#How to stay consistent with learning English

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A Dragon At The NRC

Summary : A real dragon, from httyd, come in Twisted Wonderland at the place of Yuu. What bad could happened ? (Everything. Everything.) Type : Headcanon Gender : GN Pronouns : They/Them Characters : Crowley, Grim, Riddle, Leona, Azul, Kalim, Vil, Idia, Malleus.TW : English isn't my first language. Bad english. Rook.Violence.No Beta Read.

Raccoon note : Yes. I finally did it. I'm back writing y'all !

All you remembered was a spear being thrown in your direction, intended to kill you. You remembered closing your eyes, hoping the other dragons had escaped before the humans killed them.

But you hadn't died, hadn't felt any pain, and when you opened your eyes again, you were in a strange room with boxes floating, and an animal in front of you.

It was a strange animal, one you never saw before. The animal had a black furr and blue fire in the ears.

You stared into each other's eyes for a long time, neither of you moving.

You were trying to figure out what this creature was, which looked like a mix of cat and blue fire. Perhaps a new species ? If so, they needed to learn to hide and fight quickly; humans aren't known for their kindness to things they don't understand, after all.

Then the door to the room opened and humans walked in.

Was a normal year too much to ask ? Surely, because why else would a dragon wear the ceremonial robes and breathe fire straight at him and his students ?!

Crowley didn't remember a dragon ever asking for and being accepted into the NRC. Except for Malleus, but he half-counted because he was a fae dragon and that this one seemed to be a pure dragon, not understanding human and fae language, and acting like dragons 100 years before the Great Seven.

"Go get Malleus." was all Crowley managed to say to Azul and Riddle before the dragon breathed fire at him.

It took a few minutes of intense fighting with the dragon before Malleus arrived.

And it took a few more minutes for Malleus to convince the dragon to stop attacking.

It turned out that the dragon was actually protecting a small monster, which partly explains their aggressiveness.

The second part of the explanation for their aggressiveness is that they were apparently being hunted by humans before coming here.

What kind of humans would be stupid enough to attack a dragon ? Crowley has no idea, but they must be either suicidal or dumb.

The fight left the housewardens injured, some seriously, and Idia's tablet was broken early in the fight.

Was a year without problems really too much to ask for ?

They were forced to keep the dragon for two simple reasons : 1, they don't seem to be from this world, 2, the black carose keeps bringing them back every time they are kicked out.

So now Malleus is in charge of them because he is the only one that can communicate with them.

They also had to keep the monster, Grim, because every time they were trying to kick him, or just touch him, the dragon was breathing fire at them.

So now, he have a dragon and a monster in his school, both consider as students...

Crowley was not happy about it, nobody except Malleus and Lilia were, really.

Riddle Roseheart

The dear dragon that you are is the reason he overblotted.

Ace and Deuce befriended Grim, and by extension, you, and they thought it would be a good idea to invite you to the unbirthday party…

It was a mistake.

When Riddle tried to punish them for the pie they gave him, which broke the Queen of Hearts' laws, you jumped at him.

He saw his life flash before his eyes.

He tried to fight you, and it ended up causing him to overblot.

How can I tell you that when he regained consciousness after his overblot, and after seeing the injuries you caused him, he preferred to stay away from you out of fear.

Except that when he was unconscious, you saw his past, you didn't understand what was being said, but pictures speak louder than words, don't they ?

So, like any normal dragon, when they see a child suffering, you decided to protect him.

This consists of following Riddle everywhere with Grim (you wouldn't leave your firstborn alone) and growling at anyone who looks at him with a bad look (or what you think is a bad look).

Riddle thought you wanted to kill him.

He had to go see Malleus so that the latter could explain to him that no, you didn't want to kill him or eat him, and yes, you really only wanted to protect him.

It took almost a whole month after his overblot for Riddle to get used to your presence.

And it took even longer for Cater and Trey because you kept growling at them when you met them.

Leona Kingscholar

He didn't like you as soon as he saw you.

First, you were a dragon like Malleus, but more dangerous.

Why ? Because you couldn't understood their language.

Another reason why he don't like you is because the first thing you did when you saw him was attack.

Yes, you were hunted by humans and you had someone to protect, but does he look like a human to you ?? And look at his ears and tail before answering.

It also has the fact that somehow you could feel the magic and you knew directly that it was Ruggie who was causing the little incidents with his unique magic.

But luckily, no one could understand you so no one interfered with his plans. And Malleus was probably too busy for listening to what you had to say.

That's what he thought until the D-Day, when it turned out you had just made a plan with Diasomnia and Heartslabyul to make sure that his plan won't succeed.

That made him overblot.

Just like Riddle, you saw his past when he was unconscious, and you also decided to protect him like with Riddle.

When Leona regained consciousness and saw Riddle looking at him with pity, he thought it was because his overblot…

If only he knew it was because Riddle knew that now you were just going to follow him for a whole month…

And it's what you did.

Leona got fed up, put aside his rivalry with Malleus, just to ask him to take you with him.

You attack him and now you follow him, wanting to protect him ?? What kind of dragon are you ???

Malleus couldn't keep you, he tried but failed.

Ruggie and Jack where laughing every time they see you following Leona while Leona tries to run as far away from you as possible.

Azul Ashengrotto

He was scared of you.

Why ? Because when you saw him, the first thing you did was attacking him.

And not just once, not twice, but three times.

When you saw him for the first time ? Attack.

When you saw him after Ace and Deuce sign the contract ? Attack and would have killed him if you weren't stopped by Grim.

When Crowley asked to you and Grim to stop his little business ? Attack supplement I burn your dorm.

He overblot because HOW DARE YOU TAKE AWAY HIS CONTRACTS AND BUSINESS ???

Leona had to stop you from killing him in his overblot form.

But the same as before happened, and you know the song.

But Azul hated that because that was bad for business.

Nobody wants to be near a dragon that can and will kill them if they want.

Malleus couldn't do anything and just looked at him with pity.

Floyd and Jade find you fun, especially when you breath fire at some of the karens.

You even created a technique to scare them while making money : you set their ass on fire and Floyd or Jade or Grim steals their wallets.

You will divide it equally later, when nobody else is around.

Kalim Al-Asim

You scared him at first.

But then he saw you protecting overblotter after overblotting and decided to give you a chance.

He loved flying with you and Grim, he showed you around the dorm, and somehow you know how to cook ? Sure, you just burn the meat, but it's always at the perfect temperature; more than what Kalim can do.

Jamil's overblot was terrifying to watch.

Seeing you jump on him, scratching and biting him, the blood flowing… Terrifying.

He's had nightmares about it but will never admit it.

Then, after the overblot, you didn't stop following Jamil.

Kalim was worried, swallowing his fear he decides to ask to Malleus about it.

Malleus explained to him that you were doing the same thing than with the other overblots : protecting.

Kalim suspected it, but he wanted confirmation after seeing the battle against Jamil when he overblot.

He decided to make a temporary room for you and Grim while you protect Jamil.

Jamil was not happy about it.

(Jamil can still hear Azul screaming "LIBERTY !!" when he realized that you would stop following him, preferring to follow Jamil.)

Vil Schoenheit

He wanted to avoid you.

During your first meeting, you seriously injured him, leaving scars which, fortunately, managed to disappear thanks to magic, but that stilled remained for 4 months.

He didn't like you, for him you were just an uneducated beast.

He didn't want to come to Ramshackle with you; why the VDC team had to settle there instead of Pomefiore, Scarabia, or Diasomnia where Malleus was able to monitor you is an unanswered question.

But here he was.

And you attacked him again, when he used his unique spell on Ace, Deuce and Grim and that he refuses to cancel it.

He was forced to cancel it.

Either he cancels it or he ended up six feet under, the choice wasn't very difficult.

Even Rook was shock by the turn of events.

And Epel wouldn't leave your side after that because he wanted to be sure that Vil wouldn't use his unique magic on food again.

Yes, and uneducated beast, that's what he thought you were until his overblot.

Fortunately, this time he wasn't too injured and was able to go on stage.

And something very unexpected happened.

You were dancing when they were on the stage, and someone film you and posted it on Magicam. Aurore, a prince and one of the most powerful and famous mage, repost it and commented "make that dragon win".

So the people that saw it voted the NRC because you were wearing the NRC uniform.

What a way to win, huh ?

Oh, and obviously after that you started to follow Vil everywhere; and Jamil made a party because he was finally free.

Idia Shroud

Man was terrified of you.

He didn't see you again after the ceremony and made sure Ortho didn't either.

You only saw him again at his overblot because you came looking for your children friends. Some researchers were seriously injured and killed in the process.

He was terrified, especially when he realized that you had caused three-quarters of his injuries.

And for your part... you didn't really care about him because you've only seen him attack you, your pack, your family.

But at the same time, you saw his past…

And the children seemed to care…

*Insert the howl of a desperate dragon, resigned to their parental instincts, which were previously unknown to them.*

Idia really thought that you were going to kill him when you didn't wanted to leave Stix and that you kept following him.

Riddle decided to stay with Grim to explained Idia the situation, and to reassure him.

That didn't work.

He had begged Malleus to take you when you four returned to the NRC because he was scared that, if you and him were alone, you would killed him.

Malleus tried to take you, to make you stay at Diasomnia with Grim.

....

That didn't work-

You arrived at Idia's dorm at 3am while he was sleeping, breaking his window and waking him up, looking like a demon that just got out of hell-

You didn't even bring Grim ! Letting him with Malleus and Lilia.

Idia almost had a heart attack.

That was it, his death...

Until you just sat next to his bed, posing your head on the bed and falling asleep.

He didn't know what was happening, and was scare to know.

He tried to do like you weren't there, praying that one day you will go.

Malleus Draconia

He was more than happy to have you.

Everyone at the NRC, except Lilia, was scared of him and was acting professional with him.

But then you appeared.

A dragon, not just like him but close, coming from another world, not caring about who he is, staying by his side unless you have to protect one of those you consider your children, flying with him, joking with him, being the only ones who really understand each other, wanting to stay in this world rather than going back to yours...

He liked you.

You were like family to him. Or a best friend. Or both at the same time.

Sebek, Silver and Lilia all liked you, you were part of that little family now.

Sebek and Silver even tried to learn dragon language for speaking with you.

And, somehow, you liked Lilia's cooking ?...

Nobody know how you do that.

The housewardens even started to speak to him. Even Leona of everyone.

He got invited to a party Kalim made, as well as a Heartslabyul unbirthday party.

You made his life better.

He didn't overblot, even when Lilia had to go.

Because he had people now here for him. That he know wouldn't leave before a long time.

Crowley is sentenced to keep you at the NRC for another 3 years. RIP to him.

