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mynameismckenziemae · 3 months

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She's a Fire-Chapter XXVI

Send your mind spinning

Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw x OFC/Reader (no use of y/n)

Chapter summary: the party continues, old fun is revisited and new fun is found.

(previous chapter here, next chapter here)

Warnings: 18+ MDNI, smut, mentions of alcohol, spanking, orgasm delay, f x f, m x m, p in v, oral, a lot more.

“I’m sure glad I brought an extra pair of swim trunks.”

A new wave of arousal shoots between your legs; you’d been too wrapped up in your own pleasure that you hadn’t noticed he already came.

Time to turn the tables.

You unwrap your legs from his waist before pushing him gently to the opposite wall and trailing your fingers across his chest while you lean in. “Feel how wet I am,” you whisper against his ear as you slide his hand in the front of your bikini bottom. He whimpers when his fingers find the wet heat between your legs.

“But you came already. In your pants like an overeager teenager,” you sigh softly in a condescending tone. He hisses as your hand brushes over his sensitive, spent cock.

“Let’s go back to our room so you can make it up to me. Now.” You continue, pulling him from your bikini bottom, licking your arousal from his fingers, and pulling him down the hall to your room.

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You lean back against the door of your room as soon as it’s closed, pushing your bottoms down and kicking them off.

“Those uncomfortable?” You nod to Bradley as he starts to untie his cum-filled swim trunks.

“Yeah, kind of,” he replies.

You stop his hands. “Good. Keep ‘em on and get on your knees.”

“Yes ma’am,” he shudders as he kneels, lifting your leg over his shoulder and diving in between your thighs.

Your head drops back against the door with a thump. “Oh God. Yes! Ju-just like that,” you cry, arching your back as he slides two fingers in, curling and pressing over your g-spot.

He’s relentless, not even letting you come down fully before starting his assault, bringing you off several times.

He rises to his feet and kisses you deeply, you moan as you taste yourself on his tongue. He’s hard again, pressing insistently against your stomach as your hands reach for the tie but a loud knock startles you both.

“Quit fucking and get dressed, dinner’s in 10.” Sunny calls through the door, before lowering her voice, “Bobby says Bradley will be in trouble if you’re late.”

Bradley’s cock jumps in interest. You meet his gaze and he looks away, a flush rising up his neck.

“I did not say that,” Bob tells her. “Guys, I didn’t say—,” he starts through the door but the rest is muffled, like she put her hand over his mouth.

“Shhhh! Maybe I wanna see Bradley get in trouble,” Sunny whispers, obviously not being as quiet as she thinks.

Bob chuckles. “We’ll meet you up there,” he says to your door as they walk away.

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Even though you both hurry to clean up and get dressed, you’re still late.

Sunny looks at her watch pointedly and looks at Bradley with a quirked brow while Bob rolls his eyes good-naturedly at her antics.

“2 minutes, Sunny. And no one else is even here yet either,” Bradley argues as he pulls your chair out.

“You were late Bradley,” you agree, laughing when Bradley whips his head toward you with a hurt expression on his face. You lean over and press a kiss to the scar on his jaw, “Maybe I want to see you get in trouble too,” you breathe before pulling back.

He clears his throat, his complexion turning ruddy.

The rest of the group arrive shortly after and dinner is served.

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After dessert, the guys decide to have cigars and talk about the next day’s plans while you and Natasha give Sunny her gifts.

The first is a white bikini for her to wear tomorrow and the honeymoon. Next, is a box full of your and Natasha’s favorite sex toys and last is a new lingerie from each of you and a gift certificate for a boudoir photo shoot with a popular local photographer.

You’re both a little caught off guard when she bursts into tears.

“I’m so just happy. I’m getting married to the most amazing man, I’ve got incredible friends who got me all these gifts and brought me on a fucking boat in beautiful weather with beautiful people,” she sobs, wrapping you both in a bear hug.

“Sorry, new underwear always makes me a little emotional,” Sunny says with a straight face as she wipes her tears to the guys making their way over. Only a few seconds go by before she snorts, laughing at the bewildered looks on their faces. “I’m kidding. I’m just happy. Thank you guys for coming and planning all of this.”

One of the cute crew girls turns on music as Sunny goes around giving hugs, ending with Bradley who leads her on the deck and twirls her into a dance. You smile as he makes her laugh. Bob steals Nat next, with a wink to Jake.

“Dance with me, roja?” Mickey asks, holding out his hand.

“I’d love to,” you smile, letting him lead you.

Jake looks to Javy who shrugs and holds out his hand and they dance too, after arguing about whose arm goes where.

“I just adore your curls,” you tell him as one falls over his forehead and flick your eyes to the bar. “I think she does too.”

He looks at his feet before treating you to a bashful smile. “Yeah? You think so?”

“Mhmm. She’s been checking you out all day.”

“You wouldn’t mind if I talked to her? I wasn’t sure if that was like, rude, since you were the one who planned everything and invited us.”

“Not at all. Go for it,” you smile.

“I think I will, thanks Row,” he says, squeezing your shoulder as Jake whisks you away next; everyone switching partners with every song change. Bob and Bradley step off to the side and Bradley’s flush returns full force as Bob murmurs something in his ear.

“What did Bob say that had you blushing like a schoolgirl?” You ask, putting your arms around his neck when it’s your turn with Bradley at last.

“He just wanted to make sure I was okay with Sunny’s ribbing,” he says, avoiding your eyes.

You can tell that’s not the whole truth but you decide to let it go as you sway beneath the stars.

Sunny grabs a blanket and settles back on the net with you and Natasha as you watch the guys try nighttime fishing.

You can’t keep your eyes open and soon the waves lull you to sleep.

You’re not sure how much time passes when you hear Bradley murmuring you awake as he rubs your leg. “Row? Let’s go to bed.”

“But I’m comfy,” you grumble, snuggling into Natasha’s back with Sunny’s arm thrown over you both.

“Yeah, c’mon Nat. You won’t be happy when you wake up soaked from the dew,” Jake agrees, offering his hand that she takes with a grumble of her own.

You follow everyone below deck and say good night before flopping into bed, already asleep when Bradley tucks you into him.

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A quick breakfast is had and the guys depart shortly after for a round of golf while you shop on Catalina Island, meeting back up for lunch and hitting the beach before boarding again in the early afternoon.

“Can you help me with something down in our room?” Bradley asks as he wraps his arms around you, pressing his erection into your ass.

“Maybe after I wipe the floor with you in flip cup,” you reply as you press back.

“Quit dry-humping our best player, Bradshaw,” Jake says, slapping his ass and pushing him to the other side of the table as the game begins, providing enough distraction that no one notices his obvious arousal.

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“Let’s tequila play truth or dare!” Sunny says with a grin as she comes up from below deck, holding up an unopened top-shelf bottle of tequila.

Everyone was relaxing around the electric fire pit under the night sky. The drinking slowed before dinner, but Sunny was ready to get things started again.

“What’s tequila truth or dare?” Javy asks.

“Just regular truth or dare while we drink tequila,” she laughs, popping the top and taking a swig.

“I’m first! Javy, truth or dare?” Sunny asks and hands him the bottle.

“Truth.”

“Fake big boobs, or small natural ones?”

“Yes. I like ‘em all.” He grins and takes a drink. “Bob?” He asks, handing the bottle over.

“Truth.”

“How old were you when you lost your v-card?”

He hesitates, looking at Sunny who whispers something in his ear while squeezing his knee. He blushes and takes a long pull before he answers. “31.”

You smile at Sunny; realizing instantly that she was his first.

It takes the guys a moment longer to calculate.

Jake’s the first to figure it out and slaps him on the back. “That’s great, man. There’s nothing wrong with waitin’ for the right one,” he says genuinely with a glance at Natasha, making you wonder what the story is there.

Everyone murmurs their agreement and Bob visibly relaxes. He can take teasing and jokes as well any anyone, but was obviously a vulnerable subject.

“Nat?” Bob leans over to give her the bottle next.

“Dare.”

“I dare you to take a body shot.”

She looks at Jake, who smirks but doesn’t move to get up, already knowing he’s not the one she’s got in mind.

“You didn’t say off who, so the bride-to-be it is.”

Sunny whoops and runs to the bar to ask for a shot glass and lime, returning a moment later to whip off her coverup and place the glass in her cleavage.

Nat fills it then places the lime wedge in Sun’s mouth before she leans in to lick her neck and sprinkle the salt. “Ready?” she murmurs against her neck.

You snort as the guys watch, entranced as Sunny nods.

With her hands clasped behind her neck, Nat sensually licks the salt before mouthing the glass, leaning back to swallow the tequila. Jake takes it from her mouth before going for the lime, lips brushing against Sunny’s as she takes it.

“Mickey?” Nat asks as she hands him the bottle next.

“Wow,” he whispers.

“Truth or dare?” Nat laughs.

He shakes his head before clearing his throat. “Dare.”

“I dare you to go talk to that pretty bartender.”

He nods and takes a swig of the tequila. “Okay.”

“Javy, why don’t you go talk to the blonde? Wouldn’t want her to be lonely.” You say with a wink.

“You guys sure?” He asks, looking at everyone else for confirmation.

