#want to re-send an ask Or just generally send multiple ones of the same one bc idk you had something else in mind or multiple things YOU

[loveinhawkins]

oh goodness, I just did a reread of nbtdad and thought of the director's cut thing for a couple scenes as I did so I'm so excited two seconds lemme go find them!!

in the meantime (and hopefully you don't mind multiple asks from the same person), [presses a star sticker to your hand] tell me something about any fic you want, please!

(oh so touched you were re-reading! i’ll be updating nbtdad as soon as i can, was actually working on the ending recently—don’t worry, we’re not quite there yet! not ready to say goodbye to it ❤️)

i don’t mind multiple asks at all, feel free to send as many as your heart desires! looking forward to answering the rest of yours ❤️

ooo… i’ll talk a little bit about this ficlet, pre-series 3 pre-steddie crossing paths on one of steve’s last days of high school, posted on ao3 as like something from the silver screen.

He jumps up onto the window sill to better enjoy the breeze, stretching his legs and idly looking outside. He just catches Eddie scoffing, the little aside he makes: “Oh, for fuck’s sake.” Steve turns his head to him. “What?” Eddie rolls his eyes, but the corner of his mouth twitches like he’s fighting a smile. “Just… you,” he says. And it’s said with a kind of reluctant fondness, almost like they’re friends—which is bizarre, Steve thinks, since this is definitely the longest conversation they’ve ever had. But maybe the approaching summer break has Eddie all sentimental. “What about me, Munson?” Eddie gestures at him, as if to say uh, everything, but it somehow doesn’t come across as an insult. “Just… the way you do things sometimes. Like you’re in a goddamn movie.” Steve raises an eyebrow. “Dude, I’m just sitting. Anyone could do this.” “Nah, Harrington. It’s all in the execution, y’know?”

it makes me laugh thinking about this moment from Eddie’s POV, because his internal thoughts as Steve sits on the window sill are mostly …are you fucking kidding me followed by swiftly changing the pronouns of a police song, every little thing he does is magic.

i liked hinting at this kinda reluctant but huh maybe not really infatuation Eddie has going on. Like in this instance, Steve really does hop onto the sill gracefully, but he could also do anything and Eddie in his poetic, rose-tinted view would find it graceful. Like I’m imagining Steve accidentally dropping his lunch tray while recovering from the fight with Billy and Eddie just sighs in despair at himself, because how does Harrington even do that with style, Jesus Christ, Munson, this is a new low.

in that fic in general with the title and the mention of movies shots and whatnot, i wanted to show a sorta commentary on how obviously the show itself has got iconic shots, and also that Steve is feeling frustrated with himself because his life hasn’t panned out idealistically, no girlfriend (but now he’s quietly gaining more perspective on that), no dream college. the it’s a wonderful life references also compare Steve’s frustration to the main character George Bailey who wants to leave his small town & ‘see the world.’ it also foreshadows some more of Steve’s self-sacrificial tendencies cause George ends up staying in his hometown for the sake of the people who live there. While Steve doesn’t technically actively choose to stay in Hawkins, he does end up staying and protecting the kids. ❤️

fic director’s commentary ask game

#steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #steve x eddie #loveinhawkins fic commentary #pre steddie

[strawberrybabydog]

Sorry if this question is a bit dumb or anything, but how exactly do you get started with commissioning an artist?

ive wanted to commission you since comms have opened, and same goes for multiple other artists - but inbetween not having the money to spend on them, not knowing how to commission artists, safety tips/things to know to keep both sides safe and comfortable, etc etc im just a bit lost!!

do you have any advice or links or anything to where i could find some info on that kinda stuff? thank u so much in advance!! ^^

honestly i dont really know if there's a "proper" way to do it. here's usually what happens with me:

client: hi i'm messaging you directly somehow. hi. i want to commission you for my Thing me: hi thats epic ! do you know what size you're looking for? do you have any pictures of the Thing? client option A: yes i'm getting [size] and here's a picture of my Thing! me: ok great ! that will probably come up to [total]. i'll give you my paypal towards the end of me finishing and i can get started any time.

client option B: i dont know the size im looking for, but this is my description of what i want. me: ok ! well based on that, [size and total] is my suggestion because i think it will show all of the necessary detail but i can work with any size, we might just have to alter the pose/design slightly to make it work if it's smaller. let me know if this sounds okay to you and i can get started client: hmm that's still a little out of my budget i'll have to think about it me: no problem hmu if you have any questions or updates! <3

the only commissions i dont really like are ones where you have to put on a down payment before the artist has even started and then pay the other half when it's finished. i notice that only the really high-end artists do this and i understand completely, but for me, this just wastes my money by forcing me to pay to convert and send it. also, a lot of clients dont really like paying for something before it's even been started in general, which is reasonable.

that being said if you feel uncomfortable about commissioning someone, let them know upfront! be like "hey ive never commissioned someone before, im kinda nervous [about sending payments/talking/etc]" thats totally fine! decent artists will be more than happy to walk you through everything. hell even if it's not your first time, it's perfectly fine to be honest about being nervous. anything with Money Is Always Nervous !

a more social rule i dont break is changing my client's designs. re-posing a character? totally yes. re-designing the character or suggesting tips to make the character "better"? not really. i once commissioned an artist who told me my monochromatic character was too bland and literally refused to draw it unless i changed the eye colour or added 1 pop of colour. i tried explaining to her This Character Is Purposefully Not Colourful but she refused and basically just shit on my self-insert-sona for 10 minutes lol. minor design changes are completely fine (with approval from the design's owner) but "i think your character's ugly and i wont draw it until you agree to make it more beautiful to me personally" is really shitty. i guess, basically anything where the artist is making you feel weird/ugly/belittled/bad for whatever reason, but especially in the context of artistic design. a good artist isnt going to make you feel bad about what you asked them to draw no matter what it is. it's honestly really fucking weird to nitpick what someone else's personal character/design looks like anyways ..

#idk if the last part is projecting or not sorry #tbh because im an artist if i want something drawn i just do it myself so i dont really commission other people that much. idk if this is a #if its a common issue. or not. idk. if it isnt im sorry im projecting super hard <3 LOL but fr dont let an artist say ur character is uggo #ur character isnt uggo their heart is !!!!!!!!!! #not dog #asks #also the rp i typed out above is totally fake becaus i use 100000 emoticons every day ^_^ :03 ii_@ (<-that one is a snail)

[koushirouizumi]

{DigiAdv tri.} ~ Koushiro + OUTFITS ~ My {Personal} Preferences (for Koushiro’s outfits!) + + Koushiro & Jou / {Supportive} Moments & Interactions + Koushiro & Takeru / {Supportive} Moments / Materials + Pre-Bokura no Mirai DigiFes {+Shirt!} Poster (The shirt Koushiro’s wearing was later, iirc, released as official {+Tri} merch at DigiFes, an “irl” event in Japan!) {Real-Life Japan Event} Kokuhaku’s ending theme also helped to promote the same shirt. + (Tri!)Koushiro’s Character Traits (& Mini-Analysis)

My Commentary:

Like, some of the obvious POP culture references / in-jokes some of the other ‘outfits’ had aside, most of these outfits actually looked quite reasonable (and comfy, imo!! - which is pretty much the point I think Koushiro was going for?!??) and I could easily see Koushiro wearing some/most any of these canonically at various points of Koushiro’s tri. and post-tri. teen-aged lifetime, even just purely for fun. Heck, I’ve seen fan-artists (including on the J.P.N end and even in / using specifically their Tri-esque designs / outfits) draw Koushiro in MULTIPLE outfits like this!

{I kind of think the “King” outfit SHOULD stay, though.}

Also, the kimono choice is, like, fine? Koushiro’s Japanes---?

I’m just saying OK!!! Yes!! #LETKoushiroHaveFunWithFashion

Bonus:

(From my previous Koushiro compilations!)

{Gifs by Me} {DO NOT RE-POST} {DO NOT REPRODUCE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION} (Please ASK to Use)

{Anyway, Koushiro Izumi says Gender Identity rights---}

OK but Mainly I want to know which animator/Clothing Designer (as I’ve seen exist from some Tri and etc. Staff listings) specifically was involved in this specific segment / outfit set because they were clearly having a BLAST designing Koushiro like 20+ random outfits and honestly, as a Koushiro fan who has supported Koushiro since finding this series in my childhood I CAN’T actually blame them?? (You don’t even HAVE to use / consider every single one there, even TRI!KOUSHIRO doesn’t canonically use all of these!!)

{This is more of a quick compilation; I might expand on this post in the future and re-post it.}

I could also relate everything to do with motor skills and fine motor skills involving clothing and Autism when it comes to certain Autistic head-canons I may have, including buttoning clothes, but that might be a topic for another day...

(Do you see how the shirts TAKERU AND JOU actively help pick out FOR KOUSHIRO are comfy, A more baggy plain blue pullover (Takeru) and the DigiFes tee (Jou), without buttons?) {Despite the initial goal being to look for “fashionable” clothing!}

{usage may be allowed IF PERMISSION IS ASKED TO USE.}

{Please also LIKE this post if you are wanting to use!} {Once you have “Liked”, feel free to contact me to ask for permission!} {However, read my about & FAQ pages first. Please DO NOT use / ask if you match anything in my “Do Not Interact” section.} {I MAY POLITELY DECLINE USAGE REGARDLESS. Please do not take it personally!} {if you are unsure if you can use you can SEND ME AN ASK} {I will check your blog; if you do not match anything on my “DNI”; [CHECK THE FAQ FOR MY DNI SECTION/S] you will likely/may pass the check and can use!} {However please note my ENTIRE FAQ sections on such} {It is possible I may not grant permission for other reasons} [i.e.: You post a lot of something I have blacklisted]

PLEASE ALSO NOTE: {My headcanons for the characters of this series VARY} {for this set particularly; I headcanon most as M-spec/Multi-gender attracted*} {this post/my icons ARE NOT for people who cannot respect this fact or M-spec people / M-spec headcanons / MF relationships, Queer identities, etc. in general!}

[PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL AND FOLLOW MY RULES]

{This specific post is not purely meant as shipping Please be aware and respectful when interacting!} (However, I do side ship Joushiro, so I don’t mind if for example Joushiro gets tagged as a ship) {Just please understand that is not the main intention!}

[Note: 'Likes’ OK!]

#izumi koushirou #tri koushirou #tri koushiro #saikai koushiro #izumi family #yoshie izumi #kae izumi #izumi kae #mrs izumi #koushiro and mrs izumi #koushiro and kae #koushiro and yoshie #joushiro friendship #joushiro moments #tri joushiro #koushiros outfits #koushiro analysis #tri koushiro analysis #tri koushiros outfits #koushiros outfit simulator #{tri koushiro+kae} im ashamed {DONT BE} to admit but my {adoptive} mother always helped pick out my clothes {i couldnt handle the shops} #saikai spoilers #kokuhaku spoilers #tri spoilers #(I am very deliberately leaving out major Koushiro tag{s} because I dont want this to turn into something that isnt Koushiro POSITIVE) #(I am also attempting to clear this set out of my Draft{s} so if you choose to interact PLEASE Collect your followers if they leave) #(Not respectful comments {Hopefully Not}) #(One on bottomright 5th img of outfit{s} is more of just personal fav because mAN Id love to see Koushiro trying to actually pull that off)

[indycarkinkmeme]

(Yeah, the graphic sucks. I'm not a graphic designer. Feel free to make a better one.)

