#all the saints i love them so much oh gosh

[chaifootsteps]

Okay sorry I was talking with my mother

1) I hate sir Pentious’s new character. Sure, he’s fun. But oh my gosh, I miss his old character. The way that’s he’s not at all remorseful and just purely wants destruction  and to rule over the pentagram city. But now he’s too goody goody(I haven’t seen the new episode, pls don’t spoil it), and turned WAYYYY to easily over to Charlie’s anti-Christ ass, and wanting to be redeemed. He should have stayed a spy for longer and I would’ve loved to see his dynamic grow with the Vees(especially Vox) and how he worked for them as a spy. His rape scene wasp so uncomfortable and unnecessary, and speaking of that his and cherris relationship should of never of even been thought about. It’s such an awkward thing, as they’re rivals and Cherri has destroyed things that he’s made and insults him.

2) speaking of Cherri, she offered Angel drugs(which seems like it’s a normal thing for them as she’s so causal about it) when she knew he was there at the hotel that’s for redemption, but also she was so rude to Angel when he was trying to get Nifty out of the cleaning closet??? She’s a much better friend in the pilot and in the addict music video. She’s showing actual friendship and concern for Angel, nothing like she does now.

3) Alastor. Sure, I like his moments, but he’s so painfully edgy it’s not that good. His radio sound effects are good, I miss the old effects that he had in the pilot and his old voice actor, but of course viv is a “it’s my way or the high-way” gal and she dumped all of the previous cast. He’s nearly completely different now, claiming that Charlie is like his daughter(I swear to god he better be manipulative to her in that moment), when in the pilot he openly mocked her and what she was trying to do. He seems way to open about his emotions and wanting r help Charlie, using a TV(???) and playing along when what she wants to do. He also seems to much like an attention whore, which could be a good character trait if he wasn’t the way he is now. Also he’s too touchy touchy with everyone, especially Charlie.

4) Angel dust is not as interesting now as he was to me in the pilot. Now he’s just a porn star who gets raped and abused and is going to be redeemed. I’d love to see his old character traits(from before the pilot and during, such as mafia, insane, violent, ect), rather than just “oh he’s a gay sex spider who sometimes does violence but he’s such a good person now for finding love and refusing drugs!!!! :3”.

5) Husk’s new voice. I see the appeal of his new one, but his old voice actor just hit different. Make that skinny 1970s gambler man sound like he smokes 5 packs a day. Also I can’t stop thinking about the cat from Coraline.

6) almost everything about vaggie. Her design, her actions, and her backstory. It’s cool that she’s a fallen Angel but oh my gosh!! Don’t reveal that in the first season!! Slow burn that shit!! And why did she do quickly realize that he’s murdering ‘innocent souls’?? They’re in hell for a reason, she didn’t have to think that just because it was a kid it was innocent of any crimes it did. They revealed it too soon, it would have been a good twist for season 2.

7) vivziepop seemingly mocks Christianity and I had to look up how Saint Peter looked like, AND SHE WHITE-WASHED HIM SO BAD. HE LOOKS NOTHING LIKE HE SHOULD, AND HES SUCH A COMPLEX PEROSN FROM THE BIBLE AND AND SHORTENED HIS CHARACTER SO BADLY.

Anyways, my TED talk is over. Thank you

Thanks for your TED Talk, Anon. It was an excellent talk.

#Anonymous #vivziepop critical #hazbin hotel critical #viv stuff #actual blog post

[autisticshadowthehedgehog]

sconc middle names but me and cori are stupidt

last night me and cori got slap-happy and made a list of characters’ middle names so happy birthday sonic enjoy. tw catholicism jokes bc when we get slap happy we end up on that train

Sonic: His middle name is actually not Maurice. He won’t tell anyone what it is but it isn’t Maurice. Not in the “noooo it’s totally not ;)” way he legit doesnt know where anyone got that misconception from

Metal Sonic: His middle name IS Maurice. That’s where people got that misconception from

Tails: When he and sonic were filling out paperwork to make sure he legally existed Tails realized he didn’t know his middle name and could reasonably put “Tails.” Instead he put “Terminator”

rouge, losing it: oh my god are you serious tails: i was like five and thought it was cool sonic: you were right 

Knuckles: He literally doesn’t care so once again when filling out paperwork he’s like.

knuckles: so i guess my last name would be my tribe shadow: the knuckles tribe? knuckles: yeah shadow: so you’re putting down knuckles knuckles knuckles: yeah probably shadow: so what’s your middle name? knuckles: well take a fucking guess buddy

Amy: Also picked her own name. Debated between “Amy” and “Rosy” for a while before sticking with “Amy Rose”– rose for the pretty flower she loves and its symbolism, “Amy” because it means “much loved” and she’s desperate for affection. and then she well. picked a middle name that sounded cool

shadow: oh my god tell me your middle name isn’t “terminator” too amy: oh my gosh no amy: amy: it’s velociraptor shadow: oh my god amy: JURASSIC PARK JUST CAME OUT I WAS HYPED

Shadow: We had two (2) options: #1.) It’s something extremely Catholic like Clementinus. It doesn’t fit his brand so he just doesn’t tell anyone. also he can’t pronounce it. #2.) It’s like a deep, guttural screech/roar. Everyone assumes it was Black Doom’s name for him but no that was Gerald’s idea actually

Rouge: Francisca. Shadow was like “oh something really catholic as well” “actually my family were very much not catholic that’s just a funny coincidence.”

Omega: Terminator. Stole the idea from Tails

Cream:

Blaze: She has like 48 middle names cause she’s royalty and they’re like that

Silver: “In the future we don’t have middle names. We ate them for sustenance.”

Vector: ALSO something extremely Catholic like Benedict or someshit

Espio: “A ninja’s secret name is to stay absolutely secret. It is the key to their identity. Their soul. None shall know of it.” He picked his own middle name and it was SasuNaru and he’s embarrassed about it.

Charmy: Vector named him so it is also EXTREMELY Catholic. Charmy cannot remember it. “It’s VALENTINE, Charmy!! It’s literally one of the easiest Saints to remember!! Saint VALENTINE!!” “look i made a necklace out of gummy worms :D”

Mighty: it’s something like super normal like Evan or Thomas

Ray: Sunshine :D

Fang: It’s actually Nack. whudda think

Bean: And similar to Fang, it’s ACTUALLY “Dynamite.” Did he name himself? You’ll never know.

Bark: Something super Russian like Vladimir

Big: Big has no middle name he has no last name he is too powerful for all of us

Tikal:

Tikal: yeah we didn’t have middle or surnames in my time. Closest was just “oh that’s Pachacamac’s kid.” Tails: Okay but you need a middle name for paperwork so pick something Tikal: Termi-- Knuckles: No. Tikal: Okay. Lesbian

Jet: Tony. you know why

Marine: It’s just literally “Australian”

Sticks: “Classified.” Everyone is like “oh geez Sticks ok” and don’t realize her middle name is literally Classified

Surge: When she got to pick hers she picked Azula for obvious reasons

Kit: He picked “Surge.”

Belle: Periwinkle

Sage: Ann Ima. believe it or not, that is also. Catholic™

Tekno: Terminator

#sth #sonic squad #mine

[k-chips]

Late ask, but just wtf is Sanremo? All I can tell it's something Catholic and has to do with a Saint, but based on the chaos I saw in your reblogs, it also isn't?? The Italian part of me needs to know, mainly because it makes sense for a festival about a Saint to be insane, seeing as many stories about them are pretty insane (read in a children's book on St. Francis of Aussi that when he accepted God's call he stripped naked and strolled out of town, while heard St. Patrick once cursed a group of people being jerks to be werewolves (he asked God to help him out and God was like "Yeah I'll grant you a solid my dude")

So, what is Sanremo??

Oh my gosh. What did you ask. You opened Hell.

(Sorry, this is a bit long but it's funny af)

Nono it's not something Catholic, it's called Sanremo because it takes place in Sanremo, a city in Liguria.

Sanremo it's the "Festival of the italian song" (people can only sing in Italian, that's one of the rules)

[[Before this edition of Sanremo started I found a very cool, funny and useful guide for non italians that explained what is Sanremo and how it works, you can find it here]]

[[since that's for last year, here's also the thread for this year edition, just to see what changed]]

But, basically, it's a musical competition where we decide who's gonna represent Italy in Eurovision. Sanremo is way older than Eurovision toh, at first it was just a competition on its own but then they decided to use it for Eurovision too.

The reason why it looks so chaotic it's because IT IS CHAOTIC XD at least it has been for the past 4 years, it became so much fun to watch. So many funny things happened.

