#And like those are two of my absolute favourites they are on my ideal team

[victory-cookies]

hrrnnnggh I am making bad money decisions

#I was at a game store with a friend and they had a display of cool Pokémon cards #And they had the gardevoir and sylveon tag team secret rare #And like those are two of my absolute favourites they are on my ideal team #And it was a secret rare. A cool ass rainbow card #So I bought it. I told myself I’d never buy an individual card but I did #And yeah it was. Pretty expensive but what can you do #I told myself I had until the end of the summer to make unnecessary purchases and then I’d actually start budgeting #So this is my is my last hurrah

[luvring]

Hii!! can I request oikawa having “the great-queen of seijoh” as his girlfriend? I’ll explain: so basically oikawa is the great-king of seijoh right? He has lots of fangirls and is in class 6 AND is the captain and star setter of the volleyball team. What if his girlfriend is just as popular and constantly gets love letters and bouquets from others, and she’s really sweet and pretty so, others view her as the ideal woman and student, and nickname her as the great-queen; and what if she is the manager of the volleyball team?

THE QUEEN OF SEIJOH

no warnings | yes u can absolutely req that. i did write it in 3rd person rather than 2nd,, i hope that's ok/what u wanted! 👩🏻‍💻👩🏻‍💻

never in these people's lives will they ever again see such a power couple. when they started dating it was fate. at least that's what people said in the halls while the couple walked past holding hands

a lot of oikawa's fangirls can't even be mad because,, she doesn't give them a reason to. she's so so nice to all of them and understands why they'd like him because well,, so does she LOL

^ plus the few times they tried starting trouble with her, oikawa and her fans were basically ready to fight, and that's not a war you want to fight

oikawa and his girlfriend's fan clubs teaming up. not even just for events and stuff, but if anyone tries to mess with their relationship?? they're about to face the wrath of dozens of fans because What's Wrong With You

most people are smart/respectful enough to not confess to either of them but sometimes,, you know how things go. one time someone tried personally handing oikawa's girlfriend a love letter while she was waiting for him outside, and the look on oikawa's face when he saw. woah. get that guy out of there

like of course they'll be rejected. whether that rejection is gentle or not depends on how respectful the confession was. don't bring up that one girl who said she'd be a better girlfriend to this couple unless you want oikawa to start ranting and ruining his image

oikawa's annoying btw (said so lovingly). he will Literally buy bigger bouquets, more food, make better, personalized gifts, etc. after witnessing his girlfriend's gift pile.

where do you think she got that sweater that has his initials on one sleeve and hers on the other, little hearts beneath? or that crochet flower bouquet with her favourite flowers/colours? or that unfolding love letter he wrote over the span of like 4 days? or those joke matching shirts that say "her king" and "his queen"? or

oh volleyball practice...oikawa pouts and whines, "can't i get some special treatment as your boyfriend?" which is easily met with a smile and "nope. i'll even make you do extra if you ask."

does the entire team react ranging from a snicker to a cackle? yes of course. but fair is fair and tooru does get back to practice

he'll regularly tease her but as soon as he gets the opportunity to? oikawa will tell the team to make her life easier and to Work Hard! you don't want to disappoint seijoh's queen would you? and everyone just looks at him. like be so serious rn

of course she and the team get along and bond over this dynamic. they love her!! both because she can give them ammo against their captain, and because she's genuinely super sweet and makes sure they're taking care of themselves.

GAH...just imagining oikawa telling her notes about the team so she can work it into her own plans and stuff (and vice versa .) it means a lot to them that she's working hard to help everyone be their best but also? these two strategizing is Scary. you have to just listen in awe at the plans they come up with

it must be said that she holds her role as manager over oikawa when he's over-working. she'll start cleaning up and pull him away, saying that he's important to the team and as the manager, it's her responsibility to make sure he's well-rested. oikawa asks "and as my girlfriend?" (fully knowing her answer.) she sighs before pushing his hair back or squeezing his cheek. "i still want the same thing, tooru."

somebody help everyone who doesn't know these two are dating at games. if they don't know about seijoh's royalty when they get there, they're About To. is it a normal thing for the manager to also have fans and signs in the crowd ?

also as if it isn't already obvious they're dating, oikawa offers his jacket for her to wear while they warm up and also,, maybe,, loudly asks "isn't my girlfriend the best manager ever?" bro could not be more conspicuous

y'know how everyone acts with kiyoko? yeah. imagine that except instead of noya and tanaka it's fucking,, oikawa tooru + the rest of aoba johsai's volleyball team appearing. woah. i'd piss myself

the teams may have problems with oikawa, but his girlfriend? whenever he's being smug or whatever else, she comes over and pulls him back while apologizing. there's something funny about oikawa pouting and whining when he's so renowned

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#haikyuu #oikawa x reader #haikyuu fluff #haikyuu x reader #oikawa tooru #x reader #q

[makima-s-most-smile]

Trigun Maximum 7.2

Outside is a nice thunderstorm. There was a lightningstrike up close that was so strong I felt it rumble in the ground. *happy lizard* Sadly, I cannot stand outside to get peltered by those thicc, heavy raindrops. *somethingsomethingbeingasaneperson*

Much babble, but hopefully less heavy than the last post.

04: Bastards and the blues

What a title…

Considering where Wolfwood comes from… cynicism is a coping mechanism… He doesn’t hit the nail on the head, but at least he cares about Vash, he tries to egg him on to talk about it. Not that Vash would ever take him up on it…

I just like this panel of Wolfwood. He looks so roughed up. Cutie.

Others have already talked about Vash. But how is Wolfwood coping? He is like so often all about Vash, but what about him and his needs? He got massively hurt in the fight with Midvalley, got fried by Vash’ power, tried to at least get Meryl&Milly out, because he himself can’t. His orphanage is still at stake. And he, like Vash, does not open up and takes it all upon himself. But unlike Vash, whose end goal is vaguely saving all of humanity from Knives, his goal is so much clearer but is absolutely dependent on Vash. Who is like this… And not a help at all.

Vash and Wolfwood vibes. The upbeat idiot and his himbo follower.

What can I say but mob mentality, again? These are humanity's worst. How can people be so feral about killing an innocent and then turn around calling Vash a monster? Hypocrisy at work. Seeing this and still keeping onto his goal of saving everyone… 

Vash feels different here. This is Vash staying peaceful out of spite. He is hurt, he is at a loss, but he is unable to stray from his ideals. This Vash may even feel like he agrees with Knives, though he knows better than to act upon it. It would help talking about it with someone… Like that weird priest with the portable confessionary. I am sure you get a discount.

Correction, the guy is Vash with more selfworth and less selfhate. Vash just puts himself down and suffocates any talk about himself. This guy really wanted to get to know Vash as a person. But Vash denies him that. Sure, he answers truthfully, but it drowns the conversation. Vash does it intentionally. And that guy zooms in on why.

I love how soft Wolfwood looks in these panels. With “Double Team” this chapter is one of my favourites, just for the expressions. But he also looks like he is about to break down, too. But he is all about Vash.

While Vash is basically coping with alcohol, Wolfwood is swallowing his guilt and pain about his mission coming to an end soon, and the situation he will lead Vash into. I feel so much more for Wolfwood here.

Vash is coping badly and denying any help and closeness, most likely also due to the aftermath of dragon’s nest district and Colnago. He was shunned for what he is. But at the same time, he has people at his side and Vash doesn’t seem to value them. That is new people, like the two outsiders who make their living at the edge of society and known people, like Wolfwood. And I am starting to grow more and more miffed at Vash for that. Vash is so much about his difference from humans that he is unable to see the humans that reach out to him, that want him at their side. But he seems only aware of those that don’t. Talk about Vash ignoring what he preaches.

Vash doesn’t appreciate or understand the meaning this little place has, he is too occupied with drinking away his pain. But Wolfwood does and he looks extremely grateful. Grateful enough that he chooses to let down his mask a bit and relax. And I am emotional about this. Vash is lonely in company, while Wolfwood is truly sidelined, truly the caretaker and truly alone with all the responsibility. But at least the old lady gives him some kind of respite. Heck, I am grateful for the old lady, too! I love her. Bartenders can truly be angels.

Vash is at a lowpoint. His true regret and depression shines through. One-eye is the same. Granny’s summary puts One-eye and Vash both on the same level. I take back my words that he has less self hatred than Vash. They are the same, they mirror each other. Both are outsiders with regrets about the past that are shunned again and again by society. But they keep on trying.

Forgetting your hurt and moving on… But in the end coming back to the same coping mechanism called alcohol. I do not truly agree, but I don’t think I truly get what One-Eye is saying, either. It sounds like the depressed kind of nihilism. But I think he gets Vash’ feeling of loneliness and hopelessness. That he will always return to being alone. It’s just that… I don’t think Vash is truly alone. Home, Meryl, Milly, Brandon, Wolfwood… those people know him and they stayed. (Okay, Meryl needs a break, but that does not mean she is gone forever).

First, panels! I love how Wolfwood is positioned here. Like cerberus at the gates of hell, he stands at the entrance of the bar, shining from behind. He guides Vash to his fate.

Secondly, other things about the page. Vash feels Knives doing his pissing contest in the sky and runs out. But I think, this question here means so much more than that. It is Vash reassuring himself that Wolfwood is not there for Vash, but there against Vash. That the friendship they have is fake and that he is truly lonely. That even the person that stayed truest at his side isn’t there for him. In his depression Vash does not see Wolfwood for who he is. He can’t. 

His question is there to hurt himself. Vash is coming more and more undone. He looks for reasons to affirm his bitter feelings towards humanity. And the affirmation that Wolfwood is his enemy is enough that his control over himself slips.

And Wolfwood is honest as always. I wanna slap him for the: “I told ya from the start…” He is not completely wrong, but fucking eurythmics is really not the way to spell that out! But Wolfwood did not hide this, not really. And I have to give him credit for that. Lying wouldn’t make anything easier, it would make things worse. At least like this Vash is able to act with full knowledge. And he looks so pained. 

I wish both would say more. I wish they would clear the air between them. I wish Wolfwood could tell Vash that he is on his side, even if he started out as Knives’ minion. I wish Vash would ask Wolfwood for more. Because Vash knows Wolfwood, he knows his priorities. And helping a genocidal maniac does not agree with him trying to protect an orphanage. We know that Vash is able to put two and two together. But Wolfwood sees himself as a burden and cannot step out of his stoic position and Vash never learned to communicate feelings.

Tearing down all the satellites is an intelligent move. Now the human settlements cannot share information easily and thus the human population is split into smaller groups that are thus easier to eradicate.

“This”? This as in that his brother is decaying? And he is the cause for it? That he know feels like a gun is pointed at his chest and he needs to act now before his brother uses up all his power?

Elendira is so sure that she will die in the fallout of Knives’ tantrum. And that is sad. She doesn’t budge, though. She will stay at his side. Did she hope to stay til the end with Knives? Why? She likes non”-suicidal men”. Does she like Knives? It doesn’t look like infatuation. I still think of her as a nihilist. But now the whole “making smores while the world burns”-feeling is gone. She looks sad. I wanna know more about her! D;

It feels by stressing that he will remember their shared time together, Vash disagrees with One-Eye. Be it with everything One-Eye said or just with parts of it, like ending up alone again. If that is what Vash disagrees with especially, then it would mean that Vash knows that Wolfwood is on his side despite being his guide, that he is not alone. Which would mean he at least starts to get out of his crunch and start to appreciate his companions again. Yay?

05: Late arrival to the end of the world

LIAR! Sorry, but that is such a big lie. Vash is only ready for this, because he has no other choice. Knives forces Vash’ hands. Vash is so much about avoidance!

But saying that would mean he would open up to Wolfwood, who is visibly worried about Vash. And we cannot have that! Others caring for him.

And as “prepared” as Vash is, just the presence of his brother’s aura makes his skin literally crawl.

Wolfwood is the same. He puts his own needs and pain on the backburner so Vash can do his best. He wants Vash to succeed. And we can’t have Vash being distracted just because Wolfwood just had a death vision.

How about both are careful?

And still, being warned and all, Wolfwood doesn’t want to leave Vash. He is ready to run after him to help him in any way against his brother. Until Elendira reminds him that he cannot.

I love the double misdirection. We as readers are led to think that it is Elendira he will fight for Vash, but NOPE, it is Double Fang and Tripunisher of death. And at the same time in the story, Wolfwood avoids lying to Elendira, he avoids telling her where his loyalties lie.

Only Elendira brings a BOW to a gunfight. And she wins!

So, who caused the death aura? Was it from the old arsehole or from double fang? The old arsehole has more reasons to want Wolfwood absolutely dead, with him having been shot by Wolfy.

What shitty name? Did the old bitch name Wolfwood? The whole name? Is oldie Wolfwood’s old master? He knows his full name and, well, Wolfwood said he put him full of lead. The only EoM we know of that Wolfwood did that to is the true Chapel. Does anyone else know that the wrinklebell is the true chapel?

Elendira’s word is enough to make them stop. No one wants to fight that woman. *swoons*

Also, Wolfwood recognises Double Fang as Livio. How does he do that behind that stupid halfmask and the fucking mop of hair?

Ah, yes, my favourite. Old churchmen dehumanising children as weapons. Can I kick him? I shove him out of his wheelchair and run away with it. Then I gift it to someone in need. :3c Pwease?

But it says also much about Wolfwood. No wonder Wolfwood has trouble seeing himself as human, as being worthy of softness, when he was used as a weapon and completely dehumanised by his master.

Elendira’s look. *chef’s kiss* Also, that’s what you do if you accidentally misgender someone, correct yourself and move on.

I love this. Elendira has blind faith in Knives’ capabilities. (Next chapter tells us more). Wolfwood calling her out on it gets rebuffed, but his faith in Vash is not without merit.

That looks so comfy! (When it is 30°C outside, but you need a blanket to fall asleep.)

06. Conflict

I mean, yeah, this is a conflict.

