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sleeps-au-bag · 19 days

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emmet already knew what happened to ingo. it was obvious. veeerrrryyyyy obvious. but not to others, he supposes. it’s fine. emmet is nothing but a patient man. he can wait a while until the others finally come across a clue.

ever since he was a boy, emmet knew more things than everyone. puzzles? he already knew the answer before being given it. new learning material. seemingly everything was memorized perfectly in mere moments. mysteries? give him one he’ll enjoy ad it’ll be done in five minutes max. of course this meant he always knew what the outcome of a battle would be but he always put his all in it. after all, a battle is not fun unless both participants are serious about it. it wouldn’t be fair to either party otherwise.

gear station already had measures in place in case if either boss or both bosses went missing. the station was using plan ingo when emmet was taken in for questioning about ingo’s disappearance. nobody in nimbasa thought of him at fault for his brother’s disappearance but it was mostly a safety precaution. also to get the league off of the city’s metaphorical back. emmet kept the knowledge of what happened to himself, it would only cause problems for the station and he would hate for his employees and passengers to deal with everything the league would have in store for them. instead, he claimed he was doing his own investigation but was being slowed down with all the work he was doing to keep the subway running. that unfortunately didn’t satisfy the league.

emmet was getting quite tired of them. verrrryyy tired. he needed a break. but he also didn’t want to leave the station. just because he knew practically everything didn’t mean he saw his employees taking charge and making him use some of his years worth of vacation days. and also sending him to hoenn of all regions. at least it isn't kalos?

now, what will he do when he's on vacation? help people. obviously. emmet is a public worker at heart and he loves to help others. he manages to set up a detective agency and get a fitting wardrobe (courtesy of elesa) in two weeks. he quickly gains notoriety in the local town's population for how quickly he's able to solve cases and how he seemingly knows everything. of course he doesn't do this under his actual name. where would the fun in that be? he gives himself a pen name, like authors do.

edogawa ranpo.

that's what the people know him as.

the people know that ranpo worked solo for two months until the mysterious additions of "edgar allan poe" and "nancy springer" to the agency. little did emmet know (even with knowing almost everything) that introducing them would kickstart another journey to go on. this time with much more on the line.

#detectives pen names and pokemon au #submas #submas au #subway boss emmet #oc psyche #oc nana #sigh #yea this is a pokemon x bsd au but none of the bsd characters are here except for when their names are mentioned #keep in mind i have yet to watch bsd #ability users in this au (and my ocverse) use fake names to keep their actual identities a secret #different kinds of fake names get different titles #pen names are names taken from book authors like with what emmet did for himself #btw he and ingo are sinnohan their parents just moved them to unova when they were young #i also haven't played the gen 3 games yet #the real reason emmet hasn't done anything to get ingo back is bc ingo ate his food that he specifically claimed for himself /j #emmet took both their teams with him so none of their pokemon would feel left out

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daydadahlias · 3 months

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I know that I've bitched abt this before but since I can't find the original post, I'll just say again that I have so many issues with people that will send screenshots of fics they’re reading to their friends (or talk publicly about a fic on a platform that the author is not on) but then won’t leave a comment on the fic itself or ever directly talk to the author of said fic.

Like ok so you clearly loved the fic but you don’t think the author should know that?? You don't want to encourage them to write more work?? Because you don’t perceive fanfic authors as real people, do you? you only perceive their content as real and given to you like a commodity or some sort of given in a fandom sphere. and you can enjoy it in whatever means you want but you don’t care about the author, you care about you.

fanfic is not just a consumable product <3 fanfic authors are real people sharing our time and our energy and our love for writing and our love for our fandom with you for free <3 and the whole point in doing that is to connect w/ other people that love what we love.

so every time you read a fic (or any book !! or any art piece !! or literally anything MADE by another human being !!), consider the person who poured their energy and their love into that. and if you liked the fucking thing?? tell them that??

