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sugarcoatedstarkey · 1 year

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smut with drew where it’s their first thanksgiving holiday with his family and reader but he can’t behave and he’s horny for everything she does like helping his mom in kitchen, doing the table, unpacking their stuff in his old room

so after days of not ( making babies ) since their arrival he starts to loose it and begs reader to accept to do it even though there’re in his parent’s home. so she accepts and like he waits like a good boy, she asks him what were his teenager high school sex fantasm to fulfill them ( sit on his face, 34+35, f*cking in front of his mirror ) ….

Happy Turkey Day

Pairing- Drew Starkey x fem!reader

Summary- see above. (Have combined this with another anon asking for one thing similiar).

Warnings- Drew being a horny mf, sex, oral, hair pulling, a lil manhandling, language. [18+]

Drew couldn’t keep his hands to himself, he was all over you. You had gotten a little uncomfortable at one point when he was pushing your hips against the bench and grinding himself into your ass, while his mother stood by the sink washing potatoes.

You had smacked his arm and told him to get out, you did not want to be caught dry humping your boyfriend in his childhood home. It was your first holiday with his family, you were not going to let Drew and his dick ruin it.

But Drew had other plans, he’d watched you all weekend. He couldn’t get his dick to go soft, it just seemed to grow harder and harder each time his eyes fell on you.

Whether you be mashing potatoes with his mum, cracking a cold beer for his dad or even looking at baby photos of him with his siblings. He could not get the image of your naked body out of his head.

So when thanksgiving was over and the only people left in the house was the two of you and his parents, he took that opportunity to kidnap you. Pulling you out of the living room before you could fight against him.

“What are you doing Drew?!” You whispered, he shook his head and threw you over his shoulder. His arms flexing against your thighs, you couldn’t deny that it turned you on being manhandled.

He gave your butt a slap as you bounced against his shoulder as he ran up the stairs. “DREW!” You screeched, playfully kicking your legs. His laugh echoes through the narrow hall, he kicked his bedroom door open and dropped you on the bed.

You looked a little dishevelled, but it only turned Drew on more, he locked the door and walked back over to you. The room was dark as the sun had set a few hours ago, he reached over and turned his bed side lamp on. Orange light illuminates the room.

Your eyes flicker over the walls, still covered in posters and photos of him and his school friends. His parents hadn’t changed his room one bit, schoolbooks still sat neatly on his desk and trophies littered the bookcase.

You were brought back to reality when Drew’s lips sucked at your neck, his hips pressing into your core. “Mhmm, missed the taste of you baby” he mumbled against your skin, his hand slipped under your dress. Skimming his fingers over your panties, you let out a whine when he moved them further up your body.

“Oh, so you do want me?” He joked, he let out a soft chuckle and pulled away from your neck. Staring down at you, he noticed your chest rising and falling harder as you stared up at him with your doe eyes, darkened with lust. “Yeah, I want to fuck you”.

You wrapped your legs around his waist and pushed yourself up on your forearms. Pressing your lips against his neck, you could feel him swallow harshly. “Baby” you whisper, nudging him with your nose wanting his undivided attention. “Tell me all your high school fantasies”.

He pulls away and you follow, moving yourself to straddle him. His hands find home on your waist, you slide yours up his chest and held onto his face. “Tell me” You urge, pressing soft kisses to his lips and cheeks.

“Really?” He questions, he’s not sure why he’s suddenly so nervous. It’s not like the both of you had never spoken about kinks etc. “well... I’ve always wanted to have sex in front of the mirror” he says, watching you intently.

Your lips quirk up into a grin, you can feel yourself getting wetter. “And?”.

“I want you to ride my face and 69” he finishes, biting the inside of his cheek. You nod your head, pressing your lips to his again, you deepen it. Grinding yourself against him, he grips your waist and moans into your open mouth.

“Well baby, you’re in for a treat” you purr, you push him down against the sheets and pull yourself to stand. Double checking the door is locked, you begin by pulling the side zip of your dress.

Letting the material pool around your feet, your tits sit bare and round. Practically begging for his mouth to assault them, you wore thin cotton panties that sat just under your belly button, accentuating your curves. “Shit” Drew groans, pressing the palm of his hands to his groin.

You slip out of your panties and step towards him, grabbing the waistband of his pants. He watches silently as you begin to undress him, his chest is heaving. He so badly wants to reach over and kiss you, but he’s letting you take control.

His cock springs free, leaking pre cum against the lower part of his stomach. His shirt has been tossed into the pile of clothes, you crawl up his body and leave soft kisses against his tanned skin. “Fuck, I’m so excited, I could bust right now” Drew laughs, you giggle against his skin.

His fingers run up and down your back, you reach his lips and give him a peck. His hand sliding up towards the back of your head, gripping the loose strands of hair it between his fingers. “Uh uh, I’m in charge baby” you grin, but you let him pull you against him.

Your lips mould together, chests pressed firmly together. Your wet folds grazing his cock has a moan slipping from your boyfriends’ lips. He grips the underneath of your thighs and uses all his strength to move you up his body, your knees sitting either side of his face.

“I’m in charge pretty girl, always”

With that he presses his warm tongue to your folds and you’re clenching around nothing, reaching up to grip the headboard of his childhood bed. “Oh god” you cry out, clamping your hand over your mouth. You needed to stay at quiet as possible, you really didn’t need his family hear their son fuck his girlfriend.

“God, isn’t between your legs sweetheart” he grins, massaging the apples of your cheeks. Pulling you down closer to him, nuzzling his face between your cunt. “O-0h!” You moan against your palm; you’re already starting to sweat.

“Stop!”

He pulls away from you and you quickly manoeuvre yourself, pussy against his face, your face inches from his cock. “Okay, get back to it”.

He chuckles, you can feel his breath against your cunt. He presses his tongue to your hole, moving in slow circular movements. You grip the base of his cock, kitten licking his tip. His tongue halts it’s movements, however you continue to lick his shaft until you swallow him into your mouth.

“Fuck, I’m always shocked you can deep throat” he breaths, his blunt nails dig into the flesh of your thighs. You hum against his cock, sending shivers down his spine.

Familiar warmth spreads through your belly, your toes curling as his tongue moves against your bundle of nerves. You rock your hips faster against his mouth, needing more friction. You don’t stop your movements on his cock though, reaching a hand around to cup his balls.

You can feel him tense, he’s grunting against your pussy. Pressing harder against your clit, slipping two fingers into your hole. You cry out around his cock, tears welling in your eyes as he assaults your pussy.

Drew is suddenly stopping when he feels the familiar flutter within your walls, gripping your hips, and moving you off him. “What?” You question, wiping the spit that’s on your chin. Sitting back on your feet, he grips you by the bicep and pulls you off the bed. “Jesus, you like manhandling me today”.

“I want to watch you cum”

You swallow harshly and nod, moving towards him. He takes a seat on his old desk chair, looking at you from the mirror that hangs on the back of his bedroom door. “Come here baby” he pats his thigh.

