#(except not)

[pangur-and-grim]

I'm so Pangur pilled..... my first thought was “what’s my special little girl doing down there?”

#pangur #except not

[sp0o0kylights]

I once had to pose in a ton of photos for a friend's AP photography final back in high school so may I present to you:

Steve Harrington, who gave in to Robin's begging that he act as her weird art model for her senior year portfolio (the same one her teacher is encouraging her to bat out of the ballpark and enter into contests.) 

She's doing a whole thing on fashion, subcultures and sexuality using photos and collaged poetry, a project that has Steve trying on different outfits and posing in different places. 

"This might help me land a scholarship, Dingus." She hisses while she's got him bent over her bathtub, spraying parts of his hair blue with wash-out dye.

Steve, soulmate and best friend extraordinaire, goes through it all with minimal (for him) bitching, even if the goth outfit feels absolutely ridiculous, and the 'geek' photoshoot downright laughable.

He starts to have fun when she has him mimic Nancy's straight laced, all A's good girl aura, and equally has a blast with the country look (he has no idea where Robin got a miniature horse but it conned him for every piece of food he had on him and then some.) 

The final piece is the one they're struggling with, the one Robin's now (fake) dying his hair partially blue for. 

A few hours later and he's dressed up once again in a studded leather jacket, the tightest jeans he owns ringed with belts, and combat boots.

 Robin had even talked him into letting her use eyelash glue to attach a few metal studs on his face--two acting as an eyebrow piercing and one on his nose. 

The looks he drew took a minute to get used too when all was said and done, Robin dragging him around Hawkins while she tried to find the 'perfect backdrop' but he's not gonna lie. 

He kinda enjoys being punk Steve.

That is, until Robin has him posing in an alleyway and Eddie Munson comes around the corner, jaw right about falling to the floor.

Even better? 

Eddie doesn't recognize him. 

Not at first, when he siddles up to Steve, nodding to the handkerchief in Steve's back pocket and then flicking the pink triangle pin on his jacket with a finger. 

Steve owes Jonathan a bottle of his father's best alcohol for giving him enough knowledge to get through the music razing Eddie subjects him too, and Steve's all too happy to play the part of punk asshole to Munson's music-snob metalhead.

It's not until Eddies playing with his hair and Robin gives in to letting him have a quick break from the shoot that he gives up the ghost, leaning in to whisper in Eddie's ear. 

"Gotta say, Munson," Steve all but purrs."I wasn't expecting you to fall for the Harrington Charm that fast."

"What?" Eddie asks, jerking his head back to look at him with wide eyes. 

Maybe it's the outfit giving him the extra ounce of courage, but Steve likes to think more that it gives him the freedom to lean forward and brush their lips together. 

Eddie doesn't return it, but that's alright. 

Steve's played this game enough to know that it was merely a hook for a real kiss. 

"Okay." Robin says, annoyed, camera at her side. "Steve, I'm happy that you're finally exploring that repressed as fuck homosexuality we keep arguing about, I really am, but I have to get this last photo!" 

He ignores her, instead nudging Eddie's shoulders.

"Care to pose with me?" Steve asks, grinning. He can tell Eddie still isn't sure if this is a joke, that he's seconds from running, and reaches out to tug on his black handkerchief. "Get Robin her photo, and then talk about this after, Mr. S&M."

Eddie flushes scarlet, but after some reassurance (and wheelding) from Robin, finally agrees. 

(Later, he agrees to a date, which Steve also credits the outfit for.

Even if Robin demands half the credit.) 

#punk steve #except not #steddie #robin buckley #steve harrington #eddie munson #platonic stobin #just think if Eddie had stumbled over the geek outfit #or the mini horse #micro fic #0o0 fanfics #stranger things #stranger things fanfic

[theshadowrealmitself]

Current thoughts: Superman making shit up about kryptonian culture all the time to cover his ass, especially if it’s about something embarrassing, and no one really thinking about it even when they find out Clark actually grew up on Earth, until someone says something about one of those things to Supergirl and she’s just like “???????”

