#well we jumpscared each other so.. all is fair in love and war

[sipsteainanxiety]

one of the things you'd never understand was how goddamn silent bakugou katsuki could be.

he was huge, for one thing, all six-foot-something of iron muscle and sharp angles. the training he had undergone in the past and continued doing to this day made him bulk up—particularly around his upper torso. a small waist led up to thick pecs and wide shoulders with just as wide biceps. he could crush you so easily with one hand alone, his palm big enough to cover nearly your entire face.

he was also so fucking loud at times. that was his entire hero persona—dynamight with the loud explosions that could temporarily deafen anyone who was close enough to them. his entire hero costume was a deadly configuration of grenades and other heavy gear too—things that cluttered and banged together whenever he moved around too much.

you'd seen him stomping around his agency before in his heavyset boots, so you knew he was the type to be big and bold with literally anything he did. he was always barking out orders with that raspy voice of his or yelling at his co-workers whenever they appeared at his agency to bug him for one reason or the other.

katsuki's very presence, personality, was just so. loud. thunderous.

so you didn't fucking understand why he kept sneaking up on you so easily.

it happened more often than you liked to admit. you'd be in the agency's breakroom, grabbing a cup of coffee to help you stay awake for the day when you'd turn around and he'd just—be there. standing silently behind you.

it made you jump every time, a yelp escaping your lips as you'd clutch a hand at your heart and glare up at him as he'd look down at you with a raised eyebrow.

"jeez! don't do that!" you'd scold him, scooting away slightly to put more space between the two of you. that was another thing—he just always seemed to be invading your personal space, intentional or not. "scared the hell out of me."

"'s not my fault y'don't pay attention," he'd grumble before reaching past you to grab one of the protein bars from a cabinet. you'd roll your eyes and walk away with your coffee cradled in your hand, not wanting to put up with him so early in the morning.

sometimes he'd get you while you were tinkering away in his agency's support lab.

in your defense, you tended to get absorbed in your work a lot, your hands fiddling with materials and tools that could be pretty loud or distracting. you didn't always hear when people would enter the lab, but they usually left you alone.

not katsuki, though.

you'd turn around with the intention of reaching for an item on the table behind you only to get startled when your face would come into contact with a broad chest.

fuck him and his steely pecs. nearly broke your goddamn nose.

"bakugou!" you'd screech, jumping back as you'd rub your nose with your eyes scrunched together. you had to force yourself to not tear up with how much it'd stung. "stop doing that!!"

"doin' what?" he'd say as though he wasn't fucking creeping up on you on purpose. and maybe he wasn't, but the amount of times he'd done it was no coincidence. "need my bracers. goin' out on patrol."

"fine, fine," you'd mutter, giving him a suspicious look before you'd stomp away to grab his stuff for him. you didn't like the way he stared at you, with his eyebrows raised as though you were the one acting crazy and not him for silently standing behind you.

but you knew, you fucking knew, that he was experiencing some sick, twisted amusement at seeing your reactions. you just knew. there were a few times where you'd catch him with a smug smirk on his smooth face as you'd leap away from him. the bastard thought it was funny seeing you all jumpy. and it irritated you more than you'd like to admit. but he'd just pretend he wasn't doing it deliberately. asshole.

at one point, you'd considered doing the same to him. but you'd brushed the idea away pretty quickly. his hero senses were honed—he'd be able to tell you were coming from a mile away. and even if you did manage to sneak up on him, you knew he was a pretty tense guy—he'd blow your face up before you could even raise your own brow at him.

so you just decided to do your best to ignore him. which was hard, considering the fact that he was practically everywhere. it made sense, considering it was his own agency, but still. you'd walk into a room sometimes, and he'd just be there. or you'd turn around and he'd be behind you again. it was frustrating!

but what you didn't know... was that katsuki had been trying to work up the courage to ask you to dinner all this time.

for all the villains he fought and strength he had, he just couldn't muster up the words. he'd make it all the way up to you, standing behind you as he tried to get himself to clear his throat and just fucking say the words he needed to say. but he couldn't. and you'd turn around, get startled, then get irritated at him that he just couldn't ask you out.

so for now, he was simply stuck in this endless cycle, hoping that one day, he'd be able to break out of it.

