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doublel27 · 2 years
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I rewatched S03E04 while trying to survive the draught, and was wondering whether Tarlos had a really detailed discussion about their financial situation since they were planning to find a new house to live in. Money is always a sensitive issue, and knowing both TK and Carlos, they might not want to go in depth about it, hence the 2k21 loft blowout. Would love your take regarding Tarlos and money, whether it’s a day to day thing or big spending thing?
Ooh, 3x04 is a great episode! I love it so much. I hope you don’t mind how long it’s taken me to answer this question, but I had to do some prep for this one and some writing on this one! But I wanted to get the best of my thoughts.  I'm assuming they had to have some level of conversation about their finances when they were looking for a new place but I don't know how in depth they got into that conversation. The truth is we don’t know too much about either of their finances, so I’m going to go with what we DO know and then mostly my speculation based on what we know about them.
This got long, so my rambling are under the cut. 
TL:DR - I’m sure they talked about finances on a surface level: their salary differential, probably some of their day to day stuff and some big spending things, but I don’t think they got to the in depth beliefs and feelings that live underneath money and if you don’t get to that stage, well, you hit issues like we saw.  
First, the salaries/pay grids for APD and AEMS are available online, so we do know approximately what they could be making. There are variables, like how long have they been in service and what level of certificates do they have etc, but all things considered, with my research, Carlos is probably making between $20,000-$30,000 more a year than TK is. That’s a HUGE difference. So, Carlos has a better ability to pay bills, including credit cards, and to save money. Money is probably also less of a worry for him in general. Add to that, while Carlos likely could have debt like student loans that I doubt TK has, the reality is TK is an addict and we have, courtesy of 3.08 seen the level of awful that his addiction had spiraled out to before he was in recovery. One of the major problems that face addicts is often a ruination of their finances as their tolerance grows and the amount of the drug they need to take to get high increases. There is a very good chance there was a point where TK’s parents cut him off from money and loans. I think they’ve bailed him out before, covering credit cards and the like, but he likely didn’t have any savings, and he was living in New York City, which is the most expensive city in the US for cost of living. We also have no idea what happened to that ring he bought for Alex. While TK has been in Austin, he did live with Owen, we don’t know what the state of their arrangement was, but there was a chance to recover financially, but it takes years for your credit to improve. 
Additionally, while I am typically not one to diagnose disabilities from my couch, but as an adult living with ADHD, TK reminds me a lot of myself. ADHD affects executive functioning, which is your ability to manage complex systems, be organized, start projects, managed projects, complete them. What this means is that, for me, and other adults living with ADHD things like staying on top of bills and how much money is in your bank account and the like. I have done more damage to my credit score through ADHD related reasons than not having the money. It’s taken me several years to get myself together and recover. And the amount of shame that comes from that and not being able to adult correctly, which is a common issue with ADHD,  So, chances are really good, that money is already a really sensitive subject for TK for a variety of reasons and probably a non-issue for Carlos in a lot of ways, because he very clearly is a control freak with systems, and he has likely handled his money well for years.
So, this would lead us into the financial background for a finances conversation. Then we add the layer of the relationship history for having a finances conversation. We know TK’s big, serious relationship of his adult life pre-Carlos was Alex. What we know about that is also limited, but they weren’t living together. There’s a chance they never had a serious discussion about finances. or nothing beyond what TK could or couldn’t afford, and based on the dinner and the ring...I don’t know how honest about that TK was either. We know even less about Carlos’s prior dating history, but hints suggest there wasn’t anything very serious before TK. All we really have on his dating history is Michelle saying “doesn’t it always get weird” after he says things got weird with TK. Carlos insists it doesn’t always get weird, but it’s his defensive, grumpy voice. So, I assume it does. Also, Carlos kept his life very compartmentalized. We know he never introduced anyone else to his parents, or if he did, they were not introduced as his boyfriend and they didn’t take it well, hence his “I knew you’d feel that way and I didn’t want that.” There’s also so long you can be with a person, seriously whose parents live in the same general area and not meet them. Carlos struggled so much to tell TK why he wouldn’t introduce him as his boyfriend, that I doubt he’s ever said that.  So, we have a very likely chance that this is the first time either of them are discussing finances this deeply with a partner, which leaves a lot of room for missteps and miscommunication. You’re inevitably better at these things when you’ve done it before.  Then we get to their communication styles, which I have discussed at length before. While TK would want to talk about the future, he struggles with discussing his past. I think there’d be a lot of shame around how bad his finances are and why. On top of that, Carlos likes to avoid uncomfortable conversations. If TK is upset or unhappy, he often tries to soothe, and he doesn’t deal with his own feelings. It’s also likely that he wouldn’t understand WHY TK has such feelings about his own finances.  So, back to your ask, dear sweet nonny who doesn’t mind me nattering on I hope: I’m sure they talked about what they could afford when they were looking for a place to rent and came up with a way that made sense with their variety of salaries. I’m sure they’ve even talked about how to make a joint budget about how to pay for rent and utilities and the like, when they were considering buying a house with a mortgage, more than they would have when they were just renting. I’m sure they talked about TK’s credit and why the bank wouldn’t give them a mortgage after they were rejected. I’m very surprised that they even went up for the mortgage without discussing credit scores, but maybe they looked at that and realized it wasn’t feasible.  But I don’t know that they talked about the guilt and shame that followed TK in being the one that ruined the chance at the loft, and his continued issues with how . And I don’t think that they talked about why it was important that TK feel like he was on at least somewhat even footing with Carlos, even when he wasn’t, because that money imbalance can feel like a power imbalance. When TK calls it a power move, I’m certain that it’s tied to his feelings that Carlos is on a different level of financial security. 
