#there won't be any more party to this

[zivazivc]

So in the second movie we see poppy and branch get, basically drugged by smooth jazz. Do you think different kinds of music can be like drugs to trolls who aren't off that genre? I'm just thinking about floyd & his ex band mates just getting high after putting on a funky record

I can't explain to you how much i love this ask, Sapphire! Like it made me obsessed sljhfdjd I was focusing so much on that ringpop pacifier from the third movie and thinking of other troll drugs I could come up with (like sour worms lol) that I completely forgot about smooth jazz!!

Eventually Floyd got up like in a trance, started dancing hippie-style, tripped over his own feet, and never got up

Floyd is still 14 here and they are all morons. Also I think Floyd would in general be much more affected by this genre because he doesn't have any Rock Troll blood like the rest of them. Slowly they will learn through morally dubious trial and error... Pray for them.

the records Flea borrowed:

#they started with light my fire #trolls #dreamworks trolls #trolls floyd #ex bandmates #they're not stoners but they won't pass on a chance like this lmao #they're more about going out to party and doing stuff that gets your blood pumping #my art #answered #trolls 3 #trolls band together #trolls oc #hed #les #flea #liv #also sapphire this is probably as good a time as any to thank you for all the great tags you leave under my posts #they always make me smile :D

[mel-loly]

-“Just a flower, in the middle of the field at night, a light is turned on and reveals.. A day arriving with confident hope and silent happiness!”🌹����

#for those who didn't get it.. today is my birthday! and so tomorrow is really the day of the party and etc.. #that's why I put “arriving” because tomorrow is a really special and very important event in my life akzbskhzjsb #and yes. I'm cosplaying as princess bela. she's one of my favorite characters and her dress.. It's literally a dream come true for me! #because I'm really going to use one similar to this one tomorrow irl and- #I won't tell you guys more details because it's personal things but- well. that's a little explain of what the art is about! #I really feel very happy.. and I admit. I don't even know how to explain my happiness but.. well... #I feel special. surrounded by people who *really* love me and show true affection for me and.. #that I just have to thank. for everything. I have gratitude for all of you! like- thank you very much. really. for everything.. #I can't even express in words how grateful I am for each of you #know that I love and appreciate everyone who is still with me on this journey called life! #and of course- I couldn't forget to talk about him lol. thanks to mike! #I don't know what would have become of me if I hadn't met someone as friendly and good-hearted as him #he was always by my side and made me feel more special in every day. in a unique way and one of the most important to me.. #I love him very much/p. and I hope that our friendship will be forever happy and respectful the way it already is! #(of course. this also works for the other friends I made here too- please don't get mad or jealous! I love you all. okay??) #and well.. that's it. #I hope I still stay here. that I enjoy my day and face any fear or harm that I might have ahead of me and.. #that I just hope for the best. I put everything in God's hands and I feel confident that things will work out no matter what the cost! #thank you guys again for everything and happy birthday to me lol-💛 #happy birthday to me #it's my birthday #mel creator #mel loly #cosplaying of beauty and the beast #i'm mel and this is my blog✌️ #my art blog #art mel #art #my art #my oc character

[natsubane]

watched all the available episodes of sousou no frieren today and surprised myself with how much i enjoyed it so i want to leave my thoughts here before i forget them; i think it would've been a lot more enjoyable if i was catching it from the start, but i ended up crying more than several times anyway

it's such a good concept to begin with, the storytelling is so compelling, and i really enjoyed the atmosphere in every episode. the worldbuilding is very good, we never really get exposition dumped but we learn things as the characters do, which keeps things believable and easy to stomach... plus, we always see stories about the defeat of the demon king, and much less the story of the aftermath, which got me interested in it in the first place. and especially when you add in the factor of time as a matter of inconsequence to frieren in comparison to everyone else especially with her personality... it's so satisfying seeing the exploration of things like the delicate balance between memories of the past and their inability to be changed with how they have influenced and shaped growth (of both the characters and the world) into the present, the passing of time and its varying (in)significance to the characters caught in its flow, the transience of life and (the learning of) what it means to live...

even then the flow of time passing is animated so well; there's this relentlessness to its passing, but despite that it flows like a calm river, clear and constant and steady, never hurrying, never drying. and mage's comment about it showcasing perfectly how frieren stays the same despite time passing is really neat too. on the flip side seeing how things have changed over time (the borrowing, adaptation, improvement of spells from demons which then go on to be adopted by mages is something i really fucking liked!! and the way fern uses the magic so casually as a way to demonstrate the development of magic turning a death spell into 'ordinary offensive magic' is so so good. frieren using this to teach her a history lesson was Also really good.)

