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noa-nightingale · 10 months
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Man it is so good to see this - to see Ryan getting proper credit for his own show that he created. That man's brain is amazing and I hope he knows how much we appreciate him.
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pendragonsgallery · 2 years
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Still not in the Hetalia fandom, but this is fun to do
Here’s more Hetalia headcanons from someone who hasn’t watched the show and only has a vague idea of what’s happening:
- When Sealand got candy stuck in the vending machine, Alfred went to help him out and got his hand stuck in the machine. Matthew came to help, laughed at his brother for a solid ten minutes, and then did the exact same thing. England and France were met with the sight of both Al and Matt with their hands stuck in the vending tray.
- China would be that person at Disney World with the ten pound lanyard absolutely stacked with collectible pins. He always tries to get discounts by saying “well they’re FROM China”. One time, mid fight with the underpaid store clerk, he called a very confused Alfred and told him to “talk to the mouse for me. I want that fucking discount”.
- France doesn’t know how to turn his phone volume off, so every notification plays at full volume.
- The Nordic nations go ham for Christmas. They buy out stores. They are FIRST in line to meet Santa. Norway can and will push children out of the way to tell mall Santa what he wants.
- Matt has convinced every single country that the plural for moose is “meese”, and he has no intention of letting them know otherwise.
- Hong Kong has used the phrase “discord kitten” unironically.
- Chad has the reputation of sending the most deep-fried, toe-curling rancid memes on the African Continent group chat, and will regularly send them in the middle of meetings. It has since become a battle of endurance for who can keep a straight face during the meetings. Côte d'Ivoire once passed out trying not to laugh.
- Austria will never admit that his top artist on Spotify is Lizzo.
- Ireland and Scotland regularly have finger soccer games during world meetings, and one time, Scotland accidentally flicked the paper too hard, and it hit England square in the forehead. From then on, the game became “England is the target”.
- Gilbert wholeheartedly believes every single Buzzfeed quiz result he’s ever gotten.
- One time Alfred forgot to bring lunch to an all-day meeting, and eventually he got so hungry he just started tearing off pieces of the paperwork and eating them.
- France is a notoriously bad driver. He insists he’s fantastic, but Matthew wrote his will on a napkin the first time Francis tried to parallel park. There is an imprint of his grip on the grab handle of France’s car.
- Many of the countries still actively go trick or treating and have intense candy-trading meetings afterwards.
- Alfred hates the taste of mint with a passion. He describes it as “created by dentists to manipulate kids into thinking toothpaste tastes good.”
- No one has told Denmark that you’re not supposed to swallow toothpaste.
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What’s your opinion on this?
https://www.tumblr.com/maryoliveoil/726757999767584768/but-i-dont-think-joe-ever-put-it-on-taylor-or
I love joe and will still support him but I think there might be some truth in this
@maryoliveoil
(If I interpreted something wrong in your post I'm sorry, it wasn't my intention).
I agree with the premises but I don't agree with the conclusion or the general sentiment.
I also think that Joe wants to build his career in a certain way and that he hasn't really been able to reach the level he hoped to reach (I personally think he absolutely has the talent to, but he lacks the confidence in himself and a will to play the game).
I agree that seeing Taylor be so successful and always come back stronger after every single bad moment (everything that happened in 2016, the critique of reputation, the reception of the Lover singles, the cancellation of LoverFest + the pandemic...) must have generated some sorts of... let's call them "bad feelings" in him, and honestly? It's understandable. Everything Taylor has touched since the summer of 2020 has turned into gold, and the few "scandals" she's had (MH and the jets, mainly) have not made a single dent in her career or reputation, long-term. [And hey, after years and years of being criticized and thrown to the wolves for every single step she'd take, I'm glad that she's able to do whatever the fuck she wants without needing to apologize for existing (this does not change how much I hate the fact that she dated MH, btw)]. And when your partner is the epitome of success and you struggle to even get one good review of your performance, I think it's normal to start feeling uneasy or frustrated. NOT at your partner, but at the situation.
A couple of months ago I did a stupid BuzzFeed quiz with some of my flatmates. One question asked "How would you feel if your partner was much more successful than you are?" (or something like that). The answers were like "I'd be proud of them!", "I'd be proud of them but I'd feel inadequate" or "I could never do it" (again - something like that). Three girls and two guys aged 20-24 answered: they're all in college, some of them are more "successful" than their partners, some less, and one is single; some come from a family where the two parents earn equal money, one comes from a family where the father is much more successful, and one comes from a family where the mother is. This is just to point out that they have different backgrounds. Well, they ALL chose the second option.
I don't agree with the idea that Taylor pulled away from the spotlight and decided to appear less successful to spare his feelings. I see this theory around a lot but I'm yet to see a single convincing proof of it. To me the way she reacted to Red TV and Midnights's success and she promoted her work from 20221 until now is very much a reflection of the way she is right now as a person, not of the way she had to be in order to appease Joe. I really don't think she made herself smaller or anything like that. And hey, I'm ready to be proven wrong, but I just feel like it's a bit of revisionist history.
All in all, if he felt wrong or inadequate or stressed or sad while seeing Taylor's career explode and his "implode", I don't blame him. I'd blame him if he treated her badly because of it, but I don't see any proof of that (YLM, TO ME, is proof of entirely different things).
Hello, anon! I forgot to say that at the beginning haha.
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writer-monster · 3 years
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11 reasons why cap 4 should reintroduce Bucky Barnes as the love interest, an essay
to start this off, i am not writing this essay from a shipping place nor do i believe that this would have any influence at all over the upcoming movie. i expect nothing. this is simply something that i would personally like to see. (of course no hate to anybody who thinks differently)
here are 11 reasons why i think making Bucky into Sam Wilson's love interest in Cap 4 would be a good move for Disney.
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1. on the Chinese film market - and why it's an irrelevant argument against the inclusion of homosexual themes in Cap 4
the Chinese film market is something that has been blamed for a lack of diversity in Hollywood films a lot lately. many people claim that this market with a lot of buying power has been responsible for the lack of gay and black representation in particular within Hollywood films.
and we have certainly seen Hollywood treating it as such, going so far as to cut gay scenes from movies for their Chinese releases, and vastly minimising John Boyega's (a black actor's) presence in the Chinese poster of Star Wars The Force Awakens.
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[image ID: on the left is an image of the American poster for Star Wars The Force Awakens, featuring John Boyega prominently on the right-hand side. And on the right is the Chinese poster for the same movie, in which John Boyega is barely visible.]
so we know at the very least that Disney believes this through their own actions and efforts to self-censor for the different markets.
but Captain America 4 is a black-led movie, don't you forget. and Disney can't minimise Sam Wilson/Anthony Mackie in the movie or the poster because it's his movie and his poster. and no amount of creativity in the editing room can change that (thank God!).
so if by their own argument the film is already going to be either banned, panned or slammed in China... then what do they have to fear from making it a gay movie too?
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2. oh, the queerbaiting
queerbaiting is an unusual cultural idea. and sometimes i find myself thinking that the term is far too easily used, but then all of a sudden i will stumble upon a movie or show that is so quintessentially cruel and overt in it's... well... queerbaiting that i will start to wonder what the hell kind of a bizarre relationship all these straight people seem to have with their friends. take Troy and Abed from Community or John and Sherlock from Sherlock as the perfect examples of this. (in which my reaction to the show's creators saying the show wasn't gay was to ask so then why did you make it so gay?!)
i felt that Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes in tfatws were getting quite close to this level of queerbaiting.
there was the field scene, the couple's counselling scene, the boat scene, the couple's counselling scene, Bucky going with Sam to face Karli when she told Sam to come alone, the couple's counselling scene, ALL the staring scenes, Sam checking out Bucky's ass here as they said goodbye, the "i would move in with him but" hidden scene, "Uncle Bucky" showing up at the cookout scene, the romantic walking off together into the sunset together ending scene, and the couple's counselling scene. did i forget anything? but i mean seriously, the couple's counselling scene!!! that thing they did with their legs and their crotches while staring deep into each other's eyes, would any straight guy willingly do that? do straight guys crotch-snuggle now?
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[image ID: an image of Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes during the therapy scene with the quote, "Isn't anybody going to drag me into impromptu couple's therapy and slot my legs firmly between theirs before staring deeply into my eyes?"]
(yeah i stole this image from a buzzfeed article on the fan reactions to the couple's therapy scene. but given that they stole 80% of the content of that article from fandom tumblr, i think it's pretty even-steven.)
there's also the fact that people started talking about bisexual Bucky Barnes a lot after the tiger pictures line, and the lead writer Malcom Spellman responded to the talk of Bucky's bisexuality with "just keep watching". well we watched, Malcolm. but it's beginning to feel like you were just jerking us around.
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3. the writing
seriously though, what else is Bucky Barnes doing right now in the MCU? his only remaining connection to anything going on right now is through Sam. there is literally nothing else established that's left for him to do that doesn't involve Sam. he moved to Louisiana to be closer to Sam (canonically), he hangs out with Sam's family (canonically), and Steve is presumably gone and is definitely not coming back for more adventures.
he has no villains or loose ends left. he has no other superheroes that he appears to be in contact with. he has no girlfriend or potential love interest, or even other friends or family. he is living in a tent that he has secretly set up in Sam's backyard and is mysteriously appearing from the bushes when it's time for dinner like a stray cat.
in my opinion there is no other meaningful and pre-established progression for Bucky's character that wouldn't just feel cheap.
plus, i don't think the general audience would be all that surprised if they kissed. i think a LOT of people picked up on all that tension. i think a lot of straight people picked up on all that tension too.
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4. the chemistry between the actors & the chemistry between the characters
the original pitch for tfatws was essentially just this, it was the chemistry between Sebastian Stan and Anthony Mackie and their respective MCU characters of Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson.
now obviously Anthony and Sebastian are simply friends, and i wouldn't mean to imply anything more. but they are also not their characters.
Sam and Bucky's scenes together before tfatws were both limited and short, and yet audiences still fell in love with the dynamic between the two characters.
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in interviews, these two actors are constantly slipping into character and flirting with each other and frankly it's adorable. plus it's really entertaining. i'd love to see that dynamic, unfiltered, in a movie.
because believe it or not the flirting is actually even more open in their interviews than it was in tfatws. and i'm leaving some links as proof.
this here is known as the "married" compilation
and here's a "lucky dip" selection of interviews - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
and here's Anthony trying to get Seb to take his jacket off.
i'm just saying, why not let their chemistry shine? these two are so talented and so entertaining, especially when you put them in a room together. and can you imagine how absolutely hilarious and brilliant it would be to watch them navigate being a couple?
(and for those who bring up the "friends would be uncomfortable pretending to be dating" argument, i'm not here asking for a sex scene or anything. i don't think anyone would expect them to show any more intimacy (physical or emotional) while playing a couple than what they've already shown together in say... tfatws or in their own interviews. not that i actually expect anything regardless.)
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5. if they were a man and a woman they would've gotten together in tfatws
i have no more to add here. just that... yeah, they would've.
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6. and i'm not talking about the comics here, i'm talking about the MCU.
i understand fully that none of what i'm saying here falls in line with these characters from the comics. but the mcu itself doesn't fall much in line with the comics either, and these two characters especially are very different from their comics counterparts.
i'm not asking for these two to get together in the comics. tbh i don't think that it would work.
but the mcu Sam and Bucky are different and closer than their comics counterparts. they've got different histories, different backstories, and a very different dynamic. please rest assured that i am only talking about them in the mcu.
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7. Bucky Barnes is believably bisexual. and Sam Wilson has never been proven to be straight in the mcu, nor has he had a love interest.
(now please continue to keep in mind that these points only stand for the mcu versions of Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson, and not at all for their comics counterparts.)
Sam Wilson has never had a love interest, which is crazy because have you seen that man! he has had two blink and you'll miss it moments of verbal expression of attraction to women, both in TWS. and that's the extent of it, through his entire history in the mcu.
Bucky Barnes has had a number of surface-level female love interests, but none of them even came close to the level of connection and chemistry that Bucky shares with Sam.
and i'm sorry SarahBucky fans, but i just don't think there's very much to their relationship either. i love Sarah, i really do. but it's Sam who shares all the meaningful moments and history and chemistry with Bucky. and i don't see what making her into a love interest would do for Sarah's character either, what would that add to her story?
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[Picture ID: Bucky at the cookout with Sam, Sarah, Cass and AJ. Bucky and Sam are looking at each other and smiling.]
and also there is the whole tiger pictures thing... again. which does strongly suggest that Bucky is bisexual whether this was intentional on behalf of the writers or not.
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8. it's representation... AND it feels natural
marvel hasn't had a lot of queer representation that's been noticeably present in the MCU at the time of writing this.
there have been a lot of failures so far, from the bisexual erasure of Valkyrie in Thor Ragnarok to the wlw erasure in Black Panther.
there was queerbaiting almost identical to the bisexual Bucky baiting for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2. when asked if he had considered featuring a gay hero in gotg2, director James Gunn stated that "We might have already done that. I say, watch the movie." after the movie's release audiences were understandably confused about the lack of queer representation. To which the director followed up his comments with, "But we don't really know who's gay and who's not. It could be any of them."
there is also Loki, considered by most fans after the airing of his six episode series on Disney+ to be both a poor attempt at both genderfluid representation and bisexual representation. with both attempts being summed up fairly well by the term "blink-and-you'll-miss-it". (also it's just terribly written and Loki doesn't wear any interesting clothes! fanficcers are a Goddamn blessing in this hard time!)
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and let us not forget that Andrew Garfield was apparently FIRED for pushing for a bisexual spiderman. a bisexual spiderman within an interracial mlm relationship no less.
so for all these failures, marvel, why not allow us queer fans this? two brilliant and heroic men in a loving interracial relationship. two heroes that we can look up to.
now, one of the biggest detractions from the argument for representation is the idea of "forced diversity". and some poorly written characters certainly do end up feeling forced into the narrative. take Iceman in the comics for example, with Jean Grey just straight up suddenly telling him he's gay. like, marvel, sweetie, that's not how this works! and i don't know a lot of queer people who thought much of that "representation".
but the crux of the "forced diversity" argument is almost always that it feels unnatural within the story, right? and i don't think that anyone could say that about MCU Sam and Bucky ending up together, given these characters' existing chemistry and their history. they've both played characters in gay relationships before so we know that it's not outside of either actor's wheelhouse. and y'all know that Anthony and Seb can act, people. if it's in the script i believe that they'll make it seem like the most natural thing on earth.
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9. it'd be a nice change
there's been an ongoing meme lately about "Disney's first gay character", the joke being that they continually announce gay characters without really ever including gay characters in their films.
this is to the point where Disney has formed a reputation amongst queer audiences of being homophobic.
if Sam and Bucky were to become a couple, then Disney could have its first actual gay character within a gay relationship. AND have him be in the lead of his own movie, no less.
it's also worth keeping in mind that there's likely an overlap between the people who were outraged by a Sam Wilson Captain America, and the people who'd be outraged by a gay Captain America. and if they were already not seeing the film, then i don't think much is gonna change that.
queer audiences would definitely love it, and the media attention would be guaranteed to be huge. i mean, simply look at the amount of media attention mere rumours of a character's queerness gets you and multiply that by a canon confirmation of said rumours.
but i'm pretty sure that Disney already knows this.
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10. and yet, in truth, it's not about the representation
in truth i've never felt that i had any trouble relating to characters of any sexual orientation, race, gender, sex, body type, etc. (although that is not to throw any shade at all on people who do wish to see themselves represented) but for me, i think it's more about the story than the packaging.
and yet, a love story is still just a story. straight or queer, monoethnic or interracial. when two characters have chemistry and history and have sacrificed for each other time and time again, and they also can't keep their hands or their eyes off each other, then i'm pretty sure that that's a love story.
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straight or queer, monoethnic or interracial, it shouldn't be about these simple labels. it should be about how well written the relationship is. it should be about chemistry, and history, and sacrifice.
because i'm fucking sick of all the hollow, forced romances in media no matter the genders of the participants. i'm sick of lazily written, shallow relationships where any two people sharing the same space for any extended period of time will simply fall in love. it's boring, it's repetitive, and as a writer myself it drives me up the wall!
romance stories suck! and everyone knows that romance stories suck. between twilight, and most of the entire YA genre, and love triangles (so boring), and romance used as poorly-written throwaway subplots in Hollywood movies, the world is in agreement that the romance in western media is simply dreadful. and yet we still want love stories. it's an entire genre that sits at the heart of the human experience (<3), and yet one which so few of today's best known writers seem truly able to capture.
i don't think that i'm the only one who feels this way, either. i suspect it's actually a large part of why fandom is so romance-centred in the first place, that we're all just starving for a good love story.
