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dangermousie · 6 months

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2023 End of Year Post - kdrama edition

Yes, we have a some of December left, and I want to check out Death's Game but whatever. I got time for this now and not sure if I will have later so here goes.

This is only going to cover kdramas that aired in 2023; if I watched it but it was made in a different year, it’s not on the list. This was an excellent kdrama year, the likes of which we hadn't had in a long time.

DRAMAS WATCHED

In order of liking from least to most as opposed to pure quality so pls don't come for me, fans of some popular dramas that are on my nope list. Also, I am including if I’ve seen enough to make up my mind; yes I realize that’s inaccurate, but that’s my list.

33. The Escape of the Seven - this is so aggressively stupid and mean that it feels like the makers are playing a practical joke seeing how much their audience will take. This has a season 2 coming, so the answer is a lot.

32. Behind Your Touch - the FL gets superpowers by touching people's and animals' butts. Yes, you read this right. Do I really need to add anything?

31. King the Land - yes, it was a hit. Yes, it stars popular actors. I HATED IT LIKE IT TOUCHED MY BUTT TO GET SUPERPOWERS!!! Plastic people in paint by the numbers story, with about as much genuineness or retability as a barbie aisle in walmart. I never expect much from Yoona so whatever, but to have LJH go from The Red Sleeve to this boggles the mind.

30. Mrs Durian - this is so dumb that I think I lost a few IQ points watching this, but its insanity becomes entertaining - I mean what kdrama can you name where a daughter in law declares her love and lust for her mother in law at a family dinner?

29. The Matchmakers - there is nothing offensive about this drama at all. But there is nothing in the least interesting either. If elevator music took drama shape, it would be this show.

28. Destined with You - sorry, Rowoon, I am still fond of you, but you are two for two in drama duds department this year. This is a drama where I loved ep 1, liked ep 2, was indifferent to 3 and...you get the point. Each ep was worse than the one before, and I bailed before I was dragged into a cosmic singularity.

27. Oasis - great first two episodes. Unfortunately it was not a two ep show. The performances are solid but the story is just not there - the effect is like a fancy chef making an amazing sauce to put on pig slop.

26. Boyhood - it's not you, it's me in action. I can see why people would like it but a 34-year old playing a high schooler in a Weak Hero Class 1 Slapstick Edition is no go for me.

25. Castaway Diva - it's so precious and kooky in the most annoying ways, with the most well-adjusted abused castaway in history. I like magic realism when done by Jorge Amado, but this ain't Amado.

24. Island - it had a good concept, good cast and fun visuals but the execution deserved one of ML's swords through the neck.

23. The Worst of Evil - if I wanted an American show, I'd watch one. Very solid performances though.

22. Song of the Bandits - period edition of what I said about The Worst of Evil.

21. Welcome to Samdalri - and goodbye to any hope of emotional involvement.

20. Joseon Attorney - I have yet to like a single sageuk centered around a profession and this was not an exception. I guess it could be worse but it also could have been so much better.

19. Twinkling Watermelon - everyone loved this drama. Everyone except for me. It's the kind of precious that sets my teeth on edge and I couldn't stand half the main characters we were supposed to root for. I guess I like my fruits to shine steadily.

18. Our Blooming Youth - probably the biggest disappointment on this list. This is not a bad drama by any means, but with that cast and that story (I loved the novel), I was hoping for a memorable sageuk not merely all right.

17. Vigilante - it has the emotional complexity and nuance of a punch to the throat but it gives us quasi-gay openly-murderous dudes going after psychos and Yoo Ji Tae holding feral Nam Joo Hyuk by his hoodie at his feet.

16. The Forbidden Marriage - expected nothing but it was a surprisingly enjoyable trifle of a costume drama that was also quite pretty.

15. Arthdal Chronicles: Sword of Aramun - a hot mess but such an entertaining epic one. And it gave us TWO Lee Jun Kis in period gear and who am I to cavil at the bounty of God?

14. The Story of Park's Marriage - it's a trifle, a souffle, so light it might blow away, but it keeps my attention and is so fun and sweet.

13. My Lovely Liar - a huge surprise, that manages to mix a murder mystery and a romcom, and shocked me by showing Hwang Minhyun can act.

12. Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938 - the original ToNT was my fave drama of its year and I did not think it needed a sequel. But this is not a sequel but more of a side-quel and is such a total delight with brotherly love, adventures, romance and hijinks. It's a joy.

11. Perfect Marriage Revenge - it's actually very hard to do a soap right but this slim 12 ep drama managed. So fun, so crazy, such a good ship!

10. My Lovely Boxer - not really about sports, but about two broken people finding salvation because of and in each other. Also, if you like age gap romances, this is delicious. Sort of loses steam by the end but c’est la vie.

9. The Secret Romantic Guesthouse - this was a sageuk that was not on my radar with a bunch of actors I was not familiar with but it took my heart away. A good plot that was perfectly paced, characters and ships I adored, a logical ending. This is one of the biggest positive surprises of the year for me.

8. Tell Me That You Love Me - a slice of life remake (sort of, it's more "inspired by") of my favorite jdrama of all time. It's not as good as the jdrama because nothing could be, but it's an aching lovely story with some incredible performances.

7. See You In My 19th Life - funny and romantic and haunting and hopeful and odd. This was one of my favorites of the year.

6. Alchemy of Souls: Light and Shadow - it's rare for me to like a (1) sequel (2) with FL actress change (3) that is a Hong Sisters drama. But this was such a gorgeous, surprisingly achy story of love and loss and love regained with some cool monster fighting in the middle. Between the two seasons, this is the first Hong Sisters' drama I enjoyed from beginning to end in well over a decade.

5. My Demon - so tropey (chaebols, supernaturals) but it proves that these tropes are popular for a reason. The chemistry is fire, the story is unpredictable and the whole thing is an addictive delight. A rare drama where I like each new ep more than the last one.

4. Goryeo Khitan War - an old school sageuk in every meaning of the term (no romance, no eye candy, lots of bearded men, battles and politics), this feels like watching an epic movie more than a drama. The vast cast all earns their place and the performances (mainly from character actors given a chance to shine) are incredible.

3. Call It Love - two very very damaged people finding love and healing with each other. This is a narrative very hard to do to my satisfaction but when it's done well, as here, there are few things that can hold a candle to it.

2. My Dearest - a masterpiece of cinematography, narrative, performances. This is an old-school epic romance in the best sense of the term. If it doesn't make you swoon or break your heart, there is something wrong with you. A story of two untraditional, strong-willed, flawed people who fall in love in the middle of the horrifying Qing invasion of Korea and have to deal with all that the world throws at them, this is a bona fide masterpiece.

1 - Moon in the Day - who knew my favorite kdrama of the year will star a store brand Domyoji from Extraordinary You and an actress I was never familiar with. But this part period/part modern fantasy tale of doomed cursed lovers is everything I knew I wanted and everything I didn't know I wanted but did. Two lovers where their love did not save them and in modern day it might not again, has got me obsessed the way I haven't been in years.

FAVORITE DRAMA

Moon in the Day - if there is such a thing as a drama made perfectly for me, this gorgeous, emotionally haunting, utterly romantic, twisty tale is it.

WORST DRAMA

The Escape of the Seven. This drama is proof that demons exist and not sexy ones like Song Kang but horrible nasty ones who delight in the torment this hot mess inflicted on its viewers.

FAVORITE MALE CHARACTER

Do Ha, Moon in the Day - a Silla general and a consummate killer who committed atrocities on the orders of his monster father and yearned to die for them, who found the meaning in life in loving his enemy but it did not make him better, a man so obsessed he literally was around for 1500 years of horrifying ghostly existence and still went "worth it" for a woman who killed him as long as he knew she loved him while she did it. He's intense and competent and beyond fucked up and has never had a normal day and I love him so so so very much from a safe distance.

FAVORITE FEMALE CHARACTER

Gil Chae, My Dearest - she starts out as vain and spoiled but the horrors that break so many others bring out all her fierce survivor potential and she becomes such a force of nature - capable of incredible love but also sacrifice and strength and compassion.

Runner Up: Shin Hye Sun's reincarnator in See You In My 19th Life - quirky, damaged, strong, so odd and so vulnerable at once.

NEEDS TO BE MURDERED

There are a lot of characters who fit that category (King Injo in My Dearest? My God) but the crown belongs to So Ri Bu from Moon in the Day. You think you've seen abusive parents but until you've seen a man abuse his son his whole life and then continue for 1500 years after his death, you ain't seen nothing!

FAVORITE SHIP

The doomed by the narrative OTP of Moon in The Day. Only thing that's better than enemies to lovers is enemies while lovers and their impossible relationship where her killing him is a supreme act of love and his refusing to let go is so strong that he stays around for 1500 years watching her, helpless as she dies over and over again, is everything you ever want.

Runner up: Jang Hyun/Gil Chae, My Dearest. They are so strong and so damaged and it takes them so long to figure out what they feel and what the other person feels but their love and sacrifice and complexities are perfect.

FAVORITE SECONDARY OTP

Kim Shi Yeol/Hong Joo, The Secret Romantic Guesthouse - an assassin bodyguard pretending to be a carefree scholar and a widow of the man he killed to protect his king (and whose life was destroyed as a result.) I enjoyed the main OTP of this drama but I was utterly and completely unhinged for the secondary couple.

I'd have probably picked Rang and his mermaid from TotNT 1938 even over them, but they really were the main OTP of that drama.

