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scionshtola · 1 year
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i’m sorry i know this is not normal but i literally cannot sleep bc i’m just thinking about how annoyed i am by runar/shtola
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vpofcookies · 5 months
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OC Challenge! Template from this post
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dazai-on-my-mind · 5 months
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You ever just think too hard about SKK and
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mysteriousubstance · 6 months
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OROONOKO TURNED INTO LIZZO NOT CLICKBAIT?!?
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snowsinterlude · 5 months
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stuffed.
(coriolanus snow x f. reader)
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summary: what better way to show your affection towards one than trapping them by your side forever? well, if there was one, president snow didn't knew about it.
c.w: forced breeding, baby trapping, president snow, cnc, slapping, forced creampie, possessiveness, stockholm syndrome at the end, fem. reader, reader is (was) a opera singer
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singing like there was no tomorrow was something you did quite often, being a opera singer to the capitol was the best thing that could've happened to you before. especially since you were from the districts.
so now, knowing the president is your fan (something you didn't expected, not even in a thousand years), you were singing your heart out at his parties. every bouquet of white roses he gave you always hid something. pearls, diamonds, earrings of white colored jews. he seemed to like white very much- even though his suit was always the red ones.
then, there was money.
the motive for him to give so many things was revealed when he was pinning you on the wall, the posca he drank seemed to have took control over his brain. somehow, you didn't mind it. maybe because the idea of being the president's favorite girl was something quite appealing- something your stupid self seemed to like very much.
feeling so desired, feeling so loved was something adorable, lovely. especially when he woupd promise you so many things.
you didn't believe any of them. you always made sure to be on the pill, always made sure to put a condom on his dick, always made sure to tell him to pull out when you didn't had a condom.
he was tired of it. he wanted you to be pregnant for him, wanted to see your belly showing through your clothes and the fantasies you used when performing. he wanted you closed on his room with your legs open and your pussy wet- he wanted to kill all of those who were thirsting over you, over the way your corset hugged your body so nicely and made your boobs bounce.
with that in his mind, you noticed just how rude he was tonight.
"i want you to be my wife," he said, midfucking. he would always say things like that while pounding inside you. it was crystal clear to you that he didn’t really wanted it, or so you thought, because his intention ever since he saw you was to fuck his babies into you and make you bear all of them.
"c-cory, let's talk about it later- oh, fuck!" you moaned, fucking yourself on him as his dick entered you so nicely, hitting all the right spots. as always.
you recieved a slap on your ass, accompanied by a thick, strong grab. "not later," he pounded inside you, hand on your waist, grabbing you so tightly you felt like you'd simply die at his touch. maybe it was a good thing. "now. 'wanna talk about it now."
you mewled as he thrusted inside your cunt again, his dick hitting all the right spots, from your cervix to your sweet g spot. "n-no, later, mm, truly."
he slapped your clit. it was getting rough now. you could notice from how hard he bit your nipple, it's not that you don't like it- it's just because you weren't ready for it.
"i'm serious, dove. i want you to be my wife." you didn't listen, too caught up in the pleasure, in the painful bites on your nipple, on the angry soft slaps on your swollen clit.
"s-stop it, you know i can't- i'm a performer, i-"
"i don't fucking care," he grunted, his nails buried into your skin "you're mine. from the moment i layed my eyes on you you were mine." he said, looking at your mewling melted state. "you're so wet, so tight on me, and yet you claim you don't want to be my wife?"
he laughed, as if telling a joke to himself, as if that was the biggest joke on the world. each two thrusts made you squirm, you already came some minutes ago. there were two condoms filled to the brim with his seed by your side on the bed of his guest room.
trying your best not to cum again, he took himself out of you, taking the condom of your side into his hands. he hated the texture. if it depended on him he would fuck you raw everytime. and yet there he was, obediently following your rules just to fuck you senseless.
"w-wait, what are you doing? stop. stop it! ah, fuck!" you squirmed at the hot feeling of his cum entering you, being poured inside of you, it felt so good you couldn't help but want more, for your own surprise. "p-president snow-"
"now is president? until some seconds ago it was coryo." he said, fingering his own cum inside you, making sure nothing would spill.
"p-please stop, i can't be pregnant-"
"you can." he stuffed you with it again, spilled all the cum of he other condom inside you "you will. i'll make sure of that"
taking the condom out of his dick again, the blonde introduced his dick into you again, smiling at the sight and the feeling of your wet cunt.
"fuck- look at you. so wet and still trying to say you don't want it." he smiled, nibbling on your nipple.
"n-no- i dont want to be pregnant, i can't- i have to sing!" you moaned, your hips meeting his with every thrust. you bucked your hips on him, did your best not to like it, but you couldn't lie to yourself, it was wonderful.
"if you don't want this then why are you fucking yourself on me?" his answer was a long moan you gave him, your nails scratching his back, burying themselves deep inside him. "god, you're a whore."
"p-pills. i-i need to find my pills!" you squirmed, your cunt tightening around him so deliciously god that you had to bite your bottom lip as to not let anything out- not to let him know you liked it, from his dick inside you to his cum stuffed into you.
"you wont find them," he smiled. "threw them away"
"oh fuck- pull out, p-pull out!!" you squirmed, but it was too leste already, you were cumming on his dick and he was laughing at you while pinching your clit.
"you said you didn't want that"
"i-i don't. i can't, i sing. my entire life revolves around singing"
"not anymore" he came inside you, dick throbbing into your cunt as you squirmed. "just for nome months, you'll be a caged bird."
the idea he pictured to you was terrible. a wife, always in white, drained out from taking care of two babies. even if the feeling of his cum inside you was terribly good, the thought of being a mother was your worse nightmare.
he proposed to you again the next night. and of course you had to accept. being a single mother is never good to a girl who were originally from the districts. a lot of the capitol's people were running their mouth already, saying you seduced him, manipulated him, or whatever it was.
it was the contrary.
but of course they wouldn't know that, not with your wings clipped together for you to not sing your way out.
not with your round belly showing up. not with the two babies on his arm and his. both looked like you both. your nose, his eyes. his mouth, your hair. you loved them.
maybe it wasn't so bad.
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luniarix · 4 months
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*⁀➷ 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜
sypnosis: basically in which toji and you are having sex for the first time after a 3 year long distance relationship <3
NOTE: WHY DID I TAKE HALF A YEAR TO FINISH THIS BRU. feeling like cory rn LMAAOOO— no but frfr school has been in the way and some personal problems have made it hard to write but im getting back on track i promise. i tried to make this longer than i originally wanted! more fics are otw i defff have plenty of ideas while i've been gone.
CW: fem!reader, virgin!reader, chubby reader!!, possessive!toji, domestic!toji, shy!y/n, whipped!toji, whipped!reader, age gap, established relationship, mentions of sexting, dry humping, unprotected!sex(wrap it before u tap it), mating press, marking, scratching, slight hair pulling, dirty talk, handjob if u squint, fingering, cunnilingus, after care, toji bein an absolute sweetheart cause i’m a sucker for affection, vv domestic moments bc im a romantic at heart, pet names such as; baby, sweetheart, mama(s), etc
majority of people say that long distance relationships were bound to fall apart one day.
not yours and toji’s tho!! of course not, even with all the stigma surrounding online relationships and with the added on fact that it’s “taboo” for toji to be years older than you, didn’t mean you two wouldn’t work out. duhh, you guys are safe from all that.
and so here you were, sat nervously on his couch in his house waiting for him to finish coming back from the convenience store. you guys had decided on your first ever actual date to be a more domestic one— so a movie night with snacks was the go to move. the click of the front door opening has you springing up and walking over to toji who has multiple bags with all kinds of treats.
“give me some. let me help you, kay?”
you mutter, taking a few bags from him before he could protest and setting them down onto the kitchen table. you go into the cabinets to pull out a few big bowls, and start pouring the food into them. all while you were doing this, toji unexpectedly comes up behind you and wraps his strong arms around your waist.
“have i told you how pretty you look baby?”
he presses a few kisses to your neck as he rubs circles on your soft hips, and you turn away from him to hide the way you’re becoming flustered.
“you’ve only been saying it since you’ve picked me up at the airport.”
toji spins you around to face him, and you begin biting your lip at the way he’s eyeing you down. good lord he was so sexy. but looking at him for too long would put you into cardiac arrest with how his green eyes pierced through your own. damn, since when did it get so hot in here?
“i’ll keep on saying it sweetheart, cause i like the way you squirm underneath my gaze.”
you swallow and give a shy giggle in return. you were so glad that toji was your first ever real long term relationship, because him being your first everything? the idea always had you squealing like a middle school girl. but your train of thought had dissipated when toji begun to gently squeeze your ass.
“toji… i- i needa set the bowls down onto the living room table.”
oh wow, now you’re stuttering? you felt a bit embarrassed considering how assertive you were between your texts and calls. yet here you were, getting shy at every gesture he made. obviously during your relationship you two had always been lovey dovey, but you never actually believed that toji himself was clingy. you aren’t complaining tho!! you adored that he was like this with you.
“that can wait, just let me kiss for a bit.”
and who were you to say no to his request? with the way he was holding onto your waist as he pulled you into a sweet kiss was when you knew this was worth waiting for. the soft sounds of your lips parting and connecting once more had your head spinning— your knees becoming weaker from every caress he gave.
“you taste so good mama.”
the signature nickname he gave you since the start of your relationship slips out, and you moan in satisfaction. you grip onto his black wife beater shirt, then smooth your hands up to grab onto his shoulders, jabbing your nails into his skin from how jittery you were getting. he softly bit your bottom lip, and that made you part your lips enough for him to slip his tongue in.
your vision grows hazy and your eyes close shut before pulling away in a gasping manner. toji gazes at you in desire as you begin to act like that didn’t phase you— when in fact you were trying your best not to start jumping around and doing jumping jacks. good god, you really did win the lottery with him. you push your hair back from your face and grab the bowls before walking right past him and setting them down on the living room table.
toji follows right behind you, pulling you back into him as he sits down on the couch. you squeal as you fall right into his lap, chest right against his. you flutter your lashes at him as he licks his lips and leisurely glides his hand down from your neck all the way down to your ass once again. it made your body twitch in delight, and you grind against his crotch in response to his tease.
