#the was improvised by them what the fuck

[jerreeeeeee]

people so often interpret sazed as taako’s ex, which like, to each their own obviously, nothing wrong with that, but i think its so so much more interesting to interpret him as taako’s apprentice instead. and like all we have to go on is that he really looked up to taako who sort of taught him how to cook. “thought taako hung the moon and stars” or something like that iirc. which brings so much more depth to taako’s relationship with angus if sazed was to taako then what angus is to taako now, someone who idolized him and saw him as a mentor.

it puts some of the conversations taako’s had with angus into really interesting context. like the fact that the first person taako’s (ever?) told about what happened at glamour springs (which he didnt know at the time, but was sazed’s fault) is angus. does he tell angus because he doesn’t want him to be betrayed (like he assumes sazed was, since he ran away)? or because he doesn’t want angus learning from someone so clearly unfit to be a mentor (both since he was unfit to be sazed’s, because he was dismissive to him, and because he believes himself to be a murderer)? he teaches angus magic and cooking. when he implies that angus might become as or more skilled than him he jokes about striking him down. which is exactly what he did to sazed when he wanted equal share.

but taako redeems himself with angus. he mistreats angus in the beginning, bullying him and dismissing him and generally being a dick, but as angus becomes taako’s apprentice, he’s more open and a little nicer. still “open” and “nice” in his own way, but definitely more than he was before. learning from his mistake, letting angus in and being encouraging and honest in the way he wasn’t with sazed.

idk. i think it’s so interesting and so rarely explored

#i also kinda feel like thats what justin was going for just from the way he describes sazed but i could be wrong #that doesnt matter as much to me as the narrative parallels though #taz balance #taz #taako #sazed #angus #angus mcdonald #taz taako #mine #obviously theres some differences. sazed is implied to be young but he wasnt a child #and angus is a lot more understanding of taako's eccentricities and sazed was more ambitious #so there's a difference in the way taako treats them but also in their individual personalities #i wanted to write a fic abt this exploring it more but idk if thatll happen so i'm just gonna post it. maybe still write it someday #it astonishes me time and time again how good of a narrative taz is despite being fucking improvised. #how is there FORESHADOWING when they MADE IT UP AS THEY WENT!! #just goes to show that you can find parallels in anything LMAO

[p4nishers]

kevin wright u said WHAT NOW

#what in the fuck is going on w marvel #also TOM improvising the 'for you' thing?????? them not having proper a script??? owen wanting to wrap shit up???? TOM BASICALLY KNOWING #EVERY LINE EVER SAID BY LOKI OFF THE TOM OF HIS HEAD AND WRITING A WHOLE ASS NEW SCRIPT BASED ON JUST THAT????? #WHAT!!???!?!??!!! #loki #lokius #mobius m mobius #loki series #loki season 2 #loki spoilers

[thatgirlonstage]

Thinks about arms outstretched and has to lie facedown on the ground for nine hours again

#taz #taz: balance #it’s NARRATIVELY PERFECT #like yes they hella ignored the mechanics to make it happen but on the pure improvisational level #it’s absolutely fucking NUTS to me what they pulled off in that moment #because in that moment ALL THREE OF THEM set aside their personal fears and self-doubts for the sake of their friends #Magnus who always wanted to go out in a blaze of glory #who has just lost even his revenge quest #fights so DESPERATELY HARD to STAY ALIVE and relies on his friends to rescue him #Taako ‘good out here’ Taaco who throws HIS WHOLE SOUL OUT OF HIS BODY #despite being on the verge of death already he leaves himself utterly defenseless to throw himself into danger for magnus’s sake #merle who has ALWAYS doubted his place in the group and is actively losing his powers #doesn’t hesitate and doesn’t question his own competence #instead he plants himself and becomes the root that anchors them and brings them home #and because right after this they reunite with Barry and start getting the reveals about the voidfish #this is functionally the climax and culmination of their arc as a trio #they found each other and learned to trust each other again and they became friends who would do anything for each other #even without their memories!!!! they did that!!!!!!!! #what happens after then gets to build onto and around that relationship #so that the finale gives us the trio whose bond has been deepened and multiplied by stolen century #but they’re still THEM. still the trio we have grown to know and love throughout the whole podcast #bc they have something unshakeable with or without their memories #ARMS OUTSTRETCHED IS A NARRATIVELY PERFECT MOMENT AND I AM NEVER FUCKING OVER IT

[robynator]

something about how blair witch project says anything including "what the fuck" is very pleasing to my brain somehow. the emphasis and tone of voice are just perfect

im gonna blame the autism on this one

#i love listening to the 2nd encore partly because of all the “what the fuck did you just say“ bits #been obsessed with every place i cry these past few days #i love all of them #every place i cry #blair witch project #zach reino #off book #off book podcast #off book the improvised musical

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Also went looking for something through my notes and remembered that Roxy's entire existence before Ruin was just a huge middle finger to Fazbear Ent. I should bring that energy back lmao she wasn't always trapped in a pit of MXES network flavoured angst.