NOTP

King the Land couple seems like an easy target but honestly, they are both so terribly bland and antiseptic and marketing by committee, they kinda deserve each other. So I am gonna go with Destined with You, one half of which thinks supernaturally roofying someone into loving them is cute and the other half thinks dating one woman while wooing another is totally a-ok. Ugh.

FAVORITE SCENE

There is no competition for the scene in the slave market in My Dearest, where Jang Hyun finds Gil Chae - the way he screams and tries to clutch the hem of her skirt will live in my head forever.

And the scene where he 'wins' that horrifying bet, or the scene where she finds him in a pile of bodies - they are as good also. Or when he fights off a squad to protect her even though he's sick. That whole drama is perfect.

Runner up: the scene of Do Ha executing Ri Ta's family, covered in blood, as she looks at him from the crowd in Moon in the Day.

Or the scene where he talks about how he cannot live as a person but at least maybe she will kill him and he will die as one. Or when her confession in the past intercuts with his walking in the present, or when he comes home in his bloodied armor and she finds he has a fever and it's the first tender touch he's probably ever known. Her murdering So Ri Bu saying she knows she's going against filial piety in loving her parents' murderer, the way they hug, both bloody, as he says "let's live." The way she says she can't go on as she's hit rock bottom and he replies she cannot quit because she must accompany him to his rock bottom now. Honestly, the drama is a font of amazingness.

Also, the opening scene of Goryeo Khitan War or the scene of Yang Gyu ordering to shoot the captives and having to do so himself.

The OTP meeting again at the intersection at the end of ep 1 of Tell Me That You Love Me. SHS comforting ABH as he's having a traumatic breakdown in 19th Life. The love-making scene in Call It Love. There were a lot of great scenes this year.

BIGGEST CRUSH

Lee Jang Hyun, My Dearest - is that even a competition? He's flawed - vain, often emotionally closed off, not great at processing emotions, lashing out when hurt. He is also incredibly heroic in a real, knows the cost but bears it, kind of way. Whatever he does, he commits utterly but it's never without understanding the cost. He felt both larger than life and utterly real. He went through hell and maintained his soul and the way he loved Gil Chae was breath-taking to behold.

Runner Up: Yang Gyu, Goryeo Khitan War - an experienced military commander who wins an impossible victory even as it ravages his soul. Competence is sexy as fuck.

BEST SCENE STEALER CHARACTER

Rang, Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938 - 1938 really was Rang's chance to shine and he took it. For a character I started out disliking in the original, he really stole my entire heart in this drama. I am so glad he got his happy ending with his brother and his girl.

Runner Up: Crown Prince, My Dearest. He started out as a sheltered, spoiled aristocrat, convinced the world owed him for existing. He grew up slowly and painfully into an amazing man. And then was murdered for it and I cried.

NEEDS A SEQUEL

Arthdal - it leaves the story at a good stopping point but it's very much a "world in flux, adventures and conflicts continue" ending and I would love to see more of these characters. I know we won't but it would have been nice.

NEEDS SCISSORS TAKEN TO IT

Behind Your Touch - should have been snipped at birth.

TOO MANY SCISSORS TAKEN TO IT

Vigilante - I don't mean it had scissors taken to it because it's not cdrama and there is no NRTA, but this drama would have benefitted from being longer. I mean, I love fights and gay polycules as much as the next tumblr person but a bit more character development would not have come amiss. (ahaha - I said come. Leave me alone.)

TROPE THAT NEEDS TO DIE

I don't care about cops/doctors/trash collectors/whoever - workplace drama centering on their "cases" needs to die. I hate procedurals from any country and Korea is no exception.

FAVORITE TROPE WE’VE SEEN A LOT OF

Supernatural critter devoted to their OTP with all the power of their long life.

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT

Our Blooming Youth - it was far from terrible but it was a giant meh. I was so excited to see Park Hyung Sik in a sageuk (that wasn't the hot mess that was Hwarang) and I adored the source novel. It actually started well and then...it's like Revenge of the Beige!

BIGGEST GOOD SURPRISE

I want to say Moon in the Day but to be honest, I was excited by posters and trailers so it wasn't wholly a surprise despite not having much of an opinion on the actors before I saw them. So I am going to say My Demon. I was bored by the trailers, I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a Kim Yoo Jung drama and before this year I would have said Song Kang was an incredibly limited actor in everything I've seen him in and not appealing to me at all. And here I am rabidly rabiding for this drama!

If I am not limiting myself to dramas but can use this for actors - Hwang Minhyun in My Lovely Liar. I genuinely did not think the man could act and then he gave such a pitch-perfect, nuanced performance out of nowhere!

2023 DRAMAS I HAVEN’T SEEN THAT I MOST WANT TO WATCH

I have actually watched all the kdramas that aired this year that I wanted to check out except for Evilive. I am saving this for when I have time.

BEST NON-2023 DRAMA I’VE WATCHED IN 2023

I don't know if I'd say it's the best but Say You Love Me (2004) with Kim Rae Won as a quasi monk seduced away from his true love by an evil older woman was a hell of a ride.

MOST ANTICIPATED

Love Song for Illusion (Lady assassin falls for her royal target who has two personalities), Captivating the King (lady spy falls for her royal target who is tormented) - notice a theme? Also Flower that Blooms at Night because Honey Lee in a sageuk, The Life of Mrs Ock (Lim Ji Yeon in a sageuk), The Love Story of Chun Hwa (an "erotic" sageuk, hmmmm, what?!), Hong Rang (Lee Jae Wook in a super angst sageuk), Queen Woo (that cast and set in Goguryeo!), Wong Kyung (about Lee Bang Won's wife and I love the cast.) Basically, if it's period, I am there with bells on.

#kdrama #year in review #my dearest #moon in the day #call it love #tell me that you love me #goryeo khitan war #tale of the nine tailed 1938 #tale of the nine tailed: 1938 #The Secret Romantic Guesthouse #my demon #the story of park's marriage contract #perfect marriage revenge #Alchemy of Souls: Light and Shadow #see you in my 19th life #my lovely boxer

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am-i-the-asshole-official · 4 months

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WIBTA if I confront my friend about doing things I suggest for the two of us with my ex instead?

I (24F), my friend Lily (24F) and my ex Jamie (25NB) have all known each other for 6 years. Jamie and I split up 5 years ago but we’re on good terms and are friends.

Within the past year I’ve been trying to hang out with Lily, but either she shoots down every idea I have or she’ll commit to it and then blow me off right before the date. Shit happens, I get it, but almost every single thing I have suggested she then goes and does with Jamie.

It started simple. We were going to watch a tv show together, Lily told me to wait for her because she wasn’t free the day the series dropped. So I waited, and then she cancelled plans to watch it with me and told me “yeah I’m just not interested in it anymore” to which I was like ok fair. But then two weeks later Jamie mentioned to me that they and Lily watched the entire show and that I might like it too. Lily’s suggestion :/

It’s not just stuff like this. Lily and I are both artists and I suggested an art trade and she agreed, I drew her character then she never drew mine and instead started a trade with Jamie. When I asked her about finishing the trade she got all snappy at me and said she didn’t have the energy to draw my character. She then drew four more of Jamie’s characters.

We were planning to get our ears pierced together, then Lily bailed last minute saying she didn’t want it anymore. A month later she got them pierced with Jamie.

I think the most egregious example was when Lily told me she wasn’t feeling good and couldn’t make it to my birthday party, but when Jamie posted a picture of the two of us at my place suddenly Lily felt better and was on her way :/

I know Lily has feelings for Jamie. Jamie told me that Lily has asked them out about 8 times and they think the crush is cute but frankly they’re not interested in Lily. But it’s beginning to really piss me off and weird me out that Lily is taking all my hang out / fun activity ideas and trying them on Jamie. I think it’s because Jamie is my ex.

For a few months I stopped hanging out with Lily at all because her flakiness was pissing me off but then she started messaging me and asking me to hang out more and saying how much she missed me. And yeah, I miss her too, but it’s getting to the point where I feel like tearing my hair out bc it feels like she’s using me for fun activities to suggest to Jamie.

So will I be the asshole if I confront her about this? Or will I just seem jealous/posessive of my ex?

What are these acronyms?

#aita #am i the asshole

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monocle-teacup · 3 months

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I keep thinking about GHOST’s cybertronian rights violations. I just finished the season, I bought it on dvd, and it bugs me how GHOST is just super evil. There’s not a lot of nuance there. Tarantulas shows Nightshade a device that GHOST made that erases Cybertronians’ memories. There’s also the devices Optimus and Bumblebee use that control what form a Cybertronian stays in. Croft gives Mandroid free will over using Decepticon prisoners as his experiments and Croft tortures a Decepticon at one point seemingly for fun. Being a Cybertronian on the run with GHOST around sounds like a nightmare. I don’t understand why Optimus goes along with it for so long. Megatron seems to protest more against it but none of the other GHOST cybertronians do. It’s definitely a writing flaw for me. I don’t know how season two will handle the fallout of GHOST’s actions and those affected by them. Those who were imprisoned will be rightfully upset. I feel like TFP Optimus never would’ve sided with GHOST (I know TFE Optimus is a different version of the character) Thoughts?

The writers definitely went out of their way to make GHOST as over the top evil as possible. What should've happened is that the organization should've been presented more as a necessary evil which is how OP views them going by his dialogue to Dot and Megatron. He knows GHOST is shady, but he doesn't see a better option since the TFs are effectively stuck on Earth and think they're the last of their species. If the show didn't make OP into a moron so often, this version of the character would be interesting to explore how he's more willing to do some questionable things for what he feels is the greater good. That must be a Prime trait going by Quintus' actions in Prime Time.

