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laundrybiscuits · 1 year

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Eden actually likes her name. When she thinks about the muslin-draped horrors she could’ve gotten stuck with, like poor Suzie, she feels guiltily glad she dodged that bullet. If she’d been the one who had to shoulder the impossible burden of being named Suzie, who knows how she might’ve turned out.

Eden is a word that could go a lot of ways. It’s almost as good as Lilith or Isis or something. It’s the kind of name that could be sexy, in the right hands. The kind of name you could say on stage: ladies and gentlemen, introducing the one and only Eden—

That’s where the picture stalls out, though. Eden Bingham is pretty awful, no matter how you spin it. She wants to pick a stage name like some glamorous Hollywood actress, but she hasn’t decided exactly what she wants yet. She thinks it would be real elegant to pick something French, like…like Verne.

There’s a battered paperback tucked under her mattress at home, where sticky, prying little fingers can’t get at it. She’s not a fast reader, but she’s read it about a million times by now. Sometimes when she can’t sleep, she’ll take it out and just squint at it in the moonlight, tracing her fingertips over the faded elephant on the cover. It’s a story about some guy who was so bored he decided to travel all around the world, and nobody stopped him. He could just go. He didn’t have any kids or anything that he had to take care of or look after; in fact, there was some guy whose whole job was to look after him.

For a little while, Eden thought about borrowing the main guy’s last name, but Eden Fogg sounds kind of old and stuffy. She could take the French valet’s name, but she’s not completely confident she knows how to pronounce Passepartout, and she’s terrified she’s going to say it wrong and nobody’s going to take her seriously ever again.

The author’s French too, though, and his name seems a lot easier to handle. So, lately she’s been looking in the mirror and saying Eden Verne, hi my name is Eden Verne real quiet to herself, just testing it out. She’s not sure about it yet, but it’s definitely better than Eden Bingham.

Eden Bingham is just a handful of years away from Edie Bingham, who spends her time looking after a house full of kids and wears shapeless floor-length dresses. But Eden Verne could be someone who travels and wears exciting makeup. Eden Verne drinks and swears and smokes, and she never has to deal with kids ever again. Beautiful, sophisticated men and women alike despair for love of her, but she never lets anyone stay more than a night.

Anyway, she doesn’t have to figure out if she can carry off Verne yet, because the stupid boy she followed halfway across the country introduced her to his friends as Eden Bingham, so she never got the chance to decide if she was going to say something different. She probably wouldn’t have, but—maybe she would. Maybe. She’ll never know.

The thing with Argyle fizzled out pretty quick. He’s cute, and making out with him is fun, but he doesn’t ever seem to want anything real out of life. Eden can’t understand him at all, and worse yet, she’s pretty sure he doesn’t understand her. When they’re high, they communicate just fine giggling about the cosmos, but that’s not enough. She’s sure there’s supposed to be more, even if she’s not entirely sure what that means.

She broke up with him on an impulse, and sometimes she regrets it. He’s a good guy. He’s not like any other guy she’s ever known. He’s willing to drive clear across the country, which is what she liked about him to begin with. Maybe that’s as good as it gets for her.

But she can’t take it back now. It’s not even that she thinks he’d say no, necessarily; she just can’t handle the idea of trying to walk back something like that. She’d die of humiliation before the words made it out of her mouth.

So Eden’s just here, in Hawkins, staying in her ex-fling’s best friend’s step-dad’s spare room because it’s still marginally better than having to hitch home to Utah. Argyle is planning to drive back to California in a few weeks, so she’s going to just ride with him then. In the meantime, she’s going to have a nice, quiet vacation in Indiana, doing whatever it is Midwesterners do in the summer, and then she’ll go home and nothing at all about the life of Eden Bingham will have changed.