#the specific note was about her being programmed for acoustic and drums #and management saying to the band 'yeah yeah just incorporate the new member into the set however the preprogramming should sort it' #and then she shows up with a fucking keytar she found in the basement and spray painted green. #being told to put it down and go back to her normal instruments shes SUPPOSED to have where did she even get that from #and she concedes like fine fine whatever #then rocks up on stage with it anyway and her debut show is a huge fucking hit for it #cause she quite literally stole the show with it #literally she fit into what the band was doing yeah but at some point when it came to her official intro #she just fucking went for it #all improv baby she had a blast out of spite!!! #literally steamrolled at least one entire song to fuck around and find out and everyone had to improvise around her #freddy offered backup vocals but literally sang 'i dont have an instrument' at some point #to kind of clue her in that he doesn't know what the fuck she's expecting #and she just 'well thats a shame not my problem' in perfect tune right back at him lmao #then carried on like it never happened!! #freddy chica and monty wanted to fucking throttle her for this. the FUCK is she doing?! #but they expected management to do it enough for all of them... then they just didn't. #she got a slap on the wrist because the audience had loved it #like a very half-assed lecture and she very clearly didn't care #and they're so fucking mad about it dndnkd #that was the notes! roxy is an asshole and gets away with it! and when she doesn't it doesn't stop her anyway! #and it drives the others nuts for ages! #for good reason of course #but yeah that's that lmao

[acaesic]

if yapping in the tags were a job id be jeff bezos

#does that make any sense? #i feel like the words im saying come out extremely convoluted to anyone who isnt me #cause in my brain #i like will re-say sentences without thinking about the previous sentence and how they mesh together #OH YEAH and then i dont provide context for how i got to that thought #so ill say one thing and then the next thing will like sound out of left field almost i think #anyway i really wanna draw gerard way but i cant decide on an image and its so !?!? #AUGH. do i draw nurse gerard or ….. i forgot the word? accountant??? gerard? whatever #or one of the ones where theyre covered in blood which is a lot of them #OOH AND. i really fucking wanna draw 2ourdust pete and soul punk patrick when he had the red suit and the devil horns #BUT I CANT !!!! number one i cant find just the right image of pete to draw and THERES MAYBE 5 DEVIL PATRICK IMAGES #so i was thinking i could just improvise like how i did with my idiots of oz art? and just draw a sp patrick image but colour his suit red #and draw some cartoonish 2D devil horns on instead #idk. anyway #im hoping to draw today . it might happen #ALSO ALSO ALSO!!!! i got vip for my idkhow concert next week :) #HAGSHSNANGSHFNKSLSJHSBCJDNSNSGSBFNJZBXNXKSLFKFBHSGSHFHGAGSHENSHSHSUGSHSBCHZHDKDLSHGDNAGSGSBFNKZHXNDJAGSHDJALSLJFHDNSJFKZBSHGAHSJFKFNDMXMCKF #IM SO FUCKING EXCITED ABOUT THAT #AUGH!!!!!! i also really wanted to draw dallon but if im being honest. im getting so sick of his face #i run a daily dallon blog i have like 8000 images of him ive drawn him 15 dozen times im TIRED!!!!!!! #so yeah. what was this post about again? #chase said something alright

[vulturevanity]

Enough about the birds and the bees let's talk about the birds and the bats. I wanna draw a good dragon but vertabrate flyer chest muscles are so fucked

#babbles #did you know avian skeletons are fused to fuck. they look like someone put them in a burning crucible for a few minutes. #meanwhile bats are just improvising. and those are hands. why are those hands. sir what are you doing with those hands--

[tracle0]

Girl are you telling me, all this time, I should’ve been writing something else????

#Writing #Am writing #My writing #writerblr #spilled ink #Prophet wip #So I’ve been trying at TCD for perhaps a year and a half now and have been unable to get anywhere with it physically #I have a good plan and steps to take to execute it but I have completely burnt any desire to write it out of myself through exhaustion #The other night I was like haha let’s just give this a go and it just POURED out #Fucking. MMMMMM. #I am fully expecting to reread parts and hate them very soon. But for now I am just !!!!! #So this story opens with my lad Cain getting possessed. The thing tries for a hostile takeover first - burn him out of his own mind #And then Cain is like actually that’s not cool don’t do that and the thing is like oh my bad okay #And just slivers into his mind to twitch and tweak him from there. Which works. Sucks to be him #It’s a story about brothers and hurt and religious pain carried by one guy #Cain is gonna try and break every statue the gods have as their grave. Theo is gonna try and stop him #Not because Theo particularly cares for the gods (although Raya does) but because that’s his brother and he’s running himself into #the ground and something is very clearly wrong #I have no idea what I’m doing for a lot of it. But I also have a rough enough idea that I can use that and improvise on the way #Which is something that has worked for me very well previously #I give TCD a kissy on its head and lay it down to sleep for a while. I shouldn’t have tried to start you so soon #I can only hope I can recover something out of you because god I want to write it so badly #Okay that’s all from me thank you for reading my tag ramble. If you hear nothing else from me #Then writing is either going really well or horrifically badly #Trade-marked

[vyragosa]

didn’t even mean to draw holmes but it turned into gordy and his sexy secretary

#improvise adapt overcom #he knew i still have to draw them pressing chest together #i really just only fucking draw one thing and it's just #holmes invading the personal space of men with mustache like what the genuine fuck..?

