#andy says random crap

[andydrarch]

Just bought monster hunter rise on switch bc it was on sale, anyone have any tips for someone who hasn’t played a monster hunter game before?

#the closest I’ve played is dauntless #but after playing this for about two hours I can tell this game is MUCH much more complex #andy says random crap #monster hunter #monster hunter rise

[studentinpursuitofclouds]

use this ask to talk about your random headcanons for any character you like :)

Whoa, boy! It's been a long time since I wrote random headcanons (like, a month ago? idk). A great reason to add another portion of my crappy headcanons about sdv and sve. I hope you like it!

Some random SDV and SVE headcanon:

Once at the Stardew Valley Fair, when many tourists with their children come to the festival, a couple of teenagers began to tease and offend Jas. Shane, of course, was not happy when he found out that some brats were teasing his dear niece. But instead of barking at those little assholes, Shane acted differently. He whistled with all his might, and all the chickens that were in the aviary at the festival came running to his call. Shane gave them the command to 'sic'em, girls', and all his feathered friends rushed at the offenders, clucking and pecking to drive them away. Jas is saved, Shane is laughing his stomach out, mayor Lewis is not too pleased that the chickens are terrorizing the tourists. How Shane managed to train chickens like that - no one knows, except maybe Marnie and Jas. Also, Jas gave her uncle the nickname "The Chicken Lord". Well deserved, some would say.

Every Sunday, when Andy goes to Pierre's shop to pray at the Yoba altar, he always stops for a couple of minutes near the fence at Marnie's ranch and pets the baby goats and lambs, which quickly rushed to the old farmer in search of affection. Only Marnie knows about this little "tradition" and Andy asks her not to spread it, because he doesn't want to be called a slobber. Marnie doesn't mind, especially since Andy almost always brings a couple of his crops to treat her favorite animals. She also sometimes gives him a gallon of milk or fresh goat cheese as a thank you. No, Andy is not shy, go away, shoo!

Sam, Sebastian and Abigail went out one autumn day at night into the woods to perform a 'summoning ritual' using crystals, bird feathers and other crap that they found on the Internet and thought it would be scary and fun. None of them knew that the ritual had actually worked, how the fuck- A portal opened in front of them, from which the head of an ugly horned monster crawled out, ready to destroy everything around. Fortunately for them, Rasmodius felt a strange magical aura and arrived in time, drove the monster back from where the creature got out and closed the portal. Later, he severely scolded the terrified trio and promised to whoop their asses if anyone thought of doing the summoning ritual again. If you are doing magic and occult things, turn to Magnus for help, it's better to do it with a mentor than to do it anyhow.

Lance has repeatedly expressed his desire to explore the deepest levels of the mines in order to study the growth of purple mushrooms, which are in abundance there. To his luck, Marlon just needs the help of a battle mage in clearing those very levels from monsters and finding rubies and diamonds for Magnus's experiments. The hunt went well and Lance was able to pick up a couple of great specimens to study. They will serve as excellent material for the continuation of his book on magical plants and mushrooms, as well as for the brewing of important life elixirs. But the shroom stew turned out disgusting. Well, he still have to eat it, you can’t just throw out food, right?

Olivia was the one who instilled in Harvey his love for truffle oil. When Victor caught a terrible cold that was accompanied by a high fever, a frightened Olivia called Harvey for help. The doctor took care of Victor all week until he fully recovered. Relieved, Olivia already wanted to pay extra for Harvey's services, to which he categorically said no, explaining that this was his job and that he was doing it to save people, not for money. Olivia sincerely understands and respects his position. And yet, the next day, she sent a couple of bottles of expensive truffle oil by parcel to the clinic as a thank you, noting in a letter that she insisted. Harvey has to give credit, with oil the dishes really got a lot tastier and richer. It's better than the Joja ready meals anyway.

#sve #stardew valley expanded #sdv #stardew valley #sve lance #sdv wizard #sdv rasmodius #sve magnus #sdv jas #sdv shane #sve andy #sdv sam #sdv abigail #sdv sebastian #sdv harvey #sve olivia #sdv headcanons #sve headcanons

[isekai-crow]

2024 Winter Anime Lineup (Master Post?)

First post for a new blog where I'm going to try and record my opinions, break downs, comparisons, and various degrees of squees about anime!

The lineup for this year's Winter isn't as packed as the 2023 Fall season was, but that's always the case. It sure is still causing my To Watch List to keep getting longer... but more importantly because it's so lacking in big name shows one of my most anticipated shows gets to shine...

SOLO LEVELING

俺だけレベルアップな件

LET'S GOOOOOOOO!!!

I'M SO EXCITED FOR MY SHADOW BOY TO FINALLY ARRIVE!!!

also, holy CRAP look at all this TRADITIONAL FANTASY!!! There is even a decent selection of non harem Isekai this round too! And a lot of awesome sequels/continuations!

Anyways, here's what's on my to watch list for this season! I'll be posting about them in their own or other threads as I figure out how I want to set this blog up. My reasons for WHY I'm watching what I'm watching

Definitely Will Watch!

Solo Leveling / 俺だけレベルアップな件

Apothecary Diaries /薬屋のひとりごと(Continued)

Delicious in Dungeon (Dungeon Meshi) / ダンジョン飯

The Villains Day Off / 休日のわるものさん

Undead Unluck / アンデッドアンラック(Continued)

Fire Hunter (Hikari no Ou) 2nd Season / 火狩りの王

High Hopes / Might Drop / Taking My Time

Sasaki and Peeps / 佐々木とぴーちゃん

The Witch and the Beast / 魔女と野獣

Doctor Elise / 外科医エリゼ

Cherry Magic (THIS ENGLISH TITLE LMAO) / 30歳まで童貞だと魔法使いになれるらしい (DEF WATCHING THIS ONE NOW)

Shangri-La Frontier / シャングリラフロンティア　(Continued)

Beyond Journey's End / 葬送のフリーレン (Continued)

Gonna Give Them A Few Episodes

Mashle Season 2

Fluffy Paradise / Isekai de Mofumofu Nadenade Suru Tame ni, Ganbattemasu (I'm doing my best in another world to pet fluffy creatures)

Ishura

The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic / 治癒魔法の間違った使い方

Blue Exorcist / Ao no Exorcist (OUT OF LEFT FIELD THIS ONE)

Delusional Monthly Magazine / Gekkan Mousou Kagaku

This is already insanely long, so the second half of this essay about what I think is below ↓↓↓↓

DEFINITE WATCH LIST

SOLO LEVELING - I've been waiting for the solo leveling anime since BEFORE the anime was ever announced, re-reading the webcomic/manhwa multiple times and just HOPING someone would animate these gorgeous shadows. It is a very well done power fantasy with only squints of romance, and while I'm sad it's been localized to Japan (and all the fuckery that comes with of Korean erasure), I got to see the first two episodes at the World Premiere and I. Am. So. Hype.

APOTHECARY DIARIES existed completely outside of my head space, and my initial response at the premise was, Raven of the Inner Palace? I wasn't actually expecting much from it and then the first few episodes BLEW ME OUT OF THE WATER and now I'm obsessed.

DUNGEON MESHI is one of those manga I've heard about, but tried reading and it was too slow paced for me (I say, currently slogging through The Boat Arc (TM) of Hunter x Hunter), but the anime gives it life and I think I'll enjoy this alot. I love cooking anime and fantasy, so this will be fun!

