#goner 2012

[i-seeaspaceshipinthe-sky]

twenty one pilots + road metaphors

#twenty one pilots #twentyonepilots #twenty øne piløts #josh dun #tyler joseph #clancy #clancy era #next semester #chlorine #jumpsuit #goner 2012

[re-decorate]

you know what time it is

#it’s goner 2012 hours babey! #ramblings #ough

[brightnote]

All of the great Maria Hill moments in Secret Invasion

this bestie hug scene 

this scene where she realizes her demise is imminent because she just saw agent ross die turn into a skrull in front of her and knows she’s gonna be a goner no matter what but also the hair. 

this scene where she gets to explain the plot of the episode to the audience so we understand what is going on and why we should care while rocking this v-neck and gay stud earrings.

additional v-neck appreciation

this scene where she grabbed her arm and rocked the v-neck again and also has A+ hair.

this scene where we got a great shot of this hair again

this scene where she ate one piece of barely popped popcorn, confirming to us that she is a human and not a robot i guess also Nick lmao you can’t make popcorn just for yourself dude. also i just noticed that this is an extension of Maria’s red/white & blue color scheme here! 

this quick shot where she is smiling at Nick getting out of the SUV aka her house I assume since she is basically always getting in or out of SUVS???

this scene where she gets to leave her SUV house because she noticed a short person and was immediately like a short person in a tv show? that’s SUS! 

this scene where she walked outside, i loved this, she looks great outside walking, i would love more scenes where Maria walks outside alive.

this shot where her hair was fucking perfect 

this last moment of perfect hair before G’iah fucking wrecks it

this moment when she was like, how dare you be a short person, you better not mess up my hair in this poorly lit tunnel we are about to have a hairography fight in!!! 

this moment where she legit held her own for a moment in a poorly lit tunnel that was not that way just to hide stunt doubles against G’iah in this hairography fight... (Also apparently, just being a skrull G’iah has super strength so it’s amazing that Maria Hill didn’t die in this encounter, also why wouldn’t G’iah just kill her, she’s about to be fine with killing 2000 people in a bombing?) NGL I made fun of this scene a lot the camera work is horrible and it’s so awkward and it makes no sense. 

this scene where she sat the gayest way possible in A RUSSIAN DIVE BAR

then this scene where she changed to her only other article of clothing, a second gray hoodie like a mom in a 2012 yogurt commercial.

and finally, when Nick brought back those infrared glasses from space that he just happened to have like he knew they were gonna need them ahead of time and then acting like they are essential for some reason to this very dumb and terrible plan. But NGL they did look gay and cute as hell. 

I refuse to look at any screen caps further into Operation Glasses 

(( Also, I was just thinking about how even if she did survive being shot that dirty bomb radiation would have gotten her, right? Also, why did the dirty bombs not affect real Fury? Surprise another plot hole. ))

#special guest star cobie smulders #maria hill #secret invasion #secret invasion spoilers #secret invasion screen caps #marvel #mcu #marvel studios #cobie smulders #agent maria hill #aos #agents of s.h.i.e.l.d. #agents of shield #marvel cinematic universe #still cannot believe they fridged her #RIP maria hill #she was so wasted #we deserved more time with this haircut #what happened to all her gay clothes she brought to Russia? #so much potential #this girl was stolen from us #what a dumb show #her wardrobe was solid though ngl #lol did you think i would stop posting? #she just sits so gay though

[april-is]

April 12, 2024: A Small Psalm, Catherine Wing

A Small Psalm Catherine Wing

Sorrow be gone, be a goner, be forsooth un-sooth, make like a suit and beat it, vamoose from the heavy heavy, be out from under the night's crawlspace, call not for another stone, more weight more weight, be extinguished, extinguish, the dark, that which is deep and hollow, that which presses from all sides, that which squeezes your heart into an artichoke-heart jar and forbids it breathe, that which is measured by an unbalanced scale, banish the broken, the unfixable, the shattered, the cried-over, the cursed, the cursers, the curses— curse them, the stone from the stone fruit, let it be fruit, the pit from the pitted, the pock from the pocked, the rot from the rotten, tarry not at the door, jam not the door's jamb, don't look back, throw nothing over your shoulder, not a word, not a word's edge, vowel, consonant, but run out, run out like the end of a cold wind, end of season, and in me be replaced with a breath of light, a jack-o'-lantern, a flood lamp or fuse box, a simple match or I would even take a turn signal, traffic light, if it would beat beat and flash flood like the moon at high tide, let it, let it, let it flare like the firefly, let it spark and flash, kindle and smoke, let it twilight and sunlight, and sunlight and moonlight, and when it is done with its lighting let it fly, will'-o-the-wisp, to heaven.

--

Also: + you can’t be a star in the sky without holy fire, Frank X. Gaspar + Untitled [I closed the book and changed my life], Bruce Smith

Today in:

2023: How to Do Absolutely Nothing, Barbara Kingsolver 2022: Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you., Gabrielle Calvocoressi 2021: I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store, Eve L. Ewing 2020: Day Beginning with Seeing the International Space Station And a Full Moon Over the Gulf of Mexico and All its Invisible Fishes, Jane Hirshfield 2019: Flores Woman, Tracy K. Smith 2018: The Universe as Primal Scream, Tracy K. Smith 2017: Soul, David Ferry 2016: Turkeys, Galway Kinnell 2015: He Said Turn Here, Dean Young 2014: I Don’t Miss It, Tracy K. Smith 2013: Hotel Orpheus, Jason Myers 2012: Emily Dickinson’s To-Do List, Andrea Carlisle 2011: Now That I Am in Madrid and Can Think, Frank O’Hara 2010: The Impossible Marriage, Donald Hall 2009: The Rider, Naomi Shihab Nye 2008: from Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, John Berryman 2007: This Heavy Craft, P.K. Page 2006: Late Ripeness, Czeslaw Milosz 2005: A Martian Sends A Postcard Home, Craig Raine

#feast on your life #the way it’s night for many miles and then suddenly it's not #sorrow #joy #poem #catherine wing

[writergirl2011]

JB Week 2023: Day One

I wish I could participate in the fic-writing portion of J/B week this year, but I've got too much on my plate already!! (And, um, I never got around to finishing last year's J/B Week stuff...maybe someday.) ANYWAY!! I thought I'd answer the questions instead.

First question: How did you discover JB?

There I was, minding my business in 2012 when we got one of those free HBO preview weekends because season 2 of Game of Thrones was about to start. I'd heard a little bit about it though I couldn't remember where (later I'd realize it was from an old mutual's LiveJournal discussion about the book series). I decided to watch the first episode, thought it was pretty good...right up until the end. WTF?? The hot blond guy's screwing his sister and then throws a kid out a window? No thanks.

But for some reason, the world that had been created stuck with me. It had been quite interesting, I'd liked the Starks (especially little Arya), so I decided to pick up the first book. A week later, I'd picked up the rest of the series.

As much as I hated Jaime through two books, I was pretty much a goner by the end of his first POV chapter. He was a snarky asshole, and that has always been my kryptonite. And I'd always loved Brienne because she was made of everything awesome. While I figured out early on how she felt about him, it took me a while longer on the first read to figure out how he felt about her, but once he scrambled to his feet and took off with her, no questions asked, I knew.

#J/B Week 2023 #questions and answers #Jaime Lannister #Brienne of Tarth #jaime x brienne

[lavend-ler]

normaler since there's a resurgence 🩷💜💙

YYEESSS LET'S GO NORMALER!!!! I ship them very much <3

What made you ship it?