[navree]

I know you’ve shared your thoughts on Aegon II before but if there’s anything you haven’t or still want to talk about, I’d love to hear it <3 

I just came around to enjoying his character but like others, what he did to Dyana and the child fighting ring makes me apprehensive and I have to check myself and make sure I’m not woobifying him. 

Like, what would you like to see from him during his reign and his relationships with his family now that he’s king. I hope they don’t hammer us with more wild awfulness, (and hopefully he doesn’t lash out at Alicent or Helaena who are going to witness a horrific act of cruelty), to show us how unworthy he is. We won’t know until we know but child fighting rings, really? Most of what I like about Aegon (fan meta aside) seem to be TGC’s own acting choices, apparently the “do you love me line” was improv, so there’s only so much he can do. Thanks!

I know that some people are really dooming about the upcoming seasons and the Greens but I will say, it's not just Team Green who's been part of the backlash to some of the more stupid stuff in Aegon's character, it's been general audiences AND TGC himself. Combining that with the fact that they know there's an audience for the Greens (they only gave Ewan eleven piddly minutes of screentime and he turned that into making him the fandom darling, they know there's a capacity for it, along with as many people appreciating Alicent as they did), I'd imagine that they're not gonna turn those people away with more cartoonish antics, especially the stupid fighting pits. Those especially I think were just there to kinda establish that Mysaria is a champion of the poor, due to her background as a slave (and also I don't remember if they ever specified what Aegon's involvement was in that tomfoolery was because I'll freely admit to skipping over that portion whenever I rewatch the ep).

It's important not to woobify Aegon because, as much as I say that those scenes seem to exist only for the sake of existing and not to really say anything about Aegon other than cartoonish nonsense, they did happen. And there's information to be gleaned from them, especially the Dyana scene, both for Aegon (he's a drunkard and a bit of a lech, as well as clearly inebriated when he attempts to consummate his marriage) and certainly for Alicent, to show why the smallfolk like her and what kind of woman and ruling queen she is and how her own experiences have shaped her and her interactions with other women. But I can choose to focus on the myriad other aspects of his character, and the insights his actor provides into him, and acknowledge that those scenes were poor writing choices I disagree with even if I still think they happened.

I'm unsure as to what I'd want to see from his reign, because his reign is well chronicled in F&B and is incredibly short, and his reign is largely filled with his wartime decisions. I'd like to see his relationship with his council, and with the smallfolk, especially after the coronation and the mythologizing that's gonna come from what happened with him and Alicent and Meleys on the dais, along with the fact that his mother and wife are well known for being adored by the smallfolk. I'd just like to see some of why people would be willing to go along with his reign, especially when compared to the book where they were far more unenthusiastic than they were in the show. I assume he'd have a better relationship with his family than we saw in season 1, especially with Alicent after she proved her love for him in such a big way, but I'd also like to see some good moments with Helaena and especially with his kids, not just to show why he'd be willing to spare Aegon the Younger and Gaemon Pale-hair with his apparent softness for children, but also to an add an extra gut punch in how good everything was going before it goes to shit. And I don't think he'll likely lash out at Alicent or Helaena for anything, since a) Blood and Cheese is gonna happen pretty soon in season 2 and b) there'd be no reason to. Aegon's gonna be nearly as destroyed as Helaena from what happened (and I don't think even he would start castigating his brokenminded wife for how she handled an atrocious situation while in fear for her life, and certainly not his mother who was attacked and then bound and gagged in order to prevent her from interfering at all), and even the source material specifies that he wasn't being cruel to Helaena, he just wasn't capable of providing comfort to her, both because she was just so mentally debilitated by what happened and also because of his own grief. I think if he lashes out at anyone, it'll be Aemond. Speaking of Aemond...

