#rin is that meme where the person is thinking of something nice

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TR Guys + Their Types | HCS

Ran, Baji, Rindou, Hanma 💖 pt 1

⚜️Content: Black Girl Edition🤎 What I could see the guys' types being

RAN

~ I feel like he loves a fashionable girl, specifically that like rich girl style (loves to wear heels, dresses, sun hats, etc). ~ Loves a confident, self-assured woman (I could see him loving a woman that gives off Jessica Rabbit vibes, both style and attitude).

~Definitely loves the hard to get type (not PLAYING hard to get but she just literally is hard to get).

~She'll love luxurious things (vacations, restaurants, etc) and will never say no when he offers her one of those types of experiences. ~She'd also be very kind, maybe even mellow personality wise. Like she's very poised, calm, and well-spoken for sure.

~He'd love a talented woman too! I feel like he'd be shook at a vocalist! That speakeasy, jazz standard vocalist type vibe. A smooth, sultry voice (I imagine her singing Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered by Ella Fitzgerald and Ran's just watching like omg...I'm sat🧎🏻).

~Likes a girl that really likes to nap, and do homey activities! Spending quality time together being inside the house is a must or him! For example: Going out to dinner together somewhere beautiful and expensive then come home and just chill and cuddle together with a movie on until y'all fall asleep!

~I could see him absolutely LOVING and OBSESSING over a big afro! Like imagine this look: A gorgeous yellow sundress, white heels, and that gorgeous afro she created out of a braid out, picked out to perfection and framing her face elegantly. Again...he's sat🧎🏻

BAJI

~I could kind of see two different types of girls for Baji so Imma split this one:

TYPE 1:

~ PATIENT...as a mf! Like, she is not out here getting pissed about every little thing. It takes her a lot of pushing before she'd ever get as mad as Baji does about certain things.

~ She's soft spoken (not necessarily like a meek voice but just calm) yet confident, and has no problem correcting or telling anyone off, she's just not going about it like Baji.

~Very compassionate and values family (this goes for type 2 as well). Baji cares DEEPLY for his mom so naturally I feel like he'd gravitate towards a family girl.

~Definitely loves animals for sure. Like just any animal she's cool with, and they're cool with her. (Them adventurous type girls that'll ride elephants and like...idk touch a shark lol. That ain't me chile)

~I could lowkey see that like chill sense of style for her too. Like not nothing fancy with Ran but more everyday/cute casual wear.

~I think Baji would like (in either type) a locs goddess type of girl. Like something about a girl with locs for my boy Keisuke....he's sat 🧎🏻.

TYPE 2:

~ ZERO PATIENCE....like none. If she's set off all hell is breakin' lose chile. It's every natural disaster happening at the same time if someone makes them BOTH mad (just run...).

~Values family for sure.

~Loud, animated personality! The type of girl where you hear her before you see her coming.

~Does not like animals like that, but is willing to let him show her and maybe warm her up to different kinds of animals.

~I think he'd like the streetwear kinda style. The kind where she can dress it up or down depending on the day or outing, like maybe she'll add in some heels to jazz up the fit, you feel me?

RINDOU

~Like Ran, I think he'd love a talented woman! Art, music, etc, he'd really like that kind of thing!

~I could see Rin liking a cutesy girl for him! Like pink, skirts, just the stereotypical girly things.

~I think he'd love natural hair so much! Like he'd love to just sit and learn how she does it. She'd be the type to do her hair herself.

~He'd like a girl he can share memes and music playlists with!

~Will love a girl that likes to go out, and be taken out to dinners, clubs, etc. Just texts/calls her outta nowhere like "Get dressed nice babe, I'm taking you out"

~Likes a girl with a warm, velvety, low voice. That deep tone that comes across naturally sensual for no reason.

~I think he'd also like the kind of girl that acts a bit bratty just so he can put her in her place (if you know what I'm sayin' sksksksk)

~Since he's all flexible and whatnot, on his elastigirl type beat, he'd definitely like a girl that would be open to learning about stretches and workouts and things! Would for sure like a lil workout buddy.

~He'd like a girl that's good at communicating and being perceptive of other people.

HANMA

~I feel like Shuji likes a girl that acts like she doesn't like his corny jokes, slight chaos, and flirting but really does

~He'll like a funny girl for sure! Not necessarily cracking jokes 24/7, but she has a sense of humor!

~I think he'd like a girl that' loves adventures too. Hanma likes spontaneity so he'd probably gravitate towards a girl that loves doing random things out of the blue!

~Likes an "angelic" kind of girl. Super sweet, kind of innocent, super kind, and just not violent and crazy like him. Definitely can see him with a girl that'll reign that craziness on in (Like, "We can have fun but we ain't bouta be on all dat...")

~I feel like he'd like though, a bad biddie type of girl too. Like she intimidates guys that see her because she looks so beautiful. Comes across scary gorgeous but she's really not like that at all if they get the chance to know her.

~When it comes to her hair, I could see her being a versatile baddie. She'll be natural, wear wigs, get braids/locs, you just never know! She gon' eat whatever style she feels like at any given time!

~I feel like this will also play into her style too. Like she's the kinda girl that will be giving classy baddy one time, casual one day and streetwear another but she absolutely slays each and every aesthetic like it's her main one!

#baji keisuke headcanons #ran haitani headcanons #rindou haitani headcanons #tokyo rev #shuji hanma headcanons #shuji hanma #rindou haitani #ran haitani #keisuke baji x reader #black fem reader #black female reader #haitani brothers #shuji hanma x reader #tokyo rev x black reader

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How they act in front of the person they like/have a crush on!

Not proofread we die like men

Awase - he may be very brash and has a foul mouth but bro is silent when his crush is near. He doesn't know how to act lmao. Has probably accidentally reenacted the Mommy? Sorry. Meme

Sen - he tries to act normal but everything he says and does just seems dorkish for some reason lmao. Spent 45 minutes thinking about how his voice cracked when he answered a question

Kamakiri - he yells a little less but thats about it. If anyone asks what he thinks about his crush he will say he hates them (when he doesn't)

Kuroiro - blushing and can barely get a sentence out. Poor dude. He by far becomes like 5x more poetic around his crush

Kendo - starts overthinking every little interaction between her and her crush but she would rather die then let people know shes worrying so much about how they picked up their pen this morning lmaoo

Kodai - she starts doing little insignificant things for them just to make their day a little easier. But for the most part she acts normal

Komori - she always has this big smile when their around <3 she tends to trip up on her words and such while talking to them

Shiozaki - shes always a little more akward and a little less social when theyre around simply because shes nervous of what they think of her ykyk. She definitely puts a little more into how she looks each day when theyre around.

Shishida - for as long as his crush is in japan they will not be allowed to open any doors themselves. Shishida will always be there to do it for them.

Shoda - dude can barely talk to people normally you think he can talk to someone he likes? No. But he does leave nice anonymous notes in your locker for you to find.

Pony - she gets nervous and just starts talking and rambling about who knows what to the point her throat starts to hurt lmao.

Tsubaraba - he immediately becomes 20x dummer when his crush is nearby and what makes it worse is he will do crazy shit to try and impress them but it always backfires.

Tetsutetsu - hes constantly trying to prove to his crush how manly he is. Its at the point where if he finds a jar thats a little too hard to open he has to wait til they are in the room until he can open it.

Tokage - she tries to stay her usual social and outgoing self but she does get a little self conscious when theyre around. Shes worried they dont like her for who knows why

Manga - other than trying to make his crush laugh a little more each day he tends to draw them a lot. (He would probably die of embarrassment if he showed them the pictures tho.)

Honenuki - hes the only one here that stays 100% normal honestly. No one would be able to tell he likes someone unless he straight up told them.

Bondo - poor dude freezes up completely when his crush is near. While some of the others are worried that their crush doesnt like them hes worried that his crush thinks bondo hates them because of how he freezes up and such

Monoma - he is meanly nice to them. He would walk up to his crush after training or something and say 'bakugous incompetence is the only reason your stupidly brilliant plan worked. So good job reading his inability to see past your tricks' or whatever

Reiko - if she has a crush on someone she tries to avoid them at all costs lmao. After a few weeks she will slowly approach them and try to start a conversation but it doesnt turn out well

Rin - bros biggest fear is accidentally saying something that makes him sound stupid honestly. He works hard to be a hero and he wants to show it off it front of his crush but at the same time he doesnt want to seem bitchy yk?

I rlly loved this interaction between them its just so shcustelfbdmkdidsndkfksh <3<3<3<3<3

#bnha headcannons #bnha headcanons #class 1b #mha headcanons #awase yousetsu #sen kaibara #togaru kamakiri #shihai kuroiro #itsuka kendou #yui kodai #kinoko komori #ibara shiozaki #jurota shishida #nirengeki shoda #pony tsunotori #kosei tsuburaba #tetsutetsu tetsutetsu #setsuna tokage #manga fukidashi #juzo honenuki #kojiro bondo #neito monoma #reiko yanagi #rin hiryu #hashtags are the bane of my existence #i hate tagging so much

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Weekly roundups: prompts

Kara no Kyoukai

Ryougi Shiki but she's had Mystic Eyes of Death Perception from birth.

Alternatively, anything with Shiki Ryougi.

Azaka/[Ryougi] Shiki, comedy

Anything about Aozaki Touko (anything about Mahoyo Touko works too)

Anything with Fujino

Tsukihime

Incest tw: Kohaku/Hisui kissing

Unethical Ciel/Hisui

Kohaku drugging Akiha

Cozy pregnancy stuff with Ciel and/or Arcueid

unethical Akiha/Kohaku/Hisui. Something along the vague lines of "Hisui reducing the collateral damage of Kohaku's plan by having it focus on/drug/ensnare Akiha specifically".

Akiha petplay

Ciel/Akiha consensual blood drinking

Cannibalism tw: Arcueid eating Ciel's organs lesbianly

Shiki Tohno being fucked in the ass

Fate/Stay Night

Anything Sakura/Saber

Incest tw: SakuRin in a world where they were never separated

Shirou/rin fluff

Incest tw: SaberMorgan, pining

Illya being kissed

Sakura/Illya

Illya doing some killing

Saber and Illya having solidarity about their stunted growths

Saber/Caster on a date

SakuRider with the same energy that the Saber/Caster scene had

Shirou just discovered that every woman he knows is a lesbian

Saber with facial hair as lustrous and sexy as my icon.

Medusa/Saber

saber and rider should make out and fight to break the other's composure

Caster being a trans ally to Shirou

Rin/Saber/Shirou, Saber as middle spoon/shared goods?

Fate/Hollow Ataraxia

Kirei/Bazett smut

bazett/saber fucking nasty. we love repressed women and the dam holding their desires back breaking

kirei/claudia smut

Fate/Extra

Hakuno/Rin angst

Fate/Apocrypha

Sieg dragon sex

Cute gay fluff with Atalante

Siegfried + Sex Pollen

Karna fucking a dude that is not Arjuna

Transmasc or enbie Mordred(and if you are goin the smut route give him the dick that he deserves.)

Fate/Grand Order

one bed meme with gudako and every alter servant

Barghest/Atalanta/Queen of Sheba/Nightingale

Barghest cooking for Sheba, Atalanta, and Nightingale. Feeding kink is cool with this but not essential

Anne Bonny x Mary Read, something character-driven

Barghest having a fun time. Any type of fun you want, just give that gal something nice

Goredolf getting his dick sucked

Mash/Morgan

Arjuna bottoming for another guy who is not Karna

Charlotte/Ritsuka post-atlantis

All the kings of Chaldea reunite themselves over wich of them is the greatest of them all, over a week long discussion it was decided that the metric to decide who is the best will be a giant orgy, the last one standing being the winner

Anything with Asterios

Nobunaga x Ranmaru, futa mind break

Fujino striking up an unlikely friendship with someone in Chaldea

while at Chaldea, Artoria learns what trans people are and has a reaction that may or may not involve Mordred

Mash and Guda (Whichever gender) double teaming Barghest.

Maou Nobu divides herself between her three personalities and goes full offensive against Okita, both romantically and sexually

El-Melloi's case Files

Age gap tw: Gray having a crush on Waver. Preferably unrequited.

Mahou Tsukai no Hako

something fluffy involving Hibiki and Chikagi

Crossovers

Servants meeting their alternate selves (EMIYA and Muramasa, Sitonai and Prisma Illya, or anything else you can think of!)

