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edupunkn00b · 5 months

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Yours

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WC: 2001 - Rated: T - CW: mild whump, homophobia, transphobia, swearing, happy ending Written for @tsspromptmonth's Rare Gifts Event, a Moceit Arranged Marriage AU.

One hand tucked into his waistcoat, Patton shouldered a heavy oak wardrobe and slid it across the room, blocking the attic door. Then he peered through a gap in the dusty curtains and out the tiny window. His parents’ carriage was little more than a tiny dancing light through the mist, the horse’s trot taking them further and further away.

He was alone.

Smiling, he sank down on a musty pile of old fabrics and retrieved the treasure from his inner pocket.

A letter from J.

Thick woven paper pressed to his mouth, he inhaled deeply and pushed aside the memory of the slimy messenger who’d demanded twice his usual price for delivery. It would be alright. Soon they would no longer need to rely on mercenary travelers to send clandestine letters. Soo they would have their freedom.

Imagining a bit of spice from J’s cologne had mixed with the scent of ink and cotton, Patton’s smile grew. Soon they would be together.

The seal opened with a crack and Patton began to read.

My dearest Angel…

Patton mouthed the words as he read, relishing the feel of them over his tongue and teeth, and let them wrap around his heart. He read slowly, savoring the swirls of J’s quill, brushing his fingers over a tiny splatter of ink in one margin. Frowning at what looked like a tear smeared section near the end. He hugged the precious letter to his heart, then continued.

My parents grow impatient. They met with a new matchmaker yesterday. I was not permitted to attend. ‘This matchmaker has already seen my face,’ they said. ‘I didn’t need to be there.’

My heart grows impatient, too. I long to hold you in my arms, to whisper in your ear, to feel the weight and heat of you close.

Say the word, my love, and I will run to you, wherever you may go.

Yours,

“Patton?” His father’s voice rang out from the hallway and echoed against the fireplace. He must’ve missed the front door opening over the crackling wood. Patton dropped the letter into the fire and watched the flames lick the paper. There was nothing left of J’s soft words but ash by the time his parents entered the Great Room.

“I thought a fire might be nice after a chilly ride home,” he said, turning and giving them his best smile. His cheeks hurt and the fake, sugary tone twisted his stomach, but his cheer earned him a peck at the air near his cheek from his mother and a grunt from his father.

The elder Hart settled into his chair and didn’t look at his son as he spoke. “The trip wouldn’t’ve been necessary if you hadn’t turned down your last match.”

“I didn’t—”

His father’s boot thudded to the floor, tiny splatters of mud spread around the point of impact like flower petals. “You didn’t love her,” he snapped, tearing his eyes from his now packed pipe to glare at his son. “Yes, so you’ve said. You will not turn down your next match.”

Patton held his father’s gaze for as long as he dare. “But what if I—”

“Patton, dear…” His mother’s voice was quieter but no less sharp. “You will grow to love her.”

It wasn’t her hope. It was her command.

Janus tucked shaking hands into his pockets and paced. A heavy thud from the pub upstairs was soon followed by riotous laughter, no doubt some villager who’d over indulged mocked by his equally inebriated compatriots. Janus shivered under his cloak and pulled it a little tighter over his chest. No-one had seen him enter. He would be safe here for a while.

It had been nearly three weeks since his last letter, twice as long as a reply usually took. But there’d been no mistaking the tiny blue swallow’s feather on his window sill that morning. Peter had a letter for him.

Though Janus had peered through the pub’s windows for close to an hour before slipping inside and downstairs, he hadn’t seen the wiry little trader. For five years now, Peter had exchanged—for a hefty sum, if Angel’s soft reassurances that he’d handled it meant what Janus suspected—their increasingly secret communications.

What had begun as innocent letters with the bubbly youngest son of a visiting noble had grown. Roots curled around his heart, delicate tendrils reaching toward the first man who’d ever seen him, really and truly seen him.

The muffled crack of a broken tankard startled Janus from his reverie and he clutched at his cloak. Heavy footsteps—far heavier than he’d learned to expect from Peter—approached, growing louder as they neared the sadly unlocked cellar door. Torchlight flickered through the gaps in the worn wood and Janus retreated to the shadows.

The handle slammed open, crashing into the inner wall. His father loomed, filling the doorway and crowding out the much smaller trader one step behind him. Their shadows flickered across the stone floor, reaching for him in his incomplete hiding place.

“————!” His father shouted, Janus’ given name like a brand across his skin. “What the hell do you think you’re doing here? You’re meant to be home, not lurking in a pub like some whore!”

“I assure you, Father, this isn’t—“

His hand swung and landed before Janus could suck. The slap echoed, roaring through Janus’ ears as he watched his father turn and pass a bulging purse of coins to Peter.

The trader shrugged as he pocketed his bribe. “No offense, m’lady,” he sneered, knowing full well how much offense he gave. “Your little beau got outbid.”

“He’s nothing!” Janus’ father snapped, one finger up in warning. “This did not happen and you were never here. Understood?” His father drew himself up to his full height, easily a foot taller than Peter, and for the tiniest of moments, Janus almost pitied the trader.

Almost.

“And you—“ He snapped at Janus and yanked back the hood which hid his braided and pinned up locks. His father would sooner cut his throat than allow him to cut his hair.

And his mother would hold him down while he did it.

“Now, dear, take care of those tresses,” she would murmur, counting as he brushed the hated veil of hair. “Some men will see past those birthmarks and find your beauty there.”

Tonight, though, his father found a handhold.

Hissing, Janus scrabbled at his thick wrists in an instinctive attempt to lessen the pressure as he pushed him to his knees. “Explain yourself!” his father shouted, brandishing something blurry white in his face. A dozen yellow sunflower petals skittered across the floor.

When Janus remained silent, shameful tears leaking out and down to his collar. They’d been so careful, every letter burned, every scrap of evidence destroyed. The petals sparkled through the tears in Janus’ eyes before his father crushed them beneath a muddy boot.

“‘My dearest J,’” his father read aloud, voice cracking in rage. “‘Your letter left my heart aching for you.”

“Harlot! How long have you been letting him fuck you?” his father shouting, yanking him up by the hair to meet his eyes.

“No, sir, we’ve never—“

“Liar!” his father snarled and continued to read. “The only cure is to see you and hold you close. Our time is now, my sweet love. Write to me before you leave and I will meet you halfway to the valley. Yours—” He sputtered, the precious pages crumpling in his hand.

Shaking his head, Janus’ father threw the letter to the floor. Angel’s bouncing cursive called to him from the floor, soft words of solace just out of reach.

“The only place you’re going,” his father said, dragging Janus to his feet, “Is to meet the only suitor dumb enough to marry you before he sees your filthy lying face.”

It had been over a month since Patton’s last letter to J. Over a month since he’d called to him. In that time, parental machinations had moved quickly. This time Patton was not even granted the appearance of a choice and was intended to meet his bride to be at the betrothal ceremony. Wedding planning moved even faster and the date was frighteningly near.

Had he somehow missed J’s response? Was J waiting for him on the road to Stonewall, wondering when he would arrive, when he would make good on his promises?

Or was this J’s response? A wordless rejection, his ‘No,’ loud enough to shatter glass.

