#or the crunchy boys XD

[scottishoctopus]

The monkees? Who are they, sir Jones?

"Maccus tells me that they're some sort of famous musical band nae sailin' on the seas of course but residin' on land- uh." Jones bluntly answers with a tiny shrug.

"One time we brought on a newcomah ontah the ship and he believed---naw he was convinced Ah was one of the singahs in that band simply because we share the same name. The laddie isn' abroad the ship any longah."

#[answered] #pirates of the caribbean #davy jones #davy jones potc #bill nighy #davy and some of his crewmembers should start a band #like the cursed folk or something #or the crunchy boys XD #i dont know im half asleep right now as i write this haha #i think i might actually pop off to bed and then answer the rest tomorrow after work #and davys probably going to be playing the pipe organ right about now

[snickerdoodlles]

finally posting some background notes for red line fic under the cut !! i meant to do this [checks wrist] an embarrassingly long time ago, except i get shy talking about my writing hjgfjhfj. so!! reading thru red line here and dumping out some thoughts as we go!! for @the-cookie-of-doom <333

red line started with this post. (me, every time i say i'm not going to write something: *grabs clown nose*) i wanted a fic where Chay watched Kim fight because 1) Chay deserves this, ep14 bar fight my BELOVED, but also 2) Kim's put a lot of effort into sectioning parts of his life off from each other, so it's SUPER FUN from a writing perspective to throw them all together and watch him flounder.

planning out red line, it was either going to be Kim pov if it was pre-mafia reveal, or Chay pov post-reveal. both of which are really fun!! but i wound up going for a pre-reveal scenario mostly because this was supposed to be sHORT and a Chay pov didn't feel right without a reconciliation or a lot of setup otherwise. so Kim pov it was! then it was a little bit of rolling ideas around for why goons would be present period. i landed on Arthee's fuck-ups causing problems before Chay's first kidnapping mostly because i didn't want too many guns involved (there was just. no way Kim could've easily protected Chay in that without sending him away for real, which defeats the purpose) but i wound up really loving that premise and committing for a few other reasons:

Kim never brought any of the mafia into Chay's life in canon. all of the mafia bullshit Chay gets dragged thru is related to his own family being involved in the mafia (none of which Chay knows about!), which is very crunchy to me.

loan sharks breaking down Chay's door was his normal. like. i feel like this goes largely ignored by a lot of fandom, but Chay's normal is gang thugs destroying his stuff and him needing to patch up his loved ones. the fucking things that does to a kid.

i just really like Arthee as a plot device. he kinda got left off to the side by canon (which!! fair!! they were juggling a lot of balls there and i'm glad they dropped him in favor of other characters/plots), but you can also see how much i loved the "Chay gets kidnapped because of Arthee's debts" kimchay premises from the early fic days in here XD

writing Kim and Chay in a Tutoring Session, No Really, It Looks Like A Date But This Is Tutoring Honest date was ridiculously fun. i love putting boys in situations. but i also just??? really like them being friends??? well, flirty friends here, but it's so important to me how much Kim and Chay just like spending time together. they're two very lonely boys and i'm very happy they found each other <333

also, Kim telling himself he's not flirting while flirting and encouraging Chay to flirt with him. disaster boy <33333

i spent probably a silly amount of time thinking about what weapons to give Kim (originally, i wasn't going to give him any). i didn't want it to be knives because while that's very hot of him, knife fights are…very, very rough. far more like that one mission impossible movie than elliot from leverage or literally any other movie knife fight, and while patching up knife fight wounds is excellent, i already have that for a different WIP. i also just don't see Kim carrying outright weapons in with his university gear? maybe his first year, but not at the end of it, too much risk for things to go badly. hence, mace and brass knuckles-- the mace is one of those little keychain mace things you can buy in a pack (Kim's was a gift from a friend nearly a year prior, he was very startled and very confused by the offering lol). he got brass knuckles because i think Kim is all for something that helps minimize how hard/often he has to punch someone, but mainly because when i was looking at the keychain mace, i remembered those stupid 3D-printed keychain brass knuckles things also existed and amused myself thinking about how much they'd offend Kim. thanks to that thought train, Kim got a proper set to better break a dude's nose <3

Chay and Kim trying to shove the other behind them as the loan shark's thugs break down Chay's door still makes me laugh. i'm easy to please like that, i love that meme y'all.

Kim's running commentary on how stupid Gold Jim is was SO MUCH FUN to write. i like that Kim's irritation making Gold Jim comical didn't take away from how threatening the situation was either? like, obviously, it was less intense, that was the point, but i'm still really happy with how serious Kim feels through all of this because there is danger in the fact the idiots are looking for a fight, even if they haven't realized how outclassed they are yet.

also, i just really like the level of Kim's violence in his head. i like that it's just a stream of conscious he's not putting a lot of thought into. i just don't see Kim's relationship with violence as being a dramatic thing-- it's just that Kim's first thought any time he sees someone is how to break them, just incase.

Kim naming the thugs One thru Five was 100% for my writing convenience, i am SO delighted people loved that for him XD

Chay hitting a thug with the frying pan for interrupting his date was the first thing i knew would happen in this fic. Chay deserved to hit at least one(1) person with a frying pan in canon, so he got to do it twice here. Kim is DESPERATELY trying not to swoon, he's going to be so horny about this after the shock of everything wears off.

man, i cried a lot thru writing the action for this scene, but i'm really satisfied with how it came out actually!! WORTH IT

i am still ridiculously tickled by this particular "Oh" / Oh moment. KimChay making hearteyes at each other while the goons feel superfluous my beloved <333

Kim making a hot grunt sound while manhandling a guy twice his size into position for Chay to whack with his pan is going to fuel conservatively 83% of Chay's spank bank fantasies from here on btws.

writing Kim tell Gold Jim who he is was so much fun.

in that line of thought, if Kinn ever learned Kim threatened some thug with his name, he'd beam like a puppy. doubly-so if he realized the specific wording Kim used. his metaphorical tail would be wagging up a hurricane if he ever realized how much Kim associates him with safety and protection.

also very fun to me was Kim accidentally calling Chay his boyfriend and immediately swallowing his tongue about it. i didn't plan that, it just fell out of my brain like it did Kim's mouth and i went "okay!! we'll roll with this!!!"

"is the safety on" was Chay holding himself back by the barest skin of his teeth. he is going to get his mouth on Kim asap but he is NOT going to let some stupid emergency room trip ruin their first kiss. meanwhile, Kim's about to enter an angst spiral, lmao. (in my head, there's a dent in the floorboards from where Chay threw his frying pan away. it's amazing it didn't shock them out of their kiss, but Chay is not to be deterred dammit!!)

u all know me and how much i love my kiss fic, but ending this one with Chay having an adrenaline crash was delightful to write, i'm gonna need to do this more often XD Chay's 100% of the mindset he's either going to be horny or cry, and he'd much prefer to be kissed, tyvm!! unfortunately for him, i prefer tears. also, Kim keeps trying to use his mouth for pesky things like words, it is very unproductive towards Chay's current goal >:T

speaking of Chay's wild emotions-- i very much do not see Chay liking violence for violence's sake. he's had enough of people throwing their weight around him for a lifetime. he does, however, have the biggest thing for a hot boy coming to protect him, esp if the boy is Wik shaped. don't tell me Wik was part of Chay's gay revelation and tell me he DIDN'T have so many fantasies of Wik protecting him from the shitty loan sharks.

that said tho! reality =/= fantasy. Chay was terrified Kim was going to get hurt because of him, half his adrenaline crash was just worry for Kim :(

i'm not sure what to say about this next bit transitioning to the ending of this fic except that it was definitely the trickiest and the longest to write. Chay's drilling Kim for answers because Porsche has been absent for months, but Chay's not upset with Kim. (Kim's the one here with him! he's the one answering Chay's questions!) i wrote myself into a corner a few times with dialogue that was too accusatory for what i wanted. but also, this was the part when i was like "oh!! i know what the summary should be!!" because six thugs have nothing on the intimidation factor of Chay Has Questions XD

Kim saying he can go and Chay going "why tho????" made me laugh out loud writing this. i love Chay's terrible priorities so much. you will never be able to convince me that Chay wasn't 100% ready to accept Kim as part of the mafia so long as Kim cared about him, this boy is so ride-or-die for his whole two(2) important people. Kim trying to convince mr. obstinate he doesn't want him is even more futile than Kim trying to deny himself what he wants. esp as Chay calls Kim out for all his flirting <3

on a more serious note tho, i really like how Chay comes across during this part of the story. it's kinda like Kim's violence thing-- i see the core of Chay being very, very lonely. he really only has his brother in the world, who's not able to be home too much due to circumstance, and now isn't home at all. and then here comes Kim, reaching out to Chay and asking all about him and just plain being a friend to him-- of course Chay latched on. of course he's going to cling if he thinks Kim likes him back. he's too lonely not to.

Kim's little whispered "stay" was my driving force every time i got stuck on this fic, i love when Kim tries to tell himself all the reasons he's not allowed to want something and then ask for it anyways. that's what we in the business call character growth XD

to wrap up this very messy fic ramble, some lines i really, really love in this fic:

Kim's never wished for a gun before. Kim doesn’t like guns. They’re too fast. Too clean.

hehehe

Gold Jim chuckles menacingly. It’s like he’s following a theatre script. Kim’s going to break every bone in his body before he sets him on fire and applauds.

i'm not sure if anyone noticed??? but the specific items of torture are based on theatre/performance idioms-- "break a leg" and "you're on fire"-- hence Kim applauding at the end.

Kim reminding himself not to scare Chay by killing the idiots, light maiming ONLY

cleaning up blood is so annoying, anyone with a period can concur 😭

Chay stands over Three, wielding a frying pan with two hands and looking just as surprised with himself as the rest of them.

i'm just. so, so fond for the image of Chay staring with complete surprise between his frying pan and a guy he just gave a concussion. he just did that! he just did that???

