#I was just reminded that this was sitting in my drafts...

[lilacgaby]

title: mini me

pairings: boyfriend!katsuki x girlfriend!reader

katsuki thinks it's cute how you adopt his habits, calling you his mini-me.

note: this has been sitting in my drafts for foreverrr, no proofread im sleepy

everyone called katsuki a bad influence on you, he cursed, was rude, and dressed baggy.

they were right, at least about his influence, because you two now mirrored eachother to a scary point. that's what dating since high school would do to a person i guess.

your once carefully crafted reputation, not wanting to offend others and caring deeply about others opinions of you was gone, replaced with a brute force reminiscent of your boyfriend.

interviewers we're now more careful with you, you'd tell them to fuck off if they pissed you off, and you'd leave if you got annoyed. before, youd stand awkwardly and avoid the questions, now they're luck if they manage to get halfway through it.

you strive to be the best now, you expect nothing but the best from yourself. you find competition easily, choosing a rival and beating them at any costs. you don't like being told what to do anymore, it seems patronizing when compared to your boyfriend who'd bend the world to his will before he'd make you lift up a finger.

you wore skull themed t-shirts now just because they reminded you of him. jirou once asked you what your favorite song was from the group, but you honestly didn't even know it was one.

you and him thought similarly now. with less than a look you two knew what the other was thinking, even laughing at the same mental image without uttering even a breath.

katsuki had started calling you his mini-me once you cursed out a man on the street, telling him to 'die'. he felt like a proud mother as he watched you stand up for yourself, though he was always at the ready to stand in.

he called you it proudly when you got headlined for making a villain cry while fighting him, what you said? he doesn't even wanna hear it.

though, he did call you it once (deragatory) because you'd started to make the cutting hand side under your neck when you got in an argument with him.

he didn't like the taste of his own medicine, but he did like the taste of you so he kissed that expression off your face. easy win.

[llovedletters]

𝜗𝜚 we can run away to the walls inside your house .ᐟ

currently playing ❛ sailor song ❜ in which: ❛ without much of a family of your own, you take to spending time with percy's family; sally finding a bit of her younger self in you. ❜

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pairing: ❛ percy jackson x fem!reader ❜ warnings: ❛ use of y/n, not super well written, very short, old people being nostalgic ❜

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"how do you already have flour on your face? we haven't even done anything yet." you smile to yourself as you tug on your sleeve, bringing the fabric to percy's cheek.

"when i pulled it down from the shelf it spilled a bit..." he leaned into your touch, his cheeks warm despite the cool weather.

as time passed and sally watched her son annoy the living hell out of you by messing up the recipe, she laughed to herself. paul turned his head to the woman sitting next to him. you and percy's laughs heard in the almost quiet distance. he'd give her a knowing look, prompting the 'what is it?' that left his mouth.

"she just reminds me so much of myself... that poor girl has no idea what shes getting herself into."

"are you making fun of your own son?"

sally tilted her head, her eyes meeting paul's, "no, i'm simply saying that if his father was such a handful imagine what she puts up with."

paul nodded, glancing back and forth between her and the pair throwing flour around the kitchen. "i doubt she minds, i mean look at her."

before you could get the chance to toss another fist of flour at him percy places one hand around your wrist, his eyes narrowing before letting your hand go. you regretfully place the powder back into the bag.

he places a finger through the belt loop of your jeans turning you slightly so you face him. percy wipes all the flour away from your face, trying to avoid the boring eyes of his parents. you tried hard to keep down the smile that tried to slip it's way onto your lips. you failed miserably.

"there she is..." his voice is soft, like every word he spoke was a secret just between the two of you. he presses a soft kiss to your forehead before beginning to actually clean up.

paul looked back to his wife with a smile. "i think she'll be alright."

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A LETTER FROM LAY! guess who hit 111 followers! i've never done a follower event before but i do want to do one, so give me some time and i'll think of something!

this is super short but i fear it's been sitting unfinished in my drafts forever and i wanted it posted :)

[spooksier]

this is the gayest scene in tma and i meant that in the strictest definition possible. this is just two gay guys queening out at each other, 10/10 no notes

[batsplat]

i will be in permanent agony next year when marc squeezes pecco like a bug, unless it happens aragón 2021 style, where the unstoppable force (marc) meets an immovable object (passing pecco bagnaia), and marc has to really throw everything at it to come out on top. mostly because marc has a twinkle in his eyes when he looks at pecco, like he sees some sort of a challenge he’d enjoy to take on, and pecco just refuses to look at him 💀

also, martin said pecco plays the most amount of mind games, and i need to see that in 2025 before coming to a conclusion, otherwise it’s just jorge writing fanfiction about bagnaia as the ultimate bad guy of his life (i get it, jorge, next time pecco dnf’s i’ll choose to start stanning you, unlike the ducati bosses)

