#and motorbikes bc it got to a point where

[lesbaurinkos]

Please tell us about looking up catboys on a lodestone and what is a graha and please as many pictures as you want and also is any of it gay i am very interested 🙏🙏

CRACKS MY KNUCKLES this is gonna be a long ramble because i have a LOT to say. as a passionate xiv player and such ^_^ god im gonna put a read more actually because this is gonna be so long. whoopsie!

so FIRST OF ALL g'raha tia is a much-beloved ffxiv character (voiced by jonathan bailey. like from bridgerton. that jonathan bailey. isnt that incredible) look at him. here he is. phil is so incredibly real

he's a fan favorite for a reason he is so lovely and sweet and incredibly self-sacrificing and during my favorite story expansion, shadowbringers, we meet him as the crystal exarch- a leader of a dying world who has summoned us to help because we are that world's last hope. and his grand plan to save said world is ultimately to sacrifice himself. he's very depressed and very mysterious and slowly dying because his life force is tied to the crystal tower where he resides, which is what grants him power to keep going but is slowly crystallizing him, and he's just a very deeply tragic character at first... but then at the end of shadowbringers he LIVES! he has a new lease on life! and he didn't expect to ever get that far! so afterwards he's just so deeply earnest and excited about everything and it's so cute... so sweet... i love u graha <3 and this catboy is like gay as hell like he is soooo blatantly in love with the player character. who, like, officially in trailers and stuff, the default player character meteor, is a man. gayass cat!! anyway here's the crystal exarch figurine, which dnp own, and which i am jealous of them for. but it makes me smile that they have it. bc i love g'raha

NOW ANYWAY. DAN AND PHIL'S CATBOYS!

every ffxiv player character is displayed on this website called the lodestone, which has like community stuff and worldwide rankings and such. just like a standard mmorpg hub. and you can look up character profiles on there if youre curious, say, what mounts they have (cause in xiv you can get a whole bunch of different mounts to ride around on, from a massive shiba inu to a t-rex to the classic chocobo you are given at the start of the game to, like, actual cars and motorbikes) or what minions they might have (you can pick a little minion to follow you around in the game! just for like cute little aesthetic purposes. and they have minions of like cute little creatures, bosses you can fight, characters in the game, etc-- for example the minion iiii always have out to follow my catgirl around the world is a mini version of my favorite character y'shtola, who is a goth catgirl who is absolutely everything to me. wife of all time. she has the craziest lesbian dynamic with this goth butch named zero who you meet late in the story and who is SO everything as well. that's not the point. ANYHOW!) (also when phil said in the rating your favs video that if you play a cat in ffxiv youre definitely gay he was literally so fucking right. there are a bunch of different races to choose from, you can be elves, you can be bunny people, you can be dragon people, etc, but well. i play as a cat. they play as cats. fork. kitchen)

ANYHOW. so when phil said recently that his catboy was named MIKO STRIKER i was like "omg... i have GOT to go search him up on the lodestone and see what job he plays and how far he's gone in the story and such" and hereeee is his profile:

31st sun of the 1st astral moon does translate to january 30th bc the ffxiv calendar is offset by a day. anyway the fact phil plays summoner is both so endearing and makes so much sense to me bc it's pretty well-known as the easiest dps class to play in the whole game. and i also started out playing summoner when i started!! and part of the summoner job is, well, summoning these magical creatures called carbuncles:

isnt this thing cute... i love carbys. i named mine cherry tomato. im sure his is called susan or something ^_^ so delighted by the summoner rep. anyway then i went to look at his minions & mounts cause certain parts of the story award certain minions & mounts and i was like well i GOTTA know if dan and phil have finished endwalker (the most recent, emotionally devastating story expansion) (they have not, btw. both of their catboys are in the gear you get RIGHT before embarking on the final and MOST emotionally devastating leg of the story, but they don't have the mount and minion you get from FINISHING IT, which is killing me sooo bad. you guys.... go play the end of the story.... go cry.... it made me cry for like 7 hours nonstop it was so emotionally devastating. go do it lads)

so yeah phil does lack the venat minion and argos mount which you get from finishing endwalker. but he DOES have this cute carbuncle mount which you have to buy with real money mind you!! and they come in 3 colors on the shop. this is phil's. made me smile :)

and well after looking at phil's profile i was like "of course he doesn't play any other classes. yeah that makes sense. BUT i wonder about dan. where is his catboy" but without a name i couldn't find his profile without insane digging or something so i forgot about it UNTIL i was rewatching wdapteo sometime after christmas and i got to THIS picture:

and the thing is that dan's catboy here is wearing job-exclusive gear. only people who play the monk class can wear that outfit there. my first thought was "what the fuck is wrong with him monk is the most baffling job on the entire planet" my second thought was "yeah ok of COURSE he plays monk" my THIRD thought was "wait. i can just look up catboy monks on the server miko is on then. i can totally go look at dan's catboy" and did so and within like five seconds arrived at D'HASH TIA here ^_^

which like. definitely dan's catboy given the pictures we've seen of him. and the ffxiv calendar, again, is offset by a day, so the birthday IS june 11. bingo ^_^

and what is so special to me about this is that dan's catboy has a "canon" name while phil's absolutely does not-- sun seeker miquo'te (cat people) have clan names and then titles, basically, so a canon sun seeker male name would be like. letter of the clan, apostrophe, name, then "tia" at the end which is just a title for young males (like dearest g'raha tia). so yknow. d'hash tia is a proper canon name while also being so incredibly dan to pick, methinks. i love it

(and then i was going thru a lot and rewatched the japhan 2019 instagram stories and realized i didnt need to go thru so much because we've actually known theyre monk and summoner players since 2019. they went to the ffxiv cafe. they got job-specific drinks. for their fucking jobs. dan got the monk drink. phil got the summoner drink. it was always right there. theyre so funny)

i do think it's so funny that neither of them have ever played another job in all their years of playing ffxiv. u guys there are so many jobs out there..... dan go unlock dark knight i know you would love the job story i know it in my heart...... but no they have stuck to their guns they have stuck to their classes all this time. it's beautiful to me

anyway d'hash tia's minions and mounts mostly match miko striker's which makes a lot of sense to me bc i imagine they probably play most of xiv together

BUT the carbuncle mount d'hash has is the RED ONE. which sent me through every single stage of emotions ever.... you have to buy those mounts with real money.... and they bought matching ones.......... ridiculous. ridiculous of them.

AND. dan's catboy also has the fat moogle mount. this beautiful thing right here

which is another mount that costs real money to buy..... and it's a two-seater................ more likely than not he's flown the both of them around in this thing................... i need everyone to know this information. it's so important. to our society.

(also as an aside. the story they told in wdapteo about going to a gay bar in xiv. i cant state enough how real they were for that. bc roleplay venues are insanely common ingame and its so fucking funny and ive always wanted to go to one just out of sheer curiosity but if anyone ever spoke to me i would instantly log the fuck out. so the fact they did just that and then got flirted with by someone and instantly logged out.... like that's it. that's the exact experience. it's so beautiful)

(as another aside. xiv is real gay i prommy. and looking at their minions lets me know they've also done my favorite raid series, eden, which is essentially. two main characters, thancred and urianger, and their adopted daughter ryne who they CANONICALLY RAISED TOGETHER they are LITERALLY HER FATHERS, work to save the world and meet this goth girl named gaia that ryne falls in love with and like. ryne and gaia are blatantly meant to be canon to the point square enix made a spinoff game where characters very clearly based off them actually ARE together. it's adorable. little baby prep/goth lesbians. i hope dnp love them as much as i do. also im SO sure dan is a thancred fan honestly bc he seems right up dan's alley. anyhow look! arent they cute!)

TLDR i am such a massive fan of dip and pip's xiv catboys and i need the world to know that they bought matching mounts bc it's SO important to me. and ive gone on great journeys here. amen.

#IM SORRY THAT THIS IS SO SO INCREDIBLY LONG BUT THERE IS MUCH TO BE SAID!!! #i NEED them to talk about ffxiv more i need to know more of their thoughts i GOTTA!!! #i have my strong suspicions about dan's favorite characters. not just thancred... he MUST love emet-selch. danny give me confirmation here #it's so sad that neither of them have the tonberry minion but it IS expensive on the market board... dnp i have plenty of gil i will fund u #i will get u both tonberry minions.... i will..... #i must make them unlock other jobs. dan and phil pls go unlock fisher... go fishing. it's one of xiv's greatest joys #ANYWAY IM SORRY THAT THIS IS PROBABLY ABSOLUTE WORD SALAD. THERE IS A LOT OF PASSION. IN MY HEART. GODBLESS!! #THANK U FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK <3 #ask #calvinahobbes #dnp

[zofi-persson-quotes]

Collection of headcanons

Some Overlords use their powers to cut their own hair. It's not something that happens often, and some elements are better than others at the task (for example, fire can be dangerous, while using crystals it's a bit easier), but some hair stylists do that

All four of the Becker Siblings have at times the urge to bite things or people, but Dark and Second are the most trouble with them. Second is also subject to some moments where their instincts take over, and he starts to act borderline animalistic.

Second has a 5ft tall stack of sketchbooks in their room, as well as drawings pinned all over the walls. He also has so many drawing things and a whole-ass professional easel to paint. He also has a huge window so light can freely enter, and so he can paint the outside easily!

Red has absolutely freaky knowledge about animals. It’s actually kinda scary, because he gives everyone whiplash by saying the most strange/horrifying animal facts randomly

Dark smokes sometimes. Chosen also smoked, but he quit some weeks before the Showdown happened. He still feels the urge to smoke, but he resisted until now. Dark is also trying to quit, but it’s harder for him

Both Dark and Chosen can forge things, especially Cho bc he has both fire and ice powers, while Dark only has fire powers

Dark would rather be blasted away by Second again than wear formal clothes, especially if they're suits. Dresses? He can manage, and he also kinda likes them, but suits? Oh, hell naw. Cho tried to force him to wear one. After an hour-long chase Cho was exhausted and Dark wasn't wearing the suit.