There is also a level of resentment that can develop between partners when one is more able to carry the weight financially than the other. There’s a chance, and this is conjecture, that Alex made TK feel guilty because of the level of dates he would initiate or gifts. This would give TK a reason to lean even deeper into the power move issue. The things that happen in previous relationships can trigger you in your current one, even if you know for a fact your current partner is nothing like the past one.  Carlos had no business making a huge financial decision like buying a house and putting TK’s name on the mortgage without saying anything, but they clearly didn’t have any conversations about how damaging the whole experience would be to TK or didn’t talk about finances enough for Carlos to even begin to think about the gravity and the horror that could spring up in a partner based on what he did. Like Carlos had a “I can afford it and this is where he wants do live, so I’m gonna do this” with nary a thought to what it means to be handed a financial responsibility like that without warning. Carlos, who as anxiety about a lot of things in his life, doesn’t have a deep anxiety around money. I would like to believe they have had a deeper discussion in the deleted scenes  and continued post what we saw in 3x04, to understand why the loft was such a sticking point and I hope they’ve continued in the wake of the fact that TK briefly worked for Paragon, as private EMS services pay even less and have way worse benefits than AEMS, and then he has whatever hospital bills from the last stint in the hospital with what was likely less insurance, and how to tackle their lives moving forward in the wake of those pieces. 
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swimmingback · 1 year
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this is awesome
time to talk about these songs bcoz they are perfect and awesomw
triptych was my april era whence i was consuming an exclusive mix of samia hippo campus and bruce springsteen yes i absolute started looping this bc of a fanfic but i am honest with myself about my past and history. make a predator of me ill be good 2 uuu. (april)
i listen to boys so much my friends knew about it which is monumental bc i don’t perceive myself being perceived. ultimate screaming out the bus window song. every day for about 3 months i would walk out of physics at 8:45 am holding back tears to work clock in sit in my comfy beloved desk chair put this song on loop and transcribe band music for 2 periods forget to clock out and run to accounting. (january-april)
i let glory loop at work over the summer very excellent song but not necessarily favr from the album (august-september)
if any song was going to rival boys it’s this song. my friends were so fucking tired of it. this song and boys were the exact same to me served the same exact purpose except this dropped a month after finding omar apollo and oh cool he’s my guy of the year. nice. so good. (february-march)
going to be sentimental about the gold i have a playlist of a bunch of phoebe features but nothing beats this it’s just so. song. it got my best friend into phoebe it was onestly a late 2021 song but proof of how good it is is that it carried over. kiss kiss only fond/slightly yearning memories (september 2021 onward)
stayaway was the first song of my yet to cease muna phase (aside from silk which was quite literally song of 2k21.) naomi mcphereson the production god that you are. very much a listen at summer job era song (august-october)
DON’T GO PUTTING WISHES this is the best song ever. i showed it to my mom in the car and then i cried about that that night. what more can i say (august onward) one day i will have this
neil young on high adore this song so much i published a shitty guitar tab for it i have been passionate about this song so so long and so you’d think i’d have gotten into the rest of the ophelias stuff but i never really have... :( but i can’t understate how much i love this song very phoebe the gold era too one day i will learn the guitar picking it’s julien doing harmonies in the way she does best and god the strings on this thing (august 2021 onward)
ode was just my silly indie pop girl era much fun but that lil intro part is sooooo doobly doo del water gap is liteally the definition of pop princess (may)
taken same era as stayaway except it was about a crush i had exactly a year before don’t worry i got better 
THIRSTIER. yueah.
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anordinarywriter · 2 years
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How to write Cyberpunk pt1: Ads
I'm creating my own Cyberpunk story, and I would like to share with you some of the things I discovered along the way. This will be about how to create ads in your Cyberpunk setting.
Ads have been around for a long time but exploded during WW2. This post isn't about the history of ads, so I won't discuss how ads have changed over time. However, it's still good to remember how things changed when creating a story set in the future.
Ads used to be 1 minute long, then thirty seconds, and now there are five-second ads. How long would ads be in the future? Is it possible to see 1-second ads? With ads being so short, it's easy to put them in almost anything. Do you have a character that likes to play video games? Put ads in their loading screens like NBA 2K (https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-10-19-nba-2k21-adds-unskippable-ads-to-loading-screens)
Do you have a character that needs to use their computer and open some files? Why not throw a few ads in there? (https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979251/microsoft-file-explorer-ads-windows-11-testing)
How about trying to watch a movie and are being blasted with ads in the middle of the movie? (https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D54P00007wqoW2SAI/why-i-am-seeing-ads-in-the-middle-of-rent-movie)
In a cyberpunk setting, you can put an ad almost anywhere, and it won't seem out of place. If this is already happening in the real world, it won't be weird to see it cranked up to eleven in a fictional world.
Let's not forget about targeting advertising. Your information is being bought and sold to thousands of companies worldwide, whether you like it or not. The companies that buy your information create ads based on who you are and then show you that ad. It has already gotten to the point where corporations already know if someone is pregnant. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/?sh=7ade582a6668)
Again, let's crank this all the way up to eleven and make ads that know everything about your character, just to sell them a lawn mower or something. "We know you haven't mowed your lawn within two months; if your lawn mower is broken, you should buy this brand new one, which works way better and faster than your old one."
Let's not forget advertising is more than just ads appearing in everything and are really personal; they're also subliminal. They don't scream at you to buy their stuff; they just stand in the background, so you know they exist. It's a bit harder to create subliminal advertising in a written work since the whole point of subliminal advertising is that it's not really at the forefront.
Creating subliminal advertising is a bit easier in comics, graphic novels, or other forms of storytelling that rely on pictures. All you have to do is create a corporation and just plaster its logo on every other page.
If your creating a written story but still want to emphasise subliminal advertising, creating a corporation that just happens to be around every corner to where your character is at is one way to get your point across.
Ads are a part of life, and in the future, where corporations are left unchecked, I can only imagine the type of ads we can expect to see. Have fun with it; if there's a way for a corporation to make money, an ad will appear.
