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x : NOT JEALOUS ! :*+ﾟ

in which: alhaitham isn't jealous, he doesn't get jealous, so what is this suffocating feeling in his chest that only happens when you're talking to another man that isn't him?

warnings: 5.4k words, jealous!alhaitham x gn!reader who has loads of rizz, university!au, fluff with angst but happy ending, pining!alhaitham who doesn't realise that he loves you, kaveh is there, mention of cyno, ooc at some bits?, swearing, alhaitham is a little bit of an asshole at some parts sawry. he's bad with feelings.

a/n: inspired by @danijaci's jealous jealous boy comic with alhaitham! hi dani if you're reading this pls don't perceive me... hides... but i hope you all like it :,)

Alhaitham isn’t jealous. 

The uncomfortable feeling obstructing itself in his throat is just because he’s beginning to develop a sore throat- that’s all. It is flu season after all, who knows what kind of bacteria are in the air? Ones capable of lathing an uncomfortable oil that burns inside his chest, the smog crowding its way into his heart, sickening him to his core as Alhaitham can’t help but eavesdrop on the conversation happening beside him.

“I’m free friday,” a voice besides you confirms.

“Okay!” you cheer, sounding a little too happy for Alhaitham’s liking. After all, it’s 9 am, who has this much energy in the morning? “lets do Friday then!”

“Sounds good, I’ll see you then. Bye Y/n.”

“Bye, see you!” Alhaitham watches from the corner of his eye as you wave to the random stranger you’ve decided to associate yourself with before finally taking the seat beside him with a sigh. 

He doesn’t say anything to you, feeling your eyes glance at him expectantly as he stares stubbornly at the lecture board instead of acknowledging you or the jumble of feelings clogging up his diaphragm. 

“Hello, you,” You lean over slightly, careful to not invade his personal space whilst waving at him, hoping to catch his attention. He glances at you, nodding in greeting before returning to his book, the pages and rows of words only fuelling his unease he suddenly felt. He doesn’t even know where he left off, the book’s events a blur in Alhaitham’s mind.

How bothersome. What’s happening to him?

“Talkative today, aren’t you?” Your tone is playful despite his cold attitude and Alhaitham sneaks another look in your direction, noting the way your lips curve upwards. “So, how are you?” 

“I’m fine,” he murmurs, inserting a bookmark between the pages before slamming it shut, an indicator that you could keep conversing with him.

“Cool.” You tap your nails on the desks of the lecture hall. “Oh, I finished my essay the other day.”

“The one for your elective?”

You hum in agreement, “I hope I never get it back. Submitted it ten minutes before the due date.”

“You know you wouldn’t have been stressed over it if you just started it earlier-”

“I know, I know,” you huff, “spare your productivity lectures for another time, I’ll be needing them later in the semester.” The grey-haired shakes his head as you laugh, but his gaze returns to the front cover of his book as he solemnly thinks about the interaction you had with another man, right in front of him. 

(What right did he have to see you smiling so earnestly like that?)

“Who was that?” Alhaitham coughs out, barely choking down his pride in time to make space for the question.

You murmur some guy’s name that he doesn’t bother to remember. “He’s a friend of mine in the same discussion group for this course and we decided to do the assignment together. He bumped into me on the way in so we were just planning when to meet to do the research.”

“Oh.” Your answer doesn’t calm the churning in Alhaitham’s gut. Not even one bit, in fact, it makes it worse. 

But it’s not jealousy, Alhaitham doesn’t get jealous because he’s above petty feelings of inadequacy. He’s merely concerned for you, worried for your brainpower by the end of the project because your partner seems less-than-incompetent. If you’d picked someone like Alhaitham (or better yet, just picked Alhaitham), you would’ve aced the class without even blinking an eye. 

(The two of you are friends, so why didn’t you pick him? It’s literally been proven that the two of you are compatible working together since you were both executives of Sumeru’s Cultural Society, and amidst all of the activities the club has run, you’ve collaborated many times to make each event run flawlessly. So why not him? Why would you pick another man over him?)

“You know you could have picked me, I wouldn’t mind working on the assignment with you,” he grumbles, words soft but very clear.

Alhaitham misses the way your eyes widen in shock as apologies scramble out of your mouth. “I’m sorry! I automatically assumed that you wanted to work on it by yourself. Next time I’ll ask you.” 

The lecture begins before he could say anything in return and like a robot, he sets his thoughts aside and begins listening, notes document up and cursor blinking at the ready.

A mundane two hours pass by, one powerpoint slide after powerpoint slide before the lecture is finally over, much to your pleasure. Alhaitham notices the way you eagerly jump out of your seat to stretch, grabbing your bag. On the other hand, your grey-haired accomplice takes his time in packing up, forcing you to wait for him.

“Would you like to get some coffee before the meeting?” You ask.

“Sure, we can find a seat there and join it together,” he adds and you beam at him, expression bright and so enchanting that it makes him forget about all the perplexities he felt before the lecture. 

The two of you make your way to one of the many campus cafés where you practically wrestled Alhaitham to stop him from paying for both your orders (losing in the end) before sitting at a booth, your laptop set up with a pair of Alhaitham’s earphones shared between you. The meeting begins to fill up with almost all committee members, even Kaveh, who resides in his room of his and Alhaitham’s shared flat. Upon noticing him, you go to text him, with the grey-haired peeking over your shoulder from time to time to see your conversation- not that he cares that much.

(Perhaps if Kaveh glanced up from his phone, then he’d see how close Alhaitham had gotten with you, breaching the distance that he prefers to keep around others. He’d also notice the headphone sharing despite how he generally tends to keep them out of anyone else’s hands.)

You’re tasked with the role of taking notes for the meeting since Alhaitham, in your opinion, is not at all a reliable scribe. His notes tend to just include vital information and never what everyone else needs to know, yet each time you scold him for it, his unbothered expression never falters, waving your complaints off with a shrug. 

“Hey, Kaveh and I are going to go for lunch tomorrow after our classes. Care to join?” You ask, smiling at him hopefully as your messages with Kaveh sit open on your screen. Alhaitham doesn’t think twice before agreeing. 

── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ──

“It looks like it’s about to rain,” you murmur, pulling out a chair as Alhaitham and Kaveh take their seats opposite you. 

“So it does,” Alhaitham notes, not caring to look too long out the window before returning his gaze to you. “You have an umbrella, right?”

“I, uh, didn’t think I needed one today.”

“Do you not check the weather before you leave?”

“Not everyone’s like you, Alhaitham.” Kaveh teases. “It’s no problem, Y/n, if it rains I can walk you back to your dorm.”

“Only if you are okay with it,” you insist, “I have no problem walking home in the rain. I love the rain.”

Alhaitham intervenes with a raise of his hand. “Nonsense, you’ll catch a cold. We’ll walk you home.”

A soft but genuine ‘thank you’ slips from your lips, neither of you wiser to the way Kaveh eyes his roommate suspiciously, not missing the use of ‘we’ in his sentence and the implications the collective pronoun has. For it meant that Alhaitham is willing to take precious time out of his day to perform an act for someone that he is not indebted to do. Not that Alhaitham is inherently selfish, per se, but he is a man of routine. He wakes up every morning and takes five minutes to scribble on his stupid whiteboard in the kitchen what he has to do for the day and strictly abides by it, not even straying two minutes off schedule.

Willingly volunteering his minutes? Kaveh finds that suspicious. 

“So, how’s your architecture assignment, Kaveh?” You ask, breaking the blond from his daze whilst Alhaitham pours glasses of water for the table, starting with your cup. 

“A nightmare,” he sighs, sinking into his chair. “I still have so much to do, you know my professor didn’t like my blueprint? How ridiculous! I hope that man steps in a puddle and wets his sock.”

The grey-haired pipes up with a remark. “I can’t wait for it to be done, our living room is a mess right now.” 

“Hey, I am the one that cleans that living room, thank you very much. Your bookshelf is still a mess even though I’ve asked you to clean it five times.”

“If it bothers you so much then why don’t you do it yourself?”

“I’m the only one who-”

“-I’m going to go to the bathroom,” you murmur, cutting the conversation before shuffling out of your chair, seemingly eager to do so.

Kaveh turns to the grey-haired again, “and you just scared away Y/n.”

“Sorry no one wants to hear about your architecture project.”

“Y/n literally asked, asshole.”

A rebuttal sits on the tip of Alhaitham’s tongue- as it always does when it comes to bickering with his roommate, but it dies out when an intruder comes to the table. “Excuse me, I hate to interrupt,” he begins, “but the person who just got up, is that your friend?”

“Yeah, why do you ask?”

“Oh, I just wanted to drop this off, mind passing it over for me?” The piece of paper he was holding lands in Kaveh’s hand. “Thanks, bro.” Is all he says before strolling away, out of sight but definitely not out of mind.

The blond does not hesitate to open it up, chuckling in amusement when reading the content. “’Hey you’re cute, here’s my number’ it says. What a bitch! You didn’t like his vibes either, right, Alhaitham?”

“Hold on, what does the note say?”

Grabbing (snatching) it from Kaveh, the grey-haired has half a mind to rip the note apart, a certain sense of distaste washing over him that intensifies the long he stares at the guy’s handwriting. His eye is twitching. Why is his eye twitching?

“Hey!” He hears Kaveh call. “Don’t scrunch it, that’s Y/n’s-“

Alhaitham stuffs the ball of paper into his bag where he’ll recycle it later even though something irrational within him tells him to burn it. “Y/n won’t miss it. You said it yourself, he’s a bitch.”

“Sure, but why are you doing-“

“Hey!” You interrupt, sliding back into your chair with a grin on your face. “So, what did I miss?”

“Nothing,” the grey-haired murmurs, assuming his crossed-arm position. Kaveh side eyes his roommate before agreeing with a hum. “Let’s order something now. We want to beat the rain, right?”

── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ──

This meeting for the Sumeru Society might have been one of the most important ones of the year thus far, with almost every committee member expected to attend. After all, the annual ball was a big event that always had the largest turnout, and the amount of planning that goes into it to ensure its success is almost triple that of its other events.

So why weren’t you here?

“Why did you leave the meeting early on Friday?” Alhaitham asks as soon as he sees you.

You pause briefly, eyes widening and eyebrows raising. It must have been the way that Alhaitham’s voice raised a pitch towards the end of the question, demonstrating a nervous break in character that was not at all typical. Cool and collected would be the defining words to describe Alhaitham, as well as someone who does not care for the menial activities of others, so what is he doing asking you? And why does he care so much?

“I, uh, had dinner with someone,” you confess, continuing to grab your books and laptop, missing the way his features contort into something un-cool, and very un-Alhaitham.

“Whom?”

You murmur the name of some other guy, who he vaguely recalls to be your project partner.

“What?” Alhaitham snaps.

“I didn’t think missing out on some of the meeting would be a big deal! I got another committee member to explain what I missed,” you justified. “Besides, there’s no big events going on right now, so I thought-”

“-That you could abandon your tasks and go have fun with someone else?”

Alhaitham’s not really sure why he said that. He’s not angry that you skipped a meeting; there are larger things in the world to worry about, he’s angry because you spent time with another guy that wasn’t him.Why not go to dinner with him instead? He spends it every night with Kaveh, and you are far more favourable than Kaveh.  

“Is it really something to get mad over? I already told you, I got the meeting notes and everything-”

“-You’re an executive of the society, Y/n, more is expected from you.”

“Seriously?” you ask, “how come you didn’t bat an eye when the vice president wasn’t there the other day?”

“Because she was sick.” 

“Okay, fine! what about the subcommittee? they’re not always there either!” 

“They’re subcom. Whether they miss a meeting or not is not crucial.”

“So, it���s just my business that you care about?” You ask, eyebrows furrowed, disbelief clouding over your expression like a mask.

Again, Alhaitham doesn’t know where these punches are coming from and why he’s throwing them against you so viciously, but his heart is tightening defensively with a burning emotion that he’s been feeling more and more recently, and his first instinct is to lash out, to protect himself from it.

Perhaps it’s because foreign things that he can’t understand terrify him and you, all you ever do is make him feel things that he’s never felt before and he can’t understand why. 

“You’re not that special.”

A flash of hurt gleams in your eyes and Alhaitham knows now that he’s royally fucked up. “You’re an ass,” you grumble, about to walk away when he intercepts.

“Listen to me!”

“Fuck off!” 

“Y/n-”

You’re gone before he can get another word out, retreating figure stomping away whilst his chest weaves into knots; something that no amount of deep breathing can calm. It doesn’t help that the minute he returns home, Kaveh is onto him like some sort of parasite, curious over the tense air surrounding his normally-composed roommate. 

