#for organizational sake

[sporkberries]

Msf as a whole but also kaz specifically are the first victims of the cult leader big boss eventually becomes. The monster he is in mg2.

The majority of the soldiers kaz included are people he kidnapped. People who now hinge on his every word and would die for him. Just because kaz is also his accountant wife doesnt make him any less of a victim or follower of BB. Kaz can call it a partnership all he wants that doesn’t make it the truth, their relationship is not and never has been equal.

Kaz doesnt go against BB because he snaps out of his trance and realized how wrong everything is, how crazy his plans are. He does it because he felt personally betrayed. And that pride is the very reason BB betrayed him in TPP. There is no room for autonomy in his heaven. Its ironic, given the whole point of the bosses dream in the first place.

#what if i built a heaven were soldiers could be free and not disposable by making them disposable to me specifically #bb’s cult leader charsima is the only reason people follow him hes dumb as a rock #also kaz’s obssesive love for bb never went away. all that strong emotion was still there just flipped to the other direction. #like a reversed tarot card #spork says stuff #mgs #for organizational sake #so i can find it later

[rosemaryyuri]

roachstuck

#june egbert #<- up to interpretation but tagging june for the sake of it #rose lalonde #dave strider #jade harley #vriska serket #kanaya maryam #terezi pyrope #karkat vantas #homestuck #ok time for blog organizational tags #june #egbert #rose #dave #jade #vriska #kanaya #terezi #karkat #art tag #1k

[fortanuvasyama]

#THEY DID WHAT TO JASON?????#ALSO IF ROSE HAD TO RESUCITATE HIM IT MEANS HE DIED BC OF WHAT BRUCE DID????#omg

@crepus i spotted your tags and had to say something lol

the answer is... maybe??? idk what Jason would have done if he was brought into the fight under different circumstances, but he did choose to work with Joker B of his own free will (and agreed pretty quickly, though that might be more because the [supposed] plan was to kill Joker A) (and also bc Joker B has decided he's not the Joker after all and that he needs to kill Joker A after which I guess Joker B would... die? kill himself? i think? idk man) and he actually set up a distraction with Rose to prevent Bruce from interfering (bc I'd imagine Bruce wouldn't want him to kill Joker A 😒)

(side note: lost my shit laughing here at the entourage of actual bats following the batmobile)

(btw that kid with Rose up there ^ was part of Joker B's group and Jason had the condition that the kid be uninvolved if Joker B wanted Jason's help)

(that's why Rose has the kid with her, so Batman can help the kid)

ANYWAYS so Jason is at the fight because he wants to be/he has a chance to kill a Joker/Joker B gassed him into not being paralyzed by fear, so depending on which motivation you think is right then one could argue that it's Bruce's fault he's involved.

BUT ANWAYS.... the set-up here is: Joker B is driving a train that will (unbeknownst to Jason) crash into Gotham and cause a big boom. It's a trap to lure in Joker A - who wants to kill Joker B because there must only be one Joker, blah blah - and Joker A comes swooping in on a dirigible/blimp (filled with bombs) to blow up the train.

A big fight between them and the henchmen ensues, Jason gets Joker A at gunpoint, and then Joker B reveals the true plan, and Jason gets booted out of the conductor's car.

(btw i'm omitting panels that are unnecessary to my narration, there's more in-between chatter that makes the story flow better)

so Jason decides to go for the blimp and steals Killer Moth's suit-wings-jetpack-thing (no idea what it really is) to get there, and hijacks the blimp. He tries to call for Batgirl (Stephanie atm) and gets Batman instead, and outright tells Bruce that he chose to do this, and also that they need to stop the gas in the train and the bombs in the blimp somehow. But there's no way to do either in a way where the gas won't blow into the city anyway...

And so Jason's solution is...

a big explosion that eats up the gas with the bombs in the blimp.

(genuinely a miracle he's not dead just from that lmao)

And there's an argument to be made that, uh, Jason... drowned. And was dead. For a pretty solid amount of time.

and Rose resuscitates him!

Rose is a miracle-worker apparently lol

A N Y W A Y S the point is, yeah Bruce could be held responsible for part of this if you look at it a certain way. I definitely think Jason's plan of blowing up the ship he was on by crashing into something in order to save people is very reminiscent of a certain other time.....