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trspencermd · 3 months
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Happy Friday All! It's almost that time to bring in a NEW YEAR! I can’t believe that we have made it through an entire year of living and the New Year is approaching! This past year has been an interesting year and it has truly been a pleasure and privilege to be the back and foreground for so many amazing and fun-filled events. Today’s Friday Fidelity Mix is a set that I performed for Dupont Underground ~ Disco Night! I appreciate all of the support and encouragement you have provided and I close this year out with this mix! Please EnJOY! DJ Suspence
Here is a Link to the Disco: https://www.mixcloud.com/tyronespencer96/house-of-disco/
Here is the TrackList:
1. Life Is A Dancefloor (Club Mix) ~~~ The Shapeshifters, Kimberly Davis
2. The Greatest Dancer ~~~ Sister Sledge
3. Dancin' ~~~ Peter Brown
4. Dance Dance (Nudisco Clubmix) ~~~ Block & Crown, Culum Frea
5. Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) ~~~ Chic
6. Boogie Wonderland (Dj ''S'' Rework) ~~~ Earth Wind & Fire With The Emotions
7. Boogie Oogie Oogie (Extended Rework House Edit) ~~~ A Taste of Honey
8. Boogie Oogie Oogie (Digital Visions Re-Edit) ~~~ Taste of Honey
9. Fly Robin Fly (Maxi Extended Rework Lost Temple Dub Edit) ~~~ Silver Convention
10. Funkytown (Original Boosted Extended Mix) ~~~ Lipps Inc.
11. Heart Of Glass (Oliver & Thee Mike B Remix) ~~~ Blondie
12. I Want Your Love (DJOK Extended Mastercut Remix) ~~~ Chic
13. Take Your Time (Do It Right) (Solidisco Remix) ~~~ S.O.S Band
14. I Love Music (Joey Negro Sweet Music Mix) ~~~ The OJays
15. Take Your Time (Do It Right) [Professor LaCroix Re-Edit] ~~~ SOS Band
16. Love Train (Dacyr VDJ Remix) ~~~ The OJays
17. Love Hangover - Almighty Mix ~~~ Diana Ross
18. I Need Somebody Tonight (Joey Negro Zone Mix) [feat. Thelma Houston] ~~~ Sessomatto & Thelma Houston
19. Bad Girls - Sonic Boolteg Remix ~~~ Donna Summer
20. Bad Girls - BSB Remix ~~~ Donna Summer
21. Do Ya Think I'm Sexy (Extended Rework A Djok! Special 12 Inch Club Remix) ~~~ Rod Stewart
22. Stayin Alive (Albina Mango Club Remix) ~~~ Bee Gees
23. Love Hangover (Micky More & Andy Tee Classic Disco Blend) ~~~ Joey Negro, Micky More, Andy Tee
24. About Damn Time (Purple Disco Machine Extended Remix) ~~~ Lizzo
25. Stomp (DJ S Bootleg Extended Dance Re-Mix) ~~~ Brothers Johnson
26. Good Times (2K21 by Marco Fratty & Marco Flash Remix) ~~~ Sister Sledge
27. You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine (Kenny Summit, Frankie Knuckles & Eric Kupper's Unreleased Anthem) ~~~ Lou Rawls
28. Dancing Queen (Love To Infinity Radio Mix) ~~~ Abba
29. YMCA (MacDoctor MV Remix) ~~~ Village People
30. Car Wash (Digital Visions Re-Edit) ~~~ Rose Royce
31. Best Of My Love ~~~ The Emotions
32. Disco Inferno (Dj S Bootleg Remix) ~~~ Trammps, L. Green, R. Kersey
33. Fantastic Voyage (Original 12 Disco Mix) ~~~ Lakeside
34. I Feel Love (Masters At Work 86th St Mix) ~~~ Donna Summer
35. Hot Stuff [Frankie Knuckles & Eric Kupper As Directors Cut Signature Mix] ~~~ Donna Summer
36. The Hustle (Maxi Extended Rework House Edit) ~~~ Van McCoy
37. Le Freak (DFP Remix - BPs Mixable Cut) ~~~ Chic
38. Love To Love You, Baby (Wen!nings Dance Mix) ~~~ Donna Summer
39. You Should Be Dancing (Extended Rework House Remix) ~~~ Bee Gees
40. Stayin' Alive ~~~ Bee Gees
41. Cuff It (Rightside Mark Di Meo Remix) ~~~ Beyoncé
42. Mary J. Blige Vs Doctor Love (Original Mix) ~~~ Mary J Blidge
43. The Boss Feat. Azumi Takahashi (Michele Chiavarini Remix) ~~~ Namy
44. Its Raining Men ~~~ The Weather Girls
45. You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (Michael Gray Remix) ~~~ Sylvester, Michael Gray
46. Copacabana (Maxi Extended Rework A Pied Piper Disco Mix Edit) ~~~ Barry Manilow
47. I Will Survive ~~~ Gloria Gaynor, Freddie Perren, Dino Fekaris
48. Im Every Woman (Disco Purrfection Version) ~~~ Chaka Khan
49. Ain't No Stopping Us Now ~~~ Samir Maslo
50. Love To Love You, Baby (Wen!nings Dance Mix) ~~~ Donna Summer
51. Get Off (Digital Visions Re-Edit) ~~~ Foxy
52. Upside Down (Almighty Anthem Mix) ~~~ Diana Ross
53. We Are Family ~~~ Sister Sledge
54. DNA - Karizma Dub ~~~ Kendrick Lamar
Looking Forward to seeing YOU in 2024!
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1000-directions · 2 years
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good stuff 12-24-21
i woke up early enough to get AVOCADO TOAST as well as two bagels to get me through the holiday woohoo woohoo
i went to my sister’s today and hung out with my niece and nephew. he has started saying aunt stephanie 😭 at least that’s what my sister said he was saying lol, it was unintelligible to me 🤷🏻‍♀️
and then i went to my friend’s because i am checking in on her cat while she’s out of town for christmas. he is historically not the friendliest cat, but he’s used to me now and we’re buds
and on the way home, i stopped at wawa my beloved for some mac and cheese and mashed potatoes. omg heaven
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terrainofheartfelt · 2 years
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A Dair Moodboard, Christmas in Paris Edition
✨for @mysteriesofloves and her fic write this down✨
sources: (x)(x)(x)(x)(x)(x)(x)(x)(x)
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windstrider2017 · 3 years
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My main is a templar but I decided to go a completely different route for my alt character. Reading Six of Crows has inspired me to make a nightblade thief type character, and I liked some of the random features and didn’t actually change much when I made this character. I basically just added the ocelot (ocelot? margay?) markings and beard. I’m also trying medium armor and dual wield, while on main I always use sword-and-board and heavy armor.