(btw i think fandom has a reputation for being something that as a whole that it is not. it has this reputation for straight up demanding things and harassing people until they get their way. while unfortunately there are a few people who do this, they're fucking annoying and i swear that they're far from the majority.
in my experience fandom is mostly about writing a five thousand word story at three am while drunk off your ass because it might make someone whom you've never met smile, editing it in the cold light of day, and then posting it. expecting nothing. sometimes getting nothing. and sometimes getting someone send you kudos or a comment so heartbreakingly wonderful that it makes you smile in return.)
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11. so once again, it is all about the writing.
i want to see Sam and Bucky get together in the mcu, not because they would be a gay couple but because i genuinely believe that their story has potential to be an amazing love story.
and i know the mcu isn't about the romance. it's why in my personal opinion we haven't gotten a lot of good canon romances besides Peter Quill and Gamora. and i don't think that the mcu should be all about the romance either. i fucking love the action and the fighting scenes. i love the comedy. Captain America: The Winter Soldier had no romance and it was a fucking treasure, it was an amazing spy-action-thriller and it made my little gay heart dance. Thor Ragnarok had no romance, and it was an utterly brilliant comedic spectacle action film. not every movie needs romance.
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but mcu Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes were doing couple's therapy and fixing a boat and walking off into the sunset together in tfatws. they were inseparable on the battlefield. they've got a dynamic. it's beautiful, it's romantic, and it's gold.
a budding relationship between them in the next movie would be a good way to explore both characters more without the narrative feeling too stilted and separate. at the end of tfatws, both Sam and Bucky fans found that their respective fave felt somewhat underutilised and that their characters were underexplored.
now, that problem would be even more difficult to remedy in a movie, because the plotline of a movie needs to be really tight to work (giggity). and we know that the central conflict of the movie is gonna be action-based (which is good), but we still need each character's personal journey and growth to tie into the main conflict. (which is another issue that some fans found with tfatws, that these characters didn't really feel connected to the action-based plot on a more personal level.)
if Sam and Bucky are already in a relationship, however, this whole dynamic changes. first, their relationship has already been set up for nicely since TWS and through tfatws and they would officially be the best-fleshed-out couple in the mcu. but most importantly, a relationship gives them a perfect vehicle to explore both of their pasts comparatively and connect them personally to the action-based plot.
do you want to establish that Sam is a little too trusting and naïve? then establish this through his relationship with Bucky, and through showing his placing his trust in Bucky. (rather than through having him sympathise with a villain who threatened to murder his sister and his nephews).
perhaps you want to show Bucky recovering from his trauma? show us how comfortable he is with Sam. they get along, they're enjoying each other's presence, we see more of Sam's life and of his family, and then let Bucky tell Sam something that's raw and dark and honest about his life as The Winter Soldier. something about a memory, one that he only just recalled. he's opening up. and maybe what he tells Sam is even something that sets up the future action-based conflict, to ground that in something real.
you want to explore that Sam has trauma too? do this through Bucky. he tells Bucky a story about his time in the military. in the form of a flashback, he shares his own story of loss to evoke before the audience the shared theme of feeling at fault even when you're simply a helpless bystander to an act of pure destruction.
then, action sequence! and it's directly connected to Bucky's time as the Winter Soldier. explore the grief of someone whose life the Winter Soldier tore apart manifesting into a villain perpetuating the cycle of pain. establish your villain.
Later, Sam is dragged into battle against this villain for protecting Bucky. But Bucky doesn't want Sam to protect him. He feels guilt for what he can't control and he doesn't want Sam getting hurt because of him. Bucky reminds Sam that he has a family, one who needs him and who loves him. He tells him to go home.
Sam reminds Bucky that he's a part of that family. And that sure Sam's a hero and his job is to protect anyone and everyone, but that he's doing it because he wants to. It's not simply to prove that he can, or to prove that he's not a bystander (this connects to Sam's trauma here), but that he's doing it to help people.
and this gets Bucky thinking about who he is and what he's doing here. is he a hero who stands by Sam's side? or is he an ordinary man who stands aside? or perhaps, does he stand alone? what does he stand for? Maybe Sam knows. But does Bucky?
Sam and Bucky fight off the villain again, and for the first time Bucky meets this adversary face to face. And Bucky recognises this villain, and has a flashback to the genuine pain that he inflicted upon them in the form of the Winter Soldier. Bucky freezes mid-fight, he almost dies, and Sam has to save him.
Sam chews Bucky out for almost getting killed because he was afraid for him. but Bucky takes this the wrong way and goes off to fight the villain alone, or perhaps to die alone, he's not quite sure.
He puts up a half-hearted fight. He apologises for what the Winter Soldier has done, and he waits for the killing blow, when Sam swoops down and he saves him. He asks Sam why he saved him and Sam calls him a moron. And then, Sam asks him what sacrificing himself would solve. He tells him that you can't choose your past but you can choose your future (connecting to his own experience of loss and guilt and grief). And that no matter what Bucky Barnes still has a future, whether that's as the Winter Soldier or the White Wolf or just some dork with a day job. And that he has a future as a part of Sam's family too.
Sam fights the villain, and it's toe to toe. He delivers a few good blows, but receives a fair few himself. And then the villain tears off his wings, first one and then the other, in a manner reminiscent of what the Winter Soldier did to him in TWS. Through Bucky's eyes there's a flashback to highlight the parallels. Sam gets back on his feet and he fights his best fight, but is now losing.
And then the heavily injured Bucky steps up and fights by Sam's side, and only together do they take down the villain.
"So... I inspired you, huh?" Sam teases with a smile, utterly exhausted. "With my heroism and-"
"You inspired me." Bucky said, equally exhausted. "Let's leave it at that."
Together, Sam and Bucky go back to the safety and warmth of their family. Sam fixes his wings. Sam goes back to being Captain America. And Bucky... he's around, but it's unclear what he's doing.
That is, until the very end. When Sam is in a fight, and suddenly Bucky shows up and helps him out.
"What are you doing here?" Sam asks.
"I've made up my mind." Bucky says. "I'm the Winter Soldier. But now I'll save lives, Sam. Now, like you, I'll be a hero."
Sam smirks. "So does this make you my sidekick, then?"
Bucky smiles. "C'mon, at least make me a partner." He says.
"How about co-workers." Sam says (in flashback, he remembers back to the death of his last on-the-job partner).
"How about friends." Bucky says, with a wry look.
"Bucky... I don't want to see you put your dumbass self in danger." Sam says.
"Oh, and it's ok for you to go running off into danger on your own all the time?" Bucky asks.
"Yes." Sam says stubbornly. "Absolutely it is."
"Why?"
"Because I'm not a dumbass?!"
"Sam, if you think I'm not gonna be watching your back for the rest of time... then you're the biggest dumbass I know. And I don't care if you need me or not, I will be there for you."
"Because Sam, you're more than Captain America. You're more than a good soldier. You're a good man. And I think sometimes, the world forgets what the difference is."
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...or something like that.
(i only spent like 15 minutes on that. you know if i were actually writing this movie i would come up with something much better. and if anyone from marvel is seeing this, yes i can come work for you. i will make the time, let's do this thing right!)
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finale
at the end of the day, whether or not the mcu chooses to make Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes a couple, it's their decision. and they don't owe me anything.
i'm just some random person on the internet. who thinks that Captain America 4 should #givecaptainamericaaboyfriend
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karasunology · 4 years
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⸙ ˚₊ ➷ SUGAWARA KOUSHI & OIKAWA TOORU AS DADS HEADCANONS ! ❞
✎ . . . i'm happy that your requests are open ! and for dad headcanons?? i am right here to serve my braincells for you ma'am. what about dad! sugawara & kenma? thank you in advance 🤓😘
❝ ― submitted by @ nonnie <3 ❞
✎ . . . will you please write about oikawa, bokuto, and sugawara as dads?? :>
❝ ― submitted by @ nonnie <3 ❞
-ˏˋ ➶ character(s) ━ sugawara koushi & oikawa tooru <3
[ trigger warnings ━ slight manga spoilers !! ]
✎ . . . DAD HEADCANONS.
[ BOKUTO KOUTARO VERSION. ] [ MIYA ATSUMU VERSION. ]
-ˏˋ playing soleil's tape ˊˎ-
[ 📼 ] . . . reposted because tumblr took it off?? ugh n e ways happy birthday again to my boy sugawara😔✋
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SUGAWARA KOUSHI.
➜ before the arrival of your daughter, mans was totally cool about it; also ecstatic to say the least, he wanted to have a family for you for a long, long time, and when he finally has the chance to start it with you ─ he couldn't help but cry and be so soft on the spot with just the thought of it
➜ but he also couldn't help but be doubtful, doubtful of himself ─ will be a good enough father? will he be able to teach his daughter the important virtues in life? will his daughter even love him?
➜ but in the midst of those thoughts were you, reassuring him multiple times, that, if there was any man that you could think of, of being the father of your children ─ that man would be him, and only him
➜ ngl right now, mans wanted to give you another one after you said that 💀
➜ and when your first child was delivered, he was so encouraging and supportive of you, would whisper reassurance and words of affermations saying how great you were, how he was so blessed for having you.
➜ remember those doubts he had? all those thoughts fully dissapeared when your baby wrapped her fingers around his thumb for the first time, and suga couldn't help but cry ─ from joy? definitely, from satisfaction that you guys created this angel? of course. and relief? yeah, probably.
➜ sugawara doesn't want to spoil your daughter since he wants your daughter to know the importance of money and doesn't want her to end up being a brat
➜ but sometimes ,,, he couldn't just help it okay? ☹
➜ in the first months of parenting with sugawara, he was anything but the perfect dad but you could really see the parental instincts in him
“ kohana, come to daddy ” your husband, koushi, stretched his arms towards your daughter of five years; kneeling on the floor as you sat across from him, kneeling as well.
➜ as your daughter slowly waddled over to sugawara with a blank yet adorable chubby face, sugawara was overjoyed, to say the least.
“ yes waddle over to daddy ─ ”
➜ well, until your daughter cheekily ran across the opposite side, to you. as if flowers of many kinds surrounded her, she glided onto your surprised arms as you instinctively open tour arms out for her, a shocked laugh was heard from you.
➜ 💀💀💀
➜ your husband's jaw DROPPED Y'ALL😭✋ LET ME JUST AHHH
➜ kohana definitely got her wittiness and cheekiness from her koushi, and maybe some from you as well.
➜ sugawara let out an offended scoff as he got up so fast to chase your daughter around the house, as your daughter shrieked in fear and excitement as she waddled all over the place
➜ ugh IM SO SOFT RN, NO ONE TOUCHHHH MEEEE😡
➜ and when kohana was out with her with her aunty kiyoko and uncles daichi and asahi, sugawara was feeling a bit ,,, spicy that night that hey, why not create another one with you👉👈
➜ let's just say, while your daughter was eating caramel apples with her aunt & uncles, you were getting dic ked down by sugawara phew chile
➜ and after a few months, your son, shin was born & damn did sugawara love him
➜ unlike your daughter, your son is such a sweetie uGHHHH
➜ and loved his dad so much, is the calm and collected one while he had your hair and suga's eyes
➜ while the squad™ ; daichi, kiyoko & asahi would come to your house with every chance they get just to see your little ones and maybe even bring theirs as a playdate for shin & kohana
➜ ugh next gen typa thingz💅
➜ would play volleyball with them, but with a softer one that's a bit more kid-friendly
➜ being almost total opposites, shin and kohana would often bicker, kohana being the one to provock the fight and shin just straight up spitting facts, 6/10 of the time would win over his older sister
➜ periodt
➜ and if fights would get too much, sugawara would bONKK💥🔨 your children ( like those times where suga just fu cking bOnKs his teammates. )
➜ yeah that
➜ mans rarely gets mad and phew ,, if he ever does i just have nothin, NOTHIN to say😶
“ i HAVE NEVER IN MY LIFE YELLED AT A GIRL LIKE THIS, WHEN MY MOTHER YELLS LIKE THIS IT'S BECAUSE SHE LOVES ME. ”
➜ he'll never be angry at them for too long though
➜ but mostly, he'll just be disappointed rather than mad
➜ and honestly that hurts more
➜ since sugawara is an elementary school teacher, he'd often tell stories about your guys' children with his students
➜ like THAT ONE TEACHER THAT JUST TALKS ABOUT THEIR LIVES AND FORGETS ABOUT CLASS
➜ UGH WE STANNNN
➜ it became an actual thing with his students that they would every now and then ask about them
➜ would have such a strong foundation built from trust, respect and just love with his children
➜ honestly you'd fallen all over again with him BECAUSE HE'S SO UGSHHSHSH
➜ HUSBAND MATERIAL
➜ SANAOL LIKE CAN'T RELATE LMAO
➜ baking !!
➜ this is one of suga's past times, and even before you guys were even married, y'all would have at-home dates and just bake
➜ and it just gradually became a thing with your children every time anyone just wants to bake something.
➜ and most of the time would end up messing up the kitchen and covered in flour
➜ 11/10 dad, may not be the most perfect dad but your kids could never ask for anyone else but him.
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OIKAWA TOORU.
➜ it started off as a joke, he couldn't really remember when it all started but he would always say that you would be such a good mother whenever you would take care of him when he's injured himself or just scold him whenever he keeps over working himself
➜ but after a few years and oikawa would never have thought that he wanted to actually have a child or two with you, it started off when he would spend a few hours until pass midnight to watch cute baby videos
➜ like why was he there?? HE WAS JUST WATCHING BUZZFEED UNSOLVED A FEW MINUTES AGO LMAO WHAT
➜ and his eyes would linger onto your sleeping figure ontop of his body, face nuzzled as he could feel your nose tickle his torso.
➜ he couldn't help but play along with the thoughts of having a child with you ─ to start a family with you.
➜ you guys were already living together at argentina, and you've support him through and through with everything he has pursued in his life, and what else was stopping him from starting a family with you?
➜ yes, his schedule may be a bit busy but he had always given more than enough time to you, what hurt may it cause if he had another person to dedicate his attention as well? someone that's the perfect mixture of the love of his life and himself.
➜ and when oikawa has already set something on his mind ─ mans would always get what he wants
➜ if i were you, i'd give him anything he wants ngl
➜ just saying y'all😳✋
➜ it didn't take him a hot second to make you agree to it, and before he knew it he fell in love all over again on the bundle of joy he held on his hands
➜ would pepper you with kisses even if you were tired from giving birth, saying how proud he was of you and how beautiful the child you both created
➜ like duh, it was yours and tooru's child, your guys' baby will be a HEARTBREAKER WITH THOSE LOOKS😡
“ tooru !! ” you exclaimed as you saw your husband hold out a strawberry lollipop to your daughter while holding her with his other arm, as your daughter was ready to bite it ─ MANS REALLY SAID NO❌ RIGHTS✅😤 AND PULLED IT AWAY WHILE LAUGHING BEFORE PUTTING IT IN HIS MOUTH
➜ i'm so sorry i just ─
➜ while your daughter LOOKED SO OFFENDED WHEN SHE STARED SO HARD AT HIM LIKE
➜ THIS BITCH REALLY HAD IT COMING FOR HIM
➜ before your daughter just straight up cried right then and there while tooru's eyes widdened and tried apologizing to his daughter
“ aiko baby i'm so sorry ─  ” until your daughter slapped the lollipop from his mouth
➜ while oikawa just had that blank stare
➜ while you're trying not laugh so much because you KNOW his ego was shattered as she held her arms out for you, making grabby hands until you took her off from her father's hold
➜ oikawa : i hate it here😙😍💅
➜ aiko : it's what he deserves :)
➜ but when your daughter grew up, she ADORED HER FATHER, she would be the first to to the door whenever her father comes back from tournaments, your two younger sons, akiro and haruki would follower right after her chasing each other out
➜ oikawa still dresses her up even if she wasn't a seven year old anymore
➜ aiko is a daddy's girl and that's on periodt😡💅
➜ while aiko had tooru's playful and big dumb b energy, and your your hair and his eyes
➜ your oldest son, akiro, got your personality, and eyes but his father's hair
➜ and your youngest son, haruki, has both your eyes and hair and is a mix of yours and tooru's personality
➜ and it wasn't only aiko which held her father at such a good light that if she told him that ─ mans will be over the moon
➜ but also your two sons which found themselves loving and dedicating their love towards volleyball just like their father
➜ watching his games is a must !!