I'm taking u to a journey back to the 2012 and I just... I'm amazed how vividly I remember this

so it's 2012 and I just watched The Lorax, being enamoured by Once-ler and the fandom. scouring through the internet I saw many ships but once I saw Normaler I thought to myself "yeah....no, nope" and went abt my day. but damn didn't they just grab me, I couldn't stop thinking abt them. I remember laying in my bed and thinking "maybe it's actually a good idea?" but I still wasn't sure. and then I saw THIS fanart and I was like damn. u got me, they're in love, I was a fool not to believe it

2. What are your favorite things about the ship?

I'm so happy that there's a Normaler Resurgence cause Ill be damneD they're forever to me. I've loved them for so long and I will loved them even longer

god just the,,, absolute beautiful love story there could be. of Once-ler who thinks he shouldn't be loved, that the love has to be earned every time but who yearns for it so much. and for Norma who is content with the life she has but yearns for sth different, sth more and who never realized that someone like Once-ler could steal her heart like this

but they do, they fall in love slowly and steadily, starting as the closest friends and then realizing that their love is just beyond any words they ever needed. I think what I truly love abt Normaler is how Norma is for me a grounded yet spunky person, while Once-ler is a dreamer, yet careful with his actions

u see what I mean, they better each other. with Norma giving Once-ler the home and love he needs, along with the appreciation and steadiness. while Once-ler wants to make Norma's dreams soar away and wants to make her as happy as she can be. they simply become each other's home, the culprit of a tomorrow they never knew they needed. honestly I believe they both never knew they needed each other but when love found the it was the most beautiful duet

and then the delicious angst of them during the Greed-ler years just DAMN that's good. I love the angst and I love the drama. whether they'd be engaged or married at that time, I eat that shit up so hard. they both knew how to hurt each other way too well. Norma knew she couldn't stay with a man like this, one who becomes so selfish. he's not the starryeyed man she fell for

but then the wonderful reunion after the years. when they are older, wiser and Norma is ready to forgive Once-ler. the years might have passed but their love have never withered. and it's not that the only happiness they could have was in their youth, as their happy ending was when they were both old <3

also can I just say THE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE!!!! the sun/moon symbolism. the fact how close to canon they are. the fact that they can have a daughter and grandson in canon. I'm a goner, I swear

3. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

Norma is her own person and deserves her story too! and again, don't make them that toxic, they had disagreements but I believe they never abused one another. also anyone who thinks Normaler is too "vanilla" or that it's just a culprit for fangirls to project onto just......literally think to urself, why is any of this a bad thing

#ask #normaler #onceler #the lorax #THEYYY THEY I LOVE THEM #oh now I'm remembering all the good times of 2012......srsly my best year #also asks that make u listen to A Dustland Fairytale by The Killers #IS THERE STILL MAGIC IN THE MIDNIGHT SUNNN #OR DID U LEAVE IT BACK IN 61 #UEUEUEUEUE

[i-have-a-mouth-so-i-must-scream]

Assassin's Creed x John Wick Crossover

I'm on a fucking roll today. Okay, so:

Desmond Lives (that's a given) and the world is saved. Horray!

He has all his memories and POE-enhanced abilities.

He gets thrown back to the day he ran away from The Farm as a reward from Minerva. Assassins and Templars are still a thing but now both factions are in steady decline because of Isu Bullshit mucking up the past and future because of the Solar Flare messing up the POE and the Grand Temple that sent shockwaves from Desmond's sacrifice which completely alters the whole timeline.

He still likes to work as a bartender, cause he's good at it. Only now he also doubles as a bouncer, because he has a few issues due to instincts, some trauma and ptsd from his past to work through, that beating the stuffing out of rowdy assholes has become a wonderful outlet for. No one wants to cause trouble on his shift.

People start to talk about the teenage bartender with the sketchy past that beat the living daylights out of a brute of a tough guy harassing the staff and customers at the bar he worked at. Said brute of a tough guy was later found dead a few alleys over, inside the dumpster. (Eagle Vision tagged him red-gold, so very important. Very much needs to be dead asap.) They can't prove it's him, but they have a suspicion.

Turns out dead guy is- well, was in trouble with the Continental for doing business on Hotel grounds and had a hit out on his head. Somebody from the staff, happens to end up at the bar and hears about the rumors that their newest bartender was the one who did him in, sees said bartender in question and low and behold, Des is there being all sweet and charming the tips straight out of peoples wallets without a care in the world.

"No way... him? But he's so-?"

"Nice? Friendly? Looks like he couldn't hurt a fly? Yeah, I know. The guy you were looking for thought so too before he ended up tossed out on his rear. And then he ended up dead in a dumpster. Gary said he saw him follow after Des as soon as his shift ended. Thought the kid was a goner, but nope, came in the next day as fresh as a daisy."

So, the staff guy heads to work the next day and immediately lets Winston know about what he learned. Winton has a background check on Des to see if this is an up-and-coming mercenary and finds... nothing. This kid just appeared out of nowhere with the talent of a very skilled killer.

(The Assassins and Templars are either completely written off by most of the criminal underworld as fanatical cultists or are unheard of by a majority of the criminal population. They don't work with crazy cultists. It's just too much trouble.)

Winston, of course is very intrigued. Enough to give Des a chance and hire him to work at the Hotel bar. Talent like that should be nurtured, no?

So, Winston has Charon scout him out and offer him a business card saying if he's interested he could go work for them. And Desmond's boss and other fellow staff are all begging him to consider it because of the Continental's fame and prestige would mean he'd get better pay and even a better life other than serving drunks and rowdy frat kids in a hole in a wall his whole life. They like the kid, but they think he deserves better.

Desmond, meanwhile, thinks that the way the amount of people showing gold in his vision has been increasing since he started working there should have sent him running... But, his instincts have never led him astray before and they surely wouldn't now. So, he goes.

The premise of this whole idea is, Desmond goes back in time after the Solar Flare Fiasco of 2012, runs away to New York and ends up wrapped up in the John Wick universe, and proceeds to inadvertently turns the New York Continental and its associate businesses and partners into a modern-day Assassin Brotherhood without them or the High Table actually knowing it's an Assassin Brotherhood. (The Elder might know, but I'd think he's a Hidden One Sage allied with Minerva, whose glad her chosen has fulfilled his duty and is more than happy to let him have the Hotel.)

#another desmond lives au #because i will NEVER accept his death as canon #I was also rewatching John Wick 1-3 again cause I couldn't sleep #then i thought what if desmond worked at the continental in new york when he ran from the farm lol #winston and charon being his proud adopted dads #john would be his badass older brother who's obsessed with dogs #assassin's creed #john wick #desmond miles

[oh-three]

Secret Invasion S1E4:

Damn, these episodes are getting shorter and shorter.

The episode name is scary. Beloved. Talos, don't you dare do something stupid and die. G'iah's alive. Please....

YES. THE EXTREMIS THEORY WAS RIGHT. I KNEW IT.

Welcome back to the land of the living, G'iah.

[2012] Lmao Varra is too clever.

[2012] Are they seriously arguing in poem? That's actually genius.

SkRhodey my beloathed.

YOU ARE ASKING THIS WOMAN TO KILL HER HUSBAND. THE FUCK.

OH GOD, HE BUGGED ONE OF THEM.

Poor guy has to hear them talk about him.

Have you taken care of her, Gravik? Have you really?

Oh, good, she found her father. At least Gravik thinks she's dead for now.

He does have a pretty good plan, there. Until the President changes his mind and turns to Skrull genocide, too.

Damn, G'iah. That was cold.