TFP Prime would definitely have more of an issue with GHOST and I feel like he'd be more likely to bail on a partnership with them if he found out what it was they were actually doing.

A lot of GHOST's tech involves use of excessive force which is horrifying, but what else are a bunch of run of the mill humans supposed to do against giant alien robots that are literally walking weapons of mass destruction? The show has an obsession with making most of the Cons into giant metal teddy bears but let's not kid ourselves that there's definitely bots out there that ACTIVELY MEAN HARM.

I find it hard to believe that GHOST won't exist in some form in Season 2. An organization of that size with the amount of extra stuff they had running on the side (Bot Brawl) wouldn't completely disappear over night. It would also be a good opportunity to see Schloder's reaction to what Croft was actually up to.

The writing can come across as the creative team hoping the audience doesn't think too hard about things.

#tf #tfe #transformers #transformers earthspark #tf earthspark #earthspark #analysis #op #optimus prime #earthspark optimus

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phoenixyfriend · 1 year

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if you’re doing the fanfic trope mash up, can i suggest 42 and 56 for jangosoka?

Fanfiction Trope MASH-UP: Send me two (2) tropes from this list + a ship and I’ll describe how I’d combine them in the same story.

This ask meme is from over a year ago. Please don't send new prompts.

42. The Big Damn Kiss

56. Awful First Meeting

Okay, so: time travel, as is standard for this ship

We'll say Ahsoka is ehhhh 23, has been doing Fulcrum stuff for five or so years, is very competent but not perfect. She falls into the past, as one does, shows up about a year pre-Galidraan, so Jango is 21.

Ahsoka has slipped into some undercover work, eeling her way into the upper echelons of society, attending galas and events and so on in fancy dresses and jewelry. How is she funding this? However you want. Maybe she robbed a Hutt. Maybe she has the codes to some shadow accounts nobody knows she's accessing. Maybe she found teenage Bail and talked him into bankrolling her based on The Future. Doesn't matter.

(Actually, the Bail thing would make a great fic on its own, especially if Ahsoka were young enough to pretend to be his girlfriend. Tell me that wouldn't be hilarious. Not here, but somewhere. Bail is absolutely in love with Breha, but like... the fate of the Republic! The fate of the Jedi! That's a cool thing to be doing! With a cool person!)

Point is, she's lying to a lot of very wealthy, very dangerous people when she shows up at these things. She could have theoretically tricked her way into being someone's long-term date, but that would mean dating to attend more than one, and she's not doing that. Better to just pretend to be the heiress to a company from the rims that's very rich but not quite rich enough for everyone in the Core to have heard of.

She is using these events to spy, of course. Slipping into hotel rooms to slice datapads, bugging white collar criminals with a tap to their favorite watch, wandering into servant's tunnels while pretending to be drunk, all the usual fun stuff.

She gets caught, of course.

Jango's side of the story starts about when Ahsoka's does, with him hearing tales of someone stealing information and sabotaging deals, and he gets hired as security by one of those especially important events. He keeps an eye on this, and he... notices Ahsoka.

He does not notice her as a spy, but as a person who is being harassed by an intoxicated, rich old man, whom she'd clearly like to ditch but cannot safely do so.

(At least, as far as he can tell. We know her better than that.)

Jango steps in, because it's not like he's got a lot to do right now, and intercepting drunk old men has been about the only interesting thing he's had to do all night. Ahsoka... I mean, she thanks him. Technically. She doesn't hide her distaste for him as a person. Jango would think this is just about him being Mandalorian, except she doesn't react as negatively to any of the others. She's neutral and ignores most of them, but there are two moments where she interacts positively, laughing at a joke or something. So. She just doesn't like him.

The night ends without incident. It's not until weeks later that there's an information leak. It could have happened during the party Jango was guarding, but it could have happened at any of three other incidents that same month. There was at least one midnight break-in, several days after the party; there's a solid chance his presence did discourage whoever this spy was from engaging, and made them delay their actions to a Plan B.

Months later, he's doing personal guard duty for the king of something or other. It's another gala or fundraiser or coronation or--honestly, he doesn't care. He's getting paid to keep this one specific person safe, and that's all that matters.

He's not the only mando there, so when he sees a young woman, vaguely familiar, stumble out of the hall with an expression that says 'drunk' as much as it does 'roofied,' he doesn't commit any dereliction of duty by excusing himself to just... see that she's okay. The woman is familiar, even if he can't place her. That usually means something; what if she's an assassin he's run into before, here to kill his client?

(That really is why he's following her. If she's familiar but unplaceable, that usually means she's In The Business.)

He follows her at a safe distance, and sees her ask for a bathroom, get pointed in the right direction, and then... go down the wrong hallway, and enter a room that he's pretty sure is supposed to be locked.

He gives it a few seconds, edging closer slow enough that his boots can't be heard (the music and carpet both help muffle the noise, but he's still wearing a lot of metal), and then opens the door to a library-esque space.

The "drunk" girl is hard at work slicing into a computer terminal she 100% should not be at.

They stare at each other.

"Give me one good reason to not shoot y--"

"I can give you intel on Death Watch."

Jango pauses. Considers. It is not his job to keep information safe, this time. His job is to just keep one specific man alive, and this is an unrelated crime.

There are footsteps in the hall, and he sees her start to look around the room for an exit route. He tries not to think too hard on how she was planning on making the very-much-screwed-into-the-wall vent work.

"Fine," he says, and she looks quick at him, and then at the door, and then disengages from the computer and hops the desk to--plaster herself against him?

She giggles, high and drunken, and fumbles for his helmet. "Oh, come on, Mr. Mando, just a kiss? Just one ki--I told my friends I'd run into a Mand--ma--Mandaloriana... Just a kiss! I wanna--wanna one-up 'em..."

He hears the door crack open, and has no idea what he's supposed to do to play along to this... cover? Cover, sure. "Ma'am, I'm on a job."

"And you can't play? Your friends are totally--"

There's a cough from the door, and Jango turns, and the security guard that actually works here is grimacing.

"You can't be in here."

They manage to talk their way out of suspicion, something about how she claimed she'd seen something important but was just trying to seduce him, does the guard know anywhere a drunk guest can be deposited? Thanks.

She does give him information, but she disappears before he can learn anything more about her.

(Galidraan is avoided, oh so narrowly, because of what she gives him. He may never know how close it really was.)

Months pass. He gets invited an event that isn't a job, but is rather some large gladiatorial event. He's not a fan of it--he's pretty sure the fighters aren't nearly as voluntary as people are claiming--but he goes. He watches.

A familiar face enters the arena. He stiffens.

His helmet can zoom in and analyze, and he finds that the cuffs she wears are Force-dampening.

Definitely not willing.

He dithers too long to figure out how to help, or if he even can, because she wins her fight (no deaths in these matches; makes it expensive to find new combatants), and is ushered out, and Jango himself is invited to an afterparty. Someone tells him that the winning gladiators get to attend. It's a reward, the food and fancy outfits. Even 'the pretty one you seemed to like' is going to be there.

People are still pretending that the combatants are voluntary. Jango grits his teeth. He goes.

He finds her, removes his helmet, meets her eyes from across the room. She is bruised and bandaged, but alert. She blinks at him, slow and measuring, and then taps her lips twice.

He doesn't understand, until she signs--where did she learn Mando battle sign?--and asks him to lie and say they're a couple.

(Well, she's using battle sign, not actual MSL, but he's pretty sure 'cover spouse you self extraction' is... yeah. Sure, that sign for cover is usually about cover from fire, and 'spouse' is a splice of 'law' and 'partner' that is usually hard enough without trying to hide everything, but he thinks he got the gist.)

(He does kind of owe her; the information she gave him was more useful than he'd expected, and even if it hadn't been, he can probably convince her to share something else as 'payment' for getting her out of this.)

He stomps through the crowd, pushing people out of the way, and then sweeps her into his arms and bends her backwards to plant the showiest kiss he can on her.

He holds it long enough for the silence to spread, and then pulls them back upright, closes his eyes, presses his forehead to hers, and hopes that it's enough to sell it to the people around them.

His hands drift down to her wrists, a calculated move that looks natural if he's lucky, and asks quietly for them to remove the cuffs.

Jango Fett is a very heavily-armored, heavily-armed man. People read into his quiet the way he wants them to: that he is very close to slaughtering a whole lot of them, and trying incredibly hard to stay calm.

There are cuff removals, and 'negotiations' for Ahsoka's freedom (he still doesn't even know her name, but he hears the fake she gave to the people who arrested her), and she leaves the planet on his arm, and on his spaceship.

She explains that getting arrested and sent to the gladiatorial arena was part of a greater plan, but that her extraction partner was delayed. They might be dead. She doesn't know, but she was already planning her own escape. She tells him she's gotten out of worse scrapes before.

The fic would end with them separating, and her promising to come find him again. Any sequel would involve a reveal of the Future thing, possibly after a one-night stand.

#ahsoka tano #jango fett #jangosoka #star wars #the clone wars #sw legends #time travel #phoenix answers memes #this was meant to be a 'how would you' not-fic but it ended up. half fic

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@checkadii

I literally just woke up so this is the worst time to post this but ngl I have this problem where I wanna talk about it but I blank so fucking hard and fall flat on my face that I end up not talking about it anyway out of sheer embarrassment.

I'm not good at structuring my thoughts properly either because of ADHD, but here goes I guess.

