#you've activated my trap card

[wrenhavenriver]

every time a work or school event uses "what's your favorite animal?" as an icebreaker and i get to subject a room full of people to a brief list of reasons why geese are unfairly maligned

[plaidbear]

[distantpagesandpapercuts]

“Nap Cling”!!!!

Send Me “Nap Cling” for Your Muse to be Caught in a Hug by My Sleeping Muse!

It wasn't an uncommon sight for him to stumble across. Were it not for the color in her cheeks, Archer could've assumed the woman was dead before checking her breathing.

She overworked herself. Stretched too thin, she'd finally collapsed from exhaustion. Tucked in amongst the copious amounts of pillows and blankets she seemed to have accumulated over the years. One of her favorite comforts he'd noticed.

But it'd been going on fourteen hours now that she'd been sleeping. He'd been a bit worried for her. What if she was dehydrating? Glucose drops could be deadly out here! So gently he'd put a hand on her shoulder and shaken her slightly. Bidding her gently to awaken. Tea? Why was he asking about tea?

She's quicker than one would think. One hand bracing his shoulder, the other grabbing his wrist and pulling him down onto the bed. While strength wasn't her strong suit, she seemed to take him off guard enough to drag him into an embrace.

Amongst the nest of blankets, she buries her nose into his clothes and sighs a breath of content.

"Stay," She murmurs into his sweater.

@archerwhiterp

[guppygiggles]

*wheeze* I’m sorry. That’s adorable AF.

-🐺♠️

[phantom-ofthelibrary]

WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH

HOLD ON

CHUBBY CHASER YOU SAY

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I NEED TO KNOW MORE

Ellie thank you for the FOOD!!! my brain .... I am already Contemplating the Possibilities....

babysitter!reader is so delicious, and God, I kind of love how complicated the situation could get with Siri involved. Because even if eventually you maybe pick up on a red flag or two from Blake, or even just don't feel ready to have kids / a serious relationship yet and feel uncomfortable once he voices those desires for you..... Are you just gonna stop taking care of Siri? You don't want to get him caught in the crossfire: you know he won't understand why you left, just that you did. And he shouldn't be punished for something that's not at all his fault. God, the ANGST potential.

And maybe over time, Blake starts to wear you down. You do like his company after all, he's handsome and hardworking and charming and he clearly adores you. So yeah, maybe you give in one night because you're inebriated, or horny, or just plain lonely. I assume baby trapping is a given with Blake, at least I hope it is 👀

😫😍🥴Agh grrrrr bark bark bark I'm biting him I'm biting him I'm knawing on him like a chew toy🤤🤤🤤

YESSSSSSS HEHEHE!!!!

babysitter!reader and blake goes hard--you'd feel so bad because blake has such a hard time getting sitters, whether it's expenses or scheduling or trust, or for the fact that most potential babysitters hesitate at the idea of watching a child with special needs. and siri just adores you right off the bat, you're an immediate friend to him instead of a caretaker, so if you ever thought to leave you know you'd be leaving that poor kid with so much sadness and hurt in his heart.

it's not his fault his daddy is so enamoured with you, and that he offers you a drink every time he comes home from work despite the fact that you always politely decline. or that he's constantly offering to give you rides home, drop you off places, even when you're not babysitting. when you come to the diner he works at he gives you your meals for free, and when he comes out to chat at your table while it's slow and people get the impression he's your boyfriend, he doesn't correct them. the one time he came home to find siri had dropped his dinner all over you, and you graciously accepted his offer of a shower, he could barely keep the urge to barge in at bay when he imagined you all sudsy and wet, soaping yourself down with those beautiful hands.

he kind of goes crazy for you. you wiggle into his brain and won't leave, he can't help imagining you with a little baby of your own to give siri someone to play with. after all, even though the last thing he needs for his financial stability is to support another kid, it would only take one time to get with you to lock you down to stay with him. just one torn condom, one drunken fling, and he'd have something you can share forever. how can he give up that opportunity once he thinks of it?

(cw: cheating)

and......now im thinkin....if you have a deadbeat boyfriend.....god help you. blake doesn't consider himself a traditional man by any means, he doesn't want a partner who's totally dumb and submissive to whatever he wants just cause he's a man. he likes it when you resist him a little, actually. but seeing you with some cheap, ugly, unkempt asshole will absolutely have him playing the father figure card when he gets the chance.

