#I continue to think I'm funny and it continues to be a problem

[strwberri-milk]

Good morning, Berri. I'm back with another LADS request. You can consider this request a continuation of this: https://www.tumblr.com/strwberri-milk/780182378558767104/good-morning-berri-im-back-with-another-lads May I request: You bring the LADS men to your family's Christmas reunion party held annually at your grandparent's place for the first time. It didn't take long for that one flirtatious cousin to hit on your boyfriend. What happens?

i dont think ive done this before but also, just a heads up these are going to be shorter bc of the fact that youre asking for all of them - please remember that if you want more detailed requests to cap it at three as my rules state.

He won't take it at all. He doesn't respond to any sort of flirtatious comment that is being directed at him, no matter how subtle or overt the comment may be. He makes it very clear that he's only interested in you and nobody else, and just because it's family doesn't mean he's going to be nice. He wants to set down clear boundaries and make sure that nobody thinks he's going to do anything behind your back.

Zayne is the most polite of the group at least. He rebukes any sort of affection with a firm nod and a gentle push in the right direction - physically too, if he must. If they try to touch him or get too close he'll redirect by moving their hand by the wrist or gently pushing against their arm and putting his own around your waist.

At some point it'll just become very awkward for them when Zayne decides to just start giving them a cold stare. They'll say something, call him funny and try to touch his bicep again and everyone's watching because they've been seeing this rejection over and over again. He'll simply tell them that if they try to touch him one more time he'll be leaving because he feels like they're acting highly inappropriate with him. He'll level them with a pointed look and now they're forced to acknowledge their actions.

If they try to deny it then he'll drop it but if they try again then he'll simply ask to leave, the two of you slipping away as Zayne doesn't want to put up with it anymore. If they finally apologise then Zayne is going to make it clear that the apology hasn't made things "okay", avoiding them for the rest of the night in a more pointed manner and making everybody gossip and whisper.

Xavier will just avoid their touches. It doesn't matter how awkward it might be for him to literally jump away from them but he'll do it if he has to. He's already attached to you by the hip so it's not like you're going to be too far away for him to grab at. They'll laugh awkwardly, telling him that they don't bite and that he doesn't need to run away so viscerally. He doesn't bother replying, just turning his attention back to you and keeping close to you.

If they keep trying then he'll just turn and tell them to leave him alone. He isn't interested and he won't ever be interested. That, paired with the death glare he gives them makes it clear that even if Xavier looks passive and chill, there's no way he won't act on a perceived threat to his relationship - which is what they're presenting as. He'll make the message clear by just asking you if the two of you can go home and Xavier won't show up at any future events if they're present.

Rafayel doesn't respond well at all. Similar to Xavier, he has no problem acting out. He's known as difficult for a reason and he will pull out every diva card he needs to. The first statement is flatly ignored, Rafayel looking at them like they're the dirt on his shoes as he asks them what they're trying to do. He isn't a fan of what they're insinuating and he makes it clear, rolling his eyes and treating them unkindly.

He'll maintain a cold attitude throughout the entire event, making it a point of walking away or straight up laughing at them if the statement calls for it. He finds it highly offensive that they think hitting on him in front of you would work on him even if the two of you weren't together. If he gets bored of actively belittling them then he'll start ignoring and making it clear he wants to go home. He's even clingier than usual, and nobody's going to really like him after this event but he doesn't care, citing the flirting as the main reason why he's going to be mean and he has no problem doing so.

Sylus is also quite cold. He'll only humor it once, raising a brow and asking if they think now is really an appropriate time to be making such comments about him. He'll look around pointedly, arm around your waist as he draws attention to them attempting to flirt with a man in a clearly committed relationship. Then, he'll turn to you and say something in your ear while looking at them - it doesn't matter what he said but he'll laugh and you'll smack at his chest. The way he's acting will of course make them think it's about them and have everybody else whispering about it which will definitely ruin their day.

