dropship.

106 - O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN // Tensions are high when Riley is seized by a deadly toxin. Quincy crew must work together in a desperate effort to save her. Five years earlier, Captain Matthews never dreamed of going to Earth...

107 - THE ONE WHO WALKS AWAY // Asher and Eric make their final move against the board of directors. On the ground, a search for resources turns violent. A movement for improved quality of life becomes known as the deadliest gambit in Adams history. But there are two sides to every story...

108 - SHELTER // Riley leads a frantic search for Lucas and Farkle. The second wave of Adams pioneers prepares to come to Earth. A dangerous storm forces a scramble for shelter.

Additional Links

Full Season 1 drive folder

The official playlist

The COTU tag (on this blog)

The original COTU tag (on friarlucas)

[queenofcrystaltokyo]

My Spotify got DELETED this year so no Spotify Wrapped. Instead I’m just going to list all of the albums I bought on iTunes and go over my thoughts on them. No ratings; ratings are lame.

Cape God - Allie X

It’s no surprise I’ve been following Allie since Collxtion I. This year’s album from her is a natural evolution and a wonderful maturation of her music up to this point. Her previous work was already developed but I find this album just strikes to the center of your person. I feel like telling you there’s a collab with Mitski on here puts that into good perspective.

Personal Standout: Sarah Come Home

Future Nostalgia - Dua Lipa

I haven’t listened to this one much since the week I bought it. It’s a good pop album though with a lot of disco influence which was fun and was definitely a trend in pop music this year. That and metal.

Personal Standout: Don’t Start Now or Physical

SAWAYAMA - Rina Sawayama

I’ve been a fan of hers since we were orange hair sisters in 2017. But oh boy. This album. In many ways album of the year (although I can name three other albums on this list that also vie for that spot). Her use of rock music and the variety of topics (compare Comme Des Garçons and XS) shows the depth of her talent. Still upset I didn’t get to see her and Allie in April.

Personal Standout: Who’s Gonna Save U Now?

Fetch The Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple

When I first head The Idler Wheel when I was 15, I think my world changed a little. It’s like when you hear The Hounds of Love for the first time. So it was no surprise her next album would be phenomenal. But it should be illegal for an album to be this perfect. Cutting to the core of every possible emotion in a way that only Fiona could do. Flawless is selling it short.

Personal Standout: Drumset

I Disagree - Poppy

I followed Poppy for a bit when she was that one girl who made weird experimental Youtube videos and had one EP. I remember getting 3:36 on her Bandcamp. But I sort of fell off. But THEN I was made aware of this album, gave it a listen, and bought it immediately. I love good, rich rock music and deeply miss it in the pop scene I’ve stationed myself in. This scratches that itch in abundance.

Personal Standout: I Disagree

Petals For Armor - Hayley Williams

Paramore is maybe the most important rock band of the last 20 years. After Laughter is probably my actual favorite album of all time even though I still say Miley Cyrus And Her Dead Petz. But Hayley’s solo work has proven itself to be a separate entity. It’s very deep and personal and is refined in a way that could only come from years of being deeply ingrained in music and understanding it thoroughly.

Personal Standout: Cinnamon

Flamboyant (Deluxe) - Dorian Electra

I was initially hesitant to get into Dorian Electra. I think I thought it was trying too hard. But I warmed up a little and found it speaking to my queer masculine side, which I often ignored in favor of the liberation of femininity.

Personal Standout: Adam & Steve

how i’m feeling now - Charli XCX

How Charli managed to make a no-skip in two months during quarantine is completely beyond me.

Personal Standout: anthems

spice²world - Spice Girls

Now I’m sure you saw this and thought “Wait, what’s that? I’ve never heard of that album.” Well this is actually related to the Spotify deletion. It’s literally just Spice and Spiceworld stuck together. I had it as a playlist on my Spotify and decided to recreate it in my iTunes.

Personal Standout: It’s the Spice Girls. Love Thing is my favorite.

Smile - Katy Perry

I’ve loved Katy Perry since fucking meanplastic posted a soundcloud post of International Smile. From there I delved into her back catalog and learned that One of the Boys is and will always be her best album, which is somewhat unfortunate because, presumably after Lady Gaga blew up, she shifted to pop music and we’ll never get 2008 pop rock goddess Katy back again. But don’t let that deter you. Her music has been evolving since Teenage Dream, which was written by God according to people on here who jump through hoops to hate her. And though Witness was like Artpop in that it sort of broke the facade of infallibility, Smile took what worked from Witness and refined it into a more introspective album that’s trying less hard to be commercial. I hate to admit that that post comparing Katy to Cyndi Lauper as a relic of her decade was right, but I’m okay with that because I feel like Katy is gearing up to be, in the words of Britney Spears, an underground star.

