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I can’t remember where I saw this but I saw a theory about Neytiri’s cut on Spider’s chest being similar to the one Jake gets to be symbolically killed before he can become a part of the clan in the first Avatar. This being highlighted by it happening again in the beginning of the movie when he is symbolically killed in order to be replaced as the leader of the Omaticaya. Like she’s symbolically killing him as Quaritchs son so he can be reborn as her and Jake’s. She is killing that relationship in her mind so she can finally let go. I don’t know if I believe that’s what they intended but I will die a happy death if it is.
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taylorinlit · 1 year
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"milk fed" by melissa broder
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read: december 2022.
time taken to read: 3 days.
disclaimer: not quite a review.
this is one of those books that you read for the human experience. it delicately--yet bluntly--discusses sexuality, eating disorders, narcissistic mothers (and, subsequently, learning to mother yourself after their impact), religion, and politics. if you ever wanted to write something about human relationships, broder's lyricism is a good jumping off point.
buy it here: https://shop.skylarkbookshop.com/book/9781982142506.
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fma03anniversary · 7 months
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Happy 20th anniversary FMA. Let's put some forgotten feathers back in your cap.
Melissa was the #1 anime theme song to wrap 2003, and peaked at #2 on the Oricon Singles Chart - Japan's music industry standard for charting CD singles. Melissa became the #34th top selling single for 2003 and was only on sale for two months of the year (Melissa went on sale Sept 26th and Oricon is tracked Dec 1 - Nov 30). Melissa ranked #66 in top Japanese singles for 2004 too. The song would be on the Oricon charts for 38 weeks! Melissa won Animage Magazine's 2004 Anime Grand Prix for Best Anime Song.
Ready Steady Go! was the 18th best selling single of 2004 and peaked at #1 on the Oricon Singles Chart, and would do so charting less than half the time of Melissa, 16 weeks.
FMA sweeps Animage Magazine's 26th Annual Anime Grand Prix held in June 2004 - winning best series, best male character (Ed), best female character (Riza), best voice performance (Romi Park), best song (Melissa @ #1, Kesenai Tsumi @ #2), and best episode (7).
FMA is on the cover of all 3 major Japanese animation magazines for July 2004 - Newtype, Animage, and Animedia.
July 31, 2004 L'arc~en~Ciel make their North American debut at Otakon. Prior to their concert held at the 1st Mariner Place (now CFG Bank Arena) in Baltimore, to a crowd of 12,000 the first episode of the upcoming FMA English dub is premiered.
Rewrite peaks at #4 on the Oricon charts and becomes the 63rd best selling single of 2004. Rewrite won Best Anime Theme Song at the American Anime Awards at New York City Comicon in 2007.
FMA gets the rare honour of going to reruns in Japan.
FMA debuts on Adult Swim and is on the cover of all 3 major North American anime magazines for November 2004 - Newtype USA, Anime Insider, and Animerica.
FMA pulls in a ton of new viewers to Adult Swim for December 2004.
TV Asahi ranks FMA the most popular animated TV series in Japan in fall 2005, a year after it finished airing.
FMA is the best selling anime series on DVD for 2005 in North America. Individual DVD volume sales are so strong they rank alongside anime movies.
Anime News Network crowns FMA the best series of 2005.
Link is the #4 anime song for 2005 and peaks at #2 on the Oricon chart.
Conqueror of Shamballa is the #7 anime movie and #47 movie overall in Japan for 2005.
Anime Expo 2006 celebrates FMA. AX teams up with FUNimation to premiere Conqueror of Shamballa at the convention, hosted by guests of honour: Seiji Mizushima (Series Director), Mike McFarland (EN Director), Masahiko Minami (President of Studio Bones), Romi Park (who unfortunately had to cancel last minute), and Vic Mignogna.
Conqueror of Shamballa set to screen in 40 North American theatres. In !!2006!!
In the first ever event to honour voice acting, direction, production, etc of English anime in North America, the American Anime Awards were held at New York City Comic Con in 2007, handing out awards for the Best Of 2006. Online fan voting selected the finalists and FMA led the nominations with 5. The series would lose Best Feature (CoS) to FFVII Advent Children, but win Best Long Series, Best DVD Packaging, Best Cast, and Best Theme Song (Rewrite). Source (1), (2), (3)
Over five years after its Japanese debut and four years after it's North American start, as Brotherhood begins airing in Japan FMA still ranks #7 for best selling anime series on DVD in North America for spring 2009!
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freshlyrage · 8 months
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Running Like Water
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Chapter 16
pairing: Javier Peña x OFC (written as xReader)
fic warnings: NSFW Explicit Smut (18+ MDNI) language, strained family relationships, mentions of drug abuse, discussions of insecurities and body image issues, daddy and mommy issues
fic tags: Best friends younger sister, Life-long crush, Friends to lovers, Unrequited love, slow burn, Push and Pull, Small Town Dynamics, Secret Relationships, latina MC, Fluff and Angst, OFC!Jessica Alba face claim, sorry Lorraine I'm bringing you into this, Time jumps, 2 year age gap, pre-canon
word count: 4.8k
a/n: OMG babes I'm sorry about the wait. I moved back onto campus and wheww they are working my little english major butt. Heres this little update, dont jump me. Hopefully you can forgive me because we're getting like 3 chapters of New Orleans content so... any way enjoy
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His body still limp over yours; you feel a rush of nerves run up your spine. Burying your face into the space between his shoulder and neck. Perfectly fit. “Javi!” You whisper. His own chuckles dying at the slow realization of how fucked they are. He’s silent for a bit as you two breath slowly in sync. Shutting your eyes tightly half hoping this part of the night is a nightmare. 
“Fuck…” He groans before flopping on his back next to you. The image is dirty too, still in pants but his half hard length exposed sweaty–and you, bare from the waist down. 
The circling thoughts of all the ways this could ruin you runs its course in the silence before you begin to panic. Sitting up in bed quickly, grabbing your pillow to conceal him. Javier sighs as if he doesn't have a care in the world. What are we going to do? What are we going to do? “What are we going to do?” You whisper, bringing your knees to your chest. Your eyes nearly blur as you are still coming down from your orgasm. 
He’s silent, panting still. You could hear your mom in the living room scattering things around. Your chest heaves with each noise she makes, Javier brings his palm flat on your knee, thumb stroking its side. “We’ll come up with something, I’ll leave once we know she’s asleep.”
“She’s going to catch on when I have to explain to her in a few days that I’m catching a ride with you to Louisiana.” You whisper yell, that thought already cripled you since your bath. How in the world were you going to do this? You were so high off of being bathed and fucked by Javi that you hadn’t thought of how to execute this mini vacation and now? He stirs in his bliss, the perfectly placed pillow concealing him falls to the floor.  You look at his waist, groaning, you reach to grab him, he responds in a stomach pitting hiss. You narrow your eyes at him and tuck him back into his boxers. 
 Why is he so calm? How is this not the biggest deal to him? He smirks watching your mind race.
“Something funny?” You snap in the quietest tone possible. And he keeps on that sly little side smile, the mustache doesn’t help the sexiness of it, you’d kiss him in his stupid face if you weren’t panicking inside. He shakes his head, making no effort to sit up and level with you. He just watches your worry. “What.”
“You’re so pretty.”
Your eyes widen, the tips of your ears red hot. You bring your brows in a small pull and a frown, feeling so shy under his gaze. Eyes closed for a moment, he sits up and kisses the line of worry between your brows. His hands holding your cheek. “Javi.” You groan.
He ignores you and kisses your temple, “You’ll tell Melissa I parked the car here,” he kisses your cheekbone next. “And walked to the bar, in case I needed someone sober to drive me home.” His hand moves down to your neck and just above the plane of bone exposed in your tank top. And finally gripping your breast, lips on your ear, “The bar is only a 4 minute walk from here, it was the smartest idea for me. I did it once in high school, remember?” 
Your mouth parts and his thumb grazes over your sensitive nipple. Your brows screw tighter and surprisingly, “No-no I don’t remember.” The idea of him holding onto a memory just like you fills your chest with something unfamiliar. Nails grazing his shoulders, “You’re so touchy.”
He mumbles a complaint before pressing his lips to the side of your face again, “After homecoming, do you remember?”
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October 21st 1979
Lorraine hated the color blue on him anyway. 
When Javier profusely apologized to his girl about homecoming dance or lack thereof, she had sighed and turned her head out the car window. She wasn’t able to accept the idea, the thought of her exclusive partner choosing to keep the company of his best friend's sister instead of showing up to a dance they were made to go together. 
It was a big deal for Lorraine. She had just lost her virginity to Javi and he had called her his girlfriend to his dad just a week before. Homecoming was meant to be them showing themselves to the world. Javier on the other hand couldn’t care for the approval or acknowledgment of others. If people asked, he’d tell them.