We once had this guy, Morgan, who changed his lyric to insult the guy who was gonna sing with him, Bugo. And this poor guy just straight up left the stage and DISAPPEARED for the rest of the night 💀

This was the host's reaction

(I love this guy lol he's so funny)

Or every time someone does something very homoerotic on stage, just because. Especially the two hosts we had for the past 3 years, the ones in the pic above. (we ship them so much. FOR FUN, shipping real people is gross)

Here they were dancing... :'D

Here with some cool wigs

They're so silly lol

OK I THINK THAT'S ENOUGH AHAH

There are a lot of other things, some scandals here and there (mostly right wing italians being scandalized), cool songs, a bit of sexism (we're working on it), some good feminism and LGBT+ and some more funny moments, like the host (the guy with the blonde wig) that this year started using Instagram to be "Less boomer" and was doing live streams during the festival (hilariously and adorably cringe) but I don't want to bore you ahah

Anyway, the links I left here are very funny threads on Twitter if you want to read something faster and more funny

(SORRY FOR MY BAD ENGLISH. I was on the train and to walk home so I didn't have time to check everything I wrote)

#sanremo 2023 #Sanremo #italian stuff #amadeus #fiorello #chiara ferragni #gianni morandi #maneskin #ask

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

@monthly-challenge 2024 | 14. "I Love You"

I used this prompt for my original characters, Nathan and Patience: the story is under the cut.

Word count: 1,286

It was the perfect afternoon to be walking through a forest, leaves crunching and just enough coolness in the air to make walking something Patience relished. She didn’t need to be bundled up in more than the one jumper, but she could enjoy the wool against her skin, and enjoy being warmed through and glowing with exercise.

And, of course, there was Nathan, to top off the perfection of it all. His merry conversation brightened her heart and mind.

At present they were talking of Rhona.

“She’s great,” said Patience, warmly. “I’m so glad I got over my dislike of her years ago. Sometimes she’s very upbeat, when I can’t see anything good in a situation, but she manages to see it. It’s good for me: I’m not an optimist, naturally. I’m fairly pessimistic. Chalk that up to autism, maybe, but it’s true. Rhona still has that fire in her heart which I wish I had.”

“You’re getting very poetic today,” he said. “I’m surprised you don’t consider yourself an optimist. You always seem to see the bright side, to me.”

“Oh, trust me, that’s an act. Or at least, it’s something I’ve taught myself. And Rhona has helped to teach me that.”

“If you’re a pessimist then I don’t know what I am. A nihilist, maybe.”

“Oh, you’re not a nihilist!” She turned to him, laughing; the laughter faded a little as she saw how serious he was. “Honestly, Nathan.”

“I don’t know. Sometimes I have those leanings.” He shrugged, shook off the dark thought. “Anyway, it’s a beautiful day and a beautiful day to be out walking with the girl I love. I hope you’re enjoying it as much as I am.”

“I don’t know precisely how much you’re enjoying it, so I can’t say,” she said lightheartedly. She was glad of the change of subject.

“With all my heart and soul,” and he was the most serious she had yet seen him that day.

“Then yes—I’m enjoying it as much as you are.”

“Good.”

They walked on hand in hand, except when Patience broke the grasp to go and frolic briefly in a large pile of leaves.

“When I was a kid,” she told him exultantly, “I prayed I’d never lose my love of autumn leaves and playing in them. I think my prayers have been answered. And plane trees make the best leaves.”

“And the best allergens, but anyway.”

“I can see why they want to get them out of Melbourne—there are so many—but while I may I shall play in their leaves,” replied Patience. She pushed a stray hair out of her face, went to rejoin Nathan and slipped. He pulled her out of the pile, asking if she was hurt, but she was hurt in no way apart from her pride, and still laughing.

And she knew she was beautiful in his sight.

They walked together hand in hand, silent now and listening to the birds. Abruptly Nathan said, “I love you.”

She glanced at him, jewel-bright. “I love you too. I’m glad we have this time.”

“So am I. Gosh—I remember when I first phoned you up, a year and a half ago now.”

“Not a year and a half, not yet: we’re only in April, remember.”

“Oh, close enough,” he said, smiling. “I remember phoning you. I meant to ask you out right then and there, but I chickened out. And then I stared at the phone just before I rang you and wondered who would pick it up? And it was you, and all my prayers were answered. I think I said something stupid about Saint Stephen’s Day, just because it sounded too scary to keep talking. And because I’d intended to ask you out as a proper date, I didn’t actually have a time in mind, but I knew I was free all day so I picked a time. I woke up late that next morning, purposefully stayed up late so I would wake up late because of nerves. I wondered what you’d think of me. And then I felt like I muffed the whole asking you out on a date thing, and that you’d never accept me. I’d liked you as not-just-a-friend for two months at that stage, I’m pretty sure. One time I saw you dancing with Steve, and you moved so gracefully and I was watching and then I was just like, Oh, I’m in love with her. It was as simple as that. It felt like a bombshell, honestly. I hadn’t expected that, but suddenly there it was. Love. I didn’t question it at any point of the process; I didn’t say, Am I sure I really love her? I just waited for a couple of months, and tried to befriend you better, but in the end it was just that I felt I needed to tell you or bust.”

Patience gripped his hand. “Meanwhile I was there completely innocent of any feelings for you, Nathan, and then you said you wanted a date—like, I’d guessed it was possible that was what you were asking about, so I’d had some thoughts on the matter, but I still had no idea what I was planning to say when you asked me out. Things just happened. I said what I felt like and it turned out that meant that we were going to go on dates. It was a bit surreal, really.”

“It was surreal for me too. I really thought you were interested in Steve, and if you’d said no I would have asked if it was Steve.”

“Heavens, no!” she exclaimed, in a voice that made him laugh. “Not Steve. Listen, I love the guy, but we’d never work out. He’s not kind enough—that is, not in the way I need my boyfriend and hopefully eventual husband to be.” She looked at him again, sidelong. “Like you are.”

“You dear thing,” he said, and kissed her quickly.

Patience smiled at him. “You’re very dear to me, and I’m ever so glad you plucked up the courage to ask. Honestly, I think girls have it easy—we aren’t expected to ask you lot out, at least if we don’t want to. But then again that does mean that we’re sitting in silence wondering if the gentleman likes us or not.”

“And some men aren’t gentlemen about it, either,” he said. “But if God is with me I’ll do my best to be a gentleman for you for the rest of my life.” He laid his hand on his heart, and what might have seemed melodramatic seemed only painfully sincere. Nathan was utterly in earnest.

“Thank you,” she said, and told him again that she loved him. “You’re almost too good to be true, you know.”

“What! I have far too many vices.”

“No, but in our relationship. Really it runs remarkably smoothly. I would have expected to be in a relationship which was pretty volatile, myself. But you’ve made this relationship easy and pleasant for me. For that, I thank you.”

“That sounds like you’re about to break up with me,” he said, with a somewhat nervous laugh.

“Never!—Well, I won’t say never, not until we’ve truly committed ourselves to each other. But for now I will say I cannot see myself wanting to walk away from this relationship at any point, near or far. You’re the one I love.”

“Barbara Manatee,” he agreed placidly, and both broke into giggles.

“All right, I walked straight into that one,” she agreed, covering her mouth. “But I was sincere about it.”

“I know. So was I. Assigned Barbara Manatee at VeggieTales reference.”

Their laughter continued until morale improved.

Tagging @stealingmyplaceinthesun @graycedelfin @pilgrimsofworship@noisette-tornade and @choasuqeen

#februfluff2024 #nathan #patience #steve is nathan's younger brother. btw.

[pitbullwithaship]

DOCTOR WHO LIVEBLOG 2009 SPECIAL THE END OF TIME (PART 1)

Okay, I think I might be emotionally prepared for both of the parts of this. Time to watch, wish me mental stability!

Planet Earth Intro

Oh there's a documentary narrator lol

Hello christmas

WILF HELLO

Pretty singing, gorgeous singing

Those kids are good

Tardis cameo?

THE SAINTED PHYSICIAN LOL

Spooky woman?

Evil laughter?

Hi Doctor (he's mentally ill)

Hi Ood (he is aware of the Doctor's mental illness)

Snowy day

Ooh pretty city

Ood prophet cool

More evil laughter?? Hello?

Which man is dead

The Master? Maybe tis his wife at least (poor her)

WHATY WHAT TIS WEIRD GALLIFREYAN THINGY

HES ALIVE THEN WHAT

It's not nice when time starts bleeding

Poor Lucy

Weird woman on the TV?

Okay resurrection generally isn't the greatest choice

This is culty

Til death do them part she's awesome

Person running? Master running?

I love Wilf he's so silly

Lol sending out the troops to find the Doctor

Okay so the Master is even more insane than before

Yay Obama

Creepy as hell my dude

That's horrifying

That's ultra horrifying jeez

Hello Doctor

Epic chase through a garbage dump

"Let me help" oh come on you've tried that before

Old people gang up to take a photo with him lol

Gets groped

Don't be sulky Doctor

HE WILL KNOCK FOUR TIMES OH MY GOSH

Dude course you'll die that's just what happens

Not changed no

Aww hello Shaun Temple

They're cute, and he's glad she's happy, he's the ultimate depressed bestie

Merry Fucking Christmas

Awww he misses her so much!! This is so sad!!!

