she says he won't let her get a dog, which is fine, because they're in an apartment, and that's the kind of thing people say about their partners. he won't let me get a dog. and you're at a dinner party and you tilt your head a little to the side just like that dog he won't let her get, because is this the thing that's going to upset you? you don't know every corner of their relationship, she could be joking, they could have had so many healthy conversations about the dog, right, and maybe she's not letting herself get the dog because of money and time and whatever. but, like, she did say let
and she wants to move away from his hometown and he wants to stay and then he tells you with a wink and a conspiratorial stage whisper don't worry i'll convince her and she laughs about it - so clearly this is something they laugh about. but you do just stand there and stare at him like what the fuck, man. you can't say what you want to say which is why do you get the final say on everything because they're both obviously aware of the other person's stance on this and have obviously had private conversations about it and what are you going to do about it except make a scene and then he'll be mad at you and call you one of those bitches behind your back and she'll cut you off, which is a loss that doesn't feel worth it just because he makes you a little skeeved out every 3rd comment
and they both agree he just isn't the type to get flowers which is fine because everyone shows love differently, and are you really gonna judge someone based on their sense of individual relationship responsibility? maybe he's constantly cleaning her car and writing her poems and making her furniture or something. maybe she doesn't even like flowers and this is perfect, actually. and no you couldn't date him, obviously, ew; but like, she tells you she's happy. you almost send her a tiktok that says don't be 25 and the cool girl that doesn't need anything, you'll hate not getting flowers at 30, but that's like, starting drama & you shouldn't start drama needlessly.
and you're a little older than her but not so much older you can pull the whole trust me on this one babe thing and besides that wouldn't have worked anyway (when does it ever) and besides you have trauma so you and your therapist both agree that you're always looking for a problem even when there isn't one. and you tell yourself that just because you see them for 15 minutes every month does not mean you can identify every single red flag based on a single shitty half-joking(?) comment
and besides, what are you going to do? she says i actually wanted another stand mixer but thankfully he stops me when i'm about to spend too much money and you're standing there like are you okay? is this normal? is this just something people say? and again - what are you going to do?
to your therapist you try to language it - it's not, like, any of my business. but sometimes, doesn't it feel like - you should do something. there's got to be something, right? you've tried dropping little hints but they sail right through and you've tried having a single serious conversation and she got upset because why does it matter to you, yes it's different but we're happy, it doesn't need to make sense to you and you're like. really unwilling to push a boundary about it anymore; because the truth is that you know logically it shouldn't matter to you, as long as both parties are happy.
and besides, you've been wrong before. it's just... like, every time you see them both, something else happens, some kind of shiver down your spine like do you even hear each other when you talk. it's their strange, bickering orbit. just the way he's on his phone through dinner or watching sports instead of helping in the kitchen or, fuck, another one of these little throwaway comments he makes about we'll see about that, babe. she laughs when he calls her passions stupid shit and meanwhile she gets him tickets to see the knicks and he tells you well at least she's smart about something and still! it's none of your business.
you say get the dog anyway and she laughs. like, this is is you being funny. and not you saying - no really. get the dog. get the dog and get out of here. pack up and start running.
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My fellow zillennial. It's come to my attention that Gen Alpha is apparently making aesthetic tiktoks romanticizing 2020, like they want to be a teenager during that time??? Like no? You don't? I can't even begin to start breaking down how bad that year was in every category. McDonalds apparently now has "standards" yet another rubbish thing to add to the "college degrees make you overqualified with zero experience sorry you can't get this entry job" bucket. And Lunchables news reporters are like 30 years too late to be writing an expose on the toxic levels of metal in that.
people were dying????? we were in a state of panic and isolation???? schools were struggling with the switch to online only classes????
do we all remember the BLM protests and the tips on how to keep your face hidden and how to stay safe from getting maced???? do we remember the pushback against it??? calling on botched stats???
do we even remember the fucking US election???? how heated it got???? how much distrust republicans tried to seed into mail-in ballots?????
and then literally January of 2021, the US legislative house gets stormed in, Texas has a freeze so bad our gridlock shuts down and PEOPLE DIED FROM THE COLD WHILE EVERYONE ELSE MOCKED US FOR FREEZING!!!
2020 was not a good year. it is the furthest from a a good year, but it sure as hell emphasized a motley of issues the world had going on (tho i’m more versed in the US issues bc i live there)
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WtST Masterpost
Finally compiling all things related to Welcome to Sinnoh's Temple into one post.
The order of content is:
Fanfictions
Spinoffs
Artwork
Text Posts/Miscellaneous
If I receive fan content, then I'll make add a section for it for ease of organization.
Be aware that much of the artwork and fanfiction linked below contain spoilers for the plots of WtST and Pandemonic Paradise, if you have yet to read either fic and want to avoid spoilers.
This masterpost will be edited as new content is posted.
I hope that this makes it easier for everyone to find stuff if they're interested.
Have a good day!