 So he apologizes with a hand on her knee. There is no right way to tell her, to explain to her why Javier picked you over her that night. He couldn't tell her that the thought of you being upset makes him sick in some twisted overprotective way. He can't say those things, not to someone who liked him so much. He can't say that to her because he also liked her just as much. 
“I forgive you.” She sniffles, her tear stained nose pointed towards the door. Her blue manicure scraping his knuckles. The color matching the tie he had planned to wear, his chest tightened. 
He hadn’t regretted the night. Telling you the truth, being there for you after being humiliated. He’s known you since you were young, he had developed that need to be in your corner at all times. No one ever was. But, he should’ve called Lorraine, he should’ve told her. She’s understanding, kind, she would have offered to come over and help the situation because that’s just who she was. 
Javier hadn’t called, and shoved deep down in a space too uncomfortable to reach he made the decision not to rather than forgetting. The shameful hope that maybe the fast moving relationship would crash and that fleeting thought made him feel awful. That was the first time he had looked at you, in your pretty dress and felt more scared than he’s ever felt in his entire life. 
His voice dying in his throat the second he saw the way you learned to cry. Quietly, wiping your face with the back of your palm, trying to hide any evidence of discomfort. 
Lorraine cried differently, head turned away but she lets herself go. She doesn’t apologize like you do, she cries and doesn’t wipe away the evidence. 
“You forgive me?” Disbelief and shameful disappointment lacing his voice crack.
It’s silent again but she nods. “You’re not allowed to go to the bar for the rest of the year.”
Javier chuckled, his thumb brushing her knuckle. She faces him now, cheeks still wet. Her blonde hair pulled in a low pony, she was just so classically beautiful. Javier felt silly in her presence, there was no way people thought he was up to her standard. “I’m seventeen.”
She scoffs, “I know you go to the bar on fridays, they let you in. Josie saw your truck there last weekend”
She was right. “How’d she know it was me, it could've been my dad.” He teases, internally wincing knowing this isn’t the time. He had been sort of caught. After being away at the youth academy he had frequented the bars, the small habit urged on when he came home. Despite the owner very well knowing who Javi was and his age, they still let him in. So he’d grab a drink or two and drive home. It was a part of his new routine here, maybe he was escaping something, maybe he hoped his mom would walk through the bar doors. It was no coincidence he only sat in at The Tap, the bar his mother frequented in the late years before she left him.
“I know your dad doesn't drink, I’m not joking. It isn't safe to drive like that.” She brushes her hair out of her face, frowning at him so slightly. Javier nods in agreement. 
“Is it that you don't want me to go or you don't want me to drive there?” 
He was being a hardass he knows, he must have gotten it from his mom because Chucho would never talk back to his woman. He knows the answer, he knows that the question will rile up Lorraine. And still somewhere far in his chest is the desire to argue so much that he can find a way out of this. 
Lorraine’s cheeks flush red like it does when she’s angry, she looks out the window for a moment like she’s wondering if what she’s about to say next is appropriate.
“It isn't healthy. You need to deal with the loss of your mother in better ways.”
Javier’s chest caved in on itself, the tips of his own ears getting hot. His gaze quickly averted from every part of Lorraine's face to see if she was serious, if he had heard her correctly. No one knew the details about Flaca, not even Frankie, not you. All you and your brother know is that she had left when Javier was little, she wasn't around when you met him and he never seemed bothered. It always seemed like a nonissue. “My mother isn't dead.” Javi snaps, impulsively reaching for his car keys. He needed to drop Lorraine off before this conversation goes any further. 
“I know-” Her hand is quicker as she grabs the keys before him. “Your father told me she used to go to that bar, he pointed it out when we had dinner last week.”
“Give me the keys, you're going home.”
Lorraine flares her nostrils and moves the key further, “No Javi. Talk to me, I don't know anything about your childhood, about your mom, about what you do when we’re not together. I know you have abandonment issues I understand-”
Javier cuts her off, “Jesus christ.” Something strange thrums in his chest, an urge– an urge to cry. An urge he hasnt felt in years, this is fucked. 
“Don't scoff like I’m crazy, it's why you do all this shit! It's why you left me stranded on homecoming, you're trying to avoid this commitment. Avoid us, this. ”
There it is. 
“Jesus- I literally told you I had to help Andrea out stop changing the topic–why the fuck would you bring my mother into-”
“No lets talk about it, your weird fucking obsession with that girl. Acting like she’s completely off limits, freaking out because I introduced myself to her. You told me you two were not even close! You said you stopped being friends when you went away last year, go figure.” She laughs dryly.  Javier’s blood runs dry, facing forward and shutting his mouth. “Abandoning your life for a year because of what? The academy? Give me a break.” They had bickered but nothing like this, he hadn't seen this side of Lorraine. Using something as personal as his mother to feed into something as stupid as homecoming. “She was rude to me at the game and you let it slide, if you’re in love with that girl just fucking spare me. I have no interest in competing against a girl like that.” 
Like that. 
He takes a breath before continuing. He needed to be rational.He feared any reaction would reveal some truth in her fear. In love with her, it made the strangest knot in his stomach. He had barely interacted with you in the past year. There was no way. Sure he cares for you, a lot, maybe too much. Maybe you consume more of his thoughts than he’d like to admit. Maybe when the two of you were younger he thought you were the sweetest thing to walk this earth but the 2 year gap felt larger than life then. Maybe he’s just confused seeing you older, mature, prettier and maybe he can't stand seeing you be with anyone else. Maybe he misses being around you right now. Just maybe, maybe when Lorraine brought up his mother he felt a sense of dread, she knows something you don't and why does that feel so wrong? 
“It isn't like that, just–just please give me the keys Lorraine.” 
Without a word she complies and Javier takes her home without a goodbye. 
He drives aimlessly for another hour, around town. He passes where he met you by the bikes all those years ago. He remembers those stupid overalls you wore religiously. He passes your moms boutique, the soft lighting of the shop reflecting on the puddle outside the stoop. And he passes the bar his girlfriend had just banished him from, he's urged to enter it more than ever. Spend a few dead presidents on something to distract him from the unsettling feeling of… he wasn't sure. 
And fuck it, he drives straight to your house. He wasn't sure when his brain started registering it as your house and not his best friend Frankie’s house but he makes the left and heads up the small hill where your home sat perched in all its glory. An empty driveway and a soft glow coming from the curtains. He remembers waiting outside your door waiting for you to enter safely on hot summer nights. 
He parks, eyes skating at the cash in his cup holder, he could leave his truck here and walk to the bar from here. Just in case of course, in case someone catches his truck. His mouth dries when his eye catches the bracelet that belongs to his girlfriend, the word sounding wrong in his own head. He needs a drink. 
Javier’s boots crunch on the–no, your driveway was paved, your mother thought dirt driveways were a messy disgrace. He had been so used to having to lay his shoes on the porch in order to be allowed into his own home. 
He knocks, it’ll probably be Frankie answering the door if he isn't somewhere bothering his girlfriend. But after only a few seconds he hears you giggling behind the door and Javier finds himself forming a smile before you even reach the knob. The door swings open and-
“Jesus christ what's on your face?” He blurts a bit too loud, your eyes widen and somehow through the mess on your face you turn beat red. Your hand is flying to cover your face.
 On your face are red spots at the apple of your cheeks, brows glued down with a thin pencil line mimicking an eyebrow, lips red lined dark and those fake eyelashes Diana Ross wears. 
The back of your palm is covered in lines of makeup, browns, blues and yellows. And to top it all off you're in a large shirt and slippers. “Javi–what are you doing here? Oh my god” You shriek, looking over your shoulder still hiding your face.
Javier can't help but feel a warmth spread through his chest at the sight while something else in him scolds himself for reacting so rudely. “Sorry I was wondering if I could leave my car here for a bit–what-you don't have to keep covering your face I already saw it.” Javier steps up onto the highest ledge and peers over your shoulder, your new friend Liandra coming up behind. 
“Javi! What a nice surprise, I was practicing my stage makeup for Cabaret on Drea, come in!” She urges, and Andrea swiftly drops her hand shooting a glance at her friend with makeup brushes in her hand. Feeling out of place and rather creepy imposing on your sleepover he shakes his head gives you a glance you can only read as, let's talk alone. 
You catch on dismissing yourself for a moment and closing the front door behind you, the light cutting away into the darkness of the night surrounding the two of you. It was a bit chilly for you to be out here, he promised himself he won't keep you long. The two of you haven't spoken since he kept you company last weekend while you detailed your tiny anxieties and insecurities, how you held so much in that tiny body of yours is beyond him. He felt that weird stupid primal instinct of protectiveness when thinking of you being so torn down by the jokes of pathetic men. He hasn't spoken to you in school the following week, attempting to keep you far away from Lorraine. That would have just added salt to the open wound, he wanted a do over. Maybe when they were better together he could properly introduce the two, put out whatever fire Lorraine believes to be between the two of them. 
