#66% of these ended up being gay. good

[hiirenvirna]

hi it’s shitposting about my superhero ocs o’clock

#original character #oc #doodle #warren #rhys #andre #trai #scope #vance #joshua #inari #romina #cezar #66% of these ended up being gay. good

[directdogman]

Im so sorry to bother you with yet another question, mr dog. I know youre a busy hound but this idea has just been festering inside my skull and i must know (if your comfortable sharing that is): WOULD Callum have told Milton about his specific plans for the dial up? From what Ive gathered the two seem extremely close (and gay?) So despite Callums extreme paranoia, would Milt be the exception? Would he trust Milt to keep this secret for him? I know Milton took his life because him and callum disagreed on the subject, and I always figured he did this PRIOR to the actual event of the dial up in '66, which would in turn still make it so absolutely no one knew what Callums true plans were.

Good question! Crown lore isn't perhaps the MOST relevant thing to the main events of Dialtown (or most of the main cast) but hey, I love talking about it, and this is a great non spoilery question, so here I go. The long and short of it is that Crown DID try to tell Milt about his idea for the Dialup (and yes, with his paranoia, Milt was the only person he told this to), not so much as something he was going to do, but instead, something he was considering, and Milt responded negatively every single time it was brought up, eventually giving Crown an ultimatum that if Crown went through with the idea, they'd be finished. Milt liked that Crown's tech brought people together, but giving the whole population mandatory biological upgrades essentially means outright ending bodily autonomy in a way that's never been done before. As you can tell from how things turned out, Crown DID in fact make the decision to go through with the idea and it destroyed their relationship.

Crown's paranoia didn't apply to Milt in the same way it applied to others, nor his wife Marla. With everyone except Marla/Milt, he was sure that if push came to shove, they'd sell him down the river, that they could be tortured for information. With Marla, he assumed (incorrectly, imo) that she wasn't really capable of fully understanding his plans and that she might think he'd lost it. Marla was a very sharp person, but she had a tendency to see through Crown's bullshit. Also, like with Milt, he was terrified of Marla ending up danger if she had vital information that others may kill for. Crown went to the trouble of adding the memory erasure button as an in-built cyanide pill, in case he felt he was in actual danger of being captured and interrogated, after all, and he couldn't just slap one onto Milt, as the guy refused to get an object head.

...With Milt, the bulk of his paranoia was that Milt would reject him and walk away forever. Milt had ethical concerns that only came to light as Crown gained more and more power (and thus, had to make bigger and bigger decisions, many of which didn't necessarily have easy solutions.) Crown trusted Milt more than anyone else, but he was terrified that he'd resign and leave him if he knew about the difficult decisions that Crown had to make behind the scenes to achieve the goals that they set out to achieve together. A president can't rule over both floors of congress and take over the judicial branch without breaking a few eggs, y'know?

There's more to what happened between them than anyone knows (Milt had other hangups), but this is an accurate assessment of the dynamic they had.

[rantahead]

If you don't mind me asking, could you do a rant on MitsuSumi & KawaSumi/KawaHima.

Like why people ship them (if you know) and all that because, personally, I find all three disgusting, especially KawaHima.

gladly!

(I know this'll be more of bsu and anti-bsa, but it's an important essential of the story)

ok, so I, personally, ship msu and ksu because I find them fun and more of crack ships then actual canon ships. I see why ppl like them, but they are more of crack ships. the only one that's actually sailing is ksu, but that's basically dead since timeskip.

but before I get into those ships, let's begin with the incest KawaHima.

kh is basically bsa, an incest ship. except the only difference is kh doesn't have same blood (bsa is incest because of their dads are reincarnations of Ashura and Indra and their clans are close, almost to the point of bsa being literally cousins). but kh are ADOPTIVE siblings, either way, they're related, not by blood tho.

I don't understand why ppl like it considering they're literally siblings. it's basically like shipping Boruto and Himawari. and not to mention their age difference.

ok, so now msu & ksu! first we'll start with msu because that won't take as long as the ksu rant:

so the first actual reason ppl started shipping them (actual fans) is the anime when Nue arc took place. that's what got me hooked on them.

but bsa fans only ship them to get Sumire and Mitsuki away from Boruto and Sarada because Mitsuki has only shown to be romantic around Sarada and Boruto (he might be gay for Boruto, but if he's straight, he's only ever shown interest in Sarada). and Sumire, well, need I say more? she is the ONLY character to have confirmed feelings for another character, hence why they want them both out of the way, because, other than Kawaki, they're the biggest threats to their ship. and they say Mitsuki is the captain of their ship, yet they're suddenly gonna want to throw him away the second he has any romantic relationship with either. and he actually never called them a "good couple" in the manga a.k.a canon and only in the Academy in the anime. after graduating and being on the same team, NOT ONCE has he said they make a good couple because he KNOWS they don't. hell, he asked Sarada ONCE about her feelings in anime and in manga, but he just wanted to know, not that he thinks they will make a good couple, but he was curious, not shipping them.

and with Kawaki, they ship Sumire with him just so they'll both be out of the way of their ship. yet Eida has feelings for Kawaki so she'll most likely get him and Sumire has feelings for Boruto so she'll most likely get him. Sarada's only option is Mitsuki, but yes, Kawaki is a victim of the disgusting bsa fandom because neither parties (Boruto, Sarada, Mitsuki, Kawaki) have confirmed their feelings for each other.

and they know how cringy their supposed ship is, which is why they try and say Sumire's love is just a crush and Sarada has confirmed her feelings over blushing and she's a tsundere. they even say Sumire only lied to Sarada so she could recognize her feelings, yet that backfired because after that, the only romantic scene they got was Sarada hugging Boruto in timeskip, like, 66 chapters after Sumire supposedly "manipulated Sarada in realizing her feelings for Boruto".

ok, so I gave a basic rundown, but I'll get into detail about it, starting with Sumire's confession:

ok, so here, antis claim that Sumire only manipulated Sarada into realizing her feelings for Boruto (which didn't happen considering the only romantic thing they have in the ENTIRE manga is the hug at the end of TBV chapter 5, the rest of their moments in the manga were cons to the ship). Sumire was GENUINE about HER feelings, not helping Sarada realize hers.

(btw, for bsa to actually happen, Sarada's personality has to take a big 180 for the ship to actually be considered romantic)

because this comes back up AGAIN:

this is when they KNOW she has DEFINITE feelings for him - REAL feelings. not an act, not a manipulation tactic, REAL FEELINGS, TRUE LOVE.

even Katasuke says "though it's so very obivious". meaning her feelings are true and real.

and say she DID manipulate Sarada to realize her feelings (hell will have to freeze over before it's confirmed that she did), her look wasn't jealous, but more of shock because it came out of nowhere, and she looked concern as Team 7 left and she was looking back at Sumire, probably like "oh no, this idiot is gonna get her heartbroken!". she was worried FOR Sumire, not worried ABOUT Sumire. she didn't think of Sumire as a rival, she thought of her as a close friend (she was her first friend and only friend until Chocho showed up) and she was worried that Boruto (being the dense kid he is) will hurt her.

say, just say, that she lied to Sumire about not having feelings for Boruto (as some antis claim), she'll be an even worse friend than Sakura was to Ino when their friendship ended. at least only one was serious about Sasuke (Sakura), Ino only went after him just to piss Sakura off. whereas Sumire's feelings are real and if Sarada has real feelings, all her moments after chapter 19 will be to piss of Sumire, because remember, she NEVER mentioned Sumire's name when she told Sasuke about Omnipotence, and she hugged Boruto IN FRONT of Sumire. that'll just make her look WORSE than she already does.

but Sarada couldn't care less about romantic feelings, let alone for Boruto. as she confirmed with Eida and Mitsuki.

so they need Sumire to be like Ino and move on with a guy like Sai (Mitsuki), hell, even Kawaki!

the only problem is:

"(koi) = Love between lovers(romantic)"

THAT is the kanji written on Sumire's databook and the cover she first appears in. they're both about SUMIRE, not Sarada as ppl claim. because why would it show up in the same cover Sumire does, huh? suspicious. but her databook cover comfirms her feelings are real.

but now they know that her feelings won't go away so they need Mitsuki and Kawaki to come and take her away so any of them won't be in the way.

msu has had NO interactions in the manga, had the Academy & Nue arcs and the one seen in the Kawaki arc where Mitsuki catches her when she falls over after Kawaki kicks her (all in the anime), well, if you exclude all the random classmate talking during other arcs. but overall, those have the romantic scenes and even then, the only romantic scene is that one seen in the Kawaki arc that isn't even that romantic.

ksu however, in the manga, only has Sumire being Kawaki's caretaker and the anime added a few "romantic" ksu moments, then realized, "wait, this isn't what's happening in the manga", and suddenly, it's like they never happened and ksu never even met.

ppl think that Sumire being Kawaki's caretaker will make her fall in love with him, yet HE asked about HER feelings for BORUTO, not him, BORUTO, his brother. both Mitsuki and Kawaki haven't shown any romantic feelings in ANYONE, including Sarada and Boruto. but at least with Boruto and Sumire, there's a spark there (Boruto being a little too much overprotective of her).

Sarada, however, currently, hopping to and from Mitsuki and Kawaki, so it's kinda hard to tell who'd she'll end up with but it'll probably be Mitsuki because Kawaki ruined Boruto's life. with Boruto, there's just that "he's my teammate, gotta keep him save", "my master told me to protect her so I have to."

say msu or ksu do get a lot of attention, you really think Sumire could look at them like she looks at Boruto. Boruto, himself, debunked that she may be a good actress, yet she can't hide her feelings. she can barely hide her feelings from Boruto in front of anyone. I'm honestly surprised Sarada didn't see the confession coming when Sumire started talking about if Boruto was popular with the girls back in Konoha.

but ppl start creating crazy theories that they'll end up together and that Kishi planned it.

but yes, I'm gonna rap this up:

basically, ppl (some) ship them because they're cute, most ship them to get all three out of the way.

