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strawberryseeded · 5 months

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thinking abt bllk (no surprise there) and how (at least until now) all (well, most of?) the characters backstories aka basically the reason for their most prominent issues are, instead of extremely tragic and complex events, simply children's logic applied to recurrent situations in their daily lives (and especially the sport they love):

bachira feels lonely: bachira was a weird and lonely kid who was also extremely passionate abt (and talented in) football, more than any other kid, making bachira feel isolated even when he was playing with others. this got even worse when the kids he played with started to resent him, calling him a "monster" and bullying him. while talking with his mom, she told him to keep believing in his inner voice and ignore those who dont understand him, resulting in bachira giving that voice the form of a "monster" that can play football with him to feel less lonely. which, obviously, made him even more lonely, even if it was an imaginary friend created to aliviate that feeling. because bachira still felt lonely, even after many years and even after playing with other people in school who werent any fun for him, he kept the monster by his side. believing no one could ever beat this monster (thank GODNESS he did 🎉!!! HE is the monster no one can beat!!!! his arc is one of my favs hes literally unstoppable now, i love him dude i love h)

isagi holds himself back too much: isagi (i read the light novel abt him hehe) was a timid and mild mannered kid until he discovered football, which he fell in love with. while playing the sport he could let go of his shyness and actually be selfish and go all out. uuuntil... he entered his high school's reputable football club, where the motto was to play as a team above everything else (a very anti-blue lock logic lol). isagi then, in an effort to accomodate to the social norms of the club (bc hes isagi, and off the field hes calmer and timider), had to simmer down in the field as well. supress himself. at times it seems like his on and off switch is kind of stuck.

barou has main character syndrome: barou was a very, on top of talented, meticulous kid and therefore the best in football out of every other kid he knew, who didnt take it as seriously and were more than happy to let him score all the goals. he didnt understand why they were satisfied with letting other people take all the glory, so he secluded himself, convinced that he was the only player that actually mattered on the field. the best. the Main Character. everyone else was completely worthless, their only use being to serve HIM. (until he got his ass kicked by isagi and became the villan instead of the main character, bc oh, shit, barou's not actually the main character???? then he'll hunt down & DESTROY the main character).

rin (god, rin) has a brother complex (i used to hate when ppl oversimplify whats wrong w him w this term but tbh it does boil down to this lol ToT): rin idolized his older brother like crazy and wanted to be just like him. bc he was also blessed with talent and also had a great relationship w sae, he had everything he needed to fulfill his dream of being the 2nd best striker, the 1st obviously being his older brother, who rin viewed as the best, most talented player in the world. when sae comes back from spain and tells him 'the world is big and im not actually the best, you go and be the best striker by yourself' (basically: our (your) dream is over), rin has a fucking breakdown. its not really a tragic, despair-inducing event, objectively speaking. but in the manga its framed as such bc for rin, in his childish logic, it is. bc his brother IS the BEST player, what the fuck do you mean hes not number 1 outside of japan?? ....then what about rin? if his brother cant be the best, rin cant be the 2nd best either, let alone the best. he feels like sae ruined everything, gave up, broke their (rin's) dream!!!! after sae humilliates him, rin directs all of his frustrations at him and bows to defeat him. as long as rin sees himself as sae's little brother, he's never gonna be able to surpass him, bc in rin's mind, sae is still the best, his talented big brother.

ness believes kaiser, not him, is the magician: ness's case is more serious bc his family was (is?) emotionally abusive towards him. basically, like every other kid, ness believed in magic. the concept of magic is exciting for children and gives them, in the form of play, the opportunity to express their creativity and exercise their imagination; work out a way to make the impossible come true. bc this is so important for their development, usually its the parents role to, at least to a certain degree, keep alive the belief that magic is real. ness's parents, on the contrary, shut down this belief bc it didnt match with their own views. they saw his interests as a waste of time, even letting his sibilings bully him and treat him badly to make him give up on them. ness, however, didnt, and instead found a more socially acceptable way to 'do magic' and express his creativity: football. he feared greatly, however, that football would be taken away from him, so in that faithful match in which he met kaiser he decided to put all of his trust and hard work on him, bc ness believed kaiser was the person who would be able to make the impossible, the magic that ness wanted to create, happen. i think the key to unlock his full potential is stop relying on kaiser so much and start believing in his own magic (kind of like what happened in hiori's arc). we have yet to know kaiser's backstory but i have a feeling those two enable each other's worst traits...

ETC !!!! sorry i got tired of writing lol

anyways these r just my interpretations of the characters feel free 2 b like "was is she ON about"

#bachira and barou went thru character development and got over these issues vía isagi being a freak as usual. chigiri and hiori too #nagi is In Process and everyone else is having a miserable time #i thinkkk. im just writing whatever comes 2 mind atm #THE QUESTION IS against WHO will isagi go ALL OUT 100% BERSERK?????? my bet is rin. PERHAPS kaiser.#blue lock #di4ry

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milfygerard · 1 month

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Do you think Gerard's comics are good? I haven't read all of them. I felt like the story doesn't really wrap up well and make sense good in the Killjoy comics or Umbrella Academy but maybe comics are just like that. Maybe they were imitating other writers I don't know about and I'm missing context. What are your thoughts

anon i am so deeply biased towards gerards comics but YES i do think theyre good! I think lots of the critiques are fair but i also think it leads to the fandom kind of underrating him as a comic author at times and dismissing the work out of hand. I especially see this for umbrella academy and to answer your other question yes i do think some of it is a matter of missing context! TUA was never...really made to be a popular and commercial comic? The satire and style are very inside baseball, mostly about x men, as well as later leaning more into a silver age style of both writing and illustration (which is why im soooo obsessed w hotel oblivion guys its so goood its so good i swear)

When it comes to other comic runs, I'd say killjoys comics tend to be the messiest but they are also deeply meaningful to me wnd natuonal anthem is so fucking gorgeous and interesting (controversial but im a natam ending defender even if i think the comic itself couldve used another issue or 2 to push the character writing more). I think gerard has one of the better doom patrol runs, Including milk wars i'd put it up there at maybe 3rd or 4th depending on how much i let personal bias into the equation. However doom patrol is also very Like That just as like a superhero group and can be kind of impenetrable if you arent down for genuinely bizarre and sometimes seemingly nonsensical writing, its kind of apart of the teams DNA as the "worlds strangest heroes". Milk wars is soso good and maybe one of my favorite Comic Things gerard has made/been involved with but its also best with looots of comic context bc its playing w both doom patrol history and the context of where DC as a company was during the time of its release. Its still relevant in many ways but probably feels impenetrable if you arent already into comics at least a bit.

