#can’t remember rn if this has totally been done before but I just miss her

[heroesriseandfall]

Modern Oracle with people assuming Oracle is just a very advanced AI…what do you mean you’re trying to figure out Oracle’s real identity, Oracle doesn’t have an identity she’s literally AI???

[punkscowardschampions]

Casey & Janis Pt.4

Casey: [picking something filling because y’all have used so much energy you’d be starving and sending it through as an order or whatever but so absentmindedly rn because what’s more important is the way we’re looking at her to be like are you okay/do we need to take a sec here to talk about any of the ones you have had]

Janis: [no complaints because we clearly are just hungry and do not care at the best of times ‘nothing I can’t handle’ being true enough ‘cos it’s mostly been telling the fam she’s away for some reason because we can lie to them about it no problem ‘just Libi wanting something, dunno what I should say to her’ with a shrug, ‘cos you can’t lie to the core group, in case the police do show up or Jimmy is just like SHE’S WITH CASEY so]

Casey: [a nod because he trusts what she’s saying and what he’s seeing on her face ‘you’re sorting my head out, nowt you’ve not done before’ cos true it’s absolutely not the first time]

Janis: [considering it like yeah, that might work ‘more vocal than Bob’ because we know the only thing Libi gets feisty about is protecting Bobby and there would’ve been so many times Janis would be like please don’t because no one wants Casey smacking you girl; so send off some text that says as much because what else can you say at this point]

Casey: [‘weren’t a total waste of time all of it you put into her’ like yeah she at least takes after you there, cos we know how annoying Casey finds her most of the time lol]

Janis: [a half amused half shh kind of noise ‘wonder if you would’ve liked her mum’ ‘cos we’re always wondering what Libi would’ve been like if she’d been raised by her parents instead]

Casey: [‘yeah’ cos he’s gotta know about her and he just would like her vibe I think]

Janis: [‘not a total wastes not a compliment to none of us’ just like btw, ouch]

Casey: [‘you know what I meant it like’ cos not trying to hurt you with it and it’s not your fault we find her so annoying]

Janis: [do a feelsy lean ‘cos we know you weren’t trying to be a prick about it ‘I don’t think you’d like her regardless’ ‘cos that’s just her role in this dynamic that was created, annoying little sister]

Casey: [‘if she was more of you, how could I not?’ but obvs we know it was never gonna be that way so we’re not saying it seriously like this is another one of Janis’ failings not to pull a Jimothy with Bobby and turn her into herself]

Janis: [a face like oh God no, likewise not being super serious about this convo now ‘last thing I need, however pleased you might be’]

Casey: [‘you’re not having [however many daughters we said Ian’s missus has rn, I have forgotten] daughters for us to take on then?’ it’s too close to the truth of what’s about to occur little do you know boy]

Janis: [not that reminding you that you and Jimmy came off birth control because literally, may as well have been another life and you’re just like oh no, oh no no no lmao]

Casey: [‘what?’ cos we see the absolute shock horror on your face gal you can’t tell me otherwise]

Janis: [trying to be super casual because we’ve done the maths in our head and remembered it’s only been a day so we’re fine FINE ‘I need to pick up some plan b when we leave, no worries’]

Casey: [giving her such an oi nudge for scaring us to death there for a sec when that’s actually pretty casual from our POV rn cos not gonna just jump to thinking about JJ trying for kids here in this moment, are you, just thinking she’s being extra careful like you normally are when you don’t go insane]

Janis: [‘I forgot I had my [whatever contraceptive you prefer] out’ like the nudge was an excuse me kinda nudge]

Casey: [‘it’s alright, piss easy stop to make tomorrow’ too casual about this because we really do think it’s fine]

Janis: [when you don’t wanna ruin his casualness by dropping it but you also can’t stand lying but it already looks like you were lying by the way you truly forgot, oop, what you gon’ do miss thing]

Casey: [‘what?’ softer because we know you’re in some kind of turmoil here but we can’t work out why]

Janis: [‘I thought you’d moved on for good, left me and this behind’ head in our hands because we have to say, we’re just that bitch ‘so, we came off birth control, see if anything happened, you know’ looking up even though we’re mortified and don’t want to because it’s important you believe us rn ‘I seriously forgot, today, with everything, it sounds like total bullshit but it’s not, that’s why I was so fucking-’ gesturing like you saw me and now this]

Casey: [‘when did you come off?’ because all we can think about is what the window of time is you’ve been banging your husband unprotected, nothing else is even registering rn]

Janis: [clearly something happened that made this but you’re just like I don’t even know, the whole timeline isn’t very long so clearly this isn’t either, probably a few weeks? ‘Couple of weeks ago’]

Casey: [a nod like he’s trying to convince himself it’s fine because as in the vibe of the OG, he knows JJ don’t bang like they used to, just telling himself that Jimothy has hardly been near her in that time]

Janis: [‘everything changed today’ after a while of silence because we don’t need to rush you]

Casey: [‘too right it did’ cos in no world are you just going back to Jimothy and attempting to have a kid, he knows that]

Janis: [‘we we’re both still trying’ meaning her and him, not her and Jimmy because if we’d have known you weren’t actually gone for good, shrugging because it’s done regardless ‘sort it back out, soon as I’m home’]

Casey: [‘why’d you reckon on having a kid with him, even if I was dead?’ when you think Jimothy is such a flop husband and would be such a flop father you can’t even fathom either of them telling themselves it’d be a good plan]

Janis: [‘why’d you reckon she’d be a good girlfriend?’ like it’s never that black and white and simple, shrug ‘he’s done it before? I don’t know’]

Casey: [‘she’s an adult, can make her own piss poor choices and deal with the consequences of ‘em’ like that’s absolutely not the same as bringing a kid into it with 0 say, thank you ‘yeah and we’re all chuffed to bits how his go at that turned out’ full shade Bobby but we also think you’re a flop tbh so]

Janis: [‘he isn’t 12 now neither’ like don’t say it’s the same when it’s a choice he made compared to being forced to because no one else was ‘it’s irrelevant ‘cos it hasn’t happened anyway’]

Casey: [‘he’d hack it no better than he did when he were’ because 100% believe that with our entire heart and soul and honestly he’s not wrong the state of Jimothy atm ‘you ain’t thick, you know that same as I do, that’s why it’s relevant’]

Janis: [‘I can’t undo it, you know I’m not gonna go back and repeat it, that’s the best I can say’]

Casey: [a nod because that’s all true and you think that’s the end of it now anyway and it’s not something you actually have to worry about lol lol]

Janis: [just hugging our knees up to our chest]

Casey: [‘come here’ softer than we were just being cos we hate to see it]

Janis: [not moving ‘you think I’m stupid’]

Casey: [moving himself and wrapping his arms around her so big ‘I just said you ain’t that’ holding her even tighter and pulling her closer ‘both our heads were fucked then, you said it, things are different now and it’s nothing we can’t sort once we’re back’]

Janis: [not fighting against it but not actively hugging you back right now ‘but it was stupid, a kid ain’t meant to be a last ditch attempt’]

Casey: [‘it’s gonna be alright, you ain’t having his kid, nor mine til you want to’ oh lads, soz]

Janis: [we’re so mean, squeezing his hand like okay, it’s okay]

Casey: [holding her like a Clove to his chest again and telling her it’s gonna be okay over and over, using okay instead of alright this time, we see you]

Janis: [just saying sorry as many times, to you, to Jimmy, to this potential baby]

Casey: [letting her get all that out and just holding her cos she obvs needs to, eventually ‘all that’s over, we’re here’ sure do wish it was over hun but baby Jac is coming, putting her down like it’s okay you can put all that down and we can move on]

Janis: [just doing a big breath out ‘we were all pretending, we can’t no more’ nodding like it’ll be better than that, somehow]

Casey: [‘we won’t no more, this is too real, you and me’ cos yep, it is]

Janis: [finally making eye contact again ‘and you don’t hate me for it?’]

Casey: [‘could never hate you, girl, I understand everything you think’ because we really do feel like that, however you fuck up, we get it, even if it makes us angry and frustrated, we still know why you did it ‘always work it out if I wanna or nah’ cos sometimes we have pretended but ultimately]

Janis: [holding you and hugging you instead of the other way ‘round ‘soz I’m so fucked’ like sorry you have to understand all that too, but we know you do]

Casey: [a laugh ‘me an’ all, right back at you’ cos she understands him the exact same and always has]

Janis: [giving you the gentlest kiss on your laughing mouth]

Casey: [doing his own big breath out as a happy sigh before kissing her again, still soft but more intense like ily so much]

Janis: [just all the emotion being poured into this right now because could not love you more]

Casey: [mhmm, not at all casual makeout sesh turning into such a soft but intense hook up, we all know it]

Janis: [it’s necessary and there’s no world in which it isn’t happening ‘thank you’ when it looks like you’re thanking him for the sex so you’re like lol no ‘for everything’]

Casey: [just shhing her because in no world does he expect or require thanks, this boy out here like this is the bare minimum of what I’m willing to do when I love you this much duh]

Janis: [‘rude, you’d let me show you’ 😏 giving you a little push like I’m trying to be polite here but then laying our head on your chest]

Casey: [‘I’m here for you for everything, there’s sod all you can’t tell me, we ain’t pretending no more, remember’ not this boy acknowledging this has been a fantasy and that’s all well and good but now if they need to get real they can get real]

Janis: [‘I’ll try and remember’ because we’re not used to it]

Casey: [‘I can hack it’ because soz he can he’s not Jimothy, you can talk to him gal]

Janis: [‘what should I do, would I do-’ because we really think we’re not pregnant lmao okay ‘-if I was pregnant?’]

Casey: [‘Whatever you reckon’s right, you usually are, and I’d support you’ cos he would, just facts]

Janis: [‘I dunno if I know, when it’s real’ because theory and practice is always different]

Casey: [‘it’d be nowt like before, we could do it’ cos y’all are not kids having to raise kids and again, he’s not Jimothy, no offense sir]

Janis: [‘could ain’t should though’ and shaking our head like fuck it, it’s not happening]

Casey: [‘I ain’t gonna say should for a bit, however much I want to’ just saying he wants to have babies with you nbd]

Janis: [looking at you so hard ‘do you mean that?’]

Casey: [looking back at her like you tell me, cos we know you know from this look rn]

Janis: [‘and you think I could?’ when your voice is quieter but too intense to be a whisper, just taking it that you also meant we’d be shit at it too when you said Jimothy could not hack it]

Casey: [‘I know you could’ cos he do, you’re not the flop here sis]

Janis: [clearly some part of you wants children, like most people do, because you wouldn’t just agree if you were truly like ew no, so we’re just here like oh ‘you’ll be good at it’]

Casey: [‘we’ll both be allowed to be’ shamelessly saying Jimothy would hold you back from being the best parent you could be cos that’s what he does think, like soz you can’t if you’re also having to hardcore look after him]

Janis: [‘one day’ because we do want it, just not in the absolutely chaotic way it’s going to actually go down]

Casey: [‘we’ll have it worked out when we both think we should, and then’ cos hard same, there’s a lot to sort out first and it isn’t remotely the right time, but there would’ve been if we hadn’t been evil]

Janis: [could not agree more, and you can tell from our entire demeanour and the way we’re looking at you, so there’s no need to verbalise it ‘then I can call you daddy whenever I want, yeah’ because if there’s any time to make a joke and calm the mood]

Casey: [‘there’s never a wrong time for that’ cos he LOVED it and you know damn well he did from his reaction at the time so]

Janis: [making a well… kind of noise like people probably would think there’s a time and a place, because you know we’re still shook that we did that]

Casey: [‘you heard’ unrepentant about any time and any place lol]

Janis: [‘it’s your fault’ like you have to keep acting like it, what am I meant to do lmao]

Casey: [‘blame me then’ in that saucy way he always tells her to do such and such then, like okay I guess you’ll have to take it out on me however you feel about it RN lol]

Janis: [fake playfighting you on every point ‘stop making me feel so small and safe and loved’]

Casey: [‘can’t, sorry’ not at all sorry dear reader]

Janis: [‘then I can’t be held responsible for my actions’ just pinning you on this bed rn unrepentantly]

Casey: [‘you’re my baby til we have one’ as unrepentant af]

Janis: [‘means you’re responsible for me’ like hehehe good luck with that]

Casey: [‘not fuming about it’ cos throwback to when he said he could feel all the things and he do be atm, pinning her to the bed because always]

Janis: [‘I’m fuming I ain’t’ because who are we, never thought we’d be here 😍 about this]

Casey: [‘are you?’ with the look and tone saying, gal I know you’re not]

Janis: [‘are you?’ matching energy]

Casey: [as per doing the most to show her how he actually feels about it, cos who is he otherwise, going over any and all marks caused during the feral daddy moment here]

Janis: [‘we nearly died’ because literally you did nearly crash but also it was just that intense and being reminded of it now is likewise doing the most]

Casey: [‘not very responsible of me’ like what a daddy fail but we’re still doing the absolute most here so can’t and don’t actually feel bad about it ‘I’m sorry, baby’]

Janis: [‘you had to let me, who knows what might’ve happened otherwise’ ‘cos felt like we were dying with all that we were not doing there, like no, you’re SO thoughtful ‘you always know what I need’]

Casey: [‘you’ve always needed me and I haven’t never let you before’ like yes true, very necessary actually, so mean of me to deprive you before today though]

Janis: [🥺 face ‘why?’ like we both actually know why but the energy is now we’ve done this why the hell did we wait]

Casey: [‘just the kind of dad I am’ like oh soz I’m SO strict and always telling you no]

Janis: [‘you thought I couldn’t handle it?’ doing the most we can whilst being pinned to show you we SO can]

Casey: [likewise doing the most to be like hmm let’s see if you can, just having so much fun here you two]

Janis: [‘let me prove myself’ like you have all day, casually]

Casey: [‘go on’ likewise, I’m loling because we know this takeaway is gonna appear at some point before y’all are done being extra]

Janis: [you’re owed a cockblock at this point, been wilding all damn day, you know we’re going to the door in the state we are in to prove ourselves that way, sorry delivery driver]

Casey: [unexpected bonus for this probably v bored middle aged man hahaha, just coming to get her and throw her back on the bed like I’ll sort it gal because obvs, not jealous but we are possessive, this man like hello?]

Janis: [he says and I oop, you know why the majority of people go to hotels like this sir, mind your business lol]

Casey: [me and my boo not telling them he’s seen worse or they’d only take it as a challenge]

Janis: [just let the poor man go children]

Casey: [also eat your food, even if you gotta be extra and feed each other it or eat it off each other or whatever, you do need it to be consumed and not totally forgotten about]

Janis: [the sustenance is vital at this stage, even if you’re grumping at the audacity of your order arriving lmao]

Casey: [we know you’re pregnant hun even if you don’t]

Janis: [not you becoming less grumpy like an actual toddler when you eat lollol]

Casey: [it’s a hard same from Junie b Jones personally]

Janis: [same but it’s amusing rn because you were so in the middle of something]

Casey: [this boy also eating v amused like okay then]

Janis: [shoving an unattractive amount in your mouth like and what boy]

Casey: [even more amused because he’s literally never known another girl like her in all the best ways]

Janis: [stealing one of his chips or similar, like whilst you are so amused, as was my plan all along obvs]

Casey: [bringing the food fight energy subtly by smearing some sauce on the end of her nose or somewhere like boop that’ll teach you but it just makes her look adorable actually and then he’s gotta just remove it for you with a lil smooch]

Janis: [‘you’re never gonna stop being so distractingly cute, are you’ because we know that’s a hard no and we’re still dying over it all, kissing you like we just wanna get that sauce back from you here]

Casey: [‘you started it’ like we’re just saying it to give that kind of playful response, but actually, has been obsessed and distracted by this girl for a decade already and won’t ever chill out now]

Janis: [‘and now you can finish it’ like it’s better because we can actually do something about it, not just die of frustration]

Casey: [‘dunno about that’ cos y’all can’t and don’t wanna stop lol as today proves]

Janis: [‘you owed me’ smiling, the ‘we’re making up for the last 10 years’ didn’t need to be spoken but we did anyway]

Casey: [‘paid up now, are we?’ amused like oh so you’re done now are you, cos we know that’s a hard no ‘nothing else to be made up for?’ with a raised brow like hmm okay sure]

Janis: [‘where’d you hear that?’ like not I, thank you very much ‘not a fair trade no matter how good of a day it’s been’ crossing your arms like he’s trying to trick you]

Casey: [uncrossing her arms because always, this time instead of shamelessly groping her like he did in the car, touching her stomach instead ‘thought I might’ve heard this were the best part of it for you’ playfully like you love that food more than me, I get it]

Janis: [me and this girl automatically thinking about the babygate of it all there like !! but keep on keeping on ‘free meal, is it?’ like do yourself down much, babe, at least you actually paid for this one, unlike the restaurant]

Casey: [same gals and you know he’s thinking about it in the sense of not yet knowing it’s a full kink unlocked but about wanting to have babies with her hence being too distracted when he has touched her to reply to the bants, leaving his hand there, looking at it like oh I really sent myself down a train of thought here]

Janis: [‘do you think-’ cutting you off ‘cos don’t need to vocalize that you’re blatantly wondering if you’re on the way to being pregnant rn with everything you’ve done today]

Casey: [‘we shouldn’t think about it’ because he as blatantly is and is into it but doesn’t wanna be like let’s have a baby rn cos not the time like we said earlier, has not moved his hand or his GAZE though so]

Janis: [‘no’ because that is correct but it isn’t as if you can stop yourself thinking about it either ‘wouldn’t be the right time’]

Casey: [‘but’ when you can’t stop yourself saying it because you’re just thinking about how a baby takes 9 months and that’s ages and how different things could be by then ‘it wouldn’t be born now’]

Janis: [‘you want it so much more than he did’ soz, again not something you needed to say but was unable to keep in]

Casey: [‘I want all of it more than he does, you, a marriage, kids’ because soz but we were at that wedding so we can say it]

Janis: [‘I want to give it to you, all of it’ putting our hand on top of his]

Casey: [‘he don’t deserve a proper adult life with you and you deserve so much more than putting up with the bollocks he can give you’ because again, tea, not him acknowledging that okay in spite of his crush JJ were in love and suited as teenagers ‘it ain’t good enough’]

Janis: [‘I want you, Casey’ pleading in our voice like he’s going somewhere ‘you want what I want, you can give it to me’]

Casey: [finally moving his eyes off her stomach to look at her ‘you got me, and if we’ve got a kid coming too, then’ like then is a full sentence because you know what we’re saying and it’s we want it and we’ll have it]

Janis: [looking down at your stomach as if one of you needs to always be keeping watch ‘there’s nothing to be scared of, you’ll be so good at it and I’ll be there with you the whole time’ when you’re talking to him but could be this imagined baby]

Casey: [gotta look back down at it too, cannot look away ‘not for none of us, you, me or the baby’ cos none of y’all need to be scared is what he believes, you’re all gonna slay together]

Janis: [‘the baby’ just letting yourself say it and imagine it]

Casey: [putting his head on her stomach like he’s trying to listen for a response as if this baby is gonna be like hello cos she said that]

Janis: [biting our lip so we don’t fully moan about that ‘you look so good there’]

Casey: [‘I feel good here’ getting more comfy with it because he does ‘hope you ain’t fuming about it’ whispered @ the baby that could be in there like hope I’m not squashing you with my big head rn soz]

Janis: [‘two babies’ stroking his hair like you get snuggled and I’ll try not to die ‘have to get used to sharing’ because you’re ours and we’re yours, soz baby]

Casey: [when that just makes you think about twins and die @ these potentially twin babies in the same whisper as he used before ‘her fault not mine if you’ve gotta get used to it an’ all, take it up with your mummy and auntie Gracie, like’ the slight shade on Grace’s name making me lol ‘not that you’d get a word in there but I’ll shut up myself before you don’t fancy getting out’]

Janis: [just there for a sec like why am I being lumped in with my twin, excuse me but then you realise what he’s saying and you fully GASP like oh shit ‘your head’d roll off, bump would be so big’ already obvious we’re into it but we don’t even fully get it yet ‘I’m well comfy, you know that’ like don’t blame ‘em]

Casey: [getting even more comfy like yeah you are and also I won’t roll off right now or any time soon, look, cos likewise too into it to say anything atm, the sound of his own he would’ve had to likewise stop with a lip bite is giving that away]

Janis: [lowkey stroking your hair too hard with all the energy we’re not expending touching ourselves or you right now ‘such a good dad, you’]

Casey: [when he was already so !! that if he doesn’t start kissing her stomach once she’s said that he’ll simply pass away, so that’s a thing happening rn not at all casually]

Janis: [you know we have to be playing with our nipples right now so we likewise don’t fully lose it ‘daddy loves you so much babies’ just going between watching you and being unable to because we’re so overwhelmed]

Casey: [was trying to do soft and little kisses at first there but now he’s just being fully feral and indecent about it ofc because how could he not when she says that ‘we’re gonna be the happiest family, you’ll see’ at all of you, her and these fictional twin bubs who are baby Jac actually]

Janis: [‘daddy makes mummy so happy, you’ll love him as much as me’ at our stomach, smoothing over every place he’s just kissed]

Casey: [‘I’ll take SUCH good care of the 3 of you’ kissing her on the mouth as feral as he was her stomach, while he’s touching it, like see, nobody left out]

Janis: [‘you are’ fully moaned into your mouth whilst we’re trying to mesh our faces fully together here ‘and we’re gonna take care of you, your girls’ clearly decided they’re girls because you and Grace are there ‘you’ll be so, so loved’]

Casey: [this boy touching her stomach with one hand while he touches her so saucy with the other and also can’t and won’t stop kissing her, we’re doing it all atm lads to show we can and y’all will be so loved too]

Janis: [you know we have to just touch you and shamelessly guide you inside us, all whilst kissing like you’re unable to stop because it’s true]

Casey: [it’s the only acceptable response and it gives him both hands to be touching and holding her stomach while you do this so simply must]

Janis: [fully in our element on this day, don’t even care where you are or all the actual drama that is currently being ignored and the drama yet to come, just yet again having the most intense sex you could imagine]

Casey: [I love it for y’all, there’s so much time for drama and I’m sure a lot of it will be heartbreaking, just be in love for now]

Janis: [there’s no alternative, we only have to get out of this mindset when the worst happens, basically, in all the ways lol, right now let us love on our imaginary babies]

Casey: [at least we can let you fall asleep again at some point cos the only way y’all ever stop having a sesh]

