#... and. actually i don't think that's something either of them has had before

[cherrygirlfriend]

𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆: spencer x reader

𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘: morgan thinks that spencer has been closing himself off more than usual, so him and garcia come up with a plan to get him to meet someone new.

𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 / 𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐒: fluff. first meetings. nerding out over edgar allan poe.

𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑’𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄: this layout took an embarrassing amount of time but i wanted to try something new 😭

SPENCER MASTERLIST ♥︎ 5K MASTERLIST

everyone at the BAU had noticed the way spencer had been acting. sure, he was never the most social person in the world, someone could tell that with one glance at him. but lately... he was more withdrawn, more distant. when the team tried to coax him to go out with them, spencer simply smiled and told them that he was tired 'but maybe next time'.

"baby, you think reid's been acting more doomy and gloomy lately?" derek asked, cocking his head to the side, his eyes on spencer, the curly-haired man deeply immersed in his paperwork. derek then turned to look at garcia, the woman sitting at the edge of his desk with her unicorn mug in hand, narrowing her eyes, "maybe it's seasonal depression. now that i think about it, i've also been feeling a little low-energy."

"you? low energy?" derek raised his brows in slight amusement before turning to look back at spencer, "i dunno, mama. i think he's lonely." "lonely? why would he be lonely, he has us." "yeah, but does he have anyone else? i mean, outside the BAU, i don't think he has anyone other than his mom."

"true..." garcia looked at spencer with a frown, "what should we do? i think we should do something." she thought for moment before letting out a gasp, "maybe we should suggest a blind date!"

"hmm..." derek chuckled lowly, "that's not a bad idea. but he'd never agree if either of us suggested that he goes on a blind date."

the two turn to each other with matching grins, "are you thinkin' what i'm thinkin', handsome?" "if you're thinking of setting him up, then yeah, i am. now we just have to figure out who we could set him up with."

garcia smiled, "i think i know just the person."

although penelope adored theater with her heart and soul, you practically had to beg for her to attend a play based on a few of edgar allan poe's short stories, your friend never too fond of the macabre. but now, as you were standing in the middle of the lobby of the theater, she was nowhere to be seen.

your phone pinged with a notification, and you pursed your lips, pulling it out to see a text from her. 'so so sorry! the cat i'm catsitting started throwing up and i have to take her to the vet :( please try to have fun on your own! tell me how it goes <3' you frowned, but after sending her a quick message telling her it was okay and that you hoped everything was alright with the cat, you started to make your way towards the auditorium.

although spencer was bummed that morgan had to cancel due to a pipe leaking in his apartment, especially since morgan had been the one to get the ticket for him, spencer couldn't help but buzz with excitement; he could remember all the times when he was young and he’d lay under the covers, holding up a flashlight to a copy of poe's compiled short stories.

"sorry." a woman mumbled to him apologetically as she walked past him, and spencer simply nodded to her with a tight-lipped smile, but instead of sitting a few seats away, the woman sat right next to him. on the seat that was supposed to belong to morgan.

as you were settling down on your seat, the curly-haired man on your left cleared his throat, "i'm sorry, i don't mean to be rude..." he said quietly, making you turn to him with a soft hum, "that seat's... supposed to be reserved. my friend was going to sit there."

"no, this is my seat." you said with a slightly stunned chuckle, showing him your ticket that indeed showed that you were in the right seat, your brows furrowing when you realized something. he was sitting on a seat you'd reserved for penelope, "actually, the seat you're in was supposed to be my friend's seat."

"what?" the curly-haired man said, taking his ticket out of his jacket pocket and showing it to you; he was also in the right seat.

"oh, i know what this is!" your furrow eased up and you rolled your eyes, "they must have double booked these seats. this has happened to me before, the computer sometimes messes up."

"that's why i don't trust technology." he mumbled quietly, but you caught his remark, your lips quirking up into a tiny smile, "really? me neither."

"well, in any case, my friend can't make it, so if there are seats available, i can just move over once your friend comes." the man smiled warmly, "oh, she can't make it either. vet trip."

"well, i promise i'm not the kind of person who talks during shows. i'm spencer." "thank god, i can't stand those kind of people. nice to meet you, spencer." you chuckled softly, telling him your own name, "so, spencer, which story are you the most excited to see?"

"i'd say... the tell-tale heart. it's been my favorite since i was young. always made me shiver. what about you?" "i thought i was the only weirdo who read poe as my bedtime story." you laughed softly, "but i'd say the oval portrait. i always thought there was something romantic, yet... inredibly depressing about it."

"this is indeed life itself." spencer quoted softly, your smile widening as you looked into his hazel eyes, the man looking right back into yours as if you were having a conversation without words.

"oh my god!" you laughed softly as you and spencer walked out of the auditorium together, "your face was so pale when the knocking started!" "to be fair, it's very different to experience it right in front of you than just read it as words on a page!" spencer laughed softly, "and don't think i didn't see the way your eyes glistened when he was painting her."

"it was sad! imagine having a husband like that!" you sniffled, still continuing to laugh, "i'll admit, it was sad." spencer smiled softly, "uh, are you... are you in a rush?" he asked, and you pretended to check the time on your watch, already knowing your answer.

"no, i should have some time. why?" "you don't have to, but i was just wondering... if you wanted to get a cup of tea, or something?" you pursed your lips in thought, "i think i could go for some tea. i know a lovely cafe nearby." you smiled softly.

"great. great." spencer's lips turned up into a goofy smile, "uh, if you give me your coat check ticket, i can go get our coats."

you took the ticket out of the pocket of your cardigan, handing it to spencer, the man nodding before turning around and walking towards the coat check. once you were sure he wasn't looking, you took out your phone, biting down on your lower lip to contain the smile threatening to take over as you went to your message thread with penelope.

'i think i just met a great guy. we're going to a cafe.'

"oh!" penelope exclaimed when her phone pinged, quick to open it to your text thread, a pleased grin taking over her face as she turned the phone to show it to derek. "told you. dream team, babygirl." derek winked and lifted his glass of whiskey, penelope clinking her own glass of wine with derek's glass.

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[i-like-loserz]

hey so. i had an idea about bottom mingi.

i have a strong sense that he has a thing for cowgirl. but imagine he wanted to try and top for the first time (in a long time) and slapping his ass playfully and teasing him cause hes trying to hype himself up or something but it doesn't work and you just end up riding him 🙈🙈

our cute pillow princess ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶

cw: explicit (18+), sub!mingi, afab!reader, adorable boyfriend vibes, tit-play, mention of hickies, he tries lol -- no actual penetration :( IM SORRY ANON THIS ONE-SHOT WENT ITS OWN WAY

note: anon. your mind. it's beautiful.

masterlist

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before you can thread your fingers into his pretty hair and teasingly tug on it the way you know he likes, large hands take a hold of your wrists and pin them on either side of your head.

the coolness of his rings press into your warm skin, exciting your senses as he presses his body against you. sometimes you forget just how big he is. usually, he's the one laying under you, begging for your touch with a broken tone that slips easily from his pretty lips. this time, his deep voice is steady as he holds you against the mattress.

"tonight i'm gonna take control."

"oh, yeah?" you challenge.

it's amusing when mingi gets into these moods -- thinking that he can be the big bad boyfriend for the night when, in reality, he's the one melting for you from a single kiss.

maybe this idea came up because of the way you're dressed. there's something about seeing you in his shirt and nothing else that makes him believe you've grown soft.

it could be the way the hem brushes over your mid-thigh, highlighting the size difference between the two of you. or how the stretched-out collar fails to hide the hickies he (desperately) left on your skin the day before.

your wrists are now held by one hand above your head as his other drags your shirt upwards, revealing your body to the cool air of the room. you hear the faint sound of his breath hitching when he notices the lacy underwear you are wearing underneath.

"have you been wearing these all night?" he hooks a finger around the delicate waistband before letting it snap back. it fits you like a glove. his hand presses against the thickness of your thigh for a moment as he tries to control his reactions. he can't give up that easily.

"i was wondering when you'd notice..." you say slyly, arching your back to press your body against his. he immediately pushes you down, refusing to give in.

"why're you acting so needy? hm?" you recognize those words. you've said them to him plenty of times. of course, mingi can only regurgitate what's already been said to him.

you decide to humor him.

you round your eyes and stare up at him, a small pout on your lips, "i can't help it, i've been waiting for you all day."

"really?"

"mingi~ won't you touch me? " your voice is high pitched and sweet as you play the role. "give me what i need? i feel so empty without you."

his expression softens and hand shifts on your hip to lightly caress your skin. you ignore the way it makes goosebumps trail up your body. you're too enamored by the cute boba eyes of your sweet, naive boyfriend.

"you need me?" he cups your covered cunt which already throbs with want, "don't worry baby, i'll take care of you." he says confidently -- as if he's a hero saving his damsel in distress. aw, how sweet and caring~

"can i...touch you too?" you ask timidly, playing up your shy expression. mingi is a sucker to please you. and even when he tries to teach you a lesson, or "punish" you, he ends up playing right into your hand. whether he realizes it or not.

"o-okay," he quickly releases your wrists from his hold, "that better?" you hold back a smile from how adorably serious and attentive he's being.

he'd be such a good daddy... that is, if he could ever keep up with the role. but you much prefer him under you, if anything.

you immediately put your hands on him, greedily feeling over his broad shoulders and firm chest. "perfect." his body tenses as your hand moves downwards, dragging over his covered abs to feel over his hard cock. you're already salivating at the thought of his hard cock weeping for you.

he unconsciously bucks against your hand, loving how it perfectly presses against him to relieve some of that pressure. but before you can get far, he has enough self-control to pull your touch away.