“Hey, welcome home- whoa, what’s gotten into you?” The blond asks.

“None of your business,” Alhaitham grumbles through gritted teeth, taking his shoes off and throwing them aside haphazardly. Kaveh doesn’t miss the way Alhaitham’s jaw is clenched, or the strain in his hand when he brings up a hand to run through his hair, or the very subtle and minute twitch in his cheek.

The blond ignores all signs that he wants to be left alone, and instead, follows the grey-haired to his room after he swung the door open. 

“Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on, let’s talk about this-”

“Talk about what?” Alhaitham growls.

“Who pissed in your black coffee today?” 

“No one. Now get lost.” 

“Aw, come on, you know what they say. Getting things off your chest is always beneficial.”

“There’s nothing on my chest, go away.”

“You sure? no stress, no deadlines, no love interest making you tear your hair out-”

“-No, no, none of those!”

“Then what?”

Alhaitham steadies himself by resting his elbows on his thighs, hands clasped together as he exhales loudly. “I got pissed and took it out on Y/n, who’s mad at me now.”

“Huh? Why so annoyed?”

“Because Y/n went to dinner with another man.”

It’s silent for a while. The sassy quip that he expects from Kaveh does not happen. Instead, the blond merely smiles, a satisfied, knowing grin that slightly irks him. “You know, I’ve been waiting for the day you realise you have feelings for Y/n.” 

“What? Where did you get that conclusion from?” Alhaitham sits up straighter. There are a lot of things he knows, and he knows for sure that he does not like you in any way beyond platonic. He doesn’t have any time to spare for love. There are scholarships he still needs to apply for, internships to be interviewed for, research projects to submit- nowhere amongst the minute hand of the clock is there space for love. 

“Oh come on,” Kaveh sits down on the bed beside his roommate, leaning back on his hands. “You’re not as smooth as you hope to be sometimes.”

“I’m serious, I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Y’know the sooner you accept you have feelings for Y/n, the easier life will be.”

“Life is already easy and there is no sooner because I don’t like Y/n like that. Now get lost. I have stuff I need to finish.”

Kaveh shrugs, standing up with a soft ‘suit yourself’, taking seven steps before he’s out of the room. Alhaitham lets out a sigh that has lodged itself in his throat for too long, and the feeling of reprieve he gets is short-lived before he’s flooded with a certain tightness again. Maybe he did have a weight on his chest after all, not that he’d ever admit it to himself or Kaveh.

He gets up from his made bed with a grunt and decides to push aside all distractions. Time is unforgiving, and if doesn’t finish his assignment by this Friday then he’ll be a little less than pleased.

── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ──

Alhaitham feels like he can’t breathe. 

You’re sitting alone at a library desk, all focused and concentrated on your laptop screen with your headphones on, blocking out any outside voice as you type away. He wonders if he should say hi, maybe try apologising for the way he acted last Monday- who is this guy that’s approaching you and why does he look so familiar? 

And why are you smiling so happily?

You beckon to the seat beside you and the guy readily complies, taking the chair beside you like he belonged there, like there weren’t other candidates that should be there instead (he’s not talking about himself. definitely not).

He hands you one of two coffee cups he’s holding. What kind of right does this guy have to give you a coffee? Does he even know your order?

He feels like a bit of creep keenly watching you interact with someone else from a balcony of the library, but the book and laptop in front of him lies forgotten, and in a rare moment of weakness, Alhaitham can’t find it in himself to return to his tasks, pursuit of knowledge momentarily forgotten. He can’t push aside the bile that threatens to rise, he can’t loosen his grip on the couch’s armrest, and he can’t blink for a second in fear of losing you from his sight.

(You’re laughing. Why are you laughing? How can you look so pretty laughing and why doesn’t he ever get to make you laugh like this?)

Alhaitham is losing his damn mind. So much so that the first thing he does when he sees you again is corner you. 

“You shouldn’t talk to that guy anymore.”

You’re backed against the brick walls of the time-worn building that your shared lecture always takes place in, and Alhaitham, spotting you like a hawk, put you in this precarious position as soon as the two hours were over. 

He can’t breathe. It’s been almost three weeks since you last spoke to him and you’re staring up at him like you’ve done nothing wrong, blinking once and twice at his uncharacteristic display of subtle aggression. 

“Who?” you mutter, shaking your head to try and grasp reality once again. you hug your laptop closer to your body. “What’s this about?”

“I said you shouldn’t talk to that guy anymore.” 

“What guy?” 

“Your project partner.”

“Really?” you mutter in disbelief.

He nods, teal eyes shining at you firmly. “Really. The project’s over, you don’t need to talk to him anymore.” 

“I don’t recall ever giving you the right to dictate who gets to be in my life or not, just like how you can’t tell me what to do with my time.” 

“I’m looking out for you, so stop trying to make me sound tyrannical.” 

Your mouth hangs open as you furrow your eyebrows, growing more and more frustrated with each second. So much for thinking that he wanted to resolve the awkwardness between the two of you. “I’m not even going to argue with you,” you murmur a quick ‘jerk’ under your breath before brushing past him. 

Alhaitham, however, is not willing to let you go as easily as you wish, quick to chase after you. Not that you go far anyways, turning around to face him again in the spaciousness of the vacant hallway. “Why do you care?” You ask, exasperated. “You’re Alhaitham, you don’t let trivial things like who I hangout with bother you, you’re cool and collected and rational, and I just don’t understand why you’re acting like this.”

He doesn’t understand either, not the erratic beating of his heart, the stubbornness of his mind, nor this undisputable urge to keep you all to himself. Is it normal to want to hide someone for selfish reasons?

Trailing off, Alhaitham is slightly humiliated that for the first time in his life, someone has witnessed him coming short of an answer. No logical conclusion, no explanation, not even a satisfying quip, just plain, suffocating silence.

“Right. When you do have an answer, let me know.” You walk away.

── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ──

Your last rebuttal still weighs heavily on Alhaitham’s mind, even two days later as he and Kaveh are seated for a lecture in a shared course. His thoughts are scrambled like never before, the messiness of it all making him feel uneasy because for once, he doesn’t have an appropriate answer to a question.

Why was he acting like a temperamental teenager? What you did with your life was up to you, and indeed he has no right trying to change that. More importantly, why was it so hard to apologise for the stuff he said-

“So, how’s everything between you and Y/n?” 

Kaveh turns to him with widened eyes whilst Alhaitham’s poker face doesn’t move an inch, deceivingly apathetic.

“Good, we’ve been hanging out a lot more recently,” the other guy says, who Alhaitham quickly recognises to be your project partner and distaste rises in his stomach like bile. 

“Aye, good for you, man! So when are you going to ask Y/n out?”

“No way, bro, not yet. I’m such a wimp, but I hope I grow the balls to ask soon because I really like-”

“-looks like you got some competition!” The blond nudges Alhaitham, and if it were anyone else, they would not have glanced twice at the grey-haired who seemed unmoving and uninterested. However, Kaveh is not anyone else because he noticed the darkened look in Alhaitham’s eyes instantly, anger seeping into his composed gaze as his nose scrunches in disgust. 

── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ──

“So, you and Alhaitham still aren’t talking?” Kaveh asks, leaning on the table of the restaurant with curious ears, hoping that he can grab some answers out of you as to why there was a stalemate between you and his roommate.

“Nope,” you sigh. 

“Why not?”

“I’m just-” you pinch the bridge of your nose, “I’m just waiting on an apology from him.”

“An apology? Why? What did he say?”

“He didn’t tell you?”

“You know how he is. Always insufferably secretive, so no, I don’t know anything that happened.” 

“Alhaitham just said some hurtful things to me, and he was being weird when I told him I was going to dinner with a friend of mine. Just kept being in my business.”

“Really?” The architecture student quirks a brow, confusion plastered on his face. “That’s not like Alhaitham at all.”

“I know, right? He kept trying to be like ‘don’t hang out with him’ and ridiculed me for not playing my part as an executive of the Sumeru society,” you complained, “like sorry I have other things I want to do.”

Kaveh nods in understanding as the conversation briefly stops when the waiter comes to drop off utensils at your table. As soon as they were gone, however, you begin again.

“And even though he was all up in my business, trying to tell me what not to do, he then said that I wasn’t special, which is so confusing because like-”

“-hold on. Alhaitham said that you weren’t special?” You nod at his parroted claim. “To him?” 

“Yeah. Stung like shit when he said that, especially since I thought we were friends but guess not,” you murmur sadly, fiddling with the fork.

Later that night, almost immediately after meeting you over dinner, Kaveh barges into his roommate’s room, not even changing out of his outside clothes. The sudden intrusion shocks Alhaitham who was busy typing on a document, textbook splayed open beneath him but momentarily forgotten as the blond takes a seat on the bed.

“What the- not even a hello?” The grey-haired asks, confused by this uncharacteristic silence of Kaveh’s. It’s pretty normal for the blond to barge into his room without notice, but it was not normal for him to be so quiet, practically brooding on the mattress. “Whatever. Where have you been? Have you eaten yet, because I made-”

“When will you just confess to Y/n?”

The mention of your name causes a spike in Alhaitham’s heartbeat and he swivels around instantly, attention fully directed towards his roommate. “Where is this coming from?”

“Y/n told me everything that happened between you two by the way-”

“-what, when?”

“Tonight, we just met for dinner.”

“And you didn’t tell me?”

“What would you have done if you knew? Showed up and made things worse?” He doesn’t say anything in retaliation, merely shutting his mouth and furrowing his eyebrows. “Why did you say that Y/n wasn’t special to you?” 

“I didn’t,” Alhaitham sighs, very loud and very perplexed. “I didn’t mean for it to come out the way it did.”

“Don’t you miss Y/n? You two used to hangout so often.”

“I do, of course I do!” He exclaims, burrowing his face in his hands. 

“So why aren’t you apologising?” 

“Because whenever I’m around Y/n, I’m not who I normally am,” he mutters, “especially everything whenever that project partner is around-”

“Jealous, much?”

“I’m not jealous.”

“Oh come on, you’re ridiculous. Stop pushing away your feelings and just be honest with yourself, Alhaitham! Y/n is not just a friend to you and you know it.”

“But, we are just friends-”

“So you mean to tell me that if I hung out with someone else- like if I hung out with Cyno, you would be pissed?”

“What? No, of course not.”

“Then why is it different with Y/n?” Once again, Alhaitham doesn’t have an answer to the question, sitting as still as a statue hunched over his desk. “Fine, I’ll spell it out to you. You like Y/n, more than just a friend!”

The silence leftover from Kaveh’s outburst is tense and full as the grey-haired lets the words sink in. 

“I’ll let you think about it,” the blond murmurs, voice softening dramatically as he stalks out of the room. Before he closes the door, however, he leaves a few final words. “Just- be honest with yourself, Alhaitham, and I wouldn’t delay trying to talk to Y/n.”

A sharp click rings through the room.

Alhaitham is no stranger to being alone, for who needs the company of others when you are happiest by yourself? Yet, in the weeks that you have not been speaking to him, a cardinal urge as been growing each and each day, wanting him to do something so atypical of him: to reach out and make the first move. Every passing day doesn’t lessen the thoughts that plague his mind, rather, they make him more and more impatient, because what if you get swept away by your project partner? 

(What if he’ll be too late? What if you won’t know of these powerful emotions that are steering through the storm in his heart? What if you won’t know just how badly he was been wanting you- wanting to see you, wanting to apologise, wanting to see you beam at him like you always would.

What if you won’t know that he adores you, especially now that he’s figured it out?).

── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ──

A rain droplet falls and lands on your nose, another lands on your forehead, then another lands on your lip then more and more keep falling from the cloudy sky, falling through the leaves and landing on the bench you were currently sitting on. Goodness, you should have checked the weather before leaving your dorm. Why was it now out of all times that it had to rain, what would Alhaitham think after he finally decided to reach out to talk?

Taking your phone out to message the grey-haired about relocating, an umbrella is suddenly held over you, stopping the gentle drizzle from falling onto you. Looking up, you’re greeted by a familiar face that you have been missing too much recently.

“Hello, you,” you breathe, voice gentle and quiet and Alhaitham feels like he can finally breathe after so long, the scent of rain washing away all perplexion.

He nods at you in greeting before offering you the bouquet of flowers he was holding. A gorgeous arrangement of pink of white stare prettily at you and a man even more gorgeous expects you to accept it.

“For me?” You ask.

“For you.”

“Thank you, they’re so beautiful,” you take his gift with gentle hands, holding it close to your chest. 

“I want to apologise,” he firmly states, getting straight to the point; very Alhaitham of him. “For treating you the way I have been recently.”