It’s a unanimous agreement and he goes too.

“I’ll go again,” Nat says, reaching for the bottle and handing it to Bradley.

“Truth.”

“Have you ever received anal?”

“Jesus Nat!” Bradley sputters on the drink he took.

“Well? No need to be embarrassed, Jake here loves to be brought down a peg or two,” Nat winks. Jake nods in agreement, unashamed.

“Yeah, I’ve done it with Row,” he finally admits, taking another pull.

“Oh that’s so hot,” Sunny blurts, fanning herself. “We haven’t tried that yet, just my fingers so far.”

“Yet? When did I agree to this?” Bob asks, chuckling.

“You haven’t, but you’ll agree to just about anything when I do that thing with my—“ Sunny starts but Bob interrupts.

“Bradley, who’s next?” He laughs.

Bradley hands the bottle to Jake.

“Truth.”

“If you had to kiss someone here other than Nat, who would you choose?”

“You, Bradshaw. Always wondered what that mustache feels like.” He smiles, taking his drink.

“It tickles. Maybe you should try it?” You offer, looking at Bradley to see if he’s game. He nods and arousal races through you at the heat in his eyes.

You glance behind you, noticing it’s suddenly quiet as they rise. Javy, Mickey, and the girls are nowhere to be found.

Bradley’s eyes flick to Jakes's lips as they stand chest to chest. Jake smirks and pulls him closer by the tie on his shorts. You’re not sure who moves first but their mouths meet, tentatively but quickly turns into a bruising kiss.

Their mouths fight for dominance, so unlike when he kissed Bob, who he let take the lead from the start.

Bradley brings one hand to Jake’s jaw and the other fists his shirt; Jake groans quietly in response, finally submitting.

You bite your lip as you watch them, aching between your legs.

Bradley brushes kisses across Jake’s jaw to his ear and down his neck as he trembles.

“Whatcha think? Does it tickle?” Bradley asks huskily, pressing a final one to his lips as he sits down next to you, a quick glance at his groin shows he’s hard. He tenses when you put your hand on his thigh.

Jake nods and sits back down, speechless for once. He takes a hefty pull from the bottle and hands it to Sunny.

“Phew! That was hot,” Sunny giggles, “Dare.”

He thinks on it for a moment before answering, “I dare you to kiss either Row or Nat, your choice.”

“Hmmm,” she thinks, looking between you and Natasha, pointing to the latter. “I already know you’re a great kisser, Row.”

Sunny rises and steps in front of her, bending to capture her lips. Nat’s hands weave into her curls, and Sunny whimpers as she straddles Natasha’s lap.

Natasha’s hands find their way to her ass, while Sunny’s cup her breasts through her top, lightly pinching when she finds her nipples. Your own tighten in response to Nat’s soft cry.

Jake’s whole body is tense as he exhales heavily, leaning forward to watch. Bradley’s trying to appear unaffected but the ruddiness of his cheeks and the way he’s trying to hide his erection is giving him away. Bob’s watching intently; his posture relaxed.

Sunny pulls back and smiles, giving Natasha one last peck before climbing off her.

Jake’s already rising as Sunny sits back down, tossing a giggling Natasha over his shoulder before he takes her below deck without a word.

“I guess Jake was tired,” you say, tongue in cheek.

Sunny picks up the half-empty bottle of tequila and takes a drink before offering it to you.

“C’mon Row, you’re the only one left. Truth or dare?”

“Truth.”

“Can we have another night like we did in Texas?”

“I’m in,” you reply after your mouthful of tequila. “Bradley?”

“Me too,” he agrees, “Bob?”

He nods. “Our room in 20.”

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You twist your hair into a bun and step in the cramped shower behind Bradley to rinse off the remaining sunscreen and sand from the day.

“Mmm,” you hum and you press kisses along his spine, his sun-kissed skin warm under your lips.

He groans when your hand comes around to fist his erection tightly, stroking him quickly while other hand reaches under for his balls to tug. Soon he’s tensing as you bring him to the edge, but you pull your hands away at the very last second.

“Please Row,” he gasps, “I haven’t gotten off since last night and I’ve been hard most of the day, I’m not gonna last long at all-“

“You can and you will,” you say, pinching his butt. “Now you better get a move on. Bob said 20 minutes, I can’t imagine he’ll be very happy with you if we’re late.”

“You’re the one distracting me,” he mumbles, rinsing off before he lathers you.

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Sunny opens the door almost 30 minutes later when Bradley knocks softly, though it wasn’t likely to be heard over the soft murmurs and giggles from Javy’s room nor the nearly pornographic sounds from Jake and Nat’s.

“You’re late,” Bob says, sitting shirtless at the edge of the king-sized bed.

“Sorry, Rowan was….“ Bradley starts, trailing off as Bob rises, chuckling darkly.

“I don’t want to hear you blame Row. Or any other excuses,” he says lowly, fingers trailing down Bradley’s bare chest and hooking into the waistband, just above where his erection is straining against the fabric of his sweatpants. “I’m disappointed in you. Leaving handprints on your girl, being late all weekend, and you kissed Jake in front of me. I thought you were my good boy?”

Holy shit.

You catch Sunny’s eyes which are as round as yours.

“I’m sorry.” Bradley stammers, his face and neck ruddy.

Bob backs him up against the door, leaning in for a kiss but pressing his lips to Bradley’s jaw at the less second. “You’re sorry? Didn’t seem like it when you were kissing Jake. I saw how hard you were after. Is this for him?” He asks, palming his erection roughly. “Or for me?”

Bradley’s head falls back against the door with a thud. “For you, sir,” he gasps, wrecked.

Arousal soaks the thong you’d thrown on at his response. Bob must like it too; his lips meet Bradley’s in a rough kiss, before nipping down his neck. Bradley groans, hips pushing into Bob’s hand as he bites his collarbone.

“Why don’t you ladies get comfortable on the bed?” Bob says over his shoulder, kissing the mark he left.

You pull off Bradley’s old tee shirt you’d brought to sleep in, leaving you in the matching bralette as you meet Sunny in the middle of the bed on your knees. She’d put on one of the new sets of lingerie she’d been gifted.

“Looks good on you,” you say softly, fingering the lacy material by her cleavage.

Sunny smiles at your response and leans in for a kiss. It starts slow and sensual, but quickly turns frenzied. “This okay, Row?” Sunny pants with her hands in your hair, grinding on your bent knee.

You nod, and both your heads turn as the sounds of Bradley’s gasps and Bob’s murmurs reach your ears.

Bradley’s been pushed to the foot of the bed, hands clenched into fists at his sides and pants around his ankles with Bob behind him, chin resting on his shoulder while they watch you two; his hand strokes Bradley’s cock while the other cups his balls and his hips thrust against Bradley’s ass by the way he’s rocking forward.

“Aren’t they beautiful together?” You hear Bob ask as your attention returns to Sunny, your mouth finding her nipple through the lace.

She keens and grinds faster; her arousal soaking through her underwear against your thigh.

“Sunny’s getting close,” Bob observes.

You pull your mouth off (much to her dismay) to meet Bob’s intense gaze. “Can I get her there?”

He nods, giving you permission. Your mouth finds her nipple again, biting gently while your fingers pinch the other.

“Yessss…just like that,” Sunny moans, crying out a moment later as she succumbs to the pleasure.

Bradley chokes, his hands scramble to grip Bob’s wrists to still his motions, but it’s too late.

“Nononono!” He cries as Bob works him through it, ropes of cum landing on their comforter. Bob finally reveals how affected he is, unable to stifle his own groan; resting his forehead against Bradley’s back.

Bradley’s head falls forward, humiliated and still aroused as Bob’s hand slows to a stop. “I’m sorry, sir,” he whispers.

Bob steps around him, his own hard-on straining against his gray boxer briefs, precum soaking through. He ignores his apology and looks at you. “Come lay down over here, sweetheart?” He asks, patting near the edge of the bed, above where Bradley’s cum is staining.

You nod moving to do as asked. Bob motions to your underwear, and slides them off when you lift your hips.

He steps behind Bradley again, fastening his wrists with your thong, and nudges him to his knees with his foot.

His fingers card through Bradley’s hair, tugging to force him to look up. “You’re going to get Row off with your mouth as many times as she wants. Maybe she’ll let you fuck her if you do a good enough job. But I bet she won’t let you cum again if you don’t. And I really don’t think you want to find out what happens if you cum again without permission though. Understood?”

“Yes sir.” He breathes, cheeks flushed and eyes glassy with arousal.

Bob guides his head down to your pussy and he begins to devour you, shuddering as he’s forced to lay in his cum

“Sunny, let her rest her head on you?” Bob asks, releasing the hold he has on Bradley’s hair and rising to his full height.

Sunny moves in from behind and you lift your head to rest on her thighs. Your back arches as she reaches to tweak your nipples.

Your eyes drift close from the pleasure but fly back open when you hear the sharp slap of skin meeting skin, followed by Bradley’s whimper.

Oh my God.

“Do it again.” You rasp, eyes meeting Bradley’s as his efforts double, pushing you closer to the edge.

Bob smirks and brings his hand down harshly on the other cheek, and Bradley’s answering grunt pushes you over. You cry out and toes curl and the pleasure races through you.

