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leisureflame · 28 days

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"I CANT THINK"

If you write, I assure you you have thought that.

Fear no more child, for I have found a solution.

it's called Rapid writing

something we learned when I was in 9th grade drama class and I cannot emphasize enough just how effective it is. Its actually what gave me the idea for my first book.

Stop what you are doing and do what I tell you

go grab either a pencil and paper (or open an empty document)

set a timer for 2 minutes

ask a friend to give you a random sentence. I have a few examples that I myself rapid wrote to: a) I looked around and saw b) the old lady hung from the ceiling and laughed c) purple paint dripped from her long purple fingernails d) there is a hole in my ceiling. e) when I am sad I... f) When you close the door, I... g) there is a wooden door with a gold doorknob

Now the most important thing is not to think of this sentence before you start writing. as soon as you decide which one if you are choosing from my examples (or as soon as you hear it if you are getting if from a friend), start the timer.

start writing the sentence and without hesitating just keep writing. the #1 rule here is to not stop or hesitate for a single second until the 2 minutes are over. you can write nonsense if you want and if you REALLY can't continue then write some random words for a couple of seconds then continue AS LONG AS YOU ARE STILL WRITING.

another rule is that you are not allowed to delete. even if its a spelling error, just ignore it.

after the timer is done, I promise you will have something to work with. now copy the paragraph you wrote and paste it below, here you can start fixing spelling errors and adding things at your own pace because now the creative side of your brain has opened.

don't think about the way you are writing or the words you use, think about the story you are telling. the idea.

Sometimes you will get something beautiful and deep like I did here:

When I am sad I go to my blanket, not many people know about it, all they think is happening is that a child likes to cuddle in a blanket, but no. my blanket has a special thing about it, it is a magical blanket, well, not the blanket itself but the embroidery on the blanket, it simply takes my sadness away but it adds the story of my emotions to the embroidery, my blanket is a very pretty one, it is a pastel blue color and it has so much silk embroideries that you just think its patterns, but it isn't, if you look deeper you will find stories every one of those stories came from someones tears... my tears. whenever i cry, i wipe my tears with my blanket and my pain goes but my story stays.

there is a wooden door with a gold doorknob on the door there is a painting of you, and there are many locks on the door from top to bottom, when you open the door, there is a mirror. this door is the door to self discovery, from the outside there is a painting of how people think you look like but when you open the door, you get to see what you really are in detail and look at yourself they way you want to, you can smile or cry and the refection on the mirror will change but on the painting, it doesn't show ur emotions, just how people see you usually.

or you can get something so stupid like i did here:

there is a hole in the ceiling in my classroom. everyday a dinosaur would a pear and eat my lunch and i keep coming home hungry but my mom dsays she packed me enough food. so she didn't feed me. i told her a dinasour was eating my lunch but she said that disasours only live in Norway! so i went into the school vents looking for that idino and revenge my food, we met at last, held our weapons, i was holding a subway sandwich and the dino was holding a bana na MY BANANA i lost it, so i attacked him one hit on the head and the whole species were extinct , people thousand of years from now said dinos got extinct because of a meteorite but i know better, also i am still alive because whoever kills a dino becomes immortal, also i killed my mom for not believing me and let her starve in her grave just like she let made me starve. and then i killed everyone who was a flat earther because i hate them and now i can kill anyone once i tap them with my super subway sandwich

(by the way, ignore the horrible spelling, the examples i gave were from the unedited version.)

THE POINT IS ITS ACTUALLY SO HELPFUL. you can use it for a new story idea (i used the blanket one as an element in one of my WIPs and it helped the story a lot) or if you get something stupid like the dino one I wrote THATS GOOD THATS FINE because now you have your creativity going.

I challenge you to actually try this and PLEASE share it with me I LOVE reading other peoples rapid writings. have fun <3

tagging @cosmosandcapybaras24 @ajsbookshelf @gloryofdawn, @chaoticharmony93 @deception-united and anyone else who's interested to try this out and share with me!

#writing #creative writing #writing tips #creativity #writers block #creative block #writer stuff #writeblr

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obessed-with-fictional-men · 4 months

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oh my sweet Gale

I will admit, the very first run through of this game i found Gale annoying, pushy, dumped trauma everywhere, narcissistic in his knowledge of magic, and the need to prove how right his in in the subject. I often found myself thinking and saying out loud "omg shut up"..... buuuuut... having romanced him...... i found that his personality traits are the exact same as someone born as a child prodigy, had his ego inflated, alienated by everyone around him, and made to think he was superior by someone higher up just to then land on his ass.

I wont go through what i think of his character development because each play through is different, and for each player its different... but this is what i think of him over all.

Gale doesn't know how to talk to people. He doesn't have social queues that almost everyone else picks up on. Gale has spent, up till the tadpole, the exception in a lot of the situations he was put into and thus it became his default personality. Yes, for those of us who have romanced him (keeps romancing him) we see someone haunted by their past choices and watch him grow. We see the nerd that he is, but this is more about the potential Gale before we meet him. So bare with me.

He was a child prodigy and put into a prestigious school where he flourished. I can only image how his professors loved him and his fellow students less than enthusiastic response. You know what happens when you become the teachers pet? You become ostracized by your fellow peers. You know what happens when you are really good at something that usually takes A LOT of practice for others? You either get used or don't make friends. Gale has had ONE story that involved other people and it didn't involve friends, he was at a bar and defused a brawl with ale. He has openly admitted to Tara being his only real friend.

Now this isn't to say Gale never had to work at his magic or arcane knowledge to get him to where he is in the game when he first meet him. He was an archmage and the chosen of Mystera, but his innate ability to wield it as a young boy is what got Mystera's attention. Gale has stated that she was his teacher first, then his muse and finally his lover. You can only imagine how special he felt when Mystera chose him to be his guiding hand..... and then to be a lover? I don't care who you are..... That shit would have to inflate your ego. That shit would make you feel like you were SOOO much better than your fellow peers. You would have those toxic thoughts and comments of "yeah, well Mystera chose me! So who needs friends/criticism/physical lovers/ect". What do you typically do when you catch the attention of someone you highly regard? You try to impress them and do what you can to be even more impressive! So Gale's ambition grew to newer heights. I cant imagine what Mystera poisoned his mind with while they were together. Like, i get she told him to just be content with the things were.... but come on Mystera... you couldn't have expected him to stop striving to be better with a simple "nah, you're cool how you are. you don't need to be my equal". Not when the poor man has spent the last 2 decades of his life striving to be the best. His most important years for growth and development have been spent on trying to impress others.

Gale learns of a way to possibly convince Mystera to allow him into her domain and it gets a carnivorous orb shoved into his chest, dumped, stripped of his titles and holed up in his tower without nary a reason why. That had to be the biggest blow he has ever received in his entire life. His act of what he believed to be a sure fire way into getting what he wanted ended up taking almost everything away from him. If it wasn't for Tara, i'm sure Waterdeep would have succumbed his to orbs blight. The man locked himself in his tower and turned away all his colleagues and family.

