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mrnnki-img · 1 year
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teenage mutant ninja... rats?
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#rnn.img#tmnt#rottmnt#fanart#tagging rise bc they're most similar to the rise designs#rise had more unique outfits so more of them made it into these guys than the other versions#cause when you species swap a lot of physical features just go out the window#though in my head I kinda mixed the personalities of the shows I've watched so far together for em#and if anybody is wondering why their symbols are sideways it's because now they look like an r. for rat. lol#anyways. this started bc my brain just went 'haha species swap' and then 'DONNIE DWARF LAB RAT' and I had to draw it#I had fun with their legs bc I wanted to go for more of a 'runs on four limbs often' vibe with them rather than full anthro#but that also meant kneepads were weird on them#donnie gets away with his because his are smaller and flatter#but mikey was giving me trouble bc I was like 'how do those stay up'#the solution was a harness that he can also use as a belt#I like to imagine it helps with safety because his brothers can catch him by it during a fight#and it you can dangle him perilously off of cliffs by it#also I made donnie super pink bc blue and blue-heavy purple tend to just... blend into each other for me#like when I watched the 2012 show if they used colored lighting I couldn't tell donnie and leo apart#so I magenta-ified him like that concept art for rise#tbh I feel like if they had more easily distinguishable designs before rise I would've gotten into tmnt way earlier#cause little me loved action cartoons and stories about animals *and* cool sciency alien things *and* weird fantasy magic things
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empty-movement · 1 year
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sorry but please... post your akio plastic covered couch tweet here... the world needs to know...
Warning: pics of gross shit happening on the couches
I'll do you one better and include the STORY! So, I, Vanna (note: Yasha mostly does the Tumblr and I mostly do the Twitter,) was smoking enough weed to knock out a large horse or put a very tiny dent in my constant back and shoulder pain, as one does when when they're a middle-aged Registered Nurse in the year 2023. (I'm 39 but it's an old 39, lmao.)
Scrolling through Twitter, I stumble on a fanart of Suletta from Witch of Mercury sitting goofily on a white couch. Now I haven't seen this show yet, but the white couch....looked familiar, and I know the show is very much a descendent of Utena in terms of creative teams. For those that don't know, the series is written by Ichirō Ōkouchi, who also wrote the two Revolutionary Girl Utena novelizations...which if you didn't know about before, you know about now, and can read translated on our site here! (Warning: Touga and Miki uh, in the novels...)
Anyways, so I hop onto my own website and start downloading the images that will constitute receipts, before realizing 1. these images are all on multiple computers feet away from me, 2. the couch isn't an identical match, 3. that'd have been weird anyway, and most importantly, 4:
AKIO'S COUCHES DON'T LOOK RIGHT. OBSERVE:
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The edges of the armrests have sloppier upholstery than the blanket I have covering my computer desk. I took the time to tuck seams at least. What is this??
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Now it could absolutely be leather, I thought. It would absolutely track. But leather upholstery doesn't look like this. It doesn't wrinkle quite this way. It would have cleaner seams.
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No. No that's too shiny for leather. So here I am, presented with this strangeness I'd never really considered in how Akio's couch is drawn, and having spent the last few months learning about my Italian-American family history, my chemically altered ass came to the only reasonable conclusion:
Akio Ohtori has plastic coverings on his white couches, like he's a depression era American in poverty.
Fuck yeah, I though, A HIT TWEET, there, at the end of all Tweeting things. (Yeah I'm working on that, stay tuned, lmao. I of all people know when to bail on stupid men with stupid power.) Because I am me, I framed it as semi serious by pulling a context to explain it out of my ass:
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I was joking.
But the replies? They were not. And then I thought about it some more. And I've kept thinking about it. Do I seriously think Ikuhara and Co literally are intentionally drawing a plastic covered couch? Doesn't that feel, Vanna, like a bit of a stretch, even for Utena meta?
Listen to that CRONCH when Akio sits down in episode 31, before Anthy is seen by Nanami. Look, the buttons on the back rest don't quite fit, but the rest? Yeah it kinda does. I was high, but not wrong!?
Akio *does* surround himself with a bizarre hodgepodge of Americana as an aesthetic. The arm garters. The piping and cut of his cowboy-ass shirt. His American car. His mullet. His miniature fucking golf. Why not the plastic covered couch? It's a trope of American poverty that would absolutely have fallen neatly into the diet of American pop culture that influenced Ikuhara. (He makes references to E.T. and The Godfather and Suspiria and all kinds of things in his other work, Utena itself is a little less obvious with individual references but inherits HUGE amounts of vibes from the same content--Ikuhara and Co watched Lost Highway in theaters during the production of the Akio Arc and I will not be convinced otherwise.)
So yeah. That's the story, and that's the theory. Do I seriously believe it was deliberate? Maybe. Probably. Possibly. But it fits so well it's headcanon for me, and in the Utena fandom, pretty much all canon is kind of headcanon so enjoy this one.
What an asshole.
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upgradewater · 2 months
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The result of Goku's training with Shenlong when he flies off at the end of GT...? Goku using Shenlong's small amount of dragonly god ki? Why not both!
I started drawing this before the news about Toriyama's passing became public, so it feels kinda weird. Weird as in posting it in general, and posting it a couple days later.
I was inspired by a screenshot of one of those "what if" videos that showed Goku in a dragon form that was blue and purple with wings. I guess he was supposed to look like the evil smoke dragon? I went for a more traditional Shenlong-based look.
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I wouldn't say my form(?) is a Goku/Shenlong fusion though. I'd dragon him up more if that were the case.
Anyway.
I used to watch GT a lot as a kid because i had easier access to it via DVDs (my rental store didn't have DBZ) and there were more reruns on. I watched DBGT more recently, and of course there are tons of problems. Pacing being the biggest imo. I think they didn't know what to do with the series.
But a lot of my early db fanart as a kid circled around GT and its ending. I think they stuck the landing there, although a little abrupt. Yet it's very precious to me. It had that mysterious air around it, and like the original DB og ending of Goku flying off with Chichi, or flying off with Uub at the end of Z, I think him flying off with Shenlong implies there were of course more adventures to be had for Goku.
Now that i think about it, that's kinda what Super was missing, huh... Of course he has Beerus and Whis' planet, but it ain't the same.
...Well. I wouldn't have written this all about this drawing if i wasn't waxing nostalgic about DB in general. And i know Toriyama wasn't involved in GT's writing, but it was nice to get this out of my system.
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sugar-omi · 9 months
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If you are interested, can you plz share how you see the Our Life (1+2) characters as DnD classes and races included? 😆⚔️🍃🏹
Im craving Our Life with some medieval whimsical vibes, Baxter dancing with swords, Derek singing with bar goers while MC goes pickpocketing the villains, Cove as a MERMAN living his life like Ariel. So many wonderful thoughts wanted to share ✨️✨️✨️
okay this took so long bc i know nothing abt DnD so i did a bit of research!!! my friends have talked abt DnD and i never understood but knew it was smth cool n involved alot of creativity, but now i just think this is sm cooler <33 anyway im not creative at all rn so im referencing everything from this website im using👍
tags : Fluff, 'Dungeon and Dragons' headcanons + drabbles, cove is the only one w hc's for if you're dating (+ qiu kinda?) i couldn't think of dating hc's for everyone else in this world as well but you could imagine some of the hc's that way
synopsis : DnD races and classes of ol:nf & ol:ba characters.
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qiu:
okay I couldn't decide but qiu is half-elven.
(his dad is so whipped for his elf wife<3<3<3)
i can't really think about what class he'd be in, but i think i could see him as a bard
he's the laziest bard though 💀 and thus is mostly a wanderer.
qiu will wait until they're on their last coin and then will go perform
would perform a very good show while MC pickpockets the assholes that were disturbing the bar just a moment ago
otherwise, he just performs for you and his friends.
they'll have/be at a party with all their friends, and will perform some type of magic trick to entertain everyone
qiu will sing you little songs, read you poetry he wrote while watching you sleep that morning<3
for any important dates like birthdays, or anniversary (if you're dating), etc., they'll do a cool magic trick and perform a elven dance that he learned from his mom
tama:
human! BUT. she's a druid
she loves the forest, the forest loves her
maybe a bit of sorcery as well? idk how this works lol
she has a little house in the woods omg
goes foraging and learns lots of sorcery stuff from ren
will show you how to cast cool spells
also you're the first person she comes to show you any new spells she learns!!
you two beat up any bandits/criminals you come across
renee (/darren):
human and like i mentioned in tama's, is a sorcerer
!!! wants to be like her mom in canon right?
i think she's a teacher n teaches young sorcerers/wizards
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baxter:
isnt baxter special. just crossovering worlds 💀💀
anyway.. he's an elf! is also rogue...
bringing baxter's issues/trauma into this DnD au as well <3
you find it very weird that a elf is on his own, but ignore it ofc and befriend baxter anyway
after much warming of baxter's cold heart, i imagine he settles in some civilian town or nearby and opens a bar!!
and every night its full with laughter and good music, and occasionally he'll come out from behind the bar
(honestly, he's mostly just cleaning the glasses and looking pretty <3)
and he'll pull you or one of your friends into a dance
omg imagine its not just a bar, its also a bed & breakfast
of course he's decent enough at cooking, so every morning he lays out a nice breakfast for his customers
derek:
knew this was derek insantly!!! he's half-orc
orcs dont have horns, do they.... well they do now
(realizing he's more Oni than anything in my head...)
anyway i need you to imagine arataki itto and if u don't know who that is Please find the beefiest fanart of him n thats derek LOL
derek grinning with his fangs and he's like 7 feet tall and buff, covered in scars.... yessir <33
i imagine he's a wanderer, but before that he was a cleric.
derek always helps people, he's very reliable but i imagine he's tired and somehow ends up working for baxter!
he's chef during the day and security at night!!!
no fighting in baxter's bar/diner unless you want a ass-ful of derek's boot <3
i also imagine when he's not running the place with baxter, he's helping the towns folk
the kids love him
they make flower crowns and run to the bar/diner to give them to derek <3333
ofc there's that one shy kid who offers one to baxter! bc they think he's really cool!!!