Is Fury going to kill his wife...? My bet's on poison 'cause of that tea.

OUCH, THAT SPEECH.

Okay, the Varra and Priscilla thing really is tragic.

AHHH, THE WAY THE POEM JUST CAME BACK.

WHOA, OKAY.

HOLD UP.

Oh thank god, they both missed. Rip house.

That was fucking tense.

Lmao, home invasion. Well-deserved home invasion.

"There are Skrulls inside the US government." 🤣

Busted.

Damn, SkRhodey's got blackmail.

LIQUID LOCATION TRACKER. LMFAO. I KNEW HE DID SOMETHING TO THAT DRINK.

STOP MANIPULATING THE PRESIDENT, SKRHODEY.

This car caravan is intimidating af.

Where did Gravik get a helicopter????????

FURY, WHY WOULD YOU GO TOWARD THE SMOKE.

They really are set on the whole Americans vs Russians thing.

This is where Talos dies, isn't it...

please don't be true, please don't be true

Imagine the reward they'd get for saving the President, though.

"Take care of Talos." NO.

NO, DON'T TOUCH HIM.

TALOS, NO, DON'T TURN BACK.

He's a goner, isn't he? 😭

FUCK, THAT'S GRAVIK. OF COURSE IT IS.

NO.

NOOOOOOOOOO.

TALOS, GET UP.

UNDIE.

I..............my heart. is broken.

#and now the skrulls have been exposed rip #secret invasion #secret invasion spoilers #mcu

[bigfan-fanfic]

So who was your gay awakening? If your like me and can’t remember one in particular who are some people/characters you can safely point the finger at?

Okay. Some men that 2008-2014 me was Definitely Not Normal about. I only really realized my own gayness around 2014, so these are the guys it became clear to me that I was actually crushing really hard on but before I realized I liked men in That Way.

Thor/Chris Hemsworth (first appearance 2011) - mythology? love it. hunks? love em. sexy accents? yes please. Put em all together and I'm a goner. Totally in love with Thor from the word go, and Chris Hemsworth was so charming and handsome that I even watched that stupid Red Dawn remake for him.

Gwaine (first appearance 2010) - ahhh, a cute scruffy guy with a playful sense of humor? Yeeeeeee. I was never into Merlin or Arthur the way so many seemed to be, but Gwaine pushed all the buttons I didn't know I had.

Chrom (first appearance 2012) - himbo prince that's moral and loving and even if you play a male Robin, you get a really deep relationship with him that can still read as romantic even with his literal wife right there. I love himmmmmm and he was one of the last nails in the coffin of presumed straightness-until-proven-gay

Steve Rogers/Chris Evans (first appearance 2011) - Steve grew on me over time, mostly due to Chris Evans' charm and sincerity in the character. I think I'd like him as a character less if a different or less-skilled actor played him - I mean, you know, the last part of The First Avenger where Steve sacrifices himself and says goodbye to Peggy is the only MCU movie scene I genuinely cried at. It never occurred to me until later that I had a crush on him.

Prince Phillip (I first remember seeing Sleeping Beauty in 2008) - Okay, he's cute, sweet, funny... and he spends a good portion of the movie tied up, so... yeah.

Bucky Barnes/Sebastian Stan (2014) - Probably the final nail in my coffin. He's just so cute and hot that I'm still happy about him haha

Obi-Wan Kenobi/Ewan McGregor (first remember seeing Attack of the Clones in 2009-2010) - it was the sexy jedi mullet. He's sooooo pretty and his accent slips through his RP voice as Obi-Wan sometimes and it's yum.

Haru (was only able to watch all the episodes of atla when my family got netflix because we didn't get nick and I had to watch it all scattered at my grandmother's, so around 2009) - hehe, was anyone else really interested in Haru the way I was? Long hair, moral and cute in the right ways. Didn't love his mustache later but he's still a hottie.

August Booth (first appearance 2012) - Forget Hook, August was the bad boy that I fixated on from Once Upon a Time. Not really sure why, but I just liked him a whole lot more.

[marvelgirl772]

Someone Like You -- Loki Odinson

You never knew true happiness until you met the God of Mischief.

You never knew that life could have so much meaning in it until he was in it. 

You never knew how deserving of love you were until you met him.

May 4, 2012 - the day your life changed. That was the first time you had laid eyes on Loki. Granted, it wasn't in the greatest of circumstances, but you still met him. Little did you know that he would change your entire life. Loki had orchestrated the Battle of New York with the Chitauri against the Avengers. You had been recruited by Nick Fury to join the team. After your accident, you developed supernatural abilities, which came in handy during the fight. And the team was able to stop Loki. Afterward, Thor returned to Asgard with Loki. 

It wasn't until 5 years later you would run into Loki again. You found yourself at 177A Bleecker Street with Dr. Stephen Strange. The two of you had developed an odd friendship, but one that you were grateful for. 

"Y/N," Thor greeted with a smile, "What are you doing here?"

You returned his smile, walking toward him for a hug, "I could be asking you the same thing. Why are you on Earth?" 

"I am looking for Odin," Thor explained.

"And he is not on Asgard?" you inquired.

"Loki," Thor said, and you nodded in understanding. He then looked back at Stephen, "So, Earth has wizards now?" 

"The preferred term is Master of the Mystic Arts," Stephen responded.

"All right, wizard. Who are you? Why should I care? And why are you here, Y/N?" Thor continued.  

"My name is Dr. Stephen Strange, and we have some questions for you," Stephen said.

"We do?" you looked at him, confused. 

"Yes," Stephen nodded, "Take a seat. I keep a watchlist of individuals and beings from other realms that may be a threat to our world. Your adoptive brother, Loki, is one of those beings."

"He's a worthy inclusion," Thor agreed. 

"Then why bring him here?" Stephen demanded.

"Wait, Loki's here?" you questioned. 

Thor nodded toward you before answering, "We're looking for my father." 

"So, if I were to tell you where Odin was, all parties concerned would return to Asgard promptly?" Stephen asked. 

"Promptly," Thor assured.

"Great! Then I'll help you," Stephen concluded as you rolled your eyes. "He's in Norway."

Stephen opened a portal for Thor to enter Norway. Thor retrieved his umbrella, masked as his hammer. He turned to look at you, "Always nice to see you, Y/N. Oh, I suppose I'll need my brother back." 

"Right," Stephen responded, opening another portal on the ceiling only for Loki to fall through it screaming.

Loki layed on the ground, his fists clenched, "I have been falling for 30 minutes!" 

"Justifiably so," you crossed your arms.

The instant his green eyes met yours, you were a goner. 

"And who are you?" Loki huffed, standing up and fixing his clothing. 

"Y/N L/N," you responded.

"She kicked your ass back in New York. How can you not remember?" Thor chuckled. 

Loki grunted, "Right." 

"You can handle him from here?" Stephen checked in.

"Of course," Thor assured.

And then they were gone again, but not for long. Within days, Loki had returned to Earth.

"What are you doing here?" you inquired.

Loki raised his eyebrows, ignoring your question, "Y/N L/N."

"Yes?" you asked. 

"We need your help. Thor asked me to come to get you," Loki explained. 

"My help?" you laughed nervously, "What could I possibly help you with?" 

"Believe it or not, I'm not the worst of us siblings," Loki responded.  

"I find that very hard to believe," you stated. 

"Well, you'll have to see for yourself then," Loki argued. 

"And what makes you think I'd go anywhere with you?" you challenged. 

He shrugged, "You don't have to, but the fate of Asgard depends on it." 