You turn so your back is facing him, slowly moving down until your hovering above his cock. He grips the base and pulls you down onto his cock, he bottoms out and the both of you let out a grunt of pleasure. You’re squeezing around him tightly. “Fucking hell” Drew grunts, helping you to move against him.

“Watch yourself” He orders, gripping your chin between his fingers. He pulls your face until your eyes land on the two of you connected. “Watch your pretty little face as I fuck you sweet girl”.

Your eyes lock in the mirror and you bite down on your lip, circling your hips against his cock. His hand slides from you hip to grasp onto your breast, thumbing your nipple. You desperately wanted to close your eyes and let your body enjoy the pleasure, but he pinches your nipple just as your eyes started to flutter closed. “Open”.

“shit, okay” you mewled, your legs began to wobble. Unable to continue squatting over his cock any longer. He held you by the waist and manoeuvred you both until you were down on all fours, breasts bouncing with each thrust of his hips.

He grips a handful of your hair and pulls your head up, making eye contact in the mirror once more. Mascara had started to smudge around your lower lashes, looking even more dishevelled than before. “Pretty girl” he moans, pressing his palm against your shoulder blades and giving your neck a squeeze.

He pushes himself deeper and deeper until his stomach is pressed firmly against your ass cheeks, you watch as his eyes roll back. “Oh fuck, fuck, fuck” You cry out, fingers scratching at the carpet underneath you, needing something to grip onto.

He reaches under your bodies, pressing his fingers to your clit. Your walls pulsate around him, sucking him in deeper if humanely possible. He tosses his head back and grinds himself relentlessly against you.

You cry out in pleasure, tears spilling from the corner of your eyes. “Drew, I-I” Your unable to finish your sentence, the breath is knocked out of you as he grips the corner of the desk and brings one of his legs up and plants his foot to the floor, he grips your hip with the other and rams himself into you.

His moans are drowned out by the cries and sobs coming from your lips, your body is shaking. Overstimulated, his cock touching that sweet spot inside of you no other man had before. “Come on baby girl, you can do it, take it, that’s a good girl”.

“shit, fuck, DREW!”

His dick is dripping with your juices, he’s no longer watching you in the mirror and instead looking down at where the two of you are connected. His teeth gnaw at his lower lip, you can see specs of blood. “I-I” You stutter, your orgasm rippling through your body.

He can feel the familiar build up, your legs shaking and pussy pulsating around him. His eyes meet yours in the mirror at the perfect moment. Watching your pretty little lips form an O and your eyes roll to the back of your head. “Drew!” you cry out, pressing your hips back into him.

A few more strokes and he was spilling inside of you, fingertips digging into the flesh of your hips. His cum leaking out of you and down your thigh, he pulls you up so your sat against him. Back to chest, he presses his lips to your shoulders and wraps his arms around you.

“Pretty, pretty girl. What did I do to deserve you?”

“What did I do to deserve you I think you mean?”

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mbrainspaz · 3 months

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more meeting minutes (paraphrased)

Boss: You're in trouble because you made a bad decision a month ago.

me: Oh? This is the first I'm hearing of this.

Boss: Yes well you clearly made the wrong choice to leave all the horses out that one night when it was cold and rainy.

me: Please explain how it was a bad decision? As far as I'm aware everyone was fine and none of the boarders had concerns they communicated to me—they usually don't hesitate.

Boss: Horses got wet, and cold! If the boarders had known they would've been upset!

me: ... yeah, that was unfortunate with the 14% chance of rain we had that night, but you get that the horses were fine, right? I made my decision according to company protocol that states that unless there's more than a 40% chance of rain and it's below freezing, those horses can stay out. The old and sickly ones were already inside—you know that too, right? I even went above and beyond to blanket the rest and then I checked on them at 2am.

Boss: Well you should've brought them all in at 2am because they were slightly damp!

me: Put that in the rule book then.

Boss: Excuse me???

me: I said put it in the rule book ****. Sit your cozy corporate ass down and compile a fail-safe set of weather protocols that factors in everything from humidity to wind direction to the thickness of each horse's coat on a mid-January morning and then have it tell me how to make every other minute decision I've been making on the job for 2 years and if I break the rules THEN ...you can write me up about it.

Boss: ... so you're still in trouble, and now we're just calling it 'communication issues', because actually you should've called me at 2am and asked me what to do.

me: Oh? So that's a rule now? Good to know. I'll definitely do that moving forward, since that's what you want me to do. If only you had communicated that sooner.

Boss: ...We're still writing you up for—

me: ah ah ah—

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It's a clown show. It's obvious she's just scrambling for excuses to fire me because I'm too good at this job and they can't afford me anymore. It says a lot that this is the worst dirt she's got on me. She's tried the 'you should have called me' bit before and it's hilarious because 9 times out of ten she doesn't respond and the other 1 time what happens is that I spend 30 minutes explaining the choice she needs to tell me to make to her—and then sometimes she tells me to do the wrong thing anyway. F*cking insane. Anyway, I held my own against her and the boss above her for over 60 minutes and I intentionally drew that meeting out to make harassing me more expensive.

I'm so excited to tell her I'm quitting, and I'm gonna do it the same way she told me I was losing 30% of my compensation just after Christmas. —Ring ring "Hiiiii, I don't know if you've heard but—"

#personal problems #It's not that I've done nothing wrong EVER but—#I've been running this place like a godsdamn machine #corporate fail #evil overlords #corporate american hellscape #bad management #things that happened #business business business

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90363462 · 1 year

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80 Best Lyrics From Taylor Swift’s Midnights For Your Instagram Captions

Oct. 21, 2022

Name one Swiftie who’s never used a Taylor Swift lyric as an Instagram caption. I’ll wait. During Swift’s 16-year career, she has delivered countless turns of phrases and relatable one-liners that fans have used as captions to encapsulate their photos and videos. On Midnights — and the album’s seven bonus tracks — Swift once again blessed us with Instagram-worthy lyrics, at one point fittingly asking on bonus track “Paris” this important question: “Did you see the photos?”

In the 11-time Grammy winner’s 20 songs on Midnights (3 a.m. edition), you’ll notice several themes — like drinking, loving, dancing, traveling, and polishing up real nice — that are prime Instagram fodder. For frequent travelers and romantic dancers, turn to “Snow on the Beach” (“My flight was awful, thanks for asking”) and “Glitch” (“That’s romance, let’s dance”).

For the partiers or solo drinkers, you can take advantage of lyrics on “Dear Reader” (“My fourth drink in my hand”); “The Great War” (“I drew curtains closed, drank my poison all alone”); “Question...?” (“It was one drink after another”); “Maroon” (“Your roommate’s cheap-ass screw-top rosé, that’s how”); and “Paris”(“Cheap wine, make believe it’s champagne”).