Dark owns a motorbike he randomly found in the woods. He repaired it, and it’s now one of his most prized possessions. Before the Showdown it was decorated with ViraBot stickers. They were then furiously scraped off

Neither Dark nor Cho get sick pretty easily because their fire powers usually burn germs and viruses. It still happens, but it's very rare. Vic is unfortunately often sick during winter months unless they constantly wear warm clothes.

Sec has a slight Leporiphobia (fear of rabbits) after the TNT Land episode. It's way worse when there are white rabbits. One time Red spawned some rabbits in Second’s presence, and Second climbed on the fridge while shouting to “take those demons away from him”, leaving everyone confused.

Ballista, due to their shapeshifting, sometimes follows cartoon logic.

Kirby introduced the other Chosen Guardians to the Super Smash Bros world. They all love to hangout there

Sec has the habit to randomly pick up people they care about. He can and WILL hold you. There's nothing you can do about it.

Dark throws knives. He’s extremely good at it, to the point that he managed to kill a fly by hitting it with a knife. It mildly scares the others.

Second is inhumanely flexible. One time they glitched and got stuck in a one block space. Instinctively he curled into a ball like a contortionist, managing to free himself. Another time he was training with Dark, and collapsed on his legs, folding himself backwards on his shins, back almost against the floor, before springing up again like nothing happened. Another time he and the others were doing yoga poses to stretch before training, and Sec bent in a Standing Yoga Fold without breaking a sweat, wearing a sweater and thick pants. Sec can also do splits with absolutely no issues, both due to their flexibility and due to their Overlord physiology

#alan becker #animation vs animator #animator vs animation #super smash bros #chosen guardians #zofi's headcanons

[spurgie-cousin]

just jotting down thoughts on the new Sister Wives as I watch the new episode since everyone I'd usually rant to is asleep:

- I hope Robyn esp has to watch the clip of Janelle crying bc she's realized that if she wants to leave Kody, she'll literally have no financial assets or savings bc of how tied up she is financially with the family. I say Robyn bc Kody probably won't care and bc Robyn's decisions have been financially tormenting that family since she got there and I want her to realize the cost of that.

- if Robyn's house was a hoarding situation at any point, she's cleaned it up but man is it cluttered. Every inch of the wall has something, every inch of her kitchen counters have something, it's very much giving Jill Rodrigues if she had a million dollar house.

- Meri is the only one out of the entire family that has Christmas with Robyn, Kody, and their kids (edit: on actual Xmas day). Kody and Robyn say that "tone down their romantic tension" 🤢 when Meri's around bc they know it's gotta be awkward for her. Meri says in a talking head that yea, it is super awkward and she feels like the "other woman" (I get what you mean Meri but if that were the case at least you'd be getting some). She also says Kody and Robyn are "bad at hiding it".

- Kody gets all the Robyn kids mini motorbikes for Christmas and doesn't even call Savanah (Jenelle's youngest who still lives in the same area as him) on xmas eve or day, or even the week and a half leading up to it.

- Kody ignores his other kids that are in town to see their mom(s) for the holiday too of course (all of Janelle's sons). Kody explains in a talking head that bc he and his "loyal wife" want a special Christmas, he's blocking "everything else" out for the day (I audibly gasped) 🙃🙃

- Sol & Ari (Robyn's youngest kids) do talking heads for I think the first time, talking about how Kody puts gross toppings on his crepes (berries and aioli and mozzarella cheese? He explains he does that bc "it's a burrito but French" which is not only wrong but also still doesn't make those toppings make sense).

- Those talking heads are the first time I've noticed how old Ari is especially, which makes it that much weirder to me that Robyn still allegedly let's her use a pacifier. I think she's 7 or 8??

- Kody has a convo with his brother in law (who was also polygamist and got a divorce) where he says some of the *stupidest* shit I've ever heard him say...... one highlight is he mentions something about how all "strong men throughout history" have had "more than one woman" at a time whether married or not 🙄🙄

- one thing every single one of the wives have said at one point or another is that Kody is fundamentally changed in some angry way and that they "don't recognize him anymore".

- Meri says she believes she's the only one that she's 100% sure Kody regrets marrying with tears in her eyes and I'm not totally sure why she says that bc she doesn't really elaborate

- Kody goes on a long rant about divorce making him go to some dark places and think some dark thoughts and at first I'm like, yea ok break ups suck and they make you really weird for a while I'm not gonna fault you there. But then he starts to say that some of those dark thoughts have to do with running away from his entire life, including Robyn and his 2 little kids, and starting over somewhere else???? I was SHOOK

- Christine and her kids and Janelle's kids all seem so happy together 🥲 Gabe (one of Janelle's sons) says he feels abandoned by Kody and Robyn

- Mykelti, her daughter Avalon, Truely, and Ysabel go over to Robyn's house for late Christmas and stayed the night. I thought that was nice at least but Kody still didn't invite Savanah which makes me sad.

- at the end of the episode Kody says he knows he's going about some things wrong right now but he's in a bad place and he knows there will be "other Christmases" presumably where he can make up for it, to which I say NO sir you do not know that actually and you are never promised another day with any of your children‼️‼️so for the love of God get your shit together and make them feel loved

#sister wives #recap #rants

[m0nyartz]

Hey Arnold Girl Gang AU txt

It’s come to my attention that I never actually shared the details I’d written down for this AU so here we are!

FTI happens. TJM doesn't happen.

Family situation getting worse for Helga in 6th grade. Ends up running out at night at some point. Gets into trouble, is saved by a cool teenager,senior hs, (Angie) on a motorbike. Helga refuses to go home at first, Angie sees this and knows she'll try to run for it if she presses the issue. Lets her hang out with her for a while and ride the bike. Once Helga's feeling better she agrees to go home, Angie drops her off, lets her know where to find her if she ever feels it's too much. Helga takes her up on it. Angie becomes a good sister figure for her. Angie lets her meet up with her bike crew, they all treat helga well and accept her, helga loves it there.

Angie has a mission to get back at someone that deeply wronged her in the past, get justice/put them away. It's difficult bc they're rich, and powerful with connections.

As Helga hangs out with her more, her and Phoebe start to have problems bc Phoebe thinks Helga's getting into bad things w/ bad pple. They fight in 8th grade and don't talk to each other for months.

Angie is killed in an accident the summer before Helga starts HS, the crew know it's faul play and Helga overhears them talking, but there's nothing they can do. Person they're after is too powerful. They all liked Helga and feel bad for her, they give Helga Angie's jacket. Helga is devastated, doesn't know what to do. it's the first time she's lost a loved one, and angie was basically the sister she wish she always had. She runs, tears falling, to Phoebe's house. Phoebe opens the door and sees Helga's state and immediately forgets being angry and takes her in. Helga explains everything, she never wanted to talk about Angie to Phoebe before, but now Phoebe understands. Helga makes it her mission to finish what Angie started, but she can't do anything then. A long the way she helps other girls out like Angie helped her and she gets her own gang she's leader of without really trying to be by jr year, but she soon realizes having as much help and resources as possible will be advantageous so she allows it. They're considered outcasts and dangerous b/c they're like, vigilante justice types, and don't bother to correct bad rumors. If pple think they're just a regular bad gang it keeps eyes away from whatever the true goal/operation is. Which is Helga getting vengeance for Angie.

Arnold is kind of pining in the bg lol The more closed off Helga got and the more different classes they had as they grew up made it so they didn't interact much but he was always still curious about her bc of FTI. He doesn't buy the rumors completely but is concerned, and in HS decides he's gonna try and rekindle the friendship and maybe eventually talk to her about FTI. Gets roped into the mess and realizes his feelings for her at some point.

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Bonus shortaki scene that i could potentially still possibly sketch out at some point but we’ll see.

Arnold leaves umbrella with kitten he found in a box near and before school. “Don’t worry little guy, i’ll come back for you after school lets out”. After school he's thinking about Helga as he makes he way back to the kitten to take him to a foster or something.  pple think she changed for the worse but he knows better. He was afraid of all the rumors too at first but paid closer attention to her and realized she still pretended not to care about anything but actually cares a lot.

looks up and sees helga looking down at kitten. She picks it up and puts it in her leather jacket. It's started raining by then. Arnold's touched by this, debates with himself, looks at umbrella, makes a decision and runs after her/calls out to her.

Helga stops, eyes shocked, but then resigned/ frustrated and without looking back walks faster. "Helga Please!" she stops, sighs in exasperation/rolls eyes. Arnold catches up, 'Can I walk you home?' *flat* "No." "But-!" "How many times do I have to yell at you to leave me alone, Arnold?" He misses Football Head. "You know I can't do that" "Well then maybe you should learn t-" "Look. If you don't want me to walk you home that's fine, but at least take the umbrella ok?" "And what about you, genius?" "My place is right around the corner, you still have a couple blocks to go. You need it more, especially if you want to help that little guy out" Helga looks down at kitten who meows. "..." "Come on, you can give it back tomorrow at school, ok?" Offers it to her, makes her flashback to preschool, eyes soften. Takes umbrella, "I owe you nothing." "Not a thing", big smile. "Well, why are you just standing their like an idiot, start running before I change my mind" "Oh! Right! See you tomorrow Helga!" "... god dammit."

Helga won't admit it ,bc she had long since put out the fire for that old flame, but the reason she felt compelled to take the kitten was bc it has green eyes the same shade as a certain annoying football headed blonde. And the fact that it was just abandoned there in the rain hit close to home for her as well.

#mony talks #hey arnold #au

[frozenhi-chews]

Pancake and Arthur - MSA AU Lore

Here's some lore with Pancake and Arthur. Idk what to call this AU yet, throw me some ideas pls

Hope ya enjoy! There's a LOT

Some of the lore can be found here, but I'm willing to summarize a bit.

Pancake is the third wheel. She has two childhood friends (which is canon in the OG story, Leave Death to the Professionals). When they got closer and started dating, she was happy for them! They looked happy, and they still included her. That was until she was getting shafted, pushed aside, a "oh right you're here!" kind of thing.

