#awwww man look at them all! they look incredible!

[silviakundera]

Kinnporsche fic I won't write:

the one where we can flesh out the ep 3-5 timeline, as Kinn's escorts all start getting a crush on Porsche, who is hot and sweet.

After Big outs Kinn and Porsche tells him off, he gets a little protective

does that asshole fuck with you? Decides he will take home all of Kinn's boys and Show An Interest.

He asks about their job and let's them pick the music and stops for street food & beers on the way driving them home, gossiping about shitty, entitled customers and why there isn't more of a retail to serial killer pipeline. It's not unlike a really charming first date, which is why they start shooting their shot. and, well, he's been so lonely & is used to getting laid on the job. They're pretty and friendly and smell like sex.

soon Porsche is making out with each escort at drop-off while the car idles at the curb. Just soft, slow kisses as he rubs his thumb behind the guy's ear, making him shiver into it. Everyone's Favorite Bartender Porsche walks each one to the door every time and ruffles their hair goodbye, and he's just SO. MUCH.

a repeat buisness escort starts gossiping w Kinn one night about Porsche's everything "did u know what he did THEN???? and that chain around this neck..., his skin there is SO SOFT. FUCK."

Kinn is like laughing mad about it for about 10 seconds but then just incredibly relieved that finally he can vent about his crush and they break out the good shit, getting increasingly hammered on top shelf whiskey and sharing the equivalent of thirst posts about Porsche's laugh, tits, waist, ass, and attractively terrible winking that would make kpop stans proud.

(the only escort who's ever stayed the night)

(because he was passed out on the floor, head under an end table and cuddling a jumbo bag of shrimp-flavored chips)

but then after The Auction Incident, Porsche takes home the flavor of the day and the boy is like CONCERNED. what is wrong w Porsche?? who broke him?! Bangkok sex worker phone tree engaged.

Kinm gets petulant looks behind his back, lazy handies, and passive aggressively awful blowjobs. It's not just that Kinn is pining, he's getting objectively bad service and is too distracted to notice.

instead of Kinn following advice from Pete on how to stop screwing up with Porsche he finally just breaks and asks his escort in THE MOST AWKWARD moment. They're like mid-fuck and Kinn just pulls back, still breathing hard and resting his weight on his hands. ahh! stop. I gotta ask you something. ... You've made out with Porsche, right? Sober? "... yes?" Explain how u made that happen. In detail.

kinn takes actual! notes! he's gonna get his man. and so he never visits Porsche on his break but when Porsche comes back to the compound Kinn is downstairs in like 5 min flat, he's RUSHING. It's super embarrassing, because he's obviously excited-anxious and a lil flustered and Big very much wants to die. (no, Big! in this more sexy universe u LIVE) (anyway) Kinn strolls up with serious buisness face and Porsche immediately gets defensive but then, like, confused. because Kinn wants him to drive them around to run?? errands?? all day??

and Kinn keeps trying to make small talk? and ask about what being a mafia bodyguard is actually like and which super nutritious meal disgusts you the most. Kinn is trying so hard to be chill and relateable and not a weirdo rich crime lord. It's totally not working at all, except Porsche is reluctantly charmed by how bad Kinn's taste in music is and how confidently he says ridiculous things and how he smiles to himself out the window when he thinks Porsche isn't looking.

he has them stop to get food and then cheap beers. puts a hand on Porsche's thigh and looks very expectant.

it clicks for Porsche, OMG. he is actually running the post-job make-outs playbook. starts laughing in Kinn's face, naturally, but then the patented awwww noooo come 'ere and coaxing Kinn's stern face to tilt back to him and accepting a sharp, petulant kiss that Porsche breaks off from to laugh more. ❤

[youvebeenlivingfictional]

Kinktober Day 30

Kinktober Masterlist

Pairing: Harvey Specter x Reader

Rating: Explicit - 18+ Only. Any minors interacting with ANY of these Kinktober prompts will be blocked.

Warnings: Oral sex; piv; unprotected sex

“You look beautiful.” 

“You can cut that out.” 

“Cut what out?” 

“This. This,” You waggled your finger at him, “Flirty, handsome, charming…schtick.” 

Harvey’s brows rose, smile widening as you raised your champagne flute to your lips. The cocktail party was fairly well-attended. You hadn’t been to anything so fancy since…Well, you’d never been to anything this fancy. 

“You agreed to come with me,” Harvey pointed out. “So I thought you liked the flirty, handsome, charming schtick. Which, for the record, is not a schtick.” 

“I agreed to come as a favor to Mike.” 

“A favor.” 

“Yes.” 

“You owed him one?” “No. Now he owes me one.”

Harvey’s brow furrowed, resting his elbow against one of the high tables and leaning against it. 

“Why’d you agree to come if you didn’t owe him?” He asked. You considered, looking down into your glass.

When Mike had called just a few hours ago, a plea in his voice as he plied, Look, I know you don’t like the guy much, but he’s—.You just don't know him well...C’mon, do me a solid. I’ll owe you forever. You might even have fun. There’s an open bar, and you can get all dressed up. You told me you need a good night out, right?, you hadn’t given it a second thought.

“Because you’re important to Mike, and Mike’s important to me,” You admitted, meeting Harvey’s eye. He was quiet for a moment, which made you prickle with nerves. You weren’t use to Harvey being quiet. It was almost as bad as Harvey talking. 

“...Do you love him?” Harvey asked after a moment. 

“Like a brother.” 

Harvey huffed a soft laugh before he nodded to your glass. 

“Drink up. Let’s go.” 

“What?” You frowned, shaking your head. 

“We’re gonna get out of here and get some real dinner.” 

“I agreed to the cocktail party, Specter.” 

“I’m paying.” 

“...You better be,” You mumbled, raising your glass to your lips and draining it. 

-- 

You were having fun. That was weird, and a little horrifying. Harvey Specter was the most irritating man in the world, so why were you…Smiling? And laughing? You hated this guy—This guy was incredibly hateable. He was insanely annoying, disgustingly smug, and stupidly hot, goddamnit. You hated this guy! You were supposed to hate this guy. 

Harvey had taken you to a small restaurant on the Upper East Side. There were ten tables total, and all of them were filled. You knew the place was expensive—the menu didn’t even have prices on it. The tables were fairly small, and the lighting was dim. Harvey was even more attractive by candlelight. 

It just wasn’t fair. 

“So,” Harvey folded his arms against the table as a waiter took away your emptied dinner plates, “Still against my…What was it….Gorgeous, amazing, clever, fascinating, brilliant, charming…schtick thing?” 

“Okay, only one of those adjectives was one that I used, and it was charming.” 

“I paraphrased.” 

“You deliberately twisted and embellished my words.” 

“I did not.” 

“I don't believe you for a second.” 

“You’re hurting my feelings.” 

“Awwww, poow wittle Hawvey.” 

“Keep it up and we’re splitting the check.” 

You chuckled softly, leaning back in your seat and taking up your glass of wine. 

“Still against it?” He pressed again. You sighed softly, averting your eyes. 

“Look, the few times we’ve met, you just seemed too…Slick.”

“Slick.” 

“Yes.” 

“Have you ever considered that might just be how I am?” 

“It’s not,” You insisted, shaking your head. “I mean…That’s Lawyer Harvey. That’s not the Harvey I’ve been talking to for the last couple of hours.” 

“It’s not?” 

“No. Lawyer Harvey is, like…Teflon. Things just slide off of him. That’s not you, that’s not what I’m seeing now. Unless this is the act,” You offered, waggling your finger at him. “And frankly…I don’t know which would be worse.”

Harvey watched you for a few long, curious moments, blinking and nodding slowly before he lowered his gaze to the tablecloth. Suddenly, you felt silly, spilling your thoughts to him like that. 

“You’re not who I thought you were, either,” Harvey offered after a moment. Your brow furrowed at the insistence. 

“Who did you think I was?” You shook your head. 

“A frigid little princess.” 

You scoffed out a stunned laugh at the admission. 

“You did not—!” 

“I did,” He nodded, “You were so quiet when we met, I figured you were just…”

“Frigid?” 

“Aloof, yeah.” 

“I’m shy, you asshole!” You laughed. Harvey grinned, laughing, too. You shook your head, taking a sip before setting your glass of wine back on the table. 

“Still feeling shy?” Harvey teased. 

“I’m starting to,” You mumbled, scrubbing your hand over your rapidly-heating face. When you glanced up again, you found Harvey watching you closely. 

“What do you say we skip dessert here, go grab a drink somewhere else?” He asked.

“Are you trying to wine and dine me, Mr. Specter?” 

“Already got the dine part in.” 

“And some of the wine part, if we’re being fair. Where were you thinking?” 

“Well, I chose this place, why don’t you choose where we go next?” 

“Ah…I don’t know, I don't think you’d like the places I go.”

“I bet I’d love them.” 

It was a soft murmur, leveled at you with a warm gaze. It made your stomach flip and twist with surprise. This was bad. This was getting worse. You were supposed to hate this guy. This was bad. This was very bad. 

-- 

This was very, very bad. You shouldn’t have suggested this place. It was one of your favorite bars—a nautically themed boozy dive in SoHo. The place was hopping, which was no great surprise on a Friday night. You got the last available stool at the bar, so Harvey was standing behind you. But it being so busy meant that you and Harvey were pressed insanely close together. He had to lean over your shoulder, bracketing your body with his hands against the bar as he yelled a drink order at the bartender over the thud of music and the din of conversation. Once he’d ordered, you expected him to lean away from you—but Harvey stayed pressed up close. 

“Come here often?” He asked into your ear. You chuckled softly, nudging his side lightly before you leaned back against him. You turned your head back toward him, fingers flexing in the bar as his lips brush your cheek.

“Don’t be a dick, I like this place,” You argued.

“I’m not being a dick!” 

“No?”

“I like it, too.” Harvey shifted from foot to foot, hands sliding along the bar, tightening around your middle marginally. Your face went warm with the murmur, the tease around his tone, and the brush of his lips and breath against your cheek. 

“You sure you’re not just being nice?” 

Harvey chuckled, hands lowering from the bar to rest on your thighs. 

“Sweetheart, I’m never nice.” 

Your hands tightened on the bar, squeezing to fight off a shiver that he’d surely feel. The two of you turned your attention to the bartender as he set your drinks down. You batted Harvey’s arm in protest as he reached into his pocket. 

“I’ve got it,” You insisted, sliding your hand into your clutch. 

“No, c’mon—” 

“Don’t c’mon me. You got dinner, I’m getting this. It’s like, less than a fraction of what you paid, I’m sure,” You insisted as you passed your card over the bar. Harvey pressed against your back to reach his drink, murmuring a thank you against the shell of your ear, giving your thigh a gentle squeeze. You did shiver a little then, unable to help it. 

Harvey Specter was definitely a bastard. He knew exactly what he was doing—and you couldn't even bring yourself to be mad at it. You took up your drink, clicking it lightly against his before you leaned back against him a touch. He hummed at the movement, sliding his arm from your thigh to curl around your middle, keeping you close. He thumbed the fabric of your dress, shifting from foot to foot again, rocking you slightly as he moved. 

“Is it good?” You asked, turning your head to catch sight of him. 

“It is. Would you like a taste?” 

“Sure.” 

You set your glass down, and are prepared to take his. But Harvey leaned in, lips brushing against yours. You stilled, heart leaping into your throat. 