But you looked exceptionally beautiful in this light, even with your face painted. And a thought like that isn’t okay. Not when your brother could be in the house or heading home. 
Your lips quirk into a small grin, he had been staring this whole time forgetting to speak. “Sorry for this,” You wave a hand over your face, “I was doing Liandra a favor. Didn’t mean for my face to scare you much.”
Javier’s stupid heart skips a beat, “You didn't scare me.”
You shake your head and bite the inside of your lip, who are you, Javi thinks, when did I start to feel like this?
 “Sure, just next time when you bump into me bare faced dont scream, it might hurt my feelings.”
Javi finds no humor in your self depreciation, not after last saturday. Haven't you known? You were so pretty it hurt him bone deep. He’d tell you over and over if it was appropriate but instead he dissents. Looking behind him at the hill that leads to town, to the bar, it was getting dark. 
“Is your brother home? Mom?”
You cross your arms in suspicion, “My mom is staying late doing inventory at the store and Frankie is staying at Genies, doing… whatever they do.” You grimace for a split second thinking of your brother and his second year of the honeymoon phase with his girlfriend. “You need to leave your car here, why is everything okay?”
A small line of worry folds between your brows and like always it causes his stomach to flip. What's gotten into him? 
“Everythings fine, I just planned to get a few drinks at the bar and didn't want to bring my dads truck in the line of sight of all the nosy people in town.”
You get that judgy look in your eye you gave him whenever you’d watch him smoke weed in the basement, “You’re 17, why don't you just go out and drink with your friends.”
“Got an issue with me going to the bar?”
“No.” You did, at the time your stomach had been in knots at the thought of him doing something so adult, he never felt more out of reach than in that moment. “I don't, so what, you're gonna walk up here drunk and drive home. Not happening.”
Bossy, Javier’s eyes fall to the ground trying to hide the spark in his eyes. What the fuck is happening, he’s blushing like a schoolboy at fucking Andrea. “I was hoping If I was too wasted you could just call me a cab.”
“And if I’m not awake?” You stayed awake the whole time, worried about him. 
“I’ll throw a rock at your window, last resort. I rarely get drunk anyway, you can assess the situation.”
You're silent for a moment, your own done up eyes falling to your bunny slippers. You frown for a moment, conspiring all of the ways this could go wrong. Before sighing, “Sure. Be safe or whatever.” 
Javier watches you step away and enter the house again. His hand rising to his chest to try to subside the rapid beating behind it. Why is this happening to me? Wasn’t I angry 30 minutes ago? 
He hears you and your friend let out girlish laughs and for a moment he considers knocking again. Forget the whole thing, just spend time with you instead, it was probably healthier. It would have made him feel better for the moment. But he knew he couldn't do that, how would he explain that to Lorraine. 
Yeah after we argued about Andrea, I went directly to her house to make myself feel better, will you still have me Lorraine?
Surely not.
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“No wonder I blocked that from my memory, I looked horrendous.” 
“You looked cute. Like a flapper from the 20s.” He whispers, since the beginning of the story it seemed your mother had gotten in bed. The two of you stayed quiet anyway, holding onto each other under the covers. Your cheeks crimson at him describing the memory in detail. You hadn't known Lorraine had such a bad taste of you from the start, when you had been introduced to her as his girlfriend just a month later she had been so kind, like she had been on homecoming night. 
And to bring up his mother in the petty argument…you wished you knew how to react. 
You simply knew close to nothing about his mom, to you he made it seem so insignificant. You wished you had known he left to the bar to feed into his unhealthy habit of hoping maybe she’d walk in, if you had known you would have forced Liandra to do that stage makeup on his face. Keep him away from that cycle of grief. 
“Do you remember how you showed up later?” You ask, his retelling brought every detail of that night back to the forefront of your brain. The sweetness of each interaction when he stumbled tipsy to your front door a few hours later ringing in your ears. 
Javier shuts his eyes, “I don't actually, I got a bit drunk huh?”
You giggle, “Yeah… you did.” You just couldn't believe you had forgotten about it, it wasn't like you. 
Javier drops his head in the crook of your neck in boyish embarrassment, “Jesus christ.”
It was 11pm, you were starting to worry that your mother would come home early and unload questions about the situation. Liandra was long gone and so was your painted face. Just you and a bouncing knee as you tried to occupy yourself with a rerun of Different Strokes season 1. Your hair was in its slightly overgrown phase of the layers Genie cut for you in August, pulled in a high ponytail. Face paint still in small dusty crusts on the front strands of your hair, you'd consider another shower if you weren't waiting for a knock. 
“You showed up so late, I was afraid my mom would catch us and tell Frankie.” You tell Javi as you stare at the vanity you used to get ready on every morning before school. 
Javi sighed, sounds familiar. 
Javier knocked half past 11, you sprung to your feet and opened the door. You almost want to laugh thinking of how Javier looked with no mustache, baby faced and glossy eyed. You stare at the grown men next to you and your heart swells at the thought of knowing him for so long. 
I’m drunk, he states the second you open the door. Your brows shooting high, Should I call you a cab? You ask, closing the door behind you. Your eyes switch to his fathers truck and back to him. Javier pulls his lips together in a drunk disagreeing pout.
Would you let me sleep here?
Your heart leaps in your chest, how you wished you could have let him. You were only fifteen then and you protected that small fantasy of being with him, forever, taking care of someone. You wished to just let him in and put him to bed, take care of the boy you had such a crush on. 
It's a funny thing, just 6 months later it was him taking care of your drunken body.
 “I wanted to let you stay.” You tell Javi now, your gaze caught on his side profile under the lowlights of your room. His jaw tightens and the urge to move closer, to kiss him goes bone deep. “I didn't know about your mom, I should have let you stay.”
Javier shakes his head in disapproval and turns to face you. “You did the right thing, you called me a cab right?” He tries to work through his memories, catalog and figure out what happened after he came drunk. He remembers being at the bar, someone asking if he was the son of Flaca and when he lied the patron went on and on about how messy she would get when she stopped by after her shift at the hospital. Javier remembers feeling protective over a mother who had never cared for him in the first place. 
“I offered to drive you.”
I can drive you home. He looked like he sobered up in that moment, the thought of you behind the wheel unsettling beyond anything else. 
Absolutely not
You remember scoffing, I dont have my license yet, but I can drive!
Javier had shook his head aggressively, Not happening, it's unsafe. 
You clamped your mouth shut before forcing him to stay put on your front door step as you head in to call him a cab. You had joined him on the steps again.
How’s high school treating you, he slurs slightly. He was already quite the big teen, broad and tall, his drunk wasn't the same as Frankie’s. Javier’s drunkenness was a small blush on his cheeks and a toothy grin. The opposite of how he presented in school when he walked around with that unapproachable frown and crinkle in his brow. 
Always looking like he was on the brink of either fucking you up or fucking you. 
It’s okay, I wish you would talk to me more, you wanted to say. It's weird to hang out with people that actually chose to be my friend. 
Javier’s drunken glance loaded with discontent cuts into you but he doesnt egg it on. His eyes gaze back down at the solid ground below them. You watched his gaze soften as he lost himself into his own thoughts. You remember looking at his face and feeling lonelier than ever. What lovely feelings at fifteen. 
“You weren't yourself that night, you didn't even argue with me. It felt lonely sitting with you when you weren't yourself.” 
Javier, the one that's yours, frowns and nods. “I was drunk but I remember hoping you would have touched me, at the time I think I needed some sort of comfort.”
In whispers you apologize to him now and he wants none of that, shaking his head. He grabs your hand and kisses the jagged bones of the back of your hand. Being a teenager sucked. Freshman year sucked. “The cab came quickly, what happened when you went home?” 
Javier stares off for a moment and quickly his thick brows furrow. “Lorraine was in my living room when I came home. We made up and she promised me she’d start over with you.” 
Ah, you thought. It made sense, that entire month of watching them slowly get close again until they finally made it official. That month when he ignored you and you watched him trail the halls, blushing behind him wondering if maybe you two just grew apart or if he realized he didn't need to be your friend anymore. Of course until that day in December when Javier found you with your textbooks in hand and a blotchy face. The day Lorraine introduced herself as if none of this happened. 
“Right.” You mumble, pulling up the covers closer to your chest. Nostalgia flooding and crushing you right in bed with Javier, your thoughts spasming and jumping to all the things you promised to get over. And you turn your back against him, smushing your cheek into the pillow. Too confused to cry and Javier wastes no time in pressing his lips on the round of your shoulder. 
“It’s always been you Andrea, you know that.”
Your chin quivers and through it all you smile. With his face pressed against your shoulder you bring your left hand across your body to rough up his hair. “Whatever softie.” He groans, giving your shoulder a nice bite. “I’ll tell my mom it was a bar thing, but I’ll have to lie about Louisiana.”
“Mmm, what are you going to say?” He’s dozing off, you hear his voice getting rougher and smoother. 