➜ his ego would not only be ASTRONOMICAL
➜ and just the overall overwhelming motivation had him serving 4 service aces in a row on periodttt
➜ your three kids would fight over who could scream the loudest in the stands for their father
➜ when he's away and your children would have those missing him hours™😔✋ oikawa would always try and contact you guys three times a day and everynight he'd be telling you guys how practice was and would also ask you guys how your days was.
➜ would teach his kids to FLIRT LMAO💀
➜ but will never fail teaching them that they should treat woman with RESPEKT ( and just overall everyone?? not just of their gender it's just because of idk??MANNERS ? )
➜ oikawa : *drinks his respect wamen juice.*
➜ ohoho but if his daughter ever starts having boy crushes MANS WOULD BE ALL POUTY
“ but loovveee ,, ” tooru drags out
“ our daughter is starting to date, what happened to marrying daddy one day? ”
“ tooru we're already married. ”
➜ you're tHIS👌 CLOSE TO DIVORCING HIS ASS
➜ you : i should have gone for the best friend instead
➜ IM JOKING YOU LOVE HIM A LOT
➜ beach volleyball !!
➜ after seeing how good beach volleyball taught hinata, giving him advantages in the indoor court, he wanted his child to as well
➜ or normal backyard volleyball will do
➜ just like with his teammates, oikawa is able to bring out the best in your children
➜ just a 11/10 dad, he may not always be with you guys because of volleyball but he'd always make time for you guys and would never neglect and forsake you guys
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Spooky unpredictableness
31 Days of Spooktober
Day 4/31
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Cassian fully believed his girlfriend was a demon.
Not in the bad sense of the thing, even though whenever he told her that she would reply by saying that there wasn’t a good sense in that. No, Cassian just believed that Nesta could not be human. There was a series of reasons to that, but the biggest one was that his girlfriend couldn’t be scared.
Haunted houses, horror movies, pranks, jump scares… Nothing drew more than a simple frown from Nesta. Cassian just knew that she could walk into Hell itself and probably scare the Devil before being scared by him.
And so obviously, Cassian spent the whole month of October trying to scare her.
He didn’t do it as much during the rest of the year, but there was something about Halloween season that just made him insanely tempted to giive Ness a good fright. She wasn’t like Feyre who hated scary pranks, or like Elain who would scream and laugh seconds later. Nests didn’t react, and so she didn’t particularly care if Cassian tried to scare her or not.
“I’ll get you this year.” Cassian said, eyes narrowed as he stared at Nesta.
She only smiled sarcastically over her coffee mug, reading the news on her phone. “You couldn’t make me gasp from surprise even if your life depended on it, sweetheart.”
Cassian jaw fell slightly, and he crossed his arms over his chest. “I’m sorry?”
Nesta raised her icy grey-blue eyes to him, a light-brown eyebrow raised. “We know each other for seven years. We date for four. Tell me one time you got a reaction like that from scaring or surprising me. Let’s be honest, Cass, I can’t be scared and you have become predictable. It’s ok, it’s how our relationship works.”
“I will surprise you.”
“Uh-huh.” Nesta murmured, going back to her coffee and news.
“I mean it.”
“Of course you do.” Nesta’s ironic smile only grew. “Why don’t you go to Halloween spirit buy a Michael Myers mask? You can try catching me when I’m getting out of the bathroom. No, wait, this is not very original. Haven’t you done this already too? Like three times.”
Cassian huffed, getting up from the table. “You’ll see, Nesta Archeron.”
“Want to bet?”
He, stupidly and recklessly, assented. “Yes, I actually do.”
“Very well, name your conditions.” Nesta’s face was probably hurting from her smile.
“If I make you obviously surprised, and I mean even a gasp, I win. If by the end of the month this doesn’t happen, you win. The winner can ask anything and the loser has to say yes.”
Nesta raised her eyebrows, low laughs coming out of her. “Oh, I’m in. You’re so fucked.”
He walked out of the kitchen, Nesta’s laughs following him until he closed the bedroom’s door.
He would never admit it to anyone, especially to Nesta, but she was somewhat right. It’s not that Cassian had never tried to surprise her, but Nesta was always one step ahead, always noticing stuff he thought he had hidden well. She knew him way too well, and getting anything that would be actually surprising to her was near impossible.
And then there was the fact that Nesta couldn’t be scared. It wasn’t something solely based on Cassian, but just in general. Both Feyre and Elain would always tell the rest of their friend group that Nesta was never scared, especially during Halloween when she knew things were fake. She had been a serious kid, and nothing, absolutely nothing, would even force a surprised gasp out of her.
He was dating a goddamn evil genius, and he would need to step up his game a lot if he wished ti get Nesta to at least widen her eyes.
And so Cassian paced his room all throughout breakfast time. He mentally annotated some ideas for actual scares, but nothing that he truly believed that would make Ness surprised. After thirty minutes of nothing, he sighed, throwing himself on their bed.
At least he hadn’t bet with her.
Oh, wait.
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Nesta adored Halloween.
People usually believed that because of her serious demeanor, she was the type of person to hate the holiday, but to be honest, since she was a kid Nesta had loved Halloween time. She liked the autumn aesthetic, the elaborated decorations, the horror movie marathons. She loved the candy sales and how everyone was minding their own fucking business and not shoving their noses of hers.
Above all, Nesta adored Halloween because it never scared her.
Since she was little she would watch slasher movies and while her sisters squirmed and screamed, she was intently watching the story. Haunted houses in amusement parks were fun because of other people’s reactions, because they also always failed to make her jumpy. Spooky prank wars with her sisters was easy because they could never scare her, but were easily scared by her.
In short, Halloween was Nesta’s holiday and she made sure to enjoy every single second of October.
It also didn’t hurt how hilarious she found her boyfriend trying to scare her every year. At this point, he had already tried everything from masks to fake insects, jump scares to fake blood. He would even sometimes run out of ideas and repeat the same prank as if she would have magically grown terrified of plastic spiders. She found his dedication both cute and funny, but also effortless. She had gone twenty four years without falling for these pranks, and it was very unlikely that things would change now.
Sometimes she thought about asking Cassian to stop doing them. It was a waste of his money, but he seemed to enjoy them so much that Nesta just couldn’t bring herself to burst his bubble. There was also a very smug part of her that thrived on always winning their unspoken Halloween matches, but she’d never say this out loud if only to maintain her cold and detached nature about these childish pranks.
All those factors together were what made her, in the following morning, taste her sugar before pouring it into her coffee.
She turned to Cassian who was sitting at the table and intently not looking at her. “Really, Cassian? Salt instead of sugar? Not even my dad would fall for that one.”
Cassian scolded, but refused to look at her. Nesta simply smiled and laughed smugly, looking around the cabinets for what was labeled salt but was actually sugar.
“You got it on a Buzzfeed article, didn’t you? I told you those things will fry your brain and it’s not like you have neurons to spare.”
His head whipped in her direction, eyes narrowed and defiant. “I will surprise you, Nesta Archeron. You’re in for a fucking ride if you think not.”
Nesta smiled coyly, letting her coffee mug on the counter as she slowly walked to Cassian. “Really?”
“Yes.” His jaw was tight, but there was something about his expression that was slightly off, that was slightly different.
Ignoring the fact that she was probably being paranoid, Nesta laughed, sitting on Cassian’s lap and putting her arms around his shoulders. He was stiff under her, something that only made her laugh once more. “Cass, our relationship is not based on surprises. As much as it pains me to say, since the beginning you understood most of me, and I understood most of you. And that was a long time ago. There isn’t any aces to play, no rabbit inside the hat. Our relationship is transparent and it’s good that it’s this way.”
“You can still surprise me.” He grumbled.
“You are easily impressionable.”
“Fuck off.” Cassian’s brood broke, and he let out a huffed chuckle. “This has not convinced me to stop, just so you know.”
Nesta jumped off his lap, smirking as she went back to grab her coffee. “I never hoped it would.”
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It was October 31th finally.
As much as Nesta still believed she couldn’t be surprised, Cassian sure as hell was trying. Worst was, he wasn’t trying hard, he was just trying a lot.
In the past year the pranks were elaborate and hard to build, but this time they were… classics.
Fake bugs inside your drawers, mayo instead of toothpaste, garlic inside the Oreos. The type of shit that would make you want to throw the thing away, but not really the type of stuff to frighten you. He did buy some masks and put them in random places of the house to scare her, which obviously didn’t happen. He tried to get her scared by doing jump scares after they watched a horror movie, by turning on and off the lights whenever she was alone in a room. He tried the whole mirror thing that, whenever the bathroom was too hot, the words “help” would show up in it.
It was funny and he obviously thought about it, but there was something missing. There was something that was essentially Cassian not being put into those pranks. It’s like he was actually getting his ideas from Buzzfeed, and he would definitely know that none of those things would actually surprise her.
To be honest, she was somewhat disappointed. Nesta would never say it out loud, but she liked the pranks. It was a part of her relationship with Cassian since they started dating— before even— and this year it had been… boring, predictable.
Exactly what she had said it would be.
As she padded to the kitchen on Halloween morning, Nesta wondered if Cassian was doing it on purpose because of what she had said. Wondered if he had made it purposefully predictable to make her regret her own words.
She stopped in front of the fridge, shaking her head. This wasn’t Cassian’s style, no. If he was pissed about what she had said, he would have talked to her. The one in the relationship that usually brooded and was middle vindictive was her. A lot less than she was in the beginning of the relationship, and something she was constantly working on. It wasn’t that she was a mean person, but Nesta had learned to bottle her emotions so much, had learned to treat everyone so coldly as a defense mechanism, that sometimes she would panic and those would be her initial reactions.
It was a slow process— becoming more and more the person she wished to be. A lot of it had been done because of the amazing support she had from Cassian and from her sisters, but Nesta was also proud to recognize that a lot had to do with only herself.
No, Cassian wouldn’t be cruel and do something like that. Nesta knew this because, during the years that she took to overcome her trauma and get to know herself more, she had also gotten to know Cassian more. And he was never cruel, never mean.
Nesta shook her head, clearing her head of thoughts as she opened the fridge.
She could only stare at the jar in front of her, torn between sighing or laughing. She grabbed it, turning around to look at Cassian who had just entered the kitchen. “Really, Cass?”
Cassian huffed, spreading his arms. “Not even a gasp?!”
Nesta chuckled, setting the jar down on the counter. It was big and filled with a green liquid. What was supposed to be scary was the head inside that looked a lot like Rhysand’s. “Bold of you to assume I wouldn’t be happy if this was actually Rhys’s head.”
Cassian laughed, shaking his head. “You’ve got to let the grudge go.”
“I have!” Nesta deadpanned, examining the jar. “Most of the times, at least.”
“Well, looks like I failed.” Cassian said, and Nesta raised an eyebrow at his tone. He didn’t sound defeated, he sounded smug.
“Yes, you did.” Nesta announced, eyes narrowing at Cassian. “What the fuck are you smug about?”
His smile widened. “Nothing.”
“Fuck off, Cassian. If you honestly think I’ll let you surprise me on the last day, you’re mistaken.” Nesta rolled her eyes, turning back to the fridge to grab some grapes. “If you honestly think I’ll—“
And right there, for the first time in her entire life, Nesta found herself absolutely shocked when she turned around. A loud gasp left her mouth, the grapes she’d been holding falling to the ground and rolling all the way to where Cassian was kneeling, a complacent grin on his lips. He was holding a small black box, a simple silver band with small black diamonds on it.
“Well, well, well, Nesta Archeron. If that gasp wasn’t like fucking music to my ears.”
She placed a hand over her mouth, eyes wide. “Cassian…”
“If I remember our bet correctly, which I do,” he winked at her, holding the velvet black box higher. “I believe I had the right to anything I want and you have to say yes.”
Nesta let out an incredulous laugh, her head shaking. “I should have guessed that your shitty pranks weren’t because you were tired.”
Cassian threw his head back and laughed. “No, they weren’t. I thought that by making your expectations for pranks this year be lower, this whole thing would be more surprising.”
“Are you proposing to me only to win a bet, you asshole?”
Cassian grinned again, hazel eyes shining against his brown skin. “No, but you need to admit it has come in handy. I had been planning this for weeks, and then you asked if I wanted to bet I could surprise you. Honestly, you set yourself up to this. And I haven’t proposed yet, chill a little, woman.”
Nesta laughed again, eyeing Cassian. He was still wearing only the shorts he wore to bed, his shoulder-length hair a mess of curls. His face still looked slightly puffy, his usual sharp cheekbones red from happiness. Nesta guessed she wasn’t much better; she was wearing one of his white shirts, light brown hair falling down to her shoulders.
“So, are you going to ask or not? I don’t have all day.”
“So bossy, what am I getting myself into?” Cassian said ironically, but soon his face softened, smile becoming loving. “Nesta Archeron, even though you don’t have another option that it’s not a yes, would you give me the pleasure of marrying me so I can spend the rest of my Halloweens trying to scare you?”
Nesta chuckled merrily, nodding. “Yes, and even if I wasn’t forced to say yes because of this bet, I would have said it nonetheless.”
Cassian got up, immediately sliding the ring into Nesta’s finger, his other hand sneaking around her waist. He pulled her against him, a huge smile overtaking his mouth as he pressed his lips to hers. “I know you would. You’re not that unpredictable either, sweetheart.”
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A/N: Oh, hello Nessian, it’s been a while... I had this idea during September and didn’t know who to give it to, but I realized today how good it fits what I imagine the Nessian long term relationship would look like! Hope you guys like it and about the kinktober: I know it was supposed to be Sunday but I was procrastinating so it’s gonna be here around 3 AM probs
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Youtuber AU (warning: some spoilers)
(requested by @ladyofthelake13)
AU in which all (or most) of our favorite characters make a living as famous/semi-famous Youtubers/vloggers.
Yuya is a True Crime vlogger a la Buzzfeed Unsolved. Each week she researches old crimes and cold cases, adding in her own thoughts on the case and her thoughts on who really committed them. She started out the channel first as an extra credit project when she was still in pre-law but grew so popular that she started creating videos full time. She earns most of her money through merchandizing rights and by creating her own brand. Every now and then she delves into supernatural-type videos with her adopted sister Sakuya as co-host. Her adopted brother Nozomu helps out behind the scenes with editing videos and doing some camera work. One of the more popular aspects of her channel is when she brings her friends, other popular Youtubers, in as guests. There are even shipping wars among her followers on who she has the most chemistry with.
Benitora is a travel vlogger who travels all around the country trying out different local and specialized food/snacks, showing off various features in the geography and chatting with friendly locals. His prestigious family only allows his ‘frivolities’ under the excuse that he’s going out and building goodwill with the populace he will eventually be in charge of. Tora’s father is the leader of the country, something that Tora himself tries to keep quiet about. To finance his travels, other than the Patreon page he set up, Tora made a deal with his father Ieyasu: he can keep up a steady and consistent view count Tora can keep making his videos. As soon as viewership drops below a certain amount, he has to stop and resume his training to take over leadership. So far he’s been able to keep up his end of the bargain, but the looming future ahead of him is something that he’s never quite able to forget.
Okuni is a beauty vlogger who has inside access to some of the newest products about to hit the market. She regularly reviews the new and upcoming products, shares tutorials for both beginners and those who’ve been using makeup for a while on how to apply the perfect foundation, get expert wingtips, and how to match their particular color pallet for their skin tone. Okuni will bring in her friends, both women and men, to give them makeovers as well as to have them compete in different makeup challenges. So far, the most popular video on her channel is from when she let Hotaru and Shinrei give each other makeovers.
Yukimura’s channel comes across as half family drama and shenanigans and half prank channel. Saizo is largely his go-to camera man, but other members of his family take turns as well, lending to some...interesting footage that almost always ends up in the videos released to the public. Every now and then Yukimura will drop his own political takes into conversation, only to immediately start talking about something else as a distraction. There are rumors that he’s going to be running for public office as a bid to overthrow the current political power. There are also others who discount this theory stating that Yukimura’s not serious enough for the role and actually doesn’t have any interest in politics beyond his ‘hot takes.’ It’s goofy, fun-loving Yukimura, there’s no way. Yukimura himself loves to obfuscate this even further by going on regular shopping trips where he shows off the newest gifts he’s planning to get for his family...usually specifically for whoever’s holding the camera at the time, leading to a lot of back and forth with the cameraperson on exactly why they deserve these gifts in the first place.
