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hotmessmaxpress · 3 months
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Vale’s goofy ass run in his latest instagram video has fully given me the ick I’m happy to announce I’m no longer attracted to this man
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wileys-russo · 4 months
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in the shadows II a.putellas x sister!reader
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based around this request here - haven't decided if i like or hate this yet? but here we go! in the shadows II a.putellas x sister!reader
"mija! can you get the door please?" you heard your mami yell out from the kitchen as the knocking first sounded. "why? they have keys." you called back, quite invested in the latest episode of your favourite drama.
"just get it por favor!" you rolled your eyes and flicked the tv off, hauling yourself off the sofa you'd been lazing out on with a grunt and a stretch.
"vale! i'm coming jesus christ." you groaned as the knocking continued, pulling the door open with a deep seeded scowl of annoyance.
"i hope the wind changes and you are stuck like this, permanently ugly." alba teased, pinching your cheek and pushing past you making a beeline for the kitchen.
"alba!" your eldest sister huffed, being left with all of their luggage as you rolled your eyes. "gracias pequeña." alexia sighed as you helped her bring everything inside, kissing your head and pulling you into a hug. "hola." you mumbled into her shoulder as she echoed back the greeting.
"alexia!" you groaned as you tried to pull away only for her to hold on tighter. "no i never get to see you anymore, i am making up for lost time." your sister stated firmly as she started to walk toward the kitchen causing you to stumble as you were still held captive in her arms.
"you are so needy, i saw you like two weeks ago!" you struggled in her grip, truly no match for her strength. "you once used to love and appreciate me, worshipping the ground I walked on and following me everywhere always wanting me around, i remember those days." alexia sighed dramatically, gently smacking your cheek with her hand.
"get off!" you huffed, eventually pushing her away only to be pulled backwards into yet another hug. "are we sure she is not adopted mami?" alba asked, wrapping your arms around you as if you were wearing a straight jacket and holding them firmly behind your back as you wriggled to break free.
"sí she hates affection, like an alien." alexia joined in with a smug grin as you tried to kick and hit your sisters shins. "how do you have a girlfriend? so miserable and angry all the time, maybe we should give her a medal for putting up with you." alba teased, kissing your cheek as you huffed and struggled to break out of her grip, a head shorter than her.
"she still cannot get free, so cute." alexia joined in, cooing and pinching your cheek as your teeth snapped at her. "oh the biting phase is back, watch out." alba grinned as your legs lashed out wildly trying to connect with either one of them.
"i'm only like this around the two of you because you never leave me alone!" you grunted, bucking and kicking hopelessly much to the amusement of your older sisters who had always found pleasure in teasing and picking on you.
thats not to say they would ever allow anyone else to push you around though, that role firmly occupied only by them and they'd been fiercely protective of you your entire life in every other aspect.
"vamos, let your sister be." eli waved to the two of them with a disapproving look. you were let go and immediately launched at whoever was closest which in this case was alba, chasing her into the living room.
"do not break anything!" eli yelled out as a war cry was heard and something crashed to the ground, thumps and grunts echoing as the two of you rolled around wrestling like children on the living room carpet.
now a few days before christmas you were all due to spend the holidays together, cramming back into your family home which always lead to some sort of squabble between the three of you when you were forced to live on top of one another for the week.
"go make sure they do not kill each other please." your mami sighed a few moments later when you and alba were yet to return, alexia pushing herself up and setting off to find wherever the two of you had dissapeared to.
your relationship with both of your older sisters despite the teasing and the age gap was always incredibly close, and had only seemed to get better now none of you lived together anymore, alexia busy with her football career, alba with her job and you with law school.
well, you used to be.
"-no you need to tell her. we cannot keep this up forever!" alexia paused by alba's bedroom door which was slightly ajar, frowning at the hushed voices coming from inside.
"not forever! just not over the holidays, you know mami is already stressed with everyone coming over and she always sends herself sick and crazy preparing and cooking and cleaning. its not the right time alba!" you whispered back with a firm shake of your head.
"when will be the right time? you have made excuses for weeks now and you are making me lie because you're living with me instead of at school. someone will find out and then i get in trouble for not telling anyone you dropped out!" alba warned sternly as alexia's eyes widened and you both jumped as the door flew open.
"you dropped out of law school?" you withered under the piercingly sharp glare of your eldest sister as alba hurried to close the door again.
"ale-" you started but fell silent at yet another angry look flung your way. "when? do not lie to me." your sister warned firmly as alba sat back on the bed with you.
"five months ago." you answered honestly, even alba's eyes now bugging out of her head and she smacked your arm. "joder! you told me three weeks ago. where the hell were you living?" she scolded, both their gazes burning into you.
"with mariana." you again answered honestly. "oh when i get my hands on that girl. she should have known better than to let you drop out, i bet she encouraged it!" alexia scoffed shaking her head.
"yeah well you won't need to worry about seeing her again to kill her because we broke up." you mumbled, gaze dropping to the floor as you picked at a loose thread on your shorts, the ripped denim edges now suddenly the most interesting thing in the room.
"oh great! so you drop out of school, move in with your girlfriend, your girlfriend breaks up you and then you move in with alba and make her lie to everyone." alexia laughed but it was a bitter noise which stuck in the back of her throat, your eyes snapping up toward her.
"why do you assume she broke up with me?" you asked, voice barely above a whisper as alexia failed to hear but alba didn't, her frown melting from one of anger to concern.
"ale." alba warned quietly, catching the new look you were sporting as your fists balled by your side. "no! you do not get to defend her and coddle her alba. everyone makes excuses for her!" your eldest sister warned sending the brunette beside you quiet, but it didn't stop her hand from finding yours, gently forcing it out of a fist and squeezing it supportively.
"you are always going on about how everyone treats you like a baby. well look at how you act!" alexia gestured wildly with her hands.
"you're supposed to be smart. to study and learn and finish school, then get a great job, help people and help make change like you wanted to. you have so much potential hermanita why would you just throw that all away? do you not care about your life? your future? a career?" alexia lectured, voice growing louder as your eyes flickered nervously toward the door aware your mami was only a few feet away in the kitchen.
"alexia i-" you tried to answer her questions but it would appear they were rhetorical as she held up a finger silencing you. "you are going back to school. do you know how much even a year costs? no you don't because you didn't pay for it! and you promised me." alexia hit you where it really hurt as your face crumpled.
when you'd first floated the thought of law school it had been on the floor of her apartment, the three of you laid down on the floor the night she moved in testing out the new white shaggy rug alexia had insisted on buying for the place she'd bought after she signed a new contract with barca.
you hadn't finished high school yet but you hardly needed to try, you'd always been smart, book smart anyway, and you passed through school with ease. much to the infuriation of your friends who spent hours and hours studying for tests you'd finish a half hour early and that was after you'd already gone through all your answers twice to double check.
"how many years is law school?" you'd asked suddenly, both your sisters sending you a perplexed look as you rolled your eyes and snatched alba's phone, your own out of reach on the counter as you googled your question.
"why?" alexia pushed herself into a sitting position to look down at you as alba grabbed her phone back and flicked your ear for taking it.
"just thinking." you shrugged, moving your hands behind your head. "about going to law school?" alba had asked now as again you shrugged.
"maybe. oh! can get we get sushi for dinner?"
for the weeks that followed that night you continued to do your own research, hauled up in your room reading through the different kinds of law, lengths of study, different schools, but all of that came screeching to a halt when you'd looked at the cost.
though you'd tried to keep it to yourself there wasn't much you could get past alexia. alba was much easier to lie to or manipulate as you needed but your eldest sister seemed to have been born with a built in lie detector.
which was part of the reason you'd avoided her so much these last few months for fear of her finding out you weren't in school anymore.
but it was just after you'd graduated when of course the questions started. what would you do now, where did you see yourself in a few years time, what were your goals for the future? and all accompanied by the growing pressure of your families boasting that you were so smart you could go anywhere and do anything.
only, you couldn't do the one thing you actually thought you might be good at.
you'd applied for a scholarship without telling anyone, a last final hope that maybe you could make something work. but when you got the letter back in the mail informing it had gone to a different applicant you'd abandoned the thought all together.
but of course there was one person who saw right through your attempts to evade the questions and the compliments, alexia.
you'd all just finished having dinner after your graduation ceremony, the table of your family and friends loud and rowdy all drinking to celebrate you as you watched on with a smile, your eldest sister knocking her knee against yours.
nodding for you to step outside with her you'd followed, the two of you slipping away to the balcony of the restaurant which given the late hour of night was a lot quieter as you exhaled and relished in the momentary peace.
"so, law school." alexia had started, catching you off guard as the walls you'd had up all night when it came to the questions of your future faltered for a moment. "the scholarship did not go through." again, she was right on target.
"how did you know i even-" you frowned and shook your head in bewilderment as she only shrugged, refusing to disclose an answer. "its the cost nena, sí?" alexia spoke, softer now as you hesitated before nodding and exhaling, the walls tumbling down.
"you have to pay for the first year up front. then the next two years you are put onto a program where you do not pay until you graduate and start to work. like a debt! it gets paid off overtime with interest. but that first year alone, it is too much." you admitted with a shake of your head as alexia only hummed.
"please don't tell mami. she would do something stupid like sell the car or mortgage the house again for a loan, she has already given up so much for us." you pleaded quietly, eyes baring into hers as the taller girl looked away.
"ale please! i am already looking into other scholarships for other courses, other schools, other options." you begged, which wasn't a lie. "no." your sister replied simply as you deflated, looking upwards with a deep sigh.
giving up on the conversation you stood from your chair to head back inside, intending to enjoy one last night of peace before alexia would force you to come clean to your family.
"ay hermanita." your sisters hand grabbed your wrist, nodding for you to sit back down. "no, you will go to law school." alexia corrected as you took your seat, sending her a frown. "ale i already said-" her hand silenced you.
"i will pay for the first year." alexia stated firmly, her tone leaving no room for argument though you were never one to listen to her. "no you will not!" you scoffed, again trying to stand and leave but she tugged you back to your seat.
"alexia." you sighed deeply as her hands found yours and forced you to look at her. "hermana, you are so smart. smarter than me, than alba, than most people i know! you have so much potential it is a waste for you not to use your mind to learn and to do good because of something like money." your sister spoke kindly but firmly, eyes locked with yours.
"you are not going to drop this, are you?" you asked, lips hinting at a smile. "no, you know me better than that." alexia smiled smugly, dropping your hands to pull you into a tight hug. "and you really need school if you cannot even win an argument with me. some lawyer!" alexia teased softly.
"i don't even know what to say ale." you exhaled shakily as your sister kissed your forehead, lips lingering there.
"start with a thank you hermana. we can call it your birthday and christmas present for the next...ten years." alexia mumbled against your skin as your body vibrated with laughter against hers. "thank you, thank you so much."
"but pequeña promise me you will make the most of it. that you will go and you will learn and do great things, greater than any of us." alexia stared down at you as you nodded, promising her with a smile.
the moment was interrupted by alba bursting outside as you broke apart, slinging her arms around both of you with a cheer and a lopsided grin.
"vamos hermanas! time for shots."
"that is not fair alexia. i never asked you to pay." you spoke up again, standing to your feet with a frown as alexia scoffed. "you might not have asked but you also did not do much to fight me on it, did you?" alexia bit back, squaring up and taking a step forward as you refused to back down.
"are you even going to let me speak? or just talk at me, after all i know how much you love the sound of your own voice capitana." you spat, tone now laced with venom.
"vale! i think we should all just take some time and some space to calm down before we continue." alba stepped in, trying to push her way between the two of you sensing it was bordering on ugly.
"and how could you let this happen! you kept her little secret and you did nothing to try and change her mind?" alexia instead turned her anger on her other younger sister who pulled a face.
"alexia you have not even heard her out for five minutes. i have had three weeks of conversations with her hermana, you are not being fair." alba defended you, having reacted similarly when you'd first come to her and realizing her mistake once you explained yourself.
"fair! whats not fair is her giving up the moment something gets hard. you found school easy but not everything will be easy for you! that is what being an adult is, if you want to be treated like one." alexia attempted to push her way past alba who held firm despite being the shorter of the two.