You think of your mother for a second. You think of all the times she’s belittled you, made a decision for you, and apologized with a gift. You think of her saying that you have overstayed your welcome here, in the home you were raised. And fuck that, fuck her. 
“I’m just going to leave, she doesn't care enough.” 
Javi stills in his kisses, “And your brother.” 
You roll your eyes, forgetting about that pest.
 “We can figure it out in Louisiana.”
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yourstrulykele · 9 months
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Hi all!!! So for my first post on tumblr I wanna show anyone who’s interested what my interests and what I’m all about n stuff. Im a little awkward ik but I’m just gonna say some things and then put a list of stuff I like and am interested in and hopefully y’all won’t hate me or think I’m embarrassing 😂
My name is Rachele, but all my friends call me kele. I am a MINOR, and I put that in all caps because people in the past have been very weird w me on the internet so hopefully that’ll keep away weird people though I invite people “of age” to follow me as long as you respect my boundaries. I don’t want any trouble, I’m just here to have fun.
- I’m an Aries sun, Sagittarius rising and Pisces moon, which I guess makes me a very fiery, passionate, and romantic person which is true according to everyone who’s met me lol
- my mbti personality type is INFP
- I love astrology and astronomy, I guess I’ve always had a thing for space and planets and stuff like that
-I am a HOPELESS romantic, I want those cliché experiences and the dancing in the moonlight, walking through parks or on the beach, staying up for hours just talking, bonding with each other over everything, dancing and singing and screaming our hearts out together while we blast music, soft moments, movie theater dates, picnics and concerts and god knows what else. I will die an unhappy woman if i don’t experience it all with the person I love.
-I’m a theater kid, not a weird strange one istg, and I find comfort being on the stage and being able to be somebody else is very therapeutic considering how I don’t wanna be “me” right now lmao
- I’m very VERY bisexual, even tho most of my crushes are men I just love women
- I love reading (and this means anything — classics like The Picture of Dorian Gray, Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, other fantasy like Harry Potter, The Witcher, Shadow and Bone (or anything by Leigh Bardugo), Outlander, fanfics, anything really
- I have a passion of hatred towards JKR despite her having made one of the best universes ever
- I am a marauders era enthusiast (though I don’t have extensive knowledge on the fandom I do enjoy it a lot)
-I am a Remus Lupin/moony kinnie, as well as a Lily Evans kinnie but mostly a moony kinnie
-I am a TV watcher to the heart, and some of my favorite shows/crushes from said shows are:
• Outlander (Jamie is SO FINE and Claire is so gorgeous omfg)
• Stranger Things (Joe Keery and Maya Hawke are my babes)
• The Witcher (Geralt is so fine)
• Shadow and Bone (General Kirigan and Genya and Zoya are 🔥🔥🔥)
•Friends (yes the most popular 90s show to exist on the planet) (Chandler and Rachel are so me and so fine)
•Queen Charlotte (Charlotte is so pretty and George is really cute)
•Heartstopper
•Supergirl (with Melissa Benoist she’s so gorg)
-I’m a amateur at writing but I find that being able to put my imagination into a story or a a little short one helps me keep my mind clear
-I was raised on Disney and I will always love Disney — or one of the musicals at my school I got to be Elsa in Frozen Jr. and I was probably the happiest, and my inner child had never been so happy
-speaking of disney, here are some of my fav movies:
•Frozen (1 and 2), Tangled, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, The Little Mermaid, The Princess and the Frog, Aladdin, Moana, Hercules, Ratatouille, 101 Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, Brave, Luca, Pocahontas, Finding Nemo/Dory, and Cars
-I am a huge Marvel fan as well as a Harry Potter fan and Disney fan (guess how mentally unstable I am 😂)
-I’m a major Swiftie… and I mean HUGE. I LOVE TAYLOR SWIFT WITH ALL MY HEART. My order of albums goes like this:
1: Reputation
2: Speak Now
3: Lover
4: Folklore
5: Fearless
6: 1989
7: Midnights
8: Debut
9: Red
10: Evermore (ikik I’m sorry ik people rave over Evermore but it’s my honest opinion leave me be 😭)
-I am a sucker for accents. We’re talking scottish, certain english and irish accents, sounthern, boston accent, australian, french, spanish, Italian (which is funny because I’m actually more than half Italian and speak it as well)
-my parents are divorced (so that adds on more trauma but I swear I’m fine and they’re ok with each other)
-I am the older one of my one other sibling, my little brother, who right now is really annoying me to the T but that’s what boys are like I guess 🤷‍♀️
-My main ships from HP/marauders era are:
•WOLFSTARRRRRRR 🐺 ⭐️
•Jily 🦁🌸
•dorlene
•rosekiller
•romione
•harmione
(I can’t remember any other ones but I’m sure I’ll think of more at some point)
-I listen to a wide variety of music, such as pop, country/rock, soft rock, classic rock, metal (depending on artists though) indie/rock, jazz, blues, soul, alternative rock, music from musicals/Disney, and I don’t even know what else.
-Artists I like are:
•Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, Lady Gaga, Adele, Beyoncé, Olivia Rodrigo, Ariana Grande, The Weekend, Steve Lacy, Mariah Carey, Britney Spears, DJO, Harry Styles, Kelly Clarkson, Bruno Mars, Cigarettes After Sex, The Neighbourhood, Arctic Monkeys, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, ABBA, Queen, David Bowie, Metallica, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, The Smiths, The Cranberries, Shania Twain, Robbie Williams, T. Rex, Fleetwood Mac, Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Tears for Fears, Duran Duran, Kate Bush, etc etc.
I could go on and on about music and the things that I love, but I won’t bore you to death. And this is getting quite extensive, I wasn’t planning on being this thorough. I’m deeply sorry lmao.
Anyways if you’ve made it to the end, thank you for not skipping over this. I appreciate it. You mean a lot to me!!! Anyways it’s late and I need to sleep so good night/morning/day/afternoon or wherever you are. I hope You’re having fun!!!
yours, kele.
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Case Files: Hale Fire
Read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/49164727 by WingsnWhimsy What if the real MVPs of the show (Stiles and Peter, obviously) started off without the teenie-bopper drama and Scott’s particular brand of useless morality? What if Stiles, trained and capable FBI agent, came back to his hometown only to get saddled with every cold case Beacon Hills and the surrounding county had to offer? The Hale Fire, and it’s farce of a cover up, land in lap and his first lead is the comatose Peter Hale, who’d been in the hospital all six years since the fire. What if he notices that six years is a bit excessive for a werewolf, no matter how grave the fire? What if he decides to do something about it? Because we all know Stiles - once he sets his mind to it, nothing and no one is going to stop him. Not even - especially not - common sense. ' --- Peter Hale knows only of burning and loss. Until one day a persistent and oddly compassionate FBI agent comes through the door and brings Peter into the present for snatches at a time. The days pass, and Agent Stilinski's rambling commentary paint the picture of what happened after the fire. Justice and vengeance are still unmet. Weeks later, Peter comes out of his comatose state, packless, near-feral, craving vengeance for his family. Words: 5014, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Categories: M/M Characters: Stiles Stilinski, Peter Hale, Sheriff Stilinski (Teen Wolf), Rafael McCall, Melissa McCall, Lydia Martin, Kate Argent, Scott McCall (Teen Wolf), Isaac Lahey, Derek Hale, Laura Hale, Allison Argent, Chris Argent, Victoria Argent, Gerard Argent Relationships: Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski Additional Tags: Wolf Stiles Stilinski, Spark Stiles Stilinski, Alpha Peter Parker, Aged-Up Character(s), BAMF Stiles Stilinski, BAMF Peter Hale, no beta we die like men, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/49164727
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Campaigners who have long pushed cities and states to adopt bans on foreign corporate interference in elections applauded Friday after the Minnesota House of Representatives passed legislation that would make the state the first to prohibit foreign-influenced corporations from spending money on electoral campaigns.
The provision is part of the Democracy for the People Act, which passed 70-57 along party lines late Thursday night after several hours of debate.
The national nonprofit organization Free Speech for People successfully advocated for Democrats in the state House to include the new rule, which would prohibit companies with at least a 5% ownership stake by multiple foreign owners or a 1% stake by a single foreign owner from spending money in Minnesota state and local elections. The companies would also be barred from donating to super PACs.
"Multinational corporations are corrupting representative democracy by drowning out the voices of the people," said Alexandra Flores-Quilty, campaign director at Free Speech For People. "The Democracy for the People Act will help put power back in the hands of citizens."
The organization pushed lawmakers in Seattle to pass similar legislation in 2020, and Hawaii, California, Washington, New York, and Massachusetts are all considering state-level bans modeled on a proposal developed by Free Speech for People.
The group worked closely with state Rep. Emma Greenman (DFL-63B) to pass the legislation.
"This package of commonsense solutions rests on a simple premise," said Greenman during the debate over the bill, "that our state works best when Minnesota voices are at the center of our democracy."
