#Admittedly also a cute ship but my brain decided to ship these two

[mangotortoise]

I am screaming crying throwing up Emily and Jordan are perfect together what do you mean Jordan leaves this season why are there less than 50 fics on A03 for them the only Crime on Criminal Minds was that Emily wasn't a lesbian

#Criminal Minds #Jordan Todd #Emily Prentiss #no thots head empty #I'm sorry I'm just #!!! #These two #THEM #I thought I was straight till this year leave me alone #Emily Prentiss X Jordan Todd #Is the ship name Jemily? It can't be thats for JJ and Prentiss #Admittedly also a cute ship but my brain decided to ship these two #Emily Prentiss my Beloved #Emily Prentiss is Gay

[finchmarie]

I've decided I'm just going to start sharing sketches of varying degrees of polish alongside some serious info dumping on my OCs so I can get some of it out of my brain!

General info about my canon so far (basically at the moment it's starting stories to Ossus while I flesh stuff out then I'll mover further along)!

My main eight characters, main eight class play throughs, are Alliance founders who for the most part meet when coming together against Revan. There are many other faces in my Legacy but these eight were caught in carbonite by Zakuul within six months of each other. They're also the most fleshed out and tend to be the lighter side folk.

Anyways a bunch of info dumping in 3...2...1:

Pictured top left are my pub folks: Winter, Jedi Knight, is Alliance Commander. Charlie, Smuggler, works alongside Hylo as a procurement specialist. She spends a lot of time in combat. Leyliana, Trooper, works alongside her cat husband. Esskelle, Jedi Consular, was assigned as right hand to Lana Beniko and they eventually end up married.

Leyliana and Charlie tend to butt heads as they're just fundamentally different in regards to things like following orders and not shooting before asking questions.

Winter and Charlie are my loves. These little white haired babies were brought together after they both lost their families in the sacking of Coruscant. Charlie was younger than Winter and drawn to her at first simply because of their matching hair. They were street kids for awhile together with Winter watching over Charlie. When Winter's force sensitivity was detected and she was taken off for training Charlie was left behind. This set her into stealing her first ship, and subsequent 'life of crime', to follow after Winter. It took a few years to find her but she did and by the events of the game they're in close contact. Charlie would and has taken blaster shots for Winter and is fiercely loyal to her.

Fun fact 90% of the jewelry Winter wears is from Charlie, as Winter was admittedly a little vain as a child. When she got the scars on her face, during a gang related robbery, she was devastated. Without too much gruesome detail Charlie made herself match in an effort to make Winter feel better, resulting in the vertical scar on Charlie's face. The horizontal is from a speeder crash that came way too close to decapitating her. Charlie often follows her guts vs her brains. She's not known as a thinker, and much of her success comes from her instincts being eerily accurate.

Charlie and Theron make me a bit feral. They're my "Good at everything but each other" trope. They haven't gotten their cute post Nathema proposal as Charlie is not quick to forgive or forget. Though they eventually end up married the timing in my story is just a bit different.

Winter marries Doc Kimble (she apparently likes to surround herself with a type) who Charlie works with like oil in water. Likely because they're so similar, though he's got her beat on book smarts, they're both over confident but very skilled with over inflated egos. She's done combat medicine more than once where the two ended up nearly coming to blows over her 'butcher jobs'. Despite this because of a shared love of Winter they make an effort to tolerate each other.

Esskelle and Lana are my 'slow burn' trope. They're making me crazier the more I flesh them out. Initially their vibe = Esskelle "I can make her better". Lana: "I can make her worse". They both kind of succeed.

#Charlie Thrasher #Winter Wren #Theron Shan #Yana Shepherd #Esskelle Isova #SWTOR #SWTOR OCs #Star Wars the Old Republic #Star Wars: The Old Republic #Star Wars #SWTOR Art #Star Wars Art #Finch Doodles #SWTOR doodles

[yostresswritinggirl]

The Kamisama Kiss scene was so cute in full. Listen, Tomoe and Scara have some parallels. I have to reread again but Tomoe striking a deal to become human just to marry Nanami was 😫😫😫 and the resulting plot that unfolded and revealed so much!!!! Ugh. When Nanami asks if it’s a dream, my brain went into hyperdrive about how the Traveler and Nahida visit the Aranara and in a quieter corner, there’s ever blooming Sakura trees and a home in traditional Inazuman design.

I shall name that story/hangout quest “The Eternal Dream” because of the sheer symbolism and meaning for both Inazuma and Sumeru. I am split on if it should be a story quest with deeper meaning or just fun. And unfortunately, that does lead to some angst potential depending on how Genshin continues. Gosh, think of Zhongli or another archon randomly visiting them. Zhongli wants to check up on them and lets them know they are always welcome to come to Liyue again.

Puppet reader and Scara taking up hobbies!!! Musical instruments!! Weaving!! Sewing!!! Gardening!!! And having little picnics where they’re just so content and domestic!!!!

Scara being playable is hilarious because of his desire to stay with puppet reader. I think if he does join the team occasionally, he now carries one of puppet reader’s hairpins along with the drawing of them. What if he upgraded and it’s a wedding pic??? Cmon think of how cute that would beeeee. Actually how many playables are single? Catch Scara looking at a pic of his beloved and the rest feeling hella single like damn. He’ll buy some gifts to bring home when he decides that he’s been away too long. Sorry, Traveler but puppet reader comes first. In and out of the bedroom lol.

Bloom anon

Admittedly, since the last I saw of Kamisama Kiss was ten years ago I barely remember anything besides kisses and youkais and Tomoe going to school sometimes

I still can't believe that of all people, Scaramouche would be kinning Tomoe akdheonw

Omg Eternal Dream <33 I want that cute place somewhere with the glowy mushrooms or close to the Aranara house! We might have to wait for 3.3 because it might draw some redundance, however, with Zhongli supposedly visiting Sumeru for Alhaitham him visiting the two wouldn't be so farfetched!

And yes to hobbies!! Definitely top priority there is gardening, they got manuals and everything, they even have Nahida to help (who would sometimes sneakily use her dendro powers when she realizes the plants they were trying to grow is dying) so they don't get sad <33 I also want to drag Tighnari into this but that's for my guilty pleasure ship that is hate-hate Scaranari

I feel that whenever Scara is away, he makes sure that Nahida is at least looking out for you or that you have a home in Sumeru City so you're close to her. Omg wedding pic??? This got me thinking if they would do a Sumeru or Inazuma themed wedding hmm hmm if we go by canon, all of them are single so get fucked everyone hahaha

AND THAT LAST LINE GDI BLOOM ANONSMDKDBSKNWMS HAHAHAHAH OUT OF POCKET

#bloom anon #exile.goblet #exile.reader #about kintsugi #scaramouche

[thequeenofsastiel]

Bad Buddy Episode 12 Review-In which thequeenofsastiel affirms that she absolutely, 100% did not fall for the break up fake out and didn't weep uncontrollably during the song

Okay maybe there was a little weeping.

I was more optimistic about this episode than a lot of people, but I'm not going to pretend that I wasn't nervous. I definitely was. But I should have trusted Aof. Because this finale was marvelous, and an excellent capper on this show.

The beginning was not fun, I'll be honest. My heart sank when I saw that we were immediately doing a time skip. And the fact that it seemed like Pat and Pran had broken up was crushing. By the time the reunion rolled around I had already prepared myself for an ending in which they tentatively decided to start things up again.

Then. Then Pran showed up at Pat's door with a loving, mischievous smile, and I think my brain exploded a little from all the serotonin it released. The flashbacks were very cute, but admittedly bittersweet as well. It's hard to think about all they went through to get to the point where they could be openly in love, only to have to go back to being secret. I'm glad at least that they were able to have friends who knew they were together. It is good that they didn't have to lie to the people closest to them anymore.

Both of them were so funny about pretending to be sad:

It looks like we were all wrong about Wai and Korn getting together, which is a pity, but I wasn't particularly wedded to the idea of them as a couple so I'm not too broken up about it. At least they're friends. And own a bar together. At 23. A year after graduating college. Somehow.

Inkpa! My ship! I'm so happy that they're still together. I'm sad we didn't get a kiss, but we still got them. And while I would love one, I know there's not a chance we'll actually get a spin off about them. I don't think GL shows are a money maker or there would be more of them. But I'm hoping this starts a trend of GL side couples. Inkpa seemed to be popular, at least on here. Whatever else is true, they're definitely my favorite side couple so far.

I'm sad that the best we got out of their parents was grudging tolerance. At least on the part of Ming. Dissaya seemed capable of starting to be happy that her son was happy. And I think the other two parents(who don't have names as far as I can tell) would happily bury the hatchet for the sake of their children.

I really look forward to rewatching this episode. It's sweet to know that the forlorn looks on their faces during the reunion were because they missed each other due to Pran spending the last year in Singapore. The whole time it was like they were two magnets who couldn't stop looking at each other or going near each other.

The ending was precious. Both the first one, in which we got to see them as kids talking through cans(and I'd really like to know whose idea that was), and the after credits scene, with the adorable drinking game and the wrestling foreplay. Oh, and I was a little shocked that earlier in the episode Pran openly gave Pat shit for coming too soon during sex. GMMTV is getting racier. I'm here for it.

A definite 10/10 on this episode, despite the pain it subjected me to in the first 20 minutes. Honestly, I think the pain worked, actually, because the payoff was excellent.

I think I have to give the whole series a 10/10. The acting was brilliant, the chemistry was fantastic, and, I can't lie, I love that I got to experience a gay version of Romeo and Juliet, with a happy ending. Also, you know, better in every way. This is definitely the BL show that I'm going to recommend people unfamiliar with the genre start with.

I had a great time getting to discuss this show with all of y'all, especially @heretherebedork and @absolutebl. Thanks to everyone who has read and reblogged my posts; it means a lot. I hope we continue to get content this excellent.

Also it'd be nice if we got a special episode in which Pat and Pran get to actually live together and be openly accepted by their parents and get married and stuff, but I'll try to not be greedy.

#bad buddy #bad buddy spoilers #bad buddy episode 12 #patpran #pranpat #inkpa #inkpha #bad buddy reviews #my reviews

[arty-shadow-morningstar]

A Failed Betrothal (9)

Hey, look guys. I am finally updating this fic.

But I also have bad news. I have a very severe case of writer's block with this particular fic and have exams in next month. So I decided to put this on hiatus for the foreseeable future. I really want to finish this and I have some ideas on how to continue but I just don't know how to move this forward. I do want to finish this since it is my first official fic I have posted here.

Thank you everyone who has been following this story so far and for being so patience. There is some good news. I have Chapter 10 half-written and will post it some time if I ever finish it. Love you guys.

[Masterlist]

(Part 1)(Part 8)

------

(Words in English is bold)

Chloe watched the scene unfolding in front of the entire school. Marinette and her ‘fake’ boyfriend were ‘tearfully’ saying goodbye. There were a lot of ‘I will miss yous.’, promises and some tears. Honestly, at this point, she was hoping for them to have their tongues down each other's throats. But both of them are too stubborn to admit that they actually like each other. They would be a very cute couple if they actually dated. Fuck that curse that makes them ‘fall in love with each other’. Like it was some Harry Potter bullshit.

Luka even said that their melodies harmonise with each other. That is a sign that they would make the ultimate couple. But no…. Both of them were too stubborn.

If only those two stop dancing around each other.

At least, Tim was still going to be in Paris to help the Miraculous Team’s search for Hawkmoth. The past week had been spent catching up on each other’s life, complaining about hero (vigilante) work and narrowing down the suspect list for Hawkmoth. So far everything has been pointing towards Gabriel Agreste. It would be hilarious if Hawkmoth had had the Black Cat Miraculous under his nose for over a year.

Damian and Marinette had finally finished their act and-

Holy Shit! This must be a dream.

They were kissing.

Full-on lip-locking in front of the entire school.

And where the hell is her phone?!

Chloe frantically looked through her bag. This was a certain possibility that Chloe was hoping would happen when Damian volunteered to be tribute. She needed proof that her ship had sailed and rubbed it in Tim’s face that she had won the bet. (He claims to know his brother and said that his younger brother would never kiss Marinette for the sake of an act.) When her yellow phone emerged from the bottomless pit that was her bag, he was already gone on his way to Gotham. She hoped at least someone got a picture of the kiss. She was not letting Marinette live this down.

--------

“Hey, before I go, Dupain-Cheng, you are tolerable and I wouldn't mind having you as my bride.” Damian said in a low voice. Which sent some shivers through Marinette. It was illegal to sound that sexy.

“Well-,” Marinette cleared her throat as her voice came out in a higher pitch than intended. “Well, you were an amazing fake boyfriend, even if it was for a week and thank you for doing this. Shame that I never got to kiss the Damian Al Ghul Wayne.” She teased.

Damian’s ears tip turned red to which Marinette was proud of until the blood son of Bruce Wayne smirked, looking towards the courtyard where many students were gathered to see the couple’s goodbye.

“We have to fix that, won't we?”

He proceeded to kiss her.

Marinette froze in shock at the contact before her brain kicked in and she began moving her lips against his.

It ended too soon for both their liking.

“You bastard.” Marinette hissed while their foreheads touched each other.

