#also they are being produced but I think they'll arrive at the end of this moth or the beginning of october

[bilolli]

LOOK AT WHO'S BEING PRODUCED!!

I'M SO EXITED YA ALL, this is the only good thing that's happening right now. asbdhahcfiaqsejak

Anyway, they'll be soon be avaiable as clear stickers and keychains on my brand new ko-fi account!

be ready :DDDD

[would-you-punt-them]

I just want to tell you this:

Thank You So, SO Much for informing people about the horrid Mr. Beast situation occurring within his Squid Game Beast Games.

I don’t think would’ve known about this awful and disgusting event occurring as much as I do now if you didn’t post about it on this blog.

Thank you.

I do think it isn't something that should be brushed under the rug, and I also feel that the more people know about it, the worse it becomes for Jimmy when the Beast Games show actually comes out.

One thing I forgot to include in the post is that the Las Vegas shoot is going to be uploaded on YouTube as an extended qualifier to the actual show on Amazon Prime.

It's worth noting that the contestants didn't know that until they arrived at the stadium. They'd been told that the Las Vegas shoot was the Amazon show, and there would only be 1,000 competitors (which is how it is marketed by Amazon). They only learned that the player-count had doubled and this wasn't going to be on Prime once they were on set, and were shown a video message from Jimmy saying he forgot to mention that actually there were 2,000 people and this wasn't the Amazon show (though MrBeast later claimed that this was always the intent).

I don't know when the video(s) will be uploaded, but I honestly can't wait because I'm dying to know how they're planning on editing the footage to cut out the horrors that took place during the challenges.

Like, how are they going to show the Red team losing the first challenge with the rope and pulley? On the one hand, surely they've got to show the 400 people who were eliminated in that challenge. But on the other hand... what exactly do they have to work with?

The production team refused the Red team's pleas to stop the challenge and demanded they keep going to the end, presumably because they needed them to do it for the sake of the video. Instead, anti-capitalist icons that they are, the entire team abandoned the challenge mid-way anyway so they could go help their teammates who were literally being strangled, throwing the game. And once they'd abandoned the rope, they never picked it up again.

Obviously, the producers can't show competitors being throttled. But that means that they also can't explain why the Reds lost the challenge. If the throttling happened toward the end, maybe they'll be fine, but if it happened closer to the middle, there's no way for them to explain why those 400 people just gave up so early.

It also presumably means any overhead shots of all the teams are ruined, because that would require them to explain why the Reds just aren't participating.

Maybe they could show the Reds giving up, but give a different reason. But no reason I can think of works. If they say they "tried their best but knew they couldn't win", they would then also have to answer the question of why the challenge was impossible for them - the reason being that their team of 400 consisted of about 380 women, while their opposing teams consisted almost entirely of the youngest and strongest male competitors.

And I'm not sure how they're going to explain that, because if they show the challenge of everyone going for coloured jerseys, they can't reveal why the teams ended up so unbalanced, as the actual reason is that the male contestants were hoarding jerseys and were physically violent against the female and elderly contestants, and organised themselves to guarantee they were all on the same team, resulting in a gender split.

I'm also not sure how they plan to edit around challenges like the briefcase game, where in the middle of the cramped field the male contestants were attacking and trampling the women. It's going to take a lot of editing to cut around that. And while they can edit out the injuries occurring they can't edit out the fact that by the end of the challenge there are suspiciously fewer female contestants remaining than there were to begin with.

Additionally, they're going to have to justify why the contestants started off so diverse in gender and age, only for the 1,000 who made it to the actual Amazon show predominantly being young and male, without it becoming clear that no one else had any chance. They can't introduce new contestants to re-diversify the cast, because 1,000 were promised by Amazon, 1,000 qualified, and people will complain if they try to fudge the numbers or cheat by introducing last-minute entries, which is especially bad now that he's currently under fire for allegedly faking and rigging competitions.

Jimmy also can't just not upload it at all, because then he'd have to explain that as well, and this is such a massive event people, both fans and detractors, are going to notice.

The more people know about it, the worse his situation becomes, because there's just no way out of it without inviting questions he doesn't want people to know the answers to.

While this is obviously too much to hope for in this timeline, in an ideal world enough people start talking about this that Amazon cancels his show due to the controversy - Jimmy has said Beast Games is intended to be his break into more traditional media, and I think it would be nice to shut that down.

[blacklegsanjiii]

wait what if in lunarian!sanji but sanji and king escaped together and ended up in wano? :0 mb sanji and yamato can end up friends, depending on the age gap, and it would be funny if this was also transfem!sanji bc she and transmasc!yamato would prbly bond over gender and shitty fathers. sanji would likely be very upset with kaido over yamato's explosive cuffs and want to help him escape, but not quite sure what king would do if that happens

So based off the other Lunarian!Sanji asks I just answered(I'm so fucking sorry) and King managed to take Sanji to Wano with him, the closed off island would be the safest option for them in the long run. I don't think King would be a bad father necessarily, not after what he and Sanji had gone through but he would make bad choices regarding their safety.

So they arrive and surprisingly there's another child around Sanji's age. Yamato tells Sanji he's a boy and Sanji says he and his dad are Lunarians because he's like seven/eight. They start hanging out and eventually Sanji asks about the cuffs and Yamato tells him with a sad voice and Sanji vows to help him. He runs and tells his dad what's going on and Alber holds him and tells him they'll have to be careful about how they go about this.

When Sanji is older she realizes she's a girl and Alber nods, could see the signs from years ago, the way his child was drawn to the more feminine kimonos and liked long hair. Alber makes the changes easily. Yamato and the others do as well, gender has never been much of a hassle to them, Yamato saying he's Oden can get annoying but that's about it. Yamato and Sanji constantly talk about trying to find ways to trade bodies and stuff.

When Sanji's older, around 14, she offers her freedom and her greatest treasures in exchange for Yamato's. Kaido grins and agrees, unyielding to Yamato's arguments as cuffs are placed on Sanji and his are taken off. Later Yamato chastises her as King frowns at his daughter. She holds her ground and shows no regret, she is in a place where she and her father are safe from being captured by those that would harm them.

When Ace shows up and fights Yamato and Sanji watches with Otama, big smiles on their faces as Sanji feeds them. When Yamato produces Ace's vivre card and tears a corner off the paper and says it will reunite them one day.

"It will reunite us." Sanji says as she snatched the card from Yamato.

"I can't leave you here!" Yamato argues.

"People who come to Wano don't leave, Yamato. I am safe here. Enjoy the world." Sanji smiles sweetly at her old brother.

"I promise, when I'm stronger, my crew as well, we will come back for you!" Ace bows and rises with a promise. Yamato is staring at Sanji with fear and joy and gratefulness as he hugs his younger sister and promises to come back. Sanji and Otama wave them off as they leave. Later Sanji watches Ace's vivre card burning on the dock one morning, tears streaming down her face because she doesn't know what's happening as it vanishes to ash and she collapses to her knees sobbing. King finds her, hyperventilating and her eyes wide at him, the blue and red orbs glassy with tears as he takes her back to their quarters.

Sanji accepts her place and hates Queen because he knows what she is, and what her father is and King is more often than not about to kill the man. Many new people join the beast pirates. Time passes and King leaves to defend Wano from a fellow emperor of the sea it sounds so Sanji takes to the sky and finds Otama's village which has...visitors. Including a familiar hat and head of white hair. Sanji always visits with fruit and such for Otama and her family so she lands with a powerful thud on the ground. Otama, in Ace's - he's supposed to be dead - arms and Yamato smiling widely with a completely different crew from last time. Yamato rushes and hugs his little sister as Ace and Otama cheer at the sight of her. Everyone else is ready to fight however. Sanji is unamused however, hand on her hip as she glares at Ace and Yamato specifically, noting the absolutely massive scar on Ace's chest.

"You died." Sanji glares at Ace.

"Just for a little bit, I got my fruit back." Ace laughs. "Yamato was okay!"

"How would I know that? I only had a piece of your vivre card. I can't leave Wano to find out!" Sanji snaps at them and they both look sheepish. "Find me when you decide to fight Kaido. I will help."

"Wait, Sanji, you should stay!" Yamato calls as Sanji drops the bag of fruit and flies off to the capital, ignoring the yells from everyone below. Yamato is left to explain Sanji is basically his little sister and that's partly why Germa teamed up with Big Mom, they want Sanji and Yamato won't let them take her, it just happened to fall in line with Law's plan. Yamato explains Sanji and King are Lunarians and Wano, despite being under Kaido's control, is safe for them.

So when the raid of Onigashima is happening Sanji helps Luffy and everyone and with Kaido dead and Wano being free she feels at peace. The cuffs won't take her hands anymore and all of Wano may eat so she spends her time feeding literally everyone. All of them. Otama is brought to the capital by Ace and Yamato and she's cheering for Sanji's freedom and the food.

"What do you mean Sanji's freedom?" Nami asks the little girl.

"Sanji's bracelets from before, they would have taken her hands if she tried to leave Wano or was away from the capital from too long." Otama explains. "She's the best cook in Wano! So it was always special when she could come visit and bring us food when she could! Or her father would in her stead sometimes."

"Oh, the leather guy?" Luffy asks.

"Yeah!" Otama cheers as Sanji laughs and holds her.

"Well, now that you're free you're going to be my cook, right?" Luffy asks her. Sanji frowns at him.

"I...who would stay and protect Wano? I know Momonosuke and Hiyori are capable leaders but there is much to be done in Wano." Sanji asks.

"Your father would. Wano is his home as much as anyone else's." Yamato nods. "Travel with us Sanji! I've found a person to fix our bodies like we wanted when we were children!" Yamato commands happily. Sanji is blinking at him because yes, her brother has changed but so has she and she is unsure if her father would even take care of Wano after what had happened with the raid and everything.

He does of course, he makes his apologies to Momonosuke and Hiyori and vows to protect Wano like he had under Kaido. He does in fact basically kick Sanji out of Wano like Zeff kicked Sanji off the Baratie. She's staring at her new crew, in an iris purple kimono with her wings out and sighs and heads to the galley.

[9800sblog]

hello, I suppose people already requested this since you posted the taehyung reading, but can you do the same (first impression of fs) with Yoongi? thank you

suga tarot reading

his first impression of his future spouse

do I have his energy permission to do and share this reading? 10 of wands reversed, 2 of wands

context

6 of cups, page of pentacles, temperance, 5 of pentacles reversed

the 6 of cups indicates familiarity, help and emotional innocence. page of pentacles is showing practical immaturity/beginning, practical fun. temperance may indicate this a relaxing time, to reassess and get back to your senses (alcohol may be involved). 5 of pentacles reversed is talking about a celebration, a party, leaving a bad situation. it seems that during an outing with friends, at the end of a busy day, they may be introduced to each other by people they have in common. they seem to work in a same field and that's how they know similar people. the environment seems casual and simple like a bar on the street of their job or someone's house.

his first impression

4 of pentacles reversed, 4 of wands reversed, 5 of swords reversed

all the cards are reversed, his first opinion will change a lot as they talk and get to know each other. 4 of pentacles reversed - this person spends a lot and doesn't have much of their own at the moment, they may be careless with their material possessions or have suffered some type of strike. 4 of wands reversed would indicate a spiritual instability coming from this person, someone who is not in their natural environment, being their best self. 5 of swords reversed may show someone who is difficult to talk to, doesn't make sense when they speak, and/or isolated. this may be someone who needs his help with a work thing, a talented artist who wants him to collaborate or produce for them. but I also see a setting like out with friends in common and this person is already drunk when he arrives, and they're messy, dropping food on themselves and/or the ground. either way, he'll think this person has much more potential than they're showing and he feels sorry for them, that he ideally should help them, but they're not close enough (I don't know if he will choose to or not). I see this person falling from a table and talking drunk gibberish, he'll think they're cute and interesting and wanna talk to them when they're in a better place for themselves.

their first impression of him

the world reversed, the moon reversed, 10 of cups reversed, 7 of cups reversed

again, all reversed, they're not in a good headspace. the world reversed may indicate that he's too grounded and worldly at the moment, not flying/shining, and may be interacting little with those around him. the moon reversed may have a similar meaning, he's too real/realistic or serious. 10 of cups reversed meaning he's too focused on material things, and not having fun like he should. 7 of cups reversed indicating being too real again, not dreaming, flying or shining. this spread could indicate a few different things - 1) this person may already know who he is and be shocked to see him casually like that 2) if they're drinking and this person is drunk, they may be pissed off that he's being careful and serious, instead of drinking and being in the moons 3) if they're working together, they may be disappointed by a serious approach he may have to his job. all in all, they'll think he's different from their expectations but they'll be curious to learn more about the way he thinks but feel that they can't talk like how this person wants.

[canonicallysoulmates]

Jensen Solo Main Panel Vancon 2022

Quick disclaimer: this post only covers the first half of the panel. Halfway through he got joined by MC (ofc he fucking did 🙄), and then at the last like 20mins it turned into a group panel because he was also joined by Mark Sheppard, Jake Abel, and Ruth Connell. I'm only covering Jensen's solo portion but if you wanna see the full thing there is as always a link to the full panel at the end.

