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sidsinning · 11 months
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UNNECESSARY AND UNHINGED RANT ABOUT CINDERELLA'S CHARACTER FROM CINDERELLA (2015) INCOMING
Lemme talk about Cinderella from Cinderella (2015) for a bit actually yeah because these changes to my girl completely baffle me
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She has friends now
Goes outside on her own
Says the only reason why she's staying is because it's her parent's house- bruh.
All of this takes away (+ more reasons down the cut) from the true cruelty of OG!Cinderella's backstory and how it all connects so well to inform you of her character and the actions she takes
OG!Cinderella has been indoctrinated into accepting her life as a maid to her step family since she was a small child. She is never seen going outside of the house besides the night at the ball. The only friends she had were random animals around her she couldn't even fully converse with. She had no other human perspective on her situation or how to get out of it. It makes sense why she's just taking her stepmother's tyranny while holding everything in because this isolation and neglect is all she knows. This is the entire limited scope of her world. A sad reality to many cases of abuse in real life.
And they just. Erased all of this for some. Reason???
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The night at the ball was a big deal because she literally NEVER gets to go out. This is the only time she interacts with the outside world aside from the ending. The impact of that was HUGE in the original movie. The new one just cheapened that imo by implying she goes out in town and talks to others regularly. This event was an impossible, fantastical dream come true to someone who is never treated as anything but a servant to everyone she knows.
Basically OG!Cinderella has it way worse which is what makes the ball such a huge deal in the first place.
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Third point I don't think I need to explain how Cinderella staying in her abusive home bc the house is "hers to love now that her parents are dead" is not a good character change and doesn't make sense. I would understand if her dad was alive and insisting on staying, but he is GONE. It is a building you grew up in sure, but that's all it is. Not something you sacrifice your wellbeing for. So that's a shit reason they didn't need to make up to say why this character is stuck in her abusive household. The isolation and years of gaslighting were enough. (Also showing how much of a frightening presence and manipulative villain Lady Tremaine is.)
And she sure left it quick after getting hitched lol
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The Fairy Godmother having the audacity to test Cinderella with that "oh I'm a poor old woman and I want some milk please" nonsense
Not very godmotherly of her in this version. 🥴 The Fairy Godmother appeared in the original to offer pure comfort to Cinderella in a time of desperate need, when this resilient and kind spirit finally reached her breaking point. The dress, slippers, pumpkin carriage, and magic were all given freely as a present to make her feel better at least for one night.
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Meanwhile this goofy ass Godmother has the audacity to be like "hey is she gonna be nice or not even though she's crying in tattered, recently destroyed clothing- I need to see that or else she doesn't get the magic juice". Like why did this become a way to test her morality all of a sudden? Why did you need something from her to give up the magic goods?? It's not even a good test she just walked a couple steps and poured some milk in a bowl,,,
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Idk man they made their relationship transactional for no reason which taints the original purpose of this scene imo. The original Fairy Godmother already KNEW Cinderella was kind without having to make sure by disguising herself as a rancid old lady. 😭 Weird and unnecessary addition.
Kinda nitpicky here but this film did not at all match the terror of the torn dress scene which really shows you how horrifying and humiliating it was to Cinderella
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AND THE BIGGEST OFFENDER: THE WAY SHE "ESCAPED".
I NEED TO TAKE A BREATH
BECAUSE LIKE. WHAT WAS THAT.
Original Cinderella, seeing a real chance of escape from her abuse, uses everything in her possession to do so. She's yelling for the mice to get the key, to get Bruno to chase away the cat, running down to meet the prince's attendants to make sure they get the proof of her identity from her- and that moment she oh-so-casually pulled out the second slipper??? SEEING HER STEPMOTHER'S SLACKED JAW??? GAGGED US ALL.
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ICONIC
But 2015. Bitch. What is going on. She gets locked up and easily accepts her doom. She just twirls and sings in her prison like a dunce because cINDerELLa wAs aLReADy cONTenT wIth her sMaLL mOMEnts oF hAPPIneSs anD dREamS wItH thE pRinCE.
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Just. Gives up.
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Not the mice begging her to get up and save herself come on now
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The mice have to do their best on their own to push open her window so the prince and his crew hear her on time.
And yeah, all she had to do was open a window.
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WHAT. WHY. HOW. WAS THIS??? MORE EMPOWERING???
1950: use your brain to fight to the very end
2015: quit while you're still ahead, or don't try you just gotta dance and sing all pretty then someone will come along and save you
I'm sorry, but for a production that was so critical of the notion of "Cinderella just waited around for a prince to save her"...is that not literally what they changed the ending to?
You wanna talk about lack of agency in princess stories well here you go 😭
You know what's sad about all this in the end is this is still the best recent live action Disney remake imo LOL
Anyways hello if you've made it all the way down here I rest my case
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weebsinstash · 3 months
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*strums guitar* you know who would be a total piece of shit, to be stuck up in Heaven fuckin FOREVER with
This douchebag! Gotta get some Adam content out before the finale drops and then I'm sure I'll be back for more then too!
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I was listening to "You Didn't Know" again and I HATE this man, and because I hate him and he's an asshole, I can then see his wretched character doing shitty and debauched things
Which then means he's conceptually fuckable and we must discuss
I was sitting and thinking about. Ok in the most dramatic fucking way possible can you imagine being in the courtroom with Charlie as a Sinner Representative because you're dope like that, and Adam just starts fucking beefing with you on sight and you give it right back to him because HOMIE BASICALLY INVENTED MISOGYNY, you're standing in HEAVEN while an ANGEL looks you dead in the eye and calls you a CUNT like I wouldn't fucking tolerate it I'd be screaming at him like a feral beast, "why don't you look at your FEMALE BOSS and say that again, you dickless loser?!"
But can you imagine just having this insane BEEF, you guys are having MUSICAL DIAGETIC SINGING BEEF, and then, like. Either there in court or later on in the plot, hey, everything is good now, Sinners/you can ascend or we can go from heaven and hell and visit our families and everything is good now, yaaay! Or your name was mispelled on a form and it's like oh shit you were supposed to be in Heaven all along our bad and ONLY you are cool to "go upstairs"
And you can't even be happy about it because it's literally "oh cool I DO belong in Heaven!">wait but my friends are in Hell > oh fuck THAT ANGEL THAT HATES ME IS HERE, and sure enough he's standing there at the pearly gates to personally welcome you into Heaven, grinning like the cat that ate the canary, making it EXTREMELY CLEAR that he's basically gonna be stalking you because he wants to personally witness you fuck up and get sent back to Hell where he can kill you himself
Homie is back at base posting photos of you all over the walls like an insane person, "look at this tricky fucking bitch, fucking scheming, fucking planning something, fucking bitch" and even Lute is standing there, ".... that's a photo of them eating a sandwich, sir" and she's like TRYING to see where he's coming from but these are photos of you like SLEEPING and the suspicion that you might act out becomes an excuse to stalk you as he gets progressively more unhinged and perverted and frustrated (in more ways than one)
Let's also just discuss some baseline ideas! Abso fucking lutely do I see him as some, frat boy piece of shit who is always at least vaguely hostile to women so we're discussing female Reader specific ideas. Like imagine he's trying to actually be friendly and be cool with you or maybe you guys even hang out on good terms or whatever, maybe you both play guitar and he likes how you can shred it, and, he's the kinda guy to invite you to hang out and not specify other people are gonna be there so you get there and he's with his buddies and they're all talking about, gross shit like the size of the tits on the girl they last fucked, "oh hey did you sleep with Stacey" "fuck yeah I slept with Stacey you know that slut takes anyone", like, Adam deadass expects you to stand next to him with your red solo cup as they all talk about "the massive cow tits on that bitch" and if you even mildly imply this isn't entertaining "you're just bein a prude babe!"
Like Adam has no self awareness, he'll be saying horrid shit about women and then one of his buddies makes the most MILD of comments about you, "yeah your friend is kinda fuckable" and Adam is like in a RAGE, "hey man, that's not fucking cool! Let's go, outside NOW, fuckin step up, bro!" and he's brawling dudes for shit he's said about their conquests PLENTY of times
Just picturing the idea of like idk Saint Peter or even Emily flying around and they see you sitting on a bench outside far far away from where other people are and they fly down to greet you with the biggest smile, "hiya, how are you?" and you um look at them with such a genuinely dead, depressed, empty expression that they like cannot even fathom it. You're??? Unhappy??? In HEAVEN??? they cannot even comprehend it.
The real kicker is if you started to CRY and look this angel or seraph directly in the eyes as you ask, "can i... go back to Hell? I'm allowed to leave, right?" and THAT'S what raises massive red flags and sends that angel straight to their fucking boss. Sera would be over here, "oh she's having problems with Adam oh that's unfortunate but they'll sort them out -- WAIT WHAT DO YOU M E A N SHE WANTS TO LEAVE????" And,, oh, NOW they suddenly care about how happy you are, NOW they're suddenly willing to help maybe mildly keep Adam away from you. Because why? Because now you're potentially going to damage Heaven's perfect track record, and, geez they can't have you running around DEPRESSED, with your face looking all... ICKY and SAD! What if you made the other darlin-- I mean other residents of heaven sad and they maybe wanted to leave their precious angel protectors too? Huh? Ever think of that?
I love how I was sitting over here "what if like the entire Spider Society was yandere for the Reader" and ever since then my brain is like a puppy chasing treats, "what if I made this entire community mentally unhinged"
Also. Carmilla Carmine and her family + Zestial protecting Reader from Adam or any other angels because 👏 we can have as many mommies or daddies or fake family members as we want down here and that's the facts on that 👏
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wof-reworked · 3 months
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ok I can't stop thinking about the jade winglet, here's my gender hcs for all of them
Moonwatcher - she/they (nonbinary)
I feel like this is fun bc rn (in canon) her gender is just "anxiety" but like,,, one day in the future she gets to actually play around with it
like she captures a very specific type of person I've met who you go "oh I mean I know she's gay but she's probably cis..." and then you have like one real convo and find out they're like not only nonbinary but better at it then you
I think she should get to be butch when she's older. I think she deserves being a) massive compared to her two twink boyfriends and b) gnc as shit
Kinkajou- any/all (genderfluid +transfem)
Kinkajou strikes me as being like. totally ambivalent to gender. Kinkajou changes her pronouns based on how the fruit he ate for breakfast makes him feel. Kinkajou is better than you
I think she was like staunchly using she/her for a while bc it just felt right and like changes pronouns situationally- Rainwing village is she/her, Jade Academy is any/all, close friends it varies, etc etc
Qibli- he/they (transmasc)
Qibli's just always kind of known who he is, and has been like. pretty contentedly in his corner for a while. I think it's like- a pillar of stability for him of like "at least I know I'm (x)"
Proximity to Moonwatcher puts the they/them in there bc I think it's nice when ppl get more comfortable so they start branching out a lil bit :> Qibli has like. guy who says "he/they" because he doesn't mind they/them and wants his friends to feel supported y'know
Winter- he/him (cis + gnc)
Look I feel bad making him one of like. two cis ppl at JMA but like I think it's funny if he's cis but inflicts a status effect of gender envy on every trans person in his proximity
guy who does makeup flawlessly because "it's fun" and decimates your sense of identity as you wonder why the fuck god gave these gifts to a man
extra funny for the fact that as a dragonet he gets offended by the implication he's pretty. he gets over it eventually I think
Turtle- she/her or he/she/they (transwoman/trans)
See here. Otherwise I think she's like trans and this could go in like. any fucking direction ngl
transmasc turtle??? hell yeah !!! transfem turtle??? hell yeah !!! gender is whatever Turtle has going on and god knows if she knows it
last egg to crack bc Turtle is immune to self reflection that isn't anxiety and self loathing
"Haha everyone hates how other people refer to them and their gender what do you mean? :)" (entire jade winglet: cringing with worry)
Umber- he/him (cis)
cis and a lil insecure about it but like. he's just nice :)
he's like experimented with pronouns and gender and found none of them really stuck so like. cis+. cis (extended dlc). you know what I mean I hope
gonna be honest I'm lost for him bc I genuinely forget he was there bc he peaced out so fast. justice for my boy I want to know more !!!!!