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[radiantresume]

"How to Stay Consistent with Learning English Through Movies (Even When You Can't Keep Up with New Episodes)"

Introduction: It’s true—movies and TV shows are an amazing way to improve your spoken English, but sometimes, we lose motivation. Maybe you’re watching a series like Legacy or waiting for the next season of your favorite show, but the constant waiting for episodes or feeling like you’re falling behind can make it hard to stick to your learning goals. You’re not alone. This happens to a lot of…

[woncheolisms]

CRUSH (ushijima wakatoshi x reader)

summary: wakatoshi has a crush.

word count: 720

warnings: fem!reader, its all just fluff

tags: @keiva1000

Ushijima knows he has fans. He might be simple-minded and a little oblivious, but he’s not stupid.

He knows girls stare at him from the balcony during practice. And he can hear their giggling when he passes them in the halls. Tendou often calls him Shiratorizawa’s Golden Boy, which Ushijima wholeheartedly disagrees with, but never voices out loud. Tendou often says strange things. He doesn’t mind.

Ushijima doesn’t understand his popularity. Sure, he is a good player. The best ace in the prefecture. But most of these girls have no understanding of volleyball. So why are they spending hours upon hours in the stands, watching him play?

“They’re not watching the match, Wakatoshi-kun. They are watching you.”

Hm. Strange. His play is very consistent. Watching him do the same thing over and over has to get boring, especially when they aren’t watching for the sake of the game.

But then he sees you for the first time.

You are in his third year English class. In his three years of high school, Ushijima is sure he has never seen you before. Because if he had, there was no way he would forget you.

He is curious. And a little enamored by you.

You are, by all means, a regular girl. You sit on the same chair every day, bring your own bento instead of eating from the cafeteria. It is always wrapped in a pretty multicolored patterned cloth, done up in a knot on top. You have a small stuffed cat chain on the zipper of your backpack. And you wear your hair differently every day. Some days it is tied up, some days it is let down. And some days it is half-up and half-down. You have one pink bunny hairclip that you wear maybe once every two or three days that Ushijima thinks is very cute. Your uniform is always immaculate.

There are so many tiny details about you that Ushijima has learned, and he finally understands why girls would stay hanging over the gym balcony to watch him for hours, because he could watch you for hours too.

You are very smart, he could tell. You always answer correctly when the teacher would call on you, and he has glimpsed at your notes. Simple, but neat and easy to understand, just the way he likes it. There are no crazy colors and highlighters, and your handwriting is neat and beautiful, just like the rest of you.

You are also quiet. You have a select group of friends that you talk to, and while you are nice to anyone who interacts with you, you don't go out of your way to stand out. Again, Ushijima loves that. It seems he loved everything about you. All the minor details that make you a little bit more unique to everyone else.

When you show up at his game, he nearly loses his focus.

It in’t an important game by any means, just a practice match with another local university team. So why are you here? Have your friends dragged you along? Or are you here by your own volition? Ushijima feels how sweaty his palms are when he clenches his fists, and it surprises him.

Is he….. nervous?

Why? Because you are watching? How ridiculous. Ushijima has never once doubted his own strength, or his ability to win. How could your presence alter that? The thought annoys him, and he is determined to prove that you being here would not be a hindrance to his play.

Turns out, he needn't have worried. It seems your presence had sharpened his senses more than ever. Shiratorizawa won in straight sets, and of the 50 points they scored, 39 had been from Ushijima’s hand.

“You were on fire today, Wakatoshi-kun.” Tendou comments as the final whistle rings. Ushijima unintentionally glances at you in the stands, cheering for the team. Cheering for him.

His heart is beating a mile a minute, and he doesn’t think it is because of the game he had just played. He hears Tendou let out a dreamy sigh.

“Ah, the miracles of having a crush.”

He feels his lips tick up in a tiny smile as he throws a towel over his shoulders. Tendou is wrong. Ushijima doesn’t think he has a crush.

He thinks he is in love.

[kenwio]

Joker's kid! reader

Route: Recovered dove: How they and batfamily got close

Author's note: Route: Recovered dove will be consistent of parts that describe the future of Joker's kid! reader, who succeeded in getting close with batfamily, so you can say it`s more hurt/comfort, maybe fluff (?) In my masterlist, you could see another route (Route black fog), and this one will be the opposite to Route: Recovered dove Warnings: Grammar (as usual), mental traumas

Ideas for some parts form here This part is here despite everything, so please enjoy reading 💖

The first person who you got close with was, of course, Alfred. Seeing how clueless and helpless you were with basic living stuff and how eager you were to learn and help made old butler realize that you were not a threat, you are just a child. And a very sad one at it. It seemed like you didn't understand how a kid should behave. Kids shouldn't be scared all the time, and kids should not flinch in various situations. But then again, have he even seen a normal kid in this family? Of course not. You were traumatized just like the rest of the kids. And he knew he had to be gentle with you.

Even if you thought that on the family movie night you were alone, watching the rest of the family having happy time, you weren't alone. And weren't that sneaky. Alred watched you. He saw your silent tears. He understood your pain and how you were hurting. And that's breaks his heart. He knows that you were struggling with a lot already, new life that was too complicated for you to navigate and get used to, new things, new home, new people, but same weight of judgment from others on your shoulders, and you were facing this alone. So he decided to stay by your side. Every morning , he wakes you up, cheeks up on you. You are invited to help him cook, but he keeps an eye on the knives and other sharp objects, especially after scissors incident. You are invited on afternoon tea time, and he is invited on your TV time. He also introduced you to various old classical English soap operas (Firstly, yes, he watches them, secondly, would show detectives, but he doesn't want you seeing something disturbing), which you watch with interest, try to understand how people act. He practiced speaking with you, helping you talk instead of mumble. He also is the one who tells you about family, telling you about each and every one.

Alfred, I'm happy to see you figuring out your likes and dislikes, considering all of you try is new for you. You liked the breakfast? He will cook it for you more often. You liked the tea? You will drink it on the afternoon tea.

For you, adjusting to your new life isn't easy. You have specific habits you can not control, and he knows some of them, Jason had similar, for example, hiding the food in your room or eating once a day. So he has to make you eat more, and explains to you why hiding food in your room is not a good option. He also notices your other habit that you do not notice. You make your wounds worse without realizing it. One time you accidentally cut yourself by breaking a cup, accidentally of course, and he doesn't blames you, even if you do not belive him, but he noticed your fidgeting with wound, not letting it heal fully. But unlike Jason, you have other habits that he can describe results of trauma. Flinching is just one of them. You tend to stay away, have distance, and you are always too quiet. He sees how you are afraid of showing your emotions, how you prefer to choose something natural, for example when he was bandaging your cuts from broken cup he was about to use bandages with animals, kids patterns Dick choose and forced on Damian, and you asked him to use a simple white one.

Alfred is here for you, and he wishes others would be too. So, of course, he had a stern talk with Bruce about your situation. And Bruce remembered what was escapism his sight. Yes, you. When you were in medbay, your condition was critical, so he was on alert, but since you recovered and started to stay in manor, he allowed himself to relax. You were on every breakfast, so you were fine, right? Wrong! After talking with Alfred, Bruce decided to pay more attention to you, but without an immediate approach. That was also the time he noticed your new haircut. Yes, he definitely needs to give a closer look to you. And he noticed those worrying habits Alfred told about. Okay, Bruce, we have a child who are traumatized. What will we do to help them without taking them in? Lead them to therapy! But how do you accept this idea? So he slowly started building the communication with you. It started with check-ins, when small questions about your likes and dislikes. And then there opened the opportunity to talk with you about going to therapy. One time he saw you watching a documentary on TV, he joined in. And while putting his cup on the coffee table, he saw you flinch. Making you talk about it wasn't easy. You just stared at him, looked, as if trying to construct perfect answer just from his reaction, but at the same time, knowing that answers that worked with Joker won't work with Bruce. He knew you needed his patience, his understanding. You needed safe space, and he decided to give you that. And when you did talk, he held his breath. He knew things were bad, but hearing this from you made him feel worse. He reminded you that you were safe now, that you had him. He gently hugged you while you needed him and comfort. And when you calmed down, he introduced the idea of therapy for you and met your confused look. He had to explain it simply, and after some time, you agreed. Although it took some time, he now drives you to every one of your therapy sessions, making sure you feel alright and fine. And when you were well enough to go to an explore city, he made it a point to show you good but quiet places in the Gotham. It started from little garden park, when quiet book shop, and small cafe.

On one of those days, he was driving you back, he left his tablet with open files on the latest investigation about the Scarecrow dashboard, he was looking through them while waiting for you, trying to figure out unusual composition of the toxins, he couldn't find it in his date base, and Tim was asleep after whole week of all nighters As you saw the tablet, you couldn't help your curiosity and look at it, and as you recognized what you saw, you quietly said.

- it is an incomplete product of the conversion of ibotenic acid to muscimol

Now that got his attention, he looked at you, a bit confused that you said so, but decided to see if you could say more

- I've run tests, it didn't recognize it as such

- It's probably because it's incomplete, frozen by other chemicals. In this state, it provides both effects. Father used to use it in this state.

- How do you know this? - he asked, a bit of suspicion in his voice

- well, I was in his lab... and I know this because he tested it on me, too.

Bruce regretted that he asked, remembering how much of a trauma you had because of your father. He put his hand on your shoulder in a comforting way

- You are not there anymore - he said gently, on which you just nodded.

- Do you work with that sort of things a lot - you said pointing on the tablet

- Yeah, more than I would like - Bruce said, a bit tiredly

- Can I see it? I might recognize some more.

Bruce looked at you, analyzing your words and your body language, and seeing that you are sincere, he said

- when you are about to have an excursion in a real lab.

From that moment, you became a welcome guest in batcave. Of course, Bruce keeps an eye on you while you were there, but you've never done something to make him distrust you. And this way, your knowledge may be used in a good way.

You were surprised when one day, you heard knocking on your door just after breakfast and saw Dick. He was smiling at you and greeted you happily when you opened. He started happily bubbling about something, and you couldn't quite keep up with him, so you just looked at him confused, yet you were still happy to see him, happy that he kept his promise.

- So, are you going? -he asked, his tone giddy

- where?

- I promise that we will hang out, and considering good weather I decided we can go for a outing in the garden - you looked at him confused.

Dick heard from Bruce and Alfred that you were making progress to go outside, but yet you didn't do it regularly enough, but you vitamin D! And, since he promised to hang out with you, and the weather today was good, he decided that it was the perfect opportunity to interact with you to sun. He understood you didn't want to go far from home, so the garden seemed like the best choice.

Before he came to get you out, he prepared a cozy little hang out spot, comfortable chais, and table with boardgames and snacks. It wasn't in open sun, but it was lightened just fine. He wasn't sure if you liked boardgames or were familiar with them at all, but he knee it was a good option for bounding.

When he checked, you were all set to go, he lead you outside, walking slower than usual so that you could catch up. Seeing your cute curious eyes taking in all the surroundings of the garden was endearing.

When he led you to the spot, he told you about games, letting you decide in which play first. For every game, he explained rules, as good as he could remember them. Although he guided you through each and every game, he was enjoying it, enjoying seeing your reactions, enjoying seeing sparkles of happiness in your eyes. Even if he knew you deserved the chance, seeing you now made his resolve stronger. He couldn't help but feel protectiveness towards you. He couldn't help but want to be a reason for your smile, Gods, he wants to see you smile so so much.