it's hard to dislike any of the main characters when they show such strong cohesion of their complex pasts and personalities, and their actions do so well to showcase who they are even in battle (fern's precision and blunt simplicity stands out here). you can even see how they have changed each other over the course of their journey... frieren wanting to give up on finding the lost ring so not to slow the party down but fern insisting they'll stay until she finds it contrasting with her impatience with frieren spending months trying to find the blue moon weed at the beginning of their journey is something that stuck with me a lot

the other thing that stuck with me is the rebuilding of the original party not only thematically within their roles but also in influence by the original heroes (fern being taught by frieren and their noted similarity in the earlier episodes with regards to magic, stark being taught by eisen and the same way they express and approach fear, sein's choice not to become an adventurer being directly influenced by heiter not to mention their obvious similarities in habits)... and of those it's really fitting how frieren represents himmel's hero role now after she was influenced by her journey with himmel, especially with his death giving immense meaning to her new journey and frieren copying his actions because it's what he would do

but i enjoyed it... will be back next week..... waha.............

#blue/- #blue/nemophila #nemophila-thoughts #nemophila/frieren #nemophila/fern #nemophila/stark #nemophila/sein #nemophila/himmel #i know everyone in the frieren tag is like talking about ships and everything but i didn't even focus on that while i was watching at all #himmel's love for frieren is important thematically so i'm a lot more aware of that but i think this impact is stronger if it's unrequited #i mean. frieren aro represent wahoo but also i hope she comes to understand what it means to himmel even if she never returns the feelings #i think this is one of those pieces of media where au won't ever hit as hard because the canon has all the pieces laid out for it #how are you going to recreate the same feeling in an au... i think i get it now.......... #still i think in regards to the characters. it's easy to enjoy all of them and their complexities even as they slowly reveal them #stark being a coward but then we reveal that he doesn't think being afraid is bad and also the burden of his past weighing on him #also the fact that he just. has never been showed kindness like getting a birthday present leading into his awkwardness w fern's birthday #he kinda just ticks a lot of my boxes. also he's kobayashi chiaki #sein's hesitance to join the party but then becoming someone they can depend on when frieren's disconnect is a bit more obvious #it's like 2am i don't think my rambling is even coherent any more. good night

[theirloveisgross]

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#There's something very interesting when it comes to the boys' popularities #Like... For one... You get their monthly listeners on Spotify which don't mean much but they mean something #Then you get social media... Or like... The deep fandom #Louis and Harry reign supreme #Maybe because of their origins and how it all came about #But in the deep hardcore fandom... Louis might lead by miles #Idk... I've been thinking about it #You get Niall whose music is super popular with the general public #Moms looove Niall's music #At the 1D party most people knew Niall's solo songs #Niall sells a lot of tickets in big arenas etc etc #Then you get Harry who's both huge with the general public and huge in the deep fandom #And Liam with his catchy singles for sure... #But you won't find general public singing louis' solo songs #At the 1d party the amount of people who were singing silver tongues? Honestly... It was like 10% of the people there #And that would have been the case with any of his solo songs really... Maybe miss you or back to you would have gotten a few more people #But yeah... #Idk it's interesting #Because here on tumblr I feel part of this big community... Which... It's still big but it's very contained still #And I'm not mad about it one bit #It felt very special being one of the very few people scream singing to silver tongues #It's almost as if you're part of this underground club or something and then at louis' shows everyone comes together #Hajshajs sorry I'm rambling #I just find it very interesting... #even when the crowds were so different last year in NA compared to ltwt... #I could still see 'oh yeah... It's a few of us but geez are we feral' hajshajshs yknow? #I know I'm suuuuper biased but ugh I love it here #Wouldn't have it any other way #I love my hardcore Louies so much #Very excited for latam

[culmaer]