Getting into the panel, Rob Benedict asked him when was he last in Van and Jensen replies that he was there recently back in August for a couple days, doing some scenes for a movie. I guess he still doesn't have clearance to say it was the Buddy Games sequel.

He also again mentions the previous night's unofficial wrap party and that it was fantastic to be able to see everyone and give out those hugs that they couldn't back when they officially wrapped due to the pandemic but that he is heartbroken Jared's not there, and he knows Jared's really bummed out, so they'll have to do it again when they come back to Van. And then when he goes to sit he turns his chair around IN HONOR OF HIS BOY HE LITERALLY SAYS "IN HONOR OF MY BOY" 😭 Then he says he has a better idea, and grabs the other chair on stage and pulls it next to his and turns it around 😭❤️

Question time! What advice would he give to newcomers on a set whether cast or crew members? To have fun. He was asked recently by one of the producers on Big Sky how he managed to go 15yrs on one show, and he replied that a lot of ingredients went into that but the one he remembers the most is the amount of laughter they had on that set. That he doesn't remember laughing harder during those 15yrs than he did when he was at work and that says a lot about the environment. That there were hard days and days when he didn't wanna get out of bed but no matter what he doesn't think that a day went by where they didn't chuckle or laugh on that set.

That's what he would say, and continues to say to people, he's even said it to those working on The Winchesters. Something he's made sure to very heavily impress upon John F. Showalter, who is currently supervising the show, is to make sure the set is having a good time and the egos are checked, to save the drama for when the cameras are rolling that there's no room for that when they're not.

If that's something he can bring to work, or encourage people to do that when they go to work then he thinks everyone will have a better time. x

How would he have wanted spn to end? He talks about what was originally planned which is that the original script before covid was everything the same up to the point when Sam arrives in Heaven but what was different is that instead of him arriving at the bridge he would arrive in a dusty parking lot in front of a roadhouse, see the Impala and walk up and Dean would come out to greet him and they would have that moment from the bridge then Dean would tell him to come inside where they would have everyone they could get from the cast and crew inside and the house band would be Kansas. And Kansas was actually on their way to set already when they got the call that they couldn't because of covid shutdowns.

That it was unfortunate they couldn't do that, they had to pivot and there was still the heartfelt moment but it would have been nice to have gotten to do it. Jensen, my love, I know you love Kansas and wanted them on the show but sometimes change is for the best. x

How did the idea for the brewery and making it a family-friendly place come to be? It was all a natural progression. It started back around '07 or '08 when craft beer was taking off, he and his brother-in-law, Gino, started making beer in the backyard and they got the itch to open a little nano brewery. In all the research that they did the thing they kept being told is to have room for growth so they got this big property and built for growth but then they thought they should have a place for kids to play because Jensen has kids and that led to them deciding that they wanted to make it a family-friendly place where people could go and have fun with the whole family. The whole time they kept calling it the Family Business because Jensen thought it was kind of tongue in cheek due to its relation to the show but also because it was just Gino and him then when they looked online they saw the name was available (meaning it hadn't been copyrighted) so they decided to make the name official. There was no grand design for it, it just happened naturally. x

Have he and Jared ever gone driving Baby around Austin because they miss playing Sam and Dean? Yes, not because they miss playing Sam and Dean but because they’re children and wanted to go fast in a car that they spend so much time in and they thought it would be great to do that; he says both the Impalas were picture cars, they're not high functioning automobiles, so now that he and Jared own them they're getting fixed up in the same shop, getting them done to where they could put them in a car show but leaving the paint job, and the squeak on the door.

They're just getting the underneath fixed, and putting things in like air conditioning and a sound system because the cars had been stripped of those things as well as anything else the boys could use to annoy the crew. I s2g he sounds like such a husband when talking about he and Jared getting their Impalas fixed together 🥰

He's excited to get their cars back so he and Jared can race them down south congress avenue...and get arrested 😂

In 15.18 if the empty hadn’t come so quickly for C, what would have been Dean’s response? Jensen stops and thinks for a minute, and says he has an answer for that and that he had an answer for that in the next camera setup after C was taken and Dean's on the floor with his head in his hands, and he did that because he lost C but he also didn't say anything. He didn't get him anything.

And what he had in his head was that he should have said I love you too and hugged him, and he knows some people might try to sexualize that in a way but it doesn't have to be that; that it was essentially two sentient beings, that who was in front of him was a family member and someone who was a brother in arms who he truly loved like a brother so Dean lost his brother in that moment and that's how he played it from Dean's perspective. They continue to fish and he continues to not fall for the bait 😈

What is his favorite story to tell his kids? At night, he makes up stories until his kids tell him he needs to leave. It's generally filled with a lot of voices so what he'll do is stand at the door and ask if there's anybody else they would like to say goodnight to and they'll come up with some name and he'll walk away and create a character from that and then go back in and play that character and tell them stories and tell them jokes. So there's not necessarily a book that he reads he just puts on a performance for them every night until they get tired of him. That's adorable x

And that's the end of the panel for me! But if you wanna see the full thing you can do so through the link below.

Jensen Main Panel Vancon

[measuringbliss]

Spider-Man Read-Through 057: Dazzler + Black Cat Always Lands On Her Feet (ASM 203-206)

MASTERPOST

Hey, today we're finishing up Marv Wolfman's run! I'll give my thoughts at the end.

There was supposed to be some Spectacular issues before this post, but I wanted to get on with it, so here we are.

Really cool cover, by the way.

Spidey thinks this lady's chased by Will O' The Wisps, but she faints when he rescues her. When she wakes up, she doesn't seem to know that name...

I don't know anything about Dazzler (except... she's a X-Men), but she seems really cool and original. She also gets away from him, good for her!

YES. THIS IS ALL I'M ASKING. Peter interacting with his friends half-dressed! I'm a simply guy.

Betty and Peter were never a thing recently though. Like, can we really say they "broke up" when... they... weren't together? They had a vague fling but that's it. And they're going to see Star Trek, that's nice!!! I'm almost at the ending of DS9 season 3. Haven't watched the other shows, and I'm very slow, but still, I enjoy it.

Meanwhile, Dazzler gets hit by her mysterious enemy... the Lightmaster! Back from SSM. OoOoOh, I'm scared.

The basic thing is, he needs light, and she produces light. It was only a matter of time! Their interactions blow up the nearby cinema, and Peter quickly becomes Spidey once again.

The fight is fun!

Well that sucks for her, because her power is really cool. I love that she gets energy from concerts.

Spidey saves Dazzler, but she's still hell-bent on eliminating him!

Nice panel!

He escapes her by webbing her eyes. A classic!

Oh I'm sure he'll get to a bottom alright.

We get a quick update on Aunt May: she's not dead, and she's even getting better! Crap.

Spidey surmises that Dazzler got possessed by the Lightmaster, but he's a dumbass.

He eventually saves her with that big machine, and when Dazzler asks how she can repay him, he says they'll figure something out.

Let's hope it's a concert ticket he's asking for. In the comments, people were quick to notice the innuendo (the line coupled with their immediate physical intimacy certainly implies *things*.)

Now, onto Black Cat's return in 204!

Our story starts with Black Cat, apparently alive (who doubted that?) and taking pictures of our favorite wall-crawler. Then she gets in a museum to steal a cute statue of a couple, but she's interrupted.

I love those kisses, it's ridiculous, but lovely. And that cat shadow!

Spidey arrives too, and the cat shadow gimmick continues!

I love it!

She escapes, and Peter ponders about how attractive she is. I'm ready for this couple! I'm ready!!!! Curious to see how it goes!

At the Bugle, Robbie's accepted to lead the newspaper in place of Jameson. He's become a changed man! Very irascible.

BUT WHO DO WE SEE AGAIN?!

RANDY!!!!! MY BOY!!!!! I MISSED YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Meanwhile, at Felicia's place...

Oh, I love this. It's so silly, but so good!

At the Globe, Barney tries to push Peter and April closer. I'm not against April being less bitchy.

Later...

Felicia's not being very slick there, but it's comics, so whatever. That left panel of Peter changing, though? Very erotic.

I'm glad to see Flash and Sha Shan again... I don't remember Cissy, maybe she's in Spectacular. Sounds inconsequential either way. But this new date, Dawn Starr... Very 80s haircut right there. Not sure I'm a fan, BUT she immediately says she's into Peter, so you know.

Oh, but it gets better! She's a science major (another one!) and... she's one of Peter's students! I'm into that, I like the drama. Peter's not of the same mind, though. He's already got enough drama as is!

By the way, I'm not completely fond of this issue's colors... We'll see how it goes...

At the Guggenheim museum, Spidey and Black Cat have another fight.

Oh, she's a funny one for sure. The writing's becoming more horny, and I'm also here for it.

Once again, the Black Cat gets away, but with the statue this time! Oh, and we get news on Jonah! He's amnesiac now. "Jonas Harrow" says he's gonna help him, but he's got those terrifyingly goofy glasses that indicate he's not a nice guy.

Black Cat steals another thing (and is quite disappointed that she saw no resistance from the folks there), and we get a promise that the next issue will have a surprise ending. A kiss, a kiss!!!!

YES.

Marv Wolman's run is officially finished at this point! David Michelinie's a guest writer for 205, but his run will occur about five years later. Let's see how he fares here.

That's a really beautiful panel.

At Peter's workplace (the university!), he finds Dawn...

We got a kiss! I didn't expect him to go down that line, though. But I'm here for the messiness. I presume it won't last long...

Peter thinks things are looking up on him, but that's not exactly a sentiment I share.

Spidey and Black Cat have a little fight again, and she gets away again.

Later, at the Daily Globe, Peter meets Pamela Dean, society editor and possible new love interest? What is going on here?

Did Peter breaking up with MJ finally open his dating prospects?

There's a solid theme of love going around in these issues. Black Cat targets art about love, Pamela Dean wants to write a story about an artist who does romantic and erotic art... This feels like a new era.

Peter's convinced Black Cat's building a shrine to her father with those thieveries, and I think he's completely wrong about that. The likely actual person she loves is... well, Spider-Man, of course.

Love these panels.

At his office, Peter finds an intruder... and our dear miss Dawn is welcomed by none other than Spidey!

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Iran? What the heck, Peter.

Oh, Peter... (He looks so cute when he's angsty.)

Hey, does anyone know if this area really exists? I'm curious. Ross Andru drew real buildings, so...

So Felicia's exchanging the art she stole for the Helen Epistle, a love letter to Paris from Helen of Troy.

Just kidding! She's actually stealing that one too.

Meanwhile, Peter has an appointment with Bellflower, the erotic art collector that Felicia just threatened. He seems busy, and Peter smells the ruse.

Do you know what else is jangling?

Anyway. BC and Spidey have another confrontation, BC escapes, but Spidey tracks her and is completely surprised to see he was wrong about Felicia's daddy issues.

I love her expresssion on the left!

... You know what, that's actually a solid ending, because at first, Peter didn't care about his responsibility (the Dawn kiss), but then he got the backlash from that (disappointment and betrayal), so here, he chose to do the right thing. That's good.

206 time! Roger Stern is here. He'll stay for a while. I've seen people say to skip the Wein and Wolfman issues, so I'm curious to see what Stern brought to the game.

Turns out Jonas Harrow, who also created Hammerhead, the Kangaroo and Will O' The Wisps in the first place, is the one who's been making Jonas mad. He used rays or something on Jonah's office, which explains why Robbie was irritated last issue!

I'm sure Jonah will be back to his old self anyway... but I kinda like how it ties up neatly this background arc that has been running for like, ten issues at this point. Neat! Didn't expect it either.

At the Bugle, Robbie and Marla discuss what to do regarding Jonah's disappearance, but Jonas Harrow doesn't like this and turns up his rays. They get in a fight, and when Peter intervenes, he pushes them away rather violently.

Ew.

The rays cause everyone to be angry, but Peter activates the fire alarm to make them evacuate the building. Smart!

He eventually finds and breaks the rays emitting gadget, and then Harrow dares him to fight him. When he sees Spidey, Jameson gets his memory back. Much more effective than Harrow's tentative treatment!

I love the middle panel, but this is also why I cannot bring myself to care about Jonas: he sucks.

So... Marv Wolfman. Definitely an improvement on Len Wein if you consider the entirety of their runs, as it's more consistently solid.

I did love the graduation issues, the relationship drama, but the May arc was annoying, although I can appreciate the ambition. I think my problem lies moreso with the corresponding Spectacular issues, but it wasn't Wolfman, so...

I just feel like Wolman's cast isn't coherent the way Stan Lee and Gerry Conway's were. Still, there was an attempt to emulate Lee and Ditko's style at some point. Jameson was faaaar too involved in all of that to my liking, but it was a bit original at least, compared to previous times. Some characters acted out of character too (Ned and Harry)...

It's not a perfect run, and I don't gel well with Wolfman, but it was alright. Good, even.

Welcome, Mister O'Neil. Show me what you've got!