KYUJITSU NO WARUMONOSAN is just straight up Crow Bait. That curly bowl cut, the gap moe of a villain who loves cute things, and voiced by fricken Shintarou Asanuma!!! (I know him as Samatoki from HypMic, other's will know him from the "Fucking Bullshit" song from Carole and Tuesday, and a host of other roles) Also, all the pretty sentei / power ranger boys!!! I'm so hype, in the most relaxed chill way for this.

UNDEAD UNLUCK is so weird in that it involves a lot of random sexualization, but it doesn't make me uncomfortable like Seven Deadly Sin's random gropping did, maybe because there is actual implied consent involved. Fuuko and Andy are Poly and I love them for it. And the world building is TOP NOTCH.

FIRE HUNTER - If you haven't seen season one, you are missing out. A darkly beautiful post-post apocolyptic alternate Japan-esque world, from the POV of a young girl, and a young genius boy having to let himself be manipulated by capitalism to survive, and gods? a magic system? but so soft that it's barely there even while being a full on fantasy story.

High Hopes or Taking My Time

SASAKI AND PEEPS- What a weird little show that has the weirdest combination of isekai, the most "this is fine." salaryman, and a fricken' CHUNIBYO BIRB. I've already watched the first episode and it feels like there are two magic systems going on and its a bit confusing, so we will see how this plays out!

WITCH AND BEAST - I keep wanting to call this Beauty and the Beast, because the beast is a rad bad ass looking lady, and the witch is certainly one of the most beautiful undertakers I've ever seen. I think he carries his boyfriend around in his coffin backpack, so I'm hype to see WTF is up with that >o>

DOCTOR ELISE - Why do manhwa I read keep randomly popping up as anime??? This is a vilainess turned good story, and supposedly the market is full of these, but none of them are the good ones I've read, so I did a double take of happiness when I saw this. THIS ONE IS GOOD. An spoiled princess gets killed, is reborn in Korea and becomes a doctor, only to be killed by Airplane-kun, and winds up back in her old body where she decides to become a doctor again! The prince is even not your typical icy asshole! (although maybe he is a little at the beginning..)

CHERRY MAGIC - THIS FRICKEN ENGLISH TITLE GOOD LORDS ABOVE. I'm dying. I'm also excited to see this one play out and I'll be hiding behind a pillow giggling like a mad lad while I do. It's been a while since there's been a good BL that's not SAD (looking at YOU Given and Banana Fish, but avoids eye contact with Sasaki and Miyano) so hopefully it doesn't dip into that territory. Going into this one mostly blind as to the premise apart from the obvious Gap-Moe with the love interest.

SHANGRI-LA - I started watching this on a whim as the Fall season started to wind down, and found it to be a good potato chip to have on in the background. I'll probably continue watching it, but not weekly.

FRIEREN - This is what I watch when Jujutsu Kaisen hurts too much to keep going. I'm only a few episodes in, so it'll be slow going, but I think it's about to pick up it's pacing a little where I'm at, and it'll be good comfort food to have.

MAYBES

Mashle Season 2 - The pacing was SUPER WEIRD in the first season that despite all of it's shitting on the properties of she-who-shall-not-be-named, the end of the season kind of fell flat. I wanted to like it more, so I'm hoping Season 2 does that for me.

Fluffy Paradise - I love isekais with an adult in a child's body pretending to be just super smart, and this doesn't feel like it's going to do that, but still looks cute none the less. I'll give it a few episodes, but will quickly drop it if my watch list is too long.

Ishura - Is this what life is like for D&D Characters when they hit level 20? I HOPE SO. I LOVED the Legend of Vox Machina, and hope this has the same sort of vibes, but I'm going in blind!

The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic - Love me some fucked up healing magic. Please DO NOT let this be ANYTHING like Redo Healer. I refuse to watch that even those FUCKED UP HEALING MAGIC IS FUN. But this. This I want to see. Please let this also not be a harem. I'm fine with ~vibes~ but please no actual harem that's not actually Poly.

Blue Exorcist - THIS IS TOTALLY OUT OF NOWHERE. HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN?????? I remember the last season feeling like a disappointment? But can't remember why? Gonna see if this is worth re-watching the seasons from like... a decade ago.

Delusional Monthly Magazine - I watched the PV and had no fucking clue what was happening. Therefore, I will be watching a few episodes to sate my curiosity about WTF OR possibly just get myself even more confused and rage quit. lmao

I've watched the first few episodes of a couple of these, and will be watching a few more tomorrow, so Next Goal: Post a write up or three about what I think!

#anime #anime winter 2024 #apothecary diaries #solo leveling #sousou no frieren #undead unluck #cherry magic #sasaki and peeps #dungeon meshi #mr. villain's day off #mashle #kusuriya no hitorigoto #frieren #beyond journey's end #ore dake level up na ken #delicious in dungeon #masterpost

[22degreehalo]

So Oscar and Andy get increasingly close, and Andy starts crushing major hard, but in his affection-starved obliviousness just sorta repeatedly ends up word-vomiting at Oscar about how much he loves him, man, and how sometimes he feels like he's never known true happiness until the moment their eyes met and their lives became entwined mah broski (Andy KNOWS that this isn't gay because he was really worried he was gay for a while but then he made out with a random dude in a club and it sucked sooo Tuna's plan was foolproof, Andy is for SURE 110% hetero)

Anyway Oscar meanwhile is busy losing his mind. Because at first it had just been sorta eyerolling (like 'wow American straight men really are lacking for outlets for affection, lucky that has nothing to do with me lmao' but slowly it becomes clearer that yes Oscar actually is also That lonely and lacking in outlets for affection himself (due not to social norms but mere inability to get a boyfriend, which is even sadder tbh), and then he starts. Actually thinking Andy is great and fun and makes his life better and is someone he'd want to hear say these things for real if he could.

And eventually (probably at some kinda fancy restaurant or similar date-type thing) he hits breaking point and just. Tells Andy to shut it with the 'sometimes I think God himself beered you to me' shit. Because it's silly and he doesn't wanna hear that crap.

And Andy goes all quiet and hurt. And simply says that he learned a lot that day. And leaves.

And Oscar is. Trying to convince himself that that was the right call. He was getting in too deep, and the guilt he feels at Andy's cold reaction is only proof of that. He doesn't think about how much more boring his day is without him.

But eventually, Andy comes around. Almost entraps Oscar. Because he thinks they need to talk about what Oscar said. And he really thinks Oscar needs to hear this, too.

(And it's just. Oh god is Andy a serial killer??)

And what follows is. The beginnings of a long, drawn out lecture on masculinity and societal pressure against demonstrations of affection between men.

Because the thing Andy learned that day, when Oscar told him to stop saying 'anything that sounds like it could be lyrics from a cheesy musical final-act duet', is that Oscar is homophobic.

Which really sucks because Andy is starting to realise that he might be bi, hinself. And he never ever would have expected that the most homophobic person he knows would be his gay lifelong best friend partner.

(Of course Oscar is forced to clarify that he wants Andy to shut it because he's worried about FALLING FOR HIM, and Andy scoffs at that until Oscar is forced to prove that no yeah it is actually um. Kinda happening already. And the Andy goes very quiet and leaves the room for a long time.)

(Two days later they're dating.)