This was a very, very, very bad idea. You were supposed to hate this guy. 

You tipped your chin up toward his, chest tightening with nerves. Some part of you, a part that seemed to have not fully registered the last few hours left with this guy, was worried that Harvey was going to pull away and start laughing, teasing you for falling for it.

That part of you went completely quiet as Harvey took gentle hold of your jaw. He slipped his tongue past your parted lips. Your eyes slid closed, tongue smoothing along his. You set your drink down carefully before you raised a hand, gently cupping his cheek. You could taste Harvey’s drink on his tongue—the mingle of bourbon, simple syrup, and mint. You drew back just a touch, looking up at him. There was something in the dark pools of his eyes, something warm and wanting that you’d seen just a flash of when he’d arrived to pick you up. Harvey leaned back a bit more, grasping the bottom of your stool and turning you to face him. 

He hardly gave you a second to settle before he leaned in again, catching your lips with his. You slid your arms around his middle, struggling to spread your legs against the fabric of your dress, trying to make more room for him to press up against you. He broke your kiss with a frustrated grunt, looking around for a moment. Then he reached behind you, grabbing your clutch from the purse hook and taking your hand. You slid off of the stool with a surprised squeal, letting Harvey lead you deeper into the bar, through the throng of people. 

You cast a nervous glance around as Harvey yanked the bathroom door open, tugging you inside. You were sure at least two people saw the two of you go in—I mean, they had to, didn't they? How could no one have noticed?

Still, your panic melted as Harvey tugged and locked the door behind the two of you. He flung your clutch toward the sink (something you were sure to take issue with later) before he took your face in his hands, drawing you into his chest. You groaned, hooking your arms around his shoulders and pulling him in. The kiss broke with a slick suck as Harvey dipped his head, pressing plush kisses along your neck. You shoved the suit jacket on his shoulders, pushing it off. He shook it away, letting it fall to the floor before his hands cupped your cheeks, his chin lifting to meet your lips in another kiss. He lowered his hand to paw at your breasts, grasping and squeezing them. You arched up into the touch, hands fumbling to open his belt. You reach down, palming his cock through his suit pants. 

“Fuck,” He mumbled against your lips, swiping his thumb over the hardening peak of one of your nipples beneath the fabric of your dress. 

“We should—I mean, quickly,” You insisted between kisses, “Bar this busy, someone’s gonna have to—Sooner or later.”

“Probably sooner,” Harvey agreed. You slid your foot out, drawing his jacket toward you before you lowered yourself to your knees. Harvey watched you with a hint of surprise as you unfastened his pants, drawing them down around his thighs. You grasped his hardening cock, stroking it before you leaned in, taking him into your mouth. Harvey groaned softly, resting his hand on the back of your head. You weren't surprised as he began to guide your movements. You went as he liked, humming softly as you swept your tongue along the head of his cock.

After a few moments, he used his hold on your head to lean you off, urging murmurs of, “Up. Get up, c’mon,” Falling from his lips. You did as he said, a little unsteady on your feet as Harvey guided you backward, nudging you into the sink. You drew in a shocked surprise as your ass slid down into the bowl, cushioned by your clutch. Harvey kissed you ravenously as his hands shoved up the fabric of the skirt of your dress. His fingers hooked into the waistband of your panties, drawing them down and off until they were dangling off of one of your ankles. 

You expected him to reach down, to guide himself in, but he dropped to his knees, hooking his arms around your waist and drawing you forward. Harvey lapped at you with a luxurious slowness, as if your ass wasn’t pushed into a dirty bar sink. Your head tipped back against the dirty, tagged and stickered mirror, eyes slipping shut and mouth falling open as he swirling his tongue in achingly slow circles around your clit. You slid a hand into his hair, guiding him as you liked, and grinning when he let out a hum of encouragement. 

“Fuck, Harvey,” You whined, hips pressing down against the tantalizing sweep of his lips and tongue. You whined as he drew away, blinking up at him hazily as he straightened to stand over you. You hooked your fingers in the fabric of his shirt, peering down between the two of you as he grasped his cock. He teased it along the slick, aching seam of your pussy before he gently eased himself in. You drew a short hiss in through your teeth, your hips tipping down against him as you took him in fully. 

“Fuck,” You mumbled again, eyelashes fluttering as you adjusted.

“Still hating my schtick?” Harvey murmured, curling over you, lips brushing yours. 

“Still finding me frigid?” You batted back, fighting the urge to giggle. 

“Not one bit, princess.” 

Lust and irritation twined together at the pet name, stunned by the warmth he said it with. Harvey set his hands on the walls behind you, bracing himself as he began to grind his hips against yours. You whimpered, fighting to keep your eyes open, and your gaze intently on his. You raised your hands, setting them on either side of his neck. 

“You feel so fucking good,” You breathed. 

“You think this is good now,” Harvey grinned devilishly, “Wait til I get you in bed.” 

You couldn’t stop your grin, fingers tightening as he picked his pace up. A moan slipped out of your throat as Harvey lowered a hand, swiping at your sensitive, throbbing clit. 

“Fuck, fuck, Harvey—” 

“Almost there?” He murmured. 

“Ye–yes, Harvey, shit—”

“Good. Sooner we cum, sooner I can bring you home and lay you out properly.” 

The insistence made that little coiling feeling in your belly tighten. 

“Almost,” You warned, “Just—” You reached down, grasping his wrist and holding it steady as you fucked down against his fingers and cock. His eyes swept your face, jaw tightening as his thrusts became less and less controlled. You nodded hurriedly eyes sliding shut as Harvey bowed over you, whining as your orgasm swelled and crested. Your bodies ground and pressed tightly together as you each came sharply. 

“...Okay,” Harvey mumbled into your neck. “Let’s grab my jacket and get out of here.”

“My card is still behind the bar.” 

“We’ll get it tomorrow.” 

“But they’ll charge me extraaaaaaa,” You whined. Harvey grunted. 

“Drop in the bucket compared to what I paid for dinner.” 

“Hey, you chose to take me there. You could’ve taken me to McDonald’s.”

“You would’ve told Mike. I never would’ve lived it down." 

You opened your mouth to argue, but Harvey’s brows rose. You grinned, unable to help it. 

“Yeaaaaah, I would’ve,” You agreed, giggling. 

“Jacket,” Harvey insisted, “And then I’m taking you home. C’mon,” He drew away from you. “Sooner we go, the sooner you can enjoy my schtick some more.”

“And I am never going to live that down,” You grumbled, carefully climbing out of the sink. You reached back, wincing at the sight of your dampened clutch.

"I can't believe you threw it in the sink, Specter."

"I didn't hear you complaining when I did it."

"I was a little preoccupied."

"Oh yeah? With what?"

Looking up at Harvey, you found that knowing smirk on his lips—the same you'd seen earlier that evening. Now, it didn't make you prickle with annoyance. It made interest swirl in your belly. You reached up, gripping Harvey by his collar ad drawing him in for a kiss. He groaned, curling his arms around your middle and drawing you in. You grinned, leaning back to look at him after one more peck.

"With that."

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[pitbullwithaship]

DOCTOR WHO LIVEBLOG S4 EP13

HOLY COW IM DYING YALL

WHAT HE DIRECTED IT AT THE HAND

HES THE SAME

MICKEY AND JACKIE HOLY SHIT

He's so fucking fuck

Donna I love you

Ooh they're in a time lock that's really cool

Oh man that's fucked

Yay Sarah Jane and Mickey and Jackie and Martha omg

They're saying Exterminate in German!!! Lol

Rose and the Doctor are so cute

Why can Donna hear her heartbeat

Brilliant. All of them

Walk to their fates

TEAM TARDIS

Holy hell Donna Noooo

HEARTBEAT WHATS AHAPPENING HERE

Omg omg girlie that's time lord energy right there the watchamacalllit stufd

OMG ITS THIS CLIP LOL

YAS JACK PLAY DEAD

LOL LOL LOL I LOVE THIS OMG

That's insane

She is very worth it

Thata insane that's insane destined holy shit

Ooh she speaks German

Omg traitor woman?

Aww poor woman

YAY JACK

Ooh the three are inside the house

Dalek is very very insane

Oh shit oh shit jackie

Omg what us it doing

Oh food Jackie got out

THEY DISINTEGRATED

I hate Davros' voice but maybe that's just cuz of what he's saying

Holy shit he's insane

MICKEY AND JACK REUNITED

Aw Rose likes Martha

JUST LIKE EXPLODE THE EARTH WHAT

JACK AND MICKEY AND JACKIE AND SARAH JANE

Fuck don't guilt trip him so much (I mean yes this regeneration can be a dick sometimes but he's complicated! He's a complicated character!)

Omg omg doctor2 and Donna you better have figured it all out in time

Omg omg omg omg omg omg

DONNA YAY

DONNA HOLY HELL

OHyes

DoctorDonna!!!!

I love her ao much this is hilarious

This is amazing

Jackie looks on disapprovingly

JACK YOU DUDE

SUPREME DALEK HAS A CONCIENCE

Oh wow that's a lot of dying Daleks

Davros stop playing the victim

As it's meant to be flown this is amazing

K9 AAAHHHH

I love this so much

AS ITS MEANT TO BE FLOWN

Yeah Jackie don't touch anything

Oh wow that's amazing

This is so cute the teams all together god (can you tell my favorite trope is found family)

HUGGING LOTS OF HUGGING

Everybody hugs!!!

Awwww

Aww maybe Martha's joining Torchwood

Aww Mickey

BAD WOLF BAY

Donna oh my gosh

Awww he can spend it with her

It's so cute

And so sad

I LOVE YOU AAAAAHHHHH AAAAHHHHH AAAHHHH AAHHHHH KISS

And other Doctor leaves with Donna omg this is so happysadterribleanamazingendingforrose holt crap

Binary x100 jeezus

Oh no Donna

Doctor is so sad

Oh Donna

Oh Doctor

FUCK THIS IS SAD AGAIN

...and the worst of times but the best are the best and they are times

One last HUG FUCK

Okay definitely not what she wanted consent and all but he's incredibly traumatized and doesn't want to lose anyone else so I kinda understand

Fuck he's just a story for her Fuck

This is breaking my heart

Aww poor Doctor

Fuck I'm crying

He's a fucking wetpuppydog in the rain fuck sadness

WILF IM CRYING

Alone again alone again (this song plays in my head a lot watching this damn show)

End note. End note. Fuck this I'm bawling my eyes out. Okay. All I can say is he's so frickin lonely and he's always the odd one out and "all the others have got someone" you idiot they love you you could crash on their fuckin couches for ten years and they'd fondly just deal with it cuz they love you you fuck. Aaaghh. But also I totally understand that as the third in a trio and the fifth in a fifth and the seventh in what should have been a six. But also dude. Develop an EQ please. And also I am crying so much, even more than frickin Doomsday made me cry. Fuck.

[magadauthan]

Ep 19: Hang Fire

*Stefon voice* This episode has everything.

Vash and WW acting like a couple of morons

A glimpse into Meryl and Milly's everyday life

Meryl on her way to freakin' go get her man

Vash in civvies (that button-down!)

A catchy song

V/M emotional constipation (catnip!!!)

OK @trigun98watchparty, let's begin the killing time recap.

--It's perfect that Meryl's friend is named Karen, because that mole near her mouth means she's a gossip. She does seem to care about Meryl, though. Wants her to get married and everything.

