#TEENAGERS ARE SOOOOOOOOOO MEAN.

[sasster]

did you guys know that my about on discord is “a tenth grader probably said something mean to me today”

and it is precisely because

just now one of my students came up to me and leaned in real close and whispered.

“This better not be the haircut you decide on for our graduation. I’m not gonna hold you, Chase, I better not see this shit again.”

[notebookqueenofnarnia]

Okay Demigods

now that Season 2 has been confirmed (!!!!!!!!!!) I am here to make my official appeal that you ALL read the books. and yes...i mean ALL the books. Because here is what you are missing if you don't:

(mostly spoiler free. mostly vibes and chaotic no context)

OG PERCY JACKSON

Percy's INCREDIBLE sarcasm

Lots of chaotic Mr. D moments

Percy's unending absolute obliviousness when it comes to: his own abilities/powers, his own feelings towards a certain daughter of Athena, and EVERYONE'S feelings towards him

the full list of Percy's felonies (it's longer than you think!)

how much Percy thinks about Annabeth, especially in the third book

The Hunters of Artemis (everyone's like 'which godly parent would you have?' but im like ??? who cares??? I'm running off with the girls to immortal to hunt men i mean monsters)

soooooooooo much Sally Jackson is the Best Mom (to everyone who walks through her door) content

BLACKJACK. TRANS ICON BLACKJACK THE PEGASUS.

Rachel. Elizabeth. Dare. (this is how the audiobook says her name every single time)

Paul Blofis

Sally Jackson, author

Poseidon: Blowfish?

HEROES OF OLYMPUS

If you don't read these books you are missing out on some of the coolest female characters Rick has created: PIPER (an iconic), HAZEL (unintentionally hilarious), REYNA (beautiful character arc), and ANNABETH's point of view will have you loving her on a whole other level, trust me

Also: COACH HEDGE

Leo

All The Ladies Love Leo

the audiobooks are INSANE. It felt like a full cast read the book, but no. it was just one insanely talented narrator.

FESTUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS (im a dragon girlie)

Personally, I spent a lot of time reading the OG 5 wondering about how Roman mythology plays into Percy's world. Uncle Rick answered my questions and answered them SO WELL

Hazel the horse girl

Frank the horsebirddolphinman

Frank, gentle himbo, my beloved son

MY FAVORITE SCENE WHICH INVOLVES PERCY NOT KNOWING HOW TO DRIVE, A HARPY, FRANK, AND HAZEL AND THEYRE ALL SCREAMING AND IM PRETTY SURE STUFF IS ON FIRE

Forced Proximity for 7 teenagers and one chaotically violent satyr (that's Coach Hedge)

Eros/Cupid being one the most genius things Rick's ever written

Percy's hate of Ares transcending god magic

(also his love of Annabeth, but that's like obvious)

PercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabe

weird barely gnome things

this one giant whose name is definitely not pronounced like female anatomy

everyone thinking Percy and Annabeth are constantly getting up to the hanky panky

a statue made me cry

Gay Grumpy/Sunshine (or should that be Death/Sunshine) origins!!

TRIALS OF APOLLO

Apollo, vain himbo of godly proportions is forced to live as Lester Papadopoulos

Percy: why

a very chaotic twelve year old daughter of Demeter

she commands Apollo around

plant magic

terrible great haikus at the start of every chapter

Sally Jackson being the best mom to everyone who comes to her door

magic shoes

a sassy magic prophetic arrow that talks in Shakespearean English

so much gay grumpydeath/sunshine content

also yes sunshine's dad is Apollo

Apollo sings

Grover! Piper! Reyna! Hazel! All the friends! Everyone

Jason! (also im sorry)

what if there were some trees who were an elite squad of warriors who also answer to the chaotic twelve year old

gay moms of the midwest

unicorns

in the last book, chiron takes the campers on a 'field trip' to help take down the big baddie and he shows up dressed as a warrior soccer mom with granola bars, water bottles, and extra swords attached to his fanny pack

a different chaotic twelve year old while fighting to the death in a building that's on fire: "CAN WE GO ON FIELD TRIPS EVERY WEEK?"

chiron: "ROSE DEAR RAISE YOUR SWORD A LITTLE HIGHER!"

okay im not going to spoil it but in the last book there is also this extremely horrifyingly violent moment that Uncle Rick somehow turns into one of the most hilarious things i've ever read

Piper in the epilogue

CHALICE OF THE GODS

more insanely funny percy first person narration

Grover, Percy, Annabeth reunite ("the gang is back together!" "The three musketeers!" "Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey!" "Excuse me?")

have you met the god of himbos? (Percy has)

SO

MANY

EASTER

EGGS

for Season one. you can totally see how Uncle Rick worked on the script and chalice together

if you liked Annabeth shoving Percy into the water....this one is for you

Percy, supreme god of snakes

the cutest cutest cutest cutest Percabeth content you will ever read

hippie gods (yes more than one)

Percy is literally obsessed with Annabeth

Annabeth already being the Jackson daughter in law

Sally Jackson and Paul and

For the record: You CAN read Chalice of the Gods without reading the other series, but please please please read all these books. The audiobooks are phenomenal.

[haystarlight]

MORE SPOILERS! FOR THE FUTURE SPOILERS!!

So that's scene where Belos tries to possess a Grimwalker but fails was interesting and I have 4 things to say:

1.This confirms that Hunter popped out of the ground already with a 15 or 16-year-old body and there was no child or baby period for him. This sucks because I was so convinced he'd popped out of the ground as a baby and I really liked the idea of little kid Hunter, he would've been soooooooooo cute. So I'm bummed about that.

2.If he came out of the ground already a teenager, then all the childhood memories he has (or he thinks he has, rather) are definitely fabricated by Belos by magical brainwashing or something. That's somehow even sadder than him having a lonely childhood with Belos in the Emperor's Coven. Like, whatever childhood he thought he had wasn't even real. Or what if he doesn't even have fake childhood memories and someone asking him about his childhood would break his brain?!

3.Does Hunter have a belly button??? Probably not, right??? This one's more of a joke.

4.Another joke one; I'm actually really relieved they didn't go through with the Grimwalker possession angle cause that would mean even more Hunter angst. And I think Belos possessing Raine is really cool.

... and also, if they actually showed Hunter shirtless onscreen, Disney Channel Studios would get stormed by a violent army of hungry teenage girls. And I don't think any of us wants that.

Teenage girls are animals.

[daenerystemper]

maybe it's me just feeling a little silly goofy (& i could just be swinging my feet a little bit here) but it's just sooooooooooooo funny how one man's canon events of systematically murdering whomever he considers an enemy to his family (the reyne-tarbeck revolt, the horrific murders of el/ia, rh/aenys & ae/gon, his father's mistress's walk of shame, ty/sha, the red wedding) is routinely praised and/or ignored in favor during any comparison to any ruler ever meanwhile a teenager's tv-only canon & revision of book!canon traits has soured red/dit's opinion of her greatly that any comment beneath referring to her compassion & kindness is immediately washed out because of a singular event. it's misogyny, baby!

"ty/win has more experience" like oh nooooo sorry the fifteen year old didn't suddenly age 40+ years looool !!

& in case you were wondering

when faced with the concept of ty/win blowing up king's landing to better increase the standing of his family, people say ty/win would make that decision because he's just sooooo cool & soooo calculating & just soooooooooo smart meanwhile daenerys is simply evil for making a similar decision ( never mind that cer/sei blew up the sept of baelor & we just never hear a peep of this again after season six when it happened. )

ableism & misogyny is used as a constant insult against daenerys, but should a male counterpart exhibit these same "traits", they're just really great methodical leaders unless their last name is targaryen. dany staying behind in meereen to continue fighting the slavers & her walking amongst/tending to those with the pale mare against her advisors is ignored because "book!dany isn't tv!dany" even though one of those situations is canon to show!dany too lol.

i mean, someone even said the "high sparrow" because they're "team smallfolk" & i just KNOW you've got to be joking LMFAOOOOO.

[knwatchesninjago]

King of Shadows review

OKAY OKAY!!! THIS EP WAS REALLY GOOD!!!

There were a lot of Wu making these KIDS do his won work but stilll, it was nice!!

#ChildLabor

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ALSOOO!!!! THE FLUFF!!!!!!

#SiblingBonding

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AND!!!!! THE...

#FamilyFluff

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OH MY GOSHHH!!!! THIS EP WAS REALLY NICE!! I LOVED IT!!! :DDD

I'm glad that Wu finally fought his own battle in the end instead of sending his kids to fight.

Finally.

But I'm still quite confused about why Nya hugged Jay? I mean he's a random stranger to her soooooooooo...?

But alas... there were a few things that concerned me... especially at the fact that three TEENAGERS managed to catch up with cars and motorcycles...

and here I am struggling to run across my high school to get to my next class in time...

AnYwAyS

Time to watch S1E1, loll!!

~KN out~

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Where to watch the Pilot (basically origin story) Ninjago Episodes?

Ep 1: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/288445276

Ep 2: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/288476533

if u can't watch it here then try youtube...

https://kittenninja14.tumblr.com/post/731916269075480576/hey-yall-i-just-found-this-incredible-video-and

[mjulianwrites]

Sorry for the amount of these. Helios 1, Renan 4 just because I think it’s funny, Mona 5, Darcy 13, Preston 15, Sylvie 16

1. How does your OC feel about their full name?

his deadname? bad bad very bad. hated it. his first chosen name (perseus farrington)? he liked it quite a bit, and went by it for most of his teenage/adult life. wasn't a huge fan of having the farrington family name but he also never thought about it much because there wasn't another option. his current name (helios saturnini)? 1000/10, he got to pick a new name to match his cool new dad and he loves it, double points for ditching his mom's surname, triple points for making the church and the rest of the royals so mad.