"does he treat you well? does he cook? can he clean? what do you mean he doesn't work? how is he gonna take care of you? what, he expects to live off you like a fucking leech?" blake has plenty of opinions and will struggle to keep them to himself. especially if there's an age gap and you're younger than him. he wouldn't have to ban your boyfriend from his home because you're too smart for that, you would never bring a stranger to meet siri in his own sanctuary, which is one of a thousand reasons why he loves you so much--he can trust you. but when your boyfriend picks you up and drops you off blake is hardcore glaring at him from the front lobby where he walked you down to hold open the door. and if you have a fight over text and he refuses to pick you up, telling you you're gonna have to walk, blake drives you with a death grip on the steering wheel as he forces a smile and pretends he's not seething at the audacity of such a pathetic man.

but despite hating your boyfriend with a violent passion, blake listens to you complain and will offer you reassurance, even though the mere mention of his name has him gritting his teeth. and when he has opportunities to turn you against him, he takes them. he'll slowly fuel your grievances until your partner gets heated with you, and tells you that your employer and friend is manipulating you, and the worst part will be that he's right. but you'll be so blinded by blake's words that you'll finally find the courage to break up with that deadbeat you called your love. and what better person to crawl back to for reassurance than blake, who will comfort and cuddle and fuck you until you can't think of that asshole for another second?

[thelongestway]

hey no shade but you know dungeon meshi isn't actually based off dnd right? there are definitely some overlapping concepts and it can be fun to analyze it through a dnd lens but really it's its own homebrew fantasy setting. just checking bc i nearly got in an argument w someone over dungeon meshi lore the other day only to realize it was because they were trying to apply dnd lore to it ahahaa

Oh yeah, absolutely, it's its own thing. You don't even have to go far to show how it's its own thing: for one, the whole set-up with the dungeons being what they are isn't found anywhere else in D&D-inspired material that I know. You could maybe reflavor Halaster's Undermountain to something like the Dungeon Meshi dungeons, but that would be another layer of homebrew. That said, I do have the feeling that Ryoko Kui grew up on the same kind of D&D material that I did - stuff like Elminster's Ecologies, or old school Greyhawk materials. Her story genuinely feels like an AD&D game run by an old-school DM, maybe even earlier in the editions (hi, Chilchuck and "I'm a rogue, I'm not gonna fight"!). I don't mean that she follows D&D canon in any meaningful sense--her stuff isn't set in Greyhawk, nor on Abeir-Toril, nor on Krynn, etc. But I do think she's someone who's inspired by old school stuff, even as she makes her work thoroughly her own.

An acquaintance of mine once wrote that long tabletop games gain a quality that she called "being well-trod". This is when the players and DM are so familiar with the world they live in that it becomes, well, lived-in. They don't need to look up rules anymore to extrapolate: they understand the logic of the setting, and they get the same kind of intuitive feel for the world that we do when living in our own world, in real life. A feeling of where the boundaries lie, and how things work.

This is how I feel about Dungeon Meshi and D&D. It feels like a work written by someone who walked the same paths that I did, and whose work is therefore both new and startlingly familiar. That's it in a nutshell, but then I also wrote a bunch of examples, which got very long, so cut for length and spoilers!

I wrote somewhere in the tags on my Dungeon Meshi posts that it's incredibly surreal reading a story that seems to be informed by the exact materials that you base your own homebrew games on. Kui takes her work in a wholly different direction than I did - but the disparate elements of the story would fit in like a glove, because they're based on similar logic. I could quite literally take any of the ecologies elements of Dungeon Meshi and put them into a given module I'm running, and it would need less adaptation than 5e material. And most of the cultural/racial elements of Dungeon Meshi? That, too. Where it's not a one for one match, it would so easily be explainable by "different continent".