Personal Standout: Tucked

Chromatica - Lady Gaga

I’ve been a little monster since the very beginning. I remember preordering Born This Way at Hot Topic when I was 14. Since then I’ve always held that it’s her best album (though Joanne didn’t make that hard to argue). But Lady Gaga did the impossible. Yes, Chromatica is now Lady Gaga’s best album. The club pop with elements of disco is sheer perfection.

Personal Standout: Replay

Pang - Caroline Polachek

I know I really hyped this album up when it came out last year, but I only got around to actually buying it this year after my Spotify got deleted. But yeah, of course this album is great.

Personal Standout: Pang

Spirit Phone - Lemon Demon

A striking departure from the previous listings. Calling it meme music would not be incorrect. But it’s fun and it’s good. I listened to it all day Halloween but I’m still listening to it right now.

Personal Standout: I Earn My Life

Dreamland - Black Box

Do y’all like house music? If you do, then this album needs no introduction. It is THE house album. Stan Martha Wash.

Personal Standout: I Don’t Know Anybody Else. But you should definitely listen to Ride on Time first.

BONUS:

apathy + Vacuum Noises - Astrophysics

I didn’t buy these albums on iTunes. I got them off of Astrophysics’ Bandcamp. So that’s why they’re bonuses. But I love these albums so much. I only started following Astrophysics this year. You might know them for doing synthwave remixes of anime songs like Connect from PMMM or Komm Süsser Todd from NGE. But their music has evolved into more glitchcore/shoegaze (with a Soviet aesthetic that I love). It’s some of the best music I’ve heard in that field.

Personal Standout: The remix of Sometimes by My Bloody Valentine from Vacuum Noises. Listen to it here!

ベノマ - かいりきベア (Venomer - Kairiki Bear)

This one I also did not buy on iTunes. But I didn’t get it on Bandcamp either. I got it on mikudb, which is my go-to website for Vocaloid music. Venomer is a remix collab album by Kairiki Bear where he invited several other Vocaloid producers to remix his most popular songs. It’s a real who’s-who of the hottest Vocaloid producers right now.

Personal Standout: The Niru Kajitsu remix of Ángel (I have an audio post of it here!)

[kitten1618x]

GoT Afterthoughts ep. 08x01 ‘Winterfell’ (Part 1)

Whew! I’m sorry this has taken so long. I’ve got two munchkins home from school with a stomach bug, and they’ve been cutting into my rewatch and write-up.

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So, a few things before we kick this bad boy off... I have not read or interacted much with anyone (except writing up that post yesterday about the opening creds) and I have avoided the discord server (even though I’m DYING to gush) as to not skew my own perception of the episode. Those of you who follow my blog know that I am partial to political!jon, but here’s your heads up for anyone else that just stumbled onto this recap. And with that...

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We begin the journey of our last season similarly to the way we began our very first: An excited Winter Town boy frantically scrambling to find a better view of the royal retinue marching on Winterfell—complete with the same musical score. Let’s call that strike one against Jon and Dany, as we all know what a farce that first royal couples’ relationship was.

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This boy, as he shimmies up a nearby tree, very much reminds me of a combination of both Arya and Bran in the pilot — Arya even spies him and smiles, as she stands watching with the smallfolk (a nice book nod). Her face at initially seeing her big brother Jon makes my heart skip a few beats, and I kind of got the feeling she was going to call out for him, but changed her mind. She looks down then, and I’m honestly so worried for their reunion because they have both changed so much, and Arya isn’t the same little girl he remembers.

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Her smile fades as Jon and Dany pass her by, and the Hound comes into view. Her feelings with Sandor have always been complicated, but we don’t have much time to dwell on that, because Gendry rounds the corner and there’s a different kind of smile lighting up Arya’s face now—and I’m so stoked for their reunion, because it’s what I deserve. WE ALL DESERVE THIS OKAY?!?!?!

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And what do we have here? Ahhhh yes, the typical D&D ‘cock’ and/or (in this case) ‘balls’ banter via Varys and Tyrion as they once again travel together in another wooden box. You know, we damn well better get the payoff to the jackass/honeycomb/brothel joke this season, or I swear by the old gods and the new that I’m blowing up the Sept of Baelor... oh wait.