cove:
like you said he's a merman!!!
mmm, but i also imagine he can shapeshift into a "human"
(this is some ariel shit isnt it LMAO)
(also im imagining mer!cliff x human!kyra. mmm, i wonder if she'd be a bard? or maybe a healer, cleric maybe? why do i wanna write a whole fic on this now....)
although i imagine he needs to stay hydrated to stay on land like that. so please remind him to drink water when you're out n about otherwise he'll turn back into a fish in the middle of the market LOL
(you've learned this the hard way
!!! imagine if there's some way for you to come into the sea as well, be it a air bubble or potion of some sort and you have lil underwater adventures/dates n cove shows you all kinds of cool things <3333
he brings you lots of pretty things
if you like jewelry, he has his dad help him string up some pearls into a necklace or bracelet. or even better an anklet
+ if you're dating/crushing on each other
he'll do his little mermaid mating and courting rituals
like bringing you food
(will show up on your doorstep in the middle of the night w a big fish he caught or some breakfast derek smuggled him (cove doesn't keep many coins since mer-currency is more like sand-dollars or smth like coins made out of ore only found in the sea. the ore is good for nothing else than to be coins LOL))
OH MY GOD HE CAN CHIRP N SHIT
will chirp n shrill and do other cute mer sounds that you don't really know what they mean sometimes
COVE: *watching you dreamily* MC: *flustered from the staring* what?... COVE: *flirtatious chirp*
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fluffykiddosstuff · 1 year
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What I think about those dbh ships
Just my opinion btw (except for one ship I'm 100% right lol)
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Hankcon
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No absolutely not. They have a father-son relationship for me (you can see he calls him son when you die from the deviant in the Stratford tower) so it's like really weird for me + the age cap for. Me is not suiting at all. I see them more as working partners and a family tbh
Reed900
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I already loved the ship dynamic before watching the movie on ytb and now? Gosh I'm obsessed I think it's one of the best Fandom ship tbh they are so cute together <3
Reed800
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Enemies to lovers? Hell yeah. Hank would not appreciate this but I think they could be a powerful couple
Simon x markus
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I love Simon, I love Markus, boom Simon x Markus! I just learned Simon was supposed to be a love interest we could pick?!?! (idk if it's true tho) the way Simon looks at Markus is so cute istg
Markus x north
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At first I didn't like North at all bc I'm a pacific person (Stan Josh btw) but I learned about her backstory then I was : you go badbitch! Honestly they are really cute together definitely malewife x girlboss relationship :D
Rk1700
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Idk what to think about that, they are not the same person (like Daniel & Simon, same model different person) so I don't think it's that weird and being the same model don't stop you from dating each other so I don't think it's incest? (please correct me if I'm wrong!) I just think it's kinda weird since they have the same face and voice.. '-' and I would feel they could have a brother like relationship (where connor show nines how is deviancy and guides him Exetera) so I'm not really a fan of it
Connor x kamski
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Tbh I found it weird, idk it's just off for me 😭 kamski being the creator of androids I think he is more like a father or something like that for them ?? Idk honestly
Ralph x kara
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It would be cute tbh but I'm not a fan of it, I see Ralph more like a funny uncle or something like that :) really sweet tho
Kara x luther
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YES YES YES YES POWER COUPLE FR!!! They would be so sweet and loving parents I love them 😭😭 I wish people could made more fanart and comics of them <3
Rk1000
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Like the rk1700 ship idk if it's good or bad but I think it would pass better since physically they don't look alike at all. About their dynamics idk honestly but they could be cute after the got their rights and all ig
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I am to the limit of photos for one post so I'll do a part 2 ig 😭 hope you are all doing well <3
Instagram : _fluffy_kiddo_secours_
Tiktok : _fluffy_kiddo_
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Watched Across the Spiderverse, got hooked, wrote fic, made fanart that went with fic. Tale as old as time. Enjoy!
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Dammit.
Dammit!
Gwen threw her mask off on what should have been Miles’ bed. Her Miles’ bed. But it wasn’t, just like all the other ones she’d tried and tried for hours. It wasn’t like Miles would only be in his room, or his apartment. He could be anywhere in New York. God, he could be anywhere in New York. How could she have been so stupid?
Before, she could sense him from universes away. Now, she couldn’t sense him at all. 
You were right, Gwen.
You should have never come to see me. 
Gwen bit back tears. The look he’d given her before falling off the highway in Nueva York was burned into her memory. He was mad at her, he had been betrayed by her, and she couldn’t fucking find him. He was in danger, and she would be the last person he would reach to for help. 
Bzzzzzzzzzz.
She jumped out of her stupor. This was a familiar spidey-sense-buzz, Miles was here! He— 
Wait. 
No, he wasn’t. 
Her heart sank. It was close, tantalizingly close. But it wasn’t Miles. This was a different spider’s signal. 
“—someone in there.”
And they were coming this way.
Though it was late, she couldn’t just blend into the shadows. Miles’ room was all packed up, his furniture wrapped in plastic, his action figures stuffed into boxes. It wasn’t like she could turn invisible. New plan: she scrambled to the window, fiddling for the lock — and came up empty. But this window opens. She’d opened it before, and this was the exact same— no, it wasn’t. 
“—my old room—”
It wasn’t the exact same place, it was an alternate dimension. Of course. And in this specific dimension, the windows don’t open, so she’ll never be able to make it out before—
“Excuse me?”
BZZZZZZZZZZZ!!
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Her fellow spiders had arrived. Standing in the doorway was a woman in her late twenties, with longish bleach-blonde hair, and a man about the same age with thick locs and glasses. Who looked exactly like Miles. 
A little too much like Miles.
“Whoa.” The man looked shocked. “Another Spider-Person! You look… exactly like Gwen. Why do you look exactly like Gwen? Did you have a sister you never told me about, or—”
“No, of course not.” The woman — also Gwen, said, assessing the situation. She was also named Gwen? She kinda looked like her… wait, if he looked and sounded a lot like Miles, and she looked and sounded a lot like Gwen, then…
Oh, god. It was her and Miles. From an alternate dimension. 
“I’m not crazy, right? You see it too?” The man, no, Other-Miles, gestured with his hands just like her Miles did. Does. 
“Yep,” she said. She turned her attention back to Gwen. “Sorry, are you… me?”
“Yes! And also no.” She shuffled her feet, not knowing what else to do. “So, yeah. I am Gwen Stacy, Spider-Woman… from a different dimension.”
A moment of silence. They looked at each other. They looked back at her. “Oh. Okay.”
“Wow, you guys are remarkably chill with this.”
Other-Miles put a hand around Other-Gwen’s waist. A pang of feelings hit Gwen’s gut like a brick. He could just do that in this universe? “Well,” he said, “we’ve been Spider-Man and Woman for like… twelve years now, so we’re used to weird shit.”
“Yep.”
“Cool, um… so, I’m sure you both are wondering why I’m here right now,” she said with half-assed finger guns.
“Yeah, pretty much.”
“Okay, so.” She sat crosslegged on the room’s bed. “Multiverse is real. A bunch of Spider-people from a whole bunch of universes got together to protect the multiverse.”
Other-Miles sits beside her. “And they didn’t invite us?”
Even he got a watch?
God, even though he’s half-joking, Other-Miles’ questioning almost makes Gwen burst into tears. Of course every multiversal version of Miles Morales wants to be invited. Wants to be visited. Wanted to know why his friends didn’t visit. 
Other-Gwen raises an eyebrow. Gwen swallows hard, willing her eyes to stop burning. “Only issue, the leader of this alliance is this guy named Miguel, who is insane. He’s so scared of disrupting the multiverse, when it’s really this guy, Spot, who does it with his portals. Spot is this villain guy, by the way. Ruptures holes in space-time. Anyway, Miles…” 
Other-Miles squints quizzically. She swallows hard. “My Miles isn’t even from my dimension. I accidentally got launched into his through science shenanigans, we met, and we just… clicked.”
Other-Gwen sits at Other-Miles’ feet, holding his hands. “That sounds awfully familiar.” 
He laughs. Gwen hurts a little more. 
“But we were separated. Each back to our own universe. Anyway, months pass. My dad tried to… arrest me after I revealed my spider-ness to him, and I was terrified, but Miguel took me in. I got a watch that let me transport between universes, and… and I wanted to visit Miles so badly… but I didn’t.”
Gwen covered her mouth and turned away. Don’t cry, don’t cry, don’t cry. 
“Why not?” It was Other-Gwen. She'd laid a hand on her knee, ready to listen. 
God, she's a saint.
“Because Miguel said he was an anomaly, and I wasn’t allowed to,” Gwen said, choking up. “He wasn’t supposed to be Spider-Man in his universe, even though he’s a great Spiderman.” Her floodgates open. “Like, he’s just so kind, and gentle, and he puts other people before himself, sometimes too much, and he’s just so sweet.” 
Gwen sobbed for a moment. She caught the two of them exchanging another glance. They each took one of her hands, and Other-Miles slides off the bed to match his partner. 
“And I had that watch for months and I didn’t visit him. Then, when I finally did, I didn’t tell him why I didn’t visit, or that I was actually on a mission or anything. I just showed up, and, and he looked so happy, but when he stood up to Miguel and stuff he found out everything, and he, he…” Gwen wiped her tears on her shoulder. “You should have seen how hurt he looked. I’ve given him so much pain. I even chased him, tried to get him put in jail because he was an anomaly, and that’s just what happens to anomalies. He was one of the best friends I’ve ever had, and I just… I just chased him. Didn’t go to him when he needed me most, didn’t support him when he needed me most, and now, he’s somewhere in the multiverse, and he’s in danger, and I can’t find him, and I don’t know if he’d even want me looking for him!”
Gwen ripped her hands from theirs and pounded the bed before curling into a ball and grabbing her hair. “I’m such an idiot. I… I don’t know where he is, or if he’s safe or anything. Maybe he won’t even talk to me…”
In every other universe, Gwen Stacy falls for Spider-Man.