The legislation now heads to the state Senate, where the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL)—the state's affiliate of the Democratic Party—has a majority of seats. Gov. Tim Walz (DFL) has said he supports the bill.
We Choose Us, a statewide grassroots coalition of advocacy groups and unions, conducted polling last November and found that 80% of Minnesota voters back the provision barring election interference by multinational companies.
"Minnesota has long been a leader in democracy and so it's no surprise that the House voted today to put Minnesota on the path to becoming the first state to prohibit foreign-influenced corporations from spending in our elections," said Lilly Sasse, campaign director for We Choose Us. "It's clear to the people of Minnesota that prohibiting foreign-influenced corporations from spending in our elections is good for our democracy. And after today, it's clear that we're on the path to signing it into law."
The group also found broad support for other provisions in the Democracy for the People Act, including automatic voter registration, backed by 73% of Minnesota voters.
The legislation would also permit 16- and 17-year-olds to preregister to vote, establish a statewide vote-by-mail system, protect election workers and voters from harassment, and require voting instructions and ballots to be provided in non-English languages.
"Minnesotans want to ensure that voters always will have the biggest say in the decisions that will impact their lives," state House Speaker Melissa Hortman (DFL-34B) told the ABC affiliate KSTP. "Our legislation will strengthen the freedom to vote, protect our democratic institutions and Minnesota voters, and empower voters, not corporations or wealthy special interests in our elections.”
Free Speech for People is also backing a federal proposal by U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) to bar multinational corporations from interfering in elections.
"By banning multinational corporations spending unlimited sums of money to influence our elections," said the group, "we are upholding the letter of the law and getting us one step closer to a democracy that is truly by and for the people."
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Growing into the Job Post 283: Late Night TV, p2
I…hadn’t seen TV for a while. I just plain old hadn’t had one since Sheryl had kicked me out, since I’d moved into this tiny little upper-floor studio over the office. Even before that, though, I was never a big television watcher. I’d generally rather entertain myself with a book, a movie…or these days perving over pictures of Melissa. But earlier today I’d come home after work to find that Marisela had set up a big-screen TV in my apartment for me, perched precariously on a stand, sitting atop an old dresser in the corner. She’d hooked me up with a bunch of streaming services and channels, and connected it all somehow to a plain little black box and an old-timey looking remote with what were certainly not English command symbols. Cool, I guess…it looked sorta fishy but there’d be no bill or fee or whatever, she told me, and therefore I didn’t ask too many questions. Pirated? Probably. But I couldn’t afford subscriptions, let alone the 72” flat screen that now dominated my apartment and at which I now stared from my threadbare couch at 2am. 
TV was weird, these days. I watched the network news for a while, earlier. Everyone was talking about these three missing teens, disappeared since Trick-or-Treating on Halloween night.  They suspected foul play from the kid who was with them, the one with the crazy story about witches with tentacles. In fact I’d seen an interview with Sheila Frances, the new medical director at Riverview Hospital, the place from which I’d recently had my privileges suspended and where the boy was currently being held for observation. “We expect the toxicology reports to come back positive,” she’d said to the interviewer, a busty brunette, “but in the meantime the policewomen are still with him.”
I found it funny how she made a point to say ‘policewomen’. That when talking about the investigators, or the team of docs working with the kid, she referred to them all as ‘she’ or ‘her’. I found it unusual that the interviewer, the news anchors, the sports reporter, and the weather person for this local news squad…they were all women. Most of the actors on the ads, the main leads on the majority of the shows I flipped through: all female faces. Young and attractive, lots of times shapely. Had this trend, this fixation for the tall and buxom, already changed TV’s landscape like this? Or was I just imagining things? I mean, I wasn’t complaining. I mean…wow. Look at the knockers on her…this new sitcom about life on Mars? Apparently NASA has new standards for its astronauts haha. Or the girls on this 24-7 reality TV show? “Celebrity House of Trouble”? Wait…did I recognize that one?
Yikes, 2am. I'd been straight-up channel surfing for hours, now bleary eyed and exhausted but unable to look away, sitting in the dark, bathed by the ghostly, flickering light of the screen. I chalked it up to its newness, made my excuses that I was just checking out what sort of stuff Marisela had hooked up for me, told myself I could sleep in tomorrow. But I was basically like a zombie - click, click, clicking through the channels I’d been given. Networks and streaming services: some I knew, many I didn’t recognize. Cooking channels, travel channels, sports channels. Weird stuff, on the outskirts. Foreign languages, broadcasts from overseas. Special interest channels like…dog grooming. A ‘Men’s Network’…what’s this, now?
It was labeled as ‘Men’s Special Interest Television’ on the guide, and by the looks of it was a pretty new addition to the channel lineup, deep in the high channel numbers, broadcasting only late at night. But…wow. It caught my attention. Jesus - the host for whatever sort of show they were playing, something about video games, could be a porn star with hipster glasses. I actually watched it for a bit, raptly absorbing their review of some new entry that involved, holy shit, look at the jugs on that enormous vampire lady. She’s huge…
The segment was over, and suddenly now it was a cooking show. “Dani in the Kitchen”, whose bosomy, MILF-y chef coo’d at the camera like she was talking to a little lost child. Christ almighty Dani can make dinner for me any time. Now it switched to a sports report, now coverage of women’s bodybuilding, now just straight-up tits on the beach. Camera shots lasted moments, scenes and programming changed quickly. Whatever this channel was, it obviously pegged its audience as having attention spans measured in moments and IQs in the double-digits…and I couldn’t look away. 
Even the ads…lord, especially the ads…were filled with content playing into man’s basic instincts to just flat-out stare and lay docile when shown the right curves, the proper swells and smiles. Cleavage and soft-core and busty political candidates pitching themselves before the election bulged from my screen and I caught myself with my mouth agog, even at the political ads. Had I been watching this channel for more than two hours already? I don’t remember much, now, as I was eventually drifting in and out of sleep, but could still probably recite word-for-word that voice-over from the self-promoting station-identification piece that played in nearly every commercial break, layered over imagery that seemed custom crafted for someone like me…
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Thanks to Ray Ridley, a new contributor, for her voice work on the MSIT promo audio, and AgeOfTheGiantess for lots of inspiration on this entry. 
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I know I'm probably a weirdo for this, but one day I got to thinking, what if Pokemon was lingually accurate? Like, if characters were named appropriately based on their region? So I actually went through Bulbapedia and compiled a list of every major character's names in other languages. And just in case anyone else was curious, I thought I'd share it.
I'm going from the English base, so I'm majorly not including Unova, Galar, and most of Alola. Ones that are weird or are migrants I give explanations for.
Kanto: Japanese
Red: Same in English and Japanese
Leaf: Same in English and Japanese
Blue: Technically referred to as Green in Japanese since the original games were Red and Green (hence remakes being FireRed and LeafGreen), but is considered Blue internationally and it makes more sense to me (Red picks Charmander, rival picks Squirtle to be better, thus Blue).
Kakeru (Chase)
Ayumi (Elaine)
Shin (Trace)
Takeshi (Brock)
Kasumi (Misty)
Lt. Surge: His original title is "The Lightning American" and there's a whole tribute gym to his in Alola, so it's very likely he's from an America-inspired region, thus English name.
Erika: Same in English and Japanese
Kyou (Koga)
Anzu (Janine)
Natsume (Sabrina)
Katsura (Blaine)
Kanna (Lorelei)
Siba (Bruno)
Kikuko (Agatha)
Wataru (Lance)
Rocket-dan (Team Rocket): Literally written in katakana "ro-ke-t(su)-to"
Sakaki (Giovanni)
Ohkido Yukinari-hakase (Professor Samuel Oak)
Johto: Japanese
Hibiki (Ethan)
Kris: Same in English and Japanese
Kotone (Lyra)
Silver: Same in English and Japanese
Hayato (Falkner)
Tsukushi (Bugsy)
Akane (Whitney)
Matsuba (Morty)
Shijima (Chuck)
Mikan (Jasmine)
Yanagi (Pryce)
Ibuki (Clair)
Itsuki (Will)
Karin (Karen)
Minaki (Eusine)
Apollo (Archer)
Athena (Arianna)
Lambda (Petrel)
Lance (Proton): Yes, this is confusing with the Indigo Champion's English name being Lance.
Utsugi-hakase (Professor Elm)
Hoenn: Japanese
Yuuki (Brendan)
Haruka (May)
Mitsuru (Wally)
Tsutsuji (Roxanne)
Touki (Brawly)
Tessen (Wattson)
Asuna (Flannery)
Senri (Norman)
Nagi (Winona)
Fū (Tate)
Lan (Liza)
Juan: His Japanese name is Adan, but he uses different foreign words by localization (English in Japanese, Spanish in Viz's anime dub, and French in the Adventures manga's translation) so is likely foreign. Juan is his name in English, German, and French.
