#don't you hate it when a guy with an axe shows up every time you want to buy a vegetable

[ministarfruit]

no vegetables for you

[loveswrites]

Is love enough? Poly Joe x Love x reader

Poly! Joe Goldberg x reader x Love Quinn

Time it took me: 5 hours spread out a few days

Word count: 1058

I asked you guys on a poll if you guys would like a poly xreader with Joe and love and you guys definitely did! So Let me know how you guys like it! The closer I got to the end I was thinking about making this one into a mini series! As I could do a lot more with this one! Tell me if you'd like a part two!

When you finish reading tell me. Do you think love is enough?

Love <3

"Depression makes you do crazy shit Joe!"

"That doesn't make sense, Love! just accept the fact that you killed her for no reason but the fact that you can't control yourself!" Joe yelled at love with wide eyes. 

"I can't control myself? I can't control myself?! You were the one obsessing over yet another woman! What did you expect me to do?! We have a family!" Love yelled back at Joe with tears in her eyes. But they weren't tears of sadness.

"Babes? What's with all the yelling what's going-... on.." You questioned coming down the stairs but paused seeing exactly what the yelling was all about.

"What happened?.." You whispered. On the ground all you saw was blood and the body of some blonde. 

"What are you doing here!?" Love and Joe yelled in unison.

"You told me to come pick up Henry so you could finish on some things- What happened!" You yelled, snapping out of your explanation of your presence.

"I- I she fell-" Love attempted to say but you quickly cut her off.

"Into an Ax!?" You yelled.

"It was an accident!" Love tried defending herself.

"What the fuck! What the actual fuck? I- Where is Henry?!" You yelled out looking around the dark basement for the child you came to pick up.

"He's over there he is fine!" Love gestured to Henry who was literally a baby in a corner.

You watched as Joe paced the floors as you could only assume he was thinking about what to do about this.. situation that lies in front of you three.. and a half. 

You Joe and Love were in a relationship together. It was a loving happy relationship you felt secure in some aspects of it. Besides that fact that you never knew if the police would show up at your front door and arrest you was all. It was one of the things that made the loving happy relationship feel a little less secure. Also with love's impulsive behavior and Joe's constant need to have a new fixation every other month put a damper on the relationship at times. But none of that stopped you from loving them both. And them loving you. 

"You said no more. No more killing. No more death. A fresh start and a New beginning. And Joe you no more.. obsession plus the killing also." You whispered shifting your eyes between you two lovers. 

"How can neither of you keep your promise?" 

"I haven't killed anybody!" Joe yelled.

"But you stalk! And you creep! And you lie and cheat on both me and Love! Why?! Why are we not enough for you? I keep your secrets, I'm there when you're scared! When you're scared that you might do another bad thing! And you Love I'm there for you every sleepless night when Joe is gone! We were all supposed to be happy here! But since we're all killing and lying, I'm going to tell the truth I hate it here! I hate the suburbs I'm a fucking city girl I don't belong here yet I am trying to adapt for you for you both because I love you! You both ripped me apart from a city that I loved so much to lie in a house with two people that I thought loved me more than I loved that city just to feel like some neglected piece of trash! I hope to God Henry never feels like this- Oh wait he probably already does since he's facing a corner chilling in a room with a dead body!" You screamed with so much pent up aggression you snatched up the baby carrier that held Henry.

"Pleas-" Joe started but you cut him off without turning to face them.

"Don't call me, don't text me. Fix your mess then maybe me and Henry will come back." You said causing panic to rush through both of their veins.

"Maybe?!" Love yelled her eyes widening. 

"What do you mean maybe?! I love you, there is nothing that I wouldn't do to make you stay!" Joe yelled.

"Shut up." You said, shaking your head as you walked up the stairs leaving the bakery. 

When you've been in a relationship with basically two insane people you learn when their threats mean you harm or not. In that case Joe threatened you out of fear. Not anger. He was never angry at you much. He got mad at Love more than he would you. Him and Love fought more than you, him and love ever did combined. Which you couldn’t lie was understandable because seeing that their habits could land us all in jail. You’ve never killed anybody but that still doesn’t make you a good person. 

You’ve lied for them. Threaten people for them. Even though Joe and Love do their best to keep their dirty habits away from home, it’s inevitable that one of those habits will come knocking on your front door. You’ve helped with the..bodies. So no matter how sick it makes you or how bad you feel about it you are and will forever be an accomplice to their crimes for no other reason than the fact love makes you do crazy things. 

When you got to your car you went to buckle Henry into his car seat. He was crying. You almost missed that.. How could you miss a screaming baby? As you tried to zone yourself out of your deep thoughts about your two loves you tried calming the only love that mattered right now. You found it hard to do this as tears rolled down your own face. Who was going to calm you down with their love? As you shhh henry to calm down rocking him in your arms on the side corner of the bakery you started to think what if this was all?

What if this was it? 

What if all your life now consisted of was lying, hiding, running, crying, screaming, fighting, shovels, dirt and muddy midnights. But at least you had your two lovers by your side, That’s all that matters right? Could the love between three people be enough to grow into a happy family?

Getting into the driver's seat you started the car. And as you drove away from the bakery you couldn’t help but think, is love enough?

[vashtijoy]

haru: "we'll just take him out again"

Ah, this 1/10 line of Haru's, about what they should do if Akechi betrays them all a second time.

I've talked about Haru and Akechi before—she is overwhelmingly compassionate towards him. She shows him understanding he has not earned and does not deserve. She contrasts, in fact, with Futaba, who takes a consistently harsh tone with him—and well may she do so.

Haru is done dirty by the bulk of the fandom with this flanderised crazy axe mean girl schtick, and this translation does not help. So it's time for another big red....

Let's take a look.

tatakau: "to fight or battle"

Haru また裏切るようなら戦うだけだよ。 mata uragiru you nara tatakau dake da yo Plus, if he does betray us again, we’ll just take him out too.

mata uragiru you nara—"if he betrays us again, then we'll...". tatakau dake da yo—"we'll just tatakau him". But what's that verb; what's tatakau?

戦う tatakau means to fight, or do battle, or to make war on someone, or to oppose them. It's a common word. ALC has a number of examples:

戦うか逃げるかの反応 tatakau ka nigeru ka no hannou, "fight-or-flight response";

戦うことを諦める tatakau koto o akirameru, "to give up the fight";

戦う必要なく tatakau hitsuyou naku, "without even having to fight".

It is excessively common in P5:

Ryuji (before one of the robot minibosses in Okumura's Palace) こりゃもう戦うしかねーな! korya mou tatakau shika nee na! Looks like we're gonna have to fight. Haru (when you try to switch her into the party too early) 私も戦えるよ! watashi mo tatakaeru yo! I can fight too! Haru (before a robot miniboss) こうなったら戦うしか⋯! kou nattara tatakau shika...! It looks like we just have to fight!

tatakau is the word we translate as "fight"; "a fight" is often tatakai, from the same root verb. When the PTs fight in the Metaverse, they are tatakau-ing. And when they fought Akechi in the engine room? They tatakau-ed him:

Ann 同じヤツを憎んでるのに、なんで戦うの!? onaji yatsu o nikunderu no ni, nande tatakau no!? We both hate the same guy! Why do we have to go against each other!? Morgana 戦う前に笑ってたの⋯あれ、本心だろ? tatakau mae ni waratteta no... are, honshin daro? That smile before we fought… Isn't that how you really feel?

See? Let's look at Haru's line one more time:

Haru また裏切るようなら戦うだけだよ。 mata uragiru you nara tatakau dake da yo Plus, if he does betray us again, we’ll just take him out too. And if he betrays us again, we'll just fight him again.

the phantom thieves' ghost murder victim

The other key point is this: though this isn't present in the Japanese, the localisation still says "too". "we'll just take him out too". Who's that "too"?

They're not killing Maruki, despite Akechi's efforts. They didn't kill any of their targets. They didn't even kill Shido, who they all held responsible for the murder of Haru's father, and Futaba's mother, and who knows how many others.

In short: nobody is getting murdered in this line—except Haru, by the localisation.

"take him out"

In fairness to everyone who fast-forwarded all of Haru's dialogue and so thinks she's even worse than Akechi, cold-bloodedly planning murder as a form of revenge, "take him out" is a confusing choice of words.

"take him out" means to disable a target. This is how it gets its primary meaning of "kill him". It means to get something or someone out of your way, in a way that corresponds with its death or destruction—or, as in this case, with extreme violence; remember they KO Akechi in the engine room, just like every other boss.

