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okayy so im plannin some tingssss TELL ME IF U WANT STICKERS AND ILL TRY TA SEE IF I CAN MAKE ANYTHING THIS SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I just thought of Rafe with a sleepy gf reader who falls asleep anywhere anytime. His truck, midsummers, party’s, in the middle of a convo. Idk why but I love the concept
omg i absolutley LOVE this concept!
A/N: I APOLOGISE FOR LATE UPLOAD. I HAD MAJOR WRITERS BLOCK, BUT IM BACK NOW!
Sleepy Girl
request are open <33
pairing: rafe cameron x sleepy!reader [est. relationship]
warnings: none i think lol? [lemme know if you find any]
summary: numerous scenarios of when rafe cameron takes care of his sleepy girl
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in his truck
It had been half an hour since you had told rafe that you were tired before ending the two hour long facetime call you two had been on. It had been half an hour of you trying to get to sleep. Despite being tired, you couldn't manage to fall asleep which was surprising for you as you'd usually be out within minutes after your head hit the pillows. After a few more minutes of struggling you decided to see if rafe was still awake.
*messages with rafe*
About ten minutes later you got a text from rafe saying he was outside. While he would usually come get you himself, at night you told him it'd be best if waits in the car so you guys don't wake your sleeping parents. "Hi beautiful" you heard him say as you got into rafe's truck and put your seatbelt on before he could ask you to. His free hand immediately found it's place on your thigh like it always did during your drives. "Hi, thanks for this" you blushed at his compliment from seconds ago. "Anything for you" he smiled as he started driving with no indication of where he was going. This wasn't the first time the two of you would go on drives when one of you was restless (almost always you) so as usual he would just drive around the obx until you both called it a night.
You continued on your drive having small, random, meaningless but interesting conversations as some random song quietly played through the speakers in the background. As you heard rafe talk about his new project with his dad at cameron development, you couldn't help but smile at him, feeling proud and happy at how much his relationship with his dad has improved and how his attitude towards life in general has changed for the better. The sound of his voice and his thumb rubbing against your thigh lulled you sleep causing rafe to gently pull over and place the blanket he kept in the back over you. He looked over at your sleepy form at a red light and couldn't help but to admire you "love you, my sleepy girl"
at parties (imagine this in a reality where kooks and pouges get along lol)
Kelce had thrown yet another end of school party despite it already being halfway into summer. The teens of the obx were always looking for an excuse to have houseparties, keggers, get togethers, you name it. If it had booze, drugs and people their age, they were down. Not that you were complaining though, you loved having a reason to get all dressed up and spend a night with your best friends and boyfriend. Although you were quite tired today and when vocalising this to rafe and your friends they all replied with something along the lines of "when aren't you". JJ in particular begged you to come and dared you to not fall asleep before 2 am. After a little persuasion and a bet formed between you and jj stating that the loser cleans the others car/bike for the next month, you were down.
At around 1:00 am you all (you, rafe, sarah, kie, cleo, john b, jj, pope, kelce, topper, barry and some other mutual friends) had found yourselves sitting on kelce's rather large balcony alternating between random convos and playing stupid party games such as truth or dare. You were sat in rafe's lap with his arms around you, one of his hands stroking your thigh whilst the other held a beer.
Feeling yourself grow tired you moved your face to bury it into rafe's chest almost forgetting about your bet with jj before you hear barry's voice booming. "YO THORNTON" causing jj to divert his attention away from a clingy kie "looks like mrs country clubs called it a night, pay up" you heard causing you to jolt your head up earning a groan from barry and a chuckle from jj and rafe. "Are you guys betting on me?" you asked putting two and two together. "Hey it's not just us, everyone is, even your boyfriend" jj pointed above you at rafe to get the blame off of himself.
This pulled whatever sleep you had in you away as you sat up and looked at rafe who had a sheepish smile on his face. "Explain" you said staring at rafe. "Well um-" he stuttered earning giggles from kelce and topper who rarely saw rafe at a loss for words "we all bet on who we think is gonna win the bet between you and jj" he explained. "Topper, kelce, john b, and cleo think you're gonna win and kie, barry, pope and sarah think jj's gonna win" he finished. "And you? who do you think is gonna win rafe?" you asked interested to hear his answer.
Some giggles from sarah and john b had you guessing you weren't going to like his answer. "well... baby you know i love you, but my money's on jj" he smiled down at you again with that sheepish smile. "really?" you laughed "you're betting against me?" you fake pouted, not really caring about something so silly. "Sorry baby" rafe laughed kissing your forehead. "Well imma stay up now just so i can see you lose" you smirked up at him "and so i don't have to clean jj's bike for the next month" you added on.
A while later you began to feel sleepy again as you drowned out the conversation between rafe and a few of the others. You looked up at rafe with sleepy eyes and he could swear that he'd never seen anything cuter. "Is it pass two?" you asked him in a pleading voice that had him send a quiet prayer to God that it had passed two so you could stop torturing yourself. He checked his watch, annoyed to see that it was 1:41 am meaning you couldnt sleep for another twenty minutes. Not having the heart to break it to you he just nodded causing you to bury your face into him as you layed against him, sleep immediately taking over you.
He bought his finger up to his lips and looked at everyone else with a death glare, a silent threat to everyone to not ruin it by telling you the actual time or else. He looked back at you sleeping then to jj who had a smirk on his face as he'd just won the bet. Little did jj know that there was no way on earth rafe was gonna let his girl wash jj's bike causing rafe to smirk to himself thinking of how he would deal with jj tomorrow, not caring how annoyed the blonde would get, you won't have to lift a finger. And that money he won from the other bet? He was already planning on how he was gonna take you out with that money and treat you the following day. "goodnight my pretty, sleepy girl" he whispered as he placed one final kiss into the top of your head before resuming his conversation with everyone else.
at midsummers
So far, midsummers had been everything you dreamt and more. You wore a stunning emerald green satin dress which complimented your skin tone and eye colour so beautifully. Your parents were so happy to see you with rafe enjoying midsummers remembering their own first midsummers together whilst the camerons wouldn't stop complimenting you. You had always been family to them being sarah's bestfriend since you both were three but they loved you even more after you started dating rafe.
The hours flew by as you danced with your parents, kie, sarah, wheezie, rafe and a few of your other friends. You even shared a dance with ward as he thanked you for bringing his son back to him. After a while you, kie and sarah went to grab a drink away from your parents hoping to get something alcoholic into your systems. After a while, not many people were left. Your parents had gone home without you once you told them you'd be staying at tannyhill with rafe and sarah tonight. You, kie and sarah were talking when you saw sarah roll her eyes at something behind you before feeling a pair of hands grab your waist. You turned you head to see rafe smiling at you pulling you away from sarah and kie leading you to the dance floor.
A slow song was playing as you both slowly danced to the music with your arms wrapped around his neck and your head was rested against his chest. Rafe's hands stayed at your waist and hips as he moved your body with his bringing his lips down to your ear "have i told you how beautiful you look tonight?" he whispered. This caused you to giggle "only about a milion times". He chuckled at that and you felt butterflies emerge in your stomach at the rumbles from his chest "well that's not enough, lets make it a million and one" he started before peppering some kisses into your hair "you look gorgeous princess" he finished with one final kiss. You smiled feeling nothing but comfort in that moment in that calm atmosphere "i love you" you whispered earning an "i love you more" from rafe. You continued to dance as you felt your eyes get heavier, sleep taking over you. Rafe also felt your body get heavier as you gave into the sleep leading him to gently carry you to his truck, "let's get you home my sleepy girl"
at a picnic date/mid convo
"oh my god rafe, this is so cute" you beamed at rafe as he took out a little picnic blanket and placed it over the grass "i know, you want some strawberries?" rafe smirked in a cocky tone, proud of himself for coming up with a successful date. "yes please" you said sitting down next to him. As soon as you sat down you felt rafe's arms pull you into his lap and before you could say anything to object, he stuffed a strawberry into your mouth.
You two proceeded to talk about many things going on in the obx particularly your night at midsummers just yesterday. With your head in rafes lap, you looked up at him whilst he sat upright against a tree peering down at you and mindlessly playing with your hair. When rafe started describing his favourite moments from midsummers, trying find a few pictures topper had managed to snap, he heard your hums get quieter and less frequent as the seconds passed. Shrugging his brows he moves his phone away so your face was no longer blocked, only to find you sleeping with a small smile on your face. He couldn't help chuckle, not only at the small bit of whipped cream on your nose, but also at how his sleepy girl had fallen asleep on yet another date. Slowy, he quietly snapped a picture of you before putting his phone to the side whilst dropping his head down to place a gentle kiss on your forehead, bringing it back up as he continued to admire you.
This was a picture rafe loved.
An image he wanted imprinted in his mind.
His favouite sight.
"sleep well my sleepy girl"
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What awaits you in June?
Attention! This reading is for entertainment purposes only. This tarot reading does not give a 100% guarantee that all the described situations will occur or being ultimate truth. You build your own life and destiny and only you know yourself best.
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Pile 1: Now you may feel that you are in an indecisive state, in a situation that has not developed for a long time. Because of this stagnation you could not do anything, find a solution, you could generally feel at a dead end, as if you had no answers to the questions that have been tormenting you for a long time. In June you will finally be able to get out of this state, an opportunity will open up for you to do this, perhaps the situation will move forward and you will find some kind of solution or they will help you, lend a hand. The cards show that to a greater extent your condition is related to the situation with a person dear to you, it can be someone from your family or close circle, a friend or lover. In any case, here you will resolve the impasse, everything will be solved safely for you. The cards also show that your decision will affect your life and your well-being for the better, you will finally feel like a stone fell from the soul, you will feel easier to breathe, you will feel happiness, some freedom, peace, tranquility, background anxiety will disappear.
This month you will also meet a new person, they will be very friendly, open to you, sociable, quite attractive, has an alluring charisma, handsome enough, knows his stuff, is quite capable and not someone who worries about little things. As the cards show, it will be a good acquaintance, you will have a good time together, it will be interesting for you to talk to each other, however, from your side I see a certain distance, as if you are distrustful of a person and are in no hurry to open up to them, share something personal. Here is about the initial stage of acquaintance, when you just get to know each other, make up the first impression of a person, here we are talking about a slow rapprochement with each other.
You will spend the remaining days of the month quite calmly and peacefully, you can often see your close friends, family or your siblings. It will be a good time, without quarrels and misunderstandings, you will really feel comfortable and safe.