Scrubbing away his tears, Patton shook his head. No, he refused to believe J had been leading him on. He refused to believe in anything but the sincerity of his love’s words. No, if J wasn’t responding, it was because he couldn’t.

So Patton had better get out there and find him.

He’d gotten as far as the stables when the steward—his parents’ steward—called out behind him.

“I’ve found him, My Lord,” he snitched, weasely words cutting through the quiet nickering of Patton’s favorite horse. “I told you he’d been seen packing.”

“Patton! Where are you running off to?” He turned and faced his parents. His mother had managed to sound hurt. To sound hurt, at least. Her smile was honed to a dangerous edge and she nodded to their personal guards.

Moving quickly, they locked the stable gates on the far wall before bracketing the only other escape. The steward reached for his travel satchel.

Patton’s fingers tightened on the strap as the guards’ hands tightened on their swords.

“Now, Patton, dear,” his mother said, voice washing over him like the lake in winter. “Let’s not make a scene. You want to look your best for your wedding next week, don’t you?”

Patton stood stiffly next to the veiled bride at his side. Head tilted down, she gazed at the flowers in her hands more than him or even her own parents. From time to time, she would direct her gaze at the entrance, furtive glances at the quiet paths outside.

He didn’t need to see her expression to read the longing in her body language.

It seemed she was just as pleased at this match as he was, and Patton vaguely wondered if the guards at the door were more for his benefit or for hers.

At the priest’s instruction, they knelt, the bride moving awkwardly in the heavy skirts of her dress. Patton offered his hand, and she hesitated, only taking it when she stumbled. Despite their strength, her fingers trembled in his grip. They were cold, the chilly in Patton’s hand even through the smooth silk gloves.

“Thank you,” she whispered from behind her veil, voice thick with tears. Once settled, she tugged her hand away and Patton nodded.

“My pleasure,” he whispered back after releasing her hand. “I don’t know what you’ve heard, but you have nothing to fear from me,” he added. “I promise.”

She merely shook her head. “Nor you I,” she answered, voice strengthening. It was almost enough to make him laugh. “Though to be honest, I’ve jeard nothing of you. I don’t even know your—“

“Hush, Patton!” his mother hissed from the front row and the bride’s head jerked up, candlelight glinting off her golden hair.

“Patton,” she whispered, fingering the sunflower in her bouquet. Her eyes were just barely visible through her veil, sharp and piercing and boring right into his. “Angel?”

Could it be? Wild hope pounded against Patton’s ribs and he plucked a sunflower petal from his bouquet and tried again to peer through his veil. “J?”

The priest began the benediction, but the droning words faded away as Janus nodded, fresh, happy tears streaming down his face beneath his veil. At the priest’s prompt, Angel reached for his hand and drew close to whisper his secret vows. His hands shook and Janus tightened his grip.

“J, is that really you?”

“It’s me, Angel.“ A laugh threatened to push past his lips as his Angel’s soft exhale warmed his cheek. Surely this was too good to be true. “Are you really—“

“Really yours, J.” Pulling back, Angel smiled and nodded, tears welling in his eyes as he lifted Janus’ hand to his lips for the ceremonial kiss. “Really yours.”

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bronzebtch · 1 year

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meta + marriage in general

discussion: marriage (in general)

as a child, rhea perceives marriage as nothing more than a necessity. it's something every lady at a certain age has had to go through at certain point, and it's apart of the "package", i would say, of exercising one's duty. it's as a reality to her as the fact that she will one day inherit runestone, and she will carry the torch of her ancestors to lead her people.

with that said, marriage (the same with motherhood) for rhea integrated very deeply with duty in and of itself, so to her it's not simply another task to tick when it's done. it's not, oh i'm married? then that's one thing off the list! no. even though it's something she never realises she perceives, at some point or another, she has had it in her mind that when you are married, you and your partner share the equal burden of whatever that title comes with.

i'd like to think maybe it's rooted in the experience that as she was brought up, the talks of marriage are very closely knitted to her responsibility as a lady. that is to say, i can imagine her maester or septa or even some of her family's bannermen kept repeating the idea that when she is to be wed one day, her husband will surely help her as a lord consort. so her burden wouldn't be too heavy; that a union by marriage will ease her when lordship may get too difficult.

obviously, again, with her union with prince da3mon, this perception gets challenged and destroyed very quickly — which resulted in rhea feeling ... betrayed, i would say? feeling like she's a failure, too. like maybe it was on her (when she knew it wasn't) that her lord husband is not performing his duty: he isn't showing up for council meetings, he isn't interested in ruling runestone with her, he clearly does not care to even bed her.

as a result, this led her to quickly be very independent in her ruling. but also — it gave her a very quick lesson that her assumption clearly isn't shared widely.

and i think the "sadder" part of it is that, i don't think rhea cares all that much about infidelity. what had mattered more was the support behind someone holding a title, in this case the tile of being a husband and the partnership that this specific title promised, and how much she was denied that. i think apart of her will always feel bitter about what da3mon did not 'give' in the union, because it is after all an economic exchange and he did not deliver his end, but she's hardened by it; and now, at present, her marriage at large did not affect her.

tl;dr — overall though, rhea is a firm believer that it will always be better when you get to marry by choice, and that has become something she tries to afford her sister and any of her kins when she is able to. but if you were to marry by an arrangement? then she thinks both partners equally need to know the responsibility behind it, and they have to perform the duty that is expected out of them. otherwise, what's the point?

send meta and a word and watch me ramble :/

#short story is she perceives marriage as a necessary evil when its born out of an arrangement #she understands it may benefit the people around them #until someone abuses it.#BRONZE BITCH: INSIGHT.#GENERAL: ANSWERED.#unformatted //#long post ts //

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puthyflapps · 1 year

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i genuinely don’t understand the sg fans bc they see her as the quintessential hollywood nice girl who’s just the victim of everyone always and forever and like. sg is the one that can’t keep people out of her mouth??

Okay thank you!!! Like why is she at her big and supposedly employed age sitting around, commenting on tik toks and stirring up drama all day??? And the lengths her fans go to in order to paint her as a victim is insane like I mean the intensity at which they reach™️ on a daily basis rivals that of blarkes

#like i don’t have a dog in the race when it comes to the whole SG vs HB thing but girl why are we commenting on a tik tok of a video from 8 #years ago where she read a scripted joke on a tv show?? and doing it all under the guise of sticking up for your friend TS???!!! BFFR!!!#TS is the last person on the planet that needs sticking up for and she was just plainly using her as a shield for criticism like it’s a dark #day when even the swifters are like nahhh girlie we’re gon sit this one out cuz it really ain’t got nothing to do with us #ask #pls don’t get me started on her flop documentary where she’s speaking to a girl who’s sharing her story about fighting for her education in #a society that wants to keep her uneducated and force her into an arranged marriage #like she is trying to share something deeply intimate and emotional and her comes miss Gomez asking her “do you believe in love?” like girl #SHUT UP!!!!

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ms-cartoon · 11 months

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HB Western Energy, Rant Review

Okay, imma just go ahead and jump straight into it....