“oh? ‘you finally gonna stop bein’ shy with me mama?”
toji rubs his hand up towards your waist and pinches your hip dip. you have your own hands massaging his shoulders as you begin to mutter in embarrassment,
“you keep trying to provoke me, asshole.”
toji gives you a sly grin before you impulsively decide to pull him in by the straps of his wife beater shirt, kissing him once again. you gasp desperately and he soon had his tongue dancing with yours. you nibble on his bottom lip and pull back just a little to tease him, which has his eyes widening in shock. your confidence boosts at that reaction and you begin to go down to his jaw, peppering soft kisses towards his neck and that’s when you begin to suck.
you give wet kisses to his adams apple and switch from sucking on his skin to kissing over the markings that began to fold. you do the same all over his neck and you then trail down to his collar bones. you moan in surprise when you could start to feel toji’s boner pressing against you through his sweats. wearing biker shorts wasn’t helping either because you could clearly feel the imprint.
you whine and grind against him, trying to create more friction as your arousal begins to stain your panties and possibly through your shorts. toji groans and grips onto your hips, both of you moving in a messy rhythm. your thighs began to tremble as your clit became more and more sensitive with each reaching second. soon enough you’d orgasm, all while being clothed.
this idea makes toji stop grinding against you, gripping onto your hips to stop you. you’re dazed out expression contorts into a frustrated one as you pout. why wasn’t he letting you orgasm? you knew toji was the type of man to put your pleasure over his own and yet he was stopping you from reaching your high.
toji only chuckles and brushes a thumb over your soft lips, nudging his finger in a bit to coat a bit of saliva on it. meanwhile, he’s rubbing your hips and thighs.
“i know you’re frustrated baby, but it’s our first time together, and you deserve to orgasm in a much better way than just dry humping.”
your lashes flutter against your skin as you melt against his touch. gosh, he was always thinking about you first and you loved it so much. you were so entranced that you could only nod in response, a dreamy expression on your face. after all, this was the first out of many that you guys could get intimate with each other face to face. toji smiles lazily, admiring how beautiful his baby looked. he’s then quick to take off your shirt and helps you slip off your shorts, only leaving you in your undergarments.
he squeezes at your pudge, loving how soft you were— grinning at how you twitched and tried to hold in your giggles. he loved every part of your body, and he was going to make sure to cherish all of you. you deserved to be loved right. toji leans forward to rest his head against your tits, reaching his hands behind your back to smoothly unhook your bra. you gasp in surprise as the straps begin to slip off your shoulders.
he pulls back to have your bra fall off, pretty tits now being exposed to him. toji sucks in a sharp breath as he internally groans at how big your tits were, bringing his hands up to cup them. you softly moan and your already perked nipples hardened even more. he fans his breath against one, and gently pulls on the other. your soft sighs is what brings him to hurriedly put his lips around your nipple, licking and kissing the bud.
you sharply inhale and squeeze his shoulders. you felt like a mess, because you couldn’t think straight and the only thing your mind could focus on was the way toji’s boner was right against you and neither of you were fully naked yet. you just wanted him to fuck you so good— to make up for all the years you two missed out on each other’s bodies.
toji kisses the nipple he was teasing his fingers with, and then begins to suck on it as he then swirls his tongue around your areola. you bite your lip and shutter in satisfaction, as you feel him begin to toy with your other nipple. toji makes sure to leave marks all over your chest before actually gently laying you on the couch, and taking his own shirt off. you’ve seen it all the time through pictures and videos when he would be sending you gym videos, or when you would facetime when he would be at the gym or when it was late at night, but it still came as a surprise to you on how well sculpted he was.
“ya like what ya see baby?”
he’s grinning at you, and you realize that you’ve been staring at him for too long. you roll your eyes and smile back at him. there wasn’t any point in denying at how in awe you were with how sexy your man was.
“i do. you look so handsome.”
toji’s eyes become hooded, pools of emerald green darkening at your compliment. he licks his lips before pulling at your panties, ripping them in the process of quickly having them be thrown somewhere on the floor. wow, he must’ve really liked that comment.
you prop your elbows up against the couch and watch with wide-blown eyes as he pulls down his sweats and boxers, also discarding the clothing somewhere on the floor. his cock was— big and oh so girthy. you were definitely turning into puddy by the next morning.
you gasp when he pushes your legs apart and he’s sloppily pumping himself as his gaze latches onto yours, and blood rushes to your face from how self-aware you were. he was jacking himself off to you right in front of you. and dirty enough, you liked it. you liked having him look so desperate right above you, as he gets himself prepared to fuck you.
god, was that whole length seriously going to go inside you? toji would always speak about how big he was in a cocky tone and when you saw it on camera for the first time, you knew not to doubt him. but seeing it in actuality made it sink in on just how big he really was.
your breaths get heavier the more his pre dripped onto your lower abdomen, and as he was beginning to groan more. you were quick to put a hand around the top of his length, teasing his tip. toji’s body jolts for a second before he’s quick to relax once again and his pace becomes faster.
you draw circles around his tip, making sure to gently squeeze him every few seconds. you could tell how bad toji wanted to cum with the way he started to buck his hips and the lewd squelching noises got sloppier.
“fuck, i can’t take this any longer.”
toji abruptly pulls away from you, backing up to then grab your thigh and slide his hands up to your knees, lifting your legs off the couch to have you be folded against him, legs now hooked over his shoulders. your eyes widen when his nose is pressing against your pubic area, and he’s looking up at you with devilish eyes.
“been waiting to do this for a while..”
he murmurs, licking his lips feverishly. he’s quick to press his mouth right against your cunt, giving leisure licks to your clit. you cry out in surprise, thighs quickly beginning to tremble. you try to silence your moans by biting your lip and having a hand cover your mouth. but toji looks up at you and furrows his brows.
he pulls you closer and pushes your hips upward, your ass slightly lifting off the couch cushion as he gropes your asscheeks. he’s eating you faster, tongue swirling against your clit and then feverishly leaving sloppy kisses— and repeat. your eyes roll back as your body jolts in utter pleasure.
you try to push his head back from how flustered you were— but instead, your fingers tangle themselves into his hair as you pull on it, tears prickling at the brims of your eyelids. you mewl pathetically, trying to move your hips in a rhythmic pace against his tongue. you could feel the knot in your stomach beginning to form.
“oh god! toji! m’gonna— gonna cum!”
you shriek, thighs closing around his head as your body shakes in such a way that has toji holding onto your hips to steady you a bit. you try to hide your moans with your hands again but he’s quick to grab your wrist with his free hand and pin it down to the bed.
when he feels like you’re wet enough, he slowly inserts one thick finger into your twitching hole. your pupils dilate and your mouth turns into an “o” as you desperately gasp for air. his relentless pace becomes too much to bare when he’s inserting another finger, and you squeal with pleasure. your own fingers couldn’t compare to how good his own were stretching you, working you to a release.
his mouth goes back down again, gently sucking on your clit, as his fingers roughly fucked you. your eyes are practically crossing and toji could almost see stars swirling in your pupils as you succumbed to the immense feeling that was beginning to build up. you were whispering his name, chanting it over and over again like a prayer and it made him want to reach down to his cock and pump himself to your moans.
“oh! oh, tojiii! please! please let me—”
a sly grin forms on his swollen lips, and he curls his fingers at that spot that has you almost screaming, back arching off the couch as you grip onto his hair for dear life, pulling on it as your body quivers in delight. he was so good at this you feared that you’d end up closing your thighs around his head without thinking and suffocate him on accident.
and when he gently takes your clit in between his lips and sucks all while hitting that sweet spot inside, you come undone. toji could barely hear the "m'cumming!" you squealed out before you're creaming against his face, juices flowing down to his chin as he laps up your overstimulated cunt, moaning in satisfaction at how addicting your taste was.
"god you taste so fuckin' good, sweetheart."
you whine in response, hardly registering what he said over the loud drumming of your heartbeat, a dazed expression painting your face which made toji chuckle. but he didn't want you to get tired just yet. and so, he's quick to swipe his tongue over his lips, fingers taking the dripping cum on his chin into his mouth all while looking directly into your eyes. he's then towering over you once more, green eyes shining once more through the illuminated moonlight peaking through the curtains of his home, streaks of dark raven hair being outlined by said light.
"I love you, to'."
the words slip out so easily, so naturally, that it almost surprised you. but it didn't, not as much as the faint sharp inhale you heard from the man above you. it wasn't that you guys hadn't really used the words between you two, but more so it felt more real, more raw, now that you could actually say it to each other face to face. not that it hadn't already meant a lot during the time that you were long-distance but cmon, who couldn't say that this was so much better?
he lines himself up against your folds, bending down to kiss you on the lips. he didn't say anything. but he didn't need to, not with the way he brought his free hand up to intertwine with yours, giving an affectionate squeeze. and certainly not with the way he had begun peppering kisses all over your face, from your forehead down to your chin. rather than saying it back, he's showing you. showing you that this? this was going to be you two from now on.
"you ready, baby?"
after seeing his dick for the first time? since forever.
but you only smile against his lips, nodding in response. he nuzzles your noses together, tip slowly pushing into you. you moan, back slightly arching off the couch once again. toji then gently puts your legs over his shoulders anew as he finally wedges the tip inside, stopping every now and then so you can begin to stretch out and accommodate his girth and length without much struggle.
"oh fuck, you're so fuckin' tight."
toji moans as he bucks against you slightly, pushing another inch further in. you throw your head back against the soft cushions behind your head and gasp. he was so big, you already felt so full. he inches in slowly, and you could feel yourself loosening up more and more. your thighs are visibly trembling, and you could feel every trace of his vein that trails down his entire length. at one point, you felt like you could feel him in your stomach. toji finally goes in to the hilt, and your mind went blank.
it felt like forever for him to fully stuff himself into your pussy but when he had, you could feel his tip kiss your cervix and your body was tingling all over, tears forming at the brims of your eyelids as a reaction of pleasure. your bodies were finally connected and you were thrilled, so much so that you began squeezing around him—tighter.
"shit baby, you're sucking me in."
toji whispers huskily, thick black bangs of hair stuck onto his forehead from sweat as his beefy arms are caging your head. you moan in response, wrapping your arms around his neck and fingernails pressing on his back, scratching him. he grunts, lifting up to position himself to squat on top of you. oh my god, toji had put you in mating press.
his hips move back and slam back into you and you force down a scream when you feel him go so deep. your tits circle as you shake in desperation, and your cunt spasms at the feeling of the way his cock twitches. toji laughs, voice so deep and raspy that it made you wetter than you already were. he was amused at your reaction.
but you were getting impatient. finally getting used to his size meant that he didn’t have to hold back, and you didn’t want him to. you wanted him to have you not feeling your legs by tomorrow morning, and screaming until the entire neighborhood knew his name.