“How’s that going for you?” Chay asks, warm and soft where he’s still pressed up against Kim, “Felt a lot like tutoring to me.”

listen. LISTEN. Kim's investiagation excuses to hang out with a cute boy he likes are so cute. Chay agrees with me. we are both so correct for this. Chay's going to tease Kim so much about this but also encourage it past this point, he loves Kim being obsessed with him too <3

#fic: red line #i'd clean this up except im feeling v sick rn hgjfj #so!! messy thought rambles it is!! #hope u like friend <33333 #kinnporsche #kimchay

[eternal-savvy-blog]

What's your favourite artist?

Oh many!!! Buckle Up cos I'm going all in on this one I'm gonna include SFW and NSFW artists haha. I'll mark what each of them do so you aren't blind sided. And of course there wont be NSFW images linked here. Their names will have links to either their main Twitter, or other primary site you can find their art. And I'll @ their tumblr if I know it below that For sure Junji Ito for horror stuff. That almost goes without saying and I don't think I really need to link his stuff xD he's an absolute titan of horror art

MackleNG (SFW & Horror)

Absolutely amazing linework and generally incredible vibes. They are drawing a webcomic called CHOKEPOINT i have been meaning to check out but I adore their art just in general. I've been using a lot of their art as inspo lately and can't get enough of their cyberpunk designs, horror vibes, and use of pops of colour to emphasise and showcase their incredibly in depth line work and details!

QSY (SFW & NSFW) @qsycomplainsalot

I continue to come back to their art and they are also a huge inspo for me. I'm generally trying to find a way to adapt their colouring into my own style because it's absolutely gorgeous! The way its simultaneously crisp and crunchy, while also soft and expertly blended! It's like candy for my eyes! Add into it their fantastic expressions, excellent pallette choices, incredible weaponry, and of course some excellent NSFW with really great curves, colour, and characters, and they're easily one of my top 3 artists

Tyto_Alba (SFW & NSFW)

Do you like Mecha? Do you like guns? Do you like cute girls and/or boys!? Well, hot shit, me too!!! You NEED to check out Tyto_Alba! Straight up, another one of my top 3. He has legitimately changed the way I do my lineart, the way i draw soft shapes (like butts and stuff :3c) and my god the mechs as well! I legitimately had a hard time finding a good singular piece of their art to use here cos they are so fantastic at both sexy art AND mechs that i really had to find something that showed off a little of both! Something that I personally have noticed with their art as well is just how fuckin incredible they are at drawing HANDS! I am obssessed with their skill with hands and I hope to match up to them some day in that regard! I feel like I'm getting there but I LOVE the way theyre always so Shaped and well posed. As well as how detailed they manage to be without being too attention grabbing unless intentionally in the focus! What's more, they use simple colours so effectively! Much to be loved here! And of course, their NSFW content is top tier! Really excellent soft shapes and squish and really fantastic context and intensity!

RizDraws (NSFW)

Listen... LISTEN OKAY!!! We're hitting the NSFW exclusive part of the list and you have to understand that NSFW artists are just as incredibly skilled as any other artist and that porn is FINE AND NORMAL! Having sexual interest is not unusual. Having a desire to draw these things is a human and regular thing. I could talk for paragraphs about how puritanism is harmful and ultimately denying something natural and inherently human and anyone telling you otherwise has ulterior motives. But that's not what this post is about. I say this because an artist showcase tends beat around the bush with this stuff but I am unwilling to be vague about this. NSFW art is valid and, what's more, Important! That being said, Riz is incredible! The squish! The faces! The fluids! The Dicks! All so good! They somehow straddle the line between pinups and porn in such a brilliant way that I would be happy to have their art on my wall and I'm not kidding haha! The particular way they colour with the chalky texture is often sought after and I see why! Personally I don't look to emulate it myself but I most certainly enjoy looking at it! The way Riz uses their lines and their particular style of chalky colour to make the squish of clothes against flesh really look real! It's somethin else!

Andava (NSFW)

Now where Riz does the mid point between pinups and porn, Andava is definitively porn haha! xD That being said. Hot damn dude! In particular the way they do bodies and have a variety in body types, shapes of boobs and faces. Especially faces. Their characters are really good too and it's very easy to develop a favourite (for me it's Erika and Alexis) There's a reason people have cosplayed their characters and it shows! Absolutely love the variety, the situations/positions they draw! Theyre incredible as making stuff feel messy as well! Highly recommend browsing through their stuff and finding a favourite OC of theirs haha! I was lucky enough to get a commission off them years ago when they were still fairly small in terms of following. So long ago that Tumblr still allowed porn at the time haha! I dont think Discord even existed yet! Still wanna grab a commission off Andava of the same character one day! ALRIGHT I think I will leave it there for now! I could absolutely go longer and talk about even more of my fave artists and why I like them, and how they've inspired me but I get the feeling I should hold off haha (unless of course people would like to see more) I hope this has thoroughly answered your question. Though I know for a fact i will kick myself over not mentioning an artist i should of included later but forgot to lol

#Savvy Speaks #savvy moment

[dennydraws]

It's September!!

Also a holiday tomorrow! :D No work, free day!! And it's going to be a day of no plans beyond drawing and vibing and picking my folder of Sun Haven wips :D I'm in this warm fuzzy and mushy mood, I want to draw some wholesome moments! ... and continue my Claude propaganda! :D;;;

I hope it stays rainy and cozy tomorrow. I love the first month of autumn, it's still warm but with that delightful chill in the morning, crunchy leaves everywhere, hot drinks, everything pumpkin... :D

Beyond that, I'm thinking to attempt Inktober again this year and do the "redraw old OCs" again as my own personal theme. I just need to pick the OCs and maybe pre sketch some cause I know it gets really hard to keep up after the second week :D;;;

I also have my ongoing comic project to juggle on the side and I hope I can keep up. I don't want to fall down my own pace but super enjoying working on it and getting more comfortable drawing on the ipad!

And because I like my plate very full... I've also been considering resuming my FanFyria comic again which... has been on pause for...like over 5 years? ^^;; Boy, do I feel guilty about this one... But I also begin to miss it more and more and I did find my outline, though a lot of it is now big question mark as my art and writing obviously evolved and changed over the past 5-10 years lol

FF14 writing challenge is also going on this month and I cheer my friends who take part for I'm not powerful enough to write XD however I am one of the volunteer artists who will draw rewards at the end of it! I'm always so excited about that!!

Anyhowsies... it's just me rambling and thinking about arty things! Autumn has always been the season of creativity for me and I hope inspiration finds you as well, my dear reader!

I hope every word you write come with ease and every stroke you lay on the paper turns exactly as you wanted it. I hope the colors turn out better than you expected and you feel proud of yourself for every creative step that you take this season! :>

#Good Morning! #Denny blogs #Its september and Im so full of autumn whimsy and spark!

[sioster]

wheres my boys, Karo. Where are they. I need them

Where are your boys you ask? Well.. they're here!

DREBLR 2022/2023 EXCHANGE GIFT MASTERPOST!

The gifts will be posted as separate posts propertly tagged as fanart in the next days, so if you don't want to listen to my rambling, random tumblr user, come back in a few days.

oh my dear starclan theres so much oh mother please help me

Prompt 1: Mouse!Dream propaganda

I used the Transformice AU since it has established designs and characters- here I drew a little mentor/student bonding moment :) TFM!Dream gets his little cape that he loves and cherishes <3

I don't really do backgrounds but I'd say that this one is not that bad and even quite thematic.

TFM!Dream doodle page with a portrait. I really like how funky the colours on him are, little rat boy. Baby. Praying so that it's not shit on the blue light screens..

Pre-Armageddon design (the one with the same robe as Ratza)

Post-Armageddon design (violent, sad axe boy)

Along with a sketch with no particular design in mind and an obligatory thing for a TFM drawing: the iconic cannonball <3

Prompt 1 & 2: Mouse Dream propaganda & season 2 Discduo with a snake

This is more of a joke-gift but c'mon look at them, so cute!

Aple (PS: thank you!!) helped me with this one by dressing up as S2!Dream while I was wearing the S2!Tommy cosplay. We took some selfies and I think these look the best out of the bunch.

Sadly we don't have too many items so the outifts don't look the best considering all ingame options but I think they still represent the characters well!!

Prompt 1 & 3: Mouse Dream propaganda & Dream and Wilbur being happy and friends

I'm sorry for the quality of the scan, but it's a traditional piece scanned from my sketchbook and our printer is... older than me..? I think?

Another piece with the S2!design since it's so much scrunklier and cuter than the one from my AU xD Though, I'm sure that Ratbur would cuddle with him no matter the cuteness- looks don't matter in the end, only the % of scrunkly in one does.

Prompt 2: S2!Discduo with a snake

The lineart might be a little crunchy since it was also scanned from my sktechbook, but the colours are digital so they're more vivid!!

I used the Basilisk!Dream design here since it fits with the topic- I hope it's okay!!

Also.. I don't think that Tommy is glad that his BFF is currently holding an unidentified snake that is possibly venomus right next to him. S2!Tommy is the one with braincells. Not Dream. Please be careful Dream, yes you are made out of scales, no it doesn't guarantee immunity.

Prompt 3: Dream and Wilbur being happy and friends

Well. Would you look at that. I made an oopsie and actually wrote something gherjsafsnrgu

SIF THANK YOU SO MUCH BUT IT DOESNT CHANGE THE FACT THAT I PISSED MYSELF LIKE TEN TIMES OUT OF FEAR

Though I am so sorry that there's not more madduo prompt gifts ):

End Note

I hope that you like your gifts! I think that they're good enough..? Sorry if it didn't reach your expetations ouuh )):

but hei- the New Year of 2023 is here, and I wish you everything you need! Especially health and the time to enjoy the things you like. And more dreambur. Yes. More of them. Definitely. [feral animal noises]

-Karo Sioster_71 <3

#karo art #karo stuff #dreblr

[katyspersonal]

I stay awake at night thinking about night how Ranni gave a small sliver of The Rune Of Death to Rykard in case he had to fight Maliketh, who is canonically one of the strongest creatures in Elden Ring

Like

did she give it to him because she thought there was a non zero chance of a chance of him winning if it came down to a "Fuck It We Ball" moment between a Scalie and a Wolf.