--Ofc her officemates want to hear all the skinny on her interactions with Vash the Stampede. Wouldn't you?

--Look how happy Meryl is. She's gonna find Vash and give him all the kisses a very stern talking-to. It's official, Meryl and Milly are off to the DIrty Jerz.

--Awwww, the bike broke down again. This is tip-top, grade-A, prime bickering between Vash and WW. "Actually, I'm dissing you, not your stupid broken motorcycle!" It's not Trigun if these two aren't squawking at each other.

--What the hell kind of nasty-ass spaghetti are they eating? It looks like it has Spam in it. That is just wrong. (yeah, I know, spaghetti western.) And WW gets stuck with the check, just like Vash threatened.

--The girls are so cute in their PJ's. I love that we know what most of the main characters wear to bed. (I bet WW wears the rattiest underpants you ever saw, with a tank undershirt.)

--I love that Vash has old friends all over the place. He and Max (and probably Doc) went out for Obi-Wan and Anakin-style Wild Adventures and probably ripped it up wherever they went.

--It has to be incredibly hard on Vash to watch his friends get older while he stays the same.

--Meryl will KICK YOU in the NUTS. < / cartman > Nice subverted panty shot, though it doesn't come through in English. Good luck "having fun" with Meryl or Milly.

--"Total slaughter, total slaughter..."

--WW and his noodles, best silly face

--let's all take several moments to appreciate Vash's extreme hotness in his white button-down

--"Luck and persistence won't work forever." Especially with you conniving with Legato and co. to force his hand, eh, WW?

--"Tee hee, ma'am is so happy to see him. I'll give them a couple minutes alone."

--Vash/Meryl fanciers: Take a moment to go read "Biting My Tongue" and then come back.

--Vash and Meryl (at this point, anyway) could never admit in a thousand years that they might have missed one another. Meanwhile, WW likely took one look at Milly: "Big Girl! I missed you!" "I missed you too, Mr. Priest, it's so nice to see you again!" "I have a couple extra double dollars, do you want to go get some ice cream?" "That would be so nice of you, Mr. Priest! Yay!"

--Domo arigatou, Mr. Legato...

Thinking back on it... Vash starts to show a renewed determination to push back after his time with Grandma Sheryl and Lina. For two years (the anime is fuzzy on this so I'm using manga timeline) he got to be who he wanted to be - just another silly guy, living his life, doing ordinary things and being happy. No one knew whether he was alive, and he was able to live in peace. Which is pretty much all Vash genuinely wants. Without his brother chasing him and pulling the strings, he was able to accomplish that.

Vash has had a taste of what his life could be like without Knives being a dick to him all the time. So... what is he going to do about it?

[highladyluck]

Season 2, Episode 3 Liveblog

Teaser:

YES WE HAVE A DRAWL I REPEAT WE HAVE A DRAWL 🚨🚨🚨🪲🤠🚨🚨🚨

FANCY RED COAT RAND is here to steal your wine

My jaw DROPPED at Mat’s glow-up 😍🤩😘 I cannot WAIT for this man to be forcibly extracted from his bathrobe

Loved the Arches & ceremony, some word-for-word quotes there.

First real big surprise is Natti as Wisdom- I would not have thought she had the social standing for that, but otoh possibly the other options died? And it actually seems kind of plausible that she could even be taught to channel if you consider book canon (given Bode and Eldrin), though I don’t think that’s required.

Ooooooh ok I see why they picked Natti- they needed someone to twist the emotional knife in real good 🙃 Also you can see where Mat gets his moral core from, here- there’s a job and someone has to do it. But the jobs no one else wants/can do tend to SUCK, no wonder he tries to avoid them.

(Book Mat gets his values from his dad, but I think there’s probably a lot he got from Natti that he feels on an unconscious level/doesn’t talk about because it’s not at the level of talking, it’s at the level of doing. Relatedly, I keep thinking about a theory I heard that book Natti was a functional alcoholic; someone said that how early book Mat responds to sickness & interpersonal conflict reminds them of adult kids of alcoholics.)

I’m looking forward to the last ring >:)

HUH

I wonder if she had to gentle/kill Lan in there?

Still Peak Nyneave, honestly

OH MAN FAKEOUT YESSSSSSSSS we are getting the canon test!?

Incidentally I like that branded water jug

Where is Suroth getting her lip color? I like it

Oh that’s creepy, incredible horror movie move with the pointing

YES WE HAVE A DRAWL I REPEAT WE HAVE A DRAWL 🚨🚨🚨🪲🤠🚨🚨

The Voice sounds like the South Carolinan delegate (main villain) in the women & minority genders version of 1776 I saw recently. Incidentally, RJ lived in South Carolina.

Female soldier, check

Asymmetric haircut, check

Oh Uno, you are a good man

WOW … but actually that was exactly as dehumanizing and brutal as I would expect

May the last embrace of the mother welcome you home, Uno.

Perrin is gonna do a murder- oh I guess not

Lol Logain has Rand pegged

Hahaha the other fakeout is paying off now too (Logain looking at Mat and Rand in Tar Valon)

Oooh more book quotes!

Miss “I know everything” Selene

The Queen of Cairhein?!?

Glow-up! Glow-up!

Oooooof :(

Liandrin respected someone?

Mat is gonna have SUCH a complex after this, but otoh he’s probably heard worse from his mom

Mat wants to matter T_T

PEAK EGWENE

FANCY RED COAT RAND is here to steal your wine

I love Rand setting the letters on fire

Oooooooh class warfare, Rand is so offended

Wow, Rand is wasting no time

I love Rand being taught by Logain actually

Oh that is a DEEP CUT into WoT lore (pun intended), we know from Origins of the Wheel of Time that RJ was originally intending ‘gentling’ to involve actual castration

Rand are you sure you want to say that?

Oh interesting, does everyone hear LTT? Or just voices?

YAY reunion??? Oh, Mat. :(

Yeah Mat is scared out of his mind

Time for an interview with Ishmael! This reminds me of Mat’s first POV in book 3 actually, at least superficially, but it’s more like the dream meetings

Well done wolves!

So many cages and traps in this ep :D

Ooooof that betrayal’s gonna hurt later

Ooooh maybe we do not want to piss off Selene?

Oh good job setting the Foregate on fire, hero (inn fires 4 lyfe)

Ooooooh yeah Egwene would try to bring Nyneave back

Elayne, a rule follower? Well, when it comes to thinking she knows best, she would be a rule enforcer.

Nyneavelet is very cute

My jaw DROPPED at Mat’s glow-up 😍🤩😘 I cannot WAIT for this man to be forcibly extracted from his bathrobe

Awwww Mat can pay off all his debts in Nyneave’s fantasy world 😭

Ah I see Nyneave’s fantasy world is real enough that it involves visits from the main plot conflict 🧐

“What’s that” is Mommy’s rage-triggered ticket home, sweetie

Oooooooof.

[mega-punani]

You just dropped a ton of really interesting AUs and my lil ol' heart can't take it!! Please tell us more? OwO Maybe how the Mafia skellies in the one where you saved goopy old man gaster first react to meeting y/n?

AWWWW YEAHHHH. I kinda got a rough idea of what meeting everyone would look like?

First contact(?):

You had just saved this goopy man from being turned into road kill, and now, you are sitting in his giant mansion. As one does, of course.

You could feel your hands tremble slightly as you picked up the expensive tea cup. Sitting across from you is the same old gentleman that you have so graciously saved, sipping on the tea as relaxed as he could be.

It's not that you regret saving him. It's just that you regret talking to him afterward. He had invited you to his home, offering to make you a meal, and you, thinking he was some wholesome grandpa, followed along happily. And now, you were in the home of the infamous Don Gaster.

You could feel your lifespan get shorter as his sons start walking into the room and seating themselves across from you...

Sans: "Who's da kid?"

Sans being the information man that he is, knows you perfectly well. (Y/N)(L/N), the waiter at the diner that's always runnin around taking orders in his side of Ebott city. You are always seen with disheveled hair and a stained apron tiredly walking to and from work. He had seen you around a couple of times, even thought of hiring you as an informant, but,,, he wouldn't want a cute doll like you to get tussle.

Papyrus: "POOR HUMAN! FATHER LEAVE THE THEM OUT OF THIS MESS."

Papyrus has a very strict "no bystanders policy." If you are innocent, in the wrong place in the wrong time, or just pulled in by his brothers, Papyrus will not hurt you. In this case, a poor human has done them an immense favor by saving their father. And instead of just giving you some money and sending you on your way, Gaster is practically keeping you hostage! All he could feel is pity for the cute, little human.

Blue: "MWEH HEH! WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE?"

Blue is excited as high hell. A competition with his brothers? There was no way he was going to miss that. But of course, it all comes to halt when his father mentions them becoming a spouse. HWAT? HE'S NOT PREPARED TO GET MARRIED! THAT THOUGHT HADN'T EVEN ENTERED HIS SKULL!? But now that he took a good look at them, they were awfully charming. He wouldn't mind seeing them more often, of course, only if they would let him.

Stretch: "Heh, this is goin ta be a mess..."

Stretch can already foresee some future problems. Not only were his brothers incredibly competitive for the head honcho seat, now there's a terrified human in the mix. And buddy, Stretch did not like humans. There were so many of those racist fucks crawling around the city and he had seen way to many hate crimes taking a simple walk. But... you seemed alright.

Red: “Awwwww, lil’ sweethearts terrified!”

Red is having the time of his life. There was no way that his old man was giving up his entire legacy for some human. Right? When it finally sets in, he begins to take it a bit more seriously. No worries at all! He can totally woo this lil thang, no problem! He'll be your big, bad, prince charming.

Edge: "WHAT IN GOD'S NAME IS THIS!?"

Edge has lived his life with professionalism. This was a whole new territory for him, and he did not like a single second of it. Sure, you're his type and sure, he would treat you like royalty if you were his spouse. BUT YOU WEREN'T! In fact, you were standing in his way...

Cinnamon: "Oh dear..."

Cinnamon has run into you before. You were coming out of work, he had assumed as you were quite a mess. You were extremely tired, so tired that you didn't even see him when. After crashing into him, you profusely apologized and handed him his cane, unfazed by his rather fearsome appearance. He liked that polite smile you gave him then rather than that fearful look you have now.

Bear: "..."

Bear remembered faintly. You were the one his brother was (secretly) excited about. You didn't look all that impressive... You did look quite cute. He wondered what your reaction to him would be.

[dangermousie]

Of course Ming Ye’s plan to save Sang Jiu involves gruesomely dying in her stead. If aesthetically suffering was an Olympic sport, the man would be going for a gold medal.

I have my issues with this portion of the story (not the way it’s written, it’s done well, but with my liking or lack thereof for this couple, about which more below) but this is the important point! Yes, the tears are important blah blah but this is a lesson about how to swap someone’s demonic stuff without, you know, driving nails into them like they are evil Jesus. 

By now, I am quite done with these two boneheads, but I confess that made even my cold black shriveled heart hurt.

(I guess they had a starter marriage :P)

Ummmm, honey! She just massacred 10K people! I am sure they had old and kids among them. Like...by now I want to smack both of them with a shovel, tbh.

Awwww. Even with my annoyance at these two, this once again made me :(

Sang Jiu being her charming self. Let the man die in peace (or, since you yourself are about to keel over), let him survive in peace. 

OK, OK, Mousie, stop being irritated and concentrate on how pretty LYX looks here.