“True. Um... Goodbye, Dupain-Cheng. I have a flight to catch.” Damian said before he got into the car taking him to the airport. His cheeks were flushed. The same went for Marinette.

Marinette admittedly was still very dazed and in a blissful state of mind. Absent-mindedly waving goodbye to the spot where the car was. Damian Wayne was one hell of a kisser. And that bastard had to do it in front of the entire school. How was she supposed to not fall in love after that mind-blowing kiss?!

She wasn’t sure if she would be able to concentrate in class today. (Not that it mattered. She already knows all of the material. She has a few PhDs under her belt and is currently taking some online college courses. Her new role as Ladybug had made her unable to take as many courses as she would have liked in the recent years.)

She was broken out of her state by Chloe and Alix swinging their arms around each of her shoulders.

“Soooo,” Alix began with a teasing smirk “How was it?”

“How was what?”

“Mari-bug, how much did you enjoy your goodbye present? I swear that the entire courtyard got hotter.” Chloe said with too much glee and a glint in her eye which Marinette didn’t like.

“You guys see me kiss Damian all the time. So what if our last kiss before we see each other in person again got a little out of hand?” Marinette tried to shrug it off nonchalantly. Hopefully, the class wouldn’t question the fact that she hadn’t kissed Damian at all until today and Chloe’s insane plan to get Adrien off her back worked. He hasn’t approached her at all since he had tried to prove that Damian was trying to cheat on her with Lila of all people.

Chloe was going to be smug for days over the fact that her plan worked.

“Anyways, we are still on for tonight, right?”

“Yes, Marinette, stop worrying. We will be there. And Tim is getting close to finding well... you-know-who.”

“Who? Who are you trying to find?” The unwanted voice cuts in.

The trio rolled their eyes and proceeded to ignore the orange-clad Liar, switching the topics to Chloe’s mother up-coming fashion show. (Alix just nodded along and hemmed and hawed where appropriate. Pretending to understand the difference between different fabrics and styles.)

“Hey! I was asking you. Who is this you-know-who that you were trying to find?” She blocked their path. They were plotting something for sure. She just has to find out what.

“None of your business, Rossi.” Chloe snapped.

Lila started tearing up, “But I jus- just wanted to ask a question. I- I am sorry if I disturbed you.”

“Lila asked you a question. No need to be so rude about it.” Alya joined in, sneering.

“Well, she was very rudely interrupting our conversation, Alya.” Marinette pointed out.

“Lila is just very sensitive and you made her cry.” Alya said as she comforted the Italian. “You guys are the biggest bully ever to make her cry like this. She asked a question. No need to get so defensive over it. Just answer it.”

The trio resisted to roll their eyes.

Just another day of dealing with Lila’s bullshit and the class’s herd mentality.

---------

Someone knocked on the door of Tim’s room in the Wayne Penthouse. (Room was too generous a word. It was more of a no man’s land after a tornado had gone through it with computer screens everywhere set up like a command centre.)

“Jason, for the last time, I don’t know where your guns are. Don’t you have like trackers on them- oh. Hey, Chloe. Marinette.”

The two Parisian girls came in and made their way through no man’s land, trying to not to step on the mess on the floor. Along with them came the tantalizing aroma of coffee.

Marinette offered Tim the cup of coffee to which he perked up. He snatched it and took a sip, instantly feeling energized.

“Woah, where did you get this?”

“It’s Marinette’s special brew. She makes it when she has lots of commissions or when the finals are coming up. Honestly, I don’t know how she ingests the stuff. It would be better if she sleeps instead.” Chloe replied as she removed some of the things on his bed and made herself comfortable.

“Sleep for the weak, Chloe and it’s normal coffee with some magic infused in it to give me a boost.” Marinette retorted as she sat beside Chloe.

“Normal for you maybe. That stuff has the maximum amount of espresso shots legally allowed.”

Tim took another sip of the nectar of the gods (Marinette mentioned that Kwamis were a little like gods, right? If some of their magic is used in this coffee, then coffee is truly the nectar of the gods.),“You are my most favourite person on the planet right now. (Kon was off-planet) This is Heaven, Paradise and every good thing in the world in a cup. You are my new bestie.”

“You have to fight Queenie for the title and it’s nothing. I thought you might need it. This is the least I can do for all your help.”

“Well, your theory seems to check out,” Tim replied, “You said the Butterfly and Peacock brooches were lost in Tibet years ago, right? Gabriel Agreste and Emilie Graham De Vanily, his then girlfriend and now ‘late’ wife, were there on their around-the-world trip and one of their stops happened to be Tibet, specifically the area where you said the Miracle Temple would be. And I matched up the lack of akuma attacks with the periods of time when Agreste was out of town. It mostly matches up although there are a few inconsistencies. It’s possible that Mayura was using the Butterfly during that time to throw us off track because his assistant and the top suspect for Mayura, Natalie Sancouer, had stayed behind during those trips when the akuma attacks happened. At least, that’s the theory. I also found something you might find interesting in the blueprints of the Agreste Mansion.”

Tim tapped on his keyboard a few times, pulling up the plans for a butterfly window and an underground lair on one of the screens before showing the two girls.

“The workers were paid off to keep this a secret. Oracle, our resident tech genius back in Gotham, found something else too. A few months before Hawkmoth’s first debut, Gabriel Agreste purchased everything necessary for a butterfly garden. There are also a lot of receipts for butterflies which I bet is how he has a constant supply of akumas.”

“So either Gabriel is secretly a butterfly enthusiast or he is Hawkmoth.” Marinette groaned at how the man didn't know the meaning of subtle, “How have we not caught him yet?”

Chloe side-hugged the ravenette, “He’s a coward that doesn’t come out of his dark hole that often because he knows you would utterly destroy him when he does appear and you are not preoccupied with saving Paris. I mean your mother is an assassin for crying out loud.”

“Yeah, I would.” Marinette absent-mindedly nodded in agreement before stiffening as she realized what Chloe said.

Marinette went out of her embrace and looked at her with a sharp look, “Wait. What did you just say, Chloe?”

Chloe scoffed, “Don’t try denying it, Dupain-Cheng. The room full of weapons your family has, how good at martial arts your mom is, how you don’t flinch at the sight of blood.” She listed off the reasons with her fingers.

“That- That doesn’t mean anything and there are perfectly reasonable explanations for them-” Marinette denied.

“And you really should be careful when you talk about things that are supposed to be secrets in public places. I know and understand Japanese too, Mari-bug. I heard you and Damian talking about having assassins for mothers on one of your ‘dates’.” Chloe smugly said.

Marinette sighed and flopped onto Tim’s comfortable bed, knowing there’s no point in keeping Chloe from snooping further into her family business.

“As long as you don’t go around telling the others about my family secret, I won’t have to cut out your tongue.”

“Or your fingers,” she added as an afterthought as she brought out her hidden switchblade and started playing with it. “And remember that I am good with needles and threads and know how to hold someone down while sewing their mouth shut.” She pointed her blade in Chloe’s direction.

Chloe nervously moved away from the bed, closer to Tim and hid her hands under her legs. Tim scooted away not wanting to be near a possible dead-woman walking, childhood promises be damned. He lived with assassins for siblings, and knows that threats like that are very real.

“You are joking, right?” The blonde said. “I mean, I did apologize for bullying you all those years ago. We are friends now.”

“Maman takes her secrets seriously, especially this one. But I think she trusts you enough to keep something as important as this. Although you did just say it in front of Tim. Superhero or- Sorry I mean Vigilante or not, that is not something you should casually bring up in a conversation in front of anyone.”

“You can tell Mama Cheng that I am not going to do that anymore. And I will take this secret to my grave. Promise.”

“You better or you get into it earlier than you think. So Tim, I don’t know you very well but can I trust you to keep my family secret as well?”

Tim didn’t like the way she was looking at him. He tried not to show how unnerved he was with the look in her eye. He had faced many different villains and psychopaths. Something tells him that Marinette was better to have as an ally than an enemy.

“Yeah. Yes. Definitely. I would very much like to keep my tongue and my fingers.” He quickly replied. He was also not willing to lose any more of his body parts. Thank you very much.

“Great, now that’s settled.” Marinette put away her switchblade and clasped her hand in front of her, all the while with a smirk on her face that would not bode well for Hawkmoth. (Somewhere across Paris in his mansion, Gabriel felt a chill run up his spine.)

“Let’s get started on our game plan.”

------

(Part 10)

-----

taglist: @alysrose-starchild, @buginetye, @lookatthestars1, @blackroserelina, @macncheesemonster, @mochinek0, @myazael, @tonicxworld, @thewitchwhowaited, @t1dwarrior-of-earth, @kissa-chan, @iwantasecretidentity, @theymakeupfairies, @user00000003, @woe-is-me0, @kashlyn, @mochegato,@moonlightstar64 , @greatcatblaze, @moongoddesskiana, @tazanna-blythe. @tonicxworld, @toodaloo-kangaroo, @frieddonutsweets, @local-witch-of-mn, @lady-bee-fechin, @iglowinggemma28, @indecisive-mess-named-me, @k-tea-and-coffee, @jayjayspixiepop, @all-mights-asscheeks, @idk-j-go-with-it , @loysydark, @thenillabean, @lolieg, @zalladane, @silvergold-swirl, @henie04, @blueblossombliss, @khneltea, @mochegato, @itsmeevie01, @roguishredaxion, @alyssadeliv, @steph-hearthlight, @adrestar, @eliza-bich, @abrx2002, @hikari55ttva, @doglover82, @daminette5074, @moon5608 ,@justafanwarrior, @allis-sun, @animegirlweeb, @aespades, @corporeal-terrestrial, @mildlydeadly @redbullgivescaswings, @peachedpocky, @mysteriouslyswimmingfan-blo-blog, @vixen-uchiha, @maskedpainter, @crytallized, @callmewhatyouwant00, @stainedglassm, @fantasyislive, @risingmoonyue, @blackstarlight-co, @wolf-for-life,@prettylittlebutterflie, @bonusbuggy, @demonicbusiness, @meow-now, @two-faced-biatch, @ladyqnoirr, @thebella000, @missanalysis, @istoleyourcookies, @that-random-hoe-us, @laydeekrayzee, @redscarlet95, @ichigorose

#maribat #ml x dc #damian x marinette #A Failed Betrothal #damian wayne x marinette dupain cheng #damainette

[darkmagickingdom]

Gush hours! Tell me your OTPs and why you love 'em

You have opened the floodgates now

I'll only talk about my Disney Villains ones for now because that's all that relates to the blog, but if you want to hear about the ones I have outside of the disney fandom I would be more than happy to gush about those too.

The Lich's Dark Fairytale--aka the Horned King/Maleficent

- Okay, I talked about this one a bit a while ago. But unsurprisingly, I have more to say. So this wasn't my first enemies-to-lovers ship--I think my first one was created at least four years ago, but it's probably closer to six, and even that might be undershooting it--but this was my first "oh they'd try to kill each other, that's spicy" ship.

It started as a thing that wouldn't last, just a way to explore the kind of pairing where they're both trying to kill each other while trying to ignore their less-murdery feelings for each other.

It was a pairing dynamic I didn't really explore before then. Then I ended up liking both characters, their similarities, their shared dynamic--so much that I just had to make it a sincere enemies-to-lovers. And I'm a sucker for villains that have a soft side for someone but are still, y'know, evil. And given how Maleficent's whole thing in her movie is sticking it to the "true love conquers all" trope, I like the idea that a relationship wouldn't magically make her good. Sorry, Jolie, but she's just more fun of a character to me as a bad girl.

I would also love to see someone as gleefully evil as Maleficent try and lift the King out of his bitter and somber little grave. It'd be good to hear him maniacally laugh more often. Or really, at all. Maleficent's come back to life a ton of times, and might not be fully killable, while at least in my personal headcanons, the King can't ever fully die, being able to remain aware and keep his soul in his body no matter how horribly its damaged. So there's none of that immortal's angst that either of them would get from a relationship with a mortal.

I also love seeing characters be ruthlessly protective of one another, and I think these two have great potential for that. They both have potential to get absolutely bloodthirsty on the battlefield, even if Disney never really let us see either of them doing that. But you don't get a reputation like Maleficent's by sitting on a throne all day, and you don't achieve a reputation like the Horned King's by never riding into battle and cutting a few thousands down upon an accursed, blood-soaked blade. In fact, book-accurate depictions of the King have him surprisingly jacked, and looking a lot more battle-ready than his animated counterpart. I like to think that's how he was when he was much younger, before he started rotting. So if it comes down to it, they'll both wreak havoc on a battlefield, or they'll form an impenetrable defense to shield the other. And that is my JAM.

If I had to pick one song for them, it would be Love Me Dead by Ludo. But I have a whole playlist for them tbh.

Cards & Dice--aka Facilier/Oogie

Now this one is just. Fun. These two have such a similar aesthetic and flair for elaborate jazzy song-and-dance numbers (with use of blacklight!) that I just had to have them become friends. And gradually I decided "okay. But what if...they were friends-to-lovers?" And thus, Cards & Dice was born.

Honestly I think they'd be the most fun of my OTPs to play third-wheel to. They'd get up to all kinds of villainous shenanigans, make a TON of enemies, and make a narrow getaway every time.