Let's take the example you're probably here from: the Canaries and elves in general, and let's take elves in general first. In D&D, there's been a switch in models of elven aging throughout the years: from "they are literal babies up until 60-ish, and then have 40 years of actual adolescence" to "yeah they grow to full adult size at about the same speed as the other races, and are then just culturally considered too young to make their own decisions". I am decidedly not a fan of the second model - I think it takes away from the cool biologies early D&D thrived on. BG3's treatment of Astarion's age of death, for instance, keeps throwing me. Yeah, I get it: it fits in with the edition they're working off, but I hate it. That's not how things work on our Faerun! But then we get to Marcille's backstory, and we see that she has the problems old school half-elves did, and you're like "oh, well of course someone invested in weird cool biology as an author would interpret elves like that." Her treatment of age makes sense to me. She makes the races as alien as possible, and hits that vibe of "D&D-style fantasy is its own thing, with its own set of rules" that I love. In contrast, and unlike any prototypes I know, Kui takes her half-foots in a different direction! They don't live longer than tall-men, they live shorter lives, closer to goblinoids. And I think it's for the same reason: because it's that much cooler to have different experiences of life in humanoid races. This is decidedly Not D&D, but it would absolutely fit into that vein.

With smaller details, I keep joking around here that the Canaries are grey elves, and of course they're not. But then Kui keeps putting in these tiny little details - which can be either nods to existing material, or the same extrapolations that other authors drawing upon high fantasy tropes have made. The white ships that have travelled all the way from Tolkien's Valinor to Evermeet and now to Shima. The fact that the Canaries have basically the right color scheme for grey elves threw me completely: I was not expecting that! Elves being that specific brand of destructive that they are - jeez, the Canaries would be right at home in Myth Drannor, or during the Crown Wars. So I joke around about these specific dolts a lot, and I am having an inordinate amount of fun seeing if my predictions that come from running a Myth Drannor game for a good long while now come true. And it goes on. Marcille doesn't prepare spells, and the magic here is obviously not Vancian. But Mithrun's teleport shenanigans are literally stuff I've done in games. The differences between races in D&D aren't because of wishes made by mortals; they're built in by gods for their own purposes. But the towns that spring up around anomalous spots and that have to deal with the weirdness have the same vibe. Kui draws on a more extensive tradition than just D&D, of course, but she transforms the tradition in a very similar way to old D&D. Of course the elves' magic in Kui's work does weird and creepy stuff with soulbinding and immortality; that's been their dark side since Tolkien and Celebrimbor's work with Annatar, and then it turned into stuff like elves regularly sacrificing their lives in high magic rituals in Faerun. Of course Senshi's backstory is about the dwarves that have dug too deep - but they are, of course, distinct from gnomes, and the gnomes are a peculiar and interesting breed of arcana specialists. Of course Chilchuck is a Burglar - but he works on dungeon delving unions, of all things! It's a familiar transformation, so the world makes sense to me, and I love it. So yeah. Tl;dr: not D&D ofc, but the vibe is there, and I am having fun with it.

Also - can you tell me about the argument? I am super curious, and I wonder if the person you were arguing with was working from 5e material.

[skyrim-forever]

I'm sure you've answered this already but how bald is Ondolemar? Like Is it smooth enough to shine under candlelight, or are there little tufts there? Is he bald by choice, does he shave, can it grow there? What's the sitch? The people want to know.

Hello, absolutely delighted you asked this because I have many, many thought. Likely too many because all I am is consumed with thoughts about him and Theo <3 Now for the essay :P

So, I have it that he shaves his head. Normally has a buzz cut and cuts it when it's like a cm/half an inch. It's naturally platinum blonde.

I touched on this topic a bit in Chapter 1 of this fic, The Book of Love; but he shaves his hair to look less like his father. As you have seen from my fics they had an awful relationship and his father's actions are a large part of who he is, such as the reason he joined the Thalmor.

Even when things are better and life is in a very different place he still doesn't ever grow it out again. It's a mix of he's seen himself this way for so long, Theodora has commented that although she is normally more attracted to men with long hair; it makes him look handsome and serious <3 as well as this:

And as I am all about parallels, their eldest Arthano who looks the most like Ondolemar, also shaves his head. Theodora finds him one day when he's 6-7 with Ondolemar's shaving blade and is like "What are you doing with that???" and he's like "I want to look like Ata." which instantly melts her heart and she shaves it for him and then tells him to go tell his father that. This is a big healing moment for him because the fact he son wants to look like him means he's doing something right; helps fix his own paternal wound <3

I hope the people enjoy this answer <3

[most-datable-datable-bracket]

ok those cove screenshots are too good and I've heard good things about him on other polls too so I'll bite. what is our life and where can i play it. are you or any of your followers willing to write up a short pitch on why you like the game? im like 1 small push away from looking into and/or buying it for real he looks so squiggly

OK SO Our Life is a free visual novel dating sim on Steam. There's DLCs but they're cheap and not obligatory to enjoy the game.