And then she’s all “psych! I can’t be undevilized or even survive because my normal body is dead.” You couldn’t have let him know BEFORE he got repeatedly flambeed for you?

It’s OK, hot dimbulb, there are many many fangirls who will gladly accept your...ahem...divine essence. All night long.

What the hell! Now that she’s dying, she still wants to do her best so he’d not have any peace. No dissipating before a final twist of the knife. WTF! By now, any shred of sympathy I had for her (and to a large degree MY) has disappeared utterly. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it’s bad writing - just as MY is terrible at communicating and prone to dramatic gestures over common sense functioning, Sang Jiu is incredibly self-absorbed and immature from beginning to end. She was someone who thought it was a great idea to marry a guy who did not know her at all because he was hot. She also thought it was a great idea to force him into sex right after they got divorced. She didn’t wait to find out whether the method she came up with would result in divine punishment or whether it was still worth it to use the crystal chalice despite where it came from or or or or or really anything. It’s just before she went powerful and evil, Ming Ye and the viewer could ignore the red flags (which got redder and redder; I mean much as fictional dubcon in 14 was hot, it WAS 100% dubcon/sexual assault; no nice sweet good selfless well-adjusted person does that) but once she got power into her hands and trauma really shoved her further, it became really clear. It’s kind of like Tantai Jin. If he has no status and no power, does it matter in terms of its effect on the world if he would love revenge or is cold or has trauma or w/e? No, of course not because whether he’s a well-adjusted sweetheart or dysfunctional psycho, he has no power to carry out anything, whether it’s to open a puppy shelter or to carry out a wholesale slaughter. But once he gets power, his traumas and quirks become everyone else’s concern and one must deal with them somehow because he makes it everyone’s business. Same here.

What. The. Fuck. That is not romantic, this is UGH. Honestly, I am glad MY and SJ found each other because they should not inflict themselves on other partners. It’s kind of amazing that I started out liking them and by now I am all “thanks divine lightning, hurry it up with your barbeque.” 

He ultimately does not but by then I stopped caring. I am so so so happy we are back to our headcases Tantai Jin and Susu.

The thing is - my ranting does not mean I did not enjoy this portion of the story (unlike in the novel where I skimmed it since I dngaf about it at all.) The acting is great, the visuals are nuts, and the characters, including MY and SJ are completely internally consistent and their actions make total sense for what and who they are - their arcs are logical. I strongly dislike both of them by the end, but that does not mean it was not a well-done story.

[mageofseven]

Okay! So this is with my current DiaLuci couple in my Repressed Love series, but in the timeline of the original birth for Amelie, Satan and MC's daughter.

This means that Audriana doesn't exist and female!Diavolo (it's complicated; if you read the story, you know why is he is actually a she now) isn't pregnant right now, but I will include their engagement in this though.

Okay so with that explanation done for everyone else, let's begin!~

•▪︎▪︎◇°●♡●°◇▪︎▪︎•

The weirdly young grandparents were spending time with their new granddaughter.

"She's so beautiful..." Diavolo held the newborn in her arms, golden eyes lit with so much excitement and love for this child. "She looks so much like Satan~"

Amelie reached up at her step grandma, or Nana Dia, as she'll always know this woman as.

"She is beautiful." Lucifer agreed, sitting next to his fiancée and staring lovingly at small blonde babe in her arms.

Satan was off taking care of MC. After the bodily trauma of giving birth yesterday, the woman's lower body was still incredibly sore and walking was a bit of chore. Satan was always at her side and now, he was helping her take a bath and get ready for the day.

Diavolo was just too excited to see the new baby and so came early to her fiancé's home to see Amelie.

"How are they handling things?" The princess looked up from the baby and to Lucifer.

"MC...has had a tough few months, but she's doing well now." He explained. "And Satan...he's been very dutiful to both mother and child and I couldn't be more proud of him."

The man was now smiling; his relationship with the blonde was far from perfect, but he was still proud of the man he has became and the father Lucifer knows he will be here on out.

"Like father, like son." Dia teased, a big smile on her face.

Lucifer huffed.

"Don't say that too loud or his good mood will be gone." He warned.

"I know, I know...but I mean it." She kissed his cheek before staring back down at Amelie. "You've been a good role model to him and I know that will help him with this new stage of life."

"No...it's all him." The pride demon frowned, his eyes darkening. "If anything, I've simply provided a list of what not to do and he's smart enough to fill in the blanks."

"Oh my Light..." The woman adjusted her hold on Amelie so she could take his hand and lay it against the tiny girl. "You love your family dearly and do everything in your power to take care of them. They see that, they feel it...and so will this sweetheart~"

Lucifer gaze soften at his fiancée's words.

"You see me in such a positive light, love."

"I simply see you beyond your walls; nothing more."

That was when Amelie grabbed her Nonno Lucifer's finger and held it in her tiny hand.

"Awwww, Lucifer!! She likes you!!" The woman's smile could light up the whole realm with how bright it was; all her love for her grandchild was spilling out with her excitement for this bundled babe.

Lucifer chuckled.

"You really love this child, don't you?"

"Of course!" Her smile died down a bit. "But...I do have one disappointment..."

"What?" Her fiancé's eyes filled with worry.

"Well..." The woman blushed brightly. "I'm a nana but...I've never been a mother..."

She laid her hand on his and stared at him with a soft, hopeful gaze.

"I have this new body now...so do you think you help me with this?"

"I...love, I..." Lucifer was speechless.

The light in her eyes died.

"Do...Do you not want--" She was stopped by his lips on her.

The kiss was slow and sweet; once Luce tried to pull his lips back and break it, Dia leaned in and took his lips back for a moment.

"Of course I want children with you, love."

Children! As in plural! The princess was so excited!

Until...

"However...I'd like to wait till we are married before we start...expanding in such a way."

Oh...

"Always the traditionalist..." She smiled sadly.

"It has nothing to do with tradition." He spoke softly, despite his natural inclination toward tradition. "This...your new form has already stirred some things with the Council and some of your people..."

He wrapped his arms around the love of his life and granddaughter, holding them close.

"To become pregnant before we're married...I just don't want to give them anything more to hold against you."

"You're protect me..."

"Always." He kissed her forehead. "So please don't worry, love; just two more months and then we can have as many as you want."

"Really? Her eyes brightened once more.

"Of course," He kissed her once more before staring down at Amelie. "And I'm more than sure Amelie would love to spend time with her Nana till she has an aunt or uncle."

"Oh my Light!" The woman was crying happy tears as Lucifer used his free hand to wipe them away.

Their future was so close. Diavolo was so excited for it, but for now she was content with the present.

[afpwestcoast]

The Observatory North Park, San Diego, 12/9/23

Though we were in a different city the setup for this show was very similar to last night in LA: large, ornate theater with a barricade keeping people back from the stage. But this was no impediment to the band torching through a stellar set.

Amanda calls me Tom the Critic because after shows I have a tendency to skip over the OMYGOD THAT WAS AWESOME part and pick nits over minor issues. It’s a character flaw; I’m working on it.

After this show I took Amanda’s face in my hand, looked her in the eye, and said, “Amanda, you know I love you, but I am about to tell you something that you probably thought you’d never hear me say.”

“Oh god,” she replied, bracing for the worst. “What is it?”

I leaned in close and whispered, “Perfect show. No notes.”

“AWWWW!” she said as she melted into my arms for a big hug.

And it really was a truly stupendous show, but even so it came close to being overshadowed by the after party.

Amanda’s sister Alyson (of forced wedding / gross cake fame) was in town for a hematology conference, and her “book doula” Jamy Ian Swiss lives in San Diego, so they were both there.

I convinced them - and Amanda’s brilliant long-time sound guy Dave - to join us for drinks at Part Time Lover, a nearby combination bar and vinyl record store. As we headed out I snuck up behind Amanda and said, “I think I just convinced your sister to come out drinking.” She said, “Yeah, that tracks.”

The place was jammed with a boisterous young crowd when we arrived, but we closed the place down and there hardly was anyone left by 2am.

I got to learn about Alyson’s efforts to cure cancer with targeted drugs and Dave’s work training the next generation of sound engineers. That was lovely, but Jamy stole the show. Or rather, put one on.

Knowing him primarily from his work with Amanda on her book, I thought the magic was a bit of a side hustle. When I asked, “Are you any good?” his look said, ‘I will tolerate that because you are buying me drinks,’ but his mouth said, “I am much better than good.” And then he pulled out a deck of cards and proved it.

I had never actually seen close magic up close, like literally standing next to the magician. Let me tell you, it is quite an experience. You know it’s a trick, you know he’s doing something, but you cannot see anything, which makes you start questioning your sanity. He really is much better than good.

After we closed the bar Dave and Alyson bailed but Jamy soldiered on and we went to an all-night diner where the spirited (pardon the pun) conversation continued until we finally parted ways around 4am. This was one for the annals.

Annotated Set List:

Good Day

Sex Changes

Gravity

Backstabber

My Alcoholic Friends

Shores of California

Delilah (featuring Veronica Swift) Welcome to the Internet (Bo Burnham cover)

Another lengthy intro before launching into a set of new songs, although this didn’t feel like the angsty delay tactic of the previous night but just bringing the audience up to speed on what was about to happen. Mister God

By way of introduction to the next song Amanda said that the friend who was the first person she sent it to when it was finished was in the audience.

“A really dear friend of mine is in the audience tonight … his name is Jamy Ian Swiss and he’s a man of many talents, among them: he’s an incredible professional magician. But he also helped me write a book called “The Art of Asking,” which was kind of a magic trick itself. Over the course of working on this book together he got to know me very very very well.”

And I thought, ‘Oh yeah I need to party with this guy.’

Houdini

Believe it or not, as Amanda was telling the background story of the next song, there was another medical emergency that necessitated bringing up the house lights, same as the previous night in LA. Once again the staff was on it and the band and the crowd were very respectful.

Afterwards Brian said, “It is actually really amazingly rad to have venue after venue’s staff come up to us after shows and go, ‘Your crowd is really awesome; they’re really good people!’”

Whakenewha Amsterdam (Jacques Brel cover)

Another Christmas

Boyfriend in a Coma

The Runner

The Nail (Amanda on synthesizer)

Coin-Operated Boy

“We don’t take for granted that we’ve been a band for 23 years now and without a record out since fucking 2008 and like a thousand people still came to see us play. That does not necessarily have to happen when you’re a band. And so we want to thank every single one of you for just like loving us and believing in us.”

Merch commercial

Astronaut (A Brief History of Nearly Nothing) (Amanda Palmer cover)

War Pigs (Black Sabbath cover)

—

Girl Anachronism

Photo Gallery:

The scene of the crime.

Ready to Rock! (photo by Deanna Aliano)

The Dresden Dolls!

Delilah

Amanda is WAY up on the balcony for Amsterdam

The many faces of Brian Viglione

Merry Christmas motherfuckers

Technicolor Dolls

Beautiful shot of Brian by Deanna Aliano

Big finish!

[gilmores-glorious-blog]

finale time:

- i am so incredibly afraid right now

- ed my baby boy 😭

- wow this whole situation is really unideal

- aww did auntie die :(

- the way ed whispered stede’s name 🥺

- i am so insane over ed oh my god,,,

- did he. did he put the leather on underwater?

- ed is so hot 😩

- “and you’re… pinocchio?”