One thing I absolutely want to see is more of Aemond and Aegon. I've talked about them a bit as we've seen in season 1 in the aforementioned Aegon posts, but let's talk about season 2 and what I want. First things first, I want them to expand on the fact that, in the book, Aegon was the only one who wasn't upset with Aemond after Storm's End. I want to see him don his big brother hat and try, in his clumsy way, to attempt to comfort him, to point out that it's not so bad that he killed Luke, and hey he got the Baratheons over to their side so that's good. I want him to take Aemond at his word that it was an accident, to throw him that feast as an Aegon-style attempt to make him feel better. Because I want their relationship to be at its highest point we've seen in the narrative before it comes crashing down. Blood and Cheese is gonna be seen, in universe, as Aemond's fault, and I want that to really fuck with Aegon for a while. I definitely want the family to stand together in the immediate aftermath of it, like from the moment it happens until whatever funeral they hold with Jahaerys, and I'd really like to see Aemond try to be a comfort to his siblings (as I've written in fic, he should tell Aegon, he should be the one to do it) while dealing with his guilt in the process. But as Aegon, as F&B says, drinks and rages and drinks, I want him to start turning over in his mind the fact that it was Aemond's killing of Luke that prompted this horrible thing to happen to his wife, to his children, and I want him to blame Aemond, to his face. To call him kinslayer, to say that he holds him responsible, and I especially want one of those scenes where person A (Aegon) beats person B (Aemond) into the ground while person B refuses to fight back because they think they deserve it. Mayhaps a bit hokey (even tho this show did the stupid White Hart which is peak hokey) but if that beatdown ends with Aegon weeping like a child about the whole thing because he's really just grieving and needs an outlet, that'd be great too.

And crucially, I want Aegon's involvement at Rook's Rest to be a surprise. The source material is oddly explicit in the fact that, if it was only Meleys vs Vhagar, she'd have a chance, but it was adding in Sunfyre that ended up being her doom. So I want it to be primarily Aemond and Criston's plan, and Aemond's prepared to essentially have a kamikaze attack, taking Meleys and Rhaenys down even if it kills him, and maybe it gets close, and then suddenly, in swoops Aegon on Sunfyre. Unexpected but he's there, and he's saving Aemond from Rhaenys and Sunfyre is incurring grievous wounds in the process, before the final plunge happens that kills Rhaenys and injures Aegon. And then, after the attempts at highs after Storm's End and the deep lows of the Blood and Cheese aftermath and the slow attempt to build back up to something normal, when Aegon swoops in to save his little brother and finds himself incapacitated, that's when he names Aemond his Prince Regent. And that's when Aemond takes it, as seriously as he can, and why he refuses to call himself king in the meantime, because Aegon trusted him with this, after everything, and he won't let his family down ever again. @ HBO I don't have a minimum salary requirement if you're hiring, just saying.

The Aemond and Aegon stuff is my main wishcast for season 2, and I've written a Blood and Cheese fic that's my ideal interpretation for how the immediate aftermath can go (still want that beatdown tho, just later in the aftermath), and I'm hoping for everything else I'm proven either right or semi-right. Haven't touched on everything I could talk about with Aegon; there's some sex stuff I've alluded to in previous posts that I almost included here but this is already long and it's an incredibly niche reading of the character, but if y'all wanna hear it lemme know.

#personal #answered #anonymous #sorry this is a bit late and kinda disjointed i was out to dinner with my mother and for some reason #the cocktail i ordered was served in like a fucking TANKARD #so i may be a wee bit inebriated #i think aegon might mellow out also because tgc might get more say #he's not gonna get final say and writers can just tell him 'do what's in the script and ignore him' #but these writers seem amenable to hearing suggestions from the actors #since they're the people embodying the characters and getting in their heads #like you said they've kept in some improvised stuff like the 'do you love me' line #so i'm not necessarily one for doomcasting about him because for however much we mock these writers #they've done more things right than they've done more so far (also my bar is so low after d&d) #but have some more eggo rambles #he's my beloved boy (all of the greens are my beloved boys except for when they're my beloved girls) #but he is a beloved boy and i like discussing him #i mean i like discussing all of them but y'all seem to enjoy the aegon stuff the most

[feytouched]

can't believe i have to shell out more money for consultations and treatment of a THIRD urgent and ongoing medical problem this month

#my pinky finger on my drawing hand is extremely fucked out of the blue #all the joints hurt almost as if there's bruised blood pooled inside them?? #both when static and also especially when folding the finger #now i do curl my pinky and ring fingers under when drawing but i didn't even draw for that lomg this week compared to others when i was fin #fine* #i'm doing ibuprofen again. hello darkness my old friend. and bengay cream and an improvised splint #tomorrow my mom is gona try to contact her friend's daughter who's a physiotherapist who has seen my dad on similar emergencies #it just. ughhhh. i want to reopen commissions! for once i Love what i'm doing and i have people on a waitlist to get art by me! #and my income entirely depends on my aptitude to draw #i genuinely don't understand what went wrong #i'm so proud of how much i was able to earn solely off of my art this month but it's all gone to medical stuff and that HURTS man #my foot injury treatment (ongoing). my attempt at a diagnosis of potential thyroid or kidney issues (ongoing) #now this!!! i'm just grateful my wisdom tooth read the room and hit pause for now #ką sako lapė

[bumblingbabooshka]

Women of Voyager: Mad Max Lonely Road & Immaterial Girl

Noss: Tu-vok! I kill a big rat for you, ok? Tuvok: ...Ok?? Maryana: I don’t think that’s true. I think you’re being a b*tch. Tuvok: Fascinating. 100% Correct.