DISCLAIMER: Everything here is intended for entertainment purposes only: all the situations and stories depicted are fictitious, no one owns any of this nor is profiting from it.

This is a 18+ space only, so proceed at your own discretion.

Welcome to the Indycar Kinkmeme.

After seeing the success of the F1 version and feeling a little bit left out and having come to the fandom too late for the Livejournal days, I wanted to start this. I know we're a small fandom but it will be fun.

Many thanks to @formulaonekinkmeme for their consent to do this.

What is a Kinkmeme? A kinkmeme is where someone requests a prompt and/or pairing, and someone fills that request - all anonymously.

When? Round One starts on January 1, 2023 and ends never. We're a small fandom. I don't anticipate getting such a huge response that we would need rounds.

Where? You can submit and fill the prompts here on Ao3 starting January 1, 2023.

Who? The kinkmeme is open to anyone!

RULES AND FAQs- however, if you have any doubts or suggestions just send me an ask!

RULES:

1. No driver/reader. WAGS are allowed as long as they are with their driver. No WAG/WAG without their drivers. I know some of you have swingers headcanons.

2. All work lengths are accepted: you can submit anything between a drabble (100 words) and a long-fic. Multi-chaptered fics are welcome too!

3. If a prompt contains sensitive content (consent issues, infidelity, death and other dark themes in general), please put the trigger warnings before the prompt itself; if you’re in doubt if something is triggering, tag it anyways - better safe than sorry!

4. Of course, the same goes for the fills: please tag the kinks and eventual triggers correctly. And no, “dead dove: do not eat” alone doesn’t quite cut it. If you don’t want to disclose anything, please use the archive warning “author chose not to warn”, so readers can proceed at their own discretion.

5. If there’s something you really don’t want to see in the prompt fill, please specify it with “do not want”.

6. Same thing goes with things you absolutely want the prompt filler to put in the fic: specify it with “want”, of course.

7. When you fill a prompt, please specify what prompt you are responding to in the author's notes.

8. All drivers from any Indycar season are accepted, including Indy 500 one-offs. One driver in the pairing/group must be from Indycar, the rest may be from any motorsports series.

9. Last but not least: please don’t harass anyone over a kink or a pairing you disagree with. Remember: don't like don't read, and your kink is not my kink and that's okay. We DO NOT kinkshame here.

FAQ:

1. Do I have to stay anonymous? In the spirit of the kinkmeme, both prompter and author should be anonymous.

2. Instead of fanfic, can I fill a prompt of the meme with art or other media? Yes. Anything you want to do is welcome.

3. Can I only prompt/submit NSFW material? Again, anything you want. Sweet and fluffy. General with no romance at all. The raunchiest, most depraved thing in existence. It's all welcome here.

4. Can I only prompt pairings? You can prompt anything or nothing. Whatever your imagination desires, three, four, more, the entire field. Whatever. You can also prompt genfic without pairings using “no pairing”, or prompt something for an unspecified pairing using “any/any”

5. Can I fill my own prompt? Sure! It’s anonymous, so who’s going to know?

6. Can I re-prompt something with variations? If you see a prompt you like and would like to read it for your own pairing, you can re-prompt it! Just make it clear that it’s a re-prompt when you submit it.

7. A prompt has already been filled, can I fill it again? Can I fill multiple prompts? Yes, please do.

Please reshare to spread the word.

#indycarkinkmeme #indycar rpf

[0nelittlebirdtoldme]

Birdie's Prompts Etiquette - Masterlist

Since I have been getting a lot of prompts lately, both on here as well as on Ao3, for which I am so thankful, I decided to re-make my original post on my writing limits and type the whole thing out in closer detail. No type of judgement of course🖤

Where should I leave you prompts?

I am taking prompts only on Tumblr. All prompts which are left in the comment section under one of my works on Ao3 will be in the future ignored and/or deleted.

My ask box is always open, and you can send me a prompt at any time, both anoymous as well as openly!

What type of prompts can I leave?

Please always state the fandom/pairing the prompt is for. If this isn't given, I am taking the liberty to decide for myself who I want to write about.

Simple One-Word Prompts

Longer formulated requests

Anything in between

What type of content are you willing to write?

Definitely:

T-M rated content

M/M Pairings

Angst, Creepy Fluff, Fluff, Slice of Life, Romance, Hurt/Comfort etc.

Fandoms I am currently writing for on Ao3.

Maybe:

E rated content

M/F Pairings

Whump and general triggering/dark content

Smut

Topics requiring these Archive Warnings: graphic depictions of violence, major character death, rape/non-con

Fandoms I haven't written for before

No:

F/F Pairings

Gen-Category Fics

Underage

Crack Fics

Glorified or fetishized unhealthy/abusive (canon) relationships. Yes, some of the couples I write for a questionable, but I am always aware of the dark nature of their relationships. I probably won't write whole-hearted, sweet "UwU, they are so cute together"-content for these type of ships, unless I go full AU.

What can I expect from you?

Any form of a Drabble (simple, double, triple, collection etc.)

A shorter Ficlet

A Oneshot

What should I keep in mind?

I am not taking any Long-Fic requests currently

I take the liberty to decide for myself which prompts I want to write about, and I sadly cannot promise you, that your prompt will be filled

You are free to send me several prompts, but please do not hand in the same prompt multiple times - I can assure you, I got it the first time around

Please remember the human 🖤

In case you are not sure about something, you can always leave me a prompt, and whether or not I answer it depends on how comfortable I am with the topic/fandom etc. Or just message me privately! I won’t judge you either way!

Thank you so much for all your interest and prompts, they really do mean a lot!

-- Birdie 🖤🦇

#my fic #tumblr prompt #birdie's prompt etiquette masterpost

[chicago-geniza]

Ok!!

PCP resent T to hospital pharmacy instead of CVS. They can fill it by Monday

Asked neuropsych to send seizure rescue meds, which are also anxiolytics, to same pharmacy, and see if they can fill anticonvulsants

Multiple lovely people have stepped in to help, am eternally grateful, thank you <3

I am going to kill & eat CVS

I am going to kill & eat the US medical system

Last time I asked neuropsych for sedatives to abort panic attacks they once again tried to put me on SNRIs for generalized anxiety, which predictably 1) gave me seizures, 2) made me psychotic

They always want to put me on a maintenance med for anxiety and I think this appointment has to be the one where I very forcefully say "Just Give Me Something To Abort A Panic Attack I Don't Have Anxiety Most of The Time & I Know You Mean Well Re: Addictive Potential But Anything That Upregulates Serotonin Makes Me See The Hat Man"

#Even triptans make me see the hat man sometimes but they are a necessary evil!

[whentheresmoonlight]

Ok I read your post. Literally sat down with my cup of morning coffee first thing in the morning and read it start to finish. I was busy traveling which is why I'm just getting back to you now though, by ask because my followers probably aren't expecting a reblogged discussion of top/bottom dynamics on my otherwise sfw blog.

So let me know if I'm getting this right:

Like, Bakugo wanting to give something to Izuku he would never give anyone else (the vulnerability, I mean!!! not, y'know, access to his... god, just forget it). And their relationship has shifted so fundamentally since when they were kids, multiple times, and opening up (figuratively!!) in such a way to Izuku is just another way for him to shift from whatever toxic shit they had going on earlier to the mutual love and understanding and willingness to be vulnerable with each other they have now. I don't even know if that makes sense. The point is, I totally hc them as vers now.

Also Izuku taking charge. It really is such a huge part of his character, becoming stronger and a leader and more confident and it's so easy to set that aside and focus on his cute, bubbly side but my man's got both! Honestly it's why I tend to avoid fics in general, and fandom too (tho I'm weak and couldn't stay away from mha/bkdk tumblr). I'm always afraid that the versions of characters in my head will be fanonized. I hope I didn't do that to Izuku and Kacchan, ykwim? :| (If you ever wanna like, idk, 👉👈 check out one of my fics and tell me if you think I got them right, that would be cool but no worries if not.)

Also I get what you mean about the feminized Izuku, no shade to anyone who likes that (I mean, he did wear a maid costume in MHA Smash and he does look cute with puppy dog eyes and bunny ears) but omega/bunny/thicc/size-difference Izuku isn't really my thing because... Well, I prefer canonverse too and I've rewatched dvk2 like four times and for me it really hammers home that their power dynamic has evened out so any dom/sub-type dynamic doesn't feel like it fits.

[also re: soyboy. If you check my blog on mobile, it has the urban dictionary definition of soyboy as the header. Plus the first syllable of my irl name sounds like "soy" so that's why I picked it haha :) ]

I'm so flattered that you bothered to read all that word vom! I hope that you're traveling for something fun, or at least that the travels go well. And yeah, please, keep your blog sfw if that's what it is, lol. I'm such a mess in that respect.

But yes, I'd say you've distilled my opinion! Thank you, haha. Squeezed some good puns in there as well. I'm glad you've been pulled over to vers, tho 😈 I know I said that I wasn't trying to convert you, but let's face it, I'm always lowkey trying to convert people, hahahaha. I wish I weren't but I just want people to like what I like, lol.

The way you broke my heart when you said you avoid fics 💀 Let me send you recs! I think I've got an idea of your taste and I can PROMISE quality! However, avoiding fandom is a good choice, haha. Like, I'm happy about all the friends I'm making, and I have a very visceral need to have many many bkdkbks to scream about our boys with, but at the same time, there are a lot of ways in which I was happier in past fandoms where I wasn't involved in the fandom beyond reading and writing fanfic. I could engage with only the content I enjoyed much easier. So, you know, some of this, some of that.

I'd totally read your stuff! Message me or otherwise lmk what one you want me to try and I'll word vom at you again!

#omg i had no clue that's what soyboy meant 💀 #how embarrassing #i feel so old #actualsoyboy #anjum answers #not/sfw

[dracereads]

🌎🚲 Mid-year Reflection on my 2022 Reading Journey

🌃 tagged by @thecasualbookreviewer; It might be titled a little differently than what you tagged me in. A freak-out reminds me too much of cram and grind culture. I read for fun and enjoyment, not to tick the little boxes. As cliche as it is, it's all about the journey and not the destination. It's about the acquisition of brain worms of which I have farmed many this year.

📚Amount of books you’ve read so far

Please hold I need to actually go count because I haven't in awhile. I'm back it's 43.

