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x011011x · 4 months

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Drowning

Yandere!Riddle x Lovesick!Reader Angst

Trigger warnings: Manipulation, abusive tendencies, overbearing tendencies, brainwashed reader, Riddle being an ahh

Word count: 1.6k+

AHHHH the fic is finally done!!! This one is written extra messily in accordance to the brainwashed reader's thought process so you guys can theorize what's happening in the background on your own :333

You felt like you were drowning within those cloudy blue eyes.

A lithe hand placed itself upon your back, gently yet firmly straightening your posture. "Chin up. Straighten your back" he commanded, his voice loud and clear.

You knew you made a mistake. The mistake of falling in love with the Riddle Rosehearts.

At first, you weren't even sure if he was just a concerned upperclassman or if he really liked picking on you. He kept a record of everything you did. He was constantly aware no matter what it was that you were doing, making comments about your studies and habits to even your attire and diet.

Back then it felt good to have his attention. And if you were honest, it felt good now, too. It was flattering to have him dote on you. His harsh words sounded almost sweet if you could ignore their content. And it was all because it was him. It was because Riddle was the one who was always on your case that you never called that behaviour out.

Though, slowly his controlling nature had started to wear you down.

'Isn't this a bit too much?'

But you ultimately didn't care. Because, your feelings ended up being mutual. That inspired you to keep going. Keep seeking his approval. No matter how much his 'helpful advice' stung. No matter how tired you were. He gave you the opportunity to be lost, and you took it.

Riddle had been trying to correct your posture for the past half an hour. Barking out small instructions, demanding you to follow him. His blooming obsession for you made him spot every small mistake, reprimanding you thoroughly for each of them.

Though despite his stern tone and your own tiredness, you were in a daze of pleasure, happily obeying every command. His very presence gave you energy...and snatched it away from you, too.

"Yes, Sir Riddle." you said as you corrected another aspect of your posture for the nth time

God, you loved this man.

Your current posture didn't allow you to feel comfortable while standing. But you didn't care. 'Anything to make him happy' you thought. You didn't need the privilege, as you liked to say it, of comfort if it meant you could please your Riddle.

"Am I standing correctly now, Riddle?" you asked sweetly, hoping that you were finally able to please him. You felt nervous as Riddle's eyes observed you. And yet you had a smile of admiration on your face, willing to bend yourself backwards and continue this tiring game if it meant that you were the perfect red rose to Riddle.

But, you weren't disappointed. After a stifling silence, a small smile cracked on Riddle's face, "Yes, much better, darling."

Ah, there it was. He called you darling. He praised you. He was pleased. Finally. He didn't have to say anything else. You let out a sigh of pleasure as you were finally acknowledged. You bowed down to him politely to show your genuine appreciation for his praise "Thank you, Riddle."

As you rose to your full height, you caught a glimpse of Riddle's proud smile. You were looking at his eyes with a longing gaze as he sat on the corner of his bed. He patted the spot beside him, silently instructing you to follow. And you weren't the one to ever say no to Riddle. You sat down beside him quickly, without questioning him.

You felt alarmed as a small scowl appeared at the corner of his mouth when he continued observing your face. But his voice was surprisingly soft as he noted, "You look tired…" addressing the bags under your eyes that you couldn't quite hide with concealer. He didn't know how crazy his constant criticism of you drove you, even if it was hidden under the guise of concern, as the thing that seemed to make you the most happy was his approval.

You grimaced as he asked "Have you been sleeping properly?".

Could you really broach that subject? Express your feelings to him? Would he not be angered? Could you ever truly be his perfect red rose if you shut down his criticisms?

You contemplated if you were being selfish or if you were just trying to keep your sanity.

"That's...not it…" you softly explained. You didn't know what to say after. What other excuse did you have?

In classic Riddle fashion, he had no intention of letting the matter go. "Then?" he pressed, his scowl deepening. You felt scared of displeasing him, trying to make him understand, but you didn't know what to say "I…"

You just wanted to stare at him, be allowed to keep drowning yourself in those cloudy blue.

His gaze softened when you looked scared. He tried to give you a soft smile. He was awful at hiding how he actually felt, though. So he ended up just looking uncomfortable. He tried to be comforting but he wasn't willing to drop the topic. He reached out to your cheek and cupped it, his thumb brushing against it. "You can say it, darling…"

His affectionate gaze gave you a bit of hope. His gentle touch had seduced you into opening your heart up for him.

But, you didn't know you were just walking into the siren's vicious trap once again.

"Riddle…it's you."

At first Riddle looked shocked. He widened his eyes before a disturbed smile set on his face. You knew what that smile meant, but you were too far ahead to double down anymore. You had already said it was something about him. But, everyone knew he would never do anything to hurt you— at least that's what he convinced you, to take advantage of your adoration and turn you into the perfect pet for him.

His grip on you had tightened, bordering on being painful. A pain you were scared of and yet a pain you took twisted pleasure in, because it meant you were getting his attention.

He smugly smiled and asked in a voice full of sarcasm, "Is that so? Care to elaborate, darling?"

"A-ah…" you try to correct yourself, not only because you were afraid of his anger but you also didn't want to actually hurt Riddle. You felt angered at your own mouth for being able to articulate such accusatory words, even though objectively speaking you didn't even say anything bad. "I didn't mean it that way, Riddle! It's because I am flawed and why you have to be tough on me. Me being tired is completely my fault!"

And, to some extent, you believed what you were currently saying. You had never been honoured enough— never had been perfect enough for Riddle to be kind to you. As kind as your heart ached him to be.

It was conflicting and complicated, these feelings that you had for him.

Not tell him? But, you're suffering.

But it led you to trust his judgement blindly. Because you could never settle on how you were feeling. So obviously, you couldn't know what was the best for you, right? Right? And though him being a perfectionist was driving you mad, you almost blamed yourself. You didn't know what to do about it. It was like a dead end to you.

Tell him? But, you're suffering because of your own flaws.

"... You're the one who's correct. I must go through this to become the perfect version of myself," you were repeating back what you had learned from Riddle, trying your hardest not to stutter as it was another habit that he hated. "You are doing this because..." you were about to say, before your voice got caught in your throat. The intense pain of being in this situation made your fragile and sinful mind sometimes question whether this was all worth it or not.

Leave him? No! Never! You deemed yourself better off dead if you weren't right behind him, serving him and pleasing him.

"...Because, I care about you." Riddle finished your sentence for you and by this time his face had lit up considerably. "That was quite a way to compliment me, dearest," he cooed, "It shows that you're fit to be mine. My perfect rose." He paused for a bit before he spoke again "Though you have a long way to go, but still."

He smiled softly. He genuinely didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with the way he treated you. He kept caressing your face affectionately.

Yes, this was right. He's saying it with his own mouth. It's all because he cares about you. It's because you were fit to be his perfect rose. You didn't admit your feelings because you were tired… it felt though you originally admitted it to just thank him.

Which you ended up doing. Gladly so.

"Thank you, Sir… Riddle…" you shivered from his gentle touch. You leaned forward to hug him, and he let you. Your lungs hurt as you exhaled, your breath feeling more like thorns than air.

You had many things you wanted to say to Riddle. Many things you wanted to share. He knew you the best, even better than you knew yourself. Yet, he didn't know so much.

But, you would change everything. You would bury the heinous thoughts that haunted you, plotting against the relationship you wanted to continue with Riddle. As it had gotten to a point where you often wondered if it was Riddle you'd lose yourself to or your own conflicting thoughts. You'd bury them all, lay them right in their casket, to the best of your abilities.

You tightened the hug. Softly thinking about how it'd be like, spending the rest of your life with Riddle. Though, you were just swimming in your own delusions, sinking further into an ocean you knew you wouldn't be able to swim out of. You knew that but you pretended as though you didn't. You believed the truth to be otherwise, rejecting what you saw with your own eyes.

Because, no matter the pain and the humiliation it caused you, Riddle loved you. And you loved him. And that's all that mattered. You were going to be his perfect red rose, and no one, not even yourself, was going to stop you.

Even though…

You felt like you were drowning within those cloudy blue eyes.