Whether she meant falling to her death or falling in love, she wasn’t sure. 
And, in every other universe, it doesn’t end well. 
No, it certainly didn’t.
“I’m so sorry,” Other-Miles said after a little while. “C’mere.”
Then, Other-Miles and Other-Gwen took her by the forearms, pulled her off the bed, and into a hug.
Gwen couldn't help but collapse. 
After so many hours of tension, Gwen finally relaxed. Into the hug, and into her sobs. They just held her and held her as she cried and cried. Something inside Gwen rejected this. She doesn’t deserve kindness, not after everything she’s done. Miles needs this hug much more than she does. Wherever the hell he is. 
If he lets her, she would want to hug him exactly like this. 
Other-Gwen rubbed circles on her back. “You must have been holding onto this for a long time. You must be so scared.”
Gwen just nods. 
Other-Gwen leans out of the hug. “Why don’t we figure it out over some tea?”
Gwen wiped away her tears, finally taking in the world around her. “Isn’t it, like, midnight for you guys right now?”
“Nah, it’s about eleven.” Other-Miles hopped to his feet and twirled towards the door, finger-guns blazing. “Don’t worry, I’ll make the two of us decaf.” 
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“Kingpin brought you to his world?” Other-Gwen said, listening intently. The two of them had insisted she stayed for a while and tell them her whole life story, despite her protests that she clearly must keep going, and no, she’s not going to burn out, thank you very much.
“Yep! I mean, he ran the supercollider. He didn’t mean to bring me in. Anyway, somehow, when I was launched from the portal, I emerged into Miles’ dimension a week before the collider had even run.”
“You time-travelled?” Other-Miles’ voice echoed from the kitchen.
“I guess? I still have no idea how it happened. But I appear in this new dimension, and, of course, I have no idea what happened or what to do. So, I let my spidey-sense guide me.”
“Spideysense?” Other-Gwen asked.
From the kitchen: “I told you that was a good name for it!”
“Yeah, the entire rest of the Spiderverse calls it spidey-sense.”
“Fine, you win this one. We’ll call it spidey-sense.” Other-Gwen sighed. “Am I the only one who feels like this is ridiculous?”
“Yup,” he said, popping the p. “Continue, little Gwen.”
“Little Gwen?”
“Yeah, to differentiate."
“I’m not little,” she said with a huff. “I’m sixteen.”
“Well, I’m twenty-five, so… little Gwen.” She patted her head. 
Is it too early for me to want her to adopt me so BADLY? 
“You were saying, you travelled back in time, didn’t know what to do,—”
“Yeah, and so, I let my spidey-sense guide me to this one hoity-toity academy in Brooklyn… you guys have Brooklyn, right? Yeah, so I’m just at this academy and…” She tucked some hair behind her ear. “I meet him. Miles. He was funny and kind, and… like I said, we just clicked.”
“And, like I said, sounds awfully familiar.” she said, smiling. “How long have you guys been together for?”
“Oh! Um, we’re not actually together together, y’know? We’re more… friends right now, we haven’t really, um…” her face felt really hot all of a sudden. “Are you two… dating?”
“Dating? We’re not dating.” 
Gwen felt utterly stupid. Then why were they living together? In Miles’ parent’s apartment, no less? Other-Gwen brought her hand up beside her face and wiggled her fingers, showing off a beautiful ring on her—
Oh.
Oh.
“You two are MARRIED?!” Gwen still felt stupid, just in a different way. “You guys can just… live together.” 
“Yeah.”
“And have been for a long time.”
“Our second anniversary is in a month.”
“Without any tragic consequences.”
Other-Gwen raised an eyebrow. “…yes.”
So, all this time, there was a universe where Gwen Stacy and Miles Morales, Spider-Man, lived happily ever after? Where Gwen Stacy survived long enough to get married? Where she never had to worry about being too close to somebody, as it would inevitably end in tragedy?
She hadn’t realized she started crying again until Other-Gwen pulled her in. “What’s wrong? What happened?”
Gwen opened her mouth to speak but figured it wasn’t very helpful to tell this Gwen that most of the multiverse’s Gwen Stacies are dead. “I don’t know,” she settled with, “everything.”
The electric kettle let out a chorus of dings from the kitchen. “Well, if you’re crying at the thought of us getting married,” said Other-Miles, grabbing various tea supplies from the cupboards, “Imagine being me, at the end of that aisle, realizing I was about to marry that goddess of a woman right there.”
Other-Gwen smiled and rolled her eyes. “Honey!”
“What? You were there! I was blubberin’ like a baby! I was tryin’ to hold myself together during the vows but I was really falling apart—”
Gwen slapped a hand on her mouth to stop another sob, which, of course, didn’t work. They were married. They’d made vows to each other. All her guilt somehow swirled into pure heartache.
“Aw, c’mere.” Other-Gwen put her arms around her again. 
Other-Miles appeared with two mugs. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to make you feel upset.” He handed her one. “Here.”
Gwen hesitated. “Is this—”
“English Breakfast with a spoonful of honey?”
“How did you know?”
He only smiled. “Plus a squeeze of lemon juice.”
“Why not milk?” Gwen smirked. “I usually have milk?”
Other-Gwen put a hand on her shoulder somberly. “You’re gonna want to lay off the milk around now. Your gut will thank you.”
“But I’m not lactose— I’m not lactose intolerant.”
Other-Gwen grimaced. She brought her voice down to a whisper, “I’m sorry you had to find out this way.”
Gwen took a moment of silence for all the cheeses, yogurts, and other treats she’d have to discontinue from her diet. Then, she realized that was stupid and there were bigger things at stake here. 
They must have also gotten that memo. “Okay,” said Other-Miles, “What’s the plan here, little Gwen?”
She took a sip of her tea. It was perfect. “So, Margo, a.k.a. Spiderbyte, a.k.a. Tech Wiz Extraordinaire, is trying to remotely gain access to the Go-Home Machine’s history in order to find out where Miles went. In the meantime, the group of us have split up in an effort to find him more manually. As evident, it hasn’t worked. So, we’re just gonna keep hoping through universes until we find him.” 
“That’s a good plan…” he said, “I think, I don’t know a few of those words. I was thinking more about the plan of talking to your Miles.”
She sighed. “Yeah, that’s the part I’m sort of dreading.”
“Forgive us for getting to the personal side, but you can’t blame us for really hoping you two work out.” Other-Gwen put down her mug, then clapped her hands. "So, you kept things secret from him. That’s in the past. Can you change the past?”
“…No.”
“What can you change?”
Gwen sighed. “The future.”
“Exactly. I know it’s difficult not to— did you just roll your eyes at me?”
“No, it’s just—”
“Just what?” Other-Gwen raised an eyebrow. It was the Jessica-Jones look, the Rio-Morales look, the look that burned into you from the inside out. 
Gwen pulled into herself. “It’s just that… I don’t know, everyone keeps telling me that. But it doesn’t mean it works.”
“You sure you don’t want to give it another try?”
“Ugh, I’ve already given it a thousand tries.”
Other-Gwen opened her mouth to reprimand but stopped herself with a deep breath. “Okay, if that won’t work, let’s try a different approach. Let’s look at apologizing like it’s…” She scanned the room for inspiration, then lit up. “Like it’s a ballet!” 
She took Gwen’s hands and yanked her to her feet. Twenty-five-year-old Gwen Stacy may have been stockier, but boy, was she buff. Are those the biceps I’m gonna have when I get older? Gwen thought. Damn.
“Okay. Imagine you’re onstage, or in the studio, whatever makes you more comfortable.”
Gwen started stretching from top to bottom in a routine she’d done a million times. She hadn’t done ballet in a while, being Spider-Woman and all. It felt nice to return to some sense of normalcy. 
“We’re gonna get into first.” Other-Gwen put her shoulders back and heels together. “After all, what’s the first step of ballet?”
Gwen mirrored her pose. “Getting a good physical therapist.”
“Hardy har. What’s the second step of ballet, then?”
“Having confident feet.”
“Right. ‘Cause if you don’t know where your feet are…”
“You’ll never make it as a dancer.”
Other-Gwen broke from her refined pose. “…that’s the way your teacher phrased it?”
“Yeah, pretty much.”
“That’s sad. Anyway, it’s your foundation. You need’em, otherwise, you’re not going anywhere. It’s the same with apologizing,” she said, putting her feet in second position and fixing her posture. “Let’s establish the facts, let’s plant our feet. What are the facts behind this?”
Gwen moved to second position. “I hurt Miles.”
“Try a different fact. Try third. What happened?”
To third. “I was accepted into the Spider Society, and got a watch with the ability to transport to multiple universes, including his. But when I got the watch, I was told not to visit, as he was a threat to the multiverse. So I didn’t — for months.”
“Move to fourth.”
To fourth. “When I finally got a mission to Earth-1610, his universe, I broke protocol and visited him. But I didn’t tell him I was on a mission, or that he was deemed an anomaly, or,” to fifth, “that someone close to him was supposed to die, and he was supposed to let it happen.”
“He was supposed—” Other-Gwen’s eyes widened. “You didn’t even tell us that happened. That’s fucked. Sorry, screwed up.”
“You don’t have to— yeah.” Gwen pliéd from fifth. ”I can’t believe I didn’t tell him. Every single person in the Spider Society, including me, believed that death had to happen for the multiverse to stay together, and he was the only person who fought against it.”
“Can confirm that that’s seriously fucked up,” said Other-Miles, not looking up from his sketchbook. “Oh, by the way, I just got this out, I hope you don’t mind. Yeah, totally fucked. I’d do the same if it were me.”
Other-Gwen moved back to first. “Did you try and stop him?”
She sighed. “Yes. Because I thought that if I didn’t, the multiverse would fall apart. Which it wouldn’t, I see how little sense it makes now.”
“Sounds like you’re ready to set it up for the pirouette,” Other-Gwen said with a small smile,  bringing a foot forward. “Remember, the guilt may be eating you up from the inside, but you hurt him. Not that your feelings don’t matter, they absolutely do. It’s just that his feelings are the ones being prioritized right now.”
