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peupeugunn · 1 year

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okay but imagine if shadowhunters had had filler episodes. just them doing dumb nonsense that didn't have any effect on the plot. bonding.

clary learns about the nephilim education system and she doesn't know whether to be horrified or amazed cause on the one hand they're giving knives to four year olds, on the other hand, izzy is a fully certified forensic pathologist at 19.

simon spends an entire episode dragging raphael around new york tryna find him a replacement jacket because even though the kidnapping situation was very fucked up he feels really bad!!! the episode ends with them picking out a really amazing jacket and then raphael having to pay for it because with all the supernatural crap happening, simon honestly forgot that he's a broke college student.

jace and alec episode with them on their day off just chilling (izzy and clary following them because clary Does Not Understand Parabatai and izzy thinks this will help. somehow.) they go to the library and spend some time curled up together reading. they get coffee and go to the park. jace screams at some ducks while alec provides moral support. they go for a movie. they walk around the city holding hands. they go back to the institute to spar a little and then head off to bed. clary through the episode keeps asking "are they dating? are they not? seems like they are?" but izzy keeps denying the dating allegations. clary then finds someone in the institute that can actually explain parabatai with actual words and she barges into izzy's room in the middle of the night screaming "YOU COULD HAVE JUST TOLD ME THEY'RE SOULMATES ISABELLE!"

there's an episode that is literally just. magnus' cats. nothing else. magnus provides narration like this is a nature documentary.

malec's second date, where they just sit on the couch and watch tv and trashtalk the characters. the entire episode is edited to look exactly like a youtuber-reviewing-a-tv-show thing. the first time time an action scene comes up, alec gets so mad at how unrealistic it is and magnus gives him a detailed explanation of how and why movie fighting is so different from real life fighting and why they're choreographed that way. the episode is an hour and a half because magnus and alec keep getting sidetracked and start talking about random stuff. it ends with them falling asleep together on the couch.

a magnus & catarina & ragnor episode with them just hanging out. cat and ragnor keep making fun of magnus for being so in love but he keeps agreeing with them with a lovestruck expression and that takes the fun out of it. the episode is a clipshow style thing except it's not clips of stuff we've already seen, it's their adventures (including, obviously, peru.)

a jimon episode where simon sits jace down and explains in detail the entire plot of star wars. all the star wars. jace asks so many questions and they get so sidetracked at times but simon powers through. at the end, jace reveals that he actually has watched star wars and he knew everything simon was saying but let him go on and on for hours because he wanted to see whether simon would figure it out and also cause jace likes spending time with him.

a clizzy episode where izzy jokingly asks clary to paint her and clary gets so excited!!!! so izzy goes along with it. clary keeps talking like she's doing a tutorial on painting except izzy can't see what she's doing. through the episode, izzy keeps doing more and more ridiculous poses and clary paints and sketches them and somehow they turn out actually good?

i have more ideas but like. idk about you guys but i'd have watched the hell out of this stuff.

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saintsenara · 1 day

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I really want to hear your thoughts on the wizarding world. So I have a question about British wizards' language skills. Canon tells us very little about British wizards and their relationship to languages. We know that Fleur, Victor and Madame Maxime can speak more than one language. (They are not British). However, we do know that there is at least one British wizard who speaks several languages. Percy and Ludo say that Barty senior speaks over a hundred languages. So, do you think British wizarding society has a general opinion about learning languages or is it more about what class a wizard is born into or what their future career plans are? After all, Hogwarts doesn't teach languages to students. I'd also like to hear your thoughts on these characters and their language skills. Do you think they can speak more than one language? Voldemort (parseltongue doesn't count), Dumbledore, Barty jr and Bill Weasley.

thank you very much for the ask, anon! and what an interesting question!

in harry potter, language-learning is one of those things which - since it's not a key aspect of the story - ends up not having any specific worldbuilding. and so it's one of those parts of the books in which the wizarding attitude towards foreign languages just seems to be exactly the same as the real-world british one.

which is - like everything in britain - enormously rooted in social class, and in things [like race and ethnicity] which intersect with this.

you will often hear, for example, that the working-classes don't bother learning foreign languages - but what is meant by this is that working-class people don't choose in large numbers to become proficient in the specific western european languages [french, german, italian, and spanish] which signify that someone is well-educated, culturally-sophisticated, and mentally non-parochial to the british cultural and intellectual elite. working-class people may very well speak one of these four languages - especially african and caribbean dialects of french - as native or heritage language, and they may very well speak urdu, yoruba, albanian, polish, turkish, and so on for the same reasons... it's just that this isn't recognised as something impressive.

but it is certainly true that language-learning for reasons other than heritage generally isn't considered to be particularly important in class-brackets below a certain threshold in the middle-middle- to upper middle-classes.

partially this is for boorish, parochial reasons which align with certain strains of political and social conservatism. uncle vernon, for example, would regard language-learning as woke nonsense and be horrified if dudley came home from school and asked to be given loads of italian novels for his birthday... he would have a similar reaction if his son announced his intention to start playing the violin, take ballet, write poetry, become interested in impressionist painting, or eat the local food while on holiday.

[the grangers, in contrast, appear to come from the europhile wing of the upper-middle-classes - and would, therefore, regard it as horribly parochial to only speak english. we know they go on holiday to france in prisoner of azkaban - and i think we can imagine that this isn't the first time they do so, and that hermione and her parents can all speak conversational french. indeed, if hermione was privately educated prior to starting hogwarts - and all signs point to yes - she would have studied french at prep school.]

but british monolingualism is also partially because the global hegemony of english means that being able to speak anything else isn't crucial for travel, employment, or - indeed - emigration, since brits who aspire to move abroad often want to go to places like australia and new zealand.

and so language-learning has become - like music - an academic subject which seems to be thought of by many brits as "not a key skill" - unlike, for example, something like maths. nice to have if you've got a grip on everything else, but not a necessity... and so, for british children who are educated in state schools [public schools in the us], foreign languages are only compulsory for three school years [years 7-9, the equivalents of years 1-3 at hogwarts]. some schools insist on a language being taken at gcse [exams taken at the end of year 11 - hogwarts year 5, what owls are a pastiche of], but this is not mandatory.

[although it was at my school. slay.]

so it makes sense within this cultural context that there are no languages on the compulsory hogwarts curriculum - the intended audience isn't expecting there to be.

[although it's worth saying that ancient runes - while i know it has a whole fanon surrounding it which makes it a sort of spellcasting system - is a pastiche of latin/classical greek as school subjects, so there is at least one elective language students can study].

of course, it makes less sense that this is the case when we remember that jkr did french at university... and it also makes less sense that this is the case because hogwarts is based on real-world institutions - britain's elite boarding schools - which do prioritise language-learning, since the students come from class-backgrounds which value multilingualism as a signal of cultural status.

[seriously - while i accept that this is anecdotal - it was so striking to me when i was at university that all but three of the thirty-or-so people i ever met doing a degree in a foreign language, whether a european language or not, was privately educated. add in classical languages and that ratio gets worse.]

but i think we can get around this by noting that hogwarts is set up in a way which presumes that its entire student body has had a wizarding primary education - and not only that, but an elite one [since hogwarts does, even if this isn't the doylist text's intention, seem to apply some sort of selection process which means that students who aren't from well-heeled backgrounds stand out enormously]. and then by presuming that the primary curriculum which someone like draco malfoy would have studied [at home, probably with a governess] would have included some sort of language tuition.

i imagine that this tuition would be in a muggle language - non-human languages [like mermish or gobbledegook] seem to be regarded as sufficiently "niche" in the eyes of the population that they wouldn't be taught as a general skill, but either learned in one's own time or as part of the training for specific careers, such as goblin liaison; the fact that barty crouch sr. speaks so many just for fun is a way canon hints at him being a bit... weird - and i imagine that this muggle language would be french.

this is not, however, because i go in for the fanon that all purebloods are of recent french heritage and retain close family connections in france [names like malfoy and lestrange are anglo-norman - which means they arrived in britain a thousand years ago with william the conqueror, and are as meaningfully english as the word "beef" or "monarchy...], but because french is generally considered the most "useful" language to learn in britain because france is literally next door.

