#that's why i feel the need to make up some excuses for my plotlines and character development

[jayzissleppy]

sweet over spicy

You're my water when I'm stuck in the desert You're the Tylenol I take when my head hurts.. inspired by best part - Daniel Ceasar

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* 🫧 *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

includes ; established relationship, non idol au, fluff overload, seongwha is head over heels for reader pet names: love, darling (nothing bad to be worried about just a cute fluff) 😵‍💫

a/n ; i wrote this on impulse at 3AM so please be nice to me on this one, this is also my first time publishing my work !

words: ___

summary: you'd choose sweet over spicy anyday, you couldnt handle spicy food or spicy interactions, and sweet was just your favourite oh, and how your boyfriend seongwha was just that...

"love? i brought you some fruit." the study doors opened and the room was now filled with the scent of fresh fruit and your boyfriends voice.

"thank you seongie, you didn't have to." you say looking up at him feeling guilty.

"i thought you might need some, you've been in here for 4 hours now, don't you want to take a break?" you lightly chuckle.

"i don't know, i mean im almost done with writing my draft for this week"

you thought that being an author would been easy since it was something you always wanted to do, theres some days where your cooped up in the study and some days where you dont write for nearly a week. sometimes writing a romance novel is worse than an action novel, the plotline, character development, everything its too much, and seonghwa notices that.

"y/n, thats why its called weekly drafts. you're supposed to finish it in a week, not a day. your overworking yourself, just please lets take a break?" seonghwa says tucking a strand of hair behind your ear.

i mean an hour break wouldn't hurt right? you think to yourself as you push up of your chair to stand.

"just for a little bit okay?" you say while seonghwa smiles. "but not anything tiring love."

seongwha takes your hand and pulls you out the study and hands you your favourite hoodie and earmuffs.

"does a midnight stroll sound good?' he asks.

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* 🫧 *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

walking hand in hand around han river, is most definitely the break you needed. the sound of crickets and the leaves blowing, it was relaxing.

"should we make a stop at a convenience store?" seongwha said swinging arms as you held hands. "hmm? i think i could do with something to drink" you smiled.

at the convenience store you and seongwha bought your ultimate favourite childhood drink, ramune.

bleggh.. "i dont remember it tasting like this you" said laughing. seongwha pulled his face as he drunk from the bottle.. "i think they.. cough .. changed the recipe" you both burst out in laughter. the laughter continued as seonghwa had hiccups and could barely speak a sentence without being cut off "should we.. hiccup.. get some rice crack..hiccup..-ers?"

you were almost on the floor in tears. upon leaving the store you noticed that there was a claw machine outside that had hello kitty and dear daniel, the most iconic sanrio couple other than kurmoi and badtz maru. you decided to quickly pull out some coins and try to win the plushies.

"should i help you darling?" seongwha said coming up behind you and placing his hand on yours. his hands were cold, but you didnt hate it. he used his hand to guide yours to the bag that hello kitty and daniel were inside, and within seconds the coldness of his hands filled yours with warmth. in that exact moment you though over and over again about how much you love seongwha. looking back at the time you first met, it truly was not a coincidence.

you were walking down the busy street of gangnam to get to your book signing event when you accidentally bumped into someone. your ipod played fell to the floor and so did his. you apologised to him and picked up your ipod before beginning to rush again. " excuse me, you have my ipod !" he shouted. you turned around and ran back to him to trade your ipods and laugh at how your both listening to the same song. "i see you like daniel ceasar too" he laughed. you smiled before beginning " i really have to run, but im really sorry about bumping into you, i hope the rest of your day is better" you said getting further away from him.

"but this just made my day the best" he whispered under his breath watching as you disappeared through the crowd, and luckily enough you ran into each other again.

you were taking a bus to gimpo airport in seoul when you sat down in front of him him. he watched over your shoulders as you looked for a song to listen too.

"i suggest best part by daniel ceaser" he said trying his hardest not to look like a creep. you immediately smiled when you saw his face and the ipod in his hands. he was hard not to forget, little studio ghibli stickers on it. "you have nice music taste" you replied putting the song on still smiling. "where are going with a suitcase?" he asked. "oh im leaving to japan for a few days for my book signing event."

"what books have you written, i might have one" he said showing the tote bag he had with him. "well i've written quite a few.." as you go on about the names of the books you've written you watch how his face lights up. "your her? the y/n?" he says shocked. you smile a little embarrassed. "im headed to the airport to get my book signed by you, because i was to late the last time." he said pulling one of your books out.

wow, to think that he would be a fan of yours is unbelievable i mean, he looks sweet, nice hair, gorgeous eyes... as you continued to think about every feature of his you realised just how pretty he was. to call him pretty was even an understatement.

"well i wouldnt mind signing one now.." you smiled lightly.

"actually.. could you also .. um.. could i have your number. not like a fan but i'd really like to get to know you sometime or take you out to dinner." he said getting embarrased and avoiding eye contact.

"id love that."

while in japan you and seongwha texted for hours, sharing the same timezone made it easy as well. and when you got back from japan he picked you up from the airport and took you to that promised dinner date. you talked throughout all the seasons, summer, autumn, winter and spring. the only thing that did change between those seasons were your feelings for eachother and the next thing you knew it was winter 2022 and seongwha and you were outside walking in the snow, planing to go ice skating, when he took your hand in his and spoke, "y/n its cold right?, but im not cold at all, my hands may be cold and so could my face, but my heart is warm and thats because of you. you've made every season have a new meaning behind it, summer used to just be 'summer', but now summer is when i spend my days at parks with you, reading, having a small picnic and when i least expected it. you were apart of more than just seasons, you invaded my everyday life. id walk past a flower shop and notice tulips and buy them out of impulse because they reminded me of you. i'd think of things that reminded me of you, till you were all i thought about. i loved the way your voice echoed through the back of my mind when i missed you most, or when i still felt the lingering kiss you left last winter as an 'accident'. well, if this is an accident i apologise but y/n, i love you, everything about you, would you allow me to be yours?" you would cry if you could, but you were afraid of your tears freezing. "seongie..i'd love that.. i love you" you say sniffiling the tears back. he placed his cold hands on your cheek pulling you in for a loving kiss. "thats not an accident right?" he said. you laughed "no.." and all of a sudden the coldness in his hands turned to warm.

"love?" he called out to you, waking you up from daydreaming. "i got the plushies" he said smiling and holding out the bag to you. you kissed his cheek "thank you seongie, you're too sweet !" you took the bag from him, as well as took his hand yet again. "lets go back?" he hummed a response.

while walking back seongwha suggested you sat down at a bench for a bit.

"y/n love, remember this?" he said pulling out his airpods and putting one in your ear as the melody finally hit you.

'I just wanna see I just wanna see how beautiful you are You know that I see it I know you're a star Where you go I follow No matter how far If life is a movie Oh you're the best part'

you smiled as you turned to face seongwha, stars from the sky reflecting in his eyes. seongwha softly sang along while intertwining his fingers with yours. "what should we have for dinner, sweet tteokbokie or spicy?" you looked at him intently, before leaning over and giving him a soft kiss.

"sweet, id choose sweet anyday"

end note: hihi ^^ i finished this quickly so i could focus on school so im sorry if this is a bit rushed, but i hope you enjoy! please dont forget to reblog to help me get more recognition as im a new! you may leave kind criticism !

#ateez fanfic #seongwha x reader #seongwha ff #ateez x reader #ateez ff #ATEEZ #foryоu #kpop ff #seonghwa

[shinelikethunder]

like i know I've probably said it before, but. as much as s11 is my favorite of the late seasons of SPN, Dean's half of the season plot is boring and any potential it ever had is consistently squandered, and Sam's half only works if you're seeing the shrimp-colors cage-trauma version that jarpad is acting, not the "enemies to reluctant team-up to celestial-family reconciliation" nonsense that the writers think is a neat way to arrange their toys in the Big Epic (Unspeakably Stupid) Arc Plot dollhouse.

and i can't speak to how much of it was really intended or by whom, but there IS a throughline in there that may not be well developed or resolved, but still reawakens the good old "oh right that's why i ever went apeshit feral over either of these guys to begin with" feelings. the one where every step along the path of the Lucifer plotline is one of the most pants-shittingly terrifying things Sam has ever had to do, and every encounter brings a fresh kind of betrayal and violation that he somehow was not expecting, and every escalating step of the team-up is far too much to ask of anyone with the kind of history he has with this fucker. and he does it anyway, even though it's unbearable. and it just makes him more determined to stay capable of faith and charity and trust in the face of all this, because he needs to, because it's been foundational since season 2 that some kind of faith in a benevolent higher power is a psychological need for him to keep going in the crapsack world they inhabit.

that's the version jarpad is acting, the one where okay fine, sam will do it, but he'll look like he wants to fucking die the whole time. and the instant he (visibly! you can see it! like a switch got flipped between episodes!) gets told to stop harshing the vibes of their stupid "god and lucifer do family therapy" comedy bit with all that buzzkill Resting PTSD Face... that's the exact instant s11 dissolves like tissue paper. and i stop being able to suspend my disbelief that it's anything but a collection of unusually solid one-off episodes held together by the dumbest excuse for an arc plot on god's green earth. like oh, shit, this entire time they were literally just finding neat ways to arrange the toys in the dollhouse without any attempt to delve into what makes these characters tick in that configuration. even though it is RIGHT! THERE! and at least one of the actors is serving it up to them on a platter. they TOLD HIM TO STOP SERVING UP THEIR UNDONE CHARACTER WORK ON A PLATTER.

so yeah. entire season arcs propped up by jared padalecki's acting. who'd've guessed.