4. How do they act around a crush?

DSGHSDGHSDHGSDGHSDG i mean we all know renan is the living embodiment of the 🥺 emoji but he at least used to be a LITTLE cool around cyrus early on. he was trying to keep his cool and kiiind of failing but that was when he was in his suave little rake era so it sort of worked. making out with the heir apparent on a dare is regrettably a bit swag.

5. Do they have a “tell” for when they’re lying?

hmm, sometimes. mostly when the lie is of the "i'm fine and not experiencing life-threatening health events shut UP mom" variety. in that case mona gets extra nasty and snappish with people and her family members can tell something's up. when she has her shit fully together she's very difficult to read, but austra can still almost always tell.

13. Do they make strong/frequent eye contact when they talk to someone?

yes but not to an unusual degree. darcy's just very polite and socially capable so they make. idk. the normal polite amount of eye contact. maybe less with prince cyrus cause they know he doesn't like it (but then again, maybe more with prince cyrus if they want to get him slightly off his game)

15. Are their greatest flaw and their greatest strength related and in what way? (ie very caring and helpful but a doormat, or very observant and shrewd but often paranoid)

oh for sure. preston's greatest strength (or one of them at least) is his whole golden boy persona. he comes off as very talented and respectable and charming and trustworthy and that makes people like him and also lets him get away with shit. but it also leads to his horrible horrible fixation on being perfect -- which is twofold, actually, because he oscillates between "i'm a perfect person so nothing i'm doing is wrong" and "i have to be a perfect person so if i make a tiny mistake or anything is my fault i'll explode." and it makes him soooooooooo much worse.

16. How has their childhood affected the way they view an aspect of their life (people, education, society, themselves, etc)?

so sylvie's parents were in. a pretty shitty marriage because her dad is pretty shitty. and when she was a kid her mom started having an affair with this other man who turned out to be Even Worse and ended up spiralling into addiction and eventually dying. and this in turn caused her dad to become insanely fucking overprotective and controlling and paranoid that she would go down a similarly bad path. so from a young age she's been VERY focused on having her shit together. around everyone but especially around her dad. and she has a fake relationship with a boring respectable guy her dad approves of so he won't lose his mind about her getting herself in trouble with other people. which is fine. this can only go well.

[epaily]

dont read this im not 15 anymore i shouldnt be doing this

my fucking god the guy i like makes me want to tear my hair out. we hung out on saturday n the feelings are reciprocated so we cuddled and kissed alot. aloooooooot and i was over the moon with that but i swear every 10 fucking minutes he was asking to touch my boobs. im not exagerating. he kept saying he wouldnt do anything i dont want to do and im sure he wouldnt hurt me anyway but dude still. what part of im not interested in that dont you understand

not even just that but a few times he was on top of me and he pinned my wrists above my head which i didnt really want already and ALSO he put a hand on my throat not squeezing but still there and i REALLY didnt want that this is the least of my concerns here. i didnt think he had it in him honestly hes the dorkiest looking motherfucker. i could snap him in half. anyway.

hes so painfully my type i want to scream. he has it all. why did i give him my number why did i let us be friends im ace why does my type have to include having a dirty mind. i hate it here

we couldnt find the tv remote at one point n he reached between my legs and told me to take it out n ive told him to stop making gross jokes where im the focus ive told him im uncomfortable and hes not funny and he doesnt care I KNOW ITS A RED FLAG I KNOW I KNOWWWWWWWWWWW OKAY but every single other fucking thing about him is so fckng endearing. hes gorgeous. hes a genius. he likes anime and spiderman. his laugh lights up a room. when he talks in hindi i cant stop myself from smiling. he bought me pocky. he sleeps on an air mattress. ive never seen him in anything other then a turtle neck. he likes fruity smelling soaps and candles, its the only luxury he allows himself. he has the coolest fucking glasses.

yesterday he asked if we could put a name to this, i couldnt get the right words out and ask him to be my boyfriend properly, half because im easily flustered because I Dont Do This amd half because i dont want him to be. im a coward and i run from my problems so last night after chewing on it for 2 hours i texted him saying basically that i really wanted to date and be official because i like his dumb ass but i also know we arent compatible and its better we stay as friends. which sucks. im a coward and deleted snap immediately after so i havent seen if he said anything. i missed talking to him today. i got used to texting him all day so fast. i miss good morning and good night texts. last time we didnt talk for a day he tried other methods and asked if i was ok n if it was his fault and like it is but it isnt dude its complicated i hate myself i hate myself soooooooooo bad. did i mention this was the day after he saw me kinda cry out of frustration and sadness and he said it was one of the worst things hes ever seen/felt 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

he already said that if we dated it wouldnt be forever. he wants to fuck eventually and he wants it to mean something and not be with a hooker (i dont know if ive said this but if i dated someone i'd be fine w them getting a lady for the night LMFAO) which is fine! hes a cishet guy thats his right to want. im just so mad because now we've kissed and we've made out and i remember what cuddles are like and im SO MAD. this is the most ive felt towards anyone in the 3+ years and i cant have it because of my stupid sexuality. i wish i had said no to hanging out. i wish i had self restraint. i wish i hadnt hugged him. if he asks to hang out again im gonna say no. i want to show off my books and coins and wrap ourselves in blankets hes so fucking warm-

god damnit. God Fucking Damnit im not a teenager anymore.

im not ashamed of being ace or whatever im proud of it I Am Just Me im just a person but god it makes me mad sometimes because ive missed out on people ive wanted before and i will again and to be entirely fucking honest i dont know if i ever will. i dont think its even worth it. the older i get the harder it will be to say im not interested because people will assume im either waiting til marriage or im a prude and it will be more common place because everything is only ever sex sex sex and im tired of it man.

im like 99% sure he told me to stop texting him because he wasjacking it yesterday. ye gods.

tldr im so mad i like him so much and i cant have him.

im going to fucking bed

[phoenixyfriend]

Voltron Age Swap Plance AU

This was originally brainstormed back in 2018 but I'm still not over it. I'm not even in Voltron anymore, and yet I still think about it regularly. Also people are still showing interest so I should like... share this. It contains bits from @themysteriousinternetentity, @firebirdeternal, and Kite, who afaik dropped tumblr and I don't know their old URL. (Contains grief, trauma, and usage of alcohol to cope with the former.)

Plance don't swap with each other, no, we're going more complicated with this. Plance are in a stable long-term relationship, and Shiro is a useless teenage gay who keeps crushing on older straight boys.

It started out as just Lance and Shiro being age and role-swapped, for a fun thing where Shiro uselessly crushed on an oblivious and very straight older boy out of minor hero worship, because one-sided Shance is cute, including age-reversed like this.

Then we added Pidge being Matt’s twin, for an absurd dynamic with Lance and the Holt Twins that ended up being oddly stable Plance with Matt demanding to be Lance’s best man at the wedding.

Adam is aged down to be on Shiro’s level, and their relationship has silly teen angst about not agreeing on The Cutest Character In This Anime They Watched.

So this entire thing actually started with me saying Shance is one of those ships where I can take it or leave it depending on the context but if someone wrote an age-swap AU where Shiro had the Biggest Dumb Teen Crush on Lance and Lance was an Oblivious Straight Guy who had no idea and it never went anywhere but was full of Shiro bemoaning the fact that he managed to fall for a guy who was both too old AND too straight for him... I would actually 100% read that.

The Kerberos mission is Lance as pilot, Matt as comms officer, Sam as scientist, just to clarify.

Lance took Hunk under his wing at the Garrison because he saw Hunk struggling with the anxiety and kinda went “oh shit, he could use some help.” Hunk nearly passed out the first time he met Pidge because the hero worship of this tech Genius was so strong. The Lance and Hunk dynamic kind of parallels Keith and Shiro’s in canon, except in Hunk’s case, the problems are less Delinquency and more Anxiety.

Shiro is a hopeless romantic.

Lance deals with trauma by leaning into the jokester side.

Keith and Shiro are buddy-buddy roommates, like Hunk and Lance in canon. They're still buddy-buddy when they get to space. Whenever Shiro starts bemoaning a crush on an older straight boy again, Keith reminds him that he still has Adam, his boyfriend back home. Shiro points out that isn’t fair, because Shiro and Adam frequently talk to each other about unattainable older crushes, too, so Shiro KNOWS Adam wouldn’t be bothered.

Keith is very tired of Shiro’s gay drama sometimes. Keith had his own dumb bi crushes (Allura and Hunk could both bench press him and he is very aware of this), but he’s…a little more quiet about them, if only because he’s wary of the other paladins, still.

Shiro's STILL leaving behind Adam but this time there wasn't a breakup, it was just Adam waking up like "Yeah, your boyfriend went missing during the lockdown last night, we're not sure what happened." They were "on break" which means they weren't speaking to each other for three days because Adam said Naruto was overrated.

Matt was ALSO a former crush of Shiro's, and Pidge recognizes him because Matt sometimes let Shiro tag along for some stuff, more than Keith tagged along with Shiro in canon.