#i think i never thought i'd bother using things like daggers and medium armor#my style when i'm not doing stealth and distance attacks is a very brutish and knight sort of style#so using lighter weapons or forgoing a shield and heavy armor is usually unthinkable to me#but trying something different is fun#and actually still in line with my play style#i'm basically just picking whatever i think suits this character as i go along#the server shut down for maintenance so now it's time for me to log off my computer soon and go to sleep#but before it booted me off i managed to loot a ridiculous amount of lockpicks and random gear and stuff#that's sadly just the preview armor but i should have enough gold in the bank to go make a cool outfit asap once i finish the tutorial#that's always the first thing i do w a new character after i do the tutorial or whatever. go get him some better clothes lmao#the one mod i use for skyrim besides the ui mod it needs along with it is an outfit mod. i'm not even kidding#i don't use many mods (even ones i think look pretty amusing) bc i'm afraid of screwing something up#bc idk what i'm doing and really don't have the patience or shits to give to learn much about making those things work#but i did have to get this mod that lets me pick the appearance of whatever my dude is wearing in skyrim#no more mismatched armor and weird improperly-fitting helmets 2k21#i almost always pick practicality over appearance but before i got that mod i kept some rly low level items bc they looked good#or looked less ridiculous than some other ones i could have gone with#but that's no longer a problem#and of course in eso there's the whole outfit system so i don't need a mod to make outfits in this game#i'm probably never going to write much or any of it but it's fun to make up basic personalities and skills and lore for my chars#with nightblade being basically a rogue-adventurer-assassin sort of class the background and skills for him is pretty easy#i'm not the best writer and kind of struggle to come up with stuff like that but this lends itself pretty well to that#i mean p much he's the type of person that could probably fit well with the crows#stealth and a little bit greedy and also strong enough to be a bit of an enforcer/bouncer type#'greedy' sounds so bad. gold and loot is so nice tho#there's definitely a bit of myself in every character and as someone who picks up any street money that's not laying directly in filth?#that suits me lmao#i'm always that person that's inwardly like 'nooo' if i can't take my time to loot during dungeon runs#i don't bog down the group or get lost bc i'm not that kind of asshole but i'm always like. crap. on my own i take ages to loot shit#in skyrim i've finally gone from 'taking literally every item i find' to 'taking mostly just valuables and directly useful things'
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hi nell! as penance for orpheusgate 2k21, what is something that the cast would do when they're in love that they would normally find embarrassing, or that they wouldn't otherwise do? :chinhands: (~narrativefoiltrope)
adegoke: talks in 'we's, proudly tells everyone he knows about even their smallest accomplishment, catches himself absentmindedly thinking about the future (what colour will their walls be? what would they call their hypothetical kids? what should they get for dinner?).
arthur: remembers details, acts on their recommendations without just critiquing them instantly, tries not to pull a face when he disagrees with them (he still pulls the face, but he can laugh when they call him on it, so that’s something).
atticus: tells his mum about them, hangs out with them when he wants to be alone (because they can be alone together, y’know?), will make a concerted effort to express his feelings with words, would let them put a bunch of annoying throw pillows on the bed if they wanted to.
avery: a willingness to be spontaneous, will actually entertain pda, just wades right in to organise their life (a messy downloads folder? not anymore baby!), would choose them over her career.
charlie: that absolutely cringe couple language that you only use when other people aren’t around, talks about places back home that he’s gonna show them, just constantly wants to hear stories about them from anyone they know cause he can never learn enough, doesn't absolutely roast their very wrong sci-fi opinions.
ellis: looks back to see if they’re laughing at a joke too, would actually call them to ask for help if they needed it, messages about things they want to tell them rather than just waiting til they see each other cause they get too excited, just wants to take pictures of them all the time to remember the brilliant little quiet moments.
florrie: shares bad news and not just the good stuff, is open about her goals and ambitions, just lets the little things go, would make a phone call on their behalf if they were really worried about doing it.
griffin: can totally talk shit about the people they hate, blushes furiously when his niblings ask if they’re in love, makes a real effort to learn about the things that they're passionate about (would even secretly read a book if necessary), would go just about anywhere to be with them if that’s really what it was gonna take.
imogen: puts bookmarks on pages she thinks they’d like or that remind her of them, would sing in front of them without dying of embarrassment, will actually argue sometimes rather than just agreeing to everything out of fear of losing them.
nyra: will continue to agonise over their SO’s problems when they aren’t even there, brings them to family events, lets her friends become their friends, holds hands in public (actually just making any public acknowledgement of the fact that they are in a relationship).
rowan: scans the room to find them whenever she arrives at a party, is willing to cancel plans for them, really obnoxious public necking, would totally hold their hair back if they had to vom.
syd: sleeps over, makes plans, will tidy their bathroom so there’s a lil pot for them to put their toothbrush in if they want to (but like whatever they don’t even care if you use it), tries to weasel their way out of big work things that would take them far away for too long.
vinh: just makes absolutely no effort to disguise how utterly enamoured they are, physical intimacy, they get a little bolder pushing for big artistic opportunities (because nothing makes you bold like being in love).
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calltomuster · 3 years
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(Even More) Star Wars Fic Recs
[first fic rec list] [second fic rec list]
Hello everyone, happy Monday! I've been reading some fantastic fics recently and wanted to share them with you. May 4th was an absolutely glorious day to be a Star Wars fanfic reader, but the downside to having so many great stories posted on way day is that it's super easy to miss some, so I tried to highlight some here, as well as the usual random assortment.
Alternating Current by @jessepinwheel (gen, WIP, 1/3 chapters, 5.7k words) I am subscribed to @jessepinwheel's AO3 account, that's how much I love all of their writing, and this is just their latest masterpiece. The premise is that after Naboo, Obi-Wan starts experiencing some strange things, almost as if there's someone else in his body. But it doesn't feel like a foreign presence in his mind... And, well, the presence calls themselves Ben. I'm so, so intrigued to see what happens next in this story.
See, I'm the Living Icarus by @crispyjenkins (Rex/Obi-Wan, WIP, 2/6 chapters, 7.0k words) Role-reversal with Obi-Wan as Anakin's Padawan post-Melida/Daan fighting in the Clone Wars alongside Rex. Yeah, that's what I thought -- you're hooked, right? I was too. And then I read the first two chapters and wowwwww, just got even more obsessed. It's all just *chef's kiss*. Cannot wait to read more.
Off Duty by thosenearandfarwars (Obi-Wan/Cody, one-shot, 4.4k words) A post-ROTS world in which the Jedi were not destroyed, the clones are given reparations, and Obi-Wan throws his whole self into reforming the Jedi Order. It's from Cody's POV as he tries to stop his (former?) General from running himself into the ground. Featuring Jedi culture, positive change, some fun namedrops (Chirrut?!), and CODYWAN! Highly recommend this fic.