This is why it's common in so many contexts—sport, business, politics. You take out targets in many fields, but you don't kill them! In the same way, Haru intends for them to eliminate Akechi as a threat, if he ever makes it necessary again.

Futaba makes this explicit to him the next day, on 1/11:

Futaba けどまた裏切ったりしたら、絶対許さない。 kedo mata uragittari shitara, zettai yurusanai BUT if you ever betray us again, we'll make sure you regret it.

Futaba says this right to his face: "if you betray us again, don't think you'll get away with it"; "if you betray us again, you're done for." She tells him this is his one and only chance.

(That zettai yurusanai, of course, is the same wording she uses about the men in black suits, and the men who killed her mother—it's fighting talk, blood debt talk. And it's interesting that she has clearly not yet put Akechi into that category. yurusanai is also the word Haru uses to him in the engine room, often translated as "I can't forgive you".)

context matters

Many common misunderstandings of P5's characters and plot boil down to something like this: an overfocus on one memorable line, at the expense of the bigger picture. Again, in fairness, P5 is a huge game, which makes this very easy to do.

But the fact that the Phantom Thieves have chosen not to kill comes up over and over. It is absolutely fundamental to them: their justice does not include murder.

Again: the fact that they don't go in for vigilante killings is what makes them better than Akechi! Part of the essence of their conflict is that Akechi has made bad choices that the PTs avoided—such as Ann's fateful choice to let Kamoshida live:

Just as with Ann and Kamoshida, I don't think the Thieves would stop Haru or Futaba, if they decided Akechi should die. But I also don't think it would pass without question, as Haru's "take him out" line does. Even if nobody else said a word, Makoto would say something. Because the Phantom Thieves are not murderers.

when someone shows you who they are, believe them

On top of that, if you want to read Haru's "take him out" as meaning she wants Akechi dead, you have to ignore everything else she says about him—and, frankly, every other time she's onscreen. Because Haru oozes kindness, compassion and thoughtfulness from her every pore.

Remember, Haru expresses compassion for Akechi, not hate. Here she is on 12/25:

Look at that. Commit it to memory. Show all your friends. Haru is glad Akechi is alive. She's glad he turned himself in and thinks he should pay for his crimes—but she didn't want him dead, and she certainly doesn't want to kill him.

In the engine room, when he's at the point of death, she's afraid for him. She runs forward to call to him; note that Futaba does not, and is at the back of the group, furthest from Akechi.

Even when Haru judges Akechi for what he took from her, she is sympathising with him:

When Cognitive Akechi arrives, Haru isn't just trying to stop Akechi turning on them to save his own skin. She empathises with him, and understands how complex his feelings towards Shido truly are—and why that puts them all in so much danger:

Say it again and say it loud: Haru understands Akechi.

but how does she really feel

Haru tells us her secret feelings in the safe room:

See? Just like Futaba, she doesn't want to be around him; she doesn't want him as part of the group. But she doesn't want to kill him.

That's not her nature. Haru is not a murderer. I'll say it again for the kids at the back: Haru is not a murderer. Her compassion is what makes her unlike Akechi. It's what makes her so much better than him.

She doesn't need to be his best friend to understand him. She doesn't need to hang out with him to see herself in his situation—because the two of them have so much in common. She can acknowledge that he wronged her without secretly (or not-so-secretly) wishing him dead. Haru is a better person than most of us, and her feelings about Akechi are complex.

what is the line actually about?

The sad thing is that Haru's "we'll just take him out" is a beautiful line.

Remember, Haru could be justifiably afraid of the prospect of being around Akechi. He's not safe. He's responsible for one of the greatest traumas of her life. But she shuts that fear down: "if he betrays us again, we'll just fight him again".

She removes his power over her—power to control her, to intimidate her, to make her afraid. Haru can stand up to Akechi and look him in the face, because she's surrounded by her friends. And her friends will stand with her. They prove it over and over in the third semester, when they repeatedly prioritise her feelings and Futaba's. It's made clear repeatedly that if either of them have a problem, Akechi will not be on the team.

So Haru is prepared to work with the scorpion by the river. She understands what made it how it is, and that it can only act according to its nature. But she'll be watching—and she'll be ready. Just like Akechi, who steps forward to fire on Maruki when the rest of them are paralysed.

It's just that Haru's bag of tricks doesn't include murder. Akechi has kept that in his back pocket—but Haru never had it in hers. It's a shame that Haru's clearsightedness here, and her readiness to act—something else she shares with Akechi—is so badly misunderstood as "lol funny murder psycho girl".

Akechi's second betrayal looks like them beating the shit out of him. I'm sure Haru would shoot him in the face a second time, and good luck to her. I'm sure the Phantom Thieves would, each and every one of them, make him deeply regret it before he was again turned in—voluntarily or otherwise.

But murder? No. That's never on the table. That's not Haru, and it's not the Phantom Thieves. And, ultimately, that's why they're the good guys, and Akechi is not.

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v1.0 (2023/10/13)—first published.

[dpr-stay]

Dino Slippers and Wooden Cabins.

Charles Leclerc x Reader

Warnings: she's unedited, omg so much crack. WC: ~2.6K

I wanted to write and yes, it's shit, and yes, it's crack, and yes, I hate it. but what can you do? it got kinda sentimental towards the end, but the closing lines terrible.

also don't do what the reader does, be safe when you're in a cabin alone.

A knock at your cabin door caused you to look up from the TV. The firelight cast from the fireplace danced around the wooden room, reflecting on your drawn blinds and making you blink. You waited for a second before turning back to your TV, wincing as you saw one of the main characters trip and fall. 

You were quickly distracted from your show when the person at the door knocked again. Seriously? You take a week away from work in an isolated cabin in the snow to not be bothered by people and this is what happens. A random person knocking on your door in the middle of the night. In the middle of nowhere. While you were alone.

Maybe you should heed the warnings your friends had given you and not open the door, certifying that you wouldn’t be caught by some lunatic or something. That thought unnerved you, what if the person knocking on your door was an escaped prisoner or even a murderer? You shivered despite the warmth from the fire heating you.

Your friends had all exchanged glances when you’d told them of your holiday plans, side-eyeing each other so that one of them would try and make you not go. Lily, one of your friends since you were little, had sighed before standing up and saying that you probably shouldn’t travel solo. You had immediately protested, waving off her concerns and saying you’d take your mum’s dog, Popcorn, as sort of a guard dog.

Popcorn who now stood shaking in the corner, glancing between you and the door with wide eyes. Right now, you were unsure why you thought you could bring a Papillion as a guard god, but past-you had wanted to take this holiday so bad that you were eager to think that an axe-murderer could be dispelled by one of the ugliest, smallest, and most rancid looking dog’s you’d ever seen.

That was a joke, Popcorn wasn’t rancid, just crusty (as your mother lovingly called him.) The way spit hung from his jaw, wobbling everytime he shook made you breathe through your teeth, subconsciously wondering how Popcorn got on the family christmas card instead of you. 

Another knock on the door made you sigh before standing up and making your way to the large wooden door. You placed a hand on the handle, turned the lock, and opened the door to a sight that was worse than you could have even imagined.

A head of wavy brown hair, slightly ruffled, tilted upwards to reveal stunning blue eyes. An easy smile settled over his face when you made eye-contact, his hands bunching in his pockets drawing your attention to his snow-dusted puffer jacket.

“Hi,” He said, his nose and eyes bright red, showing how the cold had been affecting him. You could only look on in horror as he shook his head, his hair whipping around as though he was in a movie, and a few dollops of snow cascaded from his hair.

It was worse than a murderer, it was a hot man.

You immediately felt a heat begin to rush to your face. You could handle a crazed, knife-wielding psycho, but you couldn’t handle attractive men. It was a well known fact within your friend group, you made a fool of yourself in front of every mildly-hot guy. 

Whether it be tripping over your feet in highschool and falling flat on your face in front of a long-time crush or trying and failing to chat up a guy at a bar, you’d always return to your group of friends, tail securely between your legs and dragging your feet.

Hell, your friends had even tried to fix it for you. Lily had set you up on countless dates, none of them working because as soon as you made eye-contact, you couldn’t speak and you ended up being mute for the entire 30 minutes a guy stayed. Her boyfriend, Alex, found it to be the funniest thing, laughing at you (goodnaturedly, he’d assured you one time after you gave him the stink eye) everytime you recounted one of your increasingly unfortunate stories. 

So now, out in the freezing cold and looking at one of the most beautiful people you’d ever seen in your life, you knew something would go wrong and you’d make yourself seem like a dunce. You didn’t have to wait long, as his eyes cast downwards and you were reminded of the fact the only pajamas you’d brought on your trip were a cheapie set that you’d bought for five bucks at some random retail store. The issue with them was that they were clearly designed for kids, dinosaurs decorating every inch of the fabric.