"b-baby...t-this wasn't how it was supposed to go."

"how was it supposed to go then?" you tease, already settling back into your regular role.

"i'm supposed to be touching you and you're supposed to be begging me."

"then touch me, mingi," you place your arms back at your side, allowing him free rein of your body, "please~"

he takes the opportunity to push your shirt up to your chin, leaving you nearly naked underneath him as you aren't wearing a bra to cover yourself. warm hands cup over your tits, feeling the plushness of your curves before teasing your sensitive buds with the pads of his thumbs.

your body shivers and arches from his touch as he gently tweaks your hard nipples with his fingers. sparks of pleasure swiftly travel down to your core with every movement he makes.

you look at him from under your lashes, eyes dark as you let him play with your body. this whole time he's focused on your every reaction, eager to please you.

"you're so pretty..." he groans, "fuck, you make me so hard all the time."

"i know baby," you sigh, "you're such a good boy for me." you can't help but praise him when he's making you feel good.

he doesn't like that. at least, not when he's the one on top.

he gets all pouty, "babe, i'm trying to be sexy right now!"

"you are sexy, mimi~" you coo, "very sexy." you sit yourself up and mingi lets you, not even bothering to protest. you both know where this is going, especially when you have that look in your eye.

he huffs, "i told you to stop calling me that. it sounds like you're talking to a small dog or something..."

"okay, then what should i call you?"

"call me...sir."

"sir, you've been working so hard today," you praise, briefly gesturing to the sizable tent under his sweatpants as you lean closer to him, "maybe i can take care of you? just this once?"

"ok, but next time it'll be my turn." he argues as he leans back so you can straddle him, "seriously."

"of course, baby, next time." you agree.

[echodr3ad]

Need some more Noob x Reader for Forsaken, I love this shy non-binary baddie. (You will see me more)

-Milkdunked Anon

ᯓᡣ𐭩.ᐟ ⊹ Noob General Dating Hcs

Pairings: Noob x GN Reader

Warnings: None

Authors Note: Man I love Noob SO much aswell, specially their party skin they look SOO CUTEEE!! Sorry for taking a bit Milkdunked Anon, I had exams... Scary, but i'm officially on vacations now! So I can now work on requests! (Yipee!!) Since you didn't specify anything, i'll just be doing general hcs, I hope that's okay with you.

✮ Noob is quite an affectionate partner, they love to cuddle you, hold your hand, kiss your cheek and the like.

✮ What they specially like to do is linking their arms with yours. To them, it feels more intimate and special.

✮ They are a bit shy though, so it may take them a little while before they start becoming affectionate.

✮ You two are the power couple, it's a rarity to see one of you without the other.

✮ If that's the case, it's either because one of you went down or wasn't sent to participate in the round.

✮ The other survivors always ask Noob about you when they don't seem you with them, it's the first thing they ask, like "Hey Noob, where's [Name]?"

✮ They also ask you about Noob if you're the one that's left alone.

✮ Noob will clumsily throw themselves into danger to protect you. Either trying to distract the killer or taking hits for you.

✮ They always blame themselves when you go down, even when it wasn't their fault at all (please comfort them, they need it).

✮ Whenever they find an item, such as another Bloxy Cola or a medkit, you're the first person to receive it, no matter what, even if they might need it more than you do.

✮ But they refuse to take them for themselves. The only way you can force them to take a medkit for themselves is if they're on low HP and Elliot has gone down already.

✮ Speaking of Bloxy Cola, they love sharing theirs with you. It brings them so much joy being able to share something they like so much with you.

✮ They will probably ramble to you about how much more bland it tastes here than in normal Robloxia.

✮ Noob also likes to share all of their snacks with you, usually they wouldn't really like sharing, but since it's you they don't mind. They always ask if you want something.

✮ Whenever you two have the time, they like to take you stargazing since it's always nighttime.

✮ They definitly don't know the names of any constelations, but they make new ones up.

✮ They named one after you, and one after them! They always try to look for those two stars every time they stargaze with you.

✮ Believe it or not, Noob is actually quite the chatterbox. They always have a conversation topic.

✮ Your conversation could start off talking about what happened last round and end up being about something entirely different.

✮ They like to make you matching bracelets for the both of you to wear. The goofy smile they have whenever they see you wearing it is quite adorable.

✮ They don't get really mad or if they see you broke it, specially if they see that you're upset over breaking it. They know it probably wasn't your fault.

✮ They'll gladly make you another bracelet that's even better than the other one!

✮ Noob likes to try and slow dance with you, they aren't exactly good at it, but they like doing so anyway because they think it's really romantic.

✮ They also like cooking with you! They think it's super fun, specially if you're baking together.

✮ They also aren't very good with cooking, but if you are, they'll gladly pass you the ingredients you need and give you moral support with their presence.

✮ If you aren't, the both of you do your best not to screw up, even if it usually happens anyway.

✮ You end up needing to call Elliot for help, and he flawlessly fixes the issue in under a second. He truly is in a different league.

✮ Noob is definitly the type to eat the batter when you're baking, so watch over them.

[asneakyfox]

not sure where exactly i'm going with this but something i always think is interesting about ofmd s2, and very unlike a lot of fic & speculation from before the season dropped, is that they chose to make the previous ed-izzy relationship completely implode BEFORE stede is back in the picture. by the time stede, ed and izzy are all conscious and present on the revenge at once izzy has already permanently given up on the idea of re-creating the sort of relationship he used to imagine he had with blackbeard.

from a doylist pov this is partly just because the writers pretty clearly never had any interest in playing stede-ed-izzy as love triangle in the way that a lot of fandom saw it. but it does something interesting to how the redemption arc goes.

because it really changes izzy's arc for the season to have ed reject him while stede is firmly out of the picture, while both ed and izzy have no reason to think they will ever see stede bonnet again. because if stede had been there when izzy said "i have...love for you" and ed scoffed, izzy would have thought ed was rejecting him in favor of stede. he'd think, if only stede weren't around this wouldn't have happened. i think in that circumstance izzy would have never given up hope that if stede were removed from the picture somehow then he could resume his pre-stede-bonnet relationship with ed.

but what happened instead is ed made it absolutely clear that EVEN IF STEDE IS NOT AN OPTION he still does not want or need the kind of relationship with izzy that izzy wants the two of them to have. he would in fact literally rather die.

and then i thought about it a little more and, well, almost the next thing izzy does is blame ed's behavior on "your feelings for stede bonnet," right? and taken literally what he's blaming on ed's feelings for stede is the atmosphere on the ship, the way ed's treating the crew, etc. but actually i don't think that's what he means.

i think he's still - understandably - stewing in rejection at that moment, and he wants to find a narrative that lets him understand why it happened and save some face, if only to himself. so he really wants to think, edward rejected me because of his feelings for stede bonnet, if it weren't for that homewrecker he would have accepted my love confession. so he wants to believe that, and he starts to say it out loud. he pretends he's talking about the atmosphere on the ship, but he doesn't mean the atmosphere, what he means is you rejected my love because of your feelings for stede bonnet.

and ed shoots him before he can finish that sentence.

i don't think either izzy or ed really consciously understands what izzy was trying to say there. i'm not sure ed even subconsciously understands it either tbh. so i don't think ed like intended to send a message about izzy's love confession there, he just wanted to make sure izzy didn't get stede's name out right here in front of everybody. but narratively, symbolically, that gunshot is shattering the lie izzy wants to tell himself along with izzy's kneecap.

and this makes a bit more sense out of why izzy tells stede first that ed shot him for mentioning stede's name, and then later that ed shot him for saying he loved him. because he knows the first one is literally what happened. but there's a reason he feels like it was the second, and he's not exactly wrong to think of it that way.

[holoska]

after debating for weeks whether to stay very far away from the deltarune soriel discourse or let myself ramble about my faves like I want to, the latter has finally won out

I've had time to properly absorb the weight of all that happens at the end of chapter 4, and obviously I do feel for both kris and susie. that is The Point of the scenes being from their perspectives; after everything they just went through and all the worry they had for toriel's safety (for the second time in 24 hours!), the scene they come home to is maybe the most uncomfortable slap in the face possible. it sticks out to me that the last thing susie talks about before the dark fountain is sealed is her wanting tomorrow to be the same as yesterday and for everything to always be able to go back to how it was, and that's what greets them - a blatant, obnoxious sign that things are changing. even though the scene has a lighthearted side, its overall tone adds to the downcast feeling the chapter ends on.

having said that, as someone who has spent the past 9 and a half years being normal about sans and toriel, I'm still very very happy that this is a canon scene we got 💜

the fandom may be largely not considering their perspectives in the slightest (or worse, only viewing their perspectives from the most bad faith angles possible), but I for one love this for them!! as other very good posts have pointed out, toriel has been sorely in need of someone who's there for her - an awful lot of people in town saw the divorce play out and have something to say about it, the holiday family are closer to asgore than toriel, kris is her child and stuck in the middle of their parents' issues, and while she's friends with alphys, them being coworkers and alphys being kris' teacher likely puts a distance of sorts between them. but sans is new in town, someone she immediately connects with, who has no pre-existing opinions about her family and has seen firsthand what toriel has to put up with from asgore. in every universe, sans is exactly the kind of person toriel needs in her life.

