#he's an ex for a reason

[windfighter]

Beautiful Dealbreaker

There was a game of football on the television. Kouji was sitting leaned against Takuya, laptop on his lap and working on an article while Takuya watched the game. Takuya’s fingers were trailing along a scar on Kouji’s arm. Kouji didn’t mind, he traced their outlines himself sometimes in order to calm down. But Takuya had a frown on his face and Kouji couldn’t understand why.

As the game was nearing its end Kouji closed the laptop. Takuya’s hand stopped. Kouji turned towards him, crossed his arms over his chest.

”What?”

”What what?”

”You’re thinking about something”, Kouji gestured at Takuya. ”What is it?”

”Just…”

Takuya gestured back at Kouji. At the scar he had just been tracing. Kouji felt irritation make its way through him.

”You’ve never thought about getting those fixed?” Takuya asked. ”I know a guy, I could take you to him.”

Kouji’s body turned to ice. He grabbed the laptop.

”It’s just scars”, he said.

”Yeah, but they’re ugly”, Takuya explained.

Kouji’s stomach hurt. He stared at Takuya, didn’t find any words. Takuya pulled a hand through his hair, leaned closer to Kouji and grabbed his chin.

”My partner should be beautiful. Perfect”, Takuya purred. ”Like me.”

He leaned in for a kiss. Kouji slammed the laptop in Takuya’s face and stood up. Takuya’s nose was bleeding, but Kouji was too angry to care. His scars were part of him, his history, reminders of his adventures. If that was a deal breaker…

”Find another partner”, Kouji hissed.

”What the hell, man?!” Takuya shouted and held a hand against his nose. ”I was just offering help!”

Kouji turned his back to Takuya, walked away.

”I’m going to the others. Don’t call me.”

He grabbed his backpack, didn’t stop to grab his coat and shoes. He slammed the door shut behind him, got on his bike and drove away from Takuya’s house.

#windy writes #digimon frontier #kouji minamoto #takuya kanbara #future fic #sorry I made you an ass again Takuya #you just fit that role so well :3 #today I randomly remembered my ex telling me I needed to get rid of my scars or I would never be beautiful enough to deserve him #he's an ex for a reason #that's not it though #so anyway I remembered that and had to do something #so Kouji gets to obliterate Takuya for doing the same thing #as a treat to me :3 #Takuya knows a lot of guys #(he does them regulary) #'the others' is izumi junpei and kouichi who lives on the other side of the city #they'll eat icecream and watch cheesy movies and talk about what an absolute butt Takuya is until Kouichi has to go to work #it'll be fun :3 #Izumi and Junpei will take Kouji shopping for new shoes after a nap as well x3 #kouji's scars are just from accidents during his travels #he's had a few of them already #who said being a nature photographer was /easy/ #pfff #that feeling when the tagspam is longer than the story #anyway hope you enjoyed or something x3

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 124

Bruce crouched next to the small child that had been bounding around for the last few months healing people, watching idly as they scribbled on a paper with quiet chirps. Spirit, the rest of Gotham had named them, Spirit and their Sister. 

“Hi Mr. Bat!” The child beamed from behind the mask when they finally looked up, burn scar stretching slightly. 

He ignored the gibbering man in the corner, at least for now, seeing as he’d just arrived. “Is your sister around?” The other, well he wouldn’t call them vigilantes seeing as the kids (He’d be surprised if Sister was an adult) focused more on evacuation or healing, but it was the closest word. 

“Nope!” the child put their crayons away in one of the many pockets inside the almost victorian-styled coat, one of the reasons they’d gotten their name. “Uncle Kerian is watchin’ me tonight, ‘cause Sister is busy.” 

“Uncle?” 

“Uncle!” 

Bruce could be forgiven for the startled wheeze when the literal shadows twisted and ripped, a pair of Lazarus-green eyes- or whatever they were- gleaming from the darkness, dark hair twisting as sharp teeth similar to the siblings’ were bared in very open warning. As if the giant flaming sword wasn’t enough of a warning already. 