At the time you’d hadn’t minded that they’d probably been made for degenerate adults, only happy to snag a bargain, but now you were really regretting it. Regretting it even more as the man’s eyes dropped down to your slippers, accompanying dino claws that you’d laughed at when you’d put them on earlier. Now you were cursing yourself for your whimsy, eyeing the clearly expensive fabric that made up the man’s scarf wound so tightly around his neck. His eyes climbed you, reaching your face before he made eye-contact again.

“Uhm, my car broke down and this is the only place for several hundred kilometers. My friend Alex said that one of his friends was staying around here and that I could pop in.” The man explained, the friendly smile never dropping from his face. Holy fuck he has an accent as well.

As if timed perfectly, a ding sounded on your phone, causing you to reach for it. A message icon with Alex’s name was on your home screen, reading further when you opened it that ‘a friend of mine might show up for the night because of his car breaking down. I hope that’s ok.’ You could only stare at your phone. As though he was waiting for the read receipt to pop up, Alex then sent another message.

‘Thank me later.’

Having enough of that, you closed your phone and shoved it rather forcefully into your pocket. You plastered a smile onto your face and turned to the man.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t realise you were coming. I probably would’ve… gotten changed.” You trailed off, the smile on the man’s face quickly changing to one of amusement. Trying to rationalise that he was laughing at your joke and not your outfit, you moved to the side of the doorframe and welcomed him in with a sweeping hand.

He took a few steps into your rented cabin before you closed the door, the coldness of the night getting shut out in place for the heat from your cabin. The man’s eyes took the place in, sweeping over the log walls and the tv that was still on. He nodded his head slightly as though agreeing with your choice of programming.

“Would you like a tea?” You asked, desperate to try and be in solitude for a few minutes. He turned to you and nodded with a thankful smile. Jesus that smile was about to be the death of you. You quickly scurried off into the small kitchen, boiling the kettle and then releasing a stream of air yourself.

Oh god. He was really, really attractive. How were you supposed to live peacefully, this was your holiday after all. You tilted your head back till you were glaring at the ceiling, before snapping it down and whipping out your phone.

When the kettle stopped boiling, you set down your phone, mildly satisfied with the amount of mean emojis and phrases you’d sent to Alex. The ding from the kettle made you quickly grab two mugs before debating on either earl gray or english breakfast, two of the complimentary items included in the cabin. Unable to decide because both contained caffeine, you reached into a cupboard and grabbed out two sleepytime tea bags. The good stuff, you thought affectionately as you bobbed the tea bags up and down, before grabbing both mugs and walking back into the living room.

The man stood up from the couch where he was sat as you rounded the corner and grabbed the tea from you with a ‘Thank you’ before sitting down. The couch itself wasn’t entirely fantastic, it was quite small and very hard. On the first day you’d arrived, you had launched yourself onto the couch in a small way of celebration that you had a holiday, only to roll off and a light bruise to form the next day.

“I’m Charles, by the way.” The man spoke up and you looked at him before nodding and smiling. He kept looking at you till you finally got the cue and jolted a little. You introduced yourself and Charles nodded, repeating your name while glancing around the space. He took a sip of his tea.

“Alex says that this was your holiday,” He mused before looking back to you. “In that case, I’m sorry to interrupt it.” He spoke calmly and you shook your head.

“No, it’s ok. It was getting a little boring anyways.” You promptly lied, if not just to make him feel a bit better. He nodded, obviously not convinced. You both sat there in silence before Charles made to take the puffer off.

You watched for a second before thinking it was too weird and taking a sip of your tea. Immediately you could tell that Charles had skewed tastebuds as you felt your tongue burn. Oh my god. You held yourself back from spitting it out or pouring it back into the cup, deciding it was too disgusting to do in front of Charles.

You looked around, only to see Charles, arms bared and looking at you curiously. Ashamedly, you weren’t exactly looking at his face, seeing the way his arms flexed around the mug. It took you five seconds before you started coughing on the liquid in your mouth, quickly standing up as Charles reacted. He stretched a hand around your shoulders, his eyebrows drawing.

“Are you ok?” He asked, rather simply as though he was unsure about what exactly was happening. 

You only nodded, your face scrunched together before you finally swallowed. The liquid burned your throat on the way down. A gasp left you when you opened your mouth before you quickly started fanning your mouth.

Getting the message, Charles moved to where he assumed the kitchen was, returning with a glass of water. He strode towards you, looking strangely determined before that was completely wiped away when the sound of a yelp was heard. 

Except it didn’t come from Charles. Not even when his eyes widened and he was suddenly slipping, going down and taking the glass of water with him. The water splashed up when he hit the floor, the only sound audible being the barking of Popcorn as he jumped around Charles. You were stood still, jaw on the floor as Charles groaned. 

You took a second to regather the events. A stranger showed up at your door, you made tea, you burned your mouth, Charles took his puffer off, he went to get you water, he stood on Popcorn and then accidentally tipped a whole glass of water over his head.

After five seconds of silence you rushed over to Charles, variations of “I’m sorry!” slipping free from your mouth. You pulled him up into a sitting position, resting him against the wall. Your mouth felt completely useless, burnt to a crisp, while you placed a hand on Charles’ wet shoulder.

He took a second or two before rolling his head on his shoulder to look at you. You were crouched at your knees, looking at him in concern. He looked at your knees, taking in the triceratops front profile printed on both of your knees before looking at your face

“You know,” He started, his voice more subdued than before. “Your mouth isn’t the only hot thing in this room.” You rolled off your knees and onto your butt, completely gobsmacked. Was he flirting with you after your dog nearly killed him?

You could only look at him, jaw slightly agape as he made continued eye contact with you. A different look, one that hadn’t been displayed during his non-stop smile fest a few minutes prior, flitted over his face for a second. After a few more seconds of you sitting there in shock, he spoke up.

“I’m sorry, have I read the situation wrong?” He asked hesitantly and you could only look on in abject disbelief. What on earth was going on, why had this hot man who was friends with Alex shown up and started flirting with you whilst you were clad in dinosaur pj’s?

Alex.

You stood up. What were the chances that Alex had sent one of his friends to fuck with you. Probably very low, he was a nice guy, but there was literally no other reason this incredibly handsome man would take a look at you hand-fanning your mouth and decide to start throwing out pickup-lines.

Charles looked up at you curiously as you were silent. It didn’t make sense though, Alex wasn’t cruel. He always seemed as though he wanted the best for you. Maybe he was two-faced? But no, why would he fuck with you?

“I’m sorry, have I made you uncomfortable?” Charles piped up and you looked down at him. He seemed sheepish.

“That wasn’t my intention. You just seemed to be interested,” you both cringed, him at using that word, and you at the fact that he’d caught you, “so I thought I’d y’know. Let you know it was reciprocated.”

“Huh?” Was the only thing you could manage.

“Should I go back to my car?” Charles asked, placing a hand down to lift himself up and stand. You, in a split-second decision, shook your head. Charles looked at you. 

“Uhm, you can take my bed for the night.” You decided to shake yourself off and completely ignore the events that had transpired. 

Charles then shook his head. “No, I can’t take the bed. It’s your cabin.” 

You really weren’t in the mood to argue and endure a back and forth so you just shrugged.

“Fine, let’s share it then.” Ignoring how forward that seemed, you just turned around and lumbered to the bedroom, opening the door to the kingsized bed. Charles followed after a second, he seemed to be collecting himself, standing in the doorway. 

“I’m ready for bed so I’ll just hop in after I go around and turn everything off.” You said and moved through the doorway. You ignored his incredibly close presence as much as you could.

After a quick sweep of the cabin, turning everything off and closing Popcorn in the cage your mum had insisted you bring, you returned to the bedroom. You found Charles lounging on your side of the bed, under the covers and scrolling on his phone.

When you walked in, he turned it off and placed it on your side table. You chose not to mention that it was your side and just settled for the other. You turned off the light and made your way to the other side, slipping off your slippers and rolling under the covers.

A few minutes had passed of your staring into the darkness, Charles’ breathing cluing you in that the man hadn’t fallen asleep either.

“Charles.” You called out into the darkness and you felt the covers move a little.

“Yeah?” His voice called out.

“Did you actually mean it?” You asked.

A few seconds passed and you felt Charles roll over, causing you to roll over as well. You made eye contact, a small ray of light from the moon coursing through the blind and landing on Charles's face. 

“Yeah.” He said simply, his smile stretched across his face. You nodded before starting to smile too.

