Happy Halloween in advance, Saro! Trick or treat? 👻
send me a trick or treat and I'll write you a mini fic!
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(alternate outcome of the hospital scene in Final Stroke)
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Rin can't help but feel like it's his fault, so he keeps making excuses to stay in the little hotel room even as he feels his eyelids drooping. He didn't sleep well last night; too worried about the man sleeping in the hotel bed and the way he can't easily define their relationship.
He only knows the things that he isn't. The fastest at freestyle, an even tempered anchor, a steady and devoted older brother, a child unaffected by the shadow of his fathers passing. Haru's boyfriend, Haru's best friend, who Haru needs in his life. Didn't his own ambition drag Haru into this mess?
"Come here."
"Hmm?" Rin shakes himself awake, lifting his chin from where it had rested in his palm. Damn it, he's falling asleep and it's not even 10am.
Haru grips the handles on either side of the bed and start to lift himself up. That gets Rin moving.
"Hey, hey, cut it out," and he almost trips in his haste to get out of the chair. "What do you need?"
"You're falling asleep. Here. The bed's big enough." Haru has finished scooting to one side and promptly rolls over, one arm sticking out to avoid crushing his IV.
"Wh-- what are you-- I'm fine, Haru, I promise."
The look Haru throws over his shoulder is an entire novel's worth of judgement. But the bones in that shoulder seem more prominent then they should be, and something tender climbs up the back of Rin's throat and starts to throttle him with affection.
"Fine," he mutters, "did this once anyway. Your fault when the nurses ban us from the hospital."
"Hmm."
Shedding his jacket to drape over them both, Rin gets himself situated on his side facing Haru. "This is your plan, right? If you can't get them to release you, you'll get us kicked out?"
He means to roll over, line up his spine with Haru's, but he gets distracted measuring the dip of that waist with his eyes. Fuck. Did he almost kill Haru, trying to force them both to the top?
"Stop thinking so loudly." Haru reaches behind himself and drags Rin closer, pressing Rin's chest against his back. "It's not your fault. I chose to do this."
Like vines, Rin's arms wind around Haru's torso. Funny how often he finds himself like this; hanging off Haru, soaking in the heat of his skin and the silent acceptance of his touch.
"Let's both be more careful then, yeah?" he whispers into Haru's ear, letting his eyes close.
The last thing Rin remembers is hearing the heart monitor skip a beat. Then he is gone.
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it's so fucking frustrating to be in college and know everyone uses chatgpt and to be tempted by it constantly while also knowing intellectually that it doesn't work and it's a bad idea. like, i hang out in the library a lot, and i see people using chatgpt on assignments almost every day. and i know it isn't a good way to learn, because it's not really "artificial intelligence" so much as it is an auto text generator. and it gives you wrong information or badly worded sentences all the time. but every week i stare down assignments i don't want to do and i think man. if only i could type this prompt into a text generator and have it done in 10 minutes flat. and i know it wouldn't work. it wouldn't synthesize information from the text the way professors want, it wouldn't know how to answer questions, it just spits out vaguely related words for a couple paragraphs. but knowing my classmates get their work done in 10 minutes flat with it while i fight every ounce of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in my body is infuriating.
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cant tell you how bad it feels to constantly tell other artists to come to tumblr, because its the last good website that isn't fucked up by spoonfeeding algorithms and AI bullshit and isn't based around meaningless likes
just to watch that all fall apart in the last year or so and especially the last two weeks
there's nowhere good to go anymore for artists.
edit - a lot of people are saying the tags are important so actually, you'll look at my tags.
#please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads#in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite
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