“So, something like…” Gwen brings her foot forward to match. “I wanted to protect you, but, in doing so, I made you feel unwanted. No, not unwanted. I made you feel betrayed, alone, and not good enough.”
“Okay, now you follow through.”
She sets up for the pirouette. “I didn’t mean to make you feel this way—”
“Try it again. Put his feelings first.”
Gwen got ready for another pirouette. But she couldn’t continue. “…I don’t really know what to say.”
“Just follow through with what you said before. Do another spin.”
“Uh… I made you feel terrible about yourself, and that wasn’t okay.” She touched down from the pirouette and began doing all kinds of jumps and footwork, letting her muscle memory lead the way. “You don’t deserve that. You deserved to know the truth about everything from the start. You deserved a civil conversation on an equal playing field about what was going to happen. You deserved to have a say.”
Other-Gwen backed away, leaving the living room floor to her variant. Gwen fell into the routine from one of her old shows — step, touch, kick, touch. “I’m sorry, Miles, for everything. For not telling you what I should’ve.” Step, step, jump. “For not considering your point of view.” Step, jump. “For not believing you.” Step, touch, step. “For betraying your trust when you needed it most.”
Other-Miles and Other-Gwen looked on. “Well,” Other-Gwen said after a moment, “where’s the rest of the routine?”
“Oh, uh,” Gwen said, falling from her practiced pose, “after this is the leap. Where I jump to my dance partner and they catch me. Oh my God, wait. Wait, wait.”
“What?”
“That’s such a neat coincidence. A leap at the end. A leap of faith.”
Other-Miles gasped. “That’s such good symbolism! The leap of faith! ‘Cause this whole thing is a— whoa.”
“You do leap at the end of this, don’t you? Well, just remember. The dance partner, in this case, is you.” Other-Gwen put a supportive hand on her shoulder. “You’ve got to remember to catch yourself on the way down. You’re not a monster. You’ve made a mistake, but you’re not a terrible person. That is evident by how you’re working on yourself and making a promise to change your behaviour later.”
“Wow,” Gwen said. “Where’d you learn all this?”
“Therapy.”
“Oh.”
“Also,” said Other-Miles, “give him some time to figure it all out. Don’t expect an answer right away.”
“You can afford therapy for the both of you? In NYC?”
“Eh, we kinda flicker in and out when we can.” He put down his sketchbook. “It’s more like I like having time to work my thoughts out, and… y’know, I’m Miles, he’s Miles.” He splayed his fingers and mashed them together to emphasize his point of being one and the same. 
“That is helpful. Thank you.” She took a deep breath in. “Thank you both, honestly, so much. I feel a lot better now and am filled with a lot less dread.”
“Hooray for less dread!” Said Other-Miles from the couch. He was back to being nose-deep in his sketchbook, felt-tip-pen behind the ear and everything. 
Gwen smiled. Some things never change.
“Well, little Gwen,” Big Gwen said, ruffling her hair, “You got any more personal problems you need help working out, or do you just want to sit and finish your tea?”
She plunked herself back on the couch. “I don’t know, do you guys have any more… helpful pieces of advice? I guess?”
“Hm…” Other-Gwen picked up her tea and took a sip. “Here: It’s Mr. Morales and Mrs. Morales. Until at least a year of dating."
“Yeah, Gwennie found out the hard way that you don’t casually call my parents by their first names. They’re kinda sticklers for that.” He took his brush pen out from behind his ear and put the cap on it. “You haven’t met them yet, right?”
She pursed her lips. “No, I haaaaaaaave.”
“And did you—“ he said. Gwen nodded. “Oh. Oh no.”
Other-Gwen was quick to stop that negative thought spiral. “Hey, don’t worry, don’t worry. There’s still plenty of time for a better impression, so just apologize the next time you see them and it should all turn out okay.” 
“I have another question, kind about that, but it may be a bit weird.”
“Ask away.”
"Are they — the Moraleses — both… alive in your universe? Like, why do you guys have their place?”
“God, little Gwen, how has your universe been treating you? Yes, they’re both alive. My dad was caught in some rubble one time, but he’s fine now. He just needs a wheelchair to get around, so the elevator breaking down every now and again wasn’t just an inconvenience anymore.”
“But by the time that happened, we’d been talking about moving in together anyway, so they just moved downstairs.” Her smile softened. “You can go say hi to them if you want, they know about the Spider stuff.”
“And is my dad— our dad— forget it. Is Captain Stacy alive?”
“Captain Stacy? Pffft.” Other-Gwen rolled her eyes. “He’s a math teacher.”
Gwen’s head was spinning now. Not only was there a universe where her and Miles were living together, happily married, but Captains Morales and Stacy were alive. 
Miguel’s theory was bullshit. 
Miguel’s theory was bullshit!
“What theory? What’s wrong?” Said Other-Miles, grabbing her forearm.
Shit. She hadn’t meant to say that out loud. Her mind had been suitably blown tonight, but she didn’t want this Miles to know his father was supposed to die, or tell this Gwen their relationship working out perfectly was a statistical miracle. 
But they both were looking at her expectantly, with all the openness in the world. Maybe these two didn’t need to beat up their villains. Maybe they just talked them out of it. 
But before Gwen could explain everything, her watch dinged, with a message. 
From Margo.
“She’s found him! Earth-42!” She jumps from the couch and begins fiddling with Hobie’s watch.
“They found him?”
BWOOSH! A collage-like portal appears in front of her. “Yep!” 
Other-Miles and Other-Gwen ignore all the swirling junk and newsprint that used to be their living room. They just stand and look at her.
“What?”
Other-Gwen smiles sheepishly. “Can we get one last thing before you go?”
“I guess, uh-OOF!” They pull her in for one more hug.
“Sorry, couldn’t letcha leave without one,” she says. 
He gives her a kiss on the forehead, and they both let go. “Good luck out there, little Gwen.” 
Gwen smiles. “Thank you for the tea. And everything else.”
Other-Gwen gives her a two-fingered salute. “No problem, Spider-Woman.”
“Now, go kick some ass!”
“Miles.”
“And give a meaningful apology. But don’t forget to kick ass on the way,” he said with a wink.
Gwen snorts. “Of course.”
She gives her multiverses selves a wave. God, this day has been wild. She leaps into the portal headfirst. She leaps like she’s onstage in a ballet, performing a routine she’d rehearsed thousands of times. She leaps with the knowledge that her dance partner will be right there to catch her. 
In every other universe, Gwen Stacy falls for Spider-Man.
And, in every other universe, it is beautiful. 
———————--
Both of them wait until the portal’s been closed for a few moments before saying anything. 
The living room is a mess. The door to Miles’ old room is open. There’s an extra mug on the ottoman. 
Other than that, there’s no record that all that was all real.
“What the fuck,” is all she can say. 
Miles flops on the couch. “Oh my God, Gwen.” 
“What the… even for Spider-people standards, that was— whew! That was so weird!”
“Gwen—” 
“There’s another you, and another me, and we’re teenagers, and angsty as hell, and there’s a whole bunch of other Spiderpeople, some fuck named Miguel who’s screwing it all up, a- and the multiverse is collapsing?” She sighed. “Also, the multiverse is real, that’s new.”
“…Gwennie?” 
Miles was looking up at her with those puppy-dog eyes — the same look when he first told her he wanted to marry her, and when he did marry her — a look with so much love it almost made her sick. 
It didn’t take much these days.
“What’s wrong, honeybun?” She sat down next to him, and their arms gravitated around each other. Just like flips and death-defying maneuvers, having each other close was an instinctual reflex.
He let the silence hang as his eyes grew glossy. He grabbed his sketchbook and passed it to her.
Inside was a pen-and-marker sketch of her and Little Gwen. They were in matching poses, mid-pirouette-prep. He’d perfectly captured the warm moment — not that she didn’t think he could. Her thoughts about his art were what she always thought.
“Amazing, just amazing.” She turned her head up to him. “What’re gonna call it?”
He leaned back to look at her. “What about The Moment I Fell in Love With My Wife All Over Again, ink on paper.”
“You say that every time!” She said, giggling.
“And I mean it every time! I’m serious, I…” he waited for her to calm down, then quickly realized it was to no avail. “I was watching you two from the couch, and you just looked like a natural up there. Helping her with stuff, talking her through it, speaking her language…”
He rested a hand on her stomach. “And I guess it just hit me, like… that’s gonna be you and me… forever… in like, what, half a year?”
“Yeah, it is.” She kissed him on the nose. “And don’t discredit the job you did out there.”
He chuckled. “I mean, if a Miles had come through the portal I could have been a little more helpful…” He closed his sketchbook. “But it was a Gwen. And she needed a Gwen.”
The sun had long since set over the Brooklyn skyline. It was there, out the window, where the portal once stood. The day had been fairly normal until Little Gwen had showed up, but it ended like so many days did — with her head on his shoulder and his arm around her waist. 
“God,” said Miles, in that low whisper that spelt safety, “I think I could make a million paintings about how I feel about everything and you right now, and it wouldn’t nearly be enough.”
She squirmed to one side to get a good look at him. “Wow, Miles Morales." She poked him on the nose. “Do you have a crush on me?”
He got a sly look on his face before saying, “Abso-lute-ly, I do,” and burying her face in kisses.
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A Collection of my Creations in the HLVRAI so far
Heyyy thought I should do this as a new pinned postttt
My asks are, unless they are closed, always open, and I'm always down to hear your thoughts and ideas and shit! If I didn't answer an ask, it's most likely because I didn't have the energy to answer it and it's now just sitting there and I cannot answer it because it would be awkward. But I am cherishing it <3
CHECK OUT MY FRIEND DIMONDS'S STUCK TOGETHER AU WHERE BENREY AND GORDON GET FUSED INTO A SILLY GUY NAMED BERDEY
hehehe anyway
All my HLVRAI fanart and writing in general is here on my art blog!
Here's a vampire AU I made! Twist to this is that Gordon's a vampire, Benrey's human and just weird as fuck. There's no real plot to this (though at the time of writing this post I do plan to write a fic or two), but @/winkyfaceanon has made two really sweet fics for this AU, check em out!
