#that's my assumption anyway. but i like being around old people - they can absolutely be kind and gentle and i appreciate it

[mintmatcha]

Inevitable Things: chapter five

Aizawa x reader fic

cw: cisfem reader, no quirks, office au, miscommunications, slow burn. full tags available on AO3 (linked in masterlist)

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Fridays are the only day you carve out time for lunch. Less than coincidentally, Fridays are also the only day lunch is catered.

“Here-” Izuku jams his bowl of take out into Katsuki’s face. “Does it smell like there’s peanuts in here?”

Bakugo Katsuki, Izuku’s fiance, is only half as ornery as he looks. A premature wrinkle has formed in between his brows, a sign of his almost constant annoyance. His straw colored hair is a sharp contrast to his deep red eyes, currently narrowed in disgust.

“Get this shit out of my fucking face,” he groans. “I’m not a fucking allergy alert dog-- I can’t smell peanuts.”

“To be fair-” Ochako interjects through a mouthful. She’s the opposite of Katsuki: dark hair, round eyes, a smile so sweet that it makes your teeth hurt. Her cheeks are always flushed, spots of broken blood vessels spattered like freckles. “Peanuts do have a smell.”

“Did you ask him to smell for penis?” Denki says, too loud to be genuine. “Kind of homophobic to ask a gay guy that.”

Both men give him identical deadpan stares.

“That’s just his fucking country-ass accent.” Katsuki brushes Denki off and turns back to the curly haired man. “Why would chicken have peanuts in it anyway?”

“The o’l.” Izuku stresses.

“The what?”

“Some places use peanut o’l.”

“Say oil.”

Izuku sneers a bit in return, smoothing out the curves of his accent. “Oy-I’ll.”

“Jesus christ, I’m marrying a hick.” Katsuki leans back in his chair and meets your eye with a jerk of his chin. “Can you believe this?”

You snap back into focus. Your own lunch is untouched, fork still in its little plastic wrapper. Hunger nips at your stomach, but nausea wins over today. The cafeteria isn’t very busy, but in the next couple minutes everyone will start pouring in. The lot of you arrived early to get the best seating-- a little couch and coffee table in the corner, a perfect place to eat and people watch.

“Oh, yeah, uh- Izuku, they have an allergen free option.”

“Well, yeah, but-” He tilts his head as he talks, watching you with those wide, green eyes, like he sees something just below the surface. “It doesn't have chicken-- are you good?”

“Me?”

“Yeah, you.” Katsuki fingers a piece of Izuku’s food and pops it into his mouth, much to the man’s dismay. “You’ve been making that sad little face all day.”

You pout a bit harder at that. Shit-- you thought you were being subtle. You haven’t been able to walk this whole Aizawa thing off yet, despite all of your attempts. No amount of emails, meetings, and other petty office bullshit managed to distract you from the absolute shock and humiliation of… whatever that was.

Embarrassment.

Embarrassment? You’re certainly not the prettiest girl in the office, but embarrassing? That makes your gums ache, like a punch to the nose, and it makes you feel dirty, like the fall to the ground afterwards.

“You’re doing it again.” Ochako points to your face and it’s apparently sadness. “What’s going on?”

You hem a bit, before condensing it the best you can.

“I’m having issues with a guy.” What an understatement.

A collective glance is shared between the group.

“Touya again?”

Again, Touya haunts a room he’s never been in. You debate what to say. If you admit to it being someone new, they might start sniffing around and jump to conclusions-- though Aizawa would certainly be the last assumption they would make, you still can’t risk it. Besides, you don’t need a gaggle of 23 year olds dissecting your every move. They’re going to jump to some stupid conclusion, like you’re dating Toshinori, if you aren’t careful.

“Yeah, it’s Touya,” you lie, as sheepishly as you can. “Oops.”

“Jesus Fucking Christ.” Katsuki rolls his eyes so hard that you imagine his brain must hurt. “Again?”

“Shh, just tell us what happened,” Izuku urges, elbowing his partner rather sharply.

“I don't know where I stand with him. It's so-- Ugh, I thought things were going to start going well and then it was just ice cold.” You press your palms into your eyes and sigh. The pressure feels good and helps with the remnants of your hangover. You need an electrolyte drink, stat. Maybe another fucking drink too. “And I’m not even sure why I’m surprised because it’s ice cold a lot.”

When you look up, Ochako is offering a hand, palm up and open. When you take it, she giggles a bit, squeezing gently.

“I think you need to prioritize yourself.”

Denki nods in agreement, cheeks stuffed with food. He’s finished his meal and started stabbing bits of yours. You just push the whole bowl towards him in defeat and slump down into the couch.

“Stop giving men who treat you poorly the time of day.” Ochako says. “When you let them in again and again, you’re basically, like, giving them permission to do this stuff.”

“Yeah!” Denki says through a mouthful. “Cut that fucker off! Don’t even talk to him!”

“Oh, I dunno--” You glance between them. “I think that’d be mean.”

Conflict makes your head spin. It’s so much easier to roll over and take whatever people give you, negative or otherwise. It’s what made your relationship with Touya work-- and it’s what’s allowed you to stay in this job for so long.

“Good!” Denki says. “He deserves it.”

“You deserve to be a little mean and a little angry when people treat you poorly.” She smiles again, wider this time. “Grow some balls. Stand up for yourself.”

“Yeah! Balls!” Denki agrees.

You suck on your bottom lip and turn the idea over in your head. Are you even angry at Aizawa? Or just hurt and confused? Right now, those things may as well be the same thing-- they certainly burn the same in your chest. Cruelty isn’t your usual indulgence…

But it’s someone else’s.

“What do you think?” You turn to Katsuki, who’s been scrolling through twitter for a bit now. His face doesn’t change when he speaks, locked into a general annoyance.

“I think you should kill that fucker.”

You turn to Izuku, the rational one of the couple. He shrugs, straw in mouth and completely unamused.

“Oh, I also think you should kill him,” he says, tone matching Katsuki’s.

Not helpful.

“Listen--” Katsuki leans forward, elbows on his spread knees. He uses a fork to articulate as he speaks. “I’m the expert on being a cunt-”

“-we don’t use that word!” Ochako grimaces.

“And it’s the most freeing and addictive thing you can be.” The tongs of the fork point directly towards you, as sharp as his gaze. “More people should be cunts more often. The world would be a happier place.”

Ochako gasps. “I don’t agree with that at all!”

“Oh please, miss goody-goody,” Katsuki sneers. “You wouldn't need to go to kickboxing five times a week if you let your anger out day to day like a normal motherfucker.”

The girl of the group puffs out her cheeks, but does not argue back. Izuku pats her shoulder affectionately. His food is still untouched, but his free hand guards it from Denki.

“I'm telling you. Try it out. You’ll like it.” Katsuki leans back into his seat. “Or don't. Your life.”

“Question-” The other blonde pipes up. “Did you, like, do something?”

“Kaminari!”

“I mean, like, was there a catalyst?” “A fight or a date or-?”

You know exactly what drives Touya away everytime, but Aizawa is a new beast. Did you breathe wrong or--

“Oh, I uh,” A realization hits you. “I ignored a couple texts, I guess.”

Suddenly, you’re very aware of the outline of your phone and how it presses into your pocket. If there wasn’t a chance of you flashing the group pictures of their boss, you’d check it immediately, but you can’t mentally handle the risk.

“What an overreaction,” Ochako sighs. “Dump him forever and move on-- Mr. Hizashi and his wife-”

“We aren’t like that.” Ugh. You love Hizashi, but the trio relationship isn’t your speed. “Besides, I don’t like blondes.”

The two toe-heads of the group roll their eyes in a practiced synchrony. Ochako’s smile changes a little bit, something tighter and brighter; is she excited that you aren’t interested? Interesting and a bit gross: she’s too young for that. They’re more than ten years older than her-

(How old is Aizawa? He went to school with Hizashi, so he’s at least 38-- but you could have sworn there were whispers of his fortieth last year. You’ll have to snoop.)

“We’re in agreement. Be a cunt, move on. The end.” Katsuki turns away from you, done with this topic. “Izuku, just fucking eat it already.”

The boy takes a deep breath and runs his fingers through his curly hair. “Well, alright, but if I get hives, you’re the one who has to deal with me.”

…

Be mean.

You’re written it on a sticky note and placed it under your computer monitor, like some sort of fucked up mantra. The mere idea of it feels antithetical to who you are at your core; you enjoy helping people, you love making the world better. That’s why you work like a dog for the company-- you know it’s improving the lives of its customers. If Toshinori wasn’t sick, you know he’d be doing even more too.