You beam at him, so bright and so gorgeous that it renders him speechless, a feat pretty difficult when it comes to someone like Alhaitham who has a whole dictionary of words, in multiple languages too. Somehow, they all flock out of his mind the second you smile at him.  

“I accept your apology, thank you for reaching out, must have been hard for someone like you, huh?” You tease, standing up from the bench.

“Well, I had do for someone as special as you.” The grey-haired’s voice is deceivingly confident and assured, but you know better, especially when he looks away to hide his expression with his neatly styled bangs. 

“No need for the flattery, you know, I’ve already forgiven you.” There’s a moment of silence that occupies the air, caused by Alhaitham’s hesitation as he fishes his brain for the courage to ask you out. You speak before he can get a word out, however. “I got asked out the other day.”

“By your groupmate?”

“He has a name, you know, but, yeah. I rejected him, though,” you laugh awkwardly, almost like you were trying to cope with it by playing it off. “Did you know that he would do that?” 

“Yes. I did.”

“Is that why you were so adamant on me not hanging out with him?”

“I guess you could say that. We can talk more about it another time,” he tells you, voice gentle and caring to mask the subtle hit of jealousy he feels in his chest, scolding himself for letting someone else confess to you before him. However, it’s a minute sensation in comparison to the triumph Alhaitham feels knowing that you rejected the other party. 

“We have a lot to talk about, don’t we?”

“We do, but I want to ask you something first.” 

You nod, hugging the bouquet closer to your chest, anticipation heavy in the air as you spur him to continue. 

“If I asked you out, would you reject me too?”

A mere second passes by where you don’t respond, yet the second stretches out to what feels like eternity as Alhaitham’s stomach churns. Patience is something he doesn’t lack, but how can he be patient when his heart wants you so bad? 

Then, you take his hand, and the heavens sing at the feeling of your hand in his. “I wouldn’t, but are you asking me out?”

“Are you free right now?”

“I am. Why?”

“Let’s go out then. On a date.”

“I'd love to.” You rise up to place a lingering kiss on his cheek, one that has his heart racing with joy rather than frustration.

The smile you earn is gentle, shy, but says more than Alhaitham's words ever can.

© EARTHTOOZ 2023, do not steal, translate, repost my fics and do not recommend my fics onto any other site.

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— FOCUSED IN YOUR EYES

GENRE one shot, fluff, ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 WORD COUNT: 200+ ʬʬʬ───WARNiNGS petnames, not proofread. . .LIBRARY FOR MORE...?!| DANi NOTE: for my hye bae!!! i love writing for riki, i need to stop writing for him...

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"BABY, TODAY WAS A WHOLE STORY!" you exclaim, nudging your boyfriend playfully as you settle into a comfortable position on the couch. He's distracted, lost in his own world, but you're determined to capture his attention.

"So, you know, I went to go shopping with Chaewon and then I saw this really really cute lamp." you begin, your voice filled with excitement. "It was a bunny and chick, it was just like us. So I was so tempted to buy it."

You pause, waiting for some sign from Riki that he was listening, but he's gazing at you with a soft smile, his eyes twinkling with adoration.

"Anyway," you continue, trying not to get too distracted by the way his gaze lingers on you, "so basically I'm so close on buying it until I read the price tag and it was $553..."

Riki nods absentmindedly, his attention divided between your story and your visuals. He reaches out to tuck a loose strand of hair behind your ear, his touch sending shivers down your spine.

"Hey, Riki, are you listening?" you nudge riki.

"Huh? Oh, sorry, love," he finally responds, tearing his gaze away from you momentarily to focus on the words you're saying. "Go on, I'm listening now."

You can't help but chuckle at his distraction, knowing all too well the reason behind it. "Sure you are," you tease lightly.

He blinks, "Sorry," he grins sheepishly, reaching out to gently take your hand in his. "But can you blame me? You're just too adorable and cute."

You roll your eyes playfully," flattery will get you nowhere," you tease, squeezing his hand affectionately.

"I don't need it to," he replies, his gaze soft and sincere as he meets your eyes. "I already have everything I could ever want right here with you." Who needs stories when you have a love like this?

[downbadace]

𐙚 ˚ ⋆𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗘 𝗠𝗬 𝗘𝗬𝗘𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗙𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨｡˚ ᡣ𐭩

Pairing: Camgirl!Sophia Laforteza/Daniela Avanzini

It's been 3 months since Sophia and Dani started working things out, now they wanna take things to the next level. Sophia soft launches Daniela on her story and her fans go wild. Daniela soft launches Sophia on her story on her instagram and her friends go mild.

Content: Fluff, Camgirl!Character, Strong Language, Suggestive Content, Substance use (weed), College setting

A/N: happy pride guys 🥰🥰 hope yall like this part of camgirl, i know i did theyre so cute together omgggg!!!!! if yall have any suggestions on what i can call this series (besides camgirl) pls lemme know :3 okay enjoy reading!!!!!!

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"Happy three months, my love." Daniela says in a tired voice, her head in the crook of Sophia's neck as she turns to wrap her arms around her waist.

Sophia smiles as she feels her girlfriend (which, she thinks is still crazy to say) snuggle up from behind, spooning her softly. It was currently Sunday, March 23, 2025 at around 8:46 am, marking down the couple's three month anniversary. Three months since they promised each other that they'd work it out, and they're so happy that they did.

"Good morning, baby. Happy three months," Sophia says in a groggy voice. She turns around to face Daniela, keeping the other girls hands around her hips. When she does she's met with the gorgeous sight of her girlfriend, hair all messy and eyes still partially closed, the sunlight from her window hitting her just right so her brown eyes shined through. She was perfect in Sophia's eyes. She had been waiting all life for someone like Daniela and now that she finally has her, she never wants to let go.

"Babe? You there?" Sophia snaps out of the trance that Daniela had put her in. She looks at Daniela's lips and kisses them, her morning breath and strawberries sighing into her own. She pulls away after a second and smiles," Sorry, I wasn't paying attention. I mean, how can I when I got the most gorgeous and beautiful and sexy and overall perfect girl in front of me?"

Daniela rolls her eyes and kisses Sophia's cheek," I could say the same for you, baby. Your smile is the reason I get up everyday, it's warm and makes me feel all fuzzy inside."

The filipina giggles and feels her cheeks heat up again," Okay stop before I kiss you again." Daniela sighs and buries her head in the crook of her girlfriend's neck," Go ahead, I won't stop you."

They lay in Sophia's bed, comfortably silent as their breathes slow and relax. Daniel hugs Sophia closer and lifts her head up to look at the girl she's hugging," Mi amor, do you think it's time to... be more public?"

Sophia hums in confusion," What do you mean by that, mahal?"

Daniela releases her grasp on Sophia's hips and turns over to lay on her back. Sophia pretends she gets sad at the lost of her hands.

"I mean like, I'm ready to tell people about us. Of course if you don't want to that's totally fine, it's just a suggestion of course—" The Latina is cut off by Sophia's kiss. They both sigh into it and Sophia moves to straddle Daniela's hips. They pull away shortly after and Daniela looks up at Sophia in awe, unaware of what to do with the goddess on top of her.

"Angel, I'm ready when you are. Whatever you wanna do is fine with me," Daniela breathes in and out before smiling softly, tugging on the hem of Sophia's shirt signaling for her to take it off.

"Really? This early in the morning?" Sophia giggles out. Daniela responds by looking up at her with pleading eyes, her lips pouting," Please, mami?"

Sophia rolls her eyes before lifting her shirt off and tossing it somewhere behind her, her chest fully exposed. Daniela's hands rest on Sophia's thigh and she stares like a dear in headlights.

"Best three month anniversary gift ever," Daniela says, practically foaming at the mouth. Sophia sighs," You're such a loser, you're lucky I love you so much. Now, hurry up and please me before I get off my ride."

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"Okay, count me down," Sophia says, her thumb hovering the post button on her instagram. After an hour of trying to figure out what to post as a soft launch, the two had settled on a picture taken but Daniela after their first date. It was a casual mirror selfie but in very clear view you can see Sophia, her grin wide as she wears the lipstick marks on her face like a badge of honor.

"I'm nervous, oh my gosh, okay— 3, 2, 1." And when Daniela reaches the final number, Sophia presses down on the upload button. She puts her phone face down and looks at Dani, kissing her cheek," And now we wait."

The two didn't have to wait long, Sophia's phone blew up instantly with fans both happy and outraged. But Sophia didn't care about what any of them thought, as long as everyone knew who she belonged to was all that mattered.

Daniela on the other hand got almost complete radio silence. She had posted a picture of Sophia on the beach, sitting in the sand watching the waves. Daniela had snuck the picture of her because of how perfect she looked, she couldn't take her eyes off her. It paired with the caption "Happy 3 Months, mi amor ♥️"

It was simple enough to get the message across so she posted it right after Sophia posted hers. An hour after posting she got a few likes on her story but nothing else. That is, until Megan had send her story in the groupchat and everyone went bonkers.

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megatron

[Sent daniela_avanzini's story]

hey so WHAT THE FUCK

The Middle

3 MONTHS?!?!!? MS ABANZINI EXPLAON NOWWEWWWWW

fruitcake

omfg you can pulll... this is monumental... BRING OUT THE CUPCAKES AND PARTY HATS

yoonchippie

Omg congratulations dani <3

megatron

no, yoonchae your supposed to be outraged by thsi

yoonchippie

Oh, then, how dare you, dani >:(

fruitcake

close enough..

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"You can't just ignore the group chat and then come to classes the next day acting like you didn't post that," Megan fills Daniela's ear with complaints. The two of them are walking to the lecture hall to meet up with Lara, Manon, and Yoonchae at the campuses cafeteria. Throughout the day Daniela had gotten a bunch of texts front them in the group chat, and separately, telling her to explain to them who the mysterious girl she posted was. They were all left on read.

"Listen, once we're all together I'll explain everything, just calm your ass down for a second," The older girl says, pushing the exit door open and almost closing it on Megan's face.

"Okay but I don't understand why you had to do it in person, one simple paragraph in the group chat would be enough."

"Well, yes, but you're dyslexic, Lara and Manon has a short attention span, and Yoonchae... I actually got nothing for her, like, she'd probably be the only one to read it." Megan nods in agreement. From then the two walked in silence before walking into the cafeteria, packed to the brim with hungry students. The two scanned their eyes across the crowd until they spotted the three girls, patiently waiting for them. They were all in light conversations, giggle and smiling.

"See, Mei-mei, they're not as worked up as you," Daniela says before walking up to them. But the second that Lara spots Dani, she tells the girls something and they all fall silent, faces unreadable, and hands folded on top of the table. Daniela pauses for a second at the awkward and sudden sight. Megan quickly follows up and sits at the table, leaving an empty spot between Yoonchae and her so that Daniela could sit down. She does but she's scared of her decision.

They stay in a very awakward silence, Daniela looking at the four girls in confusion before speaking up," So, uhm... how's the weather going—"

"Shut the hell up," Lara interrupted.

"Okay..." Daniela says meekly, putting her head down.

"How long were you gonna keep this from us, Dani?" Manon asks. The latina looks at her and immediately looks back down, her friend continues," I get not telling Lara, Megan, or Yoonchae about this—"

"Woah, what?"

"Ex-fucking-cuse me?"

"What did I do?"

"—but we tell each other everything." Daniela sighs at Manon's words. It was true that she told her best friends everything, especially Manon. A wave of guilt rushed over her.

"Listen, I was gonna tell you guys sooner but I wasn't sure if I was ready. Hell, I didn't even know if she was ready—"

"And another thing, who is she? Like do we know her? Does she go here cause you can point her out right now I just wanna ask some questions." Lara cuts Daniela off, standing up to look over the crowd of people. Megan sigh and tells Lara to sit down when she starts calling out random girls in the cafeteria.

"No, she doesn't go here, she goes to a nearby university."

"Then how'd you guys even meet?" Yoonchae asks. It's a simple question but to Daniela it means way too much to her.

"I'd like to tell you guys but... uhm..." The four girls stare at her waiting for an answer. Daniela swears the room got ten times hotter.

"Okay so like, it's a really funny story actually—"

"God, I'm already bored and you haven't even said anything. Can you at least say her name or some shit?" Megan cuts in and enhances Daniela's anxiety. The girl eventually just caves and puts her head down on the table. Manon hits Megan's forehead," Dumbass, why'd you rush her?"

"I didn't, I just asked for her name."

"The girl's stressed enough, you didn't have to be like that."

"Okay, fuck I'm sorry, I apologize—"

"Woah guys, look." Yoonchae shows her phone notifications and it's an RSVP to a local rave party that one of the fraternity's was hosting. The girls all check their phones and they get the same RSVP message.