So imagine, you are this lonely person... squirreled away from others and any social interaction. No one to talk to except your pet *sorry Tara* and all of a sudden you find yourself on a ship.... with a parasite in your brain and then your thrust into an adventure with a bunch of strangers. You have this orb in your chest that could blow at any time and you cant really explain WHY you need magical items.... but that if you don't get them.... everyone is in trouble.... you find your group facing monsters and doing weird ass side quests.... and at any given opportunity, you like to drop a knowledge bomb on the group.... just to find that some of the group members don't like your input... or don't listen at all.. which doesn't sit well with you. You've been told how right you are for like... 20 years... You haven't been given many acts of kindness since becoming an adult, what with your abrasive "im more knowledgeable in everything and i've slept with a goddess" personality, so when you see your fearless leader doing something nice, you approve. You grown to trust this leader enough to tell them the truth.... knowing full well they may turn on you, but they don't! You continue to watch them, and share moments of magic with them, you fight along side them, and what is this? Are you starting to develop feelings for them? Are they reciprocating these feelings?

He gets a death sentence slapped on his back and these new budding feelings he has for you need to be made known. What better way than to show you how much you mean to him than to literally paint the sky in the weave for you. To take away the Shadow-lands curse and SHOW you something better. He thinks 'the most perfect night would have to be some place im comfortable and vulnerable.... so that i can SHOW them. This is me, Gale. This is my whole world and at the center of it, my very heart'. he is literally showing you who he is. he is this studious... lonely man.. who sits in front of his fire place reading and researching... or out on his terrace watching the sunset with a book. Like, do you accept this version of me that you have not seen yet? *Not to mention the weave/ astral projected 3 gale gang bang you get while spinning through the cosmos. He is such a show off... or he just isnt confident in his own physical/ mortal ability to woo and wow*

To watch Gale throughout my few play throughs grow as a person and learn that having to much ambition can oft lead to ruin... and watch him change to just be content with himself as he is... i get a lot of comfort from it. I haven't gone down the God route yet, nor have i tried to make him more villainous, but who knows lol.

I have a lot thoughts on pre-tadpoled Gale and how his life up to that point made him who he is when we are first introduced to him. Gale is definitely my comfort character.

Sorry for the rant... or maybe im not. Once again... these are my thoughts from my multiple play throughs.

#baldurs gate 3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #bg3 gale #bg3 #listen #this is a rant #shut up

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monkiebois · 2 years

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Consequences Possessed Bai He/Lady Bone Demon

Alright here we go

So the thing about about the lady bone demon in this Au is that her story is different here than in cannon. Consequences Au uses the canon story as an outline in a way. the episodic conflicts still happen but their result is different,

So in Consequences the lady bone demon has a lot of my personal HC's implemented.

She wasn't always a demon, she was just a mere spirit determined to make the world a better place. She consistently disguised herself as a human to help guide the world to become and kinder and safer place. But no matter what she did or how many people she helped for 100's of hundreds, nothing truly changed. Pain and suffering still flourished in the mortal realm.

But she didn't want to give up. She would never give up. She knows there is a way to truly end all the pain and suffering of the world and she will find it. She just has to be patient.

Then one day she died.

She did not die as a martyr.

She did not die doing some great deed.

She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

perhaps a battlefield, or an evil demon, (idk yet) but she died without ever being able to be the change she wanted to see in this world.

Thrown into Diyu to continue the cycle of reincarnation.

Except she was not going to allow it to end this way

She was meant to make a difference.

She would bring forth a new and greater world.

It is her birthright.

Her fate

Her DESTINY

So with nothing but the burns on her hands and a cold spiteful heart she dragged herself out of Diyu and by doing this transformed into something new. The power of Diyu along with her cold heart merged and turned her into a demon of Ice and Death.

By earning a portion of DIyu, hidden away from even the great kings eyes, a place she can control. Where her court lies. A court of consumed souls of countless beings across the realm. The more souls she collects and drags into her portion of Diyu the more powerful she becomes.

She can even summon blue chains that were once dark red and use them to confine and trap beings within her void. all she needs to do is land a fatal blow with her crystals. One that would heal with her magic but once that fatal blow is done she can easily drag them into Diyu where she can keep them in an empty void and manipulate them or just keep them there.

her mist is the court of souls she's collected.

Mayor is a whole 'nother story. Her Demon chief. Ill get to him later.

I still have stuff to develop about her but in Consequences Au sh comes in ALOT sooner than in cannon.

Like she's not trapped away for a whole season soon.

There's more to her but that's spoilers ;)

BAI HE

There's not much I can say about her without giving spoilers

She is possessed a lot sooner than in cannon

She is also aware of every little thing the lady bone demon does

...well somewhat

Bai he is trapped within her own mind, she cant do anything other then sleep or watch

when she is released that blue on her arms and the white markings on her hand stays. A couple of white streaks in her hair too.

She has been possessed for a VERY long time

the lady bone demon has been using her magic to keep her body and mind in the same state that it is what when she found the child

out of every host she found Bai He was the first to ever be able to fully withstand her power

With so much exposure to the lady bone demons magic for so long Bai he is no longer a human girl

When she is released her body transforms to accommodate what it has lost with the lady bone demon gone.

so now she is also an Ice and bone demon (ill design that later)

she's 15 during the main story.

shes pale af bc of the ice magic shit just macking her VERY pale

Ofc there's more to it all but HEY that's spoilers

despite the fact that there's a lot I have planned or facts that I have not mentioned for spoiler's sake feel free to ask me questions and ill see how best I can answer them without spoiling anything

#consequencesau💫#Bai he #The lady bone demon #lbd #lmk lbd #monkie kid lbd #bai he lmk #bai he #lmk #monkie kid #monkie kid au #lego monkie kid au #Infodump

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rand0mfangurlstuff · 13 days

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Sing Yourself to Sleep - Bucky x Y/N - Part Eight - Unfaithful.

Just a short chapter to get me back into the swing of writing. I'm sorry this took so long. Between life and feeling somewhat uninspired, I struggled with this. But i think I know where this story is going now. I'll probably wrap it up in two or three chapters. Feedback is always welcome! Inspired by Rihanna's Unfaithful.

It had been two weeks since their magical weekend in London, where they had both confessed their love in the throws of passion. Since then they hadn't been able to spend much time together. It was quick hellos while passing eachother or the odd two minute conversation in the mess hall. Bucky missed those moments in London where he could hold her. Where he could openly kiss her cheek, wrap his arm around her while walking through the streets. He missed being able to unabashedly stare at her in all her beauty.

Seeing her with Colonel Clarke made his mind angry and his heart ache. Seeing them walk hand in hand to the officers club and watching as the Colonel kissed her made his blood boil and his eyes sting with unshed tears. It should be me. He thought. Its supposed to be me.

It was a Friday night and the party in the officers club was in full swing. Bucky sat in the corner with Buck and DeMarco, printing his whiskey and brooding.

'Whats wrong with you?' Buck questioned.

'Nothing.' he replied without looking up from his glass.

'Bull. You're in a sour mood and have been for days.' Buck looked around to make sure nobody was listening before whispering 'Has something happened with Y/N?'

'No nothings happened. Thats the problem. I havent seen her properly since we came back from London.' Bucky said. He looked like a pouty child, not a grown man. Buck would have laughed if he wasnt worried about his friend.

'Well her and the Colonel just arrived. Why don't you ask her to dance again?'