Shirou/Mordred NTR (in a "Mordred stealing his dad's bf" kinda way.)

Nasu once said that Taiga Fujimaru's swordplay skills are on the same level as Ryogi Shiki, should they ever meet. I kinda wanna see how that sparring session would go, y'know?

Any fandom, any character

Body horror

a character of your choice coming to terms with being queer (whatever shade of queer you choose it to be.) Would rather if they could be a bit in denial at least at first, rather than just a straightforward "oh ok i'm queer no big deal" story.

kink discovery! A character of your choice discovers they have an unusual kink.

Selfcest

#weekly roundup

[aqours]

The more I think about, the more I think Sesshomaru's biggest problem in Yashahime narratively is that in the second half especially he really had nothing to do. It's another thing I appreciate about the manga tbh, the fact that he's doing stuff. And we can blame this on anything: whether or not a third season was intended but cancelled due to the company merging, Hishida's extremely divergent opinion on Sesshomaru and the metaplot around Second Act, but regardless of what it's blamed on I think Sesshomaru's biggest issue was that he really had nothing to do until the very end.

Early Yashahime hinted that Sesshomaru would inevitably become an enemy of the girls be Treekyo (also originally meant to be a villain), but his role in S1 was largely being Kirinmaru's lapdog: he even outright asks if Kirinmaru basically has any errands he wants him to carry out after the first time he confronts the girls. He's basically a forcibly chained dog forced to become subservient because Zero essentially had him by the balls by using the lives of his family as hostage. Sesshomaru was put into a position where he could barely do anything because doing so would sign an instant death ticket for his wife, and even his children (and we do see that he both paid for Setsuna's upkeep and tried to train her from afar as a child) would be put immediately on a horrid radar if he acted out. That is until the end of S1 when Rin makes it clear that nothing could be worth Towa's and Setsuna's safety and Sesshomaru makes it clear he's finally had enough of this bullshit and makes it quite clear he will kill Zero no matter the cost, even if it costs Rin her life, because that is Rin's own desire at this point for the sake of the kids. S1 is showing the one arrogantly proud Sesshomaru who once would have scoffed at the idea of loving a human (let alone having children with one) and gladly would have left her to her fate now forced to bow down to a heel because of the compassion he learned while only being able to give very distant support to the yashahime until he's able to bequeath the broken Tenseiga to Towa (WHICH SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO KEEP). It's tragic, seeing that the result of him learning what made him a better person (but I think too many of us forget this isn't his default to all humans). Maybe it's not something everyone liked, but I thought it was a nice tragedy.

Then Second Act comes and Sesshomaru really has nothing to do until the end. He helps give direction to the girls but doesn't really do a lot. Season 2 really hammered in the rite of courage and cowardice thing, which is fine on paper, but it also reduced Sesshomaru to an extremely passive role except for a few key scenes and the very end. Rather than hunting down Zero to settle things once and for all, potentially creating a rift with his daughters who are now learning more about their mother and yearn to resolve this another way. He doesn't really do much until Rin is saved and then takes the frontline against Kirinmaru who never even got a rematch with the girls despite that being in the third OP and is overall not- that consequential. His role is more or less just to create a fight that firmly solidifies that he is the strongest character currently alive in the Inuyasha/Yashahime universe in terms of pure fighting ability (except maybe pure yokai Inuyasha if both were unarmed, but you can argue that if he's armed with Bakusaiga he'd come out on top), but that's kind of it. He doesn't really have any major plans than "Well hopefully Setsuna the girls Setsuna and Towa Setsuna can save Rin," and tell Moroha were to go too.

Dunno. Feel like that was my biggest gripe more than anything with Sesshomaru in S2. It's like that meme with "C'mon... do something..." but then when he did start doing something it was kinda just shounen action, which was really cool, but doesn't really say anything about his character. It's no wonder Towa was so conflicted about Sesshomaru not really doing anything by the end. Girl was pissed and it's kinda hard to blame her.

#hanyou no yashahime #yashahime #sengoku otogizoushi inuyasha #sesshomaru #starposts #if you disagree lmk!!! i'd love to hear it #i might make another post later about why i appreciate the more villainous direction it has shown with sesshomaru #that still manages imho to keep aligned with his character #but i'm a yashahime manga truther so #i'm biased #also especially disagree with quite a few other shippers and firmly believe shiina's take is overall simply superior in almost every way

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@inoshishidoshi​ liked for a starter!

shigure-nii had told her that kagura had gotten her diploma while she was... gone, but rin had yet to let her relative know that she knew that. not because she wasn’t grateful, but more because she didn’t know how to tell her that she was.  ( ugh, this was why she was more comfortable talking to haru, he understood her better without her having to explain herself. ) but kagura deserved acknowledgement, even she knew that.

” .... they told me that you went to my graduation... it probably was a waste of time... “ mainly because the girls that went there were so annoying, they probably where whispering some shit about her even when kagura was there.  “ i wouldn’t have blamed you for skipping it out. “

#▌♞ ❝ my heart is like a stallion‚ they love it more when it’s broken ⟨ mainverse ⟩ #inoshishidoshi #▌♞ ❝ in character #rin is that meme where the person is thinking of something nice #but what comes out is rude lol #but also we were robbed of them talking about this even in the manga #so eyyyy?

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hiii, could we have some t/obidei 31? 🙈🙈 ps I love your fanfics, the Tumblr Kiss meme series on AO3 are giving me life fr 🥺❤ tysm for writing about them!

Deidara watches as one after another, all the members of the swimming club leave the gym. He frowns when he doesn't see Obito and goes inside the building.

"Tobi!" He shouts.

The only person inside stops mopping and looks up.

"He left early today," says Kisame from year three.

"Why? Where is he?"

Kisame shrugs.

"Don't know. I asked him but he just apologized and left. He looked nervous."

"Hmm..." Deidara nods and thinks of reasons why Obito may be acting strange. "Thanks, I'll see if I can find him."

As he crosses the door, he nearly crashes with Obito himself. His friend shrieks and takes a step back.

"Dei!"

"There you are, hm. Where have you been?" Deidara asks.

"N-nowhere... I just... Eh... Had something to do but I'm done now... Let's go home?" Obito's voice sounds suspiciously high pitched, Deidara stares at him.

"What happened?"

"Nothing!" Obito giggles but there's no joy in his laugh. "Literally nothing. Come on, time to go."

Deidara stays glued to his spot. He studies Obito's features, his face, paler than usual, the smile that doesn't reach his eyes.

"Something happened to you."

Obito knits his eyebrows for a split second then he passes his arm behind Deidara's shoulders. Deidara takes a sharp breath as a pleasant bubbling appears in his gut.

"What about you have dinner at my place? It's my turn to cook so there's no need to tell gran about it?"

"Tell me what's wrong first," Deidara says as Obito drags him away.

"And you can stay over, too. What do you think about that? We can play videogames all night. We haven't done it in ages!"

"Obi-"

"I have a spare toothbrush you can use and if you don't mind wearing my t-shirts-"

"Obito!"

"You never call me Obito," he replies and his voice sounds broken.

Deidara spins him around and sees tears falling down his cheeks.

"Why the fuck are you crying?"

Obito wipes his face with the sleeve of his uniform, then he looks at him and smiles.

"She rejected me, Dei. But it's okay."

A stabbing pain pierces Deidara's chest. His jaw tightens as he stares at Obito.

"Who!?" He shouts.

"Rin."

"Rin?"

"Nohara from year one," Obito sighs.

"So you're on a first name basis with her and shit?" Deidara grunts and he automatically hates her, despite always having a good opinion of her. "That girl that helps in the infirmary instead of joining a club."

"Y-yeah..." Obito rubs the back of his head. "But it's fine. I'll be fine."

"You told me you didn't like anyone!" Deidara yells and Obito looks at him with wide open eyes, index finger on his lips.

"It's embarrassing to talk about that."

"Not even with me!?"

"Sorry!" Obito grabs his shoulders. Deidara has to conjure up all his willpower to stop himself from pushing Obito away. "Remember when I sprained my ankle playing soccer? She was so nice to me and after that she searched for me every day to make sure I was feeling better. I thought... The way she smiled at me, I thought she-"

"Shut up, hm!"

Obito's jaw drops.

"Dei..."

"I don't care!" He yells and starts walking faster.

"Dei, wait!" Obito follows him. Deidara doesn't stop. "I thought you would cheer me up! Why are you mad at me!?"

Maybe he should be mad at himself and not at Obito or Nohara.

"Do you...? Dei, do you like Rin too?"

Deidara stops. Obito bumps against him.

"Tch, as-if."

"Then why-?"

Deidara grabs his nape and kisses him. Obito grabs his arms but doesn't pull him away.

"I'm glad she rejected you! Did you hear?! I'm glad!"

Obito gapes, his face bright red.

"T-that was my first kiss!"

"So? It was mine's too, hm." Deidara shrugs.

"And you gave it to me." Obito brings his fingers to his lips. Deidara rolls his eyes. "Dei, is this really how you feel?"

They are still in high school grounds and a few students are hanging around. Deidara looks at them and then back at Obito. He's not afraid anymore.

"Go out with me," Deidara says. "You'll be glad you got rejected too in a week's time."

Obito smiles and looks at the ground. Deidara's heart starts beating faster.

"I don't get what you saw in me. You rejected so many pretty girls these couple of years we've been in high school. I never would have guessed you did it for me," Obito says at last offering his hand to Deidara. "I accept."

Deidara takes a deep breath. All his anger, all the heaviness in his chest has burst into a thousand butterflies. He takes Obito's hand and they both walk toward the exit.

"I don't think a lot is going to change," Obito adds. "We'll be doing everything we always did except we'll hold hands and kiss and we'll cook each other bento from time to time and we'll give each other chocolate on white day and-"

"You seem to have a lot of ideas for us all of a sudden," Deidara replies.

Obito's smile is again as warm and sincere as it ever did.

"Wanna know a secret? I was glad every time you rejected someone," he says squeezing his hand. "I'll be the best boyfriend, Dei."

Though the infirmary window, Rin smiles at them and carries on sweeping the floor.

#tobidei #obidei #Deidara #Obito #uchiha obito #obito uchiha #obito x deidara #Naruto #naruto shippuden #naruto fic #naruto fanfiction #otp #mine #my fic #thank you 💖💖💖 #I'm glad you like what I write #I also have fun thinking of all the prompts y'all send me #this one took a few days but I'm still getting used to the new house

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Do I really think this would make Catherine better or do I just want it to be more like Perfect Blue?

AU where Vincent is an aspiring actor still trying to make it big at age 32. He has talent, dammit, but he never seems to get the right auditions at the right times. He's lost more than one job over prioritizing his potential acting career and is lucky that Orlando got him a job with a little more leeway at his workplace.

He does love Katherine-with-a-K, but he'd be lying if he said their relationship wasn't beneficial to him and his ability to chase his dreams. She's paid his bills a few times and she honestly doesn't mind if she'll pay his bills for the rest of their lives, she just wants something to show for it. And honestly, it's worrying that he wants to do something where so much can go wrong and he isn't even insured. Katherine herself got into fashion by designing otokoyaku costumes for stories that would make great Takarazuka shows when the should have been studying. The first conversation they had was about the performance arts. She wouldn't ask him to give up his dream but would it kill him to be more realistic?

The first night out with the guys we see has Vincent tell them that he went to audition for Romeo in a production of Romeo and Juliet. But they were hoping for someone younger and prettier so he read for the part of Paris instead. When Toby admits he didn't actually read it in school, Jonny explains that Paris is the romantic rival. Vincent scoffs at this, objecting that Paris is the one Juliet doesn't want to marry, and would rather die than marry. Toby responds with a sympathetic "ouch."

When the mysterious Catherine-with-a-C shows up she makes a point to mention that she has connections. Helpful connections.

And after waking up with her in his bed and no memory of how she got there, he gets a call from the theatre company. They went with someone else and he apologizes for wasting their time but the director on the other end says their sister company is casting Hamlet and they put in a good word for him as the title character. It would suit him much better than Paris. He thanks them profusely and writes down the address and time so he can make it. He'll have to cancel plans with his actual girlfriend Katherine, but she'll understand.