"It says we can bring a guest from outside of campus!" Yoonchae points out.

"This is perfect, Daniela can introduce her new girlfriend there!" The canto girl suggests. Daniela lifts her head up in confusion," Woah, Already? Isn't the party this friday it's such a late notice! Plus I don't think you'd wanna meet her yet—"

"Why not? Is she like a convicted felon or somethin?" Daniela presses her lips together at Manon's question and raises an eyebrow.

"No, what? Why would she—How'd you even think that in your mind?" Manon shrugs," I don't know, I thought that's the reason you don't wanna introduce her?"

The four look at Manon before Lara continued on with their conversation," Anyways, just let your girl know in advanced and if she can make it then we'll all be there!"

The four agree and Daniela sighs, pausing before muttering out a," Fine."

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Friday came faster than she wanted it to. She was at Sophia's apartment waiting for her to get ready and Daniela was complaining about her curious friends.

"I think they seem very sweet, baby. They just wanna know what's happening in your life!" Sophia calls out from the bathroom. Daniela groans as she pulls out her stash of weed, taking it out of the bag to roll it into a joint.

"I don't know, I just... I've never had a real girlfriend before, I don't know if they know I'm serious about you," She takes out a lighter with her free hand and finishes rolling her weed with the other. She goes over to Sophia's window and opens it up to the fire escape. She leans on the railing and lights her joint, inhaling before puffing it out. Sophia comes up from behind, surprising Daniela, and wrapping her arms around her waist.

"I hate that you started smoking weed because of me," Sophia says, nuzzling her head in the crook of Daniela's neck. She puts the joint up to her girlfriend's lips to take a drag," It's not my fault you got me addicted to you. I'd do anything you do."

Sophia sighs as the smoke comes out of her mouth. She then kisses the nape of Daniela's neck, a shiver going down the younger one's spine at the feeling of soft lips pressed against her.

"It's gonna be fine, don't worry so much. If they hate my profession then that's their loss," Daniela's head turns to Sophia," What do you mean? What does that have to do with anything?"

The camgirl giggles," I'm just saying, I know you're scared about telling them what I do, and that's fine. My life style isn't suited for everyone."

Sophia turns Daniela around so that they're face to face, hips and foreheads pressed together," As long as I'm suited for you, that's what matters to me."

They both smile before leaning in at the same time, kissing each other like the whole world was watching.

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The two finally arrived at the fraternity house. It was jam packed with people, dancing both inside and outside. Daniela breathed in and out before looking at Sophia, the girl looks back at her. They take each other's hand in their own and walk in.

Immediately, the scent of cheap weed and even cheaper alcohol fill their noses. Daniela is stopped by some and she meekly says hi, but they push past the crowd to make their way to the house's basement where the other girls said to meet up.

It was even more rowdy downstairs, people jumping up and down on inflatables, a heated game of 8 ball drawing a crowd, and the makeshift bar being overcrowded by drunk students. Through the chaos, Daniela had managed to spot the group of girls, sitting on a couch laughing, awaiting the two's arrival.

"Ready?" Daniela asks. Sophia scoffs," I should be asking you. I've been ready baby." She kisses her on the cheek and they walk over to Daniela's friends.

Megan is the first to look up and spot them and her eyes widen for a second before relaxing. 'Okay, maybe a good sign, maybe not...' Daniela thinks to herself. Lara looks up and smiles widely, her face showing nothing but glee.

"Oh my gosh! You must be the mystery girl!" She gets up and goes over to greet Sophia. Her arms open for a hug and Sophia immediately takes it," Yes, I am! I'm Sophia, It's nice to meet you all!"

She pulls away to look at he other girls and the three of them give warm welcomes too, introducing themselves as well. Sophia sits down next to Yoonchae and the two compliment each other's bags, noting the cute keychains on them. Daniela sits down in between Sophia and Manon. Her best friend turns to whisper in her ear," Good job, you pulled a baddie."

Daniela rolls her eyes and pushes Manon away, the girl giggling at her own joke.

The conversation between the six of them flowed better than Daniela had planned. It was almost as if Sophia had always been there. The group had taken shots together (except for Yoonchae) and the awaited employment question had came up. Daniela held her breath.

"So, Sophia, do you do anything for work? Daniela told us you went to the university nearby, it costs hella to live there." Lara asks, setting her shot glass down.

"Yeah, I do actually! I don't live there though, I commute from my apartment that's actually closer to this college. I just go there because They have a special course I can take for nursing."

"Oh, so you're a nurse?" Manon asks. Sophia opens her mouth and hesitates to speak, looking at Daniela before answering," No, actually. Believe it or not, I'm a camgirl. I started to pay for my first year at college and it's been going pretty well for me. It's actually how Daniela and I met!"

The group pauses at Sophia's words before looking at Daniela, back at Sophia, and then back at Daniela. The latina's heart is pounding, attempting to jump out of her chest, until Manon opens her mouth.

"Of course your loser ass watches camgirls."

Daniela's eyes threatened to pop out of her head," What? What the hell does that mean?"

"It means of course you pay money to watch baddies and of course you pulled a baddie from a baddie job?" Lara answers for Manon. The group agrees and Sophia can't help bet giggle at Daniela's embarrassment. The topic of Sophia's profession was never discussed and the group had an amazing time that night, laughing and dancing the night away.

Before the party ended and everyone split off, Megan pulled Daniela to the side to ask her a question.

"So... uhm... Are you RacecarDani, then?"

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haha cliffhanger :3

hope you guys enjoyed!! i didnt proof read so... yeah 😭

[imnameimswrld]

╰┈➤ ❝ [𝐂𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐁𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐧 || 𝗢𝗣𝟴𝟭 ꒱꒱

━━ ❪ . . . oscar x verstappen!surfer!reader ❫

━━ ❪ . . . description : freshly surfing world champ, yn goes to take some much needed time off, and starts her vacay off by attending the miami grand prix. her intention was to support her big bro, but it appears a certain papaya driver had other plans; ❫

━━❪ . . . smau ! ❫

━━❪ . . . warnings : none ❫

━━❪ . . . fc : caroline marks ❫

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ynverstappen world champion, blessed, thank you to the beautiful cali waves 🌊🏆

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user so well deserved, congrats yn !

bestfriend you were WICKED on the waves girl !!

maxverstappen1 let's gooo, congrats sissy ♡

⤿ ynusername couldn't have you being the only world champ in the fam, now could I ? 😋

⤿ maxverstappen1 no, no you just couldn't 😤

user the verstappen siblings are just legendary

user so with the break coming up, will we see yn at the next grand prix 👀 ?

⤿ user plus the next ones in miami, super close to cali, so 🤞 !!

oscarpiastri congratulations yn, coolest world champion ever 👏🥇

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user and if I said yn and oscar would be SO cute together ?

Boeta 🏎

hey sissy

where r u ?

Sissy 🌊

chillin'

what's up ?

Boeta 🏎

no, I mean where r u

you said you were gonna be the paddocks when I got back from my meeting ?

Sissy 🌊

oohhhh

well, I am in the paddock

just not yours

Boeta 🏎

what ?

yn, are u hiding in dani's closet again to scare him ?

Sissy 🌊

ahhh, good times

but nope, I'm in the mclaren paddocks

Boeta 🏎

oh

is lando talking your ear off again ?

Sissy 🌊

nah, lol

I'm uh, actually with chilling with oscar

Boeta 🏎

piastri ?

since when are you guys on chilling level

Sissy 🌊

since he asked me out to dinner later

[read]

Boeta ?

uhhhh, boet ?

[read]

ynverstappen

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ynverstappen soooo good being back in the paddocks, thanks so much for having me redbullracing – and ofc, congrats boeta on p1 ! 💙

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user soooo, did anyone else see the video of oscar and yn walking around together ??? dude had the dopiest smile on his face too 😭

redbullracing you're practically family yn ! 💙

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user 2 champs 🏆

danielricciardo thanks for not scaring the crap out of me this time yn :)

⤿ ynverstappen ah, there's always next time dan 😄

⤿ danielricciardo no no, pls don't.

mclaren hope you had a wonderful time at the race yn ! 🧡

⤿ redbullracing are you going to apologize for stealing her from out paddocks ?

⤿ mclaren are we supposed to ?

⤿ oscarpiastri of course not.

⤿ maxverstappen1 thin ice piastri, watch it.

user uhhh, not redbull and mclaren battling it out over yn 😭

user my yncar ship is HERE BDJEHZIS

oscarpiastri just added to their story !

[ caption 1: stolen forever maxverstappen1 🤚 ; caption 2: 🧡 ]

Boeta 🏎

oscar is really bold

Sissy 🌊

oh, I know 😁

it's one of the many reasons why I like him

Boeta 🏎

so you like him then ?

like, really like him ?

Sissy 🌊

yeah, I do boeta

Boeta 🏎

okay then...

invite him to the lunch tomorrow

Kelly has been dying to see the two of you together

Sissy 🌊

she's so prescious I love her

and thanks boeta, for being cool with all this

Boeta 🏎

hey, i may be protective, but who am I to tell you who you can and can't date sissy

Sissy 🌊

🥺🥺 , houd van je 💙

Boeta 🏎

mhm, hou ook van jou 💙

ynverstappen

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ynverstappen had some cake by the ocean with my papaya boy... p.s yes, the cake he bought me brought me to tears 🍰 🧡 🌊

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user BYE I'M GONNA GO CRY IN A DITCH SOMEWHERE

user stop that cake is so cute 😭😭

oscarpiastri I'm just happy to call you mine, liefie :)

⤿ ynverstappen and I'm just as happy to be your liefie ❤

⤿ maxverstappen1 not the dutch- ya'll gonna make me puke.

⤿ kellypiquet max, stop bullying your sister and oscar and go clean the litter boxes dammit

⤿ ynverstappen oohhh, mother is mad now boet, better get to it then 😄

⤿ maxverstappen1 you're staying in my house.

⤿ ynverstappen says who ? I'm staying at oscar's – plus, you know how I love the aussie waves

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⤿ maxverstappen1 yn verstappen istg... girl gets a bf and thinks she's the shit.

⤿ kellypiquet MAX.

⤿ maxverstappen1 I'M GOING.

user can I make this comment section my roman empire ?

user I'm laughing and crying rn, this is too funny

[urf4vsc0rpio]

pls your new dani oneshot omg so spectacular pls youve GYATT TO GIVE ME MORE DANI CONTENT im snarling for this woman and your lovely writing (also i hope ur doing well pook)

Lipstick

Daniela Dimitrescu x Fem! Reader

𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: Fluff, don't read this if u have diabetes /j

𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲: Let's see if these lipsticks are transfer-proof or not...

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞: COME GET Y'ALL'S FOOD !!! And tyy, I'm doing well <33 (Ps. Y'all are never escaping togachako.)

After picking up the lipsticks you ordered from The Duke, you muttered a small thanks in which he replied with “Pleasure doing business with you” before bidding farewell to him and happily skipping back into the castle with your bag of lipstick in hand.

Just as you opened the door to the youngest Dimitrescu’s room, you were immediately swarmed by her, a giddy smile plastered, eager to see what you had bought from The Duke. “What’s that? Wacha got there? Is it a gift for lil ol me!?” You were attacked by a ridiculous amount of questions from the redhead, chuckling in response at the girl’s curiosity. It was what you loved most about Daniela, so curious, so eager to find out.

“No it’s not a gift for you” You responded, ruffling her hair as you moved to sit in front of the vanity mirror, setting the bag down and earning a disappointed whine from the older woman as she went to sit beside you. “Then what is it?” She questioned “Lipstick…that’s hopefully transfer-proof” You murmured the last part under your breath in which your lover heard, her eyes lighting up with a happy gleam as if she had an idea. “Oh! What if you test it out on me? That would be fun! So fun! And you can see if they’re transfer-proof or not!” She suggested with an excited giggle, kicking her feet as she opened the bag without even asking for permission (Not like you cared) before neatly setting the lipsticks on the vanity.

“Is this just another one of your tricks to get kisses?” You asked, wasting no time to apply the first lipstick onto your lips, smacking your lips a few times so it would spread out evenly. “Maaybeee?” The redhead drawled with a proud smile. “Is it working?” Wordlessly, you answered by turning her head to face you before planting a kiss on her forehead then pulling away, a disappointed hum leaving your lips and a surprised gasp leaving your lover’s own lips.

