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findafight · 10 months

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i don't get why robin and eddie clocking each other is so popular. firstly i find it kind of cheap esp since it's usually a set-up for robin and/or eddie being all-knowing arbiters of lgbt knowledge while steve is clueless and dumb and not lgbt enough (despite usually being bi) to partake in this exchange as well. then it's otherwise used to establish an immediate connection between robin and eddie since they are both gay which automatically makes them besties. secondly it doesn't make much sense w what we see of either robin or eddie. like we know robin struggles w social cues and we see that that extends to sexual orientation through her interactions w vickie. also i think she is just not paying that much attention to eddie i must be honest. then w eddie he spends his time campaigning for the stancy revival while steve blatantly stares at his mouth so. i don't think he'd be good at that either. like the irony in this being so common is that steve is the person that does clock someone else on top of being consistently socially and emotionally intelligent and perceptive. idk sometimes i feel like ppl take him not clocking robin as proof he's incapable of it despite him then clocking someone later and being right, and that s3 scene fitting into the broader context of steve being lonely, insecure, and off his game for most of s3 as well as between s2 and s3. tbh missed comedy potential w steve being the one person in that trio that actually knows what's happening.

oooohg yeah i feel you anon. Not to say that all the fics that have these tropes in them are bad! it just. sometimes gets annoying? I don't want people to feel too bad about it but yes agree.

I think it really is used as a way to fast track their friendship. Truly unfortunate that it's often used to make them all knowing queer guides instead of the disaster teenage gays they are.

Robin is a small town lesbian who is only out to one singular person, she does not know anything, let alone vague little queer codes that might be happening. She wouldn't know Eddie was queer for a variety of reasons. She says herself she's not good at reading people! She's also busy worrying about if she's doing something that might out her or make people suspicious of her, so she's not analyzing other people's actions. She does not care about men that aren't Steve enough to pay enough attention to figure out if Eddie is queer or not lol. She can't even figure out if the girl she likes who likes her back is queer when her best friend is telling her. Oblivious icon! open your eyes, queen!!

Eddie had a man he deliberately broke a moment of romantic tension between his love interest by throwing a vest at his face staring at his lips and still pushed him towards said love interest. Sir. what are you doing. and once it's clear stncy isn't happening you know eddie would be like okay. why aren't you dating Robin? hmm? she's cool! and causes Steve to Suffer. (Steve was flirting with Eddie .5 seconds before he started on this please get with the program Eddie!!)

Also think it's silly that people would stereotype Eddie as Queer from how he dresses as though that's not just how a lot of people dressed? long hair was In in the 80s. Metal fashion was there. It also likely had some/a lot of ingrained homophobia in the subculture (as many things did). Sorry Eddie, but I'm pretty sure our boy Brucie did more for the gays than metallica. (Kissing Clarence Clemens Right On The Mouth Many Times On Stage thank you mr. springsteen and mr. clemens sirs.)

Steve's the only one of these three that 1) knows how to flirt 2) knows when someone is flirting with him 3) has consistently demonstrated being emotionally and socially intelligent to observe people (more than arguably anyone else in the series) and 4) has any kind of functioning gaydar. Totally agree that Steve not clocking Robin despite his gaydar is that he was way off his game, insecure, in a funk, pathetic sad meow meow era, and in a weird state of squish-or-crush on Robin, that was pushed towards crush by Dustin but slam dunked into squish by Robin coming out (does that make any sense?)

I truly, truly believe Vickie returned Fast Times paused on 53 minutes and five seconds specifically when she knew Robin and/or Steve would be the ones to rewind it. Why else would she not rewind it? when clearly they knew who had rented it and could potentially out her if they read into it? She was getting vibes from robin and knew that Steve would at least report Back to Robin (I refuse to believe the championship game was the only time stobin gossiped like they did. Vickie knows their shenanigans.) so she decided to be indirect but kinda obvious about it!! And while Robin is denying this Steve has seen the truth, he knows exactly what Vickie is doing. (would be very funny if Steve and Vickie clock each other, and then make eye contact like I know what you are. They deserve to become funky little friends while Steve is trying to get her and Robin together.)

#stranger things #robin buckley #steve harrington #steddie #rockie #robickie #stobin #stranger things meta #vickie stranger things #findaanswers #anonasaurus

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tc-doherty · 2 years

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Okay, in honor of pride month I am making a “tier list” of a sort. No fancy graphics though.

S Tier - It’s gay, and how!

Dragon's Daughter:

We got a lesbian couple, a gay couple, multiple bisexual characters, and an aroace character but I make you wait almost 2 books to get payoff for any of it.

Second Chances:

The 1st version of this was written when I was in early high school and it hasn't changed much since then. Lots of overwrought gay angst, mutual pining, codependency, basically everything you would expect from a 14-year-old. It can be rough at times but does have a happy ending!

Magic Black as Knight:

This one is pretty gay, but does it have a happy ending…?

The Swan Husband:

This one is pretty much queer shenanigans from the get go.

Silverwood:

Despite the fact that there are multiple queer and trans characters in Silverwood, for some reason I generally don't think of it as anything other than a straight story. But a significant portion of the cast is actually queer. Probably the majority of the cast honestly.

Untitled 2:

This one is M/M middle grade. Very light, but the characters’ feelings for each other are textually confirmed. Also has a secondary, older, queer couple. Absolutely full of homoerotic tropes that I love because it's very self-indulgent.

A Tier - Yeah, it's gay.

Northbound:

We have a lesbian couple and a gay couple, but the focus is mostly on the politics and war drama.

Untitled 3:

Like the above, this one is gay but it's kind of superseded by the political/war drama shenanigans plot. The drama is not as intense. Probably. The characters are younger, at any rate.

Hoofbeats:

This one is a fairly straightforward love story, and I don't even make you wait that long for once.

Laero:

Has a lesbian couple that's already in a relationship when the book starts, but they do spend most of the book apart from one another.

The Deadlands

Would be gayer faster if Margherita wasn’t such a Useless Lesbian(tm). But it is canon.

Temitope

Honestly, kind of the same as the one below. It is gay but it takes forever to get anywhere due to the main character being oblivious.

Untitled 1:

This one is gay but they’re useless, kind of oblivious gays who take forever to get around to anything. Slow burn.

B Tier - Gay Vibes(tm).

The Gryphon of Sirray:

This one is lightly flavored M/M middle grade, how much is actually going to be canon remains to be seen.

The Race of the Midday Moon:

This one is lightly flavored F/F middle grade, how much is going to be canon remains to be seen.

Celestials

The main character is asexual, although it isn't talked about in the 1st book.

Miracles

We have a gay character, a bisexual character, an aroace character, but it's more about friendship than anything else. There is no actual relationship in the story, except the one straight guy and his fiancée.

C Tier - Not Gay.

The Thief Queen:

There is no relationship in this one but at least the main character is an ally?

Into the Witch’s Wood:

There's probably nothing gay about this story. Maybe Frost is a little gay but there's nothing textually confirmed and there’s no relationship in the 1st book anyway. Books 2 and 3 are both about straight relationships.

The Huntress of Anihwen:

This one is literally just Disaster Straight(tm) nonsense.

#writeblr #my writing #happy pride month lol #long post #I have too many projects and I'm not tagging them all

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meteor752 · 3 years

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Modern Lotr headcanons

Listen, I get bored. And when I get bored, I do stuff like this.

Well, either this or humanize the elven rings of power in the sims, but that I’ve already done

Also, this is a high school AU, because those are fun

Aragorn

Was adopted by a rich family as a small child

Still looks like he’s homeless, because what is self care?

Is basically a horse girl

Mom friend

Has one constant thought and it’s “Guys, wtf”

Sleep? Never heard of it

Has coffee instead of blood at this point

How did he get his hands on a fucking sword?

Somehow managed to get together with the posh boy

*Makes tiny mistake* *Lies face down on the floor* I fucked up I fucked up I fucked up I fucked up I

Is actually a great leader, but hates being in that position

Somehow always manages to get into that position

Probably plays some sport

Legolas

The rich kid(tm)

Talks like he’s writing a 1k words essay on a topic he can only span to 200 words

No one knows why

Loves his siblings, he really does, but please stfu I’m trying to study

He has one priority and it’s his hair

And his nails

And his makeup

Okay he has a few priorities but you get the point

Snarky like you wouldn’t believe

“HEY EVERYONE THIS IS MY BOYFRIEND ARAGORN!! ISN’T HE GREAT?!?! I LOVE HIM VERY MUCH!!”

Probs do both dance and gymnastics

Gimli

Comes from a very large and tight knit family

“Hey what’s your sexuality?” *Shrugs*

Small and angry, a dangerous mix

Is probably a gamer

Despite his ruff and gruff everything, he somehow managed to become best friend with the blonde diva that is Leggy

*Legolas and Aragorn making out* *Gimli sits on the other side of the couch, not even looking up from his video game*

That’s their whole dynamic

“Okay but what gender are you attracted to?” “What is gender anyways?”

His sexuality is I don’t care, get out of my face

Wears flannel so much he could be a lesbian though

Boromir

Disaster Bisexual to the max

Makes way too many puns for his own good

Is such a dad, despite being one of the younger ones

Thinks the world of his brother

“Fuck you dad”

Lesbian activist

Often lets Merry and Pippin paint his nails, despite not being too good at it

He loves it very much

Is crushing so much on Aragorn that it hurts

The same goes for Éowyn

“Hey guys, this is my brother Faramir, he’s amazing and I think we all should appriciate him for a minute”

A friendly jock, basically

Frodo

“Hey guys Imma just go and cry for a few minutes, brb”

Really scared of water after his parents both drowned

Anxiiietyyyy

Depreeeessiooooon

Please see a theeerapiiiist

Suffered from anorexia for a while, is currently recovering

Loves writing though! That’s something!

Is really into the lore of fictional words, sometimes studies that instead of doing his homework

Also loves dancing

And hates his extended family, apart from his uncle who raised him

Often gets called Harry Potter, because everyone thinks he looks like him

Guess what he dresses up as for Halloween every damn year?

Sam

A chubby boy who’s full of love

Is really polite, calls everyone mr and ms

I mean literally everyone, even small children and animals

Sometimes cries when he sees Frodo because he’s just so perfect

Is kinda weirded out by the strange scrawny slightly insane kid that’s in love with following Frodo everywhere

People have tried to bully him, but he’s just so darn pure and kind that it’s impossible

Also he’s friends with quite a few of the jocks that will kick the bullies asses if they would try to hurt him

Has hundreds of plants and they are all his children and all of them have names

Would die for all his friends

Tells them that very often

Merry

Does not believe in haircuts

His hair is always falling into his eyes, so he’s half blind most of the time

Is really smart but has no ambition when it comes to school

Usually has no idea what’s going on either

Is a sarcastic little shit

A part of the dynamic duo that is Merry and Pippin

Is very oblivious about the fact that his best friend is madly in love with him.

Transgender

Has no problem with wearing makeup or nailpolish, because it makes him feel pretty alright!?

Just wants to chill with some food and a nap

But at the same time he wanna blow stuff up, so yeah, he’s conflicted

Pippin

Stinky boy, trash child

*Encounters a new object* *Immediately tries to eat it*

If you would try to read his mind it would just be the Wii theme

A part of the dynamic duo that is Merry and Pippin

Always has at least ten lollipops in his pocket, for some reason

Crushes on everyone

But is in love with Merry

Who has no idea because he’s an idiot

Likes wearing nailpolish, even though he’s terrible at applying it

“Okay, sounds lit, but will there be food?”

Would yeet himself of a cliff if someone asked him to

Has a habit of annoying people to death

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thereignwoman · 3 years

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Okay but time to share some wlw ships I adore cause its 2 a.m. and I can't sleep xx

I'll organize them so followers can skip to stuff they know

Cartoons/Animes:

The owl house

Lumity: obviously just an amazing ship, a healthy enemies/rivals to lovers queer romance suitable for all audiences, as well as some bi x lesbian support.

Ever after high

Darling x Apple: They 👏 Kissed 👏 2016ish. That is huge for that time, like yes, now there is Lumity and Catradora and etc., but back in 2015ish-2016ish it wasn't as expressed or shown in shows as it is now. And I just love the potential development they could have brought each other, especially Apple.

Rwby

Bmblb: literally they are the reason I am so comfortable with my own sexuality. They will always hold a special place in my heart for being the comfort I needed when I was questioning sexuality, and also they are gay af. Love them so much x

Whiterose: same as above, but they are less canon but still deserve so much love. Another rivals/enemies to lovers, but a bit more one-sided for the enemies/rivals part lol.

New Game!

Aoba x Hifumi: I just love how playful Abba can be with her, and how comfy Hifumi gets with Aoba. She is just so adorable and shy, and Abba brings out such a cute side of her.

Kakegurui

Meariri and Kirisaya: just very very gay, and I love them. Gambling lesbians for the win

I also like others, but these are the main ones that come to mind when I think about stuff xx

Games:

Danganronpa (dear lord are there a lot, so I limited it to the top 4)

Soapies/mahiyoko: borderline canon. Love the mean lesbian soft for one person vibe Hiyoko has, and her relationship with Mahiru makes her a better person and I just love to see that cause the poor thing has been put through so much.

Ikuzono: body guard x pop star au anyone??? Okay but seriously, the potential angst and hurt comfort is strong with these two and I love it! They are both totally underrated too so <3

Celesgiri: ENEMIES TO LOVERS!!!! ROMANTIC GAY TENSION!!!!! CRIME X SOLVES CRIME. 1000000/10. Also they are both just aesthetically pleasing next to each other. And also they are the mean bisexual x meaner lesbian meme/trope. Done with everyone's bs 24/7 and the two gay disasters who actually have braincells in their friend group.

Bandaid/tsumioda: for six fans, they are very similar to katanna vibes. Just genuinely an adorable pairing of loud and accepting gf x soft , shy, and kinda traumatized gf that can be very sweet as they give each other the love they both need and deserve. Also Ibuki is my highest kin and Mikan is my type, so bonus comfort for projection reasons.

Your turn to die

Naoreko: the domestic lesbians who adopted their autistic catboy son and have a lovely cottagecore family vibe i didn't ask for, but needed. Seriously though, if they weren't in the game they would have adopted Gin and Sara and possibly Joe and live as Cottagecore wives being supportive moms, and I love that. Also they are such a tattoo artist x flower shop owner vibe and I love that so much.

Genshin impact

Jeanlisa: oblivious x flirt who has eyes only for them. Everyone knows they are dating... but Jean.

Doki doki literature club

Sayonika: gay cottagecore vibes and very sweet gfs. Mental health rep woooo! Both deserve the world.

Natsuri: enemies to lovers, huh, who would have thought that I would of liked this trope? /lh /s

Musical theater:

Six

Katanna: literally the only thing I still have no issues with from the six fandom, these two I still adore and am proud to support as Kat and Anna both deserve the world.

BMC

Pinkberry: angry and bitchy character x literal ray of sunshine. They feel like the most likely to fit a coffee shop au on this list so xx

WATT

Kateva: Eva and Kate both are just interesting characters from a psychological and writing standpoint, so I love to think about how their relationship works out, especially since they are canon.

Live action:

Supergirl

Agentreign: haven't talked about them in a while, but I still love them. Bring sam back 2021.

Supercorp: seriously they need to be canon /srs. Otherwise, ima flip a table.

I would add more but now its almost 3 a.m. so xx

#stars turn to storms #reign for days #a love for reign and thunder #im not tagging the fandoms because this is a personal post #but yeah #stan the wooloowoos #wlw ships supremacy yeeeee

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gay-otlc · 3 years

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Hey everyone! I’m still on my mini-hiatus, but I’ve decided to return and post a Sophiana oneshot I wrote for Sophiana week. It’s for day five, superheroes.

Title: Starlight and Superheroes

Word count: 3506

Summary: Flicker- or as she's more commonly known, Biana Vacker- is one of Eternalia City's best superheroes. And, being Jewish, she's one of the only heroes available on Christmas. So, when a new villain named Moonlark, member of the rebel group the Black Swan, is found illegally trying to bottle an unmapped star, Biana is the one who has to stop her. But when she arrives, some questions arise. Is the Black Swan really evil? Is Eternalia really good? And, the most pressing: Is she falling for a villain?

Read on ao3.

"Who am I going to be fighting this time?" Biana sighed, slumping over against the wall. After fighting White Fire and Change Embracer, two of Eternalia City's most feared supervillains, she was exhausted. Unfortunately, superheros apparently had off for Christmas, and since she and Fitz were the only Jewish members of their team, they were stuck working extra. While most villains also took Christmas off, some took advantage of the shortage of superheros, and evidently there was yet another person Biana had to protect civilians from.