Or did she give it to him because he helped her with the logistics and planning of jumping their kind of half brother with the Twink Obliterating Squad known as the Black Knives?

Or was it because Rykard was her brother and she'd like to keep her cool older satanist, rock and roll, death metal brother that wasn't a crazy catholic horse boy (No hate to Radahn) alive?

God damn it Miyazaki! Tell us before I start thinking Rykard was the Carian version of Malenia and Miqullea!

This has been the first edition of Cosmic's sleep deprived Ramblings About Random Lore Question Fuckery.

But do not worry.

There WILL be more.

Eventually.

Okay first, your way to describe things is absolutely hilarious xd I could not stop losing it at your "terms" while reading this ask dsjhfdsh

Second,

I know I am infamous for answering 50x times larger than the ask itself even when there is nothing to talk about, but this time I am genuinely not all that sure what to think myself? As in, everything you said does make sense and I am not sure what to add here! It is all three.

Ranni and Rykard WERE plotting against the Golden Order together, which I could not quite say about Radahn, so I'd say the one SURE way to be safe against this pain in the ass Death dog would be.. to have some Death by yourself? You know, just like a vaccine! These two siblings were close in a unique way, so it is only natural for me that Ranni DID, in fact, consider the non-zero chance that he'd succeed and have to fight him before she would. The "let the COOLEST heretic win" x) Not to mention that Rykard would be more 'known' unlike her who disappeared for indefinite time.. So yeah, maybe he even had a bigger chance to fight the mfer first.

From their perspective, that's it, as they would not know Maliketh was too busy having his crunchy Death breakfasts in religious guilt!

Also, I do appreciate the sentiment of wanting to share with me specifically, thank you ;-; Let's just say it is something I needed today... But yeah, whereas I know everything (and more) about BB, with ER there are STILL things to surprise me or that I do not have many thoughts on yet, despite the game being one year old...

#no you are right this is interesting #ask replies #elden ring #i did not even know who Maliketh WAS until like...... few days ago? i am being serious #i am just trying to find everything on my own rather than wikias and videos and this is a huge pain #but ya'll don't know what it does to my ego when people come to me to talk about LORE #i just hate the dispersion between being BB genius and ER cretin but you (live) play and learn right? #(also sorry for still halting on your previous ask it is just genuinely THE hardest top 5 to make) #(i did not know what could be harder than demigods top 5 but you beat me xd)

[thecrowslullaby]

Bad things happen bingo: Roman for being grabbed by the chin?

Warnings: kidnapping, violence, mention of slavery, threats, descriptions of injury

this is a fresh out of the owen draft, with no editing and crunchy spelling errors. Enjoy :D

words:1111 (it's perfect. I'm patting myself on the back for accidentally doing this xd)

ships: platonic roceit (no, the nameless background character isn't Logan)

Roman had spent his youth dreaming of becoming a prince ever since the old story teller passed through their little town. Charming the children with his grand adventures and flute. Roman amongst them.

But from all the tales Janus insisted weren’t true, the one of the little prince with silver eyes who saved his people from an evil sorcerer stuck with Roman the most. He wanted to meet him. He wanted to be like him. Daring and kind and smart and beloved by his people. His people.Janus had rolled his eyes every time Roman laid his plans on becoming a prince before him, but for his next birthday the blond had sewn him a red cape with untrained fingers.

“Just don’t leave me when you become king.”“I promise!” Roman grinned, hugging his friend despite his protests. “I’m gonna take us both to a castle!”

He still had the cape that Janus had gifted him for his eight birthday tucked away under his bed like a precious gemstone. But just like the promise it seemed nothing more than wishful thinking.

Who would have thought it would become a nightmare instead.

It was some odd job Janus and him were so prone to taking to earn a bit of money to help their families. He enjoyed them. He was sure Janus did too, even if he was rather loud in his complaints to anyone who would listen. And today’s victim seemed to be one of the boys from a nearby village, who tagged along on their walk, claiming he needed to pick up some ointment for his mother. But from the red on his ears whenever Janus smiled his way Roman was sure that wasn’t the only intention. If Janus noticed he certainly didn’t mind.

Roman tried to hide his smirk as he laid out plans on how to tease his friend about the unexpected crush when his mind was suddenly dragged back into reality by a sharp scream of pain.

He didn’t have time to even open his mouth before some shoved him forward, sending him tumbling to the ground. He hissed as his elbows hit the cold sand. He tried to turn but a boot found it’s way onto his back, pushing him down.

“Janus.”

“Quiet.” The brute hissed, slamming his foot against Roman’s shoulder, drawing a pained gasp. In all the dashing adventures he imagined for himself he never went down as quickly. He couldn’t go down now. 

He moved his palms closer to his chest, pushing himself off the ground in one swift motion. He felt the weight on his shoulder fall back off with a yelp and Roman quickly scrambled to his feet, scanning the surroundings with a ferocity of a wild animal sentenced to dinner. There were seven of them, one on the ground, dangerously close to Roman’s feet. Two more were holding down Janus, the fourth one had a sword pressed against the villager’s throat. The last three were staring daggers at Roman, weapons glistering dangerously in the evening sun. 

“That was a real dumb move, boy.” The one in the middle growled, taking a step forward, the other two followed. Roman’s thoughts jumping between getting help and diving fist first to save Janus when something grabbed his leg. He had just enough time to curse himself for not moving away from his opponent before his chest hit the ground once again. Laughter followed, ringing in his ears.

Those bruises won’t be looking pretty tomorrow. But then again being able to witness tomorrow sounded short of a miracle right now. 

The one who spoke, most likely their leader, leaned down to grab Roman’s shirt and yank him up. His face splitting into a cruel smile. He opened his mouth but words never came. And suddenly something entirely different settled into his features. Surprise.

“Boss?”

The leader's hand found its way to Roman’s chin, lifting it up. The gesture would have been gentle if not for the way the bandit’s nails dug into Roman’s skin.

“Say boys.” The crook began, that wicked look returning to his features as he turned Roman’s face back and forth like he was nothing more than a ragdoll. “He does look awfully lot like the Nothian prince, does he not?”

The other goons crouched down next to the man, and Roman felt panic as their smiles widened.

“What are you doing all the way here, your highness?” The title sounded almost like a mockery and for all Roman knew it might have very well been.

“I-”He opened his mouth, desperately trying to wrap his racing thoughts around the situation, but Janus cut him off.

“If you know who he is, you’d better let us go or-”

His friend didn’t have the chance to finish as the goons started laughing. The leader let go of Roman’s face, sliding to his feet with an air of uncanny elegance. He strode slowly over to where the of the goons were still holding Janus, but his voice carried anger when he spoke.

“Do you take us for stupid, runt?”

“Do you really want me to dignify that with an-” His sentence was caught short with a fist aimed into the middle of his stomach.

“Janus.”

“Now.” The leader grabbed at Janus' hair, yanking it back so the blond would look at him. “For your sake I hope you learn as fast as you think, because I will only say this once.” He leaned closer to Janus and Roman could almost hear the smile in his voice. “You either keep your tongue behind your lips or I’m going to take it out, permanently. Are we clear?”

He heard Janus grunt something back. The leader, seemingly satisfied with the answer, leaned away with a chuckle. He turned back to Roman and the teen felt his mouth run dry.

“Please let us go.”

The man chuckled again.

“As I see it, you have three options.” He began circling around Roman as he spoke. “One. We kill you for a quick coin, but I’m afraid that would benefit no one.” He chuckled again. “Two, we sell you to the nearest slaver that is willing to cash out enough coin for our trouble, which will be a quick and painless. Well, for us-” one of the goons snickered “But I assure you, that’s not a pleasant life. There is variety for sure. A mine, a field, a brothel, I’m sure they will find some use for you.”

“And the third option?” Roman whispered.

The man stopped in front of him, leaning down with a smile that made Roman’s blood run cold.

“The top of a palace.”

#platonic roceit #ts janus #ts roman #roman sanders #janus sanders #ts fic #sanders sides #sanders sides fic #crowtent #cawtent #bad things happen bingo #kidnapping #violence #mention of slavery #threats #descriptions of injury #this would have a happy ending and logince #but i have neither time nor patience to write 100k+ of this adventure and romance

[mushroom-for-art]

Another movie au silly XD probably takes place after the incident, imma be real I feel like they've done some kind of drugs or girls night just hits different one of the two! Anywhos @oogaboogaspookyman ur boi is getting to enjoy girls night good for him, this one's more dialogue heavy

Girls Night and Serious Questions

May's tail swayed and swished softly as she rested comfortably on some cushions on the floor of her actors' room leaning back against a beanbag for back support. The pink strawberry scented face mask was cool on her skin as were the cucumber slices on her eyes as she exhaled peacefully with some quiet background music for ambience. She raised a hand carefully, taking a cucumber slice from a bowl and putting it in her mouth, crunching it with satisfaction.

"I don't think you're meant to eat the slices off your face May."

The monochromatic two commented, he was also wearing a face mask. It was blue and blueberry scented with cucumber slices over his eyes, he was also lounging comfortably, tail swaying in contentment.

"I know that's why I sliced extras," her voice was sing song like as she carefully rattled the bowl for him to hear, "you know you wanna crunchy crunch on a cucumbee~" He snorted a soft laugh but reach out clumsily finding the bowl and taking a slice happily popping it in his mouth with a grin as she lightly gasped to herself, "He got the cucumberrr."