'Are you really encouraging me?' Bucky questioned. He knew Buck was disapproving of his affair.

'I'm not happy about any of this. But if a dance, just a dance, puts a smile on your beak then go for it.' Buck said, the sterness of his voice clear.

Bucky approached the table where Y/N and the Colonel sat, noticing how close the two sat together with the Colonel's han on Y/N's lap made him want to punch him.

'Ah Major Egan!' the Colonel said upon noticing him, 'You just cant get enough of dancing with my wife?' he said. Before Bucky could answer he continued 'Well you're just in time, my lovely wife was just starting to get restless, can't have her sitting down too long, she demands to dance!' he laughed.

'Well I am always there for a lady in need.' Bucky held out his hand. 'May I have this dance?'

Y/N looked nervous, she looked between Bucky and the Colonel, before taking Bucky's hand. They walked to the middel of the dance floor and started to dance to the music. Bucky spun Y/N around until her back was against his chest. He took the moment to question her.

'I've barely seen you lately. Whats up?'

Y/N spun back out to face him before he pulled her closer. 'Nothing's up. I just don't want anyone getting suspicious.' She spun back out in a twirl.

'You could at least say you've missed me doll.' Bucky said as she twirled in the opposite direction, once again having her back to his chest.

'Of course I've missed you.' she said. She was looking around making sure nobody was paying too much attention to them. Bertie was talking with some other men, his back to the dancefloor. She tried to twirl herself away from him again, but he held on to her tightly.

'I told you I loved you, and you said it back. And then we get back here and its like it never happened.' Bucky wished he could wisk her off to a quiet corner somewhere to have this conversation, but this was his only oppertunity.

Y/N finally broke free of his strong arms. She spun herself out away from him, he quickly pulled her back in. 'Albert knows.' she said in a hushed and panicked tone.

'What?!' Bucky almost gasped. 'How? What did he say? Why hasnt he shot me yet?' Bucky looked in the direction of the Colonel, he looked very calm for someone who's wife was having an affair.

'He hasnt said anything, but he's acting strange. I'm sure he knows.' Y/N replied. She did her best to keep it look like they were dancing and having fun.

'So you're not actually sure he knows?' he breathed a sigh of relief. 'Y/N its fine, he doesnt know. You think he'd let me dance with you? Let me live if he knew?'

'You don't know Albert. He plays the long game. I'm scared he's planning something.' she said, he bottom lip between her teeth.

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Colonel Albert Clarke was not a stupid man. Dull, possibly. Maybe a bit old fashioned. But he wasnt stupid. He noticed the difference in Mrs. Y/N Clarke fairly quickly. It wasn't an obvious change, only someone who knew Y/N extremely well, someone who had been married to her for the past five years, would notice. It was the way she was wearing extra perfume these days. The way she seemed to quickly running out of lipstick. The way she suddenly became so excited to go to the officers club, a place she previously had no real draw to. But mostly, it was her smile. The smile she used to give to him in the early days of their relationship. The smile that showed all of her beautiful sparkly white teeth. The smile that reached all the way to her eyes which made them crease in the corners. She had the ability to bewitch anyone with that beautiful, heart warming smile. He hadn't seen it in a while, perhaps in over a year. But he was seeing it again, pointed at Major John 'Bucky' Egan.

The Major was a nice man, a bit cocky perhaps. But he was a good soldier dedicated to his Country and his men. Even the Colonel could admit he was also handsome. Albert understood while Y/N would be attracted to him. But there was something else to it. He was certain that Y/N had come across many attractive men since their marraige, but he was certain this was the first time she had been unfaithful.

Whatever spell Major Egan had his wife under, Albert was certain he could not compete with it. He was older, not half as attractive, and he didn't have that secret ingreedient that made his wife fall in love with the Major in the first place.

She was definitely in love. She wouldn't have an affair with just anyone. Because despite it all, Albert knew that Y/N was a good woman. Respectible. Kind. She would only do this to him if there was really no other option. He loved his wife. He loved her faults and all. He was and always would be greatful for the love and support she gave to him over the last five years. Which is why when he and Egan went to dance at the club, he looked away. Moved his chair so his back was to the dancefloor. He did his best to engage in ocnversation with the men sitting near him, pretending what was happening behind him wasn't happening at all.

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The following morning at the mess hall, Y/N was placing some breakfast muffins on a tray when Bucky came up to her. 'I think you dropped this Mrs. Clarke.'

Y/N spun round and was about to tell him she didnt drop anything. Then she saw the note in his hand. 'Thank you Major.'

It wasn't until she was back in the kitchen that she unfolded the note.

Meet me at our spot. Where we first started marching. 2pm. I'll be waiting. -B

Marching? Keep marching on. Their first conversation. After Curt died, where she encouraged him to keep going. She smiled at the memory, suprised he had remembered. He must know that Albert had a meeting at 2pm. She tucked the note into her bra and carried on serving breakfast. She smiled the who way through the breakfast rush, thinking of Bucky.

#masters of the air #callum turner #mota #john bucky egan #john egan #masters of the air fan fiction #john egan x reader #masters of the air fanfic

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playingitup · 1 year

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Hey, has anyone here ever seen a Percy Jackson or Harry Potter crossover with My Hero Academia?

Percy getting sent by Poseidon as a child to this alternate universe so he will be safe from the prophecy (probably after Sally dies, ik y'all like the dead mom plot), but said universe just so happens to be full of superpowers.

Bonus points if he has this super sketchy backstory ("yeah, when i was four my mom got killed by this guy with a bull mutation, my dad showed up and brought me here, i remember thinking he was very imposing, like the heroes on the tv" I cant make it sound like it does in my head, but placed in a way that it seems like Percy's dad may possibly be AfO just to give All Might a scare) and doesn't know shit about not being a normal quirked guy (cue to him being able to A) manipulate water B) talk to fishes C) talk to horses D) heal through water E) cause minor earthquakes when upset).

Or, alternatively,

Master of Death Harry Potter, who gets reborn or sent by Death to this universe, either to be a savior again, to find a good family or purely for the ancient entity's amusement. Anyway, he gets attached. And since BAMF MoD Harry Potter is awesome, he becomes a vigilante or a hero student and just wipes the floor with everyone using wandless magic and saying his quirk is some kind of energy manipulation. Going near Midoryia and being like "why tf are seven ghosts hanging around your head? That's creepy"

Or even Nico di Angelo ones

Where Hades sent him there or he found a new form of shadow travel and stuck around for a while, liking the superhero theme, when he realizes that there is someone out there (AfO) using fragments of peoples souls for evil, without consent and to create braindead zombies that really shouldn't exist. This 14yo accidentally becoming a vigilante whilst trying to find the big bad and make sure he gets what he deserves. Aizawa finding him. Semi adoption shenanigans. "I am not going to a hero school, I don't even know basic math" "yes you are, and you will". Todoroki thinking Nico is Aizawas secret lovechild. Nezu and All Might thinking his father is AfO because of his very passionate "theory" that his quirk works by splitting a part of the soul and mimicking the genes after it, much like his own that permits him to raise the dead and command souls

Anyways, please can someone recommend me anything among these lines? Or write it if you want to, I don't have that capacity. Please. I'm begging.