#anti borusara #anti bsa #anti kawahima #kawasumi #mitsusumi #pro borusumi #anti borusara fandom #naruto

[cienie-isengardu]

Arla - Mandalorian name?

ARLA FETT was first presented as as unnamed Jango's sister in Jango Fett: Open Seasons comics mini-series

then properly introduced as Arla Fett in Republic Commando: Order 66 & Imperial Commando: 501st)

Jusik squatted down and resorted to a little mind influence, the most benign, to make her realize he meant her no harm. It was worth trying even if he was stretching their luck. Something told him he had to, and maybe it was simply that he'd walked by one inmate too many. "Ner gai Bard'ika," he said. "Tion gar gai? Gar aliit?" He'd told her his name was Bardan, and asked her name and her clan name. She stared at him. It was as if she didn't believe what she was seeing, or hearing. "Arla," she said. She glanced at the nurse as if the woman was eavesdropping. "Neyar gain Arla Vhett." It wasn't Mando'a, but it was close enough for any Mandalorian to understand. Jusik turned slowly, still squatting, to look at Skirata. The old sergeant's face was a study in suppressed shock. [...] "So who is it?" Vau asked plainly irritated. Mird watched the woman with head cocked tail slapping. "We'd better have a good reason for taking a psychotic killer with us tonight." "We have," said Jusik. "That's Arla Fett-Jango's missing sister." [RC:O66]

and who at some point became a member of the Mandalorian Death Watch (a group that killed her parents while hunting Jaster Mereel and True Mandalorians on Concord Dawn)

Jusik steeled himself to look. He was expecting worse. He wasn't sure if the dark brown mark was a tattoo, or a scar, or a branding mark, but he knew exactly what it was because he'd seen one only hours ago, or a version of it: the Death Watch emblem, the ragged winged W shape. It didn't surprise him. She'd been spoils of war as far as they were concerned, an animal to be used, and marked as their property. "A surgeon can remove that," Kina Ha said. "Would that help?" Arla pulled down her shirt again. "You don't get it. You can't guess because it's so bad." "Whatever it was, you were a child of fourteen, Walon tells me. When we're adult, we look back and judge our childhood actions by unfairly adult rules." Arla didn't turn around. "It's not a wound or a humiliation. It's a badge." "Explain." "After I was kidnapped, after it stopped being a nightmare, I stayed with them. I became one of them. I stayed. I could have run away. But I stayed." [IC:501st]

So whatever she was a direct descendant of Mandalorian Fett clan or she just "joined" Mandalorians, she can be count as one of them.

The newest sources material introduced two other Mandalorian women of the same name:

ARLA SHALE (source: SWTOR short story "Seeing Red", can be read here)

Ballag started picking fights and spilling blood to prove his strength. The latest and most daring trouble was with Clan Shale. They were an old and respected clan with the trophies and glory to prove it. The body on the screen deserved a better death with a better enemy. “What do you expect with Ballag running them?” Rass said. “He’s going to run Nerak into the ground if he keeps this up.” He scoffed. He didn’t like Ballag. Too stubborn to lead, too stupid to see it. “I’ve spoken to Arla Shale.” Jekiah said. “Fought with her during that raid on Darvannis. She’s solid but won’t let her people be treated like this. It won’t end without a lot more bodies. With Mandalore gone, we need to stand as one.”

and

“A duel?” Arla asked, her lined and scarred face betraying no emotion. Without a moment of consideration, she nodded to Jekiah. “As the Arbiter decides.” No hint of fear in her eyes, only steely certainty. Ballag hesitated. He stood a head taller than everyone. His eyes were an uncanny yellow and flicked from Jekiah to Arla, the tiniest hint of unease in his gaze. Arla was experienced- maybe not faster, maybe not stronger, but Ballag would have to be a blind to consider her an easy target. Arla arched an eyebrow at the pause.

ARLA HA'RANGIR (source: SWTOR)

The closer thing to ARLA in Mando'a dictonary I managed to find is the word MANDOKARLA which means to having the right traits / spirit for Mandalorian.

So I guess we can assume Arla is an old/ancient mandalorian name?

#star wars #arla fett #arla ha'rangir #arla shale #mandalorian names #seeing more characters named arla gives me the most crack-ish thought that Fett Senior that may or may not be part of #an ancient mandalorian clan Fett (which i hope he is from mando culture himself) #upon seeing his firstborn child gave the daughter an ancient mando name #and then named his second child just jango XDDDD #swtor #swtor spoilers #Cienie's take on Mandalorian culture #look i love arla fett but i'm furious about 90% of RepCom take on her #so i'm pleased swtor gives me more arlas making her name more common than jango XDDD

[aedificloudio]

JUST REALISED IM LIKE 66% OF THE MAFUAKI TAG????? AND NO ONES POSTED CRAZY INSANE BRAINROT HERE??? IM ALONE??? WHAT THE FUCK MAN

ok whatever i’ll i i here’s more insanity under the cut

this is genuinely just brainrot, headcanons, and random character analysis abt mafuaki and their dynamic

mafuyu is aromantic in my brain 🫶 so her dating him is genuinely just her fucking around bc shes bored and wants to feel something

also mafuyu is good at everything too so its double hitting the complex

hes never gonna be good enough

LIKE mafuyu's whole thing is being the perfect daughter who is good at everything despite not giving a shit about any of it, so she finds it really funny that akito has self esteem issues and is constantly comparing his abilities to other people

shes probably like

wow. this is smth i really dont experience

and ig she also compares it to ena's behaviour and shes defs like "oh yeah they sure as fuck are related'

coz the shinonomes are teeming with jealousy and inferiority because they can never live up to the standard they want

ena has complicated feelings about art because all her life she's being told she'll never make it

and akito knows hes nowhere near as good as the rest of vbs and he tries to hide it behind a tough guy persona

its so gap moe...

MAFUYU drags him to her room one day and keeps him in a fucking garbage bag/bodybag duct taped and cuffed and hes like freaking out bc even tho he did consent to this (he wanted to see her room) the fact she WENT THROUGH w this at all w/o a hint of remorse is downright terrifying

also when he looks around her room and how barren it is hes like 😟

"ohhh im so fucked why am i here"

he also accidentally finds out mafuyu composes music and its better than anything hes ever written to the point he fucking cries LOL

i would assume like

their rls is super casual coz theyre both busy

but they make time to see each other because a) akito gets to flex he has a girlfriend b) mafuyu finds him decently entertaining to which she's surprised about c) its a win-win

AND IDK its just super entertaining to me

thinking abt a shitty crack beach episode 25ji and vbs crossover.....

mafuyu in a swimsuit 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

mizuki in a sun dress or some shit and refusing to go in the water

kanade fucking dies.png

ena is there for her socmed

kohane and an in couple drip and they fucking slay

toya is barely allowed to go and hes in some expensive swimsuit and kinda pathetic. like. hes all "wow this is my first time!"

akito thinks ena is so embarassing rn but Holy Shit Mafuyu Has D Cups

hes so repressed abt being gay he tricks himself into liking boobs. or maybe hes bi idk

teenage boy crisis of "NO i cant like men i love boobs ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️"

(guy who dreams about making out with toya)

also i just think its funny that toya is completely oblivious in this au until either halfway or the end bc hes fr just

"yayy i have friends!!"

😭😭😭

akito is scared shitless of mafuyu tho bc  he's begun to notice her smiles don't reach her eyes

and any friend of ena's has hella issues

i don't think mafuyu ever really opens up to him about her mental issues but akito isnt completely dumb, he can kinda sense that theres smth wrong w her, especially like. the fact she has an empty aquarium in her room is fucking FREAKY

also the way he has to be snuck in there is just 💀 ermm rip girlie

mafuyu's parents knock on her door and she throws him out the window

i’m so normal abt them

#mafuaki #project sekai #mafuyu asahina #akito shinonome

[lil228]

Red White and Royal Blue Notes Day 1

WARNING: Spoilers for both the Red White and Royal Blue movie and the book up to chapter 5

I think it’s funny that Alex’s love story is referred to as Shakespearean considering what’s to come. 

“It’s funny how you think everything is about you” (page 14). Lol- especially bc he’s the literal main character of this story.  

“Systematically drunk” (15) LOL

“Mutual antagonists” (17) 

“Sorry I’m not obsessed with you like everyone else” (18). Oh buddy that’ll change soon. (Alex about Henry)

OMG that whole conversation is so good!

Cakegate is really funny for some reason.

“As the president all I want is to have the CIA fake your death, and ride the dead kid sympathy into a second term.” (23) I see where Alex gets it from. 

The foreshadowing! Like Zarah telling Alex to gush about Henry like he’s his prom date.  

“I’ll do it but I won’t have any fun” (Alex) “God, I hope not.” (Zarah 27) HAH! Alex is going to have fun, maybe too much fun.

Look I know Alex thinks it’s nerdy but if someone told me Great Expectations was their favorite book I would like them even more. 

Ugh! the foreshadowing in this is just so good like when Nora speculate on why Alex has to sign an NDA and one of the reason she give is that he’s (the prince) is Gay. Lol (page 39)

Lol Alex being unable to decide if he Texan or Mexican side is more upset about English Breakfast (page 41)

Foreshadowing- Alex says Henry is “annoyingly attractive (43)

  I don’t know if being an English major broke me or if I’m a mega nerd, but I want to write a literary analysis paper on this so badly.  