“This one isn’t really transfer-proof” You said before kissing her nose instead to confirm “Yeah it isn’t” You murmured to yourself before glancing at the older woman sitting beside you, snickering quietly at the shocked expression on her face and the blush dusting her cheeks. “Why so flustered? Wasn’t it you who suggested this?” You teased, nudging her side lightly with your elbow. “W-well yea! But at least give me a heads up!” She protested with a whine, earning a laugh she so very loved from you.

“I’ll try” you said, wiping off the first lipstick before applying the second. “You want a heads up?” Before she could even reply, you immediately pressed a kiss on the corner of her lips followed by another one on her left cheek before pulling away. Relishing in the way her mouth opened at closed like a fish out of water. “Mean.” She managed to utter with a pout, pinching her cheek playfully as you spoke. “Yet you still love me.” “More than anything.”

Time passed by quickly throughout the whole thing, perhaps because you stopped to have an innocent lil make out session with the red head occasionally, maybe even planting a few kisses on her neck here and there just to mess with her. But by the time you went through every single lipstick you had bought, you managed to find at least two or three of them that were transfer-proof. Not only that, by the time you were done, your dear lover was absolutely covered in lipstick marks, from her forehead and down to her collarbone, perhaps a few love bites also adorned her neck, you can’t help it honestly, she was a bundle of joy and you wanted to shower her in the love and affection that your lovebug deserves.

You glanced at your lover who had went to lay in bed while you arranged your newly bought lipsticks properly on the vanity and what you saw was truly a sight for sore eyes. The redhead was laying on her back, lipsticks of different colours and a few love bites decorating her skin along with a happy smile present on her lips as little giggles escaped her lips followed by a dreamy sigh, her eyes looking all dazed and full of love as she stared up at the ceiling, giggling and humming to herself, sometimes even muttering to herself about how much she loves you. “Cute…” You murmured to yourself with a soft sigh which caught her attention, lifting her head slightly to look at your reflection in the mirror on the vanity where you sat.

“Am I cute?” She asked, wanting to hear it again.

“The cutest in the world.”

[kuethemoon]

iwtv fanfic friday: lesbianism onto the guys

@oldbutchdaniel I'm joining the fun. it's yuri time

two-headed mother by tisiphones // e, 8.6k

"Poor darling," Armand says, and the condescension in his voice is so awful and so offensive and Lestat wants to curl up in it and never, ever leave. "It's okay to let yourself be taken care of for just one night. You can't help what you need." It's Lestat's last night in Paris. Armand makes it a memorable one.

actually world changing. mommy issues galore it's sooo fun and this fic is part of several that got me into armandstat

super graphic ultra modern girl by armanddelioncourt // e, 0.9k

“I want to watch how you insert your tampon.” “Wha—No, you weirdo,” she glanced around the mercifully-deserted aisle. “You can’t just ask me that in the store!”

yummmmmy period blood fic!!! i love period blood fics sooo much and they're so cute

More than Neither by apoptoses // e, 6.2k

Annoying, how hot it is to see Armand kneeling on the dirty bathroom floor like this. Without her heels to compensate for their height difference she looks small, delicate. Her face is on the level with Daniel’s hips and Daniel knows what’s about to happen. Armand has probably been planning for this since they stepped into the store, she realizes. There’s no way she’d catch Daniel bleeding for the first time and let that go. (Daniel gets her period. Armand helps. Written for the Queens of the Damned prompt butch/femme.)

another period blood fic pls bartender! if I tip you can add them being freaky in a public toilet? thank you very much I'll take the lot pls!! the way daniel and armand handle being women and lesbians is so well written. dyke stamp of approval. if you're starting to notice a trend don't tell me

she loves me, she loves me not by IguessIllchangeitlater // e, 2.3k

“Sure,” she panted and raised her head, tried to find Armand’s eyes, but kept focusing on her fanged smile instead. “I will wear that fucking skirt.” Push out, push in, push out, push in, Daniela was going to come just from that, she was going to die. “I can’t-ah, I can’t wear my underwear with that, I would look silly.” Push in, push out. “Yes,” Armand agreed. She rested her head on the mattress, next to Daniela’s knee and busied herself with mouthing the blood that was still there. The blood that she drew earlier. “So, what’s the plan, boss?” Daniela managed to raise herself on her elbows. Armand’s beguiled eyes looked like that of a cat in the light of the night. “For the underwear situation?” “You will wear none, of course.”

butch daniel wearing a skirt because armand said so was an idea that bounced around in my head for a whole week so you know how excited I was to read this. hell yeah they're so bad to each other

sweet things for the sea by ulatraviolet_glow // e, 2.6k

Danielle Molloy, a runaway posing as a young man on a trading ship dreams of a better life, but when her dreams find her falling overboard and into the arms of the woman of her dreams, how disturbed will Dani be when she realises that the woman is not human at all, but a creature of the sea?

siren armand do you know how much you mean to meeeeee I lay awake at night thinking of you sinfully. siren armand...

one of your girls by sleepdeprivedsurgeon // m, 4.7k

“I was thinking maybe I’d go with my girlfriend,” Daniel says. Armand sucks in a breath, a familiar blend of excitement and fever rearing its head inside him. This isn’t new— nothing is, after nearly five centuries— but it’s certainly been a while. Louis doesn’t care what he looks like, what he is, just as long as he stays below him. On his knees in the endless confessional. Marius would dress him up sometimes: Helen of Troy, Cassandra, Mary Magdalene. When the painting was finished he’d push his skirts up and take him there in the studio.

technically not yuri but beautiful feminization + crossdressing armand and I had to put it here. special treat!

[slythereen]

Hello there!

I’m new to f1 and Lestappen.

Is there a Charles and Max master post somewhere with their history? I keep hearing about the social media unfollowing and podium walk off and want all the tea and timelines.

Basically all I know about is the inchident.

Many thanks!

hello and welcome!! my scholarship (read: obsessively reblogging things or bookmarking them thinking i'll actually find them again later) tends to be VERY chaotic, but i know there are definitely compilations out there. i've read some great ones.

nini (@scuderiafemboy) has a LOT of lore content on tumblr and twitter & does a lot of translating of dutch interviews/manages to unearth old interviews all the time. the twitter thread of threads covers 2018 through june 2023! she also compiled some of the database on tumblr here.

@chibrary archives interviews, articles, etc., in glorious fashion. this is charles centric but naturally charles' history intersects with max's so there are some good pieces in there, like this 2015 article on the lestappen rivalry in karting. the #driver:max tag provides a lot of golden content (such as extended lore on the inchident!).

moments™

marginally related, but dani (lecstappens on twitter) once posted the video of max and charles being scolded and warned to behave themselves during the race following the inchident. one of my favorite pieces of lestappen info frankly... demon children. (also on posted by @il-predestinato on tumblr here. who, btw, is a gold mine of lestappen content.)

well, as long as i'm adding some favorite gems while i try to find the specific post i'm looking for... the lestappen singapore flag moment is my roman empire. i am also haunted by the awkward weather convo video. which i know is out there, but i am going crazy trying to find it.

i decided to just commit to the moments list, so here is charles drinking red bull gate 2023 (courtesy of @countingstars-17)

charles asking the tifosi to stop booing max at monza this year (@il-predestinato seriously has so much content)

this excerpt of max's manager talking about charles (@blueballsracing)

if i don't stop myself i will be here all year

more mini compilations !!

@hyacinthsdiamonds once produced a nice list of the ridiculous lore around lestappen that sounds made up

some 2021 specific "best moments" compiled by @coconutshygame

there is one post i am thinking of that touched on their wild lore/destined f1 rivalry etc. but i can't find it now so stay tuned 🫡

also, for some theorizing on the most recent lestappen debacles and what it all means with ferrari/rbr and a potential charles to rbr (ot charles to more power at ferrari) move:

@tsarinablogs is a Scholar™ with lovely essays

@valyrfia has an addition to the marketing mayhem

i recently compiled my unhinged #rbr-ferrari sticker war content to advocate for rbr charles here, which was added to by this anon with banger points

personally i use #rbr charles for the theorizing and delulu hours, but i think #lestappen rbr and #lestappen gate 2023 are also prime hunting ground for rbr specific lore

anyone who has info to share pls do ❤️ i know i'm missing loads of scholarship that is lost in the pits of my unorganized blog

[charlvr]

I'M THINKING, yet again

‎(this is a long ask, I'm so sorry pls bear wirh me)

‎So I re-read all the chapters and I noticed that Dani and reader's chapter has smth about the universe, like Dani's being "The universe finally listened in all the wrong ways" and then reader's being smth aboht "the universe is laughing at you now" while Megan doesn't have one, TAKE NOTW or maybe I'm analyzing too mucb ANYWYAS

‎First with Dani's sentence, Dani's enemy here is herself, cause liek, she believes in smth she shouldn't have and did smth and when she realizes what's been done, she can't go back. I think this has smth to do with her sentence being the universe finally listened, but in all the wrong ways cause when she thinks the reader is "hers", Megan comes and suddenly she needs to deal with that. As if the universe wants to help her with her picture perfect path, hence "the universe fibally listened— but in all the wrong ways"

‎And then reader's sentence, I WANT TO POINT THIS OUT BECAAUSE LIEK, THERE WERE SIGNS YK. Y/n was manifestating a world with Dani, but the universe said fuck you to her (title kf the chap) but listened to Dani (Dani's sentence). It was as if the universe was redirecting them to Megan when they could've been easily Dani's if the universe hadn't listened to her. Just when they thought it was mess, everything finally came to a point where they felt peace WITH MEGAN, not Dani, and when they came in terms with that they come to the conclusion that yeah "the universe is laughing at you now" (reader's sentence)

‎With Megan there's not smth about the universe but the title of the story is the universe cosmic joke and then Dani and Reader having like connectd phrases, you would guess Megan would have too but she doesn't. SEE, READER IMAGINED BEING WITH DANI, AND VICE VERSA WITH DANI TO READER BUT MEGAN, Megan was only content with reader showing smth for her, smth she believed Dani had. If Dani and Reader has smth about the universe and Megan don't have it, she has the reader. LIKE FOWLNSAKNSJR I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT ITS JDUT LIKE WRITTEN ALL OVER THE MEGAN CHAP. ALSO, the universe taunted reader and Dani but what taunted Megan is the lion plushie. Althouhj sure she gets to hangout with reader, Dani will always be there.

‎SO ELT ME SCRAPE THE IDEA OF THE NEXT CHAOT TOTLE BEING THE UNIVERSE FINALLY LISTENED, I think from what I've over analyzed, lowkey next chapter title maybe about them thanking the universe against all odds, cayse like they prayed for smth they wished they could've had but in all the wrongs ways they couldn't imagine but it still went well yk?

‎And I think with ym analysis, there's probably a good chance it'd be Megan and Reader (I HOPE BRO CAUSE I'M TEAM MEGAN) more than Dani and Reader. BUT THATS JSUT MY ANALYSIS 😔💔

‎ANYWAYS CAN'T WAIT FOR THE ND T UPDATe

‎Ps: can I be 🦖 anon? 🙏

🦖, without revealing too much… you are not over-analyzing as much as you think. the universe centric themes of Daniela and Y/N chapter is meant to be a very telling commentary on nature of their relationship (whether that’s a good thing or not 😛) And by extension, Megan and Y/N’s relationship.

Thank you for taking the time OMG, I love you for doing this. I saw this and started smiling like a madwoman.

[mueritos]

Hey Matteo!

I was just wondering like how your overall experience with Boston has been?

I'm a transmasc butch, from a small town, and have been questioning moving to that area (either around Boston or closer to Salem) and I'm autistic and Deaf (very little amount of my hearing left) so I try to do as much research as I can before solidifying ideas.. but I've also desperately been wanting out of my hometown and Midwest State.

I'm especially interested in any Queer friendly experiences you've had and/or museums as I am an anthropology major (Archaeology focus)

hey there! I'll insert a read more :)

It's good you're researching the area ^-^ like any city, there's pros and cons, and like any other major city, if you're looking for something, it is likely here already. Biggest cons to me in this city are 1. expensive as fuck (rent can be anywhere between 1200-2000+ per bed/room), transportation is mid (trains are cool but systemic racism has made it difficult to access certain neighborhoods), and the weather (i'm used to it because it's like a slightly colder PA). Oh, and I truly believe there is no good food in Boston. You have to LEAVE Boston to eat good food lol.