Don't copy my work okay!? >:((

Though taking inspiration is always welcome <33

Be sure to like, comment and reblog if you like this fic, it'll definitely help in my goals of becoming popular (@sakka-kyuu IT'S DONE YOOOO)

#disney twst #twisted wonderland #twst #tw.dark content #riddle rosehearts #heartslabyul #riddle roseheart x reader #tw.manipulation #tw.yandere

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alloru · 4 months

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she's finally finished! I am SO proud of the ear fluff!! <333

the shading on her face and hair took over 2 hours on its own, but I'm really happy with how it turned out regardless! sometimes you have to put in some time to make something look as good as it can be :>

I fiddled around with the colours a little bit and eventually settled on this nice cyan/orange contrast for this piece! in hindsight I could've probably made the contrast between her skin and the background a little stronger, but I'm still very content with it!!

have an awesome next 24 hours and remember to stay hydrated!

#art #cat girl #cat ears #digital art #my art #character art #drawing #artwork #I'm always tempted to write car girl instead of cat girl #don't ask me why lol #short haired girls #she's a queen #you can't change my mind

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tenpintsof-sundrop · 3 months

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sunnie!!! How are you?

I’ve just started watching criminal minds and i’m reaaally enjoying it so far! I’m not gonna lie, part of my reason of getting into the show was so I could have at least SOME background context to your spencer fics (about to start reading Patron Saints of Liars and Fakes - very excited) because I enjoy you and you’re writing so much!

I’m low key proud of myself for avoiding (most) spoilers for this long for a show that had been running for such a long time, finger crossed it stays that way!!

hugs <333

Even though it's a very emotionally taxxing show, I am excited that you're watching it!!! I look forward to hearing what you think of it <3

I am always excited when my fics help people get into the shows that I love. Spreading love for my favourite fictional characters is one of my favourite hobbies ever.

Also, keep in mind - The Patron Saint of Liars and Fakes is a fic that revolves around an episode from Season 4, so don't read it until you get to season four and you're past that episode! It has spoilers for that episode and also, watching the episode and then reading the fic helps the fic make more sense.

I will also put spoiler warnings on any of my fics to make sure you can avoid them and only read them after you have watched the relevant episodes, but if you wanna keep avoiding spoilers, keep the Criminal Minds tags blocked until you're finished watching the show. (It is one of those shows where the spoilers are so weird out of context, though, lmao.)

#pikispixies #sundrop answers #criminal minds #interactions

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readerghxst · 1 year

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Edit Dump || boredom post?

just to preface, a lot of these edits will be from a while ago so all credit for pictures or psd (if used) goes to the original posters. i just won’t be able to remind the exact user tho-

the edits themselves are by me, edited on picsart (sometimes polarr, ibispaintx and photopea were used)

why did it take me so long to even find one-

curse igcse i’m not able to edit much anymore :(

but yea, freddy carter as kaz edit!! the lyrics are from “ruthless” by @/bookishsongs actually ^^

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*screams* it is taking me so long to find edits that aren’t just themes or birthday cards-

well now it’s another grishaverse edit for kit young as jesper- the song is ‘six of crows’ by @/viinas the song that got me into the grishaverse lol

i actually have a plan after my exams to make edits of all six crows again with their respective verse from the song lol

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lmaoo this was actually an edit i made for @rin-core because man told me it

was impossible to make an aquamarine moodboard with mangoes and my urge to

be right in silly little arguments took that as a true challenge and this

was created lol-

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same conversation led me to make a xanthous moodboard for @timecma lol-

cyrus provided the xanthous picture and yes i am very aware the cut was not

clean. believe me cutting a background off a guy of fire is not easy- also

that was done in like 10 mins so-

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i’m actually quite proud of this- i don’t even remember when i made this but yay piper ^^

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the beans <333 i love bomi and ethan so much-

they’re two characters from ly’s story (@introvertedwraith) with art credit from livie (@yunthesloth)

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this was my first (and currently last-) attempt at those anatomy edits-

it does not look good lmao- but hey, we fail and we learn

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okay why does this one actually look pretty good-

it was a while back but damn- i like this one

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i think i’m gonna stop it on that note lol- hope you guys enjoyed this kinda long post-

after my exams i’m dedicating more time to editing and writing because goddamn was it difficult to find posts for this that i could actually share-

till next time <33

#reya edits #shrub fangirls #shrub grishaverse #shrub tlos #shrub friends #stan lyly!!#stan cyrus !!#stan rin !!

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jennycalendar · 1 year

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Hi! I'm new here (here being your blog, calendiles fandom, and also just...Buffyverse fandom in general? I haven't been here that long haha) and I finally got around to checking out your work on AO3 and uuuhhh you've written SO MUCH!!! So first of all, THAT'S AMAZING, GOOD JOB!! But second of all, I have no idea where to start reading... Can I maybe get like a rec from you of your top 5 faves? (Not fan faves, but YOUR faves, fics/series you're most proud of, etc.) Please and thank you :)

oh, wow, this is so sweet <333 hello! i have seen your fic in the buffyverse tag and lurked more than once there. expect some reviews at SOME point when my brain will allow me, because you are adding some excellent sapphic/nonbinary representation to the buffyverse in a very lovely way. i deeply appreciate your energy.

as for my top five faves -- i appreciate your specification that they have to be MY top five faves, because i really was about to just point to the braveryverse as smth that i think you personally might like. (not a single straight person, found family, etcetc). but my personal top five is a lil different than the stuff that's the most popular w/ fandom at large. (not by too much though.)

all of these range from "a little lengthy" to "novel-length" but i think they are worth it! and they are also all complete! (except for the first one on the list, which has a sequel in the works, but everything PUBLISHED is complete!)

1. never mind the years of wasted time

so this is my long-standing baby that i am blogging about all the time! it's so important to me! i cannot overemphasize how much this 'verse means to me. it's an improbable little everybody lives/nobody dies au set about three years after canon, and in my heart it does kind of stand as a spiritual follow-up to canon, in that the emotional place that giles starts the story is very much a continuation of the emotional place that he ends canon in. there are so many details within the main fic (what you make) that i cannot pack into a single summary (giles and jenny's eight-year-old son, who she left sunnydale to raise! giles and buffy trying to figure out how to reckon with the concept of giles being a parent to a kid that isn't her! jenny's adoring extended family! a subplot that is literally just all about how giles's parents met and fell in love! giles and jenny's individual baggage from their complicated parents and how that informed the decisions they made with each other and with/for the kids they were in charge of!) also it is impossible to read the fic and come away NOT loving art or alice or nora. nora is literally my url now because i tricked myself into loving her so hard by writing her all the time.

anyway yes! top of my list, this is the thing i am the most proudest of, it is literally novel-length and i have been considering learning book-binding just because i want the physical experience of making it into something that i can hold.

2. as day follows night

this is also long but um, less long? this is The Faith Fic. i don't really know how to talk about it without spoiling it (or if i've already talked about it and spoiled it, or if the tags will spoil it...) but suffice it to say that this fic is about faith right after killing the deputy mayor, and her decision to ally herself with an all-powerful witch. or more like "attach herself." like to the witch's skirts. and hang on while the witch drags her around trying to get her to let go. (this girl has some attachment issues). it's got fuffy it's got fairy tales it's got the force of platonic love being the most powerful force in the world <3 and i think it is the first long fic i ever wrote where i had an outline and a plot that made sense and consistent tone throughout!

3. the tale of princess imogen

FAIRYTALE CALENDILES WHAT MORE CAN I EVEN SAY??? also some background fuffy and tillow bc obviously! anyway this whole fic is about jenny the witch pining helplessly for giles the acting monarch and losing her mind a little when princess buffy lets it slip that he's in love with some dark-haired lady who's constantly hanging around the castle all the time. and then subsequently coming up with a Magic Plan to ruin his chances of ever being able to win this dark-haired lady over, because what if she's bad for the kingdom? what if she's just trying to grab at power? THIS IS FOR POLITICAL REASONS SHE IS VERY NORMAL.

4. illumination

this one is about giles and jenny both realizing that they share the experience of being closeted bisexual individuals in a het-passing relationship & subsequently figuring out how to process this. (so obviously chapter three is pegging. but it's THEMATICALLY IMPORTANT pegging. and if explicit stuff isn't your cup of tea, the first two chapters are totally sfw!)