Also? Considering they're both more nervous on average than the average Disney villain (with Oogie being one of the only ones actively terrified of his hero, and Facilier one of the only ones seen nervous and afraid before his demise) I like to think they could help each other with their respective fears. Facilier standing up to Jack, Oogie standing up to the "Friends" (even if neither are actually powerful enough to win). Oogie just sitting and hearing Facilier out when he's freaked out about how the "Friends" might still be searching for him. Facilier saving the HBIC (that's Head Bug In Charge, aka the Brain Bug, aka the green earwig Santa squished) just in time when the rest of Oogie's body gets destroyed. That's all just so good to me.

And don't get me STARTED on them singing and dancing together, completely stealing the floor every time! They're WONDERFUL, Your Honor.

If I had to pick one song for them, it would be Poker Face by Lady Gaga. But I got like a whole playlist for them in the works lol

A New DIRECTIVE--aka AUTO/Doris

Yes, I did just come up with that name. I think it's quite good.

So this one started as like. A joke. A what-if. A "hey, they're the only robots so they oughta stick together". How did it end up like this? It was only a kiss, IT WAS ONLY A KISS

So I am a sucker for the trope where the more chaotic one breaks the orderly one out of their shell and gets them to be less rigid. What if that, but evil?

"Hey boy, how would you like to go from lawful neutral to chaotic evil?"

"I don't suffer from 'I could fix him' disease. I think I could make him worse."

Theirs is like the inverse of the "love makes the bad guy turn good" trope. Love makes the robot disobey his programming, go rogue, and help his girl take over the world.

They're like the evil version of WALL-E and EVE. Except with the roles reversed, because the guy is the one from space who wants to follow his DIRECTIVE while the girl is the one from Earth trying to be like "no dude, check this out, I can control people and stuff all by myself. We should totally rule the world, it'll be awesome."

I usually imagine this pair with humanoid android forms because it's. Kind of hard to get invested in a ship's wheel and a hat. They're both a lot less expressive in their base forms than either WALL-E or EVE, so giving them cool android forms helps. I don't imagine them as super human-looking droids though, cause if they're more obviously robots it looks cooler. Though I DO think Doris deserves a face so she can go >:D sometimes. And AUTO deserves the ability to go >o|

If I had to pick one song for them, it would be Daisy Bell by Harry Dacre. Because they're both HAL 9000 references (Doris a lot less obviously so, but she's still got that one red eye), and evil robots the way HAL was, and that's the song HAL starts singing before he's deactivated. Which in and of itself is a reference to the first speaking/singing computer-generated voice program, IBM704, which famously sang the song Daisy Bell. (there's also a Futurama episode where Bender dates a HAL 9000 reference character, and there's a montage of them doing romantic things set to Bender singing Daisy Bell. For all my fellow Futurama fans out there ;) I'd especially recommend this version, where someone had both the original IBM704 and VOCALOID4 sing the song as a duet. (Because I like the idea of Doris getting a Vocaloid or Vocaloid-like voice if she was able to speak actual words instead of that admittedly really cute droidspeak language from the movie)

There are also plenty of villain ships in this fandom that I've seen that I love (such as FireSerpent--aka Jafar/Hades--, EvilPuppies--aka Grimhilde/Cruella--, and SeaDragon--aka Ursula/Maleficent) but I wanted to talk about only the ones I developed myself, since I think the creators of those ship names would be better equipped to talk about them.

#answered #long post #the lich's dark fairytale #cards & dice #a new DIRECTIVE #the horned king #maleficent #dr facilier #oogie boogie #AUTO #DOR-15

[cynthiaandsamus]

Custom Toonami Block Week 74 Rundown

Code Geass: So we’ve got another one of those “wacky bullshit student activities” episodes, though this one seems to ride the hardest on “shit is going down, the world is ending but haha Shirley romance drama” though admittedly it does have a nice character arc for Milly so that’s cool. Lelouch is worried that the Knights of the Round are here to investigate him until he realizes both of them only have one braincell between them so it’s fine. Cornelia’s also murdering her way through religious fanatics so that’s cool. And last but not least we have Shirley and Lelouch finally getting together right before Jeremiah Geass Cancels her amnesia so she knows Lelouch is Zero and killed her dad and presumably the other stuff that Charles put in the whole school’s brain somehow. I’m sure this will end well and their romance will survive in a way that isn��t insanely tragic.

Inuyasha: We’re still in fillertown and it’s another SangoxMiroku episode. Man we get a lot of these in filler huh? I kinda don’t remember which Sango/Miroku moments are canon at this point. I’d kinda laugh if it was just all filler and some manga-only fans were bewildered when they ended up together in the end. Anyway, Feudal Lord has a thing for Sango because he has great taste and Kagome ships Sango/Miroku so she doesn’t want her to go, Miroku’s like “Hey it’s her choice, she’s been through enough, she can choose her own life, I’m not gonna get involved” which is pretty mature but the girls still hate on him for it. Sango’s just like “Dude even if I wanted to stay I still have this Naraku-slaying quest to go on and I’m not about to sit around all day and be royalty while my friends go kick Naraku’s ass for me.” Which is how most love confessions in this series go. Also Sango suplexes a demon bear the size of a building with her bare hands and it’s pretty great. In the end the lord doesn’t give up going after Sango but they finish the bear stuff and are on their way. I like how they don’t go out of their way to demonize this guy in the end to prop Miroku up, he’s still a good guy, Sango’s just got shit to do and is more the type to like a warrior who’s got her back. There’s some really cute shipping shenanigans here and all in all it’s fun filler.

Yu Yu Hakusho: We’ve got a three for one deal here as Yusuke and Kuwabara assblast their way through the Dark Triad in one episode, continuing their power play of beating villains with little effort while the boss man bets that they’ll completely wreck his guards which is still a pretty interesting dynamic. We’ve got cringey 90s trans commentary, an invisible dude that gets blindsided easily and a hostage ogre that gets beaten by Botan taking off her coat. Honestly for these guys being supposedly minibosses they kind of went down easier than some of the grunts. But now Kuwabara’s in contact with Yukina because his bullshit power of love connection actually works for some reason and they’re in on the final fight with the Toguro brothers. With this many people betting the GDP of countries on the fight there’s no way this isn’t rigged. I really like how YYH basically makes shonen fights just part of stupid black market deals for a large part of it, just like in real life everything’s decided by some old rich guy.

Fate Zero: Kayneth’s still fucked up and has Rock Lee syndrome and can’t use jutsu anymore so his wife’s like “Yo buddy you can’t give Lancer the magic cummies anymore anyway, lemme take control of your hunky knight manslave or I swear to god I’ll rip your arm off and jerk him off with it” which since she asked so nicely he just kind of does. With Lancer still kinda being uppity about Kayneth having dibs on his soul and Sola-Ui being weirdly horny and increasingly yandere for him I’m sure this’ll end well. Saber and Kiritsugu are still pissy with each other because Saber wants to go after Caster to stop the child murders which is fair but she’s also injured and shit and she’s mad at Kiritsugu for not teaming up with Kayneth to just take down Caster right there and I mean I don’t think he really had time to suggest a truce while getting attacked with Terminator 2 goo, he’s not really the asshole here. Meanwhile and more importantly, ISKANDAR HAS PANTS! Nothing can stop him now and they crash Caster’s child murder party and are jumped by Assassin’s Forty Thieves (they aren’t named yet but I’mma just assume) and Iskander’s just like “Yeah no I’m not fighting five ninjas knee deep in child guts.” And they just burn the whole place down.

Konosuba: So in a bizarre Interspecies Reviewers/Food Wars crossover, Kazuma goes to a succubus house and instead of just getting sex they do dreams and shit which seems more complicated but I guess it’s less morally gray. Anyway, naked Darkness and contrived hentai plots ensue. They sprinkle in some good character stuff for Kazuma which is nice, it’s always kind of hard to pin down where his principles lie. Like he’s generally a scumbag and will take the easy way out of anything but he’s not evil and will give Darkness an out on their encounter if she wants and will get his ass kicked to protect his local sex worker. The Principled Scumbag approach is kind of neat for him, I wish a few more of these moments didn’t feel the need to immediately undercut themselves with a joke but that’s the nature of the series. I feel like one or two more genuinely sincere moments throughout a couple episodes would do wonders but either way it’s still amusing.

Sailor Moon Crystal: We pick up right where we left off with Tuxedo Mask throwing himself in front of the Kamehameha for Usagi and then she goes Super Saiyan and cries pokemon tears to bring him back to life. But the bad guys are somehow like ‘yoink’ and steal him from her lap through a barrier somehow (that still kinda pisses me off) and for some reason the crystal that booped its way into his chest isn’t there anymore and Usagi still has and and Usagi’s going through a lot of shit right now between processing the trauma of a millennia-old kingdom falling that’s partially her fault, working through her romantic feelings and having a Steven Universe identity crisis about how to process her identity as a reincarnation of someone a lot cooler than she is, so most of this episode is Usagi crying, as most episodes are, but at least she has a good reason.  Then we get a Girl Squad Roll Out montage because fuck it we’re going to the moon somehow.

Durarara!!:  Apparently everyone knows about where Celty’s head is but her because she visits Izaya’s office where the head is just kinda behind some books on his bookshelf and she doesn’t know but Shinra’s dad has enough time to mug Namie after telling Shinra and Celty off for their weird interspecies relationship and tell Izaya to have fun fucking around with the head. Also people have shifted from being worried about the Dollars to being worried about Saika and ALSO being worried about the Dollars maybe being at war with the Yellow Scarves. Celty’s looking into it and Shinra shows some character development in just coming out with it that Saika was the sword that severed her connection with her head… I don’t know how you cut the soul of a head that’s already cut off but okay, at least Shinra’s not hiding shit from here anymore. Also Saika’s about to seriously chop up Anri and Masaomi comes to visit his girl in the hospital finally.

#ooc #Toonami #Custom Toonami Block #Code Geass #Inuyasha #Yu Yu Hakusho #Fate Zero #Konosuba #Sailor Moon Crystal #Durarara!!

[arethereanyoriginalusernames]

Favourite Zoophobia Ships???

Hey... guess who decided to do some Zoophobia related posts bc I haven’t done any... in months? Ah well, might as well. This is going to be mostly just a fun post, just talking about what ZP ships I enjoy most, in no particular order.

However !

After this, I’m considering redoing some of the top five lists I made 2 years ago. So, feel free to let me know which I should do!

List is under cut bc I type a bunch

1. Kayla x Zill

I tend to just follow along with ships that are canon. Unless it’s particularly unhealthy or poorly written, my brain just goes “oh, they dating? Ok cool.”

And you know what? These two are adorable. I will say that I enjoyed these two together in Bad Luck Jack better than in the comic. In the comic, we get thrown into their relationship drama way too fast. We aren’t even given a proper introduction to Kayla before chapter 2! I get that maybe the intent was to show how much Kayla and Zill care about each other, and showing them having relationship troubles could show them in a vulnerable, emotional state. We could get some good character stuff from that! But, it really doesn’t give your power couple a good look when they’re already having issues by chapter 2.

Bad Luck Jack did a much better job at not only portraying their relationship, but their dynamic was much more interesting. We actually got to see Kay’s more badass side, and we got more than just them doing boring kissy kissy, omg I love you sooo much, which was a lot of what we got in the comic. I’m actually excited to see more of these two in the future.

2. Addi x Gustav

I have to admit, I’m not as big of a fan of this ship as other people are. The main reason is Gustav. I’m sure the story will provide more depth for him in the future, and I’m sure we’ll get a bunch of adora-gay moments with him and Addi. But as it stands, I’m not quite ready to hop on board.

I also found the way they hooked up in the comic to be a little boring? To sum up their first interaction, it’s more or less “hey bby boi, u be looking real fine across the room, tell me bout that sexy art piece” “oh damn, u be looking like a tall glass of grape juice, cute mode activated- holy fuck Kenzie why????”

Basically, they both find each other good looking, and decide to go to lunch after they establish that Addi is the soft boi that need protecc and that Gustav attaccc. It’s a cute ship, yeah. Not my favourite, tho, and I’m going to need more on purple’s end before I cannonball in

3. Jack x Zill and Jack x Jill

These two I’m grouping together bc I feel the same way about both. Like with the previous, I like these ships, would definitely read fan fiction, but I’m not super on board with... well, with a lot of ships with Jack?

It’s not that I think he shouldn’t be in the relationship, but I find that a lot of ships have Jack being really dependent on whoever he’s with, and since his situation will inevitably cause a good amount of drama, a lot of the time the other person in the relationship kinda disappears.

This is entirely something that’s my preference in stuff like this, but I prefer ships where it doesn’t just become all about one character, and that everyone in the relationship is given a chance to be supportive and emotionally invest. And again, I feel like ships with Jack don’t usually give him the chance to emotionally invest to the same extent as the other people in the relationship.

That being said, I don’t dislike these ships, and they’re still cute as fuck.

4. Autumn x Rusty

Firstly, I love how this is a ship where almost everyone in the fandom can look at each other, nod, and say “oh we know it’s gonna happen”

I mean, let’s not kid ourselves, we all love an enemies to lovers story, and I’m sure quite a few of us can project ourselves onto someone like Rusty who “totally isn’t gay/bi/pan/you get what I mean!” I’m normally a little iffy about the idea of “oh he’s bullying you bc he likes you!”, but fortunately it seems like Rusty and Autumn don’t entirely fit that trope. There’s not much to say here, tbh. I will say that my favourite thing with this ship is when they’re drawn/written in a situation where one or more other characters are like “omg, just fuck already!”