“More,” you pant when you come down.

“Want Bob to spank him more? Or more orgasms?” Sunny asks, fingers still working your nipples.

“Yes,” you laugh breathlessly.

“I agree. He’s not sorry enough yet,” Bob says lowly.

“Not even close,” Sunny agrees.

A frustrated whine leaves Bradley but gets cut off when Bob spanks him again twice in quick succession.

You orgasm again shortly after, trembling as you come down.

Bob looks at you in question but you shake your head. “More.”

Bradley babbles from between your thighs, shaking his head. Bob reaches between his legs and chuckles. “Don’t let him fool ya. He’s loving this. You heard the lady, Bradley. Get to it.”

He spanks him. “That’s for kissing Jake.”

“That’s for being late. Twice.” He spanks him two times more.

“And this is for leaving a handprint on Row. Now you’ll have one too.”

The tips of your fingers and toes go numb as you cry out; the strongest orgasm yet slamming into you at the same time he delivers the final blow.

Bradley’s forehead rests on your thigh, his big body trembling as Bob releases his hands.

“Lay down baby,” you coax him next to you on his back and climb over him, sinking down with ease. Bob’s already fucking Sunny into the mattress.

“I’m sorr—not…gonna last long,” Bradley grits out.

“I’m close too,” you assure him, tilting your hips to drag your clit across his pelvis.

“Can I cum? Was I good?” He pants desperately, looking at Bob.

Bob’s hand reaches out, grasping Bradley’s. “You-fuck!” He gasps as Sunny cries out, writhing through her orgasm beneath him. “You’re my good boy, you can cum,” Bob groans, hips stilling as he gives in to his release.

Bradley’s free hand pulls you in by the back of the neck for a messy kiss. The change in angle sets you off and Bradley groans into your kiss as you clench rhythmically around his cock, milking him dry.

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“I’m gonna rinse off quick. I’ve got dried jizz in my chest hair,” Bradley says later, back in your room. He presses a kiss to your forehead and drops his pants, tossing them towards your bags before turning towards the bathroom.

You smile as you spot a red, Bob-sized handprint as he walks away.

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A/N: Wow. That took forever. Probably because it’s twice as long as most of the chapters I post. 🥴 What did ya think?

Also. I think I should fill out a list of things that Bradley’s into. I haven’t specifically written it, but he’s very into everything they’ve done. He specifically likes the humiliation lol.

Next up is Sunny and Bob’s wedding and then (I think) the epilogue 🥹

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quaranmine · 2 months

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Next steps for the AU:

-I have a couple of analysis-type posts to make. I love talking about this fic lol so I have a lot to say still. Included in this will be a review of art symbolism, setting as a character, and some selected real-life cases and research I ran across. I may also talk a little about fire symbolism as well as my fun fire-related words I purposefully scattered around (if you noticed me describe feelings as a spark a lot, it was on purpose lol.) I also may talk about a couple things that didn't end up happening, or did happen but almost didn't.

-This weekend I am going to revisit the fic chapters 8-12 to see if I can add more art to them. I had initially wanted more art pieces throughout the fic but the art would sometimes delay finished chapters for weeks (i have to both draw and color it traditionally, photograph it in good light, and then digitally edit it) so I started worrying less about it. If I do I will post those pieces and retroactively add them in the chapter.

-Speaking of retroactive edits, some earlier chapters of the story on AO3 have some issues with em dashes appearing smaller than they should be. This is corrected in my original document but I never got around to correcting the published chapters (i am always mildly worried the formatting will break lol.) When I do this I will also add cocoabats' cover into the first chapter. I also plan to retroactively edit some of my Fire Finder Math in chapter 3 because I think I made Grian's tower taller than it needs to be/at the wrong elevation. This won't affect the chapter outcome at all I just Need that to be accurate for myself

-I have a great many web weaving materials that I have slowly collected over the months that I would like to mess with again. I have been saving them in a #f tag on my main blog, but I didn't make any except for one because I wanted the full context of the story to be published.

-Going to upload the Letters from the Lookout drabbles into the AO3 series. Hopefully in the future I may add more. Or, I may not. We'll see. I also have a Scar-centric story called "Alpenglow" in my outline. based on its structure it may have multiple chapters, but it will not have any sort of through-line plot. It's selected scenes from his 8 years career as a lookout. I want to write this, but I don't know if it will be or not. With the main fic done I will be releasing my brain to work on other projects/ideas that I didn't want to get distracted by earlier. That doesn't mean it won't happen, it just means that it may not happen on a fast timeline.

#and as always i will answer any any ask or question about the story haha

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velvetstreets · 2 years

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always giving the utmost attention to the other if they are in a crowd w jack from the “couples who aren’t couples yet” prompt list pls 🥺

You and Jack sat in a love seat, drinks in hand, with Jack whispering jokes in your ear about things about people who were at the kickback you were at. The two of you had been friends for about a year, meeting through mutual friends. Only recently had Jack asked you out, and you had now been dating for almost 2 months - things had been going great. You liked that you became friends first before Jack asked you out, it made you feel more comfortable.

Everyone sat around the living room on couches and chairs and a few people in the kitchen/balcony; engaging in their respective conversations. You looked at Jack as he stretched an arm out around you as he continued to talk with such humor and joy in his eyes.

“Sorry. M’rambling. Tell me more about what’s been going on with you?” He said slightly blushing from embarrassment and the 3 beers he drank earlier.

“Don’t be sorry. I like listening to you talk.” You said with a smile before taking a sip of your drink and looking back up again.

“Mmm is that so?” He said with a playful tone in his voice, his eyebrow quirking up in curiosity.

“Mhmm. I like hearing your moans more though.” You said boldly, the alcohol fueling your confidence a little more. Jack’s eyes widened slightly before he smirked.

“Oh we can go to the back room and I’ll let you hear ‘em all you want, pretty girl.” He said smiling at you.

“Shut up, Jack.” You laughed, lightly hitting his chest, to which he grabbed your hand with his free one, intertwining his fingers with yours and holding them against his chest, lightly rubbing his thumb along the back of your hand.

You tried to jump into the group conversation a couple of times, not wanting to be antisocial in your little Jack bubble, but after a few minutes each time, Jack had managed to charm you and bring you back into a private convo. You didn’t mind though, that’s what you really yearned for anyways- whether you admitted that or not.

The two of you continued to talk, completely enamored with one another, sneaking soft touches and small kisses here and there. All of a sudden you noticed the living room had emptied out and you caught Urban being the last one to get up to leave.

“Where’d everyone go?” you asked him.

Urban turned around and looked at the two of you before taking his unlit joint out from his lips.

“We’re all going out to smoke. Y’all would’ve known if you weren’t simping over eachother hard.” He said teasingly before turning back around to go outside.

“Do you wanna go outside with them?” You asked Jack, not wanting to steal him away from his friends the entire time.

“Do you?” He countered.

“I’m down for whatever, I don’t wanna steal you away from you friends, but I’m pretty comfy here.” You said honestly.

“Steal me away all you want, baby. I don’t care about hanging with them right now. I wanna be here with you. So, good to know you’re on the same page.” He said smiling before taking a sip of his drink.

“Definitely on the same page.” You grinned at him, cuddling closer into his chest. He leaned down a little to whisper in your ear.

“Do you wanna skip to the next page and revisit my back room suggestion?” He whispered, his warm breath on your skin making you shudder in pleasure, almost letting out a whimper.

“Yes, please Jack.” You said quietly, as his hand had now dropped yours and started to rub at your inner thigh. He smiled and kissed you cheek, getting up and taking your hand, sneakily dragging you to one of the bedrooms to continue your fun.

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mediumstrength · 3 months

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SPY X FAMILY REREAD CHAPTER 2

We open with Franky’s new look

Franky is right Loid 100% could have done better

It’s the office bitches!

Some weird creep broke into City Hall, who could have done such a thing??

It’s her! It’s her! My girl Yor!!

Yor is so weird at this point in the story, she is just kind of …dead eyed and spacey? I sometimes get annoyed at how often we revisit the “Yor wants to learn to be normal” plot line, but it seems like she had given up on ever having a normal life here. She’s not even trying to interact with her coworkers, she’s barely paying attention to the conversation. She’s just sort of there.

Anyhow, the office bitches are being mean to Yor because that’s what they do, and we are introduced to the concept that Ostania is a scary police state, which will somehow have almost no effect on the daily lives of our characters, but that’s a rant for a different chapter.

CLASSIC TEEN MOVIE PLOT

The popular girls have invited her to a cool kid party just to be mean.

Yor’s empty apartment makes me so sad.

Yuri wants her to get married here?? I'm gonna chalk this one up to Yuri's character not being entirely nailed down yet, but also I imagine that Yuri likes the idea of Yor being happily married, but not her actually being married, which is scary and a threat to their perfect brother/sister bond.

Also who is Yuri going to introduce her to? Scary scar guy? He has no friends.

I sometimes see people being like how has Yor never had a relationship before. The answer is Yuri. It’s Yuri. Yuri is only 20, he was probably living with her until pretty recently. How on earth are you gonna date with Yuri in your house?