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prttydolls · 2 years

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𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐘, 𝐖𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐍𝐔𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑. — draco malfoy

summary : draco did everything in his power to reach out to you, and confess everything during the war. but what happens when you already moved on?

warning(s) : none

authors note : credits to @planetaryrph for the divider <3 also, pls rb !! it helps alot <3

special tag : @miss-celestial-being

draco knew this was wrong, very wrong. him ignoring you throughout the year, and focusing on the deatheater related stuff.

he knew, that it would risk him losing you. but he also knew that if he kept interacting with you the dark lord would eventually find out and use you as a weapon.

a weapon that would make him weak on the knees.

so, he didn't want you to be the weapon used against him. he just ignored you, stop caring about your birthday, the anniversary, and hell even the time where you passed the difficult potions test you've been talking about.

he all threw it away, in the process of making you safe.

and ofcourse, he regretted that.

he wished that he had just stuck with you, he wished he had ran away with you like you suggest once.

but, he didn't ofcourse. he had too much pride in leaving his wealth.

that pride all came down the drain, when you broke up with him.

he acted as if he didn't care which he did, alot.

you cut all ties with him, and ran off somewhere in the wizarding world. whilst draco followed what is parents ordered on what to do.

he got married to harley cunningham, of course he didnt love harley his heart belonged to you and only you.

now he's just one poor little soul, waiting and hoping for you to come back to him and have his happy ending again.

but alast, this wasn't a fairy tale this was reality.

hes forever stuck in a loveless marriage, with a son scorpius malfoy.

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draco woke up to the noise of scorpius crying, “waaaahhh!” he groaned, he felt bad for the kid he didn't have very loving parents but draco did try his best.

draco slowly went to the nursery, lulling Scorpius back to bed.

the little malfoy yawned and went back to his slumber.

draco placed scorpius back onto his crib and went back to his bedroom.

it all seemed a normal night, but he heard a moan from harley’s room.

“mmhh! fuckk please... damian!”

that bitch had no shame fucking another man in his home, and ignoring the childs cry?!

well, the fact that harley is fucking another man is probably not shocking to him.

but this woman is really the worst one there is, she ignored her own child crying?

what a bitch.

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draco cant take it anymore, he missed so dearly. he wants you back.

draco did everything in his power to contact you somehow, whether magic or not

he sighed heavily before dialing the number.

936 .. 558 ... 140

draco didn't expect this number to work, this was your old phone number.

but it rang.

holy shit- it rang?! so it means, the number still works.

draco anxiously tapped his foot on the ground, hoping you'd answer and mentally preparing himself also.

“hello ? ”

. . . .

draco’s ears melted and the sound through the telephone. he hadn't heard your voice in 3 years.

draco prepared himself,mentally and physically.

“hey y/n, its me draco.. i just need to come clean now. uhm- im sorry for everything that ive done to you, i knew during the war that i shouldn't push you away and just opened up to you but i didn't and i hate and i mean, physically cant stand myself for it. i miss you so much, i really cant live without you. ever since the war everything has just been difficult for me everything wasn't going as planned. my parents set me up in a marriage with some girl, and forced me to get her pregnant. but trust me, she doesn't love me and i dont love her. i only love you, and only you. my heart belongs to you forever, every single minute i think about you and you alone. i know you probably think very low of me now, but please please . take me back, i cant stand that we arent together making a family like we used to planned I'd do anything for you,please just take me back .”

. . . .

silence.

silence was all you could reply with.

draco was really scared, and rather excited for your response. would you take him back?

what felt like enternity, before you replied.

“uhm, im sorry you dialed the wrong number.”

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steluan · 9 months

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i squeaked so hard i scared my dad OMGOMGOMGOGMGOGMGOGMGMOMG GUYS ITS FINALLY HAPPENING SHE LOOKS SO COOL GRRRRRRR

cant wait for the next episode aaaaa

she looks so badass ughhhh but the thing is, even if it makes the scene super cool you gotta wonder "yeah i know shes a magical being, can barely be considered a human, but how does she know how to control such power easily?" i feel like im nitpicking cuz i mean elle-chan is literally a miracle child right? at least from what i remember. a child who does miracles and brings happiness and stuff but this? this isnt really a miracle its a person who really knows how to fight (sorta...) thats something you gotta learn...

uh idk idk shes super cool but i feel like she should have struggled more lmaooo or what would be very cool would be that maybe... elle-chan has always been a pretty cure but didnt know how to get back to her cure form before that episode? which makes her a REALLY old soul that put up fights before, which is the reason how she could 'fight' so well here maybe the fact that shes a reincarnation was already said before (probs did but i totally forgot lmaoo), but honestly i like the idea that she's the reincarnation of a precure and she still remembers how to fight smth like that or something that i'd like to see in future episodes would be her struggling to really control her powers. like we saw her throw immense energy at skearhead (i absolutely love him and his design) here, but maybe thats all she can really do. what if she learns to vary her attacks over the show? control how much energy to throw at her enemies? things like that. I dont want cure majesty to be a skilled fighter without any explanations why.

but anyways overall pretty good episode cant wait for cure majesty to officially join the gang! :D

#hirogaru sky spoilers #rant #precure #hirogaru sky precure #cure majesty

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littlesilentrebel · 7 months

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percy and annabeth in my species au!

this is an au where all the demigods are species that i created for my own universe!

annabeth is an amarin, and perch is a nerosa!

amarins- very tall beings, only get taller as they get older, have 4 forearms that are connected at the elbow, are basically immortal unless killed usikg syrylthian metals are on their native planet, endwarp. they dont feel temperature and have magic (idk what annabeths power would be tho-)

nerosa- sea creatures whose hair is made out of water and changes color to the nearest and largest body of water, they are extremely short and most dont go over 5ft. theyre also skinnier and stronger than humans. their life force is also connected to the water, and if theyre too far away them they will pass out and can die if they dont get near it soon enough (percy being a nerosa and the child of poseidon makes this 10x as much, and so he cant be 50+ miles away from the ocean without passing out. someone carries him when this happens when annabeth isnt there)

the time this drawing takes place is during ttc, where they are both 14

percy also doesnt get claimed by poseidon (for safety reasons and bc i love that trope) amd instead is sent on the quest because hes the newest nerosa since zeus doesnt like them, and also because other gods, some non-water gods included, also have nerosa children at times

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hermesserpent-stuff · 10 months

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spoilers for seidr iron ice for loki thoughts specifically so i dont forget. up to change lol

so i have a scene i want to write and am waiting a bit for were loki gets captured by laufey (leader of frost giants) to be used as a baraning chip with frigga to get his own son returned from asgard, not knowing loki is his child.

when capture happen loki still cant speak and his fox is destroyed. Quentin is there but there is a solid moment of him panicking over his throat being touched due to chameleon ~ trauma ~

loki has to deal with not being able to speak and asking for a chance to help Quentin without words. i think if i do it good enough, it can be a chance for loki to sacrifice pride to help someone else.