On the other hand, being nice has led to your own detriment many times. Touya has hurt you, your parents, and now even Aizawa. And you can’t even blame Aizawa, can you? Texting him was your mistake--

You rest your forehead against your desk. There’s still a sticky spot from when you spilled your coffee yesterday. God, yesterday feels so close and yet so far away. How does a man yoyo between yelling at you, sending you his weiner, then telling you that you’re embarrassing? The idea of ‘always wanted you’ goes flying out the window.

Just as you try and put yourself to work, you hear it. The familiar lopsided stomp. Fuck, it’s him, probably looking for his afternoon coffee. He’s been by much less than usual, a fact you’re very grateful for, so you haven’t even thought about the pot since before lunch. You glance over and see it’s empty. Crap.

As you start to get up, the sticky note catches your eye again. Be mean. That’s right. Why are you popping out of your chair for this, this, this--- total fucking cunt? Your chair squeaks with the force you sit down with. You try to embody Katsuki with your face - furrowing your brow and yet keeping your mouth unaffected-- and your worst nightmare turns the corner.

You keep typing and hope Aizawa doesn't notice that it's the same words over and over again, hit in the same rhythm. P-e-a-n-u-t-O-i-l P-e-a-n-u-t-O-i-l P-e-a-n-u-t-O-i-l P-e-a-n-u-t-O-i-l. He waits a long moment, then clears his throat louder. You don't gift him your attention until he grumbles something under his breath, shifting his weight on to his other leg. Just as he begins to say something, you interject.

“I had more important things to focus on,” you lie. “You can figure out how to brew coffee, Mr.// Engineer.”

You throw in that last bit without thinking, but the bite rolls so easily off of your tongue. It’s nothing like your usual tone, but it feels so, so right. From the corner of your vision you can see his literally reel back, blinking hard,

“That’s how it’s going to be?”

You don’t respond. P-e-a-n-u-t-O-i-l P-e-a-n-u-t-O-i-l P-e-a-n-u-t-O-i-l P-e-a-n-u-t-O-i-l. Your fingers shake from the adrenaline boost. Ochako was right; don't even give this man the time of day.

“It's going to be like that?” He yanks the pot from its stand. “Fine.”

You have to muster all of willpower not to grin as he starts slamming open the drawers and scrounging around for supplies. It takes a whole ten minutes before he presses brew, then another five before the pot is almost half full. The whole time he grumbles to himself, leaning his whole weight against the flimsy table.

This is good. Too good. The vindictive rush of power feels almost sexual in the way it satisfies. Teeth dig into your lip as you hold back a smile even harder.

Embarrassment? You'll show him what embarrassment really means.

Finally, he pours himself a cup. He doesn't fill his thermos nearly as much as he normally does, most likely trying to leave as quickly as possible. Just as he starts to turn, you get up out of your chair and walk over. You take one of the little disposable cups from the stack and take your time adding three sugars and two cream, each one at a time, as he lurks there. Then, you pour the coffee, thick and oddly gritty into your cup. You finally meet his eye when you take a swig.

Aizawa’s face is set hard, small eyes narrowed even tighter. His lips are screwed up with annoyance, wrinkling his low bridged nose. Pissed would be an understatement. Just as you brace for another yelling match, he turns away, marching down the hall.

“Enjoy the fucking coffee.”

Oh, Katsuki was right. Being mean tastes good.

….This coffee, however, does not.

[uncanny-tranny]

I went to a local yarn store for the first time, and while I was there, somebody was talking about getting a beginner's knitting kit, and she inquired about when lessons were, and when she was told that they'd be happy to sit down with her and teach her, she was so delighted. She talked about how excited she was and how much she wanted to learn to knit, and it just... it made me fall in love with humanity. It was this pure, unadulterated happiness coming from somebody and it was so genuine and kind, and I couldn't help but smile.

I guess all of this is to say... every moment, there are tiny little joys like this all over the world, and it makes this life worth living. I hope you witness and feel joy this simple, this pure.

#positivity #and she was older too! it made me really happy because it just reminds me that there is no such thing as 'too old' #you will never be too old to learn something - to feel that level of happiness and excitement #if i think about this too hard i'm going to start crying #and the yarn store has this really hip name and all the patrons there were older women and i thought that was cute and funny #i felt so odd being the only young person there though but i know that's just my own insecurity and not how they'd feel #i find older people absolutely LOVE when young people share their interests. i think old people get... used to feeling out of touch... #...and almost... neglected in a way by younger adults. it's hard to describe but i sense some loneliness in some old people y'know? #and when i share their interests... maybe it's like they feel young again - seen by somebody else? #that's my assumption anyway. but i like being around old people - they can absolutely be kind and gentle and i appreciate it

[sugawarassoulmate]

okok im back with incel!kenma

whats even worse is if you really can’t tell if you’re a guy or a girl, the type of person that gives gender envy. if you have longer hair he just assumes your like him and can’t be bothered to cut it.

OKAY THIS THOUGHT JUST HIT ME MID TYPING! YOU’RE THE BITCH NERD!/LOSER!KURO CANT STOP TALKING ABOUT. THERES TWO MAYBE THREE WAYS HE CAN FIND OUT ITS YOU.

also ik this isn’t one of your hcs for kuro but nerd/loser!kuro x mean!goth!gf but maybe you’re not mean to him but everyone else, people even look at him the wrong way and you have them absolutely terrified. and during your face chats with him you never have your makeup or you daily clothes on. normally just bare faced and in something of kuros. surpising how he didn’t pick up kuros old nekoma jersey

number one: maybe kuro posts a picture of you on his story possibly at your pc playing with incel!kenma. or it could be one of the spicy mirror pictures you made him post because why the hell is the dumb bitch from class feeling up on your man for. maybe you even rant to kenma about this dumb bitch who can’t keep her hands to herself, and why the fuck is she touching a taken man. (okay i think incel!kenma is misogynistic but not homophobic because why the fuck would anyone want to deal with some needy whore constantly.) but that rant solidifies the thought that you are infact a guy maybe not one who hates women on the same level as he does but a man nonetheless. but once kuro posted that picture he figured it out and was disgusted.

number 2: kuro is at your house studying, so to keep your boredom at bay you hop online with kenma, it’s about two hours in when he hears a knock shuffling in the back ground followed by the sound of someone falling onto your bed when he asked about it your response is casual “oh its just my boyfriend.” and he doesn’t pick at it anymore. but then the mic catches a familiar voice in the background. “pretty girl when are you gonna be done, i want to take a nap with you” you give a hum in response to his question. “alright bro gotta leave after this round, so we have to win don’t wanna lose the last match of the day.” obviously you land up losing because kenma can’t get his pretty little head around the fact that he couldn’t tell you were some fucking bitch, you never told him either so that makes you a fucking liar (even tho he didn’t ask). when the game disconnects he’s seething.

number three: this is the worst option really kuro begs him to come hang out with him at his girlfriend, he swears up and down that she’s not the type of woman he’d hate. promises that they have a lot of the same interests. maybe he sends a picture of you cosplaying as one of his favorite characters but that just lowers his opinion, in the photo he can’t even tell its you though. so he’s even more confused when he meets you guys at the arcade. he cautiously calls you by your in game name and you respond with a smile and respond with your irl name. he’s genuinely not sure how to react. not just bc you’re the person he’s been gaming with for almost a year, but with your thick ass platforms you’re just as talk as kuro if not taller. you literally look down at him, can he even talk shit about a bitch like you with out getting his as beat.

anyway this drug out for way longer than intended. but yeah incel!kenma making assumptions and being totally wrong. how funny would it be if he had a crush on kuros gf

bestie.....my beloved......all of the options just sound so amazing to me omg *kisses u*

the absolute torture incel!kenma has to go through upon finding out that 1) his favorite gaming buddy is a disgusting female, 2) she's dating his best friend and somehow he never knew, and 3) she's so fucking hot that kenma can't stop picturing her face every time he rubs one out.

and you just won't let him live you're so fucking mean to him that kenma can't even get a word in when you're roasting him. the only thing that reels you in is kuroo's soft, pleading voice asking you to be nice.

kenma's embarrassed that his friend has become such a simp but fuck if he didn't wish he was on the receiving end of your sweet words.

#haikyuu x reader #haikyu x reader #kenma x reader #kenma kozume x reader #kozume kenma x reader #🥀 #🥀kenma #incel!kenma

[amitytaylor]

I still can’t get over the fact that Bakugo KNEW he KNEW that if Izuku tried out for the hero course at UA he would get accepted regardless of his quirk status. HE KNEW!!! that if Izuku tried out they would see how much of a hero he was even WITHOUT A QUIRK!!