[escape-from-arcadia]

22 September 2022 - Simply consumed by the idea of the Amphibia AU again and dug up + expanded on the notes I wrote for it:

Main Plot

Jim Lake Jr., Toby Domzalski, and Claire Nuñez are childhood best friends growing up in Arcadia Oaks. On Jim’s 16th birthday, they get magically transported to the land of Amphibia, where they are separated upon their arrival.

Jim ends up living with the frogs. He's taken under the care of Blinky and Aaarrrgghh (husbands) after Aaarrrgghh convinces a distrustful Blinky. We follow Jim, Blinky, and Aaarrgghh as they get to know each other and Jim adjusts to Amphibia. He wants to find a way home, and his new dads are trying to help him.

Amphibia

For my sanity, the magical characters are translated into frogs/toads/newts. They all live in the same Amphibia with the same sort of rules and lore. We’re just inserting characters into the story and redesigning them to fit into Amphibia. I’m also not calling them “good” or “bad” trolls because as the shows…show, people are complex and have potential to do good. Changelings also will make things a bit more complicated, but we’re going to make this work.

The trolls are translated over to the frogs. I find that they have a lot of similarities to the frogs in the early season. Market, trying to survive, eclectic frogs, suspicious of humans.

Blinky and Aaarrrgghh are husbands because I said so. Blinky runs a used bookshop and Aaarrrgghh is a farmer. Blinky has been trying to write a book about the history of Amphibia for years (and the town thinks he's chasing a pipe dream). He actually used to travel a lot with his brother who helped him research, but there was a falling out and his brother went missing. Aaarrrgghh is happily farming and selling produce in town, but frogs don't always trust him. There are rumors he used to work with the Gumm Gumm toads.

The Gumm Gumms are translated over to the toads. The relationship between toads and frogs is something of what I'd imagine it'd be like if the Gumm Gumms had taken over the other trolls. Plus, I think the strength and power of the Gumm Gumms matches the toads best.

I was debating between Akiridions and wizards for the newts. I decided wizards would fit the vibes of Newtopia best. It's like Camelot in a way, when you think about it. Plus, Arthur as Andrias is something I can't pass up because would you look at their character designs compared to the other characters? Big.

As for the Akiridions, I think they'll fit as some of the early inhabitants of Amphibia and be the ones to build the very advanced technology. My favorite part about Amphibia is the clash between technology and nature, and I think it'd be fascinating to explore with the Akiridions.

The Humans

Jim is an awkward guy who doesn't know exactly what he wants to do with his life yet. At home, he runs his family's restaurant. It's grown difficult since his father left (he was the chef of family), and his mom really isn't great at cooking, so it's mostly Jim running it. When he crash lands in Amphibia, he is terrified and confused, and he encounters a big scary...frog? This frog happens to be Aaarrrgghh, and he leads Jim to Wartwood and introduces him to his husband, Blinky. It takes some time to get used to Amphibia (Jim gets to try learning how to cook with bugs!), but he finds it to feel like another home. He gets the blue gem (for heart).

Toby will throw hands with anyone who messes with his friends. It's a bit of a problem. Here is where we get to see more of punk rock Toby because I said so. When he crash lands in Amphibia, he is also terrified and confused. He nearly falls down a hill. But he says, "Fuck it," grabs a big stick and bashes it at the first moving thing he sees...which ends up being not a thing, but a toad. Toby smacks Bular the Butcher with a big stick and gets thrown in Toad Tower jail. But Toby is also a showman, and begins to help Bular gain the favor of restless toads. Toby is determined to find his way and find his friends so they can get back home (Tobes is also not vibing with bug food). He gets the pink gem (for strength).

Claire is smart, pretty, and a brilliant actress, and she has a good left. Though she has a strained relationship with her family - being the "perfect" daughter of the councilwoman is rough - she loves her friends fiercely. When she crash lands in Amphibia, she ends up on the steps of the palace in Newtopia. As she's exploring, fascinated by this fantastical world, she runs into Douxie the newt on the streets. Douxie is the first to actually do something about Claire as Hisirdoux, Scourge of the Sand Wars, Defeater of Ragnar the Wretched, the youngest newt ever to achieve the rank of general in the great Newtopian Army- Claire cuts him off before he continues. Douxie insists on taking Claire to see his boss. They go on the hunt for Merlin, but end up finding him with Arthur in the throne room. Arthur decides to let Claire stick around to get back on her feet. Meanwhile, Claire conducts research and explores. Everyone really likes her, and she acclimates really quickly, making Newtopia her new home. It's not like she had much of a home in the first place...She gets the green gem (for wisdom).

[trigunsbbygirl]

This is my plant oc, Maya! she sleeps a lot and has the ability to make people fall asleep and give them any dreams. she can see their memories and what they dream/hope for in life. she doesn't work for Knives exactly, but stays in tower hanging out with the plants he's gotten. despite sleeping a lot, Maya is very aware of her surroundings when asleep!

backstory and more under cut. not proofread and death (not graphic) warning. hope this makes sense lol

scientists had found out she was an independent on the seeds ship, realizing she never produced power like other plants. they tried everything to wake her up, however when nothing worked, they decided they'd just do what they did to Tesla, but once she realizes their intentions she puts all of the scientists there into a deep sleep. (she has those tendrils like Knives does in stampede, however they look and spread out more like roots.) when those scientists don't return, more more come to investigate and soon enough, the room Maya is in becomes off limits to anyone.

Maya was very aware that the fall ends up happening and luckily survives, but decides to stay asleep with her dreams rather than explore the new planet. many try to get into her room but again, they're put into a deep sleep, bodies laying as a warning to leave her alone.

it's not until Knives comes across her room decades later does Maya finally wake up. after failing to put him to sleep and realizing he's also a plant, she wants to know what he wants. Knives explains that he's gathering all the plants and wants to make a world solely for them. while she doesn't quite agree with the eradication of humanity (despite ultimately killing everyone she put to sleep) she does go with Knives. Maya rather adores humans, having seen beautiful dreams of family and life from them, its just, if they wish to bring harm to her, she's not afraid to use her powers.

she mainly stays at the tower, sleeping, unless Knives absolutely needs her. Maya likes being in her dreams rather than the coldness of the tower. part of her wishes to go and be with humanity but she's also come to like Knives despite his intentions with humanity.

she meets Vash when she's asked to put a town to sleep that was overworking their plant, Knives wanting them killed for what they're doing as he deals with another town. vash is investigating why this town is so quiet when Maya puts him to sleep. Vash figures out that he's dreaming, snapping out of it only to find himself in a grassy field with bubbles floating everywhere. Maya and the plant are sitting under a tree. she isn't surprised that he snapped out of his dream, however he still hasn't waked up, only in the area where everyone else's dreams float around. think of her like taking care of their dreams if that makes sense. Vash demands she free everyone from this sleep, but she refuses, Knives asked her to do this and the plant is tired of this. Maya argues, besides, they'll die a happy death, dreaming of what they've wanted in life. Vash ends up waking up and searches for Maya, however she just does not want to physically fight. Maya compromises, saying getthe people out of the town, so Knives can only get the plant. Vash reluctantly agrees, knowing this town will die without a plant, but this is his best outcome. so Maya implants nightmares into the people, telling them they need to leave town, hoping they'll just that when they wake up. when Knives gets to town he's furious that she saved the humans. she responds, what can I say? your brother is convincing.

despite her fondness for Knives, she's quite troublesome, never quite listening or giving him grief. she's the same way with Legato when he arrives, just bullying (although with no real harm intended) him more.

Maya also meets Wolfwood and Livio when they arrive, and while she can't interfere with what Conrad is doing, she does sneak a root in to put their mind to rest and try to give them pleasant dreams from the constant torture. Legato and Knives find out, telling her to stop, and Maya only responds threatening to put them to sleep, making sure they, especially Knives won't wake up, that Wolfwood and Livio are only kids, they don't deserve this. they begrudgingly back away, knowing they can't really change her mind. later on, Wolfwood ends up respecting her, thankful for the small escapes from reality

Elendira ends up being like a little sister, they gossip a lot. both of them are happy to have someone to talk to that isn't just work or experiments.

[tvmigraine]

How I'd Write a "Doctor Who" series

So I made my Tumblr page in the first place so that I could do two things - the first is to ramble here instead of to friends so that I annoyed them less, the second being to write out story ideas that I've had as a sorta web-diary-blog-thingie.

This is part of that web-diary-blog-thingie.

I really love Doctor Who and I always wanted to write something about them, lockdown and university giving me that opportunity. In this post is my mad ramblings about a story where the Doctor's companion is Dorian Gray.

WHO'S DORIAN GRAY?! "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" was written by Oscar Wilde back in 1890 before a novel-length rerelease in 1891. The story is about a young man who sells his soul for a wish - where he will age, the portrait will in his place. As he continues to live a hedonistic and amoral life, the portrait continues to corrupt further and further.

Pop-culture has changed Dorian, in a way, to accommodate further adaptations. First of all is the repeated image (ha) of Dorian's invulnerability so long as the Portrait remains undamaged, any fatal injury goes to the portrait. The second of this is his immortality, he can continue to live for years on end while his Portrait would continue to age.

WHY DORIAN GRAY?! There are two main inspirations for this. The first inspiration was "The Confessions of Dorian Gray", a Big Finish series produced by Scott Handcock (he's the script editor for RTD2, I'm beyond excited.) It's a great take on the character, And it's really cheap! Seriously, just by the downloads and listen to it, it's half an hour of supernatural goodness.

The second inspiration was recent books published by BBC Children's Books. There's been a big theme in them of Doctor Who crossing over with famous literature - first they did Doctor Who meeting Wizard of Oz, reuniting with Robin Hood and arriving in Camelot. This year they'll be telling Who-versions of Treasure Island and Jason & the Argonauts. Essentially, I'm throwing my own hat into the ring to have these two meet.

It would also make for a unique pairing - often times Dorian, in a modern setting, is portrayed as encountering other supernatural entities through his life while the Doctor encounters aliens every day. It would be a fun dynamic to place a creature in front of them and have the pair bickering over whether the foe is monster or alien.

WHICH DOCTOR THEN?! I don't know yet honestly. There's a few that I think could work but, as I've been writing, I've been using a strange template that first appeared in the Target novelization of "Rose"...

"A tall, bald black woman wielding a flaming sword". That was it. That was essentially all that I was working with, which is good if you want a description for a character in a hurry but a bit more difficult for making a personality. I worked with this the best I could with the idea that this is a new incarnation, "The Rose Doctor", would meet Dorian as their first companion.

What about the Doctors we actually know? Well, I've narrowed it down to the three I'd be most interested in trying.

The Seventh Doctor. Considering that this man, the heart of the Cartmel Masterplan that led to "Lungbarrow", was often suggested to be more than just a Time-Lord, it seemed right to have him placed alongside a man who sold his soul. A man who's often many steps ahead with a plan behind each move, it'd be fun to see how he ultimately uses Dorian in order to get what he wants.

The Eleventh Doctor. In contrast to the Seventh Doctor, I considered this incarnation because I can only imagine them as complete polar opposites to Dorian Gray. Dorian is desperate to cling onto his youth while the Eleventh Doctor is, overwhelmingly, an old man at heart. There's also an easy introduction for the pair, as the Eleventh Doctor exiled himself during "The Snowmen" and could've encountered him.

The Thirteenth Doctor. At the time of writing, she's only just regenerated and we are moving onto the 14th and 15th incarnations next November/December. The Thirteenth doctor doesn't have many gaps in her timeline, so I think it'd be fun to explore what she'd be like with a different Tardis Team. Also, most importantly, I think she'd hate Dorian Gray and that presents an interesting dynamic if the two continue to meet.

What's most important about these two is the dynamic between them - what are they looking for in the other person? Simply, answers.

Dorian Gray is a literary character so how does he exist as a real person? Is he from the Land of Fiction or is he from the real world? The Doctor is a mysterious time traveler that clearly knows more than they let on, so who are they really? What secrets do they keep?

OKAY EPISODES NOW!! Most important thing to note is that the episodes have two numbers. The first number is order of reading for Dorian's life chronologically, while the number on the right is order of reading for the Doctor's. 00:02 - Introduction [1886, London] We start with the early days of Dorian Gray's hedonistic lifestyle, essentially verbatim the events that occurred in the original story. While Dorian is hosting a party, he eventually finds himself in discussion with someone that previously hadn't been invited. This woman is greatly interested in the portrait he recently had made of himself and tries to figure out the secrets behind it...

01:04 - The Death of the Author [1900, Paris] After saying goodbye to his old friend and author, Dorian is surprised to run into the woman from his party many years ago - the Doctor. When these two impossible people meet, a deal is made to continue to check on each other before they leave each other's side. Rumour has it, there's a werewolf loose on the streets of Paris and what are the chances they're both tracking down the Loup-Garoux?

02:06 - Sod of the Somme [1916, The Battle of the Somme] Dorian Gray is participating in the Great War, having gone with friends and lost many along the way. Now, he's trapped in the trenches after fighting off a monster that's killed his fellow men. They don't believe his story about a monster in the dirt, but one person does - a medical officer called Johanna Schmidt. If she can convince everyone to work together, maybe they can all get out alive.