Alex’s reasoning for wanting to get into politics is so wholesome (43)

Henry’s interaction with the caner patient is so cute (45)!

“You’re not the prince of me” (47). It’s just so good. Has this author written anything else? Please tell me they have. OMG they have! I will be needing all of their books now thank you very much.

“Are you trying to psycho analyzed me?” (49) lol, I feel like I say a variation of the this all the time when I’m with my psych major friend.

“I’m sensing an ellipsis (Henry) “It’s just…” (Alex) 51. This book sort of dose that thing that White Teeth did where it’s aware that it’s a novel, but it doesn't do it the same way. It’s more subtle and uses more irony.

 Okay Alex and Henry bonding over Star Wars is sweet and kind of nerdy. I like it. 

“But isn’t there something to be valued in a happy ending as well?” (52)

Alex taking a class called The Press and The Presidency is absolutely hilarious to me. 

That one commenter ships it (55)

“B*tch McConnell- I’m dying homygod 

Like Senator Luna, I to can be easily bribed with candy

More foreshadowing on 57. Also I don’t know why but I’m not getting good vibes from Senator Luna

Old money Sith powers also has me dying

The president of united states comparing her children to possums is so funny. 

Also her reminding her children to not discuss their murder plots in front of her

Ugh this book is so good! 

“Leeme romance the hell out of some focus groups” (66) This book is gold 

  The text exchange on 68-9 is amazing

I can only hope to write something this amazing one day.

Nora asking Alex if he’s reading fanfiction about himself made me laugh out loud- at work, granted it’s deader than Marley in this place today

The whole bit with the Turkey is just glorious! Ya did it to yourself Alex.

The way Henry talks to his dog is so cute, and so it the fact that he watches The Great British Bake Off 

Amy’s great!

Page 90- Yes Alex go off!

I love Bea, she’s great, peak sister energy

June is also peak sister energy. 

95- more foreshadowing when June talks about it being like a rom com

“You know I love chaos” (Nora)- 96

I think its really sweet that Henry wants to be a writer 

107- the first kiss! (Squeals)

#red white and royal blue #books

[eriexplosion]

Idk how to copy paste emoji on phone very well but Happy, Angsty, Shippy and Family for Echo Badbatch and Athelstan Vikings bc I am, nothing if not Predictable. Also Crosshair bc ilu 💜

*Rubs my gay little hands together* Hope you're ready to read because I am not joking when I say all this came out to over 1500 words.

Echo first, our beloved sad bby.

🟡 - Happy

99 Always watched over their batch from the very beginning and probably the first real memory they have of an ori'vod paying specific attention to them was 99 stopping what he was doing to check on them after a hard training session. It was right after they got their name, when they still very much did not appreciate it, and the best way they could think of to protest was to go to the opposite end and just completely clam up. Can't be an Echo if you just don't talk. 99 aas the one to check on them all crammed up in a tiny corner and he coaxed them out and got them talking again - when he talked, he made it seem okay to be an Echo, and that was a first step to embracing the name their batch gave them, even if it still took some time to completely accept it.

...This came out more bittersweet than fully happy but. I TRIED.

🔴 - Angsty/Sad

Rex had to be the one to bring Fives up to them after they were rescued. Not because they weren't thinking about him, they were, ever since they came out of the fridge and saw that he wasn't there to greet them. But they knew Fives wouldn't have EVER passed up the chance to save them, so... if he isn't here, they already know why. It'll be painful to find out how he died, they know he's dead, and they're already in so much pain as it is both emotionally and physically that they've been terrified to bring it up. Rex knows what they're doing, so he lets it go for a little while but he can't let them leave with the batch without having this conversation, which is just as painful as they both expected it to be.

🟣 - Romantic/Sexual/Shippy

Echo is SO so shy when it comes to romance, especially coming into the Batch. They're the New person and very much coming in on a highly established team with longstanding relationships between them, and they didn't come in with expectations of ever being anything but the outsider. They are in fact SO resigned to always being the outsider that they do not notice they're being flirted with for several weeks. Tech is the first one to give up on subtlety and just ask them if they're interested in being more than Squadmates.

👪 - Family

Echo, as a reg, has the best relationship with the vode in general. Where the batch is super reluctant to intermingle due to the general tensions that have managed to root in between them and the regs, to Echo they're still very much important Family. And so they take it super personally when things keep erupting into food fight violence. They really thought they'd have more time to try to work on getting everyone to get along.

Unfortunately, instead, Order 66 happened. And now not even their batch family is together anymore. This is just going to make them more desperate though to make everyone get along as they meet up with more vode, though, because goddamnit there are not enough clones left to be fighting like this.

Crosshair next to keep the Batch babes together:

🟡 - Happy

He's actually in a good mood much more often than most people would assume, he just doesn't show it in ways that anyone outside of his batch would notice. Happy Crosshair tends to sit closer to people, sometimes lean his whole weight on them, it's like having a cat really. People that aren't used to it tend to think he's trying to aggressively get in their space to prove a point, which is what Echo thought at first when he started planting himself directly in their way all the time until they actually got to know him more.

🔴 - Angsty/Sad

Do I dare do the Lula headcanon? Do I? I think I do.

Lula wasn't always just the name of a stuffed toy. Once, a few regs got their hands on a tooka that they brought back to Kamino for the cadets to take a look at, since the kids don't get off planet except for the occasional starship tour bringing back small animals is always a huge hit for the children.

Wrecker managed to get his hands on the little tooka and brought it back to their room, named her Lula, and absolutely adored the little creature just as much as he loves his Lula now. It's adorable. But this is a Crosshair headcanon, so where does he come in?

Well, the kaminoans didn't think much of the distraction of a pet, but they let Wrecker keep it for a short while because they saw potential for a test. She turns up missing Wrecker is losing his entire mind, and in the middle of it all Crosshair gets called in for a solo test. There's just one target, and the real test isn't if he can hit her it's if he'll do what he's told even though it will destroy Wrecker. He does, but not because of any real will to follow orders, he just knows it will be worse for them if he doesn't. He makes the replacement Lula to try to make up for it - it's not the same, but it's all he can do. (If this sounds similar to my Twelve Seconds fic it's because I imagine they did this to him multiple times with increasingly brutal targets to make sure he actually would shoot anything he was directed to before putting the batch out in the field.)

🟣 - Romantic/Sexual/Shippy

He probably gets the most hookups outside of the batch and literally no one knows HOW he manages this, because it's not his pleasant demeanor. Hitting on people usually takes the form of antagonizing them and seeing if they smack him or make out with him first and somehow people keep taking the second one.

He also tends to mood drop after them, but still won't recognize that this probably means there's something he's not getting out of it (like actual companionship) and so he comes back upset half the time to lay down with one of them and Radiate Sadness. Usually Wrecker, because he has the most Comforting presence and they've been together the longest by FAR.

👪 - Family

It is pretty much his only priority at all actually. There is a reason he takes it SO hard when he thinks they've abandoned him and it's because he has genuinely not at any point bothered to find anything else to live for. (And the reason he's still going at this point is that he does hope that they'll push back against his attitude and just make him come home so he can save face by not having been the one to give in first.)

Also the softest part of his brain really envies the life Cut and his family have, far away from fighting, but he tries not to listen to that part of himself because he's 1000% sure that kind of life is not for them.

And SOFT BOY ATHELSTAN:

🟡 - Happy

Athelstan keeps all of his journals as they fill up, so that he can look back on them and reflect. This means that he ends up with dozens of these, and he can open any of them to a random page and easily guess when he did it just by what he finds there. Even if it's just a sketch, how he draws the world and people around him changes as he shifts from being afraid to truly feeling like he belongs.

This means he can go back and usually pinpoint right around where he started to fall in love with someone, because he can see it in how his art of them changes.

🔴 - Angsty/Sad

Even years down the line he still has nightmares about his dead brothers. He's tried to move on from it and make peace and in many ways he has, but the nightmares haven't gone anywhere. Sometimes he thinks he's forgotten his brothers faces but then the bad dreams make it very much apparent that he hasn't.

These are also the only dreams that Ragnar can't help much with, which drives him insane because Ragnar HATES to think there's anything he can't fix. But this is one of them.

🟣 - Romantic/Sexual/Shippy

His favorite way to wake up is kisses, so he gets them every morning now from SOMEONE. Usually Ragnar or Floki will get him up this way but if they're not available metamours will do it (Helga especially loves to give him an adorable kiss to the cheek and make him make a SQUEAK of surprise.)

Of course being in a partner's arms just makes it better, please hold him while he wakes up. (This also helps when he's been having bad dreams, which he has OFTEN. As long as they're not the above mentioned brother nightmares that is.)

👪 - Family

So obviously my headcanons and fic go off the rails sometime around season three but I adore Alfred too much to let him go just because of something as small as 'Athelstan isn't fucking Judith in this version' so therefore. Athelstan has baby Alfred with someone else, in this verse Helga. They're not Together as a couple, but they're close and Helga is happy to parent a child with him, once a polycule becomes Complex enough it's all just coparenting anyway.

Also they're precious together so sue me. He loves her, and whether it's romantic or not really doesn't matter to him, she's just important to him.

