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My surprise gift for @tropical-gothic!

One night, before the creation of Suna, Reto & Chikamatsu go stargazing!

Moving forward each year I’d like to write a fic for each of my friends, rather than taking part in events. I wonder who will be next!

#retochika #chikamatsu monzaemon #reto #PLS #they are so sweet I love them pls read this!!!

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Did I suck today rounds:

12/26 - Yes. Yes, you did. But you got SOME things right so that’s good. Plus, you get to see the kind of growth that might be yours if you stick around.

But also the seniors are scary and I keep forgetting the CBG.

#20 minute nap on the floor before showe #lunch/dinner and charting #[hay buhay]

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🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

| 1.07 | “The Thing Lay Still”

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Carefully I opened my eyes and looked at him again. All his natural gifts were there in a blaze of light: the delicate but strong limbs, large sober brown eyes, and his mouth that for all the irony and sarcasm that could come out of it was childlike and ready to be kissed.

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

#HNNNNN

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For @anon-omatopoeia. Happy birthday!

#I am always obsessed with the expressions #absolutely gorgeous!

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Birds of Prey

Buzzards: Intelligence Division

Buzzards: They are often called the Intelligence Division (think Suna’s version of T&I). They are involved in both intelligence and counterintelligence, often planting information with as much deft as they extract them. They work very closely with other members of the police force– especially the Vultures and the Kites.

Sasori-centric. Features an OC who is a Buzzard.

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 Once more.

There was the incessant drip-drip-drip of water from a faucet that didn’t exist.

“Why did you come for me?” The dead girl asked Sasori, still stiff from being sealed away in the Buzzards’ specimen scroll. “Why take me?” Her long brown hair was frayed and stuck out in all the wrong places. Her gray skin was starting to sag around her hazy eyes. It made her cheekbones too pronounced, too skeletal—

No good. Sasori needed it to have just the right amount of softness. Especially when she would smile. He needed it to be perfect.

“What were you going to do to me?”

 Read the rest in AO3!

#self reblog! #I wrote a thing #Come see my interrogator OC

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i always forget just how fucked up neji was after the sasuke retrieval mission like 

LOOK AT HOW COMPLEX THIS IS. IT TOOK EIGHT MEDIC NIN AND A PORTAL TO HELL TO FIX THIS KID 

#ninja ICU #and look at the staffing ratio hot damn #multidisciplinary ninja healing proba

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Birds of Prey

Buzzards: Intelligence Division

Buzzards: They are often called the Intelligence Division (think Suna's version of T&I). They are involved in both intelligence and counterintelligence, often planting information with as much deft as they extract them. They work very closely with other members of the police force-- especially the Vultures and the Kites.

Sasori-centric. Features an OC who is a Buzzard.

x.X.x

 Once more.

There was the incessant drip-drip-drip of water from a faucet that didn’t exist.

“Why did you come for me?” The dead girl asked Sasori, still stiff from being sealed away in the Buzzards’ specimen scroll. "Why take me?" Her long brown hair was frayed and stuck out in all the wrong places. Her gray skin was starting to sag around her hazy eyes. It made her cheekbones too pronounced, too skeletal—

No good. Sasori needed it to have just the right amount of softness. Especially when she would smile. He needed it to be perfect.

“What were you going to do to me?”

 Read the rest in AO3!

#Sasori #Sunagakure #Fanfiction #OC #Reizei #I forget how you do this but #*gestures in the general direction* Long overdue fanfic!

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*Kilig noises*

But yay to being officially an adult neurology resident soon! Downside to this is that I anticipate very very few writing outputs at that time. Time being a period of four years 🥲🥲 but I have so much stories in me, I’m sure I’ll find some time to get a few things out. But likely not regularly. Especially not in the next few months when the responsibilities I wear will feel like 4 shoe sizes too big.

But! If anyone has any short prompts, send me an ask for short writings!

#[hay buhay] #i don’t know where to let people know #but *gestures*

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🧠🧠🧠🧠

#[hay buhay] #screams in brain!!! #residency here we come!

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Interview With the Vampire + What We Do in the Shadows

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Y'know, putting aside the potential a-/acephobic reasons, and the "not relying on overused romance tropes/shortcuts" reasons, I think one of the big reasons (that I haven't really seen talked about?) that Good Omens gets accused of queerbaiting is that it's basically the story of an existing relationship. It's not the story of how Aziraphale and Crowley fall in love, or admit that they're in love, or whatever that people tend to expect out of romance stories these days, at least, not in the traditional sense. Yes, technically we get to see their relationship develop and we do get to see them realizing and admitting to themselves that they are in love and that the other loves them back, but that's not really the main focus the way it is in a lot of stories where romance is involved. There's no "will they/won't they" drama, there's no big confession or relationship-affirming kiss or anything, because they've been in a developing relationship for nearly all of 6000 years. That's like, literally what the Arrangement is. It's their relationship, their "basically married", their "involved", their "together but we can't say it outright bc people are watching and also we don't wanna screw it up". And people aren't used to seeing that in stories about relationships (seriously, find me one example of a story where the main, endgame couple is together at the beginning and the plot doesn't revolve entirely around them having issues that they need to work out. Hollywood/the publishing industry is allergic to writing about healthy relationships that stay healthy and in tact and exist after they get together). So when they see Neil Gaiman say "it's a love story" they expect the story of Azi and Crowley falling in love and finally admitting it to themselves and each other and having a big climactic kiss to seal the deal. And when they get a couple who is basically married in everything but name, who have been together for 6000 years but have had to be so so careful and dance around their feelings bc ~bureaucracy~, who don't need a big kiss at the end, just a loving, tender look because they can finally relax and be in love together... it doesn't feel like enough to them. They were so busy looking for the "getting together" plot that isn't really there that they missed the love story that was there. Which is a shame honestly, because it really is an excellent love story. There's enemies to lovers and mutual pining and almost a sort of courtly love situation going on and it's excellent. And people don't see it because it's not what they were looking for.

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Interview With The Vampire: “In Throes of Increasing Wonder” Script

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interview with the vampire (2022) | the tale of the body thief (1992)

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#beautiful 🥺🥺 #that poise! #kitty draws #Sasori

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lestat + my favorite line deliveries

#and a German on their bayonets gets me everytime weeeeps