Doctor where are you going now!?

Idiots and fools

Dramatic western faceoff

WALKS FROM AN EXPLOSION HELLO

I've said before, he's quite good at getting electrocuted

He's also vaguely suicidal but at the same time desperate to stay alive

Oh I know, he has the fear of death that only one who'd like to die can have

We can hear it

HE HEARD IT

You are mad my dude

Flying light thing? Hello

Oh it's the government then I assume

Poor Doctor

Oh generic rich powerful dude has a book

HELLO DONNA?

Oh generic rich powerful dude has the Master

Okay generic rich powerful people are evil generic rich powerful people

The war was won and passed you by

Aww he never killed that wonderful I live Wilf

Usually if people say "whatever you do don't tell so-and-so" you should probably tell so-and-so

Pistol

He loves her so much

Fair enough lol

Sylvia gurl

I thought it'd be cleaner I love Wilf

Wilf and Doctor friendship is the most pure flawless amazing one ever

Scientists rebelling maybe?

Nope those are aliens

PEOPLE NEED TO STOP TRYING FOR IMMORTALITY ITS BAD

If the censoring thing on the tardis got broken the Doctor would be scandalized by the amount of swearing his companions all do but especially wilf and donna

Shimmer shimmer

I love aka hate how he's wearing a dog collar

Bondage

Oh shit

Oh dear

I guess they hide the presidents face cuz they couldn't get a real Barack Obama cameo which sucks

No he's not gonna love this

Oh dear a planet of Masters

Oh dearie me

That's disturbing

That's incredibly disturbing holy cows

THE TIME LORDS RETURNED IM SORRY WHAT HELLO THE NARRATOR IS A TIME LORD TOO WHY DO THEY WANT TO END TIME I THOUGHT THEY WERE STUFFY AND LAW ABIDING

#doctor who #liveblogging #david tennant #tenth doctor #the end of time

[sapphicsaints]

“it hurts me, just how much i ache for you." With zoya and a female reader pls! Where zoya doesn’t want to confess and the reader was up to something like making her jealous then love making if its alright. Thank you have a nice day 😊😊

ache for you

Zoya x f!Reader

NSFW minors dni

A/N: oh gosh I'm so sorry this took me so long but I LOVED writing this and definitely will be writing more Zoya. thank you so much for sending this :)

Summary: “Then, Saints help you Zoya Nazyalensky. Do something about it. Don’t be a coward.”

“You don’t understand.” Zoya said, anger and frustration filling her stupidly perfect face. 

Word Count: ~1k

Warnings: slight exhibitionism, jealousy, smut

“Then explain it to me.” 

“It hurts me. Just how much I ache for you.” You could tell the words were painful, difficult for her to say, but at this point you didn’t care. You were sick of it, sick of waiting around for Zoya to do something. 

“Then, Saints help you Zoya Nazyalensky. Do something about it. Don’t be a coward.” You know all the right words to piss her off, all of the right buttons to push. A challenge, and Zoya’s never backed down from one. 

She took one slow step forward, her eyes meeting yours, the entire time. You could practically see her thinking, see her debating if she would do something or not. 

“I knew it. I’m going to find Lena.” You rolled your eyes, pushing yourself off the wall. Lena, your ex-lover. Someone Zoya had it out for the second you two started dating, but coincidentally stopped as soon as you’d broken up with her. Zoya froze as you took a few steps towards the door. “She says hello, by the way.” 

-

Lena, in fact, did not say hello. And Zoya knows that perfectly well. Just like she knows Y/n is going to make good on her word to find Lena. How long had they been broken up? She knows they haven’t seen each other since, but also knows that bitch would jump at the chance to be with her. To touch her girl. Her girl? When did that happen? Zoya made her mind up, and slid in front of Y/n before she could reach the door. “You don’t need her.” 

“You’re correct. I don’t need anybody.” She caught the way her bottom lip rolled in between her teeth. Nervous. Cute. 

“But you want me.” She purred, a hand reaching out to push back a stray hair. “You ache for me, just as much as I ache for you.” She took a careful step, invading her space, and let one hand drift down the column of her neck, her thumb brushing the velvety skin. “Don’t you?” 

-

“Don’t you?” 

Saints help you. You took another step forward, so close that if you took a large breath, you’d touch. “Show me..” You waited as her hand paused, thumb pressing gently on your pulse. You know your heart is beating rapidly, you can feel it nearly bursting out of your chest, and she knows too. Her move, you told yourself, wait for her to make the move. 

Her hand slid to the back of your neck, burying itself in your hair, gripping slightly. And Zoya took that final step, yanking you forward and tilting your head to meet her lips. It was angry but somehow soft. Her lips felt just like you’d dreamt they would. Not that you’d ever tell her that. 

Soft, but she moved with such certainty and aggression that you couldn’t help following her lead, your hands lazily drifting over her shoulders, before making slow strokes down her arms. She, on the other hand, gripped your hip tightly with one hand, pressing you as close as she physically could, all while backing you into the wall. 

Your slightly exposed back hit the cold wall, drawing a small gasp out of you. “I’ll have you making more sounds like that before the nights over.” 

“Zoya.” You looked to see if anyone was nearby.

“Let them see.” Her hand cupped your cheek, drawing your attention back to her. This time she leaned in softly, pressing a kiss to the corner of your mouth. But, you weren’t having that, and pulled her in, fingers digging into her hair, tugging the ribbon, letting it all come loose. You tucked the ribbon in your pocket like a prize, all while keeping your lips on hers. 

-

Y/n bit lightly on Zoya’s bottom lip, and she couldn’t control the small moan that left her. That sound spurred y/n on, because she grew bolder, flipping Zoya so her back pressed against the wall, her hips pinning her in place. 

“So pretty,” the other girl cooed, fingers tracing her cheekbones and jawline. Y/N pressed a soft kiss to the bottom of her neck, and Zoya tilted her head to give more access. Her lips trailed up, sucking lightly on the skin - not enough to feel a bruise. This time Zoya bit on her own lip, keeping any sounds firmly in. 

She’d had enough and grabbed her hand, tugging her down the hall towards her rooms. She didn’t really want to let them see. As soon as the door closes,  she’s unbuttoning y/n’s Kefta, keeping her eyes directly on her as she takes her time. 

Y/n huffs, rolling her eyes, before swatting Zoya’s hands away and taking it off herself, tossing it somewhere across the room. 

-

You reach the first button on Zoya’s Kefta and wait, giving her a chance to back away, or change her mind. Zoya copies you, rolling her eyes dramatically before taking it off and throwing it across the room. She walks you backwards until your knees hit the bed, and you fall backwards, pulling her on top of you. 

All of your clothes are shed quickly after, and your thumbs ghost over her nipples, before your hands trail down her sides, stopping to grip her hips. Zoya’s eyes narrow and she grips the back of your head, crashing your lips together. The kiss leaves you dizzy and breathless, her lips trailing down your neck, before gently sucking on your nipple. 

-

Zoya loves how she keens into her, throwing her head back into moan just from the smallest touch. “So sensitive,” she teases. Y/n’s hands move, quick, pinching Zoya’s nipple between her thumb and forefinger, drawing out a small whimper. 

“Look at you,” Y/n says, “so sensitive.” 

-

You spent the rest of the night drawing out some rarely seen manners from Zoya, just as she kept you begging for more. 

“Are you going to go find Lena now?” She asked, as you curled up against her. You pretended to think about it, rubbing your finger against your bottom lip. “The correct answer is no.” Zoya ground her teeth, and you laughed, leaning up to press a kiss against her lips. She tapped her finger against your lips, “you wretch.” 

#zoya nazyalensky x y/n #zoya nazyalensky x reader #zoya nazyalensky imagine #zoya nazyalensky supremacy #shadow and bone fic #grishaverse fic #grishaverse #grishaverse imagine #I love Zoya so much #she could slap me and I'd thank her #no beta we die like men #please send me requests I loved this #shadow and bone imagine

[jazzythursday]

For the SOC asks... any four questions you haven't answered yet that you wanna talk about! Have a good flight 💕

Aw ty friend! 🥹💖💕

5. Any character you didn't expect to like as much as you did? Similarly, is there any character that didn't end up liking as much as you thought you would?

I didn’t expect to like Matthias nearly as much. I think because I didn’t expect him to be as funny or thoughtful as he is. He’s not the type of character I would usually get attached to at all but after reading the books I got it. His death especially hit me so much harder than I expected. His character arc is so interesting it’s handled so well. And I never expected to get so invested in Helnik either but I was so wrong. Just—boy loves Nina so much. So in love. Soulmates. Doomed star crossed lovers. Gah 🥺🤧

31. What moments made you freak out (in a happy or sad way) the most?

-I still get chills just thinking about “let me tell you about my son” and Van Eck’s whole speech at the end of soc about Wylan.

-literally everything with the Khergud. The sheer terror I felt reading those scenes is unparalleled. Especially when Jesper gets attacked during the auction.