5. private life

i am actually really proud of this one! this is set in season four and it's about xander walking in on giles kissing a man and having to reckon with a lot of complicated internalized biphobia. i love xander so much. of course he has to make this list. (and this is DEFINITELY the shortest fic on this list lmao.)

also honorable mentions to north star and it's the principle of the thing, which are the fics that i write when i'm not feeling like writing a Big Complicated Interlock-y project, so if you wanna read something of mine that will (uh, someday) be updated and is still in progress, that would be where to go right now until the what you make sequel shows up! north star is essentially a (mostly) scooby genfic that's set in season six where willow resurrects jenny to prove herself to giles, and it deals with the fallout of that. it's the principle of the thing is a super trope-y fic about giles and jenny getting green card married in the middle of season one because that's what you do when your workplace enemy might have to leave :) you propose marriage so he can't :) it's normal :) she's normal :) she's fine :) do not look her in the eye

#fic #calendiles #this list is constantly in flux re: what i am currently writing #but these are the projects i am the most proud of!#anyway this was fun and joyful and so sweet! hello! thank you for bringing some warm new positivity to this fandom <33

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anna-scribbles · 2 years

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Hi I’ve just been feeling a lot abt ur art today so I am calling you on my pink landline and twisting the cord around my finger as I talk :) anyway I’ve always been obsessed w your art as soon as I discovered u but it’s amazing to see how much you have improved even in the last year or so. every time you post new art my heart just Bursts!!!!! i see Anna art and I am suddenly full of rainbows and sunshine and iridescent bubbles!!!! it’s always so beautiful and you’ve just continued to develop your style and your technique, like everything you do—coloring and backgrounds and posing and composition and EVERYTHING just gets better and better!! and I’m just so proud of you 😭😭😭😭 you’re such a special and inspiring creator and also a special and inspiring friend. Your skill and vision keep improving but the heart is the same. You’ve always had so much heart from the very beginning and that’s what has always made your art such a joy to look at. It’s so Anna and it’s Your heart and people can feel it so much when they see the things u make. idk I just feel the love for anna scribbles in this Chili’s tonight. ok take care bye mwah 💕 [hangs up my landline]

MARYSSAAAAA YOU CANT JUST SAY THIS TO ME I'M GONNA START BAWLING I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU <3333 first of all pick back up your pink landline i'm trying to talk to you. if I have gotten any better at art in the time i've known you it's because you encourage me so so much!!! and I could literally say all the same things back to you because everything you make has always been full of so much care and heart and it's been amazing to watch your technical skill as an artist just grow and grow, I am so stunned by the work that you do. I love your art so much and I love YOU even more thank you for being such a lovely friend to me always!!!!!! I love you mwah!! <333

#I LOVE YOU MARYSSA THIS WAS SO NICE TO READ HHHNNHH #everyone please go appreciate maryssa she lights up my life 😭#beautiful person incredible creator wonderful friend #im so 🥹 rn #asks

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ullybug · 11 days

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4, 11, 12, 30 :3c

JAY you spoil me <333 i would bonk you gently like a cat

4. a fic idea you haven't written yet

technically only the first beat of the royal/dimension swap au has been written BUT i've also developed a story concept for ully/sway in that au (wow. shocking. who could believe) which includes decently intricate backgrounds for both of them and another misunderstanding plot (although there's more to it than that) that has to do with spies and knights and princes and the like. it's really fun i've been enjoying how much it lets me worldbuild (bc i am, at my core, a giant dork)

11. a WIP you'd like to finish one day

i would LOVE to finish the second draft i started for my sandman/old guard crossover, it was so cool!!!! it was a project that came out of that post by cryptotheism that went around a while ago about how a lot of fics don't build up a symbolic language in their work, so i put a lot of thought into that. there's some (very basic) tarot symbolism as well as general dream shenanigans. i found it really fun to write and i was proud of the prose, i just got swallowed up by a million other things instead of finishing it i think. beyond that i would LOVE to finish this damn nesting fic lkerjnfekjrnlkjernf

12. a trope you're really into right now

goalie nesting, obviously. obviously. i really like how physical it is and the balance between honesty/intimacy and distance (that comes from being beyond yourself). APART FROM the obvious answer i've also been enjoying the dimension travel/transmigration/de-aging/etc trope!!! i like the contrasts you get and i think it's a fun angst opportunity. anddddd magic realism is always a beloved trope <3

20. in what year did you publish your first fic?

i was going to tell you about my (now) anonymous original work fic from 2018 and my umbrella academy fic from 2019 but i looked it up and i actually orphaned a work from 2017 (!!!!) that was a daemon!au of my fave rp oc character. gods looking at all of that together really emphasizes how cringe i've always been. well at least i've been having fun <3

#ask game #enarratives #chatterbox #hrpf #ask games are sooo fun. i love these

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borahaerhy · 1 year

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Just read ch8 of dealer and OMG this series just keeps getting better and better and better.

It truly hooks me every time. It's amzingly written. The story just flows, it is thrilling and exciting and so so good.

I am loving the info in the background stories (maybe a little pretentious but I feel a bit proud about this, because I suggested it. Wich also makes me supper happy that an idea I gave ended up in the chapters(this is me totally fangirling)) but besides that I really like them. They come at the right moments, they fit so well in the chapters.

And I just love love love that yn an yoongi are getting closer, that's so sweet. Makes my heart melt.

The way you write is truly amazing because when you write that jungkook is afraid, I am too. When yoongi is worried, I kinda am too. I just mean I can feel and relate to and with the characters and that just shows me that you can depict their emotions and actions very good. So hat off for that.

Going to read the next chapter now😁

Lots of love💜

Roxy!!

Ah I'm so glad you liked chapter 8! I'm glad you feel like it flows well, that's honestly the thing I'm most scared about!

You should be proud!! That was an amazing idea and honestly, Dealer is way better because of it because I would've just thrown them in at random lol.

I KNOW WEFVBHJDSUBHJNL

The way he's getting protective of her and she almost has to comfort him bc he's too worried is such a cute dynamic! I love it sm.

ily i try so hard to portray the emotions rather than just telling you about them and I'm so glad it comes off like that! Especially that JK background scene, I had to rewrite it so many times because it didn't feel scary enough, and I'm still not the most in love with it, but It's much better than it was.

Much love to you, I hope your day is going well <333

#fic: dealer #rhy responds #<33

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apompkwrites · 3 years

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reader impact || first meetings: unreconciled stars

series masterlist characters: scaramouche, fischl, mona genre: fluff summary: a game has been released entitled genshin impact, consisting of otherworldly abilities relying on the basic elements of nature. the game follows the story of an interdimensional traveling twin in search of their other half. along this journey, they meet different characters that live in this world. including you. notes: i'm sorry fischl and mona's aren't that good :(( this is actually my first time writing for them but i hope you enjoy <33

scaramouche's playthrough -

oof scara

scara scara scara

this boy hates his chat and at this point they don't care.

it's not like he'll badmouth them, right?

think ludwig.

that's him.

he's a very angy boy please--

as for what he does?

much like childe he'd do a lot of pvp games.

he's not too keen on showing off his personal life.

he prefers that boundary between his viewers and himself, y'know?

he honestly doesn't even understand why his viewers like him.

he knows he's a mean person and yet here they are :/

he doesn't take requests from his viewers he just kinda plays whatever he wants.

imagine his viewers' surprise when they see him streaming genshin--

they asked why a lot.

"it seemed cool."

this man just wants to play some good ol' anime games.

his chat calls him soft and he just glares.

anyway now he's actually playing.

he's not really into mondstadt's characters they're all... okay to him.

he feels a bit better in liyue.

not because it's pretty oh no no no.

because look at all the enemies outside >:))

he'll clear the whole field don't test him.

anyway, now onto the unreconciled stars event :00

this man really doesn't like katheryne--

anyway at this point he's tasked with find fritz, which he doesn't really want to do.

he sees the dude on the ground but that's only after he sees someone standing next to him.

and then he sees someone standing next to him :0

"is the guy on the floor sleeping?"

"i believe so. i've tried everything, but he won't wake up."

he will pause to look at your outfit.

it's so complex but it's so cool!!!

his chat suspects something's up but... he'll just snap at them like he normally does.

but he'll silently admire you <3

also yOU'RE T I N Y ! !

and then paimon points out your clothes and the cameras pans up your body--

"heh... and by "this person over here," you mean me, right?"

he will choose the "those unique clothes are quite beautiful" option in a heartbeat.

he doesn't care that his chat is teasing him, he just wants you to know :))

he's kinda sad when you leave, though...