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#nothing is more depressing than working on my cv #because I just don't feel like I have marketable skills #and so many of the writing and research posts I come across on job sites are like ''you'll be working alongside ai'' #I even saw a copywriter post that said ''you won't be doing any writing or editing. you job will be to refine and improve ai prompts #so that the ai can more consistently produce the texts we need'' #like hello #the person doing that job is literally making themself more obsolete by the day #so here's the plan #I need to take any job that pays vaguely well #and use that money to either do short corses #or save up to go so my masters #that conclusion is inescapable #just. for now I'm still stuck on step 1 : finding a decent job #and (perhaps I'm being too picky) but post covid I do not want to go back into anything in the tourism industry #it's too precarious and honestly just comes down to entertaining rich people which pushes me further left every time i think about it #I considered joining the communist party. but 1) they're still part of the tripartite alliance with the anc... which is a no from me #and 2) communist révolution should spontaneously happen in industrialised countries with surplus wealth when the proletariat arise #south africa does not have surplus wealth nor class consciousness really. it's still filtered through post apartheid racial groupings #which is unhelpful because the black bourgeoisie are not our allies just because they're black #and trying to impose communism in a society without the surplus wealth didn't work out too well throughout the 20th century #so what does that leave you with #parties like cope ? plagued by the same issues as the anc ? no thank you #(I did also study politics btw which is why I've even considered these career paths) #(although I haven't worked in politics or governance since graduation so maybe that doesn't even matter anymore it's been years) #all I want is a job that pays fairly and leaves me with enough free time to do my hobbies #I do not have the grindset I'll admit that #which is why I've enjoyed the art industry #but again. it just comes down to entertaining rich people in the small galleries which is needlessly stressful #and the larger non-commercial galleries and musea aren't hiring atm... #and that's it. rant over I guess since this is the 30th tag

[animezinglife]

Boy moms are something else.

I get that moms will always see their children as their "babies." That's completely fair and to be expected.

What I'm a little less comfortable with is when your fifteen-year-old son who's over six feet tall is somebody you consider "too young" to stay home by himself.

My parents would toss the phone at me (landlines back then), make sure I knew where the guns were in case there was an intruder, tell me there was enough food to cook whatever, and say "have fun" when I was eight.

#boy moms #wtf #if I had a fifteen-year-old son I'd be WAY more worried about him having a girl over or throwing a party #SHE WON'T EVEN LET HIM COOK #WTF #this is how you raise a manchild #I don't know ANY boys who hadn't already been staying home on their own from around the same age I did that I grew up with #I love her but she also complains because her husband is the ONLY man out of our group who won't cook and clean #MA'AM YOU ARE REPEATING THAT CYCLE

[bylertruther]

for a group of people that like to say "this is a sci fi show, why are you so hung up on realism 🙄" y'all sure seem to harp on about and get hung up on finn's weight and your assumptions about his physical strength waaaay more than the duffers do when they're writing for mike's character but i'm 😴😴😴

#im sensitive 2 ppl flip flopping around like that #i know he's fake and i know finn doesn't need any more shooters okay I KNOW #but like. :/ thats my son boy michael ur talking abt . #and i shall NOT entertain any slander thrown his way #he did Not fight a bully and fight lucas and attack d'art and grab a candle holder and hit vecna and protect will 938373 times #for y'all to say tht bc he's skinny he won't do shit. #it's not funny to me i don't think weight jokes are funny nor will i ever sorry for being the negative nancy here but. #HDBSHGSSJSJ i jus ..... thts sir mike the paladin.... in real life and in dnd..... do Not #lucas is the jock and the actual buff one of the party and still mike has fought more times than he has. #like. be serious. #SORRY I KNOW ITS JOKE I KNOW. BUT. THAT'S MY BOY MIKE THT I ADOPTED ON A COLD RAINY NIGHT... #and i kept quiet abt this but i saw Certain Jokes once and its like. finn carried millie once. he's not going to break while picking up #a milk jug. just shut up about his weight it's not any less worse just bc he's skinny PLEASEEEEE 😭🔫

[ilikeyoshi]

fascinated by the number of replies on that poll that are just "no bc it's none of my business" like. ok???? extremely weird point to make. would it also be none of your business if that friend like. mugged somebody. hit their partner. tf does "it's not my business" have to do with anything they have displayed blatant disregard for the trust and love of others. it's GONNA be your business when they do some heinous shit behind your back.

