#but i instead chose to do this for hours

[jesseevelann]

Sasuke wasn't the most romantic person in the word. Luckily for him, neither was Sakura. They didn't do many lovey dovey things often, they always struggled to think of something that the other would like and still fit as romantic, mostly Sasuke for Sakura.

Sakura wasn't a jewellery person. She wasn't big on eating sweets or chocolates, and despite what she was named after, she didn't care for flowers either. She wasn't easy to get gifts for, which gave her an advantage when it came to holiday gift shopping for each other.

Today, however, Sasuke was determined to best her. It wasn't really a competition, but he wanted to surprise her. She had a knack for guessing gifts from others, especially from him. "You're too obvious, love." She'd say. He pouted just thinking about it. He couldn't hide anything from Sakura.

He started simple, waking up before her and cooking her breakfast. He wasn't as skilled as her, he didn't understand the different uses and flavours of the herbs and spices, but it was edible in the end.

They ate together when she woke, Sasuke even opted for feeding her. Something she did with him to make him flustered, even with the roles reversed she still managed to do it by licking crumbs off the corner of his mouth. The sudden gesture caused him to drop the spoon he was using and making a mess of himself.

As an apology, Sakura cleaned up. Letting Sasuke work on the second part of his plan. He snuck to the bedroom, laying out fresh clothes for her to wear for the day, leaving a note to invite her into the shower with him. He waited until she walked past the bathroom before turning on the water.

When Sakura entered the room, Sasuke was stark naked, looking up at her with a slight impatient look. He stepped into the shower and waited, adjusting the temperature to cold. It hit his skin almost unpleasantly, pulling a slight shiver from him before Sakura's warm body pressed against his back.

Sakura wrapped her arms around his hips, pulling him close so his rear was pressed to her crotch. Sasuke blushed hard, a rush of heat spreading through his body as her fingers teased at his sensitive skin.

His breath became shaky and hard, but he didn't object to the advance. He turned his head and connected their lips, gasping into her mouth when her hands became more curious. The cold water barely felt cold anymore.

Sakura carried him to their bed after their shower, kissing him hot and slow before she had to leave for a quick meeting. Leaving Sasuke breathless, but in the perfect place for his third and final plan.

When he heard the front door lock, he sat up and made his way to his closet, pulling a special parcel from the bottom. He pulled the contents out and set everything up, even handling dinner so everything would go quicker.

Sasuke watched the sky darken while waiting for Sakura's return. Keeping the food hot and before plating it when he heard her footsteps approach the door.

She pulled him into a hug when she came in, making minimal complaints about how boring it was before settling into a chair and enjoying the meal. Sasuke watched her lust fully the whole time.

When they finished, Sakura pulled Sasuke onto her lap and nuzzled her nose into his neck, taking in his scent and relaxing into his hold. Sasuke played with her hair, wrapping his arm around her neck tighter when she lifted him up. Sighing softly when she kissed at his neck.

Sasuke pulled her qipao open, pushing it off her shoulders, and trailing his fingers over the scars on her neck and chest. Sakura carried him into their room, kicking the door closed and pinning him to the bed. Her qipao dropped to the floor and Sasuke stared up at her, biting his lower lip.

Sakura kissed him firmly, pulling his shirt off and finding lacey lingerie hiding underneath. Sasuke shivered at her smirk, pulling her closer and wrapping his legs around her waist.

She kissed his chest, mumbling something along the lines of 'I never expected this from you'. Sasuke was filled with pride hearing it. He had succeeded in his little mission, and it felt amazing to him.

// end

#sakura uchiha #uchiha sakura #sakura haruno #haruno sakura #sasuke uchiha #uchiha sasuke #sakura x sasuke #sakusasu #sasusaku #naruto #naruto shippuden #boruto the next generation #i have other stuff to do #but i instead chose to do this for hours #lol #tw slightly suggestive

[thefallenangelsgang]

Last Line Challenge

In a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or however many as you like).

Tagged by @fablewritesnonsense

Fable you have got to be clairvoyant in some manner because your timing is scary accurate. I just put down my writing for today not even a half hour ago. This is the first time narrative has felt easy in months. UNFORTUNATELY THE LAST LINE IS SHORT AND NOT NARRATIVELY INTERESTING *SHAKES FISTS AT GOD*

From a unfinished maybe chapter of what could become my Baldur's Gate 3 Fic:

And reality comes crashing down.