there's less to work with from sans' perspective given how little we know about him, and I'm not all-in on sans being from deltarune just yet (more specifically I do love the theory, I'm just giving myself room to not be too disappointed if it doesn't happen), but the new version of it's raining somewhere else being named 'the place where it rained' emotionally destroys me forever. either way it drives home just how happy toriel makes sans in both worlds and I love that so so much :']

to be clear I'm not saying they did nothing wrong, their choices negatively impacted kris and susie and they were objectively disruptive and inconsiderate after kris went to bed. but I like that they're being messy and flawed, because it means this isn't just "my faves are getting closer in the background yippee" but that their relationship is potentially an actual part of the story, and that's how you get The Good Stuff!! we wouldn't have had meaningful character moments like noelle finally standing up to queen if queen hadn't tried to control noelle and just listened to her from the start, or susie comforting ralsei with her bloodied hand if he'd told her and kris every detail of the full prophecy the moment he met them and never kept any secrets. if all the hints towards a flower shop dark world turn out to be true then it's pretty clear the story is building things up to make those future character moments hit, and considering we still don't know what happened with the dreemurr divorce at this point, chapter 5 seems like a perfect opportunity to dive into all of that.

plus, as sweet as susie's bond with toriel is, I honestly think susie seeing this side of toriel needed to happen. a lot of the fandom's complaints about toriel right now boil down to her not being the "perfect mother" they thought she was, and what bothers me about that is toriel was never meant to be that kind of character. toby has said that she's not the classic video game protagonist's mother who sees you off on your journey and you can come home and visit any time, and nothing changes and she never has any substantial character of her own. in undertale she literally handholds frisk through the tutorial, she becomes the first boss in her attempt to protect them when every other human left her care, and once they leave she won't let them come back or even call her phone because she can't face seeing them knowing they'll leave again and likely be killed. she's more than just the mother figure of the game, she's her own person with likes and dislikes, hobbies and flaws, and a past and trauma she can't overcome until the best ending.

we've only seen the tip of the iceberg of her history in deltarune, but that same principle holds true: she isn't the perfect parent you return to after each day's adventure, who gives you butterscotch pancakes every morning and never has any real part in the story because that isn't the intent behind her character. she mentioned her loneliness back in chapter 1, kris has secrets and problems they aren't letting her in on, asgore is being relentlessly inconsiderate of her boundaries, and for all susie's praise of toriel being a good mother, I think that house of cards was going to fall eventually. my hope is that, like her blowing up at ralsei ultimately bringing them closer, susie being able to see toriel as the imperfect adult she is but one who does genuinely care might help them build a stronger bond in the end too.

I think I always knew that if soriel ever inched closer to being canon there'd be discourse about it, and toriel slander is unfortunately nothing new. people are just being annoying about it currently and it sucks when I genuinely love what's being built up here!!

anyway crossing my fingers for a scene where toriel invites sans to the festival before she gets thrown in the bunker/he gets sent to undertale/the roaring happens/all of the above 🤞

[kireistrawberryjayla]

Hey so this is weird but, which Enhypen members do you think are still Virgin???

UMMMMM WHATTT GIRLL , okay so first of all you have asked this to the wrong fucking person I mean not that anyone is gonna but a 100% sure☹️. So here is my opinion and second of all this is not even 10% accurate this is just what i think we don't know we never know actually

HEESEUNG

I’m pretty confident Heeseung is not a virgin. He just gives off that energy, you know? Like, he’s definitely had at least three relationships in his life. And let’s not ignore how lowkey freaky he is it’s always in the eyes 😭. Yeah, this man has experience, no doubt.

JAY

I mean… I don’t think Jay is a virgin. I’m not 100% sure, but like—if this man is dating someone, there’s no way she’s letting him go. He’s just so husband material, it’s insane 😭.

I definitely feel like he’s dated at least one girl before. But Jay doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who has a bunch of random crushes. He’s more lowkey and intentional.

If he does like someone, I feel like he’d try to befriend them first, really get to know them before even thinking about dating.So yeah—that’s my opinion. But again, we don’t really know, so please don’t come for me 😭✋

JAKE

Yeah... Jake is absolutely not a virgin. Like, have you seen the way he bites his lips and flirts? 😭 Sure, he’s a physics nerd and all—but let’s be real, nerds are the new sexy (sorry jocks). I don’t think he was always this bold though—pre-I-LAND Jake? Probably shy, but now?. I do feel like he is the type to sweet-talk his crush into giving him their number or Instagram, all smooth and casual.

I’d guess he’s dated at least two girls, and one of those relationships might’ve been kinda serious. Again, this is just my opinion—we don’t know their lives.

(And honestly, hun, you asked the wrong person for this kind of question 💀)

SUNGHOON

Yep… surprise, surprise—he is definitely not a virgin. Like be for real, this man looks like a literal Greek god 😭 who’s walking away from that without at least one taste?? No one. Exactly.

That said, I don’t think Sunghoon’s the type to date around. He doesn’t give off playboy energy at all (and not just because he’s too pretty for drama). I genuinely feel like he was—or maybe still is—in a serious relationship.

But let’s be clear: he’s not the kind of guy to approach a girl first or make the first move. Nope. He’s totally the “my first is my last” kind of man, all soft and loyal beneath the ice prince exterior 🫠.

So yeah, he’s not a virgin. Are we even shocked? No 🙂‍↔️

Honestly, y’all knew the whole hyung line wasn’t. So don't act surprised at all.

SUNOO

I feel like Sunoo is a virgin, but let’s be real—he’s not inexperienced. Like, he’s definitely had his first kiss and maybe even made out with someone 👀. Have you seen those lips?? Those cheeks?? I would literally nom nom nom them up if I had the chance…i would but not in this life, not even in the next, not NEVER so AHHHHH😩.

I also think he’s probably dated before not something super serious, but maybe one of those connections that lingers. You know… someone you don’t quite forget.

Also, Sunoo totally strikes me as the kind of guy who gets a lot of crushes. He’s romantic like that.

So yeah, that’s my take on Sunoo. Again, we’ll never know for sure—but it’s all in the vibes, okay 😌✨

JUNGWON

Okay, I’m gonna be honest—I'm not entirely sure if Jungwon is a virgin or not. I don’t really have a strong opinion either way, but if I had to guess, I’m kind of leaning toward maybe not anymore.

That being said, I definitely see him as someone who’d want his first time to be something genuine and meaningful. Like he’d wait until it feels right with someone he really cares about.

That’s all I’ve got for him, sorry 😭 but yeah—just my thoughts!

NIKI

He’s a virgin. Absolutely. No debate.

Plus, he’s still a kid—not literally (he’s older than me, hehehe), but like… he’s a kid to me okay?? No questions asked 😤.

Let’s be serious for a sec: Ni-ki has always struck me as one of those insanely focused kids who knew what they wanted early on and never looked back. Like, he’s been dancing since he was THREE. That’s dedication.

He might’ve had a crush or two (who hasn’t?), but honestly... this boy hasn’t even stepped foot in a school since he was 14 😭. Between training, debuting, and absolutely dominating the stage—where would dating even fit in?

So yeah. He’s been too busy being a prodigy to worry about all that relationship stuff. UGH Leave my baby alone 😤💕

Okay that was like idk if any for you would come at me, i would like to tell you that I am not even like 0.00000001% even sure but if you agree that please comment, but something good,i will come and get you if it is a hate comment. Yeah so that's all thank you bye bye

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[alexanderlightweight]

Normally in almost every dark malec fic i read magnus is written as cruel towards alec,he hates alec (either it's based on the books or tv show i guess cause alec made mistakes in both that caused their break up)

And magnus literally tortures alec but is friendly towards alec's family members which i find odd

And this isn't a shade to those fics while i don't like what's happening in some of those stories i read them like and addict or just stop reading it if it bacomes too much for me

İ love that while you write dark and gore you still make magnus in love with alec

so i feel like it might be because i write dark malec to highlight their love? like the whole appeal of malec for me is you have these two people who really have no reason to be interested or so deeply affected by each other but they are.

there's something instinctive and primal and so intense it immediately cracks through years (decades in Magnus' case) of protective walls for the both of them.

i feel like a some people in fandom tend to forget or ignore that this is alec's first romantic/sexual relationship and that its not like he has a lot of friends either. magnus is also his first confidant out of his family.

and then others or the same people also either forget or ignore that while magnus has had a lot of relationships, opening up his heart to others has rarely gone well. like he has centuries of scars and wounds on his heart and soul. it's been one raw and reopened scar never fully healing and yet magnus decided to take the risk of that wound refestering.

so you have someone who has never opened up their heart (but its been wounded and sore all the same) but wants to because this person is worth it to them. and you have another person who has repeatedly opened up their heart (to sometimes catastrophic results) but they think maybe this person is worth the risk.

so both sides are taking risks. just in different ways. which makes it intense and take effort and also hard.

also since the appeal for me (yes as an aro/ace i too think this is hilarious) is their interest and adoration of each other, it doesn't really make sense to me to write it otherwise? like the whole thing of canon is they are mutually awestruck by each other. that's what really hits me. also the intensity of both of them orbiting around each other. i can't write them disliking each other. even when they're on opposite ends of the battlefield they have mutual or at the very least begrudging respect for each other even before they meet. and after they meet its pretty much alec is like 'how to end war? how to flirt with handsome magic man? how to stop bigotry so i can date a warlock? patricide unacceptable answer apparently' and magnus is all 'how to obliterate the clave' 'how to force peace and also change laws' 'how to woo angel blood without being stabbed' 'how to kidnap someone politely? 'how to heal if you're stabbed with adamas while acquiring future spouse?'

and for the type of fics you're talking about i have seen them and kinda know what you're talking about. i'm not gonna say anything about them tho because i have no actual relevant opinion. i don't read them because they'll trigger me (hence why my opinion would be adversely influenced, meaning i have a pre-existing bias which needs to be considered) and everyone is free to write what they want. there's no shame in that.

i just learned a long time ago that i could accidentally self-harm by reading fics that triggered me and my health cannot take more stress, so i just block authors (doesn't hurt them and protects me). same with how i hope people block or at least ignore me if my fics aren't safe or healthy for them to interact with.

so focusing just on me (which wow does that sounds kinda silly as it type i out) i guess it's because even when magnus is cruel in my fics there is a purpose to his cruelty? he's not cruel for the sake and enjoyment of it like say, Camille, Lilith, Asmodeus etc.

