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I'm having thoughts about Miranda and Shepard's conversation when Shepard warns her about Kai Leng. something about how Shepard asks her to be safe and Miranda refuses to promise that when Shepard can't do the same for her. I'm doing a Miranda romance playthrough right now and in context of a romantic relationship, I find it really fascinating how on the same page they both are with their mortality in this war. they know they both might die tomorrow and neither is willing/able to leave their causes to live for the other but there is some comfort in that. knowing that the person you love and who loves you has the same priorities even if those priorities aren't each other. there is more depth to this romance than I think I was expecting. I kinda love it
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sharperthewriter · 4 years
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Chapter 24 of SFV
Chapter 24 - Day 2: Passing Ships
(2:50pm)
"Here we are, Stoppable troops! South Dakota!" Kim exclaimed as the Stoppable-mobile crossed the state line from Nebraska to South Dakota. "We are going to enjoy a full week of family time and good turkey!"
She then asked her husband.
"Ron, can you check and see if the lemon squares are still good in the back?"
Ron peered his head and saw the container that had the squares.
"They're good so far, KS!" Ron replied.
"Good! We need to make sure they do not get smushed up by any means."
"So that means we're here?" Justin asked from the back seat.
"Nope!" Kim said with a smile, "We still have about 3 1/2 hours of driving left."
"AWWWWWWW!"
Both the Stoppable kids moaned in the back seat, for they were going to have to deal with nothing but the boring South Dakota prairie all around them.
(French Narrator: 30 minutes later)
The Stoppable-mobile continued its way onward up US 83 north to get to Murdo, which was an hour away from their current point. They had just passed the small 1,000-soul town of Mission.
Kim put her hands on the steering wheel, her fingers gripping the rubber. It was relatively peaceful in the van with the rest of the Stoppables sound asleep It seems that all of the issues of the first day and the whole issue with the camper's tire today was behind them.
All of a sudden, she then heard the motor of a convertible. She had not seen a car on 83 for a good solid 15 miles.
Huh? Who could that be in this patch of God-forsaken-knows where?
Looking behind her, Kim saw the convertible, red in color, coming from behind. It was going at least the speed limit, which was 65 miles an hour. The motor of the car didn't wake up the other Stoppables because they were in a deep sleep. The convertible finally caught up to the minivan in the other lane because a) there were no other cars around for miles and b) there was no solid line, so other cars could pass the Stoppable-mobile.
Kim then studied the well-built young man. She estimated him to be in his late-20s, early 30s, He was very well-built, toned, and muscular and was smiling at her. He was also wearing a white tank top to show off the said muscular frame of his and baggy jeans that were a size too big for him, for it showed off his green tartan boxers and he was wearing said jeans below his buttocks.
But the two physical traits that were a dead giveaway to whom he was were a) his blue eyes and b) those frosted tips that he still styled on his hair.
It can't be!
Kim couldn't believe her eyes. Deep within the recesses of her memory bank, she finally knew who he was.
It was none other than her old crush: Joshua Wendell Mankey. This was the first time in almost 13 years that the two had seen each other face to face.
Kim exactly recalled the last time she had seen...or heard about...Josh.
(late-March 2006)
It seemed so quiet and peaceful within the hallowed halls at Middleton High. Kim, a junior at that point like the rest of her friends, grabbed her books from her locker. She didn't have to worry much with cheer practice now that both football and basketball seasons were over so practices were scaled back to just twice a week as opposed to four times a week. But something else occupied the student body at the high school, a four-letter word that elicits beautiful dresses and young boys on the verge of becoming men in tuxedos in a matter of the next three weeks.
Prom.
Everyone else,especially the cheer squad, was trying to figure out who was going to date whom. The star QB, Brick Flagg, was absolutely no contest. It was Bonnie whom was going to take him to the prom, though she wished he would stop staring at the girl with the giant hoops at the mall. As for Jessica, she was with Steve Foley. And for Tara, she had Josh Mankey by her side. For Kim, though, she was SOL. Her missions of saving the world from maniacal villains with global conquest dreams left her very little time in the way of dating. Bonnie, of course, mocked Kim endlessly for this, but the redhead usually ignored her banter.
Jessica, that day, came up to Kim and asked, "Heya, Kim!"
"Hey, Jess! What's the sitch?" Kim asked.
