#like he'd literally have to google search how to do it he's that bad

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

"Just take it."

a non-cannon witch eclipse for @sunnyys-jarss because I was bored and why not; I haven't drawn proper flowers in a very long time so I'm sorry if they turned out a little wonky! Though cannon witch eclipse is way too focused on his goals and out of his depth in terms of emotion to pursue a relationship, he'd definitely be very uncertain as to how to react to being in one, hence his inability to be nice about offering flowers (he probably panicked about what kind to pick for at least two days before scrambling this up).

(without color cuz i like it better that way personally:)

#crappy doodles #witch au #witch eclipse #background is very uncreative cuz I was coloring during class and didn't feel like trying very hard on it so sorry bout that! #you said you liked sunflowers and daisies so here's a lil bouquet for ya! #looking through my drafts and realized it was valentine's day and i was like oop i have a thing for that? #also btw to clarify this guy would be. TERRIBLE. at romance #like he'd literally have to google search how to do it he's that bad #he legit went 'people like flowers right??' and then conjured some up #he sucks at plant magic tho so . #took a lot of explosions to make this happen #happy v day everybody! #tsams au

[enhafilthandfiction]

Enhypen - when you're on your period

A/N: Helloooo! This wasn't a request but I feel like writing this reaction since I'm currently on my period >:( Ughhh pls send help

Pairing : Bf!Enha X Fem!Reader

Warnings : Blood (obvi), food, crack, mentions of sex in jake's

Word count : 1,361 words (about 150 words each)

Masterlist - Tips

♡ Lee Heeseung ♡

His heart would break seeing you like this

he would immediately notice you got your period, but wouldn't say anything to save you some 'embarrassment'.

He'd act nonchalant and chill, wanting to just chill whilst you were both at home and procrastinating.

"What ya wanna do?" he asks, once you come out of the bathroom for the millionth time. (It felt like that for him)

He'd let you pick whatever you wanna do and gives in, even if you wanted to test your makeup on him or paint his nails 😭

He ain't saying no

You end up watching a movie when the cramps became a little too much, laying on the couch with him behind you, hands wrapped around your waist, but ready to let go of you whenever you need to use the bathroom (again)

Hearing you whimper in pain would pain him as well, gently bringing his hand over to your tummy to rub in circles.

It doesn't really do anything tbh, maybe distract you, but you appreciate him trying 🥺

Later, he'd definitely make you some ramen, insisting that it was the only food that would cure your cramps and upset mood.

Will definitely sing you to sleep, that's why his head voice is so good.

♡ Park Jay ♡

Everyone says this but : MOM MODE ONNNN 🤗😌

Literally won't stop making sure you're good

and he's prob the most chill about it, like its not a big deal at all

he's just very mature

"You sure you have everything?"

"Don't be shy y/n, it's okay"

"I don't mind buying them for you"

And he does, bc cool boyfriends arent embarrassed to buy tampons 😎

Oh wait

"Pads or tampons?" "Ah ok" "What size exactly??" "Got it"

Hurries up bc he doesn't wanna leave you alone for too long.

Asks you what you wanna eat and will literally cook you anything

pasta with ice cream sauce? Ok

Pineapple on pizza? Ok

cook you his pet fish? Also ok

Makes you tea before bed, because he insists its good to prevent cramps

Might cuddle up in bed and lets you rest your head on his chest as he reads you a book of your choice.

Jay reading to you in that American accent 😩

♡ Sim Jake ♡

Boi does his research

he knows it has to do with periods and hormones when you start acting up

Is lowkey scared so he relies on google to provide him with answers.

"Ughhh, Jake, my cramps are getting worse" you whine, still laying in bed, scrunching up your face

He smiles brightly as he remembers of his searches

"I've heard that having sex could reduce period cramps" he announces proudly, looking at you like 😏

"You're seriously tryna get your dick wet rn??" you get mad and start throwing pillows at him.

"N-Nah but for real!!" He protests, ducking your hits "Seriously, I've read it online" he says in his defence, trying to catch his breath from that near pillow fight

"Damn, since when did you get so good at pillow fighting?" he tries to compliment but it only makes you wanna punch his bicep playfully.

You whine out in pain again, gripping onto his sitting figure at the edge of the bed. "What I am supposed to do?" he questions, haven already given you one alternative.

"Oh, how about we listen to my boy Justin?" he asks, already whipping out his phone

"Noooo, Enhypen is so much better dude" you reply, glaring at him

he agrees and puts on 'pass the mic'

He pushed your shoulders playfully "You got -pushed -pushed" he sings along

"JAKEEE"

Anyway, ends up buying you mc donalds and ice cream to make it up to you

he rly tries but he's a little clueless tbh.

♡ Park Sunghoon ♡

Bro lowkey ghosts you and avoids you

he knows that you're in a bad mood, and he doesn't wanna make it worse with uncontrollable teasing 😭

when you notice his distant behaviour, it only makes you even more upset

"HOON" you yell at him from the other room

he knows he fcked up and feel like he's boutta get his ass whooped.

He makes it hesitantly to your room, regretting it immediately when he sees your pout.

"H-hi y/n, he stutters, thinking of whatever he's gonna say, not wanting to upset your hormones.

"Hoon, why are you avoiding me?" the first tear rolls down your cheek "I'm literally bleeding and you're leaving me alone!" you burst out crying.

He stand there, biting his bottom lip, contemplating what to do

"C-can I hug you?" he asks, moving closer to you. He wraps his arms around you when you nod, pulling you in a tight hug.

"I'm sorry y/n, I thought you wanted to be left alone" he reasons, making sure you know he's sorry

"Its fine" you so sob into his shirt "Now can we watch your ice skating videos and cuddle?" you smile up at him suddenly, flattering your previously wet eyelashes to convince him.

He sighs, knowing you'll just burst out crying again if he doesn't agree

You reach for the remote, pulling on one of his ice skating videos.

He's already on your bed, hands behind his head, almost drifting off

"You look like a grandpa" you laugh, climbing onto your bed and getting closer to him, when the video starts playing.

"He wants to 'compliment' you back, but he fears he'll upset your hormones so he just doesn't say anything for your sake.

♡ Kim Sunoo ♡

A literal sweetheart

Almost like your bestie tbh

He cares about you so much and clearly shows it when your in these situations.

He doesn't hesitate to literally do everything for you

Take off your make up and does your skin care routine for you

Might even wash you if you're too tired to shower lmao

He pouts at you whenever you get cramps, wishing to take them away from you, just to see you smile again.

"My poor baby" he would say, hugging you close to him, gently, not to hurt you or anything.

He'd also be the best at tittie rubs

Like if your breasts were sore, he wouldn't mind massaging them, his soft hands easing some of the pressure on your chest.

You might even fall asleep like that, his hands on your chest under your top, acting like your bra as he sleeps behind you.

♡ Yang Jungwon ♡

Very mature #2

Cares a lot about you and worries

Studies and researches about it so you won't have bad periods :(

Worries when you wear tampons

"Doesn't that hurt?"

"Is it safe though?"

"Y/n, I don't think you should sleep t-tampons because you know, it m-might get stuck in there or something"

He just wants to make sure you're okay

"Ok gynaecologist 😀"

He doesn't really mind if you bleed on his sheets, as long as you aren't wearing tampons to bed

"It's fine sweetie, I'll clean it up"

Doesn't get mad or anything, changes the sheets and makes you change

Definitely cuddles you to sleep and holds your hand if the cramps get too much

♡ Nishimura Riki ♡

Teases the hell out of you

But also tries to help if you get cramps

If he sees you on the couch, he'll crawl in behind you, placing his hands on your hips.

He squeezes your waist

"My little ketchup bottle" he coos

"Nikiii" you try to squirm away embarrassed by his comment.

Definitely rubs your tummy if the cramps get too much

Slightly awkward at first and he feels a little shy doing it

"This okay?" he asks, rubbing circles in your tummy

You don't have the heart to tell him that it doesn't help but at least its a good distraction.

When he leaves for practise, he'll definitely leave you a plushy, big enough that you can hug it close

"Maybe this plushy will help :]" gives you his favourite plushy :(

He'll overall check up on you a lot, and really tried his best to help you out

I need a sweet boy like niki 😭

Hello! Thankyou for reading! Hope y'all are okay and remember that periods only last about a week! You got it!! For anyone who get cramps, I hope they're not as bad or get better :)

Lyyyy <333

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[kokusfluffyhair]

Hey, I hope you're doing well! <3🥹

I'm a huge fan of your headcanons, especially for Koku🤭 (bro has me running laps and drooling the second I catch a glimpse of him, and the second you post headcanons about him, it makes me do backflips and cartwheels all around my room)

I was wondering if you could write some headcanons for me? I'd like to see how Kokushibo would react when his female s/o is going through her time of the month, and experiences really bad cramps (to the point of literal nausea and difficulty sleeping or finding a position to stand/sit in due to the immense pain of them, sometimes even hunching over due to the cramps)

(This is my first time requesting anything, so I’m kinda nervous ngl. Also, if you don’t feel comfortable writing stuff like this, it’s totally okay :) <3 thank you for taking the time to read my message though, hope you have a good day/night!!!<33)

(On my period rn, and I’m this close to jumping off the roof🤏 worst cramps I’ve ever had in my whole life holy fuck).

This GIF is so cute oml

Aww thanks 💜 I'm glad you like my headcanons! And I hope you're feeling better!