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Missandei looks visibly uncomfortable at the impassive stares of the Northerners as they ride by. However, Jon did warn them about the North—which he reiterates to a rather annoyed looking Dany, who no doubt expected a much more warmer welcoming for coming to “save the North”—but it’s pretty clear there will be no Myhsa crowd-surfing here.

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A screeching overhead sends the Northerners frantically running for cover as a smug-looking Daenerys smirks proudly at the fear her dragon children instill when they split the skies above. Let’s be real here — that was no coincidence. Remember this?

Dany is in complete control of Drogon, and let’s call a spade a spade: this was a cheap intimidation tactic driven by spite. And I honestly can’t even say I blame the girl, but it’s probably not the best way to make new friends, either—especially when they are all of the mindset that “a Targaryen cannot be trusted”. Just sayin’, Dany girl.

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And we have Arya’s reaction to seeing Dragons for the first time as they soar high up over Winterfell and Sansa, who watches from the ramparts. Sansa’s reaction is quite similar to Cersei’s—as in, she really doesn’t have one. Someone please cue My Chick Bad by Ludacris!!

Jon and Dany enter the courtyard and Jon springs from his horse to bring Bran in for a signature Stark squeeze and a forehead kiss (another season one callback). He proudly admires how Bran has grown and is now a man, only for Bran to answer with some vague and emotionless three-eyed raven shit, before staring down Daenerys while Jon moves to Sansa’s open arms.

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*Perhaps no one informed Jon about Bran going all sentient-being?

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I’m sure most of you already noticed that while this is supposed to be the same hug scene we were shown in the HBO teaser, it’s not the same shot, nor the same angle. In the teaser, Jon makes this soft face and goes straight to Sansa’s arms...

But in the actual episode, Jon goes straight to Bran’s arms, and his expression is quite different...

And in the teaser the hug is much longer in duration, and Sansa doesn’t look up at Dany until the end—still not relinquishing her hold on Jon.

However, in the episode, we get a shorter version and a different angle, while Bran and Sansa simultaneously stink-eye Dany the entire time.

*please note Jon’s expression isn’t the same as it is in the hbo teaser—which begs to differ WHY they chose such a romantic shot of these siblings to hype the final season? I mean, I know why... do you? 😉

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Annnnnnd moving right along. Jon asks where his darling baby sister Arya has gotten to, as to which Sansa replies “lurking somewhere” — which is an odd response, but I’m not gonna lie, it did make me chuckle a little. If I had to make a guess on this odd dialogue (other than the D’s just suck at dialogue sometimes), I imagine it serves the purpose of leading Jon to assume that the girls still have the same strained relationship of their youth.

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Not one to stand by idle while getting eye-fucked from all directions (and not in a good way), Dany sashays over to be introduced to the stunning redhead Jon was hugging on, to learn she is (only) his sister (whew!), and the Lady of Winterfell. And with that said, I need to take a moment to address something to all the antis who will probably hop on this post (cuz I know y’all are there): Jon is NOT the Lord of Winterfell. Winterfell does NOT belong to him, not even as warden of the North, not even a little bit. He has no say, no ownership, no NOTHING on Winterfell. The only way he becomes the Lord of Winterfell is if he marries his cousin, Sansa Stark — which is just ONE of the many reasons WHY a marriage between them is advantageous. Tell your friends.

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The tension kicks up a notch as the introductions proceed and Dany feeds Sansa platitudes of how beautiful she and the North are. Perhaps her words are meant to be kind, but after all she’s been through, Sansa is not here for the bullshit — remember how nice Miranda was in the beginning too? Besides, my girl’s jealousy is so thick, she’s almost GREEN. So, giving Dany a full-bodied once over, she haughtily replies “Winterfell is yours, Your Grace.”

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Annnnnnd...

Before a full-blown catfight ensues, Bran throws some ice on the situation—and by ice, I mean ice dragon (harr harr harrrr). The wall has come down, and your dragon is one of them now, he informs Dany—whom of course is horrified by the news. (And probably by Bran too, as I assume she, like Jon, did not get the Bran is the 3ER memo).

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We move into the Great Hall where we learn that Sansa has already made the intelligent decision to call all their banners to retreat to Winterfell as soon as they knew that the wall had fallen. Little Ned Umber isn’t really sure whom he’s supposed to address or how (bless his little heart), but in any event, he’s getting the horses and carts he needs to safely bring the rest of his people back to Winterfell. Jon tells the maester to summon the Nights Watch as well.