Sasuke’s channel is largely an unboxing channel for various toys and other gadgets, usually ones he gets from Yukimura. He’ll also review the items based on how engaging or mentally stimulating he finds them. When Sasuke isn’t reviewing items he’s usually filming himself out in the woods exploring with his childhood friend Kotaro. The two friends run a side vlog documenting skateboarding, biking, and rollerblading tricks and stunts or hiking and camping trips they go on together. A popular series of videos the two friends have that has boosted their viewership considerably involves them showing off various sword stunts and tricks. Every now and then Benitora sneaks his way onto Sasuke’s channel, sharing travel tips and stories. Despite Sasuke repeatedly mentioning how annoying he finds the older man, viewers can’t help but notice that Tora’s never actually cut out of any videos he appears in. Every now and then Sasuke will post gaming videos that he plays with Kotaro and occasionally Tora; despite several requests, he insists he’s not a gaming channel.
Bontenmaru’s channel is almost exclusively dedicated to bodybuilding and workout techniques. Usually these videos include him trying to get his friends involved in working out or acting as their personal trainer. Some of his friends are more receptive to this than others. Whenever a new workout ‘challenge’ comes out, Bon will immediately make a video about it, either criticizing the challenge or pointing out the different ways that the challenge helps develop certain muscle groups. When he’s not making workout and bodybuilding videos, Bon can be found filming drunk hangouts with his friends. There’s a small subsection of his videos dedicated to reviewing workout clothes while trying to promote his own personal brand or workout clothing and accessories.
Akira’s videos are full of DIY tips and tricks as well as testing to see if other DIY videos hold up. More often than not the DIY videos he reviews are hilariously wrong, something he goes out of his way to prove and mock. When he’s not reviewing DIYs, he’s posting Let’s Plays to his channel. Akira is also a popular Twitch streamer, usually co-opting his friends into playing either Team Death Matches or pvps together. He likes to consider himself a cool and collected gamer, which admittedly he is to a degree. Whenever he has to be on the same team as certain ‘friends’ of his, though (Benitora, Hotaru and Akari, namely) he tends to lose his cool. If his friends annoy him too much, though, he’ll just bring them on as guests to try out the end results of his DIY videos.
Hotaru’s channel is about as chaotic and disfunctional as the man himself. His videos are almost completely unedited, excepting for a few special effects for when his brother appears on screen. He tends to get stuck with the label of ‘Travel Vlogger’ flor lack of a better description for his videos, which usually document the various places he finds himself whenever he gets lost. It’s become an in-joke and even a betting pool among his followers on where he’ll end up next with his videos. If he’s not out getting lost, he’s posting videos about random things that he’ll find interesting--various stray cats, an interesting bug he found, or even a few attempted prank videos on his brother Shinrei. For those who don’t get enough humor out of his videos, Hotaru’s twitter account is open and well documented, usually with various out of context posts or sporadic updates on where he is. He is well recognized on the Internet, if by name only, as a living cryptid.
Akari is well known as an influencer, posting her own beauty tips and tricks, local restaurant reviews, and even some humorous videos of her friends doing silly, stupid, and humiliating videos as a result of some kind of blackmail that she has on them. Every now and then her videos turn educational when she offers medical advice on how to treat certain wounds and injuries, usually because one of her dumb friends has that specific injury that she demonstrates with. Akari also has certain Opinions on a certain pharmaceutical company that she absolutely in no way has any connections with. She certainly never worked there at one point, and you can’t prove that she ever did.
Kyoshiro’s mostly known for his editing skills, being the go-to editor for his girlfriend’s sister Yuya’s channel. He has a few tutorials on how to edit videos together, though there are a few videos that are light skits that he does with his girlfriend Sakuya. He did a series at one point that was part tea-review and part gushing about Sakuya. He tries to stay out of the spotlight for the most part, but he’s not opposed to appearing on Yuya’s channel as a guest host...as long as Kyo’s not also guest hosting at the same time. He has a unique relationship with Kyo, where sometimes they appear to be best friends and in other videos as mortal enemies. No one’s quite sure what the relationship is between them, though there have been a few rumors floating around that the two are siblings. These rumors have yet to be acknowledged either way, however.
Kyo’s channel isn’t actually run by him. Every video that appears on his channel is something that one of his friends made and then uploaded for him. These videos usually take the form of boasting Kyo’s skills (usually made by Akira or Akari) or as group hangouts with his friend group. There are a few that were made by Yuya that are typically along the lines of “look what this guy did now” that are pretty popular and technically give Kyo the title of ‘influencer.’ Kyo is also known on the Internet as a type of cryptid, though not to the levels of Hotaru. Instead, he’s known as the kind of person you want to emulate, who men either hate or want to be like and who several women wish to date. There’s some speculation that Kyo may already be in a relationship with someone (typically Yuya, though she refuses to say anything about the subject). There’s some talk that there may be open warrants out for his arrest, but so far nothing about his alleged crimes or the man’s whereabouts has come to light.
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Becoming A Stark (14)- Peter Parker x Stark! femReader
Word Count: 1869
Warning: Swearing
Author’s Note: So we’ve hit the half way point I think (I think I did my math right lol). Also I loved doing the field trip chapters! I wanted to do something more fun before we get into the Spider-Man Homecoming Chapters which will start next! Let me know what you think and if you want to be added to the tag list!
Chapter One || Previous Chapter || Master List
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“So is this what you do every day?” You ask Pepper as you sit in the chair next to her desk. Your hand fidgets with the medical alert bracelet on your right wrist, needing to fiddle with something.
“Goodness no. Every day changes. But it’s a lot of meetings and lunches, paperwork, press conferences, things like that. And about 90% of it is redirecting your dad when he gets on a tangent.” Pepper says with a smile. 
“What…” You let your sentence drift off, not wanting to voice your question.
“What….?” She prods slightly, but doesn’t push like your dad would.
“What if I decide I don’t want to run the company? Like everyone keeps telling me it’s my name on the building and stuff but what if I don’t want to ascend to my birth right or whatever?”
“I’m not a Stark.” Pepper states.
“Yeah but you and my dad are basically going to get married one day and then you will be.” It’s not that much of a secret that your dad wants to marry Pepper, he just hasn’t asked yet.
“Well... yes, but that’s not the point I was trying to make. The point is that you don’t have to be a Stark to run the company. When you turn twenty one, should you decide that running the company is not for you, you would just pick another CEO, or I can keep running the company if that is where we are depending on what happens seven years from now.”
“Would my dad hate it if I didn’t step into it?”
“You know your dad chose to step away from running the company right?” You nod. It was big news when Tony Stark had stepped down from CEO. Nana and Pops had talked about it for like a week when it happened. “He wouldn’t judge you or love you any less for choosing to do the same thing. He wants you to be happy. First and foremost. He’s already looking towards which schools have the best English Lit programs because he knows that his pull at MIT is going to have nothing for you. He doesn’t expect you to be him. He wants you to be better than him.”
“But he’s Tony Stark. He’s Iron Man. How can I be better than that?” You ask.
“Quite easily actually. Tony Stark, Iron Man, psshh. They’ve let a lot of people down.” Tony’s voice enters the room. “Honestly there’s probably even one of those Buzzfeed articles about the top ten ways that Tony Stark has let down people.”
“Tony.” Pepper’s voice alone tells you she disagrees, but Tony ignores it and continues.
“But you, Y/N Stark, you have the chance to do anything in the world. And you will make me a proud dad by doing that. You don’t have to do anything with the company if you don’t want to and I will be completely happy with that you know why? Because you are my daughter. And that’s the only thing I need to make me happy.” He places a kiss on the top of your head. “That and doing whatever it takes to keep Pep here happy.” He smiles at her across the desk.
“What would keep me happy is if you actually met your deadlines.” She teases. 
“I’m right on schedule. Ahead some might even say.”
“Some might, but would I?” She raises an eyebrow as she pushes some papers onto a different pile.
“I’d rather not sleep on the couch tonight so I’m going to go with I’m on schedule today.” Pepper rolls her eyes at that. 
“So then, what made you come all the way up to the office that you despise?”
“Other than the fact that my two favorite people are here?”
“You sound like you’re just trying to distract Pepper, Dad.” You tease him, knowing he had to have some motive, because Pepper was right. Dad hated the CEO office, even if the two of you were in it.
“I was making sure the two of you take a break for lunch. Especially since your class is heading down for lunch and I figured since your friends are there, you might want to join them.”
“And because my friends are there, you want to join them and embarrass me.”
“I’m just making sure you eat lunch.” He throws his hands up, trying to show you he comes in peace.
“You hardly ever eat lunch when you’re supposed to.” Pepper points out, but she knows that keeping you on a schedule is important with keeping your basals on a good schedule. “But Tony does make a good point that we should get some lunch for you. And how often do we get to have lunch as a family?”
“You don’t have like a lunch meeting or something?” You ask, surprised that Pepper isn’t running off to some fancy luncheon.
“Not today. Today I can take an actual lunch with my two favorite Starks.” She smiles standing up and walking to the other side of her desk. Tony’s arm wraps around her waist, pulling her in close. He places a kiss on her cheek.
“Lunch is my treat.” Tony teases. “Let’s go!”
“Lunch is free for any employees or family of the employees.” Pepper explains rolling her eyes as the three of you walk towards the elevator. 
“FRI take us to the cafeteria.”
“Sure thing boss.” The elevator takes you down the twenty floors and as you walk out the doors you see your friends sitting at tables.
“I’ll get you food. Go sit with your friends.” Tony kisses the top of your head as he walks over to get food with Pepper. You make your way over to where Astrid, Betty, Liz, Ned, Peter, and a girl that you think her name is Michelle sit. There’s still a couple open seats at the table so your dad and Pepper will be able to join too.
“Y/N!” Betty and Astrid call your name out as you sit down.
“Are you ok?” Betty’s concern is voiced quickly.
“I’m fine, I came back into range before Peter joined back up with the group.” You explain taking the empty seat next to Peter, who already knew all of this.
“Then why didn’t you come back to the group? Your dad told Mr. Shah there were important Stark matters.”
“I’m spending the rest of the field trip with Pepper. Dad thinks it makes more sense for me to learn about what she does since I’m supposed to take over the company one day then to learn the public tour side of things.” You shrug. “Although I’m not sure how much of Pepper’s job is public knowledge so I’m not sure what my report about what I learned at SI will be about.”
“Just take a page out of your dad’s twitter and write you know who I am. Short, sweet and to the point.” Michelle says not even looking up from her book.
“I think that would be hilarious but I don't think I’d pass with that. And I need a passing grade so I don’t have to take biology over again.” You explain. “I’m Y/N by the way.”
“My friends call me MJ.” The dark haired girl explains.
“I thought you didn’t have any friends?” Ned questions.
“She has at least one.” You defend quickly, sensing something about this girl that you like. MJ and Ned both look up at you, but Peter just shakes his head like he should have seen this coming. What he didn’t see coming, was Tony and Pepper coming to sit with a group of teens. 
Tony sits in the seat next to you, placing a tray of food in front of you, before acknowledging the silence that has fallen over the table. “Yes yes I know it is shocking. Pepper Potts, CEO. She is just as amazing in person and you think she would be.” He flashes a smile at the table and you roll your eyes.
“I think you all probably know my obnoxious dad. And this, as he mentioned is Pepper. She is amazing.” You can’t help but agree with your dad on that one. “Dad, Pepper, you know Betty, Astrid, and Peter of course. Then we have Liz, Ned, and MJ.” You gesture around the table before finally looking at the food in front of you. Pasta with spinach and cheese, some fruit, a brownie, and… “Another green juice?” You look at your dad.
“Chef Louis makes the best green juice.” You dad says taking a sip of his own.
“Good for him. I already had my one for the day.”
“Think of it as balancing out the soda from earlier.”
“It wasn’t like I went out of my way to have a soda. I was dying.”
“And now we’re going to give your body something better.” You roll your eyes. 
“Pepper help me out?” You plead.
“He’s pretty set on this one.” Peppe says as she lifts her own glass from the other side of Tony. “This one tastes different than the ones he makes in the mornings though.”
“You know I thought the paparazzi was the worst part of being a Stark. But it’s the fucking green juice obsession in this family.” There’s a burst of laughter from next to you. “Something funny Parker?” 
“Absolutely nothing funny Y/N.” He says lifting a soda to his own lips.
“You not going to make your intern get on the green juice trend?” You ask your dad.
“He’s not my kid. You are.”
“I’ll trade you.” You offer the glass to Peter.
“If you give her the glass that has as much sugar as a Snicker’s, I’ll ban you from all labs for a week.” Tony’s voice drops an octave.
“You not going to just blast him with your gauntlet?” You tease.
“That’s saved for bad guys and boyfriends.” Betty and Astrid look at you with a look that you can read to see that they understand what you meant about trying to get a Homecoming date now.
“See if I tell you when I get a boyfriend then.”
“Remind me to tell FRIDAY to lock you in the brownstone until you're 25 then.” Tony teases back.
“Pepper’ll save me.” You say, sure that Pepper will reign him in before he could even get this far. 
“I got your back.” She responds with a smile. As you put the carbs into Queenie, the conversation picks up around you. Your dad starts talking to Peter about some missing part of a calculation for one of the many projects they were working on. Betty and Astrid are talking to Pepper about what it’s like to be CEO and you’ve fallen into listening to your two worlds falling back into one. You even take a sip of the green juice and shouldn’t be surprised that it’s not that bad. To be honest, it’s even better than the one you get in the mornings. But you won’t let your dad know that. But of course he notices anyway.
“Told you it was good.”
“Never said it was good. It just didn’t kill me.”
“Sure kiddo. Whatever you say.”
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harrowdubois · 4 years
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okay, i said if there was interest i would think about making a post listing all the references i squeezed into the locked tomb fic i spent the last month or so writing, and now i’ve realised i don’t care if there’s interest because i want to be self-indulgent SO
under the cut is a (somewhat spoilery) chronological list of all the memes, vines, and cribbed tumblr posts, as well as homages to various books, tv shows, song lyrics, etc. that made their way into blessed with a wilder mind! 
(cw for suicide mention)
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this is of course a reference to the legendary bodybuilding forum thread where they did, actually, argue over how many days there are in a week (cw for ableist slurs in the thread)
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buzzfeed unsolved meme. i am dirt and i love to eat dirt
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this is so well-known it’s almost not worth listing it but oh my god they were roommates
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in itself, this isn’t a reference to anything in particular, but if you didn’t do this on your first read then i’d recommend taking another look at this scene and thinking about the specific wuthering heights/frankenstein/rebecca excerpts discussed by harrow and mercymorn but in relation to canon!harrow’s trauma/relationship with the body in htn :~) 
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also not really a reference to anything in particular but when i looked back over the fic for this post it struck me that the ‘sex panther’ phrasing was probably at least partially unconsciously inspired by the shoebox project (professor mcgonagall’s oiled man panther was a formative moment for me, truly)
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cw gross/unsanitary: it’s the tinder poop window incident. i mentioned this in the end notes of the fic as being what i had in mind for that scene but if it’s too gross for you (UNDERSTANDABLY) then feel free to Death Of The Author me to your heart’s content!
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i listened to a lot of orville peck while writing this
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 very very very loosely inspired by this clickhole article
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respectively: fourth of july by sufjan stevens / wuthering heights by emily bronte
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TWO BROS, CHILLIN IN A HOT TUB, FIVE FEET APART BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT GAY
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there was absolutely no need to stretch this across three paragraphs, and yet
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iconic
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i already linked to this one in the end notes of the fic itself, but it’s good, so here it is again
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 i can’t find the actual original post but it’s this fucking horrible thing 
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the last line is a reference to the secret history by donna tartt:
“Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls- which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other thing? But isn't it also pain that often makes us most aware of self? It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one's burned tongues and skinned knees, that one's aches and pains are all one’s own. Even more terrible, as we grow old, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us. Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that's why we're so anxious to lose them, don't you think?”