#the office #oscar x andy #andy x oscar #ofc Andy didn't enjoy the kiss bc it wasnt with Oscar #just kept thinking abt how he'd rather be spending time with his best buddds #how did andy realise he might be bi actually anyway??? #i donft. know. #the man is an enigma #this is oscar's pov here we're just on for his bewildering ride

[starpoof]

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I had to do my Beauty and the Beast show. But anyway, here's a random headcanon dump for an idea I had.

They gave Melody a tamagochi bro fr.

-Holy Crap, you already know Melody is gonna love it with all her heart. Possibly even more than her friends.

-She names him Captain Sprinkles, cuz why not?

-She takes him around everywhere and just shows off everything he does to everyone.

Melody: Felix! Look what Captain Sprinkles did!

Felix: Why are you showing me Captain Sprinkles taking a shit?

-Andy's the one who got her the thing and he's starting to regret it.

-If she can't take care of him, she usually make Claus do it.

Melody: Claus, can you take care of Captain Sprinkles please?

Claus: Why do I always have to do it? Why can't Felix?

Melody: Do you really think Felix can keep him alive?

Claus: Fair point.

-Melody went as far as to make Claus Captain Sprinkles' Godfather. That's how much she loves this thing.

-Now when Captain Sprinkles DIES. That's when things really get interesting.

-Andy's just chillin when he hears Melody scream "NOOOOO!!" and then start crying. Then rushes over and:

Andy: Melody! What happened?! What's wrong?!

Melody sobbing: CAPTAIN SPRINKLES IS DEAD!!!

Andy: ...

-Girl hosted an entire funeral for a toy.

-She made everyone wear fancy black clothes and played those sad songs you usually see in memes.

-She wrote an entire speech and didn't even make it half way without bursting into tears on the altar.

-Everyone tried to act sad and sympathetic, but they were all either just... didn't care, or they were laughing on the inside. *Cough cough* FELIX- *Cough cough*

-They all felt bad for Melody, cuz they don't like seeing her sad obviously, but still-

-Melody ended up actually burying the tamagochi, and she made a weird little thing to lower it into the hole.

-She was sobbing her eyes out during the burial, and everyone had different reactions.

Margaret: Thinks this is stupid, but still tries to awkwardly comfort Melody.

Claus: Just... Stares at this all happening.

Andy: "Bro, I spent money on that-"

Felix: Desperately struggling to not laugh. (He ended up excusing himself from the funeral multiple times)

-After the burial, Melody asked Captain Sprinkles' Godfather to say a few words.

-Bro came up with the awkwardest speech ever. (Felix ended up recording it)

-Andy and Margaret were just... trying not to laugh.

-Poor Claus was just... So embarrassed.

-Like imagine, being the Godfather to a toy and then having to speak it's funeral.

-Melody thought it was beautiful.

-Peter just coming to haunt Andy again and then sees him at a funeral for a Tamagochi.

-He ended up just watching from behind. Just like, sitting there and eating popcorn.

-After the funeral, Melody spent a day mourning in her room.

-Then ended up building a little altar for him. She put a sailboat on top to honor her little Captain. (God, why am I crying now?)

#andys apple farm #andys apple farm headcanons #andy the apple #felix the fish #margaret the mole #claus the clock #melody the moon #peter the pumpkin #shitpost

[cageslip]

ATTN : DEMIGODS OF CAMP HALF - BLOOD . ENCLOSED :

❝ — SHE'S AN OUTDOOR CAT , MAN . IT'S WHATEVER . GIVE HER NINE LIVES . AND IF SHE DIES , SHE DIES .

FULL GOVERNMENT NAME : maia joan shea .

CALL HER : o . c . THAT STANDS FOR : outdoor cat .

AGE : twenty - four .

D . O B . : august 8th , 1953 . NATAL CHART : leo sun , scorpio moon , virgo rising .

SPECIES : demigod .

MOTHER : joan . deceased '59 — 33 years old . pensacola native . head of housekeeping at the resort on pensacola beach . flashes of soft skin and coconut tanning lotion . the altar of photobooth clips and polaroids and a closet full of vintage leather bags stuffed with gloss and love letters and stale foreign cigarettes . FATHER : hermes . god of going out to get a pack of foreign cigarettes . he came back around when his daughter proved useful to him , but she'll never forget . UNCLE : andy . handyman , mechanic . her real father , and mother , all things considered . joan's little brother — 25 when maia became his official legal burden , 43 at present . as far as family , really , there is nobody but him . a tangled emotional knot of memories so potent and bright they could overwhelm the sun .

GODLY PARENT : hermes .

TELEPORTATION : yeah , fuck you , she can teleport . long distances , too . at will . ALCHEMY : not something she's quite mastered , apart from dabbling in magical party drugs and the occasional minor enchantment . water into wine . party tricks . so far .

INVENTORY : black jansport .

ENCHANTED EVER RETURNING CELESTIAL BRONZE COINS : her weapon of choice . a gift from hermes . carried in a 20's beaded bag , or loose in her pocket . 9 coins altogether . when flipped , or thrown , the coins transform into darts , daggers , or knives where appropriate . generally speaking , they return to their sender . RANDOM LOOSE CRAP : a gift from hermes . when the god of travelers rewarded his 14 year old newly claimed daughter and champion with the backpack that'd accompany her for the rest of her journeys as a vagrant demigod , he had a little bit of fun . there's a janitor's ring of keys , who's to say what any of them open , if anything . three loose teeth . ew . a pair of fuzzy dice . a hotel key for a hotel that never existed . random receipts . shotgun shells . you get the picture . CONTRABAND : you name it , she's got it . if it's not allowed at camp , she can get it to you . hope you pre - ordered your shit , because it's looking like she's not gonna be able to leave camp grounds again for a minute .

FLORIDA GIRL : unfortunate circumstances & their consequences .

she's six when her mother dies . the memories there are fuzzy around the edges , saturated and warm and warped by the cracking yellow sun . who knows what's real about it . anyways , she always remembers andy . the blue house and the holes in the screen door . dangling hairfist over the bow of a motorboat and poking at barnacles while andy prays an engine back to life . she knows that's all real . understand , she was always an outdoor cat . she was a barefoot , firefly chasing , tree climbing , swamp exploring , fearless warrior on a three speed bike . scraped knees and rides home from the sheriff's deputy — andy's best friend's brother , illegal fireworks , c minus report cards , donuts on the golf course , and the all times they stole mr . connor's grady white and took it for a spin around the bay . she was fourteen when that thing came out of the water for her — it almost killed her . when oscar , her boss at the marina , maia was working the bait shop counter for the summer , told her the unfortunate truth about some things . he pulled her onto the dock . they ran from the creature . he took her to long island . she didn't get to say goodbye . she spent one night in a sleeping bag on the floor of cabin 11 . night two , she made her break for it . she'd stolen some kit — now savvy to celestial bronze — and taken off into the dark . three risky hitches , two greyhounds . it was terrifying . freefall . home by dawn . panicked , she found her uncle at the dockyard . flung herself into his arms . wept . he then told her what he knew . her father was a con man , swindler , he'd heard he was from california . he'd also heard , yes , a story about him being the greek god of messengers and commerce . he had always felt that was unlikely . he gave her some cash , some sentimental parting gifts , a sandwich and a coke , and sent her back to camp . maia did not go back to camp . as far as maia was concerned , she was free . she went anywhere but camp . for six months , she learned how to ride the rails . she learned how to make cash . how to scrape by , scramble , scheme , survive . for three weeks she follows the rolling stones along on the american leg of their world tour . she gets a taste for life on the road . this is the beginning of the rest of her life . furies chase her back to long island . mostly just for the fun of it . anyways . she has questions . she's tired , too , badly hurt . though the ego won't relent on that front . in any regard , she finds herself back in front of chiron . unrepentant . he has a message from her father . while she slept , he paid visit . chiron expressed his frustration , concern . plans of action . hermes was amused , borderline endeared . she was always an outdoor cat , true , but hermes was the one to say it . the camp director's exasperations are met with a crack about nine lives . and then the immortal psychopomp slung an unassuming black bookbag off his shoulder , and onto the table .