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And of course you know little Lady Mormont has some shit to say. She’s not pleased with the turn of events and wastes no time voicing her opinion and stirring the ire of the Northerners. But hey,

(Sorry, I couldn’t help myself).

But more on that later, because Jon looks really nervous as little Lyanna throws shade — and his first instinct is to turn and share a look with his sister, errr wife, cousin!, Sansa.

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I feel like he was looking to her for support, but she’s got none to offer at the moment. So, he pulls himself together and tries to calm the dissent by giving another rousing ‘we need allies and I brought them’ speech, and he actually says something VERY interesting here: “I had a choice: keep my crown or protect the north. I chose the north.” I mean, he ain’t lying, and the best place to hide something is right in plain sight, after all—and of course nothing about that statement sounds political or off at all, does it? I mean, because the Dany stans/jonerii insist that Dany agreed and was FULLY onboard to come north before Jon bent the knee, so why would he say that, then? Go on, tell me...

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Tyrion decides to throw in his unwanted .02 — simultaneously backing up Jon and feeding Dany’s savior complex (the greatest army blah blah blah — gods, I cannot wait until everyone sees how useless the dragons will be against the NK, especially when using them to roast the wights puts their own soldiers at risk). His words aren’t met with any gratitude when he also drops the bomb that another enemy house of the North is also on its way to Winterfell.

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Sansa is taken aback but recovers quickly. Armed with her signature snark, she asks how they’re expected to feed the ‘worlds greatest army’ — something she did not prepare for — chased by a sassy, “what do dragons eat, anyway?”

But wa-wa-wait, HOLD UP. Did Dany just— Did she just throw down the gauntlet?

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Why, I believe she did, my friends! jskslkdlsksjsklslsljsllsl 😂😂😂😂

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I can’t even with this episode, guys. It’s like I’m watching a medieval version of Melrose Place (google it, youngin’s) with Jane and Sydney throwing shots by the poolside!

Okay, okay, but all joking and snark aside, Sansa has got a valid point. She isn’t prepared to feed all these extra mouths PLUS two fucken huge dragons. I mean, winter is here, and where could they possibly find enough food to sustain everyone? It’s almost as if the show is making it a point to remind us about the lack of food and where did we last see wagons loaded with food? Oh right, I remember...

Put this one behind Northern Independence on the list of ‘Petty Things That Won’t Matter Because the AotD is Coming’ — you know, because who needs food to survive? And who the hell wants independence, anyway?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Moving right along, and holy mother, maiden and crone, this is getting long and I’ve barely scratched the first 15 minutes of the show!

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You know what? Nevermind, I’m just gonna go ahead and publish this, and post the rest tomorow when I finish it — I know y’all are thirsty anyway. lol Forgive the sloppiness, as I did this ALL on mobile, and my paragraph breaks kept disappearing and arrrrrghh tumblr!

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*Some gifs/images mine. The others were taken from google. Thanks if it’s yours!!

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Medusa The Musical Masterpost

(lots of M’s, wow.)

So, Medusa The Musical (Click the link, it’s the website) is an upcoming musical that tells the story of the myth of Medusa🐍. You can listen to it here.

So, you want to know more about the show and the people involved?

Easy! Below I’ve linked sources to the original myth, and other works by the people involved.

The Source

Like all Ancient Greek Myths, there’s no singular “source” for the tale of Medusa. This handy link here, however, is a good starting point, it’s sort of like a sparknotes of it. Linking anything else would be a huge rabbit hole of infinite websites/reading materials, so just start with that one for now!

The Crew

So, Medusa’s creative team consists of a lot of cool future Tony Award Winners. They have bios on the website, but I’ll link (some of) their projects here for easy accessibility and as a summary. If I leave something out, its due to my own ease and accessibility, not because I see it as an unimportant project.

The show was written by Wes Braver and Rachel Dean. Wes Braver has worked on other shows in the past such as Hear No Evil in the Year 2090, Galapago, the song cycle Space Cases, and the concept album METADATA. He also wrote songs for the moviemusical Chatsworth and he wrote the score for the film Youth. Rachel Dean has played the piano for the Broadway productions of Hamilton and Moulin Rouge! - pretty mighty résumé, if you ask me! Gods, only in my pipedreams will I get to do that. She's working on other shows too - The Anxiety Project, Unmasked, and The Ballad of Janis Matthews and the Dodo Scouts! [Also, insert a Preludes joke about a “Rach” who plays the piano here.] Sylvie Scowcroft is the producer! She also worked on Hear/2090 and Galapago with Wes, and she's produced Company by Sondheim as well in the past! Hot damn!