“Cool.” You said dumbly and Charles laughed. “Yeah, cool.” He responded, the warmth that leaked into voice causing your smile to grow wider.

it's so bad but i wanted to post something so here it is

[leportraitducadavre]

It's this article even real? I found it hard to believe someone would read the manga or watch the show and decide that Naruto "doesn't need the overdone Sasuke Arc".

First and most importantly, Sasuke singlehandedly moves the entirety of the plot forward, he doesn't have an entire arc dedicated to himself because he's relevant for every single arc the story possesses, and he's the reason key characters behave the way they do; taking away Sasuke's journey to make him a complying tool of the state wipes out the reasoning behind every villain's actions, therefore, it destroys them as well.

It's hilarious how this article exists to take away Sasuke's relevance within the story to give it completely to Naruto, something his fandom has wanted since the very beginning of the manga and that Kishimoto never complied.

In the Naruto series, Sasuke was Naruto's rival in the Hidden Leaf. However, he was training to kill his older brother, Itachi, for wiping out their clan. In time, Sasuke would learn Itachi did what he did to protect Konoha as their Uchiha kin wanted a coup. This enraged Sasuke, who nonetheless vowed to kill Itachi and exact revenge on Konoha.

Okay so, we start awfully, and no surprises there. Sasuke killed Itachi and later on, through Obito, learned about the reasoning behind his brother's actions. It's after this that he vows to bring down those who allowed and encouraged the construction of a system that pushed the Uchiha to rise up against this power dome and forced his brother to murder his entire family.

Regardless of the circumstances, Sasuke hated the fact he had to grow up alone. This is the reason he joined the Akatsuki, formed his own terrorist cell called Taka, and tried to murder Naruto after the wars against Obito and Madara.

No. You cannot use "regardless of the circumstances" when those circumstances are detrimental to his character's actions and the functioning of the system against which he, like other characters throughout the plot, stands. He not only hated having to grow up alone (a consequence of, once again, the genocide carried out BY THE STATE ITSELF through his brother), but also the indiscriminate murder of his relatives, both those who engineered the coup and those who were profiled based on biological conditions over which they had no control.

Also, there was one single war against Obito and Madara that stretched through a couple of days for which he participated in bringing down both of them as his idea of revolution didn't partake in their idea of absolute control of people's minds.

The Naruto movie (and obviously, the sequels) would be better served by doing something unpredictable. The Evil Sasuke arc is overdone, especially since it comes up in the Boruto era. In the latter case, a redeemed Sasuke keeps using it as a lesson to teach Boruto and Kawaki why they should not let rage guide them. Fans don't like being reminded how unnecessary this was in the source material.

Overdone? Did this guy actually watch the anime at least? The entirety of the plot focuses on the system flaws that even the protagonist is "set to change", Sasuke's arc is detrimental to the story as both Naruto and Sasuke observe the same issue from different standpoints, the former wants to keep the system and make gradual changes as not to "bring chaos" and the latter wants its complete destruction as a gradual change only guarantees greater injustices being committed over time until it is "changed".

Take Sasuke off of this equation and there's no reason for Naruto to even go on or have any introspection on the matter of Konoha's political and military system --and I'm being incredibly kind about this as even when Sasuke blatantly exposes it Naruto has a hard time grasping the most basic concepts to rebel against.

Additionally, Sasuke's villain arc would be a lot to condense into live-action, even if it's done over a trilogy. It could be done the way the MCU took 10 years to build the Thanos fight in Avengers: Endgame, but by that time, the story would be stale. Everyone would know what happened. The advantage the MCU had while adapting the source material is that it subverted the lore and crafted an original story. c

Does this author actually know what "adaptation" actually means? Or what it entails? What they seem to want is a reversion of the story as they desire to modify the entirety of the character that is the main plot device within the original product, not an adaptation. Also, what's with the last phrase? How can Sasuke be a loyal rogue? That's a contradiction in itself, is he a rogue of Konoha or is he loyal to Konoha? Pick one -you can't have both.

The advantage of Sasuke being a rebel without defecting from Konoha is that Naruto would have the help needed to fight the big villains of the franchise: the Ōtsutsuki. 

Sasuke fought alongside Naruto against Kaguya, bringing the union of former Team 7, without having to compromise his original ideals... did they just... forget?

Kaguya was the first alien who came to Earth, got sealed away, and then tried to return to enslave it. Naruto and Sasuke were reincarnations of her sons (Ashura and Indra, respectively), but the manga and anime didn't spend much time detailing how they would form their clans down the line and the emotional impact Kaguya had fighting her descendants.

Haha, come on, this is clickbait isn't it? Ashura and Indra are not Kaguya's sons, they're her grandchildren that reminded her of her sons, bet your ass this is a Boruto fan that just heard about the original series and wrote whatever this was without eyeing the og manga.

but the manga and anime didn't spend much time detailing how they would form their clans down the line and the emotional impact Kaguya had fighting her descendants.

That's because one of Kaguya's sons went to live on the moon and the other one, Hagoromo, had two sons on Earth (Indra and Ashura) who -as the manga establishes, founded their own clans (Uchiha and Senju respectively) that were at war until Konoha's foundation.

It focused heavily on Sasuke plotting in the shadows, and Naruto forming an army, realizing much later in the story of their link to Kaguya.

What? They learned about their connection to Kaguya through Hagoromo before fighting her, Sasuke also never plotted in the shadows, he blatantly tells them he wants a Revolution and later on decides to kill Naruto as he's his last connection to his past! That's the whole reason they fight!

By switching this up and making lineage a primary and not secondary arc, the movie can dial more into the emotional core: Sasuke and Naruto exploring their family tree and the overall theme of dynasty. Sasuke could learn more about how Indra developed a dark side, which passed down to the Uchiha, while Ashura's light gave way to the Senju and Uzumaki (Naruto's family) clans.

That's incredibly explored throughout the manga. The Senju are the only clan linked canonically to Ashura himself, the Uzumaki obtained Ashura's attention after the Senju disappeared as they were distant relatives.

Also, love the distinction of "Indra developed a dark side which passed down to the Uchiha" and "Ashura's light gave way to the Senju". Hagoromo favored this distinction by granting the totality of his power to one of his sons and expecting the other to be functional to his brother's decisions. If Hagoromo considered that Ashura's position was better than Indra's, why did he not teach his eldest son to make similar decisions? How is it that Indra decided to form a clan and a collective group of people if his idea was to move and gain power alone? How is it that Ashura, the being full of light, decided to fight his brother for power instead of seeking a peaceful solution to work together if what he wanted was power through union? Why did he not question the idea of a single person having the totality of command?

This would allow the movie to not hinge on Naruto and his fate with his Nine-Tailed Demon Fox (Kurama).

This just proves my initial point.

Instead, Sasuke would become a key player by garnering clues as to who Kaguya is. This would also unearth her plan to place everyone in a dream state (via the Infinite Tsukuyomi genjutsu technique) and drain their chakra. In other words, he would be the egotistical brains of the operation, while Naruto functions as the go-lucky muscle.

What's the point of doing all that if this exact thing ends up happening anyway without having to destroy any character's core? Are they serious?

This would not be different from what's been seen with Iron Man and Captain America, and Batman and Superman.

Brain minimized by the same comic story over and over again, what's the point of seeing a dynamic story repeated hundreds of times in different products? Is the main idea of this theme to make audiences like this guy believe that he possesses some kind of intellect because he can predict a plot he has seen thousands of times before?

Such an approach speaks to the legacy of both warriors, which makes them the yin and yang they were meant to be. 

Don't believe this fool. Sasuke and Naruto as characters explore the Yin and Yang implications very well as they are, he doesn't seem to understand what this metaphor actually entails.

Such a change fits Sasuke's destiny organically because this is the kind of sleuth he would become in the Boruto era, where he atoned and roamed the lands as a Ranger. This same development felt rushed and left-field in the manga, as he never did that kind of work before.

Making Sasuke a heroic anchor in the Naruto movie also works for the evolution of Team 7. To start with, Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura were all trained by Kakashi, but their story felt disjointed. Naruto was preoccupied with bringing Sasuke home, Sasuke was off seeking Itachi and an army, while Sakura tried to quell the anger in both of them. This took away time from her personal development and detracted from the bigger threat of the aliens. By making the plot so convoluted, fans found it odd the Boruto era would marry Sakura and Sasuke, despite them never being developed as an official romantic couple.