Kokushibou when it's your time of the month

+ At first, he literally thinks you're dying

+ You have to remind him that it's your period and you're not dying. Once you start explaining to him what periods are, he remembers that his ex-wife long, long ago also had them

+ He then gets kind of uncomfortable, because he doesn't know how to handle these "female" things

+ But he loves you, so he'll try

+ When the symptoms get worse, the first thing he thinks is if he did something wrong

+ You have to guide him through a routine of what things you want. He won't know right away to get some painkiller pills or a hot water bottle for you

+ Of course, this would be the first couple times he experiences you having your period, and after that he'll know what to do

+ He'd get you a fuzzy and soft hot water bottle cover to use. This purple one I found in a Google search would be perfect

(pic from megaknihy.cz)

+ He'd make sure that you have enough different kinds of pillows in case you need to change your position or hunch over in different ways

+ He'd offer to hold you and cuddle you. Whenever you need to change a position, he will do it

+ He would hold the hot water bottle on your lower belly so you don't have to hold it yourself. One of his favourite things would be to lay as big and small spoon and he holds the water bottle against you

+ When you're hungry, he'll get you whatever you're craving, even if it means he has to cook it himself

+ Because he's a demon, he gets kind of ... intrigued ... by the blood smell. So you might find him sniffing around that area like a dog

+ The benefit to this is that he won't complain about the bathroom smelling bad from the used products

+ You might find him taking longer than he should in the bathroom just to be around the smell. If you confront him about it, he will get startled

+ Of course, when you are feeling better, he's very relieved. Even though you tell him that you aren't going to die, he still wonders if it's possible

+ He would try to find out of demon women get their periods, and if they don't, he would offer to make you a demon just so you don't have to go through that anymore (I kind of think they don't get their periods, or if they do, they don't bleed and don't feel anything because they regenerate)

#kokushibo #kokushibou #kokushibo headcanons #kny headcanons #demon slayer headcanons #kokushibou headcanons #kokushibou x you #kokushibo x reader #kokushibou x reader so #kokushibo x yn #kokupuffs

[cantdothis-nomore]

Raven, Cyborg, Beast Boy and Robin with a reader who is afraid of the dark

EEEEE thank you for the request I've been waiting for some for a little bit and I love teen titans so I enjoyed writing this, thank you for the request and I hope you request more!

Raven

She'd probably find it quite funny at first tbh because of her LITERALLY being a demon and darkness is literally her lmao

She would make sure that her room was as lit as possible when you were in there as not to freak you out

She'd make sure to always carry a torch or something to produce light with her at all times incase a fight went on into the night or just incase they were out late at night and it got really dark

She wouldn't invalidate your phobia, yes she would find it a bit funny considering herself but she would try and find ways for you to get round it and get more comfortable with being in the dark

She'd make sure that any rooms you and her went into had a light on to make you feel safe

She wouldn't force you to be in the dark and face your fear but would try and find why your scared and find a good method of getting the fear out of you

She'd be really kind about it and would probably beat up anyone who mocked you for your fear because she didn't want you to feel that she wasn't someone that you could trust when she was

Raven would try her best to understand your fear and look at it from your point of view

Overall she'd be really sweet and kind and try and help you as much as she could <3

Cyborg

Mans u got yourself a twin bro

This man is PETRIFIED of the dark in the series on Netflix

He wouldn't be able to do much but if it got dark you and him would basically just cling to each other and hope for the best 💀

If you be screaming, he do be screaming too

As he's literally like 75% robot he'd obviously have a light on him 24/7

When it got dark you and him would both huddle around it and stay there until a light was turned on

After finding out that you were afraid of the dark he didn't feel as though his fear was invalid as much anymore because someone else had it too so it wasn't much of a big deal

When it got dark or the power cut out he'd be using you as his shield while you're trying to use him as yours lol

Neither of you are much help to each other you're more of a nuisance by making each others fear get worse from just being around each other

Again if the power cut out you'd both probably be saying really positive things to each other whilst knowing you were only saying it for yourselves 💀

The titans would be sick of you two being together within a minute of you both screeching if something moved or even looked like it moved

Beast Boy

He'd find it quite funny at first actually

You and his best friend being scared of the dark was comical to him

He'd support you and try and show you that the dark wasn't actually that bad but you weren't having any of it lmao

He'd randomly switch of lights while you were in that room to try and catch you off guard and see if that method helped for getting you over your fear

News flash, it didn't.

If there was any sort of power outage you'd be stuck to him like glue for the entirety of it scared out your mind bro

You and cyborg would be besties

He would search up on Google how to get people over their fear of the dark to help you and try each of them out at different times each of which ended up with him basically getting slapped in either the face or kicked straight into his side depending on how badly he scared you

You knew he meant well it just wasn't working

Like raven, beast boy would try and get to the bottom of what made you scared of the dark and try and use that to get you over your fear almost

He'd give up after a little while because that fear of yours was not budging for the life of him and you had assured him that it had been with you your whole life so would be quite hard to get rid of anyways

He only means well 🥺

Robin

This is going to be hella short

Mans straight up would laugh

He wouldn't understand for the life of him why you were scared of the dark and wouldn't feed into the fear either

Yes he'd hug you and make you feel safe when it got really dark because he does actually have a heart you know

But he wouldn't talk to you about it because out of everyone he's the only one that realises that it's pretty much useless

He wouldn't invalidate the fear but he wouldn't do anything about it either because there isn't anything he can do apart from let you deal with it and hope for the best

He would try his best and comfort you but when it came to sorting the fear out you were on your own there

#raven x reader #raven teen titans #raven roth #cyborg x reader #cyborg #cyborg teen titans #beast boy x reader #beast boy #beast boy teen titans #robin x reader #robin #robin teen titans #teen titans x reader #teen titans

[sunflowervolvimp3]

Wait I know we always talk about how protective vampy would be when bb got sick but what would nialls reaction be to her getting sick? I feel like Harry would mention it in the groupchat so Niall would rush over and H would be like “what are you doing go home” and hes like “ok but......shes not gonna die right?” And Harry’s like “....should we call Mitch” and bb would yell from His bed “I LITERALLY JUST HAVE A COLD CALM DOWN” then h would be like “…do you think we should take her to the ER just in case?”

the way they would make each other's anxiety worse PLS

...

It's not that Harry didn't know Niall was fond of Y/N.

He'd spent months running interference between the two, trying to squash Niall's every attempt of establishing contact with the mortal girl before Harry was ready. He'd stopped multiple attempts to crash dates, suffered through his phone being stolen four times, and lost three fingernails in a battle to prevent Niall from adding Y/N to their group chat affectionately titled "The Fang Gang." Once Harry did start allowing contact between his mortal lover and immortal friends, Harry could see the playful relationships bloom immediately. He was glad for it, even— it was much easier to have a relationship with Y/N once the two sides of his life began to merge. And he knew there was a certain degree of protectiveness that went along with that. He'd appreciated his friends understanding his need to make sure she was safe, that he sometimes had to leave a hangout early to make sure Y/N had a ride home when working a closing shift. He'd been thankful for it during certain nights in certain clubs. He knew there was affection there.

He just didn't expect that affection to bring Niall to his door thirty-two seconds after texting in the group chat that he and Y/N would have to miss dinner on account of her having a cold.

The Irishman looks at Harry with an expression he hasn't seen on the carefree vampire's face in years, peering anxiously over Harry's shoulder as if expecting to see the sick girl there. "Is Y/N okay?"

Harry blinks at him. "Is she— what?"

"Is Y/N okay?" Niall repeats the question, his eyes focusing back on Harry's face. "You said she was sick, and that's— humans are fragile. Getting sick means—"

"It means she has a cold, Niall," Harry's own brow furrows in confusion as he looks his friend up and down. "Just a cold. She just needs some rest."

Niall steps into the apartment, and the unease rolling off the vampire in waves convinces Harry to let it happen. He's never seen Niall go so long without smiling, or cracking a joke in greeting.

"You know people die of colds, Harry," Anxiety is threaded through Niall's voice as he speaks. "All it takes is one big cough, and suddenly your lungs are on the outside of your body! Human's don't do well with lungs on the outside of their body! That's literally the opposite of where they're supposed to be!"

"I really don't think that's how coughing works, mate," Harry touches Niall's shoulder with a measured movement. "Calm down. She's fine. Just a bit congested, has a small cough and a headache. Mostly she just needs sleep."

"What if she can't breathe? Congestion means—"

"It means she has a stuffy nose! That's it!"

Niall pulls out his phone. "Have you checked her temperature?"

"Five minutes ago. It's only 38.1 degrees—"

"Google says that's a fever! You know what happens when humans have fevers?"

Harry sighs. "They die?"

"They die, Harry! Fevers are bad! Fevers mean infection!"

"It's a cold!"

And yet.

Harry feels his stomach twist within his abdomen as he snatches Niall's phone from his hands and reads through the Google search results about fevers.

"Mitch doesn't seem concerned," Harry says the words almost as a comfort for himself.

Niall makes a noise of mocking in the back of his throat. "Mitch barely batted an eye when Sarah wound up in a body bag. Should we use him as the gauge for how concerned we should be?"

Harry can identify two faults to that argument right away, the first being that Mitch was distraught for days when Sarah met her untimely mortal end, and the second being that if anyone shouldn't be the gauge for concern, it's Niall, who's prone to overexcitement and overreacting. But then he hears Y/N coughing upstairs, and pictures her fragile body shivering beneath the blanket's he's layered on top of her, and all his counterarguments go out the window.

"I'll go get Y/N while you bring the car around, alright? You think I can bribe the ER staff with a Gucci watch?"

"I think you better try."

#theyre dumb your honour i love them #ysijwa blurb #ysijwa #harry blurb #hs blurb #harry styles x reader

[citrusreadstoa]

Reading The Dark Prophecy: Chapter 16 (SPOILERS)

"In my four thousand years of life, I had searched for many things . . . and a 1958 Gibson Flying V." Image below. They sell for ~$9,999. Apollo's fine with $15,000 Tater Tots but draws the line at a rare $9,999 guitar.

"If we die here, I'd just like to say you aren't as bad as I originally thought." Aw hey, they're making progress.

"And alas, I was all out of Tater Tots." I love how his Plan B is to try negotiating with the Tots. Actually, those are pretty pricey. Maybe he can pay his own ransom money with that.

"Good cheap labor is terribly difficult to find." [Insert comment about inhumane Chinese factory wages here]

"My friends call me Lit, but my enemies call me Death!" That's not nearly as cool a line as you seem to think it is.

"I changed my mind. First, that roof collapsed on me." Fair counter. If anything were to change your mind about taking someone alive, it would be an attempt on your own life. "Then my bodyguards got swallowed by a stand of bamboo." Say what now? I was wondering why Lit was here but the Germani weren't.

"My pulse boomed like timpani" TIMPANI (n.): kettledrums, especially when played by one musician in an orchestra

"Surely Zeus would intercede." They're probably going to find a way out of this situation before it becomes too close of a call, but if Apollo were to actually die, I think Zeus would actually intercede. At worst, his intentions for Apollo's punishment might be to live and die permanently as a mortal, but dying a month into his punishment might cross the line there. Besides, if Apollo died, he'd have to find a new Sun god.

"the crossed blades of Meg McCaffrey." Knew it would be her. They've been building up the anticipation with the plants.