From that day, every time he is in manor, he pays you a visit. He will take walks with you in the garden, or he just joins your activities. Watching birds? Okay, he is in and even talks with you about them, and by the way, he bought you puzzles with robins and nightingales (he thinks this way he will make you even closer to the family). Watching TV, he is in, sitting next to you, asking you opinion. Oh, by the way, you are attending family bounding events. He will drag you there and beat up everyone who will disagree with him on it (but of course, not on your eyes)

And when he saw in in batcave, seeing how you talked with Bruce about some sort of toxin, he was amazed by how good you were in it. He was happy to see how you were fitting in both civilian and vigilante sides of his hectic but lovely family. He can't help but smile.

Jason had the opposite reaction on seeing you in batcave. What the hell were you doing this. How the hell you were able so easily to differ between toxins and their components. It wasn't just right. You weren't right. You shouldn't be here. Was it some sick prank from the clown that Bruce, Dick and even Alfred ignored? Okay, Dick is gullable, but Bruce? Was his habit of picking up children for his collection that bad? And Alfred.... he knew the man knew he was more he was letting on, so it confused him.

He seemed to see every step you made as wrong, and he wasn't about to stop until he started watching. He knew that neither Bruce, Alfred, or save goodness, Dick never would hit you, and considering how long you were here, you still was flinching. He noticed how you were hesitating to do things you should not hesitate to do. How you were, unlike your father, reserved and quiet, as if afraid to show yourself.

It made him think. Think really hard. Were you really a monster he saw you? Or were you a victim yourself? After that, he couldn't help but see similarities. Another child who grew up in a crime alley, another child taken in by the Bat, another child whose life was impacted by Joker.

Broken. He was broken by clown, so were you. Even when he was broken, his family didn't see him as lost cause, so why did he immortal thought you were one?

He decided to give you a chance. After 6 are not a monster .... yet.

Though he planned on tolerating you in distance, one time he couldn't just stay away. You were in the living room, but instead of watching TV, you were trying to read a book outloud, probably practicing speach (he can vaguely remember how Dick and Alfred discussed it), but seems like you were struggling. Some words were coming out broken, in your stuttering voice, but you weren't giving up

He walked up, sitting next to you, quietly looking at the book, not skipping the fact that you flinched. The situation was a mess. He never was good with kids, demon-brat is his witness, but he can do at least something, right?

- A knight - he read for you, voice more gentle than usual one - and that one is responsibility.

Reading with you slowly, helping you to promote and understanding words was oddly calming experience. Maybe you weren't as bad as he thought. Maybe you are even cute. Well. You really rubbed onto him.

While Tim also keeps his distance from you, he does study you. And he notces all the sings that you weren't in your previous predicament by your desire, which is obvious, who would have choose such a fate, he never did. Yet, you make him worry. He can't control it.

All the data shows that even though you were a real kid of Joker, you became Joker Junior after Tim. That means that after Joker failed with Tim, his attention went to you. It doesn't put right with him.

He knew that he shouldn't feel guilty, yet he could not. All he can do is just ignore you when you come in to bring him coffee, duty you help Alfred with.

But when he, after much needed sleep, expected to continue Scarecrow case right when he left off, that horrible toxin, only to hear you helped solved it and find antidote, he was more amazed than horrified.

He decided to make an investigation of his own. He purposely left different printed chemicals formulas around, so you would notice and comment. Although he thought you won't recognize any of them, you did recognize them, but couldn't name every one of them scientifically. He could tell you had knowledge, and thay it could be really useful, but you didn't get structure for it in your head, so he decided to help.

Kindred spirit, that how he felt about you when he saw oh so familiar thirst for knowledge in you. And you were learning quickly, too. You hand your own struggles. But he saw that you worked to overcome them.

And well, he liked teaching you, telling you about his tech. He liked going you actually listened. He liked how, after a few study sessions, you, though timidly, were asking him real questions. That made him want to spend time with you

One day, when you were supposed to study with him, he decided to help you study something else : games. Yes he had to choose 0+, so that he could be sure I won't trigger you, but now he was a game parter. And Dick sometimes joins in.

Now, he can actually look at you. Smile at you. Not only did you 6 his interest but won a place in his heart.

Damian, grumpy as always, was taking out his anger on training dummy. He just had not one stern talk, but three! Subject: you. What does his father mean that he should try and understand your situation? What does Alfred mean when he says that Damian should be nice to you? What does Grayson (Even Grayson!) mean when he says that you and him should get along? Him? Damian Wayne, get along with sorts of you? Have you done anything in your life for it?

You may be smart in chemistry and quick lerner, but he is smarter! He is better in general. And you are weak, clumsy ... maybe that's why everyone is protective of you. Tt. That makes you even more weak.

Though Damian can see how you try to get along with others, how you try to get used to manor. How you try to avoid him. Wait, he is the only one in manor whom you avoid. At first, he didn't mind, Drake and Todd avoided you as well, but now. He is alone in this avoidance game. And he feels like he is losing. He hates losing.

- What's so special about you? - he thinks, as he walks to your room, the furtherest one, he noticed. You are avoiding him.

He watched you do different things, watching birds, reading, and solving puzzles, as if you avoided him.

He shouldn't even be this pissed off about it. Why should he. But he is.

He can't believe he talks with Grayson about how to spend time with you. He can't believe he asking Father for special crayons, once that would be easy to your for someone who never held them before. He can't believe he is asking Alfred about your living room visits. But here he is, sitting that paper and crayons on the table. Waiting for you. Once you are in the room, the trap is closed. He says that you WILL draw with him, and you do.

He feels oddly proud when you say that the bird he drew is pretty. You should admire him after all. But he can't help but smirk. He feels oddly concentrated when he explains to you how to draw, his voice calm, as if it was his only purpose to make you understand how to do it.

Surprisingly, he doesn't mock your works. He just looks at your reaction. You seem as monotonous as ever, yet he can see that happy glint in your eyes, of which Grayson told him. He feels oddly satisfied.

Though he would never admit it all outloud, to even to himself. This knowledge is inside him, warming him up, more than he thinks. By the way, he scheduled his next art class for you already.

It takes time to build trust. It takes time to get used to, but it seems it has been enough time for you to finally become a real part of batfamily. But, of course. It's only the beginning of the story

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Thank you for reading! Feel free to share your opinion and have a good day 💖

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[linkemon]

Confession headcanons

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Other headcanons from this series can be found here.

Part 1 | Part 3 of the confession headcanons.

This part contains: Sebek Zigvolt, Leona Kingscholar and Azul Ashengrotto.

Sebek Zigvolt

• Sebek would experience shock after shock before he even confessed his feelings. The first clash with reality would be the realization that he loves someone. What is it about you being on his mind all the time? That he would like to protect you from all the troubles surrounding you? That he feels boundless pride when you praise him for the smallest things? He can't sleep at night and gets up to do extra sets of push-ups to calm down. It would get to the point where he would get frustrated and ask Lilia for advice. Is this the ideal person to turn to in this situation? In his opinion for sure...

• How much fun Vanrouge would have at his expense! His, not so little anymore Sebek, experiences his first love affair. In addition, with a human being. What a chuckle of fate. Apparently, his student had learned something in life. Lilia would give Sebek some advice, not all of which would be entirely accurate. Well, he won't make everything easy for him! And it's funny to watch him hand you a rare Briar Valley frog and hope it wins your heart. It's a pity the knight didn't tell you that to get this frog he had to kill several magical creatures during the holidays, you would probably look at it differently...

• Sebek would have a hard time accepting the fact that he fell in love with a human. Of course, his opinion changed gradually as he got to know you, but realizing that he had done exactly what he sometimes criticized his mother for would be like a bucket of cold water. He even tried to find arguments against it but every time he saw your face in front of his eyes, he decided that he couldn't do it.

• He definitely ran for Malleus' "blessing" once he was sure he wanted to be with you. Of course, he solemnly promised that it would not interfere with his duties. The prince didn't mind. He was happy that he would have the opportunity to see his friend more often.

• Briar Valley still has some slightly old-fashioned traditions. Although Sebek is aware that couples date and break up, he is intentionally trying to marry you in the distant future, from the very beginning.

• His confession consisted of an oath. After all, he is a knight in flesh and blood. With a bouquet of wildflowers, he knelt down and announced that he was going to defend, protect and love you until his last breath. If you let him, he will try to be worthy of you, the lady of his heart. He came up with this idea while reading chivalric romances so the ride back to your dormitory on a white horse is basically a complete must-have...

Leona Kingscholar

• Leona would never be the first to admit the feeling growing in his heart. He has more important things on his mind than love. For example, a nap! And the fact that he ordered you to stay and sleep with him under threat was a completely different story.

• You decided to take matters into your own hands, because what is it supposed to be? You act like you're in a relationship. Your friends keep asking if you're a couple and you never know what to say, because they won't ask Kingscholar out of fear and it always falls on you. Grim sincerely hopes you are together. In his eyes, a rich prince means an endless supply of tuna. Even if he calls him a furball every chance he gets.

• One day, in a botanical garden, surrounded by beautiful flowers, you asked this one important question. Who wouldn't love me? That's what the sarcastic Leona said in response to your confession. Immediately afterwards, he squinted his eyes and happily went back to his fake nap.

• Outraged that he didn't even take you seriously, you tried to get up but failed. He hugged you tightly and pulled you to his chest. Only when you were so close to him did you realize how fast his heart was beating. You didn't know if all beasts were like that but the ghost of a smile on his lips confirmed your belief that they probably weren't. You didn't say anything for a moment, just listening to the fast rhythm. Just as you were about to say something, he opened his eyes and told you that you two could go out if you cared so much. Then he turned to his other side, saying that herbivores probably had nothing better to think about.

• Only on the verge of your sleep, wrapped in warmth, amid the scent of sweet flowers, did you hear a quiet voice in your ear "I love you", spoken in a deep and confident voice.

• You didn't want him to feel unpunished for such treatment, so for the next week you made it your goal to tell everyone you could that you were in a relationship. At first you thought it wouldn't bother him much, but when others started repeating it, he felt embarrassed, which he didn't hesitate to tell you when he really had had enough. At first it seemed to you that he wouldn't be much moved, but when others started repeating it, he felt embarrassed, which he didn't hesitate to tell you when he really had enough.

Azul Ashengrotto

• There is no way he would try to confess his love before he has tried every means available to him to see if you feel the same way. The idea of revealing himself to someone to such an extent terribly terrifies him. It doesn't matter that you saw him at his lowest point during the overblot, it doesn't change anything about it.

• He wouldn't send the twins to do anything related to this "project" as he called it in his head. He doesn't even talk about it because he knows they would be making fun of him for weeks to come, especially Floyd. The truth is that Jade realized it incredibly quickly, but he's waiting for the right opportunity to take advantage of it...

