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gregmarriage · 2 months
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currently trying to find a balance between being close friends with people and putting my all into relationships, and keeping them at arms length and it being semi casual, so i don’t hurt myself
#i don’t wanna push people away or isolate myself#it’s just friendship is harddddd#especially right now as i’m still dealing with a lot#like i’m mostly recovered from the manic episode#i just wanna put things in place in my life so i can better deal#not just in the event i’m manic but just in general#tho honestly all i seem to do lately is fix my life and it doesn’t really happen#but i keep trying because what else can i do?#i guess i’m just trying to take things slow#but also my fatal flaw is my impatience#but honestly anybody in my situation probably would be#no one wants to sit around for things to get better#even if i’m doing it for myself i’m still waiting as i put things in place#bc nothing happens instantly#soooo 🤷🏻‍♀️#idk i’m kinda torn between hating small talk and also kinda needing it?#like putting everything into relationships is exhausting#just talking casually is kinda easier for me rn#and i need to find better ways to deal bc i can’t just trauma dump on my friends#even if they’re fine with it#it’s not healthy#a certain level of talking about your problems is fine but there’s a stage where it gets to be you should probably be talking to a therapist#instead of a friend#bc your friend can only help you so much and distractions only go so far#you need like actual help at some point#even if you won’t admit it to yourself#bc honestly i’ve been through this a million times#and you always have to hit rock bottom before you admit you’re in too deep#i hit my rock bottom recently#and now i’m crawling out and paving over that hole i fell through
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Don't Speak 27
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Warnings: this fic will include dark content such as dubcon/noncon, obsession, stalking, manipulation, reclusive behaviour, disordered eating, dissociation, allusions to abuse, and other possible triggers. My warnings are not exhaustive, enter at your own risk.
This is a dark!fic and explicit. 18+ only. Your media consumption is your own responsibility. Warnings have been given. DO NOT PROCEED if these matters upset you.
Summary: Reader is a reclusive loner who ventures down to the library on a simple mission. Her task is complicated by the man she meets there. (f!short!reader)
Character: librarian!Andy Barber
Note: stuff is going on at work (I'm not in trouble) but it's kinda dramatic rn so...
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Dr. Kemp walks in with a cup of tea and puts it in front of you. He insisted on making it for you and you were too hazy to deny him. You're still reeling from your session with Andy and now you're struggling to reset before your one-on-one. 
He smiles and backs away, slipping your journal from the table where you left it and bringing it to you. You take it as he claims the vacated armchair across from you.
"So," he leans an arm on the chair casually, "I know it's been a long morning. We'll try not to overwhelm ourselves, yes?"
You nod and look down at the journal. You're already there. You feel like folding over and shutting down.
"How are you feeling? Is it a lot?"
You swallow and mouth a 'yes', too weak to get much out. You can feel him watching you. You can't even look back at him.
"Right, I guess... there are some things we need to delve into. For your own good."
"Okay," you croak, resting your journal in your lap.
"Have some tea, get settled," he suggests.
You reach forward, keeping a hand on the notebook as you take the mug. You blow over the steam and inhale the scent. It smells different.
"I brought it with me, I hope you like apple cinnamon," he says.
Finally, your eyes flick up and meet his. He watches you expectantly so you take a dainty sip. You hum, it's tasty.
"Thank you," you say and put the cup back on the table.
"Not at all," he runs his fingers along the armrest, "I have a very sensitive question for you."
Your brows draw together. You stare at his neck. He takes a breath, chest rising and falling.
"How much experience do you have in intimate relationships?" He asks.
The room goes stolid as you blink. He waits as you clutch the book tight, nearly bending the hard cover. Your lip twitches and your lashes flutter.
"I..."
"I know it can be hard, but we need to talk about these things. It's obvious you have some shame associated with that part of your life and self. That's not healthy but we can't treat you if you don't talk about it," he explains, "so, you don't need to tell me everything. That's something else you can put in your journal, okay?"
"Okay," you agree, "I can do that."
"But I still want an answer. There are some things I do need to know," he prompts.
You hang your head. You bite your lip deep as you weigh how to say it. Really, it's simple.
"None," you murmur, staring at your toes, "no one wants me."
He hums thoughtfully, "maybe not before, but you must see now that that's changed. I think it's obvious how Andy feels... isn't it?"
You nod again, a lump in your throat.
"But let's not focus on him, let's talk about you. Just you. Is there anything that you've done... alone?" He leans forward, just a little.
You blanch, breathless as the room tilts. You know what he means. You can't believe it. He's only trying to help, right? He is a doctor after all.
You grab the mug, comforting yourself with the hot porcelain. You part your lips and close your eyes. Just be honest, he's not there to judge you. He might even be able to help you.
"Yes," you utter tightly, "not... much. I... I was scared... so... just a little... touch."
You hear him inhale, "right, good. Thank you for your honesty."
Your eyes snap open, "your welcome."
"Let's go over your homework," he stands and you shrink down just slightly.
You watch him as he slowly crosses the room. He has very nice eyes, you think, and his hair looks soft. There's something about him that is welcoming in that moment.
"Just a second, okay, sweetheart?" He holds up a finger.
You force a half-smile and wait as he leaves the room. He comes back with a small plastic bag. It's black and unmarked. You've never seen a bag like that. 
"May I sit?" He approaches the couch. You wave to the cushion quietly, "so, this is what you're going to work on. If you're going to get more comfortable in your relationship, you have to get more comfortable with yourself." He puts the bag on top of your journal, "you can use that to... explore yourself."
You look down and stare. He laughs again, softly. "Go on and look, it's yours."
You hesitantly touch the seam of the bag. You trace your fingers to the top and lift up the edge. Your eyes widen as you see the small silver shape in plastic packaging. You think you know exactly what it is.
"I can't..." you begin.
"You don't have to use it but you do need to... experiment with yourself. It's healthy." He says, "but if you need it... you have it now."
You move the bag under your journal as if to hide it. You give a noncommittal nod.
"And you can write down how you feel after," he offers, "oh, and... I can give you my email? If you have questions outside our typical sessions. How about that?"
He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a burgundy pen, "can I put it in your journal?"
You bite down and reluctantly put down your mug. You open your notebook to a blank page and hand it to him. He puts down his email and shuts the book, putting it back in your lap.
"You did a really good job," he gently brushes his knuckles down your sleeve, "what happened to that purple sweater? I haven't seen you in it."
You shrug, "Andy liked this better..."
"Well, you shouldn't wear what Andy likes, you should wear what makes you feel nice," he gives a tug on the sleeve and draws away, standing with a groan, "well, I think you've had enough of me. Go enjoy your tea, doctor's order."
You look up at him. You slide forward and take your mug, standing with trepidation as you watch him. He smells like a forest. You like it.
"See you next week, right?"
"Sure, next week," you agree before turning away. You're just happy to get some time alone. You feel like you haven't had much of that lately.
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"Dove," Andy's timbre undercuts the chirpy tones of your music. You look at the door and lower the pen from your tablet, tapping pause as your dread returns, "Steve's heading out. Why don't you come say goodbye?"
You put your tablet aside and push yourself heavily across the bed. You stand and drag your feet, the handle rattle before you can reach it. Andy opens the door from the other side. 
"Sorry, I was drawing," you murmur. 
"That's fine," he says, "he asked me to come get you."
"Alright," you shrug.
Andy's eyes fall to your new outfit; the one you'd chosen yourself that morning. You see the small twitch at the corner of his lips. You move past him as if to outrun his ire.
You go downstairs and find Dr. Kemp by the door, buttoning up his black wool jacket. He has a scarf around his neck and you recall the redness in his cheeks upon his arrival. You peer out the narrow pane beside the door. 
"Is it very cold out?" You ask.
"Probably even colder now," he smiles with good humour, "I never mind it. Favourite time of year."
"Oh," you bounce on your feet, "Amber always says it's hot chocolate season."
He chuckles, "that's a good way of looking at it. Hot chocolate; I'll have to remember that next time I come."
"Oh, uh, no, you don't have to–"
"I didn't say I have to, but I want to," he assures, "you a marshmallow girl? Or you like whipped cream?"
You can't help a smile of your own, "either."
"Alright, I'll bring both," he promises, "I'm sure Andrew will stick with his dark roast."
Andy growls but doesn't argue.
"Well I see I've overstayed my welcome," Kemp says, "I'll leave you two alone. Oh, Andy," he continues as he checks his watch, "what did you need me to bring for Thanksgiving? You said no to the peach cobbler so I have to learn how to make something else."
"Bring whatever," Andy replies dismissively.
"Oh, now he changes his tune," he scoffs, "what's your favourite?" Kemp looks at you. "For thanksgiving?"
You think and suddenly feel very sad. You remember the little dinners you would have with Amber, just the two of you. She always made you your favourite dish even if it wasn't very traditional.
"Banana pudding," you eke out grimly, "but… it's not very seasonal, I guess."
"But delicious," he says, "you okay?"
"Yeah, I… I'm fine," you fold your hands in front of you, trying not to let your homesickness seep through. "I… I'll see you next time."
"Sure thing," he winks, "Andrew," he nods and shakes the other man's hand, "you take care of her. She's had a long day."
You stand, spaced out, his silhouette blurring as you hear the door open and close. You just want to lay down and not think. You don't even have the energy left to draw.
"Dove," Andy touches your sleeve, "what's going on?"
"Nothing, tired," you lie. 
"Alright," he accepts dully, "maybe you should relax like he said. How about I run you a bath?"
You don't answer. You pass him and head up the stairs. You can't tell him the truth, you know it'll make him mad. You don't want banana pudding, you want Amber's banana pudding.
"Hey, talk to me," he follows you, "a nice bubble bath sounds nice, doesn't it? It'll help take the tension out."
"Fine," you mutter as you get to the top of the stairs and turn down the hall.
"Is that it? No thanks?" He says tersely.
"I'm sorry," you face him just as you get to your door, "thank you, Andy, I really appreciate it."
"Do you? I thought we were making progress."
"We…are," you frown.
"Uh huh, is that why you brought her up?" He challenges. You shake your head. "Amber… you mentioned her and now you're all upset about it."
You push your lip out, "I miss her."
"You're better off here, where you can get better."
"I know but… she's still my sister."
"Right, and how much do you think she cares? She's got a whole house to herself now. And you've got one too," he gestures to the walls, "you have to stop thinking of that place as home, this is your home," he insists, "so go grab some PJs and I'll get the tub going."
You dip your head. You’re just sad, you wish he would realise it’s not his fault. That you’re lost and you always have been. You don’t know who you are or where you belong.
“Thanks,” you whisper and turn to open the bedroom door.
“Grab some of your new pajamas,” he says.
You go inside and open the dresser. You didn’t fail to notice that it found its way back flush to the wall. That must’ve been when Andy took your journal. That thought bites at your sadness, instead sparking your anger. You still can’t understand why he would do that.
You stop as you open the drawer and stare inside. You sift through the neatly folded clothes. A frilly pink nightie, another pair of pajamas with shorts printed with tiny purple hearts, items you would never pick for yourself. You remember what Dr. Kemp said.
You push aside the new sets and pick out the pair of plaid jammie pants and the grey sweatshirt with Snoopy on it. That’s your favourite pair of pajamas. Amber had the shirt with Woodstock. You hug the fabric and use your hip to close the drawer.
You grab the same novel you’ve been trying to finish since you got here and go back into the hallway. You near the bathroom door and peek inside as Andy bends over the tub. You clear your throat and set your things on the counter.
He stands and shakes the water of his hand. You can smell lavender. He faces you and dries his hand on a towel. His eyes drift from you to the clothes on the counter.
“Oh, those are… cute.”
“I like em,” you wring your hands.
“Yeah, but… they’re old. You have all your new stuff.”
“There’s no holes,” you argue, “and it’s getting colder.”
“Sure, sure,” he crosses his arms, his sleeves snug to his biceps.
You keep your eyes to the floor and move to stand against the counter. You glance over at the door, waiting for him to leave. He hesitates, stopping just in front of you.
“Dove, is everything okay?” He asks.
You tilt your head and examine the tiles. Your pulse is erratic. You shouldn’t say it. It’s not a big deal. But Dr. Kemp says you should speak up.
“No,” you clasp your hands tight, “I’m… I’m… annoyed that you took my journal.”
“Oh,” he lets the single syllable hang, “is that it? I apologised.”
“Yeah, but… but you went into my room and you went through my stuff,” you say, your tone wobbly, “and that’s… that’s wrong.”
“Well, dove, your room? This is my house,” he corrects you, “it’s not like I was snooping. I just forgot to ask you to grab it so I did it myself.” He sighs, “you know, I love you but you make such a big deal out of things.”
“It’s a big deal to me,” you sniff, “and… and you didn’t mention Thanksgiving. I didn’t know– I didn’t know we would do that. I… what if I don’t want to?”
“Don’t want to. Sweetie, why wouldn’t you want to? It’s a holiday. Our first,” he puts his hands on his hips.
You’re quiet. You swallow tightly. You take a breath and release it slowly. Your heart flips and you feel the room shift.
“Can I invite Amber?” You ask so abruptly that you have to slap your hand over your mouth. The thought escapes so fast you can’t stop it.
“Amber?” He repeats bitterly. “Why would you wanna do that?”
“Well, Thanksgiving is for family and… and you said, I want to… I want…” you can’t catch your breath, “to— say… s-s-sorry.”
“Calm down, alright? Don’t be so dramatic. Why? Sorry for what?”
“For hurting her. Like I hurt you, right? That’s what you said.”
He looks away and your eyes flick up briefly. His jaw is set and his eyes are fiery. You shy away as he faces you again.
“I don’t think that’s a good idea,” he backs up and grabs the door, “take your bath. Get your head straight.”
He storms out and slams the door. You whimper and stare at the painted wood. You’re so stupid. One step forward, a hundred backwards. You just can’t let things be good.
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yesimwriting · 7 months
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Hi! I know you're probably busy rn with collage and what not and I totally understand if you can't expand on this but either way, god I just need to rant about this thought.
So I just saw this tik tok where this girl was like "when I'm riding passenger princess and we're getting a little to close to the car in front of us" and the audio was like "the question is when are you gonna START stopping?"
And one of the comments said she wasn't a passenger princess she was a anxious passenger patroller and all that had me thinking of was Stu and reader, like I don't know about everyone else but i canon whole heartily Stu is a great driver who drives recklessly because 1)he knows what he's doing and 2) he thinks the shits funny
And I believe he'd do it especially to reader when he gets in those weird moods when he doesn't know how to feel about the reader/doesn't know how to handle it, and it kinda just serfaces in this weird aggression . Idk it could be like a fight-ish thing and she's telling him to slow down and he's being a dick about and in the end he weasels his way back into her good graces because she won't speak to him first if he's wrong and he doesn't like going to long with out talking to her
I don't know what up with my mind and how it wonders, anywho hope you have a good day/night :)
a/n for sure busy with school and actually having a social life for once and writing but always always always have time for billy and/or stu (especially since i'm kind of stuck on final girl rn😭)
YOU ARE SO RIGHT,, like i don't think he'd drive recklessly to scare reader with the intention of putting reader or himself in a dangerous situation,, but he'd for sure find it funny or see it as a way to "humble" reader a bit, like if Stu felt like the reader was acting too detached or into someone else he's suddenly speeding a little more just so that reader has to grip his arm and squeeze his hand
anyway i've been missing them and super happy to have a lower stakes way to talk about them,, also this turned out a little different and fluffier than i expected it to be lol
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Something about the commercial feels different in the fall. Cliche radio hits are easier during the summer, sometimes even fun. But during autumn, with leaves melting off trees in hues of red and orange and the looming end of the year nostalgia, the synthetic quality is harder to look past.
That's why your hand instinctually gravitates to the radio, switching the station without a second thought.
Stu sighs, a quick, over exaggerated puff of air. "I liked that one."
You glance in his direction, glaring, "You were barely listening."
Even though you're mainly defending yourself out of habit, you know it's true. Stu's pretty open about what he likes, even when he doesn't realize it. Usually, when he likes a song he'll tap his fingers against the steering wheel. If he really likes something, he'll even get into it in a way that definitely lessens his ability to control the car.
"I was, too," he hums, half pouting.
You roll your eyes before looking back out the window. The world is moving past you in a vague blur. So quick a seed of unease plants itself in your stomach. You wouldn't exactly call it worry, you've been hanging with Stu and getting him to drive you around too long for his casual take on driving to overly phase you. With the exception of him doing something particularly risky like throwing himself into another lane after barely checking or taking too sharp of a left turn because of yellow light.
Sometimes you comment on it, equal parts teasing and annoyed. But usually, it's easier to just accept it. Stu's so comfortable with the way he drives that comments only amuse him. The one time you glared at him and asked him to slow down, he had a made a game of switching lanes at the last possible second.
"You liked that Spice Girls song more."
Stu openly snaps his head away from the road to glare at you. "Did not, you're the one that likes that saturated pop stuff."
"I said I liked one song one time."
He sighs, finally turning back to face the windshield. "Sure..." He tugs on the last syllable, dragging it out to make his disbelief clear. "You wanna stop for ice cream?"
It's not exactly late, but later than you planned on staying out. Time seems to slip away too quickly when you and your usual group are together and this afternoon's movie that ended in a hangout at the mall had eaten even more time than expected. There was something extra entertaining about wandering between stores and only occasionally actually looking at clothes.
You do have homework and it is Sunday and you told your mom you'd be back around 6:00 probably and it's now almost 7:00. But ice cream does sound nice and there will only be so many evenings in your life that feel this warm and lighthearted.
"I have some homework," you mumble in one final attempt to convince yourself, "But, yeah, I could go for ice cream."
Stu nods, tapping his pointer finger against the wheel. "We'll be fast."
The yellow light doesn't affect his speed as he turns left. Your fingers press into the side of your seat. Fast. No kidding.
"You okay there, babe?" Okay, there's no way your expression was bad enough to warrant a question (especially when he should be looking at the road). He has to be baiting you. "You're looking a little green."
You force your hand to relax, "Mhm." And it is fine. At the very least, fine enough because Stu always drives like this. "Used to you driving like you're on the run."
"You're just sensitive."
The comment is more dismissive than teasing and for whatever reason, you like it less than when he makes fun of you. At least his bullying is coated in a distinct type of affection that only Stu can get away with.
You briefly consider starting one of your 'am not, are too' fights. You're definitely not above it, especially when you two are alone and no one's around to call you out for being overly childish. But if he's going to be moody over the smallest comment...
He switches lanes--without using his blinker--with a sharp turn of the wheel. "If it's that bad, you could get rides from someone else."
The comment is hard and too casual to be a threat, but still mean. It makes your stomach drop more than the way Stu maneuvers the car. You didn't say he was that bad of a driver and you definitely didn't say anything about not going out with him anymore.
There are a lot of good things about getting Stu to drive you around. You like being in his space and the music that's more often than not just a little too loud and the passenger seat that feels more like your seat. You also like the unplanned for car moments, the accidental gossip sessions in driveways and parking lots. It's part of the reason you're glad you don't have a license yet...it's an excuse to just be around him.
"I didn't--"
"Bet Randy would put up with your backseat driving." The car speeds up slightly. "He'd slow down if you gave him that look."
You frown, ruining any chance you have at arguing that that you don't have a face. You don't get what his issue is, especially with bringing up Randy. He's been making on and off comments since the movie you all watched ended.
You don't fully get it, but you guess you get Stu being a little annoyed. Randy and you had been a little obnoxious, laughing too hard at jump scares and flinching too dramatically at moments that weren't that bad. But it's not like you two were terrible. Definitely not bad enough to warrant this passive aggression.
"I don't want to drive around with Randy, I want to drive around with you." You're full on pouting and you don't even care.
Stu sighs, eyes avoiding yours in the rearview mirror. An uncomfortable warmth settles against his face. How do you always manage to do that? From anyone else, he'd hate it, but you're never trying to get anything out of it. Things like that are just offhanded comments to you. No ulterior motives. You don't even think twice about it.