Pile 2: You will be "in great demand" at the beginning of the month! Not a day will pass without meeting someone, a lot of people will want to spend time with you and will often invite you to meetings and, judging by the cards, you will accept their invitations. The maps show that you will often gather with a group of close friends but I can't say that you will have a big company, rather only those people whom you have known for a long time and with whom you have built a strong connection. You can also be invited on a romantic date! Someone can make a marriage proposal this month and someone can be invited to a wedding. In any case, you will have busy days here at the beginning of summer.
Also this month, you will go on a trip that you have planned with another person. For some, it will also be a business trip. As the cards show, all the goals that you planned to accomplish during this trip will be fulfilled, all the places that you would like to visit will be visited, in a word, your plans and wishes will be realized. But there may be a quarrel, misunderstanding with the person with whom you went and partly this will spoil your mood and positive attitude, take this into account!
At the end of the month, you may have a joint project with people that will need to be done and submitted before the deadline. Some may have exams during this period or final tests. As the cards show, you will throw all the forces into solving these tasks, preparing and your efforts will be justified, you will get a good result, the one you wanted to see! But at the same time you will feel a lot of fatigue and some apathy, so you should pay attention to your rest and recuperation. Moreover, you had quite busy days before that.
Pile 3: At the beginning of the month you will have thoughts about changing something: this may concern both your social circle and your environment, you may want to settle in a new place, you will want to change your job, field of activity. But mostly the cards show that many will move and for some it will be a forced move when you are already happy in this place, but by coincidence and for certain reasons you need to move. You will leave past connections, past friends, you may feel sad because of this, but there is no feeling that you will now be alone in a new place. On the contrary, you are driven by curiosity, interest, since you are essentially expanding your horizons, it will be interesting for you to explore your new place, you will adapt relatively quickly.
However one of your loved ones will not tolerate such a distance between you, perhaps it will even be your lover. This person will begin to respond coldly, will tell little about himself and little ask about you, will often disappear. It is very difficult for them without you, they are sad and worried, worried that your relationship will get worse, will not be so strong. You may also feel tired because of moving or some other kind of change of things, as it is emotionally and physically exhausting, you may not be able to keep in touch with your loved ones because of this condition, as you need to regain strength, adapt to a new place.
At the end of the month, you will feel that it is very difficult for you but you will be able to get out of this difficult state. Remember that the transition to a new stage of life is always difficult and need time to deal with this, do not rush yourself and give yourself time to get used to it. As the cards show, you will definitely cope with everything and feel better, you will begin to feel a surge of vital energy, some activity will appear in you, a desire to do something. The cards also show that you will devote enough time to work or your hobby, you will be satisfied with what you are doing and you will feel pleasure. It will also help you improve your condition.
Thank you for reading! I will be glad of any feedback 🖤
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You Make My Heart Fluttered
Hi guys!
This is a new Luna one, it's been a long time to be honest. And with all that happened those past days we need some fluff!
This is like a 4+1, so four times Lucy almost say « I love you » to Ona and the first time she said it.
Please enjoy ♥
TW : None, I think? Let me know if you find something.
21 May 2023
Lucy is biting her nails, scared to be spotted by some fans or the journalists. She has no reason to come to see this derby officially, she’s playing in Barcelona since this summer and was in Lyon before that. She hasn’t told anyone that she will be here, except the person she wanted to surprise maybe.
She regrets not to have been able to see Ona’s face, when she sent her the picture with her plane ticket and the one to entry to the stadium for this game. Ona and her aren’t really together, they are taking their time even if several kisses were already exchanged. But it was hard for them to see each other as much as they wanted. Lucy feels frustrated, even if she can call Ona when she wants and even if they are texting almost all day long.
Lucy wants for discretion soon get ripped, because no one other than Sarina Wiegman is suddenly patting her shoulder.
“Well, hello there! I didn’t know you would be here. Would you like to come sit with me?”
Lucy groans inside but still offer a smile to her coach and stand up to follow her. She was wearing only black clothes and was with her back turning Sarina, how the hell this woman was able to recognize her?
“It’s great that you take time to come support your national teammates. So, which one are you for? City or United?”
Several weeks before, Lucy would have answer Manchester City. But now her… situationship is playing in United and of course Lucy wants her to win. But there is no way in the world that she will say that.
“I’m neutral here, they both have amazing players.”
Especially number 2 of Manchester United, Lucy thought. And when the game starts, Lucy can’t help but keep looking at Ona. She’s amazed by the way she plays, her rapidity, her strength and her perfect vision of the game. She makes feel like everything is simple, but Lucy knows very well that it isn’t.
She smirks behind her hand when United scores in the very first moment of the game, her chin resting in her palm. It’s just before the end of the first half that Sarina talks to her about something not football related.
“So. Which one are you in relationship with?”
Lucy turns wide eyes in her direction and Sarina rolls her eyes while smiling.
“I know you.”
“Well… Ona Batlle, number 2. She plays for United.”
“And Spain. I know her, very talented and precious for her teams. I hope we won’t have to play against her and Spain during the World Cup.”
The World Cup is in several months and that’s why Sarina is here to look some players, Lucy realizes. It would have been clever for her to think about it before.
“We’re not in a relationship though” Lucy mumbles.
“How’s that?”
“We are seeing each other’s, but we are not together.”
“Your generation is too complicated. Why in the world two people interested in each other would not be together if they can?”
Lucy smirks and shrug. The point of view of Sarina is probably the same as her mother’s would be, to be honest. But Lucy never talked about Ona to her parents for now. She talked about it to her brother though, so maybe they know already about the Spaniard.
“It’s a real question by the way. Is it because you want to have other possibilities if you met someone else?”
“What? No, of course not.”
Lucy frowns while Sarina shrugs. They never told specifically to the other that they don’t want to meet someone else, for Lucy it was obvious. Is it the same for Ona? She hopes so, she never even asked herself the question.
When she received a picture from Jordan about her in the stands, she knew that people would know that she was here. They don’t have any possibility to know why, though.
Lucy still has a strange feeling in her stomach after the game. She looks with pride when Ona received the MVP trophy and she discreetly make her way where Ona asked her to meet her.
The Spaniard is glowing when she finds Lucy almost twenty minutes later.
“Holà Guapa” Lucy says, making Ona chuckles.
They hug each other and Ona takes the time to breath Lucy scent before letting her go.
“I’m so happy you’re here. Thanks for coming” Ona smiles.
“My pleasure”
“Are you hungry? We can go eat somewhere or go to my apartment to order in.”
They decide to go to Ona’s, thinking that they will be more at ease there. At least they won’t take the risk to met someone they know or fans that would post pictures of them on Internet. And to be honest, Lucy would rather have Ona only for her.
She loves Ona’s apartment. It’s pretty, tidy and smells like Ona. She feels like she finds back a small part of Barcelona in Manchester. They choose what to eat before Ona disappears in her bathroom to take a shower. She doesn’t know that she let Lucy alone with her thoughts, the idea of Ona seeing someone else burning in her head and stomach.
She’s not good at hiding her feelings, so Ona realizes as soon as she comes back that there is something wrong.
“Are you ok?” she asks with concern.
“Yeah, I’m fine” Lucy lies with ability.
That’s what she thought. Ona raises an eyebrow while looking at her and Lucy bites her lips nervously. She scared about what that scare means. She knows very well how much Ona impacts her, but after her breakup with Keira she didn’t want to get close to someone else again. But it was before Ona came in her life and flops all her decisions upside down.
“It’s just…” she begins while Ona sits next to her. “Do you see someone? Other than me, I mean?”
Ona looks at her blankly before answering. The silence went only for five seconds but Lucy feels like it was three hours.
“Of course not. Who told you that?”
The younger one is frowning, and Lucy shakes her head softly.
“No one. It’s just that we never really said it to each other, so I was wondering if you were still interested about maybe meeting someone else?”
Lucy raises her eyes on Ona when she takes her hand in hers. Lucy has a cocky and funny side, but Ona realizes very soon how much her breakup made marks in her comportment.
“I am not interested in meeting someone else. I want to explore what we have and see where we can go together, if that’s what you want too.”
“It is” Lucy sighs with relief.
She feels like the world is suddenly of off her shoulders and it’s with a new assurance that she takes Ona chin in her hand to kiss her. It’s probably too soon to be in love with Ona. But she knows she is. She could easily say “I love you” but it’s really to soon.
July 2023
When Lucy proposed her to go on holidays together, Ona doesn’t have to think twice about it. Enjoying the sun with her favorite person? What can she ask for more? They choose to go to Mallorca, Lucy asked Mariona about somewhere they can go without being with a bunch of tourists.
They rent a villa with a swimming pool and a private beach, and Ona is almost bouncing on her feet while walking when she arrives at the Island airport. She came right from Manchester and Lucy from Barcelona, the English woman arrived early this morning while Ona’s flight was delay and is finally here at almost lunch time.
She’s spotted by some fans who ask a picture with her, before leaving the crowd of the airport to enter in a black car with tainted windows.
“Hola Guapa” Lucy smiles when Ona has closed the door.
“Hola Beautiful”
Lucy kisses her and Ona feels her heart fluttered like every time they kiss. They haven’t had seen each other from weeks now, both being very busy with the end of the season of their club and the World Cup who is coming.
They kiss some more times before Lucy starts the car to take her girl home. She can’t help but smile in front of Ona’s happiness, her personality having the same effect on her than a sun bath. She has to admit that she loses herself while Ona is still chatting about something, but only because she’s starring at the beauty she has in front of her.
“You’re losing it” Lucy said to herself
But then she takes another look at Ona. The younger girl is smiling while talking with animation about her flight. She is talking with her hands, the veins on it being sinful in Lucy’s mind. Her naturally tan skin is like glowing in the sun and she can’t wait for Ona to actually get a tan to see more freckles in her skin just to be able to kiss more of them.
Lucy knows very well that she couldn’t have ask for someone better than Ona. Everything seems easy and simple with her. She accepts each part of Lucy without any conditions or questions. Lucy knows that she’s not perfect, far from it, but Ona makes her feel like she is.
It’s a real ego boost and probably what she needed right now.
She retains the “I love you” burning her lips when Ona looks at her with her smile and ask “What?” when she realizes how much Lucy is starring.
“Nothing. You’re just so beautiful” Lucy answers.
Ona blush violently, making Lucy chuckles. She’s not playing fair maybe, but she likes seeing Ona becoming shy in front of her.
When they arrived at the villa, Lucy takes Ona’s suitcases in their room before grabbing her hand to show her every part of it. She had time to visit them while waiting for her.
“Everything is perfect” Ona smiles when they are near the swimming pool, in front of the beach and the sea.
“It is” Lucy smiles.
Ona, standing one meter in front of Lucy, doesn’t realize that Lucy isn’t looking at the view but at her, her eyes shining with love and admiration.
I love you, she thought.