"Yes he dooo~"

The other two singsonged back and sighed.

"Gosh this is nice, and you say you and Matt try to do this once a week?"

"Yup, sometimes we make little fruit salads with slices and chunks of all kinds of fruits. God it's so good, unfortunately I didn't have any fruit in so we got cucumber masks and unhealthy snacks. Peak girls night material." the other two snorted in soft laughter.

"Girls night Girls night."

He playfully chanted before settling back into a comfortable quiet.

"So, I heard your manager had a baby?"

He queried too curious not too.

"Yup, indeed she did."

"I heard she had it naturally?"

"Al dente indeed yea, no cloning, didn't know that could happen."

He hummed softly in agreement.

"What does that mean for you then?"

"Uh, my manager is more busy than usual and I'm probably gonna have to babysit I guess."

He made a soft ah sound as he chewed the inside of his mouth.

"Does it bother you?"

"What you mean?"

"Well, you and your manager have a complicated uh relation to one another."

"Yea she's cloned from me."

"And she had a baby, does that mean you could too?"

May went quiet and thoughtful before clumsily stretching a leg to try to kick or at least nudge the other two.

"Why? Wanting to get me pregnant or something ya dork, you're an absolute pervert." Her voice was entirely playful and jokey.

"Hey!"

He reached to nudge her back.

"That is slander my good woman I hope you have a good lawyer that is not why I was asking!"

His tone was mostly mock offended easy in nature as they continued to lightly kick and nudge the other with May giggling softly.

"I just meant like, is that something you could see happening for you down the line?"

"Girl time really unlocking the deep personal questions, what is girls night if not for crimes and personal stuff I guess." May laughed softly before humming in thought, "I dunno, I don't, think about my future a lot, but I can't really see myself with a kid personally I'm not responsible enough for that."

"You take care of Matt don't you."

He joked playfully as she mock gasped in joke offense at him being right.

"Yes but that's differentt, he's my optional pest whereas a baby is full time pest." the two snorted out loud giggling and kicking his feet a bit at May referring to her hypothetical child as a pest.

"You're so mean to your babyyy."

He joked as she laughed.

"Fuck them kids."

He snorted a laugh as she started to giggle.

"Fuck them kids."

He repeated, laughing to himself at the absurdity.

"What about you huh, babies on your bucket list? I can see you settling down eventually with a lovely woman," she nudged him playfully with her foot, "you two could make a cute little baby."

"You two?? Me and who??"

He asked, completely baffled.

"Your wife!" she boldly started giggling as he made more confused noises.

"What wife?? Where is this wife?? Show me this woman?"

He playfully demanded as she laughed and giggled harder.

"I dunno! She's somewhere! You'll find her and you'll luuuuuuv herrrr. And I can make jokes about stealing your pretty wife."

"You can't have her, she's mine."

"I could seduce her from you."

"Is that why you picture me with a wife so you can steal her from me?"

"Yes."

He playfully kicked at her laughing at her weirdness.

"You are so bizarre!"

She laughed as well saying, "I knowww, Its just me getting you back for stealing my drinks, you're a horrid little coffee thief I'm a horrid little wife stealer." He snorted loudly, absolutely howling and hollering as he kicked his leg into the floor.

"THAT IS IN NO WAY EQUAL EXCHANGE YOU CRETIN?!?!"

"YES IT IS BITCH!" She yelled laughter in her voice as he cackled.

"You are positively insane."

"Thank youuu," She snickered.

"Not a compliment!"

"I'm taking it as one you fuck!" She laughed as he let out a laugh like exhale as he ate a cucumber slice before asking.

"So, if I got a husband you'd steal my husband because I drank your drinks."

"Hmmmmmm….I dunnoooo….cause like…" She moved her hand limping her wrist, "but also like it depends. How hots your husband." He made a confused sound.

"What the hell are you on about? I heard you move but I can't remember."

"Oh yea." She laughed at her mistake, "so like, girls."

He made a hum of agreement bringing his hands to his stomach.

"Yea, girls."

"I like girls."

"..oh.."

She didn't catch his disappointed tone, "but also sometimes like, boys."

"Oh? So like, both?"

His tone slightly intrigued.

"Sometimes? I don't know like attraction and orientation hard, I flip flop a bit because I'm not sure, I go yea I like both, then I go ages without like feeling attracted to guys so hm maybe just girls but then ohoho a cute guy so like 80% of the time I'm like woman and 20% I'm like but that dude though, ya know?"

"Hm, I understand what you're saying, yes. Have you, seen any attractive guys in a while?"

She made a noise humming for a while her tone going strange saying, "I mean yea but it's whatever." She made a pft sound waving off her hand, her tail thumping the floor softly, "You thirsty? I'm thirsty, imma make milkshakes, you want milkshake?"

He chuckled to himself as he lifted a cucumber from his eye to watch her hurry past him, smiling a bit to himself. He could push and tease about it as he could tell she was embarrassed, but, then he might not get a milkshake.

"Yea I'll have the one you're having."

"You can have your fucking own!" He snorted softly.

#My writing #Mewtwosona May #@oogaboogaspookyman ??? #@oogaboogaspookyman oc #Girl night girls night girls night #Omg ??? You can't just ask a girl if she thinks she's gonna have kids XD #May just lmao why gonna get me pregnant? Bitch? Pervert? #I am not confirming if she meant him or not #May out here planning to steal his hypothetical wife #Lmao does May mewtwo is gay? Study say yes in recent article the people of majority-I can't remember the rest of the does Bruno Mars is gay #Sorry ??? May is a little gay bean #But also like me sometimes she see a guy and go 👀 #Doesn't really know her own sexuality #Meanwhile matt is just in the background like gay gay homosexual. Ngl he probably had a crush on ?? At one point #Also this is not me shooting down the joke ship because I actually really like it!! XD #This isn't me pulling the um well actually card this is me going hi I didn't know how to bring up her sexuality before so here's jokey fic #She's gay but only sometimes XD sometimes she's straight XD she is a confused little bisexual #Ngl canon dealing with ??? May looks at movie May and goes BITCH WHAT THE FUCK?! #Like HIM?? FR?? HM?? AND UR /FRIENDS/?!?!?! THIS SOME BULLLSHIT #Also again I think they might be on drugs or its honestly just the girls night vibes making them feral and giggly #Fungal Spooks Studio

[raivokasmagma]

Thoughts on UMK24

All the songs have been released this year. I've noticed that my opinions on the songs have changed quite a bit over time. Some I didn't like at first, but warmed up to them after few listens. Roster contained familiar names, whose music I'm not that familiar with.

At least for now, how would I actually rank this years songs? Which songs actually have chance to win? Let's see.

Ranking the songs

This year featured many artists, that are labelled as rappers. I was actually surprised how much I enjoyed songs from some of them. I used to listen rap music when I was a kid, but then I fell out of that train.

Let's start with the song I actually consider worse.

7. Mikael Gabriel x nublu - Vox Populi

Sigh... I knew Mikael Gabriel only by name. Never consciously heard any song from him. Apparently "biggest" rapper in Finnish popular music.

Didn't have much expectations, but I was surprised how this song didn't even meet those. Starts promising for few seconds, but then immediately momentum stops when MK starts rapping.

How the hell this guy is so popular?! Other rappers in this contests feel like they are on different level than MK. Can't comment on nublu, but what I read on lyrics translation, I don't know...

Feels like Portion Boys of this year. Popular, but somehow annoys me. I don't want to even hear this songs, really rubs me the wrong way.

6. Cyan Kicks - Dancing With Demons

Toothless.

The "heavy" contestant this year. Have to wonder why they are again here after so short time? But when I look at Melodifestivalen contestants this year, there are some I recognize from last year.

Song? I kind of remember the chorus, but eh? Very inoffensive song. Has some crunchy guitars. Hurricane I actually remember.

5. Sara Siipola - Paskana

The first song that was revealed that I actually was like "Huh, this is good.". I even thought this was the winner this year, no need to reveal the rest.

However, after some time and warming up to other songs, this really dropped on my ranking. It's not a bad song. Sara sings well (even though sounds processing kind of drowns her voice), topic feels relatable, has some t.A.T.u. vibes on the melodies.

Can't help to feel she is the "Loreen" of this year. Poses in music video, costume... One person commented on BlueSky on the t.A.T.u. vibes, if she had more that attitude than Loreen vibes.

4. Sexmane - Mania

It's a solid song. Crunchy guitars and rap is a combo I like very much :D

Another mental health song. Cyan Kicks and Sara Siipola had those as well. Sara maybe had better lyrics, but Sexmane more enjoyable song overall. I still want to see how he performs that scream at the end.

Feels like this song needs little bit more length. But when I looked at Sexmane's discography, he seems to be "short song" type of guy.

3. Sini Sabotage - Kuori Mua

I knew Sini Sabotage by name. I knew the viral hit "Levikset repee" from the past. I actually didn't remember hearing it consciously.

At first I was like "Eeeeh" to this song, but after few listen, I like it quite much. Very sassy, smooth song.

Made me actually think about, how appearances might be decieving, but how people are actually deep inside. Funny how such fun song makes you think that :D

Sini is damn good rapper! With nice vocals. Hoping this is contest does good for her career.

2. Windows95man - No Rules!

I love song XD

Eurodance is my guilty pleasure. Sound of summer. I predict this will play a lot during summer.

This song was the first I listened on repeat. It's very well done. Good vocals from Henri Piispanen. Very typical eurodance contrast of not so glamourous vocals on verses, but bridges and choruses have the obviously good vocals.

This song is fun. I want to see the live performance already X

1. Jesse Markin - Glow

I wasn't biggest fan of the song at first. But after reading people's thoughts and looking at reactions, this is well crafted song. Well produced. Rapping is strongest (although different style) in the contests. Makes me smile, dance on my seat. Fun.