You're 8. You live near the beach with your moms and your older sister. There's no other kid around cause all the other people living there are old. And then one day a dad moves in in the house accross the street with his kid that's the same age as you. And the dad is like "I'll give you 10 bucks to be friends with my son". And without knowing it you end up inseparable with the boy as you grow up with him.

I absolutely love Our Life because it's one of the few dating sims where you can customize ever single aspect about yourself. Appearance? Check. Sexuality and gender? Check. Whether you know how to dance or like mayonnaise? Check. You don't want to romance him and just be his friend? Check.

It's really a cute childhood friends to lovers that made me cry more than once. The visuals and music are so pretty and it's so so heartwarming. It also really change from otome games where it's just drama after drama. This story is believable and you can really lose yourself in it, and not play as just some chick that's put into wacky situations. Just be yourself and kiss your cute neighbor that's also your best friend who loves you so so so much.

[admirableadmiranda]

I haven't read the extra, but I saw the panel for the incense burner manhua. How am I going to sleep at night when I know that lan zhan and wei ying holds each other in their arms while they sleep😭😭❤️❤️

Oh anon, you think that them holding each other in their arms while they sleep is wonderful? Well lemme share some other really sweet things with Wangxian and sleep that are all hidden in the book and the extras.

All of these quotes are from Exiled Rebels Translation. Cut for length and cuteness.

Chapter 92: Longing, Part 3

He lay on his arm and stared at the ceiling for some time, turning around for his back to face Lan WangJi. Even after a while, he was still wide-eyed, unable to fall asleep. He couldn’t help but become irritated.

Back when he was playing the madman, he said something like he could only sleep when he was beside Lan WangJi. Of course, all of that was nonsense. But ever since however long ago, the nonsense seemed to have become a reality. Wei WuXian thought, What should I do now? Don’t tell me from now on I really won’t be able to sleep in a bed that doesn’t have Lan Zhan in it?

After a long struggle, Wei WuXian finally managed to clamp his eyes shut.

This is a very sneaky reveal that Wangxian have actually been sharing a bed for a while, before they got together. We don’t know exactly how long, but it’s long enough that when Wei Wuxian does try to sleep on his own, he can’t! Which can take a little while to get that comfortable with having someone next to you. Wei Wuxian can’t sleep anymore without Lan Zhan there to make him feel safe and warm.

(Yes, he does later manage to fall asleep by himself, but it is much harder when you’re used to someone sleeping at your side)

Chapter 114: Banquet, Part 2

These days, Wei WuXian adopted a strange habit. He liked to sleep on top of Lan WangJi’s body, no matter lying on him or clinging to his chest face-to-face. Anyhow, without this human pillow, he wasn’t able to sleep. Shamelessly, he turned the jingshi upside-down, and did indeed manage to dig out some things.

Wei Wuxian now has a favorite pillow and mattress! And is very adamant that he can’t sleep without it, so instead he’s going to dig around in his husband’s stuff.

In the few months he and Wei WuXian begun living together, he’d tried to set Wei WuXian’s sleeping habits right, but it was always in vain. After a disciple brought over the warm water used for bathing, Lan WangJi, who’d long since dressed himself, peeled the stark-naked Wei WuXian out of the thin blanket and carried him into the wooden tub. Somehow, Wei WuXian could continue to sleep even as he was steeped in water. Lan WangJi pushed him gently, and he’d catch Lan WangJi’s hand, kissing it both on its palm and its back, rubbing it on his cheek before he went back to sleep. When the pushing really began to annoy him, he’d whine a couple of times and pull Lan WangJi down, eyes still shut, cupping Lan WangJi’s face as he kissed a few more times, murmuring, “Good boy, stop messing with me. Pretty please? I’ll get up in just a bit. Yeah.”

And with a yawn, he’d fall back asleep, clinging to the edge of the tub.

Although he knew, even if the room burned down, Wei WuXian would probably find some other place and sleep, Lan WangJi still persevered in waking him up starting at five, then endure dozens of pecks expressionlessly.

He brought breakfast to the Jingshi and laid it on the desk that in the past only held ink, paper, and brush, then fished the dead-asleep Wei WuXian out of the tub to wipe him clean, dress him, and tie his sashes. Only then did Lan WangJi finally take a book from the shelves and flip open to the page with the dried flower bookmark, sitting by the desk and slowly beginning to read.