#idk man i think ppl give run of the mill cheaters too much credit like #“yeah but are they sorry?” “yeah but did they only do it once?” do you think cheaters are like. possessed. like they black out and do shit #what is so complicated about "person has agreed to terms in a relationship in which both parties have placed a lot of trust in each other #only to turn around and DECIDE (BECAUSE YOU DON'T? ACCIDENTALLY CHEAT?) that actually my feelings are more important than other ppl's trust #i knew the replies would make me mad but VMIFKFJGFJJH seriously. it's none of your business. that's ALL you've got #yoshi talks #like i'm not saying they don't deserve to ever have friends again. i'm just saying if someone treats people who trust them #that badly on purpose that like. if they do lose friends they have no one to blame but themself. #and also like i'm lowkey concerned for all these ppl just waving off any responsibility like! cool! good to know i can't #count on you not to literally find out someone has been mistreated and then pretend you didn't see it either! #like u know that a) you ALSO sound like an untrustworthy loser who will just decide throw ppl to the wolves #and b) you're like? putting yourself at risk of being lied to or turned on or betrayed too? if ur friend can do that to one person #they can do it to ANYONE. that means u too!!! get out of there!!!! u deserve friends who won't throw u away like trash the second ur #friendship inconveniences them!!!!

[soulsxng]

"Jaey, you can't have someone pretend to marry you just to get the delegation off your back. That would cause way more trouble than it's worth...and besides, who would you even ask? How would you decide the best candidate?"

"I'll hire someone! I'm tired of all these arrangement parties and stuff; the candidates the delegation keeps picking out are all the worst. But they're not scared of me like they are you, so I was thinking about how I can get them to leave it alone, and...ta-da! It's a good idea, right? It definitely is!"

"Hiring someone. Someone that would then be allowed a place on the delegation, and could enact who knows what kinds of laws and such at a whim. Someone that you're already motivating to help you out by paying them somehow. If you didn't get rid of them right away, I would, and then you'd be right back to square one."

"...Uuuuuugh. Then...I don't know! I'll find someone else that's supposed to get an arranged marriage, but doesn't want to do it! We can marry each other to get it out of the way, and then have nothing to do with each other after that! And if it's a ruler or something like that, then they wouldn't mess with delegation business, because I could just do the same thing to them! And...and so yeah! I'll just do that!"

#[Tarinx -extra-] #[Jaeyani -extra-] #Just something that popped into my head and I thought was funny #Though now I'm over here like 'that would be a fun plot. having Jaey just go up to a ruler or something that he meets at a gathering #and hit them with a 'Hey so hear me out--' lmao #Arin's tactic for avoiding arrangement parties and proposals and all that fun stuff is to just...literally not show up to any of it #and nobody really has the balls to try to force him because the other delegation members are all fairly significantly weaker than him #so he'll just go 'Haha you want me to go to /that/? Fine then fight me for it and if you win I'll go.' and then just throttle the delegate #Jaey on the other hand is too much of a sweetie to do that. He doesn't really care much for fighting most of the time #So the delegates bug him and try to set him up in unavoidable things more often than not #so his tactic for avoiding arrangement parties and proposals and all that is quickly becoming #'I'll just get married (or pretend to marry) to someone who won't exploit me and then we can just leave each other alone after that! :D ' #and at least sorta gets along with

[theduchessofconnaught]

well that’s disappointing.

#meg we didn't care about harry he's a guy they all look the same #we wanted you in a tiara and a great fit (though probably won't be seeing many if any tiaras -- it's getting hard to follow that story) #people being snarky about this guys she isn't doing anything to you just leave her be for christ sake #not to be a conspiracy nut but i feel like people's bad vibes towards meg is a good part of the reason she's staying in la #like from experience when you go to a place and have a really dark episode of your life there you do want to avoid it like the plague #but also yeah if their friends and most fam are in la and it's archie's bday why wouldn't she just stay home and do that #obviously her child's bday is more important to her than chuck's promotion party (not that i am not ridiculously excited about it) #meghan markle #coronation 2023 #british royals

[songtwo]

also my mom just booked a trip w our yoga group to this volcano/park for September which is cool enough already but i was thinking that if i get my scholarships I'd buy tickets for placebo the next day and also two days prior is a friend's bday party and a couple of days later is my friends' farewell party . nice