Mikuri (Wallace) Rune no Tami (Sootopolitan)
Kagetsu (Sidney)
Fuyou (Phoebe)
Glacia: Her name in Japanese is Prim, but she's implied to be from a more Western-based region. Glacia is her name in both English and French.
Genji (Drake)
Tsuwabuki Daigo (Steven Stone)
Datsura (Noland) Factory Head: Same in English and Japanese
Kogomi (Greta) Arena Captain (Arena Tycoon)
Tucker: Implied to be foreign, especially as his Japanese name is Heath. Tucker is his English name, and most other Romantic translations are loosely similar and come from the respective languages' word for "tactics". Dome Superstar (Dome Ace)
Azami (Lucy) Tube Queen (Pike Queen)
Ukon (Spenser) Palace Guardian (Palace Maven)
Jindai (Brandon) Pyramid King: Same in English and Japanese
Lila (Anabel) Tower Tycoon (Salon Maiden)
Higana (Zinnia) Denshousha (Lorekeeper)
Lutia (Lisia) Lutti (Lissi)
Tylulu (Ali): Lisia's Altaria
Magma-dan (Team Magma): Literally written in katakana "ma-gu-ma"
Matsubusa (Maxie)
Kagari (Courtney)
Homura (Tabitha)
Aqua-dan (Team Aqua): Literally written in katakana "a-ku-a"
Aogiri (Archie)
Ushio (Matt)
Izumi (Shelly)
Odomaki-hakase (Professor Birch)
Sinnoh: Japanese
Kouki (Lucas)
Hikari (Dawn)
Jun (Barry)
Hyouta (Roark)
Natane (Gardenia)
Sumomo (Maylene)
Maximum Mask (Crasher Wake): Maybe a little more clearly than the English name, it's a stage name and his real name is unknown. He's called "Maxi" for short, so it could just be that.
Fantina or Kiméra: Her name in Japanese is Melissa, which is a clearly Western name along with using foreign phrases. The difficulty here is in original Japanese (as well as French, logically) she speaks English, while most other localizations she speaks French. Fantina is her name in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Kiméra is her name in French.
Suzuna (Candice)
Denzi (Volkner)
Ryou (Aaron)
Kikuno (Bertha)
Ōba (Flint)
Goyou (Lucian)
Shirona (Cynthia)
Kurotsugu (Palmer) Tower Tycoon: Same in English and Japanese
Neziki (Thorton) Factory Head: Same in English and Japanese
Dahlia: Same in English and Japanese Roulette Goddess (Arcade Star)
Kokuran (Darach): His Lady may be likely Unovan, but his lineage is never specified and he seems to have a Hisuian ancestor, so him being from Sinnoh is likely, hence Japanese name. Castle Butler (Castle Valet)
Argenta or Kate: Kate is her name in Japanese and is clearly Western. Argenta is her name in English, German, and Spanish. Stage Madonna (Hall Matron)
Momi (Cheryl)
Gen (Riley)
Baku (Buck)
Miru (Mira)
Mai (Marley)
Looker: Honestly, I just prefer Looker because it seems smoother to say as a codename than his Japanese codename which is Handsome. Looker also has the double meaning that Handsome doesn't, like he's looking/watching, because he's a detective. Looker is also his name in Portuguese, and sometimes in German, Spanish, and Italian. Every one of his codenames is a reference to his appearance ex. LeBelle in German and Beladonis in French.
Ginga-dan (Team Galaxy)
Akagi (Cyrus)
Mars: Same in English and Japanese
Jupiter: Same in English and Japanese
Saturn: Same in English and Japanese
Pluto (Charon)
Nanakamado-hakase (Professor Rowan)
Hisui: Japanese
Teru (Rei) Chō satai (Survey Corps' (Trainer class))
Shō (Akari) Chō satai (Survey Corps' (Trainer class))
Ginga-dan (Galaxy Expedition Team): Shares it's name with the modern Team Galaxy in Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and Italian.
Kamado or Denboku: His original home region is unknown and he bears Galarian armor that looks strikingly similar to Kalosian Wikstrom. Denboku is from raidenboku, an alternate reading of the Japanese rowan, nanakamado, which is Rowan's Japanese name. Kamado also comes from nanakamado.
Shimaboshi (Cyllene): She is originally from Hoenn, but Hoenn is also Japanese so that means nothing for her name.
Perilla (Zisu) Keibi-tai (Security Corps)
Kine (Pesselle) Iryō-tai (Medical Corps)
Tao Hua: Same in English and Japanese Seizō-tai (Supply Corps)
Sazanka (Sanqua) Kenchiku-tai (Construction Corps)
Nabana (Colza): His original region is apparently unknown, but Japanese is still a safe bet. Also most other localizations stem from Nabana rather than Colza. Hatasaku-tai (Agriculture Corps)
Haku (Rye) Hatasaku-tai (Agriculture Corps)
Mube (Beni): His home region is apparently unknown, but Japanese is a safe bet. Imozuru-tei (The Wallflower): [directly from Bulbapedia] From imozuru (vines of Japanese mountain yam or sweet potato), Mitsuru (Wally), and tei (common suffix in restaurant names)
Taisai (Choy)
Sharon (Anthe): Oddly, Sharon is her Japanese name.
Kongō-dan (Diamond Clan)
Seki (Adaman) Osa (Clan Leader)
Yone (Mai) Captain (Warden)
Hinatsu (Arezu) Captain (Warden)
Susuki (Iscan) Captain (Warden)
Tsubaki (Melli) Captain (Warden)
Wasabi (Sabi) Captain (Warden)
Shinju-dan (Pearl Clan)
Kai (Irida) Osa (Clan Leader)
Kikui (Lian) Captain (Warden)
Yūgao (Calaba) Captain (Warden)
Garana (Palina) Captain (Warden)
Hamarenge (Gaeric) Captain (Warden)
Shō-Chiku-Ba (Miss Fortunes)
Omatsu (Charm) Yatō (Bandit)
Otake (Clover) Yatō (Bandit)
Oume (Coin) Yatō (Bandit)
Ichō Shōkai (Ginkgo Guild)
Ginnan (Ginter)
Tsuiri (Tuli)
Volo: Same in English and Japanese Pokemon Tsukai (Pokemon Wielder)
Cogito (Cogita): She is a whole ass mystery, but Cogita (her name in English and German) is just a (non-existent) feminine form of Cogito, her Japanese name, which comes from Latin and basically means "I think", as in Decaretes' "cogito, ergo sum" or "I think, therefore I am". French and Chinese use the respective language's variation of the phrase as a base for her name, while Spanish and Italian use Greek words, for "wisdom" and "intelligence" respectively.
Professor Laventon: He's Galarian, so his name is English.
Unova: English The only ones I'm doing here are ones that AREN'T necessarily the English version.
Clay or Yakon: I've heard Clay may play on Japanese businessman tropes, and he has an ancestor in Hisui, so his name could be either of these.
Lacey or Taro: As Clay's daughter, her situation is the same as his.
Cyrano or Mirtilo: English and Spanish names respectively. Lives in Unova, but as Clavel's classmate could be from Paldea maybe? Saffron or Milo: As above
Kalos: French
Kalem (Calem)
Serena: Same in English and French
Sannah (Shauna)
Trevor: Same in English and French
Tierno: Same in English and French
Violette (Viola)
Lino (Grant)
Cornélia (Korrina) Héritière (Successor)
Amaro (Ramos)
Lem (Clemont)
Mache (Valerie): Mache is actually originally from Johto, hence her Japanese name.
Astera (Olympia)
Urup (Wulfric): Given he likely has a Hisuian ancestor, it wouldn't be unlikely for his name to be Japanese. Luckily, his Japanese and French names are the same!
Malva: Same in English and French
Narcisse (Siebold)
Wikstrom or Thyméo: Since we know his armor is likely Galarian his English name isn't out of place, but his French name is Thyméo.
Dracéna (Drasna)
Dianthéa (Diantha) Grande-Duchesse (Grand Duchess)
Aurore (Morgan)
Méridia (Dana)
Vesper (Evelyn)
Nix (Nita)
Millie (Emma) Elili (Essentia) Femme Louche (Suspicious Woman) Enfant Louche (Suspicious Child) Jeune Femme Louche (Suspicious Lady)
Gribouille (Mimi): Millie's Espurr friend
Team Flare: Apparently the same in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
Lysandre: Same in English and French
Ancolie (Aliana)
Brasénie (Bryony)
Cyane (Celosia)
Myosotis (Mable)
Xanthin (Xerosic)
Professeur Platane (Professor Sycamore): Somewhat surprisingly, his Japanese and French names are the same, though they do both originate from the French word platane.
Alola: English Hawaii is an American state, and there isn't a Native Hawaiian translation of the games, so English is the default language here. But Hawaii does have ties to the East, so I will use some of the Japanese names if they make more sense to me. Most are just slight spelling changes anyhow.