As expected, at almost eleven, Wei WuXian jerked up from the bed with extreme punctuality before feeling his way down the bed almost as though he was sleep-walking. He first felt Lan WangJi, hauling him into his arms for a few rubs, then squeezed his thigh out of habit.

Look at this cuteness! Lan Wangji still wakes up at five, but now his morning routine is letting his husband sleep as late as he wants while he takes care of him so that when Wei Wuxian does wake up, he’s ready for the day. He “endures dozens of pecks expressionlessly”, but can you tell me that Lan Wangji doesn’t absolutely love that part of his day? And then Wei Wuxian has to wake up by fondling and cuddling his husband till he’s ready to open his eyes and be ready for the day. And this is their daily morning. They do this every day! So precious!

Chapter 119: Incense Burner 2

(you’ve seen how they cuddle when they’re sleeping, but here’s some more lovely stuff!)

Wei WuXian, “You’ll know if it’s nonsense or not if you keep listening for just a bit longer. When you sleep, you like to hug me tightly, and you have to be hugging me or else you won’t be able to sleep;

“Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…” Wei WuXian laughed himself awake from the dream.

He laughed so hard he almost rolled off the bed. Fortunately, Lan WangJi’s arms were always wrapped around his waist. Along with the laughter, his entire body trembled the moment he woke up, making Lan WangJi wake up from his sleep as well. The two sat up together.

Wei Wuxian is teasing the young dream form of his husband, but we immediately get confirmation that he’s likely teasing him with the truth because Lan Wangji is holding him so tightly he can’t get away and Wei Wuxian’s laughter wakes him up! They sleep so close together!

Later when they wake up after the wild dreams they share in the incense burner, we get this when they’re getting ready to go back to bed.

Lan WangJi pulled him back onto the bed, “I will not.”

Having acquired his promise, Wei WuXian was relieved, “HanGuang-Jun, mark your words.”

Lan WangJi, “Mn.”

With three nights of toil, he felt the fatigue slowly rise. Wei WuXian couldn’t keep going either. He snuggled into Lan WangJi’s arms again and mumbled, “Nobody had ever treated me like this…”

Lan WangJi stroked his hair and landed a kiss on his forehead. Shaking his head, he smiled.

Getting ready for bed means getting snuggled and held close. It’s adorable.

Taiwanese Extra: From Dawn to Dusk

This one is all about Wangxian just having a lovely night together, first having wild sex, then grading the junior’s homework. But then later in the night, we have more sleepy cuteness!

After Lan WangJi took a quick bath and got in bed as well, hugging Wei WuXian in his arms, Wei WuXian continued to be awake for a short while, hazily whispering by his collarbone, “The kids in your sect are quite good at writing essays. They’re just missing that tiny bit when it comes to night-hunting.”

Wei WuXian, “… I told you to stop talking… Even if you say just one word, I won’t be able to hold myself from responding… Okay, Lan Zhan, let’s sleep. I… can’t anymore… I really have to sleep… See you tomorrow, Lan Zhan…”

He kissed Lan Zhan’s neck, and indeed soon fell heavily asleep.

It was all darkness and silence amidst the Jingshi.

A moment later, Lan WangJi planted a gentle kiss in the center of Wei WuXian’s forehead.

He whispered, “Wei Ying, see you tomorrow.”

No goodnights; no goodbyes. Just see you tomorrow. And also more of Wei Wuxian using his favorite pillow, since all of his dialogue is muffled cause he’s talking into Lan Wangji’s chest.

Chapter 120: Intrusion, Part 1

We have a family outing with Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji and Lan Sizhui! And of course that means more sleepy fun with Wangxian!

Wei WuXian slept all the way until the sun was high up in the end. Only after much hugging and caressing from Lan WangJi did he finally manage to crawl up. As he proceeded through his morning routine with closed eyes, he even put on Lan WangJi’s inner-wear by accident. A few inches of white sleeves extended from below his outer robe, rolled up many times. It was quite unbefitting, really.

Not only does Wei Wuxian get to sleep in as late as he wants, but he gets hugs and caresses to wake up. Also we have the husbands sharing clothes, which is cute.

These are all the moments I can find of them specifically sleeping (and I did leave out the parts with them sharing a bed in Refinement, Allure and Dew just because I wanted these cute moments later in their relationship), but I think it should show that whether one of them is awake or not, Wangxian sharing a bed is just a treat!