I usually gotta segway into the topic if it's relevant to the conversation usually via,, friend convo, I don't know how people do deepdives of characters and whatnot I can't do that. I'm not sure why that is, this always has been a thing for me where I've got some level of understanding and my own HCs and such but they're not written or anything, so I can't express them.

To me Postal is just a silly series (minus P1 and Redux), not to be taken too seriously. So I don't really think about the "lore" that it has so much. I can ramble about Postal: Brain Damaged tho, that's probably my favourite cos of gameplay... And the designs as well as the soundtrack. It's just such a good game, I never thought shooters would ever be a genre I'd like to play, as I was so against playing them (thanks Half-Life for opening up my eyes). I can say definitely with confidence that retro styled FPS are especially something I find fun? Not on intense difficulty or anything either, I usually can't go above normal.

I've listened to "Straight Outta Suburbia" for like over an hour straight, I'm pretty sure even during while I was drawing one of my BD sketches lol

Back to Postal in general, I frankly haven't done enough "research" on it where I can properly speak about it aside from the games I've played (P1, P2, Paradise Lost and P:BD) And they're all games that are super different from each other (aside from P2 and PL, but even then). I'd also say I'm still pretty new to the series, speaking as I haven't played all of the games yet. Frankly, I was planning to just stick to P2 and that's it, glad I didn't.

Postal 1 I remember making me feel all sorts of weird things when I both played it and after I finished it. The load up intro scared the shit out of me the first time I opened the game, to where I had to pause for a minute. And it kept spooking me each time I did open it. I think that was kinda the point of the game as it's pretty dark compared to it's counterparts. I won't get into the lore of the 1st Dude cos I've seen people pluck at each other's feathers over the interpretation of him. But essentially, guy looses his shit during an episode, starts killing everyone. (Or just, "hostiles", depends how you play the game.)

P2 is so wildly different (aside from the fact that you can shoot people) that when I first opened it I was so confused how I was met with THAT Dude. I was surprised to hear him talk more beyond than just "BLEED" or "Only my weapon understands me". At the time I was also wrangling personal fears and feelings(which I don't know if I wanna get into, let alone if people would even wanna hear it lol) over playing the Postal series, so my initial expectation towards the game was:

"Okay, I know this is going to have some offensive shit in it, there's parts that won't be fun probably." And hoped for the worst, surprisingly a lot of the stuff in it I didn't find that bad, most of it is definitely fucked up, but nothing I couldn't handle, surprisingly. I played neutral-y, so I only attacked whoever attacked me, but I'd bail if I had the chance.

Paradise Lost plays similarly to Postal 2 (as it's literally the same branch of game just in the form of DLC). But I've found myself enjoying it way more than Postal 2, mostly cuz I found some of the jokes in it actually funny.

P3 I haven't played because I got rick rolled by RWS on the website so I'm not gonna play it out of spite </33 (But I've seen gameplay)

Postal: Brain Damaged is like, even more different than the previous entries as it's a retro styled shooter. But it has the charm of a Postal game and MAN is it good, I think the fact that it was released more recently is what made me enjoy its humor more. And it just!! Is so fun in general like wow, I'm still processing playing the game and I've already been thinking of replaying it because of how much I've enjoyed it. Definitely recommend trying it out.

AND WOWWW this has gotten long oops. Sorry.

I wanna note tho that, although there are aspects of Postal I enjoy, there's a lot of them that I don't, namely the offensive bits, some of them are genuinely fucked up where I can't go past them even in a comedic sense. Which I think is OK. I still enjoy other parts of it :^]

#this is such a long ramble I'm soo sorry #There might be typos dnhdhw #I'm not maintagging this do not perceive me #nines rambles #<- LITERALLY

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monty-glasses-roxy · 3 months

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Been talking about Roxy being cute and nice a lot lately. I just wanna say she's petty as hell, causes trouble on purpose for funsies, will absolutely throw hands if a competition gets too heated or just cause she can, absolutely vicious with her words if pushed, destructive as all fuck, and does not need another excuse to punch Freddy so hard his head falls off.

She's literally banned for life from Fazerblast she and Freddy hate eachother that much and Freddy is notorious for never banning anyone for more than a day at most. Roxy has seen the inside of Fazerblast a whole two times ever. To be fair, she hates cheaters and unfair games so with her fancy eyes, she wouldn't feel comfortable playing when she has such an unfair advantage she can't switch off, but that's not the point. Their beef is so bad that Glitchtrap fucking bails on Freddy whenever Roxy catches them luring a kid because he doesn't want to get his shit kicked in while she has way too much fun doing it. It's on sight. No fucks given.

Roxy is the bane of the managers and the staffs existence. Unless the rules make sense to Roxy, she's not following them for shit. What gets them is that the higher ups really like Roxy for some fucking reason, and by that, I mean her misbehaving makes them money. She was pre-programmed to play acoustic guitar, violin, and the drums. She was primarily meant to be the band's drummer but this motherfucker found an old ass keytar in the dusty as basement and fell in love with it. Showed up to her debut, too late for anyone to have a chance to stop her, and played keytar instead. Literally kept deliberately stealing the spotlight to give herself a solo or to drag out the song a little bit longer, she had an absolute blast with it and because the audience loved it, she fucking got away with it.

If literally any of the others had done that, they're convinced they would have got in such big trouble they'd be at risk of getting scrapped. Yet they're currently watching the staff hastily swap Roxy's art and posters for new ones without the drums like it was totally fine what she just did. And she never stops doing it! The others start to join in with it, but god damn that's frustrating at first, even more so when she refuses to stick to the script for five fucking seconds.

She's sworn in front of kids a good few times too. Wise enough not to do it in front of parents though, but it has happened and she's barely got a slap on the wrist for it. The higher ups don't really like when she ignores the pass system and takes kids into attractions they don't have a pass for without charging them, but it's only one or two every so often it's fiiiinnneeee... Bonnie did that one time and they had a real go at him though and she couldn't help but laugh about it cause haha lmao sucks to be him sounds like he did it wrong smh what an amateur!!

She's the king of getting away with shit. She'll find a loophole to anything she doesn't agree with, make her own rules, or just straight up not get caught. She's also the king of never letting anything go ever. If you wrong her, she will not let it go until justice has been served you mark her fucking words.

She's also a pretty sneaky lil shit. She's the fastest in the Plex, can see through walls and has the perks being a guard dog to Mimic gives her too. If she doesn't want to be found, well shit, she's just gone and no one has any idea where to. Completely vanished. Is she even still in the Plex? Who fucking knows!

Prides herself on being able to find anything and anyone in the building just you fucking watch. So long as it's in the Plex, she can find it. Don't ever doubt her on this. She will not hesitate to prove it. She loves showing off too much to let it slide, she will bet her life on being able to find shit and while sometimes it does take her a while, she's yet to meet her match.

The manager was threatening to scrap her one time when she was feeling particularly ballsy after she'd done something actually serious, and she really did bet her life on being able to find something. This fucker didn't believe anyone could be that fucking stupid, and given how much trouble she causes, it would be nice to kick her down a peg... She found the prototype drummer Roxy figurine he asked for within the hour. And then a plushie of one of the much older Bonnie animatronics within a day. And then a discontinued arcade cabinet his daughter wanted to play within the week. Like god damn she was not joking whadda hell. She's so fucking smug about it too like god. Whadda hell.

There's so much more to say about her there's just so many elements to her personality I could do this all day lmao

#fnaf security breach #roxanne wolf #i talk so much about her being good and cute and as fiercely loyal as can be #but she's also a little bit dense. proud and petty as hell shdhis #these are the multitudes of roxy lmao #long post

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carelessflower · 8 months

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angel for angel

The music blazed around them, people lost in the feel, in their heartbeats, in others.

"So, spill it." Izzy took another sip of her cocktail. "What's made you suddenly change your mind, dear brother? And to this specific place." She eyed Alec and took in every changing detail on his face. It wasn't that Angel was a bad club, it was quite the opposite. The design took guests from one level of amazement to the other, classy yet sensual, the lights shone like galaxies.

She was very much surprised she hadn't heard of this club before, yet her what-a-party-can't-we-just-stay-home brother did.

"I just feel like changing the air for a while." Alec tugged on his black shirt's sleeve, probably the tightest piece in his closet. He's made an effort in his appearance overall, the black leather pants that were buried deeper than their mom's wine collection were finally brought to use. Izzy would be impressed with her brother if she didn't catch how he constantly looked at some scene behind him.

"Are you gonna go talk to him or continue acting like a creep?" Of fucking course it was Magnus that got her brother possessed and illogical. Who else?

"I can't, Izzy. He didn't want to see me." Alec looked miserable. Izzy hated it. Hated all of this. She hated that it happened. She hated how she couldn't blame it entirely on Magnus for the breakup, or that he broke her brother's heart.

Magnus was dancing with somebody, even from a distance, she could feel the energy radiating from him, that spark no one could resist. He was enjoying himself, at least. It had been half a year or so, there was more in life than one's broken heart, Izzy knew that from experience.

She sighed.

Alec needed a distraction, cornering him into a wall would only lead to him closing off again. At least, not today.

"Look at your face, Alec. Raziel, I thought they banned misery at the club. Tell you what, I'll call Jace here, we're gonna get shit-faced, wake up with a joint headache tomorrow and hear Mom complain for three hours. Deal?"

Alec smiled lightly. It wasn't big, but it was a hopeful start. "Deal."

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Izzy came back to her brother missing. She was nearly at her breaking point.

"Jace, do you feel Alec is in danger?"