Here's a compilation I made with my friend Dimonds for all my reasons Gordon's a lil bit gay for Benrey, please skip the first 38 seconds I'm begging you. Oh, and if you're gonna leave a comment about how I'm Wrong, or if the video pisses you off, you can do this very simple thing called Just Stop Watching The Video (can you tell i've gotten annoying comments on this video)
Here's an older animatic of the bridge for the song Horror Show! This is what my first designs looked like btw fjndksjnfjknds
Here's three small and silly animatics <3
Here's a Frenrey animatic of the song uwu by Chevy! I still think this one's REALLY cute <3
Here's stuff I've made in Gmod! A lotta Frenrey, as you may expect from me at this point.
MY FANFICTIONS
These are listed in order of when I wrote them, and they take place in different continuities for the most part. Pretty much all of them are Frenrey, so if you don't like Frenrey you mayy not want to read it. Majority of my fics are oneshots, since I have low motivation jnsdkjfnds. I don't write smut (I'm literally sex repulsed asexual and a minor /silly), and don't tend to write hurt no comfort except for once, but I do write pretty heavy angst. Please read the content warnings for a lot of these.
I explicitly forbid any of my creative work from being fed into an AI in any way.
IF YOU SEND ASKS ABOUT MY FICS I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER
unnamed. Takes place post-canon. Benrey at this point has been alone for months, isolating himself after Xen and spiraling really badly. Then he leaves the house once aaand runs into Gordon. Reunion ensues. I didn't name it because I couldn't think of a name and it was my first fic. Read the content warnings.
You're still here, and you're beautiful to me. Takes place post-canon. Benrey respawns after Xen, and none of his injuries are healed. He then finds Gordon, who helps to take care of his injuries. I personally consider this one of my best works. There's things I'd change now, of course, but I still love it a lot. Read the content warnings.
as long as your heart continues to beat. Takes place during canon. Benrey's listening to Gordon's heartbeat after the betrayal. And then it stops. This one isn't beta read and I wrote it in like, a few hours on the fly, so it's not my best, but I like it.
Cuddles are the best cure for depression actually. Takes place post-canon. This is exactly what it says on the tin. Benrey's got depression and can't get out of bed, Gordon cuddles him. Short but sweet.
If ten million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep. Takes place post-canon. Gordon and Benrey are kinda in a relationship, and Benrey gets a package at the door that he's not letting Gordon see. In the middle of the night, Gordon gets to see what it is. This one's REALLY cute, and I really love it. It's fluffy and it's sweet.
all for the love of you. Saying this straight-up, READ THE CONTENT WARNINGS. Takes place post-canon. Tommy finds a... note from Benrey that he wrote before Xen. I have more complicated feelings towards this fic, I don't personally like it as much in retrospect and think I could've done much better on it, but I'm putting it here since it is still one of my fics. Read the content warnings, for the love of god.
Benrey gets drunk fic. Takes place post-canon. This is just a fluff fic I wrote for the third HLVRAI anniversary where Benrey's drunk and flirting with a very sober and very gay Gordon, who does not know how to cope with this.
do your job and keep them safe. Takes place during canon. This is... well, let's just say it's a reframing of HLVRAI from Benrey's perspective (at least, in align with my headcanons). Only the first thousand or so words are on Ao3, the rest are in Google Docs, as I made... choices that could only be made in Google Docs. I always link my Ao3 because it has the EXTREMELY necessary content warnings, which I couldn't include on the Google Doc. I personally think this is one of my best works, and if you are in a space where you can read it, please do, this over anything. Read the content warnings.
you're alone. and it's all your fucking fault. Benrey has respawned from Xen, in an apartment, and realizes that he is all alone and cannot be near his friends again. This is one of the only hurt no comfort fics I've written, and can serve as a bit of a prequel to that unnamed fic (if you'd like to see it that way). Read the content warnings.
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rarijackistheshit · 3 months
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What the... Hey, I'm not dead!
This is a rant. You are warned.
At time to time I see things like "yeah, this fandom is dead" or even tags #thisfandomisdeadbutI postanyway and I always get the same feeling.
"HEY! LAST TIME I CHECKED I WAS ALIVE!" Who killed the She-ra fandom without asking ME?
Look, I get it. It's not the same amount of fanart and fanfic and tiktoks as before. Artists are moving on, trying new things, and that is while understandable, sad.
But.
Some stay. New people arrive. Fanart, fanfics, cosplay... videos... its still being made, it's still being watched and read, it's still being loved.
I get it. No new content, Nate is more focused on Nimona and new projects. It feels weird, and strange. But this is the thing: As long as there are creators, and readers and watchers... The fandom isn't dead. Sick, decreasing, but not. dead.
Children, listen. Back in 2013 I became a Brony. The MLP:FIM fandom had been around for three years then. Now bear in mind that that show started in 2010 and went on until 2019. I came along 3-4 years in to the madness. And even then, even with a steady stream of content. even with tons of art published on a daily basis, people was "Oh, this fandom is dying! It's not like it was before!" In 2013. And there I was "What? Dying? How?" And then I learned that the first cries that the fandom was dying, even declared dead, came in 2012. It kinda became a tradition to declare the fandom dead at least once a year.
And here we are, in 2024. The show ended in 2019 and yet... Fanart is made. Fanfic is written. Don't trust me? Go check out Fimfiction or derpibooru (But thread carefully with the last one)
So trust me when I say this: The fandom is dead when the last She-Ra Fan gives up their breath and not until then. We will be strong and we will be brave and we are NOT going anywhere. So can you please stop declaring us dead, thank you? This is no Monty Python-sketch...
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lilrobinbird · 2 months
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Long Ass Tag Game
Cause I wanna get to know you guys better
Thanks for the tag @edas-boytoy <33 Putting this under cut
I accidently wrote looong answer for one question shdhs
How many tumblr accounts have you had before this one?
It's my first one actually haha, I've made like two/three more after this but now they're abandoned forever
Also for this blog I have two sideblogs, I don't really use them now either
How long have you been in fandom?
Like the current one? By the end of July 2023 I posted my first Kyoshi novels fanart and maybe one month earlier I started rebloging and commenting on posts from others, this was after I read the novels and I jumped into their fandom and then in the procces I've also got into tlok and atla (I enjoyed them way earlier but I just didn't participate in their fandoms)
Your favorite trope in fiction?
HMMMmmm Grumpy serious stoick ish x chaotic more fun (and other antonyms that matches first character idk) (whatever heituat has going on))), expressive women with strong personalities, girlfailures<3, severe stern ruthless etcetc women but caring deep down inside (optional), morally gray characters, and I'm just a little obssesed with mother daughter relationships in fiction if that counts as a trope
Your favorite random fact?
That might be well known idk, but sometimes for a video game character they'll hire one person as only just face model, and then differnt person as voice and acting/motion capture
Must feel weird and funny when you basically see yourself in video game doing stuff you didn't do speaking with a different voice
Your favorite game or kind of game?
Now I don't really play video games myself but since I've watched Until Dawn gameplay yeaaaars ago I still like to watch playthroughts of those choice based horror games (the quarry, devil in me, resident evil etc), and later I watch other playthroughts for different choices outcomes scenes etcetccc, The games can be kinda stupid but fun, alsooo playthroughts of adventure games(???), I usually watch them when I eat something
Also CHECK OUT "STRAY"!! I only watched playthrought too but it looks so cool, you basically play as a cat (they did good job with motion capture, feels like real cat moves and it looks so fun to play) and you're in a world when humans no longer exist and there are cool looking robots, you can stratch walls and make robots pet you but I promise it's not just that lolol it has an actual plot and wordbuilding
Aside video games I like chess but I suck big time, but for my defence I mostly played with my friend who sucks even more aHA, we downlanded one chess app for two players and played during some classes
I think I'm just interested in 3d models and graphics hehhh I like 3d modeling
There's also a game called Hades, and this one I actually started playing myself, not the kind of games I'm usually into (roguelike),but friend got me it and! The character designs are very cool
HA nerd long anwser
A place you'd like to visit? (If carbon emissions, logistics and money weren't in question)
Honestly idk, somewhere warm, Greece? Spain would be nice too mmm mm architecture
Or someplace with cool mountains
An animal you're irrationally afraid of?
Ladybugs. No further explenations. But I do appreciate their beauty on photos and from big distance, I'm serious they are very pretty
What's your favorite season?
HMmmm currenlty maybe spring
A smell that brings you nice memories?
I still remember taking a breath of fresh spring air in a specific room last year and getting hit with memories lol, is that even a smell? felt like a smell
(If you're ok talking about food. If not, delete this part)
What's your favorite food from where you were born? And what's your favorite food from some place else?
Pierogi, krokiety and bigos from our stupid potatoland, from other places hmmm, most kinds of pasta maybe, I love pasta, pasta!! which is a little boring but mmmmm mm mmmm pastaaaaa
What's your favorite drink (if you drink alcohol, alcoholic and non-alcoholic)?
I do drink but not too often and I don't really care what, I like flavoured beer, which is alcohol for babies as my friend would say and she might be right but I like it
Do you give your pets random table scraps?
Not too often but sometimes yeah and depends what is it
no pressure tag @korrasamibottles
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Bonefall, local cat historian, teal blood? Idr, monster factory enthusiast. What’s next, you follow our great leader Jim Pickens? /silly
I dabble in a little bit of everything. Didn't know who Jim Pickens was (but hey I did recognize him when I googled him from Six Feet Under), but I do also like Columbo a lot. I love funky little frizzly wifeguys and backwards whodunnits
Other weird interests I have;
Modern Fire Emblem, mostly Three Houses and Awakening, been playing Engage with my buddies though and I kinda like... as a raw experience I don't like it, but I'm having a BLAST basically making an OC out of the main character with my friends, it's great!
Animated movies in general, I'm always looking for funny bad ones to watch with my partner and my friends.