"So now it's not enough enough to be driven around by anyone?"
You shrug, relaxing into your seat. "I'm spoiled."
His throat feels dry, a wave of uncomfortable fondness hitting him with no warning. He knows there's some joke he should make about how you're shameless about it, too. But he's too caught up on the amount of feeling tightening his chest.
He turns into parking lot of your usual drive-in ice cream spot.
"You're enabled."
You turn your head, smiling, "And you're the enabler."
Stu grins, moving a hand to squeeze your shoulder. "I'll enable you any time, babe."
You roll your eyes, but don't make any move to shake him off. "Enable me a--"
"Mint chocolate chip in a waffle--not sugar--cone." He recites your usual order without a second thought.
You nod once in approval. "This is why you're my favorite."
"I'm telling Billy you said that."
Scratching the back of your arm, you glare. Stu's always trying to start a fight with that. "Do not start."
He grins teasingly, "Start what?"
You glare, hoping that the look is threatening enough to make him promise to leave your comment behind. You've known Stu long enough to know that he'd happily take a you're my favorite and save it until he could use it as some sort of ammunition, exaggerating it to make sure it really hits. All that does is make him smile more. Before you can say anything else about it, Stu rolls down the window and orders.
When you get to the window, you try to pay for your own, but that ends as it usually does. He never lets you pay for anything, and when you threaten to leave cash in his car, he threatens to buy you even more things. Try it and on Monday I'm picking you up with coffee and a muffin and that new CD you were talking about. ...A lot of the times, the suggestion makes you want to stop for coffee and muffins before school anyway, so you end up getting it with him anyway.
You give in early this time, thanking him for the ice cream as he finds an empty spot to park in. You smile to yourself. Parked car time with Stu is something you enjoy a lot more than you'd ever admit. The two of you have a silent understanding that in these moments you can say things you wouldn't usually be able to say out loud. Nothing terribly cruel, just a little snarky. The kind of comments that'd get you in trouble in front of the wrong people.
Usually, you have to take the lead at first because Stu likes to act like he's too good for gossip, but once he gets started, he's worse than you.
You're still debating which of the two major topics--rumors you've heard about Susan Welch being pregnant and the weird way Madison Meyer has been acting--to bring up first when Stu breaks the silence. "You uh--" Stu cuts himself off. "You know I wouldn't--I wouldn't do anything that'd hurt you like that."
Weirdly deep comment to hear while you're holding an ice cream cone. "...Are you trying to convince me you didn't poison my ice cream?" That strange seriousness of his doesn't go away. You frown. "Yeah, come on, of course I know that."
He nods, "Yeah, just--" Stu won't look at you. "I wouldn't, and just--the car thing--"
"Stu." You've made those kinds of comments before, and it's never made him react like this. "I know that." You nudge his forearm gently. "I didn't mean it like."" He doesn't cheer up. "Seriously, if I thought you were trying to reverse-vehicular-manslaughter me, I wouldn't get in the car."
At that, he lets out a breath that's definitely trying not to be a laugh. "Would that be reverse-vehicular-manslaughter?"
"I don't know," you hum casually, pausing to eat some of your ice cream, "You're the one trying to do it." Stu glares; you grin. "Kidding." You bite off the top edge of your cone. "You know I love driving around with you--we listen to music, we talk, we gossip--"
"I don't gossip, you gossip and I let you."
You shake your head, not bringing up the fact that he always has more stuff worth saying than you do and he's snarkier than anyone would ever guess. "Then I guess I won't tell you what's up with Susan Welch."
To be fully honest, Stu couldn't care less about Susan Welch, but he likes the way you react to these sort of things. Your reactions to his side comments might be his favorite part of these moments. "She's...in our english class right?"
"Mhm," you hum, trying to downplay your excitement, "Remember how she had to leave class early the other day--like, practically ran out of the room to throw up?" You don't wait for him to respond, "That was on square pizza day--which is the day that's least likely to make someone throw up." You pause for the sake of your ice cream. "And Lucy Thompson swears Susan randomly stopped drinking, which if you've met her, makes no sense. So, Lucy thinks Susan might be..." You trail off before vaguely gesture to your stomach.
Stu's eyes narrow as he pretends to really think about what you've just said. "I don't know if that's enough to mean she's knocked up."
You shake your head once, "Lucy also said she's never in cheer practice anymore, and she started wearing baggy clothes." You sit up a little straighter, "And Missy Danes swears her older sister's friend saw Susan buying a pregnancy test in a grocery store two towns over. I know it's not proof, but it's definitely worth thinking about."
He widens his eyes, more for your sake than anything else, "Definitely." He pushes his spoon into his melting ice cream. "If she is pregnant, she's totally screwed because Ben Johnson was just bragging about hooking up with her."
Your mouth falls open in pretend shock, "No way." You lean against the center console. "You got oreo again, right?"
Stu knows exactly what that question means, "Want some?"
Your eyebrows draw together as you shake your head. "No, I'm--"
"We could trade for a little."
Another one of your traditions, each person's ice cream slowly becoming everyone's. "Another reason why you're my favorite."
"Oh, now you're begging me to tell Billy."
You dip the spoon into ice cream, digging for a particularly large oreo crumb. "I will blame it on the ice cream."
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girlwithfish · 5 months
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no one gets the hoe phase rn 😔ik im just lonely and i should try to make normal friends who i dont fuck but idk
i dont wanna unpack why ots easier for me to talk to ppl in a sexual romantic context evn if its not explicitly said but i am quite good at being sexual w ppl idk apparently its pretty easy for me now and theres a certain lrvel of detachment bug i akso enjoy talking to ppl and getting to know them snd being able to talk abt shit i like and myself as well ig its helping me see who i am and how i present mysekf eben tho sometiems i feel like im putting on an act a bit it depends who im talking to idk. butny sister judges my mom tells me not to get a boyfriend bit i cant explain casual sex to her or like "casual dating" lol like im just datig around and being a hoe idk. cuz its easier bc ppl will b nice to u wjen they want sometbing from u idk! and idk if i trust men but i kinda like when im talking to someone whos nice to me even if i dont wanna get close to anyone and lately ive just been thinking abt how ppl get when theyre angry and i feel a little scared when i tbink of someone im vibig w and like and could maybe see myself dating but then i get kinda scared. def not tryig to get into a relationship tho im just making friends rn i guess ?? lmao. and also trying to explore sexuality like idk i just wanna have some fun lol. nd everyone judges me for that but its ok idk. my mom n sister dont get it it hust annoys me when theyre kinda pushy about it ig... like my sister saying its not safe or my mom constsntly asking me who im texting😔
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kwiiwi1 · 10 months
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(ok so I realized I haven't introduced my poly polynesian OC relationship so imma do it rn)
INTRODUCING.. VĀ-KĀ YIPPEE ✨️✨️✨️
Vā-Kā is this kinda NZ K-pop group / band I made way back in lockdown, which was 4 years ago, and have since then been thinking about sm (along with all my other 100+ OC's but shh I'll talk about em in another post maybe lolz)
I created them because I was really bored and sad, and it was like, "mm wonder if there's like an NZ K-Pop group... imma make my own for funsies 😈😈😈"
It was supposed to be like a one-off thing, but they turned into this v real thing I could pull off when I'm older and have more experience with art, like I'm literally crying inside because the edits I could animate?? the music?? the unofficial photoshoots?? them in general?? so many ideas are crammed in my head fr
Anywaysss onto like actually talking about them!
There's 8 members overall, 6 girls and 2 dudes, and they're all best friends turned band / K-pop group turned lovers (cause I'm a sucker for friends to lovers fr)
It's kinda like a K-Pop group but not really it's like.. looser. Idk
I will post proper art of them eventually, but I'm so worried about like repping em wrong since like 7 members are POC, and even tho I'm POC, I'm feeling like I'd do something wrong so yeah
But anyways, time for actual lore stuff hooray 🥳🥳🥳
(Lore under the cut lolz)
Members:
💜 Tori Tuigamala / Lunar 💜
Tori is the oldest of the group and is one of the main leaders (the group doesn't really have leaders, but they all follow her and Kora since they both have the most level heads about shit.). She's introverted and a bit motherly, except its kinda like she'll nip you around the ears if you don't listen to her fr.
It always feels like she's the one who knows what to do because of how organized she is. She seems to plan out everyones schedule without their permission, even if it comes from a good place.
However, she follows through with the promises she makes every time, and actively tries to own up to whatever wrongdoings either her or her group cause, while watching out for the groups safety because she cares and loves them all so much, even if she doesn't say it enough like she'd want to.
Silly facts:
Dyslexic so often she'll record her notes through voice messages or voice-to-text to make it easier. Otherwise, Kora will note the stuff down when they're in meetings n stuff
Loves mochas, ube roll, chocolate chip cookies, and straight black coffee
insomniac, probably
Smells like pomegranate
Samoan-French, has 2 dads and a younger sister, Toni, who's also in the band
25 years old, oldest member. Bday is 31st August, starsigns a Virgo
Her as a squishmallow would be Violet the Octopus
Bisexual and Demigirl, pronouns are she/her + they/them
Height is 5'9"
A friend said that her clothing style would be similar to Hoonjoong from Ateez, and from analysing, it'd be like.. baggy shirts tucked into high-waisted pants or mom jeans-eque pants, washed out colours, sweaters, and cardigans, generally very soft and casual yet trendy if you style it right yknow
Seungmin-core from the "Which SKZ member are you?" quiz, and Yoongi-core from the "Which BTS member are you?" quiz
Favourite colour is purple 💜💜💜💜💜
One of the main singers of the band/group, the other one is Harper
Music taste is like.. jazz. soul music. R&B. idfk fr 😭😭😭😭
Voice claim is AACACIA cause I've always felt like she'd have this kinda deep-ish soul voice that's a lil bit floaty and lilty (idk how to explain my brain properly fr) and like.. soon as I listened to AACACIA, she just fit
Probably had an emo phase. or a vampire phase. maybe both. we don't talk about it
Eats plain rice when she's stressed, bored, overwhelmed, or all three (like me 😍😍😍😍)
Link to voice claim: https://youtu.be/bAAExYOc3VY
💙 Diana Kim / Fluxx 💙
Diana's a smartie seems so very cold and somewhat distant to the public because of how harsh and blunt her remarks come off as.
Their fandom + her group know that she isn't at all like that and that she has trouble communicating her feelings properly. She loves to talk about space and / or the ocean (it changes each day), makes clothes for group sometimes, does photography, and is actually a very soft and caring person, she just doesn't know how to express it properly sometimes.
It takes her a bit of a while to tho, and when she does, she puts in a lot of time and effort. On the inside, she's very expressive and ambitious, always eager to learn something new, and is encouraging her group with how she sticks constantly to one goal until she makes it without Diana realizing her effect.
Silly facts:
Loves earl grey tea, caramel brittle and carrot cake.
Smells like peppermint
Blasian (African-American + South Korean), has 3 parents (two are her birth parents)
24 years old. Birthday is 16th December, starsign is Sagittarius
Her as a squishmallow would be Perry the Dolphin
Bisexual and Demisexual, pronouns are she/her
Height is 6'0"
Friend said that she'd dress like smart but fashionable. Has a similar style to Seungmin or Hyunjin from Stray Kids, so it's half comfy and fashionable n half smart and fashionable
Changbin-core from the "Which SKZ member are you?" quiz, also Yoongi-core from the "Which BTS member are you?" quiz
Favourite colour is blue 💙💙💙
Plays keyboard / synth for the group
I'm not sure what her music taste is either, but it feels like a mix of classical and jazz music + BTS
Voice claim for her is Bic Runga
Ocean and space hyperfixation, my dudes
Takes photos of her members lovers and sticks it up on her room walls
BTS stan, biases are SUGA / Yoongi and RM / Namjoon
Has an Avatar (blue people) OC lolz
Link to voice claim: https://youtu.be/WJXfwo68C4M
💚 Asher Kieu / virt2 💚
Asher is v v quiet and soft-spoken, barely speaks up in the interview's or stuff the group has. Even though Asher's quiet most of the time, she's very perceptive and can often pick up on what others don't, making her a real good listener.
Is secretly a good cook + baker and sometimes plays piano pieces for the group or the fandom when she has the time on her solo livestreams. (I say secretly cause none of Vā-Kā let her into the kitchen. There's like... a 75% chance she'll set the entire thing on fire. Maybe. Probably.)
She's a very emotional kinda person, can kinda come off as being a bit sensitive even if she doesn't mean to get hurt. The fandom + members compare her voice to like an angels because of how like soft and gentle it sounds. It helps some of their fans, n tbh Asher loves being able to inspire their fandom even if she doesn't involve herself as much as she would like to.
Silly facts:
Likes mint chocolate chip ice cream, lemonade and caramel apples
Smells like vanilla sugar cookies.
Dark skin Vietnamese (still need to figure out the deets), also has 3 parents and a younger brother
23 years old. Birthday is 25th February, starsign is Pisces
Her as a squishmallow would be Serene the Squirrel
Pansexual and Genderqueer, pronouns are she/her + he/him + they/them
Height is 5'5"
Friend said that asher would dress in stuff that's really comfortable, like it doesn't have to look crazy good it just has to be comfy for them to hide and not draw attention yknow
Hyunjin-core from the "Which SKZ member are you?" quiz, Jimin-core from the "Which BTS member are you?" quiz
Fav colour is green (more specifically, mint) 💚💚💚
Backup vocals for the group, n plays acoustic guitar + piano if needed
I have literally no clue for what she listens to 💀💀💀💀💀 maybe like lofi, but I'm not sure yet
Voice claim is Georgia Lines (found her on a NZ mix playlist on Spotify and she kinda stuck instantly)
Strong self-esteem issues (me too ✨️✨️✨️✨️). doesn't choose to be in the spotlight in case it's seen as them showing off
Loves baking. Secret hobby of hers. Has a lil secret room in her room where she bakes and vibes
Autistic probably (me pt 2)
🧡 Kora Faletau / sivk 🧡
Kora is a grouchy but lovable and stupid idiot, keeps the group in check when they're in public, and helps to lighten the mood with some self-deprecating jokes at his expense.
Very intelligent. Smartiepants. High IQ mother fucker. Really tall. And strong. uh. yuh
Is almost always done with the groups shenanigans (especially when Harper, Micah, Toni, and Alto are being lil asshats), but he deals with it because they're the only thing that keeps him sane.
Most honest person in the group tho, will not be afraid to call you out on your shit. You lie to him, he will wrestle ur ass off that high horse in a second (he inherited his mother's sass and attitude to a point ong)
Silly facts:
Likes pizza n pasta despite being lactose sensitive / intolerant. Dumb shithead
Smells like strawberries
Tongan-Latino, youngest of 4 siblings (3 older sisters) n a single mum
23 years old. birthday is 21st September, starsign is Virgo
Them as a squishmallow would be Gary the Giraffe
Demisexual Pansexual + Nonbinary, uses he/they pronouns
Height is 6'3", tallest member
Friend said that Kora would wear whatever he pulls out of the closet and somehow he'd still make it work, so they don't really have a set style and it's all over the place but it fits them
Bangchan and / or Changbin-core from the "Which SKZ member are you?" quiz, Namjoon-core from the "Which BTS member are you?" quiz
Fav colour is orange 🧡🧡🧡
Bassist, does keyboard/synth when Diana's not free + main rapper
Listens to rap n stuff, like Kendrick Lamar, J.Cole, Logic, and then siren jams because man's would not be complete with blasting some shitty siren jam early in the morning
Voice claim for him is Kings because he's kinda got like a deep kinda scratchy n smooth voice fr
V v Bangchan n Changbin-core like have you seen this dude work out. Mans used to play basketball too cause of his height, so he'd probably be real good at sports shit n like lean n built n muscular lolz
Hates physical contact when they're in interviews or other (hugs and kisses in front of people make him lose his confidence and gets him all embarrassed and shy), but loves it when the groups behind closed doors.
💛 Harper Mayfield / Sun-E 💛
Harper is an absolute ball of sunshine, jokes around and makes fun of her friends, very energetic, and hypes everyone up.
She's always on the move, whether it be from cleaning, cooking, to her favourite dancing, she's always found to be doing something in order to improve on herself.
Bros surprisingly wise and almost always manages to talk down confrontations, and her smile is known to brighten up both the group and their fandoms day. Whenever she makes someone happy, she's happy.
Silly facts:
Likes lemon drops, turkish delight, fry bread
Smells like coconut cream and ginger
Māori-Australian, is the youngest of 4 siblings (1 older sister and 2 older brothers) n a single mum
22 years old. Birthday is 5th June, starsign is Gemini
Her as a squishmallow would be Kayla the Koala
Pansexual + Genderfluid , uses any pronouns
Height is 5'11"
Friend said that Harper has like a simple style, like a shirt and jeans with the occasional jacket here and there, plus a lot of accessories. Either that or she'll wear really colourful n confident clothes that she pulls off really easily, so she v much has a style similar to J-Hope from BTS
Jisung-core from the "Which SKZ member are you?" quiz, Hobi-core from the "Which BTS member are you?" quiz
Favourite colour is yellow 💛💛💛
2nd Main Vocalist + Saxophonist for the group
Listens to anything she can dance to, so it'd be like a mix of Hip Hop n Rap. I have a playlist of songs I think she'd dance to for funsies lol
Voice claim is Kimbra, idk she fits fr fr
Down bad. Down horrendously. Easy to fluster and easy to please. Silly silly Harper
Makes a lot of kandi n stuff for the group as accessories for when they dress up n shit. Loves it sm
❤️ Micah Tyjani / DUSK ❤️
Micah is very laid back and chill, takes a whole lotta shit to piss her off. She sometimes helps out Kora with cooking or the younger members (Toni and Alto) with being stupid as shit, but she goes with the flow most of the time.
She's a night owl kinda person too lol. Most of the group go to her for a place to vent or cry because she's so laid-back and lax with it, and she welcomes it all, as she always makes sure to check up on her members.
She cares a lot, and she cares very deeply about all of them, just like they all care for her fr.
Silly facts:
Likes red velvet cake and mashed potatoes
Smells like gingerbread
Nigerian-Haitian, born to two dads (one of them was a seahorse dad)
23 years old, birthday is 13th July, starsign is Cancer
Them as a squishmallow would be Bailey the Llama
Unlabeled + Bigender, uses she/him pronouns
Height is 5'8"
Friend said that Michas style would be a mix of both Harper and Ashers, so like simple and comfortable clothes with a lot of accessories and bright colours lolz
Seungmin-core from the "Which SKZ member are you?" quiz, Namjoon-core from the "Which BTS member are you?" quiz
Favourite colour is red ❤❤❤
2nd Bassist of the group + 2nd rapper
Listens to Hip Hop n Rap n like other stuff. Still need to think fr
Voice claim is Ladi6
Works out with Kora. they're both so 🤤🤤🤤🤤 PLUS she can beat people up if they need to, so boom banger
🩷 Toni Tuigamala / Eris 🩷
Toni is the absolute opposite of her older sister. Where Tori is organized and figured out, Toni is brash and all over the place.
Although she fools around a lot and kinda comes off as a bit of a jerk, she can be quiet and caring when needed mhm mhm
Unafraid to speak her mind, and probably joins Kora in the "I shall beat u up with my words and my wit" category. Her wit is sharp, but her tongue is even sharper fr. Sassy lil shit.
Offers the best fashion advice and makes sure that everyone looks their best.