#this fic is inspired by my two (ex) roommates who kept jumpscaring me in our dorm #bakugou katsuki x reader #bakugou x reader #well we jumpscared each other so.. all is fair in love and war #zee if u see this i miss u #katsuki x reader #bakugou x you #bakugou drabble #is ex the right word if we're planning to room together in 2 yrs... #who knows!

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

Alriiiight! It’s time for the final Dark Crystal reaction post! Woot! (Fair warning, this is a long one)

If this season doesn’t end in a manner that is satisfying to the plot it will destroy a little piece of my soul. :)

*Deet making something* *Rian looking at Brea’s pictures* *BOOM* Rian: DEET?!? Deet: I’m fine! Wholy frick, Deet, did you just make black powder?!? xDDD

Rian: Deet?! What in Thra’s name was that explosion?!? Are you alright?!? Deet: *looks surprised* Rian! Of course, I’m fine, how are you? Pfffffffft, THESE TWO

Deet: I don’t think anything will ever be like it was before again, Rian. “And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? Those were the stories that stuck with you, that meant something.”

WHOLY FRICK, DEET, WHAT IS THAT ON YOUR ARMS, BABY ARE YOU OKAY?!?

What the frick what the frick, HECK I BEEN WAITING NINE EPISODES FOR THE SKEKSIS TO HAVE WINGS BUT THAT’S JUST FREAKY

So what you’re telling me is that the Archer is just MOSTLY dead, but not ALL dead. Which, by extension, means that THE HUNTER IS TOO, WHY

WHOLY FRICK NO

DEET HAS AMOUR 

“I wanna squish the green one!” YOU TOUCH DEET AND I WILL TEAR YOU LIMB FROM LIMB AND THROW YOUR MUTILATED CORPSE IN THE LAKE TO BE DEVOURED BY MINNOWS

Ohhhh, Rian just threw down the gauntlet

“Are you sure about this?” “No.” WELL AT LEAST YOU’RE HONEST RIAN “But I have hope.” AWWW

“I’m no killer!” Rian, baby, I hate to tell you this, but you’re in a war, killing is part of the business.

WHAT THE FRICK DID THE SWORD DO, DID... did it just reabsorb essence? Is that the lil piece of the Crystal that went missing?

What’s the fuzzy growling fluffball called? A fizzgig? I LOVE IT

Also, can I just say I love how Rian keeps jumping around, you go baby

Um, the General just turned to dust?!

FRIGGIN HUNTER, STOP RANDOMLY GRABBING RIAN I SWEAR, YOU ARE THE LITERAL EMBODIMENT OF A JUMPSCARE

The Archer just turned to fairy dust

YES I KNEW AUGRHA WOULD COME BACK

“Mother Aughra! Are you alright?!” “No! I just came back from the dead!” Oh my gossssssssh xDD

*screaming far too loud for it being midnight* YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I KNEW THEY’D COME RIGHT WHEN ALL HOPE SEEMED LOST AND THE SKEKSIS WERE TAUNTING THEM 

IT TAKES TIME TO GATHER AND MOVE A FREAKING ARMY OKAY

YASSS, UNITE MY LITTLE PEOPLE, RIDE NOW, FOR RUIN AND THE WORLD’S ENDIIIIIIIINGGGGGGGGGGG

I... I expected the Darkening thing

I.... did not expect Deet to single handedly thwart it like that

I mean I sort of did, I expected her to use her power somehow, but wholy crap baby, what

“Get away from my friends.” SHE JUST, SHE JUST REDIRECTED THE DARKENING AT THEM WHOLY ACTUAL CRAP DEET

I LOVE YOU BABY, I LOVE YOU SO FREAKING MUCH

ARE YOU OKAY?!?