#the placebo tix r weird though there r still a lot available but there's only from two seats #and the cheapest is just rly shitty and the other one isn't even that nice and it's double #and the thing is I'd buy two one for me and one for my dad #though even if i bought the more expensive tickets they'd be like . 4 times less of what he's paying for me but anyway #bc when i said we should go see placebo he said yes but then the corona capital happened and he's basically paying for my tickets and all #there's also the franz Ferdinand/the vaccines gig which is sooooo slay but we both prefer placebo #but idk . if i only get one scholarship I'll buy the cheap ones the vibe and energy will be there anyway #and if i get both then the expensive ones #and if i get none then I'll kill myself #Though i also wanted to save for a trip me and my friends will take in October:3 #But there's also the money from the summer's work so! I'm not at zeroes anymore #i need a job sooooo badly but I'll most likely change my internship so i won't be working online anymore #so I'll have even less time . as if i didn't have any free time already #i forgot what the main idea of this post was . anyway excited yoga and parties will happen 👍

[thespoonisvictory]

truly am filled with thoughts about d20′s world of spyre and the benefits and pitfalls of anthology series and fans being more attached to a concept than the creators and my own relationship to always wanting more of certain characters and when a character is “finished” and and and

#NOT that I think any of the ih or brennan hate spyre #or even necessarily that we won't get more of it #it's just. interesting #I love fhsy so much but I also love and respect the season lengths d20 commits to #and frankly Don't think that even every main season should be getting sequels #when do you call it quits? should you ever fully call it quits on a set of characters? #can you ever escape your creative origin without first burning it to the ground in some way? #it's probably the better marketing strategy to diversify earlier and commit to that rather than a genre or adventuring party #but what if the ideal intrepid heroes dynamic for me personally really is locked in the bad kids #idk man #anyway I think the 20th season of d20 should be fantasy high junior year what about you

[maeamian]

I don't mean to come off as harsh or rude, but the fact that we beat the shitty dude by multiple millions of votes but he got to be president anyhow and make three supreme court nominations because Mitch made up some traditions on the fly to let him, maybe doesn't show that we didn't vote hard enough in 2016 so much as the institutions of the senate and electoral college structurally bias republicans and are fundamentally undemocratic and I think any conversation that blames voters for how they interact with that system completely misses the fact that the systems are failures and failing us and at minimum a voting based strategy needs to acknowledge that some people's votes just flat out don't count or at least count significantly less thanks to these systems

#Just like I've voted in practically every election my entire life #I did miss one that I view as having been crucial and unfortunate #but one was not the vote difference in that election so my lack of vote there even didn't technically turn it #And things do keep on getting worse in spite of that #and I feel like maybe it's okay to look at these two things and wonder in what way they are related #I'm not saying give up on voting or whatever but my votes just flat out count for way less as a Californian #So I'm not sure what they want me to do about that if voting is the only solution to any problem #Luckily it isn't and I've spent years on election related issues #tbh this is also the fault of the Democratic party who could've seen any or all of this coming. #literally 'the GOP wants to take control of the judiciary to repeal the later half of the 20th century' was common knowledge #among activists when I was in high school back in the early 00's #And probably longer too that's just when I came into possession of it #As has been pretty much everything else they've tried to do or succeeded in doing #Like they aren't doing it in the dark it's just that Civic Society requires elected Dems to feign ignorance #Or at least they seem to think it does #Like for fuck's sake leadership won't even unendorse the last anti-choice dem in congress #And regularly have said 'focus on abortion access is bad for us' #so forgive me if I'm not lining up on the 'we just need more democrats' parade when we also need better Democrats #I'm allowed to demand they at least have a pro-choice litmus test before I go all in on them in response to this #I'm telling you that 'look what voting got us' isn't a cry to give it up but a cry to build power in other ways too #Not mad at anyone but OP of the post this is obviously responding to #But genuinely unimpressed with being chided about voting at this fucking point in history #It's just that I gotta share one good senator and one useless senator with San Fransisco #While the same population out in the midwest gets literally thirty senators #Just can't see how I'm supposed to vote my way out of a system where the winner isn't the person with the most votes

[zanathan-aisling]

rewatched paranoia agent by proxy (reaction youtube), feeling emotionally akin to warm yet raw eggs again. great.