.....yep.

#crepus #hope this was okay! #jason todd #gotham war #bruce wayne #rose wilson #joker: the man who stopped laughing #red hood #joker #the joker #batman #i'm assuming no spoiler tags needed #i know this post isnt about rose but I'm tagging her for my own organizational sake lmao #i still dont know which joker tag to use ugh #edit: I ACCIDENTALLY PUT UP A DUPLICATE PANEL SORRY #it's fixed now

[beesgav]

Drew a bunch of characters @ecruteakfreak likes from memory

#i feel like it'd be rude to tag everything here so just for the sake of my own organizational system ill just tag names #dib #zim #colress #morty #kyuzo #edgeworth #yesod #melli #deadbleat #digital #art #sketchbook

[supercantaloupe]

there was this trend in 2010s musicals (especially those popular with/aimed at teens) to have a character be haunted by the ghost of another deceased character, wherein that ghost walks around and talks and interacts with the protagonist as if they were a normal person but they are (relatively) explicitly Not Real within the larger diegesis and cannot be perceived by other characters or interact directly with the world themselves. think connor in dear evan hansen, heather chandler in (the latter two thirds of) heathers, gabe in next to normal. (by a stretch of the imagination i think you could consider the squip in be more chill as fulfilling a similar role).

anyway not to 2017 broadway fandomize a 200 year old opera, but that with the don and leporello. like obviously an abuser like the don would have a lasting impact on an abuse victim like leporello psychologically and socially for a long time (perhaps ever). but now i'm imagining the don literally following leporello around for years, possibly for the rest of his life, haunting him. both fully aware the don's dead and not real and can't control anything anymore of course but still present in leporello's life and mind, walking about and talking but audible and visible to no one else, inseparable and inescapable

#sasha speaks #like this is cringe i know but i can't get it out of my head now either. #(you get to decide i guess if this is in the context of the original setting or a modern au idec.) #whether those 2010s musicals did the concept justice in execution or not is a whole debate i'm not getting into now #(and suffice to say n2n did it best of course) #but i do think they were on to something with the concept of grief/anxiety represented by a walking talking person #even if that person is fictional even within the context of the story itself #i think that's an interesting dramatic device. and don giovanni as an opera is of course already so very much concerned with #the idea that the don isn't fully a person and never was or could be but still has this massive devastating influence on other people #anyway. i don't really want to maintag this but. for the sake of my own page's organizational tags i guess i have to #don giovanni

[asthe-crow-flies]

naturalness/unnaturalness in Lolina: Origins by R L Hughes

i could write a whole essay about this, but its almost finals, so this is what you're getting

#I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS BUT I SIMPLY DONT HAVE THE TIME #i didnt even really have time for this but i did it anyway #lolina: origins #r l hughes #web weaving #is it still web weaving if its all from the same piece of media? #idk im gonna tag it anyway for my own organizational purposes #i took the lyrics for beware of pirates from genius lyrics and the rest from bandcamp to try to make them more visually distinct #but it wasn’t enough so i had to use a red filter too #initially i was using highlighter but it looked weird #there is. approximately no fandom of which to speak for this and i’m posting it at 1:30 am so idk if anyone will even see it #nevertheless. #MAN THE THINGS I COULD SAY ABOUT ORGANATECH AND HYPOCRISY FOR THE SAKE OF PROFIT #ABOUT HOW THE CULT AND ORGANATECH ARE SO SO SIMILAR IN HOW THEY KEEP PEOPLE IN LINE AND COMPLACENT #WHAT IS NATURAL AND WHAT IS UNNATURAL AND WHAT IS THE NATURE OF PERSONHOOD AND FREEDOM #I COULD WRITE AN ESSAY #I COULD WRITE TEN ESSAYS #I MAY DO SO #WE WILL SEE

[violentlydefending]

i'm just gonna say it. i do not care about the possibility for an aa7 especially if it keeps going in the direction established by 5 & 6. give me another shu takumi spinoff (a la the great ace attorney) or give me a professor layton vs phoenix wright sequel or give me nothing at all.