"ale that is enough. walk away, calm down and hear her out afterwards." alba spoke calmly again, though you knew both of them well enough to see she was near to meeting alexia at the same level of anger.
"no! i have never been so disappointed in you, ever. i thought i was investing in you and your potential but if you are so happy to throw it away and drop out of school? fine! but what a waste it was then." alexia spat, glowering at you as hurt flashed across your face.
"you dropped out of school?" all three of your heads whipped to the door which was now open again, your mami standing there with a face like thunder as you shrunk, wishing a sinkhole would form and swallow you up.
"mami-" you started as alba and alexia stepped away from one another, all the anger which had once radiated around the room sucked out in a second.
"no. come!" she pointed for you to step outside as your body deflated and you made your way out of alba's room, the older girl moving to follow but eli held up her hand again.
"you two stay here, fix this." she ordered, gesturing between them before pulling the door closed as her footsteps sounded in the distance. a pause of silence passed where you could have heard a pin drop, before the sound of eli's yelling echoed through the house and both alexia and alba winced at the harsh catalan bouncing from wall to wall.
neither girl spoke a word sat side by side on alba's bed as they listened in to the entire lecture, not hearing you even say a single word back before a door was heard slamming and there was silence again.
sharing a look both older girls left the room, finding your mami dishing up lunch. "eat please." the woman instructed calmly as they both sat down at the table. "where is she?" alba spoke first as eli took her own seat.
"your sister went for a walk." the woman answered curtly, anger still present in her voice as alexia remained quiet, picking at her food and ignoring the looks sent her way by her sister across the table.
lunch being painfully awkward the silence was broken by the sound of the door opening again as you stepped inside, alba the only one to look toward you and noticing your red and puffy eyes where you'd clearly been crying.
"mami." you tried, the woman ignoring you as she continued to eat. "mami por favor, can we just talk about this?" you requested softly, voice dangerously close to breaking.
"mami please, at least look at me." you all but begged, voice cracking as alba tore her own eyes away unable to watch as yours filled up again with tears.
but when again you received nothing in return you deflated even further, shoulders slumping as you dropped your keys on the counter and silently made your way to your childhood room, door closing with a gentle click.
"mami." alba frowned, the woman pushing her chair back with a scrape, collecting their empty plates and wordlessly walking to the kitchen.
"mierda!" alexia swore as suddenly alba kicked her under the table with a glare. "puta." the older girl spat back rubbing her shin which started to throb. "this is all your fault, big mouth." alba huffed, pushing back her own chair and heading for your room.
but as hours passed she was unsuccessful in trying to coax you out or to let her in, your door remaining locked and the entire family on edge, a frosty silence falling throughout the normally bright and joyous home.
alexia seemed unfazed, laying on the lounge watching the barca men play, arms crossed and a placid look on her face. "ale!" she looked up at the call of her name. "i'm going to the store mija." eli informed as her daughter nodded, the older woman out the door before she could even blink.
"what?" alexia sighed as alba appeared again, blocking her view of the tv with arms crossed. "you know what." her younger sister retorted. "how is this my fault? she is the one who made all the mistakes, mami was going to find out eventually anyway!" alexia defended herself as alba rolled her eyes and grabbed the remote, flicking off the tv.
"alba!" "alexia!" her sister mocked in the same tone, taking a seat beside her. "well if you won't hear her out, i will talk." and with that she spent the next ten minutes explaining everything alexia had failed to hear from you, the blondes stony features softening.
"oh." was all she managed to get out. "oh!" alba repeated sarcastically, shoving the older girl.
"see? now do you see why this is your fault? you didn't give her a chance to speak and you did not see her when she came home before ale, you did not see her break when mami ignored her." alba shook her head.
"you need to fix it. and today! we cannot be like this over the holidays." alba warned as alexia nodded in agreement, at a slight loss for words for once.
when again alba was met with silence as she knocked gently and called out your name, alexia took over and opened your door using a butter knife to easily pick the lock. but when the door popped open, they were only met with an empty room and an open window.
"i know where she will be."
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"alba leave me be por favor i am not in the mood." you warned with a sigh, hearing the footsteps approach you from behind. your body tensed as they stopped beside you, the taller girl taking a seat on the sand but taking caution to leave a reasonable gap between the two of you.
"no way." you scoffed quietly, moving to stand and walk away before alexia grabbed your wrist. "please. i am not here to argue or to yell, just to listen." the blonde promised softly as you tugged your hand free and gave her a cautious look.
"i promise hermana."
not finding the same burning anger from before present in her eyes you took a seat again, scooting a little further away and tucking your knees to your chest as the wind picked up a little.
"did you pick the lock?" you broke the silence first, refusing to look at her as your eyes remained locked on the horizon. "sí. did alba show you how to sneak out?" alexia asked, also staring out at the water with a slight smile.
"years ago." you answered, having been caught once by alba when you were trying to get out the front door to go to a party she for once had taken pity on you, showing you how to safely climb down the side of the house and out the back gate when you were just fifteen.
granted she did also use that particular instance to blackmail you into doing her laundry for a week, so really pity may have been the wrong word to use.
"good, i showed her first." alexia smiled properly now, pulling her hood over her head in an attempt to block out the wind whistling sharply through her ears.
"so. alba told you?" you again broke the silence which fell, eyes dropping to the ground as you traced patterns in the sand with your fingers. "i would like to hear it from you." alexia spoke, her stomach knotting up at the memory of the harsh words she'd slung at you hours ago.
"you weren't completely wrong, school was hard, really hard." you started with a sigh and a frown, focused on the sand beneath your fingertips. "none of my friends are studying, they all chose to take gap years and travel, together." your tone shifted, a slight bitterness to it.
"leaving you behind." alexia spoke softly, glancing toward you as you nodded. "i just-" you started, clearly struggling to get your words out. "i don't not like school, its hard but i want to be a lawyer, i think." you continued, shaking the sand off your hand.
"all of my teachers speak about how much of a commitment law is once you are licensed to practice and once you start in a firm." you looked back out to the ocean, well aware of your sisters eyes boring into the side of your head.
"i have to do two hundred hours of placement minimum, a hundred hours each year after the first. and i just...i am only twenty one alexia, i like learning about law but i do not want to be a lawyer right now." you admitted, chin resting on your knees as you fingers picked at your shoe laces.
"so you dropped out." alexia had only already put the pieces together but wanted you to know she was listening. "yes. but they hold my place in the course for a year, that is the bit that nobody ever lets me explain." you murmured, voice barely above a whisper and almost snatched away in the wind.
"oh pequeña, i should have let you speak." alexia mumbled, guilt wracking her body as you hummed. "i am so so sorry hermana you were right not to tell me, i just messed everything up." alexia sighed deeply, rubbing her face tiredly.
"yes you did. mami won't even look at me!" you puffed air from your nose, stabbing the sand angrily with your finger. "we can fix that, i will fix this." alexia promised, taking her chances as she moved to be right by your side, relieved when you did not make an attempt to move.
"i have a job you know? thats what i've been doing since i left, just working and saving." you confessed, still stabbing at the sand and refusing to look at your sister.
"i work reception at a dental clinic, not far from your apartment actually." you chuckled a little at that though you were never too worried about running into her. you knew her training schedule too well and the chances of the alexia putellas stepping foot in a public dental clinic was slim to none.
"i am going to save up enough to pay you back, it will take time but i will pay it back, all of it." your face hardened again which didn't go unnoticed by your sister who frowned. "pequeña-" she started, a hand coming to sit on your knee which you pushed away.
"no, you cannot change my mind. i am not having you hold it over me for the rest of my life alexia. i wish i had never said yes!" you warned, finally meeting her eyes though it broke your sisters heart to see the obvious pain and trouble swirling behind them.
"hey i wont-" "you already did alexia. or have you gotten so old you fail to remember conversations a few hours ago? if you can even call yelling at me a conversation." you reminded sharply, frown set back into your face as you shuffled away from her slightly.
"i am not old." was all she retorted back in offence, causing a small snicker to escape from you as your features softened slightly. "you're basically thirty, that is halfway to sixty." you mumbled, hint of a smile on your lips which dissapeared as quickly as it formed.
"i am twenty nine." her arm stretched out to shove you lightly, eyes on the horizon and a smile on her lips. "still old, should be in a museum." your own arm shoved her back, sharing a quick glance of amusement momentarily.
"know what will be in the museums? all of my trophies." she smirked as you rolled your eyes. "they will need to pry them from mami's cold dead fingers first, or get to them before alba sells them all on ebay." you joked, the frostiness from before beginning to melt slightly.
"i should make a list, she really will sell them." alexia sighed with a shake of her head. "probably already has, or some of your smelly boots and match shirts." you smiled, your sister shaking her head beside you.
"i do not want you to pay me back hermanita." the conversation shifted as you now sighed. "ale-" you tried but she cut you off. "no. at least not yet, if you really want to i cannot stop you. if you decide to go back and you become a big fancy lawyer we can talk about it then, but promise me you will not use your savings from the last few months." alexia warned firmly, your head turning to look at her.
"promise me." she repeated, holding out her pinky. "really?" you gave her a look. "sí, unbroken agreement." she wiggled her finger as you sighed and gave in, locking your own with hers as you both leaned in to kiss your hands.
"i really am so sorry pequeña. i said some very nasty things, i did not mean them but i still said them and that wasn't okay. but i love you very much and i did mean it when i said you are smart, so so smart." alexia again moved closer as you kept her gaze.
"but your life should be yours to do with it what you want, and if that is not law that is okay. you could do anything! the world is yours if you want to take it." alexia smiled sincerely which you finally returned, settling her anxiety.
"i think i am going to travel for a little bit, see more of the world." you spoke up, alexia nodding as you both looked back out to the ocean, your head falling to her shoulder. "you should, it is beautiful. so long as you come home afterwards!" she nudged you with a grin.
"maybe, i might fall in love with the world and never want to come back!" you teased as your sister scoffed. "there isn't a corner of the world where you could hide from me hermanita." she threatened playfully, a gentle hint of insecurity in her voice.
"i would always come home. i'd miss alba too much!" you shrugged, alexia pushing you with a glare. "what? we had all those years at home together when you were off playing football to bond, you're second on the list now, maybe even third if we're including mapi." you grinned, your sister pulling you into a headlock.
"i am always number one, i even have it on a trophy!" alexia reminded with a smirk as you struggled to pull away. "i was six when i gave that to you!" you protested, flinching as her fingers dug into your ribs eliciting a loud laugh to fall from your lips.
"you used to follow me around everywhere, my little shadow." the blonde smiled fondly and let you up as you huffed and fixed your hair.
"i didn't know any better!" your eyes rolled as you halfheartedly punched her shoulder. "and besides you hated it! you used to always tell me off and yell at me to go away." you chuckled at the memory.
"now its you yelling that at me, full circle." alexia mocked, pinching your cheek and draping her arm over your shoulder pulling you into her side, a comfortable silence falling once more as you both watched the waves crash.
"do you remember when you tried to drown me here?" you spoke up, a smirk ghosting your lips. "i did not try to drown you!" the older girl protested sending you a glare.
"you dragged me out past the waves and threw me in, before i knew how to swim!" "sí, and what happened? you learned to swim, you are welcome." "that was not a thank you."
"so what happened with mariana?" alexia questioned curiously. "nothing." you shrugged lightly, the look of disbelief having you roll your eyes.
"if she cheated or she hurt you or she left you or anything, i will take mapi and we will take a baseball bat and we will-" alexia started to explain as you pushed her hands down where she had started to demonstrate just what the baseball bat was for.
"no! nothing like that. when i moved in with her after leaving school things just sort of...fizzled. i think we just saw too much of each other and we decided we were better off as friends, we still talk sometimes but not very much." you confessed honestly as alexia pulled you into another hug, kissing the crown of your head.
"vamos pequeña we should head back. i need to speak with mami, i will fix my mistake." alexia promised as she pushed herself to her feet, holding out a hand to help you up.