#it's so not that hard im gonna scream into a pillow #getting screenshots from groupchats being like 'people love ur fic' is actually asdfgh not as much of a compliment #as the multiple people who have sent me that thing #considering that. none of the people in that gc or in those texts will ever comment on my work or talk to me #and im not UNGRATEFUL for the interaction I already get I love it :)#but it's really fucking frustrating <3 that people read a fic and love it <3 and don't want to tell the author that #bc they dont percieve fanfic authors as real people #just ~content creators~#me when im pissed lolz

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sagevalleymusings · 11 months

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Ted Lasso is an extremely subtle and nuanced show that we don't deserve and I'm going to defend a character I hate to prove it

So the series finale of Ted Lasso aired last night and I went out of my way to watch it even though I don't have a Hulumaxflix plus account, because I have utterly adored this whole season. I have seen a lot of disappointed fans and negative takes, even outside of the "it's woke now" brigade, and I disagree with pretty much all of the analyses I've seen so far. People are disappointed at the Tedbecca tease that never panned out, they're disappointed Jamie is talking to his dad again, they're disappointed all this stuff they wanted to happen didn't happen, tale as old as time. But I think the issue here is that Ted Lasso is written in the style of a daytime tv comedy while actually being an extremely heartfelt and pained letter to an abusive father that one of our writer was never able to send.

Co-creator and star Jason Sudeikis has gone on record saying the show is about bad dads. And we see examples of this all over the place. Some are more subtle than others.

But the problem with subtle shows is that you have a very wide audience to appeal to. I have seen and dare I say it even enjoyed both Primer and Groundhog Day. But trying to apply the time travel logic of the former to the latter just because they're both time travel movies would be folly. And this is how I feel about Ted Lasso. It has a lot of similarities to a style of show which is usually nowhere near this deep and it makes people expect something of it that it isn't providing.

How do you know I'm not talking out my ass? Jack Danvers.

I hate Jack Danvers. We get a fucking lesbian for a change and she's an abusive cowardly closeted slut shaming piece of shit.

I love Jack Danvers. Because I knew she was 1) Keeley's financer and 2) a lesbian in under ten seconds of meeting this person, having seen only her shoes.

Jack is quiet and possibly even a little uncomfortable chatting with Keeley in the bathroom. But Keeley's so charming and open that you can't help but appreciate the quiet bonding moment it turns into.

But I've definitely been there. Women are so comfortable talking to each other in the bathroom and it makes me so uncomfortable. There have been so many times I have been made to feel unwelcome in this space and you want to have a chat... Please go away.

Once it's revealed this is in fact Jack, it comes as a minor shock that Jack is a woman actually. Why is her name Jack if she's a woman?

It's because "my father wanted a boy."

Jack is one of Jason's "bad dad" characters. Which means her actions are a reflection of her childhood environment in a very pronounced way. Slowly but surely, we learn that Jack believes love is conditional.

Jack introduces us to the concept of love bombing and I think because the relationship progresses past that point, the audience is encouraged to forget this, but… love bombing isn't just new relationship energy. It's an abuse tactic. And we're told pretty explicitly that it's an abuse tactic because the person telling us about it is Rebecca, regarding her shitty and manipulative ex husband.

That Jack's relationship starts on this beat is noteworthy, because it sets up the dynamic that Jack believes she can only retain Keeley's affection if she buys it. Why does she think that?

Moving forward, we start to lapse into a false sense of security as Jack loudly proclaims their love in front of the whole office and is planning on showing Keeley off, only to have the rug ripped out from us the second something even slightly bad happens.

But it isn't Jack's decision to make Keeley read out that apology and then pull funding when she refuses. Not if we're to believe Jack's word on it at least. It was "the board" whoever that is.

Jack peaces out to Argentina before the final shoe can drop, and it displays lastly an absolute cowardice on her part that she didn't even give Keeley the satisfaction of a break up.

All of this combined makes me realize though that the sudden scrambling retreat is literally the other side of love bombing - we didn't drop that plot point just because we stopped talking about it. The motivations for both actions come from the same place. Jack believes love is conditional. She feels that she must earn Keeley's affection, and sees nothing wrong with withdrawing her own if Keeley doesn't do the same. And also, the actions of her partner reflecting negatively on her means that love can be withdrawn *from her* if she doesn't bow to pressure from those whose respect she's trying to maintain.