20 August 2023
They lost. Lucy is still processing to admit that information, even if she saw the Spanish team receiving the trophy, this asshole of Vilda beaming like he was the one winning it. The only positive thing for Lucy is that the Spanish women will be heard about what they are enduring because of him and the RFEF. She’s pretty sure that the kiss stolen to Jenni Hermoso will make talk too.
She’s sitting on the bench, where the English team was during the game, silver around her neck. No one is next to her; she doesn’t know where Ona is. Lucy isn’t proud of her reaction when Ona tried to approach her after the final whistle. She almost run away from her, even if they promised each other that nothing would change their bond, no matter what the result is.
But she did, and she saw the sadness in her girlfriend’s eyes when she let Mariona recomfort her several minutes after. Ona made the choice not to come for her again and went to find Jenni and Alexia, the last one understanding pretty well what was going on. Ona hasn’t need to explain anything to Alexia, the pink hair woman just passed an arm around her shoulders to give her some comfort.
Lucy knows that Alexia has a soft spot for Ona, when she learned what was between them, she threatened the English woman not to move one ear otherwise she will be very hurt.
“Let her several minutes, she needs time to process. It’s not against you, don’t worry” Alexia wisely said.
Ona only hums in answer, playing without really thinking with her Captain’s fingers. It was before going for the Cup, and now Ona is in the changing room with her teammates and all she can think about is Lucy. She doesn’t know where she is, last time she checks, Lucy was sitting on the English’s bench.
She finally manages to escape Cata and her beers to go on the pitch. She doesn’t know if Lucy would have wait (for her or for anything) but she still has to be sure.
Ona doesn’t know if she’s more relieved or nervous to see that Lucy was still here, in her jacket, looking at the empty stands. She gulps before taking tentative steps towards her girlfriend and she froze when Lucy turns her eyes on her when she spots her.
Ona’s hesitation breaks Lucy’s heart a little more and she half stands up when she talks.
“Ona… Please, come.”
The steps the Spaniard takes less shy now and Lucy is looking at her with tearful eyes.
“I’m so sorry, I shouldn’t have – “
“Don’t” cuts Ona while sitting next to her. “It’s ok, I understand.”
Ona’s empathy makes her tears more difficult to keep at bay. Lucy shakes her head and look at the ground, trying to put her feelings in the right order.
“It’s my fault” Lucy says brokenly. “I lost the ball and then Carmona was able to score.”
“None of that. Mary should have been able to stop the ball or one of your strikers should have scored too. You aren’t alone in this team, Lucia.”
Lucy shakes her head again. Those are the exact words she needed to hear, it’s like Ona is able to read her mind. It’s amazing and scary at the same time. She doesn’t realize that her tears are rolling on her face, but Ona does. Leaving her seat, she kneeled in front of Lucy to take her face between her hands.
“I feel like I let anyone down” Lucy whispers.
This time Ona passes her arms around Lucy’s neck, their faces closer that they haven’t been since their trip in Mallorca. Almost two months without a kiss exchanged and when they meet again it’s for breaking the heart of one of them.
“You didn’t let anyone down” Ona whispers back. “You were exceptional during the tournament, the best player of your team. You know as much as I do that your family and friends are really proud of you. I am proud of you.”
She doesn’t know what Lucy search in her eyes, but she lets her look at it the time she needed. They are in their bubble, forgetting the people around them and that there are photographs still in the pitch.
No one can see their faces and just when Lucy wanted to tell Ona those famous three words, the younger one close the distance between their mouths to kiss Lucy softly. It’s not the kind of kiss that you may share after being apart from your lover for two months. Ona’s kiss is sweet, delicate and so loving. Comforting.
They are disturbed several seconds after that kiss by someone walking in their direction. When Lucy raises her head, she realizes that it’s Mariona, who is smiling softly at them.
“Sorry to interrupt, but Ale sent me to tell you that there are still journalists around you.” Mariona says in Spanish.
Ona groans and Lucy rolls her eyes, but the Spaniard sit next to Lucy anyway. Using her jacket, Lucy takes Ona’s hand in hers while Mariona sits on her other side. Like other friends, Mariona knows about Lucy and Ona’s relationship. But Ona wanted to it to stay secret during the World Cup, not wanting to have comment about it from the staff or the Federation.
Lucy kept looking at Ona from the corner of her eyes while they are talking with Mariona. They are supposed to go back to their respective hotels after that, Ona will probably go out with her team to party. But she needs to find a way to have time with her girl. They will go to Menorca in several day before the season’s debut, only the two of them, but tonight she would love to have Ona with her.
Each team has a curfew, but Lucy will manage to make Ona enter her hotel and her room anyway. They didn’t talk about it to anyone. But they missed each other too much and Lucy smiles for the first time after the game when Ona will say that she “Would climb the ten floors to see you, if I need to”.
August 2023
The hotel they rent has separated balcony and private swimming pools and it’s perfect that way because they almost never left their room. Lucy can only realize how much she is obsessed with her own girlfriend, not able to keep her hand off of Ona. Not that the younger one seems to complain about something, she is rather cuddly and touchy too.
Tonight, they finally decided to go out to eat something on a fancy restaurant Lucy spotted on Internet, but when Ona gets out of the bathroom in her white dress, hugging her body in every right part, Lucy almost jumped on her to rip her clothes off.
“Oh, come on” Lucy groans, throwing her hands in the air.
“What?”
Ona frowns, looking down on her outfit, persuaded that something is wrong. Her longs hairs fall on her shoulder and Lucy knows that it’s probably to hide the hickey she made last night even if they usually chose not to leave marks. She got a little lost in her feelings.
“How am I supposed to breath normally next to you, please?”
Realizing what Lucy meant, Ona smiles and arch an eyebrow while looking at her girlfriend.
“You must be joking right? Have you seen yourself, all abs and arms in display? You’re so hot that it’s ridiculous.”
Lucy smirks, before walking in Ona’s direction seductively.
“We still can cancel the restaurant” she says, grabbing Ona by her hips. “I’d love to order in and stay here”
“No” Ona laughs, putting one finger on Lucy’s lips when she went to kiss her neck. “You promised me the best paella in Menorca. We are going.”
Lucy whines and bites Ona finger slightly. The eyes of the youngest sparkle when she looks at her girlfriend. She seems so happy that Lucy feels her heart melt for her. Ona kisses her softly, stopping it the second when Lucy tries to deepen it.
“Behave yourself Lucia” Ona whispers before kissing her one more time to erase the pout on Lucy’s lips.
Almost a half hour later, they are at the restaurant. The view is beautiful, once again. Ona really like this place and she doesn’t hesitate to say it to Lucy. The latter smiles absently, looking at her girlfriend from the corner of her eyes. Even if it’s almost 8PM, the sky is still blue with the sun going under the sea.
They decided to share a paella and Lucy command them two Sangria. When the waitress left, she turns to watch Ona, just to see that she’s taking pictures of her with her phone.
“What are you doing?” Lucy smirks.
“Picturing the moment. It would be a shame not to have memories of you at that moment.”
Lucy rolls her eyes and take Ona’s chair with her hands to drag the new Barcelona’s signing just next to her.
“At least take one with me”
They in fact take more that one, even if Lucy will only share the ones Ona took of her alone. People don’t need to know that one of the others is her new wallpaper.
Even if it was hard at first to actually get out of their bedroom, they share a perfect moment. The food is perfect, the Sangria excellent (they actually ask for more), the view amazing and they both couldn’t ask for a better company.
When they come back to their room, several hours later, they both are a little tipsy. Lucy isn’t against a glass of wine from time to time, but Ona doesn’t drink a lot. She’s the one giggling, holding Lucy’s arm to be able to walk properly. And Lucy can only smile, she realized early in their relationship that Ona’s giggling is making funny things to her.
They managed to arrive in their room and Ona stumble to the couch, before lying on it, facing the ceiling. Once again, Lucy got struck by Ona’s beauty. She knows that she probably won’t be tired one day to look at her girlfriend’s perfection.
She is so in love.
It was stupid of her to try to fight her feelings in the beginning or to try to stop how fast and big they grow. She couldn’t ask for more or better.
She doesn’t say to Ona that she loves her right now, because they are tipsy and suddenly Ona’s turning her head with this special thing in her eyes that makes her head spin. So she just joins Ona on the couch to start what she wanted to do as soon as Ona got out of the bathroom some hours earlier.
22 October 2023
Lucy knows that it’s late today when she opens her eyes. The sun tries timidly to appear despite the shutters they closed when going to bed last night.
It was late, almost this morning to be honest. They played against Granada yesterday and after that Ona managed to convince her to go eat something in a restaurant. Unable to say no to her, Lucy followed her just to be surprised by a private restaurant, balloons, an “Per molts anys” garland and a lot of her relatives and friends. Her brother and his children couldn’t be here, but her parents and her sister were. Just like some of their teammates and friends.
Ona organized all of that, in addition to her training and her studies and Lucy’s mind blown. How did she managed to do that without her seeing anything? She didn’t have time to ask her the question though, she was way too busy having fun with her friends. Even if she kidnapped Ona to thank her with a kiss at some point of the night.
They won’t be together at Lucy’s real birthday, the national camps being at this date. Ona decided to surprise her girlfriend anyway.
When they got home, they both took a shower before going to bed. In several seconds they were out, and it was almost ten hours before.
Lucy is on her back while Ona is on her stomach, one of her hands on Lucy’s stomach, under her top tank. It makes Lucy smile and she roll slowly on her stomach too, trying not to wake Ona up.
It’s not unusual for Ona to actually sleep in Lucy’s bed. It has, in fact, became their bed. At first, Ona wasn’t able to find an apartment who was good enough for her. So, her plan was to sleep to Aitana’s, but it’s safe to say that she must have sleep there three times.
She’s not even searching for her proper flat now, her belongings are standing next to Lucy’s and the English woman made place for Ona’s cloths in her closet. Even if Ona likes to wear Lucy’s clothes, just like right now. She’s wearing an old Manchester City jersey, with Bronze written on the back.
Ona wasn’t facing her, so she just has her head and long hair in view. But she strokes softly her hair, clearing the few strands she knows are obstructing Ona’s face. She restrains herself not to wake her, knowing that Ona loves her beauty sleep. That girl could sleep twelve hours non-stop and still take a nap several hours later.
When Lucy kisses her head, the Spaniard stirs and mumbles something in Catalan that Lucy doesn’t understand. But it still makes her smile. Her Spanish is much better since she’s with Ona, who even started to teach her Catalan. But not the “Sleepy from a beauty’s Catalan”.
After a big breathing, Ona turns her head to face Lucy, who start to stroke her face this time, drawing imaginary drawings between her freckles. It makes Ona smile softly and close her eyes again.
