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hollyhomburg · 6 months

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NO! YOU have not even been married even a YEAR you have no reason to be calling me cute over dm. I like your wife! stop!

#this is not about my soulmate tbh #just my cousins new husband!#who sent me pictures from the wedding of me and “you look so cute in these”#like what the fuck #i am AGHAST #is your husband calling another woman cute suspect? even if you were related to them? CUZ I THINK I WOULD HATE IT MAYBE I'M JUST CRAZY #STILL SPINNING #i'm not going to lie 👀 he's like namjoon turned yt and walked off the screen in terms of looks and personality like she got a good one #but he's /her/ good one and i have no desire to be a homewrecker or even slightly engage with possibly causeing issues in their relationshi #i am very delusional but it keeps me interested in living my life so

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purpleshadow-star · 1 year

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The idea is introduced:

The sight of Andrew reminding Neil of what Nicky said:

Neil almost figuring it out:

And then right back to repression:

It's like he can see where those thought are taking him, and he's just choosing not to entertain them, lol.

#andrew x neil #neil x repression #tbh i love the parallels between NickyxErik and NeilxAndrew #aftg #all for the game #andrew minyard #neil josten #andreil #neil really said 'andrew is basically my soulmate but im going to choose not to think about it'

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greenerteacups · 20 days

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hi GT!

Lionheart had me the moment you kicked it off with “it’s a nice day to start again.” Might i ask why you chose that particular line?

And, if you havent already answered to this emoji:

❄️

P.s: you have my eternal gratitude for creating the most brilliant piece of writing i’ll ever read. I shout about it from the rooftops, share it on my socials, requested my spouse to read it so we may discuss it together (in lieu of a present for my 30th birthday), et cetera.

I see from your URL you are a fellow lad of taste.

There's a couple things going on in the epigraph for Book 1. On one level, it's a lyric from the first muggle song I picture Draco listening to on his walkman at the end of the book, so there's a cute full-circle thing there. The second layer is the theme of change and redemption, which, in Lionheart, doesn't so much come from major moments or self-sacrifice, but from the slow, grueling, everyday work of living, and living better. It's a nice day to start again because every day is. You always have the opportunity to start making better choices, no matter what lies behind you. That's the thesis of any Draco redemption arc, right? You have to imagine that he could have chosen to be better.

And then thirdly, there's the audacity of doing a full Hogwarts canon rewrite, a good 30 years after the original books came out, millions upon millions of words of fanfic later, and basically asking everyone to read the same story they did the first time around, only different. So it's a kind of winking entreaty. It's saying to readers, many of whom are understandably wary of doing it over, zeroing out the characters to starting positions, and starting from the beginning with 11-year-olds all over again. It's going: "hey. That was fun, right? Why not do it again?"

#thank you so much for the compliment -- honestly it's terribly kind #i hope your spouse likes it. for their own sake also because by god that is so much assigned reading #you're iconic for that tbh. all birthdays should come with a syllabus #oh! and ❄️ ⇢ what’s your dream theme/plot for a fic #and who would write it best?#tbh i've wanted someone to write a really good pacific rim AU for years and years #and it has always fallen juuuuust low enough on my writing pile for me to never get around to it #like it's always the thing i want to write 3rd most and i only let myself have 2 projects at a time #not sure who would write that best - I think anyone who loves and Gets the movies #the premise of which is 'what if you and your soulmate could pilot a 50-foot mech by having mindsex so good it killed godzilla?'#and if you don't want to stand up and cheer just thinking about that i don't know what to tell you. perhaps you have never seen a movie #also like it's about love and trust and trauma and healing. AND killing really giant monsters #and it takes itself JUST seriously enough to nail all of that without getting mopey or goofy #movie of all time. someday i will kiss guillermo del toro on the lips #in my (delusional) world his oscar win was actually a belated award for pacific rim.

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justsunandstars · 6 months

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my take on wriollette soulmate au

bcos why the hell not

Everyone knows that dragons don’t have such thing as the One. They live too long, and there are very few creatures living just as long. Such fate really broke partner limitations for them but also left them alone, forever, without the promise of having someone out there, who’s intended for them from the beginning.