The phone rings again, this time it is for a very different reason.

"Shopkeeper" is so ominous-sounding, I love it

Fuck ‘em up, girl.

People kind of talk about Yor and Thorn Princess like they are two seperate personalties almost, but honestly? That stilted politeness? That's all Yor. I really doubt "May I have the honor of taking your life?" is a line that is, like, Garden protocol.

The main difference is how collected she is as Thorn Princess, which like, this is the thing that she's good at. Everything else in life she second-guesses, she thinks she can't handle, but killing? That's nothing. She can kill like 20 armed dudes without breaking a sweat.

The weird creep was Franky!

Should Loid be telling Franky so many details about his mission? I feel like he shouldn't be. They have an interesting relationship. They are not quite friends (I'm not sure Loid is capable of making friends?? currently??) but it's closer than simply being a spy and his go-to informant. I think Endo said something like "they have an understanding" about them, and I like that. They are two people who can't really afford to have friends, but are as close as they can get without complicating things.

Franky points out that Anya does not look the part of a privileged kid expected to attend an elite school, and so off we go to the tailor's.

Not if you're a good girl. Also, activist seamstress backstory when??

Yor comes in and honestly? This is borderline love at first sight on Loid's part. This girl is as stealthy as she is beautiful! She caught him staring at her! Even though he is professionally sneaky! Anya immediately shows up, leans that this lady talking to her Papa is an assassin and decides that she shall be the mama.

I love that both of Anya's parents were selected by her. Anya adopted her parents, not the other way around. You can choose your family provided that you are a quick-thinking and adorable little telepath

They come to an agreement. Loid was divorced a few minutes ago, but he is now a widower, a real tearjerker of a backstory. Yor is moved, and they agree to meet on Saturday for the party.

But wait!

CLASSIC SITCOM PLOT

His mission is also on Saturday!

He has again involved Franky, who is more of a lover than a fighter, but is psyched about the possibility of stealing some shit. I love you Franky.

This panel is so funny.

Poor Yor concludes that she has been stood up, but continues on to the party solo. The office bitches are predictably mean about it.

It's Dominic! Dominic is one of those people who tell you their dog is a rescue and really sweet once they just need to get used to you, and meanwhile said dog is shredding all your furniture and is lunging at your grandma, except it's his girlfriend not his dog.

Yor :(

But Loid finally shows up and, whoopsie daisy, he screws up and introduces himself as Yor’s husband.

The first time I read this I was assuming his little fuckup here was one purpose, but upon reread, no this bitch has a concussion. Anyhow, despite the fact that he showed up like an hour late bleeding from the fucking head, Loid still oozes charm, and Camilla straight-up loses it.

I had actually forgotten how just intensely fucking cruel she is at the party??? Like, the office bitches have really grown on me, and particularly Camilla post-cooking lessons, but here? Girl this is some middle school bully shit right here. You are an adult woman hosting a semi-formal dinner party?? Your coworkers are here?? You look completely unhinged right now.

UNDERSTANDING AND BEING UNDERSTOOD

Loid’s speech here is the moment. Yor, who is weird, and lives alone in a sad little apartment, and hides her terrible secret, has never had anyone who understood her and accepted her as is. Loid defends her and tells everyone that she is a wonderful person. Yor is 100% in love with Loid from this moment.

It’s important that we see this shot of Loid working his own dangerous, thankless job too. It would be easy to say he's just playing the role of Loid Forger here, but he really is speaking from the heart. Yor is like him. She has sacrificed herself for others, like him. Neither of them can begin to understand how alike they are at this point, but still? There's a little something between them. A little bit of understanding.

We have arrived at the Big Theme. Understanding = Love = Peace.

Little lost-in-translation thing here, Loid calls her “Yor” at the party, but she’s “Yor-san” as soon as they’re alone. Loid and Yor always keep a polite verbal distance between them.

Anyhow I have surprisingly little to say about the fight scene and subsequent proposal besides the fact that it is completely flawless. Concussive therapy is such a good joke, both of them are being so incredibly suspicious, but they have already both developed Love-Adjecent Stupidity Disorder and will never critically examine any of this ever.

Flawless

5/5

No notes, amazing chapter

I’m gonna keep doing these sporadically, probably won’t do every chapter, definitely will get bored before I catch up to where the manga is currently 🤷‍♀️

#sxf manga reread #spy x family

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Talk about your moots; what do you like most about them (could be a paragraph or a single sentence, spread the love!!)

omg yes i love love … only doing this for the last few i interacted w though .. irly wish i could do more but i got so tired while writing these and it has been a long day :[

@rubyreduji guys do i even have 2 tell u how much i love jj?! U ALL KNOW HOW MUCH I LOVE HIM like i don't even know how it happened one day i'm interacting w him 4 the first time 2 bug him abt a jihoon fic i had planned and then BOOM we r evil twinning in the dms and then BOOM AGAIN he's listening to the 70+ vms i send him every day i love him so much >_< WE JUST GET ALONG RLY WELL and it's so much fun ... also jj just writes so much and he write so well ?! his ideas are rly unique too and whenever he mentions another story i'm like :o wow bc he is so WOW and i love his brain and i love how he is true to his woozidan identity (woozi having a separate masterlist altogether LOL) ... jj is just the love of my life if u guys couldn't tell i'm actually insanely territorial over him so actually he doesn't exist 2 u guys UR NOT ALLOWED TO PERCEIVE HIM IF UR NOT ME

@gyuswhore i love em sm okay first of all what drew me 2 her was her phenomenal writing?! guys i revisit her gyu fic more often than she knows HELPDKJ but ya and the stuff sh has in store 4 u all ... just u wait OKAY AND I JUST. I LOVE TALKING ABT WRITING WITH EM she genuinely helps me so much and i love the honest feeback she gives and she has encouraged me through 2 of my longest fics so far which means the absolute world to me >_< also i love her daily little updates and how she tells me all this stuff IT'S ENTERTAINING and also i love that we are able 2 have convos like that ... and she's also literally the prettiest ever. i kid u not mingyu would PICK HER. we also just understand each other's situations very well and feel the same way abt a lot of stuff which makes talking abt certain things easier ^^ ya i love em my desi sister P.S. SHE FEEDS MY DELUSIONAL MINGHAO REQUESTS (the way her only works for hao are reqs from me ... gfhdfksjd)

@cheolhub SAR SAR the sweetest ever like :[ sar was my first mutual when i started on tumblr and she scared me at first bc ... she was so a cool to me atthe time AND SHE STILL IS SO COOL. LIKE SAR IS SO COOL 2 ME but now i see that she is also so loving and caring and c: she will always hold a special place in my heart bc she was the first 2 dm me (I REMEMBER. BC WE INTERACTED ABT GETTING TIX TO TWICE AND WE TALKED ABT OUTFIT PLANNING ... funny bc the way we didn't figure out any outfits until literally june LOL) anyways ya also if u have read sar's works u probably know she is also insane and :c she is so amazing 4 helping me out too uifgjks i love sar sm

@etherealyoungk skye is so sweet :c also one of my first mutuals and i appreciate her so much 4 always checking in w me and just interacting w me consistently hehe ... she reminds me my hoshi pc as well whenever i look at it i'm like oh ^^ this is skye right here :3

@hwanghyunjinenthusiast only rly started interacting w rj recently but she's so funny like her reactions pics and feedback under fics genuinely has made me giggle and i love that ... and rj is just! rly fun 2 talk 2 as well and i can't wait 2 get to know her better hehe

@leejihoonownsmyheart the sweetest ever and omg her writing is so good ... brie don't downplay urself EVER bc it's so good and ^^ ur such a fun and positive person i will love u even if u don't like me bc i'm a capricorn hehjefjk

@lovelyhan guys stop i never shut up abt kai's writing but they are just so good at everything they do like! insane i'm insane and kai is just so cool to me kjfdskj ALSO. LOVE KAI SO MUCH BC THEY ALWAYS SEND ME TWTS ABT HAO AND it kind of drives me crazy but also it feeds me breakfast lunch & dinner so am i really complaining? basically kai knows me 2 well and it drives me insane in the best way possible

@ressonancee only became mutuals rly recently but thea is so fun and kind and auuugh don't even get me started on how amazing of a writer she is bc her jihoon and gyu fics literally took me to heaven and back like! augh! they make me feel so much and i'm so exited 2 continue to get to know her and more ^^

@userelv elv is so fun like we don't interact a lot but whenever we do it just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy and anyways i'm gonna be collecting insane dk pics and save them up so i can send them to u one day w out warning c:

@wheeboo so funny and so sweet and also i feel get along rly well! i love the way she writes and we have a lot of common interests and i love talking abt kdrams w her hehe LIKE?!?! ME AND RANIA JUST HAVE VERY CHILL AND NATURAL CONVOS which i absolutely love and she is a person who is very calming 2 me ^^

#u said to pick what i like most abt them #but i can't choose so i'm jsut rambling abt why i lvoe them #<moots3 #🎰 games

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Could we get some headcanons for Sun, Moon, the Blob, and Monty meeting a zombie reader? They always try to keep themselves together(literally), have made the reference to Toy Story before, saying their arm was an advanced prosthetic to dissuade anyone from freaking out, and tend to blend in rather well(makeup skills for theatre class come in handy, am I right?). They're confident about themselves, and tend to be rather curious, but know when to back down and take caution.