[voxuli]

{{Wasn’t sure about the first one - would being seen with an ex-Overlord damage his reputation? XD}}

"Being an ex-Overlord isn't a problem; I can handle that. The problem here, old man, is that you tagged the music space but not Tom Lehrer, and his first album was out well over a decade before you showed up in Hell! Now sit down, we're starting with Songs by Tom Lehrer."

[penandswords]

@eraserisms Just casually kicking me back to my GOTH phase.

/ i HAVEN'T listened to ANY of these bands in forever. but ya posted MCR on the dash and NOW i'm going down the rabbit hole of these old bands./

IMMA COUNTER YOU WITH this song

[madefate]

do you ever stop talking ? / via @ blitz, affectionate / @vanaglcria

❝ And deprive the world of my correct opinions ? Absolutely not ! ❞

Blitz uses the same, breezy tone that he does with Loona - the kind that acknowledges, teases, and bounces off like water, a more unobtrusive humor that's meant to take the pressure off. He doesn't think it's a skill he's necessarily perfected, but he has had practice over the years, and he knows to turn his face away before his amused grin turns realer, more affectionate.

He doesn't really know Octavia, beyond the few fairly terrible impressions he's made on her, and he doesn't know if he'll ever earn the privilege to know her better. But he's realized, recently and in full force, that he'd like to. Without those barriers erected - the years and bricks of self loathing, self destruction, and simple deflection - that raw and deep longing for family has started to raise its head from the ashes he'd thought he'd buried it in.

But he's not stupid; if the closest he gets is tolerated - if he doesn't ruin her relationship with Stolas or with Loona - then Blitz can more than live with that.

Still, there's something fundamentally strange about being in Stolas' kitchen, in the light of morning, while Octavia sits at the table and Stolas himself is still confined to bed rest. The person who absolutely does not fit in this picture is himself - so, of course, he has to pretend that much harder that this is totally fine. It's totally fine that he has breakfast going on the stove top, it's totally fine that he spends half the time hopping up and down off chairs and counters because everything in this kitchen is royal owl sized.

What actually settles him is the fact that at least he can help in some tangible way. It's not much at all in the grand scheme of things, but even if it's just food, just little things around the house - the chance to keep an eye on the house and its occupants, putting that vigilance to work - it's something.

❝ For example, if I wasn't here running my mouth, then you wouldn't have this masterpiece to eat ! ❞ He exaggerates it, hoping the joke lands, and presents her plate with a flourish: a pile of waffles artfully cut into star shapes ( Loonie puts up with his horse cutouts, but he wanted to try something a little closer to home for Octavia ), fresh fruit, and fluffy scrambled eggs.

❝ Now, please, not too many compliments for the chef. ❞

[delborovic]

Hello Del! I'm a writer who has a request book on Archive, and I'm stumped on a writing that involves your character that participated in Law of Talos, Rellik.

You may think I need a deep answer to something, something that's utterly plot twisting,

but I just need to know if he has a house in present day. That's it, I literally just don't know if he owns a property or if he wanders the streets and ends up on websites where people post paranormal sitings and people think he's a ghost.

Have a lovely day, Del! I've loved your art for years! <3

Hi there! Ohhhhh the Deep Rellik Lore...! For starters, I must say- regardless of my answer, please feel free to do whatever you'd like with my boy, fic is for exploring what you like and making things your own! ♥ BUT I will give you the answer....

Yes, totally. Rellik is a super homebody and Things last longer than People and he likes stuff. He's accrued a lot of money from being around so long and prefers to have a cozy home base to operate out of (and keep his books and other personal affects).

Though, considering how much trouble vampires can get into... the question is if his current residence is OK or some other shenanigans have occurred. What I'm saying is that Rellik somehow having lost his house and having to bomb in on abandoned places would be both hilarious and he would HATE that, talk about maximum grumpy. He'd prefer most to have a big gothic house on a hill to be Mr Spooky out of, but with the housing market how it is these days ://///

I don't know if that helps, but go forth...!! And good luck with emo vampire!!

Also this is an entire crossover comic with Rel's house and him being particular about it as a plot point LOL

Also thank you so much!!! I'm seriously so floored and honored that people still enjoy these old comics and my boy Rellik-butt and have been checking out my art for that long :) so surreal. Thank you!!! ♥ and have fun!!!