“please to’… want you to fuck me hard.”
being so close to him meant that you could not only see his reactions, but feel them too. so when he shudders from your words, it has you whining. his hips slowly begin to move, and your hands squeeze his shoulders in utter delight as you repeatedly gasp with each soft thrust.
and when he grabs your disheveled hair to tilt your head back, aligns his lip right against your ear? it has you quivering around his cock as he whispers to you,
"y’want me to fuck ya until you’re cumming all over my cock hm? want me to fuck ya ‘till you’re seeing nothin but stars?”
your toes curl as you tighten around him, the delicious feeling has him sighing in ecstasy. you then nod frantically, raking your nails against his biceps. you couldn’t even give him any other response besides a pitiful whimper. toji chuckles darkly, before fixing his positioning on top of you.
he pulls out just enough so only the tip and an inch or so are wedged in, and then snaps his hips back into you with full force as you jolt while screaming out his name. and then he starts fucking into you, almost at a feral pace. you grip onto his shoulders like your life depended on it, jaw slacked and the most erotic moans spewing out of your glossed lips.
“oh- oh my god! toji! please! ffucckk!”
you never knew you could moan so loudly, and god was it embarrassing. not in the shameful way, but more so… the fact that you couldn’t ever imagine yourself moaning like this until toji made it possible. your thought process is shortly cut off when toji begins to groan— and, was that a whine that you just heard?
you feel his hand trail down to your twitching clit, and your lips form an “o” shape as he begins to ever so softly pinch it. you wail as you frantically claw at his back, bright red scratch marks appearing that were sure to last for a while. toji grunts, he wouldn’t admit it just yet but the pain from your nails mixed with the sheer pleasure your pussy was bringing him was making his balls swell much faster than he expected.
and the way your tight gummy walls were sucking his fat cock in— it was like you were begging to be filled up with his thick cum. but maybe that was just him speaking for himself. the idea of cumming in you was enticing; one that consumes his sexual desires. but not just yet. toji looks down to see a white ring begin to form at the base of his dick, and he licks his lips as he glances back up at you.
you looked so pretty, fucked out on his cock like this. your tits were jiggling in rhythm with his animalistic thrusts, and your nipples were rubbing against his chest. and he was even more enamored with the sound his balls slapping against your ass were making. fuck, he was bound to cum soon. but you looked like you were on the brink of shattering more so than he was.
that specific feeling of your stomach clenching and your body tensing up has you knowing that you were going to reach your release any minute. and so when toji begins to messily rub his fingers against your clit to overstimulate you all while he’s rutting into you with one goal in mind— you break.
your thighs are quaking against his body, as your cunt gushes out milky white cum, coating toji’s cock and his inner thighs. you whine when toji pulls out and releases on your stomach and tits, feeling empty without him inside anymore. with your eyes rolled back, lights swirling behind your eyelids as you were trying to form coherent thoughts, with you trying to control your ragged breathing; you almost didn’t register toji’s “you okay mamas?”.
you look at him through half-lidded eyes, and exhale out a velvet “mhm”, a lazy smile spreading across your lips to reassure him even more. he laughs softly and then slowly pulls back from you to have your legs lay on his sides, as he begins to slowly and gently massage from your thighs down to your ankles. you moan with relief as you hadn’t even taken notice to the slight pain within some parts of your legs that toji was rubbing on.
“you did so well baby.”
he mumbles, bringing one leg up to kiss from your calf to your ankle, then the other. you practically melt from his touches— he was so good at making you feel loved in all kinds of ways and it made you go crazy.
“thank you for this amazing first time experience, to’.”
you reach for his free hand, pulling him down so you can give him sweet kisses on his lips and cheeks. he kisses you back, squeezing your hand affectionately. you both pull away and you slowly sit up, leaning against him for support.
“only the best for you, sweetheart. i’ll be right back with a wash cloth for ya, ‘kay?”
you nod and watch as he gets up and goes back into the bathroom across the room to get a wash cloth, and he comes back in a few seconds. you sigh at the feeling of the warmth of the water on the cloth, and toji cleans the sticky mess he left before going down to in between your thighs to clean, then the couch. he jogs back into the bathroom to leave the cloth and wash his hands, and maybe his dick, and comes back to you once more.
he sits next to you and brings an arm around you, rubbing your shoulder with his hand. he then tosses a blanket that was laying on the side over you two— and you realized how bad you’ve always wanted this. gosh, you couldn’t wait for more moments like this.
and then you look in front of you, and you remember what you two were actually meant to be doing.
“baby, what about the movie we were supposed to be watching?”
toji’s eyes widen, almost like that never crossed his mind, and you can’t help but giggle at how fast he grabs the remote to put on Netflix and swipe through movies you two could watch.
“we still can mama, jus’ don’t fall asleep on me.”
“you’ve already tired me out, so no promises.”
you grin at the way he playfully rolls his eyes and gives you a cheeky laugh. so when he pulls you in to peck your forehead, and for just the sake of being closer?
you know that this is where you were meant to be.
P.S: wow!! this was so much fun from start to finish. writers block is a real pain in the ass but more is to come, at a less-half year disappearance-rate LMAO. def going to write more abt this trope, i loved it sm.
feel free to leave ideas in my inbox or a comment ♡ if i made any grammar mistakes that i missed, lmk!and thank u so much for reading (●´ω`●)
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John Deere's repair fake-out
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Last week, a seeming miracle came to pass: John Deere, the Big Ag monopolist that — along with Apple — has led the Axis of Evil that killed, delayed and sabotaged dozens of Right to Repair laws, sued for peace, announcing a Memorandum of Understanding with the American Farm Bureau Federation to make it easier for farmers to fix their own tractors:
https://www.fb.org/files/AFBF_John_Deere_MOU.pdf
This is a move that’s both badly needed and long overdue. Deere abuses copyright law to force farmers to pay for official repairs — even when the farmer does the repair. That’s possible thanks to a practice called VIN locking, in which engine parts come with DRM that prevents the tractor from recognizing them until they pay hundreds of dollars for a John Deere technician to come to their farm and type an unlock code into the tractor’s console:
https://doctorow.medium.com/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors-bc93f471b9c8
Like all DRM, VIN locks are covered by Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a 1998 law that criminalizes distributing tools to bypass “access controls,” even if you do so for a lawful purpose (say, to fix your own tractor using a part you paid for). Violations of DMCA 1201 carry a penalty of 5 years in prison and a $500k fine — for a first offense.
This means that Deere owners are locked into using Deere for repairs, which also means that if Deere decides something isn’t broken, a farmer can’t get it fixed. This is very bad news indeed, because John Deere tractors are just computers in a fancy, mobile case, and John Deere is incredibly bad at digital security:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/23/reputation-laundry/#deere-john
That’s scary stuff, because John Deere is a monopolist, and a successful attack on the always-connected, networked tractors and other equipment it supplies to the world’s farmers could endanger the global food supply.
Deere doesn’t want to make insecure tractors, but it also doesn’t want to be embarrassed by security researchers who point out that its security is defective. Because security researchers have to bypass Deere tractors’ locks to probe their security, Deere can leverage DMCA1201 into a veto over who gets to warn the public about the mistakes it made.
It’s not just security researchers that Deere gets to gag: the company uses its repair monopoly to threaten farmers who complain about its business practices, holding their million-dollar farm equipment hostage to their silence:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/31/dealers-choice/#be-a-shame-if-something-were-to-happen-to-it
This all adds up to what Jay Freeman calls “felony contempt of business model,” an abuse of copyright law that allows a monopolistic corporation to reach beyond its own walls and impose its will on it customers, critics and competitors:
https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/
If Deere was finally suing for peace in the Repair Wars, well, that was wonderful news indeed — as I said, a seeming miracle.
But — like all miracles — it was too good to be true.
The MOU that Deere and the Farm Bureau signed is full of poison pills, gotchas, fine-print and mendacity, as Lauren Goode documents in her Wired article, “Right-to-Repair Advocates Question John Deere’s New Promises”:
https://www.wired.com/story/right-to-repair-advocates-question-john-deeres-new-promises/
For starters, the MOU makes the Farm Bureau promise to end its advocacy for state Right to Repair bills, which would create a repair system governed by democratically accountable laws, not corporate fiat. Clearly, Deere has seen the writing on the wall, after the passage in 2002 of Right to Repair laws in New York and Colorado:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/when-drm-comes-your-wheelchair
These two bills broke the corporate anti-repair coalition’s winning streak, which saw dozens of state R2R bills defeated:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/26/nixing-the-fix/#r2r
Deere’s deal-with-the-devil is a cynical ploy to brake R2R’s momentum and ensure that any repairs are carried out on Deere’s terms. Now, about those terms…
Deere’s deal offers independent repair shops access to diagnostic tools and parts “on fair and reasonable terms,” a murky phrase that can mean whatever Deere decides it means. Crucially, the deal is silent on whether Deere will supply the tools needed to activate VIN locks, meaning that farmers will still be at Deere’s mercy when they effect their own repairs.
What’s more, the deal itself isn’t legally binding, and Deere can cancel it at any time. Once you dig past the headline, the Deere’s Damascene conversion to repair advocacy starts to look awfully superficial — and deceptive.
One person who wasn’t fooled is sick.codes, the hacker who has done the most important work on reverse-engineering Deere’s computer systems, culminating in last summer’s live, on-stage hack of a John Deere tractor at Defcon:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/15/deere-in-headlights/#doh-a-deere
Shortly after the announcement, Sick.codes tweeted how the fine-print in the MOU would have prevented him from doing the work he’s already done (including “a direct stab at me lol”):
https://twitter.com/sickcodes/status/1612484935495057409
As with other instances of monopolistic, corporate copyfraud — like, say, the deceptive Open Gaming License — the John Deere capitulation is really a bid to take away your rights, dressed up as a gift of more rights:
https://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/706163316598407168/good-riddance-to-the-open-gaming-license
[Image ID: Hieronymus Bosch's painting, 'The Conjurer.' The Conjuror's shell-game table holds a small John Deere tractor that the audience of yokels gawps at. One yokel is wearing a John Deere hat. The conjurer is holding a wrench.]
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wifeofsnowbaird · 5 months
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coryo x stepsister!reader 🥺🥺
k girl i mean ig i promised 💀💀 but this aint gonna work in the hunger games so im gonna make it modern
btw this got a bit out of hand idk why i made him yandere :|
Believe in me, my angel...
(yandere!coryo x stepsister!reader)
Summary: There seems to be a long list of people who stepped too close to you found in your step-brother's room...
Warning!: insinuated sex at the end
[If you feel uncomfortable, tell me, I hate making people feel that way.]
The Snow's were adopted into the family when Coriolanus' mother married your dad. It was a solemn time when she and the baby died during labor but it incentivized your dad to adopt the two kids into your family when you were 15.