-- Stolas and Stella barking at each other like a couple of high schoolers. Calling each other names n stuff. Even Stella yelling “F*CKISH. IMP. SUCKER!!” Okay... is she mad about the affair or not? I mean, yeah... we kinda learn that she doesn’t care about that and had always hated Stolas (even then, it still doesn’t make sense given how this was written) But she yelled that with such anger in her voice and she keeps calling him things that go along the lines of either banging an imp or being a cheater. She even called a hitman on him while referring to him as a “cheating prick!” All I’m saying is, if she really hated Stolas from the get-go and if she actually doesn’t care about the affair, then make her act like it. I don’t even think she should even care about who he did it with. Even if she was embarrassed about it being with an imp, it’s not that serious. Especially when she already hates him. The writers are just making her unnecessarily petty.

-- Speaking of the bickering, I can’t even take these two seriously anymore with the way they’re fighting. Once again, I feel like I’m looking at immature high schoolers cussing and throwing childish insults at each other. This was not the kind of dynamic I was expecting at all. And this was supposed to be the abusive relationship we’re expected to cry for Stolas over??? The writers were making it seem like Stolas was the sensitive one in the relationship the entire time, afraid of standing up to her. He could’ve thrown her out a long time ago if it was that simple.

-- Man... the C word is being spat out more than the f-bombs in this episode!

-- We see from Stolas’s phone that he’s planning to have a meeting with Asmodeus soon. This is probably about the whole crystal thing to give to Blitzo in the future so he could FINALLY drop the deal about giving the grimoire back in exchange for sex. How much you wanna bet this meeting with Asmodeus is a pointless plot hole waiting to happen until the last minute? I can just tell by the way the scheduled meeting on Stolas’s phone was shown to us in a blink of an eye and it wasn’t even that important.

-- Stolas: Cheating implies there was a betrayal. This woman never gave two sh*ts about me or very much our arranged marriage.”

Oh jeezus... less than 40 seconds in and this episode already pissed off with the bullsh*t. These writers are seriously telling us “It’s okay that Stolas cheated on his wife, cuz she never liked him anyway.” Well, OF COURSE NOW we know she never liked him! Of course, NOW it’s revealed she abused Stolas the whole time they were married! I mean after all, how else is Viv gonna let Stolas slip by and have him be in the right EVERY. GODDAMN. TIME!!! As if all of his flaws from season 1 to the last episode just never happened and now suddenly, he did nothing wrong and his affair is completely justified when it shouldn’t be. Y’all can see it how you wanna see it, but cheating is cheating and it’s wrong!! It doesn’t matter if Stella never loved him or he never loved her. If he really couldn’t stand her, he could’ve just divorced her when he had the chance too. It’s not like anything was stopping him from before. You could say Octavia was the main reason why he stayed, but he and Stella already fight in front of her!! She was already not happy with this family to begin with since the first season. And besides, how can we even say that cheating on Stella was excusable when Octavia was obviously affected by it?? He may not have cared about how Stella felt, but what about Octavia!!?? His DAUGHTER!??

-- Stella in the first episode of the second season made it seem like the whole divorce thing was gonna be a big deal like it was a whole violation to the Goetia demons and Stolas was breaking a rule, but so far... the divorce did nothing. All we see is her bickering with him more and demanding her belongings back from the mansion. She never even liked him from the beginning anyway, what would make her so upset about the divorce? What does she have to lose from it? The power? The money, the status?? I mean, she would lose her status as a queen... but that’s it. Aside from that, she’s still a noble and she’s rich. She shouldn’t have anything to worry about. And she mentioned her brother as if he wasn’t to be messed with. Like he was gonna be angry and come after Stolas for having the audacity to divorce his sister. But all I see is a pompous peacock who just wants money and doesn’t care at all about Stella’s divorce... Why would they even be asking for money or power???? They’re already rich as hell!!! What else could they possibly want to gain from Stolas?? Just more money???? Wha- do they want the kind of status that Stolas has; a demon prince? Cuz, I don’t think that’s how it works. Even if they did have motives for trying to get what they want, those motives don’t even make any sense. They’re trying to rid Stolas of possessions that they already own. So this whole motivation for keeping Stolas alive along with the conversation that they had is pointless. From where it stands even from the second season, Viv is just making Stella and Andre evil for no reason. She only wants them to be evil without thinking it through and to make Stolas look good.

-- We’re barely a minute in this episode and we jump straight to Striker breaking in, shooting, and kidnapping Stolas! That introduction had no build-up whatsoever. It happened so swiftly, I couldn’t even keep up!! This episode is already so rushed and fast-paced, and Andrealphus didn’t even get a proper first appearance. Like the show showed us Andre spoke for two seconds without a good first appearance. Almost as if he’s already made his appearance before, and this is our first time seeing him in the show and hearing his voice.

-- I find it funny how in the festival episode, Striker was being a little slick in his assassination attempt; hiding in his room before shooting at Stolas from a far distance, which seems like a more clever and cleaner way to go about it. But in THIS episode, he wastes no time just BARGING with his horse through the window, making a scene, and shooting bullets head-on right then and there??? And now he’s just straight-up being messy with it? Plus, now that Stolas can see he’s being shot at, he’s able to dodge every bullet coming his way, making it difficult for Striker to kill him. This wouldn’t have been so hard have Striker gone about it the way he did back at the festival; he could’ve hidden somewhere, shot Stolas, and BOOM mission complete. Why is he being so extra with it??? And he’s supposed to be an assassin??

-- Striker: *Somehow, shoots a bullet through Stolas’s hat.*

Well damn, no wonder this dude couldn’t shoot him. He got no aim.....

-- Why does Stolas keep dodging and flying from Striker anyway? All he has to do is look at him and turn him into stone. Frikin’ turn into a huge demon if you have to. Use your telekinesis to stop the bullets!! Now this so-called “prince” got tied into a knot by angelic ropes that restricts his powers when he should’ve been able to save his own ass. “Oh dear, the is worrisome.” Yeah, no sh*t buddy...

-- Even though he’s tied up, Stolas managed to pick up his phone and contact Blitzo. His powers are secured, fine. But his hands, legs, and feet are still free. He could literally just jump off of Striker’s horse using his legs and feet while they’re still on the ground and try to free himself with his hands.

-- Stolas: “I seem to have been stolen by that little cowboy friend of yours.”

Moxxie: “Can you describe him, your highness?”

Stolas: *Looks at Striker* “Sexy?”

Just say his name!!! You already know who he is!! You announced him back at the harvest moon festival! And you’ve seen him there!!! How come you don’t remember who he is all of a sudden??? yeah, “Good memory” my a**! And why is “Sexy” the first thing that comes to mind when you’re describing him?? I guess he doesn’t completely mark Blitzo as a single-target sexuality. And how come Moxxie immediately knows who Stolas is talking about when he was describing him? Does Moxxie think Striker looks sexy??? Like bro, your wife is right beside you!! LOL!

-- Stolas to Blitzo: I think you should come save me.”

Dude... just try to break free from the ropes and jump off the horse!!! Your hands and legs are free!! Stop being such a damsel waiting for your knight in shining armor. This is just another excuse to have Blitzo come and save you when there are other options.

-- Loona doesn’t say a word in this, but I’m not gonna b*tch about it like I do with everything else. Her voice actress’s fiance passed away due to cancer recently I believe, and she’s been going through it. So sorry for your loss, Erica! I hope all is well and you’re doing okay!