If, somehow, they have the guts to keep flirting with him he'll just tell them to shut up and leave him alone. He doesn't want to hear them talking to him nor have them think he'd even entertain the thought for half a second. His voice is harsh and maybe even a touch cruel but they probably will finally leave him alone afterwards.

Caleb is generally a very friendly guy but any advances that are given to him are just...bounced off if it's family or someone close to you. He doesn't want to be fully rude so he'll just develop selective hearing and ignore anything that he doesn't want to hear. It doesn't matter what they say or how they try to convey it - if they're trying to flirt with him he won't respond. It'll get to a point where they look desperate for his attention, clearly trying to flirt and failing so miserably as he shows them photos of you that he loves for the nth time.

If a stranger/someone not close to you tries to flirt with him all they get in response is a firm "no." No explanation, no other conversation, just a no. He won't say anything to them at all after the fact if it's clear the only intent was to try and get his number or something, making it clear he's in a loving relationship and that he has no want to entertain their advances.

[teaandinanity]

Happy Year of the Snake! I am done with my art for the bang so now I'm inflicting silly doodles on everyone in response to the author's notes and since it's not For The Bang Specifically I'm posting this one because I made myself laugh 😂

[rikan-oo]

I guess we should let Shen Jiu pull out Han Yoojin's little trick against Sung Hyunjae ghosting. It would be fun.

Imagine Yue Qingyuan didn't answer anyone's messages for quite a while. Maybe a problem with Xuan Su.

SJ sent a letter reprimanding him for his absence. When he didn't get immediate answer as always, he threatened to blow up his house if he didn't answer and gave him a timer. Then he sent the last letter that time was up.

He came and threatened him with the sword. Yue Qingyuan was never so happy getting a sword against his throat and his house destroyed.

[searchforahero]

roydicktim is so fun to me...

dick bringing tim to meet the teen titans and tim has such an obvious crush on roy, just in a constant state of being beet-red when roy talks to (or even looks at) him, asking him all sorts of questions about archery and convincing roy to "teach" him (despite definitely already knowing how to shoot).

dick is not impressed, obviously. wants roy to stay the hell away from tim, even though roy has no intention of pursuing tim in any way, but dick can't find it in himself to listen to reason because whenever he thinks of tim and roy all he can do is remember the image of roy leaning over tim's shoulder and positioning his hands on the bow while tim stood there awkward and flustered to hell.

fast forward years and years to bftc/brucequest and tim has hardly seen roy since he was younger, just every once in a while because of hero work, and he's not the type to go tripping over his feet because a cute boy looked at him anymore.

but he can still remember how mad dick got back then, and maybe he's mostly just sad now, when he thinks of dick, thinks of how they fought each other, how dick wouldn't trust him. but there's anger there too, deep and bitter betrayal, and it rears it's ugly head every once in a while, overpowering the loneliness and the sadness and everything else.

and he runs into roy by complete happenstance, and roy is still hot, and he's grown into his looks even more now than when dick used to bring him to visit titans tower, so really, he can tell himself it isn't about dick, he'd want to sleep with roy either way.

the next morning, he sends dick a selfie, smiling lazily at the camera with his hair splayed out on his pillow, roy's tattoos arm visible where it's slung over tim's chest, orange hair too-long and covering his sleeping face. captions it "look who i found :)" and promptly turns his phone off.

[beargregor]

Chef greg delivery just for you. it's a wonder I hadn't bearified him yet, he's my fave greg too 🔪

gays literally only want one thing (to be chopped up and eaten by a depressed man) and it's fucking disgusting

[heromaker-if]

[smileyobrien]

oh hello there

[melancholic-pigeon]

Okay this is the *actual* last comment, for real, but I just found out Spider is now smearing me as a convert and accusing me of being involved with drama I was not involved with because he mistakenly attributed my apologies for his public temper tantrum as being about something unrelated.