it's ten years of come and go . she's oc , she doesn't give a fuck . once she learns how to teleport , which she does , and swiftly , she gets good at outsmarting monsters . good at running . good at killing . and surviving . compartmentalizing , dodging , persisting . hermes starts to ask her for favors . she delivers packages . sensitive materials . god to god cross country ground services . she's an excellent courier , so long as the pay is enticing enough . when she's at camp , which is for either days or months at a time , she's your contraband kingpin . whatever you need from the outside world , oc is your girl . she's for sure a top 5 troublemaker , genuinely possessing zero self control and even less respect for authority . a heedless hedonist , she's pretty consistently at the center of nonsense . by extension of being somewhat of a daddy's girl , she's also a camp girl , even though she has a complicated relationship with staying put . oc's never missed a capture the flag . she corresponds with semi regularity . keeps in touch . and more than once , she's shepherded a young stray demigod to safety . GOOD NEWS : oc is back ! she just showed up , today ! JUNE 8TH ! bad news for oc , chiron is seeeeerrriouuuss when he says she's under house arrest right now . she's just come back for the first time in a full year , and found out she's not going anywhere . should be fun !

#mist.intro #ATTN : kb_ooc . #CATEGORY : documentation .

[female-overlord-3]

Settle Down

Part 1 - Part 2

Penguin Daemon AU!

Read on AO3

Open Space Ch 2

First month

Michael did everything to keep himself busy, to only think about Alex and Andy when he got really low, but at least it wasn't hard to stay distracted.

He had the junkyard with Old Man Sander begrudgingly showing him the ropes when he'd get stuck. Arturo at the Crashdown when he and Rosa needed help. Figuring out school things with Isobel and Max. Out late searching for whatever random piece of the alien ship tech he can with Rosa when they can't stand being in Roswell.

If anything Michael would say he's been doing fine, even great! Deva's just lying about him being miserable. She keeps spreading that damn lie until they finally receive something from Alex and Andy, where he all but crumples to his knees from the cheesy postcard that has a random little alien drawn in familiar handwriting holding a heart. There are some tears and one of the old junkers gets a little crushed.

It takes a week before he shows anyone else and even then he doesn’t let anyone actually touch it.

Miss you. Next one will be soon. May not be the same stars but it’s the same endless space keeping us linked.

A.M.

First year

It took a whole year, an actual whole year before Alex and Michael were able to see each other again because Alex was finally on leave.

“I can do it, I told you my persuasion is so good I made Dickbag Long walk into the women's room!"

Michael quickly gives up when he sees the anxious frown on Alex's face, lifting up to kiss it away. They only get these 2 brief weeks and there is no frowning or sad emotions allowed if Michael will have a say.

"I won't. You know I won't or even try okay."

The promise relaxes Alex instantly. Jesse Manes will probably always be a sensitive subject they have to take cautious steps through but the idea of having the great and serious Sergeant Manes walk into the Alien Emporium to buy then wear a pair of cheesy merchandise would be hilarious.

Alex remains quiet but takes Michael's left hand ever so gently. It's still scarred and slightly mangled but there isn't anymore pain, healed as close to normal as possible.

Usually when Michael makes a handprint on his chest they do it the second he's back if they get more than a week but only with his right hand. The firm way he presses Michaels left hand to his chest explains exactly what he wants but Michael always hesitates.

He still does but it's been so long since they were last able to meet up and there's been this need but-

"Please."

When does Michael ever so no to him?

"Alright." He swallows. "I'll try."

He does and it works yet it's different, like somehow stronger. The handprint glows brightly before disappearing like it sunk into Alex which has never happened before but they can still feel it, can almost see it when Alex shifts at just the right angle.

5 years later

One thing that nearly everyone knows, even if they don't realize it, is that Michael and Alex are something because it just radiates off them. The soulmate myth is a somewhat understood concept in Roswell and even less seen but it is unquestioned.

There's this idea that by being soulmates you've found your perfect fit, that once you meet then it's happily ever after with nothing but love and rainbows or some fantasy crap. It's not.

It's two souls that are able to see each other and click and connect then collide because they know they've met their match. Just because it's what their souls say it doesn't mean that translates to the bodies and minds that hold them.

"Everytime. Every. Time. You do this and I just can't hold my tongue anymore." Michael screams and their cars start to rattle. He hasn't lost control like that for the past 3 years but he's just so angry . It's been 5 years and he thought Alex would finally be back, that they'd be free of the stupid military and all the Manes man crap. Sure there would be at least a few more years but it would be inactive and Alex would use the connections he's made to be stationed in Roswell or somewhere close. Not another 3-5 years of active duty possibly on the other side of the world.

Alex is silent and even without a handprint Michael can feel an equal anger radiating off him.

"I need more experience Michael. I need to be above him so that he'll never be able to touch you or us again."

His hands are clenched so tightly at his side they're white, the frustration and anger barely kept at bay while also the need to hold Michael, to touch and reassure him or hold Deva safely, battles it.

Michael is in the same state but his hands are gripping his hair painfully, the feeling trying to ground him and keep the small 2 feet between them instead of latching into Alex and making sure he never lets go, that Alex and Andy never go again.

It doesn't help that Andy and Deva are all huddled together a safe distance from their idiots as they let them work through this fight.

It's hot. They're both exhausted from the long drive with at least another hour before they make it back to town. They had plans to eat but that's long passed now.

It's been nearly a year since they were able to figure out Alex's leave and Michael's schedule with school, so they could finally meet, the longest they've gone without being able to see each other.

"Michael please." Alex rarely begs but he knows that there's something he's barely caught onto the more he's regrettably worked with his father. The dark feeling he's gotten is different from the general horror he associates Jesse Manes with and now that he's aware of it he will get to the bottom of whatever other atrocity that horrible man is committing.

Alex knows all Michael sees is his father's claws sinking deeper into him with their time apart and more time with Jesse but Alex has grown. He's been able to protect and ground himself with the reminder of Michael and the future they're fighting for.

Michael who looks like he's about to snap into a downward spiral as he tries to search for any words to change Alex's mind.

"I- I just- why won't- Marry me!"

They stare at each other in shock once those words sink in.

"Michael-"

"I'll take your last name. I'll get your benefits. I'll be who they call if anything happens and I will be there if anything does." It's all rushed out as he closes the space between them but it doesn't feel random, it feels like something that's been on Michael's mind for a while.

Of course there's only one answer for it.

"Yes. Sure I'll-"

This kiss holds some remnants of their frustration and anger but it calms down to an urgency of needing to be close and touching and here.

Alex is able to break free for air but Michael just glides his lips along his cheek, skating to breathe against his ear then trails down his neck which doesn't help when he's trying to focus and talk.

"After- God Michael- we need to talk about it before but yes of course I'll marry you."