[thuganomxcs]

It felt as though the taller man spoke from experience, but to tell him that he 𝘿𝙀𝙎𝙀𝙍𝙑𝙀𝙎 better than that…that was something Yusuke wasn’t prepared to hear. Males in his age group often look at him with such disdain, at this point it honestly does not sting him as much as it used to. These days he simply wore their expectations of him like a mask, people left him alone and with that, he was left to do whatever he wanted.

There will always be the rare occasion when someone else sees it as just an act and treats Yusuke rather genuinely, pretty much like the ‘Joestar’ before him. Hearing him say these things was nice but he’s still far from accepting things like that without putting up much emotional resistance. Crap, Yusuke also rubs a hand along the back of his neck, was he sheepish now? Was he taken aback by the kindness of a stranger? 

━━   ❝   𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐩𝐨𝐩𝐬.   ❞   For those who didn’t speak Yusuke’s language, this was the equivalence of a thank you and a genuine compliment. “Still, ya took an interest in me where others would have probably told me t’ play in traffic. I just want ya t’ know..that it matters. Apart from the bizarre things happening in town..it’s nice t’ hear not everyone’s your enemy.”

@thuganomxcs asked: "i don't want to receive kindness with hidden intentions."

Those words held a heavy weight to them. Jotaro had been around for far too long to know when someone wanted to show kindness with hidden intentions. The Joestar pondered his own words, what was appropriate for situations such as this.

Damn. He really was shit at things like this. With a few minutes passing by, the raven haired male tilted his head a moment before closing his eyes raising his hand to grasp the bill of his hat. "You shouldn't accept such things from anyone. You deserve better than that." He mumbled gruffly, teals looking to the other male. Again, such topics such as these were not his strong suit, they were more like....his grandfather's - Joseph's niche, he supposed. "If you don't trust someone, believe that gut feeling." The man spoke once more.

He wasn't used to giving positive encouragement, or words, but here Jotaro was. Offering these words from his own experiences with people in his long, chaotic life. His belief was that if someone treated him one way, he would give back what was done to him. Jotaro was blunt - preferring the truth to using fakeness to get what he wanted. He'd always been to the point and preferred that communication had been straight forward as well.

[princess-of-purple-prose]

hi kay!! i keep telling myself i need to watch mp100 since it’s supposed to be so good, but i watched the first couple of episodes a while back and didn’t love them. does that mean i won’t like the whole show, or does it sort of grow into itself?

Hii Astrid!! 💜💜 I'm actually thrilled to get this question because I usually field it while reccing the show!! (Prepare for, just, so much text.) I promise it isn't (just) my bias talking when it say yes, it absolutely does grow into itself! I think to an uncertain viewer, the first episodes, especially the first one, are best viewed while keeping in mind that they're setting up the characters and world (not to mention showing off their animation chops) in them. I know I certainly wasn't super interested by them either when I first started watching the show, which is why I'm so excited to defend it!!

Personally, I was truly hooked onto the show by episode five! I'm not sure where you left off at, but if you didn't get to five, I think it's the first one which felt so visceral that it was upsetting AND which showcased the real ethos and struggles mob has in the show to me. After there, things start snowballing quickly, so if you haven't hit five, I'd really really urge you to watch it! In my opinion, the action and character stakes pick up right around there too, so it is 100% (hehe) worth sticking around for.

Not to mention: I think the one sad thing about mp100 getting supremely popular (plus, uh, reigensweep) is that people go into the show knowing that reigen is the most character of all time, but part of the fun is starting off FUCKING HATING HIM. I was genuinely convinced the reigen love was an elaborate joke when I started the show, and being proved wrong felt RAPTUROUS. That is not an exaggeration. There's a reason that I've rewatched the s1 finale more times than I care to count. And, just so I can make a sales pitch one more time: mob psycho 100, with no exaggeration, might be the story which has caused me to cry more consistently than any other media, which is HIGH praise coming from me. I've never met a narrative of its kind which handles its themes with more love or care. I mean it

Tl;dr: yes, the first episodes are slow, but that makes the payoff of going through with the show a thousandfold more potent!!! The pacing in the beginning is much slower, and you could say that the characters are still feeling themselves out. I am sure you'll like the show if you give it a chance, and I really really hope you'll grow to love it as much as I do!!!! Happy watching!!!!!!!

[joukaiweek]

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