(fuck it I'm going to post the incomplete chapter and link it here)

Tags (no pressure, I just really appreciate these peeps writing/art styles!):

@helena-bug @caesarflickermans @druidgroves @roystory4 @rosegardeninwinter

#you know when a personal joke gets out of hand? #that's what this possible fic is to me #anyways I was having Big Emotions of the mad variety about The Emperor and wanted to write the final Astral Plane scene from Act 3 #because my tav gave The Emperor the verbal lashing of a lifetime in my head #instead of just letting that fucker walk out when I freed Orpheus #No no no you get your little Tyrant Ass back here #I've been dealing with your shit for 200 hours I deserve to speak my mind freely #Anyways I didn't get the that part of the scene yet #I backtracked to The Emperor pulling you into the portal #and chose to do some fun physical trauma stuff #and got the most wonderful Astarion line out of it #choosing to say “You’d think they turned on a hose the way it sprayed out of you darling." to a Spinal Fluid leak is INSANE and IN CHARACTE #said spinal fluid leak being caused by taking immense amounts of Psychic Damage #Jericho Writes

[jjstein2]

more demon/angel stuff cause i love drawing jackie as a cool demon guy and jameson as his pet angel <3 also i didnt want to crop this cause the strap takes up such a small part of the piece so i just censored it 👍

full on da twitter

#i think i chose a fine pic of markiplier to censor the pebis #take THAT tumblr #my art #ego shipping #dapperhero #ALSO NO COLORING AGAIN CAUSE LINEART TOOK AN HOUR TO DO AND IM SICK OF WORKING ON THIS #ive been moreso enjoying the process of drawing and leaving it at that instead of messing around with coloring or shading #which i hope is ok with yall haha

[songsintheattic]

why are intro classes so much harder than real ones? i do not have the personality to do fake work

#this fake assignment should have taken like an hour to complete and I'm still working on it #because i cannot find decent sources #even though it's not a real paper it's literally just a reference list #and i chose a really understudied topic without thinking #but he told me to do what I'm actually interested in so i feel like i need to stick with it #but there is literally NOTHING usable outside of journal articles #none of which are in my university library either apparently #so i am technically doing this entire thing wrong because i am incapable of just turning in something bad instead #so rip me

[lnc2]

anyways people acting like the bible is the be all end all of the entire show forget that they literally greenlit two (?) more seasons so maybe just maybe sit the fuck down if the things you want or don't want aren't included and don't ruin it for the rest of us who want to enjoy the ride

spoilers are all well and good i love a good spoiler but i'm not here to have someone spoonfeed me the entire season and you should respect the people who want to fucking watch the show as it happens

if i sound angry it's because i am

#i did not waste a stupid amount of time with this show only to have people bitching about how they hate the storyline #swoop in at the 11th hour to try and ruin the experience just bc they fucking chose to spoil themselves instead of #experiencing it within context #so ya'll do you but do it under a fucking read more and out of the main tags

[leafeonb]

doodling ocs until 3am is having some effect on me

#but also im petsitting my sister's dog a little this morning and i #just realized my hw was due 9am instead of the regular 11:59pm 😐... why that due hour theres no class until tomorrowww even if it was like #due 11:59am i would think yeah fair but 9am? 😭 okay... i will do it anyway o7 #lulu.txt #think about my ocs that i dont post about okay picture luciana and xavier in your mind i was trying to think of what their outfit styles #would be but i think both of them just wear whatever is nice... #i was trying to think of couples cosplay for them but usually i dont find character couples that suit my ocs it ends up being two random #characters which i find funny as hell. maybe one of them is like ok couple cosplay is cute so i'll chose a character that isnt even like me

[candescentkpop]

Leedo

Oneus: Valkyrie

Oneus Part 93 / ∞

#oneus #oneus valkyrie #leedo #and how do i know that he was so done with the girls screaming at him? #at the very end of the show they all started throwing water at each other #and - as leedo does - he took off his shirt #and instead of throwing it in the very obvious direction of where girls had been screaming after him for hours #he very pointedly chose to throw it at the other side of he venue #so there was no chance at all for any of the screaming girls to catch it #and he barely looked their direction for most of the concert after the first few looks and smiles he had given them #god i loved that moment #just hearing their disappointed screams made me so happy #go off leedo

[spearxwind]

cleaned up talas’ playlist a whole bunch just now

#id like to cull more songs but some of them i cant really do without for one reason or anothe #i realized a lot of the extremely sad songs were not very fiitting anymore for a myriad of reasons which was nice to notice #some of them are but like. it is not as insanely dire as before #he has kind of been my stress ball guy this time around with my issues as opposed to adri himself. instead of recurring to venting through #violence i chose to vent through carrying immense weight which is more talas' thing. #which is a big reason why adri was missing from my blog for a good while #so if you were wondering. theres a reason #im literally out here holding these two guys hands and they helped me thru bullshit on two different accounts #thunderclap #hello it is incomprehensible no filter hours i suppose #anyway. it was really nice to clean up all the Accidental Coping songs from his playlist

[khamomile-kitty]

My mom showed a cheap shopping app yesterday night and between then I combed through the entire thing for stuff I liked and found 476 items. I’m not even planning on buying them it just became a game to me. And I speedran that motherfucker.