#I love them both truly dearly with all my heart #Noss is cute and 'Marayna' is just terminally online - serving lighthouse keeper going mad realness with a tech angle #I couldnt find a good ref for Noss's outfit sooo you know #I just improvised...it was vaguely like that #Anyway I truly think its so character building that Tuvok /did/ have a certain real affection for Noss but not Marayna #and maybe its bc he thought she was a computer but you know what? I think its because she's presenting too femme - too Perfect Woman #He sees Marayna and nothing in him is attracted to her at all - at the very most they'd be friends #but Noss is over here in the desert fighting bandits and clubbing rats and Tuvok's like 'ugh. she's cute :/' #he'd never DO anything about it but c'mon...who could deny the appeal of Noss? Her name's fucking Noss for crying out loud #That last moment between the two of them was so sweet...both of them honestly. Tuvok's a sweet guy and I hope these sweet gals find love #star trek Noss #star trek Marayna #st voyager #st voyager art #I /will/ fall in love with one-off characters #the scene where tuvok talks to maryana and she's like 'I see right through your Vulcanese bullshit. You don't wanna be here #and you want everyone to know it don't you?' and Tuvok doesn't even deny it he's just immediately like: #'Wow no one's ever called me out like that before! We've GOTTA play kal-toh together NOW.' #bea art tag #Noss art #Marayna art #I wish we got more of T'Pel's personality in canon v_v I /know/ that woman is weird I just /know/ something's strange about her #Tuvok likes short haired girls confirmed (by me in my own mind)

[slvttyplum]

there was no denying that choso had a sensitive dick, meaning that anything you did to it made him twitch and cum in seconds, so you had to improvise, with your tits, well that's what you thought would work, but it went incredibly wrong.

laying down comfortably on your back while choso hovered over you slowly sliding his dick in between your breasts and squeezing them together over his twitching dick, pre-cum slipping off the tip of his dick and onto your soft flesh. pushing his dick forward, the tip of his dick pressing on your lips, this was supposed to help him not cum fast, but you just couldn't resist.

the next time he pushed himself into you, you slid your tongue out swiping over his tip, a small whimper coming out his mouth he tried to divert his gaze from yours, knowing if he looked at you, he was going to finish right on that pretty face of yours. the combination of your tongue and soft boobs covering his dick made him want to finish, but he knew how hard you tried to find a substitute to help him calm his nerves and stop finishing fast when he was fucking you, so he did his best to hold it in.

the more he was pushing his dick in between your breasts the faster his heart started to beat, and his dick would twitch with each thrust, there you were just staring at him, fumbling over himself trying to slow down the tension between his dick and your boobs.

his thumb mindlessly rubbing over your nipple, letting out a small moan from the pleasure, choso breathing harder as the minutes pass, trying not to cum. he hated how close he was to his climax, it was so embarrassing his cheeks started to flush, squeezing your boobs slightly as he lets out a deep breath, even though he was still on edge, he was doing well.

“good boy. you're doing good today.” letting out a little giggle as you place your hand on top of his, his hand still squeezing your breast, and his eyes accidentally landing on yours, and there it was. his cum slowly leaking out then shooting out quickly, landing on your face, his face beet red.

this time wasn't that good, but he tried to redeem himself over and over again and failed miserably every time after, there was something about his eyes looking into yours that made him cum so easily. even when he tried to avoid your gaze, he would end up looking at you anyway and finishing.

even when trying to guide him through, he would still end up finishing even faster than before. you even thought that since he finished this time that when he fucked you he wouldn't cum so fast, but he did.

“don't be so nervous, that's why you're finishing fast.” a pout on your face as you hold your breast together as he slides himself in between your breasts. nodding he continues, looking up at the ceiling and the same pleasure shoots through him, that's how he knew he couldn't hold out anymore, pushing himself in between you faster and placing a hand on your cheek as he slowly looks at you.

there it was, cum all over your face and sliding down your breasts and licking your lips tasting his cum.

there was no saving him, no matter how hard you tried. you didn't know whether to be flattered or annoyed at how sensitive his dick was, but it was endearing to watch him take deep breaths to stop himself from cumming, or how he would blush when he looked at you just to turn away so he didn't finish on your face.

you were going to keep trying to help him, but until them, you'll still let him cum on your face.

#jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jjk x you #jjk x reader #x reader #jujustsu kaisen x reader #jujutsu choso #choso kamo #jjk choso #choso x reader #choso smut #jujutsu kaisen choso #choso jjk #kamo choso

[ozzgin]

Santa baby are you really there?!