Uff, Knives is so very aware that kid Vash shared his opinion. He is not without reason to assume that current Vash may agree, too. But Knives also ignores that Vash has met so many good humans. And that he himself is kinda part of the reasons the humans are exploiting their sisters. 

Knives only sees his way of thinking, for the worse. He is unable to empathise with others’ experiences. He even uses the idea of Tesla to give his hate more credibility. Tesla would agree, wouldn’t she? We don’t know, but more importantly the twins do not know. Tesla had no agency when the humans tortured her and now her memory itself gets distorted and abused. She truly has no voice.

Knives is literally breaking apart. He cannot really contain his sisters’ energy. His fear and anger is destroying himself.

Well, you just met your crazy brother after 2.5 years and he just told you he is the reason you are dying. Btw… you’re dying. Now fight!

Back to taking any agency from Vash again. Knives is the reason why Vash has started decaying. Without Knives, Vash would never have been able to activate his angel arm. He would never have lost control in July and then in Jeneora Rock. Knives’ hate bleeds his brother dry. If Knives just stopped now, Vash still had much time left. He wouldn’t have to use his power. He only uses his power because of Knives. But Knives is unable to even think of that. Everything is about humans, if humanity wasn’t Knives wouldn’t be forced to act and thus he is not responsible for his actions, humanity is. 

Legato feels something that no one else does. And he shall join his master one little hop at a time!

I just love the sass Elendira gives him. I’d dislike him, too, as a coworker. Nothing about him is sane, but the boss likes him, so you gotta swallow your dislike.

I just love Elendira with Wolfwood. I love her sass and how Wolfwood is like totally apathetic towards it. 

Not untrue, but look at that… Vash is leaving a blood lake because of you, Knives. Are you truly better? So many of Vash’ scars, mental and physical, are a direct result of Knives’ action. But how can you get that into his head? He twisted his mind into such loops, that his actions seem justified for him. Behind all that, he is scared for himself. The safety of his brother is just a sign for himself that he himself is safe. So he has to bring Vash onto his side and save him from himself. At all costs. Even if that would mean tearing him apart limb from limb, breaking his mind, maybe even absorbing him. Vash is not a person for Knives. Vash is a trophy-

Vash’ counter idea is… not the best… It is silly and naive. I understand that Knives is a bit frustrated at that. If you had a century’s time to find a solution and it is such a silly one… I’d be angry, too. Imagine doing a fucking murder game to show your brother the light and he says: We can just run away :3 

Interestingly, neither of them can imagine that they could settle down somewhere and live in peace. Even Vash thinks that they will need to run away and need to try again and again. (Not like he could settle down in fucking HOME?!?!)

Vash breaks through Knives armour, but in the end it only hurts his sisters that have been absorbed. Which is telling, Knives hides behind the sisters that he protects. But in the end they are means to an end.

Creepy Legato is creepy. He gets more and more unhinged. I have no words. No, seriously, this panel fucking scared me. It really does.

I want so much more of those two being disturbed by Legato. I love them.

And in the end it comes to this. Knives being so unable to see Vash as his own individual with his own faults and reasons that he tries to take the rest of his agency and autonomy. Vash is just a trophy. Knives just needs to have him, he doesn’t need the person.

Vash uses suck…

Back to the former chapter... Elendira's reality is shown as blind faith. She was a big benchmark for us readers to see how things are going, but we realise now that she has been wrong. Things could still turn, Knives is not as powerful as he seems. He swallowed all his sisters and, still, if Legato hadn't intervened... We would get a happy ending.

Is Knives that unable to read people that he doesn’t see how fucking done Legato is? I wouldn’t trust him to take care of a grape! Much less my so important brother whose continued existence was the reason I did a murder game!

So, Wolfwood did not jump the ark? He stayed while it got off the ground? So, he is with Vash the whole time?

#trigunbookclub #trigun bookclub #Trimax 7.2 #If I do half a volume per day I start next week with vol 10 like the others #but damn my brain soups hard

[mambalae-s]

Hii, I’m a new follower so I hope I can join the event,, but your writing is so nice!!

My favourite chara is daishou!! (absolutely whipped for him omg (and his girlfriend OMG))

I’ll give you both something i love abt my self, and smth I’m still working on, I really love my tummy, idk what it is, it’s just so nice to me, not too flat, and very soft, I’ve got that healthy little pouch where all the organs are lmao :) whereas I’m still trying to love are the stretch marks all around my hips and down my legs (like they legit go all the way down the inside of my legs, it’s weird) I know they are completely natural, but I don’t see them on my friends a lot and it makes me a little self conscious :/ (but I’d rather just joke about them to others then admit this)

A little bit about me is that I’m a very easy going person, not wanting to be involved in drama, and im quite friendly and can get along with pretty much everyone, but a little anxious.

I’m a relatively quiet person when I’m a group, I’d rather just listen then engage in the conversation, but if it’s just the two of us? I won’t stop talking. When im comfortable with someone I turn into a menace tho, constantly teasing and joking, it’s how I show love <3

My love language (other that teasing) is quality time and physical touch, I love being around those I love.

As for NSFW,,, I’m a big fan of the idea of having my hands held above my head + some light choking, probably in missionary

My ideal date with daishou might sound a bit plain or boring but id want it to be something mundane and domestic- something like driving around at night (watching his face as the street lamps light him up in pretty colours) and then getting McDonald’s or smth to eat in the moonlight at a park. It doesn’t take much to make me happy, but the idea of this makes me so giddy for some reason <33

Thankyou in advance, I hope I’m not too late for this :) <3 enjoy your night/day wherever you are!

hello my dear! thank you very much for requesting by me and for following me! i’ll admittedly need to do a bit of research on daishou — it’s been so long since i’d seen him and i want to do the best i can!

//two videos into research: huh… i don’t think ive ever thought about his smug grin and those sharp teeth as much as i have today… what is this power that these volleyball men hold over us? is it sorcery?? witchcraft???

╰┈➤starlit wanderlust — daishou x bailey

╰┈➤ song — like your god by mehro

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 suguru’d gotten the impression that you were fairly quiet for someone managing a 2.v league volleyball team. while you took very good care of everyone, you didn’t ever pass much time with them outside of practice

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 even during group dinners, you seemed more than content to listen to all the players talk and enjoy laughs amongst themselves while you ate in silence. you’d just always seemed a bit polite and reserved, and he’d always find himself wondering after you and the things on your heart. he wants to know more about you, his curiosity coasting on liquid courage and the taste of cold beer, and he takes the first step.

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 you smile at him as he shifts closer to you, and he’s so terribly startruck and he prays that it isn’t too obvious as he asks if you wanted to get out of the confined eating room. there’s some kind of relief he sees in your eyes that melts his smirk into something far softer as you both sneak through the sliding doors, thankful that the noise is covered up by his team’s cheers.

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 he sees you take this really deep breath, stretching your hands above your head as an invisible weight falls off from your shoulders. you explain to him that you’ve only felt a bit drained by the day’s events, all evident by the furrow of your brows and the relieved smile you give him as you tell him thank you.

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 suguru doesn’t want the night to end just yet though. he’s eager to spend this one on one time with you, where he can perhaps see a bit beneath the layers of the kind and caring manager that quietly looks after her team, and he prays once more for that very same liquid courage as he asks if you’d wanna grab a bite. “it’s still pretty early, and i know you hadn’t eaten much while we were in there.”

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 you can’t help but wonder how long he’d been watching you, because you really were playing around a bit with your food while sitting with everyone. you hadn’t had much of an appetite at the time, but when suguru suggests burgers, you give in to your growling stomach and fluttering heart, and you let him take you by the hand to a nearby mcdonald’s

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 you learn a lot more about one another over shared fries and burgers dripping in all kinds of different sauces by the beach. laughter melts into the sounds of crashing waves and your eyes twinkle beneath the moonlight as suguru recounts stories of high school feuds. you offer him a side hug when he opens up about harder things, hoping that you can provide some comfort for this sweet individual who’d always kept his eyes on you.

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 a friendship blooms there on beige brown sands, and overtime, it becomes frequent escapes after each closing meeting, both of you laughing with hands intertwined while the rest of your team watches you grow closer together until, finally, suguru takes one final sip of that bravery tasting like french fries and lettuce drowning in ketchup, and he bites the bullet and finally asks you out.

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 the two of you are near inseparable! every waking moment is filled with a kind of playfulness that courses through your veins like a drug, and it feels like laughter and teasing remarks, smells like shared inside jokes that shine right through your chest until you’re weak in the knees.

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 there’s always a blanket in the back of suguru’s truck for the two of you to have on your midnight excursions to a nearby fastfood joint, both of you huddling to the back seat and setting up one of your phones with a video or series playing while you cuddle up together and enjoy your meals

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 he learns just how much of a silly little tease you can be during moments when you’ll suddenly slap his hand away just before he bites down on his burger! the first time you do, he’s so caught off guard that he stares in disbelief at your scrunched up grinx he’s struggling to fight off his own laughter, but it’s hard as he fails to question your audacity with an open ketchup packet in hand

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 how can he even remain too serious when you’re laughing like the sound of bells?! there’s no fight in him as you push his attacks away, purely wanting to make you laugh more until your thighs were squeezing together as you tried to warn him through joyful tears that you’d pee yourself if he kept going. all he has to say is that you shouldn’t have misbehaved if you didn’t want retribution

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 he’d end up chasing you through the empty parking lot that night at 11pm. both of you will need to be up early for work the next day, but with you squealing and giggling as you try to wrestle out from his grip, tomorrow could stay away forever

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 he’ll punish you by nipping and kissing your cheeks while he tickles you until you’re apologizing and begging him to go easy on you.

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 he’ll melt and forfeit only if you give him a kiss and share some of your fries with him! he’ll still let you cuddle up close to him despite your transgressions of course, but he’ll get you back by swiping ketchup across your nose while pretending to go in for a kiss. “didn’t feel too great now, did it!”

NSFW HEADCANONS

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 something that absolutely drives suguru wild is the way your body looks folded beneath his while your legs are wrapped round his waist. he thinks your tummy looks so damn cute that it makes his brain melt, especially watching how your entire body shakes as he fingers you through orgasm after orgasm while he bounds your hands above your head

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 he can’t help the low groans he lets out while you’re screaming his name and begging him to slow down — the sheets beneath you are already soaked from you squirting over and over on his hand, but he keeps going, rubbing circles over your clit and slapping your pussy with his fingertips everytime you cum and make a mess.

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 “uh-uh, stay right there, baby.. m’ not done with you yet.” he’ll tut at you if you start begging him and telling him it’s too much. “you can handle it, right? you have to, or else m’ not gonna give you my cock. gotta make you cream all over my fingers first.”

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 and he says that, but he’s fully aware of how cruel he’s being to you — you’ve already gone and made such a big mess, after all. your thighs and ass are completely covered in your cum, sticky and slick and glistening so prettily while your hole squelches with each push of his fingers, but he wants more still. he can’t hold back his own moans while he’s feeling how your pussy walls practically squeeze him down to the knuckle, contracting around those digits like a vice each time he presses the tips up against your g-spot. “so fuckin’ tight, darlin’. hm? want my cock that bad, don’cha? gonna take good care of this pussy, baby, don’t you worry that pretty lil’ head of yours.”

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 he won’t give you his cock until you’re positively fucked stupid, till your brain’s nothing but mush and you start begging him mindlessly for him to fuck you. those pretty little cries of yours just get him going so much that it’s even hard for himself to hold back. his balls hurt and feel too damn sensitive with all the cum that’s just bursting to be let out inside your pretty little cunt, to the point where his erection feels too painful.

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 there’s nothing in the world that can compare to the feeling he gets when he finally slides inside of you. his grip tightens around your wrist while his head hangs low, mouth wide open with dirty swears of your name. he doesn’t ever spare even a second before he starts pounding your walls — he’d held back for far too long, and he can’t find it within himself to hold back, not when this pretty little cunt feels so good wrapped around him.

𓆩ᥫ᭡𓆪 he’ll drop one palm from your wrists to squeeze the flesh of your waist and hips while he fucks you into the mattress, your skin slapping together not loud enough to hide all those dirty moans that you let out beneath him. and he’ll make you cum on his cock over and over till your body writhes and you’re too overstimulated, because maybe he’s a little bit greedy and pussydrunk and keeps wanting to tip you over your limits again and again.

mamba celebrates 100 — jjk and haikyuu selfship event!

#aphrodite. #olympia. #haikyuu smut #haikyuu imagine #i hope i did good by him! #haikyuu selfship #haikyuu drabbles #i hadn’t realized he has the same first name as geto!

[philcoulsonismyhero]

Oooh, going to give you a few -- Captain Jack Harkness, Eobard Thawne, aaannnd Captain Pike

Now there's a trio I'd like to put in a room! Both for Hijinks Reasons, and because they'd have some interesting conversations about destiny and fixed points in time if you poked them properly.

Captain Jack

one aspect about them i love

It's got to be the way he tries so hard to be more like the Doctor, and the ways you can see that he has. Like, he has these moments where he launches into the Idealism Speech and it kills me every time because he's had to work at that. He's still not a nice man, not when he's riled, but he tries so hard to be a kind one and you can see it becoming more and more natural over time. Someone who started out where Jack did could have become Awful with immortality, but he took the Doctor as his role model and he tried So Hard and keeps on trying even when the world makes it very hard for him and I love him dearly for it.

one aspect i wish more people understood about them

I don't really know what people have to say about Jack, I've never really hung out in the DW/Torchwood fandom despite how much I'm into them, but I'm never a fan of people reducing him down to just the Funny Immortal Flirting Guy. He's an awfully complex character with a lot of interesting stuff going on As Well As being the Funny Immortal Flirting Guy. He's got Depths.