I think pecco does play mind games! admittedly if you're setting the standard at 'valentino', sure, he's pretty harmless, but pretty much every top level athlete will do a little of this! he does put some thought into how to manage expectations, what he's saying about his own chances and his opponents' chances going into weekends, that kind of thing. generally he might not outright attack his rivals, but he's not opposed to dropping the occasional snide remark. that being said, of course it's quite funny and revealing that jorge zeroed in on pecco as the mind games guy. pecco's very much his personal antagonist... such a good figure to externalise all those knotty feelings of being under-valued and under-appreciated and underrated... it's fairly natural that if you're fighting someone for a title, you get a bit of tunnel vision for them, so it's not that surprising a pick from martin. still fun! I absolutely buy martin's built pecco up a bit too much in his mind, is prone to reading malice into stuff where it probably wasn't intended on pecco's part. sometimes you end up playing mind games on yourself and the other guy doesn't really need to contribute

anyway, about the pecco/marc thing - yeah, look, obviously marc is the favourite in that title battle. that being said, if you look at marc's historical record, I wouldn't be all that surprised if aragon 2021 and jerez this year aren't the outliers. it's completely plausible marc wins that teammate battle quite comfortably but continues to lose in their actual one-on-one duels... because that did often happen during his prime. in 2013, sure, he won that early battle in jerez (which was just kinda building throughout to that one overtake), but he lost the rematch at silverstone. 2014 is the one where he was just kinda winning everything - so this one's kinda the exception, where he might lose some scraps like brno and misano but the extended battles in qatar, mugello, silverstone all go his way. from then on, the most memorable one-on-one duels with his big rivals are pretty often not working out in his favour. 2015 obviously a few with valentino, though he also doesn't win the title there so let's skip that, but 2016? the two duels everyone remembers from that year are mugello and catalunya - both go against him, both are defeats inflicted by his two main title rivals in jorge and valentino respectively, but it doesn't matter because afterwards the rest of the season goes his way. 2017 you've got austria and motegi where he takes on dovi and loses both times - but it doesn't change the momentum of the season and marc still wins in the end. 2018 doesn't really have a title fight, but again he's losing austria to jorge (before winning thailand so that's something). 2019, again not really a title fight, but he loses austria and silverstone before winning a couple of duels against rookie fabio at misano and thailand. in both those seasons, he's not really being challenged for the title - but if you looked just at the duels, you'd think the competition was a lot closer than the reality

none of this is to say that marc is bad at wheel-to-wheel racing, because he very obviously is not. (which by the way you can tell the moment you stop looking just at one-on-one's and include dogfights - sure, he's not won all of them, but pi '15 pi '17 assen '18 are all super memorable for a reason.) it's just an interesting pattern in his career: when he gets himself involved in extended duels with a single rival, he loses quite frequently, but it still doesn't hurt his title campaign. that's excellent mental resilience! it does, however, show that he doesn't really build his title campaigns around those big dramatic victories, around inflicting a dramatic and demoralising defeat on his rival in one-to-one combat. in this sense, he is obviously different from valentino: for instance 2004 is a title campaign that was built entirely around that trio of races early in the season (mugello, catalunya, assen) where he reclaims the championship lead and dulls sete's confidence by winning successive tight one-to-one battles. (also of course 2008/09, but those almost feel too obvious to mention.) when you look at marc's title campaigns, what they really rely on more than anything else is... well, consistency. the fact that he's basically always fast - and that generally speaking, he's finding himself in last lap duels at circuits where he shouldn't be able to contend for the victory at the last lap in the first place. (obviously qatar and austria, but also for instance honda was having a rough one at misano 2019, which is traditionally one of his strongest tracks but can be quite quirky.) (just saying, misano's a really good pecco track too... wouldn't that be fun...) it's relentless, intimidating pace that he's using to win all those titles... if you look at the races that changed the momentum in his various title winning seasons, it's not actually ever one-on-one duels, it's races where he won or was even just on the podium where all his rivals for one reason or another weren't there. maybe jorge and dani are injured, or maybe his rivals are having some horror show flag-to-flag races, or maybe ducati's having an off-weekend, or maybe everyone who isn't marc just refuses to stop crashing, or maybe jorge's decided to skittle the field