You didn't like Coryo that much, you loved Tigris but he gave you a scary feeling and that caused a gap to grow between you two. You hadn't realized it but he had a crush on you when he first saw you, a month after his mother got remarried into your family.
You were beautiful, sharp [e/c] eyes and shiny hair stood out among the filth that decided they could stand next to you. So he made a list for all the people who passed by you to know who was safe to keep around you.
Your boyfriend was his first kill.
But when you found these lists, all crumpled into a drawer just in case, he responded in the only way he could.
He kidnapped you.
" Coryo! Cory! Coriolanus! Snow!"
He finally turned, he had never heard your future last name exit your mouth.
" My love?" He tilted his head with a small smirk forming on his mouth.
" Let me go! You know Papa will be looking for me if I disappear!"
Coriolanus hummed, his icy blue eyes meeting your gaze, a signal of warning disappearing just as fast as it had come.
" I told him that we were going on a trip because you were invited to a Party in the Bahamas and you knew Tigris wouldn't like it. He believed every word."
You shivered.
You would definitely say that.
A lustful grin crossed his face as he looked you up and down.
" I will have you tonight, my love. But believe me when I say that I will have you forever."
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gabessquishytum · 1 month
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Glad to have you open again! To celebrate, we love us some Professor Hob with student Dream, and we love us some mafia au, so why not combine the two?
Morpheus Endless is fully aware of what the family business is, and that at some point in the future he will likely be asked if he wants to find his own niche in it—and he probably will. For now though he doesn’t really care about all that so long as he’s able to use his family’s resources to get what he wants (he’s rather spoiled and rarely been told “no”).
The latest thing he wants is his college history professor Hob Gadling. He’s handsome, charming, and kind, and Morpheus spends most of his classes fantasizing about taking him out on dates to fancy restaurants and kissing him under the stars (or bringing him back home and laying him out on Morpheus’ expensive silk sheets, depending on whether he’s feeling more horny or romantic that day). He generously waits for his guards to stalk him gather information on him and perform a background check, but otherwise he doesn’t pine in silence very long before approaching Professor Gadling to ask him on a date.
Hob is by now accustomed to the occasional crush from his students, and has been propositioned by some a handful of times. Admittedly this is the first student to expressly ask him out (as opposed to just requesting an opportunity for “extra credit”), and he’s honestly a little flattered. But he decided early on that he wouldn’t be the kind of teacher who becomes involved with his students, so he does his best to turn Morpheus down as gently and kindly as he can.
In response, a tearful Morpheus goes directly to his chief bodyguard, the Corinthian, and demands he fix the situation.
That is how Hob, after being threatened persuaded to reconsider, finds himself sitting across from Morpheus (who has a pretty good idea how Hob was persuaded, but doesn’t care so long as it means he’s here) at dinner at one of the finest restaurants in town. He had no idea that his student, a kid who looked like a stiff breeze could blow him away, was mobbed up. However he does have a bit of experience with this type of spoiled, and he’s pretty sure that if he just plays along a little and bides his time, Morpheus will discover some new shiny plaything to distract him and leave him alone again.
(Little does Hob know that it only takes a handful of dates for Morpheus to become even more besotted, and his fantasies are quickly evolving into turning Hob into his perfect little mafia wife…)
-🪽anon
Thank you so much friendo, this is a great prompt to get back in with!
I'm imagining how that conversation with the Corinthian went down for Hob. Did he show up at Hob’s office hours?
Cori: It's about Morpheus. He's infatuated with you and wants you to join him on a date.
Hob: ah, I know. But nothing appropriate happened, I promise I turned him down-
Cori: that is precisely the problem *reveals knife in jacket pocket*
...anyway, for the sake of his physical wellbeing, Hob shows up to dinner with Morpheus. In a way, the whole situation is quite funny for Hob (a grown, mature adult). This spoiled little brat thinks he can buy anything and anyone apparently, but one day he'll surely learn that money and power aren't everything. Hob is smiling into his wine glass, somewhat amused by the little mafia prince's attempts at seduction.
But Morpheus is unhinged, as well as spoiled, and his attention doesn't wander away from Hob. Weeks and months of dates pass by, with Hob refusing to do more than kiss his cheek after dinner. Morpheus is growing impatient. Hob is his boyfriend, they should be doing more than making small talk and barely touching! And so, Hob gets a second visit from the Corinthian.
And now Hob’s feeling kind of worried. Because Morpheus seems to be genuinely obsessed with him, and Cori has made it clear that Hob needs to start behaving like a doting lover, or there will be consequences. Involving the knife.
So, he is sucked in deeper to Morpheus’s life. There are more dates; these ones more intimate than before as they take place in Morpheus’s large private apartment. They're alone together at last, and then it's a little easier for Hob to pretend that it's all normal and okay. Kissing Morpheus feels good. Accepting gifts from him feels easy. Being touched by him... Well, at least nobody else will ever have to know. And Morpheus is quite a little sweetheart, really. Maybe because he has the Corinthian to do all the dirty work for him...
It'll be the Corinthian who finally "persuades" Hob to give up his job and be the "support" that Morpheus needs as he takes his place in the family business. Hob has a responsibility to keep Morpheus happy at home now. Isn't that more important? Because Hob does love Morpheus. He just wishes sometimes that they could have a normal life together.
And standing in the purple satin evening gown that Morpheus requested, draped all over in diamonds and rubies, smiling dutifully at the other members of the family, Hob can't help but wonder if Morpheus will keep him forever. Because at this point, Hob’s not sure what he'd do without him...
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crimeronan · 8 months
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Ik this is dumb but do u have tips for folks w bad phone call anxiety … I really want to participate
this is about US constituents calling our house of representatives reps to support cori bush's ceasefire resolution re: israel's genocide of palestine.
i just made a post but you can find your rep's contact info thru your zip code here, they should have an email publicly available. my rep has a website and contact page that allows me to email directly through the site -- it asks for my address and my name, so that i can prove that i am indeed a constituent and registered voter.
the house of reps can't currently do anything because of the GOP's theatrics; if you have a republican congressperson, i would Also tell them to insist that jim jordan end his bid for speakership & to work with democrats on a resolution. jim jordan is a MAGA extremist whose control of congress will stymie any humanitarian aid and peace efforts.
as for phone calls, which i still recommend making if you're able:
if you call after business hours, you will likely get a voicemail inbox
politely state your name, town of residence, and reason for calling. "hello, my name is X, i am a constituent from Y. i am calling about my concerns regarding the violence in palestine. as a voter, it is important to me that my representative support cori bush's ceasefire resolution to prevent further loss of life in israel and palestine."
if you get connected to a real person, the script is nearly the same. "hello, my name is X, i'm a constituent from Y. i know that the house of reps can't currently vote on legislation, so i'm just calling with a message asking your office to support cori bush's ceasefire resolution once you can. this is important to me as a voter who cares deeply about the loss of life in israel and palestine. thank you very much for your time"
it will be a short phone call. all you need to provide is name, town, you support cori bush's ceasefire resolution.
you don't need to convince the person on the other line. you're just leaving a message. it's important to be polite and direct.
the person on the line will already be receiving a LOT of calls related to the current speakership fiasco. this is okay and good, it's their job. you as a person will not be memorable or important to them.
to that end, remember that it's about quantity over quality. it's not on you as an individual to save the entire world or to have all the right answers. your phone call is one small drop in a much larger bucket. it matters because of the collective, not because of you as an individual.
i PROMISE you are not going to make anybody's day worse. in fact, as long as you're polite, you are WAY more likely to make the other person's day BETTER. the job of congressional staff is Not Fun right now. polite phone calls are a breath of fresh air.
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arecaceae175 · 3 months
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Swamp Bugs: Bugs Not In Space And Not Quite On Land
Even MORE @heroesspirit bug fic because I absorbed Cori's bug special interest and I still cannot be contained
Summary: Cori takes Sky, Twilight, and Sailor to look for bugs. Tensions are high.
Notes: 1.9k, very light angst. Bugs. This is set chronologically before Land Bugs: Bugs Not In Space when the heroes are all together but the smaller groups are not friends with each other yet
Cori hadn’t touched a bug in six days. He was counting. It was nearing the longest uninterrupted bugless span of his life. The quest they were on was important, he knew that, but the other heroes were making things far more tense than necessary. 
He hadn’t had a chance to sneak off in weeks. The last time he touched a bug wasn’t even for fun; he just took a spider off of Kiri’s boot. He didn’t even get to figure out what species it might have been before he had to race to catch up with the group. 
It was far past time, Cori decided, to touch some bugs. 
Cori nodded to himself as he stood up. There was plenty of water nearby in the swamp. It would be a perfect opportunity to practice his aquatic insect identification. 
“Where are you going?” Kiri asked quietly. 
“I want to look for bugs. There’ll be cool ones next to the water,” Cori said. 
Kiri raised an eyebrow. “By yourself?”
“No,” Cori said. He turned and stepped over to Sky and Twilight, who were sitting near each other but far enough away to keep from being friendly.
“You have a bug net.” Cori pointed at Sky, then at Twilight. “And you’ve caught bugs before.”
Sky and Twilight glanced at each other, then back at Cori. Twilight nodded. 
“I do,” Sky said. 
“I’m going to look for bugs in the water. Do you want to come?” Cori asked. Sky’s ears shot up and he grinned. 
“Sure!” Sky said. 
Twilight’s expression wasn’t as excited, but his ears were perked curiously. He glanced around the camp, making quick eye contact with Taylor, then nodded. Twilight stood and reached his arms over his head to stretch. 
“I could use a walk. Haven’t found bugs in a while, either,” Twilight said. 
Cori grinned widely. “I’ll be right back.”
Cori went back to Kiri, only bouncing a little bit, and smirked. “See? Not alone.”
Kiri frowned. “One of us should go with you.”
“You don’t like bugs.”
“Alright, fair. Take Four, then.”
“Four’s fixing chainmail.”
Kiri sighed and crossed his arms. He glanced at Twilight and Sky then back to Cori. Cori glanced behind him as well. Sky was frowning and Twilight had his arms crossed with an angry expression on his face. They were not helping his case.
“I’m just going to the edge of the water. I’ll take my knife. You’ll hear me yell if anything happens,” Cori promised.
Kiri looked deeply displeased. “Fine.”
Cori smiled as he strapped his knife to his belt. Kiri didn’t smile back, but his frown did fall from his face. A neutral expression was a win, in Cori’s mind. 
“Ready to go?” Twilight asked. He glanced at Kiri warily, then focused on Cori. His ears were twitching uncertainly. 