Silly facts:
Likes rice pudding and raspberry cheesecake
Smells like waffles and maple syrup
Samoan-French, two dads, and ofc her older sister Tori
22 years old, birthday is 17th April n starsign is Aries
Her as a squishmallow would be Reina the Butterfly
Omnisexual (with the teeniest lean towards women) + Pangender, uses she/they + he/him pronouns
Height is 5'7"
Friend said that Toni would have a similar style to Tori since she's her sister, but like sometimes when he's in the mood, he'd wear something chic. They said that there isn't really a specific theme, but that's how Toni is, she doesn't have a certain theme but if it works it works lolz
Lee-Know-core from the "Which SKZ member are you?" quiz, Tae-core from the "Which BTS member are you?" quiz
Favourite colour is magenta, but I use this soft pink heart for her lolz 🩷🩷🩷
Drummer for the group
Listens to FLO n like.. idk sexy bitch music. she is the moment slayy 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
Voice claim is Aaradhna
Flirty. So flirty. So pretty. Gets under Harper's skin a lot, but in a flirty sexy way yknow
🩵 Alto Manukuo / Alto 🩵
Alto's the sweetheart himbo of the group, the bro who can manage to make everyone swoon for him without even trying. Very sweet and kind, has the ultimate puppy eyes tbh
Sometimes, he surfs when he's got the time, but most of the time, he spends it doing gymnastics and / or working out and / or playing with Toni. Likes helping out around the groups house and gives the best hugs for such a short guy. Always energetic and bubbly, will not stop until he'd able to make your day better.
(He's so puppy I NEED HIM 👹👹👹👹👹)
Silly facts:
Likes honeycomb n milk and fry bread
Smells like peach and custard pie
Indonesian-Niuean. youngest of 3 siblings, has 2 older brothers n their two mums
21 years old, birthday is 30th March, starsign is Pisces
Him as a squishmallow would be Harrison the Dog
Bisexual + Genderfluid, uses any pronouns but mainly he/him and she/her
Height is 5'6"
Friend said that though Alto is a cutie because they work out / do gymnastics, so they feel like their closet would mostly have like sleeveless shirts n cropped tops, similar to Bangchan from Stray Kids. Otherwise it'd be soft sweaters n sweatpants because yes
Jeongin-core from the "Which SKZ member are you?" quiz, Jin-core from the "Which BTS member are you?" quiz
Favourite colour is teal, but I use this like light blue emoji for him 🩵🩵🩵
2nd backup vocalist + Electric Guitar for the group
Listens to I have no fucking clue, but it'd be like flowy n vibey yknow
Voice claim is Shaan Singh from Drax Project, absolute loml 😍😍😍😍😍
Golden retriever energy. himbo. solid himbo energy mans onggg
Works out a lot too. Stronk. Squidgy. Need him
Still can't get rid of that CHUNKY THICC ASS 😫😫😫😫😫
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Dude I have been intrigued by winterironspider, been floating around. Them taking care of Peter or angsty, Bucky seeing both Tony and Tony's son Peter (they don't know) 🌝 if you want
Oh ho ho! Dude, I also am very intrigued by WinterIronSpider, and I've actually written a fic that I totally forgot about and never edited
It was gonna just be starker with like intern Peter but then I sat down to write and Bucky calling Tony Daddy was the first scene I wrote, which is hilarious cuz Bucky wasn't even supposed to be in it 🤣🤣
But I do have a WIP that's called My Dad's Boyfriend, cuz how could I not go there??
Initially, I was thinking Peter would meet Tony's new boyfriend and be jealous but then end up liking him, and be like secretly in love with his dad. But dude, then I sat down to write lol, and it turns out that Peter, that little slut, already slept with Bucky!!
Tony doesn't know that they know each other, and it's kinda Bucky with both of them in a way??
It's kinda a mess rn, but I might be able to turn it into something readable for you, otherwise I'll try and whip up something else 😉
But in the meantime, take this WinterIronSpider fic you didn't ask for
Also, I would like to say that I find it very interesting that the only two WinterIronSpider fics I've come up with include twink Bucky, cuz that's not a dynamic I've ever read/looked for from this ship?? Idk lol
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Peter jumped away from Bucky like a child caught with his hand in the cookie jar when he saw Tony. He was blushing bright red and Tony raised a brow at him.
"What are you two kids doing? Staying out of trouble I hope," Tony said as though he were talking to five years olds as opposed to twenty-five year olds.
"Nothing, Daddy," Bucky said sweetly, a smirk on his lips.
Peter just coughed and blushed harder, stepping further away from Bucky and dropping his gaze to his feet. He kinda hated that Bucky got to call Tony Daddy, and Peter had to call him Mr. Stark.
It's not like Tony even noticed him. He was just the new intern, fresh out of college and drowning in debt.
Tony hummed, tugging Bucky in for a kiss and eyeing Peter.
"Kid? Go grab the files from Pepper about Hammer Industries, won't ya? I need to know what I'm dealing with before I walk into this meeting. I'd hate to go into it blind."
Peter nodded, scrambling away with a "Yes, Mr. Stark," thrown over his shoulder.
Bucky shook his head, slipping his arms around Tony's neck and kissing him again.
"You should go easier on him," Bucky murmured. "Poor kid is terrified of disappointing you."
"Easier?" Tony scoffed. "I'm softer on that boy than I am on you, and I let you warm my lap during conference calls."
Bucky's lips stretched into a grin.
"And your cock, too, if I remember correctly."
Tony gripped his hips, pushing him back until his back hit the wall and he was trapped by Tony's weight.
"Don't be a brat. I don't have time to punish you."
"Mm, rain check?"
Tony huffed, shaking his head in disbelief, but he kissed Bucky one last time before pulling away.
"I don't know what god I pissed off to deserve a brat like you," Tony called over his shoulder, heading off down the hall.
"Fuck off! You know you love me!"
Tony chuckled as he opened his office door, refusing to turn around because he would probably end up railing Bucky up against the wall if he did. Letting his little boy work with him was possibly the worst decision he'd made since he became Bucky's Daddy a year previous.
--
Peter passed Bucky in the hall, practically running to try and get the file to Tony as fast as possible.
Bucky laughed when he came skidding to a halt outside of Tony's office, blushing bright red and hurriedly trying to straighten out his rumpled clothes.
"Shut up," Peter grumbled under his breath, and Bucky just chuckled. "Don't you have some work to do or something?"
Bucky raised a brow at him, leaning back against the wall, his arms and ankles crossed casually.
"My only job is pleasing the boss," Bucky said, a little smug and a little teasing. "You know, it's a pretty cushy position. I could set up an… interview, if you're ever interested."
Peter felt like his cheeks were on fire but he glared at Bucky.
"I'm not a sex worker, Bucky."
Bucky hummed.
"It's more of a kept boy situation really. Less street walking and more being showered with lavish gifts and kisses," Bucky teased.
Bucky's eyes sparkled mischievously, and Peter ripped his gaze away, opening his mouth to say—What? He wasn't sure, but it didn't matter because Tony's door swung open and he yanked the file out of Peter's hand.
"I thought I told you to get this to me ASAP," Tony snapped.
Peter's eyes widened and he stepped away.
"S–Sorry, sir! I—" Peter glanced at Bucky before dropping his gaze to his feet, his eyes brimming with tears. "I'm sorry. I'll do better next time."
Tony didn't say anything, retreating back into his office.
Peter missed the disapproving look he sent Bucky and the sheepish look Bucky gave him in return.
"Sorry, Daddy," Bucky mouthed, aware that he was definitely going to be in trouble when they got home.
Peter bit his lip, keeping his eyes on the ground and turned to walk away but Bucky grabbed his wrist.
"You could have just blamed it on me."
Peter glared at the ground.
"I'm not a tattletale," Peter bit out. "Besides, it is my fault for letting you distract me when I knew Mr. Stark needed the file quickly."
Bucky groaned.
"You're infuriating, you know that, kid? Why do you gotta apologize for everything? Always so quick to take the blame? You emotional masochist or something?"
Peter turned his glare on Bucky looking about as threatening as a puppy.
"Why do you call me kid?" Peter shot back. "It pisses me off! It's at least tolerable when Mr. Stark does it because compared to him I am a kid, but you're not even older than me!"
"I'll have you know I'm ten and a half months older than you."
"That's—" Peter furrowed his brow. "How do you know that? You don't know my birthday."
Bucky shrugged.
"I read your file."
Peter's eyes widened.
"What? Why?"
Bucky raised a brow like it was obvious.
"I read all the files. I'm the one who chooses the interns, and I chose you."
Peter stared at him for a moment.
"That's not—" Peter snapped his mouth shut, looking around a little lost. "Why would you choose me? Why are you always hitting on me? Do you just want to make Mr. Stark jealous or something?"
Bucky scoffed, shaking his head.
"Oh my god, kid, you're killing me! Of course, I want to make Tony jealous. I want him to see you with me and be jealous that I'm the one touching you."
Peter was so fucking confused.
"I don't understand. Aren't you two together?"
"Yeah, but I've always wanted a baby brother," Bucky said softly, tucking a curl behind Peter's ear.
Peter blushed and stuttered over his words before stumbling over his feet as he tried to back away. But Bucky wrapped an arm around his waist, pulling him in close, and Peter gasped, his heart racing in his chest and his breath trapped in his lungs.
"B–Bucky?"
"Hmm?"
"What are you—? We can't—"
"Why not?"
Peter whimpered, his eyes flickering from Bucky's eyes to his lips.
Bucky smirked, leaning in to capture his lips.
Peter froze under Bucky's coaxing lips, and when Bucky licked at his lips, Peter broke the kiss, ducking his head into Bucky's neck instead.
"We can't!" Peter whined. "This is wrong!"
"Why's it wrong, baby?" Bucky asked softly, rubbing Peter's back soothingly.
"You have a boyfriend, for starters. Plus, I need this internship. I can't afford to lose it."
Bucky cooed at him, pressing a kiss to his hair.
"Aw, angel, you don't gotta worry about none of that. You ain't gonna get fired, and trust me, the only thing Tony's gonna be upset about is that I got to kiss you first."
"I don't—I don't even know what that means!"
Peter wasn't a fool. He knew exactly what Bucky was implying but it was so laughable to think that Tony Stark wanted anything to do with him that he had trouble making sense of it.
Bucky hummed, resting his chin on Peter's head.
"We could give you the world, baby, you know that, right? Tony has everything you could ever want at his fingertips, and I have Tony wrapped around my little finger. You could have that, too. You could be a spoiled baby boy and never have to worry about anything ever again."
"I don't know what that means," Peter repeated in a small voice, so lost.
It sounded so good, unbelievably good, like way too good to be true good. There was no way Tony Stark wanted to be his daddy.
Peter didn't think Bucky was cruel enough to play a joke like this on him, though Bucky could be a smug asshole at times. He didn't think he'd ever be this much of an asshole, but that didn't mean Peter could just accept that he was really being offered a… What? A sugar daddy? A kept boy position? He had no fucking clue what he was being offered, honestly, because none of it made any sense.
It was too much to hope that all this flirting and teasing from Bucky, who seemed to flirt with everyone so Peter had just brushed it off as his personality, was more than just Bucky being a friendly, flirtatious kind of person. Peter knew that flirty and charming was just part of who Bucky was, traits that he definitely shared with Tony—not that Tony had ever flirted with Peter. In fact, Tony was pretty distant with Peter.
It wasn't shocking given his status as a lowly broke intern and Tony's status as the billionaire boss. Tony did seem to flirt with just about everyone else, though, and Peter had been a little hurt by that at first. It was stupid, but he felt like he was so low on the ladder that he wasn't even worth a wink or a few teasing words.
"It means you'd never have to work again, Petey-pie," Bucky murmured coaxingly, running his fingers through Peter's curls. "Doesn't that sound nice, baby?"
Peter shook his head, whimpering.
"I can't—I already have a cushy job, Bucky. And what you're offering me… It's not real. It can't be."
Peter really did have a cushy job, but if he was being honest he hated it. He hated that Tony didn't seem to want him around. He told Peter to come in at ten and most days sent him home at lunch. Peter was barely ever there, barely ever worked, and when he did he was so desperate to have Tony's attention and approval, it was honestly pathetic.
No wonder Tony wanted nothing to do with him. He was clingy and desperate and stumbled over his words and his feet. Bucky was nothing like him, so if that was what Tony liked, someone who was bratty and demanding and cocky, just about as sarcastic and charming as Tony himself, then Peter would never stand a chance. He was a weird little nerd, and Bucky was all smooth talking and smug smirks.
"Peter—"
"I don't have anything to offer, okay?" Peter blurted out, cutting him off and pulling back just enough to look up at him with wide, anxious eyes. "I'm not cool. I'm not experienced. Tony would probably laugh if I tried to seduce him or blow him or something. I've literally only given head once, and it was while I was drunk at a party in college."
Bucky raised a brow at him.
"Okay, we're gonna circle back to that because I'd love to hear about what a pretty little thing like you considers to be a party. You're such a nerd, I feel like a group of five and a bottle of shitty wine constitutes a college party for you."
"It was jello shots," Peter mumbled, embarrassed.
"Ooh, tantalizing story," Bucky teased just to be a jerk. "But Peter, what I said about an interview, that was just me teasing you, you know that, right? You don't have to blow Tony to prove you're worthy of being his lover. I'm not asking you to sign a contract and become his little plaything. I'm offering you the opportunity to sit in his lap, cuddle up in our bed, be ours. Not just Tony's."
"But we are talking about a like sugar baby thing, aren't we? I mean, I thought that's what you meant…"
Bucky nodded.
"Yeah, sure. I prefer kept boy, because sugar baby implies it's just a business arrangement and kept boy to me feels more like I'm his lover, but he does showers me with lavish gifts and gives me a weekly allowance. So sure, it's a sugar daddy thing."
"Isn't getting gifts just part of dating a billionaire, though?" Peter pointed out, tilting his head.
"Our relationship goes a little beyond just dating a billionaire," Bucky teased, poking at Peter's side and making him giggle. "Tony doesn't just give me an allowance, he also provides for me. Emotionally, financially, physically, Tony takes care of me. I moved in with him months ago, but when we first got together I lived on my own and Tony took over my rent. He paid for my Ubers and my groceries and my clothes. He gave me my own credit card that I use to purchase all of my essentials and recreational shit and then on top of that I get an allowance."
"If he pays for everything then why do you get an allowance? What do you spend it on?" Peter asked curiously.
"Nothing. I don't spend it. It goes into a savings account and waits for me. It's a security blanket, so I don't feel trapped. So I could leave Tony and still live the over the top lifestyle I've become accustomed to. So I don't stay because I have to."
Peter's eyes widened.
"That's… I don't even know what to say to that."
"Say yes," Bucky encouraged, tucking a curl behind Peter's ear. "Say you want to be ours and know that it doesn't have to be forever unless you want it to be. You'll have all the control. You won't ever be trapped, and you'll be freed from all your financial worries."
"I'd be in control?" Peter asked skeptically, frowning because he wasn't sure that sounded fun.
Sure, he didn't want to be taken advantage of, but whenever he fantasized about Tony and Bucky, he always pictured Tony being in charge and Bucky being… Well, not in charge of Tony but definitely more dominant than himself. He didn't really have any interest in taking charge or dominating either of them, or anyone really.
"In the ways that matter most, yeah, but not—" Bucky cut himself off, clearing his throat. "I don't want to assume just because you're shy and nerdy and all teeny tiny that you like to bottom or be submissive, but if I'm being honest, that's the role I see you playing. I don't say that to try and pressure you, I just genuinely get those vibes from you."
Peter blinked at him like he wasn't sure what to say to that. Bucky sounded more uncertain in that moment than Peter had ever heard him sound before.
"But if I'm wrong, that's fine," Bucky rushed to say, getting nervous when Peter remained silent. "I mean, we've never talked about… Well, bringing in a dominant partner, so I don't know how that would work. But we do really like you and maybe it doesn't even have to be a sexual thing. And even if it was, we don't have to have any kind of power imbalance with you. We could totally just date and it could be normal."
Peter was pretty sure dating Tony Stark and his kept boy could never just be normal, but he appreciated the sentiment. It was kinda cute seeing Bucky flustered, too.
Peter giggled and Bucky relaxed a little bit, blushing.
"You brat, you're just trying to make this hard for me, aren't you?" Bucky muttered, clearly embarrassed.
Peter shook his head, his eyes shining with amusement and a smile on his lips.
"I'm not, but you're cute like this," Peter admitted. "Can I ask you something, though?"
"Anything."
"Why me? Out of everyone you could choose, why me?"
"Because I saw your picture and you were irresistible," Bucky said without any hesitation. "Maybe that's shallow but it's true. We'd already been talking about bringing a third into our relationship, another little, but none of the other people we played with were quite right. Then I saw your picture and I told Tony to hire you because I wanted the chance to get close to you."
Peter hummed.
"Isn't this a PR disaster? It's gotta go against company policy to hire someone just to flirt with them, right?" Peter teased, pressing closer, his arms wrapping around Bucky's neck so he'd know he wasn't mad about it.
Bucky smirked, kissing his nose.
"Oh definitely, but you're worth it and once I got to know you, I just knew you were the one."
Peter bit his lip, his cheeks pink from the flattery.
"And Tony… Does he feel the same way?"
Bucky hummed, considering his words carefully.
"Tony's… more cautious. He has a lot on the line, a lot to lose if things went wrong. I had to sign a shit ton of NDA's when I became his, shit like if we break up I'm not allowed to publicly talk about it and whatever. It kinda sucks but it's Tony's life. He has too many people wanting him for the wrong reasons."
Peter nodded because that made sense.
"I wouldn't ever—"
"No, I know that, and it's not that Tony necessarily thinks you'd do anything like that, or that I would, but he has to be the levelheaded one, the responsible one. He's the daddy after all. It's his job to worry and to protect us. I don't really have a reputation to be destroyed or anything, but Tony's worried that you'll break my heart if you reject us or if we start seeing you and then it doesn't work out. I think that worries him more than anything you could do to try and use him for his money or status."
Peter chewed on his lip for a moment before pressing closer, standing on his tiptoes to kiss him. It was a sweet kiss, chaste and over quickly, but it left Peter blushing because he'd initiated it, and Bucky smiled softly, an adoring look in his eyes like Peter was the most precious little thing.
"You're adorable, you know that?"
Peter whimpered, ducking his head to peer up at Bucky through his lashes.
"Maybe… If Tony's okay with it… We could go on a date or something? Start slow?" Peter said, wanting to just rush into things but knowing he had to protect his heart, too.
Bucky grinned like Peter had gifted him the best gift ever.
"Of course, doll, whatever you want. We can take it as slow as you want and we never have to take things further than you want."
Peter nodded, relieved.
--
He went home that night and he couldn't believe any of that actually happened. He was pretty sure this was all just a dream, or worse, that it wasn't but Bucky would back out or change his mind. Or maybe Tony would be upset that Bucky had offered because he didn't actually want Peter.
Peter was so anxious he could barely sleep, thinking of the worst case scenarios and fantasizing about what it could be like if this did happen. Could he really be Tony's baby and Bucky's… little brother? Baby brother? That's what Bucky had said he wanted, right? Peter had thought a lot about having a daddy but never about a brother.
It didn't sound bad, though. In fact, the idea of having a family sounded really good.
--
Peter was nervous when he went into work the next day. He half expected to receive an email telling him to not come in, that he'd been let go. He didn't, though, so he steeled himself and went in. He headed up to Tony's office first thing like he always did, being Tony's personal assistant and all.
Tony looked up when he walked in and cleared his throat, shutting his laptop. Peter couldn't read the look on his face and his heart froze when Tony gestured to the door.
"Close the door, please," Tony said, his expression remaining professional. "I think we need to talk."
Peter's heart was hammering in his chest and his palms were sweating like crazy. Tony stood up when Peter turned around, buttoning his jacket and stepping around the desk. He leaned up against it, his arms crossed over his chest.
"I talked with Bucky."
Peter swallowed hard.
"Look, kid, you're cute but I don't know if this is such a good idea."
Peter's heart shattered and he took a step away like he'd been slapped. His eyes stung with tears that he refused to shed, not here in front of his boss. Because that's what Tony was, and Peter was an idiot to think he'd ever be anything more.