📚Best book you’ve read so far in 2022

This is such a difficult question. There were so many good books that I read this year. I feel like I have favorites in different categories like this is an awards ceremony. fffs. Overall, I'm going to go with Scum Villain because it's been just a general good source of brain worms this year. The bees have ate well over that book. If you want to send me fake categories and ask based on that, always game. 📚Best sequel you’ve read so far in 2022

I mean. I've read concurrent sequels (books published in multiple volumes) but I don't count those. Because they're all one story told in multiple parts. As for Sequel sequels... I know absolutely nothing is going to top Husband Materials. Even though I haven't read it yet. LOL.

📚New release you haven’t read yet, but want to

I'd like to read I kissed Sarah Wheeler by Casey Mcquistion because it's her junior novel. I'd like to see how it differentiates between the two others before. I haven't gotten to the Fae Keeper duology yet and that's on my list really high. As well as like. Heaven Official's Blessing III which I haven't gotten around to because I'm not ready to hurt quite yet this week. 📚Most anticipated release for the second half of the year 2ha on my birthday. Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn. Aiden Thomas (Cemetary boys) has a new duology starting in September. Golden Terrace in November. Husband Materials on Tuesday. uhhh. Mushroom II in late august even though my physical got delayed until September. So I'll have to get an ebook if I want to read it. So MANY. Glitterland's re-release in Jan. kdfdffkf 📚Favorite new author (debut or new to you)

well, this year it has really been Alexis Hall. My goal is to be done with all of his books by the end of 2022 so I can eagerly await the: *goes to his website to count* 6 books he's got scheduled for 2023?? man is prolific and I am jealous.

also I fell in love with S.A. Cosby in the same way as I did David Heska Wanbli Weidan this year. I believe DHWW has more books coming out soonish. Also excited for those. 📚Biggest surprise Little Mushroom still holds the biggest shocker for me this year. Because I AM SALTY ABOUT IT AND I WILL NOT BE SILENCED. 📚Book that made you happy

SVSSS, Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat, One Last Stop, A lady for a Duke, Pansies. These are all frequent brain worm topics on nights where my brain bees won't be quiet and let me sleep.

📚Newest fictional crush/newest favorite character:

aro ace here. I don't really do crushes. I just have a lot of fictional children. Newest fictional child is Luo Binghe and Xie Lian. As well as maybe Violet from Dark Rise. Luo Binghe: The protagonist who deserved none of his bullshit ever despite some of the horrible things he did. Did not deserve the absolute trashing the plot gave him in Volume 3.

Xie Lian: Local Tired Grandpa with a traumatic past just wants to collect his trash in peace, and both divine realms have decided he will not do that. More news at 11. Violet: Local mixed girl gets harassed by the plot. Absolutely doesn't deserve it. You will be hearing from my unethical treatment of fictional characters lawyer. this is a joke I swear to god.

📚Book that made you cry:

Honey Girl got me GOOD during Grace Porter's mental breakdown. Been there grace. Been there so hard girlie.

Most recently I was in HYSTERICS over This Way Out. Full on ugly inconsolable crying for like 10 minutes over. well. His family is conservative and Muslim, they reject his gay marriage. But what's worse is his fiancee's family is very white and doesn't understand the stigma and the culture. and they just. so neatly wrap up Amar's family into a judgemental little package. and he's just like. "nope they may be assholes but they are my family and they deserve respect because despite THEIR actions I still LOVE them because they are worthy of LOVE." and it just made me grapple with a lot of complicated feelings I have revolving around my own queerness and family issues. Just a very strong gut punch of complications.

📚Most beautiful book you’ve bought or received this year so far:

have you seen Heaven Official's Blessing's Cover art?? especially for volume three??? fdskfsdf or like. Pale Moon Reflected in the Water?? sdlkjff

📚Book you need to read by the end of the year: KD Edward's Tarot Sequence Books The rest of the Alexis Hall booksets. These are the only books that I am going to REQUIRE myself to finish. Otherwise I'm getting FUNKY with it. No rules.

tagging: free tag from me here. If you want a specific @ I will certainly edit you in.

#thecasualbookreviewer #thank you for the tag I appreciate it #drace replies

[startrekroleplay]

Feedback Please!

I know this is long, but I could really use an opinion RE: the best way to format the directory going forward.

When I first started this directory, I made the choice to list the TOS and AOS versions of characters separately, as at the time they were the only series that had alternate versions of pre-existing characters. The Kelvin versions were so distinctly different, and followed such a unique continuity in their own timeline, that it just made sense to separate them.

But now, five years later, more shows are coming out that feature pre-existing characters — DIS and SNW have a whole host of TOS characters, while PIC and PRO are including lots of characters from TNG and VOY. Different blogs are playing these characters with different influences, and I’ve continued to simply list characters based on which series the muns tell me they’re based on.

The problem is that this is getting incredibly confusing. As an example, let’s say all of the following people reblogged to have their Spock blog added to the directory.

Spock - TOS based

Spock - TOS & AOS based

Spock - AOS based

Spock - AOS & SNW based

Spock - DIS & SNW based

Spock - SNW based

Spock - TOS, AOS, DIS, & SNW based

As the directory currently is, this situation would lead to Spock having seven unique subheadings under his name, to differentiate each of these portrayals from one another. That’s confusing for me to set up, it’s confusing for you to read, and generally feels unnecessary when everyone is playing the same character.

So I’m considering some alternate methods of listing characters, and I’d really appreciate some feedback. I have a poll of the options I’m considering here, and I’ve outlined all of them in more detail below.

Option #1: list all blogs for the same character together, regardless of if they're based on different series. In this example, all of the above blogs would simply be listed under Spock. It would then be up to the individual user to click on each blog and see exactly what their portrayal is like and which series they’re based on. This is by far the easiest for me and probably creates the least confusion, but is removing a functionality of the directory that may be important for some people.

Option #2: split blogs up by which series each blog is based on. In this example, each of the above blogs would be listed under a separate subheading, regardless of any overlap between them. This is how the directory is currently set up, and while it’s definitely the most detailed, it’s also the most cumbersome and confusing.

Option #3: split blogs up by which primary actor each blog uses for the character. In this example, there would only be three subheadings for Spock — TOS (for Nimoy), AOS (for Quinto), and DIS/SNW (for Peck). This is probably the cleanest way to split up separate “versions” of a character, but it could also lead to a fair amount of overlap and messiness. For example, someone playing Prime Spock could be listed twice under both TOS and DIS/SNW, despite it being the same character in the same continuity.

Option #4: split blogs up by Prime and Kelvin timeline only. In this example, there would be three subheadings under Spock — Prime & Kelvin (TOS, AOS, DIS, & SNW), Prime Only (TOS, DIS, & SNW), and Kelvin Only (AOS). This gets back to the original point of listing the series separately — namely that AOS is a separate timeline with its own unique continuity — while sidestepping a lot of the confusion that comes with the same character appearing in multiple Prime series. This might be the best middle ground, but would ignore blogs that are strictly only playing TOS Spock or DIS/SNW Spock, and don’t want to lumped in together.

If you’ve read all of this and have an opinion, please choose an option on this form for me.

Feel free to leave a reply on this post or send an ask if you have any other thoughts or ideas. Thank you! 🖖🏻

EDIT: The Strawpoll was being glitchy and not logging answers, so I have switched to a Google Form.

~Mod J

#star trek rp

[adaptationsvs-polls]

Welcome!

What is this blog?

This blog will feature polls testing to see what version of a piece of media people generally prefer, with each poll consisting of the original work and at least one adaptation, which may include direct adaptations as well as re-imaginings and other slightly looser adaptations. For things with lots of different re-adaptations, polls won't be able to be comprehensive, and if there is enough content multiple polls that feature the same original work may be posted!

For what counts as an independent adaptation, I'll for now say the guideline is: anything that basically has its own "continuity" separate from the original/previous version. So, basic adaptations, re-tellings, remakes, perspective swaps by a different creator, etc probably will count; things that are direct spin-offs, (same continuity) reboots, continuations, canonical expanded universe material, etc probably won't. Things do not need to be changed into a different medium to count as an adaptation here. So for example, a film that is remaking another film could still be counted.

To be clear, this is not a tournament. Winners of polls won't be proceeding to go against other winners; its just about polling to see which version of individual properties people like best.

Want to request something?

Send me an ask the original work title, what medium it is in (i.e. book, movie, play, etc), and if there's a specific adaptation you want to make sure makes it into the poll, please make sure you note that as well (otherwise I'll default to including the most popular adaptations/whichever ones I can find, which, as noted above, might mean for works that have been adapted a ton of times that some adaptations are left out). Additional adaptations beyond the one(s) specifically requested may also be included, if they exist.

That's it for now!

#not a poll #adaptations #intro post #film adaptations #book adaptations #musical adaptation #film #literature #game adaptation

[truckreincarnation]

Missing the Mark | Luz | Trial 1.1 | RE: Testimony Sharing, Shin, Bian, Harriet, 19

Of course, the trial room would be here of all places. At least they were all out of the water, but it didn't take away how soggy and cold this place was in general. However, all that was really the last thing on her mind. They were here to solve a murder. Now, Luz wasn't feeling the heartfelt grief and sorrow at the loss of a life, no. She was more honed in on the fact that one of them could be a killer. She takes her spot, sending a glance over to the empty seat of Francis' next to her with the slightest twitch of her eyebrows.

"Tch." She stares forward coldly, eyes scanning over the faces of everyone around her. 

"I'm gonna be honest, I don't know a goddamn thing about anything. Not what Francis was doing before this, or anything relating to it. I've never moonlighted as a detective while I was alive, so I think it's pretty shitty to be forced to play one suddenly with someone else's- my own included- life on the line. So I'm gonna go off and continue with creating this timeline by adding that we've been trying to establish."

She picks up the quill, if only to have something to do with her hands. She jabs into her paper with it.

"Starting from 9 PM, I was doing some light reading with the most boring book I could have ever gotten from that tree in my room. Eventually that got old, so I ditched my room and went off to the lounge."

There's a vagueness in there, but she leaves no room for anything but continuing on.

"I ended up seeing Manami right before we both went into the same location. Just my luck."

Luz speak for 'I see her way too often'. She even adds a little eye roll.

"If you want me to be specific, it was around 11:02 PM by the time I entered the lounge. Manami was there, like I said, Miles, and Cowboy with his cat."

She glances off to the side.

"And Shin, too. Snoozing away on the couch. I was looking for a little fun, so I thought I'd try bothering him. The old man wouldn't budge, though, so I found my amusement with some knitting needles. Cowboy left around some time...I want to say 11:34, and all was well up until we were called to the practice dungeon."

Like she said, she was no detective. Still, listening to the theories surfacing she figures she could throw in her two cents.

"Well, if we're arguing that Francis was Mark, and that she might have been setting up a trap to kill someone, then we should consider the motive. Like Shin said, she was recently king, so why would she set something like this up? However, there is one more underlying motive. Killing, and getting away with it, means that we get some kind of power boost right? Isn't that what the pixie said?"

As long as that loomed over their heads in this dangerous world, there could never be the possibility that someone wouldn't go for it, in Luz's mind.