#supernatural #spn s11 #meta #sam winchester #spn!lucifer #i am an early-seasons deangirl 4lyfe but GOD s11 turned me into a samgirl through sheer desperation to fix what they gave him #the secret good s11 that lives in my head is so good and the sam whump is so delicious

[riahlynn101]

What are your thoughts over the movie? I have some myself (and a mild mental breakdown over the Thing™), but overall, it was good. I want to talk about it with anyone, lol

Okay, so....

Spoilers below the cut:

Firstly, I loved it. You can tell how much effort they put into this movie, and it really shows. Kudos to everyone involved.

Things I liked:

Piper Rubio did amazing. No comment beyond that. Abby is one of my favorite characters now, and if anything happens to her, I'll cry.

Actually, all the kids did a wonderful job. Especially Grant Feely. He really embodied that creepy, restless spirit vibe.

Mike and Abby's sibling relationship was everything to me!

Vanessa asking Mike if he wants to dance with her (OMG).

The Springbonnie suit looked great!

Mike having a little bit of an attitude (I love him so much)!

The animatronics were cool. I like that they took the time to make them seem friendly, and almost childlike, before switching gears.

Things I didn't like:

I'm not an expert on filmmaking, so excuse me if I'm wrong here. But the pacing was all over the place. The first act of the movie was perfect, and then the second act was....fast. Like fast-fast. Based on what other people are saying, I'm 99.9% sure they cut out a lot of footage.

This one might come back to bite me in the ass later, but some plotlines felt unnecessary. I know this is FNAF and complicated is written somewhere between Freddy and Fazbear, but did we really need some side plot about an evil aunt? They didn't go anywhere with it, and we still don't know what happened to her. Did Golden Freddy K.O her? Kill her? Who knows? Because we certainly don't. We see her legs, and then she's never mentioned again.

I don't know if this is controversial, but I hate that Vanessa's an Afton. Maybe it's because I was so set on Mike being an Afton, but I really, really hate that they changed it. (I'll elaborate on that more down below).

I felt like they could have given us some more background. Some more flashbacks to the 80s. Anything.

I know I'm being overdramatic, but having the plot twist be Vanessa's an Afton kind of killed all my excitement. Which is stupid, I know, but yeah....

I mean, I'm still going to write fanfictions about the movie, and about all the ways that Mike Schmidt is actually Michael Afton.

--Sorry in advance, but I'm going to ramble--

I have a feeling that William knows Mike better than he's letting on. Of course, he did kidnap Garrett, who could have told William everything about Mike. He could have also watched the news and seen Mike with his parents, asking for Garrett to come home.

But that's not the vibe i was getting from William during the office scene. But I'll let you all decide for yourselves:

William Afton is a skilled manipulator and actor, but the expression he makes looking down at his coffee doesn't scream, "holy shit, the brother of my victim is sitting in my office." He has no reason to look concerned. Mike has no idea who he is, and he isn't even looking at William. So, why put on a show?

Also, the change in his attitude is telling. He went from cold and distant to personable in a heartbeat.

Of course, there's always the possibility that I'm totally wrong, and William is scared he's been found out. Which could be true, given that he doesn't hesitate to fuck Mike up the second he's able to.

--

In the same vein, why would William Afton-a guy known for killing/kidnapping kids around the pizzeria, or at least close to the pizzeria-drive to the middle of nowhere, pick a random kid, and kill him? I know he's crazy, but I don't buy it.

Some people are saying that Garrett is a Charlie parallel, and that Mike is Henry's son. Which could be the case, I mean, we see a mechanic in the training video that bears a striking resemblance to the actor that plays Mike's dad. I don't know if those two things are connected, but it's interesting to point out.

But, like I said, it's weird that William went out of his way to kidnap a kid for no reason. And he likely wasn't in a costume (at least I hope he wasn't, because if he was and no one saw who took Garrett, I think a kidnapped child is the least of their worries.) So, how did he convince Garrett, who was by himself for a grand total of five second, to get in the car? Maybe he offered him candy or toys? I dunno.

I might go into all the evidence/theories so far that Mike's an Afton in another post. And where they're going with Garrett's character. But yeah....

Everyone, please, feel free to share your thoughts on the movie. I would love to hear them :D!!

((Thank you for this question btw <3333))

#answered asks #asks open #fnaf movie #fnaf movie spoilers #fnaf mike schmidt #Vanessa #fnaf william afton #garrett schmidt #abby fnaf

[thetownwecallhome]

OOC: My biggest regrets regarding this webcomic. And, what's to come.

(( bad grammar intended.

In case you're worried I'm being badged by bad reviews and/or "focusing too much on the bad"--- no. These are self-criticisms I've always had about this comic. It's always a joy to see you guys like it so much and there are some comics I love more than others and return to reread just for myself; but I think it's fine to have a healthy self-critical lens about your work sometimes. Just as long as you don't go 2000s-era Lucas and try retconning everything. So without further ado:

>Dislike the earliest gag where Jack complains about being 'fat'.

>Keeping art consistent and low-effort so it wouldn't take so much work.

>Introducing the Holiday leaders like I did. So underwhelming.

>"Mothball" [*sideshow bob grumble of pain*]

>While we're on it that earlier depiction of Clown being a jerk to Sally and Sally needing to be pepped-up by Jack to feel good about herself. Like 'Mothball' is needs a serious rewriting of dialogue to make it bearable ((to me)).

>"Packing Up" for reasons that should be painfully obvious later when I finish making Halloween Town comics. (it goes against current continuity in my headcanon)

>Really I regret how I wrote Sally and Jack a lot throughout the years. You can tell I was battling different takes about the characters and rationalizing them. I made Sally way too demur and Fluttershy-ish when she's not that kind of shrinking violet meanwhile Jack's either too kind and mature or too wrapped in guilt. For Sally I think I was operating on the logic that og-Carolyn-Thompson-script-softspoken-Sally > better then how she is in the movie because someone in my life was trying to convince me Sally was underdeveloped, and with Jack it's being hit w people saying he's an absolute incel or got away with everything in the film* and my coping by giving him more obvious guilt. Though, in fairness, Oogies Revenge, Kingdom Hearts and the fanbase didn't help that disparity by claiming Jack's just a cinnamon roll. Half of the reason "Ask Jack Skellington" prompts ever existed is so I could have an excuse to make Jack the spooky-doofy manchild of terror he is. I neglected that part of him for so long and he and Sally would be so upset with me. I failed you my babies.

>I think the joke of Jack being way too naive about how violent the other holidays actually are and/or oblivious to what adults use Halloween for is overdone in my work. I've done that gag like four times now I think.

>Unnecessarily hating on Lock, Shock, and Barrel for no reason. I think it shows just how much I didn't care for the characters before Zero's Journey came out.

>The Beetlejuice ask/reply comic from like 2015 or 16 whatever is not canon.

>Jack and Sally were too smexual in my earlier gags. Good god I REALLY hadn't figured out my asexuality, or theirs, for that matter.

>Like Jack suffering more +being too riddled by guilt, I think I made Oogie way too OP in my Oogie's Revenge (the prequel story to the entire comic) outline.

>This is a problem I have with all of my work but I hate the walls of text and run-ons all the characters do. It takes me out of my own fanfiction when it's just so obvious when I'm talking vs when the characters are. "Sally and the Doctor suffers from this a LOT".

>So many decisions made regarding plotpoints and plotlines that I think I muddled along the way or did way too quickly as it's obvious I don't have an exact outline for any of this fan stuff I'm throwing out. I really wanted to emphasize Harley and Mayor's blooming romance more than I did. They deserved so much better.

>AUGHTHEAWFULSELF-EDITED TEXT I DID IN 2015-2016 WAS TORTURE WHY DID I EVER THINK THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA???!

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All of this is to say, one day, if Oddities or my patreon makes enough dough and my SSI sitch isn't so fragile or fluctuating- I really wanna hire a beta editor/artist to be my extra pair of hands in sprucing this comic up and making it more articulate, readable and complete for my liking. And yes, it HAS to be a hired job. I can't promise big bucks but I refuse to hand that kind of responsibility to someone without compensation. This comic's too big.

As far as what to expect from the comic after this year, here's all I can tell you for my endgame plan:

I plan to go until 2027, when this blog will be 13 years old.

I want to make next year special as it'll be 31 years of Nightmare Before Christmas then.

You're gonna get a new character soon. Don't worry; they won't distract from the og cast too much. In fact they literally go to jail.

More of Halloween Town in the human world to come.

More Wolfman and Vampire brothers shenanigans.

Jack and Sally past tyme.

One of these final years Ima do something really special with the other holiday worlds and leaders. You'll see.

None of the characters will double die but I will be basically ripping off a spongebob episode.

No one from Halloween Town is ever going to meet anyone from New Holland. You are going to get a Beetlejuice character, but not a full blown crossover.