#contra.txt #no hate if a potential aa7 is smth you're looking forward to or if you liked aa5+6 or anything tho. i love you. genuinely. #i just can't get excited for it myself :\ #also i normally like to tag for my own organizational sake but i'll leave this particular post out of it bc i'm being kind of a hater LOL #sorry. i have to let it out like this every now and again or i'll explode 😔 #love you

[floralpowders]

has anyone written any natasha x readers out there?? the search is so crap that i just wind up getting mar//vel and x - x no...

but i would love to see maybe an imagine about natasha surprising the reader with a handmade doll for them

#hsr natasha x reader #hsr #im not tagging the entire tags and whatever bc i dont mean to show up .... really #i mean... for sake of searching for imagines... then yeah but i dont want people discovering this blog...too much #this is just a little compile blog bc i dont like putting imagines on main #organizational purposes #Anyways if no one wrote anything for it. i might. #MIGHT take that into consideration bc i dont...ive never written any x readers before x - x #i write canon/oc !! but never an x reader bc im. shy. #besides canon/oc never sees daylight anyways its for MYSELF #rambles

[pumaskulls]

*Borderlands!AUs my own OCs instead of actually finishing up their refs*

#my art #my ocs #borderlands oc #borderlands #digital art #borderlands!au #oc: keone drake jr #oc: murphy darrow #hmm...gonna throw this in the original story tag for organizational sake too #os: the ugly things you say #blood tw #injury tw #lmk if this needs any other tags #keone honey getting a crush on the evil woman you despise does not help you save the world in the slightest #turned Murphy into a completely original oc and then missed her siren tattoos 😔 so she gets to keep em in an AU

[dazzlerazz]

My idea was that Ashe and Shez had met as 10 year olds when Shez's then mercenary band came trutting into Gaspard territory looking for work

Shez had been sort of alienated from the rest of his village after his adoptive mom passed (this is because Shez doesn't seem to ever mention that any other villagers of that mountain village seemed to adopt or help him in any way after her death) so he stowed away with some merchants or mercenaries who passed through town

Berling does say that she "plucked Shez from a mountain village" which could mean that Shez in canon was actually sorta jointly-raised by all the adults in the village but was mostly on his own and when he was about 16-17 ish he was picked up by Berling's mercenaries who managed to become one of the best bands in Leicester over the next few years

In the ashez childhood au Shez ran away from that village and traveled Fodlan through various groups for a few years before landing with the Ironbloods after they found him living just outside Remire village and they took him along with them, and then a few months later the Ironbloods went into Gaspard territory and that's where they met

Ashe and Shez would be almost inseparable for the time that it took the Ironbloods to finish the job they were given and move along, and while it was sad to see Shez go life had to go on. Eventually Ashe's memory of the mercenary boy would fade until the two met again by chance at the start of 3Hopes

#razz rambles #ashez #<- like I said in a previous post I am only putting that tag there for organizational sake #I Do Not Ship Ashe And Shez While They Are Children #this is not a childhood crushes to friends type of situation because I am not comfortable writing children with crushes- #-on each other #plus I didn't even view it that way to begin with #ashe and shez are just friends and their romantic relationship begins when they are both adults and have spent years together #that's how I see it #plus it's literally my ship lol I make the rules

[yesandpeeps]

Chinese take out

It is such a dumb little fact but I have seen nobody point it out: Copia’s favorite dinner is chinese take out!!!

Chapter 10: Sister greets him back home from the recent tour and says “and I’ve ordered your favorite dinner.” (1:19 time stamp)

Chapter 11: Sister, Saltarian, Nihil, and Copia sit down for dinner together. You can see the white styrofoam boxes, Copia’s picking apart his chopsticks. Nihil literally asks him to pass the “Beijing beef,” an americanized chinese dish with beef, peppers, and onions.

This is literally such an unimportant thing to have noticed, and maybe nobody’s pointed it out because we all collectively just went “ah yes, a fact, anyways moving on-“ but when I love a character I dig deep into their bones!!! And I want everyone to witness the delicious marrow!!!

#yap yap yap #ghost #the band ghost #ghost band #cardinal copia #papa emeritus iv #sister imperator #papa nihil #mr saltarian #the big red title makes it look so stupidly menacing haha #but it’s just for my own organizational sake #links lead to youtube!! never added links on tumblr so hopefully it works

[emeraldelysium]

RENFIELD'S ALIVE

#10/03 liveblogging #exclusive tag for 50 page day #not doing main tag for the sake of spoilers #but i will tag (for organizational purposes) #dracula

[crucifixinhell]

Oooh I just checked out the description for the Sandman Slim series. It sounds hella fun! xD Could you tell us more? Please feel free to monologue ;)

OKAY

SO

Everyone be grateful for the new long post feature. I personally am very grateful for this very lovely anon who gave me an excuse to monologue at great length.