with the one-on-one battles themselves, sometimes it's kind of like... 'okay, sure, you won, but the fact I was even there probably isn't great news for you'. this is what jerez this year was about, right - of course, that was an important win for pecco, but also the fact that marc is fighting with him this early into his ducati career on a year old bike is certainly... a concern. obviously marc does want to win those duels, but he does also seem pretty capable of bouncing back after losing them. some of them have bothered him, sure - the worst was probably assen 2015, where there was obviously a lot of other stuff going on... and because it was that bit of the year where he was finding his feet again with that honda and they headed to the sachsenring next, his on-track performances didn't take a hit. you can argue that argentina 2015 did negatively affect his results... but that was also just a bit of the panic of 'I need to make up points now' in response to his first real adversity in the premier class - and anyway, everyone knows that wasn't a perfect marc season, the point is he was a lot better at managing this stuff going forwards. in 2016 and 2017 in particular, he really does do an excellent job of taking these close defeats in his stride

this is a long way of saying, look, I could easily imagine a version of 2025 where pecco wins a dramatic duel against marc at catalunya and then another one at mugello, and yet marc still wins that season pretty comfortably. that's basically the season I'm expecting... I'd quite like to have something different, because honestly I do enjoy it when the on-track battles actually affect title fights a bit more substantially! that being said, marc definitely wants to beat pecco in a one-on-one duel (though I'm sure that lovely le mans last lap pass will have gone a long way towards cheering him up) - and hey, interpersonal emotional stakes are a lot of fun too. hopefully even if there isn't much of a title fight they can still snap at each other a bit... as a treat

[theotherrichardpapen]

...because any moment may be our last. everything is more beautiful because we're doomed.

[oddlyspecific-dndadshcs]

Glenn started painting his nails to stop himself from biting them, but all the time he spent in Faerun wore the paint away.

He starts painting them again on his visits to Earth from hell. He asks someone else do it for him, though, because his hands shake too much to do a good job. It usually ends up being one of the Oaks. He usually prefers plain black, but they’re so good at color coordination that he just lets them go wild.

When Mercedes does them, she matches the color to his outfit. Henry gives him black, because he knows that’s what he likes. The twins each pick a color and start at one pinkie, then race to see who paints more fingers. You’d think that would end sloppily. Sometimes it looks even better than when Henry does it. Nobody knows how.

[posi-pan]

bi/pan/queer witchy vibes

[skizabaa]

Just the two of us, we can make it if we try!

Bloody Flora Au by @oobbbear !!

[dam-mar]

not me spontaneously crying to a tiktok with the half return audio because all i could think about was how the lawn is fucking dead since roran is mortal but eragon will endure

[myers-meadow]

I headcanon that Astarion (at least spawn Astarion) really likes dogs but that he maybe didn't really have much of an opinion about them before he was made a vampire, so he is actually somewhat surprised by things like his own attachment to Scratch (especially since most animals are/were nothing more than just a food source to him, so getting attached would have done him no favors); the reason for this shift in his attitude towards dogs is because dogs can love and care about you in such a pure and unconditional way. They don't care about what you are. They don't care about what you've done. To a dog, if you show them care, you are one of, if not the greatest thing in the world and they will make no secret about it. After 200 years of pretense, degradation, self-loathing, and being forced to do horrible things to survive... I don't think you could put a price on that kind of pure, unconditional, and unapologetic love. 🐾

thats such a wholesome HC!

Going from seeing animals as a (less than ideal) snack to his best friend and companion🥺. That's lovely character growth. I agree that this would do Astarion a world of good, to have someone (even if it's an animal) he can trust and depend on wholly - very healing. He himself is like a cat in behaviour (everything only on his terms), but the black cat x golden retriever pair is a classic for a reason ^^.

Even if Scratch didn't have a tadpole of his own (and thankfully he didn't!) he still experienced the whole journey, from goblin camp to githyanki creche to the shadow cursed lands to the city at last... Even he had a cruel master in the city, just like Astarion. These shared experiences do bond, even if dogs are inclined to bond, it would def help Astarions side of it as well.

If Astarion has ascended (bear with me), he can maybe extend his blessings of eternal life onto Scratch. That way he can be his best dog buddy forever 🥺.