SHE JUST SENT THE SKEKSIS INTO AN ALL OUT RETREAT

Pffffffft, Gurjin hugging the giant spider tho

I love that the Gelfling’s reaction after a battle is to just hug each other

I WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE LIL CRYSTAL

Did... did Deet BECOME the Darkening?!? SHE IS NOT OKAY, SOMEONE HELP HER, SHE’S ABOUT TO GO DISAPPEAR LIKE ELEVEN AT THE END OF STRANGER THINGS SSN 1

RIAN DON’T YOU DARE LEAVE HER TO JUST WANDER IN THE WOODS LIKE THAT

*INCOHERENT SCREAMING*

That creature that the Scientist created is NOT IN ANY WAY OKAY

“Hope is fragile, like a crystal shard.”

Welp. Okay. This... this sort of ended how I expected it to. But at the same time not. I need Deet to be okay immediately. I need her to not have to wander around the woods alone, killing the things she loves. 

But also, I do like hope, hope’s a good emotion.

Right, when do we get season 2?

#the dark crystal #dark crystal reaction post #rian #deet #brea #skeksis #aughra #I'm... not okay #but I am better than I could have been #please send help

[rawliverandcigarettes]

10 Questions

Tag time ! Thanks a lot to @illusivesoul for this :D It’s nice to feel included even though I’m still very new around. (this is going to be super long because I can’t seem to shut the hell up. :3) 1. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you like to live ? I guess I enjoy living where I live, which is France. The country is small but there are many landscapes to choose from, and you don’t even have to travel that much to find mountains, blue sea, cities or forests. I also enjoy poking fun at my own country and culture way too much for what would be decent. Foreign jokes about us are just too funny xD And even though we too are crippled with political and social issues, I look at some other countries (HMHM America), and yeah. It could be so much worse. 2. How did you discover Mass Effect ? I was a great KOTOR fan already, but I tend to stick to what I know, and I rarely venture to new stuff on my own. It was a combinaison of friends, good reviews and a very cheap copy on a shelf of my local store that finally made me play Mass Effect 2 for the first time (I started with the 2, then the third, and ended with the first one, which is definitively not how you play a trilogy). 3. Do you have any tattoos ? If you don’t, do you want any ? I don’t have any tattoos, and I’ve considered getting one many times. But given how expensive they are, I don’t think they’ll ever be enough of a priority for me to commit to this vague idea. I have many other expensive things I’d rather do first :3 4. Do you have any pets ? Kind of ! My parents own 4 cats, that I can’t help but consider my own too even though I moved out. They’re cute and insufferable, one of them is completely insane, looks like Dracula on steroids and is called “Le Mérovingien” like this french Matrix character that curses all the time, One of them lost a leg in a car accident, but hopefully he worked through the trauma and is perfectly healthy and energetic again. The two left hate each other’s guts and their war force us to separate them at all time. So my parents home is a very calm place as you have guessed. 5. If you could recommend 3 games from any genre, what would they be ? 1. The Beginner’s Guide This game has to be my all time favorite. It’s not a proper game so to speak, more like a narrative experience based on interactivity by the creator of The Stanley Parable. It’s not for everyone and generally you will either don’t get why it exists or you will be slapped so hard you won’t be able to express yourself for hours. It talks about creation, game creation specifically, toxic creative relationship, depression, the relationship between the creator, the creation and the public consuming it, and meaning. A masterful example on how narrative design can push further the boundaries of classic storytelling for consumerism and turn it to painful expression of artistic obsessions. I love this game so much. 2. Silent Hill 2 I am a huge survival horror fan, because in their essence they try to answer a crucial question in game development in the rawest way: how do you make the player react ? The survival horror genre is all about direct reaction, and reaching the player beyond the screen in their very comfort zone. You can go the easy, cheap way of throwing buckets of blood around and slap a few jumpscares here and there, or you can try to play with your medium and crawl right underneath the skin, which has always been Silent Hill’s way of throwing it down. But I think Silent Hill 2 is where the payoff is the greatest. It’s not an easy game, because it’s old and counter-intuitive in level design, camera and puzzles, and it gets easily frustrating. But some of the greatest, most creative ideas I’ve came across in term of narrative level design have been explored there. Plus the themes are actually very mature for the gaming public of 2000, as they deal with illness, sexual frustration, surviving abuse and alienation from society and your loved ones. It’s raw, it’s twisted, it’s haunting like a fever dream. And it’s actually very, very smart. 