Janis: [at least you got to eat lmao, thank you delivery man for that unexpected convo]

Casey: [he’s the real mvp for that one lol]

Janis: [oh you two, still gotta go get a dog, WHO’S HE GOING TO LIVE WITH I’D LOVE TO KNOW]

Casey: [Oh Chubby, when you really do think you’re getting a puppy for your babies to grow up with, I mean, yeah, you are, but not the way you’re picturing it tomorrow when you do it]

Janis: [he has such beautiful eyes, I got a pic of him today, slay sir, I’m sure Billie and her man either have dogs already or will not want yours bumbling about so Casey is gonna have to take custody]

Casey: [Billie wouldn’t mind but I fully imagine her man acting like Chubby is gonna eat Cosmo or brawl any pets you may have, I need to check when she gets pregnant with Dash cos I know he’s around Jac’s age and that is a bit relevant to this if you are gonna be there gal]

Janis: [that was likewise the energy I got, like not in my nice house, tah, be awkward enough you being there pregnanting up the place, him like we have a new baby, can you go away, like she doesn’t hide in one of your many guest suites whenever you’re there and it isn’t just Baby Cosmo and Billie]

Casey: [like actually having Janis there would be a help and mean she can do more things for baby Cosmo herself than he lets her do so shut your mouth tbh sir]

Janis: [like I’m sure you’re nice enough to her face but it’s clearly just a vibe at all times in this house like yikes, at least you can get some baby practice in here]

Casey: [the way you just know she was going to see Billie at the start of this convo because she knows she’s not happy even though Billie is not ready to be saying that]

Janis: [mhmm, not that you’re in a similar boat or anything, yikes]

Casey: [oh girls, at least you do have each other]

Janis: [I can see why you wouldn’t wanna say shit though Janis, it makes your complaints seem like nothing in comparison, ‘cos it isn’t like Jimmy is bad or doing anything wrong]

Casey: [onwards with playing with puppies in the AM like nothing is or could ever be wrong though]

Janis: [casual puppy crawl occurring, so highkey buzzing and couply all these dog people gonna be like awh okay lovebirds lol]

Casey: [soz not soz that you deserve to be a couple in public places where nobody knows either of y’all]

Janis: [very much the energy of the day, shamelessly doing the most, being well chatty to these people as if you ever are, talking about your life like it’s the one you wish y’all were living]

Casey: [it’s a hard same for him as well as being a dog nerd, but you know he’d be especially buzzing to see it from her cos there’s no way Jimothy hasn’t at least slightly dragged her into his depression hole in the last few years, we all know you’d both have been even more antisocial than you usually are/used to be]

Janis: [it’s not been a good time since this wedding he didn’t want to have and we all know that, too codependent for it to not have an effect on her, obviously but yes, what could be a cuter day for y’all than to love on all these pups]

Casey: [and we’ll let you stay in a slightly nicer hotel for your last night away seeing as y’all have moved away from your teenage runaway fantasy now]

Janis: [and y’all did your utmost to wreck that room so you won’t be going back there anyway, at least you pay outright so you’re welcome lmao]

Casey: [that bathroom was absolutely destroyed, we all remember and I’m sure you’re lowkey bebopping all around ireland looking at puppies anyways so you’d be in a totally different area by tonight regardless]

Janis: [gotta find mr chubbs honey]

Casey: [I know he’s really not gonna help the situation and you two have actually gone insane with this one but I’m so excited to have him]

Janis: [we’re lowkey framing it like well if Casey wants a dog, why should we say no, then it’s irrelevant anyway because everything has to be blown up but still, not soz lol]

Casey: [are we saying y’all find him today or tomorrow before you go back?]

Janis: [I think you should find him today and go get him tomorrow, ‘cos they usually make you wait so you’re not being rash or whatever, and that can dictate that you have to go back energy]

Casey: [my thinking too, soz we simply have to stay a bit longer, and they’ll be so adorably buzzing all night and can go on a little shopping spree for him which is a vibe we always love]

Janis: [gotta be prepared baby, all the things you lowkey forget you need then you’re like omg, basically, it’s just all the cuteness we then have to destroy because we’re evil moos]

Casey: [I’m gonna have to insist you only go somewhere that’s v pet specific or else I simply won’t be able to stop him buying human baby things and we will really die]

Janis: [you’ve already hurt yourselves too much lads, you can’t do it]

Casey: [putting my foot down, hearts are gonna be broken hard enough]

Janis: [none of you can have the fairytale you do or don’t want here]

Casey: [I’m too hormonal for this lol, I’m gonna be sobbing]

Janis: [at least you will have time to properly eat today and not be as totally distracted, ‘cos you’ll be lowkey too excited to sleep when you get to your new hotel]

Casey: [Baby Jac is welcome for that sustenance]

Janis: [not saying you haven’t hooked up at all today though, lmao lbr about it, we know telling people about your life has you both like 👀]

Casey: [with all that driving from puppy destination to puppy destination there’s too many chances for y’all to pull over for that to not happen at least once, plus if you’re going out to eat that’s another restaurant you’ll never go back to with a bathroom you can make use of]

Janis: [we know who you are lmao, even if you’re having a very soft kind of day]

Casey: [softness kills you the most, you gotta, don’t talk to me about everyone thinking they’re married because she’s wearing a wedding ring, we can’t discuss it]

Janis: [peeps always do, the casual your husband/your wife thrown into convo and you’re like and I oop]

Casey: [could never be us, everybody out here thinking we’re sisters, he’d LOVE it though, that goes without saying]

Janis: [people simply forgetting that gay people exist is so funny to me honestly; but anyway, you’d think you’d hate it because of the reminder to your actual husband but like all of this, you can’t not love it a bit in spite of that]

Casey: [he’ll win you over telling some overly invested middle aged woman about your fictional wedding and it’ll be so much better than your devastating actual wedding that there’s no comparison, can’t help love him or the idea of it, soz Jimothy]

Janis: [‘might’ve just caused a divorce in there’ when you’re leaving, like that woman is gonna leave her husband now ‘cos you made that sound too damn romantic]

Casey: [‘not another one, [school therapist lady’s name]’s husband still ain’t over theirs’ because bants but also that woman was also as lowkey too invested in you for how crap she clearly was at her job so]

Janis: [pushing you as we walk like ugh, you’re the worst but pulling you back in as well]

Casey: [‘oi, no fair’ because if you’re pregnant we can’t push you back and we’re not letting that fantasy die yet, TOO clear what he means by his EVERYTHING, how he’s holding her rn and where he’s looking]

Janis: [‘deal with it’ very much looking at him with this is your fault energy and we are not mad about it at all ‘got to shamelessly exploit the perks or what’s the point, like’]

Casey: [just shaking his head like nope I cannot because can’t deal with you and how good you look and how you make us feel at all ever but especially rn ‘you’re alright, won’t tell them you said that’ like oh these poor twin babies of ours getting shamelessly exploited already ‘long as you promise to leave it out getting them an agent til they’re what, old enough to walk down the catwalk themselves’ when he really wouldn’t actually want his daughters to be models, soz hun we’re doing that to you]

Janis: [‘be even ruder of you to gang up on me already’ like don’t be chatting shit about me thank you very much, just making such a how dare you face and loling like god no ‘what am I, so washed up I need to live vicariously?’ pushing you again like boy stop, because so not that bitch ‘it’s not my fault I’m gonna make seriously cute kids’]

Casey: [‘daddy’s girls the lot of you, I can’t help that’ like they shamelessly take after you with that one gal, it’s not my fault they’re gonna love me that much, pulling her back in SO close when she pushes him because washed up is the opposite of what we think she is and that’s blatant ‘What are you? You’re the fittest lass in this whole country, weren’t like I needed to but good as seen it for myself now’ cos this this roadtrip energy bebopping everywhere, but we been knew before we went anywhere that that’s true ‘too cute’ also true like it’s gonna be dangerous how adorable these children are ‘dunno how we’re letting them live anywhere other than behind some massive wall, like’]

Janis: [doing the thing where you’re not stopping walking but you’re fully wrapping yourself around him so it’s a ridiculous dance of a walk right now ‘you don’t want to’ as a * because you love it as much as we do, and smooching you, again, like we’re not walking here, excuse us everyone ‘be taking the princess thing a bit far’ 🤏 and shrugging ‘cos can’t lock them up in a tower vibe]

Casey: [picking her up like so is this but I’m doing it because shamelessly can and will treat you all like princesses he is that bitch ‘I know what lads are like and it ain’t princes’ already no boys allowed dad energy happening here before they are even born lol]

Janis: [‘s’what they say, daughters are a punishment’ like yeah, you know what lads are like and you have to deal with it, babe, soz, welcome for Jac being a massive lesbian anyway]

Casey: [‘not mine’ they will be a delight and perfect angels, how dare you, looking at the bump she does not yet even have like you heard, it wasn’t me who said that gals, and best behaviour thank you]

Janis: [just smiling and shaking our head at you and then this bump like oh you, so cute, so naive]

Casey: [kissing her smiling face like we’re shutting her up even though she didn’t actually say anything]

Janis: [‘you’re gonna be such a pushover’ said in the sauciest way imaginable]

Casey: [‘they’re your daughters too’ likewise ‘such a good girl, you’ out here being feral on these streets]

Janis: [🥺 ‘you’re still gonna let me be your baby when they’re here?’ ‘cos he said until in that hookup and we were like * but not at the time ‘cos it was too intense]

Casey: [DYING at that face 5ever ‘you’re gonna be my baby no matter what’ cos literally nothing and nobody coming between y’all]

Janis: [‘promise’ like I do but also you must rn immediately]

Casey: [the most intense kiss of all time to promise himself and seal yours with ‘I need you’ whenever he can bear to break away even slightly, said with all the feeling and meant in every possible sense]

Janis: [‘always’ likewise in every way that could be taken ‘cos it’s real every which way]

Casey: [the heart eyes he’s rocking rn are as intense as that kiss was]

Janis: [y’all better get in your car right now]

Casey: [mhmm, there is only so extra you can be on the street lads and we’re not getting arrested today either thank you]

Janis: [repeating his ‘I need you’ when you are so you know what’s up]

Casey: [when you’re gonna have to drive at least a little bit away from wherever that wedding story lady lived and be dying every second, but I’ll be nice and say there’s a field or something nearby you can park up into, driving one handed so you can squeeze hers so hard with your other cos SAME]

Janis: [we’re just casually counting here by squeezing your hand in a pulse rhythm]

Casey: [bringing back from the OG when they were slowly counting from 1-10 like he was always taught to do when he’s angry but doing a different slightly saucier thing on each number and obvs getting there on 10]

Janis: [this just fully ending us bye, ‘I can’t handle you’]

Casey: [��that ain’t true’ because we simply know you can]

Janis: [doing the most to handle you literally even if we’re shaking our head like nope]

Casey: [you are both welcome for this occurring in the day so this field isn’t giving full horror movie vibes again when he pulls up to it]

Janis: [unphased by our surroundings forever beyond the fact you couldn’t literally bang right outside that family’s home ‘cos a bit much, bit rude lol]

Casey: [she’s not that invested or shipping you that hard, there are limits lol]

Janis: [no random middle-aged lady threesomes, tah]

Casey: [not the mood ever frankly but especially not on this day]

Janis: [you aren’t invited, I’m sorry hun, we need some alone time immediately]

Casey: [they’ve been very restrained so far, it’s deserved]

Janis: [us when they go five minutes without banging, get it lads, self-control whomst]

Casey: [get it while you can, lord knows she’ll be moving out soon]

Janis: [can’t be overstated how much it’s all about to be crapped on so I do not blame y’all, live your dreams, be feral]

Casey: [we’re actually evil, not about to be more so by ruining anything before we absolutely have to]

Janis: [the way we could not foresee how bad Jimmy would take this, like none of us were expecting it to be easy but we’re like OH]

Casey: [it’s the tea though because everyone is so used to him barely reacting to anything anymore so to then have SUCH a big reaction is unexpected, especially because it’s gotten to the point she literally thinks he doesn’t love her anymore]

Janis: [exactly, we think this is over and we’ve lowkey been forcing you into everything since the wedding era, so if anything we’d expect you to be relieved, definitely furious over the Casey of it all, even if we’re not allowing ourselves to properly consider just how bad that is but this, it’d be really hard to not get back with you, like that’ll fix it, but we have to know deep down it wouldn’t]

Casey: [I wouldn’t blame her remotely if she did either seriously consider or actually get back with him but we all know if she did it wouldn’t fix anything and they’d be back to square one in no time and she obviously knows that too because the wedding hasn’t and she said herself he was not !! about the baby the way Casey is]

Janis: [exactly dr phil, it wouldn’t achieve anything and we all know that really but I’d understand the impulse when you’re lowkey terrified like no one wants to feel like a murderer but even that isn’t a good enough reason to do it hence the compromise is basically being like I’ll leave you both alone, I’ve done enough vibes]

Casey: [the vibe in that house is actually really upsetting me to think about because it’s like Jimothy might as well be your drunk af dad that you had to clean up after and care for because catatonic era, I know it’s kinda your fault he is Casey but I still feel bad for you]

Janis: [like obvs she’s going to help and not just leave because we still love him and it’s not like peace but emotionally like no, I’m here on a weird friend/family basis only, it’s truly not a time to be alive at all and that’s that on that]

Casey: [excuse me while I think about Chubby instead so I don’t sob]

Janis: [child of a broken home, poor fat fat, also I know you’re like 16 but respectfully Bobby, pull your weight here tah]

Casey: [he’ll have to at least a bit because Casey is not on the we must shield and protect him from everything at all costs team, soz Bobby this is your wake up call babe]

Janis: [there is 0 way for you to not realise what is happening anyway so no, and maybe you can actually get through to him on some level so you’re needed, not soz]

Casey: [like, Casey will do any of the really grim shit there is so Bobby or Janis don’t have to because he is that bitch but yeah you’ll have your own role to play here and truly if anyone could get through to Jimothy rn he’s the one who’s most likely to]

Janis: [not Bibi getting lowkey cunty like we’ll take it from here you two, like I see your POV and frankly, would be better but okay]

Casey: [respectfully children through no fault of your own you’re not ready, your intentions are good but that’d be the definition of throwing you in at the deep end and nobody’s trying to do that and risk things getting even worse]

Janis: [the point is there aren’t really other options, otherwise obviously it would be better to give him space]

Casey: [why do I kind of love the idea of bibi being absolute dicks? I think because they are such goodie two shoes normally haha]

Janis: [they probably would be, they’re obviously on Jimmy’s side]

Casey: [such fun, Winnie CANNOT wait to write it all he says]

Janis: [he loves the drama in all it’s many forms baby]

Casey: [but for now anyway, go find Chubby and then go celebrate finding him by going for food and drinks]

Janis: [chin chin gals, can go to a bar first so the drink is a more suitable vibe for you sir]

Casey: [it’s wild to think they’ve really only had that guinness this whole time, unheard of for this boy]

Janis: [not being slightly buzzed most of the time? Hello? Love to see it but also you can celebrate]

Casey: [he’s changing for the better already, very cliche of you sir but I can’t be mad about it]

Janis: [happy people make better choices, sorry]

Casey: [I do need him to befriend everyone and shamelessly take over this bar and get her put behind it so she can make him his much longed for personalised drink at some point, he’s that dramatic and extra, you know he would and could talk everyone into it and I’m defs bringing back from the OG when he stood on a table and made a speech]

Janis: [when you’ve got to pull it out the bag in front of these other bartenders now as well, no pressure boy, at least we thrive on a challenge but we will not be telling all these strangers why we’re picking what we’re picking so you will just have to infer it and we’ll let you know later]

Casey: [Casey and Jemily both have all the faith in her not to make a twat out of herself and she won’t, it’s fine, besides, he’ll definitely make you a new one, a mocktail for possible pregnancy related reasons so you’ll be almost even]

Janis: [will have to drag you down from this table though like ‘nobody cares’ with the faux energy of I do not care but we’re really 😏 and like stop telling these randoms all this unprompted please]

Casey: [the way it’s so close to sounding like a proposal cos it shamelessly would be if he had a ring to give you rn and you weren’t already wearing one from being married to his brother, oh sir]

Janis: [‘I’m a shit wife’ like you would not want that boy, because on some level we feel that, even before how we’re very clearly being an actual shit wife]

Casey: [‘Bollocks’ because it is from his POV, she’s been a good wife to Jimothy even though we famously think he’s a flop husband so there’s no way you’d be a shit one to us when we aren’t going to suck as hard]

Janis: [shaking his hand like oh hi, have we met, do you know what we’re doing here but then literally shrugging it off like whatever because there’s nothing to be done at this point]

Casey: [shaking his head because no we’re v serious actually ‘you heard’ up close and personal so she can’t not ‘he’d already left you’ cos again, how we feel about it, Jimothy be that MIA ‘ain’t worth the paper it’s written on, you being his wife in the first place-’ a pause to sigh because can’t not when we think of the wedding ‘but that’s not ‘cause of you, weren’t your lack of trying’]

Janis: [just looking at him for a while, before we reply, because simultaneously too much and nothing to say about this all ‘you’re still his brother’ the one fact of this we can’t change ‘only alright if you’re royalty or first one died in a war, like’]

Casey: [‘I’m his brother when I fuck up, yeah, when there’s something for him to hold up and say have a look who I ain’t and hold over my head, but that’s not what this is, not to me’ because we know damn well what he and other people are gonna say, he’s not stupid]

Janis: [press your forehead into his because you know that isn’t what it is, even with people saying it, we wouldn’t think it]

Casey: [‘getting there first don’t give him the automatic right to stay and the two of us sharing a load of dna don’t mean I owe him none of that no more than you do’]

Janis: [‘I’m the one that made promises, not you’ doing a big sigh ‘but I’ve broken them, there’s no point acting otherwise, not now’]

Casey: [‘he broke ‘em first, he don’t love you, treat you how he said he would up there in front of everybody you’re bothered about and invited to what’s meant to be one of the top of your life’]

Janis: [just blinking rapidly, nodding like wow okay]

Casey: [‘I’m not trying to hurt you an’ all, but when I know he did, I’m not sitting here having you feel like shit and the only one who’s done owt wrong’]

Janis: [‘I know it’s not just me but whatever’s going on with him…’ trailing off because obviously we’re heartbroken but we’re not going to accept that as a valid reason ‘don’t change this’]

Casey: [‘isn’t an excuse’ like a * when she trails off cos Jimothy has done wrong too and we know that’ll get swept under the rug by everyone else ‘this is what it is if I were his brother or some other lad you met down the town and proper fell for, he’d still feel as hard done by’]

Janis: [shake your head ‘nah, ‘cos he’ll be wondering how long and all the time we ever spent on our own without him, or with him about, if there was looks and touches that lingered too long and if I stopped loving him ‘fore he did me and it’ll do his head in like it has mine trying to work out when he did’]

Casey: [‘Why should it just be you having your head done in by all that? Let him have a turn’]

Janis: [‘you know why’]

Casey: [‘I know he’s a grown lad who made his share of the choices that got you here, there’s no one of us who can take more share of the blame than the other dickheads can, if it was that fucking easy, I would do, I’d take all of it and he can have at proper hating me how he’s always fancied’]

Janis: [‘He won’t hack it, whatever would or should, we both know that’s true, but we can’]

Casey: [‘he reckoned he could afford to have a kid, if that’s true, he can sit in a room with some stranger who’s paid to sort his head out, tell them everything he can’t hack and why instead of dragging you down with him’]

Janis: [‘I’ll get us a family discount’ because there’s nothing funny about this beyond the ridiculousness of the entire situation, like ffs]

Casey: [just look at her like !!! because ffs is right]

Janis: [just raising your hands because literally what else can I say or do]

Casey: [getting up to get more drinks before we say something out of pure frustration we don’t mean, but as he goes ‘you have no idea how much I’ve missed you, what it was like to watch you start to disappear an’ all’ so sadly because was actually heartbreaking to see her change since this flop wedding etc and we can’t even deal with thinking about it never mind trying to verbalise it]

Janis: [‘but I do’ quietly enough he’d probably miss it if he’d looked away because obviously, we watched it happen with Jimmy so we know exactly what it was like]

Casey: [Winnie says he did miss it because he’s that sort of bear, just bringing these drinks back after however long they take]

Janis: [drinking that with enthusiasm tbh]

Casey: [hard same because the fun vibe has taken a nosedive, soz lads]

Janis: [real 0-60 there, soz]

Casey: [when you can’t bear being in this atmosphere with all your new mates you’ve made any more actually, so you just gesture to her like let’s go]

Janis: [obviously do get up and go]

Casey: [walk for a sec and maybe you’ll calm down, boy]

Janis: [‘if you wanna say something, you just should’]

Casey: [‘I don’t have the right answers to chuck at you, I wish I did, like’]

Janis: [‘there aren’t any’ like that isn’t what I was looking for don’t worry]

Casey: [a big sigh cos yeah, we know that]

Janis: [‘you don’t have to tell me it isn’t bad when it is, it’s okay’]

Casey: [‘and you don’t have to tell me how bad it is when there’s gonna be loads of other dickheads lined up ready to’ an even bigger sigh ‘or make us feel like I’m in the wrong for the only thing that feels right to me’]

Janis: [‘it isn’t me, it’s what will be said by everyone else, like you said’]

Casey: [‘It don’t matter to me what everyone else reckons, never has and never fucking will, they don’t know sod all about me or this, it matters what you think, how you feel and if we’re gonna live the rest of our lives bothered more about the state of his head you might as well go back to being his missus’]

Janis: [‘I didn’t fucking say that, just that I can’t switch it off completely, which I’ve never said I could or would’]

Casey: [‘I can’t lose you to him like that, it were one thing having to when you was happy, but I won’t to guilt and misery’]

Janis: [‘I’m not going anywhere, its not an option’]

Casey: [‘you thought that handshake was a massive pisstake but nah, we have met again today, it’s been ages and ages since I’ve seen that girl’]

Janis: [‘well you’ve been gone too’ lowkey defensive there we see you but I get it, let’s not act like it’s been the same between y’all for a minute]

Casey: [‘when he’s like this, everything he touches turns to shit’ bit rude but I also get it]

Janis: [pulling a face like well excuse you]

Casey: [giving her a look like you know what I’m trying to say here]

Janis: [another like still rude though, but nudging into you slightly like yeah, I know]

Casey: [‘maybe I’m no better but I refuse to be alright with worse’ like yeah okay things between us have been not it for a minute but that’s because I’ve been deliberately trying not to also drag you down with me too]

Janis: [‘who’s judging that anyway?’ shrugging like that’s not the point because we don’t care about that]

Casey: [a shrug back, opening his mouth to say something which he then doesn’t]

Janis: [‘what?’ like no, go on]

Casey: [‘look at how easy I ruin shit, don’t take us the years it does him, can do it in minutes, me, can’t I?’]