Longtime listener Zainub Amir, who runs the popular Swift-centric Twitter account @SwiftNYC, told Bustle why people gravitate toward Swift’s music when crafting their own social content: “Taylor’s words and lyrical prowess are perfect for captions because she constructs her lyrics very concisely and strategically so there are a ton of relatable, witty phrases for fans to latch onto.”

For the lovers, you can use these poetic lines from “Labyrinth” (“Uh-oh, I’m falling in love”); “Lavender Haze” (“I just need this love spiral”); “Question...?” (“Did you ever have someone kiss you in a crowded room?”); “Paris” (“I’m so in love that I might stop breathing”); and “Midnight Rain” (“My boy was a montage / A slow-motion, love potion”).

So, when you’re ready to “plant a memory garden,” as Swift puts it on “The Great War,” come back to this list of the 80 best Midnightslyrics to use for your Instagram captions.

1. “Lavender Haze”

Meet me at midnight

I feel the lavender haze creeping up on me

I just wanna stay in that lavender haze

Talk your talk and go viral / I just need this love spiral

2. “Maroon”

That’s a real f*cking legacy to leave

Your roommate’s cheap-ass screw-top rosé, that’s how

I chose you / The one I was dancing with / In New York, no shoes

The lips I used to call home / So scarlet, it was maroon

3. “Anti-Hero”

It’s me, hi I’m the problem, it’s me

I’ll stare directly at the sun, but never in the mirror

When my depression works the graveyard shift / All of the people I’ve ghosted stand there in the room

I should not be left to my own devices / They come with prices and vices / I end up in crisis

4. “Snow on the Beach”

My flight was awful, thanks for asking

Time can’t stop me quite like you did

It’s like snow at the beach / Weird, but f*cking beautiful

My smile is like I won a contest / And to hide that would be so dishonest

5. “You’re on Your Own, Kid”

I touch my phone as if it’s your face

You’re on your own, kid / You always have been

I didn’t choose this town / I dream of getting out

I search the party of better bodies / Just to learn that you never cared

6. “Midnight Rain”

He was sunshine, I was midnight rain

My boy was a montage / A slow-motion, love potion

I never think of him / Except on midnights like this

It came like a postcard / Picture perfect shiny family / Holiday peppermint candy

7. “Question...?”

Did you ever have someone kiss you in a crowded room?

15 seconds later, they were clapping too?

It was one drink after another

Does it feel like everything’s just like / Second best after that meteor strike?

8. “Vigilante Shit”

Draw the cat eye, sharp enough to kill a man

Lately I’ve been dressing for revenge

Ladies always rise above / Ladies know what people want

On my vigilante shit again

9. “Bejeweled”

I polish up real nice

I miss you, but I miss sparkling

By the way, I’m going out tonight

Best believe I’m still bejeweled / When I walk in the room / I can still make the whole place shimmer

10. “Labyrinth”

Breathe in, breathe through, breathe deep, breathe out

I thought the plane was going down / How’d you turn it right around?

Break up, break free, break through, break down

Uh-oh, I’m falling in love / Oh no, I’m falling in love again / Oh, I’m falling in love

11. “Karma”

Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend

Karma is a cat purring in my lap ’cause it loves me

Karma is the guy on the screen / Coming straight home to me

Flexing like a goddamn acrobat / Me and karma vibe like that

12. “Sweet Nothing”

You’re in the kitchen humming

I found myself a-running home to your sweet nothings

I spy with my little tired eye / Tiny as a firefly, a pebble

Industry disruptors and soul deconstructors / And smooth-talking hucksters out glad-handing each other

13. “Mastermind”

You and I ended up in the same room at the same time

The touch of a hand lit the fuse / Of a chain reaction of countermoves / To assess the equation of you / Checkmate, I couldn’t lose

What if I told you I’m a mastermind? / And now you’re minе / It was all by design / ’Cause I’m a mastermind

I’m only cryptic and Machiavellian ’cause I care

14. “The Great War”

We can plant a memory garden

It turned into something bigger

I vowed I would always be yours

I drew curtains closed, drank my poison all alone

15. “Bigger Than The Whole Sky”

Salt streams out my eyes and into my ears

You were bigger than the whole sky / You were more than just a short time

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

I’m never gonna meet / What could’ve been, would’ve been / What should’ve been you

16. “Paris”

Did you see the photos?

I’m so in love that I might stop breathing

Cheap wine, make believe it’s champagne

Sip quiet by my side in the shade / And not the kind that’s thrown

17. “High Infidelity”

Rain soaking, blind hoping

Put on your records and regret me

You know there’s many different ways that you can kill the one you love / The slowest way is never loving them enough

Do you really wanna know where I was April 29th?

18. “Glitch”

That’s romance, let’s dance

I was supposed to sweat you out

We were supposed to be just friends

I’m not even sorry, nights are so starry / Blood moonlit / It must be counterfeit / I think there’s been a glitch

19. “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve”

I miss who I used to be

If I was some paint, did it splatter

Stained glass windows in my mind

If you never saved me from boredom I could’ve gone on as I was

20. “Dear Reader”

My fourth drink in my hand

Pick somewhere and just run

Never take advice from someone who’s falling apart

If you don’t recognize yourself / That means you did it right

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drdougdouglass · 4 months

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After enlisting HGTV stars Drew Scott and Jonathan Scott (a.k.a. Property Brothers) to help design this year’s White House Christmas decorations, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden invited the award-winning Dorrance Dance tap dance company from New York to perform at the Executive Mansion.

“Give me a f*cking break,” Melania was heard saying in 2020. “I’m working like a—my a** off at Christmas stuff that, you know, who gives a f*ck about Christmas stuff and decoration? But I need to do it, right? Correct?”

Secretly recorded audio of Former Third Mistress Melania bitching about how much she hated Christmas was leaked by former aide/BFF Stephanie Winston Wolkoff.

“OK, and then I do it. And I say that I’m working on Christmas planning for the Christmas. And they said, ‘Ooh what about the children, that they were separated?’ Give me a f*cking break!”

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bohemian-nights · 9 months

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The inherent need Rhaenyra(+ Daemyra) stans have to try and make Daemon and Nettles relationship predatory/abusive is so f*cking weird especially when I go to their page and see they ship sh!t like Alysmond (the exact same power imbalence as Daemon and Nettles) and Daemyra (literal incest. INCEST. and just because "everyone" is doing it doesn't make it okay) makes me sick to my stomach 🤢

Yep 👏🏽 Ship what you want, but don't go throwing stones when you live in a glass house. You are shipping a ship between an uncle and a niece where he(a fully grown man) knew and played with her when she was a freaking baby(they literally drew fan art about it😗), that’s hot to them, but no, let’s keep Nettles away from the old man. The concern is about as real as a three-dollar bill 💵

And as much as I love to rag on Dumbnyra’s (mostly) demented stans, it’s not just them that are doing this. Especially the people who ship Alysmond. That’s mainly Team Green or team neutral who think that age gap/unequal power dynamic relationships are only sexy when it's not Daemon and Nettles (wonder why that is 🙃).