Shiro complains about crushing on Lance to Adam -> Adam complains about his crush on Shiro, who is clueless, to Matt -> Matt goes and has coffee with Lance, suddenly cracks up and snorts coffee out his nose, refuses to explain anything.

Pidge and Matt are twins, and it's great. It's also awful. For many reasons. Pidge and Matt used to be identical twins. Technically, genetically, they still are. But Pidge rejected a bunch of stuff and took all the hormones she legally could, soooooooooo.

I want undercut ponytail Pidge and so that's what's happening here.

Also I've decided that Garrison health care covered Pidge's transition.

At the time of brainstorming we didn't have any definite ages for Matt, or anything more definite than "still had time for a growth spurt" and "in an orange uniform" which could maybe put him up to 21/22 when Shiro was... he was probably 24 when Kerberos set off.

Lance is taking Shiro's place at 25 in S1 and Pidge is joining Matt at estimated-19-to-22-ish-but-let's-go-with-22.

Matt is three and a half minutes older than Pidge And he never Ever EVER Lets her forget it

Lance is just SLIGHTLY less of a dweeb, like, he's had a bit of time to mature, but.

God, long-term friends Matt and Lance would just be the WORST. They're both little shits and they're both flirty and they're basically introducing aliens to Jackass. Pidge has so much blackmaile on both of them. I was about to say "Neither of them considers this blackmail" but they work for the military and Iverson would definitely get on their case about some of this stuff.

They've been mistaken for triplets or at least siblings at some point. Lance's eyebrows shoot up to his hairline because??? He doesn't look like a Holt??? Little does he realize that they had the exact same shit-eating grin not three seconds earlier

"Look at that pasty skin! They're basically snow sculptures! I am not a white boy!" "But you are a fuckboy." "Listen, Pidge, you don't need to state the obvious."

Lance signs something as "Lance McClain-Alvarez" and Pidge crosses it out and writes "Fuckboy McGee."

Pidge and Lance are constantly goofing on each other, battles of Wit that Pidge almost always wins, but the fastest way to get a knuckle sandwich from Pidge is to insult Lance. That's HER job thank you very much.

So when they were in the Garrison as students, Matt, Pidge, and Lance were a team. Pidge in engineering, Lance as pilot, Matt on comms.

There were some iffy times before Pidge and Matt stopped doing twin communication and forgetting that Lance needed to also know what was happening.

The ages don't work out close enough for them to be in the same year, buuuuuuuuuuut the twins totally skipped a few grades.

Lance is older but he's the cocky established fighter pilot jock when she shows up and promptly skips three grades, gets stuck with this idiot who keeps calling her "short stuff," and then she learns his darkest secret: he is an utter dork. Lance THINKS it's his darkest secret. The problem is that it's... not... a secret.

It is to freshmen who broadly categorize people into nerds and jocks because they aren't too used to normal socializing yet/have had bad experiences in school (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

Part "Lance doesn't realize how obvious he is about being a total dork, thinks he's hiding it very well, is actually super clearly a massive nerd" with a side helping of "Pidge is also clueless; clearly they are meant to be."

Matt is snapchatting every interaction and sending it to his not-twin friends and also his parents. With captions like "He quoted Pirates of the Caribbean and she responded without noticing, she still thinks he's a jock and he somehow forgot that movie is over sixty years old, save them 🙏 🙏 🙏"

It took them years to get together but Matt shipped them since day one.

Pidge: He yelled Kobe and threw his test paper into the trash that idiot! Matt: that is a fifty year old meme and it was an a + test, Pidge.

(Lance wears a shirt with a chemistry pun one day and pidge doesn't even notice.) (Matt is collecting so much blackmail.) (He is emphatic about being best man because he's spent ten years planning that speech.)

Lance is mentoring Hunk re anxiety and Pidge is his tech idol. Like six months into their acquaintance, Lance mentions his friend Pidge in passing. Hunk: Not,,,not Pidge Holt???? Lance: ...ye? Hunk: aweiu;aflhiuerh;gi he verbalizes the key smash, it's impressive

Lance and Pidge make jokes about adopting Hunk.

"Pidge you're barely five years older than m--" "I'M SUCH A YOUNG MOM." "WE CAN'T SUPPORT YOU, SON, IT'S A TRAGEDY."

Hunk gets dragged around by his older basically-married friends. Pidge moms Hunk but he moms her right back.

Okay but Hunk keeps trying to make sure Pidge gets sleep and food and all that, which she does appreciate, even if she's old enough to know her limits (he was worried about her grief and depression post-Kerberos, and got in the habit), but then he gets sick or has a panic attack or any number of things and she and Lance are RIGHT THERE to help him through it.

Pidge: [stays up way too late coding] Lance: [flops on top of her like a cat so she's warm and can't get at her laptop] Hunk: [tucks a blanket over them both ten minutes later when they conk out]

Or like.

Hunk: [says something unexpectedly savage] Pidge and Lance: OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRN

They're dweebs, guys.

Still coming back to the conniving Matt&Hunk partnership. Eventually when Lance finds out about who Matt's source has been. He is torn between complete outrage and so much pride. I taught you well you TRAITOR

Lance puts on "Dear Theodosia" and when it gets to "look at my son!" he just does Will Smith "LOOK AT MY FAMILY" pose at Hunk. Hunk isn't paid enough for this.

She and Lance are a Drapey couple. They drape themselves over each other.

Lance dated soooooooooo many people in his teens but if you ever dare so much as IMPLY that he isn't faithful during the relationship itself, however long or short it is, he will be offended. So will the current beau, which has been Pidge for the past five and a half years.

I want them to be like the edited bi version of the angry girlfriend meme. They check out cute girls together.

This is the definition of "even if one of the people in the relationship is straight, the relationship is queer."

Plance is a power couple, but the kind that does stupid shit like racing on shopping carts.

Texting: Lance: owo what's this Pidge: blocked Lance: wait unblock I've gotta say something Pidge: ...ok Lance: I wuv you Pidge: tough cuz now you're single

Though Pidge probably has a 'Then Perish' edit of Iverson making the exact expression to send to Lance whenever she needs it.

Also she sends him this.

Pidge is that one Cool Teacher who's Hip With The Kids.

Keith and Hunk and Shiro having lunch together and Pidge just plops down like "What up, nerds?" "Officer Holt, I'm trying to eat my lunch, please don't get me detention again." "That was one time, kiddo."

Hunk knows how to flatter her. Pidge only got promoted to officer a few months ago and Hunk knows calling her Officer Holt makes her feel better. (If she's already in a decent mood. If she's grieving, then it just feels Bad.)

Pidge hides loss in one of her slides each semester and cracks up as halfway through the lecture the entire class groans in despair.

Pidge varies between normal lectures, excited ranting about a new development in the field of the class she's teaching, and "I don't feel like teaching, you don't feel like learning, let's watch vine comps."

Pidge is terrible about swearing in front of students and keeps a "swear jar tally" on the board. +1 when she swears, -1 when a student does When it hits 25 she has to buy them snacks (Her students are some of the cleanest mouthed in the garrison) (The next semester they have some excellent new vocab)

There's a heated debate whether or not calling someone a "walnut" counts as a swearword depending on intonation until Pidge goes and gets Commander Iverson to end said debate. "THE COMMANDER SAID IT'S NOT A SWEAR, SO THERE."

"Hunk, how come you were playing Scrabble with Officer Holt?" "Her boyfriend kind of adopted me and now I guess I'm part of the family." The class would freak out re "officer holt's bf" but that would be assuming Lance hasn't dip kissed her in front of the class to embarrass her.

Lance has 100% dip-kissed Pidge in front of their classes, their coworkers, their bosses, their families, their lions, their--

There's people who staunchly believe they're already married and are very surprised to hear "wait, they haven't tied the knot yet??"

I just have a lot of fun imagining Older, In Charge Plance being a bunch of twenty-something goofballs at every opportunity.

Pidge: I need an adult. Lance: You are an adult. Pidge: I need an adultier adult! Iverson: [the deepest of sighs] The students look up to you two.

Iverson has spent almost a decade dealing with Pidge's bullshit, and two listening to Sam Holt talk about his scarily intelligent, mischievous twins. (He didn't believe Sam was anything more than an enthusiastic father until the first (and last) bring your kid to work day.) (We do not talk about bring your child to work day.) (Officially that never happened and thanks to Pidge you can't prove otherwise.)

(Without Keith punching Iverson, the eyepatch backstory is the Bring Your Children to Work Day that never happened.) (To this day Pidge and Matt blame each other.)

Matt: This is why people think you're married. Lance: Oh my god. Pidge: Ew, no, do you know how much a good wedding costs? Lance: We don't make nearly enough for that. Pidge: And both our moms would insist. You know mom would. And you've met Lance's family. Lance: Big, big wedding. Pidge: So many people. Lance: So much food. Pidge: So expensive. Lance: Totally not ready for that. Matt: So you've thought about it. Lance: Meh. Pidge: Not really? Matt: Oh my god.

People on military salary who are living on a base don't have a lot of expenses. If they aren't splurging it all on stuff, they're probably pretty well set. All their money goes to video games.

(It's actually a common problem around military bases: young people who suddenly have a lot of liquid cash, don't know how to budget and save, and get targeted by predatory lenders and scummy people. You see a lot of sports cars.)

(They've both got older military family members, though, so there's at least someone telling them to pump the brakes.)