The amount of love, the strength of her feelings for Ona are too much. She feels like she will soon explode from affection for her. So, she just says it. For the first time.
“I love you.”
Ona’s eyes are suddenly wide open, looking at Lucy. The English smirks at Ona’s reaction, but in reality, her heart is beating fast. She never said that to Ona before and Ona didn’t say it either. They know obviously how much they care about each other. But never said it out loud.
“Did you lose your tongue?” Lucy laughs after several moments of silence.
“No, I just… Wasn’t excepting this”
“What, me loving you?”
Ona rolls her eyes; she remembers perfectly her confessions one night in Lucy’s bed about how much she rambles to some of her friends about the fact that the Lucy Bronze could be interested in her.
“More about you saying it at a random moment when I just woke up”
“There is nothing random in our relationship. And I should have told you sooner. I love you, Ona. T’estimo bojament.”
The Catalan part makes Ona’s heart fluttered and her smile is bigger than ever. She cups softly Lucy’s face with her hand to kiss her lovingly. Between two kisses, she managed to say
“T’estimo també”
#woso imagine#woso fanfics#ona batlle#ona batlle imagine#lucy bronze#lucy and ona#lucy bronze imagine#ona batlle x lucy bronze#lucy bronze x ona batlle
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Midnights duality (part 2): Meet me at midnight
So, we’ve established that Midnights is the era where Taylor makes it known that there are two versions of her story, and that the prevailing narrative can’t be trusted and she’s letting a second (conflicting) narrative exist alongside it. This brings me back to the sentence that concluded the album announcement and opened the first track: Meet me at midnight.
Sounds so simple, right? But who are we meeting at midnight? It’s not the public Taylor, because we’ve known her for a while. So it must be the private one, the one that wears trainers and a T-shirt and bleeds purple glitter. Let’s meet her.
Where, other than in the mv, do we see this private Taylor? On the big screen during the Eras tour performance of Anti Hero. And what is she doing? Screaming and waving at us before she walks off in a huff. Guess no one was there to meet her…
She is also the one taking notes when performance Taylor is doing the teaching. I find it noteworthy that the public Taylor here is dressed in 1989 outfit and is holding the pointer stick in the same way she used to swing and hold the golf club in the Blank Space performance on the 1989 tour. She is also the one slut-shaming and bullying Taylor about her weight in the bathroom scene, two things we know were very prominent during the 1989 era so this ‘Anti Hero’ villain is her 1989 self, the height of her fame and perfectly crafted public persona. So this private Taylor that we are meeting is taking notes from her 1989 self. Interesting… And even more interesting that we are now getting a vault track on 1989tv called SLUT!. And I have just learned today that we are quite possibly getting a mv for this song… so would this be the place to meet our new Taylor? I think it’s a contender.
I have said in my post about the burning Lover house, that I take from the blue flames that 1989tv will move the narrative of this new Taylor forward quite a bit and as we are nearing the release (5 days to go as I’m writing this) I get that feeling more and more. Yes, I am not blind or deaf, I am very well aware that Taylor is currently doing her very best performance of NFL player’s gf, but I actually think that furthers my duality in public narrative and performance art point from part 1. Because, while I’m sure I don’t need to give you any examples of the excessive articles and media coverage of Taylor’s outings with either MH or TK, I just want to remind you of what other articles and media coverage has emerged in recent months, and this is not a story that would have made the NY Times or Cosmopolitan even a year ago.
Yep, Gaylor has entered the mainstream media. Not something that was on my 2023 bingo card, if I’m honest. Not even during the spring and summer of 2019, during Taylor’s soft launch phase, was her queerness this openly discussed in mainstream media. And not just as a general idea, some of the articles are linking her to very specific women in the past and, as if that wasn’t enough, the women in question have promptly appeared in public, either non-denying a relationship with her (looking at you DA), or showing up at her concert after a supposed years-long feud, adding fuel to the fire. And didn’t Taylor make a spectacle of looking lovingly up at Karlie in the stands at the last LA show, a show that she hyped up enough with 1989 announcement easter eggs that she could be sure everyone was watching. She wants to give this new narrative a platform. Yes, the straight girl pap walks are happening, but so is this. Pick your narrative. Especially the inclusion of Taylor in posts from official LGBTQ charities like Stonewall and Glaad seems significant to me, because they are non-profit organisations that are dedicated exclusively to preserving and telling queer people’s stories and would never risk their reputation or seriousness of their cause by participating in clout chasing or name dropping. And I know that these two things going on simultaneously seem super confusing, but I’m starting to think the confusion is part of the act. This is the tale of the two Taylors and it’s our job to work out which is which. The Stonewall Archive specifically tagged Taylor in their post about an exhibit on media coverage and public perception… they know something we don’t.
The re-emergence of pap walks alone is something I wasn’t expecting. Over the last 7 years we have known Taylor as a private person after her turbulent 1989 era. She was mostly quiet, stayed out of the headlines, no pap walks or public appearances outside of award shows and select performances. After all, reputation Taylor told us that the old Taylor died and the new version didn’t explain anything or show her face in public much. But 2023 Taylor has felt a lot like that old Taylor, right?? The pap walks, the girl squad, the high publicity romances… So, hasn’t Taylor learned her lesson from her 1989 self after all?
I think she has, but she wants the rest of the world to eat their words and see how ridiculous this is. Will this all be part of a Slut! mv? Maybe. Or it could be a way to distract the fanbase from something else that’s going on. One very notable difference in the pap walks now is how confidently herself she is when she’s photographed with her friends or going to the studio. Back in 2014 she would leave the gym looking like she was walking the runway with not a hair out of place, and now she is walking the streets of NYC looking queer as ever. (I swear she googled ‘How to look like a lesbian’ before picking that second outfit…) And I’ve seen how much it confuses the swifties. And I’m here for it 😋 Question though, if she’s going into the studio looking this gay, is the music coming out of these sessions going to be equally💅 ?
Something is brewing and 1989tv is the next thing on the horizon, so let’s look at that.
Midnight and Sunrise
Having been introduced to our new Taylor at the beginning of Midnights, she’s taken us through the main album, then the 3am bonus tracks, to the til dawn edition. With every new midnights edition we have worked our way through the night from midnight, to 3am, to dawn. So, next would be sunrise, right? And there have actually been a few mentions of sunrise and daylight in both the 1989tv marketing and other media coverage. I’ve spoken about the midnights to daylight theory before, as it’s one that many Gaylors have speculated on, but I think there has been quite a bit of movement on this recently.
Firstly, there is the yellow 1989tv vinyl that is conveniently named the ‘Sunrise Boulevard edition’. Not only does it have the word sunrise in it, it is also a direct reference to the Stonewall National Museum & Archive, which is located on this road in Fort Lauderdale, FL. And with the emergence of all the other variations of the 1989tv vinyl, it is easy to spot that they all have a sunlit beach theme (a big change from the OG 1989 city theme!) and with the recent leak of a purple version on the website of a record shop, we now have a full rainbow of 1989tv vinyls. Sunrise and rainbows… I think I have an idea where this may be going. But hang on, there is more.
Remember when I said that the Stonewall National Archive knows something we don’t? A few days ago, they posted this on their Instagram with lyrics from Taylor’s happiness, highlighting and italicising the word sunrise and pointing everybody’s nose in the caption to their address at 1300 E Sunrise Boulevard:
This feels VERY intentional. And I’ve never really looked at the happiness lyrics in that way, having taken the song to be about Scott B and her old label, but when Stonewall is using these exact lines in that context, with a strong suggestion that they have insider knowledge, it seems worth looking at them again.
In the caption, SNMAL say that they ‘celebrate the glorious sunrise of LGBTQ+ history’ with the pride flag and sunshine emoji. So, could it be that the Sunrise Blvd vinyl and accompanying rainbow variations of 1989tv are going to bring some kind of moment in history for LGBTQ people? It certainly sounds like this is about more than just Taylor. Perhaps furthering the theory that there may be a double album on the horizon with the second one being all collaborations. Stonewall also liked a comment on this post that said that something is in the air 🌈
They also included the line about flickers of light from the dress I wore at midnight. Flickers of light, as in glimpses of her queerness? The ones we are seeing now in all those articles are social posts? The mention of a dress immediately throws my mind back to the rainbow dress that Billy Porter ended up wearing at World Pride 2019, but that was almost certainly meant for Taylor. And out of all the photos of Taylor from the VMAs this year, which one did GLAAD choose to post on their Instagram in September? Yep, the one with Billy Porter. Takes me back to 2019… and something else does too, actually: The Cruel Summer live single release.
Cruel Summer was released as a single this June, 4 years after its initial release. And almost made it to No.1. It was certainly on the radio A LOT. The Lover set is also the opening act of the Eras tour, so this summer has certainly had some 2019 throwbacks. And remember how the Lover era started? With ME! Out now! on Lesbian Visibility Day, followed by the sunshine and rainbows parade that was the mv and (as we later learned from the documentary) 'Cats, unicorns and gay pride... things that make me ME.' And now, in October 2023, Taylor released a live version of Cruel Summer and used the very photo from the 2019 shoot as a cover for the single. And not only was that a 2019 photo shoot, it was the last photo she posted on her instagram in June 2019 before she was meant to wear the dress at NYC Pride. I think she captioned it something like 'calm before the storm'. And now that photo has made a comeback. If I were a betting woman...(and I've learned better than to ever make predictions when it comes to Miss Taylor Swift these days) but if I were I'd say it looks like she's taking another run at this. Meet ME at midnight...and then follow me into the daylight. ☀
And one more thing before I conclude this monstrosity of an essay, I found Taylornation's post for the midnights anniversary last week a bit mysterious:
It says 'Tonight we celebrate an album written by the one that could make us stay. After all the sleepless nights and friendship bracelets we've shared, we hope you know you're never really on your own, kid.' Sounds a bit like a pep talk (and a plea at the same time) to me. Why do the fans need reminding of the good times and be asked to stay? Where would they go and why?? And the first picture in the carousel is our girl 'home Taylor' from the Anti Hero mv, looking contemplative, maybe waiting for someone to come and finally let her out of that house. And the photo immediately after it is Taylor as we know her, smiling for photos with her fans at the movie premier. The two Taylors again...but one is in black and white and the other is in screaming colour 😉iykyk.
#taylor swift#gaylor#1989 tv#midnights album#midnights to daylight theory#stonewall and glaad know something we don't
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hi again, hope school isn't being too hard on you :( I figured I'd send a few ideas in & you can answer whenever!