At this point, she kind of wanted to just grab a menorah and hit them in the face with it.

Fitz was still busy fighting the villains Wraith and Blur, so it was up to Biana to stop this new person.

Would it really be the worst thing to let them win? At least then she would be able to take a nap. A nap... in her soft, warm, inviting bed... That's enough, Biana. Focus.

"Her name is Moonlark," Bronte answered, glaring at her like it would be really nice if she would stop asking questions. Hey, it's not like I want to be here either. "She's relatively new, so we don't know much about her, but we do know that she's working with the Black Swan instead of the Neverseen. Her powers are Telepathy, Teleportation, and Inflicting. There might be more we don't know about."

"She has three powers?"

"Or more. Moonlark is attempting to locate and bottle Elementine, which, as you know, is a very dangerous substance. We don't yet know what she's planning to do with it, but it can't be good. Stop her before we can find out."

She nodded and rubbed exhaustion from her eyes. "Once I do that, can I go home and eat my Chinese food?"

"Beat her and then we'll see, Flicker."

"Fine." Without another word, she vanished and walked out the door. Halfway through the hallway, she realized she'd forgotten to ask where she was going to go. Biana groaned and ran back, becoming visible again. "Where am I going again?"

Rolling his eyes, Bronte answered "Siren Rock."

Good. That wasn't too far from here. She nodded again and stayed visible as she walked, wanting to conserve energy for the fight. Biana didn't know much about Moonlark or how difficult she would be, but considering the new villain had at least three powers, it couldn't be easy. Once she approached Siren Rock, she vanished so the villain wouldn't see her coming, trying to make her footsteps as silent as possible.

Even when she was close enough that she could have touched Moonlark if she wanted, Moonlark didn't seem to notice. The villain had her face pressed into the stellarscope, and remained oblivious to everything around her. Biana's gaze followed where the stellarscope was pointing. She didn't recognize the star it seemed to lead to, but that didn't matter- Bronte said she was trying to bottle Elementine, and she had no need to doubt him. Since bottling light from Elementine was extremely dangerous, as well as quite illegal, she didn't really need to know anything else either.

Moonlark hadn't worn anything to hide her face, Biana noticed with a bit of confusion. Maybe she hadn't expected for anyone to find her, which seemed rather arrogant. Still, Moonlark was kind of pretty, Biana supposed. Pretty enough that Biana's disaster lesbian ass kept staring. She had long, golden blonde hair and wore red, which was definitely her color. And her rosebud lips were pulled into a slight smile, one that Biana couldn't quite look away from.

Holy shit, she must have been really tired if she was busy thinking about a villain's lips.

Snapping out of her daze, she reached out and yanked the stellarscope away from Moonlark. Moonlark yelped in surprise and pulled the stellarscope back towards her, muttering something like What the hell, there's no one even standing there?

Biana knew Moonlark couldn't see, but she smiled. Perks of being invisible. She tugged on the stellarscope again, striking the villain's face with her elbow as she did so. Moonlark let go instantly to clutch at her cheek, which had a red mark on it.

"Hey, give that back!" she yelled, wildly kicking out to where she must have thought Biana stood. She missed the first few tries, but eventually, she managed to kick into Biana's side.

Biana grunted, flickering into sight from the surprise. "I don't think I will." She took a shuddering breath and stuffed the stellarscope into her pocket.

Moonlark's eyes widened for a moment, taking in Biana's appearance. A blush rose to her cheeks. A second later, though, her expression returned to a scowl and it was like nothing ever happened. "I was kind of doing something with that, if you hadn't noticed."

"As a matter of fact," Biana said, reaching out to grab Moonlark's arm. She held onto it for balance as she swung a roundhouse kick to the side of Moonlark's head. Moonlark blocked it with her other arm. "I had noticed, and that's why I was trying to stop you."

"I wasn't doing anything wrong!" Moonlark insisted, her voice rising to a yelp on the last word as Biana gave up on kicking her head and kicked her shin instead.

With the leg that had just kicked out, Biana stepped past Moonlark so their hips were now pressed together. As she straightened her leg and pushed on Sophie's shoulder, sending her spiraling down, she said "You were bottling Elementine, a star that's both dangerous and illegal. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that does kind of sound like you might have been doing something wrong."

"Ow," Moonlark groaned as she hit the ground. "Okay, I know it doesn't look great, but maybe you could give me the chance to explain?"

Biana knelt down, her knee on top of Moonlark's chest and her hands pinning Moonlark's shoulders to the ground. She tugged at the Black Swan symbol on Moonlark's outfit. Yeah, red is definitely her color, her mind said, the thought unbidden. She pushed the thought away, cheeks heating up. "You're working with the Black Swan, a rebel group that's been working against Eternalia City for years. So, no."

Moonlark reached into her pocket and brought out an imparter. Before Biana could grab it, the villain yelled "Swan song!"

"What is it, Sophie?" a voice replied instantly.

Sophie. That was her name. A rather normal name, humanizing the villain. Making her less of a villain, and more of... a girl.

What the fuck, Flicker? Please get some sleep and stop being attracted to the villains you're fighting.

"Dex," Sophie grunted. "Some damn idiot-"

"I have a name," Biana said.

"Fine. What is your name?"

Though she planned to reply with Flicker, "Biana," came out instead.

"Alright. Some damn idiot named Biana-" Biana grabbed the imparter back from Sophie and hung up. It was possible that Dex knew where Sophie was anyway, but since she'd never mentioned a location or anything other than Biana's name and the fact that she was some damn idiot, the risk was relatively low.

"Now that that's settled-"

Sophie, apparently, had plans other than conversation. She squeezed her eyes shut and a sort of pinkish light came out of Sophie's forehead. Biana had just a second to think What the fuck? before pain encompassed her. Unable to do anything else, she screamed, wishing for it to stop. Needing to stop. It hurt, it hurt so fucking much, why wouldn't it just stop? Distantly, she became aware of her losing her hold on pinning Sophie, and felt herself get pinned on the cold grass instead, but the only thing she could really focus on was the pain. It hurt, it hurt so badly... please, make it stop.

And then, somehow, miraculously, it did stop. A vague sense of coherency returned to Biana's mind, making her realize Huh, so that's what getting inflicted on feels like. It wasn't pleasant. She then noticed that the stellarscope was no longer in her possession, and Moonlark was standing back upright, twisting knobs to bottle Elementine once again.

Shit.

She vanished before lunging at Sophie, tackling her to the ground. Biana still just really wanted to go home, and she wasn't going to waste time with elegant fighting skills. Her momentum and the element of surprise was enough to get Moonlark beneath her once again. She lightly pressed her elbow to Sophie's throat, and leaned in close. Close enough to make her cheeks heat up. Dammit, Flicker, get yourself together. "What were you bottling Elementine for?" she demanded.

"Biana," Sophie groaned. "How about you stop pinning me, and I won't inflict on you, and we can have a civilized conversation like fucking normal people."

She considered it briefly. The knowledge that she would have to move so that Sophie's warm breath wasn't close enough to tickle her cheeks factored in her decision far more than she would have liked, but eventually, she nodded. "I keep the stellarscope, though."

"Fair enough. Can you get off now?"

Biana nodded and stood, walking a few steps away from Sophie. How far was inflicting range? She had no idea, so she would just have to trust that Sophie would hold her end of the deal and not inflict. Though trusting a villain was kind of a terrible idea, she wasn't too worried. "What were you bottling Elementine for?" she repeated.

"I was trying to get Quintessence."

"That's not helpful. What do you need Quintessence for?"

"Frissyn."

"What the hell is Frissyn?"

"Answer one of my questions first."

Biana rolled her eyes. "Fine. What do you want to know?"

"Maybe what the fuck you're doing here, and why you attacked me."

After rolling her eyes again, Biana answered "I'm Flicker, one of Eternalia's superheroes. I was sent to stop you from bottling the again, dangerous and illegal Quintessence. And because you're a member of the Black Swan, which is, again, one of the city's enemies."

"Working on Christmas?"

"I'm Jewish."

Sophie nodded. "Neat. Um... happy Hanukkah?"

"Ended a few days ago, but thanks." Biana cleared her throat, tearing her gaze away from Sophie's gold-flecked brown eyes. Really pretty eyes. She's still a villain. "So, back to my question. What's Frissyn?"

"It's some sort of alchemy substance... I have no idea how to make it, but the point is, it extinguishes Everblaze."

"And why do you need Frissyn?"

Moonlark shook her head. "My turn. Why do you want to be a superhero? For Eternalia City?"

The question gave Biana some pause. No one had ever asked her that before, not even when she applied for the job. With her mom and brother as superheros, and her father used to be one before her parents divorced, no one even questioned it at all. They just assumed she wanted the job and gave it to her. After a long silence, she answered "Because it was expected of me, I guess. I'm told it's what I've been working for my entire life."

"You're told?"

"Nope, it's my turn." Despite herself, a smile came to Biana's face. She forced it down, but it returned when she saw Sophie smiling as well. "Why do you need Frissyn?"

"The Neverseen, particularly White Fire, keep setting our hideouts on fire. It's rather annoying, and we'd like them to stop. Alright, what do you mean you're told it's what you've been working for your entire life?"

Biana sighed and lay backwards on the grass. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Sophie lie down next to her. The stars above them looked really nice, and if things were different, she could almost imagine this was a date.

Okay, fine. It didn't really seem possible to deny anymore. Biana wasn't just tired. She was incredibly, incredibly stupid, and now she was falling for a fucking supervillain.

Deal with that later, Flicker. For now, just work on stopping her from...

From extinguishing a fire burning her home.

Well, when I say it like that...

Just shut the fuck up, inner voices. You can handle this crisis once we're done talking to Sophie... so we have all the facts.

"Exactly what it sounds like," Biana finally said, pushing the internal monologue aside. "Growing up, I was told that I had to be a superhero, and that it was all I should want. All I would want. After all, I'm a Vacker. And who wouldn't want to be a superhero? I... I do want to be a superhero. And, you know, do the right thing. Save people. Fight the bad guys. As ridiculous as it sounds, this is what I want."

"Are you sure?"

"Hey, it's my turn. Why do you want to be a villain? For the Black Swan?"

"I didn't want to be a villain, specifically. It wasn't like I woke up one day and went Ah yes, I would like to be evil. The Black Swan isn't really even evil. The Neverseen is, for sure, which is why I turned down the offer when they tried to recruit me. But, I mean... the oath to join the Black Swan is 'I will do everything in my power to help my world.' Which doesn't sound particularly evil to me. And that's why I joined, you know? Because I wanted to help my world. I also wanted to do the right thing."

"Is it the right thing, though?"

"We're really bad at this taking turns thing, aren't we?" Sophie pointed out, and Biana let out a breathless laugh.

"Yeah. We are. Sorry, go ahead."

"Are you sure this is what you want?"

Biana groaned, tangling her fingers in her hair and pressing her knuckles into her eyes. Say yes, everything in her seemed to scream. Yes. Yes. This is what you want. This is what you want, what you should want, and what you've always wanted. Yes, this is what you want.

...isn't it?

"I don't know," she blurted, tears springing to her eyes. The words surprised even her. "I don't know," she repeated. "I don't know, I don't know if this is what I want anymore. It's what I've wanted for as long as I can remember, since I was old enough to really want anything at all, and I've always been so sure that Eternalia was right and the Black Swan and Neverseen were wrong, so of course being a superhero was the right thing to do, but now I don't know anymore, I don't know. Because I was always told that the Black Swan was bad and they wanted to hurt people and they were all evil, but you don't seem evil at all, you're actually really great but that's a whole other crisis, and if I was wrong about whether the Black Swan was good, then how the hell do I know Eternalia is good? I want to do the right thing, I do, but know I don't know what the right thing is anymore, and I think I might have been doing the wrong thing for years, and I just-"

"Hey," Sophie said, her voice laced with concern. "It's okay. You're not a bad person, and it's not like Eternalia is evil or anything. It just has flaws, and that's what the Black Swan is trying to fix. It's okay, I promise."

Biana sniffed and wiped her eyes. She could feel Sophie's fingers laced in her. It wasn't clear when that happened, but she liked it. A lot. "Okay," she said, her voice shaky. She cleared her throat. "What kind of flaws are the Black Swan trying to fix?"

"Well... the way they treat anyone Talentless is one thing, you know? Like they're worthless or whatever? I mean, my friend's dad is Talentless, and his brother Lex, and both of them are really good at alchemy and, well, pulling pranks on everyone. And they made Pyrokinesis illegal, which makes sense for people like White Fire, but it really isn't fair to my friend Marella. Oh, and the idea that twins and triplets are weaker or something? Because my friends Tam and Linh are twins, and both of them are insanely powerful. And then the triplets are, again, great at pranks and alchemy. And, of course, the Matchmaking system is stupid and based entirely on abilities, and it's unfair to people who aren't matched with each other. And, well... the system doesn't like queer people. Like me. I'm omnisexual."

Biana's breath caught, but Sophie didn't seem to notice.

"So yeah, you might not really have to deal with this sort of stuff, but it's really unfair, and I want to fix it. And maybe the Black Swan's way of doing that is slightly illegal, but... I still think it's the right thing to do."

"Do you really think I'm straight?" Biana asked quietly.

"What? Um... yeah?"

"Sophie, I've been a lesbian disaster this entire time. Did you really not notice?"

Sophie smiled sheepishly. "I'm told I'm kind of oblivious."

"Yeah, I noticed," Biana laughed. She rolled over so she was staring at Sophie instead of at the sky. Their noses were nearly touching. "Do you want to finish bottling the Quintessence?" she asked. "So you can put out the Everblaze?"

A look of confusion came over Sophie, but she nodded quickly. "Yeah. Yeah, that sounds great. You're really...?"

Biana couldn't escape the nagging feeling that she would regret this later. "I guess I am. You've convinced me that the Black Swan is good. And that Eternalia isn't perfect. I mean... I knew it was kind of homophobic, but I just kind of kept quiet about me being lesbian and hoped for the best. But... yeah. I'm done doing that. I'm done pretending. Yeah, I'm helping you."

Before Biana could even register what was happening, Sophie's rosebud lips pressed against her cheek. Despite the frigid air, Biana's cheeks flamed. "What was that?"

Sophie blushed. "I don't know. Just... I'm happy for you. And I'm really glad you don't hate me anymore."

"Yeah, me too. Sorry about trying to beat you up earlier, by the way."

"Right. Same."

Biana smiled. "Now that that's out of the way... ready to bottle some completely illegal stars?"

"Thought you'd never ask," Sophie grinned. "Would you mind helping? It's easier with two people..."

"Yeah," said Biana, remembering when she used to bottle stars for her Universe class. It seemed like a long time ago, but she distinctly remembered that if two people used the stellarscope together- with one person holding it and the other twisting the knobs- they would have to stand quite close together. Pressed against one another. Pressed against Sophie. She blushed, and her voice sounded slightly strained when she said "Sure."

Sophie's grin widened. "Thanks. I'll look for the star if you hold it?"

"Sounds good," said Biana, handing Sophie the stellarscope. Sophie held it up to her eyes while Biana stepped closer being her and wrapped her arms around to get a good grip. She was slightly shorter than Sophie, the perfect height for resting her chin on Sophie's shoulder. They were so close... for however long it took Sophie to find and bottle the star, all Biana could think of was utter gay panic. Finally, Sophie stepped away. Her absence brought Biana the ability to function and a strange sense of disappointment.

Sophie held up the bottle of starlight. "Um... I got it."

"Great." Biana looked at Sophie, unsure what to say. They stood staring at each other for a while. "I guess I'll let you get that to whoever's making the Frissyn, then."

"Yeah... I guess I should do that. Do you... do you want to come?"

Sadly, Biana shook her head. "No, I have to get eat dinner. Mom and Fitz are probably waiting on me, and it's going to be Chinese food."

"Because you're Jewish?"

"Obviously." Awkwardly, Biana shifted her weight to the other leg, and then back. "Um... if I wanted to join the Black Swan, how would I go about doing that?"

"I'm not really sure. We've never had a superhero join before. I guess I'll ask Forkle and then call you?"

"That sounds good. So... I guess this would be goodbye?"

"Probably." Sophie gave Biana a small smile. "I'll see you soon, Flicker."

Biana smiled back. "See you soon, Moonlark." She vanished and turned, beginning to walk away. After a few steps, she froze. Before really even thinking, she turned visible again and ran to Sophie, cupping her face and pressing a kiss to her lips. It might have been a stupid decision, but then Sophie kissed back, and oh holy shit, she was kissing Sophie, she was kissing Moonlark, but most of all, she was kissing Sophie.