[irish is sobbing.]

when it comes to the characters you specifically asked about...

lord voldemort's pre-hogwarts education is a bit of a mystery - in that the fact that the text isn't concerned about fleshing it out means that he ends up being far better educated than would normally have been the case for a child of his background [simply by virtue of not being functionally illiterate...].

even if he went to a moderately well-resourced school by random chance, though, he's extremely unlikely to have formally learned any foreign languages. but the fact that the most common fanon locations for the orphanage are parts of east london which had historically large jewish communities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries means that he'd have had a fair chance of picking up snippets of yiddish while he was wheeling and dealing around each day. east london also had a large irish community, and if the orphanage is a catholic one [which doesn't really work canonically but which is a headcanon i'm nonetheless wedded to], then he'd probably also have a bit of latin.

once he's at hogwarts, i presume he must take runes [since he's heavily implied, like all male characters the series considers to be intellectually brilliant, to have taken twelve owls]. nonetheless, while he's clearly a nerd - and while he loves a language puzzle, since he spends his teenage years coming up with an anagram of his own name [...] - he has a slightly harry-ish preference in canon for only enjoying lots of flicking-through-books research if it's for a tangible goal [i.e. opening the chamber of secrets]. i can't see him scouring textbooks in an effort to teach himself the european languages his posh friends would have learned at home unless he thought doing so would be unequivocally beneficial to him.

indeed, we canonically know that voldemort can't speak german, since when he's on his hunt for gregorovitch in deathly hallows a woman speaks to him in that language and he just defaults to the british standard of speaking louder in english... and i think we can reasonably assume on these grounds that he can't speak french either.

but he must be able to speak albanian fluently - simply out of necessity, since he spends so much time in the country.

and it's also interesting to me that during his ten years in europe after murdering hepzibah smith [so c.1955-1965], he is implied to spend a lot of time in communist europe, even if not in countries which were fully behind the iron curtain [he must, for example, meet karkaroff - and potentially dolohov - in some part of the eastern bloc, and the bulgarian delegation at the quidditch world cup know who he is]. i think it's entirely reasonable to suppose, then, that he must also be able to speak some level of russian.

dumbledore - on the other hand - can probably speak french, german, and italian, which would have been expected of the sort of late victorian young man who was preparing to embark on a grand tour, and which he undoubtedly taught himself in order to keep up his correspondence with the "most noted magical names of the day" [including grindelwald, to whom he probably spoke german].

i also quite like the idea of him as the sort of late victorian orientalist who crops up again and again in british history, who speaks a language like hindi, arabic, or ottoman turkish with a cut-glass english accent.

the various non-human language he speaks in canon - such as mermish - are presumably also self-taught, and the question which preoccupies me the most in relation to these is whether dumbledore can speak parseltongue?

after all, we know it's a language which can be learned by non-parselmouths - since ron manages to speak it in deathly hallows - and so it must have an actual structure rather than just be vibes. and if dumbledore can't understand it, then what the hell did he think was going on in the memory of the gaunts he shows harry?

barty crouch jr. was definitely forced to have endless lessons with tutors hired by his father, who wanted him to match his two hundred languages, but then forgot everything he knew about mermish the second he started school.

i am sure that - even if he doesn't seem to be able to during the canon timeline - bill weasley learns how to speak french fluently the second the war's out of the way. since this is a basic courtesy if your partner and her family is from france.

i am also sure that the three delacour-weasley children are raised to be bilingual, and that they take great pleasure in bitching about the three potter-weasley children to their faces.

the more interesting question, though, is whether bill can speak any gobbledegook.

it's implied that he might through his job - and he's asked in order of the phoenix about whether there's any pro-voldemort talk among the goblins at gringotts, which suggests that he's known to be able to understand any gobbledegook chit-chat he overhears. but it still always strikes me in deathly hallows that the imperialism really jumps out when bill's speaking to harry about griphook:

“I know goblins,” said Bill. “I’ve worked for Gringotts ever since I left Hogwarts. As far as there can be friendship between wizards and goblins, I have goblin friends - or, at least, goblins I know well, and like.”

this really doesn't sound like a man who takes the time to speak to his "friends" in their own language...

the fact that even the good guys treat non-human magical communities with - at best - paternalistic contempt is a really noticeable theme in the series [and, crucially, something which the series doesn't seem to think is a particularly bad thing]. and so i quite like the idea that someone like bill would have a lack of ability to communicate in gobbledegook, and that this would never be something he interrogated.

#asks answered #asenora meta #hard-launching my beef with william “elgin” weasley

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petrichorade · 11 months

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What you guys have been waiting for...my Hitsuhina's Children Headcanon!

Finally I've decided to upload this after a while :'D this is my personal headcanon of how their child would look like.

Early Disclaimer:

It's going to be long

I have limited Japanese ability, but I do understand some lexical context. This is why I never engage myself to do fan-translation works despite have knowledge about it as I prevent sharing misinformation. I learned about translation etiquette during my days as literature student in university, so I did my best to not being biased while creating this, despite people's translation style could be different from one to another. Nevertheless, I accept any critics from those who's much more fluent than me and have more knowledge regarding naming rules and cultures in Japan. I will take it as reflection to deepening my knowledge more with Japanese language, culture, history, and societies since all of this are tied together and can not be separated! Along with taking down this post if any of the content turn out to contain any misleading information.

I haven't made any art for them, but I hope the explanation below could help anyone visualize how they would look like in my headcanon!

Now let's get down to the business!!

1. Hitsugaya Hayato (日番谷隼)

隼 (はやと) = peregrine falcon

This one was pretty tricky since name 'Hayato' in most case were written like this -> 隼人 by adding 'human' kanji at the end. But since I saw a real public figure named Hayato who have their name being published with single kanji like above, I can say that Hitsugaya Hayato will have the same case!

Birthday: March 17th

Zanpakuto: 青山郎 (せい・ざん・ろう || Seizanrou = Blue Specter )

I imagine he will inherit Momo's hair and Toshiro's eye color. His overall features will look like Toshiro uwu. I honestly conflicted to made him having Toshiro's hair with Momo's feature instead of the one I come up with, since on Kazui and Ichika's case, they have their father's hair and their mother's feature. But then I remember Ichigo have Isshin's face and his orange hair were probably inherit from Masaki's side, so I'll make Hayato having that situation too.

He'll wield an elemental zanpakuto with a fire-type spirit. His zanpakuto's name will be 青山郎 (Seizanrou = Blue Specter). This zanpakuto naming idea were inspired by Hyourinmaru itself. Hyourin (氷輪) if translated literally means 'ice ring' but it could also mean ' the moon (that shine as cold as ice)' hence why there's a crescent shaped pendant at the end of Hyourinmaru's chain.

And 青山 ( せい・ざん -> Seizan) if translated literally means 'lush/green mountain', but it could also mean 'grave' or 'burial place'. Adding 郎 ('rou', same as the last kanji in Toshiro's name, means 'boy') at the end of it, I made the equivalent translation being 'Blue Specter' (boy from burial place → 'someone' from the graveyard → a ghost).

//I wonder if it make sense, and if it's appropriate to name zanpakuto this way//

The command will be 蘇れ! ( よみがえ・れ = Yomigaere = (lit.)"Resurrect!" || But my personal translation to make the context a lot sensible in battlefield -> "Rise from the Death!" ), and the shikai technique will looks like blue fire orbs appearing on top of his blade. As Hayato calls its name, the blue flame will rise and change form into what Hayato desire to attack the enemies, as if it was a ghost that raises from its death body beneath the ground.

I'd like to think it's manifestations being a cemetery caretaker/keeper with lantern on his hand. Seizanrou's manifestation and overall concept was also partly inspired by 'Lantern Specter', the ghost in Taiwanese horror game 'Detention'.

I'd like to think it'll be great to have Hayato having a horrifying dream when Seizanrou on its own way to communicate with its master, the way Hyourinmaru did to Toshiro. Hayato will have a great equal portion of training from Toshiro as they experience the same case, but also with Momo as fellow fire-type zanpakuto wielder.

2. Hitsugaya Kanjirou (日番谷柑蒔朗)

柑 (かん = citrus, orange) 蒔 (じ / ま・く = to sow)朗 (ろう = bright, cheerful) → "Orange Tree"

Birthday: October 3rd

Zanpakuto: 霜咲 (しも・ざき || Shimozaki = Blooming Frost)

This time she inherit Toshiro's hair and Momo's eyes, with overall feature dominant to Momo. She might gonna be daddy's little girl, because I like the idea of Toshiro having daughter, and that he has a soft spot for them :'))))

I was almost thought this name feel a bit too boyish for her, since so far I know, the commonly used ろう kanji was in this form for naming -> 郎. I did further research and find out this 朗 (ろう) kanji could also be used in naming, and have a great meaning. Adding the fact that I just found out 'Kanjirou' was actually A FLOWER NAME.

It's a sub-type of Camellia sasanqua, one of many types of camellia with deep magenta colors that natives to both China and Japan. This flower also blooms during fall to winter, which I think is perfect with my birth date set-up for her. I like the idea of either Momo or Toshiro get the inspiration to name her 'Kanjirou' the moment they saw this flower blooms near Momo's due date, while their home at the time starting to be filled with the sweet-citrusy smell of clementines.