You don't get suggested for Hamlet after being a Paris so sub-par you don't even get a call-back. It just doesn't happen. Something's fishy here. And yet... maybe that girl had something to do with it. She did have connections, didn't she?

And so it goes. Vincent goes home and passes out after a night at the bar, seeing the same girl every night. He finds himself exposed, clawing his way to the top of a shaky tower. He can't stop or get too comfortable or it will fall from underneath his feet. Sometimes he has to push others down to get there. He wakes up next to that girl he can't remember saying yes to or inviting home and he finally starts actually landing the roles he tries for in tv and film. They're not leads, but the characters are named and have a good amount lines and personality.

Jonny mentions that his girlfriend is an opera singer, and discusses plot points in Faust, her current production, with Vincent, who studied Goethe's version of the tale in college. They talk about nude witches and smutty metaphores involving apple trees, and of course, the betting of one's soul.

Toby describes Vincent chasing his dreams as inspiring. Vincent wonders at what point does inspiring mean desperate and pathetic, but in a cute way.

Erica and Vincent were in a Greek tragedy club in high school that cast the characters "the traditional way" and Vincent remembers taking the role of Jason in Euripides' Medea so Erica could play the title role. He jokes that she didn't seem offended at them letting her perform and she says they just weren't used to girls that looked like her then.

Two questions relevant to Vincent's role as Hamlet show up in the confessional. One is "who's responsible for the king's death?" The answers presented are Claudius, which leans toward order and Gertrude, which leans toward chaos. The other goes "Did Hamlet have a hand in Ophelia's demise?" The answer "he's not guiltless" leans toward order and the answer "it's not his fault she's sick" leans toward chaos.

The best ending for Catherine-with-a-C involves everyone at the bar wondering what happened to Vincent and catching a news story on the tv that he's set up to become a star like few others after showing up out of nowhere and landing roles that should have conflicting schedules left and right. He sounds like a pig in the interview, saying it's all about the connections and sometimes connections have nice legs and a waist you can wrap your hands around and that he's not looking for love but child support would take care of itself if his career keeps up like this. Everyone shares their disdain, hates his shades, and Jonny states that he'll give Katherine-with-a-K a call to make sure she's okay. We cut to the other Catherine sitting on the edge of the bed, grabbing Vincent's hair and saying, ever so sweetly, "I'm still your number one, aren't I?" And he leans in to kiss her, whispering "Anything you say," before his lips touch her neck.

In Katherine-with-a-K's best ending, Vincent mentions signing on to play the neighbor in a family comedy. It's not prestigeous and it won't get him any awards, but it's a steady paycheck, and they've even given him some creative leeway. The deal with his character is that he's head over heals with a lady way out of his league. He suggested that she could be a missed connection from high school, career-oriented, in the fashion industry, and named Katherine. They've accepted all this input. His girlfriend is touched by this and when they get married he declares that she'll be a bigger household name than him, and he can't wait to be known as her husband.

Rin's best ending involves him being a producer, yes, but any movie Rin composes a score for is contractually obligated to offer Vincent a cameo. By the time he dies he's sure people will make compilations of the cameos, construct elaborate theories of them all being the same universe-hopping character, dedicate memes to him, and the like. His legacy will be people on the internet having some harmless fun.

The Neutral ending has Vincent publishing a memoire of that week of nightmares, dedicated to "The two women who taught me what I was not and the person who saw me for what I was. I still think about you, Rin." He's well aware this won't be received as nonfiction, and so he's working an a manuscript for a fantasy novel. There's a hero and a dangerous tower and a god with ill intentions and, well, you'll have to read it to find out what else.

#catherine #catherine full body #instead of commitment or freedom it's more clearly satsfaction in stability or the thrill of the chase

[lesbian-kyoru]

What do you think is each character's favorite subject in school?

tohru: not a surprise but baby girl loves home ec!! kind of has to work her butt off studying for her other classes, so she gets to enjoy herself and do something she’s naturally super good at in home ec. loves making little snacks in class for her friends and then sharing them at lunch. the sewing unit takes her fashion game to the next level. when they do a project where they take care of fake babies, she definitely ends up caring for half of the class’s infants like they’re her own. kyo is her partner and everyone teases them about it but she still has a really nice time and thinks kyo would be a great dad :’)) highest home ec grade of all time in their school

kyo: says his favorite is PE but it’s actually math. gets a 5 on the AP calc exam. tells no one but tohru, who then tells everyone and kazuma throws a party and kyo is Not Pleased. isn’t a great math tutor though because he can’t really explain how he gets his answers—he just Knows. checks tohru’s homework for her before she turns it in (read: fixes all her wrong answers when she’s not looking so he can see her huge smile when she gets a good grade back. only feels a little bit guilty). watches math tedtalks. nerd disguised as a jock

yuki: favorite subject is lit!! bullshits his way through class discussions and papers without ever actually reading the books because he’s smart and charismatic. has a premium account on sparknotes. favorite class specifically was one on ancient greek literature and epic poetry—spent the entirety of the class critiquing heteronormative readings of the iliad and taking the piss out of other students because “achilles and patroclus are clearly gay if you have eyes”

kakeru: …...i’ll be real he doesn’t like school lmao. senioritis personified. on his phone during classes constantly. laptop open playing world of warcraft or candy crush or neopets. could not tell you anything the teacher said in the last hour. doesn’t take notes because “i’ve got it all up here yun-yun…..” but doesn’t actually do half-bad on tests. only reason he does homework is because he can pretend to study with yuki while actually just flirting with him. if there’s one subject he doesn’t hate it’s history because he “thinks the fight scenes are fun” (yuki: “you mean world war 1??” “yeah it was exciting”)

uo: autoshop. hates the stereotype that just because she’s a lesbian she must like tools and machinery and automotive tech.....having said that she is a lesbian and she does like tools and machinery and automotive tech. gets a 100 on her project where she fixes a busted up motorcycle, and now she has two motorcycles. all the boys in the class call her senpai and worship the ground she walks on. smells faintly like motor oil all the time but she Absolutely makes it work

hana: creative writing. school is not her thing but she thrives in creative writing because her creativity is 100/10 and her stories are absolutely off the walls. excels in writing spooky yet also homoerotic ghost stories in particular. reads them aloud in class with the lights turned off and a flashlight illuminating her face. has made students cry out of fear. shigure beta-reads her writing. likes to subtly imply that her stories actually happened to fuck with kyo. it works

momiji: band/orchestra!! all the older students lose their minds over how well he can play. first chair violinist from day one. has a solo in every concert; tohru sits front row and films them, always cries. he’s the life of the party at Band Camp(™). even the grumpy bass clarinetists like him. doesn’t get in trouble when he talks waaaaay too much during rehearsal because the teacher loves him

haru: mr space cadet himself isn’t much of a science guy but LOVES astronomy. gets Ds on pretty much every test but he doesn’t care because his mind is expanding. buys a super nice telescope so he can look at constellations at 3 in the morning. develops very specific opinions about each planet. stans the moon. gets really into sleeping at last’s astronomy-themed album. becomes that guy whose personality is “i like space” until the class is over and then he never talks about it again

rin: art! she takes several art classes throughout high school. really loves drawing and painting, but also really likes doing ceramics projects because she likes working with her hands :’)) does a watercolor portrait for tohru as a graduation gift but gets really flustered when tohru sobs into her arms over how beautiful it is. also secretly likes doing little doodles of her and haru—he sees them once in her sketchbook and will never let her live it down

kagura: says her favorite is PE and it actually is PE. goes ham for capture the flag, tends to play too rough when capturing and gets taken out of the game. only person who is actually good at volleyball so she is constantly spiking, setting, and diving for the ball all in the same game, while the rest of her team just kind of fumbles around and tries to stay out of her way. gets first place every time they run the mile even though it’s definitely not a competition. definitely knows her mile time even though it is not a timed activity

hiro: this kid screams history nerd, but like Male History Nerd with a niche interest in military history and very specific opinions about how *insert historical figure* wasn’t actually all that bad. gets his ass handed to him in class discussions on the daily but won’t admit it. is genuinely really smart and has Better Opinions by the time he graduates, so he starts using his history nerd powers For Good as an adult—as in, arguing about inaccurate historical memes on facebook in his free time

kisa: choir. singing stresses her out, but she’s figured out that she can just mouth the words and no one can tell that she’s not actually singing! loves being in the group and hearing the beautiful music around her :’)) everyone is in awe of how cute she is in her lil choir robe. tohru comes to all of kisa’s concerts as well and films them from the front row, also while crying

machi: woodshop. gets sawdust on her clothes and loves the smell. obsessed with digging through piles of splintering and warped scrap wood. loses her damn mind when she gets to use the jigsaw. really enjoys making like…misshapen birdhouses and crooked tables, but woodshop is mostly participation grades anyway so her teacher gives her A’s on all of her grotesque wood creations. she is at peace and is One with the Wood. doesn’t wear safety goggles while chopping wood because she likes Risk

kimi: loves speech & drama. emphasis on the drama. it’s a chance to talk for a long time and everyone has to look at her and listen to her or else they’ll fail!! which is how she likes it. goes three minutes over for every speech but the teacher can’t get her to pause long enough to stop her. comes to auditions in a full professionally-made costume. knows her lines and everyone else’s

nao: AP statistics on the pre-accounting track. has known he wants to be an accountant since he was in diapers. does slightly below average in the class. still studies accounting in college because it’s too big a part of his personality to quit at this point. becomes an accountant. never quite feels fulfilled

#these are based on US hs because i didnt want to fuck up jpn hs but also i was homeschooled so i mightve fucked up US hs anyway skdjsjjsjs #fruits basket #furuba #tohru honda #kyo sohma #yuki sohma #kakeru manabe #kyoru #yukeru #the kyoru and yukeru is not subtle lmao #arisa uotani #saki hanajima #momiji sohma #hatsuharu sohma #rin sohma #kagura sohma #hiro sohma #kisa sohma #machi kuragi #kimi toudou #naohito sakuragi #fruits basket headcanon #ask #anon #long post #ty for the ask 👁👄👁 #fruits basket spoilers #tagging just in case idk #why is this like the length of an essay fucking kill me #zoe.txt

[ziracona]

Pretty sure your sudden spike in Fate content is gonna be like the third time I check something out bc you started posting it (I know next to nothing about Fate. In fact, I think I now know less than before you started). I'm rly not sure what the best starting point to get into it is, though. Any recommendation? (also I got Moriarty on your quiz and now I want to know why he's so beloved)

Oh sick! Awesome! I hope you enjoy it! 

Uhm, so, Fate notoriously swaps out like their whole creative team from work to work, so some of it is really good, and some is really bad, and some in the middle, because it’s made by very different people. The things I am most into are UBW, and Fate Go. Fate Go is a little gatcha phone game, that suffers from the fate of the whole fate franchise but as a single unit. They swap out writers from arc and event to arc and event, so sometimes you’re living and thriving, and sometimes you’re like *thousand yard glazed, pained stare* ‘why the fuck did I download this game?’ Very mixed bag. I enjoy it because I just kinda blow through any arc I don’t like and skim, and then go hella into the good ones, but it’s very much an individual matter of taste one. It’s very fun to collect spirits and get to know them though, and some of the arcs are fantastic. Also, they have made/are making some of the Fate Go arcs into shows, and I expect the ones that are of good game arcs are good? But I haven’t actually checked any out myself yet--I really need to watch E Pluribus Unum, because it was an easy top 3 arc for me in the game.

I’m big into Fate, but I actually have approximate knowledge of many things? And have not consumed as much media as you’d think. I tend to hear people really like Fate Zero, and very mixed reviews of Apocrypha, but I would wholeheartedly recommend the Fandom Classic(tm) and my personal fave as where to start, which is Unlimited Blade Works.

Sorry this is so long. Okay, so. Originally, Fate Stay/Night was a visual novel with three paths/routes: Fate, Unlimited Blade Works, and Heaven’s Feel. All of these are shows now. Unlimited Blade Works was made twice. Do not watch the early one; it’s bad. Watch the 2014 TV series--it’s on Netflix right now. Don’t watch the English dub--the VAs are...not great. 110% recommend watching it in Japanese/original dub, with subtitles. (This one)

My usual pitch is that if you’re a normal person, you’ll probably go “This was a little confusing, but I really got into it: 8.3/10″, and if you’re like me and you never really gave up on wanting to become a superhero and save the world some day, you’ll go: “It was fantastic, 18/10, but it also ripped out my soul and left me wounded but somehow in an okay way.” Either way very worth watching. Since it’s not the first route, there are some things they don’t explain about the world because they kind of assume the viewer will know, but that’s pretty minimal--it’s def coherent enough that the more confusing bits are more of a “Uh, okay. I think.” than a “W-What the fuck is going on?”

