#but that gets cleared up real quick 😬

[fromperdition4]

Small moments from the Finale that stick in my brain

Kinn's cold smile (about to ruin some lives):

Chan's apology (there goes my heart):

The little car (timeout everybody - what is that?):

Kim saving the bottles (he's got his priorities straight):

Porsche gripping Kinn (standing by his man):

Tankuhn's shame (at least he didn't kill his brother):

Pete's shock (it really is like he's the one getting shot):

Kinn and Porsche kiss (so in sync):

Tankuhn regrets drinking (you and me both, Kuhn):

And finally - Macau spying on his brother (the little shit):

[whateverisbeautiful]

♥️Reveling in Richonne - TOWL

#26: The Crazy (1.03)

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So there was no doubt in my mind what I’d label the final post of episode 3. It had to be called ‘The Crazy’ because…Pearl lost her damn mind aiming a gun at Michonne. Like is she insane? 🤨

Lol, no but for real this is called ‘The Crazy’ because my sweet sweet Richonne are a couple that can always match each other's shine, match each other's freak, and especially match each other's crazy.

And their crazy was on full display in the final moments of this thrill of an episode 👌🏽...

But first, we do actually have to talk about Pearl being crazy enough to consider taking out Michonne in cold blood. 😑

After Richonne miraculously doesn’t get caught hungrily making out behind a thin tree they return to take down walkers like only Richonne can. We love to see it. 😊 But Pearl apparently hates to see it. 😬

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She watches as Rick and Michonne kill these walkers and starts really paying attention to Michonne taking out walkers and being the A Pearl pretends to be.

Pearl appears consumed with what I interpreted as a feeling of being threatened by Michonne, not because Pearl wants Rick, but rather because Michonne is a natural leader who clearly has an influence on people like Sergeant Major Grimes and she’s terrified that somehow Michonne being a clear A will have major ramifications on herself - both as a solider who argued for her and personally considering Dana’s effect on Pearl’s one family member Rick.

So Pearl raises her gun at Michonne and even starts to pull the trigger which was Pearl's certified death sentence. Seeing this, I was like welp this scene is a spoiler now lol. I knew Pearl wasn't gonna make it out of TOWL alive because again, anyone who threatens Michonne swiftly ends up in the afterlife.

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Luckily, Rick notices Pearl aiming a gun at his wife and none of what Pearl thinks she’s about to do is ever happening on Rick’s watch so without question he grabs a walker and gets in front of her gun to shield Michonne. How sweet. 🥰

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Rick reminds Pearl of why they’re out here when he yells they have 10 delts left and Pearl snaps back to reality to finish the job. I'll say it over an over again - I love that Rick takes his role as Michonne’s protector so seriously. He never hesitates to literally put his life on the line for her. 

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So then it’s nighttime as the soldiers are packing up and Rick and Michonne share a quick little look before he walks in the opposite direction as Pearl approaches to reprimand him.

Pearl says, “She broke protocol which made you break protocol” And Pearl, babe, he’d do it again. Cuz that 'she' Pearl's talking about is Rick's longtime leader so of course he followed Michonne and broke protocol with her.

Also, I was like Pearl the task wasn’t gonna get done if they followed your lead so...🤷🏽‍♀️. Rick responds by saying, “She needed help. You needed help.” And Pearl most certainly did. She seems to have forgotten that.

Pearl is still ticked off as she says there needs to be order and again emphasizes, “She went rogue and you followed, how many others are gonna do that?” I admit I liked seeing someone be so shook over the influence Michonne has lol. 🤭

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Pearl says, “I trusted her, I put my neck out for her. For you. I regret it.” I like how Rick replies by saying, “Don’t.” cuz he’s like 'you have regrets? well, how about don't have regrets' lol.

Then Rick, who has had to be an actor all episode with Pearl, is ready to dish out more lies to protect Michonne when he says, “That’s why I did what I did. Listen, maybe it was too early for her. I’ll send her back, give her more time at the Harvest Point.”

Pearl is done defending Dana as she sternly says, “Yeah, for now. We need to take care of this - us.” And hearing that made me feel like Pearl in the first episode of TOWL cuz I was looking at her like “uh, uh don’t say ‘us’, Thorne.” Cuz they’re not an ‘us’, plain and simple.

Pearl is in her hater energy telling Rick to take Michonne back cuz she doesn’t want to see her again. And Pearl, that's because you know deep down if Michonne does show you up again...

Pearl also says she’ll give Rick a pass this time since he did help majorly. Then Pearl reveals that Beale wants to brief Rick and that he’s moving up which is news to Rick, especially after Beale had previously said he still doesn’t know if he trusts him earlier in this ep. Pearl says, “Rick, you better understand.” before walking away. And Rick seems shaken by all this.

I think for Rick there’s this sense of one; knowing he has to get his wife out of here by any means necessary and he can’t rely on Pearl at all anymore since she’s done with Dana. And also two; for years, Rick's been told that his life’s purpose should be changing the CRM from the inside, and learning he’s moving up could present an opportunity to do so. But also getting the briefing could be something that just further enslaves him as it seems to have changed and enslaved Pearl to the CRM now, even if she doesn't view it like that.

So then, if this day wasn’t stressful enough, Rick is walking and sees the Garbage Queen walking around. 😒

Watching it back it made me laugh because Rick sees Jadis first and he has a stank face but isn’t intending to talk to her. He was just gonna walk on by with an expression like 'look what the trash brought in.' But then Jadis speaks to him saying she’s headquartered here now so she’ll be around often. Again, just more bad news for Rick. 😩

And then like I said before, Jadis will combust if she doesn’t harass somebody every two seconds so she tries it once again when she attempts flirtation and touches Rick saying, “You should come take a look at my quarters.” 🤢 I love the way Rick pulls away in absolute disgust at the mere notion of what Jadis is implying. Like he’s wholly offended by the offer and so am I.

I appreciate how Rick, like Michonne, never even considered anyone else neither sexually or romantically. It’s true to their characters to stay so loyally in love with each other even after being apart longer than they were together. Again, you don’t move on from a love like theirs.

I just know when Rick first got to the CRM he wanted to take a page from Toy Story and have Michonne’s name written on the bottom of his tattered cowboy boot just to make it clear who he belongs to lol. No other woman stood a chance at being with him, especially not that serpent Jadis.

That’s why every time Rick gets to kiss Michonne and hold her and be tenderly held by her after they reunited it makes my heart happy because he’s getting to experience and express this love with the only woman on the planet he wants to experience and express this love with.

And when Jadis comes on to Rick and he pulls away that was a ‘heifer, I’m a married man’ pull away. Like I know the direct quote from his mind was ‘Even tho I’m about to try and break things off with my wife, I’m still an eternally married man because I’m trying to get Michonne to leave me but I’m still not leaving her ever.’ 

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As Rick looks at Jadis with loathing in his eyes, she says, “Beautiful view of the cascades,” somehow not picking up on the fact that Rick has gone several years without his wife and still never once looked her way.

And then Jadis just casually looks right over at Michonne almost tickled by this whole situation as she says, “She hasn’t seen me.” The audacity of this woman to be coming on to Rick at all, but especially when she knows his wife was right there. Jadis has been irking my spirit since 2017 y’all, for real. 😪

And she irks me even more when Michonne looks over and sees Jadis for the first time, leading the snake to just smugly be like, “Oh. There it is. She saw me.” She’s getting off on this stuff and it’s annoying. 🙄

And it’s in this moment where you see Rick have a system shutdown experience. 😞 Like there’s just one too many threats pointed his wife’s way and he can’t take it anymore.

Rick is a man whose heart lives outside of his chest because his heart is his family. You can’t truly debilitate him until you come for them. And so when his wife’s life was threatened like eight different times in the span of a few hours you see him just be overcome with overwhelm at the danger his wife is in.

Like y'all, he’s just a boy in love with a girl whose life is at risk at every turn and that’s intolerable to him since he feels made to protect her. And he wants Michonne safe by any means necessary cuz for Rick, something bad happening to her is 1000x worse than anything they could do to him. Plus, he knows if anything happens to Michonne he won't ever bounce back from that loss.

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So with Pearl no longer helping them, Jadis' insufferable self, and even Beale noting Michonne among thousands…it’s too much for a man who feels wholly devoted to keeping Michonne out of harm's way and who quite literally needs her to live in order for him to live at all. So we see Rick snap, ready to do anything to get Michonne out of here asap. Including breaking her heart. 😓

Rick sees Michonne seeing Jadis and immediately walks to her, not wanting this to escalate between the two ladies. But then things escalate between him and Michonne because he grabs Michonne’s arm and pulls her to the side...even tho not far enough to the side if you ask me lol. I was like surely a soldier is going to be able to look over and be like 'Why are Grimes and Consignee Bethune arguing like a married couple over there? ��'

As Rick grabs Michonne, who is clearly taken by surprise and understandably confused as to what the heck Jadis is doing here, Rick just says, “It doesn’t matter.” But I was like Rick, what? 🤔 It matters a ton because it’s Jadis's threats that are why Rick switched up on thinking they could escape together in the first place and it would be very helpful for Michonne to know the role Jadis plays in all this. 

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Michonne says a bewildered, “Jadis?” And she has every right to want answers and be perplexed seeing her. Like there’s clearly a story here that Rick hasn’t mentioned to her yet. Also, I like how, despite last knowing her as 'Anne', when Michonne sees Jadis with the CRM she calls her 'Jadis' because she’s like 'I know this can’t be the reformed version of that heifer, this has got to be the snake Judas version.'

Since Rick has become quite one-track-minded in trying to get Michonne home, he doesn’t seem to get why explaining Jadis' involvement would be a big missing piece in helping Michonne understand what the heck is going on. So he more sternly tells her, “It doesn’t matter!” And I notice once Michonne realizes the testy energy Rick has that's when she yanks her arm from out of his grasp.

And then y’all, this next part is where we get introduced to a new character. 😪👌🏽

See, the Rick we know and love is called The Brave Man. But this new guy at the end of episode three, who happens to look a lot like the Brave Man, is actually a character I like to call The Bold As Hell Talking To His Wife Like That Man.

And The Bold As Hell Talking To His Wife Like That Man, or TBAHTTHWLT Man for short lol, says, “You’re going back to base right now then I’m getting you the hell out of here”

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And can I just say, I usually pause the scenes throughout to write out my thoughts but the way he’s behaving in this particular scene had me so heated I had to just stop and let the scene play while I stared silently like…🤨😒.

And Rick continues to be TBAHTTHWLT Man when he angrily tells Michonne he’s getting her out of here even if he has to knock her out and put her on the boat himself which…not knock her out??? 🤨 This healthy relationship only gets one knockout and Michonne already cashed in on it when she knocked Rick out in season 5 so...no more of that. That's not how these two knock each other out anymore, okay?😇

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And also nawt him doing a little firm hand movement for emphasis. 🙃 He lost his mind.

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Michonne is listening to this with her eyes wide in utter shock that her man is speaking to her like this. Plus, he's the one who told her multiple times that they'd get away together and now he’s on ten acting like she’s crazy for thinking they were ever going to go home together.