AO3 series link
Fanfictions:
Main Story:
Welcome to Sinnoh's Temple -- the eponymous fic of the series
- chapter 1
- chapter 2
- chapter 3
- chapter 4
- chapter 5
- chapter 6
- chapter 7
- chapter 8 (final)
Yellow Lily -- a short oneshot taking place during WtST, after the Rift has been closed
Healing is Done in a Gradual Way -- a post-WtST oneshot
Spinoff Fanfictions:
Pandemonic Paradise -- an alternate storyline picking up between chapters 5 and 6 of WtST
- chapter 1
- chapter 2
- chapter 3
- chapter 4
- chapter 5
- chapter 6
Nonomori -- a hurt/comfort oneshot taking place in the Multi Line variant of WtST
Spinoffs:
Title links lead to the tag on my Tumblr, topped with the most recent post.
Pandemonic Paradise AU -- between chapters 5 and 6 of WtST, things go horribly wrong, and Volo gains Arceus's power. As the world starts to fracture, a distortion drops of a very confused Ingo, who, needless to say, takes the news of his twin's presumed death very badly
Broken AU -- tentatively full-titled as A Promise Broken is a Lie Told, this is a variant in which Ingo handled his grief less-than-healthily, takes all the blame for Emmet's disappearance himself, and isolates himself from his family, eventually taking the title of Unova's Champion
Illusory Lives AU -- a variant in which Emmet died during the red sky incident and came back as a Hisuian Zoroark. Lots of found family here (and Ingo may drown in guilt a little bit)
Multi Line AU -- one year after Emmet disappears, Ingo is taken and lands in Hisui a few years prior to Emmet; essentially, WtST, but Ingo is there
Paradise Frozen AU -- after spending four years in Hisui, Emmet returns home with Akari and Rei only to be separated from them midway. The three of them land, alone, underground in a frozen Unova under the reign of Ghetsis and Kyurem
Artwork:
General:
WtST doodles (1)
WtST doodles (2)
The Wurmple Comic
The Ball Squad
Akari, Rei, Goomy, and Spheal
Here comes Pesselle
Marked
Chibi Sticker Design
Blorbo Bleebus sheet
Pandemonic Paradise AU:
Pandemonic Paradise doodles (1)
They are a little upset
Broken AU:
Joltik eviction
Champion doodles and a bundle of Emmets
Illusory Lives AU:
Totally Normal Emmet
It's ya boi
Multi Line AU: (no art has been created for this yet, sorry!)
Paradise Frozen AU: (no art has been created for this yet, sorry!)
Text Posts/Miscellaneous:
General:
Reasoning behind the Faller's team
Do as I say not as I do
Alpha Wurmple!
Giving him a knife
Garchomp impressions
The Joltik of Gear Station (companion fic blurb)
How others are handling it (Iris)
How others are handling it (Elesa)
Jubilife shenanigans
How's that lil Sneasel doing?
Emmet and Lian
Pandemonic Paradise AU:
"I could make that so much worse"
To see yourself in someone else's grief
A realization
Earthquake
Cherry-picked chapter 4 blurbs
Here comes Ingo with a steel chair
I could technically give him a chair
he gets to yell at two legendaries
A disadvantage
Chapter 6 snippet
Broken AU:
Joltik Eviction Elaboration
Explanation of the AU
Unova's Elite Four
Illusory Lives AU:
What if...?
He dead
He's memeing about it though
Scruffable
Multi Line AU:
He done been yote (1)
He done been yote (2)
Volo is royally screwed
Don't talk to me or my brother ever again
Harassing Melli (fic blurb)
Like a stray cat
Paradise Frozen AU:
Wouldn't it be fun?
Technically when I first mentioned it
Miscellaneous:
Hypothetically (Pandemonic Paradise and Illusory Lives au)
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had a dream that I brought waffles, the palisman, to school w me but I wasn't allowed so I had to keep her in my pocket with two bags of Doritos. I showed her to some kid in secret in he gym, then had to frantically hide her again, and somehow putting her in an open bag of Doritos turned her into a blob of palistrom clay? So naturally I panicked because holy fuck I just killed hunter's palisman, but somehow I had read that when this happens you can just mold the clay back into its original shape and it'll be fine. But like, I couldn't sculpt with clay, only hard wood, so I went to hobby lobby to try to find something made of palistrom wood (which existed in the human realm) so I could just carve that into waffles instead and nobody would notice the difference? I eventually found a unicorn llama thing made of palistrom wood, and so I went to buy it, but the cashier said they just had some slabs of palistrom wood planks lying around that would be cheaper. (So maybe this was a hobby lobby home depot hybrid type deal.) So I took that, but it was too thin, so I just doubled it up with wood glue (made the color wrong but I'll just repaint it later). I carve a new waffles, give it to Hunter, but that leaves me with Dorito clay Waffles. The dream ended there, but I like to think I did something cool with it. Maybe made my own palisman. Also, the kid I showed Waffles to back at the gym had a snakeshifter palisman, so maybe that's actually a boiling isles species.
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