It’s really good. Two seasons, the most beautiful fighting in almost anything I’ve ever seen, phenomenal soundtrack, and one of the best show opens (Season 2′s) of any show I ever saw. All around a just big blanket rec from me. It’s a long-time fan favorite for a reason. It’s one of my fave shows ever :’-] It was. Very personal to me.

Uhhhh what else--okay so, on Netflix if you watch it there, and a lot of streaming sites, they list “Episode 0″ or “Prologue” as the first episode? This was originally bonus content, not the first episode. It’s basically the first episode from not the MC’s point of view, but a different major character. It’s got some really great character moments and insight into Rin and Archer, and it’s fun, but since it was originally bonus, the pacing is super weird? So I would recommend you start with actual episode 1/Winter Days, A Fateful Night instead? Unless you just want to. Like it won’t mess up the show, but it might give you a weird idea of what the pacing is. So you can watch it first if you want, or later whenever you’re curious about those two, just like, if you start on it, don’t get overwhelmed by the stuff they’re not explaining, or the weird pacing. It’s supposed to be bonus content haha.

Very happy you’re interested! I really love UBW so I hope you enjoy it! If there’s anything else you want to ask feel totally free! I just don’t want to ramble for eight years about my special interest and fall into a black hole unprompted haha. : D Very happy you’ve been intrigued by my weird spike of fate content WAIT YOU ASKED ABOUT CRIME GRANDPA HOW COULD I FORGET.

Woof this is gonna be a long ask answer. Uhhhh, so Moriarty is from Fate Grand Order/Fate Go, the phone game. The game has three major arc sets so far: Grand Order, Epic of Remnant, and Cosmos in the Lostbelts. He’s from Epic of Remnant, and he’s universally beloved because he’s amazing. The MC in Fate Go is like 16, but he or she (you get to pick) is constantly having to risk their life and be hurt and traumatized and watch people die to save the world because there’s no one else to do it, and usually people are...not super nice to them. Moriarty shows up in the first of the second set of arcs and is like ‘Haha that’s a wholeass human child tho. Guys. Guys, a-are you sure about this?’ and he’s really there to pull of a massive evil culmination-of-my-life’s-entire-work-and-value scheme, but this kid is nice to him, and has nobody who looks out for them, and Evil Has Standards, so (Arc End Spoilers for that one ahead) he ends up giving up basically at the last minute. He had a plan that was totally working and could have won, but can’t really pull the trigger, because winning would mean this kid who has been nice to him and is already a massive pile of trauma and pressure and mental illness would die, and he cares more about them than his life’s goal. In Go usually boss fights are progressively harder, but his is super easy because he throws it, and chooses to lose, and basically throws away his life’s work for this one kid because nobody else is taking care of them, and lets himself get killed. This is a pattern with him. Other high points include later being 5 seconds into a scheme when Frankenstein (the girl one, who in fgo is like 14) stops him to call him Papa and asks for help, so he adopts her on the spot and just is her dad forever after that. He’s very goofy and I love him; he’s evil, but I’d trust him with my life, because he’s more good than he is evil, even though he’s both. Basically he’s just a very interesting and well written villain, but he’s also like, the /best/ dad in the game at the same time, and his dialogue is amazing. Evil Has Standards team dad poster man. He’s like the only adult in Fate Go who actually is responsible, which is fuckin wild. I’ll try to find some good screenshots of his dialogue. Anyway he’s incredible and I’m so happy you got him; Crime Papa is life.

Here have some Moriarty junk: (Shinjuku arc you have 3 partners, and the other two are adults but harass the MC constantly, and this was the dynamic. Bless Moriarty) 

And here’s some him roasting Sherlock memes and being good dad to the MC

#ask #tathracyn #fate #long post

[lamponellatempesta]

B, S, O, M for the fandom meme!

I'm little sad that is was the last one but I will do the ship questions too so stay tuned! And thanks for your questions anon, let's go to replay at them!

B - A pairing you initially didn’t consider but someone changed your mind

I think Brilary (Boris/Bryan x Hilary) is the perfect example for this question, because never comes in my mind to ship these two but when i see the drawings, the headcanons and stories, well. My mind switched faster about them and as I say I found this couple really cute adorable and funny!

S - Show us an example of your personal headcanon (prompts optional but encouraged)

My personal headcanon of today regards Julia and his brother Raul and what they could choose at the university. Well, they takes really different ways at the university, even different nations where to complete the studies.

Raul chose to come back to Spain and study architecture in Madrid because he always loved the different architectures in the various parts of the world that he visited with the circus and beyblade tournaments. He bought so many books of this theme in every stop, to learn more and more! He just loves to explore churches, monuments, old mansions, museums and little streets in every city he has visited just to see the different styles of architecture so when he has the opportunity and the money for study, he has no doubts and chooses architecture.

Julia as all we saw loved fashion and style, so she easily chose an academy where she could study fashion design in the city who is officially recognized as one of the fashion cities in the world, Paris. She loves to experiment and design every kind of style and in every city that she has visited and even her past experiences with the circus have helped her to broaden her view on the world and the art of dress thanks to the style and extravagant colors that the circus proposes and turn the world has further contributed to the improvement of its models, arriving in the course of time to sew and to realize almost every garment that she wears and create them at the request of her friends, without costing her any trouble, because she loves to draw first on paper and then recreate them arriving to realize the complete creation. That’s why when the academy started, it was already one of the best in the class and the only one in the first year classes to get a parade of its own models at the end of the year.

O - Choose a song at random, which ship or character does it remind you of

Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy-Queen

I think that you have understood my love for Queen so I choose another one of their songs, but this time for a ship, because Freddie wrote this song for his first man who he loves and I feel so much TyKa vibes in this song. I simple love imagine these two in a pub in 1976 with this song in the background and Takao who works at the bar as a bartender finds himself preparing a cocktail for this guy who sits at the bar, mysterious charm and a bit aristocratic, Kai obviously, and falls in love with him at first sight and every time he shows up at the pub will always ask to be served by Takao because he particularly appreciates the way he makes cocktails, and secretly, given the years in which we are, even Takao himself.  (Maybe a future story here I see. Thanks my beloved Queen for always save me)

M - Say something genuinely nice about a ship that you don’t ship (or its shippers, or anything related to you)

Rei and Mao: is only because I just feel them like really best friends and not as a couple, I prefer ship Mao with Rick, because I see them match more together and I see Rei as a free soul that loves to explore the world and learn new things all time, he's not like to stay in a place for too long. But I appreciate the works where they are together and I found them really cute in the end of the manga with their little and already badass daughter Rin,  and I found them so cute and adorable too in the white tigers arc of the first series, especially the scene of their battle, my heart melted in that episode and when Mao cried for him too, melted again. I really loved the two together in that arc and in the manga.

Hope you will like my replies dear anon✨✨ have a great day!

#fandom meme questions #brilary #julia fernandez #raul fernandez #tyka #kai hiwatari #takao kinomiya #rei kon #mao chen

[3w-writer-with-wings]

1, 5, 6, 10, 17, 19, 22, 23, and 34 for the yugioh meme?

1)  Favourite Yu-Gi-Oh! series

This is like asking me which out of my six children should survive while the other five die XD. I love all the series since they all have both pros and cons, and they all have interesting characters and stories, but I guess ARC V will always have a special place in my heart since it got me back in Yugioh fandom (I stopped after 5Ds for a while several years ago). VRAINS is currently my favourite series plotwise since it continues to surprise me and keeps me hyped every single week.

5)  Favourite opening/ending

For the opening, it’s a tie between second and fifth ARC V opening. “Burn” has an incredibly upbeat melody that makes me smile every time I listen to it. “Light of Hope” on the other hand tells a story of how there is despair but smiles will be there to make it go away. I’m rather torn between choosing either of them since they are both really nice endings. As for ending - “Close to You”, 4th ending from 5Ds. I first started watching 5Ds in English dub but once I caught up with it, I was too curious what is going to happen next so I started watching Japanese dub from that point on and that was probably the smartest decision ever. I got to see “Close to You” not only as the first Yugioh Japanese ending but the very first anime ending ever. I loved every single moment of it, of all the characters just chilling around the city, then meeting up, watching the sunrise and then riding D-Wheels with their dragons! It is an ending that is beyond perfect and really emphasises the bonds and friendship between all Signers. 

6)  Favourite character

If you had asked me this question before Takeru showed up, I would’ve probably blurted out the names of several characters and say how I love them all, but Takeru is a special case. You see, he is a character that I loved before he even officially appeared XD. I’m following the news, cast lists and summaries, so when Takeru showed up for the first time in an anime magazine (like a month before his official anime appearance), I fell in love with everything about him. Both his human self and avatar had all the right colours and designs that fit his personality well, his backstory was intriguing, I was already looking forward to seeing another Lost Child and out of all possible voices, he got to be voiced by one and only Kaji Yuuki (who is among my Top 3 anime voice actors!). Then he showed up in the new opening and ending and him being friendly and cosy with Yusaku was just plain adorable! I had no idea what his role was going to be but from that point it was clear - Yusaku is getting a new friend! And was his entrance perfect - lightning, fire tornado and then him! 10/10 Burner of Souls! Not only was he righteously hyped up, but he also continues to be amazing and I have a feeling his character will get even more development!    

10)  Favourite Duel Monster

It’s hard to pick a single monster, but I love every single card in Johan’s deck aka. Crystal/Gem Beast archetype. The designs are simple but so well executed and out of all of them, it’s hard to pick just one. I love their story, the legend and just the fact how much they all care about Johan, trying to reach out to him when Yubel possessed him. A big plus is also the fact how much personality they all have and they are always there to help up Johan.

17)  Have you ever cried over YGO and why?

You should’ve rather ask me when I didn’t lol. But yeah in every spinoff there was a moment that I actually cried. In original series there were two moments, when Yugi duelled Atem in the fourth season, letting him defeat him and then fading away in his arms and the Ceremonial duel when Yugi stumbled on his knees and cried, I cried with him cuz I also didn’t want Atem to go. Then in GX, it was basically whenever Judai would show vulnerability, cuz really, I hated his guts and his goofy overpowered persona. But then when he lost Johan, when he was afraid of Yubel, when he succumbed to the power of Supreme King and the entire season 4 when he was battling with depression - to see someone so cheerful becoming a mere shell of himself was so darn sad. 5Ds started darker but nothing could prepare me for two scenes, Yusei nearly dying, being afraid to duel and then watching his friend die in his arms and then losing another friend for real (Bruno! :’( ). Zexal made me cry a weird mixture of happy and sad tears whenever Yuma and Astral did something. When Astral sacrificed himself for Yuma I don’t know when I cried more - when Yuma watched Astral die or Yuma suffering from major depression for the next few episodes. But that scene when he got reunited with Astral was that more powerful because of it and their relationship is truly the purest of them all. ARC V, spinoff all about smiles was probably one of the saddest series, not just because of many sad moments throughout the whole thing aka. Yuto dying in Yuya’s arms for real, Yugo losing Rin, Yuya losing Yuzu, the fate of other Bracelet Girls and Yu-Boys and the overall ending, but also how inconclusive the ending felt. I kinda get the point was to show the realism of war, how not everyone can get a happy ending but it could still be executed better. Then there’s VRAINS…. *sighs* where do I even start with this….

VRAINS truly took the plotline seriously and doesn’t seem like it’s going to back down. It is like the writing staff put together a medley of the saddest moments in Yu-Gi-Oh! and were like, “Let’s make it sadder!”. From the fact that mere six-year-old children were tortured so badly, that Ryoken was so messed up by his father, that all Lost Children are still suffering in one way or another, that SOL practically killed a living being and all the drama that it’s going on between Yusaku and Kusanagi right now. Last week’s episode had me nearly tear up and for tomorrow I will most definitely cry. It’s just so painful to see someone so desperate to save their own family, to attack someone they were all set to protect just a few episodes ago… And VRAINS isn’t even over yet. I thought nothing could top Earth’s death scene, but from the looks of it, tomorrow will be getting a dose of the most painful feels.