Finally, when air became a necessity, they pulled apart. Biana immediately wanted to start kissing Sophie again, but she managed to retrain herself. Sophie's gold-flecked brown eyes were wide, pupils dilated. Her cheeks heating up, Biana smiled again and waved, blowing a kiss before leaving once again.

#sophiana #sophiana week 2021 #jewish vackers #cursing tw #violence tw #hope you enjoyed lkjsdklfjsdl #shai types things #shai's writing

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laniidae-passerine · 4 years

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Okay it’s unnecessary but I want to explain my alignment chart for Spectrum so here it goes

Gay:

- Distinguished: Sam Colt has never been caught tripping when it comes to romantic interests. He had a great long term relationship with this one guy, but they broke it off when their careers went in really different paths. Since then, he’s been happily single, although he’s dated occasionally.

- Functional: Blacker may be a mess when it comes to clothes, keeping tidy or eating doughnuts, but he’s actually pretty functional when it comes to dating. He’s completely oblivious when people like him, and you kinda have to spell it out for the poor guy, but he’s open to being in a relationship. He’s also a surprisingly good cook, so husband material right there, guys.

- Disaster: Miles Froghorn has the world’s biggest crush on his supervisor, Blacker, and everyone knows except Blacker. He has had reoccurring nightmares of accidentally calling Blacker ‘honey’ and has had to destroy notes when he realised he’s started doodling hearts in the margin while Blackers talking. The boy is a gay mess and LB is thinking of threatening to fire him unless he confesses to Blacker because she’s ‘sick of all the pining in this office, Miles.’

- Distinguished: LB has had a few girlfriends before she got together with Bradley, and is completely open about her past with him. She’s a pretty good judge of character so she’s never had a crazy ex and she was known for keeping a little bi flag on her desk when she wore colour. Ruby refuses to believe this and wants photographic proof, which she never gets, but she does receive the shock of her life when she sees LB wearing a bi flag as a cape during Spectrum’s annual pride week.

- Functional: Bradley’s had his share of bi freak outs but he’s generally good at getting himself back on track afterwards. However, he did have an embarrassing crush on Sam Colt after he was resuscitated by him, and sometimes gets teased about it. He and LB were very comfortable with each other’s bi-ness so they often liked to point out people on tv the other would find attractive.

- Disaster: Everyone thinks Hitch knows what he’s doing, but quite frankly the man is a catastrophe. He’s perfectly fine if he’s only casually into a person or not actually into them, but when he likes them he falls to pieces. Unfortunately, he also chooses people who don’t like him back. He’s also a mess in general, like when he cried for 7 hours when he found out Zuko had a girlfriend, or how he continually refuses to admit to LB that he blushed when he first saw Valerie Capaldi with dyed hair when they were 25 and she hadn’t yet committed homicide.

Lesbian

- Distinguished: Buzz is actually very smooth when she’s not wearing beige. She knocks it out the park in a blue dress and she’s known for stealing the hearts of Twinford’s wlw, although none of her colleagues know that at all. She is also unfortunately fending off a few male suitors but they’ll get the hint, one way or another.

- Functional: SJ is lowest brand of functional there is. She’s not the disaster lesbian because Ruby exists, but she’s one for dorky science based gifts to people she has crushes on, and cried because she thought that Margo Bardem was just that beautiful. She has a huge crush on a pretty single mother who visits her local grocery store, who is unbeknownst to her, Sadie Monroe.

- Disaster: Clancy cannot count on two hands and feet the amount of times Ruby talked about how she’s so gay. He’s had many conversations about Ruby’s crush on Del Lascoe and she won’t admit it, but she often watches terrible horror films because she’s into the final girl. She’s sometimes found herself minorly into guys, but it’s basically negligible and she now openly identifies as ‘most definitely’ a lesbian ever since meeting Bailey Roach. Sabina will not stop asking if she’s found a girlfriend yet, honey, you’d look so cute with Del! while Brant just casually mentions how proud he is of his lesbian daughter at work, and ignores the stares. She’s a lucky kid.

#rr #ruby redfort #sadie monroe is sj’s girlfriend & they’re in love sj helps her with making prothestics + teaches her new skills and red and jem call sj mom #sadie monroe #sam colt #hitch #blacker #miles froghorn #lb #bradley baker #buzz #sj #rr headcanons #ruby redfort hc #zuko #valerie nine lives capaldi

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honey-harper-official · 4 years

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Second Generation Renegades

Nodrian

Three daughters

Valerie, Lacey, and Eva born in that order

They all look alike but not enough that they're inseperable

Lacey was the only one actually planned and caused the most problems being born

Which is why Eva was the surprise bc they weren't expecting to have another baby but the doctor said that Nova should be okay

So here Eva is

Valerie was sorta planned. They had talked about kids and then like a month later they found out Nova was pregnant so......

They all tend to act a lot like their mom and are really blunt and straight forward. That's however the only aspect of their mom they all share

All of them have a really strong moral code though each is wildly different

Adrian and Nova aren't necessarily strict but they aren't really laid back to the point where it's dangerous. They'd let their kids go to a party depending on the circumstances but they still have curfew

All daughters are prodigies but they're waiting for Lacey's powers to show bc they know she's a prodigy bc everyone is but they start to assume that maybe things are going back to before in the sense that you have to have some form of trauma so they get way more over protective of her even though they want her to get her powers

They try really hard to be supportive of their daughters

One of them is always going to get the short end of the stick though bc they still have to work and there's always going to be an overlap of events

School work comes first

Let their kids do their own thing so they don't invade their space but still check in on them

Hate that the media swarms their daughters and they try to keep them away from it

Halloween also isn't a largely celebrated holiday bc all of their daughter's find it weird that people dress up like their parents

But when they were little Danna and Narcissa would take them out to trick or treat bc Nova just can't stomach it and Adrian has to make sure she doesn't lose it bc someone has to hand out candy to these poor children and it shouldn't be his very uncomfortable wife

Also all their daughters know how to fight and kick ass. They know it might come back and bite them later but just in case any of them wanted to be a Renegade they have the training

Valerie Georgia McLain

Her first and middle name is her grandma's name but reversed

Her birthday is September 21st year 2021 and that's the same day as her grandma's name hence why she was named after her (headcannoning Lady Indomitable's bday as that day)

Oldest

Is a great engineer and inventor like her mother

She's a genius and going to college for engineering

Born with her prodigy abilities

She can manipulate plants. Any plant to a large extent

She uses it for good and when her youngest sister was born would sneak vines into the nursery to hand her stuffed toys

Also uses vines to pick up her siblings and give them boosts to get things though mostly her youngest

Used her powers to sneak cookies all the time as a little kid

Gets along great with Eva but not so great with Lacey. She loves them both though

She wants the best for her younger sisters and can be kinda critical and judgemental bc she wants to give them constructive criticism but she lacks the constructive part a lot

Blunt like her mom

Likes to build things with her mom all the time

Would spend hours drawing with Adrian when she was little and he still has the pictures framed and hung up around the house

She's more like her mom but her dad's favorite (though Adrian would never say it or admit it)

She does everything by the book

Valerie refuses to get herself into any mess her parents did which deterred her away from anything that could even be related to Renegades

Always polite and is a sweetheart with the media

Everyone loves her

Lacey fucking loves hates her

She's the perfect child and always the example

Never causes any problems and always listens to her parents and does the right thing

Well not always but enough to the point where the few times don't really count in the book

More like Adrian but as said before she tries to be constructive but totally misses the nail each time and it comes off as more passive aggressive then anything

Lacey Jude McLain

Born April 16th 2103

There was Raven and a crow sitting on the window sill when she was born and Nova has been waiting for the haunted and freaky shit to begin since

Only sibling with a non family related name but everyone tells her how much she looks like Georgia and she HATES IT

Her favorite family member is her dog Harley and then her aunt Evie and uncle Max and then Grandpa Simon

Valerie is last and is closely tied with their youngest sister Eva

The gay sibling though she's not out yet. Everyone knows it but they won't pressure her and also don't believe stereotypes

She wears button ups and boots all the time and listens to a bunch of gay artists so what is she really hiding especially since Hugh and Simon gave her a bunch of button ups the second they realized she was gay (which was when she was born tbh)

Sorta has a secret relationship with Ellie (Tucker Silva daughter). Ellie isn't out yet and is much better at hiding that she's gay but Nova suspects that they're together but she won't say anything bc she doesn't want to embarrass them. Danna and Narcissa know that Ellie and Lacey are both lesbians and together. They knew it well before they caught them kissing and decided to help them keep it a secret

It's a secret bc Ellie and Lacey don't want to not be able to have sleepovers anymore

So smart but an absolute dumbass

Her whole family thinks she's very serious but all her friends know that she is the funniest person alive and has an absurd sense if humor

Disappointment child TM

Her parents want her to be a Renegade or go into a science career

Accept she wants to be a musician (always has wanted that) and goes to school for that (and she's incredibly talented at it too)

Her parents also don't know she has powers though she didn't know either for a while. Used her powers unconsciously for years until she realized that not everyone sees probabilities constantly and can change them

She can manipulate probability and essentially do anything she wants but uses it for small things and incredibly wisely bc for years she thought everyone could do it bc everyone told her she didn't have powers since only she would be able to know so she though there were all these unsaid rules she couldn't break

She could go into a science career bc she's good at it but she hates science

Not the best in normal school work and is an average student

Her parents try to be supportive but they don't really get the music career and she just gave up telling them about things bc they never seemed interested and she takes it as them not caring

Likes to break as many rules as possible and sneaks out a lot

Also gets high a lot and is on drugs half the time bc she stopped caring a while ago

No one ever knows about all the messes she gets into bc she's incredibly street smart and ties up any loose ends. Doesn't need her powers to do it bc she can and will kick your ass and verbally destroy you

MAJOR Middle Child Syndrome

Honestly is a big sweetheart and would love to be nice to people if she didn't have a bunch of defense mechanisms internalized and held grudges like you've never seen

She's a good mix of both her parents bc she acts a lot like Nova but looks more like Adrian and also has his big heart. She's very oblivious like both of her parents though

She's way more into art now that she's older but also now that she's older she never has the time to learn anything about art from her dad and it fuels her Middle Child Syndrome more

Is the favorite of literally every extended family member bc she's the life of the party and knows exactly how to appeal to their humor bc she's the funniest sibling but no one knows it

No filter whatsoever and she hates the media and makes it known

A sad gay disaster child tbh who needs some therapy

There's a lot to go on about her bc her emotional problems fuel her personality and vice versa so it's just a rage cycle

Eva Tala McLain

Like Valerie, her name is her grandma's name but flipped.

Born November 30th 2105 and has the same birthday as her grandma Tala hence the name. Everyone finds it weird that two out of three of the Nodrian kids have their birthday on their dead grandma's birthday

14 and an asshole bc she's a middle schooler

Can and will tell you to shut up and fuck off

Id polite with the media bc like both her sister she knows being mean to the tabloids will cause problems and she doesn't feel like hearing her parents get criticized for their parenting skills every Monday morning

Same approach as Valerie to the media

Be nice and they will leave your family alone

Opposite of Lacey's approach which is that they're not entitled to any part of her life and that they can fuck right off bc her behavior says nothing about her parents and more about how invasive and annoying the reporters are

Lacey makes her paper cranes and sneaks them in her lunch box and she acts like she hates it but she loves it

Again... Acts like a jerk but is actually a sweetheart and big baby.

She's Nova's favorite though Nova won't admit it

Eva knows this and uses it to her advantage occasionally

Has a favorite sibling weekly but it's almost always Valerie

Also very into engineering but also art

Her room has gears and electronics everywhere

And her parents are so proud of her for it

She's pretty good in school though not as good as Valerie. She's also great in sports

Her parents try to go to as many games as possible

She also has fire manipulation

And Adrian had to give himself a tattoo in order to keep her from causing damage

Now that she's older she has way better control and can even use her flames without actually causing harm to anyone or anything

She starts to use flames to just grab or hold things for her or sometimes to even move around

She's the baby of the family

100% she's a prankster.

It's always little harmless things

But she doesn't dare prank Lacey bc after she does she always gets hit back and worse though it couldn't possibly be from her bc the time and place don't make sense

Either way she leaves Lacey alone bc she knows some weird shit will happen to her and she's not risking it

She looks nearly exactly like Nova but it's her hair, eyes, and skin that are the differences. But they have the exact same nose and jawline and facial structure

Likes to go into her sister's room and take their things which is really easy bc Valerie leaves for college and Lacey is rarely around (she's off with her friends or getting high) but she always gets caught

Never stops her though

She usually listens to her parents but if she gets bored enough or really wants it she'll disregard anything they say to do it

Never works out for her and how she hasn't learned that lesson is probably bc she's watched Lacey do everything her parents said not to with no problems

She honestly doesn't mean to hurt people she just wants to have fun

But the lengths she will do for it sometimes are way too much

Queen of pushing her luck bc Valerie never pushes her luck and Lacey has pushed it to the point where luck isn't even an option anymore

#nova artino #adrian everhart #nodrian #renegades trilogy #renegades #archenemies #supernova

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melodiouswhite · 4 years

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Classic literature vine compilations - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pt. 05

(A/N: Another compilation, because there are too many single vines and incorrect quotes)

Lady Summers: How many times do I have to tell you not to wear the red dress, when we go to a party? Alma: Come on, this is my best and favourite dress! What do you have against it? Lady Summers: If you want to walk around like this in Whitechapel, fine. But we're going to a court ball! You can't dress in red! Hyde: Awww, why not? It looks so gorgeous on her! Jekyll: Only fallen women wear red. Hyde: So? She's not one and still looks like a goddess in red. Alma: Damn right! Thank you, Mr. Hyde! Also, sister dearest, did I mention that this Romanian Baron Cleranescu will be there? Lady Summers: … Lady Summers: Never mind, dress like a vile temptress. Alma: *smirks* Gladly! Hyde: *grins* This is going to be fun! Utterson, Lanyon and Jekyll: … Lanyon: I have a sense of foreboding … Utterson: Me too. Jekyll: I bet fifty Pound Sterling, that this evening will be a disaster. Hyde: *smirks* I'll take that bet!

Jekyll, after Lanyon left him: My boyfriend of 15 years broke up with me. Utterson: That's rough, buddy. Utterson on the inside: Perhaps now I have a chance …

Poole: Bradshaw, we need to hide all the wine bottles. Bradshaw: Another domestic with Dr. Lanyon? Poole: No, a full on fight. Bradshaw: On a scale from one to ten, how bad was it? Poole: An eleven. Dr. Lanyon broke up with him. Bradshaw: Oh crap. Poole: Yeah. And knowing our master, he will drink himself into a stupor for several days and nights, before burying himself in his work. Bradshaw: Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go hide the bottles.

Simon Stride: Lisa Carew, can this be you Simon Stride: What is this man that you have taken- Lisa Carew: Simon, shut up and listen here- Lisa Carew: You think you're cool, but you're mistaken.

Utterson: I'm the calmest person in the group. Hyde: Some twats hurt Lanyon. Utterson: … Utterson: Mr. Hyde, would you do me a favour? Hyde: Fine, because it's you. Utterson: Kill them all. Hyde: *smirks predatorily* Gladly.

Lady Summers: Alma, you need to come out, we're going to be late! Alma: I'm a lesbian! Lady Summers: Not what I meant, but I support you!

Some rando: *pointing at Hyde* Lol, look at that kid! He has women's hips! A prostitute: Are you suicidal? *quickly backs away* Hyde: *slowly turning around* What did you just say about me?! Hyde: *grabs the guy's ankle and flings him around like a ragdoll*

Lanyon: Who's in our bathroom? Utterson: I hired a drunk gremlin to compliment us. Hyde, to Lanyon: Are you a model? Lanyon: … Yes.

Lanyon: Why do we even need coming out day? I mean, everyone's a little gay- Jekyll, with Utterson in his arms: Well, I'm a big gay and today I'm coming out as the world's biggest gay!

Lady Summers, to the gentlemen and her siblings: Hey, everybody! Today my second cousin Wilhelm pushed me, so I'm starting a kickstarter to put him down. Lady Summers: *opens a chart* Benefits of killing him would be I would get pushed way less.