Cori nodded and turned to lead the way towards the swamp. He glanced back to make sure Sky and Twilight were following. They were walking an awkward distance apart from each other, but there were following. Cori would take what he could get. 
“Wait!” 
Cori stopped and turned around. Sailor was jogging to catch up with them. Cori glanced towards the group and saw Kiri and the soldier both watching Sailor closely. 
Sailor stopped in front of Cori and huffed to catch his breath. “I’m coming too!” 
“Do you like bugs?” Cori asked. 
“Uh, yeah, sure. Bugs are great,” Sailor said. Cori wasn’t great at interpreting tone, but he could tell Sailor was not as enthusiastic about bugs as he was. 
“Uh huh.” Twilight crossed his arms and stared down at Sailor. “You sure about that?”
Sailor scowled at Twilight. “Why wouldn’t I be?”
“Oh, I don’t know. Maybe a certain soldier wants you to keep an eye on me,” Twilight said. 
Sailor’s glare intensified. “What, you think I can’t make my own decisions? I’m not a child, you know.”
“You are, actually,” Sky said. 
Sailor whirled on Sky to respond, but Cori stomped into the middle of the group. “If you’re gonna fight, leave. I’m going to find some bugs.” 
Cori marched towards the water, not bothering to turn and see if anyone was following him. The awkward silence in his wake was practically tangible. Six steps away, Cori heard light footsteps following him, then heavy ones, then the third set. 
Good , Cori thought; more people meant more bugs they could catch. He didn’t know where they were, exactly. The swamp was similar to the Castor Wilds, but more… damp. Many of the group complained about the dampness of the soil and the air. Cori didn’t like his things getting wet, but any discomfort he felt was far outweighed by the potential for bugs. 
Sailor caught up and fell into step next to Cori. 
“So… what exactly are we doing?” Sailor asked. 
“Looking for insects,” Cori said.
“Right, right.” Sailor glanced over his shoulder then back to Cori. “And… what exactly are we looking for?”
“Any insects. There will be a lot of them here. Lots of insects use damp areas or standing water to lay their eggs.”
“Gross!” Sky said happily. 
“There’s also a lot of amphibians and freshwater crustaceans in swamps, so you have to make sure the things you find are insects,” Cori continued. 
Sailor’s brows were furrowed and he was frowning. “How do I do that?”
Cori’s steps faltered. He caught himself before he fell, and whipped around to look at Sailor, who had his hands out as if he was going to catch Cori. Cori ignored that. 
“Do you know what an insect is?” Cori asked. 
“Of course I know what bugs are.” Sailor huffed and crossed his arms, but his ears turned pink on the tips and flattened against his head. 
“Hm.” Cori realized Sailor might not know how to identify insects. He had no idea how someone could go through their entire life without wanting to learn about the technical definition of an insect. 
“Well, you’re lucky I’m here. I know everything there is to know about insects, so I can teach you everything,” Cori said. He bounced excitedly as he walked.  
“Insects are invertebrates that have three main body parts: head, thorax, and abdomen. They also have six legs that are attached to the thorax, two antennae, and zero or two pairs of wings, and two compound eyes.”
“Uh,” Sailor said. 
“They’re usually pretty small, so it can be hard to see the different parts of their body without a magnifying glass. Look for little creatures with six legs.” 
They reached the edge of the water in the swamp. Cori immediately sunk into a crouch and peered into the shallow water, searching for eggs or other signs of insects. 
“Did you know insects are the only invertebrates capable of flight?” Cori said without taking his eyes off the water. 
“Huh. I didn’t know that,” Twilight said. 
Cori turned and beamed at him. “It’s true.”
“Cool,” Sky said. He pulled out his bug net, which was huge, and went a few steps away to search the trees. Sailor crouched down next to Cori and Twilight walked in a slow circle around them.
The buzzing of cicadas was a pleasant backdrop to the bug search. Cori swayed gently side to side as he surveyed the water, happily humming along with the cicadas’ song.
A water strider glided across the surface of the water. Cori gasped and put his hand down next to Sailor to get his attention. 
“Look,” Cori whispered as he pointed to the water strider. “That’s a water strider. It could be a number of species, most likely Aquarius remigis . Can you see the six legs?”
“Woah.” Sailor leaned forward to get a better look, and his ears were perked forward towards the swamp. “Yeah, I can see it! How is it doing that? It’s standing on the water!” 
“They’re small enough that they can float. Their legs also have hairs that help them to not go under the water,” Cori explained as he bounced on his toes. 
“How do you know all this stuff?” Twilight asked. Cori glanced up in surprise; he hadn’t heard Twilight approach. He was too focused on the bug. 
“I like bugs,” Cori said. “I’ve read almost every book about insects in the library. And, now that Zelda can let me in the Royal Library, I have even more insect books to read! I haven’t gone through all of them yet, but I’m going to.”
“We learned about insects in school, but not this much. I’m impressed,” Sky said. 
Cori smiled up at Sky. He was starting to like Sky, even more than he did when he found out Sky has a bug net. Anyone with a bug net was cool, unless they used it to hurt bugs. Anyone who hurt bugs on purpose was decidedly not cool. 
“Will they all be on top of the water like that?” Sailor asked. 
Cori bounced to turn back to Sailor. “No! Most aquatic insects will be underwater, actually. Some insect larvae have gills, like fish, but most actually still need air. Here.”
Cori scooted forward until the tips of his boots were just shy of the water’s edge. He gently reached into the water and put his fingers on a moderately sized rock. Carefully, so he didn’t accidentally turn the rock and squish anything, he lifted the rock out of the water and turned it over. 
There were three small sections of tiny rocks stuck to the bottom. Cori pointed to those first. “These rocks are caught in the saliva of larvae. It could be a few different species, probably caddis flies.”
Next, he pointed to a round insect nearly flattened to the rock. “This is a water penny beetle larva! I’m surprised to see one here, actually. They usually like to be in the shallow sections of moving water. The water here must be really clean.”
As he spoke, he pinched the bug very, very gently until it released its hold on the rock. Cori slid it onto his finger and held it up in between himself and Sailor so they could both look at the bug. 
Twilight hummed and looked out over the pond. “There’s a small stream on the other side, looks like, so the water is cycled.”
Cori glanced up to see if Sailor liked the water penny, but Sailor had turned to glare at Twilight, who crossed his arms with a smirk. Cori frowned as Sailor stood up and put his hands on his hips.
Sailor took a step away from the water towards Twilight. “I bet I can find more bugs than you.”
“No chance.” Twilight shook his head.
“Whoever finds the most bugs before the sun sets wins,” Sailor said. 
“Uh,” Cori said. He didn’t know why they had to make this a competition. Searching for bugs was supposed to be soothing and fun.
“How do we keep track?” Twilight asked. 
Sailor pointed at Cori. “Cori can judge whether it's a bug or not.” 
“Hm. Yeah, alright.” Twilight nodded.
“You’re all going down,” Sky said. 
Cori shrugged. He didn’t want to compete, but he couldn’t complain about getting to see all the bugs. “As long as I get to look at bugs.”
“On three. One, two, three!” 
They raced off. Sky went for the trees while Twilight and Sailor went in opposite directions along the pond. Cori carefully put the rock back in the water exactly where it was before he picked it up, then huffed a sigh and let his head fall onto his knees. Traveling with so many other people could be stressful. 
At least he got to look at bugs.
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fandomgirlz01 · 2 years
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Love Uncovered Pt. 4
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Colby Brock x Reader
Prompt?: No
Request?: Yes
Requested prompt?: No
Edited: Yes
Word count: 4,992
Ko-fi
Master List
Warnings Here 
You can listen to the story be read out loud here {coming soon}. 
Post Date: November 15th 2022
Post Time: 7:03 pm
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Author's note: I will be attempting to talk about aura stuff, but I’ve never studied that stuff or anything so you guys who do, please just bear with me and if I say something incorrect please please please educate me on it. I will never ever pass up if you guys tell me something is wrong in what I’ve written, I will simply just try my best to go back and fix it. So please just bear with me and enjoy the story. 
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Y/n’s Pov:
After Colby’s question, we all laugh and Sam throws his head down as he brings his closed fist up to his face. Once Sam calms down from laughing, he sits back up straight. 
“About the conjuring,” Cory reminds Sam. 
“The conjuring, yeah. Do you think that’s a decently accurate representation? Or do you not like it?” Sam asks as he keeps trying not to laugh. Colby continues to move the camera around, but he stays standing close to me. 
I’m turned in my seat now as we listen to what Cory has to say and Colby has my back against him as he keeps the camera above my head. 
“Honestly… like I personally like the movie. In as far as accuracy, from the people that lived through it and they said it's about half accurate. If you read the books that Andrea wrote, it was actually ten times worse in real life then the movie was,” Cory explains as he uses his hands to talk. 
“Really?! What?” Sam expresses his shock and Colby moves the camera onto him. 
“Whoa…” Amanda softly adds on. 
“She actually gave a copy of her books to the screenwriters and the screenwriters are like, ‘we can’t put this in the theater, we can’t get an R rating on it,’” he explains, expressing himself with his hands to lay out the details. 
“If we were trying to capture something, what would be, like, do you think the best plan of action for us to go about at night?” Sam asks and Colby moves a hand down to my shoulder when he feels me shiver lightly. 
“If you can go by yourself,” Cory says and Colby immediately lets out a gulp as Stas lets out an ‘oh my’. 
“I know… I know it’s hard, but that’s when you're most valuable and that’s when they like to make contact,” Cory explains in a very even-toned voice. 
“Alright, Sam! So, ummm…” Colby speaks up before clearing his throat. 
“Why is it always me?!” Sam shouts out and we all laugh as he rubs at his face with his hand. 
“Nose goes!” Colby yells out and everyone rushes to put their fingers to their noses. 
“Not me!” Stas proudly yells out. 
“Jesus… ahhh!” Colby yells out as he turns the camera on his own face, but he almost drops it on my head. 
“It’s y/n!” Kat yells out ,pointing to me and I groan. 
“That’s just not fair! One, I always lose nose goes, and two, it’s hard when you’re ducking from a camera almost hitting you in the head…” I say with a light pout as I cross my arms and everyone laughs at me. 
“I’m sorry, baby,” Colby says as he rubs my head and I shove his hand off. 
“No, you’re not,” I playfully fight back and he chuckles. 
“Yes, I am. I promise to be more careful,” Colby tells me as he rubs my shoulder. 
He then moves the camera out in front of him and gently pulls my neck back. He leans down and gives me a light kiss, making me smile. Once he’s done, he stands straight again and I sit straight. 