))

#halloween town #nightmare before christmas #the nightmare before christmas #sally the ragdoll

[marielle-heller]

notes on the end of Ted Lasso cause I'm really confused and torn and a bit underwhelmed and I want to make people hear my thoughts

Ted’s plotline has felt underdeveloped. despite being the main, titular character I just feel like it’s been kinda,,, not a priority and it’s upsetting. like I still feel like Ted as a character needs MORE! and I do and very much DON’T like his ending

Nate’s storyline has been one of the most decent tbh he’s maybe the only one I’ve liked in hindsight

Trent is also wonderful in that sort of way where I really have no notes like he's just great

I love Keeley choosing neither man, but I hate how these men oscillate between seeming developed and better and then reverting back to sucking. and good on the narrative for calling it out to some extent but it’s boring and exhausting. (and I understand that, yes, as they discussed, no one can be Perfect. but I really think like,, Jamie didn’t need to still be hung up on her they didn’t need to fight over her, something needed to be different cause there's not being perfect and then there's outright, why the fuck!!!! especially when we DID the "Jamie wants Keeley but then realizes he should move on" plotline LAST SEASON! like there is not being perfect and then there is, you have not grown one bit somehow, and Jamie should be Allowed to realize there's other women and he had his chance with Keeley and it's okay that they're not for each other! let him learn!!!)

cause also then the leaked nudes (another thing I have a bit of an issue with) just become,,, fodder for him being into her again and it's like, that's SO not the fucking time jesus fucking christ! and it undermines the sincerity of his apology if you read it as him starting to wonder if they could have another chance, GOD!

also the Shandy plotline was another example of something that happened a lot this season (also with Jack but it did develop how Keeley’s business is presented as taken on by Rebecca and her sexuality as well as a commentary about class so I’ll excuse all that) where a character is introduced, around for a bit, and then fucks off. which fine, can happen, plots don’t ALWAYS have to go somewhere huge they can pay off in entertainment or making a statement. but there was a lot of other shit we could’ve spent time on!

I hate how we took a plotline Ted NEEDS (being healthy with the fact that Michelle is moving on a coping) but combined it with Michelle dating the worst, most unprofessional cunt in the world (not nearly enough of a callout for him having been her personal therapist and then later a couples’ therapist (red flag on its fucking own) and then DATING A FORMER PATIENT AFTER WATCHING HER MARRIAGE END!) so that, actually, I think Ted WAS fucking right to be upset and I don’t think this SHOULD be something to just be chill with and fuck you, doctor!

I feel like there have been some good attempts to talk about real topics but that they’ve come off heavy-handed? the nudes being leaked is a great topic but the locker room bit felt a bit Much. and the way it just careened into, Isaac is upset with Colin for…. not taking enough time deleting the pictures so he takes his phone and I guess sees a dick (Colin you still could’ve been working on deleting that) and then takes it SO personally that he didn’t know… it all was So Much in a way I didn’t love

also it’s ironic we try to call out social issues but then play off things like SEVERE malpractice, abusive relationships, Keeley apparently having nudes I think spread by a teacher, etc. often for laughs

I really don’t get the Zava plotline in hindsight cause it’s another situation where like… we bring a guy in to make things better. he’s winning games but he’s got an ick vibe I think only Jamie really picks up on. it’s not super discussed so it’s like,,, has no impact, whatever. he leaves. now we have to figure out a NEW way to get better. back to square one. you could cut him out and literally it leaves like no impact on the plot except for Van Damme name change like I get!!!! that not every plot has to have a huge impact!!!!!!! but Zava was pointless and kinda a dick and I just don’t think it contributed ANYTHING to bring him in! maybe to see that they didn’t need a fancy player to get better but I also don’t know that ANYONE on the team learned that lesson tbh. and maybe that’s me complaining about not being spoon-fed but I really feel like if the message was “they think they need him but they don’t” it wasn’t super There. and having him send self-indulgent t-shirts in the final episode is really like… yeah okay guy still sucks

Rupert fall from grace plotline pretty great

Rebecca does develop a bit and I like that. she seems to go from being upset she’s single and never had a child, she still wants to defeat Rupert, but she learns to let go of that and just focus on what matters. she stands up for the love of the game, she finds inner strength. but still I think a little something is missing. I don’t think just giving her a man and a child fixes that. I don’t know, a lot of this just feels like something’s off. I’m glad she’s happy, but her arc this season wasn’t much

I really enjoyed learning Beard’s backstory but aside from that his main storyline is being in an abusive relationship played for laughs so like…. ugh. and Beard telling Ted he doesn’t want to go but couldn’t let him down is SO FUCKING GOOD, but, again…. I hate Jane so fucking much!! I keep coming back to the texts she sent in that episode and god she’s reactionary and cruel and obsessive and just,? and the one time Higgins tries to point it out he’s ignored it’s annoying

Jamie’s development as a team player has been SO amazing but again… I wish that translated into letting go of Keeley. but I do love him a lot. but let him let GO!

I’m trying to be… objective in that. things don’t tie up perfectly always in real life. but I do just feel… like there’s a lot of character development that don’t quite get!!!! Ted & Rebecca both could do better! I like the idea of them just staying friends (but DO they, even? do they have a daily video chat did he give her the biscuit recipe is there ANYTHING?) and there’s SO many good individual moments & characters in the show but I just feel like there’s a lot halfbaked looking at things as a whole

ROY KENT NEW MANAGER AND THE FANS OWNING THE TEAM AND KEELEY’S WOMEN’S LEAGUE ALL VERY GOOD!!

It’s nice to see everyone happy and together but then it leaves me more confused why Ted has to separate himself. I get he’s got Henry & I’m glad he’s coaching his son. being apart from his son is a big problem for Ted and I like that the effort to be a better father is a priority. but I still feel like things are a bit hollow. it feels like the narrative says that being a more present dad will allow Ted to let go of every other issue but I still just feel like many things weren’t fully worked at. is he an alcoholic? it’s sometimes implied!!! is he open to love? who knows!!!! does he have friends or another day job or anything to give his life meaning when Henry’s with his mom? no clue!!!!!!! does Dr. Jacob choke and die? one can only hope!!!!!!!!!

overall I liked it fine but this entire season has felt Off and Nate’s storyline is the only one I can fully endorse. I just expected from something that was so clearly planned out in detail to have less meandering plotlines, more time for developing characters, clearer closure, and maybe,, ANY evidence that Ted has not cut himself off entirely from his family right when it was getting good! if anything, it almost seems like he’s NOT coping because he DID do that! and footage of him & Rebecca video chatting or him flying out for Beard’s stupid wedding or on special occasions could mitigate that but instead it feels like he really is supposed to have cutting himself out of his found family entirely to return to his ex-wife and son as like,,, his entire closure. and so I can't in good faith believe he IS doing better. I can't.

#ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #ted lasso critical #ted lasso discourse #i'm sorry to be a complainer but i did dislike a LOT and after really liking the first two seasons #i think knowing it was ending did put me a bit on alert for the Why of things #which explains why i'm like 'this plot had no point!' #but um #idk i would have liked to see time spent on things that ultimately mattered to the plot more #some plotlines felt so pointless while more crucial things just fell by the wayside #it's upsetting

[mlobsters]

supernatural s9e9 holy terror (w. eugenie ross-leming, brad bruckner)

embarrassing but even though i've read a lot of fic for seasons i haven't watched yet, i didn't even consider until that recap put those bits side by side (angels conning people into saying yes + ezekial) that the angel inside sam was like. up to no good in some fashion?? LOL. me n dean. i think i even know the bad angel's name because i've definitely seen it mentioned in fic 😂🤪 this is like how i was kind of on sam's side about ruby, like i know she's up to something but we can make this work!! haha

SAM No, it's more than Vesta! I mean, this kind of thing's been happening to me. Like, like, there are chunks of time just … missing. Like there are times when I'm… not here.

💔 sam has a lot of reasons to worry about the state of his mental health, mad at dean, mad at the show. etc etc.

DEAN Yeah, because … damn straight the trials. They whacked you, man. You're not up to warp speed yet, okay? But you will be. Would I lie?

more mad at the show/dean. like, why make him say that. why make sam feel that way, doubting himself and trusting dean when he shouldn't. a pal said it was the righteous man's turn to fuck up now and dean's doubling down

literally just yelled "oh COME ON" i forgot about this. it was in the recap, but i already forgot. dean made that face and i was like, did he lie about something? i can't remember that either.

heaven politics have my brain glazing over yet again

other than giving dean the much needed turn to fuck up and need to grovel and beg for forgiveness, the only thing i like about this ezekial situation is dean's increasingly flustered reactions to him popping in

CASTIEL It is so good being together again. You know, this is my first beer as a human. I hope it's okay, me joining you? SAM Why wouldn't it be okay?

i'm happy that sam's happy to have cas around, and i feel like he'd have reason to be not happy with cas but honestly i have no idea where things were left between them. i lose track when it's a plotline every several episodes.

EZEKIEL-IN-SAM I told you. When I chose to answer your prayers and heal Sam, I chose sides. That means I'm not in good standing with certain angels. DEAN Okay, well, you know what? Cas isn't in good standing with any angel, all right? But here he is, ass on the line, fighting the fight. So tell me, what makes you so special?

what indeed! dean and i are both idiots 😂

METATRON Well, I'm really looking forward to this. EZEKIEL-IN-SAM Excuse me? METATRON Oh, please. I know who you really are. And it isn't Ezekiel. NOT-EZEKIEL-IN-SAM looks constipated.

got another funny transcription, thank you. gadreel reveal??? i'm going to be way less impressed with myself when it's someone else

CASTIEL You said the angel, Ezekiel, helped heal him. DEAN (looks down, avoiding the question) Look, I got to do anything I can to get him back. Now, if that means that we keep our distance from you for a little while, then... Then I don't have a choice. I don't feel good about it, but I don't have a choice. It's great to have your help, Cas. Okay, but we just can't work together. CAS looks sad.

understatement! good job dean, made him make the sad wet kitten face.