#Superman #Supergirl #clark kent #kara zor el #kal el #krypton #kryptonian culture #except not

[nanaarchy]

okay so ! prompt time

dp x dc girlies (gender neutral) where y'all at

feel free to use this >:D

red hood met someone in his neighborhood this past week. a new... ally, not a friend, a bit older than tim. dante is... chaotic, always falls into his shenanigans, immediately found out about his identity and is keeping some secrets. and clearly this guy has nowhere to go, just look at him, so hood lets him crash in one of his safehouses. that's all. he definitely doesn't feel somewhat protective over him. no way.

nightwing has been taking care of this one kid on the down low. he doesn't want to admit it yet to the rest of the family, cause he just doesn't know enough about this kid. but ellie is just so lovely! she's a sweetheart and her puns are hilarious. she's obviously some sorta meta, and she's definitely homeless, so he needs time to figure things about before the batfam meets her. it's only been a few days. he'll tell them eventually. maybe tomorow.

tim drake's new friend CANNOT stop himself from getting in trouble. that danny boy finds himself in every unlucky situation possible - both at gotham u and in the pits of gotham's criminal activity. they've met like, a week ago, and danny's already been in every possible messy situation. he's from... amity plane? or something? he couldn't really find anything on the town, but he was gonna have to look. tim just hoped this new friend of his had any relatives, or else burce would want to... oh no.

barbara gordon's new coworker is interesting. just like her, the new redhead works at the library part-time. apparently jazz is staying here while she waits for her acceptance as arkham's new resident psychologist. why would anyone want that job? at least damien seems to like her - he came to visit her once, and jazz immediately knew how to deal with the feisty little guy. maybe the rest of the fam could meet her some day.

bruce wayne's really old friend has surely made a life for himself. They met when they were both young - some small gala, he barely remembers it. but vlad masters' ambitions led the two of them to meet a lot more often. they're friends, beyond the whole cheerful rich guy persona. bruce genuinely is very interested in the guy - both for their genuinely lovely conversations, and for all the secrets bruce is sure vlad hides.

so when vlad is visiting one day, bruce suggests a family dinner. alfred is very excited to call all the batkids that day. surprisingly, all of them individually decided to bring guests! who would've thought. alfred just hopes he can keep everything in line.

maybe the dinner guests are normal, for once. please let the guests be normal.

#danny phantom #batfam #family dinner #prompt #writing prompt #halfa family and bat family have a lovely time #except not #alfred is struggling #bruce wayne #vlad masters #fic idea #dp x dc prompt #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc #dpxdc prompt #ananapost

[emeraldspiral]

Love the idea that Zim and Gaz can never work as a comedy pair the way Zim and Dib do because Gaz won’t “Yes, and…” Zim. Everything he throws at her, she just refuses to play along with until he gets frustrated and leaves to go find her brother and get him to indulge his bullshit.

#invader zim #zadr #zadf #i guess this is like #zagf #except not #it's like the opposite #anti zagf #they're like george and elaine #the only thing they have in common is dib #so making fun of him is the only way they can sustain a conversation when they're alone #absolutely no rapport otherwise

[thisiswhereikeepdcthings]

Enemies-to-enemies-except-we’re-fighting-to-maim-not-kill-now but literally everyone else around them think it’s an enemies-to-lovers situation and they both keep getting unsolicited advice. They call a momentary truce to figure out what the hell is going on and everyone else takes that to mean they’ve confessed the Feelings. Which, they sort of have, except it is mostly feelings of confusion mixed with rage. Then they go back to fighting and everyone else is like, could you not do the foreplay rn? There are children present. And these two are like, but we’re not even killing now? I only stabbed them twice? I didn’t even shoot them? Also it never resolved to enemies-to-lovers it’s just that no one knows what’s going on and there’s a lot of fighting involved.