03:03 - A Ballroom at the End of the Universe [1927, Edge of Space] On the edge of the universe, a party is being held. Dorian Gray finds himself invited and can't resist taking a trip into space. The Doctor likewise can't resist the invitation, but she has her own plans. Travel into alternate universes is forbidden after the Time War, but the Doctor needs to find out the origins of Dorian Gray so journeys to the Land of Fiction.

04:01 - The Kennedy Heist [1963, Maryland] On the 22nd of November, the President of the USA was assassinated. For the Doctor, they've gone through this day a few times, but there's always something that's bothered them about it. What happened to JFK's brain? Bigger questions arise when not only does she find Dorian Gray with the brain in a jar, but a man in a battered leather jacket claiming to be the Doctor...

05:05 - To Heal a Broken Heart [1972, London] Attending the first Pride rally to occur in the UK, Dorian Gray's heart is broken and actions becoming reckless. After dragging a drunk Dorian out of the Ballroom, despite their rocky relationship, the Doctor stays on Earth to help him recover and begins to see a new side for the first time.

06:07 - Same As It Ever Was [2000, Fiji] A popular internet hoax is that a hidden planet called "Nibiru" would crash into Earth, coinciding with the end of the Mayan Calendar. Dorian has lived through many of his own "End of the World" scenarios so chooses this time to enjoy a holiday. What he hardly expects is for the world to really end, let alone to wake up at the start of a time loop.

07:08 - Nobody, Everywhere [2012, London] As Dorian builds a life in modern day again, the Doctor returns with a warning. Dorian's eternal life is in danger and he cannot trust anybody. The people that want him go back to his very beginning, they cannot be stopped or reasoned with and they'll stop at nothing to get their hands on him. After being in each other's life for so long, do they have what it takes to stop an enemy without a face?

08:00 - Cancer [2099, Seoul] The Doctor's regeneration gets revealed along with her placement in the timeline. Her regeneration leads her to crash into the streets of Seoul in 2099, where she meets Dorian for the first time and he meets her for the last. As the Doctor battles Regeneration Sickness, Dorian has to work on his own to stop a hacker called "Jocasta" from destroying the biggest business district in South Korea. Is she the biggest danger? Or is there something lurking beneath the surface?

09:09 - Epilogue Now that the Doctor has recovered, it's time for her to travel through time and space. Who's to say she has to do it alone?

Confusing? Here's each story in order.

IS THAT IT?! Pretty much, that's all my current thoughts on the idea plus a short description for each episode. There are definitely more ideas I could vent, but that would involve a serious amount of foresight about where I'm going to take this IF I take this anywhere.

But in case I never elaborate... > Harmony Shoal, "The Flood" Cybermen & Macra. > A Gallifreyan ghost story turned into a cat. > Silurian Time-Lords and "The Nightmare Child". > A "Paradox" Doctor with a red TARDIS.

If you're interested, let me know! I want to know if people would like to read this or if it's just me

[findingvigilante]

Date: May 18, 2022

I was ready to give up on my search for answers at this point. With everything I've gathered, it felt like I just found a whole lot of something and a whole lot of nothing at the same time. Every "lead" was a dead end. Everyone I've spoken to gave little to no information. Most weren't even willing to talk to me out of fear Vigilante might be hiding in the trees and would swoop down on them or something. This wasn't getting anywhere.

I'm not Lois Lane. I don't dive headfirst into danger. I most certainly don't have a hunky superhero in spandex to come and save me whenever I find myself in a sticky situation either. Especially not when I was risking my own neck for a story about a serial killer that could quite literally take me out at any given moment (antihero, actually. Vigilante is an antihero. The term came to me last night in my sleep). Defending myself was the only option and I don't even know how to properly make toast let alone make a fist and punch someone. I'm also pretty certain that I won't even have time to make a fist to punch Vigilante. I'd be dead on the ground before the thought even crossed my mind.

Speaking of Lane, the finance department of the Planet called me today and asked why I wasn't showing up to work. Which was weird because I sent in my resignation weeks ago so they should've gotten it by now. I explained that I had returned home to Evergreen to chase a story I was interested in for a while. I also explained that the sports section just wasn't cutting it for me and I wanted to do more than just cover the latest in baseball or football. Surprisingly, they listened to what I had to say before explaining that I wasn't supposed to leave work until the resignation was fully processed. That being said, they said that it went through without any issues and wished me good luck on my story before hanging up (they also said that the Planet would welcome me back with open arms if my story lead to a dead end). They had no idea that that scenario was looking more and more likely.

Today I decided to do some work at O'Rourkes. It was quiet for a Wednesday afternoon and the place wasn't as busy as what it usually is on a Friday night or the weekends. It wasn't just a bar but a restaurant as well so I ordered a club sandwich and a salad and did some work while I ate. The tv overhead was playing something about the Justice League but living in Metropolis for so long has made me immune to hearing about them. The same goes for Superman. You hear about him so often that the excitement of seeing him on the news starts to die down after a while. Vigilante, on the other hand, barely made the news which I found both fascinating and weird considering how many people in Evergreen have been killed because of him. The smallest bit of footage of him on the news would send me scrambling for more. I'm desperate for crumbs.

I was about halfway finished with my meal when my contact, Charlie, texted me about an explosion at Glan Tai Bottling Company. When I asked if there was any correlation to Vigilante, they told me I'd have to go investigate myself and see. Fair enough. But before paying for my lunch and heading out, I did a little research on Glan Tai. It was founded in 1979 in Little Cork, Washington and they bottled mostly milk and produced their own glass for bottling. It was a two hour drive outside Evergreen so if I wanted to get a scoop (or any crumbs), I'd have to leave now before it got dark.

It was 5:47 when I arrived in Little Cork. After quickly looking up the address, I drove there only to find the place crawling with cops and reporters alike. Naturally I saw Detective Song and Fitzgibbons amongst the police officers, so I quickly ducked under the police tape while no one was looking and slipped inside the building. I didn't want to get caught nor did I want to be asked why I was here because they'll know the why. But they won't understand it and just think it's weird that I have a borderline obsession with a killer.

The inside of the building was a mess. Glass strewn everywhere, debris from the explosion flown in every direction. There were even small fires still burning here and there; it was a disaster. But on top of the glass and debris there was also this weird, green substance that I've never seen before. With a pen, I picked some up with the tip and watched as it oozed off back down to the floor. It was like honey but a little thicker. There was also a weird smell coming from it that was unlike anything my nose has ever breathed in before.

The scene didn't get any less gruesome as I made my way further into the building. It was like walking through a haunted house at an amusement park with the amount of blood on the walls, floor and ceiling. It would've been comical if it weren't for the heap of dead bodies lying everywhere. And I mean everywhere. Some with their limbs still attached. Others....weren't as lucky. There were a lot of bodies here for a company that went out of business in 2009 but I didn't let the sight of them deter me as I made my way around to snap photos of everything I was seeing. Though the smell of both death and whatever it was that they were bottling was starting to make me feel a bit sick to my stomach.

There was a room right at the very back that grabbed my attention. It looked like an office from afar and as I drew nearer to it, I could see what looked like servers and computers sputtering for power as the electricity flashed on and off. Upon entering the room, I saw that some kind of fight went down here because the place looked like a wrestling match happened (minus the blood on the floor). I tried tapping on one of the keyboards to see if I could get anything to appear on the screen but it flashed once with these weird symbols before completely dying. I did however find what looked like a USB still plugged into one of the towers so I swiped that before making a run for it back outside when I heard voices outside the office door.

Back at my apartment, I plugged the USB into my laptop and was immediately hit with a wave of bizarre symbols that I've never seen before. After scrolling for nearly five minutes, I decided to send the file to a friend of mine at Metropolis University who was a linguist. If anyone could figure out what language this was, it was them. After doing that, I turned on the tv to see if there was any news regarding Glan Tai and as luck may have it, there was. The reporter stated that the body of a missing gorilla from Evergreen zoo, Charlie (which I chuckled at) was found dead inside the building along with many others who have yet to be identified. Forensics said that the explosion went off in the production line but as for what the cause was, it was still unknown. Which means that I was led into another dead end. Vigilante probably wasn't even involved in this. Why would he target a bottling plant? Also what was that green goo stuff I saw at the plant? What the hell was going on in my investigation? Stuff was just getting weirder and weirder the deeper I dug and it was getting irritating. The more I searched, the more questions I was left with.

Going back to Metropolis was looking more and more likely. I can kiss my Vigilante story goodbye entirely.

Update: I received a text from my friend in Metropolis about the weird flash drive and its bizarre language. It left the hair on the back of my neck standing up.

[the-firebird69]

Freya Ridings - Castles (Official Video)

There's some confusion about who built what Castle and whose castles or who's and Dave used to always occupy the castles that we're looking at but as it were the castles were built very quickly and he says no and we get something we don't have too much evidence but it points to the fact that it arrived produced and we know where the storage place was so you don't know where it was being produced and that was curious there's a lot of stuff like that so we need to figure that out we're going to go to war with some people today because they're in the way of us doing anything it's meaningful well they really deserve it or mean it or not

Mac daddy

We found this this morning we don't care whose Castle it is we're going to burn it to the ground and it was before mentioning Disney so we're going after him and his people for what they're saying and doing and he is going to get removed from Disney and he is already removed from Mar-A-Lago and it's a historic building and he has tainted it and they're going to put it fence it in and coordinate it off and maintain it and it said that too for the trial now it looks like the trial has been pushed out and the date of the house being taken would be moved and there are several other houses and make daddy is going to occupy those and have my husband assembled different houses and he says they would be lower level as in brand new and it's never happened except for additions and stuff he puts in so he doesn't care he doesn't have aspirations it's the 21st century. And we have other things going on today of course I just need to be addressed because of the time change in the court case and there's a lot of questions that people have. And he also says how long is this going to take they're going to start renovations at Disney this may and it's true

Hera

We have to get this ready yes and we are getting ready it's the whole program they start working on Disney towards the end of May and the trials postponed but they're going ahead with it and they will do a lot of work around the park at some point they'll be like 10 projects and then they will in case and the castle with a wooden staging so you have a big reveal and that's what they're taking the block and we think they'll take a whole wall out paint it and move and leave the stadium so they can paint it and there's other stuff happening we're experiencing a strange sentiments here and we don't like it and we don't care for them screwing themselves up they're already a mess we're going to stop them and soon too. Things have happened the early this morning

-the space battles have continued no they have rekindled. Just as we thought the ships voyaged out to tighten and the tower ships and a few to Mars and they are fighting all together they're around $900 billion they're down to $800 billion and the fighting will begin to become fierce in time now they still have about 400 billion out of that $800 billion in reserve and that will be the next round possibly.

-there's a few more things this crew here is acting illegally with every single contact with her son they're trying to do something stupid and we are attacking them fiercely as others are and it's time for them to stop and if they don't they will have nobody left it's been ongoing for several weeks now

-the statues and cashes in the Western hemisphere took a pounding we thought it would be 10% that's more like down 12% from 25% out so it's down to 37% out and they have 63% left and that's not very good. As we said the robots are being taken out and they comprise about 20% of armament so out of the 37% and 20% of that is robots and they're being used on Trump's forces and he's getting blamed and he says he's doing it-

-we also have a tax that they were performing in the Western hemisphere on the pseudo empire they went at the northern bunkers in each of the continents and attacked and the bunkers are actually down by 70%? They took their areas of operation and regular areas they are down to 75% and they attacked Trump and his bunkers in the areas and their down to about 30% in the bunkers no it's about 85% and their areas about the same and they're attacking the caverns and they just started and their and about 95% but they did that to reconnoiter and it is very true tonight will be a massive attack they also recognized yesterday in the eastern hemisphere right now they are attacking the caverns and bunkers in the areas of operation of the trumps and also the pseudo empire is a massive massive war

More shortly all

Thor Freya

Olympus

We have to get him ready he's almost ready now he says I should be smooth sailing but we're going to check

Hera

[therealvinelle]

Who is richer Cullen Family or Volturi Family ? How much money do you think Volturi has?

Carlisle Cullen, age 370, has accumulated a fortune of $34.1 billion — much of it from long-term investments made with the aid of his adopted daughter Alice, who picks stocks based on her ability to see into the future.

Isle Esme is a tropical island off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. It is owned by Esme Cullen, and was given to her by her husband, Carlisle Cullen, as a gift.

Though mystified as to whether or not Bella is changed, Aro in return sends Bella the necklace as a wedding gift. It is described as being ostentatious with a very large jewel, and is said to have been part of the English crown jewels.

The Volturi still own almost all of the property in the vicinity. They have small private landing strip and more…

I think the Volturi have a lot of money from real estate, that's as solid as an investment can get. They can afford Heidi flying around in a jet or her yacht, so they're docking in Monaco wealthy at least.

Still, I don't think they're Scrooge McDuck wealthy. Certainly nowhere near the Cullens.