IT'S COLD! so how about the 141 during the summer, doing some of your favorite activities! Or maybe a teeny ramble about what each likes doing the most...?
if it's not triggering...SoapGhost in uni. The class they share is for 1 of their majors & the other's minor (or maybe just for extra credits). The extra credit assignment involves taking a day trip somewhere & they're the only 2 who go.
Soap's 2nd job happens to be helping out his local unicorn community, who have all but gone extinct. He comes across the fabled Simon Riley, the Ghost of Soap's hometown, as the poor guy wanders around after being held captive by fey for decades.
school’s just been busy more than anything thankfully!! it’s a lot of work but certainly not too difficult:)
and ahh it was hard to choose from one of these i might have to return to the others. but honestly writing about them in uni is like therapy
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Simon and John meet in an upper level English literature course.
Well—Simon never really had much say in the matter, not when John had plopped himself down in the seat beside him on the first day even in spite of all the other empty desks in the small classroom. Apparently it’s what John’s heart had desired, and never having been one for unnecessary confrontation, Simon never says anything of it.
He could never really pinpoint when their friendship began, maybe forged through general interest in the topic and whispered comments and jokes about some of the contents during lectures, or maybe through necessity when they’re not familiar with many others in the class, but either way—John ends up becoming one of the better friends Simon’s made in all his years of university.
The thing is, though, with majors that don’t overlap in the slightest—be it Simon’s English major and John’s own in chemistry—they don’t really see much of each other outside of class, unless it means working on a group project. Simon thinks—believes—they’d both like to be friends outside of the course, but… for whatever reason, they each have difficulty initiating anything.
Simon, personally, would like something more. But he doesn’t need it. Just wants John’s company regardless.
But they have their difficulties throughout the semester, that is, until their professor—a sweet old woman, who endures far too much from the few immature students in her class—announces that she had received funding from the department to take interested students to a professional production of Macbeth in a town an hour over. It’s without hesitation that Simon and John both agree to go.
But since it’s so close to finals season, they end up being the only two to go through with attending.
Not that Simon’s complaining—it just means more time spent with John alone. Sort of.
And not to mention he gets to see how nicely John cleans up for the event.
“I’m so glad you boys still came,” their professor says in greeting. “I was afraid no one wanted to go anymore.”
John smiles that stupidly charming smile at her, and Simon’s really beginning to feel the extent of his growing crush on his friend.
“We wouldn’t miss it,” he says.
“Oh, thank you, John.” She glances between them both, some knowing expression appearing briefly on her face before she ushers them inside the theatre. She hands them their tickets, tells them to go ahead, she has some friends from the local university she wants to meet with before the performance starts.
As they settle into their seats, John leans into Simon’s space—closer than he could ever manage at a desk. Simon hopes the theatre’s dark enough that John can’t see the way his ears burn red.
“Warning you now,” John whispers. “I know fuck all about Shakespeare language, so you’re gonna have a lot of explainin’ to do.”
Simon huffs, trying to dispel some of the heat of his blush. “Maybe you should’ve paid more attention in class, then, Johnny.”
John laughs, knocking his shoulder against Simon’s. “Maybe you shouldn’t have been telling me so many jokes during lectures, Mr. English major.”
Simon rolls his eyes but doesn’t bother retaliating. Instead they fall into meaningless conversation until the play begins, quieting only slightly when their professor arrives and sits on the other side of Simon.
The lights dim in the audience, and the performance starts. Simon watches with rapt attention, but true to his word, John asks him far too many questions.
He doesn’t particularly mind, though, when he can feel John’s knee press against his all the while.
John rambles when it’s over, and despite the interrogation, he seemed to understand and enjoy it as much as Simon and their professor had. Simon’s more than content to listen as their professor bids them goodnight, and they both head to the train station while she heads to her car.
Simon isn’t sure what it is that causes it—but the entire ride back, John seems to encroach in his space more than usual, stuck to Simon like glue. Simon does notice his eyes drooping and his head nodding off every once in a while, so he has the excuse of writing it off as exhaustion.
Particularly when John is resting his head on Simon’s shoulder.
“Don’t wanna walk back to my flat,” John laments once they’re climbing off at their stop. “Too far.”
It’s a fit of impulse that has Simon offering, “You could stay at mine? It’s only five minutes.”
And there’s no hesitation when John accepts with a weary grin.
“You’re a lifesaver, Si,” John sighs. “Could kiss you right now.”
Simon freezes. John doesn’t notice as he ambles further away from the train platform.
“What’d you say?”
John pauses, and his brow furrows. He looks to Simon, simultaneously confused and entirely too casual. “Said I could kiss you,” he repeats. “Why? S’that a problem?”
Simon’s gaze falls to the ground as he quickly shakes his head. “No, no, it’s not—that’s not—“
“Would you like me to kiss you?” John pushes, peeking up at Simon through thick lashes. Simon knows he’d give in immediately, if he were looking into those sapphire-blue eyes.
“I mean—“ Simon shrugs a shoulder. His blush has returned in full force, from the nape of his neck, to his cheeks, to the tips of his ears. “—I wouldn’t say no.”
“Okay,” John hums, like it’s nothing, before grabbing Simon’s face and doing exactly as promised.
It isn’t anything life changing, but it’s still—it’s still everything Simon could hope for, even here as a chill runs through him from the night’s cool temperature, even if their only sources of light are the moon and a flickering streetlamp.
John eventually pulls away first, delivering a hearty pat to Simon’s chest. “Now get me back to your flat and we can do that again, aye? It’s fuckin’ freezing out here.”
Simon can’t help the smile that appears on his face. His face tingles a little less now, though he’s sure it’s still stained a deep pink. “Sure, Johnny.”
And if they hold hands the entire way back—Simon will just claim it was for warmth.
#ask#simon ghost riley#john soap mactavish#soapghost#ghostsoap#ghost x soap#ghoap#writing#alternate universe
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Walkis headcanons b/c my brain won't shut up:
At first glance, their fancy uniforms are simultaneously cool and stupid. Like, those guys are probably dying during the summer (except for Kenny).
But from the brief shot we got in the manga of their school, I think Walkis is situated in a gloomy, cold-ass mountain area, and a good distance away from civilization like any emo school. Cloudy all the damn time and probably rains a lot too. The uniforms would at least have some practical use to keep the students from getting chilly.
Most, if not all, of the Walkis student body and faculty come from nobility and wealth, so it's kind of impossible to not have a reputation while attending. Like, "That's so-and-so from x family who does y at the Bureau of Magic" and whatnot, which will either make somone's life at Walkis a lot smoother or a lot harder.
The rigorous academics and competitiveness between dorms, years, individual students, new money vs old money, etc makes the shit that goes down at Easton look tame. Students like Finn and Lemon - who are average in academics and/or who come from lower/middle class families - will absolutely not survive there in the metaphorical sense...
...and likely also in the literal sense. Walkis is dangerous. When your parents are politicians, nobles, and just powerful people in general, school rules and even the law itself are merely suggestions. At Easton, the Magia Lupus kidnapped students, nearly stole Lemon's magic permanently, and didn't care about heavily injuring people, and then there's Carpaccio who was stabbing people left and right at the DV exam. Now multiply that by 10, and you'll have an idea what Walkis is like.
A good portion of the students are double-liners, and it's not uncommon to resort to underhanded tactics to get by, not to mention classes are highly advanced and deal with dangerous magic spells, potions, creatures, and such. If you're strong and influential enough to get away with it, you will almost certainly get away with it. If you don't, it's probably only because there was someone stronger than you to put you in your place.
Power is everything in Walkis, after all. And it got worse once Levis and Domina enrolled...
Of course, faculty tries their damn best to keep some semblance of order in the school, because 1. Walkis needs to maintain its prestigious reputation, and 2. These are the kids of the most important people in the magic realm, it would be very bad if something happened to them.
Then again, we know most noble families are shit when it comes to their children (Ex: the Crowns, Madls, Razors, and Rosequartzs) so I wouldn't be surprised if many parents don't care that much if their kid gets sent to the hospital or even straight-up dies. They probably just glanced at the school waiver when enrolling their kids about potential injury and death and were like, "If something happens to them, that's because they're weak blah blah blah" and signed it without a second thought.
The manga says that the majority of the Divine Visionaries in all of history came from Walkis - a whopping 85 compared to Easton's 11 and St. Ars' 4, if I remember correctly. It would be a stretch to assume that not all DVs in the magic realm's history were benevolent. Matter of fact, the current DV lineup was probably the best since Wahlberg and Adam Jobs' time, in terms of not just power but ethics and morality.
I mean, obviously there was still the whole situation with Mash (looking at especially you, Orter), but it would be interesting if some previous DVs throughout history were very self-serving and corrupt, because the ratio of candidates from Walkis and the other schools is crazy and *gestures vaguely at Walkis' aforementioned values regarding power and magic ability, leading to class differences, nepotism, etc, etc.* This was also why Adam Jobs' legacy became so warped after his death, with his beliefs regarding noblesse oblige being largely forgotten or misinterpreted.
#mashle#Man this was SUPPOSED to be about silly stuff with the Walkis gang#Blame my worldbuilding loving ass#And yeah I think you can pinpoint the exact moment I ran out of steam on this
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How do you do solarpunk aesthetic week when you live in a tiny apartment with no outside access? I always want to participate but I feel like most stuff y'all post is geared towards people who live in houses...
Hey, thanks for sending in the ask!
We put our heads together and came up with a few ideas for you!
Grow plants indoors! You could grow a few houseplants to green up your space, or even try growing some vegetables and/or herbs indoors! I've heard people have lots of luck with basil indoors, and my freshman year of college I grew cherry tomatoes and peppers in my dorm room! Maybe check out information on semi or full-hydroponic setups? You can also propagate a lot with a few cuttings and a glass of water! If you have a balcony with your apartment, that could also be a good place to grow flowers or vegetables--depending on the season and temps where you are, it might be a bit cold to start things out there right now, but you could always start planning!
Crafting could be another fun idea! You could try your hand at mending clothes, or making your own clothes from scratch! I (Ani) am learning crochet, if you wanna join me in spirit and pick it up as well! Kala/Fennopunk (who lives in a small apartment 👀) also knows a lot about crocheting, its a pretty nice winter craft! You could also try embroidery, so you can add unique designs onto your clothes! Other options are things like knitting, sewing, leatherwork, jewelrymaking, soap making, and maybe even woodworking or soldering if that interests you!
Learning how to repair tech would be cool! Honestly, learning how to repair anything sounds super cool and is pretty solarpunk! This can also kinda go hand-in-hand with learning how to build your own things (one of my friends knows how to repair and build computers, for example). Try finding some information on something you're interested in and going wild!