Starting Over by @ewanmcgregorismyhomeboy12 (Obi-Wan/Cody, one-shot, 3.8k words) Speaking of amazing ideal post-ROTS AUs with Codywan, here's another! This one is described in the tags as being soft and domestic, and it totally is. Cody + plants + Obi-Wan = delight. Such a pleasure to read. Makes you feel all cozy inside.
Finders Keepers by SpaceWall (Obi-Wan/Cody + a ton of background ships, 2/2 chapters, 8.4k words) This fic is a soulmate AU that follows the premise that everything you lose, your soulmate ends up finding. It really does an excellent job of exploring this fascinating premise, and using it in ways I wouldn't have thought of. Like, something happens with Anakin that is just so beautiful yet haunting, I just... Ah! The main ship here is Codywan, but there are so many great background ships like Aayla and Bly or Anakin and Padmé, and some that are super interesting, like Satine and Rex, or Fox and Bail and Breha Organa. Fascinating stuff!
Benediction by @misskirby (gen, one-shot, 3.3k words, Obi-Wan & Anakin) Each new fic by @misskirby destroys me, and this one is no different except it's destroying me with HAPPY THINGS and POSITIVE EMOTIONS for once. My heart hurts just thinking about it, not because it makes me sad, but just in a... ahhh I don't know, the emotions, okay?! Obi-Wan is watching the twins with Anakin in a ROTS-didn't-happen AU and they actually TALK? With their words? And express positive feelings towards each other without being put in horrible situations? Like I said, AU 😂. This is so, so good. (This fic was not posted on May 4th, but @misskirby did post Stride for Stride on that day, which is an excellent fic about Obi-Wan and Anakin sparring for Ahsoka that you all also must read.)
still much that is fair by RaineyDay (gen, 8/8 chapters, 21.1k words, Obi-Wan & Anakin) Massive trigger warning right off the bat for this one, because it starts off with Padawan Obi-Wan trying to commit suicide by throwing himself off of the Temple roof, except instead of dying, he ends up getting caught by -- Anakin?! Somehow he ends up in the future to find out that he's loved, and a good Jedi. Back in his own timeline, Qui-Gon thinks his Padawan has just succeeded in killing himself, and is distraught and has to reckon with their relationship. Don't worry, it has a happy ending! Give Obi-Wan a hug 2k21!
trouble with the curve by jimmytiberius (Cody/Obi-Wan, one-shot, 2.4k words) Modern day baseball AU! Cody is the analytics guy whose job it is to watch Kenobi and how people hit off of him, and Rex is Obi-Wan's normal bullpen catcher. Problem is, Rex is a little hungover, so Cody has to secretly take his brother's place and hope no one notices. Sparks fly!! You guys, this fic is awesome. You don't need to know anything about baseball to read it, though if you do it adds another delightful dimension. Highly recommend! I smile just thinking about this fic!
Lasting Marks by kyitsya (gen, 10/10 chapters, 25.8k words, Obi-Wan & Rex) I reread this fic the other day and it was just as emotionally devastating the second or third time around. It follows Obi-Wan and Rex in the Zygerria arc, except they're trapped in the mines for weeks and things really take a toll. Obi-Wan and Rex's relationship is not one that's explored much in canon, so it's really cool to see a bond form here. I also really like the later subplot with Ahsoka.
Got Me in a Tricky Situation by @dharmaavocado (pre Rex/Obi-Wan, one-shot, 5.2k words) Rex and Obi-Wan are trapped together underneath a collapsed building and they have to literally and metaphorically hold onto each other for support. I absolutely love the descriptions in this one, they're killer (almost literally haha). Some great good ol' fashioned whump. Love it!
A Long Way Down by @kckenobi (gen, one-shot, 3.8k words, Obi-Wan & Anakin) @kckenobi writes truly wonderful fics, but I gotta say I think this is my favorite. Obi-Wan and Anakin are trying to escape Separatists by climbing up a cliff face, but Obi-Wan's injured and he's really struggling to hold on... Oh, everything about this is perfect: the characterizations, the descriptions, the dialogue, everything! I reread this one all the time.
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backseatloversz · 2 years
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here u go here is my anderperry week 2k21 day one content :) !! it's not a full on fic but i still think its cute pls enjoy<3
ok childhood friends. their moms are the ones that had been friends for years, and neither todd nor neil really remember how they met. all they know is that they always see each other around holidays and birthdays and stuff. maybe they hang out once or twice every summer cause their moms are hanging out and todd, youre not doing anything today, are you? wanna come along?
anyway in like the summer before 10th grade there's some party with a few other kids their age and they all go somewhere to be away from the adults, and they end up playing truth or dare. neil and todd are dared to kiss each other. both are like hm Hope this doesn't awaken anything in me. (it does). they can hardly look at each other the rest of the night. maybe they see each other once or twice again before winter break but its kinda weird now. not awful weird just ... okay so I'm definitely gay. and I'm pretty sure like you, specifically. and we've kissed. and you didn't ... seem to mind it, either? but both are too scared to talk about it and they, you know, hardly see each other for a while, so it's pretty easy to avoid and push to the back of their minds.
then the andersons (minus jeff, who's got his license by now and is off with his friends) are at the perrys house on new years eve, and i imagine it going one of two ways. one, they're inside, downstairs or in neil's room just hanging out and they don't even realize when its nearly midnight. two, they're outside on a porch or looking out an open window or something watching fireworks or whatever. stargazing. i don't know. and for some reason tonight things have been .. different. in a good way. like they've finally come to an unspoken mutual understanding or something.
at midnight one of them decides, fuck it, he looks so pretty right now, i wanna kiss him. so he does. and they kiss. and maybe make out for a while. and they're more giddy and less avoidant when its over, this time, cause it wasn't on a dare, and it wasn't around other people, and he kissed back. but a while later, maybe in a few minutes or hours or the next morning, they go their separate ways, and they don't see each other for months again. but you know that thing about how whoever you kiss (are with??) at midnight is who you'll spend the next year with. yeah. somehow todd starts getting good enough grades that he can go to welton his junior year. maybe him and neil see each other sometime in the eight months before then, but their pseudo-relationship is at a standstill. which is fine. because then todd goes to welton and his roommate is neil and u know the rest. they fall in love and stuff
thee end
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artsy-hobbitses · 3 years
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What do ya think about the Lambo twins?