(Especially if there were budgeting classes at some point since Garrison was also high school for them.)

Shiro: Adam. Adam listen I got Lance as my homeroom teacher, help. Adam: [resigns himself to the fact that he will hear nothing else all year]

Lance is really mopey before class one day. Shiro asks him what's wrong. Lance: I had a fight with my girlfriend. Shiro: Oh no. [awkward awkward help] Lance: I can't BELIEVE she thinks that STAR TREK is better than STAR WARS-- Shiro: But she's right, though. Lance: Get out I dont know you anymore.

Adam: Seriously? You've been trying to impress him all year, this is where you stop? Shiro: There are lines that must be drawn Adam! There comes a time when you must take a stand and-- Adam: You utter nerd. (But he likes it. He kisses Shiro to shut him up after a bit because his excited nerd face is so cute.)

Keith is slowly dying because come on, guys.

Anyway, time for drama.

Think about how furious and sad Pidge must have been after Kerberos. Because that's her dad, her twin, AND her boyfriend.

Pidge getting drunk and calling her mom or leaning on Garrison friends, avoiding Hunk outside of classes for a few months.

Everyone knows she's Lance's girlfriend, and an officer. So who do you think got asked to clean out his office.

He had a picture of her on his desk. It's a terrible picture. She didn't know he was taking it and she was halfway into a bite of burrito. He had it there to annoy her but also insisted her face was adorable in it. She starts crying in his office, clutching it to her chest. There's one she took of him and Hunk.

(She found a wrapped birthday gift with her name on the tag in the bottom drawer of the desk.) (He knew if he hid it at home she'd find it and open it early.) (It's still unopened in her bedroom when they reunite.)

Because he's Lance he had a little kit to freshen up over lunch break. She definitely spends some time sitting on the floor smelling his hair products because it smells like him.

He had a notepad where he doodled "Lance Holt" when he should've been working.

If he'd been there when she saw it she would've said "awwww" and he would've said "I'm gonna marry Matt" but instead she's looking at his doodle with hearts all around it and that's never gonna happen is it

yes it IS something ISN'T RIGHT

Iverson, upon realizing that Pidge is going to be receiving news that her father, brother, AND boyfriend are all dead, after ten years climbing the ranks on the strength of her computer genius, immediately argues with command that they have to tell her the truth.

Because, if they don't, she is absolutely going to commit felonies to find out what happened. (Iverson gets it in writing that he argued that. He does not want to be on Pidge's short list.)

And he'd rather have her helping them find a solution, rather than have to discharge her, and possibly have her arrested, jailed, and eventually imprisoned for being the smartest damn person in the building with a grudge the size of Mars.

He doesn't.... actually mention the felonies thing, at first. Because "She'll break the law if we don't bend to her" isn't the best argument. But "She's a genius, an officer, and heavily invested in finding answers and a solution to the incident" is a great one.

Iverson: If this were any other situation we'd be telling Holt to do the cover up. She's done it before. She knows what one looks like.

"Please don't tell me to hide something from the person who usually does the hiding for us, and has every reason to want the truth. Don't do that to me. Don't do that to yourselves."

Iverson totally does that thing where he is officially telling you this in his official capacity with no inflection and no attempt to make you believe it but if you weren't there you can't prove otherwise by the words he said.

Veronica knocking down Pidge's door and demanding to know more but the ONLY reason Pidge is allowed to know is because they're aware of the fact that not telling her is a worse option and like. Pidge can't tell her. And she hates herself for it.

Iverson letting Pidge into his office just to rant about what happened and then looking up twenty minutes after she's gone silent and realizing that she's just crying silently with her head pillowed on her arms on his desk and like... it's hard not to care.

Also consider that Iverson offers Pidge a drink after work one day, since she's 21 and it's all fine. And he just ends up with an intoxicated, distraught Holt, and has no idea what to do with her.

Her mom lives too far away and he has no clue where in the UNIVERSE the other people who care about her are. Definitely none of her more casual friends, because she might blurt out the truth while hella drunk.

Pidge, drinking tequila: --and I think we were gonna get married. [sob] Iverson: Um. Here, drink some water, you're gonna regret this otherwise. [awkward back pats] (you brought this on yourself, Iverson.)

She wakes up on his couch and he offers her water and some advil, or whatever the most effective hangover painkiller is.

Somewhat accidentally, Iverson is adopting this sad lost lonely genius.

Iverson's the awkward grumpy uncle. Coran is fun uncle, but Kolivan and Iverson both end up Grumpy Awkward Uncle.

Iverson is very involved with Pidge's mental health because tbh the woman doesn't have a lot of friends and she's trying to shore up a teenager's mental health and hiding her own grief as much as possible to do so and HEY has anyone taken Hunk to grief counseling yet? Anyone?

Hunk... may have just shut down.

If he doesn't necessarily have a lot of close friends, and Pidge was avoiding him out of guilt, he might actually be close to pulling a keith and getting kicked out. Not due to fighting. But due to flunking.

Maybe that's why Iverson goes to talk to Pidge: Hunk gets pulled up on academic warning and he KNOWS that's not right, and he realizes how much he's been missing.

THIS is why Hunk ends up being friends with Keith and Shiro. Pidge basically just points him at Shiro and goes "That one is nice and friendly and Matt said good things about him. Go. Make friends that aren't absurdly older than you."

Pidge, to Shiro: Lance said good things about you and so did Matt. Lance cared a lot about that Hunk kid and he's been feeling bummed out as hell and if you could maybe check in on him when I'm not around that would be swell. Keith, leaning in: Did you just say swell? Pidge: Um, excuse you, this isn't your conversation unless you're planning on helping Hunk too.

Keith: Try and stop me now. I will friend that boy. Shiro: Lance said good things, this boy needs me! Keith, ten minutes later: Shiro, how do I friend someone. Shiro: Well, first you go to Facebook, and then--

Pidge knows that Shiro really likes Lance and Matt and she is not above using that.

Poor Shiro is trying to be friendly and supportive, but he's sandwiched between uncommunicative traumatized grieving socially anxious Hunk and, you know, Keith.

Also like this totally fits that AU but also with Lance as a role model? 100% he will be even worse.

Shiro thinks Long and Hard and ends up asking how much crossover there is between Cooking Knife Technique and Fighting Knife Technique It Works? Kinda? Hunk ends up teaching Keith how to cook.

Shiro tries to learn too but he gets banned. Because he's... very bad. He ends up taste-tester.

Shiro set off a fire alarm trying to make toast once. Shiro is the freshman who causes a dorm evacuation attempting to make microwave mac 'n cheese. Shiro is Banned. He gets to try all the stuff Keith learns how to make, though.

Shiro can decorate the baked goods. He isn't even allowed to mix up the frosting, but he can put it on cookies with only minimal chaos and mess.

Shiro comes back to his room at the Garrison one night with food that Hunk made, has some free time before curfew and goes to visit Adam, and Adam declares "I'm leaving you for whoever made this." "Uh... I made it." "I've seen you burn water, you liar."

TECHNICALLY they're not allowed in the kitchens without a faculty member supervising. TECHNICALLY people love Hunk's cooking enough that there's always someone willing.

If worst comes to worst at this point, they could be doing anything short of murder, and Pidge would say she authorized it and was supervising as long as they're spending time together and Hunk is making friends

("Anything short of murder" I mean.) (They kill a lot of people in space.) (She's technically supervising.) (And authorizing it.) (Lance is there too and Allura owns their stuff but like TECHNICALLY SPEAKING...)

Keith definitely smuggles in some alcohol at some point. Where did he find it? He's not telling. Did it literally fall off the back of a truck? Maybe! Did he just stumble across a misdelivered package at his door and had no way of returning it? Possible!

Actually he was poking around in a storage cubby. "Some older students probably stashed it and forgot about it."

Shiro: This is illegal. Hunk, who has cooked with alcohol: Shouldn't it be vinegar by now how old is that? Keith: Look are we gonna get drunk or not.

Pidge, swooping in from behind them: I'm confiscating this. Pidge, kicking open Iverson's door: WE'RE GETTING FUCKED UP TONI--oh hey Admiral Sanda. Iverson: Sorry about that Admiral, kids these days you know. [Admiral looks away] Iverson: [taps watch, holds up 7 fingers, questioning eyebrow] Pidge: [winks, apologizes, slips out]

Sanda hates Pidge. So much. Pidge is too damn useful to turn away just for her eccentricities, but hot damn does a lot of the higher ranking group hate her.

(Older students did stash it there.) (The older student was Iverson.) (He'd completely forgotten, but wow that's still good.) (Iverson and Pidge spend the next three months finding all his old stashes.) ("Because it would be irresponsible to leave them where a student could stumble across them again.")

Pidge, a year later: Oh hey, did I mention I spent a lot of time getting drunk with Iverson after you guys went missing? Lance: NO YOU DID NOT TELL ME EVERYTHING. I mean, unless you're not comfortable. I'm guessing there was a lot of sad-- Pidge: He can lick his elbow. Lance: I love you.

Iverson may have been the student who looked absolutely responsible to any adult authority figure, but definitely had vodka in his water bottle.

Lance, being Haggar's experiment instead of Shiro, loses a leg instead of an arm.

(Colleen Holt lost two sons that day.)

He is in fact Black's Paladin, because he's the oldest, so I'm saying he has a metal leg as a nod to canon Lance being a leg.