Wriothesley, as many people in Teyvat, knows this legend of course. Being in Duke position he somehow gets the info, that Neuvillette is hydro-dragon. He’s still in doubt, but Iudex visiting fortress and sealing the well leading to Primordial Sea only confirms his thoughts on the matter.

So Wriothesley stops his attempts to find out Neuvillette’s name (there wasn't much hope anyway that unreadable symbols on his chest have any sense at all. It’s neither familiar writing of Fontaine nor it is how other nations of Teyvat write their words). He used to look at his reflection a lot, but he stops eventually, coming to terms with never knowing what is written on his body.

His acceptance is the main reason he doesn’t really notice the look Neuvillette’s giving him, reading his first name on the man's bare chest, right above the heart, written in a language long gone, language used even before the existence of Remuria.

#wriollette #neuvithesley #neuvillette #wriothesley #fontaine #genshin impact #soulmate au #idk i just love them dearly #but they deserve some angst before the happiness #i live for hurt/comfort tbh #imo neuvi says nothing about the name on wriothesleys chest but he gives him muuuch more attention from this time now on #it's stupid pining for weeks after this but yk wriothesley isnt really stupid so he just asks one day like yo monsieur whats goin on #and neuvillette answers to him honest and all #and then they lived happily ever after #my post #mine

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fire-eyed-raven · 8 months

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Usually I'm all for not treating two characters as a one inseparable unit. I'm all for exploring them separately from each other or considering some interesting rare pair options for them.

But not with Madara. I love Madara very much but I'm sorry his canon obsession with Hashirama can't be ignored by me. I can't separate it from him. Their bond with Hashirama is completely something else. It's a very integral part of who Madara is.

He wants his attention even if it will be in a fight he wants everything Hashirama can give him. He'll recognize him in any situation. He'll be happy to see him even if the last time they have seen each other Hashirama killed him. He talked about uniting Ying and Yang and clearly meant Hashirama as Yang to his Ying. He ended up merging a part of Hashirama into himself in a most literal sense. He can't shut up about Hashirama when we see him as himself and not an impersonator (obito) or through other's memories.

#For me Madara and Hashirama is a package deal most of the time.#when I see that bond ignored it feels wrong and like it's not Madara at all #they are canonically soulmates #and Hashirama is beyond special no one else would get that level of attraction and fixation from madara #Hashirama is a very rare combination of a person who shared his ideas and vision ( even if they went different ways about it in the end)#and was equal to Madara or stronger than him #and that man does love to get his ass kicked #and doesn't like when it's him beating someone else's ass easily on the other hand as we can see from the manga #tbh only other ( very crack) pairing that I can somewhat consider for Madara is with Gai for that exact reason - he loved to fight him #madagai / gaimada ( ? does this dynamic exist?) is not my cup of tea but I definitely see where ot could come from and it looks fun #Madara liked to fight him #was real excited #and that's very important with him #idk where I'm even going with all of this #trying to write down my thoughts is like herding cats #maybe I'll write about it more later #hashimada #hsmd #hashimada thoughts #madara headcanons

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im-still-watching-anime · 9 months

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sasuke, saying his vows: you’re the only one that i’d ever even consider that might be able to beat me in a fight

naruto, tearing up: omg….sasuke…..

sakura, also tearing up from the audience: this is the least romantic shit i have ever seen in my entire life i hate them so much

literally everyone else watching: what the fuck…….

#romance🥰✨#naruto #naruto shippuden #naruto incorrect quotes #sasunaru #sns #uzumaki naruto #uchiha sasuke #haruno sakura #naruto team 7 #sasuke keeps a list of everyone he thinks he could beat up #and every single person alive is on that list but naruto is the only one with a question mark next to his name <3 #soulmates tbh #will i ever stop imagining them getting married in ways that reflect how dumbass they are?#no <3 #me writing sns marriage fic: wait but they’re stupid #me making sns marriage posts: wait but they’re stupid #me thinking about sns marriage: WAIT but they’re STUPID #stupid/dumbass/etc as always said with all the love in my heart

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liltaireissocute · 3 months

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please know my actions are not motivated only by envy

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bluest-planet · 8 months

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The lack of KH mermaid aus is criminal, like, it basically writes itself.