Rick really was putting her on a roller coaster since she’s been in the CRM. One minute they’re breathlessly making out with all the passion in the world and the next he’s telling her “I belong here, you don’t, and you will never change that.” 

It’s sad that he’s convinced himself he belongs here. He knows strong people don’t belong here but he’s convinced himself he’s not strong anymore. 😢 When he decided to die he felt he died a failure and he’s lost his confidence that he can be more than that.

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Saying 'you will never change that' is also wild because Michonne can always change Rick’s mind. He’s been aware of that since years ago, like when he told Michonne she could’ve talked him out of his hidden guns ploy in ASZ in season 5.

Also, this tone he's using...I hadn’t heard Rick speak to Michonne in this tone since the season 3 “we patch you up and then you’re gone” days. And just like that line in season 3, Rick does not truly mean the things he's saying here in TOWL episode 3 either.

Then TBAHTTHWLT Man wants to get extra hurtful when he tries to announce the end of Richonne, saying, “It’s over. Everything we had is broken. You hear me?”

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Ok first; it was bad enough hearing him say that but then the truculent 'you hear me?' on top of it…TBAHTTHWLT Man and I had beef in this scene, I must say.

But also I’m a big fan of paying attention to wording. And the wording here is very telling. Notice, he doesn’t say we’re over. But it’s over.

'We’re over' would feel a lot more break-up-y but 'it’s over 'feels like saying whatever hope we had of being together is over more than saying there’s nothing between us. After all those kisses he knows that lie would never be bought. So he says 'it’s over.'

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And then saying 'everything we had is broken,' still leaves room for the fact that something outside of themselves broke what they had.

Still, hearing 'everything we had is broken; is just such a crushing thing to hear tho. 🥺

Like fortunately Rick is not nearly as good of an actor as Andrew Lincoln and so you know right here and now that he doesn’t mean any of this and it’s a bold-faced lie, but still that it was said at all is painful. Especially when you see Michonne’s face reacting to these hurtful untruths. 😞

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She’s been through hell trying to save Rick and now he’s being so uncharacteristically cold to her and becoming the biggest obstacle to her mission of saving him and getting them home to their kids.

But I love it when you see the subtle shift in her expression. Like at first as she’s listening to Rick essentially try to break up with her (which is just crazy to even type out) she seems really flabbergasted and hurt and also like she can sense an underlying subtext to what’s going on. Like she looks concerned not for her but for him. He’s clearly reacting from a place of trauma and anxiety and she’s like okay what’s really going on with you cuz this is a cry for help.

At this moment I almost thought Michonne might look around wondering who the heck he was talking to and then with concern be like...

I mean, Michonne started talking to her 'dead' lover again in season 9 so maybe Rick started seeing people who aren't actually there again. It happens lol.

But for real, when Rick says that stern “You hear me?” you can see Michonne realize something else - she realizes that her husband has introduced a game for the two of them to play called the Crazy-Off. 😋

And right now Rick is in the lead by talking to her cash crazy. But as a true blue winner, Michonne is ready to come in at the buzzer and win this Crazy-Off that her husband has started. 😜

But for real I do think Michonne blinks and stares at him at the end hearing more of the subtext of what he’s saying. She looks like she’s thinking, ‘Rick, that’s a strange way to say ‘hey I’m stressed and scared for us, so can you take over?’ but okay I translated it, and don’t worry...

It's interesting because no man has ever loved a woman more than Rick loves Michonne and no woman has ever loved a man more than Michonne loves Rick. And once they reunited in TOWL, for Michonne her love for him manifests itself as fuel that makes her fight harder, and for Rick his love for her manifests itself as fear that makes him try so hard to protect her even from himself because he’s terrified of something happening to her. 

But Michonne knows that this breakup talk is BS and so now she’s ready to take matters into her own hands because, as Danai said, she can’t have this man in her presence like this any longer. 👌🏽

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And it’s funny because at first glance it might appear like Michonne's silent reaction is her reacting equanimously to all this. But the way her eyes are moving and twitching while looking at Rick, she's definitely communicating if you want to get crazy, we can get crazy.

Now don’t get me wrong, I can comprehend what Rick was doing in this scene. I get that this behavior is all actually coming from how much he loves her and is terrified of something happening to her. While he's presenting as angry, what he really feels is fear. And he knows she won’t leave without him because she loves him and so he’s trying to break her heart so that she’ll be more willing to leave him behind and make it home alive.

...But I still think it’s not okay and absolutely crazy that he thought this approach would work. 

And again, if Rick wants to get crazy…well Michonne had to remind him...

So now, they’re sitting across from each other on the helicopter during a raging storm. Rick is staring at Michonne and Michonne is staring right back at him with crazy all up in her eyes.

Since season 3, Michonne has never backed down from a steely stare-down with Rick Grimes and she’s not about to do so now.

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The way she’s staring and smiling without blinking in this helicopter, I’d be more scared of whatever is going through her head than this helicopter rocking about. 🫣 And Rick is more uneasy about her too lol. They’re definitely expressing things without words here.

Also, whoever is piloting this helicopter during this storm has no idea that the real storm a-brewing is between the married couple in the back.

I love the way Michonne just stayed looking at him with that smize being like you seem to have forgotten who I am but it’s all good cuz I’m going to quickly remind you. I could just feel the way she’s probably thinking - I’ve been through too much, you’ve been through too much, we’ve been through too much to end it this way. So if we’re gonna go out, baby it’s gonna be with a bang. 💥

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I love how you can visibly see Michonne concocting an unhinged plan in her mind too. 🤭

So the helicopter shakes and Rick is already anxious because he probably has helicopter crash PTSD but then he looks back up at Michonne and tries to maintain his grumpy little face at her but he also is nervous cuz he can tell she’s up to something.

Then Rick starts getting legit panicked from the violent shaking of the helicopter. But Michonne is so locked in about what she’s about to do that she’s completely unfazed by the helicopter. Let it rock. 😌

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Michonne just calmly looks out the window at the water below as she again speaks to her daughter in an unforgettable episode ender.

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Michonne says, “Shoto, it’s Daito. I’m sorry…” And then Michonne stares right at Rick, unstraps herself, and swiftly grabs Rick, plunging both of them out of the helicopter and into the thundering storm as Rick lets out a panicked yell. Michonne's voiceover then just says with chilling calm, “I don’t know if we’ll be back.”

Wild. 🤯

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And also what an icon Michonne is. 👑😌 I loved this moment. 👏🏽 I know up to this point Rick probably thought he had tried every method in the book to get home but Michonne was like have you tried plummeting out of a moving helicopter?...let's try that.

Rick didn’t realize of all the people to be nervous about it was actually Michonne, not the others he should have most been on high alert for. 😋

Michonne really said oh you’ll do anything to save me? Guess what? I’ll do anything to save you, so off this helicopter we go. And her pulling this move was her letting Rick Grimes, the CRM, and Gravity itself know she's that girl and nothing is stopping her. 💅🏽

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I love how Michonne will both literally and figuratively do what needs to be done. Like figuratively and literally knocking some sense into Rick in season 5 or literally and figuratively yanking Rick out of his stormy state in TOWL.

The way she told Shoto 'I don’t know if we’ll be back' - Michonne basically was like your daddy is tripping, Shoto, so I don't know if this story ends with us going home to Alexandria or me sending him to the heavenly home above.

And honestly, if Judith had heard Rick talking cash crazy to Michonne like that she would have had some words cuz she does not play about her mama. Idk if her parents would ever tell her this part of the story one day but if they do, I personally think Judith would be in full support of what Michonne did. 😅

But also I really like the wording of 'I don't know if we’ll be back' because it poses the question to be beautifully and expertly explored in the next episode. Can Rick and Michonne find their way back to each other in a more internal sense? Right now Michonne doesn’t know for certain. But as a true Get Things Done Grimes she’s gonna try to find out during an incredibly riveting Richonne 'timeout.'

So the exciting episode 3 ends with an empty helicopter and rain pouring as we’re set up for what comes next.

And what comes next is an experience that transcends television.

An experience that profoundly explores the depths of Richonne and takes the characters to their highest heights.

An experience that features some of Andy and Danai's absolute best performances.

An experience so great and addicting that every single scene had rewind buttons around the world looking like...

"What We" is a true standout within the TWD franchise, and most of all it's an experience that was exceptionally written by the illustrious Danai Gurira herself. 👑👏🏽

So now, my fellow Richonne fans, stans, & friends...

We have got to talk about every fine detail in the masterpiece that is Episode 4. 😇🎉👌🏽

[connorsui]

Hello! I have a request. Can you write headcanons for Leon from re4r or infinity darkness with a fem!reader who really has a low pain threshold. I have been struggling with this problem for a long time, but it does not work. The problem here is not even that it hurts me VERY much from the slightest injury, but that when I get hit I immediately start crying. And I can't control it! There is no way at all! Thank you in advance💘

p.s. Sorry, I wrote through a translator, English is not my native language😬

Aweeee, hello, my luv! I'll be happy to give you that headcanon list 🩷🩷

That has to be difficult to go through with such a low pain threshold-- I do hope I did you justice with ur request 😭🎀

《 ♡ A Healing Touch ♡ 》

Genre/ warnings: Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Mention of injury, Emotional vulnerability

Synopsis: Being tough isn't always about physical strength. For you, even the smallest of injuries bring an overwhelming wave of pain, and with it, tears you can’t hold back. But in the midst of a world full of terror and violence, Leon Kennedy becomes your safe haven, offering gentle words and a comforting touch when the pain becomes too much to bear.

|| Headcanons ||

♡ Tender Care

The first time Leon sees you cry after a minor injury, he’s a bit taken aback. You’re in the middle of a mission, and a simple scrape from a piece of debris has you on the verge of tears. He doesn’t judge you; instead, he’s quick to rush to your side, worry etched on his face as he softly asks, “Are you okay?”

♡ Gentle Reassurance

Leon quickly picks up on your low pain threshold and the fact that you cry as a natural reaction to getting hurt. He never makes you feel embarrassed about it. Instead, he adopts a habit of gently wiping away your tears, his voice low and soothing as he whispers, “It’s okay. You’re okay. I’m right here.”

♡ Protective Embrace

His protective instincts kick in whenever you’re hurt, no matter how small the injury is. Even if it’s just a paper cut, Leon is immediately concerned, carefully inspecting the wound while murmuring soft reassurances like, “I’ve got you. It’s just a little cut, but we’ll patch it up together.”

♡ Comfort in Knowing

Over time, Leon becomes more attuned to your needs. He always carries extra bandages and pain relievers just in case. He even takes the time to learn what comforts you the most when the pain becomes too much, whether it’s a warm embrace, quiet words of comfort, or just sitting with you until the tears subside.

♡ Heartfelt Moments

Whenever you’re hurt, Leon’s voice takes on an even softer tone. He’ll cradle your face in his hands, looking directly into your eyes as he says, “You don’t have to be strong for me. It’s okay to cry. I’m here to make it better.” His touch is always feather-light, never doing anything that might add to your pain.

♡ After the Storm

After the tears have dried and the pain starts to fade, Leon stays close, offering a warm smile and a gentle kiss on your forehead. He’ll often tease you lightly, trying to make you smile: “You’re stronger than you think, you know that?” But there’s always a sincere undertone in his words, as he truly admires your resilience.