"Hyacinthus the time he wore that amazing tuxedo on our date night" They... did not have tuxedos back then. Whatever, Apollo has the gift of prophecy. Of course he would use it for little things like this.

"THIS is Meg?" Oh yeah, forgot they've never met. I bet Apollo's been hyping her up and all and with the way he embellishes stories, Calypso at this point probably thinks she's some great hero to rival Hercules.

"Yep . . . You're stupid." Very Meg. "Now she would stay by my side" These very words instantly convinced me that she would not stay by his side.

"Now it was clear that our master-servant relationship could not be so easily broken." Okay, so even Meg can't release Apollo from her authority.

"no child can match the Reaper of Men." Okay, so once he said this to Meg, I started wondering how old Lit was and after some Googling and being careful to avoid spoilers, I found everything I need to know about him except his age. He's also a child of Demeter! Meg's bro! That makes "Reaper of Men" a marvelous pun. He has a sister named Zoe, unrelated to Zoë Nightshade. Also, his Wikipedia page is depressingly short and part of his fandom wiki page is literally a copy-paste of the Wikipedia article. According to Wikipedia, he challenged people to harvesting contests and beheaded the contestants when they lost. Guess he's really good at that. Then Hercules came along and turned the tables on him and that's how he died. Apparently the PJO series is the only ever piece of pop culture poor Lityerses appears in. I still don't know his age.

"leaving Calypso behind to the blemmyae . . . I'd like to say that wasn't a serious thought, but it had been, however briefly." Wait, he was serious about that?!

"run over by a herd of armored ostriches." THE OSTRICHESSSSSSSS! Man, Lit's really taking a beating today. First he gets run over by a roof and then he gets run over by a bunch of big birds. Now I see where he gets all the scars from. Does this happen regularly?

"She howled in rage and the net blasted upward, ripped from its moorings" She does still have magic? Holy shit, she can do more than sing!1!!1! She seems surprised by it afterward, though. Has this never happened even once when she was in the Sea of Monsters? Surely she'd be in equally dangerous situations. Or maybe she's surprised she was able to conjure enough power to rip out the whole net.

"I was quite content to be annoyed, once again, by Meg McCaffrey." I like this ending line. I dunno, I just like it.

Also, this chapter made me realize that the cover art is not, in fact, the two of them flying under a bridge. That's netting and if I looked closer, I would have seen the arena. So sue me, the blue looked like water. I just thought the ostriches could walk on water.

#reading trials of apollo #reading the dark prophecy #reading toa #reading tdp #toa spoilers #trials of apollo spoilers #trials of apollo #the dark prophecy #percy jackon and the olympians #apollo pjo #apollo #lester papadopoulos #lityerses pjo #lityerses #meg mccaffrey #calypso pjo #calypso #combat ostriches #$15000 tater tots #zeus pjo #zeus #pjo #toa #pjo hoo toa #rrverse #riordanverse

[drunk-on-starlight]

Do you have any evidence that Vanessa is just being manipulated? I’ll admit no one knows exactly what’s going on, but I feel it’s pretty clear there’s at least something similar to mind control present. If the encyclopedia is still valid, it says she was corrupted and then freed from his influence.

As much evidence as anything in this franchise has.

I'm assuming by "Mind Control," you're referring to literal control over mind and/or body? Apologies if you meant something else.

Gonna start with Jeremy (Help Wanted edition), since he's the first "glitchtrapped" character we learn about.

Here's a few choice quotes

"I think it's made worse by the fact that Jeremy tried to tell us something was wrong."-Tape 3, HW

“Jeremy complained of nightmares when he came in this morning. He wasn't talking about it like someone telling a friend about his dreams though. He was pale...looked like he hadn't eaten in days." -Tape 7, HW

"He just stands there like he's talking to someone. Sometimes he [just] rocks from side to side"-Tape 7, HW

"I think Jeremy was too far gone to consider that option though.-They just knew he'd seen something. They needed to discredit him.”-Tape 8, HW

These collectively establish that Glitchtrap (Known here as the anomaly) had clearly gotten his hooks into Jeremy, right? And yet, he was able to injure himself enough to make Glitchtrap back off. Furthermore, Glitchtrap is talking to him in Tape 7. Not only was Jeremy able to legitimately do something Glitchtrap didn't want, he wasn't able to stop him.

Now, to Vanessa. The first relevant quote here; "So, the word compliance by itself isn't going to set off any red flags, but the sentence how to induce compliance in human subjects, and how to induce self-compliance(?)"-"Did you search for 'help' by itself?"-December 2, 2019.

"I was a little worried maybe something is going on with you? One day you're researching flowers and the migration patterns of bees (fascinating, right?) and the next day you type in 'How far can a human being be cut in half before losing consciousness'."-Dec 4, 2019

At the risk of assuming too much, I don't think someone who is mind controlled would need to find a way to induce "compliance."

Then you have "I came by your desk to say hi today and I don't think you even heard me. You had your face so close to the screen"-"I waited for a second to see if you would turn around, but it was like you were in another world. It must be useful to be able to shout out the world and focus like that, I wish I could do it. I thought you were on a conference call at first because I heard voices."-Dec 9, 2019.

Much like Jeremy, Glitchtrap needs to talk to her. If he could just control her, I don't see why he'd need to audibly speak to her(1)(2), or why he'd let her type out help. Or frankly, why he'd let her Google all the other cutsey stuff. Furthermore, she wouldn't need to search how to induce "self-compliance" if he was already controlling her.

Finally, Security Breach's Retro CDs. First up, CD 1-7139

"Yes, of course, you do. Your performance reviews are good, but a routine check of your online history has revealed that you spend quite a bit of time with someone in an encrypted conversation. We have transcripts, and I’ve read them, but it’s not clear what you’re talking about in these conversations. I can’t make sense of it. You must be getting something from these that I’m not getting. Right? Who are you talking to in these?"

Again, a conversation, one in which the therapist here says "You must be getting something out of these."

Next, CD 3-7140. This is where her dad, a guy named "Bill"(3) is first mentioned, along with this "Your dad made you follow instructions, didn’t he? I’m talking about the custody battle between your mom and your dad. Your dad didn’t play it fair, did he? He used to make your mom look bad in court. I’m so sorry that happened to you. Do you want to talk about how that felt? and "He manipulated you. It wasn’t your fault." Keep that last bit in mind, it's not the first time manipulation gets brought up.

CD 5-7141 "Apparently, the IT department has put together a pretty lengthy report chronicling non-job-related communications that have been coming to your computer"-"but what bothers me about what I read is that the messages you're getting seem very manipulative in nature. Do you know who I'm talking about?"

Again, they reiterate Glitchtrap needs to communicate. Further, the messages are described as manipulative. Why would a mind control entity need to do that? And to tie into the previous tape, the therapist says "What you might not know is that this person who's been sending you messages has been hacking into your personal files too. These are the same files I have here. These files are full of details about your life."

The same files the therapist said showed her father being manipulative. In response to being told this person knows a lot of her personal info, Vanessa says "Lots of people know more than I do. Sometimes I need to listen."

Now, CD 11-7145 is where Vanessa says "I can't talk about this. He said he would always be watching. He could be here or there or anywhere in between." to which her therapist responds "Are you talking about your dad?," directly comparing Glitchtrap to her manipulative father. Vanessa also says that Glitchtrap told her that he could be anywhere, which means he's not always with her, and he'd kind of have to be for mind control.

Security Breach itself seems to support this, to some degree. Vanessa makes her entire hunt a game; She presumably knocks Gregory out and locks him in Lost and Found, only to return after dressing up, she skips around the Pizzaplex. She swaps back and forth, none of which is necessary and of which she probably wouldn't do if controlled.

If we look back at Help Wanted, she specifically says (in another example of the one sided conversation) that she can hear him, there's no miscommunication, she understands and that she made the mask herself. She also says "I think you would like it,""I'll be ready" (That she needs to make herself ready is another tally against the mind control) and that "It'll be fun." Honestly, she reads as far more of a daughter figure in HW than anywhere else.

Maybe I'm misreading all this, but it doesn't seem like mind control. It seems like a young woman had serious childhood trauma that left her open to being taken advantage by an experienced manipulator.

#fnaf #(1) This is different in “The Monty Within.” #(2) Or threaten her. This is a personal theory but a few of the emails make more sense as threats than anything. #(3) I want to be clear and say that I think Bill is legit a different character and is her father. #But the Movie did make her actually Williams daughter. Interesting choice considering the name. #A reluctant follower #Sorry this is like a week later. Had to reread a bunch of stuff. #This isn't very polished either. Might redo this post in a bit with some more shine. #(Tag) a reluctant follower

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Thank you, my dear! I'm so excited to talk about these fics because I've never really had anyone to talk to about fic writing and I've wanted to talk about these for ages! 😊

So here are three Top Gun: Maverick specific fics kicking around in my head:

The first one is a bit self-indulgent. Kind of how you want a tall OC, I'm always wanting to make someone Catholic in my fics. This one is also kind of angsty, but not in a bad way. In the og Top Gun movie, we see Goose wearing a little gold cross necklace so I headcanon that he's not only religious but Catholic. I go back and forth on Carole being Catholic as well, but in my headcanon she's always at least Christian. So in this fic Bradley had been raised Catholic but by the events of the movie, he'd fallen away. Even though he was no longer a practicing Catholic, he does still wear his dad's gold cross necklace all the time.

The birdstrike happens and after the argument with Maverick & finding out that Ice has died Bradley goes for a walk and finds himself in front of a Catholic church (Did I do a google search to see if there is a Catholic church within walking distance of NAS North Island? Yes. Yes, I did. Did I find one? Also, yes.). He realizes the church is open and after a moment decides to go inside where he sits down in a back pew. He hasn't been inside a church in years (he either stopped going to church after Carole died or when he went off to college) so the sensory experience starts bringing back a lot of memories for him.

He starts thinking about the birdstrike again & how he almost lost his friends and then he also starts thinking about Ice & his relationship with Maverick. He starts having this internal dialogue with himself about faith & life and how his parents would be disappointed in him with how he's been treating Maverick. He realizes he's let his anger deprive him of what family he has left and the fics ends with him resolving to start mending his relationship with Mav right away because as shown by the birdstrike, you don't know how much time you could have left with someone.