First impression
WONDER TWIN BASTARD GREMLIN POWERS ACTIVATE
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Impression now
IDW WHY DID YOU DO THAT TO THE BOYS. AND WHY WON'T OTHER TF PROPERTIES INCLUDE SUNNY? JUSTICE FOR SUNNY 2K21.
Favorite moment
Is it weird to say... I don't have one? I'm only very vague acquainted with the original show, and IDW didn't really do a great job with their brother dynamics imho so I'm actually generally left with fan interpretations of them, which I wholly enjoy and contribute to. This is one of the times where I genuinely know fucking 0% about their good canon stuff but I fucking live for everything outside of it.
Idea for a story
Sunstreaker comes back with Bob after self-exile over what happened to Mirage, saves Sideswipe's life and makes it clear that the world can see him as a devil if it wants to, but as long as Sideswipe will still have him as a brother, then that's enough for him to believe that there's still a path ahead for him to be a better man.
Unpopular opinion
IDEK what's unpopular with these boys???
Favorite relationship
Him and his brother of course (non-twincest you foul beasts), its one of the few 'familial' relationships we have in the series and I genuinely wish it was played up more. I WANT MORE BROS. I kind of envision Sunny as a more violent and amoral Edward Elric (also notably the better fighter) and Sideswipe as a more confident/brash/cocky Alphonse Elric, both who will punch open Doors of Truth for the other and that's how I'll play them!
Favorite headcanon
They keep tabs on their wins in sparring matches against each other. It goes into the hundreds, with Sunny winning nearly of them. A lot of people wonder why Sideswipe even bothers at times, Sunny's actually fought in underground cage fights for money (this is also why he felt a strong kinship towards Gladiator Megatron initially) and clearly outmatches him in hand-to-hand combat (this is partly why Sideswipe picks up the blade), but Sunny says that's what he likes about Sideswipe: His baby brother (they're twins, but he was birthed/came online 'first') is too tenacious, thick, or both, to know when to give up, and he's learning with every loss. Also, Sideswipe gets Noogie'd for every loss (NoooOOO HE JUST DID HIS HAIR TWO HOURS AGO, MA DAI!!!)
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butterfly-winx · 3 years
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Some stuff from the sketch backlog catalogue!
1. Faragonda’s fairy form. She’s the Fairy of Conservation in butterfly verse, here depicted in Enchantix.
2. Princeps Oritel Aglissier and his wife Vazul Marion Aglissier, the two heads of the Dominian Empire (lore post pending, I know). They are wearing megaformal hypermagnate, reserved for royal events of the highest importance. In good Dominian fashion, the bigger the sleeve, the bigger the status/pompousness of the event.
3. Melodean dresses for Musa (1) Galatea (2-3) and Musa again (4-5). Dress nr1 and nr2 of each girl represents the outfits they would wear to the same occasion. (The very first dress is also just the last dress but seen from the back and represents something I would see Musa wear to a formal event where she was the guest of honour (Melody, honour your guardian fairy 2k21)
4. Baby Daphne! Butterfly verse Daphne started attending Alfea when she was 13, far below the average age bracket. Dress 1 is my final design for her Basic Manifest (aka first transformation), dress 2 was just my initial idea, but it was too 80s and not fantasy enough for my taste. The third dres is just general formalwear she would have worn to mee the headmistress.
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could you imagine coops or oknutzy one of the boys has to get his wisdom teeth out and being silly and the other(s) take good care or them?
This mental image is pure brilliance. Give Leo Knut his teeth back 2k21. O’Knutzy credit goes to @lumosinlove!
TW for anesthesia, drowsiness, and temporary loss of memory (it’s fluffy, don’t worry!)
“Good morning, sunshine,” Finn said quietly as Leo blinked awake, looking drowsy as all hell.
“I have bunnies in my face,” he slurred around the cotton stuffed in his cheeks.
Logan brushed the sweat-damp curls off his forehead with a smile. “Do you?”
“Uh-huh.” Tears sprang to his eyes, making them shine bright blue. “Why are they there? I don’ wanna have bunnies in my face. They don’t belong there.”
“It’s not bunnies, Peanut,” Logan said, shushing him softly. “Just some cotton.”
“You have a funny accent.”
“So do you.”
Pure offense took over the previous tragic grief on Leo’s swollen face. “I do not. That’s rude. I talk perfectly normal.”
“Okay, baby,” Finn laughed. “Can you sit up so we can go home?”
Leo paused halfway through sitting up, then narrowed his eyes at them. “I don’ wanna go home with y’all.”
“…why not?” Finn asked, sharing a look with Logan.
“I can go home just fine on my own.” Leo jutted his chin out, though the effect was somewhat ruined by the roundness of his face. He glanced around the room and frowned. “Where ‘m I?”
Logan placed a hand on his back and helped him sit up the rest of the way, making sure he didn’t fall over. “The dentist’s office. You got your wisdom teeth out.”
“But I need my teeth,” he said sadly.
“You didn’t need those ones.”
“Teeth are really ‘portant. Teeth—teeth make sure you can eat, an’ chew, an’ a bunch of other stuff.” Leo stumbled a bit as he stood up and Finn took his other arm to guide him to the waiting wheelchair.
“Easy does it, Nutter Butter.”
Leo held on to his hand when he started to move away and looked up at him with huge, adoring eyes. “You’re really pretty.”
“Thanks,” Finn laughed.
“No, no, I mean really pretty,” Leo insisted. “I don’t even know who you are, but your hair is so fluffy and you’ve got nice eyes. Like—like chocolate. Or the deer from that one movie, the fuckin’…what’s his name, with the speckles and the bunny?”
“Bambi?” Logan suggested.
Leo shook his head. “No. No, the one with the friends and the mama deer. Simba! Simba. You have eyes like Simba.”
Finn took a second to stifle his laughter before petting Leo’s hair back. “Simba’s a lion, baby. Bambi is the deer.”
“Oh. Okay.” He looked over at Logan and raised his eyebrows, giving him a slow up-and-down look. “Woah.”
Logan glanced down at himself. “What?”
“Okay, okay, wait.” Leo shook his head and patted Finn on the arm. “You’re cute and I wanna kiss you all over your face, but he’s hot as fuck.”