-Inej getting caught by Van Eck coming out of the vents 😬🫣

-actually experiencing Wylan’s backstory for the first time. Omg. I was so spoiled on it but I genuinely don’t think anything could have prepared me. Also everything at Saint Hilde’s with his mother and Jesper.

-“He was Wylan Van Eck. He told them everything” —self explanatory. Crying screaming throwing up as I turned the pages.

-And for a happy one—the Wesper kiss!!!! I waited almost the whole duology to finally get to it and it did not disappoint! Pure actual poetry. 1000/10 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

39. What are a few of your favorite Wylan moments?

Oh gosh, all Wylan moments are my favorite Wylan moments! My annotated copies are basically tabbed every time he’s even mentioned. That said, here are the first ones that come to mind:

-the very first time we see him and he’s just doodling and chewing on his nails. Immediately I’m so charmed by it.

-when he has to pretend to be a waiter and can’t figure out what to do with his hands or how to speak (relatable content lol). His “don’t!” when Jesper bets his guns, how uncomfortable and worried he is for Nina having to flirt with Cornelius Smeet. I just love the entire chapter so much.

-“you can’t afford to buy her breakfast” and “Then you're going to be a lot harder to surprise” when they’re running through the library. All the sass. Sassy boy. We love to see it.

-after Jesper and Kuwei kiss and he’s upset and says something along the lines of “he’s not even good at science!!! Half of his note books are filled with doodles—most of which are of you—and those aren’t very good either!!!” Absolutely the funniest thing I’ve ever read. Peak jealous/sassy/petty Wylan. No notes.

-when he’s the first one to pick a tulip and lay it on Matthias as they’re all saying goodbye.

63. Link your favorite fic(s)!

Of Bronze and Blaze

The meaning of good

Round and Round

always an angel, never a god

somewhere full of bright colours and beautiful sounds

Flint and Flute Notes (series)

Between Hope and Desperation

Thanks for the questions! 💖

#wesper #shadow and bone #six of crows #ask games

[ellena-asg]

Gosh, I had really strange and really dark McDanno dream tonight. I don't remember all, just some moments somewhere in season 2-3 era.

In the first part there was one of their cases and Steve almost died. He was ready to die, it was sacrifice/no big chances kind of action. In the last moment Danny saved him and when Steve came back from hospital Danny was damn furious. He shouted that Steve was stupid and that nobody wanted Steve to be dead. Danny's words were like bullets. "Don't dare to do this again". "We love you, you shmuck". "You're not fucking lonely Rambo anymore!". "Why the hell can't you see that? Why can't you see we will all be dead when you die, ha? I will be dead, Steven!". So it looked like Alex's old idea about Steve dying - but thanks goodness Danny was there.

In the second part (some time later) Danny and Steve argued again cause this time Danny was kidnapped and beaten by Wo Fat's people and Steve blamed himself. Steve was so shaken that he said that Danny and Grace deserved better and they had to stay away from Steve and his issues. For their own safety. Danny yelled that his family was Steve's family too (in this dream universe Steve and Ohana already met all Williamses/Russos) and that Steve needed to stop treating Williamses like fucking soft snowflakes who knew nothing about life and its darker side. Who knew nothing about love and loyalty.

In the third part some Navy guys (Steve knew them) including Mr Rollins came to ask Steve for a help. They needed him for some mission. By the way, Rollins treated Danny like "you may know Steven but you know nothing about our life in Navy, boy" and he generally treated Danny like a weak boy and weak cop. Plus he blamed Danny that he changed Steve too much (and it looked like he was bitter that Steve stopped dating his daughter). Steve didn't know about it all cause Rollins mocked Danny when nobody else was around and Danny stayed quiet. He only said that Rollins didn't like him and had no respect to cops and Steve was like "Don't worry, man. Soon he will like you! Remember how we two met in my garage? It wasn't easy either". So. Soon Steve was like "Okay, I'll help you" and the team wanted to help too but Danny was like "Hey, guys, there's something wrong, these guys...". But all were like "oh, Danny, please, you don't have to love Navy but don't see devils everywhere". And he said that it's not like that, that he loved Navy guys like Steve, Joe, Wade, Frank. He just felt that Mr Rollins and his guys were weird. He knew people, he knew something was wrong. Steve was like "You think that Rollins, oh I know you think he doesn't like you..." and he only wanted to ask Danny about his feelings, his instinct, he wanted to know something more about it but Danny... Oh, anxiety attack. He shouted at Steve "Oh, I knew it! I knew you wouldn't believe me cause it's your dearest Catherine's dad and...". "What?" Steve was shocked. But Danny was more and more hurt. "All your Navy friends, Cath... they'll always be fucking saints to you and even I can't change it. You're gonna be their forever, huh? You're gonna... You were right. I hate Navy ". Steve wanted to say something but Danny went away.

The fourth part was about Danny arguing with Steve and all team (about Rollins, about them all treating Danny like someone too soft for their world and so on - Danny really had enough and he didn't let them explain things, he was so pissed off that he took a break and went to Jersey to his "super soft super golden super naive family").

In the fifth part Steve and team (Danny was still in Jersey) went on their mission to help Mr Rollins and his guys. Part of the Navy guys was there and the other part "will be there where we're going" as Mr Rollins said. But it turned out that these Rollin's guys were really bad guys (Rollins wasn't aware of that, they just used him). I don't even remember what they wanted. I only remember that they planned something really big and they needed to kill all Five-0 and its friends. They treated Steve and his people with some gas and then broke Steve's and others' legs and chained them. Soon they took our guys and Mr Rollins somewhere far away from Hawaii, to some hidden base where those other bad guys were waiting (their faces were hidden under tactical soldier masks). "Good job" said one of the "masked bad guys" and gave all bad guys (I mean the group that came there with Steve and Five-0) water. "No one in Navy and HPD will find you", said one of Rollins' ex-friends. "They all think we're on mission, they'll all believe us when we come back and tell them about your tragic heroic death...". They chained our guys more and forced them to drink something. "Worse than arsenic, the pain is longer". They laughed and started drinking their water. "Cheers" - said one of the bad guys. And then they gagged our guys and said "We're gonna look at your pain but not gonna hear it". They said they're gonna burn them soon and that the bomb is hidden under floor, under Steve's legs, in a tunnel too narrow for Steve and his guys - just in case. The guys laughed more but then suddenly part of them started shaking and soon they were all paralyzed. Steve and the rest of the team were shocked and even more scared. But then these masked guys who still stood there and could move, took off their masks and geez, it was Danny. And Eddie. Clara. Stella. Bridget. Eric. And Bridget's husband. All Five-0 were in huuuuge shock and Clara wanted to explain all but then Danny looked at his friends, at Steve and he felt sudden rage. "They broke the legs, they... sons of a...". Danny started beating the paralyzed guys. Eric and Bridget's hubby started freeing Five-0. Bridget said to Five-0 that what they drunk was water and the real poison was now in enemies' stomachs. Stella said she would prepare their transport and she left with Bridget. Eddie said to bad guys "I know much about fire. And I know that it's not my family that will be burning". Clara then came closer to Steve and said "I lost one son. He didn't care about me. But there is another one. And I'm not gonna lose him. I'm not gonna lose you, Steven McGarrett!". "How..." - Steve tried to ask but then he started panicking. "The bomb!". "Don't worry. It's not our problem anymore" - said Eddie. Then Gracie came to the room. "The tunnel wasn't too narrow for me" - she said. "No, Gracie... Why? Danny! Danny, you can't..." - Stevie was in total shock. "She said she would do it" - said Eddie. - "She said she's your family too". Clara added: "Danny had no choice. He told her what to do, she did it". "What the hell..." - Chin tried to understand. - "How?". Then Clara started to explain that Eric called Danny cause he found out something about evil guys' plan. And when they found out bad guys took Five-0 Danny found the second group and killed them all. And then Danny wanted to call other cops but then they all felt it. They felt the rage. They felt they had to avenge their family. They had to help. And they made a plan. "It was stupid! It was dangerous!!! You shouldn't be here!" - Steven cried. - "Why?! Why you?!". Then Danny came to him and looked into his eyes: "Cause we're Ohana, one for all, all for one, you idiot". Then Danny kissed him and added: "Never ever say you have to leave us. By the way, we will find you and then you...". "I'm sorry, Robocop. I'm sorry...". "Don't be sorry" - said Eddie. - "Thanks to you we got our Danny back". "What you mean?" - Steve asked.

And then my dream ended and I have no idea what was that 👀 - a real plot in my dream world or maybe it was all just Steve's dream and when he woke up he understood some things? 😵‍💫

#McDanno #h50 #h50 dream #steve mcgarrett #danny williams #ohana #geez

[twdmusicboxmystery]

First 10 Minutes of Daryl Dixon, Episode 1 - Part 2

@wdway

@frangipanilove has also been doing some research about the water bottle Daryl finds in the boat cabin. It has Cecile on it which means, Blind. Interesting.