Janis: [‘I’m the one who brought it up, or down to here, you were doing everything right’ ‘cos it really was her lol, not just saying that to make you feel better, ‘tis factual]

Casey: [‘we can’t just never mention him, learnt from my dad pretending our kid weren’t about, it don’t work out very well’]

Janis: [‘I didn’t have to do it today, I just-’ shaking our head]

Casey: [‘what?’ but softer]

Janis: [‘you deserve everything you want, what if I can’t give it to you?’]

Casey: [‘all I want’s to be with you, so you have done, and there’s nothing to worry about’ pulling her closer because ofc]

Janis: [‘I don’t want to fuck everything up this time’]

Casey: [pulling her even closer ‘I’m not him and who you are, or was, with him isn’t who you are with me’]

Janis: [just being held ‘I’m sorry’]

Casey: [‘me too’ holding her even tighter always somehow]

Janis: [making a noise that is as ‘no me’ without literally saying those words, hugging you back]

Casey: [a shushing noise without being like shhh bitch, stroking her hair when we can bear to even slightly loosen the hug]

Janis: [‘I don’t want to ruin this, you know that, don’t let me’]

Casey: [‘you won’t let yourself, you can trust that, you know I trust you’]

Janis: [looking at him like can I, but genuinely asking not pure I think the fuck not energy]

Casey: [‘you can do it, Janis’ namedrop so you know he’s v serious and means it totally]

Janis: [just giving you the most tentative kiss ever ‘stay with me’]

Casey: [telling her she can do it over and over and how much he believes in her and loves her and he’ll never leave her etc in between so many soft but intense kisses]

Janis: [doing that laugh you do when you feel like a hot mess like oh god ‘if I cry again, I swear to God’ making it more of a prolonged kiss with no stopping between for breathing let alone talking, so you don’t cry but also because it’s needed]

Casey: [doing the breathing into each other’s mouth thing they love to do when that long kiss finally gets broken]

Janis: [‘yours’ into his mouth on loop]

Casey: [such a good lil noise into her mouth in response because love to hear it]

Janis: [putting his hand over your heart and his other hand on your stomach and making serious EYE CONTACT ‘yours’]

Casey: [the EYE CONTACT back is indecent because feeling too many things]

Janis: [‘you’re too good for me but I’m keeping you’ biting your bottom lip out and drawing a heart on your teeth with our tongue]

Casey: [‘you’re too good for me but I’m keeping you’ like no no it’s the other way round actually ‘and them’ drawing 2 hearts on her stomach in a way that once again makes me so soz to dash your dreams like this]

Janis: [‘no one else loves us like you do, never would’ pressing our stomach against you harder, biting your adam’s apple in the process]

Casey: [if the blatant moan he’s just out here doing wasn’t enough of a giveway how into all that he is, there’s no room for any doubt with how he’s pressing as hard against her rn]

Janis: [putting your hand against his throat when you have to move your mouth to bite the opposite ear to last time and be up in it ‘I wanna be all the things you told people about me today, all the time’]

Casey: [I make the rules and he has to do the opposite ear he did to last time so they are mirrors again and be up in hers telling her she can do it like he did before except in the most indecent tone ever this time]

Janis: [using our fingers to collect the blood coming from his ear and mixing it with our own, tasting it, pushing our bloody fingers further into our mouth again to try and do something about the ‘daddy’ being moaned as indecently in response]

Casey: [meanwhile rubbing himself against her stomach too blatantly for wherever they are rn not to mention stealing those fingers out of her mouth to put into his own, just feral things]

Janis: [‘you can put so many more babies in me’ just watching these antics and DYING, pushing our fingers further into your mouth without even realising because we’re beyond distracted by how you look]

Casey: [having to sign ‘how many?’ cos you need to know IMMEDIATELY but you can’t speak with all those fingers there like that]

Janis: [smiling like oops sorry in the not at all sorry fashion and taking your fingers out, smearing the mess all over your own face ‘many as we can love’]

Casey: [kissing her whole face in the most extra way as if you’re thoroughly cleaning it and not just shamelessly making the mess worse ‘I’ve got so much love to give you’ plural you obvs for all these bubs but giving it to her rn literally with how he’s moving]

Janis: [just shamelessly spitting into your mouth and asking for the same ferally ‘I know baby, give it all to me and I can give you it back and more’ literally in the form of these babies ofc]

Casey: [there is no way it’s late enough in the evening for y’all to be doing this basically outside of/v close to a bar when you haven’t even been for dinner yet but here we are, gonna be kind to you and say there’s some kind of little alleyway he’s pulled you into after spitting into your mouth as requested because we’re doing this, there’s no stopping it]

Janis: [just here blowing raspberries and playing with this spit in our mouth like it’s our own ‘you taste like what I made you’ so happily]

Casey: [meanwhile he’s using all his spit and collecting it in her belly button, sticking his tongue and thumb in there, doing the most]

Janis: [being even louder as if this alleyway means you get to have 0 awareness for your surroundings, pop off lads, ‘I can’t wait ‘til it’s big, you can feel them inside me’]

Casey: [lol this alleyway is not remotely giving you the privacy you need but we’re sure pretending it is with how LOUD he was at the prospect of that, nbd just trying to fuck your belly button rn too as if that’s possible]

Janis: [casually the hottest thing we’ve ever seen and we’re letting it be known, pushing our knickers to the side so we can put how wet we are in your mouth, rough as fuck ‘I know you wanna feel them between us when you’re inside me’]

Casey: [the level he’s DYING cannot be overstated, the way y’all are just unlocking kinks like it’s your job absolutely sends me, giving her nips some love with his hands as rough as she was being with her fingers then because thinking about her boobs being massive too obvs but what are words atm]

Janis: [we’re both thinking about it ‘they already feel good’ because it’s true and you gotta know ‘sensitive’ still just mouth fucking you, wet fully dripping down our thighs now]

Casey: [take that cue to be going against her thigh instead at least because you can’t actually fuck a belly button I’m soz, but you can keep pushing one of your thumbs into it cos that feels really nice for some gals appaz cos of the nerve that’s there, the nips need the rest but you can spare that 1]

Janis: [‘it feels like you’re fucking me so deep’ ‘cos yet again amazed at this sensation ‘make me cum just like this and you can do whatever you want, I swear’ holding his mouth open with a thumb on either side, sticking your tongue in and out, seeing how far you can take it]

Casey: [signing ‘I wanna make you cum every way there is’ because he does and he needs you to know that rn but once again cannot talk with these antics, I have faith in you that you could with the belly button thing tbh so we’ll allow it]

Janis: [‘I know I want your cum leaking out of me when I give birth, that’s what I’m thinking about’ so in your grill saying this]

Casey: [I don’t know how someone hasn’t come and investigated and found y’all with the levels of drama this boy is being sound wise in this moment]

Janis: [when it’s winter and people wanna mind their own business so hard apparently, excuse us, acting like we can do what we want because we don’t live here, safe to say it’s mutual, we’re only getting messier and louder]

Casey: [we all know he actually does do his research in the future like a massive nerd but we’re purely in fantasy land here rn talking about how he’s gonna fuck her to get these babies out as if it’s occurring in this exact moment]

Janis: [begging him and telling him how bad you want it, running our fingers through his hair frantically because we don’t know what to do with ourselves rn ‘you put them in me you have to get them out, be the first person they see’]

Casey: [the feels are as high here, we’re all aware, being the most feral in this alleyway as if there’s no possibility of being discovered, could not be hooking up any harder right here and now]

Janis: [when the peeps clearly give that little fucks about being heard and/or seen, there’s no point trying to stop ‘em ‘cos they probably wouldn’t, you either call the police and report it or let ‘em finish lol]

Casey: [nobody wants the drama of getting involved and then likely in a brawl when they could just as hardcore mind their business and enjoy their own evening, plus bars are loud, you’re probably not making as much noise as it feels like you are]

Janis: [exactly, you two are just in your own world with it fully, we all know]

Casey: [glad your little domestic didn’t escalate, love to see it, finish up here and then go get some dinner and calm down]

Janis: [we all know the drama is looming, it would be odd if you made absolutely no mention of it as it gets closer, we’re not actually delusional, no matter how badly we wanna stay in this moment]

Casey: [I’m actually surprised neither of you have before now, so yeah, very necessary]

Janis: [had more time to be pretending but we know tomorrow you gotta go now, sad times but we still got tonight to enjoy]

Casey: [and Chubby to distract you tomorrow until you’re literally in the door]

Janis: [what a distraction technique, like excuse me who is this lmao]

Casey: [if only you could actually hide behind this giant dog, cos what a horrific convo to have]

Janis: [we could but we also can’t, not that girl]

Casey: [for now enjoy your romantic date]

Janis: [as per, chilling like you didn’t just behave absolutely insane out here on these streets]

Casey: [like butter wouldn’t melt]

Janis: [we’re nomming, still beyond essential for energy levels]

Casey: [for once he’s gonna be on his best behaviour and not start any kind of food fight, proud of you boy]

Janis: [we’re mature, we’re discussing Chubby and all the shit we’ve gotta get for him]

Casey: [I like to imagine because he’s not a baby pup and already had that name you’re both giving it the energy thank god it wasn’t a lot worse which sends you reminiscing about some of the terrible names from the dog walking era and then you start talking about peeps giving their babies dog names and the baby names you hate]

Janis: [forever dragging Asia, China and America for having the worst names of all times, ‘scuse us ladies]

Casey: [not the ideal time to bring up that you banged Asia but how could you not, she isn’t easy to get mixed up with anyone else]

Janis: [‘why?’ making such a disgusted face because genuinely]

Casey: [a shrug ‘why did I do owt back then?’ cos tea, everything he did was about you as you well know]

Janis: [‘another one for the register’ as if it’s a hit list and you aren’t the same age as her so it’s really not bad but you know, not happy to hear this obvs]

Casey: [‘least they’d write her name down for her’ like she’s so stupid she can’t herself because truly]

Janis: [just crossing our arms like ugh because shook by this news ‘it makes sense, she always was a massive slag’]

Casey: [leaning across this table fully to uncross her arms because always and don’t be mad at me thank you ‘be up for a murder charge if I went near the other two, better than their mate who’d get you done for beastiality, far as pisstakes go, but still’ when you’re just like Mia or Ella would pass away and Hollie is an absolute animal, rude]

Janis: [rolling your eyes ‘you’re predictable, I know that’]

Casey: [‘you’re the only one who’d get away with saying it and it not being total bollocks, that we both know’]

Janis: [just remembering when she asked Jimothy to rank them one time and he said Grace was the best and we were fuming lmao ‘Ella’d be more your type if she weren’t that gay’]

Casey: [‘Gracie would’ve if she didn’t take after you in reckoning I was an off limits kid in them days’ because she’s your sister not because he actually thinks she’s cute or anything]

Janis: [just kicking you in not a flirty manner under this table like shut up]

Casey: [a look like well it’s true, 1000% his type for what he was trying to achieve ‘would’ve got back to you if it had been her, can’t believe I bothered with Asia for sod all’]

Janis: [we’re scowling lmao ‘I doubt it pained you that much, boy’]

Casey: [‘you forgot what her teeth are like?’ Trying to amuse you but also fr, that would be dangerous lol]

Janis: [doing a little ha kind of lol ‘I hope it hurt’ but not seriously at this point]

Casey: [‘course, you never even heard, waited ages for you to bring it up’ cos genuinely gutted at the time that you didn’t find out as it was the entire point]

Janis: [‘when was it?’ shrugging like no, I obviously didn’t hear]

Casey: [telling her when it was and lowkey what went down without going into any deets more than where he ran into her and that sort of thing]

Janis: [just shaking our head ‘weren’t really bothering with messing with them by that point, I guess’]

Casey: [another shrug because obvs he knows that, he knows everything you were and weren’t doing at that point in time because crush ‘you should’ve told her, she might not have been so keen on calling us by his name’ because you can’t tell me she wouldn’t have called him Jimothy, I’m sorry, she’s just that bitch]

Janis: [‘I fucking hate her’ ‘cos we were fuming anyway but that’s really horrible and we’re not okay, rubbing your leg with our foot where we previously kicked it because sorry ‘be the first trying to get him post divorce’ trying to make it sound vaguely jokey but it’s a horrifying thought so it’s not hitting like that]

Casey: [when you don’t acknowledge it, even her physical apology, because you’re not acknowledging how fucked up that actually was of Asia seeing as you used her too and also it’s so long ago it’s basically irrelevant given everything that’s happened lately ‘sure there’ll be a list for that an’ all’ like Jimothy is still so in demand like y’all were as teens, it’ll be like an Agatha Raisin when a new man rocks up to the village]

Janis: [when you can’t remotely think about that actually, despite you being the one who brought it up and have already moved on in many ways, just doing your own shrug]

Casey: [‘be like you’ve died, all the lasagnes and that they’ll be bringing him round’ too true even though Jimothy can cook and look after himself better than most divorced useless dudes, it’s a shameless ploy]

Janis: [‘lucky him’ as if there’s anything about this to be wanting or jealous over]

Casey: [‘Ian had the time of his life with his go’ cos imagine what it would have been like when their mum disappeared and it was in the papers and everything, all the nosey hoes just appearing ‘surprised he ain’t bumped this missus off too to try and get another’]

Janis: [‘I bet, s’only reason I exist, know the score’ because we all remember what Caleb did]

Casey: [‘lucky me’ with more feeling than that suggests, because so glad you exist even though that situation was and is so fucked up]

Janis: [doing a little ta-da like here I am but carrying on eating like our life depends on it now]

Casey: [‘I’d have killed him if I weren’t beat to it’ cos we mean that wholeheartedly, fuck Caleb, said like I’m doubly lucky it wasn’t me who did or we’d not be here like this rn]

Janis: [‘as short of enemies as he was baby mama’s and kids’ shaking your head like what can you do ‘Rih and Gracie would be the only ones I’m proper related to’ like again, tah so much sir]

Casey: [a look like yeah okay I see that but I raise you Jimothy and Bobby who we think are both useless flops and are the only family we have that we know of]

Janis: [‘I’m not gonna concede the point’ but we’re 😏 too]

Casey: [‘have it, you’re giving me a new family, least I can do, like’ because marrying in but also babies]

Janis: [‘so generous, you’]

Casey: [leaning across the table again but to kiss her on the forehead this time like yep that’s me]

[mythiccheroacademia]

The whole time traveling children has me feelin some type of way tbh. Imagine Mirio, Kaminari, and Tamaki walking into their respective rooms and there are just small children vibing. Mirio with his daughter, Kaminari with a daughter and Tamaki with a son. 😭

as i said, parent!bnha is SUPERIOR

A/N: So, instead of making these separate asks, I’m just going to make it one giant post. I thought it would be easier that way. Probably the only post that’ll have more than three characters lol

Warnings: none

Kaminari Denki:

when kaminari walked into his room, he didn't expect to see two children on his bed fighting like wild animals

the younger girl was totally beating the boy’s ass tho

kinda embarrassing bc she’s gotta be like, seven, at most

as if it’s not the weirdest thing he’s seen (bc it’s not) he rushes in to break them apart

he manages to separate them with his arms 

the boy with yellow hair snaps his jaws at his sister’s fingers

“hey! bad! no biting!” he scolds

the little girl blows a raspberry and taunts “yeah! papa says no biting!”

the older sibling just rolls his eyes “rat”

meanwhile, denki is literally malfunctioning

papa?

PAPA? HUH???

the only person’s pants (and heart) he’s been trying to get in to for the past three months was y/n’s and he sure as hell would remember if he did

he didn't have kids

especially one that was his age

“sorry! you two are cute, but i’m not your pops”

thus, they begin to tell denki about how they mayhaps followed him and their mother into a dangerous mission and got hit with a time travel quirk

denki just nods his head

tbh, he’s not that weirded out

weirder things have happened

but, he does have one question

“who’s the lucky woman?”

coincidentally, you bust into his dorm room, wet from a recent prank and head steaming with anger

“Kaminari Denki!”

his son juts a thumb over to you

“the woman that’s about to murder you”

“oh say less”

his life literally couldn't get any better

before you get the chance to throttle him, the little girl jumps in your arms and your anger is immediately quelled 

“hey mommy! i just wanna let you know that it was [son’s name]’s fault that we followed you when you told us not to”

“WHAT!?”

you’re to busy trying to get them from killing each other to comprehend anything that’s going on

kaminari is in a love-struck gaze bc hot damn, he won the jackpot, huh?

if he wasn't in love with you before, he’s in love with you now

you and your feral children

it was nice being God’s favorite

Kirishima Eijirou: 

funny thing was

kirishima woke up from his afternoon nap with his mini-me in his arms!

at first, he was really confused as to why there was an 8 yr old boy with spiky teeth and (your hair texture) black hair on his bed

he thought he was dreaming

then the little boy bit his nose and grinned like he had done the funniest thing in the world 

“WAKE UP DADDY! WE GOTTA GET SWOL TODAY”

did he get hit with some duplication quirk?

and what was that he said...daddy?

as in, father?

kirishima is wide awake now, but before he can ask the kid what’s going on, the boy is up and making use of his punching bag

he decides it wouldn't hurt to get a morning work out in, so he decides to humor the kid

after a mini workout, kirishima is in near tears as the boy tries to flex the little muscles he has 

eventually, he gets the kid to tell him what happened and finds out he was hit with a time travel quirk of some sort

instead of being weirded out, kirishima is ESCTATIC 

he has a family in the future 

he’s so excited and proud that he just has to show his son off to his friends!

the first thing he does is go and bother bakusquad in the common room

he’s bragging like shit to them and his ego swells as they all swoon over how cute and handsome the kid is 

you and bakugo come out of the kitchen to see what all the commotion is about and the little boy excitedly runs to you and jumps into your arms 

“momma! you’re here! you’re so pretty! why’d you marry daddy when he looks so unswol?”

it’s silent before bakugo fucking dies of laughter 

“y-you finally let shitty hair hit it? and got knocked up?? LMAO”

everyone’s dying and kirishima wants to die

he can’t believe this was how his long-term crush on you was getting outted

by an 8 yr old boy

so not manly

you look confused before you put the pieces together

the kid did look like you and kirishima

you want to console kirishima about the crush that you lowkey knew he had on you, but your son was one step ahead of you

with a gracious smile, he hits bakugo’s head

hard

“what the fuck kid!?”

“don’t make fun of daddy, uncle bakugo! at least daddy didn’t faint at his wedding″

Bakugo’s contemplating murder and everyone’s rolling on the floor

“WE BEEN KNEW YOU WERE THE BIGGEST SIMP”

even ten years later, bakugo still holds a grudge against your son

Togata Mirio:

i’m about to kill y’all w this one

since year one, mirio has been feigning over you 

but 1) you were too dumb to notice 2) you both were really busy with, y’know, school and 3) he lowkey gave up bc he thought you deserved better

so imagine his surprise when he sees this four year old girl on his bed

and she looks like you with his features

mirio might not be the brightest crayon in the crayon box

but he’s got eyes

and it wasn't like he’s memorized your features to the T

the tiny girl is swinging her legs absent-mindedly before exploding with happiness when he sees him

she runs to mirio and he catches her with open arms 

“daddy! daddy! i got hit with the coolest quirk at school today!”

proceeds to tell him about her best friend discovered her quirk and it was a teleportation quirk 

mirio can’t help but giggle along with her even tho he knew it was a scary situation for the parents

speaking of which...

he innocently asks her who’s the mom

“mommy is the prettiest mommy in the world! she has e/c eyes, hair like me, and the most beautiful s/c skin! her name is togata y/n!”

if he wasn't geeking before, he’s geeking now

not only did he manage to marry you, but you let him be your baby daddy?

him?

big bet

mirio doesn't even care at this point

he’s parading around UA with the fattest smile as he introduces his daughter to damn near everyone 

everyone’s freaking out bc wtf when did mirio get someone pregnant??

maybe he should've explained himself, but he sees you at your locker and makes a b-line for you

“good morning, y/n!”

he doesn't notice that you slam your locker close and hide the confession letter you wrote to him behind your back

you’re a stuttering mess and he’s too busy basking in the fact that he’s holding y’alls child 

y’all look like a mess

but he’s ready to lay it on thick when the little girl kisses your nose and cheers,

“mommy, i missed you”

he explains the situation 

you cant help but smile, “you know this could potentially ruin the timeline?”

and you feel like melting as he gives you the softest smile 

“there’s no way I’m letting that happen. not when i end up with the woman i’m in love with. we’ll just have to twist fate together”

and twist it you did

Tamaki Amajiki:

tamaki wasn't the bravest person ever 

and he knew his crippling anxiety got in the way of a lot

but he had never been more proud of himself for managing to invite you to his room

it was supposed to be a study date

despite how bold you normally were, he took comfort in how nervous you seemed 

now, you two were leaning in, about to kiss

and then a voice from behind interrupts 

“uh, am i interrupting something?”

you two let out the ugliest squeal and jump 50 feet away from each other 

you’re all over the place, trying to explain the situation

tamaki’s heart is barely beating at this point

it takes the kid, who looks about 16, about thirty minutes to calm you down and revive tamaki

explains that he’s from the future and a descendant of tamaki’s family

decides to leave out that you two are his parents so he doesn't risk possibly erasing himself from the space continuum 

that would be bad

despite how surprised you two were, you two take it rather well 

you three spend the day together bc you and tamaki feel this weird sense of responsibility for the guy even though he’s only two years younger

the boy is trying his hardest not to expose himself, but it’s so hard

you two are asking him everything from his favorite food to if he has any siblings

he’s good at pretending that he’s cool, calm, and collected, but he wants nothing more than to jump into his parents’ arms and cry about how scared he is of messing up

but he won’t 

bc he’s a strong boy

but he slips up

“how far are you down the future?” tamaki asks

“uh, about like 100 years or so--”

“you’re lying”

the kid nearly chokes on his food as his father blinks at him

you try and scold tamaki but he continues

“i don’t mean to be mean, but your nose twitches when you lie. y/n does the same thing”

that’s when the jazz record stops and everyone is staring at one another

“....wait”

this time, you nearly pass out

y’all had a kid together???