I could be persuaded for transman Umber ngl,,, it tempts me,,,,,,
Peril- she/her (trans woman)
On one hand I'm torn bc I think it almost doesn't make sense for her backstory BUT ON THE OTHER HAND the idea of Scarlet being supportive of Peril's identity and LITERALLY NOTHING ELSE is hysterical to me
though actually if we wanna get sad,,,, that 100% could be a manipulation tactic of Scarlet. "see I love you I even accept you" etc etc. now I just feel bad man
Peril's also in the same camp of Qibli of knowing this abt herself since she could think and being happy in it. She knows what she's about
BONUS:
Carnelian- she/they/he (transmasc)
Look butch can be a gender and sometimes you're a mean butch skywing idk what to tell you
wish she stayed alive bc her and Moon could've been legendary together. girl who will kill for you vs girl who desperately wants you to do anything else please we talked about this you can't solve your problems with murder
I think Carnelian's true gender is Skywing Patriot and idk how to put that in hc form but this is as best I've got
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radicalbears · 9 days
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Fun fact: I've started reading Star Trek TOS books this year, and they are a TRIP.
I've read six of them so far: The Vulcan Science Academy Murders by Jean Lorrah, Doctor's Orders by Diane Duane, Strangers from the Sky by Margaret Wander Bonanno, Spock's World by Diane Duane, Sarek by A.C. Crispin, and The Motion Picture novelization by Gene Roddenberry (and also Harold Livingston and Alan Dean Foster since they wrote the screenplay)
I have some Thoughts but this may be long so opinions below the cut!
I can't pick an absolute favorite, they're all so much fun for their own reasons. Objectively, Spock's World and Sarek are the two best, with Spock's World being my favorite of the two. I love any story that takes a long look at the Vulcans- either individual characters or them as a group- and these two do a fantastic job.
The Vulcan Science Academy Murders is not objectively good- the mystery is so easily figured out, some of the book is just a little bit insane, and there's way too many exclamation points- but it is a LOT of fun. Also has a very sweet perspective of Vulcans and the way they care for eachother.
Doctor's Orders is literally just this: Kirk, thinking he'd only be gone an hour, makes McCoy acting captain. Kirk proceeds to go missing. Due to Starfleet regulations, McCoy is stuck as acting captain until Kirk or Starfleet relieves him. (It's very funny watching both McCoy and literally every bridge officer be stressed about this)
My least favorite is probably Strangers from the Sky. It's extremely convoluted- there's a plot where Kirk is having nightmares about a suppressed past memory (a memory that, is being remembered because the events of this memory were recently published as a book), and half of this book is us just. Real-time reading this past memory? Either way, the memory is of the Actual first human-Vulcan meeting- when a Vulcan ship crash landed on Earth before the official first contact. The surviving Vulcans were rescued by a couple kelp farmers, and the story surrounding them is actually really sweet. The Enterprise crew has almost nothing to do with this story, they're only there because of a time travel incident. It really just feels more like the author wanted to tell this story, but because it didn't have any known characters in it, they were forced to involve the TOS cast. Still a decent read, just Very convoluted.
Finally, the Motion Picture novelization. Boy, this really reminded me that there really is not much that happens in this movie, though somehow it's more interesting than the movie. This is not to completely dump on said movie- I don't hate it, but it certainly is my least favorite. The novelization is really cool though because it adds a LOT of context for what Spock is dealing with. We get more of his inner monologue- something I actually wish we could witness better in the movie. V'ger is a really good character foil for Spock- the way V'ger is was Spock's end goal, yet Spock realizes that V'ger nothing like how he actually wants to be.
The word T'hyla is also just. Casually invented in this novelization, with the explicit purpose of describing the relationship between Kirk and Spock. This book ALSO acknowledges rumors of Kirk and Spock dating in a footnote, and has Kirk "address" these rumors (aka make some weird statement that doesn't actually clarify anything). Beginning of this book is a Wild time for Spirk fans.
Anyway I'm waiting on my library to get in the novelization for Wrath of Khan and Search for Spock. I also just picked up the first two volumes of the Year Five comics. Idk how deep I'm gonna get into Star Trek novels, but I'm at the very least still going strong.
Oh yeah I also tend to take photos of passages/lines I enjoyed from these books, lmk if any of y'all want a deeper look into any of these books- I can post the photos of my favorite bits!
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trulytiredhermit · 1 year
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No wait because hear me out on this one.
What if the reader was like Isabella Madrigal from Encanto?
I think you already know her or have atleast heard of her but I'll just explain her character for you in this one. ( the reader is still gonna be GN )
So Isabella is seen as the perfect child, perfect at everything that she does, perfect at using her power, her power by the way is summoning flowers, thorns and any type of plant, basically she's got this whole entire perfect facade to her.
And then her family ( mostly her grandmother ) made an arranged marriage for Isabella, thing is, she doesn't even like the guy, hell, she just wants to be herself and not want to be perfect all of the time, this is one of her interactions with Mirabel, her younger sister :
Isabella : I've been stuck being perfect! My whole entire life, and literally, the only thing you've ever done for me is MESS THINGS UP!
Mirabel : Nothing is messed up! You could still marry that big dumb hunk!--
Isabella : I never wanted to marry him! I was doing it for THE FAMILY!
Yes.. you could see the whole entire 'perfect' facade of her breaking since nobody else was in the room other than the both of them.
Now Isabella! GN! reader that is like that that was sent to a different world and eventually having to deal with yanderes.
If they could then they will beat the ever living shit out of Mariano ( Isabella's not wanted fiance ) because how dare he try and marry their beloved?!
The Links after they find out about Reader's almost forced marriage, pitchforks and torches in hand: : )
But besides that
I think a lot of the Chain try to help Reader feel better about themselves and help Reader understand that they don't have to force themselves to be something they don't want to. They don't have to be "perfect".
I mean, I'm sure all of the Chain have had to deal with those thoughts; of striving to be completely perfect and something their not what with them being heroes of the world and all.
But they try to help relieve that pressure off of Reader's shoulders.
Wild and Wind definitely help Reader out in beginning to not be so perfect (although the Chain think's Reader's perfect in ANY way).
They're using Korok leaves to throw each other around with the wind. Mud fights? Oh, you bet. They're out there begging Reader to make huge flowers underneath them and throw them up into the air.
All in All everyone in the Chain finds Reader's power to be quite useful (Especially Time and Warriors who think about how useful Reader's power can be if Reader has to defend themselves).
I also feel like Hyrule would especially like it as he 1 probably didn't have a whole lot of vibrant flowers/plants back home and 2 just something about him being able to turn into a fairy makes me think he'd really like flowers idk.
But yeah, after finding out about Reader's past they aren't gonna be letting Reader go home. At all.
And if they do ever travel to Reader's world, well let's just say things aren't gonna be okay.
No one gets away with hurting their darling and trying to take them away from them.
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steelthroat · 2 months
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for the fic ask game, because your concepts are so delightful:
☔Is there a fic concept you have that you'd like to just explain and share because you're not sure you'll ever write it? If so, what is it?
or if you prefer
🌤️Share your favorite piece of dialogue from your WIP.
Oh hiiii and thank you 🥺💕
So yeah there are a couple of them:
The first one is a time travel/loop fix-it fic. So it would be based in the idw continuity and there are Megatron, Optimus and then also Rodimus stuck in their own time loops and they have to find a way to get out of them. The thing is they don't know how and they think they are alone, at some point they find out that in certain specific moments there are some "windows" in which their time loops meet and they can interact and make meaningful decisions that change the timeline. At some point there's also time travel involved because of their guilt and so they say "hey we're already stuck why Don't we try to go back in time and stop everything bad from ever happening?" And when I say everything I say literally everything, so Brainstorm is involved (and the rest of the science team lol). This is my most ambitious project, but it would require me to reread all the idw continuity and crossovers, take notes of a fuckton of things and then develop my plot while also not making it boring/prevedible/unrealistic\out of character. So yeah if I'll ever do this it won't be now because I definitely lack the time, the knowledge, and the maturity.
This one I started writing it a year ago and stopped because it was a big project and I needed to develop it more. So it's a new continuity, takes inspiration from the idw one regarding the society but with differences and the characters are in different settings kind of. So it would be a series retelling the story of how the war/revolution started and ended but from different points of view and different writing styles varying from character to character. So yeah we're going psychological/thriller/unreliable narrators. I think I can do this one, not now but one day it must be done.
Another new continuity this time taking inspiration from G2, very dramatic, but fun, not as big as the other two but still a multichapter. Also knowing myself and the fact that the characters gain their free will and things don't go according to plan when I write I feel like it would become big.
Okay, so this one is set in the bayverse continuity. It's a hate-mail to the movies, really. I'm gonna take the concepts I liked more and use them, I'll know I'll have done a good job if you feel the misanthropy-levels rising while reading. I also think I can do this one, it shouldn't be too long (?) Like idk it's a rewriting of the movies, basically.
Peace time/post war but Optimus and Megatron's mental health is in... dire state
Gladiator Optimus Au! I WILL do this one but I'm still deciding how.
Okkk now onto the dialogue... let's see:
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"So what about Autobots? Can we interface with them?" Vortex asked
Optimus shifted uneasily at the question "I- ahm... If there's consent involved- ah. Ahem, what is Lord Megatron's policy regarding cross-factional ah- interpersonal relationships?" he looked at Megatron, who was now frowning at Vortex... he had been frowning the entire time. Everyone turned towards him eagerly waiting for an answer.
"If anyone decides to act that recklessly, at least be smart enough to keep quiet about it, and if you get hurt, and I get to hear about it, then I'm going to finish the work said Autobot started," Megatron was now glaring at the mechs with poorly hidden disgust and disappointment, his stance was clear.
Optimus cleared his vocalizer. "Please, follow Lord Megatron's orders, but if something happens to you, go to a medic or come to me"
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whenthechickencry · 8 months
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Umineko Ch1. Replay 4
The fact she calls out to her mom when she is the one person who isn't gonna figure out a calm way to deal with this hurts, ouch. Even amongst all the hatred she has for her mom she still trusts her.
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This line always stuck with me because of how insane it reads on the outside. She's 9! A whole 9! She's an infant what do you mean old! I guess it shows her toxic environment meant she was never allowed to act like a child and is bitter about it.
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Hurts to read this. Clearly, they want to stop Rosa's abuse but don't know how. It's easy to judge them as cowards but realistically what can they do? Yell at Rosa who will then take it out on Maria more?
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Honestly living on that island seems like abuser heaven so at least Jessica's parents aren't the worst, comparatively speaking. She has very limited contact with the outside world and every exit is very tightly controlled.
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Setting up the "who gave Maria the umbrella" mystery I see Kanon!
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It's really hard to not read Maria as autistic me, with her taking orders very literally, her word repetition, and her hyper fixation on magic stuff. Just makes the way Rosa blames her for getting bullied and not having friends even more horrific.
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Kumasawa laughing at the prank she helped pull, lol
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idk battler It could be the worst day of my life but if I'm getting a 5-star meal I'm mowing that down happily
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It's a bit sad how clearly Battler holds Kyrie in high regard and obviously does kind of consider her family even if he denies it considering that Kyrie fucking hates him
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I am using the Umineko Project version of Umineko, and you know, the console sprites for Umineko are a lot more varied than the 07th mod would led you to believe (not that I am criticizing them, I am sure there were technical reasons as to why they had to be removed) there are some with Eva holding her unfolded fan that I didn't screen earlier too)
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Nanjo going along with the script and getting jumped on by everyone lol
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Wow, way to talk about your child Rosa
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Oh here is the portrait I was talking about earlier, also everyone's tune immediately flip flops about the letter when they realized its beneficial to getting money lmfao
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It's kinda cute how much Jessica tries to prove she really is the one who hates her parents the most when she probably has the best relationship with her parents out of the cousins
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Yeah yaeh you are so mature and understanding than your cousins George, not like you are the one most willing to cut off your parents when their money or status obsession gets in the way of your goals or anything
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Doesn't work as well for a game where the opponent isn't really trying to win and doesn't always do the most logical moves, does it?
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Kyrie's correct though, if they had simply asked her on her terms who Beatrice is from the start (Something along the lines of who was Beatrice possessing) she probably would have answered!
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Well, it's more like she realized you were the best one to get the information she wanted, but you do love her too much to consider that.
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He's so fucking scared of Kyrie and he should be, to be honest! Though it's partly your fault she's like this.
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This is also probably R07's way of telling you to look at the heart and not just the murder mystery!
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Obviously, Natsuhi doesn't believe this because she knows Kinzo is dead, though I wonder if she thinks this was s will he left to the servants or something?