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a lyrical double whammy!
from ‘last words of a shooting star’ by mitski: “they’ll never know how i’d stared at the dark in that room with no thoughts like a blood-sniffing shark”
from ‘a better son/daughter’ by rilo kiley: “sometimes in the morning i am petrified but can’t move/awake but cannot open my eyes” 
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shout-out to maybe my single favourite video game moment, the encounter with the sky cat in night in the woods: “There is a hole at the center of everything, and it is always growing. Between the stars I am seeing it. It is coming, and you are not escaping, and the universe is forgetting you, and the universe is being forgotten, and there is nothing to remember it, not even the things beyond. And now there is only the hole... You are atoms, and your atoms are not caring if you are existing. Your atoms are monstrous existence.”
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“Nothing is ever fulfilled, not until the very end.” - rust cohle, true detective s1, this reference is VERY tonally dissonant because in context it’s actually grim as all hell but w/e w/e i couldn’t resist the shout-out
also harrow quotes from the goldfinch again here! i had the reference included before i read this post and realised tamsyn muir also quotes from the secret history in htn. terrible synergy 
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they are in fact all real. you’re welcome
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this one’s doing a lot of work lmao. it’s paying homage to this quote by tamsyn muir talking about the draco-in-leather-pants trope in relation to ianthe by loosely referencing drop dead gorgeous, the best drarry fic ever written, in which harry is part veela
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“It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves? Euripides speaks of the Maenads: head thrown I back, throat to the stars, "more like deer than human being." To be absolutely free! One is quite capable, of course, of working out these destructive passions in more vulgar and less efficient ways. But how glorious to release them in a single burst! To sing, to scream, to dance barefoot in the woods in the dead of night, with no more awareness of mortality than an animal! These are powerful mysteries. The bellowing of bulls. Springs of honey bubbling from the ground. If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn.” - that’s right it’s another reference to the secret history, with a little bit of mary oliver (tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?) sprinkled on top for flavour
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a small one, but it’s the goldfinch again: “And I feel I have something very urgent and serious to say to you, my non-existent reader, and I feel I should say it as urgently as if I were standing in the room with you...”
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my FUCKING cinnamon apple
 what if i... put my minecraft bed.... next to yours... aha ha just kidding.... unless?
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[cw: suicide discussion in these next two]
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robyn can have little a rust cohle quote, as a treat.
1. “I'd consider myself a realist, all right? But in philosophical terms I'm what's called a pessimist... I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law... We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, that accretion of sensory experience and feelings, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody's nobody... I think the honorable thing for our species to do is to deny our programming. Stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction; one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.”
2. “This... This is what I'm talking about. This is what I mean when I'm talkin' about time, and death, and futility. All right, there are broader ideas at work, mainly what is owed between us as a society for our mutual illusions. Fourteen straight hours of staring at DBs, these are the things you think of. You ever done that? You look in their eyes, even in a picture, doesn't matter if they're dead or alive, you can still read 'em. You know what you see? They welcomed it... Not at first, but... right there in the last instant. It's an unmistakable relief. See, cause they were afraid, and now they saw for the very first time how easy it was to just... let go. Yeah, they saw, in that last nanosecond, they saw... what they were. You, yourself, this whole big drama, it was never more than a jerry-rig of presumption and dumb will, and you could just let go. To finally know that you didn't have to hold on so tight. To realize that all your life - you know, all your love, all your hate, all your memories, all your pain - it was all the same thing. It was all the same dream, a dream that you had inside a locked room, a dream about being a person.”
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ahaaa this one’s particularly rough. evil monkey no one alive dot jpg
“Later, that dozy embrace solidified in his memory as the single moment of artless, charmed happiness in their separate and difficult lives. Nothing marred it, even the knowledge that Ennis would not then embrace him face to face because he did not want to see or feel that it was Jack he held. And maybe, he thought, they’d never got much farther than that. Let be, let be.” - annie proulx, brokeback mountain
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a TRIPLE lyrical whammy!
- harrow’s words to gideon in the dream are a bit of a vague reference to the song ‘adventures in solitude’ by the new pornographers (”we thought we lost you/welcome back”) - gideon’s words to harrow are a reference to the song ‘blush’ by wolf alice (”you’ve got two hands to take all you can/but don’t take too long”) - what harrow texts to gideon is a line from ‘about today’ by the national, aka the most devastating song ever written (”hey, are you awake?/yeah i’m right here”...)
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i CANNOT find a clip of it but harrow’s repetition of “life is short... it’s short” was me paraphrasing from memory a line from pride (2014), because i am the worst
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spooky scary skeletons! 
“jail for gideon” is obviously a reference to the “jail for mother” tweet that tm also referenced in htn. so, not original in the slightest, but it’s a great tweet
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one of my favourite tumblr posts
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because naberius tern absolutely would watch rick and morty. he would. i know it in my heart. 
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and that’s it, i think. hope you enjoyed this horrid little post and my horrid little fic!
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mikecardenmpreg · 3 years
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my life has been one big drawn out joke recently. here are some topics i will be covering in my budding career as a stand up comedian:
1. my manager’s poorly disguised cocaine addiction and every other fucking thing about him. could go on for ages about this man.
2. the old man who complained about everything from the clothing section to the price of a ps4 controller to the lack of public restrooms (disregarding the multiple signs around the store saying there are no public restrooms). he later complained about again not being able to use the restroom despite being a paying customer. he proceeded to dig in our trash can, pull out my coworker’s used coffee cup, dump the remaining liquid back into the trash can, look me dead in the eyes, and, in an attempt to guilt me a third time into letting him use our restroom, told me he had to pee in this coffee cup because, despite him being a paying customer, i wouldn’t let him use our restroom. i told him okay and walked away.
3. dressing up as velma for halloween was cute and fun and i got to find out which of my regulars wish to know me carnally, but just as velma. one of these guys told me quietly that he always thought velma was the sexy one. he was rather embarrassed to tell me this, hinting at his deep shame. the other? well he came in the next day and asked me, rather demandingly, where the wig was. told me i should get that haircut, or at least wear the wig more often. that his daughter had that haircut. [insert nervous laughter]. mike, andrew, please, you’re making me blush.
3a. on that note, let’s talk about john, who thought, first of all, that he was even in my league. absolutely not. secondly, this 49 year old man thought - no, assumed - we were near the same age. i’m 27 and rather babyfaced but in this time of covid, faces are a hard thing to come by. i’m assuming he assumed i was 50-ish because of the dark circles around my eyes, as all he could see of me was my eyes due to the mask and baseball cap i was wearing that night. he was going to ask me to dinner, but when i told him my age, realized i was “probably” too young for him. this caused me to have an existential crisis, by the way, and now i’m obsessed with under-eye masks and creams. next time he came in, he inquired about my age again. “oh, that’s the same age as my daughter”. so now that’s two customers who want me to stand in as their sexy daughter. that’s fun for me! the third time he came in, i hid out in the back and he asked my coworkers about me. coworker one told him i didn’t have a name. coworker two told him she couldn’t give out employee information. the fourth time he came in was the same night i was worried we were going to get murdered by a (different) regular who had lost his mind, and upon seeing john in my store again, hopefully looking around for me, i was hoping that other guy would come and shoot me down. rather be dead than accused of looking like i was 50 again.
4. recently deciding to treat myself by consuming 20mg of thc and watching buzzfeed unsolved in a paralyzed state for 4 hours. i cried about how sad and lonely ghosts must be. 
5. the little girls who were so convinced i was a legitimate witch and had full on meltdowns in the store, forcing their parents to stop shopping and leave, because their little girls were inconsolable in the presence of me, a 27 year old in some black velvet pants. again. the dark circles.
6. learning, on four different occasions, that i definitely look/dress/act like i sell dildos, butt plugs, nipple clamps, and other sexual adult paraphernalia. a lot to unpack here. literally left me speechless when my coworker told me this. i couldn’t even respond to his “i’ve been to lots of sex shops and you look like every girl who works there” comment. i should have been able to. such low hanging fruit. but i just sat there with my mouth open, trying to figure out exactly what about me gives off that vibe.
6a. realizing i tell people i work at a toy store means one thing to me and another to everyone else, apparently.
7. "third base is you telling me about your girlfriend” and all other bro-ista related shenanigans.
8. rapid-fire bit about various miscellaneous customers:
8a. the guy who decided it was appropriate to have an entire conversation about my incredibly average belt. dude. bro. i know my pussy is popping. don’t look at my crotch while you’re talking to me about my crotch.
8b. a very stable man pretending to hold up the store with a nerf gun and then singing grandson’s “oh no” to me while making uncomfortable eye contact (still cradling the nerf gun of course)
8c. the cop-hating neo-nazi who rescued a yorkshire terrier which he now carries around in a little pink dress. he didn’t know what a yorkshire terrier was. apparently doesn’t know what cops and/or nazis are. we call him meth-head gun kelly because he looks like machine gun kelly on an intense downward spiral. also his last name is kelly. i don’t know the joke wrote itself.
8d. the teenage boy who stuck his whole hand up his girlfriend’s coochie in the middle of the store, got a real big teenaged boner about it, and shopped around like this was normal and okay.
8e. the stupid dumb idiot regular to called in a bogus mass shooting threat without blocking his number and caused me to have a drawn out anxiety attack for at least 6 hours only to come in the very next night and act like nothing happened.
9. having arthritis in my back at age TWENTY-SEVEN FOR FUCKS SAKE MAN
10. “oh my asshole!” “if i have to see someone’s toes they better be immaculate. i better be able to suck on those toes” “people fuck dead bodies in this game” and every other asinine thing my coworker says to me on a regular basis.
11. and of course, my dad just straight up losing his god damn mind. hiding quarters in trees just to see if anyone notices. hunting snails late at night. choosing to spend upwards of $30,000 on home repairs because he’s going stir crazy. just. every single thing about my dad.
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call her señorita l Shawn Mendes imagine.
summary: she feels like her worst fears are becoming a reality after watching Shawn’s video with Camila Cabello.
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She remembers perfectly the day Shawn told her he was making a new song with Camila. 
She couldn’t really help the weird feeling that made it through her body, something like electricity as she could barely stop her eyes from closing. 
“That’s great, baby. I’m sure it’s going to be a hit.” (Y/N) gave Shawn a tight smile. 
Shawn grabbed her hand. “I know what you’re thinking, but it’s nothing. I’m happy with you and she’s happy with her boyfriend, we just had this idea...” Shawn started rambling, but she interrupted him. 
“Shawn, you don’t have to give me an explanation. I know she’s your friend and I trust our relationship, you don’t have to feel like you’re doing something wrong.” She caressed his cheek. 
That conversation had taken place almost nine months ago. Now, she was silently staring at the wall as she watched the music video. Well, at least she tried to after closing her laptop several times when the scenes got too much for her to watch. 
She knew she was overreacting, there was nothing to be done and it probably was her mind playing games on her.
but maybe, just maybe... it wasn't that she was delusional, maybe it was the reality hitting her on the face as she watched her boyfriend with the woman he used to have a crush on and much of the show business world wanted them together. 
As if a weird coincidence or conspiracy was playing against her, Alexa started playing the song Why by Shawn, and she truly felt like she could punch a hole through her apartment wall. 
She ignored Shawn’s call, knowing it wasn’t going do to any good to have a conversation right now. she simply activated the do not disturb and stared at the ceiling. 
She hoped her luck would change by the morning, but she opened the BuzzFeed app to catch up and noticed a headline that caught her attention. 
Camila Cabello and her boyfriend have broken up. 
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. 
A perfect storm, because she didn’t need to open her Instagram to know that her posts were filled with comments of people telling her to leave Shawn so that he and Camila could finally be together. 
She knew she couldn’t keep avoiding Shawn. Warily answering his texts, saying she had fallen asleep last night and wasn’t able to respond. It didn’t take long for Shawn to call her, she sighed before picking up.
“Hey you, you had me worried.” Shawn said and she knew he was sipping on his coffee. 
“Hey... I’m sorry, I was just so tired and went to be early.” 
“’s okay,” Silence filled the line. “Did you watch the video?” Shawn asked, knowing deep inside of him that she hadn’t been tired last night, she was just ignoring him.
“I did.” She answered too quickly. 
Shawn breathed in deeply, “Did you like it?”
“Of course, it was great.”
“(Y/N)...” Shawn closed his eyes and ran a hand through his curls. 
“Look, I have a busy day and have to go, sorry.” She could feel her eyes filling with tears as she spoke. 
“I know you are not okay.” Shawn insisted. 
“Why wouldn’t I?” Her voice raised. “Call me when you know which day you’ll be back, okay?”
Shawn sighed, “okay,” He didn’t know what else to say, “Hey, I love you.”
A smile creeped on her lips, “I love you, Shawn.”
-
An entire day went by and Shawn told her they could spend the weekend together. She knew these days were rare and had to be appreciated deeply, but she couldn’t help the jealousy that cursed her blood as she kept replaying the images of her boyfriend and his friend sharing a couple of tender touches, even if it was a music video. 
But she opened Instagram and saw Shawn, Camila and his team posting photos of them when they weren’t rolling. And the one were the entire team that worked on the video and they had their hands linked as Shawn hugged her from behind. 
This was more than just jealousy, she felt humiliated in front of the world as now even her friends were calling her and asking if everything was alright, not because of the video, but because of the photo of them after the video. 
Maybe now she wasn’t overreacting as tabloids were reaching her to ask her opinion and a confirmation of the end of hers and Shawn’s relationship.
All go these factors combined had as a result that she flinched when Shawn knocked on the door, still carrying his suitcase and wearing a youth hoodie and sweatpants. 
He tried to hug her, but her body went rigid the moment his warm body touched hers. 
Shawn closed his eyes and sighed, clearly annoyed by the situation.
“You have got to be shitting me, (Y/N).” Shawn told her, harshly letting go of his carry-on suitcase. 
“Do not treat me like that.” She closed her eyes and tried to control her breathing. 
“Like what? Like a crazy person? Because you are being crazy and paranoid right now!” Shawn paced around the living room. “Jesus, I can’t believe this is the one weekend off I get and you decide to play the psycho girlfriend.”
Tears built in her eyes. “Oh my God, Shawn. I haven’t said anything, stop treating me like garbage.” 
His eyes softened and shook his head. “Hon, I’m sorry, I'm just stressed.”
“Stressed? Have been people calling you in the middle of the night because they want you to confirm you left me for Camila? About what were my thoughts on meeting with Matthew and talk about how you and Camila left us to be together?”
“You should be used to this by now, (Y/N)!” He rubbed his eyes, obvious tiredness hiding behind them.
“Well, I am not! Because you never really gave me a reason to not trust you around other people, but the only thing I've felt lately is like a third choice and like trash, because everyone is making me feel like I don’t matter and like I am an obstacle for you and her being together, and you haven’t made it any easier, Shawn!”
“What the fuck do you want me to do?” He laughed humorlessly. “It’s my job, and now I am fucking leaving because clearly you do not want to understand.”
She started crying. “I understand that, I know that it is your job. what I do not understand is why you, and her, and your entire fucking team keeps posting shit with the two of you holding hands while you look at her like you want to fuck her,” She covered her face in a useless attempt to stop her tears. “And not only that, it’s like you are longing for her, and don’t tell me I'm crazy because I know you, Shawn.”
Shawn just stood there, quiet, trying to process his girlfriend’s words. The only thing that reached his ears were the quiet sobs of (Y/N) as she tried to recover her breath to keep talking. 
“I’ve grown used to people hating on me. I get it, it’s part of being in love with you, but situations like these make me question if it’s worth it,” She closed her eyes as her breathing quickened. “Now leave, you should enjoy your weekend off.”
Shawn sighed, “I’m not leaving you in this state, (Y/N).”
“Don’t worry about me, I'll be fine. Just please don’t treat me like a mad woman and admit you feel something for her, I know there are songs about her. And after you come to terms with it, you should have the decency to tell me. Talk to you later.”
Shawn was leaving when guilt overtook his senses and made him stop while he was crossing the door. 
“I kissed her, while we were filming.”
Suddenly, the tears stopped. 
“What?” She mumbled quietly. So quietly he barely heard her. 
“It was on the spur of the moment, neither of us planned for it to happen.”
It was her turn to bitterly laugh, “Yet you had the nerve to call me crazy, Shawn. This is so fucked up. How long ago was this?”
Shawn closed his eyes and didn’t want to answer until he heard her yelling for him to tell her. 
“Three months ago.”