He wasn’t shocked that Deku was trying out for UA. Bakugo EXPECTED IZUKU to ignore everything about society and his own threats and still chase after his dream of being a hero. Bakugo has ALWAYS seen Izuku as a hero - He’s always known that Izuku had everything it took even without a quirk. So much so - that when Izuku DID GET ACCEPTED BAKUGO WASNT EVEN SHOCKED!! He was angry yes but shocked?? surprised?? It’s more like he’s saying why couldn’t you have picked any other hero school than it is surprised that they thought he was good enough to be a hero. (do i think young 14 year old bakugo emotionally understood that or izuku for that matter? absolutely not)

His first real shocked expression was when Izuku threw the ball in their first class exercises - but before that he was literally constantly measuring himself up to Deku “What about Deku..?” when they were doing the sprints 😭

and listen i’m not one for the “boys are mean to the people they like” trope thing - it promote horrid things.

HOWEVER - in this universe where you are born with supernatural powers and those powers are interpersonally connected to you thus influencing your personality.. he has a literal explosion quirk and nitroglycerin courses through his veins constantly - i’m also under the assumption that part of Bakugo name meaning in Japan is literally explosion - PLUS PLUS - his mother who he looks IDENTICAL TOO behaves the SAME EXACT WAY.

Explosive personalities means explosive feelings and explosive feelings at any age is extremely difficult for the person and those around them (coming from experience here) to understand. its also a known psychology theory that anger is the most addictive emotion, and often referred to as a mask emotion. its easier to feel anger if its been an integral part of your life (as we’ve seen it has been for him) and anger can take over other emotions.

so for this - i fully feel like Kacchan has always felt for Deku in the way that deku has felt for him BUT bc of society/quirk status/inferiority like feelings - bullying.

He’s 16? now in the war arc and I truly think has one of the best growth arcs i’ve witnessed in my lifetime.

anyways i love his character and love you all for reading

#bnha bakugo katsuki #mha spoilers #manga mha #i love mha #bakugou katsuki #mha #bkdk bakudeku

[comradekatara]

your atla succession post + your previous analysis of how fucked up the canon kataang nuclear marriage is got me thinking of one of the most disturbing imo implications of lok. what if tenzin wasn't an airbender? would katara (in lok hell) have felt obligated to keep having aang's kids? especially with pema's first scene in lok, when katara says she can tell she's pregnant with another airbender, and pema is exasperated. like katara is passing on the mantle of airbender incubator. (1/2)

(2/2) iirc classic zvtara fanon would use these implications as criticisms of aang (yet this somehow goes away if katara is fire lady, lol). but if anything, i think aang would have the self-awareness to realize the kind of situation this would create for katara and their potential kids, how impossible for him not to get attached to this expectations for them, and connect this to why the nomads didn't raise kids like that. i hate how bryke pushed the most western hetero agenda on two baby teens

laughing at this ask apparently being in part inspired by my firestar nationco post. the evils of patriarchy marriage is death show radicalized you against marriage. so true. ANYWAY.

it literally doesn't make sense that aang would subscribe to a nuclear family model like they literally do not have that in his culture. katara does seem to care about marriage, but she's also a romance-obsessed fourteen year old who doesn't really have a strong sense of gender politics outside of "oppression bad" and presumably her political understanding of the world will develop as she gets older (because obviously when i say she should be chief, it's with the assumption that she will take on that mantle well into adulthood and will have matured a lot in that time). but yes, the issue you highlight, of tenzin being their third child and the only airbender, and the kind of insidious pressure that puts on katara as an airbender incubator, is one of the many reasons that i do not see katara and aang lasting as a couple (though obviously not presenting zuko as a preferable alternative, since of course that would be even worse).

if katara was gonna have kids with someone, it needs to be someone who doesn't have more pressing responsibilities outside of their family, because the idea that she would have to take on all the responsibilities as a parent is so bleak man. like she is the kind of person who would dedicate her whole life to her children if she had to, but she shouldn't have to. and it's not aang's fault either, because being the avatar is an insane amount of responsibility (the kind that does not exist on any one person in the real world, since he is the spiritual and political leader of the entire global population, not to mention cultural leader of his entire genocided people). so i don't blame aang for that, but i also don't think katara should have kids with him!

also, not for nothing, but aang only having kids with one person is a rookie move. he should be out there having descendants left and right. obviously i'm not saying he should be an absent, deadbeat babydaddy, like he shouldn't be knocking random women up (and he wouldn't do that obviously), he should absolutely be a presence in his kids' lives, even the ones who aren't airbenders, but he also does need to acknowledge that being a father can never be his primary responsibility, and, like you said, parenthood among air nomads doesn't even work like that anyway.

there was a post going around recently about how ted lasso shouldn't move back to kansas to be with his son because the western patriarchal narrative reifying the nuclear family is harmful, and like, it was silly in the context of ted lasso, a show that is fundamentally about optimizing oneself and one's community within the status quo, but atla is specifically a show about defying hegemony and colonial impositions, so it is crazy that we're expected to support the pushing of the western heteropatriarchal agenda on two baby teens who are literally revolutionaries who defy imperialism and patriarchal norms!

#bjorkspartaremix #asks #hot takes #aang #katara #lok crit #atla is unfortunately a show with a lot of rly interesting and nuanced portrayals of gender #but still suffers when it comes to promoting patriarchal love narratives #not understanding the colonial implications of gender + how acting as if marriage is the highest form of love katara and aang can 'achieve' #sort of undermines itself! #i think the bonds among katara aang and zuko are just so meaningful and interesting thematically #without acting as if that symbolic meaning necessitates their marriage #marriage doesn't make relationships more meaningful. if anything it makes them worse!

[otakuworks]

❛ 𝐁𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐑 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐃𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐃 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃. headcanon/platonic

feat. Oikawa, Iwaizumi x GN!Reader | wc. 2.1 k

sum. By pairs are already chaotic enough as it is, let's add you in to see what havoc they'll cause when you're around.

haikyuu m.list main m.list

Ushijima ft. Tendou | Kuroo & Kenma | Bokuto & Akaashi | Miya Twins ft. Suna

OIKAWA & IWAIZUMI

GENERAL HEADCANON ;

The dynamic between the three of you is quite complex for anyone to comprehend.

But if there's an easy way to describe your friendship with them; you three are the epitome of C H A O T I C.

Oikawa is that friend who constantly teases you at the most random times, steals your hoodies every sleepover, who keeps losing the borrowed items from you and the one who's always updated to your love life and gossips behind you.

He mostly gossips with Iwa-chan anyway, so expect your secrets to be spilled within the very next hour you told him you have a crush on their teammate, Matsukawa.

Calls you variety of nicknames, but mostly sticks to the nickname he first gave you.

Would always rant how he's so much better than Tobio in any ways, shape and form. You've had enough for most of them and subtly fall asleep while he's talking.

He also has that tendecy to throw you under the bus when Iwa-chan is pissed off at him when he's late for practice, mostly because he kept indulging his fans.

"You're coming with me, Y/N-chan. I might get lost with all my mob of fans and no one will ever found me again." :(

In truth, you're the human shield for someone who's plotting to make you the bait for his impending doom. It never worked on Iwaizumi either way.

Though, in rare occasions you two would work together to give Iwa-chan more wrinkles than he already has.

And speaking of the setter, Izumi is your nickname for him.

It's quite unique and people sometimes assume this 'Izumi' you're speaking of is a girl. You never really denied their assumptions though.

Izumi takes the role of the Mom in your small group anyway.

He's that sarcastic chill mom who would always keep you and Oikawa in check, Oikawa often blew his fuse and you have to be the hero to hold him back from committing homicide of your close friend 🙃

When he's in the right mood, he'll also share you his food without Oikawa looking.

Would offer you to join them in their practice if you have nothing to do and admonish the team if they're misbehaving around you.

HOW YOU MET ;

8 year old version of you won't think that playing volleyball by yourself in an abandoned park would lead you in meeting two boys occupying the park before you.

Your siblings are athletic and play varieties of sports, one of them being Volleyball.

You borrowed your brother's volleyball to test out a few moves you saw him doing in your backyard.

Being the introverted kid you are, you found a secluded area where no one can absolutely disturb or humiliate you in your attemps.

Unfortunately for you, there was this brunette-haired douche who made crushed your self-esteem.

"Pfft!"

You heard the unmistakable muffled snicker somewhere, your heart almost hit the floor, if that's possible. You find yourself wishing whatever God is listening to you would grant you mutant powers to let the ground swallow you whole.

"Were you trying to practice Basketball instead of Volleyball?" It irks you how he seems so confident he can do it better.

"That's not nice, Oikawa." A boy roughly around his ages emerged behind him with a frown marring his face, "I know! But can't you laugh after seeing them fail?!"

Rude!

"Ignore him please, he's been a jerk ever since."