By not splintering the team, Naruto's director, Daniel Destin Cretton, can focus on what made Team 7 work in the first place. Sakura was known to stop arguments and function as the team's mature, responsible leader. Naruto also liked her while she liked Sasuke. Sakura eventually realized she needed to change the views of Konoha and have the village recognize female shinobi more. This worked in the love triangle that allowed Sasuke to develop feelings for Sakura that would pay off down the line. This would also allow Naruto to understand he was meant to lead the Hidden Leaf.

What is removing Sasuke's entire characterization gonna do for the rest of the characters? The author is not saying Sakura realized this canonically, by the way the paragraph goes, what he implies is that she could realize this in the movie. So he’s telling us that Sakura didn’t notice she needed to change Konoha’s views about females because Sasuke wasn’t there to help her or what? It's Sasuke staying that detrimental to her development?

He wants to change everything about the original Team 7 in order to make them fit their Boruto’s characterizations. Hell, I bet he’s a Boruto fan who barely watched the original series, I’ll go as far as to state he used AI to write this garbage.

That also was Tsunade’s ordeal as well. Shikamaru questioned her involvement and was proven wrong when she “consoled” him after Sasuke’s Retrieval Arc and proved herself to be a good Kage. He’s asking something of Sakura that Tsunade already did.

Does he know what character development is? Why should they change everything about the original series to fit better the spin-off? Is the spin-off that it's badly written as it couldn't follow the original's characterizations, not the other way around.

According to his page, Renaldo Matadeen, "author" of this abysmal take, focuses on: As a filmmaker and scriptwriter, Renaldo loves to dissect the nuances of stories, especially narratives involving people of colour, minorities, and the socially-displaced. He believes art is a medium to reflect and provoke, and loves engaging in content that evokes this energy. 

So you mean to tell me that Sasuke, a metaphor for the socially displaced people, a survivor of a state-sanctioned genocide, and a revolutionary is somehow better by being stripped of any value inside a story that focused on his struggles, to begin with? That somehow the story would be better if he, a minority, was more complacent with the State that represses him?

[the-phoenix-heart]

Sorting Hat Chats - Titanic (1997)

I watched Titanic twice in two days and this is the result of that. I finally remembered that I make these types of posts.

Here is a summary of the system I am using (credit: @wisteria-lodge ) and because it has been a long time let the record show: Fuck JKR, I do not support her view at all.

The movie is ROSE'S story, not actually Rose and Jack's story. The thing with it is while Jack is integral to the plot, what matters is that he exists and he saved her. He doesn't go through an arc. This is Rose's story, and it is of her self actualization.

Rose says she knows exactly how her life is going to play out, and we can see she hates it. Even before she has met Jack she is subtly rebelling against her mother and Cal. She hates the bird primary model she wears, the one that has all the rules that define her life.

The real Rose, the one that isn't stifled under the weight of high society, is a Lion primary. When she is herself she smokes, drinks more than Jack, competes with the big strong Swedish man, flips off Cal's valet, and is extremely horny.

She is a lion primary. She wishes to do what she feels is right. On the Titanic her 'cause' is "say fuck you to high society and abscond with my manic pixie dream Leonardo DiCaprio." Then after the iceberg hits it becomes "save Jack at all costs and also other people I come across." Jack getting arrested for stealing the diamond is because she felt an obligation to tell her mother and Cal about the iceberg.

When she is telling Jack why she came back to save him, asking how she figured he didn't steal, she says "I didn't. I just realized I already knew."

As for her secondary, we are introduced to her as she is doing pottery. Then we are introduced to her a second time with her comparing the Titanic to the Mauritania. Rose Dewitt Bukater is a Bird secondary.

Rose knows things. We see her as an old woman and see she travels with her pictures that she has collected. Young Rose collects paintings that she likes and clearly has a taste for fine art. She insults Ismay by bringing up Freud. She knows everything about the people in high society around her, though she clearly doesn't like them. She has jack teaching her things. She knows what ice fishing and did ballet. She becomes an actress. And she knows how every interaction will go when it comes to High Society, as well as different languages.

I debated her being a Lion secondary because in the third act she looks like one, wielding an axe and jumping off boats and pushing people up against walls saying she is through with being polite. But I think in a disaster scenario anyone will look like Lion secondary. Plus, when she is half frozen to death she gets the attention of the boat by taking the whistle of the man she had seen blowing it before. An observation paying off.

JACK DAWSON was an interesting case to sort. I don't know if this is a hot take, but I think Jack is a Badger primary. Jack cares about people. Within two days of being on the ship he already knows the name of a random little girl on the ship (Cora) and calls her his favorite girl. He learns people's names quickly is incredibly affable with them. The way he talks about the one legged prostitute or the woman who wore all her jewels, he remembered them. He's barely been in his cabin with the Swedish guys for one minute and he's already treating them like his best friends.

I think it really is summed up with the scene on Titanic as it departs.

Jack, waving to the people: "Goodbye!" Fabrizio: "You know somebody?" Jack: "Of course not, that's not the point!"

Fabrizio joins in on saying goodbye after Jack. For Jack saying goodbye was either because he was saying goodbye to England, or because everybody was waving goodbye and he wanted to join in on the activity.

I think it's also clear when he saves Rose. He has only seen this girl once from a distance, but when he sees her about to throw herself off the ship he is immediately ready to save her. He's too involved now.

But he doesn't have to jump in and rescue her. Because he talks her out of it. He tells her about an experience he had falling into cold water, and clearly makes it seem like he's ready to jump in after her. He's already taking his coat and shoes off to jump in. His strategy seems to be, "if I can't convince her to save herself I can convince her to save me."

I think he's a Snake secondary. He immediately blends into high society by mimicking the mannerisms of the people around him and by playing himself so incredibly confident in his meager origins that they are charmed by him. There's also the seen wear he disguises himself so he can get a chance to talk to Rose. He also is clearly at home playing poker and has a good poker face.

He almost comes off as a Bird secondary because he knows so much stuff, but he makes it clear that he doesn't have a plan, he kinda just goes wear he goes living day to day. So I think that his grab bag of skills is literally just things he has picked up from day to day life.

I think the Badger Snake sorting works as shorthand for telling you what you need to know about him. He's sexy and fun because he's a Snake secondary, but also worldly and kind because he's a Badger primary.

And last but least I want to talk about is CALEDON HOCKLEY. Because even though he is a very simple character I also think he's a very interesting one. Because Caledon Hockley is destroyed by love. Or obsession. Or possession. It's hard to tell with him. They could have played him as just the greedy asshole in it for money, but he's not just that. He also appears to genuinely loves Rose, he just happens to be an absolute fucking asshole! He seeks to control every aspect of her life, because he loves her and is obsessed with her and wants to possess her, even when she is constantly rebelling against him.

Even after he has slapped her and she has told him she would rather be Jack's whore than Cal's wife he has his valet trying to find her and tries to make sure that she gets on a lifeboat. He even lies and says he'll get Jack on a lifeboat as well so long as Rose gets on one. And EVEN AFTER he tries to kill her for running off with Jack he goes looking for her after they are on the Carpathia. He might've been looking to get the diamond but with how melancholic he looks it seems more like he wanted to see she was alive. I think part of that is Billy Zane.

He says it himself, "There's nothing I'd deny you, if you would not deny me."

(Cal should take notes from the Goblin King's speech to Sarah in Labyrinth)

So he is an exploded Snake primary. As for his secondary, it would be easy to say Lion secondary. He is very violent, shooting at Rose and Jack (which he is very bad at), breaking things, and slapping Rose around. But that's when he's pissed. Throughout the movie the way he does things is much more subtle. He takes out Rose's cigarette and orders her food for her. He turns off the music box she was listening to. He pretends he has been robbed so he can from Jack for it. He gets his valet to do most of his dirty work and he bribes people with things. When his bribery has failed and he's separated from his valet he doesn't go in with punching people, he grabs the screaming Irish girl he saw earlier and says he has a child and has to be let on. He's a badger secondary. A dark one, but a badger.

So...