• Azul would have dozens of plans for every eventuality and somehow everything would still fall apart. The first and most important rule he adopted was to stay away from Mostro Lounge. He took you to his home sea under the pretext of sightseeing. If something went wrong, no one from the academy would see it and he would have time to collect himself. At this first point his perfect plan ended.

• First, something broke in your transportation to the museum he wanted to take you to. Then it turned out that the crab serving you didn't want to let you in, mumbling something about being late. Without losing his nerve, Azul proposed his plan B, which was a restaurant. Of course, previously checked by him. But what good is it, since the owner broke the tentacle and closed it that same morning, leaving only a note on the door that she was very sorry. On top of it all, his favorite alley in the underwater park was destroyed by a herd of wild seahorses. That sealed his defeat. He meant well but it didn't work out. Tired, he lowered his hat and rubbed his glasses, pretending that he had not spilled a tear of ink at all.

• You had to come to his aid because you couldn't watch him struggle with his thoughts. You placed a kiss on his cheek, telling him that you had fun because you spent a lot of time with him and that you were happy because he rarely gave up work for someone. This gave him confidence and with a sigh, he led you to a place he wasn't particularly fond of but one he knew would be quiet and peaceful. It was on one of the coral terraces that he hid in from kids who tormented him when he was little. When he confessed his feelings to you and you replied that you reciprocated them, he felt that at least now he would have happy memories of this place.

• Azul doesn't need to know that Jade exposed him some time ago and he sold you the information that his boss reciprocated your feelings for quite a favour...

[lambse7en]

Pregnancy Headcanons

(Benjamin Pointdexter (Bullseye) x reader) (sfw)

summary: how i imagine Dex in a relationship where reader gets pregnant.

warnings: this is mostly fluff, but i think mental illness (OCD, anxiety, trauma), panic attacks, emotional dysregulation, pregnancy and childbirth, therapy mentions, fear of parenthood, co-dependency…i’m pretty sure i wrote reader as gender neutral

language: english

!link to ao3!

notes: justice for dex, we need more content about him. Dex is referred as Ben.

#ThereWereNoNewFanficsAboutHimSoIJustWroteOneMyself

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Telling him / Early Pregnancy

• When you first tell Ben about the pregnancy, there’s a pause that feels like it lasts forever. Not because he’s angry, he’s just…stunned. His brain immediately races with two competing voices: one picturing a future he never thought he deserved, and the other screaming that he’s going to ruin it all.

• He tries to stay calm, but his hands twitch. He’s overwhelmed with emotions like love, fear and hope, but it all clashes with his deep-rooted fear of becoming his worst self. He asks you: “Are you sure?”. It’s not about the pregnancy, but about him. Are you sure he could be a parent?

• You reassure him with honesty, not sugarcoating. You don’t say it’ll be easy. You don’t say he’ll never struggle. You say you will do this together. Build something stable, something real, even if it’s messy. That earns his trust.

Mid-Pregnancy

• This is the stage when Ben really starts showing quiet protectiveness. He doesn’t make grand gestures, but he always makes sure he walks on the outside of the sidewalk. He memorizes the ingredients in everything you eat. He keeps his hands on you more, just small touches, grounding himself.

• There are nights when you’re asleep and he lies awake, staring at the ceiling, wondering what kind of father he’s going to be. He’s afraid of messing up, afraid that the darkness in him could bleed into this new life. But instead of spiraling, he gets up and quietly writes letters to the baby, just in case he never gets to explain himself in person.

• OCD symptoms start showing more here, not in a stereotyped way, but in how he fixates on routines. He checks the same door locks five, six times before bed. Repeats affirmations out loud (“I’m going to do this right”) like mantras. If you break his rhythm, even gently, he can spiral into a moment of agitation, not at you, but at himself.

• Mood changes are especially sharp during this stage. One moment he’s calm and focused; the next, he’s withdrawing, convinced he’s “too much” or “failing.” You also learn not to challenge those moments with logic right away, just sit with him until it passes, sometimes placing a hand over his so he knows you’re still there.

• His first panic attack during the pregnancy isn’t even about something big. It’s a sensory overload moment at a store when too many people are around and someone brushes past your stomach. His breathing shortens, his focus tunnels, and he starts to go into fight-or-flight. You guide him out of it, slowly, and afterward he feels ashamed. But you make it clear: It’s not a failure. It’s normal. He’s worried. It’s something you’ll face together.

• He goes to therapy more consistently now, not just for himself, but because he promised you he’d try. And even after several sessions he still slips into silence sometimes, disappears mentally into guilt or fear, but you never try to "fix" him. You just remind him: “You don’t have to be perfect. You just have to be here.”

• He starts obsessively reading books about pregnancy, parenting, infant development, anything he can get his hands on. Not in a passive way: he takes notes, underlines passages, makes lists of what he thinks you two should do. It’s part of his coping, but also part of his desperate need to be good enough. He even signs you two up for parenting classes, not because he thinks you need them, but because he does. At first he’s stiff, too quiet, watching how the others touch the dolls or speak about boundaries. But slowly, he starts asking questions. The moment he successfully swaddles the practice baby, he beams, just for a second, and glances at you like: “Did you see that?” That night, he fell asleep with a parenting manual still open on his chest.

• Feeling the baby kick for the first time is a turning point. At first, he doesn’t even believe you when you say it’s happening. He hesitates to put his hand on your stomach. But when he does, and he feels it, he freezes. Then breathes in, shakily, like it’s the first real, good breath he’s taken in months. He doesn’t say anything right away, just kisses your forehead and mutters, “It is real.” From that day onwards he starts referring to the baby by the name you two chose.

Late Pregnancy / Birth

• The closer you get to the due date, the more he starts keeping a quiet distance, not emotionally, but physically. He’s terrified he’ll hurt you or the baby by accident. You have to gently pull him back in, remind him that your body isn’t fragile glass, and that what you need the most in that moment is for him to be present.

• He builds things for the baby. It’s not perfect, sometimes not even safe, but it helps him feel involved. He obsesses over assembling furniture for the baby’s room and triple-checking the baby car seat. It’s not just care, it’s control in a moment where everything feels uncertain to him.

• When labor comes, Ben is calm on the outside, for you, but his nails dig into his palm the entire time. He’s not afraid of the pain you might feel, he knows you’re strong. He’s afraid of losing you. But the moment he sees the baby, it’s like something resets in his brain. Not like a movie “cure,” but like a weight leaves his heart and lungs. There's something grounding in seeing this new life, that you and him created together. He cries, not from breakdown, not from panic, just because he is overwhelmed. He softly sobs and smiles into your shoulder.

• After the birth, Ben also doesn’t hold the baby right away. It is not because he doesn’t want to, but because he doesn’t trust himself yet. He stands near the bed, eyes on both of you, hands clenched at his sides. It’s only when you call his name, just once, quiet but sure, that he steps forward and lets himself hold the baby.

• He trembles the whole time. Not out of weakness, but because something about this moment feels impossible. He’s still here. You’re still here. And the baby is breathing. He kisses the baby’s forehead. Then kisses your hand. He doesn’t say “thank you,” because it feels too small. But you see it in his eyes.

[staravyz]

︖﹖ㅤㅤMizuki General Dating hcs !!

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ❕️ㅤclick4rules—4masterlist

ㅤㅤ🐍ㅤㅤ—ㅤ(kamisama kiss) mizuki x reader

ㅤ﹑tags ... fluff/headcanons/romance/established relationship/kamisama kiss/gn!reader

ㅤ౨ৎㅤ—ㅤa/n﹕first post, english is not my first language

clingy

like a child hugging your leg kinda clingy

"nooo 5 more minutes stay in bedddd" kinda clingy

compliments you at least 5 times a day, if not complimenting, he's admiring

you're not even dating. you're likely already his fiancé but only he knows that lol

eyes on you all the time

reminds me of Glue Song by Beabadoobee

housewife of the relationship 80%

he's severely protective over his loved ones and would not hesitate to harm potential threats 🙏

if you're his kamisama, he's absolutely loyal to you and has already accepted the rest of his life being by your side

if not, SAME THINGS APPLY

lowk a stalker... (endearing)

quiet of it, but he gets a bit jealous seeing you being super close to other people

it's because he's attached by now and you're never getting rid of him

possibly would take more extreme measures in the case you would ever have to be taken away from him

teach him proper human behaviour?? please??

though he seems sweet and innocent i don't know if he understands how a healthy relationship is meant to function 😭

YES you have to communicate, mizuki

NO you can't just sulk and gaze into the distance whenever something is off

usually he's a super energetic sweetheart

+ trying hard to learn how humans work!! and how raw seafood every day all day is not healthy!!

NO you can't just mark your partner for engagement without their consent 🤦‍♀️

when you're around he's consistently trying to impress you and cling to you

when you're not around he's waiting for you to come back

makes subtle hints to his desires but will fully brush off any of them if you don't acknowledge it

so curious of everything and will ask you a million questions a day

his hair is probably bouncy

cold to the touch and constantly looks to you for warmth

hence asking to hold your hand all the time or cuddle

despite everything, he cannot stay still

head over heels in love with you, he genuinely cannot believe you're his and he's yours and you're just as happy with him as he is with you

brings you random gifts

like a pretty rock or something

feels safe and secure with you

who needs a cherry blossom tree for a cornerstone when he has you?

you helped him out of his loneliness

you helped him find new meaning in life

he plans to repay you for the rest of your lives

trusts you a LOT like to the point he thinks you're a decent expert at pretty much everything

sneaks up on you all the time

i just found out he's 5'9 while writing this WHAT do you mean he's 5'9??????? thats so tall???????????????? he's so tall????????????????????unsure what i was expecting BUT 5'9

...😻

anyways

mizuki remembers everything about you

probably not very good with specific dates, but your favourite foods and stuff he has memorized

©️ staravyzㅤ(¬_¬") do not steal, translate, or repost.

[sfthvnfanpage]

Translator’s headache: Vietnamese pronoun system…

You think switching pronouns in English is confusing? Welcome to Vietnamese :D

English has 7 pronouns, not counting neopronouns and combined stuff like “y’all” or “you guys”. Meanwhile, Vietnamese has at least 100 I think, I can’t even list all of them. In terms of “true pronouns”, we don’t have that many, but we use nouns as pronouns, and those do count, making the whole situation very complicated.

In English, you use the I-you pair no matter who you’re talking to. In Vietnamese, you have to choose the appropriate pair of pronouns based on many factors: your age, their age, their gender, your gender, your relationship with them, etc., And, the fun part is, choosing the wrong pronouns may offend people. There is more about true pronouns, kinship pronouns, nouns used as pronouns, and other things, but I won’t go into details here. You can check out this Wikipedia post to learn more :D

Pronouns can reflect the relationship between two people and their attitude toward each other. It’s the translator’s job to pick the most appropriate ones for the characters. You can’t just I-you your way through the translation, because it would be stiff as heck, nobody talks like that in real life.