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i wanna punt this man
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I think Natsuhi and Jessica is probably the only parent/child relationship in the game that probably would heal itself with time... they both understand what is going wrong but aren't sure how to fix it, and I think with Jessica going out of her parent's house soon she probably would have been able to understand her mother more and makeup once they saw each other again... it makes me a bit sad to think about how the tragedy made it impossible for that to happen.
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I'm already crying fuck. They are both extending their hand to the other. They are making steps towards repairing their relationship! And it's all getting destroyed!
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I wonder how many times conversations like this happened in reality. Genji trying to convince Yasu to allow themselves to live their life normally but Yasu thinking that they aren't worthy of that, and feeling deeply guilty when they did interact with others...
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I wonder if George has ever really tried to engage with Shannon's own interests, knowledge, and likes, instead of just assuming because she is a servant that everything he tells her is new and exciting to her
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lokilysolbitch · 5 months
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yeah so my childhood friend of 15 years chronically leaves me on read especially after i have a lot to say which really sucks ass because i actually used to have a whole system of different apps i texted her through so i wouldn't overwhelm one chat with all my spam and she would have time to read it when she wanted. but then a few years ago she was like "no you can spam me in the main app !! you can infodump and vent whenever you want !!" so i said "omg cool !!" and infodumped. and she fucking. left me on read and NEVER acknowledged it at all. and she still does it !!!!!!! that's actually partly why i post on social media at all, especially tumblr bc there's some random person who will want to read all that. anyways yeah im on read again and it's been twelve hours. she HAS spoken in a group chat where i can see her talking tho. which is even more sick rad and cool/sar
but yeah i'm gonna use tumblr for what i made it for, here's my bullshit. they're separate thoughts for the most part:
i'm keeping a count of eyelashes that fall out my eyelash bc for years it's seemed kind of excessive. yesterday was SEVEN. ALL AT ONCE. today is five. also all at once. i think the shedding ones get stuck in my lashes tho and don't come out until i try to get a single oddly placed one out of the way??? so maybe it's normal ???
me, whenever my playlist of my favorite songs plays my favorite songs: OH MY GOD I LOVE TJIS SONG
bro i found nail polish from when i was fucking SEVEN and that shit still works oh my god. the youngest polish i have is from when i was in middle school and most of them are still good. i wanna paint my nails again and i WILL be using these. the shimmery ones are fucking gorgeous.
OH don't get me started on my fucking catching fire nail polish that i got when i was idk 12 because i loved and love the hunger games. don't get me started. okay fine i'll start IT IS SO PRETTY AND SHINY IT FR LOOKS LIKE FIRE LIKE ITS GOT RED YELLOW AND ORANGE GLITTER AND WHEN THE LIGHT HITS IT AHDJWIS SKWW SKEDID
and there's also my mockingjay blue polish. one time i painted my nails with it and scrawled "mockingjay" on it with fine line black nail polish and i only regret it not looking neater tbh. i WAS the cringe hunger games kid and not much keeps me from becoming one again
i have so much pink nail polish. i've never in my life liked pink like That tho. why are there so many. the pale pink does hit tho i'll give it that. goddamn it's pretty
the ac in my room doesn't work rn and it is quite literally. 50 something degrees in here. i have raynauds. i just want to feel my fingers again
all i'm saying. is they should make the dsm 5 less relatable idk. i am winning the put a finger down challenge but at what cost
it's really weird how no matter how you feel about someone you'll still see stuff at the store and think "they would like this"
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okay i got tired i'm stopping now
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ohh i have SUCH a controversial jennifer jareau opinion. and this is probably gonna be more like an essay. i wish i could say i was sorry.
everyone always says theyre anti jj slander, which is fine ofc, but just weird bc i NEVER see anyone slandering her. in my 3 years in the fandom, ive seen it happen maybe 5 times total, which sucks because she deserves so. much. more. hate.
(spoilers for *that* jeid plotline, as well as some other things)
in season 7, spencer tells her that she has mean girl vibes and she replies "i was a nice girl, especially to guys like you" which ALWAYS pissed me off because she literally just confirmed what he said? and everyone acts like it was a funny joke. she said that shit with her whole chest and meant it, and it wouldnt be *that* big of a deal if it was the only time. but shes consistently mean to him throughout the show, ignoring him, walking away, etc. spencer isnt even the only one shes like this to. and she just has a sense of superiority, idk how to describe it. just by the way she talks and interacts with those around her, you can tell. (while we're on that note, she also ignores her privileged a LOT. maybe not all the time, but theres been multiple times where she acts like she went through hell to get where she is. other than her sister passing, she had it completely easy. in terms of resources, opportunities, etc., she was basically born with a golden spoon in her mouth.)
in s14 when she confesses to spencer that shes always been in love with him, it just makes my blood boil. obviously he had been over her a long time (imo), but that was something she should've kept to herself bc it just brought alllll those feelings back to the surface. not to mention that hes the godfather of her children, and shes married, and will probably (definitely) doesnt know how she feels. thats literally emotional cheating on her part, even though reid didnt reciprocate it, it was still wrong of her to be that close to him without will knowing how she really felt.
there are other things i dont like abt her too, but those are the main things and im trying to keep this as short as possible. but i literally cant stand her, shes by far my least favorite character, and everyone acts like shes an angel sent from heaven, when really shes just a privileged bitch.
i like JJ a lot (i want her to be my mom </3) but i do agree with several of your points - she's definitely not the worst character, each and every character has a list of flaws that we could make, so this by no means makes her the worst, but it does make me angry <3
i just rewatched that 'mean girl' episode!! she doesn't even hesitate before saying 'guys like you', which, you're totally right, means he was right, and she was definitely a mean girl in high school. or even if she didn't say any of it out loud, she was still silently judging 'guys like him' and in high school you can always tells who's silently judging you. they're teenagers. they're not silent about it. the nasty looks they give you?? oh man. but i do think that the blame for ignoring spencer needs to be placed on all of the team members, because they do it all the time too, it's not just her. she has some pretty bad moments with him, but it's definitely something they all do and she shouldn't take the full blame
lmao don't talk about jeid. the writers actually deserve the death penalty for that, god it was so nasty and weird. i know that it was something she confessed in the heat of the moment, like she wasn't sure she was gonna make it out alive and didn't wanna die without saying it but ??? WHY WOULD YOU PUT IT ON HIM TO DIE THREE SECONDS AFTER FINDING OUT ??? like great it's off your chest but now he's gonna spend the (very short) rest of his life thinking about it?? AND THEN THEY DIDN'T EVEN DIE LMFAO SO HE WAS JUST STUCK WITH THAT !! and yeah!! will!! what about will!! or her kids!! it was so... writers i'm watching you...
one scene of hers that really pissed me off was in reid's kidnapping two-parter in s2 (the hankel incident) where she was almost attacked by those rabid (?) dogs and she shot them and she's obviously shaken up and she tries finding reid and realizes what happened and she feels so much guilt for splitting up with him - which was not her fault, she didn't know and should not be held responsible for what happened to him - that she started trying to make other people mad at her?? she cornered derek who was grieving and stressed at the loss of his best friend and they're both sleep deprived and she says something like 'admit it, you hate me, you think it's my fault' AND I???? GIRL. he is being so nice to you?? he was literally like oh honey if you need time off i know you're really shaken up and we can take care of this and and and AND SHE WAS LIKE oH yeah suRe just admit it i'm the worSt everybody hATEs mE- I WAS... this is not about you. go get therapy for the dog attack that you just almost suffered?? do not stand around a crime scene and pester the victim's best friend and delay the investigation because you're feeling guilty. go talk to someone about it. take a few days off. again, i totally get that she was shaken up and hopped up on adrenaline, but everyone told her to go get some rest and she was like no i think i will make myself the problem instead <3
all of that being said i still love her </3 i was not kidding when i say that i wish she was my mom holy shit i would have loved to grow up as her kid but she definitely has her flaws just like the rest of the BAU, and logical, critical breakdowns of a characters flaws aren't slandering, they're analysis, so i think everybody needs to stop shitting on people who criticize or analyze their faves lmao
send me your unpopular fandom opinions
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Live Blog Number 2
Murder Drones Episode 4: Cabin Fever
Just to say it, I love N's hat in the Thumbnail. I hope to see Khan at least once
CAMP 98.7, with a school bus coming up
There is a robot riding the bus like a cowboy and that's goofy
Oh it's definally the main protag's class. I see her fire head [literally] classmate making light in the bus XD
THEY ALL HAVE GOOFY COLORED HATS AWW
oh don't you dare tell me Lizzy and Thad are friends idk if I am happy or not
Awww Uzi [protag] has a backpack with bat wings
Oh gosh Khan!!
And wow he and a lot of people were at the camp when humans were alive
Collars Uzi and Doll have have numbers?
Oh gosh those are her mom's things?! SHe's a artist...?
"SKy deamon, sigularity, look at this S I can draw." It's that sharp triangle thing, that's a lot of stuff, and wow her mom is intresting
"I'm not who either of you needed" Khan no your awesome
Oooo did mom have a collar like Uzi? Well makes sence with that program
"just be safe" Khan you are the best dad I love you /p
I love the teachers straw hat and also Uzi made this field trip a thing! Must be about the pictures she found
HAH She didn't want a field trip, the teacher just saw it as a exsuse to make the other's grades go up. SO they are stuck with miss "crazy"
AHHHHHH N AND V ARE COUNCLERS I LOVE THEM EEE N I LOVE YOU AND V IS SO NONCHALANT I JUST LOVE THEM
Oh gah a kid fainted at them..... I don't blame them... oh wait V shot them as a warning for others... Of course she did
Yeah, be mad at V, N. "Minus 1"
So the trio of V N and Uzi are making the others do crap for their own investigation? Cool! And Uzi was so flattered at that aww
Ooo Lizzy and Thad helping the trio!!?? YES
"Anything for my bestie" Lizzy, you really seem to be a bit better
I love how V always has her claws out, she don't care
Nawww Uzi calling them friends with her blush AND a :3 smile. That was the best thing ever, so far
Someone called N a little guy even thou he is super tall. Not complaining
Oh they think the Murder Drones are defective and that's why they are nice. Hhh
V is trying so hard to not kill for Uzi, I love that for her but man she will lose it later.
Rebacca don't you dare flirt with N
Uzi, doing her work. But leaving the murder drones to the class. Hope it's okay
ooo human buildings
ooo she's getting good at her Absolute Solver Program Powers and oh no a bug
Hah I love this calander Uzi found "EVACUTE ALL DOGS: JUST IN CASE SOMEONG BAD HAPPENS IDK <- Cool we did that that's canon. Also all dogs are immortal now! THANKS TO SCIENCE"
AND UZI WAS SO RELIVED TO READ THAT MY GOSH YOU KNOW WHAT DOGS ARE?!
HAND HAND HAND HUMAN HAND A SCREAM?! SOMETHINGS GONNA HAPPEN
hhhhh that gave me a heart attack, the class got close to wear Uzi is investigating and shessh. But what's with the hand?
Two robots are holding a boat with Lizzy and V on top. WHat a ship hah
And Rebacca, stop. flirting. with. N. He has no intrest with you!
V is actually being light hearted, that's really cute to see.
"I CAN'T SWIM" The lake is frozen over -_- ANd of course N "saved" her like the sweetie he is
Uzi, breathe! "High Temp"!oh no this aint good
ohhh nooo She took a robot hand to EAT but her drone type shouldn't have that urge. Uzi please
Oh V thanks for checking on her...
YOU SRACTHED UZI'S FACE PLATE!?
Don't you dare make Uzi insecre with her friend making skills and then LEAVE ALL NONCHALANT!? V WHAT IS WITH YOU?!
ok, Well Uzi helped repair a little bug. That's nice
She gave it the salute as it left, naww
hhh a dead robot under the floorboards, thanks bug for going there, I guess
okay more creepy drawings, mabye Uzi's mom. ALso "THIS SIDE IN INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK" yet that text is on it XD
Cool looking claw nail in the paper
wait, a green bug variety. The others were always red
IT MAKES EMOTES IN TEXT BUBBLES oh gosh wait "SUBMIT TIMECARD | PTO REQUEST | REGISTER TORTURE CHAMBER COMPLAINT | END MY SUFFERING (PROMO OFFER DISCONTINUED) | CALL ELAVATOR" What the freak?!?!