Magnus has been shown to always be harshest on himself as well. Like even in a world where he follows incredibly skewed ethics, i feel like just pure cruelty is too boring for him. Like he would expect better of himself, not necessarily on a moral standpoint but in a 'really, you think i humble myself to the same level as my father?' kind of way?

also there is also a whole section that can be talked about where certain forms of cruelty and kindness are actually two sides of the same coin. so there is some nuance there as well about how i handle cruelty because sometimes magnus is cruel in order to be kind but that's typically still, out of his love for alec even if it's skewed. or he does something out of his own sense of kindness that is technically cruel. magnus' goal is never to fully diminish alec in any fic i write, even the fics where magnus (because alec is also a manipulative little shit in fics) is manipulating alec or purposefully pushing buttons he knows are cruel, he's doing it to help (in his opinion) free alec from ties/the clave/things that 'don't deserve/are hurting/could hurt him/might keep alec from him' etc.

the goal is never to hurt alec. it's to save him and sometimes in order to heal, you need to experience pain. which is how magnus and alec both justify their cruelty to themselves and each other often. especially because again, the goal is ultimately the benefit of the other person.

i think the main thing is that there's never any doubt - or at least i try to make sure there isn't - in my fics that they both want each other and the best for each other. maybe it comes about in a darker or less ethical way in some of my fics, but the main purpose of the plot is never to hurt each other or to inflict damage that will linger and wound.

also malec in generally is an unreliable narrator in my fics. the reason i tag 3DNE even in the lower levels of dark range, is because i i write and promote extremely unhealthy levels of codependency, dom/sub dynamics and obsession that cannot safely exist in the same levels in the real world. i also write about intense topics but i generally do it in... not a sanitized way? but a softer way? so i think some of it gets a little smoothed out by the humor/affection/etc which also like, this kinda of behavior shouldn't be normalized or seen as safe. i'm not promoting actual cannibalism or kidnapping someone to be your spouse lol

and again (because i get similar comments on ao3) is that when I write malec my goal is for them to be happy and healthy even if the world they live in isn't and by normal standards their relationship isn't. i want them delighting in each other and even if it's depraved, doing whatever they can to give each other the best of the world and help them be the strongest version of the person.

i just have very specific preferences and tbh i repeat tropes and cliches and my little happy niche a lot because i know what i'm comfortable with and enjoy. also i have the personal preference of two predators maybe not always equally matches but both incredibly dangerous in their own way, meeting and then creating an ecosystem that works for the two of them. i also like gifted/earned submission rather than purely forced?

and it's shown in the show that Magnus mostly helped everyone because 1) to get them to stop stalking him and endangering his people 2) to keep appraised of the situation and 3) Alec. which might actually have been the main one. and Magnus' heart got cracked open from Alec and he started to make friends with those around Alec trying to get closer (the jokes and present to Izzy).

I feel like Magnus wouldn't really care orhave anything to do with them or be very interested or so generous with them other than information reasons. and without alec, i don't think his heart would have thawed enough. in a way, alec makes magnus more vulnerable than either realize and it's not alec's fault.

but it is a result of Magnus meeting and loving alec and because alec doesn't realize this, he often can't step in and help magnus set boundaries magnus stopped making in his journey to woo alec. so in fics where magnus already has a relationship with alec or doesn't need to 'woo the family' so to speak, he generally doesn't open up to them or try to connect with them the same way.

in some ways, this is Magnus distancing himself because he will want to be able to join alec when (because i only write immortal husbands) he mourns them, but also he's not going to be overwhelmed with grief himself.

i got way off track there.

so if you know about the Addams' Family media, which this eldritch delight is based off the vibes of that, i feels like that's what true dark romance is. however it did get a bit sanitized and played up for comedy, so actually just a lot of my malec is inspired by that intensity but without the sanitizing and so much comedy.

i mean. these two are so intense about each other.

Alec summoned a greater demon. Magnus tried to erase his own memories.

They are not well, okay? they are two dumb men in love. they both are super high intl and high wis until it comes to each other and then their wisdom drops to 'i'm going to destroy everything to make this one thing right!' and typically its for the other person, so the only being who could stop them now can't.

i hope this makes sense? i feel like i rambled a bit much and now i'm not even sure i properly answered the ask but i enjoyed the ask?

like... i just really can't imagine magnus being more than like, bitingly petty and sassy and sarcastic to alec and like threateningly yes?

but like even if alec was on the other side in a more intense universe and magnus was the one interrogating him. magnus would just pause in the middle of threatening alec and be like 'it's a pity you're so pretty. i can think of so many things i'd rather hear from you than your screams of pain.'

and alec is just like: please go back to threatening me. if you compliment me i'll break and that's just not fair. this is both the worst and best time of my life right now.

magnus picking up on that and coming back in his most dangerous flirty outfit and sitting on the table in front of alec, legs spread to accommodate the chair alec's sitting on and alec is just like: can you bring out the potions again? or the fireball? i really miss the snake that breathed fire omg please don't get so close i will never live it down if i break because a magical man kissed me

magnus: but imagine what i could give you if you were good for me? wouldn't you rather be a good boy for me, alexander?

alec - fuck the clave they dont even like me, i definitely don't have a weakness for this man and a praise kink that just activated - lightwood: ... okay yeah. lets get this over with please. i want to collect on that promise.

*shrugs?*

i hope this makes sense and you enjoyed

<3 lumine

tldr: the whole reason i love malec is because they adore each other and i'm incapable of writing them otherwise plus rambling.

[lost-in-fandoms]

Hi ❤️ 20 for the June prompts

Hello friend <3

Prompts from here. cw: sort of infidelity, also Scotty is a dick.

It had meant to be romantic.

They just had two more days on the island, and Daniel had thought it would be nice to spend one of them on a boat tour around it. He had imagined it would all be very Mamma Mia, crystal blue water underneath them, the breeze in their hair, birds chirping, music playing.

And well, he hadn't been wrong about that, but he had learned that sadly the idyllic atmosphere wasn't enough to save a crumbling relationship, not even when you were on holiday, on a very nice boat. It wasn't a yacht, but Daniel had thought it would have been nicer to get the sailboat, to be able to watch the sails swell in the wind.

But now they're two hours into their island tour, the sun is shining, the seagulls are squawking, and Scotty has been below deck on his phone for both of them.

"How long have you been here?"

Daniel looks away from the horizon to glance to his left, where the guy driving the boat (do you drive a boat? Pilot? Guide?) is leaning against the railing, the picture of serenity. Daniel thinks his name is Max, and he doesn't know yet if he likes him or not.

"Five days," he answers, not really feeling like chatting but not wanting to be rude either. After all, he is stuck on this boat for three more hours, unless he wants to throw himself off board and swim to the coast, it doesn't sound like a good idea, to piss off the guy taking you back.

Max hums, taking off his cap to run a hand through his hair, before putting it back on. Daniel's hair has been a frizzy mess since he stepped on this island, the mix of salt water, sweat and limited products turning it into a disaster he's had to keep hidden under a cap for days. But Max's hair seems soft, and Daniel almost wants to touch it to make sure.

"And he's been like that the whole time?"

The question startles Daniel, not exactly the polite small talk he was expecting, and for a second he flounders for something to answer that isn't a complete lie or a very loud fuck off. His silence seems to be answer enough though, because Max hums again, pushing away from the railing to go loosen some of the ropes for...some reason. Daniel really doesn't know anything about boats.

"Do you want to learn?" Max asks, as if reading his mind, retying the rope after giving it a sharp tug. "Just the easy stuff, I am of course not going to make you work."

For a moment Daniel considers saying no and joining Scotty downstairs, maybe try and convince him to have very awkward boat sex, but then he finds himself nodding, joining Max next to the helm.

In the next hour and a half Daniel learns many things: Max is a very good teacher, the ropes are called rigging, you don't drive a boat, you sail, doing anything around the boat is actually really hard, and Max is very very attractive with his muscles bulging as he holds onto the sail to show Daniel again how to properly tie a complicated knot.

When Max makes him sit down to have some water, Daniel is breathless and even sweatier than before, but he feels better than he has since the vacation started, laughing loudly at Max's terrible jokes.

"Having fun?"

Scotty's voice startles Daniel, snapping his attention away from Max's sunburnt nose and waving hands, guilt dropping like a stone in his stomach, despite having no reason to be there.

"Daniel was bored, left alone," Max says, very pointedly, "so I offered to teach h..."