5. Ink x Mistletoe

Congrats to anyone who knows these characters

This is absolutely a crack ship for me. I just like the idea of someone who lives a sad life like Ink having someone as silly and wonky as Mistletoe around. That’s basically it XD sue me!

6. Damian x Addi and Damian x Ink

Again, I feel the same about these two ships. They’re cute, and I would absolutely read the fan fiction. My main draw back, however, is that these two ships are ones I have to be in the mood for. These two ships, especially Damian x Ink , can quickly become depressing. And while sometimes I’m all for that, most of the time I rather read something a bit lighter

7. Elijah x Damian

...

I guess these two have accidentally became my favourite??? I certainly enjoy stuff with this ship the most, and even though we admittedly haven’t seen much of Eli yet, I’m already on board.

Firstly, I just like the premise of the fucking Antichrist hooking up with a pink hipster snake who’s a waiter at a 50s diner. The idea alone is just amusing to me, and it’s weird enough that I already like it.

I also like the overall chaotic, mutual dumbass energy these two give off together. They’re both comic loving, unserious goofballs and I can absolutely see them sharing a total of one brain cell. Even the image of the two of them side by side is just amusing to me, bc we have tall, pink and Christmasy coloured Eli next to the smoller, edgier Dame. Even looking at sketches of them interacting, they both look just plain silly

Finally, however, what I think really got me on board was the irony of the situation. Damian, as we know, crushes super hard on Kayla and some other characters, and will go to unnecessary lengths to impress them. Meanwhile, as he’s desperately trying to get others to like him, there’s Eli. Someone who’s already attracted to him, and is right there. And who already seems to have a lot in common with him, and given how he’s apparently shy around people he likes, it must be obvious to someone what’s going on.

It’s like “omg, why are all the hot people taken???” “I AM RIGHT HERE!” “ Did u say something?”

So... yeah.

And there you go. I’ll probably update later with more ships, but this post is already long

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed, and feel free to tell me what you think of these ships, and what your favourite ships are.

I apologize for wasting your time

- Spooky

#zoophobia

[banalbones]

The Petite Prince: Chapter 4

Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, 7, 8

Chapter 4: The Treasure Hunt, Part 1

Summary: Roman is a child. Virgil and Logan lost him, and are on a quest to find him. Meanwhile, Remus loves his baby bro.

Words: 1920

Ships: Familial prinxiety, logince and Creativitwins. Eventual familial royality, roceit and DRLAMP  

Genre: Fluff with a side dose of angst

Warnings: swears, falling, arguing, creepy little gnomes, tell me if there’s any more!

Taglist: @pricklyfish777 @sunflowerblondeuwu @itriedandimtired @draw-your-perfect-world

_____________________________

“Virgil?”

“Yea- oh no…”

“Exactly.”

_____________________________

Logan knew many idiots.

Roman, for one, when he was not a child. Patton, Remus, Thomas and even Virgil, from time to time, were on it.

Logan never knew he could be included on that list, but there he was.

He and Virgil had checked every room in the mindpalace, even Janus’s, but searching for a small child you can’t help but love, whilst simultaneously panicking because you had lost said child, makes you forget certain things.

Remus being certain things.

The pair had somehow managed to forget about the one person (or metaphysical person) who would willingly cause the angelic young prince harm.

The one person!

How does that even happen? How could one overlook something so dire?

Meaning, the resident nerd was in a bad state.

Virgil was in an even worse state.

Logan picked up the small paper crown, being careful not to tear it, and looked to the anxious side.

He really didn’t look great.

_____________________________

He looked horrible, actually.

Hey! It wasn’t that bad!

It was.

_____________________________

Virgil really didn’t look great.

Or feel great, for that matter.

They had lost the bean, which was bad enough, he had already been panicking about that, but, losing the bean to Remus?

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Thoughts were such a beautiful insight to one’s character.

The emo looked to where Logan stood, then to the deep depths of the Dark Imagination.

He had already been to the ‘Light’ Imagination, with its singing birds (annoying) and its lush forestry (also annoying), but the Dark Imagination was still a mystery.

It was comprised of living trees, dead trees, semi-dead trees and any other things that Remus could have thought up.

Meaning, Virgil was terrified to go.

But, he (and Logan) would do what had to be done to save the bean.

_____________________________

Why do you keep calling him ‘the bean’?

‘Cause that’s what I was calling him in my head the whole time.

Aww, cute!

Shut up.

_____________________________

As the left brain boys mentally prepared themselves to go into the hidden depths of the forest of the Dark Imagination, the two brothers (you can’t exactly call them twins at the moment) were having the time of their life.

In Remus’s room, of course.

Remus had seen his fellow sides enter the Imagination, and came up with a brilliant plan.

--------------------------------

“Hey RoRo, do you wanna prank LoLo and Virgey?”

“Wha d’you have in mi- have in min- in mind?”

“How about we make them go on a little treasure hunt?”

“Yeah!”

--------------------------------

The smol one hadn’t been hard to convince. He also didn’t know that he was the treasure, which was kinda funny actually, seeing as he kept asking what it was.

--------------------------------

“Wha’s the trea- the treasure?”

“You’ll have to wait and see.”

“But I don’ wanna…”

--------------------------------

So, while Logan and Virgil panicked about the paper crown, Roman and Remus created a devious little ‘treasure hunt���.

“Can they figh’ a dra- a dragon?” The miniature royal asked.

Remus looked to the map of the Dark Imagination he had laid out on the table.

“Sure.” He grinned. “Armor and weapons or no?”

Roman giggled.

“With!”

Damnit.

Remus suppressed a groan.

“Whatever you say, little prince.”

_____________________________

The forest was dark and creepy and honestly kind of disturbing.

Virgil shuddered as he caught sight of one of the flying eyes that were following them.He tried to keep his eyes in front of him.

He was failing, but it’s the thought that counts.

“There’s a tower, maybe a mile away.” Logan muttered.

“That’s probably where he’s keeping Roman,”

“No shit, Sherlock.”

A pause.

“I though you didn’t have that one.”

“I now do.”

“Yeah, I can see that.”

“No, you can’t, you can hear it.”

“Same difference!”

“That doesn’t even make sen-oh shit!”

Oh shit?

Virgil looked over to Logan.

Wait, where was he?

“Loga-AhHhHhHhHhH!”

_____________________________

Ow. That was unpleasant.

Logan stood up.

Or attempted to stand up.

“Ow!”

Why was this place so small? And dark? He was already blind, for crying out loud. Also, where was Virgil?

…

“AhHhHhHhH!”

…

There, apparently.

“Don’t stand up.”

“What the fu-ow!”

He sighed.

That was what happened when one didn’t follow his instruction.

“I know that sigh. Logan?”

“Yes. It is me, Virgil.”

“You could have warned me about the ceiling.”

“I did.”

“And the hole.”

“I literally fell through it before you. How could I possibly have warned you?”

“By screaming ‘hole’ instead of ‘oh shit’.”

“Well-”

 “HeLlO bOyS!” A voice screeched from somewhere in the darkness.

Virgil screamed and grabbed Logan’s arm.

Ow. Why do I keep getting hurt?

“I hAvE a RiDdLe FoR yOu!”

Virgil tightened his grip, causing Logan to wince.

“What is it?” he questioned.

Might as well.

There was a sound of a throat being cleared.

“WhAt Is SmAlL aNd CuTe, LoVeD wHeN yOuNg BuT nOt WhEn OlD? AnSwEr CoRrEcTlY aNd DoN’t GeT eAtEn By GnOmEs!”

The voice then laughed (or screeched, depending on how nice you are) and disappeared.

For a moment there was silence.

Then,

“What?”

_____________________________

Remus and Roman cackled as they viewed what was happening through the fly-eyes. The treasure hunt was going as perfectly as planned.

(Apart from the two getting hurt, Roman had frowned at Remus for that, causing Remus to pout back. The exchange had ended in giggles.)

“Hey ReeRee?”

“Yeah?”

“I wan’ my cro- I wan’ my crown back.”

Remus turned his head to view the three year old.

_____________________________

He actually looked four at this point.

How come?

He was getting happier, so he was getting older.

Oh.

_____________________________

“Do you want a new one?”

“No.”

“Do you want some cuddles instead?”

“Maybe… but my- but my cr- cr-crown…”

Remus saw the smol one’s lip start wobbling, and oh god if it wasn’t the most heartbreaking thing (apart from hammers).

“Do you want Virgey and LoLo to bring it back?”

And then, as if by magic, Roman adorable little grin returned. He lunged forward, hugging Remus’s long, skinny legs.

“Yeah!”

Remus inwardly let out a sigh of relief. He loved his little brother with all of his (admittedly, shrivelled) heart, but he wasn’t prepared to deal with tears.

“Do you still want cuddles?”

“Duuuuh!”

_____________________________

“A toy?”

The screechy laugh returned.

“YoU iDiOtS! tHe AnSwEr WaS rOmAn! GoOd LuCk WiTh ThE gNoMeS!”

Virgil, for a moment just sat there, shocked.

Roman?

The moment lasted for approximately 0.6 seconds as the sound of footsteps filled the hole.

Many, many footsteps.

Virgil swallowed, his breathing quickening, as Logan scooched closer to him.

Then music started playing.

Virgil took a breath.

Do it for the bean.

_____________________________

“Holy mother of hell.”

That had been terrifying. Even for Logic himself.

He had screamed. So had Virgil. And so they decided they would never speak of the incident ever again.

Logan took a few deep breaths as he regarded his and Virgil’s attire.

His tie was ripped, along with his shirt, and Virgil’s jeans were more than a little worse for wear.

Getting away from the gnomes had been easier one would think, simply crawling through the hole they (he shuddered) had come from allowed them to escape.

It had led the pair to a cave in which they were able to stand.

Thank Einstein, I hate crawling.

 “So, now what?” Virgil’s voice echoed throughout the cave.

Logan stepped forward.

Do it for the child.

“We walk.”

_____________________________

Roman, after a healthy dose of ReeRee cuddles, started to feel curious.

There was so much stuff in Remus’s room, after all, and though his ankle still kinda hurt, he still reeeeeally wanted to poke it all.

Possibly with a stick.

“BroBro, stick?” he asked, missing the way Remus’s face filled with joy at being called ‘BroBro’.

“On the way, your highness.”

Roman like the nicknames. Big him never really got all these nice ones.

After being handed the stick by a grinning Remus, the petite prince took a stool (Or what seemed most like a stool) and started calmly climbing the shelves, poking at the stuff in the jars if it was colorful enough to catch his eye.

Remus, on the other hand, was laying on the floor, hands on his heart.

BroBro.

It was so. Pure.

The young prince would perhaps heal his blackened soul.

The Duke was so distracted by the purity of his baby brother that he didn’t even try to dodge the glob of purple luminescent slime.

He blinked.

And heard a snort of barely muffled laughter.

“I’ve been betrayed,” the trash man said dramatically, “By my own brother, no less!”

More giggles were escaping.

“And I am now… dead.”

Remus let his head flop, hitting the floor with a small crack.

After a few seconds, he felt a small finger poke at his cheek (How had that kid managed to get down so fast?) and a voice.

“ReeRee?”

“Ahhh!”

Remus jumped up to lift his little prince into the air, spinning him around and around and around.

Roman squealed and laughed, his little legs kicking the air.

The cutest boy, change my mind.

_____________________________

Virgil and Logan walked. And walked. And walked.

“Are we there yet?”

Logan deigned not to respond. Virgil had already asked seven times. In the past five minutes.

“Are we?”

His voice was higher this time.

Logan groaned.

“No.”

_____________________________

“Hey L, I see a light! At the end of the tunnel! Freedom!”

Virgil had been panicking (shocking) for the past twenty five minutes.

Logan had been getting increasingly irritated for the past twenty five minutes.

Virgil didn’t know why.

(He definitely knew why.)

“I see it, Virgil.”

“But do you really?”

“Yes.”

…

“Mind if I join your conversation?”

Virgil jumped at the lilting voice.

“I’ll do it anyway. Hello fellow travellers.”

“Who the heck are you?”

A small flame jumped out of the darkness, illuminating a figure with delicate features and large wings.

Wings?

“Why, I’m the Dragon Witch of course! Care for some bones?”

“I thought Roman killed you.” Logan remarked.

“He did. That’s why I’m here. Who else could sell bones but the dead? Speaking of,” the witch smirked, “You should buy some.”

“Why?”

The smirk grew.

“Why not?”  

____________________________

And so, the left brain boys bought a few bones, in exchange for a shoe each, before going on there way.

The Dragon Witch smiled as she slunk back into the shadows.

Remus would be pleased.

____________________________

Remus was most definitely pleased.

Two more shoes for the collection!

“Hey RoBro, look! It’s Virgey’s shoe! And Logan’s!”

“Shoes!”

“Shoes.” He nodded.

Roman was playing with a few birds that had followed him from the Imagination. And the squirrels. And the deer. And all of the other forest creatures.

The smol one truly was a prince.

I wonder if they have names.

_____________________________

Roman was enjoying playing with the creatures, especially Elphaba.