METATRON And yet you spent countless thousands of years locked in Heaven's darkest dungeon. And now you're hiding in this human, posing as Ezekiel.

i did not know that! i know nothing about gadreel just bad+sam. lol (and yet that wasn't enough of a clue!!)

METATRON And so … Plan "B." Rebuild Heaven as the place God envisioned it, only with a handpicked few. No more anemic functionaries like Bartholomew. And no more stupid angels. (consideringly) Maybe some funny ones.

i'm not down with calling cas stupid, and i don't know if this was meant to be a little shade on cas per se, but i did appreciate it nonetheless. because cas consistently makes the worst decisions. but he was funny there for a bit! let's go back to that

LOL this framing he looks like the big robot

the day the earth stood still (2008)

GADREEL-IN-SAM Humans do seem chaotic, Metatron. METATRON Which makes them fascinating, but... All that emotion. Geez. And the wasted energy. It's just... exhausting. GADREEL-IN-SAM I know. Sam Winchester... It is a mess in here. And the brother – I do not know where to start.

low hanging fruit but i'll take it

snorted.

pretty shot

wanna know a secret? i force myself to pay attention to the goings-on with cas and make sure i include bits of it whenever he's around only because he has such a large presence in fandom's mind. otherwise i kind of tune him out like i do the political machinations. he's around more than people like jody, his storylines never make much sense because he just makes the most batshit decisions, they talk about his relationship with dean more than they ever show it. it's such a weird combo. it's like we're all pretending he has a bigger part in the story than he ever does on screen. but we (the show) talk about it, and the fandom talks about what the show talks about. i may be too high for this thought process

see i forget about kevin too! and i like kevin. i love how completely fucking over this all he is. but he keeps plugging away, forgotten, somewhere.

no pressure. just a bunch of kids died too.

was cas trying to get caught? i'm confused

????? okay. needed to fill that torture quota

CASTIEL I've explained in detail. I don't know how Metatron's spell worked. Therefore, I can't assist in reversing it. I was an unwitting accomplice. MALACHI Ohhh. A dupe. The great Castiel. Valued and trusted Castiel. Top-of-the-Christmas-tree Castiel. No more than a dupe.

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MALACHI Just following your example, Castiel. How many did you kill in Heaven? How many in the Fall? Oh, you didn't know? A host of angels died when they fell – Azrael, Sophia, Ezekiel

i was like, he got you there, cas! about the following your example thing but now cas finds out about not-ezekial, ok

i am so confused. cas sucking this dude's grace out

very domestic and sweet.

CASTIEL I… I did what I had to. I became what they've become. A barbarian.

i mean, not the first time, amirite

all right, dean and i got with the program, not-ezekial==bad.

DEAN You're gonna have to trust me, okay, trust that I told you everything that I can for now. Can you do that? KEVIN I always trust you. (DEAN nods.) And I always end up screwed. DEAN Oh, come on. Always? Not always.

cute cute. kevin's fun

i compulsively screenshot the bunker too because i'd like to try to understand the layout but i'm useless at it. i should just cheat and look it up. anyway, what's up with the weird bathroom vanity sinks in not-bathroom rooms. one in the kitchen, one in the war room place

s8e15 (mentioned it here too :p)

DEAN (hurriedly) No, you don't. I mean messed you up like almost dead. No more birthdays, dust to dust. Well, that messed me up, so I made a move, okay, a tough move about you without talking it over because you were in a coma.

oh, dean.

DEAN I tricked you into saying yes. It seemed like the only way. SAM (sighs) So... Again. You thought I couldn't handle something, so you took over! DEAN No, I did what I had to do! You would've never agreed to it, and you would've died. SAM Well, maybe I would've liked the choice, at least. DEAN We can do this – later. You can – you can kick my ass all you want. Right now, we got bigger problems.

i can feel that longstanding frustration-rage bubbling up that's so particular to a familial relationship

oh, gadreel fooled me too. i thought maybe he popped back in because dean was too slow.

and i knew kevin died (only recently read something that mentioned it, i generally avoid stuff around the time period i'm watching when reading but oops) but like. anticlimactic? :\ and as always, ALWAYS just when i start to really enjoy a side character they get killed off. womp womp. at least i didn't cry, that's something

instead i just sighed because "trust me, kevin" and "i always end up screwed :)" so now dean's gonna feel guilty. he's already feeling guilty enough, did we need that too? when they push too hard on the excessive dean whump, i get annoyed. like the whole 4 months=40 years, i enjoyed torturing people, etc. edgelord bullshit :P

the single tear of man pain has returned

bring it on (2000)

what i think of every time

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[fairydares]

Ice and Igni

Part 2; AO3 Link

Rating: M (There's suggestive material and rather innocent sexual curiosity, but no smut. however, there will be if I decide to write past chapter 2).

Words: ~1600

See AO3 for tags and stuff, please.

Summary: It's been a long time since Greige's mother and the other females abandoned the male tribe, and he doesn't really think about them...that is, until he sees a female for himself the first time: a pink-haired huntress whose igni threatens the ice around his heart from the moment he lays eyes on her.

Yep, this is a second gen Stone Age Omake fic featuring gruvia & Nalu kids. Possibly others later. tbh i kind of fever-wrote this while suffering a bout of insomnia.

I deliberated posting this a LOT. Mainly because of my other second gen-ish fic through which I thought of some of these headcanons, but I decided I wanted to post it anyway :)

I don't own Fairy Tail, only this little plotline.

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You’re definitely want to read the Stone Age Omake for this one or else it’ll read like some nonsense lol. Enjoy!

Chapter 1: Ice Finds Igni

The day that changed Greige’s whole life tricked him by beginning like every other.

He woke with the sky, light just starting to infiltrate the hut as alertness crept over him.

He huffed in exasperation as he became conscious enough to register just how loud his father was snoring in his furs on his side of their hut. Greige really needed to move into the hut he’d built for himself, a place set far enough outside the men’s village that the yuki which had followed him since childhood wouldn’t bother anyone. He kept finding excuses not to, though. When his dad asked why he hadn’t moved into his own place yet, he’d make something up about how there was a leak in the thatching or he was too tired from that day’s hunt to move his things over. The fact that his dad never argued told Greige that he didn’t want to separate, either, and that only made him procrastinate more.

He couldn’t abandon his father like his mother had. He just couldn’t.

He’d been glad for how deeply the older man slept when he sat up and instantly became aware of the fact that his sacred rod was wrathful again, like it was a lot of mornings ever since his voice had deepened and he’d sprung into his height. He wasn’t as tall as the tribe leader Laxus or his son, Mirai, but he was as tall as his dad which was good enough for him, seeing as he was one of the swiftest, strongest hunters in the tribe and—although Greige would never speak it—his hero.

Greige, too, had become a great hunter. But it hardly felt like it mattered when he couldn’t even control his rod’s wrath. It made him feel weak. He hated it. He already struggled to control his yuki, frequently being teased or whined at by the other men when his temper snapped and it suddenly grew cold, white flakes falling and swirling around him no matter what the season. He didn’t want to think about his sacred rod or the stories the older men (even his dad, sometimes) told about the females who’d gone missing long ago, the strange power they held over sacred rods.

The descriptions the older men would give of the females made them sound bizarre and nightmarish. Old Macao and Wakaba claimed that their chests bore a pair of swellings peaked with chest buds which were more sensitive than mens’ and would make them turn red and “squeal” if touched. Large, round rears. Thick thighs and wide hips. Yet despite the parts of them that were supposed to be engorged, they were apparently smaller and softer than men. Most disturbing of all, they had a valley where there sacred rods were supposed to be.

When he and Mirai had noted that females sounded like nasty freaks, the men had all burst out laughing. It had felt like Greige was the butt of a joke, a feeling that was never pleasant. Later, his dad had tried to explain females more clearly to him, saying something about how he’d understand when the men found them again, how they could make you feel things you never thought you could.

By then, though, Greige was too annoyed to listen, and he hadn’t bothered to do so any of the other times his dad or the other men spoke on it. Who cared, anyway? The females had abandoned them long ago. How pathetic was it, to pine after something which wanted nothing to do with you and had no problem leaving you no matter how much you cared?

He’d never said it aloud, but some part of him didn’t even really believe in females. After all, it was hard to believe in something you’d never seen.

Ignoring his inexplicably enraged sacred rod, he’d risen and quickly prepared for the day, breathing a sigh of relief when it slowly calmed on its own. He was quiet, not bothering to wake his still-snoring father when it was so early. Then he’d ducked under the pelts which served as a door, taken a deep, invigorating breath of the chilly morning air, and strode off into the woods.