THE HELL??

the boy, coincidentally, starts fading and he thinks he fucked up

now he’s full out sobbing into the both of your chests, scared that he’s disappearing

despite the news, you and tamaki calm down, look at each other, and hold your son

“don’t you worry, baby” you coo, kissing his fading hair

“i have a feeling we’ll see you quite soon” tamaki comforts, closing his eyes

Bakugo Katsuki:

bakugo finally understood when his mom said

“the meaner you are to your parents, the nastier your kids will be to you”

he regretted being such a demon bc his kid was literally the spawn of satan

katsuki didn’t need an explanation to know that that...thing was his kid

he looked damn near identical to him with features that he couldn't quite place

but anyways, that wasn't the focus rn

rn, he was trying to figure out a way to keep that animal caged

as soon as katsuki took his eyes off him, the six yr old ran out the door as fast as his little legs could carry him

“catch me if you can, you old bastard!”

yup, it was his kid

“GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE FUCKER”

his son is blasting his way through the halls, skillfully evading Katsuki’s grabbing hands 

he’s wildly laughing as he flips and turns through the doors, watching with glee as his father falls on his face

multiple times

the small boy latches on to a cupboard and smirks

“no wonder mom always beats your ass! you weak!”

katsuki nearly looks like the devil, eyes white, and face red with fury

his pride suffering by the second

he’s about to cuss the kids to hell when you come out of the kitchen, confused

you were about to ask why katsuki looked like a rat with rabies before you caught sight of a basket of fruit teetering on the edge of the cabinet, above the little boy’s head

“look out--”

the basket falls on the kid’s head and he’s on the floor, reeling from the hit

katsuki would've normally laughed his ass off, but he felt kind of...concerned?

he watches you run towards the child who’s trying his hardest not to cry

the boy holds his head, fat tears in his eyes as you pick him up and coddle over him 

“i’m sorry, baby. I'm sorry i didnt get there in time” 

cue the waterworks 

the boy is full-on sobbing into your chest about how his head hurts

you bounce him and kiss his forehead as katsuki checks over the red bump 

“you’ll be okay, brat” he comforts, voice softer than usual

in that moment, katsuki can’t help but notice how much a family y’all look like rn

then the dots start connecting and he goes 

oh shit 

so, maybe, he’s had a tiny crush on you

and it didn’t help that you two were friends with benefits bc yall were horny teenagers

but who knew he’d get the balls to ask you out on a proper date one day

he was such a simp for you gosh it was ugly

“you have to be more careful from now on,”  you say to the boy 

the brat suddenly looks innocent and katsuki wants to throw him

“sorry, mommy. i’ll be gooder”

the look on your face is priceless 

bakugo uses it as a chance to kiss you 

“huh?”

“i guess now’s a good time to tell you that i want to be your dick on demand but with feelings and shit, dumbass”

[organic-guacamole]

episode 209 spoilers below

I'm so late today but here it is

I love EJ, he's finally learning to be happy. I'm so proud.

Ms Jenn = every boomer during zoom calls, like jeez yes we can hear you stop shouting at me.

LOVE THE SUBTLE JOKE ABOUT QUARANTINE "these dark times" "you mean spring break?"

ah yes, remember when we thought covid was just gonna give us a longer spring break? good times

SEBLOS

damn the passive aggressiveness from Carlos and the absolutely over it tone from seb✋

CASWELL COUSINS!!!!! THEY'RE THE BEST!!!!

we needed more if this kind of goofiness for the first part of season 2 that only such an iconic duo can provide.

old old movies-

is it even that old, or is Nini being a gen alpha rn-

i choose to imagine EJ being scared of the movie and hiding in Ashlyn's shoulder while she keeps a straight face and then EJ pretending to be tough afterwards

aww redlyn are soulmates.... yknow, if gingers had souls

(please ignore me)

y'all saw how EJ's face *lit up* when Gina logged on? how dare you tell me he doesn't like her

ofc she's no damsel in distress, she's Gina porter, she's amazing.

so do we think she'd be the type to just glare at suspicious people? or bark at them

do they not know that Rini broke up? or is Ms Jenn just wanting Nini to suffer through her heartbreak to make her a better actress....

speaking of, why is Nini in the call? she's not in the show anymore. Unless she is, even after the rose and the song got cut, which would be so unfair to all those that auditioned properly before she even came back but whatever, she's the main character I get it 🙄

big red is a hero honestly, Nini better thank him for changing the subject like that

I can't-

i won't work you over the break-

this woman would 100% work her kids 24/7 if it was legal and idk how to feel about it.

YES GINA USE THAT CHARM

QUEEN

FRENCH QUEEN

SHE LEARNT FROM THE BEST (antoine obvi)

smh the airport lady, eavesdropping on Gina's call.

The way she was so happy to answer EJ's call, "eej"

I love them your honour.

EJ WITH PAINTED NAILS YES PLEASE

great now we need to see Gina, Ashlyn and EJ having a complete spa day and EJ getting really into it and Gina and Ashlyn take pictures of him when he's laying down in a robe with a mask and cucumbers on his eyes.

finally we get to see Gina's side of portwell

the way she considered it as flirting, this is the sign she asked for in episode 6 come onnnnn

no is Asher/jack really doing tiktok dances in an airport-

Ricky is me. I am burrito.

oh Lynne, sweetie, I'm sorry but the blonde hair is not it

is that even the same lady or-

THE BEAN

THE CHICAGO BEAN

THE BIG OLD METAL BEAN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY 😭

jetlag is my go to excuse for anything... I haven't travelled in 2 years.

"welcome to the Lynne and Mike gossip show. where we talk about our depressed son that we both neglect in certain ways! And now a word from our sponsor, Nord VPN..."

SO MANY CANDLES

WHAT DEMON IS LYNNE TRYING TO SUMMON IN HIS ROOM-

is Nina becoming social media obsessed EJ from season 1? AND SHE LIED ABOUT HAVING SONGS TOO PLEASE WHY ARW THEY RECYCLING THE SAME PLOT-

Gina smiling at the picture of her family on Instagram makes me so happy, idek why.

EJ's nails are so pretty, we needed to see it more (unless he had it on for the rest of the episode and I just.... didn't notice🧍🏽‍♀️)

oh not the tiktok kid✋

yes ma'am end this strange mans whole tiktok career

sir take a hint and leave

GINA NO DONT SAY YOUR LAST NAME HE COULD BE A HUMAN TRAFFICKER

Ricky, walking in style✨

weird kid, ok then Lynne, can't you see he's this close to the edge?

not all your fault baby Ricky, Nini sucks a bit more

RICKY YOU DIDN'T COME DOWN HARD ON THE SONG-

YOU ASKED WHAT IT WAS ABOUT AND SHE SHUT YOU DOWN-

PLEASE DO NOT BLAME YOURSELF

ok but the deleting comment thing was very bad

still don't know if I like Jack honestly

hmmm so Nini's calling herself Nini instead of Nina in her little egg seat, while trying to write a song without inspiration.... Nini, honey, Ricky was your muse, he inspired you to write all those songs, even if it wasn't good for the relationship.

that doesn't mean you gotta get back with him, or that you can't write a song that not about him butttt it'll take some time

the rainbow sticker in her box and her rainbow shirt-

anyways wbk she's not totally straight

Jack are you a criminal?

quick, Gina, check his ankle for a tracker

THE YES AND PRACTICE STRIKES AGAIN

the way Gina wasn't into it in episode 6 but she's used the technique twice now

stole her grandma's Pomeranian-

Jack where the hell did you pull that out from-

the fake crying killed me, that looks like so much fun though

anyone wanna raid a first class lounge with me?

wait so is jack not gonna go in with her?

wouldn't he go in too? help look for the credit card? SO CONFUSED

the first class lounge guy was so into the drama though, watch his face when they start arguing 😭

sorry to break this to you Kourtney, but you haven't even blocked the second act yet soooo...

take that as you will

I love how all of them are totally dissing the dance off

that's the most realistic part of this show tbh

shouldn't Nini have asked how she knew....since the start? why is the fact that her best friend has knowledge of a North high secret now dawning on her...

Howie is sweet honestly, at least he's trying to help. but I stand with Kourtney, don't take him back just because he sang an amazing song, and is giving you a heads up on what's gonna happen...

KOURTNEY IS ME TRYING TO LEAVE AN ONLINE CLASS

I hate school

ooo Nini's writing a song about bad internet connection 🤩🤩🤩

I never lie, except when I do-

son that is the creepiest thing you could say to a stranger that you've been "helping"

2 truths and a lie👀

he's an Ariana fan 100%

called it.

OLDER BROTHER-

WHAT-

free spirit? damn so brother porter was in that horse movie

so has she been kissed or not?????????

I feel like she's moved more than 15 times though so possibly

but then if she's moved so much, and before east high she never opened up to anyone, she's never been kissed then?? damn

same though Gina so let's be besties please

heartbreak president is a great song title idea, give Nini a call rn

but wait

is the no strings attached feeling thing about her telling Ricky she liked him? she thought she was moving away so she thought it'd be no strings attached???

guys I think I figured it out insert the "I've connected two dots" meme

THE DUKE SWEATSHIRT

IS THAT YOUR BOYFRIEND'S

OMG I LOVE I LOVE

NOT THAT I KNOW OF???

ma'am did you just kill me

yes you did

Lynne and Ricky have such a weird relationship

YES IT DID SUCK

TODD SUCKS

LYNNE SUCKS

yeah I get that you wanted Ricky to like Todd BUT THAT WASN'T THE TIME

right so we already know that Ricky was so desperate to keep Nini cuz he didn't want to be like his parents, and now Lynne's talking about this-

Richard needs a long hug

yes Lynne, it is your fault. thank you for finally admitting it.

YES DYE YOUR HAIR

BLOND HIGHLIGHTS RICKY WILL RISE AGAIN

"sometimes the best, last thing you can do for someone you love, is let them go."

gotta admit I teared up at that point

not me thinking big red was calling ms Jenn cupcake for a hot second-

Carlos please omg, you're at the "beach" and they're leaving for the pool?

also, why not just do the call from the hotel room please omg

"don't ask me"

"Carlos"

OMG WHAT HAPPENED

big red wants the tea

O M G

SEB IS JEALOUS

JEALOUS SEBBY IS MY FAVOURITE THING IDC

I'm surprised ms Jenn knew how to give Nini permission to screenshare tbh

So lily's been stalking the East high kids and spending time editing this video while she's supposedly in an immersion trip.... right

EJ and Ashlyn's picture is so chaotic, what even is happening there

"slacking off" bestie its spring break, obviously they're confident enough that they'll get it done in time so why not focus on your own musical.

jealous seb = sassy seb

please what if those guys Carlos is posing with are his cousins or something and that's why he's so confused about Seb

6 YEAR OLD EJ I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM

Nini saying she's obsessed with her ex, that's not weird at all 👍

I can just tell Matt had a blast harassing Julia with those puppets.

Jack please dont be like that, "yet"

chances are you'll never see eachother again 🥰

(honestly sometimes I really miss those friends I made on trips and stuff when we'd spend the day or week together, only to never see them again....those were the good days though)

Ashlyn and Nini should write more songs..... something better than this one at least

Nini: "im good"

cue the Tia Mowry (please I can't spell) crying gif

oh I forgot Ricky was in the show for a hot second

1. where did Gina get to film this without people being around

2. did she just... randomly change her clothes???

ok but the transition between Carlos and EJ

*chefs kiss*

now everyone shut up, EJ's singing

oh i think I'm pregnant

HIS MUSCLES

YES KOURTNEY

I love how big red and Kourtney went from being "the best friends™" to the couple in season 1, to kinda close themselves and having their own plots

sebby makes me so happy

props to biggies editing skills honestly

PORTWELL BEING SIDE TO SIDE I CANT

AND SEBLOS OMG

big red lives for the drama

"wow" so true Ricky

no he is not cute, stop it

"holding" ok that's kinda cute

yeah EJ's a lucky guy😌

jokes aside, it's not that hard to exchange numbers-

keep in touch if you want

ok I really like Jack now

if he comes back in season 3, maybe have him be LGBTQ+ ?

like the only out characters they have rn are Seb and Carlos and they're like the sterotypes, yk?

I'd love to see jack kinda break the mold

Ricky's breaking my heart

that song just hurts

the only thing

now I don't hate Lynne????????

HOW DARE THEY WRITE IN A PROPER REDEMPTION ARC FOR HER

UGH IM SUPPOSED TO HATE HER FOREVER

I mean I don't live her now but she's good

but honestly

"mom can I show you something"

IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL

THE PICTURE AND EVERYTHING OMG

I'm sobbing please help

Gina saying she's just waiting for the right guy and then EJ coming to the airport to pick her up late at night without her asking, offering to bring her back in the morning so she won't have to Uber, bringing her a granola bar (WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT SHE FORGOT TO PACK) and without expecting anything in return???

ms ma'am you've got a keeper right there

her smile at the end was so heartwarming I really can't.

this episode was great.

it felt really short but I liked it, great character development for Ricky, Lynne and Gina.

Cant wait for next episode to see more of EJ being the ideal boyfriend /hj

[nomazee]

Komorebi (5)

komorebi, p.5

synopsis: Tsukishima dislikes the amount of parallels there are with you and Hinata. He dislikes the way you’re so energetic and exuberant when you want to be, and the way you can get along so well with people. He dislikes the way that people are naturally drawn to you, and the way you’re so willing to put time into your dumb gifts and snacks and treats for a team of boys you barely know. But Tsukishima does not dislike you. And he supposes that’s part of the problem. 

series content: developing relationship, (sort of) ooc tsukishima, strangers to (sort of) friends to lovers, angst, fluff, slow burn

part one | part two | part three | part four | part five | part six (final)

(THIS IS A DAY LATE IM SORRY school is really kicking me in the cooch rn but i got it out as soon as i can!! this chapter’s a little longer (still very short gjsfhgjadhf) but!! the next chapter will be the last!!! i’m very excited i hope you  guys are too :))) 

after im done with this series (which will be in the next week hopefully!!) i’m gonna do my 200 follower celebration!!  i have a basic idea of what i’m gonna do and i’ll talk about details soon :)

thank you for all the support on this series it really makes me happy!! the last chapter got 100+ notes and like,,,,wow GSHGSLNO enjoy this chapter!!)

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Tsukishima wishes you’d get angry at him. 

It’s the one moment in his life where he prefers noise over silence. It’s unfortunate that he won’t get the former and is instead stuck with the ironically deafening presence of the latter. 

You’re quiet. So, so quiet. He’s recognized this change before but as days pass it gets harder for him to handle. He misses your eyes. He wants to see the way the ring around your iris changes color with the angle of the sunlight. He wants to hear the charm of your backpack jingle with every bouncy step you take. He wants to see the open gaps left in your messily-knit cardigan—and at moments when he drowns deeper in his head, he realizes he wants his hands to slip under the fabric of that cardigan and wrap around your shoulders and pull your form tightly to his. 

Tsukishima Kei is a greedy man. But only for you. 

He suppresses a gag at the cheesy thought as he sits in his Modern Literature class. Yamaguchi sits at the seat next to him, sneaking discreet glances that aren’t so discreet. He knows that his friend is aching to interrogate him, just like he’s tried every day for a week so far. (Tsukishima winces at the thought that it’s been a week since you left the tea and pastry on his desk.) 

Speaking of tea and pastries. You don’t seem to be letting up with the gifts. It only makes his chest hurt more, the fact that you can’t use words anymore when you used to be so good at filling up empty space with random chatter. Now you’re reduced to leaving treats semi-anonymously on his desk, things you haven’t made for him before and only now, at one of Tsukishima’s many low points in life, you’re deciding to flood him with these items as some odd form of reconciliation. 

(He calls it reconciliation to make the weight on his shoulders feel a little bit lighter. He understands, reluctantly, that it’s his responsibility to try his hand at this whole “making up” thing.) 

Anyways. Modern Literature. His brain keeps getting sidetracked and it proves to be detrimental as the teacher dismisses the class for lunch and he realizes that less than half of the worksheet he’s been assigned is finished. He’s gotten as far as writing his name down, and doing the first two questions. The date isn’t filled out and neither is the class period. Tsukishima sighs, and stands up to hand in his paper, ignoring the way the teacher scans through it and gives him a hesitant look at the uncharacteristic work (or lack thereof). 

Yamaguchi watches the wordless interaction from the doorway, initially waiting to walk to the cafeteria with Tsukishima but deciding against it as his blonde friend gives him a look that tells him to go ahead. He sighs. He should really get things together, Yamaguchi thinks. Tsukki’s never really been one to slack off during school like that.

As Yamaguchi leaves for lunch, Tsukishima sits through his teacher’s mundane spiel about keeping up with the work in class. He feels irritated and all the events that have happened in the last two weeks push at his head to try and convince him to just let all of this out, but he restrains himself. He’s already caught up with you—no help will come from finding himself in trouble with a teacher. 

At one point, the teacher notices his distant look and gives off a sigh of disappointment. She shakes her head and stands from her chair. “I hope this is just an off day, Tsukishima. I expect you to be back to normal soon.”

Tsukishima, for once in his life, has trouble pushing down the simmering anger that rises slowly to the tips of his fingers. He wants to yell, wants to hit the desk and shout and cry and fall to his knees and go to sleep all at once. He just wants to let go. 

He doesn’t, obviously. Internally conflicted as he is, he’d like to maintain some sort of composure in front of his middle-aged teacher. He wonders, though, if maybe this is how you’ve been feeling over the last few weeks. 

As the teacher walks out of the room, no more biting words left to give Tsukishima, he stands still at the front of the classroom, pulling at his fingers for a few moments as he gives himself time to calm down. There’s a lot going on in his head. He’s not sure which problem to address first. 

Stepping back to his desk, he takes out his wrapped bento and makes a move to leave the classroom. He hears footsteps, though, and as the figure becomes clear at the entryway he wonders if even thinking about you was a total mistake. 

You’re there. In the doorway of the classroom. There’s a box in your hand, one of the white ones that you always use to pack dozens of pastries in, but this one’s smaller, more personal. On top of it, there’s a friendship bracelet—navy, blue, and white, all threaded in a chevron pattern. 

His eyes flit up to meet yours. He hates the expression in your face. You look scared. Tsukishima dreads the fact that his mere presence could make you look scared.

Your lips are parted, but no words come out—it doesn’t seem like you really intend to say anything in the first place. Tsukishima does intend to say something. He wants to say something, knows that he should, that he has to. But Tsukishima Kei does not know all five-hundred-thousand words in the Japanese language, and he thinks that even if he did, he still wouldn’t know what to say to you. 

Not now. Not here when you’re standing in the classroom doorway with gifts in your hands that he knows you planned on giving him, just like every other day in the last week, looking up at him like you’re terrified to even interact with the likes of him. 

Tsukishima’s mind comes back to the present. Your mouth is closed, now, and you sniffle a bit in habit before making a complete turn in the doorway and scurrying out. 

Your footsteps are rapid, quickly getting quiet as you make your way down the hall. Away from him. 

He wants to cry. He hates crying—doesn’t remember the last time he’s done it, and doesn’t want to remember what it feels like. But it seems like every passing day gives him yet another reason to finally feel the tears and snot streaking down his face. 

Tsukishima Kei does not eat lunch that day.

[readerinsertfanfiction]

Hiya, me again! 💖💫 I have another request ^^💖

Can you make Ranmaru, Kennyo, Kenshin, Shingen, Ieyasu, Yuki, Mitsuhide and Mitsunari with MC that on her period and has really bad cramps, but is like super embrassed to tell anybody so they have to find out on their own?🥺💫💖

I'm that kind of person, so I'm silently dying rn.. 🥺💖💫 Anyway, I totally understand if you won't want to write this, I know it's kinda weird... 🥺 💖 Ily and have a nice day! 💖💫

~ Leiia 💖💫

Hola Leiia! Two requests in a row on the last day of the year. Is this a blessing for the new year, or are you cursing me? 😂😂😂 Just kidding! I’m super happy you found my inbox to request from. It has been really quiet in there and that makes me sad. I had for some reason always imagined that when my blog grew a decent size there would be constant interactions like little chats and requests, but alas.

Periods are the worst and especially to have them right now! Lots of warm water bottles for your stomach and I hope you have all of the yummy comfort food to flood into the New Year as one happy Leiia! (//shot for the period joke)

Fandom: Ikemen Sengoku

Characters: Ranmaru Mori, Kennyo, Kenshin Uesugi, Shingen Takeda, Ieyasu Tokugawa, Yukimura Sanada, Mitsuhide Akechi, Mitsunari Ishida

Ah, to be a woman! Even in the modern age you couldn’t be spared from the hells of nature, the terror that mother Gaia blessed you with. And as much as you dreaded it in your age, where menstrual care had considerably improved compared to the sixteenth century, 1582 was just a special type of hell. One that you didn’t dare to speak of to your beloved, thus leaving you to tide it out alone. Or so you believed...

Ranmaru

As a ninja and as a spy Ranmaru had grown accustomed to reading body language and yours that day had been off. As if you were in pain, hurting somewhere, strained and in need of some tending. As a page Ranmaru got around places and it didn’t take him long and a talk to the maids to figure out what he needed for you. All little things that he gathered and carefully packed, for he knew the importance of hygiene, before he dropped it inside of your room, not wanting to embarrass you any further despite all of the thought he put into it.

When you found the package you couldn’t help but smile at the little note and the peach that Ranmaru had left you in which he wished you well. Young as he was there was a taught kindness within the young man that endeared you deeply.

Kennyo

He hadn’t realised what was wrong when he noted how you had withdrawn yourself. However, when he found the bloodied cloths that you had planned on cleaning the monk understood. Quietly he had taken it upon himself to wash them for you, not wanting you to be near cold water when you were already suffering. And without another word he fetched new wraps for you as well and left them in your room along with some extra coals and linen to keep you warm.

When you asked him about the laundry later the monk shrugged as he told you that he had already done it, acting as casually about it as he could. You didn’t dare to name the wraps directly and neither would the monk, not wanting to put you on the spot. He did invite you into his embrace, however, claiming that he missed your presence when in reality he just wanted to keep you out of the wind. Not that it didn’t make for a good excuse to cuddle up.

Kenshin

When you refused him that night Kenshin was confused, fear clamouring him that you were tired of him. But when he noted the spot on your linen the man immediately shut up, relief washing over him, but also pain contorting over his face as he wondered what cruelty the world had condemned you to lose blood so regularly. As if there wasn’t enough bloodshed already.