"I'm sorry—I didn't—" Peter didn't even know what to say.
"I know Bucky made you some promises, but—"
Peter shook his head.
"No, it's fine! He didn't promise me anything!" Peter said, because if nothing else he didn't want to get Bucky in trouble. "He just asked me out but I agree it's a bad idea, sir. You don't have to say anything else about it. I, uh, I actually came in today to resign. I don't think it's a good idea for me to work here anymore and I hope you understand why. I really appreciated the opportunity, Mr. Stark, and I'm sorry that I've put you in an awkward situation."
Peter was honestly shocked that he got through that without breaking down, that he actually managed to sound believable. He definitely hadn't been considering resigning, but now he was mortified and he just knew he couldn't ever face Tony again.
Tony frowned, looking confused and shifting slightly.
"Oh, I—Yeah, of course, I understand."
Peter nodded.
"I'll go see HR to formally hand in my resignation."
With that Peter turned and left, feeling numb and a little unnerved that he was that good of a liar. He froze in the hall when he saw Bucky. Bucky was sipping a coffee, but he grinned when he saw Peter.
"Hey, Petey, did you, uh, talk to Tony?"
Bucky looked… happy, and Peter couldn't process that right now. Couldn't figure out what that meant. Was he happy that Tony was the one handling this, the one breaking things off so Bucky didn't have to deal with it?
Peter gave him a tight smile, nodding.
"Yeah, I did."
Peter tried to brush past him, but Bucky snagged his wrist.
"Hey, where are you going? Don't tell me Tony's got you running errands?" Bucky teased.
Peter was so fucking confused and he looked down at Bucky's hand wrapped around his wrist. He was feeling so many things right now and none of them were even remotely pleasant, but this whole thing was still too surreal for him to see it as anything but an abstract misery stemming from a foolish hope for a dream to be anything more than just wishful thinking.
"I, uh, I'm going down to HR."
"Why?" Bucky frowned.
"To hand in my resignation. But don't worry, I'm not gonna say anything about any of this."
Bucky tilted his head.
"Wait? What? What did you two talk about?"
Peter clenched his jaw.
"We came to an agreement," Peter said, trying not to sound bitter.
Bucky's eyes widened in surprise.
"Oh really? I didn't think—Wow, okay. That's—I mean, I'm not complaining, I just didn't think it would happen so quickly."
Peter didn't know what to say to that. Did Bucky want to be there for it? Maybe he expected Peter to get let go and was thrown off that he chose to resign? Peter really wasn't sure.
"It's better this way," Peter said, his voice only wavering slightly. "I thought a lot about it last night and think this is the best thing for all of us."
That was only partially a lie. Peter had thought a lot about it last night, but despite his fears and nerves, he'd been stupidly optimistic about it this morning. Now he was just embarrassed and heartbroken, and he knew once he got home and it all settled in he'd be devastated.
Bucky nodded and then smirked.
"So… does this arrangement mean I can kiss you? And then maybe drag you away for a quickie?"
Peter pulled away from him, his eyes wide.
"Sorry? Too fast?" Bucky apologized, rubbing the back of his neck. "It might help if you told me what you guys agreed on, that way I know what we're doing."
Peter frowned and then it finally clicked in his head. Bucky didn't know that Tony said no, that Tony didn't want him.
"You don't know?"
"Know what?"
Tony stepped outside of his room and cursed when he saw Peter standing there with Bucky.
"Bucky, baby, I can explain—"
Bucky looked between them, confused.
"Explain what? What's going on?"
"I should go," Peter said, feeling awkward and desperate to escape.
"That's probably for the best," Tony agreed, trying to guide Bucky into his office.
Bucky planted his feet, though, frowning at Tony.
"Wait—What's going on? I don't understand."
Tony groaned.
"I told Peter this isn't gonna work out."
"You did what? Why would you do that? You said—"
"I know what I said but I talked to Pepper—"
"You talked to Pepper? That bitch! Do I need to remind you what she recommended when I first started seeing you?"
Tony grimaced.
"That's not—This is different," Tony insisted.
"Oh fuck you, Tony!" Bucky snapped, irritated. "Peter, sweetheart, I don't know what this idiot said to you, but this isn't actually his decision. I'm the one who gets the final say in this."
"Wait a minute—"
Bucky glared at Tony and he snapped his mouth shut.
"We agreed that I could choose our third and you said you liked Peter, so I don't give a shit about what Pepper thinks. She doesn't get a say in our relationship, Tony. She's your friend, not your keeper."
Peter started to inch his way towards the elevator, because this was a lot and he really didn't want to get sucked into whatever this was. It was just so… complicated and confusing. Bucky saw him, though, and grabbed Peter's wrist, but instead of stopping Peter, he tugged him over to the elevator.
"We're going to stay in a hotel until you come to your senses!" Bucky snapped.
Peter's eyes widened when the elevator doors slid open and Bucky pulled him inside.
"We are?"
Bucky nodded.
"Yeah, Peter we are," Bucky said, his voice softening.
Bucky's grip loosened and he pulled Peter into his arms instead.
"I'm so sorry. I should have been there to make everything okay."
Peter shook his head.
"It's fine—"
"It's not," Bucky objected. "Big brothers are supposed to protect their little brothers, and I know you didn't agree to that role, but that doesn't change the fact that I want to protect you and make you happy. And if you let me, I'd be such a good big brother to you."
Peter blinked at the promise, feeling like this morning was a rollercoaster of emotions that he was definitely struggling to process. Bucky didn't give him time to think about it, though, to doubt anything. They took Bucky's bike to a hotel, and Peter couldn't deny how much he liked holding onto Bucky as the bike rumbled under them.
The day was spent with their phones off, ignoring Tony while they hit the spa and the pool and watched porn just so it would show up on Tony's bill. Bucky seemed to think that was hilarious, and he also seemed to love the way that Peter got all flustered and squirmy about it. He didn't watch a lot of porn and he had definitely never watched porn with someone else.
Bucky made it seem so casual, though. It didn't feel creepy even though it was kinda weird. Bucky didn't jerk off or ask Peter for anything. He just made funny commentary and basically made fun of the actors the whole time. It was oddly wholesome, considering the activity.
It wasn't until after midnight, Peter sleepy and sprawled out across Bucky's chest, that Tony arrived. Peter didn't even have it in him to tense up, tipsy from champagne and too tired to do more than blink his eyes open and then let them fall back shut. Bucky didn't stop brushing his fingers through Peter's curls, so Peter didn't feel any need to complain.
Tony cleared his throat.
"I'm sorry—"
"You better be," Bucky muttered. "Come on, climb in, but don't wake the baby."
Peter might have objected or blushed about being called a baby if he wasn't basically jello in Bucky's arms. The bed shifted and Tony leaned over him to press a kiss to Bucky's lips.
"I really am sorry, baby. I didn't mean to upset you. I just—I do have concerns and Pepper stirred them up."
Bucky snorted.
"Yeah, whatever, but I'm not giving him up, Tony. I love you and if you don't want to date him, I can't make you, but you can't tell me not to see him. I have no qualms dating you both, whether you date each other or not."
Tony frowned, groaning and running a hand through his hair.
He glanced down at Peter.
"He is cute," Tony said begrudgingly.
"He's fucking adorable and you'd be just as smitten as me if you'd stop being so stubborn. Stop making excuses and acting like being detached is helping. I know how you are, I remember when you were distant with me and it sucked. The first two months we were together, I was pretty sure you hated me and that you were gonna kick me out. I was walking on eggshells around you, because I didn't know what you wanted from me."
Tony dropped his head in shame.
"You know how badly I feel about that."
"I know, but that doesn't mean it hurt less. But once you started opening up to me, everything changed and I haven't regretted being yours a moment since. You're the best daddy ever and I've never felt loved the way you make me feel loved. I want that for Peter. I want him to have a family, to have that love and support."
"It's not that I don't want that for him, and I know you really want someone else to play with. I know I work a lot and it gets lonely waiting on me, and we both know you working with me… isn't great."
Bucky snorted.
"You hate it, admit it."
"I hate not being able to give you all of my attention, to have you so close and know that I have to maintain some semblance of professionalism. I also know that I fail at that on a daily basis because you're irresistible and I can't deny you anything."
Bucky looked awfully smug about that.
"I know and I agree it's not working out. That's why Peter's the perfect solution."
Tony sighed.
"Yeah, I know how you feel about it, but opening up to one person was already hard enough—"
"But you did it—"
"But what if adding someone else rocks the boat? Things are so good right now? Why risk it?"
"Because things aren't good right now, Tony. I mean, we love each other. There's no doubt about that, but I'm lonely and you're busy. I need something else, someone else who can keep me company while you're preoccupied."
Tony was hearing Bucky and he understood what he was saying—He did—But that didn't make it easier for him. It wasn't a lack of interest or attraction. Peter was fucking beautiful and adorable and Tony would love to be his daddy, but that didn't erase his fears.
"We're keeping him," Bucky said with finality.
"Is he our kept boy then?"
Bucky smirked at his daddy's teasing.
"He's whatever he wants to be."
Tony eyed Bucky, watched the adoring and protective look he gave the sleeping boy. Peter was definitely asleep now, snoring softly.
"You really wanna be a big brother, huh?"
"I really do, and even if he doesn't want that I still want him. I want him to have whatever he wants and I'm gonna be so good to him."
"I know you will, baby. He's lucky to have you."
Bucky met Tony's eyes.
"He'll be lucky to have you, too."
Tony bit his lip, reaching out hesitantly to trail his fingers down Peter's spine.
Peter shivered in his sleep, making a soft sound and rubbing his cheek against Bucky's chest, and Tony's heart melted. He grabbed the covers folded at the foot of the bed and tugged them up and over them.
"We'll talk about it in the morning."
"We're keeping him," Bucky reiterated firmly, and Tony nodded.
"I know."
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mxddyhero · 2 years
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Top five Juza cards :3
Chel you have unleashed me now this is truly my final form let's GO
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There is no beating this card. I saw this single bloomed card and fell so in love you don't understand. He is so head empty biting onto that lollipop,, it fills my heart with the fuzzies just KNOWING how happy and content he is being able to openly enjoy sweets like that... AND THE BACKSTAGE STORY FOR THAT CARD WAS SO SWEET grabs you-
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This was GOING to be no. 1 but I just didn't have the heart to rank it higher so-
Fallen Blood is an event that can be soo personal... every time I read it, I cry fr. Like my man just wanted to be a hero, a true protagonist AND HE WAS THE LAST IN AUTUMN TO GET THE LEAD AND THEY WERE TELLING HIM THAT KIND OF ROLE WASN'T SUITED FOR HIM... AND THE CARD BEING CALLED GIVE ME LIGHT BECAUSE HE WANTS THE SPOTLIGHT AND ALWAYS HAS SINCE HE WAS A KID??? IM CRYIING RN-
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Blazing Beachside passion or whatever the fuck the tryouts were called. It was literally the first event I ever played,, I got the juza ssr in my first 10 pull not even knowing who the fuxk he was yet bcs I hadn't read the story and went to bed and saw the gem heist happened and I was SO SCARED BECAUSE I WAS LIKE NO WAIT MY PRETTY GUY- Thankfully I didn't lose him!!! Anyway he looks lovely here (ft. an edit someone on ig made after we were talking about how this shirt is perfect for him I'm so sorry I don't remember their user-)
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This is literally one of my fave cards ever. Let me tell u why. First of all,, its an Sr so easier to get (/lh). But also. I have thought waaay too hard about this card so I'm gonna ramble ab it.
So okay right. Mans is constantly stalked and forced by people wanting to fight him, so it stands to reason that his casual outfit (default sprite) would be dark and unassuming so as to not draw more attention to himself and has to be somewhat practical to move in in case he needs to actually run/fight with the people chasing him. The purple jacket isnt that out of place with his hair, so the pop of yellow is really the only colour on his fit but even that kinda goes with with eyes. Yeah, he has his o high uni, but he kinda has to wear that and aside from the jacket it's very much the same as his casual (dark trousers, white shirt). But with this? The first time he's voluntarily worn something colourful and cosy. Granted they're travelling, but like that's even more sad because they're going to a place where no one will know/want to fight him. But he's surrounded by people that he knows care about him too!! Muku, Sakyo, Izumi, Tenma especially. He doesn't have to worry about keeping a low profile, he doesn't have to think about how he'll be able to move in it should he have to resort to running again. He can be COMFY and wear what he wants, no holds barred and he KILLED IT. Like of course he still has his lil jacket around his waist but this is so far removed from any of his other fits at this point in the story and its so cute to me !!! He just looks so happy and at peace !!!
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This one's normal again I promise ♡ ehehehe wedding card 🥰 (also camera.. man after my heart FR)
God this got long I'm so sorry...
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jubbolini · 4 months
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Filthy Casual's Pickleball shot tierlist Part 1
I'm finally unbusy after 2-3 months of being hella busy which feels very good! Unrelated to pickleball but I've done pretty well at some pokemon tcg tournaments, and I even got 3rd at this tournament for the pokemon classic box. I'll talk about that later tho, cause its time for talk about pickleball. Pickleball is a pretty fun game, and the cool thing is that not everyone in my area is from the stone age so I get to play with people slightly older than me (23 rn btw).
Anyways, I used to be a bit serious into pickleball, a little try hard. After taking a long break, then coming back, then taking another long break, and then coming back again, i'm now officially a filthy casual. However, for a casual I would say my rating is like a 4.5 which I think is advanced so I guess that gives this tier list some merit. I should also preface this with I now play twice a week max, and I'm a control oreinted player that still mixes in aggression when I can be. Okay with that out of the way, i'm gonna be discussing the following pickleball shots that I see and know of which are:
Dropshot
Drive
Lob
Topspin drop
Topspin drive
Smash
Slice drop
Roll volley
Speed up
Block/Reset
I'm not gonna be making a huge difference between backhand and forehand just cause I'm lazy and honestly backhand stuff is a whole other topic I think. Anyways I'm gonna go down the list above and just say a bit about each shot!
Shot 1: Dropshot
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(Not my pic btw, credit goes to the people at Pickleball Kitchen!)
The dropshot in pickleball is the greatest shot ever in the history of the game imo. Literally I think from beginner to advanced literally everything revolves around this little rainbow shot, but for good reason. The first thing is that the drop allows you to move forward and (more importantly) it gives you hella time to move forward. Another cool thing is that you can easily chain them together if one of them is kinda bad. Literally a decent drop shot will do wonders in a match since if they take it out the air you can just put your paddle down in front and you'll do another drop shot! In addition, you get to work the non-volley zone line which in my experience a lot of people kind of get uncomfortable or just can't dink for too long. Like seriously, you can pick apart people by just dropping it to their backhand since you know they have only a few options.
Also a good or great dropshot is really hard to defend against and you can easily create an advantage if the drop is low or they have to get off balance or if they have to take it out the air by hitting the ball up and away. For me the average drop shot sequence looks like this, which is stellar in rec play:
Step 1: Drop ball in kitchen well enough
Step 2: Go to non-volley zone line
Step 3: Dink until opponent screws up
Step 4: Profit
Sometimes its even easier too! Like this is also a common sequence for me:
Step 1: Drop ball in kitchen well enough
Step 2: When opponent takes out of the air absolutely obliterate the ball and send to shadow realm
Step 3: Profit
All in all, the drop shot is probably the most important shot in the game, anyone who has a great dropshot is gonna be tough to handle unless they just stink at dinking, but honestly if someone can drop the ball in the kitchen they can probably dink.
The only weakness this shot has I think is that it takes hella time to get good at it, and if you go against short opponents they can easily take the ball out of the air and punish great dropshots.
Grade: A+ (This shot carries me tbh i love it)
Shot 2: Drive
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(Credit: The Spongebob Squarepants Movie!)
The drive shot is pretty decent imo. It hard punishes people who have slower handspeed and people who can't bend down too well. It's also fast so you can catch people lacking if they move up too quickly. I think the thing with the drive is that you have to make it kind of low to be super effective. You ideally want the drive to be a bit closer to the net but not too close. Also doing a basic non topspin drive is decent at best because it can be inconsistent and just fly out of bounds, which happens a lot! It's a great aggro tool and if you know your opponent stinks with handspeed and blocking just spam it and you have an easy win. However, I think the higher up in skill you go the harder time this shot has. It's like the gatekepper shot, if you don't struggle against it you're pretty good!
Grade: B
Shot 3: Lob
(Insert picture of Lob City LA Clippers here, RIP that was a fun team to watch)
Before I go off on this shot, I want to say that I don't hate it I just hate how the people in my area use the shot, with that out of the way...
Grade: F when people don't know when to use it A- when people do!
The lob in theory is kind of broken in this game, and it becomes more broken when you play with people who can't move well. HOWEVER, what prevents people from understanding how absolutely busted the shot is, is that people use it instead of the 3rd shot drop! Like seriously, imagine giving your opponent a free overhead smash cause you decide to lob from baseline. The reason its bad is cause you need two things for a lob to be really good: Distance and height. Height is hella easy, but distance is the key. If you lob from baseline you have to heave that ball to the other baseline which usually means the ball goes out. Usually what happens though is that you lob the ball to the transition zone, which in theory is okay, right? NO, because usually that means your opponent gets a free overhead smash from an easy distance!
The lob should be used in a neutral. What I mean by this is a lob should be used when all players are at the net and are in a dink rally. Then the lob becomes the grossest, most vile, evil shot you can do. You not only get one person off the non-volley zone line, but you also get to abuse open angles when they try to hit it back. Essentially, if you have a good lob at the NVZ line you should win that point 8-9 times out of 10. The only thing holding the lob back again is the distance and height problem, but those are kind of easy to get down. For distance just go cross court since that gives you more room for error, and just get the ball above 11 feet!
Also, the lob can absolutely be spammed at the kitchen to hopefully keep your opponents back a little bit or just keep them hesitant to go the NVZ line which works to your advantage.
That's it for part 1! I'll probably write the next part tomorrow or Thursday. All in all, pickleball is fun, and if you can do a dropshot well you can probably beat a lot of casual people pretty easily.
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david-box · 1 year
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Liveblog (but a day late ish) of Succession season 4 ep. 1
3:38 love how Shiv didn't kiss Kendall also is very clearly lying lol. Rome is so focuking rude it's hilarious. Wtf is their new venture are they trying to make a new media outlet??? And shiv is talking to Tom
They're already on to her lmao. Glad she's semi honest. Ajjajahw. "he's not a real junkie" ahhaha. Kendall is saying "don't bail on me I don't want to put effort into this and not have you reciprocating". Shiv really is into it.
Ohhh my god Logan is visually miserable. Hows it feel old man you motherfucker. He is not dating that woman still Jesus Christ. I mean good for her probably, damn, but what the fuck. What happened to the Italian princess Greg?? He's so clean shaven... Also "friend assistant and advisor" lol. Girl when. Her face is funny as hell also I love these actors. Is it "random fuck". Greg's face lol.
Shiv don't sound bored. Kendall is into it. Tom looking out for Shiv?? You alwars awkward awkward man. Paying with one hand. You're not being fair Shiv rn but I don't blame you also low blow with the st. Paul remark. Best response Tom. She's really freaking out damn. THEYRE STILL HERE AKHAHAHHA. Rome the only chill one here hahahhaa. The investor advisors walked off in separate directions. Aaannnnd Greg's gf snitched lol. They're paranoid. They have every reason to be. Oh those are their investors.
Connor is dressed like a president and the gf is insiding. Connor how broke are you, you're always worried about money. Who was Logan's first wife? Why is the Left going after them? Are they buying Pierce? Also the audacity to call them rats... And the side piece is literally just standing there. Logan doesn't know what Tom looks like when he lies. His awkwardness helps though imagine asking your FIL for marriage AND business advice. Logan looks so annoyed Toms ass sucking but I honestly think it helps and as much as Logan is annoyed that's exactly where he wants him to be. Tom killing Logan 2023 hashtag or whatever. Who hosts a party and waits for food??? They fucking rich people.