“Ok. Definitely editing that out,” Sam sarcastically says and I giggle obnoxiously on purpose. 
“Anyway… back to my question…” Sam says as he turns back to Cory. 
“Well, that and recording it. Not only on that, but like voice recorders and stuff like that,” Cory explains as he motions to the camera. 
“Because they will talk,” he continues, but stops as we all hear a noise and Amanda looks to the side. 
“You seein’ something over there?” Colby asks her as he holds the camera on her. 
“Yeah. Outside. They just keep walking by and walking by and walking by,” Amanda exclaims in indignation as she keeps her head toward the window. 
“Who? Who keeps walking by?” Colby asks her and she keeps her eyes trained on the window still. 
“There’s three men outside,” she tells us and as soon as she says that I start to feel sick. The feeling is very slight, but it’s still there. 
“Can you tell how they're dressed?” Cory asks Amanda after a moment of silence as she continues to watch the window. 
“They're all wearing the same thing…” she tells us before pausing to figure out how to describe it to us. 
“It’s like… it’s not white, it’s like beige. They all have hats on, but one of them has a different hat then the other,” Amanda continues to explain what she sees. 
“Wide brim?” Cory asks and Amanda gives out a light ‘yeah…’ as she continues to watch the window closely and Stas nervously scratches at her nose. 
“And there’s something shiny on their chests…” Amanda explains as she runs a hand over her chest to show us what she means. 
She watches for a few more minutes before turning back at us all. As soon as she turns, the very light sick feeling goes away. 
“Like, it almost seems like they're not aware of us going on. Or lights being on in here. Like they- they-” Amanda shares as she taps at the table. 
“They’ve been getting really…” she continues to explain, but a small whistle cuts her off and the sick feeling comes back again, but stays very light. 
“Did you hear that?” Stas asks in an agitated tone. 
“What was that?” Colby and Kat ask in unison as Colby moves the camera around. 
“That was- did you hear the whistle?” Colby asks everyone in a slightly panicked tone. 
“I heard a whistle,” Stas speaks up and I nod. 
“I heard it too. I heard it when Amanda was explaining what they looked like too,” I agree as I point at Stas from across the table. 
“Are you- recording?” Colby asks as he looks at Amanda. 
“I’m recording,” Amanda confirms as she motions to her camera. 
“We definitely just got a whistle,” Colby says in an astonished tone. 
“Yeah so that was something,” Kat says as she plays with her earring and Colby lets out a small ‘oh my God.’
“It might’ve been me,” Cory states and Sam uses his thumb to point at him. 
“What did you do?” Sam skeptically asks as he looks at Cory. 
“I’m fat,” Cory again states and Colby lets out a chortle. 
“How would that create a whistle?” Sam asks in amusement and we all burst out laughing. 
“I don’t know!” Cory tells Sam honestly and we all laugh. 
“I do-” he explains as he makes a quick inhaling sound. 
“No!” Amanda shouts. 
“No. No. It was like a whistle. Like it was distinct,” Stas states as she uses her hands while Colby says ‘like’ before he gives a small whistle. 
“It was very distinct. Not to mention every time I’ve felt sick, there was a whistle,” I add onto what Stas says with a nod. 
“Curious,” Cory says in interest as he rubs his beard. 
“That’s what I said down in the basement- or was it in the basement?” she asks, scrunching her eyebrows together. 
“No. That was upstairs,” both Amanda and Cory say in unison. 
“No I heard- I heard it,” Sam perks up after Kat asks him something. 
“You heard the whistle too?” Colby asks Sam as Sam looks up at him. 
“I heard it too!” Stas agrees with Sam. 
“I did too!” I agree as well. 
“I thought it was you guys,” Sam says as he points at Cory. 
“I thought it was you guys too! That’s why I looked at you guys like, did anyone hear that?” Stas explains as she points at me and Kat, making us both nod. 
“I was hoping it was an animal outside,” Amanda says, nervously taking her hands off the table. 
“Let's call Jen and see what she has to say,” Cory suggests as he pulls his phone out. 
He dials a number and it starts to ring before there’s the sound of her answering. Cory quickly explains the situation to her before pulling the phone away from his ear. He puts it on speaker before laying it down on the table and we all start to explain it to her. 
“Like they- they- they think they heard whistles?” Jen asks from over the phone as Amanda pushes play on the sound recording that was caught on her phone. 
“That was it,” Colby states in shock from behind Amanda and Kat points to the phone. 
“What was that knock?!” Stas asks from beside Amanda as she pauses the recording. 
“Go back…” Stas says, still in disbelief. 
“That was a laugh,” both Sam and Kat say in unison. 
“I agree, that was definitely a laugh…” I agree with them, but when I do I start to feel sick again. 
“There was a knock! You guys didn’t hear it?” Stas asks, still in shock as she looks up at Colby and she knocks on the table. 
“Ok… let’s listen again,” Amanda says as she holds her hands out as a way of telling us to be quiet. 
“Like, it almost seems like they're not aware of… us going on. Or lights being on in here. Like they- they-” We all listen as we hear Amanda share again though the recording. 
There’s a light scream behind her in the recording as she talks and both Sam and Kat look up, shocked. Kat then turns to me, the shock still on her face and I nod, telling her I heard it too. She puts a hand down to her side and I grab onto it. 
Kat squeezes my hand in the way Colby always does, but it doesn’t bring me as much relief as Colby’s touch does. I squeeze hers back before listening in on what else is going on. 
“Right there!” Colby shouts out when he hears the knock again. 
“There’s a knock…” Sam confirms as he nods. 
“You hear that! There was a knock!” Stas shouts and Sam nods at her. 
“It was like dun dun dun dun,” Colby agrees with her as he points the camera at them. 
We listen for a few more minutes, but soon we all collectively decide to move on. Colby comes back over behind me. His stomach sits flush with my upper back and the light sick feeling goes away again. 
“I’m going to record again, ‘cause clearly it’s going well for us. Umm. I can still hear the whistles playing back up there,” Amanda tells us all as she points behind Stas.
“Really?!” Stas asks her and Amanda just nods before turning to Cory. 
“Do you have um… noise canceling headphones by any chance?” she asks him and he gives her a small ‘yep’. 
“I would love to put noise canceling headphones on with the spirit box in here and have you guys ask questions,” Amanda tells us as she looks around at each of us. 
I tense up a bit and Colby reaches down with one hand to rub my shoulder. Once he feels me relax, he resumes holding the camera with both hands. I quickly move my head so I can look up at him and he looks down at me, giving me a light smile. 
“Oh, you wanna do the estes method?” Cory asks Amanda and she looks at him with confusion. 
“What?” she asks and Sam reaches up to take the camera from Colby. 
Colby comes back over to me and now that the camera isn’t on us, he bends down and wraps his arms around me. I cuddle back into him as I reach up and grab his hand. We stay like that for a few minutes before he walks back over and takes the camera from Sam again, standing behind him now. 
Again as he walks off, a light sickness comes upon me and I feel nauseous, but it’s not nearly as bad as it was earlier on. It’s like I’m nauseous, but at the same time I’m not. 
“It’s called the Estes method. Sensory deprivation. They can base their questions off of what you’re saying…” Cory explains before pausing and Amanda gives a light ‘okay,’ in response. 
“Or they say the questions first and see what your response is,” Cory explains as he points to our side of the table before pointing back to Amanda. 
“Alright, let’s see if they start speaking to me more than me just seeing them and we can decide. It’s up to you guys. It’s your video, I’m here to help you. Whatever you wanna do,” Amanda tells Sam and Colby as she looks at them. 
“Alright, that sounds awesome,” Sam agrees with her as he looks at Colby who just wiggles his eyebrows at Sam making me giggle at how weird the moment feels. 
“I will say, be careful how long you spend doing that,” Cory tells us. “If you go for too long, like it’s gonna mess you up,” he blatantly states while Amanda keeps humming in agreement and Colby lets out a small ‘dope,’ in shock. 
“Really?” Stas asks as she sits up from her hunched position and Cory gives a pointed ‘yeah,’. 
“Wait how?” Sam asks softly and Colby quickly turns the camera to a confused Sam. 
“It just… it just will. I…I… I don’t know how. I… I’m just telling you,” Cory stutters as he plays with his beard before shrugging. 
“It happened before, type thing?” Sam asks and Cory nods as he gives a small ‘yeah,’ of agreement. 
“If I start feeling something bad, I’ll cut it off,” Amanda tells Sam and Colby and they both nod at her. 
“Ok. Well, we’re going to go into a separate room to explain to the viewers for a moment,” Sam decides and Colby nods in agreement with him. 
“Ok. Well, I think us girls will stay here. Right?” Amanda asks as she looks at the rest of us. 
“I think so. Yeah,” Kat agrees with a shake of her head. 
“Ok. Well, we’ll be back then,” Sam tells us and Colby nods along with him. 
“So y/n, how’ve you been feeling?” Amanda asks as they walk out of the room. 
“I mean I’ve been mostly ok. I did feel a little sick when you mentioned the men walking outside,” I explain as I point to Amanda. 
“Why didn’t you say anything? Cory told you to tell him the next time,” Amanda lightly admonishes me and I shrug. 
“Because it was only a very light sick feeling. I didn’t think it was very important. Not to mention it was just while you were turned away from us. When you turned back, it was gone,” I explain and she shakes her head. 
“You still should have said something y/n. Cory made that very clear. Were there any other points you felt sick?” she asks and I look away in light shame. 
“Yeah… when the whistle sounded,” I sheepishly tell them as I continue to look away from them. 
“I do remember her telling us that one,” Kat speaks up and I smile softly at her. 
“I also may have felt sick after we heard the laughter over the recording, but when Colby came back over to me it went away so I thought nothing of it again,” I admit and Amanda sighs. 
“So you’ve been feeling sick off and on for what? The past hour?” Amanda asks and I nod meekly. 
“Yeah…” I trail off as I kick at the floor under the table. 
“Y/n. You should’ve told us. You could be in real danger here,” Amanda admonishes and I sigh, nodding. 
“I know. I just really don’t want Colby worrying. He was so excited to bring me…” I tell them with a frown and Kat puts an arm around my shoulder. 
“Hon, maybe you should tell him. I know you should definitely tell Cory…” she tells me as she rubs my back and I nod lightly. 
“Ok. When they come back I’ll tell Colby. Then we can tell Cory too,” I agree and they all sigh in relief. 
“Tell me what?” Cory asks as he walks back in. 
“That she’s been feeling sick off and on for the last hour…” Amanda tells him and he turns to me. 
“Really? Why didn’t you say anything?” he asks and I shrug again. 