#blue speaks #listen like #already read all the ones i liked or was interested in #usually im not one for aus unless its like. Canon divergence #im a modern/highschool/nopowers/coffeeshop/florist/soulmate hater alright #but MERMAID aus? idk man smth about em gets me #rarely but it does #anyways #very sad to see it not be poppin'#at least to my preference #im not the biggest soriku or sorikai person or roman in general #also very picky #no im not writing for this and thats a fact not a 'haha whoopse' bc its not smth im interested in writing tbh #id consider it after doing some other stuff or smth but no. im not adding it to the list and its not a priority #just wish id see that cute giant mer roxas and his fisherman bestie sora fanart in a fic lol id read that platonic or not #btw while i love the heart hotel as found siblings/family that doesn't mean im some kinda hater of any of those ships inside it #i like em all except vanitas and ven bc them being worsties is so funny to me i love it #some of the best kinda relationships are the ones that can fit any dynamic #again why i like queerplatonic heart hotel ftw #but soroku and soven and sovani and even sorxion (?) fans i see u and i hear u literally anything for heart hotel (romantic or not idc)#oh and i guess im not a fan of xion and roxas.... but that again my lack of intrest in a simple romance like that? idk to me they're friends #or siblings even #but cool if you like em #anyways pls send me some good mer fic recs if u got some thanks. or good heart hotel fics in gen. 👍#good night

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crescentfool · 9 months

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WHATS UR FAVORITE RYOMINA MOMENT FROM THE MOVIES I NEED TO KNOW!!!

HI FELIX!! thank you for the ask i am always happy to take more opportunities to talk about ryomina they are so special to me o7

it is VERY tempting for me to answer, "every fucking time ryoji showed up on screen!" ok this might be an exaggeration, i like 90% of his screentime, december 2nd ryoji should've been portrayed more like a pathetic wet dog imo but i digress. but hm... favorite moment.

while the helper's club montage has a very strong place in my heart (it permeated my braincells without my permission)!! i think my favorite part of ryomina's portrayal in the movies is the whole sentence finishing thing they got going on. i feel like that's a cop out answer but like.

there is something so so gut wrenching to me about how they start off by making it so that ryoji is the one finishing minato's sentences. always ryoji. BUT THEN!!! when they meet again at the top of tartarus to do battle on judgment day!! they turn it on it's head!! and it's minato!! who finishes the sentence!! and fuck man does it make me feel like i'm being kicked down a staircase.

and to have the sentence finishing happen again for such an important day?? god idk im gonna tear up and someone needs to like. give me like. a chew toy or something this makes me so fucking insane (blows up) (blows up).

so basically my favorite moment is really like, january 31st, but a lot of my attachment to it is BECAUSE they have that set-up in november with ryoji being the silliest fucking guy to have ever walked at gekkoukan. and oh man oh man the fucking. THE. when. WHEN THEY FOLLOW IT UP WITH MINATO SUMMONING THANATOS AFTER THIS?? yeah man. that's the fucking shit.

like i don't think the english language is enough to convey how much i love the artistic choice to have the flash frame of ryoji when minato summons thanatos. it's the hesitation and rebellion babey!!! the whole scene afterwards is so fucking juicy as well.

honorable mention to when ryoji jumped off the fucking roof at iwatodai station to tell minato that he has kindness in his eyes and that he doesn't like seeing him alone. what kind of guy does that. that's so fucking hilarious to me like actually. he was insane for that.

anyway that is my answer i HOPE u enjoyed reading it, god, ryomina still makes me eyes watery (it's been almost 2 years since i've met them??? what the fuck). i feel like others have echoed this sentiment before but nevertheless i was super happy to type it out :D