"alexia!" you huffed as she started to pull you up but let go, sending your body tumbling ass first into the sand with a grunt. "you always fall for that." your older sister snickered, turning and starting to walk away.
"puta." you mumbled under your breath, standing up and brushing off the loose sand before catching up to her. "never gets old." alexia sighed happily sending you a smirk as you shoved her, the two of you falling into step.
"know what is old though? you." "joder, i am only twenty nine!"
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pablitogavii · 3 months
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Can you write a longer angsty story where Y/N runs away from a guy (who was aggressive/sexually inappropriate etc) and then Gavi jumps in being like “who did this to you”, “touch her and you die”
Y/N sobbing against his chest. Gavi getting angry and punching the guy.
Y/N being like “I’m okay” Gavi being overprotective and insisting that she stay at his place
Maybe with smut
Don't touch her
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You knew Pablo since you were together in middle school. Then he left to play professionally but you kept being each other's favorite enemies. Somehow you could never see eye to eye.
Both of your families always talked about you two being together because of how much you "hate" on each other. Even Aurora always teases you about it.
You were right now in one of the most uncomfortable dates of your life. They guy was way too touchy and you wanted to leave asap.
"Wanna go over to my place guapa?" he smirked reaching his hand underneath the table to place it on your knee and you gulped sending the text to the first person on your list, and it just had to be Pablo.
You two were fighting last night about something again so he was on your speed dial always. Pablo received your location with an "sos" so he was already in the car on the way to you.
No matter the arguments and fights, there was no way Pablo wouldn't come when you called...likewise went for you being first there during his injury.
"Alright, let's go!" he said reaching your hand and walking out of the restaurant. You wanted to leave the place before telling him you're not up for it not knowing that was more dangerous.
"I'm a little tired, maybe next time" you say trying to move away but his grip tightened. Damn will that stupid Pablo come already!
"Let go of me ..." you say trying to pull away and he slammed you against the concrete wall and you hit your head feeling dizzy. His hand went on your throat and he left marks while kissing your skin making you sick!
"Please, stop ..." you were crying and suddenly someone pulled the guy off you tossing him to the floor and pulling you to his side.
"P..Pablo" you say drying your tears and he pulled you behind his back while the guy stood back up marching towards you two.
"Touch her ...and you die" Pablo was stern and cold and something in you warmed up at his words. It felt special to hear him protect you like this. You somehow always felt safe when he was there for you.
"Who are you, her bodyguard!?" guy said and you felt your cheeks flush.
"Who me!? Nah! You're crazy!" Pablo negated like always and you remembered why you guys hated each other so much. It was always hard to admit what you two felt for each other.
"So why are you here???" guy said and you wanted to know the answer to that question.
"Problem mio" Pablo simply said pulling you towards his car and the guy walked towards you trying to grab you resulting in Gavi punching you hard that his nose bled.
"Let's get you home nena..." he said after you were both in the car and you shook your head quickly. Last thing you wanted is to explain what happened to your parents. You just wanted to sleep and forget all about it.
"Vale, let's go to my house then huh?" he said and you nodded as he noticed you were still shaking up a little bit.
"You're safe now" he said reaching one of his hands to grab yours and you blush once again ...was Pablo really holding your hand and being gentle with you???
"I'm okay ..." you say sadly and he nodded continuing to hold your hand all the way to his house.
"Where are your parents?" you ask as you walked inside the gorgeous mansion at the edge of town.
"Back in Seville with Aurora. I'm alone for awhile" he explained as you walked to the living room and sat down quite sad and shy.
Pablo made you a cup of tea still keeping your favorite black one around, before sitting besides you and raising up your chin. This was all new and strange but you weren't complaining at the way Pablo was making you feel tonight.
"I shouldn't have went ..." you say feeling like all of this could have been prevented if you stayed at home.
"No, he shouldn't force you on anything you're not ready for ...it should have been enough to be in your company ..." Pablo was catching himself off guard not knowing why he cared all of the sudden.
"Um Pablo ...I'm a little tired" you say and he jumps helping you to the guest room before bringing you one of his shirts to change into for bed. It wasn't the first time he saw you in his clothes over the years, but tonight it felt strangely good.
"Um ...thank you for everything tonight" you spoke playing with the edges of his shirt that was falling to your knees and he smiled nodding his head and slowly getting closer. Your heart was being so strong against your chest ... what is this feeling!?
When you closed your eyes, you felt his hand touching your hair and he left a kiss on top of your head gently. It was more passion you felt when any other guy gave you a real kiss.
"I'm glad you're safe now, nena" was all he said before wishing you a goodnight and leaving to his own room.
For the next few hours, neither of you could sleep. You were both very much turned on and desperate for each other's company. It was you who slowly got to your feet and walked into his room first despite how nervous you were about it.
"Pablo? Are you sleeping?" you ask and before you could finish the sentence he was already sitting up and smiling towards you.
"No, can't ...you?" he said and you shook your head while pouting. Despite wanting Pablo, you were also a little shaken up after tonights events.
"Well, come here and we'll watch something together?" he said and you smile getting underneath the covers and he scrolls through the channels until you chose a very much romantic movie to watch.
"These are corny!" he complained for the fifth time and you giggled turning your attention away from the TV and looking into his eyes instead without another word.
"Why? Because they're romantic? Or because you wish they were real?" you came closer biting your lip while looking into his and he took the signal smirking and snaking his arm around your waist.
"You mean real like this nena?" he spoke softly and you nodded placing your hand on his heart feeling it beating fast.
"Why did you save me Pablo?" you ask and he shrugs feeling a little shy and proud to admit that he hated the fact you were out with anyone but himself.
"Because ... well because you needed me y basta!" he said looking away but you placed your finger underneath his chin making him look back at you.
"You keep going on how much you hate me, and yet you are always there when I need you?" you smirk and he blushes tightening his grip around your waist.
"One would think you're lying and that tu eres muerto por mi Pablito?" you tease making him roll his eyes at you but then your hands went to his hair and he became serious again.
"Que haces conmigo nena!?" he smirks and you blush enjoying the way his hair feeling underneath your fingertips. Soon after you two cuddled up together and fell asleep in each other's embrace.
What you didn't expect is that his family arrived the next morning finding the two of you cuddled up in his bed. Aurora was quick to play some music and make you both jump in fear being all disheveled and now very much embarrassed.
"I knew you two would end up together!" she giggled
"WE'RE NOT TOGETHER!" you both yelled at the same time looking into each other's eyes and bursting into laughter.
"Okay, they know now nena...whatever I don't care!" he says grabbing your face and kissing you sweetly before his family left you two to get ready and come down for breakfast.
"You're all mine now nena.." he smirks pulling you closer and you felt your heart jumping a beat at his words..together with you enemy..it felt unreal..but so natural and right.
"All yours Pablito.." you whisper back before you two started kissing again more passionately.
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blingblong55 · 8 months
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Complicated Freak- Valeria Garza NSFW
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NEED VALERIA TO SUCK ME OFF BUT ALSO WHILE I WEAR A MASK. (5 from teh kinktober thingAlso M!reader)
M!Reader, smut, MDNI, 18+, dom!reader, sub!Valeria, spitting, oral!sex, unprotected!sex, establish!relationship, secret!relationship
You and Valeria have been in a secret relationship for weeks after she recruited you. All men who worked for her wore a mask, and to your surprise, she liked it when you fucked her whilst wearing one. At times, all you had to do was look at her a certain way and she would start to become needy. This became a problem when she had a dinner with some other cartels and you were in the room. Gun in hand, she looked around as she spoke to the other leaders, a smirk on her lips when she saw how your clothes tightened around your muscles. "Excuse me but please enjoy yourselves." she stood up, called you and brought you to another room.
"Ma'am, what is it?" you always tried to be serious, after all, today you couldn't fuck up, this was a very important meeting for her. "Touch me~" she whispers, her hands on your chest, undoing your shirt. "Valeria, I can't, I'm on duty." You try to reason your excuse but she shuts you with a kiss. "It's an order, now fuck me." her hands guiding you to the hem of her dress. "Be rough this time," she whispers and you let your gun down. The door to the bathroom is locked as you lift her on top of the sink. Her legs are on your side, "you're a naughty little thing, Vale." you kiss her neck, your hands lifting her dress up. The bulge in your trousers hardening.
She moves her head to the side, giving you better access to her soft skin, you nibble and lick her neck. Her moans are soft, a smile on her as she feels waves of incoming pleasure coming through her. "fuck...R/N," she moans again, her hands on your shoulders or back, she can feel your muscles under your shirt. You kiss her again, your fingers teasing her entrance, she spreads her legs further, wanting more from you. Your fingers getting coated in her slick, teasing her cunt and making her moan. You finger her, fucking your fingers into her, making her rock her hips, her moans louder by the second. The way her tits moved as she moves agaisnt your fingers, making you lean forward, slip the dress of her shoulders and her chest. And of course, she wasn't wearing a bra, what a dirty whore, you thought. Your toungue licking her nipples, nibbling on them and leaving your mark on her.
Her tits bounce, making your hard cock get more sensitive. By some point you begin to trail down to her wet cunt, Pushing her soaked panties to the side, "Let me taste you, Vale." you whisper, your hot breath hitting her inner thighs, she pushes your head in. You lick and smile, enjoying the taste of her sweet cunt. She throws her head back, the mirror behind getting foggy. "Mas...mas.." she moans and pleas. You let out a deep chuckle.
You praise her, making her more wet, you know she likes it when you praise her. Making her into the perfect good girl for you. She grinds her pussy on your face, your nose hitting her clit each time. Her thighs are gripped by your calloused hands. She lets out more moans, each one getting sweeter by the second. Her whimpers, oh those sweet whimpers she lets out as she begins to get closer to the edge. "Taste like heaven, my little girl," you whisper, she clenches around your mouth, getting more and more closer. Her hand gripping your hair, how much she loves to be fucked this way.
"Cum, cum my sweet Valeria, please...please..." you softly ask, wanting to drown in her juices, letting yourself drink her and get pussy drunk before letting her out of this room. Her hands gripping the sides of the sink, her legs spread wide open just for you, her back arches as she screams your name, letting everyone know she belongs to you. "fuck, fuck...puta madre," she moans, her juices coating your tongue and throat. You smile, adoring her taste. Her eyes roll back, you not being able to contain any more, moan and groan.
But she isn't done and neither are you. You unzip your trousers, and boxers as your hard cock gets out, she smirks and as always, she gets on her knees. Stroking your cock as she licks the tip, teasing you and enjoying how your hips move, wanting to throat fuck her already. You roll your head back, now it's you holding her hair. It had been days since you last throat fucked her.
She was used to your length and thickness but was she really ready to get her throat fucked raw? You hated how she teased you, kissing all over your cock but never letting it all in. You push her head further, she gags and whimpers, her doe eyes looking up at you. The tears that form at her water line, and you get excited to fuck that mascara off her lashes. You begin to get rougher, her hands at your sides, trying to get a place to hold herself onto. Her drool falling off her mouth only motivates you more. The way the wet noises and her gag became music to your ears only made you get closer to your own orgasm.
Her eyes tear up, leaving stains on her cheeks. You pull out of her mouth, slap your dick on her face. "Open your mouth, stick your tongue out." You command to which she obeys. You once more slap it on her tongue and she looks up at you, that not-so-innocent smirk on her face, how you wish you can fuck it right off her. You again slide your dick inside of her mouth, "relax your throat," you say as your hips thrust, her pretty mouth making the perfect ring on your cock. She gags again, and you feel disappointed, thinking she should get throat trained more often, you think. "Take it, take it," you groan, a pleased sigh leaving your lips.
"Fuck, just like that, Vale." you like how your tip is basically hitting the end of her mouth, she massages your balls, gripping them and expecting her award to be here soon. "Oh, you know how to please me, princess." your voice was low, groans leaving your mouth, her pussy getting wet from this. She gags more, pre-cum and drool messing with her imperfectly perfect makeup. Leaving her a mess, you cum inside her mouth, you bite your lips down, "Yeah...yeah take it you whore," you say between gritted teeth.