Adding the fact that Momo's name not only refers to the 'peach' fruit itself, but could also be the 'peach blossom', we now have Father-Son duo with animal inspired name and Mother-Daughter duo with flower + fruit inspired name in our Hitsuhina little family! ^q^

For her zanpakuto spirit, she's a wielder of ice-type elemental zanpakuto. And her zanpakuto name will be 'Shimozaki' (霜咲 = Blooming Frost).

霜 (しも || Shimo = Frost)

咲 (さく・-ざき || sa-ku・-zaki = to blossom)

I haven't though so far about her shikai, but I like to imagine the technique will involves around scattering ice particle in form of haze and freeze the enemy in a form of blossoms.

Also I haven't thought about the spirit manifestation form TwT maybe later //forgive meee//

Again, she's also receive equal portion of training from both parents. As she's a fellow ice-type zanpakuto wielder, she practice swordmanship with Toshiro, and taught Kido by Momo (she's good at it!)

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Andddddddd as you all can see, I'm trying my best to have their child looks like their 'literal' child with names and everything. It took me a while to find children's name that would match them, but I'm lucky to encounter 'Hayato' and 'Kanjirou' since I think it'll be a great idea for Hitsuhina's children to have names that rhymes with their parents' names (Toushirou and Momo). One of many things that motivates me to create this characters because I want to have their appearance on my fic :') so starting now, if ever I come up with Hitsuhina domestic stories/art in the future, it's easier for me to just pick them back from this reference and add them to the story/art uwu

The concept art will follows sooner~! Please have this for a while!

I guess this is it from me >< and I hope anyone like this silly little brainrot of mine hehe

#bleach #bleach oc #hitsuhina #rainfestive oc : hayato hitsugaya #rainfestive oc : kanjirou hitsugaya #is it okay for me to give them personalized tags already?#whatever i'm cringe but i'm free

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yandere-romanticaa · 4 months

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out of curiousity i checked out the weebsintrash (actually weebinstash) and its?? Genuinely horrifying?? My condolences to aforementioned person and anyone who's getting looped into the situation

You have no idea for how long this has been going on. I keep getting asks, ranging from calling Weeb a series of slurs to giving me random addresses all across the US. I think I even got the actual adress once but, like all of the asks, got deleted.

At first I thought I could just ignore the asks. I'd screenshot them and send them over to Weeb, in which they would always apologize to me as if this was somehow their fault.

I'm just wondering what kind of person do you have to be in order to be this fucking annoying. Does that person not have a life? Don't they have school, friends, a job, family, SOMETHING??? I do not have a job but I am a student in college, which takes up my time. And when I'm not in class I'm at home, with my parents, cleaning the house or going over to my grandmother because she's old and can't do much on her own so I help her. And when I'm not busy cleaning or studying, I'm writing. When I'm not writing, I'm reading a fun book or listening to a podcast. Or when I'm not doing that, I'm just chilling with my friends. We're either stuffing our faces with food, doing pub quizzes or I'm on a reading date with one of them. All of these are very simple and mundaine activites, but they take time.

And I can't see myself taking the time to send an ask like that to someone. I can't imagine being such a no lifer. I'm angry, clearly. I'm sorry for the rant but I'm so tired. I just REALLY want to EMPHASIZE just how much of a LOSER this person is. Imagine wasting your life on something so fucking stupid. That person needs to burn their computer, go outside and eat some real food because I picture their room to look like it's filled with trash. Perhaps a shower would do them well too, I can't imagine how stinky they must be.

#♥️ girlie says

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rolloollor · 6 months

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Thoughts about Dyed Dark as Night

Spoilers for the last chapter of the fic, naturally.

First thing I'm sure most people are wondering about is, you know, where do Malleus and Rollo go? There are a few possibilities I like. Something about them going to some middle of nowhere wilderness, maybe in the Sunset Savannah since Sebek's grandpa lived there, and using only their dragon forms appeals to me... but I also think Rollo would probably reject that idea unless there was no other choice

Kinda my favorite option, though it might not make a ton of sense, is them returning to the bell tower and living there, almost... haunting it. NBC would no longer be an arcane academy, but if society doesn't collapse I don't see why it couldn't become a normal school. Or maybe a monastery? Then the students could spread rumors about the "demons" or (to Malleus' potential delight) the ~gargoyles~ that they sometimes catch gazing down at them from the tower.

Or... maybe NBC is abandoned. Then they live there undisturbed while taking care of the bell.

In the end, though, at minimum they have to find a place that isn't populated and eke out a living somehow. I'm sure Rollo could grow food and with practice maybe they both could hunt if necessary. If they lived in Noble Bell, I think they might feed off the kitchens. With their magic gone, they can't use glimmers, but I don't think Rollo would be above cutting his horns off and wearing sunglasses to walk among humans.

Though there's the question of what happens to dragon fae without magic. Do they stay in people form? Do they revert to their dragon form, which might be the more 'natural' way? If they're stuck as dragons, then Fleur City is out.

Next thing is: who won the most? It's definitely Malleus, he got centuries of living the good life with his draconic fae Rollo wife. Rollo did get rid of magic though, so Jehan (hundreds of years dead) can finally rest in peace... right?

I think by the end, Malleus is so intensely dependent on Rollo that he can do anything and Malleus would still rationalize it away. He went insanely far for him when, really, he hadn't known Rollo that long, so naturally the scale would only get more severe over time. The thought of Rollo not being with him is somehow worse than magic leaving the world. Sure, Rollo brought Briar Valley to its knees and possibly ended up killing thousands of fae (or more) who had no idea how to fend for themselves without magic, but... well, there's nothing to do about it now. What point could there be in living in a ruined world without Rollo?

If even Rollo is like, "Wait a second, what am I gonna do without Malleus?" then for Malleus it's gotta be 100x worse.

I strongly considered having those draconic instincts fully seep into Rollo and change his personality. Like one day he'd be in the greenhouse and go, "What am I doing?" Then he'd destroy all of his efforts and act as a dutiful mate to Malleus. I think this is the scariest outcome for Rollo, since Malleus would have reshaped him body, mind, and maybe even soul. Ugh! Horrifying. It was very tempting... but I felt like Malleus would've won too hard. Unacceptable. So, now Malleus is responsible for not only the end of the Draconia dynasty, but the end of his country and magic itself. Nice! I'm sure mom and grandma would be very proud.

Another question people might be wondering about. Will they have kids? I'm guessing probably not. Seems cruel to have a child and thrust them into their situation. Imagine if word got out that the child of the man who eradicated magic was wandering around...

That's all I can come up with for now. If anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer them.

#I dunno how many people care about these but I like writing them so #mallerollo #rllr fanfic ponderings

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rubberduckyrye · 1 month

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Oh because of the scaradotter fic or the v3 fic

Okay gonna go into more detail about these dark fics so under the cut they go!

Note though: the way I see both of these fics is that if I were to write them, they would be horror. Keep that in mind for the V3 fic especially dnasjdnsjak

The DottoScara fic is on my to-do list, but I have to be in a VERY specific mood for that dsnfkjnsfjkds. To clarify: the fic is currently called "Diablo", and it explores Scaramouche's live from the very beginning of his life, through his "Three betrayals," through the meat of the fic (Dottore torturing him via experimentation) and up until his final confrontation with the Traveler where he fights in the big robot. The main reason it's DottoScara is because the meat of the fic will explore the potential tortures Scaramouche faced under Dottore. AKA It's torture porn. Also something something you could argue that any and all vivisections Scaramouche endures can be allegories to being sexually abused something something invading the body in a way that is a very unique experience something something not intended but I've definitely written Wrenn in RPs where he feels violated in his healing verses when he thinks of the vivisections so there's that?

Anyway. The V3 Darkfic. Um. Ho boy. This one might get people screaming at me.

(I say, literally describing that Scaramouche endures Vivisections... But the themes of the V3 fic are.... things people really love to harass people about. Ah. Oh well, Antis, eat your hearts out.)

The V3 fic.... Listen, it didn't start off as a darkfic but boy did it go there real fast. I don't even know if I want to write this one. But I'll tell you the concept for it--the idea is when there are 14 students left, the Motive Monokuma and the Monokubs give them is a collar around their necks and the Seven Deadly Sins. The collars inject a chemical that is supposed to make their respective hosts more and more likely to enact their respective sins, and there are two of each sin. Three doses from the collar will make the student go into a frenzy if they've been resisting their sin for the previous 2 doses.

Sounds pretty interesting--until you think of the consequences of that and the sin of Lust specifically. It accidentally went from "interesting them and motive" to "Oh this is literally 'Fuck or Die' combined with 'Sex Pollen'." fsdnjfjkfnsdk

Definitely not intentional on my part. Anyway guess what two "I'd rather die than be vulnerable with someone, especially if forced into intimacy" boys got the Lust Collars. If you guessed Oumota you'd be right.