Neither Finn or Logan could hold it in anymore—they burst out laughing. “Oh my fucking god,” Finn wheezed, wiping his eyes with the back of his hand. “This is the best day ever.”
“Why’re you laughing?” Leo asked. His eyebrows pitched upward and he looked between them in total confusion. “It’s true.”
“You’re so sweet, Peanut.” Logan walked over and placed a kiss to his forehead; when he leaned back, Leo had gone bright pink.
“Did you just kiss me?” he asked softly.
“I do that a lot.”
Leo shook his head and stared at the floor. “But I don’t know you. I would remember if you gave me kisses.”
Logan crouched down in front of the wheelchair and made sure Leo’s gaze was focused on him before speaking. “I’m your boyfriend, Peanut.”
“Oh, no,” Leo whispered. “Oh, I’m so sorry.”
“For what?”
“I was flirting with the fuckin’—the Simba boy! I’m so sorry! You have pretty eyes, too.”
Logan pressed a kiss to the back of his hand, smiling. “Don’t worry, Finn’s your boyfriend, too.”
Leo’s eyes went wide. “I get two boyfriends?”
“You do.” Finn kissed his cheek and carefully steered the wheelchair down the hall toward the exit. “And we love you very much.”
“Wow,” Leo whispered, though it was fairly loud due to the gauze in his mouth. “That’s so cool. Nobody even knows I’m gay except my folks, though.”
“Uh.” Logan shared a look with Finn. “Most people know you’re gay, actually. We came out a few weeks ago.”
“We did? Why would we do that? I wanna play hockey.”
“Good news!” Finn transferred the wheelchair to Logan and held the door open. “You do play hockey, and you’re really fucking good at it. We play on the same team.”
“Really?” Leo perked up as they entered the parking lot. “That’s crazy.”
“It’s pretty cool,” Logan agreed. It was a bit difficult getting Leo buckled in when his limbs were still heavy from the anesthesia, but they managed to get everyone in the car injury-free. “Are you hungry?”
Leo sighed and began fiddling with the seatbelt clip. “Thirsty. Tired. I’m gonna take a nap now.”
“Okay, Peanut, you do that.” Finn looked back at him in the rearview mirror and smiled at Logan. “We’ll get some food in you and then give you medicine so your mouth feels better, yeah?”
“I want my teeth back,” Leo muttered as he leaned his head back against the seat. Within a few minutes, he was out cold.
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alexninn · 2 years
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Where are you Honey?
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Where have you gone
I’m looking for you in the night*
This night like every night
I want to still believe you.
Embrace you this one time**
this absolute last time.
lightning strike me***
I’ll be moving on at dawn
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But where are you hiding,
I’m looking for you when it’s too late.+
Tonight as a last hope I want to finally catch you
to tell you what’s on my chest now++
to tell you all my mistakes now
to tell you how much I’m scared now+++
to tell you how many tears I’ve shed
I’m begging you
come back to drink them. °
Here there’s everything to see
Here it’s daytime you know
you can have more than just the night.°°
You won’t ever regret if you come back to sit here
where no one knows better than me
how to look at you°°°
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*night in the og text is actually 'dark'.
** I'm deliberately mistranslating here, in french "embracer" means to embrace and to kiss, but commonly it just means to kiss
*** god this gave me a tough time. French is "promis juré craché" which basically means cross my heart and hope to die. The literal translation would be "I promise, swear, spit on it" and there is a kind of gradation to it. You can say promis or promis juré by themselves. It's also a bit childlike to say the three, which I think fits well the song, someone making a desperate, almost pathetic bid to get their lover closer to them. I didn't find a good equivalent in English, and I didn't want to use "cross my heart" bc I feel like it brings up images of boy scouts. What I used is what I found to be a rough equivalent in mandarin to the french version and then retranslated to English do with that what you will.
**** I deleted a full verse! But I actually have a translation for it :
I once again got fooled,
by your sugar-coated words
and your half backed promises
lulling me to sleep too early
I'm looking for you in the night
where the stench of all this sham
ends up on the boulevards,
in our hopes and without coats.
I didn't really see a point in including it and it was just more words to illustrate, but I did like the whole sugar-coated words (words with water in french) and the literal "bastard promises" haha. Let Lan Wangji be angry and resentful in his grief 2k21.
+ Literally, it's "I'm looking for you in the too late". It is also grammatically incorrect in french but it's even more awkward in English. Also in french it's just "I'm searching for you" but I liked the "looking" motif bc I thought it paralleled well with "seeing you"/looking at you at the end
++ In french it's "to tell you what's on my heart" which is what inspired the art for this specific illustration
+++ as someone remarked in the tags scared and scarred are very close in English, sometimes stuff just works out.
° Still not satisfied with the English for this. The singer for this song actually said he didn't want the lyrics for his song written down officially because he plays on homonyms a lot. Here the word used in french both means to recount a story and to count numerically. And 'boire' (drink) much like 'croire' (believe) is kind of an odd choice to end a singing phrase with? It's not really pretty, and it feels very raw, it really annoyed me that I don't think the rawness of it comes through at all in English.
°° also really stretching the og text here. In french it's "coup d'un soir" meaning literally "one night hit" but it means one night stand. @/pumpkinpaix and @/hunxi-guilai (who you should follow bc the work they do is extremely helpful and god I imagine so time-consuming and draining) both wrote a long post about the translation of 知己 zhiji in English, which you should read but I think the main idea was "the one who understands me" would be an accurate enough translation. I was actually working on this before I found those posts but I like how "looking"/"seeing" someone in English can be used to convey understanding the person (you see me for who I really am, etc). Idk I'm just fond of how "to look at you" means both in the physical sense "I want to see you" and also, no one else will know you as I do.
°°° last TN but I missed "au grand jamais" from the original text. It's just a superlative, it kind means, like never ever in any time or world or something in that spirit. But I really like that the song ends by looking.
In the spirit of things I really wanted to say a few words about the translation ha. I think maybe the first thing that I kinda miss from the french is that eddy de pretto (the singer) has a very uh, crude? way to sing. He is known for being both from a lower-class background (in french I would say from the "cité" which wordreference translates to ghetto) and homosexual. A lot of it is french "argot", which basically means french slang, but it's very difficult to translate because my knowledge of english doesn't necessarily include that much slang, and also it just doesn't hit the same haha. A lot of words are contracted, "r'viens" "j'te cherche" etc, which carry a sense of urgency.