“Fuck. Shawn, get the fuck out.” She wasn’t crying anymore, because she knew it wasn’t all in her mind. 
“No. I have to explain.”
“There’s nothing, Shawn, absolutely nothing you can say that will change my mind.”
“I didn’t want to tell you because it meant nothing. That’s why you don’t have to worry, because I know for a fact that I felt nothing when I kissed her, the only person I want to kiss and love is you.”
“Bullshit. Now, get out.”
“Promise you’ll call before I leave.”
“I don’t have to promise you anything, Shawn. I don’t know if you realize, but you just confessed that you cheated on me. Now, please leave.”
Shawn shook his head before getting out of the apartment, knowing she’d cry herself to sleep and he’d toss and turn knowing he made a mistake. 
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ziracona · 4 years
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Anytime I see the legion im picturing urs so now in a trial im like "fukn idiot loser babies" *pallet smacks*. Reading ur meta(is that the term??) on Julie just now I'm like. So mad for her!! Get them kids some therapy!! How could the adults in their lives let them get to such a shitty point.. >:( Also, another thought I had with Adiris. The buzzfeed video is more her holding a bunch of cats. Because the survivors are like herding cats. Chaos children they are (im looking at you meg.)
Hahdjsdk god what a mood. Every time I see an Anna I’m just like “!!! MOM?” And get a hatchet between the eyes rip. And yeah! Meta is right.
For real, for real. Julie and all the Legion kids had some real shit going on. Joey by far had the best home life and family, but even he had a bunch of struggles in school because his family didn’t have time or in many cases experience to help him study, and it was crowded and poor, and because he had no help most kids got, he got treated like he was stupider, and even when he had skills in other areas, everyone at school expected him to perform well at sports and not much else like that was fine & he was meant to be valuable exclusively as an athlete, when he much preferred and actually really liked things like shop and ceramics and building/making stuff. But most people treat trade classes like easy As dumb kids pick (back when shop was still a thing), and like it was a worthless skill, and like. That doesn’t sound as bad as like, being bounced through foster homes as Frank, but pain is relative, you know? Bad is just bad. And things grind on you. It was hard to be taught constantly he was only worth something as a skill he didn’t even really care about, and get treated like he was dumb just because he had less help built in to school than most kids there did. People don’t talk about this much but like, having parents or sibs who help with homework? It’s a huge factor. So is just having family who are college graduates (if you go to college), because first gen student means walking in blind & alone & accountable to no one but bills, and like, college is initially overwhelming with two parents with Masters who are helpful. Any time what you value about you and what you love doesn’t match up with what people who have more power than you tell you is valuable about you/should be your goal, it’s hard. Especially as a teen still trying to like hack out an identity. Overly enthusiastic and impulsive, and has been mocked and hurt and turned on for it, but can’t shut it off. Big heart, but the luck to stand up usually just in time to get laid flat again.
And then Susie, with the parents who don’t care for her or pay her much mind other than disappointed looks and an occasional snap or suggestion or urging to try something different that what she’s doing. Bullied for her sexuality, nervous, and in a small town in the late 90s, probably the only lesbian (at least that she’s aware of existing) in that entire like couple hundred people mountain town, and sort of unbearably alone and misunderstood and isolated feeling. God, feeling like there’s just no one like you are out there is one of the worst feelings, isn’t it? Buried in the things she knows people whisper about her and a thousand tiny microinteractions a day that drain her armor. Loves Julie, but is so isolated Julie is her entire world to an unhealthy, co-dependant, and worryingly usable/manipulatable and non-independent nature for Susie. Because she’s so desperate to keep her she’d do anything not to be alone. But the struggle to never be alone by chasing Julie’s shadow means there’s no time for Susie and her own hopes and dreams and choices and developing personhood. But the worst part is that she’s genuinely happy this way, trailing after the girl she loves, which makes it so hard for either of them to confront and stop even enough to just make it healthy again. But she’s built her whole identity on one person like a precarious janga tower that could fall any second if the wrong piece goes, and that can’t be sustained forever, and who is she when it does crumble?
Then you got Julie, hot, popular, ignored personality disorder, proud parents who want her to keep being ideal and their little princess, than can’t handle her as a teen when she’s not in the box they expected anymore and they can’t just live and be proud vicariously through her all the time. Hit puberty early & dated way too physically way too young with way too much older men. Hit on by teachers, by men three times her age in parking lots. Quickly taught it’s safer to say yes than no and sex and love are a battlefield where you use the other as a stepping stone & the trick is to manurver so you’re okay once it’s over and got something while it went on. Had fun being hot and physically developed young because she suddenly had admirers and people were nice, then realized way too late that it came with constantly being in danger and under pressure to keep performing sexiness, and there wasn’t a livable choice to back out and fail those expectations anymore & be okay in her social circles. Knows she’s not emotional or loving in the way her loved ones are distressed about it, but can’t tell why, and gives up trying to ‘fix it’ and just pretends she doesn’t care and leans into being the sexy bitch and the power that comes with it. Doesn’t even know who she is herself beneath any of the ways she lives anymore, maybe she just is the act, maybe that’s fine. Trusts no one and that’s fine it’s just smart. Caught between liking the power of sex and intelligence and coldness, and the emptiness of not really being somebody. Needs to be loved and idolised and eternally aware how much people would hate her for that if they knew it was the truth, so she just keeps it to herself and makes herself someone they have no choice but to love and adore, so it’ll all be okay. Caught between worried she is cold and unfeeling and selfish and proud, and liking the power that goes with that, and the lack of desire to change, and the fear she doesn’t know how to do it. So she mostly just doesn’t think about any of the turmoil anymore and lives Julie instead of being her.
Then you got Frank, tossed around a myriad of foster homes, stolen by the government from the only one he ever was loved in over race, abused in every way foster parents have learned to abuse the kids they were supposed to love, and convinced since he was a kid that he’s a bad seed and a monster at heart, until he leaned into the violence of that to protect himself when no one else did. Harsh and strong and a fighter, a survivor, lonely and a loner, too much past, no future, not much present. Angry, god, so angry, and nothing to do with it. No skills, or money, or future, or any of it. No love, no family. Just the things he taught himself to survive. Just a good liar, a good fighter, adaptable, fast, tactical, enduring. Knows how to pick locks and lift wallets and hoard food that is least likely to be noticed. How to vanish, how to look real scary and real big, how to get stabbed and get back up, and take a fall, and bide his time. How to find north. Which makes for a good what? A thug, a conman, a drug runner, a loan shark or a hitter or a bouncer maybe? A guard, a killer, a thief? No love, no ties, no one. And only a borrowed, angry, violent sense of self, and all the other versions that didn’t live to adulthood but aren’t quiet dead yet buried beneath it.
God, the opening line to the original lore for Darkness Among Us really was beautiful and memorable. The kind of first line you hope for. “Frank Morrison was ninteen, and had little to show for it.” Like, fuck. It’s so understated, and common, and painfully mundane, but that’s it, that’s his whole life. And how fucking painful that is. To be the end of teenagehood, stepping into adult life alone, and be able to be summed up in just eleven words, as a marker of your lived timespan up to now, and the annotation that you from all of it have gained almost nothing that could be worth any note. I fucking love that line. God. It’s so empty, and cruelly mundane and undramatic and unimportantly scored and marked, like it doesn’t even matter that he’s down nearly two decades of life with nothing worth taking into the next two.
Lord, all the Legion kids really do need help, and therapy, and like, one decent parental figure. Thank god for Jeff. He really is out here doing the real work. Love that man. TuT
And you’re right w Adiris lol. 🤣 It’s a mix of cats and dogs, magbe even. Some of them aren’t trouble, but oh, oh some most definitely are. Side note: I fkn just reallly love cats. Poor Adiris out here tryin her best, and I’m sure she does too.
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the-sunshine-dims · 4 years
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you just need a friend, and then maybe a boyfriend or two-
this was the analoceit pasion? project?? thing??? anyway! also none of the sides act canonically, though they do come closer to the blooper sides, *~warnings~* crying, awkwardness, confessions, strong language, me bullying virgil (though edited it down), mention of anxiety, food, memes, Words: 4020
ao3 link
characters: logan, virgil, deceit, 
mentioned: patton, remus, roman,
ship: analoceit
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Deceit was curious, he wanted to know how the others treated logan, there were several times logan had flopped over onto his bed and complained he wasn't being listened too or they all thought he was a joke, so he wanted to know, he had asked logan beforehand, he also made sure to let logan know he would never try to betray or hurt him, he would never do that to his cru- best friend. Not ever, logan was really sweet and he was one of deceit’s only friends, he would never intentionally hurt him,
so he carefully shapeshifted into logan, he made sure to compliment logan, he was a little disappointed that they underestimated logan and thought he didn't know any idioms, but overall he was happy that they knew it wasnt logan so quickly,
But then roman… said those awful, dreadful words…
“Well, maybe you shouldn't have been impersonated, did ya ever think about that?”
And then logan, poor lo… had to pretend he didn't know dee was gonna be there… so after that he wanted to quickly wrap it up, well as quickly as he could anyway,
After the whole thing finally ended, deceit sunk out into logan's room, he sat onto the bed and sighed, not a minute later logan appeared,
Deceit opened up his arms and logan launched himself into them full speed, grip tightening around logan as he heard small shaky sobs coming from the side,
“I’m so sorry… I didn't know that would happen… I didn't know Roman would react so harshly to you….they didn't react like that to patton….” he said as he sat his chin on lo’s head
“I know… it ju-” he hiccuped “-st sucks…”
“Oh hun…” he paused “am i allowed to fight roman?”
Logan gave a small tearful giggle at deceits attempt to cheer him up, “noo~”
“Oh no my plan has been foiled” he said sarcastically with a small smile,
“Good.” he said as he blinked away some tears causing deceit to laugh, logan moved around and off deceits lap, he readjusted himself so that his head was in deceits lap, almost immediately deceit started playing with his hair as logan continued to softly cry
After around twenty minutes the crying exhausted logan and he fell asleep, (deceit snapped him and himself into pj’s)
———
After that tense video virgil retreated to his room
It was only a couple minutes until he decided he should check up on logan, he grabbed a big soft blanket blue-to-purple that had constellations on the top of it and then storm clouds and lightning coming out subtly out of the clouds a little below, logan had gotten it for him for christmas, Virgil treasured it,
so he opened his door and walked down the hall, once he reached logan's room he hesitated, he sat in front of the door, slowly trying to gather the courage to knock on the door
he heard small muffled sobs Followed by a voice virgil did not currently recognize muffled by the door virgil could only make out a couple words ‘sorry’ ‘fight roman’ ‘foiled’ he sat out there for a bit until he realized something changed, there were no soft sobs, he sighed and sat up
He tentatively made a quiet knock on the door
“Come in,” a brief moment passed  “unless your roman,” the voice added,
So virgil carefully opened the door, and whatever he was expecting… well it certainly wasn't this that's for sure,
Deceit was sitting on logan’s bed with logan curled up, head in deceit’s lap, dead asleep, deceit’s hands were fixated on playing with logan’s messy, and very fluffy hair
Virgil stood there for a couple moments before deceit realized he didn't know what to do, so he gave a small sigh and patted the spot next to him
Virgil took a moment before he walked over to the bed and sat down
“...is logan ok?”
Deceit gave a wistful smile as he looked over to logan “no, but he will be,”
“Ok in the nicest way possible, why are you here?” virgil asked, voice strained
Deceit gave a sad chuckle as he began massaging logan’s scalp “don't tell remus, but… lo here… he’s my (crush) bestfriend, and- he’s just too good for me… he always hangs out with me when i’m cold or lonely, and it was my idea to shapeshift into him to see how the others treated him! Though I asked him if I could!” he quickly added, he deflated with a sigh “poor lo, are they always like that?” he sighed solemnly at the memory of logan acting like he didn't have emotions in front of the others,
“Not always… but roman in a way, is like remus, he doesn't think before he speaks and- it hurts… it really hurts, and after i got accepted lo’s been taking most of it-”
“Ok that's it i’m gonna fight roman,” he said planning on getting up before logan stirred, he sighed “why does lo know when i try to fight the others,?” he asked, causing a snort from virgil
“He’s just like that,”
“Yeah…. he’s awesome like that,” he smiled sleepily, before he gave a small yawn
“Ya sleepy dee?” virgil asked with a teasing smirk, who gave him the right to be so damn cute-
Deceit blushed at the nickname “no-” he yawned again,
Virgil laughed as he carefully pulled deceit onto the side of the bed against the wall, careful not to wake up logan
Deceit hissed softly as virgil set the blanket he brought on deceit, carefully making sure logan’s head wasn't under the thiccc blanket,
Deceit huffed “If I'm going down you coming with me,” he said as he made grabby hands at virgil and pulled him on the unoccupied side of him
“Oh no curses the small noodle is gonna use me as a pillow” he laughed, with an eye roll
“I. will. steal. your. knee. Caps.” he said with the smallest hint pout,
Virgil snorted as he wrapped an arm around deceit, which deceit melted into, too tired to stop himself, Seriously?! Who gave him the right to be that fucking cute?! I mean I liked you already and now your just being so cute and- aghh
Deceit quickly fell asleep, head on virgil's chest, after a moment or so virgil snapped the lights off,
Virgil quickly realized- ok no he didnt, it took like a half hour for him to take his eyes off logan and deceit, to find out its kinda boring to be the only one awake, and unable to move, he laughed quietly  as he got and idea what to do, he quickly summoned his phone and one-handedly scrolled through tumblr for a bit, (god damnit virgil its 1 am!)
after about 2 hours he fell asleep, phone still in hand,
*****
9:26 am, Logan wakes up,
he unsteadily rubs his eyes and sits up, he weakly looks up and sees deceit and virgil dead asleep, he gives a small smile. then He carefully summons the remote to the tv and turns it onto the discovery channel and turns subtitles on and mutes the audio, too tired to question where Virgil came from,
He sighs contently as he carefully sits down in deceit’s lap, distantly wondering why the heck virgil didn’t change into pajamas or at least something more comfortable than jeans, he sighed as he realized his mom-friend instincts were too strong, so he snapped virgil into comfier clothes, the hoodie still remained though,
*******
10:34 am, Next to wake up was virgil
He yawned as he rubbed his eyes to process where he was, he noticed the shortest of the sides in deceit’s lap eagerly watching a show, he smiled
It was too early for his anxiety to work so he just draped his other arm around logan resulting in mild protests before he finally ‘humphed’ and allowed himself to lean into the touch
“So lo, what you watching?” he asked as he looked over to the screen
“Oh they’re talking about space this episode!” he smiled happily, still too sleepy to hide his love for space,
Ok screw this why are these two too damn cute?! He smiled “sooo dee- deceit…’s not allowed to fight roman, so i was wondering-”
“No fighting roman.” he said without batting an eye
Virgil huffed and just started watching the tv, yep definitely the tv, definitely not logan, definitely not logan’s complete enamoured look when he was watching about something he loved… yup definitely not…
******
11:17 am, deceit sluggishly blinked his eyes open,
Logan was in his lap eagerly watching what looked like buzzfeed unsolved to his barely awake brain, he noticed virgil slowly sinking below the covers of the blankets leaning on deceit
He blinked again, “What time issss it?” he asked pronouncing the s with a small soft hiss
Logan cracked a smile at the little habit of deceit making soft hisses whenever he was saying anything with an s and he was sleepy “it's 11:18,” he replied “do you want me to get up?” he asked already shifting
Deceit wrapped his arms around Logan and pulled him back to his lap with a soft blush “warm..”
Virgil laughed “looks like when sleepy, snek becomes more affectionate” he said causing logan to laugh and deceit to hiss, blush creeping up his cheeks
“He also becomes more affectionate when he’s cold, or has a crush on someone.”
Deceit gasped in mock-offense “traiter!”