#enemies to lovers #except not #enemies to enemies #with a side of confusion

[saintsenara]

thank you very much for the ask, anon! it turned out that questions 1 and 2 sent me a bit feral, so they're queued up in a separate post... allowing this one to focus on the unhinged and deranged potential of ronius.

which - i'll be honest - is not quite as unhinged and deranged as one might think...

although my answer about it as a pure crackship would be influenced by a headcanon i remain committed to purely for my own amusement that harry is the only person who believes sirius to be unfathomably good-looking pre-azkaban [the girl in the defence against the dark arts exam was actually checking out lily! harry saw what he wanted to see!] and still retaining vestiges of these magnificent looks after it.

i like the idea of ron - canonically a real hottie himself - not being entirely sure what all the fuss is about, not least because sirius hasn't seen a dentist in fifteen years. harry's sighing every night about how lucky ron is while everyone else pats sirius on the back for bagging himself a tall and sporty legend with great hair, a chill personality, and a fourteen-inch wand.

but my more serious response to this ship would be that it joins the pile - with snon and ronmort - which are made plausible by the fact that ron is, at heart, someone who cares.

in goblet of fire, harry, ron, and hermione all have broadly similar views of sirius - that he's a clever, sensible adult who can be trusted to help them with the mystery they find themselves in. ron is reassured that harry tells sirius about his scar hurting, for example, because he thinks it's a given that sirius will know what to do about it - and he believes that any information sirius gives harry throughout this book is completely above reproach.

ron also clearly thinks that sirius is cool - him trying to get sirius to agree with him that hermione's passion for house elf rights is ridiculous very much has the vibe of him wanting sirius to acknowledge him as a sophisticated man-of-the-world; which him being pissed-off when sirius suggests the trio are too young to understand what things were like in the first war also illustrates.

[which i think sirius respects him for - he obviously admires a bit of bolshiness, and he also obviously adores the loyalty ron and hermione have for harry.]

and so i think that you can absolutely imagine ron developing a little crush on sirius - to go with his broader bisexual awakening over viktor krum - during his fourth year.

more interestingly, though, is that the trio's view of sirius diverges in order of the phoenix.

in harry's case, there is a reversal of the reasonably uncomplicated parent-child dynamic of goblet of fire, as sirius' depression - as well as the regression he feels from being stuck in his childhood home - robs him of the capacity to provide harry with the paternal emotional support he needs. instead, harry ends up being the one taking the adult role in their relationship - viewing it as his responsibility to be the sensible one in order to keep sirius safe.

hermione notices this role-reversal, but her view is broadly that sirius would be able to restrain his emotional instability if he simply tried hard enough. she's the one of the three who thinks that sirius' grimmauld-place-induced regression is accompanied by a desire to relive his glory days with harry standing in for james - and while both she and harry find sirius' more reckless behaviour [such as his suggestion that he might come to hogsmeade to see them] frightening, hermione evidently regards it as reckless arrogance, while harry sees it as reckless desperation.

ron - on the other hand - approaches order-era sirius not from the adult position in an adult-child dynamic, but as a peer.

he's the member of the trio who best understands the impact feeling useless to the war effort, lonely, and trapped has on sirius, without adding the qualification that he should be an adult and deal with it [which has the negative result that he's easily convinced that harry's vision of sirius in the department of mysteries is real, because he thinks it's completely plausible that sirius would have left the house and been captured].

he has no time for the idea that sirius views harry as indistinguishable from james, or that sirius is deliberately or childishly reckless. he's the only one of the three to give sirius the credit of listening to dumbledore and working to keep himself and harry safe - even if he doesn't like what he has to endure in order to do this. he treats sirius as someone who deserves to not be condescended to and to be acknowledged as having authority in his own house - for example, when he tells hermione that she needs to respect sirius' justification for why kreacher can't be manumitted when he thinks she intends to give him clothes for christmas [that hermione is completely right that slaves should be freed is by-the-by here].

he also understands harry's grief over sirius' death - and what sirius meant to harry - far more instinctively than hermione. but he's also the only one of the trio who really gets how sirius was understood by the order more widely - for example, he's the only one of the three who correctly points out that tonks didn't actually know sirius well enough for the intensity of grief harry and hermione are ascribing to her to be plausible. while harry - completely understandably - sees sirius as so important in his own life that he can't help but imagine him as the central figure in the life of everyone he encounters [which is unrelatedly interesting in that it's how each of the three marauders saw james], ron has a more pragmatic, big-picture view of him as a man. a good man - absolutely - and a fun and clever and admirable one, but still a man like any other.