- israel name drop

- god piracy is just a metaphor for queerness 😭😩

- THE SOLDIERS WITH THE LETTERS

- ed reading the letters………… YOU WROTE ME A LOVELY LETTER

- THE BEACH SCENE THE KISS I’M GOING FERAL

- ed said i love you :’)

- “for love!”

- oh hey auntie’s alive!!

- ed and zheng bonding… ed calling stede babe.. i love it here

- “you’re not a man” *confused look*

- god i love izzy and his speech to ricky

- “a rancid syphilitic cunt”

- “avast you scoundrels!”

- oh fuck yeah jackie!!

- “we’re poison trained” “we are?”

- aw zheng is so babygirl

- stede looks so good in that coat

- the jim and archie kiss :)

- they’re all slaying so hard

- oh FUCK did he shoot izzy

- ohh no,,,,

- okay i’m so fucking sad right now but god that final scene with izzy and ed was so beautiful i’m gonna cry 😭😭

- “he was a fucking nightmare… what a guy”

- AWWWW the lupete wedding i love them so much

- the inn by the sea………. 🥲

- izzy’s leg… THE SEAGULL….

- i love that the last words of this season were “go frenchie!”

[lochrannn]

U for fanfic ask game

Sorry if this is a lot but like you’re a really great writer and you characterize people well so I want to know! Also I love fanfic in general and ask games are always really fun

Awwww! Thanks for the compliment!!!

I'd say my three favourite fic writers are all one's I got into through TUA. Then again, I'd not read a lot of fic for a while before getting into TUA, so I guess that's sort of unavoidable.

By far my favourite is @pepperf. For one, nepotism, we have become really good friends after connecting through fic. But also, oh man, her writing is so good. She's so good at subtle humour and characterisation and I genuinely can't quite put my finger on it but there's just so much spectacular emotion in her fic. Or especially it really really really strongly makes me feel things. And she has the voices of the characters all down. And I don't just mean Diego and Lila who she mostly writes for, but her Klaus is hilarious, I love her Allison, Five is always in character, I love her Luther, I now have to mention Victor and Ben or it would be weird, I guess they just haven't featured so much (yet). And the details!!! I think that is also it, she just really wonderful language that is super efficient in some place and extremely effective because of it and then brings out such illustrative details that fully pull you into the scene she's presenting.

Another writer who has written just absolutely stunning fic is Gin_Juice. As far as I know they don't have a tumblr, but a lot of what I've said about Pepper also fits for them. Great sense of humour, like laugh out loud funny writing in a lot of places. Extremely fun and sympathetic characterisation, without pulling punches about them all being slightly broken and often quite selfish, but in GJ's stories the Hargreeves love each other very much and that becomes abundantly clear. And my god are they spectacular at world building an plot construction. They wrote a massive two part post season 2 fic series that was absolutley insanely well constructed and they are currently writing and posting a reimagination of s3 that I am always so stoked to see an update for and they just fuckin' hammer out almost each month a chapter the length of some of my longer fics XD

The last one I could not neglect to mention is @wyrd-syster. They have written wonderful Diego fic! They wrote super lovely Diego/Eudora fic after s1 (which I didn't read till after s2 aired and I'd already fallen hard for the Diego/Lila ship and yet I loved their fic so so much). But most of all they actually got me into TUA fanfic with oh sinnerman (where you gonna run to?), a fic that takes a very close look at Diego's realtionships with all of his siblings while also weaving together an incredibly heartbreaking and romantinc love story of Lila coming in from the cold post s2. Man, I want to go back to the first, second, or third time I read that fic. It just bowled me over!

I hope you don't mind my long-winded answer here XD. And I'm so glad you asked me a bunch of questions! I also enjoy these ask games immensely!!!

[lurkingteapot]

Laws of Attraction กฎแห่งรักดึงดูด Ep 8

I really, really enjoyed this finale. I'll have to rewatch with subs at some point, at least in parts, because some of the details were lost on me (what was that new case of Chaan's about?), but I'm looking forward to it. I hope we get more queer shows out of One31 going forward -- can Organ and Sylvie get a spinoff, maybe? aaah I'll keep dreaming. Anyway! The live blog.

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Six days late, but I'm watching this! I'm very sad that this is going to be over. Excited, too, though. Alright, going in.

WHAT THE FUCK is this cold open with the flashback in the moment of death type scene

Oh no, going to pay respect to his mum before he goes join her, huh.

ooooh is Maayaa going to broadcast whatever confession Rose catches at that warehouse live during her announced live? I BET she is and that's such a smart move, can't make something tens of thousands of followers saw unseen

this house remains an abomination

oh god Nawin please shut up

asdfasdf of course they're gonna punch each other about it

pick up the gd necklace, that's a tripping hazard or something

oh baby, crying in business class, huh

well that knot came apart easily

rescuing our lovers solidarity, huh

YIKES those boinks to the head with that thing would've had a pretty decent chance of killing the dudes if this were real

hahaha of course Chaan planted stuff. Let's hope this plays out as he hoped. can hardly believe Thatthep is this dumb, though on the other hand …

… oh god is Tinn going to ruin this take. He IS, isn't he.

I am SO nervous, goodness

he's pretttty convincing

250k viewers is pretty incredible

WOW this dude is cold as ice

ahahaha of COURSE someone was going to tell them this was getting streamed and they REALLY should've seen that coming

just put the freaking doll away and HIDE ffs Chaan

Tinn to the rescue

you fuckers, RUN

what are you doing

oh ffs Tinn don't RUSH the guy with the gun, and you, Chaan, don't just STAND there ffs

yeah that … was going to happen and I sure hope he's wearing body armour of some sort

how many shots does this thing HAVE??

hey. hate to interrupt but thatthep is still RIGHT THERE and ARMED

ROSE <3 <3 <3 I love her so much oh my GOD

okay everyone here is useless, why hasn't anyone called an ambulance

also I feel like Tinn should've been able to FEEL the body armour but w/e

so did they pull Thaenthai off the plane or what

adsfasdfasdasdf oh no he was being that passenger but I guess it's all for the best, huh

over the top and overdramatic, 10/10 no notes

asdfasdfasf Chaan being a BRAT because he can

GRANDMA 😂

asdfasdfasd of COURSE she'd be like "this is a HOSPITAL"

oh poor baby, your dad doesn't even want to see you in this situation, huh

and he said it himself

man I feel bad for Thaenthai.

offering Chaan "everything/anything" is a dangerous thing, Tinn

Tinn is so cute in his slow realisations. yes it's sorta overacted. no I don't care.

awww POST IT NOTES

oh no this is so cheesy (I love it) 😂

(it's a northern song!)

a proposal! wow. you've not even lived together yet! you only know his regular bad habits, not the living together ones! AND THEY'RE SHADING THE LEGAL SITUATION I love them

god they are ADORABLE

oh no, shovel talk!!!

asdfsdfasd TINN 😂😂😂

aaah the wlw mlm solidarity we love to see

I really dislike proposal and marriage plots but I'll give it to them, this admit this is cute

Nawin 😂

MORE shovel talk, oh no

oh, perfect drowning opportunity!

… is Thatthep trying to be a big man even in prison? I was so sure they'd ostracise him for killing a kid

ffs someone shut this dude up already (let it be Thee)

… oh WOW yikes ouch

I kinda hate that it was this was something Chaan probably set up. Not a fan of people making third parties get their hands dirty for revenge

awwww Thaen

whatcha gonna do with all this, hm? sell the house, get an apartment somewhere, be happy with Thee?

I really wanted for them to get to kiss, but you know what? these hugs are so heartfelt, I'll take them

oh Tinn, don't do that to yourself

look at grandma! look at Tinn with that ridiculous oversized bow tie!

Chaan subscribing to the "sun's out guns out" philosophy of fashion even on his wedding day, I see

ah, so he does have a jacket

oh they look good. hair and make-up on POINT

I have opinions on the set-up of this but there's a time and place for salt and this is probably not it

ASDFASDFDS GRANDMA

I like the "noise fades away and they're in their own world" of this love Sylvie's singing voice, godDANG

oh, Rose, looking at her all in love <3

Win 😅

of course they watch wuxia. probably domestically produced ones, too. incredible.

oh god I love them

KISS!!!!!!

aaaaaah can Rose and Maya kiss, too? for me?

god Chaan's "I'm so lucky" in love eyes. Film's expression here is so different from Thian's in-love-face and I love both of them.

AAAAAH MY GIRLS!!!!!!

PRODUCT PLACEMENT hello. I want twenty of those but also this REALLY shows the age of the intended target audience

ahaha Chaan back on the job, stirring shit. I love him.

oh my goodness, Chaan actually said it

this is reaching PatPran levels of interruption

I love them

I guess that was supposed to be cute but I couldn't see it as anything but overstepping, sorry, Tinn

oh, I love these long shots

… and that finaly second of that shot was 100% Film turning to the camera like "are we done yet" 😂

[capricornwriter5]

Always on time - Chapter 13

Pairing: Jooheon x female OC

Genre: childhood friends to enemies, enemies to friends, friends to lovers, smut (later chapters), fluff, angst, slow burn, idol AU!

Warning: mentions of mental health issues, mentions of workaholic disorder, curse words

Words: 3k

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Chapter 13

"Nooooooo! Heeeee told yuu dat?" Areum asked half-drunk… well, more like very drunk. "And you’re telling me just now?! You’re incredibly... hiccup!"

After training, Julie and Liv ended up in Areum’s apartment where they ordered all the junk food they came up with and a lot, a lot of alcohol. They had spent all afternoon eating, drinking, watching dramas, and talking. There came a point in the night when Julianne was so drunk that she decided to get carried away and told both of them what happened the night of the auction with Jooheon.

"That azzhole" Liv managed to say between bouts of hiccups. "Wait till I see him, I’ll hit him in his... No, no, no, I know what I’m gonna do, I’m gonna put whip cream inside all his caps and I’m gonna put empty cookie plastic wraps in the pockets of his jackets and his pants, and I’m gonna put chili powder in his coffee, and...."

"Naaaaah, it’z not nessezary" Julie replied. "Aktwally, I was pretty angry, but it’z not the first time that Jooheon getz all protective macho-man over my dates... And it’z not like being mad at him is gonna stop him from being such a beast to say thingz... Although, on second thought, throw the chili powder in the coffee and record it for me, pleeeeeeazzzze?"

"Right, right but.... Wait" Liv continued. "I have a queztion... Kang Dae... he doesn’t know about you and the... the... jeez, this kicking and punching thingy..."

"KICKBOXING!" Areum shouted out of nowhere throwing a bowl of popcorn in the air. "Kickboxing... it’z called".

"Uh-huh," Liv said. "It looked like he waz going to have a fit when he saw uz earlier".

"Ahhhh... that.... Well.... Nope, he doesn’t know aaaanythiiiingy," Julianne replied. "When we started dating, like, seriously, in college I had already quit, and I just didn’t think it was something he had to know... After all, I never thought about putting on the gloves again".

"Riiiight, mmmmmmmm" a very drunk Liv started approaching an even drunker Julie. "Well, for now, I’ll believe you".

"SIMON!" shouted Areum again. "Hiz name waz Simon, the boy Jooheon waz jealouz of at school, remember?"

"Don’t be an idiot, Areum-ah" Julianne replied. "Simon was the guy you liked, the one who competed in swimming".

"Awwww, right... He waz soooooo handsome. Do you think he ztill rememberz me? What if I look him up on Inztagram and...?"