Sun

“Oh hello, friend! You feeling okay?”

You just smile and nod, fixing your arm. “Yeah, just..a cold..and a loose prosthetic.”

Speaking would normally be hard for a regular zombie, but you’ve done well in blending in with humans.

You basically fooled everybody at the Plex, walking in like it was no problem (you may be dead but you still wanna enjoy stuff!)

Still, though, Sun worries. He wants to take a vital-scan but ofc you decline that. The last thing he needs is a short-circuit bc you’d be registered as ‘dead” and confuse the poor guy.

When you tell him your favorite movie is Toy Story he seems to stop worrying about your cold entirely, rambling about how he loves it and was gonna put it on TV to watch with the kids today!

He invites you to join him and you just can’t say no.

When the scenes of Buzz losing his arm come up you’re able to quote them perfectly, amusing Sun.

Moon

Like Sun he worries when he notices you adjusting your arm several times,,every time you visit.

He takes a bio/vital scan and sees “DECEASED” pop up, which confuses him.

But he’s sure it’s just broken so he doesn’t worry about that too much.

Also like his daytime counterpart he loves Toy Story.

Though just the scenes with Sid’s mutant toys and them rebelling against their owner.

The few creep factors of the movie are his favorites.

If he notices your arm coming loose he’ll remind you.

The last thing he wants is to deal with crying kids who get freaked out by you rather than him.

So you two just bond over being seen as “creepy”, becoming good friends.

Blob

Let’s say you were buried underground where the Pizzaplex was built and that’s how you gained free entry.

You’ve seen the burnt/charred remains of the old 80s-90s animatronics but they were somehow alive (and quite hostile), so you fled and found your way out, eventually heading home.

Weeks later you revisit the Plex, looking 10% more alive thanks to makeup kits you had at home and being confident enough to walk among the living.

Being a zombie means you were naturally drawn to your burial ground. But..there was one problem.

Those pieces of animatronics put themselves together as a giant blob of slimy endoskeleton wiring, with Funtime Freddy serving as the “head”.

He’s still aggressive until he notices you were holding an endo arm that fell off his body.

You’d get closer but don’t wanna anger him, so you just leave it on the ground and try leaving...only to trip and break your leg below the knee, quickly snapping your limb back in place.

However the Blob just...laughs? Not out of mockery or intimidation, but rather happiness as he takes his arm back.

You then smile, relieved that he found delight in discovering someone similar to them.

Monty

When you swing the golf club a bit too hard, your arm comes loose.

And the gator takes notice, asking if you need first aid.

You quickly tell him it’s a prosthetic and just snap it back into place, confusing him. Though he just leaves you be.

But he watches you from a distance in case it happens again.

Then a golf ball hits your lower jaw and dislocates it--as in he could see it literally hanging off of your head.

By the time he runs over to see if you needed EMS (again), your jaw is already back in place and you ask him what’s wrong.

“Y-Your jaw..it was...I know no human can just...!”

“Can just what?” You smile innocently, teasing him. But only lightly. You knew his temper and didn’t wanna get on his bad side.

He goes quiet, but then grumbles that Faz Ent wasn’t responsible for any injuries/dismemberment before leaving.

It’s not like anyone will believe him if he says a guest horribly dislocated their jaw and fixed it no problem

#clanask #anonymous #fnaf x reader #five nights at freddy's x reader #fnaf sb x reader #fnaf security breach x reader #fnaf daycare attendant #fnaf sun #fnaf moon #fnaf blob #montgomery gator #zombie reader #monster reader #headcanons #tw body horror

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Do-Over-December 4th. Mayor Buckman X AFAB! Reader.

Here we are! The second entry into Do-Over-Decemeber, an event I am doing where I re-work and jazz up my Kinky December fics from back in 2020. This is actually the first and only Mayor Buckman fic I’ve ever written, I should come back to him sometime, revisiting him here was so nice. I hope you all enjoy this fic, it’s deff of the softer variety and I hope it hits.

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Rating. Explicit. Length. 1.4k (Old Length 1.2K.) Warnings. Soft. Sweet. Intimate. 1, Count Em, (One) Unintentional Holes Reference. Pet Names. Vaginal Fingering. Vaginal Sex. Cream Pie.

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It was terribly, painfully cliché’, something out of a tawdry couple dollar paperback, the kinda that you find abandoned on a sandy beach left behind by some bored housewife who couldn’t be bothered to stuff it back in her bag in between wrangling her kids.

But how cliché’ was it exactly?

Let's set the scene and you can judge.

You were out with Buckman, or as you sometimes affectionately referred to him, Bucky, taking a walk after dinner.

You were hand in hand, talking casually, a leisurely stroll and so needed. He was always very busy, being mayor of course did come with a lot of responsibility. He took his job very seriously as well, so whenever you did get time just the two of you, uninterrupted, it was lovely.

Or it was until mother nature herself decided to piss on your good time.

The heavy rain wasn’t anticipated and had surprised you both, the downpour sent you running back to your shared home, still holding each other’s hands, laughing along the way. Once safely inside you weren’t laughing as much anymore, your clothes had soaked through, the sun was down, the chill was setting in leaving you shivering, dripping wet and desperate to warm up.

He closed the front door and was coming forward as he said, “Awe, darlin’ you’re shakin’ like a leaf.”

You nod once, hands rubbing together for warmth as you say, “S’ so cold.”

He was very close to you now, and he reached out, his hands cradled your face, thumbs stroking over your cheeks as he said, “I can fix that.”

And that is how it went. He undressed you so carefully and with a particular reverence that was impossible to ignore, he was not dragging it out necessarily, you were freezing and uncomfortable after all, but he certainly wasn’t rushing either. Peeling pieces of soaked fabric from your shaking form, and you feel yourself wanting to shy away, why was this getting to you so badly? It wasn’t like he hadn’t seen you like this before, he had, and furthermore in far worse positions than this, but there was something so startlingly intimate about this tonight.

Maybe the location had something to do with it too? Out in the living room, but again he had you in here before, and in the kitchen and the stables and-well it wasn’t important, but again you had done all manner of filth in all manner of places, why tonight?

Why now?

It flustered you even worse to be in front of him in just your underwear, and you had no idea why, you just felt extremely vulnerable. He took notice, hands on your waist, pausing stripping you as he looked into your eyes, a slight chuckle before asking, “Awfully shy tonight, what’s the matter?”

You laughed a little yourself, hands covering his as you responded, not really sure how to answer, but you force out, "I-uh I don’t know to be honest.”

You decided to try and get over your sudden nerves, you were being ridiculous, you force through and leaned up, kissing him, it starts easy, slow, a soft brush of your lips against his, and he returned it easily. His hands moved, and yours fell away as you allowed them as he pulled the last of your damp clothing from you. He moved away first, seemingly reluctantly, and before you knew it you were wrapped in a soft blanket you weren’t sure how he had gotten, but it felt so nice against your skin that you didn’t think to question it.

You mused that this was so nice that you really didn’t mind getting caught out in the rain. He had gotten the fire in the living room fireplace burning and took care of his own wet clothing, and you were both sitting by the fire to warm up. Large blanket around the two of you, enjoying the comfortable silence and leaning on each other, it felt so right being here with him.

Who initiated it didn’t matter.

A gentle kiss that quickly grew hotter, needier and much more hungry, the intent behind it is obvious. Hands on each other quickly make their own points of contact, your hand on his shoulder to start, and it slid down to his chest and one of his hands at the same time is going down your back to the curve of your ass and on it goes. Both of you are reaching out for more, both desperate for each other, wanting to touch more and more, greedy, and the thought passes through your mind that this might be the best way to warm up.

That blanket was pulled from around you and laid down, and you fell onto your back, legs and arms open, and soon he was on top of you, his mouth on your neck, kisses littered over your exposed throat and down over your collarbones and shoulders, and you luxuriated in his ample affection along with the satisfied hums he let out.

His hands were on your hips and his mouth had found the space between your breasts and once his fingers had dipped between your thighs you let out a quiet gasp and vocalized your current thought, “You planned this the whole time didn’t you?”

Your breathing had picked up as he touched you, slowly but with even pressure and his mouth paused, looking up at you with that damn smile of his that you are pretty sure made you fall in love with him in the first place as he said, “So what if I did? Ain’tcha warmer now sweetheart?”

You rolled your eyes, it’s affectionate, the smile breaks out wider on your face, unable to help it, until his fingers pushed inside of you and that pulled a moan from you. The sharp rise in pleasure made your smile falter, and in turn made his brighter. Again he didn’t rush per se, but he was far too good at getting you riled up, and soon you were practically begging for it and being such an obliging southern gentleman as he was, of course he gave you what you wanted.

You are underneath him, thighs on either side of his hips, your hands on his shoulders as he slid inside of you.

An arch of your back and a shared moan, you are overtaken with it and God that first moment he is inside was always something special, wasn’t it? It took your breath away for a second before he really started.