#i hate that i unlock my enlightened discourse centrist powers when this happens #like. that 'voting for biden as a practical decision because the repub candidates would all be worse on the issues he's fucking bad on alre #already' and 'jesus fucking christ this isn't democracy so why shouldn't the american minority demographics hold themselves hostage for som #NUDGING of the democratic political platform' (....the democrats will let us die though. like they won't budge. some will make concessions #but not many and not the ones with the ability to change didly dick) are both technically 'correct' viewpoints to have #and no i don't think things will get anywhere better for minorities in the united states where its headed even with a dem in the white hous #well at least BECAUSE of that. the republican followup to the last two we've had will still kill more. it'd still be GOOD to avoid that. #g-d the Dem party will let themselves die before they move meaningfully left though. #on one hand we have a rock gently sliding to crush us and on the other hand we have another rock moving much faster to do the same #and of course going out of their way to kill human beings en masse abroad #like if the democrat's pet minorities can't meaningfully withhold the vote then what the fuck is the point??? and we CAN'T. #not for president!!!! #(still get fucking involved with elections besides Presidential #pickings will still be slim in terms of 'good' but its not a fucking sham) #just. fucking. mutual aid and direct in-person organization. #join a fuckin org try reading some shit about sociology and political activism advocate for tenants rights and voting rights for criminals #& voting access for all #(those last two things wouldn't fix a presidential election but working to better democratize the rest of the system could give fucking spa #in years where there actually IS a primary maybe shit will be slightly less greusome. though i'll be fuckin rich if any presidential candid #candidate manages to stay true to their fig leaves to the progressives come inauguration #ALSO FORM A FUKIN UNION #MAKE ART!!!! #NOT JUST POLITICAL ART!!! MAKE ART IN GENERAL!!!!! APPRECIATE EACH OTHERS ART!!!!!! CONSUME LESS CORPO SLOP!!!!!!!!! LOVE EACH OTHER AND #OURSELVES!!!!! #to clarify by 'we cant meaningfully withhold our vote' that doesn't mean we have an imperative not to. i mean that if we withhold it #nothing will change about the democrats besides them getting pissy and at bwoerst they lose the election to the kill everyone now party #it WOULD continue to good!radicalize the american voterbase though possibly but that could also happen if we all voted for biden again and #he kept doing not enough (good stuff #he can do bad quite clearly)

[shotmrmiller]

another thing i had in mind for ex husband simon was that this time you're more resistant. no touching, no nicknames that make you weak-kneed, nothing. divorce means divorce, and the wedge that split the two of you up would probably still be there.

fine by simon, he follows the rules to a T. hands to himself, polite greetings and only talks about the children. maybe for a birthday for the boys, he takes the family shopping for gifts since it's a tuesday and there won't be any party or whatever and when y'all come back home, the lights are on.

they'd been off when y'all left. simon quickly opens the middle console and pulls out his weapon and tells you to get in the drivers seat. should anything come running out, pedal to the metal.

a little bit of time passes, you're about to be driven crazy with anxiety but simon finally comes out, except he's empty handed.

comes to the side and opens the driver door. "whoever was in there is gone. probably hopped the back fence. i've already called the guys."

you're a sobbing mess because how dare someone come into your home? your sanctuary? what if-

and you come to a startling realization. what if you and the boys had been here? alone?

simon's looking down at his phone, and furrows his brows. "i gotta go get-" but you don't let him finish, trembling fingers grabbing the front of his shirt. "you cant leave us here. don't leave me alone. don't- just please. stay."

you're too upset to resist his embrace or correct him when he calls you sweetheart. the guys get there eventually, price and gaz waste no time in sweeping the area and you, accompanied by simon, tuck the kids to bed.

price calls it later, that the place seems to be clear. nothing really taken nor left behind. they all leave, johnny and kyle deciding to stay overnight across the street their car and simon also turns to bid you goodnight, except you don't let him.

you practically beg him to stay, that you won't feel safe without him here. the couch won't do because he's too far away, what if whoever that was comes in through the bedroom windows.

you seek comfort in him and in the dead of night, he whispers promises into your ear as he slides home. promises to keep you safe, to keep the kids safe. that he'd let nothing ever happened to you, not while he still lived and breathed.

when you're finally dozing, with his spend drying in between your legs, he grabs his phone and texts johnny that it's done, they can go home now.

johnny responds in seconds, telling him that he tore his very nice jeans jumping that rough hewn fence of theirs and that simon owes him a new pair.

#simon ghost riley #simon ghost riley x reader

[luveline]

𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 —send me a shy!reader request for any character (with a plot) and I'll write a >1k drabble

sirius/james introducing shy!reader to remus. and shes just like quiet and in awe, but remus loves it.

luveline's 40k party ☆ tysm for requesting! remus x shy fem!reader

James is used to your personality after months of being your lecture neighbour, unperturbed by your quiet. "It's going to be fun," he promises, handing you a cold glass of cranberry vodka. "They're nice, okay? I won't let anyone irritate you." 