"No?" Jace scrunched his eyebrows. "He is warm...and fuzzy? Not quite drunk either, just really excited."

Her phone buzzed in her pocket. She turned it on and read the most recent notification. I'm leaving. You and Jace have a fun night. Don't worry about me.

Well, that was most definitely the best way to make people stop worrying.

"Should we track him?" Jace was already ready with his stele.

"Let him be," Izzy said. Maybe Alec needed more time for himself. "We'll intervene if he gets caught in trouble."

The next morning came, and Alec still hadn't come back. Despite Jace's attempt at assuring her that Alec was absolutely better than fine and probably the happiest he had been in a while, Izzy felt the need to call him for confirmation.

One long pause.

Two long pauses.

"Huh— hello? Izzy? Did something happen?"

"No, everything is fine." She paused for a moment. "Where are you Alec? You totally bailed on us last night."

"Oh shit, I'm so sorry. Something came up and hey—" Alec was ...laughing? What the fuck? "Magnus! Stop it! Control yourself, I'm talking—" On the other line, it sounded like the phone had fallen somewhere. Perhaps Magnus's bed.

She needed some time to take all of this in first.

Alec picked up again, the joy was undeniable in his tone. "Ugh, so sorry for that. My company has no manners." Izzy could practically feel how they were looking at each other right now.

She calmed herself down. "I don't care when you're coming back. I want a detailed report on whatever went down, or else Church might find new chew toys in your closet. Understood?"

"Fine."

"And tell Magnus I say hi."

"I will—" The line cut off.

"What happened?" Jace asked. "And why you're smiling?"

"Fate finds its way somehow." Izzy rolled her eyes but she knew how happy she was. Magnus left Angel with an angel in his arms. They were so ridiculous.

for @malectober day 1 prompt angel

#malec #malectober #alec lightwood #magnus bane #shadowhunters #tmi #tsc #the mortal instruments #the shadowhunter chronicles #anh writes stuff #this take kinda longer than i expected

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I say this as a Nate Hater but what frustrates me internally is that emotionally, I kind of understand why he's upset or maybe feels neglected? Like Andy had issues speaking up in the movie like she promised to show up for his birthday party instead of giving him a heads up which I think is a bit shitty but overall Nate is deeply unlikeable & a hypocrite so like :/ maybe if he had better communication skills instead of being a manchild he'd have a point. Also! While I would be upset in his position during the birthday scene I would be more upset that my partner decided to bail on a lucrative job party & reevaluate myself but that's just me rip to Nate I guess

i think the whole birthday fiasco in the movie just went to show that not only Nate is still extremely immature but that Andy and Nate’s entire relationship is very immature and lacks communication. i mean if i was in that situation i would also be sad that my partner didn’t make it to my birthday party and in that way i do feel for Nate. but he loses my sympathy pretty fast because he’s been shown throughout the movie to be completely unsupportive to Andy with her TEMPORARY job as soon as it doesn’t benefit or please him anymore. the birthday situation was really just the icing on top of the cake for him because it showed that he completely lost sight of the bigger picture and didn’t really care about Andy and her dreams more than himself and what he wanted

for example - Andy had said over and over in this movie that this job was only for one year. literally one (1) year to use as a stepping stone for her writing career. most of us at some point in our lives have had to do something similar for an extended period of time that isn’t easy or fun but we have to do it to get where we want to be. whether that’s school, internships, a temp job or what have you. and the job is difficult and time consuming yes, but it wasn’t going to be Andy’s career. one missed or rescheduled birthday party isn’t the absolute end of the world, especially if that delayed night led said partner meeting people that could kick off her career which was the entire point of her taking the job in the first place. I would be horrified if my partner lost a once in a lifetime opportunity just because they knew I would throw a tantrum if they didn’t come home asap.

Also Nate is literally a cook? like has he never had late nights where he can’t make it home in time? Is he able to leave the kitchen in the middle of service because his girlfriend will get mad that he can’t come home? doesn’t sound like any New York job I’ve ever heard of lol. and in the end he was also moving to Chicago for a new job himself and already knew that Andy would drop everything to come see him/move with him

this whole scenario just shows that Nate and Andy were not on the same page anymore and were just not compatible anymore. Andy grew up in this movie and Nate stayed the same and resented her for changing

#the devil wears prada #devil wears prada #andy sachs #andrea sachs #answered #anonymous

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Eurovision 2023: #14 & #13

14. ESTONIA Alika - "Bridges" 8th place

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Decade ranking: 40/116 [Above Circus Mircus, below TBA]

Tweak some bangs, Alika's Shart.

It is amazing how a few on-point tweaks can make a song significantly more appealing. I went up and down on Alika throughout the months, but a year after I've put her low on the pre-show ranking I am ready to lock in my final verdict: Bridges is kind of really good.

Ofc there were huge problems down the road cuz you know, vocal masturbation ballad in a BorisBubbles ranking, and also, clear jury carry the year after Marius Bear and Nadir Whatshisgjon, but Estonia ironed out their most glaring flaws, so what else can I ask for? I got what I wanted.

Estonia's problem for me, as I've come to realize once I started liking Alika again, was always one of aesthetics, and specifically visual aesthetics (keep that in mind when I rank Europapa low for the lack of bags-over-head (lol if I rank ESC2024 to begin with (I mean, I probably will (I am not readly to enter that discourse yet tho (regardless, that haircut is a capital offence))))). A big inherent flaw of vocal flex ballads like "Bridges" is the lack of dynamism and emotional gravitas (as the vocal technique goes against these principles - "loud" is a pitch, not an emotion) - it's a flaw that comes with the genre and that's something only charisma can fix. Pre-show Alika looked like she'd been dragged out of a river and then SHOUTED into a mic without moving, so yeah, that's where I bail. Slimane your way into someone else's simple and easily-impressed heart please, I Am Not The Demograph. (-- Alesia Michelle).

The version in Liverpool though was - by textbook definition almost - a glow-up. Alongside her Jenevelle hair, Estonia actually put Alika in a beautiful gown and made her move around. Observe:

NOW I SEE MAHSEEL BEELDING UP A WOALD OF BREEECHEEEEEEEEEES

Apparently a lot of people were mesmerized by the self-playing piano but for me the biggest factor in selling "Bridges" was just Alika herself. Props are nice embellishments but the true art of live performance is when score and vocal come together via the power of Personality. Which she finally showed in Liverpool after what felt like an eternity.

By allowing Alika to just do... idk, Alika things with her body lang, face and hands, Estonia broke the monotony of "three minutes of loudness" and made it fun, camp and digestible. If theres anything The Gays (me) like, it's a neat lady doing silly things with fierce confidence. Yasss Go Slay Queen.

Ultimately, a lot of people think Alika's top 10 is nonsense and a strike against juries and here I disagree. That a strong glow up and performance such as Alika's went unappreciated by the televote is a huge strike against the televote, not the other way around. I am happy she got her spot in the limelight, and 8th place is a good, if somewhat generous representation of what she brought. I'll never be a huge fan of the song "Bridges", but at the end of the day Alika really ate that live, and that's something worth rewarding.

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13. POLAND Blanka - "Solo" 19nd place

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Decade Ranking: 39/116 [Above Alika, below Stefan]

"ARIANA GRANDE IF ARIANA HAD NO TALENT" -- my immediate instinct when i first heard "Solo"

Were my instincts wrong, though? Her lack of performance skill and talent, the online response, the severed heads of Jann and Iru she keeps mounted on a pedestal in her boudoire. Blanka was the Mery Bass of 2023. She has no business being this good.

btw yes, lmao so hard that THIS ENTRY was somehow one of the more controversial ones in recent ESC. Honestly, the 13th place I'm giving here is at least half thanks to the controversy which made "Solo" feel iconic - it is exceedingly funny to me that it caused so much outrage for... existing? What did Blanka ever do? Certainly not rob better acts - Listen to Jann and listen to Iru and tell me straight-faced they were better.

BEJBA! IS KINDA KRAJZA!

As a song, "Solo" was always fun femmetrash. Ever since Eleni the majority of the Eurovision girlbops have been attempting to recreate Fuegos with varying successes - Competently staged with intricate choreographies to commemorate our inner faggotry. "Solo" represents a style of girlbop that's gone out of fashion - the "Aphrodisiac"-like basic bop by useless bitches for useless cigs. (Fuego is what gays see themselves as, Solo is what they actually are). Aphrodisiacs have become nearly extinct at Eurovision because they nearly always lose the NF nowadays. So thank you Jann for performing 'Gladiator' in Scooby-Doo vocals so that we could witness Bejba fullfill her beautiful destiny in Liverpool.

And what a destiny it was. In a way, most of the things I wrote about Alika also apply to Blanka. A few small tweaks to the performance can make the whole a lot better. Unlike Alika though, who ampted up the sophistication, Blanka went a route I respect more: She listened to fan feedback.

Slight paraphrasing:

Fans: "EWW BLANKA HAS NO TALENT, CAN'T DANCE, CAN'T SING, WON BASED ON MONEY!!!" Blanka: "... so? 🙂"

I don't know WHEN Blanka decided to be everything the fans accused her of (talentless, washed-up, plastic), amped up to comical levels, but thank fuck she did because it made her instantly epic. It is rare for a Eurovision artist to address her online haters by Now I Betta Troll'em, Troll'em, and Blanka as it turns out is masterfully skilled at trollery. She elevated it into an art.

The Cheap VFX <3

The badly performed wooden choreos <3

The Dutch angles <3

Doing the Eleftheria thing of having your backing vocalist sing over you, while you mug the camera with semi-fierce faces and placeholder hairflips.