Once you pulled out, your cum leaking from her mouth, you make her stand up. "Let me taste myself on your sweet lips," and you kiss her. Her hands on your body, yours on hers. Sharing yet another needed kiss. "You're my pretty girl, aren't you, Vale?" You say between kisses. "Always," she responds back.
Tags: @luci4theminorannoyance
A/N: I hope this was okay<3
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the-fiction-witch · 5 months
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It's Dr Dawkins!
Media The Artful Dodger
Character Jack Dawkins
Couple Jack X Reader
Rating Adorable
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Requested: I love this story and your writing! Do you think you could write one about Y/n being blind or deaf?
I followed the lead of sound and feel, My cane in my gloved grip as I slowly moved it in a circle shape in front of me through the dust of Port Victory, the sound of the silver tip as it moved through the dirt, and the little force or pressure the wooden handle applied back, The heat of the day bore down on me as my face hid under the soft lace. I counted the steps I took and made sure to listen to that of horseshoes, and voices to ensure I was where I was supposed to be.
I heard the silver tip clink and I felt the pressure of the hit, to my left I pulled it back and did so again hearing the same and feeling the same, I moved it up slightly hearing the silver tip rub against the wood. And I smiled.
"Good Afternoon Miss Y/l/n!" I heard yelled into my left ear,
"Good, Afternoon, Mrs Artland." I answered, Mrs Artland always was one to... overcompensate.
"How. can. I. help. you. today!" She shouted slowly so close I could feel the heat of her breath on my face,
"Just the usual please," I asked as politely as I could, It's times like this I am thrilled I wear a vale so I may make any facial expressions I like without offending anyone. She did as always and helped me to pick out the items I needed even if at times I had to debate her, but slowly I added the various items to my basket.
"That all!?"
"Yes, Thank you Mrs Artland."
"You need a gentleman to walk you home Miss Y/l/n?"
"No thank you, I got here myself I can get home myself, I assure you I am quite capable."
"You sure miss?"
"I'm sure, thank you." I nodded,
I ensured my basket was on my arm and turned myself until the silver tip hit the same wooden cart stand but on my right now, so I stepped on and made sure to follow the route in my mind making sure my little points of reference were checked until the silver tip hit into the usual device and I heard a sweet bell to my right.
Home again.
I reached out my hand and my gloved hands met the smooth wooden door and I ran my hand over the cold brass feeling the debossed letters 'Y/l/n'
So I pushed open the door and headed inside, I almost didn't need my cane but I kept it as I slipped my hat and vale off and headed inside using my mental map to go to the kitchen and begin to unpack my basket.
But I soon heard steps rush down the stairs and into the room.
"Miss Y/l/n!" Marcy complained, "Miss Y/l/n please, you mustn't do that! It's not safe miss." she said as she took my basket for me doing it herself,
"I just fancied a walk to town and I know we-"
"I know Miss but please, we needed things you should have rang and I'd have gone. It isn't safe for you to go walking into town alone Miss."
"I got there and back just fine didn't I?"
"Yes, but bad things could so easily happen. Please just go and sit down miss."
I sighed but went and sat in my usual chair by the fire, even if I was hot from the day's walk in the sun I liked to sit in my chair by the fire listening to it crackle and hop, hearing the hisses and whines as things burnt, feeling the dancing heat upon my skin. I slipped off my gloves and sat my cane in its place leaning on the arm to simply enjoy the changing dancing shadows.
I heard her footsteps approach my chair, "Now? shall I make you a pot of tea miss?"
"I'm alright for the moment Marcy, I might make some later,"
"Miss, I'd much prefer to make it for you." She said as she went to the kitchen not giving me much of a choice soon enough returning with the tea tray that she sat on the table "Just call if you need me, Miss,"
"I will Marcy." I nodded, and I heard her head off into the house, I sighed a moment, Fantastic I'll have lukewarm over-steeped tea when I do want it later.
But I let time melt away for a while enjoying the fire running my fingers across my chair texture until I heard the door knock.
I sat up to go and get it but,
"No! please stay Miss." Marcy told me as she went to the door,
I sighed but stayed in my chair enjoying the fire a while more trying to listen but I heard nothing that could help me once the door opened, I then heard footsteps on my floor I heard Marcy's and another with her, tender heel first steps with a heavy leather sound on the wood, the shift of fabric and small sounds I couldn't place.
I didn't know who now stood in my living room as it wasn't like Marcy to not announce someone for me, and I hadn't been expecting anyone, but I'm sure if given a few guesses I could make assumptions as to who it was.
"Someone with you Marcy?"
"Yes miss," she said sheepishly,
"I see," I chuckled, "And It's a secret is it?"
"He asked me not to tell you miss."
"He did, did he? Well, that's a hint." I laughed,
I think I knew as really only one person would ask such a thing of Marcy,
"He uhh he says you have to guess miss."
"I see." I nodded so I sat up a little perching myself on the edge of the chair and I held out my hand.
Soon enough a hand took mine, his hands warm, his skin callus, dry as if just washed with soap and dried off moments before this, short dirty nails, slender fingers, thin wrists, I found the frayed edge of a shirt worn so much it was no longer soft cotton, I even found stitches my own repair work, I found the long and roomy sleeves with a strong arm below it, I found a sharp shoulder which forced a sound of out him a small chuckle, I found the soft tie around his neck and his collar above it, I felt his smooth skin on his neck even giving his adam's apple a joke which he struggled to silence his laughs too, Both my hands cradled his face feeling his warm smooth skin, tracing the lines across his face, how everything sat where I knew it should, the picture in my mind melting with what laid before my hands, my fingertips gracing his fluffy hair. I already knew my answer but I took the time to stroke his face to hold him in my hands and learn his every crack and crevis, I felt him smile the corners of his lips twitching, and his cheeks hardened as he smiled, I felt around his mouth was a little abrasive not as smooth as the rest of him, he had shaved in the last two days giving his skin that roughness from the blades work, then again if I knew anything about the man in front of me, he could have shaved two days ago or two months ago and the grow back would have still been about this. I'd never known a twenty-eight-year-old man to be so lacking in the facial hair department then again he made up for it.
"Can you guess who?" He whispered almost so quietly I could barely determine his voice but I knew long before his word, who sat in front of me.
"It's Dr Dawkins." I gleamed,
"Well done," He smiled, "You guessed right, you get a prize," he smirked flirtatiously moving to take my hand in his and then he moved to press a soft kiss to my forehead. "So how is my little flittermouse?" He asked as he moved away doing various things I'm sure,
"Fine, just fine." I smiled
"Good, Glad to hear it."
"How are you?"
"Aww, I'm fine flittermouse." He cooed, "Marcy's gone." He whispered,
"Ohh good, She made me tea."
"That was nice of her," he said sitting on the ottoman for my chair as usual, so he could sit in front of me and he could hold my hands,
"she made it twenty minutes ago."
"Oh... Seems worthless."
"It is," I pouted, "I swear she doesn't trust me to boil bloody water."
He chuckled, "Well it's just you and me now, You can boil all the water you want." he said, "So long as you are careful."
I sighed, "Jack! I'm a grown woman I can boil water without you or Marcy's supervision."
"I know you can, I know. But I'm allowed to still worry about you," he said trying to make the tea from the pot but I took it and did so myself slowly of course,
"I'm not a bloody cripple."
"I know you're not. you're the smartest woman I've ever met, that doens't mean I don't still worry over you." He said taking my hands in his, "Hey, you know how much I worry over my little flittermouse when I'm not here." He cooed stroking his nose on mine, "You are incredible, but that doesn't mean you can't ask for help every once in a while."
"I know Jack."
"That's my girl," He smiled, "Now, I got you a present."
"A present?"
"I did, something very special for you." He smiled as he left my hands,
"It's not my birthday or anything for a while yet Jack,"
"I know, can't I just get you presents?"
"I suppose, what is it?"
"I need to borrow this." He said stealing the cushion that had always sat on my chair behind me,
"Why?"
"Just. Patience." He warned, and a few moments later he sat back down, "Okay, here we are." he smiled gently taking my hand as he handed over the cushion now with a new case, I always had the cushion to support my chair with a silk cover on it as I liked the feeling of it, but now that cover was gone replaced by a cotton one, but this cotton had padding with thread forming crisscrossing lines all over the cushion,
"It's very soft," I smiled
"Turn it over," he said
So I did as he told me turning it over and feeling the same padded cotton but this was different, this side of the cover had small sewn-on hearts, each one made of a different fabric with thread surrounding it, each heart a fabric with a different texture, silk, satin, organza, cord, chiffon, lace. Sixteen in total in a grid design. I felt like crying, as this could not have been bought he must have taken the idea to the town tailor and had it made for me each heart a new texture, something I could run my hands over and feel the intricacy, the beauty, all the various textures and design elements. All without needing to see.
"You like it?"
"Ohh Jack... It's beautiful,"
"I wanted to get you something you know is beautiful not something I describe to you. I thought you'd like it."
"I love it so much! Thank you!"
"You're welcome my little flittermouse." He cooed giving my lips a tiny kiss, "Anything for my sweet fiance," He cooed "Now, shall I make you a new pot of tea?"
"Yes Please Jack,"
"Coming right up." 
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strqyr · 3 months
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I don't know if this is appropriate to ask since it's been years already but I really can't let go of Yang's arc at volume 4. It leaves a bad taste to my mouth. Anyways, do you think that there are things that should have been added to Yang's arc at volume 4 or not?
i don't know about should have, but if i was given an option to have more of something, my answer to that will always be Yes, Please.
yang's arc in V4 is... let's say interesting for the lack of a better word, to me, because it's very straight to the point, no "fluff" or extra time spent on anything, like—
okay, to explain myself better, excluding the montage part from the V4 finale where everyone appears, yang appears in four (4) episodes in a 12 episode long volume. her first and second appearances are back to back in episodes 3 & 4, which could basically be summed up as 3: this is how yang's been doing since the fall of beacon, and 4: this is what yang's 'problem' (i.e. why she hasn't left the house / started training again) is. after that, she's 'gone' for four episodes until she makes another appearance in episode 9, in which she's now training and getting back on her feet; then comes episode 11, where yang is about to leave patch.
basically, yang's arc hits all the points it absolutely needs to hit, and no more. it's the bare minimum, and that can feel a bit... underwhelming when talking about one of the four main and title characters who, by far, had the most obvious and possibly the most anticipated arc set up from V3 after she lost her arm.
and while i don't know if there's anything that should have been added, personally i would have liked to see yang training and preparing for her upcoming journey more by, say, going to vale with tai to aid glynda and the rest with their attempts at reclaiming beacon. that way she would have had more time to get up to speed again after being inactive for months that isn't just sparring, but still in a bit more controlled environment than going out in the wilderness alone, with plenty of professionals around her.
and, like. idk this is just an even more of a personally i wish but like. out of all the teacher characters i feel like glynda is the only one who hasn't actually had any kind of one-on-one chat with any member of team rwby while ozpin, port, and oobleck have and all i'm saying is it would be. nice. to have that :)
(also as a bonus: glynda and tai talking about inner circle stuff in roundabout ways. i would eat that up.)
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spahhzy · 11 months
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Just a job~
[for @expensiveeggplant with a 'Tsundere Neo' idea.]
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Roman: Neo, why are we in disguises at a carnival?
Neo, sipping a smoothie: Checking-in-on-a-job-I-was-working.
Roman: Oh, and whose the target?
Neo: ...
Roman: Hmm? Oh, hey, isn't that do-gooder?
Roman pointed to one Jaune Arc, who was being dragged along by the hand of a local and clearly older woman.
Roman: Aww, look at him it looks like he found a date.
Roman turned back to Neo, who had a twitch in her eye as she squeezed the smoothie cup rather hard before spilling its contents on the floor. She began reaching for Hush...
Roman: woooah, now hold on nows not the time for stabby stabby!
Neo looked at him.
Roman: Don't give me that look, young lady. Do you wanna end up on the news... again?
Neo: I-was-saving-Jaune-from-the-diseases known-as-Milfs!
Roman: She just gave him a casserole!