The stock market is something you could make a lot of money on if you just know the future. If for instance I travelled back in time just a couple of years, I could potentially make millions from buying, selling, and shorting at the right times. Buy PPE manufacturers in 2019, Pfizer in 2020, sell in August 2021, buy Gamestop before it took off, short Facebook in 2021 and Netflix and Tesla in 2022, and borrow insane money to do it all because I'd know for a fact that I'm getting it back. If I'm feeling unethical I'll buy oil and electricity well ahead of 2021 as well. I'll bet too, I now know every election winner.

Point is, if you know the future then the stock market will make you so rich. Holy god you're gonna so rich.

The Volturi could bet around, sure! They could have invested a little in every vaccine manufacturer when the pandemic broke out, thrown themselves on the Gamestop craze when it began (but when to sell? Alice knew when it was gonna burst, they did not), they can figure out Facebook and Netflix are about to take a hit and predict Musk's idiocy to make investors pull out, and electricity and oil are probably resources they're already invested in. However, they can't know for sure the way Alice can, and so they'll have to be moderate with their every investment. And if they're trying to make short term investments like these, then they will end up making bad investments that blow up in their faces.

Aro is running a thousand-year-old organization he wants to be stable, and that means he can't suddenly call a meeting to tell everyone that he, ah, might have lost €200M because heh, tiny chance he decided to put it in Vine. Hm, yes, sorry about that.

Aro's going to have to do long term investment, and that means real estate, all the real estate. Maayybe if he wants to have a bit of fun he invests in other things as well, but that'll be Aro investing in a company that produces animal-shaped jewelry because those were the cutest tiny ceramic guinea pigs he ever saw, not looking to make the big bucks.

The Volturi can't match Alice.

With that in mind, I think the Cullen fortune has been overestimated. Money gets to a point where it's more of a hassle to have, and a sum like $34B or even $64B as Forbes estimated (I'll put it this way, I'd love to see how Forbes arrived at that number) is a full time job to manage. Yes, the Cullens have luxuries they don't need, and given Alice's... Aliceness, I’m sure they’re ugly rich, but they are also living fake lives. They get their legal documents from a shady guy in Seattle. I'll almost guarantee you that they only do the bare minimum in terms of managing their fortune. I honestly think their genius solution to stay under the IRS' radar is to just... keep it lying around the house in cash form. If the money was accounted for, Bella would have been grabbing a credit card, it's telling that she grabbed a wad of cash instead. For larger purchases (can't buy an island with cash) I imagine they have offshore accounts an alternate identities.

But, again- these guys have a guy in Seattle that they run to for fake papers.

They act like drug lords, not billionaires, is what I'm saying. To the point where I would wager Alice has sold a few very expensive art pieces, wink.

I think their fortune is vastly oversized but the indications we're given of how they manage it would point to it not being in the tens of billions. I also just... genuinely don't think they're capable enough to hide that kind of money.

Still, given Alice's gift- should she want to become the richest woman on Earth she could do it, but I don't think she has.

(Note on real estate: yes, I know 2008 made it look unstable. However, this was due to greedy banks overdrawing mortgages, the extant houses being uninhabited, and a whole lot of nonsense. There are many ways to invest in real estate, and doing so wisely is going to be a very safe long term bet.)

[aterriblethought]

some thoughts on Room No.9

A while back (like 5 years ago back!) I played through a visual novel called No, Thank You!!! and wrote up some thoughts about it here, so now that I've had a chance to play a game related to it, I thought I'd post some thoughts here. This time around the game is so short that I think I'm going to dive into the potential endings, so I'll call out at what point I'll be mentioning spoilers. This is like part review, part just me rambling because this game made my brain fall apart.

Room No. 9 is a BL visual novel game that was released in Japan in 2016 and in English in 2020, so I'm a little behind on the times. It was produced by the BL off-shoot of "Clock Up" called "parade" that also produced No, Thank You!!! The connection between Room 9 and NTY is kind of tenuous; they feature the same train station, so they probably take place around the same area and time period, and they both seem to feature the same shadowy organization that the protagonist of NTY was connected to. But that's about the extent of the connection and the game features no returning characters or plot points from NTY, and focuses exclusively on two new characters, Daichi (the player character) and Seiji. Similarly to NTY, Daichi is not a nameless PC but a fleshed out character; the game is fully voiced in Japanese for all speaking lines; and the amount of actual choices in the game are fairly minimal, which makes it a bit less like a game and more like a vaguely interactive novel. It took me about five hours to play through the first time so it has a fairly brief play time in comparison to NTY. It also goes without saying that Room 9 is most definitely NSFW. :) Similar to NTY there's extensive options for customizing the content and interface, and I was definitely taken aback the first time I booted the game and it asked if I wanted to turn the scatological filter on. "What am I getting myself into?" definitely crossed my mind at that point.

The story of the game can be summarized like so: Daichi and Seiji are best friends, and at the beginning of the game, meet up for drinks to commiserate about their recent breakups with their girlfriends (yes they're both straight). Daichi had been saving up to take his girlfriend on a 10 day trip to Okinawa, and it's too late to cancel at that point. The suggestion is jokingly made to take Seiji along instead, and the joke ends up becoming the plan, and not long later the two head off to Okinawa together. When they arrive in Okinawa, they board the bus to take them to their hotel... and the next thing either of them know, they're waking up in a hotel room. But the hotel room itself is odd; there's a giant video screen in place of a window, and the door leading out of the room is locked. Neither of them know how they got there. They soon find out they've been kidnapped as part of a "behavioral analysis study," and are shown a video demonstrating the consequences if they don't cooperate (involving the madness and violent death of past participants). The rules of the experiment are fairly straightforward: complete one task a day from a short list of options and earn ten points. If they earn 100 points, they'll be released. Assuming they manage to do a task a day, they can be out in about ten days. The tasks are a rather extreme version of a "would you rather" game, and involve either Daichi being physically injured by Seiji, or Seiji being sexually degraded by Daichi. The intensity of the tasks increases with each successive task, and a task that appears as an option one day may not appear the next. The game largely follows Daichi and Seiji as they attempt to navigate the tasks to escape as quickly as possible and, hopefully, not compromise their friendship.

I recently started replaying NTY, and these "experiments" are mentioned in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it line by Haru reflecting on the sort of things his "grandfather" indulges in. Daichi and Seiji spend some time towards the beginning of the game wondering about the nature of their kidnappers; the hotel's furnishings are upscale, and the food they are served is very high-end. The entire nature of the experiment implies an extensive amount of money is involved. It fleshes out a little bit the scope of just how massive and influential the criminal organization from NTY is that they can pull this off, apparently with quite a number of victims and a body count, and have never gotten caught. Why anyone would do this and how they can afford the cost is never really answered and we never actually see any of the kidnappers. The entire room is bugged with cameras and microphones, so my personal opinion is they sell the tapes or possibly even the data from the experiments for a lot of money. In any case I'm not sure it's worth thinking about that much, LOL. The nature of the experiment lends itself well to a game and it surprised me a bit that they didn't push the extent to which you could have really interacted with the experiment and the point system, but that would have ballooned the amount of narrative way beyond whatever I imagine the budget was. As it is, the game features over 2000 CGs, though most are just minor variations of the same art like eye darts and facial expressions.

Anyway, if you've read through this description it can definitely seems like this game has "fan disservice" written all over it, and you'd be right. This is a brutal game. I'll admit that I went in with some level of expectation of what would be involved and was WOEFULLY UNPREPARED. I am forced to admit that my imagination in this department is incredibly innocent in comparison to what some of the tasks were that Daichi and Seiji were forced to choose between.

And yet I really enjoyed this game and find myself struggling to say why exactly. What I did like is that the game really takes its time to develop the two lead characters and make you care about the stakes they're facing. What I also liked is that the characters' reactions to their situation felt very natural and not forced or overly dramatic. I think this concept had a potential to go to somewhere incredibly horrific and melodramatic, and they just never really go there (with some exceptions... more on that when I discuss the endings). Daichi in particular is a character who already has faced a significant amount of suffering and trauma in his life and recovered thanks to his friendship with Seiji. They already have a strong rapport and know how to lean on each other coming in, so the experiments are mostly designed to try to break the connection between them. Something that impressed me about the game is the way it depicted reactions to trauma... the descriptions of dissociation, especially, were absolutely spot on, and you can tell the writers did quite a bit of research (and it seems like the English translators did a fantastic job, so kudos). .. maybe a disturbing amount of research, now that I think about it. Anyway, I just felt like the characters always seemed real, and I often found myself relating to things they said or did. The progression of your choices always results in something that made me go yeah, I guess that makes sense, even if I never had any fricking clue what result the choices would have (they give you like nothing to go on, it's things like choosing whether Seiji keeps his glasses on during sex which seems like it would be utterly inconsequential but speaks to how much Daichi is thinking of Seiji's comfort). Also unlike NTY, both characters are essentially good people (I'm placing a big old asterisk on this again), so you want to root for them and for things to turn out well.

There seems to be only one "true" ending, so I'll say at this point forward I'm going to be playing kind of fast and loose with spoilers, so if you're actually interested in picking up the game for some strange reason, you were warned. :)

There are six endings, labeled with letters, and the ending I got the first time was ending D. Most of the endings follow a similar route and branch off towards the end. The D ending results in Daichi and Seiji escaping, but they drift apart and don't remain friends. For the most part I felt like this made sense as part of the progression of the story; Daichi and Seiji take turns being the victims of the tasks, with the scales weighted a little more heavily towards Seiji's side, and they are so careful to avoid tipping over their physical reactions into more-than-friends territory that they never really show any physical affection for each other whatsoever. I'll admit this drove me bonkers. I have no idea what I'd do in the same situation, but if it was my friend, I would try to reassure them with something at least as banal as a hug or something. But despite sharing the same bed, Daichi and Seiji always keep a physical and mental distance between them in this version of the story. I'd say it's probably the most neutral of the endings and maybe even the most realistic... it'd be difficult to forget about that experience and go back to being friends if you weren't able to help soothe the mutual sense of hurt in any way.

It's worth mentioning if you're kind of squeamish about the physical torture side of this game, it is very benign, and none of the endings I played went further than driving a nail through Daichi's hand. In basically any version of the story where it comes up, cutting off one of Daichi's fingers to fulfill a task is considered too extreme and not even offered as a playable option. Because the tasks include instructions and any objects needed to fulfill the requirements of the tasks, the physical tasks are almost hospital clinical in their depiction and very clean. The first time around I found myself wondering why this was even included in the game... if it's someone's fetish, it's not portrayed in any sort of fetishy way, and it just sort of makes you wince in agony for these two for having to go through it at all. I think it's mostly there to just split the burden between the two characters and because having only sex scenes results in the hell that is ending A.

It's difficult to say which is the worst of the non-"true" endings. I think if you're playing for the sex, ending A would seem appealing - in this version of the story, Daichi and Seiji pretty much exclusively choose the sex tasks, which puts a heavily emphasis on Seiji being victimized and Daichi being the aggressor. While this results in a LOT of sex scenes, the end result is increasingly horrific, as the repeated abuse turns Seiji into a masochist and warps Daichi into a sadist. In this version Daichi finds himself musing that cycles of abuse often result in a victim becoming an abuser, and as a victim of abuse himself at the hands of a violent stepfather, he resigns himself to becoming the villain. It's portrayed in a way that makes it seem as if Daichi is being considerate of Seiji; he doesn't want Seiji to have to compromise himself at all by being forced to hurt Daichi. Despite physically escaping the room, and returning to something resembling a normal life, I think in this version they never really do escape the room. Daichi and Seiji continue to have violent sex, and Daichi has even escalated to whoring out Seiji, though he hasn't yet accepted money for it. This ending was such a bizarre confusion of sex scenes and absolutely gut-wrenching sadness that the story would result in this happening to these two.

Ending B introduces Daichi and Seiji crossing the friendship line a bit earlier, pushing the requirements of a task to add kissing, but unlike ending A this only seems to add to the level of torment the two of them experience. The two spiral into despair, and at the end Seiji attempts to kill Daichi, and can't do it. They're both absolutely shattered, and perhaps wanting to spare Seiji, Daichi kills him. Fortunately (or unfortunately) the death of one of the participants will result in the release of the other, and Daichi is suddenly turned out back into the world, where he walks around in a daze, struggling to come to terms with what happened and the death of his friend. I was shocked that Daichi doesn't kill himself in this ending. I think the only reason I wouldn't rate this ending worse than A is because killing at least one of the characters seems to be a sort of mercy in this situation. My headcanon would definitely be that Daichi offs himself as soon as possible after the credits roll. He has nothing left to live for.

Ending C is very similar to B and follows some of the same progression, but given a choice, Daichi reaches out to Seiji while he's lost in despair and comforts him a bit. Taking physical comfort in each other spirals out of control, however, as they repeatedly indulge in sex as a means of escaping their thoughts and emotions about the situation. In that sense it is kind of similar to A, except that the characters don't lose their inherent values; they just become lost to the room, and never bother trying to escape, despite having made it so close to the end. This ending is definitely sad... but at least they have each other... my standards are so low!!