Accused to having no performance skill or talent? Add in a cheap dance break anyway, and enjoy every second of it, live your dream while they fume on Twitter, angry that Poland qualified over Georgia.

Guess where I am, honey? 💋 I'm in the final. 💋 And I'm here to stay 💋 :dramatic cymball:

"Solo" was incompetent, plastic and a huge mess, and that was great because it was all deliberate. That made it epic. Poland really took all the negative criticism they received and yanked it up to 11 and it made the entry better. If that isn't a taunting flex in the face of toxicity, I don't know what is. Given how venomous the fandom has been since the pandemic, that is an approach to life I can totally get behind.

THE RANKING

AND WITH THAT WE MADE IT OUT OF THE MILD LIKE ZONE, HOO-fucking-RAY. Now bear in mind that the next few eliminees are very LOW lush greens and there's quite a few of those before we get to the really good stuff, but eh. Soon I'll be able to talk about the songs I loved, and that's always a treat.

#ESC 2023 #Eurovision 2023 #Liverpool 2023 #Estonia #Alika #Bridges #Poland #Solo #Blanka #BorisBubbles #Youtube

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Got inspired by everyone sharing their amazing mc’s from @disenchantedif and figured I’d share a few of mine!

Verity Park

Species: Sorcerer

Route: Viktor/Theo poly

Fun facts:

- she got her nose pierced on a dare from Theo. Ten solid minutes of Viktor attempting to talk them through why doing this at home was a bad idea later, it was done

- she is that drunk girl in the bathroom giving solid life advice and providing tissues & a shoulder to cry on. She’s been the demise of a few relationships after helping someone realize that they deserve more

- she was a ballet baby. Do not cross. You think you’re safe until you face the (unlikely) wrath of a woman who grew up knowing how to survive pointe shoes and work them easily

Outfit Inspo:

Jacqueline Payne

Species: Nephilim

Route: Lucia/Cameron poly

Fun Facts:

- she’s a strong swimmer, and an even better diver. She’s got a scary precision to almost everything she does

- immediately after her and Lucis first kiss (bitter ex lovers back to lovers y’all), she thanked her. She was so flustered after doing that that she decided to cap it off with an honest to god handshake like she was entering a job interview

- after they begin dating, she’ll occasionally stalk out stan Twitter (or whatever equivalent) just to find the especially complimentary (or downright hilarious) tweets there about Cam. Any “I want them so bad” is likely to be followed by a “same”

Outfit Inspo:

Hayden Dalton

Species: Banshee

Route: Charlie/Avery poly

Fun Facts:

- they knit for the people they love. They have an excellent eye for design of that sort, and the patterns are soothing. Their entire friend group has a knitted item from them- Theo and Vik the most. Luci got one too- one they made as a thank you. They didn’t have the heart to take it back.

- they ate an entire bucket of popcorn through Carrie once, so they’re most often cuddling whoever gets scared by horror movies because it is definitely not them

- they appreciate a good weighted blanket to be sure, but a fluffy rug is the way to go for them. If you’ve ever seen a cat kneading, it’s exactly like that. They’ll be laying there at 2 in the morning just. Vibing.

Outfit Inspo:

Savannah Asturias

Species: Cambion

Route: Harlow/Wraith poly

Fun Facts:

- she is a dirty fighter in snowball fights. She’d pout her way into convincing Harlow and Wraith that something needs to be checked out just to turn her relentless stack of snowballs on them

- she’s an excellent chef. It’s a hobby that turned into a skill. She raids Harlow’s closet before she begins cooking because cozy

- she’s the one most people go to to get bailed out of situations. She’s extremely tactful when it comes to disarming the situation, and comfortable with making a few assholes uncomfortable if it helps to get the situation over with

Outfit Inspo:

#disenchantedif

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ghostofskywalker · 2 years

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Better Together

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Summary: While on the way back to Coruscant for a short leave, the 501st has declared an all out prank war, and you team up with Anakin to win. Once the others figure out what you have done, they set out to force you to admit your feelings for your fellow Jedi, the only way they can think of: get you locked in a closet together.

Requested By: @captainsophiestarkwriting with the prompt “if we get caught i’m gonna blame it all on you”

Note: Sophie i absolutely loved this prompt!!! All my Anakin fics so far have been more movie focused, so getting to write some potential 501st shenanigans during the clone wars was so fun! it’s a little longer than i first intended and kind of got away from me a little (one of the few times i’ve changed a fic’s name since planning) and i really hope you enjoy it!!

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You could tell everyone was excited for the time off as the ship got closer and closer to Coruscant. It would still be five rotations until you disembarked from the Resolute and got to enjoy exactly one week of leave, but morale was high among the men, and you’d be lying if you said you weren’t looking forward to some time to yourself as well. You hadn’t even been with the 501st for that long, only having joined them for the last month of their most recent campaign, but war was taxing on everyone, no matter what they were doing.

Because you didn’t have a battalion of your own like Anakin and Obi-Wan did, your official title was “Auxiliary General,” and you often jumped between squads of troops, offering assistance on some of their more challenging offensives and missions. For the last month, you had been working with General Skywalker and the 501st, who had quickly become your favorite group of men to assist (though you would never admit that to any of the others). They were incredibly competent in the field, fiercely loyal to each other, and they were also the most fun to spend time with between skirmishes and battles, because there was always some kind of shenanigans going on.

You knew this time would be no different when you walked into the mess hall one day with Anakin and Ahsoka to see Fives and Hardcase grinning wickedly and waving the three of you over. The table they were sitting at was full of troopers, and they all had smiles on their faces as well, some laughing about something you couldn’t quite hear.

“What are you smirking at?” you asked as you stepped into earshot with your fellow Jedi. “If you’re up to something, I don’t want to know about it.”

“Who says we have to be up to something?” Fives asked nonchalantly, the smile not leaving his face.

“You look like you just found out the best news in the world,” Anakin pointed out. “And I’ve known you all long enough to know that means you’re up to something.”

“You wouldn’t be wrong,” Jesse cut in. “But I think this is something you’re all going to want in on.”

You raised your eyebrows at him. “And what’s that?”

“A prank war of course.”

“You do know we’re not actually on leave yet, right?” Ahsoka asked.

“Not technically,” Fives agreed. “But all we’re doing is heading to Coruscant, so unless a battle materializes around us I think we’re good.”

“So what do you say?” Hardcase asked, the other around him eagerly waiting for your answer as well. “Are you in or not?”

You and Anakin exchanged glances as Ahsoka accepted the challenge immediately. “We’re in, but there needs to be a few rules first,” Anakin said, and you could see Echo nodding in agreement at the table.

“Like what?”

“First of all, none of the pranks or jokes can be illegal,” you said. “On the ship you have a little more leeway as long you don’t impede the pilots and other crew doing their jobs, but I don’t want to have to bail any of you out during our week planetside because you got picked up by the Coruscant Guard.”

Thankfully, that was an easy enough condition to get everyone to agree to. “Anything else?” Fives asked, clearly eager to begin the prank war and unleash whatever he had been cooking up in his brain on his brothers and the rest of you.

You shot him a pointed look, and Echo piped up before you could speak again. “I think we should limit the pranks to only those who have agreed to participate,” he said. “And if your prank hits someone who wasn’t part of this, you’re out.”

“That’s a good idea,” Anakin said. “I don’t want anyone caught in the crossfires.”

“Yeah,” Jesse laughed. “Rex has enough stress to deal with.”

Everyone nodded in agreement once more as the other rules were laid out, all simple enough to remember but clear enough that there wasn’t any confusion. If you got pranked, you were out. No cheap shots at others by using their weaknesses or phobias against them, and no serious injuries (Kix was insistent about that one). Finally, the pranking would only officially begin as the chronometer announced a new standard day (not a moment before), and it would end either the last day of your Coruscant leave, or when there was one person left standing (no revenge pranking allowed).

When everything was said and done, there were nine people participating: Fives, Echo, Jesse, Hardcase, Kix, Tup, Anakin, Ahsoka, and yourself. After dinner everyone went their separate ways, and you could already feel the watchful stares on you as everyone started to become wary of what used to be friendly gestures. You were one of them, and you headed off to your quarters to start to devise a plan, half wondering whether or not you should have agreed to join them in the first place.

Once away from the watchful stares of the troops, it was easy to think of things that would irk them enough to be considered a prank but were harmless enough that you didn’t cause any injuries. Fives was the easiest to plan for, he was the most vain out of all the clones you met, so you planned to mess with his appearance in some way (maybe a bucket of water or paint over his head? Or some subtle embellishments to his armor?). Others were harder to think of something for, like Ahsoka, and you literally had no idea how you were going to prank Anakin. The two of you had been close friends since you were padawans, and most of the things you thought of were ranging on the rule to not prey on a person’s weakness (and besides, there was no sand on the ship you could use even if you wanted to).

You were so engrossed in your thoughts and plans that you barely heard the door open, and you didn’t register that anyone had stepped inside your quarters until you heard Anakin’s voice. “Hey.”

Quickly, you pulled your datapad close to your chest, trying to hide your notes just in case he had come to spy on you. “What is it?” you asked, your tone obviously suspicious. Normally, you wouldn’t have any problem with it (and your feelings for your fellow Jedi would have had you encouraging a late night rendezvous), but now you were on high alert, wondering if he was going to try to get you out of the prank war first.

Anakin closed the door behind him before speaking. “I wanted to see if you wanted to work together in this whole thing.”

