shea please consider a drabble on shy!reader calling rafe ‘dad’ for the first time. AH I NEED
last one before bed.. ♡
it started off as a little joke, the word coming to mind because of the way rafe always talked to you, urging you to be more careful and looking out for you.
"put that shit away, c'mon. you'll be up all night and then you won't let me sleep either," he says, when you point in the direction of the coffee shop and pull out your wallet. he drags you away, a pout taking over your pretty face.
"okay, dad," you tease, though it doesn't come out like a joke this time. it comes out sincerely, agreeing immediately, putting your wallet away even though you don't want to.
"yeah, that's right. listen to dad." you stop in your tracks, a few feet away from rafe's truck, brain starting to go haywire and fuzzy. rafe stops and turns, looking back at you stuck in place. "hm?"
"dad?" you question, repeating it, enjoying the feel of it on your tongue. rafe smiles at you, smirking and laughing, so you smile too. you don't know that you've just created a monster.
"yes?" he asks, stalking towards you and taking your face into his hands. "don't go stupid on me now, kid."
"sorry, dad. can't help it." you feel uncomfortable, wetness pooling between your legs, heart thudding fast. maybe it was wrong, maybe it was weird, but you didn't care in that moment.
"get in the truck," rafe orders, and you comply, darting back to the door and hand on the handle to open the passenger side door. "nope. the back. wanted a treat right? dad's gonna give it to ya."
gabriel experiencing Being A Girl w mirage and hes like ??? All of these clothes are so cute but none of them fit me at all. And she responds welcome to being a woman
I literally have no qualms with Gai being drawn as buffer and slightly tanner then Kakashi they lead entirely different lifestyles, obviously there’s a certain line that gets crossed and I’m like WOOOOOOAAAAH that’s a bit much and you can see clear connotations of colorism and racism but I don’t think all art that depicts Gai in that way are like that.
Gai whose hobbies include rigorous dieting and working out and Kakashi whos hobbies include reading bad porn and hanging out with his dogs. Like yeah they’re both lean mean killing machines but the way they use their bodies is completely different and it would 100% make sense for the Taijutsu only user ( a 100% PHYSICAL skill) to have more bulk then Mr.man of a thousand jutsus and one weird eyeball whose diet includes food pills and like bland ass food on a GOOD day.
I sort of understand the complaints going around about art, specifically depictions of male characters in relation to other male characters. But not entirely, because a lot of it just seems like personal preference for a favorite characters.
Im not a big fan of grievous height differences (Gai is only 3 inches taller then Kakashi in the anime) but I’m not about to get mad about it? I’ve ALSO never understood how size and height equate to masculinity whatsoever, and I see a lot of people talking about art-styles that unnecessarily feminize characters, which isn’t really something you can objectively measure. Like Kakashi is never shown explicitly as this totally swoll shredded trunk torsoed dude in the show I do not fucking care if someone gives him a twinky little waistline and calls it a day.
Like I genuinely don’t ENTIRELY understand how feminizing a character works whatsoever, and what’s so bad about it. Like if feminizing a character through art is just making them skinnier and shorter maybe y’all need to do some self-exploration on what you perceive as feminine and masculine.
YOU enjoy yourself, your naruto art is lovely and I revisit it on a occasion. Ignore all the Nart drama and just happily post about the manic clown and the quietly manic bat.
thank you, thank you, thank you <3
And my absolute favourite theory is that Kakashi is actually the exact same height as Gai, but his slouch is so bad he always looks 3 inches shorter hehehehe
OMG BESTEST Q ON EARTH ILY. ok i have So o ooooooooooooooo many i could choose but i'm going for:
alfa romeo giulia quadrifoglio
there are so so sos so sos osossososososo many reasons im obsessed w this car i cant tell if its bc its alfas best car they've made since the 70s or because shes better than the m3 or bc she has a ferrari twin turbo v6 under the hood. shes just. everything to me. augh
and then . my second Road Car of all time ummmmmmm uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh also great all rounder:
2018 honda civic type r
hot hatch. angry guy look. vry usable as an everyday car. 4.9 sec 0-60. shes so rrrrrrrrrrrgrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrr ggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr g rrrrrrr rrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrwoofowoof type beat. i want. this is the more insane guy option
if I had a nickel for every video game ship involving a character with skull imagery that you got me invested in I would have two nickels. which isn't a lot but it's insane that it's happened twice.
but also just. the brokenness on both sides of it?!? the love was there. but outside and internal forces tore them and everything they ever cared about apart, and when the dust settled they were completely different people. but the love was there. I'm losing my fucking mind
favorite thing about them
I fuckin love tragedies I eat that shit up like it's cereal
the fact that they were doomed from the start!? everything they ever did would always eventually lead to where they ended up?!? and how they're both haunting their own narratives and haunting each other's because they're both Dead But Not and they're on opposite sides of a war that started with their "deaths" and so they'll only ever be ghosts in their own stories?!?!?!?!?!?? hello!?!?!?
unpopular opinion
I think it'd have to be very very special circumstances for them to get back together at this point. there's so much trauma and baggage and complications on both sides that they'd only really be able to bridge the gap if 1) they both genuinely wanted to, and 2) the global situation calmed down enough that they could do so without conflict getting in the way. because no matter how much they might still love each other, it won't matter if they're constantly divided by the war. etc etc. you get it.