"Oh cool!! Do you have any recommendations?" PLEASE GO WATCH THE ANGEL IN THE CLOCK, I watched it blind with my friend group thinking it was just gonna be something low-budget and funny but oh my god, it snatched our kneecaps, we were crying at the end, please go watch it
I fucking love Care Bears. I'm obsessed with them.
I do like Pokemon but, honestly, I've kinda fallen out of love with it because of the past few games. I used to be really into it
I like Digimon more these days
I usually turn out for whatever the newest queer animated series is, if you know what I mean. I was a closeted teenager when Korra happened and I've kinda 'followed' animated shows being allowed to be progressively more openly gay, building off the victories of the last, and it makes me feel super fuzzy to see it
So Steven Universe, She-Ra, I've been meaning to watch Owl House because I know I'm gonna love it, etc.
Though honestly I'm kinda hoping to start seeing more adult-oriented stuff... much as I appreciate what kid's media can do these days, I want to see more animated adult fantasy with more mature themes
HunterxHunter is my favorite anime
Ginga was one of my formative baby animes, I was really into it when I was a kid along with Warriors
I was there when The Lion King Fanart Archive was huge, my first OCs were Lion King fankids and such.
I still play Impressive Title, which is an old MMO made by one dude in like, 2008, that's now public domain and anyone can make a server with the base code
I really love watching bad Christian movies, like, Lion of Judah, Noah's Arc 2007.
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sketchncanto · 2 years
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Thank you 🙏🏼
Guys, I-- wow
Dude, I've read every single last comment and reblog tag that you guys left on the animatic and I'm just speechless at the amount of love and kind comments. I'm literally still melting. My face literally hurts from cheesing so hard 😭😭😭😭
Thank you all so so much for being so patient and supportive and watching!! Joi and I are so happy that you all enjoyed it despite the crackship!! Lol
Loving this movie and joining this fandom has literally changed my life and I'm so glad it did. Like-- words can't even express how grateful and happy I am to be a part of such an amazing community with you guys. I didn't think I'd get teary-eyed typing this but I am.. like as I'm typing this sentence, I'm fighting a lump in my throat lmao
Thank you all again for being so wonderful and giving me a reason to keep creating. Speaking of creating..
FANART RESUMES BAYBEEEE 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
I have so many fluffy scenarios piled up that I've already started drawing that I'll be churning out soon! ALSO fanfic art!! I've been reading a lot of you guys' fanfics over the past few months and OMGGG I wanna do art for them! Will I actually get to all of them? Idk BUT this Encanto brainrot is literally a part of me now, so who knows. I’m gonna post a masterlist of ones I’ve read and ones I’m in the process of reading so far!
Anyway before this post gets too long I just wanna say again
Thank you. I love you guys. I know it's kinda weird to say this to a bunch of people I've never met over the internet but I really do. You all make my life more exciting and I can always look forward to reading the most heartwarming things ever coming from all of you.
Thank you. 💕 (Take a shot for every time I typed thank you lmao)
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moonchild-in-blue · 5 months
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yoooo omg i didn't know you're into lotr!! not to go on a thousand tangents but it's also one of my fav media properties, are you a movie or book person or both? are you into any of the supplemental books like silmarillion, beren and lúthien, etc? fav characters or plotlines/moments? :0
HA! It seems we're once again bonding over our shared feral love over media, Aqua. Get out of my brain (joking, this is extremely cool to me!!!)
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You have no idea the ancient can of peas worms you just opened. To say I love LOTR is an understatement lmao. Also, I can't help but go off a million tangents and write Way Too Much, so I feel you, really. Let's get to it then (this is so loooooong i apologise) 🧝‍♀️
Movie or Book Person?
Both! Although I have to confess, it has been many years since I've read the books. I've been meaning to re-read them, and for some reason I have been noticing a spike in LOTR content on my dash, so I guess I kinda really have to now! I absolutely ADORE the movies (yes, even The Hobbit trilogy with it's unnecessary plotlines -> looking at you elves and that weird romance. Everyone did such a great job! Also, Thranduill, my beloved elf daddy, and Sauron, you sexy evil dragon), and have re-watched them an ungodly number of times.
They are beautiful, iconic, and just so comforting. AND THE SOUNDTRACK AAAA. I still get chills hearing Pippin sing "The Edge of Night" while Denethor destroys that tomato. It's such a beautiful, chilling, and poignant tone shift and portrayal of Pippins loss of innocence due to the cruelty of the world, and the realities of war.
Supplemental content?
Not yet! I have read The Hobbit a long time ago, and I really want to read The Silm. I tend to procrastinate a lot, but I want to get them done during this next year! I have yet to watch Rings of Power as well. Speaking of Silmarillion, may I nudge you in the direction of @summeringminor? I have only recently discovered their account, and they make BEAUTIFUL Silm fanart, among others. I can't recommend them enough!
(oh, if you're into asmr and/or audio books, I'm leaving here these links of Cavern, a guy on youtube who read Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of The Hobbit, in sort of a soft-spoken, cozy tone. He does all the voices and accents - his voice is so so beautiful and warm to hear! Also he's cute lol. He has done some other soft-spoken reading as well, like E. A . Poe! I find it super calming and relaxing 😚)
Fav Characters/Moments/Plotlines?
Samwise Gamgee my beloved 💙🥔
If I'm being honest, I can't really say I have A Favourite. The 4 Hobbits are just!! my babies. Legolas is SO COOL (also Orlando Bloom has 100% influenced my view of him, sorry). My girlies Éowyn and Galadriel, Gandalf my beloved. I just love them all hehe.
This may be a bit of a cop-out answer, but rather than a favourite plotline, I am just so so in love with the underlying themes. Some of my favs:
-> All the different types of friendship and love portrayed:
Sam and Frodo - how they rely on each other, and have genuine pure love for one another, and constantly acknowledge it! The whole Samwise The Brave scene, and of course the Mountain of Doom climb 😭😭 | Gimli and Legolas - how despite of centuries of prejudice and hatred between Hobbits and Elves, they form a beautiful bond and fight side by side as friends!!! | Aragorn and Arwen "I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone" | Boromir and Aragorn - how Aragorn cares and honours him to the very end, and never blames him for being corrupted by the ring, "my captain my king" | MERYY AND PIPPIN MY MOST BELOVEDS | the general friendship and self-sacrifice displayed by the fellowship for Frodo and the other hobbits throughout the whole journey
-> The parallels with war and its ugliness; The effects of the corruption by the ring and how different characters react to it:
The last scene when the 4 of them return to The Shire. The movies and books differ a lot, but both are incredible portrayals of how war is never quite over; how it changes you forever; how your home changes as well | Again, that scene with Pippin in the Gondor court in contrast with Sam's speech "There is some good in this world, Mr. Frodo" from the Two Towers. I just !!! yeah | How Saruman gave in to fear and power vs Gandalf and Aragorn who refused power in fear of being corrupted | How Smeagol was shown no compassion for his condition, for which he had very little control of, aside from Frodo, who understood exactly how the Ring operated and was afraid of facing the same fate
-> All the gender/stereotype subversions
Éowyn my beloved!!! How determined she was to prove she was as capable as any man, and SERVED | Galadriel and her immense power and presence | How no one had faith in 4 little Hobbits, and yet they were the ones who saved them all and changed the world forever - "My friends, you bow to no one" (i am tearing up as I write this) | How Radagast was mocked and cast aside, treated as lesser, ONLY TO BE RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!!! ; and how him and Gandalf, "lesser/minor wizards" turned out to be LIKE THAT in comparison to Saruman | the huge pressure put on Frodo, a little halfling, to go and do the most difficult task of all - something something the true heroes were the outcasts and how wonderful it was to see those who had actual power and means to aid them and put their faith in them
-> Anytime Merry and Pippin interact or make an appearance; LEMBAS; Po-tay-toes
There is A LOT MORE but I'm stopping myself here. I just adore LOTR so so much. Me and my friends are huge fans of the series, and it was one of the earliest thing we bonded over when we met, so it has an extra special meaning to me 💙💫
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ol1verdrawsyt · 1 year
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What r things you like about the dsaf community, and things you don’t like about it? Just curious to hear some thoughts! :D
Oh boy, I have a lot to say abt this one. I'm just gonna preface this by saying, I have a very special place in my heart for dsaf. Idk where I would be today if I hasn't have found that trilogy. With that being said, I'll start with the good.
Tw: opinions 😱😱
For starters, its a very welcoming community. Because a good majority of the community is queer, it makes it a safe space. In my experience, it was the first time I felt open and comfortable being myself inside of a Fandom.
It's also a very talented community. Like holy hell, have you seen those amazing Henry fanarts with him in the void? They're fucking epic!
Finally, the DSaF community is pretty sweet to new artists. I remember when I was in the piggy Fandom, they were brutal man. I got bullied constantly for my art and was pretty close to quitting for a while. In DSaF though, I just simply received constructive criticism and people helping me rather than shaming me.
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Now onto the not so great
First, the ships that shouldn't really be normalized. Steven x Peter is probably a big one. Peter had a wife, Steven was a horrible boss and sent Peter to the factory knowing what would happen to him, and that he had a family (we know from Peter and Jimbo that you can refuse to do that. In the slightly evil ending, Peter refuses to send Jimbo to the factory) and also they canonically hate eachother. Also the horrible power imbalance? Like, idc what your excuse is, shipping boss x employee is just wrong.
And yet, this is like the 2nd most popular ship in the Fandom. I'm not done with it either cuz the people who ship Steven and Peter lead into my next point.
Being toxic towards straight ships. I'm gonna preface this before anybody gets mad by saying, I am a trans and queer man, I can have an opinion on this.
So Peterline is not a very popular ship despite it being cannon. Caroline is Peter's wife, and you see her at the end of the perfect ending. I've been bullied before (mainly on tiktok) for shipping this. I've had someone just go off on me because I'm "taking away gay rep and that Peter is canonically a gay man." Like, tf?? Also, side note: he isn't. Dogman confirmed the characters sexualities and Peter is "probably straight." Not to mention he had a wife that he chose and married himself, not a manufactured one like with Steven. But back to my point. Peterline is overshadowed by all of the Steven x Peter shippers because it's EVERYWHERE. I don't even know why it's a ship in all honesty. But heaven forbid you don't ship it and ship Peter and his WIFE.