Glowing leg kicking a Galra in the face

Lance shoots someone in the face and Shiro just 😳😳😳

Keith: Don't you have a boyfriend back home. Shiro: LISTEN he already knows about this nonsense and he knows it's never going anywhere just let me LIVE

Sharpshooter overlooking the battle and giving tactical instructions.

Lance would also be the kind of leader who was super good at delegating to people who were Experts.

Since Lance is in Black, the Red needs to be his second, so it's definitely Pidge.

Lance: You're my right hand gal. Pidge: Hey Voltron why are you hitting yourself.

Hunk stays Yellow, which means Shiro could be Green and Keith could be Blue, or vice versa. Both options are fun.

Lance and Pidge make out on a couch in the Castle one time when they think everyone else is doing something planetside and then they just hear Keith going "Oh my GOD" and look up to see the entire rest of the team gaping at them from the doorway with shopping bags everywhere.

Coran: I'm actually certified to perform legally binding weddings in three galaxies! Everyone else: How.

Allura: Haven't those certifications expired? Coran: Not as of three hours ago when I got them all renewed after I heard Lance and Pidge talking!

Pidge: I FOUND MATT Lance: !!! Matt: Pidge is wearing a wedding ring you FUCKER YOU PROMISED I'D BE YOUR BEST MAN.

Though admittedly, better keep them to just "engaged," because like. Imagine. Pidge finding Matt: NOW YOU HAVE TO HELP ME FIND DAD SO I CAN ACTUALLY GO HOME AND GET MARRIED. Matt: WAIT SHIT YOU MEAN LANCE PROPOSED? Pidge: FUCK YEAH HE DID, I CRIED.

ANYWAY

They ask Allura for a double room their first night on the castle.

Lance: Hey, Princess, sorry to bother you, but could Pidge and I share a room? With a bigger bed meant for two people, maybe? Allura: Oh, are you... together? Hunk, yelling over: THEY'RE BASICALLY MARRIED! Lance, flustered: We're not married. Pidge: We might be. Eventually. Lance: I mean, we haven't seen each other in over a year-- Pidge: Haven't talked in almost as long-- Lance: Might not actually be the best idea to share a room so quickly again, actually-- Pidge: Wait, no, I still wanna share-- Lance: You're sure? It's been a long time-- Pidge: Have I ever not been sure? Lance: I just haven't been super mentally stable in a while and I don't know what I'm like when I'm asleep-- Pidge: So we'll figure it out as we go along-- Lance: And I'm still figuring out the new leg-- Pidge: It's new tech, I'm definitely not going to complain if you don't want me to-- Lance: And I want you to stay but you shouldn't feel like you have to-- Pidge: I do want to-- Lance: And I just, I do love you, I really do, I kept thinking of you the entire time I was in the prisons-- Pidge: That's sweet-- Lance: And I kept imagining the wedding, if I ever got back-- Pidge: Oh-- Lance: But I shouldn't put that pressure on y-- Pidge: Yes. Lance: --ou and... what? Pidge: Yes. You better get me a ring and do this properly, but yes. I'll do it. I'll marry you. Lance: ...OH MY GOD.

Lance: [bursts into tears] Pidge: [bursts into tears] Hunk: [bursts into tears] Allura: ...so do you want that double room, then?

Shiro, in the corner: [tearing up] Coran, on the other side of the room: [tearing up] Keith and Allura: So........

Alternately, Allura becomes Embarrassed and Coran is just "Wink wink nudge nudge saynomoresaynomore!" which does Not Help Allura's Embarrassment Situation.

It's not even about the sex! (It's a little about the sex.) It's just. You know. They haven't seen each other in a year and a half or something. They need to cuddle.

The first night there's some hesitation, after all, it HAS been years since they've been together, and Lance has been through some SHIT in the meantime, but after that... it's easy in a way that few things ever are. Like Lance never left for space. Like Pidge never spent months and years searching the stars, refusing to believe that the universe would take so many people she loved away all at once.

Pidge: How many hyphens in a last name is too many hyphens.

Shiro sighing and pouting and propping his chin up on his hands as he watches Pidge and Lance joke-wrestle each other on the couch and going "They're so happy together, Keith..."

Shiro is a bit of a hopeless romantic. Keith is a little tired of his shit. Hunk is, too, but less so. Allura joins Shiro in hopeless romantic land.

Lance dislikes the paladin armor because he can't tuck his hands down the back of Pidge's pants while they make out.

(Next chat has a sex mention but the bulletpoints go back to G/T rated.)

Pidge: I haven't seen you in a year. Tonight, we're going to snuggle and cry and all that good shit. Tomorrow, I'm riding you 'til you scream. Lance: I am definitely on board with that plan. Pidge, smirking: Hmmmm I bet you a-- Keith: Seriously? Hunk: Right in front of my salad? Shiro: I think it's kinda cu-- Pidge: I TOTALLY FORGOT YOU GUYS WERE THERE, SHIT.

Pidge is ONLY taller than Shiro and he hits a growth spurt a few weeks in and two months later Pidge is the shortest person there.

Pidge staying just barely shorter than Matt and the team is something I like the sound of, but I can't find a solid answer on how estrogen and puberty blockers affect height so I may need to scrap "used to be identical twins" to achieve "Pidge is three inches shorter than Allura, the next shortest, and still tries to give all the boys Older Sister Noogies."

She only usually succeeds. Keith BoMs his way into hidey places, and she always has to wait until Hunk is sitting down to attack.

Pidge: Lance, we gotta be cool and neutral on this, okay, we can't have favorites and-- Lance: Hunk's my favorite! Pidge: Lance! [Later] Pidge: Lance, he's my favorite too, but you can't just SAY that.

Pidge's whole energy changes when she's one of the oldest instead of the youngest, because she's still tinier than all of them, but is Unquestionably the one in Charge most of the time.

Lance just ends up trying to like. Mentor Allura. Like hi yes this is a teenager??? In this situation? She's baby, clearly. Ten thousand years don't count when it's cryo.

Lance: Stick with me kid, I'm a Cool Adult and I'll show you the ropes. Allura: [looks to Pidge for confirmation] Pidge: [shakes her head slowly while making a face] Allura: I think I'm okay.

But also: [something dangerous happens]

Lance: [is legitimately incredibly cool as he saves the day] Allura: What the fuck??? Pidge: GET OVER HERE YOU IDIOT ARE YOU HURT DON'T YOU EVER SCARE ME LIKE THAT AGAIN [blushing furiously and checking him over]

Lance's reaction to trauma was to lean into the jokester. He will be happy or die trying, fuck you Haggar.

Lance is still the one that gets distracted by Nyma. It's less Pretty Girl and more 'aw, you seem sweet' because he's basically engaged, but it still happens. Matt will never let him hear the end of this. Lance, to Pidge: Matt NEVER hears about this.

Alternately, Pidge and Lance were both hitting on Nyma.

Pidge: Wait, is he hitting on Nyma? Did he just wink at m--THAT FUCKER THINKS HE CAN GET HER NUMBER FASTER THAN I CAN. Hunk: ...guys. guys. Wait don't-- (They do the thing.)

Keith: Aren't they basically married? At least engaged? Hunk: This is what commitment looks like, I guess.

Shiro is 900% an eager beaver, right? So Excited! To go ahead with whatever Lance decides is a great idea!

Lance doesn't want this pressure. Lance spends his nights talking to Pidge about how much he Does Not Want Shiro putting this much faith in him. It's a lot.

Shiro has the adoring puppy dog eyes.

Keith and Lance fall into a weird variant of canon. They keep verbally sniping at each other, though with less venom. Keith: [snipes] Shiro: You are embarrassing me. Lance: Nice one.

"I acknowledge that you are our leader. I acknowledge that you are in charge. I also acknowledge that it was a stupid fucking idea." "Listen, I already got the rundown from my girlfriend, from the princess, AND from Coran. Don't need it from you too, kiddo."

Pidge sets up a swear jar. Pidge is also 70% of the swear jar. She has Regrets.

Pidge gets a list of Altean swear words from Coran so she can ride herd on Allura.

Pidge: I know that's a bad word in Galran! Keith: I'm connecting with my heritage.

Keith is suuuuuuuuuch a little shit to these two.

Keith: You're not my real dad! Shiro: Daddy. Shiro go home and think about what you've said.

Pidge: This is my boyfriend, get your own.

Keith: He HAS his own!

Regarding Lance and him interacting with smolKeith: I feel like his experiences and the extra perspective of age really Mellow out BP Lance. He's..... more confident, less worried about the opinions of others, but still empathetic and able to read people well. So he doesn't poke at Keith as much, unless Keith gets Reckless in which case his irritation expresses itself more as concern than anything else.

But I feel like a Lance might recognize that Keith kind of needs that type of... interpersonal stimulation? Sometimes? If that's the word for it? Like Keith sometimes needs a poke in the right direction to interact And to see that it's okay to argue the fun way so long as you don't take it too far.

Back on Earth, Shiro and Adam had decided that they needed to matchmake for Keith. Keith panicked and went all fairytale, saying that his potential beau needs to be able to beat him in a fight.

They get to space and Allura kicks Keith's ass. He turns around to see that Shiro is giving him the biggest shit-eating grin, and he thinks that Shiro is about to make fun of him, but no. It's worse. Its matchmaking.

Wanna go fairy tale Keith? Fine, a princess will win your hand in battle.