Pronouns among SFTH themselves

SFTH are close friends who met in university (and yes, where you meet your friends can affect your choice of pronouns: friends from school tend to have more casual, affectionate pronouns, while friends from work tends to have more polite, formal pairs). I chose the tui-ông pair for Luke-Sam-Tom, it’s casual, it’s intimate, it’s homies. I can totally see them calling each other with this pair if they ever decide to learn Vietnamese.

It’s a bit more complicated with AJ. In English speaking countries, you’re equal with your friends, no matter how old you are. That’s not the case with Vietnamese people, here we have a hierarchy: You pay respect to the older, and you get respect from the younger, even when you’re only one year apart, except when there are agreements between you otherwise. It’s not as intense as it sounds, but this subconsciously affects people’s dynamics.

While AJ is two year younger than the others, they’re equal friends, with just a little bit of youngest sibling vibes from AJ at most. However, I still choose “em” for AJ (the pronoun for the younger sibling), and “anh” for the others (the pronoun for the older brother). The anh-em pair can be used for anyone having an age gap of up to ~20 years, not just real siblings.

I imagine a conversation between them would go like this:

Tom: Do em want to compère the next game? Anh can do it if em don’t want to. AJ: Em can do it, thank anh. Anh can compère the next one, is that good?

Cute squid hug just for decoration purposes.

As you can see, Tom would stay as “anh” no matter who’s talking, because he’s the older one. Same would go for Sam and Luke when talking to AJ. I find AJ being “em” very endearing and adorable.

Pronouns between characters

It can be a lot of headache to pick pronouns for characters. For example, the Time Warp with AJ being the creepy dad. Luke calls AJ “dad”, but using the ba-con (father-child) pair is not realistic, since he hates his dad’s guts. My compromise is to put “ba” in quotation marks, and use ông-tôi for the rest of the video. This pair can be used for your male friend in a friendly way, but also can be used for your father or someone your father’s age when you don’t have much respect for him.

Reverse translation:

Long time no see, “ba”. What the fuck are ông doing here?

In short games, it’s important to have consistent pronouns from start to finish. I have to write them all down into my note app, so the characters don’t randomly change their pronouns midway through. It looks something like this:

1. Luke ↔ Tom: tôi ↔ anh 2. Luke ↔ Sam: tui ↔ bồ 3. Tom ↔ Sam: tôi → anh; anh ← tui 4. Tom → Sam: anh kia

Note how the third one between Tom and Sam has two pairs? It’s because I picked one pair for Tom but another for Sam. Sam was having a German accent, I wanted to reflect that in the choice of pronouns. Yes, accents affect your pronouns too. How fun! The fourth one is how they’d address each other in third person, that may be for another post, I’ll focus on first and second person pronoun in this one.

The exception is when they play Genre. Sometimes when the genre changes, characters change their pronouns accordingly.

One thing unexpectedly difficult is Flurry. For the introduction, the opening line should be as open as possible, but when they use the line, it’s very specific. So the pronouns change, it’s not the original line anymore. I try to make it vague enough so it fits both situations, but sometimes we just have to accept that Vietnamese is different.

It’s not all bad, it’s beautiful

It is very rewarding when you can express characters’ states and emotions through just the pronouns alone. Normally, your mother would call you “con” and call herself “mẹ” (or “má”, depends on each region). But when she’s mad, she would switch to mày-tao. If you’re in love with a man, you use anh-em, but after a nasty breakup, you’d switch to anh-tôi, or even mày-tao, depends on how much you want him to rot in hell.

I use these techniques in The Unrelenting Aubergine, especially for Titch. At the beginning, Titch looks down on James, seeing him as the lazy useless brother who only plays with the boys and doesn’t pay attention to the important farming work of the family. At this point, he uses the anh-chú pair. “Anh” is still for someone older, while “chú” is for someone younger, but this pair is not as close or intimate as anh-em. You can find this pair in social settings rather than familial ones, and the older one is often seen as more snobbish, a little high and mighty you might say.

Well, chú should have been focused on learning like anh was.

Later down the line, Titch realises his brother actually has valid dreams, and farming is important for him, not his brother. A change of pronouns can reflect this perfectly, that’s why I made him switch to anh-em to show the growth in his character.

Over the years anh was so hard on em, anh is so sorry.

The same happens between Titch and Derek. At first, Titch keeps his distance, he wants to maintain a boss-assistant relationship, strictly business (despite that one night 😉) He uses tôi-cậu, which is often seen between a boss and a younger employee. Later, when he finally faces his feelings, he also changes to anh-em to be more intimate with Derek.

Derek, don’t be like that. Cậu know tôi is married to job.

And anh will give em the most unrelenting aubergine on earth.

Funny enough, only Titch has to change his pronouns. James calls him anh-em throughout the play. Even though James is quite rebellious and stubborn, yelling at his brother sometimes, he still respects and looks up to Titch as the better aubergine farmer in the family. And Derek, he also uses anh-em, do I even need to explain about that simp? 🤭

James addresses Titch with anh-em pronouns right from the start.

Em know em won’t be as good of an aubergine farmer as anh are.

The same goes for Derek.

Em know recently anh have been a little bit barren. But-

This post alone cannot capture a fraction of the full complexity of our pronoun system, but hopefully it gives you some insight to how it is over here and the way it affects translating SFTH comedy to Vietnamese.

What should I write about next? Anything you want to know about translating SFTH videos? My Ask is also open in case you want to stay anonymous :D

P.S.: Colour codes: blue: English pronouns red: pronouns with equal social status orange: pronoun with a higher social status green: pronoun with a lower social status

[systematic-breakdown]

Simply Plural & Solo Server Organization Assistance

I noticed another uptick in systems requesting help organizing their simply plural. So that's what this post is. Featuring how we organize our system server on Revolt/Discord because it's safer for us than downloading an explicitly system-focused app. We don't talk about aesthetic or whatever since our Simply Plural is a wreck. If you're just looking for aesthetic inspiration sorry but you should go elsewhere. Also we're in the middle of remodeling so ignore the mess. Pictures and stuff below.

Ok I'm gonna start with Simply Plural.

We started by organizing based on system. Side systems aren't included in the main system category cuz why would they be.

The "Update" section has profiles that Anna or another archivist/manager wants to look at and profiles that alters haven't added to since making it.

Here's the inside of the main systems folder

"Age" is organized like this

"Littles" being 0-9, "Middles" being 10-12, "Teens" being 13-19, and "Adults" being 20+. Regressors can be any age but some of them asked for a section so they got one. We only really use the specific ages for parts who are stuck or who jump. Updating every alter who ages when they do is hard and not worth it when they can just tell us their age in the designated custom field.

"Extra" just has sections for dormant parts, integrated parts, and who the integrated parts went to. If we know who integrated into who, we have a custom field for specificity.

"Families & Special Groups" is for parts who are family members and parts who split off at the same time and are still together. The groups are usually in their own little bubble but there's no discernible effect on memories and memory sharing so we don't count them as a sub or side system.

"Formation Status" has 3 sub-sections for fragments, "in-betweens", and formed.

"Gender" has subsections for feminine alignment, masculine alignment, queer/GNC, and gender hoarders. Queer/GNC has subsections for any singular gender identity parts have listed that aren't exclusively feminine or masculine (e.g. nonbinary, agender, genderqueer, pangender). We tried to restrict it to "at least 3 parts have to experience this for it to be an official subsection" but we're pretty lenient about that. It gives parts trying to discover who they are or build themselves a little ground work at least.

"Interaction Status" has these subsections

You can probably figure that out on your own.

"Location" has subsections for various parts of our headspace where parts stay when they're not fronting.

Nutty added the "Name" section. He likes to alphabetize things and I guess our Simply Plural is no exception.

"Orientation" has subsections for romantic orientation, sexual orientation, and a section called "double down" which just means both orientations are the same (e.g. being biromantic and bisexual, being heteromantic and heterosexual). I think this is a messy way of doing this section, but I was outvoted.

"Preferred Language" has subsections for all the languages we or other parts know, knew, or have learned. We aren't fluent in much other than English, but there are parts who know a lot more than others in certain languages and that's really what this section is for.

"Religion" has more subsections than I thought but the division makes sense. Anyway you probably won't need to include this section unless parts have very different views on religion.

"Role" has a ton of subsections. Anna or whoever organized it tried narrowing it down. So "protectors" has subsections for aggressive, emotional, physical, preventative, sexual, social, and verbal. You probably won't need all that, but if it feels better having subsections for your subsections instead of putting specifics in your custom fields, to each their own. Lemme know if you guys want some role/function examples and how they operate in our system.

"Silly Groups" has subsections for silly groups. "Green Gang" consists of parts who have all set their profile color as green. "Freaks and Creeps" has parts who have a shared interest in supernatural and paranormal entities. I'm in "Gamers Anonymous" and we talk about video games and make fun of cishet CoD players. It's been really fun and Dr. Collins thinks it helps with integration and connection or something. So make silly groups. It's worth it I promise.

"Species" is for species. We got subsections for dead alters (like ghosts and Dacir and stuff), humans, nonhumans, objects, shapeshifters, voiders, and alters who don't know or don't feel like either. "Nonhumans" has subsections for different animals and anthros who identify as nonhuman.

"Subsystems" have subsystems. There aren't sections for roles since the roles are already established in other sections, but if the subsystem has roles specific to that subsystem, maybe put those roles in that section. That was a lot of S words. My bad.

Side systems have their own roles because they're not a part of the main system and it would be bad if the managers confused them and marked them dormant. But there's a similar process I think. We don't really have access to them so it's hard to tell if they even know about this stuff, but a couple of the side systems seem to have updated their profiles and groups so that's promising.

And here's how we do our Revolt.

We switched to Revolt after Discord announced their plan to switch from the current model - which is cool and good - to the stupid model - which is stupid and bad. Enshittification takes a while but so does transferring all of our stuff so at least we'll be ahead of it. Anyway Revolt is exactly like Discord but without the subscription and paid stuff so if you're using Discord this tutorial can still be helpful.

We have a server for the main system and servers for sub and side systems. Side systems are harder to communicate with — especially since there are presumably very few alters in the known side systems that know about this stuff (and care enough to look) — but this has made it way easier.

Anna started by putting the "Sysfo & General" category at the top. She thought it'd be easier for newbies if what they needed to see was where they opened up. I agree with this thought process.

"Read Me" is her introducing herself, introducing the server, and outlining the rules. Pretty simple - don't snoop, be respectful of boundaries and triggers, date and add context to body/irl pics, stuff like that.

"Roles" is describing alter roles and functions. Has basic roles like host, persecutor, gatekeeper and more system-specific roles like archivist, mimic, filters, and more.

"Innerworld Mapping" has pictures but it's more writing than I expected. Names places, puts pictures that relate to those places, and describes the layers and connections. A lot of fakes ("NPCs"?) listed there too which is nice when I go to clean out our Simply Plural. Parts get confused sometimes. I don't blame them. Fakes are confusing.

"Accounts" is where we keep account information. We put emails and usernames in without censoring but coded passwords so the only place we have those fully written out is in our real life journal.

"Recipes" is self explanatory.