"Hey!"

You've come to learn their names minutes later and this Iwaizumi guy even helped you by correcting the stance and everything.

You wouldn't ever thought of finding such precious friends and treasuring them.

With Oikawa's first impression to you, it seemed like there was no hope of befriending with that guy.

But oh boy, you thought wrong.

AS TEENAGERS ;

As what stated in the General, your trio is chaotic.

Coincidentally, all of you went at the same school. It was mostly Oikawa begging you two to accompany him in his high school journey.

The two boys immediately applied in the Volleyball Club while you never bothered to apply in any clubs.

You can either be their manager or just be an independent individual. Your choice.

You'd watch their game and always be disheartened whenever they lose to Shiratorizawa.

You'll find Iwaizumi dozing off, often finding him crying by himself in the lockers. It broke you to see him weep for a loss, he's the Ace and the team kept failing because of his spikes.

Iwaizumi was anything but a failure, sure he has his own flaws but not to an extent where he'd be a burden to his teammates. That was just his innermost evil thoughts

Oikawa would ignore everyone and just be with himself, probably rethinking his course of action earlier.

Or comparing himself from Tobio, who's always been his arch nemesis.

You'd try your best to be there with them, no words can ease their pain, but you can offer comforting hugs.

At some point, the three of you cut ties for a week after they lost to Shiratorizawa for the second time.

It was. . . lonely. Even if Oikawa's annoying shenanigans get in your way, a day is never complete without them.

You miss how rambunctious it was, how lively your morning would start despite the feeling of drowsiness because Oikawa is always there to lighten up the mood.

Without Iwaizumi for a day, who's gonna keep you in checked everyday? Who's gonna remind you what you've forgotten, or be there to save the day?

But no matter what storm may come, you three always find a way back to each other.

HOW THEY PROTECT YOU ;

Being Oikawa's friend didn't mean he influenced you with all his knack of mischief and causing headaches to Iwa-chan.

You didn't really have that much friends other than them, so it's less likely for you to have enemies.

However, being close friend with two popular volleyball players means a few attention and jealousy would dart on you unknowingly.

You were the only one who can converse with the two outside the volleyball field.

Many people have tried to make you their gateway to closure to the two, it often pisses you off.

One day, Iwaizumi was trying to fetch his crappy friend for their practice when he heard a statement that made his blood boiled faster than Oikawa's annoying shenanigans.

What's worse is that you were being picked on!

"You annoying bitch! Why are you hogging Oikawa and Iwaizumi as if they're collectable pokemon cards?!"

Say what now?

Instead of mulling over their words, you couldn't help but to be amused at their claims. You've become immune to their harsh words that it becomes a form of your own amusement.

Collectable pokemon cards? Seriously? LOL!

You saw how their mouths move to say something more but you couldn't comprehend what it was, you were busy holding it in.

By the time you composed yourself, a hand slipped around your shoulder and squeezed out of reassurance.

"Hmm! What do we have here?~"

You shrieked at the sudden appearance of your best friend.

Oh, you can't wait to tell it to him.

"You should've heard what they said, Tooru! Pfft, they said you—"

When you glanced at him, your bright attitude dropped. There was his charming smile yet again that makes every girl fall for their knees, however, you've known him long enough to know what it actually pertains to, and you don't like it one bit.

You didn't notice how your harasser flinched back at the anonymous intensity on his face.

This time, the brunette looked at you with softened gaze, "Hmm? What were they saying, Y/N-chan? You look happy despite the misplaced hate comments about you."

You blinked surreptitiously, unsure how to deal with this kind of Oikawa as you have never been in a tight situation like this before. Izumi mostly handles all of his bipolar sides.

As if someone reading your mind and prayers, Iwaizumi came to the rescue but you didn't expect him to side with OIKAWA. The Oikawa? When did the world became square?

"I agree, we can report you to the Principal for bullying, bullying rates in Japan is high and they don't belittle this issue."

Both of them were now barricading your existence from the girls, you can tell Oikawa is holding back himself from committing homicide and the back of your mind tells you Izumi won't even lift a finger to stop his friend.

You never encountered such scenarios anymore, and either of them would guard accompany you in your class. The crowd would part when they see Oikawa or Iwaizumi with you. Great, isn't it? Everyone is now afraid of messing with you.

If you never had friends because of your introverted self then now you have more reasons to have no one but them :)

AS ADULTS ;

Le cries :(

All of you had to separate from College after graduating high school.

Oikawa was accepted in a boarding school in Argentina that focuses more on honing Volleyball players. Iwaizumi just went to the nearest college in his town.

You and your family had to go back in your province. You can only imagine how difficult it was to connect with your friends.

No worries though! Your bond is stronger than any distance.

Group chats were never quiet. Oikawa kept updating you two with his personal life in Argentina, sending blogs, documentaries, calls and random memes he can think of.

Hanging out with Iwaizumi was never scarce.

Every weekend, you'd put everything aside and go back in the City, or Iwa-chan would visit your province once in awhile.

Every summer, Oikawa would come back in Japan to visit his friends and family.

You better be damn well prepared for a shopping spree every time he's home.

He'd bring home souvenirs and random trinkets he found while Iwaizumi would treat him his favorite food.

LOTS of selfies and pictures here and there as what Oikawa would say as his 'remembrance'

"Stop taking a picture of my hairstyle, Tooru. Not my eyelashes! You're not Suna!"

After graduating college, you proceed to apply for a job.

It wasn't long before Iwaizumi became a trainer and Oikawa stayed in Argentina for quite some time.

Life was never boring with them. Even if there's distance, nothing can tether the unbreakable bond you have with them. It's chaotic, but what's life without a little bit of thrill?

That's what it's like to be friends with them. You have each other's back no matter what.

Insulting words may overweigh compliments, but sentimental actions were never lacking. Not a perfect friendship, but also not imperfect.

©OTAKUWORKS | 2022

#anime #haikyuu #haikyuu x reader #headcanon #fluff #haikyuu fluff #haikyuu headcanon #oikawa #iwaizumi #oikawa x reader #iwaizumi x reader #platonic #haikyuu platonic

[attackfish]

I have no memory if you have written this before, but my tired brain cant let it go so: Avatar Zhao.

I have not written this AU, but every time I looked at this ask, I had to stop and snicker to myself, because it's just such a terrible idea. And I mean that in the best way. It's a wonderful awful idea, and I love it.

So the thing about Zhao is he's The Worst. But there are different kinds of The Worst that a person can be. Ozai is The Worst because he's a horrible, abusive, genocidal tyrant, who spreads misery to so many people, and is corrosive. He eats away at the people around him. And then there's Zhao, who is just, deeply unpleasant. So very unpleasant. He bullies teenage boys for fun. He's obnoxious, and arrogant, and sucks up to people like Ozai, and does their dirty work, but also, he's just not very competent. And he is despite (or because of) his best efforts, absolutely hilarious. He is constantly getting humiliated and shown up, and constantly insisting on his superiority. He is so enjoyable to watch, and a lot of that is that Jason Isaacs is a delight. But anyway, Ozai is The Worst and Zhao is The Worst, but while I hate Ozai, I love to hate Zhao. Zhao is evil, but he's so stupid.

He's also the perfect foil for Zuko, because he's a reflection of what Zuko could be if he kept giving into his worst instincts and responding to humiliation with grandiose violence: [Link] and both spend a lot of time being humiliated.

So what would he do as Avatar? If he knew? I see two possibilities. The first, is that Zhao tells Ozai under the mistaken assumption that Ozai would be pleased, but in fact this just gets him very locked up. The second possibility is that he keeps it to himself, but then Zuko is banished and sent to hunt the Avatar, and there is no way Zhao is going to be able to keep this to himself. He is going to let it slip to Zuko in a moment of gloating, and then Zuko will try to capture him.

This is some beautiful black comedy screwball bullshit. Like, in the background you have all of the Avatar world building, with genocide and hundred year wars of conquest and people yearning to be free, and Ozai continuing the cruelties begun by his grandfather and father, and Zuko's motivation being earning his love, and the absolute shitty way Ozai has treated both his children and also Ursa, and so many people having died and everything is bleak, and the world needs the Avatar, and the Avatar is just The Worst person, and he's being chased around the world by an angry shouty sixteen year old and his extremely tired uncle, and the backdrop is all serious, because there is a world that needs to be saved, but instead, the plot is just Zuko, Iroh, and Zhao involving themselves in increasingly Looney Tunes antics and zany schemes as Zuko tries to catch Zhao, Zhao tries to keep from being caught, and Iroh just tries to drink one lousy cup of tea in peace.