Again ship what you ship, but be consistent and don’t make up rules that you don’t even apply to your own ship to bash someone else’s 🤷🏽‍♀️

#this fandom is riddled with hypocrisy #fandom misogynoir #dettles #I like alysmond but some of the fans are special ☺️#daemon x nettles #nettles x daemon #daemon targaryen x nettles #dattles #hotd ask #bnask #bnasks

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kitkatwinchester · 10 months

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Everyone's support of each other... <3

Absolutely love the Scott, Stiles, Kira dynamic. I adore the fact that all three of them are on the lacrosse team together and can work together to keep Liam and each other safe.

That said, I feel really bad that Kira was benched, and I feel like that was kind of unfair of Coach. If it were a real game setting, he would've been really happy about that goal. It also makes me wonder, would he have been upset about said goal if Scott or Stiles (or even Liam) had made the shot instead (though, as a very quick aside, I do appreciate Stiles's banter with the dude on the other team and how well it distracted him so he could pass to Kira lol)? Don't start getting all anti-Kira on me here, Coach. You wanted her on the team....

Anyways I really love those three together, and her excitement was adorable, and Scott was so proud of her, and I hope Coach gives her another chance, because she totally deserves it.

I also absolutely love Noah and his support of Lydia (also love that Malia is still attached at her hip...so sweet <3). The fact that he called her right away, and is going against all sorts of laws and such to make sure that she can get what she needs, and then the way she was just so close to breaking down and he just pulled her up and in and tried to calm her down I just...

I also love the fact that he's starting to bring Parrish into the fold more and more. Like, Parrish is seriously such a good guy, and he clearly keeps such an open mind, and I kind of hope we get to actually tell him all about the supernatural soon, because I really feel like he'd be another good resource for us to have.

I love Scott and Stiles immediately rushing to help Liam up, and I love Scott fixing Liam's arm, and I love Scott's absolutely utter concern that Liam could've gotten cut, and I love that Liam did not get cut and is now more or less fine.

HOWEVER...

I don't think Garrett missed.

He does not look the LEAST bit concerned, and Brett sounds like he's a LOT more hurt and in a LOT more pain than he should be if he's the one that ran into Liam.

How much do you wanna bet that Brett is ALSO a werewolf, and that Brett is the one they were after the whole time?

I mean...

Okay, I do strongly believe, as much as I hate to admit it, that Liam is probably on the list, and he's probably gonna be a target pretty freaking soon, but...I don't think he was the target TONIGHT.

I think Garrett (and Violet) did EXACTLY what they were planning to do.

I wish Scott and Stiles weren't so focused on Liam and could see that.

But also, I don't blame them.

But I guarantee you I'm right.

And I hate that.

I hope our boys figure it out ASAP so that we can hopefully save him (can we even save him?? Violet said very rare and very powerful or something like that...god I hope we can save him. Just because he was a jerk to Liam doesn't mean he deserves to die...).

ANYWAYS.

Scilera (that's my creation of the trio that is Scott, Stiles, and Kira lol) gif because I love them. <3

(Seriously I can't believe no one else has come up with that! It rolls off the tongue so smoothly! XD <3)

Update: I F*CKING CALLED IT!! BRETT'S NAME IS ON THE LIST!! Also WAY TO GO MALIA! I am so digging this Malydia team-up on sooo many levels. <3 <3

Update Part 2: I KNEW PARRISH WAS SOMETHING!! I F*CKING CALLED THAT TOO!!! Bro is so nice and so amazing, but he was also SOOO hiding something and WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT HE IS!!! HIS NAME IS ON THE LIST!!! Also that theory was only further confirmed when he told the Sheriff that something drew him to Beacon Hills like... That said, despite his apparent supernatural-ness, I hope he's still a good person, because he really has been so nice and such a great resource and I hope that's not an act, because I love him (also also, he and Lydia really DO have chemistry, sorry not sorry.)

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polyozellusmultiplex · 1 year

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AYOOOO,MY SIS FINALLY BOUGHT ME A STYLUS AND I DREW AMBER BECAUSE I LIKE THIS "I got a f/cking PTSD at 10 years" GIRL

And ye,she has hand prostheses now

#dead cells #dead cells oc #art #my oc art

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littledemon55 · 8 days

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24 Reasons why I disliked Batdr

You read the title, but just a reminder: I don't hate the game and this is just my own personal rant.

It lakes interesting character. No, neither Porter nor Betty have any backstory as far as I can tell (if they do, please tell me.) And they don't even play a mayor role in the story in general. Susie, Allison and etc already existed in Batim, so they don't count. Wilson's backstory is as boring as a cardboard and he should've gotten waaaaay more dept.

The absence of psychological horror. (Seriously, the only scene I shortly got scared by was the one where Audrey climbed up a wall and got jumpscared by Piper. That's it. Susie's part doesn't count, because it was just a boring ass puzzle and one of the most bland boss fights in history- no, they all sucked now that I think about it…

The ink demon no longer appears with shadows on the walls, he gets ANNOUNCED. Seriously? Did you have to ruin the surprise?

The complete absence of Norman Polk. (If I'm wrong, please tell me.)

Twisted Alice's/Susie's part of the game. Do I have to say more? She deserved so much more, than just a stupid puzzle and a lame boss fight. This character had so much potential and all they gave her was a redemption arc last second.

The overall story. Wtf. Did they really think we didn't know Wilson was the villain?

The part with Wilson's mansion. That wasn't Batdr guys, that was Resident Evil, but boring.

The spider boss fight, what is this, Luigi's Mansion 2??? Completely random and doesn't get explained whatsoever.

Henry Stein is just a side character and I believe he deserved better as well.

Sammy Lawrence should've been an enemy or ally, not just an easter egg. The Meatly and Kindly Beast: People LOVED this character and you didn't take that opportunity to make him a big part of the plot? Why????

The Keepers. 😐 Seriously, why???

The "lore". Why did they have to change their lore to match Matpad's theories?????? Just why????? Fun fact: the book "Dreams Come True" and Batdr now have different lores. Yaaaaaaaaaay.

The ending. It didn't feel deserved. At all.

Allison popping in and out depending on if she's needed or not.

The lost ones being filler.

The absence of memorable places. Just name one, I'll wait.

Audrey's abilities existing… because???????????????????

Heidi. F*cking Heidi. Why she exists? To stretch out the game of course!

Joey Drew's appearance and him pretending to be good. (Okay, it only triggers me that people now say he's good. He's not. He's still a psychopath.)

The fact that everyone else says it's good. Maybe because of the graphics? Am I not seeing something? Have we watched different gameplays?????

The city part. It makes no f*cking sense for it to be there. It feels so out of place.