Moving on, they end up in the prisons and quentin is still trying to break the bindings. despite the anti-magic wards on the cell.

and then after breaking the binding magic explodes into loki's veins. similar to how harry got burned out. and thus the thing keeping loki's skin looking like a aesir shatters. and in a cell with quentin, in the bitter cold of jotunheim loki thinks he is a monster. And Quentin has to convince him to both calm down and that he is still worthwhile. it takes a bit.

laufey eventually is there and im still figuring out that bit. but in a dream i had i got the lines:

I am not loki of asgurd. I am not loki of Jotunheim. I am Loki of midgard.

so theres that.

also theres the whole true name/ omen name thing that has to be dealt with. Cause Laufey did not name his kid loki. but also loki is not gonna call himself something other than loki.

im not sure where laufey lands on the parent meter. Im leaning towards good parent who prolly doesn't want loki to leave the same day that he finds he is his son. but I'm not sure how to have it not be another kidnapping thing. ah well. i got time to dwell.

#hermes speaks #spider nephew au #loki

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biohazard-inevitable · 1 year

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Be more unnormal tell me more about Wendy I love a wild child, how old was she when she died? How did she die? What afterlife did she end up in if any at all?

I love her too she is absolutely woodsy feral Jasiker had to pick a literal squirrel nest out of her hair once because she desided to nap in a tree one fall she almost always had bruises dirt mud and leaves all over her all the time.

Also TW ahead for disturbing depictions fo death

She was 12 when she died, close to her 13th as Jasiker didnt take long to try and use magic he was unfamiliar with to try and get her back, though it still took a few months of him studying abyssal and infernal to be able to make out the incantation to summon Xadian in the first place.

Jasiker had summoned xadian for help and, with xadian being a demon he had to make a contract. Jasiker asked that he wanted to “see my sister again at least one more time” but the incantation wasnt quite powerful enough to keep xadian’s full form in the mortal realm, so jasiker allowed him to posess his body to help get his sister back.

Using jasiker’s body, Xadian slaughtered many of the king’s forces, eventually leading up to finding where wendy was being kept. Jasiker did in fact see his sister agin, but it was the last time he would as he wasnt careful with his wording, and using jasiker’s body, Xadian killed Wendy while Jasiker could do nothing but look on as his body moved without his input and when he finally regained control, her blood was on his hands and he blamed himself for everything that had happened, while Xadian decided to refuse to leave his body and see just how long they would last together.

As for what afterlife wendy may or may not have ended up in, that is for a future campaign to decide~ I really liked building her as a story peice for jasiker’s tragedy, and I would love to play as her in a oneshot that takes place in a sort of limbo afterlife and see how she reacts to all that. All i know is she doesnt blame her brother for what happened. She could just tell by thr eyes that her brother wasnt in control and I cant wait to fiddle with that story idea sometime for a possible campaign where she swears vengance on the demon who stole her brother.

#ocs #dnd ocs #tw murder #tw death #ask to tag #jasiker willowspeak #wendy willowspeak #xadian #dnd can literally do anything if ever there is an afterlife campaign im in im soooo playing as wendy its just too good an opportunity #cause dnd afterlives are weird as hell

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Maybe it's just because of my personal views, but I wish Ohkubo would have maybe subverted his whole "God is just human imagination/subconsiousness" thing in the end, cause the thing he did seems just very standard for manga (heck Berserk did that in the late 80s with the idea of evil). Like it was teased that Arthurs father was an actuall prophet, and he wasnt really involved with the white clad. Maybe leave it ambigious that maybe sometimes mirracles happen that cant really be explained? Idk

In theory, I don’t mind an author pursuing “God is the totally of humanity’s imagination.” It’s very transcendental, oversoul kind of stuff. It’s “Sympathy for the Devil” kind of talk, that what humans consider God and the Devil is just manifesting whatever good or bad we see in ourselves, a way to excuse ourselves from saving ourselves or from our own responsibility for harming ourselves.

It just isn’t the story Ohkubo was telling.

I do think ambiguity would help here. I’m going to end up talking about how I wish some things were more concrete in Fire Force (how did the Tabernacle get there, why does it resemble Amaterasu). But the metaphysical, the philosophical, the allegorical? Leave that stuff vague to perpetuate discussion and let this text mean more than one thing, rather than just one thing. Religion is rarely just one thing, one message--we have multiple denominations of religions not only due to humans bickering but also because ethics vary, meanings vary.

So, sure, yeah, let Arthur’s dad just be a prophet, that’s fine. The story is silly enough, you’re not breaking anything by just letting some things just happen because they happen. I know, I want the Amaterasu and Tabernacle stuff explained--but I also don’t need everything about pyrokinetic abilities, weapon transformations, and why the Sun and the Moon are like that explained: after how badly Fire Force turned out, I have learned that lesson, just let some things be vague.

Plus, Soul Eater in canon has gods. Like, not just Lord Death. One Soul Eater audio drama had Poseidon--does Fire Force now retcon that, or did Shinra somehow create literally Poseidon? Tezca Tlipoca may not be the same literal god Tezcatlipoca--but isn’t it fun to imagine that he may be? I thought Soul Eater was more interesting that these gods just existed because; I didn’t need an explanation that saps some of that magic by saying, “First there was our godless real world, then an apocalypse that made everything into a 2D cartoon, then an edgy teenager made the Soul Eater universe because he saw a woman in a cloak and skull stuff on his commander and his teammate and this guy who tortured him as a child.” So, if the gods existed anyway, sure, let a prophet exist.

(Again, I speak as an agnostic, but giving me a story that says, in our real world, all religions are bullshit, hence the Evangelist just tapped into belief systems to fashion their own religion to trick people, then have Shinra make Lord Death as the primary god? Again, agnostic here, but I find this offensive--it discounts all religions just to make a story that says, “Nah-uh, the fictional religion I make in my fictional story is the only real religion!” …Then just make Soul Eater without the prequel, literally no one was thinking somehow other religions were made invalid because Lord Death was walking around. Hell, various religions didn’t get voided in Marvel Comics just because Thor, Hercules, Jack Kirby as the Abrahamic God, and other deities were walking around.)

#long post #dwells whines about fire force

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It had been a solid week of Meliodas barely being able to slip away to piss on his own, and even the commandments could see he couldn't take much more of this.

Merlin was with them, because Zeldris dragged her along too, enthralled at the idea of a niece. She spent the majority of her time in Zeldris's office, reading up on as much as she could. Zeldris was happy enough to let her, though a little bummed out she didn't seem to have much interest in bonding with him. That's alright, they'd get there!

Meliodas finally snapped. When Zeldris was finally asleep, he slipped out of their nest and got Merlins attention. She happily started to escape with him, and they slipped out of the building.

He had left a note for Zeldris, saying not to worry, but it was high time he headed home. He'd been here two weeks already, after all. Though, he was more than welcome to visit. There may have been several underlines on visit.

He'd been back home for about an hour, drinking a nice cup of tea to relax, when his door was slammed open, Zeldris looking half crazed on the other side. Relief washed over his face as soon as he saw him, and he strode forward, grabbing his face and inspecting him.

"Zeldris-"

"Come on little one, let's go back home. You know better than to dissappear like that, my hearts damn near gave out." He held his wrist and lifted him off his couch, pulling him back the way he came. Meliodas tried to protest, but Zeldris barely acknowledged him. So he growled quietly, clenched his fist, pulled back, and let it fly.