Two parties vying for Pierce is going to make the Gojo buyout easier because the Waystair side won't bother squeezing Connor out. Unless they just try harder and he has to pay more to stay lol. Roman the most mature one here. Kendall is being stupid. Who was walking in the background also they're just sitting there huh those Saudis or whoever lolll. They do kinda have a point tho.
Tom doesn't even wait to cut Greg down a 6 inch. And she's fucking recording??? Greg is too excited for their marriage thing. Greg is delusional. I wouldn't switch gears personally but I'd be anxious telling the other guys to keep waiting if they're even still there.
Logan has the world and isn't even happy. Right in front of her "hoop de hoop". Nan's family is a matriarchal version of Logan and Shiv is correct he has no patience but Nan's gonna be busy ain't he. Nan is funny also. I love the way Shiv dresses casually ahahha good lines. Kendall might honestly be better to go but Nan's picky and pickier than what's good. Oh fuck off Kendall its about Dad. And Rome is scared of conflict and I don't blame him also it would be funny if they can do it.
Why is he going you're my pal. You're mybest pal. What the fuck does this mean. This poor man. People are exonomic units??? Bro. Is he really thinking about marriage??? Bro. Gee I wonder why
People turn against you everywhere you go. He's getting old and finally feeling it. Only person he trusts isn't even family and business only.
Ahhahahhahhaha I didn't think Roman would repeattt thatttt ahahha. She looks so hurt :-(. That means he didn't ask. You can pop it back in your mouth now lolll. Who they calling. Oh Logan? Pierce is making calls huh I bet.
Connor is so excited for the wedding and it's gonna be bad if he pushes for more money or if he pushes for less I bet. I love this man. Get a rapper and jetpacks. Dude. Bumfuts. Oh it's about the election cycle. Poor Willa. She's trying. She'll do a lot for him huh.
Greg has the worst timing and Tom low-key thinks it's funny. Greg. No. She's crunchy peanut butter. Dude. The guest bedroo?? Dude. And he's really worried ahahaha. I think he's more amused Greg is scared and is mayyybbee fucking fucking with him. He's making him tell him this is so gross hahahaha.
Is this fucking Marthas vineyard? Italian themed Waystair rocyo? Do they realize Logan can just wait on the sale so they won't be able to buy her out? The sex implications with the headache is great. I think she's going to use it as leverage. Oh butter my beanpole ahahha. Tom saving his ass and isn't even needing to lie, everyone DOES know. He's got some fucked up machinations. Greg is worse off saying something than not. He hasn't eaten. He gave him candy. And he's just holding it. Ahahhaha. Shhshhahha the thumbs up. Lmao. Poor Greg. Poor poor Greg. Think of something better. I would not be honest. He really doesn't think about things critically, like, ever.
Who's the garbder? They're showing more servants today.
Logan smiled? What the fuck?? Tom is so right but he also clearly thinks its both funny and disgusting. Greg don't push it. Greg. Dude. Ahahah. God be willing. Nan thinks smiles and warm energy is important and is complaining about spending money. Interesting. Roy might be better for that than the kids. She's ruthless. Shiv is better for this than anyone else. Oh, but it's not wrapped up. It's fine :-)) come drink with me :-)). Don't curse. Kendall. Dude. She wants to drink? Take the offer to drink... Kendall it is not robust. What happened to Maine? I'm getting a divorce ahahhahaa okay damn. Kendall if you're gonna call her on the numbers don't be shitty. That was clever Roman.
Nobody tells jokes any idea so they. I'm saying Carl, it's a big dry in here. Do you have any jokes? Frank, start, be funny, abhahahahahahahahahahaa roast me dhshshhshshshs skanshshshs absghshshshhsjsjsjsjsjsjsh he can't even do it. That's not funny. Greg is too honest. Ahahhahaa "where are your kids?" AhahhahahhahahhahahahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahahhahahahhahahahahhaahhHahaha. Not a good retort there Logan sorry. So it is the money. Logan's mood is much better when he has something to do. He's going to win. But that's cus I got spoiled.
Roman is correct. 8 is bad. Oh ton don't pussy foot. "This is dusgusting :-)" lol. call your wife. Nan likes the bidding and they can't do 8.5. Tom hiding his face. They do not have 9.5. they go to 10 they lose. 10 is a lot. They don't have 10. And he's being loud. He's outvoted. Ouch. Shiv is so happy. She's gonna cry. Tom said 12 she fucked herself.
Congratulations on saying the biggest number. Romans not sure and they left. That's when the Gojo falls through innit? Lol. Or the lack of a divorce. They still living in the same house? Cute dog. Swear it's different from last year, lol. They don't even look at the accounts anymore. Oh, they still here. Tom still kinda trying to connect, he really does love her. Who wouldn't? Where's the disgusting brothers thing and Shiv is really trying to hurt him and she's hurt from it. And he's right to fire right tf back. Is Mondale even let out at night? Shiv is really, really upset. She doesn't want to move on but now she has an excuse to force herself so this is when the deal gets fucked and now she's divorced for no reason. Shiv doesn't wanna talk because she arguably did worse. No responsibility. Tom won't fight her and a small part of her wishes he did. Tom what the fuck ahahhahaa. Dude. What the fuck. He's genuine . He isn't but he is. I think Shiv would be happy just having him be there. They're so sweet together. My little cats. They do love eachother :-(. If only they could make it work.
Is Logan watching court dv? Or his own news? He's mad the reporters ugly. Wild. They actually won. Oh, new number.
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I actually started biasing vernon officially when I saw his radio interview with shua Years ago, where he was talking about his mom and his sister. It was so endearing to me the amount of love and kindness he exuded and I feel like it’s only gotten more and more intense as time has passed. And then of course I got to know him even more and loved everything, he’s so funny and talented. I wavered in stanning svt for a few years because I was so overwhelmed w life but tried to keep up with vernon regardless!
Did you see the rumoured BSS comeback?? I think I’ll DIE. And the vernon mixtape dropping soon too, I don’t know how to function with this news. This is an aside but I really love that the Vern teasers were red bc it’s one of my favourite colours!! What about you? Oh and! Are there any friendships you like or svt with other idols ? I enjoy svt and astro a lot 😭💞 - 🥕
Oh! Is it the english interview from way back? I recently watched a few clips of it bc it came up on my recommended. Rocket line is one of my fave friendships in svt and they’re such sweet boys 🥺💗 also vv true!! I find their relationships with their families so endearing 😭 and amg I love how you kept up with Vernon before becoming a carat bc SAMEEEE
My friend introduced svt to me when I was starting to explore kpop (I started with Day6) and she has a cat named Hansol so she told me about svt (and I kid you not! She made it easier to remember Bonon bc she said he looks like Tom Holland and I had a big crush on him back then) but bc there was so many members, I kinda put off stanning them until Darling came out (and a few GoSe edits YT recommended me). I kept up with him too bc I associate him with my friend and he’s good friends with Pentagon’s Kino 😂
AND YES I DID AMG MY BOYS 😭 manifesting! BSS energy is so fun and chaotic I’m excited if they come out with more details. Also since the teasers are out can I just say— VERNON SOLO IS PEAK MM CHEF’S KISS! KISSING HIS BRAIN RN 😭💗 based on the teasers it hits my inner 2014 5SOS and 2008 Avril Lavigne loving heart so much. I was watching this Vernon Disconnected edit and thought this kind of sound fits him so well and THE TEASERS DELIVERED. I hope you’re alive, santa carrot bc man delivered like 😞 joining the Vernon pits with you rn!
As a multi I’m always on the lookout for svt/ptg/skz crumbs bc their my ults 😞💖 especially seventeen and pentagon! I adored their friendship since my pre-carat days— esp JunYan 🥺 I fell for Jun bc he took care of Yanan so well 😞 he’s so sweet and thoughtful when Yanan wasn’t feeling well. when he had to leave the show, Jun didn’t choose another partner bc he wanted to stay partnered to Yanan iirc (and smth about it being unfair for everyone) and I found it so brave and considerate of him like it made me cry 🥺 Junhui is many things but I’ll always remember him as a friend with a good heart bc of his friendship w/ Yanan.
And ofc MOLA gang! 😂 VerKino is the one idol to idol friendship I’ve known the longest bc of those Pentagon x other idol friendship threads and I saw so much VerKino interactions. It’s funny too bc Kino is good friends with Astro members so they probs hung out a lot over the years. (Also amg! Hello fellow Aroha 😂 I casually listen to them but I mainly keep up with Eunwoo)
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helloooooo!! can i request some headcanons for the demon brothers with a MC that is Non Binary but is afab and insecure about being afab and doesnt feel like they are Non Binary. platonic or romantic either one is fine. thank you. also Jaehee is a Queen period.
I haven’t had Mystic Messenger installed on my phone for like a year and this blog is mostly, if not exclusively Obey Me rn, but I refuse to change my url because it remains true. Jaehee is the best and deserves the world <3
Also don’t mind me casually throwing in some Devildom/Celestial Realm gender headcanons as an intro~
Warnings: Mentions of gender dysphoria, internalized transphobia, insecurity gang rise up. I’ll try and keep it more general since this is meant to be a comfort/fluff piece.
The Brothers With an Insecure (AFAB) Nonbinary MC
As a whole, the Devildom doesn’t really do traditional gender. The variety in demons’ and fallen angels’ appearances makes for such a diversity of body types that markers of femininity and masculinity are easier to disregard. It’s commonplace to provide one’s pronouns along with their name when meeting someone new, and any changes in a demon’s presentation are noted with little more fanfare than a new haircut.
Even angels don’t really get preoccupied with gender: in fact, as MC discovered one day while talking with Luke and Simeon, most barely grasp the concept of what a gender is. Simeon had mentioned that this occasionally resulted in him forgetting the genders of his characters, resulting in TSL being extremely popular among transgender and nonbinary fandom communities.
But MC is not from the Devildom, nor are they from the Celestial Realm. They’re from the human world, with its reductive views on bodies, presentation, and identity. A year in the Devildom can’t erase a lifetime of cissexism.
Some days, it wears on them more than others.
Lucifer
Lucifer is always aware when MC’s self image starts wavering
As someone who has fought tooth and nail to remain true to himself, he understands the struggle of facing resistance to this
But the idea of it coming from within is somewhat foreign to him
Nonetheless, he’ll do anything within his power to make MC feel better
Will calmly, but firmly assert that MC is the only one who can determine their identity
It’s not about how they were born or raised, but who they know themself to be deep down
If it’s their gender dysphoria making them feel invalid, he’ll try and minimize it however he can
Need a different RAD uniform? No problem. Worried about being perceived a certain way? Anyone who stares at MC for too long or even dares to make a comment about their presentation is getting the Lucifer Death Glare.
Physical/body dysphoria? The Devildom has tons of temporary and permanent solutions for that, they can try whatever they’d like
It is vital for the success of the exchange program that all the students feel comfortable and well-accommodated
Also MC is very dear to him and he hates to see them suffering
Mammon
As soon as he notices MC is upset, he is READY TO FITE
Who’s been messing with them?!
What? They don’t feel like they’re really nonbinary? Are they questioning again, or—
Oh. Oh…
Well that’s stupid! What do you mean you don’t “look nonbinary”?! What’s there to look like? Humans are so weird about this stuff, look: you want to know what someone’s deal is, you ask! And their answer? That’s it! End of story, there ya go!
It’s not so simple in the human world, MC tries to explain
Mammon huffs and mumbles something about how it should be, but he can see this avenue isn’t making MC feel better
It seems whatever junk ideas the human world has about gender really gets into people’s heads…
Well, whenever Mammon wants to take his mind off of something, he opts for something exciting! Hitting the casino, making new plans that’ll definitely work this time, maybe even try and pull a prank on one of his brothers…?
But if MC just wants to cuddle and watch some mindless TV or play video games he doesn’t mind doing that either…
Leviathan
Levi knows, without fault, every single TSL characters’ pronouns and identities, if and how they change through the series, and between different media adaptations
He can (and will) list all the nonbinary characters like a gender Pokemon Rap, with special attention on those who match MC’s presentation and/or AGAB
(Not that AGAB is essential or even always available information, but dysphoria is not a rational creature, and Levi is very familiar with irrational emotions)
Would MC say that any of these characters aren’t really nonbinary because of how they look or how they started out? Then why are they any different?
But if something about their appearance is really bothering them, he might have a solution
Cosplay
Well, sort of
Crossplayers use all sorts of techniques to masculinize or feminize their appearance when necessary, and Levi’s pretty familiar with most of them
So if MC wants to try some out to see if it makes them feel more comfortable, he wouldn’t mind showing them! You know… if they’re… interested…
Also double-checks to make sure it’s okay that he calls them his “Henry” and assures them that it’s about the character’s role and personality, and not some sort of gender-based comparison
Unless... they like the comparison? andwouldliketocosplayasHenrytohisLordofShadows??
Satan
Who said this to you, MC.
Names. Now.
Boy gets frothing mad when MC explains it’s a societal and cultural problem, not an individual one, that fuels their insecurity.
If they don’t want to hear an hour long rant about the rich history of human gender expression and identity, they need to cut him off fast
If he could maim the concept of transphobia, he would
But alas, this is not a problem that can be solved (entirely) with violence
So he has to find other ways to show his support
Ask him about any notable trans, nonbinary, or otherwise gender nonconforming figures from human or demon history. He’ll happily tell MC all about them.
But, at the end of the day? In his opinion, there’s one person that shines above the rest
Someone who braved the longest odds, who persisted against the fiercest enemies and even turned them into their closest friends
Who saw others at their worst and sought to bring out the best in them…
*stage whispers* He’s talking about you
If there’s anyone who’s going to believe in the right to self determination and the irrelevance of your origins to your present identity, it’s Satan
And if anyone ever does try to tell MC that their doubts about themself are true?
Just give him their name and don’t ask questions
Asmodeus
So they’re worried about being too feminine? Is there such a thing?
If that’s the case, they can be “too feminine” together
Asmo’s gender nonconformity has earned him praise all throughout his life, so the idea of being ashamed of such a thing is alien to him
But he does know what it’s like to have an audience who expects a specific image from you
And the fear of disappointing them
But gender isn’t a performance
Well, it is, sometimes, poor choice of words: but it’s a performance for you
Asmo presents the way he does because it’s what makes him happy, same with the rest of the brothers
MC shouldn’t be any different
If they’re looking for a more masculine wardrobe or just want a change of pace, he’ll happily help them find clothes that make them feel more comfortable, but his main concern is that they know they’re free to wear what they’d like, act how they’d like, and it doesn’t change who they are
Whatever image they want to make of themself, he can get them there, but only if it’s because they want it, not because it’s what they think they’re supposed to be like, okay?
Beelzebub
When MC first confesses to Beel that they feel like they’re not really nonbinary because of their body, he kinda looks around and gestures as if to say “really? Down here?”
Has MC ever noticed that RAD doesn’t have gendered sports teams?
Yeah, if they separated people by something as irrelevant as gender or Diavolo forbid, sex, people would get seriously injured or worse
There are so many ways to be a man or a woman or a nonbinary person, and they’re not always what you’d expect
Some of Beel’s best teammates and scariest opponents look and act nothing like you’d expect them to
If they’re feeling disconnected from their body, Beel is totally down to work out with them, keep them grounded in all the good their body does for them and that they can do for it
And yes, also the good food their body lets them experience
He also definitely reaches out and gives their hand a lil squeeze if he ever notices them feeling down while they’re out together
He cares for them a lot and just wants them to be happy at the end of the day
Belphegor
Oh yeah, that’s one of the stupidest things about the human world
Belphie remembers being mistaken for a woman a lot when he used to visit the human world, and how confused he was when people got into such a tizzy over his gender
Why waste all that energy on something that doesn’t matter? If you must know, just ask the person and be done with it
It doesn’t matter what they look like
MC is MC
If they say they’re nonbinary, that’s good enough for him
If they don’t want to be touched, especially in certain places tiddy pillow naps, he might get pouty, but he’s all bark and no bite, he’ll respect their wishes
His approach to making MC feel better is more geared towards normalizing their identity
If he accepts it as a fact, then maybe they’ll catch on that people will respect them if they know what’s good for them?
Also, if they hear him mumbling about correct pronouns and punching transphobes in his sleep… No they didn’t. He’s not dreaming about them, he swears...
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Hi! I'd love a matchup if you have the time! I'm 5'7 & chubby, fair skinned, brown hair& hazel eyes, like makeup & match it to my mood! Kind of insecure. Shy, creative, extra/humorous, romantic/affectionate, tons of interests, v curious! Accepting & try to always be kind/polite but I tend to come off as intimidating. She/her, bi or pan. Loves writing/reading, baking, movies, crochet/knit, etc. Ideal date would be something casual like taking a drive or staying in. INFP I think. Thank you! ^^
OFCCC sorry to everyone who's been waiting a while, it's easier to work my way down my inbox than up it... I be fighting for my life rn.... You're very lucky btw cus I match you up with
Bo Sinclair.
Don't kid yourself into thinking this Sinclair has ever seen you as "intimidating". maybe to other people, but to him you were always a cute face. And you ended up being an even sweeter human being who turned bright red when he'd try to charm you. And oh how cocky that makes him....
at 6'1 he isn't much taller, but still likes to show off the notable difference by slinging an arm around your shoulder and grinning at you.
and if you ever wear heels? he'll huff about it at first but he adores it deep down <3 just takes a hot second for it to show or for him to say it outright.
Your humor probably not like his.... His idea of funny is poking fun at his brothers or some old inside joke that only he and they could chuckle at. Hates puns, do not try them.
don't worry, if that's your idea of funny, Lester will bust a lung laughing with you, which makes bo a little jealous
In the south, everyone is raised to be polite. So you doing your best to be respectful and kind when you meet the brothers isn't exactly shocking but puts a big smile on bo's face. You're way different than the other travellers, like that girl and her boyfriend who walked in on his momma's fake funeral, demanding a car part.
Bo is a very hands on work kind of guy, but baking or writing never clicked with him.. art in general never was his thing, it's always been Vincent's. He'll probably look over your shoulder as you write or mix some batter mix in a large bowl. he's nosey like that! careful, he'll probably take a taste of any cookie dough when you're not looking!
if you ever knit or crochet bo a pair of gloves, a hat, or a scarf when the weather starts getting cold? he mutters that he doesn't need it but he'll throw HANDS if anyone tries to touch them. Including you, sorry babe.
you didn't hear it from me, but bo loves the scarf the most :)
He loves having movie dates with you if his time and energy allows it- it's literally so sweet when he does cus he tries to go all out. Talking about gathering as many good snacks as he can, even if he totally forgets which ones you actually really liked- whoops.
He loves late night drives with you. I think they're very common tbh. If neither of you can sleep, he's grabbing the keys and telling you to come with him. He knows the best spots for star gazing and stuff like that. If you end up falling asleep during one of the drives? he thinks it's adorable. Don't worry, he'll carry you inside ;3
staying in is obviously the only other option in ambrose for a date, but you both make it work. He'll cook something up to the best of his abilities and you're free to make dessert if you want to!
you also did not hear this from me but bo finds comfort in some chub and might fall asleep with his head on your lap or sum....
and also! he adores all your makeup looks and is kinda fascinated by it, just don't leave anything out or laying around... or in his way. that's the only way he'll really get annoyed. And lord he'd love it if your lipstick left a mark on his cheek.
again, he isn't outright about his love for all that. quite frequently will roll his eyes if you ask him to pass you a brush or what kind of look you should try.
"I ain't kissin' you with all that shit on your face!!"
says the man who wears a lipstick smear like a badge of honor the entire day, and smacks his brothers hands or yours away if you try to wipe it off.
don't worry hun, he's insecure too. Deep down he isn't the self assured man he acts like he is. He's been hurt and scarred physically and mentally. He's never had the chance to heal because he refuses to admit he's been hurt in the first place.
what he won't accept, is any negative self talk. If he catches you saying anything bad about yourself, he goes protective bo mode.
no one can talk about his baby like that! not even his baby!