The ink demon going from hunting/killing Audrey to „helping" her out of the f*cking blue. Like, seriously, for what? He didn't get anything out of it and he even lost because of it. It doesn't make any logical sense. Also: he's not one to manipulate others, that's Twisted Alice's job. What exactly did the developers smoke??? Ink? Probably straight through the nose…

Henry's design shouldn't have been revealed in the game, it was a part of his character. (The mirror in the safe house, chapter 3)

The whole Bendy's two forms thing.

#batdr critique #batdr critical #batdr #rant post #personal rant #personal ramblings #personal rambles

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imaginationstimulation · 11 months

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GIFTING FLEETWOOD MAC’S THE DANCE TO MY MOTHER | by Spencer Silverthorne

— after Chad Bennett’s “Silver Springs”

I bought my mother The Dance for her birthday the year I got into pop music. I wasn’t allowed to watch MTV most likely because it was too sexy and irreverent, but one day I got tired of being in the dark when a boy said Dookie.

I didn’t know my mother listened to pop music because she listened to NPR. She considered herself pretty centrist. I popped grapes as she drove me to the bus stop while Steven Inskeep interviewed an animated representative. Lessons in illuminating, interrogating, or mollifying lies. We only had 30 seconds left until the bus came. Another day where I never knew what was next. It was a battle of interruptions and I wanted to listen to Y100.

Everyone was tired of Beavis and Butthead. I still could do an impression of Beavis and would pull the back of my shirt onto my head to say cornholio. Everyone laughed or told me to f*ck off. I had no idea what I was doing. I was just trying to get boys to like me in the worst possible way.

The boys must have known something that I did not know.

Peter Jennings said Congress wanted to rid the world of Beavis and Butthead. They would rally from time to time.

I used to gift my mother portraits of our family depicted in front of our house. Everything, including our bodies, was constructed out of boxes. Just in case anyone would forget, I identified a mother, father, son, and god with terrible penmanship and indicating arrows. Dots for eyes, one above an up-slanted eyebrow, nails for hands, roof unfinished. I didn’t know how to draw and my mother later discouraged me from pursuing a career in the arts.

My mother said Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac were her favorite bands. That fall I wanted to dress up as a hippie for Halloween. My mother asked her best friend to send her bell bottoms with all kinds of patches on it. One patch had a peace sign, and another had a happy face from what I remember.

I drew them all over my margins and on the brown paper that covered textbooks. I didn’t know the origins of this sign. I didn’t know that Gerald Holtom wanted everyone to read the letters N and D into the symbol that originally stood for nuclear disarmament. I did remember one boy telling me that the symbol was fascist. I did remember thinking he was an *ssh*le and then wanting to jump into the TV screen to escape his lies. It would be better there, and I could learn about everything.

The boys must have known something that I did not know.

A few months before I bought my mom The Dance, another boy from a stricter family than mine lent me his copy of Dookie. I wondered how he got this tape because both our parents hated cursing in music which is why they sent us to Catholic School.

Twenty years later, and five years after my mother’s death, a member of my family would yell shut up you f*cking liberal b*tch to a newscaster on NPR.

I heard boys say Green Day Rules on the bus but I couldn’t remember what they said sucks. I liked the Elton John song on the Lion King soundtrack. I thought the piano was moving because I played it. Middle C, but the wrists are wrong! Life swoons in epithets. I learned enough to pound along. I kept my mouth shut because I misheard Day as Bay.

I did not know their f*cking rules at all.

In the mid-90s my father was always traveling to Green Bay, Wisconsin. He gifted me a keychain of a football embossed with the letters GO PACKERS.

I don’t know how to invite anyone to this poem, because I was obsessed with the line from the song, I found out what it takes to be a man/Mom and Dad would never understand.

These misunderstandings between Bay and Day were apparent in my composition. I went to the psychiatrist to interpret patterns like any other art f*g in Catholic School.

I starred as Rudolf the Rednose Reindeer in the Christmas play. My mother couldn’t attend because she was recovering from chemotherapy.

It’s a story that’s told every holiday gathering. My father is exhausted from bringing my mom home from Pennsylvania Hospital and I come off the Bryn Mawr bus to remind everyone that I’m Rudolf. My mom remarks O Yea I Forgot to Tell You, and this is where my father goes CONK! To describe how my mother passed out. And everyone chuckles.

This story is told over and over so that the sting of the grief softens. The way the body has been thought of as a system that needs continuous repair. The hospital, chemo, vomit, sallowness, weight loss mitigate symbols within a sphere of knowledge. Illness, care, and survival involve symbols that have the strength to evade meaning but the sting remains.

I have told friends that grief is a monster. That’s the only thing I can really say about it. It’s not a monster with recognizable scales, but a deadening shadow akin to what I picture as an angel of death. Except no letter to save the day.

I struggle to write about my mother, my father, my family, my solitude, my rage. Those long bus hours, the moments I was told not to cry, not to act out, to pray, to feel shame, to suck it up, you have to suck it up, as she would say as a lesson from firsthand experience, probably from chemo, and to be good, to be so f*cking good, like a god everyone wants to be.

“I just wanted to be wanted” like a bad Frank O’Hara misquote, like his acolytes, like the other men writing like him.

I often misinterpreted goodness with disappearance.

Every time I left the house, my mother, like any other, would say, Be Good!

[via: Verse of April]

#poetry #poem #list poem #list #mother #music #fleetwood mac

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smokeybrandreviews · 2 years

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I'm So F*cked Up

The invisible chick in HeroAca, Toru Hagakure, is canonically butt-ass naked all the time. Horikoshi drew her in her hero uniform but, you know, tangible, and she is, indeed, butt-ass naked anytime she goes out to be superhero. The internet i real upset about it because she's supposed to be sixteen or some sh*t but two things: It's a goddamn drawing and its goddamn Japan. School Days is a thing there. The culture is mad different in the Nihon. Hell, the legal age of consent there is f*cking thirteen. There's a whole ass opposition force standing against raising that sh*t to sixteen! A naked drawing of a stylized, fictional, sixteen year old is more than legal and culturally acceptable where this sh*t is published. I'm not condoning this sh*t, mind you, but I'm not going to judge, either. I can't color their media with my perspective because it's not made for me. I can definitely enjoy it, but i understand the content is made divorced from my cultural sensibilities.

