Any Naruto, Harry Potter, mha, or ff7 au idea knocking around that you want to share?
Have I been suspiciously quiet?
I mean yes, but am I causing concern?
Cloud that makes it to Midgar but ends up a bit… lost on the way and finds himself under the plate with barely any gil, a shit sword, and a gaggle of orphans following at his heels no matter how many times he tells them to go home.
It wasn’t like it had happened on purpose, he had been walking through sector five trying to scrounge up any work at all to buy a ticket up to the plate so he could finally apply for SOLDIER, when he heard the faintest sound of children screaming from down a tight alley that had he been any bigger he wouldn’t have been able to fit through.
He arrives in time to save the kids from a monster that broke in their hideout, breaking his first sword and grabbing a second from the towering piles of shit that were everywhere down here. The kids latch onto him immediately, all wide eyes and eager hands tugging him back to the Leaf House where they eagerly tell Ms. Folia all about their new hero.
She doesn’t look to convinced (he is little more than skin and bone if he’s being entirely honest, but Midgar was so expensive and it wasn’t like he could hunt here like he did back home) but she offers him one of the spare rooms for staff and a warm meal as thanks. She is convinced a few days later when she runs into him in the bustle of Wall Market taking out a pushy customer outside the Honeybee Inn before security could get to him.
He becomes something of a guard for Leaf House, often extending his services further to escort Aerith and Folia and even a few other sector five Honeybees. Their little guardian who starts to come into his strength as time passes.
It’s only a matter of time before the Turks following Aerith set their sights on him. He’s hard to miss walking at Aerith to the church, showing the kids how to defend themselves, going toe to toe with men twice his size on his escort trips, but what really deals the deal is when he notices them back.
No one saw a Turk that didnt want to be seen. Just like no one took on the Don’s men without fear. Just like no one looked after the lost and forgotten kids under the plate.
Now the Turks aren’t only trying to get Aerith to Shinra but Cloud as well.
Cloud isn’t entirely sure how he found himself as a potential Turk recruit with enough siblings (younger and older if the dancers and Aerith were to be believed) but he is sure that even if he were to write home about him no one would ever believe him.
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My gf was listening to "White Blank Page" by Mumford and Sons and I once again told her that song is SO much better if it's gay.
She doesn't listen to the lyrics of songs but she's extremely good at literary analysis and this time she actually looked up the lyrics and has now come to the following conclusion: "It makes no sense if it's not gay."
My (objectively best) reading is this:
The narrator was in love with a guy who strung him along, never willing to be in a committed (or public) relationship with him and maybe insisting that it's extremely heterosexual "helping a bro out" sex, except in more intimate moments. Finally out of nowhere guy is suddenly committed to a woman and when Narrator confronted him, guy spat out homophobic vitriol and claimed he's not gay like the Narrator.
(For extra flavor imagine them as closeted, straight passing Midwestern flannel wearing, love-bonfires-and-camping guys who sat next to each other at church and elbowed and annoyed each other like best friends do and were each other's go-to source of emotional support! And then to suddenly shut Narrator out for the first time ever, by abruptly marrying a woman and insisting that he's always been straight and their relationship meant nothing...)
Here are the lyrics:
Can you lie next to her
And give her your heart, your heart
As well as your body?
And can you lie next to her
And confess your love, your love
As well as your folly?
And can you kneel before the king
And say, "I'm clean! I'm clean!" ?
But tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart?
Oh, tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart?
A white blank page and a swelling rage, rage
You did not think
When you sent me to the brink, to the brink
You desired my attention
But denied my affections, my affections
So tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart?
Oh, tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart?
Lead me to the truth and I
Will follow you with my whole life
Oh, lead me to the truth and I
Will follow you with my whole life
Why call multiple people "you" in a totally unclear way? Why would you claim that your female ex's new man can't love her AT ALL (not just as much as you did, AT ALL)? And invoking the judgment of God is so fucking tedious if you're just shaming your female ex for moving on or even cheating/getting with your friend. Also you look like a creepy asshole if you think a girl broke up with you for "loving her too much".
This song is tepid, badly written, and makes the narrator look like an asshole if it's NOT gay.
The gay reading is the ONLY compelling one.
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I watched Scrubs for the first time in college, when I knew nothing about hospital culture or the weight of working in medicine. I liked it, I laughed, I cried, but I didn’t fully get it.
I’m rewatching it on the other side of the covid pandemic and three and half years of nursing later. Now it’s like therapy. It may lean more towards satire and be pretty silly at times, but it captures hospital dynamics and the emotionality and trauma of working in healthcare in a way that makes me feel seen.
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