"Oh, you know that we have that chemistry test coming up on Friday, right?" Jess questioned.
"Yeah, I recall Barkin saying something about that. No need to worry, though. I'm going to ace it!" Kim exclaimed.
"Well, I got a text from Ron saying that he may need some help studying." Jess said, pulling out a text from her flipphone of Ron asking for help.
"That's so not like him." Kim said, "He's usually...how do I put it in his words...chillaxin' to a Scamper and Bitey marathon or challenging Rufus to a nacho stacking contest at Bueno Nacho."
"He may have had a change of heart as of late." Jess replied. "He and Tara need help in Chemistry class: Ron from a D to a C and Tara from a C to a B. So I have come up with the idea of a study group to help the both of them out."
"Yes..." Kim replied, knowing that one of the only classes Tara was struggling in her junior year was Chemistry. "...that is a very excellent idea! Why don't we gather at my house for Thursday night before that test on Friday!"
"Sure! What about 6pm?" Jess asked for a time.
"Sounds spankin' to me!" Kim replied, "And can you send a text to her, Monique, Zita and Felix about it as well!
"Sure do!" Jess replied.
(A couple of days later)
"Do we have everyone on board?" Kim asked. It was Thursday evening in front of her house and the sun was going down.
"I'm more than ready to take on Barkin's Chemistry test tomorrow..." Ron said, holding his chemistry book, "...I hope." Rufus, from his pocket, was holding the periodic table.
"I think we do." Zita said. She looked around and saw herself, Felix, Kim, Ron, Monique and Jessica.
"Wait, girl, we're missing one!" Monique exclaimed, "Where's Tara?"
"Dunno...come to think of it, I haven't seen her at school all day." Jess added with concern for her cheer friend.
Kim then felt a rumble from her cell.
"I'll get that!" she said, opening up her phone.
It was a text from Tara saying: Kim, meet me in the treehouse at my house. Bring only Ron and Monique with you.
"Guess me, Ron and Mon will have to head to Tara's to see what's the matter with her." Kim said.
"But what about us?" Zita asked, looking at Felix and Jess.
"We'll meet you three at my room." Kim replied, "Right now, Tara's sitch is more important...whatever it is..."
(10 minutes later)
Kim, Ron, and Monique came to the Queen house. Monique was the first to knock on the door.
Mrs. Amelda Queen opened it.
"Oh heya, Mrs. Queen!" Monique said, waving her hand. "Is Tara around?"
Amelda said, sighing, "The poor thing has been in her tree house ever since last night. Me and Paul were trying to figure out what it was, but all we heard was sobbing from there."
"We'll investigate what it is that's bugging her!" Kim replied. "If there is anyone in our group that has known Tara longer, it's me."
The trio then reached the backyard where Tara's treehouse was.
"Tara? You up there?" Kim asked.
Her question was answered by the sound of sobs.
Recognizing the sound, the trio climbed up the stairs to where Tara was at.
"Tara? What's the sitch?" Kim asked.
Tara's normally carefully prepared wavy blond hair was all messed up. Tears were streaming down her face. She had eaten very little since last night.
"Hey...Kim..." the blonde cheerleader said with a sniffle, trying to wipe away her tars. She then tried to articulate a name.
"J...J...J...J..."
Tara then finally screamed it out loud.
"JOSH MANKEY BROKE UP WITH MEEEEEEEEE!"
She cried loudly into Kim's arms.
(5 minutes later)
After her crying subsided, Kim gave Tara another tissue. The latter blew into it and tossed it aside. Tissues were all over the place around the treehouse.
"He was kissing another girl during Spring Break while me and the family took him to the beach. Apparently Josh was more interested in girls wearing bikinis than my one-kini..." Tara explained, tears still streaming down her eyes, "When I confronted him about this at the hotel, he told me that our relationshp was done and told me to kiss a horse's butthole, to put it mildly. He transferred to Lowerton High after that."
Kim shuddered, "And to think...I had a crush on that blue-eyed cheat!"
(end of flashback)
And now, all this time later, the 'cheat' that she was referring to was now driving on a US highway, all muscular and making goo-goo eyes at her.
Kim then looked at the now-muscular Josh and then back at her husband, still asleep, picking his nose and eating the mucus in his mouth, unaware of what was going on with his wife.
Heya, Kim! It's been a very long while! Josh mouthed without articulating any sound.