Her emerald green feathers shone brightly in the golden light of… something. He didn’t know what, as Remus’s room didn’t have many lights, lest not gold-ish ones.

Suddenly, a thought popped into his mind.

“Hey ReeRee?”

“Yeah?”

“Do you think if I si- you think if I sing, the birdies will- the birdies will too?”

Big him always did that. It seemed fun.

ReeRee looked a bit confused.

“Li-li-li-”

Roman got stuck on the word. They were the worst sometimes!

“Big me!”

Remus seemed to catch on.

“Like big you does?”

Roman nodded aggressively. Yes! Maybe Big Bro would sing with him! That would be so fun!

_____________________________

As Virgil finally stepped out into the light, relishing the sweet, sweet sunlight, a bunch of birds appeared and started tweeting out… a song?

Well that was odd.

“Hey Logan?”

“What.”

“Is that the tower you mentioned seeing earlier?”

Because standing in front of them at fifty feet tall, was a tower.

And on top of that tower, was a dragon.

Fuck.

_____________________________

Thanks for reading this chapter of the Petite Prince!

I’m going to introduce Patton and Janus soon, so which one do you want to see first?

#sanders sides #thomas sanders sides #tss #roman sanders #baby roman #ts roman #remus sanders #virgil sanders #logan sanders #i hc ro as a disney princess #but a prince #feedback is appreciated

[antpernas]

1/22/21

 Going to try my best and recall the details from these days!!

So this day was super fun! I can’t remember much about us waking up, but what I do remember is we had breakfast and decided on a plan of attack! Since we had originally intended to go to Miami yesterday but couldn’t because we woke up late, we moved it to today since we had woken up on time! In addition, since it seemed like we would have enough time, I made plans for us to stop in Boca on the way, since we didn’t go there like I had originally intended we do for our “Palm Beach” day. So, off we went!

Our first stop was Delray Beach, which was pretty cute! On the way there, we had a really cool conversation about music theory. I learned a lot, and I got some questions I’ve had in my head for a while answered, which was great! It was also really cute to see Scorpio rack his brain to remember his theory. Once we got there, we parked and headed to the volleyball courts. We rallied a bit between ourselves and then tried to play with some people who were already there, but they were pretty cold. I think Scorpio was taken aback by the Floridian hostility, but I think it was good in showing him why I wasn’t quite as outgoing as he was in California. People in Florida aren’t so... kind? Or welcoming? On average, in comparison to the West Coast. But, that was okay! After that attempt, we went snorkeling in an attempt to find the shipwreck that is allegedly somewhere in the water on that beach. Still didn’t end up finding it, adding all the more doubt in my head to whether this ship actually exists or not!

Getting to Boca was fine, but trying to find parking there was a HEADACHE. First of all, it’s super crowded, and THEN as if that’s not enough of an issue, parking is like $20 per session as opposed to an hourly fee that’s much more affordable. Absurd!! To make matters worse, I ended up taking us to the wrong beach at first! I believe this beach also had a reef, but I hadn’t seen it before and didn’t want to risk losing daylight on a reef I hadn’t seen. So that was $20 down the drain, whoopsies! After that, I finally ended up finding the correct beach, but once we started heading towards the sand, Scorpio didn’t want to snorkel in this spot because I forgot to mention there were fishermen on this jetty. Doh!!! But it was all good! It was a cute little stretch, and now we were on our way to Miami.

The only thing from this trip that I regret so very deeply was what we talked about in the next few minutes after we left Boca. I said some stuff that Scorpio later told me was insensitive and super hurtful, and it’s stuff that I really didn’t even need to be sharing in the first place. He got over it really quickly, but I ended up feeling guilty about it for the rest of the day, and I felt even worse about that because I felt like I was ruining the trip. I tried my best to put it to the back of my mind though, just like he had done so effortlessly!!

That being said, we got stopped at a drawbridge and he was SO fascinated by it! He jumped out of the car to go look at it being raised and everything! He was so thoroughly interested, it was so innocent and precious! I was in disbelief before he told me he had never seen one before, which made it a little more believable for me.

The rest of the drive to Miami was alright, other than me feeling a little awkward! I think I just ran my mouth about music the entire way, as usual.

When we finally got to Miami, our first stop was Palacio to get some food. Watching him order was super funny, he started doing this little dance and the people serving us started giggling and smiling, the way he literally just awakens happiness in people is so amazing. We chatted about the fact that he was visiting and such, then we spent a few minutes letting him be overwhelmed by options before we finally ordered and got going.

Our destination for snorkeling in Miami was Key Biscayne! The view from the bridge was, as always, amazing, and even the drive up to the bridge was cool, since it let him see more of the “urban” part of Miami. Once we got over the bridge, we headed straight to Bill Baggs. Snorkeling here wasn’t the best, but it wasn’t the worst either! We saw some stingrays, lots of sea grass, and even found this ENORMOUS conch shell! I would’ve taken it but I felt bad about it, even though I was about 99% sure it was empty... Will be returning one day to find another one! After that, we hit a bunch of other parts of the park; the lighthouse (WHICH WAS CLOSED I was so mad at myself), the biking trail, the historic trails, and No Name Harbor trail! Sidebar, this boy peed so MUCH. How he managed to pee that much when we hadn’t even drank that much water was astounding to me. But, anyway, we stopped to watch the sunset on that last one and took a bunch of cute pictures! He climbed on some rocks and almost ate shit, but caught the attention of some paddleboarders while he was doing it and ended up striking a conversation with them! When we went back to the car, we ended up being parked next to them, LOL!

After Bill Baggs, we went to Nahuen and got some sweets. Admittedly, this was a moment of shame for me, only because the food was SO much worse than all the other places I had taken him to! To be fair, I didn’t even realize that Nahuen was open that late, so I should’ve anticipated that the sweets wouldn’t be fresh. But also, WHY SELL STALE SWEETS!!!!

After that, we ended up driving around downtown and I had a horrible trip down memory lane. We ended up having a conversation about me feeling awkward and shitty, but now mostly because I was reliving memories and being reminded of how much I’ve messed up over the years. I look back on this and feel bad because I think I scared him a bit. But, it happens! We ended up getting stopped at another drawbridge on that road, which was both good and bad since it gave me a second to breathe, but also it gave me time to think (which is the bad part).

After that, though, I think I managed to pull myself together a little bit and we went to South Beach! We took a stroll along the pier and admired Miami, the city lights, the sky, and just about everything else we could take in. We even saw a girl feeding some cats! Scorpio tried to befriend another one further down the pier, but it darted pretty quick. Once we were done with our little walk, we headed back to the car and drove through Miami Beach a little more. Once he got enough of a taste, we headed home :D

I don’t think we really did anything significant on the way home, or after we got there... I know we had dinner but I don’t think we ate out that evening. I also remember him telling me he was waiting for me to hop in the shower, so I had to inform him that I can’t shower with him when my parents are in the living room. Another scenario in which he realized he and I have lived two different lives, in two different environments LOL. Otherwise, I think he just played some piano and sang some more, as usual, before we finally headed to bed. I still felt pretty bummed that night, but cuddling with him was such a comfort. I think we drifted off to sleep pretty quickly after that.

#mydiary

[mlmdarkfiction]

GIFT FIC- Extra Credit?

Fandom: Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Ship: Edelgard Von Hresvelg/Byleth Eisner 

Description: After Dorothea finds out Edelgard has a B in Professor Eisner's class, she tells Edelgard to ask for extra credit, knowing the other woman has a crush on the Professors Daughter who's also his teaching assistant.

Content Warning: Modern AU, College AU, Teachers Assistant Byleth

Authors Note: This fic was a gift for one of the kind people who donated to help my friend pay medical pills for their dog!

Read Below:

“...”

Silence interrupts the once cheerful conversation between the four girls. The other three had been waiting on a response, and were instead met with nothing.

Edelgard had, admittedly, stopped paying attention to the conversation at hand as soon as she’d gotten an email about their midterm grades being released.

She had to check immediately!

She expected what she always did.

Perfection.

Her whole life Edelgard had been kept to an impossibly high standard, and things truly hadn’t changed much now.

Really, the only change was that it was now Edelgard herself expecting too much of herself.

And when she checked her grades and saw that everything was not perfect and that they didn’t meet her regular perfection she was crushed.

There was no way she had made a mistake.

With all her studying, and the amount of hard work she put into every assignment, there was no way she’d earned only a B in Professor Eisner’s class.

Edelgard had never gotten a B before.

And it was unacceptable.

“Ede?”

Dorothea finally calls gently, breaking the silence.

All three women were capable of understanding that something was wrong, based both on Edelgard’s silence in turn of conversation, and the sour expression that had slowly taken her face as she looked at her phone.

Just seeing that expression on Edelgard’s face was enough to make Bernadetta nervous by proxy, her leg beginning to bounce under the table in an attempt at self-soothing.

“Sorry.” Edelgard says at the realization their lunch time conversation had halted because of her.

“What were we talking about?”

Petra and Dorothea share a look between them.

Clearly something was bothering the other woman.

Instead of answering her so that they could continue their mundane conversation, Dorothea decides instead to pry.

“Is something wrong?”

“Wrong? Why would something be wrong?”

Dorothea and Petra share another look.

The sharp, somewhat rushed tone of Edelgard’s voice was enough to give away that something truly was bothering her.

Exasperated Dorothea sighs a little, shaking her head.

“Well you were looking at your phone like it killed your whole family.”

A pause.

Edelgard simply sighs.

No matter what she does or says there’s no way Dorothea is going to let this go, it’s simply not in the other girl's nature not to pry when she thinks there is something wrong with one of her friends.

Although an admirable trait, in this specific instance, Edelgard hates it.

“I got a B in one of my classes.”

“A B?”

Bernadetta finally speaks up, it’s clear by the confusion in her voice she doesn’t understand the problem. For someone like Bernadetta, someone who doesn’t keep themselves mounted on a pedestal, a grade like a B is no problem.

However the meek girl immediately regrets speaking up at all when she gets a sharp look from Edelgard.

“Yes, Bernadetta a B. I got a B.”

Sensing the tension, and Bernadetta’s rising anxiety, Petra finally interferes, wrapping an arm around the other woman.

“We are going to have to be going now!”

Edelgard sighs as the other two retreat, leaving her alone at the table with Dorothea. She makes a mental note to apologize to Bernadetta later.

“Well...Which class is it?”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean,” The look on Dorothea’s face, that teasing smile that’s slowly taking over her expression, makes Edelgard regret this entire conversation.

“Is it the class with that cute Teacher’s Assistant you like so much?”

“...”

The silence is all the answer the other needs.

She practically squeals in delight, clapping her hands together.

“Oh Ede! You stupid Lesbian! No wonder you have a B in that class! You’re too busy staring at her!”

“No. I am not- That is- That is ridiculous.”

It’s not ridiculous.

Dorothea is right, she knows she’s right, and Edelgard knows she’s right. Still, even if they both know the truth, that doesn’t mean she has to admit to it.

“Well it’s only a midterm.” She points out, knowing there’s no use to get Edelgard to admit she’d slacked off due to her crush on the Professor's daughter.

“If you’re saying it doesn’t matter because it’s only a mid-” “Relax.”

Edelgard’s spiel is cut off by Dorothea gently resting a hand on top of hers, and gently squeezing.

“All I meant is you still have plenty of time before grades are final to turn that B into an A.”

She smiles gently at the other.

Dorothea can never entirely understand why Edelgard is the way she is, but she tries her best to be supportive.

“And for someone like you that’s easy right?”

It’s barely noticeable, but...Edelgard does relax a bit.

“You’re right…”

“And besides!” Dorothea chirps out, “If you really want it fixed now, you could always ask Byleth for some extra credit!”

And as if worried Edelgard wouldn’t understand the extra meaning in her statement, Dorthea winks for emphasis.

Ignoring the pink that comes to her cheeks in response, she just rolls her eyes at her friend's statement.

Although the idea wasn’t entirely a bad idea.

Professor Esiner would never give out extra credit, but his daughter, the TA, might.

It was worth asking about if nothing else...even if that means humiliating herself by admitting that she needs the extra credit in the first place.

The next time Edelgard has Professor Eisner’s class she once again struggles to focus. She is, as usual, distracted. Although for once her distraction has less to do with Byleth’s existence, and more to do with her extra credit.

Instead of actually paying attention to the lesson Edelgard is trying to figure out how she can ask Byleth about extra credit without embarrassing herself, or without making herself out to seem like some kind of idiot who’s failing the class.

When all the other students start piling out of the classroom, Edelgard stays. For a while it’s just the four of them; Edelgard, Byleth, Jeralt, and Leonie.

And the longer Edelgard finds herself waiting on Leonie to leave, the angrier she finds herself becoming, until she’s firmly glaring at the redheads back.

It really doesn’t seem like she’s going to leave at all, still talking the Professors ear off, and so instead Edelgard makes the decision to take the L on this.

After all, Dorothea was right when she said there was time before grades finalized.

She gathers her things, heads to the door, but then she’s stopped, a hand reaching out to grab her wrist.

It’s a subtle action, gentle but firm, but still enough to cause her to jump, whipping around quickly to be met face to face with Byleth.

“Hey-”

Edelgard hopes she doesn’t look stupid, she can already feel the heat rising to her cheeks, lavender eyes flickering from her wrist and the fingers around it, to Byleth’s calm face.