The coming out moments in parallel with this lens are stark. Coming out to the office wasn't just about being open -it was about speed running earning Keeley's love and trust with grand acts of affection. And there are no consequences to coming out to people that far beneath you socially. Jack owns the HR firm that KJPR… might not have? Meanwhile her old college friend does matter. And when Keeley was a successful business woman to show off, that would have been fine. But now that she's part of a scandal? They're just friends. It serves her to come out to the firm in the interest of gaining Keeley's love, and it serves her to keep it hidden from her college friend, to avoid messy questions later that might make her look bad.

With her very name, Jack has been taught that there's a version of herself other people want her to be that she's incapable of reaching. And absolutely nothing we see from her suggests she's worked to unpack that trauma.

Jack is a minor character - a brief love interest in Keeley's life. But her decisions are deliberate and weighty. The good and bad moments are both informed by the same parental trauma, and the writers stick to it. They're true to character, even if it's "bad representation," even if it's not what fans want.

So let's talk about Tedbecca. I will reiterate that this show is about "bad dads" and more broadly about the ways in which who our parents are and how they raised us results in intergenerational trauma that's difficult to disrupt.

Ted and Rebecca are foils for each other. They both have absent fathers (eventually even they both have dead fathers) and they both have emotionally controlling mothers (more on that in a moment). They both are starting a new chapter in their lives because of a divorce, and family is an important component of that divorce.

And they are both responding to their trauma, especially in early episodes, the way they've always been taught to respond to that trauma. Rebecca schemes vengefully while pretending everything is fine on the outside because she's been taught that the people in her back will not support her. Her mother put up with shitty behavior from her father for years. Then when her father left, her mother turned into a flighty unreliable hypochondriac. She doesn't want to allow Rupert the same power over her, so she reacts like a cornered tiger.

But at the end of the day, what she wants is a family, and in a lot of ways Ted can't give her that. Is Ted going to have one child in America and another in Britain and split his time between the two? Does that sound like the kind of thing Ted would be willing to do? Nor do I think it's what Rebecca really wants because her desire for family isn't just about having a child, but having a stable family unit to come back to, one she didn't really have growing up. Maybe you could see them hooking up, but by the time their relationship has progressed that either of them could have, they've both grown past the desire to do so. Tedbecca isn't endgame because Rebecca needs someone calm and warm and relaxed to come home to, in contrast to her childhood being a parent to her mother, or the cat and mouse dance with her ex husband.

But Ted isn't much better. We see that his father's suicide soured their relationship, but holy crap do I want to talk about Ted's mom.

In every single scene that Ted and his mom are interacting in right up to the blowout fight, she is guilting him into behaving a particular way. She says he "was born nice" but in reality it's obvious that he's extremely used to having to guess at what someone wants and bend his life around that. Ted's mom wants to visit him so *waits around his apartment* until he notices and offers her a place to stay. Ted's mom wants to sleep in the bed while insisting otherwise (but immediately starts having specific plans about what that means re: suitcases don't go on the bed). Ted's mom wants to go to the game and Ted doesn't insist she go, so she sends a text saying she wishes she were there. It is a relentless barrage of emotional abuse.

No wonder Ted is so sensitive to the lies she's telling people, also the whole time. How many fights have they had where he's done something because she asked him to, only for her to turn around and say "I never asked for that" and have that technically be true? And in fact we are explicitly told in the blow out that she responded to her *husband's suicide* by pretending everything was normal.

And then, finally, we get the truth. She's not there because she wanted to visit London (a thing she said explicitly which turns out was also a lie). She's there to guilt Ted into coming home by using his guilt over leaving his son. Is Ted… also a bad dad?

Ted's entire generous, forgiving personality was shaped by these two parents. One, who was a good man despite making what I would say is the only unforgivable act of selfishness, and the other, who is a manipulative woman who demands generosity from the people around her despite never overtly saying such.

Ted isn't just forgiving of Beard because of the guilt and anger over his father's death. He's also willing to go the extra mile for people because he thinks it's his job.

Ted leaves for Richmond because his wife wants space, but in a lot of ways it's also an act of selfishness. After all, his ex wife says that she didn't want them to take a break, she wanted to know that Ted would fight for their relationship. And he doesn't - in fact he does the opposite. We now have context to know that asking for something without really asking for it explicitly is a trigger for Ted. So he sees what looks like the emotional manipulation of his mother coming from his wife, panics, and runs as fast and as far away from the situation as he can.