#avatar the last airbender #atla zhao #zuko #ozai #uncle iroh #posts i created #do you want to ask a question it doesn't have to be a question #zhao the moonslayer #zuko is a dweeby little turtleduck #noodle lord ozai #i ship iroh/tea

[misalpav]

the kerala story is copied caliphate netflix series and you dont understand. you support bjp?

did you miss the part where i said that TKS is a MOVIE. and artists and writers take creative liberties??? i couldn't give a flying fuck which netflix series it's similar to bc in the end I see it as a movie and in the larger scheme, media, and every 10 yr old child I know knows not to believe everything they see on a big screen, but apparently you didn't get the memo. the isis fucking exists in India and with it they bring salafi jihadist culture and conversion because that's literally who they are and that's the bottom line. if you're in support of covering up their terrorism then please just stop reading and get the fuck off my blog. again why the fuck are people making such a big deal out of it oh my god. movies such as PK have shown offensive versions of Hindu gods, and in Canada, they made some play about the goddess Kali smoking and shit. I saw absolutely none of you say anything then so why the fuck do you "secular" people care now.

if you denied terrorism in India from middle easterners you'd be an idiot. ranging from pilgrim taxes, iconoclasm, and to forced conversions in Mathura and Kashmir among other places, the native Hindu-Indian population has seen everything over the years. I don't deny that islamophobia is real, but oh my god, the existence of islamophobia and hinduphobia is not mutually exclusive, this is so fucking basic. I can agree that islamophobia exists in many parts of the world and even in India, but this movie has nothing to do with that. again, it's a movie about ISIS and i will see it as such. If you see it as a movie about Islam, then maybe you're the one under the flawed assumption that all Muslims fall under the bracket of ISIS, which says more about you than me in any case.

if we get into politics then, no, i have no strong affiliation with any indian political party and, as someone who can't vote, i have no good reason to go out of my way to pick a side when i like neither anyways. i'm the kind of person that reads everything and figures out what makes sense. from that point of view i can say, IF kerala is a secular state, then they should have no problem with this movie, something backed by the Kerala High Court ruling as well. i also mentioned earlier that this is an issue of ISIS vs anti-ISIS, not hindu v muslim. that being said, if you were a secularist I'd continue to question why you care so much about the government handling religion in media when your entire argument should be separating state and religion entirely. movies and entertainment isn't a branch of the government so you're not allowed to give a fuck what they do as they try and gain viewers.

your bullshit "secularism" only goes to the extent that the agendas of islam and apparently also isis are supported in the public sphere and it fucking shows. secular countries around the world make movies with religion in the center and nobody gives a shit but you guys don't get those memos do you. movies such as priest and the 1972 movie adaptation of the canterbury tales exist show christianity in a skewed negative angle and were screened all over the west. but nope, just ignore that and blame some right wing party for a writer making a story because it inconveniences you and your little anti-hindu agenda.

in terms of this other ask,

again with the word fanaticism. either you're accepting you're a blatant hinduphobe in which case get the fuck off my blog, I said very specifically that bigots are not welcome, or you just didn't read my last post properly in which case read that and then get the fuck off my blog. God, this whole post is so redundant and such a waste of my time. saying ISIS and the BJP are the same is such a flawed undertaking. I also can't think of a single example of a BJP member specifically targetting "muslims whose loved ones were lured into ISIS" and even a quick google and jstor search renders nothing.

The ISIS hijacked 4 Boeing 747s worth billions of dollars total and sent their members on a suicide mission halfway across the globe killing around 3000 people. They've run similar attacks all over the globe in areas including europe, africa, asia, or in other words anywhere they can fucking get to and their hate doesn't even stop at religion, and extends instead to anyone who rejects sharia law. the bjp has run nothing to the scale of the mass-murder and terrorism of isis and i can't decide if your desperation to prove me wrong with the most exaggerated arguments of the century are funny or if your ignorance is just sad. if conserving islam in the middle east with islamic republics and dictatorships is deemed ok, then maintaining hindu culture in a democracy where such members are elected is also ok.

#the kerala story #tw: religious abuse #tw: human trafficking #tw: sex trafficking #tw: terrorism #tw: suicide mention #indian politics #hindublr #hinduphobia #shri answers asks

[bigkickguy]

Ok but like the funger mold apartments feel very different in my mind after ending C ?? (spoilers + crazy rambling below)

I assumed the mold was the direct result of the ritual but what if it's not? So hear me out - you are working through the puzzle in there to try and get the effagy - and you need the 4 of those to get to the tower and complete the ritual and 'win' but we know from perkele fight and the sulfer end that rher was not really running this show anyway?

So why would a cult that is super excited about death and murder and all that fun stuff encase people with mold and just mummify them there? The journal of the mad man doesn't mention mold at all either...?

It's possible it's a set up by Pe'rkele and the sulfur cult as part of the fun but it doesn't seem similar to the kinds of worship or other rituals that sulfur god seems to be into? The goal i thought was to ferry souls into the sulfur pit so they can suffer and be reborn or what not?

We know from what Nas'hrah mentioned when examining the sulfur symbol that knowing the name of a god means they are still in power Somehow. People in the setting still know the name Rher and poketcats still have stories recorded and other things that people Know about?

So what if the mold isn't from the sulfur god at all but was from Rher? Rher is still trying to stop whatever ritual the sulfur cult is pulling here? Rher is still about stopping new gods forming?

If you're running under the crazy thoughts that i am where the blank soul that Daan has can be used for some form of replication or possession (like in his not-really-moonscorched end?) then making a trap that would prevent him or other important people from reaching the tower would still serve that purpose?

It just feels too off to me that the sulfur god and followers who seem to revel in pain nearly as much as death would make a way to kill a whole apartment of people so... peaceful? You just kind of sit still and die in your sleep in there? It feels like it goes against their usual methods idk Also if the implication of stiches and Daan's designs are that he tried to idk reconstruct his dead wife or anything? (literally flying entirely off of speculation he could have just lost that shit in the war haha) Elise's body was not like covered in mold when he got back - she was torn up or otherwise fucked up as a corpse. And that was either the Baron's sulfur ritual or Elise's? (running under the assumption that the blue face paint that they share with per'kele is all from them being in the sulfur cult and that you have to die to join puts Elise back on the 'could be totally into this sulfur shit' zone) So why are they so different from the mold apartments?

If the symbol for the god of the depths can show up in the beehive house with a little book and such in there - why can't rher also fuck shit up with some fungus? And if you want to think about it from a turbo deranged perspective (im going full blast on crazy theories here) why is all of the mold white specifically? It is cool aesthetically, absolutely, but rher is also a similarly completely pale moon as depicted in the story. Outside of the surface deformation like craters for eyes and the mouth canyons - there are no other surface changes on that moon good. There is no color variation or anything? Almost like... ...being covered entirely in white mold...? (also kinda fits a theme line of like rotting away while trapped unable to become as powerful as the old gods in the new gods trick setup? sitting around stuck and waiting to die slowly and quietly? Kinda similar vibes hmmm) IM GOING CRAZY THINKING ABOUT RHER AND THE SULFUR GOD DONT MIND MEEEEE

#funger #kickguyreply #im sorry for these rants im just like spinning the possibilities in my mind? #im probably missing out on things still i feel like i still haven't played half of this game's content yet

[cursedvibes]

Sorry I have to rant, I just saw post on reddit about how Gege hates his main trio and has completely destroyed them(I'm paraphrasing) and I get it everyone has their own opinions and they can complain etc etc but the whole thing was so dumb!😭 Literally stupid reasons only because they have made so many assumptions about how the story would/should go. These last two chapters have caused such a mayhem in the fandom. People are impatient, quick to make predictions, and get upset when they things don't happen their way. And that's one thing I really don't understand and absolutely hate, how fans of a media think that they know how the story should go better than the creator itself, especially if it's something like a manga which is released on a chapter by chapter basis. Only two chapters have been out! There is more to come! Don't be hasty to judge and please have some patience! Hell! even the shippers are mad I don't know if you ship fushiita, sukuita or sukufushi but it's really chaotic right now. Fans seem to think Yuuji's only purpose was being a vessel(which is a pretty gross way to think about him in my opinion) and now he's useless. Btw thanks for the earlier ask you answered about this because I was also upset about it but that had more to do with 'megumi is the perfect vessel actually' and not Sukuna being separated from Yuuji, anyway you really helped me deal and understand it. Thank you for that! Your blog feels like a safe haven for Yuuji and Kenjaku fans. They're both so underrated and completely overshadowed by other flashier characters (megumi, Yuuta and getou respectively) I cannot tell you how happy I was that I've found like-minded people like you. They're both my faves and I feel so sad that they're ignored by most of the fandom especially Kenny who's only misfortune is being in gojou's ex's ex body.