"please come back soon..."

his CHAT HAS NEVER SEEN HIM SO SOFT BEFORE

skip to a few events later when the constellation is revealed to be leonard's.

the sudden cutscene catches him off guard because he's prepared to fight someone.

"hi! sounds interesting... mind if i join you?"

he won't say anything but he will physically relax at the sight of you.

you make this man soft please--

he's lowkey angry when his character is teleported away from you :(

(name): the sixth of the eleven fatui harbingers

HYPEHYPEHYPE

YOU'RE SO COOL!

of course he doesn't say that but his chat can tell that's what he's thinking.

this man's eyes go wide when you order the fatui around.

please help he really likes you. you're so assertive and cute and cool and just AGH--

fischl's playthrough -

fischl can and will do cosplay streams.

her fans like to watch her because of the "character" she puts up for the camera.

honestly she just does this because she genuinely enjoys cosplaying and bringing characters to life.

oz is the nickname for her pet bird :))

she definitely gets a lot of trolls in her chat that make fun of her for her cosplays and "dumb" way of speaking.

in which case she'll just yell at them using her "dumb" way of speaking.

she really does care about how people see her but her chat comforts her a lot after, so she feels better after a few minutes :))

the games she plays are very fantasy based and take place in worlds that don't exist.

once she gets into a game, she'd pick her favorite character and cosplay as them everytime she streams that game.

sometimes she does sewing streams where she actually makes her own cosplay with her fans.

they like to make it with her if they have the materials :D

genshin impact was a game her fans recommended because they actually want to see fischl cosplay the characters.

they will beg her to do the cosplay creation on stream.

(they defintitely know who she'll choose to cosplay but it's fine)

when she reaches the unreconciled stars event, she's really excited to learn about the fated meteorite granting sleep upon touch.

she's ready to go around teyvat in search of an answer when...

"katheryne! vassal of the immernachtreich, do mine ears deceive me, or didst thou cry out mine holy name in earnest supplication not one moment ago?"

some of her chat is obviously confused by your speech but her long time viewers can understand some of it.

oz, who fischl had brought with her to play, seems excited to see your familiar flying to you :)

fischl is just as excited as he is!!

please you speak just like her and you're voice is so nice and it actually sounds like the developers put thought into what the speech would mean in "proper speech."

"a pleasure to meet you again, katheryne."

YOU'RE FAMILIAR IS JUST AS COOL AS YOU ARE!!

some of her viewers will beg for her to skip through your dialogue.

when she sees those comments, she will purposefully let your dialogue play out, proceed to read out that same dialogue, and respond to you as if she was actually talking to you.

not just to spite them but because it's also a lot of fun for her <3

"it would seem the gods have blessed us with meeting such a well-respected being!"

translation: she's really excited to have met you.

as soon as you spoke she decided she would cosplay as you.

she's already planning out all of the materials she'll need and how much time it would take.

if your familiar is a bird, you best bet oz will be in her photo shoots for your cosplay.

most of the time you're on screen, she'll talk to her viewers about you in her classic chuunibyou style <333

she's really sad when it's time for you to leave :(((

"... goodbye, fischl. you are a good listener. i enjoy chatting with you. to be honest, most of the other adventurers in the guild only ever talk to me when they wanna hear (familiar)'s reconnaissance reports... this little journey we had... it was a great adventure. i'm just sorry that is has to end so abruptly..."

she might cry wait--

she relates to you even more now :(

"ah! what am i doing? i totally broke form..."

you're too cute pleas--

mona's playthrough -

mona does a lot of nightly streams.

it's very rare for you to catch her streaming with daylight.

she likes to share things about astrology while sitting outside drinking something warm.

she'll do a lot of nightly gaming streams as well.

mainly calmer games that people can vibe to in the background.

she prefers to keep her streams lowkey and chill, much like the life she wants to lead.

if only she had the money to do so...

yes, mona is still struggling with money even as a streamer.

she greatly appreciates any donations her fans give to her because she practically relies on them to pay her rent and daily necessities.

of course, it's not like she's completely struggling, just enough to barely get her by.

anyway, her fans ask her about playing genshin impact, inticing her with their talk about the stars and night sky in the game.

she's the type of player to take her time in the environment and take a lot of pictures of her character at night.

she's actually really excited when she hears about this new event centering around the stars and sky :D

soon enough, she gets around to the part where she is need of an astrologist.

she's HYPED to hear there's an astrologist in the game.

"someone looking for me? who is it?"

she will squeal, please.

look at you!!!

your whole design has stars and is space-themed and you're so cute and you're voice is so soothing ! ! !

she really likes listening to you talk about astrology because your voice gets even softer than before.

that scene where you go to the cliff??

please she has that scene as her lockscreen <3

you just look so cool when you start to do your process.

you're so focused and the way they animate your process in the game is beautiful.

and then the fatui harbinger interrupts one of your meetings :00

you grab onto mona's character and teleport away in a cloud of stars and specks of your elemental vision.

she's kinda embarrassed when you scold her about getting involved with the harbinger--

but not only are you really cool and awesome, you're super strong, too!

please be sassy more she really likes how proud you sound :))

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antagonizedjordan · 4 years

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Zukka - A Mini Comic

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What do y’all think Zuko is up to??? Who is “him”????

Pages 2 and 3 coming soon!

I have never worked with color or backgrounds in this painterly way, so it was a huge experiment! I also tried to make them look as they do in the show, which is also not how I normally depict them....I think it turned out okay, though??!!! I mean, I am NOT a comic artist XD <333333

Not gonna lie, I really love this page and am proud of my little tale <333 I hope it makes you all smile!

(FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING PLEASE ZOOM IN AND VIEW IN FULL - every panel was a stand alone painting...I don’t know why I did this to myself...very very very inefficient XD)

#Zukka #Zuko #Sokka #Zukka Comic #ATLA #Avatar the Last Airbender

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hi pocket! moth here, and as promised, i'm giving you word after word after word after word....

i got cicada to type some stuff down too since he also wanted to send something to you in congratulations!! <3 <3

----moth

congratulations on 6k! you're really rad and i genuinely think that you deserve all this support and love, it's just really nice to see that you've progressed so quickly and smoothly! you've put a ton of effort into things your write, your events, everything! your interactions with your anons are just so nice, and that's all because you're an amazing person!

when i joined the genshin fandom, you were one of the first blogs that i had run into, and that's pretty neat. at first, i didn't follow you, since i wasn't really used to your writing. but as i kept on encountering your works, i eventually grew accustomed to it- and i like your writing style! v swag :)

your oc, toxin, is just- perfection. i like the whole background thing, powers, but the fic i liked the most was the one where toxin attempts to poison you. my imagination can just run wild from there, picturing out what the character did after running out to go after toxin, but for zhongli's case how he took care of you + what he did after.

you, pocket, are a wonderful person- if you receive hate, you don't deserve it! 6000 seems like a large accomplishment, and it must've felt really nice to hit that number. a great person like you deserves the world, but the world may not deserve you. your presence alone on tumblr is practically a blessing, and i'm grateful for everything that you've wrote! not only that, but you've helped me become bolder and interact off anon. i think that's pretty neat, genuinely.

i'm sure many others think the same: ilysm(/p) pocket! even if i fall out of the genshin fandom(which i most likely won't bc of XIAOOOOOOOOOOOO <3 <3 <3 <3), i'll still revisit your blog. reading over your works always makes me crack a smile, whether it's angsty or not. your ability to write is amazing, and some of your works had even inspired a few of mine!

a collab with a person like you is like a dream come true. i look forwards to future interactions, and hopefully they're all positive! i support you no matter what, and you can't change that, hehe.

-your local xiao simp,

moth.

----cicada

hello, i believe you've never interacted or heard of me before? i go by cicada online, a friend that appears on moth's blog every now and then. they told me about your 6k followers, and i think that's pretty neat. to be honest when you told moth that you'd do a collab with them i was happy they chose you, since you're a really good person. pocket, thank you so much for everything you've done for me, moth, all of us- i cannot express my gratitude towards you, and i am proud of that because i can usually express my gratitude to others within words. however, since my gratitude towards you is off the charts, i cannot form it in words. regarding the collab, i will attempt to help moth with angst, however my help might not be needed. i thank you deeply, for fueling my everyday energy to get up. reading through your works gives me so much serotonin, and i appreciate that greatly. have a good day or night, perhaps afternoon, mx. pocket.