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have about this character

You know, as much as I love John Barrowman's singing voice and wish we'd gotten to hear it in either Doctor Who or Torchwood, I think it would be really amusing if Jack the character was awkward about singing. Like, you've got to get him drunk before he'll even consider it kind of awkward. And the Torchwood team found this out when they finally managed to inflict karaoke on him as a work night out and suddenly Mr Confident had absolutely no interest in getting up on that stage. Of course, in an ideal world this would be the opening for the Torchwood musical episode, and we're talking Sanctuary-style here where they actually have to sing in-universe for some reason, and they'd subsequently find out that he's really very good. Why doesn't he like singing when he's good at it? No idea, I just think it would be funny, and I'm sure some horribly tragic backstory thing could be concocted to explain it, because no fact about Jack is ever not sad even when it's Also funny.

one character i love seeing them interact with

Listen, I'm a Huge sucker for Jack's dynamic with the Ninth Doctor, it's got to be my very favourite Doctor and companion dynamic. They had five episodes together, and were only properly friends in like three, but what we did get was So Good. They had that Drift compatible finishing each other's sentences thing going on, Nine trusted Jack to tinker with the TARDIS on his own, there was just so much unspoken understanding and trust between them. I am Never going to be normal about their smiles when the Emperor Dalek said "BUT HE WILL EXTERMINATE YOU." and Jack's response was "Never doubted him, never will."

one character i wish they would interact with/interact with more

My kingdom for more Jack and Nine, honestly. I'm so glad the Ninth Doctor comics had the full trio, those were really good, but I would Love to see some sort of post-Torchwood!Jack and Nine interaction. It's a pain to make work with timelines, it would need a lot of handwavy nonsense, but man. It would be So Much and I've been thinking a lot about just writing it myself ever since I got back into Blorbo Mode with those two.

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have that involve them and one other character

This is crossover nonsense, but since I mentioned Sanctuary earlier: Jack has history with every single member of the Five. He and Tesla have put so many bullets in each other that it's just how they say hello now, for one. And Watson calls him up every so often to let him know that his pterodactyl showed up in London again, and could he please come and get her? (There's a background pterodactyl in at least one scene at the London Sanctuary, I decided years ago that as far as I'm concerned that's Myfanwy.) And I wouldn't be remotely surprised if Jack's kissed all of them at some point or another (at the very least).

Eobard

one aspect about them i love

His ridiculous sense of humour is the first thing that comes to mind. This asshole spent the entire fifteen years he was stuck in the 21st century making daft little puns to himself about being from the future and other in-jokes with himself, and it's just so amusing.

one aspect i wish more people understood about them

I've only seen sporadic bits of anything past s2, but I wish the writers of the show actually understood what it was that made him interesting in s1. Because sometimes it's clear that they do! But the less said about (to pick one example) every single choice they made for amnesiac!Eobard the better, frankly, that was a proper shitshow of boring (and tiresomely amatonormative) decisions.

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have about this character

I mean the obvious headcanon is That Man Is Autistic, it's kind of The headcanon that I've got for Eobard. And so was the original Harrison Wells, which I think was a huge relief to him when he stole the guy's identity. Decades in the wrong century pretending to be someone else is one thing, but to have to also pretend to be neurotypical? Big yikes, no thanks. I don't know if he made much of a thing of it in his public persona, what with 21st century attitudes and all, but I don't think he went to any effort to hide it, either. It probably came up in the Harrison Wells biography, but would have been a surprise to absolutely no one by that point.

one character i love seeing them interact with

Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco

One day I will be normal about those two, but it's been like 7+ years and It's Sure Not Happened Yet.

one character i wish they would interact with/interact with more

I really loved everything about his interactions with Ray in the Legends ep 'Moonshot', that was the good shit. And yeah, of course Eobard is going to immediately abandon any positive feelings towards the guy when he makes them enemies again at the end of the episode, but I thought that was just a bit lazy on the writing front, tbh. Like, it would have been fun to see the understanding that they came to affect both of their interactions later in the season, rather than largely forgetting that it happened. I deserved to get to be properly heartbroken about Eobard killing Ray very similarly to how he killed Cisco, rather than it just being a 'fuck's sake, Eobard, again with the murder' moment.

Also, it's a crime and a travesty that we never got two Eobards on screen together. They had two entire actors! It would have been laughably easy for a show that fucks around with doppelgangers as much as that one, and in far more complicated ways! And yet! Booooo.

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have that involve them and one other character

Speaking of two Eobards, I have So Many thoughts about how that could go down. But in the spirit of the question ("one other character"), I really like the idea I just had that while Cisco and Wellsobard had their movie nights, Caitlin and Wellsobard used to swap books. Scientific papers, sometimes, but usually fiction. I don't think Eobard would have had a lot of time for books while stuck in the 21st century, and Caitlin strikes me as a reader and someone who likes to bond with people by sharing that.

Chris Pike

one aspect about them i love

He is Such a dad and it's adorable. I'm such a fan of single and childless characters who simultaneously manage to have the most intense Parent Energies(TM), especially when it isn't (at least so far as I've seen) tied to 'oh, I wish I'd gotten to be a parent but the job interfered' feelings.

one aspect i wish more people understood about them

I don't really have an answer for this one, my fandom experience for SNW is like two friends and that's it.

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have about this character

If Pike's Enterprise had a holodeck, he wouldn't get anything done for LARPing. The obvious one he'd love is any sort of cowboy program, but I could see him being a real fan of pretty much any sort of holodeck shenanigans. He'd definitely have gotten really into it if he'd been one of the ones who was aware during the whole Elysian Kingdom thing, he'd have had So Much fun.

one character i love seeing them interact with

I really love all of his particular dynamics with his crew, tbh. His friendship with Una is really nice, he's got such fun banter with Ortegas, him and M'Benga are really cute, he's such a good dad figure to Uhura, All That with Spock... But I'm particularly partial to his relationship with La'an, it's just so sweet. He loves his awkward daughter security chief and is really accommodating of her harmless quirks but is also so invested in making sure she gets the push she needs to start to heal, it's just a lovely dynamic.

one character i wish they would interact with/interact with more

I would Love to see him interact with Bones McCoy, I think that would be Great. Like, Pike is such a born explorer and adventurer and he's such an effortlessly nice guy that bouncing him off Dr Space Is Death and his crankiness would be really entertaining. On a similar note, I'd have loved more Pike and Hemmer moments. I'm such a fan of sunshine-y character and grumpy character dynamics, and SNW is great for that because the crew has such a preponderance of both.

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have that involve them and one other character

Christopher 'Horse Girl' Pike has definitely dragged as many of his crew as he can horse riding with him when on shore leave. Or riding on whatever the local equivalent of horses is. There was An Incident involving Ortegas and a giant riding lizard once, and she got to drag him along on two different extreme sports outings as a result of his guilt. He has since learned his lesson about trying to get Ortegas to ride things that don't have engines.

#thanks!! this was fun #captain jack harkness #eobard thawne #christopher pike #asked and answered #personal stuff #i got a few of these btw so i'm probably going to stretch them out over the next couple of days

[carriagelamp]

Spent a lot of time reading outside in the sun this month, which is, of course, the ultimate bliss of summer. Under the tree, by the lake, while camping, next to the creek...

Blacksad

Blacksad is a crime noir story following the titular private investigator in the 1950s, though with anthropomorphized animals rather than humans. Like an adult version of Zootopia. I picked up this omnibus of the first three volumes because I was in the middle of playing the PS4 game and quite enjoying the world it laid out, though I ended up having mixed feelings about the series as a whole. It explores some complicated issues of American society during the 1950s, like racism, fascism, and nuclear armament, and since the creators are both Spanish rather than American themselves I liked the sort of outside perspective. It laid things bare in a way that you don’t always get from other works. 

That being said, some of the issues definitely hit weird, the stories often felt like they were trying to tackle more than they had space to actually tell, and the way they portray women is just absolute shit. It’s one of those “the men definitely Are Animals and the women Have A Lil Nose And Maybe Some Non-Descript Animals Ears”. It made the sex scenes VERY uncomfortable, to have a Definite Animal and a Definite Human. 

Still, the art itself is almost able to redeem all other faults.

Demon Slayer 5,6

I continue along with this series, which follows Tanjiro as he travels with his demon-turned sister, trying to find a cure and develop his skills as a demon slayer, to get revenge on the monsters that killed their family. I still like the premise, there’s something very pure about it, like a platonic ideal of shonen, and Tanjiro is a delight. These last two books though I found a bit more lackluster. Also we have entered Character Have Just The Weirdest Design that a lot of shonen seem to hit sooner or later.

Dennis the Menace: To The Core

Stumbled across this while cleaning and had to stop everything to read it. One of those cute classics you just can’t go wrong with. It's simple but always cute.

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation 2

This series owns my soul. I am currently reading the third and trying to make it last because I will be going insane while I wait for the fourth book which doesn’t come out til WINTER. Wei Wuxian and Lan Wanji are complete fucking morons and I love them with my entire heart. This book was a little rough for deep, long sections of backstory that followed other characters. While I did technically enjoy those sections and I liked the characters in them, they often ended up feeling VERY long. I would have liked for them to have been a bit more interspersed with the actual protagonists. Still, I’m loving the lore and the world and the politics… ending of book 2 had me absolutely losing my shit.

and listen, adult novels that still give you full page illustrations? I'm a simple person and I love this.

Grease

Okay, so I am a sucker for a well done novelization. This is not that. I have never seen an author fail to understand their assignment so badly. This person has framed the story so that SONNY, a random T-Bird, is the narrator. You know, everyone’s favourite character. This also means it EXCLUSIVELY shows the POV of the T-Birds, and absolutely nothing about the Pink Ladies or Sandy except for when they intercept the T-Birds, and layered through Sonny’s sexist narrative. It honestly sucks so incredibly much. I did not finish this and was tempted to toss it in the river.

Haikyu 42-45

I! HAVE! FINISHED! THE! SERIES! Man, I can’t think of many manga that made me read for fourty fucking volumes but Haikyu managed it. Absolutely phenomenal sports manga, the way this author was able to follow so many different characters and make you really care about their development and struggles… absolutely masterful. And not just the main character, not just the main team, this manga-ka did a really fantastic job of placing you into the POV of other teams and I think that went a long way for keeping the series feeling fresh and exciting. And every time a character you cared about got better it felt like such a success! Admittedly, the last few volumes, which showed the post-high school lives of the characters, were not my favourite ending ever. Having the characters fail to win the Spring Tournament, as cliche as that may have been, took a lot of the wind from my sails and I never really got it back. The final match in the last book was enjoyable, seeing how Hinata has grown into a truly superb player was epic, and I love the peek at the Olympics, but it didn’t have the magic that the rest of the series had for me.

Love Stage

Disappointing. I’ve read a lot of other books by this author and have always really enjoyed them. I usually don’t by yaoi sight-unseen these days because I don’t trust like that, but I decided to give it a go because this author has never steered me wrong. This one, unfortunately did. It had funny moments, but the squickiness completely overpowered everything else. Would not recommend, unless you really enjoyed a very specific, standard yaoi format that was common in like… the mid-naughts.

Neon Sign Amber

Now this one was good. I had to read it in French because it never got an English translation, but it was worth the weirdness of having a French-English dictionary next to me while I read smut. It was a charming single book story with really nice art. If anything, I wouldn’t have minded another book just because the ending felt a bit rushed — one character has a lot of baggage about people knowing he’s gay, and the other is only just coming to terms with his sexuality, so seeing how these two adults navigate an actual relationship would have been very interesting. Are they open about it? What sort of road bumps do they have to sort out together? I dunno, I had more questions, but what it gave me was still very nice.

Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun 1,2

…Okay, I’ll be honest, I read the name, made some VERY specific assumptions, and pointedly avoided this manga. My cousin decided to actually read the back though and that’s how I found out my assumptions were wrong and it’s actually pretty cute. It’s about a “Hanako-san” ghost… which is normally a girl ghost, though not in this case. He helps keeps the other mysteries of the school in check, and ends up getting a human girl wrapped up in the local supernatural activity. It feels like a slightly more childish xxxHolic which isn’t an itch I ever expected to have scratched by another series, so that’s exciting.

What Did You Eat Yesterday 1

Just a cute domestic romance that’s all framed around the meals one of the main characters cooks. It has middle aged characters, which is a nice change from a lot of romances/yaoi, with more adult dilemmas to work through. And each chapter dedicates several loving pages to walking you through exactly what’s being cooked, to the point where I’m pretty sure you could cook along with the main character if you wanted. It was lovely.

#book review #book reviews #chatter #manga #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #demon slayer #toilet bound hanako kun #what did you eat yesterday #neon sign amber #haikyu #grease #dennis the menace #blacksad #queer lit

[awanderingdeal]

Hello there! Would you please consider writing a fic where maybe Leo or a fan wears a dress or paints his nails or something else feminine and gets bullied online so the entire team then starts wearing dresses out in retaliation? I think Leo is the perfect example of flipping the V to normative gender ideals

Hi! Thank you for this ask. I hope you don't mind, but I kind of took this as inspiration and ran with it. I used Finn just because it fits my own personal headcanons that he would be the one that would be a bit more adventurous fashion wise, although I definitely agree Leo is the nail painter in that relationship! I hope you like it!

Apologies for the excessive use of italics in this fic!

CW: food mentions, some swearing, implied Instagram bullying and a child with very mild illness (hay fever).

Rating: T

Let me know if you think I missed anything or need to change the rating.

All characters in this fic are from Sweater Weather universe and belong to @lumosinlove

“Are you going to take that dress off?” June asked, blowing on the undercoat she’d just applied to her nails. Finn’s eyes dropped from the TV screen to the black fabric draping over his body. He brushed his fingers over the material, enjoying the texture of the sheer polka dots that decorated the dress. From afar, they were difficult to see, but at this distance they shined. His own little secret.

“No,” Finn replied, the word slipping from his mouth felt foreign, as if he hadn’t chosen to say it. “ Is that okay?”