"Yeah, well, I don't care. You stay in your," Scotty waves a hand towards the vague direction of the helm, "place."

Max's eyes narrow and Daniel feels his cheek heat up even more because of how rude Scotty is being. Before he can speak up though, Scotty speaks again.

"We gotta go back to the hotel, I have a call and I can't get good service here."

Daniel's mouth drops open, ready to argue, but Max intervenes before he can. Again. He's getting pretty annoyed about being cut off, to be honest.

"I can't take you back to the hotel until 6. I can only drop you off at the coast, if you really need to get off the boat."

Something in his tone of voice tells Daniel that it's not the complete truth, but at this point he just wants to be done with the entire conversation, so he sits and sulks as Max turns the boat towards the coast, while Scotty goes back to his phone.

Max docks them at a small pier, jumping off the boat to extend the plank, but neither Scotty nor Daniel get off.

"Mate, what the fuck? There is nothing here!" Scotty snaps, waving a hand towards the small beach and the trees surrounding them.

"The closest road is about half an hour that way," Max answers placidly, pointing.

"I am not walking half an hour just to get to a fucking road!"

"Well, then I can of course finish the tour and take you back to the hotel at six. Maybe you could use my wifi for your very important call?"

Daniel has to bite his lips to not laugh out loud at the innocence in Max's voice, even as he winces when Scotty starts swearing again about "useless people" and "should have mentioned that sooner".

Max doesn't seem fazed though, taking the plank back and pushing away from the pier, guiding once again the boat into the open sea.

"Password is on the fridge," he calls behind his shoulder as he tightens some rigging, and Daniel swears he can hear him chuckle as Scotty stomps below deck again.

"That was very embarrassing, I am sorry about him," Daniel says, sitting down on the deck.

"You should break up with him," Max answers without ceremonies, dropping next to him and pulling up his shirt to wipe away the sweat from his face, giving Daniel a glimpse of a soft stomach and a blonde happy trail.

"Yes," he finds himself agreeing without really thinking about it, mouth dry and eyes still fixed to where the shirt has fallen again. "Consider it done."

Max giggles, a cute little sound that finally makes Daniel snap out of his daze, eyes moving up to Max's face, taking note of his red cheeks and his small smile.

"Does that mean that if I kissed you, you wouldn't freak out about it?" Max asks, leaning forward, stopping a couple inches from Daniel's face.

Daniel doesn't answer, but he closes the distance between them instead, crashing their lips together. Max's tastes like sweat, salt and coconut water, and kisses like he sails, strong and confident. He pushes a hand into Daniel's hair, knocking his cap to the side, breathing a moan between them.

"You are so fucking hot," he whispers, pawing at Daniel's open shirt to touch his abs, "if we were alone..."

The reminder of Scotty makes Daniel snap back, putting some safe distance between them, before rushing forward again when he sees Max's expression fall.

"Bring us back to the hotel. I'll send him to his stupid meeting and come back to the boat."

"I have a couple of questions first," Max says, pulling back himself this time, hand still on Daniel's chest, making Daniel shiver.

"Shoot."

"It will take a while to go back, so how focused do you think he is and how quiet can you be while getting your dick sucked?"

Daniel swears, dick kicking in his shorts, and Max laughs, leaning back in the sun with it, throat exposed and thighs splayed.

Daniel has never been the kind to be quiet, but he is always willing to learn new skills.

[kanalynn]

Percy Jackson x daughter of Dionysus! reader headcanons

a/n: these are just short headcanons that i wrote quickly without even checking. i hope it's not as bad as i think and you'll like it!

Percy first met [Name] on his first day at camp; he wasn't in the best of health, his mother had just died (or so he thought) and he was a demigod - but once he saw her, everything went to the wayside.

She was the prettiest and kindest girl he'd ever met - so much so that he spent a few moments just staring at her, blushing, wondering if he was dreaming.

(He really hoped he wasn't dreaming.)

[Name] was amazing - she was concerned about his well-being, she accompanied him around camp, she defended him to Annabeth - had he mentioned how amazing she was?

Percy fell in love with her instantly.

His feelings were terribly obvious - he was always trying to spend time with her or help her with something, and every time someone distracted her from him, he got upset.

When Percy found out the identity of his divine parent, [Name] was one of the few (if not the only one) who continued to communicate with him as if nothing had happened and supported him as best she could.

This made him fall in love with her even more.

It wasn't long before he found out that [Name]'s father was Mr. D, and it... well, it definitely came as a shock to him.

How could such an arrogant and unpleasant god have such a kind and sweet daughter?! Percy couldn't understand it.

It seriously took him a while to come to terms with that fact. As a result, he even decided to be more polite with Mr. D (!), so as not to upset [Name] and, perhaps, at least a little, please her father.

(Of course, it didn't work out... realizing that Percy was in love with his beloved and only daughter, Dionysus began to treat him as if a little more dismissive and hostile... In the end, after many years of Percy proving himself a loyal and brave hero, he softened, but, of course, he didn't show it.)

Thanks to [Name], Percy also managed to make friends with [Name]'s two older brothers - Castor and Pollux. He never thought that he would actually succeed, but the twins turned out to be good guys with whom he managed to become friends. Percy probably even helped them with their sword training.

[Name] had never been on quests - at least not official ones. It was probably some kind of trick by Dionysus to protect his daughter. Percy was only too happy about it - he didn't want [Name] to be in danger either.

When he was out on his own quests, he was constantly thinking about [Name], and wanted to get back to camp as soon as possible.

Percy is in awe of [Name]'s ability to grow grapes, strawberries, and such. Of course, he's in awe of everything about [Name], but still!

He really loves the things she's grown and always claims that they're some of the best things he's ever eaten (and he's absolutely not lying).

When [Name's] brother Castor dies, Percy spends time with her, trying to make her feel better. He understands what a terrible loss it is for her, and tries to help her as much as he can and support her.

Unfortunately, during the open war with Kronos, [Name] still has to go out onto the battlefield, but... things don't go as Percy expected.

Accustomed to the fact that the pinnacle of [Name's] magical abilities, inherited from her father, is growing plants, he was frankly shocked to see how she plunges the soldiers of Kronos' army into madness.

Percy did not expect this, but seeing how [Name] skillfully maneuvers between the combatants, driving them crazy with just one touch, forcing them to attack their own, and smiling sweetly, but sinisterly at them—

Gods, he finds this one of the most attractive sights in his entire life.

He probably even stops several times during the fight, unable to tear his eyes away. It was as if he was falling in love with her more and more every moment he looked at her.

Anyway—

[Name] is obviously participating in the Battle of Manhattan along with all the other demigods from the camp, but Percy tries to keep her away from all the really dangerous parts of the battle.

He's obviously not doing this just because Mr. D asked him to. Percy would have protected [Name] anyway because he genuinely loved her, so being literally ordered to do so by her father didn't really affect him.

Anyway, the battle, like the war with Kronos, ends. Percy has fulfilled his role in the prophecy, and it makes him feel a lot freer and calmer.

He doesn't have to worry about his status in the prophecy affecting [Name's] fate anymore, so the first thing he does when all the formalities are finally completed is immediately seek out [Name] and confess his feelings to her.

Of course, she accepts it - she has been in love with him for a long time too - and they start dating!

Mr. D... is not happy about it, of course - he grumbles and gets irritated a lot, but after Percy risked his life to protect his daughter, he involuntarily softened up a little towards him. Of course, this did not save Percy from a long conversation about 'how should you treat my daughter if you don't want me to turn you into a dolphin'.

Percy will immediately want to introduce [Name] to his mother! [Name] can't help but be nervous (despite the fact that Percy has told her many times that his mother is literally a saint and, of course, will love her), and even grew strawberries herself as a gift to Sally.

She was nervous in vain, because Percy's mother really is a saint, and her son has already told her so many good things about [Name] that it would be enough for several separate volumes; so, everything went just great (although [Name] sat there all red all evening because both Percy and Sally did nothing but praise her)!

Sally really liked the strawberries!

All in all, Percy still loves [Name] as much as he fell in love with her many years ago. He will do everything for her... and make sure that everything is okay with her and protect her even at the cost of his own life, of course.

[respectthepetty]

Pit Babe 2 Colors - Ep. 8

I'm watching the second season of Pit Babe on mute with no subtitles and double-speed just like I did the first season, but as much as the plot is plotting, I keep getting distracted by these damn scooters! I looked at the companies sponsoring this show, and not one of them is a scooter company, so is this an actual racing thing and people get to their cars via scooter?!

I'm looking like Christopher Waymond just annoyed as hell every time one of these men scoots on in because I need to know why they are there, and if it's plot relevant (but why would scooters be plot relevant?).

However, even though I don't know why the scooters are here (or why the bar from season one isn't), I do know the colors mean things, and the brain scans in the lab are getting redder instead of bluer, which can only mean bad stuff is happening with Charles.

It also means that the experiment did not work on Peter either since he went from blue to red.

Basically, whatever the plan was isn't going well now, and even though Jeffery seems okay in his blue compared to the last episode where he was in a hospital bed,

Shit ain't looking too good for Alan. He has worn red too many times, and if the experiments keep failing, I think Alan's time is going to be up sooner rather than later.

And I think Vegas' Hedgehog is going to be part of the reason Alan is going to be put in danger because even though my Slut for Christ has the blue wrapped around his neck (and hopefully choking him until he becomes good again!)