#eden bingham #so yeah this is the robin rarepair I mentioned! I don't want to talk too much in the tags bc I want to see if I can sell it via narrative #obvs this is the same story as the matchmaking snippet I posted last night but I don't think it follows directly #I just wrote it & it seemed like a pretty self-contained thing so here u go #(also I'm kinda assuming this post is not going to be too popular given it has zero ship content and is about a very minor character haha)#(which is fine! that's just how fandom works! maximum engagement is not my goal I'm just here to try stuff out)#anyway there's a pretty good chance this'll get rewritten once I have a better handle on eden's voice #fic: somewhere sometime somehow

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kristoffs-lullaby · 8 months

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Voy a navegar en tu puerto azul

Quisiera saber de donde vienes tu

Vamos a dejar que el tiempo pare

Ver nuestros recuerdos en los mares

#song is Soledad y el Mar by Natalia Lafourcade #theyve so terribly invaded my mind #Yes i took killian’s blue eyes #This usually happens to blue eyed characters i like LOL #he looked like that one blue eyes meme u know the one i did him a favor #ouat #captain swan #once upon a time #btw did u know killian is he/they nonbinary and emma is trans all pronouns haver #theyre t4 t if u think about it #dumping my captain swan hcs here for mo reason other than i must talk about them #in my perfect world killian is shorter than emma #killian taught emma to sword fight #emma taught killian to drive but he hates cars so she drives him everywhere #he WOULD however give motorcycles a chance #his love is his ship tho but u cant get everywhere via sea smh #emma would only call killian babe when shes quoting something btw i know this in my heart #the only contact killian has saved on their phone is emma’s every body else whos ever texted/called him has remained as Just A Phone Number

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deiaiko · 2 months

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#19.3 Unravel

It had been some time since Agni felt this nervous. Not even talking with Jinsung Ha recently had made him feel like this. He fiddled with the mask on his hand as he waited for Grace to come back. He had thought hard on how to deliver the news, but he knew that no matter how he phrased it, Grace would be upset. Velt nuzzled under his palm and Agni gave her a few pats, before deciding that she would be better inside her bowl in his lighthouse, just in case the shinsu acted up around Grace after he received the news.

Grace came back wearing the comfiest shirt and shorts Agni knew Grace liked to wear on lazy days. He joined him on the floor, and they ate dinner together. Agni always finished last, so while waiting for him to finish his meal, Grace told him about his day with Bam. Grace was intrigued by how much his way of thinking had changed, and how glad he was to be able to be by Bam's side when he was having a bad day. It reminded Agni of the hidden floor, when Grace faced his sworn enemy.

They left the used bowls on the coffee table and went to brush their teeth. Afterwards, they turned off the light and went upstairs to sit on their bed. Grace's curious gaze never left him, and Agni curled his feet nervously.

Grace was the one who broke the silence. "So…what is it?"

Agni's breath hitched. This was the part he dreaded most. "I talked with the crocodile earlier. Did you know that he could manipulate stone already?"

"Huh." Grace needed a few seconds to let the information sink in. "Didn't Rak learn it on the Hell train? How does he know it?"

"Turns out our crocodile also traveled back to the past like us. He found the young crocodile and taught him."

"What?!" Grace gasped, wide eyed. "That means our Rak is–!!"

"He's dead." Agni quickly snuffed out that hope. They had been in delusion for long enough; it was time that they faced the bitter truth. "He suffered a fatal injury from the explosion. He couldn't have lasted long without proper help." Agni omitted the actual cause for Rak's death, but still kept his words true. "I'm sorry."

"…Oh." Grace looked lost, just like Agni was. His lips parted a little, but they closed before any sound escaped.

Agni gently squeezed Grace's hand, encouraging and comforting as he let the silence stretch on, giving Grace some time to process the information.

"Agni…" Grace whispered, "do you think Hatz and Isu…?"

Agni bit his lip and avoided his gaze, as the nightmare of that day replayed in his mind. He witnessed Hatz get his arms ripped off when trying to protect him. He could still recall the clang of a sword hitting the floor, and Hatz's suppressed scream that gnawed deep at his guilt. He witnessed Isu get beheaded after being taken hostage, the memory of warm blood painting them both still vivid like it happened yesterday.

Agni refused to acknowledge their possible deaths, because it felt like a nightmare that one day he could hopefully wake up from. He avoided the topic when Grace brought it up, so he wouldn't have to say it aloud and make it real. He had been so hard on himself, because he couldn't get rid of the feeling that he had failed Grace and everyone else involved.

Agni knew this had to change if he wanted to live better, now that they had gotten a second chance. So he swallowed down the lump in his throat that had built up over the years and asked mostly to himself; "What are the odds of their survival?"

"There's always a chance–"

"Grace." Agni looked him straight in the eye. "They were already severely injured before the explosion hit."

Grace fell silent and went still.

Agni felt a pang of guilt upon witnessing Grace's reaction. "Sorry. I didn't mean to snap." Agni fiddled with his hands. He realized that he didn't know how much Grace knew of what happened. "My scar…do you know how I got it?"