That Ted could never be in a relationship with his boss. Tedbecca isn't endgame because Ted needs a relationship where he can be selfish.

And I think, genuinely, that all of this is intentional on the part of the writers. A relationship with Ted and Rebecca could never have been healthy, because they are the same character, but one of them is fight and the other is flight.

This show is so, so smart. And I think it's absolutely tragic how much of that smartness is missed because we aren't used to shows with this level of carefully crafted nuance. My god, the scene where Nate comes out of his room and the first shot is an all white hallway with absolutely no distinguishing features? My god. The flex of having the characters singing, and you can hear them walking off, Dani is literally getting louder as he gets closer to the camera! That's studio audio because their breathing doesn't line up with the dancing, but it sure sounds like it was recorded on a soccer pitch. I looked up the name of Keeley's form because I distinctly remember the last scene *not* saying KJPR and turns out in a blink and you'll miss it moment, she changed the name to KBPR to honor the fact that Barbara stood by her when Jack pulled funding.1

I could go on and on and on. There's so many moments where the writers just jam packed meaning and nuance to bursting in this show.

In the "morning after" scene in the series finale, Ted is wearing a KC shirt, specifically a KC Current shirt, which is a women's professional soccer team. That says a lot all on its own for that being the shirt

In fact, Ted wears a lot of KC shirts on the show. He wears Richmond shirts… when he's at work.

There's a lot more I could say, and maybe even will. I want to give the jamie/keeley/roy OT3 another look from the top at some point. But I just wanted to get something topical out quickly, because good shows deserve to be showered in praise, and I really think the negative publicity on Ted Lasso specifically is an absolute crime. We can't expect to see writers take a chance on something this detail oriented and nuanced again any time soon if we just skip all the nuance and get mad they didn't doll smash our favorite characters together.

#Ted Lasso #ted lasso season 3 #ted lasso spoilers #Media analysis #actually this is quite short for me #Also I have some questions about Jason and Dan's IRL relationship #Like they seem fine at first glance and also it's none of my business #But someone inspired this story #Those abuse tactics are too real and too bone chilling to be made up whole cloth #Anyway I think the series finale was spectacular #Loved the whole season three actually #Also if you read nothing else #I would like hulumaxflix plus to enter the cultural lexicon

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eff-plays · 7 months

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ALSO TO BE CLEAR: I don't actually think you're like cringe or a bad person or have bad taste if you romance Astarion with elves. I don't actually care, because it's a video game and I, like, have homework. It's all just hyperbole for the hahas. Yes I do genuinely find the dynamic less interesting, but that's because I don't generally play elves if there's more fucked up guys on offer, so I would just naturally have a harder time making it interesting. So if you can come up with an amazing story for your elf romancing Astarion, great! More power to you! I love you etc etc.

#to all my new followers: i am very loud and obnoxious about my opinions online for the hahas and for the expression of it #irl i'm actually chill and don't actually care that much because frankly it's none of my fucking business how you enjoy the game #blog stuff #bg3 #so basically if you saw my previous post asking to see tavs/durges and think that i wouldn't wanna see yours because they're an elf?#WRONG i would like to see them please!!#i am very real about blocking people that annoy me though but that's mainly because of my fucking #pathetic backstory as a drama queen from back in the dragon age days #it's for my own peace of mind so i don't get jebaited into cringe debates #and also i just like to curate my own online experience<3

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quietwingsinthesky · 6 months

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years later and sam stops at a store to buy a little white dress and boxes it up and puts a ribbon on it and he gets all the way back to the bunker before he realizes that dress has nowhere to go. and he doesn’t want dean to see it or else dean will start treating him like he’s crazy again, so instead he takes it out and burns it. or maybe he thinks he does, but months later, digging under his bed, he finds a little box, fully intact, with a little dress, and he starts crying and can’t stop and he’s just glad dean isn’t home to hear him.