@galadrieljones

If you look closely you can see it says “Ste-Cecile,” ie Sainte Cecile, which is a commune in Normandy. Saint Cecilia is also the patron Saint of musicians.

Also I knew I needed to go back through that boat environment. So much stuff. I need to take my kids to the pool but i'll just leave on this real quick. Take a look at the curtains, brightened up a bit. Do they look red, yellow, and navy blue to you? A la Snow White.

Also I was wrong earlier when I said that the first thing we hear is the story of the Irishman. The first thing we hear is Judith's voice, saying that Daryl deserves his happy ending. That is more likely our thesis.

@wdway

It really does looks like it could be yellow or a mustard yellow. I have thought of the plaid carpet in Still, too. And you mentioned earlier about Daryl's jacket arm that was plaid, we saw that when he went to oceanside. In the last couple of seasons Carol has worn a lot of plaid. We see Eugene in a plaid shirt in the one year later scene. There is one more that I think I noticed yesterday hold on and let me see if I can find it.

@wdway

I want to say that in the little scene where Daryl and the young man (I can't remember his name to save my life) they're sitting together on a wall, I think it's when the boy introduces himself. And they shake hands, I think I noticed that the boy has on a plaid shirt. I remember thinking, he has a plaid shirt on like we've been seeing in s11. You would think with all the pictures I have taken over the last couple of days I would have it, but I don't. If he is in the plaid shirt though I think that's significant that these curtains are also plaid, kind of blending a water symbol with another savior symbol.

@galadrieljones

Plaid is definitely a thing. The kid’s name is Laurent. I was thinking too about he kind of looks like a little Daryl

@wdway

Guys, I just did a little Google search and you're going to love this, I can't believe that I haven't done this before. It's on the meaning of the empty chair both Jewish and Christian. Elijah's chair. Jewish tradition teaches that Elijah the prophet will be the harbinger of the coming of the Messiah and the world's Redemption. It is a chair of Hope. In Christianity. An invitation to not let who is missing be the final word. In the presence of Jesus, the final word is life beyond death, love beyond sin and light showing us the way through all darkness. Oh my gosh, it's just not me being obsessive about something. They are using a single chair as a symbol of someone missing.

The first time I really noticed it was in s11 when Daryl, Carol, Maggie, and Gabriel were all on the train platform discussing the deal that Carol had negotiated with Pamela. Daryl stood at the far end away from everyone and between him and them was this very simple empty chair. At one point he does go near Carol and takes an apple and then returns to where he had been. Since then I have noticed these odd empty chairs that the camera seems to linger on. It's not always around Daryl, but it seem as if there is someone missing within the overall story.

@galadrieljones

This is great. It really makes me think too about the empty heart shaped chair in the first flashback from Find Me. Like a missing lover.

@wdway

I meant to ask you earlier the picture that has Daryl and what you believe is a necklace, which preview did you get that from? I thought later tonight I might check it out and see if I can get better shot.

@galadrieljones

It’s toward the end

@twdmusicboxmystery

I love everything you Gals have said! I don't know that I have much to add per the individual symbols.

Oh, except about the shot where he might be wearing a necklace. I thought that, too. It's one of the final shot where he's obviously a prisoner but he walks into the light and tilts his head back as if enjoying the sunlight.

THe light flashes off something at his neck and at first glance, it seems to be a pendant. However, I zoomed in on one of the pictures (i'll put it below) and I"m fairly certain it's just a button. Like, he has a shirt with a button on it and the top buttons are open and the shirt is lying kind of sideways across his collarbone, so the light catches the button in a flashy way. I could be wrong. Even zooming in, it's still unclear, but I did look at that, and like I said, I'm fairly sure it's just a button.

Anyway, I just wanted to expand a bit on what I said this morning about the parallels to 30 Days Without an Accident. In that episode, he and those with him (Glenn, Sasha, etc) went into a store/market. Here, Daryl goes into a market. Both times, it starts out quiet, but then everything goes sideways and they find themselves beseiged by walkers. The biggest difference here is that Daryl is alone. But that's actually fitting. If you watch the 30 Days sequence, what the characters go through foreshadow their arcs. Since this show is solely about Daryl, and he's the only main character from TF who will have an arc, it just makes sense that he's alone here.

Anyway, we had the first walker crawling toward him, much like the one in 30 Days with the messed up foot that crawled toward Bob. The biggest thing that was the lightbulb moment for me was when Daryl jumped up on the table. It looks EXACTLY like when he jumped up on the pyramid of beer cases in 30 Days. In this sequence, he stabs a walker that's trying to grab him from under the table, and his spear gets stuck. He ends up breaking it off. That seemed very specific and intentional to me. I have no idea what it foreshadows, but something.

And what would be the point of having a mirror scene to 30 Days? Well, it's all at least a little bit conjecture, of course, but I have a few ideas. You could argue that 30 days was the beginning of Beth's arc. Or maybe better to say Bethyl's arc. It began in 4x01 (hug) and ended in 5x08. Of course "ended" isn't quite right either. That's when it hit the coda. So, you could argue that, with Laurent as the Beth/Christ figure, this signals the beginning of Daryl's arc with Laurent. That might make sense. But I also wonder if this signals the beginning of the second part of Beth's story. Like this is where the story jumps to from the coda. Hence, a similar sequence to 30 Days.

@galadrieljones

Hmm. Now that I’m looking at it again, it could just be a button??

@wdway

Love what you wrote above, @twdmusicboxmystery. The fighting from above also reminded me of Maggie and Sasha in Alone climbing up on a car to fight walkers. In that episode Maggie is searching for Glenn and Sasha faces her fear that Ty was dead and open her heart to Bob.

The possible button reminded if the white button on her heart necklace.

Something else I thought of while reading all the comments was at the beginning of the episode we see Daryl on top of the boat and then we hear Judith that he deserves to be happy, if I remember correctly after she said that the pink image with the yellow c appears and we see the morning sunrise.

@twdmusicboxmystery

Btw, I looked up the meaning of Laurent's name. By itself, it can mean, "bright, shining one." But it also means someone who comes from Laurentum. Laurentum was an ancient Roman city. Let's just say some of it's history is tied up with Romulus. So, we can connect Laurent to Up the Wolves.

@galadrieljones

Love the 30 Days stuff. The wine as a French symbol, plus the military element of the Big Spot is also an interesting parallel here.

The episode also ends with a nod to a deadly infection which is yet unexplained

Clara is also Irish, isn’t she?

Pretty sure she is, as I saw the actress in an Irish film just last year.

There’s also this weird thing with how Clara kills herself. It’s very close to how Juliet kills herself in Romeo and Juliet. Damn romance novels.

@twdmusicboxmystery

Great catch on the Irish connection. Love that!

@wdway

After my long ramble about the empty chair I did yesterday I now have something to add. I think it triggered something when I saw it after all our talk about Beth and Laurent being connected. I'm going to show you a shot of Daryl as he step inside the doorway of the market.

We see the white empty chair, but I have not really realized what it was that was sitting somewhat to the side in front of it. It's a red child stroller. I just felt that if the white chair represents missing Beth then the stroller might mean there is still some kind of connection with her and children. At least that's my take, am curious if you guys have an opinion.

Sounds like a great interpretation to me. We could add what we said yesterday: that the gumball-looking machine is reminiscent of the lollipop jar at Grady. All in all, everything in this shot screams Beth.

@twdmusicboxmystery

I'm glancing through yesterday's convos again to get pics and put together posts. (I actually have a ton of stuff, especially about DC, that I haven't posted yet, lol. All the Daryl stuff is definitely squeezing it out.)

Anyway, I think I just glazed over the very end of what you said, Galadrieljones. Specifically, about Greene being an Irish name. I totally didn't internalize the connection there. We've talked about Beth's Irish roots after stuff like the Paddy truck in 6x06, and the fact that some of the songs she sings around the campfire in 3x01 are of Irish origin.

But if you really think of the scenario they presented through Daryl here, it's very...Hershel. A man who lost his wife suddenly and had to put her down. (He talks about "taking care of things.") And then he remains strong, or tries to, for his daughter, who cries for her mother. Of course Maggie mourned her father and brother, but it was Beth we saw cry for them, run to her mother after she'd been shot the way a child would, and then have an epic, catatonic reaction that culminated in her suicide attempt.

In a way, this Irish story is meant to evoke Beth's origins with her family. And having it here probably foreshadows Daryl stumbling across some evidence of her at some point.

@galadrieljones

Ooh I did not even think of that. Nice connection.

Also she and Maggie sing “Parting Glass,” which is technically a Scottish folk song but it has been sung so much in Ireland that it’s more recent iterations are thought to be based on the Irish version. Greene is such an Irish name I can’t help but think this is the intention.

@wdway

@twdmusicboxmystery, I just read your explanation of the Irish story and I love it! I think you're so on point with it representing Herschel and Beth and mom always after her mother emerged from the barn. I just want to remind you guys that it was actually Daryl who shot her mother and put her down at least the first time obviously not well enough.