The reason this took me so long to answer is because I ended up rereading the first book (and most of the second) in the process... (I've lost count of rereads lol)

Reasons I love Sandman Slim:

1. It's this glorious mishmash of genres. I'd loosely categorize the first book as a spaghetti western revenge story set in an LA urban fantasy with angels and demons and a decent chunk of horror. (I love the world building. Some of the Christian theology was inspired by string theory.)

2. The narration isn't my usual style, but it's pretty fun in a lot of ways, because Stark (narrator/main character) is very direct. So his POV is easy to read. There's very few adverbs and a lot of the dialogue has minimal tags. (I'm pretty sure this is because Stark doesn't really have much emotional awareness. But.) Also, Stark's sense of humor is basically mine. Even if I don't get a lot of his references because he really likes obscure movies.

4. Stark is an asshole. Holy shit, he's an asshole. He's a very flawed person. Richard Kadrey (author) describes the series as "a monster learning how to be human" for a reason. Stark comes out of Hell and doesn't know how to not be an asshole. (He wasn't great at it before Hell, but he was also 19, so.) He mostly tries to do the right thing for the people he cares about, but he's incredibly terrible at it. This will make you want to yell at him, but also, if you like a proper antihero? This is a proper antihero. In Hell, they call him the monster who kills monsters. (A defining quote from very early on: "I hate cops and I fucking hate goody-goody hero types, but there is some shit I will not put up with if it happens in front of me.")

5. Stark has a huge case of PTSD (and probably some other stuff, but I don't think that ever gets diagnosed in-world) and it affects every aspect of his life. It affects how he looks at things, how he acts, and how he thinks in ways he doesn't even notice. So... like how PTSD/mental illness actually affects people. Which is so incredibly refreshing to read. And it's well-done/realistic, imo.

Stark has PTSD and is a dick about it for a long time. He refuses to acknowledge his time in Hell was an issue. He has some of the worst coping mechanisms on the planet and they hurt himself and the people around him until he starts accepting help. (Monster learning how to be human!) He can't reconcile who he used to be with who he is after Hell. He's suicidal and/or engaging in self-harming behaviors for large portions of the series. But he gets better.

7. It takes (I think) nine books to explicitly get there, but Stark is queer and he dates a non-binary person. I say explicitly because a) he more or less talks about all genders in the same way, even if he's usually only involved with women, and b) he describes Lucifer as a bad-decision fuck in the second book. I had my suspicions. Also, there's a couple poly relationships throughout. So that's cool. There's never a whole lot of identity conversation because the world is always ending. I love representation that is just. There.

9. They're just... entertaining books with fun characters. There's a zombie-killing Czech porn star. There's a bartender who reacts to a charred-up, scarred-up stranger talking about murder by saying that the potential dead people probably deserve it (Carlos is awesome). There's an angel working for Homeland Security. There's an immortal French alchemist stubbornly refusing to lose his accent. There's an excommunicated sin-eating priest whose sins get eaten in a ritual involving Johnny Cash. I love them all.

#anon if you ever want any firstborn children I'll steal some for you #subpoint on all of this is that it's very fun to write alternate povs for this series #bc stark doesn't acknowledge pain/trauma for long but. holy moly. there's so much there #anyways read sandman slim kids #oh the r word gets used a couple times in the first book but i think that's it? the author is aware and apologizes for his fuck ups soo. #sandman slim #crucifix talks #anon asks #answered #one day I'm gonna explore Stark's trauma in regards to sex bc there's more than a few mentions/implications there. but. #first i gotta finish some stuff lol #crucifix recs #gonna make that a tag for my own organizational sake lol

[ghastbutlikegay]

oh i should update my pinned sometime

#my only organizational tag is my ask tag and i dont have any indication that im technically a legal adult #(when i turned 18 i just took out the bit that said minor) #ive been approaching my age from a 'you dont need to know it from reading my bio' thing #while otherwise being open about it #but ig for the sake of those 'adults dni' 17 year olds i should probably put that in there?