Gerards style def isnt for everyone (and they do sometimes get bored and cheese the ending a bit though i defs tend to like them more than other ppl do) but i do think theyre extremely good at what rhey do and im soooo excited for paranoid gardens especially bc 1. gerard has always taken an extremely empathetic and nuanced and honest approach to writing about mental health and mental illnesses bith real and semi fictionalized and 2. the artist on board is an industry mainstay and has made some fucking incredible work! I didnt love the first issue cover dropped and was worried i wouldnt click w the artstyle but after properly checking out chris westons style im really excited!!!! gerard time

#ask #anonymous #i hope none of this comes off as dismissive #gerard definitely has a very particular style and has some flaws it can be hard to look over if its not for you #but i also think gerard is extremely skilled and very much deserves their place as a respected figure in the comic world #and again im SOOOO EXCITEF for paranoid park #whenever gerard mentions 'silver age weirdness' while describing a project theyre working on i get so hyped #also wheres TUA5. @gerard where is she

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liauditore · 6 months

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hi i have returned opinions on secret life so far? (also any idea why bigb’s secret animation was different to everyone else’s?) :D

hi hi i have so many Thoughts that i will definitely miss Something but. lots of things. spoilers for ep1 under the cut obvs.

why is every ship getting crumbs. literally all of them. what is wrong with everyone wtf. (except treebark. treebark girlies stay losing)

new mechanic is insanely hype and i am going a little bit feral over it. i've been wanting a UHC-style season for a long time and this seems a great way to kind of. entertainment-fy it i suppose? cus as much as i wanted straight up UHC i can totally understand why players like joel or skizz or scar would struggle hard in that sort of ruleset and it wouldn't be very fun to watch as a result.

i'm a bit.. tentative about the more acknowledgment of the Lore this time around? On one hand i love it and i think it's incredibly cool but on the other hand i know well that lore can eat a series alive if let out of control. Especially when fans start getting pushy about their theories and disappointed when inevitably things aren't as explained or thoroughly confirmed or straight up forgotten. (<-- fnaf fan. i have seen it. it is horrible)

that being said i have trust in grian specifically to handle it well and not go off the deep end with it cus a good chunk of the viewers don't know/care for the lore and if it becomes a Big Thing then a lot of people are gonna end up feeling alienated and confused.

i LOVED Bigb's episode and i think it's like. the ideal way to incorporate lore into a series like this. the way you can Feel that something is off rather than it being explicitly shown. you can choose to write it off or dig deeper. it's good juice. I've mentioned this before but I'll say it again -- Bigb is easily one of the strongest roleplayers on the entire server and his editing REALLY sells it hard. He really melts into what's happening rather than getting up on a platform and shouting THIS PART IS IMPORTANT. LOOK AT ME. which i really appreciate as a kind-of honorary former theatre kid.

but yeah tl;dr i think lore/fan theories should be left to the fandom mainly otherwise it starts getting weird. that being said i trust the life series ppl and can't wait to see what's going on with this season.

now if i may be unhinged myself. i def agree with the theory that Something is up with Bigb's task and maybe whatever gave it to him is trying to mess with the game.

Bigb and Mumbo specifically I felt were acting.. a little OOC the whole episode? Bigb was very much on purpose i think and i reckon mumbo's just excited to be back lol but its fun to think about

the task system has a lot of potential for. fanfic symbolism fuel. i mentioned this on my spam blog i think but something something about the way the players' tasks almost seem to. mock them? a little bit?

like pearl's being to "earn" people's hearts after she failed to make any connections throughout double life and has been somewhat isolated the whole series. bdubs being known for his efficient and beautiful builds being told to make something ugly and useless. scott being implicitly called a parasite with his history of teaming and latching onto one specific person each season. etc. etc.

the teams this time around are looking interesting and i think it's worth noting how it almost feels like.. the opposite of limlife a bit? with how slow and cautious everyone has to play. it seems like over half the server haven't really even joined up with anyone yet which is intriguing. (im personally praying for a scar/jimmy team up. just cus scott said they wouldn't make it lol)

which is great for me cus i loved limlife but the chaoticness of everything did kind of. make deaths less impactful i think? if i see another sky bridge i might scream

im very. of two minds about the scott and impulse team up. because if you dig through my blog you'll see i have kind of a history of being unhinged about those two and their parallels. but i have the sneaking suspicion that their actual dynamic will be like nothing i had in mind lmao

overall i am very excited but trying to control my expectations

also um MUMBO AND LIZZIE ARE BACK AND GEM IS IN THE SERIES AND MUMBO AND LIZZIE AND THUBS ETHUBS ETHUBS ETHUBS ETHUBS--

#asks #secret life spoilers #traffic spoilers #liauditore is unhinged

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vicsy · 2 months

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are u okay vic? sending love xx

(hateful ppl only have hate in their sad lives and try to bring everyone else down to their depressing level, don’t listen them!!)

frankly, anon? no, i am not.

and if you think about it, it's incredibly stupid to be all torn up because of a fucking sport I watch for general enjoyment but what else is new? i got into f1 when life hit the absolute possible low for me and it helped me immensely through it all, still does, and i found so many friends and wonderful people and i started writing again. it's pure fucking escapism coming back to bite me in the ass.

it hasn't been great to be an f1 fan lately because of events I don't need to be recapping - it's all out there in its disgusting glory, all over social media every single day. we're just being reminded of how rotten the core of this sport is and how high of a role money and power play. it's not new but disappointing nevertheless, considering there isn't much we can do to try and fix that.

but the hate among us, the fans? it's getting out of hand.

i will never go out on my way to police anyone's behaviour (it is never justified) but clearly there is a line between haha jokes and pure fucking malice. there is having genuine, critical conversations you can have (recently had one with my close friend and it was so refreshing to talk instead of secretly talk shit) and using this sport as a yardstick to measure someone's morals. it's been happening more and more, considering recent comments made by drivers in regards to the ongoing case that deals with harassment. that opened a can of worms that made ALL of us unhappy and even more disappointed, in one way of another. there is expressing genuine opinion and then there is being a hater because it's a trend.

are all Charles fans insane? are all Daniel fans delusional misogynists? are all Lando fans insufferable pricks? are all Max fans outright racists? are all Lewis fans stuck up? I could go on and same sentiment goes for each team on the grid. can we rightfully define someone by who they are a fan of? are we all required to make a statement each time a driver says/does something mindnumbingly stupid in order to, god forbid, not get cancelled along with that driver? can we genuinely bring a driver up without shitting on the other or is it not mutually exclusive?

there has been a barrage of hate towards several drivers and i get it, i do, it's sports, we're always gonna get like this. it's the whole spirit of it. i am not saying we can't root for someone and talk shit about the other. but again, i am seeing the waves of hate getting bigger and bolder, assumptions being made on the spot. people openly calling each other stupid over being fans or having a different opinion. in some ways any sense of compassion and critical thinking is dead in a ditch.

it wasn't like this before, if i am honest, but i am also a rather new fan. i am seeing all sorts of stuff on my dash both from people i don't know and from people i do know. it's a knee jerk reaction, to go and judge someone by posts and stuff, i know it but i made myself not do that. but i am just afraid of this ongoing trend of hate. i really am.

it just seems like there is no margin for error. your fave can either be squeaky clean, completely unproblematic, or they should be shot on sight. it doesn't matter if any of us acknowledge it or not. for some reason, it's a "you are what you eat" situation. and i find it rather unfair. you can separate person and a driver. two things can be true at once etc etc. none of it warrants wishing actual harm on other people.

so yeah, sorry for a rant. i'll stop now and, for what it's worth, i have been trying to unlearn the ways of "people pleasing", so here are just my thoughts that i don't think many will agree with but i don't want to bend under whatever popular opinions circulate here (especially by "big blogs"). i'd rather have people talk to me personally and i am always open to having a conversation, making friends and discussing opinions. those at the head of f1 management don't seem to do better but us tearing each other apart can also mean that we aren't doing any better, too. at least i personally think so. don't take my word as a generalized opinion.

thank you for the message, anon, i appreciate it. sorry again to be Like That. big hug!

#asks #personal #not tagging it #also the hate Lance got for his crash will never not be astounding

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inchidentally · 2 months

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Firstly just want to say I love your posts and opinions <3 Sorry this is a bit long, I only lurk around so I wanted to share my thoughts with someone (if that’s alright!)