#Eri Answers #The Bad Batch #cloneshipping #Vikings #My Vikings headcanons become increasingly specific and more unhinged from canon but you know #we're having fun here #headcanon posts

[a-random-pillow]

Absolutely Random Star Wars AU

Made with Wheel Spin:

Reble Crew 

Poilet/Leader: Thrawn

Brawler/Figther: Rex

Gunder/Mechanic: Anakin

Jedi/Force user: Hera

Team Son/Daugther: Ezra

Droid: R2D2

Imperials

Leader: Obi-Wan

2nd: Leia

Mad Scinisteist: Sabine

Goon 1: Zeb

Goon 2: Han Solo

Future Traitor: Chopper

Inquisitor/Sith: Kallus

Droid: C3-PO

Others

Fulkerum: Maul 

Not Imp Sith: Luke

Pirate: Ashoka

Exiled Jedi: Mace 

Force Ghost: Kannan

New Mandalore: Cody

Bounty Hunter: Chewbacca 

Thoughts:

This ghost/rebel crew is a freaking mess! Thraw is leading which means the crew has to deal with regular art exertions and the blue man rarely explains his plans! I assume Anakin just kinda shows up on Thrawn's doorstep after Order 66 with Rex and R2 and Thrawn just decided to help him overthrow the government.

Since Kannan is a ghost and Hera is a Jedi... FORCE GHOST ROMANCE TIME BOISS!! Kannan dies in order 66 despite Depa's best efforts but he sticks around for... reasons idk. He meets Hera who is force sensitive in this AU and I assume he tries to teach her how to be a Jedi. They end up falling in love, despite Kannan being dead.

 Maybe Kannan is still the one who finds Ezra, he is still meant to be the boy's master but the kid can't see him yet. So he calls Hera who helps him adopt his son. Of course, Thrawn, Anakin and Rex are also space dads.

OMG Evil Obi with Evil Leia holy shit. Obi-Wan is a Sith with Leia as his apprentice, if Mustafar happens he probably thinks Anakin is dead so he raises Luke and Leia. Palps is probably dead as well since Obi is a Sith. Since Luke is a rogue Sith I assume he bailed on the empire because he is a good boy. He is probably trying to be a Jedi but he has zero clue how to or what it means to be a Jedi. 

Sabine and Leia are evil BFFs(Or gfs) and I love them for it. Zeb and Kallus are also gay and evil. Ashoka joins Hondo's crew, Maul is being a sneaky bastard helping the rebellion, and Cody is a king! Somehow I imagine this Mandalore is the most functional we've seen in a while. Chewy and Han are still friends I imagine, even though ones are an imp and the other is a bounty hunter. Mace is a depressed Grandpa who is very happy to find out he got a great-grand padawan and is less happy when he finds out Skywalker has 25% Custody.

All that not even mentioning the drama between the Skywalker twins feeling like they got replaced by Ezra. Anakin being that Obi took the kids and Obi-wan just wants them all to be a happy family(Yes even the ghost crew). This would be wild!

#star wars #leia star wars #star wars clone wars #star wars chopper #star wars rebels #chopper #chewbacca #commander cody #leia organa #obi wan #obi wan kenobi #grand admiral thrawn #thrawn #anakin star wars #darth maul #maul #sabine wren #hera syndulla #kanan jarrus #mace windu #zeb orrelios #agent kallus #alexsandr kallus #ashoka tano #captain rex #luke skywaker #sw rebels #star wars shitpost

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Artists Research - '60s and '70s Zeitgeist

America in the 1960s and '70s was an era of social upheaval: civil rights protests, the Cold War, the Vietnam war, etc.

American culture played a big role in defining global culture.

Post-WWII America

The early 1960s in America was a post-WW2 era: during and immediately after World War II, most of the mainstream western art was patriotic and optimistic, rallying countries around the idea of a robust, victorious nation.

During WW2, many women were encouraged and empowered to enter the work force due to all the men being away to fight in the war. The country was declining in manpower, so the solution was to completely change established gender roles, and in essence, change what it meant to be a woman. This is why we see many ads and such from this era that appear 'feminist' in their efforts to encourage women to join the workforce. Being a working woman who contributed to the war effort now meant that you were a patriot and a good American, and more than anything, a good woman.

However, once the war was over, the nation no longer had any need for women in the work force. They did however need to increase their population due to the casualties of war. So they shifted back to traditional gender roles. Once again, popular culture started advertising and advocating for women to stay at home and take care of the kids. This was presented as a woman's innate role in life, and to not fulfil it meant to not be a good woman.

War, Politics, and social change

The Cold War also defined much of the 1960s from the end of WW2 to to the collapse of communism. Proxy wars were being raged by both the US to the USSR.

This clash between communism and capitalism gave rise to the Red Scare in America. This was propaganda aimed at vilifying and creating fear of communism and the Soviet Union.

It also gave rise to the Truman Doctrine: a Cold War foreign policy set forth by President Harry S Truman, which stated that the US would give aid to any country that was supposedly under the threat of communism.

This doctrine in turn caused America's involvement in the Vietnam war. Many American youth protested this, which gave rise to the hippie movement of the 70s.

The Cuban Missile Crisis - This was the closest the Cold War came to becoming an all out war, or even worse, a nuclear war.

Hippie culture from the 1960s continued on, but the peaceful protests of the last generation took on a more demanding and often violent note. The Cold War continues, propelling innovation. The consumer culture of the 1950s and 60s had lead to debt and the 70s experienced a recession that caused a disillusion with optimism and structures of authority. The idea of a single style for most people disappeared and a multidude of trends appeared across all levels of society.

This was a time of great social change. This was when civil rights movements were in full swing. (poverty, segregation, feminism, gay/trans rights, etc.).

pop culture

In 1960, nearly half of America's population is under 18 years old. It's a young society, and the most affluent generation in U.S. history.

Definitive reads of the decade include To Kill a Mockingbird and Valley of the Dolls.

The Beatles are heard everywhere: pocket-sized transistor radios, eight-track stereos in cars, and portable record players. Everyone with a radio can sing along to the thrilling quality of stereo FM broadcasts. Although Elvis works hard to keep up, music is changing for good. The brightest stars are linked to the British Invasion, and the Motown and San Francisco sounds.

Mainstream religion is on the wane, except in growing evangelicalism and the new kind of relaxed non-denominational churches. In '66, the TIME cover story will actually ask "Is God Dead?" By the end of the decade.

Drug use was very popular. students and youth drawn to the counterculture experimented with drugs such as LSD and marijuana.

TV is the new craze. Color TV arrives in the early '60s and is embraced far more rapidly than the old black-and-white sets. By the end of the decade, 95 percent of homes have at least one TV.

Technology

The 1960s and 70s was also a time of great technological advancements. Especially in America, new innovations were constantly being made. Much of the technology we enjoy today was made during this boom.

Due to the explosion of television and cable, the film industry experienced an all time low. To combat this, the industry invested in magnifying celebrity culture and the allure of fame, bringing about the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame Stars.

This was still when celebrity culture was new.

Art

Music played a big role in this anti establishment culture. For example, punk and rock subcultures in the '60s and then disco in the '70s were largely a counter-cultural space. they were spaces of respite where marginalised people could be free from social barriers for just one night. It must be noted that the punk and rock subcultures originated from the youth of Britain.

Art movements in the 1960s was also very anti-establishment. with the rise of consumerism and the start of late stage capitalism, 60s artists were crucial to the emergence of social, political movements that defined this time. popular art styles in the 1960s included minimalism, conceptual art, psychedelic art, and pop art. the growth of consumerist culture and the increasing commodification of art caused many artists to revolt through their utilisation of commercial materials (especially in their imagery), emphasis on technique, and presentation of their art through installations/scluptures that were free and easily accessible to the public. while this was in part to rebel against abstract expressionism and the art world's institutions, it was, on a larger scale, a movement against everything the western world stood for. (eg: Andy Warhol, Ana Mendieta, Gordon Matta-Clarke)

Postmodernism emerged in response to modernism. it developed out of a skeptisicm for realism and the ideological systems that kept current systems of authority in power. It was a rejection of the idealism of the Modernist era and explored contradiction, juxtaposition and dystopia.

Postmodernism developed out of society’s realization that though they had been fighting for rights and freedoms for decades, the world was plagued with inequity. Systems weren’t changing to improve most people’s lives quickly enough. The 70s were not a time of optimism but more a time of anger and cynicism based on the ongoing suffering of so many areas of society. Artists were rejecting expected structures just as society was rejecting traditional expectations.

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Day 66: Matt's Final Words

This has been such a fucking crazy season full of so many ups and downs but overall I had a good time and I'm happy I came. I made it a lot further this time around, after completely embarrassing myself and letting Kris down my last time on All Stars. But this time around, I worked hard and I'm proud of myself. It hits deep that I'm being eliminated because of a surprise purge round when I thought I had made it to the final this whole time, but that's part of the game and I can only blame myself. I made a lot of new friends and memories here this summer but I'm ready to get back to real life now. As for Cesar and I, that's obviously completely done, there is NO future for us. He presented himself one way in the beginning, I fell for that version of him and then got completely blindsided when he decided to show his ass later in the season. Cesar doesn't give a fuck about anybody but himself, it's very clear, he was only using me for convenient ass. That's fine and all but be real about it, don't lead me on. He really wanted Cameron instead, a queer baiting gay for pay loser who was only looking to use him. So jokes on Cesar, he got played and I was the one to eliminate his sorry ass from the game, so I got my little pound of flesh in the end. Anyways, Christin, Sophia, Adam, Brandon and Jayla yall got this! Take it home for me!

Matt

[authoralexharvey]

For the Tarot Ask: The Magician, The Sun, and Three of Wands

Thanks for the ask! Answering from this list.

01. THE MAGICIAN: SPARK OF MAGIC (What inspired you to write your novel?) 

The answer changes a bit depending on which book we're talking about, all varying levels of cool. Sorry, I'm about to talk a lot.