He gets a hum of agreement before they're scrambling for one of their cars to satisfy the near scorching need that's ignited in them.

Once things have cooled down for them to think more rationally, the idea of being married now is paused for later like a long engagement just for them. It’ll be saved for when Alex finally does come back for good and Michael actually has a ring.

Another reason to keep going and to look forward to in the future.

10 years reunited

Michael finds out what happens to Alex because he has Andy who starts crying in pain. They were just a month out before they could see each other and switch back.

It took nearly 5 months, a week of figuring out the logistics, and begrudgingly making good friends with Alex's Squadron before he was finally able to see him.

With a tiny bit of alien mind persuasion and the help of the whole medical staff also hating one Sergeant Jesse Manes, Alex is finally home. Well as close to home as possible.

The Reservation is nice, almost peaceful and just far enough away from all the bullshit drama that Roswell definitely has waiting for them.

Greg is surprisingly a decent Manes and he's glad Alex has at least someone else there besides him. The only other people he's told were Rosa and Isobel but even then he only made sure they knew that Alex was safe and healing.

They've got at least 4 months before the stupid Highschool reunion Isobel demands they attend and the honestly offensive welcome home parade for Alex next month they absolutely will not be attending.

It's only been 2 weeks but they're both still adjusting. To Alex and Andy being back while still healing, not needing to hide so much, being in a place that's calm, being able to be there for each other.

In a way this has given them the time and space to relearn each other again but flipped.

Michael still holds some regret and blame that he couldn't save Alex's leg but Alex joked they matched now.

"You are horrible and I hate you." It comes out croaked but Michael still smiles at the terrible joke.

Alex arches his head up with his lips pursed in question that Michael easily answers.

He's smug when it coaxes Michael to settle next to him in bed with Deva and Andy huddled next to them.

"At least I've got a genius to make me something better than whatever crap I'll have to wait a year for."

Michael may or may not have 3 prototypes ready for Alex to test out but that's not for another month.

They get through the next few months when it alternates between good and rough days before the dreaded reunion is only 4 days out. Alex stubbornly made quick progress to adjust to the prosthetic  Michael made so they could use it in time. Michael was still adamant about not wanting to leave yet but Alex wanted to see his made-family and he knew Michael missed his siblings and Rosa too.

They get there two days before and spend the first night in the airstream after such a long drive. The cabin would've been better but it's too far out for their plans tomorrow.

Alex has been looking at homes during his recovery to pass the time and there's been very few he would consider buying due to location, build, and the neighbor situation. Michael's only input being "Whatever you want but maybe a big enough yard for me to work on things?" so they've found 2 and plan to do a walk through before deciding.

Their first day starts out pretty well with Michael making them breakfast and a gruff but nice chat with Sander's, seeing the two houses and deciding on the second one. They see Rosa and Arturo first when they grab lunch at the Crashdown. Isobel spots them outside and gives Alex a quick hug before dragging Michael to help her fix a last minute thing for the reunion. This gives Alex a free hour to stop by the Wild Pony to see Mimi and Maria before Andy starts getting agitated by being away from Deva and Burnir's heavy gaze.

Then the news about Liz being home goes through the town like wildfire. Elizabeth Ortecho is home and certain people aren't happy about it so that wildfire spreads until it consumes one Wyatt Long.

Liz Ortecho is resurrected and this specific surge of power awakens another.

#Malex #malex fic #alex manes #michael guerin #🐧 daemon au #soulmate au #roswell new mexico #rosa ortecho #Settle Down

[yaomomvs]

SEIJOH MANANGER HEADCANONS

seijoh, aoba johsai x reader | slight oikawa, iwaizumi and kunimi x reader.

a/n: ugh! i just love my seijoh boys so much! and so, i decided to make one more headcanons for them, tysm! hopefully i’ll do inarizaki next or maybe karasuno.

a bit long but i just love them,and i will do a part two mainly focusing on while they do volleyball this is more of random things

other seijoh!manager works: one | two

the volume in this bus is ASTRONOMICAL

you actually never thought of joining a club, specially a sports one.

but you needed it, so while looking at the board of the school’s options you were unsure.

“i just really need something not that complicated, and that helps me helping others” you muttered to yourself

little did you know the coach of the volleyball team was there, this nice man turned to you and offered you a place in the team.

“but please if you are one of oikawa’s fangirls dont-” “who now?” you genuinely asked. seeing that you didn’t had a clue of who he was talking about he immediately handed the application for to you.

it was first day and you were already late, but you managed to enter the gym half way practice.

you guys remember that tanaka and kiyoko scene in s4? well it was the same

“sorry for being late coach!” your voice sounded all over the place since someone was serving and it was pretty quiet.

ALL OF THEM WERE SHOCKED LIKE 🧍🏻‍♀️

the serve even hit yahaba’s face because everyone got distracted by your beauty

“i- did i do something?” “existing omg”

the coach lined up everyone and they greeted you welcoming you to the team.

you were flustered because it was like you never had a lot of guys around you and now you had to take care of all of them and also

aoba johsai’s team had one of the most attractive boys around likeeee

now, a year later, the energy is purely chaotic.

and i mean like

kindaichi and kunimi are lowkey the ones who respect you the most

not only because you, even if it was for only a year, you were their upperclassman but also you had presence

when karasuno came to the practice andy oh catched both of them after talking to kageyama in the bathroom, you pinched their ears and scolded them

“you both do that again and i’m not being compassionate” “SORRY Y/N”

but also lowkey your admirers

kunimi literally only showed strong emotions around you

“i brought you some sweets” he regularly says

“oh you are great! thank you kunimi!”you appreciated this guys little details with you

“so you have a favoritism with our manager huh?”

“y/n permission to hit kindaichi”

“permission conceded”

kindaichi also respected you because you, when he entered seijoh months ago, were one of the ones who made him believe and helped getting over that anger he had with his ex teammates and you even assured that kageyama was the reason he got better, even if he wouldn’t accept it

the second years, your literal followers

like seriously yahaba watori were always around you.

being in the same grade and class as both dod not helped a lot.

they are like puppies with anxiety separation

because you are the reason they feel loved and cared for

they always sit next to you in class, and they make sure you are comfortable with it.

you need help with hw? watori always is there

yahaba lets you paint his nails every time you got bored in class

you were such a powerful trio

they always bring your favorite drink in the mornin

you even developed this sixth sense where if you just look at each other you know exactly who are you making fun of without even speaking

you always make fun of the shit way of yahaba to flirt oml

and you even advice him on what should he do or not when meeting someone new.

istg if it was not bc of you he would have never got his first date with his crush

kyoutani later joined you, but he had trouble on trusting you

but seeing all the team laying on you he actually let himself rely on another person for the first time

he was the one who scared those stupid volleyball boys fan girls (oikawa’s or the other guys ones) away from you

he also thinks that you are not bad physically talking and he actually says it but privately

he also whenever he is mad or just frustrated comes to you and what he likes is that you don’t go in deep of the details but instead you try to distract him with random thing you say.

“guys i told you several times” you laughed “i do have other thing to do! it not like i can attend every night out with you! i have other friends too!”

“so, we are not watching cartoons tonight?”