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The second fic I basically wrote in my head while driving down to Knoxville & back last month and it kind of got away from me! I literally talked it out loud to myself in the car and probably sounded like a crazy person if anyone had been able to hear me. 😆 It's a TGM AU where Bradley does go to the Naval academy & he and Mav don't have that huge fallout (or I have this become an AU to my own 'Goose Doesn't Die' AU). While at the academy Bradley & Jake meet freshman year and become rivals (I keep going back & forth on if Natasha & Callie should also be in their year or be a year younger than them, but they're also there).

Also in this AU, both boys have a younger sister that also follows them into the academy with the girls being freshmen when the boys are juniors (I've also been kicking around the idea of having the others also all be at the academy in a mix of years with maybe Bob & Mickey being in the girls' year). The girls were already best friends before they started school having met each other during one of the family weekends during Bradley & Jake's freshmen year (this is something that annoys both boys 😆). They also become friends with Natasha & Callie, with those two becoming like older sisters to the younger girls.

So during the two years when all four siblings are at school together a few things happen:

1) Bradley & Jake start becoming more friends than rivals as they're forced to spend more time together thanks to their sisters always wanting to hang out together with both of them.

2) The boys each start falling for the other's sister but each of them is an idiot & decided that they can't tell the other one about their feelings because of some stupid "bro code" thing of you can't date your friend's sister. Cue the boys being grumpy & trying to subtly scare away any other guys who showed interest in the girls under the guise of "watching out for their friend's sister".

3) The girls each start falling for the other's brother and immediately tell each other because they're smarter than the boys. It doesn't take them long to realize their respective crushes feel the same way about them but are too dumb/stubborn to say anything. Cue the girls letting the boys scare away any other guys while being not exactly subtly in whose company they prefer.

4) The girls make a pact that if the boys don't get their heads out of their asses and make a move by graduation, the girls will make their own move.

Surprising no one, the boys don't ever make a move in those two years despite Phoenix & Callie constantly telling them they're both idiots. It's now the girls' graduation & the boys have taken them out for drinks after dinner with their two families. While the girls have gone off to the restroom for a few minutes Bradley & Jake finally fess up to each other about their feelings toward the other's sister. Both realize they're actually okay with it as they both think no one is good enough for their sister so if their sister has to be with someone, it might as well be their best friend (because by now the boys have become best friends). They decide that when the girls get back they'll lay their cards on the table and let the girls decide what to do with them.

Meanwhile, in the restroom, the girls are finalizing their plan to get the boys to realize the only guys they've been interested in for the last four years have been them. They decide that when it comes to their respective idiot (affectionate) brothers, actions speak louder than words. They leave the restroom and walk back over to where the boys are leaning against the bar. As the boys are opening their mouths to tell the girls their feelings about them, each girl pops up on their toes, lays their hands on the boys' shoulders, and lays a quick kiss on their guy.

The boys are shocked into silence as their brains shortcircuit. After their brains reboot, each boy quickly kisses their girl back. Then words are said, feelings are acknowledged, lots of affectionate eye-rolling from the girls is done, and then it's happily ever after. 😊

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The third fic is a crossover fic with my absolute favorite MCU fic series: We'll Run Like We're Awesome by @themonkeycabal. This series retells the events of the MCU using the trope of the character of Darcy Lewis (from the Thor movies) being Tony Stark's daughter.

This one is just another self-indulgent fic so that I can the TGM universe into the Run 'Verse. 😆 I actually don't have as solid an idea for this one as the other two, but I have already written out a couple ways I could make it happen in this post.

This post got a lot longer than I thought it would be, but I had fun writing everything out, so thank you for indulging me! 😊

#answered asks #asks #fic asks #my fanfiction #my fanfic #tgm #tgm fanfiction #top gun maverick #bradley bradshaw #jake seresin #the run verse #darcy lewis #tony stark #mcu fanfiction

[fakeloveaskblog]

(Wow that last post was something. I have so many questions about how Virgil knew where to go and what’s he doing there in the first place. Also Remy, quick question for Lukas, would I be able to either call an ambulance or carry Remy to the hospital and check them in? I don’t want to seriously mess up the plot by doing that so I figured I’d check first.)

Don’t worry Janus I’ll go find out what Virgil wants, you stay here for now I’ll be back in a few minutes.

*floats directly through the door to Virgil*

Hello Virgil, what are you doing here? And how do you even know where here is?

Glow Eyes

Virgil was still knocking on the door, his eyebrows furrowed into a worried look that teared on anger. When you suddenly floated right through the door his first instinct was to swat you away like a fly but his hand just went through you.

For once he actually let you speak, he didn't even sneer or try to cut you off. He just crossed his arms and stared at the door like lightning bolts would shoot out of his eyes if he tried hard enough.

"I got a phone call from some guy saying he'd found Remy in a very bad state and he'd asked Them for who to call to come pick them up. He was told to call Me! Not Janus! ME! I am just nice enough to think that maybe Remy will prefer having that jackass Janus pick them up instead of me. I'm the only one here with a car. Nothings stopping me from just driving over there by myself and bringing Remy home to my apartment but I'm not because I'm so fucking nice aren't I. I just want them to be okay"

He started to fiddle with the ends of his hoodie sleeves.

"It's kinda hypocritical how all of you wanted to get Remy away from me so they wouldn't get hurt and now here they are. Passed out at some randos place like some cheap wh-" He bit his own tongue to stop himself "If they were still with me this wouldn't happen! I know that for sure! Just saying!"

Your form was looking a little thin since you were stretching yourself out to be both with him and with Remy at the same time. There was still a ghostly form of you keeping them safe where they laid in the stranger's couch. Virgil took a deep breathe before continuing.

"But! I care about Remy! So I will set this blatant stupidity aside for right now until they're safe! I won't try to talk to them or anything...I.." He pretended to gag a little "I promise. I will just drive Janus there and then drive them to wherever that Jan-fucker asks me to"

You were still looking at him so he added.

"Also I literally just searched up Janus' name on google along with like our town. Janus and Snehea aren't exactly common names okay? So I'm not like a stalker. What kind of last name even is Snehea!? Whatever. Can you float in and talk to the jackass now so we can go and get Remy!?"

#(u can carry remy to the hospital but it will result the same as Viv nd Jan getting them to the hospital fyi C:) #(getting Remy to a place where they were safe nd viv got called was like putting them on the path towards getting to the hospital so *shrug #thanks for the ask C: #glow eyes #ask

[rantsandravings]

Abortion and God's Word

Shirley Wagner:

No matter how much we shout it . Only God can change the heart of the people. Only he can show them to value his creation. No amount of reason or explaining will stop them from believing lies over what God says about the value of little children in his eyes.

In the Old Testament groups of people sacrificed their children to other Gods. In America we sacrifice our children on the altar of convenience.

Shannon Kuehn:

Actually, in the Old Testament it explains that if a woman is unfaithful she should be given bitter water to make her miscarry. (Numbers 5:11-21). If that's not endorsing abortion idk what is.

Also says Hosea 13:16

"The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God.

They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.”

So guilty people deserve to have their fetuses cut out, according to God.

God even orders living babies to be brutally murdered. (Psalms 137:8-9, 1 Samuel 15:3)

Sooo not sure why you think He'd be against this. But you're right that it's up to Him to open our eyes or judge us... not politicians.

Adam Wagner:

If you are going to quote the Bible, you may want to reference context. I understand these things are very easy to look up on some website like iwanttokillbabies.com in order to make people feel easier about their bad decisions, but a quick Google search will explain exactly why the things that were said in the Bible were said. Many Christians are aware of these verses yet believe that abortion is wrong, I being one of them. None of this is new, so it is up to you to get up to speed if you’re interested in the reasons why literal millions and millions of people worldwide hold these views. All in all, I am glad that you are reading the Bible so diligently, and that you are that much more close to finding truth!

Or, if you read the verses that you quoted, you will see that God is the one doing the ordering of the killing. Unless you consider yourself equal with this God whose book you were so eager to quote, One may come to the logical conclusion that God may have sole discretion as to who should live and who should die, as opposed to people who believe they can make that decision indiscriminately for themselves and their unborn child.

Now before we get to the other typical talking points that people defending abortion like to quote, let’s just skip ahead. A majority of abortions that happen in this nation aren’t because of incest or rape. Everyone knows that and it’s a weak argument so I will save all the embarrassment. Neither do people in this nation, many of whom can stop by any job and family services or nonprofit organization and receive free pregnancy prevention precautions, all of a sudden not know how babies are made. Especially with all the sex talk in schools these days. There’s simply no excuse. People are having unprotected sex when they know they shouldn’t.

Shannon Kuehn:

Adam Wagner, thanks for engaging with me, albeit somewhat condesndingly. The context, as you stated, is that God is ordering the killing. That is correct, and I'm glad that you've acknowledged these are His orders. God has ordered that the sinners should have their babies ripped out of them, or adulterers should be forced to miscarry if they become pregnant from the adultery. If those are God's orders, who are you to disobey them? Who are you to question His Word? God has already decreed who should live and die and you've chosen to ignore it.

You argue that millions of Christians believe abortion to be wrong as if that is supposed to mean something. Historically, Jesus and the Christians who followed him after his death were totally okay with abortions. It wasn't until the Church launched a campaign claiming abortion is murder in the late 1500s that Christians suddenly changed their minds on that topic and a variety of others. Millions of Christians today pick and choose which parts of the Bible they want to follow, but ultimately, regardless of which verses you pick and choose, God's intent doesn't change.

As for your pre-emptive arguments, they seem to be lacking in understanding. "A majority of abortions aren't because of incest or rape," okay so screw the ones that are then? Cuz they're not the majority so sucks to be them, too bad so sad?? Is that really your argument? Not very loving-thy-neighbor of you.

"Many of whom can stop by any job and family services or nonprofit organization and receive free pregnancy prevention precautions.." Obviously you're miseducated on this, also an interesting argument since the Church announced they were against contraceptives the same year that they announced that abortion was murder. Birth control (which btw could easily be overturned if Roe is overturned because they're based on the same premise that Justice Alito says is faulty) costs money, unless you have insurance that covers it including the ACA and medicaid insurance that Republicans in Congress are trying to get rid of. People without insurance can get low cost birth control IF they live in a city that has a facility for that and have access to transportation and know that that facility even exists. That leaves out a huge number of people who live in rural areas that lack these kinds of places and also leaves out people who don't have reliable transportation which is disproportionately minority groups. Right now, over 19 million people lack access to contraceptives because of their location.