Lanyon, after breaking up with Jekyll: Gha! I still can't believe he did that! Lanyon: But then again, what did I expect. When was the last time he actually treated me like his boyfriend. Lady Summers: Precisely five months and seven days ago, when he surprisingly remembered your anniversary. Lanyon: *sighs* Why did I date him? Lady Summers: Because he dabbed it up with you. Lanyon: Why did I let that happen? Lady Summers: Because he got you both full up the knocker. And because you were wild young men in love. Lanyon: Why am I even discussing this with you right now? Lady Summers: *shrugs* Beats me.

Utterson: I think I see now how it happened. Utterson: Last evening at dinner, when the baron saw Her Ladyship give her rose to Dr. Lanyon, he was furious. He dropped a steak knife into his purse- Hyde: Big deal, I took a whole plate set! Utterson: NOT NOW, EDWARD!!!

Alma: Listen, you punk! You wanna fight with someone, you're gonna have to fight with me! But I warn you: I did time in Newgate. Some prisoner: Newgate's a men's prison. Alma: I know, it took my sister bailing me out a month later for them to find out. Hyde: … This was amazing! However did you pull that off?! Alma: I live and work in Whitechapel, it's not that different.

Jekyll: And that girl's father still wouldn't leave me alone! What is that with all these people thinking that a bachelor would be eager to get married at the age of fifty?! Hyde: Gee, I dunno. Maybe it's because you're rich and good-looking and a doctor? Or because of everyone is expected to marry? Then lead a dead boring marriage with a dead boring woman, while pretending that everything is sunshine and rainbows? Oh, and as the frosting on the cake, make a bunch of screaming, annoying brats? Jekyll: *chuckles* I don't need a wife to have all that. Hyde: *ignoring the last jab like a boss* What about the girl? Was she at least funny? Jekyll: She was cute and nice to talk to, but she was clearly not on board with her father's intention to make her marry me. Besides, she was seventeen! If I ever got around to marry (which will never happen), it would have to be someone closer to my age. Hyde: *winks* Like your lawyer? Jekyll: *blushes* That … that's illegal … Hyde: *smirks* But you would, if you could, right? Jekyll: … If he wanted me.

Jekyll: Babe, do the thing! Utterson: *genuinely smiles* Both Jekyll & Hyde: *breathless* Holy shit …

Hyde: I don't do other emotions besides anger and excitement. Utterson: *exists* Hyde: *blushes* Oh no, he's making me feel other emotions!

Jekyll, holding a human heart in his hand: Edward … what is this?! Hyde: A heart, obviously! I thought you're a doctor, you ought to know what a human heart looks like! Jekyll: I do, but why is it in my office?! Where did you get it from and-? Hyde: Well, today is Valentine's Day, right? I wanted to give you something special and since I couldn't cut my own heart out, I took the one of the guy who humiliated you last week. Jekyll: … Jekyll, trying his best to hide his disgust: Uhm … thank you, Edward. You shouldn't have … but flowers or a box of chocolates would have done it too.

Alma, on the telephone: Y'ello? Lady Summers: What did you do. Alma: Alright, but you can't be angry at me. Lady Summers: What. Did you. Do?! Alma: Well, first: I was minding my own business- Lady Summers: SCHWACHSINN!!! Alma: I waaaaas! Lady Summers: And what exactly happened, while you were "minding your own business"?! Alma: Well, I was on my nightly walk through Whitechapel, doing a class, when suddenly these scumbags blocked my path! Alma: And one of them said: "LIE ON YOUR BACK!" And I responded with: "I'm not your wife last night!" And they took exception to that. Buuut, you know how that song and dance goes. Alma: So I castrated all but one of them! Lady Summers: What happened to the last one? Alma: Pussed out like a bitch! Silver lining: They will never pass on their disgusting rapist genes!

Utterson, to Jekyll: So, Lady Summers told me that Hyde can take a corporeal for to a certain degree, when you're in control. Jekyll: Yes, but it only works in my lab. Why? Utterson: Where did you get that hickey on your neck? Jekyll: *blushes* Wh-wha-I-uh-I, uuhhhh- *Jekyll suddenly turns into Hyde* Hyde: *grins* Oh yeah. I totally did that. Utterson: *blushes* So … uhm … did you two … you know … Lanyon: Did you fuck each other? Utterson: Lanyon! Hyde: Nah, but we would, if we could! Utterson: … Lanyon: Whelp, there goes my mind- hey, are you okay, Gabriel? Utterson: *on the verge of tears* Oh my god, why, oh the pictures in my head, I'll never-

Jekyll & Hyde: *yelling at each other like a dysfunctional couple having a domestic* Utterson, Lanyon & Lady Summers: *watching* … Utterson: I'm slowly losing my will to live. Lady Summers: I'm slowly losing my mind over their idiocy. Lanyon: I already lost both. -_-

Lanyon: *singing* When I think about my worries and I think about my strife, here is what I simply say- Lanyon: AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Hyde: uwu uwu uwu uwu uwu … Jekyll, slowly losing his last shred of sanity: You know, I'm this close to killing myself just to spite you. Hyde: *falls silent immediately*

Jekyll, about Utterson: Sir, that's my emotional support lawyer. Utterson, about Jekyll: Sir, that's my emotional support mad scientist.

Lady Summers: Your most exalted Majesty, I would like you to meet my emotional support physician. *points at Lanyon* Lanyon: *blushes like no tomorrow* Queen Victoria: Awww! Congratulations, dear! He's not the most handsome fellow, but he's definitely a keeper! ^_^ Lady Summers: I know. <3

Hyde: It’s time for your daily dosis of pain! Jekyll: Oh no, please don’t! Hyde: *injects him a liquid* Jekyll: *whimpering* Ow.

Jekyll: Where were you when my entry got only four likes?! Lanyon: I was making four accounts, bro. Jekyll: Bro!

Henry, about Edwina Hyde: Sir, that's my emotional support delinquent. Edwina: Huh? *oblivious and confused as heck* Gabriel: *concern for husband and new friend intensifies*

Utterson: Do you want more tea, Edward? Hyde: Nah, thanks, I'm good. Utterson: Anything else? Hyde: Well, now that you mention it, there is one thing … Hyde: *points to a nearby bush* Could you tell Dr. Lanyon to stop stalking us?! He’s starting to annoy me! Lanyon: *pops out of the bush, armed with a rifle* Ohhh! You’d like that, wouldn’t you, Mr. Hyde?!

Lady Summers: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. And rats. Those little bastards will getcha.

Utterson: I have a problem! Lanyon: Throw the ring into the fire. Utterson: I don't have a ring! I have Hyde! Lanyon: Then throw the Hyde into the fire. Utterson: But I can't throw Hyde into the fire! Lanyon: *shrugs* Well, then you have a problem. Utterson: … Thank you.

Hyde: *looking at Sir Carew from afar* Hyde: How about I beat that old geezer to death? Lady Summers: *unsheathes her sword* How about you don't?

Hyde: My evil knows no bounds! Also Hyde: *witnesses child molestation* EW, WHAT THE FUCK, THIS IS TOO MUCH!!!

Lanyon: I'm pleasantly surprised. Hyde: Huh? Why? Lanyon: So you do have standards after all. Hyde: o_e Hyde: You're referring to my reaction to that pedo bullshit, aren't you? Lanyon: Yes. Hyde: … Hyde: Dr. Lanyon, do you realise that by suspecting me of pedophilia, you would accuse Jekyll as well? Lanyon: *thinking* Holy shit, I didn't think of that! Hyde: Think next time, before you jump to conclusions. You're lucky Jekyll holds you so dear. Lanyon: Mr. Hyde, I'm so sorry! Hyde: *frowns* Yeah, you better be.

Lanyon: Milady, I would die for you. Lady Summers: … Lady Summers: Listen, I know that this is supposed to be romantic and all, but please don't die for me. How am I supposed to live without my doctor? Lanyon: *speechless*

Hyde: Wait, how many lovers could an asexual doctor possibly have had? Two? Three? Lanyon: Well, it depends, what is your definition of a lover? Hyde: *grins* Any person you bring to a fevered pitch of uncontrollable ecstasy! Utterson: *stares at him* Lanyon: Oh! Fifty-six. Utterson and Hyde: *stare at Lanyon* Hyde: *lowers his tea cup* … Excuse me? Lanyon: I had about fifty-six lovers. Of course that was before I began to seriously date Henry. I probably would have had more, but I wasn't allowed to start dating till I was sixteen. Hyde: Fifty-six? Fifty-six?! Utterson: Oh god, stand back! He's gonna blow! Hyde: What do you mean, you had fifty-six lovers?! You told Henry you were a virgin, when you hooked up with him! Lanyon: Hey, you can have a lover without having to go all the way! Hyde: You cannot! If that were true, Hastie, that would mean you were a slut! Utterson: Oh come on, Edward, how can you say that? So the man had fifty-six lovers in one year, he's not a slut. Lanyon: Thank you, Gabriel- Utterson: He's THE slut! Lanyon and Hyde: *stare at him* Utterson: He's the grand Poobah of slutdom! He's the easiest man in this room! Hyde: Gabriel John Utterson, you take that back! Utterson: The slut is dead, long live the slut! *points at Lanyon*

#The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde #Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde #Dr. Jekyll #henry jekyll #Mr. Hyde #edward hyde #Mr Utterson #Gabriel John Utterson #utterson #dr lanyon #Hastie Lanyon #oc #vines #incorrect quotes

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xeoleo · 4 years

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this is a post about my ocs. :)

OKAY FROM THE TOP

Kai Hira

NON 👏 BINARY

this bitch is the mf leader

the most badass. THE MOST

they do not have a leg. does this stop them? absolutely the fuck NOT. they fucking made another leg. in a cave. with little resources. badassery at its finest.

knows how to make a plan

has no powers. again does this factor stop them? NOPE.

HAS THEIR SHIT TOGETHER. UNLIKE LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE.

queer

5′7

99 percent of everyone else’s impulse control

they are the parental figure

‘i leave for 10 minutes and you’ve already set fire to the kitchen’

Ivy Ignacia

trans girl

has fire shit 🔥

also lesbian

Angery. very Angery. and her pyrokinesis is emotion-based but the other way round??? like its the strongest when shes calm and the weakest when shes feeling tons of emotion so uh F

lmao shes short

yes her last name means burning in spanish oh look at you how smart you are fuck off

‘fuck you i can and will kill you motherfucker shut the fuck up’ ‘..i literally just said the salad wasn’t that good’

Daniel Brynn

A 👏 SEXUAL

A 👏 ROMANTIC

he does not know how feelings work. despises feelings to their very core.

has knives on him 25/7 (needs em for his power. actually technically he could use guns but hes too Emo for that)

tall ass motherfucker- hes like 6′6 that fucking bitch

CRAWLING IN MY SKIN

he doesnt really show much emotion apart from the odd smirk or like. nose exhalation. because again what are feelings

‘....’

Rosemary Hema

secwets.......lotsa secwets

has this memory power thing. its like mind readin but for memories. i will make another post explaining all their powers

confidential informant

also shes queer as fuck

sarcasm and lots of it

shes like. that one person in your group who you’re Positive has absolutely murdered someone but you have no proof nor will you ever get any. ever.

can breakdance

shes like. 5′9

alcoholic

‘what, my criminal record? the only crime i’ve ever committed is absolutely killing it on the dance floor! haha just kidding, i have killed a man.’

Nash Detour

bi disaster

yes none of my characters are het i am not weak

he has. like an enhance/nullify kinda power. again will make another post abt it

is confused 100 percent of the time

soft boy,,,, protect him,,,, but dont actually because he can fuck you up,,,

tbh? probably the strongest power-wise (he can literally nullify someones lungs and force them to stop breathing)

hes like the same height as rose but a Tiny bit taller. rose is not happy. nash does not notice

hates attention

oblivious to everything feeling-wise (ex. ‘someone has a crush on you’ ‘???????????PARDON??????’)

btw this whole story is called Sunrise!!! even if nobody sees this post i shall still put sunrise shit on tumblr because!! fuck it!!!

#what do i even tag this as #leo's oc ramblings #imma tag their names for future reference #nash detour #rosemary hema #daniel brynn #ivy ignacia #kai hira #leo's sunrise universe #im tagging it as that because im p sure 'sunrise' is a very common tag lmao #please ask me about sunrise i really want to ramble to someone

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lululawrence · 6 years

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If you gave me some fic recs about misunderstandings or miscommunication I’d love you forever

oh well, if i can win eternal love in exchange for a fic rec, then i obviously need to get on this! hehe i do love miscommunication and misunderstandings generally speaking, so LET’S DO THIS! in no particular order, here are some of the fics i have bookmarked that fit that description. (also, this got incredibly long cause i love this trope, so most are under the cut)

don't tell the gods (we left a mess) by @bottomlinsons / bottomlinsons - I love this one so so so very much! it’s lilo fake relationship only louis doesn’t realize HARRY HIS FORMER BOYFRIEND AND LOVE OF HIS LIFE IS THERE!!! this fic is the best ride. gah, so great.

Heading for Limbo by @fullonlarrie / FullOnLarrie - SEXUALITY CRISIS! FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS! BEDSHARING! MISCOMMUNIATION! WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM A FIC?

Life Was a Song, You Came Along by @rainbowninja / rainbowninja167 - omggggg songwriter!louis and music shop owner/secret singer!harry, both with super complicated pasts and secrets and UST is the perfect breeding ground for some excellent miscommunication and misunderstandings, no? hehehe

Moon Wrapped in Gold Paper by @wellingtontat / larrymylove - LisTEn, this fic is so pure and the PINING and the HOPING and the GUILT for those misunderstandingsssss and so much lirry friendship! gahhhhhhh it’s just incredible.

Don't Want Shelter by @fullonlarrie / FullOnLarrie - okay i’ll be honest, the miscommunication in this fic caused me to want to bash their heads together until they realized they were being stupid, BUT it really is an incredible fic cause it made me feel that way, right? haha and it defo fits your request.

Where You Lay by @ham-palpert / HamPalpert - a/b/o miscommunication of the BEST SORT!!! friends (kind of? hahaha) with benefits! heats/ruts! pining! ahhhhhhh

A Pun-derful Life by @always-aqua / AlwaysAqua - the boys are BOTH disaster gays in this fic and i loved it because of that, but i also wanted to scream at them a little bit. hahaha so anyway, both being disaster gays obviously brings ample opportunity for LOADS of misunderstandings. lolll

Our Own Little French Club by @homosociallyyours / homosociallyyours - girl direction featuring a lesbian non-date! obviously miscommunication happens. hahaha

hi hater, kiss kiss by @mediawhorefics / MediaWhore - want some tomlinshaw miscommunication? cause this one is epic and lovely and so soft while being so witty and gahhhhh the feels!!!

gonna stay 'til I can't remember my name anymore by @i-sawr-it-in-your-eyes / isawritinyoureyes - all i’m gonna say is lottie is a menace with the best heart and luckily it all turns out alright hahahahaha but first, there’s defo some miscommunication going on.

Lead Butterfly by @londonfoginacup / LadyLondonderry - this one actually isn’t tagged miscommunication, but i feel like that’s kinda what it is so...enjoy lots of hurt/comfort in the form of a pirate au hehe

Just To See That Smile by @homosociallyyours / homosociallyyours - THIS FIC IS SO SWEET! fake relationship lilo might just be the cause of the miscommunications in this fic too. gotta love the lilo!! hehe

Before I Fall Too Fast by @goodmorningtoyouuniverse / xxSterre - a valentine’s miscommunication fic! (can you tell i’m a sucker for these? i love them very much a lot.) cue the pining!

Saw It In Your Eyes by @taggiecb / taggiecb - in lacey’s own words, harry is an oblivious walnut in this fic. obviously that causes angst!

just like he already owned it by @thepriestthinksitsthedevil / thepriestthinksitsthedevil (stubliminalmessaging) - MARCEL MISCOMMUNICATION AND PINING AND FAKE RELATIONSHIPS AND WEDDINGS AND AHHHHH

An Ever-Fixed Mark by @larryandgaystuff / larryandgaystuff (cnd8544) - okay so this one was written for me and i gave the prompt, so i still KNEW what was going to happen but it STILL CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD WHEN IT DID! it is the softest of all miscommunication fics. so so so lovely. i adore it.

OmegaVision by @jaerie / jaerie - it’s a gay, a/b/o version of the truman show, so yeah. all sorts of lies and misunderstandings and fun!

We're Dancing On Tables by @allwaswell16 / allwaswell16 - uni au featuring the amazing date that never reaches out afterwards! obviously it isn’t as simple as it seems.