Neo: That-cassserole-was-a-nuclear-bomb.
Roman just sighed running a hand across his face.
Roman: Life would be much easier if you just told him how you feel, Neo.
Neo looked wide-eyed at him before pointing at Jaune and then pointing to herself before silently laughing.
Roman: Oh please, I've known and grown with you long enough. You have taken a liking to him, but you're running out of time~
Roman pointed to Jaune as the older woman had Jaune's hand pressed against her bust, much to Jaune dismay and embarrassment. The woman was trying to give Jaune a kiss.
A dark aura flaired around Neo before long she chucked the empty smoothie cup with precise aim right at the woman head.
Vale lady: Ow!
Jaune: Hmm? Are you okay?
Vale: Yeah, just an empty cup, but who threw it?
Jaune looked around, seeing just the crowd before him before shrugging and picking up the smoothie cup, inspecting it before giving a small smile.
Jaune: Come on, let's get you home.
Lady: But-*sigh* Okay.
Jaune and the woman left as Neo peered out from the corner, doing a slight cheer at her success. Roman smirked and shook his head.
Roman: so is your job complete now?
Neo turned to Roman before she blushed and walked away as Roman laughed at his partners embarrassment.
-Roman's hideout-
Jaune: Hey, you two, how ya been?
Yes, believe it or not, Jaune is actually friends with the two.
Roman: Ah, nothing much. Do gooder, just scoping the landscape for a new score is all.
Neo walked up to Jaune and handed him a smoothie cup with a smile.
Jaune: aww thanks Neo.
Jaune bent down and gave her a nice warm hug, that Neo was all too happy to stay in.
Roman: So Jaune, what did you do today? Teach you anything at Beacon?
Jaune: Nah, classes are off today, so I was going around town just helping out a bit, got caught up helping some lady, and in repayment, she took me to a carnival.
Roman nodded: Did you have a good time?
Neo narrowed her eyes at Roman.
Jaune: eh, it was okay. She's nice and all, but not my type. I've got eyes for someone else.
As he said that, Neo tightened her arms around him.
Jaune: Blah, Neo too tight!
Neo lightened up her hold.
Jaune: But it was curious, a smoothie cup hit her in the head...
Neo quickly let go of the hug and began to whistle walking away from the two of them slowly.
Jaune: More particularly, this cup...
Jaune waves the thrown smoothie cup at Neo, who looked on unimpressed.
Neo: that-could-be-any-one!
Jaune: Ah my dear, you're right, but you left out one tiny tiny small detail.
He flipped the cup around to see the words 'Trivia' written on them.
Jaune: I don't know a lot of Trivia's, do you?
Neo said nothing, just stared wide-eyed at the incriminating piece of plastic.
Jaune: Neo?
Jaune waves a hand at Neo, who just stood like a statue.
Jaune: Neo?
Jaune taps her on the shoulder, but as soon as he did, Neo shattered like glass.
Roman: ahahaha! She's embarrassed!
Jaune smiled at Neo's antics before going off to find her.
Roman: You really know how to pick'em kid.
Jaune laughed but didn't disagree.
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lemonhemlock · 10 months
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Hello,
I really love the posts from this blog. It’s a breath of fresh air compared to YouTube and Twitter which is dominated by Team Black stans.
Can we please talk about the ‘Rhaenyra is the best mother’ propaganda going around.
I’m not saying it’s untrue (though I’m personally skeptical) just that I only ever see it being used to denigrate Alicent as though their situations are in anyway the same. Worse still is when these people (Team Black stans obv.) bring in book ages into a discussion of the show canon arguing that Rhaenyra was only 17 when she had her first son and managed to be a good mother. I’m not arguing either woman, or any woman in general in Westeros, is in a good never mind better situation. Only that it’s easy to argue that Rhaenyra is mother of the year when she has like a half dozen scenes with her children that last all of 15 seconds. She only actually speaks to Jace and Luke in the show.
Alicent may not be perfect but let’s think more critically about the result of Rhaenyra’s supposedly Grade A parenting. Jace is violent and arrogant, Luke is petrified and timid. Neither can fight competently, never mind fairly. Jace cannot speak High Valyrian even though he has both Daemon and Rhaenyra around who were both fluent at the same age. And Rhaenyra send her underage son to the Baratheons when she Rhaenys right as a vastly superior envoy (that’s a different far more annoying topic) — All of this is true even with the buckets of narrative bias working on their favour. There’s a FF trope that Joffrey squired in the Vale, Luke regularly goes sailing with the Sea Snake, and Jace is such a wonderful diplomat. None of which is textually supported but those TB fic writers need desperately for Rhaenyra to look as though she wasn’t just sitting on her ass doing nothing during her stint on Dragonstone.
To me Rhaenyra while probably more affectionate than Alicent; she should nonetheless also be condemned because her selfishness (the reason TB say Alicent usurped the throne for Aegon) puts her children in active danger.
Case in point TB say Aemond needed to be punished because the accusation of bastardy is so dangerous but who might I ask put those children in that situation in the first place? Oh right Rhaenyra.
Additionally unlike Team Green, none of Rhaenyra’s family was truly in danger if she had just capitulated. She’s a woman and the children bastards of the female line. Alicent is there actively counselling Aegon against assassination and conflict. There may have even been a place for her on his small council or she could live out her best Lana de Rey vinyl life and a responsibility free rich lady on Dragonstone (bit rose tinned. I know but not completely absurd)
Just hoping you had some input on this idea that Rhaenyra is an UberMother or even that Alicent is supposedly the worst, most abusive, uncaring parent ever. (This is because she hits Aegon occasionally — but IDK that’s just how boys got disciplined in the past, and why is no one talking about the lack a father figure yet the reason Aegon is a lush is all on Alicent *head desk*)
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Hi there & thank you for your kind words about my blog. I think the difference in parenting style between the two can be explained due to structural factors, i.e. their social positions & respective privileges.
Rhaenyra is her father's favourite, a princess by blood and has an actual dragon. She's not just any regular Westerosi noble lady. She is THE it-girl. She can afford a laissez-faire approach to child-rearing. She is careless with the paternity of the children. She is oblivious to how she is perceived in court, because, for a very long time, it is not a subject of interest to her, as she just automatically assumes her status and dragon will render that aspect irrelevant ("their views don't matter"). It takes until her THIRD child for her to realise people are gossiping about her and that gossip can be dangerous the more her father is ailing. Because of her short-sightedness, she unintentionally puts her children's lives in danger because she insists on keeping them in the line of succession not just for the throne, but also attempts to steal another house's lands and titles. I have always thought that sending Luke to Driftmark to "rule" would just make him vulnerable to assassination attempts by his disgruntled Velaryon relatives.
Meanwhile, Alicent is terrified that her children's lives are in danger, her father's, her brother's etc. She's not going to be a lax parent, she can't afford that. She grows to be an anxious and dissatisfied adult. While Rhaenyra gets to explore her sexuality and have children she wants with someone she cares about & finds sexually appealing, Alicent is repeatedly impregnated against her will and maritally raped by an old, decaying man. She is always going to have a more complicated relationship with motherhood because of that.
Had Rhaenyra & Alicent been millennial mums living in the contemporary world, they probably would have both done a good job of it, with all the resources & information available today on child development & psychology and with enough wealth to afford appropriate childcare when needed. They also both would have benefitted from superior medical knowledge (so childbirth wouldn't have been a death gamble) and would probably not have been forced into teen motherhood.
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Pedri Gonzalez (FCBarcelona) - Real Life Lessons
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It was a hot day in Barcelona. The sun was splitting the stones and the Gonzalez family were of course getting the most of the sun before the autumn weather set in. Y/n had helped her boyfriend's mother prepare lunch for the family and was putting the dishes away. Pedri did insist that he did them, but he had a rough match the day before and Y/n wanted her boyfriend to enjoy at least a day off with his family. As the dishwasher was put on, she decided to go to the shop and to pick up some stuff for baking. She grabbed her car keys and was about to leave. She turned for her purse when she saw her boyfriend in the doorway of the kitchen. "¿llendo a algún lugar?" Her face twisted into one of confusion. "No lo pillo." She replied, making Pedri laugh. "Your Spanish gets worse by the day." He smiled as he walked closer and kissed the top of her head. "Where are you going?" He asked. "Oh. I'm going to the store." She replied. "Let me go and get dressed. I want to go too."
"Babe, you don't even know why I'm going." Pedri shrugged his shoulders. "I don't care. I am going." Y/n smiled and waited for her boyfriend who only took a minute to get ready. "Alright. Vamos." He said, picking up his own keys. "Im driving." Y/n said. "Says who?" She lifted her keys up and dangled them in front of him. "I need to practice driving on the other side of the road. Remember?" He let out a sigh and nodded. "Okay fine." He opened the door and let her out, then closing the door behind him and getting into her car. He let out an irriated groan as she drove, the air only getting hotter. "Amor, do you not have air conditioning?" Y/n was too concentrated on the road and her surroundings to care. "Amor? Estas escuchando?" She came back to reality once she saw clear road ahead of her. "I don't have it." Pedri's head snapped up. "Que quieres decir con que no tienes aire acondicionado?!" He exclaimed. "You just answered your own question in a question."
"Amor, you live in Spain now. Its hot in the summer and you don't have air conditioning?" She nodded. "Correcto." He sat back in the car. "La conche de tu madre." He muttered, holding the bridge of his nose. "Relax, we're nearly at mercadona." She smiled. Pedri slowly looked over to her and sighed. "Lo que digas mi vida."
Now came the tricky thing, especially in Barcelona; parking. "Babe? Can you direct me out please?" His face twisted into one of confusion. "No lo pollo." She sighed. "I need you to tell me when to stop so I don't hit the car behind." He was in disbelief. "No tienes un sensor en tu coche para aparcar?" She shook her head. "I only paid three thousand euros for this car babe." His lips turned into a thin line as he got out and stood behind the car. "Tell me when to stop!" She shouted out the window. "How close is too close?" He asked. "Touching is too close!" He watched as she slowly drove her car backwards, however, some fans recognised him and came over, taking his attention for a moment which resulted in Y/n nearly hitting a car 100 times more expensive than hers right behind her. She waited until the people left and then got out. "Babe! Que demonios?!" Pedri jumped at the sudden tone. "Oh ahora hablas español." He muttered. "I just asked you to look out! I have a college tuition to pay, I don't have money to fix a car like this! I barely have enough for my own car!" If anyone saw the fearless Pedri being yelled at and looking scared, I'm sure most people would laugh, because off the pitch, he's like most men; afraid of their girlfriends while they're angry. "Look, it's okay, it's okay-"
"It's okay? It's not your car!" Pedri held onto her arms, rubbing them. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry mi vida just, I'm sorry." She let out a sigh. "No, no. I'm over reacting. You just had fans to talk to, I'm sorry." He held her closely and kissed her hair. "Come on, let's go get stuff, vale?" She smiled at him and held his hand. "Of course." Pedri grabbed the shopping basket and followed Y/n around as she grabbed various ingredients for baking. Pedri watched her as she so peacefully grabbed stuff and placed it in the basket, but she wasn't using her skills at all. "Do we need anything else, mi vida?" Y/n looked through her phone at the recipe she wanted to make. "Just milk." Pedri nodded. "Okay, go ask for milk." He said. "But I know where the milk is. I've been to this store plenty of times." She replied, placing some eggs in the basket. "But it's for your Spanish. Go ask where the milk is. If you get stuck, I'm here." She just stared at him. Unsure if he was being serious or not. "Serio?" She asked. "Serio." He replied. The fear shot up through her body. She only really spoke to her boyfriend's family and they knew she had trouble from time to time, but strangers? They would probably judge her and she didn't exactly want that. "Babe, do I have to?" He nodded. "You'll be fine."