♡ Unspoken Understanding

Eventually, you don’t even need to explain. The moment Leon sees your eyes well up with tears, he’s already by your side, comforting you without a word. He’ll simply hold you close, letting you cry it out until the pain eases, his presence alone a balm to your sensitive soul.

♡ Reassuring Touch

On days when you feel embarrassed or frustrated by your low pain threshold, Leon is there to remind you that it’s nothing to be ashamed of. “You’re human, just like the rest of us. Pain is real, and it’s okay to feel it,” he tells you, his voice firm yet tender.

♡ Always by Your Side

Leon makes it clear that no matter what happens, he’ll always be there to support you. Whether it’s a major injury or just a stubbed toe, he’s there to offer comfort, his presence a steady source of reassurance. “I’ll take care of you, no matter what. We’re in this together,” he promises, and you know he means it with every fiber of his being.

Leon is the perfect man I swear to yall

[last-herondale]

“Wintered”

Jacob Black x Fem-reader

Soulmates

Fluff, slight NSFW, mostly fluff 😊

A/N: This is similar to my previous Jacob x reader post. My head cannon is where the reader is part of the pack and imprints on Jacob, but he doesn’t immediately imprint on her back. Anyway, this scene takes place before the confrontation with the Voltori in BD pt 2. Jacob has finally imprinted on Y/N after you have a near death experience. (I refuse to accept the storyline of Jacob imprinting on Ratatouille 🤢) and the two of you station yourself out in the clearing to scout the area before the rest of the Cullens and wolves arrive. A blizzard comes in and forces the two of you to make camp within the woods. This allows for some fluffy conversations to occur. 😉

Might make a NSFW scene as a part 2 to this story. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Jacob Black has my heart so expect one 😉

Edit: I did make part 2 😬 here’s a link. Okay byeee

Part 2

Enjoy 🤘🏼

You had been careful. Maybe too careful these past few weeks after the birth of Bella’s daughter. It had been a chaotic period of your life. You had chosen to break apart from the pack in order to follow Jacob. Your new Alpha. Your imprint. Your soulmate. Even from the beginning it was never really a choice, but still, you were proud of his decision to leave.

He was fighting to save Bella, as he always did. And even though it broke your heart to see the man you loved more than anything in the world fight so hard for someone who would never love him like he deserved, you stood by his side through it all. Even when the fight became deadly.

It had been a risky plan. But the Cullens needed to feed. Distract the pack. Protect the Cullens. That was the plan that fateful night. But it turned sour real quick. Bella had gone into labor, and Sam’s pack had launched an attack on the remaining Cullens. Paul had the small vampire, Alice, in between his giant wolf mouth. She had been weak and hungry, and even her immortal strength began to give way. You couldn’t let her die. Despite knowing Paul’s size and strength over powered you every time you trained with the pack, you didn’t care.

You had launched yourself at Paul, your claws and teeth slashing at his neck, forcing him to release Alice, allowing her to escape. Paul was enraged with you then. You could feel the rumble of his growl deep in his chest as he set his sights on you and pounced.

“Y/N!” Jacob’s voice called, snapping you out of the memory.

The wind was whipping all around you. Flurries of snow bit at your face and clung in your hair. The sun was beginning to set and the landscape was quickly turning dark. Jacob came up from behind you, his bare chest unfazed by the chill weather. You stood unbothered as well, the warmth of your wolf blood fought against the cold, especially after shifting. You turned to look at him, and as always your chest tugged at you to close the space between you. But you fought yourself and stood your ground.

“The weather is getting worse,” he nearly had to yell over the wind. You nodded. Alice had said this would happen. A winter vortex would come in and blanket the clearing with snow and ice. Then, after the sun returned, the Volturi would arrive.

“Should we head back?” You asked. It would take no time at all to head back to the Cullen house, but Edward had wanted eyes on the clearing to make sure there were no surprises.

Jacob shook his head and pulled over the backpack he had been carrying. “This storm shouldn’t last too long. Alice said it would be over by tomorrow morning.” He looked at you with a strange sparkle in his eyes. “I brought us a tent,” he continued, “I mean only- if you want to.” You arched your brow at him in amusement. You had never seen him trip over his words before, and lately he seemed to be doing that a lot around you.

“Yeah, okay. Let’s find somewhere out of this wind.” You reply.

The two of you found a nice spot within the trees, up against a large rock that blocked out a great deal of wind. You helped him set up the tent between the trees and found yourself glad to take refuge within. Jacob was close behind you, taking great care to zip up the tent, securing the two of you inside.

You sat across from him in silence for a moment. There seemed to be an electric charge buzzing between the two of you. It sent a strange sensation down your spine when you noticed how he looked at you. His lips parted slightly, as if he was going to speak, but to break the tension you finally reached over and yanked his pack away.

“What else are you hiding in here?” You teased.

Amusement warmed his face. He leaned back and crossed his arms and you searched his pack. “Oh you know, stakes, cloves of garlic, usual leech killing gear.”

You snorted. “Oh that’s what that smell was? The whole run over here I thought it was your breath.”

Jacob let out a laugh, a real genuine laugh. It had been a while, it had been months, since you heard that laugh of his. It warmed your heart to hear his laugh again. You pulled out the contents of his backpack, and found that he had packed the two of you an extra set of clothes, in case transforming caused any wardrobe issues. There was a handmade quilt that you pulled out and set aside. And a few granola bars and a few waters.

You tossed him a bar and a bottle and let yourself stretch out across the tent as you ate. The two of you chatted mindlessly a bit as you tried to ignore the growing tension that seemed to build within the tent. It was as if you could reach out and touch the electric waves that buzzed between you. Finally, you let yourself stretch out on the tent floor, using the quilt as a pillow. Jacob hesitated a moment before joining you on the floor, your bodies inches apart from each other as the wind picked up outside of the tent.

You turned on your side to face him, and were shocked to find him already facing you. His eyes seemed deep in thought as they scanned your face. You felt your face redden slightly at the intensity of his gaze.

“Jake?” You ask softly. His eyes snapped up to look at yours. “Hmm” was all he answered. You couldn’t help but smile at him. “Are you okay?” You ask with a small chuckle, “You’ve been acting—different ever since Ness was born.” At that Jacob’s smile wavered a bit but his eyes kept roaming your face.

“I’ve just been thinking,” he murmured, “ a lot of things have changed since then. It’s an— adjustment.” You expected that in some capacity. You were prepared to help Jacob once Bella became a vampire, to help distract him from the pain of that, but it never came. He seemed to almost welcome Bella into her immortal life, taking satisfaction in the fact of her still being alive in some capacity anyway. It had shocked you how— calm he was about it all.

“Does it hurt being around her?” You nearly whispered. Normally would wouldn’t have dared asked such a question, but his silence these past few weeks had been maddening. Confusion swept Jacob’s face for a moment before he realized what you meant. And then he chuckled.

“Around Bella? No. Not anymore. That’s— not the change I meant, although it has been an adjustment getting used to her new life. But that isn’t what I meant. ” He said. You scrunched you brows at him in confusion and then abruptly sat up. Jacob propped himself up on one arm to meet your gaze, his eyes searching your face to see what he had done.

“Then what do you mean, Jacob? Why else have you been acting so weird lately?” Anger tipped on your words, but you found yourself unable to restrain your emotions. Jacob waited for you to continue, his lips pressed together as if he was holding back.

“For weeks now you’ve been so calm, so careful… I thought you would be upset or angry or something! Leah and Seth won’t tell me anything, but I know they know something. Even Edward seems to know what it is but for some reason you refuse to tell me? Jacob, you’ve just been so quiet around me lately and I can’t understand why. What changed? Did I do something to you?” At the last question you felt tears fall down your eyes.

Without hesitation, Jacob’s hand we on either side of your face, wiping the tears from your cheeks. “I’m sorry,” he choked out, “I was afraid that if I admitted the truth— that if I told you—“

“Told me what, Jacob?” You pleaded. You grabbed his hands that held your face.

“I—“ he struggled to say, “I imprinted.”

Suddenly you were back in that moment. You felt Paul’s teeth clamp down on your neck, the sharp crunching pain of his canines crunching down on bone. That pain was excruciating. But even then, the pain and shock allowed you to pass out from it. Death was a numbing relief to the pain, or so you imagined. But this pain had no relief. You dropped your hands from Jacob’s and felt your heart collapse.

“On who?” Your voice cracked. “When did you—?”

Jacob froze at your reaction. You could no longer hide the pain that radiated from your chest. You felt as if you might vomit. Would it be better to know? Who she was, how he now felt for her? His world now revolved around her. How would you survive?

“I need to leave,” you choke out. You tried to fumble with the zipper but Jacob’s strong hands gripped you and pulled you away.

“Y/N, please,” he voice was oddly strained, “let me explain—“

“I cant!” You cried, “i can’t do this anymore Jacob! I can’t keep pretending that everything is okay, when my heart is breaking! I can’t keep pretending that I don’t love you. That you are everything to me, my purpose, my entire existence! Please, let me go!”

The words you promised to never say were out. Your body heaved in violent sobs as the weight of your soul poured out before him. You expected him to release you. To be horrified by what you just said. But instead you felt him move closer, the space between you disappeared as he wrapped his large arms around you tightly and securely.

“Oh Y/N,” he murmured against your hair, “oh sweetheart, my love, my everything, no, no, no, no.” You stilled under him, his words piercing your body with every syllable. “Why didn’t you tell me sooner? Why didn’t you tell me you imprinted?”

You pushed yourself away from him far enough to look into his eyes. You searched his wildly waiting for him to explain. He ran a hand through your hair, pushing it away from your face. “That night, when Paul nearly killed you—“ his voice cracked at the memory, “ I thought I would lose you. Something snapped in me that night, something deep and primal in my blood. Suddenly, you were the only pull I felt. Everything in my heart, body, and soul was fighting for you.”

You weren’t sure if you were breathing then. Tears fell down your face as Jacob continued. “I knew it was the imprint, I felt it deep within my bones. When you finally woke up, I waited to see if maybe the bond had snapped into place for you too… but nothing had seemed to change for you. I wasn’t sure how to tell you— so I waited and kept my distance. I didn’t want to force this on you, or scare you away. But I never thought…” he trailed off. His thumb traced down the side of your face, stopping at the edge of your bottom lip.

“How long have you known?” He asked.

“I’ve always known,” you whispered.

And with those words alone, any restraint, and uncertainty Jacob had had vanished. In an instant his hand cupped the back of your neck as he pulled you closer and kissed you. The contact of him made stars dance in your vision, but immediately you found yourself melting against him. You threw your arms around his neck and anchored yourself to him. He growled against your mouth in reaction, and deepened the kiss.

His tongue explored your mouth, intoxicating your senses with the taste of him. Your fingers knotted up in his hair, and you pulled his head closer to yours, needing more of him in your reach. He reacted to your touch, a soft groan escaping his lips as he nipped your bottom lip. His free hand wrapped around your waist and pulled you closer. You gave out a small yelp in surprise and you couldn’t help but giggle.