“i hate you all so much” you surrendered “see you at 8 pm”

you became the second years core four

and also they looked up to you a lot, why? because you are the only people who always deals with the third years shit

god i think your connection with the third years was only a bit more noticeable than the second years

why? you were not afraid to mess up with them

to be real iwaizumi as oikawa caught your eye since moment one, they were naturally attractive and talented but you made a promise to not fall for anyone

omg you were so wrong

if it was iwaizumi, he always made sure you felt comfortable around

you were no vb genius so he took the time to explain you a bunch of things you did not know 🥺

also, he’s the kind of guy to stop everyone spiking because you were crossing through the gym so no ball gets you

he is the one who always search for you in school, asked about your day, and stuff that might seem basic but it was really meaningful

like he is the kind of guy who memorizes all your favorite places, treats, music anything and actually tries to get you to talk about it

oikawa on the other hand was the one who actually made you feel like part of them

he is so sweet!

like

oikawa only starts practice when you are there

like bold of someone to start hitting a ball without you there, he considered you part of the team, so he always waited for you

he walked you home or nearby every time he could he wanted you safe

his eyes always always instantly light up and screams “y/n-chan!” and immediately runs to you

but also he is the one who search you the most around

if it was lunch time he went to your home room and literally lunches with you no matter what or who

he never lets anyone lend you their hoodie, it always has to be his that you are wearing

he self crowned himself as your favorite

he hugs you out of nowhere istg is the best feeling ever

hanamaki also also also considers you priority

he is kinda more of the lowkey one, he is mainly the one who checks up on you

he once spotted a bruise in your arm and he immediately freaked out

“DO I HAVE TO FIGHT SOMEONE” “god no! i just dropped a huge book there!”

hanamaki is the one who waits for you in the entrance of the gym to walk with you to practice

he also is the first one to notice if something is wrong with you along with iwachan

they both unintentionally pay attention to you a lot and if you do something out of the common they just approach you

and they are always right

“what’s wrong y/n?” hanamaki says

“yeah, is everything okay you need anything?” iwaizumi continues.

“what do you mean guys? i’m okay” you obviously try to lie.

“no you are not, you are acting different”

“yea iwachan is right you always change yous t shirt before practice and the way you are ordering the volleyballs is off”

“why do know me so well” you indeed had a terrible day, so you almost tear up bb of that and be of how amazing your boys were to you sometimes”

“come here little one”

you heard a pout

“i see you oikawa, you can get a hug too. matsu come here”

matsukawa is your hype man

he loves messing with you like in the big brother sister way

like if a guy asked you out he’d be like “sis you can do so much better”

you are always being salty whether it’s between you or other ones

besides if you do have a crush on anyone on the team matsu is the only one to know

and he’d constantly blackmail you with that

“if you don’t buy me anything from the vending machine i will tell oikawa you actually swoon for him” “OKAY FINE”

“tell the coach that we do not need laps or iwaizumi is gonna knowwwww about” “i hate you so much”

but returning to the point you always messed with them specially the four third years

and you were so good at it

one day, you ‘innocently’ mentioned to the boys “i’m just telling you! i’ve never seen two pretty best friends, one of them always gotta be ugly”

GOD LORD THE BOMB YOU JUST ACTIVATED

THEY SPENT A WHOLE WEEK TRYING TO FUGURE OUT WHO WAS THE PRETTY BEST FRIEND BETWEEN IWA AND OIKAWA, ALSO MATSU AND HANAMAKI AHHAHAHAAH

your third years never made you feel insecure

like if you think idk listening to btr was weird because someone in the past made you feel like it be sure the next day they WILL PLAY FUCKING BIG TIME RUSH IN PRACTICE ONLY FOR YOU TO VIBE WITH THEM

also they all four have this little thought that they have to be the ones who protect you

in the court you looked out for them, outside of it they were the ones who did that

if you were teased or someone even had the audacity to make fun of you it could go three ways

you stoping kyoutani and yahaba because they were so ready to throw hands

matsukawa, hanamaki and kunimi just taking you out of there and rather say positive thinks about you

or oikawa and iwaizumi behind you giving the saltiest and meanest glares to whoever dared talking you that way and saying “and you still wonder why people don’t like you?, ” then iwaizumi says ��you are right oikawa, you piece of crap have your entire life to be a jerk. take a day off your stupidity won’t left anyways”

god you sure loved those guys

BUT

as it can be really useful sometimes there were other times were they become so annoying

specially when it’s about someone liking you.

like romantic styles

i live for the idea that the vb team had obviously fangirls, oikawa mostly. but you also did

like yeah the fangirls of oikawa and the boys envied you

but the guys in aoba johsai high envied the volleyball team even more

god bless the poor guy or girl who DARES to ask you out

like please someone stop them 😭

on valentine’s day you came to practice a bit late just because you needed to figure it out how to organize all the fucking love letters and the chocolates and flowers that you got over the day.

oikawa was already worried as he always waited for you to start, and so were the guys so they decided to warm up a bit more to wait.

you crossed the door with thousands of gifts and all of that barely catching the ones which you dropped. because at this point you did not even try to hide it from the boys, you just wanted them to start practice.

he looked at you and knew exactly what that meant. he received this every once in a while, but god what was that feeling in his chest when some other people like you?

iwaizumi felt that too, that weird feeling not wanting anyone to think about you that wayyyyy

the rest of the boys had divided opinions but still you were their manager.

“so did all this came from...”

“yes matsu...”

“okay but for scientific purposes we need the names”

“HANAMAKI NO”

poor boys, they just are all scared that you’ll leave them because of someone

what a dramatic queens they are all

some of them didn’t like it bc they also had a big crush on you

so what they do is that they gatekeep anyone from you

like oml if they ever catched you and a girl or guy and they knew they liked you they constantly beg for your attention.

and it’s not only because they are being dramatic but also because they remember last year when you went out with some random dude and broke your heart like

they almost killed that guy

so they wanted you to feel happy and safe

to them? honestly you are the light of their life.

they dedicate every game to you, they take care of you, they listen to you, they brag about you, they love you

because honestly you did all that for them first

and ever since then they made sure to return that to you.

#haikyuu x reader #haikyuu imagines #oikawa x reader #iwaizumi x reader #iwachan #matsukawa x hanamaki #hanamaki #matsukawa #haikyuu imagine #seijoh #aoba johsai #seijoh manager #kyoutani x yahaba #yahaba headcanons #kyotani x reader #watori #kunimi x kindaichi #kageyama #hinata x reader #sugawara x reader #tsukishima x yamaguchi #tsukishima x reader #oikawa x you #kuroo x kenma #kuroo x reader #bokuto x reader #akaashi x reader #karasuno #fukorodani #iwaoi

[nefariouscryptid]

Drew random people and gave them personalities cause I can’t help myself

Zeke: based on 2000s emo. In love with Andy Biersack and Tony Perry. Has those cameras people on MySpace used to take mirror selfie’s. He paints his nails black and constantly says he’s not gay, and he’s not gay because of his nails but he’s gay because he wants Andy Biersack and Tony Perry to marry him

Darron: Metalhead. Swears Melodeath isn’t dead. Shits on Nu metal and Black metal but secretly likes them. Smokes cigs and drinks only Budweiser. Goes into a Rasputin just to harass the workers for not having his favorite bands on vinyl. “You guys are creating Posers. All you have is that Nu Metal crap! Whatever I’m going to Amoeba…”

Charity: rave girl. A coke and pill head. Smokes weed but complains it’s not hard enough. Snorts anti depressants and ibuprofen and claims she’s high to look cool. Has a clunky vape. “Spiritual”, does yoga, and is obsessed with feathers and dream catchers.