Like, I've watched a lot of anime and read a lot of manga in my day. This sh*t with Tooru is nothing. F*ck, man, there is an entire seen in End of Evangelion where Shinji jacks it to a comatose Auska's exposed boob. Like, you see that titty plain as day. There was budget spent on that teenage boob jiggle. Then there's a jump cut to Shinji's hand full of his sticky, sticky, shame. Bro, you see a shot of Rei, full-frontal, fresh out of the shower! Tits-a-poppin, grass-less field in full view. They literally animate her putting on draws. Albino clone ass all on display. These children are all fourteen years old, man! And Evangelion is my all-time favorite anime! Rei is literally a top-three all-time favorite anime character for me. Was i wigged out by her nudity, event though she's fourteen? Nope. When i first saw Eva, i was slightly younger than that. Circling back as an adult, still nope because I'm not Japanese and it's not my place to make that judgment I till love Rei and i still love EVA. Everyone is entitled to feel some kind of way about this whole "controversy" but cultural context is absolutely necessary. What you think is "wrong" might not be the same somewhere else. In this situation, it literally isn't. Legally, culturally, socially; Tooru being naked on that page is fine in Japan. Having a Twatter meltdown over a nude doodle of an imaginary character who presents as a sixteen year old female, kind of betrays your disingenuous affection for the medium.

Did you have a problem when you saw Kid Goku's dick all the time in Dragon Ball? Or how about when you see Bulma's tits all up and through the same show? I think she was canonically sixteen in Dragon Ball, too. Her whole schtick was being oversexuallized. Goku literally assaulted her while she slept because he was freaked out she didn't have a dick. They use her bare vagine to get training from Roshi, man! On a relatively similar note, all of To-Love RU. Like, how is Master Nemesis not a whole ass boycott? Teenage f*cking is the driving theme of darling in the Franxx. The first time you see Zero-Two, she's skinny dipping for a fish lunch. I don't remember any outrage then. Is it just nudity that gets your dander in a froth? Why doesn't grotesque violence? Was the brutality and carnage of Blood C acceptable to you because the kids weren’t "nude" when the bunnies ate them? What about when Yuki and Yuno bone at the end of Future Diary. Was that an issue? Or was it okay because she tried to literally butcher him after? Why isn't the attempted murder as egregious to your sensibilities as the teenagers f*cking? Guts gets raped as an adolescent and Miura made sure you saw that sh*t on the page and, if I'm not mistaken, it made it into the first anime, as well. Not a hint of outrage there. I know Twitter isn't a real place but this sh*t is getting exhausting. Let the Japanese do what they do. You can choose to partake or not. Stop bashing a cat for doing what is absolutely acceptable by their Japanese standards. You look like a clown when you do. You assholes are the reason i didn’t get Lady butt in DMC 5 and i hate you all for it so very, very, much.

#Boku Hero no Academia #My Hero Academia #Toru Hagakure #Some ol' bullsh*t

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smokeybrand · 2 years

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I'm So F*cked Up

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eldritch-whispers · 4 years

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@prof-peach made this super cute drawing of me! She's an amazing artist and I love her blog soooooooo much! Go check on her, like, right now!

#pokemon #pokemon drawing #prof-peach #pokemon professor #fanart #SHE F*CKING DREW ME #I'M SO HAPPY #SHE'S PERFECT

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falloutdope · 3 years

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Fic drabble

[...] Shizune started to speak.

"Ok, as I told you last week, today we're gonna have an interesting exercise to know how the rest see us."

She thought it shouldn't be necessary to clarify and repeat all her speech having in mind she was working with adults but assumed that wouldn't work since two of them acted like teenagers.

"On friday I asked you to choose one member of the band for today you have to imitate them." At this point, any collaboration sign was welcomed.

"Who wants to start?"

"Me." Hidan immediately answered from his seat with a relaxed and carefree expression, grabbing the backpack next to him to put in on his lap.

"What a surprise…" Deidara didn't contain a sarcastic tone.

"Did you say something, Avril Lavigne?" Hidan teased as he pulled a blonde long haired wig from his backpack.

"The f*ck is that?" Inquired the blonde frowning in bewilderment.

"Oh lord…" Kisame sighed as he put his palm over his own face with a clear vision of what would be a very near future.

"Don't you recognize me yet? I'm friggin YOU, asswipe."

Hidan stood up and started to shout while he waved his now long hair.

"Oh look at me, I'm always so angry at everyone and everything! I always threat everyone with blowing something up but I'm also a princess!" he said in a mocking tone

"I'm so beautiful and I'm always whipping my LONG and beautiful HAIR at the FACE of EVERY-F*CKING-ONE because I don't want to use a F*CKING-HAIRBAND."

"YOU KNOW WHAT?" Deidara cut him visibly upset "I'D ALSO IMITATE YOUR LOOKS BUT SINCE I DON'T WANT TO SPIT SNOT IN MY HAND FOR THE SAKE OF COPING YOUR LAME HAIRSTYLE, I WILL JUST STAND UP IN THE CENTER OF THE ROOM AND START TO SCREEeEeEeEeEeEeEEEEEEEAMmmm ("Nice falsetto" appreciated Kisame "An F#5 one" added Itachi) LIKE A F*CKING PSYCHO IGNORING COMPLETELY THE REST OF THE MEMBERS AND NOT GIVING A DAMN SHIT IF THEY WANT TO HEAR WHAT THEY ARE F*CKING PLAYING."

"WELL AT LEAST I HAVE A GODDAMN GOOD VOICE, WICH IS THE ONLY REMARKABLE FEATURE IN THIS LAME BAND." Replied Hidan.

"AND YOU SHOULD BE THANKING TO YOUR F*CKING GOD YOU HAVE THAT CAUSE IS THE ONLY REMARKABLE THING YOU HAVE," Pointed out Deidara. "YOU CAN'T EVEN PLAY A STUPID TAMBOURINE FOR GOOD."

"OH I COULD USE A KNIFE AND PLAY YOUR F*CKING VOCAL CHORDS LIKE A VIOLIN" threatened Hidan.

"Shall we stop now?" Kisame almost begged Shizune whose immediate answer was "Oh no, let them continue."

"WELL, THE ONLY GOOD USE FOR THAT BRAINLESS HEAD OF YOURS WOULD BE A BOX DRUM"

"Can't you see they are about to kill each other?" Insisted Kisame.

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing." She remained calm.

"No." Itachi said as he stood up and drew the attention of the fighting pair "You two need to stop NOW." His voice was deep, calm but firm "This is enough. This activity was supposed to help us relate better and you are just making it an excuse to keep arguing. We're not going anywhere like this."

"Did you hear that?" Hidan blurted, squinting towards Itachi "The 'im-so-smart-i-have-to-take-every-fucking-thing-seriously' honors us by speaking to us, what must've we done good!!" said in a sardonic tone.

"I'm so intelligent I don't even need to be here but I have to because my therapist says so" Deidara mocked.

The Uchiha wasn't upset at all "You two are here for the same reason."

Hidan ignored him completely and went on "OHHHHH ENVY ME! I'M MOMMA KISAME, THE ONLY SANE MEMBER OF THIS GROUP!! OH AND I ALSO NEVER HAVE TIME FOR REHEARSALS SO the f*ck are you doing here?"

Kisame looked tired and disappointed. "You know that doesn't hurt me, don't you? Also I can't manage my schedule, you know I'm here just to help you guys--"

"Then quit acting like our damn mom!" interrupted him the blonde "Just because you’re older doesn’t mean you’re entitled to do so!!"