#<3 i love inventing whole new flavors of trauma to give sam #literally he is a widow he lost his child but also none of that actually happened but rhe grief is real. the grief is real.#sam winchester #lilith spn #hallucifer

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unityrain24 · 3 months

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does anyone know any epic (gender nuetral) k names. bc i miss having the letter k in my name and so i was going to make one of my middle names start with (or at least have) k but i can't think of any so it just a plain k and my name basically looks like this now:

[rock] K. [plant] [not just a noun but it has "rain" as part of it]

#at one point thought about doing a japanese name/word bc i'm learning japanese and really enjoy it but it's just feel too wierd bc im.#not japanese.#tried looking at icelandic k names/words once but i'm not really familiar w/ icelandic so was just skimming through but none really stuck :#thought of making it “kweldii” after the language i was creating #but seeing as how it all got wiped with my ipad and i haven't been able to recover from that #it'd be wierd bc a) it was never finished so naming myself after a nonexistent language would be strange #and b) it'd make me sad :( bc then hearing/seeing that name would remind me of what i lost #also yes i want two middle names #also yes i am changing my last name.#i actually wanted to change all my names even before i started questioning my gender (mainly bc of bad religious + family ties)#the gender funky was just added to it #but no you don't get to hear them.#only like. 2-3 people on this website do.#<-and two of those i am related to. from real life.#unityrain.txt #trans #name change #queer #they/she #<- thass me baby

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bmpmp3 · 4 days

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dysgraphic artiƨts risɘ UP!!!!!

#raise your pencils!!!! and erasers. to fix the backwards letters 😔#sorry still thinking about my weirdness with my art professors. yknow a lot of em have been really pushing us as #students to make our personal identities a major part of like our 'brand' as artists #which. well from an art history major perspective thats a very contentious and nuanced topic. i love a lot of artists who live this way #and i think its great seeing my peers who focus on identity thrive. but also as an fine arts major (double major fool LOL)#i keep getting pushed by teachers into like. specific '____ artist' identities???#specificaly woman artist. which is a little bizarre because im a bit fat and a bit gnc so im generally like. ungendered? in day-to-day life #(which doesnt actually matter to me directly that much honestly LOL people tend to view me as like. buddy? buddy or pal.)#(not man. not woman. not anything human. sometimes i remind people of a beloved dog. which. hkdsahjk thats its own can of worms)#(a can of worms that also doesnt matter much to me directly because im a wannabe furry who chose to be the dog when playing house as a kid)#(LOL so um. well. theres that) but yeah i dunno i dont really consider myself a woman artist. its been. shockingly (and sometimes luckily?)#irrelevant to most of my life and experiences and art (although dont get me wrong misogyny is very real and very present) so i dont #have a whole lot to say about it from an art perspective. you could also call me all kinds of things. a queer artist. a mixed race artist #again technically correct. some aspects more visible in my work than others. but also very technical. i focus on race a lot in in my #art historical work but i dunno how much my drawings have to say. except that i keep making too many mixed ocs LOL #i dunno i just think my professors gotta focus that energy away from tokenizing me and over to supporting like actual #capital W Woman artists capital Q Queer artists capital A Artists of Colour who are doing far more interesting things than I #far more thought out and engaged in these topics directly. i just kind of stumble into my art blindly and confused <3 #sorry that was a long tangent WHAT IM SAYING Is despite all that: i do consider myself a capital D Dysgraphic artist #i think its an unmovable constant of my art and the way i draw and the way my hands move. the untrained eye doesnt seem to be as aware #of it directly. but those who are familiar can probably see it. the dysgraphia LOL if not just from whenever i write a letter or number #half of them are busted and frantically fixed HDKJSDJDS but its in all my art. if u can see it <3 ive been trying to embrace it #dygraphic artists raise your pencils indeed!! and throw away the eraser!!! make the legibility of your words everyone elses problem!!!#what does that say? what is that sketch? none of my business! none of your business!! its the business of my hand and the pencil alone #motor skill and spatial issues take the wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel

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brokenyellowcrayons · 12 days

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you should be a lot more suspicious of people who glorify martyrdom.

and you should be a lot more suspicious of a government who actively targeted and killed that man's family.... and one that has killed over 13,000 children in the last 6 months... and has forced nearly 2,000,000 people to the brink of starvation...

I don't know what you expected to accomplish with this anon, but i don't think it's gonna work. There is no condescending little message you can send me that will make me lose my values.