"Look at me baby. don't you dare go talkin' like that, a'ight? nothin' but horseshit comin' out of your mouth right now."
if you just need him to hold you during moments where you're really down, he will. no questions asked.
AND IM GONNA SAY IT. BO MF SINCLAIR IS A SUCKER FOR HAZEL EYES
they make him WEAK.
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tobiosmilktea · 4 years
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I really like the hidden feelings hc you wrote! And was wondering if you could do them for,,,,ushijima, akaashi, Osamu and kageyama🥺👉👈
hidden feelings with ushijima, akaashi, osamu, and kageyama (vol. 2)
original prompt: in which you tell your best friend that you were in love with someone else... but that someone else is actually them
a/n: AHHH im glad you all liked the first part! lowkey they were really fun to write so i hope you guys like this one as well
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— u. wakatoshi
i kinda suck at writing ushijima, so bear with me on this one uh
one of the biggest things about toshi when he likes someone is that he respects them fully and looks up to them at times, so it surely intensifies when the person he likes is his best friend
and because of this, he fully respects the idea of you liking someone even though he affects him to the very core
it started off like this:
you have been incredibly close with shiratorizawa’s ace ever since you two met in middle school and even then he was known as an amazing volleyball player, not to mention he was super intimidating even as a first year in middle schooler
never in a million years have you ever thought that you would even become friends let alone become best friends as you felt you two had nothing in common
toshi was super into volleyball and athletic meanwhile you stuck with your academics
really the only thing you and him had in common was that you two had the same homeroom for the majority of your time here at shiratorizawa academy
but here you two were, in the midst of an awkward plateau in your friendship that only you can be blamed for
tendou satori, in his loud and boisterous glory often hung around you and toshi and quickly found out about your feelings for the vb captain
granted, you were quite blunt about your feelings for toshi, but as the naive individual he was who new nothing about love besides his feelings for volleyball, he usually overlooked your attempts at casual and harmless flirting
and since you two were now in your final years of high school together, you couldn’t help but feel dejected at the fact you would inevitably go your own separate ways
“just confess to him dumbass!” tendou would tell you (more like shout, but it’s not like ushijima would even spare a blink at that)
“toshi doesn’t seem like the guy who has romantic feelings for someone, satori.” you sighed doubtfully
“so?” the redhead pressed, “what’s the worse that can happen?”
you scoff, “umm,, rejection homie, duh??”
“you don’t have to necessarily confess to him, (y/n).” he suggests, “you could always ask if he’s into anybody and if he says that he likes you, then BINGO!”
you were still hesitant about it though, but as the year was ending in a couple months you literally had nothing to lose
you walked up to ushijima after practice, walking back towards the dorms
since the academy’s campus was gigantic for no reason, it allowed enough time for you two to talk privately
“toshi,” you started, your heart jumping into your throat each time your arms would briefly brush against each other. “do you like anyone?”
you looked up at him, searching for an answer within his visage but it was deadpanned per usual
“sure,” he muttered, “i like you—”
your breath hitched and your heart was beating so fast you could combust
‘—and i like tendou and semi and everyone else i know. they’re great friends.”
oh how your excitement had never faded so quickly
homie really said SIKE and you couldn’t help but feel like an idiot
“no, toshi, i meant as in do you have feelings for someone...”
“oh... depends.”
vague. but at least it was an answer
“do you like anyone, (y/n)?” he asked and you immediately nodded
“yeah, i do like someone, but honestly, i doubt he likes me back.” you professed and you could’ve swore you saw the muscle in his jaw tense
“and why is that?”
you shrug, taking your eyes off him and back towards the ground. “i think he’s too occupied with volleyball, so i doubt dating is definitely not a priority of his—”
toshi’s fists within his pockets were balling with his knuckles turning completely white from the pressure, “who?”
“u-um, i don’t know if i’m comfortable enough to say...”
it was then toshi would grab your wrist, gently tugging you back into an embrace
your eyes widened into saucers at the sudden gesture, this was definitely not normal for ushijima but then again confessing your feelings for someone shouldn’t be a normal, everyday thing
“i want to know who, (y/n).” he repeated again
“why do you want to know so badly?”
ushijima gulped down the lump forming in his throat as for the first time he felt nervous to talk to you, “because i have a feeling it’s me.”
“hUH?” you exclaimed
like perhaps you were actually taken aback considering you thought he would never come to conclusion that it was him, unless...
“... tendou told me.”
yup there it was
a frustrated sigh left your lips, “of course it was. that loudmouth never keeps his mouth shut i swear—”
“but i like you too.” toshi quickly cut in, completely straight to the point as there was no reason to beating around the bush at this point anyway
“you do?”
he nods, “i’m just glad it’s not semi.”
— a. keiji
homeboy is BLUNT
like really blunt, it would be a surprise if he wasn’t the one to call you out on your bullshit when you told him your liked someone
he would always do so when bokuto says or does something stupid, but of course you were an exception since he had feelings for you as well
in a mere sense of miscommunication (or lack thereof) as akaashi tends to not show much at all
even in the most emotional events where most others can’t help but be happy or sad or excited or angry, it seems he always had that calm visage all over his face
because of that, you couldn’t tell whether or not he even noticed how daft and obvious your feelings were towards him
then again, his usual calm and quiet demeanor did mean that he could read others like an open book with how observant he was
the thing is, he was well aware of your advances and honestly liked seeing your blushing face and how your attention was on him and him only
you regard of having your eyes only on him kinda made him feel prideful that it was him you focused on, but he would never in a million years tell you that from the fear that you would stop
so he would act oblivious towards your feelings for him
however, he didn’t take into account that you could pine for someone for so long before you get bored
well, you weren’t exactly bored of akaashi as you were still head over heels for him, it was more like you had grown tired of your strategy of winning him over
so who else could you go to besides bokuto, your other best friend
“you know, akaashi really likes it when you fawn over him but he doesn’t say anything about it cause he knows you’d get flustered and stop.” the silver haired boy muttered into your ear during lunch, “but you didn’t hear that from me
he then winked at you and you couldn’t help but roll your eyes at him as you make your way to akaashi
you greeted him like normal, talk to him like any other best friend would before you nonchalantly mentioned you liked someone
and you could’ve swore you saw his jaw tighten and his eye twitch
he scoffed at the mere thought of you giving all your love and affection towards another guy that wasn’t him
akaashi is never the type of guy that gets jealous easily as most of the time being jealous is being unreasonable, but here he was being unreasonable
it wasn’t like you were his s/o or anything, but it genuinely irked him
“who is it?” he would ask, trying to sound calm as possible.
homie can barely make eye contact with you because he would instantly melt into a puddle for you
“well...” you hesitate to say anything in case he would figure out it was him, but you honestly had nothing to lose if it came to that point where you confessed right here and now. “he’s on the volleyball team and he’s in our year.”
it was then you slapped your hand over your mouth as you realized that akaashi was the only second year on fukurodani’s vb team
“uhh, i mean—” you tried to lie but was immediately cut off by him
this is where akaashi’s bluntness comes into play 
“you know if you said you liked me, this would’ve been easier on the both of us,” he mutters, smoothly wrapping his hand around yours. “cause i like you too, (y/n).”
you struggled to respond as you were too busy internally screaming at that he was literally holding your hand rn “y-you do?”
“of course,” he shrugs as he pulled you to walk with him back to your classroom, “i wouldn’t let you focus on anyone else besides me, anyway.”
— m. osamu
like akaashi, he has a really calm visage and doesn’t show much emotion
but unlike akaashi, he really bother trying to hide the fact that he does know of your feelings for him
if anything he feels smug about it, but literally refuses to say anything about it cause you were to oblivious to see it yourself
he figured you’d find out in the long run as this pining was actually kinda fun for him
so there he would be, acting as normal as possible while you casually flirted with him and acting as if you two were nothing more than just having playful banter as best friends do
lowkey i honestly see the miya twins having some form of commitment issues, so osamu would most likely not progress your relationship any further
he likes to think it’s because he likes lowkey teasing you, but in reality, despite knowing of your feelings well, he fears that a relationship with him (something more than just best friends) he’d think that he will disappoint you in the long run
eventually, like any old game being repeated over and over again, you got tired of it
it had gotten so bad that you even went to atsumu for advice
literally the moment you went up to him and even muttered the words, “i need your help,” was totally uncalled for and even shocked atsumu
nonetheless, he felt honored and stupidly cocky that you were going to him for relationship advice
atsumu super cheeky when it came to this, but since osamu was still his brother he never told you that osamu was aware of your feelings
instead his first idea was to make him jealous
being quite the competitive twins they were, there was always a stigma between them and shared things
not that they had minded sharing normal everyday things as they were used to that growing up, but you were an exception obviously. you weren’t an object and specifically you were osamu’s best friend
when you and the twins grew up together, osamu had made it very clear and evident that you were his and his only and greatly hated whenever atsumu would put his arm over your shoulders and call you his best friend
“honestly, i think you should just tell you like someone else.” atsumu spoke to you, mindlessly munching on chips in his bedroom
you had came over to the miya household and osamu definitely found it sus when you made your way to his brother’s room instead of his where you two would usually hang out
you mentioned some small white lie that you needed to talk about a project with atsumu and that he could go into the kitchen and make some snacks while they were speaking
but at this point, you were in atsumu’s room for way too long for osamu’s liking and he was getting super jealous ngl
“so you want me to lie?” you scoffed over at the blond boy
“not necessarily,” he says. “you saying that ya like someone is completely true as the person you like is him, dummie”
you roll your eyes but he continues, “just don’t specify who it is to the point where he eventually confesses his feelings for you.”
“and how do you know he likes me back?”
“twin intuition, (y/n)”
that’s when you finally left his room and made your way to the kitchen where osamu had a hard look on his face as he aggressively slide a plate of onigiri towards you
“looks delicious, samu” you complimented nonchalantly.
“what were you two doing in there?” he immediately questioned
this caused you to instantly take into account of what atsumu suggested without a second thought, “we were talking about the guy i like”
osamu let out a scoff, forcing himself not to roll his eyes and he asked who it was
“just some random person.” you say as you munched on the onigiri
“well, i don’t want a random person to have someone that belongs to me.” osamu mutters out of the blue, stopping you from chewing
your eyes had widened as your eyebrows furrowed in confusion, “what do you mean? it’s not like we’re dating or anything—”
“but what if i want us to.”
UMM SIR ???
your appetite immediately disappeared as you felt your heart swell and your nerves jump. the rhythm of your heartbeat was pulsating so quickly you swore that your he could hear how fast it was going
“but...” osamu suddenly adds in before you could respond, “since i’m your best friend, i should be supportive of those you like—”
you sighed, a gentle honey-like chuckle left your lips. “idiot,” you breathed out affectionately, “i was talking about you, you’re the guy i like.”
it was then he made his way towards you and immediately pulled you into an embrace
“is that what you really talked about with atsumu for thirty minutes?”
you nod as your voice muffled into his broad chest
“cant believe you brought him into this,” he chuckles as you peck a soft kiss on the corner of his lip
— k. tobio
honestly this boy is the most oblivious out of everyone else
he genuinely thinks you’re in love when someone else when you literally make it pretty obvious
granted, kags just thinks it’s just you being yourself as he believes that you only act like that cause you’re his best friend 
he thinks your cute flirts and subtle jokes that make him blush redder than a tomato was just your casual friendly banter when in reality you were actually trying to make some money moves lmao
and you noticed this
the thing is, you always liked teasing kags while shagging his hair as he tries to hide the blush on his face, so you figured you could did best
it was the day of the interhigh tournaments and he invited you to watch their first game against dateko
he always liked your presence at games as hearing your loud and thunderous shouts and chants always motivated him and fueled his fire
however, thirty minutes before the match had started, you and tobio were talking near the water fountains, wishing him good luck with some playful jokes thrown around here and there before you completely dropped the bomb on him
it went kinda like this:
the laughter from the last joke you cracked finally died down as tobio casually took a sip from the water fountain, filling a brief moment of comfortable silence between you two
that’s when you said it, “so there’s this guy i really like.”
and that completely caused the setter to choke on his water as he immediately straightened up and looked at you with saucers for eyes
“y-you do?” he stammered over his words as he whipped the drips of water from his face
nodding, you quickly threw him a smile. it was a smile he always liked seeing on your face, the one he couldn’t help but completely melt into an enigma which was you
tobio couldn’t help but feel his muscles tense and his heart suddenly stop beating
the idea that he was no longer the only guy in your life was terrifying
sure you were friends with the rest of the karasuno team and yet he afraid of that fact as he knew that he was the only one who could be this close to you
but the idea that another guy, someone possibly better than him being closer to you and than tobio could ever literally scared him
not because he had undeniable feelings for you since middle school, but the fact that his best friend might put more of their attention to their boyfriend rather than him
“anyway,” you cut in after you noticed that kags wasn’t responding. “i was planning to confess to him soon...” tobio swore he felt his heart plummet, “i just hope he likes me back.”
i hope he doesn’t, tobio thought completely unaware that you were talking about him
 it was then hinata turned the corner and spotted you and tobio, “kageyama! hurry, we need to get on court!”
tobio attempted to shake the feeling of the tightening in his chest as he quickly said goodbye to you and ran towards the courts with hinata
you sigh to yourself before making your way back to the bleachers
once the game had started, you suddenly noticed a change in tobio’s demeanor
from the mere look on his face and to the way his muscles tensed every time he had set was different—almost determined to prove a point
and that was exactly what he was doing
the second the game started a whole knew visage melted upon his face, something mixed with the passion of the game and the determination of win was the chrysalis of the point was trying to make
that he was the only one worthy for you and he would prove it by perhaps playing the hardest and the strongest in the game to win for not only karasuno and his team, but for you as well
the entire game, from each of his receives, blocks, and sets that they were for you
you would always be so happy for him whenever he would win as you would through your arms around him and hug him until there’s no tomorrow
he wished to feel it once more the moment karasuno gained that final point to win
you swore your voice was going to get completely destroyed from the amounts of boisterous shouts leaving your mouth as karasuno had won against dateko
a smile appeared on your face as you watched your favorite boy throw his fist in the air and get absolutely trampled by the rest of his teammates
after the opposing teams shook hands, that’s when you raced down the stairs of the bleachers and dashed towards tobio as fast as you could
he had barely turned over his shoulder to see you coming at him at full speed
you immediately jumped on him and engulfed him into a hug, your legs wrapped around the setter as you exclaimed, “i’m so proud your tobio! i swear sometimes i wonder why i haven’t confessed to you sooner.”
that’s when he would accidentally drop you from the shock as would literally shout, “HUH??”
fortunately, you caught yourself before falling on your ass as you giggled lightly, “i was talking about you earlier, idiot.”
tobio literally felt a huge wave of relief, pulling you into a hug again. “oh thank god.”
the setter imagined that he was on the top of the world then, from winning karasuno’s first official game as a team to him finally winning over your heart
he had never felt better.
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betelguwuse · 3 years
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I’m starting to think maybe I don’t want to get married. Hypothetically I’d love to be in a godly marriage with a man who respects me and sees me as the person that God does (and not only me but women as a whole), but realistically do christian men like that even exist? Mainstream christianity, especially gender discourse, is so watered down and twisted into something that’s more political than biblical. I feel like this is gonna piss off both the christians and feminists, even though I’m both (though some might say I’m not a real feminist, whatever idc lol). Might also tag as Side B because I feel like this is also maybe a Side B mood? But here goes.
Color coded by vague topic, bolded so it’s easier to read.
Like I recently heard of a pastor being criticized for saying it’s a woman’s duty to look good for her husband, and the boomer conservatives were acting like criticisms of this pastor was the end of christianity. There’s no way “looking good” in a biblical sense was anything more than basic hygiene, nowhere near the beauty standards of today; and that is if the idea of looking good for your husband is even in the bible. These people siding with the pastor were saying that any woman who doesn’t shave or hide her “flaws” with makeup or basically completely embody the tradwife meme are bad wives. Like what the literal hell.
Honestly the entire tradwife aesthetic seems to be the goal for a lot of young christian couples, when it’s not inherently biblical. I used to be into it myself because heck yeah staying home, housekeeping, taking care of children, and wearing cute flowery dresses sounds like a dream. But my goals aren’t universal! Some women don’t want kids. Some women want to work. Good and God-honoring women of the bible didn’t all have kids and stay home. I mean the timeline of the bible spans so long, so yeah maybe there were times when most women did. But that doesn’t mean women who didn’t were bad wives or lesser women. Not to mention there’s such a blurred line currently between cute tradwife lifestyle and creeps who fetishize the idea of a traditional (and by traditional they mean submissive) wife. Gross.
Another thing too many christian men do is say women can’t be in any position of power in the church. There is the whole specific issue of whether or not women should be the highest up actual pastor of the church, and I don’t know enough about that whole debate to validate or debunk it, but I’m not talking about that specifically here. Aside from that one position, a lot of christians think women can only teach other women and girls but not guys, even like literal child boys. That’s so weird, like imagine thinking a little boy has more authority than, or even equal to, a grown woman? Couldn’t be me. And this whole idea comes from an out of context “I do not permit women to speak in the church” from a regular human guy. And the reason he said this was that the women around him were spreading heresy. I still think it’s flawed logic to exclude all women from speaking in that situation just because most of them were wrong, but again, this wasn’t a command from God. This was just a guy recording his church experience and doing his flawed human best to manage it. Various women throughout the actual bible outside of this one leader’s timeline held positions of power in various churches. And modern day american christian men think biblical womanhood is all about subservience? Bro what bible are you reading?
I just want to make it clear that these are all just generalizations, but having been in various actual biblical communities and conservative christian communities, I can kinda pick up on the general sexist behaviors of the latter. But unfortunately in today’s political climate more and more young christians are only being exposed to political opinions that are surface level americanized good christian morals, but not actually biblical.
Even on top of that, even if a man knows of these biblical misconceptions, we live in a society. Like we’re constantly exposed to women’s sexualization, and it’s pretty impossible to escape that. I don’t want to spend my life with someone who’s grown up in a world where women are seen as weak, objects, pleasure machines, etc. And yeah we can unlearn these biases (honestly I hate the word unlearn but I can’t think of a substitute rn), but it feels like a hassle to casually figure out whether a guy can make an effort to understand what women go through, and if I were to just bring it up I’d scare them away. And that’s not to say I’m some perfect person who’s never sexualized men, we are all sinners after all and we live in a fallen world etc etc. But a whole society where women are so objectified that it’s normal for little boys to be watching porn, that just doesn’t really happen with little girls. I can’t speak for all women, but when I started seeing men sexually it was in my late teens when I realized like ‘oh I can sexualize men too? wild. ok I’m an adult lemme check it out’. Still sinful, but not ingrained in me from porn ads as a kid the way most young boys have been since like the creation of the internet.
Even the men currently in my life who genuinely want what’s best for me are so incredibly misogynistic it’s baffling. My male family members see any woman who breaks an imaginary dress code or ideology is some kind of deviant. I just want to make it clear that this is MY family and I’M the only one who gets to complain about them. We all love each other here even if the males are horribly wrong.