Pros! I do think the city is mostly autistic friendly, surprisingly. Sure a city on average is louder, but there are plenty of quieter places to live and you don't really see/hear people out late at night, unless you're living by universities. As for my daily experience, there's all kinds of queer events to go to in the area, including support groups (Boston Area Trans Support Group BATS) and university hosted events that are open to the public. From what I hear, there's not much of a huge art scene, but the MFA is quite active in the Fenway area and you can always find ways to be involved by contacting universities as well. There's a science museum I've been meaning to go to, but I did go to the aquarium and that was like soo awesome. You can search on r/boston as well for any specific experiences or museum/anthropology stuff. I have a friend rn who collects shells and maybe he would have some direct connections, so I will ask him ^-^

For the most part, people in Boston are very queer friendly. I don't know a single homophobic person haha, but I know of people who are TERF adjacent. RACISM and transphobia is probably one of the biggest things here. The city is very segregated and like I mentioned above, it can be difficult accessing certain parts of the city (mainly BIPOC parts) without a car (45-1 hour + on the train/bus vs a 15-30 min drive). I experience a lot of the usual city experiences, people asking for money or asking you for directions, but if you're kind then you won't have an issue. People freak out like its the NYC here when a homeless person walks up to them, but the best advice is try to carry cash, and if you can't give, just say "god bless you I hope you take care".

Anyway, there are several Deaf community events that I know are mainly hosted through Northeastern University. They have deaf interpreter program and they have events open to the public as well. If you want a deaf/hoh community, i think they're your best first step. Their site also has some state resources.

Also a lesbian bar just opened up! Dani's was cute and fun, went with friends once and while the drinks were expensive, the vibe was nice. Saw lots of awesome lesbians and t boys and transmascs all around. While queer spaces will be primarily white, there are BIPOC spaces if you're looking for that too.

this was all over the place but i think this is all I have to say. if anyone else is currently living in Boston or the Salem area and wants to share their thoughts, pls do! ive only been here for about 2 years and I plan to leave soon, so I won't know what its like past the summer.

Good luck!

[mlmarcmarquez]

Hi!! I hope you're okay! Sending you lots of love.

Things to talk about.

Fave motogp ships?

Ship you want to read more of?

Prompt you would like to read or write and what ship for

🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

hello!! i'm okay, just very tired aha - how are you?? <3 <3

fave motogp ships! i've answered this before but honestly, i only did 5 and that list has been firmly fandangled since so :P let's get into it!

obviously i have a lot of love for sharkrose/sharks n' roses. the reason i created this account, the first pairing i ever wrote a motogp fic for, i love this pairing. also introduced me to my lovely mutual, lance! next up is my holy trio that i love all together and in all 3 separate pairings that exist - marcmarcnaia. marcmarc? gorgeous. marcnaia? stunning. beznaia? beautiful. marcmarcnaia? give me a million. love them all. bezzetti came out of nowhere, but i love this pairing so much. just two wet loser boys being wet loser boys together... *sigh* how do i sign up to be a part of that? lucalex!! the dynamics!! the drama!! the family history!! mwah, give me forty of 'em. luca/marc? MEOW. love it. juicy. the drama. mwahmwah. absolutely embarrassing soft spot for pedrenzo, especially considering i had no idea who jorge or dani was when i read my first pedrenzo fic. aleix/jorge - two people i don't really care about individually but together? gorgeous. (shoutout to that one fic that was mostly aleix/jorge, but had an implied polycule between aleix/jorge/rins/maverick like WOW that fic is fucking JUICY lmfaooo) (yes i did just reread that fic this morning, how can you tell?) OMG WAIT I NEARLY FORGOT ME FABIO Q SHIPS. mavbio? STUNNING, i need more maverick/fabio THANK YOU~ mavio? AHHHHHH the dynamics between marc and fabio just asdhgkl BLOW ME FOOKIN HEAD OFF I CANNOT HANDLE THESE TWO TOGETHER. honorable mentions to alexpecco & eneabio - im still learning these two but like... i'm There. I'm Sat. I'm Slowly Being Persuaded. WAIT I FORGOT BEZSAVA ?! HELLO ?! illegal behaviour from me, how dare i do that to myself LMFAO. these two... INSANITY INDUCING. just... pls just shag already (let me watch 👁👁)

um... i think thats all? LMFAO?! (i've definitely forgotten some)

honestly, for the ships i wanna read more of, just see the above tbh lmfao. i feel like the motogp fic space is dominated by rosquez and whilst that's definitely a valid popular/dominant ship, its not one im at all interested in reading, which leaves me which seemingly so few options 😭😭 like i will read almost any pairing as long as its not main pairing!rosquez lmfaoo

prompts & ships, im just gonna kinda list not so much prompts but ideas so :D

i need more soft sharkrose. i understand that, with their history, the rougher stuff is easier to write, but man... i LOVE soft sharkrose. it's kinda my comfort idea LMFAO (i blame pedro dos aka safety shark for making me this soft). continuing on that path - soft marcnaia! i think, especially with how things have been going for pecco recently, the angsty shit is easier to write for marcnaia, but i do love some softer marcnaia :(( veering sharply into smut territory, i lovelovelove absolutely just pussy-whipped/cock-whipped bezquez/marcmarc. like absolutely whipped, down bad, begging for it, crying for it, cannot go another day without it bez and "of course you can go down on me, bez" marc, okay? im just AHHHH! i love me a good AU and there's something about spiderman!AU sharkrose that gets me. i did read one fic with spiderman!pedro, but thanks to my brilliant, genius-brained moot lance, i have thought about spiderman!fermin (is it obvious im working on a spiderman au fic rn? lmfaoo) (not for motogp, for f1, but still) and lastly, back to the soft shit - obviously i have a massive soft spot for marcmarcnaia, but i need more soft polyamory. so much of the polyamory i see is full blown smut or just threesomes that aren't even polyamory, and i just... i want more soft polyamory :((

okay i think that's everything. i have A Lot of thoughts, clearly, and my brain never actually quite stops running so :D but i hope you have enjoyed reading through what is the closest manifestation of the chaos that is my brain LMFAO

[coolwyous]

Ditto part two. Let's talk about it.

I was cheesing over the cute bits between Yn and Megan as one does but as the tension between Megan and her gf rose so did I....off my seat, I paced around and took a deep breath but when they argued???? MEGAN AND YN DONW ARVUE THEY DONT ZERO so yes I was distraught. The fight with Dani??? it really changed Megan's thought process and I wanna know how, like what happened on that ice when Yn went home to wallow in her sadness? then we have Minji and Eunchae easily the saviours of this relationship cause my babies were so💔💔 Ugh anyway the ending with Megan as captain, being herself again? it was worth it and I absolutely cried when Megan was speaking to haerin, when they graduated??? WEEPING GIRL I WAS WEEPING then the ending??? idk my babies 🥲🥲🥲 together for ever and ever and ever.

Zero I just wanted to say, I love your writing like really, I'm not the most active anon but I hope you know that everything you write, I'd read without a second thought, not only am I proud of you but I'm just so happy for you, I know for a fact people recognise you as one of THE kats writers on here, don't forget me when ur up there making really famous fics okay? Love you to the moon and back for ever and always Moon🩷

moon anon you have literally always sent the most loving, affirming, kind anons after each and every one of my fics i love you and appreciate you so much you have no idea! (i lowkey made a reference to ur anon name in the ditto sequel, idk if you spotted it hehe!)

i think i mentioned in another anon that i literally wrote all the fight scenes first and then filled in the blanks in between, but yessss i was really excited to write meg's slow descent into turning into not-megan basically? and AMAZING QUESTION hmmm i really feel like after y/n left after seeing dani and megan fight on the ice that they both were seeing red and probably kept trying to fight until lara got sick of it and dragged dani away? i truly think megan was shutting everyone out at that point literally up until her talk w y/n before the game. and YESS eunchae and minji my goats!! i was so excited to bring minji back (i had a blast writing her lmao) and eunchae deserved some redemption after her rookie year, i think eunchae showing up for megan when she thought she had nobody shows how far everyone has come from the rest of the dittoverse fics <3 and PLEASE NOT THE WEEPING LMAO i really really enjoyed writing megan's lil moment with haerin and the rest of the girls after their loss, i was thinking abt how much dani's style as captain influenced megan as a younger player and how she'd want to implement that as captain herself, just felt v baby + grown up all at once ❤️

and pls why do you write as if you're going away.... pls tell me ur not going anywhere.... moon anon i love you, i appreciate you, your kind words truly stick w me beyond what you could believe and so do the kind words of everyone who reaches out! i've had nothing but an absolute blast writing for kats and knowing ppl enjoy what i've put out is such a huge heartwarming moment for me that makes me want to keep pouring my brainrot out into the world <3

[ray935sworld]

I'm finally awake enough to react to your response because I do, in fact, have many thoughts and feelings. Also, pls do remind me to do something like reread your stuff 🙏🏻 I wrote all that right before bed cause I came across one of your responses to 🐢 and was like "Wow I completely forgot to write my essay of thoughts, I should do that" (I'm glad I have pleasantly surprised you with it. It was mayhaps a bit sudden from me, but I knew you'd appreciate it so :) )

I am also a big nerd for leaving details behind like double meanings, and I'm always like, "Did you see that? That little detail right there, did you see it and scream like I did when I wrote it?" So I'm glad I have provided in seeing some of those said details. I genuinely wanna reach into your brain and see all of your thoughts cause this is all so beautiful and well thought out. Writing silly concepts seriously is so fun, I so so get you.

This is making me wanna know like, exactly what Dani was thinking in the moment. I know we get like, glimpses into it with what he says and then Jorge's own assumptions of what he must be thinking. But like wow Dani, you took that way better than I would've (but that also is probably in part because of the fact that Dani trusts and loves Jorge as much as he does so)

I LOVE your thoughts about vampirism. Having both the subtly and softness mixed with the more harsh elements of it. Cause yes it is inherently a violent thing, and throwing in the surface level subtlety in various aspects I think makes it very appealing. Makes the drinking aspect seem more...jarring? (Which is something that I absolutely love. Contrast my dearest beloved) And then ofc the insecurity of having a human partner, or even a friend. Or hell, even just walking around humans, cause that must be insane to just walk around like normal knowing all these people have zero clue that you could just reach over and sink your teeth into their throats. Oh, it's so fun; pls give me guilty vampires. As much as I enjoy vampires who are confident in their vampirism, I also love when they are insecure about it in relation to their loved ones and the high possibility of being dropped by any of them cause who wouldn't be afraid of a vampire...just mwah you get it. (Also the jarring aspect that is your partner not actually giving a shit is SO GREAT)

I'm so so very glad I picked up on what you implied. It's my favorite thing ever, and I'm glad I get you as well as I do. (YAPP MORE ILL SOOOO LISTEN) Alright I hope I have provided great thoughts 🙏🏻 I gotta head off to work so take your sweet time replying to this

Hiiii, okay first things first. THANK YOUUUUU so much for this! And I'd love to hear your thoughts on other things too! Feel free to rant about whatever (in general if course not just limited on writing) you want ❤️ And you mentioned that you write too? I am so sorry, I went over your account and didn't found smth or on ao3, so if you use a different name on there please tell me, I'd love to read your stuff too! (and react to return the favor <3 if you want to of course)

Okay you said you want to look in my brain so I literally ended up writing down ALL my thoughts as they went. Hope you don't mind. It got a liiiiiittle out of hand. Hehe.

Okay so. Dani's thoughts - DANI'S THOUGHTS. I would have LOVED to get more into that. But I didn't had much time I needed to get it done so I kept it a little bit shorter (I'm thinking about going on about that in a possible part 2) Dani's pov is kind of like "I'm gonna get eaten out in like 5mins. Okay Jorge is kissing down my throat" And he already notices that Jorge us staying more on his throat which he may he previously avoided because of the thin layer of blood and the very present blood and the reminded of how close he is to be able to drink from him. So Jorge might have avoided that area before. Until then. So the higher focus/kisses from Jorge would be the first thing that occurs different. Of course he wouldn't think about it too much, he's too distracted. Just a short thought like "OH that feels good. He never did it like that before. He should have done it sooner". And slightly upset that the real action hasn't started yet but Jorge decides to add what he thinks is foreplay (honestly I think it is that to Jorge too). But then when Jorge looks up and Dani looks at him, he sees literal hunger, not horny or aroused or excitement. Real. Hunger. And it confuses him. And he trusts him so his first instinct isn't to be afraid but to be confused why he looks THAT hungry. But I do think that look would be like the real difference between prey in the sexual way and haunted prey. And Dani knows that subconsciously. So he's kind of freaked but this is Jorge. HIS. Jorge. He trusts him blind so he doesn't even think it could mean anything bad. And then when he does get bitten and he understand that he is being bitten, there's this moment where some balance has to be found. Like... On one side there is this blind trust. The knowledge that this is Jorge. The man that is absolutely crazy about him, who definitely has already punshed someone for him, who would do anything to keep him self. There is no reason to be afraid of him or think that he's going to hurt him, in any way. And then there's the other side. There is this literally piercing prove that Jorge is willing/ able to hurt him because right now he's sucking blood out of a wound he caused. And now there are two option. Continue to trust Jorge and believe he's not gonna hurt him/ kill him or make sure that he's not gonna do that by basically shoving him away and possibly making a run from him. And Dani trusts Jorge liek 1000%. More than he maybe should. So he tries to tell him to stop, that it hurts, push him away because he believes he will stop. Which he then eventually does.