As a Lando fan through all his teammates, I really love his dynamic with Oscar the most. I love that Lando always brings up how good Oscar is (even though everyone in the world loves to spread the narrative that Lando is washed because a rookie beat him*), and I love that Oscar is always supportive of Lando’s achievements too. They both put the team first before all else, and what happens in the race will stay in the race (no hard feelings after). Despite what the media pushes them to say or the narratives in articles, they both have a quiet understanding of each other and a lot of respect. What they have now is really sweet and I’m really hoping none of this would change for the years to come, even if they have a race winning car. Of course as a Lando fan first, I want him to win all the races, and I’m sure Oscar fans want Oscar to win all the races, but I hope that everyone can also learn to let what happens in a race stay in the race, just like them. For me anyone who shades/hates on either of them in any way just gets an instant block, I don’t want to hear it <3

*I hate how people always turn to shitting on Lando instead of saying Oscar is also good and equally competent?? I know Lando is supposed to be more experienced but he’s also young and he’s apparently never allowed to make mistakes. And I think not giving Oscar the credit is also disrespectful to him.

I also do hope this year they are even more comfortable with each other and will hang out more outside of races (even if they don’t share it). More than the media stuff, I am always so much more happy when they do something on their own, like how we found out Oscar was also in one of the planes from the recreating Instagram photos video, or that photo of them playing cards, that photo of them eating together in the paddock, or “what happened in Vegas stays in Vegas” that still haunts my mind….. (hate Vegas GP though, burn it).

tldr; Oscar is good for Lando and Lando has always been good in Oscar’s eyes, and can next season come faster

tysm anon and I'm sorry to be so late replying !!

god I am the same anon - I don't personally have favorites bc his dynamic with Carlos and Daniel was so much abt him being the baby duckling (and that on track Lando struggled privately w insecurity so much his rookie season whereas his confidence was building separate from what Daniel was experiencing). but what I love about the Oscar era is the way Lando just like, blossomed into McLaren being his home and his team when Oscar made such strong gestures to acknowledge Lando that way.

like so many ppl questioned Lando's ability to be in the senior/experienced/leadership role and wondered if he'd always prefer to be a little brother for a couple more years yet (and I think Lando wondered that too).

god yea I am so happy to leave ppl who try to pit teammates against each other in their own filth. like, enjoy being full of impotent rage ig?? bc apart from a VERY few instances these teammates are always able to be professional - and if they were already friends, remain friends. not only has Andrea instilled this from the start with Lando and Oscar, neither of them literally ever has had a history of friction w teammates or w each other. we've been through Monza before their relationship had even gotten settled so we're fine lol

and anon so far I'm genuinely amazed at how much content we're getting of them, of their own volition and McLaren's sm. the McLaren media fell off so hard right when the double podiums happened so I was worried that was how it was going to stay for 2024. hopefully stays this way!

#inchreplies

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moregraceful · 10 months

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my reading of that post was something akin to [sniffles] i'd like to talk about big gay bbq ;_;

also God yeah if ppl wrote about the ahl more there wld be a lot of firebirds fic. or maybe i just see men and am like ouuuughhhh kiss ? i have Angles for like so many different pairings / polyships

- ash

What if Joey Daccord was enjoying the Big Gay BBQ with his boys after a hard fought game...what if Kole Lind looked at him with a smudge of bbq sauce on his mouth and felt insane about it....and also, what if Chris Driedger was watching this while wearing a Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses and vaguely yearning for Grubi...ouagh

[I absolutely derailed myself into a psychological assessment of Chris Driedger his 20s + musings on the AHL fic -- cut bc I had to scroll four times to get to the bottom and the people on my dash who don't care about the AHL just don't deserve that...just a note that there is ZERO salacious imagines under the cut]

Actually Chris is very interesting to me bc irl he is a 29yo who invested in crypto, but he is also a 29yo who suffered his way through his 20s not unlike the rest of us, just with more of a spotlight on him. but it's like, or at least of me it was like this, I hit 29 and I was like, well. I made it this far through my 20s and it absolutely sucked so much and I hated every minute of it and I kinda wish I was dead, but maybe a new decade will be different. I gotta make it through one last year of pushing through this shit and if I take a step back, yeah, it's gotten a little better with every passing month. Maybe my 30s are not a chance to start over so much as they are a chance to start moving forward. And I think for Chris (this is turning in a psychological assessment instead of a sexy imagine sorry) who has suffered through some catastrophic injuries, some terrible setbacks, some truly awful decision-making of his own, and just kept coming back from it and kept pushing forward -- to me Chris at 29, back in the AHL and yet again a back up, but also BACK PLAYING AT ALL which is very much its own kind of triumph, it feels very much like an interesting thing poke at in fanfiction. Like, okay Chris, you turned 29 in May in the middle of a playoff push, back early from injury when everyone thought your entire season was done an almost full calendar year prior. You're a back up again, but you're not really playing. You just watched this kid you love so much and this team who has embraced you have an inaugural season that quite frankly set the standard for any expansion team yet to come and CERTAINLY any team moving around (Wranglers. Cuda.) in the current era. Like, irl he seems very confident, very full of swagger, but also very full of humility and gratitude for how many chances he got and very determined not take anything for granted anymore. If you apply that to the experience of being a queer man at 29, gosh there are so many possibilities. Very "I am going to make it through this year if it kills me." Where do we go from here, Chris???

But also yeah he should eat bbq and send a photo of himself to his friends with his shirt unbuttoned flirting with drag queens and Philipp Grubauer should have a horny meltdown about it and spend all summer sending him thirst traps to get back at him. This does many things for Chris's ego.

also AHL fic is so interesting to me as someone who spent a couple years in bandom when fob had more or less fully taken off but a lot of pete's proteges were grinding it out on one hit wonders or collaborations with more famous artists and they were all clawing for every show and even p!atd wasn't really a sure thing yet... there are a lot of parallels to the whole "boys in buses got it so damn bad but we love it like the last cigarette we ever had" liminal space of the grind of touring and fighting for every last chance and making these friendships you THINK are insoluble but more often than not just dissolve as soon as one of you makes it or one of you breaks down and quits and goes home...the way Warped Tour was a party every year because for a lot of bands it WAS the last cigarette they ever had and they probably knew that on some level...i forgot where I was going with this. OH. the NHL can't even touch that level of "every game could be my last game"/"every show could be my last show" and the kind of desperation but also weird situational camaraderie that comes from that. Like on a pro athlete way for sure but also in that, 5, 6, 9, 12 hour bus rides every week all over the damn west coast. What do you do if you hate the guy sitting next to you. What do you do if you love the guy sitting next to you. There's no escape man. I forgot where I was going with that again but yeah basically, AHL fic is an untapped and very rich universe for people who love dirtbags, writing about people in close quarters, desperate feelings, and accept that there's a solid chance you may have to delete your fic someday when a prospect bombs out of hockey and turns into a normie. You know?? It's great stuff.

#like i am fully expecting to have to delete all the nick cicek fic at some point in the next two years tbh. if i'm lucky he goes to the shl #but that's kind of the joy of ahl and writing about the ahl tbh. the promise and the agony. [cwk voice] the joy the joy the joy and misery #i think i've actually gotten less coherent as this ask has gone on. i think this ask devolved the further i got into it #ah well. that's what the dash receives when i have to spend four hours in a clinic being diagnosed as not a werewolf.#the navelgazing on mortality in a waiting room...we move forward every decade...we grow into ourselves. we grow more comfortable #if we're lucky the impact of life softens year by year. if we're lucky we get gentler and more confident even if life stays hard #in conclusion what if chris and grubi kissed on the mouth at seafair again and then chris went down to palm desert and watched his #20yo teammates have some bananas melodrama romance and he just felt grateful that wasn't his life anymore lmao #ok NOW i'm done #cage replies #anon

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splatoon-edits · 8 months

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kinda random but i hope you have a ton of fun this upcoming splatfest!!! people online are being a lil particularly nasty about this one and i think it's super important to remember that we are all just playing a game about cephalopods painting the floor!! so yk have fun with it and if it gets stressful you can take a break no one is stopping you<33 do something and chill out then get back to painting the floor for your team when and if you feel like it

people always get kinda mean during splatfests but we're all just playing a game together. and i hope everyone has fun no matter what team ends up winning :3

sorry for the block of text i just wanna see people being silly and cheering eachother on. not sending threats cause they chose a certain fella to paint the floor about

Yeah no i totally agree!!! Splatfests are supposed to be a fun joke rivalry amongst all us fans where we get to have fun and paint things! It's like a festival!!! It's for fun!!!!!