"And it’s time to sleep," Julianne said when she saw the state of her friend. "Come, give me your cell phone... put the phone down, Areum-ah... give meeee the cell phone...."

After about fifteen minutes, Julie managed to take Areum’s cell phone out of her hands and Liv helped her into the bedroom. The latter was not so difficult as the poor girl was already half asleep. Areum hasn’t had a drink in a while, which explains why soju hit her so hard, but Julie never expected it to hit her THAT hard.

"In the closet there are a couple of extra duvets," Julie told Liv after picking up the mess from the living room. The both of them were a little sober now, so the conversations were coherent. "We can make it work and we can both sleep here, what do you say? It is not a good idea to drive in this state".

"Thank you, but Kyun texted me and he’s on his way to pick me up," Liv said. "He’s coming alone, so don’t worry. And... I know it’s probably not my place, but... I think the Jooheon you met at school and the Jooheon you met after all these years are quite different. I’ve rarely seen him express what he thinks so... crudely. Perhaps before he said everything that came to mind without thinking, but the Jooheon I know is more reserved, at least in public. Idol life probably taught him to keep quiet, so if he got carried away as he did with you, it’s because he really cares... And don’t think I’m defending him, he’s still a brute, but I don’t know... I’m just saying maybe there’s something else in his words".

Julie kept quiet thinking about what Liv just told her. It was true that for her Jooheon was still the Jooheon of more than seven years ago, and she had not stopped to think that maybe she was seeing things from the wrong perspective. Although he still sees me the same way he did years ago, Julie thought, otherwise he would know where his limit is.

"In any case," Liv continued, "I promise to do the chili powder thing. I don’t know if I’ll be able to take a video, but I’ll give you pictures, deal?"

"Deal".

*****

The next morning, Julie got up at 9 a.m. to finish cleaning up yesterday’s mess. She made sure the leftovers were in the refrigerator, threw away the empty bottles of alcohol, washed the dishes, and started to make breakfast. An hour later, Areum got up looking like the mess Julie had just cleaned up.

"Can you explain why I have popcorn in my hair?" was the first thing she said when she walked into the kitchen.

"That was because of your bad habit of throwing away everything you touch when you’re drunk," Julie replied. "Here, I made us breakfast. And there’s the fresh coffee, I made it double, and here’s your aspirin".

"Argh, thank you," Areum said as she sat down to eat. "Don’t let me drink like that again".

"I’m impressed, girl. When we were in college, you could have three bottles of soju and keep walking in a straight line".

"Don’t remind me that" asked Areum. "And don’t think I forgot everything you told me yesterday... I’m an idiot, but I have a good memory".

"Yeah, yeah" Julianne sighed. "In any case, that’s ancient history".

"Julie... you do know that Wonho-ssi is Jooheon’s friend, don’t you?" Areum asked.

"Yes, I know," Julie said. "But what does that have to do with anything?"

"Jeez... my head is not ready for this," Areum complained before continuing. "Well, I didn’t tell you before because as I saw you two getting along, I thought it wouldn’t be a big deal... And that just proves my point that you SHOULD TELL ME THINGS IN TIME... but anyway... Jooheon is going to be part of the production team for Wonho-ssi’s comeback".

"Well, that’s the strength of both, isn’t it? The music" Julianne replied. "At least this time I won’t have to teach him everything from scratch, right?"

Areum leaned back in her chair and stared at Julianne. Her friend seemed relaxed, and her response was quite simple as if to downplay the issue. The problem was that Areum didn’t believe her relaxed attitude, or at least wasn’t sure she believed her. When it came to work, there was no one as professional as Julie, but she was the same person who until recently still had a grudge against the boy who broke her heart at school, even if it was inadvertently.

"Can you stop looking at me like that?" Julianne asked. "I’m fine, Areum-ah. Yesterday I told you I wasn’t going to be angry about something I couldn’t change, and the truth is... I don’t care what he thinks".

"Are you sure you’ll be okay?" Areum asked. "I’m sure if we tell Wonho-ssi, he..."

"I’m not going to mix my private life with my professional life," Julianne said. "I’m fine, everything will be fine".

"Well, I believe you for the moment... but as soon as he says anything stupid..."

"You’ll be the first to know," Julie promised.

After that, both friends devoured the breakfast prepared by Julianne. They had decided to go for a walk after eating so that they could get completely over the hangover. Areum went to get an extra pair of sneakers meanwhile Julie finished in the kitchen and at that moment, Julie realized that she had her cell phone off. Little by little, she remembered that last night Kang Dae did not stop calling her until Julie finally answered and told him that she was going to spend the night with the girls, so if he had anything to say, it could wait until tomorrow; after that, she turned off her cell phone.

When she turned it on again, notifications of Kang Dae’s missed calls and messages started coming in. He made the last call at 11 p.m. and then sent a short message: "Tomorrow we have to talk about this. Without fail". Twelve hours later... nothing.

It was Sunday, so he was probably playing golf at the club with his friends and other company executives. Well, I guess talking wasn’t so important after all, thought Julianne angrily... no, not angry. With disappointment, perhaps.

Anyway, she didn’t have time to think much about anything because Areum’s cell phone started ringing. Someone was calling her and when Julie saw who it was...

"Ready?" Areum asked leaving the room with an extra pair of shoes in her hand.

"Why does Wonho is calling you on a Sunday morning?" Julie asked. "Please tell me he’s not exploding you at work".

"What? No, of course not" Areum assured her while refusing the call. "It’s just that everything is very hectic at the moment, but calm down, I know how to set my limits".

"Are you sure it’s not a big deal? Maybe you shouldn’t have hung up on him like that and at least asked..."

"Julie, I love you, but sometimes you think too much," Areum said. "Well, come on. Let’s get some fresh air".

*****

Two hours later, the two friends returned to Areum’s apartment. The truth was they had not gone far because they could not stand the noon sun, so they went to eat something, and each came with a fruit smoothie in hand. They were talking when a voice in the parking lot of the building made them stop:

"Julie" Kang Dae called her from her car. He looked mad, but his expression was ridiculous considering the plaid outfit he was wearing. He got out of his car and walked resolutely towards both friends. "I’ve been calling you".

"Hello, Kang Dae" Areum greeted sarcastically. "Careful, so much joy will make you explode".

Kang Dae just rolled his eyes and did not respond to Areum’s greeting. Julie, meanwhile, grabbed her friend by the arm to ask her to calm down and not make things worse.

"Hello, oppa. I thought you were busy," Julie said.

"I’ve been calling you half morning," he repeated.

"Ah, yes, I’m sorry. I went for a walk with Areum, and I left my cell phone at her apartment" Julie said. "But you’re here, tell me: what do you need?"

"Do you have any idea how stupid I feel?" Kang Dae yelled in a voice loud enough for other people near them to turn around and see.

Julie said nothing. Not because she had nothing to say, but because she didn’t want to make a bigger scene.

"No, we don’t know, Kang Dae-ssi" Areum replied. "But I doubt very much that you want the whole apartment complex to know".

"I’m not talking to you," he replied sharply. "Come, you and I have to talk".

"Oppa, calm down, okay?" Julianne said. "Yes, we need to talk, but..."

"But nothing" he cut her. "Yesterday you left me hanging like an idiot and today too. It won’t happen a third time, Julianne".

Julie’s blood was about to boil. Who did he think he was? Yeah, they were a couple, but now he was treating her like a little less than a chair. This wasn’t Kang Dae, at least not the one Julie knew and cared for. Kang Dae had long begun to change, but until now Julianne saw how different her boyfriend was... and she didn’t like him.

She was tired of biting her tongue, but her pride did not allow her to make a scene in the middle of a parking lot. No, she was better than a public fight, at least she was sure of that.

Fortunately, neither she nor Areum had to say anything because a fourth voice came to save their day:

"Is everything all right, girls?" asked Wonho who had seen a bit of the exchange and approached in case they needed help.  

"Wonho-ssi?" Areum asked. "What are you doing here? On a Sunday..."

"I’m sorry if I upset you," Wonho apologized while keeping his gaze fixed on Kang Dae. "I needed you and Julie-ssi to see part of the proposal that’s going to be discussed at the meeting tomorrow. I called you and you didn’t answer, so I thought I’d drop by and leave the documents with the security officer at the entrance... I don’t think we’ve been introduced, I’m Lee Hoseok, and you are?"

"Lee Kang Dae," Kang Dae said, ignoring the hand Wonho was offering him as a greeting. "Julie, come on, we need to talk... in private. I’ll wait for you in the car".

Kang Dae turned around and walked to his car. Julie, Areum, and Wonho stood there without saying anything. None knew what to say.

"Are you two alright?" Wonho asked at last.

"Yes, we’re fine," Julie replied. "Thank you for asking, Wonho-ssi. I’m sorry you saw that... Areum-ah, I’ll go get my phone and..."

"You’re not going with him, are you?" Areum asked defensively.

"Calm down, he won’t do anything" Julie reassured her. "He’s angry, but I know him and I know that the worst part is over. I will be fine, come on".

"Mfph... fine" Areum conceded. "Wonho-ssi, do you want to come in? If you have time, and since you are here, we can see the documents upstairs".

*****

The car ride was quiet. Neither Julie nor Kang Dae said anything all the way and when he parked in front of  the apartment complex where Julianne lived, she waited for him to start talking. Since he didn’t, she started getting out of the car...

"How long have you been training?" Kang Dae asked suddenly, which made Julie stop her actions and sit down again in the passenger seat.

"You know I was good at sports... I did kickboxing for about 9 or 10 years," Julianne began. "I stopped training about 5 years ago, in our third year of college".

"Were you a professional? Did you compete?"

"It wasn’t professional, and I never intended to be, but I did compete several times," she explained.

"And why didn’t you tell me before?" Kang Dae asked looking into her eyes.

"I didn’t think it was an important thing to mention," explained Julianne. "I stopped training when we started dating and I didn’t put my gloves on until two weeks ago. Besides, it’s not like I hid it... You have gone to my house, oppa, you have seen the medals hanging from the walls. It was you who never asked... or who never paid attention".

"Now it’s my fault," Kang Dae said with a dry laugh. He closed his eyes and laid his head on the back of the driver’s seat.

"I never said it was your fault," Julie corrected. "And I don’t understand why you’re so angry now..."

"You don’t understand... of course, you don’t understand," said Kang Dae. "Julie, how many times have I told you that in our world image matters? Do you know how I found out you were at that gym? I heard Eun-ji and her friends talking, apparently one of them saw you leaving that place two weeks ago and the rumor is spreading fast... today one of the directors asked me if it was true. I said no, of course".

"And why would you lie? What’s wrong with it being true?" Julianne asked.

"If you were a normal person, nothing," Kang Dae continued. "But as I’ve told you many times, we have to maintain a certain image, as a couple and as individuals. You can’t just walk around in sleazy gyms kicking pointless sandbags. It doesn’t look good".

"First of all, Coach Park’s box is nowhere near a sleazy gym," Julianne rectified. "And I’d appreciate it if you’d think twice before insulting the effort of someone who was like a second father to me. Then, what I do in that box is a sport, Kang Dae, a sport recognized internationally and practiced by both men and women around the world... so I still don’t see your point".

"My point is you can’t go around looking like a tomboy who hasn’t taken a bath in months!" Kang Dae shouted frustrated "Don’t you understand that people have certain expectations of us? That we have to give an example of class and good taste and good manners everywhere? God... couldn’t you choose something more... like pilates or yoga?"