"I dunno what kind of person Francis was, so I can't say much about these theories and if that's something she may have been aiming for. Plus, if we're able to take out multiple weapons with the intention of planning a murder, then what if she is both Mark and Gun? To throw out a red herring or whatever by making the handwriting seem different. I never asked if we could, under all these circumstances, take out a weapon under a different alias by then. Oh. But don't take my words too seriously, I'm just throwing things out there, trying to sort everything out. Honestly, to me it make more sense if she was Gun since one was close to her body."

She ends with a nonchalant shrug, but her body is way too tense to keep up her normal unbothered attitude with such grace.

#Luz #ch1 #trial1 #submission

[surrealsunday]

Question time Jaime!

I’ve been rereading PP again and after the window sex in Kinns office, Evil Daddy Korn shows up and it’s made pretty obvious that not only is he not surprised that Porsche is there, it feels more like he knew or expected Porsche to be there. Since this is the beginning of their sexual relationship and not much had happened between them before for anyone to truly suspect a relationship, I’m curious as to how Korn knew. Did he notice Kinn acting differently with Porsche from the beginning? Did he know Kinn had been spending time with Porsche outside of work like when he showed up at Yoks that night? Did he have an employee secretly watching Kinn and reporting back? Obviously he very closely monitored Kinn because he needed him to submit to the whole marriage fiasco, but I was wondering if you had any insight to how it all started from Korn’s POV. When did he first suspect? What was his plan from the beginning? These are the questions keeping me up at night.

Also, a slightly unrelated question but do you still think you might write more fic for KP? I loved all of your Elu AU’s and PP was a really fun read. No pressure but I’m dying for you to write more KP.

Omg a PP ask! This is fun!!! And I love that you're re-reading. That makes me ☺️☺️🥹🥹.

So, Korn showing up and not being surprised is very intentional, yes. It's meant to indicate two things: One, that Korn knows absolutely everything that goes on in his business, but especially in his son's life. It's meant to be a sign of Korn's control over Kinn, and really his desire to keep Kinn under his thumb. And second, Korn's comment is meant to hint at Kinn not being as subtle as he is in Porsche's POV. Like... Kinn was down bad from the start 😂. He was not subtle. Porsche is just a dumbass and not observant until Kinn's blinding him with his perfect smile 😌. And then when they start spending time together? Yeah, it's for damn sure that Korn not only knows they're spending time together (the previous late night in Kinn's office) but that he's aware of the changes in Kinn's behavior. It's the same reason I show Kit being threatened from the start. Not only because Porsche is a babe (valid... who wouldn't recognize Porsche is a babe and be thrown by how much of a babe) but because Kinn's behaviour changes immediately with Kit once he's started something with Porsche (and I literally mean just started something, i.e. speaking to Porsche). And yes, I don't explicitly say it in the fic but it's fair to assume that Korn has multiple people reporting to him. I mention that Chan is loyal to him, Porsche mentions that security likely has an idea of what's going on, Pete says Korn knows everything that goes down, etc etc. So for sure he has his ways of getting that info.

As for Korn's plan? In my eyes, initially he's not all that concerned with the idea of Kinn fucking around with someone new (even a subordinate). It's that Kinn's behaviour changes and it's quite obvious he's completely enamoured and distracted by Porsche that makes Korn start paying attention. The merger and Kinn+Tawan would have been in the works for a while (long before Porsche) but it's only made explicit to Kinn that these are the plans after Kinn is already in deep with Porsche. Kinn was aware of the merger beforehand, but not the full extent of his father's plans.

Oh and when Korn started really paying attention to Porsche/Kinn? From the beginning when Kinn sends Porsche to the minor firm. That was not normal. It's mentioned in the fic that only Chan or Pete are tasked with those duties. Kinn doing that was out of character and seeing as Korn pays attention to everything (to be a master manipulator you have to be a control freak), that is something that would have been reported to him.

And yes! I have every intention of writing another KP fic. I've been struggling with writing in general lately (gotta finish my Elu fic!) but I have an idea I'm fixated on for KP that I really want to put to paper. So hopefully I can stay inspired and make that happen. And I am so flattered you care and would want to read it. Thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️!!!

Also sorry this is the longest ramble... that is who I am as a person lol.

#Paperwork Promises fic

[mythvoiced]

@theimpalpable​ | 🍻+ "what are you thinking about, right now?" (Hyun and Boram, Boram wishing to acknowledge more about Hyun's trains of thought, also wishing to just hear him talk, whenever there's a chance? More likely than you think; are they even highly affected by alcohol, probably not, bUT) drunken confession.

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He’s more fond of the taste of this particular drink than the notion of drinking alcohol. No, better yet, he’s mostly fondest of the company he gets to share than any colourful liquid swimming in his glass right now, as he brings it to his lips and regards Boram with the same look he’s done most of the evening, this fine balance between watching who’s talking and not possessing the self-awareness to realise how evidently he’s using that as an excuse to look at the dragon a little longer.

It’s cosy, that’s the most important part. He sets cross-legged on the floor of his current apartment, bare feet, pyjama shorts, some hoodie he found somewhere. He doesn’t have to be anything or anyone, doesn’t have to pretend to not be something, he can speak as he wishes, think even more so and yes, Hyun isn’t exactly the type to rob himself of these capabilities on a regular basis.

But even he, as he likes himself to be, sometimes makes statements with the knowledge he might need to prepare for instant backlash. He’s not dense to his own words - not too often, at least, and when he is, he’s only dense when impulsivity was the one to gently pluck them off his tongue - and he’s not blind to the features of others, so he knows when he’s moments from being dragged into something.

And then, of course, there’s his company. He’s silent as he finishes his sip on the homemade cocktail, silent as he lets the liquid wash over his tongue and coat the roof of his mouth and his inner cheeks with flavours he’s still trying to determine his opinion on. It’s not the easiest thing, to get seriously inebriated when possessing the abilities they do. But it’s not impossible. And at this stage, the warmth spread into his cheeks and adding that extra layer of colour to them, the sweetness of the drink running down his throat, and the ease settling into his mind, they’re still pleasant, still devoid of nonsense or intensified emotions, as his body reacts to the poisoning.

He just feels nice.

Because of his company.

Yes, that’s what he was assessing. He smiles, wide, opens eyes he hadn’t realised he’d closed while swimming in his own thoughts. Because his company is nice, because his company makes him feel as though questions are posed in wonder and not demanding him to justify his thoughts, because his company smells of all that is healthy and airy in the world, like a spring in the mountain, and all the water that lands in the valley has made thousands of flowers bloom, because he keeps giving and because Hyun is the bee so eagerly settling on the azalea blooming near the riverbank.

He isn’t even sitting that far away - and it’s nice? It’s so stupidly nice and his chest keeps doing that thing, his heart, it keeps going and going and going at it, the way he can sit on the floor of his home and everywhere he walks and touches he leaves a little bit of his scent, and is it the alcohol, or has he always felt this deeply as a fox would, in regards to dens? But far enough that Hyun seems it suitable to stretch out one of his legs and poke Boram’s thigh with his toes, repeatedly, playfully, gently, with a snort he doesn’t notice bursting out of him ahead of time.

“You. And this cocktail,” he lifts his glass. He didn’t even have any suitable glasses, just these... normal ones. Whatever. “I’ve no idea if it turned out okay, because I don’t know what it’s supposed to taste like, but I like it,” he tears his gaze from the beverage, tilts his head until he’s almost resting it against his own shoulder and doesn’t know how he’s looking at Boram, doesn’t know what others can so evidently see, in the appreciative gaze, in the adoring smile, in the spark of like. “Thank you for trying it with me. Thank you for coming over at all, actually... And for coming back. And finding me.” He lifts the glass to his lips again, watching his own hand approach. “I’m thinking... about... mountains, and valley flowers. About... Would it sound weird, if I aske you to say the night? Not to do anything, just... to stay. Keep you to myself a little longer, maybe.”

#theimpalpable #the model;hyun #the saviour from the sky came friend-shaped;yeong boram #our history is stained with blood but we grew flowers on this hill and shielded each other from the storm;boram & hyun #I'M LOSING MY MIND OH GOD I reached the end of THIS AND ALMOST DIED #i just let Hyun do as Hyun wishes to do aND MAYBE they're not too affected but I think Hyun's getting there slowly aND I JUST I wanted #to just write whatever he'd end up muttering and OH GOD okay OKAY I HOPE THIS IS OKAY AND OH MAN #GOODNESS THANK YOU SO MUCH FOr sending this in AND FOr THE ADDED THUGHTS AND THANK YOU #oh my god please somebody hold my hand i'm a little out of it after this i pl E ASE #AND OFC ALWAYS let me know if you'd like and/or need me to change anything LIKE DEADASS? if you ever? #want to re-send an ask Or just generally send multiple ones of the same one bc idk you had something else in mind or multiple things YOU #- KNOW I'D LOVE ANYTHING OKAY AND WOULD ALWAYS find a way to figure it out and like i just love your brain so i'll vibe with anything #;queue

[mikalara-dracula]

Can I request headcanons about studying with shu,Yuma,Subaru and also about how would it be like to watch movies with Yuma...thanks a lot sugar🤗

📚 Studying with their s/o—

(ft. Shu, Yuma, and Subaru)

Warning: 18+ content below; don't read if you're a minor or aren't comfortable with slight NSFW. This is a fictional work and should not be taken seriously.

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Hi there!

Thank you so much for requesting! This was so much fun to write. I sincerely apologize that it took this long. I have linked your other request to this post as well. Hope you enjoy reading them. Feel free to request again anytime. :))

🍿 = Watching movies with Yuma

Shu:

📚 Okay, now, since when does he study??

📚 Like is this a joke, lmao?? xDD

📚 C’mon, it has to be, right?

📚 Well, for whatever reason he may have, he’s never going to study for himself unless he absolutely has to in the sense that he has to meet the bare minimum requirement for the school year—unless of course he really wants to re-repeat his third year.

📚 But when it comes to his s/o things are a little different, and by “a little,” I mean very little—like, there is almost no difference with his general motif.

📚 So, most of the time, you’re stuck studying on your own. It’s either this, or Shu’s always managing to distract and pull you away from studying. He does this by having you lay down or sit with him and making you lose track of time by either talking to each other or just dozing off.

📚 Believe it or not, he doesn’t mind helping you study if he’s in the mood to. As his s/o, you’re honestly the only one he will ever help when it comes to this because for him, this already requires a lot of effort’, so forget with anyone else.

📚 However, his help comes at a price every time.

📚 He’s not exactly the type that likes to be asked for help, so if you ask him, there’s a good chance that he’s going to deny and tell you it’s a waste of time and that you should be laying down next to him instead.

📚 Oh, this lazy fuck.

📚 If he does decide to help you, it’s rare if he agrees on a whim, he mostly likes to surprise you by simply joining you out of nowhere.

📚 (In the manga, he once just started tutoring Yui out of nowhere, so you can bet he’s going to do the same with you.)