Given the HUGE lack of sex ed in this country, especially in red-areas, many people aren't aware of their options in the first place. Idk why you argue that there's so much "sex talk" in schools these days when only 24-30 states require *some form* of sex ed to be taught and only 10 of those require it to be medically accurate, and MOST if not all of them promote abstinence as the main method to avoid pregnancy, and many don't even mention contraception in their courses. The ACLU estimates that only 5% of American students receive comprehensive sex education. Furthermore, this point of yours about how people should just not get pregnant, while forgetting that not everyone has the easy access to birth control that you describe, also forgets that birth control comes with side effects that can be detrimental to one's mental health or incompatible with their other health conditions. Also no birth control method is 100% effective. In fact, in 2014, 51% of abortion patients in the U.S. were using a contraceptive method at the time they became pregnant.

I DO think that we should increase access to free birth control nationwide and have mandatory comprehensive sex ed in every school, but Republicans in state legislatures are working very hard to block those policies. Even if they were miraculously passed, that doesn't mean people who don't want to be pregnant won't still get pregnant. Because birth control is not a guarantee. It will reduce abortion rates (as statistics show it has) but will not eliminate them. Nothing will short of mass sterilization.

I'd also like you to consider how the expectations for avoiding pregnancy, the consequences of becoming pregnant, and the criminality of ending a pregnancy all solely impact people with uteruses. That means people with penises such as yourself will have the ability to have unprotected sex all they want, rape whoever they want, etc with no consequences as all of the responsibility is laid at our feet. We don't get to have sex for pleasure, that's reserved for cis men.

Lastly, if we are discussing abortion outside of what God has himself declared and in the context of U.S. politics: The church and state, by law and written in our constitution, are to remain separate so that people of all religions can have their religion respected. So outlawing something purely because your God said so, isn't legally permissible in the U.S. Otherwise, Jewish people and Muslim people could implement a law banning pork since God has decreed that swine is unclean. But fortunately, we allow people to use the free will imparted on them by God to make those decisions themselves, not forcing their religion on others. I'm sure you wouldn't like words of the prophet Mohammed written into law. So even if you choose to ignore what God ordered in the Old Testament, your personal beliefs shouldn't become law.

Shirley Wagner:

Wow , that’s a far stretch interpretation. I’m sure If you are seeking the answer from God he will show you the way. If you are right and God finds abortion acceptable considering, what happen in circumstances in the Old Testament where he was punishing groups of people and wiping them out because they were so wicked that even their children had been corrupted, is the same as allowing woman to murder there children within there womb by the hand of humans ( who are not God ) then by all means keep me in your prayers and let God change my heart . I’m not above being wrong and those politicians are wanting to out law an act they consider criminal.

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭139:13-16‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Shannon Kuehn:

Hi Shirley, certainly you can agree that we are all sinners. And that Jesus, if we welcome him into our hearts, can save us from our sins. If God has not only permitted but actually ordered other sinners to forcibly miscarry, I do not see why Jesus would not forgive us for doing the same, as we too have sinned. In fact, the Pope has even extended forgiveness to abortion because our God is a loving and forgiving God. Also, to correct something small in your message: God didn't kill the children or cause the miscarriages Himself. He ordered humans to do so. So yes, humans miscarrying by their own hand seems in line with God's word.

The portion of the Bible that you quoted is not incongruent with abortion. God is saying He knows us before we know ourselves and He built us into who we are. He wove us in the earth and then finished the process in our mother's womb, seeing our unformed body before He brought us to life. As you quoted, "all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be" meaning that God has already decided the course of our lives -- including our choice to abort or not to abort. It's already written. Also meaning that God has written our days ~before~ we *came to be,* when we were still in the womb and the earth.

I do hope you can find it in your heart to allow God to judge us for our actions when our day comes rather than permitting politicians to judge us for our choices in our times of need. Like I said in my last response, Christians were not against abortion until 1588. That means Jesus's followers and desciples for almost 1,600 years believed that it's okay.

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[cinnamonest]

Head empty.... Only thoughts are of ditzy airheaded lamb-girl darling... Literally too spaced out to survive on their own. God please give me more details on that I'm begging you

I went overboard with this lol I hope you enjoy anon, I actually have had several reqs for more lambgirl/Scara content bc apparently you guys really liked that one which was a pleasant surprise lol. I love the dynamic between an extremely airheaded, absent-minded dumbass that just wants to be loved like a lambgirl and someone of Scara's personality, it works so well and comically at the same time.

Also me? Making something that actually ends kind of sweet? More likely than you think!

Also also "do sheep have heats" is now present in my google search history

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It's no wonder most cultures made shepherding a full-time job, if you don’t watch them, sheep will find a way to get themselves killed. They're clumsy, clunky, tend to knock things over, and generally just kinda zone out half the time, staring off into space. That being said, they can be clingy, actually, if they know you well enough, they'll just kinda go wherever you go, munching on what they can all the while. Nonetheless, lambs are very loving and can be super affectionate, no matter what -- again, simple minded. Their brain merely knows, this person is my master, and I love my master! That's all they need to know. And sheep hybrids are no different.

For poor Scara's lambgirl, he'd never admit that he likes that about you, but he subtly... encourages your tendencies. He sees it as your nature... a simple creature that knows who it belongs to and doesn't question it, only follows behind loyally, and really, that's the way things should be. So he doesn't ever discourage you from following, it comes naturally to little lambgirl -- when he stands up, you do too, and follow behind without a word, although he'll gesture, which is how you get a lot of communication. And when you do follow, he doesn't snap at you the way he does when you don't, so you know that it's the right thing, what you're supposed to do.

Because also, sometimes your poor, poor dumb little mind can forget a lot of words. It's a known trait about lamb hybrids, and yet another reason why people tend to neglect their kind -- they sometimes revert to the most simple of states, becoming nonverbal, and may struggle to understand words, and take time to process them. For someone who, according to that one Fatui agent, doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut, he actually adjusts to the nonverbal fairly easily, view it as a good thing that you have synched so well to what's expected.

It's all standard for humans, but you know without ever being taught, you can sense what he wants. Despite the apathetic facial expressions and lack of even looking at you, you know, a little "come hither" gesture of the finger tells you to get closer, a pat to the thigh means to sit on his lap, a thumb on your lips and and a lazy downward nod means get on the floor and suck him off. You learn quickly, you're proud of yourself for doing so.

And little lambs are, best of all, so dumb they have no idea when they're being blatantly manipulated, or Pavlov'ed, in such a direct and obvious way that not even the dumbest of hybrids besides them would fall for it. He likes that about you. The only thing he likes more than that, that heavily ties into that... is that lambs crave affirmation, affection, praise. Lambs love, and they want to feel loved, they'll do anything for it. So he makes you scramble and bend over backwards for the very, very, very rare occurance that is a word of praise (if it can be called that -- it's usually more like a backhanded compliment), or an affectionate gesture. And he uses the inverse -- cold neglect -- to manipulate and condition you.

Which is easy -- you see, in your... limited intellectual capacity, two words have supreme ruling over your self-esteem and your entire emotional state: good and bad. More complex words don't have quite the impact as those two, since you understand good and bad as very simple concepts, the rest you kind of have to think about, and thinking is not your strong suit. "Good" and "bad" have obvious, easy to grasp, powerful meanings to you, and a significant impact. So he makes use of those words quite a bit -- the way your face lights up and your ears perk up when he tells you you've been good, and the way your eyes fill with little tears and your ears fall flat against your head when he snarls that you're bad. You don't want to be a bad lamb, do you? No, you want to be good. Master calling you good is the highest honor, the greatest pride your brain can conceive of, and you work day in and day out to earn it. So when you've been bad, and are told to sleep on the floor, sit on the floor by his feet, when you get no pats to the head or fingers absent-mindedly running through the wool of your ears -- when you're deprived of touch, affection -- it's cruel and hurts in the deepest of ways. And likewise, earning that privilege back, being told you can sleep in the bed again, sit on his lap again, when you get the touches back, it fills you with joy, even if he tells you the little bleats of happiness are annoying. He treats it like a privilege too -- you've learned your lesson, he says, so he thinks he can stand the sight of you again enough to let you back to being closer.

And corporeal punishment is the only form of behavior enforcement you understand, so it's a given that he goes overboard with it -- gets you to associate it with bad. Good lambgirls get crumbs of affection, rare words of slight praise, bad lambgirls get bent over the desk and belted so hard they can't sit right. Again, you want to be good, and the physical pain is just there to remind you why. He also likes to grab you by the tail -- it's obnoxious, he says, always twitching and wiggling, and he gets some entertainment out of catching you off-guard and making you let out those shrill little baa's of surprise.

All that being said, lambs are... easily distracted. Lambgirl darling's fuzzy little ears perk up over a sound off in the distance, and while he's not looking you end up wandering down the hall of the big, maze-like Fatui building... you never find the source, but suddenly you find yourself very lost and very alone without Master and you panic, sniffling as tears come rolling down your face and bleating in distress, desperately trying to find your way back, eventually crumbling to the floor and just bleating all the while. It's through that bleating he eventually finds you, or perhaps you draw the attention of others who then come inform him where you are -- furious at your disappearance and being made to waste time looking for you, but even he of all people can't quite bring himself to kick you when you're down, so to speak -- you're already blubbering and crying and you come running to him once you see him, so he just barks at you about how stupid you were, how you made him waste his time, how you should feel lucky he even bothered coming to look for you.

He wouldn't tell you how badly he panicked when he looked up and you weren't there, mind running over all the possible ways your dumbass might have gotten yourself hurt in such a short time. And the other agents know better than to let you in on how he more or less summoned the entire present forces to demand they drop everything they were doing and search until you were found. He just insists that your collar needs a cowbell, one that's loud and clear that will signal when you're moving. Next time you get distracted, he'll hear the cowbell rattle when you stand up, and snap at you to sit your ass back down or else.

 

And speaking of the others, most of the time he's never certain when someone is going to come barging in, since half of these worthless dimwits, as he calls the people he works with, don't think to knock. You two once learned that the hard way and now you have to lock the door before you blow him at work. In front of other people, he's definitely not going to show you the slightest bit of attention, and avoids it at work in general, but occasionally allows you a headpat here or there. You seem to really like those, he thinks. Your little eyes close and you tilt your head, longingly leaning into the touch. It's your instinct.