"Don't try to guilt trip me into tagging along," you countered. 

"Are you always this insufferable?" Loki narrowed his eyes. 

"Only to those who try to invade my home," you answered, crossing your arms.  

"That was years ago," Loki defended. 

"And suddenly you've changed? I think Thor would've mentioned something," you responded. 

Loki rolled his eyes, "Can't you put your idiotic grudge to the side and just come with? We're wasting time." 

You sighed, letting your arms fall to your side, "Fine. Let's go." 

"Finally," Loki muttered. He held his hand out for you to take, but you only looked at it distrustfully. "I don't bite."

"And I still don't trust you," you argued, reluctantly grabbing his hand before you were surrounded by light before the Bifrost transported you. You found yourself unknowingly gripping Loki's hand tightly, something he noticed right away. By the time you landed on Sakaar, Loki was looking over at you. 

"Where are we?" you asked. 

"Sakaar," Loki grinned at you, "We're stealing a ship, and then heading to Asgard."

"You brought me to another planet to steal?" you hissed, shoving your finger in his chest. "I knew I shouldn't have trusted you."

"If we don't take it, then everyone on Asgard dies," Loki argued, "There's no other option."

"I didn't realize you were one to care about others," you countered. 

"Darling, you don't know anything about me," Loki smirked. 

"If we get caught, you forced me against my will," you stated.

Loki shrugged, "They won't believe you nor care to." 

"Can we just get this over with?" you asked, "I can't believe you brought me to steal something." 

"Get over yourself," Loki rolled his eyes, leading the way to sneak into the Grandmaster's castle to steal a ship. Upon entering it, Loki looked at you, "Don't touch anything."

"My distrust in you has skyrocketed after this," you argued. 

"Do you ever shut up?" he raised his voice. 

"No," you smirked you sat down, watching as Loki got the ship started quickly to get out of there, "You haven't mentioned what's exactly going on." 

"And yet, you came," Loki glanced over at you. 

"You mentioned something about siblings. I wasn't aware there were more than two of you," you noted.

"Welcome to the club," Loki grinned as he got it started, and set in the coordinates to get to Asgard quickly. "Apparently, we have a sister. Ragnorak is happening, and Thor mentioned needing help. We can't face Hela alone."

"Thor is literally the God of Thunder," you crossed your arms, "What do I have to offer?"

"Obviously something useful," Loki shrugged. 

"So, Hela...is she a god too or?" you inquired.

"Goddess of Death," Loki confirmed.

"Great," you muttered. 

Loki glanced over at you again, "Look, you won't have to do anything against Hela." 

Reluctantly, you met his eyes. You couldn't explain what feeling overcame you, but oddly enough, you found a sense of comfort in those green eyes. Your brain yelled at you not to trust a single thing he says or does, but you found yourself struggling against that. And not only was he someone with bad intentions, but he was also a stranger to you.

But Loki was right. After his grand entrance, you helped the Asgardian women and children onto the ship while protecting them from the resurrected Berserkers. You fought alongside the Asgardians and were surprised to find Loki doing the same thing. But the most surprising thing was when Loki grabbed your arm, pulling you out of the way so he could knock one of the Berserkers trying to attack you off the bridge.

"Thanks," you breathed out. Loki only nodded in response as the two of you resumed fighting.

Following the fight, Loki found you seated somewhere on the ship away from the others. You had a piece of cloth pressed against a deep wound on your arm. He walked over to you, kneeling in front of you, "Here, let me."

You eyed him wearily, but you allowed him to inspect the wound. You spoke up, "I was wrong about you."

Loki met your eyes before smiling, "What was that?"

You rolled your eyes, "Nice try, Loki." 

Loki seemed to have taken a protective role over you following the battle on Asgard. Never in a million years did you imagine that from the God of Mischief. And never in a billion years did you ever imagine that you would fall in love with him either. 

Loki would push you to stand behind him when trouble would be brewing. Loki was willing to sacrifice himself to protect you from Thanos. Loki never abandoned you during a fight. In fact, he was always by your side during a fight. Loki would always check on you to make sure you weren't injured afterward. Neither of you knew what clicked to make all of this start happening, but you were happy about it. 

Then one day, following the Battle in Wakanda, you ended up separated from Loki. As people started to disappear into dust because of Thanos' snap, Loki frantically looked for you. This was something he never pictured himself doing. Loki never even fathomed that he would care so much about anyone else as he always worried more about himself than others. 

"Y/N!" Loki shouted when he spotted you on your knees as another person turned into dust in your arms. "Y/N!" Your head snapped at his voice as you watched him run toward you. You stood up just as he reached you, his hands grabbing your face. He breathed out, "Are you alright?"

You nodded, staring into his eyes and finding yourself slowly getting lost in them, "Yeah. Are you?" 

He nodded, "I am now." 

You smiled softly before it fell, "We lost."

Loki shrugged, "That doesn't really matter right now." 

"Look at what's going on around us. How does it not matter?" you hissed quietly. 

"Because you're still here," Loki admitted, his face showing the conflict of him trying to tell you that. 

"I didn't know you had a sweet bone in your body," you teased. 

"I guess I just needed the right person to find it," he responded. 

A silence filled the air, and the chaos surrounding the two of you seemed to disappear as you stared into his green irises. Loki began to lean in first. Your heart raced, and your mind went blank. Then when his lips touch yours, all your worries disappeared. Your lips melted into one another as your hands wrapped around his wrists. 

"Y/N!" Thor shouted, "No! Not with Loki! I did not need to see that!"

You pulled away from Loki, laughing at your friend. But Loki smiled at you, not caring about anyone around the two of you. 

"Come on, guys! We have things to do," Thor continued. 

The kiss wasn't mentioned for several weeks as the world was trying to settle, and the team worked on trying to figure something out to reverse it. But that didn't last long as everyone went on to do their own thing and figure out how to live in this new world. Thor offered for you to return to New Asgard with him and Loki, but you declined at first. 

When you entered the Avenger's compound one evening after going out for a run, you were shocked to find Loki pacing in the living area. 

"Did you already get kicked out?" you asked, jokingly. 

Loki instantly smiled when he saw me, "It's a topic of discussion." 

You rolled your eyes, "Yeah? What did you do this time?"

"I think the list of things I haven't done would be shorter," he responded. 

"How long have you been here?" you inquired, keeping a safe amount of distance between the two of you. 

He shrugged, "I've just been waiting for you to return." 

"I've been gone most of the day," you noted.

"I know," he nodded. 

"You should've called me," you argued. "I would've come back sooner." 

"I didn't mind waiting," Loki said. 

You smiled softly at him before asking, "How's New Asgard?"

"It's nice," he responded, "But it's missing something."

You raised your eyebrows, "And you came here looking for that?"

"Yes," he admitted. 

"Are you going to elaborate?" you questioned. 

"It's you, Y/N," Loki shared. 

"Me?" you clarified.

"Yes," Loki took a step closer to you, "No matter what I do, Y/N, you are the only thing on my mind. I don't know what you did, or how this even happened. But all I want is you. Life doesn't feel right without you now. I've been waiting for someone like you my entire life.”

You stood there in shock by his confession. You struggled to get enough air in your lungs to continue breathing properly. You knew how you felt about Loki, but actually hearing him reciprocate it made everything seem so real. 

"But I'm not Asgardian," you smiled lightly, teasing. 

"Technically, neither am I," Loki chuckled. "Also, Thor hasn't been leaving his home so it may be beneficial for him too if you were there." 

"I'd have nowhere to stay," you challenged.