#kitty talks #maybe not any new world recs but hey. one day plus four hours is p good for finding and looking at every single thing on a shopping app #I had shit to do and instead chose to mindlessly browse stuff I’ll never get. #my powers

[samuraisharkie]

girl help I’m experiencing that common yet elusive late night motivation to get my life together knowing it will fall apart in the morning </3 girl fucking help me

#I hate ittt #I’m always like ‘I’m gonna start doing this’ or ‘I’m gonna finally try and get myself in a place where I can maybe take college classes’ #and ‘I’m really gonna try and fix my sleep schedule and stop getting distracted instead of getting something accomplished’ #and then in the morning evil me is back and they hate me and everything else #and would sell the world to hell for five more minutes of sleep #and my executive dysfunction has its claws in me again #man it sucks being so behind. I don’t want to like complain and make it sound like I’m worthless bc I’m not but man it’s hard #it’s hard watching ppl younger than you achieve your dreams of learning and getting better and breaking through that mental fog #they’re not always much younger either just like. two years is enough to make me wonder what would have happened if I was there #I know it’s not all in my control why I’m here either— there’s a lot of factors at play #but one of them IS that growing up I couldn’t never beat that executive dysfunction plus mental fog and procrastination #and then I shot myself in the foot by saying I waited to long and shouldn’t even try #and now I’m realizing I could but the years I spent fighting with myself weigh me down now and then #I can’t let it get to me because if I let myself get weighed down by it all I pull others down with me #but sometimes it does make me sad. and frustrated. when I feel this motivation when im lying in bed tired at some ungodly hour #suddenly struck with wanting to change my life and not having the daylight nor the physical/mental ability to get it done right then #not to mention the privacy. if I chose to get up at the buttcheeks of midnight and morning I would be not only destroying my own schedule #but disturbing a bunch of others too #anyway this wasn’t supposed to turn into a rant sorry #I haven’t talked a lot lately so it’s all bubbling inside I guess

[yuoic]

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#today would have been my grandmother's birthday #an aunt has her ashes in the small box (no idea what it's called in English) #i wanted to buy a small cake for her; i told my aunt if she wanted to celebrate a little #but im already crying so much i dont think i can handle singing happy birthday to a box #plus i dont want to stain the house of my aunt with my sad vibes right now #i remembered about an hour ago and it hit me hard #im fine and all (and gotta do so much homework - no problem with that. i feel funcional to pull through) #it's just that i remember i didn't give her anything for her last birthday (last year) #i could have but i didn't #(the reason wasn't to purposely make her feel bad or anything; what i chose to do with the little money i had instead is.. regrettable) #i feel awful #i know i complain a lot about them (the family I've always been with) #but it's half a(n inside) joke #I don't necessarily hate them #and that they were horrible people doesn't mean i ever wanted to hurt them or that i never loved them at some point #as little or as much as i could

[the-devil-in-the-details-666]

Is it petty to send my mom a crocheted trans pride flag mouse, knowing that she’ll be stuck between “Well, it’s something that Dev sent me, so OF COURSE I have to display it” and “Oh no, but what if The Guests (aka her friend who already knows I’m trans) sees and thinks ill of me”?

#give me art supplies and i will make something stupid #give me a tiny crocheted mouse or give me death! #JK I know it’s petty #that’s why I’m doing it #because if she wants to be petty about me being trans #I’m gonna be petty right back #anyway I’m trying to decide if I should name it or if I should make my mom name it #a not-zero part of me wants to name it my chosen name #and write a little note explaining the meaning behind the name #because my mom didn’t understand why I chose the name I did and refused to ask me #and instead whined about it to my aunt for an hour #rather than just asking why I chose it #y’know #like an adult

[lovinnelily]

“Never be afraid of a thunderstorm, Jason. That is your father, letting you know he loves you.”