Rose Dewitt Bukater - Lion primary, Bird primary model that defines her life that she hates/Bird secondary

Jack Dawson - Badger primary/Snake secondary

Caledon Hockley - Exploded Snake primary/Badger secondary

[little-cereal-draws]

ok so i've seen a lot of ppl hating on the new thor movie so i'm going to make a list abt what i liked abt it. spoilers obviously

thor rode stormbreaker like a witch on a broom

the hammer/axe jealousy and thor trying to make them both happy

valkyrie covered in ichor with a sword

the goats screamed every time they arrived someplace new/landed

when they put the goats in the guardians' ship and it's just pure chaos as peter is trying to organize everyone to check for distress calls

the music choices were on point!

the ridiculous opening fight scene that seemed a little too good to be true (until the end)

gore! he was such a creepy villain, just so unsettling. it really creeped me out when he smiled. he did an amazing job

"so how are you guys doing?" "we're stuck in a cage made of spikes."

this isn't really about the movie but i liked seeing kamala in the opening sequence

the visuals! it was so pretty! especially the space dolphins and whenever the shadow creatures were being made. it was really cool to see how they went from flat, 2D shadows to 3 dimensional monsters- like how they came up out of the ground. so cool

New Asgard already being half destroyed after the attack in the beginning and thor and jane keep blasting holes in the council room/breaking stuff anyway

valkyrie teasing thor abt jane

the whole last scene where thor's trying to get Love (that's what i'm going to call the little girl, idk her name) to eat pancakes and put on her shoes. felt like a conversation straight out of my family's dialogue

and then thor just gave her stormbreaker!! like sir,,, that ax is as big as she is

the child army!!! that was so cool! i was like 'is he really going to use these kids as an army? i'm confused but i'm here for it' and then he did but in a much more effective way than i imagined!

i also liked how they showed how the different kids fought. some of them with rocks and things that could be actual weapons and some of them with wands and stuffies. it was amazing

thor saying he didn't like meditation, it just made him angrier. i know meditation is a good coping mechanism but whenever i try it i feel like i'm doing it wrong and just get more upset. idk that was just a little thing since ppl don't usually say that in media

at the beginning, peter saying to look into the eyes of the ppl you love and thor just doing that stupid face while sliding into view

Darrel!!! He got a job at new Asgard

When they were fighting in the shadow realm and the only color was from the lightning bolt, stormbreaker, and mjolnir

Jane using all of mjolnirs pieces as an extension of the hammer

[slytherinshua]

Your favorite moments with your moots?

also i love the way you write it's just ✋🏻❤❤

skdjsk first of all ty skdjsskdjsk totally not blushing and giggling rn

@eternalgyu uhm its too copout to say every single moment w hannie is my favourite so instead im gonna say whenever we call :( we always end up giggling sm and making a bunch of new inside jokes and she does alpha male podcast impressions and i always throw things that im not supposed to and its just so healing idk KSDJKS I LOVE HANNIE SM GUYS I WOULD NOT BE HERE WITHOUT HER I SWEAR :(((

@blue-jisungs whenever we're texting and we realized we twinned again is hands down my favourite bcuz i end up giggling sm i love axe :( and we're on the same wavelength like all the time CAUSE I SWEAR WE'RE ALWAYS DOING THE SAME THINGS AND LIKE HOW???? we sent the same seungkwan gif at the same time, do the same things on the same days, write the same things, say the same things, etc etc etc LIKE I JUST LOVE IT SM (bonus: getting into new groups w axe/showing her new groups/her listening to me rant abt how much i love onf all the time)

@wheeboo we haven't talked too much lately bcuz she's a working lass 😓😓😓 LMFAO IM JOKING BUT my favourite moments w rania are when we call each other a bitch LMAO THAT SOUNDS SO BAD BUT SRSLY its whenever we're joking around and saying we hate each other but rly we don't bcuz the next moment we're proofreading each other's fics or writing fics for each other :((

@haecien my favourite moments w cien are whenever &team comes up bcuz its nostalgic and i miss the time when i was introducing cien to &team for the first time and watching him fall in love w harua in real time :( i miss getting ppl into new groups damn like its just so <333 i need to share all the nugu love istg

@candewlsy my favourite moments w mizu are when we're texting and she sends her mizu™️ memes they make me giggle sm sdkjkds and also her rbs!! bcuz she has the best rbs that always manage to make me giggle and cheer me up :(( i love writing fics for her too bcuz ik my writing can make her day a bit better and so i always find myself thinking of seo yul fics to write for her skdjks </3

@weird-bookworm i feel like i haven't properly talked to sky in so long cause she poofed for a while and i also fixed my sleep schedule which meant that i wasn't online when she was online a lot but i miss her and my favourite moments w her were def watching kdramas or trying to introduce her to new groups only for her to call me insane (ik im insane shhhh 🥸👹) hopefully i will pull her over to multistan hell soon 😍

@evalevaeva eva is insane tbh and when hannie and eva and i were talking a lot that was an insane era and def my favourite moments w eva 👹👹 i love hearing abt her auditions too i never say this but i think eva is rly rly talented and i hope she makes it like i better see her in sm soon next to sohee 👹👹👹👹👹 but overall she's just fun and she likes to bully me abt being the only riize writer but i will never stop 👹👹👹👹

i'm only doing these moots for now cause i feel like i'm closest to them rn BUT I LOVE ALL MY MOOTS IM SRY IF UR NOT HERE <//3 it might just be that we haven't talked in a while or we need to talk more so like pls message me im always here to talk <333

[vmprgrl-2005]

I never told you what I do for a living (hotline miami-jacket x reader)-part four

"I don't want to wake up from this tonight"

part one part two part three wattpad link

word count-1.3k

warnings-blood, violence, mentions of death, kind of angsty?

an-last part:((( i hope you guys liked it!!!! thanks for reading:) (also the ending is absolutely subject to change because i kind of hate it lmao) <-ending has been edited!

I wait restlessly for what feels like hours, turning frantically in the uncomfortable car seat every few minutes. Each gunshot I hear makes my heart skip a beat. I can’t help but picture the scene from the other night, the blood coating the floors and walls, the pure terror that ran through my body when I saw my loving boyfriend murder two people in front of me. The thought of it makes me feel sick, and I rub my eyes to try to shake the vision from my mind. Trying to pass some time, I pull Jacket’s wallet out of his pocket, searching until I find the beat-up polaroid that he takes everywhere with him. It's a picture from when he was in the military a few years ago. A man stands next to him in the photo, a couple inches taller than Jacket with shoulder length red hair and a thick beard. Jacket looks like a kid next to him, it seems like they were close friends.

I remember the stories Jacket would tell me about his time in the military when I couldn’t sleep. How he met his best friend, how he almost died, always pulling his shirt up to show me his scars, how he would lay on the beach and smoke instead of doing his work, that the beaches in Hawai’i were even more beautiful than the ones in Miami, and that he would take me there someday. He would always stare at the picture fondly, but with a bit of despair in his eyes, I’ll have to ask him about it someday. I put the picture back, tucking his wallet away and sighing when I realize how much time has passed.

After dozing off for a while, I hear a sound nearby, footsteps. I glance at the door expectantly, hoping that Jacket is on the other side. The door opens and he stumbles outside, shirt covered in blood and jeans slightly more ripped than before. I get out of his car and run towards him. Dropping the large fire ax in his hand, he wraps his arms around me, lifting me up before stumbling slightly and pulling away. I lift the mask he's wearing over his head with one hand, bringing the other to cradle his face. His cheek is bruised slightly, and part of his lip is bleeding, but he's still in one piece in my arms. “I’m so glad you’re okay.” I whisper. He doesn’t reply, only wrapping his arms around me again before turning me around and leading me back to his car.

I slide into the car again, moving awkwardly a few times so that the barely healed hole in my side isn’t hitting the seat. We both sit in silence for a moment, not sure what to say or do anymore. I turn and look at Jacket with wide eyes, “Where do we go now?” I ask. He stares forward for a moment, as if he's just realized everything that has happened, his apartment is destroyed, his car is falling apart, and he could collapse at any second from his bullet wound. Wordlessly, he begins driving. After a few minutes of unfamiliar turns, Jacket takes one of my hands from my lap and encloses it in his. I look out the window, and he squeezes my hand to get my attention, asking, “Can you close your eyes? Just for a few minutes, I promise.” I do, of course, despite my suspicion. A cool breeze still blows through the holes in the windshield, but it feels wrong, as if the peaceful evening is an out of place sign that some other awful thing is going to happen.

After a few minutes, we slow down and I hear Jacket put the car in park. “Let me get you out, but don’t open your eyes yet.” He says. I feel Jacket’s arms under my legs as he picks me up slowly before placing me in front of the car, his hand still in mine. “Okay, open your eyes” he says quietly, and I swear I can hear a hint of out-of-place excitement in his voice.