@galadrieljones

If we think too about how Beth is the last remaining Greene this has strong implications that the Irish references are meant for her. Maggie is a Rhee.

@twdmusicboxmystery

Also, it was beside Hershel in 4a we saw the picture of the boat on the stormy sea that said “smooth seas don’t make for skilled sailors.” And he held a coffee cup at the time that said Java Saves.

@galadrieljones

Has anyone ever talked about the name Hershel and how it is Yiddish? It means “deer.” I just think that’s further proof that the deer imagery is related to the Greene legacy.

@galadrieljones

Ofc Hershel is from the comics but all the deer stuff AND Beth are products of the show

@twdmusicboxmystery

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone mention that before. Interesting!

@wdway

About Parting Glass. Years ago when I was researching beer I read how many monasteries made a business from brewing beer. Pretzels were made in the cross shape because of how monks would pray with they arms crossing their bodies. A few of the sites actually have a little reference to The Walking Dead and Beth singing Parting Glass. We have Parting Glass from season 3 but also s4 we have Beth singing, was it called shotgunning beer? And throughout the series we have seen pretzels and beer images together. You might want to look into beer and monasteries. For some reason I want to say there was a nun's version, but it's been years.

It just occurred to me and as I look at the little Bee in the background of this conversation, the name honey, honey is made from bees, black, yellow, and in the case of a bumblebee there's also white. How many times have we seen these colors in the show. There's this picture of Emily from long ago for a Halloween costume I believe, dressed in a little bee suit.

@galadrieljones

Beer and pretzels, a Dwight and Sherry reference. Really interesting since Dwight is a crusader archetype, like Daryl, always searching, always saving. And yes in the song “Be Good,” there’s a lyric “And we’ll buy beer to shotgun, and we’ll lay in the lawn, and we’ll be good.”

The whole song is about drinking beer

I never really thought about how that’s related to Dwight and Sherry till now lol. Weird how these little blind spots can still crop up.

@wdway

Also on Rick and Michonne's little road honeymoon trip, Say Yes, they stole from the saviors who were playing golf some items from the back of their truck, two items were pretzels and beer. This is about the time when I wanted to I started researching beer and pretzels because of the Dwight/Honey and Rick and Michonne.

#beth greene #beth greene lives #beth is alive #beth is coming #team delusional #team defiance #bethyl #td theories #td theory #beth is almost here

[summercreolefanfictioner]

romantic feel by feel || helen and maya

@nutaella-kookie I only have 6 words for this summary: saint maya, pray for us all (new readers can refer to maya's masterlist for more info)

Expertise and knowledge: things that Helen took pride in when it comes to the flirting department... until a storm in the name of Shuu fucking Sakamaki came along.

Helen has dated tons of guys before—the nerd, the secret creep, the lonely, the romanticist, the one who needs ego boosting, manchild—basically every guy you can think of. Heck, she even studied all too well how to handle them all properly because Helen is not Helen if not for her prowess to attract men and make them beg for her attention with their 'sincere' "I fell in love with you"'s and sweet nothings.

But Shuu—oh my fucking gosh—this man has tested her patience (she might sound like Reiji right now but she didn't care).

It wasn't like Shuu's the most terrible man she ever met since the day she was born. It's just that he was really hard to pin down. Like Helen tried everything to turn situations and make him act romantic (even a tiny bit) on her. But it all ends up with her forcing it out of him or swallowing her pride and begging for his attention. And as much as Helen didn't mind it, she yearned for that day when she can finally manipulate Shuu to do his bidding.

Hence why she was currently sitting by the bar counter, watching Maya prepare a mushroom soup with puffed pastry on top. To be honest, Helen can just browse about the recipe online and call it a day, but the thing is, she needed to have some sort of excuse to ask Maya for help. Besides, her pride is on the line here.

Don't get her wrong, though. Helen and Maya have interacted plenty of times, especially when Helen drops by the manor or whenever they pass by each other at school. However, they don't hang out as much because Maya's purple gremlin husband has been hogging her 24/7. Furthermore, Maya doesn't frequent nightclubs like Helen does because according to Shuu, the vampire doll pukes at the scent of alcohol for some unknown reasons.

Anyways, what started this whole fiasco is when Maya told her once that she wanted to reenact this one library scene from the romance manga she was reading where the male lead catches the female lead off guard by suddenly holding her hand from the other side of the shelf. Of course, Maya asked Kanato about it, and surprisingly, he agreed. That moment made Helen rake through her mind any plausible reasons on how Maya did what she was trying to do with Shuu for a few years now.

Like seriously, how in the name of heaven did she pull that shit? And with Kanato, of all people?!

"Helen-san."

Helen was snapped from her thoughts, blinking away to recognize the present where Maya was staring at her blankly, hands dusting off the leftover dirt on her apron.

"Oops. Sorry 'bout that."

"Why are you apologizing, though?" the doll inquired, turning to the oven to set the timer for the puff pastry. "I am not mad at you or something."

Once done, Maya ripped out a page from her notebook and handed it to Helen. "You can also refer to that recipe for your future reference."

Helen took the paper with care, folded it neatly, and placed it in her purse along with her never-ending receipts. "Thanks."

Silence.

It seemed that they were only waiting for the puffed pastries to come out just fine since the soup had already been made. And with that, Helen decided this was the right time to ask Maya indirectly about her dilemma.

"Maya-chan."

"Hm?"

"I wanna ask something." Maya gave Helen a questioning look, to which the ballerina added, "Ah, no worries. This is not difficult."

"Okay."

"So..." Hmm... where should I start? "It's not that I am being nosy or anything, but... how do you ask Kanato out on a date?"

Maya stared at her blankly, and even though her face was void of any emotion, Helen could feel that she was looking at her like she had asked that stupidest question ever.

"I-It's okay! There's no need to answer if you don't—"

"Now that you mention it, I have never asked Kanato out on a date."

Helen suddenly felt her world stop at that, repeating Maya's words in her head.

"... never asked Kanato out on a date."

Never. Asked.

NEVER. ASKED.

"... oooooka—wait, hold on! How do you go on dates if you don't ask him out then?"

"To be honest," the vampire doll was a bit reluctant to explain, "I have no idea we were having a date until he told me we are going out on one."

Helen just made a face of understanding even though she found Maya's answer completely unhelpful. "Ah. Okay."

And then there was the silence again, followed by the 'ding' of the oven signaling that the puff pastry was ready. While Maya was taking out the soup, she asked, "Is there a reason you're asking that question, Helen-san?"

"Nothing, in particular, I guess." LIES. "I just remembered someone... uhh... asking me for advice and... uhh..." Another lie. "I wanted to think I gave the right one."

Even though I am the one seeking advice here.

Maya only shrugged in response, preparing the two soup bowls in front of Helen until she stopped in her tracks, realizing their whole conversation.

"Are you asking me how you can get Shuu-san to be romantic with you?"

And at that, Helen immediately jumped from her seat and held Maya's shoulders, not minding if the doll was startled a bit by the contact.

"YES! YES! YES!"

"Umm... Helen-san, I am confused—" Because I should be asking you about that.

"You see," the ballerina started, already at her wit's end and eyes filled with desperation, "I've tried everything, like everything! And nothing seemed to work. That's why I have to ask you about your secret," and she whispered the last part, "even though this pains my pride."

"Eh? What secret? But I am not flirting with Shuu-san, though." Deep inside, Maya is already thinking, I hope Kanato is not around, or else he'll misunderstand things and skip to his imagination again.

Oh, boy, she's already hearing his voice yelling in her head like the troublesome gremlin prick he is: 'Are you flirting with my older brother just because he is your legal guardian? Is that it?'*

"Of course, I am not referring to that blonde guy," Helen clarified, and Maya found herself sighing in relief. "I am referring to you and your husband."

"What of it?"

Helen frowned. "Remember when you prepared soup for me the other day here in the manor?"

"And?"

"You told me you asked Kanato to reenact that library scene in one of your romance mangas," she explained slowly, and then... "I expected he would reject you, only for you to tell me HE DID WHAT YOU ASKED HIM TO!"

Now, Helen's half-screaming all her frustrations on the poor vampire doll like a punching bag.

Helen-san's wrong. Kanato only held my hand for a few seconds, but he traveled up his fingers to the inside of my elbow. Not that she needed to know that.

"Like seriously, how is that purple freak romantic to you, huh?!" She swore she could rip her hair out here and there. Then she remembered, "But he and Shuu are still brothers, right? There's got to be some way!"

Maya was only quiet, fingers under her chin as she contemplated Helen's words. "You're right."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"Shuu-san and Kanato are brothers, and both of them are closed-off." Helen's face lit up at that, only for Maya to bring her down by adding, "But Kanato is really romantic in nature despite his personality. Shuu-san is never romantic in any way, though."

Helen exhaled. "So there's no way?"