Yo (Elio): Moved from Kanto to Alola, so Japanese name.
Mizuki (Selene): Moved from Kanto to Alola, so Japanese name.
Ma'o (Mallow): Technically her Japanese name is just Mao, but ma'o is the Hawaiian word for Hawaiian cotton and I feel spelling it that way feels better.
Sophocles or Māmane: Both names after the same plant, the Sophora chrysophylla, it's common and local Hawaiian name being māmane.
Hapu'u (Hapu): Hapu'u is her name in Japanese and comes from hāpuʻu, the Hawaaian tree fern.
Molayne or Mullein: Molayne is just a different spelling tbh and I kinda think it looks better.
Skipping Galar; there aren't really a lot of clear foreigners besides Kabu whose name is the same.
Paldea: Spanish and Portuguese I look at both languages because Paldea is based on the Iberian Peninsula and not just Spain. However, with Portuguese, I'm having to look at Brazilian Portuguese, which is not quite the same as European Portuguese, because that's almost all that's on Bulbapedia. I generally choose whether to use Spanish or Portuguese based on if said name is also the same as the English and/or Japanese name. Or default if only one is available. Also uhh my order might be a bit weird here because I didn't get to actually play these games. I kinda assumed you go through the teachers before Gym Leaders, so...yeah. I can re-order it later if that's wrong or confusing.
Florian: From an unknown region, but the same in English, German, Spanish, French, and Italian.
Juliana: From an unknown region, but the same in English, German, Spanish, French, and Italian.
Nemo(?): She is noted to not be from Paldea but her home isn't specified so it could be anything. Nemona is her name in English and E. Portuguese, Nemo in Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, and Thai, Noêmia in B. Portuguese, Nemila in German, Nemola in Indonesian, and Nemi in Italian. The odd ones out are Mencía in Spanish and Menzi in French.
Arven: Same in English and B. Portuguese
Academia Naranja (Naranja Academy)
Academia Uva (Uva Academy)
Miriam: Same in English and B. Portuguese
Saguaro: Same in English, Japanese, and B. Portuguese (as well as German and French)
Dendra: Same in English and B. Portuguese
Cloe or Mora (Raifort): Cloe is her name in Spanish, and Mora is her name in French, which I only include because her English/Japanese name Raifort is from the French word for horseradish apparently, so maybe she's Kalosian.
Silvio (Salvatore)
Mila (Tyme)
Jacques (Jacq): The B. Portuguese name as it's closer to his English name. His Spanish name is Cinio, which is Spanish for his Japanese name, Zinnia, which could be confusing considering Higana.
Clavel: Same in Japanese, Spanish, German, French, and Italian. English and B. Portuguese just adds another L. Clive: Same in English and B. Portuguese Director Escolar (Director)
Catarina (Katy): Her B. Portuguese name, which is closer to her name in English (Katy) and Japanese (Kaede).
Brais or Brás (Brassius): His Spanish and B. Portuguese names respectively, as both are very close to his English name.
Kissera (Iono): Her B. Portuguese name, comes from "O que será?" apparently meaning "what will it be?", which is closer to the intent behind her name in Japanese (Nanjyamo, name given to an unusually large tree that grows in a particular place; literally meaning "What is it?") and English (Iono, as in "I don't know") than her Spanish name, e-Nigma. Which makes me think of the Riddler.
Fuco (Kufo)
Laureano or Lauro (Larry): His Spanish and B. Portuguese names respectively. Larry could be a nickname for either though.
Lima or Citrina (Ryme): Her Spanish and B. Portuguese names respectively. Lima has the same puns on lime and rhyme that English and Japanese does, but tbh makes me think more of lima beans. Citrina is from citrino (citrus).
Tuli or Tulipa (Tulip): Her Spanish and B. Portuguese names respectively.
Grusha: Actually may be from an unrevealed Russian region as his name is Russian. It's also the same in most languages.
Cayena or Kaya (Rika): Her Spanish and B. Portuguese names respectively. Both come from cayenne, which isn't in her Japanese or English names. Her Japanese name is Chili, and Rika comes from paprika.
Poppy: Her name in English, Japanese, and B. Portuguese as well as German and Indonesian.
Hassel?: From and unknown region so could literally be anything, and all his names are very different.
Ságita or Guita (Geeta): Her Spanish and B. Portuguese names respectively. Supercampeona (Top Champion)
Team Star: Same in English and Spanish as well as German, French, and Italian
Penny: Actually from Galar, so her English name. Cassiopeia or Casiopea: English and Spanish forms respectively, referencing the constellation.
Giacomo: Same in English and B. Portuguese DJ Vil (DJ Vice)
Melo or Mélia (Mela): Spanish and B. Portuguese respectively.
Henzo (Atticus): Spanish name. Not like English or Japanese name, but his whole ninja theming makes Henzo fit better than the B. Portuguese Érico.
Ortega: Same in English and B. Portuguese, similar to Japanese, French, and Korean Ortiga.
Erin or Êri (Eri): Spanish and B. Portuguese respectively.
Profesor Sada: Same in English and EUROPEAN Portuguese, listed for once.
Profesor Turo: Same in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Kitakami: Japanese Not a region itself I don't think, but it's not connected to a specific region I don't think, so.
Zeiyu (Carmine)
Suguri (Kieran) Sugu (Kiki)
Sazare (Perrin): Actually from Sinnoh, but this is where you meet her so here she is. Shashinka (Photographer)
What do you think? Did I forget anyone important?
Okay this took way too long for something probably no one will see okaybaiiiiii
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awakening
The word awakening gets tossed out a lot in college spaces.
Daniel doesn’t hear it a lot in his business classes, but when he needs to visit the humanities for some lower-distribution credits, they’re always talking about awakening. And it’s never just about how you woke up this morning. It’s always about your first sexual attraction.
When Daniel takes Introduction to Literary Criticism in his second year at Michigan, he falls in with a pretty interesting crowd. They all know Lucy from classes here and there, and they’re more than happy to welcome a guy who’s been her friend for so long. They joke that he surely has secrets about how to bring her down. Daniel laughs, but he never follows up. He has a sneaking suspicion they’re not kidding, and Daniel knows too much.
But they make him feel welcome, anyway. He never says much, but when he does, he knows they’re listening. And he listens to them. He learns all about why they’re majoring in English, who their favorite writers are, which professors they want to be like, which professors they’d marry if they lived in an alternate universe where everyone was just a brain in a jar. They’re all madly in love with the guy who teaches classes on the Brontë sisters. Daniel doesn’t always know what they mean (or why they mean it), except for on the days that he does.
Like today, when they’re all talking about sexual awakening.
Daniel no longer remembers how they got on the topic. One of the women in the group said something about falling in love with Micky Dolenz in syndication and crying when she realized he no longer looked like he did on The Monkees. Got everybody talking. Eventually, one of them turned around and asked Daniel where he found his sexual awakening.
He still hasn’t answered.
Where would he even begin? Not with his crush on the cartoon version of Betty Cooper. He was too young for that. His crush on Princess Leia was more out of respect than lust. Even his crush on Pamela Sue Martin, back when she was on The Nancy Drew Mysteries, felt pretty chaste. He hardly ever cared about any of the girls at school until Melissa Kaminski asked him out. He didn’t have time before she taught him what time was.
But was it really Melissa Kaminski? Daniel must have been attracted to her. He was even hurt when she didn’t care about hooking up with him again. But she can’t have been the first girl he felt that way about. Did he feel any way about her at all? Sometimes, when he thinks back to that night all those years ago, he wonders if it was just about himself. Proving something. That he could grow up without someone watching him. Judging him. Melissa Kaminski was a girl, and she was pretty. Hardly an awakening, though. Just a nudge.
Or did Daniel awake to new thoughts, new people, new insecurities every time he took another girl around? What was he thinking? What was he doing? Did he look at them and think I want it all? Or did he let them flock and then beg them to love him, just for an hour or two, just for a night? He feels like a joke. He never thought back to any of those encounters after they were through. Only if he wanted to punish himself – pretend like he regretted it. They were beautiful girls, sometimes even very nice girls, but they awakened nothing. Just kept it alive.
Daniel remembers the first time sex was different.
And he finally has an answer.
“Must have been Sadie.”
(part of @nosebleedclub december challenge -- day 6! obsessed with me never being able to catch up with anything)
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Why Spider and Neytiri should get along so well in the future:
With Jake, it’s confusing. A son for a son. He just loves Spider? Just like that? What changed? And Jake, when he tries to explain it, says he’s always loved Spider, always cared for him, just couldn’t show it. This doesn’t make sense to Spider. This is because I don’t think Jake fully understands why he wasn’t close with Spider before. I think he saw Spider as a reminder of who he was. Every other human on Pandora is more like Tommy. They are scientific, single minded, focused on everything around them and what makes it tick. Spider is little Jake almost as much as Lo’ak is, all heart and impulse and impatience and a longing for family and connection. He’s just so so human. He’s as fragile on this planet as Jake felt on Earth without his legs. It’s too hard to confront and I don’t think Jake knows why. I think Spider can tell that Jake isn’t being fully honest when he tries to explain, when Jake can’t even tell. 