"I would ensure that you were taken care of, Y/N," Loki promised. 

"Let's say I agree to return with you," you stared into his eyes, "What does that make us?" 

He smiled at you, "I was hoping that you'd become my girlfriend. You know, I can't stop thinking about that kiss."

"Oh?" you beamed.

He rolled his eyes, "Yes."

"I haven't stopped thinking about it either," you smiled softly, "So, when do we leave?"

#loki odinson #loki laufeyson #loki x reader #loki imagine #loki x y/n #thor odison imagine #avengers imagines #marvel imagine #bucky barnes #tony stark #thor odinson #clint barton #steve rogers #bruce banner

[termiteterraceclub]

Termite Terrace Club - January 24th

1959 - Mouse-Placed Kitten - Dir. Robert McKimson

TV

2012 - The Looney Tunes Show Season 1: “The Shelf”

Merrie Melodies: “Chintzy”

Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote: “Goner with the Wind”

#looney tunes #looneytwt #wb #warner bros #bugs bunny

[i-seeaspaceshipinthe-sky]

Backslide | Holding On To You | Glowing Eyes

#you know what i mean *goner 2012 noises* #twenty one pilots #twentyonepilots #twenty øne piløts #josh dun #tyler joseph #clancy #clancy era #backslide #hoty #glowing eyes

[re-decorate]

if paladin strait ends with the goner 2012 hds sounds i swear to god you guys will never hear from me again

#ough #txt #twenty one pilots #this album has been so. #how are they doing this #we’re only 3 tracks in and i can’t take it anymore

[everysongineverykey]

i have this nagging feeling of the opposite, it feels like gaster’s appearances in undertale kind of set the stage for deltarune. i get the feeling gaster is much more involved in the happenings of deltarune than anyone expects. like the fact that the whole thing starts as a survey program, gaster is the first person you talk to in the ENTIRE game and it’s a whole big sequence that sort of throws you off when you’re thrust into the rest of the game and sort of end up forgetting what happened initially. if it weren’t for that entire opening character creation part i would also think gaster would mostly stay out of the major storyline but that desire for connection was important enough to come FIRST before anything else

oh absolutely! i believe that deltarune was created first and foremost as a bid for connection (or at least, it was a big reason), and that's why every character in the game has some sort of arc about reaching out and opening up to others- kris, susie, noelle, berdly to an extent, ralsei, probably even toriel next chapter, possibly papyrus as well... the game itself glows with the longing for connection. if i were to speculate (which i'm not really one to do unless i have reason to believe my predictions), i'd say that at some point in deltarune, probably near the end, there's going to be some sort of event where you try to complete the game, but something goes wrong- it doesn't let you win. it's nothing to do with gaster or ralsei or any one character stopping you from winning- the game itself just decides it doesn't want you to leave, doesn't want to let you go, and maybe gaster has to help you stop it and break free, thus learning to let go of the person he's been trying to contact for so long. i have no reason for believing this other than it would be SO cool and would fit with deltarune's themes of moving forward and getting through trauma and the past while forging new connections and friendships.

and i absolutely agree that his appearances in undertale are setting the stage for deltarune! that's one thing i just adore thinking about. like... "thanks for your feedback! be seeing you soon!" like the sound test room is of course an unused room that a ton of undertale fans likely still don't know about, so i doubt it'll get directly referenced in deltarune (like "hey, remember this?" kind of reference), but it'd be SO cool if gaster's theme at least played. god, i hope it does. it has to, right? we've got five chapters left, it can't just never show up!

also, there's obviously "the time that you will meet [suzy]... is fast approaching" added to undertale like a MONTH before dr chapter 1 released. and the clam guy in chapter 2 whose static sprite is that of goner clam girl's! i'm so excited!!! i really do get SO stoked when i think about how deltarune has been in toby fox's mind since 2012, before he started making undertale, and how all these years we thought gaster was just a half-baked mystery he threw into undertale to get theorists thinking, and that we'd never solve it, but now it turns out that we couldn't solve it because we really deliberately weren't meant to!!! there was a whole other game gaster's undertale shtick was setting up for that we had no way of knowing about, and now we get to play that game as it comes out, in real time... how lucky are we?!? i think it's debatable whether or not gaster'll actually show his face in deltarune, but i think some more dialogue from him, even other than his twitter monologues, is unavoidable.

#deltarune

[klaineficroulettechallenge-us]

By Kellyb321

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Blaine drove home from the Lima Bean basically on autopilot. He regurgitated the whole conversation with Sebastian time and again, unsure what wasn’t sitting well with him, but something was off. He was sure of it. His thoughts were all over the place, and he was amazed when he pulled into his subdivision and realized he didn’t remember a minute of the drive home. Hopefully, he hadn’t run down any little old ladies in crosswalks. Sheesh… What a day it had been. When Jeff stepped out from behind a shrub near the Anderson’s driveway, Blaine startled and nearly drove through the garage door.

“What the hell, man?” he hissed, window down and looking supremely windblown due to the drive home.

“Uh…you told me to meet you here?” Jeff replied, barely holding back the snicker at Blaine’s obviously frazzled state. “What’s going on with you? You look…not like yourself. The gel-met is all over the place, and you’re…snarky. Shit. You’ve been with Sebastian, haven’t you? That guy puts everyone in a mood,” Jeff surmised. 

“I was, but only to get back my watch. I left it there the last time I was at his house,” Blaine said absentmindedly. 

“Oh? You always take off items of—” 

“Don’t. Don’t even start with me, Sterling. I don’t even want to think about how epically I screwed up. I don’t know what I was thinking when I said I’d date him, let alone…anything more.” Blaine visibly shivered, feeling a little queasy when he thought about it. Those firsts that he’d given to Sebastian should have been Kurt’s, and now they had been essentially wasted on that unfaithful meerkat. It didn’t matter anyway. Kurt only thought of him as a friend. With a sigh, he grabbed the pocket watch from the front seat and stepped out of his car.

“I was just messing around, B. Don’t get so uptight, okay? What you do with your boyfr—”

“Oh, make no mistake, Jeff. I ‘wasn’t his boyfriend,’ ” Blaine explained, making little quotes with his fingers as he did. “We were never ‘ exclusive.’ He made sure to point that out,” Blaine sneered, getting more and more upset with himself by the minute.

“You didn’t, though…right? I mean…with him…with Sebastian. You didn’t…do that . Right?” Jeff asked hesitantly. He looked at Blaine from under his eyelashes and had the gall to look shy about the question.

“You’re my best friend—” Blaine began, but Jeff cut him off.

“Next to Kurt.” Jeff smiled and winked. 

Blaine paused, cheeks pinking up as he considered what to say next. Jeff was right, though. “Okay… Yes, next to Kurt.” He grinned. “If that had happened, you would have known about it. I’d have told you. But I’m so glad it never progressed to that point. I’ve always thought…” Blaine began but second-guessed himself. This arrangement with Kurt was new, and he hadn’t had any time at all to consider what to say to people and how much information to share.

“You always thought you’d save that for someone you love,” Jeff said quietly, giving his friend a knowing grin.

“Yes… Yeah,” Blaine said shyly. “That’s something that should be saved for…you know.” He shrugged. 

“Kurt?” Jeff asked innocently.

Blaine’s eyes instantly bugged out, and he gasped enough to nearly inhale one of his mom’s potted geraniums from the front porch. He thought he’d kept the depths of his feelings for Kurt pretty well under wraps, but apparently not.