Ah. That’s who had traumatized the several would-be kidnappers then. 

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #Why are Jazz and Danny in Gotham? Who knows #Pariah and Fright Knight are brothers (Fright = Family after all) #Pariah and Clockwork are exes but they never officially divorced making CW the ghost queen #And he’s adopted both Jazz and Danny making them the ghost prince and princess #But they’re still half/3 quarters human and have human needs to take care of #Bruce staring at FK: Ah… I seem to have a type it seems #Why yes Fright does in fact have a human form #Am I saying halfa Fright and Pariah? #I'm not Not saying that #But there had to be a reason the Observants want Danny-the-Halfa dead so much

[acerospectrum]

i don't understand people who say that aromanticism is a sad thing. personally, i'd never felt more liberated than when i realized i didn't have to date anyone, or that the reason i felt uncomfortable with romantic affection was not because i was a horrible person

for me, being arospec means the freedom of not having to fulfill society's expectations of what my life should be like. it means that i can allow myself to find happiness in things that are not romantic relationships. and it means i can stop getting into relationships without actually being attracted to the other person.

i know those are things that alloromantics can also benefit from and should internalize (amatonormativity hurts everyone, after all), but being arospec makes it even more liberating, if that makes any sense

#aro #aromantic #arospec #aro spectrum #aromantic spectrum #aromantic pride #amatonormativity #does this make sense? i hope it does #realizing there was a reason why i couldn't love my ex-partner back was so freeing #i felt like such an asshole until i understood #he has a new bf now and i'm very happy for them. i hope he gets the kind of love he needed and i couldn't give him

[steviesbicrisis]

If Steve Harrington was a shirt:

#steve be like what this thing you ask? just got eaten by bats no worries #onto more important issues #*the issue being staring intensely at Eddie Munson's lips as he tries to set him up with his ex for no reason* #Steve has his priorities sorted #not sorted well but they're sorted #steve harrington #steddie #eddie munson

[xxcherrycherixx]

cupid's gals meet

#monster high #ever after high #c.a cupid #abbey bominable #blondie lockes #heartlockes #c.a cupid x abbey bominable #abbey x cupid #theyre both my proud poly queens #cupid is dating blondie but abbey is her ex who she still gets on great with- #-if you know what i mean 👀 #blondie is fine with it #in fact blondie encourages it- she encourages Recording it and sending it to her too- she just wants to make sure there's no funny business #thats totally the only reason! #also fuck it blondie is a monster fucker shes a big ol monster fucker with a big fat crush on her monster gf #and maybe a lil one on her monster gf's monster fwb- shh #abbey is happy to have open relationship. why waste time on relationship drama when you can communicate with your partner and agree to kiss #-whoever you want? she's dating heath and he definitely doesn't mind that way of thinking. long live the polycule! #im in a polyamory mood bby gonna blast the orion experience-cult of dionysus and chrissy chlapecka-affection brb #add space age bachelor man to that list because fuck yeah thats a polyamory song i forgot #my art

[weaver-z]

Does anyone want my analysis of why Aziraphale Said That after the confession? Context: I am an ex-member of a fundie church/borderline cult.

#i know the exact thought process so well that for a while i didn't get why fans ''didn't get it'' tbh #like i think people forget neil's an ex-cult member. there's a reason it's something he does rather well. #ineffable husbands #good omens #good omens spoilers

[zivazivc]

A proper look at Brook, my weirdest weirdo, and the offspring of a very unusual throuple. She's a Blues-Rock Troll, mostly inspired by bands like Delta Rae and Larkin Poe.