Y/n walked hesitantly towards a woman in the iconic mercadona outfit. She picked at her nails as she got ever so closer, occasionally looking back to her boyfriend for support from afar. She stood behind her and let out a nervous breath. "Perdóneme?" The lady turned and smiled. "Si señora. Necesitas ayuda?" Y/n nodded. "Sí por favor. Tienes leche?" The lady smiled even bigger. "Sí, por supuesto. Somos una tienda de abarrotes." She chuckled. "Sígueme." Y/n looked confused but then looked back to her boyfriend who signed for her to move along and follow. "Oh."She mouthed, following her. Y/n knew the way but she followed anyway. The shop assistant pointed to the boxes of milk on the pallette. "Aquí está. ¿Puedo ayudarte con algo mas?" She spoke so quickly, Y/n didn't understand. She froze, unable to speak. "Lo siento, acabas de empezar a aprender español. Ella se mudó aquí hace sólo un mes, creo."
"Un mes y medio. Casi dos." Pedri smiled as she spoke more. "Ella lo hizo muy bien. Déjame saber si necesitas algo más." The couple nodded. "Vale, gracias." Pedri replied, placing a carton of milk into the basket. "See? It wasn't difficult." She gave a light hearted smile, still slightly shaken up. She hated speaking Spanish but she knew eventually she would speak like a local. "Aw mi vida. How about we go for some coffee after this? And I'll even drive." He put an arm around her as she agreed. "Come, we need to go pay and then we can go." Y/n watched as her boyfriend placed the items on the belt. She knew this was very cliché but she didn't know how she got so lucky. Pedri turned and noticed her enamored smile. "Que pasa?" He asked. She pecked his cheek and grinned like a school girl. "Te amo."
"Lo se. Soy perfecto." She scoffed and walked by him as he simply chuckled. He felt the exact same way and no words could describe how proud he was of her for simply trying to adjust. She was doing so well and he loved her eith all his heart.
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mermaidsirennikita · 4 months
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Have you read historical books with the I HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF HER vibe?
Devil's Bride and Scandal's Bride by Stephanie Laurens immediately come to mind. Like, all the Cynster books are really on this because Cynsters are CONQUERORS!!!!11 but these two are especially intense. Devil is like, buying Honoria a million gowns without her asking or consenting, and she's like "why" and he's all "I AM PRACTICING FOR BEING HUSBAND???" even though she. Still. Has not. Accepted. His proposal.
Richard/Scandal is just like. Convinced that Catriona needs someone to follow her around and take care of her while she does her mystical Lady of the Vale duties. And to be fair, he is correct, because Catriona is completely insane and sees absolutely nothing wrong with hurtling herself into danger. One of my favorite little moments in the book is when they're walking on like, a wintry landscape, and she's all "I CAN DO EVERYTHING BY MYSELF I DON'T NEED YOU" and then immediately like slips on some ice and almost falls. And Laurens describes him as sort of being like "God help me" while grabbing her before she hits the ground.
Indigo by Beverly Jenkins, dude. Hester is so practical and is so determined to take care of herself, and Galen comes into her life and is like "no no no I am the captain now". His grand gesture at the end. Ugh. Just thinking about it makes me wanna cry. Such great caretaking.
Grace Callaway heroes tend to be this way, while also being paired with the battiest women on God's earth, who again will just cartwheel into danger. Olivia and The Masked Duke, Fiona and The Enigmatic Earl, and Glory and The Master of Shadows are the ones that really stand out to me on this front. (I've read like... a lot of Grace's books lol, but she also has a big backlist and I need to knock out some more soon because I love her.) The Duke Who Knew Too Much also has this vibe hard.
On a different from, How to Steal a Scoundrel's Heart has this vibe in a different way, wherein the very frosty hero who only intends to keep the heroine as his mistress, it's just business... but then she gets her period and is in bed with cramps and he's like "AWWWWW" and like curls up with her in bed to hold her and shit lol.
Lorraine Heath heroes always wanna take care of a woman lol. Shoutout to Olivia getting sick in Between the Devil and Desire and Jack Dodger having an entire conniption over it. Putting her in the ice bath, making her endure it to bring down her fever, watching her sleep in her weird little room of clocks (and calling in Graves, the Greatest Victorian Doctor of All Time) to be like "OMG HELP HER but also to be clear I have zero emotional investment in this annoying woman" while Graves, who's known Jack since childhood, is like "RIIIIIGHT SURE".
Surrender to the Devil is a great "let me take care of you" book. Sterling is another one who initially just wants a mistress, but once he realizes how traumatized and in need of tenderness Franny is, he's sooooo gentle and sweet and caring with her.
Waking Up with the Duke, of course. Shoutout to Ainsley rubbing Jayne's feet while she's like a billion months pregnant (lol me laughing and crying with it segueing to him pushing her nightgown up and her going "... I cannot sleep with you right now" only for him to respond with "I have literally never seen you BIG WITH MY CHILD, can I please just stare creepily at your pregnant belly :/". And then he kisses it. That poor man. I'd die for him.) He also puts her in a special warm pool while her back hurts??? And then she IS like "okay you can do it to me now".
The Duke's Perfect Wife by Jennifer Ashley. Like, never mind Hart giving Eleanor money without being asked while she's like "I don't want you to take care of me and my stupid father who's not good with money" and he's all "I am going to take care of you and your stupid father who's not good at money" (tucking the cash into her bodice) (in his brother's book.... god what an ALPHA movie)... He's also like such a caretaker. He's a NESTING HERO which is really a subsection of the caretaking hero. Hart wants to build Eleanor a nest lined with so much fur and feathers and random shining objects he finds on the forest floor. When she gets hurt, he's like "Eleanor!!!! We cannot Do Things while your arm is in a sling!!!!" and Eleanor is all "oh trust and believe we can". (She wins. One of the only books where he's shellacking her while her arm is in a sling.)
In Which Matilda Halifax Learns the Value of Restraint by Alexandra Vasti has this vibe to me. Because again, Matilda is crazy, and Christian is very like *SIT DOWN YOU SILLY WOMAN AND LET ME TAKE CARE OF THIS*. Fortunately, Matilda is soooo into that.
Hotel of Secrets by Diana Biller has a hero who's like, a virgin and very uptight with this much more experienced and free-spirited heroine. But like. So much of this book is her having near-death experiences and him charging in to save her. Like, not even intentionally? He's just acting on instinct. It's very dear and I love it.
The Duke Gets Even by Joanna Shupe. OBVIOUSLY. Lockwood is literally like "nobody has ever taken care of this woman and guess what I am gonna fix that RIGHT NOW". He like, forces her to get in the tub with him after. He pushes cuddling all the time. He's like forcing her to rely on him lol.
Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas, another obvious one. I think Dreaming of You gives me this vibe a lot too because Derek Craven is just like "take my Regency black card and buy yourself EVERYTHING" because Derek Craven has zero taste and he's gonna buy all of it like the new money man he is.
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hotmessmaxpress · 20 days
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Today during the podium celebrations with the VR46 team I thought "damn it must be hard for Luca to see that from P17 and a different team" and then I thought "they should have sex about it".
So here's some Bezz/Luca
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Luca knew that the transition with Honda would be a challenge. He wasn’t stupid; Vale may hate him, but Marc Marquez is one of the best riders in the history of the sport. If he couldn’t tame the bike, Luca isn’t arrogant enough to assume he’d be able to get on it and succeed immediately. 
He hadn’t expected it to be this bad, though. 
P17, only because everyone below him had DNF’d. The most consistent thing about the bike seems to be riding it into last place. 
Bezz is on the podium. A triumphant P3, behind Pecco and Marquez. Luca can hear the celebrating and cheering as he goes through his post-race motions. He’s not next door to Bezz anymore– no matter how much he wants to appear in his box and wrap him up in a prosecco-soaked hug, he can’t. He’s a Honda rider now; he has team debrief and responsibilities. 
He keeps himself cool and professional as always, giving practical feedback and reaffirming his confidence in the team’s ability to turn things around. He’s exhausted by the time he’s finally done with his responsibilities, and he can tell by the noise level that the celebrations have made their way from Bezz and Pecco’s respective boxes to some other location. 
He checks his phone and finds a drunken flurry of texts from Bezz, and suddenly the emotion of everything hits at once.
He knows Honda was the right move. He knows in his bones that it was right for him to move on, out of Vale’s shadow and into a team that he can make his own. 
That doesn’t make it easy. VR46 was home; the team were an extension of his family. Hell, Uccio has known Vale longer than Luca has been alive. Everyone involved with the team was comfortable and warm and loved him. 
Luca tells himself that he can love Honda but also miss his family. It’s like moving away from your childhood town to work in a big city, he thinks. 
He misses Bezz like a limb. He wants desperately to celebrate with Bezz, to feel his face tucked into his neck the way he does when he’s so happy. He misses the sound of his laugh and the little gap between his teeth when he smiles. He wants to dig his hand into Bezz’s hair and rub his head like he’s a puppy. 
Bezz facetimes him when he’s back at the hotel. Luca debates about answering, too busy allowing himself an evening to wallow before he wakes up and heads back to the track for testing in the morning. 
When he does answer, he’s surprised to find that Bezz isn’t at a bar. He also doesn’t appear to be drunk, in the way Luca expected. He wonders if Vale’s presence looming over the team made them a little more cautious with the partying the night before a testing day. 
Bezz is in his own hotel room.
“Luca,” he whines. “You didn’t tell me I did a good job.”
That startles a laugh out of Luca. 
“I’m sorry. Good job,” Luca obliges. Bezz huffs, and Luca smiles at the pout on his face.
“I don’t like that you don’t tell me after races now. Although I guess I haven’t been doing a good job this season until today,” he rambles. 
Luca laughs again.
“You’ve been doing great, Bezz.” That he himself is the one who hasn’t been doing great is left unsaid. “I’m sorry I can’t tell you every race, now. I’ll have to remember to text you.”
Bezz shakes his head. 
“No, I want you to tell me in person.”
“You left,” Luca says feebly. “Before I was done with Honda.”
Bezz seems even more annoyed by that, and Luca gets the feeling that everything he’s said so far is wrong. 
“What is your hotel number?”
Luca laughs, but then he sees Bezz is serious, 
“Bezz, it’s late. We have testing tomorrow.”
“I don’t care,” he argues. “I just want to see you. Please? I got a podium today and I want to see you.”
Longing squeezes Luca’s chest and he quietly gives Bezz his room number. Bezz hangs up and appears five minutes later at Luca’s door. Luca lets him in, and he barely has the door closed before Bezz has wrapped himself around Luca and tucked his face into his neck. 
Luca relaxes into the hug, happy to have Bezz in his arms. He missed him so dearly. It hasn’t even been that long; only a few months of racing on different teams. It feels like they’ve been separated for a lifetime.
If Luca really thinks about it, this is the first time they’ve been alone together since they both raced on the same team. Since announcing he was riding for Honda and changing his training routine, he had seen Bezz mostly with the other academy riders. 
Neither of them are in a hurry to let go.
Luca is the first to pull away, but only to force Bezz to kick his shoes off and climb onto the bed with him. Bezz seems happy with that plan, and he grabs the television remote before pushing and pulling Luca into a position that he’s happy with. Then he flops down on top of Luca. 
Luca’s heart is racing at the feeling of Bezz’s body on top of his, even as Bezz finds some Spanish show with English subtitles that he knows neither of them have the brainpower to follow. 
Bezz seems content to tuck his face into Luca’s neck, and Luca can’t help but smile.
“Bezz?” he asks. 
Bezz sits up. Their faces are too close, but neither of them move apart.
“You did a good job today,” he breathes, unable to take his eyes away from Bezz’s. 
Bezz grins, toothy and happy, then he leans up, pressing on Luca’s chest hard enough to knock the breath out of him, and presses his lips to Luca’s mouth. 
Luca pushes back against Bezz, taking the weight off of his chest, and he rolls Bezz so he’s laying on his back. He leans over Bezz, bracketing him with his arms, and continues kissing him. He’s not entirely sure where this came from; why Bezz decided to do this now. 
He can’t say he’s never gotten the impression that Bezz could be interested in him; they used to spend hours and hours together, and there were many times that felt like they came close to something. 
Apparently all it took was one Bezz podium for them to finally overcome their hesitations. 
Bezz tastes and smells amazing, and now that Luca has experienced it he’s not sure he will ever be able to let him go. He sucks a mark on Bezz’s neck, and bites at his collarbone. 