Did you ever hear the voice lines for Astarion throwing Scratch's ball? they're very interesting and def show him having a lot of emotions abt the dog, very telling in comparison to the other companions too. Video link under the cut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZmN6kCS444

[blossoms-phan]

i hateeeeeeeee packingsksndnddnsndjdk

[byanyan]

still alive ftr just... struggling to get myself to do stuff again bc ofc I am ajdgks

[quaranmine]

Hi yeah its me again, sorry for the spam, not my fault you made cool and inspiring stuff. This time actually, i couldnt help myself and have made a short crackpodfic of an alternative universe which is basically 'AU where Mumbo is frolicking in the wild and Grian doesnt exist cause itd be too sad for him to do so, so hes gone.' Its stupid, ist badly written (literally my first ever creative writing work other than a 300 word school asignment) but like idk. if you dont want to or cant read it (cause its so bad and burns your eyes out) you can just not read it xd idc honestly but decided to maybe give you the choice of reading it or not. Excuse my weird and unusual ways of writing dialougue and monolouges This is part 1 of 3

Jellie meowed cutely, demanding for food most likely just as a familar figure walked into his cabin. —Oh Hello Cub! It's wonderful to see you again! How was the trail, you're earlier than usual, no? — Scar exclaimed happily, looking at the sweaty man now standing before him. The air was hot, the many glass windows of the watchtower could make a great greenhouse. The open windows allowed for a warm flow of the early summer's air to pass by and refresh the mostly closed space. —Hey hey. Yeah the traffic was better than usual, but there was more sand in on the trail today. I think it could be the Sahara desert dust that was supposed to get carried in with the wind. — Cub said, taking his backpack off and pulling out a rag to wipe his head off. No matter how many times he hikes through this trail it never gets much easier. — Oh, Cub. The Sahara desert was blowing on Europe! And also it's the 80s and this specific situation you're referencing is gonna happen in late March of the year 2024! That's at least 35 years into the future! —Oh yup I forgot. Sorki bout that —Cub, you silly silly man! — Scar said in a singsong tone. Both of them started laughing and looked straight into the readers eyes, smiling.  Hi reader they both thought and went back to laughing looking at each other. — Actually, Scar, while hiking I heard some tourists talking about some newfound cryptid roaming these parts, what's up with that? – Eh nothing special, some bikers saw a 'humanoid lanky bugman' or something. — The man said — I've seen it all over, people come, they see a black bear or a deer in the shadow and think it's a newfound species. But honestly! I gotta give credit to the bikers relating said encounter cause the guys were better than most at storytelling! The missing food cans, rustling in the bushes all around them, the feeling of being watched.. Truly creepy stuff! And then — Scar took in a breath, talking so much in one long exhale left him almost dizzy —the moment when they saw it fully...They described it as 'particularly lanky with black fur' and something about purple-pinkish fingertips as well as residue on its paleish naked face with a weirdly shaped snout. 'Like a Walrus' they said! A crazy comparison for a bear, but you know, human mind can do wonders! — Scar clapped at the last statement and closed his eyes smiling charmingly at his companion who was now drinking the rest of his water.. After a while, comfortable silence filled the watchtower as both of the men enjoyed eachothers company. Jellie was now purring against scars leg and promptly jumped on his lap demanding more pets as Cub had finally spoken up — Any new paintings done in the meantime? I don't recognise these two, are they new or recycled? — He asked, curiosity clear in his voice, lookin at the, indeed, two new paintings decorating the cabin. One of them depicting a landscape with a sunset. From where Cub was sitting, he could watch the same, now hidden under an overcast, mountains and trees. The other painting was of a group of three tufted titmice sitting on a branch. Cub took out his American bird field guy and read a couple of paragraphs to scar on what kind of bird has he drawn exactly. It's weird that he saw these birds cause apparently they don't live in that part of the US! Crazy.

HELPPPPP this is completely insane the best way, thank you. Love that Grian doesn't exist here because it'd be too sad for him. Love the fever-dream quality to the writing. In all the best ways you're taking me back to the crack fics I'd read on ff.net in 2013, it's great. Love the breaking the fourth wall abou the Sahara dust and the (assuming) European birds. You've got a certain hint of Douglas Adams flavoring happening with the switching to an "above" perspective for a moment to give a wry little fourth-wall comment.

Mumbo Jumbo, new forest cryptid. I can see it. If Hermitcraft!Mumbo eats redstone, do you think forest cryptid!Mumbo would eat like...rocks??? dlfjskfljslkfs

[elliesbelle]

Since your brain is huge and your meat is Big™, where do you stand on the Rellie vs Dellie debate. I've seen a hell of a lot of "Riley and Ellie were soulmates, Ellie was Dina's soulmate but not vice versa". I ship Ellie with long term therapy and medication so I can't comment but I'll take either of those over ellabs lmao

KSJLKDFJKLDF this description of me is making me howl

i did naught even see that there was a debate between rellie vs dellie omg? but let me gather my thoughts.

i personally believe in the concept of soulmates myself. and it's not something i will deny could exist in the tlou universe. however (and i may get flack for this), i don't think we've seen a character who's destined to be ellie's soulmate in the game tbh. not just romantically, but platonically either.