Jacob moved his lips from your mouth to trace the line of your jaw, peppering you with kisses as he made his way down your neck. “Whats so funny?” He murmured against the nape of your neck. You tilted your head back to give him easier access, the warmth of his lips were inviting. “You have no idea—“ you said breathlessly, “how long I’ve wanted you to kiss me.”

You felt him smile against your neck, his teeth grazing you as he pulled away slowly. He looked at you, desire burning in his dark eyes, his face oddly flushed with red and warmth. “I’m sorry for not realizing sooner. I’m sorry I’ve kept you waiting. All this time,” he said, both of his arms slipped around you, pulling you as close to him as possible, “I thought it was friendship that made our relationship so strong.” He said the word as a curse. As if he realized now that what the two of you had was more than that. More than any word used to describe this feeling.

“I thought it was a different kind of love you felt for me,” he admitted, “I never imagined it was— this.” You slid one hand down from his neck and traced the line of his jaw. Gentle touches you had always restrained yourself from. He leaned into you, shivering at each touch. A smile spread across your face as you held your heart in your hands. All of the heartache these past few years had suddenly vanished from your mind. None of it mattered. Not anymore. “I suppose you have time to make up for then,” you challenged.

Jacob’s eyes bore into you, waiting for you to make the next move. He would bend to you, only you. Your thumb traced the outline of his lips. Two words. One command of him. The one thing you had sought after since you met him. A whisper within the wind.

“Kiss me.”

[toxicanonymity]

Brothel - Dicks

The brothel, aka real housecreeps, is a meta reality show about the Joels and other blorbos. Normally everything is smooth sailing, but we mostly air the drama.

Collect calls SPOILERS

brothel master list

Oh no, a producer leaked a copy of the dick HCs and raider Joel just sent me a dick pic with a ruler for scale, claiming I shorted him. I stared at it for a good 60 seconds, then left him on read. Now someone's knocking at my bedroom door. I ignore it and respond to the pic instead. "Sorry 😬"

Raider, muffled outside my door: Think ya might need a better look. (I don't answer) Can I at least talk to ya?

I put on my robe, begrudgingly let him in, and try not to look at the bulge in his tactical jeggings.

Raider: Production told me to take it up with you.

Me: Tell me you didn't send pictures to production. (Raider is silent.) That's sexual harassment. God damnit, in the middle of your PR tour?

Raider hangs his head and seems sorry until he unzips his tactical jeggings and that's the only reason he was looking down. I'm tempted to make him jack off just because, but I shake my head no.

Raider: Be a good girl for me and it'll be over quick.

Me: are you regressing back to March over this? Don't talk to me like a reader, and don't come in here taking your dick out.

Raider nods solemnly, and I sheepishly add under my breath, "unless I tell you to." The toilet flushes and I nervously look toward the bathroom.

Trouble walks out, fully dressed, buttoning his shirt.

Trouble, to Raider: Didn't I tell you to leave this shit alone, man?

Raider: Pool house, huh? You live in the pool house?

Raider sticks his head into the bathroom and sees there's a big, lavish bedroom connected on the other side and the bed is made. Trouble mouths to me, 'want him to leave?' and I shrug like Idk what to do.

Raider: Can you give us a minute, man?

Trouble: I think you should leave, Raid. I get you're upset but don't bust up in here at 6 in the morning.

Me: Neither of you are leaving.

I put Trouble in the cuck chair, Raider sits on the bed, and I sit down at the vanity to finish talking to him. His pants are still open but I'm not looking.

Me (attempting to be comforting) Hey, anything more than 7" is a waste anyway.

Trouble (7") nods.

Raider: this ain't about sweet pea.

Trouble: that's your issue, man.

Me, to Raider: You're the biggest one either way, why're you pitching a fit over less than a centimeter?

Raider and Trouble look at each other. Trouble shakes his head at Raider like, don't say it.

Raider: We know about him.

Oh, shit. Trouble sighs. I play stupid.

Me: you know about who?

Raider: Jojo.

Me: He doesnt have an HC.

Raider: He has a bulge.

Me: I haven't even seen his dick.

Raider: You've seen his dick print.

Me: How do you--

Raider: All I'm askin' for is accuracy, that's it. Ill do ya a dick print if ya want.

Me: Lemme talk to my dick consultant (@jazziepascal ).

Raider: What'd I do? I used to be your emotional support Joel. Your mental health Joel.

I realize maybe he could've helped me through this month if I spent more time with him.

Me: You still are, c'mere.

I open my arms for a hug. We embrace, but his dick is still hard so it's awkward. After the hug, Trouble is making a face like he wouldnt mind being cucked, but I clear my throat , adjust my robe, and dismiss both of them.

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Later that day, the men gather in the kitchen. They're huddled around the table and you can't see Night Walks, but they're all talking to him. You can see balled up pieces of paper on the floor and and on the counter there's an open ream of printer paper and an open tub of vasoline.

Thighs Out: I think you've gotta really slap it down.

(loud smack)

Thighs Out: There ya go. Your turn, slasher.

[rosey100]

| Just thought about the colors so no one gets confused reading this |

🤖 Zach

🪻Violet

🌂Varina

🕹Jimmy

💻Koki

🌟 Zoe

🛹JJ

Alright, let's read on

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😮‍💨

Well, it wasn't gonna be more shocking than this

It had been a long week after their hot relaxing trip from Ski Resort. Life was good for a few days, but Varina was starting to get really bad nause every morning for a week, though she may have thought it was a bug for a while even tried to take some medicine but throw up every time she had a pill in her mouth than started to felt tried and dizzy for almost two weeks in crave cupcakes and chocolate covered grapefruit that when her friend (Ellie) was starting to peace the puzzles together asked if she could be late that made Varina slightly more nervous than usual. The next thing that she had in her hand was a store-bought pregnancy test, and for almost five minutes later, the results were very clear and it was really clear for JJ who (of course he fainted like father like son 🤷🏽‍♀️) heading that he going to be a father. They were having a hard time about telling their parents about the news it didn't take any time for her sickness to spew out in front of her mother, and then a suddenly call to JJ's parents was all that took a while to make a decision to tell them that ~

YOU'RE EXPECTING WHAT!!!!???

🤖: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE EXPECTING IN 9 MONTHS!!?

💻: I STILL ON THE BABY PART!

🛹: Wellll it's... we just gotten um... things happen 😅

🤖💻: WHAT!!!!

🕹: Koi?

🪻: Honey, let just hear them out first

🤖: Oh yeah, I want hear it! I definitely want to hear it!

🛹 : OK, um, well, it just happened

💻: IT doesn't just happen with the fact that you two are having a baby JJ? A BABY !?

🛹: It's complicated, actually. We've didn't know til....five.. weeks ago

💻: Ok, so five weeks ago, you and JJ were at Ski Resort in Sweden, right

🌂: Ye.. Yes ma'am

💻 : So 😤 your five weeks along

🌂🛹 : Yes *😬 *😮‍💨

💻 : SO Y'ALL WE'RE FU¢KING CORN HOLDING IN SWEDEN FOR SEVEN DAYS STRAIGHT FOR THIS TO HAPPEN!!!!!!!!

🛹 : Yeah, but we do it is happening on the fourth day on the ski trip

🪻: Alright, that's good! Right now, we know how this happened

🤖 : No Vi this isn't good for seven days, SEVEN DAYS!😠 I thought you two would be responsible🤦🏻‍♂️

🌂: I know, but -🥺

🤖: And yet here we are, because you * direct to JJ *

🪻: OK, let's just cool down now before things get to heated

| While the arguing still continues on a woman walking into the kitchen, hearing the commotion unfolds felt a little injust and in the air |

🌟: I'm sorry to introduce * coming out of the kitchen * but doesn't this kinda remind you about the time when you guys come up pregnant with me

💻: Zoe, when did you come from, and who- Wait hold on? how did you kon-

🌟: Aunt Aviva and guncle Jeff told me about it, so these no secret to keep for me and didn't you tell me that I was y'alls "pop up flower girl"

🕹: Uh ☝🏻😳 *now thinking of the engagement party and bubble house*

🌟: And I definitely know about y'all stories, so freeze that real quick, Mr. Varmitech ✋🏽

🤖: 😤 * is definitely not wanting any kind of bad side from Zoe *

⭐️: So basically, there are no grounds to go on for 🙌🏽 no disrespect 🙌🏽 cuz the honeymooning happened way before ya'lls marital bed.

🌂🛹: *Shocked but not shocked at all, knowing their parents*

💻: Well, you are on that one, Zoe, but that doesn't excuse you * points to JJ*. JJ, we taught y'all better than this

🛹: Look, we know this isn't the best news, but we can try looking at the... joyful new. I mean, we're having a new baby,and right after high school at best, y'all are going to be grandparents as well

🪻: That still didn't make any of this better, we all know this baby is coming into the world, but we know this should be a joyful occasion, but😥

🛹: But what ?

💻: But you two are still young, and even after high school,you still have college to look towards now. How are you going to deal with a baby

🛹: Well Fu¢k mom, you seem to be more able to make it possible for six kids

💻: We were already done college a long time ago, and you better watch it for you gonna be worried about something else than a baby

🛹: You know what I thought

🕹: Wait, Junior, that not what we're talking about

🌂: JJ, hold on, you can't just leave

🛹: Look, I'm just gonna get some air, that's all Varina, I'll be back in a few, ok

💻: Oh no, you not * turns JJ away from the door to facing her* you're gonna stay here and take it cause you are not gonna walk away cause

🤖: |I'm going to end him| Well then, he suddenly walks out. You can just walk away from her

🪻: Zachary!! 😡

🕹: No no no JJ isn't going everywhere. You're part of this just as much, and neither me or your mom or anyone gonna let it happen 😠

🤖: Me either

🛹*|Stand in understander meant and the consequences with the situation*|

🪻: Alright, but considering the fact standing here is what you guys are going to do with this baby now

🕹: Agree. I think we should have a talk about the baby, but we should talk about what your future will be on a later date, maybe when everyone's cooled out

🤖: Yes, I think we should talk about the future on this later until then, I think we should be going back home now for a private talk, and I'm sorry for my behavior

🛹: Um, Mr. Varmitech ?

🤖: I expect your forgiveness, JJ, I'm certain you make the right decision for my daughter and your child

🛹: Of course, and sorry for almost running out on you back there

🌂: I forgive you, and I would be nervous too, although I'm still nervous 😔🥹

🛹: *Holds Varina's hands* Varina 😟

🪻: Varina, We'll be waiting outside, dear

🌂: I'm coming 😔 I guess. This one might

🛹: Well, we're not out of the woods yet, but we'll get through it, I promise you and you * rubs Varina's belly * Promise

🌂: Oh, I love you

🛹: And I love you

Hunk from the car

🌂🛹: I should go *🫳🏻 🫲🏽*

🛹: Bye✋🏽* Standing in the doorway *

🌂: *Mouths Bye 😟 while the vehicle drives away*

⭐️: J Dad wants to talk

And just to be sure no one gets confused with the timing of this link can show you

Link 👈🏽

Varina, Violet Varmitech belong to @jokerislandgirl32

[vacancy90]

Ohh, what about Jasper/Mathieu?