THIS IS A FALSE ACCUSATION and I do not appreciate having yet another bit of fake malicious intent falsely ascribed to my actions and* attributing a completely unrelated attack to me.

Also, it's very sad and disappointing whenever a Jew gets mad at a convert because something else is going on in the Jew's life and the convert happens to be in the splash zone and the Jew falls over backwards to smear the convert and invalidate her faith.

Just....the childish aggression is making me so, so sad and disappointed, from someone I used to think very highly of, who is now lying about me and publicly smearing me with false accusations based on a conflict he started because he misinterpreted something I said and I went out of my way to give him the benefit of the doubt when trying to clear up the mistake HE MADE that led him to decide bullying and attacking me for three fucking days was appropriate and okay and that I'm the bad guy for saying it's wildly unprofessional to behave like this in public to a former customer face.

Sorry, but facts, reality, linear time and the truth of what I actually said and did are on my side here, and I will not stand for being smeared and attacked and shat all over because I had the gall to try to kindly resolve his uncalled for, unjustified temper tantrum.

I am also not sorry that I left a side note in the tags that it was also unacceptable for HIM to drag his daughter into a stupid internet slapfight based on his own reading comprehension failure. Because it was and is unacceptable, and she needs to hear that message from someone.

End of story. Keep digging that hole as long as you like, Spider. It's not helping your case and is continuing to make you look progressively worse and more unreasonable, and the only person you have to blame is yourself.

*revised for clarity

[angeart]

here's a stray hmtb reread thought.

so back in chapter 8 when scar asked xisuma if grian will be okay, xisuma honestly wasn't sure. but he said, with soft reassuring conviction, "we'll make sure of it, scar. don't worry"

yeah, well...

i don't think anyone managed to make sure of it, so far.

i think they're all failing.

i think grian is not okay.

[707shadia]

I refuse to call myself a 'louie pikmin apologist' as I love this guy in all his piece of shit glory.

[teaandinanity]

Me in PMs to the friend who prevents me from committing social war crimes: Anyway thank you for listening to me go 'I hate people and someday someone's going to catch me at the wrong time and I'm gonna hit them over the head with a lamp so hard they'll be wearing the shade as a hat at the hospital'

[tmae3114]

every time another meteor gets thrown at us, I very slightly feel like I should apologise to the rest of the party for being the one who gave the DM the inspiration and excuse to do this to us

[tardis--dreams]

Some of those doctors make hating oat milk their entire personality. I hate them. Cannot pretend to find them funny or like i give a shit. Fucking pretentious assholes

[anotheruntitledsong]

i did like the hidden palace but (SPOILER if anyone hasn't read it?) i'm genuinely so annoyed at how Arbeely is handled like... I wish i could be sad but i'm just fucking irritated. I was overly invested in him and that's def why but i just feel like they did him dirty

[obeymeow]

have devolved into begging on social media but this is driving me up the WALL. I relatively distinctly remember a line of dialogue in the original game, paraphrased obviously, but to the extent of "asmo's charm doesn't work on a few rare exceptions but they're usually people with great magical power so it's strange that MC is one of them". does anyone else remember this or have I been trying to headcanon something into existence

[unproduciblesmackdown]

speaking of lackadaisy i had like another tiny detail thought about the murder mystery i was like "well and maybe i'll have a further revelation about it that would make for a post that says Anything else" lol but so far not yet so. we post anyways

first of all. someone said it in an ask and not like i disbelieved them but it's like ohh my god is "i bet mordecai shot/killed atlas" really that Rare a theory like screamm....like okay we all agree mordecai's going detective mode b/c He's Doing That In The Latest Comic Pages but when it's like "he joined marigold....to investigate them....b/c he wants to find out Who Killed Atlas" i'm like sob okay Please do we remember the page where he & mitzi were like "well We know how atlas died and one of us passed a gun to the other about it" and the more recent page where mordecai is like "well Eye know how atlas died to such a degree that i know Who Wasn't Even There" liiiiike! after going "i Thought until Just Now that marigold Didn't have any involvement w/atlas's death" like okay mordecai having joined up just to investigate them, how does that line up. ugh. anyways and when it's like "lol what if mordecai did it" even as that Hypothesis and the counterargument is like "but he worked for him....loyally....he wouldn't want to. so that's impossible XD" like head in hands therein would lie thee drama & the mystery of Whydunit, not Whodunit....