📚 Despite his laziness, it’s important to note that he’s definitely smart—like, this mf knows more than anyone would think, he just hides it since he doesn’t care enough to put effort into school.

📚 You were in the middle of studying physics, a subject he’s quite good at (in the manga, he even studied it as a child), and the math problems were honestly getting the best of you. You were working them out but they weren’t matching the answers the book had and it was frustrating to say the least.

📚 Noticing your struggle, he sighed deeply from the nearby couch he was sleeping on and came over to the table you were studying at.

📚 “You’re still working on that?”

📚 “Yeah,” you’d sigh, still looking at the book full of example math problems. “and I still don’t get it.”

📚 Out of nowhere, while you’re still looking at the book in front of you, he’d take an end and slide it towards him so he could have a better look at it.

📚 With his usual hazy smirk, he’d comment looking at the material in front of him, “It’s not that hard.”

📚 “Says the guy who never studies.” You’d sass, feeling fed up with the subject. “Whatever, I doubt you can help.”

📚 And here is where he begins to explain things regarding the math formulas to prove you wrong about him not knowing anything.

📚 You were surprised by how much he knew since he was mentioning concepts regarding the formulas you were studying, but he stops explaining just before he was about to give you the answer on what to actually do.

📚 Ah, and I think one can expect what’s coming next xDD.

📚 “Go on, tell me. What do I have to do next?”

📚 “Mmm, what do you think you should do?” He’d tease.

📚 “Shu, this is no time for trick questions!”

📚 “What?” He’d say, attempting to play innocent.

📚 “If you’re not gonna help, I don’t need you.”

📚 “I can help you . . . but there’s a small price for my help.”

📚 Sighing and knowing you were limited on options when it came to getting help on this subject, “What is it?”

📚 Smirking, he’d offer, “A kiss for every explanation I give you.”

📚 But of course, this was only part of the deal he was revealing to you.

📚 And because you were desperate for help, you added, “Fine.”

📚 So, he’d begin explaining again and things actually started to make a little sense, but things were still fuzzy, even if he was telling you to refer back to the textbook to read a little more about certain concepts he was explaining, and this was just to reinforce it a bit better.

📚 (I mean, we all know textbooks suck at giving clear explanations sometimes—and this was one of those unfortunate times.)

📚 So with this, he encourages you to try out a problem with what he’s told you, but of course, you have to pay up for the knowledge he’s just given you.

📚 And of course, it only gets more interesting from here because to be honest, this is only the beginning of his endless antics.

📚 He’ll run his foot up and down your leg while you’re in the middle of reading something out of your textbook. If you’re wearing a long skirt or dress, he does it to get a glimpse of your legs, or at least feel them—plus, he gets a kick out of teasing you with his touch. And if you’re wearing a short loose skirt, he does it in hopes of seeing glimpses of your panties, at least, if his leg were to lift it high enough.

📚 Might move your hair out of your face while you’re reading or attempting to solve a math problem.

📚 Might poke your side every few minutes or so to make you jolt, which you scold him for because he’s distracting you.

📚 He literally lives for your reaction and finds it beyond amusing. To make things even worse, he sometimes denies that he’s poking you.

📚 Fucking ass.

📚 “Shu, stop it! I’m trying to study.”

📚 “Wasn’t me. You’re just imagining things.”

📚 Will so whisper lewd things into your ears while you’re reading or trying to figure something out.

📚 “Hm, y’know, you’d look a lot sexier if you were naked right now.” He’d say, leaving you to bury your embarrassed face into the nearby textbook.

📚 Might even derail you by getting into discussions about other things, which you end up falling into, but that’s until he brings up what you’re actually supposed to do.

📚 “Wait, aren’t you supposed to be studying?” He’d smirk.

📚 “You ass! You’re making me waste so much time!”

📚 He’d only laugh, leaving you to playfully hit him.

📚 Tries to make you mess up when you’re attempting a physics problem by whispering weird things into your ear.

📚 Like, if you’re talking yourself through the problem step by step and referring to your notes while doing so, he’ll add in something totally off/random or misleading to throw you off.

📚 And by any chance, if you repeat what he said because you’re so zoned out and end up realizing it, he has the biggest smirk on the face, leading you to scold him, which he ends up laughing at.

📚 He also listens to your heartbeat to see how it sounds and it does beat a little faster whenever he gets closer, and he purposely brings this up to throw you off.

📚 Omg! And if you’re studying Latin (it’s hinted at in one of the mangas that he knows it), he’s definitely going to take advantage of that fact in various ways.

📚 He’ll rectify your pronunciation if it’s off and teach you the stuff that’s a little fuzzy, however, when is it innocent and sincere with this narcoleptic?

📚 Will make you ‘accidentally’ kiss him—that is, while you’re in the middle of looking at something during your studying session, he’ll whisper something barely audible enough to hear, which leads you to turn and meet his lips with yours unexpectedly, an evident smirk on his face at your obviousness. Not that you mind the kiss, but you had to study otherwise you weren’t going to pass.

📚 “Shu, quit it! I can’t focus!”

📚 “Hmm, you say that yet your body says otherwise.” He’d smirk.

📚 You’d flush. “Shut up!”

📚 Will teach you new words in Latin, but he’s telling you the wrong definition of them and little do you know that you’re saying the dirtiest of words or phrases.

📚 I’m telling you, never trust a vampire.

📚 Might even tug at the waistband of your underwear or pull it and have it smack against your skin if it’s in his sight.

📚 “Shu!”

📚 “What? You’re the one showing it off.”

📚 “I’m not!”

📚 At times, you might ask him a question and not get an answer, only to turn and see that he’s fallen asleep.

📚 “Shu.” You’d say, giving his shoulder a nudge to wake up.

📚 "Nnn . . . what? . . .” he’d say stirring awake, soon realizing his reality. “Oh, we're still doing this?"

📚 You’d sigh in defeat, quickly going back to your work knowing he was no help at that moment.

📚 Might even graze his fangs over the surface of your neck or shoulder area just to tease you, or even bite you if he’s feeling thirsty. And if goosebumps rise, it only rials him up more.

📚 “Stop it! You’re so distracting.”

📚 “Hm, your body says otherwise.” He’d smirk, referring to the goosebumps on your skin.

📚 And after doing so many physics problems, you finally reached an epiphany and grasped the concept, jumping up out of your seat knowing you were able to.

📚 “Yes! I finally understand it!”

📚 “Is that so?” He’d coo. “Alright then.”

📚 And before you knew it, your back was pinned against the wooden table, Shu’s figure hovering above your own, an evident smirk on his face as he went towards your neck.

📚 “Shu, wait! You had it earlier.”

📚 “I need something to replenish all the energy I’ve wasted.”

Yuma:

📚 Well, in general, Yuma is okay with studying.

📚 He knows he has to do it in order to survive and pass the year, plus, he’s no slacker, so there’s no excuse for not doing work.

📚 However, he doesn’t prioritize studying above anything, especially when it comes to gardening.

📚 Whatever the case though, if he has to study, he gives it his best attempt even if he doesn’t fully understand it by the time he’s finished studying.

📚 “Well, it’s better than not trying.” He’d admit.

📚 He honestly doesn’t care if he fails, at least he knows that he did his part and tried his best.

📚 Though, when it comes to studying with his s/o, things are quite different.

📚 Mostly because he likes the idea of doing something with you.

📚 Messes a lot with your hair, such as ruffling it or playfully pulling it.

📚 Clutches your ass a lot, like even when you're about to sit down he'll have his hand resting on the chair, and since your not looking you'll sit on his hand and he'll just grope you through your skirt.

📚 When you're at school and you have a skirt on, it makes it more dangerous.

📚 Because it doesn't matter where you are, he's going to put his hand up your skirt no matter what.

📚 At some point, because you have come to know what he's like and what he's bound to do, you wore shorts underneath your skirt once and he was so annoyed.

📚 "You gotta be kidding me?!"

📚 Will bring plenty of snacks to your study area and tries to feed them to you.

📚 He usually brings stuff from his garden since it's nutritious. Plus, he’s the one who grew the stuff, so he takes extra pride in having you eat it.

📚 “Eat it, it’s good.” He’d say, handing you a bowl of baby carrots. You're grateful for the gesture, but this wasn’t really what you wanted, your appetite craving something sweet or salty.

📚 “It looks delicious, Yuma, but I kinda wanted something else.”

📚 “Hah?! What else could my little pig want?”

📚 “Well… I kinda wanted some [favorite junk food].”

📚 “That’s not healthy! My little pig should only be eating good food, not that shit!”

📚 “But, Yuma-,”

📚 “No buts!” He’d insist.

📚 You’d go back to your studying, eating some of the carrots in the bowl. A little while passed by and he soon came back with your favorite snack, a smile appearing on your face.

📚 “Here.” He’d say, handing it to you.

📚 “Thanks, Yuma.”

📚 He’d sigh, “Don’t mention it—but you can’t have it all the time. It’s not the best thing for my little pig . . . but I’ll let it slide this time.”

📚 Sometimes, though, you eat the veggies he brings since you want to make him happy, but the problem is he brings too much at times, especially when he’s harvested a lot of produce if it’s the season.

📚 "Yuma, I can't eat all this."

📚 "Hey, studying is hard. I can't have my little pig dying on me."

📚 “Yuma, people don’t die from over-studying, but they can from eating.”

📚 He doesn't like taking breaks because he feels that you're both slacking off.

📚 "Yuma, it's okay to take breaks while studying."

📚 "That's what slackers do. I can’t stand half-assed shit. Let’s just finish so we’re done."

📚 Will grab you out of nowhere and just bite you without warning, just cuz.

📚 "Yuma, you had it earlier."

📚 "So? I need it to help my little pig study."

📚 "I never even asked for your help!"

📚 Feeds you sugar cubes if you're really struggling on a subject, and tricks you into giving it to you mouth-by-mouth.

📚 If you're studying something like history, he's going to tell you about the time period if he actually witnessed it (I mean, he's centuries-old so he's gone through multiple eras in history).

📚 But sometimes, if he wants to tease you, he lies about even being in a certain time period or makes up scenarios he never experienced—it’s mostly because he likes to brag in a teasing way.

📚 This cocky mf.

📚 And because you know him well enough, you know better than to believe him since he’s just teasing to get a reaction out of you.

📚 “Y’know, did I ever tell you about the time I was in the Revolutionary War?” He’d grin.

📚 “Yuma, you’re just making things up again.”

📚 “No, I ain’t. It’s true!”

📚 At some point, he'll get fed up with you sitting beside him while studying, so he'll just pick you up from your seat and set you on his lap.

📚 "Yuma, you can't just place me where you want all the time!"

📚 As you were sitting on his lap like he wanted, you were explaining something you had read in order to reinforce it into your memory, plus, Yuma had to know because he was studying the same thing

📚 And during the time you explain something, he usually just braids your hair cause he's not listening and is bored.