He took care to stay well within his tribe’s unofficial territory. A couple of other male tribes—violent ones—had appeared in the valley over the last two turns of the sun, and Gajeel said he could hear and smell them coming closer to their village every day. Greige could defend himself, but he knew it was better to avoid them when he was hunting alone. Truthfully, it probably would have been wiser to wake his dad or rouse Mirai or Gull, Gajeel’s son, to come with him, but he was antsy that morning, determined to bring something good back in preparation for the coming winter he could taste on the air.

Determination very quickly proved insufficient. He spotted plenty, but uncharacteristically missed all the prey he aimed for, several of his ice spears breaking against trees. Strings of black curses left his lips freely as blizzards erupted around him now and then, his temper showing itself. His father had once said that Greige inherited his temper, stubbornness, and yuki—but his mother’s heart.

“And her craziness…pretty bad combination,” the old man had teased him. Greige glowered and grumbled at the memory, slapping some yellowing leaves off a tree he was passing.

All his traps proved to be empty, as well. Greige left a blanket of yuki in the area around each one.

By the time the sun hit its crest in the sky, he was glowering heavily. And he was hot. The day was stifling enough and he was pissed enough that he was sweating, dark hair clinging annoyingly to his temples. Deciding to cut his losses for a while and cool off, he headed for a spring few knew about, hidden in a knell nearby.

By the time he reached the familiar copse of trees, he’d reasoned himself into a much calmer mood. It would not last long.

Coming on the hidden location with a relieved sigh, he brushed a branch aside, looked up—

—and saw it. No, not “it”—her. He saw a female, bare under the sun and standing knee-deep in the spring, clutching her chest with one arm and peering over her shoulder at him with wide eyes.

Greige had never gone so still so fast in his life. He practically turned to stone. His heart briefly quit on him, freezing like the most bitter winter before suddenly starting to pound so hard, he was sure it—she could hear it from all the way over there.

It took a second to figure out what she was, but once he had, he knew it right down to his bones. Everything the older men had ever told him was right there, sparkling in the sunlight, both everything and nothing like the disturbing images the older men’s descriptions had conjured in his head.

His eyes climbed slowly from the rippling water up the golden skin of her strong, thick thighs, lingering on her naked rear. Old Macao and Wakaba hadn’t been kidding. No men he’d seen had rears that round and large. His gaze raked over the flare of her hips which tapered into a startling, dramatic dip, like her waist had been pinched so hard it changed her shape. Then his eyes found the huge swells on her chest, the part of a female’s body the older men gushed over the most.

To his chagrin, he was inexplicably, totally intrigued by how the one arm she held up couldn’t begin to contain the massive, round swells, how the flesh spilled from between her fingers.

A network of lean muscles peeked through a strange, mesmerizing softness her whole body wore. There was strength in her legs, arms, and back, but she was just so different from him that he couldn’t begin to measure it.

He found himself too disconcerted and overwhelmed to let his eyes linger on her body for long. Swallowing hard, he lifted his gaze, eyes climbing slowly up her slim neck, flitting over her pink hair.

There was a man in their tribe with pink hair. Natsu, who was his father’s greatest rival and closest friend. Even though it was wet, Greige could tell hers was a similar color, like salmon when it was cooked, but it was much longer and more sleek-looking than Natsu’s, cascading down her back like a waterfall. His eyes traced the curves of her face. Even that was different from the face of any man he’d seen. Softer.

Then, like an idiot, he let his eyes roam to meet hers. They were huge and brown, full of wonder and igni, fringed in lashes even thicker and darker than his. And that was it, that was when Greige’s whole life changed.

“What…the…hell?” was all he managed to choke up as his face seared, his sacred rod found its full wrath in a second flat, and a tidal wave of admiration, yearning, and possessiveness—more violent than anything he’d ever felt—sent him straight to his knees in front of her.

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EDIT: I changed the community labels on this because I was getting a bad feeling about how they'd affect my content & the blog...i need to do more research. hope this doesn't cause anyone problems.

#greige #nasha #stone age omake #greige fullbuster #nasha dragneel #fairy tail #fairy tail fanfiction #gruvia #nalu

[letthewhumpbegin]

Scars - Bullet Train

Fandom: Bullet Train Characters: Tangerine, Lemon Prompt: Scars Requested by: anonymous Word count: 1072 Warnings: mentions of scars, gunshot wound, blood, painful wound cleaning. Mild swearing.

A/N: sorry for the long(er) wait on this request. I was struggling a little bit with getting the dynamic between these two right, and I hope I've succeeded in that now 😁 Also, scars is not the biggest plotline in this fic, but it is a major theme throughout.

Lemon's hands hovered over Tangerine's shoulder. The bullet wound to the back of his brother's shoulder was in need of care, but Lemon knew extracting the bullet still lodged in Tangerine's flesh was going to be anything but pleasant.

"Just get it over with," Tangerine growled. He sat, bare-chested, on a chair with Lemon standing behind him. He knew why his brother hesitated, and, quite frankly, he rather didn't do this either. It was going to hurt like a son of a bitch, he was well aware of that. But leaving the bullet in his shoulder wasn't an option either, so it had to be done.

"Give me a second, okay?" Lemon grumbled back, "I'm about to pry this bullet out of you without any kind of anesthetic, so excuse me for needing some time." Lemon hadn't meant to snap at his brother, but he couldn't help but feel nervous about this. What he had to do was going to hurt Tangerine, and the thing he hated most was hurting his brother.

"Deep breaths." Lemon rested a hand on Tangerine's bare shoulder, and in his other hand he tightly grabbed a pair of large tweezers. He felt Tangerine's muscles tense up in silent anticipation of the pain he knew was coming.

Everything in him screamed not to do it, but Lemon willed himself to push the tweezers into the gunshot wound. Tangerine sucked in a sharp breath through clenched jaws. He felt all his muscles tremble involuntarily as the excruciating pain threatened to make him pass out.

"Stay with me, mate." The words almost tenderly rolled off Lemon's lips, sounding nothing like their usual banter. "I'm trying." Tangerine's voice quivered. "But this... it bloody hurts." Lemon stopped what he was doing for a moment to give his brother a breather. Of course he knew in advance that this procedure was going to be painful, but to make Tangerine fall apart like this, it must be downright excruciating.

"Do you remember how you got this scar?" Lemon asked in an attempt to focus Tangerine's mind on something else for a little bit. His fingers brushed softly over a clearly visible scar on his brother's ribs. "Thailand," Tangerine answered, strained, "that idiot stuck a blade right between my ribs." "Well, you did shoot him first," Lemon commented dryly, before carefully sticking the tweezers back in Tangerine's wound in another attempt to fish the bullet out. Tangerine grunted against the fresh wave of pain. "He had it coming."

Lemon finally heard the tweezers tick against the bullet. He must be close to getting it out now.

"Remember those guard dogs on that job in Italy?" Talking about these random things seemed to calm Tangerine somewhat, so Lemon kept the conversation going. "Those fucking beasts." Tangerine rolled his eyes. "They took a right chuck out of my calf. Turned into some nasty scars as well."

Of course Lemon knew this. He knew all about Tangerine's scars, because he was the one who tended to all the wounds that had turned into these scars. Lemon never bled, but Tangerine sure did. He always turned out to be the one catching the bullets, or being on the receiving end of a dog's bite or the pointy end of a knife. Huh, Lemon thought suddenly, maybe Tangerine was the reason that he himself never bled....

"Got it!" Lemon exclaimed rather cheerily. He finally got a good grip on the bullet and was able to carefully pull it out of his brother's shoulder. Tangerine almost screamed out in pain as the bullet came free from his flesh. He sat breathing hard and trying to blink away the black spots clouding his vision, as the pain reached a whole new level of excruciating.

Lemon would love to reassure his brother that it was over, but having the bullet out was only the start. Now he still had to clean the wound and stitch it up.

"This'll turn into a nice scar, too, eh?" Tangerine nervously eyed the bowl of water Lemon now dipped a towel in. "Probably." Lemon nodded.

Without any announcement, Lemon held the wet towel over Tangerine's shoulder and squeezed it out. "F... fuckin' hell!" Tangerine hissed violently at the burning, stinging pain that filled his shoulder as the water ran over and into his wound. Lemon felt his brother start to tremble anew under his hands, and he could see Tangerine come undone by the pain.

"Sorry about that," Lemon mumbled. He had to force himself to continue, but knew he had to be thorough when treating the wound, for Tangerine's sake. So even though his brother whimpered and hissed in pain, Lemon dipped the towel in the bowl of water again and held it against Tangerine's shoulder.

"I only gotta do a few stitches now," Lemon announced after a few minutes. "Do them better than last time," Tangerine grumbled, still trembling from all the pain he had had to endure today. "Otherwise it will look like that scar from the meat hook in my arm in Spain."

Lemon's eyes lingered momentarily on the ugly scar on the bicep of Tangerine's left arm. That indeed hadn't been his best work. "I've gotten better," Lemon chuckled devilishly, "you've given me plenty of practice since then." "Very funny," Tangerine huffed, "I don't suppose you have anything to numb the pain for this either?" Lemon shrugged nonchalantly. "I could punch you." "I've had enough of those today, thank you." Tangerine slowly shook his head. "Get going then."

Lemon worked as fast as he could on the stitches. He hadn't been lying when he said he had gotten more skilled at this, but he still didn't do it every day. So, unfortunately, it would be adding yet another scar to Tangerine's body.