“Oh, for goodness sake, B. I’ve known for a long time…probably as long as you’ve known. Nope. Probably longer than you’ve known, now that I think about it. The way you looked at him when you sang ‘Teenage Dream…’ Even  YOU didn’t know then, but I did. It was an epic love story in the making, believe me. I waited a long time for you to figure it out, and when he sang ‘Blackbird…’ Well, my man, you were a goner. Plain and simple, you fell head over heels, and anyone with eyes could tell. Except Kurt, apparently.” He shrugged.

“Yes, well, now that we’re dating, maybe I can convince him that I’m worthy of the boyfriend title?” Blaine said softly, tentatively, knowing that Jeff would absolutely understand the ruse, the dynamic of the situation, and he’d be there to advise Blaine on how to proceed…and win Kurt for real.

“Wait… Come again?” Jeff answered, eyes bright with happiness. “You are!? Freaking finally!!” Jeff yelled with a fist pump in the air.

“Well…it’s complicated. Come on inside, and I’ll fill you in, but you have to promise me, Jeff, that what I tell you stays between us, okay? Nobody can know the truth, or Kurt will not only be angry with me but he’ll be bombarded with a very infatuated David Karofsky, who wants nothing more than to call Kurt his own. You and I both know I can’t and won’t allow that to happen.”

Blaine opened the front door and led Jeff into the kitchen, where they grabbed something to drink and a bag of potato chips before heading up to Blaine’s room.

“Okay. So, wait…” Jeff said, picking up the conversation as if they’d never paused it. “Isn’t he the guy who bullied Kurt and threatened to kill him at McKinley??” 

“The very same, yes. But as it happens, he apologized, he’s gay, he’s changed schools, he’s infatuated with Kurt, he’s coming back to McKinley, and he wants Kurt. Kurt, on the other hand, is not okay with the idea but doesn’t want to hurt Dave because—let’s face it—he’s just too nice for his own good, and he thinks Dave is ‘fragile.’ And because he’s too nice to just be blunt and nip things neatly in the bud, when Karofsky asked Kurt to be not only his date to Prom this year but his boyfriend as well, Kurt told him he was going to Prom with me… because we’re dating . In short, he panicked and blurted out that we’re dating and that I’d already asked him to Prom to avoid going with Dave.” Blaine rolled his eyes at the craziness of the whole situation. 

Jeff stood at the foot of Blaine’s bed, gaping, unable to believe what his friend had just told him. “So…why don’t you just tell him how you feel, that you’d rather be dating him for real?” Jeff asked, truly clueless as to Blaine’s hesitance. The way Jeff figured, if Kurt’s first inclination was to say he was dating Blaine, perhaps there were feelings there? 

“Because…he has stressed so many times that I’m his best friend—JUST his best friend, and if that’s all I can have, then I’m keeping that, ya know? I don’t want to push and ruin our friendship. I don’t want to overwhelm him and ruin the good thing we have. But I’m hopeful that my good friend Jeff can help me out a little bit and show me how to woo one Kurt Hummel so that he WANTS to be my boyfriend for real.” Blaine grinned widely, his eyes sparkling and happy.

“Oh, so you think I can help, huh?” Jeff teased.

“You did land one devastatingly handsome Nicholas Duval, did you not?” 

“I did,” Jeff answered, his smile dazzling as he thought of his boyfriend of the past six months. 

“So…will you help me? I’m going to be the best damn fake boyfriend Kurt’s ever had, and he’s going to be so spoiled, so pampered, so enamored with his boyfriend that nobody else will ever measure up. He won’t want to end this fake relationship when it’s all said and done and maybe…just maybe…I can get the guy in the end.”

“I’m in, B! Operation Woo Kurt is in full force!” Jeff whooped, eyes wide and his smile wider. “Let’s do this!” With a fist bump and a man hug, they settled in to plan the attack.

—*—

When Blaine’s phone chimed with Kurt’s special ringtone, he realized the depth of his infatuation as his smile spread across his face. He dove over his bed and grabbed the phone, then took a deep breath, not wanting to sound too eager.

“Hey, you…” 

“Hi! I’m sorry I missed your call. I was elbow deep in calipers on a Ford F250 and…” Kurt began, but Blaine zoned out, thinking about Kurt: dirty Kurt, oil and engine grease and road grime Kurt, and Kurt subsequently getting clean and… “Blaine?” 

“Huh? I…I’m here. Yeah. Sorry. I was…” he began, but Kurt’s chuckle cut him off.

“I know. I’m sorry. Car stuff is probably boring to you.” 

“No! It’s not. I mean…you know I rebuilt that car with my dad and I… I’ve just been distracted lately,” Blaine explained, rolling his eyes at himself. When did he become a dithering schoolgirl?

“So, Dave stopped by the garage today,” Kurt said, clearly exasperated. Blaine perked up at that. Dave hadn’t really been on his radar since he’d switched schools and wasn’t up in Kurt’s personal space, but now that he was obviously after Kurt and heading back to McKinley, Blaine wasn’t so thrilled that he was hanging around more often.

“And? How did that go? I thought you told him—” 

“I DID! But, Blaine…ugh… He’s just…he doesn’t have friends at his new school, and he probably won’t have many friends when he comes back to McKinley. So for now, he has…me. And apparently, Sebastian, who was also at Scandals last night. Dave isn’t sure what all he said to him after half a dozen shots, but he’s been getting weird, cryptic texts from Sebastian all day. What exactly does ‘in cahoots’ mean, and can you be ‘out of cahoots’?” Kurt asked. 

Blaine’s brow furrowed, unsure where this was going, but it didn’t sound promising. He didn’t trust Sebastian, and even though the guy didn’t even consider them “boyfriends,” he clearly didn’t mind stirring the pot. In cahoots? Sebastian was up to something; Blaine just knew it! 

“Did you see the texts on his phone?” Blaine asked. And did Kurt detect a hint of unease in Blaine’s tone? Was he upset that Sebastian was already out at the bar, possibly picking up a new guy? His shoulders fell, and he let out a deep sigh.

“No. I was… Well, like I said, it was busy, and I was dirty, and my dad was kinda all up in my grill because Dave was there, like it was my fault… I didn’t want to act too interested, so I just kinda did the smile and nod thing and… Sorry. I’m babbling. I didn’t see what was on his phone, no. He just had this weird grin on his face and was going on and on about seeing me at school this week—” 

“THIS WEEK?” Blaine blurted out, eyes wide. He had hoped he’d have more time with just Kurt to figure out what they were before Dave came back. With a sigh, he decided there was no better time than the present to woo his best friend. “What are you doing tonight?” 

“Not sure. I was supposed to hang out with the girls, but Rachel bailed, Mercedes isn’t feeling 100 percent, and I don’t think that’s going to happen. Why? Did you want to hang out?” Kurt asked, the smile on his face radiating 1000 watts. He was glad Blaine couldn’t actually see him.

“Well, your boyfriend would like to officially start this…thing…and take you to dinner…if you’re amenable?” Blaine smiled, feeling his own cheeks turn pink.

“Oh?” Kurt teased. “Like…actually out to dinner? At a restaurant?” 

“Unless you don’t want—” 

“NO! I mean, yes! I want to. I just thought… I mean, I didn’t think you’d really…because it’s not…for real… We’re just pretending kinda, and I wasn’t sure… And I’m babbling again. I’m sorry,” Kurt said with a chuckle, his heart pounding madly in his chest. Dinner date with Blaine? Yes, please! His heart may not survive this ruse, but he was going to enjoy every minute of it while he could. Sebastian wasn’t getting Blaine back if Kurt Hummel had anything to say about it. “I think I’d like that. Where are we going? Breadstix?”