I was surprised this became my favourite. Made me actually explore Jesse Markin's other material. He is damn fine artist, not limited to rapping. I think he deserved the win, even though he wouldn't go to Eurovision.

Overall thoughts on the quality this year

I know what I like to hear in my music. This year actually surprised me, how much I can enjoy songs outside of my comfort zone. Made me exlpore artist's other material. 5/7 songs I enjoy, which is better than last year. Which is better than last year, which like 3/7.

I would actually argue this year is better in quality. More even playfield. I don't think any of this will go nearly as viral as Käärijä did. Although Käärijä's influence can be somewhat felt, songs are not super obviously taking inspiration. Maybe MK does try hardest to capitalize to Käärijä crowd, when looking at music video?

Who might actually win?

This is a popularity contest in the end, so song's quality might not matter to some people, as long their favourite artist wins.

If we look at music video view counts, it's interesting.

Cyan Kicks song was revealed first, so it has the advantage on that. However, Sara Siipola has the most the most views. Mikael Gabriel has gotten quite a lot of views, despite being revealed last. So he might be the most popular option. Sara Siipola has gotten most views and what I've looked at comments, it's maybe the top contender this year.

Windows95man also has quite a lot of views, but Mikael Gabriel is very close. Sexmane has good amount of views, but seems to divide most people. Sexmane has the worst like-dislike ratio on the video. Sini Sabotage is close second.

Looking at the Yle's popularity vote, that went live on Friday 19.1, Mikael Gabriel is on the lead, Sara Siipola being close second. Windows95man is third, with significant lead to Sini Sabotage who is fourth.

Cyan Kicks seems to be popular as the "heavy" option, what I've seen on reaction videos. Jesse Markin has been positively recieved, even though reaction people don't think it is necessarily Eurovision material.

When I think about these factors, I think top 3 will consist of

Mikael Gabriel x nublu

Sara Siipola

Cyan Kicks

Maybe Windows95man will get enough votes to take over Cyan Kicks? I wonder how settled people are on their voting decision already or will live performances matter how much? If I think last year, artist's popularity matters so much (Portion Boys as second).

I'm sure hoping we don't get obvious winner like Käärijä, when looking at the results. Hoping for more exciting competition. And that Mikael Gabriel won't win XD

#music blog #umk24 #uuden musiikin kilpailu #umk #umk 2024 #eurovision 2024 #finnish music #suomalainen musiikki #thoughts on UMK24 #My opinion

[flannelshirtandjeans]

STORMLORD

Norma's little boy can predict thunderstorms scarily well. Just a lil slice of life written during NaNoWriMo camp last month. Idk what pacing is and at this point am afraid to ask. All i wrote last month was just riffing with emotions with very little actual plot. This is pretty raw text and mostly here so I don't have to wrangle Discord into submission to share this there. XD

Norma is unpacking the groceries with the window open, and the birdsong and gentle wind drifting in through it feel lovely on her sweaty skin. It's been a hot, stiflingly hot day, and carrying the groceries inside nearly killed her. She's thrown away her shirt and just wears her bra with her shorts- the rest of the family is out taking care of various chores today and it's just him and Wyatt home for the moment, so it doesn't feel awkward. She's not at the point yet with the men of the house where she's happy parading in front of them in her underwear even though technically there's nothing wrong with that; they aren't interested and neither is she. Wyatt, cheeks red with the heat, had quite happily immediately gotten rid of his shorts as soon as they got home too, and downed an entire juice box in one go.

She puts the strawberries in the fridge, and the fresh bread into the basket - it smells so good she wants to tear a piece out of it with her bare hands and eat it with chunks of cold butter, but refrains. It's for dinner later; salad and bruchettas. She peeks in the bag and only the frozen stuff is left. Thank GOD she had the foresight to pack ice bricks with her, all of that would be so melted right now otherwise. She takes out the topmost ice bricks, picks out the ice cream cone Wybie had picked for himself (chocolate chunks in vanilla ice cream), peels the paper off the top half of it, and hands it to Wyatt who is busy seriously unpacking his own bag. The bag she had assigned to him knowing that he likes helping so much. He's taken all of its contents out and arranged them on the floor so she has been stepping over, among other things, paper roll packs, Fairy bottles, packets of hankies (mostly for his sniffly hayfever nose, but also because little kids tend to be snotty in general), and dish sponges for a while now. He is busy deciding which thing he wants to put away first, thrilled that he doesn't need to share this task with his sister and has it ALL for himself - but not so busy as to not take the offered ice cream.

"Thank you mommy," he says with a huge smile and reaches up for her face. She squats down to let him give her a kiss, and he offers her the first lick of his treat.

"Thank you, baby, you are SO sweet! Sit down for a little bit, okay, no eating and unpacking at the same time!"

Wybie obediently sits on the paper roll packet and enjoys the ice cream like only little kids can - with a lot more of his face than strictly necessary, but with so much enjoyment that Norma is pretty sure adults just aren't capable of anymore. She waits for the little mmm of deliciousness, and it comes almost immediately. She keeps unpacking and puts away the rest of the frozen things before sitting down on the floor with Wybie and her own ice cream. Double chocolate and caramel coated vanilla ice cream. Mmmm, she goes herself, and lets Wybie nibble at the crunchy chocolate coating. It's only fair - he let her try his. His own ice cream is already running down his hand.

"After this, we should go out and play in the pool for a little bit, what do you think?" she asks, expecting an immediate excited yes - her son is quite the water monster - but to her surprise he shakes his head.

"No? Aren't you very hot?"

"Yes but," Wyatt says and notices the ice cream river running down his arm. He licks it and gets some on his hair because he has no awareness of where the cone is going. "Yes but mommy! We can't go in the pool because–" and he makes a gravelly growly sound and gestures at the window. Thunder, he means. Thunder is coming, and he knows he's not supposed to be in the water when it storms. Norma glances outside. The sky looks clear for now, and she hadn't seen any clouds on the way from the store

"You sure?" she asks and Wybie nods. She doesn't question it - if Wyatt says there is a storm coming, a storm is coming. He's always known, somehow, ever since he was an even littler kid. She supposes it is better than having a kid who is hysterically afraid of thunder like she had been herself, but it is unnerving. Little chills run up and down her spine even now, and she isn't sure if it is the thought of thunder or the idea of her son having a strange storm radar in-built that is doing it.

After they finishe their ice creams (or Norma finishes them both when Wyatt doesn't want to finish half the waffle) and wash their hands, Wyatt goes back to his task of putting away the shopping. Norma puts away the bags, including his, but takes care to not touch anything else. He doesn't need help! he says. He knows where things go! He is a BIG BOY. Each successfully put away item gains praise from her, and he beams so proudly, so brightly, like a little dimpled sun.

As he is putting the things away, the light does change, and changes rather quickly. The wind starts to pick up, and it's not long before Wyatt looks expectantly at the window just a couple of seconds before they hear the first distant rumble of thunder. He nods when it quiets, satisfied, climbs the toddler tower, and carefully balances the Fairy bottle on the ridged aluminum counter bit by the sink. It takes a couple of tries, but he gets it. That's his job all done.

"Well done! Good job, Wybie, and thank you. You were SUCH a big help! And I guess you were right about the thunder storm. There it rumbles! Do you think it's gonna be a big one?"

She lifts him from the tower and props him on her hip, his legs hugging around her middle immediately, and one hand rests casually on her shoulder. He is so warm, but also so soft and cute that she doesn't care that they're both sticky and sweaty, and neither does he.

"'s gonna be pretty big," Wyatt tells her, not taking his eyes away from the window. "But not so big that, that we can't play outside today. Look mommy!"

She turns to look through the window and as soon as she does, a big lightning bolt leaps across the sky, making her heart leap with it.

"It's far away," he whispers in the silence after it, eyes shining. It's getting pretty dark in the kitchen now, but it's not raining yet. Somewhere in the house an open window makes noise in the cross draft going through the house in the rising winds.

"Will it come close?"

"Yeah!" Wyatt says without hesitation. He looks so excited when he says it, and Norma laughs. "But don't worry mommy, it can't hit our house!"

"No?" she asks, a little amused, and lifts Wybie onto the counter where he happily crawls onto the window bench between Jay's herbs and plops his little butt down to watch the show. She pulls the kid tower close and sits on it, leaning her elbows onto the counter to watch with him. She wants to ask him how he knows that, because she's pretty sure nobody in the house has ever told him that it's impossible (because it is not - unlikely, but not impossible; thank goodness it's supposed to be properly conducted / grounded)... But she doesn't want to scare him into thinking that their house is going to get struck by lightning either, which is a very possible thing he'd take out of a question like that if not worded properly. Thankfully he responds to her unspoken question even without being asked, though the answer ends up being more cryptid than informative.

"No!" he laughs. "Because - because mommy, it can't hurt me!"

"Can't hurt you" she marvels, and he doesn't elaborate, but instead makes the gravelly thunder noise just before another rumble rolls across the scenery. She's not sure if this is a child's belief in immortality or in being untouchable by disaster or what, but strangely she feels comforted by it. She wraps her arms around his middle and rests her chin on his shoulder and watches the approaching storm with him.

Maybe he's right, she thinks when the first curtain of pouring rain sweeps over the house and makes the entire house fill with its drumming. Wyatt giggles at the sound of it, and the increasing flashes of lightning that come closer and closer, and closer together. She wants to close the window, a knot of anxiety sitting in her belly and throat because she's still not quite at easy with storms like this and knows too many horror stories about ball lightning and other horrible things - but they both enjoy the fresh smell of the rain and the cooler draft pushing in, so she doesn't move. Maybe he IS right.