#i wonder if this is the same anon that sent a message about an article i posted telling me it was all fake and the photos weren't real #and that none of those bombings in palestine were actually happening #this was at least 3 years ago i think #so its probably unlikely that someone like that would stick around on my blog for this long #but the vibes of the messages are the same #well anyways #free palestine #🍉🍉🍉

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sntoot · 11 months

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batu is so short in every cutscene theyre barely peeking over the edge of the screen to stay in the shot with all the ancients

lahabrea holding both his kids up by the collar of their robes: can you guys stop being gay for FIVE MINUTES (the answer is no)

#im going crazy over this tier #shaking all the characters like a dog with a toy #eyes glowing red etc etc #none of this actually happened but still #pandaemonium spoilers #pandaemonium #ffxiv #my art tag #hestia/azem's tag #erichthonios #themis #lahabrea #im not tagging batu here lmfao this is the worst ive ever drawn them #azem doesnt have their mask bc 1) do not wish to design that lol #2) they are just memories from the last tier and their mask broke back then so they still dont have one #3) they aren't here as azem officially nor as hestia so it seemed right they dont have one #not sure they view themself as medusa as a person bc of all the terrible things linked with being medusa #their memories given form tho are enough to attract some familiar faces to the aitascope lol #if i colored this for real id make their hair normal and look like erichs because they dont have their fucked up soul #or their corporeal aether for the fucked up soul to bleed through and make them look strange and shiny #anyways going to get back to thinking about how azem would rather rip out their own heart than feel any affection for their mother #as soon as i figure out how to illustrate that its all over

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merge-conflict · 4 months

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For a man supposedly having second thoughts, Takemura didn’t budge an inch, lips still on her neck and his thigh in between her legs. “Because you are…unwell. You should be resting.”

“I don’t want to rest. If I’m going to die I want to go out on a good note.”

“You are not going to die.”

“So say I live,” V said. Her voice was bitter but she was still curling around him like she thought he might actually pull away. “Then we’ll have plenty of time to catch up, will we?”

She never missed her mark when she was being nasty, but Takemura was clearly used to taking it on the chin. After a short, tense silence all he had to say was, “And Silverhand?”

Johnny would have preferred not being mentioned at all. He wasn’t going to ruin V’s chance at getting some decent head, especially considering her mood, but she had such shitty taste in men. And women, come to think of it. Cars. Clothing. Just a complete fucking gonk, from top to bottom. Sometimes made him wonder why he bothered.

<Don't say I never did nothing for you.>

“Forget about Johnny,” she said. “Is he the only one who gets to enjoy himself?”

“Mm.” Takemura sighed, making her shiver. “I think not.”

It was a bit of deja vu, to feel the old dog kissing her neck, the rasp of his beard over skin still sensitive from Kerry’s attention the night before. V had her eyes closed, so it was easy, even, to imagine it was Kerry back at it. Like it was Kerry’s hand skimming down over his bony rib cage and soft stomach, reaching the sickly hollow of his hip and dipping under the towel.

The illusion was shattered, of course, when V opened her eyes again to watch Takemura unwrap her like she was some expensive gift. But by then Johnny was already swimming too deep in her hormones, rapt with attention as Takemura began following the same trail his fingers had made with his mouth. Unlike Kerry he wasn’t the least bit surprised or bothered by her untamed bush, but then again he clearly already knew his way around.

V made a sound deep in her throat when he kissed her clit, eyes sliding closed again even as she bucked her hips. Johnny wondered if a brain dance could really replicate this feeling– he was always entwined with V in her head, but she was usually so damn miserable. And everything had always had that awful lag, like stuttering video over a bad connection. But now she was lit up like a Christmas tree, and for the first time they were burning in perfect sync, a bomb primed and clock ticking down.

#wip wthursday #finally on my time off so I am going to be posting obnoxiously sorry (not that sorry)#so excited to write this weirdly intimate scene from johnny's pov and then know #none of them are ever going to talk about this again #at this point it makes me chuffed to think valentine's gotten to johnny so that he could actually sort of enjoy this #she's rewired his brain. her brain. their brain. >:3 #con: her brain is shutting down for real now. pro: the sex feels twice as great

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