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khaleesiofalicante · 11 months

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“Magnus. If I ask you a question, you won’t be offended, right?”

Magnus’ response comes almost immediately. “Of course not. What is it, Alexander?”

Alec hesitates for a long time before he sends the message. “You’re…You’re like a real person, right?”

Magnus responds immediately again. Alec likes it when he does that. But he doesn’t like it when Magnus laughs at his very serious question. “I suppose that’s a very valid concern in the age of artificial intelligence. But I assure you, I’m quite real. I'm neither a not a figment of your imagination nor am I an artificial simulation created to conduct an experiment on pretty boys from New York.”

“See when you talk like that it’s hard to believe you’re real,” Alec chuckles tiredly. “But, yeah, okay, I trust you. Sorry about that. Jace got into my head.”

“If I ever come to New York, I will be having words with Jonathan for messing with your pretty little head,” Magnus informs very seriously.

Alec hesitates again. “Would you like that?”

“Yell at Jace?”

“Would you like to come to New York?”

A malec online dating au - or something like that.

You can now read the one shot here on ao3 :)

@ignisaurumprobat9, even ao3 crashing will not stop me from treating you right, babygirl. Happy belated birthday 💙

#OKAY BYEEEEEEEE #malec #malec fics #malec fanfiction #shades of gray #OR IS IT GREY HUH

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inkskinned · 3 months

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before you know about women, you hear that you do not need to love the man, just that you need to love him through his manhood. which is to say you have seen the future painted in lamb's blood over your eyes - how your mother shoots you a look about your father's inability to cook right. how your aunt holds her wineglass and says i'm gonna kill em. men, right! how your best friend bickers with her boyfriend, how she says i can't help it. i come back to him.

you learn: men are gonna cheat. men aren't going to listen when you're talking, because you're nagging. men think emotions are stupid. they think your life is vapid and your hobbies are embarrassing. men will slam things, but that's because men are allowed to be angry. if you get loud, you're hysterical. if a man gets loud - well, men are animals, men are dogs, men can't control their hands or their eyes or their bodies. they're going to make a snide comment about you in the locker room, about your body, about how you're so fucking annoying. you're going to give him kids, and he will give you the money for the kids, and you're going to be running the house 24/7 - but he gets to relax after a long day, because his job is stressful. the man is on stage, and is a comedian, and says "women!"

and you are supposed to love that. you are supposed to love men through how horrible they are to you - because that's what women do. that's what good women do. wife material. your father even told you once - it'll make sense when you're older. it was like staring down a very lonely tunnel.

it feels like something's caught in your throat, but it's all you know, so. it's okay that you see sex as a necessary tool, a sort of okay-enough ritual to keep him happy, even though he doesn't seem to care about happiness as-applied-to you. it is relationship upkeep. it is kissing him and smiling even though he didn't brush his teeth. it is getting on your knees and looking up and holding back a sigh because he barely holds you as you panic through the night. it's not like the sex is bad and you do like feeling wanted. and besides! he's a man! like... they're another species. you'll never be able to actually communicate, right. he isn't listening.

you just don't get it. you don't feel that sense of i'm gonna climb him like a tree. mostly it just feels fucking exhausting. you play the part perfectly. you smile and nod and are "effortlessly" charming. and it's fine! it's alright! you even love him, if you're looking. you could have good life, and a good family, and perfectly happy.

in the late night you google: am i broken. you google i'm not attracted to my husband. you google i get turned on by books but not by him. you google how to get better in bed.

the first time he yells at you, it almost feels like blankness. like - of course this is happening. this is always how it was going to end up. men get angry, and they yell, and you sit there in silence.

you mention it to your friend - just the once - while you're drunk. she shrugs and says it's like that with me too, i just try to forget and move on. men are always gonna hear what they want to. pick your battles and say sorry even though he's in the wrong. you play solitaire online for a month. you go to your therapist appointment and preach about how you're both so in love.

after all, you have a future to want. nobody lied about it - how many instagram posts say marriage is hard. say real love takes work. say we fight like cats and dogs but the best part is that we always make up. how many of your friends say happy anniversary to the best and worst thing to ever happen to me. if you really loved him - loved yourself too - you'd accept that men are just different from you.

the first time she kisses you, it's on a dare at a party. something large and terrifying whips through your body. you wake up sweating from dreams where her mouth is encrusted with pearls and you pick them off one by one with your teeth. fuck. you sit at the computer and your almost-finished game of sim city. you think about your potential perfect life and your potential future family. you google am i gay quiz with your little hands shaking.

you delete each letter slowly. you don't need to love him. you just need to keep going.