Lance: --and so for teams I was thinking me and Pidge, then- Shiro: Dibs on Hunk! Lance: Cool, then Keith with Allura. Keith: [the dirtiest of glares] Shiro: [winks]

Shiro somehow completely missed that Hunk is also involved in the slowly developing OT3.

Hunk asks them both out with cupcakes. Hunk: Hold my flower imma kick his ass. Allura and Keith: You kick his ass babe we got your flower.

Coran asks Plance what human courtships are like, for reference. And so Allura has a better idea of what she's doing.

Do not ask Plance for advice, kids! They are disasters! Lance will give you terrible pickup lines! And through Coran as a cultural translator too...

Shiro’s older straight boy crushes include, at minimum, Lance, Matt, and Lotor. It later turns out none of them are straight, but they’re still all out-of-reach, for various reasons. Shiro, seeing Lotor: Oh no. Shiro, seeing Lotor being suave: Oh No. Shiro, seeing Lotor flirt with Allura: Oh No.

Lance not having a crush on Allura and being a little older leads into LANCE GIVING ALLURA DATING ADVICE REGARDING LOTOR.

Allura: this person is older and flirts, clearly he knows what he's doing? Everyone else: nO

Lance: I'm worried about Allura. She's been getting closer to Lotor, but I'm not sure I trust him. Pidge: It's her choice. Lance: Yeah, but I still feel like I should scope him out a bit more? And then just tell her what I find if I do find anything. Pidge: You could flirt with him. I could flirt with him. We can see if he's actually devoted to her or not. Lance: Hm....

I'm not 100% on this sequence because. Well. It really is Allura's choice.

(Imagine if the Lotura bit was just sent off-track way early on, maybe with a different relationship. (Kallura? Hallura? Both?) And then Through an ODD sequence of events Lance and Pidge and Lotor get a wee bit tipsy and just kinda fall in bed together. No sex But they do wake up Really, Really Awkward.)

Lotor: [flirts with Allura] Lance: Wow, I'm not sure I trust this guy for her romantically. I gotta trust him for the empire and I know she can make her own decisions, but something still feels wrong about it. Lance, being Lance: [aggressively flirts with Lotor before things with Allura go too far] Matt: [takes pictures]

Pidge going full older-sister mode for Allura, honestly. Like "Gonna figure out if this guy is legit ONE WAY OR ANOTHER" and then Lance suggests they take him drinking. In Vino Veritas and all that. Oh god, imagine if Lance and Pidge take Lotor drinking and they actually end up with him seriously dumping about his childhood and life, and that's where the cuddle pile happens.

They still get themselves a Kaltenecker. Shiro has his own Space Mall adventures but like. Plance. They get themselves a Kaltenecker. They're twenty-something and they STILL pull the fountain bullshit.

Shiro: Wait, where did you get a cow? Pidge: [offended gasp] Lance: This is our son! Pidge: There's udders. Lance: This is our daughter!

Lance: Watch me drink a gallon of milk in under a minute. Matt: Camera's rolling! Hunk: YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE ADULT HERE.

Black Paladin Lance in the Coalition Performances.

Lance, during lunch one day: Hey, did I get a good funeral? Were there lots of people crying? Hunk: Yeah. I saw Pidge crying in those supposedly hidden corners you showed me like twenty times those first few months, too. Pidge: HUNK! Lance: Well... that's less of an ego-boost and more just a guilt-boost now.

Everyone manages to come home from the war and Pidge is just like "I don't care what anyone says, I'm inviting ALL of our students and coworkers." Lance: Only if I get to invite my entire extended family. Pidge: DEAL.

"Guys, guys, Officer Holt and Captain McClain-Alvarez are getting MARRIED."

"Wait, you're not married already?" Pidge starts to respond and then just gets a funny look on her face and "Lance. Babe. Babe. Do you think Altean medical science would make it easier for me to get a functioning uterus? Less painful? Oh my god, CORAN I NEED TO TALK TO YOU."

...Shiro watches their wedding and absentmindedly talks about Adam for a while and Keith is just... internally groaning.

[hetalia-has-a-secretary]

Axis and Allies when their teenager calls them and is like “Dad please come pick me up, the other kids are drinking. But can you make it look like I’m in trouble when you get here so my friends won’t think I’m lame??”

((I did that my first high school party lmao.))

Okay I had a few funnier scenerios and a couple of them probably live off of flustering their child, soooooooooo- heh.

Allies and Axis pick up their child from a party!

Okay! He's not only extremely proud of his kid for being honest and keeping themselves pure, but an excuse to be loud and a cool dad is also good. The man whips up to the house In his best, tricked out sports car, and literally shouts out to his kid "Get in kiddo! We're going for ice cream!" and speeds off with their child. This was the talk of the school and his kid gained some popularity points for having a bad arse dad!

Allies:

America:

England:

He's just confused. What do mean embarrassed? Is he lame? What? Doesn't really care in a way, and just picks them up like normal or suggest they walk to a store for him to pick them up if need be. If they don't make a huge deal of it no one else will. No wait, in second thought... How does his kid feel about being picked up by their punk father and a motorcycle?

France:

His kid should know better. His kid should have just asked to be picked up because France is a terrible liar. So when he does show up he's "yelling" at his kid for not cleaning their room or some stupid thing like that. He's not doing it on purpose! He's just really bad at looking "cool" so please, forgive him for trying...

China:

Now THIS guy embarrasses his kid on purpose. He thinks it's funny, and is the equivalence of a mom who takes out naked baby pictures to show their friends. He drives up in his little electric car, and is carrying around a panda plushie, pretending they woke him up from his sleep. "I was having such an amazing dream about fluffy pandas and kitty cats- Why you wake me?" It's a good thing this is one of those moments his kid will laugh at when they get older, and people were drunk enough at the party to not care.

Russia:

Russia is very protective of children in the first place, even if he's a bit rough about it. In other words, he's also really worried his kid is in danger if the others started drinking, especially if they're under age. He straight up kicks the door in, takes all the alcohol and tells his kid to meet him at the car. It happens so quickly no one really knows what the heck just happened and it kind of scared all the kids into calling their own parents. But let's be honest, he probably just saved them from a boat load of illegal things, and embarrassing mistakes.

Axis:

Germany:

He doesn't know what cool is, so I'm sorry. But he doesn't make a big show of it either. He just goes and gets his kid with a top down in an attempt to be cool. Probably wears a military outfit because kids think that's cool right? At least no one is going to question a military man, especially as intimidating as Germany. He 100% drives them to get ice cream or something for their honesty.

Italy:

Owns some of the coolest sports cars, and immediately starts yelling in Italian when he pulls up. It's super funny because it's not anything serious. He's literally screaming "I don't know what to say so hopefully no one here knows Italian!" Or something to that effect. Then he tells his kid the translation later on and they both have a good laugh over it. Especially because everyone assumed Italy was a chill dad, and to yell in Italian all of a sudden? Man. What did his kid do?

Japan:

Ohhhh- Japan can certainly do cool, yelling however, he can not. But don't worry, this guy borrowed one of Italy's cars, and it's the most vibrant, electric purple. He's wearing sunglasses and a neat jacket with anime on it. The kids at the party flock to him, and he just ignores them and walks up to his kid and goes "I was told you didn't practice with your Katana. Get in the car." And he walks back to the car. The kids are all jaw dropped while his child is happily skipping to the vehicle to go get dinner and a treat. Gotta love riding in style!

[zalrb]

MOLLY RINGWALD.

This was on ABC right? This has an ABC Family type feel to it.

Soooooooooo what’s up with this hairstyle, Shailene Woodley? That’s her name, right?

Is it just me or do they talk really fast? Not Gilmore Girls fast but just like, take a breath and enunciate your words, please.

“You’re only young once, you should be having a little fun!” *pulls out pregnancy test* WHAT COULD THE SYMBOLISM OF THIS EVER MEAN?

lmao there is a reason i never watched this show.

somebody’s pregnant!

HEY, HEY, YOU, YOU I DON’T LIKE YOUR GIRLFRIEND

I didn’t even know these three people were together, one of them is walking ahead of the couple who just walk silently, sharing earbuds, lol k.

Is she pretty or is she just blonde?

Oh her! She was on the Bernie Mac show! What happened to her?

“You’ve got something more exciting than MARK MOLINA?” just this secret pregnancy!

Lmao, anon you asked for this, it’s your fault.

“I had sex.” “No you didn’t.” LMAO. That SHEER disbelief is HILARIOUS because it came out like no one is having sex with you. Like LOOK at her face

Guys, this show is terrible.

“I can’t take the stop and go especially the stop.” Jesus, I thought Degrassi was bad. Like, it might as well SAY after school special on it.

speaking of, @breakingnewsin-no-oneasked​​ don’t think I don’t see the Degrassi shit you tag me in!

NO ONE SPEAKS LIKE THIS. WHY did y’all like this show?

It’s only been 5 minutes!

Stereotypical over-eager religious girl. Named Grace.

I don’t think I can survive this. I need to be drunk.

This. Is. Terrible.

Why don’t I know anyone’s name but Grace Boman?

I like the statistics they make this girl rattle off about teenagers having sex because this is a fucking after school special.

Oh her name is Amy.

Lol “you have to give us more than one night at bandcamp’

“why are you telling us now?”  BECAUSE I’M PREGNANT.  Who has this conversation at their locker?

Adrian, right. The oversexualized Latina.