“Lie down for a little longer, rest,” the man told you after that he had the maids clean the futon. That day he ordered for all of his work to be brought to his room, not wishing to leave your side as he had stews and soups made to warm you up.

Shingen

He could immediately tell that something was wrong and even more, he had figured that it was coming as well. This man is nothing if not informed and prepared. The day before the start of your period he had drawn a hot bath for you, to relax your muscles and warm up your body. The next morning he had a tea mix of ginger and red dates delivered to you that was said to help with the cramps and getting your energy up and running again. Of course he had said nothing of it, not wanting to embarrass you, but it was easy to tell in the attention he had put in everything for you.

“How are you feeling?” he would ask you at the end of the day, his hands massaging over your back as he gently had you seated down in his lap. You could only sigh in contentedness as he rubbed over every stiff and strained muscle in your body.

Ieyasu

As the equivalent of a doctor in the Sengoku Ieyasu is more knowledgeable than most. His limited exposure to women however has him lacking in direct experience. Yet, he tries his best from the scriptures he read and the maids that came to see him with their ailments related to it. As such he had a good idea of what it was like and what was needed during your period, and most of all how to recognise the coming of it.

“I added some goji berries to the tea. It should help replenish your energy, but I still advise you to take it easy,” the blond had told you, his voice though stoic, not as harsh as it usually was when treating others. You couldn’t help it after all.

“And keep warm. That is important, if you don’t want the cramps to worsen,” came his next warning as he dropped his haori over your shoulders.

Yukimura

When he saw your face contort Yukimura thought you were hurt and was quickly by your side. When he noted that you were pale the male nearly dragged you back into your room for rest and called for the physician. It all was unneeded, as you gently stopped him.

“What do you mean this is normal? You aren’t supposed to be hurt by your own body!” Yukimura had exclaimed after that you had explained it to him. Of course the male wouldn’t immediately understand, but he was a little more considerate as he brought you Shingen’s sweet red bean buns later.

“I heard these were good for you and that you will need the energy from the sugar,” he informed you gruffly, a blush dusting his features. Somewhere you could have sworn that you could hear Shingen laugh in the background.

Mitsuhide

If there was ever something that escaped his mind it certainly wasn’t your health. This man had you figured out before you even started to cramp and had adequately prepared. Sweets within your reach, all warmed. Fresh tea at your disposal and Chimaki ready to cuddle, but mostly to cuddle the cramps away.

“You didn’t think you could hide away from me, right?” he teases you as he gently switches the lukewarm tea with a new cup.

It was infuriating and endearing how well-informed and well-organised this man was in regards to you.

Mitsunari

You hadn’t expected a pile of blankets waiting for you when you had returned to your room. Neither did you expect the wraps of bandages clumsily unrolled. Or the strong smell of ginger in the air, slightly burned, not all too thoroughly cooked, and floating in big chunks in your tea.

“By my estimation your period should be around, right?” Mitsunari spoke with a beaming smile, a flash of pride on his face as he showed you his labour and good intentions. You hadn’t expected the man to remember, much less to even study up on it, but it was a sweet gesture all the same, if not a little embarrassing.

“Ah, but I do hope you can still use those wraps. I just can’t seem to get them right,” he guiltily admitted as he was reaching out for the bandages once more.

You were quick to interfere with his good intentions, just like with any continuation of his performance.

[windsweptlassie]

On Love

So as you know I made this uquiz with an open-ended question at the end, tell me something about love, and I’ve gotten the most wonderful responses! They range from descriptions of wonderful partners: 

Lauren: oh, how long I went without being myself until I met him and he showed me who I truly was and that my worth was higher than I ever thought was possible

Levi: I love who we are with each other. I love who I am with you. In your company I am me. In your company I am the best of me. The best with the best, I've told you. I wouldn't give you up for anything

Daniel: i fell in love for the first time when i was 17... at the time, i didn’t realize it was the first time, i thought i’d been in love before, a couple times actually, but falling in love at 17 was such a fulfilling experience, it felt so forceful yet so right. it’s when i first truly understood what love was. never before had i felt so understood and so cared for as i did when i was in love with her, and she was in love with me. it’s been nearly 4 years since then, and nearly 3 years since we broke up and stopped talking, and still, i think about her almost every day. i’ve never known anyone like her; to me, she was love itself.

El: oh i’m in love with everyone that i know op!!! especially my girlfriend, of course ,but also my friends and my family and random people on the street and uh

Grace: i’ve met my soulmate and we plan on getting an apartment and marrying after college

A: I’m going to ask the woman I love to marry me and I just wanted to tell someone because I am so excited

Jeremy: you ever have that feeling where basically after years of denying that someone couldnt understand you in a way or love you and then the next thing you know you happen to find that person and its just great from then on out? idk how to explain it anyways I love my boyfriend so much he means the world to me

Lucy: i am so happy i have found the one i love

to descriptions of best friends and favorite people:

Nightbyrd: Love is a hug from an alzheimer's patient who hasn't the foggiest idea who you are, but they know you're worth hugging.

H: I have been doing so much yoga with my roommate recently!! It's a great way to center my mind for an hour

Riv: [platonic] i’ve literally never met anyone who understands me in the way that my best friends do. they’re literally the best people in the whole world and i genuinely don’t know what i’d do without them. i love them with my whole heart

Cillian: when i talk about how much i love my best friend i get so teary eyed because i cant believe that such a genuinely wonderful person wants to speak to me every day - i care for her more than anyone else on this planet

O: my two besties are my sources of happiness and they’re so pretty i would die for them :D

to beautiful quotes:

Kai: "you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on." DARCYYYY PLS MY HEART CANT HANDLW THIS PAIN

Dorian: When the plane went down in San Francisco, I thought of my friend M. He’s obsessed with plane crashes. He memorizes the wrecked metal details, ____the clear cool skies cut by black scars of smoke. Once, while driving, he told me about all the crashes: The one in blue Kentucky, in yellow Iowa. How people go on, and how people don’t. It was almost a year before I learned that his brother was a pilot. I can’t help it, I love the way men love. (accident report in the tall, tall weeds- ada limon, bright dead things)

Adam: every day I think about lemony snicket I will love you if I never see you again I will love you if I see you every Tuesday or however it goes. and it KILLS ME. love only fits in small things

Hero: “Your heart beats in my ribs and mine in yours, and both in God’s… The divine magnet is in you, and my magnet responds.” - Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mary: "Love is watching someone die."

Alex: "meet me at blue diner, i'll take coffee and talk about nothing baby"

Sparrow: "How dare you love me like you've never known fear?" and "For you, the world," and "Darling, I was born to press my head between your shoulder blades," and "Will you start where I end?"

V: " You want to die for love. You always have. " and "someone will remember us, I say, even in another time" are living rent free in my mind 24/7 and I'm shaking. When will I finally be not the only one falling ?

Sahar K: To love another person is to see the face of god!!!

Miriam: all the love in the world is useless when there is total lack of understanding- kafka

Juls: Don’t you think they are maybe the same? Love and attention

to practices of love:

Leo; i love feeling happy bc somebody that i love is happy and comfortable....like its not about me i just love seeing you smile. we are safe together...idk i just feel it bro

A: I like to think love is leaning on each other during the light or dark days. Its a personal mission of mine to find out who I am and what I want. Yet I never seem to find my place in this world and as I look and look , I realise the only place I can be myself even with or without the efforts to find myself was done on that day or not, I am always tired so shall I lean on you? And you can lean on me as well. I shall be your fig tree and you shall be my favourite willow tree.

L: It's too late at night to be soul searching, but it's a journey we all seem to find ourselves on these days.

Anthi: feeling safe and at home, I guess (also I love frogs)

Julia: ive found that loving someone is like becoming your own thesaurus. you have to find or come up with infinite ways to say, you’re beautiful, or, i love you. it’s a gift

Galexies: ive been writing letters to the person i'd love one day since i was 14. i write them in a little journal usually, but i've been digitizing them into emails and sending them to one account that i'll give to them someday. i'd like to put pictures, but i haven't been outside much recently so theres that. i wonder if they'd like the sunsets i have on file, or if they'd find my cat cute in a bowtie.

Caeles: Love is sharing fruit slices and making someone tea at random

Dundy: Love is sending your friends cursed shit and watching them react in horror

to crushes and potential loves: 

Jess: I have a crush on my roommate. It sucks, but it's also wonderful. I get to be around him all the time when we're at school. we share a life together; it's rather domestic. I think a lot about marrying him and being domestic with him forever. It won't happen, and I'll move on eventually, but I'll be happy with him for as long as I can. I hope you feel loved tonight, because you are. Sleep well.

Aki: I so desperately want to believe that love is fake because I’ve seen what happens when loved ones leave but whenever I start to convince myself that I’ll never love anyone my best friend messages me telling me she loves me. She’s the only person I’ve ever pictured having a future with but love scares me and I don’t really know what to do but I think as long as she’s with me in some way, I’ll be fine

Hi: her her i keep thinking abt her.... gonna see her in 8 days or so i really miss her. its ok if shes never gonna love me like i want her to really being her friend spending time with her makes me the happiest girl on earth.... outsold antidepressants

Kit: this guy i have a crush on has hypnotically dark brown eyes and he's wonderful and shows me kindness like no one else

Juno: my crush has all the stars in his eyes

Mads: When I have the courage to meet my eyes with hers, the world stands still

Be Nice To Me: Look bro I never do these but I am yearning to hold them SO badly right now and someone needs to know it besides me

to the trials of love: 

Pppppp: I just wanna love like from the movies and what I read about.. but everyone tells me that that’s fictional and rare to find in the real world and it sucks bc it seems like all the guys I’ve met are terrible and the norms of society are all about not respecting women and uthdjdjdk

Manny: I have been in love before and I will be again but I’m not now and I miss it

Ok: I don't think I've ever been in love, though I love many people. I am waiting for the day I look at someone and can say, YES. IT'S YOU.

Chloe: idk rn i'm like okay with my love and i'm happy so we'll see i'm just a little cautious rn bc my last partner told me i didn't know how to love

L: love is so fucking complicated I don't even know where to start

Corrin: He’s not real and it worried me that I will never allow myself to live or be loved because I will always be waiting for him

Sean: Good luck it dont exist

Serena: i want 2 b in love :(( </3

13: I don’t know anymore

M: I just really don’t like dealing with it lol

to beloved characters: 

Janaya: I’m madly in love with my comfort and kin character and I hope maybe in the afterlife I can relive a life with him in some sort of dimension

Jhgjdf: when i was a kid i had a crush on ash ketchum from pokemon and id always daydream about being a female pkmn trainer and meeting him and we fall in love

to advice and prose: 

Mikolai: Love is earth, gentle and soft at first flight but upon being broken, drowns you in the dry choking wastes of its consequences...

Thex: Your hands will not go cold without someone to hold them. I am here. I will be here.

Kat: it is the nearest proof to god that i find myself surrounded by people who love in a way that complements so wonderfully the way i love

H: believe in love out of spite believe in love to prove everyone wrong believe in love because you were told not to and we will not do what we’re told anymore believe in love because it’s the strongest act of teenage rebellion we have left believe in love because it’s easier not to and when is easy worth doing? believe in love because everything says otherwise but you are untouchable, you are your own, you are not made by their design believe in love because, perhaps, you are love

Ali: I used to want a kind of love that feels like coming home and now I want nothing more than to be away from home on many different adventures

Em: you dont need to love yourself to accept it from others

to the small, the simple, and the sweet:

Ireal: Poems

O: Flowers

Fay: ah im sorry that i’m feeling unmotivated but you are very kind.

Ad: we love LOVE

A: <3

Isak: small things

H: intense

Hey: Listening to a clock ticking away

S: her

E: <3

Hania: Amorous, I adore that word ^^

Catboy: wholesome

J: i love love so much it hurts

Emmy: hi i love the song darkest of discos!! try and give it a listen!! <3

Nora: Love is painful, but most of the time love is great

Ariel: i like the comfort it can bring

M: i love love

to food!

Cool Whip: Matzoh ball soup!!

Woop: I love sausages.... I hope that's ok with you?

and animals too <3

Nee: hmm i have pet geckos and i love them very much!

96: raccoons ????

DJ Big Penis: cats

:3: I Love frogs,,, love is stored in the frog,,,

I hope that this serves as a sweet compilation of what love means! Love to all of you, it warms my heart so much to hear about your people and your geckos and your characters and soup and all the songs and quotes you love. <3 Strength to all of you who are figuring out to do about your feelings for your crush, and congratulations to you who are proposing or moving in with your person! Your words are a source of light to me, truly.

[thewebcomicsreview]

Homestuck 2 has updated! Christmas is ruined!

Previously, on Homestuck 2: Literally nothing happened, and a non-trivial portion of the patreon supporters gave up and quit. Can this update pull a Christmas miracle and right the sinking ship of Homestuck 2? Probably not, but let’s find out! 

We’re back in Candyland, having completely skipped over Karkat and John talking about Dave’s apparent death, because this comic is only interested in long conversations when they’re boring and not about anything at all. That’s alright, I got the gist of it.

When Karkat is finally gone, John still doesn’t move. It isn’t as though he has nowhere else to go, since there are quite a few places he might attempt to make himself useful, for better or for worse.

So, it appears to be morning now, meaning that John’s son has been missing in a war zone for almost 24 hours and I guess John literally forgot Harry existed?

Prediction: This conversation is going to end in some variant of “Where is our son?” “Oh shit!”

ROXY: hey john can u do me a quick solid

ROXY: actly idk how quick itll be but its definitely solid

ROXY: harry anderson says i just missed u being here but could u skip back on over?

What.

So, I went back and checked, and apparently nowhere is it explicitly said that Harry Anderson was also looking for the Vriskas, so I guess he....stayed home? Which makes sense, I suppose, but maybe a “Stay here I’ll go look for them” would’ve helped. I wasn’t the only one who thought Harry was out looking for Vriska too. 

ROXY: sup

ROXY: follow me

ROXY: well were just going to my room so i guess technically u know the way

JOHN: haha ok.

John follows, trying to shake the ominous feeling he got from what she’d just said. He’d been in and out of this house a lot in the past few days. Why should this be any different?

Is Roxy....horny? Is the solid she’s looking for John’s dick? I mean, that’d make her saying Harry wasn’t available kind of weird, but I think this framing is a fake-out.

...

What the fuck is that lamp, Jesus Christ it’s awful. Just a cat’s asshole, facing the door.

ROXY: r u kiddin me rn egbert

JOHN: i’m not? unless you were, in which case yeah lets say i was also kidding.

JOHN: oh my god, i’m sorry, i don’t know why this making me freak out.

ROXY: i remember our past boot knockin with fondness but that is a situation im not interested in revisiting

Oh hey, it was a fakeout. Good job, Homestuck 2. You successfully implied something just through the art. Art which, by the way, looks a lot better than the last chapter. There are backgrounds and everything. I wonder if Chapter 15 was rushed out due to Hiveswap and that’s why it was so weak?

He’s almost embarrassed by how relieved he feels. So what if his ex wife wanted to hook up? Shouldn’t that be a situation he could navigate? Don’t people like to find solace in human physical connection during dire times? Why did the idea of it make his mind white out in panic more than, say, any number of the traumas he just experienced?

I’m not the biggest fan of the way the narration is going JOHN IS AFRAID OF SEX WITH ROXY LIKE HE’S A TEENAGE VIRGIN AGAIN (LIKE IN HS1!) AND IT DOESN’T REALLY MAKE SENSE PLEASE REMEMBER THIS IT’LL BE IMPORTANT LATER, but okay, noted.

ROXY: u said ur house is gone??

JOHN: yep.

JOHN: completely.

ROXY: jeez

Heh. I like Roxy, still. 

JOHN: so i just sat there, watching, trying to figure out why watching my house burn down felt like i was being released from prison.

If this comic actually uses the phrase “home” and “stuck” in the same sentence I’m turning this blog around and we’ll go right back to Winnipeg.

ROXY: aight then no wind bending just use your mangrit

Roxy flexes, the corner of her mouth pulled up into a familiar grin. John feels his guts, so recently calmed, twist up into knots again. Her eyebrows shoot up and the smile loosens. He must have shown something on his face.

ROXY: ok or just like push when i push

ROXY: we both got sick muscles

ROXY: no other adjectives necessary

I feel unqualified to talk about how hard Roxy is pushing the June Egbert thing.

....Is that the fucking portal from Hiveswap under a tarp? Also hi Candy Callie, appearing in HS2 for the first time. One of the Calliope’s is nonbinary, I think, but I honestly can’t remember and I think it’s Meat Calliope? 

JOHN: do i get to know what that big thing under the sheet is?

ROXY: hmmmmmm no

JOHN: oh ok.

JOHN: are you sure? i mean, it seems like a pretty prominent feature of the room.

JOHN: space.

JOHN: wherever we are.

ROXY: and a totally mysterious n COMPLETELY inconspicuous feature it will have to remain for now

ROXY: we r kinda in a hurry here fyi

ROXY: and by that i mean

ROXY: we are in precisely the amount of hurry that means im excused from having to a that specific q rn

JOHN: right, sorry.

JOHN: i will pay no attention to the object behind the curtain.

ROXY: u catch on fast egbert

Oh thing HS2 has not been great at is that it has a lot of plot mysteries that are supposed to keep us enticed but they don’t really get implanted into the audience’s head (Remember Vrissy mysteriously collapsing that one time? Probably not, she did it off screen and the boys kind of laughed it off). This one’s hard to miss.

JOHN: so... this is all downstairs?

JOHN: it seems like you had a lot of work done.

ROXY: well no not x actly

ROXY: were in the old meteor

It’s kind of weird how this meteor keeps popping up like this. 

CALLIOPE: besides, hUman divorces are even more fascinating than i had ever imagined, and being able to witness yoUrs in motion was an honoUr.

This is an unexpected but not unwelcome direction for Callie to have gone.

CALLIOPE: ah right, right. yoU're probably a little cUrioUs as to where the dickens we are.

CALLIOPE: how much do yoU know aboUt black holes?

Oh, wow, we’re going right there, then. This does seem like a bit of a reaction to complaints HS2 wasn’t shmoovin’ enough, but maybe I’m reading too much into it.

CALLIOPE: no, i mean, what if oUr whole WORLD was inside a black hole.

JOHN: ok.

A’ight, that got a laugh out of me

JOHN: ugh, i fucking KNEW it!

JOHN: i'm so sorry.

JOHN: i'm so sorry that i put the earth inside a black hole everyone. ):

I like this conversation a lot. 

ROXY: iirc at least part of y u got so weepy was the fact that u couldnt believe a version of earth existed where ppl got 2 watch more mcconaughey films than you

JOHN: listen.

JOHN: i simply don't think you all appreciated the gift you were given.

Quite a bit, in fact.

ROXY: ur not gonna enter a weird time vortex and change the trajectory of a little girls life with the power of love

JOHN: aw.

Roxy and John have a good dynamic. 

CALLIOPE: bUt Upon her departUre, the rift closed for good. as far as i can see, there's simply no way for Us to commUnicate with the world oUtside the black hole.

CALLIOPE: i woUld certainly be very sUrprised to find oUt that anyone had managed sUch a thing!

JOHN: ...right.

John’s phone has very good coverage, since he was able to talk to Terezi in the epilogues, as we’re being subtly reminded of here with that ... before the “right”. I wonder if it still works after alt-Calliope left.

CALLIOPE: oUr exclUsion from the overarching coUrse of events which governs all reality means that oUr existence here is liable to dramatic and violent Upheaval.

CALLIOPE: to pUt it another way, becaUse nothing in here "matters", we are likely to be sUbjected to things which are a bit bats in the belfry, for no reason other than it's totally insignificant to the wider canon of reality.

CALLIOPE: and mUch thoUgh i am personally titillated by some of the conseqUences of this predicament, it is a degrading way for Us to live. u_u

Okay, so we are now being explicitly told that living in the black hole is fucking with the characters and is part of the reason they make such baffling decisions, like Rose not telling Kanaya about Yiffy, or naming her daughter “Yiffy” in the first place.

CALLIOPE: we need yoU to free vriska from the clUtches of oUr misgUided friend jane, and bring her here, to the singUlarity.

ROXY: weve been calling it the plot point

CALLIOPE: yes, the plot point is a key part of oUr plan

CALLIOPE: as far as we have been able to sUrmise, the only remaining method for escaping oUr grim confinement depends on leveraging the UniqUe properties of this location to create an event of sUch catalcysmic proportions that it simply cannot be contained within the black hole any more.

CALLIOPE: something SO dramatic, so hyper-relevant, that it becomes ontologically impossible for anyone to ignore it.

CALLIOPE: for that, we need an individUal of sUfficient narrative cloUt, so to speak.

CALLIOPE: and to liberate her, who better than the embodiment of the aspect of freedom itself?

So, the plan is literally for Vriska to be such a Huge 8itch that the black hole itself gets sick of her and yeets Earth C out of its own event horizon to freedom.

This is actually a great plan. 

And that’s Hamsteak. This definitely feels like a bit of a reaction to complaints about HS2, but hey, I dig it, I guess? Definite improvement over the last chapter.

[lumilasi]

I saw this in my feed and since I was pretty bored and FINALLY free from the said boredom, figured I could do this one. I generally enjoy question based tags, especially if they relate to art/writing/fandom/are some general things about favorite colors, music, foods, things about your home country etc.

(basically, you can tag me in stuff similar to listed above things and I’ll probably do them if I see them/have time lmao)

Fic Writer Questions!

How many works do you have on AO3? 

44 total. I used to have more but I’ve deleted an old Bleach one I knew I’d never continue to write, and two bnha ones for the same reason (those two were also at the very beginning stages so nobody missed a lot anyway)

What's your total AO3 wordcount? 

4 269 068......wow. It’s even MORE than I even imagined. Over 4 million words. 

....Someone take my writing tools away from me lmao

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

 Three. I started with MCU, moved on to Bleach and now I’ve done most ofr BNHA

What are your top 5 fics by kudos? 

Crossroads - 3069 

Family Secrets - 3015 

Reanimate - 1534 

The neighbor - 809 

Espada and Fraccion - 782

.....Admittedly this list surprised me. Not the first three but the last two. The fifth is an one shot for Bleach that I wrote AGES ago. I also for some reason expected this list to match the bookmark list more lmao

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I always try to respond to every comment I get, but often times when it’s just one word or a heart emoji I don’t really know what to say, so I might not reply to those. I do appreciate every comment I get, and read every single one, even if I don’t respond

What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending? 