-- This whole comedic side plot with Blitzo and Loona seemed a little boring and I barely cracked a laugh. Nowadays, the Brandon Rodgers comedy is much more funny in his youtube videos than him as a cartoon character. There are more f-bombs in his dialogue than there is any character in him. Literally, any time he’s provoked, he pulls out his guns and attempts to murder someone, and it’s usually not even that serious. Not gonna lie, it kinda annoys me at this point. It wasn’t funny to me when they were in Hollywood, especially when he was going through some serious trauma which caused his rampage in the first place and we were supposed to be sad for him, so it definitely doesn’t make me laugh now. And they try to force a Karen character into this to make it more funny, but- I’m sorry. It doesn’t work for me.

-- Blitzo keeps complaining that he and Loona have to wait every 5 years to get a shot in the hospital, which I’m assuming is supposed to be a joke saying that all hospitals are a drag and super slow. I’m sorry? 5 years??? That’s a bit of a stretch! As far as my knowledge goes, most hospitals do take the time to schedule appointments for their clients. Even when it does take long, well... fairly enough, they do have a lot of clients to get through in at least one year. You can’t fully blame them for taking their time. It’s not like they’re being lazy. So yeah, I wouldn’t really make fun of that.

-- This little b plot shouldn’t even be in this episode anyway! This whole side plot was supposed to be comedic, but it just doesn’t fit at all when we’re dealing with a serious situation of Stolas being kidnapped and about to get killed. And the fact that we keep cutting away from this plot back to back is even worse! I think it makes more since to give Millie and Moxxie more attention than to continuously show the shenanigans happening with Blitzo and Loona. Either that or save the whole “Loona’s shot” thing for another episode and instead have Blitzo join Moxxie and Millie in saving Stolas. Loona doesn’t have any lines in this anyway, so she doesn’t even have to be in this episode.

-- The lady at the counter says she couldn’t read but was able to find Blitzo’s name on her paper sheets just fine with no issue. Clearly they didn’t think this dialogue through. What, does she have short-term memory? How was she even hired??

-- This whole folk song about Striker is so stupid. It’s honestly pretty forgettable. For real though, how come this dude suddenly has a reputation for being the most badass assassin in the West??? This episode is pretty much showing us that he is very well-known amongst all the demons. But aren’t most assassins supposed to be... idk, secretive??? Plus, if everyone already knows about him, how come Millie’s parents didn’t know who he was before they hired him as a farm hand??? And why is he suddenly a famous assassin?? Wasn’t he supposed to be some random imp who was hired by Stella to kill someone? This is just a whole other retcon. Goddamn it, I am so sick of all these retcons!!

-- I’m so glad Striker shut them up. That was the only part in this whole episode to make me laugh.

-- I honestly forget that Millie and Moxxie are even in this episode. I’m sorry- are these two just meant to be the supporting cast now??? Are they only just there to show everybody how cute of a couple they are? Cuz we already know this!!! So M&M are the ones to go and save Stolas because they have to “settle a score” with Striker.... What exactly is it that you have to settle with Striker? The loss of your fight with him?? Okay, sure, but I still don’t know why they feel the need to “settle a score” with him. It’s not like he did anything that they held a grudge against. Millie’s leg almost got amputated cuz of him, but that’s it. She’s walking just fine, otherwise. And Moxxie did feel inferior to Striker, but it was nothing serious (plus he continues to feel inferior with no kind of build up. So that whole plot alone was pointless). I just feel like there’s not much bad blood between them to settle a score for. It makes more sense for Blitzo to go rescue Stolas while M&M assisted him. And besides, Moxxie and Millie trying to fight off Striker didn’t exactly end well the last time. Blitzo shouldn’t have any trust in them to take care of him themselves. The only reason why they succeeded in this episode is because.... plot.

-- Of course, we just have to have some other pointless conflict that happens and is concluded in a blink of an eye. So Millie puts a cowboy hat on Moxxie and they stop to get gas. While Millie walks around and asks questions, some random a**hole confronts Moxxie about the hat he’s wearing and assumed he stole one of his simply because it looks like the one he’s wearing. Did it ever occur to this moron that most hats just look similar to each other? Why is he getting his d*ck in a twist over some stupid headwear?

-- OH F*CK OFF WITH THIS!!! So now Moxxie is suddenly a strong badass and could brawl with more than two people twice his size!!??? Where the hell was THIS when he was fighting Striker the first time or in the last episode!!!?? Like, can he fight or not!!??? This just does not make sense to me, especially when his whole character is about him not being a very skilled fighter like his wife or Blitzo. Not only is Millie an on-and-off fighter when the plot wants her to be, but so is her husband? Gimme a break!!

-- Stolas: “Wouldn’t a holy bullet have sufficed? Or could you not afford those?”

Stolas is technically bringing up the fact the imps are the lowest ranking and hardly have any cash on them. The show keeps telling us that imps are the poorest of the poor, but they sure as hell aren’t poor enough to own a whole circus (*cough* Blitzo’s dad *cough*). Not to mention Blitzo had a pretty high-paying job and could rent a whole office. Seems like to me that the imps are living pretty average for a species being the lowest rank.

Wait... Is Striker an Imp or a snake?

-- Striker: I was paid to give you the real royal treatment.

Mm, no... You were paid to just shoot him (yet another retcon). All you’re doing is pointlessly dragging this mission by torturing him when you could literally just pull the frikin trigger and put a bullet in his head. Shut up with the edgy monologue and kill him!!

-- WTF!!!

-- Stolas decides NOW to try to turn Striker into stone... That should’ve been done already, buddy!

-- Does this kink really get turned on in bed by getting painfully tortured, having his limbs broken and impaled n sh*t?? WHY DOES BLITZO STAB STOLAS AND BREAK HIS BONES WHILE HAVING SEX IN BED????!!!! LIKE Y’ALL, I CANT-

-- Why they gotta make my girl Stella so dumb in this show? I’m not surprised in the least (though I was hoping it wasn’t the case), but it honestly just irritates me more with what they’re doing to her. So Andrealphus reminds her that if she get’s Stolas killed, she would get nothing. But why does Stella have to be told that?? She should already know this! And why is she being all “Tee hee hee” and childish about all this anyways?? Yeah, Stolas gets to die and that’s what she wanted, but she’s being all giggles about it and she turns into a little brat and whines when told she can’t kill him and I can’t even take her seriously. I was expecting her to act much more sinister and serious. What happened to her hot-temper that could easily get provoked?? Idk that just rubbed me the wrong way.

Andre: When Stolas dies, his duties, his possessions, his legions, it will all pass to... Via.”

-- Okay... so what? It’s not like Stella even cares about that, as far as we’ve seen. All she ever did was throw parties and talk sh*t about Stolas. She doesn’t care at all about fulfilling any duties Stolas had to take care of. She’s never even been interested in the book. What exactly has she done that was even remotely Goetia-like? Ma’am just hates her ex and wants him to die.

-- Okay, first off.... eww! What is this?? Like dude- back up! What is this incest sh*t I’m lookin’ at? I don’t like this. Viv, plz don’t!!

-- Andre: I say we bide our time, and wait for the chance to gain the upper-hand.”

B*tch, what are you talkin’ about! You already had the upper-hand. And you’re sister clearly doesn’t care about Stolas’s possessions or power. She doesn’t even care that her daughter gets to obtain that. She just wants him dead. If anything, it just seems like YOU want what Stolas has and is only controlling your sister.