He thinks of their matching scars. 
“Luca,” Bezz groans. 
Luca smiles against Bezz’s neck. 
“Yeah?”
Bezz rolls his hips up, demanding attention, and Luca tuts.
“Impatient,” he teases.
“I got a trophy today,” Bezz whines. “I deserve an award.”
Luca laughs and kisses him. 
“You deserve the world,” he says. It’s corny but he means it, and judging by Bezz’s grin he understands. 
Luca decides it’s imperative that he immediately get his hands on Bezz. He sits up to tug at Bezz’s clothes, and there’s an awkward few moments of shuffling and laughing as they both manage to get out of their clothes. They’re both out of breath and laughing, and Bezz basically tackles Luca onto his back on the bed. 
He straddles Luca, and Luca pulls him down to kiss him. Bezz wiggles happily on his lap and Luca laughs into the kiss, teeth knocking together. 
Bezz presses his face against Luca’s cheek, and they both laugh. 
Luca reaches down, wrapping a hand around Bezz’s cock. It startles a choked moan out of the smaller man, and Luca grins in satisfaction. 
Luca knows they won’t have sex tonight; not with a lack of lube and with the responsibility of an entire day of testing tomorrow. Still, his brain is dominated by desire to make Bezz come. 
The angle is off, but he spits in his hand and starts pumping Bezz’s cock while he uses his other hand to tug Bezz’s mouth back to his. 
Bezz adjusts his position, and Luca is able to take his own cock in hand with Bezz’s. The feeling of rutting against Bezz, breathing into his mouth, smelling him around him, is nearly enough to make Luca come immediately. 
He manages to hold off for a bit longer, but neither he nor Bezz last long. Soon they’re both spilling over Luca’s hand, gasping into each other’s mouths. 
Bezz immediately starts laughing, and collapses to the side. Luca wipes his hand on his chest, catching his breath and joining Bezz in his giggles.
“Let’s shower and sleep,” he suggests. 
Bezz whines but allows Luca to tug him into the bathroom. Luca delights in soaping Bezz up, running his hands across his body and lapping water from his collarbones. He loves the way Bezz laughs, and they spend too much time messing around in the shower.
When they finally get out and dry off, they tangle themselves together back in bed. 
Bezz lays down and holds his arms out, and Luca lays down on top of him, face pressed into his neck. 
“I’m proud of you,” he mumbles into Bezz’s neck. 
“Thank you,” Bezz breathes, running a hand through his hair. 
They drift into easy sleep together soon after.
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eelhound · 1 year
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"Let’s have a look now at stock tips.
There are many ways to be successful at stocks. For instance, you can be lucky, or you can cheat. Those are the two ways.
Lucky is difficult. Not impossible, but it does require some spells. You have to wear a small bag around your neck stuffed with thistle and rosemary, and burn the one thing in your life most precious to you. And even then, half the time you just end up with your sourdough turning out perfect, or getting Wordle in two, which if you think about it is actually much more impressive than getting it in one, you will say to everyone you know even though they extremely do not care. What I’m saying is it’s hard to aim luck.
So your best bet is to cheat. Fortunately, there are a TON of ways to cheat. For instance, you can do some corporate espionage, find out information before it hits the open market, and then invest accordingly. Or you can manipulate the markets, causing untold suffering and wiping out the entire economy for the sake of buying your third house. If history tells us anything, and I hope it doesn’t, you won’t ever get punished.
But the absolute best way to cheat, and doctors hate this one weird trick, is to join congress. Because there is no law against actively investing while in congress despite the fact that you will be constantly told secret information that will radically affect the markets. And you can just make a ton of money on that info without any consequences because who is going to pass a law against that? You? Don’t make me laugh. Please don’t make me laugh. It hurts so terribly when I laugh. Ow. Ouch. Oh man. I miss laughing. I miss it so much.
This has been stock tips."
- Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, from Welcome to Night Vale, ep. 220.
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catofadifferentcolor · 7 months
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Terrible Fic Idea #68: GOT, but make it bastards and broken things
Sometimes I have terrible fic ideas. Sometimes terrible fic ideas have me - such as this one, which crawled into my head the other day and has yet to let go. Mainly: what if Game of Thrones leaned into the cripples, bastards, and broken things motif?
Or: What if Tyrion Lannister and f!Jon Snow formed a marriage of convenience?
Aka: The Red Queen Fic
Just imagine it:
Everything happens as per canon, with two exceptions: 1) Lyanna Stark dies giving birth to a daughter whose "beauty matured as she grew older, and its was said that she was more beautiful at age seventy than at age seventeen" [x], who Ned named Rowena after Jon Arryn's second wife; and 2) The Greyjoy Rebellion takes place immediately before Robert heads north.
Things go slightly differently in the Greyjoy Rebellion. Everyone is a little older, reflexes are a little slower, and everyone has been on peacetime footing for just that much longer. Tywin Lannister dies in the fighting, with the Lord Paramountcy of the Westerlands falling to Tyrion. Theon Greyjoy dies alongside his brothers; his sister becomes Ned's ward instead.
Meanwhile, Jon Arryn has died of apparent old age back in King's Landing, so Robert choses to ride from war in the west straight to Winterfell, so Ned can wrap up a few things before being dragged back to the capitol as Hand. Tyrion is dragged along.
While there, Tyrion encounters awkward, angular, but strangely charismatic Rowena Snow in the library. They do not expect to hit it off, but they do, finding a genuine friendship and understanding in each other. It is not love, but it is enough.
As Lord Paramount of the Westerlands, Tyrion needs a bride - and he was already turned down by most of the eligible families of rank while he was still heir. So rather than trod a well-known path, he proposes marriage to Rowena, who is at least tolerable and believed to be the bastard of Ned Stark and Ashara Dayne.
Rowena, realizing it's the best offer she'll ever get, agrees, and eventually convinces Ned to do so as well. After all, there's nothing a Lannister protects more fiercely than another lion.
Canon continues apace. Ned loses his head, war is declared, and Cersei can make very few open moves against her sister-in-law - who is, after all, a Lannister now - or Sansa - a hostage, yes, but under Rowena's protection. The latter still isn't having a good time, but at least she's not being beaten in open court. (Eventually Rowena does manage to get Sansa married off to Willas Tyrell, securing the Reach and her sister's safety.)
The Red Wedding happens, though it is planned entirely by the Freys and Cersei herself, who thinks Tyrion is too weak to do what must be done. No one is pleased.
The Purple Wedding happens. Tyrion and Rowena manage to avoid suspicion by missing the event entirely, the latter being confined to childbed as she labored with their first child, Joanna - though Cersei still tries to point fingers at them anyway. Few believe her.
Cersei's actions grow wilder while Tommen is king... to the point where Rowena and Tyrion realize if they don't act soon riots and revolts will act for them. So they stage a palace coup.
Tyrion, in addition to being Hand of the King, is Regent after the coup. He sits in the small council in the first of these roles and has Rowena sit in his place for the second. They manage to stabilize most of mainland Westeros - Tyrion strengthens ties with Dorne, despite the suspicious death of his niece; Rowena heads to the Vale, replaces Lysa Arryn and Littlefinger with Bronze Yohn, and sends Robert Arryn to be fostered with Sansa and Willas; forces loyal to Tyrion liberate Edmure Tully from the Twins and install him back in Riverrun - but the North and Iron Islands are still a mess when winter descends.
Margery dies of a winter sickness. Tommen goes mad with grief. He kills himself soon after... and Tyrion, his regent, is left as King of Westeros.
It should be a recipe for more revolts and uprisings - after all, it was bad enough a dwarf married to a bastard was Regent, let alone Hand of the King - but Westeros is tired of war. It's now the middle of the longest winter ever recorded, and rather than hoard food Tyrion does his best to distribute it evenly throughout the country. He makes concessions. He rules, allows widows and heiresses and young children to keep control of family estates, fills empty castles with good men rather than cronies, and generally acts like a decent king. It's a nice change of pace for a country so familiar with Targaryen drama.
Eventually word comes spilling out of the war-torn North about the Others. Rowena, being the fighter of the new royal couple, leads a force north and eventually defeats them, less through individual martial prowess than decent leadership and fresh troops
When Dany arrives after winter is over to stake her claim, few wish to join her. She harries Westeros from the Stepstones for a few years, but when she dies under suspicious circumstances - probably an assassination, but she had so many enemies at that point no one can say which got to her - her dragons take up residence on Dragonstone of their own accord, seemingly giving their allegiance to the new dynasty.
Bonuses include: 1) Later historians endlessly debating whether or not Tyrion was the bastard son of the Mad King. The evidence should be circumstantial but convincing and include his children's appearance. A few will try claiming Rowena was the daughter of a dragonseed - maybe even Rhaegar himself - but are less well received; 2) Rowena gaining her moniker Red Queen from her habit of wearing primarily Lannister Red after her marriage - and for occasionally becoming drenched in the blood of her enemies, as when removing Littlefinger from power in the Eyrie; 3) Tyrion and Rowena's marriage being one primarily of friendship. It should take at least a year - possibly closer to three - for them to feel genuine romantic love for each other. It should, however, be the ideal medieval noble marriage, filled with fondness and respect, even from the beginning; and 4) Cersei fading away into obscurity. She's never outright harmed or neglected or even strictly imprisoned, she merely retires to a strict motherhouse from which escape is unlikely if not impossible and fades from history. Her name, for all it is connected for four kings by blood and marriage, is largely forgotten by even those familiar with the time period in favor of Robert's first love, Lyanna, and Tyrion's reserved but unendlessly capable queen, Rowena.
And that's all I have. As always, feel free to adopt, just link back if you do anything with it.
Other Jon Snow Headcanons: Aelor the Accursed | Aegon the Adopted | Aegon the Undying | Aegon the Unyielding | Aemon the Adventurous | Baelor the Brave | Bastard of Winterfell | Daemon the Destroyer | Daena the Dreamer | Daeron the Desired | Dyanna the Defiant | Elia the Magnificent | Jon the Fair | Jon Whitefyre | King of the Ashes | Lady Arryn | Lady Baratheon | Lady Lannister | Lady Stark | Lord of the Dance | Prince Consort | Prince of Summerhall | Queen Mother | Queen of Nightingales | Red Queen | Rhaegar the Righteous | River Queen | Shiera Snowbird | Visneya the Victorious
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Aaaah no worries. I'm socially awkward and feel like I bug people if I reply too quickly so I just...exist and reply after some time. And never feel rushed to reply to me, I get it!
He looked bent outta shape and I wanted to cuddle him SO BAD!!! Like come here baby lemme make you feel better 🥺 I hope he rests up tho! And YES HIS VA is such a cutie!!! 😩
Hmmm~~~~~~ idk what to think of, so I'll just say make it Childe related, make it a flirty sparring session and I'm happy 😊 Your writing is fabulous btw. Hope you've had a great day! - 💙
His voice actor has my heart and I’m not upset about it hahaha
But!! What if we expand a little bit on the bow and arrow thing we talked about before?
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You never wanted to admit defeat or bend to anyone, your will and pride wouldn’t allow it. You were next in line to become an elite assassin within Liyue. Your travels around Teyvat had left trail of bodies within busy cities. But now, your target is out in the middle of open land. Which is not suitable for your stealth and lethal way of a quick bypass. So now you have to learn how to aim from afar and be undetected.
And that’s how you ended up in your current predicament.
Near the Chenyu Vale village, a series of practice targets are set up across a river bend. You had done all the research necessary to learn the basics of wielding a bow and arrow and set out to practice on your own. However, you’ve been unsuccessful. Not once had you hit a bullseye and you had managed to get some burns on your forearm. You let out a grunt in frustration which caused local fauna to flee and a chuckle to emerge from behind you.
“Heh, seems like you could use a hand.”
You grip the bow tightly as you know that voice too well. On more than one occasion, Childe has tried to win you over with good food, beautiful jewelry, and whatever else he knew you liked. You had originally taken a liking to him, but once you realized he’s part of the Fatui and a Harbinger to boot, you began to loathe him. Unfortunately for you, that made him pursue you harder.