"Are you nearly done?" Tangerine whimpered after a few minutes. "I can't take much more." Sure enough, he looked closer to passing out than any time before, and it was through sheer willpower that he was able to cling on to consciousness still. "All done, mate." Lemon tied a knot in the last of the stitches, before securing a bandage in place.

"Fuckin' hell, man." Tangerine passed a trembling hand over his face. "Let's not do this again." Lemon chuckled softly as he cleaned the blood off his hands on another towel. "You say that every time." "Yeah, well," Tangerine chuckled wryly, "I've really got enough scars now."

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[sam-glade]

Happy STS! Who are your youngest and oldest OCs and how do you handle writing characters on either end of the age spectrum?

Hi! Thank you for the question💜 This is another fascinating one. I've never thought to compare it.

So. Children become adults at 35 in this setting, and there's in theory no upper limit on how long a person can live. Just to put things in perspective 😉

In Days of Dusk, the youngest ones, not including two children that appear in a single scene, are the protag, Lissan (40) and his sister Marta (37), which is equivalent to real-life 21 and 19-20 respectively. That's pretty easy to write. I remember fairly well being about 20yo, and if they need to act more mature than your average young adult, I can excuse it with the long lifespan in setting - they have more years of experience.

In The Truth Teller, about 2500-3000 years later, but in the same setting, there is a side character who is 28 (real-life 15-ish), whose not so great childhood made him into a cocky, rebellious adolescent that drives some other characters crazy. That's the youngest character I'm comfortable writing. I tend to avoid characters who are minors, because on one hand I really don't have IRL experience with children, and I feel terribly out of my depth trying to write about them at length. On the other hand, being a pantser, I want to leave myself more options for relationships between characters.

On the other end of the spectrum, I think the oldest recurring character in Days of Dusk is the White Dragon, the First Prince before Anthea, at around 3500 years. Roughly. In The Truth Teller, someone older might make an appearance in the sequels, unless I cut that plotline.

And this is going to become another answer where I bring up the fact that in the Sunblessed Realm setting, people's beliefs shape reality. If enough people believe in something, it will eventually become true. (Seriously, I put this rule in when I started the project years ago, and I'm only now realising how many things it affects.)

Because the reason why some famous people live this long is: when hundreds of thousands of people believe there is this person (in the present tense), the person continues to be. Eventually, they become the embodiment of the idea, the essence of what they're famous for and what legends are told about them. The White Dragon is credited with rallying the Swords to reclaim the Earth for humanity and dispel the Darkness, the sort of war hero who became the head of state, just but strict in his policies (and yes, of course he had the resources and influence to shape his public image, but that in turn shaped him).

I write these characters as iconic, not changing much throughout the story, and being deliberately not as three-dimensional as the younger main cast. In Days of Dusk, they are only side characters, so this shouldn't be too bad. However, in The Truth Teller, there's a main character with a millennia-long lifespan, who's had effectively a smear campaign against them that completely destroyed their public image, and conflicts with their memories of themselves, and their arc falls into the 'redemption' category somewhat.

#sts #writeblr #ask and i shall answer #days of dusk #the truth teller

[kiss2012]

final 911 thoughts…

k tommy’s entrance in 7x03 kinda slayed ngl. the fake static LMAO

“i’d follow your hunches any day” “it’s cap and athena let them fire us” IM CRYING IN THE CLUB

eddie’s incredulous happy little laugh when they saw the flare <3

this show is at its best when 1) it’s about the inherent goodness of humanity and how everyone deserves to be saved, 2) when the members of the 118 are in Situations, 3) when they r all a happy family, and 4) when they are flagrantly disobeying orders to save the people they love

TJE BACHELOR HAHAHDHHSHSHHSHAHAHAH

u don’t understand how funny this is to me (person who watched the most recent bachelorette live) (CHARITY AND DOTUN <3)

making buck bi in the bachelor episode literally the greatest thing they have ever done.

I LOVE MADDIE CHIMNEY AND JOSH TRYING TO FIND OUT WHO THE BACHELOR IS DHDJKDD

scream at joey’s face when the contestants proposition buck and eddie

once again buck continues his trend of either flirting on purpose or flirting without realizing he’s flirting.

HOW DID ANYONE GET THROUGH THIS EPISODE WHAT THE FUCK ARE BUCK EDDIE AND TOMMY ALL DOING

buck saying he’s “keeping his options fluid” LOL.

look im glad to see harry even if the actor’s different i missed him but WHERE IS MAY

ravi i love you so deeply

oh my god ravi looks so beautiful

“you and tommy have a lot in common: both in the army both like watching half-naked men pummel each other” WHAT???? WHAT THE FUCK AM I WATCHING

so i understand exactly what’s going on with buck right now he is certifiably insane but he’s obviously jealous over eddie and jealous over tommy and worried about being replaced especially with chris and insecure and confused about what he’s feeling etc. but eddie 😭😭😭 what’s going on babe

I LOVE MADDIE

ok seriously did we need a rehash of the WORST athena plotline to date???

BUCK IS SO EMBARRASSING.

oh my god i physically can’t watch this

ummmmm yikes

i’ve seen a lot of people both blindly defending buck for this and a lot of people hating on it and i don’t really think it’s that simple. like i think it was wrong wish we could see him apologize but it is some delicious drama. like suck ur teeth in hand over mouth kinda drama.

chimney pretty much summed it up and maddie was so right…love u madney

maddie’s hilarious for being like yeah buck i understand where ur coming from i also made desperate bids for my friend’s attention. when i was a 14 year old girl.

“so stop acting like one” YEAH LMAO

END OF 7x04. WOWWW THAT WAS A LOT

you’d think seeing half of this in gifsets would’ve desensitized me to it. but it hasn’t.

this would have been the perfect opportunity to have tommy talk about how he regrets his behaviour during the begins episodes and talk more about his friendships with hen and chimney??

tommy. BUCK!!!!!!!

scream.

um im sorry i cant blame tommy for leaving buck at the curb after that hot chicks comment. and then the “bro”??? im in agony.

i thought u guys were joking this is marisol’s like fourth appearance on screen and we’ve barely heard her speak let alone seen her interact with eddie but he “really likes her” and they’re moving in together? um excuse me??? WHY ARE THEY LYING TO ME I DONT KNOW THIS WOMAN NO ONE KNOWS THIS WOMAN NOT EVEN EDDIE KNOWS THIS WOMAN

ohhhh my god that post about how unlike tommy eddie’s always treated buck like an equal partner no matter what from the very beginning. yeah…

denny is so sweet.

MADDIE AND BUCK COMING OUT SCENE MY BELOVED

disaster bi buck fr (affectionate)

the “christopher is out of town for a couple days” is still killing me. where is he.

eddie is such a dreamboat truly who wouldn’t be in love with him

so many shannon mentions this season thank you…i miss you shannon

if you need me i’ll be thinking about eddie’s thumb on That Spot.

this end scene is the best buck has looked all episode the choice to have him literally bathed in sunlight is so real and true

7x06 time oh my god im so scared

maddie and hen look unbelievably stunning. jesus christ.

eddie looks beautiful in his beautiful pre-destroyed pink suit. buck…your suit was a Choice. i will free you from whoever is doing your hair like that pls buck just let me in i can fix it pls

eddie wasn’t overtly bitchy about tommy being there until he saw tommy hug buck. he’s so funny.

HENREN AND RAVIIIIII 🥰🥰🥰🥰 and all three of their outfits r a slay

can’t explain to you how much i love clipboard buck if clipboard buck has no lovers i am not on this earth etc. and a karaoke bachelor party really is such a thoughtful idea even if it’s not what chimney wanted

but once again buck is so embarrassing i can’t do this

thanks we had a…time. HFJFJDKD

MONTAGE <33333 buck and eddie’s bestieism is off the charts im gonna cry…

“i am 911” maddie buckley the woman that you are…

i unapologetically looked at a million spoilers for this episode but i still don’t know What happened to chimney and im scared

kevin and the lees 😭😭😭😭

CHIMNEY GOING BACK TO THE KARAOKE BAR HE AND KEVIN WORKED AT. OH IM SICK

“telling buck no is like telling a dog not to jump your leg” is definitely. a line. that. they chose. for this episode.

I LOVE YOU CHIMNEYYY

home and he went to the lees. god….

IM GONNA BE SAD ABOUT KEVIN FOREVER

moment 1363673 of buck giving me the worst and somehow most affectionate secondhand embarrassment i’ve ever felt in my life

perfect episode no notes. actually one note where was albert. but other than that im in shambles time to listen to islands in the stream on repeat

#911 lb #this is crazy long but it somehow seemed worse to split it up into 20 posts

[shazzeaslightnovels]

Watanare 5

Author: Teren Mikami

Illustrator: Eku Takeshima

Label:  Dash Ex Bunko

Release Date: 24 February 2023

My Score: 2/5

English Release: This series is currently being published in English by Seven Seas Entertainment under the the title of There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless... so please pick it up if the series interests you.

At the end of last volume, Renako made a choice: she would date both Mai and Ajisai and make them both happy. The volume ended with a cliffhanger with Satsuki messaging Renako and asking to date her too. At the start of this volume, Satsuki confronts Renako who has been avoiding her. Satsuki tries to convince Renako to take on a third girlfriend but when Renako asks Satsuki if she’s seriously in love with her, Satsuki passes things off as a joke. Meanwhile, the new throuple is going strong with Mai and Ajisai satisfied with how things have ended up but Renako’s just not confident that she can make the two loves of her life happy. And the third plot of this volume begins when the Queentet (that is, Mai, Ajisai, Satsuki, Kaho, and Renako) are challenged by a group calling themselves the 5(Go)dèsse. The showdown will decide who are the popular girls in the school and will take place during the upcoming sports carnival.