📚 When you realize this you'll stop explaining and turn your body halfway to look at him. "Hey, are you even listening to me?"

📚 "Am I what, little pig?" He'd smirk putting his hands on your waist, turning you to have you face him, straddling you in the process.

📚 "Yuma, you haven't been listening to a word I’ve said."

📚 Of course, you didn't pay much attention to his actions since you were upset but you'd later regret that you didn't.

📚 "Yeah, I have." He'd respond with a smug look on his face as you were still annoyed.

📚 "Y’know if you don't want to study, you could just be honest."

📚 "Hell no! Otherwise, I'll end up like that Sakamaki asshole that never does anything."

📚 "Then at least listen when I explain something to you." You'd look at him still upset.

📚 "Damn, didn't know my little pig could get so angry." He’d grin.

📚 You felt something brush against your leg, your eyes widening as you felt taken back by his words and how a certain part of him was reacting.

📚 “Would you- nevermind, I'm leaving!” You’d say, getting off his lap as you’d stalk away.

📚 "What? You're leaving?"

📚 "Yeah, I am!"

📚 "Why?"

📚 "Because you're being weird!" You'd say, not wanting to explicitly say it.

📚 "What? It's not my fault he likes you too." He’d tease.

📚 "Stop! Don't bring it up!"

Subaru:

📚 *sighs* Well, he’s not much help in this department, mostly because he doesn’t have the best performance at school to begin with.

📚 He tries, he really does—but he gets very frustrated with the idea of studying, mostly because he’s always being pestered by Ayato or Laito.

📚 But when he’s with his s/o, it becomes easier for him to study since he can remain focused.

📚 Well, maybe not too focused because your beauty catches him off guard and leaves him flustered, but nevertheless, he actually gets things done when he studies with you.

📚 However, despite the studying, it’s honestly 50-50 in the sense that 50% of the time he’s studying, but the other 50% consists of him teasing you.

📚 And it’s honestly never-ending since he loves to do it.

📚 While studying, he’ll pretend to drop his pen/pencil and he’ll get down to get it under the table, but this is an excuse to look at your legs, and even get a chance to bite them, especially the calves.

📚 Fuckass, like I-

📚 He literally loves the reaction you give when he does this.

📚 Might try to touch or cup your boobs while you’re busy reading.

📚 Might slip his hand in between your thighs just to throw you off—this is honestly such a game to him.

📚 He might go silent for a little while if he’s reading or trying to figure something out, so you’ll sneak a glance to see what he’s doing. Since he feels a gaze on him, he’ll turn to look at you, leaving you to avert your gaze, and this honestly goes back and forth for a while without a word being said, the atmosphere tense.

📚 Will stare at you while you’re busy reading or doing something else that relates to studying, and because you’re so engrossed in your work, it gives him the ultimate excuse to look at you. He just finds your focused face so amusing.

📚 If you’re studying something like the human reproductive system, he’s going to be an ass about it.

📚 He’s so going to make the dirtiest of jokes to make you blush or laugh.

📚 Through looking at a diagram of the male reproductive system, there was honestly so much to memorize and understand, it feeling very overwhelming.

📚 “This is so hard!” You complain. “This is why boys are complicated!”

📚 And because you two were studying such a system, there was no way you were going to escape this without his commentary.

📚 “Say what you want, but I know mine’s bigger.” He’d smirk, pointing to the diagram.

📚 “Shut up!”

📚 If you guys end up taking a break, he likes to use this time as a quick session to replenish his thirst, his fangs either piercing the skin of your neck or collarbone.

📚 And if he gets you to moan, it’s a plus, it really stirs him up.

📚 While you’re reading, he might even rest his face in the crook of your neck just to see what you’re doing.

📚 Like Shu, he’ll listen and tease you about whether your heartbeat is fast when he’s close.

📚 Subaru also likes to pull your bra strap just to get you to jolt so he can see your reaction.

📚 "Subaru, quit it!"

📚 "Heh, who told you to show it to me?" He'd tease.

📚 "Ass! You know I wasn't trying to."

📚 "Uh-huh, sure."

📚 Tries to pull your sleeve down just to throw you off, and if it's a loose shirt and he manages to pull it down far enough, it gives him the excuse to get a peek of your boobs.

📚 He might drink from your shoulder or upper arm if he feels like it then and there.

📚 If you guys are having a snack while studying, he tries to aim and throw his snack in your boob area, and if he gets it to fall in, he's going to be a teasing ass about it.

📚 If by any chance you're having a popsicle for a snack, he lowkey observes how you lick it, which gives him the lewdest of ideas.

📚 Noticing his gaze and how he was looking at you, you'd playfully hit him. "Pervert!"

📚 During all that studying tho, he's bound to procrastinate at some point. And here, he might take the opportunity to send gross shit to your phone, or even shirtless photos of him to throw you off just cuz he sucks like that.

📚 Picking up your phone, you of course would see the text is from him and thought it was weird considering he was sitting right next to you, but you decided to check it anyways, either facepalming or hiding your face depending on what he sent, leaving him to only laugh at your reaction.

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[the-lady-writes-what]

M o r e S h o j i

I loved loved loved the last shoji story you made!! Can you write him again? Aged up, of course. With a size kink, lots of hands and mouths ~all~ over the place, Shoji dom with sub reader, and overstimulation and edging. 

This is more optional than anything, but could you do an innocent reader? Like, still a virgin, and doesn’t know too much beyond “when a man and woman love each other very much…”? 

Thanks again~~

Gah! I’m so, so, sorry, Anon. I didn’t forget about you, I promise. Since this was sent in, I’ve been struggling with day jobs and just general chaos of life. I can’t promise that I’ll work on the next request right away, but I can try to do better. Thank you very much for your patience. I’m not sure I deserve it. So, without further ado, here’s your Shoji fic! I hope you enjoy.

Fyi, this will be written as female reader by default.

Content: Dom/sub, overstimulation, multiple appendages, virgin reader, size kink, edging and orgasm denial, praise, “pretty girl”

This is a Pro-Hero AU. Mezo Shoji is 20+. He has been aged up for the purpose of this work as I do not write about minors in adult (ie sexual) scenarios. Don’t like? Don’t read. Don’t come for me unless I send for you.

You dared to glance up from the notes you were taking. Across from you sat the pro-hero, Tentacole. You were just a secretary for one of the many hero organizations, a quirkless civilian who wanted to do something for society besides take up a part-time job. But that’s just what you told yourself every day when you got up at dawn to get dressed, run to catch the train to work, and do mindless grunt work in the hopes of seeing Tentacole either in action or walking into your building. You totally didn’t take this job because you had a crush on the pro-hero, and you totally didn’t think about what his multiple arms could do to you if given half the chance.

It totally wasn’t because you writhed against your fingers at night imagining Tentacole using his quirk to penetrate your holes and suck on your tits at the same time.

You quickly went back to work writing notes for the meeting and tried not to think anymore about him. For now. There would be plenty of fun time when you got home to get it all out of your system, assuming you weren’t too tired. The meeting with the pro-heroes wrapped up quickly as far as those kinds of meetings go. You handed off the notes and time stamps to Ingenium and left to return to your desk. As you walked down the hall, you couldn’t help but look over your shoulder to see your boss, Ingenium, and Tentacole side by side and talking about something. You were too far away to hear what they were saying and too worried about your position to try and eavesdrop. You bent over and pretended to re-tie your shoe. When you stood up again and glanced one last time to see them both looking at you. Heat rose to your cheeks. You fled the scene before you got yourself in trouble.

You made it to your desk and buried your face in your hands, trying to make skin cool down before anyone noticed. After a few minutes of this, you turned on your computer and got back to the grindstone. It wasn’t long before there was a knock on your door.

“Come in!” You answered.

You expected Ingenium to walk through the door, but much to your ignominy it was Tentacole. You shot up out of your desk chair.

“Uh, Mr. Tentacole. Um, it’s a pleasure…I mean an honor to see you! Is there something I can help you with? Are you looking for Ingenium?” You scolded yourself for babbling.

“I’m actually looking for you,” he said.

“Me?”

Just kill me now! You thought.

“Yes, I don’t know if this would be appropriate or not, but I was wondering if I can ask you something.”

“Of course! Anything, sir! W-What would you like to ask me?”

“Would it be alright if I asked you on a date? I’ve seen you before as Ingenium’s secretary. I’ve long admired your hard work to keep his agency running in top shape and I know that Ingenium would only hire the very best. I understand that if you think–”

“No! I mean, yes. I would love, I mean, I wouldn’t mind if you took me out on a date. If Ingenium doesn’t mind or see a conflict of interest.”

“I spoke with him just a few minutes ago. It’s not that I feel you need his permission, but out of respect I wanted him to know that I was attracted to his highly capable secretary and didn’t want to distract you too much from your work,” said Mezo.

Pinch me! I’m dreaming!

You would have to if Mezo Shoji, Tentacole, wasn’t standing in your office. He walked across the room and held out a business card to you. Trying not fumble, you took it. It was his agency’s card, but on the back was his phone number and the restaurant reservation time.

“I’ll pick you up at the office. You should be done with work by then, right?” Asked Mezo.

“Well, um, I can’t make promises but I’ll certainly try.”

With that, he left. You stared at the back of the business card, heart thundering in your chest. Ingenium walked into your office on the way to his.

“Is everything alright, L/N?” He asked politely.

You tucked the card into a drawer and sat back down.

“Oh, everything’s fine, sir!”

The night came for your date. You brought a change of shoes and clothes and stored your office clothes in a locker provided at work. You waited for his car, but you didn’t expect anything less when Mezo pulled up. Of course, his car was big. It had to be in order to accommodate for the Tentacle Hero’s size. He practically dwarfed you. It made your spine tingle standing in front of him, heels on and still having to crane your neck to meet your eyes.

“You look…nice,” said Mezo.

“T-Thank you.”

It would have been a normal date if you hadn’t been made aware of the piranhas swimming around with their flashing cameras. Mezo shielded you with his big arms like an umbrella from the paparazzi. Your heart beat a bit faster while hidden behind his arms. His body almost swallowed you up and ate you whole. You weren’t small, but still felt tiny against Mezo. Maybe it was the wine talking, however you wanted to know what Mezo looked like in your bedroom lighting. Of course, you didn’t dare say it aloud.

Under the table, you clenched your thighs together. You were horny before you even got to dessert. You couldn’t help but stare at Mezo’s large hands, wishing they were wrapped around your thighs, waist, and even your neck. You wondered what his quirk could do. If they could turn into any part of his face, did that include his–

“Is everything alright, Y/N? You haven’t said much tonight,” said Mezo.

“Oh? Oh. I’m fine. Thank you for asking. I was just thinking that…this has been the best date I’ve had in a long time.”

Mezo drove you home, but you insisted on bringing him upstairs with you. Offer a cup of coffee before he left. Maybe kiss him under the mask. Your legs trembled as you guided him to your apartment at the end of the hall.

“Make yourself at home!” You opened the door all the way.