“It’s generally considered polite to ask before you borrow people’s clothing, but sure, why not?” A loud cheer erupted from the TV notifying Finn the score on the basketball game he had been watching had changed. He desperately wanted to check it, but he continued to hold June’s gaze. “The Knicks,” June offered and Finn breathed a sigh of relief. “Are you going to wear it out later?” She didn’t wait for his reply, proffering two bottles of polish for Finn’s perusal, a redcurrant and a mauve.

“The red,” Finn decided after a beat. “No, I think I’ll get changed before we go to the theatre.”

“Alright then,” June hummed, glancing at her cell. “Logan is trying to call you, by the way.”

“Yes, my cell, I know exactly where that is,” Finn muttered to himself, stabbing at the remote to pause the TV. It took a few minutes of searching, the device hidden between the folds of the bean bag he was lounging on, but eventually Logan’s face was filling all 6.1 inches of the screen. “Lo!”

“Hey.”

Finn loved the greeting on Logan’s tongue, one of those that he never seemed to be able to stop his accent dripping through. Finn thought perhaps the sentiment was painted on his face, Logan peering at him curiously through the lens. “Isn’t that June’s dress?”

The dress. Finn had forgotten all about it. “Yes.”

He hadn’t meant for the reply to be said with such abruptness, but it felt good, all the tension coiling in his chest being released in the word.

Logan’s expression was challenging, similar to that June had given him earlier. “I was just going to say you look better in it.”

“Oh.”

June unfurled her legs from beneath her, throwing herself into view of the screen, her left hand held awkwardly in front of her. “I’m right here, Tremblay!”

***

“Love, you need to get out of the kitchen. You’re being very distracting.”

Finn frowned at Leo’s statement. “I’m not doing anything?” And for once, he wasn’t. He wasn’t trying to guess the weight of irrelevant objects. He wasn’t playing with the stray bits of dough Leo had left aside for decoration. He wasn’t even relaying facts about his current favourite interest. Finn was just watching.

Sometimes he liked to do that. He liked seeing Leo’s long fingers curled around the handle of the knife, his movements fluid and confident, his expression soft with quiet concentration. Occasionally, he’d cock his head, humming contemplatively and Finn could take the opportunity to offer his taste buds.

“It’s not a you problem, it’s a me problem,” Leo chuckled, setting the knife down on the chopping board. “I keep looking up and you’re just -” Finn followed Leo’s gaze as it wandered down to the exposed skin between Finn’s t-shirt and his skirt. “- I’m trying to meal prep and it’s going to take all week at this rate.”

The t-shirt had belonged to Logan, an old Harvard hockey throwback that had managed to make it through several wardrobe purges, so, whilst it was wide enough for Finn, the length was awkward. He hadn’t really considered his boyfriend’s reactions as he’d cut the item to fall several inches above his belly button, the crop looking far more purposeful than it previously had.

“Oh this old thing, I just threw it on,” Finn smirked, as he pushed off the counter he'd been leaning on. He rounded the island, stealing a carrot as he passed, until he planted himself in front of Leo. "Do you want help? It'd be quicker?"

"Now we both know neither of those things are true." Leo raised a critical eyebrow, his laughter smooth and sweet. He turned to face Finn more fully, his hand reaching to pass the forest green material of Finn's skirt through his fingers. "I like this colour on you."

"It has pockets! I totally get why Lily's always shouting about them. They're very convenient." Finn shoved his hands in the well-concealed pocket, pulling his cell from its depths. "See."

"Nice," Leo said, his smile making the edges of his face crinkle. "How about you let me finish up here and then we can find Lo and get his opinion on this outfit?"

"Fine," Finn groaned, resisting the temptation to draw Leo in a hug, and perhaps something more. "I'm gonna go and look over that report the accountant sent over. Do you want me to check yours over too?"

"Please," Leo nodded, his smile growing wider. "You're the best."

"You feed me, I make sure you don't get arrested, that's what relationships are all about, right?"

"Right," Leo ran his fingers over the skirt one last time and stepped back to put some space between them. Finn turned to leave, barely getting a few paces in before Leo called him. "Wait!"

"Yeah?"

"Just one kiss now would be okay."

Finn shook his head, letting Leo draw him back in with a chuckle. Leo's hands, always warm, settled on Finn's waist and he leaned down to press their lips together.

***

Finn winced as Aveline sneezed again, the forceful burst of air covering his sweater in droplets. He felt sorry for her; she was struggling with a bout of hay fever that was making her red-nosed and irritable, but the sweater was one of Finn’s favourites. A vintage, hand knitted blue thing he’d found in a thrift store in Cambridge for an absolute steal. Back then, it had been the scene of Bambi and his friends on it that had grasped Finn’s attention, however, he’d come to love it for its perfect fit and the fact it never failed to spark a conversation.

“Harzy, thank you. You’re a lifesaver.” Finn tried not to let his relief show too much seeing Kris’ approach, his arms outstretched to gather his daughter. “I can’t even put her down to go to the bathroom at the moment without her screaming.”

Finn chuckled, holding a wriggling Aveline tighter to stop her launching herself before her father was close enough. “Papa!” she cried, the exclamation melded neatly into a large yawn.

“Come, mon chou,” Kris soothed, letting Aveline bury her face into the crook of his neck and playing a gentle pattern with his fingers over her back. “Let’s go and see if Vroom-vroom has any magic up his sleeve, ey? He always knows what to do.”

“Vroom-vroom?” Finn whispered the question.

“Sergei,” Kris explained with a gleeful smile despite the tiredness etched into his face. He shifted Aveline into a more comfortable position. “Thanks again for holding her.”

“Anytime.”

Finn had barely been alone in the Dumais’ second living room for a minute when Katie came crashing in. He wondered briefly if he should redirect her back to the other room where everybody was gathered, the thought quickly interrupted by Katie tugging on the hem of his skirt. “Can you spin again? Please?”

Unable to resist her large doe eyes, Finn twirled for her, his skirt swirling and billowing around him until he began to go dizzy.

“Encore! Encore!”

Finn didn’t need Logan around to translate that for him, he’d seen enough Broadway shows to understand the request.

“No more, Katie Belle. I’m going to puke,” Finn laughed, lifting Katie into his arms. “You’re growing too quickly! I swear you were only this big the last time I saw you,” he teased, spreading the thumb and index finger of his free hand a few inches apart.

“I’ll be as tall as you soon!” Katie giggled, patting Finn on his head.

“Then you can carry me,” Finn teased. He was just reaching to bop Katie on the nose when the unmistakable sound of a camera shutter closing grabbed his attention.

“Logan!” Katie gasped, struggling in Finn’s arms for a second like little Aveline had done. “Put me down.”

Finn obliged, watching Katie run toward Logan with a fond smile.

“Did you fix it?” she asked, her voice hopeful.

“Ouais,” Logan nodded, “I gave it back to Maja.”

“Merci, merci, merci!” Katie wrapped her arms around Logan’s hips in a hug before running off, presumably to find Maja.

Finn crossed the room, opening his arms for Logan to walk into. He rested his chin on Logan’s head, breathing in the familiar smell of his shampoo. “What were you up to?”

“Just taking a photo of two of my favourite people,” Logan mumbled into Finn’s chest.

“Can I see?”

“Oui, it’s very cute. ” Logan stepped back, pulling the photo up onto the screen. It was a nice one, both Finn and Katie’s head tipped back slightly with bright laughter. Finn tracked down the photo, Katie’s legs clinging to his waist where the faux leather skirt started. He breathed in, filling his lungs with air and then expelling it quickly.

“Post it.”

Logan looked at him, eyes wide. “Are you sure?”

“Not really, but I’m fed up with changing my clothes all the time and I’m surprised I haven’t been papped anyway. I’d rather do this on my own terms. It’s a fucking skirt, it shouldn’t be a big deal.”

“Tell me to do it again,” Logan reached out a hand, squeezing gently as Finn took it.

“Post it.”

***

“Stop reading,” Leo sighed, plucking Finn’s cell from his hand.

Finn matched his sigh, burying his head into his hands. He didn’t need to look at the screen anyway, the words burned into his eyes. How anybody had looked at a photo of two people, one of whom was a child, laughing and had churned out hatred was mystifying to him. Finn had been expecting that though, he’d been around long enough to know there were some assholes out there. When he’d replied to one of the nicer ones he hadn’t really considered how he would feel about that going viral. About becoming the face of something he hadn’t really asked for.

Roaringlion17: Harzy! This fit is spectacular, I love the skirt <3 I just wanted to ask if you are trans and what pronouns you would like us to use?

OfficialFOHara: @roaringlion17 Thank you! He/him pronouns are great! I’m not trans. I just think it’s dumb that boys can’t wear skirts. Or dresses for that matter. I like clothes, not boxes.

The reply had now been featured on every gossip column possible and was beginning to filter into more esteemed news too. One of them had even called him, the face of a revolution, which had made Finn cringe. He supposed it was better than the hateful slurs his PR team were battling to keep off the photo.

“Hey,” Logan took the seat next to Finn where he’d slumped himself at the dining table. “Look at me.” Finn lifted his head, meeting Logan’s eyes, the deep green something he wanted to get lost in right now. He thought Logan was going to ask for the thousandth time if Finn wanted him to delete it, but all he got was the fierce, determined gaze Logan sported on the ice. “This is going to pass. Tomorrow, somebody will cheat on somebody and you will be old news. Do you want to see something?”

Finn nodded. He didn’t know what he was consenting to, but he trusted Logan to make it something that would make him smile. Leo dragged another of the chairs around to sit on Finn’s left hand side, setting his confiscated cell in front of him, the Instagram app open to Thomas’ profile. Logan leaned forward, tapping on the latest photo.

Thomas’ smile was wide as he sat on a window sill, kicking out the long zebra print skirt cloaking his legs. The caption underneath read ‘You’re just jealous that I wear it better than you! #boyswearskirtstoo’

“That’s -”

“Wait a second,” Logan reached for the phone again, setting it down with a picture of James’ visible. He was wearing an ochre coloured corduroy skirt that clearly belonged to Lily, the fabric straining on thighs. I’m feeling myself in this, tbh. Please hold whilst I order one in my size #boys wearskirtstoo.

Finn snorted, the sound wet with the tears he was struggling to hold back.

The hashtags kept coming.

Cap and Loops in their respective jersey’s tucked into pleated skirts. These Lions know fashion is not gendered #boyswearskirtstoo

Ollie in a shimmering gold knee length piece. Shine bright! #boyswearskirtstoo

Nado, Kuny, Smitty and Kane, arms slung around one another's shoulders, all wearing varying shades of pink. On Wednesdays, we wear pink #boyswearskirtstoo. Finn would bet good money that Kuny was behind that caption.

Dumo, Sergei and their wives, alongside their troupe of children, each one of them wearing a different coloured tutu. Dumo had opted to just include the hashtag, or rather his social media team had, because the man himself most definitely did not know how to upload the photo.

Kasey and Natalie looked effortlessly cool dressed in white tennis skirts and floral bomber jackets. I’m not sure what all the fuss is about? #boyswearskirtstoo

Alex was wearing a very similar black skirt to Finn's in his photo. Who wore it better? #boyswearskirtstoo #thatsmylittlebrother

“He’s an idiot, but I love him,” Finn laughed wetly.

“There’s more,” Logan smirked as he tapped at the screen again, almost brimming with an excited energy. He placed the cell back down, leaving his hand to block the next photo a little longer. Finn grabbed the device as soon as Logan revealed the image.

It was perfect.

Leo and Logan lounged on the sofa, a little further apart than they would normally sit. Leo clutching his favourite mug and Logan with sketchpad in hand. They both looked easy in their outfits, as if the skirts were a part of them. Leo’s was long, hitting just above his ankle, a navy lining coated in a tulle that was embellished with celestial bodies. Logan was looking at the camera, his eyes just visible under the brim of his cap. His skirt was shorter, the denim flaring over his thick thighs. In this house we respect people’s right to wear whatever the fuck they want #boyswearskirtstoo

Finn stopped trying to fight the tears, letting the moisture well in his eyes. “Thank you,” he choked out, pushing himself from his chair. Leo and Logan had their arms around him before he could ask. “Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.” He couldn’t seem to make the words stop, his body shaking with sobs, his boyfriend’s arms remaining sure around him until Finn wiped at his face and muttered an apology. “Sorry.”

“You have nothing to apologise for.” Leo swept his thumb over Finn’s cheek, wiping away a stray tear. “What can we do? What do you need?”

Finn let out a heavy breath, leaning into Logan’s hold. “I think I want to send a thank you to the group chat and then snacks and cuddles? I can deal with the world tomorrow.”

“Okay then, snacks and cuddles. We deal with the world tomorrow.”

#finn o'hara #leo knut #logan tremblay #rating: t #cw: food #cw: implied bullying #cw: swearing #cw: minor illness #sweater weather #lumosinlove

[almuerdesayuno]

001 tma 002 caejose? OwO

nyeheheh lets see.....

ok lets see for tma

Favorite character: jon, hands down, i care him so much,,,,,,,if i think about him too hard i tear up

Least Favorite character: i hate elias with a passion, but he’s a great character y’know? he serves his purpose (being easy to hate) masterfully

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): oh boi....obvs jonmatin, georgie and melanie <3<3,jon and gerry (and martin why not) oh my....,s1 archives polycule djkasjdk (i know its ooc but....think of the shenanigans, the angst), and the absolute otp, breekon and hope of course

Character I find most attractive: martin pick me up i know u can

Character I would marry: georgie my beloved (and also probably the most reasonable of them all lmao)

Character I would be best friends with: i wanna say tim, i loved his energy. or maybe mike crew if i were of the fucked up side of things <3

a random thought: i would listen to the full what the ghost podcast xD

An unpopular opinion: oh i have no clue what opinions are popular lmao and i gotta rewatch it soon djaks

My Canon OTP: jonmartin, what can i say

My Non-canon OTP: probably s1 polycule djsakdj

Most Badass Character: addelard dekker hes the best

Most Epic Villain: the whole stranger theatre thing was unmatched awesome to listen to, idk about a particular villain though

Pairing I am not a fan of: anything with Michael,,,

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another):

Favourite Friendship: i live for the georgie and jon friendship, both pre and post dating

Character I most identify with: probably martin just giving tea to everyone and trying to minimize the tense energy(?