Being alone with no one, Pancake felt she needed to find someplace else. It's not like her friends would miss her, right? So she hopped onto her motorcycle and drove off. To where, she didn't know, but also didn't care.

One day she was just tired. Tired of being left alone, tired of being yelled at for being half alien/human, tired of a lot of things. So she hopped onto her motorcycle and left. It was around midnight where it had problems, so she found the closest town and met Lance. She told him she needed a place to stay, he told her where a motel was, and the next day she decided to sightsee.

This is where she met Vivi and Lewis! (This is after Future and Viv and Lewis started dating again, being more inclusive with Arthur) Upon meeting another person fascinated with the paranormal, she and Vivi bonded really quickly. And also bc Pancake was able to tell Lewis was dead. Despite his disguse.

After talking with the two for a few hours, she went back to the shop to check in on the motorbike. And lo and behold, there's a cute guy there! They introduced themselves, and yes this is Arthur! He liked the bike. The two of them also bonded, and it got to the point he started inviting her out to activities.

However she soon saw Lew and Vi were a type to kinda ignore others around them when they're focused on eachother. So being the brilliant alien she is, she grabs Arthur and they spend time alone a lot. Even Mystery picked up on that

They would talk for hours about random things, stars, mechanics, cars, pets. It was pretty soon when Arthur began opening up to Pancake. She felt...safe to him. They've known eachother for a few weeks at this point, (Pancake finding a small job at the bookstore and camps out at the motel.) Pancake also started feeling the same way. Heck at this point he invited her to his house upon occasion! For the first time she felt like she belonged.

One she feels she can trust Arthur with.

He talked about how he felt with Vivi and Lewis, how he lost his arm, the whole thing with Mystery, and even his family a bit. She told him about her friends, and how she grew up being isolated.

She told him she's not entirely human. He didn't get it at first. (She hides her antennae in a big beanie and tries to hide other alien features under baggy clothes)

He likes bringing her on paranormal trips, she likes having movie nights with him. (Cuz it's an excuse to cuddle)

It's obvious to others when they're crushing on each other. Arthur stares or talks about her nonstop, and Pancake has always got to be holding hands with him and trying to make him laugh. She also decorates his mechanical arm with stickers sometimes

During a ghost hunting trip, the ghost turned out to be a demon and tried to attack Arthur. Pancake, freaking out, shifted to her Terrorvant Form and blasted acid in its face. That's when Arthur fully understood, and Pancake panicked. Would he think of her the same? Would he shun her like everyone else?

He just stared at her in awe, before going in for a hug to thank her for saving his life. That's when she fully fell in love. (She no longer wore that beanie around him)

Their first kiss was at a drive in. During a horror movie. After that, Arthur quickly confessed that he had liked her for a while, as did she. They waited till the end of the movie to talk it out and begin dating.

Also Pancake is really strong, and she picks Arthur up often. Like over the shoulder or under the arm and off they goooooo

Thats it! For now at least.

Sorry it's so long I just kinda. Infodumped. Hope you all enjoyed! I might make a part two who knows.

Taglist: @dwdoesarts @spooky-selfshipping-scene @eternally-smitten @speedstershipping | lmk if you wanna be taken off or be added

#self ship stuff #self ship #arthur kingsmen <3 #msa #mystery skulls animated #self insert #🥞 cake writes #headcanons #self shipping #self shipping community #oc x canon #self insert x canon #pancake #sona #aaaaaa #sorry this is so LONG #also a thing i worked on between art trades

[redheadarcher]

i’ve started re-reading ( bc i never finished )  the black widow 2020 comic run & i’ll be writing down some small headcanons inspired by it as i read. i’ve only read issue 1 & 2 for now but…

➸ i was thinking & i really like the idea that scarlett lived at least for a while in san francisco when she was younger. new york will always be her home but it’s interesting the idea that they’d live in other places too.

➸ nat e clint probably also had to put a little bell on scarlett at some point to know where she was when she was younger because she was the type of kid who could never sit still and was always up to mischief. she knew how to be silent and she was always doing things she wasn’t supposed to ( like trying to get into places she shouldn't or trying to mess with stuff she shouldn’t ).

➸ yelena babysitting scarlett when nat and clint weren't around bc why not?

➸this isn’t something that came from the comic, just something it reminded me of: scarlett also loves motorbikes and she loves to ride them. i’ll say that she probably got one when she was 16 or 17. similar to the one nat has, but instead of red details, with purple details.

#i'll admit that i don't really like this first arc #i started reading back when #they came out but i stopped #now i want to read it all #to see what happens #and per usual i'll be adapting a few things here #01. ❅ тнaт'ѕ a нιѕтory aвoυт ѕpιderѕ & нawĸѕ ( нeadcanonѕ ) ❅

[waitingforminjae]

would anybody like to hear my cutie pie rewrite? too bad here it is:

same initial premise - kuea's parents groomed him to be lian's child bride + forced lian into the engagement via their monetary power over lian and his family. as a result kuea would do literally anything for lian to love him back, but lian doesn't love him like that, and can't.

however, in my version, lian became woke to all this and unlearned a lot of that shit and saw it for what it was when he was in college, in part thanks to his friend's pointing out that being engaged to a 10 yr old was "fucking pedo shit". he's been working for years to get out from under the thumb of kuea's family, and harbors an immense amount of guilt and responsibility towards kuea for the part he played in kuea's grooming - which has severely fucked up kuea in incredibly damaging ways.

for kuea, he had his eyes opened by diao when they met in the uk, who was also like "um bestie u were fucking groomed holy shit". while in the uk, diao helps kuea find things that he likes (drumming, singing, motorcycles) and slowly kuea begins to build his real self and identity that isn't tied to lian's happiness/love. he doesn't trust lian, because he is still too young to understand that lian was forced into this - and as the minor who was groomed, he doesn't particularly care. lian was still an adult who hurt him.

lian and yi are involved in a batshit toxic friends w benefits situation that involves a lot of angry sex and frustrated blowjobs in bathrooms that everyone knows about but that both of them refuse to acknowledge. yi's been in love w lian since college but is too emotionally repressed to acknowledge it even tho everyone knows, including lian who still uses him for sex and knows that it's all fucked up and is absolutely gonna implode one day but it hasn't yet so they just kinda keep doing it.

yi is the one who introduced diao to motorbiking, and then diao got in a wreck and got a brain injury and lost his memories and yi, who liked the boy (platonically) even tho he'd never admit it, freaked out and felt guilty so now he's overprotective to the point of being abusive of diao, who is initially milder after his injury bc he's lost and confused bc yi won't fucking tell him anything. but he has a spine of steel and a temper and most importantly serves major cunt so he doesn't let yi push him around for long before he snaps. so they're having screaming matches all the time bc diao needs freedom and yi needs control and it's intense and (mutually) violent. yet, at the same time yi likes that diao is so bold and self-confident because he desperately wishes he was that way, but he's just a loser and he knows it. so he's jealous, too.

kuea and diao have a healthy college friends w benefits thing going on but mostly they're just dating in a way that just kinda happened naturally so neither of them are quiet aware of it. they mostly just go motorbiking, hanging out at that club where kuea performs, and studying/playing w their friends.

lian has been slowing transferring all of kuea's families assets to his own accounts, in addition to doing his best to separate his money and businesses from their influence. he's does all this under the guise of still being 100% locked into this engagement and pretending to be on their side - which further confuses kuea bc lian doesn't tell him his actual plans, even though he's also been secretly putting some of the money/assets into an account for kuea so he can be financially independent from his family. he also helps him w his music career. anything he can do to help and support kuea, to make up in some small way for what he allowed to happen to him.

at no point does the story let you forget that kuea was groomed, and lian was forced to be an accomplice in that grooming. they are both victims - and how they respond to that "engagement" and the trauma and life-long damage it has inflicted on their pysches and lives is what drives the characters and narrative. kuea's family are explicitly the antagonists.

#this is so long sorryyyyyyy but the worst part is that i rlly think the actors could've done this!!!!! #f: cutie pie #minors dni

[riverstardis]

series 32 episode 11:

weird how lily used to fancy mr grayling🤢

RASH!! also his mum🥺

ah rash says "good luck gift for your favourite child?" so he DID used to have siblings!! guess none of them care enough about their dad to help rash look after him or contribute to getting him in a good care home huh

lmaoo madia nearly crashing into connie on her motorbike

lily saying her father used to say "emotion is the enemy of success" and elle nods and goes "my dad told me the queen is really a lizard" SJDFJDJF

"staff nurse david hide" "ha ha not seek?" "no, i'm a buddhist" SJSKJFJF oh no is this gonna renew my anger about them wrecking david and rash's friendship for that pointless ollie and rosa storyline

"i have our new f1, dr rashid masum" "well, he appears to be invisible" 😭😭😭

"some of the women working here, they're pretty er, brusque" LMAOOO

lmaoo robyn asking louise what she thinks of the new f1 and louise goes "i'll give him a month" sjsjdjf "i mean totty wise. i think i'm gonna give him an 8 out of 10. 9 if he's got a thing for redheads with kids" 😭😭

LMAO rash saluting connie😭😭😭 she goes "strange boy" SJSFJJF that reminds me of louise saying ethan was "a bit odd" in his first episode. also i just realised in both their first scenes they're with their mums👀

i'm still bitter about ethan not being in this episode to say goodbye to lily

aww dylan saying sanosi's no longer part of his life :(

oh yeah i forgot lily and sam had beef lmao. sam nicholls i mean obviously, weird cos i just came straight from reap the whirlwind where she has beef with sam strachan lmao

ohh rash i love you <3

alicia looks GORGEOUS💍💍💍

awww rash running out of connie's office to throw up sjsdjffg

he almost leaves his glasses in the toilets lmaoo the first sign that he doesn't actually need them? honestly that whole glasses thing is so funny like they didn't want to commit to another character with glasses after they already got rid of lily's and ethan's and they knew how they complicated things, but they did want us to know immediately that he was a stereotypical glasses-wearing character (like lily and ethan) so they just decided to give him glasses for a few months and then reveal he never even needed them?? tbf it worked, i mean we could already tell he was a new ethan by this point lmao

iain telling lily how he feels about her right before she goes in to do her talk. way to sabotage her career mate :/

aww connie talking about how she's seen lily grow into a very fine doctor🥺

aww alicia introducing herself to rash and saying she heard he did alright today and inviting him to the pub with everyone. he's like "i don't really drink" and she goes "me neither, see you there" sjfjfjdf oh yeah i forgot this was during her "given up alcohol and men" era

awh rash overhears robyn and david talking about how they rate him :( he nearly doesn't go to the pub but lily tells him that it's something she should've done on her first day🥺 oh yeah cause she was pretty isolated from everyone until she made friends with ethan... SO WHY TF ISNT HE HERE SAYING BYE TO HER

she thought she'd blown her talk and she didn't seem that upset about it, ig bc it stopped her from having to choose between hong kong and iain, but then she finds out that not only did she get the research post they're asking her to talk over from mr grayling as the leader because they don't like working with him LMAO

now iain's literally begging her to stay bro wtf???