"Then quit acting like a pair of dumbass toddlers." Kisame stated.

“You two, the ‘so-mature’ ones, why haven't you done the stupid exercise yet?" Pointed out Hidan.

"Must be because mom and dad don't play with toddlers” added Deidara.

"No, it's not necessary they do." Shizune declared while taking notes in her notebook. "WHY!?" Hidan protested.

"Because I could clearly see how much you love and care for each other already"

Hidan kept his eyes on the woman but leaned towards Deidara's side and mumbled "B*tch is on drugs." Deidara looked at him and held back a laugh.

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#lets see if i can finally finish all this #sorry if it is confusing #i tried my best to translate it from spanish #anyway i hope you like it #akatsuki #rockband au #fic drabble #my writing skills are as good as my dancing ones lol #im open to constructive criticism

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the-vault-apprentice · 2 years

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F-cking Sky discourse because SOMEONE drew Lamed without her headscarf

(I haven't seen it)

And the developers have said it is inspired by and similar to a real-world hijab and should probably be referred to as such so you can imagine how people would be upset by the depiction of her without it.

But here's my thing. I'm LDS. People take things from my religion out of context all the time- Like baptism of the dead and a lot of other things. I'm not gonna call a digital cosmetic on a fictional DEAD person in a made-up world by the same name as something with real life religious and cultural significance to a lot of people. I'm tired of it. Everything I hold sacred has been mocked on this Hellsite since I joined, and I am not about to make anyone else feel that way.

"But they said-"

Actually, THIS is what they said

They said "looks like". Not "is".

And as it's been pointed out, Catholic nuns do the same thing, it's called a "habit".

But the problem is that while both items serve the same purpose in terms of purity and modesty and as a sign of a covenant the wearer has made, we CALL them different things in different faiths.

You wouldn't tell a nun she was wearing a hijab, would you? No, cuz that's not what they call them. So I am calling it a headscarf because I don't think the religion of Sky is either Islam OR Christianity, so neither hijab OR habit would be proper.

I'm sick of this. She has a headscarf, possibly for religious reasons, but maybe even for personal ones. After all, isn't a hijab meant to cover your hair? Hers still shows by her face.

But whatever it is, she wears it, and considering this game relies so heavily on visual elements to tell folks apart since NOBODY TALKS, taking that away from her is just rude no matter how you slice it.

You have a problem with my handling of this issue, feel free to block me. But as someone who has seen things she holds sacred taken out of context and used to mean things they really DON'T her whole life, I'm not about to risk doing that to anyone else.

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1-6 from the vibes meme? (kittyandco)

1) If your f/o drew you, how would they draw you? The pose, the style, the coloring?

He. Is. SHAMELESS. Joe is so the type of guy to draw me completely naked, hair tousled all over, and legs spread wide open on the couch. The “Titanic draw-me-like-one-of-your-French-girls” kind of borderline pornographic artist. And the worst part is…he’s f*cking good at it. You know those Rubenesque beauty artist styles from the 17th century? Yeah, THOSE GUYS.

He’s amazing at drawing me in every little detail from the location of my freckles and acne, to the cellulite and stretch marks all over my body. He has every part of me mesmerized. And my art in comparison looks like a toddler drew circle ass and tits compared to his Leonardo De f*cking Vinci ass! Seriously, I’m jealous of his talents lol!

And you know what’s the worst part? Even if he didn’t draw me naked? He’s totally the type of guy to draw me bent over pin-up style in the sexiest red dress known to man while drinking wine. His usage of colors is phenomenal, and he makes me so embarrassed because he puts so much effort into making me look beautiful in his drawings. Then he gets “inspiration” and has his way with me after looking at my drawings for so long. 😉😉😉

2) What kind of outfit would your f/o pick for you, if they had to?

If he had to dress me up, Joe would be the happiest damn guy on Earth. He’d make sure I wear nothing but the sexiest dresses and lingerie for him, but only in private. He can’t stand the thought of anyone else looking at my “luscious Latina curves” and gets quite possessive of me. In public, he loves seeing me in fuzzy sweaters with maxi skirts or sundresses.

As for shoes he loves it when I wear high heels or knee high boots to top off the look. Joe thinks it’s classy yet tasteful for peak fashion. Plus I look so damn adorable and sexy in his eyes like that. He’ll also take this opportunity to adorn me with the prettiest of jewelry he bought for me on previous dates. It’s a not-so subtle reminder to let other “admirers” (aka any people in a 50 mile radius) know to,” back off b*tch, she’s MINE! ” as his statement.

3) You and your f/o are in a crisis. What’s the first thing you two do?

Joe is definitely the type of guy to keep his cool in emergency situations. His literal motto is and I quote,” Never let yourself panic. No matter how bad it is, you find a way to stay calm, and keep your wits.” He’s been in enough dangerous and traumatic situations in his lifetime to react almost instinctively like a wild, bloodthirsty animal. He also uses his sharp intellect to outsmart and overcome his usually stronger opponents.

As for me, I try hard to stay calm but I’m actually freaking out on the inside. Joe can easily tell if my whole body is shaking, or if I’m swallowing my tears back. Joe then guides me through the process firmly but calmly. Once I know what to do he backs off and lets me do the rest.

Afterwards Joe engulfs me in the warmest hug, kisses my head, and tells me how proud he is for being so strong. He knows it’s not easy, and he knows I’m not used to situations like this at all. When it comes to the committing crimes like killing people, preserving organs, and burying the bodies he does it completely by himself. Unless if he desperately needs help from me he prefers to keep the dangerous activities with me to a minimum. He’s considerate that way. 👍

4) Your f/o sends you a drunk/sleepy text. What does it say?

When Joe is drunk, he’s usually the type to slur and misspell his texts even when he’s sexting me lol. Emojis will be all over the place and he’s a lot more expressive. His grammar is horrible too which makes it even funnier! 😂👌

For example,

“ Goddddd I love uuuu soooo muuuuch! 😫😫

I wanna stud, you like a burrito 🌯 with my special sour cream if, you knew what I menn? 😉😉

Hol on wait!

*Stuff!

Ducking autocorrect!

*Fuck!

Arrrgghhhhh! 🤬🤬🤬”

5) How does your f/o get your attention when they need you?

Joe gets very naughty by having his hands all over my body while kissing the nape of my neck. He usually does that in private or when I’m making a long phone call. If I’m still too focused on something, then he starts clearing his throat or groaning quite loudly to snap me out of it. He then starts visibly pouting and it’s the most adorable thing I’ve seen my yandere man do. 😫💕

6) How does your f/o introduce you to their friends?

Honestly, Joe does it as normally as any guy would do to introduce his lover to his friends which is happily and proudly. The only difference is that he’s subtly more visibly affectionate. He loves rubbing circles into my lower back while he hums and nods listening to other people. He also loves pulling me closer into his arms midway through conversations.