We're parked on a small cliff on a desolate stretch of the beach, where we went on one of our first dates. Looking down at the sand brings back memories of that night. The perfect sunset, Jacket’s hand placed hesitantly in mine like all of this was new to him. Jacket squeezes my hand lightly, muttering “Come on”and leading me back to his car. He steps on the hood of the car, sitting down on the roof, then holds out his hand to help me stay balanced as I climb up to sit by him. He puts his hands on my hips to pull me down to sit between his legs, looping his arms around my neck and pulling me towards his chest. Reaching around my side and into one of the pockets of his letterman, Jacket pulls out his cigarettes and lighter, as always. He lights one of the cigarettes, inhaling deeply and turning his head to blow the smoke away from me. As he’s turned away, I take the cigarette from in between his fingers and put it between my lips, breathing in a few times and holding back a cough before Jacket can take it back and mutter “Stop, you shouldn’t smoke” under his breath. Holding the cigarette in one hand, he reaches underneath my shirt, resting his other hand on the bandages that cover my side. I can tell that he wants to say something, he’s never been good with words. “I’m sorry that I scared you” he eventually says, “this has been going on for a few weeks now.” Gray smoke leaves his mouth with every word, contrasting against the pink sky behind him. I lean further into his touch, “At least it’s all over now, right?” I whisper. Jacket pauses for a moment before replying “Hopefully” in a somewhat hesitant tone. I’m not sure how much blood is on his hands, or if I care anymore, especially as we’re both dying. I can tell by the look in Jacket’s eyes that I don’t have much time left with him, and I know that no amount of arguing is going to convince him to go back to the hospital. It’s a terrifying thought, knowing how much we’ve been through and the worst is still yet to come. “I’m going to be fine, and so are you.” Jacket says, my concern must be obvious. I throw myself against him softly, leaning my head onto his chest, wanting to feel his warmth and breathe in his scent for as long as possible. The soft crash of the waves against the sand and the dimming light of the sunset make everything feel like a dream, not much different from how the past couple of days have felt. I stare out at the ocean, wondering what comes next, what other terrible thing could happen, as per usual. The only thing keeping me conscious while also being the thing that’s lulling me to sleep is the warmth and softness of Jacket’s body against mine. Without thinking, I stand, sliding off of the hood of the car carelessly whilst holding onto Jacket’s hand, pulling him down with me. He doesn’t say anything as I pull him closer to the edge of the cliff before wrapping my arms around him. Without hesitation, he wraps his arms around me, one hand on my waist, the other on the back of my head, keeping me as close to him as he possibly can. “I love you, okay?” Jacket says, running his hand up and down my back. “I love you, too” I reply after a short silence. I lean my head against him and close my eyes.

After a moment, my exhaustion catches up with me and my legs start to give out. Without a word, Jacket sits down and pulls me onto his lap, dangling his legs over the edge of the cliff. He hesitantly reaches underneath my shirt again, bringing his hand to my bandages and carefully pulling them off before pressing his hand to the bullet hole, attempting to stop the bleeding. I can barely keep my eyes open, only looking to see the large red stain on my shirt and Jacket’s blood covered hand, my stitches must have ripped a while ago. He then moves his hand up my chest, resting his hand over my heart. It seems like my pulse is slower than usual. I can hear Jacket sob quietly and I bring my hand to my chest to hold his, trying to comfort him.

The last thing I hear is the sound of waves in the distance and a whispered “I love you.”

[froggymarsh]

Oh my goodness I loved reading that!!! Thinking more about Martyn babysitting makes so much sense. Him moving Grian around out of safety during the afk episode. Also in the afk session when Joel is constantly updating Grian with what he’s doing and trying to entertain him still give off such little Joel vibes. He’s small and he’s trying so hard to watch Grian. When scar and martyn show up (the llama dangling bit) idk it felt like all the bad boys were all regressed imo.

The Ties!!! Omg them <33 I have so many thoughts

thank you!!! I kinda went off sorry it was so long skskdjfjfjf

MARTYN. GRABBING HIM. @teddybears-picnic said we need more Martyn content and I wholeheartedly agree he’s such a Guy. excellent babysitter. I should watch his series.

some. thoughts. you know his boogeyman tests? sometimes when he does that and the kiddo plays along he gets this sort of soft smile on his face and teases, "aww, seems we've got a little one on our hands! you're gonna regress this session, i can tell"

Joel immediately bristles, he's fairly prone to blushing (something he hates so much) and insists that, no! he's a bad boy!! the biggest of the bad boys!! he's not ever feeling small, never ever!! but with every heated insistence that he isn't small, he gets smaller and eventually just growls at him and storms off. definitely not little!! can't believe you'd think such a thing >:(

Grian doesn't react outwardly really- maybe a slight widening of his eyes or an arched eyebrow. he hums thoughtfully and shrugs, "if that's what you think, martyn." he gets a little more flustered as martyn continues to tease, like "oh, c'mon bud, no need to be shy! we'd all be happy to take care of you!" petnames are his weakness. martyn hits him with all the "little bird"s and "bud"s and he's getting so fuzzy and he doesn't quite storm off like Joel did but he is rather quick to escape

Jimmy matches his energy with a teasing grin of his own and a playful shove, "i think you're gonna be the small one" and there's some playful banter, memories of a police station of an old server, familiar patterns that are so easy to fall into but they won't unless the other asks. at the end of it Martyn flicks his nose and tells him to take care of the Bad Boys and Jimmy lightly whacks him with one wing and tells him to do the same for scott. sometimes playful teasing escalates into something a little more upsetting- a little tim running off to find his Bad Boys so they can tell Martyn off. Joel isn't big very often on this server but he'll be big for Jimmy if Martyn's being too mean.

Scott's about the same as Grian. Doesn't outwardly show it, doesn't say much beyond "i don't know what you're talking about" he's good at flying under the radar, martyn really has to look out for the signs of a little guy. learning to care for scott is different from jimmy- not necessarily bad, just Different, and he's glad to learn, excited to learn.

He matches a regressor's energy as best he can, though maybe one tick higher on the dial when it comes to excitement. he's ready to jump up and play!! he wants to run around with them!! play tag! sing songs! he always has to add a little something extra when it comes to stuff like story time, whether it be bouncing them on his lap for more exciting bits or adding dramatic voices.

he lets regressors play with his hair, teaches them how to braid it and keeps the half-done knots in so long as they don't give him a headache. he has a few colorful ribbons and clips and a sheet of stickers that he lets them stick to his face and the backs of his hands. there were rainbow stickers on the red winter axe.

he lets a little scott decorate him in coral, and it's a bit of a challenge, watching after scott. he's used to Grian and Jimmy, all wings and energy, running around the server, but Scott's more of a sit and color and sort shells kind of guy. it's a change of pace. it's kind of nice. he naps a lot with scott, a lot more than with other regressors.

the afk episode!! Grian and Jimmy tend to get overwhelmed when they're small (watcher and listener stuff, heightened senses, or maybe i'm just projecting my adhd + autism onto them sjdfksdjf) and the easiest remedy for that is. soundproof rooms? i guess? on another server he'd usher them into a basement or a closet, somewhere without a lot of sensory inputs. for jimmy he gets headphones and for grian he gets a blindfold. he sits with them until they're better, or just outside if they can't handle someone else being there at the time.

all that to say: martyn sort of. misreads the afk episode? i guess? grian tends to shut down when he's overloaded, by standing perfectly still and not talking, so martyn thinks he's just super overloaded and tries to get him somewhere quiet and dark. i guess. idk i need to watch that episode but that's at least why he put grian under spawn maybe?

LITTLE JOEL IN THE AFK EPISODE OH MY GOSH

holding him SO gently you are sO CORRECT

ough ok. i have. hrm. idk how much joel talks when he's small, i think he's learning that it's okay to not talk if you don't want to, but that's still a little bit hard for him sometimes? do u get the vibes? he knows he doesn't need to talk, but he feels awkward being in silence when he's small.

so he talks! he rambles to grian about everything and nothing, slightly annoyed that he's been made babysitter (he knows they think he's too small to go out and do things and it's so annoying but whatever). he's hovering around seven or eight or maybe eleven, it's hard to tell most of the time. he's working on flooding the base, thinking about boats and submarines and he talks about building and whales and hopes grian comes back soon, it's kinda weird talking to someone who is...maybe awake and just not answering

and then martyn steals grian and his ages go all over, he's angry and he's scared and ready to fight and maybe he's a teenager actually but he's also six years old and hand to hand combat is something he can do he will absolutely throw martyn off this bridge to get his bad boy back and jimmy picks up on the energy and regresses too and i dont have many thoughts about this scene sorry it was a lot going on sjdfklsjdf

ties would simultaneously be the best and worst babysitters and i love them for it <3

[waiting-on-a-dream]

My Milgram ocs as long palette names because making the twst version was fun

Based on this post from @.fivepointpalettes + later palettes. Let's go!!