"i am lily chao, and i have to go" 😢😢😢

does she not like,,, need to empty her locker or anything??

bye bye lily I MISS YOUUU

i firmly believe that if not for cal's death ethan and rash would've been friends immediately

#classic casualty #S32E11 #rash's first ep #lily's last ep

[andthebubbles]

probably no one will see this. that's okay

brain feeling kinda scrambled and skfjgk and hm i would like to do some writing later maybe after dinner or

okay the main point of this post: there's been an awful lot of ... very publicised/talked-about-a-lot-on-social-media deaths in sydney lately? like, of the awful tragic kind. like there was one week where there were two people (iirc?) who jumped in front of a train on different days and the whole train network got delayed until midnight each time bc that's how the trains are here, and like. that's just awful

there was that crash between an SUV and a motorbike and i saw the dashcam footage on reddit on the day, before we found out that the motorbike guy died the next day :((((

some taekwondo instructor killed one of his students (a 7 y/o :( ) and his mum and then drove the mum's car to their house where he killed the dad with a knife (iirc), got injured in the process and drove himself to hospital. they haven't reported the motive yet but aaaaaaaaaah

and then the latest--and this hit the hardest for some reason--this police cop killed his ex-bf and his current bf with his goddamn ... police-issued gun/glock, like, he was off duty but he got to carry his gun around? and for some reason the paper reported everything in HUGE detail, like, the graphicness of the crime scene, and then this police guy's movements for the next few days; like, he dumped stuff from the couple he killed in a skip at cronulla, he hired a white van from mascot (they even gave the time he hired it in the newspaper!) to transport the bodies, he drove up to newcastle, they even reported approx what time he left newcastle bc a neighbour saw the white van and knew it wasn't a neighbour's bc he'd never seen it before; and they even said that the person at newcastle was his uncle's (or aunt's? can't remember) place or something, and the one at balmain was his mum's place, and the one at grays point is another relative's place, and... they even gave the street names for the newcastle and balmain places AND they gave the full address of the paddington place where he killed them

and also this guy used to be a celebrity stalker and then he became a police dude bc his mum and sister are in the police force so he must've got a leg-up and he tasered an indigenous man in the face (to death or something?) and it's on video and there was no action taken against him like what the FUCK

and weirdly no one is reporting this as a domestic violence thing? but like i get that it's got a lot more layers to it too. like, police corruption, lgbtqia+ not feeling safe with the police, but like, ... they're all lgbtqia+ so.....

idk it's just really sad. and all of it, it's been a lot. and yeah.

ETA: oh they FINALLY dropped the 'domestic violence' word in the paper, well done, took them nearly a week to do so

#not really me.txt but gonna tag it anyway with that #me.txt #bc i use ramble.txt more for fandom stuff

[reaperkiller]

🚗, 💤 + 🚫 for luci and 🐶 + 🌴 for matty. and 💘 for josie

🚗 CAR — does your oc have a driver's license? can they drive/operate any automobiles/machinery besides cars?

he CAN drive and he can be trusted behind the wheel of a large automobile. a little scary at times on account of being taught by seb [most insane driver ever. btw] but at least he can get you out of a car chase [relatively] unscathed. just hold on to your seat. also has some experience with motorbikes, but i wouldn't trust him to get very far on one of those. he can barely manage a regular bike at the best of times.

💤 SLEEPING SIGN — is your oc a light sleeper or a heavy sleeper? how are their sleeping habits?

he is a VERY!!! heavy sleeper, to the point where he will sometimes need 3 alarms AND also josie hitting him repeatedly with a pillow to wake him up. barging into his bedroom and yelling at him does absolutely nothing. he is like a cat and she has yet to realise she can just spray him in the face with water and that will save them both SO much time. dont tell her that though. let luci rest.

🚫 PROHIBITED — does your oc drink/smoke? do they do it regularly, or is it more on occasion or for special events?

he doesn't smoke and absolutely Hates it as a concept. and WILL tackle seb whenever he sees him smoking. get that thang out of your mouth boy.

he does however enjoy a cold beer and fruity cocktails from time to time, but generally tries to avoid drinking alcohol as often as possible, because his father had. so SO many issues with drinking [which. no one in his family has very fond memories of], and seeing seb fall into depressive spirals and drink nonstop made him realise he doesnt want to experience either of those two extremes at all ever, and if it's already affecting two people in his family, then he'd most likely also be at risk - whether or not thats true, he will never know bc he does not want to test that theory. and i dont blame him.

🐶 DOG FACE — does your oc have any pets?

OUUHH YES back when he was travelling with a nomad family before getting swept up by biotechnica, he had a great pyrenees called mags. and he loved her more than anything else in the entire world. he got her when he was about 18, and they were pretty much inseperable from day one. ate together, slept together, went on jobs together. there wasnt a single second they were apart. unfortunately when biotechnica came along and essentially captured him, he had to leave her behind with the family, and never saw her again ): he would love to get another dog like her one day,,, when he finally has a place he can call his own.

🌴 PALM TREE — does your oc have a green thumb? do they enjoy gardening?

this bitch LOVES plants. ask him about literally any plant and he will go on for a solid 20 minutes about the root system alone. he travelled around a LOT growing up so he's encountered probably every plant the NUSA has to offer at this point. which made him a perfect candidate for watching over the gardens at biotechnica. he did NOT want to work for a corp but,,,, the plants,,,,,..... and he needed the money so he couldnt really say no. but again one day when he has his own place. there will be no room for him there bc it will just be Full of plants. and also dog.

💘 HEART WITH ARROW — what and/or who do(es) your oc consider the most important to them?

oh seb and luci 100000% [and luiza to a far lesser extent. dont even worry about it] without seb basically raising them all by himself and teaching them everything he knew about how to just. be kind and help each other, the three of them most definitely would have ended up dead or worse after he left.seb never gave up on them. and she and luci never gave up on each other, and that's what got them through everything. and i am very normal about them.

#oc josie #oc luci #oc matty #guys who are so special to me. btw

[ace-malarky]

15 Questions Tag #1

@writingamongther0ses tagged me for this one, thanks!

Doing this for FtF and therefore Kari because. why the heck not.

1. Are you named after anyone?

Ehh... maybe? Probably someone on my dad's side, if anyone. Never really asked

2. When was the last time you cried?

Do tears of joy count bc listen I just watched one of my kiddos win a match and goddamn he's come on so well and I'm so proud

3. Do you have kids?

Not of my own, I just teach a lot. Ash and I are honorary... we have a lot of niblings. Might adopt at some point, maybe

4. Do you use sarcasm?

When the occasion calls for it, but like. Being straightforward is so much better

5. What’s the first thing you notice about people?

Generally how they're standing in relation to me

6. What’s your eye color?

Brown.

7. Scary movies or happy endings?

Depends on the vibe! I can always go a scary movie

8. Any special talents?

I'm a pretty decent boxer, but like I worked hard for that one, yannow?

9. Where were you born?

Dundee, Ninewells hospital

10. What are your hobbies?

Hmm... ok, the boxing is more of a job now - well, the teaching is, I suppose I still kept it as a hobby. Um.

(babe do we have any hobbies? What, biking? I guess)

Yeah, biking. Like motorbikes. We do that.

11. Have you any pets?

Nah, it wouldn't really - we have enough of a struggle keeping ourselves in check and all that

12. What sports do you play/have played?

Boxing! I thought about taking up some others, but running is for chumps and I don't like.. does dodgeball count actually. I could go for that.

13. How tall are you?

Like a standard size, I guess? 5 7-ish?

14. Favorite subject in school?

... gross. none of them?

Physics was interesting enough, I guess. Kinda complicated. It's possible I wasn't focusing.

15. Dream job?

Hmmm I dunno. I kinda like the one I've got, but I never really planned for it, it just sort of... happened. I never gave any thought to what was going to happen after school, really. I've been thinking about going back to do something like physiotherapy though?

~

anyhow yeah there you go. I guess. uh. hm. If you feel like it? idk yeah just. tell me about someone! give me the info!

#tagged and bagged #karigan fletcher #(I think I may have stolen her name from the green rider series actually)

[trans-mink]

Heres that post I said I'd make of my concert experiences in 2022 and my issues with access as a person with hypermobility.

Bare in mind I'd only ever been to 2 pre covid and I managed to get to 4 this year :D. I am still getting used to what works for me in terms of managing my disability in different contexts.

Queen

My first one of 2022 was queen and adam lambert. It was so good, those old men can move, their vocals are still in great nick especially Brian's. The visuals were great too, a lot of lights and imagery from their different eras. Adam on a spinning motorbike for Bicycle, hell yeah. Was hoping they'd perform Innuendo which is my fav queen song but they did not, they did do The show must go on however which is almost as good. Cried a lot at These are the days of our lives.