The bug heard Uzi and sent in in the chat
AHHH DOLL HOLOGRAM NO
hhh back to the class with Archery!
Aww N is so cute, "Did I.. Cheat?" No your just a pro
well, V didn't kill that one, but I think she is about to....!
Uzi is back-ish, she showed N the chatting bug
Aww well, N tried. "Don't tell V I'm Here" "Uzi is that you? Get over here... WAIT NO REFLEXES!"
igybhuoinjefbvhnjk UZI WHAT DID YOU DO?!?! SHE MADE A CREPPY DRAWING CREATURE WITH THE PROGRAM BY ACCIDENT!!! WHAT THE FUCK IT'S SO GROSS!!
OH GOSH V MAY RECONISE IT?!
NO UZI DON"T RUN YOU NEED HELP!!
BREATHE UZI DON"T EAT THE ARM OH GOSH UZI CALM DOWN
SHE CAN"T CONTROL THE PROGRAM IT MADE ANOTHER CREEPY DRAWING CRITTER AHH UGH THE NOISES
oh gosh back to class, V wants to kill UZi but N defends like a good friends. And Lizzy pulled her phone out to record...
"SHE'S A KID, LIKE US V" gosh they really are kid robos
N is going to find Uzi and sheesh V really won't talk about what the thing she won't talk about is.
"Hot... Not Hot? You're to good for him" Lizzy, they aren't dating at this point.
Rebacca, what was with that look to V??? /genuinly oh wait she left the area with her bf [oh yeah also, why flirt with N if you have this un named guy??]
They found Uzi's investigation place, and now hidey hole. Stay safe
Hhhhh so much grossness is around the place
Uzi's flashlight, where is she?
SHE HAS BAT WINGS HERSELF NOW SHE HAS THE DISSASABALLY DRONE SYMBOL ON HER FACE LIKE N AND V SOMETIMES DO!!!! FUCK NO
oh gosh wait N is in the next scence and it made me think.... The current Murder Drones has wings that are bone-like, but Uzi's were bat-fleshy.... Did N, V, and also J have a fleshy look before the flashback scene in the piolt??? Did something happen to make the metal structure underneath appear?
N is in the hidey hole. PLZ PLZ be safe
Wait is it the same, there seems to be a lot more tech. or is this further in the house Uzi found???
"Zombie Drones!!!" A training video.... Oh fuck what is Uzi actually??
hhhh N got flashbacks of a girl, a lone hand, and the core situatinon talked in the piolt..
UZI GOSH! SHE IS DEVOURING THOSE ROBOTS AND SHE CAN'T HANDLE IT IN HER BODY! N FIND HER NOW
Oh no something escaped the house and it isn't Uzi on a rampage. CRAP IT"S WHAT A ZOMBIE DRONE WILL BE WON'T IT
back to class... they are roasting battieres over a fire.. clever
Rebacca's upper half came to the class!! Not a zombie drone yet gahh
"Unpopular, purple hair, hot topic." You don't remember her name so this is what you say!? Rebacca you suck
Uzi what are you doing here?
Oh gosh she really looks like a murder drone now but fleshy...
Where is Thad? He's been gone for a while.
"That's not what the book said" What does that mean?
oh hoho Uzi looks quite epic but I know this isn't good for her. She is killing them
HHH Uzi is using a body as a puppet for BAIT
V IS HERE TO SAVE THE DAY AND LIZZY YES
"killing her, not saving you." "okaaay Mom" V and Liz have a fun bond
hhhh don't kill Uzi PLZ ahhh she wants to talk to N my heartttt
UZI'S TAIL HAS A MOUTH AHHH GROSS
UZI BROKE V'S ARM AHH UZI'S TAIL BITE OFF V'S TAIL AFHBEWBLFJK
NNNNNN N YAH!!!
"Easy there buddy." *is stabbed in hand by Uzi* "Hahah ow" HE'S SO NON CHALANT RIGHT NOW AND AHH N I LOVE U
N and V are really just siblings
HHhh N is so sweet trying to help Uzi, who YEAH she's acting normal. aka tsndere
"You weren't with me to make it fun, somehow." N YOU SWEETHEART
EEEE He is so sweet, making a puppet with her tail, and her little giggles at it <333
She tried it to <33333
oh gosh right they were talking while falling [did I not mention that N threw Uzi in the air? idk why he did but it happened, i just thought she'd come back down immediatly]
Oh V has a fixed arm and is ready to kill.
N held Uzi at the last second he is so nice.
hhh his happy little face holding Uzi in such a close hug
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[N is the pink blob] I love this robot /p
V stood down. Yes
Lizzy is back to sass V up a little, nice
Aww V smiled at Lizzy behind her back in such a sencire way.
the bus leaves the camp
HHHH Uzi sleeping on N's shoulder and N is sleeping too and the little green bug is with them AAA
Hh V pulling a excuse for Uzi about the missing kids
Oh gosh the sun hurts Uzi now like N!! Oh gosh she really is a flesh murder drone.
hhh she held N's hand in her sleep but N was too shy to hold it back ahh
He still has the Zombie Drones VHS...
~and credits
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desdemonafictional · 9 months
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Vortex Speed Write Commission
dubcon/idk consent issues due to robot fetish baiting
On AO3
for @bitegore
"This is stupid," Dirge said, taking up position against the doorjamb. "You know he's gonna fry your chips, right?"
Ramjet ignored him and stuck a hand out at the creepy fragger lurking under the cleaning supplies like one of those little eight legged earth gremlins.
"Pay up first," Ramjet said. "Let's see the goods."
Although he didn't actually have a face to speak of, Vortex gave the impression of smiling. He dug in his subspace and held out what he'd found.
"As agreed," Vortex said, "one un-cashed chip from Hedonia's gambling palace, a 15% off coupon for Swindle's contraband cabinet, and a packet of jelly babies."
"Yesss," Ramjet said, and swiped the lot of it.
"I've gotta ask," Vortex said, "what do you even want with the jelly babies? You can't eat them. I tried."
"We're gonna lure away one of those earth trucks and make it our pet," Ramjet said, stuffing his illicit gains into his own pockets. "It's earth food, so earth animals can eat it. Fool proof."
"Well, can't argue with that logic," Vortex said brightly.
"He's gonna fry you," Dirge said again.
"He's not gonna fry me!" Ramjet twisted around and thumped the plating over his subspace. "He paid me. So it's fine!"
"Yeah, Dirge," said Vortex, "it's fine."
Dirge sighed. "He's literally an interrogator."
Ramjet flipped open his cable compartment and jerked one loose. Vortex's unblinking visored gaze fixed on every twitch of Ramjet's hands, helm swaying. Ramjet checked to make sure it wasn't, like, fraying at the joint or something. But no. It was just a normal data cable.
"What the fuck else would he want with your motherboard except to scramble it?" Dirge went on.
"Don't be like thaaat," Vortex said, his gaze still laser-focused on the cablehead in Ramjet's hand. "I'm only asking for a one way connection, it's not dangerous at all!"
"Right," Ramjet said. "So what data do you want anyway? I saw Rosana in concert once back on Cybertron, pretty cool set."
"Oh, no," Vortex said, slinking a little closer. "Any old thing you've got lying around is fine. In fact, every old thing you've got lying around."
"What, like, breakfast?" Ramjet said, fully boggled.
"Like junk data," Vortex said. "Whatever you've been meaning to clean out and haven't gotten around to. Lemme have all of it."
"Uhhhh. why?"
"Because I gave you a poker chip, a coupon, and a bag of jelly babies," Vortex said, patiently. "And if you don't, I'll switch modes and chop this room up like sushi with you in it. Now plug in."
With slightly more trepidation, but unwilling to admit it, Ramjet stepped closer. Vortex pulled open not only the main plug site on his abdomen, but every other one on his frame--some in shapes and sizes that didn't look fit for any kind of Cybertronian Ramjet had ever met. Ramjet stuck with the familiar and plugged in under Vortex's chest plate.
"Okay," Vortex said. "Now the rest."
"What, all of them? I've only got two more."
"Use those then," Vortex said. "Come on, chop chop."
Ramjet unspooled the other two and plugged himself in. As soon as he'd gotten the last one clicked in, a sudden sharp pinch hit him over three points at once. He stared, agog, at the holes he'd just stuck himself into.
"He bit me! You bit me!"
"Don't be a minibot," Vortex said, "it's just a clamp so you can't pull out too early. It won't hurt you."
"Definitely gonna fry your brains," Dirge said.
"Shut up!" Ramjet called back.
Vortex wound one of his hands in the cable plugged into his shoulder and yanked it. Ramjet didn't feel much, other than the same dull pinch, but Vortex shuddered a little at the feedback from the delicate inside of the port.
"See?" Vortex said. "It's fine. Now how about that data?"
Ramjet went into his defrag folders and dug out all the junk he'd had laying around since the last time he'd gotten an actual good night's recharge. It was basically the dust bunny of the processor, maybe even a little gross to grab with your bare hands, but whatever, if the weirdo wanted it.
He initiated a handshake protocol, Vortex accepted, and then--presumably--all the nonsense and broken junk went pouring down the line into Vortex at once. Ramjet couldn't exactly feel it land, without a reciprocal connection, but he could see Vortex's visor fizzle and his rotors stiffen.
"Now we're getting somewhere," Vortex said. "Triplicate it. One feed down each cable."
Ramjet and Dirge exchanged a confused look, but it wasn't as if it cost him anything, so Ramjet obliged.
All Vortex's ventilation panels lifted and started audibly sucking air, fans whirring. Well, it was a lot of data, especially if you were going to try and parse each bit individually instead of letting it pass directly into mass defrag routines.
Right about now the bandwidth in Vortex's processor would be filling up exponentially with garbage, blocking off other sensory avenues, pulling resources from everywhere short of life support to manage the barrage of data.
"Wrap your hands in my cables and twist," Vortex said.
"Uhhh..."
"Now."
Ramjet threaded his fingers into the unused cables and obeyed. This was not... normally the kind of thing mechs did when exchanging data.
Vortex's voice had gone ragged, staticky. "More," he said.
"More data...?"
Vortex, now with his hands so twisted in cables that it was like a net tied around him, made an incoherent pleading noise.
"Holy scrap," Dirge said, from the door. "Look at his crotch plate."
Ramjet blinked, and then leaned back far enough to get a view of Vortex's thighs. Pale lubricant was bubbling out from underneath his modesty panel, smearing where he rubbed his legs together.
"What the frag," Ramjet said.
Vortex let out a breathy laugh, visor glitching and flickering as he wound himself closer to Ramjet by the cables mooring them together.
Ramjet jerked back, but he couldn't get loose. The clamps were pinching harder now, and their hands were tangled now in the delicate machinery of data interface. Ripping one of those out of the joint would hurt worse than a hole in the wing, and be harder to replace.
While Ramjet was wrestling with Vortex's grip on him, Dirge wandered over to get a closer look. He reached down between Vortex's absently shifting thighs and rubbed the sticky panel.
"He's hot," Dirge said.
Vortex laughed again, high and breathy.
Dirge fingered the wet seams thoughtfully, and then all at once he pushed the two intertwined bots, knocking them off balance and into a heap on the floor.
"You know what," Dirge said, "I changed my mind. This was a great idea Ramjet. Whatever you're doing, keep doing it."
Over Vortex's shoulder, Ramjet watched Dirge reach down and palm his rapidly pressurizing spike.
"Let's give him what he wants."
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ashes-writing · 2 years
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sweet emotion | stranger things ; e. munson
A/N ;  .... so .... I couldn't pick between Eddie and Steve. And apparently, my idiot brain decided well hey, just write similar versions/plots for both your babies, Ashes. So here we are. This is yet another x reader mini series. Each version has it's own take on a Henderson!fem reader -this one is artsy/stoner/smart/pretends to be a witch but in reality just has really strange interests and a dark humor / literal hell on wheels just an fyi. I'll keep them both going but feedback is a motivator as to how frequently they'll get updated. Right now, this is all I got, babes. So if you wanna see more, idk. We'll see.
Pairing ; Eddie Munson x Henderson!Fem reader
Timeline / Other Stuff to Note ;  As stated in all my other x reader fics that belong to Stranger things, the Upside Down and all it's unholy horrors are left out. The timeline for this is 86. No, Eddie will not be dying. If you like normal / slice of life / romance-y type shit, this is that.