*hears a voice in my backyard*

FUCK SKIN WALKER

- you make Yan skinwalker i’ll do anything to get a skin walker to love me … yes I am 100% mentally stable

I'm not sure if you had something horror-esque in mind, because my immediate idea was Reader accidentally getting cursed and continuing her life completely unaware with a ""dog"" everyone is freaked out by, but she finds it cute. So more like dark comedy vibes. You be the judge. :D

Disclaimer: I have changed the name to Shapeshifter as to not delve into potentially offensive takes on native folklore. Thank you for informing my European ass.

Yandere!Monster x Reader [Shapeshifter]

On your last hiking trip, you've stumbled upon a helpless, lost dog. Or rather, it stalked you down to your cabin and spent the night in front of your window. You didn't have the heart to abandon the poor soul and so you brought it home with you. Strange things have been happening ever since and no one knows how to tell you that the monstrous coyote-like creature might be to blame. You're oblivious to everything.

Content: female reader, dark comedy, monster romance, reader is cursed and proud

It wasn't your intention to return home with a new pet. Some might say it was written in the stars, this fateful encounter of yours. You had finished packing your supplies for a day-long hike, vehemently refusing to join your group of friends that would be guided around by a native. They’d warned you many areas of the mountainous forest were supposedly cursed or haunted, so you just scribbled the limits on your makeshift map and promised to stay on the main trails. After all, this was your chance to commune with nature. As the sun begun to set, you wondered if going by yourself was indeed a smart idea, given your lack of spatial awareness and difficulty to navigate maps. You flipped the piece of paper several times, deep in contemplation. Could it be that you’ve reached the forbidden lands? You quickly surveyed the area: based on the stuffed rag dolls hanging from old branches, and the animal skulls arranged in patterns among patches of burnt grass, it was very much a possibility. Perhaps the improvised slab that said “Stay away” in dripping crimson letters should’ve been enough of a warning, but you assumed they’d just been creative with trail markers.

You didn’t have the time to panic. Just as you were furrowing your eyebrows in a final attempt to decipher the map (at the time upside-down), your ears picked up a faint shuffle of leaves. Further away stood a dog, its glossy eyes fixated on your form. A lost puppy? It seemed to be on the larger side, but then again some breeds grow rather fast. You lowered yourself and patted your knees, whispering diminutives in an effort to call the animal over. It remained in place, staring quietly. Alright, then. You focused on finding your way back instead. Every now and then you'd turn back and see the dog, motionlessly eyeing you at a constant distance. Oh, dear. Was it lost? Frightening affair.

Back at the cabin you told the others about your discovery, with a hint of worry in your voice. You hoped the little pup had found proper shelter. You'd expected a similar reaction coming from your friends, but one of them suggested: "What if it was some shapeshifting monster? There's many legends and stories from the area." Everyone laughed and you joined hesitantly, mildly annoyed by the lack of empathy. That night you barely slept, twisting and turning under the heavy feeling of being watched. You woke up tired and nervous, dragging your feet towards the window for some fresh air. That's when you saw the same forest creature, fully awake and tall in its glory, positioned before your room. This was no coincidence. You had been plagued by the guilt of abandoning a vulnerable quadruped and you weren't about to continue as a passive observer. You strode out without a word and lifted the large dog with a huff, carrying it back in to figure out the transport logistics.

Thus started the unexpected companionship. To you, it's a lovely tale of two lost souls finding one another. Most people seem to disagree. Can you blame them? The rescued puppy you often speak of is, in the eyes of everyone else, a monstrous beast by all definitions. It resembles a coyote more than a dog, but even this description is too gentle. The fur is always raised threateningly and the protruding clusters of fangs remind one of the anatomical anomalies displayed in museums. The eyes, oh, the worst of all perhaps, bottomless depths that pull you in until you run out of air. The creature stares with the all-knowing gaze of a human. "Don't be rude", you snap at whoever dares to point these details out. "It must be a mixed breed or something."

Their persistence is truly ridiculous. You've even had guests run out in panic, claiming the dog stood on its back legs and whispered in a language unknown. Or that its shadow would morph into a grotesque man with claws and crooked antlers. Or that they've found it hunched over your sleeping form, its spine twisted outwards with jagged peaks breaking through the wild fur. Rubbish, all of it.

Strange things have been happening, no doubt, but your adopted fur-child has no blame to carry. You've been trying to distract yourself, going on dates and occasionally bringing potential suitors over. They all vanish overnight, nonchalantly leaving an empty, ruffled bed for you to wake up to. "Am I just unlucky?" You sigh, running your fingers through the coarse fur of your dog. It lowers itself under your touch, visibly enjoying the affection. For a split second, it glances out the window. By the time you come out of your depressed slump, the birds should've finished feeding on the remains. He made sure to tear and grind everything fine enough to not leave any marks behind.