And archons help anyone that dares harm or even insult you in any way. You're occasionally, as aforementioned on the hybrid post, allowed to run errands or perform simple tasks for others. You've fucked up a lot, actually, but he only tells you you fucked up if it's a task or assignment for him. If it's with other people, regardless of whether you performed the task correctly or not, he says it was good. This has... not resulted in good things for some of the other members. You hand them something blatantly wrong or clearly made an error, and they open their mouth to chastise you, but stop short at the death glare sent their direction -- he mutters that you did good, rubs your head... and adds a right? to the end of it, looking up at the poor victim of your forgetfulness. Adds through gritted teeth to "tell her she did a good job you dumbfuck." And they always do. You're happy to have earned the approval of the others, they're all really nice to you, for some reason, even though they look oddly nervous when they're talking to you. When they come to him later in private to complain because there was a serious mistake that will cost them time and money, they're just met with an apathetic "Deal with it."

He doesn't let anyone have supervision over you, though, not anymore. In the beginning, he used to every now and then, when he had something important to do, tell some subordinate to watch you in his absence. Can't have you running off. They never watched you very closely, though, and one time you got too curious and rummaged through various things and shelves and objects and, well, you overturned a shelf that came crashing down on you -- cut you badly, broke a bone, and the guy in charge of watching you had decided to go waste time elsewhere, and so by the time Master got back, you were still there on the floor, trapped under it, sniffling and crying and letting out the most pathetic and soft of bleats, whimpering Master over and over. You don't remember much after it was pulled off of you, there was yelling and clanging as objects were being hurled across the room, but you never saw that other agent again. And now, he never leaves you under someone else's care.

Behind closed doors -- in the comfort of living quarters -- he's still... himself, but not quite as mean. The rubs are longer, the praise feels more like actual praise. When you go to bed at night, provided you've earned your right to sleep beside him, you might summon the courage to ask how you were today -- a careful question, with only two possible answers that you could understand, but your spirit will be uplifted or shattered by the response, so it weighs heavily on you, as you spend every waking moment aiming for one answer. He'll act irritated that you'd ask, it's a stupid question, but that's expected coming from a stupid creature, he says. But nonetheless he'll reassure you, in an agitated mutter that, at least for today, you were good. Maybe one day, a little lambgirl can only dream, your master might even say he loves you.

You think about that a lot when you're getting fucked, because sex is a part of love, right? Maybe you're working towards that, so you give it your all, you ride well and suck well and do every little thing you're commanded to do. Even when the ropes and clamps and the hands on your throat hurt. In fact, you think you've started to like it. Your body has started to respond to the pain, your insides clench at the thought. You feel bad about the heats, since you're wasting Master's time, but as he says, someone has to take care of you (which isn't true, you think -- he could just leave you to suffer. Maybe he doesn't know that? Surely if he knew that he wouldn't waste time taking care of you, right?). Sheep heats last quite a while, too, and you feel bad for being so lewd, bleating with your ass up in the air and whimpering, but he doesn't seem to hate it too much, since he fucks you throughout it, even takes a few days to do work from home. Grabs onto your big wooly ears like handlebars and fucks into you from behind. He says the bleating is annoying... but when you tried to hold it back, he told you he didn't say you could stop. You don't want to annoy him, but you don't want to do something you weren't told to, either... whatever earns his love.

Yes, you want to be loved. But could you ever earn such a thing? Do you deserve it? Could you ever deserve it? You're not sure. Master's love seems like such an honor, such a wonderful thing it would be unreal. That's why, when you finally summon the courage to ask, for once your brain works in a rather complex, roundabout sort of way. When you sit up in the middle of the night and nudge him awake, hovering over him in the dark, you don't ask if he loves you, instead you ask do you think could you ever love me? It's the most complex thought you've ever had, probably, because you know you're too afraid of rejection to ask outright, and this way he's more likely to say yes, and even if he doesn't love you now, a "yes" means you can work towards it, right?

So the resulting silence and the scrunched up, irritated facial expression, after a moment, makes a sort of pain and shame spread through your chest, and you wish you hadn't asked, but before you can apologize he just says that I wouldn't keep your worthless, useless ass around and would've kicked you back out on the street a long time ago if I didn't, shut up, go the fuck to sleep and don't wake me up for your stupid questions. Slams your body back down onto the bed -- facing away from him, your back to his chest, so you can't see his face. It's not a direct answer, but you don't need one -- for once, you were smart enough to understand. He just huffs in irritation when your stumpy little puffball tail wiggles around with joy, tells you to stop it so he can sleep.

#baaaaaa #lena's asks #scheduled post #atml #.lambgirl #.hybrid

[junos-office-drama]

From fanfic to paycheck: Could you hack it as a copywriter?

If you've got the writing skills and dedication it takes to write fic (especially longfic), you probably have what it takes to be a copywriter. And you might even enjoy it, too!

Read on for the top reasons you might love being a copywriter… and the top reasons you might hate being one.

Top reasons you might love being a copywriter

1. You love to write

Most of a copywriter's job is writing. While it might not be thrilling action scenes or sizzling romances, you'd still be writing every day – and getting paid for it. A lot of copywriting is wordsmithing: finding a compelling combination of words to describe a product, entice a customer, or persuade a reader. If you enjoy dancing through the thesaurus trying to find that perfect word, you might find copywriting to be a lot of fun.

2. You like to understand other people's thinking

The most successful copywriters are those who can put themselves in the mindset of their reader and understand what makes them tick. When you write fanfic, you probably already spend a lot of time thinking about each character – who they are, what they think, what they value, etc. Copywriters do the same thing, except they do it for "personas" or "target customers" rather than characters. If you find it fun to get in someone else's head, you might make a fantastic copywriter.

3. Your work will get published

Within your first year of copywriting, you will likely have dozens and dozens of published pieces – advertisements, mailers, blogs, social posts, emails, etc. You will get to see your work out there in the world. And most of the time, your company will pay to promote it! Plus you'll often get digital (and sometimes print) copies for your personal portfolio. Does the idea of holding something in your hands that you wrote sound exciting? As a copywriter, you'll get to experience this all the time.

4. You'll get a ton of feedback

Do you get excited when you see a new comment on your fic? You might find it similarly thrilling when a colleague sends you an email gushing about how much they love your work. Most of your marketing colleagues will know that their work can't get done without your copywriting skills, and they will appreciate it when you deliver an awesome piece of writing! I get messages and emails filled with compliments and thanks daily from my colleagues, and so do all the other writers on my team. And this has been my experience at every company I've worked for!

5. You like to improve your skills

Even the most senior copywriters are continually learning and improving their skill set. There's always a new product coming out, a new research study, a new customer survey, a new trend in the market. The learning literally never ends. If you have a thirst for knowledge (and love collecting random facts), copywriting will give you an opportunity to build up your expertise in several areas.

6. You like BIG numbers

Excited about 10,000 hits? 1,000 kudos?

Try this: Today, I got to do one of my favorite things in the world. I got to inform one of my junior copywriters that he hit a major milestone for the first time: 50,000 hits to a blog he'd written. First-page ranking on Google search results. Featured snippet. The works. He'd written it earlier this year, and it's not very long (under 2,000 words total). Every month it gets more traffic than the last – it might even pass the 100,000 mark by the end of the year. If those numbers excite you, copywriting might excite you too.

Top reasons you might hate being a copywriter

1. Your Ego

If you think your writing is perfect and untouchable, you will not make it as a copywriter. As a copywriter, you will not get final say in what gets published. You will have to edit your work to someone else's satisfaction. Taking criticism (even bad criticism) is a key part of the job.

2. Your Ego (again)

It doesn't matter if you think a product or service is stupid; as a copywriter, you will have to write about it as if it's the best thing ever produced. Your personal opinion will not matter. If you can't see past your own personal preferences, copywriting is not the job for you.

3. Lack of time management

Most copywriters will have to juggle multiple projects simultaneously. At my company, most copywriters are working on between 10 and 20 different projects at a time. This requires a lot of organization and time management to keep track of where each project is, and to make sure you don't drop the ball.

4. Poor writing skills

This one should be obvious – but if you're not a good writer, you won't be a good copywriter. Most people are not good writers; only a fraction of people who think they write well actually do. To be a copywriter, you have to be an objectively good writer with a strong grasp of grammar, tone, structure, and mechanics.

5. Slow writing skills

As a copywriter, you can't wait until inspiration strikes – you're almost always writing on a deadline. Sometimes that deadline is two weeks away, sometimes it's two hours away. You need to be able to force yourself to write even when you're not in the mood, and you need to be able to write quickly. For example, my team usually estimates a 2,000-word blog will take 8-12 hours to research, write, revise, and proof.

If you've gotten this far and are still interested in becoming a copywriter, awesome! Next in this series, we'll examine how to find, apply for, and get the job.

Previously: What's it like to write for a living as a professional copywriter?

Next time: How to get a job as a copywriter – resumes, interviews, and more

#fanfic #from fanfic to paycheck #fanfiction #career advice #writing career #writing jobs #copywriter #copywriting #jobs #professional writers #writing advice

[prettyboyhq]

Karasuno boys x sick!fem!s/o

Trigger warnings: mentions of sickness!

Requested by: @animegirlfromvietnam

A/n: this is the third try because the other two drafts were merked by tumblr :(((

Daichi

Daddychi, I luh you 🥺🥺🥺

He spent a bit of time with you before the game, seeing as it was a weekend one.

However, not too much time!! He's the captain so he has to be there early.

He gave you his hoodie though, not able to resist your puppy eyes.

"Rest, okay, love? I'll see you afterwards."

"I love you, Dai!"

"Love you too, honey."

He has husband petnames, FIGHT me on this

When he and his team walked onto the court, he could have sworn he heard you cheering.

Except, you wouldn't right? You were sick.

Right?

He didn't check, it'd throw him off his game to check and worry about you.

However, afterwards, when you collided into him, he welcomed you with a hug and leaned down to whisper in your ear.

"I thought you were staying home?"

"Wanted to support you." You mumbled against his chest, and he chuckled lightly.

"I was going to bring home a CD for you, you know that, right?"

"Mn."

Sugawara

Suga, oh yES PLEASE

He probably babied you all day before the match.

"I made soup!"

"Koushi, I can feed myself."

"You're sick, baby, let me work my magic!"