"You are not listening to what I am saying, Helen-san."

Now Helen was quiet, waiting for Maya to continue.

"Shuu-san and Kanato are brothers," Maya repeated. "And as such, there's no need for you to do anything at this point."

Helen gave her a dumbfounded expression. "W-What? So is that it? There's nothing I can do? So I'll just suck it up until he flirts back at me?"

Maya let out a breath of frustration, which was rare, so Helen immediately straightened and zipped her mouth shut, remembering Shuu's words. ("Don't piss that doll off. She might look frail, but she's scarier than both Kanato and Subaru.")

"The only thing you can do is do nothing," Maya said. "The six brothers are all sadistic in their own ways, and they love controlling people. That's why you must let Shuu-san do whatever he wants and make him think he has power over you."**

"Are you sure about that?" Helen asked, wondering how applying this advice would turn out. There's an underlying fear that she's treading on something she shouldn't.

"I would not be alive and married to Kanato if that wasn't the case, Helen-san."

And over the next few weeks, Maya received tons of missed calls and texts from Helen. When she opened her phone, it said:

"IT WORKED!"

"🤯🤯🤯"

"OHMYFUCKINGGOSH IT WORKED"

"THANK YOU SO MUCH, MAYA-CHAN!"

"🙏🙏🙏"

"I OWE YOU ONE"

"❤️❤️❤️"

NOTE:

*refer to the shuu x maya relationship post

**maya's way of controlling kanato is the same as his, as stated in this post

#SoundCloud #Spotify #diahell #diabolik lovers #diabolik lovers fandom #dl fandom #diabolik lovers oc #sakamaki brothers #sakamaki #dl oc #shuu sakamaki #sakamaki shuu #kanato sakamaki #sakamaki kanato #helen #helen harrison #maya sakamaki #sakamaki maya #maya #diabolik lovers prompt #diabolik lovers imagine #diabolik lovers scenario #helen x shuu #kanato x maya

[icemankazansky]

(tw vent if that's okay if not you can just delete this, thank you <3) honestly though the hate in this fandom is... so discouraging. like ive been writing fics for top gun & tgm but the fact so many people are so set on being hateful & not respecting others, and now there's a whole burn book blog like... idk i just don't feel like i should put myself out there. which is really sad because i really want to interact. and i know the fandom wasn't like this prior to tgm, and that makes me sad too because i came in after tgm came out, and I just feel so sad that even though im not part of the problem i'm still part of like, the wave of people that flooded the fandom. which would have happened even without me being here, but idk, i just feel... sad, like it feels like tgm (even though it's a really good movie that a lot of people genuinely and innocently love) really screwed ao3 up and sorta just hurt everyone and is still hurting everyone. idk.

it just sucks that fandom is supposed to be a place that brings people together and makes happiness and instead I just feel so drained and upset when I think about posting fics and exposing them to the fandom and apparently whole discord groups to like, pick apart. it's just really sad and sucky.

anyway if you made it this far thank you very much for listening, I really appreciate it and I hope you're having an okay day even after that topgunburnbook thing and all this drama

Oh, my dear. As Saint Kesha says, "Don't let the bastards get you down. Don't let the assholes wear you out. Don't let the mean girls take your crown, don't let the scumbags screw you 'round, don't let the bastards take you down."

First of all, don't worry about the burn book people at all, because most of their posts have zero notes. It's just a couple bitter people who think being mean is edgy, and no one is even following them. So, that is a non-issue. It doesn't affect you.

And don't worry about AO3. You didn't do that. It does suck, but it's not your fault, and it's not the end of the world.

The thing that happened when Top Gun: Maverick came out and brought new fans into the fandom is that the fandom got big. And that is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you have all these wonderful creators who are just discovering the movies and the characters, and they're bringing in great new stories and art and meta. I've met a lot of wonderful new people who are just like you: They just want to have a good time in this fandom and interact with other fans who share their passion. And honestly, most people are like that.

The problem is that big fandoms have big fandom problems. Think of it like this: Before TGM came out, the Top Gun fandom was a small town. Everyone active in fandom literally knew everyone else, either firsthand or from a, "Hey, you wrote _______; I love that story! Oh my gosh, and you're _____'s friend? That's awesome. She's the best." This creates a harmonious atmosphere, because everything is personal, it's small enough to be self-governing, and because everyone knows everyone, everyone is accountable for their actions.

After TGM came out, Top Gun fandom is no longer a small town. It's a big city. And it has the same problems that all big cities have. People generally don't know anyone except the people in their immediate circle, so that causes factions and in-grouping, and an "us versus them" mentality. This is why you get shipping wars and stuff like that. The fandom is too big to self-govern, and everyone is here to have fun, so it's not like we're going to elect a governing system, but between that and the fact that everybody doesn't know their neighbors personally, there's no accountability anymore. So for one, there's crime now. For example, there has been a lot of theft since more people joined the fandom. New fans are just straight up stealing content from other people and acting like it's their own. And what are we going to do, call the cops? No. It's just something we have to deal with because we live in a big city.

And, yes, the relative (and, on Tumblr, often literal) anonymity of being in a large fandom where no one knows you does encourage some people's terrible behavior. I talked about psychological and sociological studies of anonymity a little while ago, and the gist is: When anonymity is an option, the general chaos of the system does increase, but individuals just act like themselves, but ... moreso. Think of it like the Captain America serum or the mask from that Jim Carrey movie. Anonymity, even perceived anonymity like being just one person in a large system, just shows what you're really like inside. It dials you up to 11. And most people are kind and leave thoughtful questions or wonderful comments in ask boxes, or just go around with positive thought memes made up of happy emojis just to brighten others' days. That's most people. This small, ugly portion of the fandom that is using the fact that they cannot be held accountable as an excuse to hurt people is aberrant. They're the ones who don't belong here, and you can't let the fear of being their target keep you from enjoying all the good things a big city can afford you. Like, small towns are the bomb, but there are wonderful things that big cities can support that small towns can't. Like International Street where you can get different food from all around the world. Big art galleries. More resources for mentorship. More clubs and opportunities for you to find exactly your niche, and people who share it with you.

You didn't do anything wrong. Things grow and expand. You should be enjoying everything this city has to offer. If you feel comfortable, I would love you to come off anon and message me, and we can talk about getting you comfortable putting yourself out there in this fandom, and maybe I can connect you to some resources or some other really great people in the fandom. We want to hear from you. We want to talk to you. We want you to publish your work. We're happy you're here, truly.

#asks answered #top gun fandom #long post

[eggpuffs]

i may be misremembering things, but you used to like love live didnt you? i have a vague memory of you saying you wanted to cosplay saint snow but you didnt think anyone would recognize it? again, could be misremembering it. but, if im not, i was wondering if youve been keeping up with the newer girls like nijigasaki or liella at all, and if so who your best girls from there are! (ps. you really should cosplay one of the saint snow girls, they dont get enough appreciation)

oh my gosh your memory is amazing LKJASDFDFDFD I DID SAY THAT i forgot it until this moment but that's definitely something i said because i love saint snow's songs !!!!! i don't know if i'll ever get around to cosplaying them since i would only do it with my friend and we have such little time to cosplay together these days sadly but i still love the girls so much!

i haven't kept up with the new stuff sadly but i do remember seeing some stuff for the girls!!! i liked kanata's sleepy design and lanzhu because HONG KONG REPRESENTTTTTT💖💖

and of course i love keke tang because she's chinese LKJASFAJSF BUT ALSO SUPER CUTEEEE! i love the colors in her hair.

how about you?💖

#again i'm in sheer awe of your memory #i gotta listen to self control again now lKJASDFD #THEY'RE SOOOO GOOD #anon #answered

[sleepless-crows]

book fans are really going to have to think about it as an au, or a different timeline. With that in mind, it was so good. The very last scene?!?! Alina’s struggle with her morals when it comes to mal, her struggle with needing more power when it comes to the point where she turns to merzost- since they didn’t adapt it with the apparat’s underground shit, with her discovering there, that was the perfect decision.

I honestly don’t know how I feel about Sturmhond!Mal, and I love Inej going after slave traders already, but what with the introduction of jurda, how will her return (or absence) for the ice court job play out? (Also, so glad kuwei didn’t get in the way of the first wesper kiss. I think they did an amazing job with older wesper, and I will die on that hill)

Did you see the look between tolya and inej when he helped her up? Hoping and praying that wasn’t a ship thing.

JESPER ALMOST SAID SIX OF CROWS- HE ALMOST SAID IT

Pekka deserves to die, actually. He didn’t suffer enough. Poor Matthias </3

I really need to read the lives of saints now.

Oh, speaking of Pekka, it was so cool to see Kaz’s revenge play out on screen

i could go on, but bye for now babe

oh my gosh i have so many opinions about the finale. i really did not like alina's ending and just for zoya i would gladly prefer that she faked her death and lost her powers. if many people didn't like that, then they should've done literally anything else so long as it did not do zoya like that.

also i entirely just forgot about the apparat now that you mentioned him. i don't know i kinda liked what he did for the story even if i forgot what that was but i guess the show au was an intriguing decision.