ron understanding sirius - but not idolising him - creates a pretty strong potential for a relationship between them in a world in which sirius survives into the trio's adulthoods. this is especially the case when this understanding is combined with the fact that ron is shown - throughout the series - to be very good at providing comfort.

sirius survives azkaban and his time on the run through sheer, desperate resilience - but, as his collapse when he's back at grimmauld place shows, this resilience can't keep his demons at bay when he's not just fighting, at the most basic level, to stay alive.

if he survives the war, then he - like his narrative mirror, snape - is going to find himself feeling terrified and unmoored and completely unsure about who he is and what he'll do in a world in which voldemort is dead - and i suspect that his self-destruction would be extraordinary.

ron - alone of the trio - has the capacity to understand how sirius would end up in a place where "all was well" is more frightening to him than the potential of dying any minute. and he also has the capacity to provide an anchoring force through cups of tea and chit-chat which makes sirius think it might be possible to survive the day... and then the week... and then the month - which can then transition into him having the capacity to understand the big questions of guilt and grief and love and loyalty which define sirius' adult life.

so yes. i back it entirely.

#asks answered #asenora's opinions on ships #unhinged and deranged ships #except not #ronius #sirius black #ron weasley #full backing for this one #weasley is our king

[lynxindisguise]

okay now I'm thinking about wolfstar werepuppies, except they are wolfstar selkiepups.

ahhhhhh baby selkies!!

based on the lore that a human + selkie in human form = human with some selkie traits, I think seal padfoot + selkie moony = full-time seals with selkie intelligence.

anyway now that we’ve got the Very Official Science out of the way, here are the wolfstar selkiepups:

(Vulcan, Pip, Aurora, Quincy, Lyra, Waffles)

#ask the lynx #wolfstar werepuppies #except not #selkie remus #k tag

[fishklok]

I started redrawing this piece from 2021 but I'm very lazy so I'm probably not going to finish it so here

#metalocalypse #my art #metalocalypse fanart #mtl #amber metalocalypse #melmord fjordslorn #seth metalocalypse #wip #except not

[ceescedasticity]

Another Silmarillion illustrated music outline which I do not have the skills to illustrate

This time to 'Runs In The Family', because I saw a video on YouTube! but it was just a random assortment of other people's illustrations in no particular order. I can do better than that. Except for the illustration part.

I don't have total detail, mostly an outline, but

My friend has problems with winter and autumn They give him prescriptions, they shine bright lights on him They say it's genetic, they say he can't help it They say you can catch it, but sometimes you're born with it

This is Eärendil's verse. Tuor aging on 'winter and autumn', Silmaril on 'shine bright lights on him'. Otherwise, we want some ocean-sailing, some dragon-fighting, some star-sailing. Maybe some Fall of Gondolin, but only a little and at the end, because

My friend has spite, he gets shakes in the night And they say that there's no way that they could have Caught it in time takes his[?] toll on him It is traditional, it is inherited, predispositional

This is Idril's verse. Waking up from visions on 'shakes in the night', pre-Fall-of-Gondolin stress on 'takes its toll'. Besides that we want some Helcaraxë, some Fall of Gondolin, maybe some 'made it to the Havens of Sirion but knows they're still screwed', if you can convey that in a drawing.

All day I've been wondering what is inside of me Who can I blame for it? I say it runs in the family

Maeglin, and Maeglin and Idril's interactions. Maybe some quick images of Aredhel and Eöl.

This family that carries me to such great lengths To open my legs up to anyone who'll have me

Still Maeglin, and Maeglin's capture and betrayal.

It runs in the family, I come by it honestly Do what you want 'cause who knows it might fill me up

I'm not sure — could still be Maeglin, or we could switch to Finduilas hoping Túrin will make everything better somehow.

Me up x7 Fill me up Me up x7

Montage of ships, taking particular note of separations and deaths but not just that. In the second half also include non-romantic relationships. Should include:

Aredhel and Eöl, weird meeting, tempestuous relationship, Aredhel running with Maeglin

Nerdanel leaving Fëanor

Aegnor and Andreth

Pissed-off Fingon in Araman and not-happy-about-this Maedhros at Losgar

Finarfin and Eärwen together but maybe not 100% reconciled yet — back-to-back?