[natsaffection]

Cure. | N. Romanoff

Natasha Romanoff x Younger!Reader

MINORS DNI!!! (18+!)

Summary: You got infected with the sex pollen and a red haired ..acquaintance offers to help you.

warnings: Age gap (N=32 | r= 20), Masturbation, fingering (r receiving), oral (r receiving), strap on (r receiving)

Word count: 2,1k

A/N: Here's part from my ongoing fic ( I hate you! ) that I'm continuing and wanted to share!! :v Please have in mind that English is not my first language <33

As usual, you were lost in thoughts and again didn't notice where your head was taking you. Until you stood in front of Bruce's lab. You were about to go on, when something grabbed you. So you look around and finally go inside.

It was large and very plain. Also, of course white..what does that color always have to do with it? "Hey, Y/N, can I help you with something?" Bruce's voice startled you "No..Just curious." Bruce smiled and continued to play with a device in his hand. As he went back to his work, you continue to look around. You have to admit Bruce is pretty darn organizational and everything has a label, its own container and so on. Except...this one certain piece. It had a sort of orange glow to it and yes that only attracted curious people like you, "Hey Bruce what's this?" You touch it and when you see Bruce face, "O-Oh, don't!" a pulling stench came from the jar, and you drop it and with your luck you stand right in the cloud of the smell. You cough a few times and step aside, "What the hell is that!" Bruce slowly walked up to you, "Oh god..Uhm..How are you..feeling?"

How should you be feeling? You stink to no end now, "Other than the smell, fine. Why?" Bruce holds his hand over his mouth, and you see him thinking. "Bruce, what's going on? What is that thing I inhaled!" Are you going to die? Is that how you're going to die?! He kept coming at you, "I'm so sorry. I-"

"Now tell me what's going on, Bruce, or I'll..."

"You've been infected with sex pollen!" he interrupted you, looking deep into your eyes. However, you only understood the word sex and infected, "W-WHAT?! What does that mean, infected? With what, a-and how long is this going to last now?" You should have stayed in bed...

And you were now. Just with a bit of a shocked face. Bruce explained to you exactly what it means to be infected with it and your head stopped. You asked how you could get rid of it, and Bruce had to stifle a laugh. And now here you are...sweaty, hot and...horny. You had been trying for several minutes, but you couldn't get it off. Is it hormones, or why could you start crying at any time? You're so damn needy, you couldn't think straight,

"My door is always open for that... to talk, I mean, for other things, too."

Your eyes widened. Hell no. No, no, no..She's the last person you would ask for something like that! Bruce must have made a mistake, this will go away on its own..So you lay down on your side and try to sleep. But after many hours, from turning over, to throwing the pillow away, you couldn't. You look at your air conditioner and whimper as you see it set to max. Eventually you give up on it and get up to go to the kitchen. You need ice cubes, liters of water, and Natasha.

Wait what?

When you get to the kitchen, you see how she also just made herself something to eat. You curse inside and go to the fridge anyway, "Hey..." Fuck, now your body is going into high gear again. "H-Hi..." What the fuck was that!!! Why do you sound so- "Are you okay?"

Just getting the water, just getting the water!

"You're really bad at lying, that needs to be mentioned." She calmly continues eating her food, "So what's the deal." Why does her voice have so much inpact on your body? You're thinking desperately, and you just couldn't take it anymore, "Bruce has some sex pollen in his fucking lab for fuck's sake and I inhaled that shit, okay?!" Don't be embarrassed. She's a woman, and you're a woman, so what could go wrong?

"I can help you with that if you want..." If you had drunk your water, it would be on the floor now, "What?" You misheard. Natasha set her bowl aside and leaned forward further, "Believe me when I tell you that it will only go away if a second person helps you with it. I speak from experience..." She tries to smile slightly, but knew how that must sound, "W-Who helped you?"

"It doesn't matter, so?"

You blink several times, "N-No..No! That- We can't do that! I'll do it-"

"I don't want to force you Y/n, but you're just getting started. You don't want to get to the end of the line, really." You keep looking at her. She really means it..No!