#she is so weird but so fun to draw #trolls #dreamworks trolls #if it's not clear she's part country part funk and part rock #the rock part isn't very obvious. it mainly shows in the black hair and pointy ears #(though i realize pointy ears aren't exclusive to rock trolls) #my art #ex bandmates #trolls floyd #trolls oc #brook #les #hed #hed is so happy for his bro 😭😭 (he's half the reason they even started talking bc les is an idiot) #trying to make sense of the trolls genres in combination with the history of music genres is pointless #let's just pretend a funk and country combo could create blues even though blues predates both #tw smoking

[beefcakekinard]

buck tells tommy he gets jealous easily. buck has a history of relationships with women who already have well-established priorities in their lives, who don't compromise that for him. from the get go he feels like he's competing for affection and being left behind. tommy keeps showing up for buck like it's a given. like he comes first and it's the most natural thing.

tommy tells buck he's jealous of how the 118 has become a family. buck is the beating heart of that family, the glue that keeps them all together, the emotional core.

#TO BE CLEAR I AM NOT SAYING THAT BUCK'S EX GIRLFRIENDS SHOULD HAVE RESTRUCTURED THEIR LIVES AROUND HIM #there's nothing wrong with not having your romantic relationship be your top priority just like it's fine if it is #buck just had a tendency to seek out women who are more emotionally distant than he wants from the start #bc then he'd have a reason when they'd (to his mind) inevitably leave. #bucktommy #rose.txt #despondently leaning against the bars of my cage. they're perfect for each other

[thedroloisms]

actually so fascinating to me to see the difference in reaction in this fandom. the same people who were perfectly content to spread leaked information without the consent of the victim in previous situations playing coy and claiming that any speculation (not accusations, not harassment, not attempts to deplatform) into the identity of the person in question is inherently unethical and disrespectful to the victim. the same people who had shamelessly talked about the need to spread about information sourced from third party actors with personal agendas, who had explicitly gathered the information in question for bad faith purposes, in order to demand answers from a man who wasn't even the target of said allegations now preaching about how awful it is for people to use publicly available, easily accesible information to come to personal conclusions about a content creator in order to then make the decision whether or not to support him. i know that this fandom was a very different place in january 2022 but i highly doubt that time is the only thing that influenced the difference in people's reactions here, tbh.

#sorry for immediately essay andying in some of the most harrowing ways but #people are really giving shubble's ex more grace than they did for a certain other content creator #in a situation where 1) there was publicly available reason to think that the conversation being had was triggering to him #and 2) the accusations levied at a /completely different person/ didn't inherently imply that he had Any Fucking Clue #that said person did things wrong. and it literally would have been more reasonable to believe that he didn't know anything #as is often the case . with situations like these. #but you know don't speculate :) don't you dare bring up [name] becaus doing so is disrespectful :]

[zer0point5ive]

do you think the stray cats ever wondered what happened to adam :(

#adam stanheight #adam faulkner stanheight #do you think adams feminist vegan punk ex girlfriend ever wonders what happened to him #the people in his life are so intriguing. to me #scott tibbs certifiably insane. thinks adams a pussy #ex gf. broke up w him for being too angry #his mom. calls him honey nd ‘just wants to know hes alright’. dad was angry for some reason but no longer angry #neighbor hates him. thinks hes too loud and routinely calls adam a quote unquote little shithead #stray cats think he is their best friend. they are correct :) #everyone hate him except for cats ! #📹

[3-aem]

im bored of animal crossing will be drawing gj again will be mental illness-ing once more.

#women make less than men because we dont know how to ask for more!!!!! #and thats so fucking true my ex manager had to coach me how to ask for more #and then i entered the call and went oh u want to give me less than what i asked for great okay sure love you bye #!!!!!!!!! *looking at myself in the mirror* i hate u #the noise my cat makes when hes frustrated #or really really excited i cant tell which is which anymore #my ex manager is also like lawyer core #ie not a lawyer but loves reading contracts for some uknown reason #and he was pointing out all the stupid phrasing #and i was sitting there like sir to be completely candid i do not even comprehend what the line is saying #let alone what it is suggesting and its implications #apparently when you get those emails like this is confidential dont share it!!! #u can u can like totally share it its not enforceable #the sender even knows its not enforceable they just put it there anyway #what are you gonna do with that info heck if i know!