3. V4-11 HALL-A A very neat visual novel that didn’t do much noise besides specialized audience, and definitively deserve a shot ! In this game you are a barista in a cyberpunk society, and you encounter a various cast of characters that you befriend and serve. It’s super chill, the soundtrack is lovely, it’s bound to make you crave for a cocktail as you play. Maybe I am somewhat criticial on how it ends, but otherwise it’s a very heartwarming experience with slight sadder undertones. It goes on with the trend of “you witness big events from a NPC/civilian viewpoint”, which I adore. The game went out while my team and I were producing a game that share some of the concept, and it was a lovely surprise ! (it’s very cheap as well, and the creators need financial help !) 6. Song that you’ve listened a lot lately ? Careful What You Wish For, by Coil (it’s weird and somewhat depressing, you are warned) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHIlBk5vbVI 7. Guilty pleasure movie ? Mhhh. I’d say Sweeney Todd by Tim Burton. It’s over the top and very melodramatic with undiscussed sexist undertones when it comes to how female characters are depicted in this world, BUT what can I say. Gothic cheesiness mixed up with musical numbers never seem to stop being my jam. 8. Unpopular opinion about Mass Effect (optional) Ouh boy. I have so many it’s extremely hard to pick a single one. xD I’m going to settle for Andromeda and try to summarize my opinion, but I might do a very very long separate post to explain what I mean in lenghts later. I haven’t played Andromeda much because my computer is sad and dying, but from what I saw and what I undertsood from ulterior research, I think Andromeda’s worldbuilding is broken on many levels, and some narrative choices made very early by the team affect the stakes so much they’re basically nonexistent, and, at least for me, the lack of stakes drove the entire quest to be rather pointless. I’m a very nitpicking person, especially when it comes to themes, cohesion, society and space stuff, and a lot of what happens in the first hours prevented me to believe in the story and the characters inhabiting it before they even had a chance to do anything significant. :/ I understand why people can bypass that and enjoy the story and characters still, and I am sickened by the amount of abuse some of us spat towards Bioware, but my suspension of disbelief got shattered in the first hours of the game multiple times, and despite how much I wanted to like this new epic journey, I’m... not your target audience this time, Bioware. 9. Favorite books ? Argh. Mh. Good question. I can’t really say if any of them are my favorite, but I like them enough for them to be featured here -and I have stopped reading for years so I have trouble remembering any. So in no particular order, The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, Animal Farm by George Orwell, The Art of Game Design by Jesse Schell, the Ellana trilogy by Pierre Bottero, Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche... I can’t really tell to be fair. I need to read more. 10. Dream job ? Game developer, specifically in narrative design (how surprising I know). And I am very fortunate to be living the dream right now. <3 I am starting my very own indie company, and our very first game, Xenophever, is on the rails right now. I won’t lie ; it’s a hard life. Only time will tell if the sacrifices were worth it, but I bet they will be :D It’s over ! Thanks again for the tag ! I won’t tag everyone because I don’t know enough people yet, but feel free to hit me up if you want to do this so I can cook you up some neat questions :D

#ask #Mass Effect #silent hill 2 #the beginner's guide #sweeney todd #V4-11 HALL-A #mass effect andromeda #long post #oh my god #this post is super huge