#lizzy speaks #lizzy askbox #IM SO FUKCING NORMAL ABOUT RYOMINA PERSONA 3 !!!!!!!! WHY DO THEY KEEP DOING THIS TO ME!!#ohhh they give me so much joy thank you thank you for the ask i love to yell about them and blow up #also happy mochizuki monday everyone :) i have a sketch for it i just want to apply some colors first and then i'll post!!#i love answering things in the askbox thank you for the very enthusiastic ask!!!#also re: the helper's club scenes i mentioned in the tags of my redraw of the hallway handholding scene that-#when i watched the movies originally i had to fucking pause after they held hands!! to sleep!!!#so i was just there in bed RESTLESS THINKING 'ohmy godthoohomyhgodt hhey they holdedhands holyfucking shit what am i perceivngi'#it was insane tbh so in that respect the helper's club scenes are very unforgettable to me because it was a brain parasite #but i thought i'd answer with january 31st because it still makes me want to eat dirt and it feels like very good ryomina to me like ohh #bitches who be weak to narrative themeing (me!!) eat this shit up like it's a buffet ohhhh my god they were soulmates #...i'm rambling. can you tell these guys make me not normal at all (insert im so fucking normal gif of the guy pounding the ground here)

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yellowocaballero · 8 months

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I loved NewWave and it's nominated for my top reads 2023, BUT THE JASON FICLET??? I thought it was going to be a light read but it hit me full force in the face because I didn't expect to identify so much with Jason! When I read your Jason it was like I was reading myself and I want you to know that I started reading it early at night and finished it at dawn because I constantly had to stop and cry because of how much my heart resonated with his! loved it

HI THANK YOU <3

I'm glad you identified with him! Jason is very much a character who's a little like me too. He's a born writer, and his way of using fiction to put the world in a framework that he can understand is very relatable. It leaves him a little out of touch with the reality of situations, but that's a feature and not a bug.

I can't relate as much to the racial undercurrent in the story, but I don't want to understate it. It has to suck for Jason to feel constantly compared to the blonde haired blue eyed 'perfect sidekick'. She provides something seen as valuable and ideal that Jason never could. Coming from Steph's viewpoint (and considering canon) the idea of her being unattainable perfection is deeply funny, but it's very real to Jason. Adding in Tim - who's identical to Bruce and comes from the same social strata - makes Jason feel like it's every man for himself.

That's what makes his connection with Bruce even more important, though. He's the polar opposite of Bruce in every way, but although Tim and Bruce are similar in a lot of ways, Jason and Bruce have a deep connection and understanding that Tim and Steph don't. They're both dreamers who make the world a stage, their need for justice comes from a place of great pain, and they love in quiet ways.

Jason's a special kid. Like Steph, he has so much value that he doesn't see. Unlike her, he wants more - he's hungry for it, that life with meaning and kindness. He's finally attained something good, and he's scared of losing it. He has so much to offer that he can't see, and the happiness of the story is when he's seen.

New Wave was my way of giving a character who's been routinely fucked over by canon and sidelined by fandom the spotlight. She's special and perfect and loved and recognized and important because...she's none of those things 'in real life'. I wanted to give that to her. Steph's a character I related to when I was her age, and I wanted to give that to myself too.

Jason came from a similar place. I do think canon & fanon are like...overly obsessed with him lmfao. There's a billion 'Jason joins the manor' stories and it's why I almost didn't write the story lol. But he's rarely given the chance to be a kid, one who exists in his own right - to join the Batfam out of his own choice, which is something bizarrely rare in fic. And kids like Jason are the forgotten ones, and it will always be Jason's dream to show the forgotten children that they're as much Robin as he is.

I'm glad it meant something to you ;-;. This story meant a lot to me too, which is why I can go onnnn about it lol. Thanks for reading and enjoying! <3

#tbh the only reason why the jason story was written besides my demons was the fact that #ive read a ton of jason joins the manor stories and its kinda nuts how in none of them #jason and bruce are like. friends #jason is always downright kidnapped to the manor and he's terrified of bruce until bruce Dad Proposes and theyre happy #its always 'jason realizes bruce is a good dad' and not #jason likes bruce as a person and wants to be around him and decides that this is where he wants to live his life #same on bruce's end. i never feel like there's an actual reason for why he shares his ID with a random street kid #it's always written with an element of soulmates if that makes sense #what makes jason so special? well he's jason todd the second robin #theres no actual in unverse reason why bruce picks jason #and i dont like a kid being someone you 'picked'#anyway similar to how i didnt want bruce to be a straight up father figure to steph and tim #this story was meant to show how bruce is now ready to be an actual father #and how thats shown by him forming a genuine connection born from friendship and resonance #i feel like bruce is chronically assigned Good Dad and not rly given an internal life #he wasnt ready to legitimately parent tim it was something he had to learn #idk the minute a nonPOV character is parent coded they lose all inner life and motivation #which i feel like says something about how fic writers view parents lmofa #that's another rant though #my writing #my asks