Sometimes if his friends get a little “too close” to me he starts kissing my cheek or the top of my head. Then while I’m not looking he sends the most iciest and intimidating glare at them for good measure. If they still don’t take the hint…well let’s just say he’ll take things into his own bloody hands. After all, he knows how to easily dispose of a body so you better sleep with one eye open. 🔪🩸

#pinkprophetposts #rose posts #ship name: i’m in love with a criminal 🔪🩸#tw: suggestive themes #tw strong language #joetina #joe x christina #you netflix #joe goldberg #f/o vibecheck #f/o game #villain f/o #latinx selfshipper #latinx self insert #self shipping community

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This is a long post about Shaman King I started to write ages ago and I don’t have a good title for it

Let me tell you about Shaman King for a few minutes, okay. Because the new anime adaptation is coming in like 3 months and I’m still not ready for it. Also I started to write this post 5 years ago just because I re-read the whole thing at the time and it’s been in my drafts since then. Oops

But yeah Shaman King was the very first fandom I got into when I first had a real internet access, around 2003-2004. I was around fifteen. The manga was still going. And in retrospect, it was full of problems. Among other things:

Not enough female characters & questionable choices for most of the ones who actually have a part to play in the plot

A black character drawn with big lips (see above), and I REALLY HOPE this is gonna get fixed in the new anime ; I mean even the author stopped drawing him like that a few years ago when he did the “remix tracks” extra chapters so come on please

An imaginary native american tribe who, while pretty cool, is still imagined by a Japanese dude in 1999 soooo yeah there’s some rough corners here and there (edit: got some anon hate about that but I'm sorry, "ancient aliens" tropes always make me uncomfortable)

An art quality which gets worse and worse over time due to deadline pressures and an increasingly exhausted author

Was stopped before it could reach its natural conclusion (the author drew an actual ending years later and tbh it’s great so I’m putting this very low on the list)

So yeah. Manga from 1999. Problematic. Aged badly. It happens.

BUT.

In retrospect, most of it is such a kick in the metaphorical butt of shonen manga as a whole I can’t believe it was competing against Naruto and One Piece at some point?? Like

It’s a shonen so it plays the "dramatic and sudden power jump” game, but it uses it to reach a surprising conclusion (in the “new” ending I mean)

Most of the characters are “shamans” which means they can see ghosts and spirits, and they use them to fight, to work, or to help other people. This is a manga in which you’re gonna see a Russian shaman channeling a Vodyanoy spirit into a drum to create a torrential flood. You don’t see that in every manga

It’s stated right away that no shaman can be truely, irredeemably bad, because only good-natured people can see ghosts and spirits.

So, no matter how bad a villain may be, they must have had a good nature once even if they look like a complete bastard at the moment.

How far is the author willing to go with that concept? Pretty far

Even without talking about the main villain and how the story ends because, duh, spoilers... Like

My favorite character, who gets a full redemption arc later, cuts someone open in his first chapter

He’s one of the good guys 10 volumes later

Speaking of which the amount of gore in this manga has to be seen to be believed, Jump would never let this happen nowadays

If you’re wondering why this is in the “positive” (......?) list it’s because I was 14/15 and all kids that age crave blood and angst

The main character, Yoh, pictured above, is very laid-back, and I mean very. He listens to the in-world equivalent of Bob Marley and constantly wears big headphones. Also he wears sandals, and sometimes there’s a weed leaf drawn on his t-shirt

His parents arranged a mariage between him and a girl shaman even though they’re still teenagers, so this would have potential for High Drama - but surprisingly enough it turns out they like each other and after that he just goes around saying “this is my future wife” and she’s like “hello if you touch him I’m going to end you”

It sounds weird and it......... is, tbh, but it’s also refreshing among all the “ugh, girls, yuck” tropes that nearly all shonen mangas used to have at the time

Yoh’s main goal in life is to live with minimal effort

When his grandfather tells him he must train to participate in a shaman tournament which happens every 500 years, because the winner gets a wish granted by the Great Spirit, he decides his wish will be to make everybody’s life easy so that nobody will ever be forced to work or do shit they don’t want to do to survive anymore

Yoh Asakura is a Millenial icon don’t @ me

Speaking of which

Almost everyone in this series is broke as f█ck

Yoh owns a big house but that’s only because the price was ridiculously low since it’s the most haunted place in Tokyo and nobody else wants to live there. The house is constantly full of other characters (including enemies) who have literally nowhere else to go

The only important character who isn’t broke has money because his family is super rich but he hates all of them because they’re all bastards so it’s super awkward

Another character bought a really cool motorbike but he’s going to be in debt for the next 40 years

Also he’s a hobo

And also bi

What I’m trying to say is: relatable

Also the tournament is held by an imaginary Native American tribe. They’re also broke. All of them. The two judges who are in charge of the main characters live in a cramped appartment and often try to sell souvenirs in the street to pay the rent

I know that’s hashtag problematic but I still love them I can’t help it

Just like in most shonen mangas the hero seems to amass a big collection of Friends but since everyone is a weirdo in a way or another and comes from all over the world it looks even funnier

At some point during the tournament, the main characters have to form small groups of three in order to participate to the next part. Yoh’s team is one of the strongest teams among the ones we’ve met at this point, and is composed of 1) Yoh, a laid-back sleepy kid wearing toilet sandals 2) the aforementioned bi hobo who’s sad because his current crush is in a rival team, and 3) a thirty-something tatooed guy with no legs and an IV drip and who looks like he hasn’t slept since 1997

Oh and they all wear adds for a bath house

Because remember: everyone’s f█cking broke

Spoilers for the mid-point of the manga but I need to talk about it because it encapsulates everything I used to love in it

You’ve been warned

At some point the main character, Yoh, is asked to choose between staying in the tournament or resurrect his rival

This is framed as some kind of very heavy, very huge dilemma. Like oh no what will he do. Will he give up his dreams and hopes. Will You Push The Button(tm)

So the choice is presented to him

In a very dramatic way

And he immediately goes “there’s a way to save him?? YES PLEASE”

He doesn’t hesitate a single second and drops the tournament in a heartbeat to save the guy

This scene greatly contributed to make me a better person I’m not even joking at all

I love Yoh

So anyway I don’t have a proper conclusion for this

Shaman King is very flawed and its flaws need to be acknowledged to fully appreciate all the good things in it, and the “old” fandom from more than 15 years ago was a very good formative experience for me because the forum I was on (which was nuked from the face of the internet by a hacker “looking for training grounds” (his words not mine, he posted it on our frontpage a full week before he did it) in 2005, rip) was full of people who were really into criticising every little aspect of the manga but still loved it dearly

And I think that’s a healthy way to enjoy things and I think we should bring this back

Anyway

Shaman King extremely flawed but full of good things

I still can’t believe it’s back

Johannes out

#long post #shaman king #spoilers #mild gore in written form at some point

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