First of all, let me say one thing: this volume is way too long. It clocks in at 488 pages. For comparison with some of my recent reads, Sword Oratoria 13 was 376 pages and YouZitsu 10 was 328 pages. The only volume I’ve read recently that surpasses this one in page length is Danmachi 18 which is 640 pages which is more excusable seeing as it’s a fantasy, the climax of an arc, and was written by an author with an excellent sense of pacing. Watanare has none of those excuses and this volume was such a slog to get through as a result. I would never feel like picking it up because I knew that the chapters would take me forever to get through. If the plot was more interesting, this wouldn’t have been as much of a problem, but so much of this volume was bogged down by subplots and random scenes. For example, there’s a subplot where Mai’s servant disapproves of Renako and believes her to be unworthy. This is an unnecessary subplot that becomes very annoying once there’s a random scene where the servant baths Renako and gives her an erotically charged massage to “prepare” her for her date with Mai. It was so uncomfortable and did not need to be here. The subplot does have some payoff as it’s referenced in the cliffhanger set up for volume 6 but that scene made me so uncomfortable and made me remember why I never really liked this series.

As for the main plots, Satsuki’s storyline doesn’t get a resolution here and didn’t get nearly as much focus as I thought it would. There were several times in the volume that I forgot that it was even a thing that was going on because she just didn’t appear much. It does seem like she will be a focus in volumes 6 & 7 but I was disappointed in her plotline here. Otherwise, so much of this volume is just Renako training for the sports carnival and scenes of her practicing basketball. The sports carnival subplot also introduces so many new characters at once and I could not keep track of all of their names. It was good to see Renako giving her all for the sake of her girls but it got real repetitive and boring. Her scenes with Mai and Ajisai were cute and I’m happy for polyamory representation but I couldn’t bring myself to really care about them. Also, we are 5 volumes into this series and Renako is dating two girls and she still insists that she’s not attracted to girls!!! This is so annoying!!! I’m guessing this might get addressed as some internalised homophobia in future volumes but it’s still super annoying in the mean time.

Overall, I was really disappointed in this volume. I remember really enjoying volume 4 and I think I just forgot about how boring and uncomfortable this series can be. I don’t think I’m going to read volume 6 as I was kinda satisfied with how this volume ended and I don’t feel like I want or need to read more.

#watanare #teren mikami #eku takeshima #Dash Ex Bunko #2023 releases #may 2023 #2 stars

[clarks-letterman]

Wally anon: Speak on it. Hating something is just as important as loving & you already know we have overlapping issues with him. Yup, which is why I'm so ??? about them constantly going to that well with her as an excuse to keep her teamed up with Hopper when Hopper should no longer be apart of the equation. It's why I don't similarly take issue with El cause, like you said, her side of the story always brings the scifi element. But yup, the Hawkins crew REALLY held it down where most of the rest of the plotlines did not do so for me. So, while I can see why the split works for you for some variety...the variety was mostly not delivering. 💔

I suspect it was a lot of...physical exertion regarding a certain appendage. Can't go around wearing them in that state, now, could he? 🤫

Yeahhhh, not a very inspiring marketing campaign. I was lucky I saw the trailer first & was interested in the plot cause if I just. saw the poster, I know I would've been like, "Alright, no thanks." I'll keep my fingers crossed that they entirely avoid it cause the writing for the show IS really good so far that it would feel like completely undermining everything they had built up if they just. made it out to be a love triangle at the end of the day. 🤞

You're on the frontlines fighting in the size difference wars. A great service for us all. 🫡 But, huh, I had never really given much consideration to keep out of reach (which probably makes sense with my ~not even thinking about own height~ behavior). Wally would have me rethinking that for sure, though.

And barely patience cause you know he would be ready to pop outta that seat long before detention was up lollll. 🏃‍♂️

Oh, I completely believe it. It would be nonstop unless you gave him the tiniest amount of attention & told him that you needed to concentrate. But, even then, that wouldn't be enough cause he obviously doesn't have to care about these classes anymore & just wants to get to the bottom of things. Very needy, but in an endearing way.

Please do, everyone else who sees the Wally x male reader vision will be extremely grateful. 🙌 And you know he's insatiable cause even after just doing it, he's ready to go again cause he can't get enough of you (or your throat) & the fact that you can physically interact without any of the mess (unless he makes you cum & oh, he will, many times). It's all just so new & exciting to him & he constantly wants his hands on you. And you can barely keep up, but you're just so infatuated with him that you can't say no.

Yesss, hope the writing goes well. There's so much material we've discussed that you'll probably start thinking of even wilder scenarios. 🥳 Oh, he would absolutely be a tease, going on about comparing his stats to yours & how he'll have to plan an extra special workout to really get you in shape if you couldn't breeze through the gym class. And you could just feel his eyes all over you while you stripped off the sweaty clothes, went into the showers, &...I'll let you finish the thought. 🫣

IM SAYINGGGG ugh they wanted variety and two out of the three plot lines did, in fact, not deliver one bit.

Ohhhh so he was big enough to rip the fabric I see🫣 that’s a new level of big. Might buy him underwear just to see him recreate that because… dayum.

Don’t get me wrong, a love triangle could be good… if Maddy chooses the right person… (cough cough wally cough cough). Jk, I don’t want there to be a conflict like that unless both sides are in its entirety, so like ghost dimension vs the real world but no love triangles. None at all.

Wally would make you feel like a midget—a vertically challenged person fr. Who cares if you can reach on top of fridges and the very back of cabinets like him?? He’ll still be taller, and he won’t let you forget it‼️

Teacher!reader x Wally is slowly forming in my head… whether anyone else wants to see it is up to mysterious anons (student topping teacher is underrated)

He definitely wants to get to the bottom of things. I wonder if he gets handsy, or gets under the desk if it’s big enough to tease and tease to his hearts content, taking in the satisfaction that you can’t go anywhere unless it’s to the bathroom… and we know how that ends. (The plan falls apart because of his height, but he’ll try to squeeze himself under that desk.) He’ll only do this after endearingly annoying you for the first few classes of the day, then he finds other kinds of fun.

I can see Wally almost coming off as a sex addict to you, which his drive is very much high, but his constant need for it is thanks to the few decades he spent getting off by himself. It’s probably why your college application is filled with exemplary, time-consuming extracurriculars. The more you were at school, the more you and Wally could fool around. And he’s going to do anything and everything with you, the sky is the limit on that.

I can think of a dozen more scenarios that are crazier than what we’ve talked about😮‍💨 Ugh Wally being a coach to help us get in shape is so sweet of him but also intimidating because he wants gym class to be easy! But really, it’s just a reason to get some blood pumping and flowing in other parts of the body (his massive dick) The showers are definitely his favorite part of your five-day-a-week routine together. It’s when he gets to come up behind you, feel you up, help wash all that sweat off you (even if he can’t actually make a difference). You do your best to make it look like you’re just enjoying a long shower until anyone else in the locker room and showers has left… then the real fun starts. How freaky should I get with these…

#wally clark x male reader #wally clark x you #wally clark

[hexhomos]

RE #5: When you boil it down, Ja//y/Mel is mostly pandering to straight guys: Jayce gets a little shot or two of him being all infatuated with her but she initiates it and he gets laid with the prettiest, richest woman in Piltover without much cost or consequence. In the theater especially, it's very obvious she's manipulating him. And yet, there's a disconnect after, cuz it feels like the team wants us to be happy about them being a thing?? To mixed results imo. Honestly, I don't know what else the team was expecting, putting Viktor getting sick between the shots of the hetero sex-scene. You can feel the Rito execs going "noooo they can't seem gay! Give Jayce a sex-scene with a woman!!1!!!!" The audience is thinking about both of those things at the same time, and yet, it's (apparently) surprising when people find Viktor sympathetic in all that??? Unpopular opinion maybe, but it makes me a little nervous that we're gonna see some kind of scorned gay man thing with him like "ohhhh he had a crush on Jayce the whole time but oh no, he's straight! Better cut his emotions out now! You're welcome gays."

In very cut and dry scriptwriting terms, the jaycemel plotline in arcane is a very convenient catalyst for the series' eventual end-of-season tragedy. They needed something or someone to push jayce into playing a political game, since this was never a part of his character and, if we're being honest, still feels forced in the end product anyway; point being, viktor and jayce as built in arcane have no interpersonal conflict to do with eachother. This is kind of a glaring issue, considering their whole deal as a dynamic duo is Literally Just That. You see the problem?

The story was written in such a way that they had to grasp for outside third-party excuses to give these characters a different motivation, and to set up traps so "everything goes wrong" as it does in the end without following their original lore, and the shoehorned old-as-time heterobait that majority of viewers cite as the most unnecessary scene of the season is what we're left with. It was meant to be Obviously Readable To The Largest Public Denominator; GAMERS. here's a low effort sudden temptress storyline just so you don't get the wrong idea about these guys being gay or whatever. It's why there was so much confusion during the episode drops - everyone was just sort of expecting viktor and jayce to have their own thing, and they were coming off pretty strongly as fag material.