-cicada.

----any last words before we go sleep?

moth - ily, pocket! /p

cicada - thank you, congratulations. (note: get your well deserved rest, pocket.)

----goodnight, good morning, good afternoon wherever you are ! !

ok so like i genuinely started crying at this and I don't normally get very emotional. You both left me speechless, so that's one of the reasons why I'm taking so long to respond T^T

I'll split my response here to the both of you!

its kinda long- sorry xD also can I just call yall "the bugs" cuz its just so cute ;-; your names are adorable-

Moth, you are such a sweetheart. Like I said earlier, I'm not someone who gets very emotional! But your words brought tears to my eyes (tears of joy ofc) and it took me a while to respond because every time I saw what you'd written, I'd just have this giant smile on my face. I'm really glad you chose to follow me and I'm so happy you chose to talk to me! I always try to be fun and welcoming so that people who do wanna interact can do so, but I get it, there are so many people here it can get daunting.

But I'm glad you reached out! I'm so happy to have a friend like you! Ima be honest, the first few times you sent something in off anon, I was like "o.o they forgot anon-" BUT NOW LOOK AT YOU! Thank you, I really appreciate it. I'm actually pretty self-conscious about my writing but I try to do my best and post- even though I don't like what I've written, so your words really do help me! You're the type of reader every writer wants. Seriously!!

Ah, Toxin! Yes, I've had her as an oc for such a long time and then I finally perfected her! She's been in so many fics of mine and she's finally getting the recognition she deserves!! I'm glad you enjoyed that fic, it's one of my faves! I planned to do a p2 with some other characters but held off cuz I thought people would get bored- yet here you are, sparking my will to write it again!

I still can't believe I hit 6k! Honestly, that's so many people!! and they all like me and my stuff!! it's really hard to believe- there are days I think its a dream >.< silly, I know xD actually, when I first joined tumblr, it was because of BNHA and I saw this writer who had 10k followers at the time and I just was like "that's not even possible" yet here I am- 4k away T^T

I genuinely hope Xiao keeps you here, but if you have to leave for another fandom that's ok too! I can only hope we'll meet once again there too! I think some people in life are meant to be friends and are just meant to know each other! And I'll hope you're one of them! Cuz you're one of the awesomest friends I've had and I love you as well (/p)!! <333

Cicada, omg haiii!! I've heard very little about you since Moth took FOREVER to tell me there's another writer hidden back there!! I'm glad I got a chance to talk to you, even if it's like this! I'm not sure how much you know about me >.< seems like a lot so I'm sorry that I don't know that much about you!

Thank you so much, you're so very sweet and I can't express how happy your words made me. For a long time now, I always wake up and wonder how I can make my friends smile or laugh, and now that's extended to this blog. To hear how happy my writing makes people brings me so much joy that even I can't express it. I know there are many people out there who have lots of things to deal with in life and to know that my writing's helping them through that fuels me to write more!

I'm so glad I can do the same for you! We may not know each other- or maybe it's mostly on my end- but I still want to make you smile! I want to make everyone who stumbles upon my blog smile as well! Life can get hard and it feels so impossible sometimes but if I can give someone the energy to go on, then I'm pretty content with my own! Thank you for reading my works and thank you for telling me this because it really did make me happy.

Aw, thank you, I hope it's not too much! Though I specialize in angst (at least, I like to think so), I wanted to give Moth the opportunity to try! I'll do my best to make the fluffiest fluffing comfort you've ever seen!! Or uh something like that ^w^"

I really do hope that you and I can talk more so I can get to know you! Oh! And that google form- it was super adorable ^w^

You two are too kind and you best believe I'm saving this lil ask <3 you both very well made my entire week (along with that meme anon with those cute memes) and I'm sending you both hugs!! or cookies ^w^ whichever you prefer!

Also, it was nighttime when you sent this and now its 3am >///< i need sleep-

#🌸─ pocket tries #✧ ─ moth #✧ ─ cicada #you're both so sweet #this is one of my favorite asks #<3 #never change #you two

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sign-from-god-complex · 5 years

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72 for romantic analogical? Only if you feel like it and good luck with your drabbles!!

I did feel like it! In fact, I felt like it so much that I actually ended up writing an entire (short) fic! So hopefully you enjoy it!!! @alsoyouremischievous (just to make sure you don’t miss it for any reason, hahah)

Prompt: “Just smile, I really need to see you smile right now.”

Warnings: Some aphobia

Tag list : @mutechild @super-magical-wizard

“Logan? You alright?”

Virgil examined his boyfriend as he hovered in the doorway—his clothes were rumpled, tie askew and shirt untucked, and he had bags under his eyes to rival Virgil’s own. He watched as Logan stumbled his way into the living room and dropped face-first onto the couch with a massive sigh. Well, that didn’t bode well.

Virgil sat up a little straighter in his seat—a little difficult to accomplish given the position of his legs over the arm of the chair—quickly putting down his phone and turning towards him.

“Lo? What’s up, babe?”

Logan removed his face from the couch cushion to look at Virgil, his features set in a scowl. “You know, homophobia I can deal with. In fact, at this point, I’ve almost come to expect it. People hate gays, I am well aware. But aphobia? In real life? I just-”

He cut himself off with a scream, shoving his head into one of the pillows to muffle the noise.

Virgil raised his eyebrows. “What happened?”

Logan made a noise of disgust, infused with enough anger that it came out almost like a growl.

“Just some girls in the store today,” he muttered. He pushed himself up until he was sitting in the centre of the couch, one knee pulled up to his chest.

”‘I could never date an asexual person, I’d feel like I was missing out.’” Virgil could tell from the way Logan pitched his voice that he was repeating what the girls had said. “‘Yeah, no one could ever truly be happy in a relationship like that.’ ‘I enjoy discussing people’s insecurities in a public area where not only could an individual overhear, but they are unable to give any kind of socially acceptable response as they are not a part of the conversation taking place.’”

Logan’s voice grew increasingly bitter as he spoke, his face twisting into a scowl once again. This time, however, Virgil saw the worry behind it.

“Shit, Logan,” he said, “You know that’s not true, right?”

Logan had never seemed all that ashamed of his aspec identity, in fact, he was generally quite proud of it, but Virgil knew from experience that it only took one comment to tear down years of work.

It also seemed to be a shared Sanders family trait to never talk about your problems—he’d learnt that quickly enough from every single time he’d spoken to Roman—and although Virgil was the closest person in Logan’s life, he knew there were still things he didn’t discuss with him. Virgil didn’t take it personally, Logan was just a private person, and it made everything Logan did share that much more important.

“Yes, I do know. It’s ridiculous, I know that! It’s just-” He sighed. Virgil watched as all the rage flooded out of him, leaving him looking tired and… sad. “It’s easier to succumb to negativity than to fight against it for your entire life. No matter how strongly you believe something, there are always going to be days where you are less sure of yourself than you should be.”

Virgil crawled out of his armchair to sit beside Logan; in return, his boyfriend leaned over until his head was resting on Virgil’s shoulder. It didn’t look very comfortable, but the gesture meant a lot regardless, so Virgil shifted in closer and wrapped his arm around Logan’s waist in an attempt to make it a less awkward position. The warmth of Logan’s body against his was comforting, even if he wished it was under slightly more uplifting circumstances.

Virgil took a breath. “Can I do anything?”

“Just… smile?” Logan raised his head to look Virgil in the eyes, adoration shining through his gaze. “I really need to see you smile right now.”

He could hear the unspoken, “I need to know you’re happy with me. I need to know I’m not weighing you down or holding you back from what you truly want.”

Virgil smiled, gently and kindly. He tried to fill it with affection, wanted it to be clear he loved Logan wholely and completely, no matter what anyone else said. It wasn’t bright or shining because that would have been a lie—instead, it was more shy and hesitant—but this smile was Logan’s.

This was the smile Virgil gifted him at the end of their first date, perched on the front steps of his parent’s house and blushing as Logan hugged him goodbye, hoping with all his heart that this was going to work out for the best.