Since I think the concept of being forced into lust is a very horrifying situation, I was drawn to the idea of writing it from Kaito's perspective and writing down the horrors from his perspective. The fact that him and Kokichi keep blacking out on the third dose does not Help his imagination. I don't think I'd write any of the sex scenes (been there, done that with "A Little Out of Order", not sure if I really wanna do smut again) but I think the blackouts/reading Kaito slip from coherent consciousness into darkness make it all the more horrifying. Just, they're both drugged and black out, who knows what could have happened to either of them when they black out. They both hate this.

I think at some point Kokichi concocts the idea of killing himself just to make the motive end for everyone, but also because he gets to be at his breaking point because. Well. You know. Pretty sure Kaito has to stop him.

I do know Miu gets a wrath collar and ends up breaking a lot of shit in her lab on dose 3. That or she beats up Kokichi. Probably the latter because you know. That or sloth if only because I can't tell which sin would make her feel her worst. It's about the despair, everyone!

This idea of far less plotted out though because I don't really know what to do with it, let alone do I even really want to do anything with it. Like I don't know how the motive ends, if there's a murder, if the ship can even really become a true ship after that kind of trauma, ectect. So for now it's staying as a plot bunny in my head that I occasionally remember and ponder on.

Anyway. Ehe. if I start getting hate anons I'm closing my ask box immediately. Juuust saying.

#Not tagging fandoms because I don't want randos harassing me for darkfic plot bunnies #but:#Vivisection mention tw #Dubcon mention tw #torture mention tw #... Huh that about covers it I think actually #Ask to tag?

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On Becoming Jaded

It's a funny thing, to wake up one day and realize that you are jaded. To wonder where it all went wrong. To suddenly feel fond of a urinal.

Then, I couldn't get enough art in my life. I was attending art university as a full time painting student, visiting galleries and museums, watching art house films, and haunting the art book aisle at Barnes & Noble.

Most importantly, I was making so much art that I didn't know what to do with it all. Hardly any of it was good, but it existed.

I watched as other students graduated only to get jobs as baristas and bartenders. So I moved from the East coast to the West coast and pursued a career as a tattooist. It took me about 8 years and a failed brick & mortar business to realize that was not my path.

That failure stopped me in my tracks. After that I half-heartedly attempted to start a small business consulting firm, which I also shut down. Somewhere along the way I lost myself and my self confidence in my art. I became jaded and began to languish in my regrets.

Now, it has been 9 years since I created a single piece of art.

Lying awake at night trying to puzzle out the origin of all this has not wrought any great epiphanies. I wonder if it was the traditional approach of my professors; the insistence that there was no place for illustrative or "low brow" style in the world of fine art. Or the curriculum-mandated "critiques" where my peers sat around my art in a semicircle and told me the ways in which I was insufficient. The gallery and the grant rejections. The incessant gatekeeping. The idea that the only way to become a truly phenomenal artist was to pick a thing and to do it over and over and over.

I actually had a professor that only painted brick walls. Literally, he spent years making paintings of brick walls. Were they the most realistic and beautifully textured bricks ever painted? Yes, they were. But the idea of committing so deeply to one thing horrified me. It still does. I imagined myself sitting in some sad studio apartment for decades perfecting my craft with my only hope for success being of the post-mortem type.

This is why, in traditional art schools, they harp on about the importance of archival materials. Preservation for posterity and what not. Because genuine greatness is ahead of its time and can take generations to be truly seen.

What originally drew me into art was Impressionism. The way Naples yellow could make clouds hanging over a sunset glow. The dashing of paintbrushes across a canvas which most mysteriously formed images. So, I was rather full of youthful disdain when I was exposed to modern art. If Andy Warhol painting cans of soup wasn't lazy enough, imagine my shock when I saw Duchamp's porcelain urinal on exhibit at the Tate Modern. I'd been drinking the kool-aid of artistic elitism and snidely thought to myself, " This is why modern art is not art."

Years later I read about photographer Alfred Stieglitz who wrote a rave review about the toilet saying, "The "Urinal" photograph is really quite a wonder—Everyone who has seen it thinks it beautiful—And it's true—it is. It has an oriental look about it—a cross between a Buddha and a Veiled Woman."

Despite Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" originally being suppressed by galleries and receiving a number of scathing reviews, it still made it into the annals of art history.

These days Duchamp's urinal makes me smile on the inside, and I'm quite fond of it. There's no evidence to support this, but I like to think that it was his way of thumbing his nose at some dusty professor who told him he'd never make it.

From where I stand now, I feel a sort of camaraderie with the Dada and Fluxus artists. An understanding of the indeterminacy of art. A desire for anti-art. Maybe they too were disillusioned and jaded.

A fellow netizen wrote, "Becoming jaded is about trust. You became jaded when you discovered the world was not the place you trusted it to be." In that vein, I think I trusted that art gave my life meaning and without that I have no direction. I allowed my self perceived failures as an artist to deprive me of meaning and purpose.

I need to find my inspiration again. It may just lay hidden somewhere between Buddha and a veiled lady, behind an ordinary toilet.

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Feel free to delete this if you’re not comfortable but, what would you think of a TWST au where everything is just… super dark?

Like, almost everyone is just straight up insane and/or evil, students are going missing, etc.

And, if you don’t mind, how would the cast react to their dark counterparts?

I don't mind dark stuff, I like dark stuff.

I'd imagine a darker twst verse would include thing like the wonderland character's actually being mad, the ghost that haunt the grounds maybe look more like they hid alive with the addition of how they died. Like someone floating around without a head, another with stab wounds, one with blood out their mouth from some disease. Maybe Malleus is more prone to cursing people who irritate him. He has to learn that that's not okay, but in Briar Valley its expected of him, his grandmother actively encourages cruelty. "Of with your head" doesn't behead you, at least in theory. But the collar tightens the longer it stays on, so it's always a race to appease Riddle before it does damage.

I've mentioned before the idead about NRC being more of a cartoon-y villain school. Where kicking your classmates is taught and encouraged and students must practice their evil laughs. Maybe that logic can be applied here, but in a less silly way. It's fully acknowledged that NRC is a school for the worst of the worst only instead of reforming the boys, it refines their villainy. So fighting is encouraged. Poisoning your classmates is more of an extra credit thing. Killing isn't encouraged per say, but campus is no stranger to bad accidents.

As for the characters reactions to their dark counterparts, I'd say would all be horrified, because those guys are way more down for murder. Jamil is horrified to find his counterpart is very slowly poisoning Kalim. Leona is shocked his counterpart is taking a more active in the countries succession by planning to off his brother and nephew. Vil succeeded in poisoning Neige and even laughs at it. The dark counterparts are essentially the very worst of themselves without an Overblot. It's a mirror of what they would be if they had fully gone off the edge.

#twisted wonderland

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mangoslixes · 2 years

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The Secret History Review

for @readerbookclub

I really loved the book <3 I'm so glad glad it was picked for this month, since it gave me an excuse to finally pick it up. I'd been seeing it around everywhere and I really wanted to read it.

It's such a cleverly written satirical novel about the dangers of romanticising liberal arts, it's just 🤌🏼

How did your opinion of the book change as the story progressed?

I had a theory when I started the book. I thought it would involve a weird cultish ritual where the secret club planned to sacrifice Richard Papen to Bacchus for eternal life or something along those lines, but they end up killing Bunny instead for some coercive reason. A very wild, chaotic theory, but it did get proven wrong, of course.

The book was miles better than what I had imagined it to be. I really liked the way it flowed, especially over to the second part. It got darker, every character's facade, including our narrator's started to crack and we saw them without their pristine, well put together aesthetic. Everyone in this book is so twisted and unlikeable, but I think that's the thing that got me interested more and more as the story progressed. It was clear they were all going to be miserable in their own ways by the end of this, just as they deserved. I wish Richard suffered more though, and Charles, both of those characters thrived comparatively better compared to Henry, Camilla and Francis, despite being the worse than the lot (debatable).

So even though I was horrified reading through it all, I loved the book. It's clever, it's dark, I never want to pick it up again, but it's still a great book.

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I would, but only to the friends who like satire. I don't think this book is for everyone, either because it's just not something they would read, or just because they won't get the satire and end up idolising or hating it, with no middle ground.

Did this book remind you of something? Another book? A film or TV show? A song? What was it and in what ways are they similar?

Oh it reminded me of this song lol

The lyrics seem to fit our little club of dark academia and bacchanal obsessed kids pretty well tbh.

What message was the book trying to convey? Do you agree with it?

Oh it was definitely about why it's really not the best decision to romanticise liberal arts, but in a more extreme sense.