Character I wish I could be: oh boi i hope i dont become any of them djkasjdka

oh wow this is,,,,longer than i thought it would xD no backing out now djaksdj

for caejose...

When I started shipping them: the training scene at the oil pillar, but  the ice cliff scene...that did it for me

My thoughts: djasfkhjkadhfjkadhadfjadfadjlka

What makes me happy about them: i love their dynamic,,,theyre just dumbasses your honor

What makes me sad about them: i dont even need to say it

Things done in fanfic that annoys me: i hate it when they just hate eachother’s guts, like, all they’re interactions are just downright hostile like......cmon. ALSO when people tear down susie q so she isnt in the way or something ;-; i havent come across many of those but i hate them

Things I look for in fanfic: the soft moments when they let their guard down around the other and go “huh maybe he isn’t just an absolute dumbass........oh..........”

My wishlist: (idk what this means so this is just my ideal everyone lives dynamic) dumbass old men bicker while trying to save the world, more at 11

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: on the one hand, i love me some good old everyone lives caejoseq au......on the other hand those two are divorced as fuck djaksdjak

My happily ever after for them: everyone lives (of course), joseph is dating both caesar and susie q, they raise Holly together <3. eventually joseph meets tomoko and even though they split up in good terms, both caesar and susie q know about her (i think they’d get along and team up to bother joseph, just saying), so when josuke is born he idk spends the holidays with the three of them and holly is the best older sister ever the end(?

#hey look i got an ask! #ask thing #hiiiii #tma #jjba #ajsdkasjk this was way longer than i expected but i had so much fun #i havent thought about them in a while....ah the feels coming back #yes someday i'll write that fic

[trsilvers]

What is your favourite quote for each Team Rocket character?

Good question. This took me a hot minute but was really fun to think about.

Jessie - “Thank badness we’re alive!!!” I actually don’t remember which episode this is from, I tried to google it, but I specifically remember it because I used to quote it all the time. I just thought the idea that villains would actually say “thank badness” was hilarious.

James - Zero is a gross exaggeration, we are at least two to three percent worthwhile! (Talkin’ Bout an Evolution) James has like a million great quotes but I always loved this one. You have to appreciate his candid self-awareness 😂 A lot of my favorite Jessie and James moments are where they happily admit they are failures but remain totally undeterred. Also - literally ANYTHING he says in the Flaming Moltres episode 😂

Meowth - “Maybe if we started lookin at what’s the same instead of what’s different…well, who knows?” This is part of his little monologue in the first movie when he’s talking to the clone Meowth, I always loved this quote. I mean, what a great sentiment, delivered in a touching way that only Meowth could do.

Cassidy - “Oh I’m still shaking like a leaf officer thank goodness you were here to stop them before they hurt the Pokémon ~ oh!” (The Breeding Center Secret) Butch and Cassidy have a lot of great quotes, especially from chronicles where they started getting played for laughs, but I really love this one because it highlights Cassidy’s ability to turn on and off this fake persona she’s created totally effortlessly. The delivery of this line is just 10/10. No other episode has really showcased her ability to do that as well as their first appearance, but I always loved that about her. She deserves an award for that performance lmao 😂😂

Butch - “I am, but I like dry socks.” (Showdown at the Oak Corral) I’m sorry, there are also a lot of better Butch quotes than this but I have to pick this one because it made me laugh like no other. The man likes dry socks, ok? 😂 Also I think I just like it because it’s a little glimpse into Butch as a person, he seems like he can be a little particular about stuff.

Domino - “I’m like a totally off the hook fan of yours! I wanna be just like you when I get old!” (Mewtwo Returns) Domino, like Cassidy, has the ability to adopt a fake persona and do a REALLY good job at pretending she’s somebody she’s not. I love her ditzy voice she uses when she’s undercover, but this quote in particular because even when she’s trying to be cute and sweet, this was a pretty backhanded compliment to throw at that doctor. (I forget her name, but she wasn’t even old 😂) It was pretty funny.

Wendy - “Revenge is sweet, my dear Jessie.” (Dues and Don’ts) I mean, you have to love a good long grudge. The fact that Team Rocket even has an HR department is hilarious on its own, but the fact that it seems to be led by a woman who held onto a personal vendetta against a fellow employee for YEARS, all because of a fruit smoothie, is even better.

Attila - “I used to collect them, they’re very sweet creatures.” (Legend of Thunder) I’m pretty sure this is a dub only fact about Attila, but I absolutely love the way they dubbed Attila and the idea of someone like him with a soft spot for Caterpie is just…I love it 😂 Seriously though Attila has a whole score of cheesy dialogue, and I love almost every single thing he says. Yippie Yi Yay 😂

Hun- “You don’t get to run the world by being fair; you get to run the world by being nasty!” (Legend of Thunder) Hun…who hurt you? 😂😂😂 Do you need a hug? This was tough because there are multiple times in LoT that Hun has to try and keep Attila on task, which I love, but I picked this quote as my fav because I like that little glimpse into Hun’s sinister personal ideals.

Tyson - “You look a little…tied up! BAHAHAHAHAJSJFGSHKJAFLSNWSA” (Talkin Bout an Evolution) I’m sorry, I love bad puns, and that exaggerated laugh he does at the end, I love it so much 😂😂😂 There are lots of bad puns in the Pokémon anime, but this one…it’s the laughing at his own joke for me 🤣 And the fact that none of the grunts with him are laughing at all, dub or original. You can tell this is a frequent occurrence and they’re just over it. 😂😂😂

Pierce - “Then we’ll just have to see how good you are. *laugh*” - this might seem like a weird quote, but I picked it solely because of that little laugh he does at the end. Pierce unfortunately didn’t get that much screen time, so he’s not super quotable :( Which is a shame because he really, REALLY has a nice voice. It might actually be my second or third favorite, behind Sebastian and *maybe* Attila (only because I think it suits him so well)

Professor Namba - (singing) “Rage, rage, bring out your raaaaage!” (One of the Lugia episodes, I forget which one) 11/10 beautiful vocals, clearly should have been a singer and not a scientist. Seriously though the fact that Namba can be in the midst of such a cruel experiment and stand there and sing a song about it really highlights his insanity and I love it.

Dr Zager - “CURSES!!” (I forget the episode title, I’m so sorry) Again, someone who sadly didn’t get that much screen time, BUT we do at least have this quote. He’s overall a pretty serious character and doesn’t have any especially memorable lines…except this one. 😂 I love it. Very old-fashioned villain, Old Man Yells At Cloud energy here 😂😂😂

Professor Sebastian - “If you’ll kindly follow me, I believe you’ll find this…electrifying.” (Legend of Thunder) this is REALLY hard because I love everything he says, but once again my appreciation for bad puns wins out in the end. Also the confirmation that Sebastian does have a sense of humor, however bad, makes me very happy. 😂 Would watch an entire episode of Sebastian and Tyson making terrible puns. No, actually, an entire feature length film.

Giovanni - “I haven’t had any repairs done to those old blimps for decades. They’re completely unfit to fly. About the only thing I have maintained on those blimps are their insurance policies.” (A Scare in the Air) this is not only my favorite Gio quote but one of my favorite moments in the entire anime because it’s so dark. I even posted about it recently. Giovanni actually tries to have three of his employees killed and profit off of their deaths via insurance fraud. AND HE DOES IT IN SUCH A CAVALIER WAY YOU KNOW IT’S NOT HIS FIRST TIME DOING IT. Also you really have to just appreciate the confirmation that insurance - an evil greater than Team Rocket- exists in the Pokémon world.

(I’m sorry if some of these quotes are not exact word for word, I tried to google to confirm I’m remembering it correctly, but it’s not as easy to find some of these as you might think 😂)

#pokemon #teamrocket #team rocket #asktrsilvers #quotes #team rocket quotes

[justasimplesinner]

Ok ok Eddie with a jock friend (and eventual s/o), here's what I'm thinking: High school Eddie (whatever version honestly) mouths off to some teachers or embarrasses them with his superior intellect in an insulting way and gets sent to the principal's office. Since this is a repeat offense (try seven times and counting) the punishment is more severe...but the principal says she'll lighten his detention sentence if he uses his smarts for good and enters the high school's peer tutoring program for at least a month. Cue jock who is eager to learn but maybe has a learning disability or ADHD and their course material just isn't sticking.

They come to Eddie for help and he's a bit of an ass at first but then he realizes that they're not just looking for answers; they are genuinely interested in what he has to say and wants to learn so they can do their homework on their own. He gets to know them and how intelligent they are in other ways and his little heart goes doki-doki.

this invoked violent daydreaming in me, i've gotten distracted by my own thoughts every 5 minutes while writing this

Edward with a dumb jock s/o hcs:

safe to say, this situation isn't ideal, and Eddie is not happy at all. he has to deal with idiots and brutes every day anyway, and now they're taking some of his only spare time away from them all just because he was right and his teacher was wrong? why is he constantly being punished for being right, for being smart?

he doesn't get along with his fellow peers from the program at all. some of them recognized him already and knew it was better to stay away lest they wanted to get insulted either by him or everyone else for talking to him, some of them tried to reach out but gave out pretty quickly. in highschool, Edward became way more bratty and mean. in middle school, he was still trying to fit in but he was incredibly overwhelming for other kids and also an easy target, and that really made him resent everyone around him. so getting along with the other students wasn't really an option

however, he dreaded meeting the ones he had to tutor even more. partly because he did not want to deal with some idiots that couldn't get an equation right, partly because he knew most of those idiots are going to be the same ones that always pick on him. half the football team had to be assigned to that program so they would pass their classes. sports don't always give you a get out of jail free pass apparently, and they were forced to study, which didn't sit well with them at all

and then, you came along. he didn't know if you were better or worse than the rest of the jock community that he had the displeasure of meeting. you were just so... dense. it's like you were smart but didn't even know it and couldn't quite use that to your advantage. it fucking annoyed him. incredibly so. you were frustrating beyond imagination. you were getting distracted so easily, and he had to explain the same thing over and over to you and it was driving him up the wall. why couldn't you just get it? Edward both thinks he's the smartest and that nobody will ever understand the lengths his knowledge goes to, and can't quite grasp the fact that people just can't understand something that's so blatantly obvious to him. safe to say, he would not be a good teacher

Ed is absolutely appaled by your eagerness to learn though. practically everything he says flies over your head and despite all his rambling, you still don't understand jack shit, but at the same time... you're such an avid listener. you genuinely think this peer tutoring program could help you get better. you want to get better. and as much as he doesn't want to admit, it really scores you some brownie points in his eyes. because despite everything, you at least try. you don't expect him to do your homework for you and guarantee you a good grade, you genuinely want to work for it. you expect him to explain things to you so you can do that homework yourself and you can be proud of yourself for doing something right. sometimes, he thinks he'd prefer it if you just threatened him to do your work for you because getting you to remember something is an impossible task, but he doesn't mean that

he remembers one of your first study sessions together when he just snapped and almost screamed at you that you were an idiot. to his absolute astonishment, you didn't beat his ass, you didn't even scream back. you just smiled your stupid dorky smile and laughed your stupid dorky smile, saying that he clearly wasn't in the mood so instead of studying you took him for a late lunch. a lunch. and instead of learning more about what you were supposed you, you were trying to learn more about him. best thing is, that day was the first and only time he shared any form of personal information with you and - as opposed to the Mendeleev's table - you memorized most of what he said. hell, next time you saw him, you brought him that specific chocolate he somehow admitted to liking

more and more often, you were bringing him small things, 'thank you gifts' as you called them. as if you knew you were hard to put up with sometimes, at least for him. of course, at first he took it as some sort of bribe, that you tried to worm your way into his graces so he'd do your homework for you or whatever but soon enough you made him realise that you were just genuinely being nice. he has never met someone quite like you, you were an enigma to him

soon enough, he didn't even realise he was looking forward to those study sessions with you. he was constantly lying to himself about how annoying and dense you were, and yet he started feeling more comfortable around you and talking with you freely. he started liking your stupid inquires that usually were something along the lines of "what kind of animal is the Pink Panther", even smirking at them under his nose as if he found idiocy amusing. it was both a nightmare and a blessing to have you around

he couldn't quite understand the weird feeling he got whenever you referred to him as your friend or greeted him at the corridors. or when you offered to have some study sessions at your house because you couldn't keep quiet in the school library and put all the librarians on edge. he didn't really get what was going on with him when he smiled and laughed along with you, in your messy room, as you were trying to figure out how to write a proper essay

he... liked coming to your house. it was admittedly better than the library. your parents were really warm and welcoming, weirdly supportive which he couldn't quite understand since you weren't... well, the brightest. the food was nice, too. and your room was so... you. that's the only way to describe it, what with all the little trinkets and posters and things laying around, and with some music or movies in the background. he also noticed a constantly reoccuring theme amongst your possessions and he was surprised how much knowledge you had on one or two specific subjects. your small little obsessions that you somehow learned about a lot easier than anything else

at some point, without even realising it, you two started hanging out. like, really hanging out, not just meeting up to study. you played some games and talked about random stuff, with you always inquiring about everything, which in turn made him feel like someone actually listened to him for once and rambling for hours to no end. you even tried to teach him your favourite sports, despite his protests, and he was really shocked when you didn't laugh at his general clumsiness and awkwardness when it came to physical activities. you were actually just as weirdly supportive of him as your parents were of you. he didn't see you get annoyed at him even once, and you always tried to explain to the best of your abilities how things worked in sports. show him the proper moves and stances. he didn't quite pick it up, but you two had... fun

spending so much time with you made him notice your strengths, and there were suprisingly many, not just physical (but god, you could just lift him up like a stick? like he wieghed nothing?). he started to slowly figure out your thinking process which made him use different teaching methods that suited you better and lo and behold, there was progress. nothing too crazy, but it was progress. he didn't know which one of you was more proud - you or him

you finally found a way to learn and you started getting better grades. you didn't have to sacrifice school for sports or vice versa. you were going to pass. and all those small victories made Ed realise that soon enough, you won't need him anymore. you'll be capable of learning by yourself, since now you found a good way to do it. you weren't going to meet up with him so often, instead going out with your actual friends since now you could. now you had time. and when i tell you that he almost sabotaged you both just to force you to stick with him for a little while longer-

who was going to tell him stupid jokes now? who was going to listen to him? who was going to talk to him? who was going to cuddle him on your bed and fall asleep there with him from the pure exhaustion from studying? who was going to be his golden retriever friend when you were gone? he wouldn't ever imagine he'd be so sad to get rid of a bumbling idiot in his life? you were his bumbling idiot, and he really didn't want to go back to how things were before he knew you. he didn't want to be alone again. he didn't want to stop being so happy

so let me tell you, the pure fucking relief on his face when you start telling him about how many fun things you two can do now that you don't have to study all the time and hang out more is unimaginable. you never felt him hug you so tight as in that one moment

#riddler #edward nigma #edward nygma #the riddler #edward nashton #my writing #headcannons #fluff #some angst #sovereign of succ #god this is my favourite trope #i love it here

[dwellordream]

“…Prague, and medieval Europe more generally, as I will never tire of telling you, were sites of legal and legitimate sex work. After all, unmarried men needed a sexual outlet so they didn’t get too horny and tear their cities apart, and fourteenth-century Prague was one hell of a city that emphatically did not need a bunch of sex-crazed dudes messing with it.