You’re about to run over to the other side of the river to fetch the arrows when you breathe out, “nope. I’ve got it. Aren’t there some innocent children you need indoctrinate into working for you?”
Childe hisses at the implication before tutting at you. “Hey I’m just trying to help!” He raises his hands in defense as he watches you trek to the other side of the river to fetch your practice arrows. His arms cross over his body as he watches you in disbelief. For once he’s trying not to bother you, he genuinely wants to help you out. Upon your slugged return, he pulls out his own arrow, lines up a bow, and almost effortlessly hits the bullseye. And then he walks to the side and does it again, hitting two bullseyes Inca row. You stand there wide eyed and slack jawed as he cocks out his hip.
You pout and grunt at him. Damn him for being so good. You sign and lower your shoulders. “Ugh, fine! Can you please help me?” Childe snickers and nods, motioning for you to get in aiming position. The Harbinger looks over your technique and almost wants to puke. Who taught you?
“Okay first of all, your position and technique are terrible. Did some court jester teach you?” You turn around and elbow him in the gut. Childe retches and keels over in pain. “Okay, okay! Sorry princess.”
You place your bow down and open up your satchel. Out come all the books you’ve read up and Childe almost wants to throw them into the river. “I read these books,” you say sternly, “and they taught me everything I need to know. Well,” you start to relent, “I guess not…”.
He takes pity on you and closes your book. “Alright c’mon, get up and put your bow in your hands.” You put the books down and pick up your arrow. You take a deep breath and pull it up, all tension in your body going straight to your back and shoulders, your fingers straining on the string. Childe approaches you carefully, “whoa whoa. Hold on, let me help you.”
He gets up behind you, and gently places one hand on the underside of your hand holding the bow to steady it. His other on your shoulder to straighten it. His touch send jolts of electricity through you; had he always smelled that good? Why is his breath fluttering by your ear? And why are you suddenly nervous. Childe lowers his head to whisper in your ear to calm you down. “Okay,” he says slowly, “you need to have more strength in your base. You won’t be able to shoot anything without any strength,” he pauses to run his hand up your arm to your bicep, “here.”
You tense your arm to do as he says, but also at how close he is. The pads of his fingers on your shoulder lower down to your mid back as he keeps calmly instructing you. “Now that your shoulder is less tense, keep your core strong.” His voice and eyes trail toward your arm holding the arrow. Swiftly, he repositions himself slightly as he places a hand on your waist and the other lifting your elbow. His voice is like hypnotic honey, “you need to be strong yet relaxed. Yes, that’s it.”
Your heart is running at a mile a minute and you’re worried your composure will be lost any minute. Childe’s touch is fiery and icy all at once. You want more yet you don’t. With your eyes focused on the target ahead of you. You release a breath and widen your stance at his insistence. His body is practically pressed against you, fixing your angles with the lightest of touches that leaves you craving more. The cherry on top is when he finally tells you to, “let go.”
You release the arrow and watch it fly across the water, straight into the bullseye. You let out a small scream in excitement as it lands directly where you wanted it. Any tension you held is dropped as you do a little giddy happy dance, smile as wide as the ocean. A blush comes to the Harbinger’s face as he sees your reaction. If he wasn’t smitten before, this sealed the deal. You turn around in his fleeting hold, barely registering his hands on your hips as you look up at him happily. “That was,” you breathlessly say, “exhilarating! I’ve never felt like that before!”
“Heh, I bet you haven’t.” His hold tightens and for some reason you don’t back away. His eyes bore into yours and the space between you two lessens.
You swallow a lump in your throat and feel small. “I, I wouldn’t mind if you helped me feel that way,” you brush your nose with his, “again.”
Childe breathes against your lips, his own brushing against yours. “I don’t think we’re talking about archery anymore, sweetheart.” He leans in and just barely kisses you before he pulls away.
“We still have more targets to hit. Reload.”
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Forgot to post this yesterday for the first day of the 2024 NedCatWeek!
While practicing archery Ned meets a mysterious little girl.
"Your Eddard Stark!" declared the girl that had snuck up behind him. Scaring him into releasing the arrow from the bow in his hand. The arrow flew through the air landing about three meters away from its intended target. 
The girl who was at fault for Ned Stark's worst shot ever let out a small giggle: "You're not very good at that are you?" 
The boy now turned around ready to tell the rude little girl that he was good and that it was all her fault for having distracted him but when he did the words got stuck in his throat. In all of his 10 years of living the boy had never seen such a beautiful girl. Of course he hadn't seen a lot of girls at his age but he was still certain there weren't any girls prettier anywhere in Westeros. Most of the ones he met so far had always been ikky to him. 
The girl in front of him had red hair that fell in curls down to her waist, they looked a bit messy, probably from the strong winds up here in the Vale. Her blue eyes shined from the smile still playing over her lips. Despite him not being able to tell her what he thought about her words his face must have shown his dismay. The smile dropped from the girl's lips and instead she started to chew on her lower lip. For a moment they just stared at each other before the girl started speaking again. 
"M'sorry. I didn't mean to insult your skills my lord… It's just that I think the arrow is supposed to hit the target and not the ground over there." she pointed at his lost arrow sticking mockingly in the
ground.
 "I know that!" he yelled. The fact that she was this beautiful didn't make her words less hurtful, it made them worse. He had embarrassed himself in front of her in the first few seconds of meeting and her remark had made that abundantly clear. That made him angry at her and at himself. 
It became obvious that yelling at her had been the wrong thing to do, he saw that tears shot into her eyes and she seemed to struggle with making sure they didn't fall. 
She didn't lower her eyes though, she kept them on his face but when her lip started to quiver it was him that had to take his eyes off her in shame. His mother would be disappointed in him. Even though her words to him were quite rude he shouldn't have yelled at her. Yelling at a lady was wrong and making a lady cry by yelling at her was even worse. 
"l am truly sorry my lady", he said at the same time as she muttered: "Please forgive me my Lord". 
While both of them had been startled by the other speaking at the same time she started to speak again first. "You do not have to apologize to me my Lord. My remark was not courtions and I shouldn't have said it. I'm sure you are excellent at archerie when not surprised. I should have held my tongue until you made your shot. It is not surprising that you would be angry at being interrupted.”
"I'm not angry" Ned quickly lied, now even more embarrassing than before. He wondered how much more shame he could bring on himself before he would simply die of it: "and I shouldn't have yelled at you my lady. It is unforgivable. You were merely saying the truth, the arrow does
belong in the middle of the target. Though I would have hit it if I hadn't been surprised by your presents." He couldn't help but add the last words, less she thinks him an idiot. 
Now the girl, he realized that he didn't even know her name, started to smile again and asked: "Will you show me then?"
 "My lady?" 
"Will you show me how you can shoot an arrow, hitting the target?" 
Ned could have hit himself for not understanding immidialy. How was it possible that the girl was able to make his brain stop working with just a few simple words? 
"If you wish it my Lady but might I ask for your name?" 
Now the redhead was practically smirking
"You might, but I might not give it to you. How about you hit the middle of the target and in exchange I shall give you my name."
Ned looked at the target, at his bow and then at her. Without saying a word he grabbed another arrow. He was determined to show her that he was capable with the bow. He looked at the target, lifted the bow, aimed and shot. The arrow flew through the wire when the wind picked up and changed the arrows path. While the arrow still managed to scratch the outside of the target it didn't stick but flew a fear paces behind the target. Ned felt the disappointment sweep through him. He couldn't even hit one arrow to learn the Lady's name. He was such an idiot. Robert would call him a hopeless case and laugh at him. He turned back towards her expecting her to laugh at him, like she had before. To his surprise she didn't. 
She looked to be in thought: "I think the wind changed when you made your shot. You had good aim before!”
Ned wondered if she was just telling him this to make up for having laughed at him. 
“I guess, I have to stay nameless all the same. While the wind was to blame, the arrow did not hit the target where it was supposed to. I can't give you my name now, that would be against our agreement" she said and smiled at him. This time it was a kind smile. It encouraged him to continue the conversation.
"Mayhaps, the Lady would allow me to try again? Afterall we didn't say I had to hit it on the first try" 
She opened her mouth to answer him, when she suddenly looked up. Ned followed her view and saw a Septa walking towards them waving.
“I am terribly sorry, my lord. But it seems I need to leave now. I am sure we will find some time for you to try again soon"
She said and quickly walked towards the Septa, who didn't look too happy. After a few steps she turned back to him and smiled at him.
"Good day, Eddard Stark!" she said, reminding Ned that she had known his name the whole time.
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Hello there, thanks for stumbling across my blog!
(Here's a lil comic I made for a school assignment)
I'm going to start putting my social energy levels in my bio... There's a lot of stuff I want to respond to but i currently dont have the energy to do so, and so if I don't respond within like a day, check my bio and see that... I always feel bad about being on tumblr when theres things people have sent me but responding to those things is a different level of interaction than reblogging a post... so yeah... Sorry to the people i havent responded to yet! I will soon <333 (writing this on low energy, sorry for the incoherence)
Who am I / Where else can you find me?
First of all, feel free to call me Eli!! I'm on the waiting list for an autism diagnosis. I am agender and aroace-spec.
I am verrryyy enthusiastic about the things I am interested in (hence the URL hehehe). And currently, those are: podcasts (theres a list at the bottom of the post), good omens, ofmd, bbc merlin, star trek!!!!, lotr, and probably more things that I am too tired to think of right now!
I am a very big fan of the oxford comma and double brackets. Semicolons are pretty cool too. And ellipses are incredible.
i love all of my mutuals dearly!! Making cookies and hot chocolate for you all <33
I try to use tone tags as much as possible!
Boundaries:
Things I am okay with sharing/doing:
My age, gender/sexuality, things about my guinea pigs!!, and most other things
Things I am not okay with sharing/doing:
The city I live in, pictures of me/anyone I know, my full name, my birthdate, my phone number/email address, meeting up with people irl, sending/receiving money/gifts, dms (<- though if we're mutuals and interacted a lot dms are fine!!)
^ this applies to everyone im not in the discord with
I will let someone know if they cross boundaries, and *really* would like other people to let me know if I cross theirs!!
DNI: people who are here to spread hate and anger. Just, stay away. I dont engage in discourse. I know DNIs dont deterr these people, but this is a demonstration of my core values :)
Updated to clarify - I do block the generic tags such as Israel and Gaza, which most of the posts are tagged with by the op, so if you forget its no big deal!!
Tags:
(At the top cause otherwise it will get lost) ALSO #tw body horror
I block quite a few tags but most notably #tw war and other ones to do with the war in israel/palestine. This is not because I don't care. I care so so so much about what is happening and I cry every time I see a post about it. It breaks my heart that such horrible things are happening. However, I really struggle with high empathy, and seeing a post about it can really affect me for a while, and I need tumblr to be a safe space away from the real world problems. If I follow you - please could you tag things to do with war. Thank you <3
A list of all the podcasts I listen to because y'know, its fun:
Fiction:
The Amelia Project
Wooden Overcoats
The Adventure Zone
Sherlock & Co
Alba Salix
Unseen
And a whole lot more that i no longer listen to either because they havent updated or they are a little too creepy (Welcome to Night Vale falls into the latter category)
Science:
The Sci Guys
Lets Learn Everything
Lingthusiasm
A podcast of unnecessary detail.
Comedy/other:
Dear Hank and John
The Unmade Podcast
Books Unbound
Lateral
A book list of recommendations from mutuals for my own use:
abigail by Magda Szasbo (@mack-anthology-mp3)
The Alphabet of Candice Phee (@jamie-dinow)
A list of music reccomendations from mutuals:
in the lap of the gods revisited by queen, why can't i be you by the cure, pyramid song, and lucky & the tourist by radiohead, when the sun hits by slowdive, dancing barefoot by patti smith, tangerine by led zeppelin, autumn sweater by yo la tengo, rubber ring by the smiths, water by pj harvey (from @/mack-anthology-mp3)
imi hendrix’s all along the watchtower (from @/catholickedd)
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