Julianne felt as if she had been slapped in the face. She couldn’t take it anymore:

"First of all, I can walk around and look as I fucking please and neither you nor anyone can say anything about it. It’s not like I’m naked on the streets, it’s just a gym and it’s a sport," she began. "Secondly, I don’t give a shit about people’s expectations of me. Example of class and taste? I remind you that I’ve been standing next to you looking like a porcelain doll every time you needed it, I’ve worn the clothes you’ve given me, the shoes you’ve bought me, the makeup you’ve chosen...  I’ve even done stupid diets to fit in with the fucking trend of your friend’s girlfriends' knuckleheads! And good manners? What about the good manners of the bitches you’re making such a fuss about? Since when is spying on people and spreading rumors good manners? They all do at least one line of cocaine a day, and you’re telling ME that you care what THEY think? If there’s anybody here without good manners, class, or taste, it’s them, not me. And if I remember correctly, not long ago you said yourself that Eun-ji had more plastic than gray matter in her head and now you care what that idiot says to her friends?!"

"Now it’s different!" Kang Dae shouted back. "Don’t you see that I’m about to get the job as CEO and that there are people who won’t stop until they find a weak spot to avoid it? I need everything to be perfect, everything... especially if I’m going to introduce you to everyone and they’re clearly going to assume that you’re my future wife and...".

"WOW, WAIT A SECOND," Julie cut him off. "Future wife? Marriage?"

"It makes sense, Julianne," Kang Dae said. "We’ve been dating for five years, what else would happen?"

"We’ve never talked about marriage," Julianne cut. "You’ve never asked me anything about it".

"Was there anything to ask?" Kang Dae said. "We’ve been together for five years, Julianne. We’re adults, we have to plan a future".

Julie kept her mouth shut. A year ago, the idea of marrying Kang Dae would probably have thrilled her, especially since, apparently, for him, it was a fact. But now she wasn’t so sure.

At that moment, the last conversation with Jooheon began to ring in her head. That wasn’t the best time to be thinking about it, but something stirred inside Julianne.

"Kang Dae, what would you a good relationship is based on?" Julie asked.

"Julianne..."

"Please, oppa, answer me," Julie asked with a little fear. Part of her didn’t want to know the answer.

"It is based on commitment" replied Kang Dae. "And commitment involves making sacrifices. It is having clear priorities".

"And what are your priorities, oppa?" Julie continued.

"My priority is to secure our future, it has always been".

"And what about our present?" Julie insisted. "What about us today? How long has it been since we’ve had a decent date or laughed together or watched a movie or... or spent a night together?"

"We’ve both been busy and..."

"You’ve been busy," Julianne interrupted. "I’ve been waiting, and I’ve been patient. I’ve been waiting for you to see me like you did before, to hold me and tell me everything’s gonna be okay, to go on dates and end up in your apartment and..."

"You’ve been waiting for us to be children again, Julianne," Kang Dae said. "We’re not children anymore".

"I have been waiting to feel loved, accompanied, wanted, desired... and instead you talk to me of marriage as it was just a simple transaction?" she refuted. "What kind of marriage do you think it would be? Do you want one like your parents’? Because I don’t, oppa. I want more".

Both were silent again. Julie felt as if a weight had been lifted from her, but at the same time, she felt tears threatening to build up in her eyes. She didn’t want to think that this would end things with Kang Dae, not after what he meant to her over the years. He was a good man, she was sure of that, but he had changed, and she no longer knew if he was good for her.

"Tomorrow I’m leaving on a trip" was the next thing Kang Dae said. "It’s a long one, it will take me about four or five months. If all goes well, I’ll have my position secured when I get back and then we can... we can... just... I don’t …"

"Okay, oppa. Have a safe trip," said Julie as she opened the car door.

Kang Dae didn’t try to stop her. He didn’t know how.

Julie got out of the car and went up to her apartment. As soon as she closed the door behind her, her legs failed, and she fell to the floor. The tears began to come out and she could no longer control them. She cried for everything and nothing at once.

She was like this for about half an hour until she could calm down enough to stand up.

Tomorrow was Monday. The only logical thing to do was to wash her face, put ice in her eyes, eat something and go to sleep.

Obviously, Julie did everything but the obvious:

"Liv" said when her friend picked up the phone. "How about a second round with Areum and me? You in?"

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[mermaidsirennikita]

Immortals After Dark Hero Power Ranking: Part Nove

Finished the Torture Island arc and while I can see why Declan Chase is so loathed, Iiiiiii did not think he was as bad as people make him out to be. Iiiiii had fun.

Garreth MacRieve, werewolf, Pleasure of a Dark Prince

Pros: 

–invented “werewolf versus demon” basketball because he was SADS

–smells Lucia masturbating and is like WAIT WAIT WAIT I CAN FIX THAT

–gets Lucia off through prison bars…. a determined man

–engages in a Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote dynamic with his heroine for a YEAR where he’s just chasing her around the globe while she crushes him with trucks and shit… he sees it as foreplay

–is actually truly the most woke werewolf hero; rightly points out to Lucia that she’s not exaaaactly being chaaaaste when he’s tearing that shit up every night even if there’s no penetration; keeps himself from going full moon crazy with magic in order to keep Lucia from being pressured into sex with him, and even when that magic breaks super holds back until she makes a conscious decision; does not do the Ritual Doggy Style Full Moon thing because he wants to look into her eeeeeeyes and ground her and even puts her on top, a KING

–catches a special new butterfly for her and names it after her leave me alone I’m crying

–“lass, I’m about to make you a widow” …. this shit works every time

–even a GOD can’t make him hurt Lucia

Cons:

–does not believe that women should have jobs after they find their werewolf soulmates, but to be fair, he is completely right, why the hell would I work if I had a rich werewolf soulmate who hunts big game for me and does all the cooking and cleaning and work and shit

–is honestly big stupid about plunging into danger

–is honestly big stupid about a lot of things… plan for keeping his woman from pursuing her immortal mission was “I’ll just fuck her until she passes out and then I’ll go do big mission for her”, admirable but not flaw-free logic

–was gonna help Lachlain steal a baby

–BIG “dumb younger brother” energy

–“we’re werewolves we’re very curious and always have to solve mysteries” lmao okay Scooby Doo

2. Rydstrom Woede, demon (king), Kiss of a Demon King

Pros:

–called Sabine a “good girl” even when she’s actually being a bad girl

–is explicitly a dom

–the first time he smiles is after she flips him off

–is into spanking

–takes Sabine to a bar and everyone leaves the bar because she’s evil and he’s all “awwww baby I don’t understand why they don’t like you :(” when she’s committed, like, war crimes… down ridiculous…

–his big comeback to his enemy is like “lmao well I’m about to make your girl’s eyes roll back in her head SOOOOOOO EAT IT CUCK”

–has two elaborate fantasies in this novel: a) suspending Sabine from the ceiling and edging her until he lets her grind against his face B) watching Sabine cuddle their cute baby. The duality of demon king

Cons:

–I mean I guess he did some pretttttyyyyy dubious shit to Sabine, but only after she did them to him

–met a woman and became her friend and talked to her for days and literally didn’t remember fucking her once until she reminded him…. I thought it was funny

–that time he went at Sabine’s tits for so long that the next day she was all “THEY HURT SO BAD” so I assume he was like a newborn baby or something

–“I don’t have any fetishes!!!!” has every fetish known to man

–was so down ridiculous that he went to try and kill himself to save her… this is a pro… but I’m gonna pretend it’s a con

–is pretty hard on Cade who was just trying!!! his!!! best!!!!!!!!!! but again this is only mildly a con because his disappointed dad thing is hot

3. Conrad Wroth, vampire, Dark Needs at Night’s Edge

Pros:

–exceedingly good at removing obstacles between him and what he wants

–a virgin and SUPER embarrassed about it in a way that is INCREDIBLY precious (when he finally fucked this woman and went “So I was good?” I almost fucking wept)

–murder puppy only wants death and blood (until he discovers………… other things)

–a natural born dirty talker

–BABY BOY…. BABY BOY…./EVIL

Cons:

–has erectile dysfunction for a significant part of his book, he gets better but I was so sad for him

–I mean, is fully insane and wants to murder his entire family, but nobody’s perfect and Nikolai kinda deserves it

–wears sunglasses indoors

–got aroused while buying underwear for her and had to limp home

–made Bowen MacRrieve sad and that makes me really upset because I love Bowen MacRieve

4. Bowen MacRieve, werewolf, Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night

Pros:

–is a werewolf general

–was celibate for 1200 years after his lover got so scared of his wolf form that she gored herself on a tree stump (lmao)

–spent those 1200 years trying to bring her back to life

–great at catching and preparing seafood

–breeding kink (wants to put all the bairns in Mariketa)

–kinda into bondage…?

–gets hard at the thought of Mariketa’s carnage, even when he is the carnage

–update pro: gets sent to a party by himself so that Mariketa can run an errand and just sits there confused and miserable at the bar by himself waiting for her to show up even though he knows people there; I imagine this is much like that SNL skit about a dog park for boyfriends, where the shy boyfriend hides under a picnic table

Cons:

–kind of a fuckboy (will say his dead lover’s name when he comes, ONE TIME, but “Mariketa” and “Mariah” begin similarly so)

–doesn’t like it when Mariketa chant incantations into her mirror because it creeps him out

–breeding kink (casually tries to get her to stop taking birth control)

–makes fun of Mariketa’s vibrator, even if I found that actually hilarious

5. Lachlain MacRieve, werewolf, A Hunger Like No Other

Pros:

–chewed his own leg off to get to Emma, pinned her to the ground in broad daylight, and inhaled her neck like a fucking FREAK

–actually pretty good at being the werewolf king (saves Bowen from his own stupidity multiple times, much daddy, very authoritative)

–saw Emma kill her own dad and basically swooned

–is absolutely down to get his blood sucked… through his penis (I believe he says that’s the only way he’ll accept BJs now…?)

–gets by on missing 150 years of progression purely on intimidation, which I personally find deeply sexy

Cons:

–I mean yes Lachlain is one of the rape-iest IAD heroes even if most of that was werewolf instinct and burning alive for 150 years

–doesn’t know how to use an iPod

–but will max out your credit cards

–a werewolf supremacist (is this a bad thing…?)

–says “Kiss me like you want to live” which I guess I should put as a con because it’s non-consensual but whatever I was dow–

6. Murdoch Wroth, vampire, Untouchable

Pros:

—just extremely determined… his heroine can’t bear skin to skin contact? He’s gonna use an icicle as a dildo. He fucked up so bad she fled to an ice kingdom? Well, he’s gonna fucking find her

–probably the closest IaD gets to a himbo… HE WAS MORE THAN A RAKE, DAMMIT!!! HE DIED IN A WAR!!!!!!!

–I don’t think y'all get how impressive it is that he consistently hit the clit through a blanket AND fucked her to orgasm with an icicle for like a year

–is actually a very good brother

–finds out his woman maybe married another guy and goes “she’s going to be a widow” I love mess

Cons:

–I mean does bitch a lot about how sexually frustrated he is but his heroine is an ice princess who can’t stand skin to skin contact without extreme pain so……………………… I do get it blue balls kill

–will masturbate to the thought of you in the shower while you’re unconscious six feet away covered in arrow wounds… if that’s something you’re not into…

–has confidence issues because the Wroth brothers are rattled off like Nikolai: the leader! Sebastian: the brain! Conrad: the mysterious babe! Murdoch: … the slut?