Aah, thanks for asking! *rubs hands together* 😏

So... this was supposed to be a short piece of kinky smut to get that idea out of my system but as always, the boys started having own ideas. It's at over 5k and the smut has barely started. And it's all Mathieu's fault 🙄

it's kinda sweet now and quite emotional and maybe even a bit angsty, so absolutely not just a quick piece of smut. Let me find some snippets to tease you 😌

-- Jasper doesn't even know if it's worth being called a kink since he never got to practice it. He just knows it's what gets him hot and horny and guarantees getting over the finish line faster than he's ever reached by a sprint on a bike. Maybe he wouldn't even like it if he got to try it for real. Or maybe he would. And that's the thing. That's why it's so tempting, so arousing.

-- However, he's found himself thinking about turning those thoughts into reality more and more often these days. He still can't tell if he'll enjoy it outside of his mind, really. Plus, he has no idea how to find someone to exercise his fantasies with. He'd need to find a person that'd for one, understand his weird kink that's so not compatible with his job of being a professional athlete and two, who he can trust 110 %."

-- So what?" Jasper had shrugged in defeat. "I'm a freak. Happy now?"

"What? Not at all! Jasp, we all have more or less specific preferences in the bedroom and I'm the last person to judge anyone. Come on, man! You know me well enough." Mathieu almost sounded offended. He seemed to contemplate something and continued,

"You know I just want to see you happy, man. But what are we gonna do now? What instant measures can we take?"

"We?! Measures? No, no, no! You do nothing, my friend. Just promise me you keep your mouth shut and all is well!" Jasper had given him a stern look and Mathieu had dropped the subject. Which was a little suspicious, to be honest.

He should've known this wasn't the end of the discussion. What he couldn't have expected, even in his wildest dreams, however, was for Mathieu to offer himself up for a little experiment a few days later.

-- "You're beautiful."

Jasper startles, stopping whatever else he was about to clear away, the words tickling his skin, making the heat rise to his ears. It's not something his friend usually tells him when they're together.

"I know you're nervous and so am I, but I'm determined to make this good for you. For us."

-- Pressing his nose against Mathieu's crotch Jasper inhales deeply, then he snatches the zip with his teeth and manages to zip it up all the way like this, his hands now on Mathieu's hips steadying him. His mouth is so close to Mathieu's throat, to his jaw. His gaze lands on Mathieu's lips and he imagines a taste of beer mixed with Chinese flavours as he comes even closer. Mathieu doesn't flinch, but makes a little warning sound and Jasper, mortified, remembers the no kissing rule. He swallows and takes a step back.

No idea when this will get finished but hopefully still this year 😬🤞

[b--b-3]

Sooo I've decided to finally cross-post my Obey Me crack-fic from ao3, I hope you enjoy!✨️

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Cheek Clappin' Behavior

Ch.1

summary: Mc gets bamboozled by the game we all know and love 😭. They also happen to get yeeted right into it at full throttle, oops. How, you ask?? Who knows-

warnings: swearin/strong language, a quick innuendo, Mc just bein straight up wild tbh

misc: this fic doesn't accurately follow the story, literally just random shits 'n giggles for now lmao [pls it's so unserious ajfjshsjs] + the memes you see edited were done by me in my absolute mess of a gallery 💀

word count: almost 1k

It was just an ordinary day for Mc… Well, that is if you could call simping for fictional characters from a story-based gacha game ordinary. Okay, maybe they're a liiiiiiittle bonkers in the head, but we still love 'em 😋.

[Mc's POV]

'You've gotta be clappin' my cheeks unequivocally rn.'

"How tf am I gonna pull up AND get bumblefucked by this yee yee ass game 🤨🤨🤨??" Okay, so maaaaybe I got raw-dogged by a fictional world, but I can fix this for sure‼️

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Oh.

I didn't fix this. Far from it, in fact. Yet another 10 pull, wasted… 😟

Welp, whatever‼️‼️ Back to the story then hehEHEHEHE— HOLY FUCKIN' MOTHER OF GO— MAMMON YOU ABSOLUTE BABYGWORL TF YOU DOIN' LOOKIN' LIKE THAT?? 🤭🤭🤭

Even tho he plays hard to get, he ain't a match for MY sluttish behavior 🤪—

THIS? FUCKING?? $ Ł Ü ✝️? ? ? "The absolute fuckin' audacity I swear— AND this mf blushin' too? Consider tears runnin' down my leg fr fr for real fr‼️" YOU SEE THAT TUB OVER THERE MAMS?? YEAH HOP IN THAT BITCH CUZ I'M BOUTTA 😩😩—

Ahem.

Caught myself lackin' for a sec there sorry bout that y'all 💀—

I then end up playing this damn game for a psychologically questionable amount of time. Such a long time, in fact, my raggedy ass fell asleep with the game open. O p e n. I didn't even get to charge my shit— hot damn 😬.

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Next thing I know, I'm exposing my eye sockets to a ridiculous amount of light.

✨️OWIE✨️—

Oh.

'Now why in the ass-eatin' fuck does this place look familiar?? This ain't my house OR my room🗿. Tf is goin' on in here on this ass-chappin' day 🤨🤨??'

Like, the more I look around, the more shit's appearance becomes clear to me [no d U h Mc?? C'mon get it together 😭].

'Tho it does look a bit [a fuck ton tf you mean?? 💀] like my room in Obey Me…🤔'

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"Did my bitch-ass get isekai'd into the world of Big Boobie Bitches— I mean Obey Me??????⁉️🗣📢🔥"

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' …You've gotta be tuggin' my schlong rn this shit is a different breed. No, literally. Does that mean I'm a whole ass sheep now⁉️ This ain't gonna work. I swear on my left kneeca—'

All of a sudden, someone's headass bursts into the room. I was about to chew them tf out like a baddie, but then I SEE 🕕🫦🕕—

'CERTIFIED BABYGWORL??? AJDJSJEEJ OMGOMGOMG IT'S HIIIIIIIM IT'S MAAAAAMMMMS OH MY—🥺🎊✨️🫧💖‼️🥰💛'

"Yo, human! Ya were s'pposed to hang out with me today! What's goin' on?"

I—

'Ugh. What a cutie 🥰. Look at him, lookin' at me like that 'n shit 😭💖.'

I stare right back at the white-haired babygworl— I mean demon, trying a lil TOO hard to fight the inner voices that are telling me to jump him unprovoked.

"Well, tbh tbh honestly tbh, I haven't the slightest fuckin' clue Monie.. Buuuuuuut you can still take me out if you want tho 👀." I give him a lil look. Yano, a look. A little lookie look. A look that looks like a lil look because it looks—

"Whatever, let's just go. You've been makin' The Great Mammon wait long enough." He then drags me outta the room as if I'm his bitch.

'OW MY PUSS- now hold on for just a diddly ding dang darn second ☝️🤓— here I thought it was supposed to be the other way around 🤨🤔❓️ ❓️ ❓️'

Welp I'll just have to worry about it another time ig 🤷.

Anyways, now we were makin' our way [downtown] through the Big Ass House of Lamentation, BAHoL for short, trying to get to wherever tf Mammon has plans for. Well, that is until we run into a certain someone.

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'GAAASSSPP IT'S HIIIIIM‼️ LEVIATHAN THE SWEET BOOOOOOYYYYY OHFUCKOHFUUUCK 🥰💖🫧🧡✨️‼️'

"Yooo, Levi! Funny seein' ya outside ya room for once." Both Mammon and I then proceed to start gigglin' like two lil bitches lmao.

Until this mf turns around 🗿.

…My face just about shriveled up inside itself.

'DID BABYGWORL #3 GET EVEN QUIRKIER 😳😳😳⁉️'

"Levi.. you good?? You're looking a bit differently different there bud 😭😭."

'I swear to shit there are literal SPARKLES just shootin' me in the eyes rn.'

"Idk what you're talking abt lol." He blinks and just shrugs at me like absolutely NOTHING is wrong like wtf my g—

"Tbh tbh honestly tbh Levi you're looking MAD ✨️bbg✨️ rn and idk how to cope with that so I think it's best you induce an anime withdrawal for just a singular sliver of a second the sake of my sanity 🗣🗣."

It takes him a couple seconds for the matter inside his cranium to process whatever tf just came out my mouth.

"B-Bbg!? WOOOAAAHHHH❗️🗣🗣🗣📢💥.. I-I can't believe you're calling a no-good otaku shut-in like me that!" He takes a moment to cover his now blushing face sextillion times more than his hair already does with his hand.

'Omg what a lil cutie I swear— got me swooning 'n shit <3.'

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever! We've gotta get goin' now. See ya later, Levi!" Mammon cuts off the ENTIRE interaction quicker than it even started before dragging me away like a fucking rag doll.

'L?? M?? A?? O?? Tf is all this motion for 🫨🥴?'

What the plans are?? I still haven't the slightest of darn clues, buT I GUESS WE'LL FIND OUT 🗣.

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I kid you tf not we literally only managed to reach the main entrance before getting jumpscared by none other than Lucifer himself—

'EYE- SWEET MOTHER OF DIAVOLO'S (. )( .)‼️—'

[✨️To Be Continued✨️]

[marengogo]

NAKED - 4: RUN Jungkook

There For You - by Martin Garrix, Troye Sivan  [There For You]

[Music is a very big part of my life and I’m MOSTLY INCAPABLE of writing without music, so I just thought I'd share what I am listening to while writing this]

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It’s June 12, 2017, 「BTS Festa 2017」 pulls up now remember that these festa dinners/events are usually filmed beforehand perhaps days, longest a month, most likely depending on their schedule and amongst their usual excitement and bickering we are very randomly and oh-so-casually made privy of a particular piece of information regarding Jungkook: During 2016, the only birthday present he gifted was to Jimin and the public the boys wants to know why.

[Here is the BangtanSUBS link to that dinner and the TimeStamp (TS) for that particular questions is → 53:27

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For the life of me, I’m not sure exactly what they expected him to answer, or actually let me correct myself real quick; I'm not sure exactly what Jimin expected him to answer. If you watch the entire video, the members make it clear throughout the session that because they are all around each other so much, they ran out of things to ask or discuss about each other, hence most of the questions they came out with were for lack of anything real to say and really just to create lighthearted banter. 

During this brainstorm-for-banter one of the members did bring up the question, which sparked JM’s interest and the way I’ve always pictured JM in my head during this moment, was him going “you know what? Yeah. Let's ask this …”. Mind you, this was a period (as shown from the infamous JinJikook vlive:

) where JM seemed to almost be requesting from JK to come forth saying things he thought he wouldn’t hear if not in front of a camera 😬.

JK didn’t answer the question, at least not in the direct way that perhaps JM wanted him to but he was hella smart about it!. If you watch the whole video you’ll see that from the moment the question was asked, JK wasn’t even given the time to reply, it was a whole back-and-forth between all the members who probably felt like some sort of grave was being dug, until JM would bring it back to subject and try to make JK answer. But JK did handle it like a pro and replied that he’d place more care in choosing member’s gifts from then on. 

Why did JM want something from JK so badly? Why was JK fighting not the give this something to JM? I’m afraid we will never know unless they tell us and for the rest it can be all up to speculation, but this goes well into Jikook 2016 dynamics so I can’t digress 🥴 Back to todays topic!