Number 84 by @fullonlarrie / FullOnLarrie - lauren just really excels at this miscommunication stuff, right? hahaha but for real, this was for 50 reasons and the reason WAS miscommunication. can’t leave it off the list, obviously. plus i really fucking loved this fic. hahaha

Sunrise on Your Sins by cuppalouie - crown prince louis! rent boy and BDSM expert harry! where could this possibly go wrong? hehehe

You'll Hear Me Calling for You by @pinky-heaven19 / pinky_heaven19 - a/b/o where omega louis hates alphas and alpha harry hates when people judge him based on his secondary gender. obviously misunderstandings abound hehe

Fall At My Door by @fullonlarrie / FullOnLarrie - famous louis / famous harry acquaintances with benefits. feelings aren’t a part of their arrangement, which obviously won’t cause any issues for them. heh.

Follow Your Heart by @dimpled-halo / dimpled_halo - A MANAGEMENT FORCED RELATIONSHIP OBVIOUSLY WON’T CAUSE ANY ISSUES FOR THESE TWO NOPE WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT

Yours In Fractions by @fullonlarrie / FullOnLarrie - every time i’m like, oh no...i won’t add another lauren fic, there’s enough on here already...I REMEMBER HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS ONE TOO so for the thousandth time, miscommunication a la lauren! this one features bedsharing hehehe

the lunatic, the lover and the poet by @juliusschmidt / juliusschmidt - obviously louis is interested in veronica, not harry. obviously. hahaha oh man. writing camp featuring feelings and pining and wheee!

You're like a Sponge (Abrasive and Colorful) by @londonfoginacup / LadyLondonderry - LOUIS CAN’T HELP THAT HIS FORM OF FLIRTING MAKES HARRY THINK HE HATES HIM OKAY

and that’s that! there are SO MANY MORE but my filing system is a shambles to be honest and i’m the worst at searching, so hopefully there’s some on there that you haven’t already read and you will come to love!!

#fic rec #my fic rec #it's a long one folks #hopefully y'all don't mind #i just really love it hahahaha #miscommunication #Anonymous #asks #mine

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atmilliways · 5 years

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You like AUs, right? Mash up Metalocalypse and That 70s Show, go! Mash up Metalocalypse and Friends, go! Mash up Metalocalypse and Frasier, go!

Oh jeebus, why?

… But yeah you’re right I do.

That Dethklok’s Show

You know what makes me mad is that I want to say Nathan and Charles are Eric and Donna, but Seth is unarguably Lori and that messes everything up.

Okay so Pickles = Eric, Seth = Lori, Calvert = Red but with hair, and Molly = Kitty except Seth is her favorite child too.

Skwisgaar = Kelso because he’s tall, pretty, and horny. Also, in this AU, he is drowning in brothers because Servetta can’t keep it in her panties.

Toki = Fez because he’s foreign, happy most of the time, sings and dances for the simple joy of it, and his room is decked out with toys and fun stuff.

Murderface = Hyde because of the righteous fa-RO baby, and also because he DOESN’T HAVE ANY PARENTS. He moves in with Pickles’ family and lives in the basement. (Pickles was hoping this would give Molly and Calvert another Target to rag on and give him a break. It didn’t work.)

Unlike Hyde, Murderface is not cool and doesn’t get any eventual Hyde/Jackie storyline. Instead, his relationship history goes more like Fez’s. Without the weird forced Fez/Jackie stuff at the end of the series, which really went downhill has soon as Donna dyed her hair blonde.

Charles = Buddy, the random rich kid who is canonically gay, only he’s a regular part of the group instead of a one-episode throwaway character.

I’m cool with Pickles/Charles, and that fits with Buddy coming on to Eric in the show. But I would eventually break them up and put Charles with…

Nathan = no one on the show, but he’s got a lot of Hyde’s qualities in terms of stoic, bad boy vibes. However, like Kelso, he is an Adorable Dumb (see “that’s doable” hat).

Rebecca Nightrod = Jackie, but she’s not a necessarily a regular character. Murderface fawns/lusts over her like Fez, even though she’s a bitch. Nathan hates her, even though he does date her briefly in a relationship that she holds onto tenaciously until, in an act of desperation that absolutely horrifies Pickles, he cheats on her with Seth.

Abigail = Donna, because she’s smart and has good hair. (Zero bleach kits in sight.)

Rockso = Bob, because he’s a cue ball on top and makes liberal use of crazy wigs. Bargain Rockso’s is that store that’s always open on holidays — just in case you’re driving home Christmas night, realize you forgot to get a gift, and rush in to buy a fridge to solve the gift problem and/or some cocaine to forget there was ever a problem in the first place.

Magnus = Leo. He gives Murderface a job at his hilariously unprofitable Photo Hut business, declines to sell his real cool car to Skwisgaar on principal, and generally supplies the gang with all their weed and assorted drugs.

Dory McLean = Midge. She’s young, dumb, has big boobs, and Abigail is exasperated as hell that she doesn’t understand feminism in the slightest.

Knubbler = Mitch, the weird kid who hangs around and is sometimes kinda entertaining but keeps hitting on Abigail, which annoys her. However, he’s also stupid and accidentally self-sabotages (see setting his sleeve on fire while trying to flirt), so she doesn’t really waste energy on slapping him back down.

Pickles “burning down the shed” = Eric telling Red “I do it too” when Hyde gets busted for possession. Either way Abigail (Donna) is standing in the background going, “For the love of god, DON’T.”

Trindle = Cousin Penny, only instead of prankish Pickles (Eric) she targets Nathan, who during her last visit when they were much younger helped Pickles trap her in a revolving door. Abigail is completely secure in her looks compared to Trindle and actually talks Rebecca out of a potentially disastrous sunlamp tan.

Nathan and Abigail go out for like, a second, while Nathan and Charles are I one of their off-again fazes.

Endgame parings are Nathan/Charles, Abigail/Rebecca, and Skwisgaar/Toki.

B.A.N.D.M.A.T.E.S

Nathan = Ross. Can you picture Nathan doing the *long sigh, ex wife is a lesbian blues* “Hi” thing? Because I can.

Abigail = Carol. They got together but it just didn’t work out in the long run.

Rebecca Nightrod = Susan. Tbh, I think the reason she keeps popping up is because of how @little-murmaider portrayed her in Stay Alive. She and Nathan get along like a house on fire, in that it’s a disaster and Abigail keeps having to turn the hose on them to stop the bickering.

Toki = Monica, although his chef skills are mostly confined to providing fruit and burning plastic. He’s still got the overshadowed younger sibling thing going on though.

Molly = Judy Geller. Dotes on Nathan.

Oscar = Jack Geller. Is amiably odd.

Charles = Rachel. Except not as ditzy. But he does break an engagement off at the altar and moves in with Toki, an old acquaintance he hasn’t seen since high school and one of the few people he, ah, did not invite to the wedding. For the record, he was hoping that wouldn’t come up.

Skwisgaar = Joey. Except when they all go to London, Toki (Monica) does hook up with him, gradually teaches him how to relationship, and eventually they get married.

Murderface = Chandler. He hates his data processing job and keeps threatening to leave it to work on his side project, Planet Piss, but never actually does because the money is really good. When he goes back to the pet store to return the baby chick Skwisgaar impulse bought, he instead adopts an ugly-ass duck that no one wants because it’s original owners thought it was just an ugly duckling that would grow up into a swan. He feels that he can empathize with it, and names it Dick van Duck.

Knubbler = Dick van Duck. Listens patiently to all of Murderface’s Planet Piss ideas.

Pickles = Phoebe. He doesn’t even know who his dad is, and is proud that he doesn’t. (I’m not going to lie, Phoebe’s family situation definitely fits more with Murderface, but Phoebe’s dating track record is too good.) Remember the one where Pickles broke up with someone he’d just moved in with because the person shot a bottle of liquor?

Seth = Ursula. 100% Ursula. Seth is a “career driven” waiter and also a part time porn star on the side, using Pickles’ name.

Fraiser

I don’t watch this one as much, so this one won’t be as detailed probably.

Skwisgaar = Frasier. Idk, because he goes on dates with a different woman at least every episode. Also, he’s a jackass, but good at what he does and there are some redeeming glimmers of not being a complete asshole that make his presence worthwhile.

Nathan = Niles. Minus most of the neuroses. Instead of successful musicians, he and Skwisgaar are both successful psychiatrists, although Skwisgaar usually gets the bulk of the public’s, ahem, attention.

Daphne = Charles. He’s oblivious to Nathan’s crush on him for ages, but when he realizes it’s there and thinks about how sweet Nathan’s always been to him, he falls hard.

Rebecca Nightrod = Maris. She and Nathan have a rocky marriage, and eventually a rockier divorce in which she accuses Nathan of being emotionally unfaithful because of Charles.

Abigail = The brilliant divorce lawyer that handles Nathan’s case, and briefly dates Charles. They seem like such a good fit on paper that they’re actually engaged for a bit, but they break it off amiably right before getting to the altar, and Nathan and Charles ride off into the sunset in an RV with “road warrior” vanity plates.

Toki = Roz. (I know, technically Roz’s promiscuousness would be more Skwisgaar, but Skwisgaar’s superiority complex fits better with Frasier.) Although competent and successful in his own right, he is not the on air talent. Unlike in Frasier, when Toki and Skwisgaar sleep together they actually become a couple instead of backing off and remaining good friends.

Rockso = That garbage man that Roz was head over heals with for a while… Rodger?He belongs in a garbage can. Anyway, after breaking up with Toki over the latter’s inability to get over his massive cocaine use, Toki goes to Skwisgaar for comfort, which leads to drinking which leads to sex. Toki flees the next morning and flies to Norway for the annual family reunion, only he hadn’t told anyone he’s broken up with Rockso. Skwisgaar, desperate to Talk Things Out and hopefully even Do That Again, follows and (cringingly, but of his own volition) answers to/pretends to be Rockso to help Toki save face in front of his critical family.

Murderface = Bulldog. He and Toki briefly have a thing, and he’s actually kind of sweet when you get right down to it, but things don’t work out. Masturbation photos are involved — don’t ask. Also, at one point Skwisgaar accidentally repeats a rumor that Murderface is going to get fired where Murderface can hear it, so

Murderface goes and yells at the station manager (then Knubbler) and quits. Then he’s unemployed for a while, and scrapes by delivering pizzas. I forget how that situation resolved itself in the show but it does.

Knubbler = Kenny the station manager. Weak willed. Weak chinned. Ineffectual. Good track record in his career, but mostly he’s just there.

Abigail = That domineering and extremely competent lady station manager that’s there for a while… Kate? Has a cat. But she does NOT get it on with Skwisgaar (Frasier) on his desk and accidentally bump the On Air button partway through. She has a very strict policy of not getting involved with anyone she works with, although naturally everyone tries.

That’s all I got.

Magnus = Martin. Because he’s a cranky old man. He and Nathan don’t get along and he resents having to live with Skwisgaar, but they all gamely trade barbed insults and leave it at that. Magnus is a retired cop who still works on old cold cases as a hobby, having vowed revenge on uncaptured murderers everywhere. He and Charles (Daphne) get along pretty well, and there is no stabbing of any kind.

Metal Masked Assassin = Cam Winston. At one point he blocks Skwisgaar and Toki in Skwisgaar’s SUV into a parking space with his own SUV, and only relents and backs out when Charles comes and calmly threatens him, because “that’s my bread and butter you’re blocking in.”

There, are you happy now?? I spent a ridiculous amount of time on this, asdf;lkj lol.

#metalocalypse #metalocalypse au #jean rambles

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werewolfdays · 5 years

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OC questions meme

so I decided to roll some dice to get random numbers and take some questions from a few oc questions posts because why not. also sorry. some of the answers got kinda long... (answered for Jayde and Nadya)

-In a dungeons and dragons game, which class would your character be?

Nadya would be a ranger. Jayde would probably be a fighter or a rogue.

-Does your character like coffee better, or tea?

For both of them it depends on their mood. I’d say Nadya leans more towards tea and Jayde leans more towards coffee.

-Is your character ticklish?

Nadya is more ticklish than Jayde is. She has a particular spot on her side that’s the most ticklish and Jayde loves to poke her there sometimes. The most ticklish spot on Jayde are the bottoms of her feet, otherwise you have to catch her in the right unguarded mood (which Nadya tries on occasion)

-Has your character ever struck someone in anger?

Jayde? Yes, all the fucking time. Nadya? I’d say she’s capable of it, but someone would really really have to piss her off on a bad day.

-Is your character and optimist or a pessimist?

Nadya is usually an optimist or at the very least she tries to be. With the life that Jayde’s lived she’s prone to pessimism, but Nadya’s optimism occasionally rubs off on her.

-Who steals the covers the most?

No question, its Nadya. Jayde doesn’t mind though cause she rarely gets cold and if Nadya is comfortable then she’s happy.

-Is your character more likely to remove a problem/threat, or remove themselves from a problem/threat?

I don’t think I have to say Jayde is the kind of person to remove a problem/threat rather than herself. Getting rid of problems and threats is kinda what she’s good at. For Nadya she would rather not get violent or forceful if she doesn’t have to. Removing herself from a bad situation is the most peaceful way to end things in her eyes.

-If something tragic or negative happens to your character, do they believe they may have caused or deserved it, or are they quick to blame others?

Jayde has some survivors guilt and is so hard on herself sometimes. If something bad happens she’s the easiest person for her to blame. Nadya is kind of the same way. With how she grew up, she struggles a lot with believing in herself so there’s always that “I could’ve done something more/better” voice in her head.

-How does either member of your otp know they want to have sex/make love?

Being a werewolf makes it pretty easy for Jayde to tell when Nadya is in the mood because she can always sense it. For Nadya it usually isn’t too hard for her to tell. Jayde is always pretty touchy, but when she’s in the mood Jayde gets even more touchy and flashes the “Do me” eyes. Jayde is really good at eye-fucking.

-What is/was your character’s relationship with their father like?

Jayde was very close to her parents, her father in particular. He was a very musical person and taught Jayde how to play some instruments and sing (the piano is her favorite). Jayde was very open with her father and talked with him about pretty much everything. Nadya’s relationship with her parents is a little complicated. When she was really young it was good. She went on camping trips with just her and them and had some fun fishing with her dad. As she grew older and grew into herself and realized she was a lesbian, she grew distant from them and lost whatever connection she had. She talks with her father every now and then but it never really gets past small talk.

-Who gets jealous the most?

I’d say Jayde gets jealous the most. Nadya can be a people person and likes talking to everyone and is SUPER nice so sometimes they’ll take that the wrong way and start flirting with her and she can be kinda oblivious to that, but Jayde isn’t. Jayde always notices when someone is flirting with Nadya and she’s super protective so sometimes she has to do the “deep breaths, count backwards from 10…” but Jayde rarely acts out on her jealousy because she doesn’t want to be like one of those possessive douchebags. If the person is being pushy/aggressive towards Nadya then she’ll definitely step in, but if they’re harmless then she’ll just like stare daggers at them and hover a little closer to Nadya.

-Who is more likely to want to have sex in public? Who is afraid of getting caught?

Jayde is pretty okay with some PDA and she certainly isn’t modest, but when it comes to intimate things she prefers to keep that private. It’s not because she’s ashamed or embarrassed, she just thinks of it as its no ones business besides hers and Nadya’s so if they were to get caught in public it would really annoy her. That being said, it isn’t something that’s completely off the table for her. Nadya wouldn’t always want it, but she would occasionally be into the thrill of having sex in a public place. Of course if they were to get caught she would be mortified. Still, doesn’t hurt to live on the edge every once in a while.

-What do they find the most sexy about the other?

Oh man this is a hard question cause they are so into each other it’s like asking them what their favorite candy is when they’re standing in a candy store, how do you choose just one? Also idk if this is asking for physical traits or emotional ones so I’ll do one of each? For Jayde, she really loves how dedicated Nadya can be. If Nadya starts a thing, she will stick with it, give it her all and finish it. And also Jayde finds her really fucking hot when she’s wearing glasses. For Nadya, she really admires just how much Jayde can love people. When Jayde tells someone she loves them, it’s pretty much for forever. With Nadya. With her family and her packmates. Jayde has a huge heart and she doesn’t even know it (A big heart is sexy!! -Nadya). And Nadya loves the abs, the arms, them muscles. Jayde doing pull-ups in a sports bra = Nadya found dead in Miami

-What was the biggest hurdle in their relationship?

This is a BIG question. To summarize: Nadya has a brother, Ruben, who is… not a great person. He abused her growing up and as soon as Nadya tells Jayde this it pretty much signs his death warrant. Even though Nadya is afraid of him more than anything and has nothing but negative feelings towards him, she tells Jayde not to kill him. In fact, she begs her not to kill him. And Jayde just doesn’t understand that and has to try really hard not to be angry with her because she knows that there’s something deeper to her reasoning and the fact that Nadya seemingly can’t come up with a good one.