Briar: based on 80s trad goth. Hates Nu goth. Hates alt Tik tok. Hates Spirit Halloween. Straight edge but smokes cigs. Agnostic because they’re too afraid fo call themselves an atheist. Sleeps with makeup on and dresses up just to get groceries. Can’t drive so they take the bus or walk. Hates people.

#my art #nefariouscryptid #art #my ocs #ocs #original character #sketch #oc #trad goth #metal #melodeath #metalhead #rave #emo #I sketched all of this with pen so that’s why it’s messy #ask to tag #sketchbook #traditional art

[andydrarch]

Hear me out: Iscariot as lumberjacks

Anderson is already built to be a lumberjack so that’s not crazy at all. Yumiko prefers to cook for everyone but if Yumie is fronting she wants to come out with everyone. Also the only person who can out lift her is Anderson so everyone’s happy to have her come. If Yumie comes out for the day then everyone collaborates on dinner it’s only fair.

Heinkel is living her best life as a flannel wearing lesbian in her natural habitat. Yumi likes to watch her chop wood.

Maxwell is their sales manager and everyone makes fun of him (lovingly) for being a scrawny little twig man every time he comes to visit.

#Andy says random crap #Hellsing #Hellsing ultimate #Iscariot #Alexander anderson #Heinkel wolfe #Yumie Takagi #Enrico maxwell #Yumiko Takagi #I’ve been playing a game called Lumbercats and it got my brain going lmao

[midnxghtsunwrites]

LAID OFF

PAIRING —

Andy Barber x Black Reader

SUMMARY —

You get fired from your workplace of eleven years and Andy tries to comfort you.

WARNINGS —

Just good ol' fluff and angst, ignorant people doing ignorant things — yakwtfgo

It was midday when Andy received a text from you saying that you were on your way home from work. As far as he knows, your workday definitely does not end at twelve pm. Immediately, he called you and the conversation went as vague as he expected.

"Why are you going home, sweetheart? You okay?" He questions. You can't see him but you can tell that he has those crinkles in between his eyebrows that usually come with concern.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Do we have anything on our grocery list? I'm gonna stop by Walmart on the way home." He doesn't have a chance to answer before you cut him off, "Never mind, I'll just go to the house and grab it."

"Y/N —"

You hung up.

A day of shopping went by with you trying to take your mind off of what happened just hours before. Your boss of eleven years called you into his office, handed you a termination packet, a crappy explanation, and a company pen.

A pen.

"It has your name on it," He'd quipped.

As you now stand in your bathroom, twisting your hair into bantu knots, you wish you would've stabbed that motherfucker in the eye with that pen. You're absolutely taken aback by his audacity — it followed you throughout the day.

Even when your son came home from school and greeted you. You were in the kitchen at that point, aggressively stirring up some chicken soup — your comfort food. He gave you the weirdest look and retreated to his room.

During dinner (without Andy) you listened intently as your son recounted his day, trying to get your mind off of how much time you'd wasted in that company.

Now, you can hear the security system speak that the front door is open. Andy's home.

You try not to think about the packet you left on the bed — he has to know somehow and you don't want to say it out loud. Part of you feels he'll be disappointed in you.

When he enters the bathroom, the packet in hand and a thoughtful look on his face, you try not to let it faze you and get back to spraying leave in conditioner in your hair.

You can feel his stare burning into the side of your face.

You blink and meet his eye in the mirror, "I don't wanna talk about it."

"We have to talk about it." His voice is calmer than you thought it would be.

"No, Andy, we don't have to do anything — I, on the other hand, have to finish these bantu knots that I started way too late in the day. Should've done this tomorrow. Not like I have anything else to do —"

Andy scoffs, "Y/N, stop doing your hair for a minute and talk to me."

"What?" You question, beyond irritated, "What is there to possibly talk about? Huh? I wasn't good enough at my job and I lost it. There's not much else to it, Andy."

"Y/N —"

"No." You deadpan, slamming the bottle down on the granite counter top and turning to face your husband, "I gave eleven years of my life to that place. Just to get a letter of termination and a pen. A stupid pen? Is that what my life has come to? They could've had the decency to send me to fricking Jamaica or some shit — they're good for it."

Andy leans back against the wall and watches you as you rant.

"If I'm that replaceable, why the fuck didn't they just fire me ten years ago when they saw what a crap job I was doing?" You know you're a great employee but the rage is pouring off you in waves, "I was sacrificing my weekends with family to go to that bum place — for terrible fucking pay, mind you — and this is what they do? This is how they pay me back for wasting a decade of my life? I'm just so —" A frustrated groan finishes your statement.

"And I know you're disappointed in me. You're disappointed in the fact that I didn't work hard enough. I didn't fight hard enough. Well, fuck that. I'm fucking over it."

"Are you?"

"Yes, I'm over it." You reiterate.

Your husband knows you too well to think that you're over it. He counts down from five in his head.

Five..

Four..

Three..

Two..

One..

"Is it because I'm black?" You ask, suddenly.

Right on cue. Andy whistles lowly, proud of himself.

"Fucking hell," You scoff as if just realizing something, "I knew there was some shady shit when they took us to a damn plantation for a mixer and only asked me to bring food."

Your husband's head shoots up in surprise, "Wait, they did that? Why didn't you tell me?"

You shake your head, "I wasn't thinking too much of it. Plus, it was like six years ago — I was naive as hell."

Andy furrows his brows in thought, "What was the reason they gave for firing you?"

"My disruptive behavior. Apparently, they don't like when someone accidentally drops their stapler." Saying it out loud pissed you off even more.

"Those assholes." Andy comes to your defense, biting his bottom lip, irritated. Finally, he nods, "Okay. We'll sue for wrongful termination. I'll call someone in the morning so we can get this sorted out."

You pause for a moment, glad your husband is there to fight by you and defend you. A part of you is tempted to do just that — get a couple thousand from that hating ass job. But no, you don't even want to think about them anymore.

Begrudgingly, you shake your head, "Nah, baby, I just wanna wash my hands of them. I'll send out my resume in the morning and I'll probably take a couple more days to mope, but I don't wanna think about them anymore. Just the fact that I'm jobless."

"There's my girl," Andy jokes as he wraps his arms around you. Your hair is haphazard on your head seeing as you haven't finished the knots yet, but Andy doesn't care. He's obsessed with you either way. "And I'm not disappointed in you, Y/N. You're the best at what you do. Them letting you go is their loss and they'll definitely realize what they're missing out on when you're out there doing your own shit. We have enough in our savings to spare — you can start that restaurant you've been dreaming about."

"And you'll be my greeter when you're not putting criminals in jail?" You ask, sweetly, a bright smile growing on your face.

Andy pecks your glossed lips, "Wouldn't have it any other way." He taps your ass, "Now, how about I help you finish your hair, we can drink some hot cocoa, I can give you a massage. Plus, I can take tomorrow off, we can pull Y/S/N out of school and we can go on a hike to clear your mind."

You almost cry at how much Andy is willing to do for you.

"Ugh, how did I get so lucky?" You rest your hand on his chest, right where your name is tattooed and pull him down to kiss you.

He pulls away, slightly, his beautiful blue eyes lighting up with such joy and admiration, "I ask myself that everyday."