Prague was very much in the ascendancy at the time, having been pumped full of money and prestige by friend of the blog the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV (1316-1378). His whole thing was creating Prague as a viable static Holy Roman imperial capital, ideally tied to the succession of his own Luxembourg dynasty. In order to do this he spent a whole bunch of time building new churches and monastaries, expanding the city walls, rebuilding the castles both in and out of town, and basically doing the civic spending that makes cities boom.

So to build all these churches, walls, paved streets, and new houses a bunch of new migrants showed up to do the work. This was all well and good if you were a dude. There extremely was paid work to be done. If you were a woman and showed up cuz you heard money was going to be handed out, there were fewer options to choose from though. If you didn’t want to be a washerwoman, or a housemaid, it was hard to get a foothold in one of the most sophisticated cities in Europe.

There were guilds and old families who controlled the trades, and women in general had fewer choices in terms of employment if they weren’t connected to a family or man. However, all those men who just showed up to the city sans family had a chunk of change in their pockets, and the brothels needed workers so there were a few institutions where women could always find work.

The legal institutions had been the brothels Venice, Hampays, and Obora. After my boy Jan Milíč z Kroměříže’s (d. 1374) got Charles IV to abolish the Venice brothel and give it to him so he could just chill with a bunch of ex sex workers and other preachers, that left two official municipal brothels. Hampays was over on the river near the Jewish Quarter, and Obora was in the Lesser Town up on the hill near the wall and the castle.

Obora and Hampays function here in much the same way OnlyFans does now. These were legal institutions that were following the legal strictures put in place to do sex work. There is no real way to think of medieval institutions or individuals as being imbued with rights (Magna Carta freaks, I am looking at you), but one could say that had legal permissions. They had municipal charters from the city that said that they could do sex work in these places, and so they did it.

How do we know that they had legal permissions to be there? Well because some of the forerunners of Exodus Cry extremely fucked around and found out.

Here I am speaking of the adventures of one Master Ulrich, the priest of St Nicholas in the Lesser Town who came to my attention for being a massive fucking crybaby in the Archdeaconate Protocol of 1379-1382. Essentially this was an exercise wherein a new Archdeacon, Pavel of Janovice came into power and went from church to church asking if anyone had any religious problems he could sort out.

Master Ulric was like, “Yeah I am a big whiny baby, and I keep trying to shut down the Obora brothel. I have on several occasions run up in there, and chased all the sex workers who were just trying to work and make a living out of there.” To Ulrich, much like these Exodus Cry basics, depriving these women of a livelihood with absolutely no recourse to any help when he did so was a good thing because sex is bad and you should feel bad for selling or buying it.

The thing is, absolutely no one agreed with Master Ulrich. Quite to the contrary, he was complaining because every time he pulled this stunt, the city magistrates, alerted by the sex workers showed up and kicked him TF out of their brothel because what they were doing was perfectly legal. This is how we know that Obora probably had a charter, because the city magistrates sprung in to action to do the right thing and support the sex workers when they made a complaint.

Was it their favourite thing to ever happen? I very much doubt that it was! However, that didn’t matter because just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean you get to interfere with people who are just trying to make a living, and the magistrates knew that.

So it was Master Ulrich and his massive fucking L – which the Archdeacon informed him he was going to have to take – that I thought of when OnlyFans reversed their whole “no more tiddy pics” policy. Because what happened – very hearteningly – is that when they tried it, sex workers got mad, and everyone who supports them showed up to yell at OnlyFans.

Exodus Cry, much like Master Ulrich before them, massively overestimated the appeal of the whole “sex is always bad” campaign, and it turns out people want to support and help sex workers instead of impoverishing them. OnlyFans got pushback, the banks who allegedly wanted this in the first place would much rather take money and not get yelled at, and the whole October 1 deadline has been suspended. This is a feel-good story.

I am not saying that sex work in and of itself is necessarily “good”. In fact, I am completely unwilling to label sex as a whole “good” as I am out here on team sex critical. Moreover, I am absolutely not going to tell you that “work” is good either. It is bad but we have to do it in order to survive in our garbage society. What I am saying, and as I have written about before, is that depriving people of their livelihood with absolutely no plan to support them after you do is extremely bad. Sex workers have a right to a safe and dignified way to make a living, and taking that away from them is not helping anyone.”

- Eleanor Janega, “On the power of pushing back against the marginalisation of sex workers.”

#eleanor janega #history #medieval #late middle ages

[cybernaght]

Guardian rewatch: Episode 3

First of all, wow. When I decided to post those online, I was expecting that they would be read by two people, both of whom I personally know. It was in equal part surprising and terrifying that so many of you ventured here. Thank you for reading, I really appreciate it. 

Episode 3 is probably my favourite case. It’s not perfectly strung together, there is little actual investigative work in it, but it’s a beautiful story of boundless love and devotion, which echoes through the relationship between our protagonists

Professor Shen is looking at some materials that are looking suspiciously like research into something supernatural, when Zhang Ruonan makes an appearance at his office, claiming that she is absolutely fine, while clearly being very far away from fine. This is something Shen Wei can certainly relate to, because he is the king of hiding his ailments from others. 

Zhu Hong’s one-sided affection for Zhao Yunlan starts to show already in this episode:  while he has the cold, she nags him to take care of himself, shoves tissues into his hands, and presses him to drink his meds. It’s easy to imagine even this early on that she will be the woman drunk dialling him one day. 

I know this could be seen as straightbaiting, but I honestly thing that the actual purpose it serves in the show is the opposite; I’ll talk more about it when we get there.

Zhao Yunlan spends a lot of this episode in Shen Wei’s office, starting with this scene, in which is obviously flexing. Not only does he sneeze all over the office, he goes to eat Shen Wei’s cake after specifically being told not to eat it.  He also takes his opportunity to mix questioning with flirting, as is his usual way. He keeps eye contact while spooning cake into his mouth, as he explains, jovially, that another mysterious death on his campus cannot possibly be a coincidence. And, to be fair, he is not really wrong. We are meant to believe that this is all set in motion by Zhu Jiu, aka the least scary villain in the history of villainy, and an owner of your staple baby goth wig. I will not mention him again until the plot makes it impossible for me not to do so. 

Zhang Ruonan comes in, and Zhao Yunlan introduces himself as Shen Wei’s good friend. Which is half-way between a flex and an act of kindness. On one hand, he could have said he was from the police - which would be absolutely true - and risk tarnishing the professor’s good name. On the other hand, he could probably look less pleased with himself. Shen Wei, at the very least, looks neither grateful, nor amused. 

Zhao Yunlan asks her if she new the victim and she looks incredibly shifty as she flees. He is right to think that something is up, and he correctly assumes trauma, rather than guilt. We can now start to see that he is very very good at reading people. It must be equal parts thrilling and disconcerting for him to have met something who he decisively cannot read. Shen Wei vouches for the woman, partly, surely, because his Hei Pao Shi sense is tingling, letting him know that someone is eavesdropping. 

Despite feeling uneasy, Shen Wei still offers Guo Changcheng, who is left to collect various paperwork from his desk, a little smile. He has a reason to like Xiao Guo, of course: he was the one to see the young man’s kindness and understanding, and he is already growing protective of him, way before he will start seeing members of the special unit as his people. This reminds me of how many months later, he will subtly, but decisively stop a barrage of verbal abuse against Xiao Guo by dropping a pair of chopsticks. 

Zhao Yunlan is taking Xiao Guo with him on the case rather than anyone else, partly, supposedly, because of Guo Changcheng’s familial connections. The young man looks more sure of himself, asking correct questions, dutifully records answers. He also tries to look after his Chief by asking him to go home and rest. He does phrase it badly, but Zhao Yunlan has a thing against his own health and well-being, so he reacts extra poorly.

Soon after, Zhao Yunlan’s at Shen Wei’s office yet again, as Shen Wei tries his best to ignore him, in the hope that he… well, maybe not goes away, but does not ask him anything that will require him lying. Instead, Zhao Yunlan is asking Shen Wei why he is bad at reading people, which is a very strange thing to ask. Shen Wei answers his question with a question, “Will seeing through people really lessen the hurt and disappointment?” Adding, “Many tragedies were destined from the beginning”. He looks well.. like this as he says it. 

This is loaded. On first glance, it’s a pretty good set-up to the way this story will unfold, as a tragedy of two individuals who let their devotion to each other nearly ruin each other’s life. A fragile human and a dangerous powered Undergroundian: what else is that, but a tragedy, waiting to happen? But this story - this one right in front of us - will not end tragically, at least not for the two people it enters around. It could do so, but it will not. Maybe, this truly is the first hint that this entire narrative, so carefully set up from the very first time Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei meet, is destined to be a tragedy. Moreover, that it must be one, for some cosmic reason. 

(… I apologise while I go have a little cry in the corner. Damn you, Guardian, why do you make me hurt so much?)

Da Qing inexplicably morphs from black cat to a human in white t-shirt while doing night shadowing, and promptly falls asleep on patrol. Why is he being sent to stake anyone out? He is least suitable for it.  He is literally a cat. He sleeps 16 hours a day. 

Surprisingly, when pressed, Zhang Ruonan comes clean very easily, revealing that she was a victim of the three students she failed (two of which are already dead and one one standing right next to them), who lured her out at night, which left her vulnerable to be attacked. Zhao Yunlan listens to this story, and instead of… oh I don’t know, perhaps asking her the identity of the third student, leaves to go find that out for himself. It is heavily implied that he does it on purpose, which is definitely not okay.  

Moreover, he goes and... asks Shen Wei. This makes me suspect that he’s not really thinking with his head at this point. As he does so, he is brandishing a letter opener. 

Shen Wei is looking even less impressed with him than he did during their last few conversations. 

Zhao Yunlan is a little bit flippant when it comes to students’ lives this episode. And yes, they have done something really quite horrible to another human being, but that's not a very good excuse to let the last of them just die. As it happens, the situation Yunlan created - perhaps on purpose - did lure out Zhao Ruonan’s murder girlfriend, but it also cost a student his life. Which is far from ideal, but is somehow never even mentioned. Instead of being aghast, he sits on the table as he goes into full interrogation mode. (As he will continue to do a lot. Sometimes he crouches on tables instead. There is no further point here, apart from: I like this character quirk. It’s a nice character quirk.)

He brings some of his team in at this point, and asks Zhu Hong to continue interrogation. It would be a nice gesture is he did not interject two questions in. 

“How do you regard your relationship with Wang Yike?”

“We are family.”

They are definitely, decisively not going for sisterly bond here. Which is kind of incredible. This is one of the moments the amorphous being that show is looks at the censors, wiggles its battered low budget eyebrows at them, and then proceeds to flip them off. Well done, Guardian. 

Wang Yike calls Zhang Ruonan, saying there is one more victim she needs to take care of, and Lin Jing traces the call back to campus. Zhao Yunlan, who did not even bat an eyelid at a dead student earlier, now looks decisively worried  

“Oh no. Professor Shen.” 

The only reason Shen Wei is attacked is jealousy. Wang Yike does not know this of course, but trying to kill him is a bad move, because a) he has long ago given his heart away, and is definitely not interested; b) this is probably the only thing she could do to make the man on the case very very upset; c) Shen Wei’s immune to her powers. 

“Someone like you will never understand what she means to me!” Wang Yike shouts eventually. “As long as I can protect her, my life has worth!” And, even as Wang Yike has no way of knowing it, these are the words that ultimately save both her and her loved one. Because Shen Wei does in fact understand what Zhang Ruonan means to her. His own endless and ultimately self-destructive devotion is his main driving force.

Shen Wei pretends to be hurt, again, which earns him a half-hug from the object of his devotion. If Zhao Yunlan does notice that Shen Wei should really come out of this attack grey haired and dead, and not just mildly inconvenienced, he chooses not to say anything. 

Worried about her murder girlfriend, Zhang Ruonan rushes in and accidentally touches her. Zhao Yunlan Freaks The Hell Out. Shen Wei does, too, but in his own, reserved, way. They are both emotionally invested in those two people, although for very different reasons: Shen Wei is acutely feeling resonance of his own past in their story, and Zhao Yunlan, I think, wants to fix it, he wants to be able to make it better. Instead, Shen Wei fixes it for him, turning the tide on this tragedy, and giving it a happy ending. He heals Zhang Ruonan right in front of the officers of SID, albeit with much subtlety. (“Have someone saved her right under our noses?” Zhu Hong will snort the very same evening, and she will be 100% correct.)