Tag List ; @musichealsscars @hcloangcls @allelitesmut and @aries-arcade are the only ones currently on my Stranger Things tag. I throw out a courtesy tag to @rampagewriting -feel free to ignore if you wanna bb. if you'd like to be added to my taglists for anything including Stranger Things, please let me know or add yourself -> here.
Warnings ; reader is hell on wheels / detention / swearing / teenage antics and shenanigans, mentions of the devils lettuce to come, mentions of drinking to come, kissing / making out / maybe even filth to come, beyond that, nothing. Oh yeah and Jason Carver is a prick and will probably catch reader's hands by the end of this at least once bc I fucking can. ALSO... Chrissy's ED / home problems are mentioned in this so huge trigger warning for that.
Other Stuff ; tag list doc || my rules - fandoms and some characters I write for || requests are open (pls.. pls... send me things) but they're limited to headcanon asks + filth/fluff alphabet letters and I'm not accepting wrestling / wrestlers in my ask box. Any other fandom/character but wrestling that I happen to write for is fine and I beg of you -> send me things.
I do not consent to my work being reposted elsewhere or copied/reworked/rewritten and reposted here or elsewhere. You don't own this, I do. So like... don't steal my shit.
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You dash down the noisy hallway, your clothes and body a multitude of different colors. You’re wielding a paintbrush as you chase down your friend Astrid, taunting her with what will happen when you finally catch her. As you all but baseball slide around a corner in the hallway because the floor is wet, you smash into Eddie Munson.
The collision sends you onto the floor with an unceremonious “Hmmph.” as you settle on it on your ass. You’re about to quickly scramble to your feet but Eddie reaches down and grabs hold of your hand wordlessly, hauling you up off the floor.
And then, with a cute little smile, you’re off to the races again. But you stay on his mind the whole day.
When he spots you sitting alone at lunch, now with a yellow handprint on the left side of your face and your nose stuck in a book that’s been read so many times it’s falling apart as you turn the pages, Eddie finds himself watching you.
Doing it so intently that Gareth nudges him and nods in your direction. “She’s in my homeroom.”
Eddie glances back in your direction and to his shock, he finds you kind of staring at him. When you know you’re caught, you cross your eyes and stick out your tongue, pulling a face that makes him snicker quietly and shake his head. Gareth laughs. “‘M gonna ask her to go see a movie.”
Eddie clenches his fist but he tries to give his friend a smile of encouragement.
Jeff speaks up, laughing. “And she’ll shoot you down for the millionth time, Gare. Just like she’s done every single time you ask.”
Eddie’s gaze shifts to Jeff, who shrugs and then goes on to explain that since at least 7th grade, you are the girl Gareth is always trying to ask out.
And Eddie can sympathize because after all, Chrissy. He’s in a similar situation but he’s just her dealer now.
And he’s not a creep, so he’d never try to use that situation to his advantage.
Jeff continues. “You’re making it weird, Eds.”
“Super weird.” Gareth adds quietly. Glaring at Eddie quietly. A little annoyed, because he noticed you first.
Down the table, Mike nudges Dustin and  nods to the table you’re sitting at. “Why the hell is she covered in paint, Dustin?”
Dustin drags his spoon across his pudding as he shrugs. “You know how weird my sister is, Mike. I learned not to question it a long time ago. I’m just glad she’s happy again.”
“Yeah, summer was rough, huh?”
“Kinda. She’s a pain in the ass when she’s moodier than usual. And she won’t say it but that jerk she was dating really hurt her.” Dustin shrugs as he says it.
You spot your younger brother across the lunchroom sitting at the Hellfire table.
And down from him a few seats, the guy you crashed into in the hallway when you and Astrid took the little paint war going on inside Art class to the hallway at the end of it. You study the guy for a few seconds, eating a bean from your salad as you do so. Astrid told you his name is Eddie Munson. Not that you asked or you needed to know to begin with because you’ve kind of had a crush on him since at least 8th grade… You’ve just never really… crossed paths until today. 
Eddie is reading Newsweek to the other guys sitting around the table and he’s laughing every other word.
And then, Eddie is standing on the table. And he’s making a speech.
During which, he mentions literally every major clique except your little circle.
To be fair, you’re kind of known as the artsy wannabe witch and that’s how it’s almost always been. The last time you were even a little popular was way back in 6th grade when you were still best friends with Chrissy, who has since gone on to become the so-called queen of Hawkins High.
When Eddie compares basketball to a game where one tosses balls into a laundry basket, you nearly choke on your soda laughing. And you can’t resist it, you have to speak up. You have to make it known that Jason’s actually not that good at it, either.
“And sadly, they’re not even that good. Except Sinclair. The rest of the idiots fucking suck.” you muse aloud, flipping to the next page in the book you found in a throwout pile in the library during homeroom.
But as always, nobody really seems to notice. Which is fine with you, you’re content to go back to the book you’re currently caught up in. To eat in silence.
Jason snaps, calling Eddie a prick.
Eddie makes a face and laughs before sitting himself down.  Everybody’s gone back to doing their own thing by now, Eddie’s disruption is for the most part, forgotten and ignored. He said what he needed, he didn’t waste words or anything. Just said what was on his mind and sat down without a care in the world.
“Yeah, somebody’s jealous because they still can’t find theirs without tweezers and a magnifying glass, I see.” you say it without thinking when you overhear Jason at a table over when he goes on a tangent about satanism and freaks and how pricks like Eddie Munson need to be run out of town on a rail. You didn’t think anybody actually heard you say it, but apparently this time, when it’s about him, the idiot can hear perfectly fine.
Jason’s steely blue gaze settles on you.
“What’d you say?” he’s standing and he’s heading your way. Fast. “Repeat it. C’mon, witch.”
You can’t help but roll your eyes and toy with a strand of hair, waiting.
When Jason finally reaches you, you barely give half a glance up at him and you shrug. Taking an aggressive bite of the bean in your salad as you laugh. “You heard me, Carver. I’m not repeating it. I don’t think you want me to, I mean… Unless you just want the entirety of the cafeteria to know you’ve got a teeny tiny little baby dick. Or that’s what I heard, anyway. I’d rather fling myself off the highest cliff down at the quarry than find out for myself.” you grimace and stick your finger down your throat to induce gagging.
Mike nudges Dustin and Dustin glances over right around the same time Jason stops by your table and plucks the book out of your hand, surveying the title critically. “Oh shit. So, what are the odds she snaps and Jason gets bitten, punched, slapped, kicked or stabbed with the fork in her hand?” Mike asks, barely hiding a laugh.
Dustin stands, as your very protective younger brother, he’s ready to go and intervene before your motor mouth overruns your midget ass. Even with the age difference, he towers over you just slightly. And he might not beat Jason’s ass, but Jason will come away knowing he was there. “Shit.”
Lucas stands too, ready to go over and help get you and Jason apart should the need arise. Because he’s learned that there’s a good way to coax Jason into backing down or changing his mind and it’s a useful trick to have in his arsenal.
“Buckland’s Complete Book of Witchcraft. Nice. I thought the board was going to ban this crap..” Jason glares at you and nods towards Eddie. He chuckles. “Hawkins High should kick you out… Both of you..” he shoots Eddie a smirk when he says it and Eddie flips him off, turning his attention back to the situation at hand. He can’t help but notice Dustin, Mike and Lucas’ vested interest in the whole scene as it unfolds and despite being curious, he just doesn’t ask. He’s too busy watching you to see what you do.
“You first, Jim Jones.” you spit out the words and stand, snatching your book back. When you grab hold of his wrist, it’s with a smirk and a warning squeeze during which you dig your fingernails into his skin, just a little. Not enough to draw blood but enough to issue a clear warning of intent if he keeps on pushing his luck. “If I were you, blondie.. I’d shag ass back over to the cool kids table… It’d be a shame if something just kinda…Accidentally happened, right?” you say it innocently enough, with the sweetest little grin you can muster. It’s not meant to threaten or anything, or it wouldn’t seem so to the people looking on as this little confrontation unfolds.
But Jason’s slightly smarter than your average meathead jock. Only slightly. He picks right up on the true intent in your statement.
“Did you just threaten me?” Jason deadpans.
You shrug, mild and calm as possible. Smirking up at him without a care in the world. “Not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, are we?” you ask, tapping your foot a little. That smirk growing on your face as you watch his face contort from that normal holier than thou smug look to one of fury.
He steps closer. Studying you intently like he’s looking for something, anything he can use to hurt you.
He’s trying the wrong girl but he’s too stupid to see it just yet.
When he gets a little too close,  you reach back and grab the bowl of salad you were finished with anyway and you raise it, planting it in his face. “I told you, idiot. Walk away.” you practically purr the words as you shove past him and slink out of the cafeteria.
At the Hellfire table, Dustin and Mike are gaping. Both of them knew you were a bit of a hothead but neither of them would’ve ever thought you’d shove your salad into Jason’s face like that. Dustin can’t help but laugh.
Jeff glances at the two.
“You two idiots know her?” Jeff asks. Gareth glances down the table at the two younger boys, waiting. Curious himself, because Dustin looks a breath away from going over there to intervene and he’s only just sat back down.
“My sister.” Dustin is beaming, he’s having a full-on proud little brother moment.
“My old babysitter.” Mike shrugs and drags thin fingers through shaggy black hair. “At least she didn’t punch him.” he muses, mostly to himself. “She punches like a freakin boxer.”
And suddenly upon hearing this particular little revelation, Eddie’s very intent gaze is fixed on Dustin. “You never told me you had a sister.”
Dustin shrugged and took a bite of the bologna sandwich in his hands. “You never asked, Munson.”
Mike palms his face. “Let me save you the hassle, Munson… She’s a grouch. She’s also slightly feral. Dustin, their mom and maybe like… one other person are the only people she really gives a shit about. And she’s always been this way, Munson. It won’t change. Just trust me.”
Eddie mulls it over. When Wheeler put it that way, the whole bizarre high speed chase with paint in the hallway seems to make perfect sense. Then there’s the book you were reading. That fits too. But deeper down, Eddie’s already figuring out that the attitude and the ‘witch’ rumor that you’ve never actively tried to speak up against are probably your defense mechanisms at this point.
You’re swinging at your locker just to rid yourself of a little pent up frustration when Chrissy clears her throat from behind you. Whirling around, you size her up and wrinkle your nose. “You? What do you want, hm?”
“To apologize.” Chrissy mumbles quietly. Gazing at you as she steps away, cautious. She really wants to tell you that she misses being your best friend but somehow, she knows it’s maybe just a little too late to say it.
“Mhm, well.. It’s whatever.” you smirk a little. Lean in a little closer. “It’s your little boyfriend who might wanna watch his back.” you warn and shrug at her. Upon closer look, you feel really bad, she’s obviously struggling with something, you can see it in her eyes. And every part of you wants to say something that might help, but you shove it down. Why should you care? She’s the one who went off and got popular and then spent the next few years ignoring you. If she really gave a shit, you think to yourself, she never would’ve turned her back. 
You’re starting to walk away but Chrissy calls your name. And not your actual name, but the one she gave you way back when you were both kids. Before popularity became the wedge that got driven between the two of you.
“Bubbles.” Chrissy calls out to you, making you pause.
“Don’t call me that. Bubbles is gone, Cunningham.” you say it in the harshest tone you can muster and it hurts like hell, but deep down, you don’t mean it and you hate it when she looks like she’ll cry. The unshed tears are what make you walk away as quickly as humanly possible. Because if you don’t, then what if this isn’t some kind of trick? She is one of them, after all.
Astrid is waiting at the end of the hallway, waving you over.
“Guess what I found.” she’s excited, she’s practically bouncing all around.
“Hm?”
“Just c’mon.. Hey, what was the head bitch of Hawkins High saying? How did you refrain from punching her, huh?”
You shrug off the question but you do snap at Astrid calmly that Chrissy isn’t a bitch, despite all attempts to seem as if you don’t miss your best friend and you don’t give a shit about her either way. 
“Okay, sheesh. Noted.” Astrid grumbles, adding that you were an idiot to give Chrissy any sort of leeway because she’s the one who ditched you. You make your way out of the building with Astrid and you hear meowing.
Astrid grabs your hand, she’s dragging you down the alley between buildings. When the meowing grows closer, you’re grinning.
But the litter of motherless kittens are under the dumpster and back towards the corner, out of your reach from a certain angle and without a little coaxing.