He drank from the red cup AGAIN!

Southwest Airlines, you better get your boy in check before he gets wrecked. *squinting* Are you wearing red too? No. No? No.

But something is up with Southwest Airlines, and that something is being a prisoner of love since he was behind bars in the (not season one) bar.

Dean was having a completely different experience in that bar right next to him as he wasn't behind bars, but that doesn't mean he wasn't experiencing something (with the top of his head being fuzzy).

Dean started this season by getting shot, being thrown off a bridge, and showing up at Alan's house in the shadow of the night, and he continues to linger in the darkness periodically throughout the season. Everyone else gets light, but he doesn't.

Like in this shot, he is completely blacked out even though he is standing right next to Southwest Airlines on the right, so my question is "did he die?" We saw William get beat within an inch of his life, then get experimented on, and William was also always in the darkness compared to Barbie, so could Dean have had a similar experience?

On the note of people who should be dead, I think this is actually Waymond, and not Christopher Waymond because there are no glasses, but I do not understand why he is with Kentana. This didn't seem like a dream, but I really don't understand what it is.

Which only added to the oddness of Peter and Kentana fading out right in front of each other while discussing this. It's as if the narrative was stating that they are no longer part of each other's lives.

They really aren't seeing each other as they are now, but more like ghosts of their past lives.

And the narrative has continuously shown that there is a barrier between them throughout the season, so was this the episode to solidify that they are finally removing themselves from each other's life?

Because, at times, Peter has served as the barrier between Kimberly and Kentana being the perfectly balanced Light x Dark Duo because he tends to stand between them.

But now that Kimberly has made himself clear with a kiss (THAT'S MY BOY!), there is literally nothing standing between them anymore since Kimberly did not leave room for Jesus or Peter during that kiss.

And Kentana returned the favor by holding Kimberly close during their break-in. Peter is no longer between them. Peter and Kentana are fading out of each other's lives. My Dark x Light Duo can finally be together!!!!

FUCK!

I knew Kentana was going to get snatched because the Jeffrey/Charles' vision showed Kentana being experimented on, but the red in that warehouse was so alarming that I couldn't ignore the danger the boys were in.

Just like I couldn't ignore how crazy Peter is being! I did not realize that the place Peter was going in the first episode was Waymundo's place! I thought Peter had pictures of Waymundo in his large bedroom or something, but no . . . . Peter has a key to Waymundo's apartment?!

There might be blue flowers on that table and blue lights coming through the window to let me know everyone in this room is good, but Peter is not good, you know? Like . . . he needs therapy!

And he needs therapy because I think he is slipping up with Christopher Waymond instead of being more aware. For example, Peter is using his powers on Christopher, yes.

But I think Christopher is using powers as well because either Peter has seen that Christopher has searched his computer at home and is okay with it or Peter is just blinded, and not just by love. I think Christopher actually has a power to block people's powers in a way that makes them blind to the truth.

However, I thought William's power was going to be amplifying others' powers, but the people in my tags were right, and he can do funky stuff with time. Congratulations to the folks who were correct!

And Charles, with Jeffrey's power, not only saw his future of being snatched by William, but he also saw William messing with time. Yet it was strange that he saw it happening slowly in the house instead of his visions playing out quickly the way Jeffrey's usually do with flashes. Perhaps Charles' other powers are interacting with his new power in a way that changes the powers.

Because he didn't see Barbie getting taken down by William (who was looking awfully creepy). He only saw William approaching him in the house, so maybe Charles' powers evolved to show William thinking about kidnapping Charles but not the act itself. Or are Charles and William linked somehow?

Regardless of whatever is happening here, Blue Boy Charles is lying to Black Brooder Barbie. He has to know more than he is telling everyone. I dealt with his looks enough last season to know when this mfer is up to something.

So does he know Alan is in danger? Does he know Dean is dead? Does he know Sonic is a whole ass problem? Does he know Kimberly and Kentana are getting married in the spring? What.Does.He.Know?!

[peachhcs]

will and Sammy discovering hockey gossip on Tumblr together and reading all the gossip and roumars about there relationship that people claim are true and as they are reading they are both laughing at what is being said

au masterlist

HAHAH wait this kind of feels like a 4th wall break but i think it would be super funny. samy def knows what tumblr is because of grace and will kind of knows but not really so when the two end up doing a deep dive together they’re in for a real treat

they go on together and search themselves up just to see and boyyy do they see what's on there. i can imagine them finding a bunch of pictures/rares of themselves and are like ? how did these get here??? oh and the fanfiction i think they would find it really funny and also like 🤨🤨

and then they would get to the blogs that are like gossip/rumor blogs that just talk about random gossip going on in the hockey world and they find one specifically talking about their relationship and there's crazy stuff on it

user1 bro i am soooooo jealous of samy bc like wdym she's quinn jack luke's little sister, goes to umich and is captain of the soccer team, has a SUPER hot boyfriend and has sooo many connections to the hockey world

| user2 ikrrrrr i'm so jealous of her life actually

| user3 it's so cute her and will have known each other since they were kids tho

| user4 she is LIVINGG that childhood best friends to lovers trope

user5 lowk tho....i heard will cheated on her so that's why they broke up for sometime..

| user6 BRUHHHH WHAT??? will cheating on HER?!?!?!?!

| user5 that's just what i heard thooo idk if it's true i just thought someone said they saw him with a girl last summer

| user6 not surprised tbh hockey boys are known for cheating

| user7 one of my really good friends goes to umich and has a mutual friend with hannah duke, and she's heard that they broke up bc of long distance i don't think he cheated on her

user8 tbh i don't think they should've gotten back together will could do sooooooo much better

| user6 bruh wtf?! how could he do better than her it's SAMY hughes

| user8 so? just bc she's quinn jack and luke's little sister doesn't mean she's as great as them

| user9 bruh don't hate just bc ur jealous of her she's so much more than just being little sister to her brothers

| user8 i'm not jealous i'm just saying. i'm entitled to my own opinion

user10 wait someone said that samy was will's first time

| user11 WOAHHHHHHHHHHHH that kind of surprises me??

| user12 i know for a fact he wasn't her first time tho bc she's had 2 boyfriends before will

| user13 that doesn't mean she's like had sex w them tho??

| user12 someone i know is also a mutual friend of hers and they've confirmed it she's talked about it before

| user9 i feel like will's been w people before tho??

| user14 nahhhh he's catholic so i don't think he would get w anyone like that

| user15 how do y'all find this stuff out like 😭

user16 i know for a FACT all of will's friends for sure had a crush on samy like ryan and gabe???? how could they not???

| user17 that would be such tea like imagine one of them did and then had to back off

| user18 well ryan's been dating his gf for awhile so i feel like gabe def did...

| user19 that would be such tea tbh

and they just keep scrolling and scrolling through the posts and everyone talking just laughing at how much people don't know about them and how only they know the truth behind things.

and i like to imagine samy showing will all of the edits on tiktok she's seen about them and he gets all blushy because there's a lot of thirst edits and will's just like "wow yeah. that's my girl." i also think they'd consider submitting something to the gossip blog just to stir the pot and make people freak even more.

either way this would be super funny and they would def enjoy doing this together

[freyafrida]

rilla of ingleside, chapter three

this turned out to be a long one bc i can't shut up about these kids lmao

This is probably the chapter I've reread the most! After hearing about the Blythe-Meredith kids from the gossipy ladies in chapter one, and meeting Rilla, Walter, and Miss Oliver in chapter two, the war generation all finally shows up in this chapter, and we get a sense of them from the way they talk and interact on the way to the lighthouse dance. Since it's the only pre-war chapter featuring all the kids, I find myself rereading it a lot for fanfic personality/relationship references, haha.

“The latter had come over from Lowbridge the previous evening and had been prevailed upon to remain for the dance at the Four Winds lighthouse the next night.”

Sometimes I forget that Gertrude is meant to be living in Lowbridge for parts of the book because she's at Ingleside all the time anyway lmao.

“It’s my first really-truly grown-up party, Miss Oliver, and I’ve just lain awake at nights for a week thinking it over. ”

Something about this sentence reads so much like young Anne to me (maybe the phrasing of "really-truly"); despite Anne's concern over Rilla's lack of ambition, Rilla is her mother's daughter in that sense of dreaminess and earnest excitement over things she loves.

Inch restingly, it seems like Rilla turns fifteen between this chapter and the last (last chapter was June, she's turning fifteen next month, it's now August, per the events of the chapter and Walter's description of "How beautiful the old Glen was, in its August ripeness"). I have thoughts about this bc I was wrestling with her birthday in a fic and realized -- the book doesn't recognize her birthday at all, not in the four years it spans. You'd think Rilla would've had a fifteenth birthday party before the war, at least, but it doesn't appear so. I don't think Anne has a proper birthday party ever, either, although she's mentioned to attend one or two over the course of the series.

“Of course Carl and Jerry can’t dance because they’re the minister’s sons, or else I could depend on them to save me from utter disgrace.”

Carl swooping in to save Rilla from utter disgrace!!! LMM why can't you let me have these things 😭 (Also, I realize they must see each other often, given that they're from two close families in a small town, but I have to admit I find it hard to believe that Jerry even knows Rilla exists.)