“You waited all that time,” Byleth says softly. “Did you need something?”

Getting defensive is an instinct, something that triggers before she’s actually able to stop it. “Need something? Why would I need something?”

But Byleth keeps looking at her, obviously not buying it, expression blank as ever, and it’s enough to make Edelgard crumble apologetically.

“I was...just wondering about extra credit.”

“Extra credit?”

Edelgard curses Byleth.

Curses how cute she is.

Her thoughts immediately drift from the topic at hand, and to the way Byleth always seems to tilt her head just slightly to the right when expressing confusion. She wonders if the other woman is even aware she does it.

“Extra credit, yeah…” Edelgard clears her throat, using the moments pause to regain her composure.

“My grade fell from an A to a B for seemingly no reason, and so I thought…”

“I won’t sleep with you.”

…

What.

Edelgard’s composure quickly falls apart.

Although that’s what Dorothea had originally been joking about when she’d told Edelgard to ask about extra credit, she had no intentions of actually-

Surely Dorothea hadn’t talked to Byleth about this?

But then...how else would she have known to say that?

“I-I don’t understand what-”

“That’s...That’s what happens in movies, right?” Byleth seems just as confused as Edelgard, at least.

“Someone asks for extra credit, and then they have sex?”

Edelgard is even more perplexed.

That sounds like a bad porn plot more than a movie.

Does Byleth watch porn?

No! Bad horny brain! Focus on the task at hand.

“I was…thinking something more like worksheets.”

Her entire face has become engulfed in red, and she finds it more difficult to actually look at Byleth.

“Oh.”

The other woman pauses and then turns to call out to her father, “Hey, can Edelgard do extra credit?”

Great.

Now not only did the Professor end up finding out she wanted extra credit, but Leonie overheard as well.

This is becoming worse and worse, more humiliating by the minute.

“I...think I am just going to leave.”

She hadn’t realized until she tried leaving again that Byleth hadn’t released her wrist. It’s easy to tug free of her hold now that the surprise of being grabbed has long past.

Edelgard quickly makes her way out of the class room and down the hall. She just wants to go back to her dorm.

It’s likely irrational, and she realizes it, but she feels like she was made a fool of both by, and in front of the girl she likes.

The girl who probably is completely unaware she likes her.

She’s trying her best to avoid the heat in her cheeks, and the tears threatening to spill from her eye due to the humiliation of it all.

“Edelgard! Wait!”

Byleth jogs down the hallway, catching up with the other easily.

“I brought you these.”

Worksheets. She’s offering Edelgard a handful of work sheets.

Clearly Jeralt must have agreed to the extra credit work.

She’s relieved if nothing else, at least all this humiliation hadn’t completely been in vain.

“Thank you.”

Edelgard takes the worksheets, but notices that Byleth seems to hesitate for a moment. She raises a brow, waiting for the woman to speak.

She’s usually not the type to show any form of hesitation, and so she gets Edelgard’s full attention.

“I’m sorry about before,” She says softly. “I was trying to make a joke but...I’m bad at jokes.”

That is an understatement, but it at least makes Edelgard feel a bit better about the entire situation, knowing that it was just an attempt at humor.

“I didn’t mean to embarrass you,” Byleth continues.

“And...Dorothea told me you like me?” It’s said with just the tiniest bit of emotion in it, a curious, hopeful upturn to the last word.

Edelgard decides in that moment she has to kill Dorothea.

“So...I was wondering if you wanted to go on a date?”

Edelgard decides that she will not kill Dorothea.

When she doesn’t get an immediate answer Byleth panics a bit.

“Not like- Not as extra credit! Just like...in general. Just a normal date?”

“...I’d like that.”

#edelgard #edelgard von hresvelg #Byleth #byleth eisner #Female Byleth #Byleth/Edeglard #Edelgard/Byleth #edeleth #Fire Emblem #Fire Emblem: Three Houses #Fire Emblem: 3 Houses #Fire Emblem Three Houses #Fire Emblem 3 Houses #my work

[lassostark]

The One With Peter’s Playlist

Chapter Title for the Fic: “The Soundtrack of Our Lives” Fandom: Marvel/Avengers Ship: Steve x Tony

Year: Early 2018

Steve punches in the code and waits for the sliding doors to open before he walks in to collect Tony and Peter in time for dinner. He only makes it two steps into the lab when he stops in shock because of two things.

Firstly, a pop song is playing at an unacceptable volume. Due to the super serum, Steve’s senses are heightened, causing him to wince at the thumping bass.

Secondly, Tony and Peter look disheveled in their sweatpants and stained white shirts. It’s their usual garb during lab time when Peter spends the weekend at The Tower, and Steve’s seen them dressed like this countless times already but the sight never fails to make Steve all warm inside.

But that’s not the reason why he stopped.

The reason for Steve’s astonishment is the view of Peter and Tony dancing a jig in their respective places at their worktables. Peter’s working on his web shooters while Tony’s doing some tweaks to his suit.

It’s apparent that the two are absolutely unaware of Steve’s presence because Peter’s singing along to the song, and Tony?

If it were possible for someone’s brains to turn to mush, Steve’s definitely would because the sight of Tony shaking his ass to the beat is making Steve think of really filthy things he’d love to do to Tony’s ass.

Steve blinks rapidly. He clears his throat and wets his lips because there’s a reason why he’s here in the first place.

“Don't wanna spend my whole life catching my breath 'Cause I've been running 'round and 'round and 'round And I've got nothing left There's nothing like a sunset skyline To let you know you're almost home So breathe in, and hold tight”

Thankfully, all it took was one (desperate) look at a corner in the room where he knows JARVIS is for the AI to lower the volume at a respectable level. This action causes both geniuses to stop their jig and finally look up at Steve.

“Hello, Steve!” Peter waves at him brightly.

“Hey, babycakes,” Tony greets with a grin, ignoring Peter’s groan. “What brings you to our humble abode?”

Steve feels himself flush at one of the pet names Tony’s been calling him. They’ve been dancing around each other for months now, and the fact that Tony’s is not only welcoming Steve’s (albeit) small advances, but is also reciprocating them has turned the super soldier’s world around.

Admittedly, he’s no better in the situation since Steve’s also resorted to calling Tony names. ‘Doll’ and ‘darling’ are what he uses frequently, but one time he called Tony ‘babe’, and Tony looked at Steve with this really sweet, really soft expression it made Wanda throw marshmallows at them and Sam to walk out of the communal kitchen.

“Hey, guys,” Steve greets with a pointed look at Tony who looks back innocently. “Dinner’s ready in ten, so why don’t you both clean up first before coming up?”

“What’s for dinner?” Peter asks as he starts to clean up his workstation.

“Lasagne and Korean BBQ chicken,” Steve answers with a knowing grin aimed at the teen.

Peter’s eyes widened in excitement. He finishes cleaning in no time and goes to the bathroom built in the lab.

With the kid gone, Steve turns his attention to Tony and slowly walks over to the man who’s packing up the soldering iron.

“You normally don’t listen to that kind of music,” Steve muses. Hands in his pockets, he leans one hip against the table. He’s standing close enough to Tony that he can see the light freckles dusting over his nose and the long lashes of his doe eyes.

Tony smirks, looking up at Steve for a brief moment. “The kid’s been begging me for months to play his work playlist.”

Steve tilts his head. “What changed?”

Tony shrugs.

“Nothing. Just felt like indulging him.”

“How awfully generous of you, Mr. Stark.”

“I have my moments, Captain Rogers.”

Their gazes lock then. Tony’s smirk softens into a smile but his whiskey eyes are heated, and Steve knows he has a similar look on his face. Slowly, he pulls one hand from his pocket and raises it to trace a bead of sweat that’s trailing down the side of Tony’s face. He sees Tony’s eyes flutter as the genius sighs quietly. Steve’s heart is hammering against his ribcage as he wets his lips, throat dry at the sheer want that stirs in his gut.

Distantly, he can hear Peter’s movements in the bathroom, and he knows they have less than a minute before the teen comes out and it’s Tony’s turn to clean up.

So Steve swallows past the dryness in his throat and allows himself this moment of weakness. He runs his thumb across Tony’s cheekbone and jawline before drawing his hand away. He tries not to feel too smug at the small whimper he hears leave Tony’s full lips as he straightens his posture.

“Steve,” Tony breathes out.

Steve stares back at Tony, pupils dilated and cheeks slightly flushed. Smirking down at him, Steve leans down and presses a lingering kiss on Tony’s cheek.

“Steve,” Tony whines, an adorable pout on his lips. “This is so not fair.”

Steve chuckles and kisses Tony’s other cheek.

“You’re so cute, babe,” Steve murmurs with a grin, overwhelmed with affection just then.

Just as he forces himself to pull away, with perfect timing Peter comes out of the bathroom. The teen looks at them back and forth, steps slowing as he eyes them apprehensively.

Wanting to avoid any awkwardness that might ensue if he doesn’t leave, Steve decides to make his exit, shooting Peter a smile and Tony a wink.

When he’s alone in the elevator, Steve leans heavily against the wall as he exhales loudly. Smiling goofily at the ceiling, he finds that he doesn’t mind this mating dance he and Tony are doing if it means they get to trade innocent kisses like this.

(Read on AO3)

#stevetony #stony #stony fic #marvel fic #steve x tony #playlist 'verse #marvel #avengers #fic update #my writing

[blamgleek]

Tyrus' first times headcanons

Short disclaimer beforehand: I've never done this before, this is literally my first time. Also, English isn't my first language, there shouldn't be too many mistakes but there might be some. This is also much longer than I intended it to be but oh whatever.

• acknowledgement of each others existence

TJ would never tell Cyrus but the muffin incident wasn't the first time he had noticed him. TJ had one talent and that was noticing cute boys. For the longest time, he thought Buffy was Cyrus' girlfriend which was also part of the reason why TJ didn't like her at first.

Cyrus' first encounter with the name 'TJ' wasn't as lovely though. He was Buffy's bully which means he wasn't worth any love or friendship from Cyrus but admittedly, the first thought that went through Cyrus' head when Buffy dragged TJ to get him a muffin, was: "He has nice eyes."

• exchanging numbers

TJ did go back to the swings after the first time and, fortunately, he did meet Cyrus there again. Only this time, neither of them were feeling bad about themselves, maybe it was the universe speaking, but they both felt the urge to come back to the swings. They talked for a while (literally until the was replaced by the moon). Before Cyrus could leave because it was late, TJ stopped him, built all the courage he had left in his body up and asked Cyrus for his number. Luckily, Cyrus happily gave it to him.

• sleepover

Their first sleepover occurred after the whole gun incident. They had been to each other's home's before but Cyrus never thought TJ would want to spend an entire night with him. The first sleepover took place at TJ's house (because he doesn't have shrink parents) and TJ was a lot more nervous than he had been before any math test ever. He wanted the whole thing to be absolutely perfect. Usually, he was the most chill person there is on any sleepover but all he wanted to do was to impress Cyrus.

Cyrus himself wasn't any less nervous. He didn't want TJ to notice how lame he truly and his dinosaur pyjama surely didn't help his case.

As it turned out, being nervous was completely unnecessary. They basically got into their PJs immediately (out of solidarity to the dinosaurs, TJ wore his embarrassing High School Musical fan shirt along with his sweatpants) and then they continued to watch movie after movie after movie, well, if you can call making fun of cheesy rom-coms "watching". At one point in the night, they weren't able to keep their eyes open for another movie anymore so they'd just talk about random stuff until they would fall asleep.

The next morning, TJ would continue his mission to make this sleepover perfect and try his hand on chocolate chocolate ship... pancakes! for breakfast.

• date

The night of the mysterious bench was also the night of TJ asking Cyrus out on a date. Of course Cyrus happily accepted and told TJ about a million times that night, that it didn't have to be special. But of course TJ could not accept that. He had listened to everything Cyrus had told him the past months and his brain was full of amazing date ideas.

After a lot of thinking, TJ finally settled on the aquarium. It was a great place to talk, he knew Cyrus loved it and it was really close to the park. The park. Instead of taking Cyrus out to dinner after the aquarium, TJ thought it would be a great idea to have a picnic in the park. Luckily, Buffy and Andi were super helpful setting everything up while they were looking at fish. TJ couldn't have been happier to be able to call them his friends as well.

• first time in school as a couple

Their first time going to school as a couple was scary. Sure, Shadyside was generally really accepting and TJ was still the scary-basketball-guy to most people but there was always this shadow of doubt. They both knew that rubbing it in everyone's face would be a bad idea so they kept it very lowkey (basically walking very close together and holding hands under the lunch table). This method continued for a few weeks until TJs basketball team came up to their captain and confronted him about his relationship with Cyrus. Long story short, they all ship it and Tyrus is now part of the Jefferson-Middle-School-Basketball-Team-Protection-Program.

• kiss

After his super successful kisses with Iris, Cyrus wasn't the most confident when it came to his first kiss with TJ. TJ, on the other hand, had never been kissed and that was what held him back from doing it. They had been dating for about a month at this point and there had never been any lip contact. It got to the point that TJ started to practice kissing with his childhood teddy. It wasn't pretty.