“Oh… Well, if you want to, we can certainly go there, but…” 

“I think it’d be a good idea. See and be seen. Everyone goes to Breadstix, so word will be out that Kurt Hummel had a date with Blaine Anderson before we even go to bed tonight!” Kurt chirped, excited at the prospect. “Oh, God, I mean… I didn’t mean…bed, like we’d be going to bed. I mean, of course, we will. Sleep. Not together or…” Kurt babbled, suddenly unable to string words together in his mortification.

Blaine just laughed at him. “I knew what you meant, Kurt. Don’t freak out. I’ll pick you up at 8:00?”

“I’ll be ready. And Blaine? Thank you for doing this. I know you weren’t really…enthusiastic about…lying…dating me and all that, but I do appreciate it.” 

“I think this is going to be good for both of us, Kurt. Just you wait and see!”

—*—

Blaine arrived at the Hummel home promptly at 8:00 p.m., red rose in hand and dressed to the nines. He took a deep breath before knocking on the door and nearly fell off the stoop when Burt answered the door without his trademark, easy-going grin.

“Blaine…” 

“M-Mister Hummel…” he stuttered, unsure about this “welcome” that was being offered.

“We’ve had this conversation, kid. It’s Burt. Is there something I should know about, Blaine?” Burt asked, eyes on the rose in Blaine’s hand. Oh, God, what had Kurt told him? Or not told him? What should he say? Thankfully, Kurt came to the rescue as he skipped down the stairs, and oh, Lord, was he a vision. Blaine may not make it through dinner without a bib to catch the drool.

“Dad!” he said, exasperated, and rolled his eyes. “Blaine and I are going—”

“Is this a date? Because you didn’t tell anyone you were dating. And everyone thought Blaine was dating that Sebastian guy,” Finn interrupted. “Rachel said she heard you and Blaine were dating. Why didn’t you tell anyone?” he asked, curious now.

“Maybe because it’s none of Rachel’s business? And who the heck told her anyway?” Kurt retorted, irritated that Rachel was spreading the word without Kurt’s consent or knowledge.

“She heard Blaine telling Sebastian at the Lima Bean this morning. She said they were bickering, and Sebastian was all smirky, and Blaine was upset—” 

“I wasn’t upset—”

“So, she was just eavesdropping and putting her nose in where it didn’t belong and then spreading rumors instead of keeping her mouth shut?” Kurt shot back. Blaine felt like he’d been slapped. Now, he was just a rumor? He was so confused. He thought Kurt wanted people to know they were “dating” so Dave would back off. Now, he felt like a dirty little secret. But then why were they going out to “see and be seen?” He was so confused. 

“Boys!” Carole called from the hallway. “Perhaps someone might allow Blaine to actually enter our home?” she said sweetly. “Hello, sweetheart. You look very handsome this evening,” she said as she tugged Blaine in for a hug. “Where are you boys headed?” Man, Blaine just loved Carole.

“The, uh…restaurant…Breadstix…” Blaine uttered, still unsure where he stood.

“And it’s just the two of you? For dinner? At a nice…okay. Well, reasonably suitable-for-a-date restaurant? Is this a date?” Burt asked. Kurt turned 87 shades of pink and hesitated just long enough for Blaine to become even more uncomfortable and Burt to get suspicious.

“Yes, Blaine is taking me on a date! Why are you interrogating me?” Kurt asked, looking down his nose.

“Is there a reason for an interrogation?” Finn asked, curious as well.

“You don’t even know what ‘interrogation’ means!” Kurt snapped, eyes wide and uncertain as to why Finn even gave a hoot. It wasn’t as if Kurt was ever on his radar anyway.

“Blaine and I…” Kurt began, but from the look on his face, Blaine could tell he wasn’t keen on lying to Burt or anyone else for that matter. He had to step in and make it right.

“May I just borrow Kurt for…just like…30 seconds? Please?” Blaine asked, eyes as bright as his charming smile. He took Kurt’s hand and pulled him down the hallway toward the guest restroom and turned the boy to look at him. “Kurt? Would you go to Prom with me?” 

“What? We already—” 

“Kurt!” Blaine hissed. “Answer the question. Would you go to McKinley’s Prom with me? I would like that very much,” he finished with a smile. Kurt was clearly confused.

“Of course, I will. Why are you asking me this?” 

“Because now you don’t have to lie to your dad. You can tell him I asked you to Prom and you accepted. Period. Now, can we get out there and get the Great Inquisition over with?” Blaine blinked at him several times, waiting for an answer.

“Yeah… Yes. Let’s get this show on the road,” Kurt said, unsure where they stood now. Blaine seemed exasperated, and Kurt wasn’t sure if it was the fact that he’d been ambushed the minute he walked in the door or if he was uptight about the “date” in general. They walked back down the hallway to three sets of waiting eyes and Finn with his hands on his hips.

“Sorry about that. Just needed a minute with Kurt,” Blaine smiled, charming them all as he always did.

“Dad, Blaine asked me to the Prom, and I accepted. We’re going out to dinner tonight at Breadstix, and yes, it’s a date,” Kurt said, sending Blaine a sweet little grin. Blaine returned it, and Kurt relaxed just a little bit.

Burt seemed satisfied with that explanation, and Carole did as well. Finn, on the other hand, still looked like they were planning a bank robbery, not dinner. Kurt just rolled his eyes at his stepbrother and took Blaine’s hand.

“Now, if you’ll excuse us, we have a reservation. See you later!” he said happily as he pulled Blaine out the door and down the front walkway to the driveway and the car that awaited them. Blaine held the door for Kurt, then walked around and got in the driver’s seat before waving back at Carole, who stood in the doorway.

“Be careful, guys!” Carole called. “Have fun!”

“We will!” Kurt called back.

Blaine backed out of the driveway and headed toward Breadstix.

“Thank you,” Kurt said, not looking at Blaine but at his lap instead. 

“For?” 

“For this…for all of it. Seriously. Not every friend would go to these lengths, and I appreciate it,” Kurt said sincerely. “You’re the best friend I’ve ever had, and I don’t know what I’d do without you in my life, Blaine.” 

Oh, God. There it was. The “f-word” again. Blaine resisted the urge to sigh long and loud and maybe even roll his eyes. Instead, he took a deep breath and glanced at Kurt.

“I’m doing this because you are my best friend. I truly enjoy your company. I don’t want you to have to fend off advances from Dave Karofsky if you can help it, and I just really want to hang out, go to Prom with you, and have fun. I think we can safely manage that, Kurt. Don’t you?” Blaine smiled. There. That was…friend-ly, wasn’t it? No pressure.

“It’s just…a lot. I know I’m a lot. It’s okay if you’re not comfortable, and at any time, you change your mind. You just let me know, okay? I’ll…I’ll find a way to just tell him no and let him down easy.” 

“It’s not a lot. It’s easy as can be, you and me, hanging out. There’s absolutely nothing difficult about that, Kurt. We’re just going to…” Blaine began, but then his mind went on a little journey of its own, flashing scenes at him fast as lightning, and he began to wonder. Exactly how were they going to convince people that they were dating and not just best friends as they’d always appeared? To really bring it home, to make people believe they were actually dating , they’d have to ramp it up. They needed to discuss this and figure out where their boundaries were.

“Blaine?” 

“Huh?”

“You paused mid-sentence and kinda…zoned out,” Kurt said, wondering if it had just dawned on Blaine how much this was going to change things.

“No. I’m good… We’re good. But I think we have a lot to talk about if we’re going to make this believable.”