Disappointingly for the Rilla/Carl agenda, the bit abut Jerry and Carl not being able to dance was not in the original draft, per Readying Rilla -- instead, it says "but they're just like my brothers and I'll feel they're only doing it out of charity." LMM sniping me from beyond the grave 😩 Also curious if LMM like...forgot that minister's children shouldn't dance, or if it was more of an expectation that not everyone followed, and she made the decision to use it as a reason. (The bit about it feeling like charity is applied to Gertrude feeling that way about Jem and Walter dancing with her instead -- also, it's initially written that Jem and Jerry will take her out, but Jerry is crossed out and replaced with Walter, presumably due to the above edit.)

“I tried to draw back—and I saw that the edge of my dress was wet with blood—and I woke—shivering. I don’t like the dream. There was some sinister significance in it. That kind of vivid dream always ‘comes true’ with me.”

@batrachised pointed out that Gertrude's (I'm going to start calling her Gertrude instead of Miss Oliver because otherwise I'm going to keep going back and forth weirdly) dreams were actually based on LMM's, which, fair enough! That very much tracks with how seriously (almost) everyone takes Gertrude's visions. Idk -- I'm struggling to articulate why it comes off as almost laughably melodramatic to me -- because the war and death do come to Ingleside and touch our characters, and the shattering of their idyllic world is devastating to them (as it was to LMM); it's not as though her dream is wrong, necessarily. Maybe it's just the benefit of hindsight -- like Gertrude's going on about waves of blood on their shores and I'm just in the future like, "maybe you should save some of the dramatics because it's going to get so much worse." (Buuut I am also melodramatic and superstitious so maybe I just do not like looking in this mirror 😔)

“I think the party promises to be pleasant for young fry. I expect to be bored. None of those boys will bother dancing with an old maid like me. Jem and Walter will take me out once out of charity. There will be nobody for me even to talk to. So you can’t expect me to look forward to it with your touching young rapture.”

lmao jesus christ Gertrude. It's especially funny that she says this while also saying that she wants Rilla to have the "splendid, happy" girlhood that she didn't. Let her live then!!! (Also funny that Cousin Sophia is being portrayed as doom and gloom when she says stuff like this, while Gertrude is ~alluringly moody~)

And of course, the war is starting to become a concern for everyone except Rilla -- Dr. Blythe, Jem, and Walter are mentioned to be poring over the paper (none of the girls, even with their interests in 'ologies and 'isms, seem to care -- which sadly tracks, see Anne basically refusing to have a political opinion in House of Dreams. Gertrude, in fairness, is following the war news and mentions it to Rilla). It's interesting that part of the honor in fighting, for Jem, is entwined with defending the British Empire, considering it a family that they're a part of. Iiii...haven't developed any deep thoughts on this, lmao, I've always sort of taken it at face value that Jem -- and Ken, later -- feel this way as Anglo Dudes From 1914, particularly as there is a streak of...insularity, perhaps, in the books re: Anglo Canada. (But it is equally interesting that later on, characters express that they're fighting for Canada instead, not Britain.)

Walter's reaction to the war is telling -- he not only hates the idea (also, lol/sigh that they're just too civilized in the modern age of the twentieth century to go to war) but is kind of in denial about it, refusing to think of it and trying to distract himself with beautiful things.

“Mary Vance is a habit of ours—we can’t do without her even when we are furious with her,” Di Blythe had once said.”

I suppose it says a lot about Mary's character and general self-confidence/lack of self-awareness that she hangs out with people who talk about her like this, because I would not, lol.

“Carl Meredith was walking with Miranda Pryor, more to torment Joe Milgrave than for any other reason.”

LMAO what did Joe Milgrave ever do to Carl? I can't quite make out what this says about Carl -- it doesn't really jive with any of his behavior in Rainbow Valley; he doesn't particularly enjoy getting a rise out of people (e.g. in the chapter where he's not whipped, he feels bad over throwing the eel in the buggy; in the rest of the book, he's almost like, blissfully unaware that his various critters freak other people out). I suppose you could read him as being a bit competitive, or simply that he still enjoys mildly teasing people (which makes his friendship with Rilla pretty funny, given that being teased harrows her soul). Of course, worth mentioning that there's also not much evidence that Rilla and Carl are still close at this point :(

“Shirley Blythe was with Una Meredith and both were rather silent because such was their nature. Shirley was a lad of sixteen, sedate, sensible, thoughtful, full of a quiet humour. He was Susan’s “little brown boy” yet, with his brown hair, brown eyes and clear brown skin. He liked to walk with Una Meredith because she never tried to make him talk or badgered him with chatter. ”

Shirley being the personification of that "best friend I ever had, we still never talk sometimes" Parks and Rec quote, lol. The summation of him is so good, though -- despite what a nonentity he is compared to the other Blythe kids, you get such a good measure of him just from "sedate, sensible, thoughtful, full of a quiet humour." ❤️ I always go back and forth on the possibility of shipping him with Una -- it's lovely that Shirley appreciates her for who she is, that he likes that she's quiet and unassuming. On the other hand, like...what, do they never talk? Lmao. (Una also strikes me as having a bit of...repressed emotion, see her bottling things up and telling them to her mother's old wedding dress as a child, idk that Shirley would be able to draw that out of her...? But he is thoughtful and wholesome, so, maybe!)

“Una was as sweet and shy as she had been in the Rainbow Valley days, and her large, dark-blue eyes were as dreamy and wistful. She had a secret, carefully-hidden fancy for Walter Blythe which nobody but Rilla ever suspected. ”

MY GIRL \O/ I've seen it said that it seems unlikely that no one but Rilla suspects Una's feelings for Walter, but I actually quite like it -- it hints at Rilla actually being empathetic and perceptive under her frivolity, which she'll grow into over the war.

“She liked Una better than Faith, whose beauty and aplomb rather overshadowed other girls—and Rilla did not enjoy being overshadowed.”

Lol, it is very on-brand for early Rilla to feel she's in competition with Faith -- and I'm sure Faith doesn't think about Rilla at all, being 4-5 years older than her. (That said, I sympathize with Rilla not being a Faith enjoyer -- even though she's set up as getting into Anne-like scrapes in RV, the books lean a little too hard on how charming and intelligent and beautiful she is; she loses the flawed, earnestly trying vibe that made Anne endearing imo.) (Also, I love Rilla and Una, but it cracks me up that Rilla basically just likes Una better because she doesn't see her as a threat.)

“ bell was ringing in the little church over-harbour and the lingering dream-notes died around the dim, amethystine points. The gulf beyond was still silvery blue in the afterlight. Oh, it was all glorious—the clear air with its salt tang, the balsam of the firs, the laughter of her friends.”

I haven't been mentioning the nature descriptions because I don't really have anything to say about them other than they're lovely! Such a good sense of those moments when you're just happy, everything around you feels beautiful and you don't mind your problems in that moment -- and of course, the moment here is poised to be shattered very shortly.

“And how humanity responds to the ideal of self-sacrifice!”

Oooooh the foreshadowing! Also a very good summation of the theme of this book, in general -- there are other moments later that I think illustrate it more clearly so I won't go on too much about it now, but -- yeah, there's such a sense in this book of trying to understand and justify the pain of the war as a worthwhile sacrifice.

“We know the real charm of night here as town dwellers never do.”

Hey, leave us town dwellers out of it >:( (I do have a city girl story of visiting family out in the country when I was twelve, and being shocked by how dark it actually got at night, lmao.)

“Rilla flushed. It did not matter to her if Kenneth Ford walked home with Ethel Reese a dozen times—it did not! Nothing that he did mattered to her. He was ages older than she was. He chummed with Nan and Di and Faith, and looked upon her, Rilla, as a child whom he never noticed except to tease.”

First mention of Ken! The funniest bit about this is that his name was originally "Selwyn", and the first like 2/3rds of Readying Rilla have every single mention of him written as "Selwyn Ken". Anyway -- there's kiiiind of a set up for Rilla and Ken here; he teases her and she hates it while secretly liking/wanting more of his attention. There's a short story in TBAQ that adds on to this (honestly, it reads a bit like it's still trying to explain Rilla/Ken twenty years later lmao) -- it mentions that Ken and Rilla fought a lot as children, implying that he liked getting a rise out of her, sort of in a "pulling on her pigtails" kind of way. (Also, again, Nan and Di are set apart from Rilla here 👀)

some stuff from the glossary (minor frustration, the glossary isn't footnoted and is in alphabetical order, so you just kinda have to flip through it and try to remember what each entry is referencing):

More Readying Rilla bits:

After Rilla mentions that Jem and Faith will sit out on the rocks all evening, the next sentence starts with "They're", which is then crossed out and Rilla just starts talking about sailing to the lighthouse. While I'm sure it wasn't a big deal, it reads like someone being cut off right before saying something juicy lmao, tell meeee the Jem/Faith gossip

The line about Rilla being the only one unaware of the worry over the war originally said "only Rilla and Susan", lmao.

Miranda Pryor's name was originally Jennie.

Shirley's originally described as being "full of humor and quiet fun" (instead of "full of a quiet humor"), which does read as something a bit different to me -- the final version makes him sound like more like a quietly amused observer than someone that actually gets into hijinks.

Re: Rilla's silver slippers, the book says that Mrs. Ford (Leslie) sent them to her. The original draft says "Jean gave", which like...who tf is Jean?

[legalandnotease]

This post.

The thing that aggravates me the most is that people are acting like Thunderbolts was *the* first time that Bucky's arm was treated like a joke, when really this has been happening since Infinity War, but TFatWS was the first time it was actually removed. Honestly that whole scene in TFatWS was painful. Not only does he not seem to think his opponent touching his shoulder is off and like - move... but he also wasn't aware that there was a killswitch on the arm. The situation is rendered absurd by Sam asking "did you know they could do that?" after its removal.