So I shaved my head for halloween and my dad could barely look at me, not because he was exactly mad or anything but just because I looked ugly to him. He always says ‘close the windows in your apartment because men will spy on you changing’ but after my hair was gone he was all ‘actually don’t bother because nobody will look at you looking like that’ like wow I wasn’t aware men only sexualized women for their hair. Like you really think a gross creeper is gonna be turned off by a fully naked oblivious vulnerable woman just because she’s bald? That’s not how any of this works. And just today my sister was watching a goth youtuber egirl or something, I didn’t see her makeup but my dad said stuff like ‘ew why does she look like that, maybe it’d be cool as a costume but how is she going to get a job’. Like, I’m not one to go ‘women don’t wear makeup for men’ (because most women who only use makeup to hide their insecurities and follow beauty standards very much just do it so they don’t get backlash from others, if not directly to please men), but when it’s a fun crazy look that’s not meant to be pretty, I’m all for that shit and generally I hate when men lose respect for a woman just for wearing something they don’t like. Like fashion isn’t real and your appearance should be as costumey or weird as you want without people losing respect for you. Also like...do men know that makeup isn’t permanent?? Like if she wanted a job that required no makeup she could easily wipe her face off and get one?? Not only that, but people can work from home and/or be self employed. Maybe youtube itself was this girl’s job. Who the hell cares man. And the worst thing here is my brother outright said one time “the root cause of feminism is pride”. B r u h. And this was back when I considered myself an anti-feminist, even then I knew that feminism started for good reason and I was absolutely furious. I think I kept it to myself like a coward lol, but if anyone said that to me now I’d tear them apart. In a debate I mean, not like literal violence.
Tldr: I’m not trying to say men are inherently more evil because there’s evil in everyone, but the way it takes shape in men in most societies is so insidious and inescapable. I love my family and guy friends, but I don’t want to deal with one in a romantic/sexual relationship because I don’t know if even the most educated and goodest christian boi in this world can see me as a true equal. It sucks because I want sex and children, but when the mainstream idea of hetero sex is female submission, it just makes me shrivel up and contemplate becoming a nun. I’m not even catholic. But even nuns are sexualized and degraded in coomer’s disgusting brains. In conclusion I’m going feral and starting my own woman-only church in the woods let’s go ladies.
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the-fandom-fuckup · 3 years
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Kirikacchako? Please
I'm not sure if this is referencing a specific prompt from like.. An older post or not, but I've been on a bit of an au kick lately so I'm gonna use this as a plug for some of the aus/ideas I've had, so I hope that's alright ^-^
(I'd offer a doodle for your troubles but... I don't have any to offer rn gjskfksjfkak)
One of the most recent ideas I've had is Kirichako sirens x hoh/ace pirate Baku, in which Kirichako are a mated pair of sirens that travel the seas together to prey on unsuspecting sailors and Baku is a pirate that spends a bit too much time around the cannons n explosives, resulting in hearing loss over time
Upon meeting Baku for the first time Kiri n Ochako are both fascninated and peeved. Fascinated bc no one's ever looked them in the eyes during their song and resisted them like he has, and peeved bc immediately after staring at them Baku tried killing them with explosives
Like sure, they've met people on the seas that have been resistent to either their song or bodies before, but never someone who was unaffected by both. They didn't know whether to be more interested or insulted honestly
((They go with interested, but tell themselves they're insulted bc it's easier to admit))
N honestly I don't have much here, but they end up following Baku's ship around bc it has some good benefits (provides them with protection from bigger sea creatures, food from all the ships they destroy/people they fuck up), and also they just like bothering Baku until they get a reaction from him
They don't sing to him anymore, but they chitter at him n throw pretty sea trinkets up against the ship/into open cannon flaps for him to find later
The last thing I have for this idea is the courting process probably starts bc Baku tripped on the sea trinkets one too many times while carrying out his duties n gets pissed, so he goes up to the main deck to get their attention before chucking some sparkly, garbage thing back at them hoping to distract them enough to get them to fuck off. But the sirens look at their new gift and go wait... Returned gift?? A courting gift?? Which goes to kickstarts a whole new wave of bullshit lmao, rip Baku's sanity
Another idea I wanna shoehorn these guys into is my EnjiRei/TodoDeku mafia bodyguard au, but I'm not too sure on how to go about it tbh like
One one hand, I could have Kiri in with the Todorokis n Ochako in with All Might's group, and have Baku be the unsuspecting civilian just trying to live his life but has attracted the attention of both gang members, who then treat it as a rivalry of who gets Baku first but end up seeing each other as more than just rival groups when the gangs actually start working together n they get paired to run jobs, and has everyone spiralling into a mess of feelings and highjinks before leveling out to smth manageable
On another hand I could have a similar idea with Kacchako as the rivaling gang members and Kiri as the unsuspecting civilian, or maybe even some other underground member like an underground ring fighter or a runner or whatever, who gets scouted by the groups bc his reputation in the ring gets him a gig as some extra muscle or smth for an outside job
And then on the last hand I could have pre-established Kiribaku as the gang members (in the same gang this time) and Ochako as the civilian making bad deals with shady people for extra cash to try and help her family out of their shitty finacial situation, taking jobs she has no business taking (probably from the rising group that's fucking up everything for everyone else tbh) n catching the boys' attention bc "what's a pretty little thing like you doing in the sleazy part of town? Don'tcha know shit gets dangerous around here?" And they're endeared by her spunk n unwillingness to crumble under pressure so they take her under their wing to show her the ropes but also gives them their kicks bc they get off on corrupting her innocent n naive moral compass, all while being hunted by the other group bc she ditched their jobs n now has to face the consequences or smth, Idk idk
It would help if I had any understanding of how mobs/organised crime shit worked or even watched those kinds of shows/movies lmaofnakfmdjs
I'll finish it off with the modern fantasy au I've been thinking about bc I love it dearly, staring alpha werewolf Baku, alpha dragon Kiri, and bamf witch Ochako
At some point or other Baku gets the entire Bakusquad + Deku, Tetsu, Camie, and Ochako living in his packhouse bc he takes a great deal of pride in caring for his pack members and it's actually really easy for his alpha to categorise people as pack, but you'd have to pull out all his teeth before he admits it
Some of them just decided they lived there now n didn't leave, but both Kiri (+Tetsu) and Ochako were brought in by Baku bc his alpha's love language is acts of service/providing and clearly they both benefitted from the move so "why tf are you making such a big deal about it?? Just pack your shit n get it moved in, you've got a week"
Kirikacchako dance around each other hardcore in this au, to the exasperation of everyone else. The alphas try to play off their urges to provide n scentmark as subtly as possible, and since Ochako isn't aware of the meaning it goes pretty well. But literally everyone else is rolling their eyes n making bets on how long it takes them to get their shit together lmaojdidudj
A scene I have pictured for them (and the first one I came up with for this au) is Ochako going out somewhere and Kiri n Baku both casually scent her before she heads out, thinking they're all slick n shit. But as soon as she leaves Deku levels them with the most deadpan expression he can make n says "that was the least subtle thing I've ever seen in my life", and as Baku snaps n goes "I dunno what you're talking about" Kiri replies with a smug "I wasn't trying to be😏"
And like. Realistically the alphas know Ochako isn't really an omega, but she does share some traditional omega qualities that have their alphas going wild (period cycle=heat cycle, round n squishy but will fight you=strength n size for providing healthy pups + the ability to protect them, etc.) so it's understandable that their alphas would slip up n refer to her as their omega, right? Right??
It also doesn't help that after taking Ochako with them on full moon runs, she's been chatting with some of the betas n omegas there and asking how to better communicate with the boys (to avoid miscommunication, she says). But they've both marked her so much that the betas n omegas think she's their courted omega, so they teach her vocal cues n what they mean coming from an alpha, and teach her how to purr and chirp in response.
They don't think to mention the significance behind some of the cues they teach her bc why would they? Smelling as strongly as she does, there's no way those alphas aren't going to give her their bite n bond with her. Why would they need to explain some of the more provocative noises they teach her? They're just helping her for when her alphas decide it's the right time to mate her, is all
I haven't gotten around to how their tension n dancing breaks, but it does eventually n they do get together n bond and all that good stuff, and eventually they have werewolf/dragon/magic hybrid babies bc I have quirkbabes design in another au n I'm obviously dropping them into every au I possibly can bc I love them n put a lot of work into them (and they're super pretty, so I'm showing them off where ever I can assuming I actually draw smth for this au eventually rip)
And wow, this is getting kinda long n rambly so I'm gonna end it here, but I hope that this was kinda what you were looking for landkwidjdkwbf
If you wanna know more about any of the aus just let me know, I could ramble forever
Or if you have any other kirikacchako ideas you wanna hear about feel free to drop them off, I don't mind!! ^-^
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sweetener - [sixteen]
Trial and Error
Pairing: Tom Holland x Female Reader - uni AU
Word Count:  ~7K
Warnings: smut, smut gone kinda wrong, alcohol/hangover mentions
A/N: some of the ~positions in this chapter kind of imply that the reader is of a similar height to tom so sorry if that bothers you! other than that pls enjoy as we all try to recover from that instagram story, hope everyone is staying safe and staying home as much as they’re able to ❣
Updates: dunno sorry i thought i had a schedule there for a minute but i lost it
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Tom was very tired. So very, very tired.
Perhaps it had been a bad idea to go out last night, seeing as he was already knackered from work and lectures and training, but he and Harrison had gotten home from training and Adam said ‘we out tonight?’ and what was he supposed to say? No? To £1.50 pints? Of course not. So, now, here he was on Tuesday afternoon, not even that hungover but just tired, trying not to fall asleep in a lecture.
Apart from the fact that he’d nearly whacked his chin on the desk three times in the last ten minutes, though, his head drooping as he nodded off, he was pretty happy. He’d had a whole weekend with just you, which was nice, no interruptions or awkward interactions with housemates on the stairs, and you were now Officially Together, which was even nicer. He’d been a bit surprised when you’d brought it up on Friday night - but not in a bad way, he just hadn’t really thought about it. He wondered afterwards what he would have said if someone had asked him if you were his girlfriend, like Ruby had asked you. Yes? Probably? Maybe? No one had asked so it had never really occurred to him to put a label on your relationship, but when he thought about after he decided that if pressed he probably would have said yes.
In any case that was all cleared up now, “Facebook Official” and everything - he’d even told his mum. Well, that might be stretching the truth a little - he’d been on FaceTime to her on Sunday night and his brother Harry had come into the room and said ‘hey Tom how’s your girlfriend?’. It had been kind of hard to gauge his tone because he was shoving crisps into his mouth as he spoke, but it sounded snarky and Tom was fairly sure he had no interesting in actually hearing how you were and just wanted to tease him for having a girlfriend while simultaneously dropping him in it with their mum. Tom’s suspicions were confirmed when she looked directly into the camera with a high pitched ‘what? Who!’ and Harry promptly left the room, leaving Tom to murmur ‘um, well, uh…’ while he tried to think how best to explain your relationship. It wasn’t that he’d been actively hiding you from his family, he’d mentioned you in passing a few times to his brothers,but it just hadn’t really come up. Maybe he should have mentioned it before putting it on Facebook, but what was he supposed to do, just message the family chat like hey btw i have a girlfriend now? In the end he just said you were a friend of his housemate’s and that you’d met a couple of months ago, electing to skip over the part about how he already knew of you from work beforehand because that was quite embarrassing and not really something he wanted to share with his mother, and then he changed the subject and asked to see Tessa before making an excuse to hang up.
Familial video calls aside though, he’d had a nice weekend, and though it was only Tuesday he was already looking forward to the next one. Not just because he was tired and wanted a lie in, but this Friday was Valentine’s Day. He’d never really been bothered about it so he hadn’t even realised it was coming up, but once he did Tom wondered if your “talk” would have happened this week anyway, regardless of the Liv/Harrison situation, and not even because of the actual holiday itself, but because of the night out. Valentine’s Day at the SU had a traffic light system - wear red if you’re taken, green if you’re single, and yellow if...well, Tom wasn’t really sure what yellow was for. Maybe? Proceed with caution? Anyway, you probably would have ended up having the conversation about your relationship status before the party, because it would have been extremely awkward if you’d turned up in different colours. Now, however, you both knew you’d both be wearing red, so that was good to know - that is, if you ended up going out. You hadn’t talked about your plans yet, whether you’d go out like on a proper date, or stay in, or go out with everyone else. Tom didn’t really mind what you did, as long as he got to see you at some point, so he figured he’d speak to you about it later and see what you wanted to do.
For now though, he really needed to concentrate on this lecture. He was trying, he really was, only it was really quite boring and his eyelids were really heavy suddenly, and the lecturer’s voice sounded really far away…
aaaCHOO!
Tom’s head snapped up at the sound of the person next to him sneezing, his body jerking as he was startled back into consciousness. This was hopeless, there was no way he was going to be able to stay awake for the rest of the lecture if he didn’t do something to distract himself. The lecture content itself was clearly not interesting enough to keep him alert and awake, so he decided to see what you were up to instead, and you replied after a minute or two.
nm just back from lectures, watching a movie with liv and mads x
Oh cool what movie x
Even without knowing what movie you were watching, Tom was certain that he’d much prefer to be on your sofa watching TV, instead of sitting in this uncomfortable chair in a cold lecture hall. That was basically all you’d done all weekend, though obviously without your housemates - which was for the best, because it would have been really awkward if they’d been sitting there when the episode of Friends where they get a free adult TV channel came on and you’d asked him if he watched porn and he’d nearly choked on his tea. He’d just said ‘sometimes’ and then asked if you did before taking a big sip of his tea to try and look nonchalant (which was a mistake because it was still too hot but he wasn’t going to choke again on the same drink so he just let it burn his mouth and throat and nodded casually when you also said ‘sometimes’).
Bend it like Beckham lmao x
Arent you in a lecture rn x
Ahh a classic. Yeh i am but
Tom paused, considering how to finish that sentence. But now I’ve just remembered you talking to me about porn and it’s distracting ?? Hmm, no, probably not like that.
its really boring and im tired so i keep falling asleep 😴x
Okay, better, now stop thinking about it. He wasn’t even really sure what “it” was, just the general idea of you and porn, and porn-related activities, and things he shouldn’t be thinking about in a lecture.
Early night for you tonight x
Oh dear. That didn’t help, because now he was thinking that you were right, he probably would be in bed quite early - but would he be sleeping? Probably not, and he did not need to be thinking about what he’d be doing instead right now.
Tom checked the clock on the wall, pretending to be reading the lecture slides on the screen below it. Only twenty minutes left…
Want me to pick you up on the way home and we can go straight to bed? x
He debated putting a 😏 on the end, or maybe even a 😉, but ultimately decided against it before hitting send. You were supposed to be coming over to his later that evening anyway, but now he couldn’t really think of a reason to wait any longer than was absolutely necessary. Plus this way maybe you would actually get an early night, which wouldn’t be a bad idea considering he had to play rugby the next day.
Sounds like a plan. When do you finish x
20 mins x
He hoped you were on the same wavelength and understood that he didn’t actually plan to go to sleep at 4:30 in the afternoon (though he could use a nap, but he could do that after). He’d find out in half an hour or so, he supposed, he just had to stay awake until then.
It turned out to be a lot easier to stay awake once he had something else to think about besides what his lecturer was talking about, so soon enough Tom was texting you to say he was on his way, and then again to say he was parked on your street. He debated going to the door, but he decided that it was probably best if he didn’t just in case Liv saw him and wanted to hurt him just for being friends with Harrison.
“Hey!”
Your voice as you opened the passenger side door made Tom look up from his phone, slightly startled as he was waiting for you to text back and wasn’t expecting you to just appear out of nowhere.
“Oh- hey,” he reached over to grab his bag from the passenger seat so you could get in, tossing it into the backseat as you shoved your own bag into the footwell.
You smiled once he turned back to face you, reaching across the car to touch his cheek as he leaned over to give you a kiss hello.
“You look nice,” Tom said when you pulled back, settling back into your seat and putting on your seatbelt.
“Oh,” you looked down at your outfit, then over at Tom. “Thanks.”
It wasn’t a particularly exciting outfit, just jeans and a slouchy knitted jumper, but it was cute - or maybe that was just you, it was hard to tell. In any case it was time for Tom to stop admiring you and start driving, the drive between your houses passing quickly as you talked about your day so far.
“Oh crap,” Tom muttered under his breath as you walked up to the front door. His curtains were still closed, and he remembered then that his room was a complete mess.
You weren’t meant to be coming over until later on, so when he’d woken up late he’d just jumped in the shower in the hopes it would relieve his hangover, shoved on the cleanest clothes he could find, and ran out the door. So, instead of stepping back to let you in once he unlocked the front door, he went in ahead of you and went straight to his room to assess the damage. Besides the closed curtains, unmade bed, and wardrobe doors flung open, his open gym bag and workout clothes were on the floor, the towel he’d used after his speedy shower before heading out on top of them. In his semi-conscious state this morning he hadn’t been able to find said towel, so the one he’d used this morning was draped over the back of his desk chair. He was wearing the jeans he’d worn out last night, so at least they weren’t on the floor, but the shirt he’d worn was, as well as the pyjama bottoms he’d slept in, complete with boxers inside them, sitting very visibly right in the middle of the room. A couple of cider cans and the tub from the Pot Noodle he’d had for dinner littered his desk, and the bag he’d brought to yours on the weekend was open at the end of his bed, its contents spilling onto the floor. Fantastic.
“Sorry,” he mumbled as he quickly gathered all his clothes up into a pile and shoved them into the wardrobe. “D’you want a drink or anything?”
“Nah, I’m good,” you shook your head as you took off your jacket, setting it and your bag down by the door as it swung shut behind you.
“Okay, uh…” Tom trailed off, trying to fit his bags into the wardrobe and get the doors closed before everything started tumbling out. “Wanna put something on TV?”
“Umm… I dunno, is anyone home?”
“I don’t think so?”
Operation Wardrobe was mostly successful, in that the doors didn’t completely shut but nothing was falling out, so Tom considered that a win and moved on to straightening his duvet.
“Eh,” you laughed with a shrug. “Why bother then, we’re not going to watch it are we?”
“...yeah, fair enough.”
Deciding that his bed would do as it was and the curtains should probably remain closed, Tom moved towards you, his hands finding your waist as you pulled him closer by the collar of his jacket until your lips connected in a hurried kiss.
Guess you were on the same wavelength.
“I thought you were tired,” you smirked against his lips as he guided you across the room until your back was against the wall, his body pressed to yours.
“Well,” he sighed as he wiggled out of his jacket, your hands pushing it off his shoulders and down his arms. “I was, but I’ll persevere.”
Tom reached for the hem of your jumper as your lips reconnected, his fingers brushing over your waist as he pushed it up.
“Oh right, okay,” you giggled when you separated again for him to pull your jumper off over your head. “Well done, must be hard for you.”
Well, something was hard, if not the act of staying awake. What was vexing him at present, though, was how many layers you were wearing. Your coat and jumper were gone, but you still had a vest top on, tucked into your jeans - and was that a belt? A belt?! You had boots on too, plus whatever underwear you had on - what a nightmare - well not a nightmare, obviously your underwear wasn’t a nightmare, but--
Tom’s thoughts were cut off by you grabbing his face and kissing him again, and that was enough to get him to just get on with it. Your hands shifted from his cheeks to his shoulders and down his chest as he pulled your vest free. His tongue eagerly exploring your mouth, he kissed you more firmly before he stepped away to pull his hoodie and t-shirt off over his head. You followed suit, taking your vest off and dropping it on top of your jumper, then bending down to take off your boots while Tom kicked off his trainers.
His hands on your waist guided you towards the bed once you straightened up, one darting out to stop himself falling on top of you as you landed on your back on top of his crumpled sheets. Kissing as you went, you shuffled up to the top of the bed, you on your back and Tom beside you, leaning over you. Your legs tangled together, your fingers brushed through the back of his hair as he kissed down your neck and onto your chest, his lips following the line of your bra strap. Things started getting more complicated when he passed your collarbones though, and he realised that this was not your standard bra.
A pretty teal colour, your bra had complicated looking straps going across the tops of your breasts, just above the cups. The band was deeper than normal too, a sort of mesh lace covering your ribs almost down to your waist. After briefly pausing to consider whether to follow the cup or the strap (he chose the strap) Tom continued his line of kisses onto the centre of your chest, sucking and nipping at the skin in between your breasts. Your chest rose under him as you took a deep breath in, letting it out in a contented sigh as he lifted his head to look at you.