Ending E gets close to the true ending, but in this version after Daichi and Seiji manage to escape, Daichi insists on going to the cops in a misguided attempt to spare others the pain of what they went through. There's a bit of a disconnect between Daichi and Seiji in this version. Seiji explains he doesn't want to go to the cops because he doesn't see the point; the criminal organization is so powerful, there's nothing they can do. It's not mentioned but it's also possible Seiji doesn't want to go to the cops because he doesn't want the story getting out there and negatively affecting his family or reputation. But I think it's more likely the real reason he doesn't want to go to the police is he doesn't want the experience to continue. Making the case public means he continues to be victimized for life every time the story is brought up. At the very least if he keeps it to himself, he can pretend it never happened and go on with his life. If you choose to go to the cops anyway, it doesn't go anywhere; no one will believe Daichi, and he won't give them Seiji's name. Seiji disappears, supposedly to continue traveling, and Daichi and Seiji never see each other again. It's left very open-ended what happened to Seiji here; did he really run away? Did he feel abandoned by Daichi? Did he get kidnapped again, did the kidnappers do something to him as punishment for Daichi going to the cops? It's unclear, but a shame. The D ending is not great, but at least we know that both characters are alive and relatively healthy at the end in comparison to E.

The F ending is most likely the true ending and the only one that ends happily. In this ending, Daichi decides to not go to the police and instead to go have fun with Seiji outside their new hotel room. On the train into the city, Daichi is having difficulty processing a return to normal life, and instinctively reaches out to connect with Seiji. Seiji does the same. This seems to reinforce their connection to each other as someone they can rely on for support, and they go on to have normal lives where they're still friends, and Seiji will always be around for Daichi. I think for anyone hoping for an ending where the two end up as a couple, this will seem really disappointing.... but it's the ending that kind of makes the most sense for these two characters, so I think it's sweet. At the beginning of the game Daichi is a character who believes that no matter how difficult things get, there's always a better day ahead, and that he can get through anything with Seiji's help. Seiji saved him as a child in his darkest moment when he was abandoned by his parents, and Seiji is there for him again as they try to recover from the events of the experiment. It's nice to me to see Daichi retaining his hope and positive attitude.

All the endings that involve one or both of them going back to their lives after escaping, and struggling a bit to adapt, really hit me hard. I remember times in my life after surviving trauma where I went out into the world and saw people going about their normal lives and feeling an odd sort of disconnect, like there was a barrier between myself and others. It's almost physically painful the way the world continues to go on completely oblivious to whatever it is you're experiencing or have experienced. At one point early in the game Daichi muses about his situation and how you don't often think about how there are people out there at any given moment struggling to deal with something. It was just one of many lines in the game that felt so real to me.

I think that's about it... if I can think of more to say about it I might come back for a second post. Hopefully this time Tumblr doesn't delete this before I post. Don't come after me Tumblr sexy police!!

[widowed-mistress]

I have made multiple ideas for fan fics for atla, voltron, and miraculous ladybug.

I'm sorry to announce that the new hyperfixation is FNAF SB

LETS A GO!!!!

Okay, this is inspired by many pieces of work that have already been produced/are in the work. The commit from insta usar callmebreadthetoast and all the fan fics where Gregory dies or otherwise ends up in a comatose state while in the plaza and ends up inhabiting an anamatronic suit, which allows him to make friends with the gaang.

In complete clarity, this isn't so much a fan fic idea as it is a fan fic word search with an ending, but if you've read any other idea post I've posted then you're used to this.

As stated through the post, Gregory would "die" in the plex and end up in an anamatronic suit somehow(I'm thinking Charley). However, he only has a few days to find his body, defeat Afton, and end the virus before he can never go back to being human/dies permanently this time. Because this is FNAF, I'm giving him five days in this post.

During this time he spends his days looking for clues on Afton with Freddy and maybe accidentally the other animatronics, binds with everyone and saving them while also salvaging Bonnie(maybe Foxy even tho he's never explicitly mentioned in the game like Bonnie. Also yes I would like for Gregory to have two dads, sue me).

The last day arrives and they've located Vanny's secret base. During the fight Freddy gets seriously hurt which spurs the rest of the animatronics to fight as well after breaking free of her for the final time.

There is only so much time left, but Gregory KNOWS he has to fix up the rest of the animatronics before morning because there is a possibility they'll be scrapped if found in the condition they're in after a week of weird unexplained small glitches.

He spends the rest of the night on Chica, Roxy, Monty, Freddy,(and Boonie or/and Foxy) with the help of Sundrop and Moonrise to move them around since while he is still an animatronic, he's a small animatronic.

At the end of the night, after they've been all fixed and places in their rooms to charge he slumps in front a charging station out in the main hall(maybe filled with either Bonnie or Foxy) when Moonrise settled next to him to tell him the time.

It isn't enough to make it all the way down to the pizzeria to get back into his body.

He closes his eyes.

Screen closing,

A soft plush is placed in his arms for comfort,

Morning doors open,

Morning light fills the room,

3,

2,

1,

YOU THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO KILL HIM; HELL NAH I LOVE MYSELF A HAPPY ENDING.

He slumps out of a charger into the arms of his new, strange, loving family. He may not be human anymore, but that just means I don't have to worry about the legality of an animatronic adopting a human.

[yandere-wishes]

Sacrificial Bride Part 1//Twisted Wonderland X Reader//

Alright well, that's enough writing for the next few days if you excuse me I'm going to go sulk in my corner. Huge thanks to @softyswork​ who’s story about reader being sent to Malleus as a bride inspired this series. Also, I REALLY want to make some sort of modern-day Frankenstein it would be an amazing scientific breakthrough! You'll understand what I mean when you get to Idia's part lol.

💚🐉Malleus Draconia🐉💚

It was a common rumor around your village that ever since the death of the sleeping princess your settlement had never been the same. For you, this was nothing more than a fairy tale meant to spark a scrap of hope in the hearts of naive, suffering children who were still too young to fully understand why their fathers never returned from their hunting trips or why there was barely anything to eat for dinner.

Every time you heard this dreaded tail, you couldn't help but scuff. For as long as you've been alive your town had been in utter disarray and chaos. Monsters from the woods -what the town's folk called "fae"- attacked the village daily. Stealing jewels, destroying homes, sometimes even swallowing children or sucking the blood of the dormant. There was also the looming threat of the green flames. Blazing emerald fires who couldn't be subdued by neither water nor dirt. They advanced further into the territory of the village by each full cycle of the moon. Leaving behind in their trail, thick impenetrable thorn bushes that had taken the homes of many and the lives of many more.

Awful, dreaded creatures those fae where...

But alas you did not yet know just how cruel they could be.

On another periodic morning, your younger sister jolted you awake, dragging you to the town center before you got a chance to change out of your nightgown.

In the center of the square was short man..no...not a man you noticed his pointed drawn back ears. "Fae" you gasped under your breath. But unlike the monstrous fairies that ravished your town taking on the appearances of trees and woodland creatures, this one resembled a boy of 15. The young-looking male began to speak, his voice was clear like crystals, and to his tone bats began to flock overhead. "Truly dreadful, these fairy folk are" your sister uttered in terror as she buried her face in your side.

"Heed my words, mortals. The young prince of thorns has decided to take a wife. By the setting of the sun a full day from today, two of his guards will come to collect your offering. If you chose to disregard this Wa-- friendly advice, then what is left of your town will be decimated before the end of summer. Your children eaten, wives imprisoned and husbands killed!" An unsteady hush rippled through the crowd. Some hothead youths began to throw rocks at the stranger only for the bats hovering above to shield him from the stones. Mothers hugged their children close begging for the man to "just leave".

"If" the man's voice rose once more like a cadaver emerging from the grave " my young master is pleased with your sacrifice than we shall reward you! Bring good health and prosperity to your otherwise sick and decaying village." His last words melted into the open air before he vanished in a cloud of squealing bats and ebony smoke.

The town's folk erupted in screeches, cursing at their deities while simultaneously praying to any god that would listen.

"Help us!"

"save us!"

"Don't let them take our daughters!"

The screams escalated to the point where you had to cover your ears with your shaking hands. Your eyes scanning each of the villager's faces, a pathetic lot they were, you thought to yourself. Scared by the words of a young magician. In a flash, your heart sped up, adrenaline pumping through your veins, as you marched to the center square where the boy had been mere moments ago. You stood tall, cupping your hands over your mouth.

"Listen well you disquiet, mindless lot!"

All eyes turned to you. Some holding looks of confusion, whilst others harbored glances of hope.

"This fae is lying! No way will they be satisfied with just one measly girl! No matter who we sacrifice to their so-called master, they'll still come after us! They'll still destroy our village! Let's not be stupid! Let's find a way to barricade the city instead of arguing over who to sacrifice!"

For an endless second all was quite. It was like the world had stopped turning, frozen in its place in the universe trying to decide what to do.

Then it happened,

Chants reverberating through the air

"Sacrifice her!" "Sacrifice her!"

"Sacrifice her!" "Sacrifice her!"

"Sacrifice her!"........................

WHAT!

NO!

DID THOSE MORONS NOT LISTEN TO A SINGLE WORD YOU SAID!

The crowd started advancing. Eyes locked on your figure like those of a leopard on its prey.  Their mouths were all a gap, chanting the words "sacrifice" over and over again. From behind the mob, your eyes locked with your sister's. You could practically feel the despair rolling off her figure as she covered her eyes and fell to her knees, her whole body rattling with a sort of distant rage...

A full day....it's funny how time passes all so quickly no matter what you do. Day in and day out nothing changes, pain is still pain, laughter is still laughter. Time just keeps slipping from between your fingers like sand. Even in the direst of times, Time doesn't show mercy, never once does it cease. It just ticks and ticks away until the inevitable moment arrives.

Your sister and aunt -the only two relatives that you hadn't lost to the fae- were in charge of preparing you for your so-called "wedding". Since your town was poor and isolated from other civilizations there wasn't much they could do to enhance your beauty. Smashing some berries to add color to your lips -and fervently ravishing the remains- using some coal to add shade behind your eyes, as well as around them and patting the dust of rose petals against your cheek. By the end, you hardly recognized the person staring back from the mirror. Sure the adjustments were minor but this was the most stunning you'd ever looked. "Is it almost time" your voice quivered, failing to hide the tears that began to fall. "Please don't cry sweetheart, we don't have any more coal to fix your eyes with." Your aunt's tone was monotone almost bordering on heartless. You couldn't really blame her, she'd gotten so used to having her loved ones plucked from her. One more would be no different. Sniffing as to keep the tears at bay, you nodded slowly. Your glossy eyes locked with your aunt's you could see the same fear and exhaustion in her fading irises as the night her son was slaughtered in front of her.

"Just a few reminders" your sister's voice was cheery like the chirping of early morning birds, but her face mimicked that of a kicked puppies. "Remember when the prince...fae...when he..you know...Oh, Lord please tell me he won't" She was shivering again. Her face twisted in horror. You knew what she was thinking, she was imagining you laying in the bed of that...that thing. She was imagining him entering you, kissing up and down your neck. Leaving patches of red skin over smooth flesh, bruises wherever his clawed hands touched you. She was imagining what was no doubt going to happen to you tonight...

the mere thought made bile rise to your throat.

"Darling, just keep saying how much you like it. It's all any man wants to hear." again your aunt or rather her lackluster form of speech was the rope binding you to your sanity.

"Do fae even have...those parts like humans do?" Your sister asked, only to be met with a glare from your aunt. "Stop wasting time on pointless questions! Hurry up and see if this dress fits your sister."

Sure enough, as you were escorted to where the thorn bushes met the village, two men, one standing tall and proud, whilst the other looked like he may topple over from fatigue at any moment, were awaiting you.

The green-haired man let out a haughty laugh, his blazing eyes scanning you from head to toe. "She's hardly worthy of the young master!" His dreadful voice was like the booming of thunder clouds. "It doesn't matter, Malleus-sama needs to be wedded off quickly so he can produce an heir. None of us are getting any younger by standing here debating the "worthiness" of yet another measly human" the silver-haired male's voice was the exact opposite of his comrades, his voice was soft and breathy like light drizzle after a storm.

The green-haired man looked ready to argue once more, but before he could open his mouth, his violet-eyed counterpart waved something thin in the air casing a pathway to open between the hedges.

It was dark between the brambles. The air was thick, stuffy, every breath was a struggle. Although it seemed neither of your traveling buddies minded the discomfort. Did fae even need air to survive?

After what could have been no less than a couple of hours, your small group made it to a large clearing where only a few rays of the sun leaked through the thick smoky clouds. Miss matched flowers in shades of grey littered the rocky barren ground. Maybe at some point, this place had been beautiful, stunning even...but whenever that time had been it was long gone now.