As much as the two of you working together sounded like a good idea, and it wasn’t against the rules you all established, you were still suspicious. “Why?” you asked, not bothering to hide the wary look you gave him.

“Because I overheard Jesse and Hardcase talking, and they were teaming up to get Fives and Echo,” he said. “I figured that if they’re going to work together, we might as well too.”

It made sense, and you hadn’t even considered the notion that people might make alliances with each other when you had agreed to the rules in the first place, but you still didn’t want to agree right away. “Why me? Why not team up with Ahsoka?”

“Ahsoka and I bicker too much for any planning between us to work out,” Anakin said, and you had to see his point there. The two of them were bad enough on the battlefield, which meant something low stakes like this would only give way to their arguments more. “I just passed her in the halls and she narrowed her eyes at me before telling me I better not try anything, so I don’t think she’d be too keen on teaming up.” You laughed. “And besides, I like spending time with you.”

You tried not to pay attention to the way your heart fluttered at his words, keeping your face neutral as you nodded. “Well, if the others are teaming up, we’re likely going to be targeted sooner than we think,” you said. “But if we get caught I’m gonna blame it all on you.”

“I figured as much,” he said as he laughed brightly, and you wanted to treasure that sound forever. “What do you have in mind?”

***

Echo couldn’t help the laughter that bubbled out of him when Fives walked into the ship’s barracks two days later, covered head to toe in bright pink paint. “You look nice,” he said, laughing even more at the murderous look his brother shot him. “Who got you out?”

“I don’t know,” was the response, as Fives started to take off his armor, pink paint still dripping off it as he piled everything on the floor. “I think this is Y/N’s fault honestly. She was the one with the best access to the paint, which I didn’t even know we had on here.” One of your duties aboard the Resolute this time around had been cataloging inventory before and after any battles, making sure you didn’t run out of supplies food, or other things the ship may need to function (like mechanical parts).

Echo didn’t want to make an assumption yet, but you were a pretty logical candidate for this prank. “Have you spoken to Y/N lately? This isn’t exactly something that can be set up and left for a while.”

Fives shook his head. “No, the last person I spoke to was General Skywa…” he trailed off as he realized what had happened. “I bet they’re working together!”

But before Echo could say anything in response, the door to the barracks opened to reveal Jesse, Hardcase, and Kix. “Who’s working together?” Kix asked. “And why do you look like that?”

“General Skywalker and General L/N,” Fives responded. “They got me out.”

“You don’t know that they’re the ones who got you out,” Echo cut in.

“Well, are any of you responsible for this?”

Everyone in the room shook their heads. Hardcase, Tup, and Ahsoka had been eliminated from the prank war already at this point, so so the only people not present who could have been involved were you or Anakin, and Echo trusted his brothers when they said they didn’t have anything to do with this prank on Fives. “It makes sense that they’re working together,” Kix reasoned.

“Yeah, because they’re in love with each other!” Jesse laughed.

Everyone laughed and nodded in agreement at his words, it was clear as day that you both had feelings for each other that you never acted on. Suddenly, Fives’ face lit up like he had an idea. “What if we got them back?”

“We can’t,” Hardcase said. “There’s no revenge allowed.”

Echo started to catch on to what he brother was suggesting, and he nodded. “Maybe you can’t, but Jesse, Kix, and I are still in the prank war. And as long as they don’t know we’re having this meeting, shoving the two of them into a storage closet somewhere and forcing them to talk about their feelings doesn’t really seem like revenge.”

There was no arguing with his logic there, and everyone immediately started to figure out how they were going to get the two generals together. Maybe it wasn’t exactly a prank, but it was something that was long overdue in their opinion.

***

You were currently taking inventory of one of the closets in the medbay, your head almost spinning as you counted bacta pads and marked them down on your datapad. Kix had asked you if you would help him with the medbay’s inventory last week, as this was an important thing to make sure you had right. The GAR would be placing an order for more medical supplies to be given to the 501st before they go on leave again, so you wanted to make sure they got what they needed.

“Can you go finish the inventory in the other supply closet?” Kix asked, popping his head up from where he had been counting bottles of disinfectant. “It’s just at the end of this hallway.”

“Sure,” you said, sending him the numbers you already had on your datapad and leaving the room. You had no reason to suspect that there would be anything waiting to scare you in the closet when you got there, Kix had asked you to help him before this prank war had even been proposed, and frankly, he wasn’t the type of person to pull those kinds of pranks. And you were right, the storage closet was completely empty (other than the medical supplies you needed to count) when you stepped in, and you quickly fell into a routine of taking inventory.

By the time you were about halfway done, you heard a small commotion outside in the hall. You caught snippets of what sounded like Anakin’s voice, along with the voices of a few troopers.

“Guys, I said I was fine, you don’t need to-”

“Nonsense General, we should still get Kix to check you out.” That sounded like Echo, and you wondered if this was a prank, or if a prank had gone wrong.

But the voices continued to grow louder, even as you were sure they passed the entrance to the medbay. “Guys, what-” Anakin was asking, and you found yourself wondering with him what was going on.

At that moment, the door to the supply closet opened and Anakin was shoved inside. The unmistakable sound of a locking mechanism engaging filled the small space, and you gave him an inquisitive look. Instead of a response, he just held a finger to his lips to ask you to be quiet and started to call out to the people who had locked you inside. “Really funny locking me in an empty closet guys, top marks for planning on this one.”

No one responded, but you heard hushed whispers and footsteps retreating back down the hall. “Empty closet?” you thought you heard one trooper ask. “I thought…”

After staring at Anakin for what felt like forever, you finally spoke. “What’s going on?” you asked quietly. You and him were practically on top of each other, as this wasn’t exactly a walk in storage closet.

He shrugged before responding. “I’m guessing this is some kind of prank, but I have no clue what they’re trying to achieve if it’s not ‘make the general late to an important meeting so he can get reprimanded by Obi-Wan,’ because that’s all I can think of.”

You wondered if this prank was supposed to be targeting you, because you knew that at least Fives was aware of your feelings for your fellow Jedi, and he teased you about it sometimes. But surely this would count as using someone’s personal weaknesses against them, right? And he was already out of the prank war, you and Anakin had got him yesterday with a carefully placed bucket of paint in one of the hallways. As you opened your mouth to respond, you could hear footsteps once again echo through the halls outside.

Anakin’s hand reached out and grabbed yours, and there was a sly grin on his face. “Wanna help me get those idiots back for locking us in here?” You nodded, unsure of what he would do. The footsteps down the hall were growing louder by the second, so you knew people were likely coming your way.

Seconds before you heard the locking mechanism start to click once more, Anakin’s hands moved from holding your hand to resting on your waist, and he pulled you into a kiss.

For a second, you thought this was some kind of dream, and it took another moment for you to remember to kiss back. His lips were warm and soft, and you couldn’t help the way you melted into the kiss as he held you. For a fleeting moment, you didn’t care one bit that this was really just an act, you never wanted to forget this moment.

As the door to the supply closet opened, the sound of Kix’s voice let you know that you had been discovered. “Y/N, are you-” You and Anakin pulled apart from each other. “I was going to ask if you were done with the inventory yet, but I think my question has been answered.”

You could hear shouts of laughter from just outside the hall, and it clicked that this had to be a prank, but you just didn’t know who it would be for. Was the target you, who Fives wanted to admit your feelings, or Kix, who had to be the one to walk in on you and Anakin kissing? And if it was the latter, how did they get every piece to fall in place so perfectly?

Kix stepped back so that you and Anakin could him into the hallway, where Echo, Jesse, and Fives were standing. They had stopped laughing at this point, but the smiles on their faces were still ever present, and you knew they were somehow responsible for this. “What are you idiots so happy about?” you asked, eyebrows raised.

“Nothing.” The three of them said together, and before you could say anything else, they all had made excuses about needing to go do something and seemingly disappeared into thin air, only adding to your theory that they were behind it all.

Once Kix had disappeared back into the medbay, you turned to Anakin. You tried to keep your face neutral, because as far as you were aware, the only reason he kissed you was because he was trying to surprise whoever was opening the door to the supply closet. “This doesn’t have to change anything between us,” you said tentatively, not sure how to broach the topic. “I know this was all in the name of the prank war.”

“I don’t regret kissing you if that’s what you’re talking about.” His words took you by surprise, and you couldn’t help the way your jaw dropped just a little. “Unless you want to forget it, then-”

“No, I don’t!” you said quickly. “I just wasn’t sure if you wanted to acknowledge it.”

“I’ve wanted to do that for a while,” he said, and you briefly wondered once more whether or not you were dreaming.

“Me too,” your voice came out much softer this time, and you felt Anakin reach down and take your hand.

“Would you want to go out to dinner with me when we get to Coruscant?” he asked quietly, a hopeful look in his eye.

Not being able to help the smile that crossed your face, you leaned up to place a gentle kiss on his cheek. “Of course I would.”

As he wrapped you in a tight embrace, you couldn’t fight the knowing suspicion you had that a few of the clones were the ones to thank for this, but you didn’t want to give them the satisfaction of being able to tease you about it just yet. Right now, you were just happy to be in Anakin’s arms.

- the end -

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xplrvibes · 6 months

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Did you watch JC's Squid Games stream? Sam and Colby were attached at the hip almost the entire time other than during the marbles game, it was so sweet. They support and look out for each other so much, their friendship is truly friendship goals.