"Body Pictures" is where we put pictures that are taken of our body. The rule for that section is that you're only supposed to put body pictures in there if multiple parts are fronting or if whoever's putting the pic in doesn't know who the fronter was. Other than that, Anna said that she wants the body pictures that specific parts take should go in their "Pictures" channel.

"Memes" section is for memes that we relate to but are specifically about our disorders or symptoms. "DID Pics" is for pictures that we relate to as a system but they aren't memes. Pretty dark place. I try to avoid it but I noticed some of the traumaholders really like it. I think that's concerning but it's none of my business.

"Shared Journal" is for communication or general logging.

"Example" category is a placeholder for the parts name. For dormant or integrated parts, we do this

Here's what Anna wrote for the example "Info" section

"Faceclaims" is self explanatory. "Front Tells" is self explanatory. "Triggers/Draws" are separated by message but are kept in the same channel.

Here's what she said about "Pictures" and "Videos"

Here's what she said about "Links"

And here's what she said about "Journal"

That's all from me if you have questions, need more advice, wanna check out our custom fields, or anything else leave it in the comments, mailbox, or reblogs and we'll get back to you 👍

dividers from

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[majorshatterandhare]

[ID: a screencap of a reply to this post. Black text of a white background. flowers-all-around-me reblogged the post from ulysses-but-somehow-more-transer and added:

“Oh áno moji milovani blorbikovia, Mechanizmy máme:

• Jonatán Z Certovic

• Puny Prach Tim

• Anastázia Rasputinná

• Rafaela Rozmyglavá

• Márius od Priestorov

• Bubnobot Brajan

• Vojacik Na Hranie

• Brectanina Alexandria

• Popol O'Reily

Aké skvelé men pre bandu nesmrtelnÿch vesmirnych pirátov!”

As well as the following tags:

“#sorry I wanted to add because! its so funny :) #spyld #steamy spunk pirates #slovak”

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oh ja meine lieblings Blorbonen, die Mechaniker

es gibt

Johannes von Toifel

Schießpulver Tim

Anna Rasputina

Raphaella zu Denken

Marius von Raum

Trommelroboter Gehirn

Der Spielzeug Soldat

Efeu Bücherei

Asche O'reily

was für tolle namen für eine Bande an unsterblichen weltraum Piraten

[sentient-stove]

If feels like being a fan of any batfam character means dealing with constant mischaracterization and a lack of desire to learn about said character

I think it’s perfectly valid as a fan to have a singular perception of a character. Whether it’s from a fanfic, Webtoon, official work etc

What isn’t okay is when fans who don’t engage with the more canon nuance walk up and act like their extremely one dimensional, ooc version of the character is accurate.

Tim Drake is not an uwu gay boi™️ who stays up 24/7 with a coffee addiction. That arrogant son of a bitch has consistently wrangled Batman and defeated antagonists that other characters can’t.

Stephanie Brown is not your happy go lucky girl who’s only personality trait is that she likes waffles jfc. She literally bribed a guard once so she could go into her father’s cell and beat the shit out of him.

And Cassandra Cain isn’t mute. Maybe at one point of the comics she was, but her writing was originally extremely trope-y around the “mute Asian girl who’s a weapon” and she has been able to communicate at the very least since her Batgirl run in 2000. Does she have difficulty picking what words to use sometimes? Yes, but English is also her second language and it’d be the same for anyone else.

Duke exists!!! I wanna see him in fanfic!! He outsmarted the Riddler at like age 7!! He’s not the “only sane batfam member” he’s out here riding the day shift solo and would absolutely throw a brick at a cop!!! He’s an incredible character, and writers and DC NEED to explore how Gotham having an active nightlife has likely moved a TON of crime to daylight hours!!! Free my boy from the ether!!!!

Damian is not a goddamn feral child. He’s a child who was basically disowned by his grandfather and then shipped off to a new country and then almost immediately the entire family dynamic shifted, leaving him, a NINE YEAR OLD CHILD. CHILD having to navigate and survive when all he was taught was that the world needed to be purged because it was corrupt. His dad DIED. How on earth was he supposed to react to all the upheaval?!? HE WAS NINE.

[trexiejan]

Some Toxic Dickbabs moments that happened in canon. (LONG POST)

so i saw a dickbabs shipper talking crap about dickkory saying they're the most toxic nightwing ship? and they also claim dickbabs is the most healthiest ? it's ironic considering I've seen many dickbabs comic panels where dickbabs is being toxic towards each other plenty of times in the canon comics. Looks like Tom Taylor wants to brainwash people and make them believe that Dickbabs is such a perfect healthy loving couple since day 1, when that hasn't been true at all before he was put in charge of the nightwing comics to write dickbabs wattpad fanfiction in the book every single issue, this ship has done nothing but damage both characters even in tom taylor's run Dick is turned into a happy go lucky himbo who is incapable of accomplishing anything on his own without being monitored and babysat by barbara 24/7.

Anyways let's proceed with dickbabs history of being a toxic couple.

Remember those times where Barbara physically and verbally assaulted him when he was only trying to be nice and polite. She yelled at him, called him stupid, a crybaby and beat him up.

Also they keep calling Kory a victim blamer for something that happened once in over 30 years ago but ignore the fact that Babs has victim blamed him and slutshamed him multiple times in the modern comics when he was sexually assaulted and raped by Tarantula and when he got shot in the head by the Joker.

Dick just got raped by Tarantula and was traumatized by what happened but instead of comforting Dick, she has the nerve to mockingly say Dick likes his rapist. her jealousy always clouds her judgement.

I'm sorry But Barbara is canonically a victim blamer and a slutshamer. Don't forget how she also insults and slutshames other women like Helena when she gets jealous of the other women in Dick's life. She called dickhelena a cheap one nightstand even though Dick clearly told Helena he doesn't do casual sex and and she mocked Kory and refused to help her on a mission when her people were dying.

so yeah let's get back to her history with victim blaming Dick. She victim blamed him again after he got shot in the head and had an amnesia and when his memories was restored, she lashed out at him for forgetting about her when he had an amnesia.

And remember that time when Bludhaven was burned down and Dick lost his apartment, he came to Barbara to ask if he can stay at her place but she kicked him out of her apartment the next day. She's totally fine with him being homeless but dickbabs shippers claim babs has always been very loving and supportive towards him while calling Kory a slut.

Even in elseworld stuff she treats him like garbage. Aside from cheating on Dick with Batman and getting pregnant with Batman's baby in the BTAS universe, she's also very emotionally abusive to him in comics where dickbabs shippers brag about them having a kid in it like in whiteknight.

Barbara was always out there acting like a toxic judgemental domineering bitch in the modern canon comics, Barbara behaved like this consistently for more than 30 years but Kory is the one we should crucify over something that she did only once from 30 years ago 🙄 Did they crucify Barbara too when she was ableist to Cass and called her stupid because she can't read.

And they call Kory a sexual assaulter? Because she kissed him when they first met. Did they forgot that Kory was an alien, she was clueless about Earth laws when she first came to earth, she didn't know that you're actually not supposed to kiss someone without their consent, she had no clue that it was considered inappropriate and she kissed him not to sexually assault him but for her to learn english. Her people can learn other languages through kissing and Kory didn't learn anything about Human law until she officially joined the teen titans, so you can actually excuse her for her behavior what's not excusable is Barbara who is a human being who studied law for years, but still has the nerve to commit a sexual crime. As always, She violated Dick's personal privacy, she put a spy camera on his apartment so she can enjoy watching him naked without his consent. Look it up on google the crime is called voyeurism. Barbara would be considered a creepy criminal by human law. I'm not surprised considering I always think of her as a type of gf who has no respect for her partner's personal space especially when she's Oracle, She never respected Dick's privacy even in tom taylor's run, she keeps monitoring his every move in her computer, she always invades his personal space. Dick is trapped in this relationship. It's not a good relationship if you constantly watch your partner's every move and if you keep following your partner around like a dog wherever he goes.

Many people think Dickbabs is such a healthy couple because of Tom Taylor's run. I think for someone who is a huge dickbabs shipper like tom taylor it's expected he's gonna try to convince people to believe that to sell his favorite ship but in reality even in Tom Taylor's run Dickbabs relationship is pretty toxic and forced. It's toxic when your partner doesn't respect your privacy, when your partner constantly stalks and keeps an eye on you on every single thing that you do, when you wanna talk to other people but she's there lurking in her computer listening to your conversations with other people, when she puts a camera on your mask so she can always see what you see and hear what you hear, as if you're not a real human being who needs your own privacy, and constantly follows you around like a dog, like Barbara does to him every single issue. It really is a sign of an abusive relationship when there is no respect. How is Tom Taylor's Nightwing good when the book keeps destroying Dick's independece by having Barbara stuck to him like a leech 24/7 . The book is called Nightwing but Tom Taylor turned it into a Nightwing and Batgirl fanfiction series where 90% of the time Dick hasn't done anything on his own and where his IQ is chopped off in half to prop up Barbara as the smarter woman in their relationship. Dick can't even handle his own missions without constantly being babysat by Barbara in her computer like a sidekick who needs to be watched 24/7.

Poor Dick he became Nightwing to stop being Batman's sidekick and be independent only for Barbara to take away his independence and treat him like a sidekick again. Dickbabs has always been a toxic ship in any kind of form.

and don't forget Tom Taylor himself is a toxic misogynist slutshamer. He keeps throwing shade on Kory on twitter by liking comments that slutshame her on twitter

You know what would be the best way to fix dickbabs? is by letting them move on from each other! Let them grow tf up and move forward in life outside this relationship.

Babs is an anchor that brings him down whenever she's too involved in his life and same with Babs because do dickbabs shippers even care about Barbara. I haven't seen any barbara fan complain about barbara not doing anything on her own other than chasing dick around like a dog in his comicbook every single issue.

[grimlers]

OUTLAST OC POSTING

Aleksandr Petrov - Ex-pop OC

Backstory to how he got to Murkoff:

Born 1923 in Western Russia, Petrov was raised very isolated from society as his parents didn’t want to risk him going out and be harmed by the very judgemental society they lived in or risk damage to their reputation because of his cleft lip, this meant he stayed inside for most of his early life, listening to broadcasts as his only form of entertainment and company.

This caused Petrov to grow up with a fascination for communication systems, taking the opportunity to work as a cryptanalyst during World War Two for the Russian army, during this time he began to become more and more invested in the opportunities of sound and broadcasting, this lead to him ‘experimenting’ on captured POW’s as he had access to them, which consisted of him essentially torturing them by using old radio equipment to create extremely high pitched and loud sounds to injure and kill the POW’s.

Then after some time, it was found out what he was doing and the army wasn’t happy with him killing POW’s that could’ve had valuable information and he was planned to be punished severely for his actions but before anything could be done, Petrov was able to find out what was being planned because of his exceptional decryption skills and was able to flee the country to America.

He was able to get by in America as he had learned English to a high standard through listening to the radio and his job but he still faced hatred for being Russian. Petrov stood out and so this made it easy to track him when being scouted out by Murkoff and he was easily linked back to his crimes that he continued to commit in America since he refused to stop what he was doing, only this time to innocent civilians.