-- Can we PLEASE stop going in and out of Loona and Blitzo and just focus on the fight scene with M&M vs Striker! The stupid side plot doesn’t even fit with this episode! This is supposed to be a serious moment with Striker kidnapping Stolas and keeping Moxxie and Millie out the way, yet at the same time were expected to laugh and giggle at Loona escaping the wrath of a frikin needle!!!??? And the stupid girly pop music doesn’t even help!

-- Why her butt?..... Out of all the places to give her a shot???

-- Striker: “Oh I remember how easy you are to choke the life out of, little one.”

Moxxie: *Getting choked by Striker* Harder!

Umm, excuse me, sir? WTF!!! Is Viv making these little jokes a trope now!!? Why does Moxxie have a kink!?? He’s not even a very sexual person!! I dunno if he was just doing that to throw Striker off or somethin, but WHAT IN THE HELL!!?? And why did Striker immediately let go, feeling disgusted!!??? Bro, you made a statue with a literal stick-shaped boner???!!! This should NOT have caught you off-guard so easily!!!

-- When something is falling and is about to come crashing onto you, you do NOT, under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES walk forward! You could literally just jump to the side.

-- I don’t know if Striker is dead or not, but if he is, Then way to go, Viv! You may have just killed off a character that was even slightly interesting. If you're gonna make a character and have him get this popular only to kill him off, at least venture him a little bit first!! This was only his second debut in the show and we hardly gotten anything from his character! There wasn’t much backstory to him or anything. Just that he was a bigot who was hired to kill Stolas and HATES nobles! And Striker even mentioned that there was someone he cared about taken away from him by the upper class. It raised wonders why he felt so much hatred for the rich folk and we won’t even get to explore that cuz he may have possibly died. I may not care much about him, but there were still some things I noticed about Striker that I found interesting and they needed to be explored.

With him and Moxxie, I still feel like there wasn’t much score to settle between them. To me, they don’t have much of a dynamic at all, and they were supposed to be rivals. In fact, their second meeting felt rushed. The second Millie and Moxxie barged in, Moxxie just went ahead and pulled a trigger on him without saying a word. We don’t even get to hear any dialoge between them. It’s fighting, fighting, and more fighting. There wasn’t even much of an enemy relationship between them. Actually, Striker seems to have more of an adversary with Blitzo. And what about him and Blitzo??? The writers made it seem like Striker had a pretty big impact on him; from when he tried convincing him to join forces because they were so similar in certain ways to Blitzo hallucinating him in his trip dream. With the conversation they had at the festival, Striker was manipulating his insecurities. And that apparently affected Blitzo, because an episode later, he was dreaming about Striker tormenting him, along with Moxxie, Verosika, Fizz, and Stolas. So yeah, was kinda expecting to see some more interactions between those two. Neither of them didn’t even get to speak to each other this whole episode!! Its like I said, Blitzo should’ve joined Moxxie and Millie in Stolas’s rescue.

-- So Stolas is injured and is rushed to the hospital. Blitzo finds out about the and asks the most stupidest-a** question to have put have ever been put in this dialogue....

-- WHAT. DO. YOU. MEAN!?!?!?!

Of course he can get hurt!!! You already know that, you stupid d*ck!!! Why else did you point the gun at Striker before he killed Stolas back at the festival!! You obviously knew he would get hurt if he was shot!! What did you think that Angelic Weapon was made for??!!!! Whatever happened to that weapon anyway? We don’t ever get to see that again at all? Judging from Moxxie’s reaction, the gun seemed like a very rare weapon in hell and is impossible to get. How did Striker even get his hands on it? We don’t even get to explore that?

-- So, as it turns out, the aftermath between Stolas and Blitzo in the Ozzie’s episode actually did occur....

......through text messages *face-palm*

Jesus christ on a bicycle..... The way this was addressed was a literal blink and a miss!! I HATED IT!! I didn’t even realize this was the aftermath until I saw it on twitter!!! So you mean to tell me we don’t get to explore what happened with them after Ozzie’s ON SCREEN at all???? They never even directly talked about what happened??? Are you for real, Viv?? Like- i-is this your way of shutting us up? Like you knew we were curious about what happened between them and decided to half-ass your way out of this by showing a bunch of text messages and moving forward?? Are you THIS lazy!!!!??? They’re not even fully conversing through these messages. If anything, Stolas is the main one doing all the talking while is Blitzo barely responding to him.

-- Dear lordy.... and reading messages don’t even make it better. Stolas is dumbed down deeper than his ex, bro!!! Obviously, he didn’t learn a DAMN THING!!!

Stolas: “You seem very upset and you took off so fast. I’m sorry if anything I said or did may have offended you tonight.”

F*CKING WHA--!! He says it as if he has no clue why Blitzo was mad at him or if he was upset with him at all! Um, b*tch... HE TOLD YOU WHY!!! Like to your face, he said, “Don’t act like that what we have is anything but you wanting me to f*ck you. You make that pretty clear all the time.” And you invited him in your house to cuddle with him knowing damn well he wasn’t in the mood!! You should already know why he’s upset!

Im sor- Is this another retcon or something?? Were we supposed to see it how Stolas saw it? That Blitzo was upset for some unknown reason and we just can’t figure it out? Are we just gonna act like Stolas had done absolutely NOTHING wrong and he’s just an oh-so-innocent uwu baby bird? Are we gonna act like Blitzo didn’t just call out Stolas, spelling out the exact justified reason why he was mad?? Cuz that’s exactly how this text message scene is acting like!! Like their dialogue only revolves around what during their date and not what happened after that. Why is Stolas even talking about what happened at just Ozzie’s?! There was much more to the situation that affected him after he was dropped off. He was crying on his porch when Blitzo pushed him away. But now the show is not even gonna have them explore that in their messages. And now Viv is not even gonna have Stolas be considerate of Blitzo feelings and know why he’s mad? As if all they did was go their separate ways without saying a word instead of Blitzo dropping Stolas off at his house!!

And he goes on to say this-

“I’m glad that Ozzie’s is not the case of you being upset. I wasn’t upset either. I actually thought it was funny. It didn’t embarrass me at all.”

Okay... first off, what happened at Ozzie’s DID make him upset. YOU were just another one of those reasons. And you ain’t find sh*t funny, you were embarrassed just by BEING THERE with him, hence another reason why he’s mad at you! Like- Seriously?? What is happening right now?? Are all of us watching the same episode!!!??? Why is Stolas acting like such an oblivious and clingy idiot with the long-ass at paragraphs??

-- Okay yall... I’m done.

*Sigh* Okay.

This episode was... well it was somethin'. I'm not gonna say whether I like it or not, though the latter might be obvious enough.

I say the only thing I liked a little about it was Stella. Which is why I'm SUPER disappointed with how her character was written so far. If she were to actually be a character, I would like her more without going, "Oh Jesus... how are they gonna butcher her this time?"