You thought that was the worst of it? Wrong. We go away from the side that's mainly queer/allies and go to the homophobic side. Yep. There are homophobic/transphobic DSaF fans despite a good majority of the main cast being queer. Luckily, they don't really show their faces anywhere near the queer fans, so we're all set. I have seen them comment on davesport posts before though complaining. Speaking of davesport:
Davesport has completely taken over the Fandom. I love davesport as much as the next person, but if you truly love something, you have to admit the flaws. First, the weird kinda fetishism of it? I won't name names **cough cough daystars cough cough**, but there are artists who draw this ship and intentionally make the characters look like teenage boys and not old zombie men. Plus, people kinda romanticizing / glorifying the fact that Dave stalked and had an unhealthy obsession with Jack. That isn't cute and romantic that "he loves him so much that he broke into Jack's house on multiple occasions and watched him sleep 🥺🥺🩷🩷☺️☺️☺️" (genuine comment I saw btw, minus the emojis cuz I wanna make sure people know it's satire what I'm saying). Plus, people are bullied for shipping anything other than Davesport. I can understand if it's a proship (I'll get into those fuckewads later), but someone shipping anything other than davesport will get you witchhunted in this community. I know I said I don't like boss x employee, but I don't hate someone if they ship something like Harry x Jack or something. There are people genuinely scared of showing that they ship that because of the hard-core davesport fans. Final note on this point, it's the only DSaF content being made. I want more Blackjack and og managers art pls I beg of you I want more art of the og managers. But instead, it's just davesport again. It gets to a point where I'm kinda tired of it.
Next point: people babying characters. Now, I won't name names **cough cough daystars again cough cough** but there are very popular artists who get away with this. The biggest ones I can think of are Peter, Roger, and Jack. Here's why I think this happens:
Jack: Because he's shown to have a soft side. It's mainly seen in DSaF 3 on the flipside with him gently talking to the other souls and telling them that it's gonna be ok and he'll help them find justice and peace. Also, he is somewhat civil to Dave at the start of a few routes so probably from the fucking davesport shippers again.
Roger: Because he's hinted at to have an anxiety disorder. Hey there! Person with a diagnosed anxiety disorder here. DON'T FUCKING BABY US! Like, just because you have an AD doesn't mean you need 24/7 protection and babying because "what if you get scared 🥺🥺🥺😔😔😔". People with ADs can do amazing things despite it. And Roger is no exception. In the evil ending, he goes off at Jack about everything he's done and doesn't break a sweat. He's probably the strongest out of the 3 phone guys because he's the first person (other than Peter) to stand up to Jack when he's doing something wrong.
Peter: Same as Jack, he's shown to have a soft side. Mainly when talking about how he remembers his wife and family, and invites Jack to live with him and Caroline despite (to his knowledge) he's only known Jack about a week. But like with Roger, he puts his foot down when needed. In the evil routes, Peter takes Jack back to his office and just let's him have it. He goes off about the fucked up shit Jack has done and even throws in some amazing lines like
"That's Mr.Cawthon to you, employee. We certainly aren't friends."
"Employee, let me tell you something. I am a VERY good boss."
"It takes the truth to fool me, or close to it. And you've played me for a goddamned fool."
But of course, with this community, that entire badass scene with Peter and Jack is overshadowed by him being "uwu smol bottom gay boy"
I mentioned them earlier, so here it goes: the proshippers. They're everywhere. Some of the biggest dsaf artists **cough cough fucking daystars again cough cough** are proshippers. It's mainly a problem on tiktok. I've seen people ship: Peter x Dave, Dave x Henry, Steven x Henry, Jack x Peter, Henry x Dee, Henry x Jack, Dee x Jack, Jack x Dee x Peter x Dave. It's honestly disgusting, and I really don't wanna talk abt it anymore.
Next, people drawing Henry skinny. This one pisses me off a lot. People draw Henry as a skinny little bottom boy and not the fat old man he is. There's a lot of people guilty of this. **cough you probably know who I'm abt to say cough cough**. Some people try at least. For example, I tried sticking with my roblox-like bodies and giving Henry a very big torso. Later on, I finally learned how to draw plus sized bodies, and so now that I can, I immediately implemented it. Some people just don't even try.
Finally, people mad at dogman for moving on from the series. I shit you not. I came across people complaining about this just last night. Here's the thing: DSaF has a lot of problematic stuff in it. Nobody can deny that. Dogman has apologized for it on many occasions and doesn't want that to represent his work now. He moved on to Dialtown, where he can now get paid for his hard work and pay his team. But because he isn't talking abt DSaF anymore, people refuse to even look at Dialtown. It's just kinda...childish in my opinion? It'd be a different story if you just simply didn't enjoy Dialtown. Like that's fine and understandable, the game isn't for everyone. But really? Just because the creator moved on from his problematic past and made something original, you want nothing to do with him. That's just stupid.
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Alr ty for coming to my Ted talk. If someone wants it I'll do one of these with Dialtown (there isn't much bad, it'll just be me ranting abt how much I love Dialtown)
Btw don't harass anyone I mentioned here if I did mention them. It doesn't solve anything, and you just look like and asshole.
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ferdinandvonaegir21 · 7 months
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The fact I use to unironically love this show hurts my brain..
Hi there! Sooo, it's 3 am at the time of me writing this and what better way to spend my time than talking about one of the must insufferable shows I've ever watched.
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Has this ever happened to you? You're a young, obnoxious middle schooler, still not old enough to know the difference between good and bad media and you just started getting into anime. One day, you get introduced to a reverse harem about hot vampires and you immediately fall in love with it! But as you grow older, this show you once loved starts getting pushed into the back of your mind, until you forget about it. Now cut to present day when you're an adult and you suddenly remember this reverse harem about hot vampires. You decide to take a trip down memory lane and rewatch this show...And then you realize something...You realize that this entire show is A WALKING RED FLAG! Sound familiar?
Now I know I'm not the only one who can relate to this. I know there's many of people out there who not only had a Diabolik Lovers phase, but a reverse harem phase. As much as we don't want to admit it, we loved these shows back in middle school and maybe even high school. It wasn't until you grew out of that phase that you realized over half of the reverse harems you watched were complete garbage! And I should know! I loved Diabolik Lovers, Brothers Conflict, Dance with Devils, Uta no Prince Sama, Ouran Highschool Host Club, you name it! And why would we assume these shows were hot garbage? They had pretty animation and hot boys! I will say though, out of those five shows I mentioned, there's still two that I unironically love to this day. (Take a wild guess which ones)
It is fun looking back at these shows and wondering "How the hell did I genuinely enjoy this??" Like, can we talk about how weird and concerning Brothers Conflict was? Did none of us question the fact that they were her all her STEP BROTHERS?? Were we all just okay with it because they were hot??? The answer is yes by the way. Not only that, but the show was just incredibly cringy and boring. I don't have much to say about Dance with Devils. I didn't dislike it, but I also remember being kinda bored while watching it....Probably why I never finished it. Diabolik Lovers on the other hand is very memorable to me for ALL the wrong reasons.
It's been about over a year since I last watched the DL, so I don't wanna go too in depth with the plot or characters, however if enough people see this, I will absolutely rewatch it and write a part 2 to this post. Also I'd like to point out that I've never played any of the visual novels, this is strictly talking about the anime. There has never been a show for me like this one, where I have had such an extreme love-hate relationship towards it. Diabolik Lovers is one of the most anger inducing AND funniest anime I've ever seen. Let me make something clear real quick...Diabolik Lovers is not a comedy. Diabolik Lovers is a drama, a dark romance, it wants to be taken seriously and that is the funniest part of the entire series. I have never unironically laughed at this show because it's funny, or it has good jokes, oh no, no, no! This show can be the funniest shit to watch just by how utterly ridiculous it can be. It also makes me want to pull my hair out by how utterly ridiculous it is.
Honestly though, it doesn't even surprise me on how much I use to love this show back in the day. Not only was I in a reverse harem phase, but I also had a small vampire phase. That being said, I was a huge fan of Vampire Knight at the time...And I might've made my grandma watch it with me...(I'm so sorry, grandma) When I first found Diabolik Lovers, it was like love at first sight for me! I binged the entire first season, talked about it constantly, drew lots of fanart and started many DL role plays with my cousins. It's both hilarious and embarrassing that I actually took the plot seriously. Overall, I think the reason I loved it so much was just because hot vampires and pretty animation (as shallow as that is), but I genuinely was invested in the story and what would happen next. I do gotta give credit where credit is due, to this day I still think the anime looks gorgeous. The artsyle in this show is honestly so good, I especially love how the character's eyes look. And you can't tell me the intro is a banger! As bad as the show is, I can't deny that listening to that intro gets me hyped up!!
Well, it's now 4 in the morning and my brain is beginning to shut down. Like I mentioned earlier, if I were to rewatched season 1, I would love to go more into detail and rant about certain episodes and characters. I could honestly ramble about this show for hours, but I'd like to try and lay down before the sun comes up.
What's your guilty pleasure show?
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herrscherofmagic · 1 month
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so this is gonna sound kinda insane, but for some reason... the more I see HSR promoted, the less I actually want to get back into the main story and catch up on it.
Like 99% of the time promo material is meant to promote something and get people excited about it, and obviously that's true for most people. But the last time I saw promo for HSR was the early peaks at Penacony, like the little reveal of Acheron for the first time. Since then I haven't actually watched any trailers or livestreams (tho i never really watch version livestreams in the first place), and everything I know about Penacony is just from seeing people talk about it on social media.
Just now there's this new short featuring Acheron & Black Swan, and it seems cool... but I don't really feel like watching it at all, nor does it make me want to dive into the game to see what's going on. That should be the total opposite of what the trailer should be doing to me, and I know it's not the trailer because other people are definitely hyped up because of it.
It's not like I've heard people talk shit about it, because i've seen almost nothing but praise for it. I know that when I actually get to doing the Penacony story I'll probably like it, but it's kinda weird that I feel almost no compulsion to actually try it out.