We see Richard Papen, in love with the idea of studying Greek and classics, because he's already in awe with the way the five students look. He starts us off with a line stating that his fatal flaw is a longing of the picturesque at all costs, so it doesn't come as a surprise. He's not so different from your average social media dark academia enthusiast, detached from the grasps of reality of academia and what actually lies in the discipline, entranced only by the aesthetics of it, which Julian actively feeds into.

For example, the Bacchanal. Julian paints an aesthetic about beauty and terror and chaos in a way that it influences a bunch of rich kids to experience it themselves. They are so obsessed with the aesthetic of it, that they don't even seem to come to terms with the level of horror that their little drug trip has caused. "We saw him, we saw Dionysus." Yeah, okay, maybe in your feral state, you did see Dionysus, but you also ripped apart an innocent man, let's talk about that first.

The book hints on it several times too. A little off the line of idea I'm going with, but what comes to my mind is where Charles, after being questioned about Bunny's murder, says how he never really realised that they all rely on appearances so much, that it's not that they're really that smart, it's just that they don't look like they did it. And that's true isn't it? None of them are really that smart or sly, they just look the sort of people who wouldn't be involved in something so heinous. Appearances over reality.

Speaking of reality, it starts to dawn on Richard too, during the last chapter, when the "aesthetic" of it all starts to fall apart in front of his eyes. He realizes how little options he has compared to the others, the lack of safety net that they have. How he has merely adopted ideas throughout his time in university and has nothing to show for the three years he has spent there. He's been so trapped in the idea of things, so seduced by the possibilities in his head that he's taken aback when the prettiness is all stripped away.

And I do agree with the message the book is trying to convey. Academia isn't fun, it isn't really a pretty aesthetic you can adopt. It is rarely ever pretty, no matter how much you romanticise it in your head.

Did reading this book change what you think of “Dark Academia”?

Yes. The book did make me dislike the aesthetic in general. At first, I was neutral with the moodboards and everything else around social media, but after this book, it's kind of made me not like it anymore? Just me though, I love it for the people who want to make moodboards or indulge in it all for the fun of it.

But I also found it really funny how people tag this book as a necessity to have the dark academia aesthetic, when it's about the dangers of indulging in one to an excess.

This book was part of our “morally grey” reading list. Do you think it belonged there?

I'm so sorry, but I didn't think so.

I don't think anyone in this book falls in the morally grey area. I didn't sympathize with their problems or their reasons for what they did, and that's generally what a morally grey character is meant to do. Richard would have belonged in that area if he had a less stoned brain cell that made decisions for him though.

The Secret History is a famous book. Had you heard of it before? If so, was it what you expected?

I had seen it around almost everywhere, especially the quotes under dark academia aesthetic things. It wasn't what I was expecting at all. For one, it turned out to be satire, very clearly so from the first chapter itself, and two, I thought it would be a glorification of dark academia, which again, it wasn't. Both things I haven't seen around in tumblr posts, so it was a surprise. And I've also seen people love Richard Papen?? A big surprise considering how much I disliked his character and I couldn't even see the appeal.

But overall, mostly pleasantly surprised by the book.

How did you find Richard as a narrator? How do you think having Richard as a narrator affected the story?

Richard was an unreliable narrator. Having him as the narrator was also important though, because initially, we can see his thoughts and views differing from Julian and the others. We see that clearly, and it's important because Julian and the others haven't struggled to come here as he has, they don't have the background he does. They're posh, snobby and privileged, and it shows in contrast to Richard. His views warp, obviously, but it's mostly him trying to fit into this little elitist group and it's cleverly written out.

Our view about Richard is almost neutral, sometimes sympathy and secondhand embarrassment. Compared to the others, he is more human, until he's not. He mentions some odd things in passing, very casually, and we don't really pay attention to them. His views about certain characters, his attention to certain features about people in a masculine and feminine sense, his theories on certain relationships, his ideals about Julian, the chick he choked to death, that one Camilla paragraph near the end. They all add to his character.

Richard is a perfect narrator for a book like this, he does a great job to really nail in the satirical, clever writing of Donna Tartt. Is he likeable? No. Is he a perfect unreliable narrator? Yes.

#.reyreads #book club #book review #the secret history #donna tartt #booklr #books #reading #booklover #bibliophile #book blog #spotify #I'm a little late for it I apologise

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Here's a little version of what caused Helia to end up at RF during s2 Witch!Helia style!

Helia was homeschooled/raised at Red Fountain by Saladin. Helia technically never got traditional specialist schooling, as Helia's main combat education was focused on his witch magic. Mostly because magic is a lot more useful than a sword. Despite this, Helia has always had a love for body kinetic activities, and constantly got any and every teacher at Red Fountain to give him tips. His gloves in perticualr we're something he always gravitated to as they require a intense amount of technique and control to use properly, and Helia's always been a sucker for things that are tricky to deal with. He really enjoys the mental stimulation.

When Helia hit 15 he wanted to go to a real magic school. Just to see what it was like, especially because this school was well known for its art extra curriculars and Helia really enjoys art.

Helia returned to Red Fountain because he heard about the attack on the school and flipped the fuck out in worried for Saladin, horrified that he left for two years and the home he grew up in was completely destroyed. Immediately taking the first shuttle to Red Fountain, getting there at the beginning of summer.

The first member of the Winx club and the guys™ he met were actually Riven and Musa, both who really didn't want to go home for the summer. Musa because she was afraid that her father would try to take her out of Alfea if he learned how involved she actually was with what happened, and Riven because he just generally doesn't get along with his family and didn't want the added stress of that on top of learning he was being manipulated for the worst half of a year. I think I read somewhere that Timmy's family lives in Magix's? So maybe he's also around.

I'd imagine them meeting while their all helping to find anything salvageable/clean up the old RF while the new RF is being built. Ya know, because Alfea isn't made to keep dragons and such. Riven because being sedentary let's his thoughts run wild, Musa there half because she wants to help half because she's been sticking around Riven because she's worried about his mental health, and Helia is there of course because this is his beloved home.

He hears the quick version of what happened from Saladin, but gleams more and more details about the events from Musa and begins a small friendship with her and Riven.

I can't see him as being super close to Riven and Musa, but enough that they introduced Helia to the rest of the group instead of Brandon.

He's technically not a student of Red Fountain. He restarted homeschooling on his magic, stubbornly refusing to leave Saladin alone, but he really enjoys sitting in on RF classes so he tends to do so.

He just kinda hangs more and more around the guys until he's considered part of their "team" and Helia just goes along with it because their the funniest group of people he's ever met, and eventually they become friends and now Helia is a member of the guys™

#Helia to Saladin: Your my dad (figure) boggie woggie woggie #winx club #winx helia #rus chatters #winx headcanons

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silverwarewolf · 2 years

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bruce and dr. facilier for Alexandro Beloved, lelouch for aster, mor'du for ann? :3

Of course! Thank you so much for asking. (I'm also working on the oc advice, dw about that)

This is the ask game for anyone who wants to send in a question!

BRUCE: How likely are their chances of a successful redemption arc?

Alexandro beloved is a tragic antagonist. Once a loving father and husband, stripped away of his family by a disaster. Once a knight at the service of the Azure Kings, stripped away of his position by fault of a prophecy. Currently an assassin after Ivan's head, unbeknownst to him he's the baby prince he once swore to protect.

And later? Fated to a duel with Emilia, fierce when it comes to protecting her family, and a deadly opponent.

Considering all of this, and as much as it pains me to say, i don't think we're going to get a happy ending for him. A redemption arc? Sure, we get to understand him and have some compassion, he'll be forgiven and remembered fondly. At least by Emilia and Kate. But it's much likelier to end in tragedy, like, a 70% chance of it I'd say.

(however, this whole book is about me surprising every reader, me included. I haven't planned out the very ending nor even his duel with Emilia, so i can probably whip something up)

DR FACILIER: How far are they willing to go to get what they want?

As far as it takes, to be honest. He's got nothing to lose! He lost his family! His kingdom! His found family! His sense of belonging when he became a monster! He'll do whatever.

Which is why he's evenly matched with Emilia when they duel. Neither of them desire to kill the other, they just have to stop them temporarily. For protection or for duty, either way.

Key word, it has to be something he wants.

However, if Alexandro fails, Ann will be after him, so that's a worry he has. If she does, though, as strong as she is, she can't overpower a monster so easily. So although it's a way to manipulate him into working for her, he knows that at the end of the day, if he fought for his life, he'd probably win. So yep, he's pretty much uh ... Unhinged? Ruthless?

He'll do whatever to get what he wants, is my point, but he's very much capable of restraint.

LELOUCH: Does your antagonist ever regret their actions?

Oh dear. You've chosen probably the best question for Aster.

Short answer, not really. She's like Alexandro but with Murderous Intent and a Grudge that outweighs restraint.