As you ventured farther into this monochrome land of loss and sorrow, the three of you approached a castle. It towered over everything else, grim in all its glory. "Young master Malleus is awaiting you inside..." The green-haired male's voice trailed off as his speech was interrupted by the deafening creaking of the doors parting open. Without another word the two men dragged you inside, pushing you through spiral staircases and long bleak passageways. Until you arrived at a lavish-looking room, a large throne sitting smugly in the front of the room. It's black, spiked appearance was enough to make you gasp in horror, you didn't desire to meet the monster that perched atop that throne. "Don't be so afraid." the silver-haired man whispers, his head is almost resting on your shoulder. "Malleus-sama is kind and fair. He is sure to love you better than any human ever could." you catch a hint of nostalgic sadness in the last part, like a long lost part of the lavender eyed boy's past caught in his throat like a glass shard.

Trumpets roared through the room blaring as two men, one short and fickle whilst the other tall and brooding walked in. "Malleus~" The short one sang as they both stopped in front of you "Say hello to your lovely new wife." the tall man's emerald eyes landed on you. His lips parted in a threatening smile...or maybe it was a smirk? He didn't seem to be too good at displaying emotions. Slowly he descended onto one knee, slipping your hand into his and kissing the top lightly.

"Hello, my darling little wife."

🧡🦁Leona Kingscholar🦁🧡

The After Glow Savanna was an absolute hell to be born in if your family did not belong to some royal inner court class. The endless days spent scavenging for scraps of food, walking miles for a simple glass of water, had become a sort of broken, habit beaten into the residents of the smaller less fortunate districts.

Eventually, you too would follow in your parent's footsteps, working odd jobs around the neighborhood, getting married to some guy, having kids, and giving them the same dreary life your parents had given you. It was simple -miserable- but simple never the less. In an odd way, you found a sort of comfort in how everything was set in stone. How you'd suffer through a few years then die of starvation or some disease in your husband's arms.

But little did you know that the only comfort you had in your horrible life was also going to be swiped from you.

When Ruggie, a dear childhood friend of yours returned from his prestigious school for the winter holidays you were overjoyed! A week with your best friend was the greatest gift you could ask for! But that excitement soon dulled when he announced to the neighborhood what the royal family had planned for the underdeveloped parts of the country.

"They want to demolish the homes and build parks and shopping strips instead"

The people of your tiny community gasped, shock and hopelessness mixing over their dirty, worn out faces. Some older siblings shielded the ears of their younger kin, some mothers hugged their children closer to their chests. "They can't do that to us!" Your voice was like a beacon through the thick fog of confusion. "We can't let them!" You turned to Ruggie who was seated next to you. His blue-grey eyes held a foreign sadness that you had never seen before. He was hiding something...something so grim that he was forced to shove it into the depths of his soul, locking it up and throwing away the key.

"There is a way..."

For such a hopeful phrase, Ruggie's tone harbored no happiness. You could practically see the tears that were clouding his beautiful eyes. "Tell us" someone from the crowd demanded, others soon joined in with their own chants. For a long moment, Ruggie said nothing, the shouts of despair falling on deaf ears.

"If.." his voice trailed off, as his gaze grew distant.

"If someone from the neighborhood were to marry the second prince..." Gasps of fear filled the air. Even the mere mention of the second prince's name was enough to send chills down people's spins.

"Then they could, as the newly appointed  princess, convince the royal family and counsel to scrap this monstrous plan." No one uttered another word. No one was brave enough to face the man who could destroy anything with a simple touch.

But the sake of these people, people who had nothing but their families and a muddy roof over their head was on the line.

Do something, a tiny voice in your head screamed, save them, it begged. You shifted your head so to get a glimpse of Ruggie's face. "I-" you began but were cut off before you could even finish.

"I know you would say that."

His voice broke over every syllable. He knew you would give up your depressing nostalgia for the sake of others. Life in the castle would be hell, being married to that monster would be something worst than the dwellings of the devil.

It was a speedy arrangement, so fast that your head didn't have time to process anything. In the end, it almost seemed like the royal family was desperate to find a spouse for their youngest son.

Just marry him! Was what all the absentee looks told you.

Early that morning, Ruggie had dragged you to the castle, all tears, and grumbles. The palace guards let him in with no restrain, it almost felt like he'd been here before. Your childhood friend led you to a room in the further corner of a grand hall. He told you to stay outside as he went in to chat with the prince. Moments later the newly appointed king and queen came to usher you into a privet room and discuss the marriage. Not an hour later your fate had been sealed, you'd be married off to prince Leona tomorrow at sunrise. For "historical purposes" your neighborhood would be preserved and even taken care of. 'Historical purposes' you thought 'more the like a bribe to get you to marry this beast.

that night you were dragged this way and that by the queen herself. Taken for fitting after fitting. Trying on hundreds of wedding dresses who's prices could feed every mouth in your neighborhood for months! "Leona isn't very classy" the queen sighed in disappear. "He would probably prefer you to be in something laxer, shorter if you will" the tailors ran around trying to find something that would fit her vague description, as you stood facing her royal highness.

"What's he like?" you asked soullessly

"Spoiled, although not as heartless as the rumors make him out to be"  She didn't seem to like giving straight answers

"will he harm me? It was an honest question, although the lack of thinking it took before the queen replied made your heart skipped a beat.

"Quite possibly, he is rather...aggressive at times. Just don't let his degrading comments get to you. He's not used to being around people"

The more she described the second-born prince the more it seemed she was actually speaking of some feral dog that had raised in isolation.

Oh, how doomed you were.

The wedding was even faster than the preparation. Ruggie walked you down an aisle of flowers, walking over the petals, killing them once and for all, ending their pointless existence. You stood by your self at the altar awaiting your husband to be. It took a rather long time before the doors were flung open and the king waltzed in carrying his struggling brother under his arm. "No need to worry, Leona was taking one of his catnaps again and forgot about today's events" the king announced, in what could only be described as a mock lively tone.

How on earth does someone forget their wedding! This prince really wasn't a typical human...heck you where beginning to think that the feral dog would have made a better groom.

snap, snap

A few magazine pictures here, a couple of family photos there...

Everything was so bright and loud...

right before you and the second prince were thrown into the darkness of his room. In the obscurity, you could ONLY make out the glowing of his emerald eyes.

You could feel him shifting closer, all the while you took shaking steps backwards. " I thought wives were supposed to leap into the arms of their husbands? Tell me little herbivore do I frighten you?"

Your voice refused to leave your throat, too afraid to come into contact with the prince.

"What's the matter? Did they not teach you to speak in on the streets you grew up on. Poor thing~"

Leona pounced across the room, tackling you to the ground. His sheer weight pinning you to the carpeted floor. The sound of fabric tearing echoed through the silence.

How careless these royal were was the only intelligible thought that came to your frenzied brain.

Goosebumps littered your skin as Leona's claws cut into your flesh. His lips kissed over each wound as he made his way up to your cherry painted lips.

"You look so cute, you know, like a little mouse about to get devoured by a starving lion."

💙💀Idia Shroud💀💙

The rhythm of his heartbeat was slowing down, it felt like the patter of ants atop one's flesh. He was dying...this was an irreversible fact. The love of your life was dying and there was nothing you could do but sit idly by and watch the life fade from his pale bruised face. Your thumb ran over his knuckles in robotic-like strokes. Hours had passed, you'd shed all the tears that you had. He was gone...that was all there was to it.

For a hopeless second, you flicked your eyes to the open window on the opposite side of the room, There was never any sun on the island of lamination but regardless today seemed brighter than any other day. "How cruel" you muttered in a deadpan voice. Outside something...or better yet...someone was running through the fields, chasing what looked like a butterfly. The young child had blazing blue hair a symbol of the Shroud family...

THE SHROUD FAMILY

Your breath hitch in your lungs, your heart began to pound furiously in your chest. They could help you though hopefully. There family where distant relatives of the god of the underworld and a few years back -to your regulation- the hair of the family had been able to semi revive his younger brother. If he was able to bring back a child from the dead than surly they would have no problem returning your lost lover to you.

Your eyes waltz over his dormant face one last time before you got up and ran for the door.

"This is all for you my love, all of this is for you"

The Shroud family mansion was located at the top of one of the many hills that plagued the island. It was a dark grisly building that resembled the castles from old tales, where monsters laid dormant. Rumors spiraled around the rural civilization, some saying that the family was cursed by the lord of the dead, whilst others claimed that the shroud family were the long lost descendants of the lord of the dead and the maiden of spring. The curse had been placed on the family by the temperamental mother of the maiden of spring, anathematizing the family to be plagued with death and disappear for the rest of eternity.

Regardless of what their misfortune was, they may very well be the last people on earth who could help you. Surely if the family had brought back their youngest than they could bring back your lover!

You knuckles tapped furiously at the old metal doors of the frightful residence. The rhythm was unkept, unsteady, it's mere sound radiated urgency.

"PLEASE HELP ME"

Your throat burned as you screamed out those three lousy words.

After what felt like forever, the doors cracked open, revealing a tall man obscured by the shadows. Any light that touched the interior of the house seemed to die acidity, making peering inside nearly impossible.

"What business do you have?" The man's voice was croaky as if his vocal cords hadn't been used in years. For a split second, you closed your eyes, trying to organize the thoughts in your head. "My...my...h-hus...lover, my lover is d-dead...o-or rather he is dying....probably fully gone by now..." despite the mess of stuttered letters and mixed-up words, the man seemed to understand your situation. With a long sigh, he pulled you into the somber house.

Fingers still wrapped tightly around your wrist he pulled you around, guiding you through the darkness until you reached a large room lit only by the mysterious blue flames of the fireplace. Sitting by the warmth was a...well it was hard to tell, her face -despite it displaying every bone of her visage coupled with dark sunken eyes- resembled that of a woman no older than thirty, whilst her body resembled a decaying skeleton. What was she? Was she the lady of the residence or yet another monster this bizarre family had created.

"My, love" the man began to speak, his voice was somehow cleared like it had been given some sort of jolt. "This young lady needs Idia's help, she wants to bring back her lover from the dead."

The woman said nothing, her eyes staring ahead, burning a hole in the wall right by your head. "What will she give him in return" despite her "deteriorating" appearance her voice was like soft silk on one's skin, melodious and fair.

"Why herself!" This time the man's voice boomed across the house, echoing through the hallways and falling on you like a cave in.

"M-myself! What the hell do you mean!"

"It sounds fair" the women agreed "my darling sweet son saves your lover and instead you agree to marry him! Oh how wonderful, just like in the tales about grandfather Hades!"

She seemed too thrilled about this, her snow-white eyes gleaming with a sort of delusional passion.

"Idia! Idia honey! Come down your father has a surprise for you!"

The hollow sound of footsteps soon filled the quiet air. Followed by another soft blue glow.

Was there no normal fire in this house?

But it wasn't fire, not exactly. When your eyes fell on the heir of the Shroud family, you suddenly felt a nervous wave crash over you. There was something -even more- unsettling about him, he looked nothing like his charming little brother. For one his hair wasn't...well hair! Sure you'd expect a small batch of blazes heading upwards but this was something else entirely! It resembled a large bonfire that floated towards the ground, rouge sparks falling in every which direction, sizzling and then dying abandoned on the floor. And his eyes, Miosis like pupils floating around in a pool of lemon yellow.

But all the physical appearances aside, the most unsettling thing about him was the gloomy aura that leaked off him, suffocating anyone in his presence. Nervously you took a step back only to be yanked forward again by the taller man.

"Idia baby!" His mother ran over to him, cradling his hands in hers "This cute young lady has agreed to marry you if you can save her lover, just like in that old tale about your great grandfather! Oh, my this is all so romantic!"

It seemed like no one here understood that you were in love WITH SOMEONE ELSE! Or maybe they did and chose to disregard it. Instead, using the bits they retained as kindling to feed their raw excitement. You shifted your gaze back to Idia's face. To your utter terror, he was...smiling? Could that...look...even be called a smile? It seemed more like the way a shark would bare its teeth at a defenseless seal! Oh, gods please don't let this...thing...be your future husband!

"It should be easy enough," His golden gaze landed on you "W-when did...did he die?" it took a few moments before you register that he was talking to you or technically asking you something. "A...A  few..." your voice cracked, tears streaming down your eyes.

"So recently...okay that shouldn't be a p-problem." He turned on his heels and walked back into the seclusion of the halls "I'll grab some things and meet you by the front door"

A few things ended up being a pile of wires and bolts. Something that looked like a light blue ball of energy and so many tools whose names seemed to go over your head.

Idia was kneeling by your lover's bed, pulling apart the skin and fusing metal in its place. Your darling's chest was cracked open, his ribs poking out towards the sky as if praying for life from the lord of the sky. Every once in awhile Idia would pull out a long tool with smoke floating from the top. He'd lay it on an organ watching as the tissue fiber sizzled away under the heat. He would then tie wires and small circular batteries inside.

"His heart stopped working, I'm guessing from some sort of shock"

You just hummed in response, too caught up in how the man you loved was beginning to look like a modern-day Frankenstein rather than a human being.

The sun had long since faded when Idia finally got up from his spot. His bones cracked and screeched at the sudden change, his muscles giving out halfway leaving him to rely on the wall for support to stand. Your lover's chest had been sewn back and covered with a silver piece of metal. His neck was wrapped in the same sort of alloy. His left arm had been cut open so Idia could shove the energy ball inside than cover it, leaving a small enough gap for wires that stretched from his chest to weld into the ball.