Decorate your home in a way that feels Solarpunk to you! Even if you don't get it all done during the event week, I think its definitely a nice way to bring joy! Look into ways your apartment can change with the seasons, ways to keep yourself cozy and warm in winter but cool and bright during the summer! If you get started, feel free to send in progress images, we'd love to see!
Guerrilla gardening! Winter's a great time to scatter wildflower seeds (at least here in the states for me) as it gives the seeds time to acclimate to weather conditions! if you want flowers in spring, you plant seeds in winter! Maybe find a place you wanna target if you go out, think about what seeds you want to plant, and start planning? Or if you have seeds on hand already, you know what to do! Honestly, I also kinda view picking up litter as hand-in-hand with guerrilla gardening, if you've got the vibes for that at all.
Build community with your neighbors! Even if its just saying hi, or talking about what you're up to!
Maybe guerrilla art as well? Moss graffiti, spray painting, or even plastering a couple of stickers up counts as solarpunk! I will give a general warning that doing stuff seen as illegal probably shouldn't be posted online, but hey, you can participate in the week without telling us what you do!
Speaking of art! Maybe you could make art at home! Whether you use chalk, or pastels, or paint, or pencils, or if you've got a tablet you can use--find some inspiration and draw! I've seen lots of people draw solarpunk fashion ideas, solarpunk building concepts, or just general vibe art!
You could also take a crack at writing! You could write a short story, or get started on a longer project idea! You could even just write worldbuilding-type stuff, like examples of event listings or building histories you imagine a solarpunk society would have, or ideas for holidays and festivals!
Learning an instrument feels pretty solarpunk to me! I (Ani) say this as someone who has 2 guitars around and has forgotten 80% of the stuff she learned in her lessons back in high school. Just in general, picking up an old hobby you miss, or starting a new one works great for this event honestly!
You can also check out the Apartment Solarpunk tag on the Practical Solarpunk blog, it may have more ideas for you!
We hope this helps! Either way, I hope you enjoy the event week!
#our posts#asks#anonymous#me (Ani) like ages ago: ok im gonna post this at 3pm#me at 3:30 am 4 days later: FUCK I NEVER POSTED IT#i know at this point the event is nearly over and I'm sorry i didnt post this in time#but i hope it helps inspire you to do some solarpunking outside of the event! there's always next summer!#at least im pretty sure we're planning on doing this again next summer....#answered asks
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X-Men #6
Getting caught up!
Let's go.
Mmm, this is a good page. It's interesting to see Quentin in a kind of melancholy - it's not a state of mind you see him in very often, honestly, and I have to wonder if it's because of what he saw in Ben Liu's head, the fact that Cassandra Nova is on the board now, or just a general ennui about the state of things as an X-Man. Being a teenage firebrand only lasts as long as you're willing to burn, and Quentin's been burning for a while now with very little to show for it.
Also, wow, Idie, you have the eyes of an eagle that you were able to see that girl pulling a Spider-Man tribute - uh, I mean, the Midnight M, or whatever it's called.
Fun fact - this is the first time in this series that someone's directly mentioned Hank's psychotic villain turn from X-Force. Makes sense it would come from Quentin, since he's the only other member of X-Force on the team and he has the most face time with evil Hank, though I have to call bullshit - psycho Beast was a fucking bore.
Cain and Illyana continue to be hilarious bash brothers. I also like Hank being like 'ix-nay on the beheading-ay while the newbies are around to hear you-ay!' while Ben and Jennifer have little shock lines around their heads.
You will not get me to read Marauders volume 2, Jed. You will not.
So, this is a bit early in the run to have a 'this is what you missed in the series so far' scene, though I suppose having new context means they want to put the pieces together in a straightforward way so that no-one's confused going forward. And it's at least being done with character interactions, and not just a rote recitation of facts.
So, you, uh, ever gonna go and be a dad to those Savage Land mutates you fucked around with and made, Max? No? Mmkay.
Really dancing around the hashtag, huh, Scott?
"Maybe if you'd taken better care of your last resident genius instead of treating him like shit and neglecting him, so that he didn't go insane and blow himself up in a homoerotic stupor, you'd be having an easier time of this, but you're stuck with me."
Don't you fucking dare talk shit about quiche, Quentin.
I genuinely love the amount of play Glob is getting in this series. There's such an obvious affection for him that you can't help but be charmed. Also, a rare acknowledgement of Glob's past as a member of the Omega Gang and the fact that he was one of Quentin's very few friends during New X-Men! Love to see it!
There's that patented Scott Summers paranoia.
Also, I have to say, I love what this issue is doing with Illyana and Idie. As far as I know, these characters have barely, or never, interacted before, and there's just such an easy interplay between them that I already want more of - they tease and poke and prod at one another, in a way that feels younger and more vital than the older members of the team, even as Illyana demonstrates what being on a mainline X-Men team for the last 10-15 years does for your knowledge base.
It also really, really makes me happy that Idie is getting as much play as she is. The people who were worried about her being background fodder for this series really couldn't have been more wrong, she's getting a lot of good development and agency here.
It's something that only really shows up when you're reading continuously, but it's visible here - I like the panel composition in this issue, and this series in general, a fair bit. I like the separation of panels to show progression and create distinct scenes while still creating a larger tableau. Good composition makes you notice it, but doesn't pull you out of the experience, it merely serves it.
Also, oh boy, Hank's getting nostalgic again . . . that only ever means he's about to get depressing.
Yeah, that tracks.
Now, I do like this sequence and this conversation, but I have to pick at something that bugs me here, even though I have to wonder if it's intentional or not.
. . . Max, you and Scott were both on Krakoa. You remember that, right? You were dead for a fair bit of it, sure, but you were around long enough to see the start of X-Force. You were a member of the Quiet Council and Scott was the General or whatever of Krakoa.
You had the power to stop him. You don't get to say that you won't allow it when you both already did allow it. It would have been outrageously easy for the both of you to just waltz right up to the Pointe, grab evil Hank by his hair, and kick the shit out of him for being a genocidal maniac, but neither of you did that. None of you did. You allowed him to continue. Worse, you enabled him, you and your little twink 'I Can't Believe It's Not The Maker' Xavier.
And even before that, you hold responsibility for encouraging Hank to loosen his morals and kill people! You were there during the Inhumans vs. X-Men conflict, encouraging him to double cross the Inhumans for mutant gain! And Scott outright told Hank, MULTIPLE TIMES, that the ends justify the means during the Utopia era! Are you going to acknowledge that fact? Are you going to confront the fact that he internalised YOUR methods? Fucking evil Hank's penultimate words before he was atomised were MAGNETO WAS RIGHT, for fuck's sake!
That's why I like that Hank says, 'Of course, of course.' There's a ring of, yeah, sure, whatever to that, that I like. He doesn't say I know, because he doesn't. He's well aware that everyone saw what was happening to him and didn't stop it, that they didn't care enough to intercede, that Scott was too busy fucking Jean and Logan on the regs to care that one of his oldest friends was turning into the lovechild of Josef Mengle and Henry Kissinger.
I need that to become text. I need it. I know that it fucking sucks, Jed MacKay, to have to answer for Ben Percy's sins, but you cannot have dialogue like this and expect it to fly through uncommented on. No-one becomes a monster on their own.
I really do hope that dialogue choice was intentional and that MacKay is willing to interrogate this. Thus far, he hasn't let me down, but I need this to be the first part of a conversation, not the end of it.
Yeah, valid, I wouldn't want to deal with Cortez either.
Hank is very cute here. Like, he's always cute, but he's especially kawaii here. Hims have the teefs.
Yeah, you gotta get on choosing a mutant name quick, or else you'll get stuck with something like Negasonic Teenage Warhead.
Hoo boy. Yeah, this is . . . that would be a problem. I can see why Scott's pissed. Then again, valid for Idie going for forgiveness over permission, as far as she knew, Piper might have been being abused, and the info she has here is pretty important . . .
All right, roll on issue #7!
This was a good issue! I don't know that it needed the whole 'here's what you missed on Glee' segment in the middle, but it was at least done with enough character and verve that it wasn't boring, and the rest of the issue giving everyone some shine and interactions made it more than worth it - plus, it feels as though the plot is finally starting to move, which was a little bit of a concern with the previous issues.
Be there or be square . . .
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I'm bored and I can't find motivation to draw, have my headcanons for Romania instead, some of these are simping and cringe, enjoy:
(Also adding a image to be easier to find this post cause for some stupid reason tumblr only shows posts with images in my blog's search bar now, tags are useless)
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1) Three words for this guy: 🌟Tall, blonde and beautiful.🌟
2) He's a fashion genius or a fashion disaster depending on your view but he still got drip.
His color choices are black and red (like no shite), sometimes blue for the jeans and warm colors in general, white and grey from time to time.
3) I'd consider him quite mixed, with some ethnicities leaving a noticeable influence but latin conquers most of his bloodline nowadays.
The slavic tendencies come out whenever he gets drunk.
4) Folks see him as eccentric... they're right.
5) He's one of the few countries with particular traits that are uncommon to the rest of the nations and society in general.
I could say it's magic if I want to be basic about it, but I don't, so here's some of them:
His eyes can see supernaturals like spirits, fairies, ghosts and demons although they rarely make their existence know nowadays.
Technically since he's a vampire that would make him one as well. (Actually I'll make a post about this)
He can communicate with the animals and understand them but won't act on it to not look crazy. So he doesn't visit the zoo too often.
He's interested in dark magic so you can say he vibes with the dark side too. In addition he's way too casual about the creepy factor of some things.
He can poses fire because I said so.
6) Besides the quirks about paranormal, he's charming, both in looks and personality as well until you get to know him better, then he gets a little silly that could mean anything.
The only canon thing I adopted from him is that he's mischievous, but I could make him worse :3
7) He's good with kids, he'd be one of those cool parents if he had any. (I could make parent headcanons)
8) He likes traditional food the best, anything with meat and potatoes but to be frank no one can resist pizza from time to time. He doesn't eat too salty, makes him thirsty easily.
He like savarine as a sweet and usually buys them, but if he wants home made he would chose lemon cake (snow white).
To be honest he eats a lot but at least he keeps himself in shape.
"What do you mean this bread has sugar in it??" He doesn't like american bread.
9) And he definitely is lean build, someone who survived 2 empires and russia isn't gonna be skinny af just because he doesn't show it.
My vision says his body beats the twink allegations, his face not so much... he's a twunk.
10) Speaking of, I like to think he does gymnastics and extreme sports for the thrill.
11) His imagination is wild so if he'd have a modern job it should be something that expands on it.
Like a writer for books or movies. He can cook well too (and mix all kinds of potions) so maybe a chef at a restaurant, Fashion artist, Modeling... I go for the writer though.