Long answer (and very vague because this is Unplanned Prequel territory). She lived when the world thrived in sorcery and magic in a very different way than it does now. And when she was a kid she was rather excellent at it, because of talent and practice and like, some sort of internal need to be the best. To use her magic to help the world.

Alas, time goes on and she realizes her magic is a bit different from everyone else's. You know, casting a perfectly controlled fire tornado but being unable to hold a fireball correctly. Changing runes to perfect her spells. Using unconventional ingredients and eyeballing potion recipes. Casting sorcery no one had ever been able to imagine.

And they weren't impressed or grateful. They were horrified of her.

Reduced to an ominous witch, banned from several kingdoms. She fled to the woods and met the kings of the Goose Throne, who were accepting of her skills. She taught some people and wrote down her knowledge, tomes upon tomes that could revolutionize magic.

But then the king broke their pact, and didn't stop the other monarchs from coming after her. Grave mistake, for that was the droplet that toppled over the glass. Taken everything from her, threatening the students she still cared about, cornered through every last part of the planet, she cursed everyone.

She cursed the desert, and the poles, and the forests, and the heavens. That whenever someone would be born sharing her birthday, as the moon eclipsed the two suns at once, she would return and the world would be destroyed. And then she vanished.

Or so the story says.

After all, she couldn't really overpower the royal amulets. Not yet. But a few years ago, twins were born in the same day she did, and one of them is after the other's head to prevent the world from ending.

So i don't think she regrets doing what she did so much as she laments that she never got the chance to be herself, to live the wish she always thought she would be granted once she grew up.

MOR'DU: How are they different/similar to the hero?

Well she and Ivan are twins so they're very similar!

Just kidding.

I guess their greatest similarity is how determined they are to save those they care about. Ann swears on her parents' grave that she'll save the world no matter what, and became quite a decent queen, murders aside. Ivan pretty much had to flee on a day's notice, and yet he's picked up new skills to keep Gene and Kate safe.

(a bit ironic that both of them are objectively stronger than Ivan. However they're not running on that adrenaline rush that boosts their performance so i guess they're pretty on par, though Ivan gets Tired)

And the most relevant difference is that Ivan is willing to go with the flow of things more easily. If he found out he was prophesized to destroy the world, he'd be like "how? why? no i won't" and keep living on. Ann, as seen in canon, will freak out and plan every last detail until she can assure things will be alright.

This also means Ivan is willing to read the forbidden tomes of Taylor's library to disprove the prophecy while Ann scoffs at the idea.

#a lunar lullaby #potato answers: logan!#well this got long!#aster is kind of uh. a representation of neurodivergent burnout. but it escalates lol #and i havent talked about her so i guess it's fine to ramble!#aster. very much girlboss energy. a wall wont stop her and yet the littlest thing might crumble it all away

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So at this point in my life, I've decided I want to become one of those people who just lives alone with a couple of cats. I can't imagine dating anyone at this point (I get a feeling it's just not my destiny, even though I still, in theory, would want that). And the idea of getting married is horrifying (probably doesn't help that I made it a hobby to listen to stories about failed marriages). Also, I suddenly find it way harder to have friends as an adult. It's like suddenly people either don't have anything in common with me, or they don't have the time, or they just aren't interested.

And also, I'm just way more at peace when I get to spend time alone. I feel like I can be myself more. Being around other people makes me feel repressed and judged.

And yet despite my desire for solitude, I STILL get super obsessed with fictional romances. I've been like this for a decade. I'd get super obsessed with fictional characters. Make them a priority in my life. Have so many dreams about them. Sometimes even feel like I'm living their life. It's probably not healthy, but I've had a lot of fun doing this (seriously, I spent one summer obsessively reading fanfic and indulging in other fan content like 10+ hours a day and I look back on that period of my life very fondly, and became depressed when I had to go back to school because it meant less time for that fandom and more time with bullies and other bs).

I'm not doing this 10+ hours a day anymore. I am more likely to entertain myself with other things now. But I think I'd scare so many people off if they saw me, someone in their mid-twenties, so wildly obsessed with a fictional character. On the surface, most people don't know shit about me. Actually, a lot of people in my life just think I'm a good worker and a dedicated student, close to earning a bs in STEM. Maybe likes food a lot and can talk a bunch about that, but is honestly pretty boring. They don't know what walks beside them.

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what are your thoughts on orochimaru as sakura's mentor type aus? interesting or nah? ive read a couple and really liked them although they were very different from each other (one had orochimaru as local village weirdo but still Good and the other was child experimenter orochimaru and morally repugnant sakura) and i do admittedly love any kind of "sakura learns from literally anyone else" fics especially with kinda fucked up characters and you get that sweet mentor/mentee dysfunctional family relationship.

I also love alternative mentor AUs, especially for Sakura! And I think Orochimaru as her mentor would be an interesting match. Based on the sheer variety of student personalities he’s “mentored,” I do think Orochimaru is one of the “better” teachers we see. He shows a lot of interest in actively taking on promising students, and he’s good at appreciating different kinds of talents in his students. He’s also someone who will literally toss you in the garbage the second he gets bored with you, so I think a story about him mentoring Sakura would have to play a bit with why Sakura is interesting to him, and I think the why would probably change over time as Sakura develops.

Orochimaru excels in a lot of different areas of being a shinobi, so a story about him being Sakura’s mentor could go in a lot of different directions in terms of what type of jutsu Sakura trains in. You could even let her specialize in something Orochimaru has never touched in canon, because Orochimaru does strongly strike me as someone able to provide guidance, advice and support even when his students go down a path he’s never walked before. (And he might even be excited about it! New things!!) Sakura’s personality could also develop a lot of different ways: she’s sweet but she’s violent; she wants to be feminine and stereotypically womanly and domestic but she also has a part of her that wants to go completely feral; she’s smart but she’s not particularly wise. So you have a lot of ways all those conflicting aspects of Sakura could duke it out to make a Unified Actualized Sakura.

Obviously I’m biased more towards Weird Ninja Science over “learns to fight good.” Sakura both has an obsessive personality and is someone willing to put in long, tedious hours towards a far-away goal (or at least I assume this is how memorizing ninja code in the Academy and becoming a medical ninja went), so I think she’d be well-suited to research, especially if she stumbles onto some sort of Question that intrigues her. And also-- I HC that Orochimaru likes his sciencey students best. (Well, no, he likes his potential new bodies-- both in terms of a new body for HIM and interesting experimental material-- best. But if he ranked his students in terms of ones he’d like to maintain a long-term relationship with, he’d put the sciencey ones first.) So I think if you want a dysfunctional family dynamic, this is the most obvious road to get Orochimaru invested enough to really care.

Also the exact methods of Weird Ninja Science is never made clear, but I bet perfect chakra control is really useful. Months ago I got into a conversation about if Tobirama had lived longer and became Orochimaru’s mentor, and along with “he stays in the village,” it also sort of turned into Orochimaru being like, “Tsunade, your new mentee can do WHAT” and then just slowly stealing Sakura away. Come into the lab. We have an electron microscope.

Random closing thought: I think Orochimaru would show affection via mean teasing, and Sakura is the best member of Team 7 to tease. Sasuke either doesn’t care or cares way too fucking much. Naruto gets too shouty. Sakura will end up trapped in delicious inner turmoil as she tries to maintain an outward appearance of calm while fantasizing about breaking the beaker she’s holding over your head, or maybe crawling into the biowaste and never coming out.

#unfortunately I’m very picky about how science is written so most of the time when I read about Weird Ninja Science I’m like:#But what is the Question???#like i don't care if the exact details are realistic but you show me ONE biology professor #who hasn't demanded their students define research questions #anyway 'orochimaru helps someone develop a skill he also doesn't have' is an intriguing thought #i can't decide how i'd want to do it if i wrote it #but imagine being rando oto nin 27 and you mention you need help learning X #and your boss is like 'hmm... yeah okay. i'm interested in this'#and then suddenly you have all this horrifying one-on-one time with him as you both fuck around trying to do X #it's like if you were like 'i'd like to get better at Sport' and then an olympic level athlete is like #'oh i've always wanted to try that. let's be work out buddies'#in theory neither of you have done Sport before but one of you is CLEARLY already starting at a much higher level #Anonymous

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imagine the dorm leaders staring to the point of running into a wall and yuu just so happens to witness the moment 😭

‎˃ ᵕ ˂ . . "I did not just run into a wall.. you didn't see that."

staring until they run into a wall,

distracted by our perfect mc guess who forgets to look in front of them?

parts. one , two

characters. dorm leaders

cw. crack, fluff, very light injury, not proofread, watch out for mistakes hehe. may be ooc I only studied their characters once while writing this.