#warm up #writeblr #this is also about being ace btw #my identity has slowly shifted over time and maybe if everyone is REAL cool i'll talk bout it #bc it's complicated and nuanced. but this is like #trying to warn u that if you find it “relationship upkeep” to have sex with ur partner #and don't actually enjoy it or seek it for urself. u might just not be attracted to them.#which is fine ! ace ppl can be perfectly happy in any relationship they feel good in!#but also i wasn't as straight as i had expected!#> the first time i saw dick i was like. huh. oh okay that's fine i guess #> the first time i saw pussy i was like. WAIT ACTUALLY HANG ON I GET IT #i just assumed sex wasn't all it was cracked up to be ya know #but also like. btw? this IS NOT saying ''u might be gay not ace''#bc tbh i'm grey ace/demisexual #it's saying u might not be into ur partner. explore urself & ur feelings. turn inward.#TAKE THIS IN THE MANNER IT WAS MEANT> GENTLE AND KIND #AND NOT IN A WEIRD INTERNET WAY PLEASE #bc the truth is that there ARE ppl who are gay who assume that they just ''don't like'' sex #and ace ppl who might need a different partner w/different needs #and i would have REALLY needed to hear ''check in w/urself about if u actually like sex''#WAY EARILIER in my life. but nobody said anything bc they assume if ur having sex. u like it.#not just the actual act of sex. not once ur turned on. do you ACTUALLY like it. or is it a burden?#even if ur gay. check w/urself. maybe ur more ace than u realized. in which case. ADDITIONAL FLAG BB #i love collecting my flags. i'm at like 354 at this point #but also btw this is about how toxic relationships are SO normalized that u can be in one #and have everyone around u being like ''THATS JUST MEN LOL''

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rkivefr · 2 months

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⋆ ˚ ۪ ⋆ ୨୧ im a swan on a secret

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wonflirtz · 1 year

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　 ҉ ๋⠀◌ ⠀🍷⠀◯𓂂⠀⠀i⠀x⠀Doll⠀@i04rei

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omaano · 6 months

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WIP - Three hours into my third attempt at this Cody portrait

(This is why you add your bright highlights last. They help pull the picture together enough that you're reluctant to work on it any more, because it is kinda good enough, right)

#wip wednesday #commander cody #clone portraits #my art #tem clones #I'll need to fix his right shoulder a lot more than his left eye...#I find incredible joy in how he and Rex share so many of the same colours because of that bright light from the side #I know it's probably because the references are from the same movie but still #... Wolffe will really need a touch up now huh....#even fox has his bright reflected lights #poor wolffe cannot be the only grey one in the batch #wip

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majachee · 10 months

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Stygian and Starswirl redesigns for my AU/rewrite thing!! Cloakless Stygian under cut!

Little man has a black blotch on his back....

#majart #my little pony friendship is magic #my little pony #my little pony redesign #mlp redesign #mlp au #mlp fim #mlp g4 #fanart #stygian #starswirl the bearded #mlp starswirl #mlp stygian #art #mlp fanart #they really are just grey ponies huh

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ningluvr · 1 year

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sunny-rants · 26 days

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I need to see a whole lot more love for Misty Fucking Quigley, because if she were a man with those big sad eyes, y’all would’ve already babygirlified her and excused her war crimes. she’d be the morally grey fan favourite

#where’s the morally grey anti-hero defenders now huh?#misty quigley #misty fucking quigley #yellowjackets #yj #mistynat #morally grey characters #morally gray

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aeraras · 2 months

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