“It’s a promise ring, my parents gave it to me when I promised them I wouldn’t have sex until I got married.”

OK. I refuse to do this sober.

Sorry, anon.  12 minutes and 47 seconds.

[josiecarioca]

On Severus’ robes, wizard and muggle clothes and the importance of fashion in “Post War”

In my post about Evelyn's teenage crush and Severus wizarding robes (makes sense in context), @hayalee8 asked me wether Evelyn will, at some point, wear wizarding robes.

Imma just take this opportunity to ramble a bit about fashion in “Post War” (because I was supposed to be doing something else, so this is what I´ll do now).

Some of you may have noticed that fashion is kind of a big deal in this story. 

Evelyn- I have talked in another post about how Evelyn performs her “traditional” femininity as a way to assert herself. Basically she dresses to feel powerful, and in some ways to control how other people react to her,  She dresses up for business meetings, parties and events in the same way a warrior would put on a suit of armor to go to battle. When she has lunch with Pavel/Dmitri to discuss the book deal she wears a hyper tailored purple dress (purple being the color of royalty, and the meticulous tailoring as a display of power). In her two first “official” dates with Severus she choses contrasting outfits: a white lace dress with a pink princess style coat (she´s meeting him in a church on Christmas, and goes for something that looks angelic, and makes her look more approachable) and for Severus birthday she wears a form-fitting emerald green dress with a plunging neckline (green is his favorite color other than black, the cleavage shows off the silver-green crucifix on her neck, slytherin colors, and by then their relationship has taken on some sexual elements, so the dress is more provocative.  Through the story she wears bright colors, particularly shades of red, high heels and bold jewelry in stark contrast to Severus who wears the same simple shapeless black outfits. She’s like a force of life bursting in when Severus is trying to figuratively “remain dead” . In the chapters that take place in Spain (when she and Severus are in a established relationship) her fashion choices also change slightly, she still wears loads of red, but there´s less structure and more sensuality: bare shoulders, long sundresses, sandals, loads of stark white, splashes of orange and blue and loads of rich, flowy fabric and flamenco inspired cuts.

Severus- Severus’s fashions are much simpler but they also tell a story. He starts the narrative wearing mostly slacks or jeans and turtlenecks, all in black (or very dark denim for the jeans). After the war,he´s left Hogwarts, and has lost much of his identity: he´s no longer a spy, no longer a teacher, and he´s hidding from wizard society, so in a way he´s no longer a wizard. But he doesn’t know how to be anything else, he´s built his entire persona on being a spy, a teacher and a wizard. Living among muggles he can no longer wear his robes, so he wears a “muggle version” of them, a sort of mockup. The black turtlenecks not only hides his neck scars, but they aslo serve as a simplified version of his teaching robes and figuratively keeps him “buttoned up”. The long sleeves and jackets hide the dark mark, but also cover him up in a way a cloak would have done before. When he leaves the house all he does is add layers, as if trying to protect himself from the outside world: scarves, jackets, boots. All black or grey, all clunky, shapeless and heavy. Is like he´s trying to turn himself into a shadow, to disappear. The first subtle change is the jumper Evelyn’s mother gives him as Christmas gift. It´s a moss green woolen Aran sweater with Evelyn´s family pattern on it (each family has its own knit pattern and this is an early indication that Severus will be part of this family soon). Originally it was meant for Evelyn´s father, but he died before it was finished, so in a way this foreshadows that Severus also symbolically steps into his shoes as  a male presence in a family that currently has none (as all men in the family passed away). From there on Severus receives small, subtle additions to his wardrobe. As his relationship with Evelyn grows closer the turtlenecks are replaced by button-up shirts or boatneck long sleeved shirts. Navy blue, lighter greys and different shades of green start to appear. Sometimes he rolls up the sleeves, leaving his forearms bare. Then, much like it happens to Evelyn, we get to the Spain chapters and his style changes significantly. He switches his color palette from dark blues, dark greens and dark greys to lighter blues, lighter greys and blueish greys. The Black is still there (pants, shoes, belts), but now there´s the final addition of white. It starts with white shirts and t-shirts, but then there’s *THE* white linen suit. This is Snape in all white. This is Snape ready to transition into a new life and come clean about his past. It´s a rebirth of sorts.

Soooooooooo...when he goes back to wearing wizarding robes, It IS going to be a big deal. Because this will be Snape reclaiming his old identity, but under new terms. He´s not a spy or a teacher, he’s a war “veteran”, a hero, and now he’s inequivocally one of “the good guys”. Also, with Dumbledore gone, he and Minerva are as close to a moral leadership as the trio and te former Hogwarts alumni have. More importantly, he´s the man Dumbledore trusted literally with his life. In a way, Dumbledore’s near “sanctity” has rubbed off on him a little. He won’t be wearing teacher robes, instead he´ll be wearing regular robes which have more color and richness to them. He doesn´t need to hide in all black now. He´s not Dumbledore´s shadow anymore. He is himself, finally with his own independent identity.

Which brings me back to @hayalee8 ´s question: Will Evelyn ever wear robes? 

Evelyn’ s persona, her sense of self is expressed through her clothes. It´s an important part of how she build her identity, and how she feels safe and confident to move in life. And those clothes are and have always been muggle clothes. That´s what she wore her whole life, it´s the “suit of armor” she´s comfortable with, and she knows exactly how to use and manipulate it to her own advantage. She *KNOWS* clothes and their impact, be it color, cut, lenght, pattern...So getting her into wizarding robes would be complicated, at least at first. It´s too foreign to her, too unlike what she´s used to, and the fact that her body is a huge part of her self-expression would mean that hiding it under yards of fabric would throw her off at first. HOWEVER, the magic world is also part of her ancestry, something she´d been chasing after her whole life even without knowing and her relationship with Severus reiforces the fact that this is her world too. She descends from wizards and witches, and she´s in love with a wizard. She can´t *just* be a muggle anymore. And as I said, Evelyn KNOWS what looks good on her and what impact she wants it to have.

So to answer the question: Yes, she will wear robes, but they will not be what an average witch would be wearing. They´ll be tailored to her, to the cuts, colors and patterns she knows work best from her experience with muggle fashion, and they´ll have a lot of muggle elements to them. 

[celisea]

oh i absolutely love them. bounty hunter with a soft spot for family is soooooooooo good. If you feel like talking any more about him i really do love hearing about ocs. what’s his personality like? her fighting style seems so cool from what you’ve drawn

THANK YOU!!!! <3

Yoali is quite laidback! he really enjoys fighting so when in the right mood he can be quite destructive depending on the job, however this does not mean he enjoys killing! quite the opposite he avoids doing this unless absolutely necessary because of his teachings as a child/teenager. He had a teacher that thought him how to fight and use psionics and she was very strict on that principle! This is a reason why he’s a bounty hunter and not an asssasin ^^. 

He’s very stingy and does not like giving away money! most of what he does is FOR money so if you want his help if will always be for a price. He doesn’t really care about the greater good. If he has money and freedom and his loved ones are ok, he is ok. 

If Yoali considers you a friend, he is very protective! His loved ones are his world and if anything happens to them he will do everything in his power to avenge you and bring hell to the person who hurt you. 

His fighting style i imagine it as being VERY fast and erratic, kind of like a dance, He does a lot of leg work and lil jumps. Im still figuring out how it looks tho hehe

THANK YOU FOR  THE ASK <33333!!!!!!!!

[thehonestbanana]

in his recent rant videos, greg said a bunch of times that sarah was a grown adult at 18. and in his video 'body positivity areolas' he says he was attracted to skyes sister when he was 18 and she was 15. so by his own logic, didnt he admit to being attracted to a child as an adult?

Yes. Yes he did.

Also..... he’s ignoring the fact he’s 34 and Sarah is/was 18. Almost half her age.....those videos are just a shit show.

Also 18 and 19 are still technically teenagers. Soooooooooo. I mean if we google teenager.....

[ratbaaby]

this might be incomprehensible cuz i dont even really know the point im trying to make but. a few months ago i figured out i was bi! i've been attracted to boys since preschool/kindergarten and i've consciously been attracted to girls since middle school. then why did it take me 6-7 more years to recognize my sexuality? i was aware of and understood what bisexuality was, but i've always always dismissed my attraction to anyone who wasn't a guy as "well, i'm a kid so i'm gonna wanna explore. this doesn't mean anything significant, it's just part of the teenage experience- curiosity stemming from bein super teenage horny." looking back it was so obvious that i was bi but for soooooooooo long i invalidated myself without even really being aware that i was doing it. this really is jist a half baked thought but i kinda wish someone explained to me that sexuality isn't just a box, a single definition you need to cling to??? idk. like daydreaming about banging all of my girl friends shuld have been enough to make me understand that i was bi bc i was expecting bisexuality to feel different?? i just imagined it being more dramatic and distinguishable from heterosexuality because i always thought of gayness as the opposite of straightness, defined everything else by what being straight meant but that is not how it feels at all. IDK i wish i didn't take so much time for me to understand myself. i wish that i didn't grow up thinking of gayness as some kind of mystical out of reach otherness. i wish i wasn't surprised that being straight doesn't feel any different from being bi. this all feels so obvious after the fact and i wish clarity didn't take so long to achieve. Idk

[floraflow]

Ok soooooooooo OMG.

i mean OMG.