note. hello twst fandom, I guess this is my official entry to society 🤔

riddle rosehearts

he couldn't help it you know. he was supposed to be running an errand for crowley before he caught sight of you casually conversing with your first year freinds.

why won't you talk with him like that. 😡

he gets so lost in his thoughts until he crashes straight into a wall just when you glance at him.

ace slaps a hand over his mouth looking blue trying to hold in his laughs and deuce just looks horrified. was there some unspoken rule in this situation he shouldn't break?? 😨

oh no.

oh no no no no no.

this was like straight out of his nightmares and it couldn't be anymore embarrassing because where did he go wrong 😡 both of you stare at each other as he rubs his forehead and then he starts getting red??

false alarm. not out of anger but out of embarrassment, you bet he's tailing it out of there ASAP before he makes more of an embarrassment of himself.

he literally can't stand within your presence without tensing up to the fact that it's so obvious so students start to think he has a crush on you. so it's in due time he'd hear some random student whispering about housewarden riddle. 💀

in the distance if you listen closely, you could hear someone's head getting collared. OFF WITH Y--

leona kingscholar

bold of you to assume he's actually paying attention to anything, moreover someone. listen he's way too tired of everything so all he could think of was probably sleep.

so in a universe where he actually gets distracted by our gorgeous, beautiful, handsome mc.. he probably goes like 'oh there's my human pillow.' and then 'I can almost taste my long deserved rest.'

since he's so occupied thinking about more sleep (expected) he just rams into a wall so he just places his palms over it and stares at it as if it's gonna lessen anything he's currently feeling. second hand embarrassment, irritation... he doesn't know what to feel.

so basically. ure staring at him staring at a wall.... until he turns to you and does a quick scan of his peripheral vision to check if anyone saw that uhm.

accident yeah.

tbh I don't think he'd really care, but since you're watching it does elicit a small reaction from him👩‍🦯.

gets over it super fast. well that's in the past now whatever.

he just pretends nothing ever happened cause why the hell would he care about whatever that was 😁 and proceeds to drag you to his next nap.

azul ashengrotto

I'd like to imagine that he breaks his glasses in the process of not so gracefully colliding with a wall.

hastily discards the evidence my slowly shoving it in his pockets. forgetting that it something essential to his everyday life so he straight up runs into the wall again.

...while you watch the entire thing. he says something about him being too clumsy as he seemingly checks the surroundings admittedly with blurry eyesight, expecting like someone's gonna jumpscare him at any moment. 💀💀

can someone bring his octopot please he wants to crawl inside it and wallow because this ruins his imagine of himself even though it was an accident 😄

he'd be better off if you weren't the one who witnessed the entire thing sobs.

he really hopes he tweels didn't see that or else he'll never get the end of it. small or big they'd never leave him aloneeeee.

please. offer to guide him to his next class and he'd probably play along knowing that there's another spare in his pocket because... you helping him = free therapy.

kalim al asim

he's so pure that it actually hurts.

there isn't an ounce of embarrassment in him on being caught in the act and hitting himself in the process with it.

so he just rubs his head and flashes you this absolutely jaw dropping, binding (I could go on and on) wide grin while laughing 😍

jamil being the somewhat fretting freind he is would probably scold him even if it is a light injury.. but jamil won't be able to scold him about something he didn't witness right 👀

kalim proceeding to accidentally blurt it out as jamil facepalms. but that isn't the point.

the point is that he'd turn the whole situation that's supposed to be quite, at the very least. embarrassing full of laughs.

great seven how did this ray of sunshine end up at ncr.. 😃

vil schoenheit

no.

you don't understand potato-- this is a matter that he needs to tend, and fix immediately!! forget everyone, this. is. an. emergency. 😡

rook is probably in the backround crying comical tears "oh mon dieu!", somewhere up the tree?? where did he even come from, had he always been there?? 🤨

I mean he's not the kind of person that would lose it and throw a fit since he considers himself mature. so his alarm would depend if it smudged his makeup, formed a small swell on his precious face, or nothing in general is wrong.

if nothing is wrong he'd still insist you on helping him in checking his face is nothing is truly wrong.. because he can't see it well you know. 🤗

but if something actually happened to his face say goodbye. he leaves with a slight hurry to his steps, rook trails behind him with glittering sparkles?!?! this is just for comical reasons so idk.👸

then you see him later on impossibly looking more beautiful than the time you saw him an hour ago. ⁉️

idia shroud

his hair shrinks the more you stare at him so can you like stop looking at him with those eyes sad face☹☹.

you're both having a stare off, you can decide what kind of expression you'd have but I guarantee you his face would be like, this. 😁

he's frozen and backing into the corner so please leave before he starts tearing up because WHYYY WHY HIMMM 😭😨😓

he has seen this exact scenario in way too much anime series but he didn't think it'd actually apply to him too. but this is bad since he isn't as smooth as the main character, sobs.

ortho ends up rescuing him from the ultimate nightmare after somehow sensing that his vitals are going overload 💥💥

see this is why he doesn't go out.. 😞

malleus draconia

if he was in his dragon form then the wall wouldn't even make him blink and simply cease to exist ✨.

anyhow. I don't really think anything would happen, it doesn't bother him much even if you are watching and instead warns you about the danger of walls he just discovered 😊.

warned lilia, silver and sebek too. maybe and sebek takes it too literally and starts shouting his praise and appreciation for the warning. while watching the wall like it's gonna jump out and start stabbing him.

he doesn't make a sound even when he bumps into the wall and just blinks slowly while turning to you and resuming to walk as if nothing ever happened.

yeah.

.....what do I put here...

note. currently it's almost december 2022 and wow! to think it's been so long haha. this was the start

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Slow & Steady [P2] [Sabo x f!reader] (+18)

Genre : Romance - Smut - Bestfriends to lovers General warnings : Alcohol consumption - Dark themes - Swearing - S m u t - possessiveness - Mention of ex-relationships - jealousy

A/N : This is really different from my usual writing style but I am experimenting. Please tell me your thoughts and don’t hesitate to ask to be added to the tag list :) AO3 : https://archiveofourown.org/works/31877203?view_full_work=true

In the last chapter -- «-Enough playing now, you're going to sleep. -B-but ! This wasn't what I asked for....You're really a coward after all...You virgin... » He carried you to his room, putting you on the bed and sitting next to you. «-I'd love to prove you wrong. However, it would be better if you were in a state where you'd be able to recall how good I am. If you want me to fuck you this badly then maybe ask me when you're sober.

Part I - Part II

Part II -Yeah yeah...Pff..You're no fun Sabo. Things were finally getting interesting ! »

He smiled seeing that you were now calmer. You started to yawn and bury your face in his pillow. He loved to see you getting so comfortable in his room. He really needed a cold shower after your little show. -Goodnight (Y/N). I'll sleep on the couch. You can get comfortable. -Are you crazyy ? You gonna leave me alone like this ? Let's sleep together~ -Come on (Y/N), you're a big girl. You could sleep alone for one night, would you ? Translation : I don't want to spend the whole night with a semi. And you're dangerously flirty, and I have wanted you for years and now I have to abstain.

-Pleaaaase. You said looking at him with puppy eyes. He rolled his eyes placing a hand in his hair. God.damn.it.

You won again. Like every time. * * * You opened your eyes hardly next day, feeling something hard against your thigh. You looked at the ceiling

Oh...I am not in my room...Where the fuck am I ?

you turn around only to discover the embodiment of Adonis to your side. A light beam was lighting up Sabo's face. He looked like an angel as his beauty couldn't be that of a human.

Was he always this handsome ?

You didn't know, in fact, you have never had the occasion to wake up in his bed. Wait, in his bed ? This realization came slowly as your head was still foggy from yesterday's consumption.

You looked down, the thing that was pressing against your leg was indeed :

his thing.

You frowned, blushed, pulled away, put a hand on your lips repressing an internal scream, all of this in around three seconds. You then tried to calm down, telling yourself that it was very normal for a man to experience this kind of morning unconviniences, and that Sabo was a man, after all. Even if you have always seen him as a bestfriend, he was still a man that is capable of physical attraction.

Now that this internal monologue was done with, you felt a bit calmer, but that didn't answer your question. You got out of bed, trying to recall what happened after going in the bar. And it came back. All of it. Without any mercy for your feelings.

You wanted the ground to swallow you whole. Your only wish was to disappear which meant : calling Nami. You headed out of the house, not even having the courage to face your bestfriend.