[faramirsonofgondor]

thinking once again about jamie told keeley that he originally thought she went out with roy to make him jealous… like i know they might’ve meant it as jamie being jealous that keeley was with someone else but what if keeley knew about his childhood crush on roy and so in his head he was all like “she’s just dating him cuz i liked him first”

#jamie tartt #keeley jones #roy kent #ted lasso #bisexual #royjamiekeeley #ted lasso ot3 #when your ex who happened to be your teenage celebrity crush starts dating your other teenage celebrity crush who became your work nemesis #the real reason jamie was so mad at the auction was cuz he was gonna bid on roy first but then keeley did it #jamie and keeley fighting over roy while roy just sits there perplexed with his life #they really just all need to give each other big kisses #they have never been normal about each other

[valvarads]

KUJO KIRIYA + KAGAMI HIIRO KAMEN RIDER EX-AID

#kamen rider ex-aid #kamen rider ex aid #kujo kiriya #kagami hiiro #tokuedit #userdramas #jdramasource #jdramaedit #usermare #ex-aid #m.gif #*hiiro #*kiriya #*exaid #translation: excite #underrated dynamic tbh #they r besties your honor #no hiiro would never admit it #kiriya loves teasing hiiro because he gets flustered so easily #also loves grabbing people's shoulders so much for some reason

[simplydnp]

something about phil's 'i'm not gonna allow you to click it' and dans 'do you want me to get the cardboard cut-out out?

#like i feel like ive heard too much #combined with everything else in the video... that tone of voice from both of them... 👀 #dans admitted he likes a bullshit reason to set-dress activities to make them more tolerable (ex: ad reads) #dan and phil #dnp #c.text #phan #<- for the fandometrics

[zivazivc]

I was just watching World Tour again. 😏 And was thinking about how the Funk Trolls switch between walking on two legs and four legs. Do you think baby Les ever tried to walk with four legs? Maybe Hed's dad discouraged it or something.

Love all your art and characters. 💕

Do they switch? I don't actually remember that. I kinda thought that half of them walk on two and half of them walk on all fours. But maybe there's a percentage that can do both, kind of like how some people can use both their left and rights hands to write.

But even so, Les isn't shaped enough like a funk troll for walking on fours to be natural for him, and his dad is two-legged too. (Maybe Flea can do it, I never drew his parents but I imagine his funk mom walking on fours.) ...But from how horrible Hed's dad was to him, yeah, I can totally imagine him discouraging something like that. Guy is a rancid piece of shit and he put that kid through so much... :((

#sorry ninjaturtlemaniac for subjecting your ask to this. i just... :I i promise i also drew something cute because of it i'll post tomorrow #trolls #dreamworks trolls #answered #casually pours gasoline on hed's dad (no reason) #🔪🔪🔪🔪 #i think he's the biggest piece of shit oc i've ever created. ish is a great dad compared to him #this guy is actively an abuser. he subjects les to every form of child abuse out there #ex bandmates #i should start a tag about these guys shitty childhood #my art #trolls oc #hed #les #butch #the dad's name is Butch btw #and the mom is Lena #tagging in case: #child abuse #emotional abuse #body shaming

[egophiliac]

surprise! here's some Ex-Aid!

deliberately not saving this for either holiday, because...that feels like it would be weird? let's pour one out for Poppy and Dan and their bizarro mobius strip of a family dynamic. 🫗

#art #kamen rider #ex aid #ex aid spoilers #it's been a while but it IS a twist and hey you never know #no real reason for this i was just reminded of this idea i had back in 2018 but didn't have the confidence to try pulling off #and was like why not i'll take a crack at it #been a hot second since i last drew poppy anyway. this must be rectified. #i probably hecked up dangerous zombie sorry he has so many FIDDLY BITS #even from the back there's just so many PIECES #(still one of my all-time favorite rider designs though)