Wyatt's whole body suddenly flushes with gooseflesh, Norma can see and feel it, and for a split second she has time to think that he's not right at all, what a stupid thought, this is a sign that lightning is about to leap through the window and strike him dead and she can't do anything about it. The lightning doesn't do that, but still strikes so close that for a moment they both only see blinding white and pink light and the boom that follows immediately is so loud that it shakes the entire house, making her jump almost out of her skin and him cover his ears but also almost scream with laughter, the purest kind of giddy giggling that comes from the bottom of his stomach and heart. She laughs with him, trying to calm the rapid beating of her heart and steady her legs that have suddenly gone quite weak. She squeezes him tightly both for comfort and because she loves him so, her little son who seems to know when and where lightning strikes, or maybe he controls it - either way, it's uncanny.

"My little Stormlord," she says a little shakily, and Wyatt pats her arms. The storm passes, eventually, and years later the precognition fades, too, little by little, until only the sense of an approaching storm remains - but the name sticks.

#norma Epping #wyatt Epping #my writing

[missmeinyourbones]

can i have some general hcs for connie, jean, and eren? :-)

eren

mf is always cracking his knuckles. its his nervous habit he just subconsciously does it whenever he needs to distract himself or keep his hands busy. when you guys hold hands, he will sometimes crack urs as a little surprise and then laugh when you get mad and tell him you don’t want big knuckles

reads mystery novels because he likes to try and solve the mystery before the end. he sees it as a competition between him and the literal author of the book??? he LOVES a good plot twist but gets annoyed when he didn’t guess it lol. gets mad when the characters behave out of character ("baby you will never believe what connell just did. HE WOULD NEVER DO THAT???!!!") please imagine him with a kindle and reading glasses LMFAO

burns everything he makes. if it has to be heated up or cooked? its getting burnt. whether its the toaster, grill, stove, oven, it literally doesn’t matter. its coming out crispy. i hope you like burnt chicken <3

he always pulls ur chair out for u ;(((( even if ur at home and about to sit at the kitchen table to eat a snack he’s like WAIT and pulls it out so you can sit, then he shimmies it closer to the table ;((( also always opens the car door for you. makes you sit and wait while he gets out and walks around the car to your side lol

he loves candles so one is always lit in ur apartment. he really likes vanilla but also just neutral smells in general, like maybe lavender or pine. very picky about his actual candles though, like refuses to use a wax warmer, only uses three wick SOY candles, doesn’t blow out the flame until the whole layer has burned evenly. hes annoying 

connie

tells those stupid inappropriate jokes whenever he gets the chance. yes i’m talking about the deez nutz ones. he’s like hey babe have you seen my bofa? and ur like wtf are u talking about. he tells you "BOFA DEEZ NUTZ XD" and he sleeps on the couch that night

orders waffles every single time you guys go out to breakfast. he is a firm believer that they are better than pancakes because "the pockets hold the syrup and butter so perfectly" and "its the perfect ratio of crunchy and soft" (he’s dead wrong. pancakes for the win baby)

plays fortnite religiously. spends real life money on specific skins and emotes. the classic "where we droppin boys" while on ft with eren, jean, and armin. fights 9 year olds via microphone chat and accuses them of hacking when he loses to them

watches the bachelor/bachelorette a little too intensely. he loves making fun of the cheesy entrances and introductions they do. tries to guess the pecking order of the contestants. if you guys watch it together he makes it a game: "take a sip of ur wine every time he says "my future wife is in this room" lol or if a guy contestant does something shitty he’s like "amateur. i would never do that, especially if you were the bachelorette. would you give me a rose?" goodnight

loves laying down with his head in your lap. like its his go-to position whenever you are doing ANYTHING. watching a movie in bed? his head is in ur lap. ur reading a book on the couch? he makes himself very comfortable, asking you to slide over so he can sprawl out over your legs. if this mf could use your thighs as a pillow every night, he would

jean

doesn't let you pay for ANYTHING regarding dates and stuff >:( he thinks its gentlemanly and chivalrous (which it is) but as an annoying and stubborn s/o who believes relationships should be 50/50 you always try to pay every single time lmfao

cant watch a horror movie for the life of him. wants to be all tough and protect you but once you put one on and snuggle into the couch together you can feel his heart racing hehe. he jumps at all of the minor jump scares like lights flashing or music changes. the movie ends and he's like that wasn't even that bad babe but then you catch him checking to see if the door is locked and quickly scampering down the hall after turning off the lights LOL

SWIFTIE. swiftie swiftie big ol swiftie. yes this is me pushing my personal agenda. pretty mainstream but he LOVES her big hits like love story or shake it off. most definitely serenades you with lover at the top of his lungs. you educate him on her rerecordings and then one day you hear him and connie listening to red (taylor's version) and he's like "so she’s rerecording all of her old albums so she can own them herself" feminist king

prefers to use vaseline instead of chapstick. definitely believes in that conspiracy where there are tiny shards of glass in chapstick so they actually make your lips more dry and it forces you to buy more. he heard that and was like” baby what brand of chapstick do you use? here we can share this vaseline it works better and doesn't taste like bubblegum flavored ass”

he runs very hot??? like is always sweating??? the windows in ur guys’ apartment are always open so a nice breeze can flow through. but he also leaves them open in the winter and ur like baby its snowing SHUT THE WINDOW. and hes like “no leave it open we can cuddle for warmth like the cavemen did” (?????)

#aot headcanons #eren headcanons #eren jaeger headcanons #eren x reader #connie headcanons #connie springer headcanons #connie x reader #jean headcanons #jean kirstein headcanons #jean x reader #eren jaeger #connie springer #jean kirstein

[its-kall-the-clown]

14 Fluff for Red Son realizing he's nursing a crush on MK

As some context this is post redemption for the demon bull family. So Mei, MK, and Red hang out a lot together now. Red Son is also an idiot. XD

Also this isn’t my most polished work so sorry if it feels rushed.

prompt list

Stop that!! (Don't stop)

Rating: PG-13 for implied sexual interactions

"I think I'm sick"

Red Son admits to the ceiling of Mei's room. They were hanging out like they normally did on days MK was training with monkey king. She was playing some sort of retro video game and he was watching till he got bored and lay on her bed thinking.

"You got a tummy ache?" Mei teased, pausing her game and he huffs rolling his eyes, and sits up.

"Don't be ridiculous" he huffs out and crosses his arms over his chest.

"Okayyyy so what're the symptoms." Mei crawls from her spot on the floor and joins him in bed, sitting crisscrossed with her hand in her lap, and leaning forward eagerly.

"It's hard to explain… sometimes when MK is gone my chest hurts " he places a hand over his heart that was beating normally at the moment.

"And sometimes, when he's around, my hands get sweaty and it feels like I'm gonna throw up and…." He watches a wide unlearning Cheshire grin grow across his friend's face. He continues on, albeit, a bit more hesitantly.

"And….sometimes I can't talk right, and sometimes when he IS around my chest hurts also?" Mei was grinning so wide she was more teeth than she was girl.

"Why are you smiling…."

"OMFG!!?? You have a crush on Mk?!!!" She squeaks excitedly and rolls around in her back as she descends into what Red can only describe as absolute madness.

"What are you talking about??!" He sputters, Mei giggles a bit longer before finally pulling together and greeting him with a wide grin.

"Dude. Your like SO gay for him. 'My HeARt hUrTs WhEn hE’s not arOuNdddd~ " she mocks him in a fake tone and he growls hitting her with a pillow..

"Stop that!" He growls.

"SToP ThAt~" she mocks back and they devolve into a pillow fight on her bed. He girns when he hits her smug face squarely with a dragon stuffie.

Soon they lay panting on her bed and the dragon girl rolls onto her stomach poking him in the face.

"So. Crushing in MK huh?"

He grows beat red again and pulls a pillow into his face and groans.

"You should tell him."

Red son sits up with a smile.

"I should!"

"Yes!!"

"So I can tell him to stop making me sick!"

"Say what now?"

He turns to Mei with a feral smile. This 'crush' or whatever she called it could be fixed. If MK was the one giving it to him. He just needed MK to stop doing...whatever he was doing to make him feel like this.

"Hold on I think you are conf-"

"Thanks Mei!" He gets up and is off to confront the noodle boy as he hears Mei shout at him from her room.

"You're a fucking idiot!!!"

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He storms forward like a typhoon. Red son is a force of nature that can not be stopped, nothing could yield him in his goal or hinder him in his path. Wild horses pulling chariots could not stop him, celestials in heaven would not dare stand in his way, and even his parents (by far the scariest force of all) could not persuade him to rethink what he was doing.

He pushes past the doors to Pigsy's noodles, shoves past patrons and ignores the warning shouts from the pigman.

he had one goal on mind

"Nyyyooodle boy!!!!!!" He bellows grabbing the attention to his problem. Those perfect expression color eyes meet him and the disease in his chest grows. He's in his training clothes, clearly on his way up to his apartment over the shop so he can shower.

Why did the idea of MK showering make his heartbeat erratically? Soft shoulders and cascading water off them…

She shakes his head back and forth now back on track.

"Stop. That." He growls out grinding his teeth together as steam leaves his ears. MK tilts his head slightly. The disease grows more in his chest and he hates it.

"Stop that!!!!" He points directly at MK feeling his hair sputter and spark as his temperature rises. He thinks his face is growing red.

"I'm….not doing anything?" MK gives him a sheepish smile, the kind that quirks up on one side and absolutely obliterates Red Son on the spot.

Like a crunchy fall leaf under the heel of a boot he's crushed.

Whatever motivation he had before it evaporates quicker than a drop of water in the Sahara desert.

"Y-your haven't heard the last of me!!" He makes a quick retreat, stumbling over his own feet and taking out one of Pigsy's tables in the process.

He exits the shop faster than he entered. He needed to regroup and strategize.

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"SoooOOOOOo How'd it go?" Mei asked her eyes not leaving the screen, she's playing a different video game now, and she didn't even spare him a glance when he came back as if she predicted he would fail.