anyways lord lmfao so. just reestablishing my "mitzi and mordecai were both in on atlas's death" stance. was just thinking about how of course this is all about Character/Story and not about like, the goal of thee mystery out here being like as complex and opaque and surprising as possible, so really just turning to thinking about Character as as relevant a clue towards mystery-solving theorizing as anything else....like how noticing mordecai's silhouetted revolver that atlas gave him on the train and that he seems to be giving mitzi in that flashback are The Same, like, that's gotta be significant not b/c it's Impossible it isn't, but b/c it Would be to serve Story/Character here....and imo even going like "wow the resonance if mordecai, as atlas's loyal employee who doesn't want to, shot atlas w/that same revolver atlas gave him to be shooting other people so mordecai maybe didn't have to die" is like "evidence" for that theory like. yeah that'd be fun & relevant, which Does make it more likely it's accurate

so the character thought i had which can barely warrant a post but to hell with it, was just re: musing on how a total mystery is what tf role mitzi had in the circumstances that plausibly led to atlas's death, which both she and mordecai seem to believe ascribes to her some Fault in his death, even though she didn't kill him herself....and ofc i'm still like, hmm, shrug, but i was also sure just thinking about how like, everyone's in this because the bootlegging seems to be their only option / they feel sort of backed into a corner about Something Or Other and are trying to deal with that....except like, ivy, while everyone else is dropping their head in their hands like We're Not Doing This For Fun, don't invent reasons to be here....but i was thinking about how mitzi has a combination of like, being particularly Opportunistic (like, so far as we know her life didn't depend on marrying atlas; keeping up her band gig was still an obvious option; she was more actively pursuing Possibility than reacting to being in a corner with increasing desparation & decreasing options. even when that doesn't Not apply to her situation, just less dramatically than for many others, and it seems to have been more about being motivated by the Positives than the Negatives) (also shoutout to atlas being immediately described as "an opportunist") and that also like, key to a premise of this whole story as "lackadaisy really ought to just close up shop but it sure hasn't and is trying to open it up even harder" is that mitzi also seems to just take any given avenue in her pursuit of some opportunity far enough to be feasibly In Over Her Head....she's going ham like, still trying to make lackadaisy work at all, for one, trying to pitch investments while people are in the building on an armed revenge rampage until zib & co. help get most people out of the path of that, willing to employ & keep employing rocky in the bootlegging side of things, trying to power through effectively a drinking contest with wick in his cellar and then robbing him via check after getting in brawls on the pavement to keep her pearl necklace and if wick finds out then that'll hopefully not be a life-&-death problem for future mitzi....it's a lot of fun lol & truly apropos for her & mordecai to have some big secret while they're also, apparently largely independently, these like super active characters pushing things along

so in underwhelming conclusion it's taking things from "hmm maybe mitzi did something that had of course unforeseen consequences that somehow led up to atlas dying" to "yeah and because it'd fit if she saw some Opportunity that she decided to pursue in some particular way and not letting up until it's fully derailed and/or other people have helped mitigate the damage or prevent worse"....and since i'm theorizing here that probably also atlas was in on his own death, that could sure be Because for some reason or another, doing so mitigated damage or prevented further, worse damage....sure haven't had any revelations like answers to "ok what could that opportunity she was trying to seize have been" or "and why would atlas dying help" but it just seems fitting if like hmm what if major character traits of mitzi's that make the whole story what it is might be relevant to that [hmm what role did she have regarding atlas dying]