12) He has some scars on his body, most are small and unnoticeable but he's too self conscious about them so he's not wearing a lot of revealing clothes, at least he doesn't sweat much during summer.
Two noticeable scars are on his shoulder blades and one besides the left lilac region to lumbar.
The ones on his back I like to think of them as a metaphor for broken wings. The one below his abdomen happened due to his separation from Moldova.
13) Cat person, cat behavior and cat lover. He has at least 2 cats in his house and a little bat because why not?
One of the cats is a lynx because that's his national animal, but also because it's like having dog size cat, a big pile of fluff to snuggle on rainy day, a purring machine against your head and belly (I'm projecting a lot I know)
14) His relationship with his slavic neighbors, mainly balkans, is very capybara coded. He's just chilling around and none of them has any business with him nowadays. He's considered part of the family despite Romania being latin. He may feel more accepted by them than his family from west sometimes.
15) His relationship with his blood relative is kinda mixed and they don't communicate often, assumingly because of his status but proly because of the land distance as well.
He used to look up to them and hoped to be accepted and recognized as a romance country in the past. One out of two happened, he's content enough with that.
16) He drinks a fuck ton of red wine.
17) His fangs are the only teeth that can still fall and regrow, he's able to move and retract them.
18) The pupils in his eyes are vertical stilts that expand and contract, the thinner they get the more blurry everything besides the focus point becomes. Sometimes he wears glasses for that.
Funny thing about his pupils is that they can expand so much it cover the whole Iris. His eyes can also glow in the dark sometimes.
19) In human age he's 23.
20) He loves parks, a lot.
21) Keeps his house clean except his kitchen, until he has guests over. If uninvited you're not allowed in the kitchen.
22) Sleep schedule worse than you've seen in college. Get him to bed or he gets grumpy af.
23) Coffee addict because of that.
24) He doesn't like cold, but there's melancholic beauty in the landscape whenever it's night time and only the tree lights give an ounce of warmth during winter. It's a bittersweet sensation he can't describe properly, it's the same during rainy days or stormy nights. He likes it despite the ache feeling it gives.
25) Sunny days are enjoyable for many of his activities but he's usually more active during the night, which is unfortunate because he ends up sleeping too much during daytime and feeling awful for "wasting time" in bed.
26) His eye color switches from black to red sometimes.
27) Sexually speaking, he's definitely swinging both ways and sideways.
28) If he'd be a yōkai then it's Kitsune (nine tails fox) fits him the most. Also because I like to think he'd have a double pair of fangs from it.
29) I main ship him with: Bulgaria and Norway. Side ships: Greece and Hungary. Crack ships: Prussia, Japan, Belarus. Platonical: Egypt cause I like their aesthetics together.
30) But talking about how compatible he is with other characters. I'd say based on canon he is with Bulgaria. Based on history he'll be with Serbia (dude barely exists). Based on his zodiac sign he's with Hungary (the irony). Based on his mbti he's with either Norway or Japan.
31) Speaking of zodiac signs, he's a Sagittarius. (Although it's hard to identify precisely the "birthday" of countries, so I just go with their national days and his is on Dec 1) if you're into astrology a lot then he also has his moon in scorpio.
32) He is inclined to be overprotective for his close ones ever since he lost Moldova to Russia. He does it automatically without knowing until someone points it out.
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This may get updated from time to time
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Why is it so hard to find people to go to party with me?
I am not a party animal myself but sometimes I wish I to go outside at night, attend a cool party and hopefully meet new people through it because I can't have only online friends living far away from me.
a long rant under the read more tag.
I mean I would go alone but going alone is not so easy anymore. Here in my area I would take the risk but where this one is I do not dare to go as it's Frankfurt/Offenbach area.
Anyhow, I recently asked a friend living in Frankfurt has time on the 24th August (Saturday) for a party starting 11pm and they just wrote me they aren't so sure if they have energy left after the first work week with first-graders in school to go and party through the night (which is entirely understandable!). Instead they suggested to look for an open air or something similar instead (which also would be totally okay) bc during afternoon/evening they would have time but no much more energy left (bc of kids the days before). Well it's still 2 weeks before the party but some people know their body energy well, okay, fine. I can live with that too.
But here is the thing: I searched the date for school enrollment after Summer holidays in Hesse and it's on the 26th August (Only NRW is the week before and she does not live in NRW and works in Frankfurt which is in Hesse). So either she's lying to me in the first place, the school she works in uses a different date for whatever reasons or she did mistake the date of school enrollment. I hope it's the second or third. Otherwise I am done with asking her about party topics and only proceed to meet during day time for hanging out a bit.
Also jsut 3 days prior I asked a colleague in my team for how about going to a 3 days festival next year and do camping together. The answer I get: I don't want to plan so far into the future bc me and my boyfriend we don't know what we gonna do yet. BRU, it's just a fUCKING LONG WEEKEND. You would have to take 2 Days off max. We got 30 days each year. I am sure u can have plenty time with your bf.
You can also tell me you do not want to go with me. I am fine with it, I do not break. I am not made of sugar, ich accept a 'no'. FUCKING HELL!
So tell me WHERE do I find people who are not like this? Why am I always around people who are like this? Is it bc they got their bf/gf/wife/husband and are not single or what the fuck is it that they all like that? Srsly.
U know? sometimes I sit here and think about maybe all the people around me just tolerate my presence but in reality none wants to have to do anything with me bc I am, idk, a too odd? with my weird interests? because I am single? because I don't look and act my age? because I don't have a kid/family to take care of? bc of my temper? my character?
Noone tells me: no I don't want to be more friends wth you than I must. JUST FUCKING TELL ME and I won't ask anymore and stay the fuck alone in my 4 walls and thats it. The amount of me asking people and always getting such excuses is already too much to say it's random. It starts to hurt me the more I try and ask anyone.
It's just at this age I do not see myself as someone who just sits at home watch tv and play games. I am still young enough to go out and do something cool, live my fucking life, alright? I don't want to waste my time every weekend at home. It's already sad enough I do not have anybody that does biking, skying or just wandering around with me in nature EXCEPT my parents. Did my parents raise me maybe wrong or what is it that my generation and the one after that are such couchpotato pussys already? I mean I am DONE and entirely wasted after a party as well and it won't get better with getting older each day either.
Mann, mann, mann.
I better stop now bc I feel the rage sitting in my throat.
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Hello! I recall you comparing genshin quite often to fgo (in how badly genshin does everything in comparison lmao) so now I'm kinda curious - how does fgo balance the gacha banners with the story? I've always kinda imagined that if it were me in charge of genshin, I'd plan the banners like...a year in advance, so I could match relevant characters with relevant stories...is it something like that? (my experience w these kinda games is very limited haha)
Hey! Genshin and FGO are interesting bc they're both... m, player-friendly in very different ways? (thinking about genshin's shops where the currency comes from rolling/paid costumes vs FGO where the only things that cost money are the banners/free costumes)
Banners are an interesting question, though.
FGO is like you say - new character banners and reruns are synced up to story chapters and events where those characters are relevant. Unlike Genshin, which has a max of 4 banners at once (2 limited, 1 weapon, 1 standard), FGO has 2 permanent banners (1 standard, 1 that takes free in-game currency exclusively) and will then just have as few or as many banners as it feels are necessary for the current event.
So, while Genshin probably didn't put Scara in this year's summer event bc he'll show up in the Dragonspine event we'll probably get soon - I wouldn't be surprised if it'd been FGO, they just reran him both times, though there would probably also be new characters debuting on both or either Summer and Dragonspine alongside him (so it wouldn't be a loss if not many rolled, ha).
During events, there may be 1 or 2 limited banners with brand new characters that will last for the entire event, though the second will start a few days after the first. They'll also rerun characters that were either a) relevant to the event or b) relevant to that kind of event - e.g., during Halloween, you'll also get reruns of past Halloween banners, even if those characters don't show up in a major capacity... but those rerun banners are far shorter and might last a few days, or even just 24 hours.
During events like New Years, Valentines, Anniversaries or milestones, there are a lot of "1 day limited banner reruns" that you won't get notified about until the start of the event, or just before. You'll generally know when Servants are likely to drop if they're associated with seasonal events, or the rare event that shows up every year like GudaGuda, but beyond that..... shrug! If the character isn't relevant and isn't showing up for Anni, then... their future is mysterious and nebulous, no matter how popular they are!
(RIP to Arjuna Alter fans, he didn't get a rerun for......... a long time. a long, long time. such a good unit. so popular. no rerun for... ages...)
In this way, Genshin is far more stable and predictable than FGO - you can generally guess when a character is likely to reappear, and you've got longer to try and scrounge up currency to get them. It is less 'spontaneous' though, and I guess a bit less fun, and you get stuck with the same banners for ages without much change. So, Genshin is kinder in this way. (Genshin's pity is also far more generous, though I've oddly always had more luck in FGO even when they didn't have a pity system at all)
On the flipside, FGO doesn't have "weapons banners". FGO's 'weapons', closer to HSR's light cones, are just generically part of all banners. Additionally, FGO's character performance doesn't massively change when you get copies - to the point that most of the time it really isn't worth it at all, so you're less incentivised to roll for dupes. It's easier to get 'weapons'/craft essences for free in FGO, so... just roll the character once and you're good, I guess?
It's kind of a mixed bag, and for predatory gambling systems that want your money, both have their own unique ups and downs LMAO. I'd take FGO's writing any day, however.