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findafight · 10 months

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i do want catws opinions!! so much!!! mcu cap am was one of my major interests for quite some time, so i am Very interested! tbh don't much care for the rest of the mcu all that much, like ive seen quite a few of the movies but absolutely far from all of them. and like tbh i cared the most about catfa & catws and then steve and his relationship with people, idk i just love his character so much, I've done some sort of analysis inside my head of his character, but it's been A While so i don't remember any of it in words, just vibes lol. also idk how i feel about cacw, it just sorta didn't feel like His story, it felt more like avengers 2.5 or smth.

also related to steve & peggy, i feel like the thing that makes their story stay so strong Is the missed opportunity, the longing for something that can never be. it's this thing that was on the brink of possibility, and where the potential was so big and tangible, and they both felt it, and then all of a sudden the possibility is gone, it's lost, forever. idk like i think steve going back in time to dance with peggy would be sweet, But, it just doesn't move me as much unless peggy also knows that the moment is a promise fullfilled and a dream that can never be, it's one more aching moment together and then it's goodbye. idk like i thought the scene in endgame when they danced was absolutely beautiful, but to me it is a dream, and to me it feels kinda disrespectful to all of them(steve peggy & bucky) to have steve go backwards, that's not him, maybe when he first woke up after the ice, if presented with the possibility he wouldn't be able to resist, but otherwise his character is LITERALLY about getting back up again!! and then also peggy had a life?? with someone else!! and she was happy with her life! he literally knows this, he talked to her when she was old! why would he disregard that?? and then why would he live the rest of his life knowing bucky is the winter soldier and then NOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT????????? idk it's just like, when SO MUCH of steves story is so closely intertwined with bucky it just doesn't make any sense to leave him??

also while i am a romantic stucky believer, truly more than that i am a soulmates stucky believer! so the stobin tws au really really hit me in the feels yk.

Okay so. What makes CAWS so good, and one of the best mcu films, is that it uses superheroes not as a genre, but as a vehicle for a genre. Winter Soldier is a spy thriller. Arguably TFA also does this by being a war film? But WS embraces it. It's so clearly a spy thriller with a superhero setting! More superhero movies should have co-genre I think. It can be watched as a stand alone, with good solid introductions to characters, to the point that it's bascially the only mcu movie I've watched with my mother that she hasn't asked "who's that?" and why they were doing stuff. Basically every other one, besides the first in their series require prior knowledge of characters for most of the impact of them.

WS doesn't? We see Steve and Natasha have a friendly relationship, that steve's a supersoldier and also takes risks (no parachute), that they're some kind of soldiers, that there's some secret operations going on. We get this! Then we meet Sam and we see that Steve is also incredibly lonely, we see him at the Howling Commandos exhibit, and sure maybe it's hamfisted by focusing on bucky or whatever but that sets it up! we now who steve is, why he's lonely, and some of his values.

and even without TFA, as soon as the mask comes off, we know this is someone steve knows. When he insists on saving Bucky, he uses the line "even when I had nothing, I had Bucky" having watched tfa before just makes it hit harder.

I'm going to be real with you I've watched civil war once and was like "this is kinda stupid? very stupid" and then stopped really paying attention to most marvel movies.

oh yes so true about Steve and Peggy. It's compelling because the could have beens. If that had happened, but then steve went back to present, I would not be mad. It wouldn't be weirdly stealing someone else's life? Especially combined with the Agent Carter Tv series, Peggy has closure for Steve's death. Though it's still an ache, and she mourns and misses him, she's still living her life. She isn't caught up on him as a romantic interests. She has multiple (they should have given us more cartinelli tbh we were robbed in s2) in the series! She had a good, long, and happy life. Steve just dropping in sometime in the 40s(?) with the expectation of pursuing a romantic relationship with her would likely be a shock, and unwanted. They both would have changed from where they left off, both having mourned each other and their relationship. It wouldn't have worked! But to have him drop in. tell her "hey. I can't stay for long. I'm sorry it has to be this way. But I owe you a dance, and it's been killing me breaking a promise to my best girl." That!!! would have!! been! so sweet! A final goodbye for both of them. The final closure and fulfilled promise from oh so long ago.