"He just needs a boost" Idia murmured that shark-like grin overtaking his pale face once more. From the side table, he plucked up to jumper cables and clipped them on either side of his neck. Jolts and crackles filled the room and sparks flew in every direction, the once-dead body shuffled around, arms and legs moving at random. You shrieked and duck behind Idia.

Only then did he pry the clips from his neck.

Nothing

for too long nothing happened... then there was a slight wiggle in one finger, then another. His eyes slowly began to prey open, looking over his surroundings. The moment his confused gaze feel onto you. Idia turned you around to face him, clumsily smashing his blue chapped lips onto yours.

From the corner of his eyes, Idia watched as the other man began to understand what was happening...even if he was just resurrected there was still agony at the sight of his lover kissing another...

Good! That should show him who you belonged to now!

[jaedreaminn]

My Snack

Pairings: Reader x Jaemin ♡

Genre: Fluff, Crack.

Word Count: 2.6k

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Stupid. That's what you call yourself (Jaemin too and your parents and your friends and your neighbour and the lady down the street) on a regular basis.

There standing in front of you laughing his ass off was your best friend, Na Jaemin. You were standing in the middle of your school courtyard, covered from head to toe in your long awaited lunch- spaghetti. Such a pity.

It wasn't your fault that the loud sounds from Renjun and Haechan trying their best to taunt the other were distracting, or the fact that Jeno was near them trying to befriend a cat (where had it even come from) who kept hissing at him and was this close to scratching him had caught your attention, so you could help but slightly worry or the fact that the youngest two devils, Chenle and Jisung had brought a fake can of worms and were dumping them in Haechan's satchel and the thought of how Haechan (who hates any form of insects) would react was playing in your brain. Maybe it was also the way Jaemin had smiled at the two 'Angelic Devil's' as he liked to call them but then noticed your arrival and winked and blew a kiss towards your direction like the flirt he was, was what made you trip on your own feet. Launching your favourite dish of spaghetti high into the air and land straight on your head a second later. Nope, no you definitely didn't trip because of a kiss. It was the other thing distracting you, and it was gravities fault the plate fell back onto your head.

Somehow, you couldn't seem to get mad at the fact that Jaemin was laughing at you instead of helping you because of how his eyes lit up when he laughed and how his low chuckles calmed you.

So instead you did what anybody else would do in that situation. You stood there stuck to the ground and pouted.

Looking at your sulking state Jaemin beamed at you and made his way towards your spaghetti covered self taking off bits of it off your hair.

“You know,” he said his infamous smirk playing on his chapped but pretty lips “I get that your stubborn, but I didn't think you'd go that far t- OW!” As realisation on what he was saying dawned on you a punch to his gut was all you needed to shut him up. Maybe not. “You know what you said and now-ow ooowwwww ow ow ow OK I'll shut Ow OOW UP!” You glared at him as you threw a series of punches his way to make sure he shuts up. Plus, he was a dramatic ass, and you knew none of your punches ever hurt him.

“I know what you're going to say,” you said and Jaemin opened his mouth to speak again, but before he could “Don't you dare say that” you cut him off, venom in your voice and Jaemin knew better than to anger you more than he already had.

“Oh well,” Jaemin sighed in defeat as he wiped the sauce off your face. How romantic. “Lunch is coming to an end, and you need to get changed. So I'll buy you a sandwich from the cafeteria and sneak it to you during Maths” and he smiled. Cute you thought, in a platonic many years of friendship way of course.

You simply nodded and made your way towards your locker where your spare change of clothes was when you had a thought which made you smirk in victory crossed your head. You immediately turned on your heels and yelled in a devilishly sweet voice “Jaemin-ahh”

He looked at you confused and so did the rest of your friends who didn't do anything to help and just laughed at you and go back to the bickering.

“You're the first person to approach me,” you said, and you could practically see the screws turning in Jaemins head “You know what I said.” you said in a sickeningly sweet tone and Jaemins jaw dropped as low as Felix's jaw when he realised he's terribly screwed in the year-end UNO tournament, and Jaemin stood there dumbfounded finally realising what's happening.

“You know what this means” you sang out more than said as you waved at him and sent him a wink and a flying kiss, turning on your heels and skipping away. You liked to think that maybe after years of watching the master flirt you've learnt a good amount to have actually made Jaemin blush.

You definitely weren't affected by what you said AT ALL. If anyone said you tripped a bit more with each skip you took they were as blind as your principal Lee Soo Man.

Jaemin on the other hand did. He really did blush as you walked away.

Jeno walked up to the now shyly smiling Jaemin “So what did y/n say?”

Jaemin didn't answer staring off into the distance, so Jeno pinched him making him yelp and glared at the boy who glared back, and let's be honest no one wants to be caught in a glare down with Jeno so Jaemin simply sighed and said “She said she's a snack” and Jeno raises an eyebrow as if asking Jaemin to go on not convinced that just all she had said.

“So I obviously denied it and y/n being stubborn as she is said that guys would like her even if she's covered from head to toe in actual food” by now everyone was carefully listening to the conversation.

“I told her she's delusional”

“Then” Jisungs soft voice asked anticipating what was to happen next.

Jaemin sighed and looked at the floor “She bet that she would do it and the first person to approach her when she's covered from head to toe in food is the person she's going to date” there was a one-second pause.

And then the loud laughter coming from their group made a lot of heads turn. Chenle fell to the ground laughing, dragging poor Jisung who he was earlier leaning on with him too. Hyuck had tears in his eyes and was holding onto Jeno who was doing the same all while hysterically laughing. Renjun tried and failed not to laugh and instead tried to comfort Jaemin but his red face and watery eyes weren't exactly subtle.

However, between Renjun’s laughing or chocking no one could tell he managed to get out a “That's why the great flirt Na Jaemin was flustered” and somehow the laughs got louder. Jaemin just stood there turning all shades of pink and red.

Finally, when the laughter calmed down a bit Haechan looked at the pouting Jaemin “Aww poor Nana got himself into a mess again here let me give you some candy to cheer you up” and reached into his satchel. Jisung and Chenle sat up straight looking at Haechan in anticipation and Renjun and Jeno also looked.

Haechan on the other hand was clueless and was just trying to pull out candy from his never ending stash of candy when “It should be right- AAAAAAHHHHH!” The bag flew five kilometres away from the way Heachan launched it across the ground upon seeing this 'slimy legless wiggling poop insects' as he likes to call them in his bag.

Chenle and Jisung immediately snickered and gave each other a high five giving themselves away as the culprits to Haechan who was glaring daggers at them. They realised that they were discovered when Heachan yelled and charged at them ready to strangle both, so they started running away from the very VERY angry Haechan yelling all sorts of profanities at them.

This time Renjun didn't hold back his laughter instead, he laughed so hard he fell on his but causing the demonic duo to stop and laugh but run as soon as they realise Haechan is still trying to murder them.

Jeno shook his head at the sight and smiled. He then turned and walked towards Jaemin who was zoning out again.

“So....” Jeno started and Jaemin looked at him “You and y/n are dating now?”

Jaemin sighed.

Jeno tripped and fell onto the floor.

Jisung had crashed into Jeno.

He was laughing at Chenle who had tripped over the Renjun who was laughing his ass off on the grass and fell face flat while running away from Hyuck.

Haechan couldn't stop himself from running.

He tripped over Jeno and Jisung too.

Everyone was on the floor.

There was lots of shouting.

And laughing.

And Jaemin answered Jeno's question as this all took place in sequence like Domino's.

He whispered a quite 'yes' and walked away.

No one noticed.

Everyone was now on the floor all tangled up yelling at each other to get up first.

No one noticed Jaemin's smile as he walked away either.

...

You got your promised sandwich in your shared math class with Jaemin. You felt a little too bold today, so you sent another wink and flying kiss his way.

You may have also overly enjoyed his flustered face, so you held his hand as you walked to your next shared class P.E. and you may have smiled in triumph when Jaemins cheeks turned pink and he got all shy.

You also may have been a little too bold so when no one was looking you kissed his hand and then skipped away. And maybe that felt a little more than Platonic to you.

That's the thing it was always maybe, you never had a definite choice of words because you were always confused, so it was always maybe.

School soon ended, and you waited for the only person who walks home with you because you go the same way- Jaemin. You knew that he would be late. He always was. Every Wednesday. He shared his last class with Oh Miri, and he always helps her pack up and carries her things for her to her locker. It's because he obviously likes her. And you think they'll be a cute couple and you'll be happy if Jaemin finally asks her out. You really will be happy for him. Really.

You bid goodbye to Renjun and Chenle as they both head home. You said bye to Jeno too as you pass the turf where he has his practices. You see Haechan at the gate and wave bye to him too. Jisung and you talk about a new way to prank Renjun this time before he too has to leave.

You frown now and look at the time on your phone, was Jaemin latter than usual? Turns out he wasn't late and the low voice that whispered “missed me?” which startled you a bit, confirmed it. You turned around to come face to face with Jaemins smile that you are convinced produces light because of how bright it was.

“So...babe, how was your day?” Jaemin asked cheeky smile on his face. You shook your head and chuckled slightly as you answered him “It was good Nana you can stop joking around now”.

You saw Jaemins smile falter for a second. Or maybe you just imagined that. Nope, no definitely did not imagine that because now he was full on pouting.

“You're already breaking up with me y/n? But I thought we loved each other” he said using his sad baby voice.

You roll your eyes at his antics and held onto his arm ready to drag him “Come on Nana we need to go home”

“Aww but today's our first day! Shouldn't I get a first kiss!” Jaemin protested still not moving as you tried to pull him. Thank god you were facing another direction so he couldn't see how much that made your face heat up and how flustered it made you. You knew he was only joking. Right. His tone didn't sound the least bit serious. You're just imagining things.

You gave him, what you hoped sounded like a small laugh instead of a strangled one “Seriously stop kidding I'm pretty sure it won't help with your Oh Miri situation”

It was weird to see Jaemin so confused, but maybe it was because he was confused about how you knew about his crush when he hasn't told anyone yet.

“What situation with Oh Miri...?” Jaemin asked still confused. Still keeping up the act huh.

“Oh please, I know you like her and chill I'll help you out if you want. I don't really see any reason for you to hide your crush on her. She's really sweet and you two would make a cute couple and if you keep up this act it might be misleading to her considering she's still around and will think you're taken” you kept in rambling but stopped when you saw Jaemins blank expressionless face.

The atmosphere felt awkward, so you said a “yea...” to kind of end your entire ramble and to cut through the sudden silence.

“Oh” was all that Jaemin said.

“Yep”

“So I win?”

“Huh?”

“I win don't I?”

“What?”

“The bet”

“Bet…?”

“You didn't date me, you owe me” Jaemin simply said shrugging.

Then realisation dawned on you, you bet him that you would date the first person that came up to you.

You sighed in defeat “Fine you win. Where do I treat you this time”?

“Not just treat me” Jaemin shook his head “Take me out on a date where you of course pay” he smiled that stupid smile of his and your jaw dropped.

“If you think about it you're losing without actually loosing” he smiled.

And you kept looking at him in shock. But what about Oh Miri...?

“See you didn't date me” he fake pouted “But I wanted to date you and since I won the bet and could ask for whatever I'm asking you to date me” Jaemin smiled his mischievous smile.

”I-” you started but couldn't form a single sentence.

“It's okay I know my genius left you speechless.” he said putting his hand on your head and leaning on it.

“I got a free meal and a girlfriend because you can't win bets” he smirked and ran for it because now you snapped out of your dazed moment and were ready to jump him.

Jerk played you like a guitar.

“THIS IS CHEATING” you yelled as you chased him all the way home.

You did catch up to him enough to throw your pencil case at his head. He whined. You smiled. He smiled. Things went good.

You went on that date. The two of you were official now.

You were always indecisive about your feelings and always stuck on maybe so Jaemin just made the right decision for you.

“You know you should ask me to be your girlfriend properly” you had said on your date.

“You want dramatic?”

“No-”

“I'll give you dramatic” Jaemin had replied with a smirk.

You should have known not to trust that smirk because trouble (for you) always followed it.

Trouble happened Friday morning.

There in the center of the hallway stood your boyfriend with a shit eating grin. The reason for that grin being the hallway that was entirely covered with posters of your face poorly edited onto a burger with the wordings 'My Snack' on it.

You shut your eyes and slowly inhaled and slowly exhaled through gritted teeth.

Your eyes snapped open.

“I'M BREAKING UP WITH YOU JAEMIN NA”

“YOU CAN'T YOU LOVE ME” was heard at the end of the hallway form Jaemin who had already bolted.

“Then you better run cus I'm breaking your Legs!”

“Already running!” The now barely audible voice of a rapidly retreating Jaemin was heard.

Bonus:

You brought Jaemin coffee because you felt bad for attacking him.

“I can kiss you now but what more has changed” Jaemin sat pouting with his coffee in his hand after being attacked by you.

You laughed and kissed him.