Well, I got completely derailed and this is more of a rambling than a vent. Sorry for sending such a long ask😅. Thank you for being a part of this fandom. Also, you are very funny even your tags are so hilarious, they make my day. Keep up the good work! And have a good morning/night!

Thank you for the nice words! Funny on the internet and having correct takes on fictional characters, such high praise 😌 I'm gonna add it to my CV

It is quite a shame that Kenjaku is so unpopular. Honestly don't know why? They have the looks, the smarts, the connection to the main character (although somehow that often gets overlooked beyond the milf jokes), they drive the entire plot and have an entertaining personality. But most of the time people don't even notice that. They're just Geto 2.0.... Or a grumpy conservative old man. No idea where that characterization came from or why it's so prevalent, but especially in fanfics I see it a lot.

Yuuji is very popular, but he's often turned into Pink Naruto, despite them being very different besides some standard shonen tropes. Naruto without Kurama is unthinkable (well until Boruto happened, but that was after Naruto's main development was already over), so the same must apply to Yuuji, right? If Yuuji doesn't have Sukuna, what's the point?

Also, I don't know what it is with this fandom and going off the rails every break week. Like clockwork the "Yuuta is the real mc because he stronk and his laser beam go pew" take comes back every time and people make up the wildest stuff. I'm surprised by how many genuinely think Yuuji is dead dead. Done. Story over I guess. Megumi hasn't gotten any points, so that's clearly not the case yet. If not, he obviously has to throw around some Infinity-level technique to "prove" he's the mc. They also already see Hana at the bottom of Megumi-Sukuna's stomach I guess and/or Yuuji as Angel's new host. Somehow...how would she even get to him so fast? And sure, switch one manipulative 1000 yo sorcerer for another...what a fun and unique concept. At this point I'm more looking forward to the next leaks because it will give people something meaningful to talk about than the story (not true, I really want to know what happens next, but these takes are very annoying).

I haven't heard that Gege hates the main trio before, but I certainly see it paraded around a lot in regards to Yuuji, even though Gege clearly says in the fanbook that that comment was simply about how he is hard to write and they want to make sure to do him justice. Of course an author can get a bit exasperated, but that doesn't mean they hate the character. If that was the case, Gege wouldn't put this much thought into Yuuji.

In regards to the trio, with how jjk works and everything that's been happening, there was no way they would stay together (assuming that's what people take issue with). It's basically a tradition. Sashisu, Nanami & Haibara, Maki's group, the Kyoto gang, they all got separated, some even died. Honestly, it would be pretty unrealistic for the Tokyo trio to stay together. And as you said, things just started to pick up, much can happen. Megumi is probably gonna resurface for at least a little bit before he dies - or not who knows. Nobara's situation is a bit iffy, but she was never as important as Megumi or Maki so eh. If she comes back, I need her to be properly integrated into the story. She has no connection to the current plot, any of the main villains or adds to the lore. Her coming back with some new strong technique would be nice, but what's her function gonna be besides moral support for Yuuji and killing some less important enemies? So far I don't feel like she needs to come back for parts of the plot to progress. If she doesn't, it wouldn't be a huge loss. Therefore, if it happens, I need some character exploration for her. I still think it would be neat if her grandma somehow shows up and does...idk something, but she sounds awesome (knew from the start not to trust Jujutsu Tech, best woman) I want to know more about her.

I don't really ship any combination of Yuuji-Sukuna-Megumi, so I don't know what happened on their side. Fanartists have put out some very dramatic, traumatic and bloody ItaFushi art recently, which I appreciate, but that's all I know. After ch 212 I got the impression shippers liked the new development for the angst. Didn't know that changed, but I'm really not that in touch with that side of the fandom. Either way, Yuuji not being a vessel anymore sounds more like it would be beneficial for them (separate bodies and all) unless you're really into the possession trope.

#asks #don't worry about the rambling sometimes fandom drives me crazy too

[captainsupernoodle]

Thinking about Midnight again

its really good!

Sometimes a short story is "hey how do people react to Fear in this specific instance" and when it's done right it's a very visceral experience that sticks in the mind no matter the genre

But it's also a lovely microcosm of Ten, the best and the worst of him (on an average day, as opposed to when hes being attacked by his specific traumas)

Ten is a big old nerd and a control freak (I think their relationship with Donna is notable in that they try to share with her a little more and she puts up a huge fight when she wants to instead of letting them roll over her) so his reaction to the unknown is to put himself in charge because he knows stuff and people should listen to him!!

Like. Right off the bat he goes "everybody being on their phones is Boring, wouldn't it be better if we all talked to each other?" and immediately imposes his desire on everyone else without asking or trying anything else. Control freak.

So the moment they say "I don't know" that absolute control is shattered, and they don't adjust. As the situation devolves he keeps trying to appeal to logic and better nature, pushing and pushing until he lays down an ultimatum (do you really think you can commit murder?) based on incorrect assumptions about people's fear reactions. Drawing a line in the sand puts them on the other side of it instead of shocking people out of fear into thinking or threatening them into compliance.

Ten has been pretty "my way or I kill you/depose you/otherwise take away your ability to oppose me" since the very first episode so it all tracks

on the other hand he's trying SO HARD to be compassionate and to help all of them and to keep everyone safe! That's all they want! They genuinely do know more than the people around them and they're right on almost every count in this episode. Things might have not worked out depending on the critter's intentions but the chance of everything being okay would have been much higher if people Calmed Down and didn't try to hurt something they were scared of. Whether or not the Doctor is justified in the actions he takes, it's gotta be maddening to see people make the same mistakes over and over again and people dying and getting hurt about it when you're RIGHT THERE and you can FIX EVERYTHING if they just LISTENED

Contrast with Donna's communication techniques! She fights with the Doctor, is generally sarcastic and opinionated, but doesn't walk all over people in her daily life. When a situation needs someone to be in charge, though, she takes it with a level of calmness and confidence ("I'll take a salute" in poison sky, organizing the military and evacuation in Death and the Queen). One-on-one, she finds common ground with people and pays attention to their lives and troubles (meeting Martha, "temps united" in technophobia), and with vulnerable people she softens her voice and body language and gives them space to speak (the ood, kinda, um - almost every woman she meets lol but esp the assistant in silence in the library).

Yeah I think midnight would have played out very differently if Donna was there haha. The doctor can be an expert, and Donna can both comfort people and rein in the doctor when they're being overbearing.

Donna pays more attention to social cues (and she is a human! The doctor is not!! They're doing pretty good for being a completey different species!) and draws the doctor's attention to little but important things they often miss while looking at the big picture

the doctor has always been a rogue figure and almost always In Charge or up high on the relevant social ladder, while Donna defines herself as "just a temp" - nobody important, by definition someone who supports the social ladder instead of ever getting the chance to climb out and who's always moving from place to place. I think that shows in how she can deal with not being in charge while ten Struggles with it

Anyway midnight is good and Donna makes a very skilled doctor-human ambassador and friend

#Doctor who #Noodle speaks #Noodle watches doctor who #Dw: midnight #U know I could see 9 thru 11 being showing off what happens when you make one terrible and far reaching decision and Cannot let go of being #In Charge after that. 12 with Bill still has me chewing on that shift to “give me an order”

[etoile-gracieuse]

im so sorry yall im regressing into all sorts of old obsessions these days.

just saw a post talking abt why dex (and jack at one point) from check please would be banned from aux at parties (im not reblogging bc it is from 2020 and i dont want to argue with anyone i just want to explain why im right LMAO) and all of the reasons they gave were. What. i had a haus of my own, only for a significantly larger team (track not hockey), and i know my experience is not universal and there's definitely someone out there who Also had a team and a team house w big parties that disagrees w everything i say etc etc but like. it is so odd to see people's ideas abt how that goes when it's the complete opposite of my experience

me rambling abt expectations vs reality for music at parties hosted by doofus athletes for doofus athletes below the cut with a short aside about how canon's housing is deeply confusing to me

it's not just party music assumptions that confuse me, it's on all sorts of levels, like the haus being their only team related off campus space. we had... 11?? off campus houses?? and even if you narrow it down to just houses w mens distance runners in it (approx the same number of people as umich's hockey team rosters) then we had 5 houses plus underclassmen in dorms. like the math is not mathing if there's just the 3 bedroom plus attic haus. what 21/22 year old is choosing to live in a traditional dorm. there's just no way your options as an upperclassman are "be lucky enough to be one of Maybe 6 that can squeeze in if several people share rooms" or "live in dorms. hopefully you get a single" when theoretically they should be averaging like 6.5 people per class year. not the point, a gripe i have w canon really anyways, whatever.

but the collective sense of what goes for party music... i get that the canon era is like 2013 to 2018 or so but like i have met some of our class of 2018 alumni. and i feel preeetty confident in saying the below was also true then.