Can't say much in terms of access cos I was standing (bad decision bcs i hurt like hell afterward but i got that ticket off someone else so)

Carpenter Brut

Honestly wish I'd enjoyed it more but there were several things working against me there. Its the kind of music I listen to while doing other stuff cos its mostly instrumental so sitting and bobbing along kinda didnt cut it for me personally. I think id have had a better experience if I was able to stand up and dance as well as having the option to sit but we werent allowed to do that rip. No way I could have gone in the pit bcs by this point my mobility issues had worsened. That and I was worrying about my nova twins concert the following week bcs my doctor was refusing to provide a disability note for me :^).

In terms of access for that, I did have to go up stairs cos the building doesnt have lifts (listed venues baybeee). Thankfully i dont have trouble with stairs but a lot of people do so :/. The seats were not comfortable at all and my back hurt after 😭

Nova Twins

As previously mentioned I saw Nova Twins the week after and was given a disabled seat despite my doctor being a cunt about it. Very glad I did, the view was good and I was able to stand up/ dance when I needed to (if i sit for too long my hips lock). Got to see the hosts of We wear black pod there so that was great, got their signatures and they said i was pretty :'). The acts themselves went hard, most energetic concert I've been to bar janelle monae it was so much fun. Hurt my arms headbanging off the railing bcs of course I did. Wish they'd done Devil's Face but we move.

Again, this building is listed and has no lift and im unsure if it has ramps. The complain in terms of my own access is that the disabled seats were just benches and when I asked for a seat with a back I was told there were none (fantastic for those of us with back problems, my ass had to get on the floor and stretch out bc of them shitty seats and in the end it was comfier to stand and move around). Chased it up with a complaint email and was told they do keep chairs with back support but this clearly wasnt communicated to the security team. That or the guy I asked just couldnt be bothered which....

First Aid Kit

First concert I'd been to completely alone and I'm super happy I'm at a point where I can do things more independantly. Their Support Lola Kirke was good, amazed that this woman was able to jump around and play guitar with her nipples only covered by stars, if I did that I'd hit myself in the face.

First aid kit themselves were so fucking good, I went in without having listened to the new album (got a signed copy while i was there tho hehe), it was a good gamble cos I cried the instant they walked out on that stage and performed Palomino. Visuals were my second fav after Queen's, they had shots of horses, fields, ocean, stuff like that it was super pretty. Cried at Lion's roar and some other songs, think thats the most ive cried at a gig so far. Enjoyed it so much more than I thought I would holy shit. That bitch was packed to the rafters and everyone lost their shit it was so fucking loud!!!

I had a seat in circle with a pretty good view considering I was kinda late into getting tickets cos i had no idea they were touring until about a month ago jkdbfvjhbhjb. This time the seats didnt make my back hurt which is a plus :D.

Final thoughts

I'm happy that I got to see everyone I did this year bcs it helps me work out what I like and dont like and what works for me. I wish venues would not make people prove theyre disabled just to get a fucking seat (particularly if its an a standing venue!!!) and doctors stop restricting access to shit we clearly need like I wouldnt bother asking if it wasn't essential :^). Your accessible seating is not accessible if it doesn't provide basic support lol!!!!

#wezza reports #i cba to read this over if theres mistakes we ball #disability #hyper mobility #queen #carpenter brut #nova twins #first aid kit #might add to later if i think of anything else

[actualbird]

luke drives a motorbike in canon and it's a crime we havent seen it yet but also i cant decide which among these two motorbikes i want him to have most

wc: 1k

at the end of main story 2 when mc is escaping from the many media people tryna talk to her after her first big High Profile case, luke swoops in on a motorcycle, tosses mc a helmet, and whisks her off to safety

main story 2. thats so early in canon we were given the info that luke drives a motorbike

and we

have not

SEEN IT

frankly i dont think thats fair cuz //gestures at artem and vyn and marius. artem really likes driving and hes got two illustrations already of him driving fast (SSR Entwined Fate, SSR Wandering heart). vyn likes horseback riding and hes got SR Gentleman's Game with polo as a premise along with all card evolution images wheres hes riding the horse. AND while i dont have this card, marius in SR A Dance In The Clouds has him in the first evolution image as behind the "wheel" of an AIRCRAFT HE KNOWS HOW TO PILOT

(sidenote: marius, youre 21 years old. recently for work ive had to research aviation schools n timelines and. it takes many years. how the FUCK did marius von hagen have the time in his busy busy short life to get a pilot's license. what. how. it's hilarious but also HOW)

POINT IS, all the boys have been shown driving a vehicle (horse counts as a vehicle) of their specialty

except

LUKE!!!

PEARCE!!!!!!!

thats why this is a crime but i'll move on now, just had to get that off my chest

before i go into this i gotta tell ya, i know nothing about motorbike or motorcyle stats. i dont even know the difference between those two terms so i dont know what constitutes as a Good Motorbike. im going off of vibes

and one vibe from luke that both these options go into is his love for old stuff and antiques. stellis in the year 2030 has shown vehicles being slightly more futuristic (see: interior of car where theres no recognizable steering wheel, drives me NUTS) than what weve got now. but i dont think luke would go for an advanced looking model, i think he'd be drawn to more old style models liiike

-

option 1: classic harley davidson

my reasons for this are the following

it's old school so it fits with luke's affinity for things styled in the sensibility of past eras and also it's COOL. IT'S A COOL GUY MOTORCYLE. and i hate to admit this cuz it infuriates me sometimes, but luke is a cool person

i dont have to enumerate his coolness just //gestures to his long grocery list of skills that are cool and also dashingly masculine

the masculinity is also a factor bc while luke isnt tryna be Manly Man or anything (imo none of the boys are, thankfully) and is shown to not a give a shit about what ppl past his circle of loved ones think of him so yes he will spend a whole afternoon enraptured by a stray cat, his skills r still pretty skewed to societally seen Dude Activities. buncha sports, being the most physically strong person in stellis maybe, shooting, THE LIST GOES ON. so it wouldnt be outta place for luke to gravitate to whats societally seen as a Dude Motorcycle

so this fits imo and my last justification is the simple self indulgence: luke would look so frigging hot driving something like this. and im a simple luke stan, ok

show me luke pearce being hot on a cool guy motorcycle

-

option 2: a vespa

HUGE SWERVE IN VIBES I KNOW BUT HEAR ME OUT

for all that luke pearce is Cool (infuriating) he is also DORK (AFFECTIONATE, LOVINGLY, I AM LOOKING INTO HIS EYES WITH HEARTS IN MY OWN EYES)

the catalog of his dorktitude is as endless as his grocery list of coolness. a tinker and inventor, collector and enthusiast of antiques, was apparently so smart he went off to a top university at 16 yrs old which was earlier for everybody else in his age bracket, viddy games, and on and on and on. hes a nerd and it is delightful because enthusiasm is always so beautiful but im especially happy to see enthusiasm in things that arent always seen as "cool"

delightful but not "cool" is, i think, the unofficial tagline for a vespa

it's a WONDERFUL MOTORCYCLE. classic as well so it fits with what i mentioned earlier. and also it's reminiscent of movies where characters drive through quieter provinces and theres no action in the movie at all, the film is more focused on this vibe of like, enjoying the sunlight and grass and stuff

//points at luke pearce. for all that hes a literal action hero, he shines so brightly in moments where he enjoys the little things in life. the vespa, in my humble opinion, is the perfect motorbike to do this with

also he'd just look so cute driving it. //puts my face into my hands

-

in conclusion

im torn. i cannot decide. i want luke pearce cutting through stellis traffic on a harley davidson looking like the coolest person in the entire city. but i also want luke pearce stuck in stellis traffic on a vespa and everybody who sees him---sunshine boy on a sunshine motorcycle---finds a smile pulling at their lips

maybe he could have both? maybe theres garage space somewhere in that building he owns? why must i choose?

oh also, whatever motorcycle luke has, hes deffo modded to be Better, to be Optimized

so no matter what, there will be scenes where luke is doing infuriatingly attractive mechanic stuff. yknow, with the towel over shoulder, tank top outfit, expression of deep concentration and when mc calls out for him and shakes him outta The Zone he turns to her hes got a streak of grease on his face he didnt notice and mc will HAVE to come over and wipe it off and feel extremely flustered doing so

im not sure i made a point in this whole post. mhy, i want to see his motorcycle please

#tears of themis #luke pearce #tot luke #tears of themis headcanons #xia yan

[zee-writes-and-draws]

Normal world AU where the different buildings are just random groups of people and all of them ended up moving to the small village near the supposedly ‘haunted’ mountain that Samon and Enki grew up on bc property values are low as shit, and all of the minors are adopted by the guards. Qi has basically just grabbed Upa and Liang and ran the hell away from the Chinese mafia. Samon sees this random man dragging two half-dead children with him and this is now the very first time any of the new residents of the village find out the ‘hauntings’ that lowered property values were just a teenage Enki post massive growth spurt and a very small and over-energetic Samon that haven’t been seen in well over a decade.

- Hajime has, unfortunately, agreed to look after Jyugo and Nico while Rock and Uno try to find legal jobs, but it’s a lot on him. He and Seitarou help Uno and Rock fight a case to get custody of the two minors. Yamato is helping Tsukumo get a restraining order against his former agent and various paparazzi, as well as going to therapy so he doesn’t constantly feel the need to put on a persona in front of others. Hajime is a teacher at the local school (since there’s a decent number of local kids and then the building children), Yamato is the school’s coach, and Seitarou sells uniforms/cute festival stuff but is also occasionally seen working with the age 7 and below kids because they’re all very small and nice.

- Kiji is trying to cure Honey of his anger management issues and Trois of his pyromaniac tendencies. His day job is making and testing makeup that everyone buys, like mascara and eyeliner and hair gel. His second in command is working in one of the other small shops, selling everyone clothes (he and Seitarou make the clothing together).