19)  Least favourite series

It’s a tie between GX and the first series if I had to choose one. GX has a rather monotone first half when there is some stuff going on, but it’s really episodic and easily forgotten. While there were some interesting episodes, the rest was just one giant filler that tried to deliver too much nostalgia from the first series instead of developing on its own. And speaking of the first series - I know the card game wasn’t as developed at the time so tons of duels made absolutely no sense. Then it was only Yugi, Kaiba and Joey having the development and extremely long duels that were starting to feel off and annoying to watch. But overall - I know that was the very first series and the spinoff, so it was obvious it wouldn’t be perfect. What I truly love about Yu-Gi-Oh! is that it’s a franchise that continues to grow with every single spin-off, even if they’re becoming less relevant they are still getting stronger storywise.

22)  Least favourite character

This little brat is a perfect representation of how to create the most annoying character. Everything about him screams “annoying, useless and awful”. It would be completely fine if he was an episodic villain, but noooo for some reason writing staff was like, “hey let’s make this dude into Yuma’s friend”. I get it, Yuma can make friends easily, but for the love of God, why him?! Yuma has enough friends already, why bring this brat into his group? Tokunosuke has literally no purpose to be here but to cause trouble or be a plot device to bring Yuma trouble. Okay, I was fine with that one time that he got Yuma into trouble and Yuma still forgave him, but why the hell did they have a need to repeat that three more times? I feel the same way about Kotori - she has no basic purpose but to be moral support or act as a damsel in distress.ZEXAL had way too many characters and out of them all, they picked the most useless ones for major roles. 

23)  NOTP

Canon datastormshipping. I think I made it clear why I dislike it in two posts already, but I guess I could sum it up for the third time. In canon verse they are two unstable people who bring out the worst of each other. They rarely interact, their ideologies are vastly different and they are in a way obsessed with each other in a very unhealthy way. If the two of them dated it would most likely result in a very toxic relationship which would only worsen up their already broken mental states. Again, I greatly dislike this ship in canon verse (in anime up to episode 92) and my opinion could change by the end of VRAINS. I still like the fanfics and fanarts that depict “what if” scenarios where their relationship could work (I’m actually writing one at the moment and I have plans to write one where I focus on their relationship in detail), but canon shipping just feels off and dysfunctional.

34)  If you met Kazuki Takahashi, what would you say to him?

First of all, I would thank him for coming up with those amazing characters and plotlines. I still love the original manga and season 0 the most since it had so much creativity with different games, but I can see it keep getting included more with new summoning methods and unique stories. Then I would most likely present him my idea for the 7th series and its protagonist. From the start of the series, there wasn’t much about card game production or who designs them. We got some info on how Pegasus discovered Millenium Items and the tablet with Egyptian Gods and in GX it showed Hayato working as a card game designer. I would love to see a protagonist who loves games just like Yugi and wishes to create more, so he strives to become the best card game designer. He is not that keen on playing the game since he prefers to make the cards more, but when he creates a particular card(kinda like how Takato created Guilmon in Digimon Tamers) he is pulled into an adventure where he must find other cards that contain powerful Duel Monsters spirits and he has to lock them back into their cards. I would also love to have a protagonist that can talk with spirits again since while Judai had adorable interactions with Winged Kuriboh and Neo Spacians, it was still largely brushed aside and not that much explored. So yeah please make the next protagonist into a card game designer, it will be unique and open to so many interesting plotlines and potentials. 

#yugioh series #vrains #homura takeru #Soulburner #ygo #yugioh zexal #yugioh gx #yugioh 5ds #yugioh arc v #datastormshipping

[bottomakoto]

your favorite fics ? :D (sfw or nsfw, whatever)

haha its been so long since i properly read harumako fic ^^ so hopefully these will hold up~ (also go ahead and assume that basically all of these are nsfw lol)

there are a lot of fics, so i put it under a cut~

♥Multichapter♥

♥ Dead Reckoning - by furiosity

In which Tachibana Makoto could do with a little less introspection and a little more faith. 

(this one is from makoto’s perspective and its complete, and even though there’s switching, makoto does bottom

♥ His Camera - by LensMind

Haru never expected to use his savings to become a member of a gay porn site, but after recognizing the chest of his best friend and housemate masturbating on an amateur porn site, he didn’t really feel like he had a choice. And then things started to get out of hand…((AKA. The AU where Makoto is a cam actor that no one asked for))

(this fic will always be one of my personal favorites and i honestly just go back and reread it every few months or so! its so funny and cute! i just love it so much, and i keep hoping the author will continue it lol ♥ ♥ ♥))

♥ Interspecies Bonding - by teicakes

It all starts when Rin suggests Makoto spends more time in the ocean to get over his fear, but soon enough he’s in (quite literally) over his head. Story of two species trying to understand one another, and the ties that form along the way

(another one of my all time favs!! it starts off with smut, with a tiny little bit of angst and communication and fluff and more smut!!♥ i just really love makoto with mermaid haru~ rin is also really funny in this and i love his and makoto’s friendship! this fic is honestly so good and reread it all the time~)

♥ Shake the Heavens - by Ad_Astra

Sometimes, even gods need to make sacrifices. Sometimes, miracles can be created by imperfect beings. Always, there is a choice.A HaruMako + Rin mythos, where Haruka is the god of the ocean, Rin is the god of death, and Makoto is the mortal living an anomalous existence between their realms.

(i haven’t read this one in ages, so i don’t remember it very well.. but its complete and i remember this one wrenching my heart and i definitely cried a few times, so it was probably really good!! i need to reread it again^^…))

♥ Baby, Oh, Something’s Gotta Give - by thoughtless_dreamer

Makoto is whatever his family needs him to be. A son, an older brother-a perfect role model. It’s a 24/7 job and he fulfills it happily. If means putting his own wants and needs on hold, what of it? They come first. He can wait. He just hadn’t counted on Haru stepping in to say enough was enough.

(this will always be one of my favorite fics♥ just makoto setting all of his own needs aside to take care of everyone else in his life to the point of his own detriment,, and haru taking care of makoto for a change… its so good♥ ♥ ♥ everything by this author is amazing~)

♥ I Thee Wed - by sauntering_down

kink meme prompt: So, when they were younger, Mako and Haru “got married.” Fast forward to high school. Maybe Makoto is being flirted with/asked out and Haru pretty much states Makoto is already happily married.

(okay so this one is a one-shot, but its pretty long and its one of my favorites so im putting it here,, its basically just makoto and haru getting married over and over again and its literally the cutest thing ever,, no matter how many times i reread this, it always manages to make me cry just from the sweetness;; so cute and fluffy and just so good and i how i like to imagine their relationship growing up together♥ ♥ ♥)

♥ Heat Confession - by MiladyAlluca

Haru’s crush takes a turn during a fruitless study session when he sees Makoto wearing a new leather wrist band that unsettles him down to his gut…because he likes it. Now exploring their sexuality and kinks to test their boundaries and learn their options, they figure out just the right rhythm they both want and need.

(haha i haven’t read this one in a really long time, but i remember really liking it and im p sure its pure smut lmao♥)

♥One-Shots♥

♥ The Ordinary Life - by Ad_Astra

At the end of their first year of living together, Haruka thinks that cohabitation isn’t exactly what he thought it would be.It’s better.

(when s2 first came out, i really didn’t agree with the ending and im still not super jazzed about pro haru.. so this au just feels so nice to read!! its also just really good and its that nice domestic harumako that i crave♥)

♥ Big Love - by thoughtless_dreamer

It’s not that Makoto doesn’t feel absolutely loved. No, Haru has always made sure that Makoto feels completely adored, from his hair to his toes. It’s just a thought, a feeling, something niggling at the back of his mind whenever they change for practice or shop for new swimsuits at the mall.So he’s self-conscious about his body. Who ever has to know?

(ahhh this is one of my favorite fics!! so good♥ it was written by a sweet friend of my mine for one of my prompts and its honestly so good!!, more of haru taking care of makoto♥ ♥ ♥))

since this is starting to get pretty long, i think i’ll change up the formatting a bit for the rest of the one-shots^^

♥ Normalcy be Damned - ThePursuit: nsfw that super nice bed sharing~

♥ Mawwaige - thoughtless_dreamer: sfw makoto and haru “get married” playing with the twins (super cute fluff)

♥ Finger Slip > Touch and Go - thoughtless_dreamer: nsfw two-parter with haru sexting makoto and then following up on those sexts~

♥ You Know You Make Me Wanna- > Shout! - thoughtless_dreamer: nsfw two-parter with haru and makoto having sex in the classroom during lunch, and the sequel being haru tying makoto up~♥

♥ Drawing the Comparison - thoughtless_dreamer: nsfw the must-have bathtub sex fic~ (its so good!♥)

♥ Promises, Promises - thoughtless_dreamer: nsfw poor jealous makoto and haru reassuring him~

♥ Stress Relief - Tecc: nsfw haru giving makoto massages~

♥ We Are One and the Same - PileOnThePink: nsfw short but sweet pwp of haru giving makoto multiple orgasms~ ((im p sure the whole collection is also really good~)

♥ 3:16am - Thesis: nsfw haru has a nightmare and slips into bed with makoto (this fic is honestly just so good and so sweet,, ahh, i love it so much♥)

♥ Concentration - A_Lesbian_With_Pink_Hair: nsfw another fic of haru taking care of makoto and expressing to him that he’s good enough (bc this is apparently my weakness lol)

♥ Pizza Delivery! - Arashe: sfw a short, cute fic about pizza delivery boy makoto bringing pizzas to an attractive stranger (haru)

> ♥ My Fic Tag ♥

and here’s also a few fic recs i had bookmarked lol:

♥ smut fic rec

♥ top!haru fics

♥ fluff fic rec

♥ makoharu fanfic masterlist

i’m sure there are a ton of my favs that im forgetting, but i hope you’ll be able to find something you’ll love!~♥ (and of course, my inbox is always open to bottom makoto fic recommendations~))

#harumako #makoharu #makoto tachibana #haruka nanase #free! #bottom makoto #fic #fic rec #pls send me any good recommendations #especially multichapter!! #ask #anon #hopefully i was able to rec something you'll like! #enjoy~ #♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ #my stuff

[maknaes-and-hyungs]

Embarrased Ghost

Pairing: Lin Yanjun x Reader

Group: Idol Producer

AU: Soulmate!AU {I didn’t see you wanted a soulmate one until my friend read the request, but luckily my plan I already had could easily fit!}

Genre: Fluff

Note: I’m sorry this took so long, but I went to NYC over the last weekend then my keyboard died cause I use a wireless one (mine on my laptop is broke) and I only just got batteries. Anyways let me say I fell in love with Yanjun these last episodes too and especially during this prank cause he was so adorable. Anyways I hope you enjoy!~Rin

P.S. I’m making this the first thing he said to you rather than are you hungry cause I like this better so keep that in mind.

Request: Hi, I love your idol producer writings and am so glad to see you taking requests!! Would you mind writing a soulmate au for Lin Yanjun? I fell in love with him after these last few episodes and especially the firewalking stage   

“That’s the first time I’ve seen a ghost that’s so disappointed.” Yanjun laughed at you fully displaying his dimples as you slinked back behind the curtain,“Disappointed”. In reality you were trying really hard to process what you had just heard come out of the silver haired boy’s mouth. Luckily he was the last trainee and you were allowed to get out of your costume and make up.

You threw off the fake bloodied sheet that you wore and pulled up the sleeve of the shirt that you had on beneath it. The words that ran the length of your forearm were no longer black, but now a shimmering gold that had you mesmerized. In reality you thought that they would never change, because in what situation would your soulmate ever say

“That’s the first time I’ve seen a ghost that’s so disappointed."

. You were sure it was a cruel joke played on you by the universe for something that you had done in a previous incarnation, not that you believed in those but maybe.

If someone were to ask if you were happy you might not say yes, because it seemed like Yanjun didn’t like you at all. After being his make up artist for three months those were the first words you ever heard him speak. Everyone else always chatted extensively with their make up artist and those around them, but Yanjun always seemed to go quiet the second he stepped into the make up room. Even if you heard him laughing about with the other trainees as they came down the hallway, it seemed that when he crossed the threshold and saw you he was drained of all joy.