He's hosting a party and had the generosity to invite you round early. He's easing you in, so to speak. It took him two weeks of steady Hellos for you to work up the courage to say Hi back, another two weeks for small talk, a month before you felt comfortable speaking to him first. If you're that shy, a party is basically torture.

"It's not about irritating me," you say. 

"I know, I'm messing." James lists his head to the left. A second later, there's a knock at the door. "Aha. Wait here, shortcake, there's someone I want you to meet." 

"James," you say after him, wet from your glass leaking down to your sleeve, "what?" 

"I asked him to come early and say hello! He's quiet and handsome and you'll love him, just don't stare at his nose." 

What's wrong with his nose? you think, alarmed. 

James opens the door. Two new voices emerge, one scratchy and a little high, the other smoother. "I need to pee so bad," the scratchy one declares, followed by bounding footsteps up the stairs. 

"You alright?" the smoother asks.

You think there's patting, a hug, "I'm brilliant! You smell really nice, Remus, like a garden." 

"Lovely."

"In a good way! Come and meet my Y/N, you remember I told you about her nice gel pens?" 

James leads the smooth-voiced Remus into the living room. You hurriedly put down your drink and stand, wiping your wet hands in your shirt. You cringe at the darkening fabric but hide your grimace as they stop in front of you. 

"Remus, Y/N. Y/N, Remus," James introduces you both. 

Remus has a scar across his nose that seems cruelly cut. There's another beside it that starts in his upper lip, both of which end in his eyebrow. You know how self-conscious it feels to be looked at, so you manage to smile and offer your hand without too much of it. He's handsome with his scars, a nice nose with a ridge and brown eyes the colour of caramelised sugar.

"Hello," Remus says, shaking your hand. His is big enough to make yours feel small. 

"I invited her early because she's more fun than the rest of our lot," James says, throwing himself down on the sofa and kicking his legs out on the coffee table. 

Remus taps your elbow very gently as if to usher you to sit and sits down beside you, enough space to be casual but too little to stop the rampant nerves that blossom in your stomach. 

Remus asks about your life. What you're studying, where you're from, if James is being nice to you. While James is touchy in the rough older brother way, scrunching your shoulder and shaking you when you're not expecting it. Remus is touchy in a different way, you find, almost as if he doesn't know he's doing it. His shoe bumps your shoe, his hand falls down between his outer thigh and your own, his knuckles touching your jeans very lightly. He spins in his seat to talk to you. 

You don't notice other people arriving, nor the scratchy-voiced friends return. All you can do is look up at Remus with wide eyes. Your nerves meld to something warmer. 

"And what do you do?" you ask him. 

He smiles like you've wandered into a secret. "I'm trying to write a book." 

"He's being a bit much," Sirius says to James, the two now loitering in the doorway with matching beers. You and Remus chatter on, unaware of their running commentary.

"It's a very strong reaction. I knew she'd like him, but I didn't think she'd like him like that." James takes a sip of his drink. Remus asks you a quiet question. You duck your head, playing with your sleeves, and Remus, the bastard, ducks his head to follow your gaze, smiling at you all the while. 

James almost chokes, pointing his bottle toward you both as though Sirius isn't already looking. "He's eating it up. I forgot how flirty he is."

"She'll be nice to him, won't she?" Sirius asks, like it's a done deal. To be fair, Remus seems enthralled with you. 

"Definitely. She's very nice. Oh, look, that's sick, she's gonna pass out." James winces as Remus takes your arm into his hand. 

Remus wouldn't do anything cruel, but James wasn't joking when he told Remus that you were exceedingly, achingly shy. He's about to step in and rescue you, but you turn into Remus' touch and pull your leg up on the sofa to make yourself comfortable. Your voice is animated, if quieter than the average person's.

"Woah," James says, beaming.  

Remus flirts almost as a defence, like he wants to get the rejection over and done with so he can move on. You've yet to reject; you're looking up at him in moderate awe, your lips quirked into an easy smile. 

"Boo!" James calls, flicking his bottle cap at Remus, who brushes it away. "Took me three weeks to get a smile out of her," he mutters. "What a dick." 

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