I will never understand people who get genuinely upset about these. If you're not having fun: take a break! Too many gold aerosprays back to back? Take a break! Tired of too much turf war? Take a break? Seen the 200th missile spamming reeflux of the splatfest? Take. A. Break!!!!!! The whole point is to have a good time! If ya aren't having a good time you aren't doing it right!

I'll admit i don't have fun after a certain point of playing way too much turf back to back. So i just stop playing for a bit and have fun doing smth else and then when i want to play again i do. This blog has honestly been great for that cuz in those moments where i really like the idea of splatoon but am not actively having fun playing it i can come and work on edits!

And honestly i will never understand ppl who get genuinely mean over stuff like this. I have lost so many splatfests recently (dark chocolate, aliens, wisdom, mint chip, love) but i still look forward to splatfests every time! Winning or losing doesn't matter to me. Sure i like winning, but honestly sometimes losing is funnier. And like the memories of the splatfest and everything that happened in the community during that time is way more fun to look back on then a win. I like all the silly jokes. I like the joking rivalries. I like the hesitant alliances. I like the squid party mirror matches. I like the joking insults. I don't care about who actually wins or loses.

Idk i just rambled so much but i feel like so many people don't understand that the whole point of this is to have fun!!! Thank you so much for the nice words and i hope you have a blast as well!! :3

#mod shiver #mod speaks

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lesbian-deadpool · 2 years

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At Worlds End

Avengers

Part Five: Just, So Much Testosterone

Words: 4,831

Warnings: Arguments, the reader is just trying their best and trying to help ppl, shooting a gun, yelling, threats and challenges to fights, an explosion.

Summary: Tensions arise among the team, leading to arguments and disdain, only for it all to end in a bang.

A/N: If you didn't know already, I feel like I should just let you all know now, I do not like Steve Rogers... or Bruce. Also, I just want to clarify that I know the reader seems like a boot licker here, but they're just a part of a super-secret agency and are trying to keep it that way, while also trying to help the world and defend that. Just like Natasha. Bc, they're both agents.

Ko-Fi

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That third cup of coffee had really worked wonders on you.

Deciding it was best to leave the designated break room before it turned into a fourth, you headed to the lab that was given to Tony and Bruce to work in as to find the Tesseract.

But you weren't the only one who thought the same thing.

"-If we bypass their mainframe," was the first thing you heard come from Tony's mouth as you stepped through the doors, "And direct route to the Homer Cluster, we can clock this at around six hundred teraflops."

"You're doing what now?"

"Oh, hey, Y/N." Tony smiled, moving away from his 'Stark Industries' case, making his way towards the scientist and Loki's spear upon the worktop.

Bruce chuckled at the man, "All I packed was a toothbrush."

"You know, you should come by Stark Tower sometime. Top ten floors, all R and D. You'd love it. It's Candy Land."

"Oh, that's a lie," you stated, plopping down onto one of the wheeled seats, spinning around on it, "The real Candy Land is the giant-ass pantry. Snacks galore in that thing."

"Thanks, but the last time I was in New York, I... kind of broke... Harlem," Bruce denied the man's offer as the billionaire grew closer, playing with a metal stick in his hands.

"Well, I promise a stress-free environment."

"Speaking from experience, that does not exist around you."

Tony turned to reason with you, "That's because you've never been with me in the labs."

"I was literally there when you shot yourself into the ceiling. There's been so many times when I was in the lab with you."

"I... forgot you were there for that," he replied, pointing to you with the think metal rod, before turning back to the scientist, "But I promise, there'll be no tension, no surprises."

With the sound of an electric zap, your friend plunged the rod into the side of Banner's torso, causing him to groan out in pain.

"Did you just tase him?" you asked, "trying" to keep the laughter out of your voice.

Just as Tony leaned in close to survey the scientist's face, Steve strutted through a set of doors, disdain on his tongue.

"Hey!"

"Nothing?! Tony asked, shrugging his hands up as Bruce looked at him shocked and confused, holding his side.

"Are you nuts?"

"Jury's out."

"Yes," Tony and yourself spoke at the same time.

"You really have got a lid on it, haven't you? What's your secret?" he continued to ask the doctor who had returned back to his work, "Mellow jazz, bongo drums, huge bag of weed?"

You shrugged. "That'd work for me."

"Is everything a joke for you?" Steve regarded the man.

Pointing the stick-thin taser towards the blonde, Tony replied, "Funny things are."

"And what about you?"

You startled back slightly when Rogers turned his incredulous frustration upon you, glaring down at where you sat.

"Oh, I do think everything's a joke."

The man huffed angrily, unable to look at you for a few moments.

"You're a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, and you're fine with this." He gestured back to the genius.

"He's fine!" You motioned to Banner.

"But there's a chance that he might not have been." Steve turned back to the billionaire. "Threatening the safety of everyone on this ship isn't funny." You pointedly rolled your eyes behind the man, allowing Tony and Bruce to be the only ones able to see. If Bruce wasn't so busy with his work, that is. "No offence, doc."

"If he's 'Doc', does that make you 'Grumpy'?" you sassed, coming to stand at the end of the table, between the three.

"I-I- It's alright," Bruce stumbled over his words, "I wouldn't have come aboard if I couldn't handle pointy things."

"But that was a zappy thing." You pointed out the thing still in Tony's hands.

"You're tip-toeing, big man. You need to strut."

"Oh, now, that I agree with." You nodded at your best friend's words which were aimed at Bruce. "You're clearly hating the fact that you can turn into the green giant when it's about time you came to terms with it. It's a part of you. Get used to it. Because it's only gonna be worse for you in the long run if you keep being scared of it."

Tony gestured a hand to you, thankful for backing him up in such a way. "See-"

"You don't get it," Bruce shot at you, trying to keep his frustration at bay, clearly showing that you had hit a nerve with the man. But, it also seemed that you had a natural knack for that anyway.

"No, I think they do," Tony came to your defence, "You need some confidence."

"And you need to focus on the problem, Mr Stark," Steve snapped."Do you think I'm not?" he countered, "Why did Fury call us in? Why now? Why not before? What isn't he telling us? I can't do the equation unless I have all the variables."

"You think Fury's hiding something?"

"He's a spy," Tony reasoned, "Captain, he's the spy. His secrets have secrets. It's bugging him, too," he spoke around a mouthful of blueberries, gesturing over to Bruce while keeping eye contact with Steve, "Isn't it?"

"Uh..." Bruce, hating all of the attention, and the thought of having something that could possibly turn into a heated discussion, waved his hand, not wanting to be involved. "I- I just want to finish my work here, and-"

"Doctor?" Steve prompted.

Much to the thanks of Banner, Tony turned the attention over to you, much to your dismay.

"Y/N?"

'Shit.'

Glancing to and fro at each of the men now watching you intently, you raised your palms up in mock surrender.

"Why is everyone looking at me?"

"Well, you're the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent here," Tony reasoned, plucking a blueberry out of the silver packet in his hand and tossing it for your to catch, keeping up the friendly atmosphere as he practically interrogated you. Letting you know that he meant no malice behind it, "You were at the site that combusted in on itself. You chased after Loki, didn't you?"