Shen Wei also lets Wang Yike go despite the undeniable fact that she did kill three people. Here, he is looking at the picture of this human/Undergroundian couple, surviving despite all odds, and touches his only reminder that Kunlun really was in his life. 

He then burns the picture as the only evidence that Wang Yike was not punished by him for her crimes. 

In the end, Guo Chengcheng is making first of his many diary notes about the events, recounting a conversation between Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan we had not witnessed, in which Shen Wei mentioned a relationship based on devotion that can last a thousand years, and Zhao Yunlan called such a relationship “guarding”. Finally, Guo Changcheng hopes that he can become a guardian of all. 

And this is making me think that this absolutely should be a set-up for him becoming a wick of the guardian lantern, as per every single other decision that was made prior to the last two episodes. Right? This is a perfect foreshadowing, and mentioning it here, so early in the show would not make any sense if it were a deliberate subversion. So, was Guo Changcheng meant to become the wick after all before... what, some rewrites happened? What made the final episode be what it was in the end?

(This is a genuine question by that way, if anyone has any insight on the matter.)

The episode would end here, if this was a western show, with a familiar monster of the week structure, but it does not. At least, the way it ends is reminiscent of a cliffhanger, with Zhao Yunlan catching Shen Wei in a middle of a crime scene, and looking betrayed. 

Next episode: Lynchian Nightmare, aka people without faces. 

PS.

I did not have a seamless way to stick this in anywhere but... Shen Wei’s technological ineptness at the max: he does not know how to use a Polaroid camera. Help him, he is so lost.

——

Second point of housekeeping to say a few things: 

I don’t think I will be consistent with certain things being transliterated versus translated. I am more likely to use Hei Pao Shi rather than Black Cloak Envoy (because the later reminds me of Tuxedo Mask, which makes me inwardly giggle every time) but at the same time I am also more likely to use Underground/Undergroundian rather than Dixing/Dixingren. I am more likely to use Xiao rather than Little, but have called Chu Old rather than Lao before. I hope that’s not grating, but do tell me if it is

My recaps are Shen Wei-heavy. I have no real explanation for this, apart from.. I like Shen Wei. 

I realise that there will definitely be things here that are head canon and speculation rather than flat observations; this show is a work of fiction and a work of art, which cannot be interpreted objectively. If you have alternate takes on anything I write in the future, let me know! 

#guardian #shen wei #zhan yunlan #recap #rewatch #I still don't know how to tag

[thunderbirds-are-fab]

9 & 20 with Lee and Kayo

9. If you had to choose one Thunderbird to be a passenger on - which one would it be?

This is such a hard one! They’re all awesome for their own reasons. Rather than just picking the one that has my favourite bro as a pilot (as if I could even make that choice either), I’d probably go for the one that would give me the most unique experience – what could I experience on a trip in one that I’d never be able to get any other way? Initially I’d have chosen Thunderbird 4 because THE OCEAN IS COOL and SEA CRITTERS, but in the end I’d go for Thunderbird 3. It’s a solid combination of supersonic jet and space rocket. If I can only choose the trip of a lifetime once, then why not pick the one that can take me all the way to the sun and back in a day?

20. Send me two characters and I'll tell you which one I think is....

WHOEVER CHOSE THESE TWO CHARACTERS ABSOLUTELY KNOWS ME THEY ARE MY FAVES THANK YOU I MISSED MAKING HEADCANONS FOR THESE TWO SO MUCH

· Most afraid of the dark

I don’t think that either of them would really be afraid of the dark. It was probably part of their respective training for what they do that they can cope with staying calm and functioning without light.

Kayo probably thrives in the dark because she’s an absolute ninja and it would give her a sneak boost. Though probably not afraid, Lee would at least be concerned by the dark, because if the lights go out then he should probably be worried about what else in the space station has lost power and how he's going to fix it.

· Putting off homework/paperwork

Kayo strikes me as the type that always got all her homework done on time, but it took years of Kyrano sitting her down and telling her that she had to do it before she was allowed to go out and play. She probably doesn’t put off paperwork any more because she’s learned not to, and she needs to be a good example to Alan (who absolutely does/did put off homework).

Lee may be an adrenaline junkie flying by the seat of his pants with only instincts aged like fine wine to guide him, but I bet he’d have his paperwork sorted for good reasons.

“Houston, the capacitors in the main circuit have blown and we’re hurtling towards the planet at terminal velocity with only bubble gum and paperclips to make the repairs, but I did put this in the risk assessment so you can tell the legal team that I'm off the hook for this one."

· Going off the grid for fun

Lee absolutely does this, and we’ve seen it in Colony. He’s been dragged back from the moon, supposedly retired, and Kayo has to go flying into a blizzard to find him climbing in an icy crevasses as part of his retirement activities. You can't make this man sit still. I think it’s because he’s based on the Apollo generation of astronauts who were the type of guys who would go hiking and sailing and other outdoorsy adventure activities in their spare time. Because, y'know, it's not like the the day job was exciting enough.

Kayo probably isn’t allowed to do this as much as she’d like for recon because her brothers would get worried if she’s AWOL for too long and come find her and drag her home. She hates being babied.

· Reading Jane Austen in their spare time

I like to think that it’s Lee. As he gets older he probably feels some affinity for timeless classics. Plus he’s probably one of the few characters in the series who has any nostalgia for actual books.

· Going to move off Tracy Island first

Technically this is definitely Lee. One of many small details I’d really have loved to have been confirmed in TAG was Lee’s role in International Rescue prior to the boys being old enough, since it’s implied that he and Jeff may have started it together? Did he ever live on Tracy island in those early days after Lucille died, helping his best friend rebuild his life and ideals? What made him go back to the moon after that? Just little things that would have made these characters and the timeline for the show that much deeper.

Kayo is also mentioned to have ‘been away at school’ when Lucille was still alive in Home on the Range, so I guess she moved in, went away, then came back? Again, the official timeline doesn’t go into enough detail that far back. I don't know if she'd ever leave Tracy island to live elsewhere when she's older. I can't imagine that.

· Secretly replacing Grandma's cooking

Wow, would either of them be rude or brave enough to do that? XD

Lee would probably just make up an excuse not to eat. Kayo would be the only one sneaky enough. Secretly replacing the food instead of refusing it probably fits her relationship with Grandma. We never saw much of them together, but I can tell they mutually care about each other’s feelings quite a lot.

· Taking all the family photographs

I imagine that as Jeff’s second in command, Lee may have been behind the camera on many important occasions. Maybe even taking photos of Jeff and Lucille together in their first family portraits. Who knows? Again, I wish TAG had given us so many snippets of totally unimportant lore and backstories for characters the series barely featured. I guess that’s why we have fan fiction!

· Planning a picnic for the next sunny day

A picnic probably isn’t Kayo’s style, or at least not planning one. Lee I could see planning a day outdoors, perhaps hiking to a nice spot somewhere. The hike would probably involve several miles of trekking and a section requiring climbing gear, but it’s still a walk to a picnic somewhere.

#THANK YOU SO MUCH KIND ANON #YOU HAVE BLESSED ME WITH MUCH NEEDED SEROTONIN #I WILL REMEMBER YOUR GOOD DEED FOR THE DAY #YOU HAVE MY UNDYING GRATITUDE

[spacetwiga]

leave c!phil out of bullshit 2k21 -- a not so tiny post by a new enthusiast

As someone who finds both common fanon and actual canon to be quite fun, I really think the general DSMP fandom would benefit greatly from a few things in general: the greatest, in my opinion, is learning to accept that popular fanon won’t usually be the canon you receive. Another, of course, is that POVs are golden, but with these two things being flimsy in being accepted, they are the major flaws that cause about 90% of the absolute messy takes that gain traction, oftentimes poisoning a canon character's ability to exist in the story.

My biggest beef regarding this comes from how y’all treat c!Phil, so here I am, being annoying on main side! 

TL;DR... Just because someone acted like like a guidance to others, doesn’t always mean that they'll want to be the father figure role for everyone that breathes. Similarly, pinning down a character on a single trope is wack, so don't be surprised if they grow away from it.

Baby’s first little dsmp rambling below!

(Warning: it's long as hell)

The Dream SMP plotline is not written out like most popular media. With so many moving parts in the form of daily streams and the wonderful tool of live improvisation, it makes perfect sense that such a giant cast would not always be on the same page. Adding onto that, it also makes more sense that a vast majority of the cast will be placed into supporting roles, as the story needs to have characters that serve as narrative anchors and others that function as the links in a chain, all weathering the storm that is the plot.

Screentime, of course, plays a major factor into canon exposure -- in terms of the Dream SMP, POV matters equally, if not more, too. 

It’s a pretty neat way of showing things, but in the end, the fanbase has a lovely (read: godawful /lh) way of analysing characters, particularly when it relates to how they interact with others from their fave character’s POV. The tendency to analyse things from a single character's POV is fine, but not when attempting to critique the greater whole of a conflict. Both sides, no matter how wrong they may seem to be, matter.

Adding onto the fact that everything is live, there are things that will spiral out of control, casual words being skewed and thus having the potential of a single line seemingly contradicting the entire ‘story’ that the fanbase has made. If it directly affects a fave's POV in particular, one is more likely to take offense, as bias immediately bars one from trying to see the other person's side of things.

POV is important. 

Which brings me to c!Phil, and how critics tend to ignore his perspective to prop up another character, or justify the tearing down of another.

Improvisation is both a blessing and a curse; the fanbase, however, loves to test out the latter. With it, the fanbase starts crafting tales to justify it...And so begins the mess that is c!Phil discourse.

Say it with me, folks: c!Phil is not supposed to be your fave’s fluffy father figure... unless you’re c!Wilbur!!!

😃☝🏾Dadza is good...👉🏾😎👉🏾 But fandom wants the excessive, idealized version.

-- birb 2k21

Family dynamics are generally loved for their potential for comfort, particularly those of a found family nature. Fandom in general tends to lean into them wholeheartedly, with most major bases having at least one prominent group present; SBI, of course, is no different. From fanart to popular fanfiction, it's arguably the biggest group dynamic alongside the Dream Team, and for that, a precedence was set. 

c!Phil, if he ever joined, would fix everything! All of the ‘kids’ would turn to their new mentor and everything would turn out fine! This all knowing, morally just character will chuckle at their antics and wacky hijinks will follow! Fun times, right? /s

The hope for it, however, has long since been shattered, and frankly, good for him!

To go a little ooc, cc!Phil has stated multiple times that, while he was friendly with a lot of the cast as c!Phil, his only paternal link (at least biologically) lies with c!Wilbur. Simple, right? It should be -- there are multiple clips of him saying this -- but fans choose to ignore it in their critiques, generally citing favouritism or downright neglect for the character’s flaws. From 'favoring' Techno (who, in canon, holds the highest link in friendship outside of c!Wilbur's familal link) to 'neglecting' to visit Tommy (who he barely knew, and also assumed, like many others, that he was fine), these critiques weigh heavily on the scale that judges Phil’s so called father figure trope. 

The story, however, has only leaned into (and persisted with) that for c!Wilbur alone, and adding onto it, there is an established acknowledgement from both ccs. That confirmation should hold the most weight, especially since both Phil and Wilbur seem alright with it. Even so, that familial has yet to be explored much for both characters, particularly regarding c!Phil, who has his debut (at least narratively) in a scene that feels opposite to the classic fatherly role.

c!Wilbur denounced accepting that helping hand to fall entirely into his explosive end, setting a precedence unlike most fatherly types arriving to save their kid. Usually, fandom narrative would love a close save, father and son uniting to heal and build up what was broken, but c!Phil’s entrance inks his story in failure. Angsty, right? We love angst!

And yet, as the story ticks on, the bad takes pile up.

Why? Well, I’l used to think that it is a “funny haha” type thing; a way to grieve for a character that was lost, as Alivebur was genuinely a great character. However, with the plot slowly progressing c!Phil’s story to evolve away from the ‘mentor the kids’ trope , I should have seen a storm on the horizon.

It should have been seen from the moment he stabbed c!Wilbur in the chest, but optimism is one hell of a smokescreen.

Built up fanon, however, is probably the greatest fog to ever exist.

There are lines before the button room confrontation that paint a picture of Wilbur seeking out the approval of his father (who seemed distant, at least from his POV), as well as hints to the SBI dynamic, but with the countless dismissals/retcons from CCs involved, as well as little to no consistent canon acknowledgement of this team dad role...Why base an entire hate piece of c!Phil just because popular fanon isn’t real? 

Why, for the sake of building up a well rounded character, would one place the title of a communal parental figure on a grieving father who has little attachment to the community involved, especially when most of them are too busy delving into their own issues?

Furthermore, why go for Mr. Philza Minecraft: Angel of Death, CEO of KEKW, Functioning Immortal????

It’s madness, luv, and frankly, antis cannot let c!Phil process any of his grief (or flesh out his character) without his contributions being fatherly. His role has been idealized to the point where he is not a character on his own, but an accessory to the happiness of other characters. That is not how the world works, and in a conflict riddled server like the dsmp, arguing that it should be like that is counterproductive.

c!Phil had his own shit to deal with, and as he slowly uncovers how fucked up the server actually was, he merely adapts to it. He learns to play the game by his own rules, and people become mad that he’s succeeding in his own way. It's as simple as that, particularly when referencing his initial exposure to the world he now inhabits.

c!Phil is a man who used to hear of his son’s success from the letters he received, words spinning tales of won revolutions and newfound friendships. To a father, those letters are more than enough to assume that all is well, and with it, he had no reason to check on his son, who was already old enough to be carving his path alone. For him to arrive and see just how broken his son actually was, and then, in front of faces he only vaguely knows, kill said son... There's a lot to take in.