So, in my opinion, JK might have dodged a bullet that day but I think it was finally made even louder and clearer that soemthing had to be done. Jungkook needed to RUN. And not run as in “run away” but run in the RUN BTS way, he needed to get to work to “solve a mission” because whatever feelings or message he was maybe trying to convey to JM were apparently not coming across; so JK got to work. 

October 13, 2017 & October 15, 2017 rolled around. The first being JM’s birthday, which he went on vlive for and the second being a VMON vlive after their concert in Osaka

1:

2:

During vlive #1, JM is wearing presents given to him by members (as he said), one is the shirt and second is the cartier nail ring, which we will then discover, during vlive #2, was a gift from Joon. As explained by Joon, he got the gift early and also gave it to JM early. The members were all except for jimin of course added to a group where Joon wanted to give people a heads up and make sure that they didn’t feel pressured to do anything by this time gifting culture among bts was taking afoot thanks to JM himself.

I know many might want to and had speculated know what JK thought about Joon’s gift but in all honesty, I do get the vibes of him being a person very focus on his own tasks and he was a man on a mission at this point in time. Hence, besides not being it his place to start dictating to his Hyungs what they could and could not give their member as a gift, to be very honest, as he probably was already planning this try trip for a while by then I think that Joon could have given JM a diamond studded cellphone cover and JK wouldn’t have cared.

JM appreciates gifts and affectionate gestures a lot, but what he seems to really love are messages and words of affection. JK knew that by then and he did indeed have a message. So it was that, on October 13, 2017, JK posted his happy birthday tweet and to everyone’s confusion and curiosity he also added the words “It’s not over yet …”

The trip to Japan wasn’t a random “let me gift him a trip”, many interviews prior and after their trip will indicate that JM REALLY wanted to go to Japan. The way I’ve always pictured JK as he decided in his plans of action was JK probably sitting down and thinking, “I’m not the best with words but I have something to convey, what do I do?” In an interview released on November 17, 2017 meaning the interview happened beforehand, and in this case obviously before their trip by the Japanese magazine Non-No, Jimin says:

And so it was that according to various accounts of a Jikook airport citing we know they were at the airport on October 28, 2017 and were definitely back by November 1, 2017 as they had the ”Love Myself,” UNICEF’ new project with BTS, in Seoul on Wednesday. (Korean Committee for UNICEF)” press conference.

By this time, November 1, 2017, JM had no idea what would happen exactly the following week. Even after he’d post his two VLOGs for their dear first trip (November 6), he still had no clue. 

VLOG 1:

VLOG 2:

So then came November 8, 2017. On this day JK would release his first Golden Closet Film, in Tokyo (GCFT). I wasn’t around at the time, but I can only imagine how excite everyone would have been to see JK’s take of Tokyo through his lenses. Yet as views started rolling in and comments piling up, by shippers and not, one thing became unanimously agreed: Rather than Tokyo, there seems to be a lot of JM. 

Eventually we’ll find out that JK, amongst many of his sources, used a “how to make a travel vlog with your boyfriend/gf” tutorial video, which if it wasn’t eye-brow raising worthy already, added to his paying credits in order to use Troy Sivan’s There For You as the video’s BGM, it surly has maaaaany thinking.

Now we can stay here and analyse the song all day but one thing is for sure, every edit/movie/video has a climax, and for the climax of GCFT the clips were edited to match with the following lyric “Boy, I'm holdin' onto something Won't let go of you for nothing. I'm runnin', runnin' just to keep my hands on you. There was a time that I was so blue, What I got to do to show you?” and then for the GRAND FINALE:  “Running, running, just to keep my hands on you. Running, running, just to keep my hands on you. Said, I’m running, just to keep my hands on you. But you gotta be there for me too”. 

So here is what I think, feel and took out of this regardless of me thinking it to be a romantic love: JK had a couple of messages. As we may all know already or not LOVE is not as easy as the 4 letters it is made of, it varies greatly in meaning, display and intensity. However, regardless of the type of love he felt/feels at the time of him creating GCFT he clearly wanted the intended person of the video to know: 

That he’ll be there for them, that he’d been running just to be there for them, but that at the same time, he needed them to be them for him too. 

... I may be mistaken but how many times has JM publicly requested to hear something from JK after this? Feels, to me, like the message was delivered.

HAPPY 5th YEAR ANNIVERSARY for GCFT.

Always respectfully yours 💜💛,

Marengo. 

PS - … Wanna get a little delulu? → Blood-Moon

[cypaira-the-skeleton]

Twenty-third page!

Okay the situation just went from one to thousand real fucking quick!😬

Raven did quite the good job to stand up for herself and tell them that she's had enough of being taken advantage of and played around...but the group leader didn't seem to like that. Guess you'll have to wait and see the real reason why they dragged her back to the tunnel...

A few trivia facts:

- Jacob is two years older than Raven, Kelsey, and Steve. He failed the class Raven and the two others are in, and he's currently repeating it for the second time.

- In case you thought "little sister" was just a nickname, you're wrong. Kelsey is in fact Jacob's younger sibling! (Which he really cares for, seeing he's keeping her back from being accidentally hurt in the third panel)

⚠️Heads up: whatever will happen in the next coming pages I can only assure one thing without spoiling anything; Nobody's getting killed

Thought I'd make this clear from now⚠️

[talkfantasytome]

Okay, so I'm not very good at coming up with prompts, but I am a sucker for accidental love confessions! Think it would be especially cute if they were doing something casual and Nesta absentmindedly blurts out the L word and is mortified.

Just posted the first part of this, from @littleloric's ask, with the "accidental" confession...now on to Nesta actually remembering what happened. 😂

Part 1

PS - don't hate me, but I'm basing Nesta's post-op experience on my own when I got my wisdom teeth out (in terms of pain, not the romance, sadly). So...sorry to all those who had bad experiences. 😬

Nesta woke up, snuggled beneath her covers, warm and relaxed. She couldn't remember getting into her bed, or much after her doctor sedated her, but a quick look at the clock told her she hadn't slept for too long. Her procedure was at nine, and it was barely past one in the afternoon.

After a big stretch, she pulled the covers off. And then quickly tugged them back over.

Why was it so cold? Why was it always freezing after a nap? It was what made Nesta hate napping.

Her eyes darted around the room and landed on a familiar, worn, Velaris HS Hockey sweatshirt. With a deep breath, Nesta shoved the covers off again and rushed over to the sweatshirt, throwing it on and slipping her feat into her L.L. Bean slippers.

It was a start.

After a few hops, she left her room and made her way toward the sound of the sink running in the kitchen.

She came upon a familiar, hulking figure hunched over the sink, washing some of the dishes she'd left in it the night before. Nesta paused to watch. To take in the defined muscles of his back as his arms moved.

After a moment she decided to make her presence known, clearing her throat softly.

The sink was shut off, and then Cassian was turning. He gave her a bright smile and walked toward her. "How are you feeling?"

"Good! No pain, yet."

"Really?" Cassian asked, his eyebrows raising in shock. "You're a bit overdue for your next dose, so you should be feeling something."

Nesta stopped to think for a second, moving her jaw around a bit, but nothing. It felt completely normal. "Should I take the medication? Emerie was saying something about 'chasing the pain'..."

"Hmmm..." He scratched his head for a moment. "Maybe just start with Advil? And if you feel any real pain, then you can take the prescription? It's pretty strong stuff. Better not to take it if you don't have to."

"Yeah, I'd rather not get loopy again, either," she sighed. "I can barely remember anything from after the procedure."

Cassian stilled as he got out the Advil for her, his entire body stiffening. "So...you don't remember...anything?" he asked, his voice lower than it had been a moment before.

A pit began to emerge in Nesta's stomach at the question. What had she done that Cassian thought she might remember? Was it something he wanted her to remember? Or something he hoped she'd forget?

"Not even anything you said?" he added, finally turning to face her, handing her the Advil and a cup of water.

She accepted both, her face scrunching as she tried to figure out what he might mean. She was just downing a large gulp of water with the pills when the memory flashed through her mind.

I love you.

She barely managed to keep the water from being spat out of her mouth.

What was she thinking?!

Well, she probably wasn't thinking much at all.

Nesta couldn't believe she'd done that. What a stupid, idiotic, embarrassing thing to do. That's not how she was supposed to tell Cassian for the first time. It was supposed to happen at sunset, or in some pretty park, or by a waterfall on a picnic. Preferably after he said it first.

Her cheeks heated, and suddenly Nesta wished she was in pain. That she'd downed the prescription to escape this horror scene.

"Cass, I-"

Cassian stopped her with his lips, kissing her deeply as his arms wound around her waist and tugged her close. Nesta's hands lifted instinctively to his chest, grabbing his shirt to have something to hold on to.

It was just a few seconds before he was pulling away and resting his forehead on hers.

"I love you," he breathed.

Nesta couldn't stop the smile that spread across her face. "Really?"

Cassian huffed out a laugh and gave her another quick kiss. "Of course I do. How couldn't I?"

"I love you, too," she beamed, her hands traveling up until her arms were around his neck and she was pulling herself as close as possible to him.

"So you've said." He grinned widely at her, but before Nesta could snap back at him, he captured her lips with his. "But I'm glad to know it wasn't just the drugs."

Nesta laughed with him at that. "No, not just the drugs. It's been a long time coming."

Cassian's smile widened into something so bright it had flowers blooming within Nesta.

With Cassian, why would she need a sunset anyway?

@live-the-fangirl-life @generalnesta @secretlovelybeauty @nestaisgod @julemmaes @boredserpent @autumnbabylon @lady-winter-sunrise @moodymelanist @sv0430 @nesquik-arccheron @gwynrielsupremacy @katekatpattywack @moonstoneriver77 @deedz-thrillerkilller16 @swankii-art-teacher @lemonade-coolattas @emily-gsh @my-fan-side @champanheandluxxury @sayosdreams @simpingfornestaarcheron @perseusannabeth @clemidansleschoux @meher-sumedha @labetenoir @vinylcryes @shinya-hiiragi @starryblueskies7 @the-key-to-me-myself-and-i @a-court-of-milkandhoney @pintas3107 @embersofwildfire @cannellefawn @superspiritfestival @aks18

[angelhummel]

Unpopular opinion: there’s no point people criticizing Blaine’s other ships like Seblaine, or Blam in particular by saying there was no romantic interest or chemistry there. Yes there was. In both ships, at least one of the couple had a crush on the other. Blaine would have been with either Sebastian or Sam If the circumstances were right, or if he had not loved Kurt as much as he did.