"Hey, I was there because I helped pluck the thing out of the ice. They just assigned me to it out of minimal familiarity. Also, the fact that I could protect it better than most others."

What you said was true.

But it wasn't the whole truth.

Quite frankly, it scared you how easily you were able to lie to your friend with all your experience over these four years of being a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.

It wasn't that you wanted to lie to him. It was what you had to do. No matter how much you hated it.

Ironically, the exact thing that the doctor didn't want was what he brought onto himself.

All eyes turned on him when his voice suddenly filled the room.

""A warm light for all mankind". Loki's jab at Fury about The Cube."

"I heard it," Steve nodded.

"We all did. Well... not Tony."

"Well, I think that was meant for you." Banner pointed to the man you just spoke of, who jutted out his back of fruit, offering the man some. "Even if Barton didn't tell Loki about the tower, it was still all over the news."

"The Stark Tower?" Steve asked for clarification, "That big, ugly-" Tony regarded him, as only someone could when another insulted them right in front of their face. "-Building in New York?"

"It's powered by an Arc Reactor," Bruce explained, as the men starred each other down, "A self-sustaining energy source. That building will run itself for, what, a year?"

"It's just a prototype," Tony informed, "I'm kind of the only name in clean energy right now. That's what he's getting at."

"So... why didn't S.H.I.E.L.D. bring him in on the Tesseract Project? What are they doing in the energy business in the first place?"

Three pairs of eyes turned to you, once more, silently picking you for answers.

You shrugged your shoulders the best you could with your arms crossed over your chest.

"Don't look at me. I just work here. I don't make decisions about-" You waved your hand over to what Bruce was working on, vaguely referencing the Tesseract, "This stuff. The most I do is lead my own missions sometimes."

"Are you really telling me that you know nothing about the thing you've been working around," Steve asked incredulously.

"I'm the muscle, Rogers. I don't make the decisions on what the organisation does. I don't know things because I'm not authorised to know."

"So they never talked about it around you?" Tony questioned next.

"Probably, but you know me, I don't understand that shit. The scientists there used about five different big words that were, like, nine paragraphs long, just to say they're going out for lunch. There was no chance that I would be able to understand what they were doing with The Cube."

Once again. Not a lie.

However, you did know what their aim was with the Tesseract.

'To create energy weapons to combat extraterrestrial threats.'

"Y'know what? Don't worry about it." Tony waved his hands. "I'm looking into it, once my decryption program finishes breaking into all of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Secure Files, that is."

Your brows ticked up slightly at that. But Steve was the one to speak up first.

"I'm sorry. Did you say you-"

"Jarvis has been running it since I hit the bridge."

'Oh, so that's what he planted at Fury's consoles.'

"Can't say I'm surprised," you spoke humouredly, striding to stand beside your best friend.

"You're okay with this?" Steve shot.

A shrug from you. "There's no stopping him. And it's not like he hasn't done it before anyway."

And then it dawned on you. He was going to find out what you had been a part of.

Shit.

"In a few hours, I'll know every dirty secret S.H.I.E.L.D. has ever tried to hide. Blueberry?" he offered the blonde.

"Viewing party?" you joked, snagging some of the fruit for yourself, only further ticking Steve off with your words.

"Back on the jet, you said you didn't like people knowing things that they weren't authorised to."

"That was about things that didn't involve them," you squared up to the man. Shoulders stiffening, line of sight equal to his own, "Entitled people knowing what they have no business being a part of. But it seems, to me, that things are being kept from the people tasked to find the Tesseract when it could be vital information. Now, I don't like Tony looking into things that don't involve him, like past missions that have nothing to do with this, but trust me, when Tony has his mind set on something. He's gonna do it."

"You could arrest him," Steve pointed out.

"And where would that get us? There's a fight coming, and we all know it. You really wanna take one of the best players out of the game for finding out more information that's needed?"

A harsh breath poured from the blonde's parted lips, turning back to Tony, "Yet you're confused about why they didn't want you around?"

"An intelligence organisation that fears intelligence? Historically, not awesome."

"Oh, we don't fear it," you gave your input, "We just don't want it spread willy-nilly... well... Fury doesn't. Trust issues. But, y'know, we don't want it to accidentally get into the wrong hands."

"I think Loki's trying to wind us up," Steve spoke his own theories, "This is a man who means to start a war, and if we don't stay focused, he'll succeed."

"Well, no fucking shit, I think we all got that considering, well, everything."

"We have orders. We should follow them."

"Following's not really my style," Tony remarked, finishing his sentence by throwing a few more blueberries into his mouth.

Rogers pulled back slightly, judgement in his eyes for the man that wasn't like him, "And you're all about style, aren't you?"

Tony cocked his head to the side at that.

"Of the people in this room, which on is, 'A', wearing a spangly outfit." He pointed at Steve. "And, 'B', not of use?"

"Steve?" Bruce called over to the man softly, "Tell me none of this smells a little funky to you."

"Just find The Cube," the blonde replied with attitude, exiting the room swiftly.

"Guys been out of commission for seventy years, and he still acts like he's the one giving orders."

If only you knew how truly nosey Steve Rogers was.

---

"As soon as Loki took the doctor, we moved Jane Foster-"

"You idol's a real ball-buster, you know that?" you asked, striding up to Coulson, slapping your palms in a pattern upon his shoulders, not long after exiting the lab, "And I don't mean that in a good way."

The agent chuckled lightly at your interruption, a far-away look overtaking his face. "That's why he's Captain America."

"That's why he's a pain in my ass."

As though your words had snapped him out of his daze, Coulson shook his head with a clear of his throat, turning back to the patiently waiting Thor.

"-They've got an excellent observatory in Tromso. She was asked to consult there very suddenly yesterday. Handsome fee, private plane, very remote. She'll be safe."

"Thank you."

"You've really got to speak to her after this, Thor," you told him, shaking your head in remembrance, "With what Eric's said, it's the last she deserves."

Thor looked awkward for a while, then moved on, changing the conversation from his complex love life.

"It's no accident, Loki taking Eric Selvig. I dread what he plans for him once he's done. Eric is a good man."

"He talks about you a lot," Phil informed.

"Pretty sure he's your number one fan."

"You changed his life," the agent continued after your truthful joke, leading the way from the computer with Jane's picture on the screen, "You changed everything around here."

"They were better as they were."

"That's really depending on who you ask."

"We pretend on Asgard that we're more advanced, but we come here, battling like Bilge Snipe."

Your face contorted in confusion, Phil asking the question for you.

"Like what?"

"Bilge Snipe," Thor repeated like it was a creature as common as a dog or cat, "You know, huge, scaly, big antlers," he prompted, miming along with his words, "You don't have those?"

"I don't think so," Phil denied, with slight humour in his voice.

"They sound disgusting, and now I must see one."

"They truly are repulsive, my friend," Thor told you, patting your arm with the back of his palm, striding away from you towards the tall windows at the front of the bridge, "They trample everything in their path."

"Sounds like my dad when mom makes waffles for breakfast."

Thor peered out of the windows, troubled by the situation. So much so that he didn't ask you what waffles were.

"When I first came to Earth, Loki's rage followed me here, and your people paid the price. And now, again. In my youth, I courted war."

"War hasn't started yet," Fury said, joining the conversation from his place on the short, metal staircase beside the blonde, "You think you could make Loki tell us where the Tesseract is?"

"I do not know. Loki's mind is far afield. It's not just power he craves. It's vengeance... upon me," Thor explained, "There's no pain would prise his need from him."

"That's one hell of a way of sayin' "no"."

"A lot of guys think that." The Director began making his way down the stairs, stopping around halfway. "Until the pain starts."