- Kenshirou is only here because some of his dogs are sick and this village has been weirdly good for their health. Along the way he lets Musashi and Hitoshi stay with him because they help on chores and the dogs love both of them very much. He helps with the local stray problem by opening a shelter and rehabilitating most of them (the few who can’t be fixed to near-perfect health are still loved and cared for). Hitoshi bakes lots of food and sells it at Shiro’s restaurant, which is also why his presence is appreciated. Musashi tutors online part-time after Mitsuru rigged up wifi for them. Between all three of their jobs they can afford a place that’s small but has four tiny rooms so each person can a private space. (They sleep in the living room that’s been transformed into the group bedroom).

- Mitsuru is considered the local nuisance in so many ways, but after all of his loudspeakers and amplifiers have been confiscated he’s forced to resort back to regular hand-made instruments, so he at least gets to learn something entertaining as he irritates everyone with his noise-making. He and Momoko live in the same house but there’s a line drawn on the inside and outside that splits the house in half so everyone realizes in all of ten seconds they’re not actually together together, just saving on rent as long-term friends. Momoko works on managing the more official stuff to keep the town from being erased. She’s the unofficial (until the next election of course) mayor of the town at this point. Mitsuru’s day job is rigging up stuff like wifi and helping Hajime with his shop class at the high school.

- Shiro moved here after hearing how wonderful the cuisine is. He approves of being able to gather fresh ingredients on the mountain. Rock is frequently seen at his restaurant, both as a customer and as a worker. Hitoshi was recruited within a week. (Hajime has some mixed feelings but Rock mostly stops acting like an idiot after the first day, so it works out well)

- Inori and Ruka moved here years ago (and dragged the Daisen brothers with them) and are pretty much the only residents who were here before everyone started moving out and the buildings moved in. They’re the only ones initially who know the story behind the hauntings and never shared it out of indifference. Inori works in construction of new buildings/clearing rubble from the old, the Daisen trio help train the different sports teams at the school, and Ruka technically co-owns the makeup business with Kiji but his preferred job is as an unofficial swimming instructor because the two of them don’t get along.

- Samon and Enki bring the village supplies and materials from the mountain and trade this way. Samon has a notable weakness for ice pops, popsicles, and zakuro shaved ice, which he gets to surprise Enki on days it seems like he might want it. The new residents are all pleasantly surprised by how sweet Noriko is. Shiro offers her a job after trying some of her desserts. She bakes on weekends and holidays only to avoid overexerting herself, but the rest of the time her jobs include checking people in, taking orders to Shiro and Rock, and keeping peace if someone starts arguments. Houzuki is the area acupuncture specialist and medic until the Otogi family moves in, but he switches to full time acupuncture and massage therapy after they take up the practice. (they’re better than him at medicine anyways and he’s ok with admitting it).

- Liang and Upa love training on the mountain. Rock joins them frequently, often chatting with Liang as they race up. Qi is marginally less interested in physical activity, but he’s willing to make the hike up with them because of the amazing plant both during the hike and at the arrival itself. In the long run, doing some exercise in this form helps him with his mental health a lot and makes him happier. Tsukumo joins occasionally and talking to Qi helps him gradually come out of his shell.

- Trois takes to the challenge of trying to be constructive in building things instead of weapons and explosives. The downside is he frequently teams up with Mitsuru (who has the most equipment necessary) and therefore there are unique ways of getting around the idea of non-destructive inventions. Honey figures out ways to get Mitsuru his speakers back on the condition that he can use the wiring for his capsules.

- Nico ends up really sad about the lack of wifi so he tries to work with Mitsuru to improve tech, but he’s got a hard time reading the manuals so now Musashi, accompanied by either Uno or Trois depending on the day, can be seen teaching Nico how to read instruction manuals.

- Yamato is still very proud of his Japanese heritage, but he also frequently encourages others to appreciate the culture they live in and the culture they came from. Thanks to him, there’s a small festival hosted each year where everyone brings something like food or games or clothing from their culture and share it with everyone.

- Kiji takes it as a personal challenge to help teach normal world culture to at least one of the Gokuu brothers. Enki is far less willing to go along with the idea that he needs help from someone, so it’s Samon. Inori, who had a similar idea for the last eleven years, is currently trying to teach Samon how to drive. It’s yielding mixed results, but he takes really well to motorbikes. Hajme and Samon have a brief ceasefire whenever the subject of motorcycles comes up.

- No one is allowed to bring up the time that Hajime got lost in the mountain. No  one.

- Kuu comes and goes as he pleases. Mostly he stays at Hajime’s house but sometimes he’ll somehow appear wherever Samon Enki and Noriko are presently staying and lies down in the lap of whoever is trying to meditate. Enki tries to ignore Kuu (and fails), Samon will give him small scritches and complain about Hajime in a quiet tone, and Noriko feeds and pets him.

- In their spare time, many of the adults critique the prison systems they rescued the others from. Kiji, Hajime, and Kenshirou work with Enki to fix things on a bureactraic level, frequently accompanied by Momoko when she isn’t a sole representative in front of various international governments. Hajime knows the prison model perfectly, Kenshirou understands the police aspect that ties into it, and Kiji has several decades of experience serving as a prison guard, and their combined knowledge leads to many of their proposals being pushed pretty far up the ranks. 

- Samon is working on fixing prisons on the level of how each inmate is treated. All the official and formal changes in the world don’t change that there’s also issues with inmates not receiving care, sufficient entertainment, decent things for purchase and not just whether or not they can afford them, all sorts of stuff that slips past the cracks in the paperwork. He’s also the one who’s pushing for  more rehabilitation programs with Kiji and Mitsuru’s help. Between Samon’s knowledge of physical needs of people, Kiji’s balanced addition of general knowledge of what kind of education and paperwork prisoners need for proper rehabilitation to stick, and Mitsuru’s experience in communication, they have a very solid structure. Mitsuru’s ability to middleman and talk to Momoko also helps push their ideas forward.

- Slowly the buildings become more friendly towards one another. Upa smiles more because Nico helped him get out of his shell, there is a photo of Tsukumo laughing as himself for the first time hanging on the wall of Shiro’s restaurant, and Kenshirou’s dogs all adopted different humans to befriend and bond with. Qi gradually gets over his fear of dogs thanks to Musashi and ends up adopting one who works as a service dog for him and keeps him away from panic attacks and self-harming attempts, as well as (gradually) learning how to tell what kind of health Upa and Liang are presently in and alerting the doctor if necessary.

- The time-honored tradition of feuds between the different non-inmates and adults in charge of them continues, but they added in some new competitions. There are now options for multi-building tug-of-war, kids vs adults (and variations) relays, one v one competitions, and general tomfuckery. Most of the time Momoko is the referee, Mitsuru commentates, and although they rarely join in, they tend to tag-team and secure a near-effortless victory. If it’s every person for themselves, Momoko wins unless distracted by Hajime, at which point the rule of funny is frequently used to determine a victor.

#nanbaka #idiots with numbers #nanbaka jyugo #nanbaka uno #nanbaka rock #nanbaka nico #nanbaka liang #nanbaka upa #nanbaka qi #nanbaka musashi #nanbaka honey #nanbaka trois #nanbaka tsukumo #hajime sugoroku #hitoshi sugoroku #seitarou tanabata #godai yamato #kenshirou yozakura #kiji mitsuba #momoko hyakushiki #samon gokuu #enki gokuu #houzuki #noriko

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V-card anon: hi sorry about that first ask i kinda went into a fugue state (spelling?) altered state of reality maybe when i wrote that and damn near outlined a fic in your inbox

The way we played hot seat was either part of a larger drinking game when a certain card was pulled from a deck, or just on it's own. You sit in a circle, everyone has a drink, usually a beer or cider. In the card pull version, the one who pulls the card gets asked a question by every person playing and if they refuse to answer they drink from their drink. In the standalone, you do that but everyone gets a turn being asked until people get bored and leave. Fun way to find out shit about people. Usually the unwritten rule is that you can't lie. I imagine everyone sitting on shitty chouches and chairs in a semi circle around a table full of cups and bottles playing it

Questions i have been asked: are you a top or bottom? Do you like anal? Wheres the weirdest place you've fucked? Body count? Favorite position (sexual)? Fuck marry kill/ignore people in this room (EVERY TIME I PLAYED I GOT THIS QUESTION)? Tits or ass or other? Favorite non sexual body part ex. Thigh? Ideal fuck buddy? Sex regrets? Etc

Also more weird details i have head cannoned out for some drivers and most likely does not fit with irl personalities, do with this what you will, use it or don't i just have feelings. Also everyone is like compressed in age to like 20-27ish except for some of the grid who i will just think of as younger alumns who come back:

Danny R: social chair, owns a jeep he takes the doors off of in the summer, walks girls home at night to make sure they're ok, tries to DJ house events and is rebuffed by literally everyone, has like 30 pairs of vans you trip over in his room, stolen roadsigns everywhere, masters in something arigcultural or physiological, cutoff frat shirts for days, fuckboy but nice, a bit cringe, will drive around with you at night so you can scream, met reader bc she had a band tee on and wanted to talk to her about it (no gatekeeping)

Charles: some kind of engineering or math degree but no one has any idea how the fuck he's gotten so far, 4.0 never studies, games with other house members, will show up at events randomly you will have no idea how he gets on your couch but he is there, the best and worst taste in clothes, is the only one allowed to play the piano in the house, sweet, cannot help you with studies but is always down for helping you out after, has to be reminded to clean stuff, disaster bi, reader met his gf first and they probably met through that

Pierre: good fashion and music taste, shirt is gone halfway through the night, also fuckboy but wholesome, actually studies, plays a sport for sure probably soccer in some way either club or Division he's too good for rec, will hold your hair back so you can throw up, will tell you your outfit sucks, good at math, also part of the squad that games, econ major, workout buddies with reader anday have taken a math class together

Max: is part of the hockey team he will go pro, also actually studies, got into gaming because of Charles, has the nicest car, is serious until he gets a couple drinks in him, he and Daniel are close and roomed together at some point, owns like 30 sets of the same outfit a white tee and jeans, knows reader through Dan and they get dragged by him to some of the same stuff