'he would play come on eileen [and get banned]' - im sorry but that was played at LEAST once per party at my athlete frat house, how is that an aux-bannable offense

"they would be like 'we want party music not sea shanties'" - shipping up to boston is a Thing (capital T deserved). and rattlin bog. do you know how many drinks i have finished while listening to/playing rattlin bog. that is a classic drinking game (i double checked to make sure this wasnt invented like right before i hit college or smthn and found a tweet referencing it from 2014). also we did actually several sea shanties at a st pattys party (our aux guy did have to be bullied into it. worth it) though i would not say that that one's a universal experience.

"this absolute ding dong [jack] says 'i like carrie underwood' and is never asked for his input again" - you're telling me you haven't gotten down in a house full of stolen signs that is falling apart at the seams to before he cheats???? i have watched 22 year old 6'7" men stand on tables and truly Perform their hearts out to this song and you're telling me that holster wouldn't pull that shit?

"plays country and gets banned" - see: before he cheats. but also our most popular party theme (aside from disco i think) was farm party. we had hay bales and apple bobbing. our number of international harvester streams hit double digits before midnight. i did not go to college in the south, or in the middle of nowhere, or any of that. even city kids like to get drunk in overalls and cowboy hats singing about farmers' daughters sometimes

"he just plays dad rock" - i think once again people underestimate how hard college kids go for shit like that when theyre drunk. i have watched people pole dance around a basement support beam to billy joel and bruce springsteen before (admittedly not super frequently but also often enough that i think i have 2-3 videos of it happening). ok actually im looking at a dad rock list and. what do you mean people havent danced to queen at parties. or the killers? or the fratellis? no chelsea dagger or henrietta? no american pie at 2am when youre so tired you can hardly keep your eyes open but youre leaning on your friends and swaying enough to call it dancing so it's ok?? no the boys are back in town???

#alcohol ment #check please #idk why i have such a need to correct the record on people's ideas of college parties full of athletes but #i just Do #i have literally exited out of fics bc the inaccuracies took me so far out of my ability to suspend my disbelief #it's a me problem!! im aware #this isn't to say dex and/or jack wouldnt get banned from aux #they totally would #but the reasons would not be the above

[ciaossu-imagines]

Hi again. I’m here with another Bandō request because I just can’t not. How do you think he would deal with a s/o who has terrible muscle cramps (dystonia) all over their body? It’s something that can happen at any point in time and most often affects their speech. Another thing that often happens is that they need to be helped out of bed (or sometimes chair) by their parents and they don’t especially like asking for help but they can’t always find any other way of escaping their situation so they have to and yet sometimes the parents are annoyed by that fact. They also don’t have much energy and think it’s annoying because they do like going out and doing things, it just takes a lot out of them because of their cramps and lack of energy. I hope it’s an okay request. I totally understand if it’s too much or too specific. Thanks in advance and have a wonderful day ahead.

I’d also like to ask you something else. If I’m not allowed to add it to the ask I’m sorry and I’ll ask again once the event is over. You seem like a kind person and are into two series that I really love so I was wondering whether I could DM you and talk to you (off anon of course). I saw you mention in a post that people can do that if they have different opinions on character interpretations but I don’t and I’m not sure to what extent you’d be alright if someone who just started following you messaged you so I thought I’d ask.

Okay, first off, this is definitely not too much and it’s hyperspecific in all the right ways, actually. I know I don’t often talk about myself or my life on here but as part of the my college courses, we had to do a lot of medical training so this is all shit that I know and love. So your request, where it hit on a disease that I am familiar with, actually makes me so happy! This is my shit! I hope the headcanons will do it justice, though I tried to focus them less on the disease (because anyone living with any kind of medical condition knows that sometimes...it's like they're only the medical condition and nothing more) and more on the impact it has on the relationship between Bandou and his partner.

Also, to answer your second part…UM, YES PLEASE! Seriously, I am so flattered that you want to talk to me and I absolutely love getting to know all my readers, whether they follow me or not, whether they’re new or old…one of the best parts of fandom and of running this blog is the amazing readers I have and getting to know them! Please feel free to message me, not just this anon, but any of you! It doesn’t even need to be for anything specific; all of you guys can legitimately reach out to me at any point to talk about anything and I will do my best to be there for you, though I can be a bit slow in responses as those who do talk to me know, just because I juggle responding around other things! Anyway, onto the headcanons!

Okay, so just in how your ask reads, it sounds like the reader doesn’t really ask for much help, so I’m running on an assumption here that she doesn’t outright tell Bandou about her condition right away, not when they first start dating. And I can see him really caring about her and being really into her, so he’s going to try to be nice and present himself at his best, but it does sometimes annoy him at first because she is slower and she can’t get out and do as much as he’d like to do with her and it’s like she doesn’t have the energy to really keep up with him as much as he’d like her too. And even while he’s trying to be understanding on his best behaviour, I could see him sometimes being insensitive or rude at first out of ignorance and frustration. He’d definitely feel bad about hurting her feelings but sometimes his frustration would just get to be a little too much and he’d sort of lash out or put his foot in his mouth.

She would need to let him in on what is going on with her body and the fact that she does have a medical condition that causes a lot of the things that frustrate him. Once she does let him know, he will feel like a huge asshole because of everything he said or did and the way he acted and he’ll get really standoffish for a couple days because like, he’s not good at handling his feelings so she would have to make some efforts to let him know that it’s okay and that she understands his feelings and doesn’t blame him and she isn’t angry with him.

Again, much like the period ask, Google is going to be this boy’s best friend because he does care about his partner, and he wants to actually know and understand what is going on with them. He’ll spend whole night’s up just searching for information on the condition, on how it can affect them, on what can cause it, on whether it can be cured and once he learns that it can’t, whether it can be managed and how. He’s going to be sending text after text asking them if they’ve tried the botulinum injections, if they take any of the medications to target neurotransmitters that he’s been reading does help, if they have to go to physical therapy, speech therapy, if there’s any special stretches or massages they are supposed to be doing. He’ll honestly go a little overboard, but he really does come from a good place and just wants to understand what they’re working with and how he can help.

If they do get the injections, he’ll want to be at the appointments with them. If they take the medications, he’ll be doing research on the side effects so he can be perfectly prepared to help with them. If they go to speech therapy, he’ll want to go with them (though he’s not allowed in because he generally glares and looks like a thug and he scares their speech therapist and the same goes for physical therapy, where he will plain out try to fight their physical therapist if it looks like the therapist is causing his partner pain and might even try to ask for help from the other HOMRA members to like...burn that particular physical therapist's office to the ground because the fucker obviously shouldn't be in business). And you are goddamn right he’s going to be first in line to offer to rub them down or stretch them out, especially if there’s any opportunity that those will lead them down a far naughtier road.

Honestly, Bandou almost NEEDS to be relied on by his partner. He wants to be someone they’ll ask for help; he wants to be someone they believe can take good care of them. He needs to be someone they trust and if they don’t learn to ask for help, at least from him, that could be a huge contentious point in their relationship because it will seem, in his mind and because of his self-esteem issues, like they’re thinking that he’s not reliable enough or strong enough or man enough to take care of them properly or that they don’t trust him to do so.

He will definitely not get along with their parents. Yeah, he might originally have wanted to get in good with his partner’s parents but the first sign of annoyance on their part with his partner?? He’s got a sharp tongue and they found that out quick and honestly, he would have been down to throw some hands at his partner’s parents if his partner would have just let him…yes, he’s still pouting about that.

He’ll still occasionally get frustrated at his partner’s limitations but it’s not that he’s angry at them so much as he’s angry that they got saddled with this condition, with this burden and he doesn’t know how to handle that properly so he can take it out sometimes on his partner without meaning to, but he’ll slowly get better at apologizing for his moments, at least in his own little ways. And god fucking forbid that anyone else make even the slightest off comment about his partner or the effects that their condition has on their energy, their movements, or especially their speech because….let’s just say that Bandou is part of HOMRA for a reason and he didn’t get to where he is inside HOMRA for no reason.