It hit Zeldris in the cheek with a loud smack, and he let go of his wrist, stumbling back and putting a hand against the now throbbing area. He gave Meliodas a baffled look and was shocked to see the rage off of him. (The Commandments were not as shocked, they'd tried to stop the prince, knowing full well what was happening.)

"M-Meliodas??"

"IM NOT A FUCKING TODDLER, ZELDRIS!"

"I-"

"WHY CANT YOU GET THAT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULL, HUH?? I AM A GROWN ASS ADULT WITH A CHILD AND RESPONSIBILITIES! YOU BARELY EVEN LET ME PISS ON MY OWN! YOU CUT MY FOOD FOR ME, YOU TRY TO FEED ME BY HAND, YOU SENT ME RUSHING TO FIRST AID WHEN I STUBBED MY TOE! I GET THAT LOSING ME WHEN I WAS LITTLE FUCKED YOU UP, BUT YOU NEED TO STOP! I AM NOT THE LITTLE BRAT THAT KIDNAPPED, I AM A COMPETENT ADULT, AND YOU NEED TO TREAT ME AS SUCH! YOU JUST FUCKING BROKE MY DOOR DOWN, BECAUSE I WANTED A MOMENT OF SOLITUDE WITH MY DAUGHTER, WHAT THE FUCK???"

"I-..."

Meliodas sighed. "Get off my land. I can't deal with you right now, THIS IS WHY I DIDN'T WANT TO TELL YOU WHO I WAS. You can come back and VIS. IT. when you pull yourself together."

"Meliodas..." He looked wounded, practically shattered, and Meliodas growled again, sweeping his arm out so a wave of magic shoved him out the door. Another sweep and he went flying back another hundred feet. By the time he got back upright, a shimmering barrier had surrounded the entire area. He scrambled over to it and put his hands against it. "M-Meliodas, I'm sorry, please, I'll do better!"

"GO AWAY! I CANT DEAL WITH YOU RIGHT NOW!" He tried to slam his door for emphasis, but it just creaked and fell of its hinges. He looked at it in shocked rage for a moment, before screaming, disappearing inside of it, and then pushing a dresser in front of it. "FUCK OFF."

Zeldris whimpered, and looked at the commandments. "I wasn't THAT bad, was I??"

The way they avoided eye contact and mumbled spoke volumes.

"I-I didn't mean to be so overprotective," Zel whimpered, turnign back to the door. "I was just so overwhelmed at the idea that I had found my baby brother again." Silence from the other end.

Zeldris sighed turning around. "I see. I will leave you alone, as you have requested. if you need me, I'll be here for you." Without another word to the commandments or Meliodas, he summoned his wings and flew away. To give his brother some much-needed space.

#Big Bro Zel Au #Healer Mel AU #nnt #Meliodas #Zeldris

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hopeheartfilia · 2 years

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hate hoe i have genuine theories about alchemy of souls and whatnot but everytime i try to explain anything i get sidetracked and end up explaining liek 3 different love triangles at least

yes. there are themes and very interesting implications to the magical system. will i mostly end up talking about maidservant kims love life? Yeah probably.

Look look, i do care about it a lot

I think the whole episode 11 - jang uk is having n angst period because the thinks mu doek doesnt love him back - thing is realy nicely balanced with the cute relationships around it and also maidservant kim being the best mom, and i probably wouldnt have enjoyed the jang uk angst parts as much without park dang gu and jin... second young lady jins date, and the whole flower debacle.. its all very cute and really nicely supports all the relationship tension of our main couple

also i think they are adorable, talk about poison and muder my belovedes <3

but like. Does naksu is jin bu yeon was always? Look. We all know mu doeks body is definetpy jin bu yeons, that isnt a question, now the soul thing? I moved thru so mmay theories today thta i think i should finish all the episodes that are out before i actually form an opinion

Now, i think the way jin bu-yeon dies before she was born and the ice crystal was used to save her definetly has lasting effects. Also im extremly curious about what would happen if Naksu tried breathing in the Jin style.

also i use naksu for our main girl for two reasons: I find it extremly easy to say and also it sounds like its a moniker so it describes her as a person and isnt like the name given at birth or whatever, so to me it feels kind of lees convoluted when im trying to talk about the alchemy of souls : Naksu dhifted from the body she was in to mu doeks, idk it Does make sense to refer to her as the constelation mages daughter as naksu, to previous mu doek as jin bu yeon and to current naksu as mu doek, but idk, maybe its just that i like it when she kicks ass. Really enjoyed the servant competition- oru girl is competent and also its good to cheer with the boys ( all of the present generation male central charathers play off each other great as a friend group, the crown prince just fits in wonderfully)

but like. Okay so i be like: Im not sure Naksu will even go wild. Also i think she was quite close to the mastery of hwansu when she switched souls.

Also also im not sure mu doeks soul was properly tattered to the body, idk, i have several reasons.

The "naksu was the original soul of jin bu yeon and so has returned to her own body" theory is quite compeling and i have two places where an exchange of souls is likely to have happened, however i am lening more towards "at birth" mostly because of the age we are shown naksu having memories of - the second likely time, when the ice stone was unsealed, seems unlikely due to this, but i may need to rewatch a few scenes to be sure

The main reason i am intrested in this is the parallels between her and the founder of jinyowon, mostly via the whle jang uk and founder born under the kings star when the ice stone is causing trouble..

However i was originally leaning more towards an alchemy of the souls of the parents, there are some vibes, to me at least, of her father the constelation mage, not technically being her father (which of course doesnt make him actually less her father emotionally, the guy still raised and cared for her) however the jinyowon thing is by the female line..

It felt a lot like there was some baby swapping, like maybe jang uks father (not the king, i just cant remember his name) messed upa bit during the process of bringing the child to life and accidentally switched their souls..

Either way i doubt the girl we see talking to her mother about birds is naksu. I definetly agree that naksu and lady jin have a lot of simularities, but i have some doubts about her being the daughter she raised

either way its fascinating. Originally i just assumed that yes he did fuck up a bit in the resurrection and so jin bu yeons soul was not properly tethered to her body and it got worse after she unsealed the ice stone - yes i believe naksus soul is the one thats exceptional inside the body, frankly i originally assumed mu doeks soul was kinda tethered a bit outside of the body, but we dont really see an aura of that via the dog.. I mostly assumed thta due to the jang uk doesnt get seitched with the alchemy of souls scene

however i do think that naksus soul and the body mostly just need a bit of finagling to properly click, and i originally assumed that would mean learnibg hwansu. I am still very intrested in the possible effects of jin breathing techniques - it think it would be really funny if she was just breathing wrong and that was fucking up with her energy flow and making her way magically weaker then she ought to be. Yes its probably some type of metaphysical/mental block, but like wouldnt it be funny?