“Let me go ask O’Brian if we can borrow his broom. Maybe we can kind of scoot it back there behind their little furry butts...” Astrid is settled on the concrete, trying to reach beneath the dumpster from the front but she lacks an inch or two to reach the cluster of meowing kittens.
A throat clears from the top of the alley.
You glance back over your shoulders to find Eddie Munson leaning against the wall. Watching you and Astrid as you both kneel in front of and at the side of the dumpster, trying to meow in the hopes that you’ll coax the kittens out of their safe haven without having to try grabbing them and risk hurting yourself or them in the process.
You manage to get a grip on the smoke colored one when it comes just a little closer and you pluck it out, hissing and in perpetual recoil as you pull the soft little furball into you and gaze down at it, giggling.
“Hey, little one. I’m gonna call you Bjorn. You kinda look like a little bear, yes you do, you’re the cutest kitty…” you coo as Eddie comes to a stop nearby, gazing at you and the zesty tempered little animal in your arms.
You pull yourself up off the ground.
Doe eyes move from you to the spicy little furball you’re holding against you and back again. You’re staring back but you’re really trying not to. But his eyes have this magnetic effect.
“We’re gonna need the broom.” Astrid stands up, brushes off her paint splattered bell bottoms and walks around to the side. “I’m trying to get the solid white one because the poor little dude has some funky stuff in it’s eyes.”
You nod. “We could try to coax ‘em out with tuna.” you suggest, breaking your gaze with Eddie for a second or two. You’re wondering why he’s even outside, but you’re too focused on rescuing baby cats to ask.
“Yeah, but where are we gonna get tuna, hm?” Astrid asks. 
Eddie stands back quietly, listening to the exchange. Then he nods to the dumpster.
“If we could move it just a little.” Eddie suggests.
“That thing is fuckin heavy, sir.” you insist as a rebuttal. 
“And I have friends.” Eddie points out to you.
You snicker quietly. “So do I.. My little brother has to help me with my bullshit. Familial obligation.” you start to trudge down the alley, wandering right back into the outside cafeteria door to step inside. 
You make your way over to the table and grab a chair from beside Gareth Emerson, a boy in your science class. And then you drag it over to where your brother is sitting, flanked by Mike Wheeler and Lucas Sinclair. “You three little shits are comin with me, alright?”
“Please?” Mike hints. You laugh and roll your eyes, standing.
“C’mon… I mean unless you idiots wanna walk home in the rain.” you shrug mildly as you say it. Lucas stands. He notices the kitten and chuckles. “Where the hell did you find a cat?”
“Outside. Under the dumpster out back. There’s like… Five more.” you’re giggling and grinning. You hold out the smoke colored kitten in your hand to Lucas and the kitten’s immediate reaction is to swing it’s little paws and hiss as much and as loud as felinely possible. You pull the kitten away when Lucas shakes his head and you’re muttering softly to the kitten, “Aw, it’s okay, little guy. You’re gonna be just fine.”
Dustin palms his face. “No. Absolutely fuckin not. You are not going to build an army of cats. Look, you already have the lizard. And the garden snake. And the stray dog you think I don’t know you’re trying to lure into sticking around. We’re not a zoo, damn it!”
You place your free hand on your hip and gaze at your little brother. “Bold of you to assume I asked you, dustball. Me older. You younger. Understand, little brother?” you flash him a butter wouldn’t melt grin.
“Mom..” Dustin tried to appeal to your common sense but it fell on deaf ears.
“Will love these little shits as much as I, their new mother, am going to.” you laugh out the words. As you return the chair, you reach out and feel both Gareth and Jeff’s upper arms. “Okay, you two.. C’mon.” you mumble as you gaze at them both after reaching the assumption that they have the required body strength to maybe wiggle the dumpster out enough so you and Astrid can free the kittens.
Jeff and Gareth share a look, puzzled.
“Where?” Jeff asks, shrinking back when the kitten hisses again. “Keep your demon away, woman.” he laughs as he says it.
“Yeah, I mean.” Gareth stammers and gulps, “I’ll help, just.. Are you aware that those uh.. They’re wild. You could get like so many diseases…”
You shrug. “They’re babies, jerk!” you pout a little, holding the kitten tighter when it tries to jump out of your arms. “Ignore him, sweet Bjorn. You’re a little angel, yes you are.” you coo at the cat.
You make your way out of the cafeteria’s back facing door with your brother, Mike and Lucas all grumbling and Dustin trying to argue you down that you absolutely cannot take in another stray, he doesn’t care how cute they are or how much they make you happy and you, humming Sweet Leaf to ignore him. Gareth and Jeff wander out too because they can’t resist the chance to watch a good bout of fuckery as it occurs.
Astrid has gotten one of the kittens and Eddie’s jumping back a little because the kitten in Astrid’s grip is twice as wild as the one you managed to grab before going inside.
“And you were saying, Munson?” you tap your foot and tilt your head slightly as you glance up at him with an amused gleam in your eyes. And your cute little grin.
Dustin nudges Eddie. “She’s lost her fucking mind. Totally.”
“She just wants to help ‘em, Henderson. C’mon, have a heart, kid.” Eddie says it as he’s watching you and your friend Astrid. Well, mostly you. He’s laughing to himself and shaking his head.
“Stop checking out my sister!” Dustin grumbles, annoyed. “Seriously, Munson?”
“Trust me, Munson. This isn’t even half of the crazy. Just stop yourself now. While you’re ahead.” Mike warns a second time, but he happens to look at Eddie as Eddie watches you directing Gareth and Jeff which way to shove the corner of the dumpster. And as he’s watching Eddie watch you, he gets the distinct feeling that Eddie Munson isn’t listening to a damn thing either of the two say.
The dumpster is pulled away and kittens go scattering. You manage to grab an orange colored one with white socks and a black and white one. Astrid snags the remaining two, the white one she’s going to take home to nurse back to health and a solid black one.
“Hey! I’m the supposed witch.” you pout.
“Tough shit! You’ve got three!” Astrid argues. “And my mother is the town vet.”
“Okay, alright.Fiiiine. But I want weekends with those ones.” you insist, nodding to the wild kittens in Astrid’s arms but struggling hard to get free.
“I want weekends with yours.” Astrid nods to the kittens in your arms.
Dustin nudges Mike. “They’re going to be negotiating the rest of the day.”
“Unless your sister just sits on her like she did over the last brownie last weekend. Remember that? We had to pull them apart.”
“I swear, sometimes I wonder how they’re even friends.” Lucas snickers quietly.
Eddie nudges Dustin at some point during the negotiations and he nods to you. “Do they uh… Does this happen a lot?”
“We tried to tell you, idiot. She’s very… strong willed.” Lucas answered, a hand on his hip.
“She negotiated my mom into a 1 am curfew once. Mom was so pissed when she realized what she’d agreed to.” Dustin snickered.
“She’d argue with a brick wall, Munson.” Mike states with a shrug. “But hey, be my guest.”
“Just know that the party has rules about our family.” Dustin says it with a calm smirk.
“And there are no takebacks.” Lucas is grinning, amused little shit.
“Rules?” Eddie scoffs.
“Yeah. Rules.”
“You three little shits sound like the mafia right now.” Eddie laughs as he says it.
Then he clears his throat.
“Ladies.” he fixes his gaze on you and Astrid, who are happily sitting on the gravel, trying to cuddle six little kittens. “Maybe it’s a good idea to take them in. Leave them with the nurse?”
You and Astrid share a look.
“Should we?” Astrid questions you. You shrug but you’re lost in his damned stupid doe eyes again, so naturally, you don’t look away to look at her.
“I mean… at least then she could feed them til we’re done with school.” you muse quietly and you finally make yourself look away.
“And our shared after school detention.” Astrid swears quietly. “No fuckin thanks, Henderson.”
“You went along with it, Cooper.” you assert.
You gaze at Eddie. “Fine.” you pout a little. “But only so these lil nuggets get food when they need it. And if that old bat even thinks she’s getting one of ‘em, she’s not.”
“Again.. Pretty sure Mom said specifically no more animals.” Dustin points out.
“And?” you shrug it off.
“Dustin, just give it up. She literally never listens, buddy.”
“She’s so fucking stubborn.” Lucas laughs as he shakes his head.
– ( later that afternoon )
“Dustin.”
Dustin whirls around to look at you. “Oh god, what now?” is the first thing he asks, which makes you pout. You twist some hair around your finger and laugh. “Do you still have your little thing? The make believe game?”
“DnD, gremlin. It’s DnD. It’s a tabletop rpg, not make believe.”
“Whatever, same thing.” you laugh softly. 
“Yeah, we have a meeting. Why?”
You shrug. “Do you guys like… Bring food to these?”
Dustin’s brow raises.
“A cake, doofus. I made a cake. In stupid Home Ec.”
“You mean you didn’t light the stove on fire?” Dustin taunts you and you pout, snatching the covered cake dish away. Dustin is a sucker for chocolate though, so he pouts. “C’mon.. Please?”
“Okay, alright. It’s just to thank you guys for earlier.” you shrug it off.
“How is the little army of demons anyway?” Dustin asks as he takes the cake dish from your arms.
“The nurse mixed them up something that’s close to their mother’s milk. Says they’re eating it like crazy. She gave me the recipe, so before I take you three dorks home later, we gotta go by the market. And the vet because Astrid said her mom would look at ‘em and try to make sure they’re all healthy.”
Dustin grumbles, but he nods. “Okay, alright.”
“Parking lot. After your meeting. Cos detention will be over for me like, two minutes later. Five if I get bored and crawl out the window again for funsies.”
“You are the sole reason for every single one of our mother’s gray hairs.” Dustin palms his face as he says it.
“And yours, sweet little old man.” you reach out to fluff his hair as you taunt him. Dustin makes an annoyed face and steps away. “Don’t be weird, damn it.”
You pout. “Oh come onnnnn. You’re my little brother.” you’re doing it again, just to get under his skin. Maybe embarrass him just a little. But you’d never admit it. You’re happy he’s at the same school as you are now. You always worried about him and his little friends getting picked on and you not being able to be around to stop it.
“Don’t you have detention to be getting to?” Dustin questions.
“Yeah, right. That shit.”
“Do I need to escort you?” Dustin asks, smirking a little when you flip him off and pout. “I’m goin, I’m goin.”
As you walk away grumbling, Dustin makes his way into the classroom the Hellfire Club is meeting at only to come in on the tail end of exactly how you and Astrid managed to get yourself a detention. 
“Wait.. That’s what she did?” Dustin questions, trying not to laugh.
Eddie nods to the cake dish in Dustin’s arms. “What’s that?”
“My sister, uh.. She had to bake this in Home Ec. So she gave it to me before I came in. She said it was a thank you for helping her earlier.”
“You mean the teacher finally let her use the oven again?” Mike questions, snickering to himself when Dustin flips him off. “Ha fucking ha, Wheeler.”
“That chocolate?” Lucas’s head snaps up.
“Chocolate cake.” Dustin answers.
– ( meanwhile, in detention + after detention )
“The old bat is napping. Are we making our early retreat now?” Astrid asks you the question as she bounces a paper ball off your nose. You look up from the book you’d stolen out of the library’s trash bin during homeroom and yawn as you give her the thumbs up.
“Shit. She didn’t leave the window open.” you frown as you glance over to the row of windows lining one wall.
“And the door creaks too loud.” Astrid points out.
You grumble, but then inspiration strikes.
“Mrs. Bennett?”
The sleeping teacher comes to. “Can you at least try not to make another visit soon, you two?” she asks, still half asleep and not even realizing that she’s just let you both go an entire five and a half minutes earlier than she was supposed to.
You and Astrid are bursting through the door and into the hallway, laughing chaos.
You rush into the bathroom and when you hear the sound of someone vomiting in the end stall, you hold a finger to your lips and share a look while cringing.
Then Chrissy walks out, dragging the back of her hand across her mouth and suddenly, you feel ten times as bad as you thought you did earlier for walking away. And you want to do something, you want to say something to her.
But words won’t come.
And she won’t even look you in the eye as she passes.
Once she’s rinsed her mouth and walked out of the bathroom, Astrid sighs quietly. “My mom says her mom’s a real bitch. Did you know her mom wouldn’t even let her have real cake at her birthday? That’s what one of the girls in homeroom who went to her stupid party told me.”
You can only nod.