idk, i think a lot of ellie's life is based on circumstance. so her relationships are more based on that, rather than an inherent soul tie with the person. riley and dina were both her best friend at one point, and i think the process of ellie developing feelings for both of them was similar. but she was also a different person during the phases of her life where she had feelings for them respectively. so i feel as if the debate on who is better for ellie is honestly a moot point.

we also only got a fraction of riley vs what we got with dina, so we weren't given the opportunity to explore much else of riley's personality and chemistry with ellie as we did with dina.

as to who she had more love for, idk. probably dina? but i mean, she was an adult by this point and her shared traumatic experiences with dina probably bonded them more.

at the end of the day, the person ellie loved the most is joel, which is why she left dina in the first place. would she have done it if it were riley and not dina in the situation? idk. i think tlou2 cemented how much rage and guilt ellie clung onto, so she probably would have.

i personally ship ellie with a good insurance and in inpatient psychiatric ward myself. our girl needs to heal.

(did someone say ellie needs to heal? omg what a coincidence, @cherriesxinthespring's wasteland baby! series on ao3 is a story about both ellie and reader healing from shit in their past! perhaps we should all check it out omg)

[silverwhittlingknife]

snippet (post-Batman and Robin 6)

Flamingo shoots Damian.

Flamingo shoots—

Damian might never walk again because Dick didn’t protect him and Jason is sneering and Dick is punching him and Gordon is shouting, shouting, shouting, but Dick can’t hear him, the only thing that he can hear is Jason.

“Don’t tell me the kid’s mother can’t find a Lazarus pit! They brought me back! How can you live with yourself—he’s still dead because of something you can never admit!  You just couldn’t stand the fact that you were always gonna be in his shadow!”

(It never ends.)

The cops pull him off Jason before he does any serious damage.

(It never ends it never ends it never—)

(What kind of monster hurts a child?  What kind of monster—)

He talks to the al-Ghuls because they may be monsters but Dick would make a deal with any monster in the world if it meant that Damian could walk.  And he sends Damian to Talia, because he has to.  And he sends Alfred with Damian, because Damian’s a kid even if he pretends he’s not and he ought to have someone looking after him.

And Dick stays behind.  Alone.

And.

The body is right there, and—

I’m sorry, Bruce.

Jason’s wrong about everything.  Though that’s nothing new, of course.  Dick would give anything to be in Bruce’s shadow again.  And he doesn’t need to ask the al-Ghuls about a Lazarus pit.

(Dick can find one himself.)

* * *

Dick flies to England.  He should spend the downtime resting, or preparing for battle, or researching what’s to come.

Instead he spends most of the flight arguing with Tim.

Not the real Tim, of course.  The real Tim is—somewhere.  Probably not England.  No, the argument he’s having is just taking place in his mind.  Tim is calling him a hypocrite.  Pointing out that they had a whole fight about Lazarus pits.  Saying that he should know better, that he does know better.

Dick, however, is winning the argument.  

He wins the argument several times while he crosses the Atlantic and then again that evening, staring up at the ceiling in a crappy hotel, rehearsing all his justifications.  There are a lot of justifications, but they all boil down to one thing: Batman is important.  Bruce is important.  

More important than my parents? Imaginary-Tim says.  Than yours?

Yes. 

It sounds terrible but it’s true.  Batman is more important than other people.  So much more important than Dick ever realized before he had to live without him.  They can’t do this without Bruce.  Everything is falling to pieces.

You’re not even here, he tells Imaginary-Tim.

Dick can almost picture Tim here, which is probably a bad sign about how long it’s been since he slept.  The Tim frowning at him in his imagination is younger than the real one and his face is tensed up in the way he used to get when he thought Dick was making bad decisions.  The I’m-worried-about-you face.  Alternatively: the you-seem-broken-how-do-I-fix-it face.  

Dick is not a fan of this face.

I know what I’m doing, Dick tells him.

Visual hallucinations can be a symptom of delirium or psychosis, Tim says, frowning.  Don’t you think your decision-making ability is compromised?  

Then he’s in another corner of the room, looking even younger, earnest, wide-eyed.  Dick.  I really think this is a mistake.  You think so too.  That’s why I’m here, right?

For a moment Dick misses him more than he can bear.

[oculusxcaro]

What Does Your Blood Taste Like?

Strawberry Milkshake

Your blood tastes like a strawberry milkshake, the sweet blend of ice cream, milk, and strawberries. Prominent flavours: sugar, fruit, and a pleasant cold.

Tagged byStolen from: @question-marked (♡) and... somebody else, I don't remember. Tagging: Whoever would like to do it?