I don’t do angst endings typically, but Family Secrets is probs the most obvious choice, given what happens at the end. 

- and its not even the real end, because I couldn’t help myself and made two more stories for the AU that was like “hey! this character I made you all love so much actually DIDN’T die, he just had unfinished business back home” lmao

Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you've ever written? 

Rarely, typically they’re between my own fics (the story that crosses the paths of Crossroads and Family Secrets AU’s, literally titled Crossover, creative name I know OTL I was out of ideas) 

Or between me and other people’s fics. Currently there’s two, both with Crossroads: one with Theteapotofdoom’s fic Something Good, and another with leontheneon’s fic Here with you. Both stories are basically a two part series that is non canon to actual Crossroads. The first story is finished, second one has two chapters left...that...I uh...struggle to write it seems OTL

(not tagging either person into this because Tea is very busy IRL right now so I don’t want to bother her, and Leon hasn’t been around in ages, IDK if they even use tumblr anymore)

Have you ever received hate on a fic? 

Not really no? I can only remember one time with somebody kind of demanding me to completely rewrite one fic in the past. It wasn’t really hate, more just...kinda unreasonable in my eyes? This was years ago by now.

While I did understand their side and the particular struggle they had (once they actually explained it, the first comment at the time came off pretty rude and demanding), I still feel them wanting me to re-write an entire multi-chapter fic just for them is a bit unreasonable, like said.

Like it wasn’t just couple of grammatical errors that was their issue, we’re talking weeks and even months long process of completely reworking multi-chapter story, because the grammar wasn’t tip top perfect. (I’m not a native speaker so there’s bound to be some mistakes; pointing out small occasional things is one thing - asking me to rewrite an entire multi-chapter story is another)

You can imagine that is not exactly high on my priorities list with IRL responsibilities and being more focused on the actual content of what I write, the ongoing stories I’m updating. This fic isn’t even finished yet either, so...yeah. Like after they explained their side of the story I was a bit more understanding, but its still....a bit ridiculous and unreasonable in my eyes to ask somebody to do such a massive overhaul when the story isn’t even finished yet?? Like maybe once its done and I have time I can go and edit it, but not when I haven’t even finished it lmao

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

Nah. I don’t care about smut a whole lot personally. I much more enjoy writing emotional scenes, character interactions and mystery. Plot over porn basically lmao 

Have you ever had a fic stolen? 

I don’t...do people actually do this? It feels like such a weird and pointless thing to do. It’s fanfic. stuff you write for fun and for free, for people to read for free. I’d also imagine its pretty easy to get caught given AO3 shows when you first posted your story. 

Have you ever had a fic translated?

 Yes, a couple of times. In Russian and I think other one was Chinese?

Have you ever co-written a fic before? 

Writing the crossovers was kinda that? Like I asked feedback from Tea and Leon on how to write them. there was also actually third crossover story that was supposed to happen (only I wasn’t going to be the one to write it) but this project has been shelved as the other person had to drop majority of online activity due to some IRL health related things. (I’m just glad they recently contacted me to inform they were doing better)

What’s your all time favorite ship? 

Right now it’s..probably pretty obvious its Shigadabi, but I can never really say any ship is my all time fave, as it always changes depending on the fandom lmao. 

I guess my favorite character x proper sleep/emotional stability/happiness will always be the OTP

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Oof. I always try to finish every single one, and if I absolutely know I won’t, I tend to just delete them. Thankfully I’ve only done it thrice. Which I guess is still a lot, but compared to how much I write, in context not really? 

What are your writing strengths?

From what I’ve gathered of feedback, its typically emotional moments/character dialogue and interaction/character arcs and so. Mystery plots too. Or maybe that last one is just me lmao

What are your writing weakness?

Personally, while I tend to get positive feedback on both, sometimes I feel like I struggle to choose a good pacing for a fic, and fight scenes are always a pain. Namely, I might struggle with making the pace too long-winded and slow sometimes. Ironically, my IRL update pacing is probs a bit too fast in turn. (To add another layer of irony, I got an update ready for Unravel that I’ll post after making this tag)

Also writing shorter stories. I’ve been trying to write one-shots more (like the Spinaraki series thing) to kinda try and get myself to pack up my stories better and not let them always spiral out of control haha

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I did try to do that once with a fic I deleted, I had a native speaker help me with the canadian french bits. This person is no longer active on tumblr, and I deleted that fic because I realized I’d never finish it. 

Technically tho, as a non-native English speaker, EVERY word is in other language to me lmao. I could only add Finnish as an extra one easily, and it rarely makes sense to do so anyway.

What was the first fandom you ever wrote for? 

MCU. It’s what I originally made my AO3 for, as I felt brave enough to post things. I also can’t remember writing fandom related stuff before that, it was typically more oc related. Writing fics has helped me learn a lot about world-building, character consistency and all that stuff, without having to make everything from scratch (tho I do enjoy doing that as well of course). I feel like my original work writing has improved too thanks to my fic writing shenanigans in a way lmao. Tho that might just be me, IDK

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written? 

Oooof. This changes a lot depending on the time. I can never really pick just one either: my current favorites are Stringmaster, The neighbor and Family Secrets

Stringmaster because I love building the Steampunk AU, and Tomura’s relationship with Dabi and his Sensei, The neighbor because I personally think the romance build up in that one is probably one of the best I’ve done so far (the character dialogue in that is among my favorites I’ve written as well) and FS, because it taught me a lot about character building through writing a character like Hisashi.

 Plus I just really like Hisashi. 

And baby Izuku and little Tenko are super adorable. 

And Inko is the best mum.

 Also the fact the whole story is so ironic in a sense its still kinda funny to me. 

The only writer I know that might be around rn is @nightlilly0110 soo...I guess I’ll tag them if they want to do this! Anybody who’s a writer can snatch this too of course ;)

[anyu-blue]

I haven’t done much the past week or so

I’ve been battling my depression really hard... There’s plenty I want to and can do ranging from playing games, making videos, making things (I’m so close to being done with my little sister’s afghan, and still want to put together her cosplay), reading, drawing, writing, cleaning... and more... But I haven’t done pretty much anything. I’ve felt too weird about it to keep asking for donations for my surgery tomorrow that I just haven’t... so everything is out of pocket for me. It’s totally on me, but I just felt too weird and had little to no hope I would be successful anyway (who has funds rn anyway? No one I know, that’s for sure.... and that’s who donated last time which completely broke my heart.. more than it made me feel loved I just feel so terrible. my bad my bad) And.. to top it all off.... I made the call... our trip isn’t happening. The thing I hoped for and kept me going. We don’t get to have it now. Last thing I need to do is.. erase the reservation... I’m here posting this procrastinating... (It upsets me even more because... well, my siblings... were not even half as invested as I was. None of them are crushed. Disappointed? A little. But ultimately it’s NBD for them.... while I am completely devastated) The risks with Covid still raging, and actually being MORE contagious than ever.... it’s too high. MAYBE we could have gone and been careful and stayed safe and all that.. but my parents, god damn them.... have been going out to concerts.. and events... and... *breaks down* ... Not even vaccinated.... And they have FIVE... FIVE KIDS IN THEIR HOUSE. One is vaccinated... the rest are too young... I’ve let it sink in... and.. I’m...

I’m so angry. I STAYED at my workplace... done these stupid nights for months and months and months.... BECAUSE I could get us a deal on the hotel for this trip... I SPECIFICALLY told my family that it was the ONLY reason I would keep doing this.. keep dealing with it... to get this trip....To give us all the vacation/experience and fun.. so we wouldn’t lose... lose the package deal by any means.... I’m 100% certain they don’t even remember me telling them this... several times.. as I struggled and fought against the difficulties that come with night shift... most harrowing of which is missing out entirely on life and events and friends and family... It wasn’t even worth it.  We don’t get to go. I have sacrificed everything.. more than they are aware of because they have each other through thick and thin (and really don’t miss my presence all THAT much, because who reaches out to me? No one. I’m always the one... no seriously- this isn’t some piss party blather.. even my little sis commented on and recognized that...)... And I... am left with nothing... having done all of this and tried and pushed and hoped... For nothing. Now you might tell me.. ‘Meek.. There will be more opportunities! You can go when it’s safe again! You have so much time to save up again now!!’ ... And you will not understand one of the reasons I did this and WANTED to go so bad.... was 1..I have barely left the house in YEARS in favor of keeping people safe (and my own stupidity with my previous relationship, but I digress) and working nights being TOO TIRED.... and I have to KEEP DOING IT AND NOT GETTING TO GO ANYWHERE OR DO ANYTHING... because EVERYONE ELSE GOT TO BE AND GETS TO BE SELFISH BUT ME... (I “care too much” for a world that doesn’t seem to care for me...) and 2... Two.. TWO of my idols postponed their appearances and are going THIS YEAR to this event when they were supposed to go last year before the shut downs... it’s incredibly generous of them... and it was my best chance of maybe getting to say hello/thank you to one or both of them. Yeah, sure.. the whole idolizing someone and/or social stuff with celebs is toxic and not worth it and blah blah blah.. and, as my therapist tells me.. you don’t need to say so much. Don’t need to thank everyone... Just exist. I know. But I wanted at least an opportunity to say thank you. I was excited. So many other people have had these opportunities and I wanted it once in my life. Just once. Because I never have. That was it. ANd I may never have it again. I’ve worked partially (and sometimes FULLY) backstage for concerts.. and didn’t get to say thank you to those I enjoyed the shows and music of. If that tells you anything. Opportunities don’t come as often as you think (especially while you’re working). (Just as an FYI it wasn’t just ‘little’ names... know of OTEP? Static X? Dope? .... Yeah.) I’m rambling... But I had hoped... Not only to get out of the house.. to see cool things after being locked in for so long... but to interact.. feel human...  And I just.. get to keep being a low-income... night working.. grudge..  I’ve applied and applied and tried and tried... and I’m still stuck (thankfully my boss and friend understands I CAN’T work harder or longer no matter how much I want to.. no one else seems to... so I’m stuck)... and now I don't even get anything good... why did I even buy that dress in January? Offer to build cosplays? TRY? Why didn’t I just.. do fun things or quit my job or.. anything... in favor or hopes for this? I know why... but... It’s not like it really matters now... Honestly, while I’m taking every precaution and being as careful as humanly possible... I’m just waiting to hear who of the rest who don’t give half the shits I do... gets the delta variant in my family first... and then we’ll see whos funeral we have to plan.. I hope it’s not the youngest’s... but it could be anyone.. and I’m not prepared to lose anyone I haven’t been able to see or watch grow or be around for all this time.... I wouldn’t be prepared if I had been able to, truth told... but to have been and need to continue to be out of their lives... possibly until the end... I’m not doing well at all.

[dastardlydandelion]

I wish you would write a fic where Billy protects Max from Neil. And then Susan protects them both... by whatever means necessary.

u guys keep guessing what's gonna be in the abcs!! that is a thing that happens!! but since this is a scenario with a v wide range of possibilities, i'll give u a few other versions of it that i will not actually be writing.

under the cut bc one has downer ending. 😢

1) happens back in cali. max broke the brand new tv on accident. max is like ten here and until this point neil hasn't escalated to physical abuse with her but the television was expensive and susan isn't home rn, which also emboldens him. so he totally explodes on her. grabs her really hard and holds her in a vise grip. beats her with the remote control while the tubes in the tv continue quietly crackling n fizzling.

billy hears max cry out and comes running. throws himself at neil. then neil's attention shifts his way. susan arrives unexpectedly early. enters to the sight of neil kicking billy into the wall while max is on the floor, blood trickling around the bridge of her nose and bruises forming. it's clear what's happened. susan knows asking neil to stop won't make him stop (she's tried) so she grabs the letter opener off the glass coffee table, stabs it into his throat from behind.

neil turns so suddenly and forcefully, susan loses her grip. he rips the letter opener outta his neck, screaming and cursing up a storm at her. there's nowhere for her to retreat before he slams her head into the wall. hard. she's stumbling, disoriented, can't dodge fast enough with the double vision before neil's stabbing her once, twice, three times with the letter opener.

for a moment both kids are just frozen. billy moves a lil faster bc the situation is somewhat less shocking to him since he witnessed neil's violence toward his own mom. scrambles to his feet. bodily rams into neil hard enough to get him away. but susan's just gushing, sundress soaked. her descent is a clumsy one, flailing hands and crablike, disoriented drunkard steps. the coffee table explodes into hundreds of crystalline shards when she collapse onto it. susan makes a wretched noise when she chokes on her own blood that's going to haunt max until the day she's elderly and demented, and no longer truly remembers where it came from, this horrible echo in every fractured nightmare.

neil has just enough time to take in what he's done before he's swaying too, drops to his knees. he's been bleeding since he pulled the letter opener out. just didn't notice. too enraged. succumbs to his wound a couple minutes after susan.

max gets returned to her father. billy goes into the system when authorities fail to locate his mom.

2) max steals from neil's wallet in an attempt to run away from home. they're in hawkins now but it's p fresh after the move, she's thirteen. neil punches her in the face twice. billy walks thru the front door in between the blows. isn't fast enough to stop the second one from landing and knocking her out cold. she drops like a stone. billy's so pissed he actually goes at neil for the v first time in his life.

popular headcanon of neil being former military is true to this 'verse. i've seen this mainly used in reference to explain some of the psychology behind his abuse of billy, but uh...it also makes him so much more dangerous?? do ppl generally not acknowledge that part or do i just miss it bc i don't actually go here??

that means combat training, including weapons training, likelihood of weapons ownership, a propensity to maintain fitness. that, uh. that'd defo make neil extra dangerous...

but okay, anyway, so billy's athletic and big enough that he actually prolly has raw strength > neil. but neil, maintaining combat fitness in this scenario, has roughly equivalent functional strength. also combat training means he's maximizing his strikes as far as placement/precision/timing goes. raw power and bull-in-china-shop-rage gets billy p far but. not far enough. neil chokes him out. proceeds to keep beating him after he's unconscious bc he's just that pissed billy even dared to come at him like that. kicks him in the ribs until he hears a crack or two.

by the time susan gets home, max is nauseous from being concussed and her eggplant purple eye's so puffy it can only open a needle slit. billy can barely move, like the tinman in the wizard of oz before the oil can. neil's got a bruise on his chin where billy landed an uppercut. internally susan is sick to her stomach and screaming but externally, she lowers her eyes to the floor and informs everyone she's going to do a bit of gardening while the sun is still out but not to worry bc she'll still have dinner ready on time.

even thru the concussion fog, max feels pissed and betrayed. this is exactly why she wanted to run away. she stomps to her room, fuming and burning to throw and break everything, except that would make a ruckus. that would get neil's attention. she cannot afford the bad side of neil's attention twice in one day.

what max doesn't realize is that susan has white snakeroot and water hemlock in her garden. it's vegetable curry for dinner, but neil's bowl is a tad different than everyone else's...

3) max reaches out to the police one night when she can't take it anymore. wondering who's hitting the floor on the other side of the wall, her mother or her brother. walking on eggshells when she wants to run, whispering when she wants to yell. wilting and warping in a house that isn't a home so much as a cage.

her mouth goes dry when neil walks into the room. he calmly plucks the phone right out of her hands and has a civil conversation with the officer on the other end of the line. puts on his public friendly polite smile even tho no one but max is actually looking. it vanishes when he hangs up, crumbles into an ugly, menacing scowl.

max sees his fist come up. then the next thing she knows, she's on her back, blinking her eyes open under weight. billy's weight. neil is on a tirade like no other and he's shielding max from the worst with his own body, taking the hits. raises an arm and crooks it to protect both max's face and his own when neil picks up a kitchen chair.

both wood and bone snap in that go. billy doesn't cry out. remains protectively braced above max. no one hears susan approach. max blinks and catches a glimpse of soft, fine red hair.

she's armed with a steel pipe wrench, old and rusty, no longer particularly practical for plumbing purposes. but nearly as long as a pole arm, and thirteen solid pounds. practical enough for something else, maybe.

max blinks again to the reverberations of a new body falling, not her mother or her brother, but her stepfather. this time the red she sees is wet and glistening.

[lucacangettathisass]

JOUST (Chapter One)

SUMMARY: Following a mix up that would only be funny if it were happening to an anime character, my Japanese host family turns out to have only a son, who I will also be rooming with at his school, Shiratorizawa Academy. Christ knows how it could get any worse from here.

CHAPTER WARNINGS: None

TAGLIST:@youidiot91 @meemsx @squishyrobbie @total-insanity @oneshotofvodkaa @moons-and-stars-and-shit

NOTES: I really want to thank everyone who has shown an interest in this fic, it really means a lot! I can’t gaurantee an upload schedule as things are weird rn, but I’ll try to upload as often as possible. So, without further ado, here it is!

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CHAPTER ONE

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,

Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,

Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,

Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,

And recks not his own rede.

-William Shakespeare

And the rest is rust and stardust

-Vladimir Nabokov

The oddness of the situation truly didn’t come to me until after I had landed in Sendai Airport, which of the two airports I have been to, was definitely the bigger and nicer one.

After flying for essentially twenty four hours, I was eager to stretch my legs, and I had to hold back my groans of satisfaction as I was finally able to move my body outside of the confined space of the plane. I navigated myself through the crowd, taking great pains to avoid colliding with anyone, and apologising if I accidentally got too close, until I came across an empty patch of floor beside a wall, where I proceeded to stand. At that moment in time, anything seemed better than sitting.

Alone and away from the crowd, I dug into the Kuromi sports bag on my left shoulder, resting my My Melody carry-on against the wall, pulling out the folder I had made that contained the info on my host family, reading through it for the umpteenth time.

The Goshiki family, consisting of the father, Hideaki, his wife, Mayumi, and their son, Tsutomu.

That was the odd thing that had suddenly struck me. There was no mention of a daughter of any kind, or any other female relative that stayed with them. I had been too full of excitement and nerves to really think about it before, but now that I was, it did seem odd.

‘I wonder why a family with only a son would host someone from an all girls school.’ I tried to think of an explanation, but my brain was so fried from the flight that I could barely muster up anything. So I shrugged, put the file back, and went on to find the luggage check in.

When I arrived at the luggage carousel, I was surprised to see a family of three there, holding up a sign. A sudden, strong feeling came over me, and I looked up at their sign. It read Welcome Cody Smith, in tall, proud kanji. This was them, it had to be. So, seeing little other options, I approached them.

“H-Hello?” My voice cracked a little due to nerves, and I quickly cleared my throat, scrambling to remember the Japanese I had learned. “I’m Cody.” I bowed quickly, and as deeply as I could manage without completely falling over. “Thank you for welcoming me into your home.”

There was a pause, and I felt my face heat up in the heavy silence. I slowly stood back up, looking over their confused faces.

“I-I’m sorry.” A middle aged man, who I assumed to be Mr Goshiki, said, rather awkwardly. “We...well we were expecting a uh…boy.”

I blinked, trying to quickly translate what he had said in my head, and process it. “Oh.” I said, because I really didn’t know what else to say.

“Hideaki!” His wife scolded, clearly unimpressed with her husband’s bluntness. She turned to me and smiled kindly, although even I couldn’t miss her blush. “It isn’t your fault honey.” She assured me. “Tomu, say hello.”

I turned my attention to the son, who struck me as having intense Rock Lee energy, and not just because of the bowl cut. He looked serious and determined, with a furrowed brow, like he was about to go into battle or something. He bowed, just like I had, but with...conviction, somehow, if that were possible. “I am Tsutomu Goshiki!” He declared, so loudly that a few people were staring. “And I am honoured to be your host brother!”

Startled, and even more sure of the Rock Lee comparison, I could only stare down at him, a boy who I knew was the same age as me, yet seemed to want to carry himself with the dignity and seriousness of a man his father’s age. “Oh. Um. Hi.” I only barely managed to get the word out, a little bewildered at what I considered to be an over the top greeting.

He remained in his stance, upper body perfectly parallel to the ground, as I continued to stare. I saw him lift his head a little, and his eyelids flicker. I tilted my head to the side a little so I could actually see him without my chest obstructing my view. We maintained eye contact for a few seconds, before he stood up right again, practically snapping his body into position with such speed and force that I actually felt a slight breeze. “Let me help with your luggage!” He said as a declaration again, as if this was something deadly serious. “Which bags are yours?”

“Uh, they haven’t shown up yet.” I nervously glanced around, noting all the looks from strangers.

“Calm down now Tomu.” Mrs Goshiki said, with a mother’s fondness, clearly used to this. “I’m sure Cody is tired.”

“Coco.”

“Hm?” Mrs Goshiki turned to me.

I started to blush again, and I looked down shyly. “I uh...I would prefer it if you called me Coco.”

“Oh. Alright then honey, sure thing.”

I looked back up at her and smiled gratefully. “Thanks.” I looked back at the luggage carousel, watching as one bag after another made its way around on the conveyor belt, waiting for mine.

“There you are.”

I walked up to the conveyor belt, hand outstretched to grab the bright pink, Hello Kitty suitcase.

“Let me!”

Before I could react, Tsutomu suddenly appeared, yanking the suitcases. “Is the other Hello Kitty one yours too?”

“Uh, yeah, but I can-”

Thunk!

I stood there, somewhat awkwardly, as Tsutomu stood there, one of my suitcases in each hand, looking so serious that it made the situation comical. “Allow me!” He said, already walking on ahead. “As your host brother, it’s my job to help you settle in and make things easier for you.”

Deciding that it would be more trouble than it was really worth to argue, I quietly followed, trying to ignore all the curious eyes. ‘I wonder if he would’ve done that if I was a boy.’

-

During the car ride back to the Goshiki residence, I listened as Tsutomu told me all about Shiratorizawa Academy. Since I was arriving only a month after the beginning of the school year, I hadn’t missed much, but I would still need to work hard to catch up.

(“It’s a really tough school.” He had said. “But you wouldn’t be sent here if you weren’t able to hack it, so I believe in you.”

“Thanks.”)

But he spent most of his time talking about the volleyball team.

Being utterly ignorant to all things volleyball, I had a hard time keeping up. I got that he was an outside hitter-whatever that meant-and that the Shiratorizawa team was considered to be the best in the whole Miyagi Prefecture. And, what’s more, their captain and ace player, Wakatoshi Ushijima, was considered the number one ace among high school volleyball players, and was even selected for Japan’s under 19 Youth World Championship team. Despite my lack of knowledge, even I was able to tell that that was a big deal.