"I…was told it was from the family heads' battle." Grace looked thoughtful. Agni knew he was trying to be careful with his words. "A stray attack?"

"It could have been worse." The memory of the scorching heat on his skin felt like it had only happened yesterday. He passed out right when he was about to heal Isu, and only found out later that he also lost sweetfish at that time. The days he spent recovering from the burn, to withstand the excruciating pain every second he was conscious, and finally coming to terms that it'd be a permanent scar, was one of the turning points that had changed him forever. Were Grace not there to care for him, he might have ended up destroying himself even more.

Agni hadn't realized he had his left hand clawing on his cheek until Grace pried his hand off and frowned, "You're doing it again."

"Maybe I should wear the mask…" Agni muttered to himself. After all, Grace gave it to him less so he could hide the scar but more to prevent him from unconsciously hurting himself. The only time he could safely take it off was when Grace was around.

Agni bit his lip nervously when Grace didn't reply. He no longer had the courage to look Grace in the eye that spoke so much concern, so he leaned close and rested his head on Grace's chest. "Rak, Isu, Hatz and Hwaryun were trying to get me out of that damned place. But we were caught while escaping, and…it was a bloodbath. I was…too occupied to react to the incoming heat. Rak shielded us from the explosion. And when I woke up…"

"They weren’t with you," Grace finished it for him after Agni trailed off a moment too long.

Agni nodded dazedly, "I've been telling myself that they're still alive, after a blow that could kill rankers. But…who am I kidding? I was lucky enough to survive with just this little–" Agni vaguely pointed to himself– "inconvenience."

Agni felt a hand gripping his arm, and he pulled away to see Grace looking at him with a pained expression. His eyes were glossy and his lips were pulled into a thin line. Trusting his instinct, Agni reached out to gently trace and cup Grace's cheek with his free hand.

"I'm sorry," Agni muttered. "I'm sorry, for not telling you sooner."

Agni silently witnessed tears that streamed down on his love's face. It was a bitter sight that Agni wished he'd never have to see again, that he had tried to avoid for so long by not telling him. He pulled Grace in and held him close to his chest, as if Agni was trying to gather his own crumbled heart back together.

Grace mumbled their late best friends' names as he held onto him tighter, shaking from each breath he took between sniffles.

Agni felt his own eyes sting with unshed tears. He remembered the years he spent climbing the tower together with his old team. Despite their banter being his source of headaches, Agni knew he too had come to acknowledge them as his cherished friends. Only when they were gone did Agni realize how much he'd miss having them around. Seeing the younger them didn't exactly close the gaping hole in his heart, but at least the emptiness was more filled.

Agni squeezed Grace tighter. "We have their younger selves with us now. We will protect them better this time."

Grace only nodded and sank further into his embrace. And Agni planted kisses on his hair, relishing the thought that after everything he had gone through, Grace was still a constant in his life. As long as he had him, everything would be okay.

When Grace started shaking again, Agni caressed his hair and hummed a comfort song they had known by heart. Still, it didn't make falling asleep any easier for Agni, especially not after admitting that his nightmare was very much real. However, as he had been through grief…this, too, would pass.

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#Whee we get to know some of their past. Specifically their turning point #I hope it flows nicely because i have rewritten this like 3 times now 😭😭😭 dialogues are just not my specialty #like how to make them reveal such information without making them come out of the blue #writing style aside. let's talk about why Agni behaves this way #I will save the details on the what and how for the prologue. but basically Agni had been through hell that he couldn't escape alone #Rak Hatz and Isu saved him (or attempted to). and Agni owed them for saving his life. thus the strong attachment that Khun doesn't have #also let me mention that Agni had trouble differentiating between hallucination and reality after the incident. So he was kind of in denial #maybe Agni had come to a conclusion that they might be dead months after that. but he was too afraid to admit it to Grace #because he thought it was partly his fault for being incompetent. and Grace would hate him for letting their friends die #not wanting to risk being left by Grace. he just put himself (and inevitably Grace too) in the illusion of truth #that there's still a chance their friends are still alive because they have no proof of their deaths #so when Agni was offered to go back to the past. he agreed to it. Already expecting that Rak Hatz Isu aren't the same ones that he looks fo #but it was as good as he could get to redeem himself. Plus they get to meet everyone else who they couldn't save #Anyway. I'm taking hiatus until April. In return I will answer if you have any questions whether it is written in the tags or sent via ask #see ya folks <3 we'll get more brothers and team bonding when I return #tower of god #tog #two sides of the same coin fic #my fic #my art #bam #25th bam #jue viole grace #khun #khun aguero agnis #khunbam #shibisu #ship leesoo #rak wraithraiser #hatz