You grab your stuff and walk past her. Once in the room, you walked a bit, but the more you thought about it, the worse it got. Your tingling in your stomach is killing you and the heat even further down..Your fingers moved back down, started rubbing your clit. Your other hand reached for your breast, and you start stimulating your nipple as well. "F-Fuck..." You rub your knuckles more against your clit, circular motions sending you into spasms. Your legs start twitching, and you keep trying to concentrate until all the sensation disappeared. You start whimpering and trying to fight it, but it was no use. You were back to zero.

You had tried two more times, but instead of it getting better, it got so much worse that you couldn't take it anymore. So you get up and go over to the one who gave you the offer. You knock and a little later she opened up and grinned at you, "told you."

"Shut up and now help me, please..." She opens the door further and you go inside. You look around and then turn to her, "So..How do-"

Natasha was on you like a gazelle. She attacked your neck immediately, and you had to laugh. She can definitely save the foreplay, "Please fuck me now!" She continued a few more kisses on your neck until she looked at you, "Wow, where do you get words like that, huh, little girl? But before. I need you to answer one thing for me,“ The look she had and how she looked down at you gave your confirmation again that it wasn't a mistake to come here, fuck you could already feel it... "Is this your first time?" You were already expecting that, "No." She looks deeply at you to check for a lie, but when she found nothing, "Don't worry about your problem," She put a hand on your chest and pushes you backwards to her bed. As you lay on it, she climbs over you, "Besides..the best part are not finished in a hurry." She goes back to your neck and helps you take off your shirt. When that was finally on the floor, she wandered down,

Your shoulder, your chest, your belly, everything she touched with her mouth and the heat you already had got worse and worse, "P-Please, do something..." You had waited enough today..She kept looking at you until finally She squatted in front of where you needed Her the most. Between your legs.

She didn't hesitate long and directly started making circular movements with her tongue. The sensation made you spasm right away, and you comply with her movements, "You're doing great..." Fuck, who is doing the best here?! Sex with dirty talk? 10/10! That Natasha was strong, you already knew, but when she turned you completely around in one movement was new. Or your head was already so fucked that you could no longer think. Now that you were lying on your stomach, Natasha had a much better angle and didn't take long to fill you with her fingers.

You couldn't help but moan into the pillow beneath you. This must have triggered something in Natasha as she suddenly climbed onto the bed, reached under your belly and leaned into you, "Don't hide those beautiful noises from me... "A-Ah! F-fuck!" It was too much at once, and you try to hold on somewhere, but you found nothing but her arm. Natasha grunt as she felt your nails in her wrist and that propelled her forward. She went in deeper and managed to put her thumb on your clit as well.

The only thing that held you now was Natasha. That was also the only thing you could think about, "I feel it getting tighter..." The way she whispered that in your ear made you finish and let out everything you had. She helped you ride out the orgasm and then gently laid you down on the pillows. You were trying to catch your breath when you noticed Natasha getting up and leaving. You were already getting ready to leave, but a little later she came back with a strap in her hand, "Is that okay if I take you with this?" You look at her blurry, "Fuck..hell yes.."

She clicked her tongue and pulled out to put the strap on. When She was done, She came over you again. To your surprise, She took your face and turned it towards Her to give you a kiss. She probably took that as a distraction, since she was filling you with her cock at the same time. You moaned into her, and she swallowed most of your sounds, but when she hit a certain spot, you throw your head back. "Found it, hmm?" You were afraid she would stop, so you started nodding vigorously, "Yes, Yes! Right there, please!" Natasha leaned up and turned you around again, holding your hips to get a better grip. She then rammed into you like an animal and the bed started pounding against the wall,

"Th-This..Feels, Ahh!" All that could be heard in the room was your moans and the thud of your skin, and Natasha couldn't get enough. She turned you again and bent your whole body towards her, making you see stars, "So deep~“

"Yeah? Am I making you feel good, huh?" She grabbed one of your breasts and started massaging your nipples, making you twitch, "W-Wait, that's too-" you were cut off as Natasha gave you a certain thrust and ramming into you faster. She was about to finish and so were you, "I-I will!!!"

"Come on..Fuck, go ahead.." Natasha's thrusts became more uncontrolled, and she just rammed into you out of desperation until it clicked, and you moaned her name. This also brought Natasha into her orgasm and she collapsed all over you. She held herself up on her shoulders to look at you and shit, does she love that look you have on your face. "Wow, you really needed that..“Her tone was soft, and you close your eyes to keep that serene feeling, "You have..yeah..no idea..thanks..."