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[laporcupina]

Babel (The Old Guard)

Babel 

1k words | Nile, Andy, Joe, Nicky 

Nile took Spanish in school and has a professionally useful but otherwise limited capacity in Pashto, so she's very aware that she's a linguistic infant in her new team in addition to all of the other ways she's an infant on this team. Andy, Nicky, and Joe seem to speak every language there is and will cheerfully mock each other's accents and vocabulary, so Nile downloading Duolingo and starting at the top with the intent on working her way down is as much self-defense mechanism as a way to pass the time. The others will remember to speak in English when she's present, but they're also pretty liberal in their thinking on what is going to get lost in translation and shouldn't be attempted.

"Booker's crap with languages, too," Andy tells her when she's found stumbling through the rudimentaries of Arabic that don't involve telling people to put down their weapons. "He's French from a time when France was like America - they thought everyone should speak their language, too. He got away with it because the rest of the world didn't completely disagree. He picked up English eventually and can make himself understood in a couple others, but it's never been his strong suit."

"So I'm him now for more than just the fact that none of you can do shit with a computer without me," Nile asks, mostly rhetorically.

"You don't stink of sorrow," Andy says as she wanders off. "You don't stink at all, which is still weird. Why does everyone need to bathe all of the time?"

Andy insists she doesn't even remember the language she grew up speaking, which Nile thinks is bullshit and Joe says would be a historical travesty in a way that clearly implies that he thinks it's bullshit, too. She will answer in whatever language she's spoken to unless she's pissed off or making a point, but nobody can actually test her on a language otherwise lost to time. Nicky and Joe speak to each other in Italian and Arabic mostly, English sometimes, Greek and French occasionally, Spanish once in a great while and random languages just to be cute. Joe calling Nicky 'the Frank' is not a compliment and Nicky addressing Joe in funky-sounding Latin is also a sign of discord, but they don't fight in front of witnesses so Nile doesn't know what language they actually argue in.

It's kinda embarrassing when Nile forgets that Italian and Arabic aren't Nicky and Joe's first languages or even their fifth. Especially because she knows damned well that English now wasn't English three hundred years ago, let alone a thousand, and it's got to be true for all the others.

"We started talking to each other in the new versions just to get used to them," Joe explains after Nile's made an ignoramus of herself. "You use a word from six hundred years ago once, it's a joke you can pass off. You keep doing it, people remember you. We try to stay forgettable."

She doesn't think it's a coincidence that a few days later she finds Nicky using Google Translate to look up words from an article on an Italian news site. "Vocabulary is terrible," he sighs. "New technology, slang, it never stops. You want to get by in a language, you need to keep practicing it. Words you use now will stop being used and you will have to adapt. Especially because we look young enough that not being current would be weird."

"I get to stop paying attention," Andy says from the other end of the table, grinning and then grinning more when they react in horror to the reason why. "No more 'thong' problems for me."

Flip-flops with a divider for the big toe used to be called thongs in English, Nicky has to explain once they’ve both stopped coughing and laughing, and before that thongs were leather ties. Now thongs are just the skimpy underwear, but the transition caught them unaware and there’s a shop clerk somewhere in greater Miami who probably still has stories to tell.

Joe makes her practice her Arabic every day, becoming more of a pain in the ass than that stupid green bird because Duo only wants her to learn Standard Arabic. Joe believes that that's useless and she needs the colloquial version because that's what actually gets used day-to-day, so he keeps correcting her pronunciation from what the app is teaching her and giving her new vocabulary words to replace what she's learned.

"Don't give her your shitty derja accent," Andy chastises when she finds them in the backyard, Joe pointing to plants and animals and making Nile repeat the words. "Pick something that's understandable to everyone else. Go watch the Gulf channels, they don't sound like they have rocks in their mouths when they talk."

Nicky agrees with Andy, but he's nicer about it. "Gulf or Iraqi would be more plausible," he suggests delicately over dinner. "You could have picked it up working in those places. It would require less explaining and you don't have to remember elaborate stories for places you haven't been."

They end up making their base in Slovenia, which does not end the debates about Nile's Arabic but nobody even suggests she start picking up Slovene so it goes down as a win. 

Copley thinks they're somewhere else entirely and his attempts at trying to get Nile to accidentally provide clues turns into a different set of language lessons from the gang. 'How to talk to spies and other bad guys' lessons take place in English, but with a healthy dose of curse words in other languages. Her Arabic won't get her a kilo of fruit in the markets of Abu Dhabi yet, but it would probably get her slapped across the face almost anywhere.

#the old guard #nile freeman #the old guard gang #dmzfic #it's a drabble if I want to call it a drabble

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Toby Ziegler for the character ask!

As you wish, anon!

favorite thing about them

Toby is a poet, heart and soul! I love how he’s such a grump, but underneath it all, he’s this incredibly soft-spoken romantic. Ugh, it’s all so good.

least favorite thing about them

Listen, I’m not going to sit here and go on my hour-long rant about Toby at the end of the series and how much his character went down the drain and how his greatest fear was that he would turn into his incarcerated, absent father with his own children, but I WILL SAY that one day I will make a time machine to go back and fix it.

favorite line

Pretty much the entire speech in Hartsfield’s Landing about making the election about being smart and not, engaged and not brings me to tears every single time. But also a not-spoken line is when he takes that tree branch to the guardrail in 20 Hours. I, for one, truly knew what he was saying without any words.

brOTP

Sam Seaborn! When he grabs Sam’s face and tells him he’s proud of him in Posse Comitatus is one of my favorite moments of the show.

OTP

Honestly, it’s probably Toby/CJ. I don’t super super ship them, but I have read the fic and it is good. I also ship Toby/Andy because it’s so clear in the show how much he loves her that I can’t argue with it. 

nOTP

Okay so I’ve seen a recent uptick of Toby/Josh around here and like.....y’all do whatever you want to do, but I’m going to side-eye all of it.

random headcanon

Toby keeps mementos from everything. He’s essentially a magpie. He’ll keep random scraps of paper and notes and buttons and all kinds of sentimental crap that all looks like trash but means the world.

unpopular opinion

So like maybe a half-unpopular opinion is that while I hate the WAY Toby left the White House, I still think that he should have left the White House. I think instead of leaking the stuff about the shuttle, he should have just gotten really upset at Bartlet (still causing a rift between them) and resigned and then went straight to Josh to join the Santos campaign. None of that maybe losing his kids and only talking to Josh secretly on the phone, give me full-on Toby and Josh arguing idealism vs pragmatism on the campaign trail.

song i associate with them

I’m going to cheat because I don’t really have a specific song for Toby, but I have been tossing around an idea for a Toby/CJ/Josh/Sam gifset with Hey, Brother - Avicii so I’ll say that:

Hey brother, do you still believe in one another? Hey sister, do you still believe in love I wonder? Ooooh if the sky comes falling down, for you There's nothing in this world I wouldn't do

favorite picture of them

Anytime Toby is holding the twins. Dad!Toby is the best.

Send me a character and I’ll give my thoughts on them!

#toby ziegler #anon #ask games

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Because it's about time I've done one of these

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#IS THIS A GOOD BLOG POST IVE NEEDED TO DO ONE OF THESE FOR TWO YEARS KFKXKFMSMAAAA IM TRYING SO HARD #if i forgot anything ill come back and edit but yeah kfmsmdm i think that might be all? #im about to go sleep for 12 hrs why was that so much work jdnsksk hhhh im tired now smh 😔😔 can't wait to pin thissss #pinned #malecacidd fic #malecacidd gifs