However, here you were running your hand over the gilded words in wonderment that the cold boy was your one and only soulmate. Maybe he had already figured out that you were his and he was upset by the idea. But then you weren’t all that talkative in general and you were sure that you would never be the first to speak up, especially to someone as stunning as Yanjun. You were also sure that you had never even told him to close his eyes, because he was the perfect client and always did everything exactly the way you wanted him to without a word spoken.

“Y/N! Go get that face paint washed off and go to the make up room. The boys wanted to have an artist copy a picture of a look on one trainee while another trainee does it to yet another.” Your boss pushed you towards the bathroom where you cleaned up before heading off to find the three trainees.

“Oh look she’s here now we can get started. Do you know what we are doing?” Bu Fan turned to you as you entered the room and you noticed both Fan Chengcheng, and to your luck, Lin Yanjun sitting in the make up chairs. After internally groaning you gave a nod to Bu Fan making sure not to speak in front of Yanjun.

Bu Fan handed you a picture of a woman in very complicated make up and you studied it closely before handing it back. Now that the cameras were rolling you had no time to worry about your soulmate sitting five feet away from you. Instead you switched into work mode in order to deliver the most exquisite display you could in order to shame Bu Fan.

“Since you usually do Yanjun you are going to do Chengcheng this time to maybe give me a leg up. Of course this is Chengcheng telling me this and I’m not sure if he’s just trying to avoid my amazing skills.”

“It’s actually not usually it’s always. I like how she works so I always wait until I can get her.” Upon hearing this you turned to the vanity to see what supplies they had given you or so they couldn’t see the blush that rose up. You didn’t know if they noticed or if they were being nice, but no one mentioned anything and the challenge finally started.

The whole time Chengcheng was his usual meme self and joked excessively with you. You tried to keep your composure between Yanjun being so close and all the things that Chengcheng was throwing at you to get you to break. You had made it five minutes before you burst out laughing. Whatever he had said made you drop to the ground clutching your stomach which was quite unprofessional, but you absolutely couldn’t help it.

You only stopped when you saw Yanjun give you a look that was devoid of emotion. Getting up you wiped your eyes and continued on silently although you got teased by the other boys from then on.

Nothing really excited happened until you went over to Bu Fan’s vanity to grab a brush that you didn’t seem to have. You held your breath as you brushed against Yanjun’s chair and you planned to do so until you left, but that’s when you saw them. The sleeve of his sweatshirt had ridden up and on his forearm you could see the words that were written there in black script.

Dracula muffins on a Friday

“The hell does that mean.” Everyone looked at you wide eyed and you instantly felt your face burst into flames. You bowed and began to apologize profusely at your language. Bu Fan and Chengcheng just laughed and let you off the hook while Yanjun hastily pulled his sleeve down a little embarrassed.

You were mortified as you went back to doing your job not really thinking about what had truly happened. It wasn’t till you were back at home that night that you really thought about it. You had said something different to what was on his arm and you had no clue what that would do.

Would you no longer be soulmates? Had you just messed everything up for the both of you? Had this ever happened before and if so what happened? Curious you spent all night researching, but came up empty handed. All you had was a deep gnawing fear in the pit of your stomach that you had ruined it all.

That fear only grew when you went into work the next day and Yanjun said nothing to you as usual. You presumed that nothing had changed on his arm and that you were doomed to be to soulmates who came close enough to touch but in the end went rocketing by each other. You tried to ignore it, but a weight began to crush the life out of you.

Weeks went by and Yanjun never said a word to you. Instead of love growing between you two there was only sadness flourishing within your chest. When people took note you just brushed them off and tried to get to the end of the show. Only then would you be able to truly wallow and hopefully get past this whole thing.

Except when that day came you found yourself on the verge of tears the entire day. You managed to hold it together even as you did Yanjun’s make up for what would be the last time. Stupidly, however, you couldn’t hold in your words like you could hold in your tears.

“Yanjun I just wanted to apologize for commenting on your soulmate words those weeks ago. It was ridiculously rude of me to say what I did and I just wanted to make sure I didn’t make any bad blood between us.”

“No it’s fine. I know that they are really weird words and it would’ve been hard not to comment on them I suppose.” He gave you a small smile and your heart panged as you bowed to him and he left to go on stage. You silently cleaned up your station and gathered your personal belongings without conversing with your colleagues who seemed thrilled at the successful production.

Grabbing you bag you trudged out of the building and into the parking lot. Everyone else was staying to see the final performances and the results, but your heart couldn’t hold out anymore. You thought it could’ve done better than it did though as you found yourself sliding down the building sobbing.

You curled into a ball and pulled your knees into your chest. Tears became endless as your body heaved and your world finally came crashing down. You were sobbing so loudly that you didn’t happen to hear the door next to you fling open and strike the metal wall behind it.

“Y/N!” Before you knew it your head was pulled up and you found your face held between Lin Yanjun’s soft hands. You tried to stop sobbing so he could tell you what he needed, but he only made things worse. It wasn’t until he completely caught you off guard that you were able to calm down. Yanjun pulled you into his chest and started rubbing your back slowly.

“Wha-What are you doing?”

“Y/N you’re my soulmate. After what you said I felt the need to look at my arm and the words are different. They are what you said when you saw what the had been.” How had he not noticed then when he was getting changed all this time? “You may be confused as to how I didn’t notice. The word length is the exact same as before and I’ve seen these words everyday of my life so it’s easy to ignore them.”

“So... they did change?” You pushed out of his chest and looked into his eyes hoping that you weren’t dreaming.

“Wait... did you know you were my soulmate?” He grabbed your wrist and pushed up your sleeve to see the gold that was written there. The instant he read the phrase the words burned brightly before disappearing. You could see light shining through his shirt where you knew his words were. You two were really soulmates.

“I knew since the ghost prank, but when I saw the words on your wrist and said  something different I thought we weren’t soulmates anymore. Anyways we’ve known each other for months and you never speak to me and always seem annoyed to see me.”

“I wasn’t annoyed to see you I was nervous. I thought you were so captivating and I didn’t want to speak in case I said the wrong thing and turned out to not be your soulmate. I mean how do I even get you to say Dracula muffins on Friday?” You laughed at his incredulous tone and could understand his apprehension.

“Well I guess it was more up to me so I’m the one to blame I here. What now though?”

“I take you out on a date after this whole thing is over. For now though you can come inside and watch me kill it.” Yanjun pulled out his killer dimples and pulled you up without resistance. If someone asked you if you were happy now you might not have said yes. You might’ve said you were ecstatic.

#idol producer #banana entertainment #lin yanjun #yanjun fluff #lin yanjun fluff #idol producer writing #idol producer scenario #idol producer fluff #soulmate au #soulmate

[ricardotomasz]

Such is life! Behold, a new Post published on Greater And Grander about Head & Solders by Nicholas Driscoll

See into my soul, as a new Post has been published on http://greaterandgrander.com/2021/04/head-solders-by-nicholas-driscoll/

Head & Solders by Nicholas Driscoll

Will-Yem’s head woke up at five in the morning, as it always did, as the electric snap of his alarm crackled across his cheeks. Alarms, as always, were a rude awakening, but for him it was worth the shock so that he didn’t have to worry about disturbing his wife Kat-Rin with a jangling ring or an obnoxious song. 

He opened his mouth and mimicked a sigh, even though he wasn’t breathing. His head was still disconnected from the body he was planning to use that day, so he couldn’t breathe yet—the nutrient tubes were enough. He was pulled out of the cushion next to his wife by an old pulley system that he kept well-oiled so that it didn’t squeak, and his head was wheeled over and across the room in a rush. He reveled in the breeze from swinging through the air, and tried to enjoy the quick spinwash and dry of the morning. He still had hair, and the headwasher applied a bit too much shampoo this time, the suds getting in his eyes, which he tolerated, and into his mouth, which he did not. He sputtered and swore as he came out of the washer, and made another mental note to notify the landlord about the malfunction. 

The pulleys carried his head over to a decorative table—not full size, since it really only needed to accommodate his head, but fairly elaborate, carved of imitation wood, with designs that his wife had picked out depicting curlicues and flowers etched into the edges. A sponge was positioned in front of his mouth, and he took it, chewed on it, and his mouth was filled with the flavors of the morning—fried eggs, sausage, cheese, then a shift to sweet apples, a dash of yogurt. He closed his eyes to enjoy it. 

The sponge didn’t give him any nutrition, of course. He got all that through the tubes. But still, the flavors gave him no harm, and the act of chewing had been proven a sort of psychological salve to his mind. While he knew the stuff didn’t do him any good on a physical level, still, having the sensation of eating perked him up and helped him get ready for his day.

Moments later, the sponge was spirited away to be washed, and Will-Yem’s head was transported and placed upon his body, secured, the connections clicking and whirring in place.

He was proud of his body. He had saved a lot of money to purchase it, especially the abdomen. Not only was the abdomen the largest part of any body, but this particular model was high end. It actually had lungs that pulsed in and out, mimicking the regular movement of a real body, that felt so right to his mind—not just a tank giving a regular stream.  

The lungs started pushing air out his nostrils, and he felt alive. The body stepped forward, tiptoeing, and a hologram displaying his choice of street clothes sprang across him, soles to temple—faux sports outfit today, to make him feel strong.

He put his hand to the door, saw the metal of his fingers for a moment before the hologram covered it. His hand didn’t match the rest of his body—dull gray instead of polished bronze in color, dented, scratched. But he treasured that hand, just the same.

“Sweetie!”

Will-Yem turned, smiled sheepishly. Kat-Rin was staring out of her cushion at him, a coquettish crooked smile across her brown lips. 

“Don’t lose any parts,” she whispered. “I’m going to need them all when you get back.”

Will-Yem blushed so hard he threw a hologram of a placid face over his own and ducked out the front door. 

It was an empty joke, of course—the part she was referring to was a screw-on that she kept in a drawer next to her bed. Still, he always got so embarrassed when KR got frisky.

The hallway was full of noise which he had not registered while inside. His apartment was soundproofed; it could be turned off, and in the case of a fire alarm, all soundproofing in the rooms would automatically switch off. But on a normal day, it was nice to escape the fracas. The head-tube strung along the upper edge of the hallway walls was packed with disgruntled noggins shouting and cursing. The noggins had no bodies, and had to thus rely on public transport to get around even inside the apartment complex. But it looked like the tubes were clogged again, and who could say when they would get moving.

Will-Yem tromped forward, head down, deciding to take the stairs.

“Come on, man,” cried out a grizzled noggin with scraps of white hair jutting above his eyes. “Share the air and take someone with you! You got arms!”

“There is no sense you just walk out here by yourself!” said another. “My dear head, you take me, I’ll pay you. Your feet is cash!”

Will-Yem tried to walk faster, but the voices got louder, more pleading. 

“Don’t set your legs to automatic!” said another voice, this time a female with longer hair wrapped tightly under a semi-transparent hat. “Use your brain!”

Will-Yem could have set his legs to run, and to follow a pre-determined route to work, then tuned into his favorite videos and relaxed while enjoying the entertainment until his legs brought him where he needed to go. He sometimes did that. Lots of people did. It kept the sidewalks moving fast, kept congestion down, made sure no one was just loitering. But he didn’t like to give his legs over to the system every day. Same reason he liked the feeling of proper breathing in and out his nose, he liked to feel in control as much as he could. At least pretend.

And as he walked he suddenly found himself barking out loud, “Anyone going to District 0033?”

A chorus of voices rang out, excited, angry, frustrated. 

“That’s near enough to my job, just pull an oxen-free and chuck me over!”

“On my way, head, take me!”

“Just get me out of this tube, my nose is stuck up my neighbors ear and all I can smell is earwax!”

“I only have one extra lung!” Will-Yem yelled back. “I can’t carry a whole potato-sack full!”

The voices grew even louder at that crack. Some noggins had nutrient pouches or independe-lungs strapped onto their craniums, so they could travel for at least a while without being plugged in to the system or parasiting off of a walker. Will-Yem didn’t want to spend time checking noggins for the pouches and straps, though, and finally just unceremoniously grabbed some head off of the jammed transport and plugged it into his extra lung without even a hello or a shut-up-already.

“Very kind of you,” said the other head now riding beside his own while Will-Yem charged down the stairs. “Long time since I felt a lung’s air.”

“They’re artificial lungs,” said Will-Yem. “I don’t have enough money to pay for a bio-organic abdomen.”