“Yeah. Mrs. Cunningham’s a real piece of fuckin work. She hates me. Hates my mom more though because my mom called her out on her shit years ago. Then suddenly, the ice queen can’t allow her perfect little daughter to be seen in breathing distance–” you shake your head sadly and frown. “It doesn’t matter, she chose those shitheads. Jason treats her like shit and she still dates his pathetic ass.”
“Look, she was your best friend. It’s okay to be a little mad. I-I.. I didn’t get it before. But I do now. Maybe there’s something we can do?” Astrid is giving you that look and you shake your head swiftly, every intention to shut it down.
But then Chrissy steps into view.
“When I said I was sorry earlier,” Chrissy fumbles with her words like she’s twisting a blonde strand around her fingertip. “I meant it. I just.. You know how my mother is.I didn’t have a choice, okay? I just…” she trails off and wipes at her eyes. “I needed you to know that.”
“What the hell is she doing to you, Cunningham?” you ask quietly.
“It’s more what am I doing to myself now.” she sighs sadly. “Because if I don’t give them all what they want, I’m worthless.”
“You’re not a goddamn show pony!” you assert.
“She’s right. Blunt as usual, but right.” Astrid says it more gently. Giving you a warning elbow in your side.
You give her a calm shrug. You realize you’re not as gentle as she is, but in this case, it’s fear for your ex best friend that’s taken over.
“Look.” you shuffle your boots against the bathroom floor. “If you need me.” you trail off, Astrid speaking up quietly, “Us. If she needs us.” she corrects, giving Chrissy her best wary grin, “Come find us, alright?”
Chrissy looks back at both of you, equally wary.
“I,uh.. If I don’t get back out there, Jason’s gonna be mad.”
“Fuck that fuckin fuck.” you mumble, another warning nudge from Astrid. You apologize quietly, but you nod. “I mean it, Cunningham. I still live in the same house and my mom is always there, no matter the time.”
“I know, I just…” Chrissy sighs. She wants to say something, she just can’t. And she’s mortified that she’s been caught. That somebody knows her secret.
Chrissy gives you both an unexpected hug and hurries out of the bathroom and you turn your attention to the mirror, reapplying the deep crimson lip stain and pouting at the mirror. Astrid waits by the door, packing her pack of cigarettes. “Mom said she’d go ahead and worm the babies tonight.”
“Okay, good. This gives me time to at least halfway prepare my mom for her three furry grandchildren’s arrival.”
“You really are committed to this crazy cat lady bit, huh?” Astrid laughs as she gazes at you.
You grin. “Animals can’t hurt you like people seem to enjoy doing. I’m not wasting my time saving the animals.”
“Not like you were with… The asshole.”
“Exactly. I’m fine, Astrid, do not start, alright? It still hurts. Just.. Not as much.”
“Good. I can’t handle you when you’re all mopey and moody.”
“I can’t handle me either.” you laugh when you say it, but the truth is, you can’t.
You wander out into the hallway around the exact same time your little brother and his two friends come out the door to the Drama class with Eddie, Jeff and Gareth behind them. You bite your lip and make yourself look anywhere but Eddie Munson. Just for a little further help, you remind yourself about what you literally just talked to Astrid about in the bathroom not even three seconds ago.
You’re sticking to it, doe eyes be damned.
Because Eddie Munson is probably a heartbreaker, just like your ex. Just like over half of the guys you know.
And you’ve always stuck to the belief that maybe it’s better if your infatuations remain just that. It’s gotta be better than letting somebody in only to discover they’re not what you thought, they’re using you or they don’t actually care about you -like your father when he walked away from your mother, you and your little brother and went out to get himself an entire new family as far away from the three of you as he could get.
Daddy issues, sure. 
You’ll gladly admit to having them.
“Your cake was a hit.” Dustin grins as he hands back an empty cake dish. You smile and slip an arm around your brother, who immediately scowls and pries your arm down. “Not here, damn it.”
“Dustinnnnnn.” you whine.
“Damn it.” he grumbles.
“Hey, uh… Are you baking anything else?” Gareth has popped up beside you. You glance up at him and smirk. Shrugging. “Depends.”
“ The chocolate chip cookies, woman!” Lucas and Mike chorus from nearby.
“Okay, alright. Fiiiine.” you laugh. “I suppose I could make some cookies.”
Gareth chuckles. And he’s giving you this little grin. And you bite your lip and try to pretend you don’t know exactly what he’s up to but he makes it so painfully obvious. When he asks if you want to rent some movies on Friday night, you sigh and shake your head. “Gareth, no.”
He gives a little frown but he nods.
And maybe some of Astrid’s gentle nature is finally rubbing off of you or maybe it’s having recently had your own heart ripped right out and crushed. You tap his shoulder and he looks down at you. “Yeah?”
“I’m not in the right headspace right now. I swear, it’s uh.. It’s not a you thing, Emerson. You’re a real sweet guy, just… I don’t wanna lead you on or anything.” you catch sight of Astrid checking him out and you nudge him, nodding in her direction when you’re sure she’s looked away. “Astrid really likes you anyway. I mean, she really likes you. Your little band is the reason she got grounded not long ago.”
Gareth rubs the back of his neck and chuckles. “She is kinda cute.”
“Dude, she’s freaking hot, okay? Go for it.” you encourage.
He smiles and nods. You shuffle away, catching up to your brother and his two friends, who are walking up ahead with Eddie Munson. You pop up right between Eddie and your little brother, laughing. “Hiiiii.”
“Gareth asked you again, huh?” Jeff laughs as he asks the question.
“Mhm.. But I let him down gentle. And told ‘im that Astrid’s in love with him because it’s not like she’ll ever fuckin do it.” you smile at Jeff and shrug.
Eddie’s gazing down at you thoughtfully when Jeff says something to him so he misses it the first time.
Dustin’s looking from you to Eddie and back again, rolling his eyes as soon as the realization of what’s happening right in front of him occurs to him.
Eddie talked about you -and asked entirely too many questions, for most of the little meeting.
To say you definitely got his attention was a bit of an understatement at this point.
The poor bastard was tripping and about to fall right into feelings headfirst.
“Hey, dustball..”
“Yes, gremlin?”
“Hold my backpack while I go pick up my babies.”
“You realize those are not your children, right?” Dustin laughs and shakes his head at you.
“Hmmph. So you say.” you pout as you stop in front of the door to the nurses office and disappear inside. Astrid and Gareth come in a few seconds later and after you’ve gotten the kittens, some droppers to feed them with and instructions from the nurse, you all venture out into the hallway. 
Eddie is waiting, talking to your brother quietly.
As you approach, Dustin is kind of grinning, kind of like he knows something you don’t. And before you can say anything, Dustin speaks up.
“You’re tutoring again this year, right?” he asks.
“Yeah?” you scratch your head as you look at your brother. “Why?”
Eddie clears his throat. “The guidance counselor, she’s been… Ya know.. Riding my ass again. Says I need a certain grade in classes to graduate.”
You’re getting sucked into his eyes. The smoke colored kitten has taken it upon himself to crawl up and nest in your hair, cozied up to your shoulders and neck. You finally realize what Eddie’s hinting at and you smile.
“You want me to tutor you… Right?”
“Yeah? I mean if you don’t mind.” Eddie says it fast enough that he stumbles over the words a little. You smile and nod. “Yeah, I’ll do it.”
Eddie grins. “Great.”
“So, look.. If you wanna start tonight, that’s awesome. And our mom is making homemade beef stew.” you smirk a little as you say it and Eddie laughs. “I’ll come by later. I’ve uh.. I gotta go to the laundromat first.”
“Uh, we have a washer and dryer.”
“You don’t mind?”
“No, why would I?” you shrug.
It’s not like it’s a big deal anyway, your mom’s always after both you and Dustin to be helpful and decent to other people. And while yes, you may have just the teeniest crush on Eddie Munson, it’s not like he actually likes you back.
And friends are always a good thing to have.
Besides, this is just tutoring… Right?
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autisticcassandracain · 10 months
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3, 7 & 13 seem juicy
3 is answered!
7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?
JASON FUCKING TODD
fuck this guy but fuck his fans more. Some Jason fans are like, reasonable and just think he's an interesting character. I disagree but that's mostly because I think we just don't need any more characters challenging Batman's no kill rule specifically, I just think they're boring. Jason has a bit of a leg up in that he does have interesting family Baggage, but ultimately his writing (at least preboot) was so incredibly inconsistent that nothing outside of what they did in Under The Red Hood really came of it. I don't know much about post-flashpoint Jason but frankly he seems to have gotten all unique attributes sucked out of him over the years so he's not all that appealing to me there either. That said I really don't necessarily hate Jason in canon, I mostly just find him boring.
That said the subsection of Jason fans who think he's Right, Actually single-handedly made him my least favourite comic book character outside of the Joker. It's positively infuriating to see a bunch of people argue that Jason's completely nonsensical 'ideology' is Right, Actually, with the justification that yeah, we SHOULD totally just kill criminals! Not that kind, no, only like, the Really Bad Ones, like rapists, you know? And Bad Drug Dealers. How do we filter the Really Bad Criminals from the Poor Misunderstood Criminals? By vibes or something idk their arguments usually don't get that far because they're reactionary and don't think beyond their base instinct of 'I Want Bad Person Dead'. Also, 'Batman SHOULD kill the Joker he's just that bad!' a) the Joker's not gonna stay dead, death is about as effective as fucking Arkham, there's no point, and b) the Joker is not materially worse than most other supervillains. Most other supervillains have done shit that's on par with the Joker. Yes, the Joker is often portrayed as Uniquely Bad, but this is mostly a combination of narrative framing and Personal Baggage Batman has towards him than anything objective. If Batman kills the Joker there's literally no reason for him not to kill, say, Zsasz. And a Batman who kills freely is, frankly, a boring fucking character, because it does away with almost all the idealism and, yes, optimism that makes his character compelling. Shut up forever.
Anyway Jason Todd was wrong on every possible level, and you're all annoying and I hate your fave now.
13. worst blorboficiation
Honestly I'm not sure what 'blorbofication' means, I'm assuming it's like, fanon-ifying/woobifying? This is a bit difficult to answer tbh bc I tend to get invested in characters that are less popular in fandom (this is deliberate btw), so while there's plenty of characters who had all their interesting traits sucked out in the name of making them Blorbo From My Tropes, MY faves usually get stuck getting all their character traits sucked out due to a terminal case of fandom not giving a shit about them. That said if I can nominate Stephcass as a duo, Stephcass. They have an incredibly interesting, multi-dimensional dynamic, or at least they HAD until the post-flashpoint continuity was allowed to actually use them and realized that queerbaiting was lucrative. Not that fandom was less boring about them before then but at least it wasn't actually canon. Anyway in fandom they're annoying as fuck bc everyone is dead scared to give their f/f ships any conflict at all and it makes me want to chew drywall. Fluffy fics are fine the one (1) stephcass thing I wrote was fluff too so like, stones, glass houses, I know, but would it seriously kill people to stop reducing them to the Sunny One/Stoic One combo.
Oh wait, also Damian. He Would Not Fucking Say That.
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bunnygirl678 · 4 months
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I feel like doing a silly interview of myself so I'm just going to straight up answer these lmao
Fanfic Writer Emoji Ask
😅 What's a story or scene you've created that you're a smidge embarrassed exists?
i wrote mpreg, it's Red, it's bad, i mean the writing is great, lots of emotions but holy shit i don't even like mpreg but i did it for an omegaverse, it just fit, for the record he has twins
🥺 Is there a certain type of moment or common interaction between your characters that never fails to put you in your feels?
idk usually when green is upset about his parents, or when they finally work out their issues
🤡 What's a line, scene, or exchange you've written that made you laugh?
Anytime Green/Rai/Leon get together and drink
😈 Has there been a point in a story where you did something just to be playfully mean to your readers?
literally all the time, in ode to my soulmate, it was originally going to end after they got together, none of the angst (or the failed attempt at a cliffhanger lmao)
✍ Do you have a beta reader?
I typically don't have use one, but occasionally will ask my homies to take a look, there are a couple i'm working on that i'm worried are too technical so those will need betas to make sure it's understandable by a layman
🛒 What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.