He tried to make you promise to stay home and rest, but failed to notice your crossed fingers

During the game, he got put in to set, and managed to raise his teammates morale to the brim!

When he got on though, he could have sworn he heard his beautiful, stunning, and very sick s/o cheering for him.

Noooo. She wouldn't

He was proven wrong after the game however, when your form enveloped him into a warm hug.

You smiled up at him, but he was pouting ever so slightly.

"Weren't you staying home?"

You pressed a kiss onto one of his beauty marks.

"That's a dirty trick!"

Asahi

He's so stressed

Please help him

"I can stay home from the game, if you need me to??"

"I'll be fine, Ace."

"Are you sure??"

He'll hear you cheer and just swivel his head to the stands

But like mid jump so he'll just slam into the ground

"ASAHI???"

"I'm...I'm good-"

He is good! You're cheering for him! And if you are, that means you must feel a lot better, right?

He's surprised, when you give him a post game hug, that it isn't accompanied by a kiss

"G-good work! That was a bad fall, though, how's your side?"

You're still sick????

He frets and frets, and eventually you two go home where he makes you tea and thanks you for coming

Nishinoya

"Look at me! The best boyfriend ever bringing you ice cream!"

Let's you play with his hair, and maybe style it if you know how

"I'll win just for you!"

"You mean 'our team'?"

"Yeah!"

Really bummed you can't come, but you're sick! You can't help it

Mid game, he'd manage to save a particularly hard serve, but when he heard your cheer of "GO YUU!"

Hoho!

He completely forgets your sick, and gets hyped

They win, of course, and yuu you two embrace post game.

"Did you see my saves in the first set? They were all 'wah' and 'bam'!"

"I-Im so proud of you, Yuu!"

Immediate pout

"Wait! You're sick!"

"Yeah?"

You're in his arms now, sorry I dont make the rules

"Your perfect boyfriend is going to take perfect care of you!"

Tanaka

Bald simp man <333

He comes PREPARED

(Thank you, Ennoshita)

Then he ruins it by deciding kisses are the best meds.

They're not.

Even when he's leaving, he's pulling every trick

"5 more for the road?"

Scouts the audience one last time to see if you're there

And when he sees you?

"MY GIRLFRIEND IS HERE! IM ALLLL FIRED UP!!"

"Keep your shirt on, Tanaka."

Even after the game he doesn't let up

"Victory kithes??"

Like, begging, hands and knees.

And who are you to refuse?

He's sick 2 days later

Yamaguchi

He felt so bad for you!!!

You ended up having to reassure him you wouldn't die.

"Tadashi, it's a cold."

"But what if it's more??"

You cuddled for straight HOURS while watching ghibli movies and drinking tea.

Eventually though, he had to leave for the game.

"You'll do great, 'dashi! I know how hard you've been working!"

"O-okay!"

He got put in a quarter way through the game, and immediately tried a jump float,

Which

He

NAILED

What caught him off gaurd though, not only his win, but, if he focused, he could have sworn he heard a cheer he reconized.

Convinced himself it was nothing until after the game when you wrapped him in a huge hug

"Y-y/n?"

"Tadashi!! Your jump float!!!! It was so good!! I'm so proud of you, baby!!"

He sheepishly held you close, a flush reaching his ears,

"P-please be safer next time and stay home." Before pulling away a bit and looking at you.

"Was it really that good?"

Please just praise him

Hinata

He🧡🧡🧡🍊🍊🍊

He is surprisingly good at this, he's taken care of Natsu when she gets sick, so he has experience

Doesn't mean he isn't still hinata.

"Kith??"

Literally so bummed you can't come.

Kageyama hits him

However, afterwards, when you come up and hug him tight??

He doesn't care if he gets sick, kisses, hugs, and cuddles for the rest of the night.

He gets sick a week later.

(Sorry his was so short!)

Kageyama

Bluebabby<3

He really wants to help but is very confused

"Eat your soup, Boke!"

His Google search history is filled with

'How do I help my girlfriend not be sick'

'Girlfriend sick what do'

'Help girlfriend has a cold'

You have just been vibin the whole time while telling him

"Tobio, I had cough medicine earlier."

"Tobio, I don't need more soup."

"You can't kiss me, you have a game in a half hour."

He's pouting about that.

Just give him some butterfly kisses, that should help.

During the game, he doesn't hear you cheer, his complete focus is on his teammates and the ball.

However afterwards, he's a bit bummed you couldn't come, especially because they won

"Yamayama, are you SULKING???"

"BOKE! I am not!"

He is.

At least, until you suddenly hug him tightly from behind.

"Good work, Tobio! I'm so proud of you!"

He's happy now, even if he might get sick if he kisses you

Tsukishima

Tsu-KISS-ME-shima

He had texted you before the game, but didn't come see you because 'he didn't want to get sick'

Totally not because it broke his heart to see you at anything less than your best, and knew he would miss the game if he came to see you

Reminded you to rest, well, not exactly reminded, more like told.

"Get some sleep, idiot, yamaguchi misses you."

"You don't???🥺🥺🥺"

"Look who's drawing conclusions? Go to sleep."

However, during the game, after a particularly good spike, he heard a familiar scream, that sounded just a bit abused from sickness.

He tried not to look at the stands

However, afterwards, when your form barreled up to him, enveloping him in a hug, he just "tch"ed and hugged you back.

"Aww!!"

"Shut it, Tadashi."

"Gomen, Tsukki!"

You were both exhausted, you from the exertion of cheering, and him from the game, so you bussed home together.

"Good work!" You croaked at him, a stupid smile adorning your face.

"Shut up.. and thank you for coming."

#daichi x you #daichi sawamura x reader #daichi sawamura #sugawara koushi x reader #sugawara koushi #sugawara x you #asahi x you #asahi azumane x reader #asahi azumane #tanaka ryunosuke x reader #tanaka ryuunosuke #tanaka x you #nishinoya x you #nishinoya yu x reader #nishinoya yuu #hinata shoyo x reader #hinata shoyuo #hinata shoyo #kageyama tobio x reader #kageyama tobio #yamaguchi tadashi x reader #yamaguchi tadashi #yamaguchi x you #tsukishima x you #tsukishima kei #tsukishima kei x reader

[rosesanthology]

Not as Bad as i thought | Matsukawa Issei x reader

Okay so i've been thinking about this scenario for a WHILE now and im,,,,,not mad at how it turned out ? Lmao y'all see for yourselves

- songs :  • savage remix by Megan Thee Stallion feat Beyonce

                 • kimi no nawa theme song

- weather association au : dusk (i dont even know if that's seen as a weather but oh well-)

[Tags] : @raevaioli asked sooooo👀 @haikoo

- you weren't really sure how long you've been walking for

- you tried to recall the events from today with much difficulty as you strolled on the sideway at 4pm, still in school uniform but much messier than when you first got out of the house this morning, backpack lazily thrown over your left shoulder

- "and there goes a perfectly good weekend" you sighed, not talking to anyone in particular but yourself or maybe the occasional stray cat

- your house wasn't even close to the way you were going and you couldn't care less

- your phone had data anyway you could just search your way back in google maps (｀ε´)

- plus it's not like you walked across the whole country and you already called your mom to make up some excuse

- "we'll talk when you get back." She had told you over the phone , you were pretty sure that the school had informed her of what happened

- thinking about it made you sick to your stomach so you opted on just focusing on how much of an anime MC vibe you were giving off right now instead !!!

- i mean, basically running away after school to go on unplanned walks with a messy uniform while listening to the new savage remix by Megan and Beyonce ???? Pretty badass ngl (◡︿◡✿)

- if only your balance wasn't -2/10 then maybe you could even skateboard and act like you were in an indie movie

- but back to the matter at hand

- the anger swelled up inside you as you started to think over what had happened

- you were in the midst of a chemistry class and you had been paired up with none other than your toxic ex who made you feel like crap for the most random stuff

- you were literally just vibing trying to adjust the microscope and he just HAD to shove you out of the way because, allegedly, you "didn't know how to do it", causing you to back into another girl's test tubes and bunsen burner !!!

- WORSE IS THAT THAT GIRL STARTED YELLING AT YOU FOR RUINING HER WORK !!!! like damn it's not your fault

- luckily the teacher was kind enough to aknowledge your apology and scold the girl for yelling but still !!! You were angry !! (⋋▂⋌)

- so angry that you may....have started crying in class just cause beating the living hell out of your ex was just not something you could do and not get at least detention for-

- the embarassment of it all had caused you to storm out of the school at the first chance you had, not wanting to murder your ex or anybody else if they made any comments

- you were taken out of your internal turmoil in the middle of the sidewalk by the smell of the sea and well,,,,,the sight that was literally right in front of you

- not to be sappy or basic or anything but a good sunset never failed to make your heart go doki doki from the pretty colors(●´ω｀●)

- you didn't even notice time passing or the sky painting itself like that

- weird huh

- what a world we live in

- anyway you truly felt like things were meant to be at the moment you set foot on the soft sand (you'd have taken of your shoes if it wasn't for your socks preventing you from it)

- in this moment of awe you stuffed your phone and earbuds in your bag and made a run for the water !!!! Excited to see the cute riples of foam closer !!!

- and then you fell.

- FACE FIRST IN THE SAND BABY

- and you would have been fine if it wasnt for the loud sound of someone SNORTING AND CACKLING BEHIND YOU LIKE ?????

- FIRST OF ALL YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE ALONE ????

- AND WHO TF DARED ???

- THE GUY DIDNT EVEN HELP YOU HE JUST CAME UP TO YOU AND LET OUT A

- "Damn ive never seen anyone so eager to bite the dust !" And then laughed again !!

- ●︿●

- thats where it dawned upon you that this guy was one of the third years from your school's male volleyballl team !!!! If you remember correctly his name was Matsukawa Issei but did it really matter ???