Despite opening it as wide as possible, Mezo still had to duck and walk in sideways in order to enter your apartment. You both kicked off your shoes and you made your way to the kitchen. Mezo went with you, never standing far off from you.

Your skin was riddled with goosebumps just by having him in your kitchen. He took up half the space from where he was standing. In the back of your mind, your imagination ran wild with perverted thoughts. Gods, how could a virgin like you be so horny? Having a guy in your apartment was the only thing that set you off, apparently. You made two cups.

“Sorry that this isn’t my finest china,” you gave him a cup with a cat meme printed on it.

“I don’t mind. Coffee is coffee, no matter how it’s served. Especially when someone who looks as good as you makes me coffee.”

Your thighs clenched. Fuck!

You sipped from your mug as you watched Mezo turn his extra arm into a mouth to drink from his. Your inexperienced brain could think about how it might feel against your tits. You were all imagination and zero experience in the bedroom. All those nights of reading smutty books where the male lover utterly ravaged the female protagonist in ways that would make your mother blush if she knew the dirty material which kept you up at night. Your teeth nibbled on your bottom lip, coffee forgotten.

Mezo drank all of his while your cup turned cold. As if you cared. You glanced at the clock; it was getting late. Mezo was a pro-hero and the public needed him. You couldn’t steal more of his valuable time. That didn’t stop you from setting aside your mug and closing the space between you. You placed your hand on his chest, just about groping his pectoral muscles hard against his thin shirt.

“Y/N? Can I help you with something?” The mouth on the end of his arm said against your ear.

Hand shaking, you took the near-empty from him and put it away. You stood up on your tip-toes and kissed his lips over his mask. Mezo slowly wrapped his arms around you, caging you to his chest.

“You’re shaking,” Mezo observed. “Are you sure you’re fine with this?”

“I-I’m more than fine. I’m just really nervous.”

“Do I scare you?”

“No. Well, kinda. But not in the way you think,” you answered.

Mezo loosened his hold on you so he could get a better look at you. His large hands rubbed your upper arms. It was probably meant to be soothing, something perfectly innocent. Mezo’s innocuous intentions didn’t matter. The touch of his hands on you made you shudder.

“C-Can I ask you to do something for me, Mezo?”

“Anything, Y/N.”

“And you promise not to think I’m a slut or think less of me when I ask you?”

“Why would I?”

“Because I…” You stared at your feet and swallowed hard. “Because I want you to fuck me on the first date.” You whipped your head up to face him, heating rushing to the surface of your skin. You were hot all over and you could feel the apex of your thighs grow more slick. “I…I can’t help myself, Mezo. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about what you do to me with your quirk. I know I’m a virgin, but I can’t imagine being with anyone else. I want you to be my first…using your quirk.”

Mezo blinked in surprise. “Are you sure you’d want that? It might be a little extreme for you as your first time, though I’m honored you considered me.”

“I can handle it. I can take everything you can give me,” you said.

Without saying a word, Mezo picked you up and put you on his wide shoulder like a potato sack.

“Which way is your bedroom?” He asked.

You directed him down the short hallway past the guest bathroom. The door creaked open. Mezo flicked the light on before tossing you onto the bed. You landed with a squeal, which was short-lived before six pairs of hands came to wriggle you out of your dress. Mezo tore off his clothes, leaving him in nothing but his boxers. His hands were rough against your skin. Groping, prodding, caressing, pinching until there were bruises with his fingerprints all over you.

There were hands groping and teasing your nipples while a tongue played with your clit and fingers pummeled your virgin cunt. Another mouth kissed yours and drove its tongue in and out of your mouth. Mezo used the remaining appendage to form yet another mouth to speak dirty things into your ear, lick the lobe, and nibble on your neck.

“Such a pretty girl,” Mezo murmured agains your skin. “Such a brave girl. Are you going to come soon?”

You nodded. Your mouth was full of Mezo and his tongue shoved down your throat.

“Hm, not yet I’m afraid.”

You whined pathetically when he pulled his fingers and tongue off your aching hole. Instead, you tongued the rest of your body. Nothing was off limits except your pussy. Mezo used his quirk to turn his arms into mouths that licked your thighs, stomach, neck, and chest. Anywhere but where you wanted him most. By the end of his teasing, you were slick everywhere. Your skin glistened with sweat while your inner thighs trembled. Your neglected cunt ached. The alien feeling between your legs made you buck your hips against Mezo.

“Are you still sure you can handle me? All of me?”

“Yes! Please, please, please. I want it all. I can’t think about anything else. I need you everywhere!”

Mezo climbed off the bed and discarded the last remaining piece of clothing. Your eyes bulged. Everything about Mezo was big, including the heat he was packing between his legs. He sat on his knees and pressed two fingers into your slick opening. Mezo pried your legs open as far as they would go. You bucked against him again while his fingers brought you over to the edge once more. And again, Mezo pulled away before you could reach that blessed summit.

“That should do it,” said Mezo. “I think you’re good and ready for me.”

Mezo pressed the blunt tip of him and eased himself slowly inside. It was a dull ache, but nothing like the gut-wrenching pain some romance novels wrote about.

“How do you feel?” Mezo checked.

“G-good. So good, so full. Just let me feel it for a second.” You moaned.

Mezo stayed still. Your wet heat enveloped him like a glove. Using his quirk, he turned three of his arms into replicas of his cock. He put two into your hands, guiding you how he wanted you to stroke them.

“Open your mouth.”

You did without a moment of hesitation. You wrapped your lips around him and eased him down your throat. You gagged before Mezo pulled out just to leave the tip inside your mouth.

“You don’t have to take the whole thing. I wouldn’t expect you to be able to take it all the way. Just suck on the tip. Don’t push yourself further than you can handle.”

You nodded. You sucked in your cheeks like you’d seen in those pornos, suckling on the tip. His cocks were like steel rods wrapped in velvet. Mezo was hard and warm and you couldn’t help but stroke him with all of your enthusiasm. When you started to stroke and suck him faster, Mezo took it as a sign to fuck your needy cunt properly. Hands gripped your hip, which only left one appendage to form a mouth. Mezo used it to lick your thighs and clit while pounding you into your bed.

You looked so good taking all of him inside while sucking and stroking his other cocks. Mezo had wanted to see you like this, that desperate look in your eyes as if you couldn’t live without him filling your holes. He couldn’t help but imagine the day when you could envelop his cock whole down your throat while two more fucked tight holes. Being buried inside your pussy was almost his downfall from the moment he entered. If he didn’t have so much stamina, Mezo doubted he would have made it longer than a few minutes inside you.

“That’s it. You look so pretty with my cock in your mouth and a dick in each hand. You look like you’re enjoying yourself down there.”

You answered by moaning around his cock and bobbing your head on him.

“Good girl…” Mezo groaned.

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[skellebonez]

SO, remember that thing you wrote a while back, about Monkey King and Mk time traveling back to the JTTW time period?

Link to said thing: https://skellebonez.tumblr.com/post/647766968590581760/18-for-present-wukong-and-mk-to-accidentally-time

THIS? RIGHT WELL, I HAVE HAD IT OPEN IN MY TABS FOR A REALLY LONG TIME AND WOULD LIKE TO GIVE YOU AN OPENING TO CONTINUE WITH IT IF YOU'D LIKE: PROMPTS 34 and 41

So. Time travel is funky. This is set post-Special, immediately pre-season 2. But has spoilers for events up to S2E7. For reasons. Side bar: sometimes time travel comes with some fun side effects. Fun for the viewer. Less fun for the people experiencing them.

Truth be told, I forgot they were even here./Can you teach me how to do that?

"Won't this cause some kind of... I-I dunno, time paradox?" MK asked in a harsh whisper as they followed the traveling group at the back of the line. "Or is this gonna be some kind of 'you changed one thing and now two timelines exist' kind of deal?"

"I genuinely have no idea," Wukong said with a sigh, digging at the uncomfortable but familiar feeling in his ear and trying to keep his voice down as much as possible. He was honestly surprised that it had taken MK this long to ask this particular question, but then again... they had other things to worry about. "I don't remember this, but that may not even matter. I've around for centuries, Bud, but even I have no idea how thing works for us."

"That is not a comforting sentence."

It had been a little over two days since the mentor and student had found themselves thrown backwards in time a few centuries away from home. And Sun Wukong could tell that MK was starting to get more and more frustrated as time had gone on. To be fair, they had made little progress. And there was... another reason... multiple other reasons. But most importantly, there wasn't exactly a power source they could plug the machine into that would give them enough juice to send them home, at least not unless they chance by a demon with lightning powers that Wukong didn't remember. No, instead they had to wait until they hit a storm.

One that was more than another two days walk away.

The young man did his best to not let it show, however. Most likely because of who they were traveling with.

His younger self lead the group, pointedly not looking back at them and keeping a watchful eye for demons that the elder Wukong knew would not come. He dared not bring this knowledge up, though, not knowing if MK had a point about that paradox. He didn't seem to trust the completely, but there was someone else he trusted.

Behind him was his former Master. The monk Tripitaka, Tang Sanzang himself, on the back of the horse formed dragon Bai Long Ma. Bai Long Ma had said nothing, as they were wont to do, and seemed to mostly ignore the two of them unless they were loud. Mast- Sanzang. He had insisted that the elder Wukong and MK call him Sanzang. Probably to help differentiate who was speaking to him if he could not see the two immortal monkeys, and also because MK kept trying to figure out which title to use for the monk and he took pity on him. Sanzang, after a hour's long explanation and from proof via MK's phone and knowledge of past adventures none should know of (and one very interesting game of staff trading between the two monkeys for a moment where the younger Wukong realized it was indeed the same staff).

Sanzang had not mentioned his crying when they met. Neither had his younger self. Or MK.

Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing took up the rear. Wujing had not said much to the two of them, but he was nice enough. Suspicious of them, but nice. He put more faith in Sanzang and younger Wukong (perhaps he should call him something else in his head) than his companion.

Bajie didn't trust them as far as he could throw them, that was clear from the way he kept glancing back at the duo with daggers in his eyes. He was immediately unhappy with their new travel companions and... Wukong realized with a sad jolt that he actually missed that. At the time he only found Bajie's contrary nature to his own to be frustrating but now... now he hadn't heard that in 500 years and he could see that while it may have been misguided at times (many times) it was born of a sense of self preservation and a want to protest Sanzang.

Even if he contradicted himself at times as well.

"You two doing ok back there, older me and Kid?" Younger Wukong called back suddenly.

"Yup, just. Hanging." MK yelled back, tone as terse and done as it had been for the last day. "Not like I can do anything else." The second bit was muttered under his breathe, most likely in the hopes even his mentor couldn't hear him. He was wrong.

Wukong felt... bad. Because he was the primary source of this rotten mood.