It was the same smile Logan received the first time he kissed Virgil, sitting together under the stars at a Christmas party Logan’s family was hosting. He had been able to hear Roman singing Mariah Carey in the background for the fifth time that evening, but all Virgil had been able to pay attention to was the feeling of Logan’s lips against his and his heart beating out of his chest.

It was the smile he wore when Logan first worked up the courage to come out to him as ace, and in turn, he came out to Logan as trans—the two of them laying on the couch, watching Black Cauldron because Virgil had asked and Logan hadn’t been able to say no. And Virgil had wondered what he’d done in a past life to deserve such an incredible best friend.

This was the smile Virgil gave him the very first time they met—little 7-year-olds not wanting to participate in the game everyone was playing and finding company in each other instead—and it was the smile he’d given him every day since.

His boyfriend studied his face, expression entirely unguarded and loving, and Virgil resisted the urge to look away.

“God, you are beautiful.”

Virgil rolled his eyes, fighting back a blush. “And you’re a dork. Come on, I’m gonna watch Steven Universe and you know it’s illegal to leave me to do it alone.”

Logan huffed a laugh but he grabbed the blanket off of the back of the couch and threw it over the two of them nonetheless, moving around until he was basically sitting in Virgil’s lap. Virgil wrapped his arms around Logan, hoping his legs wouldn’t fall asleep from the weight his boyfriend was putting on them.

“And, Lo?” Logan looked up at him questioningly. “I don’t need sex. I’d give up a million things for a chance to love you; sex is nothing.”

Virgil watched Logan tear up a bit, though he tried to hide it by ducking his head and burying it into Virgil’s chest.

“Now who’s the dork?” he mumbled.

Virgil grinned. “Shut up and cuddle me, asshole.”

#I worked all goddamn evening on this hahah #I'm so so so bad at keeping things short #I just have a lot of ideas!!!#everything can be expanded on!!!!! but shouldn't be probably #ask lo #lo can write #400 milestone #alsoyouremischievous #sanders sides #sanders sides fic #virgil sanders #logan sanders #analogical #romantic analogical

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eponymous-rose · 5 years

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Okay, but there’s a lot of very happy stuff going on, and I feel like it’s important to emphasize that just because there’s a background very bad kind of churning away at all times, most of the time it’s a very small fraction of what’s going on.

Good stuff at the moment:

My D&D group is more and more comfortable with the game, and now it’s to the point where I do minimal prep and they spend 4-5 hours making me cry-laugh with their antics. They’re quick and clever and very dramatic and deeply supportive of everyone’s choices both in-game and out-of-game, and it’s a great time. We’re all determined to keep the game going online after we go our separate ways in the fall. Wednesday’s impromptu game was an absolute hoot.

My friend’s cat (the Schmooglecat) has started hanging out in a tiny mesh laundry basket that looks exactly like a toddler’s playpen. She came into the room to beep at us in distress when she knocked it over by accident. She just... sits in it. Doesn’t sleep, doesn’t lurk. Just sits.

My other friend’s going out of town for a week, and I get to take care of his cats! They are giant now and very fluff.

Going to celebrate two friends’ birthday party today! One doesn’t drink much, so for once the party plan isn’t just bar-hopping: instead we’re doing food truck-hopping! One of my favorite things in the world is trying new food, and there’s some really creative trucks out there. Also, it’s absurdly lovely out (like mid-70s F/low-20s C), so I’m excited to stand outside in a t-shirt and just enjoy good food with some lovely people this evening.

Online friends are wonderful and lovely. So much is awful and up-in-the-air about a cross-country move, but having this sense of stability that comes from knowing I’m not leaving all my friends behind is so unbelievably grounding. I feel so lucky to have you. <333

I haven’t watched last night’s CR episode yet! I am very excited to have new CR to watch this weekend!

I have managed to keep my apartment quite clean and neat since Christmas, and I’m very proud of myself for maintaining that. I’ve never been very good at keeping things tidy, partly because I just never learned good habits, and this is the best I’ve felt in my life about my cleaning routine. I still have to choke off that initial reaction of pure, unadulterated panic if someone comes to my apartment unexpectedly, but I’m getting there.

My job is just... so good. It’s so good. I do cool science, I meet cool people, I go to cool places. My future employer occasionally checks in and always emphasizes that I shouldn’t worry about anything, including orientation stuff, until I get there and I’m on payroll. My visa stuff is going really smoothly for once. My friend and I have a big chunk of travel money we’re thinking of using to go give some presentations in Colorado, which would be so much fun. There’s a little brainstorming about taking a week of holidays after the Poland conference and traveling down to stay in a hostel in Italy for a bit. It’s so exciting, and so unlike anything I thought it would be.

#eponymous text post tag

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afraschatz · 6 years

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Leverage - The Rashomon Job

‘The Rashomon Job’ is clearly one of the cleverest episodes ever, is pretty much sheer storytelling porn all over. And I’m not even trying to go for a full analysis why it is so awesome and instead just stick to a random list of stuff I love aboutit. I love (that)...

... how the ep starts with the bar being ready for closing but the team minus Nate are mid-argument and completely oblivious to the fact that everyone else has left. This is so their living room, and as much as I like the notion that they all have other friends (one of my favourite thing about The Girls Night Out / The Boys Night Out actually), there is nothing more lovely than proof of them hanging out, even when they are not on a job

... Parker having fetched Dad err Nate to resolve the argument

... Sophie’s “shush, you did fine in prison the first time”. Like, Moreau who? We’re having a SERIOUS argument here

...”I STOLE IT” and ALL their expressions, but particularly Parker’s facepalm (haha, you know you’re in trouble when Parker is the sane one in a fight) and Hardison’s MASSIVE eyeroll. And Nate’s utter GLEE. He is so evil. And I think one of my favourite things about this ep is that his smirk does not go away for the ENTIRE episode. He is just so amused for the entire thing <3

... Eliot and Hardison backing each other up re: Sophie is lying

... Sophie being the first one to tell her story. Which makes so much sense because everything we see - the museum itself, the guests in the background, the music, the food, everything, is what Sophie TELLS us. Even though we don’t hear her say all that of course, the fact that we as viewers see all that is due to Sophie setting the scene with so much attention to detail. It’s a setting that the others’ stories will continue using / warping to their convenience, but the ground work is all Sophie’s

... Sophie’s choice of dress for this. I love you, Sophie, but what an actual catastrophe is that pink thing? Whyyyyy? I mean, okay aside from the fact that everyone else is NOT wearing pink and clearly she is the center of attention (I mean, she takes the time to tell us that she got fricking APPLAUSE on arrival)

... Nate appearing out of nowhere behind her, completely not dressed for the occasion and the only one not smitten with her. His questions of course clue you in that this is Nate-in-the-pub asking these questions, but I am so in love with his sudden appearance, his casual clothes, his lack of admiration being the visible info that he is NOT part of the story. And don’t get me started on the mirror / Nate behind glass thing, and Coswell standing in exactly the same spot that Nate just vacated

... and there is the second thing about Sophie’s way of telling the story. She is so proud of her accomplishment and the scene she set and is setting again for Nate’s sake that she includes details such as other people’s jewellery etc, but she completely fails to focus even just once on other people. She dismisses the waitress/Parker without looking at her, same as she didn’t even glance at Coswell. Such a great bit of Sophie characterisation right there

... Bioko slapping the offended guest’s butt. Because of course Bioko is Hardison and while we can’t trust his account of events later on either (=being adored by every female in the room), THIS kind of behaviour doesn’t fit him either. So again, it’s down to Sophie’s kind of faulty storytelling here; she needs an oaf for a fall guy/distraction and Bioko kinda fits the bill and she leaves it at that

... Sophie hurrying up the storytelling when Bioko is coking. That contrasted to the amount of time she spent relaying to us how utterly enchanting Abernathy found her? Again, so neat, because Sophie isn’t really interested in any kind of drama she isn’t the centre of, and thus the entire man-dying-situation is merely a footnote to her - hastily told, strangely paced and comically overacted by Abernathy

...Sophie’s completely different body language when she plays the doctor. Her accents of course are legend, but man, the way she changes her walk and posture and gestures as well? So flawless

... Sophie perceiving Coswell’s attention to her as a threat and thus completely missing that he is flirting with her. That in combination of her thinking that Abernathy is flirting while Eliot definitely has other motives (as well)? Wow, Sophie, something really is going wrong with your pulling game that night :)