« Namiiiii -Uh ? What's the matter ? -I fucked up. I fucked up really bad. -Oh yeah ? Tell me about it. -Wait, why do you seem excited ? -O-oh I'm not excited. Come on tell me. What else could you have possibly done ? -I asked Sabo to fuck me. -Wait what ? You could hear Vivi ask Nami about what happened and her answering « She asked Sabo to fuck her ». -Nami ! Don't go on telling everyone about this. I'm on my way. -For starters, Vivi isn't « everyone », she's my girlfriend. And I'm here waiting for you to tell me what happened. -Wait, I'll come at your place. This can't be discussed over the phone. »

You hung up on her. Ten minutes later, you were at her place. Extremely confused. Nami was painting her nails bright red on the bed while Vivi was sitting comfortably on a chair. You let your whole body weight fall on a lounge pug, tourmented. «-So tell me how you and Sabo ended up fucking. She emphasized the last word in a way that made you almost choke on air. -We didn't actually. Nami and Vivi both sighed in a synchronized « Ah » of disappointment. -So hmm...I don't remember clearly. I was really drunk-- well that you're aware of and...And Sabo didn't want to leave me alone so we went to his place. Ace was at Thatch's so we were alone. We hugged and he comforted me. Then I started teasing him, and I don't know what I was thinking, but I kissed him, and then I asked him to fuck me. -Wow that escalated quickly. Said Nami as she continued painting her nails.

-Well, I was heartbroken, I needed something, someone, and he was there, and you know Sabo, he's a good guy ! I don't know what's worse, the fact that I asked him to fuck me or the fact that he said no.

-Oh god I'm so so sorry

- Nami please don't make things worse for me.

-No offense, but you're so dense. Sabo has always been into you. Do you want him, or do you not ? I know that going right into a relationship after a breakup is a bad idea. But honestly it's worth giving it a shot. He's a really good guy. Try dating someone nice for once.

-I don't know, he has something unsettling about him. Like « almost too good to be true » you know ? Added Vivi.

-Ohhh~ I see. Honestly, I always thought that he was a bit prude and hella vanilla. I mean, yes, he's my best friend. But he has never talked about girls to me or about sexual stuff. So I just assumed that. I never thought that he'd be packin' like that. You said as you popped a lollipop in your mouth.

-Ah ? Was it really that impressive ? asked Nami, genuinely curious.

-Yeah. On a scale from 0 to doflamingo he's a solid eight point seventy five. (*)

-Oh gosh. I understand why you're so worked up now.

-That's really...precise. Added Vivi, a bit horrified.

(*) [ The dear reader might need this clarification ; Doflamingo was Law's uncle, he sometimes came to pick him up after uni with his luxurious lamborghini. He wore extremely tight pants that left little to the imagination. And he was most known among your clique for having a nine incher. It was a running joke wether to know if Law got his uncle's genes. Needless to say that this joke wasn't to Law's taste. Now back to our adorable Y/N. ]

-So. I really don't know what to do. I am still heartbroken. -And horny. Added the ginger. -Yeah, that too. I'm afraid of ruining our friendship. -Listen dear, said Nami as she was closing the nail polish bottle, if you're not going for it, someone else would. And trust me, that girl Koala is upping her game. She's going to steal him right in front of your eyes, just like this - and she snapped her fingers. -Oh, and then, you can forget about being « best friends ». Said Vivi adding fuel to the fire. -Yeah, once he's gonna start dating, he won't have too much time for you-- and then, that Koala girl, my god, she seems extremely possessive ! -No way, your voice was detached, trying to act is if you weren't worried, Sabo has never dated any girl before.- -Yes but he seems to get along with that girl. And to be honest, she's kinda cute.

-Nami ! Vivi pinched her forearm playfully, pretending to be jealous.

-That hurt ! And don't be jealous, you know that you're my only one~

-Hmm...I prefer that. Vivi laughed. You started caughing reclaiming for their attention.

-Attention please ! We're discussing my dick-appointment here.

-Jesus you're really annoying, (Y/N), just go for it already.

-How much did he pay you to tell me this huh ?

-What ? He didn't pay me ! You're just always getting your heart broken. I'm just trying to be a good friend.

-Say that you are trying to get rid of her~ Jokes Vivi.

-Vivi, don't expose me like this- Nami plays along while laughing.

-I hate you girls ! You say as you throw a pillow on Nami. The ginger starts complaining that you messed her Nail polish, and the whole scene metamorphosed into a pillow fight.

* * *

You spent the whole day with the girls, chit-chatting about boys and girls and playing stupid games. You felt way more comfortable now, less ashamed. However, you were surprised because you didn't get a message from your bestfriend. You wondered wether he was mad at you, it wasn't in his habits.

You decided to message Ace [click for conversation] [ (Y/N) : Heyy amigo is Sabo ok ? Did he tell u smth abt yesterday ? Ace : Ouch, your hurting my feelings, </3 Only talking to me to ask about my brother~ Yea hes okay why tho ? (Y/N) : Ooo kay. He's home ? Ace : He is. Why don't u directly text him ? (Y/N) : Don't tell him I asked. Btw I didn't forget about those 10 bucks you « borrowed » from me. Give it back.] He didn't answer. You sighed and decided to go see Sabo to settle things down. It was the first time that you were embarrassed to see your best friend. You dressed up in a black skirt and t shirt. You didn't usually pay attention to your looks when you went to hang out at Sabo's, but you were really stressed out and what the girls have said about Koala made you scared of losing him. After all, you had some abandonment issues. You had to settle this down once and forever. You arrived at the guy's place, it was an apartment not so far from your own student flat. You knocked on the door and Ace opened : -Ohhh, (Y/N), he whistles, lookin' like a girl today huh ? -What are you implying you dumbass ? Where's Sabo ? -He's in his room with Koala.- -Wait what ? Koala ? What is she doing here ? Ace raised an eyebrow then said amused ; -I don't know, go ask him yourself. -You're useless as usual. -Always so sweet. You on your period or something ? -I didn't forget about my twenty bucks by the way. -I said I'm goin' to pay you back alright ? Now go talk to Sabo. You and Ace were always teasing each other in a brotherly way, but in reality, he really cared for you, it was just your usual way of communication. But it was true that knowing that Koala was in Sabo's room put you in a bad mood. You knocked on the door with a knot in your stomach. Did they start dating ? Was Sabo interested in her ? These ideas were torturing you. But why did you care anyways ? It was none of your business. He could date whoever he wants. You opened the door but there was only Sabo relaxing on his bed, still fully clothed. « - Sabo ?-Oh, (Y/N), what brings you here ? -Why ? Do I need a reason to see my best friend ? He sits on bed looking at you. He doesn't fail to notice your cute outfit, it was different from your usual sweatpants and hoodies, the way it complemented your figure was almost too much for him. Just that sight was driving him insane, but his face didn't betray his emotions, like always, he acted friendly, not an ounce of lust in his dark ebony eyes. You took place next to him. He smelled good, you thought. The same fresh minty smell as last time. Did he always smell this good ? -(Y/N) ?Huh ? Is everything okay ? His voice seemed concerned.He cared for you. And you had those stupid immature and posessive thoughts. Get a grip of yourself, (Y/N), you thought. -Oh yea-- wasn't Koala here ? Ace told me you were with her.

You tried so hard to act like you didn't care, but he knew you like the back of his hand. But still, he played along. -Hmm..Yes. She just left. I was going out as well. He says with a sweet smile, looking at his watch. You couldn't help but make a disappointed face. -But Sabo I wanted to - I'm really sorry (Y/N), let's talk later. He ruffles your hair and you close your eyes as he does so. You felt stressed out. What happened exactly ? You felt intimidated in his presence for the first time. You wanted him to stay and talk this out. It was a bit awkward for you now. You never thought too much. As he was going out of the room you held the fabric of his coat tight in your hand ; -Sabo- -Hum ? Need me to drop you somewhere ? -N-no. You let his sleeve go, realizing what you have just done, I'll stay a bit then go back home. Don't worry about me. -Alright then. See you later ? -Yeah. See ya. ]

You looked at Sabo go away and you followed him shortly after. Meanwhile Ace was sitting on the couch and watching some movies. You went back home and was quite tormented. It wasn't the right time to worry as you had your assignments and studies to deal with. On one hand, you didn't even have the time to think of your ex boyfriend and his cheating but on the other, you felt like you were let down by Sabo. But why ? He didn't do anything. He just found himself a new friend and a potential new girlfriend.

He didn't even talk about her, but why where you so upset by him meeting her ? After all, he had the right to date just like you always did.

A few days have passed and you didn't get the chance to talk to Sabo. Your exams were getting closer and closer and you didn't feel ready.

Usually, Sabo would help you with your assignments but you were too scared to ask. You realized how much you relied on him and how he has been always there for you.

Who were you exactly to him ?

Maybe you took him for granted.

As you were on your bed looking at the ceiling and trying to collect every drop of motivation in your system to study, you heard your phone ring. It was Sabo's ringtone ! ----- Tag list : @vemuabhi @chloe-abbacchio @mwls-garden @soanywaysistartedsimping If you wanna get tagged just ask for it :)

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