(...and *do not* get me started on the gross rhetoric that scene gave rise to in which people started saying the Wakandans had a right to confiscate Bucky's *weaponized prosthetic* because "they gave it to him therefore they own it". Yes, the Wakandan arm is a weapon.

Yes I do understand why T'Challa gave it to him- and I do understand the fate of the very world was at stake. Bucky would probably have been happy to fight Thanos either way but the fact still remains. That new prosthetic was given to him for the express purpose of *fighting*. Bucky knew that- its why he says "where's the fight?" the instant he sees it.

The implication that the Wakandans had a right to remove it for doing something they didn't like is disturbing in two ways. First because its literally weaponizing part of his body which BTW is exactly what HYDRA did to him.

Second there's the idea that disabled people don't own thier own ability aids and have a right to use them as they see fit. Like, someone gives Matt Murdock new sight stick and they - have the right to take it away if he represents someone they don't approve of?The implication that fully able people have the ultimate control over disabled people's bodies is actually gross.

Last of all, its hardly a shock that Bucky's arm became a running gag when *hours* after he got we had Rocket making that quip and *then* several more jokes about it in TFatWS. One character calls Bucky "the bionic staring machine" (it might've been Sam) and another calls him a "cyborg". You can dismiss both oas a harmless jokes if you want (many do) but to me its part of a pattern. First of defining Bucky as nothing more than his disability, and second of mocking and minimizing both the disability and the tramatic events which resulted in him becoming disabled in the first place. A pattern that started in 2018 and still hasn't ended.

Its no surprise really that we got the vile Nebula giving Rocket his arm as a Christmas present plotline the following year. It bears noting with that as well that whilst fandom today denounce and try to distance themselves from that scene at the time people were actively *asking for* it to happen. They *wanted* Rocket to "get the arm".

At very very least in Thunderbolts we had Ava showing enough consideration to pick up the arm when an incapacitated Bucky couldn't and carrying it for him until he asked for it back. (Then you remember that Ava also has a bodily difference... so it at least read that as one disabled person looking out for another). Last time it was "ripped off him" that didn't happen and the time before that he had to pick it up himself whilst Sam just made a joke at his expense.

You know what the worst thing is though @nrilliree? It isn't the casual ableism of the last 7 years. Its that one of the writers of Civil War actually suggested that Bucky's arm being blown off wasn't intended to be sympathetic. It was intended as a narrative "punishment". He wasn't being treated with respect even in Civil War.

Y’kno, for all of CA:CW’s faults, at least it never treated Bucky’s left arm as a joke.

When Bucky loses his arm in this film, it isn’t because he suddenly forgets how to move away from an opponent that’s suddenly in his space and touching him (TFATWS) or he throws some clearly ineffective punches at an enemy and, for whatever reason, doesn’t think to change his strategy (Thunderbolts), but because he got blasted by Tony Stark’s arc reactor point blank after using an incredible feat of strength to try and stop him. And when his arm is blown off? It’s treated with the appropriate amount of shock and horror. It frames it as a terrifying moment for Bucky and makes him feel incredibly sympathetic. He just lost a part of him in an extremely brutal fashion in the fraction of a second. It wasn’t something he could’ve predicted or easily avoided (unlike future instances where he loses his arm…again 🙄).

But now? Now his arm is used as the butt of stupid jokes. Rocket wants to buy it. Nebula STEALS IT off screen to use it as a Christmas gift. Bucky spills some sauce on it and the only way to wash it is by running it through the dishwasher. He now has to lose it at least one ☝️ time in every new thing he’s in like it’s some quota that has to be filled. Like. The MCU writers seriously can’t think of anything involving Bucky’s arm that doesn’t take away his dignity as a disabled person while also showcasing him as the strong, competent fighter he is?

Literally the only genuinely funny thing involving his arm is when he threw a punch at Peter, leading to the latter catching it and immediately exclaiming how cool it is. And that happened in Civil War!

I don’t know. Civil War definitely could’ve been a much better film, but at least it got that part right.

[wonder-worker]

Wild how we know that Elizabeth Woodville was officially appointed to royal councils in her own right during her husband’s reign and fortified the Tower of London in preparation of a siege while 8-months pregnant and had forces gathering at Westminster “in the queen’s name” in 1483 – only for NONE of these things to be even included, let alone explored, in the vast majority of scholarship and historical novels involving her.

[zecoritheweirdone]

i was bored, so i made them into cubes

[ms-demeanor]

I understand that vaccines are proven to work and are a great advancement in our medicine, and also that homeopathic remedies don't work, but don't they work on the same principal? Why does one work and the other doesnt?

They do not work on the same principle.

I can see how vaccines look like a "like treats like" situation, but in homeopathy "like treats like" is a kind of magical thinking.

Let's take an example from Chicken Pox, a virus for which there is an effective vaccine and for which there is a common homeopathic treatment.

Chicken pox infects people once, and it is extremely rare to get a second case because once you have had it, your body forms persistent antibodies against the varicella-zoster virus. When I was a kid, they didn't have a vaccine for this, so kids mostly got chicken pox once and it ran around whole schools and that was it. It's a virus that is fairly minor in children, though it can cause dangerously high fevers. Adults who get chicken pox typically get much sicker than children who get it, and it can lead to permanent harms like infertility in adults who get it. Because it can be so dangerous, we don't want people to risk getting it, so we vaccinate.

The way the vaccine works is that it takes a weakened form of the virus and introduces that into the body of a person with a healthy immune system. The immune system responds and the person who got the vaccine may get some minor symptoms, like a headache or a slight fever, but it will be nowhere near as severe as getting actual chicken pox would be. Because the immune system was exposed to the virus and responded, it now has antibodies against the virus that recognize the virus and respond immediately before it can start replicating in the body. If a person who has either previously had chicken pox or who has been vaccinated against it is exposed to the chicken pox virus, their body uses those antibodies to react to the virus and protect against a systemic infection.

Are you familiar with Star Trek? It's kind of like the Borg. You can't use the same attack pattern against the Borg multiple times because if you do, they'll recognize the pattern and will be able to defend against it. The virus is the attacker, and your immune system is the Borg. It knows what it's looking for and won't let anything get through its defenses.

Homeopathic remedies don't seek to prevent illness or provoke an immune response, they seek to cancel out something that is happening in the body.

For chicken pox, which produces itchy red bumps, homeopaths use Rhus Tox - a dilution of poison ivy, a plant that causes itchy red bumps if you encounter it in nature. The Rhus Tox didn't cause the chicken pox, it's not given to prevent the virus, it's from a plant that is completely unrelated to the virus that happens to produce some of the same symptoms as the virus when you touch it.

They don't even think that the Rhus Tox will provoke an immune response from your body like actually touching poison ivy would, they're attempting to use an unrelated compound (that is so diluted that it isn't even present in the preparation) in place of your immune system to attack the itchy red bumps.

So I'm going to go over this in a few brief points:

Vaccines are preventative ONLY, they are not a treatment for illness or symptoms of an illness

Vaccines work by introducing your immune system to a partial, weakened, or dead virus so that your immune system can form antibodies against that virus and prevent that virus from replicating in your body when it is later exposed to a whole/strong/live virus.

Different vaccines have different levels of effectiveness and produce different lengths of immunity; this is for a number of reasons, but if you get a measles shot as a kid you may only ever need one booster, while you need a flu shot every year and a tetanus shot every decade. All of them work the same way, though: they show your immune system what a virus looks like so that your immune system can kill the virus.

That is why immune compromised people sometimes can't be vaccinated, or why vaccines don't work as well for them or may need higher doses or more boosters. Because they don't have a healthy immune system, weakened viruses like the ones in the chickenpox virus might be too strong for their immune system to fight, and even if it doesn't get them sick, their bodies may not be able to produce enough effective antibodies to protect them from the virus in the future. That's part of why it's important for as many people to be vaccinated as possible; the more people who are vaccinated, the harder it is for viruses to spread, and vulnerable people like immune compromised people or babies too young for vaccination won't be exposed to deadly viruses.

Homeopathy, on the other hand, aims to treat symptoms of an illness that a person is already experiencing.

Homeopathic treatments do not aim to provoke an immune response, they aim to cancel out a symptom with a cure.

Dilution is a very important part of homeopathy, with homeopaths claiming that the more diluted a preparation is the stronger it is. This is simply incorrect; I don't know how to make a more logical explanation of that, it is just wrong that less of a substance causes more of a response.

Homeopathy says "like treats like" and that may seem like using a vaccine with a weak virus to prevent infection from a strong virus, but their version of "like" is different - Rhus Tox (poison ivy) is supposed to be "like" chicken pox because both cause itching. Rhus tox is also supposed to treat PCOS, erectile dysfunction, uterine prolapse, sunken eyes, nausea, and backache. "Like" can have an extremely broad meaning in homeopathy, which should be cause for suspicion.

Here's a paper that compared the immune response of college students given homeopathic "vaccines" against a control group and against a group of students who were given standard medical vaccines. The control group and the homeopathic group both did not have an immune response in titer tests, while the vaccination group did have an immune response, demonstrating that they had protection from the vaccinated viruses. It's a pretty good demonstration both of how effective homeopathy is (not at all) as well as how to set up a fair and ethical study to look at the effectiveness of different kinds of treatments.