(damn those fuckers need a safe word for blood drinking I think.... Okay let's be real if Dani knows what's going on, he's gonna let Jorge drink until he passes out. That man is down bad, stupid for Jorge and probably has some kind of pain kink and a martyr complex or however that's called. So they do have a safe word, Dani is just not using it and Jorge gets frustrated because wtf how is he supposed to know when Dani gets dizzy. So he ends up doing the math based on height and weight how much blood Dani has. He then goes to some vampire friendly doctor to find out how much he can take without making Dani dizzy (btw my brother said that if you're shortly before passing out due to blood loss you'd need around 3-4 till you're feeling on top again. So. Great. Good to know. Jorge definitely wants to avoid that. Aaaawweeee, imagine Jorge putting on like 2 movies and cuddles Dani during the recovery time. Yep that would definitely happen. Anyway, where was I? Ah yes.). He then checks how much blood he can fit in his mouth to then find out how many mouths fill of Danis blood he can take without having Dani faint on him.)

And don't get me wrong Dani is freaked out. Like properly freaked out. I think he doesn't even know vampires are a real thing but he also hist lost probably like 1-2 liter blood so he's not gonna be physical able to yell and put some drama. So he's mostly calm because he can't really do anything else atm. So suddenly having his boyfriend drink his blood is a lot. But in that moment he literally had to be like "Okay. Do I trust him enough not to kill me or do I have to use the little but of strength to kick him off and survive" and he trusted Jorge. So now he looks at Jorge, slowly taking in that - yes - he just drank his blood. He literally slurp his blood. Vampires are real. But he feels weak and he can't really think. So he has to concentrate on the most important thing and that is and will always be Jorge. So hand on him, make sure he is real. He's still his Jorge. He's still there's. He's not gonna leave him. He's there. The freak out can wait. This tiny man may not be straight, but his priorities are.

And ooooh. Yeeees yes yes yes. I agree. I so agree!!! Guilty vampires have my heart. There is like this normal but also feral need to do something (drink blood) and they feel guilty because to do so/ survive, they have to hurt someone else. And it's even worst if it's a loved one. And no matter how soft and careful they'll do it, they know it will eventually end with their mouth covered in blood. With blood running down their loved ones face. With the other being uncomfortable at best, possible getting sick or worst. And then the moment after the drink, Jorge maybe kissing Dani as a thank you and an apology. And his lips still taste like blood and there's still blood on his face and Dani looks at him - and Jorge knows that Dani sees the inevitable prove of what he is right in front of him - and for a moment Jorge really thinks Dani is gonna call it quiets and leave him because he just can't understand why Dani would do this to himself. OR OH OH OH OR Dani wants to kiss Jorge but Jorge is he knows his lips and mouth still taste like blood and he doesn't want Dani to taste that. And Dani is just like "Jorge Lorenzo, I've taste way already other if my body liquids on your lips. Now come here and give me a kiss.". He's NOT having that. No guilt under his watch. No no. And I am a sucker for this self view as a monster. This is something entirely fascinating to me. If you're intrested in that, the song "Monster" by Skillet is definitely very good to overthinking that. When I first started getting into werewolves that was my favorite inspiration and it's still very good to daydream about it.

Okay so. You DEFINITELY provided some good thoughts. REALLY appreciated. It was AMAZING. As you can see I had my fun with yapping hihi. I hope you're having a good day at work. I'd love to hear what you think of my yapping, if you want to.

[fiveeatseight]

hello!! essay anon here!

glad to know that you're aware of how FT fanboys (especially madridistas) talk about pedri because sometimes when i read their tweets i have to check what app im on. from the legendary backshots tweet to the constantly calling him a twink or ballerina or whatever. im starting to think that casuals have a better read on pedri than some of the fic writers *cough cough*

https://www.tumblr.com/fiveeatseight/773944319603343360/httpswwwtumblrcomfiveeatseight77388202487119?source=share

im really glad that the other anon agrees with me that in any other fandom pedri would 100% be written as a bottom. but i guess since we have a surplus of twinks SOMEBODY has to top... its just so silly that writers saw his maturity and control on the pitch and interpreted it as his actual bedroom preferences. i actually think his being older and more mature than his peers makes it more interesting/makes more sense for him to be a bottom instead of a top.

to be honest! not to be too woke but maybe sometimes we should let one of the other twinks top pedri, in my opinion he's bottom enough! his inherent bottom-ness kind of cancels out their twinky-ness.

https://x.com/pedrihqs/status/1881854403407458411

anyway. crazy sentence aside. the euros, oh my gosh. the entire tournament opened my eyes, and also exposed pedri as the giant babygirl he is.

https://x.com/gaviscum/status/1830809890043859385

i mean this video???? the quote???? THE LIKES??? this guy has crazy motion in the bottom economy. no wonder footy twittah constantly makes jokes about him getting backshots from ferran, they're probably right on the money. and don't even get me started on that video of him and unai... that literally looks straight out of a soap opera or when a husband returns home from war and greets his wife. i had to replay it a couple of times to make sure the cameraman SAW this, thought it was normal, and sent it to the editor.

https://www.tumblr.com/fiveeatseight/773984251748237312/pls-the-dani-olmopedri-dinamic-is-so-interesting?source=share

speaking of euros, really loving the olmo/pedri screenshots you shared. not a pairing i usually think about (probably because we have barely seen olmo play for barca </3) but now i really love the idea of them, maybe because they both are on my ideal barca starting xi. i agree with the anon on that post that it feels like pedri is easing olmo into his friendgroup like you would do with a new boyfriend xd, they seem really cute with each other. i hope we get to see more olmo in a barca shirt </3 esp with pedri

hi there again anon! ❤️

i swear they degrade pedri so HARD when they’re trying to slander him. especially when they bring in jude into comparison, his fans like to say how much of a “physical monster” jude is… and how in turn pedri is just a fidget spinner twink??? 😭

like okayyy closeted shippers. wouldnt be surprised if they jerk off to the thoughts of JUDE giving PEDRI backshots

about pedri being older making him more ideal as a bottom… couldn’t agree more. he has lots of control on the pitch, what better way to release his frustration other than give it up to someone in bed? submissive pedri >>>

bonus point if this someone is determined to crack through pedri’s calm and mature facade 🤌🏼 this is his best ship flavor for me

OMGFG I REMEMBER THIS VIDEO IT WAS CRAZY. my jaw dropped looking at that cause why is that giving mother during childbirth !!! and those are all her caring husbands !!!!

he’s genuinely such a wifey in his group i cant. but oh but absolutely you can see how much unai in particular LOVES pedri

he’s literally unai’s numero uno soft spot. and unai is pedri’s daddy. and yesss the video of them hugging after euros final will feed generations 😭

olmo and pedri relationship is certainly lovely! they have been good friends despite the media trying to pit them against each other (since both occupy the same position in the spain nt squad). but you can find how often they praise one another instead ❤️ it just makes sense that olmo will be in pedri’s friend group (pedri 100% dragged him). and also there are some moments where they do each other’s celes in barca as well! it’s so cute

[earlysunshines]

⚠️ WARNING - long ask ahead, don't tell I didn't warn, sorry in advance guys 🤟

IM ERWITING THIS AS I GO ON THE FIC, which means omw to work, which means ill be all day thinking of this dani BC THE "the woman has a few moles on the right side of her face" GOT ME GOOOD yeees I love mo dani little moles sooo much.

(this all may be out of place? is just comments bc I'll probably explode if I dont write it down already so,,,

A CHET BAKER CD?? OUCH you have a good taste (played jazz for a while after it cause I was already wanting to hear since hanni recent live listening to the lp she brought, that was such a great live)

loved the way you played with the shelter 'care' word bc of the kang going first AND it was so funny haerin going like "your girl is just that way if you want to know" she is a little menace

ok so beach jazz scene, just got chills from them looking at each other and singing the same line cause I put to play the song too yk immersion, AND ARRURGH THE slip up and calling dani beautiful oh pls n dani still staring like i can imagine her goofy little teasing smile at yn bc of It oh oh they're so in love,, im just getting started aren't I?

yn just noticing dani has been talking about her when minji mentioned likejjhh giiirl I knew since haerin mentioned the same line dani had said about yn eyes. n ooooh you didn't continue the twinflame book c'mon (loved the bit of it)!!! it was getting interesting

also really important part; the way you always highlight the action of dani tilting her head squeezes my chest everytime i. swear . im weak for it

THEY KSSED 😭😭😭oh dani's tatto they're- WELL THEY KISSED !!! UARGH cuties

okaywait was so engaged reading that I forget this here, so the bathroom scene remind ME about the time thing, tbh I think you did this all fluffy scenes on purpose making us forget abt the plot, funny how wait this about to be big, like since when I read the summary I got surprised with this concept of death time tattoo, usually is 'time until you meet your soulmate' kinda of thing SO never read this plot before AND since the start I was like, afraid? of finishing this one like idk it it all comes to a end yk? idk shit you made me thoughtful, going back to read

OOP CLOSE THE DOOR??🫣? IM SEATED oh to hold danielle waist and and...😔 "maybe im your twin flame"YOURE😭MO DANI 😭 YOU ARE arhg youre giving me anxiety my dear writer

NOO YN don't isolate yourself oh if you're giving us another heartbroken dani im about to cry

LAST THEN 48 HOURS??? WAIITWAIT I want my fluffy where is fufflism

just thinking abt hyein ms lee and haerin starring at yn like 'is she dead??' gave me such a good laugh ngl

oh you... you made they death day on 722? ah....I swear I thought they were going to die without knowing abt they're soulmates like urgagrhggggsgghh lemme finish this up

before I cry with this little happy alternative universe I wanna say that I LOVED the way everything evolves around the beach, like since her parents till yn on th way of dyin,g it felt so right, the 'day off' where they spent all day gave me a thought like 'oh ms.lee surely planned it bc she knew dani walked on the morning' for me it was planned☝️🤓 (beabadoobee - beaches) <3

...to be honest I dont even know what to say to this one bc this all was just comments so yeah..im...this was good, good. literally spend all my shift thinking about finishing this one, the concept really got me good,, I.. maybe smth personal but i've been so...overloaded for a while so this one hitted soo close and made me want to,, live.. I think I just need a mo dani marsh in my life too

anyways😮‍💨 #really great, #changed my life, #made me cry, they're so many thoughts going on as a write this.. you're truly amazing. wish you a amazing day/week/weekend you deserve the best only!! 🫶

-with many admiration, 🤟

for this long wonderful lovely feedback i will provide. alonnnggg. reply and details plus insights HOORAAY im so glad to hear from u i absolutely love your responses u make me smile always

NO YWAAHAH HER MOLES I LOVE THEEMEMM they’re my fav feature other than her long eye lashes and smile and wait i love every feature muahahhaha

i loooove chet baker i have a like 8 hour playlist that has a lot of his music on there along with others ima. fiend for jazz i live for jazz festivals omfg and i need to find clips of hanni listening to music what!! i didn’t know this happened on her live…

no bc my fav thing ab these fics is that it’s lit up to me i thought i was the funniest person adding “kangs kare” im so #wordplay put me in coach

OMFG JAZZ Scene has some more behind it actually no it doesn’t i lied but basically i was like trying to just write and listen and the jazz playlist was lit on and CHET BAKER played and it was it’s always you and omfg i just ugh i started daydreaming and stopped writing for a moment LLOOL idk jazz makes me really lovey and dovey and emotional i think it’s beautiful it’s like a warm embrace or your lover tracing their fingers over your skin

aahahhshdh i think dani si the type of person to not shut up ab someone she likes and like she won’t even know she likes them yet but everyone around her knows LOL and mmmm detail the first thing dani said was “you have pretty eyes” and i tried to make that the first thing she said in the ending bc they’re twin flames and shit and aahhh repetition and similarity in universes … i’m rambling

ALSO this is so embarassing i had to literally search the difference between soulmates and twin flames and read a small article about twin flames and EVEN WORSE i had to make it sound professional and whatnot bc i had to quote on quote make a book in my fic ?-?:?: if yk what im saying but yeah that was a pain… cannot go on any longer i started making shit up FORREAAALLL all of that was pulled out of my ass i swear