Kim, an expert at reading lips, replied sternly, also not making a sound to wake up Ron.
What the Hell do you want, Josh? I do not have time for this! I am on vacation.
Wanna spend some time with me? he said silently.
Sorry, Josh, I'm taken! Kim replied with a sarcastic smirk, showing off her wedding band, Thanks for the offer though!
We'll see about that! Josh said with a wink of his eye as he pulled away from the Stoppable-mobile. The license plate, California by the design of it, had the plate of LUV ME on it.
Kim just gave a look of disgust and kept on driving the Stoppable-mobile.
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irl-ichi · 7 years
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eugh okay this is disgusting but here goes
I had already finished my chores today, caught up on all my shows and manga, reached the top 5 in the leaderboards for my language learning app, already watched my 5 eps of pokemon for the day, didn’t know what else to do.
So, like other things I’ll read/watch purely to torture myself and so that I know in detail what I hate about certain series, I decided to read....Killing Stalking. I knew it was absolute garbage before reading it but I didn’t even know the characters’ names and that made it hard to understand posts about it, stuff like that...
First off, I just wanna say the whole “BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER” thing people mentioned was no exaggeration. It felt so completely random and out of place there is no other way to show this than to actually put the pages here.
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it goes to show more flashbacks of him being creepy or whatever with “because of love” after each one and then there’s a scene where he masturbates while repeating Sangwoo’s name (which I won’t show here) until we see this:
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It literally just flashes bpd in a scary font before jumping right back into this, it’s so unnecessary??
Next point I wanna make is specifically for all the ks fans out there who tried to tell me it’s not a BL, it’s a psychological horror and most of the fans don’t ship them or whatever (despite it being tagged as either BL or yaoi on every site I went on lol).
Now that I’ve read this godawful atrocity I can say with confidence that yes, you are supposed to sympathize with this relationship at some points. The bad things like murder, torture, and rape were framed as bad, I’ll give them that, but the audience is obviously supposed to find the intimate moments when Sangwoo is nice to be endearing.
When Yoon Bum first enters Sangwoo’s house and finds a naked woman chained in the basement, bloody and bruised, tied up and screaming for help, he tries to run away. Sangwoo’s solution to this problem was to break Bum’s legs so he couldn’t run away, murder the woman, and chain him there instead. Then he has Bum start to do things around the house like cooking and cleaning but since his legs are broken he crawls everywhere on his hands and knees. Oh, and I should mention he makes Bum dress in women’s clothes for all of this and often mentions how “woman-like” he is so I dunno add humiliation to the list.
Back to my original point, how could this possibly be redeemed for some “aw so sweet how cute” moments? Eventually after god knows how long of Bum having to either crawl everywhere or be carried around, Sangwoo gets him crutches as a present! Aw how thoughtful!! He broke his fucking legs and let him crawl around in immense pain for weeks without much more than a few bandages and some painkillers, yelling at and beating him when he did any little thing wrong or cried, but look he got him crutches so he can walk on his own now! So they can go out and do cute couple things together!!
This is just one example but seriously every single thing Sangwoo does that could possibly be interpreted as nice is supposed to be viewed as a cute couple thing and proof that Sangwoo loves Bum. What makes it easier is Yoon Bum’s mixed feelings about Sangwoo. He’s traumatized, he’s terrified, he hates him, but he’s also convinced he loves him and is scared of being alone so he begs him not to leave him.
Anyway, onto my next complaint. The yaoi fangirls are bullshitting with this whole ~I like it for the horror aspect uwu~ because the writing sucks. It’s boring. It’s not suspenseful or interesting; the only thing keeping anyone reading this garbage is people’s weird fascination with abuse. We love it for some reason, we love seeing characters getting beaten to a pulp, being terrified of everything, hating themselves with every inch of their being, just violence, violence, violence. Whether physical or psychological, people love to see characters suffer.
If written correctly, it can play out nicely. Give a character motives, development, characterization, backstory, morals...but it needs to be written nicely. It usually isn’t drawn out like this, this is just boring. It’s the same thing every chapter. There’s no satisfaction, no reward, just a bunch of abuse for homophobes to get off on.
In conclusion: ableist mess, homophobia everywhere, explicit rape and incest, pathetic excuse for the horror genre. I’ve read fanfics of children’s cartoons with better written horror, suspense, character development/exploration, and gore.
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