So last night marks my first night of teenage rebellion.  ☆*:.｡.o(≧▽≦)o.｡.:*☆

ok so it really wasnt that rebellious but i never break the rules so it felt like a pretty big deal to me, OK??? i cannot believe i talked ana into doing this with me. i legit couldnt even sleep last night, my heart has been pounding so hard (and i mean P O U N D I N G ). i have no words, idk how to even express how incredible it was. i kno i probably sound so dumb right now but im not normally a rule breaker! but now im just thinking like..... why have i never done this before????

So basically ana and i snuck out to the bog. i literally climbed out my bathroom window IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. i felt soooo spy-like  (⌐■_■)

we’ve been to the bog before, but NEVER at night and NEVER as deep as we went last night. Usually we just hang out around the creek! This time we brought a backpack full of flashlights and set out into the brambly areas until we came across these totally creepy abandoned houses!!!

it was seriously so exhilerating. no doubt we are doing it again. Only problem is my lil prima. We sleep in a bunkbed, but she usually sleeps like a rock and is on the top bunk so it shouldnt be a huge problem. Just gotta be supa sneaky-like...

[toxikbubblegum]

May Reading Wrap Up

I'm actually really proud of myself. I finished 13 books last month. Spent a lot of extra time away from screens and focusing on my mental health so I burned through way more than I normally would. So anyways, here's my reviews. - Also please understand that these are just my opinions and if I shit on your favorite book I'm sorry that I didn't enjoy it as much as you. Also, also Im terrible with character names.

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor ⭐⭐⭐

I actually started this book at the end of April but didn't finish it til May 1st so whatever, here it is. This books is a YA urban fantasy novel about a girl with a double life. She spends half her days studying art in Europe and the other half running errands for a tooth collecting wish monger. I don't want to say a whole lot more because I dont want to spoil anything important about the plot. So, I'll try to be vague. Let me start by saying this story is amazing. I loved the writing and the world. I rated it so low solely because I can't stand the two main characters and it really dragged down what would have otherwise been an amazing novel. So yeah, great book but its a preference thing. Also took points off for the insta-love but not really insta-love shit. Idk. I have a lot of mixed feelings about this read even a month later. Gonna read the second to see if maybe my hatred of the two mains was just a fluke.

3/5 Stars

Spellbound by Rachel Hawkins

⭐⭐⭐

This is the third book in the Hex Hall trilogy. Not much to say about it. It was a meh ending to an overall pretty good series. 3/5 stars. Moving on.

The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw

⭐⭐⭐

Realizing now how many of my reads this month were pretty middle of the world. Hopefully next month will be filled with 4 and 5 stars. Anyways, this book was honestly a struggle for me to finish and Im not sure why. It's a YA mystery magical realism story about a tiny coastal town that is cursed by the spirits of 3 sisters who were suspected of witchcraft and drowned 2 centuries prior. Because of this, every year the sisters return from the sea to take the lives of teenage boys by luring them to the sea. We follow the life of kind of meh and standard YA girl #1. She meets a strange non tourist boy and hires him to work in the lighthouse her family owns. Her dad randomly disappeared years ago and her mom is a loon. So yeah... I dont know. I kind of felt like this story was hot garbage in places. I usually dont have any trouble with the suspense of disbelief in magical realism stories but this one just had too many plot holes. Like, I get morbid stuff becomes tourist attractions but why wouldn't someone have stepped in and evacuated the town if at least 3 teenage boys die there EVERY SINGLE YEAR without fail? I honestly feel like the FBI or some other government agency would have cleared the place out after the first 20 or so deaths. There was also the whole MC can see the ghosts of the girls possessing people but chooses not to tell anyone? Like, I get it. You dont want people to label you a freak or think you're crazy but come the fuck on. You live in a tourist trap where people flock to watch local teenage males wash up on shore and you really think the authorities arent going to take you up on the help? It wasn't an awful book by any means. It was well written and extremely descriptive. Just had major beef with some of the details. Anyways, I wont say much more so I don't spoil the whole book.

3/5 Stars

An Enchantment of Ravens by Maragret Rogerson

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Finally, I get to talk about one of my favorite reads of the month. I love anything to do with the Fae in my YAfiction and this was literally everything I wanted in a Fae novel. It takes place in a town called Whimsy, a humanish town in the world of Faerie. The fae cannot do any Craft, or what we would consider craftsmanship. Art and humans who can do it well are very precious in this world because the Fae can't ever do it themselves. We follow the adventures of a girl who has been commisioned to paint the portrait of the Autumn King and the chaos that ensues. Let me just start by saying this is one of those insta-love situations where I feel like it's genuinely ok. I might be making excuses because I loved the title so much but whatever. It's explained and I accept it. Also, I realize that Gadfly had a lovely description but my brain willl not let me picture him as anything but Mr.Waternoose from Monsters Inc.

5/5 Stars

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

⭐⭐⭐

This book started out so good and went downhill very quickly. It follows the story of these two magicians who were fated by their Master's to one day fight to the death. There were so many things I loved about this book only for the last 100 pages to just take a firey dump on my face. I loved the setting and the majority of the characters. The supporting characters were so deep and interesting that I almost cared more about them than I did Ceilia and Marko (Im proabably wrong and I dont feel like googling but I think that was his name) . I don't know. I don't want to complain about anymore meh books.

3/5 Stars

Matched by Allie Condie

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Went into this book expecting to hate it. I usually don't like contemporary love stories but this had major City of Ember meets The Giver vibes and it just appealed to that 14 year old girl in me again. That seems to happen with a lot of dystopian utopia stories. Anyways, story is about a girl who lives in this town where when you hit a certain age you are brought to a place and told who the government has chosen for you to marry. She is matched with her life long best friend and all is well. Except that her little Get To Know Your New Husband microship thing showed her two guys instead of just one. And lots of bullshit ensues. I honestly think I rated this so high because I enjoy the world and not so much whats actually happening to the kids. Like, I loved the idea that art is harmful so the government chose 100 acceptable pieces and thats all these people know. I loved the brutality of the government in general. I can't say much more without spoiling some of the twists but geez did it have me hooked. I'm going to be started the second one soonish, though my TBR for June has gotten intense so we will see.

4/5 stars

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I cannot say enough good things about this book. It is so fucking good! Not going to rant about it or anything because y'all just need to go read it immediately.

5/5 stars

Would give it every star in the sky if Im being completely honest.

Reign of the Fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh

⭐⭐

Got sucked into this book by the cover and honestly that was the best part of this book. Its about this world where necromancy is pretty highly regarded and used to resurrect the royals after they die. The only downside is that if a living person ever lays eyes on the resurrected person's skin then they turn into these horrible monsters. Maybe it's just me but like that absolutely does not seem worth the risk. Plus, in order to bring the person back, these reapers have to go into the death world and bring the spirit back. And it's HELLA DANGEROUS. So like, WHY? Anyways, there is this stupid underlying love story that I absolutely wasn't invested in. This just all around was not a good book.

2/5 stars

Monster High by Lisi Harrison

⭐⭐

Little known fact~ I'm obsessed with Monster High and Ever After High. So yeah, I realize this wasn't targeted to me as an adult but even going into it with an open mind I was disappointed. Granted I didn't read the description of the book prior. I just saw this franchise I love and grabbed it. First, if you are a fan of the mini series and the movies do not read this. It doesnt follow the cinematic canon and I think that was my biggest problem with it. Frankie's character was all wrong and I hated the whole"Normy" cast. Was really excited for these but I definitely won't be continuing the series. I don't even want to torture myself with seeing how they manage to ruin my sweet baby Draculara.

2/5 stars

Unhinged by AG Howard

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I can't say enough good things about this series. This is the second book in the trilogy and it was a fanatstic bridge book. It had me engrossed through the entire audiobook. Morpheus is still everything. If you loved Splintered I would highly reccomend continuing.

5/5 stars

Truthwitch

⭐⭐

Have had this on my TBR for a while because of how many Booktubers have hyped the series. Buy, was I disappointed. I was soooooooooo bored. Maybe it's because I don't really enjoy this type of fantasy or maybe it was just the slower paced story but I just slugged through this book. Both of the main female characters were bland to me and I didn't care about their friendship. The world was cool but not enough to keep me invested. Just wasn't my cup of tea.

2/5 stars

Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

⭐⭐⭐

Picked this up because of how much I loved The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein and it didn't meet my expectations. It follows this girl who works for a paranormal gorvenment group. She has a special ability that makes her really useful to them so they are trying to groom her basically. They capture this changeling and she befriends him and there is an overarching plot that I just didn't get invested in. The friendship between the two main characters was pretty much the only thing that I enjoyed in this title. The mother figure was insufferable and I just didn't really understand the whole org that they worked for in general. Not an awful book but not fantastic.

Solid 3/5 stars.

The Siren by Kiera Cass

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Going to preface this by saying I might be biased. I love Kiera Cass and have enjoyed almost everything she has written. That said, this wasn't nearly as good as The Selection series but it was a pretty good stand alone novel. It about a girl who becomes a siren on her deathbed and spends the next 100 years serving the sea by luring people to their deaths. After doing this for 70 years, she falls in love and pretty much ruins everything. Loved the characters, especially the male lead. The insta love was a little pet peeve of mine but the love interest was so sweet and genuine that I was willing to overlook it. Pretty good read if you dig supernatural romance.

4/5 stars

June holds the Ghibli-a-thon but also lots of holidays for my family so we will see how much I actually get read. So far my tentative TBR is 5 books but we will see where the days take me.