Some people who criticize Blaine ships as never likely to happen, then think Kelliott was a likely ship, when both Kurt and Elliott made it clear they had no romantic interest in each other at all.

strongly agree | agree | neutral | disagree | strongly disagree

I meeean honestly in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter a single bit. People will ship who and what they want and that's that. Whether or not they have chemistry, whether or not they were just friends, whether or not they were ever even pictured together on screen or aware of one another's presence lmao

But also... arguing about what would've happened if Blaine didn't love Kurt as much as he did is pointless bc in canon, Klaine is always going to choose one another. There's no way he could've gone with either of those other boys while Kurt was still around

Also tbh I don't think Blaine ever could've ended up with Sebastian regardless 😬 We know all their texts are G rated about wine stains and set lists lol. And with all their interactions in real life, Sebastian is a horny pushy weirdo and Blaine strikes me as too polite (and maybe too naive) to tell him to back off

I mean the only time I could see Blaine going for Sebastian in canon is if he was at his lowest point and needed some quick and easy attention (emotionally but he’d settle for mainly physical) and they had a one night stand that he immediately regretted. Oh but we saw Blaine do that in canon and he didn’t go after Sebastian for it lol. So... nah, nope, couldn’t ever see it happening in canon

As for Blam I really don’t give a shit. No one cares about “Sam was straight” “they were just friends” canon isn’t real and people can make up whatever they want. Same with Kelliott being “just friends” like these people aren’t real it doesn’t matter. They’re just your little Barbie dolls to play with, babe

And idk if this is even related but I also hate people who act like they’re morally superior for multi shipping, or for liking Blaine ships more than Kurt ships. Like some people legitimately seem to have a victim complex over people liking Kelliott over Blam, saying that it’s just Kurt stans who want Kurt to get all the attention but couldn’t let Blaine be happy with anyone else ??? So that’s a whole thing

But also in closing I think people get too hung up on what ship would be more “likely” and that’s not why I ship what I ship. I don’t hate Seblaine because it’s highly unlikely (even tho it is) I hate it bc Sebastian fucking sucks as a character lol. I like the idea of a little Blam on the side but I dislike it more and more because of how people put it on a pedestal these days. The debate is exhausting and the more people talk about it (or Hevans) the less interested I become. It doesn’t matter which would be more compatible with canon, they still can’t hold a candle to Klaine. That’s why I’m not a super fan 🤖

send me your unpopular opinions!

[ms-hells-bells]

Hi! I sent in an anon a couple days ago about how I felt guilty for caving and sharing my pronouns with a uni group. Thanks for the advice! My mentor actually sent out a survey yesterday that we had to fill out and the pronoun category was required otherwise we couldn’t submit it. I typed in ‘I don’t believe that sharing pronouns should be mandatory’ so we’ll see what she says when I have my one on one meeting with her in two weeks 😬

good on you! if you feel like there will be serious repercussion to your education, don’t go the gencrit route, but people are more understanding one on one, so perhaps you could gently push at her that you feel uncomfortable with stating pronouns because you base yours on your sex and it feels invalidating to your womanhood to have to state them like that. try and use their language, with saying things like “everyone’s basis of identity might be different but i personally base mine on my sex”. and make it clear that you are trusting them in respecting your views and keeping it quiet from other students (eg: “i’m very nervous to say this, i’m hoping you can respect me and what i tell you in confidence, i’m telling you because i trust you”), this puts pressure on them to actually follow the rules as an educator.

if you don’t feel comfortable doing the above, then just say “asking pronouns and making them mandatory either outs people before they’re ready or forces them to repeatedly misgender themselves” lol. using their exact logic. you can even say “a lot of trans and gender diverse people say this” to get her to shut tha shit down QUICK. of course, it’s going along with it, which isn’t great, but sometimes you have to exploit the system as it is in order to ‘win’.

i have actually been in a similar position where in university, on my social geography paper we had a section and a workshop relating to “gender and identities”. i straight up emailed my prof and said “i will not be attending the lectures related o this topic, the workshop, or doing the test based on it due to my political and moral disagreements with the subject. i am a radical feminist and i’d rather take the loss of points for the paper”. 

she emailed me back saying “i’m glad you felt comfortable enough to tell me this! it’s always great to have people with varying opinions within our classes. i have no problem with your decision and look forward to having you back in class, sharing your opinions from your point of view”. so, best possible outcome lol.....well, the end of paper exam still had “define agender” shit in it and i failed those questions because i wrote stuff like “nonsense identities because gender isn’t real” haha. 

[mariorivs]

The Seven Emojis of Grief

  BY Emily Winter              4-6 minutes              

Sometimes your favorite app changes its font. Sometimes your boring but trusty eggplant ghosts you (without even a 👻 for good measure). Sometimes you make a new friend and muster the courage to invite her to brunch with a clear, concise text, only to have her flake on you with an emoji of a constipated monkey. When these instances arise, it is imperative to work through your feelings via these seven emojis of grief, so that you can heal.

First Emoji: 😱 It’s normal to comment 😱 after stumbling upon an Instagram post of your friends at a party that you weren’t invited to. Spotting a photo of your friends looking thrilled despite your absence will initially result in disbelief, and would make anyone want to scream, but, because you’re in your therapist’s waiting room, that’s not an option. Expressing yourself through an emoji that surely makes Edvard Munch turn over in his grave is the next best thing.

Second Emoji: 🙃 O.K., you weren’t invited to the party, and all of your friends were, and they clearly had a blast. You accept this. You’ve moved through 😱. But what you haven’t accepted are your feelings. You tell yourself, “Everything’s fine, everything’s great, everything’s 🙃.” You’re simply a little dizzy. That’s totally normal. You’re being hit in the gut with an invisible sack of bricks. But stranger things have happened! Have you heard of Roswell? Or potato chips that look like Jesus? In the grand scheme of things, this is no big deal! 🙃🙃🙃

Third Emoji: 😬 😬 is one of the most challenging emojis of the grief process. Suddenly, you realize that you could have been at that party, in that photo, if you’d only tried harder to befriend the host, after meeting her a few months ago, at a friend’s guacamole contest. You could have used more open body language in several group settings. You could have complimented her stupid Teva flatforms when you saw her on the street last week. In your mind’s eye, you see an alternate version of the photo: you, smack in the middle, beaming in a high-necked crop top, hair tousled in that cool, carefree way. It’s O.K. to feel 😬, but, if you use this emoji too much, your remaining friends will get annoyed and abandon you. Text it once, and then let it go.

Fourth Emoji: 😤 Not gonna lie—this emoji scares people. It implies that you might do something rash, like hurl your phone (no!) or make a deal with the devil to trade twenty-five per cent of your battery life to be in that photo. Unfortunately, nary a listless Gen Z-er wants to deal with your 😤. There simply is no good response. Still, 😤 is a necessary part of the grieving process, so it’s recommended that you set up an emotional burner phone to work through this phase. Simply text the emoji as often as you’d like to a proxy number that belongs to no one.

Fifth Emoji: 😑 You might think that your next emoji is 😭, but no. That emoji is a clear cry for help. You’re so dash-space-dash-return-long dash right now that you can’t even engage in phone-based human interaction. When you text an emoji with eyes and a mouth made of literal flat lines, you’re signalling to the world that, for the moment, you’re dead. In real life, you just need to be alone with your misery. People will respect this.

Sixth Emoji: 😐 The angel opens her eyes! Your rebirth begins. Of course, you still feel remnants of all the emojis that came before. You can’t completely leave them behind, but there’s no need to scroll up and relive them; you’re through the worst of it. When you text this emoji, the world will know that you’re passive but functional. At this point, you’re the perfect vessel for #content, so don’t be surprised if Instagram suddenly doubles down on targeted ads, which, admittedly, you very much enjoy. In fact, purchasing a $22.99 green jumpsuit from a cagey Internet vender with no return option is an integral part of the healing process.

Seventh Emoji: 💅 Congratulations! You’re back. Quick, post a selfie with the caption “💅💅💅.” Trust me, everyone will get it. Your emotional stock is up. You’re movin’ and groovin’! I mean, you’re still in your therapist’s waiting room, but to your followers you’re clearly a beacon of poise and effortless self-possession. Honestly, who even needs therapy when you’ve just promoted 💅 to your most-used emojis? Might as well just skip your session, head to Chipotle, and find out what you’ve been missing on Twitter.

[harryfeatgaga]

yeah I think they meant that they were currently doing the ono special for apple and tbh idk if it was just me, but u could tell that they had like interviews with fans and sound bites but it was sloppily played during the actual stream? Like I remember there being audio of fans speaking but no video lol just a shot of the crowd in the stadium and I was so confused lol I was like how is the mic picking up this crystal clear audio rn?? And then when they did show clips it was all so random felt like they were a mistake djdjdjfk. So they probably filmed with intentions of maybe showing them meeting but didn’t edit quick enough for the stream.

KMNJDBHFJINHFUJN HELPPPPP I WAS GONNA WATCH THE ONO STREAM TONIGHT ACTUALLY SINCE I HADNT GOT TO

Anonymous asked: no but that meeting was so awkward Sjsjdkfkck cute but awkward 🧍🏻🧍‍♀️and I just imagine that Harry hadn’t seen a video of her but his team was like “hm she’s a pretty well known Internet personality and is a big fan, maybe he should meet her” and they sent him a vid or 2 and were like “Harry did u watch the vids we sent? we’re scheduling a meet for the two of u” And he was like “hm ? oh yeah nice sure” and then the day of were like “ok ur doing a meet and greet with Brittany” and he was like “brittany 🤨 OH! oh yea! Ok let’s do it”

LKEMDJNFJIKRNFJ HELP I KNOW

Anonymous asked: I can’t meet Harry because im soooooooo shy and awkward i would just 🧍‍♀️ also im convinced that if i saw him out on the streets i would run away SO FAST

PLEASEEEEEE

Anonymous asked: is this brittany herself

FUICVKMFNDHJKCV

Anonymous asked: honestly same though if I met harry I would be like 😁😆😱🥲🥹😛🤩🥰😖😵‍💫😬😰🤭 all at the same time

LMFAOOO TEA

Anonymous asked: anon, get the fuck off if you're so offended!!! like why are you here??? go be miserable somewhere else

LITERALLKYMJNHK and theres a whole nother level of miserable in my ask rn on a different topic but I am not posting ijtgnvji

Anonymous asked: Anons go on Twitter and u can literally see everyone call her either awkward or annoying

literalkyjnhgjikv

Anonymous asked: people are so sensitive like…? it’s okay to find someone annoying! Im sure brittany does not care if paige or any of us finds her annoying😐 she got to meet harry anyway❤️

FOR REAL LIKE STILL HAPPY FOR HER BUT DO I ALSO THINK SHES IRRITATIGN YES I DO AS DOES LIKE ALL OF TWITTENRJJFIK

[growinstablog]

Can Instagram Pods Help You Beat the Algorithm?

If you’ve been marketing on Instagram for any length of time, you’ve likely found that Instagram’s algorithm turned things upside down. Instead of an equal shot at a chronological feed, you’re clamoring for attention in a world where engagement rules and the posts with the most likes win. 

Given the challenges, Instagram pods which claim to easily boost engagement and follower growth can be extremely tempting, indeed. Could they be THE secret to finally beating the mysterious Instagram algorithm? 

Want to grow your Instagram followers faster? Get this free checklist for 16 quick, easy wins you can immediately use to build an audience.

What is an Instagram Pod?

An Instagram Pod (also called an engagement pod) is a group of people who trade likes and comments on Instagram posts. Depending on the pod rules, members are expected to interact with other members posts in exchange for likes and comments on their own. 

Pods vary in size from a handful of members to tens of thousands, depending on the platform its hosted on (Instagram, Facebook, Telegram, etc.). The Instagram Pod pictured below is a group of 10 users who trade likes on new posts.