This is maybe turning into a Lan Wangji meta post but I think a lot (or used to) about how he had to have his character growth mostly of-screen, in the years where he had to reconcile being alive and raising a son. One of my interpretations is that Lan Wangji was probably more aware of his feelings in the first place, but when we meet him (post 13 or 16 years whatever), we meet someone who has come to terms completely about who he is as a person, what he feels etc. Like this is a man who probably has lived through some of his worst-case scenarios (his home got destroyed, the person he loved died in front of him). And I'm always thinking of what it is to try to grow and reconcile your teachings while raising a kid and mourning you know? I think that's why Honey (the song) resonated with me in that light when I listened to it, just like. God man's had a rough life.
Also, I wanted to say I'm misinterpreting the point of the song, in context Honey is. Kinda complex (there's nuance), but basically the singer is talking about his partner, who's at the time of the song sleeping with someone else. Personally, I think it's unclear if the person the singer is talking about is cheating on him or if they are just in an open relationship, but the singer overtly yearns for a deeper connection for that person.
Omg not me editing a post that's already too long for people to engage with but I forgot! what the whole point of doing a TN was! It's to show ppl how much gets lost or missed on purpose between two languages that are super close. And it's like, maybe 10 sentences! And yet I some stuff I genuinely could not translate correctly. And not only I am a native french speaker living in an English-speaking country but I've done like, actual translation before. It terrifies me sometimes to think how much is lost, and how much is added, in the translation process, which is rarely examined as even being relevant. (edit edit: it was pointed out to me that it is a very active field of research haha, I meant specifically in fandom spaces it's deffo being examined in academia)
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1000-directions · 2 years
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good stuff 12-1-21
i don’t have to work tomorrow!!!!!!! i took off tomorrow and friday!!!!!!!!!!! i don’t have to work until monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i had a nice nice mocha for lunch today
i made really really nice soft cheesy scrambled eggs for dinner!!! yummm
and then i watched hawkeye, which i am genuinely enjoying so much! this episode was great!!!
mm. i had told one of the docs at work earlier today that i was having a hard time/bad day, and tonight when she finished working, she texted me to let me know that something i coordinated had turned out really well and that the patient’s mom was crying from happiness and that i was the one who made that happen, and like. it was just really decent of her to reach out and remind me that what i’m doing actually fucking matters, everything has been so hard lately and it was just...such a kindness.
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blackroserelina · 3 years
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Story 1
Little ten-year-old Marinette was wandering the halls of the manor looking for her big brother Jason. she was hoping to get him to read with her. It was one of her favorite thing to do with him.
As she was walking down the hall was peeking into different rooms hoping, to spot him. When she finally did find he was in the library. When she noticed that, she really did want to hit herself for not thinking of looking there first. She knew this is the place where you can almost always find him no matter what. It was his favorite place, after all.
Marinette decides to try to sneak up on Jason; even though she has never been able to before, she still tried. As she was about to give him a tackle hug, she ends up tripping over her own two feet, and with an eep, she began to fall.
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Jason knew Marinette was there as soon as she entered. She still was making her footfalls a little too loud. She was getting better at being sneaky but, she was not at the level as everyone else in the family. Bruce may not ever want to let her into the family business. But that didn't stop him and Dick from teaching her some stuff to either protect herself or for her to get away from danger.
Jason keeps an eye on her while; he still has his eyes on the book in his hand, even though he wasn't reading it anymore. He knew that she was going to trip before it even happened. So he sprung himself out of his seat to catch her before she could hurt herself.
Marinette could only blink confusedly for a few seconds when she didn't hit the ground like she was supposed to. When she finally notates the arms holding her up, she then follows them up to see the face of her brother. He was giving her the most unamused look he could manage with a raised eyebrow. She could practically hear what he was not saying. The look on his face was practically screaming "really, Pixie again."
Marinette could only give a sheepish smile as she was trying to get her feet back under her. Once he knew she would be able to stand on her own, Jason let go of her to pinch the brig of his nose in exasperation.
"I don't know how you can take to the trapeze and gymnastics with dickie like a fish to water. but when you aren't doing that or learning how to defend yourself from me, you walk around like a newborn foul."
"It not my fault I'm so clumsy." Marinette crossed her arms and pouted.
Jason could only chuckle at the look on her face.
"Alright, Pixie, what did you want? I doubt you only came in here to be a total klutz."
Marinette gave him what she thought was a menacing glare, but to him, it was just cute and made him have to suppress a smile before she sighed and started fidgeting with her hands.
"I was wondering if we could read a story together. I know you have been busy recently, and you may not want to spend what little free time you have with me. But it has been away since we did something together and was just wondering..." and Marinette keeps rambling and asking the same question in hundred different ways. Marinette keeps this going on till Jason ruffled her hair. As soon as his hand land on her hand Marinette snapped her mouth shut in embarrassment.
"woe there Pixie-pop there no need for all of that, of course, we can read together. you're the little sis I've never had, and I would do anything for you, don't forget that, ok."
" ya, and you will always be my big brother Jay-Jay," she said with her sunniest smile.
"Alrighty, how about we go read that book now? Before you came in, I was reading Pride and Prejudice. Would you like to read that with me? I could go back to the beginning of the book, and we can take turns reading a chapter out loud. Does that sound good to you?"
"ya, ya, come on Jay-Jay, hurry up," Marinette said will she tries to drag her brother over to the couch.
Jason could only laugh at her actions as he lets her drag him over to the couch. Once they got themselves situated on the couch with the book between them. They started taking turns reading out loud to each other. It was fifteen or twenty chapters in when Marinette started to drift off to sleep on Jason, and Jason drifted off a little over halfway through the book.
That was the scene Bruce came into after coming up from the cave to check on his kids before bed. The sight of his children curled up together made a small smile appears on his face. He then went over and gently took the book from Jason's hands and sat it on the end table beside them. He then took the blanket from the back of the couch and covered them up. After that, he when to leave the room, but when he reached the door, he gave one last fond glance at them before turning off the lights and leaving.
What non of them knew was this was going to be the last time they were all together and happy for a long time.
@maribatmarch-2k21
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