"What are you asking me to do?" Thor questioned the man now leaning towards him against the metal railing.

"I'm asking, what are you prepared to do."

"Loki is a prisoner."

"Then why do I feel like he's the only person on this boat that wants to be here?"

With a snap of your fingers, you pointed to the Director.

"That's exactly what I've been thinking. Do you think he's trying to do an old switch-a-roo on us, to get info without us knowing, or?"

"That's exactly what we intend on finding out."

---

Your shoulders jutted in surprise by the sudden crackling of the comms in your ear, Natasha's voice pouring through.

"Loki means to unleash the Hulk. Keep Banner in the lab. I'm on my way. Send Thor as well."

With a deep sigh, you lowered your head, gearing yourself up for the work that was ahead of you.

You knew it was too good to be true for Loki to come so easily.

"-What is "Phase 2"?"

Oh, boy.

You came at the perfect time.

A loud clatter of metal against metal sounded throughout the gleaming lab, alerting you to Steve Rogers placing down one of the old HYDRA weapons from storage.

"Phase 2 is S.H.I.E.L.D. uses The Cube to mane weapons. Sorry, computer was moving a little slow for me."

"So, you're a hypocrite and decided to go through government property yourself after that whole schpiel you made?" you remarked.

"Rogers, we gathered everything related to the Tesseract," Fury walked closer to the man to explain the thing from his past, "This does not mean that we're making-"

"I'm sorry, Nick," Tony interrupted, calling over to the Director, spinning the screen around to face him, showing the blueprints for one of the weapons, "What were you lying?"

"I was wrong, Director," Steve stated, "The world hasn't changed a bit."

"Must make you feel more at home then, huh?"

"Did you know about this?" Bruce inquired the red-head as she followed in behind Thor.

"Did you?" Tony prompted next, staring deep into your eyes.

With your half-hearted shrug, soft shake of your head, and apology in your eyes. A flash of betrayal flew across his. And you knew, it was more so the fact that you had kept it from him, more than anything else, that pained him.

"You want to think about removing yourself from this environment, doctor?"

"I was in Calcutta," he replied to the woman, in a chuckle, "I was pretty well removed."

"Well, situations change. Roll with the punches, Banner."

"Loki is manipulating you," Natasha stepped forward to explain, just like her boss did not long before.

"And you've been doing what, exactly?"

"You didn't come here because I bat my eyelashes at you."

"Yes, and I'm not leaving because suddenly you get a little twitchy."

"It's not about her getting 'a little "twitchy"'," you butt in, using air quotes, gaining a glare from the scientist, "It's the fact that we know Loki's ploy, and you being out here is putting the whole aircraft in danger."

"Yeah, well, I'd like to know why S.H.I.E.L.D. is using the Tesseract to build weapons of mass destruction, so I guess none of us get what we want."

"Because of him," Fury spoke, pointing a lone finger towards Thor.

Glancing side to side, Thor asked, confused, "Me?"

"Not you personally, big guy."

"Almost four years ago, Earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge match that levelled a small town," Fury explained to the members of the group, who didn't understand his reasons, "We learned that not only are we not alone. But we were hopelessly. Hilariously. Outgunned."

"My people want nothing but peace with your planet."

"But you're not the only people out there, are you?" Turning to Thor, Fury continued, "And you're not the only threat. The world's filling up with people who can't be matched. That can't be controlled."

"Like you controlled The Cube?" Steve referred.

Thor spoke up then, moving closer to the gathered group in the lab, "Your work with the Tesseract is what drew Loki to it and his allies. It is a signal to all the realms that the Earth is ready for a higher form of war."

"Thor, you came here on accident," you voiced now, "What if you were anyone else? What if you were your brother? What if you had more powers than the world combined? We would have been up shit creek without a canoe, never mind a paddle. This is a just in case. Insurance."

"Wait," Steve said, looking straight at Thor, "A higher form of war?"

Jutting your thumb out to the bigger blonde, you said, "He's basically an alien, Rogers."

"You forced our hand. We had to come up with something."

"A nuclear deterrent. Because that always calms everything right down," Tony countered the Director.

"Remind me again how you made your fortune, Stark."

"It's not to start a war, Tony."

The man looked at you almost as if you were a stranger. "And all this coming from the person who used to hate the fact that I made weapons."

"I used to hate the fact that you profited off of war. This isn't for money."

"I'm sure if he still made weapons, Stark would be neck-deep-"

"Wait- Wait. Hold on." Tony raised his hand to the Captain. "How is this not about me?"

"I'm sorry, isn't everything."

"Chose your moments, Rogers," you warned the man.

"I thought humans were more evolved than this."

"Excuse me, did we come to your planet and blow stuff up?"

"You treat your champions with such mistrust."

"God, it's like Thanksgiving," you whispered to yourself.

"They're not my champions."

"Are you boys really that naive? S.H.I.E.L.D. monitors potential threats," the red-head by your side criticised the bickering men.

Turning to her, you muttered, "God, they're like children." Gaining a nod from her in return. Banner soon jumped at the chance to start an argument with her.

"Captain America's on threat watch?"

Sighing, you reached for the gun in your holster, about to do something incredibly unauthorised that would get you into mountains of trouble later on.

"We all are."

Checking that it's loaded.

"Wait, you're on that list?"

The safety was off.

"Are you above or below angry bees?"

'Above angry lionesses, Tony.'

A round in the chamber.

"Stark, so help me God, if you make one more wisecrack-"

Arm raising high.

"Threat! Verbal threat. I feel threatened."

Gun, facing the ceiling.

"Show some respect."

No wires or important instruments overhead.

"Respect what?"

Bang!

Maybe doing that in a room filled with highly trained individuals was a bad idea, considering as soon as you pulled the trigger, all eyes were on you, and hands were on weapons, ready to fight.

But, too late to take it back now.

Not that you would.

"Everyone shut the fuck up!"

You flinched when dust fell down on you, looking up only to find it, obviously, coming from the hole you had just made in the ceiling.

"Yeah... that's coming out of my paycheck."

Thor gestured to you as if to prove a point he was about to make, "You speak of control, yet you court chaos."

"Put your gun back," Natash hissed at you once she was close enough, pushing your arm down to your side herself.

You deposited the weapon easily, the discharge of it doing nothing to stop the angered words flying around the room.

"That's his M.O., isn't it?" Bruce asked, staring right at Fury, "I mean, what are we, a team? No, no, no, we're a chemical mixture that makes chaos. We're- We're a timebomb."

"Think you're projecting there, Banner." A slap to your arm caused you to incredulously mouth over the word 'ow' to a glaring Natasha.

"You need to step away," Fury tried to reason with the scientist, stepping closer to the man.

"Why shouldn't the guy let off a little steam?" Tony questioned, placing a hand on Steve's shoulder, which was soon smacked off.

Your words fell on deaf ears, as your friend was too busy arguing with the blonde to hear them.

"Because this isn't a controlled environment, Tony. People could get hurt."

"You know damn well why. Back off!"

"Oh, I'm starting to want you to make me."

"'Ey, Tone," you called over, "Quit it with the flirting. You got a girlfriend."

"Yeah. Big man in a suit of armour," Steve challenged, circling the man as if they were in a boxing ring, "Take that off, what are you?"

"Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist," he listed. Gaining a tick of the head from Natasha, and a nod with pressed lips from you, in agreement.

"I know guys with none of that worth ten of you... I've seen the footage. The only thing you really fight for is yourself."

Natasha peered at you at the audible way your breathing changed. Only to see your body tense and fire behind your eyes, directed at the one and only Captain America.

"You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you."

"I think I would just cut the wire."

"Always a way out," Steve commented after glancing around the room, "Y'know, you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero."