It was the faithful day of their one month anniversary when Cyrus finally decided that it was time. At this point, he wasn't scared anymore that TJ was just pranking him and would just say, "ha, you fool, I'm not gay." once Cyrus would show his affection. This was the day.

It was Cyrus' turn to take TJ out on a date and as always, the date ended at the park. TJ and Cyrus would sit down on the swings and TJ would thank Cyrus for the amazing day. That was what they did after every date. However, this time, instead of starting to swing, Cyrus got up, stood directly in front of TJ, took a deep breath, said "you're welcome" and then he leaned in. Just like any first kiss would be, theirs was a little awkward as well, but the fireworks were there and they improved over time, very very quickly.

• cuddle

The first time they cuddled was also in the Kippen house. They really had almost all of their sleepovers there at this point. TJ loved Cyrus' family but they were a little controlling and basically checked on them every 2 seconds. TJ's mom only showed up to bring them snacks or more blankets, other than that, she really didn't bother them.

In the end, they could probably thank the horror movie industry for introducing them to the art of cuddling. The whole school had been talking about his awesome new horror movie and for some reason, TJ and Cyrus seemed to be the only two people who hadn't seen it. They both didn't want to be that person that couldn't participate in any conversations anymore so they decided to watch it together. Turns out, they both hate horror movies. Really, cuddling seemed to be the only way to get through it. It started with simple hand holding but it didn't take long for them to scoot together more and more until Cyrus was almost on TJ's lap. Cyrus buried his head into TJ's shoulder while TJ did kind of the same thing but with Cyrus neck. After the movie was over, they kinda moved away from that again and Cyrus was sitting fully on the sofa again, however, his head did not move from his comfortable spot on TJ's shoulder.

• sleeping in the same bed

TJ Kippen is scared of horror movies (apparently), heights and any animal that has more than 4 legs.

Cyrus Goodman is scared of all those things too and flamingos and puppets and thunder and, well, a lot more.

They had been together for a year at this point and it was time for yet another sleepover at TJ's house. Everytime Cyrus slept at TJ's house, they would just put an air mattress on the ground for Cyrus, it wasn't the most comfortable but Cyrus quickly got used to it. This night was different though. The weather hadn't been great for the last few days but up until this point, it had only been raining. It was about 3 am when Cyrus woke up to the sound of thunder. The whole room lit up with the light coming from the lightning and Cyrus was terrified. Thankfully, the loud noise also woke TJ up who could now hear not only the thunder but also the sound of a crying boy on his bedroom floor. Of course TJ immediately knew what was happening and he tried to comfort Cyrus but nothing worked. TJ quickly decided that this was basically another horror movie situation and invited Cyrus to get into his bed. Cyrus gladly accepted the offer and so TJ held Cyrus in his arms, kissed his forehead and waiting for Cyrus to fall back asleep.

• I love you

TJ and Cyrus both knew that they loved each other but they hadn't said it yet. One year into their relationship and at this point, neither of them felt it was necessary to actually say it out loud anymore. However, when TJ saw a sleeping Cyrus in his arms, still with wet eyes from crying because of the thunder, he couldn't hold it back anymore. Of course TJ knew that Cyrus was asleep but he still whispered the magical three words into his ear before he closed his own eyes and fell back asleep.

Cyrus' first "I love you" actually happened shortly after. In the morning after that horrible night, he woke up to the smell of chocolate chip pancakes and hot chocolate. IN BED! Cyrus just stared at his boyfriend in awe and wondered how he could ever be this lucky. After the glorious meal, Cyrus just collapsed on top of TJ, told him he loved him and gave him a quick kiss. Of course, TJ gave Cyrus the same words and the same action back.

#andi mack #tyrus

[ahmedmootaz]

More shippy moments between Dr.Drakken and Shego.

So I’ve recently fell off the planet and climbed back on again, and whaddya know, I was just on time to catch-up with Season 3. I‘ve stopped just shy of “So The Drama”, having heard of how spectacular it was, but I couldn’t help but notice that Season 3 did little to stop me shipping a certain mad doctor and his sidekick. Seriously, that season has a ton of ship fuel.

So first of all, “Steal Wheels.”. Okay, I’m well-aware this one was mostly Eddie and Drakken hanging out and being enemies/nemesis/pals/cousins, but I kinda like how Drakken knows better than to oppose Shego’s ideas and how he seems to simply accept that she (sometimes, of course; wouldn’t let his ego admit anything more) is better than him at driving the Doom-V. I like that he also knows how to treat her better than Eddie, even if its mostly because she has glowing plasma hands of doom.

Then there was “Emotion Sickness.”. This...this wasn’t just shipping fuel, I’m fairly certain someone on the Kim Possible Team ships Kim with Ron and Drakken and Shego and used this episode to express that. I mean...holy heck, there were so, so many things that need commenting on...So firstly, let’s start by mentioning the “This is not the right time to question the nature of our relationship!”, and...what? Does Drakken mean that she’s questioned it before? I mean, I’m fairly certain that at this point they’re friends, if nothing else, so...It was an interesting comment.

Then, Dr.D reacting to Shego’s mood swings at first. I feel he’s kinda...trying to do his best? I mean, yeah, telling Shego she was overreacting probably wasn’t the brightest idea he ever got, but other than that, he seems like he’s trying to do his best while she’s setting him on fire and beating him to a pulp. I also reaaaally like how his first assumption to what’s happening is that he forgot her birthday. What, is that just a regular thing employers and employees do? Remember each other’s birthday and celebrate it accordingly?...Boy, this sole line can inspire so many Fanfics...

And then there was the whole “lovey-dovey” mode. Yeah, this was one big shipping episode. So first of all, Shego flirting with Drakken on a table and posing. I’m still deciding whether Drakken is actually so oblivious he couldn’t grasp she could flirt with him or if he was trying to be good employer and a gentleman. I mean, considering he seemed to have no idea what was happening while she was growling like a cat I’d lean towards the former. And then the whole “Perfect weather for cuddling” comment. I was positive Drakken was going to call the insane asylum to take him in because he was seeing hallucinations. And that massage...seems like our mad scientist is a bit stressed from his “worky-worky”. And then the park montage...Yeah, I’m willing to assume that the photo-booth ‘session’ melted his brain. I mean what? She just...jumped him. This was basically an accurate depiction of what Dr.Drakken would be like when faced with the concept that someone could be infatuated with him. Spoilers: He’s scared out of his wits.

So we’ll skip the admittedly amusing Kim Part of the episode and jump back to their Dinner Date. Their entire interactions there were golden, not to mention Shego’s ‘Yaaaay’ and giggle after Drakken told her (while being pointed at with a what’s basically a gun to his head) it’d be an evil date. I wouldn’t describe Shego as ‘cute’, but that scene could hardly be described as otherwise. Then when they’re at the Middleton Festival and Shego suddenly bursts into tears, I adore that Drakken, who up to this point was basically psycologicaly scarred, tortured and shocked by Shego, doesn’t just leave her or anything, no, he comforts her when she says he’s “Leaving her in her time of need.” and says “No no no, I’‘ll just...I’ll be right back.” though what really makes that scene for me is his tone; it’s not frustrated or fake, he did mean it. Of course, I suppose Shego did also mean it when she then went into rage-mode and was ready to blast him to pieces. And, just as if this episode couldn‘t stuff anymore fluff, Drakken’s first idea on how to calm a homicidal Shego is to make her dinner. What kind of boss makes you dinner to make up with you?!...Also, I do wonder, how did he get the Moodulator off of her?

So after this ship-filled episode, it’d only be natural to have an episode where Shego comes back to her senses and dumps Drakken for another villain. So “Bad Boy” comes in and has Drakken actively seek Shego’s attention and sympathy by...crying. Sometimes I see the ‘mad’ part in ‘mad scientist’ in him. Sometimes I don’t. In any case, Shego, contrary to what you’d expect, takes him to a Villain-Con. It seemed like a nice gesture on her part. Then there were Drakken’s actions when he was “good”. Coco-Moo. Never before did I imagine I’d hear him saying that word, but now that I did, I’m glad it happened. I mean come on, the first thing he does when he turns good is make her and his henchmen cookies and Coco-Moo I mean what is this boss-employer relationship? I also liked Shego kinda acknowledging the fact that is was sort of a low-blow to leave Drakken in his goody two-shoes state.

“Showdown At The Crooked D” had Shego flex her language skills on Drakken. I don’t know why I loved that scene so much, but I did. And I liked their whole “Cowboy-like” interactions. It was also nice to see she didn’t abandon after their plan failed.

“Dimension Twist.” didn’t really have much in term of shippiness, though I appreciated Drakken taking Shego with him when he escaped.

And then the last episode that involved them together this season: “Rappin’ Drakken.” Firstly, it seems to me as if Drakken did, actually, listen to Shego after all this time and make his device immediately launch instead of counting down. But that’s not what I really loved during this episode. I loved the fact that Drakken and Shego go to karaoke together. What, don’t tell me that’s regular employer-employee stuff! And even so, why doesn’t Shego bail out if she claims she hates it so much? Drakken’s rap itself was golden, but this scene made my day.

And that’s all I’ve got. I’m still working on that story I said I’d write, but then it suddenly spiraled out of control and got longer than expected and what was supposed to be a single paragraph transformed into a chapter and it has evolved a mind of its own and help me-

Ahem. In any case, have some more shippy moments. Again, I must praise the series itself, as its quality makes it a delight to watch. And now, off to So The Drama...

#Kim Possible #dr. drakken #shego #shippy stuff #I mean who goes to their boss with karaoke?

[thedarklordmegatron]

Sliding in at the last minute with my piece for @tsukibeamfics as part of the @ffxvexchange!

Title: Across the Ages Ship: Promptis Prompto: Reunion  Rating: T

Also on AO3!

Warnings for implied child abuse and death in the ‘second lives’ portion! 

Their first lives ended in tragedy.

Bar the reclamation of Insomnia and the ending of the Starscourge, the future was something they had never really discussed. Not because Noctis hadn’t wanted to, no, on more than one occasion he had tried to start a conversation with him, but his anxiety had gotten the best of him each time and it hadn’t taken much for Prompto to steer him in another direction. He was well aware that once Noctis took on more duties, once he became King, that his own role in the other’s life would be drastically reduced if he was even allowed to remain that was. Not that Noctis or the others had ever done anything to enforce that idea. Far from it. When he’d stupidly mentioned it to Ignis in passing, the trio had taken it upon themselves to make it very clear that no matter what, he was apart of their little family and would remain as such.

Then everything went to shit. Because of course it did.

Between the fall of Insomnia, and bye extension Lucis, there had been little time to discuss anything except how they were going to feed themselves, stay off the Empire’s radar and somehow retake Lucis. Their future together hadn’t exactly been high on the list of priorities.

When Noctis and the others finally came to Gralea for him, freeing him from Ardyn’s little hell-hole, he’d long since decided that should he live through that particularly horrific portion of his life, he’d finally tell Noct just how much he loved him, how he would always be by his side, as his husband/lover or friend, it really didn’t matter; so long as he was there. Between the exhaustion and relief, it’d taken everything he had to just stay awake and keep moving, having a full in-depth conversation about their future together was never going to happen. And as with everything in his life, a curve-ball collided with his face and his whole world was thrown off kilter.

First, Noctis was quite literally absorbed into the Crystal, and Six did that image haunt him for the rest of his admittedly far too short life. Second, the Sun vanished behind a miasma of darkness, most definitely Ardyn’s work, and with it the fauna and flora, bringing about an apocalyptic scenario that no one had thought they could survive. And thirdly, just because the Astrals were the ultimate assholes, when Noctis did finally return, after ten years of hell, they were forced to accept the fact that one last night was all they would have. That come the ‘morning’, Ignis, Gladiolus and himself would have to stand outside of the Citadel and let their King, their brother, go to his death alone.

So really, considering all he’d survived, all he’d accomplished as a hunter and Crownsguard, it shouldn’t have come as much of a surprise when only moments before the sun rose Gladio shouted his name and a claw burst through his chest. Of course, it did. Perish the thought he’d be able to have some form of a happy life.

Then again, what life could he possibly have without Noctis?

On the steps of the Citadel, cradled in the arms of two men he considered his brothers, Prompto Argentum, Crownsguard and best friend to the one-hundred and fourteenth King of Lucis, dies as the sun rises for the first time in a decade.

-

Their second lives ends in cruelty.

Noctis had known from a very early age that he was not a normal boy. That much had become clear to him when a blue lady with white hair, Shiva his six-year-old mind supplied, appeared to him in his dreams and told him that he was not long for the world, but that he shouldn’t be afraid because this was only the beginning.

Despite her words, he had still gone screaming to his parents in the middle of the night, thrown himself in their arms and sobbed into his mother’s chest. A god may have told him not to be afraid, but he was a child, and as with all children, being told that something scary was waiting for them, something that would take him away from his mama and daddy, was an immensely terrifying thought.

He was eight when her words came true.

“You must never let go of my hand when we’re outside,” His mama had said firmly, kneeling down in front of him and brushing his hair aside “There are mean people out there who would take you away from me and daddy.”

“I won’t mama!” He said with all the confidence of a child who thought they knew everything.

Letting go of his mama’s hand hadn’t been intentional, it was just that he’d seen a cute little kitty that looked like it needed a hug, and before he knew it, he was being swept away in the crowd, his mama’s screams of ‘Noctis!’ forever etched into his memory.