These Instagram pods, or “underground groups” exist to beat the above-mentioned algorithm change from 2016. 

Trading likes and comments on Instagram content increases engagement, thereby increasing distribution of members’ content.

Finding a shortcut to improve your reach is totally tempting – we get it! That’s why we enlisted the help of our marketing intern Calla to go undercover into a few Instagram Pods and get the low down on how pods work, and what they’re supposed to accomplish. 🕵️‍♀️ Most importantly, we wanted to find out if the return on pods was worth the risk of using them (more on this later!)

Curious to see what our investigation uncovered? Grab your best magnifying glass 🔍 and take a look!

How do Instagram Pods Work?

Each Instagram Pod works differently, depending on the platform it’s on. For example, many smaller engagement pods are managed in Instagram group chats. 10-15 users will comment when they’ve put up a new post, and each group chat member will go interact with the post.

Large groups with members running into the thousands exist on other platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram. These groups are often split into different tiers:

In 5X Groups, you must interact with the last five posts before tossing out your link into the chat.

In 10X Groups, you must interact with the last ten posts before posting your content. 

In 24H Groups, you must interact with every post that has been linked in the last 24 hours before linking your own. If you think this sounds like a lot of work, you’d be absolutely right! 😰

Most of these groups are moderated by bot systems that ensure you’re engaging with other members posts. If you miss engagement once, you’ll receive a warning. If you get warned multiple times, you’ll be booted from the group. Here’s a screengrab of our first ever pod warning! 😬

Speaking of getting booted – Instagram could ban your account for violating the Terms of Service!

Is Instagram Banning Engagement Pods?

In late 2018, Instagram announced its commitment to reducing inauthentic activity on Instagram. While the platform hasn’t explicitly banned pods, it’s clear that Instagram and Facebook (who owns Instagram) are cracking down on spam, bots, and fake accounts. 

The plot thickens!

In fact, Facebook made waves earlier last year when it suspended 10 groups dedicated to gaming Instagram’s algorithm and exchanging likes, comments and follows among members. 

Many social media platforms are ramping up their efforts to fight fraud and algorithm manipulation, so you’re running a real risk of being banned from the platform if you use engagement pods. After all, being in a pod and falsely creating engagement could easily be interpreted as being against the community guidelines:

“Help us stay spam-free by not artificially collecting likes, followers, or shares, posting repetitive comments or content, or repeatedly contacting people for commercial purposes without their consent.”

Instagram Community Guidelines

But since so many thousands of Instagram users swear by them, could they be worth the risk? Thankfully, we had a marketing intern-turned-Super-Sleuth on hand to put a few of these Instagram groups to the test.

Read on to find out if they’re really worth the risk – and the hassle! 🔍

Are Instagram Pods a Good or Bad Way to Beat the Algorithm?

Our intern Calla bravely went undercover in the name of Instagram science to investigate engagement groups and find out:

If they’re easy enough for the average Instagram user to utilize

If they actually work.

(Meet Calla! She’s an OU student and social media intern who loves cracking cases in her spare time.) 👩‍💻

Her first impression?

Sketchy… As… Heck!

Calla’s first foray into Telegram, a messaging app where many Instagram engagement groups are managed was anything but delightful. In fact, the first engagement group she found seemed to be sharing dark web and NSFW content. 😱

That was a dead end, but a good detective perseveres! ↩️

Next, Calla found a G-rated 10X group and followed the rules, engaging with the last ten posts before posting her own link. What were her results?

“As far as likes go, it was basically within the range of what I usually get. I did receive 10 comments which is significantly more than normal! Before you get too excited, please understand that the quality of the comments was trash! A lot of the pod members copy and paste the same comment regardless of what the picture was (typos and all)!”

Calla Hamlin

Calla’s grand total of likes and comments for her efforts? Drumroll, please… 🥁

37 likes and 10 comments. 😕

Elementary, you could say. 😏

Unsure if this low number was because she participated in a group that only required you interact with the last 10 posts before yours, she then experimented with a 24-hour group (remember, this is where you must interact with every post before yours for the previous 24 hours). ⏱

If you’re wondering how many posts could pile up in 24 hours, the answer is 51! 😩Determined to crack the case, Calla liked and commented on all 51 links before posting her own content. This took nearly an hour! What kind of return did she get for her effort?

17 likes (from pod members) and 5 comments. 😑

In contrast, her regular followers gave 44 likes – over double the number she got from the engagement pod! 👍

Besides a relatively low return on time investment, there are a few other reasons we’d pass on engagement pods in favor of strategies to build authentic engagement on our platform:

You have to like and comment on posts in the group to post your link, regardless of whether the content is in line with your brand or views. You could end up liking some seriously sketchy posts! 😞

Pods are challenging to find and can be filled with spammy material and unsafe content. You might even run the risk of having your account hacked. 😕

The rules are difficult to follow, and you have a limited number of warnings before you’re removed. 🙁

You could lose your Instagram account for violating the Terms of Service. ☹️

In most groups, you’re not allowed to chat in the chat. Networking is nil, and you’re just there to like, throw out a generic comment and move on. Not being social in a social media group? #NotFun 😭

Using Instagram Pods to collect inauthentic likes and comments also negatively impacts your Instagram marketing strategy. For one, fake likes and comments skew your organic engagement, which makes it hard to figure out what content is really resonating with your followers. 📊

For another, fake engagement does nothing to help you sell your products or services. This is, of course, bad for your bottom line, but can be catastrophic for collaborations, takeovers or branded deals! Your ability to deliver on your promises and help build engagement, boost traffic, or increase sales will determine whether you continue to receive those opportunities in the future. The last thing you want is a hit to your hard-earned, valuable reputation. 🏅

And believe me, if every comment on your posts is filled with typos and repetitive, “Nice feed!” comments, people WILL notice. 🤥

Thankfully, there are a ton of alternatives to using pods that boost your engagement naturally and organically. Here are three of our favorite options!

Algorithm-Busting Alternatives to Instagram Pods

Using these three alternatives to Instagram pods can help build your following and increase engagement in a way that meaningfully impacts your bottom line – without violating Terms of Service!

Sounds like a win-win, right? We think so too!

Ninja Hashtag Skills

Hashtags are your secret weapon in the fight for more visibility and traction on Instagram. By carefully selecting hashtags that are relevant to your content and your brand identity as a whole, you can put your content in the search streams of people who are just waiting to meet someone like you! 🤩

When choosing hashtags, use these guidelines ( or skip down to the “Easy Way to Choose the Best Instagram Hashtags” 😎):

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Avoid Ultra-Competitive Hashtags.

These are more general hashtags that have millions of posts. When you use these, your content is more likely to get lost in the fray and won’t gain as much traction. Instead, aim for hashtags with under 100,000 posts. These hashtags are popular enough that lots of Instagram users are searching for and interacting with them, but not impossible to score a top post slot in! 

Don’t Choose Hashtags With No Traction.

On the flip side, you’ll want to avoid hashtags that have very few posts – think, only a couple hundred or a few thousand. You can probably score a top post with these hashtags pretty quickly, but their low count signifies it’s not a hashtag people are frequently searching. This means even if you do score that top post spot, no one will be around to see it. 👀

Don’t Use the Same Hashtags All the Time

Once you find your perfect mix of hashtags, make sure you change it up occasionally! If you use the same hashtags on every post and they’re not relevant, you run the risk of appearing spammy. Instagram combats spam with account suspension or decreased reach. Ouch!

Research Your Hashtags Carefully

You can do some hashtag research by searching under tags on Instagram search. Check out our screenshots to find out exactly where to look!

1. Open the Instagram app and tap on Search (the magnifying glass icon at the bottom of the screen.)

2. Tap on Tags (second from the right under the search bar).

3. Begin typing in the hashtag you’d like to search, and make note of the number of posts below the hashtag in each search result!

4. Click on your desired hashtag to check out the top posts in that hashtag. You also have the option to Follow the hashtag and see relevant posts each week!

The Easy Way to Choose the Best Instagram Hashtags

Or, you can let Tailwind do it for you with our Hashtag Finder! This handy tool auto-populates suggestions, and ranks hashtags by competitiveness to help you find your just-right combination. Plus, you can save lists of up to 30 hashtags to drop into your posts anytime! 

Tailwind’s Hashtag Finder in action

Get Your Followers Talking

If you want to boost engagement with your followers and snap up likes and comments like they’re going out of style…give your followers something to interact with! 🗣 Here are our favorite examples!

Instagram Contests

Everybody loves to win free stuff, and a lot of people also like to talk about winning free stuff! Instagram Giveaways and contests are a fast way to get likes and comments, especially if these are built into contest rules. Check out the post below to see what we mean. rug_culture asks participants to follow the page, tag friends in the comments, and like the post!

Strong CTAs in Your Captions

Calls to Action (CTAs) don’t always have to be super sales-y. Calls to Action can also ask a question or contain a prompt for your followers to answer in the comments. If you make time to engage with your commenters and reply, it’ll encourage more people to comment and interact with you. 

Plus, it’s fun! Just look at Helene Sula’s post below. She starts off with a question, and tells a story that her followers can relate to!

Schedule Your Instagram Posts for Peak Times 🕑

Our last tip may seem deceptively simple, but it makes a massive difference in your engagement. Schedule your posts for when most of your followers are online and scrolling through their feeds!

For example, if you post at 6 A.M. (why are you even up this early?) most of your followers are probably still snoozing. 💤By the time they get to scrolling through their feeds mid-day, your content will be a few hours old and may not appear near the top of their feeds. Bummer!

However, if you anticipate times that your followers will be scrolling Instagram (lunch break, just before bed) and post during those times, your followers are more likely to see your post more quickly and engage.

You may need to do some research to determine precisely when the best times for your followers are, and what the patterns of their days are like. Or, you can make it easy with Tailwind’s SmartSchedule!

When you draft your post and load it into Tailwind, we’ll automatically populate the best times during the day for you to post based on your following. You can even adjust these windows depending on how many times a day you’d like to post! Super easy, and it takes the guesswork out of scheduling your posts, which gives you more time to engage with your followers.

Can Instagram Pods Help You Beat the Algorithm? – Our Conclusion

Any way you look at it, Instagram Pods aren’t worth the time and effort required to manufacture engagement on Instagram. Some of the main reasons are:

Liking and commenting on other Pod members content is very time-consuming. ⏱

Some of the content you’ll be engaging with might not fit your brand identity or might be NSFW (what would your followers – or your mom – think? 🤦🏼‍♀️)

Instagram could ban your account for violating Community Guidelines. 🚫

The actual engagement you get from large pods (even some with thousands of members) is pretty mediocre. 😕

The comments you get are low-quality and spammy – which might make your real followers and potential brand collaborators suspicious. 😒

Pod members who like and comment on your feed aren’t interested in your product, service or content, and almost certainly won’t become your customer. 🙅‍♀️🛍🙅‍♂️

Instead of spending heaps of time liking and commenting on random posts in the hope of capturing some engagement that ultimately won’t offer meaningful return, we suggest you flex your Instagram strategy muscles 💪🏻by carefully selecting hashtags, starting engaging conversations with your followers, and scheduling your posts when your followers are online.

In fact, Tailwind can help with all of this. Check out the link below! 🤩

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