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wasabijean · 6 months

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it's over guys everybody go home

#osmosis jones #thrax #do i even tag this as...#no no i won't you will not find that ship on my page ever #sorry i don't like inherently antiblack pairings my fault guys #yeah let's talk about the fetishization of black males via thrax and how people portray him in ozzy/thrax #let's talk about how ozzy/thrax is literally a pairing between a serial killer and his next victim #let's talk about it. maybe in another post later but.#hmm

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cursedfortune · 2 months

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how do you need to be touched?

gently.

you need to be held as though you're going to break. you need someone to trace your scars like cracks in a wall, crumbling. their touch is almost painful; you've been without it for too long, without someone to hold you. but, you cannot bring yourself to pull away.

Tagged by: @bubblybabins (hey, we match. also thank you!)

Tagging: @kazeofthemagun, @muddsludge, @dichotomouskey, @hriobzagelthewanderer, @elisethetraveller, @glory-hasnoplacehere, @swordduels and whoever else reads this get dunked lmao

#considering how long she is in isolation and exile for. y e s this fits #she won't say she needs this aloud but it's probs evident when she's comfortable enough around someone she values.#flings she has and everyone else won't really see it. she may talk about it but how strongly she actually feels on it won't be shown.#it's not a matter of her not thinking she deserves it. because she knows she does. she just understands well she doesn't have such.#outside of like her three ships via rp sdgfdhfhg lmao #headcanons

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sober-rain · 1 month

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late night intkot thoughts

today's agenda? modern au Cruel & Cassius as roommates who begrudgingly tolerate each other

#not rlly a ship but can be seen as one #i just think its funny to imagine cruel who keeps a straight face at anything & cassius the resident nice guy #fighting via passive aggressive quips over who has to wash the dishes #peter talks #im not that kind of talent #im not that kind of talent manhwa #i'm not that kind of talent #cruel hart #cruel hardt #cassius intkot #bbg doesn't have a last name (i think) 😞💔

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waywardsalt · 15 days

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ok not hiding it in tags this time; genuinely why do people think phantom hourglass takes place in a ‘dream world’ a la links awakening. it doesnt

#i’m going to SNAP this is such a tiny petty thing but its my current big ph pet peeve #oshus literally refers to the great sea as ‘your world’ he refers to it as ANOTHER world not the ‘real world’#do people just think it works the way koholint worls bc they see oh whale god and ocean setting and then not actually look into ph itself #there is NOTHING to suggest its not a real world it is more along the lines of a parallel world like lorule #bellum literally physically interacts with the great sea via the ghost ship??? everything in oshus’s world is real it’s just seperate #fuck it. main tags. im feeling bold today #phantom hourglass #loz #legend of zelda #salty talks

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hibiscuslynx · 4 months

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*holds your face in my hands* if you're going to write it, ill write it with you

as someone from massachusetts myself i thought there would be way more ny/mass in this fandom considering i was raised to give someone walking around Boston in a Yankees cap a death stare but also going on vacation there and loving the people and the sights

i WILL draw them and i WILL help you write them (i would write a fic on my own but i cannot finish anything i write on my own kalsjfd)

-yeti <3

good to know the massachusettans themselves cry for more ny/mass. i, a *cough* humble californian *cough*, will do my best🫡 (if i do even attempt to write).

if only i was into baseball. then i could really write their dynamic. alas all i know is hockey and the rags/bruins rivalry isnt as big as the yankees/red sox rivalry but its something . appreciate ur willingness to help i will let u know if i need help . or i might just post abt it. who knows!

#my only thing is i enjoy a specific ny/mass dynamic. but oh well #its 9pm im feeling a little crazy #one more gatorade i might just start showing my ass (metaphorically) on here.#i used to be really %*@&@*%&*&(=;-)=(/;; about talking abt wttt shipping #BUT I JUST WANT SOME GOOD FUCKING FOOD #the 1 time in my life i want ny/mass instead of ny/nj and i cant even have it smh my head #♥️♠️ smeared ny/mass. who said that #<- guy whos knowledge abt [redacted] has only been obtained via osmosis and the wiki

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invested-in-your-future · 1 month

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You are just mad they have shown Atlas for hellhole it was

Yes, totally. I am totally angry at them doing that, that's what it all is about.

glances at the notes for my AU

Wouldn't want Kingdoms to be seen as incompetent, messy or bad...totally not...