Green is rich, Red can't cook, there are certain phrases i use a lot, almost always have some kind of star gazing trope (at least in the longer fics)
🎢 Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?
skfdhsdfhj blood bank or under the alolan sun, but the wild parts aren't published yet?? Or maybe the ones i haven't published idk
✨ Give you and your writing a compliment. Go on now. You know you deserve it. 😉
i have a nice ass, i'm great at world building, compliment for me and my writing ^_^
💋 First kiss fics. Love em or hate em?
Love them, but love first time fics more
🎶 Do you listen to music while you write? What song have you been playing on loop lately?
most of the time, christmas music,
🛠What tools/programs/apps do you use to write?
docs, i switch between my phone and computer a lot,
⛔ Do you have a fic you started, but scrapped?
Only one, i was trying to do too much, my writing skills weren't back up to par yet, i think it helped me get to where i am now, the plot was too much, idk, i might steal a scene or two for other fics, but i'm not going to spend any time trying to improve the writing or plot. There are a bunch that i started a while ago and haven't touched in months, but i'll head back to them eventually, i have to be in the ~mood~ to work on a fic
🙋‍♀️ Do any irl people know you write fanfic?
Yeah, multiple people know, but they don't know my username
🍦 What's the sweetest fic you've created so far?
ummm that's published, under the alolan sun maybe? or maybe Lost, that's not published, single riders will be paired (coming sometime next year lmao it's a high school au super cute i'm really nice to green in it, red is a shy mute kid with no friends who ends up getting stuck on a roller coaster ride with green who is the most popular boy in school, green's actually super nice and the rest of the day kinda turns into a date, they go to school and red's like oh he's gonna be mean but he's not and it's really cute and sweet, and red gets accepted into the group and lajfdl;sjdf)
🍷 Do you drink and write?
yeah and then end up scrapping everything lol,
🍆 Do you write the spicy stuffs? If so, what's your most popular nsfw fic?
yes, i'm still working on improving my skills, but most hits/kudos ratio (let's be honest someone can do kudos once and read 15 times so not the best metric but what else do we have), is make you feel my love, but i'm working on one that will be published by valentines day where green gives red head in his neochamp outfit
🌞 Do you have a preferred time of day to write?
all day? When the adderall hits? idk it's really just when i have time, when i have my kid i really only get to at night when she goes to bed, but on her dad's weeks i write after work.
💖 What made you start writing?
i wanted to read stories that weren't written, i have lots of aus bouncing around in my head
💌 How do you feel about comments and feedback?
dopamine hit
❌ What's a trope you will never write?
ummmmm idk, used to be mpreg, but that ship sailed, i don't really love poly romance, i like the smut but am not really interested in writing it as a romance
💲 Would you ever open commissions?
no, i found that i do my best writing when i want to, which is why wips take forever for me to finish because i bounce from idea to idea as i feel like it
🧐 Do you spend much time researching for your stories?
not really...I'll google a fact or two, i mean unless you count game time or reading the manga, but like googling little details not so much.
🏆 What's your most popular fic?
gonna do for reguri, when the wind stole my walls, i never felt less alone; it's my longest finished fic
🎃 Do you write fics for certain holidays? Which is your favorite holiday inspired fic?
yesh, i really liked Lost, and Auld Lang Syne, but also i threw in a couple Christmas themed chapters to Under the Alolan Sun, which was fun
🎯 Have any of your readers accurately guessed major plot points? Care to share which?
ugh yes, lmao, blood bank, they didn't guess the exact details but the general idea, i was like oh shit i'm glad they picked up on the crumbs i threw lmao
🎨 How do you feel about fan art of your stories?
Always an honor! I might even make some one day, if my art ever improves enough for me to feel comfortable tagging it lmao
📈 How many fics do you have?
37 on ao3! I'm not going to include the ones on ff.net cause i can't remember my username, i have 50 open works (some as basic as an outline, some have 20k+ words) sitting in my docs that haven't been published
🦅 Do you outline fics or fly by the seat of your pants?
Depends, usually outline, i typically start writing then add an outline later,
👀 Tell me about an up and coming wip please!
This one i stared on a while ago, the actual writing needs a lot of edits but i'm obsessed with the plot, after Green loses he flees to Kalos, changes his name to Blue and becomes the champion there, everything is great until Red randomly shows up to learn how to mega evolve his charizard, Red obvs knows who he is, they deal with things, red can't mega evolve at first, it's fun orrrr my hs au that i mentioned earlier, or the ones where green becomes a coordinator, either after losing or instead of battling, in 2024 i'm releasing more pokespe works and branching out on some of the ship stuff, gonna publish a few silver/gold, lance/cynthia, and a few others,
🤗 What advice would you give to new fanfic writers that are just getting started?
Just keep writing, not everything will be amazing, but everything can be edited and rewriten
💞 Who's your comfort character?
Green oak i like to see him cry <3
🧠 Pick a character, and I'll tell you my favorite headcanon for them.
Red: He can't cook to save his life
🤩 Who is your favorite character to write?
Green, duh
🤲 Would you please share a snippet of a wip?
Green loses his memories after an accident during a battle
Red felt a tap on his shoulder, who would be bothering him this late? He turned to none other than the person he had been avoiding.
Green smiled up at Red. Red looked around for an exit.
“You’ve been avoiding me.” He stated flatly, a finger poking Red’s chest.
“Maybe.” Red said, looking away. He attempted to make eye contact with any of his pokemon to get them to create a distraction.
“It’s okay, I know why.” Green said, Red stuck his hands in his pockets and looked down at the ground. 
Instead of retreating, Green got closer right inside of Red’s personal space. He placed his hands on Red’s chest. Red was suddenly worried Green was going to push him. Was he angry? He wouldn’t have had any memories of the championship would he? Maybe he read up on it? Red knew he was physically stronger than Green, but Green had been hurt recently, and he really didn’t want to have to get into a fight with him tonight.
“I may not remember all of the events that took place to get us here, but there’s no way I could forget these feelings.” And with that Green crossed the short distance and pressed his lips to Red’s. 
Wait, what?!
Green pulled away and looked up at Red through his long eyelashes. He leaned up and pressed another chaste kiss to Red’s lips. 
“Sorry Red, I don’t remember anything about you except for how much I love you. I look at you and I get the warmest most wonderful feeling in my chest. I feel like I’m flying on the clouds when I think about you. I love you Red.” Green wrapped his arms around Red’s waist and laid his head against his chest. 
😬 Which of your fics would you be most horrified for friends, family, or coworkers to stumble upon?
My omegaverse mpreg red one, that's not even published lol (may not ever be published hahaa)
🎉 What leads you to consider a fic a success?
probably kudos and hits, but really it's if i go back and reread it over and over again, everything i write is self indulgent so
✅ What's something that appears in your fics over and over and over again, even if you don't mean to?
i can't think if it, but there's little phrases or hcs that pop up in a ton of them
📚 Would you ever want to turn writing into a career?
nope i do it for fun, if it became a job it wouldn't be fun anymore, although i am published it's technical accounting writing, and i do eventually plan on getting my phd once princess is older, so maybe? But that writing is research not fiction lol
⌛ How long does it take you to write a fic, or a chapter?
I'm a ridiculously fast typer, 34 words per minute is my average, 10k is a typical length, but my achilles heel is that i skip around a ton from fic to fic, so it may take months to get a fic done even though it's only 12k words
🤯 What's a genre you struggle with as a writer (ex. romance, action, etc.)?
I suck at writing battles, working on improving my smut skills though!
💔 Is there a fic of yours that broke your heart?
Yes, cried writing ode to my soulmate, Lost (cried a bunch on that one and ended up calling my cousin and we talked for a few hours because i miss him), then this one break up fic called RIP that i'm not sure how it's going to end, i usually write a happy ending but i might leave them broken up idk
💥 How do you feel about criticism?
I don't handle it well, i don't like it, it makes me not want to write even if it has good intentions, sometimes i'll read wips that stopped posting years ago, and i'll check out the comments on the last chapter and i'll see criticism and it pisses me off cause i think, 'hm did the author give up because of this shitty comment??'
🤭 Do you have a favorite tag to use when posting your works?
I am so bad at tagging, like minimal tagging, i tag triggers but the rest i suck at, i don't do any of the cutesy ones
🥰 How do you feel about reader interaction? Are you open to receiving questions about your fics?
Friends, romans, countrymen, lend me your ear, please do this. i will happily write out a writers commentary of my fics, or maybe if my voice wasn't so annoying i'd make a video with a dramatic reading and a dvd style commentary
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starkcanvas · 1 year
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how are you doing mack? hope youre doing okay! just checking in
Oh yeah- I'm doing alright. I've just been feeling... really iffy about making posts lately. I still wanna try and interact with the OMORI community but just... idk I guess the previous drama that happened has made it extremely hard for me to do that because I don't know who'll be "safe" anymore. Y'know?
Like, there are some content creators I've stumbled across in the past and I've really liked their stuff but then I've like seen previous bad stuff about them that they have now like better themselves since then but that was like, before I even joined the fandom so it just really freaks me out that I can't interact with someone who I think is cool because of the fear of me just getting completely shunned by the whole fandom...
I dunno. I still really love OMORI as a whole but rn it's just getting more and more... intimidating to try and make friends in the community because you just get stuck between a rock and a hard place... especially for someone with extremly poor social anxiety and self-esteem issues like myself. I am now gonna be getting therapy for this stuff but that won't be until the 11th.
Literally the only positive thing going for me rn is that my 21st birthday is in 9 days so that's cool I guess.
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thetiredstuff · 1 year
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Oh shit are shows usually picked up quickly?
hi anon!! idk hahaha i have no clue how this business works. idk like last time i remember cancellations happening that made noooo sense were of lucifer, which got picked up by netflix & brooklyn 99, which got picked up by nbc. 911 got cancelled but it got picked up by abc before the news was even made public. and while i don't remember it well i believe b99 got picked up like a couple of days after fox canceled it (yeah just looked it up. b99 news got out may 10 and got picke dup by nbc may 11). lucifer took a bit longer i believe (just looked it up. it got canceled may 10 and apparently only got picked up by netflix june 15 so took more than a month?) those are the only two shows i remember getting canceled by one network and then getting picked up by another (or a streaming service) but b99 was incrediblyyyyyyy popular and already had 5 seasons. and lucifer was also really popular and had multiple seasons under its belt as well.
edit: okay so @sunglassesmish just reminded me manifest got canceled by nbc in june and then got picked up by netflix in august (lol why did i forget this? i literally watch this show??) it took about a month and a half for it to get picked up so seems like between now and about 2 months is the time frame we should be getting an answer butttt manifest also had multiple seasons already.
the winchesters only has 1 season. i mean it seemed to be doing really well on hbo max internationally and domestically so i would hope that hbo max would pick it up but i would have liked to already gotten that news by now.
on the other hand. both windy and kung fu were canceled and both the news articles about these shows state that WB had looked at other homes for these shows but didn't find any. the winchesters on the other hand by the looks of it is being heavily shopped around behind the scenes given that they started the hashtag campaign and also a lot of news outlets are writing about this hashtag campaign and cancelation. news outlets love writing about whatever but it makes me wonder how much of them are writing about it because they got a press release from WB and or CM which would be another indicator of shopping it around.
but they tried shopping windy and kung fu around as well before the news of the cancellation broke yet no biters. so i'm guessing this hashtag campaign is more so because there is a potential interested partner to pick up the winchesters, which i would guess is hbo (i wouldn't know where else they'd possibly go) and this campaign is like the final push to them to show that there is ample interest. or the deal is basically as good as done and this is just like added campaigning for their newly-required product which will then boost the products' numbers once a new season airs.
idk but i don't like this limbo and even looking at b99 and lucifer or other shows that got canceled and then saved by another network or streaming service, this is occuring during a writer strike. that throws a massive wrench in any plans for scripted television. (i am on the side of the writers tho!! fuck the studios whoarding money and not willing to pay that 3% extra and fuck them wanting to use AI scripts and fuck their day-rate writer idea). but when the writer strike in 2008 happened, it saw an uptick in reality tv because you don't need writers for that or for those who say reality tv is scripted, you don't need as many writers for that. it's why the cw is going for their fuck boy and fuck girl island show. it's cheap. so i don't know. this stuck in limbo shit while a writer's strike is happening and with studios being assholes makes me nervous because i love spnwin but moreover, spnwin is part 1 of what i'm sure is jensen's plan to expand the spn universe. but if spnwin gets canceled after 1 season and doesn't get picked up, it's gonna be a lot harder to make an spn universe.
but again i am saying this when i know nothing about anything
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