He was eventually brought to Sinyala facility to ‘work’ as an Ex-pop in trials that are set above standard and include Radio Receivers. He relies heavily on his headset to hear, almost completely deafening himself from the years of being in such a close proximity to those he tortured.

His poor hearing can give an edge to reagents in trials as he relies on radios his headset is within range of to find reagents, not his direct surroundings so this means that reagents are able to get in extremely close and trigger nearby sound traps without detection unless they are in his direct field of sight. Petrov is also very susceptible to projectile attacks as when a projectile is thrown at him, it causes a loud feedback to ring into his ears and will stun him for a few seconds as he tries to grapple it off which he is unable to do because it is attached to his head.

However the closer reagents are to him, the more damage his attack does, his attack is similar to the screamers, causing reagents to cover their ears, shake and slow them only he has the ability to do damage, not just slow them down, by playing loud, high-pitched noises that reach over 200 decibels that have been compiled and kept as a recording on his reel tape recorder he is able to cause a bleeding effect (this is caused by pulmonary embolisms that occur). So the closer a reagent is, the longer they are stunned, the longer they are stuck close to him and the longer the bleeding effect lasts !

Radios- Depending on the trials difficulty his range to the radios he can use to listen for reagents for varies, it getting larger for the more difficult a trial is. Reagents however can crouch or slowly walk past radios to avoid being detected. He uses the radios to pinpoint reagents locations although this will take him some time for him to do so and will walk relatively slowly towards last heard locations.

Radio Receivers- Unlike radios, he is able to exactly pinpoint reagents locations extremely quickly when these are being tuned and he will be alerted and begin a chase from wherever he is in the map towards the room, even going past other reagents without attacking to get there as soon as possible. When radio receivers are tuned his headset will lose efficiency and range, and when all radio receivers in a trial are tuned his headset will become scrambled and he will leave the trial.

He will usually taunt reagents through the radios, saying things like he can hear them or that he’s close (when he could be lying) just to keep them on their toes, but he loses this mocking attitude when radio receivers are being/have been tuned and turns much more serious, hating them for messing with equipment ‘they don’t understand’.

Any questions about any of my OC’s I have posted so far are welcome by the way ! :)

[logansdogmotif]

🐺✩ oc content ✩🐺

:: Bianca Giordano- McCook ~ Fun Facts !!

✩ she has a really thick new jersey accent to the point of the other yellowjackets sometimes not being able to understand her

✩ her dad was a sicilian immigrant

✩ she speaks fluent italian (from her dad) and conversational spanish (she took the class in high school)

✩ she has chronic idiopathic urticaria and eczema which flare up badly during the summer (especially in the wildnerness)

✩ she has naturally auburn hair but she has consistently dyed it lighter since she was like 11

✩ her mother came from a family of irish immigrants

✩ she's always wanted to learn how to ride a horse but has never gotten round to it

✩ she was born in manhattan but after her mother died her dad decided he would rather raise his kids in the suburbs and bought a house in new jersey, however he quickly ran out of money and moved their family to an apartment

✩ her favourite film is jurassic park

✩ her birthday is the 31st november

✩ her brother saved up for half a year to take her to universal studios hollywood in the summer of '96 as an early birthday present so she could go on the jurassic park ride but obviously the trip was cancelled :(

✩ her favourite colour is light brown

✩ she graduated from nyu with a double major of 'english and american literature' and 'classical civilisation and hellenic studies' in 2002

✩ she got a postgrad degree in linguistics from princeton and later did her phd on 'how religion affects language, with a focus on classic literature', she now runs various classes on the same topic in her teaching position at princeton

✩ she taught high school english for two years (2008 to 2009) but quit her job after getting really pissed that only a very small number of her students would address her as 'dr' (a title she is extremely proud of) and nobody else would

✩ her brother died of lung cancer half way through her phd

✩ she did have a beloved dog called faramir (named for her favourite character from her favourite book, she's a tolkien nerd), but when she started to become involved with the lives of the other yellowjackets again she got a feeling in her gut that harm would come to him, so she rehomed him with her brother's widowed wife and her niblings (who live in maine)

✩ she has a belgian ex-fiancée called annalise who she met doing her postgrad degree, but she broke it off when she relapsed and had to go to rehab, they stay in touch but vaguely, and it’s still quite awkward

✩ she secretly really likes beach read-y books like stuff by taylor jenkins reid or jennifer mathieu, but since she teaches a classics adjacent subject she pretends her favourite book is les mis

✩ her favourite musical artists are creedence clearwater revival, johnny cash, fleetwood mac, lana del rey, and john denver

[flowerandblood]

Glass Cuts Deepest (13)

[ professor! • Aemond x student! • fem!reader]

[ warnings: sex content, smut, kissing, fluff, angst, trauma, panic attack, mention of rape, indecent student-teacher relationship ]

[ description: A female painting student is finally able to choose the specialisation she has dreamt of - stained glass. She wants to become a student of the best specialist in this field, but he, for some reason, refuses to accept female students into his workshop. She finds out that he once slapped a female student of one of the other professors. Nevertheless, she makes an attempt to find out what happened then and to convince him to teach her. Slow burn, sexual tension, dark, agressive Aemond, great childhood traumas. ]

* English is not my first language. Please, do not repost. Enjoy! *

Previous and next chapters: Masterlist

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After what had happened between them, after she had come on his hand once again that night, he had told her that he wanted to wait a few days with another intimate close-up to calm down and sort everything out in his mind.

She responded with complete understanding to his needs and concerns knowing that what had happened between them had been a turning point for him − that now he needed the space to accept the idea that she might have participated in his fulfilment, that he had experienced pleasure with her and his sexuality might have been changed forever.

Her patience, gentleness and forbearance calmed him, giving him a sense that he had space, that he didn't have to rush with anything, that they weren't chasing after anything.

This realisation meant that when she came to stay with him at night, when they were lying in his bed in the evenings, he would kiss her, hug her and stroke her, never sparing her tenderness and words filled with affection, not letting her out of his arms.

He relentlessly craved her closeness, the smell and touch of her body, so she did not feel rejected by him.

He told her that he wanted her to be the only one to touch him from now on and not to bring relief to himself, he also expressed his wish that she would not touch herself either and that she would tell him when the tension became unbearable.

He wanted to have her exclusively.

She was shocked at how possessive he was, how jealous he was when she was talking to her colleagues during the workshop, suffering silently, having to watch her laugh and talk to other men when he needed her so much.

He surprised her during a tutoring session when he and Cregan showed them the basics of face painting, leaning over a colourless glaze from under which showed a stencil drawn in pencil. They demonstrated how to spread paint and patina, how to make brush strokes.

"These have to be sure, long brushstrokes, you can't repeat them or you'll wipe off everything you've painted before." Murmured their professor, with a light movement of his hand painting the outline of the face of the figure they saw on the stencil underneath. Then each of them on the test glasses was to repeat what he had shown them independently.

Even though she had learned the basics of painting on glass earlier, it was only after watching him do it that she understood what her mistakes were.

Their professor and Cregan circled around them, giving them instructions. She was having trouble getting the patina consistency right and thus her lines were not smooth and flowing. Cregan noticed this and wanted to approach her, but her professor preceded him.

"The paint is too thick. See?" He asked her softly, leaning over her shoulder, taking a second brush in his hand, diluting the paint, making a smooth, perfect motion on the glass leaving a soft, intense line.

She nodded, glancing up at him and their gazes met − she felt her heart thump hard smelling his addictive scent so close to her.

He grunted quietly, stepping back, embarrassed, and didn't approach her again, letting Cregan be the one to give her corrections.

She could see that he was struggling with himself, that on the one hand he knew this was the right thing to do, that he had to keep his distance, but on the other hand he suffered every day having her at his fingertips, wanting to share everything he knew with her, to tell her about what he was doing, what he was working on, and having to keep quiet.

She also knew that the time was approaching when he was due to give evidence in court and they couldn't afford for it to come out now that he himself was having an affair with his female student, as he would become completely untrustworthy.

They both became utterly committed to their relationship, after a week of being with him, sleeping alone in bed appeared to be her worst nightmare, as there was no more wonderful thing for her than waking up in the morning in his arms with her lungs filled with his scent.

After the workshop, they took to cutting glass from stencils, and her professor locked himself in his private studio where he painted in seclusion and silence.

They worked in a pleasant atmosphere, exchanging a few words with each other from time to time, concentrating − she was leaning over one of the faces, trying to follow his instructions, painting it with a little better results, but she was not satisfied, so she wiped the whole thing off for the fifth time, starting from the beginning.

They all raised their gazes, surprised, when two men and a woman enter the room − in one of them she recognised their dean, his visitor dressed in a smart tailored suit, his hair pulled back, the woman behind him beautiful and elegant with long black hair tied in a bun, holding a tablet in her hand, looking like his assistant.

They looked like some kind of officials.

"Here we have the third stained glass workshop, run by Professor Targaryen, an eminent specialist in this field." The dean spoke, the man next to him looked around curiously, as if they were exhibits, the woman walked behind them, looking back as if she had forgotten something.

Cregan approached them, frowning his eyebrows, clearly not forewarned that anyone would disturb them, asking if he could help them with anything − the dean, however, dismissed him, saying that his friend and minister wanted to see what his Faculty looked like and that they had only come to have a look around.

Their professor must have heard the commotion, because he came out of his room and appeared a moment later in the entrance, concerned, and then almost collided with the woman who was about to leave and froze, pale, his eyes big, the woman stopped but skipped past him quickly, almost running out.

Something passed across his face that frightened her, some kind of pain and disbelief, fear and horror, shame, humiliation, rage, helplessness.

He stepped back after a moment and left, and she involuntarily followed him with a pounding heart, taking advantage of the fact that everyone was intrigued by the Minister. She heard his surprised, concerned voice a moment later.

"Where's Alys?"

She heard him in the men's room, vomiting, locked in one of the cubicles, coughing and breathing loudly, sounding like some terrified, wild animal.

"Professor." She mumbled terrified and heard him draw in a quick breath. He vomited again as she ran quickly to the door and knocked on it.

"Please. Please, please, open." She whined in a pathetic, squeaky voice on the verge of crying, subconsciously understanding what had happened, who he saw.

He didn't move, just continued to breathe loudly.

"Is it her? Just tell me, is it her?"

His loud, miserable, broken sobs answered her.

She stormed out of the university building, looking around the car park, spotting her from a distance standing by one of the cars, a beautiful, modern, silver Mercedes.

She was smoking a cigarette, shaken, talking to someone on the phone. She moved towards her driven by adrenaline, hearing only a few sentences when she was close to her.

"− how was I supposed to know he would be here? − fuck − he wanted to visit a fucking friend during the campaign −" She heard her nervous, shaky, low voice.

She snatched the phone from her hand and threw it to the ground driven by some sudden, aggressive emotion and rage, trembling all over.