Noctis doesn’t quite know how it happened, but at some point after losing his mama, he’s swept off his feet by a tall man and bundled into the back of a white van. It’s dark, noisy and very scary, so he does as all children do and screams as loudly as he can until someone shuffles around and a little hand grabs his arms and pulls him into a hug. He tries to fight them off but soon realises that the arms belong to a boy the same age as him with the prettiest blue eyes and hair the same colour as his cousin, Luna’s.

They cry quietly together, clinging onto one another in pure desperation, determined to hold onto the only other thing that isn’t as scary as the darkness. Eventually, after what feels like forever, the van stops and the doors are thrown open. The man doesn’t even spare them a second glance as he tears them apart, throwing the other boy to an even bigger and even scarier man before carrying Noctis away himself.

They scream for each other, reaching out in desperation as they’re dragged off in separate directions, but all it does is earn them a beating and no food.

Two years later, curled up in a ball under a tiny scrap of cloth he had claimed as a blanket, Noctis Venitus, formerly Noctis Lucis Caelum dies in his sleep from starvation.

A continent away, a six-year-old blonde boy suffers the same cruel fate.

-

Their third lives end suddenly.

No one had seen it coming. The group of teenagers had bundled onto the coach that morning, waving goodbye to their parents as they went off on their first skiing adventure, chattering away to themselves and cracking jokes at the expense of their visibly nervous teachers.

The coach doesn’t even make it to the Gralean border.

And so it continues.

It is on their seventy-sixth lives that both boys finally survive past the age of ten.

-

Their seventy-sixth lives see them reunited.

For two people who have lived through the worst life has to offer, their current lives are rather unremarkable.

Prompto Faustus grows up peacefully in the suburbs of Insomnia with his twin brother, Loqi, and his parents. He has everything a twenty-three-year-old could want. A family who loves him, friends who include him and make sure he enjoys life, financial security, and boy if that isn’t a big one, but he still can’t help but feel as though something is missing, as though a very large piece of the jigsaw that is his life has hidden itself so far under the couch that he can’t quite reach it.

It’s during his first lecture at University that he finds that elusive piece, because there, tucked away in the back corner of the lecture theatre, fast asleep is a face he has seen in his dreams every night since he was twelve.

At first he pauses, considers his options and wonders if maybe it would be too creepy to just casually stroll up to the guy and sit down beside him while he’s sleeping, but then Noctis, and it has to be Noctis, stretches in a way that is so familiar that his feet are moving before his brain catches up with them. He silently slips into the seat beside the sleeping student and rummages through his bag for his book and pens. It’s only when the lecturer starts talking that he wonders why he is even attending a photography lecture anyway, there’s a small part of his brain that tells him this isn’t normal, that this guy wasn’t all that into photography, but who’s he to question someone elses motives when he literally chose his seat because of some random dreams?

The lecturer is midway through explaining how a photographer achieved a certain composition when he moves. There’s no over the top reaction, no sudden scream of ‘Prompto!’ like his subconscious had hoped, which leaves him feeling a little deflated, but he does at least feel the guy’s eyes on him for the rest of the hour.

When it is finally over, he’s almost too scared to look at him. However, he’s lucky in that Noctis decides to make the first move.

“Name’s Noctis,” He says casually, with a smile that makes Prompto’s heart skip a beat “Noctis Lucis Caelum.” Suddenly he remembers, as though he’d finally grabbed that puzzle piece and forced it into place. He remembers easy smiles, late nights gaming and joking at the expense of one another. He remembers pushing a car through the blistering heat, singing trashy pop songs at the top of his lungs along with Noctis and Gladiolus in an attempt to make Ignis laugh. He remembers those warm hugs, the body curled around his during the cold night and lips that pressed kisses along his shoulder blades and neck.

Without warning, Prompto throws himself at the other, not at all concerned with the looks the other students send their way. After all,  it’s none of their business that he’s finally found his missing boyfriend in another life nearly three hundred years after their deaths.

Noctis returns the hug with just as much enthusiasm, burying his face into Prompto’s neck and sobbing silently despite the bright smile and laugh on his lips.

There, in Noctis’ arms, it’s hard to understand how he’s survived so long without this man who is quite literally the other half of his soul. The euphoria he feels as they smile at one another following the hug is unlike anything he has ever felt in his life. His heart feels about ready to implode and he wants nothing more than to stand atop the highest point in Lucis and scream his love for Noctis, tell the world everything he was forced to keep a secret in their previous lives. However, considering that isn’t really an option, he’ll gladly accept the kiss Noctis leans in for and the numerous other ones that follow it as they flee the campus hand-in-hand, laughing all the way.

Their seventy-sixth lives are long ones, filled with happiness and love. It is also their last but it is a shared-life well spent.

#Promptis #prompto argentum #Noctis Lucis Caelum #final fantasy xv #final fantasy 15 #ffxv #vex writes #I hope you like it :D!

[kylosrehn]

aos for the ask meme. or, if you've already gotten that (or you just wanna do both) the wider MCU.

the first character i ever fell in love with: Skye. Or Ward. I can’t really remember which came first. Probably Skye because she was so relatable and quirky and positive but I also loved grumpy pretending-not-to-care SO Ward. 

a character that i used to love/like, but now do not: Skye… or Daisy I guess. I started losing interest around halfway through S2 with the whole Afterlife plot (and then just stopped watching the show altogether after the S2 finale lol) but S3 was the one that really left a bad taste in my mouth. And the start of S4 with emo vigilante Daisy. I don’t dislike her, but it’s a far cry from the love I had for her in the early days. Same with Jemma, actually. I really liked her in S1, this cute, quirky if slightly awkward scientist willing to bend the rules when she believes it’s the right thing to do. Afterwards things got… complicated. I like her more on her own, outside of FS scenes (which, when does that ever happen?) Can she/they ever have a storyline that doesn’t involve saving the other one? For science? No?

a ship that i used to love/like, but now do not: Hmm… I don’t think I have one? Once I decide I like something, I fall for it pretty hard. lol. I guess Daisy/Lincoln. That’s a funny one, because when they sort of started flirting in S2 I liked the idea of them together, and I thought they had a lot of potential. But once it actually happened I wasn’t into it at all. It felt kinda rushed and I just didn’t really see any chemistry between them. It was an ‘expectations vs. reality’ sort of thing for me.

my ultimate favorite character™: Oh gosh… Fitz, I guess? I mean, obviously I’m trash for Ophelia but I actually wasn’t all that fond of the whole Aida arc at the beginning… I liked her more in the Framework, and all the potential she had as a human (or Inhuman, whatever.) It’s funny because he sort of grew on me. I admittedly didn’t pay much attention to him in S1 because I was so wrapped up in Skyeward, but once they killed that storyline and started developing his character from the nerdy sidekick/comic relief to an actual, fleshed-out character dealing with brain damage, then yes I became involved. Still mourned the untimely demise of Skyeward in S2 though.

prettiest character: Fitz or Ward if it’s more ‘handsome’ pretty. Out of the ladies… Daisy, I suppose? Also Stephanie Malick because personal bias - yes I’ve loved Bethany Joy Lenz since One Tree Hill and they totally should’ve let her stick around for longer than two episodes god damn it.

my most hated character: I’m not particularly fond of Jemma. Or what they’ve done with her, I suppose. But god damn it if there’s one character I hate it’s Ruby. Really glad that arc is over.

my OTP: This one’s pretty obvious. Skye/Ward and Fitz/Ophelia. Hehe. 

my NOTP: Fitzsimmons sorry not sorry.

favorite episode: (In no particular order): 5.14, 4.16 and 1.17. Self Control and, frankly, all the Framework episodes, are strong contenders, but that’s my podium. 

saddest death: I’ve got to say Fitz. Mostly because it was so sudden and I honestly wasn’t expecting it at all. I genuinely didn’t think they’d have the balls to kill off one half of FS, especially on-screen. I was literally expecting him to miraculously pull through and just have his legs amputated or something. It felt so surreal. Of course, then they brought CryoFitz back into play so really it was all just one big cop-out (figures) but the shock factor was definitely there. It was just the right amount of sad and downright distressing and even unsettling, with the way he didn’t fully comprehend what was happening and just…slipped away. I also really liked how they didn’t cheapen the moment by making it all about FS, which was… honestly such a nice surprise? I preferred the shocked and unaware approach they took, and how he spent his last moments with… kind of the two most unlikely people - May whom he hasn’t ever really bonded with, a relationship which is made especially awkward by their experience in the Framework and the ‘super villain interrogation’ in 5.15; and Mack, who literally told him days or even hours earlier that he needs ‘fixing.’ It was all very weird and bizarre and surprising, and definitely felt like a solid punch to the gut. At least, until they straight up announced they’re going to essentially retcon it… Eh. Also, Ophelia? Maybe less sad and more just downright disturbing and gratuitously violent and graphic. 

favorite season: If Season 1 and 4.16-20 and 5.14 could somehow be merged into one season… that would be it. lol. Overall, I have to say S1. Most people hate it and call it the weakest season and, sure, it felt very formulaic and had this predictable ‘monster of the week’ format at first but it was genuinely enjoyable to watch. Every other season after that I just found myself getting angry at something. lol. I actually liked pretty much every character in S1 to some degree and because nothing was set in stone or made explicitly canon yet, there was a lot more freedom shipping-wise. There was no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ ship, or ‘no you can’t like this character because of X, Y, Z’ it was just whatever you were into. For a while it seemed like pretty much all combinations of the Bus Kids ships had a decent chance of sailing. That’s a pretty damn good feeling. 

least favorite season: Hands down Season 5. I wasn’t a fan of Season 3 either (though admittedly I did like certain episodes/aspects of it) and Season 2 could’ve done without that whole ‘Real SHIELD’ plot but Season 5 takes the cake. I mean… seriously. It was a let down, especially after the hugely successful Framework arc (the show’s strongest point so far imo.) So naturally there was a lot of expectation and it kind of fell flat. They had maybe 2 or 3 strong episodes. The rest was riddled with plot holes, blatant fan service, lines that sounded like they pulled straight from fanfic, radical and often inexplicable shifts in character behaviour from one episode to the next that could be classified as borderline character assassination, frequent lack of continuity, too much time spent on characters that ultimately turned out to be irrelevant/got quickly killed off, writers seemingly forgetting what had happened in literally the previous episode, etc. There’s really no excuse for that mess. lol. Not to mention the at times pretty obvious budget cuts and the lack of decent lighting which made the space pod downright unwatchable at times. Really feels like the weakest, most disjointed and confused season of all. Which is a shame. Because it could’ve been great. But it just really… wasn’t.

character that everyone else in the fandom loves, but i hate: I don’t want to say Jemma but… Jemma? I guess part of the problem is that I feel there tends to be a discrepancy between the actual canonic on-screen representation of Jemma and fanon Jemma, at least in my experience. She (and Daisy) seem to get put on this imaginary pedestal a lot of the time and given leeway and all these concessions that other characters aren’t allowed. Sometimes I think I hate fandom’s approach to and treatment of certain characters more than I hate the actual character. Also, Mack and Bobbi? I feel like they’re pretty massive fandom faves as well and I never really got invested in them. I don’t hate them, they’re just… Meh. 

my ‘you’re piece of trash, but you’re still a fave’ fave: Leopold, the ultimate trash fave. Hehe. He’s just so deliciously messed up and complex and it’s so much fun to explore all of that. He’s like the one villain AOS completely unintentionally got right. Magnetic, charismatic, complicated. Sure, he only ever really shows up in about five episodes but in those five or six episodes they build a really solid character. We’re not told or shown everything, but that’s the point. Sometimes the implication is enough - and it’s super fun to fill in those gaps. And those suits. I mean, c’mon. lol

my ‘beautiful cinnamon roll who deserves better than this’ fave: Literally no one on this show is a cinnamon roll anymore. lol. I think Ophelia easily could’ve had a really satisfying redemption arc if the writers were actually willing to get into that instead of just shelving their more complex characters and turning to the safe option of ‘let’s kill the baddie.’ Ward could’ve possibly been redeemed too (up to a certain point at least) but I guess part of his appeal is that he didn’t want to be? Uh… and out of the still alive ones (kind of??), Fitz. He’s had a really tough time literally since S2. I also liked Mace and Radcliffe and I kind of wish they got to stick around for a bit longer.

my ‘this ship is wrong, nasty, and makes me want to cleanse my soul, but i still love it’ ship: Fitz/Ophelia. Obviously. I guess one of the more weirder ones is Hive/Stephanie. That’s… not remotely canon (I mean, I guess they kissed? lol) but in my headcanon Framework verse it is. Let’s be honest, there’s probably tons more because I always latch on to the more obscure stuff, but I can’t really think of anything else at the moment.

my ‘they’re kind of cute, and i lowkey ship them, but i’m not too invested’ ship: Philinda and Mackelena. I don’t ship either but I guess I can kind of see the appeal and I wish them all the best for the sake of the shippers because both of these pairings are frequently overshadowed by… well, the main ship. I can totally understand and sympathize with their frustration. 

#replies #ask meme #fandom wank #discourse™ #thanks for asking! <3 #also i might go back and edit this later and add the mcu stuff #but right now i'm just so exhausted lol #ilosttrackofthings