“This is fancy,” he ran his fingers over the thin strap decorating the top of your breast. “Did you wear this to uni?”
“No,” you shook your head, your chest moving under his hand as you laughed. “Bit much for a lecture, I think.”
You watched his hand as his fingertip trailed down between your breasts and along the underwire as he chuckled.
“Yeah, maybe.”
If you didn’t wear it when you went out, did that mean you changed into it just for him?
“What do you think, though?”
“Hmm?” Tom hummed, looking up to see you gesturing to your chest.
Were you actually asking what he thought of your bra? Or maybe just your boobs in general? It was more likely that you meant the bra, but either way the answer was the same.
“Oh, yeah, uh,” his eyes returned to your bra, like he even had to think about his reply. “Very nice.”
“Thanks… you know you’ve seen this bra before, actually.”
“Oh?”
Tom felt like he should probably look at your face instead of your chest while you were talking, but then you were talking about your bra, so many it was okay if he kind of went back and forth between them.
“Yeah, you know that Snapchat I sent you?”
“Ohh right, yeah.” Now he thought about it, it was actually kind of familiar, though if he was honest he had been more focused on the fact that you had sent him a picture of yourself in your bra than on what the bra itself looked like. “Thanks for that, by the way.”
“You’re welcome,” you laughed again, a cute little laugh that didn’t really match up with the way your hand on the back of his neck pulled him into a kiss.
Tom shifted more on top of you as the kiss deepened, your hand slipping into the back pocket of his jeans to keep his body close to yours as you sucked on his bottom lip. Your other hand was still playing with his hair, your fingers twisting in the curls as he moved to kiss your neck.
“You know it’s funny actually,” you tilted your head to the side as you spoke, a gentle smile in your voice. “I didn’t mean to send that to you.”
…….
You what?
“Hmm?” he said instead, his face still buried in your neck but his eyes wide open.
“Yeah.”
That’s not helpful, who was it meant for?
Tom pulled back slightly, shifting to the side and resting his weight on one arm while he waited for you to expand.
“I was sending it to the girls and I just clicked on you too by accident.”
“Oh right… okay.”
He wasn’t really sure why you were telling him this now, or at all really, but if that’s all you meant then that was okay, right? It wasn’t like you meant to send it to another guy. Besides, that was ages ago, things were very different now. Like, if he’d found that out a few weeks ago he probably would have been a bit more freaked out because he had taken that snap as a sign that you were into him, so finding out that it hadn’t been meant for him at all would have kind of shattered that idea. As it was though, he had more than enough evidence now that you were into him, so it didn’t really matter too much now.
“Did you not think the caption was a bit weird?” you spoke again, taking him out of his thoughts and back to the present. “Like, why would I tell you I got this in the sale?”
“Oh, uh,” This is embarrassing - though not more embarrassing than sending a semi-nude to the wrong person. “To be honest, I didn’t read the caption.”
“You know what, that’s fair enough,” you laughed. “I’m glad I sent it anyway.”
“Me too.” Wait that sounds weird- “I mean not just because, like, obviously it’s always nice to see boobs-”
“Well yeah-”
“But it kinda like, you know-”
“-got things going?”
“...yeah,” Tom nodded, a smile growing across his face because yeah, that’s exactly what it did.
You were smiling too, and then before he knew it you were kissing again, his body shifting over yours. He kissed down your chest again, moving down the bed as he went, planning to take off your jeans - and his own, because they were feeling uncomfortably tight right now.
“Oh yeah, I was gonna say-”
Fighting the urge to sigh, Tom just looked up at you from where he was kissing the soft skin just below the band of your bra.
“-you know the other day when you said you wanted to try like, spanking or whatever-”
“Oh, I, uh-”
“- I was just wondering if there, you know, wasanythingelseyouwantedtotry?”
You’d said the last part in one quick go, the words running into each other, leaving Tom blinking up at you as he played them through in his head at half speed. Once he’d worked out what you’d said though, he still didn’t know what to say, because he definitely had not expected you to say that.
“Erm… uh… I don’t know…”
“Oh. Okay, never mind-” your voice went quieter, your face turning slightly as you looked away.
“No, like, it’s just - I can’t think of anything right now, but I’m sure - can I come back to you on that?”
Your eyes met his again, and your face relaxed into a small smile as you nodded.
“Yeah, sure.”
“Cool.”
He waited a moment to see if you had anything else you wanted to say, but you just ran your fingers through his hair and said nothing, so he took that to mean he could continue. He pressed a few more kisses to your stomach before unbuckling your belt, undoing your jeans and pulling them down your legs once you lifted your hips to help him get them off. He swallowed as he tossed your jeans onto the floor, not taking his eyes off your underwear - a thong that matched your bra, barely covering any of you. That settled it, you definitely changed into different lingerie just for him - and that knowledge made it even hotter. Like, you looked amazing regardless, but knowing that it was for him? On purpose? You purposefully dressed like that for him? Yeah, that made it ten times better.
“C’mere,” he murmured, leaning down to wrap his arms around you and rolling you both over so you were on top of him.
You ground down onto him as you kissed, his hands squeezing your ass as you arched your back, rubbing yourself along his length through his jeans. He grunted as your lips left his, instead scattering kisses down his neck and chest as you moved down his body. Soon you were kneeling on the bed between his legs, sucking small purple marks onto the pale skin just above the waistband of his boxers. He was so focused on that that he didn’t even notice you undoing his jeans, until you were pulling them and his boxers down, his hard cock springing free and falling heavily against his stomach.
Tom watched as you licked along his length, sucking him into your mouth when you reached the top. He groaned when you bobbed your head, your cheeks hollowing around him. Your fingers curled around the base of his cock, following behind your lips as they slid up and down his length. You swirled your tongue around the tip as you came off him for a moment to breathe, your hand continuing to move up and down smoothly. After a moment you dipped your head again, taking him back into your mouth a little at a time. Your mouth felt so good around him, so warm and wet, and Tom was just thinking that he’d quite like to reach between your legs and feel something else warm and wet except he couldn’t really reach just now, when it occurred to him that maybe he did have an answer for you.
“Hey…” he muttered, not sure how to begin.
“Hmm?”
Tom closed his eyes for a second, his jaw tensing when you hummed around him. “I thought of something.”
You lifted your head, your hand still moving as your mouth left his cock. “Oh yeah?”
“Yeah, um,” What’s the best way to say this? Just say it, I suppose. “I dunno, you could like… sit on my face.”
“Hm…” you tilted your head thoughtfully. “What, while I…”
You trailed off, nodding towards your hand around his dick.
“Yeah… if you want.”
You hummed again, your hand still pumping slowly while you mulled it over. After a moment though, you stopped and nodded, sitting back on your heels.
“Yeah, okay.”
You moved aside while Tom took his jeans off, but when he lay back down you stayed kneeling beside him on the bed. He said your name questioningly, looking at you uncertainly.
“...you okay?”
“Yeah,” you nodded, but didn’t move. “I dunno, it’s just like - it’s very exposing, isn’t it…”
He didn’t really know what to say to that - he’d gone down on you loads of times, so he didn’t really see what the difference was, but there obviously was a difference to you.
“Oh, well,” he sat up a bit, propping himself up on his elbows. “I mean you don’t have to-”
“No, it’s not that,” you cut him off, shaking your head. “It’s just… like I want to but…”
Tom stayed quiet, just watching you have this debate with yourself because it didn’t really seem like it actually had very much to do with him at all.
“D’you mind if I leave my pants on? Like, obviously you can move them to, you know, get at stuff, but like, I dunno-” you sighed, sounding exasperated with yourself. “I know that doesn’t really make sense, I just feel like it would make it easier for me to put my butt in your face.”
He couldn’t help but snort at that - not so much at the idea but just the way you phrased it. You laughed too, only a little more nervously.
“Yeah, ‘course,” he nodded, trying to make his expression more serious. “Whatever makes you comfortable.”
You nodded back, slowly at first but then more decisively.
“Yeah… yeah, okay. Sorry, I’m being weird.”
“Nah you’re fine, don’t worry.”
Tom sat up more, touching your cheek gently as he kissed you. Your lips moved tentatively with his at first, but it didn’t take long before you got back into it. Your fingers wound their way into his hair as he gripped your waist, your body shifting to climb back on top of him.
“Oh right, yeah,” you stopped suddenly, shaking your head with a chuckle. “Other way.”
Both of you laughed as you shuffled on the bed, turning around and swinging your leg over his chest. Tom held your hips as you moved back, until you were right in front of his face. He couldn’t see what you were doing, obviously, but he could feel your body over his as you leaned down, wrapping your hand around his length again. He had a brief moment of panic when he realised that when he pulled your thong aside everything was going to be upside down compared to what he was used to, but then he felt your mouth envelope his cock and he figured he’d just work it out as he went along.
Kneading your ass cheeks firmly as he spread them apart, Tom pressed a few teasing kisses to the wet patch in the centre of your underwear. Your body twitched slightly at the contact, but you didn’t stop what you were doing, so he assumed that meant he was good to continue. With one hand he pulled your thong to the side to expose your pussy, wet and spread open right in front of his face. He wrapped his arms around your body and pulled you that last bit closer, onto the flat of his tongue as he ran it through your folds. Your body still felt a bit tense, but you moaned around him when he traced circles around your clit with his tongue, so that was a good sign, right?
You both carried on like that for a little while, him eating you out while you sucked him off. Sometimes Tom found it kind of hard to concentrate on what he was doing because of what you were doing, but other times you stopped and his cock was just sort of sitting there in your hand while you moaned and pushed back onto his tongue, so he figured the same thing was happening to you so it was alright. Your thong kept trying to move back between your legs though, and he was trying his best to keep it out of the way with his face but eventually he had to pull one hand away from its very important task of squeezing your bum to move it properly.
Holding your underwear aside, he went back to massaging your clit with his tongue. Your mouth tightened around the tip of his cock as you whimpered before you lifted your head, your hand still working his length as you came off him with a wet pop. Tom grunted against your pussy as you started to grind against his face, his fingers digging into your bum as he guided your movements. He could feel the tension in your body building, your thighs tensing -- until your grip on his cock loosened, your hip movements faltered, and you pulled away from him.
“Ugh, sorry,” you groaned, climbing off him when he let his arms fall away from your body and onto the bed.
“What, what’s wrong?”
“I dunno,” you whined as you turned around, crawling back on top of him and straddling his hips. “I just feel like… like I can’t concentrate? I don’t know, I think I just prefer doing one at a time, there’s too much going on.”
“Okay,” Tom just nodded; there wasn’t really much else to say to that.
“Sorry…”
“No, don’t-” he switched quickly to shaking his head. “I know what you mean and like, if you’re not into it then what’s the point, you know?”
“Okay,” You nodded as he shrugged, but your expression remained uncertain. “Still… sorry.”
“Seriously, it’s fine - now we know.”
“Now we know,” you giggled as Tom reached for your hands where they rested on his chest, tugging on them to bring you close enough for him to kiss you.
His hands caressed your body as his tongue roamed your mouth, reaching around to undo your bra - or at least, that was his plan. When he got there, however, he felt way more clasps under his fingertips than he was expecting. He tried his best to keep kissing you as he worked his way through them, but after he’d undone three and it didn’t seem like it was any closer to coming off he had to stop, muttering a frustrated sorry against your cheek.
“Oh, right,” you pushed yourself up, reaching behind you to undo the last couple of clasps. “Yeah, it’s got like five things, sorry.”
All Tom could think was why though? Why make it so complicated? But he didn’t say that, instead he said:
“No worries. What about you?”
You were just leaning down over him again, presumably about to resume kissing him when he said it, and he instantly regretted it when you stopped and tilted your head in confusion.
“What?”
His only explanation was that your habit of starting full on conversations during sex must be rubbing off on him - why else would he interrupt you when you were on top of him with only soaked thong between you? Why didn’t he just let you carry on? It was too late now though, he’d just have to continue and hope it paid off.
“Is, uh, is there anything you wanna try?”
“Oh,” you straightened up again, sitting up straight in his lap. “Hmm.”
Tom watched you thinking, nibbling on your bottom lip contemplatively, and he was beginning to wish he’d just waited to ask you another time before you spoke.
“I’ve never done it standing up, that could be fun…”
Then he really wished he hadn’t said anything, because frankly he was way too tired for that, but you had tried his thing, so it only seemed fair that he try yours.
“Okay.”
“...okay?” you repeated, looking at him questioningly.
“Okay,” he nodded. “Wanna try?”
You seemed to consider for a moment, before shrugging with a casual ‘sure’. You crawled off him and you both got to your feet, your knickers soon finding a home on the bedroom floor.
“So like, how do we… do this?”
“Um, right,” Tom thought for a second, before placing his hands on your hips and guiding you so your back was against the wall, your arms instinctively looping around his neck. “And then I guess if you like,” - he moved one hand down to your thigh - “lift your leg?”
You did as instructed, his hand holding the back of your thigh firmly as you hitched your right leg up to his left hip.
“Erm…right...” he looked back and forth between your face and his dick, now sort of pressed between your abdomens, as you bit your lip to try and stifle the giggle that was threatening to burst out of your mouth.
Hmm.
Tom bent his knees slightly, using his free hand to try and position his cock at your entrance. You lifted up onto your tiptoes, using your hands on his shoulders to steady yourself, and that did help a bit. He was able to push inside you, but beyond that he didn’t really know how to go about this. The way your bodies fit together meant that he couldn’t really thrust into you properly - he tried, but it just didn’t really work, and you were still on your tiptoes which didn’t seem sustainable, especially because you were standing on one leg and only staying upright because you were pinned between him and the wall.
“Um-”
“Hmm…”
“This isn’t working, is it?”
Looking between your bodies, your leg wrapped him and your breasts pressed to his chest, he really, really wanted to say it was working, but the truth was it just wasn’t. “Maybe if I lift you up?”
“Pardon?” you laughed, a bewildered expression on your face.
“Like,” Tom squeezed your thigh where it rested on his hip. “Do that but with your other leg.”
You just stared at him for a moment, blinking once, twice, three times before you spoke.
“No.”
“Why not?” He couldn’t help but laugh at your flat tone, the confused smile still frozen on your face.
“Because you’ll drop me.”
Tom opened his mouth to say no, he wouldn’t drop you, but in all honesty he couldn’t say that with 100% certainty. He wouldn’t mean to, obviously, but he was tired, and what if he did drop you? Surely that would be worse than… whatever this was.
“...fine,” he said instead, helping you bring your foot back to the ground before he stepped back, cock slipping out of you in the process.
“What if I bend over the bed?”
“... yeah, that could work.”
And lo, it did work. With you bent over the edge of the bed and him behind you, Tom gripped your hips as he thrust in and out of you steadily. Your hands grabbed fistfuls of the sheets, pushing back to meet his thrusts, and it wasn’t long before he could feel himself getting close, the tension inside him built up after so long spent with your mouth around him and your pussy in his face. His fingers trailed across your hip as he reached around to touch your clit, a grunt passing his lips as he felt your walls twitch and clench around him as you straightened up to give him better access.
“Fuck-”
You turned your head to kiss him, all breathless moans and probing tongues into each other's mouths. Your body twisted as you leaned into the kiss, making Tom’s cock slip out as he moved to thrust into you again.
“Fuck,” he groaned again, more out of frustration than pleasure this time. He went to reposition himself at your entrance, but stopped when you breathed his name.
“Hang on…d’you wanna just...do it normally?”
He sighed, closing his eyes for a moment before he nodded.
“Yeah, okay, sure. Sorry.”
You straightened up and turned around properly, your arms wrapping around his neck. “S’okay-”
“I’m just tired and-”
“Seriously, it’s fine-”
“- I’m a bit hungover and-”
“Tom.”
The way you said his name finally made him shut up, assertive but still quiet, gentle.
“You’re fine, it’s fine. That last one was good, I’m just being awkward because I want to kiss you.”
“Oh.”
That was all he had time to say before you kissed him, as if to demonstrate your point - and honestly, you made a really solid argument. So much so that the two of you fell back onto the bed, barely breaking apart as you lay down and he pushed back inside you, your legs spread wide beneath him. Plus, it was nice to be lying down and back in his comfort zone, kissing your neck as he thrust into you, your fingers tugging at his hair, your legs wrapping tightly around his waist--
“Wait wait, stop-”
You both froze as someone came into the house, slamming the front door closed behind them.
For fuck’s sake are you fucking joking?!
Tom kept his face buried in your neck, but he could feel you holding your breath until you heard either Adam or Harrison (he was trying not to think too much about whoever it was) going straight up the stairs. He felt you exhale once an upstairs door banged shut, your hips bucking up as you sighed.
“Okay, carry on.”
He did as he was told and began to move again, thrusting into you. Your moans were quieter now, more restrained, which was a shame, but he’d take what he could get. You bit your lip as he shifted, his arms bracketing your head as he quickly built up speed until he was pounding into you. One hand still tangled in his hair, you slipped the other between your bodies to rub hurriedly at your clit.
“Oh fuck, please,” you whimpered, looking up at him slack jawed and glassy eyed.
“M’gonna - fuck - gonna come,” Tom grunted, feeling your walls clenching and squeezing his cock as he thrust into you as deeply as he possibly could.
Your fingers in his hair tightened, urging him to dip his head to kiss you. You moaned into his mouth as he obliged, your body jerking under his as you came. He kept thrusting into you as he came moments later, his own moans mixing with yours in a hurried, passionate kiss, your hips rutting together as you both rode out your highs. The kiss grew softer as the rhythm of your hips began to slow, until your tongues were lazily dancing together as you ground together slowly.
“Yeah,” you chuckled breathlessly when you finally pulled apart. “We should have just done that to begin with.”
Tom just laughed in reply, scattering kisses across your cheek and down your neck onto your shoulder as he caught his breath. His body was feeling very heavy now, every ounce of tiredness he’d felt earlier coming rushing back after that burst of energy and hormones, and suddenly all he wanted to do was sleep.
“...you’re kinda squishing me a bit, Tom.”
“Hmm?” he hummed, his face nuzzled against your cheek until he replayed your words in his head and understood what you were saying. “Oh! Sorry-”
You unwrapped your legs from around his waist so he could roll off you, before crawling out from underneath him and searching for your underwear on the floor. Tom watched from his spot on the bed as you rummaged through your bag, pulling out a clean pair of knickers and the pyjamas that he’d lent you over the weekend. He just nodded sleepily as you said something about going to the bathroom, taking his dressing gown off the back of the door and tying it around your body before you left the room.
He didn’t think he’d fallen asleep, but it only seemed like a moment later when the door swung open and you came back in, and surely you hadn’t been that quick?
“Someone in there,” you explained when he looked at you in surprise - so maybe he hadn’t fallen asleep, you actually had just come straight back.
Tom nodded again, but this time he sat up, blinking furiously in an attempt to get his eyes to stay open. He couldn’t exactly go to sleep right that second, he was too naked and sticky, so while you hovered by the door waiting for the bathroom to be free he set about cleaning himself up and finding some clean underwear. It was only another minute or two before you both heard the bathroom door open, footsteps going across the landing, and then another door closing.
“Right, be right back.”
By the time you came back for good, Tom had changed into a fresh pair of pyjamas, put something on the TV, and shook out his duvet, and was lying under it all warm and cosy and trying to stay awake at least until you got into bed too.
“Are you actually going to sleep?” you asked as you slipped in under the covers beside him.
“Not like, properly,” he mumbled, turning onto his side holding his arms out for you to wiggle into. “M’just, m’gonna nap… jus’ for a minute…”
He was sure you didn’t believe that - he didn’t believe it either - he’d probably wake up in three hours not knowing who he was or what day it was. He didn’t get to hear whether you had anything to say about it though, because he fell asleep almost immediately, his breathing turning deep and even in your ear in seconds.
⋘ FIFTEEN | SEVENTEEN ⋙
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