"− what is the meaning of this?! − I'm going to call the police right now! −" She growled furiously, and she thought with disgust that she could have been his mother.

She no longer seemed so beautiful to her.

"− go on − maybe you could tell them a bit about how you like to rape underage boys −" She said in a trembling voice, realising she had a bookbinding knife in her trouser pocket. She pressed her lips together, pulling it out and sliding the blade out, seeing the horror in her eyes.

Good, she thought.

Be afraid.

Be afraid, just like he was then.

"− you're fucking mental − help! −" She yelled, but fell silent immediately as she approached her, with a trembling hand pulling the blade closer to her stomach − there were cars covering them on either side, so nothing could be seen from a distance.

"− nobody helped him then, right? −" She asked in a breaking voice, and she snorted, as if she hadn't heard a sillier thing.

"− I have no idea what you're talking about, do you understand? − you've mistaken me for someone else −" She continued to deny, but her face, her trembling voice showed that she knew exactly what she meant.

For some reason she felt like crying, seeing her, smelling her scent, wondering if he had smelled it too when she had done this to him.

"− you know exactly what I'm talking about −" She said dryly, thinking to herself that it didn't make sense, that she would never admit to anything.

That this isn't a movie where the villain reveals his evil plan.

She shook her head in disbelief, looking at her with tears in her eyes. She lowered her blade and shrugged her shoulders.

"− you destroyed his life −" She said with painful regret, putting the knife in her pocket, walking back into the university building, hearing the woman behind her fall to the ground, panting heavily, grabbing quickly for her phone.

She thought she would feel heroic, that she would feel satisfaction, but nothing of the sort happened.

She felt like throwing up herself.

She stopped as the figure of her professor rose up in front of her as if from under the ground, his hand gripping her arm tightly.

"What have you done?" He asked coldly, dryly, low, in his eyes a fury she had never seen before. She just shook her head, not knowing what to answer, and he pressed his lips together.

"Who the fuck let you interfere? Hm?" He growled, the students around them stopped, horrified, looking at them in disbelief − she felt tears under her eyelids, her whole body was trembling.

"Don't touch me." She mumbled, pushing him away from her, running to the toilet, locking herself in and bursting into loud sobs.

What was she thinking?

That she would be a heroine like in the movies, save him, make the villain get caught and answer for his actions?

What she had done could only cause more trouble, she knew now that they were close and she could use that against him.

Follow them, find out that she was having a sleepover with him, that he was having an affair with his student and destroy him out of fear.

She thought she had to stay away from him now, that she couldn't be with him.

She wanted to be his medicine, the person who would save him, because it's such a great feeling when someone is grateful to you and loves you so much, when you feel so special.

She felt ashamed at the thought of how selfish she had been.

She sat down on the cold tiles in one of the cubicles and cried in silence, feeling that no matter how much she wanted to make it work everything was falling apart in her hands.

She heard the sound of a door opening and loud footsteps, followed by a quiet knock on her cabin. She shuddered, breathing loudly, terrified to see his boots from below. She saw that he had knelt down.

"I'm sorry. Okay? I'm sorry." He muttered, and she felt her heart squeeze at his breaking tone of voice, tears streaming down her face.

"− the sight of her − I − and you talking to her − I was furious − I need you − please −" He mumbled in an increasingly shaky, high-pitched tone of voice, she pressed her lips together feeling the pain spilling over her body − his hand slipped under the door and she squeezed it quickly, bursting into a loud sob.

"− I'm sorry − I wanted to protect you − not to be that person who doesn't react − but I guess I just ruined everything − I shouldn't have done that, I'm so sorry −" She sobbed in shame and they both cried like that, sitting on either side of the door, breathing unevenly, squeezing each other's hands tightly.

They heard someone come inside so she quickly opened the cabin for him to hide in, closing the door behind them.

They waited looking at each other with faces puffed up from tears until the girl who had come in washed her hands. When they heard her leave, she felt his hands turn her against the wall with her back to him, sliding to the fastening of her trousers, undoing her button and zipper.

"Slide them down along with your panties." He instructed in a quiet, hoarse voice. She obeyed his command without question, her trembling hands lowering the material of her underwear, feeling her insides pulsate at the sound of him unfastening his belt.

He was desperate, she could feel it.

He didn't think straight, he acted instinctively.

Maybe it would be better this way, she thought.

"Lean forward." He said dryly, and she did so without a word, hugging her hot cheek to the cold tiles, wondering with a hard beating heart if he really intended to do this.

"− I need it − okay? − fuckin' need it −" He mumbled out, as if trying to explain to her why this sudden rush, this desperation, his hand on her bare hip.

She parted her lips wide, drawing in air loudly as she felt the the fat head of his cock open her wide, pushing her folds apart delightfully, her fleshy, slick walls resisting him.

"− oh fuck −" He groaned, clamping his hands on her hips, making her spread her thighs wider in front of him, forcing his swollen cock deeper inside her.

She mewled loudly and he hushed her, his manhood throbbing hard, like her he hadn't experienced fulfillment in days, relentlessly aroused by her presence.

"− quiet − want to get caught? − hm? −" He asked low, sliding completely into her with a sigh of relief, as if that was exactly what he needed right now.

The feeling that she and what had happened to him didn't matter, that he could take what he wanted, that she no longer had power over him.

She had a feeling that it wasn't a sexual act for him, that he was looking deep inside her for concealment, fulfilment and solace, that he was driven by pure instinct, the natural reflexes that his own body told him when he looked at her.

They both began to pant loudly as his hips with intense, rapid thrusts began to explore her core, with each movement stretching her hot, wet muscles apart, his thighs slapping against her buttocks with a loud clicks of her moisture, the tip of his cock rubbing her where she needed it.

"− oh, yes −" She gasped in relief, having waited for this for so long, feeling him throb hard inside her at her words, speeding up, fucking her with aggressive, sure, quick thrusts, panting along with her.

"− do you like it? − like it when your Professor fucks you good? −" He hissed, clenching his fingers on the soft skin of her hips, stretching her interior to the limit, his thrusts rough and deep − she was unable to think of anything else but how wonderfully filled she felt, how his every move teased her and made her spasm.

"− yes −" She mumbled, struggling to keep her balance in that position, resting her cheek and warm palms on the cold tiles in front of her. She mewled quietly when she felt his fingers on her puffy, sore clit, teasing it with sure, circular strokes accompanied by lewd clicks of her moisture.

"− yes, what? −" He growled, something of a threat in his voice that sent shivers down the back of her neck − she felt the heat in her lower abdomen, her walls involuntarily clenching against him greedily, sucking him inside, the pace of his thrusts so fast that she found it difficult to get anything more out of herself than panting.

"− y-yes, Professor −" She gasped, and he groaned low at the word − she felt him pulsing hard inside her, his fingers teased her bud with sure, soft flicks, rubbing her wonderful spot from the inside with each of his pushes, making her less and less in touch with reality, thinking only of the fact that she could feel the heat rising in her lower abdomen as her fulfilment approached.

"− that's what Adam did to Eve − his sin − then, under the Tree of Knowledge − he fucked her −" He exhaled into her ear, leaning over her, his words sent a shiver of pleasure and heat through her, his fingers clenching tighter on the skin of her thigh, forcing her to let him inside her as deeply as possible, not letting her escape.

She stifled the moan that forced itself down her throat listening between the loud slaps of flesh against flesh to hear if anyone had entered inside, sensing that she was about to come, unable to get anything more out of herself than moans and whimpers.

"− made to warm my cock −" He cooed admiringly, clearly taking pleasure in how hot and tight her core was − she felt his words deep between her thighs, clenching tightly against him.

"− fuck − m' gonna cum − where I −" He mumbled, pulsing harder and harder inside her, thrusts of his hips quick, messy and sloppy.

"− inside me − m' takin pills − please −" She mumbled helplessly, thanking God she hadn't stopped taking them after breaking up with her ex-boyfriend, just dreaming of him coming inside her, filling her with himself.

She heard his moan of pleasure, his hand clenching on the skin of her hip, hot and sweaty, his other hand teasing her between her thighs, his cock throbbing intensely as his hot semen spilled deep inside her.

"− God, yes − baby − oh, fuck −" He babbled, tilting his head back, moving inside her for a while longer, unable to stop.

She heard his loud groan as she came at last, a wave of tickling pleasure shook her body, leaving her unsure for a moment where she was or what was happening to her, panting loudly with him.

They both just breathed heavily for a moment, unable to calm down, their bodies hot and sticky, throbbing with bliss.

"− are you okay? −" She heard his quiet, trembling voice, as if he only now realised what they had done, shocked. She nodded quickly, swallowing hard, breathing heavily.

"− yes − and you? −" She asked, terrified of whether he would regret it. She felt him lean in, his forehead pressed against the top of her head.

"− I − fuck − it feels so good to be inside you − doesn't want to take it out −" He muttered, and she hummed under her breath, stroking his hand clenched on her hip.

"We can stay like this for a while longer if you want." She whispered, and he just leaned in and kissed her neck, trying to calm his breathing.

They continued like that in silence for a while, hearing someone come in and out of the toilet again, his arms embracing her from behind, his lips rising to her ear as they were alone again.

"I love you." He whispered embarrassedly and she swallowed loudly, feeling the heat in her lower abdomen, her heart pounding like crazy.

I love you.

She wanted to cry.

She wanted to cry because it occurred to her that she reciprocated his feelings.

"Will you come with me to the rector?"

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[pucksandpower]

Can I ask you how you study daily as a med student? I'm a medical student too, but sometimes I fall behind my studies. You see, after a class and lab exams (I don't know what it's called in English, sorry) sometimes studying can be really exhausting.

On the other hand, it'll pile up at the end of the semester (the materials that I have to study) so I have no choice but to pull all nighter for like 2-3 days straight. It's really exhausting sometimes and it's been taking tools on me. I'll be really grateful if you can give me some tips🩷🌷

You’re definitely not alone in feeling this way—medical school is intense, and keeping up with studying can be exhausting. First off, please don’t rely on all-nighters — they wreck your memory, focus, and overall health. It’s way more effective to study consistently in smaller chunks than to cram everything at the last minute.

Here’s what works for me:

Instead of just reading notes or textbooks, use active recall and spaced repetition (Anki, question banks, and self-quizzing). This makes studying more efficient, so you retain more in less time.

I try to review something every day, even on busy days. Even if I can only do 30–60 minutes, it keeps me from falling behind. If I skip too many days, catching up becomes overwhelming.

If lectures are useful, I stay engaged and take solid notes so I don’t have to re-learn everything later. If they’re not, I use that time to go through high-yield resources instead.

Before exams, I make a realistic study plan (dividing topics over a few weeks) so I don’t end up cramming last minute. Reviewing little by little is way less stressful.

If you’re exhausted, studying becomes inefficient. I would rather get a good night’s sleep and study well the next day than stay up all night and burn out. Prioritize sleep, short breaks, and exercise — it actually helps you retain information better.

I know it’s tough, but small, consistent efforts make a huge difference over time. You got this!