#replies#ac plays genshin impact#ac plays fgo#in FGO NA we have two years' of foresight so its very easy to plan#the devs don't mess with it#JP can be a bit of a rollercoaster though
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hii, I love love LOVE your art so much omg you are very talented, I adore the colors you use and the expressions - your art is so soft and literally gorgeous. also so cool to see you are an oofuri fan hehe , makes me want to get into oofuri again like HARDCORE>>> if you want to for fun, pls list three reasons to read oofuri or why u love it!!!! I was watching the series like 7 years ago or something, but it lies dormant in the back of my mind bc I know I need to revisit it . ur passion and art triggered this chain reaction!!! I have to see Them (the characters, broo damn they are so cute) anyway have a fabulous day and summer, hope you take care!
guh. wuh. hello... buuhuhuhuuuuuuu ← (me drowning in my own tears) omg thank u so much... you've really made me smile ear to ear from this!!!!! you are so kind 💖 honestly i feel like i've completed my life's purpose if oofuri made it back on your radar because of me LOL my evil agenda grows stronger 😈 it is such a fun and unique story with the sweetest funniest cast of characters ever and such heartfelt writing with a great mix of serious and lighthearted moments... it really is worth a read 100%!!!!! and ofc i would love to share propaganda i mean a few reasons it's my favorite forever hehehe <3
1) reason number 1 goes to the number 1 boy. him.
i love him so much <3 in the manga he's hilarious as always but also goes thru a lot of great character development that the anime only covers a fraction of!! but really all the characters in oofuri are endlessly endearing and interesting...it's so fun to read about their lives! i especially like when silly convos are had between them in the background that give us more insight on everyone's families, favorite things, hobbies, etc... the small things really matter in oofuri and it shows. everyone and everything has its place in the world... there is a great sense of interconnectedness that feels so natural in the story and makes it a joy to read. the mangaka shines showing us the magic in mediocrity; in little everyday things and routines. it's so touching... the world is full of so much life and laughter i love it so much!!!! (live laugh love oofuri)
in general i just love how kind oofuri is to its characters... ofc there's drama every now and then and i eat that up too BUT ☝️ i love how the narrative encourages understanding, communication, open mindedness, perseverance, a positive mindset... everyone has their struggles and goals throughout the plot, but no one is told they don't belong, or that they can't rise up to the occasion and go after what they really want. it creates really interesting scenarios too where you sometimes get a look into someone's innermost dreams/insecurities/fears and it's so relatable and sweet and human much of the time. it all ties back to how well the development of these characters is handled. it's just peak writing... oofuri makes u feel like it's all possible as long as u keep going. it's just so sincere i love it......
2) and the matches are so fun!!!!! once you learn a bit of the terminology they're pretty easy to follow too! a lot of the greatest moments in the series happen during matches. you get to see so many characters shine or make fools of themselves <- also good i laugh a lot. higuchi-sensei knows her stuff and creates such thrilling situations that have me losing my mind sometimes and whether my favs win or lose i'm always excited to see what comes next bc they always take it and DO something with it. nothing ever feels stale to me about their club trainings or school studies either... bc the characters are so interesting everything they do is a joy to read!!!
3) and ofc the art is so cute and scrunkly and has been a huge inspiration to me over the years!! she's great at capturing emotion on people's faces and i've always wanted to emulate that... also love when she draws them itty bitty or all just hanging out together it's the cutest thing eveeeeer 😭
i really just babbled forever and maybe in the end said nothing at all LOL but thank u so much again for sending this @angelaive 💖 i hope i've convinced u a little to give the manga a shot!!! please enjoy if u do!!! take care 💕
#angelaive#replies#this took a while bc tumblr ate the short essay id typed out beforehand and i had to do it all over again but i forgot everything i said <3#oofie is so loving and magical to me its hard to even articulate it. tldr its epicsauce#if u read all this...... thanku and sorry .#i lost my 1000+ oofuripics folder recently so i need to restock with a full reread tbh im in dangeeeerrrr
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Ask games are fun! ❤️ 👻 🎁 :)
ROBIN! 😊 Hi~ My perennial friend~ Always enabling me~
For this ask game~ Here
❤️ What is your favorite line that you’ve written in a fic? Round 2 of this question, I need to go find another line...[dial up noises]... Gonna cheat and say it's the last line here that inspired this art HERE! From Jiaoren!JC AU, of course. I really don't think I'll ever be that good at writing again. //dreamy sigh// Crying and sobbing over this one. Just STAY WWX!! 😭😭😭
Wèi Wúxiàn’s arms tighten around him. “Let’s walk back together, just lean on me.” “It’s fine.” “Take a step. I got you.” “I know how to walk.” But now it’s like the second night he tried, clinging to Wèi Wúxiàn’s shoulders and wishing he were in the water instead. And wishing that Wèi Wúxiàn would just stay so he wouldn’t fall at all.
👻 What is your wildest headcanon? Round 3 of this question!! I'm really boring, lovelies, my headcanons aren't that wild in general. Like I try to be very reasonable about what makes sense to extrapolate from canon material. //spins the wheel// May I interest you in the headcanon that (novel) Mianmian is from the Laoling Qin sect? 1. In a sect big enough to be worth taking disciples hostage during Evil Summer Camp. 2. Regarded well enough to have a seat at the Midnight Meeting to complain about (in her case, defend) WWX. Possibly meaning she was in the SSC too, during which Qin Su was known to be rescued by JGY (who now does the seating arrangements). 3. Though Qin Su's mother had her maid Bicao, (Watsonian observation) Qin Su has no maid by the time we see her, which coincidently is also after Mianmian has already left her sect. 🔍 Is any of this related? Who knows!
🎁 Have a piece of a WIP you want to share? Round 2 of sharing time~ Snippet of upcoming chapter for JC Gets a Divorce AU
"Aiya! I wanted to see the academy again for nostalgia's sake. A-Líng’s there you know? I was hoping to see him and turns out he's friends with Jǐngyí so that worked out. He was mad you didn't show up though. Madder still when I made excuses for you. Just like his father, right? I can't catch a break." "It's your fault because you won't just suck it up and talk to a-Jiě. What the fuck is wrong with you Wèi Wúxiàn?" Seriously.... SERIOUSLY! For the first time since Wèi Wúxiàn trapezed back into Jiāng Chéng's life, he didn't have enough face to take the shame. All the light goes out him, and the bruises under his eyes become pronounced. "How would you tell her you never called because you knew she would talk you into returning?" He feels glued to the ground. He feels like he's become a pillar holding up all the world. He can barely move, but what he can manage means he's straightening the cuff of his right sleeve. It's not a nervous tick. It isn't. He has jaw pain trying to make the words leave his tongue and get past his teeth. "I would have let her. I would not have left."
Get his ass, JC! BWahahah ... aheM! Anyway...
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I have so many WIPs now just hanging out for all the world to see and it makes me very nervous that they aren't complete, but it's so much fun sharing them regardless. Phew! Okay I got no work done today, that was amazing, thanks for playing!! 😘
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We've come to the end, week 5!
Would you believe I hadn't actually planned to go to New Zealand? For a good few years, I had talked about visiting Scotland, and then my friend went to South Korea to study and on one of our 2 am catch up calls, I said to her jokingly "haha, I could visit you during my two week break in summer!" "... would you?"
And then a month before my friend was due to leave for New Zealand I said "God I can't wait to travel, I have my passport freshly made, and I have funds" "... it would be nice to have company"
Anyway- to that little girl, in her bedroom two decades ago who learned that Sagittarius yearn to travel and like spontaneity, and didn't know what it meant -- you figured it out
Visiting the art gallery was a recommendation from someone who had visited it a few times, and I didn't think I would like it as much as I did. The exhibitions were thoughtful, the themes intriguing, and we were happily surprised to find a few of the Guo Péi dresses on display.
I'm usually the type to respect animals (and their instincts) enough to keep my distance, but Emus are some of the few animals I would keep a safe distance with out of fear. I am not terrified, it's not a fear, but I think it's what some could call "self-preservation." Anyway, this one is named Elvis and I didn't dare laugh about his hairdo in front of him, but now that there's an ocean between us, I feel safe.
We visited the Waitangi Treaty Grounds, where the Treaty of the same name was signed in 1840. This single Norfolk Pine was planted by Agnes Busby, the wife of the man who helped draft the Treaty. It's highly interesting history, and my sociological self was fully invested. I recommend a good read! (there are most likely better and more nuanced resources out there for those interested, but it does give a nice broad introduction). The tree is imposing, and I took a few moments to think about the generations it has seen pass by, and the conversations it has heard.
When I left, a month earlier, my brother - way further north than I am - had been dealing with waist-high snow for about a week. We finished our travels in Auckland, in December, where there was, of course, no snow. But, there were the beautiful blooms of pōhutukawa, and I was enamoured. They are these tall and large flowering trees that only bloom in December. They form these wonderful baubles of red threads, and I can see why they are loved.
Thank you for coming along on this journey, I hope these pictures can brighten up your day!☀️
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20 questions for fic writers
I was tagged by @steventhusiast a billion years ago and more recently by @thefreakandthehair and @just-my-latest-hyperfixation🥰
1. How many works do you have on AO3? 49 under my current account, there are some fics for other fandoms buried deep within the depths of the archive which we WILL NOT DISCUSS at this time
2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 128,515
3. What fandoms do you write for? currently just stranger things! I wrote one fic for Crazyhead this summer, a single-season Netflix show from 2016 (?) and that fic has 6 hits 😎 I'm also considering writing a top gun fic (entirely your fault @urmomsonfire) (affectionate) but no promises yet
4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
get it off your chest
can't start a fire
so fondly today
something so pretty
i carry this feeling
5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? yes!! I always respond to comments, even though it sometimes takes me a week or two. comments are genuinely so special to me and my FAVORITE thing is when someone reads a bunch of my fics in a row and I can follow their comment trail 🥹 I love comments
6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? I'm a happy endings girlie all the way, I genuinely don't have an answer for this 😅
7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? so many of my fics are fluff-fest so I'm not really sure. maybe i carry this feeling because it's (currently) the end to a long future fic series and feels like a good buttoning-up of that story which is still being added to
8. Do you get hate on fics? someone once called me transphobic for having steve paint his nails in a fic (??) but that turned out to be a random anon from that twitter meltdown that was happening over the summer (i am not on twitter and didn't know it was even happening until after the fact)
9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? LMAO (yes, i write lots of fluffy goofy smut with feelings. if they're not talking and/or laughing a lot during sex, it's not a sage fic)
10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? no, I really struggle with the concept of crossovers in general. I don't read them usually and wouldn't really know how to begin to write one! but fics set IN the universe of something else (not a crossover where two different universe's characters interact) – I like those.
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? not that I know of in this fandom
12. Have you ever had a fic translated? yes! but not in this fandom
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? no, but I would definitely be interested if it was with the right person!
14. What’s your all time favorite ship? I can't answer this 🫣 I will say steddie is the ship I've written the most words for
15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? I'm not sure I really have one that's out there right now. there are a few things in my google docs that might not see the light of day
16. What are your writing strengths? dialogue! good communication is so important to meeee and I have so much fun writing it
17. What are your writing weaknesses? I always feel like I struggle with scene-setting/imagery because I focus so much on character interaction
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I've written French dialogue in fics before (not in this fandom) which made sense situationally. I think it works as long as you make sure to translate in end notes and/or through context clues, so the reader doesn't have to keep jumping back and forth between google translate
19. First fandom you wrote for? early 00s, the wizards who must not be named
20. Favorite fic you’ve written? this changes depending on my mood tbh. my usual answer is either so fondly today because I love the energy of that fic or back in the new york groove which has so much pulled from my own life. I also had a lot of fun writing wanna help my worlds collide
no pressure 😇 @urmomsonfire @wynnyfryd @thisapplepielife @shares-a-vest
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