Knowing what I do about the tv show's production, I strongly suspect they weird tonal whiplash in their scenes (sometimes deeply manipulative, sometimes stupid, contradictory naiveté) is a result of the writers room...... not knowing what the fuck they actually want. My guess is that maybe they drafted this storyline as very cut-and-dry political peonism at the start, but noticed with following test passes that there was absolutely nothing for the audience to sympathize with and grasp there, hence the backwards add-on of a few stockstandard generic man and woman standing in the same room scenes where we're supposed to get Romance In The Air from it.

Personally, I just think its really funny that once one of the writers was sent a video compilation of their scenes with jinx snoring "BOOOOOORING" over the whole thing, and she replied, with some paraphrasing: "Yeah, I did that on purpose ;)"

#Hexposts #Arcane #Long post #My foremost explanation: caitvi is supposed to be the one true appealing romance in this #If youre sucking up a lot of copium you could argue viktor and jayce will Maybe Perhaps Come Off as Gay Next Seasons #But who knows #I sure do remember the vkjc fanart on the showrunners walls as they accepted those animation prizes tho #They know it flopped

[mybrainproblems]

every day i see Takes and i am being so goddamn brave right now

ppl really need to be taking into account that their watch/rewatch is taking them through material that is 5, 10, 15+ years old and some of that comes with "period typical" warnings. and "period typical" means that some of these creatives have demonstrated in meatspace they've grown and changed. and when you contextualize it in its own time period and look at contemporary media, spn is pretty par for the course and up against shows like house md (which is a trash fire of bigotry) it's not even that bad. bc the thing is that spn has always, from the pilot, had a beating bleeding heart on its sleeve. its missteps are bad and i'm not excusing that, but spn's issues with racism and misogyny rarely feel like they're coming from a conscious place. (except gamble who has major "white woman who crosses the street to avoid a black man" vibes. tho, charmyder and some others seem pretty cozy about their prejudices too and did not show much growth.)

and while i don't think that unconscious and unexamined bias merits forgiveness... i look at house md (which has a substantial fandom overlap) and see how it makes the conscious choice to take the most offensive route possible at every point. to constantly make racist, sexist and misogynistic jokes. to make plotlines out of acephobia and transphobia being totally okay and justified. and somehow THAT gets a pass from hypercritical ppl overlapping from spn fandom? tbh i'm pretty disgusted with that aspect of the fandom.

that's a bit of a derail from what i'm trying to say here but it's exhausting! and it shows just how performative some ppl's criticism of spn is. parroting that something is Problematique™ without actually looking at it yourself and trying to understand it in the context of when it was written and aired, and not putting in the work to consider the impact of that makes it difficult to actually understand what the show was saying and why certain things happened the way that they did. which fucking again, is not me excusing it (i feel like this is gonna get a "how dare you piss on the poor" response if i don't keep saying this), but spn was such a long running show that context is needed to do a reparative reading and accurately and adequately critique the show's issues.

it's so easy to write off kripke and some of the other writers based on their early writing on spn (and some of it is horrible), but then you look at what they've done since then and you can see them grow and change and also see that they've gained the skill needed to approach things with nuance that they were not capable of with spn. a lot of them experienced growth both as humans and writers and i really wish ppl would actually look at that vs just saying "this is awful and i'm going to gnash my teeth about how awful it is and have a bad time engaging with something that sparks no joy."

if you cannot put in the work to critique spn accurately and accept its faults and recognize that it is of its era and creatives who worked on it have grown then i just don't know what to tell you.

maybe just find a different fandom.

#i just do not understand why ppl stick around if only to get angry or not keep an open mind to ppl growing and changing #piss poor reading comprehension and lack of critical thinking tbh. folks are criticizing without actually *engaging* with spn #*why* is it offensive? what does it say about the writer then? can you accept they've grown even if you can't forgive it? #if you can't accept it and it still upsets and angers you then is it healthy for you to still engage? #spn

[wutheringmights]

You mentioned a deleted reporter character who used to be intensely pro-monarchy but is now anti-monarchy. PLS tell us abt this character 🙏🙏

I will elaborate and you can decide for yourself if I should have kept the character in the story.

The central premise for this character is what I stated before, which was that there was a reporter who in the past published sensationalized stories about the war (a lot of yellow journalism) who in the present day was now anti-monarchy

The reporter was a neutral-to-antagonistic character, depending on how the reader would feel about their perspectives

(One of the reasons I cut this character was that I couldn't come up with a personality that wasn't the archetypal 1920s reporter, so excuse me if I am vague about the reporter's personal details)

So the reporter was a commoner who lived in Castle Town who wanted to make it big in order to pull themself out of poverty; they were the protege of a more well-known journalist who died in the crossfire

The reporter carved a space for themselves as a pseudo official journalist for the Royal Crown and would meet with the nobles constantly to spread war propaganda and reframe any failings

So a lot of yellow journalism

You know how in CTB, Warriors mentions how there are all these pamphlets the Sheikah publish about him to cover up his bad behavior and generally increase his good image? All that was stuff I intended for this reporter to write

The reporter was more of a neutral force at this time, as they were very eager to boost Warriors's image; meanwhile, Warriors always thought the reporter was sleazy and hated talking to them

Sometime between the end of the War of Eras and the beginning of this new war in the present day, the reporter had a reckoning with their role in the previous war

Essentially, the reporter realized that things are as bad for the common people because the reporter did not do their duty to properly report accurate information on the monarchy and the goings of the war

So the reporter was now out to spread only the truth

(I think I was also going to imply that the reporter was only changing their views because anti-monarchy sentiments were popular among the people, and so it would be more profitable to be on the anti-war side instead of the pro-war side)

The problem is that the reporter was intent on painting not only Zelda, but also Warriors as the villains in the past as they released various papers revising what they had previously written and exposing the truth

Imagine articles exposing how taxes were used or how nobles were buying up war ravaged land from farms, or how Warriors used his fame from being the hero to build wealth; stuff like that

I played around with the reporter needing to possibly go into hiding in order to avoid being arrested for treason by Sheikah, or having the reporter be Sheikah themselves to give them an advantage to avoid capture

Present day Warriors would still loathe this reporter for still painting him as the bad guy, but also would recognize needing to be on the reporter's good side in order to control his image, which would be helpful for him later in the story

So why did I deleted this plot line? Not only could I not figure out how to humanize this character beyond their archetype, but the idea for the plotline was fundamentally at odds with a much more important idea I had for the story

The reporter's plotline was based on stuff I learned and discussed in a Media and Politics class I took in college, which discussed how journalism and such affected democracy. But Hyrule isn't a democracy and an essential part of the Turncoat Revolt was that the commoners had no choices. The reporter's plotline assumed that the the common people had a choice and were manipulated by their media into making the wrong one.

I couldn't figure out how to rework the reporter's plotline into one that would fit with an absolute monarchy. So when it was time for me to trim back some of my ideas, this one had to go (though it was a very painful cut)

#and to this day I kinda wish I kept it #I cannot emphasize enough how even now I do not have a personality for this character #all archetype no humanity #me rambling #lu ctb #linked universe #ask #shoot-i-messed-up #do not ask me why the bullet points are small #i also do not know

[icedhotkopi]

Honestly Ep 13-15 felt a bit… weird? I should probably mention that i started watching really late (only started last friday) and have been watching 2-3 episodes per day but imo the story after ep 12 felt like… it’s taking place in a different storyline/universe than ep 1-12 and the pacing and characters felt off(?)

I can kinda excuse ep 13-14 because a bunch of things did happen to the main cast and it did push the story forward, but Ep 15 felt more like a filler because not much really happened? Its not like previous episodes where the cases sort of helped the characters grow or is like some kind of reflection of the main storyline(?)

Like sure Youngwoo finally told Junho why she broke up with him, but it… didnt really affect anything? We didnt get to see what Junho thought about it either. They just… went back to not speaking with each other, like in the beginning of the episode. Maybe they needed time but i feel like that would be okay if this happened earlier and not on the second last episode, especially considering that we dont really get much of the relationship side of things much in each episode. Plus with each episode having a case story line and the added Tae Sumi conflict reaching its climax (tho it seems like they’re going to mix these two points), im kinda scared of how much resolution they’ll be willing to give us in the end (if that makes sense?)

And the whole Tae Sumi plotline itself feels like it’s there just for the sake of the drama. Which is fine i guess, but i feel like it’s slowly taking over Youngwoo’s own storyline? Even if Youngwoo is the main subject of the Tae sumi plotline, it doesn’t feel like she herself is involved in the main conflict ye know

Im also still a bit thrown back by Attorney Kwon’s sudden change and the sudden relationship between him and Attorney Choi. Like, what happened to the “making attorney woo quit” thing? He’s still a jerk but after ep 12, he’s acting more like the person he was before he posted the thing about wyw or when he tried to frame her by sending the file to the opposing attorney. It’s like what he did never happened and was never really addressed again.

This is really really messy and im not sure if im making sense but i just wanted to get my thoughts out after watching ep 15. Dont get me wrong though, i still love this drama and the characters in that world, but i guess it’s just disappointing to see. I really hope they’ll at least tie things together in the last episode, and not leave things hanging because there’s going to be a season 2 :,D

#extraordinary attorney woo #kdrama #red rambles