"Horrible!!! All it did was make this sickness worse." He throws his arms up and paces back and forth biting his lip. Mei doesn't pause her game this time, only continuing to mash buttons as he grumbles under his breath.

She lets out A long-suffering sigh and finally pauses her game.

"Dude. I know you're behind on the lingo and stuff but a 'crush' isn't a sickness. It means you like MK. As in you want to kiss him and stuff." she explains with a shrug unpausing her game and the sound of power-ups and pixelated men punching each other continues.

Red Son halts in his tracks

He pictures kissing MK. pressing his lips to the boy's soft adorable lips. He can practically feel the warmth it would produce. He pictures MK smiling into the kiss as they awkwardly bump noses. He pictures holding MK’s hand, squeezing it gently as they walk hand and hand. He imagines the feeling of MK’s hair between his fingers as he runs his hands through it.

He sucks in a gasp, his heart beating out of time.

Of fuck.

“I’m so screwed…..”

He feels Mei patting his shoulder, she paused her game again when he was fantasizing

“Yeah, you are. But at least now you can DO something about it.” she nudges his side and he blushes a bright red and he can hear her chuckling at him

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“Can we talk?”

MK blinks back at him looking back and forth for a moment as if he was confused by his precence. Which to be fair he DID just enter through MK’s window while he was showering and was now waiting for him on his bed.

“Uhhhhh sure?” they rub the last remaining moisture from his hair with a towel before tossing it to the floor to be added to piles of laundry they had yet to do. Red Son didn't even curl his lip up at the slob-like behavior because HOLY SHIT MK IS SHIRTLESS!!!

Of course, MK didn't even seem to care that he was only wearing grey sweatpants in his presence. Red Son guilty looked MK’s chest up and down while they searched for a sleep shirt. Working out with Monkey King has been paying off because MK was sporting some muscle. He also had a few scars from battles that only added to how attractive he was, and of course, there were the two faint top surgery scars under his pecks.

“Is this about your weird episode in the shop today?” they asked pulling him from his guilt ogling and MK pulled a shirt over his body. Damn what a shame.

“Mei says I have something called a ‘crush’ and I should ‘tell them how I feel’ in order to make the pain in my chest go away,” he explained using quotation marks with his fingers to punctuate himself. MK’s eyes widen slightly and then it's schooled quickly. They join Red Son on the bed.

“O-oh? Have you told them?” MK squirms in place and keeps his gaze cast down. He looks uncomfortable, no. he looks upset? Why would MK be upset? Was it because he broke into his room again without permission?

No not that. Although he will have to apologize later

“I’m working on that part,” he explains scooting closer to MK and he grabs one of their hands gently. This felt stupid, and he thinks his sickness will kill him with how quickly his heart is beating. He was terrified and all his symptoms were amplified by ten.

He looks into MK’s espresso-colored eyes looking for something. He loved those eyes. They showed so much in them and he SWORE they could change the whole lighting of a room.

He opens and closes his mouth like a fish out of water with his false starts. Eventually, he clears his throat and releases his confession.

“Umm well...MK. I h-have a crush on you.”

he shuts his eyes and waits for the rejection, waits to hear MK laugh with their head back and shove him away.

None of that comes.

He peaks an eye open to find MK’s face a bright scarlet red. Was that a good sign? Or was MK so angry at him that he was just building up anger inside of him like a volcano ready to blow.

“ I w-will leave now.” he pulls away ready to retreat with at least his dignity still in tack. He's pulled back violently and soft lips are smashed to his. He lets out a surprised whimper and absolutely melts into the feeling. His brain is electrified and static all at once.

He kisses back hungrily grabbing MK by the waist and pulls him closer. When they are running out of air only does MK pull away with a little breathless gasp.

“Stay the night?” They requested, placing a soft kiss to the juncture of his neck and he can’t find a single cell in his body that would possibly say no. He nods numbly and MK kisses him again a smile on his lips that he could taste.

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“MK GET UP! YOU ARE LATE AGAIN!!”

Pigsy burst down the door jolting the demon awake from his peaceful slumber, his arms that were previously wrapped around MK pull away quickly in the process. He thinks he could stick to the ceiling with his claws like a cat in a cartoon if he jolted just a little higher.

The covers are yanked off them both before Red Son even has time to protest. Thank gods they both put underwear back on when they finished satisfying each other. Red Son is completely and thoroughly exposed to MK’s boss, bitemarks, and hickes across his chest snitching on him.

Red Son and Pigsy meet eyes and he feels a sweat break out across his neck. Pigsy sighs and pinches his snout. He sucks in a deep breath and lets it out through his nose.

“I don't know what happened here... And I don't WANT to know. Tell MK he’s got ten minutes to get downstairs.” Pigsy turns on his heel and leaves slamming the door behind him. Red Son looks over to his now-boyfriend who’s mouth hangs open with drool dripping down his face.

MK slept through all of it.

He can’t help but chuckle and kiss their forehead gently.

#lego monkie kid #monkie kid #MK #Red Son #spicynoodleshipping #Red Son may not be the sharpest cookie in the box #thats it. thats the sentance #wrtting prompts #prompt ask

[spockandawe]

oooh spicy. Ship that is most misunderstood?

Ship that is most misunderstood: 💢

Ooooh, I like this one. This list could get VERY out of hand if I let it, because I'm a petty binch when it comes to characterization, and changing characterization has the power to REALLY shift a ship's dynamic. Hmmmmm.

Well, to go back to Bai Wuxiang, then... Bai Wuxiang/Xie Lian. In this case, I don't have any issue with the gratuitous cruel-for-the-sake-of-cruelty content, it FITS the character, but I'm very, very convinced that there's a lot more going on inside BWX's head. I will die on the hill that in addition to the cruelty, there's a lot of real affection and desire to nurture, which can express itself in positive or negative ways, and, crucially, the quiet, unvoiced hope that someday Xie Lian will surpass him, echoing the way that Xie Lian is pleased when Lang Qianqiu declares that he's going to be better than Xie Lian. Articulating this in a convincing essay is extremely hard, which is why I haven't done it yet, but I have strong opinions, lmao

Jin Guangyao characterization is.... a delicate balance, especially when it comes to any of the 3zun dynamics, but there are plenty of writers who do it well. Wen Ning is a TOUGH one, and he doesn't have any frontrunner ships like some of the other characters. I feel like the tides have kind of shifted once I entered the fandom and this is less of an issue now, but I have no patience for Sweet Smol Bean who is the most innocent creature you've ever seen and doesn't get angry or act out. Almost any ship he can plausibly end up in has some delicious crunch to it, and I want to FEEL that. The character is very quiet and shy, and is also super willing to throw down and fuck shit up from a very young age. And then he loses everything. Like I said, I haven't run into this as much in newer fic, but I think this aspect of Wen Ning is just crucial to making any ship work. A wwx/wn fic can get away with leaving it out, maybe, but in any other ship, it tastes like you cooked a meal without spices.

And........ mmmm, I think I feel like kicking this hornet's nest XD I have opinions about shipping clones now. Because their whole social situation is absolutely fascinating to me, and is part of why I'm now in star wars fandom instead of being a casual star wars consumer. It can be hard to ship clones! Not in the least because I don't think they're legally.... people? Morally, ethically, well, obviously they are, but they are mass-produced humans who were made to order to use as a disposable army. They were raised in isolation, with millions of other clones, some aliens, and a few other human trainers. They grow up into adults with rich inner words and their own wants and needs and spread out a little into the wider universe. They want to do a romance, perhaps. Now... with who?

I don't even want to talk cloneshipping here, because I get why some people call it incest, even if I think that's an unfair comparison and doesn't even make in-universe sense. And, of course, I totally support the right of people to be uncomfortable with it and avoid it, for whatever reason, which they don't need to justify to me.

But oh boy am I uncomfortable with how often that means the desire to Ship seems to translate to 'look, this non-clone is teaching this clone how to be a PERSON, and it's ROMANTIC.' I think I'm... moderately jaded when it comes to crunchy shipping dynamics. I think it's genuinely hard to make me nope out super hard on that basis. But WOW does this do the trick. The first time I stumbled into this, I was upset, and it was a strong enough response that it took me a while to figure out why it bothered me so badly. I feel a little bad about how much I hate this, because clone ships are overflowing with character/reader content, which I also can't stand for separate reasons, and there's a lot of overlap, and it all pings me as something with a heavy concentration of young writers exploring the medium and having fun and learning how to tell stories.

But also, I'll see a story where this cute young lady meets a tired, stressed clone, and teaches him how to talk about his feelings, and there's often bits where she treats him to new sights and activities and experiences he's never had before (because he's basically part of a slave army who has been genetically engineered to age at double speed and spent his childhood training for war) and my skin just crawls. It's been an experience!!! I'm still new enough to the fandom (which is an integrated part of a behemoth fandom) that it's hard to articulate my feelings about this, specifically, or speak to broader fandom trends. But wow, it's been a while since figuring out 'oh, this is what the author wants to communicate' had implications that made me SLAM out of a fic that quickly.

#spock replies #ask memes #long post/

[xxgothchatonxx]

Surprise! I’m watching! The movie was cute, but it was missing some homoerotic cannibalism, y’know?

Entrée

* Yo pig, HE’S DYING!

* You know I know very little of the Hannibal mythos, so if this guy is important, just tell me.

* Playing possum, of course.

* Fact checking for Freddie, Laurence. Don’t worry.

* OH I SAW THAT PIC OF THIS MAN, IS HE THE ASSHOLE?

* Oh I don’t like him. DO NOT PSYCHOANALYZE THE BOY!

* Ohhhhh that’s giving Girl on Stag vibes AND THE EHES HAVE BEEN TAKEN? NOOOO WHY BLIND HER???

* I like that we go STRAIGHT into the gurney fir the POV

* He started EITH THE EYES?? & then what? STABBED HER FOR FUNSIES?