Eventually some things happen and Jayde does end up killing him. In front of Nadya. Even though Jayde was just itching for an excuse to end Ruben, he didn’t give her much of a choice. Still, it’s a traumatizing event for Nadya and she has a lot of conflicted feelings towards herself and Jayde after. The world will be a better place without Ruben and she can’t deny the relief she feels knowing that he’s gone, but in her mind it was still her brother. Nadya grew up with him. He’s been there for her entire life. All she sees when she looks at Jayde is the image of her killing her brother. Nadya knows that isn’t fair and she hates herself for it and yet she can’t stop feeling that way.

Nadya decides that she needs some time away from Jayde. Jayde is incredibly hurt and frustrated with herself because she doesn’t regret what she did, it needed to be done, but it was something that Nadya asked her not to do and she hates that it happened right in front of her. So, Jayde lets her go. And even though Nadya phrased it as “taking a break” and not a break up, Jayde thinks that this is it for them. That she finally did something that shattered their relationship beyond repair. And it was because of something that Jayde just doesn’t see as wrong.

But after a few weeks Nadya misses Jayde way too much and feels terrible for leaving her so she goes back. The time away did help them. It didn’t completely fix the situation, but they both realize that they want and need each other to forgive, heal and move forward.

-What is the most beautiful thing they’ve ever seen?

Jayde: besides Nadya? Well it’s really hard to compete with her in Jayde’s eyes (sappy disaster bi) but as far as like scenery or something it would probably be the full moon when she turned for the first time. Her parents took her out deep into the wilderness. They hiked for days because there should be nothing to separate you from nature for your first turn. It was a cloudless night and the moon hung above her, full and enormous. Since they were miles and miles from civilization there were billions of visible stars too, more than Jayde has ever seen. It was a sight and a trip that she would never forget.

Nadya: On the last camping trip she went on with her parents, before she left for college, there was a meteor shower. It was the first one she’s ever seen and Nadya loves the stars so it was just amazing to see. Whenever one is happening she tries to go out to see it and take pictures.

#ocs #oc questions #original characters #oc meme #my ocs #listen sometimes a bitch is bored and her ask box has cobwebs in it #gotta find the fun #also woof some of them got kinda deep huh #and long #god bless the keep reading line or some people would hate me lmao #Jayde #Nadya

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Ghosts of the Shadow Market — Every Exquisite Thing

Today, we’re still hanging out with the gang from an unreleased book trilogy. And to be fair, we’re in much less angering territory than the previous story. So there’s that—we’re back to “mostly okay, but also, why isn’t this just fanfiction rather than a published work you’re expecting people to pay you money for?” So, you’ve been warned, this is mostly lacking in any kind of proper fire.

It’s also lacking in any kind of meaningful presence by one Jem Carstairs, which may be an interesting correlation. Then again, I didn’t hate Cast Long Shadows for Jem’s part in it, so…who knows, really.

Every Exquisite Thing focuses on Anna Lightwood. If you’ve been following, Anna is Gabriel Lightwood and Cecily Herondale’s oldest daughter. She’s also Christopher’s older sister, and as such, the modern-day Lightwoods' great-great-something-aunt.

Anna is also a nonbinary lesbian. I think that’s the best way to label her, seeing as she seems to still use she/her pronouns, is attracted to women and refers to it specifically in lesbian terms. But Every Exquisite Thing opens before she’s out of the closet. And I mean that both metaphorically and literally, seeing as she’s also in a closet at the start of the story.

Specifically, she’s in her brother Christopher’s wardrobe looking for clothes of his to steal and wear for herself in secret. See, she likes wearing men’s clothes and assuming a more manly presentation in general. This does come at the cost of criticizing the “girly” persona she’s forced to assume, and…you know, I’m not touching that one, because while rejection of femininity by women is its own problem, I feel like it’s excused for a genderqueer character.

Anna’s room was so different from her brother’s. Her walls were papered in a dusty rose […] Given her choice, the paper would be a rich, deep green, her decor black and gold. She would have a deep chaise longue on which she could read and smoke.

You get the gist.

Now, you may be thinking: “wait, she’s Cecily’s daughter, and Cecily couldn’t wait to be a warrior and use Shadowhunter fighting gear, so why is she even dressing up like a man in secret?” And if so: congrats, you spoiled yourself the end of the story. Thankfully, the conflict in the story isn’t really about her coming out as genderqueer, because otherwise this would be really dull to anyone who knows the previous generation of Shadowhunters (and Clare’s refusal to let her darlings show the slightest hint of modern-day intolerance, even if it would be justifiable in their own time).

So anyway. Anna retreats to her room with the stolen clothes to change. This is complete with telling us Anna doesn’t wear a corset ever, because feminism, and then describing her feelings on wearing men’s clothes.

Even in these clothes—stains and ham sandwiches and all—her confidence swelled. She was no longer a gangly girl who looked awkward in ribbons and flounces. Instead she looked elegant, her lean body complemented by more severe tailoring, the waistcoat nipping in her slim waist and flaring over her narrow hips.

She fantasizes about using Matthew’s clothes instead, since he’s the fashionable one, but even Christopher’s clothes, damaged as they are due to his one character trait being “mad science”, are good enough for now. She also fantasizes about charming young ladies in her attire, just so you know that yes, she is a lesbian, and then the plot kicks in in the form of Cecily calling her downstairs.

The plot, in this case, is Inquisitor Bridgestock and his family being in London, and since the Lightwoods are a big deal, they were invited for dinner to talk politics. Anna’s not pleased, but she has no choice. Cue meeting the Inquisitor’s family, and specifically, his only daughter Ariadne.

In the doorway of the dining room stood a girl, probably Anna’s age, in a midnight-blue dress. Her hair was jet black, like Anna’s, but fuller, more luxurious, deep as night sky against her soft brown skin. But what captured Anna were her eyes—eyes the color of topaz—large, the lashes thick.

Guess she’s our love interest for the evening.

Ariadne is from India, and was adopted by the Inquisitor after her parents died in a demon attack. She’s also involved in politics, even if her politics make no sense to me as she argues against a Shadowhunter currency…

“Shadowhunters are an international group. We must blend seamlessly with many international economies. Having our own currency would be a disaster.”

Like, it makes sense to use local currencies in the Institutes, but…what about Idris? What currency do they use there? Wouldn’t it make sense to pick a standard to trade in in your own country? Or do you just not need money in Idris? Is it a communist utopia where everything is free? Now that I think about it, I remember Clary getting weapons from a blacksmith in Idris, but I don’t remember her paying for it.

Anyway, back to Ariadne. She’s also very hot, hot enough for even Christopher to notice. If this seems like setup for something…it’s not. The book literally uses Christopher’s obliviousness as a way to highlight how hot Ariadne is. There’s a lot of purple prose about how hot Ariadne is. Plus some fantasizing on Anna’s part, who thinks Ariadne might be requiting her attraction, but isn’t sure if it’s her gaydar or her please-be-gaydar. And that’s pretty relatable, if I do say so myself.

After dinner, Ariadne shows Anna the library alone, just long enough to establish that Ariadne, in fact, is probably interested.

“I am modern and possessed of all sorts of advanced notions.” […] “Your brother’s eyes are quite extraordinary,” Ariadne noted. Anna heard this a good deal. Christopher’s eyes were lavender in color. “Yes,” Anna said. “He’s the good-looking one in the family.” “I quite disagree!” Ariadne exclaimed, looking surprised. “Gentlemen must compliment you all the time on the shade of your eyes.”

She also asks Anna to be her training partner, because she’s very late on combat training, and absolutely flirts with Anna in the process.

“You may find me clumsy.” Ariadne twisted her hands together. […] “You will have to be delicate with me, then,” Ariadne said, very softly.

The parents come in before this can go anywhere, and we soon cut to the Lightwoods on their ride home. It’s a fairly cute family moment, but there’s also a meaningful moment of Cecily asking her daughter what she thought of Ariadne.

And this is where I skip forward a little, because it turns out, most of the kids of Anna’s generations know about her being attracted to girls. So the conflict here seems to be mostly about whether her own parents know and what they’d think of it. But since it’s not brought up again until the very end (which I somewhat spoiled already), you can guess how tenuous this conflict is. Good thing we have a love interest to spice things up, right?

But first, this is where Brother Zachariah comes into play, as he’s still in the London Shadow Market. And yes, that includes referencing the previous story.

Tonight, he also glanced around to see if he spotted the vendor he had seen on one of his previous visits. […] She sold colorful potions, and Matthew Fairchild had purchased one and given it to his mother. It had taken all of Jem’s efforts to bring Charlotte back from death’s door. She had not been the same since, nor had Matthew.

I’m glad you’re finally acknowledging Charlotte’s grief…in a story where she’s not even present, and in a man’s point of view. Yeah, that’s a good way to treat your female character.

We also learn that Jem’s mission for Ragnor, which I’d assumed last night was looking for a cure for himself, is actually something else. He’s looking for the demon who sired Tessa, because now that her kids are manifesting powers of their own, she’s hoping that knowing the demon she’s descended from might help her…I don’t know, figure shit out.

Ragnor has made no progress, though. Oh, à propos of nothing, Jem also runs into Malcolm Fade, along with another warlock named Leopolda Stain. Who I’m sure is totally not a villain, by virtue of being friends with the villain from Lady Midnight. I mean, that’d just be ridic—

“Leopolda is a bit of an odd one,” Malcolm said. […] “She is … [��] more connected, I suppose, to her demon side than her human side than most of us are.”

Yeah, no, she’s our villain for the evening.

But for now, let’s check back with Anna, who’s fixing the clothes she took from Christopher.

Anna was not a natural seamstress, but like all Shadowhunters, she possessed the basic skills to repair gear.

You…didn’t really need to justify that, but okay, I guess. If mentioning this may empower you.

While doing so, she muses about how differently people treat her when she’s wearing dresses compared to her wearing men’s clothes, which she’s only done twice so far. I’d say it doesn’t sound very statistically significant, but also I’m fairly sure it’s mostly hyperbolic on purpose.

[Women] looked at her soft lips, her long eyelashes, her blue eyes; they looked at her hips in tight trousers, the curve of her breasts under a man’s cotton shirt, and their eyes spoke to her in the secret language of women: You have taken their power for your own. You have stolen fire from the gods. Now come and make love to me, as Zeus made love to Danae, in a shower of gold.

I mean, maybe there is a secret language of women and this is how they all talk to each other in that language. I obviously wouldn’t know. But it does sound pretty hyperbolic to me.

Ariadne goes to visit her cousins at Gideon and Sophie’s house, mostly to stop angsting about Ariadne. This allows us to introduce Anna’s relationship to the other kids. By which I mean mostly just mention how hot James Herondale is, like all Herondale men.

Anna loved all of her cousins, but she had a very soft spot for James. He had been a somewhat awkward young boy, gentle and quiet and bookish. He had grown up into a young man Anna could see was extraordinarily handsome, like his father.

She tells them about Ariadne, but only as a potential training partner, but she seems to be mostly here to make plans with Matthew. And if there’s a surefire way to make my mood go sour, it’s Matthew Fairchild.

He and Anna often spoke of gentlemen’s fashion together, but today Anna noticed that his hair was a bit wild, and one of the buttons on his waistcoat was undone. These were small things, to be sure, but on Matthew, they spoke of something larger.

Oh no, the poor guy caused his mom to have a miscarriage because he was too dumb to just talk to her! Weep for him and his angst!

I swear I’m not going to harp on this too much. Although I will note now, before the rest of the plot unfolds, that Matthew is also responsible for the bad shit that will unfold in the rest of the story. Well, most of it, anyway. Because fuck Matthew Fairchild.

Specifically, he suggests to Anna that they go out to a place in “a nefarious corner of Soho” at night, and that she’ll have to put on a disguise to go. Needless to say, she takes the opportunity to dress with Christopher’s clothes. And because Matthew is a great friend, he shows up already drunk when they meet.

He had been like this a lot in recent weeks—what was fun and light about Matthew had taken on an edge. On some level, she felt a bit of worry rising.

This is no cute, this does not inspire sympathy, and to be fair, Anna’s absence of reaction beyond “a bit of worry” doesn’t make her look much better.

Anyway. The place is a…club? I think? Frequented by mundanes and Downworlders, including Woolsey Scott (who everyone knows is the head of the Praetor Lupus, you know, that oh-so-secret organization that the TMI cast wasn’t sure was real at all) and Yeats (because real people). And Leopolda Stain, because duh.

Oh, and creepy cultists, too.

Next to them was a woman wearing a gold turban scarf pinned with a sapphire. “Are you two of The Chosen?” she asked Matthew and Anna. […] “[Leopolda]’s going to help us,” the woman said. “Obviously, we’ve had such troubles here. Why, Crowley wasn’t even recognized here in London! He had to go to the Ahathoor Temple in Paris to be initiated to the grade of Adeptus Minor, which I’m sure you heard about.” […] “I was an Adept of the Isis-Urania temple, and I can assure you that I was adamant that—”

I guess Matthew didn’t learn anything from the previous story after all, because not only is this not alarming to either of them, but Matthew actually acts like he and Anna are also part of her cult, and she invites them to a private ceremony the next week.

“The faithful will be rewarded, I promise you. The ancient ones, so long hidden from us, shall be revealed.” “Of course,” Anna said, blinking. “Yes. Wouldn’t miss it for the world.” While she was simply making conversation, Anna found that she would like to return to this place.

As Matthew and Anna leave, we cut to Jem, who’s just…watching them leave the house and thinking about how much Anna reminds him of Will. And then we cut to one week later, when Ariadne randomly shows up at the Lightwood house to ask Anna to train with her, after not talking to her the entire time. The training scene itself is mostly just Anna being too gay to function, and noting that Ariadne is in fact not that great at fighting, and ends with Anna inviting Ariadne to come with her that night to the house where the creepy cultist invited her to come back. I guess she didn’t pick up on the creepy cultist vibe.

So Anna dresses up like a man again that night, goes pick up Ariadne at her house (she’s wearing a dress, because I guess we have to keep the butch/femme dichotomy)…and they get stopped at the door by the bouncer. Ariadne’s reaction?

“Now I am curious,” Ariadne said. “We must go in, don’t you think?”

They climb up a drainpipe to the roof, and suddenly Ariadne is showing a lot more skill than she did during training. And when they get inside, they find Leopolda summoning a bunch of demons and sicking them on the human cultists. The girls engage in combat, and Jem shows up as well, since he was obviously tailing Leopolda since they met in the Shadow Market. Also, Ariadne fights with an electrum whip, which…is notable for some reason, although I’m not sure what that reason is, because the story never explains it. Same with how Ariadne can suddenly fight at all. Maybe she was just faking to get an excuse to get close to Anna?

Wait, I’m getting ahead of myself again. During the fight, they manage to contain the demons, but Anna gets wounded. Jem wants to heal her, but Ariadne says she learned healing techniques from the Silent Brothers herself, and she offers to take care of Anna while Jem goes after Leopolda. Jem…does, in spite of having no idea who Ariadne is. Luckily, it’s true, and Ariadne takes Anna back to her home and heals her. Also, some romantic tension…

Throughout all of this, Anna was silent, breathless. She did not feel pain. She felt only Ariadne’s careful hands on her.

…and resolution.

“I would like to kiss you,” Ariadne said. […] “Please, Anna, may I kiss you?” Unable to speak, Anna nodded.

They kiss, and Anna in fact spends the night here, mostly because she’s too weak to leave. It’s not made explicit if they have sex, and I don’t think it really matters.

Before we cut to morning, I do have to check back with Jem, though, since this is also where his involvement in the story ends. Remember how he was looking for Tessa’s demon dad? Yeah, turns out Leopola 1) knows about this in spite of it supposedly being a secret and 2) claims she knows who it is, and will reveal it to Jem in exchange for Shadowhunter blood. Jem is at least smart enough to say “that sounds like an evil plan, so, no.”

Actually, he’s even smarter than that. This exchange happens before Anna gets wounded, so after that, he goes after Leopolda. But he’s not actually on his own: turns out he had Woolsey Scott and the Praetor Lupus on alert as well, since Leopolda’s actions revealed the Shadow World to humans, which could be detrimental to all Downworlders. So we return to Jem meeting Scott at his home, and sure enough, he has Leopolda in custody.

She reiterates her bargain, but Jem’s not swayed. Apparently, her request for Shadowhunter blood is only so she can continue Mortmain’s work…somehow. And he won’t allow that.