Steve had spent at least ten years out of the ice before endgame. I just. How could they slide him back to what he would have done directly after being thawed? Like I don't think even lost sadman beginning of ws steve would have stayed back. He's changed and he can't go back to what things were. he keeps getting up, even when he shouldn't! That's what's endearing about Steve, his stubbornness, and his willingness to put himself on the line to protect people. That's why he was the first and only (official) American supersoldier. He carries on, even when it's almost unbearable for him to do so.

It's so... It felt cheap and insulting to him and Peggy and Bucky. Because you're correct!! It means Steve went back to nineteen fourty-whatever and chose not to do anything about the 80+ years of horrible things that happened in the world. Especially chose not to do anything when he knew exactly where Bucky, who he had previously jumped behind enemy lines with nothing but a wing a prayer and a shield to save, who he had defied governments for, who he's nearly died for multiple times, was??? how in the WORLD did the same screenwriters and directors who made one of the best marvel movies that highlighted and used their friendship in such a compelling way also write/direct that for them? how? valuing romance over any other kind of relationship I guess?

yeah I think what's compelling about stucky is that there is so much love there, that they've known each other for their whole lives, and will continue to be (or should be) a vast part of each other's worlds no matter what that relationship looks like. They're soulmates, whatever that looks like for them. and if it's romance then that romance is built upon the deep devoted friendship they have. That's everything about them. Everything is built on a sickly and scrappy kid who couldn't leave well enough alone and got pushed into the dirt by bullies he stood up to over, and over, and over again, and some charming schmuck who looked at him and thought "I'm gonna help him keep get back up". to the point where they broke over half a century of brain washing because of it.

#findaanswers #anon do you remember the glory days of like. 2012-2014 avengers fandom. esp 2014 post winter soldier #my god. it was simpler times. didn't know what we had until we lost it.#mcu #caws #captain america #stucky #cap #tbh it's kinda similar to how I see blr? like the romance is interesting and heartbreaking because they are friends first #and that anything other than that must be built with that massively devoted friendship in mind #but obviously yeah stobin fits ws because they're unhinged and decidedly abnormal about each other. they're soulmates #Robin WOULD go behind enemy lines for steve. steve would break decades of brainwashing and torture by seeing robin's face #anonasaurus #finda's rambles #meta #steggy

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remyfire · 21 days

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Me when any of you make even the tiniest possible reference in tags to wanting BJ and Margaret to kiss after I've written 78% of the BJ/Margaret fics published since 2015

#this image but bass boosted tbh #where the fuck are you all get in here there have been exactly four people in my canoe for SO LONG #THIS DOESN'T HAVE TO EXCLUDE HAWKEYE OKAY I NEED THEM /ALL/ KISSING #bj and hawkeye are soulmates yes yes we all know this but the THING is that—#i can't even talk normally about it sorry #why did bj say he wants to see margaret in her underwear #why did bj and hawkeye offer to tag team margaret in the shower #why does bj get pissy and bitchy whenever margaret has a love interest #why is margaret always interposed between bj and her love interest of the week when they're on screen together #i am shaking the bars of my enclosure #my ramblings

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datwafflesartblog · 2 years

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Tilly death do us part~

#dlsmp #double life smp #double life smp fanart #double life spoilers #double life smp spoilers #pearlescentmoon #my art #trafficblr #i am not normal about pearl winning btw #she deserves it in every way possible #she is the very first loner to ever win #in a world full of soulmates the one loner won #shes also the first one to ever actually have a wolf army be useful #the one that looks like little red riding hood won with wolves #everything about pearl man very happy she won holy shit #on another note tilly is still on red so shes the true winner tbh #also love that even in the last episode she still finds a way to get broken up with #by another polycule too #ALSO also through out this whole thing with everyone saying the people with chosen soulmates got to the end. Pearl never really got a choic #on episode 1 she was very excited to have a soulmate #she wanted to find them right away and do what the other soulmates are doing #but when she found them they literally just abandon her #she never got the choice to stay with her soulmate because theyve already made their mind #even the friend she was with the whole time abandoned her #what else do you do when everyone abandons you? of course you cling onto the only thing you can have #even in the end being alone wasnt her choice. dying was taken from her too #im never gonna be normal about dl!pearl im gonna miss her so much