I feel like it might be because Penacony didn't really interest me much in the first place. The Luofu arc was really underwhelming to me, and I've found a lot of the companion missions in the game to be... lacking? Like when I look at the companion missions my nearest equivalent I can think of its the Story Quests in Genshin, which each feature a particular playable character. But most of the story quests in Genshin were really engaging to me, even the "boring" ones like Ayato's story quest. The Genshin quests always got me caring for all the characters involved, even NPCs, while HSR's companion missions often felt like glorified side quests at times. So when it comes to Penacony, there's just this feeling of "okay, so what?"
Maybe it's not that I don't like HSR, but that I like the idea of HSR more than actually playing it? Like I love Belobog a lot, a good deal more than the Luofu, and it always felt like the most "alive" place to me. HSS was neat but pretty small, Luofu felt off in some ways because of the story pacing, but Belobog felt like a solid story from the get-go. I have some ideas for fanart featuring the idea of swapping the roles of Bronya & Seele in Belobog with a "Wildfire Bronya" and "Silvermane Seele", because I find the setting and characters and factions of Belobog quite compelling.
I enjoy the characters of HSR too, so it's not that. I'm still insane about Kafka and Stelle and I spend a ton of time thinking about those two and even working on art for it, though I have very little to share because I'm about as productive as a soggy napkin >.>
But on the subject of Kafka, that reminds me of something similar that happened before. When the game started I was really intrigued by Kafka and her role in the story, but when we meet Kafka almost immediately after reaching the Luofu, it actually made me less interested in her. The mystery of who Kafka was felt more compelling than actually going around and engaging with her in the story in Luofu. Ditto with her companion mission, which I finally did yesterday- it was alright, and I enjoyed seeing Kafka & Stelle together, but the mission itself didn't feel like anything that special.
So with all the promo material like the trailers for Kafka, and her role in the Luofu story, I actually got kinda turned off from Kafka and her character. But as time went on I've gotten interested in her again, and now she's once again one of my favorite characters of HSR.
I don't understand why I have such an odd inverse relationship with HSR. You'd think engaging with the story and promo material would make me like the game more... but it doesn't? I feel almost better just consuming HSR's story second-hand from other people, and then working on my own headcanons of the characters and parts of the setting that I enjoy.
I also feel like it might be because of the amount of mindless HSR-praising-paired-with-Genshin-shitting I see online. So many people are like "GeNsHiN cOuLd NeVeR" and then straight-up lie about the games? they act like HSR is some next-gen VR immersion with incredible everything, but then I load up companion missions, these main missions that feature playable characters, and there's multiple scenes with completely stiff mannequins and voice-over with no lip-syncing at all. Then people go "omg Genshin is so stiff, HSR is so much more alive" and I'm wondering what parallel dimension these people are from and how can I go there??? Because that's just wrong. There's a handful of moments where HSR shines really well, usually brief cinematics and animated shorts, and the protagonist is more engaging and immersive, and there's a few more facial expressions. But dialogue and scene shots are still really stiff in HSR, meanwhile Genshin's just been getting better and better.
maybe that's why I'm actually not-as-interested in HSR? because I keep seeing people mindlessly praising it over Genshin, making bullshit arguments with no basis in reality to justify it as something "superior" when it's not really much better or worse, just different?
and on a somewhat related note, there's also the over-the-top hornyposting of the HSR subreddit which I used to frequent, even though I haven't been there in weeks now. That was also pretty annoying and it wouldn't surprise me if that was also turning me away from the game a bit.
idk. i want to enjoy HSR, but there's something in my mind that's keeping me from giving a damn about it. Or rather than something, it's somethings, namely the combo of all these different factors. Promo material that doesn't really engage me, a vocal but obnoxious minority of elitist fans that frustrate me and make me less willing to engage with the game itself, and various issues I have with some of HSR's lore and story.
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slasher-male-wife · 2 years
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New life: Thomas Hewitt x gn reader part four
Part three is here, Part five here  I’m glad everyone is enjoying this fic. I’ve seen so much amazing Tommy fanart on pinterest and oh god that man is so hot. I don’t care if he doesn’t have a nose just like he looks so fine. I did kinda put in some shit I’m dealing with cause I’ve not been feeling good for like a good few days. Anyway I hope you enjoy
Warnings: Talk of dead animals, blood
Today’s a grey rainy day, everyone’s inside and you’re teaching Tommy new signs. “Ok this one is mother.” You say showing him the sign. He repeats it and you smile. “Very good Tommy. Now how about we sign my mother is home.” He signs the sentence and your smile grows. “You’re such a fast learner Thomas.” You pat his shoulder and he smiles. There’s a crack of thunder and you cover your ears. “Sorry I’m just scared by thunder.” He nods. You two are. sitting on the floor together. It’s so weird seeing him be so gentle when you know how brutal he can be. It’s so odd. Another round of thunder cracks and this time Thomas covers your ears for you. You chuckle a little and move his hands. “You don’t have to do that Tommy.” ‘I’m sorry’ He signs. “No you’re fine I just can do it myself. But that was sweet of you.” You give him a smile.
Later that night when you’re getting ready for bed the rain is going hard. You’re laying next to Tommy, trying to sleep when another round of thunder comes in. You curl up and cover your ears. You hate the thunder. You hate loud noises in general. But thunder gives you bad anxiety. How are you gonna sleep like this? The bed creaks and you feel Thomas put his arms around you, in a protective way. Oddly enough, it’s soothing to have someone hold you. You cuddle into him closer. This starts this feeling again. A feeling that makes you smile when you see Tommy, a feeling you get when you hold his hand and sit with him. Is it a crush. It can’t be. You eventually fall asleep in his arms.
You wake up to feeling the bed shift. You open you eyes and sit up. Rubbing sleep from your face you watch as Tommy grabs some clothes. You lay back down and shut your eyes, waiting until he leaves the room. After a few minutes the door opens and shuts. You sit up again and he’s gone. You get up yourself and grab some clothes. You grab a pair of bell bottoms and look for a shirt. You can’t seem to find one. You sigh and grab one of Tommy’s button ups. It’s a black one that’s thankfully pretty light. You put it on, tuck in the bottom and roll up the sleeves. You run your fingers through your hair and put on your boots. You head downstairs and into the dining room. You sit next to Tommy waiting for breakfast. Hoyt walks in and sits at the head of the table. “Y/N you’re gonna have to work outside today Tommy’s got a lot of meat to work on.” You nod.
“Yes sir.” You’ve just been calling him sir and he hasn’t corrected you yet so you’re not gonna stop.
“Pick some more of those fruits and check the traps. You know how to skin an animal?” You nod.
“My dad taught me how to taxidermy animals, I think I know sir.” He nods.
“You’ve got a real nice partner Tommy. Really gonna help the family.” Monty wheels himself in and behind him is Luda Mae. You eat breakfast and go outside with a basket and bucket. You’re gonna get the traps over with right away. Thankfully there’s not much. Just a rabbit and a coyote. You put them in the bucket and bring it back inside. You take the rabbit out of the bucket and get ready to skin it. Your hand shakes as you hold the knife. You’ve skinned animals before. But they’ve been frozen and your dad already drained the blood. You put the rabbit back and take the bucket to the basement. Tommy’s busy chopping up meat and wrapping it up. There’s always been a smell of blood and meat in the house but it’s stronger in the basement. You hold up the bucket for Tommy to take.
“I can’t skin them myself. Not right now.” He takes it from you and hangs it on a hook. You go back upstairs and grave the basket. You go back out and start to pick apples, putting them in the basket. You think back to what Hoyt said. About you dating Thomas. You don’t hate the idea. He is real sweet. Maybe if things were different you would date him. You finish picking the apples and take them back inside. You know the drill, as soon as you get the fruit inside you have to preserve it. You get to work chopping up most of the apples, saving a few fresh ones. You cook them down and add the water and sugar to keep it preserved. You pour it in the jars and keep them out to cool. Your mind goes back to Tommy. You’ve seen your share of gore but his is on another level. You feel bad about not being able to help with the animals. You’re ok about blood and bones but just it was too much for you.
Poor Tommy. He must’ve been exposed to that stuff so early. You wonder if he would have been different if he was born into a different family. This gets you thinking about your life back home. You were stuck with nothing. Shitty friends and toxic exes. No family around you for hours. Dead end job you hate. Your life was going nowhere. But Tommy has family. He grew up around family. A family that loved him, people who loved him. You couldn’t say the same. You decide to go back down and talk with Tommy. You should probably try to get used to this stuff. You sigh and go back down the basement steps. You open the big sliding door and Thomas is there, thankfully cutting up what you assume is rabbit meat. “Hey Tommy. I wanna chat for a bit.” You say taking a seat nearby. He nods and keeps chopping up the meat. “I know this is stupid of me to ask but your family loves you right?” He nods again. “Would you consider me family now?” He stop chopping for a moment. His head is looking down, his hair covering his face. He nods again and picks back up. “I’ve never had much of a family really. Not many friends either.” You chuckle to stop yourself from crying. 
Thomas can tell that something is wrong. He finishes cutting the meat and wipes off his hands. He looks back to you, trying to figure out whats wrong. “I bet you didn’t many friends either huh.” He nods. “I would’ve been your friend. You’re a real sweet guy. Not many sweet guys where I’m from.” You mind wanders back to all of the memories of yelling, gaslighting, manipulating, insults and so much more you endured from exes. Then came the friends, always the one left out, always the one never invited, always the one missing out on the plans, almost always ditched. Most of your mid to late teens spent alone in your room or out on your swing in the backyard. These thoughts really make the tears swell. “You’re probably the nicest guy I’ve ever really known to be honest. I wish I met you sooner.” This really gets the tears flowing. You start to cry. Everything being too much to handle for you. Tommy walks over not sure what to do. ‘Help you’. He signs. You wipe away your tears. “I don’t know how you can help me Tommy. Maybe just a hug?” He nods and wraps his arms around you. You already feel better with his touch. You guess he really is family. 
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