Her lip curled. “But you are kind,” she said. "You are famous for it. You will not hurt me. […] That was my Shadowhunter self, he said. I have killed with this staff, though I prefer not to. Either you tell me what I wish to know, or you die. It is your choice.

She tells him Tessa’s father is a Greater Demon—a Prince of Hell, in fact—and “the greatest of Eidolon demons”. Didn’t we already know that? I don’t feel like re-reading all of my TID recaps, but it sounds like something we already knew. She won’t tell Jem the demon’s actual name, though, and so Jem…lets Scott’s werewolves kill her. Admittedly, she did try to fight her way out of here, but that still feels very…um…

Leopolda screamed and whirled on Jem, wide-eyed. “You said you would let me leave! You swore!” Jem felt very weary. I am not the one who is stopping you.

It feels villainous is what it feels like. “Oh, sure, I swore to let you walk free, but the werewolves, whom I had come here on purpose, didn’t!”

So Leopolda is dead, and this whole subplot was essentially useless to this story, so I assume this is going to be our “main” story thread uniting all the short stories? Only took three stories to get to it.

Let’s wrap up with Anna, shall we? She leaves Ariadne’s house early in the morning before anyone can spot her, but she’s giddy because…you know. Gay love. Except when she goes to visit Ariadne officially later that day (after catching some sleep), guess who’s visiting but Charles Fairchild. You know, Matthew’s older brother, who was born during TID? Well, he’s our random eleventh-hour drama for the night.

See, he’s just been named interim head of the Paris Institute for a year, and he’s the Consul’s son. In other words, he’s a perfect match, and Inquisitor Bridgestock wants to marry Ariadne to him. Anna is immediately shocked by this, because she lives in Edwardian England but is baffled by the concept of political marriages, I guess.

“Charles is quite a good match,” Ariadne said as if she were discussing the quality of a piece of cloth.

Ariadne’s argument boils down to “I don’t love him since I’m a lesbian, but I do want to be a mom”. Also, she refuses to come out because she’s adopted and fears her parents would reject her. Her offer is to have a secret relationship with Anna for a year, after which they’ll be over because she won’t cheat on Charles after they’re married.

Anna is not interested. Which, fair enough.

“Good-bye, Ariadne,” she managed, and staggered from the room.

She goes home to cry, Christopher tries to comfort her in his own awkward way, as does Cecily (minus the awkward part…I think).

“She broke your heart, didn’t she? Ariadne?” Anna was speechless. So her mother did know.

So…yeah. Cecily knew, and she’s fine with it.

“Mama,” she said. “You do not mind—that I might not get married, or have children?” "There are many Shadowhunter children orphaned, as Ariadne was, seeking loving homes, and I see no reason why you might not provide one someday. […] As “for marriage …” Cecily shrugged. “They said your Uncle Will could not be with your Aunt Tessa, that your Aunt Sophie and Uncle Gideon could not be together. […] Even where laws are unjust, hearts can find a way to be together. If you love someone, I have no doubt you will find a way to spend your life with them, Anna.”

She also knew about Anna crossdressing, and she’s fine with that too, going so far as to give her a specially tailored suit for her. So did Gabriel, as it turns out when Anna puts the suit on and joins the rest of her family for a walk in the park.

Of course, this begs the question: why now? If Cecily and Gabriel knew, why did they buy Anna dresses and decorate her room in a girly way that she hates? And if they had that suit, why wait for the most dramatic time to reveal it? Well, it doesn’t matter, because that’s not the point, I guess.

“I have always known you, my love,” Cecily said.

And…I mean, I’m sure this is empowering to someone who will read this. I personally feel like narratives where the parents (or other closed ones) already knew and were fine with it, while they certainly reflect a truth, really should be toned down at this point. Most queer people’s families don’t know, and don’t react positively to the announcement. But hey, I guess this is fiction, and it is a fantasy, and there are worse fantasies out there.

So Anna puts on her suit, and cuts her hair short, and she’s a new person. Oh, and Cecily also gives her the family necklace. Well, it’s not a family necklace yet at this point in the timeline, but…you know, the necklace that detects demons? Yeah, that one. I’m not sure why it’s there except to remind readers of a thing in the rest of the series, but it sure is there.

That was Every Exquisite Thing. As I said in my intro, it’s mostly okay, honestly. The Jem stuff feels even more extraneous as before, and I’m back to feeling like Anna’s story could have just been alluded to in her own books and left up for fans to actually write about, but it’s not the worst thing out there. And that’s really all I have to say about this.

#every exquisite thing #cassandra clare #maureen johnson #ghosts of the shadow market #young adult #ya books #books #young adult books #book reviews #ya #reviews #book #book review #review #st: ghosts of the shadow market

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BECAUSE I’M NOT POPULAR, I’LL READ WATAMOTE: CHAPTER #120

Sometimes I feel like a broken record with the amount of times I’ve talked about Tomoko’s growth, or about the heartwarming direction that the series has been taking. And sometimes I worry that I’ll run out of things to say. But thankfully, Watamote is smart enough to avoid reusing the same ol’ happy endings over and over under the guise of “development”. As of now, Watamote has lost nearly all of the predictability it’s early chapters were infamous for. And that ultimately makes Tomoko’s story that much stronger as a result.

Take this party chapter. It’s easy to predict that Tomoko will make a fool of herself in some way, and if this were in the past, that’d be a fair guess. And make no mistake, Tomoko’s awkwardness is still present, but we also get our share of surprises here and there. The biggest of which is that this party is not filled with high-energy antics, but a deep sea of emotions that makes this one of the most significant chapters to date.

Chapter 120: Because I’m Not Popular, I’ll Attend the Party (a.k.a. The Melancholy of Yuri Tamura)

I like the difference in how Tomoko and Yoshida react to being placed in awkward social situations. With Tomoko, there’s this agitation, the natural defensiveness of being in unfamiliar territory. As for Yoshida, she seems to be facing the situation with her usual scowl of indifference, as if daring anybody to cross her. It’s a nice reminder that not all loners react the same way in a heavily socialized world.

I find it interesting that in response to Mako’s innate friendliness, Tomoko has to force herself to sound cheerful, whereas Yuri doesn’t appear to give a damn about how outwardly cheery she looks. Perhaps Yuri is so comfortable with Mako that she knows she doesn’t have to try so hard, unlike Tomoko, who still feels the need to match Mako’s demeanor somewhat.

Coming from a guy who lives in the Western world that once considered Korean BBQs to be the “hip” thing to do, I can kind of understand Tomoko’s sentiment here. The KBBQ, at least in my case, were not popular for the food (though it was good, make no mistake) but for the experience. Barbecues, whether Western or Korean, are not just a style of food. It’s also a kind of social event, so it kind of makes sense that it would be popular with the cheerful, extroverted types.

If there’s one thing Tomoko and Yuri can truly bond over, it’s their apathy.

I guess it depends of the place. Given that I’ve eaten at all-you-can-eat places for around $10-$15, it does seem like a rip-off at first glance. But because KBBQs are fairly high-end restaurants, I could see why it would be so pricey.

Masterful composition work here. Of course the moment Tomoko refers to her group as the four of them, Ucchi (the unofficial fifth member) is seen sitting right next to her. It only serves to emphasize the point that Ucchi is the outsider in Tomoko’s small circle of friends. Pretty ironic given that Ucchi probably obsesses over Tomoko the most. It’s also a good setup for the following punchline. That fact that Ucchi is cooking so seriously isn’t really funny until we get to...this.

Okay, so there’s couple things want to note here. First of which is Ucchi’s deathly serious expression. Even with her emoji face, it’s clear from her body language that Ucchi is acting with no reservations whatsoever. Tomoko didn’t do a single thing to her at this moment, and yet Ucchi unabashedly decided to do something nice for her. Unlike other times where she could come up with some poorly-veiled excuse, this is all on Ucchi.

Second, it’s the first time she did something like this in front of her friends. When looking at it from their perspective, they’re rightly shocked. Ucchi probably told them stories that made her out to be the victim, and yet here she is doing something completely contradictory to that.

As I’ve stated countless times before, I think it’s pretty much confirmed that Ucchi has accepted that she holds some affection towards Tomoko, lesbian or otherwise. The question now is how is she dealing with it? Judging by her silent blush, I think a safe guess is that she’s still coming to terms with it. Ucchi’s usually pretty vocal about how “gross” Tomoko is, but now, we don’t even see her thoughts on the matter. I think this signifies that Ucchi has so much inner conflict that she can’t find the words to adequately explain how she feels. Perhaps this makes her a tsundere, but if it does, then it’s the good kind of tsundere.

I gotta admit, my heart sank a bit seeing Yuri talk negatively like this. Even if she’s not an especially positive person, Yuri never really gave the impression that she was a downer. Given that she isn’t the type to speak facetiously, it must mean that she’s given this some serious thought.

It’s kind of telling that of all people, Yoshida is the one who brings up the possibility of just hanging out without the excuse of being classmates. Most of the cases of Yoshida hanging out with her field trip group we’re just a result of convenient timing. To actually suggest that she would spend time with them on her own accord indicates that she’s considered them to be worth her time. How sweet.

As pessimistic as Yuri sounds, she’s not wrong. There’s plenty of evidence to support the idea that neither Tomoko or Yoshida are the types to be actively social. They don’t go out of their way to plan ahead like that, and usually only follow after someone invites them first. It a depressing thought, but I’ve been in that situation before, so I can see where Yuri’s coming from.

Ugh, this brings back painful memories of all those networking activities I had to do back in college. The “whole swap seats and make new friends” idea was clearly geared towards people of an extroverted nature. It works well for them, but it’s incredibly frustrating for introverts who can’t force genuine social interaction.

This one of those “punchline” panels where there’s just so much to dissect. Let’s start with the one on the right. Even if you know nothing about Yuri and Minami, just by looking at them you can tell that they’re NOT friends. But you can also infer that it’s Yuri who has a problem with Minami. It’s also subtle, but do you notice Minami’s more relaxed posture compared to Yuri’s slightly jutted arms? She clearly has no intention to deal with Minami at all.

Then there’s Tomoko, getting sandwiched by two popular kids. She’s clearly on edge, and if her facial expression is any indication, she’s either looking at Yuri to relay her discomfort, or she’s confused by the distance Yuri is keeping between herself and Minami.

It’s a interesting way to illustrate their current states of loner-dom. Yuri has no trouble keeping to herself because no one ever approaches her, whereas Tomoko is the one that has to ward off unwanted attention.

Now this is quite the interesting move here. Despite being told to swap seats and “make friends”, Minami makes no attempt to engage Yuri, and instead turns around to speak with Mako instead. This suggests that Minami does not find any value in talking to someone like Yuri, and postulates that going back to Mako would be better.

It’s a nice case of active avoidance. Even though she’s in a situation where she’s basically forced to socialize with Yuri, Minami physically turns away from her to speak to her already-established friends. Poor Yuri.

It pains me to admit that Minami is actually kind of adorable.

Damn, talk about rubbing salt in the wound.

I can’t help but wonder if Minami is aware that Yuri, the girl whom Mako “betrayed” her for, is sitting right next to her. If she does know about what had happened between them at the field trip, then bringing it up now, is quite frankly, kind of a bitch move. But given what we’ve seen of Minami before, I think that it’s more likely that she’s just tactless/oblivious rather than malicious.

But Yuri’s reaction is one of the many surprises this chapter. Even though she was just indirectly insulted, Yuri has a completely emotionless response: she just focuses on eating. Even though Yuri is known for her blasé demeanor, we’ve seen before that’s she’s not immune to expressing annoyance. Her non-reaction suggests that she’s really gotten over this particular incident, or that she’s just used to people ignoring her. Poor, poor Yuri.

As for Tomoko...does she actually know what went on between Yuri, Mako, and Minami? I’d imagine Yuri might have mentioned it very casually, but as of now, there’s nothing to confirm that Tomoko is in the know.

Funny, you’d think the “class mom” type like Makeup-chan would be the one to be the class representative.

I can’t say I agree on Tomoko on this one. As they say, maturity is in the mind, not in the body. I think that disparity between Tomoko and Katou isn’t something you exclusively feel at parties. Though, it can be more apparent, if you look at it like a relationship between a party host and their guests. People tend to think that taking on more responsibilities, whether voluntarily or not, equates to more maturity, but that’s not necessarily true, as Tomoko doesn’t seem to understand.

Also, that otaku friend of Kakinuma has the hots for Makeup-chan.

Ah, there’s that old-school Watamote cringe humor. But even then, this is pretty mild to the kinds of disasters we’ve seen before. Even when Tomoko’s worst bubbles back up to the surface, it’s still better than it was before.

Did we even get name for this guy before?

PFFT, phrasing the start of the conversation to sound like a confession? This is such a bait for those fans who keep hoping for Tomoko to get a boyfriend soon.

At least we got a glimpse of this guy’s personality. From what it looks like, he’s seem like the kind of unreserved guy who has no qualms on talking about dick pictures with a female classmate. I mean, even if Tomoko was totally guilty then, it’s still kind of inappropriate to bring it up.

Tomoko’s arsenal of completely relatable lines continues to impress me.

Hypothetical #1: Funny how in the past, Tomoko would half-joke about Tomoki perving on her. There’s also that instance when she asked Tomoki to show her his dick, so it’s nice to know that Tomoko’s incestual accusations were mostly in jest, and that she never actually believed that about her brother.

Hypothetical #2: As many have noticed, this an obvious reference to an actual instance that happened to the mangaka. This one of those moments where I genuinely laughed out loud. Referential humor, for me, only works if the humor can be ignored by those that don’t get the reference. It works here because it’s still pretty funny, whether or not you know what the joke is referring to.

Odd use of the word “fun”. The word “fun” isn’t the first word I’d use to describe anything remotely sexual. Perhaps “fun” has different connotations depending on the culture?

Again, we have another moment that shows that Tomoko’s thoughts don’t always follow through on her actions. She may have joked before on how Yuu is a “slut”, but she would never truly out the girl as such to other people, hence why she mentally apologized for potentially giving that impression to a guy. It’s kind of sweet on how Tomoko is actually kind of protective of Yuu; likely believing that Yuu is too good for just any ol’ dude.

Hah, Tomoko totally cut Komiyama out from that selfie. I expected nothing less.

Yeah, I figured that the translators were taking liberties when they used the word “spaghetti-ing”. And the thing is, I actually don’t mind this kind of translation, because I could actually see this term be plausibly used by the mangaka. Not to get too deep on how I think manga should be translated, but generally, I think that indirect translations are fine so long as the meaning is still the same, and it doesn’t mischaracterize the speaker.

Cue the mood whiplash. I figured that we would get a glimpse of Yuri being lonely at this party, but I didn’t expect it to have such a large focus. I can now understand why only having Mako at the party wouldn’t have been enough for Yuri to attend. My assumption was that while Yuri was a loner like Tomoko and Yoshida, she was better acquainted with people than either of them. But as we see here, I was totally wrong. It’s Tomoko, and to an extent Yoshida, that know more people than her.

I think this drives the point on how Yuri differs in her level of solitude than either of her field trip buddies. While Tomoko and Yoshida have decidedly less social skills, they have a slightly larger network of people to actually be social with. Yuri on the other hand, has one really solid friend in Mako, but her network of people is limited to that one friend (before Tomoko and Yoshida came along). This leads me to believe that Tomoko and Yoshida at least have a marginally larger degree of energy to socialize, whereas Yuri has very little energy to socialize with anyone other than the four she came to the party with.

Poor, poor, poor Yuri.

Okada: “So...what kind of person is Kuroki-san?”

Yoshida: “A bitch.”

This is a nice bit of subtle development on Mako’s part. She seems to be more conscientious about Yuri’s status as a loner, and how much being Mako’s friend means to her. Good job, Mako, you managed to avoid another betrayal.

How ironic of you Minami, accusing Mako of not reading the mood when it’s you who can’t read the mood. I still can’t decide whether Minami is just innocently insensitive, or if she’s just selfish and doesn’t care how other people may be affected by her actions. It’s something I’ll be keeping an eye out for in the future.

And it’s not just Mako, but Yuri showing a positive change as well. Yuri’s always seemed pretty reserved when it comes to discussing her own feelings, but here, she’s actually opening herself quite a bit by honestly bringing up her intentions for even going to the party at all. I’d imagine that in the past, this is something Yuri would’ve kept to herself, but I think that being around the brashness of Tomoko and Yoshida has influenced her to be more bold herself.

I wonder if Yoshida could hear her when she said this?