That's how curses work, after all. He didn't expect, however, that you'd be utterly unaware of it. He has to give you the credit, not many people become stalked by an ancient curse and continue their life in blissful ignorance. Even more, for them to just casually pick up the haunting entity and bring it inside their home willingly...You're, uh, certainly a special one. Hence the change of plans. He was supposed to torment you into an early grave, but he's grown rather attached to your bizarre antics. And you do provide some damn good chin scratches. He's therefore satisfied with causing anguish and destruction to anything and anyone in your immediate vicinity instead. Since you've been complaining about the resulting isolation...

You wake up with a gasp, wiping your drenched forehead and checking the sheets. The dog is curled next to you, although its head is now tilted in your direction. "O-oh. It might be the loneliness talking...but I had the strangest dream." How troubling and embarrassing. Your beloved pet had turned into a deformed, monstrous man instead, pinning you down and hungrily grazing your skin with his sharp teeth. Your fearful protests eventually turned into shameless moans, your frail body at the mercy of the mysterious beast. It unfolded so vividly that your core feels sore. You stretch a sheepish hand towards your pet and abruptly stop halfway, noticing the marks diffused into your wrist, like violet smudges of watercolor. What the hell did you do last night?

The dog buries its head under the sheets and nuzzles its snout into your soft flesh. Heh. How many more disappearing guests will be needed for you to figure out your situation? He does find your obliviousness terribly amusing, as well as your willingness to clutch onto him despite his unsightly appearance. He was feeling particularly cheeky and thought of giving you a little scare, only to be once again taken aback by your neediness. He has to wonder who exactly is trapped in this situation, because your reactions to everything he does are frighteningly tempting. Maybe tonight he'll finally let you know, just as you're about to come undone beneath his heaving body. Something like, hmmm. "By the way, love, this isn't a dream." He could even add a little "woof" to tease you more.

#yandere #yandere x reader #yandere x you #yandere x darling #yandere headcanons #yandere imagines #yandere scenarios #yandere monster #yandere monster x reader #horror #monster x reader #monster romance #yandere oc #monster smut #monster boyfriend #terato #teratophillia #monster fucker

[strangersteddierthings]

Good People

Part One🦇Part Two🦇Final Part

Wayne knows eavesdropping isn't the done thing. He's definitely old enough to know better, and he wasn't going to. He had a plan. He was going to walk directly into the living room, so they'd know he was awake, and after he'd fixed his cup of coffee, he'd plopped into his perfectly worn in recliner and subtly glare at the Harrington boy until he squirmed.

Mostly because it amused Wayne, but also just a little sliver of it was because he wanted the Harrington boy to know Wayne didn't think he was good enough for his boy. But only a little! Lord knows that Wayne couldn't do anything to make Eddie change his mind about Steve Harrington, short of Harrington proving Wayne right. Which he doesn't actually want because he doesn't want Eddie hurt.

He's just... He expects it to happen. That's what boys like Harrington do to boys like Eddie. He's seen it enough times to know that this song and dance leave no room for improvisation. Boys like Harrington play around, get their kicks with the devotion Eddie shows them, and then when they've had their fill, they leave.

Boys like Harrington will never be good enough for Eddie, but they always leave with Eddie feeling like he's not enough. Wayne hates it.

Anyway, his plan wasn't to eavesdrop. It's just that Harrington said his name and Wayne found himself standing still instead of continuing.

"Why doesn't Wayne like me?" Harrington asks.

"This again?" Eddie says dismissively, which has Wayne agreeing. His opinion shouldn't have bearing on their friendship.

A deep sigh from Harrington before, "I just. It's- he means so much to you. And, like, I- nevermind. It's stupid. I'm stupid."

"Hey," Eddie sounds a type of serious that Wayne rarely hears from him, "you're not stupid. And you gotta quit fucking saying that. You say it enough and you'll start to believe it and it's not true."

"Hard to quit feeling stupid when people dismiss my concerns like they are stupid," Harrington snaps back, bitchy as can be. The tone makes Wayne bristle on behalf of Eddie. His boy doesn't reply immediately, though. Doesn't bite back like Wayne's used to hearing. Huh. Maybe he's growing up, just a little.

"You're right, Steve," Eddie says when he finally speaks. "That was dismissive. I'm sorry. Explain it to me. Why does it matter to you whether Wayne likes you or not?"

"Well, because he's your family."

"Yeah," Eddie agrees, "he is. But that doesn't explain why it matters. I don't care if your parents like me or not."

"That's different!"

"How?" Eddie asks, soft but firm.

"Because their opinion doesn't matter. It's not- It's irrelevant. What they think."

"That makes no sense. Wayne's opinion matters because he's my family, but your parents' opinion doesn't even though they're your family?"

"Yes!"

"But why?" Eddie presses.