... Sophie even adding sound effects to the completely over-the-top (and imaginary) shotgun that Coswell in her story carries down the stairs

...”The dagger wasn’t in the shipment” - and Eliot’s GLEE. Seriously, he and Nate in this ep? Such dicks. Such brothers. <3

...the setting for Eliot’s part of the story. Where Sophie gave us an establishing shot of the museum, then the museum in all its glory and filled with guests, what does Eliot give us? Some concrete walls, cardbord boxes and neon light. What is far more important is a detailled account on the fight with two guys we don’t even know and that don’t even matter. Because fighting is important, damnit

... “If I’m not honest with you, you can’t improve”

...after Eliot re-used Sophie’s establishing shot of the museum, once again, he goes for the dark-corners-close up. In that car, with that poor guy. And all Eliot has to do to be seriously scary is to just not smile. He doesn’t even need to raise his voice

... Eliot taking the piss out of Sophie’s accent. We know he can do Sophie’s normal accent properly - he just DID it when he took over the story and told the team that he was Abernathy - so the sole reason why he uses that accent is because he wants to mess with Sophie <3

...the size of the knife. Thank you, Eliot, for clearing that up. That makes so much more sense than Sophie’s (or Hardison’s or Parker’s OR Nate’s version)

...Bioko and Eliot in the basement. Eliot being annoyed by Hardison without even knowing it IS Hardison, hahaha <3

... locked-up comedy frame. Always hilarious

...again, a very detailled and close up account of the fight

... Coswell carrying the box for the roses, not a gun, in Eliot’s story. Because different from the grifter, the hitter of course can tell a box from a shotgun

... “Ipcress. Weird eyes. Funny hair.” - Hahaha, so charming, Eliot

...Eliot throwing away that vase so it shatters. Given that the entire box of stuff belongs to Sophie? Just another way to mess with her

...Eliot’s story ending before he opens the box. Different to Sophie whose first version of the tale showed us her holding the dagger (“That was the plan”), Eliot is honest, he just leaves out the important bit. Too bad that Hardison knows what happened next

... “What, is stealing mail a crime?” Parker <3

...”Well, whatever it takes to get the job done, babe.” - WHY, Leverage? WHY is Eliot not calling Sophie “babe” all the time. I want that now. Give it to me.

...I also want Hardison to call Eliot “babe”. Why didn’t I get that either? Unfair

...such a neat way to wrap up Eliot’s side story of Gutman blackmailing him. So perfectly framed - because while watching it for the first time, you’re so hooked on the dagger theft that you don’t notice Nate’s expression and the suspiciously convenient way that got resolved

... Hardison’s villainous cackle and his grin <3

...Parker and the shell-game. Again SO NEAT. Because this is what’s being done to us as viewers here and we SHOULD know how the shell-game works, that Hardison doesn’t end up with the dagger either, that Parker as the one operating the shell game actually has the prize (well, is closest to it)

... Hardison’s accent. Accent porn

... Hardison’s repeated slip-ups (“My nana’s house, err my house”) and his competely over-the-top recollection of his flirting success in that ultra-short montage

... his version of the Eliot/Sophie dance and his grin of approval. Why exactly do you take a photo of that, Hardison??

...Hardison making Sophie sound like one of the dwarves from LotR. Because clearly he COULD do a better job at a British accent. But why should he? Especially since the boyfriend err I mean the partner in crime err Eliot so obviously approves

...Eliot, the maniac, tackling him to the ground, trying to open his throat with a figgin machete (what is a knife that size doing at that party?)

... “Let’s get you somewhere quiet now, where there is no witnesses” continued by Eliot being CREPPY in the basement and Hardison’s ultra-fake smile hahaha

...”I still beat you” - because for Hardison this is what this is about. Beating Eliot. Who are these other people even :)?

... the shell game reveal and Nate is SO PROUD of Parker <333

...Parker’s story is SO not about any of that mood-setting shit or any of the details like... other people in the room. She even interrupts Nate when he asks her for her way in. Because this is about where to stash her gear, and how to get to the prize. Nothing else matters.

...Hardison stealing food and being SO adorably Hardison, Sophie being weird in her Britishness, Coswell being annyoingly “there” in Parker’s story

... SOUND EFFECTS FOR THE HUGE KNIFE. Because Parker’s life clearly is anime.

...the hasty and jagged storytelling. Yes, that is also because we’re hearing the story for the forth time, but it definitely shows how Parker tells a story

... Parker skipping <3

...Parker being honest about losing the dagger

...Nate’s portrayal of the others in his version. Sophie being just that little bit arrogant, Parker being cold, Eliot and his swagger, and all that in contrast to the utter adorableness of Coswell (and Nate being a DICK to him) : All that is very realistic. And then he adds a dash of humour to it: the size of the knife that Parker hands Eliot and Eliot’s WTF reaction to it for instance

... the actor playing Coswell is just awesome. So awesome. I feel for him here, poor guy.

... Nate not being IN his version of the story except for the beginning and the end. Instead his job is to put the pieces together and get the most imporant (and realistic) bits from the others in a straight line

... “Pretty eyes, little ponytail in her hair” - Aw, Nate <3 (And Eliot’s AMUSEMENT in that version of the story. Really, Nate, in your world Eliot is a romantic softie? I am not judging. Actually, I approve. Of that and of “You need a tissue” compassionate Hardison as well)

... Nate being a cold-hearted insurance guy asshole. I mean I don’t love him like that because he is horrible, but I love the contrast of that Nate to Team-Leverage-Nate and what that says about the influence of these four people on him <3

... while Sophie, Parker, and Hardison run out, Eliot hangs back. That moment of silent communication between him and Nate? I LOVE their relationship

SUCH a perfect episode <3

#leverage #nate ford #sophie deveraux #alec hardison #eliot spencer #parker #things I love about #the rashomon job #episode reaction

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Tel Aviv 2019: Straight outta Denmark to Eurovision with a cute multilingual jingle

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Dansk Melodi Grand Prix is... a NF I don’t really have anything to say about. Like, you expect me to rile up 3 big paragraphs about the pre-NF dramas and what-not, but honestly... what’s the point.

Well, aside from the fact people did not really get excited over the lineup this year. Me neither from the names alone, actually. Even last year was more interesting to look at despite with another lineup of songs you can’t give a fuck about and then move on - I noticed they had Sannie who used to be known as Whigfield (”Saturday Night” <3333 the duck quacks <333), Ditte Marie (anyone remembers “Overflow” from 2012?) and Albin Fredy (which seems to be the same Albin that brought me my one of the two DMGP 2013 favourite songs, “Beautiful to Me”???). This year was a big “WHO IS SHE?? WHERE DID YOU FIND HER???”, so I just left DMGP in the corner where it picked cobwebs until not too long ago when someone got chosen.

Well, this NF keeps being a NF where I don’t personally feel too emotionally fucked about any of them entries, so that’s a big plus in my book, which will mean that I won’t throw a “THIS WAS ROBBED!!!1″ post on Denmark NF-wise... at least this year and the last year because I really loved “Venter” in 2012 and the said “Beautiful to Me” and “Invincible” in 2013 (I also liked “Only Teardrops” but I was mad its victory was so obvious xD). As for why I like it when the NFs don’t toy with my feelings, A Dal 2019 is an obvious demonstration, but more on that on my Hungarian writeup, which is significantly longer than this one - that’s how much of a demonstration it is.

Anyway, let’s talk about the chosen song, shall we? Performed by a smol skater girlie Leonora (Jepsen), here comes “Love Is Forever”, which was co-penned by the ever-so-notorious Lise Cabble - the champ-mastress of writing Eurovision songs for the Danes (by that I mean she wrote their 1995 entry... and then none of her entries got chosen for ESC until 2011 lol). And this is a significally softer turn of hers compared to “Only Teardrops” - ever since Anna Ritsmar in 2018′s DMGP, she tends to write cute, acoustic tunes sung by young ladies with their lil cute and lil crispy voices. “Love Is Forever” is just that, tbh.