I KNOW RIGHT. i'm glad mal is like finding his identity or something but sturmhond is nikolai's thing. i feel like the whole sturmhond thing was also done a little weirdly in the show. also how they talk about sturmhond like he's an act nikolai puts up instead of an alternate identity which he can take up to do things he wouldn't be able to as prince/king but where he is probably the most himself.

yeah i'm also glad inej is going after the slave traders already but like this was all because they killed off tante heleen. like she's not a part of the main crows anymore??? just like that??? i don't like that decision.

i think show!wesper was really cute and really fun and i loved it. but i love it separately from book!wesper. i have some controversial opinions about how they handled wesper in the show so sakdjfhlksjdf

OH I SWEAR. TOLYA IS ACE. AN ARO ACE ICON OKAY. AND INEJ WOULD NEVER FALL FOR ANYONE ELSE THAT KIND OF RUINS THE WHOLE POINT OF KANEJ? THEY ARE EACH OTHER'S RIDE OR DIE. INEJ HAS HER TRAUMA, THE ONLY REASON SHE EVEN FELL FOR KAZ WAS BECAUSE HE WAS THE BOY WHO SAVED HER. THEY BETTER NOT DO ANYTHING WITH TOLYA AND INEJ FOR THE BOTH OF THEM

HE ALMOST DID AND THEY CUT HIM OFF LIKE WHY

i just find it really frustrating that we still have pekka like the guy infuriates me so much i don't want to think about him or see him after he's been rid off like stop talking to matthias and interfering with helnik. i also really liked matthias' storyline in the show though. they changed a lot, but i really loved what they did with it.

and yes, violent kaz showed up so much and i loved that

#amandayetagain asks #i hope you know if you rant in my inbox i will also rant in turn <3 #i want to ask you to dance right there* #sab spoilers #shadow and bone spoilers

[eveenstar]

Okay wait....you have....creepypasta ocs? HOW HAVE I NOT KNOWN THIS??I LOVE OC'S SO MUCH I SWEAR-

(its almost ridiculous how many cp oc's I have)

Oh! And its also nice to find someone who appreciates Dbd, Joey in my opinion is so underrated...

I do!! They're not on the spotlight of the blog yet because I'm still testing the waters 😅 I know the fandom doesn't receive oc's very well (especially if they show up in fanfics) (which is weird since this fandom is built around oc's,,,) so I'm introducing them little by little! You can read a bit about them in my canon and they're briefly mentioned in the latest post I made.

I swear I've been eager for someone to ask I would love to talk about them

Basically we got Prowler (a proxy), Mary (the girl referred to as 'the general' in the last post 'a helping hand') and Albert (a rogue proxy along Mary), Doctor Crow and Saint Matriarch. They're all my precious babies <3 I still have a few more on the way because they're part of a fanfic I'm writing (available to read here) that explores the whole rogue proxy cell featured in a few posts of mine.

Also I have this only thing about old generation and new generation proxies and Mary is basically the equivalent of Masky in her generation gosh I could talk about her for DAYS

Anyway! Yes I'm a big fan of DBD! I've written a lot for it lmao Joey is one of my favourites <3 I should get back to writing it one day.

#*screech* i love my ocs sm i swear #especially mary and albert #they have this whole older brother/younger sister going on and its ADORABLE #ok ill stop rambling #for now #creepypasta fandom #creepypasta oc's #creepypasta oc

[jahayla-parker]

Heya! Aerith here, and congratulations for your followers milestone!! May I join the ask game? 💞

💞send in some details about yourself for who I’d ship you with (if specific universe or set of people/characters, please note this)

Preference: Male

Age, Sexuality & Pronouns: 21, Biromantic Pansexual and Genderfluid, He/They (I'm a woman irl)

Appearance and Style (Aesthetic): 5'1.5",Messy brunette medium hair, Chubby, Southeast Asian, Feminine Tomboy, Soft Vintage or Soft Grunge (like Malia Tate's style from Teen Wolf) wearing K-beauty makeup

Sign & MBTI: INFJ, Libra-Scorpio cusp, Slytherin

Traits: 100% ambivert and anxious person with deep and complex mind who open up so easily and doesn't mind to be too vocal when I have to. May act respectful, modest, serious, and kind to strangers but very chaotic, young-at-heart, talkative, laid-back, snarky, sarcastic, clumsy, stubborn, hopeless romantic, and a procrastinator who swears a lot to people I'm close with. Very stressed mom friend plus acts like a baby in the group most of the time and a lazy big sis possessing anger issues and won't hesitate to hate someone if they say something bad to me or to my family or my friends. Also known to be unashamed to be true to myself, confident on my own style, talented and artistic as well, hypersensitive, passionate, determined, and spunky to get what I want.

Interests: making OCs, arts, choir, poetry, karaoke, literature, history, makeup, beauty pageants, random conversations, variety of music (EDM, Kpop, and rock) expanding my knowledge in Christianity, documentaries (about saints), reading interesting stuff, cooking, talking about social issues, and creative writing, chilling both indoors and outdoors

P.S. I don't have specific universe atm to be surprised lmao. Thank you so much ❤️

Hi lovely! Thank you so much for trusting me with this 💜

First of all, it’s fantastic to meet you Aerith! 🤗

Nearly every detail screamed Jesper Fahey to me (Grishaverse - Six of Crows) [if interested, his navigation/masterlist is here and more works are pending!]

Let’s break just a few reasons down shall we!

Jesper is not only a major ally of the LGBTQ+ community but a proud member himself and very open about it - he’d also fight anyone who dared have any issue with anything relating to your identity which in Ketterdam could be important 🖤

And your appearance/aesthetic could not match better with his in my opinion! His aesthetic/appearance next to your’s would look sooo cute!

And oh gosh your personality traits mentioned are flawlessly perfect for him! He’s super vocal and open, flirting and sarcastic, loves playful banter, and loves love. He too is very loyal and protective over those he cares about and accepts who he is and those in his life without trying to change them.

Your interests are so fun and outgoing that he’d love to do them all with you and maybe he’ll find a healthier hobby for himself in the process!

I hope you like it🖤🖤🖤

#jesper fahey x reader fluff #jesper fahey #grishaverse #six of crows #jahayla’s birthday celebration #jahayla’s 300 follower celebration

[reasonandfaithinharmony]

Hiiii love!! (Know I am resisting the urge to just send you every question on that list)

4. What do you enjoy about making graphics / gifs?

8. Your favourite graphic and or gif created by yourself

27. Advice you’d give yourself when you were starting out?

Hello, my dear! Please feel free to ask away. Lol. I'm honestly only afraid that I'll ramble on for too long.

4. What do you enjoy about making graphics / gifs?

Oh gosh. Having an idea come together, being able to share it, and seeing if people respond to it.

It tends to be ideas that are a little less straightforward that actually get me motivated to make gifs. (Energy, time, and motivation are not always in alignment. Oof.) So, it’s often something like a parallel, or making use of an external quote, or wanting to tell a story that pushes me forward. 

Then, I get to play. It's really fun to put different scenes together and figure out if they fit, if they tell the story I want. @lizzie-bennetdarcy, I know that you, in particular, are all too often witness to me agonizing over these choices (you have the patience of a saint, istg), but I promise this is the fun part for me. Hahaha.

And if I actually manage to finish the set and post it, then I get to see if my intent comes across, to see if people have feelings about it. Or maybe I'll find out that it speaks to me and 5 other people, max. Lol. But in general? Having it out in the world and not stuck in my head is always a great thing.

8. Your favourite graphic and or gif created by yourself

Answered this one here: personal favorites

27. Advice you’d give yourself when you were starting out?

Hmmm. I suppose there are two main things here. The first is: just go for it. I have zero experience in graphic design or digital art of any kind. So I was extremely embarrassed to post my attempts, figuring everyone would immediately notice that I didn't know what I was doing. Which, isn't a productive line of thought for learning anything new. (And feels a little silly, given that my own reaction to anyone's new gif set is, "Yay! More gifs!") Do I still have anxiety about posting? 100%. But it's absolutely worth it to push through that.

The other bit of advice is actually from a friend: "Nobody will know that you had other versions of this." I have a horrible time making decisions—which scenes to use, where to cut them, how to crop them, how to color them. Most of the time, that leads me to having to choose between nearly identical versions of a gif, and being absolutely torn. Afraid that I'll make the wrong choice and ruin the set. So, tbh, I still need to be much better about following this advice. Lol.

Thank you so much for the ask, @lizzie-bennetdarcy!

So, I first posted this ask game in September… and then mostly fell off the face of tumblr. Gah. But I'm excited to finally get to these asks, now that I'm more active again. :)

Ask a graphic / gif maker

#ask game #lizzie-bennetdarcy #creator asks #creative process #mythings