“What head does?” replied his neighbor. 

It was a woman’s head, at least by appearance, and with a quiet voice. She had a wide nose and surprising dark eyes, filled with depth, or perhaps with sleepiness.

Other walkers were on the stairs as they went down: He recognized his neighbors—Sam-Yell, with his awkward clanking body of red rusty metal and clawed hands, shuffling down before him. Fill-Lys, the landlord, with a set of articulated wheels that adjusted to the terrain instead of proper legs. Far-Lin, the local sponge-dealer, with his wolf-ears twitching on the sides of his head, and his tendency to galumph along on all-fours. 

“What do you do?” asked his passenger. “Other than walk. Some people, they think that’s enough of an accomplishment to define them.”

“I work direct on the beans,” said WY without looking over. “Temple massages, with a side of friendly banter. Bad jokes cost extra.”

The woman’s head laughed in an undertone.

“Providing a valuable service,” she said. “All craniums, we need some physical contact, even with our fake bodies.”

“And you then?” asked WY, glancing over. “You have a voice job of some kind?”

She used the lung to create a sigh.

“Assembly doc,” she said. “Check body health quick on the conveyors for heads who need a quick tune-up. The bodies come down the conveyor, I fix them, even have the credentials to grab them off the belt and peel the can if they need it.”

Will-Yem grimaced and kept on walking, now out into the world, and the marching feet everywhere in perfect lines, in perfect order, staying in the foot lanes. 

For convenience, WY stepped in line and allowed the program to direct his feet toward his working place, with a stop-off at the Body Shop, where his guest worked. Instead of starting up a video feed or taking a nap, despite his early-morning fatigue, Will-Yem made his latest memes and posts available to the public social media system so others on the streets could access his latest quips, and then turned his attention to the other head sipping at the oxygen from his spare lung.

“I’m afraid I’ve been a bit bull-headed,” WY said. “I didn’t ask your name.”

“Oh,” said the doctor. “You’re right, I don’t make it publicly available. I keep my social media private usually, but you’re my neighbor, so… my name is Zan-Ta. Thank you again for carrying me out here.”

“You work near me, really,” WY replied. “It’s no problem. But may I ask… how do you work as a doctor with no body?”

ZT blushed, and WY felt his own face reddening, ashamed for asking a personal question. He was trying to think of a way to backtrack the question when she finally responded.

“I had one before,” she said. “Nothing fancy like this one. But I gave it away. Now just use the loaners from the shop. They are functional and can do the job, so no problem.”

WY stared—not at ZT, but at the back of the body-frame walking in front of him. It was hard to imagine anyone just giving away their own body. Who could ever give away such convenience, hand away the visceral experience, the privileges and pleasures of owning your own legs?

“You gave it away?” was all he could say.

“Oh,” she said, a shy smile in her voice now. “Not at once. Bit by bit. You meet a lot of bodies missing something in my line of work, I am afraid.”

“But,” WY said. “It’s your body!”

“Well,” replied ZT. “They had needs. And I am fine. The public systems work well enough, and I am alive.”

The conversation continued, but WY couldn’t focus. Soon enough, he dropped Zan-Ta into the tube at the Body Shop, and continued on his way. 

All day as Will-Yem worked, massaging a wide range of craniums with a wide range of issues, bumps, and complaints that they shared as he poked and prodded and squeezed with cushioned and heated gloves, Will-Yem thought about Zan-Ta’s words and often found himself staring at his right hand again and again. The distraction threw him off his game, and some of his gags which usually had the average noggin cackling with humor drew blank stares. He decided not to charge for his jokes today.

* * *

Back at home that evening, he broached the topic with his wife over steak-flavored sponges. 

“I met a doctor today who doesn’t have a body,” he said. “I think she deserves to have one.”

“A doctor?” KR responded, brows crinkling in concern. “Are you sick? Did that rash come back, around your spinal scar?”

“No, my scar is fine,” WY said. “I carried her to work this morning. The tube was jammed again.”

“It was still jammed when I headed out, too,” KR said. “Why doesn’t she have a body? Doctors usually have bodies.”

“She is an assembly doctor, for one,” WY said. “And it’s like… Well, it’s like with my hand.”

KR was in her body as they chewed the sponges together, and she reached over to touch his shoulder. They had both learned long ago that wearing their bodies during meals and conversation was a big help in maintaining their emotional connection. 

“It was just a random head that gave me this hand,” he said, holding up the old thing so KR could see. “Just random generosity. Never even found out his name! But that generosity got me my job, and with that job I found you, and…”

“Yes,” Kat-Rin said. “That man giving you a hand changed your life. I am grateful, too. But what do you want to do? We don’t have an extra body in the closet, nor the cash points to purchase one.”

“True, but I know a lot of heads,” WY said. “A lot of our neighbors are also my customers. We can put something together. A head has a right to a body, especially a doctor!”

Kat-Rin chewed thoughtfully and then sat back. She nodded.

“One of the things I love about you is your emotions,” she said. “Why don’t we ask?”

* * *

Will-Yem asked, assembling a group in-person (after some argument about how much easier it is to just meet online). Sam-Yell was there, awkwardly attempting to cross his arms with his claws in, and Fill-Lys wearing an especially shiny set of wheels and a handsome false-face. Xiao-Krai, sat back on fold-out chair-legs which could be tucked neatly away into her thighs when not in use, in a delicate frame and face behind a shield visor, body wrapped in religious posts and memes made public with messages inviting everyone to church. Others were there, too—heads of various races, some animalized. One even had an impressive set of real antlers grafted to her skull.

“Zan-Ta is a real body-builder at the assembly,” WY finished his speech, standing amongst them with hands splayed plaintively. “She has given her body. I think she deserves to have one back.”

Xiao-Krai was the first to respond, nodding her head, and highlighting a verse about how the body is sacred on her public posts.

“I have always believed that the body is a gift from God,” XK said. “In my opinion, every head deserves a body. The government never should have taken bodies away from individuals.”

Sam-Yell shifted in place uncomfortably, clicking his claws together.

“It’s hard,” he said. “Just, heads need less space, so… it’s hard.”

The woman with the antlers made a voice like clearing her throat (despite not having a throat), unstrapped a hand, and tossed it in the middle of the floor.

“Let’s make a pile,” she said. “Your God says it’s a good idea. My heart says it’s a good idea. Common decency says it’s a good idea. The tubes in this joint are always breaking down, and if the doctor is late, that’s dangerous, am I right?”

Voices rose suddenly, heads getting excited, bodies shifting weight side-to-side.

“Do you think the doctor would like a claw?” said Sam-Yell.

“Take both my legs,” said a small head on a huge body. “I have a set of wheels back in the room. I kinda prefer them anyways.”

“The body is going to be a real patchwork,” said a regretful voice. “Nothing is going to match.”

“I hear you, but we can’t body shame,” said Kat-Rin, smiling. “My own body is a patchwork too, and a hologram covers that up much of the time anyway.”

Fill-Lys put on a bland expression, watching the group excitedly try to put something together.

“I like what you’re doing, hon,” she said. “It’s real nice. I think everyone wants to help. And maybe we can put together a few spare feet or a few spare arms, but… the real problem is the abdomen. Nobody keeps a spare abdomen in a cheap apartment like this.”

“That’s right,” said a crotchety old codger face embedded in a body crafted halfway like an old suit of armor. “Body ain’t gonna be no good without an abdomen.”

“What are you going to do about that, WY?” asked Sam-Yell, eyes raised.

Will-Yem felt his face pale, and he looked down. He clenched his fingers together in determination, though his emotions spiked, and he felt a terrible sense of loss suddenly.

“I’ll take care of it,” he said. “I know someone who has one he doesn’t need.”

* * *

Will-Yem’s head woke up at five am in the morning to a kiss as his wife Kat-Rin urged him out of his cushion. She was already wearing her body, and she smiled down at him.

“Time to go already?” he asked. 

“That’s right, time to get up,” she said. “Fixed the headwasher, less soap used now. Our eyes are spared!”

“It’s really nice to have breakfast with you every morning now,” Will-Yem said. 

“Your favorite today,” she said. “Grilled salmon with sea salt and a side of dill pickle.”

“My favorite breakfast is a breakfast I get to eat with you,” Will-Yem said, smiling as the pulleys swung him to the table. “Even if I have to wear a loaner at work for a while.”

He savored the scent of salmon wafting from the sponge in front of him, and bit down. They ate in silence for a few moments, sucking every last bit of flavor from their respective sponges, and smiling into each other’s eyes.

“I do miss breathing, though,” Will-Yem said fifteen minutes later as the pair headed out their front door.

“You’ve still got your most important part,” she said, hooking him up to the airflow on her body. 

“What part is that?” he asked, face reddening as usual.

“Well, me of course,” she said, poking him with a metallic finger. “I’m the part you’ll never lose.”

Will-Yem smiled so wide that his cheeks hurt, and they stepped out into a beautiful new morning.

  Nicholas Driscoll has been writing short stories, plays, novels, and comics since he was in junior high, and holds a creative writing degree from Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa. He has received awards for his fiction, including a second-place award for the short story "Patriarchy" in The Spectrum literary journal in 2004, and has since written several unpublished novels, a gamebook, and dozens of comics. Driscoll is also an avid fan of movies, and has written hundreds of articles and reviews for the Japanese movie fan website Toho Kingdom. He currently lives in Japan, where he speaks Japanese with lots of mistakes and enjoys it.

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[moonstruck-ffxiv-blog]

IDENTIFICATION —

“Why do you love me? Why don’t you think I deserve to die like everyone tells me I should? Why don’t want to kill me? Isn’t it justice I die after all that suffering I have done?”

Full Name:  Mael Archevauliere

Pronunciation:  meəl ˈɑːrki vo lierre

Pseudonym:  Armandaux (elezen name he used when he pretend to be Miahtoux's adopted brother.)

Nicknames:  The Monster of the Shroud, the Ghost of Amdapor, Carnicula (by himself), Voidspawn,  Spoken Garbage, Freak

Age:   Unclear. He looks like 17-19 but there are hints he is possibly much older than that.

Name Day: (Unknown)

Birthplace:  In a village in the West Shroud that got blown up during the Calamity.

Guardian:  Oschon, the Wanderer

Residence: Amdapor.

REFERENCES —

“What I want… How do I know what I want? I never… I never had to do that before. My life has been always about running away and eating fish.” 

Motto:   “your hands don’t know how to be gentle. think about the last beautiful thing that shattered in your palms. the fresh rosebuds crumbling between your fingers like a bruise. you wolf-boy, you war machine. you wouldn’t know how to hold something magic and not destroy it.” (Natalie Wee) 

 Theme Song:  “Sinister Kid” by The Black Keys

 Face Claim: (I seriously know no one that can be a face claim for Mael.)

STATS —

“They were hunting me before… Now it was my turn. I start to learn their routines. Their names. What they like and what not. I would isolate them one of them, eat him or her. Made me feel so good. So, so good… You can’t even imagine… “ 

Gender:  Male

Race:  Hyur, midlander

Height:  5'3''

Weight:130 ponzes

Eyes:  Violet

Hair:  Cloud white

Skin:  Chocolate brown

Build:  Scrawny, frail, dexterous.

Scars:  One accross his nose ; he broke it a few years ago and left a mark there.

Tattoos/Marks:  A black, tiny sigil inside his left wrist. To the uninitiated, this is simply a tattoo. To anyone familiar with Arcanima, it feels like Geometry Magick without being it. To someone knowing a great deal about sorcery and the Void… This is bad news.

(Mael's note : I wonder how many people are still here.)

At First Glance (+5)

Dressed in rags

Greasy hair

Horns (when not covered. If yes, wears a really stupid and big hat)

Boyish looks and frame

Aether feels icky around him

FACTS — 

“Oh, all this righteous, dis-gus-ting mercy! Forgive! Forget! Where will it be, when I will hand you Reia’s head? This will be our wedding gift!”

Occupation:  Homeless person, self-appointed guardian of Amdapor, once in a while a murderer.

Specialities:  Grilled fish, creeping people out, getting in sticky situations Skills:  Hunting, tracking, starting fire with only sticks and stones.

PROFICIENCY —

“That’s why I must save him. So he can see for himself what he means to me. He needs to stop throwing his life away. It’s not… It’s not a good thing to do.”