Well THAT and also it sounds like a lovely acoustic background song for those funny photos/student quotes/test answers/etc. compilation videos on Youtube (I actually am talking about the channel Scoop, because other kinds of compilation videos use Youtube Audio Library-like pop songs or something straight off NoCopyrightSounds). Or the theme song for a TV programme for animals. Or the theme song for a children's programme they show at hospitals. There's so many places you can insert it into, I guess. At the same time it feels like a cupcake with pink frosting that tastes nice. And a cup of warm cocoa with whipped cream and sprinkles. It's a delightful bite. Yum.

Realistically though, the song itself has an easy noddable-along-to rhythm, cute violin string plucks, the capability to melodically progress to sound even more joyful (I mean, the chorus just adds more and more layers of brass as it keeps repreating, just giving it a bit more of a typical Scoop channel background music material), the D flat major key of this song’s uplifts the spirits of this whole shebang and it also somehow includes lines in some more languages than expected in a Danish song ever, how odd it seems like??? And it’s especially given that we haven’t really heard Danish in a song since like what, 1997?? We only got “shout insh’allah” and “taka stökk til hærri jörð, taka” ever since then, and these aren’t remotely Danish lines. But this year we’re getting some Danish, and French, and even German. Feeling the love in multilingual. L’amour est pour toujours, y’all! Liebe IST für alle da!

There are also people that aren’t buying into the song all that much because Leonora looks way too creepy to sell a song about love love peace peace, like someone emerging out of a demented cabaret. I suppose that other people think that this song was forced onto Leonora when she didn’t really want it, and now has to pretend that we have to spread love to the world, make friendships with others, don’t get too political, and then act all supercool about it. The saddest bit that she does sound like that person that would sing a song like that... young, with a passion for skating, looks like a person that could probably hug you when you least expect it, the one that posts light purple sweater pictures with a glitter effect applied to them on Tumblr, the one who would wear white mittens with a giant red snowflake painted on/knitted into them... I don’t know if that’s all Leonora wanted to compete with in DMGP to make a breakthrough with her singing career after skating so darn much, and if she even believes in what is she singing (this is my rare reminder of the war situation in Israel that’s going on, and I’ll probably never have to speak of this again in any writeup, hopefully. Yeah sure, love is for ever...), but I somehow buy it, sue me. Those acoustics and that touch of brass instruments won me over.

So my final thoughts on this song is that it’s a joyball with that kind of song message so overused I cannot be angry on it because it’s not slapped on a dreary Russian peace ballad - it’s a singer-songwriter-esque small showtune, which makes it all seem a lot different because love is cute and this song is cute. So I guess I have no issues with it, whereas I can’t stand the aforementioned Russian peace ballads all that much because if you remove the good singers singing it, they’re cliché af; “Wars for Nothing” (Hungary 2015) sounded too innocent while having a full gun tree serving as a backdrop for them and if you looked too much into Boggie’s eyes, you could very well feel her penetrating your soul with war imagery; and Iceland last year was a knock-off Russian peace ballad that sounded too good to be unbearably dreary and the vocalist wasn’t even a belting girl. So yeah, I like it. More adorable songs about spreading love, less overdone ballads about world peace.

Thing is though, why did she really dress like a barista from a late-night-open cocktail club? I get that looking like a princess à la Maria Olafs won't cut it anymore as it would look way more saccharine, but Leonora is up like she's there to serve you your damn drink as soon as possible so she could go outside for a small smoke break, not to advertise love. Watch me make "when you have Eurovision at 9 and job at a cocktail bar at 11" memes on the night of the 16th. Seriously, her image barely even fucking suits the song!

Approval factor: Well, one of my faves won DMGP again, for the 2nd time in a row, so why wouldn’t I approve? ^_^ Love from me is forever!

Follow-up factor: For Denmark it kind of seems like a decent follow-up? For all those out here that remember Denmark as the nation that plagiarises every other entry, it would just seem logical for them to finally send a generic royalty free ukulele song for Youtube videos. Which is spectacular! No one knows which song did this one exactly plagiarize - the entire concept was ripped off! Jokes aside, it’s an interesting one after Rasmussen. After a song that urges you to lay your weapons down in a war and go find higher ground more peacefully, we’re now getting a morale on the fact that love is for ever and everyone. Isn’t it sweet. I’d rather these than a bland love song about laying down armours and guns. ^_^

Qualification factor: depends. For now I feel like writing it off because to the 1% of the people who’ve already heard this song beforehand and hate this song, the whole thing feels like “love :) is :) forever :) please love everyone you little shit :) :) :)”. To some others however, like Luke Malam from ESCXtra, it’s a song that definitely makes them feel the love being forever, just like “yaaaay we love each other and the world yaaaay!!! ^o^”, so it’s perhaps a bit of a mixed bag. I wanna see it through though, just as much as I want to see Lithuania, about which I will be talking next in these write-ups. But I see it very much so as a borderline because... idk, just a gut feeling. Sometimes songs that ooze loveliness just don’t quite get themselves across the other hand side of the viewer thus they don’t really qualify, for example, Finland 2012, another song sung by a lady better known as a sportswoman rather than a singer (but maybe that’s just because there was too much intimacy of hers with her and her celloist’s mom, and she looked too awkward to pass the intimacy to the viewers so they too could feel the loving bond and the life metaphors coming from a Finnish entrant singing in Swedish). For now from me it’s a positive borderline. Yes, I think that it probably will make it and we’ll see that large Ikea chair prop with many people swaying to the rhythm on it next to Leonora on Saturday as well.

NATIONAL FINAL BONUS

Even with me not having much to say about DMGP, I will go ahead and cherrypick the favourite songs from the event:

• The big favourite of mine this year was brought by Julie & Nina, who served a bilingual schlager-like midtempo track, “League of Light”. Hats off to sounding properly Eurovision-y but without using a “rent-a-NF-songwriter” songwriter for to write this! It’s soaring, majestic, somewhat memorable and inclused Greenlandic. Yeah. Do you believe that this would have been a year where we could’ve gotten more exotic Language spins? Now we have lost both Aboriginal and Greenlandic out of Eurovision, hopefully just for this year so the languages can return again sometime. I’m proud of these women being so courageous and delighting some that really wanted schlager pop that still can click with some that are bored of Eurovision NF schlager cliches. Oh and this song is in A flat minor, probably one of my favourite keys in music. Not too bad, everything this was, although the aggression they transmitted through the song during their live DMGP performance kiiiiinda made them looked like pissed-off housewives imo?

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• Them both and this guy below, Sigmund, were picked to the superfinal to compete against Leonora. What was Sigmund’s contribution and why did he deserve to be there so much? Well, I really love his colourful flamboyant electropop track that has piano influences, “Say My Name”, which lyrically reflects on the song’s protagonists big power that he will probably have if only the invisible force Sigmund’s singing to would just “say [his] name”. And I definitely think he deserved his spot over some really nice pop entries that the fandom definitely overrated. Oh and the song is in A flat minor too. Maybe I’m biased, maybe I’m not. You judge. >:)

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• See, I don't feel like talking about the DMGP songs this year. It's a cool bunch of songs that some of them I like but nothing quite outstanding to talk about beyond those I already have paragraphs for. Well maybe you'd like to look up the entries by Humorekspressen (for to get a pub singalong song) and Jasmine Gabay (for to get yet another Latino-influenced Havana club track). But that's it. Here from me the last one you'll be getting is Simone Emilie with her teen-flavoured light radiofriendly dance-ish song "Anywhere". Why didn't it do better despite having the power to click with the Eurofans quite much? Well, maybe it's because her backdrop and the fairytale-esque dress went for another kind of atmosphere than it was required to have on the song.

• I don't know, I just find this particular winning reaction shot funny. Not sure if she's yawning or being like "yaaaazs bitchesss ;) 😄 ✨" in here. I gotta say - her lipstick was definitely on fleek that night.

That guy below her takes the cake at making this shot memorable too. Do you want the invisible meal Leonora is about to take a bite of too?

And besides that moment I don’t really have any on-show moments besides songs that were somewhat memorable. Why do Danes always have to be this vanilla in the Nordic country barrage, I will never get. That’s it. That’s their crime. Of being average. And being sued for plagiarism a lot in the past.

For now I’d just wish Leonora good luck in Tel Aviv and show ‘em that love can and will prevail before hatred does, if only people remember to love... ah wait, wrong kind of philosophy.

#eurovision 2019 #tel aviv 2019 reviews #denmark 2019 #leonora #love is forever #denmark

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