Stella is as one-noted as ever! And there were a couple of traits they added to her character that is just so irritating-- Like, I can't take her seriously anymore. Viv doesn't change a thing about Stella. Her whole character is, "I hate my ex and I want him dead!" And that's all there is. That's all Stella was worried about this episode. Like- ma'am? Could you just get over it!!? We get it, you hate his guts. And we don't even know WHY she hates him so much! Why does she want him dead, so badly? What could possibly warrant her hatred?? This is like her 4th appearance in this show, yet we're still not given her backstory. Nothing is hinted on why she became such an evil Darla Dimple. At first, in the first season, it seemed like Stella was only angry that her husband had an affair and cheated on her. So angry, she even called a hitman on him. Though it was rather harsh to want someone dead for that, you'd understand why she would be angry. I mean, who wouldn't!!! My husband cheated on me and it greatly affected my family!! That's how we saw it (or at least that's how I saw it). You can't even tell me that Stella never loved Stolas, because it was hinted that she initially did care about him. At least, according to Octavia who said that things used to be decent between them.

But now, since season 2 began, Viv suddenly just slaps us with the fact that Stella had always hated Stolas for no reason?? She just likes to make fun of him and talk sh*t while laughing at him?? She didn't care at all about the affair, but she still insist on tormenting him.... cuz she's evil??? And that excuse is not even justified alone, cuz why is she so evil??.... Because... she was just born that way???

Tch, yeah, alright Vivzie... whatever.

It doesn't even make sense why she's married to him if she's always hated him. Why did she even stick with him if she was just going to keep talking bad about him and complain about being married to him??? Yeah, I know there were arranged to marry, but they're adults now. No one could tell them what to do! She could've just divorced him. And clearly, nothing came of it. She could've left him WAY before now. You could say she only stuck around for the riches and the power, but she obviously doesn't care about that! All she ever did was throw parties. She didn't show off any riches or power she had when she was with him. And again... why does she want him dead?? What was her final straw here?? It was already established she didn't care about the affair and she already hated Stolas. What, was it because he embarrassed her by doing what he did? Well, like I said, she doesn't care about the affair, so why would she care about the embarrassment!? I just don't understand---

And I've already mentioned this, but I also didn't like how childish and giddy they made her about the whole thing. I didn't like to see how excited she was about her ex finally dying. I mean, it's nice to see she has no regrets and is proud, but in cases like her behavior about it-- it just doesn't seem to work for me. I was expecting Stella to be... stone-cold. Like just a soft-spoken, strict, and sinister woman who is somewhat secretive of her wicked ways and is tricky, but doesn't hide it fully. And despite knowing what she's doing, she doesn't care at all about the effects of it as long as she gets what she wants. Almost like Lady Tremaine from Cinderella, Ursula from The Little Mermaid, or Mother Gothel from Tangled.

But instead, I experience this-

I don't even like the way she acted when she was told she can't continue going along with what she wanted. She started to whine like a baby, crying "Aww! But I want him dead so badly!!!" Like, miss-- how old are you?? I would expect for her to be all "harumph!!" and begrudgingly agree with her brother after arguing with him a little. Not this immature little princess who will cry if she doesn't get her dolly back!

Another thing that bugged me about this episode, of course, was more Stolitz. It's pretty clear up to this point that Viv so DESPERATELY wants to make these two endgame. She doesn't care at all about how fast, how rushed, or how unplanned she makes this show as long as Stolas and Blitzo become a couple in the end. But just by rushing the show and not planning it, she doesn't really do a great job of showing us these two are good for each other. It just gets more toxic, especially with Stolas acting like he always cared about Blitzo when he obviously didn't and just becomes more selfish and oblivious to his feelings. Hell, he continues to be a flirt after Blitzo pretty much calls him out on it! And Viv tries to show us that Blitzo had always cared about Stolas and secretly wants a relationship with him, but considering the blank responses and the passive-aggressive behavior from those text messages, it's clear Blitzo does NOT like Stolas and doesn't care at all about him! Even when he reacted with disbelief over him getting hurt, he still gave him a short-worded text!! Like-- Blitzo just doesn't like Stolas, okay Viv.

Ugh!! This show has officially broken me with the stupid sh*t, y’all. I still have some things I wanna say about it that I may have left off, but I’m to tired for now. They can be saved for another day. I-I cant anymore- The only reason why I’m even going along with this is because I’m curious to see how these eps will turn out. Like, I’m still curious about Fizz, Verosika, and Barbie. And you best believe I’m waiting for the last episode where we get to hear Octavia finally go off on her dad. It’s a literal challenge at this point, but bring it on. And It’s ironic, cuz I love critiquing shows, whether I like them or not.

#helluva boss criticism #helluva boss critique #helluva boss critical #anti helluva boss #anti stolitz #anti blitzo #anti stolas #helluva rant #SpindleHorse critical

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goldyeokki · 1 year

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# DREAMIES !!

꩜ SEXTING DREAMIES — smau

꩜ BEFORE THE LAST FLOWER BLOOMS — series

# MARK LEE !! [ts.]

꩜ I KINDA WANNA BE YOURS — fluff, crack / humour — wc

mark lee is the definition of a campus crush; naturally, he's also someone that you have a silly little crush on. the universe hears your silent woes and presents you with a cross-disciplinary project in your first year of grad school with him.

TITLE — genre — wc synopsis

# HUANG RENJUN !! [ts.]

꩜ EVERYTHING DENIED / NOTHING REVEALED — fluff, angst, crack / humour — wc

working in a record store has several perks. although most of your shifts are nothing but a routine, you’ve grown to enjoy the view of a certain lilac-haired barista who works in the café that directly faces the store you work at.

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# LEE JENO !! [ts.]

꩜ OH SHIT . . . ARE WE IN LOVE? — fluff, angst, crack / humour, smut — wc

you and jeno have known each other since freshman year of university. you can’t quite explain the chemistry that you both have—because you’re just that close to him! you’re so thankful that you have a friend like him.

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# LEE DONGHYUCK !! [ts.]

꩜ 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU — fluff, crack / humour, angst, smut — 35.5k

꒰ teaser ꒱ you and lee donghyuck both get along like oil and water. as handsome or attractive as people claim him to be, you hate his guts. there are so many reasons why you hate him, so why do you get butterflies in your stomach when he's near? ★ bonus

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# NA JAEMIN !! [ts.]

꩜ TAKE A BITE — fluff, smut — 5.5k

you don't ever recall your boyfriend being this buff but it finally hits you how much bigger he's gotten.

꩜ NOTICE ME — fluff, angst, smut — wc

the one thing that you miss when you’re away for university isn’t the home-cooked meals, your bed or your hometown friends. it’s one boy whom you have your sights set on, and he just happens to be your older brother’s best friend.

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# ZHONG CHENLE !! [ts.]

꩜ CONTRACT OF LOVE — fluff, angst — wc

you’ve been dating zhong chenle for close to seven months now. in a cruel twist of fate, your parents decide to set you up in an arranged marriage. now, you’re stuck with someone you don’t even know while your heart aches for the man that you’ve fallen in love with.

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# PARK JISUNG !! [ts.]

꩜ THE PARENT TRAP — fluff, crack / humour, mild angst — wc

the last thing you would expect from studying child psychology in university is to be given a fake husband, and a fake baby to take care of. your fake husband, park jisung, is the shyest person that you know. so what happens when you put two socially awkward people together and make them fake parents for a project?

꩜ TEDDY BEAR — fluff — wc

ever since you've had difficulties wanting to fall asleep, there's this one man that you keep seeing in your dreams. he was just a blurry figure or a pair of hands. now, he's sitting across from you, laughing and talking to you. every day you look forward to falling asleep so you can see him again but you never thought that he'd be a real person waiting for you in your waking life.