Turgon losing hold of Elenwë

Finrod at Bëor's deathbed?

Lúthien in Mandos?

etc

My friend's depressed, she's a wreck, she's a mess They've done all sorts of tests and they guess It has something to do with her grandmother's Grandfather's grandmother saving civil war soldiers Who probably infected her

Elwing's verse. On the first line Elwing afraid and uncertain in the Havens, then show Thingol & Melian, Lay of Leithian scene or two (Beren's death? the disguises? Lúthien locked up?). Second Kinslaying on 'civil war soldiers'. On the last line, closeup of the Nauglimír+Silmaril, not clear who's wearing it. Put the Nauglimír Out Of Its Misery 2k24

My friend has maladies, rickets, and allergies That she dates back to the 17th century Somehow she manages in her misery Strips in the city and shows all her best tricks

Orodreth's verse. Struggling with the 'king' thing; maybe brief glimpses of Finrod's death, and Fingon's; in the second half of the verse, Túrin and the bridge and facing Glaurung.

With me, well, I'm well, well I mean I'm in Hell, well I still have my health, at least that's what they tell me If wellness is this, what in Hell's name is sickness?

Celebrían after being wounded. She wants to stay but she can't. If we didn't include Finduilas earlier, she could also be put here, cutting back and forth between Celebrían and Finduilas trying to be fine when everything is not fine.

But business is business and business runs in the family We tend to bruise easily, mad in the blood

Gil-Galad, at the beginning of his reign and at the end, carrying the burden of kingship.

I'm telling you 'cause I just want you to know me Know me and my family, we're wonderful folks But don't get to close to me 'cause you might knock me up

Not sure about this.

Could do more Gil-Galad.

Alternatively, Elros and Númenor.

Alternatively, Edain — Tuor, Huor & Húrin, Morwen and Rían, etc.

Me up x7 Knock me up Me up x7

Probably a violence montage

Various battles against Morgoth

All Kinslayings

Finrod's capture

Maedhros, captive

Celegorm & Curufin vs. Beren & Lúthien

Fëanor holding Fingolfin at swordpoint

Burning of ships at Losgar

etc

Mary, have mercy, now look what I've done But don't blame me because I can't help where I come from And running is something that we've always done well And mostly I can't even tell what I'm running from

Celebrimbor's verse. For the first line Celebrimbor facing Sauron with the One. Then we want some compare/contrast with Celebrimbor and Fëanor — Celebrimbor shares rings, Fëanor hoard[eth and hideth] Silmarils; Fëanor turns away Melkor, Celebrimbor welcomes Annatar; Fëanor with three Silmarils, Celebrimbor with three… Three. Could finish the verse back facing Sauron, about to lose, or else just he's very upset. Or the battle flag thing.

Now some micromanagement—

Run from their pity, from responsibility

Indis leaving court, or Indis and Nerdanel together

Finwë leaving Tirion with Fëanor

Run from the country and run from the city

Turgon leading people into Gondolin

Aredhel leaving Gondolin

I can run from the law, I can run from myself

Celegorm and Curufin getting thrown out of Nargothrond

Finarfin turning back after the Doom (bit weaker than some of these, but)

I can run from my life, I can run into debt

Fingolfin's duel with Morgoth

Finrod swearing oath to Barahir

I can run from it all, I can run 'til I'm gone

Maglor being a Beach Cryptid (or throwing the Silmaril with future Beach Cryptid status implied somehow?)

Maedhros with Silmaril jumping into the fire

I can run for the office and run for my cause

Fingon in the Nirnaeth, as king leading into battle

Galadriel, persisting — probably not in any identifiable time period, just, she's persisting

I can run using every last ounce of energy

Fëanor's spontaneous combustion death

I cannot, I cannot, I cannot run from my family They're hiding inside of me, corpses on ice Come in if you like but just don't tell my family They'd never forgive me, they'd say that I'm crazy But they would say anything if it would shut me up Shut me up

Elrond's verse, which means it's time for the Elrond Bereavement Conga Line! (Eärendil, Elwing, Maedhros, Maglor, Elros, Gil-Galad, Celebrían, Arwen, did I forget anyone?) But focus more on him reaching fruitlessly after people than on the actual deaths. If there's any time left over, perhaps Elrond being torn between the different aspects of his heritage?