The staff digging into his ear for the first time in centuries was a reminder of that. An agreement between himself and his student to not bring up any undue suspicion and questions that would take time they may not have to get back home. They'd agreed that the group would also call him Kid, since MK wasn't as fond of the others calling him Bud for some reason, and the name was just... a smidgen to close to Monkey King to not raise similar questions. It was also a reminder that Wukong had let slip in a follow up conversation, away from prying ears, about why this may or may not be really necessary that he had planned to leave the next day in present time.

MK hadn't been happy since. Not with him at least.

"Bajie, remember to ask them how they are doing from time to time. Please?" Sanzang insisted in front of them.

"Truth be told, I forgot they were even here," Bajie lied.

~

Bajie glowered down at Wukong, throwing the fruit and wrapped rice packages in his general direction and not caring whether he caught it or not. There was a soft and disappointed cry of his name from Sanzang from the other side of the camp.

"Master and the stupid Monkey may trust you," he snorted, ignoring the call and looking between Wukong and MK. "But I don't. If you even so much as set one little toe out of like I will re-"

"Rend our souls asunder with your mighty 9 Toothed Rake, yeah," MK sighed as he used some of the water from his cup to wash the berries thrown at him. "You're Zhu Ganglie, Zhu Bajie, Tiānpéng Yuánshuài, commander-in-chief of 80,000 Heavenly Navy Soldiers. You will kick our asses. We know."

For a whole second Zhu Bajie looked genuinely surprised and... kind of impressed.

Then he scoffed again and made his way back to the group of five and watched them from the edges of his vision with less suspicion and more curiosity than before.

"Mei was right when she said he was kind of like Pigsy," MK noted, popping a berry into his mouth.

"When was that?" Wukong asked, doing much the same.

His student froze, looking down at his hands for a moment as if trying to remember something. "... not important. Let's just eat and get some rest, like Sanzang told us to."

It didn't take a Great Sage to realize something was wrong.

Wukong said nothing.

~

"Kid, we told you to stay back with Master!" Wujing shouted as MK peaked his head around the rock he and the monk were taking shelter behind.

"I know!" MK snapped, growling as he ducked back down and presumably curled in on himself. "ARGH I feel useless!"

Wukong winced at his tone, feeling bad. MK wasn't useless, to be fair, but without his staff and no backup weapons he was fighting up a creek without a paddle as it were.

"You're not useless, and you're protecting Tripitaka!" He shouted, letting out a yelp as he narrowly avoided a hit from a demon that should not even be here. Or, some kind of time anomaly mockery of a large demon. An enormous smoke or shadow creature that was far too familiar for his own liking. Not the same, something possibly cobbled together from time itself.

"Wow, uh, future me you're not doing so hot!" Younger Wukong said with a raise of his eyebrow as he blocked a strike with much more ease. "Aren't I supposed to get better with age? Like a handsome fine wine?"

"I'm a bit RUSTY ok!?" He snapped, slicing off one of the shadow creature's cloth tassels to watch it flicker away. "Haven't been many demons to fight!"

He heard a scoff from behind the rock before he felt the giant fist punch him into it. And through it. A Wukong sized hole between student and old master. He realized too late that he had lost his grip on his staff as it flew into the air above them.

"Alright, that's enough!"MK shouted, and before Wukong could even move to stop him the Monkie Kid had jumped into the rock and reached up.

"KID DO YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH!?" Bajie shouted in horror as he made to rush back and tackle him out of the way. He hadn't moved fast enough either.

None of them had, before MK caught the staff as if it was as light as a feather and twirled it around himself before extending it and launching himself at the shadow creature with a scream of rage and frustration and landing what would have been the killing blow had it not clearly been something not living in the first place.

It dissipated much as the piece cut off before it did, leaving MK to... give a confused yelp and fall into a heap on the ground. The staff fell to his side as he clutched his head and yelled in pain from a source Wukong could not see.

"Kid!" Wukong screamed, moving faster than he had during the entire fight to his student's side. "Kid, shit, MK! What happened?"

"MK?" Sanzang and his younger self asked softly in tandem as Wujing and Bajie watched on, all moving closer. But not too close, giving the two room to move.

MK didn't answer. He sat up, holding his head in his hands as he breathed deeply and tried to keep from screaming again before everything just... stopped.

His sat on his knees, hand hanging limply at his sides as his true sight shone in his eyes and he looked on forward blankly.

"What's... who is he?" Younger Wukong asked slowly as he turned to his older self. "What is he?"

"The Hero and the Warrior were like the Sun and the Moon..." MK muttered softly all of a sudden, just loud enough for the group surrounding him. His voice was slurred, almost like he was in a trance. "Their light a protective glow shining upon the world..."

"MK, where did you-" Wukong tried to ask instead of answering his younger self as he slowly stepped forward, cautiously, but MK continued on as if he had not heard him at all.

"Together there was nothing that could stop the two of them. Either in the Celestial Realms... or on Earth. As time went on, the Hero attained power beyond comprehension. As the Hero's light grew so too did his shadow and soon the Warrior was cast in that shadow. In the darkness, the Warrior was forgotten by the Hero..."

MK immediately slumped forward as he fell unconscious.

"MK!"

~

"His name is MK... and he's the Monkie Kid... My successor," Wukong finished as he laid a fresh cold wet cloth over his student's forehead. After he had collapsed it became obvious something was seriously wrong with MK, high fever burning him up quickly. They were only just close enough to a town for him to grab him and the staff and rush off with barely a shouted back explanation of "find us at the inn" to the rest of their group. "We thought that... keeping that a secret might prevent any kind of... weird time travel... stuff."

Wukong sighed. His explanation was weak even to his own ears. Excuses. Ways to make things easier for him.

He felt worse than he had just the day before.

His student laid unconscious still, fever burning even after the medicine from the town doctor had been given to him with water carefully. The only thing Wukong could think of was the staff. MK wasn't invincible like he was, maybe contact with it had caused a reaction from the time travel that couldn't affect the immortal.

"Why would you need a successor, Wukong?" Sanzang asked after they sat in silence for a moment.

Bajie handed Wukong the mortar and pestle he had been working with to prepare more medicine, something to add to tea when MK woke up. The pig demon had not questioned him once since they arrived, only grabbed what Wukong was trying to mix poorly himself and listened.

Bai Long Ma had changed into a human form, one he had rarely seen, and sat beside Wujing. They both also listened.

His younger self looked at MK in a mix of wonder and confusion and horror and Wukong could not blame him. The idea of a successor... he must have known himself what that meant even if no one else did.

"I hope I don't have to tell you," he said softly. He didn't look away from MK, even as Sanzang laid a comforting hand on his back. "And I don't want to risk what telling you might do..."

No one questioned him after that.

When Bajie prepared the next bowl of medicine for MK, Wukong took a chance he never had with the demon he once considered like his brother.

"Can you teach me how to do that? Properly?"

Bajie did.

~

"Monkey King?" Came the hoarse rasp of MK's voice ringing through the room, and Wukong shot up from where he was watching the stars in an instant.

"I'm here, MK," He said softly, still soft, not wanting to hurt his student in case hie head ached. "How do you feel?"

"Dead, but only from the neck up," MK groaned out, and Wukong let out a relieved sigh. He wasn't sick enough to not joke around at least. "Where are we?"

"The town we need to be in," Wukong answered, quickly working on adding the medicine into some now (sadly) cold tea. He had hoped MK would wake much sooner. "Storm is tonight... you've been asleep for a whole day. Hopefully getting you home with this medicine in you will make you feel better, you uh... you weren't doing so great before-"

"What happened to Macaque?" MK asked suddenly, looking for all the world like he had no idea why he would even ask that question to begin with. "Not the battle your younger you had. Before that. In the story. Sun and Moon. Please, I... I want to know. Just... just tell me something, for once."

Wukong froze, fur bristling and stiff and this was not the conversation he wanted to have with his student right now. This is not the conversation he should be able to physically have with his student right now because MK should have no way of knowing anything like this at all. But he had. He'd recited the story he'd heard before word for word from... Macaque.

This was not the time for easy outs. Not anymore.

"I've made a lot of mistake, MK," He started, lifting his student's head onto his lap to help him sit up for the drink. "And a lot of them are ones I didn't think you would have to know about. But Macaque... it's complicated, I know that now. I didn't back then."

MK sipped the tea but said nothing, only made a face at the taste of the medicine.

"We were friends, once. Back on Mount Huaguo before I went to the Celestial Realm, he became immortal in... other ways to my own. I was trapped for 500 years under a mountain without him, no one came to see me so... I guess he was never able to find me. Or he waited thinking I would eventually come back," Wukong tried not to think about how that meant he could have had trust in his friend and not for other reasons he had assumed for so long. "You know the story of the White Bone Spirit from our journey? How Bajie got me banished?"

Wukong couldn't help but chuckle. Oh, he'd been so mad at Bajie for so long for that. He still was, in many ways. But given what happened to him later on in the journey Wukong couldn't hold a grudge.

"Yeah you-" MK coughed a little, probably from not talking for a whole day and a sore throat. "You went back to Mount Huaguo."

"And to Macaque," Wukong continued. "For the first time in 500 years."

"I bet he was angry."

"No..." Wukong disagreed, shaking his head and thinking back. "No, he... wasn't. Not at first. He was ecstatic I came back. The Hero and Warrior of Mount Huaguo back together again, just like old times. But it wasn't like old times. I was already different, I knew how I treated others including the monkeys on my mountain hadn't been the best. And when Bajie came to bring me back... I couldn't help but wanting to leave back to the journey. Part of it was to get the fillet off, but part of it was because... I realized I cared for the others. I wanted to see the journey through with them."

"Macaque thought you were abandoning him," MK said after a moment, eyes widening. "That's why he took on your identity. He wanted... revenge? For you to have no reason to leave again?"

"I think he just wanted what we used to have," Wukong said with a frown. "I've been running from him for so long... over another 500 years. I've made so many mistakes in my life MK, but I think not trying to get him to come with us or trying to properly explain what I was doing... may have been the worst."

"... The warrior was never forgotten by the Hero after all," MK said softly before drifting back to sleep.

"No," Wukong agreed, though he knew he was not heard. "No, the Hero never forgot. The Hero never will, not completely. Even if it hurts."

~

The storm came on schedule. The machine was charged.

Over the day they came back their memories of the trip back in time faded into a distant thought, one that both mentor and student soon forgot to fear the loss of.

By the next day they had forgotten. Time had fixed itself.

But not completely.

The Hero never forgot completely, after all. There was something telling him in the back of his mind to check more on his student. He remembered a hand on his back that should not have been there. He knew how to mix something he never had before.

Neither did the Warrior, uninvolved in this adventure as he may be. He had plans.

And the one between them, with no title to himself, didn't completely forget either. He recalled feeling warm and safe. His head was on someone's lap. There were berries and someone not unlike one of his father figures.

The memories of what happened lingered, quiet, uncalled but emotions still there.

A short time later the one between felt that a play he went to was strangely familiar to him and needed to rush out before his head began to ache in memories he didn't recall.

"So um... what happened to him? The Warrior?"

The answer was somewhere in the back of his mind. If only he could remember.

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