Lando: is a pledge or new member his big is Carlos, undeclared major, just happy to be here, gaming squad, used to play lacrosse or something equally obscure, king of knowing where the good snacks are, weirdly good at beer pong, growing into a fuckboy wholesomeness level tbd, probably sweet with reader as she helped him through a blackout or something, met her because she's basically house mom for some of the new boys (the kind of mom who will teach you to do laundry or iron ONCE)

Carlos: hockey flow but does not play hockey, actually studies and is smarter than what people give him credit for, came from a private high school and uni really opened his horizons, also good study buddy, gets along with most people, goes to office hours the most out of the actually studies gang, fun at parties, owns the frat dogs, he and reader met at Office hours (they were the only students) and found they had mutual friends too

Lewis: is/was president of frat, great grades greater bod, did full evolution from fuckboy to good man, has the back tests and the moral support, up for late noght talks about life, definitely was a D1 athlete, best fashion game, implemented no hazing policy, fits into notable alum or PhD category

Mick: undergrad like Lando, also plays soccer or something, too sweet, also walks girls home/holds your hair back etc, cleans parts of the house that aren't his responsibility, higher alcohol tolerance than you expect, everyone is bizarrely protective of him, legacy member (his dad was a legend), drives a motorbike around campus and can't decide between law and psychology, actually studies, met reader through the frat and she would die for him, brings her to class on the bike sometimes because the bike is faster

George: business major, frat treasurer, three ring binder business casual in class kind of guy, nice enough, shirt comes off when drunk, runs marathons and a podcast about investments, best notes in the game and great study partner, actually studies, is drinking monster at 6AM but not because he stayed up late, he and reader met through the frat and sometimes drink wine and bitch together

Lance: hockey player, legacy member, studies sometimes, sarcasm on point, great at stack cup, very chill, knows every good nap spot on campus, also has high alcohol tolerance, is the kind of person who does well in the cold but does not like it, wears headphones so people don't talk to him, great one on one but not in crowds, business major and minor in computer science, probably also met thru Lance's gf but vibe as more introverted people and will cover for each other if one does not want to go out

Nicky: a good boy, part of the walks people home squad, sets up designated drivers for parties, good snack game, future in medical field, good listener, pretty good study buddy, midnight snack enabler, met reader through frat and his gf he and reader are on babysitting duty together sometimes when others get too drunk/high

Yuki: also a pledge or new, majoring in games or computer science as they gave me the same energy as him, games squad, bit of a mad lad, has several stolen street signs, good, met reader through frat and Yuki is the only one patient enough to explain some games to reader, they cuss people out on mic

Esteban: good man, has a full ride scholarship, actually studies, also good study buddy, Dan's little, plays soccer but maybe on a rec team because he prioritizes school, very sweet guy as well, probably chose a really practical major/dual major, met reader through Dan and are also dragged similar places by him

Antonio: manbun, philosophy or classics major possibly business dual, generally good natured but can be seen supplying his own wine at parties, used to be really into metal but kept the hair, does not know that people find him attractive, soccer boi, met reader through frat and she's the only one who will (pretend) to listen to him rant about philosophy

Alex Albon: another full scholarship guy, somehow gets along with everyone, switched majors due to an asshole professor, electrical engineering or computer engineering, actually studies, helps with frat pets,will show you pictures of his cats at home, sweetie, another contender for will hold your hair or walk you home, probably met reader through a class or club and found they had mutual friends and that reader is friends with his gf

Notable alums:

Checo - dad, successful in finance somehow (he looks like an really successful accountant of CFO to me idk why)

Kimi - dad but people forget he is, holds the record for most drinks in 24 hours that will never be come close to by anyone else, shows up on random alum weekends with 2 kegs, legally cannot tell you what he does or he would actually have to murder you

Valterri - was good at a sport when he was there, now a very effective lead engineer at an architectural firm

Seb - environmental or mechanical engineering, all around good guy with someone the best grades in frat history

Alonso - legendary for sexual exploits (consensual)

Anyone I put as actually studies is probably the type reader would hang around for more serious stuff/schoolwork and would probably be closer to, with the exception of Dan bc I feel like he'd be like we're friends now :)) we shall hang or Charles bc he will just show up. I also imagine she has a pretty good friendship with any existing gf, however if a driver does have a gf and he is the love interest sorry bb girl u gotta go for the purposes of this fic

Sorry this is so long hahaaaaaaa glad you liked my Charles thoughts ilu

i honestly wasn’t going to share this like the rest of the anon asks i’ve gotten that i keep close to my heart but this was just too good to keep to myself.

LOOK! AT! THIS!

f1 drivers as frat bros/college students headcannon

i’m writing a series - each “chapter” will be a smut with a different frat bro and i’m hoping to post a sneak peek this week some time but here’s something to hold you over and give you some ideas

to my vcard anon - i appreciate this so much. my inbox is always open for ur thoughts bc they are SO GOOD !! can’t wait for you to read the first part of the series bby

PS if some of this doesn’t make sense to u feel free to send in asks (i know a lot of this is focused on american college culture so if u don’t get it i’m happy to explain)

#f1 smut asks #headcanons #f1 imagines #vcard anon #f1 blurb #f1 headcanon #f1 as frat bros

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Here’s a prompt from the tag! “ Giving them your dessert when you eat out because it’s their favorite.” bc I have a feeling Remis would be the type to end up eating Sirius’ dessert instead of his bc he doesn’t know what to order but Sirius knows his taste dkfjsjaha

~Notes: Oh no baby! I read this wrong, thinking it was Person A ordering for them instead because Person B didn’t know what they wanted.... And well this came out-- I can totally write a different prompt though to match this one! Just LMK! <3 <3

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Send Me A Prompt  |  Reblogs are like the tastiest dessert!!

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Remus pads softly into his and Sirius’s room, a mug of steaming Darjeeling in hand and clad only in a his robe as he gazes longingly at the sleeping form of his partner for nearing on three years now. 

The early morning sun pans across the wide expanse of Sirius’s shoulders, and dips into the planes and valleys of his muscular torso and angular face. Lying there, with his dark hair fanning the pillow and the blanket slung lazily around his hips, he looks like some sort of fallen angel. Beautiful and remote and impossible to touch by sullied hands that aren’t half as sacred. It makes his heart thud an uneven staccato when he remembers that he’s his— Sirius chose Remus, Sirius loves Remus— Maybe even nearly as much as Remus has always loved him.

How remarkable of a revelation indeed.

Gingerly, Remus sets down his tea and crawls back into bed with Sirius, insides thrilling when the dark haired boy subconsciously snakes his arms around him and curves around Remus’s body like so many times before, so often that Remus reckons it’s become by rote, an ingrained response to whenever they’re in close proximity to one another.

With a quiet laugh, Remus stretches around, begins peppering Sirius’s chest and abs and the space surrounding his cock with tender kisses, slowly rousing him to wakening the way Sirius always appreciates after a night of patrols for the Auror’s academy. And as usual, it doesn’t take long at all for Sirius to begin moaning out appreciative sighs, thrusting languorously for the warmth of his mouth, making Remus chuckle as he tugs down his pants, and kisses the length of him, peering up to watch as Sirius’s gorgeous, gray eyes flutter open.

“Wh— Moony?” He says in a peculiarly squeaky voice that Remus can’t ever remember slipping out of his mouth. 

“Yes— Problem, Paddy?”

Another discontent, borderline terrified noise rumbles in his throat, and before Remus could even ask what’s got his boyfriend acting like he’s touched in the head, the door to their flat flings open none too gently, and it’s an irate looking James who storms into the bedroom— fists clenched and jaw set as he glares daggers into the face of his practical brother.

“You’re dead Potter!” Is all he shouts before madness ensues— Madness that’s James’s flying fists for Sirius’s face, Peter’s choked laughter flowing in from the other room, and a Lily who looks stuck between horrified and amused

And Remus is so fucking bewildered as he slides off of his boyfriend to avoid any untoward hits accidentally aimed his way.

“Lily?” he presses expectantly, but is totally unsurprised when all she replies with is a bout of uninhibited cackles.

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Fifteen minutes, a magically healed split lip, and a physically restrained pair of animagi later, finds the ragtag group of friends surrounding the kitchen Island while a terse James and enraged Sirius are explaining what had happened the previous night. Namely, them getting hexed by a sour faced old bint with a Guinness in hand, after Sirius had driven his motorbike through her rosebushes.

“You guys got bested by a drunk hag!” Peter guffaws for the third time in a singular minute, clutching at his stomach while his body wracks with a continuous stream of  laughter

“I will singe your bollocks off Wormtail,” Sirius seethes from Remus’s left— Except no, it’s not Sirius. It’s James, his best mate James who’s now inhabiting the body of his lover. And God how strange of a fucking turn of events. It’s seriously unnerving. He’s just standing their, all too familiar arms crossed against his chest and thick brows furrowed. And God, Remus really wishes he wouldn’t do that— worry on his bottom lip mid snarl. It’s such a quintessentially Sirius thing to do. a look Remus knows well. One that Remus would always coax away with a gentle kiss and a hand carding through his hair and— 

“Oof!”

He glances over to where Sirius— wearing James’s face— is glowering at him with pure irritation after having elbow checked him. “Eyes front and center Lupin!”

Remus flushes, glancing over at Lily since she out of everyone here could understand his plight. But of course she’s only snickering to herself in her cup of coffee, the trader. 

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Just because ’s my body doesn’t mean you get to give another bloke the come hither eyes!” Sirius fumes, a sneer caught on his features that Remus never thought the face of the easy going James Potter could ever conjure. “Crikey, it’s plenty that you decided to give him a full on show already.”

“How was I to know this would happen!” Remus sputters the same time James defends that they even barely started, which of course made Peter fall over on his chair with pure delight and Lily walking over to the kettle so she can hide her own laughter.

“Lucky you,” Sirius snipes back, glaring darkly at James and snatching Remus’s hand to interlock with his— erm James’s?— own on his lap.

Remus is so totally fucked.