Logan laughed and leaned into deceits chest, sighing in contentment
Virgil smirked- no that's a smile, And sighed as the thoughts of anxiety slowly started filtering in, he thought he had gotten rid of them when he left the dark sides, at least he thought he had gotten rid of the ones revolving around deceit and that crush, the logan one he was still trying to work with and those thoughts of him hating him if he told them about the crushes, and-
“Hun, your not ssssafe either,” deceit said semi out of nowhere, as he pulled virgil close, he was too tired to be embarrassed, and he wants cuddles from the two people he lov- liked, fortunately the small thing brought virgil out of his head for a bit,
Virgil flushed and melted into deceits side, distantly hoping for the off chance they didn’t notice
Logan laughed and turned his head to the tv again, beginning to watching it again, the episode now half over, deceit yawned and ended up setting his forehead on logan’s shoulder, subconsciously nuzzling into logan’s shirt fabric, lucky for him logan didnt mind, (thank god at least logan is a composed gay-)
A little bit later Virgil decided Logan’s lap looked comfortable and he just flopped over into his lap and began scrolling through tumblr, missing the small pout from deceit wanting warmth and Virgil to still be cuddled up to him,
After around a half hour deceit and virgil fell asleep, again.  logan continued watching buzzfeed unsolved, as the others slept until his barely fought off sleep deprivation from the couple of days beforehand also fought up with him and he  fell asleep as well,
********
Deceit was the first to wake up this time, after he fought off all of grogginess (which took a bit) he realized one thing, he couldn’t move, unless he wanted to wake them up, which he decidedly didn’t. he wondered if he could use a phone and ask Patton to make something for the two sides, still very asleep on his lap,
They hadn’t eaten all day so he would need to make sure they ate sometime soon, or at least get them something to drink,
Though then he realized, if he asked Patton- or any of the other sides for that matter, He might have to explain that he and Logan are actually friends and don’t hate each other, well that was one situation he didn’t want to explain alone, And with the added addition of Virgil, a side who had proclaimed he hated the ‘others’ a couple times. He was pretty sure Patton would be happy that Logan has a best friend, he would probably be confused or conflicted? with virgil added into the mix, patton was still learning and he was realizing the aspect of lying itself isn't bad, just the context its used in, so hopefully he wouldn't react negatively, though he still didn't want to explain it all by himself,
he sighed as his brain came to the conclusion, he couldn't ask anyone, at least not until they can all explain that they enjoyed each other's company,
So he would have to make them breakfast, which on one hand he was happy to do, but on the other even if he could get up he still wanted more cuddles
He sighed again, this one more annoyed, after a little bit of careful wiggling he gazed at the two still asleep, from the doorway,
He opened the door, and headed to the kitchen, with a sigh, he decided he should use the lightsides kitchen, it wasn't early in the day so no one should be there, plus he actually wants to make good food, sure he could work with the stuff in the darksides refrigerator, but to be honest he had absolutely no idea what  most of the stuff in the fridge was, he was pretty sure he saw tar in the fridge, so this might be a tad more risky in getting seen but it was easier,
So he walked down the hallway to the kitchen, when he reached it he decided to make pancakes, they were rather easy to make and logan liked to have crofters with it, plus he was almost certain virgil still liked pancakes,
As that thought left another one approached, a curious one, wondering how in the world virgil finding him in logan’s room went well, especially after that disaster of a scenario, that scenario in which logan was treated incredibly poorly, and was left out of nearly the whole thing, which was really unfortunate because he knew that logan rather enjoyed debates,
But still he found it a little odd, it was the first he hung out with virgil in almost 2 years, and when virgil joined in with himself and logan he felt like virgil was a missing piece he’d never realized was missing,
He shook his head as the flipped the pancake over, nope, he was not ganna get lost in thoughts right now, he was cooking, he could get lost in thoughts later, when he was sitting down, and decidedly not over the stove
Eventually the pancakes were done, they had turned out decidedly good, they were light and fluffy and he was almost certain that lo and virgil would like them,
He put the pancakes on a plate, and he grabbed a jar of crofters and maple syrup and then headed back to the room,
——
Logan woke up only to realize that one; dee wasn’t there, (which worried him) and two; Virgil was curled up, his head now laying on Logan’s lap, his phone forgotten resting near his hands,
He wondered if that was even comfortable, to be curled up and using his lap as a pillow, though he didn’t want to wake him up because if he were to be honest he was adorable,
He focused on deceits absence though and wondered if he went somewhere and got lost, he quickly waved that idea out if head because it was deceit’s habitance too, and unless he went into the imagination for some reason or another he doubted he would get lost,
Then the thought that it might be cold and deceit could’ve gotten to cold and he could’ve fell asleep and someone could trip over him and he could get hurt and-
Ah
Virgil's waking up,
He smiled as Virgil rubbed his eyes and groggily woke up a second time, he sat up,
He gave a groggy smile as he promptly face planted into Logan’s shoulder,
Logan laughed “you ok there, hun?”
Virgil yawned into Logan’s shoulder “when am I ever?” He asked with a laugh
Logan gave a chuckle as he rolled his eyes, “ok, are you gonna move from my shoulder though?,”
Virgil looked up slightly, it was clear he was now almost completely awake with that remark, “do you want me to?”
Logan stayed silent, which told Virgil everything he needed to know as he laughed and stayed there,
“Hush” he flushed,
“Didn’t say anything” he muttered into his shoulder a chuckle following
Logan’s face was now dusted a light pink, he just decided to take the hiding it route and hid his face in Virgil’s hair, Virgil chuckled again but this time didn’t say anything
He heard the door open quietly. He smiled and looked up to see his bo- friend entering with a couple plates in his arms
“You need any help ci-ci?”
Deceit gave a breathless laugh and shook his head “nah I’ve got it,”
Virgil looked between the two for a moment “you two sound like and elderly couple” he said despite the fact that he so desperately wanted to be with them in the elderly couple-y-ness
Deceit and Logan laughed, cheeks flushing lightly,
“You jealous vee-vee?” deceit teased
Yes “pfft no” he lied
Deceit paused for a moment, as Logan just chuckled softly,
Virgil panicked silently as he remembered that deceit always knew when people were lying, it was a part of being a side, just like virgil knew if another side was overly anxious, deceit could tell when people were lying, deceit had once complained to virgil about the sides lying, he said it tasted like something sour, though he mentioned how the lies he hated the most were the ones that tasted sweet, unnaturally sweet- so in conclusion
Fuck.
Deceit hummed, “you sure?” It was the softest way he could try and get an answer,
Virgil thought for a moment, “is there a safe answer to that?”
Logan was pretty clueless while this was happening in front of him, he was trying his hardest to get information from whatever was going on in front of him,
“I have absolutely no idea,” deceit told him earnestly, as much as Remus tested it, he could not in fact, see the future,
Virgil stared at the wall for a moment, before he quietly muttered “fuck”
He took a deep breath, “ok so- umm-” he stammered and looked down, at his hands nervously, “ok so i- err- well i umm-” he took another deep breath, “oksoikindofreallylikedyouandicouldnthandleitsoiwenttothelightsidesandthenifellforlogantoobutnowilikebothofyouguysfuck-” he said all at once, the words slurring together slightly, he bit his lip tentatively, trying to seal his nerves,
(if you can't read it, it says “ok so i kind of really liked you and i couldn't handle it so i went to the light sides and then i fell for logan too but now i like both of you guys fuck-”)
Deceit’s brain was still trying to process the words and separate them, but fortunately logan has the brain cell now, he was way quicker at understanding the words, rather unfortunately though logan may have the brain cell but was only using half the brain cell,
“Huh,” logan said dumbly, face tingeing a light pink unable to find the words to say, ‘oh shit same, i like you both too, ci-ci what about you, unless you are uncomfy with it,’ that thought on what to say reminded him he needed to redo his vocab cards
“‘Huh’?” virgil repeated questioningly, trying to get someone to say something that's a more beneficial conversation word,
Dee’s brain finally processed the words, which led his face heating up rather beneficially “ok so i don't know about lo here because he can't talk about crushes or he’ll burst into a tomato, i saw it once, it was adorable,” he trailed off before remembering what he was saying “anyway i feel the same,” he blushed a bit more before continuing “about… both of you,”
Virgil's cheeks became a very saturated red color as he was waiting for Logan’s response because ‘huh’ ain’t the best conversational words in this case
Logan flushed as he realized all the attention was now on him, “ok so,” he exhaled and pulled a vocab out of a non existent pocket he had in his pajamas “mood... fam?,” he blushed more
Virgil gazed at them both for a minute dumbly
“Lo-lo i think we need to burn those vocal cards with holy fire,”
Logan flushed slightly then made a soft laugh “you already burnt the ‘yeet’ and ‘yo mama gay’ cards, I get to keep these,”
Virgil laughed, at ease now that everything went well, “you two are amazing…” he blurted out, tone soft, getting the two’s attention
Deceit laughed “obviously! Have you seen this marshmallow?” He picked up Logan for emphasis, really making use of the 2 inches he had on logan,
Virgil laughed “you’re both amazing,” he rephrased smiling before his face went pale “we forgot the food,”
“Fuck, it might’ve gotten cold,” deceit realized aloud
Logan rolled his eyes “guys, it’s been like 5 minutes, 7 max, it couldn’t have gotten cold that quickly, plus my room is rather warm since it’s accustomed for deceit’s body temperature,”
Deceit Nodded, setting Logan down “thank you almighty brain cell holder,”
Logan rolled his eyes again as he handed Virgil and deceit their plates,
“It’s good!” Virgil announced “and decidedly not cold!” He added causing deceit to cackle and almost choke, logan rolled his eyes
“Ok just so I know does this make us boyfriends?” Virgil asked tentatively a little later
Logan looked up at Virgil “yas fam,” he smiled and looked back down
Deceit looked up at Logan bewildered “seriously who’s giving him these vocab cards??” He scrunched his eyebrows together in confusion, he shook his head and looked at Virgil “also yes Virgil, sweetie, it does, unless either of you has objections,” he smiled at the two when they didn’t object and leaned onto Logan, absorbing his warmth and using him as a meat pillow,
Virgil gave a small smile at that, and sighed in content as draped himself over Logan and deceit
Logan rolled his eyes oh so lovingly as the much taller side did this,
“Hey guys?” Deceit spoke up
“What’s up?” Virgil asked, Logan staying quiet as his way of saying ‘go on’
Deceit smiled shyly “i love you two,” his face flushed immediately
Virgil and Logan looked at each other for a small moment before smiling
“We love you too,” they said I sync
“So much” Logan added,
they all smiled softly at each other before Virgil laughed “this is all so sappy”
“And you love it,” logan noted
“I plead the 5th”
Logan softly laughed and rolled his eyes
Deceit chuckled softly, oh he loved the two, he had said it before and will proudly say it In the future, he loved Logan and Virgil sanders,
With that thought he leaned back fully into Logan and Virgil, drifting off for last time that day,
tomorrow they would anxiously hold each others hands and tell Patton, Roman and Remus about them all being a thing, Roman would lightly tease Virgil then apologize for the prior day to logan, Patton would excitedly hug them all and ask when the wedding was, getting the two ‘edgy’ ones to blush and deceit to push his hat over his eyes. remus would tell them he thought they already were dating, save maybe Virgil, deceit would smiled, because now that that was out in the open he could hug and cuddle the two with no one batting and eye, or questioning it or waking them up,
But right now he was going to sleep, surrounded by his boyfriends and their love and warmth, and happy back and forth, topics coming and going like a breeze, fading into background noise,
Deceit had a feeling he wouldn’t have to worry about anything in the future if he had the two by his side,
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oh yes, tell me more about this beautiful lesbian slowburn. I’m a sucker for a good love story
Okay so to start off, My sexuality fluctuates greatly throughout this story, but as of now I identify as a Bisexual lithsexual lesbian, which means that I am attracted to lots of people but lose attraction when the feelings are reciprocated, and I'll only date girls.
The story starts off August of 2018. I was starting 6th grade (middle school) and didn't really have any friends aside from a few people that I had last talked to in 3rd grade.
It's important to know that I'm a GT kid and so I almost always have the same group of about 20 kids. This started when I changed to an all GT class for 4th grade.
While it's nice to have a comfortable learning environment, it also means that there's no escape from any drama, and you get to pick friends from the very small pool of kids that you'll spend the rest of your education with.
This is a pretty long story as well and I'm not sure I'll be able to accurately retell many of the things because dates get mixed up and stuff. Anyway, I'm gonna try my best to explain but these are really only the things from my point of view and I don't remember a lot of the things. (This is also gonna be written like a fanfic because that's all I know how to write, I apologise)
So start of sixth grade, I don't really have any friends, I'm kind of this awkward nerd, there's 2 people in my class (we switch classes like normal middle school, but I'm with the GT kids for most of the day so that's what I'll refer to them as) that I've known for years, a few I've met before, but mostly new people.
I sit by some old friends from volleyball at lunch for the first few days but begin to feel unwelcome. One day I decide to sit by these two people that I know are in GT but haven't talked to before. I don't say anything, but I sit and they don't mind.
The next day we get new seats in English. I'm behind a boy named Owen, Inara, who is one of the girls I sat with at lunch, is to my right, and in front of her is a girl named Emilyse.
Inara and I hit it off immediately.
It's kind of crazy because we're both crazy anxious introverts, but we gel nicely. I'm a boyband-obsessed 11 year old and she's a mature and mysterious 11 year old.
She's a lefty. I'm a righty. The way we've been placed makes us bump arms everytime we try to write anything.
We have every class together. Somehow, we sit next to each other in every class as well, even in the ones where we didn't pick our seating chart.
It's September. I cry over boybands. She watches curiously.
For the next couple of months we casually talk. She spends every lunch period in the library. We text occasionally.
I have another friend who takes priority. His name is Logan. We got introduced by his friend Lennox when she asked for my phone number to give to him.
Lennox and I don't talk. Logan and I text nonstop for months. We discuss possibly dating in the future. I identify as bisexual and biromantic at this point.
I've been in this position before. Having mainly guy friends growing up puts me in a lot of awkward friendship/relationship situations. They always end the same.
I have an issue with dating in middle school. You're not dating if you don't go on dates, hold hands, kiss, or cuddle. But you can feel like you are.
In December Logan starts being mean. We start a game where we step on each other's shoes at lunch or in the hallway. It's fun.
Eventually, he recruits his friends to do it to me, too. It's a joke a first, but eventually there are 10 middle school boys chasing me and trying to hurt me.
I get kicked in the hallway and fall. Someone steps on my arm and people laugh. Logan watches. I tell Inara and she steps on his shoe for me.
Logan and I stop talking. Inara and I hang out more. By early January, Inara has stopped going to the library at lunch. We hang out with Emilyse in the field instead.
I text Logan one day in mid January and ask why we fell out. He says that I told someone that I was going to punch him in the face.
The person he said I told, only talked to me at the bus stop, and he didn't ride my bus. I had never said it in the first place, but his logic made it even more frustrating.
I tell him I got scared because I had a crush on him and didn't want to make things weird. It was a lie.
In February I came out to someone for the first time. They asked if I was bi and I said yes.
By March I had accepted that coming out didn't really make a difference. Inara and I hung out at school but not really anywhere else.
My birthday's in April. I invite her, Emilyse, and Rebekah. We paint rocks and draw on a table cloth. Emilyse feels distant.
Emilyse is homophobic. We find out in English one day. I don't remember how. Inara and I look at each other. We know we're both queer but haven't come out to each other.
I ask Emilyse if she would hate someone in GT for coming out. She says yes. Inara and I stop talking to her.
By May I've become obsessed with Marvel. Inara's interested in it and I decide to be, too. We talk about the movies. It gets awkward. She's not as interested when I get in on it.
By June we're best friends. We hang out fairly regularly, have all our classes together, and text all the time. Logan is forgotten.
School lets out at the start of June. We keep texting regularly. We make plans to see the new spiderman movie in early July with one of our other friends.
I have a complicated relationship with said friend. They're non-binary, although I didn't know it yet, and I've known them since Kindergarten. Inara met them in an advisory this year. I get jealous easily.
The day of the movie I shop at Kohl's. I buy the two of us matching shirts. We meet at the movie theater and it's awkward. I pay for popcorn and sneak in snacks that we share. Our friend's dad is there, but Inara and I don't have parents present.
We sit next to each other during the movie. At a certain scene, I start to get anxious. My stomach hurts and I can't breathe, I start to get sweaty.
I get up and rush out of the theater. I get to the women's bathroom and sit down on the floor of the very last stall. I'm panicing, dry heaving into the toilet, and trying not to cry. I try to text my mom that I'm having a panic attack but don't have reception.
I go back into the theater room after a few minutes. I'm still anxious, but better. Our friend is highly concerned, Inara just glances at me worriedly.
It's my first panic attack, and it sucked.
We leave awkwardly after it ends, trying to avoid the obvious elephant in the room. My mom is concerned when she picks me up. We don't talk about it. My dad and brother are watching it illegally when I get home.