(do love that the Wroth bros are the Charlie’s Angels of this series)

–bit Dani without her consent blah blah blah

7. Cadeon Woede/“Cade the Kingmaker”, demon, Dark Desires After Dusk

Pros:

–extremely loyal to his brother (which I found cute)

–orders ahead to get pre-packaged food for Holly to accommodate her OCD, while helping her Walk on the Wild Side

–was the first guy to 69 with his heroine in this series

–stalked Holly for like a year (stalking is love)

–gets adorably tongue-tied around her, but not in a lame way

Cons:

–lied to Holly for like… that entire book lmao (even though it was fun)

–is called the Womb Raider for a reason, apparently (a little tooooo potent)

–sort of fucks with Holly’s birth control, in the sense that he made sure she was super fertile, but to be fair Holly did not… actually… take birth control

–threw out Holly’s OCD meds, though I chalk this up to the year the book was published

–just sort of drove around giving Holly head for WEEKS while Rydstrom was getting sexually tortured, so like…. maybe doesn’t have GREAT priorities…. maybe has the best priorities… Rydstrom was fine…

8. Nikolai Wroth, vampire, The Warlord Wants Forever

Pros:

–deeply efficient and good at his job (being a bloodthirsty warlord), which turns his mate on as much as it should literally everyone else

–scars all over

–very family-oriented, which means he’s extreeeeemely daddy, and very much uses that in the bedroom

–will try to make nice with your bitchy sisters for you

–is receptive to therapy, even if the therapist was his beaten and bruised brother whose advice was basically “do better”

Cons:

–did steal Myst’s chain and used it to make her come on command; which, while I liked it, was very much non-consensual

–insecure about Myst’s history as the greatest femme fatale of the last couple millennia (though he gets better and decides to be a sex-positive feminist)

–that time that he turned his little brothers into vampires against their will

–was so down bad that he literally started to waste away when Myst didn’t let him get off for five years

–does not properly heat his manor

9. Declan Chase/Aidan the Fierce/Gabriel/Edward/whoever the fuck else he was, berserker, Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Pros:

--I mean you can't really go wrong with someone who is so determined to have his heroine that he just defies death and keeps coming back throughout the ages

--probably the only employee at Torture Island to get in trouble for workplace sexual harassment.... impressive

--that time he cried after suffocating Regin (it must be truuuuue love truuuuuue love)

--that bathtub scene where he was like "wait no actually I'm taking over this weird sexual interplay thing we have going on"

--his days-long island hike grovel where he was like just sadly walking around and being like *eye emoji* at Regin.... hilarious

Cons:

--I actually totally got why Regin forgave him (true love + dick too bomb) but personally I feel like it's basically impossible that Lachlain and Rydstrom and Sabine are gonna let the shit he pulled slide forever so suspension of disbelief was rough there

--he did vivisect a MacRieve, and I am nothing if not a MacRieve Stan For Lyfe

--the drug addiction issues are rough

--that time he had to let Lothaire bite his neck whenever he wanted and Lothaire was like "if I call you a girl's name just go with it" and it DIDN'T turn into sex? Sads

10. Malkolm Slaine, demon/vampire, Demon from the Dark

Pros:

–we love a virgin hero always

–gave Carrow the heads of her enemies As A Treat

–very good at giving sensual baths

–a responsible, loving step-demon to what is admittedly an annoying child

–made Rydstrom, Nikolai, Garreth, and Myst all “YOU WANNA GO BRO???” in what was by far one of the funniest parts of the series

Cons:

–honestly a very sweet guy

–swallows toothpaste TWICE

–comes against Carrow’s leg like thirty seconds after meeting her (actually a pro in terms of hilarity)

–TOO BIG, WON’T FIT (pro)

–could’ve been meaner, I’m not gonna lie

11. Sebastian Wroth, vampire, No Rest for the Wicked

Pros:

–all but a virgin when he meets Kaderin

–Gentleman in the Streets Freak in That Random Nightclub Where He SNAPS

–joined the mile high club remarkably fast

–throws out all his principles for her

–Speaks Like Dracula but in a “I vant to suck your clit” way

Cons:

–borderline beta, or as beta as a murderous centuries old vampire warlord can be

–a little tooooo accommodating of Kaderin’s bullshit

–could have been more demanding, to be honest (Bowen and Lachlain would noooot have been as patient as he was, which some would like but I was a little weary of)

[dreamwritesimagines]

Wow this chapter was everything I could've wanted for Chérie's return to the public eye. I absolutely love Elias always being the best brother a reader could ask for. The thought of Chérie becoming a nun is so funny to me, she definitely would be a fish out of water there. The two of them outside talking for the first time after a month, like I knew it was coming but that didnt stop the fear of the unknown. Something Chérie said really got me, when she thanked him for curing her of "this childish obsession of having a love marriage." Now i don't know if you've every watched Moulin Rouge, but there is a quote that Christian the main character says "Thank you for curing me of my ridiculous obsession with love." When he says this it's at such an emotional moment and reading what Chérie said put me back in that place, so good!!! I absolutely love Moulin Rouge one of my favorite movies and after thinking more about it Chérie really does remind me of Christian and the honeymoon romance that characters had also reminds me of the happy times that Anthony and Chérie had when they secretly together. Highly recommend giving the movie a watch if you haven't before.

But with Anthony now having the confirmation that Chérie loves him, hopefully it will give him the confidence and light a fire under him to do something better then silly letters. Though who knows what will happen now that The Duke has joined the conversation...That being said, I'm very excited to learn what Anthony and the Duke discussed!!

I'm so excited about seeing the wedding too in the next few chapters!! Cece and Elias deserve the best! I really don't know what to expect Anthony wise, it's still not confirmed whether or not he is the best man. But I think it's safe to assume that Chérie will be Cece's maid of honor, unless she chooses one of her sisters. If both of them are up there though, looking at each other while vows are being read i don't know if i could take that.

Its been such a long time that I've been so enamored(see what i did there) by a story where I'm waiting for the next chapter every week and doing so eagerly. You've written all the character so beautifully and Chérie and her family fit into this world so seamlessly and that is definitely speaks to you as a writer. I look forward to the journey ahead!! Thank you for sharing this story with all of us!!

Omg omg yayyy! ❤

Cherie becoming a nun lol😂 She'd probably only last a couple of days there, max 😂

WAIT THAT-

OOOH MY GOD, that scene was my inspiration for that line YES?! 😱❤ Moulin Rouge is my favorite movie of all times, I probably watched it a hundred times! ❤

Anthony was so convinced that Cherie hated him and now that he knows she still loves him...❤

That Duke-Anthony convo is coming on Tuesday and I'm so excited! ❤

Oh yeah, Anthony will be the best man for sure ❤ And there will be so much yearning ❤

Awwww you're incredibly sweet honey, thank you so much! ❤❤❤

[tsuki-sennin]

Okay~! I've taken the time to recover my bearings and my sanity from our previous Momo Monday, so it's time to party on like usual~!

Spoilers, I guess...

-Why yes Haruka, you're very correct. Weakness does make very compelling character drama. And seeing these weaknesses is often... very terrifying.

-Oh, who dat?

-That's a kiddo!

-Oh! He's the monster!

-...JESUS CHRIST SONOI'S GONNA TRY AND MURDER A CHILD

-Don Kaito... boy, do you stress me out.

-Oh my god, it's literally just First Love Hero with "True" attached to it.

-Wait a minute, wasn't it called something like Broken Heart Night before?

-Oh, ain't that a kick in the balls, huh Haruka?

-"Delivery, I guess... :("

-My man looks like he's about to break down crying any minute now.

-Oh cool, this kid gets to play with Super Sentai heroes~! That's a pretty cool opportunity, huh?

-Yoooooooo...

-I feel bad for laughing. But y'know what? That is a masterpiece gag right there.

-I'm pretty sure I've heard this sad stock music in a lot of YouTube parodies lol

-You did this, KijiBrother.

-"Ay! Ay ay! Doriyah~!"

-This kid's energy, I swear.

-Even the finisher is fucked up.

-WE'RE DOING THE WRESTLE AGAIN

-Shinichi, my dude.

-"Sooo, how do we make Tarou stop being sad and lame?"

-Oooooh, a whole recipe!

-I probably could make that myself...

-"Menkai wa wata."

-...at least, I hope I heard that right.

-Oh? Who's this dude?

-Taichi, eh?

-Poor kid never got over it.

-Kibidango~!

-300 of them, in fact

-Well, it'd make sense that DonKaito would keep all that here.

-"No, you're not allowed to look at the rest of this menu."

...why though?

-What do these scripts look like, I wonder? "Haruka-chan and Shinichi-kun pop another piece of kibidango into Tarou-kun's mouth, accepting the inevitability of what must be a few hours worth of proper chewing and swallowing."

-...I sure hope he's getting water too.

-Sonoza, perplexed by emotions as always.

-"Ohhhhhh, man... we lost the Hitotsu-Ki. ...I sure hope Momoi's illness isn't connected to the fact that I let a man die last week."

-Wow, Shinnosuke Takahashi's vocal range is incredible.

-Sonoi is sonot moving.

-He sick too?

-And really scary.

-OHHHHH WAHT IS THAT

-YAHOOOOOO HE ATE THEM ALL

-YOSH

-Just in time too!

-Awwww, he made friends with Dog Man and Bird Man :)

-So is that how it is, some kinda squid game? Like Splatoon?

-"Wow, these suck."

-Pestle and mallet. Just like mochi.

-"Hangin' out at the mountain~!" Old guys livin' the dream.

-Well, at least the kid's having fun!

-...I hope that it didn't hurt.

-Tarou seems a lot healthier when the people he wants to help protect are on the line. ...oh, that's clever.

-Ohhhhhhh, here he comes! "Change Zenkai."

-Wow... even if he's not going all Zenryoku Zenkai, he's certainly theatrical. Komagine's got range.

-"MY BOSS HAS BEEN A SUPERHERO THIS WHOLE TIME!?"

-WHAT COULD THE GEARTLINGER ALWAYS DO THAT

-Time for the real festival!

-"Oh but it can!"

-Ohhhhh, he's desire detached from Old Man Taichi! That's just like a Yummy!

-"Play time~!"

-Has Tarou never played Red Light Green Light? This is a learning experience for him too, huh?

-THE ANONI CAN FLOAT

-Y'know, Tarou, I think your illness can be attributed to the fact that you ate 600 PIECES OF KIBIDANGO IN THE LAST FEW HOURS

-Ohhhhh, okay! You only ate 599, okay~!

-"Headpat?"

-"DANGO!"

-ROBOTARO~!

-Ohhhhhhhh, he looks sick as fuck!

-OHHHH HE'S SO COOL

-What a fun battle!

-"Thanks for fun!"

-That's... Red Buster! Tokumei-Ki?

-We're home!

-Awwwww, Izawa-san :)

-That was one hell of a fun episode, huh?

-Ohhhh, is Sonoi awake now?

-Ohhhhhhh, my God, those people are all dead.

-Oh. Haruka's tenure is over next episode? Wow, I can't believe she's leaving after 10 episodes, this season's been real short.

-Well, we have badass new forms to market! Of course she's not leaving!

-Dude, these new forms look awesome, I can't wait to see them kicking ass.