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Graciously, Professor McGonagall— who told the graduating Gryffindor  class of 78 to always reach out if they ever needed help with a strangely wet glint in her eyes— Replies to the pleading missive Remus had sent almost immediately, giving Remus the proper instructions to reverse the jinx and wishing him and Lily the best for the impending tribulations about to befall them.

“She’s totally loving this,” James mumbles moodily as Lily massages his head. And Merlin, is that a strange sight— Lily not only deigning to touch Sirius at all, but look at him sympathetically on top of that. Remus has to constantly remind himself of the body swap before his ridiculous envy begins carving at his insides when James only looks appreciatively back up at her, a gentle, open expression painted over his face that is ordinarily reserved for Remus and Remus alone.

“God this is weird,” Lily tells him, slowly inching away and sitting besides Remus instead. “I usually can’t stand even the sight of Black, and now I’ve got to treat him like the bloke I’m in love with.”

“That’s not what you said this morning Evans,” Sirius goads from Remus’s other end, suddenly reverting back to looking like the James of fifth year— when he was still too cocky for his own good and still didn’t understand how much it made Lily want to hex him to hell for it. “I actually think I recall a lot of back robs and straddling action this morning.”

Lily casts him a look that would absolutely scorch lesser beings, and Remus reasons that his own glower is emulating the same energy because Sirius quickly presses their foreheads together and squeezes Remus’s hand between both of his own in silent repentance. “I knocked her off once i realized it wasn’t you love.”

“Didn’t even bother to aim for the bed you absolute sod.”

“It was fight or flight while you had your grubby little hands all over me Evans!” Sirius airily sniffs.

“Oh I’ll show you grubby little hands!” Lily seethes, pouncing forwards right when Sirius hides behind Remus’s back.

“Children,” Remus intones, beyond over it. “Did you all not realize the massive problem with this little mishap.”

“You mean besides dealing with James’s pitiful little knob.” Sirius asks, faux owlish.

“You touch my knob Black and I swear to God I’ll shave off all your hair.” James snipes, which really isn’t all that fair considering how Sirius doesn’t even care about his perfect locks half as much as Remus does.

“Bloody hell! That’s brilliant!” Peter squawks from the loveseat, absolutely glowing. “James, you think you can get Moony’s name tattooed on his arse.”

James’s face goes sly, Remus’s favorite smirk toying the edges of his lips and his stormy eyes glinting with mirth that Remus only ever sees on his boyfriend’s face before a prank or while Remus is undressing in front of him. 

“What did I say about that look Moony!” Sirius shouts, scathing and skewering him with a look James only ever  employed as Head Boy  on the third year students stupid enough to get caught while trying to pull off a prank.

“Erm— Ahem.” Remus adjusts himself in his seat, not meeting anyone’s eyes. “Yes well, that is rather besides the point.”

“So what is the point, Rem,” Lily asks smugly, and Remus absolutely hates how much she’s enjoying this. She should be suffering just as much as him for the sake of Circe.

“Well didn’t you have that lunch date set up with your older sister and her husband for today?” Remus points out, a mutinous little part of him preening at how her face goes a sickly sort of pale at the reminder. Finally someone is as ill over this as he is.

“Oh bloody shite! You’re right! And Professor McGonagall said that this incantation can only be done at night, the same time as it was originally cast!”

“We’re not in school anymore Evans, you can just call her McGonagall. Or Minnie if you’re so inclined.”

“Shut the fuck up Black!” Lily shrieks, and Remus can’t help but unfavorably liken her to a banshee. “I promised Petunia that I’d see her before she leaves on holiday tomorrow! And she bloody hates Black!”

“nasty harpy.”

“What are we going to do!”

“Erm— Well maybe you can explain to her the switch up?” Peter offers, always meek in the face of Lily’s wrath.

“She already thinks I’m a freak for being a witch Peter! I can’t bring James looking like that and expect her to be fine with it!”

“Most people would consider James having upgraded,” Sirius argues.

“The tattoo will be bright pink I reckon,” James muses loudly to himself, pretending not to have heard Sirius. “A nice contrast to your pasty white arse don’t you think Padfoot?”

Sirius bares his teeth at him and Remus feels an impending migraine while Lily continues to lament the idiocy of their boyfriends.

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Remus idly contemplates how normal his life could’ve been if he had fought harder with the sorting hat to be placed into Ravenclaw. It would be a much less wonderful existence, to be sure, but it’d be so blessedly normal. Remus would probably have gone steady with that Hufflepuff prefect, Andre, and they would probably still be together. And Andre didn’t have a best friend who he got into insane and improbable situations with, so Remus definitely wouldn’t have been forced to do this. To be forced to go to lunch with his best friend’s wizard hating sister and her pug faced husband and not look longingly over the table at the face of his other best friend where the love of his life is inhabiting his body.

Jesus, is Remus’s life confusing as fuck.

“I need to take a pis— Oof, I mean. I have to use the gents,” Sirius declares as everyone’s entrees are being served, giving a pointed glance to Remus. And he supposes he should talk to him about that, how incredibly obvious Sirius can be when he’s flustered and isn’t trying to show it.

Five minutes after his boyfriend, Remus leaves to meet him in the first open stall, finally feeling less wrong footed for the first time today when Sirius takes him into his unfamiliar arms.

“I’m going to stab my eyes out with a fork Moony!” He hisses, and it’s odd how alien his face— James’s face— is to him. How Remus has never spent the time to memorize the precise slope of his nose, or the shape to his lips. How Remus can’t understand what it means when he squints his left eye or when he flares his nostrils with a slight curl to his mouth. But Remus does recognize the way Sirius has always grabbed his hips in that desperate way when he’s fed up, and how he always presses his nose to the curls behind Remus’s ear when he needs to be grounded. And it’s a bit awkward now that they’re the same height instead of Sirius needing to stoop slightly, and how Sirius now smells like that pricy cologne that James has always sprits with gusto. But it’s familiar enough to make Remus’s shoulders relax from the tension sown through them all day, and breathe out with relief with how the pair of them still understand one another with an innate sort of knowing.

Gingerly, Remus wraps his arms around Sirius’s now less defined torso, and they stand their, tangled into one another amidst the hush settling over  them.

“Oi! You berks!” James hisses from the doorway all too soon, clambering inside and stomping his feet. “I swear to Merlin if you pricks are fucking inside there!”

“Don’t worry Jamie, I’d never put my Moons through the indignity of dealing with that after he’s had me,” Sirius jeers, preening when James replies by throwing something hard against the doorway.

“C’mon you idiot,” Remus sighs, tugging on a lowly chuckling Sirius as they meet James by the exit of the loo.

“I’ve had three different birds sliding their numbers into my trousers on my way here alone,” James complains, shuffling foot to foot and looking more awkward than Sirius ever has. “It’s obscene.”

“It’s the life of the beautiful,” Sirius corrects as Remus swaths his hand away from his arse. 

“I’d rather not have Petunia getting a heart attack when she sees her sister’s boyfriend copping a feel of another bloke,” he chides before looping his arm through James’s and begins strolling back to the table.

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The rest of the lunch is thankfully uneventful, but as stilted as expected, filled with Sirius needing to be kicked in the shin every time he starts gazing absentmindedly at Remus, and Lily flickering her eyes over to James disappointedly while he pouts at her with Sirius’s best puppy dog eyes. And Every time Petunia starts eyeing them all as if they’re all fucking each other behind the scenes, Remus clumsily changes the topic to the weather or how lovely her engagement ring is or asking Vernon about bloody drills— Even if all he wants to do is reach across the table and hold Sirius’s hand.

But thankfully, it all seems to be going along decently enough— That is until the waiter comes around to take their orders and spends a little too long leering at Remus, asking if he’d like a cinnamon roll on the house.

“He’d like a slice of the chocolate fudge cake and he has a boyfriend that probably wouldn’t appreciate the extra service.” Sirius growls out, specs gone askew and dark knuckles paling from where he’s clutching his spoon vindictively.

The waiter only smiles at him, shrugging in that what can you do kind of way before dashing off to place the orders in with the kitchen.

“Hmm,” Petunia levels him with a glance, unimpressed looking. “So James.”

It takes a beat too long for Sirius to respond and Remus silently curses his every damn star. 

“Erm, yes Petunia.”

“How long have you been fucking my sister’s friend behind her back?”

Lily goes shellshocked and James looks ill while Remus sinks lower in his seat, trying to force Sirius to get it together through his eye contact alone.

“Hah— Wow, you’ve been watching those silly Muggle dramas have you Petunia.” Sirius says in a mangled tone of voice, but of course that’s the precise wrong thing to have said.

With matching red faces and spluttering words of indignation— a few curses thrown in for good measure— Petunia and her husband rise from their seats and make a hasty retreat to their car towards the back of the building.

“Oh Christ,” Lily groans, jumping up to sprint after them— but not without swinging a perfectly aimed cuff to the back of Sirius’s porcupine head. “I’ll hex you once you’re out of my boyfriend’s sodding body Black!”

“I understand Evans!” He calls after her before swinging his head over to James and Remus with a mischievous grin. “We tried didn’t we?”

“You just couldn’t keep your bloody jealous  temper in check,” James scolds with no real heat.

“Oi! And what about you lusting over Lily so blatantly you tosser! It was revolting.”

“Yeah, well maybe you’ll remember that next time you’re gazing at Moony’s arse out in public you mongrel.”

Exhausted, Remus just rises and tells them to stay behind and make sure Lily’s alright. “I need a bath and some quiet.”

“Can I join,” Sirius pouts. “I miss you.”

“Only once you’re my  Sirius again,” Remus instructs, brooking no arguments before he finds a safe place to apparate, telling himself that he deserves an entire bottle of that cheap merlot they bought last weekend.

#REMUS LUPIN #SIRIUS BLACK #WOLFSTAR #SIRIUSXREMUS #REMUSXSIRIUS #MARAUDERS #HARRY POTTER SERIES #spilt ink #I feel bad I didn't post a Remus Bday FIC tho #rip #sorry angel child o'mine