"I'm gonna beat the shit outta him," you growled low in your chest, the woman by your side the only one able to hear it.

Not that she could stop you if she tried, with strength alone, Natasha's hand quickly flew up to hold your wrist, stopping your advancement onto the man.

You didn't even look away from the Captain until a squeeze pulled you away. Your eyes glanced from the hand wrapped around your wrist to her green eyes, silently telling you to relax.

Releasing your tight fist was half of the battle, the rest following soon after. Shoulders dropping, breath you didn't know you were holding pouring for you, some of the anger washing away.

Ignoring the hostile conversation between the man came to a sudden end at Steves's challenge.

"Put the suit on. Let's go a few rounds."

Taking a step forward, you sneered at the blonde, "As much as I would love to see Tony kick your ass. Now is really not the time, Rogers."

Thor laughing made you all turn to face him in confusion, "You people are so petty... and tiny."

"Yeah, this is a time," Banner remarked sarcastically.

"Agent Romanoff, would you escort Dr Banner back to his-"

"Where?" He interrupted the Director, "You rented my room."

"The cell was just in case-"

"In case you needed to kill me. But you can't. I know, I tried." A sudden pitty filled you for the man you could hardly stand. "I god low. I didn't see an end. So, I put a bullet in my mouth, and the other guy spit it out. So, I moved on. I focused on helping other people. I was good. Until you dragged me back into this freak show and put everyone here at risk."

"And we would like there to be less of a threat. So, if you would please exit the lab," you tried again through gritted teeth.

The man scoffed, shaking his head at you, "I'd rather not, thanks. You wanna know my secret, Agent Romanoff? You wanna know how I stay calm?"

Your eyes zeroed in on the thing within the man's clenched fist, your own hand moving to rest upon your weapon once again. Training took over, along with Natasha and Fury, who did the same.

"Dr Banner," Steve spoke up, gaining the man's attention, "Put down the sceptre."

The scientist was shocked to find the sharp thing within his hand, gingerly placing it back onto the worktop behind him, just as the case Tony brought began to beep.

"Got it."

"Sorry, kids, you don't get to see my party trick, after all."

"You located the Tesseract?" Thor inquired as Bruce moved over to read the information on the screen.

"I could get there fastest," Tony offered his help quickly.

"The Tesseract belongs on Asgard," the blonde God stated loudly, "No human is a match for it."

"Uh, rude."

"You're not going alone!" Steve yelled, gripping Tony's arm as if to stop him from exiting the lab, the brunette quickly disarming his hand from him.

"You're gonna stop me?"

"Put on the suit. Let's find out."

"Not the time, Rogers!" you yelled, "I took you out of the ice, don't make me put you back in there!"

"I'm not afraid to hit an old man."

"Tony," your voice came out as a whine now.

"Put on the suit."

"I swear to God, if I have to stop you two from having your petty little fight when this important stuff is going on, you're going to regret it, till your final fucking days."

"Oh, my God."

"Oh, what now?" you turned to Banner, arms flopped down by your sides, exhaustion clear on your face, "Where is it?"

The man had no time to answer, as in the next second, the room erupted with an explosion underfoot, sending you flying into the lab's floor.

---

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mchiti · 11 months

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It's really bothering me that so many Morocco fans on twitter are cancelling Ziyech already and disrespecting him so much (which is a lot given what he has done for the national team) and these same fans are ones that support and hype Hak*mi lol. Make it make sense. I'm honestly shocked at how quickly these people have turned on him and I don't understand it.

hi anon 🫂🫂 Thank you for writing to me so I can also moan about it too.

But I think there is quite a discrepancy between social media (football twitter especially) and the outside world. football fanbase on twitter has always been the home of some of the worst, try-hard and ego driven men, and I talk about men in particular because there's some toxic masculinity in there. Some moroccan fans on there love to jump ships to help their insecurities, because that's what happens when you're not used to win anything - they can talk about him being replaced by younger, fastest, allegedly better players (spoiler: they are not) who, born into diaspora, won't even probably choose Morocco in the end (which is not me trying to shame them as they are free to do whatever they want to, it's what it is tho and when you come from a diaspora country you have to accept it). These are fans that want to feel powerful and act like it.

Outside of twitter there's a world full of moroccan people who love Hakim Ziyech to death tho. Actually I'll tell you something sweet: I was reading on a moroccan outlet the other day that his shirt is the second most sold shirt ever in Morocco, only after Mustapha Hadji who's been an icon and played in the NT in the 90s. It'll probably get to be the most sold shirt ever. He's the third top scorer ever now. And we all know the reality, and reality is he was the first out of a new generation of stars who chose Morocco when were at the bottom of the rankings. People remember that every day, don't worry, he's always on moroccan media, he's loved by everyone and those losers on twitter can stay losers. It's just that non-moroccans have sadly access to their opinion instead of like, the rest of moroccan ppl you know?

#asks

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deductions-and-magic · 1 year

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Something about Eliot Spencer

Just found out that Leverage Redemption season 2 is out and it's drawn me right back into my leverage obsession—Eliot Spencer is back!!!! Ahhhhhhh!!!!

tbh when I first started watching I really didn't expect to like him much, let alone love him as much as I do. He might've even been the one that I liked least out of the five, after watching the first episode

cuz he was the brawn and I've always loved brains. he was brash, he was angry, he wanted to solve everything with his fists.

yeah his fight scenes were cool, but I was never the type to watch action movies just for the action. The others seemed smarter, cooler; Eliot was just... well, the hitter

But that’s exactly what he wants you to see

he wants people to underestimate him, to ignore him, to forget about him until he has a chance to seize everyone up and take them all out before they can even react. And so he does a good job of .. playing dumb i guess [excellent example of grifter skills]

but of course he is smart. You would have to be in order to plan and take care of every contingency, so no one gets hurt. You would have to be in order to win so many fights against so many people (and make it seem so easy). He is always at a disadvantage (“I don’t like guns”), yet he (almost?) always has the upper hand. As he has demonstrated again and again, he can be calculating, especially when he fights. [Summary: Amazing Tactician] He is brilliant, and he doesn’t even realize—he thinks what he does is normal/simple (“It’s a very distinctive...”). To be able to know and actually utilize that information... thats sherlock holmes. [Inductive Reasoning] He knows he’s not dumb, but I don’t think he knows how smart he is, either

and have I mentioned how much I love it when he lets his intelligence shine through? Like when he offers a solution no one on the team thought of (brain scan, Snow Job) Like when he learns to play professional level baseball super fast (getting good at a sport is really hard, ppl) When he is the first to assess a situation and react appropriately, whether it be a possible threat or the emotional states of his teammates [EQ]

and he is kind. he loves kids (cannot miss those interactions). he wants to do good even though he thinks he is bad. This has become a list of eliot’s amazing traits don’t get me started about the cooking (y’all can imagine how much i loved ep3) so maybe i should stop

I know I probably forgot so much… I should do a rewatch while i agonizingly wait for new episodes. I also know people have done absolutely amazing analyses of Eliot. this is just... a brief declaration of love?

#eliot spencer #the leverage team #leverage #leverage: redemption #leverage: redemption s2 #can't wait for the next episode #I just fell so hard for this character #or maybe i'm just a sucker for a good man who thinks he's past redemption #late night rant #might edit later

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aurik6 · 1 year

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Bro... why Dance Moms is so traumatizing?

Like, I watched this show when I was 8 (I honestly felt so much the same as the kids because my mom also used to argue like a lot woth my music teacher) but I thought "It's only a show", so most of the things weren't the truth of the highest instance.