#If I ever see Rick Riordan it'll be on sight! #(by it I mean me crying for 2 hours about Jason's life and how he was never allowed to be himself- #And how he was never truly loved for who he was instead of what he was MEANT to be) #jason grace #Percy jackson #Like bro Apollo lying in his dream that everyone misses him lmao as rhcp once said: slit my throat it's all i ever #YES I WILL NEVER FORGIVE NONE OF THOSE CHARACTERS #Like how can you respect the choice of someone who never chose anything for himself? He didn't WANT to die for the greater good #It's what he thought a hero needed to do so he did it but he NEVER wanted to be a hero please how can none of them SEE it #Alexa play hero by family of the year

[lorillee]

i feel like the worlds most awful person right now

#ok bascially for my ap stats. instead of a final test we have a final project and it was like an hour before the deadline #and i needed to figure out what i was going to do #so in the end . inspired by my anger at my mother who does not squeeze out the sponge after she uses it #and just lets the water sit in there #i chose like whether squeezing out the sponge slows down the souring process #but in order ot test this. i have to waste . 30 sponges #technically its 60 but im just going to cut them in half #anyways i went down to the basement and took out 30 whole sponges that i will effectively be dumping in the garbage after this #and i feel . like a horrible person

[mkeanarchytect]

If you are thinking about it on paper, the bus running every half hour doesn't sound so bad, until you're waiting at the stop and you miss a bus or it's delayed. Then you're waiting a very, very long time. To people who never take transit, that's probably fine. Why do you care. To people who only take transit, they're expecting it, it's baked in their lives. But the important part, what really impacts our cities, is what happens to people for whom transit is an option.

The spiral goes like this. You go to take the bus instead of driving, thinking "I'm going to o have a couple drinks" or "I don't want to worry about parking where I'm going." So you take bus. First bus is right on time. But then you transfer from your neighborhood line to the line that takes you where you actually want to go. And your bus is delayed. And it only comes every 30 minutes. And then you're waiting, 40 minutes later, wondering where your bus is, knowing you could have driven there in 20 minutes.

Why would you ever chose to take a bus again? The bus made you waste precious time on your day off just sitting there. So next time you drive. Ridership goes down. When the transit authority asks for more money for more buses and more drivers, people point to the ridership numbers and say "why should we pay for this instead of paying for our schools/police/baseball stadium/parks/police again (let's be real that's who's taking all the money)?" If we want to increase ridership we need to actually design and fund functional transit networks. If we want people to actually ride the bus we need to make it a better option than driving, which means reliable service, which you don't get with a bus every 30 minutes.

Every 15 minutes, everywhere, all of the time.

[ambrosiagourmet]

I want to talk about why I think this is the one of the most important Falin panels:

So, Falin is really nice, right? It's one of the first things we really learn about her. She's kind even to the monsters of the dungeon - choosing to ward the party rather than fight spirits and cause them needless harm.

In the above early flashback in chapter 11, we see Marcille fawning over Falin's kindness, calling her an angel. Namari calls her soft-hearted. We see Falin choose not to fight even when a zombie attacks - instead she resolves the confrontation with a hug. After the flashback, the first thing Senshi says is that Falin "sounds like quite the person," which Marcille strongly affirms.

At this point in the story, all we have seen of Falin are these impressions; she is a healer, an angel, a caretaker with an infinite well of kindness towards everyone she meets - both friend and foe.

And honestly, that remains most of what we have to go by to understand her. The only times we get to see Falin on the page, alive and just herself, are in the opening and closing pages of the story and in the brief period of time after she is resurrected.

Nonetheless, we do have some more details to work with. For one, there is the scene that The Panel is from - a short memory in chapter 75, when Marcille flashes back to while she's dying. In that scene, Falin prepares to teleport them all out, and says that she's sorry "if there is a person at [their] destination." And that's when we get The Panel.

If you teleport someone or something into another person, the person teleported into is likely to be, at minimum, severely injured. They could die.

We can see a lovely little horrifying example of exactly why in one of the Daydream Hour doodles:

So, hmm. That's not... that's not SUPER nice. Certainly not displaying the same "kindness to all, friend and foe included" we saw represented earlier. On a basic level, this adds some nuance to Falin's kindness. We see it break a little, when pushed to the limit. We see her chose to protect the people she loves above all else.

Which makes sense! As Laios says when the Winged Lion accuses him of similarly being motivated more by his friends' safety than everyone else in the dungeon, "...most people, aside from virtuous do-gooders, would feel the same way."