But like yeah, Lady Jin said that Jin Bu Yeon should be able to remember how to use spells quickly, so i think her body should be decently alright for a mage to use Some amount of magical power

Maybe her natural energy was in some wya damaged when unsealing the ice stone? Or maybe she needs to acess some memories or some shit, there are many possible answers and i should probbly go beyond ep 11 to rafo

#i mean frankly there are 20 episodes in this season and then another one #im barely halfway of course ill make a lot of incorrect theories and predictions #alchemy of souls #the only predictions i can be sure of in this show are baout the romantic relationships #as ive watched several romance korean tv dramas and no fantasy ones i both have more of a background #aand yul was just giving such strong second lead syndrome vibes #to be fair the show isnt trying to keep you in suspense about Those #i frankly dont trust my familiarity with the genre enough not to make some batshir unreasonable shit up #looking at you. old theory that wei wuxians grandma was a japanese necromancer that had undead dogs #like idk where i got that from but it could be a wattpad fanfic i write at 12 sort of predictions

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infizero · 6 days

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pokespe reread: ruby & sapphire chapter - closing thoughts! 🔴🔵

i've finally reached the end of the ruby & sapphire.... im now gonna start from the beginning and work my way back up to FRLG like i said i would!

first though, some overall thoughts!!

(also im gonna say right off the bat that i am only talking strictly ruby & sapphire here, not anything that happens in ORAS - i'll get to THAT when i get there. eventually - or any other arcs)

ok first off i said i would talk about the way the narrative portrays norman once i had finished the whole arc. and now that i have.... yup its basically as i had already been feeling as i read. they dont know wtf they're doing with norman. sometimes it feels like they're so obviously portraying him as a threat and a bad person, but they just cannot accept that and keep trying to make him sympathetic.

and i dont think that giving norman more layers as a character is a bad thing! but you can just tell that when you learn that norman WAS going to give ruby permission to do contests before he ran away, or how norman gave up his shot at being a gym leader to pay for ruby's childish mistake, the intent is not to add layers to an otherwise unredeemable character. the intent is for the reader to go "oh, he's not so bad after all! he actually IS a good dad!"

and thats. i mean i dont think i need to describe why thats horrible. the way norman treated ruby is unforgivable and he is NOT a character that should be so easily redeemed. they cant even portray his abuse without downplaying it!! like how do you depict norman beating his 11 year old child up in such horrible upsetting detail and then immediately have the other characters in the story undermine it and go "aww hes not such a bad dad after all!" RIGHT AFTER SAID ABUSE! it doesnt matter that norman was going to give ruby permission, it doesnt matter that he sacrificed for ruby when he was younger, none of that matters when its put up against norman BEATING THE FUCK OUT OF RUBY! (and like i already said in my norman analysis post, even the contest permission thing isnt that good of a deed bcuz it doesnt come with any actual change in behavior from norman)

all that to say, a very clearly abusive father is depicted here and yet the narrative is dead set on trying to make you think that his abuse isnt that bad and that hes actually a good guy deep down. which is just frankly gross and i really wish it had been handled better.

secondly, i already said this but oh my god the thing with celebi is so fucking stupid. like this isnt even cause i want norman to have stayed dead, this is just objectively a stupid writing decision. you have these characters die and add so much drama and stakes to the story, and then at the last moment you reveal that ruby SOMEHOW had caught celebi back in johto and just???? had it with him THIS ENTIRE TIME and it never came up once?

and everything just magically gets fixed and the consequences of that are just not addressed. this is just bad writing im sorry. it happens so quickly and so nonsensically it instantly makes everything that happened feel so much less consequential.

and to be clear the problem isnt that it was solved with magic! this is pokemon after all lmao. the problem is that celebi was not set up AT ALL in the story. there was absolutely NO BASIS for this reveal so it feels completely random and like a terrible deus ex machina. needless to say in my personal canon this does not happen and everyone who died just stays dead lol. (maybe not steven. we'll see once i revisit ORAS, if he really needs to be alive then i can make an exception and just say he doesnt die in the first place here. but norman and courtney at the very least gotta stay dead like cmon man)

third, here are my thoughts on how the narrative portrays ruby and sapphire's gender nonconformity overall (again, STRICTLY IN R&S) which ive been waiting to talk about!

i'll first say that i was nervous the whole time since i couldnt really remember how things were by the end, but im actually pleasantly surprised! i do have some criticisms which i'll go ahead and get out of the way first.

first of all, there is some weirdness with how sapphire is portrayed. most of the time she is tough and masculine but they occasionally hamfist in these moments where she's like "hey but i am a GIRL yknow. i can like cute things and have crushes and stuff" and it just feels. off

like im not SAYING that sapphire cant also have SOME interest in traditionally feminine things. but the way it's presented can make it feel a little like sapphire is really a "normal" (feminine) girl underneath it all and that her toughness and masculinity are all just a front. i dont think thats true and from the way they portray her other times i dont think that is supposed to be the takeaway. but it can feel like that sometimes

like it definitely feels like in contrast to ruby, they were scared to make sapphire TOO masculine without giving her certain traditional markers of femininity. yes she's like this but also look she's squealing over her crush on ruby! she is still a GIRL after all!

this can be seen as well in her appearance - while i love her fangs and wild expressions, she is still depicted as this pretty feminine looking girl. she's skinny and fairly curvy, she's got long pretty eyelashes, she wears a short skirt, etc etc. (yes ik ruby made those clothes for her but on a meta level that IS what she has been chosen to wear. and i also know that they have to use the gameverse designs BELIEVE ME I KNOW. im just commenting on it)

and again irl none of this really matters ppl can do whatever they want gender-wise and presentation-wise. but this, being a story and all, is a conscious decision to create this character this way, which might i add was made by men. sapphire is remarkably brash and masculine and i dont want to undermine that, but it really feels like they were too scared to really go all the way and not add little "oh but shes still feminine in this way of course" disclaimers throughout the story

another negative is that, while i do love ruby and sapphire's backstory, it does come with the unfortunate side effect of once again calling their gender nonconformity's genuineness into question.

having ruby and sapphire be a traditionally masculine little boy and a traditionally feminine little girl when they were kids, with seemingly no qualms about this, can make it feel like those are their "true selves" and that their gender nonconformity was ENTIRELY just bcuz of their trauma. as in, sapphire is ONLY masculine bcuz she wanted to get strong enough to protect herself and others, and deep down she actually is a feminine girl; ruby is ONLY feminine bcuz he was scared of hurting others with his strength, and deep down he actually is a masculine boy.

now this isnt actually true, and the narrative shows us this since in the little epilogue they're still acting in their usual gnc ways. but it does sow an unfortunate seed of doubt in the mind of the reader that really doesnt need to be there.

but with that out of the way lemme show some love for the positives of ruby and sapphire's portrayal bcuz i just love these guys so much

first of all, it's never even so much as implied that ruby doesnt ACTUALLY like contests or sapphire doesnt ACTUALLY like battling. if the intended narrative really was that it was all a front post-trauma and they're actually gender-conforming deep inside, then this wouldn't be the case.

secondly, im really happy that the story ends with reaffirming these things about them!! by the end ruby is decorating sapphire's cave, fawning over cute plushies with his signature Gayass Face, and bragging about his skills brushing pokemon. and sapphire is still battling, running around with her dirty pokemon, and rolling her eyes at ruby's decor. this IS who they are. ruby IS feminine and sapphire IS masculine. the narrative does not let you think otherwise by the end

third of all, i just really appreciate them being portrayed like this at all. like i said sapphire's depiction could have been played a lot less safe, but she still is a pretty masculine character and she embodies a lot of qualities that werent rlly common for these characters at the time. she's freakishly strong, she's brash, and she's constantly running around being a hero to everyone she meets, in contrast to ruby not really fitting the label of hero at all (at least until the end)

and ruby is just so overtly feminine and well. queer. it's still astounding to me. ive said before, i obviously dont agree with everything kusaka's ever done, but i will always thank him for fighting against the editors to let pokemon have such a feminine male protagonist. that really means a lot, esp back in 2002!