“And this year we’re going to go to nationals and win!” Tsutomu said excitedly, and with such conviction that I wouldn’t be surprised if that alone won them first place. “Hey! You should see us practice!”

“Oh, uh, I don’t know.” I said, honestly surprised by the suggestion. “I don’t really know anything about volleyball so....”

“You can still just watch.” He insisted. “And I can introduce you to the guys so you’ll know more people.”

“Tomu…”

Tsutomu turned to face his mother, who was looking over her shoulder at us. Evidently, the use of the nickname was enough to get her point across.

I looked out the window, resting my forehead against the glass, watching a city I had only seen in pictures and video go by me.

-

I woke with a start, eyes wide, looking around so quickly that I banged my head. “Ow.” I looked up, and saw that I had hit the glass of the car window.

“Good timing.” Mr Goshiki said, the first words I heard him say since the airport. “We’re here.”

I blinked and nodded, stifling a yawn as I got out of the car. I went to the back to get my luggage, but Tsutomu already had it covered, taking my suitcases up to the impressively sized house. While I was reeling from his speed, Mr and Mrs Goshiki took my sports bag and carry-on respectively, leaving me standing in their driveway.

I had no other choice but to quietly follow them, up the path, and to the door, taking my shoes off immediately upon entering.

“You’ll mostly be staying in Shiratorizawa’s dorms.” Mrs Goshiki said. “But during the holidays and, if you like, the weekends, you’ll be here with us.” She went up the stairs, followed by her husband and son so, naturally, I went with them.

“This will be your room when you’re here.” She said, opening the door to a spacious bedroom. It was sparsely furnished, with only a bed, a small bedside table, a bookcase, and a reasonably sized vanity. “You can decorate it however you want.”

“Thank you.” I somehow managed to find my voice again. I turned to face the entire family and bowed again, a little deeper this time, hoping it would be enough. “You’re all very kind.”

Mr Goshiki chuckled. “It’s fine, you don’t need to bow.”

I straightened up, mumbling a small and embarrassed “Sorry.”

“We’ll leave you to get unpacked.” Mrs Goshiki said. “You’ve got your own bathroom through there,” she pointed to a door on the left wall, “and Tomu’s room is right across the hall. Hide and I will be down the hall on the right. You get yourself settled in while I prep dinner.” She gave me one last comforting smile and with that, the family filed out, Tsutomu closing the door behind him.

I let out a deep sigh, looking around the room, and back down at my bags.

‘Better not unpack too much if I’ll be staying in a dorm.’

-

About two hours later, there was a knock at the door, making me pause in my arranging of the closet in my new room. “Yes?”

“It’s Tsutomu.” His voice was a little muffled by the door, but I could definitely tell it was him. “Dinner’s ready.”

“Alright, be right down.” I got up and went over to the door, only to find Tsutomu was still there when I opened it.

“Did you need help with anything?”

“Oh, ah, no. I’m all good.”

Tsutomu looked like he was about to press the issue, but he seemed to think better of it, and simply went on ahead down the stairs. “My mum made ramen, don’t worry it’s vegan like you put on the form.”

“Cool.” I blushed, remembering filling out that field and now wondering why I did so, when I knew that it would no doubt be a hassle.

I followed Tsutomu into the dinning room, and the two of us joined his parents at the table, big bowls of still warm ramen in front of us. After a quick prayer we tucked in. I had no idea if Mrs Goshiki had any experience with vegan food before, but if she hadn’t, that made the ramen all the more impressive.

The noodles weren’t too firm, nor was the broth too rich. The mushrooms were perfectly tender, and there was just the right amount of vegetables and tofu to balance everything out. I already knew that I was going to find out Mrs Goshiki’s recipe and learn how to make it.

“So what made you decide to do this exchange?”

I looked up at Mr Goshiki and shrugged, swallowing down the noodles and mushrooms. “Just felt like something different I guess.” I idly swirled the broth around. “And, I mean, I’m interested in Japan, so I figured I would take my chance.”

“Really? Why Japan?”

‘Don’t say anime and look like a weeb don’t say anime and look like weeb don’t say anime and look like a weeb I swear to fuck if you do that shit I am shutting this whole operation down.’

“Mostly how different it is from New Zealand.” I said. “An entirely different culture in an entirely different continent, I don’t know, just the usual curiosity I guess.”

‘You live another day.’

-

Dinner passed with regular small talk, with the Goshiki family getting to know more about me and vice versa. I offered to help Mrs Goshiki with the dishes, but she insisted I ‘go right to bed and get some much needed rest’.

The only problem was, despite the fact that it was the middle of the night, I was still wide awake.

‘I guess this is jet lag.’

I stared up at the ceiling, waiting for my eyelids to droop, and for sleep to take me, but alas, it proved to be as evasive as ever.

Sighing in defeat, I got out of bed, went over to the bookshelf, and got back under the blankets with My Melody, and began to re-read Hamlet, again.

[getreadytosmash]

well NOW i need to hear your Thoughts about skaar and hulk finding out things 👀👀

@mistyflame1

Sjsjsjjs w.well....if u say so sir 👉👈😳

Takes place within the end of my s3 ideas

A lot of gamma mutates have been appearing and fighting by now and this is during the point that Betty Ross and a collection of other people have slowly gone missing over the season as well as a bunch of mysterious gamma related attacks

Leader is hesitantly shifting onto their side but isn't quite with them??? Still off on his own and researching and overall very standoffish still since he knows whose related to it all still

Skaar's probably been suffering some odd dreams at this point and I wanna relate them to prophesies since Sakaar was quite connected to them within the comics

Probably something cheesy like uh "when green was torn away we wept. And while you fell as the sun falls from moon, she has cried and she has wept. Face your destiny, Sakaarson, and reignite what was once one." Or smth that's all I got at the top of my head rn

And yeah, Skaar wants to go and has a brief fight over it with Red who thinks it's stupid to go catering off into space just because he dreams of talking rocks

But Hulk points out the fact that they're needed on Earth right now, to figure out what's going on and how to help people, even though humans are disrupting them more and more

And Skaar can see how tired Hulk looks, how he's trying so hard and how even the mention of space settles something on him and Skaar can't make his family go through any of that again. Can't make them ensure that hopelessness of dying in a metal can in a place where most of the world would think they deserved to stay after simply trying to help. Making them all go would just be selfish.

So. I mean. Its not selfish to drag Leader on a trip to Sakaar. Is it?

And yeah this is where it gets a bit blurry cause I imagine Skaar is somehow stuck there for a few days and a lot of cut scenes between him exploring Sakaar culture and Hulk worrying so much and now trying to get to Sakaar.

Its messy for Hulk. Because a part of him fears space now but Skaar is up there. And space and fear is only something you ensure for so long until you reach something grounding and solid again. It'll be worth it if he can get to Skaar again and to help the younger hulk and keep him safe.

Hiro-Kala...I definitely think yeah he's settled as some sort of bad leader and I don't mean as in "he's a shitty person!!" But he's away from Caiera and alone so that makes a lot of his decisions panicked and bad and he can't rely on anyone for help

And now suddenly he has someone with a similar tattoo that isn't fully complete (because yes I use physical symbolism) and now Skaar is putting what he's learned from Hulk to use while searching for the source of the voice that rings out to him across a galaxy.

And I want this to be a thing where it cuts and shows how Hulk worries and becomes rough in his decisions because he only does that when it comes to family! And I want it to show examples of how Skaar has come further now, become someone who could lead and shows examples of what he's learned in comparisons from flashbacks!!

Like...one flashback of Hulk teaching Skaar an important lesson and it cuts to Hulk completely disregarding while Skaar follows it perfectly? It has a good view of how they are and the way their relationship has developed over the past year and a half.

I haven't got all of it but I definitely picture the big moment when Skaar eventually unlocks what's hidden within Sakaar and Hulk and the rest of the Smashers arrive and its absolutely some of that shit that cuts between Leader and Hiro-Kala yelling at Skaar to stop while Hulk rushes to find them before a giant blue and white light cracks between the ground and makes everything go black at a cliffhanger

Tbh I kinda want Caiera to be a villain at first? But more of uh...that scene in Moana where the goddess is angry because she got locked away by the Red King??? Yeah that. And with Cai's emergence, all of these MEMORIES about her come spilling out, a bit like Lup and TAZ

Hulk remembers. Remembers a mission where he got stuck away from the Avengers for a month and a half and how he met this woman who made the Earth move and at the time, had been the only one who matched him in strength that either wasn't his baby cousin or Ben Grimm being a good friend

Remembers the thrill and taste of revolution. The joy of being seen and accepted by someone for bother sides of himself and how Caiera would call him "Holku" with that same smile and eyes that struck his heart and make his stomach clench funny

And its easy and hard to remember the quick vows they made before the king was defeated and Hulk decided to go back. Before the King turned out to have survived and locked Caiera away after she gave birth to the most powerful twins on Sakaar

And the memory is there. The clarity is there. Skaar was his son and Hiro-Kala is his son. One got forced to fight and tortured and mind washed and forced to fight his own family in order to claw for any sense of self while the other had been left to fend for themself and they had to find their way and they hadn't done a good job and that just makes it sting more because Hiro-Kala had tried their best but it just wasn't the good type of best.

Big fight. Just. Big fight. Lots of pain and screaming and both of his parents going out of control before Hiro-Kala calms Caiera down and Skaar calms Hulk down. And tbh hell fucking year im picturing ur art here now where they hug and cry because it fits perfect.

Hulk and Caiera...soft moment with their children before finishing what they started properly and killing the Red king. Well. If it was proper HatAoS they would seal him into the Earth instead of Caiera but I mean. Kill.

And after that there's still a lot to be done and the others need to go back but Caiera and Hiro-Kala take over at royalty with the rest of the Warbound being part of the palace and tbh this is mostly so we can see the relationship develop more over the next season and stretch it out a little more?

Hulk and Caiera agree to pen pal while she fixes Sakaar and he fixes Earth. Maybe a bit of a shippy moment ;) and Skaar... hm. Probably stays on Sakaar for a little bit and I like how it gives him a taste of his home and ultimately would mean that he decides whether or not he wants to be Heir Skaar or Smasher Skaar

And while this happens I'm totally picturing cheesy stuff on Earth where all of the Smashers have a moment of missing Skaar and overall needing a fifth member and the fact that Hulk has growing issues about the fact that he has two sons now and he's...kinda failed them both horribly.

What a time for his daughter to make her first appearance by attacking them and kidnapping Jen eh.

[maybankiara]

PHONE SWAP (DREW STARKEY)

10: BAD DAY, HUH?

summary: Addie Mallory is just your average economics student when she meets Drew Starkey at her local Target in Atlanta. This is where the story is supposed to end – a short meeting and a picture to go – except Drew accidentally leaves with the wrong phone, and the story begins, instead.

w/c: 3k

a/n: ah. the bittersweet taste of our own flaws. -- probably addie in this chapter tbh. basically marianne being very british and making addie Question Everything, as best friends do

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Virgin Mary | 3:47pm so the gang is planning a night out this week, you free saturday?

Me | 5:07pm why this saturday? Me | 5:07pm is it someone’s birthday?? Me | 5:07pm pls say no

Virgin Mary | 5:08pm Tom’s is in two weeks and you better not forget that

Me | 5:08pm ffs marianne i won’t

Virgin Mary | 5:09pm you better not bitch I need your help with the present Virgin Mary | 5:09pm can’t give my boy anything less than perfection

Me | 5:10pm wow what a way to not put pressure in your about-to-burst-from-stress friend

Virgin Mary | 5:11pm you mean my overdramatic friend? Virgin Mary | 5:11pm get your hole and you’ll be fine

Me | 5:11pm MARIANNE

Virgin Mary | 5:12pm BITCH WHAT Virgin Mary | 5:12pm you need to shag Virgin Mary | 5:12pm when’s the last time you got your hole

Me | 5:13pm I’m busy okay i don’t want a boyfriend rn

Virgin Mary | 5:14pm so that’s totally why I’ve been hearing about Holden for the past three months 👀

Me | 5:15pm you do realise we work at the same place right Me | 5:15pm i can’t just hook up with a guy i have to see every day for at least 8 hours

Virgin Mary | 5:16pm fucking hell you’re a tuff nut

Me | 5:17pm go make me some tea pls Me | 5:17pm I’m home in 20 and I’ve got some late emails

Virgin Mary | 5:17pm whatever bitch Virgin Mary | 5:18pm you’re a freaking workaholic Virgin Mary | 5:18pm shag Holden

Me | 5:19pm shut up Me | 5:19pm ur blocked ❤

Virgin Mary | 5:20pm so are you free on saturday or not? Virgin Mary | 5:33pm ur cancelled❤

◇

The music coming from their apartment is loud enough that Addie hears it as she walks up the staircase. She can’t distinguish the song, but the beat’s there, and she’s either imagining Marianne singing along, or it’s actually happening. One is just as likely as the other. 

  It gets louder when Addie walks through the door, and she figures it’s safe to assume it’s her friend rather than her imagination. The door closes behind her, sound swallowed by whatever rock song Marianne is blasting through the speaker – this is what Addie is used to. 

  She leaves her purse on the drawer at the side of the hallway, one that’s filled with trinkets they’ve got nowhere else to put, and she hangs the raincoat right next to it. Her shoes are the next to come off – the loss of the three inches that the burgundy platforms come with comes as soon as she steps out of them. Her feet are grounding her on the floor, now, and a moment’s break is all she gives herself. It’s peace after a tedious day of relentless work; it’s the calm from the scent of cinnamon candles, Earl Grey tea, and the dish Marianne is making that smells very Italian – this feels like home. 

  Addie makes her way to the kitchen. Her roommate is singing her heart out to music coming from the speaker on the round table, stirring whatever’s in the pot in front of her. Marianne doesn’t notice her come in, so Addie walks over to the speaker and tunes it down, low enough for them to talk. 

  ‘Honey, I’m home!’ 

  Marianne turns around with a big smile on her face. Her ginger hair is pulled into a high ponytail, loose from what Addie assumes must’ve been a kitchen concert. This is paired with sweats and a loose crop top, and Marianne’s demeanour is enough to tell her she’s ready to tackle the weekend ahead of them. 

  ‘Honey, welcome home’’ She points behind Addie. ‘There’s your tea. I’m making lasagna and it’ll be ready in about half an hour.’

  ‘Shit, I've actually been craving that today.'

  The girl goes back to stirring the pot, swaying her hips to the tune of the music. ‘Sixth sense, Addie. Bruce Willis had it right.’

  ‘I told you that movie creeps me out!’

  ‘It’s a masterpiece and you’re a pussy.’

  Instead of a reply, Addie huffs with an eye roll, taking a sip from the cup. It’s midnight blue with a quote from one of the books Marianne likes, imported straight from the British Isles. The colour is faded on the holding part of the mug, but it remains the girl’s favourite mug despite a variety of prettier, newer mugs she’s acquired over the time. 

  Marianne is simple. She’s got things she loves and doesn’t stray from that. 

  They chat for a bit, Marianne preparing the lasagna to go into the oven and Addie drinking her tea. Addie learns that the firm Marianne is interning for has gotten a new project for a family home on the outskirts of Atlanta and the interns are being allowed to try out their hand at designing it, and the firm will end up critiquing their work and possibly giving one of them the chance to have their design turned into reality. 

  It’s an exciting thing – the most Marianne has gotten in the past three months of working there. 

  The lasagna is put into the oven and Addie announces her shower time, and promises Marianne she better tell her about her day after she scrubbed off all that reminds her of the office. Taking her contact lenses out and getting into the shower after a long day is the one feeling Addie cherishes more than just the arrival home in itself. Her showers are long, with steam rising and fogging up the blurred glass sides of the shower and the mirror in the bathroom. 

  When she gets out of the bathroom, she’s wearing an outfit that mirrors her roommate’s. Her hair’s wet and wrapped into an old T-shirt, basking in a curl-defining product she got the other day. She’s got a facemask on, too, and Marianne sighs at the sight of it. 

  ‘Bad day, huh?’

  Addie walks up to the counter beside the oven, taking out some cutlery and begins to set the table. ‘I envy you. All your bosses are so self-absorbed that they don’t even notice you guys. Mine are self-absorbed and narcissistic, so we get all the work nobody can be fucked with.’

  Marianne taps on the table with the fork she’s just been given. ‘No swearing, missy.’

  The brunette raises an eyebrow, trying to figure out if her roommate is joking. Then she remembers her resolution from a few days ago -- “I will swear less because I’m not a fucking sailor.” “That’s a quarter in the jar, Miss.”

  ‘Whatever,’ mutters Addie. She places the last of the dishes on the table and plops into the chair across from her roommate, resting her head in her hands. ‘I’m so tired of Harrington. The divorce isn’t going well because his ex has actually got a brain, which he hadn’t anticipated, and now he’s literally just throwing the worst shit at us. And to complete it, Patty is just being her regular cruel self.’

  ‘That’s horrible.’ Marianne scrunches her nose. ‘That’s also three quarters now.’

  ‘I’m allowed to say shit!’

  ‘Well, you’re the one who decided to swear less.’

  ‘Saying shit isn’t swearing. It’s basically a normal word.’

  The look Marianne gives her is full of friendly scorn. Addie sighs and fishes three quarters out of her wallet that’s on the table—she can’t believe saying “shit” alone cost her two quarters—and throws them into the jar that's on the part of the table closest to the wall. There’s hardly anything in it, but Addie reckons that’s more because of the fact that she’s hardly both home and awake anymore, as opposed to her not swearing a lot. 

  Marianne walks over to the oven, checking the lasagna. She pulls the door open and hot air fills the small space, alongside the smell of a beautifully done Italian dish – or Addie is just really hungry. 

  ‘Patty made Holden and I work on a budget plan for some Grubson’s subdivision upstate. We did budgeting. He majored in finance and I majored in economics and we’re doing damn accounting.’

  ‘You’re interning for a law firm,’ notes Marianne, putting oven mittens on. ‘You shouldn’t expect to do exactly what you want to do.’

  Addie’s lip curls into a bitter grin. Her friend is right, and she knows it and she hates that this is what her career has come to -- wasting her actual talents because the industry is shitty as it is. She’s got to put in triple the effort her white male colleagues do, and even then, her brilliance is hardly registered. 

  The lasagna is on the table. Marianne gives each of them a piece and Addie fills their glasses with some Coca Cola-ripoff they got at Tesco. The music from the speaker changes to something more dinner-appropriate. 

  ‘This looks delicious, Marianne.’

  ‘It better be. Took me nearly three damn hours.’

  Both girls blow on their slice before taking it, and both of them still end up having to half-blow through the food while it’s in their mouths, bursting into laughter as they watch one another struggle. 

  ‘I don’t know what’s your excuse,’ says Addie, having finally swallowed the piece, ‘but mine is that I’m absolutely starving.’

  Marianne pretends to chuck some food at her. ‘My excuse is that I invested a lot of time in this.’

  ‘Fair. It’s amazing.’

  At this, the girl beams with happiness, and Addie can’t hold back a smile even as she struggles through the heat of another piece, her stomach grumbling. 

  ‘Anyway, it’s shit. It got so bad today that I ended up spending nearly all of my time with Holden— No, hush, I’m not having it— Seriously, Marianne, we’re literally work colleagues!’ Addie sighs in exasperation, one finger raised in the last effort at getting her friend to stop nagging her about her colleague. 

  Marianne pouts, then gives away an innocent shrug. ‘All I’m saying is that there’s something there.’

  All Addie can do is roll her eyes and focus on the plate in front of her. Her fork pierces through the lasagna with a little too much force than warranted, and the brunette concludes that’s enough to show how irritated Marianne got her.

  Despite her hardest attempts at denying it, Marianne’s kind of got a point. Addie’s been at the internship for over three months now and it’s not like she has gotten close with anyone – at least, not enough to call them friends. Her career and education have always taken the priority over friends and temporary relationships, and it’s never hurt her in any way. Sure, she might’ve been lonely from time to time, but that doesn’t mean she didn’t end up with great friends, regardless. 

  With the internship and a Master’s degree to work on, Addie doesn’t really have time for personal connections that won’t last. 

  Addie shakes the thought out of her head. The lasagna bit is steaming in her mouth and Marianne rolls her eyes, but it eases the tension between the two. 

  ‘There’s nothing between us, Marianne,’ says Addie, once her mouth isn’t burning anymore. ‘We’re a good team. Patty and Harrington noticed that we get more done than any other teams.’

  ‘So there’s work chemistry. You don’t have that with just about every other person, Addie. Especially not you.’

  Especially not Addie, who likes to have her work done at specific times of the day, filing it in a specific way, handling her responsibility like a drop of water. Again, Marianne’s got a point. 

  ‘Plus, he’s pretty good looking.’

  The memory of showing Marianne pictures of Holden makes her chuckle. ‘You flipped out. I was scared for Tom.’

  ‘Please,’ scoffs Marianne, waving her hand. ‘There’s no one better than Tom. But after I spent a whole month listening to how well you’re getting on with this Holden guy, how much better it’s to work with him than other people, how much he’s helped you join the group… How else was I supposed to react when I found out that he’s a hot piece of blonde-hair blue-eyes?’

  ‘I just…’ Addie’s fork moves some of the lasagna around the plate. ‘I don’t know. I didn’t want you to think he’s hot.’

  Marianne huffs. ‘All I’m saying is, don’t write him off.’

  ‘I’m not writing him off. I just don’t have the time to focus on anything romantic right now.’

  ‘That’s bullshit and you know it.’ Marianne finishes the last of her slice and puts her fork down, leaning back in the chair. ‘Addie, you’re the most organised person I know. You never have a problem making it to any of the things our group organises, so why do you always say you don’t have time to hang out with people from work?’

  For a few moments, the only sounds in the kitchen/dining area are whatever’s coming out of the speaker, Addie’s work scratching the bottom of the plate, and her chewing. 

  She knows Marianne’s got a point, again. It’s starting to annoy her.

  ‘Things are good the way they are,’ she finally says, the admission heavy across her lips. ‘I get closer to any of them, it’ll become more difficult to point out what they’ve done wrong, or do my own work if I want to know about their day. It’s already difficult enough with Holden, and we’re just friends.’

  ‘That’s different. You want to shag him.’

  ‘I don’t—’

  ‘Are you seriously trying to deny the fact that you’re attracted to someone who looks like a damn nineties movie star?’

  Addie grunts, burying her face in her hands. ‘Fine. He’s hot.’

  There’s a pregnant pause and when she finally dares look at Marianne, the girl has a tired smile on her face. She knows this look -- a combination of I told you so and I could be your therapist, you don’t need to pay for one. 