He shouldn't have had to care about L'Manberg in those moments, not when he had his son in his arms, dead by his own goddamn weapon; his son who, to his knowledge, was doing pretty well up until he caught wind of his plot. Yet, he does.

He gives them the benefIt of the doubt, even ignoring the one person he has shown to have deep history with (c!Techno) to assist the nation in defeating the withers and rebuilding what was lost.

c!Phil stays in a nation that has seemingly brought his son right into his demise, holding in that grief to help people who he assumes have the chance to rebuild, to reform. For a moment, he trusts that the system can turn into something positive, offering to hunker down and do what he can to help. That’s the start of a fatherly type role for most -- with many expectations rising from fans to ‘fix’ all these traumatized characters.

In another plot, perhaps critics could have gotten the tropes they want from c!Phil, but to blame the character for reacting negatively to a world he barely knew, right after seeing it ruin his son and target a friend...Maybe the need for a "father figure" only stems from making their faves happy.

Characters that don't directly support your fave are not inherently awful characters. Critique based on that alone is...flimsy, really, but honestly, you can use to to show how they process things.

Which brings me to the events leading up to Doomsday, and with it, the steady rise of c!Phil’s defining traits.

Say it with me, folks: c!Phil is one of the most loyal members on the server, but loyalty doesn’t mean he's blindly following along!

😃☝🏾Butcher Army take this L👉🏾😎👉🏾 Found it in the L’Mancrater

-- birb 2k21

The butcher army arc, while nestled among the mainline story of Tommy’s exile (which I will not even mention, because those dadza takes about visiting may deserve a post on their own), allows for c!Phil to see into the minds of those who had once been with (or even against) his son’s plans. Sure, he may be witnessing them after the eve of their newfound traumas, but this is an important observation to make when comparing how easy it was to denounce his affiliation to them and side with c!Technoblade.

Unlike the new Administration, slowly dipping deeper and deeper into their own form of power hunger, c!Technoblade’s base desires had never wavered. His trust in others, however, had, still nursing the sting of a betrayal, but with no conflict in sight. He is reforming, finding comfort in his solitude, and still maintaining contact with those he trusts.

Techno's Compass, for one, is a major example of their mutual trust. Despite being on opposing territories, they are civil enough to trust each other, just like old friends.

Thus, when you take two old friends who are more than used to conflict -- one grieving and one betrayed, but both seeking neutrality -- it shouldn’t have surprised the antis that c!Phil would place c!Techno’s whereabouts (and life, mind you) over some government he barely knew. 

And yet, above all else, c!Phil starts off as a neutral party for everyone's sake, forgoing potential conquest for peace.

To c!Phil and c!Techno, it’s like fighting back to back, knowing that one can always trust the other to fend off those just waiting to take advantage of your blindspot, while also quelling the need to imagine your partner turning around and doing the same. That sort of friendship is forged through many, many hardships.

They betray what little trust he had built in them. That’s on them.

c!Phil is aware how untrusting c!Techno is, and while c!Techno feels safe enough to give his all for c!Phil, he never exploits it to get ahead, which is something L'Manbergians felt okay with doing.

They take a book out of the playbook used on c!Techno, for c!Techno.

They went after yet another person who was close to him, using their power and influence to hold an execution under the guise of seeking justice. If c!Wilbur, at least pre-corruption arc, sent letters to his father, one would at least expect some of his old ideals of freedom and fairness to leak through into his friends, right? To see those c!Phil assumed would hold similar ideals immediately skew towards a darker, brutal side, particularly in threatening others to get what they wanted...Well, shit hit the fan.

c!Phil does not have that strong relationship with any former L’Manbergians, and despite there being potential for such, it didn't work out that way; instead, however, those characters manage to mistake his kindness for weakness. They take his preferred neutrality as a way to exploit him, to gain in such a way that he lost agency...

No more Mister Nice Dadza, and honestly, he’s justified in that notion.

They’ve lost his trust, time too short to have gained that strong link like c!Techno’s or c!Wilbur’s, and with it, came the inevitable association with Doomsday.

c!Phil knew c!Techno’s intentions from the beginning -- which had only wavered into dormancy because he had grown tired of fighting, understanding that the cycle he wishes to break is not worth his efforts -- so the agreement in participating is effortless. 

c!Dream was there too, of course, but in their mutual quest for eradication, it’s made canon that c!Techno and c!Phil hid away most of their arsenal, despite seeming overprepared. They have no loyalty to c!Dream; they’re smart enough to play along, however. He was a means to an end.

There’s no lies present in their relationship; c!Phil needed someone who didn’t try and pull wool over his eyes, and c!Techno let him see.

c!Techno needed someone who wouldn't stab him in the back, and c!Phil stayed true as his hidden sword.

Which is why, as the two joined forces, ideals aligning and power synergized, they didn’t think twice about nuking the nation to bedrock. Mutually agreeing that the system needs to die, they did what they could, and they succeeded.

How cool of them, tbh LMAO.

New L’Manberg tugged too hard at the sleeping tiger’s tail; they shouldn’t have expected it to roll over.

Their openness to each other was known.

There was no need for underhanded plays, for hidden betrayals, for undisclosed words.

Their loyalties were strong.

They were in sync.

In conclusion (maybe, maybe not...this shit is long holy heck)

😃☝🏾 I may hate this analysis in 30 minutes👉🏾😎👉🏾 Or I may make a part 2. Fuck it!

-- birb 2k21

And that’s what makes c!Phil an interesting character: He tends to be critiqued in reference to chatacters who have very well wronged him, have no affiliation to him or get associated to him through popular fanon. There's a lot to cover that I haven't (from Ghostbur to the whole Tommy 'dilemna') but overall I'm digging what I have now and if I ever get more energy, I'll continue!

c!Phil enthusiasts, I hope I did you proud LMAO. It's my first forray into this side of tumblr 👉🏾👈🏾 I'm a lurker.

c!Phil antis, you can either act respectful or go argue with a wall. I got experience dealing with antis on Tumblr; I am immune to BS.

Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed. Signing off!

- BIRB.

#dream smp #dsmp #philza #ph1lza #this one's for the c!phil enthusiasts hello hi ily all #I have spent the entire afternoon writing this while the power is out lmaoo #fandom leave my mans philza minecraft alone challenge #god i don't even know how long this is I'm so sorry #i let a little bit of my c!techno enthusiasm shine through too

[akkivee]

I doubt it'll happen but I am really curious, how would a division shuffle even work? I can't see any of the team members from different divisions having THAT much of a problem with each other that they'd split up, like I know Jiro is finding his own path rather than blindly following Ichiro and it's possible DH could break up (idk why I think they'd be the most likely, they just spell out angst and drama), but the rest?

lol if i'm honest, i think the cause of any division shuffling would be because of the final version of ramuda rather than any of the little cracks/potential fissures we see. maybe that ramuda takes advantage of those cracks?? bb with their mama drama, mtc i'm actually not too sure of, but their agendas are already wildly different, fp and all of their deep chuuoku traumas, mtr with honobono and maybe chuuoku scouting jakurai, dh with rei's everything lol, and bat i'm not too sure of either but i'd guess ramuda drama too; kuukou has his cycles so i could see a ramuda causing a rift in his team again

as for teams, that's literally my least favourite part about thinking about any division shuffling LOL like there's plenty of combinations but what's best for character growth???? and do we keep the traditional set up of leader-2gumi-3gumi???? (but like from a money standpoint, teams that play off of existing cross division relationships would be favourable lol but this ain't about that lol)

so i tried to think up divisions based on the traditional formula and hated every single second of it LOL they don't even look appealing bro lmao:

ichiro - rosho - rio: mostly based on rosho absolutely detesting that rei abandoned his children lol i would have preferred rosho with jiro but alas, they are both 2gumi 😔 idk what info ichiro has when it comes to chuuoku but rio and ichiro are both heading in the same direction, and rio i think should be a challenge to rei, what better person to get that going than with ichiro lol. and whatever answers they find can influence rosho eventually understanding rei lol

samatoki - jiro - dice: lol i really wanted samatoki with one of ichiro's siblings, let's get that ball rolling on samatoki/ichiro making up and better that jiro actually remembers nemu. the rest makes no sense, dice unfortuately was left over from me trying to place 3gumis on a team lol but uhhhhhh maybe samatoki could provide a different outlook for dice on family. they'd probably clash on their ideals on family since they come from very different places tho

ramuda - jyushi - rei: the two people i think would suffice as ramuda support squad 2.0 lol jyushi for obvious reasons, and rei similarly so, but also like. rei didn't have to save ramuda in the catch us if you can track but he did so.

jakurai - gentaro - hitoya: jakurai/gentaro parallels are the entire reason for this one lol like if jakurai is working with chuuoku to save yotsutsuji, who says that that's something that can't be applied to gentaro's bro?? let's also work towards hitojaku making up lol

sasara - juto - doppo: samatoki's old partners COMBINE lol!!!!!!! sasara would probably enjoy juto's crookedness the way he did with samatoki and rei lol but i'd imagine he'd hate feeling like a third wheel between juto and doppo, since i def put those two together as moral support for dear doppo lol but's fine, let sasara understand how cringe he is trying to flirt with rosho all the time and then bully juto about it LOL

kuukou - hifumi - saburo: what even is this team lol but i also wanted kuukou to be on team with one of ichiro's brothers and saburo, who is very closely aligned with how ichiro used to be in pre-tdd/tdd era, seemed like the best fit. saburo could likely benefit from having a good adult figure in his life but he doesn't really want one like the way ichiro did at that time, so kuukou could provide support to saburo like he did for ichiro. hifumi is a lot like jyushi so this managed to work out lol hifumi happened to be the last 2gumi leftover LOL but i think hifumi might find use in buddhist teachings of the mind

#vee got an ask #you thanked me but i feel like i should apologize division shuffling is a brainrot in its own class LOL #but there'd have to be some wild and intense hoops to go through in order to get to this kind of point #so i feel like 80% confident nothing will happen to the current teams and they'll work everything out together as they are lol #and like i don't want this to happen at all lol!!!!!!!!! #like yeah i want cross division healing to happen but i don't want the teams to split up!!!!!!!

[korra-the-red-lion]

Supergirl 6x4: Lost Souls.

Hey everyone, Korra here! Okay, this episode was pretty good, I thought! It was shorter than the last couple of episodes but I think it worked out better in some ways. SPOILERS  AHEAD.

Kara’s dad, Zor-el, is so whiny. I’m glad he wasn’t in the episode all that much because man, I am so over him at this point.

Lena and Brainy are seriously the best friendship pair in the show. They’re really funny, emotional, and just really work off of each other well. That Ghostbusters scene was absolutely brilliant.

The vision scene where M’gann sees all the souls going towards the Prime crystal thing was so well done. The music, the lightening, the overall camera work really added to the mood and made you feel what she was. Very well done.

Brainy eating Kara’s favourite donuts was so sad and touching. He’s missing her so much.

Lena working with the Superfriends, finally. Should have happened ages ago, but it was still nice to see them acknowledge that she is a member of the team now.

Chyler and Katie were amazing in the scenes they shared together this episode, to no one’s surprise. I loved every scene they had together.

I really liked the scene of M’gann chasing after the stolen soul. I don’t why, I just did, haha.

Brainy and Nia’s scenes were also so lovely this episode. I don’t think they’ve officially gotten back together yet, but I actually think it makes it even better that Brainy supports Nia 100% even without romantic ties to their relationship. I can’t wait for them to get back together, but the writers and Jesse and Nicole have done such a good job with this so far. I’m impressed.

Ah, the elephant in the room. Yet another Clois parallel. It’s even from this show. Lena isn’t willing to sacrifice Kara to save thousands. Kara isn’t willing to sacrifice Lena to save thousands. Clark isn’t willing to sacrifice Lois to save thousands. Hmm...but, Kara and Lena are just fRiEnDs, right?

All the talk of stopping Prime and his progenies reminded me so much of She-ra and the Princesses of Power. I’m not sure if this was intentional or not, but I can’t help but think it was. I mean hell, even the Phantoms had similar looks to Hordak and Prime. If that’s the case... I can’t even with the SG writer team sometimes.

Supergirl has a lot of similarities to SPOP and LoK if that’s the case. Warrior of Justice expected to save the world from increasing threats that only she is strong enough to fend off? Having a brilliant queer coded partner helping her with endless resources? Partner betrayed trust of hero over some extreme misunderstandings and insecurities? Well, we know how those two shows ended, huh? Here’s hoping.

Ooops, haven’t talked about Kara yet. Kara gave a classic Supergirl speech about Hope(tm) to her father because he was being a whiny loser. Glad Kara is still standing strong by her ideals.

Nyxly betraying Kara is just sad. There was a lot of potential for them to have a really great friendship and bond over things, but nope. I still had hope that Zor-el was a figment created by Nxyly too, but also nope.

Kara smashing the mirror was so great, as well as her slow-mo running from the explosion. I have to ask though, did she leave her dad behind as well??

Oh, I saw a lot of “why didn’t they just take Kara’s hairbrush?” circling around. Hair that has broken off doesn’t actually contain DNA. It would have to come directly from Kara’s scalp for it to contain the DNA. And since it’s been a vague amount of time since Kara has been sent to the PZ, any hair that had the potential to have any DNA probably has been lost by now. Not sure if the writing team even thought of this, but that’s my reasoning behind it at least.

The final scene between Alex and Lena was just great. This is what should have been happening last season, but oh well. I’m just glad we’re getting it.

Best part of the whole episode? No outside cast. No Lex, no William, no Andrea. I think this was the best thing from this episode, because it allowed us to focus on the core cast. Not the MAIN cast, but the CORE cast that holds the show together. I only missed Kelly this episode, but I also understood that it was more Alex/Lena centric with Brainy/Nia taking second important focus.

See you all in Midvale next week! I’m excited for it!

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