It started so quietly, just heavy breathing, light skin on skin, crackling of the fire, but when you adjusted your hips just so to get more friction on your clit, you couldn’t stop yourself from getting louder. Gripping him harder, panting and chanting his name like a prayer, encouraging him and begging that he didn’t stop, and why would he?

This is what he loved, you like this, just totally sweet and needy, all for him.

You looked perfect, sprawled out below him on the blanket, soft light and heat of the fire, moaning and shivering, your walls hugging him deliciously. The sheer sight of you was almost too much, he couldn’t keep looking at you and hold his composure, so he pulled closer, one hand on your waist and the other gripping the blanket by your head. His face was buried in the crook of your neck and fuck, you were so close, and he wasn’t being quiet himself either at this point. He sounded too good, strained and feeling just as good as you were and right in your ear you heard from him, “So beautiful, c’mon I want to feel it-”

And you needed no more encouragement than that as you clung to him, reaching your end with another cry of his name. Dear God what bliss, you felt like absolute perfection wrapped around him and as you were still coming down, aftershocks of your orgasm running through you that you realized he was almost there too. You begged again, still holding so close as you pleaded, “Please-Buck, please!”

Once more obliging as ever he finished as well, he never did anything other than cum inside of you, it was the only option, you never wanted it anywhere else.

It was still for a moment before he pulled out, excess evidence of his pleasure spilling out with him leaving you. It takes time, untangling yourselves to get into a more comfortable position until he laid down beside you. The fire was pretty but after all of that you almost felt too hot, slick with sweat but content, guess his plan might have worked a little too well, but again it all felt so good and right you simply didn’t mind.

You placed a kiss to his cheek and curled up closer despite how hot you felt, you could get up in a minute.

#BHF writing #Do-Over-December #Mayor Buckman x reader #slasher x reader #Enjoyyyy #Another one coming tomo just you wait

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Batman The Animated Series: Christmas With the Joker Review (Commission for WeirdKev27)

Happy Holidays all you happy people! Christmas Season is here, and why wait to december when I can spread some holiday cheer now?

So to begin our holly jolly holiday coverage this year, i'm taking a look at a christmas classic i'm honestly baffled it's taken me this long to revisit. I grew up with this episode and fondly remember it being on the batman tape I had or rented back then. I just simply forget sometimes I have Batman the Animated Series right there and cant really take that for granted since the person in charge of Warner Bros thinks it's "brave" to burn down content for the insurance money.

For those who haven't experienced this holiday classic, Christmas With the Joker is the second episode of batman the animated series, though it aired later in broadcast order to line up with the timing. IT's also our first exposure to the magic that's Mark Hamill as joker, it certainly was mine thanks to aforementioned Tape.

Hamill got the role thanks to serendipity: The crew had initally cast Tim Curry, god on earth, to play the part. It SEEMS like perfect casting.. but it just didn't quite fit, as we can see from what footage of Curry as joker we have. Tim wasn't bad and I could see his joker working and him playing the part again sometime had he not sadly had to retire. The problem is his version didn't quite match what the team was going for with Mr. J. Curry's joker is one who jokes and what not, but comes off like a bastard who makes the bad jokes half heartedly as an excuse to do mayhem. The DCAU joker is the best of both worlds: he GENUINELY loves his bad puns, his craft: he lives in his own demented world where everything's a joke. When Curry's joker doe sa bit or a line, it feels like he's putting on an act, with Hamil's it's a PERFORMANCE. It's what he does. He's an entertainer, he's a comedian, he's a clown, he's going to give em a hell of a show and the death, horror and other mayhem that comes along with it is part of the act. It's key to it. It's the spice to him. Tim Curry didn't do BAD, he just didn't fit the bill. Hamill by contrast when auditioing for the now open part saw Joker's laugh as an INSTURMENT. You could tell what he was feelilng just by it's inflection. Hamill understood the character and tha'ts why he's the best at playing him: He gets just how to play Mr J, every nuance and fascet. Just as Conroy felt batman rise.. the joker's laugh escaped out of mark hamill and never went back until sadly, there just wasn't a batman to chase anymore.

The episode itself is something diffrent from the previous 3 batman the animated series episodes i've covered: I Am the Night and Two-Face were psycological adventures, the former going literally into bruce's head and showing the pain in his life, and the latter showing the gradual downfall of a man who simply needed help but wouldn't let himself get as much as needed, who put duty over himself.

Christmas With The Joker.. is a wacky christmas adventure. It has stakes and what not, but it's ultimately Batman and Robin not getting christmas eve off after the Joker decides to hyjack the airwaves with a demented holiday special. Yet.. it's still so damn good. Sometimes you need a fairly deep character study of batman or one of his foes.. and sometimes you just need the Joker deciding to do a holiday special with recurring characters as the hostages, and Batman and Robin on a deadline to stop him. Just let Mark Hamill ham it up, let Batman punch some people. BTAS has some truly stunning masterpieces.. but it also knew how to just have fun and lay back once in a while. This episode's just .. pure fun and i'll show you why under the cut.

We open at Arkham Asylum, the happiest crime against psychatric care on earth as it's Christmas Eve and Joker gets one of the best character entrances of all time. While I forgot a detail or too about this episode i've never forgotten this intro: the inmates are all singing carols, no one we'd know yet as most of Batman's Rogue's haven't been introduced. It's something I liked about Batman TAS and that seems to have stuck for the comics afterword: Anytime we visit arkham we usually see some of Batman's other rogues even if we're there for say the Joker finding out someone did a copyright infringment on him, so it's weird to see no one else present yet.

So the Joker enters the series singing that classic version of Jingle Bells. If you haven't heard it, there's only one proper way to introduce you to the best version of the song outside of this episode. TAKE IT AWAY ROBERT GOULET!

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That's brilliant enough... but then he hops on the christmas tree, turns it into a rocket, and flies off laughing all the way. AHAHAHHEEHAHAHAHAHAA. It's a perfect joker move: it's overly complicated, required a ton of prep work, a ton of money we don't know how he got..

Okay we know exactly how he got it we just can't talk about it on a children's show, and it's hilaroious. in less than a minute we know the Joker's a madman, he's clever, and his crimes are over the top because it's just more FUN that way. It's what seperates the joker from most other Batman TAS villians: the others are, with exceptions like Penguin or Rupert Thorne, sympathetic on some level: Mr Freeze just wants his wife back after a corrupt rich asshole tried to kill her and made him a popsicle, Poison Ivy wants to save the planet no matter who she has to kill, Two Face's DiD consumed him, Baby Doll was traumitzed by being stuck in a body she didn't want, Killer Croc is an alligator man, which sounds boss on paper but really isn't.

The Joker is diffrent in that we don't know WHY he does this. It didn't hit me till this watch that he's one of the few foes in TAS who isn't given a full backstory upfront. While I love the film, I honestly forgot for a second that Mask of the Phantasm revealed him to have been a plainclothes gangster before he became the clown prince of crime.. and even THEN we don't know what made him like this. Maybe he's always been this way, maybe some trauma shaped him, we don't know. And that's what works: that mystique: we dont' know why the joker is the way he is, he just.. is. It's what makes him the perfect counterpart to Batman: Bruce is a man trying to take a chaotic world and give it order, give it someone who can provide justice where the law can't or simply is outnumbered to, all in the hope that one day no kid will ever loose his parents like he did, even if the quest to eats him alive (and at least in this contiunity as seen with his older self it certainly has in some ways). Joker simply wants to have fun, to put on a show... it's just his show is chaos, death and funny only to him. What he finds funny is frankly disturbing. He's the only one in on his jokes and he's happy that way.

This episode emphasies that, as well as the contrast: Batman is worked up that christmas eve, worried the Joker will pull something. Robin, being less experinced with the joker and costumed punching people what good brushes it off, thinking no one would possibly work on christmas. Bruce gets that maybe the theatrical clown who escaped on a christmas tree rocket he smuggled into a psychatic hospital has other christmas plans and they aren't good.

While Bruce is on edge partly because he's a workaholic, to the point he nearly stops a guy returning a package to an old lady on suspcion he's a mugger, he's not WRONG: the Joker is flashy. The bigger the audience, the better the show. It's why he frequently hyjacks the airwaves in this show: EVERYONE has to watch. He's fine with a small audience , but it has to be carefully curated... i.e. he's fine if it's just bats as bats is the perfect straight man. The perfect grim brick wall to play off of and someone he knows will never end his shit entirely for a simple reason.

So he's not going to stop baiting him. Bruce's mistake.. is SEARCHING for the joker. See while Batman knows the Joker... the Joker knows Batman. He made an audacious exit so Batman would KNOW he was out there and sweat it out trying to find him... but he also knows Bats well enough to avoid detection right away. To wait till it's time to start the show. Then it's fair play and Brucey can have all the clues he wants, it's an even match. But to Joker nothing would be less fun than batman spoiling his fun ahead of time. It's part simply how the game works for him and part simply being the kind of person who HAS to control the game. It has to be played by his rules , it's his show, he planned this, batman is simply performing it.

So Bruce gives up, has a nice christmas dinner for once, and everything's fine.... until he and Dick sit down to watch it's a wonderful life. I like the joke of Bruce not watching it because of the title. It's not only a common problem, many assume the film is super cheery because of it's title, but the idea of one man being important enough to make a diffrence is bruce's whole life. Of course the idea of a film where someone doubts that wouldn't be something he'd go to voluntarily. To him it's all about control.