For TOOD, the biggest catalyst was, well, a few things. I was in a queer lit class in college that I absolutely hated tbh. For my final, I made a short zine/collection? about the nonbinary experience from my perspective and one thing I included in that was a short story called Morning Afters, which was about two people who ended up being the main characters of TOOD. The MC, Quinn, is someone whose body changes every day, and they are trying to leave their fuck-buddy's house before they wake up but end up being discovered and the two bond over their different gender experiences.

I also had really nasty beef with this one cishet indie author dude who considered himself the savior of the gays and said queer people are so bad at writing their own books he has to do it for them--yes, really--so I wrote TOOD to spite him because he's a shitty man and a shittier author.

Anyway.

TWEfA was born out of my love of the Soulsborne franchise and also from the cannibalized corpse of an older novel I wrote a very long time ago. When I was like. Fifteen. A lot has changed since then. Maka and Dakota have stayed the most true to their original selves and I kinda... rebuilt everything around them. I'm sure some elements of it were also inspired by Madoka Magica. In fact, I guarantee some of it was.

Little Vicious Minds came about because I was playing Skyrim and am very mad still about the limited options of what you can do with/to Maven Black-Briar and so I resolved to make a story about someone who decides to destroy her criminal empire. And it kinda,,, blossomed from there.

Lilium was really a love letter to my depressed teenaged self because I wrote it originally in high school when everything fucking sucked. I see myself a lot in both of the main characters in different ways. It's also about your dead brother coming back as a demon which I have no real experience with so. *shrugs*

ASMLP started as a random thought because I love spellbooks and think they aren't used enough in fantasy so I resolved to write a book that required spellbooks and then I... made a whole magic and college system around that and it kind of evolved from there.

BTMS started as me wanting to write vampire erotica and became... very much not that.

I could go on. It really does just depend.

19. THE SUN: POSITIVITY (What is your greatest writing strength or skill?)

I like to think I'm good at dialogue and also at making people fucking sad. Highest praise I think I've gotten yet is a comment/review I got about Lilium about how well I got across the sense of loss and grief one of the MCs endures--and this is before I had lost anyone in my life to the inevitability of death. I don't want like. Instagram-worthy prose or anything but I would like for someone to feel like I just ripped their heart out of their chest and presented it to them when they're done reading, you know? And I think I'm pretty great about that so far.

66. THREE OF WANDS: FORESIGHT (Do you know what your book cover is going to look like? Do you have a color in mind?)

I don't have to imagine for ASMLP, because I already have one! You can see it here. As for my other works.... mmmm...Back when I wrote on Wattpad, I had to have a kind of idea for a cover because you were shooting yourself in the foot if you posted books without covers there. But since leaving there... well, not entirely. I also haven't gotten as far/thought as far ahead as I have with ASMLP--and in truth part of me buying the cover was to give myself an incentive to finish the fucking book. So far has been kind of working. I'm trying to finish by March lol

I haven't thought about covers for anything else yet. I should start doing so for BTMS since I want to publish it before or after ASMLP so we'll see. My main rules about covers is I vehemently refuse to have people on the cover. I hate it. Loathe it. The shadowed hands for ASMLP is as close to having people on the cover as I'm willing to get. I want my covers to have fancy typography or to make a focal point of important objects. I will settle for nothing less.

Thanks again for the ask and sorry for talking your ear off!

#alex has the floor #long post #asmlp #btms #lilium #tood #twefa

[monster--boyfriend]

I won’t keep track of all those questions if I read through them all, so let’s see what questions we get when I ask you to do multiples of 11.

11. Do you think you have a particularly unique view on life?

I think I do but also that's probably because I keep it to myself a lot of the time so I'm not sure if or how many people would agree with me. To put it as simply as possible despite everything I'm overall a long term optimist and I believe in a potential for good things.

22. Do you want children? Why or why not?

I really do. I thought I didn't for years, then I realized that I did but I didn't think I should be allowed to have them. Now I think I should be allowed to have them but that I can't until I'm more financially stable and I don't know if I ever will be.

But I want to raise kids, raise people as I saw someone put it. I want to be able to take in children or have children, and care for and raise them so they can be happy and healthy adults, be someone they can depend on. And I don't even feel like I want kids to somehow like, keep my family name going? It's more like I personally feel like I can and want to contribute to society as a whole by caring for and readying the next generation.

33. What are your predictions for the next few years? Or tomorrow, even?

I think 2023 is going to be another slow year for me. After I just fucked up my knee again on Saturday I feel like surgery for that is inevitable. Then I'm supposed to have top surgery something in fall 2023. So for next year at least, I think it will be another year of healing.

44. What's your pettiest "dealbreaker" in a relationship or friendship?

I don't think any of my dealbreakers are petty. I think having a standard, any standard, is fair. If something is a dealbreaker then it is such for a reason and if you try to ignore it because it's 'petty' then it could just become something you resent so much that in the end it will drive you apart anyway.

55. What reminds you of your childhood?

Most distinctly the smell of Van Houtte brand Vanilla Hazelnut coffee. It always takes me back to a different time and place. Particularly the smell of it outside in the morning.

The gas station on the corner near our house sold that brand for years and I would go over there and get mom and I coffee some mornings when there was none in the house. Usually after staying up all night so I was awake anyway. I know it wasn't technically childhood the way people think of it because I was probably 18/19/20 years old but something about that period of my life feels a bit like my childhood.

66. If you are gay, did you struggle to accept your sexuality? Would you change it if you could?

I think I struggled more with accepting that I wasn't Just A Lesbian more than I ever struggled with being not straight. Accepting my sexuality was tied directly to accepting my gender which was hard to nail down. I also had to deal with some outside forces trying to put me in to specific boxes of what I was allowed to be according to their opinion. So while being Not Straight was easy to approach and accept, being not A Lesbian was strangely difficult to accept.

77. How long can you go without socializing?

I suppose that depends on what you consider socializing. If you mean keep to myself and speak to no other people by any means of communication, then not long at all. If I'm completely alone in the house all day I will at some point speak to someone of my own accord. I don't do well if I don't have someone nearby, physically or via text messaging in some way, to reach out to. I need low key constant validation that I have worth in peoples lives. It's the mental illness. As far as going out and hanging out with people? I can put that off for weeks. Though that is mostly because I don't have many local friends at all.

88. What's an unusual but useful trait or talent you have?

I've mentioned before but I'm very good at navigating as long as I'm not underground.

99. Do you enjoy "slice of life" media?

I really do but they have to also have some kind of story? If it's JUST slice of life, I tend to get a little bored? I miss when shows had more filler episodes I guess, I want there to be breathing room. I want that down time.

Those were all actually really interesting questions, especially since you didn't really pick any just gave me a grouping

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I posted 25,693 times in 2022

That's 14,507 more posts than 2021!

167 posts created (1%)

25,526 posts reblogged (99%)

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I tagged 1,487 of my posts in 2022

#nashing my teeth violently - 105 posts

#fave - 82 posts

#unreality - 36 posts

#shining nikki - 27 posts

#stranger things - 24 posts

#strangerthingsedit - 14 posts

#yes - 13 posts

#art - 13 posts

#illustration - 13 posts

#will byers - 10 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#being an unabashed fan… writing fanfic… being so preoccupied with songs and driving through the mountains and iced lattes and my little gays

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

How s5 Byler would go down if I was in charge:

Will officially comes out (and he actually says he’s Gay. Like no just “I like men” he says the word gay)

Mike feels threatened by this because of his own internalized homophobia and sexuality, and gets upset

Will is understandably heartbroken and mad

Jonathan blows up at Mike

Next episode

Mike and Will haven’t resolved this yet, both are still upset and visibly uncomfortable w each other

Will and Jonathan talk about what happened, Jonathan is a fantastic brother once again

Dramatic shot of Mike staring at Will’s painting

He is visibly frustrated trying to figure himself out, thinking about Eleven etc., angry at himself for losing his best friend

Next episode

Mike thinks back to the “crazy together” scene

Realizes if he is gay and Will is gay, they can be gay together (platonically, not a couple in his eyes yet) just like they said in that scene

Mike tries to talk to Will, Jonathan refuses to leave them alone together, they end up talking in a closet for privacy with Jonathan outside the door “just in case”

Mike admits to Will he got upset because he is also gay and didn’t want to admit that to himself, they do the “crazy together” thing again, sappy mushy stuff, they hug and are best friends again.

Important that they are not romantically involved yet because Will still hasn’t fully gotten over Mike’s outburst. Jonathan is still wary of Mike despite Will forgiving him

Romantic tension is rebuilt over the following episodes

During the climax of main plot there is a Byler kiss (maybe Mike does it to save Will or vice versa)

Also side non-byler details: all the other gay characters get to actually call themselves gay or lesbian, and Robin gets a girlfriend. Mike gets more character development other than “boyfriend guy” and Eleven decides that she doesn’t need a man, or anybody.