Dinner would have been very nice if their server, Cassidy, hadn’t fallen over herself trying to hit on Blaine all evening. It was only made worse by the fact that it was a girl. A very cute girl. A very determined, cute girl, and Blaine, charming as ever, was not at all direct enough to make her back off. By the time their food arrived, she’d touched Blaine four times, batted her eyelashes at him, giggled at everything he’d said—including “I’ll have the ravioli…”—and Kurt was done with it. When she grabbed Blaine’s glass to go fetch him a refill, Kurt seized the opportunity.

“Whoa. Wha—” Blaine said, eyes wide as Kurt scooted out of his side of the booth and into Blaine’s side, snuggling up closely. He yanked his own plate over and sliced off a bite of his lasagna, then held it up to Blaine’s mouth just as Cassidy returned.

“You’ll love this… Wanna bite?” Kurt asked, his eyes dreamy as he watched Blaine open his mouth and taste the offered morsel.

“Mmm, yeah. That’s…that’s really good,” Blaine said, looking at Kurt strangely as Cassidy hovered just around the corner where Blaine couldn’t see her. Kurt certainly could, though.

“Oh, you have a little…um…” Kurt said shyly, leaning in to wipe his finger over a little speck of sauce on Blaine’s lip. “I thought you’d enjoy that,” he said, voice low as he leaned in and kissed Blaine’s cheek.

Blaine almost slid off the seat, unsure what had brought that on, and he barely resisted the urge to scan the restaurant to see who was watching. Was Dave there? Was Kurt trying to make a point? One thing was certain, he didn’t mind that little peck on the cheek at all.

“Enjoyed that… Yes… Yeah…” Blaine said dreamily, unsure he could form words at the moment.

“Here,” Cassidy said, thumping Blaine’s glass back on the table as she gave Kurt the nastiest glare, just out of Blaine’s line of vision. Kurt returned a sweet smile and batted his eyelashes at her. Take that, little girl!

“You…” Blaine said, still a little baffled as he touched his cheek with his fingertips.

“Was that too much?” Kurt asked, genuinely concerned that he’d overstepped and Blaine wasn’t okay with it.

“NO! I mean…not too much. You can…if you want. I just wasn’t expecting it; that’s all. Took me a little bit by surprise but…who doesn’t want dessert in the middle of their meal?” he smiled and winked, and Kurt…melted.

This arrangement might just kill him. What had he started, and would he be able to finish it without a broken heart?  _*_

Sebastian barely resisted the urge to grimace as he read his text messages. 

Hamhock: Looks like your boy is out with my boy for dinner.

Sebastian: And you just happened to be there as well? Or were you strategically placed, watching? Then following?

Hamhock: Happened to be driving by Kurt’s place when I saw them leave together. Breadstix is on my way home, so…yeah.

Sebastian: BREADSTIX?? Why in God’s name would they go THERE?? 

Hamhock: It’s close. Everyone goes there. It’s not cheap but not expensive either. Who knows? Still think Blaine was cheating on you with Kurt while you guys were going out? 

Sebastian: Don’t care. What I want is the last piece of the puzzle that I had nearly completed… before he gives it up to Gayface. I was well on my way before Blaine decided to drop by unannounced.

Hamhock: Keep it in your pants and you won’t have to worry about that kinda crap.

Sebastian: I assure you, keeping it in my pants is nowhere near as fun as letting it out to play. One day, maybe, you’ll figure that out, too.

Hamhock: Yeah. Well, you could be that much further with Blaine if you’d just kept anyone else out of the equation. And as long as Blaine was dating YOU, Kurt thought he wasn’t an option for HIM. Now, look where we are.

Sebastian: Are you here to question my sexcapades or win over Hummel? You want something. I want something. Those somethings apparently want each other, so it’s going to take both of us working together to get what WE want.

Sebastian: Well???

Hamhock: Yeah. I’m in.

Sebastian: Good. Meet you Monday at the Lima Bean to strategize. 3:00 p.m. Be on time.

Hamhock: It’s my first day back at McKinley. School’s not out until 2:50. I’ll be there right after.

Hamhock: They’re leaving the restaurant now.

Sebastian: OMG! You’re still there!? 

Hamhock: Figured I was already here, may as well see it through.

Sebastian: Oh, Dave… You’ve got it bad. That, or you’re a deranged stalker…which kinda creeps even ME out a little.

Hamhock: I’m NOT a stalker. I just like knowing where Kurt is and what he’s doing. And who he’s doing it with.

Sebastian: He’d better not be doing IT with anyone, especially not Blaine. That cherry is MY dessert and nobody else’s.

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https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14074920/2/The-Prom-Us

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The Magnus Archives 4- Page Turner

I think it's been a week since the last one of these. That is mostly because I was preparing for the season 2 premiere of my own show, Small Victories, and that took up quite a bit of time, wouldn't you know it.

But now I'm back and ready to bite into a new (to me), delightful, and hopefully scary episode of TMA.

00:00- Skipping the ads

00:30- I lied, I actually am listening to this ad for an actual play podcast. I want to, eventually, produce an actual ply podcast because people get a heck of a kick out of it, I have friends who love D&D and I think it'd be fun to make a show they'd really enjoy, but I don't really "get it" so I'm looking for ones to listen to. Recommend any if you have them.

01:21- Oh, we just jumped right in. Usually there are 3 minutes of ads.

01:39- I love an orchestral score. It sounds so polished. I just love scores.

02:00- I think in the winter of 2012 I was studying for the FCATS (a deep cut for all you folks who aren't from Florida)

03:14- I think, as a rule, all weird things should happen to actors because I feel they are more equipped to handle the strange than Paul the accountant from Danville, IL, you know what I mean?

04:18- Oh, it's bound in human skin. Calling it!

05:18- All Latin? I bet he wished he joined the priest hood (or was a Classics major).

05:55- Oh, buddy boy there are plenty of people who buy books with no intention of reading them.

06:47- Oh no! He sounds like me!

08:11- Oh, he's a Shakespeare boy. I wonder which role he was.

12:08- Okay, I'm genuinely curious as to what exactly is the books deal. They've got me. A magical/cursed book is what really scratches me. Maybe it's because I know that I ~as a writer~ would probably get pulled in the same way.

13:06- A cursed book that pushes you to madness feels perfectly Grecian. Or at least a little Arthurian.

16:30- I don't know if it's because I'm actually quite tired, but the narration is so soothing. I feel like I'm about to flutter off to dream land. This would be great for bedtime stories (excluding, of course, the vague atmosphere of eeking horror)

21:55- Don't answer the door!

22:00- NEVER ANSWER THE DOOR!

22:15- Oh, he's a goner.

22:23- Okay, so personal hygiene isn't high on the list, but that's not necessarily terrifying.

22:52- Yeah, sell that book. Just sell it and mind your business like that bloke with he coffin in his apartment. Get rid of it and mind your business.

25:04- Woah, this feels way longer than the other episodes. I think the extra time does the stories well.

25:33- I wonder what they used to give the underscoring that spooky wind tone. Does anyone know?

26:03- Light that poppet on fire! Get rid of it!

27:02- Honestly, I kind of love Johnathan the pissed off archivist. You pissed him off Gertrude! Prepare for his wrath!

28:51- I feel like Jared will make him self known again further along.

29:00- Okay, I am proper curious about how these things all run together and also if the creators knew beforehand how this was going to go or if it was more organic.

I think "Do Not Open" is still my favorite one out of the bunch so far. I think that scenario was much more chilling to me than the others, but I will say this piqued my curiosity which is a fun time.

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