"Wait here." She rolled to the side to get up from the bed. You just thought to yourself 'I have nowhere to go right now anyway' but you let it stick. She was gone for a while until she came back with a fresh towel and a glass of water. She sat down at the edge and gave you the water. You thanked her and took it,

"So..." Natasha was the first to say anything again after a few minutes of silence, "Are you feeling better?" You knew she was asking it to get the mood back up. You couldn't hide the grin anymore, "Yeah..thanks again..I'll owe you."

"No you don't." Even Natasha noticed that this statement came way too fast. She continues to look at you and stands up again. You thought that was it and that it was the sign to go, but as you were about to get up as well, she came back with bedding, "Where are you going?" You were confused, "Um..I thought I was supposed to go?" Natasha rolled her eyes and put the bed stuff on her bed, "Ever heard of aftercare? And I hardly think you can walk two feet in this condition..." She's right...again.

#natasha x reader #natasha romanoff #natasha smut #natasha romanov x reader #nat x reader #natasha romanov smut #dom!natasha x reader #natasha romonova #the avengers #natasha

[professor-doc-emeritus]

I love the dichotomy we get between jinshi and the emperor that shows off how the traits that make jinshi a great prince, boss, friend (husband 👀👀👀👀) are the very same traits that will make him a terrible emperor.

His hard working streak that lets him handle his weird assignments with grace and manage the clashing egos of the inner palace is what will get him killed by overwork as emperor since he has no real head for delegation. It took 11 volumes and the intervention of most of his immediate family just to get jinshi to hire a secretary. The emperor always being free to host parties, sleep with the consorts, and bust jinshis balls in-between it all is, much like lakan always being free to annoy maomao, actually a sign of him being god-like at delegation and organizational management.

His lack of ego and willingness to look the fool if it gets the job done is great for avoiding political snafus and getting to the truth of things. It's genuinely the thing that makes all his expeditions to the western capital so wildly successful: he really doesn't gaf about how he's seen by the public, so long as the job gets done and his friends aren't in immediate danger. It's also the exact opposite of what you need from a head of state who's legitimacy is not-insignificantly based on the public perceiving you as an instrument of the will of heaven. The emperor being willing to kill people and their families over slights jinshi (and most sane human beings) would be willing to let slide is cruel and inhuman, but it's also what keeps the populace at large from being able to organize against him and challenge the imperial power.

Jinshis compassionate streak, his urge to save as many people he can and find the best solution for everyone possible, makes him great to work for. He'll give you assignments that match your hyper fixation, work around your crippling social anxiety, give you a post that just-so-happens to involve you staying with the love of your life for a few months. More over, he isn't gonna risk his life and your position over petty ego or greed when he can find a peaceful solution instead. But the hesitation he feels at using people like tools, and his unwillingness to act if it means throwing people under the bus, is what will lead to death and destruction if he's the emperor. Especially in a time of war. The current emperor is willing to ruin lives and crush nations if it reaches a goal, advances an agenda.

Finally, jinshis loyalty, I'd say even more than his looks, is what draws people to him. He loves his toys, can't stand to give them up. It makes him a great romantic figure. But when you're the emperor, and you need to be willing and able to marry someone for political ends, produce as many heirs as possible regardless of who with, and set aside the feelings of those women for your own sake, that loyalty is poison.

Idk, so often in stories with these systems they sorta follow the logic of "if he's a good person he'll be a good leader." I think it's cool to have a series talk about how being a leader involves being EXTREMELY comfortable with being an asshole, for a myriad of reasons, and how someone being pleasant to work for wouldn't make them an effect monarch.

#its also important to note that despite all the shitty things the emperor is shown being/doing #he genuinely is portrayed as a well loved and effective leader #who does his best to reach his version of compassion #john mulaney has a good bit about working with celebrities for snl #and how in their world their version of polite/acceptable is very different and it can lead to tense situations #i think a lot of the emperor's actions are like that #like in a vacuum they're dick moves #but in the context of who he is and what his duties are you see why he does them #the apothecary diaries #jinshi #ka zuigetsu #spoilers