66 notes - Posted July 9, 2022

#4

kitten school newsletter call that a school mewsletter

92 notes - Posted October 5, 2022

#3

amaury guichon will ask if somebody's already made something out of chocolate and not wait for an answer

104 notes - Posted September 28, 2022

#2

Among us babies are like butterfly wings when you touch them the color comes off on your fingers

112 notes - Posted February 18, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

As much as everybody's justifiably railing on Chris Pratt for his acting, after watching the new trailer I honestly don't think Anya Taylor-Joy is a very good fit for Peach either. The problem isn't that they're bad actors, it's that they are not voice actors. When I hear Anya's or Chris's voice I don't picture Peach and Mario, I picture two regular adult people who wouldn't stand out in a coffee shop. Which isn't the point of animated movies and voice acting! ESPECIALLY with Mario! This is supposed to be a movie about cartoonish characters in a video game fantasy world saving the day, and their voices should fit with that theme. That's why Charles Martinet's Mario voice works so well, because it makes sense for what Mario is supposed to be. This trend of giving voice acting specific jobs to non-voice actors who have no experience with this kind of work is detrimental to animation and film! It is removing job opportunities from people who have spent their lives learning this craft and handing it over to a celebrity with no experience just because they're famous. The beauty of voice acting and animation in general is how you are completely creating a character. The whole point of voice acting is that you don't point to a character in a film and say, "hey, that's Chris Pratt" the point is that people will point to the charcater and go "oh, new character!" This movie is more and more frustrating to me the more I realize how much it feels like a money grab exclusively because of the casting. The animation, the music, and the effects are all completely perfect for a Mario movie, but so many of the acting choices feel like someone just rifled through a list of "100 most popular celebrities" and chose whoever was vaguely similar to "average white man voice" or "average white woman voice". No matter how popular these people are or how good they are at acting in front of a camera or on stage, they can not voice act.

10,140 notes - Posted November 29, 2022

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Fun and Fancy Free (1947) Sentence Meme

Under the cut you will find 200+ sentences from the movie Fun and Fancy Free to use for your roleplaying enjoyment!

1.      “You know, you worry too much. In fact, everybody worries too much.”

2.      “Here, just look at the morning paper. Turn to any page.”

3.      “You’ll find the whole world worryin’ about some future age.”

4.      “Why get so excited? What’s gonna be is gonna be.”

5.      “The end of the worlds been coming since 1903.”

6.      “You bet you’ll find trouble!”

7.      “Take it easy, son! Why, you’re just a bundle of nerves!”

8.      “You see? Jumpy as a cat.”

9.      “Comes from always rushin’ into things.”

10.   “Hmph! Now what have I done?”

11.   “Guess I don’t know my own strength.”

12.   “Sorry to upset you, miss. Have you on your feet in a jiffy.”

13.   “Your mama isn’t here, honey. But if I can be of service?”

14.   “Howdy, chum! Why so glum?”

15.   “Say, what’s the matter? You worried about something too?”

16.   “Never saw such a dismal pair.”

17.   “You ought to try my recipe. Be full of fun and fancy-free.”

18.   “Life is a song. Happy, gay.”

19.   “Let’s have some music. C’mon, what do you say?”

20.   “This is the story of three bears, but it’s not the story you expect.”

21.   “This is a love story.”

22.   “He was born in the circus, grew up in the circus.”

23.   “In juijitsu he was beyond compare.”

24.   “Outboxed the champs of seventeen states.”

25.   “They all packed in from near-and-far to see this death defying star.”

26.   “Naturally, you’d think he’d be handled with kid gloves, treated like a king and pampered like a baby.”

27.   “He was tossed around like an old shoe.”

28.   “His thoughts would wander to an imaginary life, far removed from the circus.”

29.   “Some half forgotten instinct kept calling him.”

30.   “Get going! You’re on!”

31.   “The call of the wild kept ringing in his ears.”

32.   “He had to answer the call of the great open spaces.”

33.   “He was crackin’ up!”

34.   “He was losing his grip!”

35.   “He had to escape, to get away!”

36.   “Free? Oh, but this was even better than he’d expected.”

37.   “Oh boy! This is living!”

38.   “He felt so good he just had to run around.”

39.   “Why, he even tried to growl.”

40.   “Oh boy, a tree!”

41.   “Oh well, what if I can’t climb a boy ol’ tree?”

42.   “This is still the place for a fellow like me.”

43.   “Oh boy, this is the stuff.”

44.   “To stretch out under the canopy of stars studding the velvet softness of the night.”

45.   “To sleep in the peace and quiet of the woods.”

46.   “The stillness of the night descends like a sheltering veil.”

47.   “Hush. All nature sleeps.”

48.   “Then came the dawn.”

49.   “A fine kind of bear he’d turned out to be!”

50.   “He didn’t even know how to act like a bear.”

51.   “This rough rugged stuff wasn’t for him.”

52.   “This is just too good to be true!”

53.   “I…I’m either hungry or I’m still dreaming.”

54.   “Ow! I’m awake! It must be true.”

55.   “Oh, this is much better than dreaming.”

56.   “This must be heaven! It can’t be true!”

57.   “Let me go right on dreaming as long as I’m with you.”

58.   “The air grew still with a sudden chill. No talk, no laughs, no chatter.”

59.   “With the trees shaking, the ground quaking, the crowd began to scatter.”

60.   “He look in the scene of love serene with jealousy and surprise.”

61.   “It’s no dream! It’s a nightmare!”

62.   “Hmm. Kind of unfriendly. Probably doesn’t know who I am.”

63.   “Just a moment. This is my affair.”

64.   “That was no way for a lady to act.”

65.   “Gone were his dreams.”

66.   “His world was shattered.”

67.   “Why hadn’t someone ever told him about all these things that really mattered?”

68.   “And now? Well, now it was just too late.”

69.   “Now, who says dreams don’t come true?”

70.   “Three is a crowd they say, so I’ll drop back another day.”

71.   “A party? Tonight?”

72.   “I’m a caution.”

73.   “Tell me, what is the secret of your lovely complexion?”

74.   “If I’m not being too personal, how old are you?”

75.   “I’m a girl my age.”

76.   “Twenty-eight? I thought you were a little bit older than that.”

77.   “I knocked off a few years for good behavior.”

78.   “I don’t care for that. It’s kid stuff.”

79.   “Well, we’re awfully glad you came to our party.”

80.   “I think you look so sweet. I’m going to kiss you goodnight.”

81.   “Isn’t that a wonderful trick?”

82.   “I wish I could enjoy my first childhood as much as he does his second.”

83.   “How would you like another piece of cake or some ice cream?”

84.   “Care for a cigar?”

85.   “How would you like to go down to the city dump and watch me slug rats?”

86.   “How would you like to hear me tell a story?”

87.   “This is a story that everyone should know.”

88.   “Not everyone should tell it.”

89.   “Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.”

90.   “It was called Happy Valley because everyone who lived there was happy.”

91.   “Well, there’s a hunk of logic for you.”

92.   “Try to imagine it. Can’t you just close your eyes and see it?”

93.   “I can’t see very good with my eyes closed. My eyelids get in the way.”

94.   “You create a picture in your minds eye.”

95.   “That’s not easy for him. His mind gets in the way.”

96.   “I’m tired. All that work for nothin’.”

97.   “It was one of natures garden spots, nestled among the green, rolling hills.”

98.   “Can’t you see the lovely brook as it flows through the valley?”

99.   “Lush fields and prosperous farms dot the landscape.”

100. “It was something much nicer. It was a majestic castle.”

101. “Something very precious is kept within these castle walls.”

102. “It’s a magic singing harp. Listen.”

103. “I knew there was a catch in it.”

104. “One day a mysterious shadow crept over the valley.”

105. “Desolation spread over the land.”

106. “The fields of golden corn turned to dust.”

107. “The laughing brook flowed no more.”

108. “To think that this was once Happy Valley!”

109.     “What happened to all the people?”

110.     “Suppose we look in on these humble peasants.”

111.     “Is that a peasant?”

112.    “She was the bosom friend of a once proud family.”

113.     “They’re certainly out of the high rent district.”

114.      “Still alive. Still breathing.”

115.      “Share and share a like.”

116.      “Just tell it. Don’t ham it.”

117.      “Are their spirits broken? Have they lost hope?”

118.       “Well, at least there are no bones in it.”

119.       “Just look at that miserable creature.”

120.       “Truly a picture of despair.”

121.      “Shut up! I can’t stand it!”

122.      “He says he’s all right, but I wonder.”

123.     “What diabolical thought is being hatched in that fevered brain?”

124.      “I just gotta eat. I’m hungry.”

125.     “Cut it out, will ya? I get the idea!”

126.     “He was a pitiful sight.”

127.     “It was all they could do to restrain him.”

128.    “He had just about reached the end of his rope.”

129.     “It was a sorry predicament indeed.”

130.    “A friend in need is a friend indeed.”

131.   “We’ll get a stranglehold on her while she’s asleep, and then push her off a cliff.”

132.   “I ain’t a-gonna listen to the story!”

133.   “It’ll be your fault if they starve to death.”

134.   “Well, why didn’t you say so in the first place and save a lot of time?”

135.  “I could save a lot of time by not telling the story at all.”

136.  “Your idea is not without merit.”

137.  “Now back to the scene of desolation.”

138.  “Things are beginning to look much brighter now.”

139.  “I sold the cow for some magic beans!”

140.  “These are not ordinary beans! They’re magic beans!”

141.  “If you plant these beans in the light of a full moon, do you know what’ll happen?”

142.  “What a mean trick!”

143.  “What a shame to deceive a simple little peasant.”

144.  “Well, maybe there is some magic in them.”

145.  “That thing is a menace to aviation.”

146.  “Their curiosity was aroused. Nothing could hold them back.”

147.  “Who lives there? Man or monster?”

148.   “Friend or foe?”

149.  “A princess or a dragon?”

150. “What drew them toward this place of mystery? Hunger, desperation? Or perhaps it was a love of adventure.”

151. “What a fantastic experience! Perhaps mortal man has never before set foot on this strange land.”

152.    “On they went as if drawn by some irresistible force.”

153.   “Come back and fight!”

154.  “This was the biggest adventure of their lives. Forgotten was their hunger, forgotten was their fear.”

155.  “It took courage to scale these massive steps, to make this journey into the unknown.”

156. “These stouthearted lads never faltered.”