Bruce's first watch of It's a Wonderful Life is interrupted by a holiday special.. CHRISTMAS WITH THE JOKER! Live from.. somewhere in Gotham, Joker's doing a cheesy holiday special, the kind I haven't seen a lot of , but that caked the 70's, down tow earin ga sweater ala bing crosby. He taught joker everything he knows about being terrible.

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Naturally Joker needs a studio audience and while his awesome audience of cutouts, including batman and robin themselves, is fun and all, he needs some live hostages. Really ties the room together. So he kidnapped Commissioner Gordon, Harvey Bullock.. and Summer Gleason

Summer is Gotham's reporter. If you forgot her, huzzah! It means it wasn't just me... but it's also fair as she really is just there for exposition and dosen't have Kent Brockman's lunacy or Perd Hapley's mastery of the worm

So it's easy to forget she exists, and weird she's here instead of Renee Montoya. Maybe they wanted a civlliann with the cops, maybe they thought of doing the mayor as one of these but found Gordon and Bullock both too fun to let out. Maybe she was supposed to be bigger in the series and just never quite hit it with the writers. We don't really know, though if I had to guess it'd be the last one. It feels like they intended to have more for Summer to do as she shows up more in the earlier episodes.. but it became clear they didn't really need her for more than just the ocasional smattering of news exposition, and even then really didn't need news exposition THAT often as Batman often did his own research better and used newspapers more.

Joker's kindapped the "Awful Lawfuls" as his requisite hostages and plans to kill them if Batman dosen't find him by midnight. Batman does trace the broadcast.. but when Robin points out it's easy, Bats counters it's NEVER this easy with the joker.

The Joker.. dosen't let Bruce down, as while their headed to the scene they not only have to deal with the giant toys rampaging through gotham.. but also a train. The train .. is easily the weakest part of this episode. It just.. stops for a bit so Batman and Robin can save a train. That's it. I forgot this entire sequence and it's easy to see why: in an episode full of colorful joker chaos and him in the best christmas sweater ever, it's just... a train. I love me a good train, and most trains are good trains. Except Gordon he's an asshat. But this is just.. filler. It feels like the episode went under time in scripting so they added a set piece.

Thankfully the episode picks right back up from this derailment with our dynamic duo heading to the gotham observatory.. naturally.. this is a trap and joker has turned the observiatory into a canon.

So Batman distracts it while Robin battles some joker themed tin soldiers inside. overall it's fucking amazing as it is out of left field. But unlike the train not being really jokery as a crime, this fits him perfectly. Turning an observatory into a laser.. simply because he can.

While stopping it is rad as shit, it dosen't get our heroes anywhere closer to the Joker. Thankfully the joker throws Batman a Bone, as this just isn't fun if Batman entirely misses the deadline and isn't there to either save the hostages just in the knick of time.. or watch as they die horribly in person. It just isn't the same on tv it has to be life dammit. SO he holds up a doll that Batman instantly identifies and know's it's factory shut down years ago.

Batman's Doll Trivia saves the day though as our heroes arrive and we get an awesome bit as Joker plays the nutcracker sweet as he sends out an army of weaponized toy, a beautifully animated utterly awesome sequence.

Turns out though Joker was just waiting for his cue, revealing himself via curtain dropping, of course, to have all the hostages suspended over a vat of.. acid? lava? it's something what hurts bad is the point so he forces Bats to open a present. It's a pie to the face!

This leads to a chase as Joker naturally cuts the cord anyway, but Bats manages to rescue them in time and chases joker on rollerskates.. and saves him when he almost dicks himself into the generic murder vat.

With that Bats can actually enjoy christmas.. as much as Bruce can enjoy anything, with him genuinely loving i'ts a wonderful life and christmas with his grown man boy wonder. Meanwhile the joker sings to himself in Arkham, entirely happy to pick this up again another day.

Christmas With the Joker is mostly an action set piece, but it's a well done one: in one ep we get who the joker is, why he's a match fo rbatman and how this whole game of cat and also cat works for him. It's a wonderfuly demented holiday special and if you haven't seen it it's more than worth your time.

#batman #batman the animated series #christmas #the joker #mark hamill #kevin conroy #comissioner gordon #harvey bullock #summer gleason #christmas with the joker

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rivetgoth · 8 months

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I got tagged by @captainspaulding to list my 10 favorite songs of the month so far :D I feel kinda stupid because I don’t completely get what that means/how to rank or categorize them so I’m just gonna list 10 songs that’ve stuck out a bunch to me this September so far in no order!

Idk who to tag uhh… @lysistra @maldoror-est-mort @ourladyofomega @omegaverse @theonlycure @john--adreams @testure-1988 @blackchantilly No pressure of course, just if you want to :) And TY Mason for the tag!!

1.) Portishead— Sour Times

This month started out really cool and cloudy and it felt soooo exciting having September begin and early fall weather and pumpkin spice and Halloween things going up in stores. I love listening to trip hop in that kind of weather and I’ve listened to a lot of Portishead’s “Dummy” in particular the last week or so.

2.) Sneaker Pimps— 6 Underground

Ditto but even more so because I heard this at a birthday party last night. Birthday girl was playing a trip hop playlist and I was sooooo excited lol. Hearing this one encouraged me to revisit Sneaker Pimps’ debut for the first time in a hot second.

3.) Oingo Boingo— On the Outside

Polar opposite to trip hop, I’ve also been listening to Oingy Boingy with October and Halloween coming up. It’s the right vibe for this time of year ykwim. Not much else to say… it’s fun it’s spooky etc.

4.) Shock Doctrine— Blood Copy

I saw Shock Doctrine live last weekend and they were cool so I checked out their studio albums and they blew me awayyyyy. They’re extremely talented and fun and I’ve been listening to both of their EPs a ton.

5.) Shock Doctrine— Compound Eye

Ditto. Another really good track of theirs off of their other EP.

6.) Murder, Inc.— Uninvited Guest

I LOVE Murder, Inc.’s self-titled album and think it’s grossly underrated and totally horrible how obscure it is nowadays. Shock Doctrine kinda reminds me of ‘em so I’ve been revisiting them lately. Love love love this one but I could list anything off the album tbqh.

7.) Tricky— Christiansands

Fuck it, more trip hop. I’ve been listening to a lot ov it. This is one of my very favorites of the genre, it’s so cool and so atmospheric and so psychedelic. Never gets old.

8.) PIG— Cult of Chaos

September 5th was the anniversary of seeing PIG live for the first time! 2023 is also the 5 year anniversary of Pig’s album “Risen” which came out that same year, and which blew my fucking miiiiiiind when it first came out. I listened to it nearly daily for basically the rest of the year. So it’s been on my mind. I’ve been listening through the whole album but this one is one of my very favorites lol.

9.) Vision Video— Cruelty Commodity

Again, colder drearier weather (and more stress recently, tbqh, what with new jobs and all 😭🙏) has me listening to different music, right now alongside the trip hop there’s also been more classic gothy music on rotation and I finally caught up with Vision Video’s new releases. I LOVE this song. Such classic goth rock, reminds me a lot of Southern Death Cult. Really really really fantastic song.

10.) The Bellwether Syndicate— Dystopian Mirror

Along the same vein I also revisited The Bellwether Syndicate whose work I super enjoy, and I’m still blown away by this song after it dropped last year. It’s SO good. Gets me so pumped up. Omg. I think these guys are crazy underappreciated to be honest.

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bloodgulchblog · 10 months

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Fanwork creators self rec! When you get this, reply with your five favorite fics/art/podfics/etc. that you've made, then pass on to others. Let’s spread the self-love 🌼

(I normally don't do ask game chains like this but this is a good one.)

UHHHHH MY STUFF

OKAY IF YOU WANT

My favorite of my own fics are:

Smoke If You Got 'Em, in which the Arbiter and the Master Chief are not friends but maybe they can get there. (Set during the voyage from Earth to the Ark on Halo 3, which actually takes several weeks it doesn't mention. Sergeant Johnson features heavily. Also, there's paintball.)

When You Come Back Down, in which the Master Chief gets himself hurt shortly after the end of Halo Infinite and the Pilot and the Weapon drag his stupid ass to the current UNSC survivor rally-point. (I have low-key lost my sense of where I'm going with it, but I have covered so much ground in this fic re: what goes on inside the Chief's head as of Infinite, and how people are starting to feel about it. Also: Slowburn Chiefpilot.)

Legacy System Support is my favorite of my oneshots, though it was hard not to say Sometimes The S In ODST Is For Stupid. In the gulf between 5 and Infinite somewhere, John and Kelly talk about helmet firmware, Chief Mendez, not being okay, teamwork, and unfunny jokes. (I especially think Kelly and John's friendship is deeply important. They are each the other's oldest friend, they matter a lot to each other, and often the only time I see people talk about them it's in a romantic context and....... I super don't ship it. If you want a thing done, you gotta do it yourself, etc etc.)