ruby is a very flawed character (i mean that in a good way!) and it can sometimes feel like the narrative is laughing at him a bit, but at the same time he IS the protagonist and you are supposed to sympathize with him. and like i said before, there is never any reveal that actually ruby DOESNT like these feminine things and he was just forcing himself to after the salamence incident.

he just IS feminine, even by the end of the story after all his character development. that part of him is never depicted as something that he would be better off without, that's just who he is! even after beginning to battle again. and i appreciate that!

alright and finally. just some notes on how ruby and sapphire's romance is portrayed. i've already said a lot of this but i wanted to repeat it here

basically, OVERALL i like how their romance is written. i love franticshipping, i think they're so cute and i love how they've got the whole opposites attract, enemies to lovers thing going on

i think kusaka overall does a good job of showing them starting to care more about each other in a way that feels well written, but then sometimes he just throws in some stupid cliche fanfiction bullshit that completely disrupts the slow burn going on.

the perfect example of this is the scene where sapphire rushes into granite cave to save ruby:

the way that she just instantly bolts into danger without thinking the second she realizes hes in trouble already tells you SO MUCH about how far their relationship has come and how much she cares about him, just on its own.

but then kusaka apparently decides that this isnt enough and he needs to really make it obvious, so he slaps in this weird moment that feels really off tone-wise:

like this is a dangerous situation! its tense! being treated seriously! and then all of the sudden we're hit with this comedic cliche little "it's not like i like him or anything!!1!" moment that just feels really forced. esp since brawly literally just called ruby a friend of hers. i'd take sapphire getting embarrassed/defensive at ruby being called for her friend, but there is no reason she needs to just flat out go "it's not like i have a BIG FAT CRUSH ON HIM!!" like girl. no one was saying that. what are you exposing yourself for 😭

this happens a couple other times where these random moments of making it extremely obvious that ruby and sapphire like each other are unnecessarily inserted into their otherwise slowburn romance. and it just doesnt need to be there man. the story would be much better off without these moments, if we JUST got the subtle displays of care, some blushing, etc leading up to the eventual confession. like that just makes it so much more engaging!! rather than just straight up telling the audience "they like each other!" like ik this IS for kids but damn bro cmon let me figure that out myself with my brain 😭

i also think that ruby forcefully preventing sapphire from helping him save the world near the end should have had more attention drawn to it. like ik he was just trying to protect her but i think sapphire should've been allowed to get mad at him for that!! at the very least i think it should've been brought up in the aftermath and ruby should've apologized or something. it just feels like sapphire's agency was totally stripped from her in the climax of the story and because it's never addressed, the narrative basically says that there was nothing wrong with ruby doing this.

(hmm wow ruby ignoring sapphire's agency and doing things "for her own good" without actually consulting her? that feels..... familiar........

oh god. it's right behind me isn't it

ACK. BACK FOUL DEMON. it's not your time..... not yet....)

but yes, other than these moments, i think their romance is well-written. they are just sooooo freaking cute i love them so so much. this arc may not be flawless (none of them are lol) but it did give the world charmer ruby and conqueror sapphire so. let's end on that.

overall i really enjoyed rereading thru ruby & sapphire with a new perspective now that im older, and i cant wait to do so with the rest of pokespe!!!

see you all next time for whenever i finish rereading RGB!

#serena.txt #pksp reread #ruby & sapphire reread #HOLY FUCK MAN. THIS TOOK ME LITERAL HOURS TO WRITE #also i do wanna clarify that i havent reread ORAS since i was a kid. obviously thats the whole point of this reread thing #but it does mean that when im bashing on it i am bashing on it based on very vague memories of it lmao. so apologies if anything #i say seems a little off. i just have very strong feelings about it even tho i cant exactly remember why

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just rewatched lifeserial and it had me thinking so hard abt how much buffy has to go through that season gahh like its one of those episodes that is very fun while also being very sad. i mean its fun to me bc we get spuffy antics that episode and i love their lil antics so much <3 kitten poker <3 her going to spike bc he loves the brawl and she loves the brawl but being disappointed in how brawl-less it ends up being. but anyway thats just my spike and buffy brain talking what is really tragic and upsetting in this episode is everything that happens w giles. him coming through for her with the money and she's like 'knowing ur always going to be here makes me feel safe' they joke in the episode how giles doesn't wanna be her mom or her dad cant he just be her rakish uncle! but at this point her actual father is tht shiftless absentee dad, and i think about this all the time bc its probably just the writers decision not to include him for screentime purposes or w/e less abt plot but in doing that they're saying 'buffy's dad is so far gone that he did not go to his ex-wife's funeral, probably didn't even go to his own daughter's funeral and he sure isn't there for the fifteen year old that is now without any family! oh and now that my eldest is magically alive i still do not give one fuck.' which is crazy, but its established very early on that giles is something of a father figure to her, and probably the reason the writers didnt have her Real Dad around. like at first yeah maybe he was just her uptight, preachy, watcher but by season six he's so much more than that and so yeah in that moment in this ep when she admits to him that its like her mom is back, that she's not alone, that a weight had been lifted bc for one moment she didn't have all these responsibilities and obligations that normal twenty - one year olds don't typically have so early on. that is the culmination of seasons of giles always being there, and supporting her, and loving her like she's his child. and it makes me think all the way back to surprise/innocence when joyce finds out buffy loses her virginity to angel and so does giles, and giles feels a sense of responsibility in a season early as 2, to have that knowledge of what buffy's going through, when the only other adult in her life who knows is joyce. its giles and joyce and when its not joyce its giles! and then what happens when its not giles? and its only buffy? i dont know its just such a tragic spin to the narrative to have giles leave, and for their relationship to deteriorate the way it does, and not even really ever recover. bc i would say it gets significantly worse in season 7 actually. maybe if we had more seasons we could have seen them properly reconcile but giles leaving accomplishes exactly what he sets out to do. he leaves bc he believes that she relies on him and that him being her father figure has gone too far/he wants her to stand on her own, which she does i think. but that doesn't mean buffy's going to not be bitter about it? i actually would argue and say it feels like probably the biggest betrayal she has ever experienced at this point. which is why in my head, them being so tense in s7 makes sense. i do think w time buffy would forgive him but its one of those things where i just think the bitterness would stick for at least a few years! given the context.

#i dont think giles ever had ill intentions for buffy i believe w my whole chest he thought him leaving would be best for her #but like she's a 21 yr old who has to take care of her 15 yr old sister and has no source of income #and who is severely depressed bc life isn't what she had thought it would be despite being so good and doing so much good #then the only person who is really there for her like a dad should be pulls the shiftless absentee act !?#its a betrayal in her eyes and i love giles i rly do but its just not something she could easily get over #rip this makes me so sad #why are you full of rage ? / because you are full of grief › meta.#i. i am the shape you made me › giles.#long post /

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