157. “What mystery lurked within those cold, forbidding walls?”

158.  “What strange spell hovered over this gloomy place?”

159.  “Are they walking into a trap?”

160.  “You know, you could stand some rehearsal on this story.”

161. “Inside, the tremendous hall was as silent as a tomb, not a sign of life anywhere.”

162.   “They gazed in speechless wonder, almost afraid to breathe.”

163.   “Food! Let me at it!”

164.  “I was kidnapped by that wicked giant!”

165.  “That calls for a drink.”

166.   “It was this heartless monster that swooped down over cover of darkness.”

167.   “I’m a giant. Well, I’m a small giant.”

168.   “I’m tougher than fifty men!”

169.   “Aren’t you ashamed of yourself? Why do you act like that?”

170.   “I guess it’s just a stage I’m going through.”

171.   “Now go over there and behave yourself.”

172.   “Everything I do is wrong.”

173.   “He was cruel and selfish. He didn’t care what happened to the valley.”

174.   “They didn’t have radios in those days.”

175.  “What did the giant look like?”

176.   “Fe, fi, fo, fum!”

177.   “Those are his magic words, you know.”

178.   “Now, wait a minute. He may be smarter than he looks.”

179.   “Oh, I hope he doesn’t find them!”

180.   “I got you! I think I got you!”

181.   “He’ll have to talk fast to get out of this one.”

182.   “Boy, what life line.”

183.   “Why, it says here that you can turn yourself into anything.”

184.   “I can change myself into the darndest things!”

185.   “Now, for the magic wordies.”

186.   “A couple more good ideas like that and they’re finished.”

187.   “I’ll admit the little fellows are in a bad fix.”

188.   “Things look pretty dark for the prisoners.”

189.   “Looks like their goose is cooked.”

190.   “Fate may yet deal them a winning hand.”

191.   “She knows the giants weakness.”

192.  “She could be my weakness.”

193.  “There might still be a change of escape.”

194.  “Here he comes with the key!”

195.  “Well, it looks like success at last.”

196.  “Free from that terrible monster.”

197.  “He’s taking no chances, just in case the giant might wake up!”

198.  “Should have left well enough alone.”

199.  “And so with the passing of the wicked giant, Happy Valley echoed once again with song and laughter.”

200.   “Peace and prosperity reigned throughout the land.”

201.   “You’re a wonderful storyteller. Isn’t he?”

202.   “You’re even better than the old-fashioned sleeping pill.”

203.  “I don’t like them sad endings.”

204.  “He just got too big for his britches.”

205. “He’s a metaphysical phenomenon of your subconscious mind, a phantasmagoria of your mental faculties. In other words, just a figment of your imagination.”

206.   “What’s the matter with him? Somethin’ he ate?”

207.   “It’s a figmentation of his imagination.”

#ask meme #askbox meme #rp meme #sentence meme #disney meme #fun and fancy free

[patrocles-you-bitch]

Alright, so it’s been a while, but a lot of shit has happened and the one person I rlly want to talk to isn’t available so… enjoy..? This is really just a way for me to get things out/ have a place to think, feel free to ignore.

Backstory to understand the sitch:

1. I have an Indian mom, who’s always been very on me about my grades, this leading me to place the entirety of my self worth onto my grades and reaching 90s avg all through my school (except Gr 12, which I’ll get to). She’s also very emotional, and prone to getting in these furious moods when she’s really mad at us (not always unprompted but sometimes more traumatizing and unnecessary than anything else)

2. I wanted to get into the life sciences program this year, which I did, but not to my top choice. Even so, I have absolutely no idea what my end goal is, my mom is very very annoyed at this.

3. I’m an immigrant, a brown, gay, immigrant.

4. Last year (Gr 11) I broke thanks to the pandemic. Mental health went to shit, became even worse and led me to self harm and such. Parents found out, got therapy, mom backed off the pressure this year so I wouldn’t be as stressed.

Okay now to the thing:

I’m currently in burnt out gifted kid syndrome. But I’ve also become very lazy, if I’m being honest. And I know this, I know I’m wasting my potential but I found myself left without ANY motivation this year. Up until 12, I had equated my worth to my marks, as had my parents- but then I was trying to learn how to be mentally stable and stop that. I didn’t realize just how horrible that would be for me.

I used to be good at math, like, really good. It was my thing, numbers fascinated me and I loved working with them. Then advanced functions hit hard, and I was left with an 82 for the final avg and a 78 in Chem. I retook Chem in nightschool second Sem and ended with a 90, but now my calc mark is at a 66. I know I could’ve done so much better on my calc, if I tried more, if I dropped the extra course I def didn’t need, but my thoughts just went back to “oh but that course helps keep you mentally stable” or “mh matters more and you’re doing your best”. I wasn’t doing my best. My program is literally very science and maths based, and if I can’t get through gr12 math how the fuck am I supposed to do uni?

My mom had the same question. A couple week ago I had a panic attack during my calc test. Leading me to failing the test and needing a makeup (which I might write tmrw). I didn’t tell anyone in my family, cause even tho I knew they’d see the report card, I just couldn’t let them see how much of a failure I’d become. Not yet anyways. Unfortunately, my mom found out about the test because she saw an email I had sent my teacher about it. This ensues the chaos, the regrets, disappointments, screaming, and anger.

She says that she’s mad at herself for not continuing to push me, for letting me take my life into my own hands because now I’ve gone and ruined it, have shorty marks and have let my life go to rot. That if I can’t even do tests and stuff in high school, or get through them without panic attacks, then how am I supposed to face life? Because profs won’t go “oh nooo you had a panic attack? You’re depressed? Sure I’ll give you a makeup test” And then she told me that I wasn’t ready for uni, I don’t even have a proper endgame, and should take a gap year. So that I can collect my thoughts, retake the math courses, and then do it again.

I have literally been working years to get to uni, and now I’m doubting my ability to do anything. There are 2 main perspectives I have for this.

1. I know how horrible time year has been, I can very clearly see every single mistake I’ve made and know what I could’ve done to fix them. I’ve learned a lot, honestly, and I want to do better, I know I can. I’m aware of what’s taken my focus away and I know where to put more energy. This has honest to gods been a very rough learning experience, one i intend to grow from and am happy I got to experience. And I know that I really really want to try in university, I want to experience it and succeed and excel. Make my family proud, as it were.

2. I don’t know if I’m ready. I can see every single mistake and am terrified of repeating the same mistakes, but on higher stakes. My mom said that I’m just like my uncle, or that she sees the resemblance anyways, and that not who I am or who I want to be. There’s a literal example in the family and I don’t want to turn into him. I refuse. I didn’t even see how they were related and now I do, and I hate it , because I really did take my eye off the ball. It’s too late to fix things this year, but I want to try and continue learning and refreshing my math in the summer, so that I’m better prepared. Make myself a real schedule for it and follow through. But still (if my mom allows) be able to see my friends before everyone leaves.

A part of me thinks that she’s right. Knows it, more like. That I would never have succeeded as well if it weren’t for the pressure cooker she put me in. But also, if I’m being honest, I want to push back against that. Because I wouldn’t be in the same cooker at uni. I would be so much farther away and no consequence would seem real. Meaning there’s more of a chance I would’ve made the same mistakes I made now, but in a larger scale. I have the experience of being my cut free now, my brain automatically didn’t know how to handle it and went loose too. It’s basically psychology , I know what happened to my brain. And I’m still happy that I was left alone this year because that means that I got to see, and understand what this really feels like. I think that this would help me succeed next year. That, or I’m full of crap. I don’t know. What I do know is that my moms is tired and disappointed in me, rightfully so, and she doesn’t know what to do with me know. She wants me to give her my life plan (career wise) and tell her why I acc want to study science, and if I think I’m ready for uni. But then wtv I try to say, she’ll say that I’m just saying that to make them happy, and she’s sick of the bullshit. So, I don’t know how I can try to make her understand, try to build her faith and trust in me, I’m the fact that I can do it, can succeed in uni. I don’t know, I’m just kind of sorry about my existence.

#burnt out #gifted kid burnout #kinda depressing #i’m terrified

[drarrily-we-row-along]

Day 66: Bond

There was a certain bond that formed between two people when all of your friends were paired off and dating someone. When the two of you were the only single people so you got paired off to share food, and be partners in games, and all other manner of things.

Harry supposed that tonight would be just one more of those nights as he arrived at Ginny and Luna's. And he wasn't complaining (not anymore, at least) it had taken a couple of years but he and Draco had warmed up to each other. They had compatible styles for partner games, Draco always gave Harry any treats with nuts and Harry gave him any treats with mint, and Harry genuinely enjoyed his dry sense of humor.

If he was being honest, he'd started looking forward to all of the time that he got to spend with Draco on Friday nights.

But things felt different the moment he entered the house, even though he couldn't quite put his finger on why. He spotted Ginny first, standing against the counter, pouring a couple glasses of wine, "Hey," he called.

She looked up and bit her lip.

"What?" he asked with no small amount of dread. He knew that look; it was the look she'd given him right before she'd told him she might be gay and in love with Luna, a look that said she was afraid of breaking his heart.

Ginny opened her mouth but no words came out.

"Ginny, what?" he said, taking several steps toward her.

"I don't know how to say thi-"

"Oh, good," he heard Draco say from behind him, "You're here."

His mouth stretched into a grin even before he turned around "He-" he broke off when he saw that Draco was standing with his arm around some bloke who Harry had never met before. "Hey," he finished.

"This is Matt," Draco offered.

And frankly, Harry would rather die (again) than shake his hand but before he could have any say in the matter Matt had stepped forward into his space and was gripping his hand. Hard. "The Harry Potter," he drawled. "My, my."