(Also the moment when the announcer asked if they trusted the others stood in their circle with their life and SnC just turned to stare at each other and it was like 'yeah, those boys really do at this point.' And at the end when the 4 finalists were getting ready to battle out with the egg and spoons you could see them both in the background stood shoulder to shoulder, grinning widely while chatting to one another. Just 2 cute friendship moments I saw).

I'm just happy they had fun, I think it probably served as a good distraction for Colby and it looked like Sam was just trying to be there for him, serving as a good friend, but it looked like he had fun as well.

I actually did wind up watching most of it, actually, which is surprising to me (considering how much I dislike watching stuff on twitch haha).

I was back and forth all day on whether I thought he'd come or not, tbh - knowing Colby, he hates to let people down or bow out of stuff and yet, he really should be taking time for himself or figuring out a way home - and I had a feeling that if Colby bailed, Sam would also bail cause I don't know that he would've felt good participating in that without Colby. So I tuned in just to see if they showed up and I was surprised when JC announced that they were coming, they were just going to be late.

The entire chat was team Colby through a lot of it, sending him love and hugs and well wishes. I kind of wish he could have seen that or been made aware of it, especially when they first got there, cause he just looked wrung out and sad when he first walked in, before he put his game face on.

By the end, he at least seemed to be having fun, so I guess it was a good distraction and mood lifter, if nothing else. I'm glad he had a good day.

Also, there was nobody better for him to get with in a "do you trust this person with your life" challenge than Sam, lol.

I truly hope that he is done now with any obligations he feels he has to anyone else, and he goes home and thinks about himself and his family from here on out. NO MORE STREAMS, COLBY. GO HOME.

#asks #colby brock #sam and colby #sam golbach

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whileyoureinschoolidothisallday · 2 years

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so about that possible pandemie video chat fic...👀

I have a scene in my head where you’re asking about the League, and whether or not Touya is still allowed to talk to them.

“That’s shitty.” You pout when he says no. “I thought it would be really fun for us to play games with Shigaraki. He sounded like he was a pretty chill dude on his off time.”

And this of course makes Touya defensive. “He wasn’t. One of the grossest guys I’ve ever met. And he was a brat. You wouldn’t want anything to do with him.”

“Aw, c’mon, he couldn’t be that bad,” you tease. “Can’t be any worse than you anyway.”

He sucks his teeth. “You know it’s rude to talk about hanging out with a different person when you’re already with someone else. What, am I not enough for you or something?”

“Oh, please don’t be mad. That’s not what I meant at all,” you say, and your face and voice soften so much he bites his cheek for snapping at you. You poke at your fingers bashfully. “You just don’t seem like the type to like games and I thought maybe one of your other friends could convince you better.”

“They’re not my friends. And I like games.”

Your eyes light up and it solidifies his decision. “You do???????”

“Yeah. Me and Natsuo used to play them all the time.”

The key to a good lie is to tell a little bit of the truth in it. He did like games. He played Shogi and card games, and even if he was bad at them he didn’t hate playing sports. But watching Shigaraki and Spinner scream at their computers for hours on end made video games seem like a pointless waste of time. Even watching Natsu play them as kids, he never got the appeal.

But now he has a problem. Because you’re so excited, and being stuck in this house and talking to you has made him so infuriatingly soft that before he knows it he’s agreed to sign on tomorrow and play some kind of survival game? A fighting game? You were talking too fast for him to remember. You were so happy when you logged off he didn’t want to disappoint you. So now, like some idiot, he’s spent the rest of the day locked up in his room learning everything he possibly can about this game and he’s not any closer to getting better at it.

Eventually, he relents.

“Natsu. Hey.”

He shakes him harshly, and when that doesn’t work he lightly slaps his face. “Hey! Get up already, I need your help.”

Natsuo rises, blinking and only half way registering the conversation. “What--What is it? What’s a matter?”

“You play Fantasy Moon Fighters, right?” Touya absolutely hates the way that sounds coming out of his mouth.

And it must sound just as ridiculous as it feels, because Natsuo is fully awake now. “...What?”

“You heard me! Do you play it or not?”

When Natsuo says yes, he spends the next twenty minutes listening to his eldest brother go on a rant about the current situation. He only gets bits and pieces. Touya rants kinda act like a rollercoaster swerving back and forth between various details before conjoining into a single point. They make you dizzy to keep up with if you’re not used to it. It’s something to do with you. It’s something to do with the game. It’s something to do with how stupid he’s being, which is almost always a point in any rant.

But most importantly, it’s something familiar.

Touya hasn’t been receptive to the reunion at all. He locks himself in his room and doesn’t even come out for dinner--Yumi’s settled for just leaving it outside of the door. It’s like the only thing keeping him from bailing all over again is the court order. It was starting to piss him off. Fine! If he wants to drag us through the mud with everything that he did and not even bother to fix it, that’s his problem! Even dad’s trying more than him!

But this was different. This was right. His big brother was in his room in the middle of the night, ranting and raving about some newest obsession, but the obsession isn’t their dad or his quirk. It’s you. He’s this amped up because he’s nervous about losing you. He likes you. He’s never seen his brother really like anything. For once, he’s fixated on something good.

And maybe it’s a concern that he’s just projecting his obsessions onto a different person instead of actually getting them under control. Maybe it’s a sign treatment isn’t sticking as well as it should be. But psych wasn’t his major. And if it was gonna be an issue, it’d have to be on a different night.

Because right now, for the first time since this started, he truly felt like he had his big brother back.

“So are you gonna help me or not?” Touya says impatiently.

Natsuo looks at the clock. Five hours until his classes start. He looks back at his brother’s wild eyes and smiles.

“Yeah. I’ll help.”

#touya todoroki #dabi #natsuo todoroki #dabi x reader #HAAA I TRICKED YOU #bet you thought you were getting cute reader stuff #NOPE IT'S CUTE SIBLING STUFF #anyway if I figure out a plot for this I will definitely write it #The Evil One #sometimes I do this thing with words

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fluffydavey · 1 year

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Roommate prompt: “so, uh… how’d your date go?”

roommates to lovers || prompt

Jack's laying down on the sofa, one arm hanging low whilst the other holds a book he's trying to read. He's itching to paint, an idea that won't leave him that he knows he definitely can't start with a paper due.

He's not able to concentrate on a single thing that he's reading, his mind wandering every second word to where his roommate is. Or better yet, who he's with.

Davey had hurried out of his room dressed in his figure-hugging jeans that sends Jack wild every time Davey wears them, and a pink shirt. Jack almost missed it, too focused on how fucking good Davey looked, when Davey slipped out that he was going on a date, with some guy in his journalism class called Darcy.

Jack admittedly doesn't know much about the other guy, but he knows that he hates him. He's just finished FaceTiming with Race, who's been helping him find any trace of Darcy in Davey's social media, feeling like he was going mad in their apartment alone.

It's nearing midnight when Davey returns. Jack looks up surprised, expecting to hear Davey coming home much later. He drops his book, already giving up on the prospect of being productive, and trying his absolute hardest to pretend he hasn't spent the better half of an hour of his life tonight scouring through Darcy's Instagram and Twitter with Race. "So, uh...how'd your date go?"

Davey shrugs his jacket off, taking his time hanging it up. "It didn't."

Jack knew Darcy didn't look like someone who could be Davey's type. He tries to hide his relief, as he sits up to take a proper look at Davey. He's putting on a stoic face, but Jack knows Davey too well to know it's a front. "Sorry, what did you say?

Davey makes his way towards Jack, pointing at Jack's shoes which are now on the sofa. "Feet," he chastises, and Jack sheepishly takes his shoes off. Still, he takes the seat beside Jack, facing the wall. "He never showed up, so there was no date. Go on, make fun of my tragic love life."

"Hey, I wouldn't do that," he says, kicking Davey gently to get his attention. Davey finally looks at his with an exasperated look in his eyes, but Jack sees the smile that's threatening to show. "Look at it this way, you're better off without that asshole. He's an idiot."

"Oh shut up, you just have to say that," Davey says with a roll of his eyes, and he throws his own legs up on the sofa, finally facing Jack now.

"I don't," he begins, watching Davey intently. He knows his friend too well to know that Davey's probably been beating himself up on his way home. "He wasn't right for you, he was an idiot."

"You don't even know the guy, what makes you think that?" Davey asks.

"Because he wouldn't have bailed on a date with you if he had any working brains," he answers, moving closer to Davey. He watches as the other boy swallows thickly, not breaking eye contact. "Anyone would be lucky to be going out with you Davey, you're a real catch."

He knows he's stepping over the careful line they've established, one they've nearly stepped over far too many times, into new territories. Only this time, he's entirely sober and he'll be damned if he has to wait any longer. He's tired of denying himself what he wants the most.

"I didn't want you to go on that date. I don't want you to go on any more dates, not unless they're with me," Jack tells him, watching as Davey's cheeks turn a delightful shade darker. Davey leans forward above Jack, and Jack doesn’t think he’s able to breathe. Davey kisses him, and it’s like the whole world stops.

He wraps his arms around Davey to pull him closer, and Davey's hands are everywhere, poised on his waist, tangled fiercely in his hair and tugging and pulling and Jack is gasping for air, fuck, pressing his mouth as hard as he possibly can to Davey's without losing the ability to breathe entirely, until they finally separate their mouths to let out a choked breath.

"I was wondering how long it would take you to confess," Davey grins, flushed and glorious and breathtakingly happy, as he cups Jack's face.

And this, this is where their friendship has been leading the whole time, Jack thinks. He kisses him again, and again, taking all the time in the world to explore Davey, the way Jack's dreamed of for so long.

#jack kelly #davey jacobs #javid #my writing

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