Education:  None

Favored Weapon(s): His hunting bow.

Secondary Weapon(s):  His natural claw. His fangs when he's really desperate.

Magic Abilities:  Seems to have some but they are neither developed or trained.

Magic Strengths:  ???

(Mael's note : If you see this, send me a PM saying ass.)

RELATIONS —

 “S-She liked me. She didn’t care what I looked like or what other people were saying about me. I liked her too. I liked her like I like you. I don’t know if I will kill you too.” (A silence.) “Do you want to know the absolute worst? I enjoyed it.”

Sexual Preference:  Bisexual

Romantic Identification:  Monogamous

Relationship Status:  It's complicated (and not the fun kind of it's complicated.)

Sweet on:  Miahtoux Daphenier 

 Alignment:  True Neutral

Allies:  Miahtoux, Reia, Zaz (???)

Enemies:  The Lord of the Nameless, Wood Wailers (or any authority body really), Voidhunters, bounty hunters, law-abiding citizens in general.

FAMILY —

“If the service is bad, let’s poison them all ♪” 

Maternal: Stella Chamberlain

Patrental:  Unknown 

 Mentor:  Zaz, The Lord of the Nameless (maybe). 

 Associates: None

MENTALITY —

“I will break you. Break you, break you, break you. I’m the villain and you will be my mask of atrocities.”

Social Level: Extremely poor, very nervous and anxious around strangers. Stutters and rambles a lot. Can't finish a sentence for the life of his.

 Optimistic View(s): If it can go bad, it will. 

 Pessimistic View(s):  See above. 

 One  Positive Personality Trait:  Open-minded.

 One Negative Personality Trait: Whiny.

 One Personality Warning:  Mental instability. You never know when he will take out his hunting knife to plunge it into your right eye and then proceed to stab reperatively. 

 Random Quirk:  ^ This count as a quick too. “Quirk” 

Hobbies:  Long walk in the forests, fishing, ruins exploration. 

 Addictions: Aether, Miahtoux's affection. Habits:  Lips chewing, crossing arms on chest, hair twisting, sighing.

 Pleasures:  Horn petting, listening to rain, sleeping all morning, eating, sunsets.(Mael's note : If you made it this far, send me your favorite platypus gif pls.)

Appreciates (List 5+)

Hand holding

A real bed to sleep on

The smile of a true friend

Hot tea

Blood

Dislikes (List 5+)

Pain

Cold/Snow/Winter in general

Unwanted touches

Potions

People that are too nice right away

Strengths (List 5+)

Physical strenght as in he can break your ribs.

Once his loyalty is acquired, it will last for a life time and over.

He's simple and don't like complicated things.

He can more or less detect something/someone alive with his Aether-sensing throught his horns.

He understands and speak the language of the Void.

Weaknesses (List 5+)

Vengeful and keeps grudges. Absolutely revels in the payback.

Emotionally immature, can't act like an adult half the time. Other half he is busy being petty and whiny.

The voices inside his head.

Aloof and reserved.

Have difficulty at time knowing what is real and what is not.

Fears (List 5+)

Fire (forest fire)

Garleans

Being abandonned

The one he loves the most die (bonus point if it's his fault and could be avoided.)

Social events

New people and meeting them

FAVORITES –– 

“You’re still my friend even if you don’t like me.”

Favorite Food(s):  Raw meat, raw fish.

Favorite Drink(s):  Water without giant moth that haven’t poop in it.

Favorite Scent(s):  Petrichor.

Favorite Colors:  Green, yellow, blue.

(Mael's note : This this goddamn list never ends? Meme the most putrid, least fresh meme you can ever find if you ever read this.)

TRIVIA -

He can swim pretty well.

Most monsters don't bother him as long Mael don't go out of his way to make them angry. They probably recognised the scent of the Void and darkness and leave him in peace.

Animals, on the other hand, absolutely hate him. He can't ride a chocobo or can't approach a tamed wolf pup or coeurl kitten. He will get kicked, bark at and bittten.

OOC -

Server:  Mateus

Timezone:  EST

Mun:  What am i supposed to put in there.

Experience:  I did some stuff.

Type of RP:  Horror, long-term, mystery, mindfuck, deep themes, taboos, comedy.

Looking for:  Depends for which characters you're asking for but mostly friends, contacts, family. Maybe a lover.

 Tagged by: @captainkurosolaire (henlo)

Tagging: @zandriaxchase @kotoko-rin @fletchlingfletcher @nebula1984

@celestinhibou @divine-ruin @whistleinthenight @bells-and-whistles-ffxiv @chidorifarcloud @laurenlovecraft-ffxiv @amdapori

#im not doing that again #hskgdljasdhasd #ooc #ooc rp stuff #character sheet #wwwooooh #THANKS FOR TAGGING ME

[sage-nebula]

Okay, so when I first heard the news about the third season of the swimming anime on Facebook, my immediate reaction was, “If it doesn’t end with Makoto and Haru getting married, or at least engaged, then what’s the fucking point?” I was kind of being facetious, but at the same time, I’m actually a little serious.

I normally don’t care very much if my ships become canon. I mean, obviously it’s great! It’s always nice to have a canon ship, but it’s not the end-all, be-all. Fandom is there to provide what canon can’t or won’t. I’m a fanfic writer. If canon doesn’t want to make my ships canon, then fine, I’ll just make some fanon myself, it’s nbd. Even in the event that I’m the only person on a little inflatable raft of a ship because the juggernaut ships are notps, that’s fine, I will happily row myself and my fics right out to sea, see if I won’t.

But in this case, I actually do care. Not just because MakoHaru is one of my all-time favorite ships (seriously guys, I love it so much), but also because at this point . . . look, I’m not one to whip out the queerbaiting accusation very often. I think that, a lot of times, people in fandom use that term too loosely, applying it to ships that they personally like a lot, but that were never actually teased to be canon. Queerbaiting is very specific; there has to be actual teasing that insinuates that the ship has a real shot at being canon, only for it to be yanked away at the last minute (and often replaced with a het relationship instead). So I’m cautious about lobbing that accusation out there, because oftentimes it’s just not true, and I don’t want to be someone who reads too much into something. I don’t.

But the thing is, the swimming anime has been known as a fanservice anime since it’s introduction. I mean, look at it. The very first season of the very first episode has Makoto pulling Haru up from the bathtub (with Haru’s swim trunks revealed at the last minute). One of the characters, Gou, routinely gushes over the boys’ muscles. The animation is gorgeous and no expense is spared at showing just how built these athletes are. Couple that with how close all of the relationships are in the show, and yeah, you can see why it’s called a fanservice anime. That’s justified. Likewise, like with many sports anime out there, the relationships do veer into homoerotic territory sometimes, with “wink wink, nudge nudge” jokes made about it sometimes. That’s where the accusations of queerbaiting come in, and where they start to gain more legitimacy.

Nonetheless, this was something I accepted at the start. I figured that no ship in this anime would become canon. And to be perfectly honest, when I first started watching this show, I did so as a joke. My friend and I started watching it with the intention of getting a good laugh, because we thought it was hysterical how the OP to a swimming anime went as hard as it did, and also everyone on tumblr was talking about it. So we figured, hey, why not. We never expected to get invested, and I especially never expected the story to be as rich and emotional as it was, but here we are. Nonetheless, even after getting invested, I still didn’t expect anything to become canon, much less my preferred ship. I knew what sort of anime I was getting myself into. I was prepared.

But then . . . well, everything happened.

The thing is, it’s not just content within the show itself, although there’s plenty of that as well. It’s also everything surrounding the show. Everything in the side materials, the official art, interviews with the directors and writing staff. There have been so many insistences that Makoto and Haru are not only the closest of best friends (able, as we’ve had reiterated to us time and again, to communicate without spoken words, pretty much telepathetically, due to how close they are), but also that they are literally each other’s other half. The directors and writing staff have gone out of their way to paint this picture for us, and most of the extra materials (such as the first movie, which was a prequel) have focused around their relationship. By now, so much has piled up that it genuinely feels they are one step away from canon---one tiny little nudge to canon. Just off the cuff (and in no particular order save accessibility):

In the official novelization for episode six, it’s revealed that losing Makoto is Haru’s biggest fear. It’s also apparently said at another point in the novel that Rin “taught Haru what nakama is,” but that Makoto “is different from that.” (Additionally, Haru tries to answer Makoto’s “it’s meaningless without you,” but Makoto understands what he’s feeling without words once again.)

In the new movie, Makoto has a dream about living together and cooking for Haru. Additionally, he has concerns about Haru’s new apartment because there’s something creepy there (?) and he’ll be coming over a lot. This prompts Kisumi to tease him about how close he and Haru are.

KyoAni made a magazine spread titled “sweet love life” with Makoto and Haru (and also Nagisa/Rei). 

When asked whether Rin was Haru’s other half, the director not only said no, but specified that Makoto is Haru’s other half.

In one of the drama (well, comedy) CDs, Nagisa, Rei, and Makoto think Haru has turned into a mackeral and can only be awoken with true love’s kiss from a prince. Both Nagisa and Rei immediately assume this means Makoto must be the one to do it.

One of the lead writers has called Makoto “Haruka’s childhood friend and partner”, and has said that their relationship “makes you wonder ‘what’s going on with those two . . .’” because they’re so close.

That same writer has said that “it’s very easy to become a married couple’s conversation” when describing the dialogue between Makoto and Haru, and in that same conversation, the director said “they belong together.”

The director has also said that they have a “telepathic relationship” and that “they need each other.”

The director of the prequel movie has said that Haru and Makoto’s relationship is “an inviolable sanctuary.” 

The show director has said that Makoto is the only one who is “drawn to Haru’s existence alone,” and that when he tells Haru “it’s meaningless without you,” he means that it’s meaningless without Haru as a person rather than Haru as a swimmer. The director also “strongly fought” to keep the line “it’s meaningless without you” in the anime.

In the prequel movie, Makoto is asked by another member of the swim team if he’s swimming because he actually likes swimming, or if he’s there because he likes Haru. Makoto is conflicted for a good part of the movie, and avoids Haru because when they’re together “his feelings are more confused.” He ultimately apologizes for the unintentional avoidance, and comes to the conclusion that, “I love swimming, and I love you, Haru-chan.” He uses the word “daisuki,” which is very powerful when said to another person. It’s powerful enough to be a romantic confession. The way Haru’s eyes light up doesn’t help shake this feeling.

When Makoto and Haru fight near the end of season two, Haru not only races home to curl up in bed, but he’s so depressed over it that he doesn’t even bring his swimming gear to Australia with him. (This is big for Haru.) I don’t have a link for this, but it’s in the last couple of episodes of season two.

Likewise, no link, but in the bonus episode following season two, Nagisa starts to say, “Our Haru-chan and Mako-chan are . . .” before they both look panicked and hush him. Hm, what could they not want him to reveal?

And so on and so forth. The implications in the show alone could be an essay, but looking at everything that has been said in interviews and the like (and there’s more I’m sure I’m forgetting), the feeling that they are one tiny nudge away from canon is, I believe, a justifiable one. When you consider that Yuri On Ice! has a confirmed queer pairing in Yuuri/Viktor, thus opening the path for such relationships in mainstream sports anime, I feel that at this point, KyoAni has absolutely no excuse. I always forgave them for it in the past because I know how Japan is with LGBTQA issues, I know they’ve still got a long way to go, I figured there was no way they could get confirmed, canon MakoHaru greenlit. Both since Yuri On Ice! did it, I feel that now they absolutely can. YOI opened the gate. KyoAni could do this now, particularly with how popular the swimming anime is, and how much emphasis they have placed on Makoto and Haru’s relationship. (Again, the first prequel movie---released in theaters, iirc!---was all about their relationship, and the emotional climax had young Makoto telling Haru that he loved him. Come on.) It’s right there. They are so close. And if they don’t do it, then I feel that not only is this flat out queerbaiting, but also that there’s no point, there’s no excuse, what are we doing here if we aren’t going to make these two officially, inarguably, canonically involved?

So yeah, I have a lot of emotional stakes in this. To use a meme: Just make them fucking canon, you cowards. I’m of course not going to attack KyoAni over it or anything (I’m not one of those), but . . . god, KyoAni. Please. Come through for me on this. Please. I’m not asking much, but if they’re not at the least engaged by the end of all this, then honestly . . .

. . . what’s the fucking point?

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