Shut me up Me up x7 Shut me up Me up x7

The entire rest of the song is Eldarin Royalty Death Supercut deaths/bodies. (That's sixteen lines and some deaths have been covered already but some people may still need to double up.) (Do not forget we're including the Doriath royals here.) (If there's somehow extra room there's Edain.)

#a tolkien tag #silmarillion #illustrated music #except not

[tokiro07]

Had a fun alternate idea for my 100 Girlfriends Fandom Negator set

Instead of the girls being the Negators, they're the Master Rules (not necessarily in order)

Hakari, UMA Lust - rule of sexual attraction; instills an aphrodisiac effect on those in her territory and manipulates targets with pheromones

Karane, UMA Lies - rule of dishonesty; forces those in her territory to lie

Shizuka, UMA Silence - rule of quiet; moves silently and removes all sound from targetted areas

Nano, UMA Efficiency - rule of parsimony; carries a razor (Occam's razor) that "cuts corners," simplifying processes to be more efficient

Kasuri, UMA Drug - rule of medicine; creates a variety of effects by brewing together ingredients

Hahari, UMA Mother - rule of parenthood; instills a sense of familiarity, making targets submit to her maternal whims

Kurumi, UMA Eat - rule of metabolism; allows her to eat and digest anything

Mei, UMA Class - rule of hierarchy; rearranges the hierarchical precedent of targets, redistributing the relative strength of everyone in range

Iku, UMA Pain - rule of agony; controls how much pain a target feels when taking damage, either augmenting small wounds to feel grievous or reducing the pain of grievous wounds to go unnoticed

Mimimi, UMA Beauty - rule of aesthetic; enhances a target's perception of beauty, reducing their will to damage a secondary target or drawing their focus to it

Meme, UMA Avoid- rule of evasion; capable of teleporting to evade any attempt at capture or attack

Naddy, UMA Freedom - rule of autonomy; moves about freely and can escape any form of capture shy of a Negator ability

Chiyo, UMA Order - rule of law; sets strict limitations and guidelines within her domain

Yamame, UMA Forest - rule of nature; manipulates plant matter

Momiji, UMA Soft - rule of malleability; contact with a target renders it soft

Yaku, UMA Past - rule of continuity; can return itself or a target to its condition at a previous point in its personal timeline

Kishika, UMA Honor - rule of integrity; similar to UMA Order, Honor establishes a specific code of conduct that must be followed, but more in the sense of creating the rules of a game rather than the laws of society

Ahko, UMA Slow - rule of deceleration; causes targets to become slower as they approach

Uto, UMA Wander - rule of curiosity; instills a sense of curiosity and wanderlust into a target, making them more easily distractable

Mai, UMA Accident - rule of mistakes; renders a target prone to clumsiness

Momoha, UMA Vice - rule of sin; instills desire for debauchery in targets

Rin, UMA Violence - rule of bloodlust; instills desire for violence in targets

Suu, UMA Numbers - rule of counting; compels a target to obsessively count a designated object

Eira, UMA Fight - rule of competition; instills a feeling of competitiveness in targets

Tama, UMA Beast - rule of animals; can absorb and embody the traits of animals

Kiki, UMA Exception - rule of abnormality; can ignore the effects of any nearby Rule or Negator ability

Matsuri, UMA Festival - rule of celebration; instills a desire to party on all within her territory

Shiina, UMA Swarm - rule of togetherness; gathers multiples of a target group together instantly

#100 girlfriends #hyakkano #undead unluck #fouryearsandananime #fandom negators #except not #fandom umas

[goatsandgangsters]

before the weather gets warm, I need you all to see my Maximum Cozy Winter Bathrobe that I'm obsessed with and have been basically living in since january (ft. bonus cal)