We don't see each other until August of 2019, but continue to text through the rest of the summer.
When 7th grade starts, I'm still into Marvel. I've seen all the movies at this point, but there haven't been any new ones (even now) since FFH. Inara's interested, but not fully.
In late August/Early September we take BuzzFeed quizzes for fun and text each other the results. I take one about soulmates. I get her initials. I send her the link. She gets mine.
We take more and they all point to us being soulmates. We propose by sending pictures of rings over text. The wedding date is set for September 28th, 2019.
The time comes. It's Saturday and my brother has a double football game. We've planned to pick her up and take her there. It's a Christian league, so the games are at a church.
We go to the garden. There's a small white bench in some rocks, surrounded by flowers. We joke that we've had our ceremony. We wander around for a while longer.
My dad suggests that we go to the taco bell across the parking lot. We do. When we're done, we walk back to my house. Its not far, but we're alone. I carry her halfway back.
When we get to my house we pick things from my garden. We're barefoot and I'm wearing overalls. I joke that we're gonna get a farm one day when we're older.
She picks things while I stand back and watch. The sun hits her dyed-red hair just right. I vividly remember smiling at thinking "holy fuck she's pretty" you would think I'd put together my crush by then.
October rolls around and she cancels plans to go trick-or-treating with me. I'm upset but understand.
We "work" on a school project at her house. We don't actually get anything done before cuddling up on her bed and falling asleep to black panther.
In November, it's Emilyse's birthday party. We've gotten distant but still talk occasionally. Inara and I both go to the party.
We're watching Spiderman Far From Home because that's what Emilyse wanted. I've seen in twice, Ianra has too.
We're given candy and popcorn and then curl up on the couch. Inara and I sit next to each other.
(I forgot to mention this but at some point she stayed the night at my house. She slept on the floor in her swimming suit even though I asked if she wanted to sleep on the bed. Swimming was fun though. We also go to an arcade. We mini-golf and play laser tag. We also danced in the rain together at some point that day.)
Once we're no more than 15 minutes into the movie, I'm cuddled into her chest. It's important to mention that at this point I'm 5'6 and she's no more than 5'0.
We cuddle the entire movie. We share candy and pretend no one else is there. It feels great.
We don't talk about that night for months. Nobody brings it up. I come out to Rebekah around this time, saying no more than that I like girls. I still haven't told Inara.
By December, I've brought her to church a few times. I don't enjoy going to church, but my parents always encouraged it.
(I'd like to say at this point as well that I have been raised Christian and identify with the faith despite the fact that I despise Church and disagree with many of the common teachings. If I ever had to choose for some reason, my sexuality matters more to me than my religion. Regardless, I respect your beliefs if they differ from mine :) )
Inara's birthday is in mid December. Her party consists of us making gay jokes with our enby friend despite not being technically out to each other.
My church youth group plans ice skating. I invite her and she accepts. I'm worried about it. It's essentially a date. Neither of our parents will be there.
We carpool with the youth leaders, who are actually pretty cute for a hetero couple. Inara and I share awkward glances the whole time.
When we get there I learn that Inara took ice skating lessons as a child. She's much more confident than I am, but pretends she doesn't know what she's doing. I skate about once or twice a season, but also rollerblade.
There's a wet, sloped, melty part of the rink. I get nervous and grab her hand. She holds it until we're out of the melted ice.
Every lap around I grab her hand at that point. Eventually, we just keep holding hands for an entire lap.
By the end of the night, we've both fallen a few times but held hands the whole time. We drop her off and I say goodnight.
That night, I rant about the adventure to one of my (ex)friends, who excitedly listens to my talk about holding hands with a girl.
There's a GT Christmas party at Hannah's. Inara and I carpool there. It's an all together boring party with the exception of a few interesting truth-or-dare questions.
(side note, remember Owen? Well he's one of Inara and I's best friends and we were actually close enough that the three of us were basically cuddling on the couch during part of the party. Also the whole class knows about Inara and I's wedding and calls us wives.)
Paislie asks me if I wanted to "marry" Inara before we got "married". I mumble an answer that nobody hears. I don't repeat it. When it's time to leave, Inara and I have our legs intertwined on the couch. We don't mention that, either. We drop her off and I say goodnight.
January is good. There's a night, the 4th I believe, that we really connect. We officially come out to each other for the first time on that night, and it gets really real, really fast.
She says she's pan, I say I'm bi but confused.
In mid January she texts me that she's crying because one of her favorite YouTubers finally hit a million. She cries for hours but never tells me who. I pay it no mind.
A few days later, she mentions a YouTube channel called Unus Annus and tells me that it's super interesting. I text back but don't look it up.
A few more days pass and I'm randomly on the trending page for YouTube, which I never do. I see a video trending called "Mark and Ethan go casket shopping". The thumbnail is interesting enough that I check what the channel is. I notice it's the one Inara told me about.
I watch the video and subscribe within 5 minutes. I text Inara quotes from that video, Ethan Finally Becomes a Man, and the Lie Detector test videos, until she responds and is surprised that I found the channel.
I obsess quickly and depend on her to know the new video at 1pm everyday. She gets annoyed and we drift apart slowly.
In February things get rocky. We fight often. If I win a small argument she doesn't talk to me for hours. She gets pissed at refuses to tell me what the Unus Annus video is called if I ask too many times.
At some point I get fed up and confront her. I don't remember what about, but we stop talking all together.
Friends pick sides. I'm left alone. We don't talk for a month. She tells me that she pushed me away because she thought I'd react badly to her telling me she loves me.
I confess my crush. She tells me she feels the same.
We finally make up at about 8:30 on a Sunday night in March. It's not fixed but we plan to talk. And 9:00, the school district announces that it's shutting down until least after spring break.
We stopped trying to communicate, but eventually, slowly we started talking again. We text a few times a day now, mostly about UA and anxiety, the best combo.
We haven't seen each other since. We're probably going back to school in person in about a month, but I'm not sure. Nobody is.
I've called her my girlfriend on here before, simply because I don't know what we are. I joked the other day about how the youth leaders would react if I said I was texting my girlfriend.
Here's how that went:
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So we're just jokingly married for now! It's a confusing pile of garbage but we both came out as lesbians the other day so that's a new development.
I don't know if any of that makes sense but I'll answer any questions anybody has :)
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sadnessisavegetable · 4 years
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The Truth of the New Orleans Serial Killer
Buzzfeed Unsolved Network 13.5M views - 1 month ago
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RYAN: This week we’re getting into one of New Orleans, Louisiana’s worst serial killers, not the Axeman of course, but a supposedly nice radio host called Al. We don’t have much proof that he’s the serial killer in this, but we do have a very old recording of him speaking of a murder and describing it in such detail.
SHANE: I don’t think such a nice guy could be a serial killer. Maybe he’s just a witness.
RYAN: You’re considered nice too, but I still think you’re a psychopath.
SHANE: You woke me up at 3 am just to tell me about him. Can I please go home and go to bed now?
RYAN: Nope. Let’s get into it.
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RYAN: Alastor was born in the mid to late 1890s on a farm on the outskirts of New Orleans, Louisiana to an unnamed African American woman and an Irishman. We don’t know his last name or the names of his parents, but we do know that he was a pale Louisiana creole who deeply hated how people treated him.
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RYAN: As far as we know, he was an only child and a Momma’s Boy. His father, being true to his Irish roots, was a drinker, though that caused a lot of domestic violence in the home. Alastor was a newsie down in Louisiana for a while to help with the money problems they had.
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SHANE: Whoa there, buckaroo, we don’t need you to murder your co-host.
RYAN: I might. But not today, we’re working on this episode, which I am actually really excited about.
SHANE: Continue about Al. I’m getting curious as to what’s got you so excited.
RYAN: Actually, not much is known about his childhood up to his final teenage years. When he was sixteen, his dad died in some sort of voodoo accident.
SHANE: ..and his mom?
RYAN: Murdered when Alastor was eighteen and drunk.
SHANE: I remember you mentioning that he was a Momma’s Boy. How’d he react to his mom being killed?
RYAN: He chased down the murderer and tried cannibalism for the first time.
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RYAN: He buried his mom and the bones of her murderer before cleaning up and packing his things. From there he left his childhood home to work in the city. This was in 1915.
SHANE: How’d that go for him?
RYAN: He wasn’t hired at first because of how skinny and tall he was because that was very odd to most white people back then.
SHANE: Oof. Well, I shouldn’t be surprised.
RYAN: But he eventually met Henry “Husker” Stitchfield, a magician who helped him get a job as a radio announcer, and eventually a host.
SHANE: So that’s why he was a radio host, cool. What was his attitude, you haven’t really described him that much.
RYAN: He was a very polite person with an ever-present smile. It was very rare to see him without his smile, in fact. He was pretty tall, standing at 6 feet tall, but was shorter than Husker, who stood at 6′ 2″. His hair was naturally messy and a dark brown color and his skin was lightly tanned with many freckles that he hid with a pale face powder when he was out in public.
SHANE: He sounds cool.
RYAN: Do you understand why I’m excited now, Shane?
SHANE: Yeah. Do we get to go on a field trip now? You told me that we were heading down to Louisiana to check out the spots he’s rumored to haunt. He is a ghost or demon, right?
RYAN: Yeah he is and we’ll go after I explain the night of his death. He went out to a bar with his romantic partner that evening and when they got home, Alastor immediately went back out and caught his next victim to torture, kill, and eat. He got himself a woman in her early twenties and managed to tie her up in his basement when his partner had ratted him out.
*uncomfortable pause*
SHANE: What happened next?
RYAN: Oh, I thought you weren’t listening. Anyways, the cop described going down into a darkened, bloodstained basement with a man named Daniel leading him. Alastor had immediately looked betrayed and he was wearing a bloodstained apron and holding a knife to the trembling woman’s neck. The cop shot at the cannibal without a second thought and Daniel in a split second had taken the bullet for Alastor.
SHANE: D**m, what’d Alastor do about that, assuming that Daniel was his partner.
RYAN: Alastor bolted into the woods when the cop panicked and tried to save Daniel’s life. He smelled strongly of blood, so he was caught by a set of hunting dogs and torn to shreds. When the hunter who owned the dogs got there and got the dogs off him, it was too late to save the radio host, so the hunter shot him in the head and put him out of his misery.
SHANE: Oh my god. That’s dark. Can we go now?
RYAN: Sure.
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part two to be linked here if I ever continue this thing.
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SENTENCE MEME ⟶ THIS WAY UP / 1.02 –– 1.04 always feel free to tweak the sentence to fit your muse.
“Two for the price of one this morning, was it?”
“You shouldn’t buy cigarettes on the street.”
“No wonder you’re single.”
“I have no soul, you know that.”
“There’s such different consequences having sex when you’ve got a penis compared to a vagina.”
“I could have kept that one in my mouth, actually, instead of letting it come out.”
“Can you officially be friends, please?”
“If he doesn’t hate me, and there’s a strong chance that he might, I’ll come back again.”
“It’s where you hold your sadness.”
“They were having sex so loudly, it was like two alley cats punching each other in the face.”
“Natural beauty, what a bitch.”
“She feels the same way as me about work at the moment, that it’s destroying her soul.”
“Nobody understands the economy, that’s why people blame everything on immigrants.”
“I’m going to waste away, like a leaf at the end of autumn.”
“I do realize I’m a bit of a dickhead.”
“I hate the way men don’t talk about their feelings, or pain.”
“I think that vulnerability is seen as a weakness.”
“We’re like two sexy Yodas passing on wisdom.”
“I can’t talk, but what’s up?”
“I’m a giant stupid idiot.”
“I actually feel physically embarrassed at myself, like I’m actually cringing in my soul at the moment.”
“Are you on drugs?”
“Maybe rule number one is that we have to take a shot every time we say sorry.”
“Your timekeeping is a joke.”
“Are you sure there won’t be any dragons you have to slay en route?”
“Have you ever known a better song?”
“Nice to see you’re keeping all the secrets I tell you.”
“It’s okay, though it is a bit of a sad story.”
“Her hat collection fell on top of him.”
“He was smothered to death by hats.”
“You don’t need to hang around here with us.”
“I do have to leave because I’ve got places to go and stuff.”
“Your boobs are as intense as your ass.”
“We’re watching that murdered nun documentary.”
“You sound like a Cockney criminal.”
“Just pretend it never happened.”
“She hates houses that have private bathrooms and underfloor heating.”
“I moved my toothbrush in three weeks ago.”
“I’d feel bad asking you to do that.”
“He’s nice, a little bit weird like you.”
“Don’t walk around my house getting bacteria all over the place.”
“It’s not good for you to be hanging around the house all day.”
“You don’t need to threaten me.”
“I’m not threatening you.”
“Fine, I’ll leave this house full of lies and deceit.”
“I texted her last week to see if she was dead, so.”
“Male energy is very exotic to you.”
“You’re very starstruck by male energy.”
“You’ve got a fire in you and you can use that to heat yourself up, or you can use that to burn yourself and everyone else around you down.”
“Did you punch him in the balls?”
“I want to say that I punched him in the balls, but no, I went into the toilet and cried.”
“I’ve actually never done shots before.”
“I know he’s enemy number one.”
“My brain’s a bit shit.”
“God, how do I end up in these fucking situations.”
“Pretend to have your mind blown.”
“Thanks very much for paying for everything but I think you’ll agree that you got your money’s worth and it’s time for me to go and never call me again, okay?”
“Who the fuck is that on my couch?”
“Do you have any idea how dangerous that is?”
“He wouldn’t hurt a fly.”
“He’s the only person in the world who cares about me.”
“If you want to kick him out on the street then just do it.”
“I am gonna kill you in the morning.”
“You are a fucking idiot.”
“I am so fucking angry with you right now.”
“I don’t think he’d have sex with you if he saw you with your retainer in.”
“You haven’t talked to her in months.”
“She’s old, you have to forgive her.”
“She’s only old when she wants to be.”
“She won’t die, she’s too stubborn.”
“We’re too different, we’ll never get along.”
“I’m stuck in the middle of this bullshit and it’s not fair.”
“We will fight them on the beaches.”
“Don’t point it out or people will notice.”
“You look like your father in the 70s.”
“So, I look like a dead man?”
“Don’t be gentle with me like I’m an old one.”
“We’ll put you in a wheelchair and roll you down the hill.”
“Do you know you’re like Willy Wonka?”
“I wasn’t interrupting, that’s how conversations work.”
“How come you’re allowed to interrupt but I’m not?”
“He says people recycle them but no one ever does.”
“You never told me there was a man on the go.”
“You’ve no sense of humor.”
“I would have laughed so hard if it backfired and you feel right on your face.”
“Today’s not about me, I don’t want to make a fuss.”
“Just treat me like a normal person.”
“This is demeaning on so many levels.”
“I have a proper job at Buzzfeed.”
“I just want to say how wonderful it is to have you here with us today.”
“Time myst be a pressure at this stage.”
“None of us are getting any younger.”
“I actually don’t want kids.”
“You always think you don’t want kids, and then you change your mind.”
“I’m going to throw caution to the wind and eat with my hands.”
“You never know real love until you have children.”
“Even if he murdered someone I’d still love him unconditionally.”
“If he murdered someone I’d get a spade to dig a grave and cover it up.”
“Why am I a murderer?”
“I don’t think you need to be a mother to know unconditional love.”
“It’s nice to see your face.”
“She thought France was the capital of France.”
“I want you to help me choose because I always get this wrong.”
“They always get annoyed when I put their picture on Instagram without editing.”
“Could somebody blow the candles out before the house burns down.”
“Are you pissed off with me?”
“Why are you so angry all the time?”
“I wanted you to come and get me.”
“I wanted you to come down to that place and take me out of there.”
“I wanted you to take me home and make me better.”
“Those people in there knew what they were doing.”
“What help would I have been?”
“I just wanted you to try.”
“I left her for three months because I didn’t want her.”
“I just want you to find someone who’ll make you see that you’re brilliant.”
“A man isn’t gonna fix me.”
“You could just ring me sometimes.”
“You have to work out how to use facetime.”
“Most of my friends, half of them are dead.”
“Did you kill them?”
“I only killed one friend because she was so fucking annoying.”
“That’s a bit of an anticlimax.”
“You have to be careful with men.”
“They don’t always get jokes.”
“Annoyingly, she didn’t get us return tickets.”
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