  ‘What.’

  Marianne taps her hand, her smile widening. ‘I know your career means a lot to you, but you’ve got to loosen up. You’re going to burn out.’

  ‘Everybody burns out.’

  ‘Yeah, but you’re gonna do it at, like, thirty.’

  Not dignifying this with a response, Addie rises to her feet, taking her plate and Marianne’s, then stacks the cutlery on top. She’s acutely aware of Marianne waiting for a reaction, even if she doesn’t want to give her one. Instead, she gets to washing the dishes. Running water drowns out the tension easily enough for it to slip into the back of her mind.

  She hears Marianne’s chair let out a squeak a moment later. Her ginger hair appears in the corner of Addie’s eye, and she sees her put the uneaten half of the lasagna into the fridge, wrapped up in aluminium foil. When finished, Marianne rests against the counter with the small of her back.

  Neither of the girls says anything. Addie is trying to ignore the gnawing feeling in the pit of her stomach that’s trying to convince her Marianne is right.

  She sets the washes dishes aside, letting them air dry on the dish rack.

  ‘All I meant was that you could go out with them, for a change, not turn your life upside down,’ says Marianne. ‘Just think about it.’

  Addie presses her lips together. ‘Okay. I’ll think about it.’

  ‘Great! Anyway, you need to come out with us on Saturday. Leanne spent fifteen minutes of our coffee date today just freaking out over the fact that you met Drew Starkey.’ A beat. ‘She binged Outer Banks yesterday.’

  ‘I can’t believe my life is finally interesting to you guys.’ Addie puts away the last of the dishes and wipes her hands with a kitchen towel, smiling. ‘All it took was meeting an actor.’

  Marianne pushes herself up on the counter, grinning like a fox. ‘It’s not just that you met him, Addie. It’s been three months and you still talk.’

  ‘Not really. We haven’t talked in’—she counts the days in her head—‘about two weeks.’

  ‘Oh, so you haven’t talked since he read your essay and shared it to his hundreds of thousands of followers and said how much he liked it?’

  ‘Nope.’

  The sigh Marianne lets out is pure exasperation. Addie walks out of the kitchen and the girl follows suit, bringing the speaker along. Both of them plop on the couch as they usually do for half an hour after dinner, before going each to their own studying sessions. Deciding to room with Marianne, who’s currently also doing an internship and a Master’s degree (in architecture), was one of the best decisions Addie has ever made.

  Except for the times when Marianne is awfully nosy for a Brit – must be the French part of her.

  With her legs criss-crossed and an arm draped over the back of the couch, Marianne is in her element. ‘That is not your average celebrity interaction.’

  ‘I know.’

  ‘So you’re telling me you’re not trying to get on that?’

  ‘On what?’ asks Addie, feeling her irritation levels steadily rising again. ‘Jesus, Marianne. I’m not trying to get with every guy who’s good-looking and nice to me. We share some opinions on social media and whatnot, he agreed with them. It’s not that big of a deal.’

  ‘So you’re saying you wouldn’t shag him if you had the chance?’

  Addie looks away. Her cheeks are hot and body is on fire, and she’s had more than enough of Marianne’s attitude today, and that’s on top of already having had a pretty fucking shitty day in the first place.

  ‘You can’t be ser—’

  ‘I don’t want to talk about this anymore.’

  She grabs her phone and, absentmindedly, checks her Instagram notifications – none. The feeling in her stomach intensifies and she opens up her work group chat instead, and curses herself for hoping that maybe there’d be a specific person in her messages.

  Maybe Marianne isn’t that far off.

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11: WELCOME TO MY LIFE

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[selfcareparker]

hi bae <3 reading that last ask i’m realizing i have no grammar? lmao

glad university is funnnn, when you said linguistics i was like 🤨 but then i googled it and it does sound interesting lmao

the too much free time part though... :( its like you expected to be thrown in and like WOO BUSY and WOO purpose (purpose may be going too far lol) but i totally get what you’re saying. ESPECIALLY when you expect to be busier and you’re not it’s like :/ ok. (& girlllll it’s fine to complain, it’s how ur feeling)

and bc of covid you have eVEN LESS STUFF TO DO, which sucks. the social part may help? even just a little bit, but maybe having some socialization.. it could be somewhat uplifting? idk gsjshsj

where i live the vaccine is for 16 and up right now but for the younger kids (12-15) it hasn’t been ✨FDA approved✨ yet so my brother is still waiting for his 🤠

okay really quick, how does drivers license work there? here you learn to drive at 16 and you can like actually drive (sometimes even alone in the car) by 17... (also burneks?)

YAYYYY GIRLLL i remember you telling me about how you haven’t seen your family in England in such a long time 🥺🥺🥺 i really hope you get to see them soon!!!! and that covid eases up so you can see them frequently again 🥺🥺🤍

i’m gonna tattoo that to my forehead “not being friends with your parents is unhealthy” EXACTLY!! the people saying that stuff are usually not close to their parents so 👀

i’ve been really busy (unfortunately imo lol) with my dance recital coming up and this singing group (which i don’t like at all) and my final tests bc of school i’m EEK but it’s a good eek i think? maybe? idk lolll, i can’t wait for everything to be over though so i can CHILL. after school however i have a missions trip in north carolina? don’t quote me on that, but yeah 🥰 i’m really excited about it bc i’ll be without my family (like on my own :)) and it’s this whole thing and i’ll get to know people and i’m gonna buy a new bathing suit that makes me look gooooood cuz i’m tryna cop a boyfriend while i’m there HAHAHAH but besides that... more acting and singing camps probably? most likely a summer job.. i don’t have any plans reallyyy set in stone but ya know (ACTUAL i do have a few things planned. but those are things i don’t want to do. so i will be ignoring them <3)

that was a long ass paragraph- but PLEASE UR RESPONSE WAS FINEEE & i love you 💓💓💖💞💘💓💞💕 literally watch me buy a ticket to germany rn

- lovely anon (or catherine? i feel that lovely anon is iconic now tho so. kinda like how i call you aria in my head not your real name lol ALSO I PROMISE IM GONNA RESPOND TO THAT REALLY SOON, it’s just really busy rn) <3

what’s wrong with tumblr i just saw this a minute ago 🥲🥲🥲🥲 they don’t want to see us together ✋🏼 but fuck them 💘

Whaksk wait wdym by you have no grammar? 😭😭hejsjs

Honestly I’m so surprised that I’m enjoying linguistics but i think since i speak english and german i’ve just always been interested in language and esp english since it’s just my second language so i was forced to learn more about the language than just words and grammar, because it’s such a big part of me and also i didn’t always have a british accent so i kind of had to... develop a british accent, and it was natural but also kind of wasn’t??? Anyway why was this one sentence like 17 lines i’m sorry

YES OMG EXACTLY and obviously i’m missing out on the whole uni experience i mean I’m introverted anyway but i don’t mind going to a party every now and then? but i haven’t talked to a single person from my uni (except in class when we had to analyse a poem or something— okay technically some of my friends go to the same uni as me but they’re all studying other stuff)

But yeah I’ll definitely try to meet my friends more often 🥺 but we all have really different schedules rn so it’s really hard to find days where we both/all are free and not too tired and yeahssjsksj but i mean.... i can pay 50% of your ticket to germany? and then we can hang out? 🥰

I think everyone over 18 can get their vaccine from Monday on so I’ll try to call (okay, my mum will call sisjsh) and see if i can get an appointment. but i think everything will be super full because previously only people over... 50?or 60? or people with like illnesses could get it and now everyone over 18 can get it??? Like that’s a lot of people who can suddenly get the vaccine sksjjs but at the same time they’re getting quicker with it (i think today over 1 million people got the vaccine???? Like i know the US probably gets wayyy more people done so idk if that sounds like nothing to you but obviously Germany is much smaller so to me that sounds like a lot???) and also one of my father’s friend’s wife (djdkdj) works at a hospital or something? And she said she’ll ask if I can get it done there so yeah 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

Isksmsjjs it took me so long to figure out what burneks was, i googled it (very weird results?) and then i realised i made a typo.... yeah no idea what i was trying to say lol

So in Germany (as far as I’m aware) you can start at 17 and you can’t have your test before you’re 17 years and 6 months old (idk why) and then you’re not allowed to drive alone until you’re 18 and then you still have two years on probation(is that what it’s called?) and you’re not allowed to drink a single sip of alcohol before you’re 21 (and drive) (cause in germany you’re allowed to drink when you’re 14 (if your parents are with you and allow it), then when you’re 16 you can buy beer and wine, and when you’re 18 you can buy everything. But you’re not allowed to drink and drive (even if it’s just 0.01 promille) until you’re 21)

(Okay I just googled and I don’t think you say pro mille/per mille in english sksjsjs but like the percent (or something...) of alcohol you have in your blood (idk biology sorry) (not that you asked about drinking and driving anyway? 😭 but there you go lmaoo)

Also idk if that’s just a UK thing or you also have it in the US? But all of my relatives from England keep asking me how often I’m driving with my parents (for practice)... and in Germany that’s.... not allowed? Like in england you can get these L (Learner) plates that you can stick on the back of your car and then you can drive anytime with your parents, but in germany you can only drive with your driving instructor during a paid for and legally organised driving lesson so. Kksskaj

Yess, the good thing now is that i can go to england anytime? Because Uni is all online anyway so it’s not like i have to wait until the holidays to see my family, i really hope i’ll see them soon🥺 it was my nana’s bday today and my grandad’s a few weeks ago so i’m painting two pictures for them tomorrow and sending them as a (late) gift next week 😌 (i’ll do like an impressionist ✨field of flowers✨ (that sounds awful sksjsjsj for reference i’ll look something like this: (it’s not mine i just found it on the internet while i was looking for some inspiration

for my nana, and something with a waterfall for my grandad) (looking at it now i don’t even think that’s impressionism? Idfk i had art as my subject for my a levels (like one of my final exams) and i actually got an A 👀 but it was mainly architecture and i don’t even remember that so

Ahhh I hope it’s a good eek!! Sksjj hopefully you’ll be done with everything soon and i already know you’re gonna do really good in all of your tests😌 but still: good luck ❤️❤️❤️

Idk if it’s actually cool? But North Carolina sounds so cool to me (but honestly you could have said any state and i’d think it’s cool sksksskm) And girl I still think it’s so amazing that you just sing and dance and act and omg ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

(I’m imagining us in a montage (?) like they always have in films while we’re shopping to get you a hot bathing suit😌😌 and then they always come home with like 6 shopping bags in the movies—)

This is gonna sound so dumb because who tf wants to work? But I’ve always wanted a summer job 🥲 like nothing too exhausting obviously but i’ve never earned any money by myself? I haven’t had a single job in my life (not that I’m that old and like only one of my friends has worked in her life like we’re young sksjsj) and yeah i think it would be really cool to have a summer job and earn some money 😌 but during the summer holidays (they’re only 6 weeks in germany) we’d always go to england for at least two weeks and then we’d drive to bosnia to see my dad’s family for a few days and then to croatia and then to Bosnia again sksksksms so i never had time for a summer job (obviously i’m aware that it’s a fucking privilege that i’ve never had to work and that i get to go to multiple countries during the holidays but yeah)

WHY DO I TALK SO MUCH AUSSKKSSM

Like I said I’ll pay 50% of your ticket 😌 i’ll be here stuck at home anyway, just let me know when you’re coming so i can come pick you up😌 (this emoji djskksks— but i mean it fits so i’ll use it as often as i can 😌)

Lovely anon IS iconic 😌✨ but Catherine is more than okay too🥰 so just say whatever you prefer ❤️

(And omg you never have to apologise for responding to my long ass, full-of-mistakes responses late sksjs take your time (i mean i wouldn’t be mad if you just didn’t respond to some of them i talk too much anyway <3333)

[yehet-me-up]

*busts through the door like I'm the Kool-Aid man* BONJOUR FUCKERS I'M BACK!!! It is I, the Theatrical Gay Anon™! I hope you're ready to endure my endless babbling for a bit cuz I've got lots to say holy shit. Consider this part 1 of like, 1000 cuz I think Tumblr got rid of the submissions feature. I apologize in advance for the spam hehe.

Okay, with that out of the way. Ms. Yehet-Me-Up, may I call you Sarah? Sarah, what the fuck!? I can't even rn. I I give you a simple suggestion, no expectations behind it. I say "Hey, don't you think it'd be cool if Zitao was in the Exodus Mall universe?" to which you said "Yeah, that'd be neat, I might do that. Perhaps make him work at an Irish pub or something" and then I flip out with gratitude and excitement thinking you're gonna do like, a DRABBLE. 500 words at MOST -Theatrical Gay Anon

Imagine my SHOCK, my STUPEFACTION, upon realizing that you wrote OVER TEN THOUSAND WORDS about Huang Zitao aka the wind beneath my wings, the rain to my drought, the corny joke to my Junmyeon. And not only that! But you did this A MONTH AGO. I could've been reading this for so long and I had no idea! How foolish am I? I can't believe you wrote all of this based off of a silly little suggestion I made. I feel like bowing over how not worthy I am Wayne's World style -Theatrical Gay Anon

NOW IN REGARDS TO THE CONTENT OF THIS MASTERPIECE OH MY GOD WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN!? I am floored by your preeminence. First things first, the title? Perfect. Full disclosure, I suck at titles. I've been writing for over a decade now and I'm still shit with titles. It's so hard to come up with just a few words to encapsulate everything you wrote but you do it SO WELL. The moodboard? Amazing. I've always loved that picture of Zitao and it fits so well with the pub setting -Theatrical Gay Anon

I'm afraid you've written "Fractions of Tomorrow" so well that I don't see there being a need for anyone to write anything else...ever. Stories? CANCELED. Poetry? CANCELED. Biographies? CANCELED. It's all over folks. Sarah has written The Best Thing Ever. We've peaked as a society. After I finish writing these asks I'm gonna become a hermit in the woods and make friends with all of the woodland creatures that inhabit it. -Theatrical Gay Anon

But seriously though, I love absolutely everything about this story. As a Zitao fan, I'm used to getting breadcrumbs. Not a lot of ppl write fics about him. I can count on one hand how many long fics of his you can find on Tumblr. But THIS?? This was no breadcrumb, this was a whole fucking bakery. And it all appeals to me so much oh my god? The sappiness of it all, the flowery prose, the rebellious rejection of cynicism, it's all so beautiful I want to marry it. -Theatrical Gay Anon

If I discussed all of the sentences in this fic that made me giggle with joy and kick my feet around I'd be here all day so keep in mind this is just a FRACTION of the ones I loved but I couldn't go without mentioning at least some of them so here we go. "It’s not his first time here, but it’s his first time paying attention" SHUT UP this line is go good it's so simple yet so nuanced I adore it. Seriously, why hasn't anyone hired you to write a screenplay? -Theatrical Gay Anon

"He wonders if you ironed the collar of your shirt to be that precise or if you simply move through the world without acquiring any wrinkles" God, this line is so CUTE it's DISGUSTING he's fond of the reader's un-wrinkled clothes that's such a specific thing to like and is totally the type of thing I've done with the ppl I've crushed on throughout my life. -Theatrical Gay Anon

"‘Zitao,’ he says finally. ‘Cute.’ You say" this is such a little thing but I love that you included his full name in this. I love his full name so much it sounds really pretty. Whenever I hear him refer to himself as "Huang Zitao" in interviews my heart soars. Hearing him speak Mandarin in general is a delight as well. It's an audibly gorgeous language and any racist who says otherwise can EAT MY ENTIRE ASS -Theatrical Gay Anon

"For someone who’s been in love for as long as you can remember she fights awfully hard against Baekhyun’s romantic nature" DEAR GOD I LOVE THESE TWO! I love these movie loving lovesick fools. I love that everyone in the world knows they love each other except them. I love seeing bits and pieces of their story throughout this written universe. I can't wait to see it all come together in Baekhyun's Exodus Mall fic. It's gonna be GLORIOUS -Theatrical Gay Anon

Also! I know you enjoyed my song recs that I thought fit perfectly with All Our Broken Places so here are some for when the Baek x Hitchcock fic drops. I know it's not done yet but I just *know* what it's gonna be like I can feel it in my bones. "Sidekick" by Walk the Moon and "Tongue Tied" by Grouplove. As for Fractions of Tomorrow I knew right away what songs I'd pick. "Dreams" by The Cranberries, "Jumpstarted" by Jukebox the Ghost and "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey -Theatrical Gay Anon

Gosh, this fic filled me with so much energy and joy I feel like a toddler on caffeine. But I really should sleep now though. It's gotten so late that I can see the sunrise peaking up sdksdksl. I'll see ya soon! I will be spamming you with more compliments about this fic once I wake up though! - Theatrical Gay Anon

Hi! I'm back. Okay, now where was I? Oh yeah, I was talking about some of my favorite lines from the story. "‘Hey man, how’s it going?’ Baekhyun reaches out and does a complex handshake with the man before you. ‘Oh, you know. Just working at the salt mines,’ Tao says with a laugh." I LOVE that you made Baek the one Zitao was close with. I miss the beef brothers so much. I'll never forgive SM for what they did to OT12. They were all such good friends 😔 -Theatrical Gay Anon

"‘I’m not sure.’ For a flash Tao’s eyes linger on you once more. ‘I think it would depend on the person.’ And then the bastard goes and winks at you." GOD, HE WOULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS! HE'S SUCH A SHAMELESS FLIRT I HATE HIM *narrator voice* This was of course a huge a lie, he in fact loved Zitao immensely -Theatrical Gay Anon

"‘Sweetheart, I’m everyone’s type.’" You've captured Zitao's unlimited confidence so well and that makes me really happy. It's one of my favorite things about him. The man truly loves himself and I think that's awesome -Theatrical Gay Anon

"Tao looks at you through his lashes, bending close enough that you can feel his breath on your lips when he speaks. ‘Words are just the appetizer, darling. I prefer to have an entire feast.’ 'Any other questions or can I grab your orders?’" ASDKDSDSL SO YOU'RE JUST GONNA SAY THAT PANTY DROPPER LINE AND GO BACK TO BUSINESS AS USUAL ZITAO???? HUH??? IS THAT WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO??? -Theatrical Gay Anon

"‘Oh, nothing.’ He looks like the cat that caught the canary. ‘I just love being right.’" Something I love about EXO fic writers (myself included lol) is that despite all of the different ways they'll write the other members, there is one member who is always written the same and that's Baekhyun. He will always be written as a cheeky little shit cuz he *is* a cheeky little shit. That's just who he is. Messing with ppl is a favorite past time of his. -Theatrical Gay Anon

"'So, love, huh? There’s not some girlfriend or boyfriend of yours waiting for you at home?’" Thank you for not being heteronormative with the "are you dating someone?" convo. I know it might not seem like much but I really appreciate it. -Theatrical Gay Anon

"The beginning of love is always a lightning bolt. If that’s all it ever is you never have to deal with being knocked on your ass by the resulting thunderstorm" OOF, this one got me. So very true. The beginning of love is so scary! -Theatrical Gay Anon

"I could argue that anarchy still is love. Love of your beliefs and love of a person or a place or a thing so much that you’re willing to fight for it" OKAY BUT PASSIONATE LEATHER JACKET WEARING ANARCHIST ZITAO IN A ROCK BAND IS SUCH AN ATTRACTIVE CONCEPT!!! There's nothing sexier than a bad boi that will hate capitalism with you! He'd probably be the one to give ppl rides to protests and stuff I LOVE IT -Theatrical Gay Anon

"If we say love is a feeling, who’s to say that we aren’t in love? If we decide it’s an action then which one is it? A kiss or a commitment or - maybe it’s nothing more complicated than putting words to the way I feel when you look at me?" Listen I don't mean to be dramatic or anything (wait, who am I kidding? I'm literally the Theatrical Gay Anon being dramatic is like my Thing) but if a guy ever said that to me my trans boi pussy would be open for business IMMEDIATELY

Alright, so, uh Final Thoughts. This may be my new favorite work of yours, and no it's not just cuz it's got my ultimate bias in it lmao. This year has been so shitty and it's made my depression + anxiety reach the highest possible levels but reading this, this love story filled with hope and certainty despite not knowing what the future will hold for them, made this year seem easier to cope with. Thank you so much for making this, it means the world to me. -Theatrical Gay Anon

ALRIGHT, LAST ASK AND THEN I'LL SHUT UP I PROMISE but I personally headcanon that Double Shot + Zitao stayed together till the very end. They didn't get married cuz they hate formalities but they got matching tattoos and even when they're old and grey you can still them clear as day on their wrists. When they're asked how they met no one believes their answer lol. And when Double Shot died of old age before Zitao he would sing her favorite song by her grave every Saturday -Theatrical Gay Anon

OKAY SO I know I said I was done and I know I've already sent in like, 30 bajillion asks but I'm curious does Yifan or Luhan also work at the Irish pub?? Or do they work somewhere else in the mall? Inquiring minds want to know -Theatrical Gay Anon

When I tell you this made my entire month (when you sent it weeks ago, I’ve been hanging onto these because they seriously bring me SO much joy holy crap) I am not remotely kidding j;oaisjdflkasdjfa

I am absolutely going to put on these song recs while I work on the next chapter! 

a;osdfjlaksdfjasl the fact that you stayed up late to read this warms my heart so much. It reminds me of all the times I stayed up til the ass crack of dawn reading fanfics because I simply could NOT stop reading, so the fact that you enjoyed this like that makes me helllllaaaa emo 🥰

I just??? 2020 was indeed such a long year and affected my energy and creativity and honestly don’t really remember writing this hahaha. I kind of go into a fugue state with these longer fics and they just EMERGE. So to see you reflecting back some of what I wrote allows me to enjoy the process so much more. Makes writing and tumblr fun and I seriously wish everyone writing and creating could have someone as passionate and thoughtful and hilarious as you hyping them up 🌟 it honestly feels like a GIFT and I will absolutely keep writing this series and hoping to be worthy of it 😘

We will definitely get to see more of these two in the finale fic! I got into EXO after Tao, Yifan, and Luhan left so I’m not quite as familar with their personalities, but I could definitely see Yifan working at the US Bank haha. Business suit by day and partying/flirting by night. As for Luhan I feel like he’d work somewhere like the bookstore or the music store?? somewhere quieter and more contemplative. 

Thank you again for sending this and for being you <3 I hope 2021 is a wonderful year for you and that you know how AMAZING you are 💖💖💖💖💖