I would never do that

#rwby #rwde #seriously though - my version of Mistral has nobles amuse themselves by handing out death sentences via an ancient tradition #and half the important people in the country want to ship off Minorities into another continent #the first thing I did in the rewrite was reframing Vale into the kingdom of naivety obsessed with status quo #all too willing to ignore the issues with discrimination corruption and poverty as long as they “don't bother people too much”#You bet my Atlas will be a terrible place to live in many ways #Not even talking about Vacuo which has been dealing with ecological catastrophe for decades in the rewrite #Or Menagerie which absolutely ain't a tropical resort in this #rwby rewrite #rwbyr stuff mine

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quinloki · 3 months

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OC/Self-Insert/Ship Ask Game

Whether canon x canon, oc x canon, reader x canon, or self-ship x canon, I need you to go to this post.

Pick 1 prompt (these have room to get LONG) - and answer it For Yourself in the Ask - and then I'll answer it for me when you send it. ^_^ Like the post says, you can keep it short, or you can write a little ficlet, just have fun =3

That way I get to gush, AND Here about your OTP, fave ship, self-ship, OCs - At the Same Time \o/

You don't have to answer for yourself if you don't want to, I won't force you, but I would be delighted if you did - in whatever perspective works for you. ^_^

#quin muses #x reader #self ship #original character #Let's Give Them Something to Talk About #Gonna use that tag to track these #I mean to link this to my pinned post about asks #so feel free to come back to it later via that

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honorary-fool · 4 months

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,,if i had a dollar for every rarepair ship that involves a fontaine person & venti i'd have 2 dollars by now

,,,anyways the second one is neuvillette & venti

idek how it'd play out bc i know very little abt neuvi but it's a lil silly to me and i like it :]

#genshin impact #venti #neuvillette #also lyney & venti are the first one. silly guys fr #and still no ship tag. sigh /lh #og posts #meowmeow idea time #IDK I THINK IT'D BE FUNNY #you'll never guess where the inspo for this one came from #...#WRONG! the fact that on ponytown the only two people i managed to talk to where neuvillette ponies w/ my venti pony #sorta- one was via whispers bc i thought they were being harassed. they were fine #the other complimented my pony and we booped each other a lot it was fun :3

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autistic-katara · 6 months

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i keep seeing this post in my “based on ur likes” that’s like “haha i hate when i find some me who makes amazing edits on tiktok but then i find out they’re a maoshdhhd shipper and have to unlike all their videos and unfollow them and block them bcz i won’t be caught dead following one of those asshats lmao” (exaggerated obv) and like idk i feel like unfollowing someone JUST bcz they like a ship u don’t like is kinda shallow and i think a bunch of ppl in the Byler corner of this fandom do rlly have a problem where they just cannot interact w/ a Mileven shipper lest they idk explode or smthn like it’s kinda present aswell in how for every other post u guys make ull tag it “#byler #<- target audience”, sometimes when it isn’t even fandom related (it makes scrolling through the Byler tag insanely annoying, ive had to block multiple ppl bcz their unrelated life stories were clogging up the tag) and yeah idk guys i get wanting to just talk in amongst ourselves but the not even wanting to see unrelated content from a Mileven shipper/for them to see ur unrelated content idk at that point it’s just kinda dumb

#no hate to the person who made that post it’s just smthn i’ve been annoyed abt for a while and wanted to talk abt #like honestly guys idk why ur so uptight abt that #it’s not like the mileven who sees ur post abt how ur dog got cancer or whatever’ll go on ur account and see ur a byler shipper #and go off abt how ur not keeping the ships separate or whatever #honestly i think u guys would actually enjoy talking to some mileven shippers #like a while ago me nd one of them decided to have a discussion abt it via dms #and honestly it made me more convinced byler was happening bcz their logic seemed kinda patchy at times #and their view of the characters did not at all match up w/ mine #and yeah idk this is just a kinda pointless rant lmao #(also not censoring mileven bcz this is just talking abt the byler fandom not the ship and isn’t slandering them or anything)#stranger things #byler #byler fandom #ryan shut the fuck up

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