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꒰ 𓆙 ꒱ ── 127 𖦹 wayv

#hua writes #꒰ 🥟 ꒱ ⌒ ✧ ﾟnavibun

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noforkingclue · 2 years

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Could you do a dark imagine for Tommy Shelby please, where your marriage to him, even though an arranged one, wasn’t loveless on his end because his love goes unrequited and has been for as long as he can remember.

And after many failed attempts at trying to get you to love him back, he finally snaps when he finds out that you have been encouraging different women to try and seduce him into an affair in an attempt to make him get over you.

I love writing for dark!Tommy. Hope everyone enjoys the fic!

Warnings: dark fic, forced arranged marriage, choking

Title: Pawns

Peaky Blinders tag list: @stylesofloki, @ohshititsfenharel, @lenaskyler02

Thomas Shelby tag list: @alreadybroken-ts, @darlingdevil, @lyrxbz

Everything tag list: @greenrevolutionary, @imjustassaneasyou, @spngingerbread21, @layazul, @lov3vivian, @simonsbluee

You clawed desperately at Tommy’s hand as he curled it around our neck. He pressed you roughly against the wall of your bedroom and leaned in close. He closed his eyes as he inhaled deeply and rested his cheek against yours.

“Stop that.” He said as you dug your nails into his hand

“Tommy-“

“Don’t speak. I don’t want to hear a word out of your fucking mouth. What I want you to do is listen.”

He opened his eyes as you opened your mouth and raised an eyebrow. He gave your neck a warning squeeze and you closed your mouth with a snap. He smiled at you and pressed a kiss against the corner of your mouth.

“Good girl.” He said

He brushed his lips over yours, achingly close and yet not giving into his desires. He forced you to look into his eyes as he said,

“I think I have been obvious about the reason why I married you.”

‘Yes,’ you thought, “For control.”

“I have given you everything you desired. Given you space when you required it. Been a loyal husband despite your best efforts.”

You flinched at his words and tried to look away. However, his iron grip on you prevented that he Tommy sighed in disappointment.

“I had been hoping to keep this from you,” he said, “To let you live in blissful ignorance but the time has come to let you know the truth.”

You frowned at his words and an unreadable look crossed Tommy’s face. He loosened his grip slightly and he pressed his forehead against yours.

“I love you,” he said, “Despite everything you have done and everything you will continue to do, I love you. I know you have always been… resistant to my affections even when I mean you no harm.”

You opened you mouth but one look from Tommy had you closing it again. He smiled as he traced your lips with his finger before pressing it against them.

“Your father always had grand plans for you, didn’t he? What were you to him- a daughter or a pawn? I know that was how you truly felt about him. But I’ll tell you something.”

He moved closer, his body firmly pressed against yours. You swear that he had never been this close to you before. He brushed his lips against the shell of your ear as he said,

“I know what you really are.”

The only sound in the room was the crackle of the fire. Your eyes were wide and Tommy pulled away to study your face.

“Would you like to know the truth?” he asked

You shook your head, terrified of what would happen if you spoke.

“The truth shall set you free. Isn’t that the phrase?”

You closed your eyes as you felt tears pour down your face. Tommy brushed them away with the same gentleness that he reserve solely for you.

“It’s ok,” he said, “It’s ok. You’re hurting now but I’ll make everything better.”

Yet another sickeningly sweet kiss was pressed against your cheek.

“Don’t you think,” Tommy said, “That our engagement and your father’s rise to power happened so close together? Bit of a coincident don’t you think?”

It took you a second before you realised the truth. A burst of anger coursed through you and you raised your hand to slap Tommy. In a flash he had let go of your neck and grasped your wrist. He pinned it against the wall and immediately your other wrist followed. You struggled to free yourself despite the pain in your neck and wrists.

“My father wouldn’t do that.” You said, your voice rough

“Take it easy,” said Tommy, “You don’t want to cause any more damage to your neck.”

“Fuck you.”

“Love,” Tommy continued, ignoring your insult, “I assure you he did. To him you were nothing more than a pawn. Something he could use to bargain his way into power. Don’t you see? I saved you from him. I have given you the life you deserve and you insult me by throwing whores my way? I… understand why you did it. You have been deprived of the love you deserved for so long. We both have.”

This time he pressed a kiss against your lips. You could feel the burning passion sear through it before he broke it off far too soon. You hated that you craved the feeling of his lips back against yours.

“So I’m going to offer you something.”

You yelped as he let go of your wrists and took a step back. You crumpled to the floor and looked up at him helplessly.

“You will accept my love and discourage any woman from trying to seduce me away from you.”

“And in return?”

“I will help you destroy your father.”

#fanfiction #Peaky Blinders #reader insert #request #thomas shelby #thomas shelby x reader #tommy shelby #tommy shelby x reader #dark

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lastbluetardis · 8 months

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If you’re still taking TS songs for Ten/Rose AUs….🎵

I will be the first to admit I’m not a Swiftie (I like her music, though) I just want to see you come up with some more 10/Rose AU’s!

I'm definitely still doing this! I'm having way too much fun merging my love of Taylor Swift with my love of Ten/Rose AUs 😂

Song: Dancing With Our Hands Tied

AU Idea: This would make for a great forbidden/secret romance story. I would write maybe a historical/ye olde fic where James and Rose come from two vastly different social classes, like maybe royalty and peasant or something to that effect. And the one from royalty (James, I'm thinking) doesn't want the responsibilities of being royalty, because maybe he isn't even next in line, so why does the royal family even care about what he does or where he goes. But it's all about maintaining the image of fancy-schmancy hoity-toity perfect, untouchable, unobtainable perfection, so his parents are trying to arrange a suitable marriage for him. He then runs away from the castle to slum it as a commoner, where he runs into Rose, who recognizes him straight away ("Really, mate... the whole kingdom knows your face, but you thought you could blend in undetected?? You're stupider than I thought." *incoherent spluttering* "Oi, I'm the prince! Have some respect!" *smirking* "Well the royal prince is standing ankle deep in cow dung...")

Suffice it to say he's smitten, and he begrudgingly goes back to the castle because turns out a handsome, marriageable prince out and about the village without any guards or soldiers is a bad idea. Not to mention any villager who's angry about his parents' reign.

So he goes to the castle and, like a dumb-dumb, he never got Rose's name. The next time he sneaks out, he takes better precautions with disguising himself, and he searches the whole town for Rose. He finally finds her and is is trying to act like it's a coincidence he ran across her again, but they both know better. But lucky for him, she likes him too. They get to chatting and regularly meet up in secrecy for a while, slowly falling in love over the course of several glorious, uninterrupted months. Until finally they're found out and James is forbidden from contacting her again, and Rose is threatened to stay away from the prince.

Neither of them listen *insert interesting and romantic conflict resolution here* and they come out to the entire kingdom as being in love, and James announces that if he couldn't marry Rose, he wasn't going to marry anyone. *insert family drama here* Eventually the king and queen reluctantly agree to let James get married to Rose, but they all live happily ever after :)

Send me a 🎵 and I’ll shuffle my Taylor Swift playlist

#lizziea2 #ash answers #that was a fun one to come up with #i haven't written any sort of forbidden royalty story in years #maybe i should try my hand at it again

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jewishbarbies · 7 months

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I remember how invisible string was used as proof that “see Taylor is friends with some of her exes like Joe J. and Taylor L., so she’s not a mean girl”, but apparently after that calculated pap walk it’s clear she’s not friends with Joe any longer. So the only ex she’s supposedly friends with is only Taylor L. now?