Neytiri knows why she couldn’t accept Spider, and she is clear and direct. “I hated you because I couldn’t See past your humanity and your father. Now I See you.” I feel like it’s very simple. It takes a while before they are fully comfortable, and every once and while something takes them back to wariness, but that honestly and ability to See connects them. And honestly, Spider understands why. He always understood why Neytiri hated him. Neytiri was always clear, from day one with where he stood and she is now. Jake was always confusing, still is, and in some ways that’s worse. I think they figure it out eventually but that’s my biggest reason why I think Spider is a mama’s boy. Their communication styles just work. 
Additionally, they both have grown up with trauma in a way that none of the other Sully’s have (besides Jake, but his was on an entire different planet and sometimes it makes me sad to think about how lonely that must be sometimes, I hope he has talks with Norm a lot). Spider is a war orphan, and he grew up with that pain and neglect, that reality. Neytiri lost her sister very young, and her father fairly young as well to the same war. I think, even though Spider is a child and she treats him as such, she understands and respects that he also has this trauma and is used to dealing with it in a way her the other kids aren’t. He wasn’t sheltered like her kids were until the humans returned. They both are used to growing up in war, and living in its shadow. I feel like she’s the first one he talks to when he’s ready to share something bad from his childhood or his time with the RDA, because he knows she can take it and now that she Sees him, she will understand whatever he had to do to get through it. Kiri might cry if he told her about the brain scanning machine, but Neytiri will be quiet so it’s easier to share. Lo’ak might not understand at first why he had to show the Recoms the ikran roost, but Neytiri understands it kept them distracted from looking for camp and might’ve gotten them killed in the process. She can trade her own stories in return. 
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Love Bites (So Do I)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/53088163 by rowina_blck The Nogitsune killed Derek Hale, leaving Stiles pregnant and alone to raise their son. But when Derek appears to be calling out from a place called bardo, the pack decides to attempt to resurrect him. But it doesn't go as planned. A Teen Wolf: The Movie au where Derek is killed by the Oni instead of Allison Words: 4331, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M Characters: Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale, Scott McCall (Teen Wolf), Eli Hale (Teen Wolf), Theo Raeken, Sheriff Stilinski (Teen Wolf), Laura Hale, Jordan Parrish, Kira Yukimura, Liam Dunbar Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Allison Argent/Lydia Martin, Derek Hale & Eli Hale, Ethan/Jackson Whittemore, Liam Dunbar/Theo Raeken, Laura Hale/Jordan Parrish, Chris Argent/Melissa McCall, Chris Argent/Peter Hale Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Major Character Undeath, Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski are Eli Hale's Parents, Temporary Character Death, Temporary Amnesia, Magical Danny Māhealani, Co-Written, Chris Argent is Derek Hale's Father, Mpreg, Post-Nogitsune Stiles Stilinski read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/53088163
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Is that REINA AZAROLLA? A JUNIOR originally from SEVILLE, SPAIN, they decided to come to Ogden College to study SOCIOLOGY. They’re THE EXCHANGE STUDENT on campus, but even they could get blamed for Greer’s disappearance.
BASIC INFORMATION
FULL NAME → reina maribel azarolla NICKNAMES → rey AGE → 22 BIRTHDAY → april 14, 2001 ZODIAC → aries MAJOR → sociology HOMETOWN → seville, spain GENDER → cis female PRONOUNS → she/her SEXUALITY → lesbian SOCIAL STATUS → elite class LANGUAGES (FLUENT) → english, spanish, portuguese LANGUAGES (LIMITED) → italian, french
APPEARANCE
FACELAIM → melissa collazo HEIGHT → 5'1" EYE COLOR → dark green HAIR COLOR → dark brown TATTOOS → small paper airplane outline on the inside of her right ring finger SCARS → none PIERCINGS → just the ears, two in each lobe and one helix (left ear) STYLE (MAKEUP) → natural, light mainly just a lip color, mascara, and a bit of eye shadow for everyday but loves to do a big bold eye look every now and then and for special occasions STYLE (HAIR) → messy buns at home but usually down and in loose curls when out and about, length is a little past the shoulders SYTLE (CLOTHES) → depends on the season and where she is in the world, generally speaking she sticks to pastels during spring, bright bold colors in the summer, deeper tones in the fall, and muted colors in the winter - she loves sundresses in warm weather and comfy sweaters with jeans or skirts with fleece lined tights in cold weather.
PERSONALITY
+ TRAITS → optimistic, adaptable, curious - TRAITS → impulsive, cunning, aggressive LIKES → traveling, meeting new people, midnight swims, all things related to food, trying new things, late night talks, picnics on the beach, postcards DISLIKES → being told no, being told she can't do something, feeling trapped, delays, velvet, small mindedness HOBBIES → photography, cooking, people watching HABITS → hums when it's too quiet, fidgets with rings she's wearing, arrives at least 10 minutes early to any appointment SMOKES → occasionally DRINKS → yes DRUGS → occasionally
FAMILY INFORMATION
FATHER → donato azarolla, ambassador MOTHER → esmeralda azarolla née rivera, photographer (pretty famous in europe) SIBLINGS → none PETS → none but wants a dog
RELATIONSHIP WITH GREER
Growing up Reina didn’t have many friends, at least not long term ones. She had the gift of making friends and making them fast, but maintaining said friendship was a different story. Until one summer, in her early teens, her family happened to vacation at the Hamptons just a few houses away from the Morrisons. The rest is kind of history, the Azarollas and Morrisons hit it off and they always made it a point to spend time together whether it’s planning a get together if they happen to be close enough for a quick trip or planning something extravagant. There was always an adventure new experiences to be had.
Speaking of new experiences, Reina and Greer share a particularly special one. Reina had known early on that she was attracted to other females and wasn’t exactly shy about it. Did she go around announcing she was a lesbian to everyone she met, no of course not, but she didn’t hide it. If someone asked, she would tell them, it was as simple as that. There was one moment where they were talking about relationships and Reina had mentioned she had never really had one, that it was already hard to find someone to be in a relationship with considering how often her family relocated but to add that it was a girlfriend she would be looking for, forget it. Since that conversation Reina could tell Greer was curious and one night after getting some liquid courage they went further than just discussing what it was like to be with another girl. Reina showed her and in those moments she realized that maybe, just maybe, she had real feelings for Greer.
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😭 help my dog threw up over the night on my bed so I slept in vomit this whole night. What a great start in the day. I also got a big presentation later on in English, which makes up 50% and 25% of my classes. What did I do to take my mind off of it? Exactly, watch Sam/Melissa edits.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJveurFd/
Goddess
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJvjj9gu/
I need her
STEM majors sound incredibly hard, all the respect to you for putting yourself through that. The amount of exams is insane. BUT women in STEM are very sexy so good for you, honey!
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJvjVrc8/
Since you don't like nuns, this should help 😉
I hope you have a great day!
Your dog was evil for that 😭 Good luck with your presentation in English! I hate how huge projects like that basically determine your grade. And watching edits of Sam/Melissa are so relaxing
AND SHES SO GORGEOUS, LIKE WTH?!?
STEM majors are the worst but the pay for them is insane. I just have to suffer for four years and then decide if I want to continue for a doctorate or not 😭
Women in STEM>>>>
My entire fyp has been stupid videos of people dressed up like nuns doing stuff like that 😭
I also hope you have a great day! <3
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ao3feed-peterstiles · 10 months
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If Youre Going Through Hell
Read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/48095056
by SterekCuties4ever
It’s a month after the Nogitsune and the pack have pushed Stiles away and his father starts drinking again and taking his anger out on Stiles.
Enter Papa Argent who knows he has feelings for Stiles and wants him safe and he’ll do anything to make that happen.
Words: 3296, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Underage
Categories: M/M, F/M
Characters: Derek Hale, Peter Hale, Scott McCall (Teen Wolf), Melissa McCall, Rafael McCall, Sheriff Stilinski (Teen Wolf), Stiles Stilinski, Isaac Lahey, Allison Argent, Malia Tate, Lydia Martin, Alan Deaton, Chris Argent, Jordan Parrish, Claudia Stilinski
Relationships: Chris Argent/Stiles Stilinski, Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Chris Argent/Peter Hale, Lydia Martin/Jordan Parrish
Additional Tags: Post-Nogitsune Stiles Stilinski, Possession, Depression, Self-Harm, Child Abuse, sheriff Stilinski is a bad dad, Bad Alpha Derek Hale, Pack are assholes, Running Away, Eventual Smut, Eventual Happy Ending, Fluff and Angst, Cuddling, Daddy Kink, Idk what I’m doing, Magic Stiles, Spark, Witches, blah
Read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/48095056
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