But bro, kids' emotions were real... Like when I see when theses 10 yo girls crying – my heart is aching and I also kinda remember my own experience with a toxic teacher, but I wasn't participating some kind of crazy show with crazy producers! I didn't sign contracts, y know?

Those shows are insane and I feel fucking bad for the girls, tho now they're grown up people, some of them are kinda my peers, but still it is a pain to see all those horrible things which were done to them.

My fav has always been Chloe, Idk I really enjoyed her lyrical solos and her as a performer but there were so many times when she was hated by Abbey for.. nothing? Like you see it's a talented beautiful girl and she's treated like that? (I also experienced this shit as my flute teacher had "favourites" so she just didn't want me to participate, she didn't want me to u know play the music? Develop my abilities? Like hell no, she'd start a conflict via my parents just to make me quit because she had already chosen her favs there was no place for me lol)

Also, Nia. I hated how she has always been kinda neglected, she was rarely given solos, even tho she was a great team player and knew what is teamwork in group dances, seems like she wasn't praised for that because probably 'everyone else also do group routine' but lol to be a great team player – is a huge advantage of this girl and those strenghts weren't highlighted, seems like everyone noticed the flaws only.

like wtf everyone has different skills and abilities and the teacher's responsibility is to help students to strengthen their beneficial sides and at the same time to boost the demerits in order to make a young person become closer to a professional, just fucking teach aaaaauauahh((( not humiliate some of your students and make favourites of others like damn they should realize themselves if they really want to compete, not you making them fighting!!!!

I loved Maddie's performances because she really had the technique, attitude, confidence, but there was too much pressure for a little girl to endure like omfl... I just can't stand this shit when literally everyone is traumatized and manipulated. Little kids. Fuck

These shows are the worst thing because they mix professional life and personal life. Real emotions and staged scripts. Real goals and commodifyed pain.

((((

Like yeah, ppl love seeing drama but it's fine unless you're involved! I feel like I said nothing and everything at the same time, but the only thing I have no doubts about is that little children should never been treated like they were and I have only my compassion and faith words to... express my feelings toward it?

#kirua9 #my shit #rant #dance moms

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a1li-ens · 1 year

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hello if ur still. willnignto talkab slow damage i would lvoeee to knoe ur thoughts on the other love interests and also towa himself as a character ! :3

IM ALWAYS DOWN TO TALK ABOUT IT YIPPEE!! ⭐

adding a cut to this i have a lot of thoughts lol (💖・ω・) (includes spoilers)

👨‍⚕️taku: OK HE IS MIXED FOR ME i like him in routes other than his own LOL i think hes rly fun as like a semi normal acting guy in weirdo town. Its cute he cares a lot about the ppl at the clinic and i like the scenes where he hangs out and eats with towa and rei so much its cute they are a silly family 😭

i think hes really fun as a nice dad or at least big bro in towas life but that is why i dont like his route romantically its WEIRD THAT WAY LOL... bro u have known towa way too long for this.. please fall for some other dilf or something!! his bad end was too much for me and i have a strong stomach !!! (less so the bugs and more the meth slave thing .. get a better hobby sir!!)

but otherwise i like him! him doing meth warcrimes besides the bug related ones are interesting and the whole mansion part of his route was rly cool and fun to read!! also hes just funny i love that hes always responding to things like -_-????

i like the breaking bad pictures.

🍰Rei: I LOVE REI SO MUCH so cute 😭 his was my second fav route in general! hes so sweet and its so cute how much hes always thinking about everyone 😭 i also love how he has so many hobbies he has!! I didnt quite like his route as much from a plot/worldbuilding perspective as much as some of the others+the moneymatch stuff in general was kinda not as interesting just because i think its like. nothing super new or exciting i guess! but im a character writing person so that doesn't bother me lol!

I rly love his self love / acceptance journey.. i am emotional.. even if I visually hate his stupid tiny haircut!! i hope he can lean back into some of his not traditionally manly side after he is comfortable with gender stuff 🥺

I think as a romance route his was rly nice!!! it was cute and sweet and its sweet the ways they support eachother 🥺💖 towa feels very like affectionate in a cat way towards him its cute! I like them as bffs maybe more they are just too cute that way 😭 i want to b reis friend as well

his bad end is GOOD !! towa looks COOL i like the corset ribbons.. i want to see a full body CG what else has he done!! wasnt expecting rei to be the eye pussy one but ill take it .

🐈Madarame: OK.. first half of his route i rly hated him SORRY TO FANS but thinking back on it and playing more i dont hate him now LOL I feel like even after playing i don't know enough about him as i'd like! i want to know what this bitch does in his spare time other than towa lol ?? its cute that he likes cats and i liked him and the boys all eating pizza!! the towa infiltrating in the cute suit part was rly fun too! i wanted to see him talk to mayu and kotarou and stuff more he doesn't talk heaps in general tho hfjhfh

regarding them as boyfriends i am a sappy romance person so their type of affection isn't my normal preference but it suits them! I think that why it was kind of hard to get through the start besides me never rly liking the ⭐problematic guy⭐ route in VNs LOL! but im glad in both endings they are so happy but was a nice surprise! yeah boys u have fun!!

🐇 fujieda : FUJI... I WROTE A LOT IN THE LAST ASK trying to think of new info i didnt write there. I love that he is actually kind of an airhead LOL i feel like he would be rly worried when towa said he caught ligma...... him before he teams up with towa is funny too like how often is he hiding in that concrete pipe???? is he comfy?? i love him.

theres prob more i haven't said about him but ill leave it at his lovingly drawn bazongas for now.

🎨towa: I LOVE TOWA.... LIKE OK... my skrunkly.. initial impressions i love every manslut character by default and he is very nice to look at. his personality is so fun omg what a bitch!!! i love that for him.i am biased because its also my dayjob but him being a medical receptionist is so funny LMFAO he seems terrible at it go king give us nothing !! obviously his hobbies make him rly fun to read about, i rly like his art hes good at it!!

plot and everything else wise UOUGHhhhh he makes me emotional. i am having trouble articulating about him because of this KJHBJHB no matter the routes i love watching him open up his feelings a bit 😭 the way he actually cares about people close to him even though hes been trying to convince himself he doesn't need other ppl gets to me 😭 his vulnerable moments make me emo... him wanting to see fujis scars in the shower especially got to me 🥺😭

his backstory stuff is rly well done too i think his mental health is rly well done in general 😭 but its kinda refreshing its not all magically better either afterwards boys got a lot to work through!!! but i am so glad he can smile in fujis route.. .uuuuu😭😭😭

I rly like how hes upfront and shameless about being gay and a weirdo yeah king own it!!! him being snarky and cheeky all the time is cute too!! i have more to say but i need to work out how to write it. he is important 2 me💖

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quick thoughts on non datable character stuff:

Ikuina - I LOVE HIM SOOO MUCH i like guys who are so horny they become useless. his euphoria scene is really great LOL i know they dont but it would be fun if he and towa could be friends afterwards. can someone hack the game give him a route .

asakura- HIS TASTES ASIDE i think he was actually really interesting and cool to read about!!!! the angel thing was dope.. towa getting the wings.. so COOL

the guy in reis chap 2 mizuno was it??? was that his brothers name??? anyway i wasnt that interested in him LOL not much to say here

Mayu - SLAY HIS ENDING IS SOOO FUNNY.. stan a guy with like 3-4 clear nendoroids i like him

kotarou- ending should have been in a cleaner bathroom !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eiji- I LOVE EIJI HE IS SOOOO CUTE AND FUN

SORRY TO WRITE AN ESSAY THERE IS SO MUCH I DONT THINK IVE EVEN ADDRESSED HERE LMFAO GAME TOO GOOD!!

#long post #slow damage spoilers #slow damage #allien asks

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