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redysetdare · 8 months

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Y'know, Even if Soulmate AU's dropped the romantic angle I think I would still dislike them for the sole fact that they disregard the idea that people have free will. It's all about a predetermined destiny of always being with one specific person and idk about you but that idea feels...bad. it feels incredibly bad. i find the idea of people choosing each other to be so much more impactful and feel good than people who are destined to be together. It's the idea that somehow, out of everyone on earth, you both chose each other. you both chose you wanted to be friends/family/whatever. Out of everyone you chose them and they chose you.

#text #tropes #soulmate aus #fandom #red string of fate #idk what to tag this as #tbh maybe this is me projecting my fear of being forced into relationships or trapped in relationships i dont want to be in #i just wish people understood that 'it can be platonic too' doesn't automatically mean everyone will like soulmate aus #like yeah the romantic angle they all take def causes some issues #but people can have more issues with it than just that #idk im p sure i saw a post expressing this same sentiment before and i cant find it and maybe i reblogged it already #but i wanted to talk about it so made a post abt it

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notebooknonbinary · 1 year

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Byler Week, Day 2: 80s Movies (Peggy Sue Got Married, 1986)

(technically a sequel to this. All you need to know is that Mike and Will can read each other's minds--and they know that they like each other.)

Mike and Will are back in the Upside Down—in Hopper’s cabin. This time, at least, they’re not alone. Outside, Joyce and Hopper are keeping watch so they can get some sleep. Unfortunately, neither one of them can. So they’re just laying beside each other, listening to the faint murmuring of the couple outside.

“Mom and I made up last week,” Mike finally murmurs into the quiet air. He sees Will immediately turn to face him. “Yeah? How did that go?”

“She apologized for putting all the secret keeping on me—aparently Nance really reamed her on that after the fight.”

“Well, good. You deserved to be apologized to.”

Mike hides his smile in the crook of his elbow, wondering if Will can feel how giddy Mike gets when Will defends him. (The answer, he suspects, is yes.)

“Thanks,” he whispers. “Then we watched a movie that came out recently? Honestly, it was kind of stupid—Peggy Sue Was Married? Or something like that—but me and Mom both kind of hated it, so we made fun of it together.” Will snaps his fingers. “Peggy Sue Got Married? El and I watched that one, I liked it until she got back with the cheating husband at the end—”

“—that's why Mom thought it was stupid. I guess she saw that’s where it was going and felt it would have ended better if Peggy decided to go through with the divorce.” Mike is silent for a long moment. He picks at the hangnail on his thumb. “Then she started crying and said that she’s been daydreaming about divorcing my dad.” “Oh, Mike…” “She said she’s held out for our sakes, and honestly I almost picked a fight with her about it. I wish they would divorce.”

Will reaches out and grabs Mike’s hand. “Maybe my Mom can talk to her about it after this is all done with.”

"Maybe."

Mike laces their fingers together, and leans over to press the briefest of kisses to their interlocked fingers.

They’re on the precipice of being in a relationship—having confessed and kissed, and accidentally formed a powers-bond—but unwilling to take that final step of calling each other boyfriends.

If Mike were to lose Will…

He thinks back to the night after Will’s fake body was discovered (easy with Vecna’s recent reminder), those few hours where Mike had well and truly believed Will to be dead. And the hours afterwards where he’d remained terrified of Will slipping through his fingers forever.

He tightens his grip on Will’s hand, scooching just a bit closer to him. Will obligingly curls nearer to him, twinning their free hands together.

They fall asleep like this.

-

When Mike wakes up, it’s to the kind of crusty eyes he associates with late night crying sessions. He feels off and tired and like there’s too much stuff crowding his brain. He sits up, finding himself in his basement—but it’s also wrong.