“It was very subtle and just didn’t seem important,” I tell him in a nonchalant tone. 
“Well, it does matter. I have a feeling one of our male ghosts have taken a liking to you,” he explains and a chill runs through me. 
“What do you mean he likes me?” I ask, now even more on edge. 
“The guy ghost that we have, he likes to hang out in that room I was telling you guys about. He has a type and you definitely fit it. He likes to make girls of your type feel sick to the point of throwing up,” he explains and I choke on my saliva. 
“He likes to make you so sick you’d be immobile and that’s when he usually like to touch you and connect with you,” he continues to explain and I shudder. 
“What does he do if he connects with someone?” I ask and he shakes his head. 
“He’s never gotten that far, so we really don’t know. We believe he could take over your body or possibly do things to people or attach to something on them and try to go home with you, but it’s all theoretical right now,” Cory explains some more and I shake my head. 
“Then why is it when Colby’s around, I don’t feel sick?” I ask him and he smiles at that. 
“That would be because Colby of sorts is a protection for you. He’s your boyfriend, correct?” he asks and I nod. 
“Well our ghost Mr. Paxton hates boyfriends. When a girl has her boyfriend touching her or around her, he hates it. Colby wards off the feelings he puts on you because he’s like a repellent to the ghost,” Cory explains and Amanda snaps her fingers before pointing at me. 
“That’s why his aura was bright turquoise. I was right, it was a protective aura,” Amanda explains and Kat perks up. 
“So when you told us her aura was black with dark red…” Kat trails off as Amanda nods. 
“I was seeing Mr. Paxton’s aura and it’s dark. Cory, do you know this ghost's history?” Amanda asks almost in excitement and Cory purses his lips. 
“Just that he was a guest that had stayed here after getting out of prison and died here,” he explains with a shrug and I shudder. 
“Did he just say… prison?” I ask and Kat nods, keeping me close. 
“Do you know why he was in prison?” Stas asks and Cory shakes his head. 
“Sorry, no. We have never been able to find out why,” Cory tells us and I shake my head. 
“I need to sit down…” I whimper out as I start to move back. 
“Oh ok… I got ya,” Kat promises as she grabs hold of me, leading me over to a chair. 
“Is there anything we can do to keep him from making contact?” Amanda asks and Cory rubs a hand over his beard as he crosses his arms. 
“The only thing that could possibly work is to keep her next to Colby at all times. It’d be even better if they could have physical contact of some sort throughout the rest of the time,” Cory explains with a shrug and I let out a puff of air. 
“Ok. So all we have to do is tell Colby then,” Stats states and I blankly nod. 
“Tell me what? Colby asks as he and Sam walk back into the room. 
“Y/n. Baby, what’s wrong?” he asks when he notices me sitting down staring blankly in front of me. 
“What happened?” he asks as he comes over and kneels down in front of me before looking up at Kat. 
“She’s in a little shock…” Kat explains for me and he looks back at me. 
“Shock? Why would she be shocked?” he asks as he looks from me to Kat. 
“Well…” Stas speaks up, but trails off. 
“Somebody tell me what’s going on!” Colby shouts in fear and that’s what breaks me out of my shock. 
“Ok. So Cory just told us why she’s been feeling sick off and on for about an hour…” Amanda explains and Colby gives me a confused look. 
“You’ve still been feeling sick? Why didn’t you tell me?” he asks and I smile softly at him as I bring a hand up to caress his cheek, which effortlessly calms him. 
“She said she thought it was nothing because it was very light and that it went away whenever you’d be next to her,” Stas explains and he shakes his head. 
“You still should have told me,” Colby says as he gives a disappointed head shake, letting out a puff of air. 
“She didn’t wanna worry you, Colbs. She really thought it was nothing,” Kat tells him and he lifts his head to look at me. 
“I wish you would’ve told me though. We could have figured it out sooner baby,” he tells me as he squeezes my thigh and I nod at him. 
“I promise. If I feel bad at all anymore, I’ll tell you ok?” I assure him and he nods, sniffling as he holds back from crying. 
“So what is causing this? And how can we stop it?” Colby asks as he turns to look at Amanda. 
“Cory said that it’s a ghost named Mr. Paxton. Apparently he likes to mess with girls of y/n’s type. He makes them physically sick,” Amanda starts to explain and the girls all nod along. 
“He also told us that he’s not sure how far this ghost is willing to go, but that the theory they’ve had is that he could connect to her or an item on her to try and travel with her,” Kat takes over explaining from Amanda and Colby’s mouth falls open. 
“How do we stop it?” he asks as he grabs onto my hand. 
“Cory told us to keep you next to her at all times or that you have contact with her at all times. Apparently Mr. Paxton hates boyfriends being around the girls,” Stas explains and all of us other girls nod. 
“Ok. I think we can do that,” Colby nods in agreement with a light smirk on his face. 
“If this ghost hates me touching my girl, then I’m going to be all over her,” he jokes, making everyone laugh and a blush runs up my neck, making Colby chuckle. 
“What about the camera?” I ask him and he shrugs. 
“We’ll just have to be careful, baby. We can do that. When I’m filming, you can just stay behind me with your hand though my belt loop like you’ve been doing,” Colby explains and I nod, squeezing his hand that I’m still holding. 
“What about when Sam is filming?” I timidly ask and Colby smiles. 
“I can keep our hands hidden and Sam can try to keep the camera off of us as much as possible, right Sammy?” Colby asks as he turns to look at him. 
“I can definitely do that. All that matters is that you're ok, y/n,” Sam tells me and I smile, nodding in agreement. 
“Y/n, how do you feel about telling the fans what you’ve been feeling?” Sam asks and I purse my lips as I think about it. 
“I don’t really know, Sam, I kinda just wanna keep it quiet for now and finish this thing as fast as I can,” I tell him and he nods quickly at me. 
“That’s ok. I was just asking. It’s perfectly understandable,” Sam agrees with me and I smile thankfully at him. 
“What if people still catch on with us though?” I ask as I look back at Colby and he shakes his head. 
“I don’t think they will, but if they do I guess we’ll just have to come out to the public,” Colby tells me with a shrug. 
“Are you sure you wanna do that? Honey, we didn’t do that because of how your fans get,” I explain and he shrugs again. 
“If it’s what has to be done. It’s what has to be done. If the fans get crazy, I’ll talk to them,” he promises and I shake my head. 
“That doesn’t always work though, does it?” I ask him and he shakes his head. 
“If it doesn’t work we can always just keep most of our relationship private. The fans have to understand that when I find the one they can’t go bat shit crazy on her. It just makes me mad at them,” Colby explains and I slowly start to grin. 
“The one, huh?” I ask him with a smirk and he chuckles before his cheeks slowly get more and red. 
“Yeah. Uhh… the one…” Colby hesitatingly confirms what he had said and I smile. 
“Colbs. Baby, it’s ok. I think I may have found the one too,” I tell him and his smile slowly changes to a grin. 
“Well that’s good to know…” Colby tells me and I giggle lightly. 
“Ok guys. I think we’re good to go on with the video,” Colby states as he stands up and pulls me with him. 
“Good. Let’s get back to it. Y/n, Colby. You guys keep as much contact as you can get it,” Sam tells us in a jokingly demanding tone. 
“Ok. So where’s the bells and ping pong balls? I think that’s the next step, putting the bells up,” Sam asks and Amanda holds up a bag. 
“Right here,” she tells Sam as she holds the bag up. 
“Ok. Let’s get started then. I’ll film this part, Colby,” Sam tells us as he takes the camera from Colby, who nods. 
Sam gets the camera up and filming as Colby keeps my hand in his, but keeps it behind his back as I stand as close as I can without it looking too suspicious. Amanda opens the bag up and we all start to grab some bells and ping pong balls. 
“We’re going to set up a bunch of these ping pong balls and bells up against the doors and certain areas so we can capture any motion. We’ll be able to listen to see if there’s anything we’ll be able to catch as well,” Sam explains with the camera now pointing at me and Colby. 
Colby puts a bell on one of the chairs and I put one on the chair in the corner behind Colby. Once the bell is placed, I trail slowly back over to stand behind Colby. I stand close to Colby, not too close as he does a listening motion in unison with Sam, who’s still explaining. 
“Colby, can you get me tying one?” Sam asks as Colby stands up. 
“Yeah sure,” Colby agrees before taking the camera and following Sam over to a door. 
I trail behind him and as he films Sam, I keep a finger though his belt loop like he had said to. Once Sam’s done, he takes the camera back and he goes over to film Amanda putting one up as well as one of the bells swinging. Colby pulls me into a hug and holds me there for a moment before kissing my forehead. 
We each do a few more bells and ping pong balls before all coming together at a sofa that Amanda sits on. Kat sits next to her as Sam films, while me and Colby stay behind the camera cuddled up. 
“There’s tons of videos of YouTubers going into the conjuring house and investigating, seeing what they can find, but like… you guys stepped it up. Bringing someone who can see them,” Amanda tells the boys and we all nod along. 
“Ok. Do we wanna do a few more before we call it quits for the balls and bells?” Sam asks and everyone nods at him. Suddenly, Stas starts to freak out. 
“I’m literally going to cry. I actually saw that,” Stas says, her voice trembling with fear and Sam turns around. 
“What did you see?” Sam asks as he looks to where she’s looking. 
“Like… it like peeped its head around that couch,” Stas explains, still pretty terrified. 
“Where did you see that?” Sam asks her again as she slowly gets more agitated. 
“Oh… my… I thought… I thought it was like a little kid, I don’t know,” Stas stutters with a quavering voice.
“It’s not a little kid,” Amanda comments from the couch. 
“It looked like a little kid. Like it peeped,” Stas explains, making the motion with her head to show what she’s talking about. 
“Around?” Amanda adds in for Stas, who nods. 
“And then it went back,” Stas finishes off as Sam turns around to look. 
“Like right behind that little couch?” he asks as he keeps the camera trained on it. 
“Keep the light in here,” Amanda tells Sam as she goes around him and into the room. 
“What the f***?” Sam asks as Amanda walks into the room and I cuddle a little closer to Colby. 
“I keep looking… I’m telling you, I don’t like that room!” Stas exclaims while pointing at it, clearly unnerved. 
“Ok. Girls, let’s circle up. I want to put protection over you all,” Amanda tells us as she comes out of the room. 
“Yes. You too, y/n. I know you have Colby, but I want to be extra safe,” Amanda tells me and I nod before stepping away from Colby. 
I grab onto Stas’ and Katrina’s hands as Amanda grabs onto them from the other side. Together we all follow Amanda as she bows her head and it goes quiet for a few minutes. 