Taylor Lautner's wife didn't talk or post about ts at all until suddenly they're involved in the tour, a music video, etc. and now this woman is talking about ts in multiple posts a week and suddenly going to the eras tour ever weekend. like?? how does that not sound like a pr arrangement? it feels icky. esp when you consider she dated him when he was 17 and now she's a talking point in his marriage. like just leave this man the fuck alone already. you've done enough.

#Asks #anonymoose #anti taylor swift #swifties dni

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compacflt · 1 year

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I have an anecdote about when I worked for a company and a co-worker left to work in a different state on military aircraft. He had to get a TS clearance and because we had worked for several years together he asked if I would be okay with being interviewed for his clearance. I said sure and an interviewer w the gov, arranged to come to my place of work and conduct the interview there. I was asked questions about him like how well did I know him, and whatever answer I gave led to more specific questions like if I answered a question about knowing his wife, they would ask if I thought his marriage sounded secure etc.

This memory of that experience was on my mind while I read your story and I wondered who Iceman would choose for his TS clearance interviews (and who the gov would choose for him) and what would they say? I feel like their "secret" would be uncovered in even a low level clearance (years later I had to submit names for a low level Public Trust clearance for my job) It was so embarrassing because I did not have many friends I was comfortable submitting for that as I kept my work and home life very separate.

Anyway, that is my "cool story, bro"

Thank you for such a great and well researched story!

this is indeed a cool story bro and touches on what is literally my story’s fatal flaw, which is: Yeah, a shitload of people would’ve known about it. I am going to hijack your question to talk about that, so my apologies, though i will get around to your question by the end. This is gonna be a really long post. I have a lot to say and a lot of ground to cover.

So I wanna start out by talking about the structure of this story and its core conflict, because while I’d like to say this story is rooted in an accurate depiction of the US military, obviously that’s not true; it’s rooted in the dynamic of the story that i wanted to tell, which is the story of a guy coming to realize the truth behind a Big Lie—him passing as straight. And that’s a pretty universal story, but it’s made more specific by the fact that a) the guy canonically wants to be the best in an institution that enforces the Big Lie and b) the guy canonically is so successful because he follows the rules/orders of that institution. So, for character growth, to put it simply, the guy (Ice) has to come to the conclusion that the Big Lie is a lie by himself. He can’t be told/ordered that the Big Lie is a lie, otherwise he hasn’t grown out of “just following orders.” (I’ll get to the Big Lie in a second. I made charts and story structure graphs below.)

The only other story about a Big Lie I can think of off the top of my head right now is Passing (1929) by Nella Larsen, which is about a Black woman in Chicago trying to pass as both white and straight. It’s a great book and I’ll try not to spoil it, you should really read it for yourself, but the terminology I’m going to use in this post comes from an analysis of it, so just to bring you up to speed—Clare, the woman trying to pass as white, is recognized by a friend, another Black-but-passing woman, Irene, who is shocked that Clare has abandoned her heritage (the truth of her, that is) and married a hyper-racist white man who doesn’t even know that she’s Black. So the book sets up a dynamic of the Big Lie that I’ve outlined here (hopefully it makes sense):

I built on this dynamic for my fic. Ice is both a “dupe” and a “passing figure,” in that he believes the lie that he is straight and also passes for straight—but it’s also more complicated than that because he’s not actually straight (getting to that). Mav is an “in-group clairvoyant” and can recognize Ice as passing because he is also straight-passing. The Navy are a bunch of “dupes.” But…what is Slider, for instance, or your question’s hypothetical government official who, yes, will 100% find out because people always find out?

In comes my ginormous-and-overly-wordy WWGATTAI Plot and Character Dynamic Summary Graph. You don’t really have to read it all, the only important bits for this discussion are the leftmost column (“plot”) and the green quadrant (“out-group clairvoyants”).

To summarize—people who know the truth can’t actually act on it, because for Ice’s character growth to make sense, he has to come to the truth himself. This forecloses the possibility of any outwardly homophobic action (by which I mean someone like a govt official or one of my lame OCs actually challenging him on his illegal relationship) in the plot, because for 90% of the story Ice is so fragile that he would probably just cave immediately and double down on the internalized homophobia. So, for plot purposes, everyone—including Mav, as it happens—has to sort of tiptoe around Ice’s obvious not-straightness and give him an unreasonable amount of grace so he can figure it out for himself.

And therein lies the fatal flaw of this story. It is, like, not conceptually viable. Of course people would find out, of course the government would interrogate him about it, of course he’d have to confront the truth much sooner than TWENTY-FIVE years after he first starts messing around with Mav. Which literally breaks my heart because I didn’t realize it was a fundamentally busted story until long after I had finished writing the base plot & couldn’t fix the overarching problems 😭 The thing is, it had to be this way, because there is at least a thirty-year gap between TG86 and TGM22, and TGM is obviously the emotional climax of the series and my story had to match that. So—fanfic and its canon constraints, everyone.

But also… I can explain away these logical inconsistencies with story structure & character dynamic graphs to make the story make sense, sure, but it doesn’t change the truth of the matter, which is that… I hadn’t ever really thought about things like security clearances, and therefore wrote around them because I didn’t even know to consider them. And I know there are a bunch of other details in this story that betray my immaturity (anytime I talk about alcohol, for instance—I still am not legal to drink in this stupid country & have only cheap bad experiences to draw on; THE HOUSE—if i could rewrite this story from the beginning they would not have bought a fucking house together, what was I thinking???) and the lack of thought about the real-life logistics and consequences of secrecy is one of them.

And it’s exactly what I mean when I say “I look at this story and all I see are its flaws,” which is why I wanted to write this post & get it on record. I have just enough life experience to read my own writing and know that it’s fundamentally unconvincing, and not enough life experience to know how to fix it. :(

But, to answer your original question, you’ve got me brainstorming a scene where Ice is asking Slider to be his character witness & Slider’s like “Look bro do you want me to lie to the federal government under oath for you because I will” and Ice has to be like “Legally I cannot ask that of you but”

#in case you couldnt tell it really bothers me #idk what the age range of the ppl who read my fics is but i knoooow there are #some parts of this story where you read it and you go #yeah a little kid wrote that #if you asked me what a 401k is with a gun to my head i could not tell you #so the fact that people care about my opinions on these like really grown up adult problems is #literally like the highest compliment ever #but i feel bad that i don’t have the life experience to give a convincing answer & i apologize for that #ive grown up so much & so quickly working on this project both as a writer and as a person & so thankful for that #but it also means that i look back on even recent work & say WTF LITTLE KID ALERT #so #sorry i turned your question into a fiction lecture #but lol that’s like the one thing i actually AM a little bit qualified to talk about #and your question represents like the fundamental fatal flaw of the story i have spent literally 100s of hours on #so I wanted to talk about it #thank you for the ask <3333333 #my birthday is in a couple days so just thinking about getting older lol #edts notes #top gun #top gun maverick #icemav #tom iceman kazansky #asks #hope to one day put this energy into like a job or sumn

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