So, we can take The Panel as simply showing a moment of weakness for Falin. A time when she was pushed to her limits, and that "most people" selfish side of her shone through.

However... I think there's a little more going on with Falin than just her being an angel 99% of the time, except just that once. I love The Panel because I think it helps us understand that Falin isn't just motivated by kindness - she also has a desire to avoid seeing people in pain.

Isn't that the same thing?

No, no it very much is not.

Let's look at a short comic from the Falin section of the Adventurer's Bible, because I think it illustrates this point perfectly. The group is complaining about how much Marcille's healing hurts, and comparing it to Falin's, which "doesn't hurt a bit." Marcille retorts with the following:

Now, the punchline of this comic is that, despite Marcille's sentimental assertion that she's "thinking of [them]" by letting her healing magic hurt, they all still prefer to be healed by Falin.

But hey, this wouldn't be the first time that Dungeon Meshi hides a very real character beat or insight in a gag, so let's think about this somewhat seriously.

If Marcille is right (and she knows a fair bit about magic, so we can assume that she has at least somewhat of a point), then what Falin is doing isn't kind. I suppose if someone specifically requested to not feel the pain, it could be kind, but that's not really what happened here. She is the one who felt badly about the others being in pain, and she is the one who decided, without telling them or giving them a choice in the matter, to take away that pain.

Both Marcille and Falin are healing the party, but Marcille is doing it in a way that accomplishes the task in the most straight forward way, without any additional interference. Falin is going out of her way to perform the healing in a way she is more comfortable with. A way that avoids pain.

Going back the The Panel, I don't think its a coincidence that the only time we see Falin (well, non-chimera Falin) willing to do something that could hurt someone is when any potential pain will be far away from her. If she got someone hurt or killed by teleporting the party to the surface? Not only would it be far out of her sight, but she'd be dead before she had to deal with any consequences of that action.

Falin is not a confrontational person. She doesn't push when Marcille won't tell her the truth about the resurrection, and she comforts Laios about her own death - both of those things happening in the only full chapter she is alive and conscious in the whole story.

We also know that she considered accepting Shuro's proposal, despite not having any special feelings towards him, and that Falin never explained to Marcille that she wanted them to share a meal together. When she brought Marcille various foods at the academy, she just accepted Marcille's confused rejection and gave up.

And lastly, we know that she is still in contact with her parents, despite the neglect and abuse she suffered at their hands. Although the way someone chooses to handle contact with abusive or bad family is a complicated topic, which I don't want to overly simplify, I do I think this fact gets at the heart of how she handles conflict.

So many people that Falin loves have hurt her. There are understandable hurts, like Laios leaving the village, or Marcille not understanding the food. And there are bigger, far less justifiable hurts - like her parents neglecting her throughout her childhood, and sending her away to be alone at the magic academy.

It doesn't seem like Falin has ever confronted any of it directly.

And the unhealthy aspects of this kind of avoidance of pain and confrontation is one of the things that the story of Dungeon Meshi is all about. We see Laios grapple with it before he goes to kill Falin, and we see Marcille acknowledge it at the end of the story, when she tells Laios that she has come to terms with Falin's death:

Eating is a part of life. Consuming other living things is a part of life. It isn't really possible to avoid that pain - you can only hide from the truth of it. You have to be selfish everyday. You have to eat - to choose to live. To choose to take up space.

And this is something Falin embraces, too. She comes back to life, after all.

We see her choose to come back to life.

And how does she make that choice? She eats. She consumes, and then she is asked a question by the manifestation of hunger itself:

Do you want to eat more?

There is a double meaning in the Winged Lion's final words on the next page.

When I first read this, I took it as him saying: life is cruel. You will suffer. You will feel more pain.

But perhaps, especially for Falin, this also means: you are choosing a path where you must cause pain. Where you must consume. Where you must take, and must be selfish. Because eating is the special privilege of the living, and it is their burden, too. In order to stay alive, she will need to keep eating.

And she chooses that. Chooses to be selfish. It's why her resurrection scene is so important, and it's why The Panel is so important. Because Falin coming back isn't the ultimate reward for all of the party's hard work.

It's her choice. Just like it was her choice that started everything in the first place. But this time, she doesn't choose to accept causing pain for the sake of Marcille and Laios. She does it for her own sake.

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #falin touden #dunmeshi analysis #I love it when dungeon meshi says. the trauma was real and it changed you #and the way you are because of it isn’t anything to be ashamed of #but you have to keep living. you have to chose to keep living. #and you can #dungeon meshi spoilers