"Because they're bad people!" Steve bursts, not quite shouting but close. "Because when bad people don't think highly of you, it's not a fault in you. Their disproval is, like, a compliment. They don't like you because you're too different from them. And that's great! You shouldn't want their approval. It's different, because your uncle is a good person. And when a good person doesn't like you, it is your fault. It's something- it's..." Harrington loses steam here, voice dropping low and defeated, "there's something wrong with me. Something in me that- that he just knows. Senses about me or whatever. Something wrong or rotten or-"

"Steve! That's bullshit. Sure, Wayne's been standoffish, but he'll come around. You're not wrong, or rotten, or whatever else you think you are."

"How do you know that? I was an asshole most of life and what if that's just the real me? What if that's who I'll always be deep down. 'Cause I'm trying so damn hard, man. I'm giving it my all trying to be a better person and it's not enough! Everyone still talks about who I was in high school and even you-" Harrington snaps his mouth closed so hard that Wayne hears the clack of his teeth from his position in the hallway. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to- I'm sorry."

"Steve. This is about more than just my uncle's opinion of you, isn't it?"

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said anything."

"I want you, too. I want to know if I've ever done anything to make you feel like you aren't enough."

Wayne really shouldn't be listening. He should back down the hall and into his room. Give them time to talk.

"No, Eddie, you don't make me feel like- that's not what I meant. I just. I'm...."

"Hey, Stevie, you can tell me."

"I'm just so afraid that... That one day everyone will wake up and realize what Wayne already knows. That I'm not good enough for them. For you."

Oh. Wayne really shouldn't be listening.

"I'll admit that Wayne's opinion is important to me, for a lot of things. But not about you. What I feel about you, how I feel about you, isn't dictated by Wayne."

"Sure. I mean, I know that, like, logically or whatever. But it's. I can't convince my brain that you won't just. Hate me one day. And I- fuck, Eddie, I'm already halfway in love with you and-"

"You're in love with me?" Eddie interrupts, sounding awed, starstruck, and Wayne cannot be listening anymore. He backs down the hall silently and back into his room.

Steve Harrington seems to think that he's a good person, but he's not feeling like a good person at the moment.

He's got some thinking to do.

#steddie #my fic #wayne munson #eddie munson #steve harrington #wayne pov #wayne doesnt like steve and steve cannot accept that #not doing a readmore because its very short.

[sassy-cass-16]

look man. look

essek saying "bren" out loud, claiming a position on caleb's side as the mouthpiece of his regards to astrid, did something to me. i can't tell if it opened a wound or punched me or gave me a hug. all i know is that i am feeling so many emotions right now

more under the cut because i'm about to get rambly:

"bren aldric ermendrud" is a separate character from caleb widogast. he's a young boy learning how to make magic. he's a deeply traumatized and indoctrinated teenager. he's the boy who curled up with astrid and eadwulf in a freezing tower for warmth all night.

essek never met bren. he met caleb and he's never known him as anyone else. if i'm remembering correctly, caleb never even said the name "bren" to him during the campaign, and neither did any of the nein.

essek knows caleb widogast. he knows the man who held up the object of his worst crime and then kissed him in the bowels of a ship and made a floor of infinite stars for them to walk through together. he knows the person who healed over bren's wounds—thinly, but enough. he knows the man that the boy has become.

astrid knows bren. she barely knows who caleb is. she still calls him bren after hearing him referred to as caleb repeatedly. she can't know him as the man he is, she only knows the boy. there's some of bren in caleb, but there is no caleb in bren.

essek saying "bren sends his regards" is him gauging astrid's reaction, on one level—if she freaks out, which she did, she's in opposition to caleb's cause and thus a threat. on another level, it's essek delivering a very different subtextual message from caleb: "the boy who loved you is giving you one final warning."

because essek is a threat to astrid. their last meaningful interaction was slinging spells at each other in the blooming grove. and that's funny in a "current boyfriend vs ex girlfriend exclusively fight each other" kind of way, but it's also deeply tied to caleb's recurring theme of transformation. "bren sends his regards" also means "i have healed enough to love enough for someone else to know this name and use it with my consent. and this someone else is your enemy. what does that make you think i've become?"

it also does a fantastic job of communicating subtle offscreen discussions that have happened over the years since the end of c2. we don't have the details of when or how caleb told essek his birth name, but we know that he did, and we know from all of c2 that the name bren occupies a place of immense emotional weight for caleb. it functions similarly to a deadname in terms of who uses it and for what purpose. trent exclusively calls caleb bren to wound him and place himself in a position of power. astrid calls him bren to remind both him and herself of who they used to be—same with eadwulf, though obviously he's not here.

the first time we hear essek say "bren" is on caleb's behalf and confronting one of the narrative representations of caleb's trauma. it's four words that manage to communicate "i, your enemy on a hundred levels, can speak for both the man i love and the boy who loved you, because i know him in his entirety."

astrid knows bren and essek knows caleb, but only essek can speak for both. because at some point, caleb gave bren to essek. and we know this from four words. four IMPROVISED words.

god. this moment is just so fucking good

#critical role #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #campaign 3 #essek thelyss #caleb widogast #astrid becke #mighty nein #campaign 2 #shadowgast