...Anyway, this is my best shitpost. (nsfw text, it's the one I tried to learn some Blender about)

And this is my favorite Halo meta post. (It's the one where I was asked about Spartan lore/advice for figuring out a Spartan-II or Spartan-III oc)

I'm also pretty fond of my book summaries, they're mostly pretty fun for me (except when they're not). I should do those again. There are so many things I could revisit and tell you guys about.

#ask game #ahhhhhhh #talking about my own stuff feels like cheating

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marrymeserizawa · 2 years

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Hey!! Feel free not to answer, but do u have any particular fics that r ur favorites?

Oh god I have so many favorites lmao. Too many to even narrow down tbh, that’d be a long-ass list haha. How about a list of fav authors? I revisit the mp100 works from these writers the most👌top notch, great characterization, highly recommended. Check ‘em out if you haven’t already

- https://archiveofourown.org/users/bobmoss/pseuds/bobmoss/works?fandom_id=3693074 (required reading for serirei fans lbr haha)

- https://archiveofourown.org/users/skeilig/pseuds/skeilig/works?fandom_id=3693074(another with lots of classics!)

- https://archiveofourown.org/users/Lapidist/pseuds/Lapidist (not being biased at all here just bc they’re my pal ok- their writing is a huge source of inspiration! Do yourself a favor and read ch4 of their mobvember collection to celebrate seeing takenaka in the anime soon👀)

- https://archiveofourown.org/users/parkernoir/pseuds/parkernoir/works?fandom_id=3693074 (Another w multiple works I adore. Serizawa +cat ownership.. Tome in work-related risk factors:’0 so good)

- https://archiveofourown.org/users/missydogblog/pseuds/missydogblog/works?fandom_id=3693074 (I’ll admit I’ve only read the serirei ones here^^; but both are high in my list of favs so! More seri +cats here btw haha, my weakness)

Again, off the top of my head these writers are the ones whose fics I revisit the most so there’s definitely some good stuff I left out to stop this from getting too long :’x there are so many talented folks in the serirei tag it’s insane

#ask #fic rec

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istherewifiinhell · 10 months

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Wifi's (and friend) Ultimate Turtle Journey: Mirage Volume 1 skip list.

Have you ever started to get into a really popular media that you know next to nothing about? And the amount of ingrained cultural knowledge and predisposed popular opinions to have about it all left you all discombobulated? Did you then decide the best way to handle that was to go through all the media in as chronological an order as possible?

Well. Hi! I (and my companion in turtledom) did that with every cartoon, movie, anime ova, touring musical production and educational VHS we could find of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But now plumb out of media of the moving picture sort, it was time to get into comics.

This is not a list trying to make you read mirage, nor will it be a "just the good plot stuff" list. Those already exist! This is list for anyone also taking a maximalist approach to enjoying art, and letting the ideas of the people who make it flow over you. I think friction in consumption of art can be really interesting. But I will try and give you context for what that friction might be, and the lines I drew about no longer thinking something was worth my time (I never skipped tho i did occasional skim >_>). SO! Lets get too it!

Mirage 1-11, and the character micros (named after each character, published in order: Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello and Leonardo)

This is the "core text" as it were. Obviously read it. This is probably what you need if you want to get into fights on the internet too. I might recommend a pit stop to read Eastman and Laird Fugitoid, maybe after issue 4. Issue 8 is a crossover issue. You could read the micros however but read no. 9, then Leo, then 10.

#12-18 are, brace yourself. Filler. Oh the terror. I think mostly good! 12-15 all got adapted into 03 episodes. Here's the break down.

#19-21: Return to New York

#12 - A Laird turtle romp, has good character work, action.

#13 - A guest issue, but Michael Dooney's best imho, makes sense chronologically and in tone. Women's depiction in comics Advisory warning.

#14 - An Eastman turtle romp, cute Casey and April stuff, a favourite of mine.

#15 - Laird again, and adventure again. good art.

#16 - A guest issue, Mark Martin, also his strongest imho. Not very chronologically based (a time travel plot in fact) but I'd recommend this even to people who don't read mirage.

#17 - Eric Talbot, kinda of a guest issue, within its own text, non canonical, but cute. Mikey focused.

#18 - Guest issue, Mark Bodé. The plot is. Anti MSG messaging? Turtles go to China. Really truly, you can skip this.

Yes again, obviously you should read these. I like them so much. Brothers! Feelings! Murder! Its the works.

Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1-7

Probably not were they go by publication date, but for simplicity... Lighter, easy read comics, all of them were adapted into 03 btw. I say read em, I saved them up for when mainline got too vexing. But probably at least read 4 [I, monster] and 6 [Leatherhead].

#22-48. Yes, most of em. Are "the guest era". But painting this large a chunk with the same skip or dont skip brush is beyond the pale. Some of the best and worst of Mirage is in here. Lets break it down.

#22-23. Sequels to #16. Not as strong, much weirder. But if you wanted more. You've got it. Has one gag I really like, and one I really don't.

#24-26. Rich Veitch's river saga. THE frictional art of frictional art. Emotional arc for the turtles, political and spiritual messaging. Advisory Warning for depiction of an Indigenous (Of an Algonquian tribe, probably Abenaki?) character and themes of colonialism, lots of offensive language used tho also, pro land back? Mysticism abound. If you read it, lets talk!

#27 Michael Dooney, a revisit of characters from Tales of TMNT, Radical and Carnage. Now in a... spiritual battle involved in (I believe, Lakota) religion. Stuff to chew on maybe, less offensive langauge but also maybe less to say. Dooney's treatment of women hints to a pattern.

#28 Written by Stephen Murphy and with art by Jim Lawson, makes this technically canonical, and regardless. Introspective and emotional. SO FUCKING GOOD. Also an 03 episode.

#29. AC Farley, read it for the art alone. Wild plot, fun romp.

#30. Rich Veitch again, cars! the grotesque! Highway culture. Very strange, pretty fun.

#31. Mike Zuilli and Stephen Murphy. This is truly, an AU. Continued in #35-36 (Sans Murphy). Maybe interesting to check out? Weird ass hell, maybe not in a good way? The strangest Splinter and Shredder. Mysticism, ofc. 36 Does end interestingly at least.

#32 Mark Bodé again, April and a female friend in Egypt. Cursed mummies, bad outfits. Truly skipable. (Also side bar: If someone told you this is the Only issue were April is drawn as Black or ambiguous. I Disagree. Lot of artists drew her in a lot of ways)

#33. Richard Corben. Silly turtles time travel. Cute, though the art might have given me motion sickness???

#34. Rich Hedden & Tom McWeeney. This is a Parody of the TMNT. Also not very funny. Also depicts a man having delusions and the shooting himself. (As comedy. of course. and its still not funny). Extremely skippable, though despite myself, the shots were said man sees the world populated with turtle mutants are kinda nice.

#35-36. See 31.

Phew. Done. #50-62 is the City At War arc, and finale of Mirage vol. 1. Read it! And good luck skipping any of it, it's like. 5 parallel story lines across 13 issues.

#37 Rick McCollum and Bill Anderson. I. ADORE. This issue. On the record have been singing its praises. Extremely characterful of the turtles, a reptile specific spiritual journey. Sequel to a mini "Donatello: The Ring", from Turtle Soup #2.

#38-40. Hedden and McWeeney again, this time, hornier. Still not funny. SKIPPPPPP.

#41. Matt Howarth. A look into the turtles, and Splinters, dreams. Just a cute little comic.

#42. McCollum and Anderson. Pretty good, an immortal witch summons ghosts of famous people to do her bidding (kidnap the turtles!). Mild advisory for women's depictions in comics, at least their drawn cooler... I like their Renet actually.

#43. Paul Jenkins and A.C. Farley. More of that good art! Donnie in his FEELINGS. Wild premise.

#44. Rick Arthur. Sequel to "The Name is Lucindra" Turtle soup vol 2. Raph gets a female sparring partner. There's maybe some feelings involved? its fine.

#45. Dan Berger. The return of Leatherhead! Probably canonical? I like it!

#46-47. Michael Dooney. A plot thread from #9 gets picked up. The turtles time travel to feudal Japan to stop a bad guy. Doesn't get more classic that that. Dooney's depiction of women goes turbo nuclear with this tho. Renet is less garbed than very and being man handled A lot.

#48-49 You have reached normal continuity by mirage regulars again. Casey Jones has a moral quandary of vigilantism. Return of Nobody from Tales of the TMNT. The turtles say some based shit about cops.

And that's pretty much it! I'm not skip listing all the side content cause i haven't read it yet and also. If your the kinda sicko who wants to read Mirage's Gobbledygook, Grunts, Turtle Soup or Plastron Cafe... What would you need a skip list for?

Wow! Now that's really it! You did it! Catch me next time when I finally know what the fuck happened with the rest of Mirage's publishing! Or what the hell is up with image comics? Or maybe those darn adventure comics from Archie.

#some shit #turbles...#wifi blogs mirage #tmnt #tmnt mirage #btw i really cannot offer any kind of comprehensive content warning type thing for this like some ppl have for shows.#my brain cant contain that all!!! but if you wanna chat about that topic. hit me up! i do think its important.#im not in any way an expert. i cant and wont make definitive calls but yeah! tells talk about it.

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