#I was on the hUNT for the perfect winter bathrobe and let me tell you: this is it #and in a couple of months I will show you.......... my summer bathrobe #I've become obsessed with the concept of bathrobes what can I say #photo album #my face #except not

[elrondsscribe]

Yeah I know that vampire relationships aren’t supposed to actually be functional but I do still wish Armand and Daniel coulda worked it out once Daniel got vamped

#devil’s minion made me INSANE bitch #elvella reads tvc #elvella reads anne rice #the vampire armand #armandaniel #except not #and no don’t tell me #the obsessive rollercoaster was never gonna work out long term anyway #but let a girl dream

[teagrl]

Accountability! My Luke (Naberrie) and Mara do Nar Shaddaa AU, and what baby Force wielders they are. WEEEE!

Mara frowns. “She says she’s not a teacher. I think she’s trying to get me to understand something, just…” 

Luke’s expression had shifted to bewilderment. “What?”

Mara grimaces. “I told her about the link, but she can’t take it off–”

“Wait, what? Take it off?” He stiffens, his arms dropping away from her. “You asked her to take it off?”

“It’s a risk. If we have another situation like last time you–”

“Would be dead. We both would.” He scowls. “The link saved us. You using the Force saved us.”

“It should have been you.” He flinches and she places a palm on his chest, meaning to take the bite away from the statement. It won’t help, she knows. “These powers are yours.”

“I can’t use them like you,” he pushes out, hands balling into fists. “Not yet, so when we need them–”

“That’s what she’s saying,” Mara interrupts. “Maybe we shouldn’t need them. She thinks we– I don't understand the Force. That I'm thinking about it the wrong way.”

Luke’s still tense, his jaw tight. “So what’s the right way then?”

“Something about...being and flow. It's very...abstract.”

Luke shifts away from her, his voice flat now. “Sounds like she’s giving us the go-around.”

“There's something to it.” Mara stays sitting as he stands. The flightsuit’s down to his waist and Luke pulls up his undershirt to look at his side where the wound was, drifting a palm down the unmarred skin, expression lightening to disbelief. Mara draws her eyes away. “My master lied to me about everything. Why would he not have lied to me about the Force?”

“But it works,” Luke says sharply. "Whatever you're doing, it works."

Mara looks down at her hands. “Maybe it’s not about it working.”

“What else is there?”

Mara shuts her eyes. Something lies out there, a sense of a larger truth just out of reach. “I don’t know.” 

#mara jade #luke skywalker #except not #my fic

[musicfeedsmysoul12]

Parental Soulmate bonds for Eri with Izuku and Ochaco as her parents, who proceed to rain down absolute HELL on Overhaul.

His mark had glowed when the girl touched him, a bright flash that caught everyone's eyes. Even the man chasing her had paused in his pursuit.

Good. It made it easy for Izuku to bolt, pausing to snag Mirio as well as green energy pooled around him. Luckily his sempai seemed to know what he wanted and ran with him. The loud screams from behind just had Izuku pushing harder.

Get the kid away from her aggressor. Do not look back.

Ochako and her mentor were near Izuku knew. She'd chosen a hero near Sir Nighteye due to the cautions of All Might. Given she has Izuku's soulmate, she'd been sitting in on the meetings for ages and worried for Izuku.

Izuku needed to get to her. Now.

"GIVE HER BACK!" The villain roared as Izuku scanned the area. There!

"Izuku!" Ochako cried, her hero mentor looking at them in worry. The old friend of All Might's looked toward the rampaging villain. "What's going on?"

"Meet our soul kid," Izuku said as he landed next to them. He held up the little girl who looked so startled. "Villain is after her."

Ochako's confused face became a glare.

"Oh? Oh no he isn't." she snarled.

Izuku didn't get why Mirio took a step back. Ochako looked beautiful like that.

#bnha #bnha au #soulmate friday #except not #valetines 2023 #IzuOcha #Eri

[nadia-cannot-think-straight]

The pride is soon y'all. I want you to sit down, think this through as well as you can. And then vote, like real democrats.

* straight is NOT an option

#Reanimator #Herbert West #polls #lgbt #pride month #headcanons #except not