NO BC PPL TILTINT THEIR HESDA IS SO IMPORTANT TO ME AND JUST PERKING YHRIR HEADS LIKE ANY MOVEMENT OF PPLS HEADA is so special to me it shows attention to details and emotion and desire to KNOW and be present in the moment and it’s just… so reassuring despite it being such a small gesture and i have realized over the years that i do it subconsciously with people i love and strangers that i click withINLVOE TJAT DETAIL i will use it in every fic ever idc if it’s repetitive i don’t care. i often tilt my head and whatnot bc im actually very nonverbal in real life usually (im just tired all the time) so i usually hum or give short responses and use my head to gesture the rest of what i need to convey liek this is so important to me guys…

I LOOOOVE writing kissing scenes but also no bc they get repetitive and yeah and also that tattoo hehehehsjwhhd i had to soft launch dani having the same tattoo LOL

i tried to make the whole death thing a little less repetitive and kind of brush over it until it got worse and worse and more serious and the whole concept was cheaply influenced by a movie where the two love interests know that they’re dying bc of their sickness but then i added a set, concrete date for dani and yn to die LOL idk lowk my creative juices were being juiced with this one… i was THINKING … and yeah i tried to fit in as many details and things that you’d have to remember form the beginning or middle idk i just rly like how i structured this one (the pacing is stilll iffy to me but wtv( bc i tried to have things tie together well and whatnot

makeout scene had me giggling and blushing while reading it was inspired by the anon who sent a makeout ask like smth ab “imagine making out w dani for the first time” and originally it wasn’t going to be there but i think it added to their bond and tension and lalalala yeah

no i couldn’t make them.die without knowing they’re meant to be but i had to try to figure out how to make the reveal angsty and i was like might as well have them figure out before they die and SOEAKJNG OF WHICH it took me a good amount of time while at work and making drinks to think of a way for them to die idk this story was so spontaneous and changed a lotLOL

and yes the whole beach thing was lowk inspired by summer strike bc i like the small town environment and how cute the beach is i haven’t even finished the drama im on ep like eight and haven’t watched since a few months ago LOL but i think the beach is just so calming and small towns r just sooo relaxing and nice compared tot he city (that being said i will always be a city girl…) idk beach city energy is just so wonderful and fits dani bc she grew up in newcastle and her whole vlog kinda gave me ideas for the world building and whatnot

i’m glad u love it!! and also just to mention ab the whole personal thing and living

i project a lot into my work and what i put down on the doc. idk if u can tell but i see a lot of beauty in things because i feel like its not worth dying if youre missing out on the intimacy of being loved and loving back plus just general interactions and platonic bonds built (ex: hyein and mrs lee) so like ywaaahh im glad you want to live!! there’s so much out there to experience and trust i understand exactly how u feel i looooowk have a lot of my own problems but writing helps me point out my dreams and things i find wonderful which makes me happy and then ppl enjoy the things that i romanticize and it makes me so so so so happy LOL

did u actually cry like many ppl r saying they cried or shed a tear and idk if i beleive it bc is it REALLT. that sad and emotional (maybe i just critics my writing tm) but yeah IM SO HAPPY THAT U ENJOYED!!!

u have a great week too you’re so sweet and i always love seeing your asks and feedback seriously, thank u!!!!

[cellsshapedlikestars]

Don’t worry about answering this is you don’t want to. I know you don’t like fandom wank. But, if you feel like it, do you think someone could make those endpoints work? Bran as king and Jon at the Wall even though there’s a big old hole in it and Dany deliberately burning King’s Landing before Jon or Arya kills her, is that an ending any writer, no matter their skill, could sell to the hardcore fans? I don’t think the fandom would accept it even if GRRM wrote it.

lololol I deleted my post already anon, so for those of you who didn't read it - I was once again whining about how d&d fucked up the last bunch of seasons and every character. it's not a new take, just something I was high thinking in the shower, so I deleted it bc it wasn't productive.

But I'll answer this, because I think it's interesting.

In short - no.

(Beneath the cut for a longer explanation and just a whole bunch of my ranty thoughts. pls remember I am no asoiaf scholar and I haven't studied every aspect of the books or read every meta. These are just my opinions.)

Longer - at this point, too much time has gone by, there is literally no way George can please... probably even half of his fanbase, no matter what he does. From what I can tell, the fandom too divided and there's so much hatred between stan groups (which I do find ridiculous, but it is what it is). People have cemented their own ending in their heads after decades of the fandom existing without an official ending, and I can see a lot of them not liking that they're wrong. Some people have spent 30 years with their theories, it's sunk cost fallacy. Case in point, the show ending being written off as fanfiction by a lot of fans.

which, tangent, I get. I GET why d stans don't believe the ending, because it was so poorly executed. I truly do understand their denial, because the show gaslit the audience for soooooo long that she was the girlboss hero and then seemed to do a 180 at the end. What was that post I just reblogged the other day? I don't hate villains, I hate when the narrative tries to convince you the bad person is actually good.

now, you asked if anyone could make those endpoints work, but I don't actually think most of them are the real endpoints? I think they were D&D giving up and not trying, or going for Shock Value™. But for fun, I'm gonna go by endpoints I think are most to least likely, and my thoughts on how they could happen and how D&D fucked them up.

Bran as king: Confirmed by grrm. How he'll make this work, I have no idea. I genuinely didn't see it coming tbh. I thought the "bittersweet" ending would be Jon being forced to take the crown in KL. like it's a good ending for everyone else, but for him it's misery. I'm sure grrm has his plans, and I'd be interested to see how he pulls it off. This end point does not disappoint me and I'm not mad at being wrong, but I can see a HUGE swath of people HATING it. specifically D stans.

D&D blew this hard. They cut Bran out of an entire season, making him seem to the audience like a lesser character and not important. They made him a robot. Why am I rooting for show!Bran? Also, I will never, ever get over that line - who has a better story than Bran the Broken? I don't know Tyrion, literally everyone else?? JON DIED AND CAME BACK TO LIFE. ahem.

(as far as I'm aware, Bran as king is the only ending grrm has confirmed?? correct me if I'm wrong.)

D as the big bad: I guess grrm hasn't officially confirmed this, but... he's sort of confirmed it, riiiiight? He compared dragons to nuclear weapons. The show has her as the villain (poorly executed or not). When I gave hotd a shot, literally the opening lines were about the Targs bringing themselves down immediately after name dropping her. Seems pretty solid to me. D&D just refused to commit to her villain arc because they didn't want to alienate their audience that they'd gaslit into thinking she was the hero, and they were seemingly obsessed with Shock Value™ twists.

Dany burning KL: I think the burning of KL is going to happen, and it seems like Dany is the only one to really do it? Unclear how it will happen, I'm sure people have theories. What the show didn't have was Aegon, so who knows how he'll factor in.

Arya sailing west: I think there's a lot of foreshadowing for it. It fits her nature. I think this is very likely to happen and I guess D&D handled it ok. They did ruin her character, though, by making her a literal mass murderer. But yayyyyyy feminism I guess.

Theon sacrificing himself for Bran: Theon's was the only arc I think the show did well. They ruined it at the end by having Theon literally throw himself onto the Night King's sword, which was so fucking stupid, but the arc itself is poignant and fits his character. While he can't ever redeem himself to Robb, he can redeem himself to Robb's siblings, and considering he once pretended to kill Bran, I think this is solid.

Cersei and Jaime dying together: this was my theory even before the show ending, and I think it fits their characters. They cannot live without each other, no matter if they hate each other. They're too deeply entwined in each other. Now, I personally wanted Cersei to be taken captive and put in the black cells to be publicly burned later, and then Jaime shows up and mercy kills her and then himself bc he can't live without her.

But I guess getting bonked on the head by some avoidable rocks is also a way to do it

Sansa as QitN: I'll be honest and say I hated this ending because she ended up alone. Sansa, who has wanted nothing more than family and safety since book 1, ends up completely alone. Even Brienne, her sworn shield, leaves her. but she's a queen, so yayyyy feminism I guess.

I can see her as queen, but I can also see her ending up as queen regent for Rickon, because I'm not totally convinced Rickon dies? like in the show he just randomly shows up and gets captured by Ramsay and it just feels like that isn't his arc in the books. Maybe I'm wrong. But I could see D&D having the endpoint of Sansa as regent, but they killed Rickon off already for Shock Value™, and so they went oops! and made her queen.

Now, there is a part of me that thinks she will not be queen or queen regent, because how does one break off and declare independence from their own brother? Feels like that would destabilize his rule and not give people much faith in him. It just seems really strange to me, but I guess it could happen, since Northern Independence is such a huge theme and it would be weird if it didn't happen?? Does Bran just let her secede? And it doesn't make Dorne or the Iron Islands try.... That's the part in the show that literally did not make sense to me. Sansa was like bye, I'm taking the north, and no one else spoke up about that.

I'd be totally fine with her as queen (if she has someone!!) but I can see a gooooood chunk of the fandom absolutely hating this. surprise.

Brienne as Kingsguard: while I like it for narrative purposes, because she deserves it, I just can't see her leaving Sansa, if she becomes as close to Sansa as she does on the show? If Sansa is queen, I could see her as Sansa's Queensguard. But what does she have in KL? The south didn't ever respect her, why would she want to go back. I think D&D put this in so they could have the ending shot of her writing in the book about Jaime for the shippers

Jon at the Wall: the only reason he went to the Wall in the show was because Grey Worm demanded it? And then left. So. You know, real enforceable. So stupid. Genuinely the worst writing of all the endings, I think, the logic made zero sense there. Now, that could be because they'd written themselves into a corner, but knew Jon ended up at the Wall, and had to force it?

But to me, it's like - what was the point of his resurrection, then? In the show, he doesn't even kill the Night King (we'll get to that). He kills D, sure, but... He's also the reason she succeeds in Westeros to begin with. So what, he gets resurrected, causes havoc, fixes the havoc he caused, and then is sent away to a Wall that serves no purpose anymore? WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE WALL SERVE. The Others are defeated, there's a big ol' hole in it, and they've allied with the Free Folk to an extent. How does the Watch continue on?

I guess he could self-banish. I know the show sort of makes the implication that he goes off with the Free Folk, but in the books, he doesn't really like FF culture? He's appalled by a lot of the violence in it. I can't see him wanting to live that way.

Brai.me: don't get me wrong, I like Brai.me. I think it's cute, in fanon. In canon, I think Brienne is too good for him. I don't see their relationship going romantic or sexual. I think Brienne is who Jaime desperately wants to be (but Cersei is who he keeps being pulled back to). Them having sex was 100% for the shippers

Jo/ner.ys: I'm putting all the punctuation in that. don't need them finding me somehow. Anyway. I don't think this happens, at least not as a true romance. They're on opposite continents and there's not a ton of time left, but more than that - and I know I've said this before - I can't see Jon "hates seeing people burned alive" Snow falling in love with D "loves to burn people alive" T. Could it be a political thing? Maybe, but I also could see her having an alliance with Aegon.

I think there's 2 possible reasons for this being in the show and presented as an actual romance. 1) it was supposed to be that pol!Jon theory, but they chickened out (same with jonsa & a love triangle, I think they chickened out bc of the incest. I think now with hotd being incest central and fans loving it, they wouldn't balk anymore). 2) just the spectacle of it? people have been theorizing this for years, why not give it to them? see above, brai.me

Tyrion as Hand: bleh. I know the fandom loves him and he was clearly D&D's fave, but grrm has said Tyrion is the most morally gray character, and I can't see him letting Tyrion get everything he's always wanted, you know? People think asoiaf is grimdark, but I can't imagine grrm punishing Jon with banishment while giving Tyrion a cushy position with lots of power.

I've read the theory that Tyrion ends up at the Wall, which I like thematically, but again, WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE WALL SERVE. Is it just a penal colony at that point?? someone smarter than me, tell me.

Grey Worm & Missandei condoning/encouraging D: hated it. Take the only characters of color to have speaking lines (i'm 99% sure) in the last season and turn them vengeful and murderous (especially grey worm). Throw their characters under the bus to absolve D of blame

Arya killing the Night King: no. he doesn't exist in the books, first, and even in the show it made zero narrative sense. It was just a Shock Value™ twist. You thought it was gonna be hero Jon, hmmmmmm? WRONG. I've said it on here before, but my hope is that it's Sam that brings down the Others in the book somehow.

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Did I forget anything, anon? This probably veered wildly from the point of the ask, but oh well, it was fun. (I had a jonsa section in here at first, but then I remembered this is show canon ending stuff and that was not canon sorry fellow jonsas. I obvioulsy want it to be the ending bc the shipper brainrot is real, buuuuuut...)