It’s not the basement of the past year (messy with so many of his family friends living in it), but nor is it the basement in the Upside Down, cold and damp, but free of Vines.

It’s the basement of four years ago. Warm, filled with toys and Will’s drawings.

When he looks at his hands, they’re tiny and scuffed from falling off his bike last night.

Wait, no, not last night. Four years ago.

Right?

He looks to the corner to see a tiny version of El, awake and fiddling with his old Walkie-Talkie, though nothing but static is coming through. No tiny voice singing. No Will.

Worry turns to painful anxiety and fear.

No no no please no. If, somehow, the following three years were just a dream thought up by a desperate twelve year old wishing that his favorite person were still alive…Mike doesn’t know if he’ll be able to survive that. Not Will, please not Will. A hiccuping sob escapes his chest.

He’s almost certain this isn’t another one of Vecna’s tricks, because things haven’t gone funky and weird like last time. But, he’d almost rather that it is Vecna, just so he can be certain that Will is coming to get him. That Will is still…

He lets out another painful quiet cry, curling in on himself. He hears El take a breath at the noise, but he ignores her.

Then, finally, Will’s mental voice breaks through the silent screaming in his mind. I’m here Mike.

Mike lets out another sob, this time of relief. Are you safe?

He’s hit with a second hand wave of exasperated fondness. As safe as I can be. I don’t think Henry knows we’re here.

Mike sits back and scrubs the tears from his eyes. How are we here?

Some sort of powers thing? Will guesses. Time travel is new. We didn’t even do it like Marty McFly, we had to pull a Peggy Sue.

Mike bites back a laugh. It seems topical, considering their previous conversation. No Delorean for us, I guess.

Now that he’s aware of what’s going on, his mind has untangled a little bit. Somehow Mike can feel the presence of their younger selves, sat at the back of their minds and aware. His younger self has done the mental equivalent of curling around the younger Will like a feral cat, hissing when Mike prods their way, but otherwise calmer than he would expect them to be.

But then, Mike at this age would and did suspend a lot of disbelief in his crusade to get Will back. So older selves from the future probably isn’t too much of a reach.

Speaking of getting Will back, today is the day Joyce made brief contact with Will. If I can shepard the Party to your house, Mike wonders. Do you think we’d be able to get you out early?

A pause.

Yes please.

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When I eventually get around to posting this on Ao3 it'll be longer--it's not quite finished, and Mike keeps going off into tangents about found families lolol. But i think this is a good stopping point :)

#bylerweek2023 #Day 2: 80s Movies #byler #mike wheeler #will byers #peggy sue got married aka the movie that popularized one of my fav time travel tropes--even tho the movie itself is kind of stupid imo #and tbh fic's only tangentally related to my choice of movie in that they mental time travel and Talk Shit about said movie #also this could technically fall under soulmates day but for that day i'm just gonna post a chapter of All the Time in the World lololol #i have Not gone to bed yet. My body hurts and i was writing. gonna try and nap for a few hours until the watch party lol

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rest your old bones

a dijkstra/isengrim ficlet

aw beans those old men possessed me again!

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Though he made a show of complaining about the unfortunate weather and his tireless work, Isengrim would rather gnaw off his own arm than admit to any serious discomforts. He could be bleeding out onto Dijkstra’s silk rugs from some hidden knife wound and not make a peep about it. “Damn ankle’s killing me,” groaned Dijkstra, who had no such constraints. “And my back kept seizing up all afternoon. Not to mention, I fear I’ve suffered permanent mental damage merely being in the presence of my latest client and his wife.” “Ah, you are one foot in the grave,” Isengrim said as he rounded the settee. Dijkstra opened his eyes to watch him kneel on the silk rug, fingers already tugging at the lacing of the brace that supported his frail ankle.

#the witcher #my fic #isengrim x dijkstra #dijkstra x isengrim #dijksengrim #the absurdity of writing the tenderest fluff of a deadly fugitive and morally dubious ex spymaster is just #anyway i continue to be possesed #it's about the snarky sarcastic banter tbh #they're soulmates

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