To Be Continued…
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swallowtailed · 2 months
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palisade 43
man. incredible episode.
really pulling the entire divine cycle together—calling back to the hypha, to strati, to volition—and the whole sweep of partizan/palisade.
extremely cute intro. hopping back on air (while high) to freestyle for the entire twilight mirage, honor the dead, drop one “valence” in there real quick, and get out again. parti rights. we’re baaack~ :D
thisbe this episode: hooting hollering etc. worldwide resonance!! her conversation with volition was really compelling. it did strike me that volition seemed to approach the question of divine autonomy from a rather individualist angle (just think yourself free! let people do what they want!), which i suspect is an artifact of (a) living in a supportive community for 500 years & so somewhat forgetting the importance of that, and (b) being volition. i do think that thisbe is on the right track in the principality context, looking toward community building.
also it’s so funny that volition just is an obsidian orb again sometimes. trans rights
brnine this episode: describing grief as a disconnect from your past akin to leaving entire planets is so perfect for brnine. also devastating. loved the sandwich callback as well, that was one of my favorite twilight mirage beats.
am pulling together thoughts about brnine getting challenged to stay in the mirage or leave and fight. when you’ve been defending the distant concept of an ideal, how do you handle the reality of it—especially when that reality is something you were never meant to see, and is so disconnected from the circumstances of your life and your cause. but of course brnine’s tied their life entirely to their idea of keeping up the fight, and haven’t thought that anyone they’re honoring could ever have wanted anything else. (it is also: blue channel going back at the end of partizan.)
have we considered the possibility that ali isn’t gonna have brnine say valence’s name unless and until it’s with their last words
on that note: you know, if someone was terrified of dying, but also sort of craved death, and also grounded their self-worth in their fight for their cause, it would seem awfully appealing to be promised endless life as long as you don’t stop moving. very here for jesset’s motion era. i don’t think there’s enough left of motion to take an elect… is this a dark mirror of integrity? something burrowing in? jesset’s brain gets hooked into that mech…
but also what do we think he’d pick for his elect name if he did pick one. has to be a plant, right? and he already has another naming scheme to fit as well… i think it should be catnip
eclectic this episode: of course he’s trying to arrest the divine who killed his squadmate in front of him, aka the first chapter of every noir procedural ever.
what is futgure doing ohhhhh my god
hey also we still don’t know dre’s new character? many questions
cori this episode: SO glad she’s joined perennial. love this for her. also the… black russian sage wings???? excellent. her entire conversation with perennial was so moving—reaching out to figure and finding their god doing the same is such a piece of tragedy. and the way the need to protect is shared among the three of them—have not stopped thinking about figure just wanting to see cori safe and happy. and then cori holding perennial as she sobs.
“we were figure’s people” is exactly what i wanted someone to say but also ;-;
the conceit of doing a story in a time loop is that you’re gonna repeatedly say, well, can’t do it this time, better move on—which sucks when the loop is a revolution, right, because then it’s implied that liberation is a one in a billion chance and more than likely impossible. (fine starting place, frustrating ending.) but with perennial no longer able to turn back the clock, it gives cori room to declare that there’s no need to keep restarting, they can win it here and now. it’s never impossible. which i am glad for.
look i’m sure they’re just gonna do 1-2 more downtime eps and then 4-7 finale eps and that’ll be palisade but. clears throat. taps mic. It’s Gonna Be Really Funny When They Do Thirty More Episodes. ok that’s all
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irlwakko · 5 months
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just some disorganized thoughts about Mal and Vito (and a little Manitoba!) being friends under the cut
okay so in my personal headcanons, I feel like Mal and Vito originally started being “friends” out of necessity as the only two alters who remember all/most of the system’s trauma (I headcanon that Vito and Mal know the most, Manitoba knows a lot of it since I also think he’s a memory/dreamkeeper and a gatekeeper, Svetlana doesn’t know much but knows she’s here to help, and Chester and Mike know next to nothing)
my flimsy “canon evidence” for this is that Vito seemed to be the one Mal tormented the least in headspace, giving him a “job” that played to his strengths and also pretty much choosing Vito as the “mouthpiece” through which he spoke to the rest of the system (yeah I’m way overanalyzing the ventriloquist thing. shut up)
he left Mike alone with nothing, gave Chester and Svetlana jobs he knew they’d both actively hate, and gave Vito and Manitoba jobs he knew they’d somewhat enjoy I’M OVERANALYZING OKAY
assuming Cory Doran’s “the reset button was temporary” thing is true, and assuming that as each alter returned they got a LOT of therapy, I feel like Vito would probably be the most sympathetic to Mal and come around to his presence the most quickly. I have this image in my head of Mal just like. Sitting in the corner (or maybe in a new tower lol) refusing to interact with anyone in the system and Vito just coming in and talking his ear off about something random. Mal thinks Vito’s just supremely oblivious, but Vito’s actually trying to get Mal to warm up to him as like… a start to him actually interacting with the others in a healthy way. he manages to get Mal to crack a smile a couple times and say a few words here and there and to him that’s a win
once it comes time to try to introduce Mal to therapy, Vito kind of becomes his mouthpiece again (see what I did there I brought us full circle), relaying Mal’s feelings to the rest of the system and their therapist, all of whom Mal refuses to talk to (initially), and talking about their shared memories to give more context as to why Mal’s the way he is. everyone else is baffled as to why he'd share all this with VITO of all people because their personalities just seem so incongruent but like. they Get each other
also once Mal goes into dormancy post-juvie it seems like Vito kind of transitioned into that spot of being Mike's least favorite and "causing the most problems" (in Mike's eyes according to all the stuff he says in ROTI) and I feel like they'd bond over being/having been the black sheep of the system lol. no one likes them (ORIGINALLY! everyone starts interacting healthily eventually I swear I promise it's just gonna take some therapy) so they like each other.
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i dislike the title of this blog post b/c it's responding to That One Cory Doctorow Piece That's Going Around, and Doctorow's writing style has always been nails-on-chalkboard to me even when i basically agree with him...
but i like the author's way of framing/thinking about how we should be working/thinking about our Giant Piles Of Information & how we're not doing that:
"In short, Google Books assumes that what one wants out of their huge pile of books is not books, but isolated strings of information. That’s the same assumption that stands behind their disastrous attempt to revamp their search engine so that it doesn’t take you primarily to a website, but instead tries to directly present you with the answer. And arguably the culmination of that is ChatGPT, which promises to give you exactly the information you’re looking for in an unobtrusive “neutral” prose style. Much as I hate ChatGPT — and I do hate it with all my heart, unconditionally, unchangeably, eternally — I do get why that fantasy is attractive. But it is a fantasy, because as the man says, there is nothing outside the text. There is no such thing as the raw information devoid of presentation and context. We can’t get at that raw information, and we certainly can’t program computers to do so, because it does not exist. It is a fantasy, and it is increasingly a willful lie. [...]
"The near-total context collapse we are now experiencing was already baked into the workings of the Mosaic web browser and the dream of the “information age” that it encapsulates. Information does want to be free, as it turns out — free of context, free of pleasure, free of empathy, even free of comprehension. The effort to just cut to the chase and give us the information has actively destroyed the conditions for understanding and using that information in an intelligent way. The Dewey Decimal System and the Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature gave us access to information in a much more authentic way than any means commonly available now — and indeed, even library databases are being cannibalized from within [...]"
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Going back to our roots here what’s your brutally honest opinion about lucaya and joshaya if you’re up for some throwbacks
this message physically aged me 45 years 😭
lucaya- like, it was obviously planned from the beginning, but here's the thing: their dynamic was tired as hell. you see it in every piece of media ever. they were BORING. also I just genuinely almost never liked lucas lmfao. there were a handful of lines throughout 3 seasons that got a laugh out of me- and it was always when he was playing the idiot or confused part, if they had just let him be the wannabe eric of the show it could have been amazing. as for maya, I definitely wasn't as attached to her as I was riley, she just kinda got on my nerves a bit, but Dear God Did She Deserve Better. the triangle was drawn out WAY too long. by the end of it both girls should have left lucas in the dust. we see the 'official' triangle plotline start on new years eve, and end in late september/early october. in no world should it have taken him that long, ESPECIALLY when he knew what a strain it was putting on the girls relationship. if he really cared he would have stepped back, like, literally, it is very very possible to have feelings for someone and not date them, oh my God. farkle had the girls fighting over him ONE time and was like 'hey no I love you guys too much to see you upset'. lucas friar you will always be hated<3
joshaya- I need to get this out of the way because I saw it so much: maya was not trying to date josh when she snuck into the college party. the college girls were not telling josh to date maya. one of josh's friends hits on maya and riley and maya said We Are In Eighth Grade. she's not delusional. the whole episode was how she wanted josh to stop ignoring her. there's subtext ladies!!! cory and topanga were practically raising maya since she was 5. even if it's not addressed too well on screen, you have to be aware that maya and josh have known each other practically their whole lives. considering how close josh is with cory, riley, and auggie, that tells us he saw the family on a regular basis growing up (he literally left his parents and took a train at like 4 in the morning just so cory could open his college letter with him). so josh and maya were likely good friends as children! what we see with his introduction to the show is he starts treating her more as a kid, as his niece's friend, and thinks her feelings are silly and she says No. I need you to take me seriously here. I don't want our friendship to change just because you're in college now. my feelings are not stupid and I want you to respect me. (also. side note. they never said josh's age in the show right?? because for him to start college when he did would make him older than he should have been based on the boy meets world timeline...like, I was kinda working under the assumption he skipped a grade or two in high school but everyone else was like Known Grown Man And Pedophile Josh Matthews Asked A Toddler To Go To The Movies As Friends lmfao). anyway. she asks him to respect her and he does!!! genuine shock and awe! lucas friar found dead in a ditch! lmao. their vague 'let's see how we feel in a few years' talk reminded me a lot of the cory/topanga yearbook quote scene, and they had great chemistry! it didn't feel like something I've seen a thousand times before. it's not like they promised to swear off dating and wait for her 18th birthday, she was basically dating zay by the end of the show. they just said 'we've known each other for a while, there's definitely something between us but this isn't the right time for us to explore it, so let's be friends like we used to' (see: what lucas should have done during the triangle). josh had a tiny bit of an edge to him, but with the dorky matthews heart, which tbh was exactly what maya wanted. I loved how maya acted around josh, it lead to some of her funniest and most open moments in the show. I loved how gentle josh was with her even when she was being annoying. I love a good childhood crush to actual lovers story! sue me! lmao I think if the show had gotten as many seasons as boy meets world they really could have been something special
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