* This is the most concerned Will has looked after one of this murder POVs since the first episode.

* Oh trust me, Laurence, you’ll have your next warm body soon enough.

* Alana Bloom, you magnificent woman.

* He’s no Ripper.

* OH HANNI! & Laurence! Don’t expect him to breach D-P confidentiality.

* DESPERATE COPING🤣🤣🤣

* Exotic?? Miriam.

* Oh so she did.

* I wasn’t sure if that was a flashback or not because there wasn’t B&W & because Laurence already said that Bella was at a meeting.

* Unrelated, but I got a West Side Story ad before the show & NOW I’M ALL GIDDY! Ugh that movie is SO GOOD!!!

* IT WASN’T A FLASHBACK?? OMG

* “I know when I’m awake” cut to resident sleepyhead Will Graham OH NO NOT THE CRUNCHY MURDER NOISES AGAIN! & IT ONLY COMES OUT OF ONE EAR OH GOD I HATE THIS

* Someone’s life is ON THE LIKE FOR THIS BULLSHIT, LAURENCE!

* Freddie.🙄

* HANNI READING HER PIECE!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE’S NOT HAPPY! NOT. ONE. BIT!!!!!! I love this!!!!

* We get it, it’s a recording.

* I REALLY DON’T LIKE THAG MAN!

* & now food!!! Hanni! Bloom! My favs! & that asshole. & tongue. Oh my.

* THE HAND! OH WAIT RIGHT THE HAND! BECAUSE THE NEXT EPISODE IS SORBET!

* SHE GOT TO MEET HANNIBAL? OF COURSE! That’s how’s she dies, after all.

* The B&aw has a tinge of red here. Interesting choice

* HANNIBAL LECTER! DON’T LEAVE YOUR EVIDENCE OF MURDER OUT THERE FOR ALL TO SEE!

* The way the sound was in the last seen didn’t seem final. There must’ve been a different ending.

I'm pretty sure Abel Gideon was a show-only character. Fun fact, Eddie Izzard was cast as Grandpa Munster in Bryan Fuller's Munsters reboot called Mockingbird Lane! There is a pilot floating around the net but unfortunately NBC didn't pick it up (...I can kind of see why but honestly, it's still not as bad as CAOS in the "hey let's turn a harmless family-friendly show into a fucking hardcore horror show that completely misses the point of the original" department). Anyhoo, Eddie was amazing and I'm so glad they brought her over to play Dr. Gideon because she was just such a delight. Also I'm 99% sure that the Munsters' dining room set was recycled for Hannibal's dining room.

Anyway, back to Hannibal. I presume by "the asshole" you're talking about Chilton? Yeah, he's a lot of fun in this show, in the "god this smug prick is such an idiot" way. The key to playing Frederick Chilton well is to play up the arrogance and the stupidity XD

I would talk about Miriam here but I think I'll wait a bit longer :) But just to clarify (and i know you didn't say this but) she isn't a Clarice Starling insert. She just has some similarities. Bryan wasn't that stupid to try to throw shit on Clarice like that.

#myst is me #hannibal

[theshatteredrose]

Fun things to imagine: How your EO2 guys would react to certain dishes from Untold 2's restaurant feature. I mean, in the first stratum alone we've got a whole-ass Venomfly and Roller prepared and put onto a plate, which completely startled the story mode guys iirc. Oh, and then there's the Ominous Aspic from the 5th stratum. There's that thing too, which I remember being meaty in flavor and somehow crunchy when eaten. Gelatin should not be crunchy

I'm pretty sure my boys would be unanimous in going “NOPE” for the monster foods XD

The roller one is bad enough, but imagine serving up an entire spider! Or one of those floating eye monsters from the third stratum. Or having the face of a gargoyle from the second stratum staring up at you as you try to eat.

The boys, especially Axel’s, Tobyn’s, and Shen’s fight or flight senses would have kicked in immediately. Oh, Magnus, too, with him just immediately setting fire to the thing placed in front of him. I mean, place an entire high crawler in front of Axel and you will get an axe clean through whatever furniture the dish is resting on.

Axel is just having a normal conversation with someone when a plate of stir-fry roller is placed in front of him. Instantly gets his axe and smashes the food, the plate, and the table to bits. It takes him a second to register what he had done and bristles; “God damn it, I told you not to surprise me like that!”

So, yeah, best not surprise your patrons. Though, sometimes instincts are too powerful that no matter how many times they’re told and reassured, as soon as something resembling a monster appears before them KILL IT!

Even with all of Lynus’ (often times reluctant) reassurance that the food is safe and can actual be beneficial (and yes, the monster is indeed dead), the boys ain’t having it. They’ll stick to the normal looking food, thank you very much.

The restaurant really should play on being one of those Adventurous type places (adventure eating, I think it’s called or something), displaying novelty meals where those who finish them get a sticker or an honourable mention written on the restaurant wall. Or when someone loses a bet and gotta eat a whole bug or fish head as punishment.

Bump up the prices of the whole monster dishes and entice some of the rich, so-called adventure-loving rich guys into eating it and you’ve got an endless market of influencers and rich snobs trying to outdo each other. Though, that may lead to the demands of more extravagant dishes. Why just the head of a gargoyle? GIVE ME ALL OF IT!

Although, I do imagine some of the kiddies would just love to get their hands on a gel or a bug. Eating it is just half the fun.

Auspice has one strange sense of humour XD

#Etrian Odyssey #etrian odyssey untold 2

[paradife-loft]

sms/jgy for the ship meme? (alt: also interested in thoughts on xueyao if you'd rather)

Mmm, boy, ok!

Suyao: so, unfortunately I think I have to go with “don’t ship” for this one...

1. Why don’t you ship it?

Gah, I feel like I don’t know how to answer this in a way that doesn’t make me sound hypocritical, but a decent part of it is that superior/subordinate ships mostly vary for me on a scale of “eh not my thing” to “nope nope nope squick”. I’m really not into (a majority of)* power differentials, and I feel like the way I read SMS buying into the class structure of their society, just tilts things in that direction for me. (Relatedly, I think “I’m happy or satisfied to die for your benefit” is likewise a not ship thing for me. Depending on the context. Idk, it’s complicated.)

2. What would’ve made you like it?

I mean frankly, I think if I were more emotionally invested in SMS (as opposed to intellectually invested in the part he plays in the story thematically), I’d be better able to pull out aspects of the ship I like despite having others I’m ehh about. And that’s partially down to framing, and what kind of time he & Moling Su get onscreen since he’s a minor character, and the way I personally end up reacting to like. Characters visibly being not as good at something as another person is, and also visibly/publicly upset/jealous/angry about it. So just - yeah, a different focus in a story that gives more of his POV in the manner of being his own multifaceted protagonist, can really help there? And/or, for that matter, a more hyperpersonal, erotic spin on the dynamic, for that matter :P Sometimes I’m shallow.

3. Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

Yeah! I think there’s absolutely a lot to be said about the importance that each of them has to the other, and the way they function as partners in trying to be seen more respectably by a society stacked against them? I’m absolutely interested in what must have transpired in the early stages of their relationship becoming what we see by the end of canon, where SMS is so clearly trusted with these dirty, distasteful parts of JGY’s life that he doesn’t willingly let anyone else into, certainly not if he cares about their opinion of him and, y’know, wants to keep them alive.

Also, the parallels of JGY & SMS’s first meeting at Jinlintai, with the Xiyao interaction in CQL ep 4? Extremely good and crunchy.

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Xueyao under the cut for length and alsooooo nsfw XD

1. What made you ship it?

Poooooorn :P Like, this is not a ship that I consider as “canon” for any worldstate I write in or ramble about as a general rule, but in ~pornland~ where characters get to fuck far more people and in far more contexts than I consider strictly likely in reality? Yes. Yes yes yes. I believe the instantiation of my shipping this had to do with a conversation with @veliseraptor where I ended up having Peak Gremlin Brain and saying something about how they should fuck on the murder table next to NMJ’s dead body?

Basically I just think they have a really hot push-and-pull relationship, and a-Yao deserves a whole lot of fucked up under-negotiated kink in hypothetical iterations of his life, ok XD

2. What are your favourite things about the ship?

See “fucked up under-negotiated kink” above :P Like, I am here for Xue Yang being the wonderful, hilarious, boundary-crossing id machine that he is, and for JGY getting pushed thoroughly out of his comfort zone into things he... enjoys?? for some definitions of the word “enjoy”? but is not really okay about in any capacity and would never in a million years end up doing in a more SSC/RACK way with er-ge.

And the material underpinning that, which relates to why I enjoy them in that context and think they work well in this sort of fantasy-based reality fork, is how they do seem to have this semi-playful dynamic once they’re in their own walled-off space, of a bit more indulgence than usual, and knowing each other differently than everyone else around them? Like, the walls JGY has to keep up are quite different from the ones he normally engages; and then I think there’s something appealing (at least for a little while) for Xue Yang of being in a rich family’s pocket, and having access to that level of material security-to-the-point-of-frivolity that he can just fuck with and never seriously have to worry about overstepping. It’s a very good circumstantial friendship that pokes at the edges of each of their vulnerabilities in society, and because of that allows a lot of really hot pushing at those vulnerabilities in a way they can’t elsewhere.

3. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on this ship?

Mmmmm, shruuuugggg??? I have no idea, honestly. I guess on one hand, I’ve seen stuff that posits them knowing each other when they were younger / what if?, and that’s really not something I have any interest in? But idk if that’s popular, necessarily. Oh, I also see them both as very switchy with each other. And for that matter my general opinions on JGY Having Hella Sex And Touch Hangups also apply, as usual. But again, not sure if those are “unpopular” so much as “I vaguely remember seeing material that did the opposite at one point, and I disagreed with it” /shrug

#ask a James #ask meme responses #no good things for the poor sad cultivators #gloriousmonsters