- it was someone from school who was laughing at you ???? You Y/N L/N

- the embarassment came crashing onto you like the waves on the shore and in a second you were sobbing

 - the hot tears were rolling down your cheeks at high speed and you swore you heard Mattsun gulp when be realised what was going on

- "w-wait sorry...i didn't mean to make you cry" he didn't really know what to do so his hands were just hanging in the air as he knelt down in front of you

- ⋋_⋌ you mustered up the energy to glare at him thru your glossy eyes but really it looked as intimidating as a hamster- haha what no, the middle blocker's heart totally did NOT skip a beat with the pouty hamster + sunset color palette combination !!!! Not that you'd notice anyway

- instead of kneeling there awkwardly he opted for picking up your backpack before sitting next to you, putting his knees up to his chest and staring at anywhere but your very embarassed self

- "i really mean it you know ? Sorry for making you cry..." MATSUKAWA ISSEI STOP BEING A SIMP FOR SOMEONE YOU JUST MET CHALLENGE YOUR SUN PISCES IS SHOWING KING

- "its not entirely your fault...." you managed to say between hiccups, "ive kinda had like....a really really bad day"

- ".....i see" i sEe HeAdAsS you should have thought about it before laughing at Y/N like that !!!

- after that you didn't really know what to do

- i mean yeah grabbing your bag, flipping him off and then going back home sounded like a tight plan but at the same time,,,,,the sound of the waves was calming and the sun was pretty   (●´ω｀●)

- and little did you know that as you were too focused looking absolutly enamored with the sun itself Mattsun was looking at you trying to think about how the hell he was going to keep the conversation and the vibes going when you're just sitting there looking like THAT

- it was like that one scene in Kimi no Nawa when Taki and Mitsuba see each other for the first time sodjdisnakaka

- except that he was the only one staring but that didn't really phase him

- "you know-" ah here it comes

- he started talking so he'd have to go thru with it until the end

- he weirdly enough did NOT want you to turn to look at him because he knew that if you did the words would get caught up in his throat and- oh no you did

- oop the sand looks very interesting all of a sudden wow :0

- "you know when i have a bad day i usually come to sit here and watch the sunset"

- "okay and ?"

- GOSH Y/N LET HIM SPEAK PLEASE HE'S HAVING A HARD TIME

- "and it feels nice....like today for example, i just lost a volleyball match against some other school, Karasu-whatever you probably don't care but....after living such a hard loss it feels nice to look at the sky painted in all these colors you know ? Plus you don't have to talk so it's great it's as if you were on top of the world-"

- he was cut off by the sound of your laugh

- "ARE YOU MAKING FUN OF ME ???"

- as you struggled to catch your breath you looked at him and smiled

- "you know you're not as bad as i thought !"

- huh

- you were definitely something :\

- spiking the ball right thru Matsukawa's chest and straight to his heart

- "My name's Y/N L/N im a 2nd year ! also don't worry i wasn't making fun of you at all i just can't believe that you exposed your simp card so proudly to someone you BARELY know"

- "well i felt bad because-"

- "it's cute (▰˘◡˘▰)"

- OH.

- MY MANZ WAS AT A LOSS OF WORD

- WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT MAKING FUN OF A GIRL FALLING WAS ALL IT TOOK TO MAKE HIS DAY A 100 TIMES BETTER

- HE WOULD HAVE TO TELL MAKKI ABOUT THIS ASAP

- you snapped him out of his daze by pointing out that your mom would be worried if you walked alone to your house at night

- "sooooo is it my cue to walk you home ?" smooth recovery from him, you must admit

- "should we get boba on the way ?" You said standing up and dusting your shirt

- "you bet."

#IM STILL ANXIOUS AS HELL #sleep deprivation has me thriving #haikyuu x reader #haikyuu!! #mattsun #matsukawa x reader

[miss-musings]

Comparisons between TBL’s Lizzington and The Bride and Bill from “Kill Bill”

How have we never talked about the similarities between these two before? I did a quick Google search, and I found a gifset comparing the "don't marry that guy" scene from the respective shows, but that was about it.

There are soooooo many similarities, it physically hurts my soul.

Guy/gal couple have a very meaningful, trusting relationship (which is explicitly romantic and sexual in Kill Bill; the jury is still on out The Blacklist)

There is a significant age gap between the guy and gal; in some ways, he is her mentor as well as her love interest

Both of them live in a violent world and/or take part in a violent profession that involves tracking down and (sometimes) killing people

Gal finds out she's pregnant, distances her self from guy in an effort to keep her baby safe

In her efforts, gal fakes her death

Guy is absolutely devastated to lose her

Guy tracks down gal inadvertently while looking for the people supposedly responsible for her death

At some point, gal intends to marry a second dude, and first guy objects to this marriage; and because of some violent circumstances, gal never marries the second dude

Gal gives birth to a baby girl

Guy helps to raise the gal's daughter while she is ~gone~ (in Kill Bill, Bill raises his daughter B.B. while the Bride is in a coma; in TBL, Liz fakes her death)

Guy and gal have a confrontation where each of them is angry at what the other did; yet deep down, it's evident they both still care about each other

Guy at one point is accused of/says he's the gal's father

There are plenty of differences too, don't get me wrong.

But, while the whole "Red is Liz's dad-CONFIRMED" thing from the S4a finale frustrated me to no end, it's good to keep in mind that there was a scene where the Bride pretended that Bill was her dad, even though the two had been in a relationship and she was pregnant with their child.

I think this also gives some perspective on why Liz has seemed so mean and vicious toward Red. Even if the "Agnes Reddington" theory turns out to be false -- and, as awesome as it would be, I highly doubt the writers would go there -- Liz would still feel incredibly protective of Agnes from Red.

Liz and Red had been in a relatively good place in their relationship. They built up a great level of trust, understanding and affection while she was on the run in Season 3a. Then, in Gregory Devry, she's clearly frustrated that he isn't going to take a break and that the fight against the Cabal must continue. But, it's only after she finds out she's pregnant that her frustration and venom against him REALLY escalates.

***

Before that strip turned blue ...I was a woman, I was your woman.

I was a killer who killed for you.

Before that strip turned blue, I would've jumped a motorcycle onto a speeding train.

For you.

But once that strip turned blue ...I could no longer do any of those things.

Not anymore.

Because I was gonna be a mother.

But why didn't you tell me then, instead of now?

Once you knew, you'd claim her. And I didn't want that.

Not your decision to make.

But it's the right decision, and I made it for my daughter.

She deserved to be born with a clean slate.

But with you, she would've been born into a world she shouldn't have.

I had to choose.

I chose her.

***

That, ladies and gentleman, is the dialogue -- as best I can tell -- from the confrontation between The Bride and Bill once she finds out that B.B. lived and that Bill raised her, and as Bill is finding out why The Bride faked her death to begin with.

Even operating under the assumption that Agnes IS Tom's daughter, the conversation still applies quite well to the Lizzington relationship. While she definitely disagreed on his methods and decisions, Liz showed time and time again that she was loyal to Red and cared about him and his well being. Granted, not to the same level that the Bride did with Bill, but still... it works.

In Lizzington's case, Liz's affection for / loyalty to Red seems to have gone out the door the minute she found out she was pregnant.

Red, well-meaning as he was, did try to "claim" Liz and her child, in a certain way. He definitely tried to insert himself into her life. He offered to give her money for her child; he put a security team across the hall; booked pregnancy massages, bought her a couch, etc. So long as Liz was in Red's life, that meant that Agnes was in his life as well. Liz knew first-hand that people had used her to get to Red; who's to say they wouldn't use Agnes to get to her and/or Red?

She rejected Red's "dirty / blood money." She wanted Agnes to have a relatively normal life. Fair enough. As venomous and hateful as she's been toward Red since Season 3b, I can't fault her for that much.

In the end, Liz chose her daughter over Red.

And, now, Bill gets to tell the Bride "the truth."

***

And for the record, letting somebody think somebody they love is dead when they're not is quite cruel.

I mourned you for three months.

And in the third month of mourning you... I tracked you down. I wasn't tryin' to track you down. I was tryin' to track down the fucking assholes I thought killed you.

So I find you...and what do I find?

Not only are you not dead...you're getting married to some fucking jerk.

And you're pregnant.

I overreacted.

You overreacted?

Is that your explanation?

I didn't say I was gonna explain myself. I said I was gonna tell you the truth.

But if that's too cryptic, let's get literal.

I'm a killer. I'm a murdering bastard. You know that.

And there are consequences...to breaking the heart of a murdering bastard.

You experienced some of them.

Was my reaction really that surprising?

***

Gah, if this isn't Red, you guys, I don't know what is.

Granted, in TBL, Liz and Tom decide to get married while Liz is pregnant and THEN she fakes her death. (Whereas in Kill Bill, it's the other way around.) Either way, Red was devastated and hurt by both decisions. He warned Liz not to marry Tom -- begged her, even. Said it wasn't in her best interests, that he wouldn't change. Now, it's been a while since I watched Kill Bill Vol. 1, but I feel like Bill told The Bride that she shouldn't marry the other dude because she was a killer and she would always wake up and be a killer. It would be hard for, if not impossible, for The Bride to be satisfied with a "normal life."

(In some respects, I would argue the same thing for Liz. We saw in the pilot that she's drawn to the criminal mind. Not saying she couldn't also be a stay-at-home mother, but would she really be happy with that life, long-term? I feel like she would miss the action, drama, and psychology of her time on the FBI Task Force. Anyway...)

Now, as for the fake death, Red is completely distraught -- a man without purpose -- after Liz's death. His saving grace, he'd hoped, was to be a part of Agnes' life, but Tom seemingly puts the kibosh on that. So, he goes to Cape May and then he sulks at Dom's house. It's not until Aram says they need help tracking down Liz's killers that he decides to come back.

Additionally, Red has told Liz (and others) time and time again that he is a killer. He's a monster -- someone who does bad things; even if he has the best of intentions, he still kills people.

After Liz died, what was the first thing we saw in the Cape May episode? Red presumably killed Nick, her doctor guy. He also went on quite the killing spree to find Susan Hargrave and then Kirk, all in an effort to get revenge for Liz's supposed death.

But, after he reunited with Liz, what did he do? He kept his distance. Yes, he offered her help and protection, and so on, but he isn't nearly as close or as unguarded with her as he had been previously. Even now... he gets Liz her much-desired pardon, and what does he do? He lets her find out on the TV and hangs out in his car. Doesn’t even give her so much as a phone call. This was a man who was thrilled to buy her an apartment and called her seemingly every half-hour she was waiting for her trial in 3x10.

All in all, I just wanted to point out the similarities between these two shows, and wonder at whether this means The Blacklist will follow in the shoes of Kill Bill, or if it's going to do its own thing. (It's going to be the latter, let me tell you right now.) Still, it's fun to speculate.

Anyone have any thoughts on this? Wanted to add to this meta?

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