#event ask #k project #project k #headcanons #bandou saburouta #this admin loves her readers

[fringyrasa]

Seeing a lot of people debate the whole "been in this fight since I was six years old" thing

It's one of my absolute favorite lines in Rogue One, but never did I take that line to mean Cassian was actually physically fighting the empire since he was 6. I always took the line that Cassian was a product of the empire's doing, someone under their thumb, the circumstances of his life was because of the Empire. Part of the whole point of the argument, I believe, between Cassian and Jyn is they are both making assumptions about the lives they have lived. Jyn doesn't know what Cassian has been through and Cassian tries to say he's been in the fight since he was six, but Jyn's entire family was torn apart because of the Empire as well. He's also more attacking Jyn's whole attitude of "You can't see it if you don't look up" which I love that this show is adding so many layers to because of course we find Cassian felt a similar way, "You survived by running"

So, no I don't think the show has made any real contradiction to the infamous six years old line. Kassa in the flashbacks looks older than 6 and we'll probably find out (or maybe we won't and we can just piece it together from the flashbacks) that the mining accident that took away his parents happened when he was 6 and then we see him later on with his sister and the rest of the tribe when he's a little older. But now I think Cassian is not just talking about Rebellion vs. Empire, but oppression as a whole. "Suddenly the rebellion is real for you, some of us live it" That live it part. Cassian never had a choice, his family was taken away from him. In that, Cassian's words have even bigger weight because he's not just talking about a battle of Rebels vs. Empire, but an oppression that has always existed in the Galaxy. We even see this in the prequels, like Episode I with Anakin and his mother enslaved. This always existed in the galaxy, even before the empire.

But, Cassian is also being a hypocrite! Because we know that he himself turned his nose at rebellion. He's so focused on his own survival, because that's all he's known, but deep down, he feels like he wants to fight back but he doesn't know how to. He knows how to steal from the empire and spit in their food, but Luthen is showing him how to actually, really, rebel. Jyn and Cassian have always been very much alike, and it's hard to look in the mirror and see some ugly truths about yourself. I feel the show is def showing some of those comments he made to Jyn are also the harsh truths he can't admit about himself.

Jyn calls him out, saying he's no better than a Stormtrooper and he gets so offended because what he is doing for the rebellion is weighing on him. My boy Cassian has one mode and one mode only: Stress. Like any classic Star Wars character, his own failings haunt him and he can question if he's doing the right thing. When he's told to kill Galen Erso, we can see his uneasy feelings about being asked to murder, but he's going to do it anyway. So Jyn calls this out on him and he reacts the way he does. Then she uses his own line about Rebellions being built on hope, and it reminds him of why he's even here in the first place.

"Everything I did, I did for the rebellion. And every time I walked away from something I wanted to forget, I told myself it was for a cause I believed in. A cause that was worth it. Without that, we're lost"

Cassian comes clean here and is even admitting that some of the things Jyn said were true. I have also just been thriving over Cassian in this show saying the resistance to the empire is pointless and how we're slowly going to see him turn into the I did everything for the rebellion character.

Cassian may not have been picking up a gun and fighting for the rebellion at 6, but the opression that was around the Galaxy, even before The Empire was officially a thing, is something he has been fighting. And as depressing as it is, Luthen is right, Cassian will die fighting these bastards.

Anyway, I love that we can go back and forth on this one line and it hasn't devolved into people yelling about retcons or bad writing and instead has shown what that line and that scene meant to us and how prequel shows like this can have us recontextualize everything we thought we knew. I fucking love this show.

#Andor #Star Wars #Rogue One

[shopcat]

honestly i feel like in addition to sub steve the problem is also that people characterize eddie as this naturally dominating person when he like. really isn't lmao. like for one he's this weird petty despot figure in his dnd club that's composed of literally only high-school students who are younger than him and he desperately wants them to think he's cool but then he literally acts nothing like that when he's with ppl who are more, like, "equal" to him And in addition to that in the show he absolutely panics after robin tells him she was lying abt nancy being in charge on the boat bc he Immediately latched onto someone else taking responsibility and leadership and like yeah it was a highly stressful situation but also i think ppls highly stressful situation behavior can b very telling lol like. eddie isnt some naturally dominating presence that steve is constantly flustered around like literally all their interactions ive seen interpreted as steve being flustered literally just had him be vaguely confused (and ngl if anything eddie is just a brat like he'll act high and mighty and annoying until someone actually takes responsibility and takes care of him) Anyway honestly i blame the stupid handkerchief and ppls inability to understand that some things are just coincidences that don't matter (or that it really is just metalhead shit in eddies case bc james hetfield literally wore a hanky too im p sure and he's Very straight lol) on the popularity of dom eddie when its so ooc bc people can't do the simplest thing a show asks for and see past a character's facade

FULLY AGREE it honestly stresses me out when ppl interpret him AS his facade bc the entire point is he isn't... that !!!! like it makes me SAD. on his behalf. also the hanky is soo fucking funny i've thought of like a dozen different reasons why he could have it but i personally really think he just either A: genuinely uses it for gay flagging and nothing else to do with the specific colour/pocket-side based "meanings" (which were literally all different based on locality/scene just like any gay coding was and is) and is an idiot, B: he's just wearing a bandana ur right it's literally popular metal fashion 😭, or C and my most favourite: he knows what flagging is but is an idiot and an assumptive virgin

i think people latch onto it bc it's a significant reason why ppl think he's gay/gay-coded (i think its literally like on his wiki page?) and i understand wanting something as concrete as this but it can still have the foundation without the substance... ! i.e. he can be gay + flagging without explicitly flagging specifically for being a fucking.. 20 year old "sadotop"

#asks #honestly i think ppl need to STAWP acting like they know anything about fucking. gay cruising in the 80s #i barely know anything but i know ENOUGH to know it was for the cruising scene and i dont see him as some1 who would #even participate in that just by his.. nature #sts

[thestalwartheart]

(This is another post but they're both versatile about topping and bottoming in my brain, okay? Okay. But you do you.)

oh lol no i completely agree with you, that's why i put "bottom" in quotes. i just mean, a lot of people in fandom have very old fashioned views about same sex relationships, and one of the most common is that gay couples are just remakes of straight ones - with a "man" (top) and a "woman (bottom) - and therefore q, being the skinny one, is the woman which means he's the bottom, which means he must be short too. it's like an ourosborus of homophobic stereotypes. and so we end up with 4876847684 fics where q is now tiny just because people want to write him getting railed by a great big hulking manly bond.

We're definitely on the same page. Sorry, my little "you do you" line was aimed at the more general "you" 😊

So, obviously Bottom!Q and Top!Bond isn't a homophobic take just because it exists (I know that's not at all what you're saying anon, but I wanted to clarify in case there are any anons ready to jump into my inbox and accuse me of having that opinion). The specific type of writing and characterisation that gets padded around Bottom!Q and Top!Bond, though? It can absolutely be indicative of persistent stereotypes. Sometimes I don't think it's getting all that much better as time goes on, either. Even years after people stopped expliclty warning for M/M in their fics like it was something gross (RIP LJ and slash warnings and *lemon starts here* line breaks), I feel like reading through fandom slang often feels like a game of Wait is This a Joke, A Reclaimed Slur, or is it Actually Homophobia? Obviously it's also a problem IRL. People see a skinny gay man and immediately think "bottom" which is tragic.

I see evidence of it all the time in fic comments and tumblr tags where Q is described as either cute or adorable, and Bond is described as the hottest, most irresistible, most jacked man in the world. And it's not just Q's characterisation that suffers! If fic writers only see Bond and Q as those things it removes a lot of their agency as characters to act in really interesting and unexpected ways.

All this isn't to say people can't have their preferences, but as is the case in the wider world of dating and romance, preferences don't exist in a vacuum. When you see these assumptions over and over again, you start to see a pattern and it's clear what's driving the thinking behind it (which is, to be clear, centuries of cultural and social conditioning around gendered constructs and homophobia).

Anyway, I happen to think Q's really hot, and would occasionally be quite domineering if he was in the right frame of mind. He can be that way from the top or the bottom, IMO. And there's space for him getting railed too. But even that doesn't have to be written just one way. I often wish it was written with a lot more bantering/bickering.

There's a wider point to be made here about sex in fic often not feeling anything like sex in real life, which is messy and intimate and and (if it's good sex), starts with wanting to feel good, and not with implicit assumptions about who's doing what. Because we're all WAY more complex as individuals than media ever reflects us to be, and put two or more complex people in a room together to have sex? If you're doing it right, it's not going to feel like rote stereotyping. I sometimes wish both fic writers and romance writers had a better understanding of that.

Okay I feel the need to clarify if you've got this far and your opinions are different from mine and anon's, that's okay, we can all disagree. You can still want to see Q get railed, I promise.

Thanks for the ask, Anon! ❤️

#also i have 1000 thoughts on q's canon personality and traits #all of which i LOVE #but some of them go against the grain of queer-coded characters we're used to being exposed to #and i think that makes people uncomfortable #but being gay/bi/queer doesn't involve a fucking template #sometimes you like rugby and engineering and opera and weird little hairless cats and you have a terrible fashion sense #and you still want to suck dick baby! #ask box #unpopular opinions #ugh i've started Discourse haven't i? #00q