Chloe Treat is the director - hell yes I pretty much exclusively stan female directors at this point, especially in the Greek Myth shows field. As an anecdote, Chloe is in a relationship with Or Matias, who was the MD for some Dave Malloy shows such as Preludes and Octet and Great Comet, so it’s cool that I get to stan another musical theatre power couple! (Seriously, I knew that I recognized the name.) As for Chloe, you can find some stuff on her website. She’s mostly directed college/university shows, but she also did Eco Village off-Broadway. Looking back, that makes me even more sad to have missed that show.

Matt Castle the music director and oh I love him already because he’s been at the Signature Theatre in the past. Most of his stuff is regional - but he did do a number of off-Broadway shows and was an actor in the Company 2007 revival! He's also currently working on Scotland PA off-Broadway with his husband as an orchestrator!!

Kate Lumpkin is the casting director. Waaayyy too much to list here. Here is her website for ease.

Kai Harada is the Sound Designer. He worked in some Broadway shows I love such as Head Over Heels, The Band's Visit, Amélie, Sunday in the Park With George, Fun Home (lesbian rights!), and a couple of A.R.T. and Off-Broadway shows, etc.

Frank Galgano is the Creative Consultant. Guess what - he’s married to the music director, Matt Castle! 🏳️‍🌈It appears as if a lot of their work seems to intersect!

Evan Bernardin Productions/Gwynne Richmond is the general management team. Another hefty list of other projects, needless to say, so I’ll just link y’all to their site.

The Cast

Oh boy, I love the Medusa cast so much. Particularly Kuhoo Verma. But more on them later. Half the cast has been in either a Dave Malloy show or Nikola Tesla Drops The Beat, which are my two Niche Theatre Brands™️ - that and the fact that its a Greek Mythology musical makes me legally obligated to stan forever, as the cool kids say. But I digress!

The show features Alexia Sielo as Medusa herself. She was an understudy in We Are The Tigers Off-Broadway and is a cofounder of womenofcoloronbroadway!!

L. Steven Taylor will be portraying Perseus, and he’s been in The Lion King (Broadway) several times - you can see behind-the-scenes pictures on playbill.com!

Kate Shindle is Athena, and she’s also the president of Actor’s Equity, which is....incredible, honestly. She was Vivienne in the Original Broadway Production of Legally Blonde.

Theo Stockman is Poseidon. He's been in Hair, American Idiot, and American Psycho.

Heidi Blickenstaff is Steno. She’s been in numerous shows as well, like Something Rotten!, The Little Mermaid, [title of show], and The Full Monty.

Ally Bonino is Euryale, and the project I primarily know Ally from is a weird electronic rock musical that portrays Nikola Tesla as a DJ who gets into rap battles with Thomas Edison. She played his pigeon friend and her solo slaps.

Mykal Kilgore is Tiresias - he was also in Tesla along with Ally - he was Edison! He also writes solo music, and he has an album called A Man Born Black, which is really lovely. He was in the Jesus Christ Superstar concert as well!

Vivienne Cleary will be Eritha, and she’s very up-and-coming. She's done a lot of regional stuff and the off-bway production of Once Upon A Mattress.

Kuhoo Verma is Karphathia... Kuhoo fucking Verma, y’all, the person that I cried in front of at Octet. Kuhoo is a legend. She’s barely 23 years old and she’s already out here living her best life! She’s also openly nonbinary and queer, which makes me really happy. She’s been in Octet by Dave Malloy (!!!) and The Big Sick (a movie, not a musical/play, highly recommended). She’s also very sweet. I have a bit of a crush on her, not gonna lie.

Nick Belton is Antiochus/Archon, and he has also worked with Dave Malloy in the past. He starred in Great Comet as Andrey/Old Prince Bolkonsky. He was also in the most recent Carousel revival! He starred in Hair too, so that’s another former project that some of the cast members share.

Last but never least, Justin Gregory Lopez is Belo, and he was also in Octet along with Kuhoo Verma!!

Long story short, this musical is a masterpiece with super talented people in it and I am hyped.