If there’s one thing that Yuri may still be working on, it’s realizing that there are people now like Yoshida that are genuinely fond of her, and that her own actions directly affect the choices of these people. Yuri probably realized that leaving without telling the others may have come off as inconsiderate, hence why she apologized.

On that note, it’s nice to see a moment that directly illustrates that Yuri is someone of relative importance to Yoshida. Before, Delinquent-chan would address Yuri as just someone she knows from the field trip. But these last two chapters make a point that Yoshida is fond of Yuri beyond just knowing her.

Pulling out the same excuse from that Christmas party with Yuu and Komiyama, eh, Tomoko? It’s always good to have an excuse ready when you need to make a hasty retreat.

That’s quite the self-assessment there, Tomoko. It’s kind of what I was saying earlier regarding how she has and hasn’t changed. Her ability to actually socialize, especially under pressure, has made good improvement, resulting in her “A”. But her social endurance, that is, the amount of time she can socialize before burning out, hasn’t really changed that much, resulting in her “D”.

Overall, I’d say that she’s more or less overcome the worst parts of her social anxiety, but obviously, that doesn’t change the fact that’s she’s an introvert by nature.

Unlike Yuri, who thinks that separating from the class will mean that they’ll never hang out again, Mako is more optimistic. She feels that being third-years won’t change anything, and that they’ll still see Yoshida and Tomoko even if they end up in certain classes. It scares me to think how depressed Yuri might be if she never had a friend like Mako.

And there we go, people. The line that could very well change the direction of this series. As Yuri has pointed out, neither Tomoko or Yoshida are the types to put in the effort to be social on their own accord. Now, Yuri could’ve easily left it at that, and accepted the possibility that she’ll never hang out with them again. But, no. This is the point when Yuri realizes that she cares too much about her budding friendship with these girls, and to keep it afloat, she’s the one that’ll have to take the proactive approach and lead their friendship in the future. It’s quite a step up from Yuri’s normal passivity, and it really highlights how valuable these new friends are to her that Yuri is willing to step out of her comfort zone to keep them together.

And even if she still believes that they’ll never see each other in their third year, she’s still willing to extend their time together as much as possible, even if it’s just a little bit before the next train arrives.

I’m proud of you, Yuri. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you your role in this chapter was that of a shoujo manga protagonist.

And there you have it. Second year is now over. What can we expect from this series for Tomoko’s third year? There are still quite a few “arcs” that still need to be wrapped up. The friendly rivalry between Komiyama and Akari, plus the breaking point for Ucchi’s hate-crush on Tomoko are things to keep an eye out for. But there’s are also some new elements to the series that may come to the forefront. Perhaps Katou will play a major role, or maybe the rest of Nemoto’s squad will come into focus at some point. Yuri, will undoubtedly, continue to play the part of Tomoko’s closest school friend, and it will be a pleasure to see where she’ll go from here.

But of course, we can’t forget Tomoko Kuroki. Having overcome the worst part of herself, what sort of struggles could she face in the future? A falling out with her friends? Choosing a career? A love confession? I don’t think anything would be too overreaching at this point. But no matter how you look at it, I’ll be there to review it.

Heads up! Starting next week, I’ll be attending a boot camp for learning user experience (UX) design. It’s only for a few months, but as this is going on, my free time will be severely limited. I’ll still be writing reaction/reviews as the chapters come out, but please understand if they come out pretty late after the initial chapter release. Otherwise, thanks again to everyone who follows me!

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From an anon on Tumblr: Hey! I really love the V universe you've set up. I don't know if you're up for a time jump, but I think it would be fun to see Kara enlisting both Maggie and Lucy to plan something for Alex and them bonding a bit as metamours. Thanks for writing!

From QueenofMonsea: What does Kara think about Alex having two girlfriends? Telling their mother should be fun too. What happens when they’re both invited to game night?

A/N: So, I’ve combined these because I think there was a way to make it work. I’ll leave the chapter as a surprise but in case it’s not your thing, CW for a coming out scene (as poly), but it’s characterized more by confusion than by the kind of bigotry we got in the General Lane chapter.

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“Alex’s birthday is in three weeks, which means her surprise party is in one! Let me know if you want to help with planning or set up!” Kara sent to all of Alex’s friends. Alex rarely celebrated, but since this was her thirtieth, Kara wanted to give her a proper party complete with friends and family and all the presents she could want. Plus, she’d even asked Eliza not to make chocolate pecan pie in favor of one of Alex’s favorites (though Eliza had been nice enough to offer to bring Kara one anyway).

As the texts began rolling back in with times when people were available, Kara began assigning everyone tasks, quickly checking items off of the color-coordinated party to-do list she’d created. It was only after she’d finished that she realized she had given Maggie and Lucy party set up together, but she shrugged, figuring they’d have to get to know each other at some point if they were both going to be dating her sister long-term.

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“Lucy, you remember Maggie, right?” Kara asked, hoping the odd tension in the air was just the product of her imagination.

“Mhm,” Lucy nodded. “Good to see you again.”

“You too,” Maggie greeted somewhat curtly.

“Well, um, did either of you bring a car? James was supposed to pick up the groceries, but his car ended up in the shop after, um, an alien may have smashed the hood…maybe.”

Lucy and Maggie both chuckled at that detail before straightening and looking serious once more. “Oh, uh, I don’t sorry,” Maggie replied. “I brought my bike.”

“I walked over here,” Lucy chimed in, shaking her head.

“I have a car,” Eliza offered. “I don’t know that I’d be able to carry everything, but I’m happy to help with transporting food. And it’s good to see you two,” she added, kissing Lucy and Maggie on the cheek, smiling warmly at her daughter’s best friend and her girlfriend.

“I’ll help,” Lucy volunteered.

“I can also help,” Maggie added, not wanting to be outdone, especially not by the woman who’d been so condescending about her job the first time they’d met.

“It’s a lot of food, so, uh, I guess you could both go?” Kara suggested, wondering whether Alex would kill her when she found out. She’d already heard about the rather tense date when Alex had accidentally invited both Maggie and Lucy over for the same night after rescheduling on both of them during a busy week of alien attacks and minor lab disasters. They’d been understanding enough, but both of them ended up forfeiting the night, leaving Kara to come over and help Alex finish the food while reassuring her that it wasn’t the worst thing, that these things were bound to happen with three women as busy as they were.

“Okay…” Maggie agreed.

“Sounds…good,” Lucy shrugged, following Eliza down and out to the car.

The shopping itself was regimented enough not to allow for much awkwardness, as they followed Kara’s detailed list around the store, collecting what looked like far too much food, though Eliza swore it would be just enough.

When they got back, however, Eliza went to help Kara in the kitchen, leaving Maggie and Lucy to work together to decorate the living room.

“Where do you want to start?” Maggie asked.

“I can take care of the photos,” Lucy offered. “Why don’t you hang the streamers?”

“Fine,” Maggie sighed, even though she knew going through pictures was definitely the more enjoyable task.

As Lucy settled in with the old albums to find a good mixture of embarrassing and cute photos to put out on display, Maggie scrounged through Kara’s desk until she found the tape for the streamers, then set about looking for a stepladder to hang them. After nearly ten minutes spent searching in vain, Maggie finally turned to Lucy. “You’re short and friends with Kara. Any chance you know where she keeps a little ladder or a stool or something?”

After a brief glare at the short comment, Lucy softened, realizing Maggie was in the same boat. “In the house of Ms. I Can Fly? Not a chance.”

Maggie groaned, trying to figure out how embarrassing it would be to drag a chair all the way in from the kitchen. As if sensing her predicament, Lucy cleared her throat, forcing herself to speak up and be nice. “We could lift each other up, maybe?”

“Oh, uh, yeah, okay,” Maggie agreed. She watched as Lucy carefully set the albums back down on the coffee table before coming to join her. “Found any fun photos?”

“Hundreds,” Lucy answered, cracking a genuine smile.

“Well, I can’t wait to see them.”

“Yeah…I mean, if we get this done quickly, I suppose you could maybe help me go through the albums?”

“Yeah? That could be nice.”

Lucy nodded, figuring they didn’t really need to dwell on it. “Alright, um, do you want to lift me first? I hear you’re strong.” She tried to keep the bitterness out of her voice, didn’t need to dwell on the fact that she only knew because Alex happened to have mentioned that Maggie could lift her when fucking her during a conversation she’d had with Lucy about what they were and weren’t comfortable with in bed.

“Sounds good.” Once Lucy had a handful of streamers and tape in hand, Maggie bent down and carefully lifted Lucy up, holding her up just long enough for her to get the first half of the streamers hung, completely obvious to Kara snapping pictures of them on her phone.

“Want to take a turn hanging them?” Lucy asked when she got down. It totally had nothing to do with her wanting to prove that she was just as strong.

“Um, sure? Should I get on your back?”

“Yeah, that works,” Lucy agreed, bending over to let Maggie climb up and staggering only slightly as she tried to find her balance with Maggie perched high on her shoulders. She was fairly certain she heard giggling from behind them, but she couldn’t very well spin around to see.

Once they had all of the decorations up, they settled in on the couch, flipping through the albums. Somewhat begrudgingly, Maggie found herself admitting that she understood what Alex saw in Lucy. Once she got past the first impression—and admittedly, it was quite the first impression to get past—she started to understand Lucy’s sense of humor, her sharp wit. And the woman was pretty, she’d give Alex that detail.

Without knowing what was going through Maggie’s head, Lucy found herself doing the same. She’d already accepted that Maggie was a great girlfriend. She was grateful to the woman for finally helping Alex out of the closet, even if she was bitter about Maggie’s having turned her down at first, and she certainly respected Maggie for her ability to control her jealousy and actually propose a poly relationship instead of trying to control Alex or anything like that.

“Oh my god,” Maggie cackled, pulling Lucy out of her thoughts. “We have to use this one!”

“What is it?” Lucy asked, craning her neck to see the album.

“Only Alex Danvers and her first beard,” Maggie laughed, holding up the photo from Alex’s junior prom of her with a boy Eliza later told them was named Jacob, who was so obviously, flamboyantly gay that Maggie wondered if even oblivious Alex Danvers had noticed.

“Now, does it top this one of clearly gay Alex?” Lucy asked, pulling out a photo of Alex rocking some ripped up skinny jeans and a dark flannel with a black beanie on top of slightly longer hair.

“Ooh, but that could be from Alex’s punk phase meets 90s grunge fashion.”

“Yeah…but she looks so at home in it,” Lucy laughed.

“Fair point. Wait! Do you think we can find photos of her and Vicky?”

“Who?”

“Alex’s first big lesbian crush,” Maggie answered. “Apparently they were best friends for most of high school.”

“Hmm, I don’t know. Think Kara would help us? Or do you think she would tell us not to embarrass Alex?”

“Maybe we find this photo just for us?” Maggie suggested, figuring they shouldn’t try to bring up potentially bad memories for Alex at her own party.

“Good idea.”

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“Surprise!” everyone yelled as Alex walked through the door.

Once she stopped reaching for her gun, she let herself smile and laugh. “Aww, thank you! Even if this surprise was a little…surprising.”

“Don’t worry, I was ready to tackle you if you actually tried to shoot any of us,” Kara pointed out with a cheerful grin.

“So helpful,” Alex laughed, rolling her eyes.

“Now come in! Let’s get cake!”

Alex let herself be led in and soon made her rounds through the room, talking to everyone who had made it. Her breath caught slightly at the sight of Lucy and Maggie together, but they seemed to be getting along, so she let herself relax.

Once everyone had appetizers and a drink, Alex subtly made her way over to Lucy, who was motioning for her to join her in Kara’s room, where they were storing the coats and presents.

“What’s up?”

“Just wanted to say hi,” Lucy said, kissing Alex briefly on the lips. “I know not everyone knows about us, so I wanted my chance before I leave you to Maggie for the rest of the party.”

“Ah well in that case,” Alex trailed off, leaning in for another kiss.

“Wait!” Lucy paused Alex with a finger to the lips. “I promised Vasquez I’d pass along her gift and card. She couldn’t get off work today, since, well, since I’m taking the day off.”

“Ah, well, tell her I understand and thank her for the gift. Now…where were we?”

Grinning, Lucy pulled Alex in by her belt loops and let herself melt into the embrace. She was far too distracted and happy to notice the sound of the door opening, but she definitely heard the small cough and quickly pulled back from Alex.

“Alexandra, do you have a minute?” Eliza asked, her eyes flashing with something that looked a lot like anger, maybe disappointment.

“Er, yeah, okay,” Alex nodded, trying to swallow her fear. “I’ll see you out there,” she whispered to Lucy, giving her hand a small squeeze before she let her mother guide her over to Kara’s bed.

“Alexandra,” Eliza sighed. “How could you?”

Reacting to the accusing tone in Eliza’s voice, Alex felt herself getting defensive. “How could I what, Mom? Kiss another woman? What happened to how supportive you were supposed to be?”

“I am supportive of your being gay. I am not supportive of your cheating on someone as wonderful as Maggie. Do you know she spent all afternoon helping me get ready for your party? She took time off of work because she cares for you. How could you just ignore that?”

“Oh,” Alex sighed, feeling herself relax until she realized this meant a second coming out, meant trying to explain something to Eliza she’d only recently learned about herself. “It’s not, I’m not cheating on Maggie.”

“I saw you!” Eliza snapped.

“Maggie and I are…” Alex paused, trying to find the right words. “Maggie knows about Lucy.”

“She knows?” Eliza repeated.

“She knows,” Alex confirmed. “She, well, it was sort of her idea. I mean, she just, I had,” Alex fumbled over her words, trying to find a way to tell her mother that she’d been sleeping with Lucy for several months before admitting she was gay without actually telling her mother any of that. “Maggie has been in polyamorous relationships in the past, and she could see that there was something…unfinished between Lucy and me, so she thought that maybe I should try dating Lucy too. And I still love Maggie! But I like Lucy too, and we’ve been dating for the past month or so.”

Eliza nodded for a few moments. “And you’re happy?”

“I am.”

“And they’re happy?”

“They are. We’re very open with communication.”

“That’s good.” After a pause, Eliza asked: “And you’re all practicing safe—”

“Yes!” Alex interjected, not needing to talk to her mother about every part of her life.

“It’s an important question, Alex.”

“I know, just, the answer is yes, okay?”

“Okay, okay.”

“So you’re…not mad?”

“I’m not mad. I will have questions. For instance, at the holidays, do I invite both of them to join you? Will that be weird for them? Things did feel a bit…awkward when we all went shopping together this morning.”

“Wait. You all went out together?” Alex asked.

“Yes, Kara had them come with me to the store to help carry the groceries back.”

Alex groaned, dropping her head into her hands. As much as she understood that they were all adults, she also remembered just how poorly their first few meetings had gone.

“If it makes you feel any better, they seemed to be getting along later.”

“Okay,” Alex nodded. “Do you mind if I go find Maggie?”

“I think that’s a smart idea.”

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“Maggie, I’m so sorry! I didn’t know Kara was going to assign you to work with Lucy, and I can definitely say something to her so she knows better than to do it in the future.”

“Hey, it’s okay,” Maggie assured Alex. “It was…weird at first, but we made it work. Plus, I know I didn’t like her that much in the beginning, but I still liked the way she made you happy. And now, I don’t know, we’re not best friends, but we get along. We had fun together. And that’s important in a relationship like ours.”

“Okay,” Alex sighed, finally feeling herself relax. “You’re pretty amazing, you know that?”

“Oh, definitely.” Maggie grinned, kissing Alex briefly on the cheek.

“You know you can do more than that, right?”

“Yeah, but it’s not fair to Lucy. I don’t know, I don’t want her to feel totally out of this part of your life when we’re out with everyone, so I can wait. I still get you tonight, don’t I?”

“You do,” Alex agreed. “But also, just so you know, my mom now knows.”

“Oh…how’d that happen?”

“Er, she may have found Lucy and me kissing in Kara’s room. And assumed I was cheating on you. So then I had to explain.”

Laughing, Maggie shook her head in exasperation. “Only you, Danvers. But, if Lucy already got her chance…” Maggie trailed off, biting her lip as Alex caught on and leaned in to kiss her soundly on the lips. “Much better,” Maggie murmured between kisses.

“C’mon lovebirds,” Lucy interrupted them a few minutes later. “It’s time to sing Happy Birthday.”

“Yes, yes,” Alex sighed, squeezing both of their hands as she let herself be led over to the table for cake.

#director sanvers #alex x maggie #alex x lucy #alex danvers #maggie sawyer #lucy lane #maggie & lucy #eliza danvers #kara danvers #coming out #fanfic #supergirl #prompt fill #ao3feed

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