(Read more below the cut)

Harry glanced over at Draco who looked vaguely uncomfortable.

"Draco has told me so much about you. I could hardly believe that he was telling the truth." He leaned toward Harry conspiratorially, "He's known for embellishing the truth, you know?"

Harry wrenched his hand from Matt's grip, "Actually, I've found Draco to be honest to a fault. Hardly anyone else will tell me when my outfit doesn't match or I've got something stuck in my teeth."

Matt's eyes flashed and Harry's proverbial hackles stood on end he didn't like that look, "I-" Matt started

"Hey," Draco said, taking Matt's hand and drawing his attention, "Let me introduce you to everyone else."

"Nice meeting you, Mark," Harry called.

Draco narrowed his eyes at him, "Matt," he corrected, before mouthing, 'behave' at Harry.

"My mistake," Harry said, maintaining eye contact with the other man until he turned away and followed Draco into the other room.

"Okay," Ginny said, drawing his attention away from them, "First. Men are disgusting; I can't believe I thought I was attracted to them for so long."

"What?" he asked, slumping over to the counter and sliding onto a stool across from where Ginny was still mixing up drinks. He was feeling a little nauseous, fire rushing under his skin.

"That," she said, gesturing to where Harry had been standing talking to Matt and Draco, "The little pissing match to decide who's dominant."

"What?" Harry asked, "that guy is just an asshole."

She rolled her eyes, "Second, you're still an idiot."

"Wow. I'm just going to go home," he said. "Between you and the dude who was trying to break my fingers, I don't think it's going to be a great night."

Ginny leaned across the counter and instinctively Harry leaned toward her, "How long are you going to continue denying you have feelings for Draco?"

His brow furrowed, "I don't. We're just mates," he added.

"I rest my case. You're still an idiot," she said as she leaned back and started mixing drinks again.

Harry slouched on his stool turning that thought over in his mind, "That actually would make sense," he admitted.

"Harry, I love you, you know I do," she said. "But honestly, I can't believe you're just figuring this out. The rest of us have known for ages. We were all shocked when he walked through the door with Matt; he told us he was bringing someone but we thought the two of you were just making a joke."

"Well now what am I supposed to do?" he asked. "Why couldn't anyone have said something sooner?"

"Because we thought it was obvious," she hissed.

"Let's just get through the night," he sighed. "Then we'll deal with the rest. We'll need to come up with a plan."

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He spent the rest of the night calling Matt the wrong name (Miles, Maurice, Mike, Max, Moses, Mitch, Mason) to the point that Ron either caught on and decided to help or got confused enough that he started calling him the wrong name, too. Harry also couldn't help but rub it in Matt's face how much better he knew Draco; telling inside jokes, asking Draco specific questions about his work and his parents, and reminiscing about fond memories.

Draco seemed a bit exasperated by it but Harry couldn't help himself. Once he started, he just couldn't seem to stop.

Eventually as everyone was getting ready to leave and Luna was saying good bye to Matt, Draco cornered him, "Do not move a fucking muscle," he hissed, "I am not done with you."

"Dra-"

"I mean it, Potter. Stay right here," he said, jabbing him in the chest with his finger before he turned and made his way over to his date.

"Hey," Matt said, smiling at him much the way Harry imagined an alligator might smile at his prey.

"Hi," Draco replied softly. "I'll floo you tomorrow, yeah? There are a few things I need to take care of."

Matt frowned, "I thought we were going back to my place."

"No," Draco replied steadily. "I have a five date rule." He stepped back, "I'll floo you," he repeated.

And Matt looked pretty pissed about it, but he seemed to take the hint and disapparated on the spot without so much as a goodbye to anyone.

"You're all the literal worst," Draco fumed. "Except you, Luna," he added. "You're a goddess."

Luna gave a little curtsy.

"Seriously," Draco said, glaring at the room even though none of them looked especially repentant. "And you," he spat, spinning to glare at Harry, "You're the worst of all."

"Does that make me special?" Harry quipped, arms folded across his chest.

Draco groaned, "Bloody fucking Griffyndors. I hope you're all happy," he grabbed Harry's arm. "Come on we are going back to mine to have a chat."

"I thought you had a five date rule," Ginny called.

Draco flipped her the two finger salute before apparating them to his house.

Harry always liked being in Draco's house; it was small and cozy, and it always smelled vaguely like chamomile. Just being here made his soul feel lighter, calmer.

"Alright," Draco growled, "Spill. What the hell was that?"

"What?" Harry asked innocently.

"Potter," he warned.

Harry sighed, "He's an asshole."

"And you know that how? You didn't even give him a chance".

"Draco his handshake was like a vice!"

Draco stared at him, "You've got to be kidding me. Are you that much of a child? He hurt your hand so you thought you should bully him?"

"I didn't bully him!" Harry exclaimed.

"No?" Draco asked. "You didn't use his given name even once." Harry winced, maybe that was overkill. "You spent the entire night trying to make him feel stupid and inferior to you. Which, let's face it, everyone does anyway because you're Harry fucking Potter!" Draco exploded.

"That's not fair," Harry said, betrayal slicing hot through his gut. Draco knew that he hated being famous, hated the preconceived notions attached to his name.

"Yeah well, neither was what you did."

"Draco, I-"

"No," he said, holding out a hand, "That was such bullshit, Harry."

"But he's awful."

"You didn't even give him a cha-"

"I didn't have to!" he exploded. "The first words he said to me were to disrespect you. He's an asshole and I will chase a million of them away from you."

"That's not your job."

Harry threw his hands up in the air, "I'm your best friend! Whose job is it, if it's not mine?"

"You don't just get to decide things for me!" Draco cried.

"Fine," Harry spat. "You want to date that wanker, go ahead. But I have seen his type before. Don't come crying to me when he's beaten you to a bloody pulp for looking at someone the wrong way." He pushed past Draco and made his way to the door, walking out and slamming it behind him.

He started down the sidewalk, debating trying to figure out where Matt lived and have a chat or maybe go over to Ron and Hermione's to get some advice and regroup.

But the further he walked, the more the anger faded from his veins, and the guilt settled in.

There was no choice really, he turned around and headed back to Draco's house once more. When he arrived he knocked on the door even though he normally would have just let himself in.

"Go away!" Draco shouted.

He knocked again, "Draco, please."

"No! Go away. You're the worst."

"I know," he called back. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean that. Please."

After a few seconds, during which fear settled heaving in Harry's gut, the door opened and Harry slipped inside, Draco was curled up on the couch, hugging a pillow to his chest.

Seeing him looking so small and sad made Harry ache. "I'm sorry," he whispered. "I shouldn't have said that."

"Which part?" Draco asked bitterly.

He sighed and came over to sit on the couch beside Draco, "I'm not sorry for chasing him away. But I will always be here for you, no matter what. You can always come to me."

Draco leaned over and put his head on Harry's shoulder, "I know," he whispered.

"Forgive me?"

He nodded and they sat together in silence for a few minutes, both trying to collect their thoughts. Eventually Harry said, "I really wish you wouldn't date him."

Draco sat up, "Harry look at me."

Harry turned on the couch to look at him and raised his eyebrows.

"I won't ever floo call him, we'll never go on another date, and I'll never see him again." Something eased in Harry's chest. "But it's not because of what you said or did. It's because I, too, have had shitty relationships. I have also lived through trauma and I have had to learn from it just like you."

Harry looked down at his hands.

"And if you have concerns about someone, there is a better way to tell me than what you did tonight."

He nodded, suitably chastised, "You're right."

"I appreciate your concern, though," he added and Harry looked up to see that Draco's mouth was quirked up, he really must be forgiven, apparently. "And I genuinely forgot how petty you can be."

He shook his head and reached out for Draco's hand, "Draco, I want you to be so, so happy," he said. Then he added, "I'm an idiot."

Draco raised an eyebrow.

"And everyone knows it, you included, so you can't really hold it against me," he said.

"I'm pretty sure I can."

He huffed, "Just hear me out. I'm an idiot and I didn't realize until tonight that I'm a little bit in love with you. And it's fine if you don't feel the same but you are my best friend and I had high standards for you even before I knew I had feelings for you. It hurt me to see you with someone who treated you so poorly."

"Sorry," Draco said, "I need you to repeat that."

"I said, I'm an idiot," Harry started.

"Not that part."

"It hurt me to see you with someone who treated y-"

"Not that part either," Draco said.

Harry swallowed, "It's fine if you don't fee-"

"Harry," he grumbled. "Say the other part."

He rubbed the back of his neck, "I'm in love with you," he whispered.

Draco blinked at him, a smile blooming at the corner of his mouth, "Say it again."

A grin tipped up the corners of his mouth as well, "I'm in love with you."

Draco launched himself into Harry's arms and covered Harry's lips with his own, "say it again," he mumbled into the kiss.

"I love you," Harry repeated, murmuring the words into Draco's mouth.

Draco pulled back slightly, "I love you, too."

"I hoped that was the case," Harry replied.

After he kissed him again, Draco said, "Alright, fine. Now you get a say in who I date."

Harry grinned, "Is that so?"

He nodded.

"Will you date me, Draco Malfoy?" he asked, brushing his nose along Draco's.

"Yes," he whispered. Then with a smirk he added, "But we'll have to get my best friend's approval and rumor has it that he has very high standards."

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Day 65: Question | Day 67: Soulmate (Take 1)- Your traditional soulmate trope or Day 67: Soulmate (Take 2)- just using the word 'soulmate' as a prompt, not the trope.

#100 drarry drabbles in 100 days #drarry #drarry ficlet #drarry drabbles #jealous!harry #getting together #happy ending