Just Friends But We Kiss Sometimes - LITERALLY DAISUKE AND RYUTO I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY

Let Me Be Your Unreliable Narrator, Baby! - Every prisoner lmao

Focus On Me (Ignore The Blood) - Suzume, Haku

I Touch You And My Hands Burn My Hands Burn My Hands Burn (What Have You Done) - Daisuke, Suzume

Well First Of All I Am Positive What You Did Is A Criminal Offense / And Second Of All Why Didn’t You Invite Me - Suzume (She seems like the kind of girl who would feel left out when it comes to activities like this)

What’s A Little Murder Between Friends - Rin (This is kind of mean but its funny 💀)

I’m Sorry I Chewed Through Your Walls But You Must Understand I’m Calcium Deficient / Please Be Mindful Of The Evil Yoghurt Demon In The Freezer - I don't know why but these reminded me of Ichiro

Being In Love And How It Sucks Sometimes - Daisuke, Suzume, Rin, Noa (Sad little meow meows)

Do You Remember When You Told Me That You Love Me When You Told Me That You Love Me When You Told Me That You - Suzume

I Loved You I Did So How Did We End Up Like This - Daisuke, Rin, Noa

This Will Hurt You More Than It’ll Hurt Me - And That’s Okay! - Akane, Daisuke, Haruto (They're vibing guys)

I Need You To Understand That I Really Do Want What’s Best For You - And That Simply Isn’t Me - Noa

I’m Always At Least A Little Bit Scared Hopeless And Frustrated - Akane, Yui, Noa, Mayumi (This is the opposite of girlboss)

Can You Help Me Find What’s Wrong With Me / An Unhealthy Relationship With One’s Own Identity - Ichiro, Daisuke, Suzume, Yui, Rin, Noa (They are not having fun)

Biting Into A Rubber Ball Like An Apple While Maintaining Full Eye Contact - Haruto (I think he would do this just to spite someone)

I’m Just A Normal Functioning Member Of The Human Race And There Is No Way Anyone Can Prove Otherwise - Kiyoshi, Mayumi

The Magical Princess’s Strawberry-Scented Battle Axe Of Infinite Bloodshed - Suzume

I Hate Citations Why Can’t You Just Trust Me - Suzume, Noa

Doctors Say You Need A Consistent Amount Of Sleep To Be Healthy So I Consistently Sleep For 4 Hours A Night / Too Cool To Sleep At A Reasonable Hour / I’m Sick But The Bags Under My Eyes Are Sicker / Who Needs Sleep When I Can Just Drop Dead For A Rest - Haruto (I can't- Giving him these palettes are so funny 💀💀💀)

Lonely Sewer Cryptid Looking For Love - Ichiro

The Privilege Of Being Born Somebody Else - Ichiro, Suzume, Yui, Kiyoshi (I don't like what this says about them)

Look At Her Go Biting Everyone Who Comes Near Her Like A Champ - Akane, Mayumi (One day they're gonna snap)

I Apologize If You Found Finding This Place Difficult But You Must Understand I Am Currently Evading Detection And Arrest For Crimes Undisclosed - Daisuke

And If You Thought It Was A Threat It Might Have Been - Daisuke, Suzume, Haku, Mayumi, Haruto

Putting On A Show To Seem Alive / When I Don’t Feel Alive - Daisuke

Time Has Stopped Passing A Long Time Ago - Everyone in Milgram should be getting cabin fever by now, right?

Once Again A Cold Rainy Winter Gives Way To A Cold Rainy Spring - Rin (Him and his seasons theme)

Here’s Cheers To The Man Who Stole My Heart Away - Suzume, Noa

The Sort Of Love You Only Feel When Drunk - Daisuke (Yes another 'On love' reference I can't stop)

It’s Past My Bedtime And I’m Thinking Of You - Rin

Oh Baby Don’t You Know Our Sort Is Locked Out Of Heaven - Haku, Mayumi (I REALLY don't like what this says about them)

You Have To Stop Making So Many Enemies - Haruto @ most of the prisoners (Its actually just the guilty prisoners lmao)

Keep All Body Parts On The Inside Of The Vehicle At All Times As Failure To Comply May Result In Having Them Unwillingly Removed - Haruto (This sounds like something he'd say)

Drowning In A Coffee Cup (What An Awful Way To Go) - Noa

My Overconfidence Is Astounding And It’s A Surprise I’ve Never Been Killed - Haruto (He's lucky my prisoners are all so chill)

I Understand Where You’re Coming From But Where Did You Get The Gun - Daisuke

Well That Was A Little Unnecessarily Brutal Don’t You Think? - Sender: Daisuke (He said he wasn't cut out for his work), Receiver: Akane, Suzume, Haku, Kiyoshi

Tender Words And Hellish Screams - The entirety of Milgram

You Smell Like Nonsense With A Hint Of Melancholy - Noa

I Live In A Room With No Windows / I Haven’t Left The House In Months - People are getting depression from being cooped up in Milgram for so long, right?

Forever Dizzy In This Lonely World - Ichiro, Akane, Suzume, Rin, Noa

Summer Lasts A Week At Best But My Dedication To Sweater Vests Is Eternal So Look Me In The Eye Little Teacup And Melt If It Bothers You So Much - Mayumi

You Can’t Just Ask A Guy Why He’s In Love - Daisuke

Can’t Let It Slip That There’s More To Me Than Little Old I - Kiyoshi

I Know I May Look Like A Real Person But I Am Actually Not A Real Person At All - Ichiro (I don't know what kind of mental illness he has but he sure has one or a few)

You Know How Sometimes An Unwanted Guest Comes Over And You Do All You Can To Make Them Leave While Remaining Polite / Fizzy Brained Children Are So Troublesome - Mayumi (They both apply to her so I'll put it like this even though the palettes have nothing in common)

You’re The First Descendant In A Line Of Workaholics Utterly Convinced Your Willingness To Sacrifice Your Own Health Determines Your Worth As A Human Being And Promptly Working Yourself To Death To Provide Unto Others What You Never Had A Chance To Understand You Deserved Yourself - Kiyoshi, Mayumi

I Am The Mirror In Which You Can See All The Evil In The World - Ahaha, everyone in Milgram

My Brain Operates On Frequencies You’ve Never Even Heard Of - Again, whatever Ichiro has going on /pos

Being Told I’m Allowed To Make My Final Class Project About Any Topic I Want Awakens A Demon Inside Me That Makes Me Subject My Classmates To Only The Finest Of My Obscure Interests - Noa

The Only Thing Greater Than My Ego Is My Impostor Syndrome - Daisuke, Haruto

The Cons Of Being My Friend Greatly Outweigh The Pros - Rin

You Are Who We Say You Are Because Public Opinion Beats Self Worth Every Time - Kiyoshi

Murder And Other Expressions Of Love - Daisuke, Suzume, Haku, Rin

You Locked Me In A Cage And Threw Away The Key And When You Found Someone Better I Was Left To Gnaw On The Bars For My Freedom - Suzume, Rin

What Do You MEAN There Was A Fire - Haruto (Poor warden-san)

A Little Weirdo Driven By Consumption - Ichiro

Your Love Has Brought Me To The Point Of No Returning - Suzume

Go To Sleep In The Morning And Wake Up At Noon Only To Go Back To Sleep Till Evening And Wake Up Full Of Regret And With A Headache - All that sleep deprivation finally caught up to Haruto

A Toast To Our Special Little Brand Of Sin - Milgram~!

The Man Of Wine And Cigarette Smoke / You And All Your Money That You’ve Stolen From The Poor / Thank You For Your Loss - Daisuke (His mafia side makes an appearance!)

Learn To Forgive Yourself - Noa (The only true innocent prisoner here /j)

I Don't Know What's In Your Head Why Are You Asking Me - Haruto (I can imagine the prisoners asking him what went down in their MVs and him going: does it look like I know?)

[red-dyed-sarumane]

やめてください 柊マグネタイト feat. 羽累 / Please Stop Hiiragi Magnetite feat. Haru english translation

Hiiragi Magnetite's 16th song over all & the 10th song in aru sekai series! There's no background text this time but I think the amount of context in the lyrics is more than enough to figure out this part of the story.

Youtube | NND

敗北ランド 実際は排他 失敗社会だ 理解がない A defeated land, truth is excluded It's a failed society, I don't get it

快も不快も 後悔が対価 人生終わった 一回でバーイ Pleasantness and unpleasantness, compensated with regret My life's over, a one time byee*(*occurance)

差異 得 ライド 言った言わないの 記載はないが ごめんもない A disparity advantage ride, won't you say it was said? There's no record of it, but no apology either

埋没ランド 失態晒した 失敗社会だ 理解がない A buried land, it exposed the errors It's a failed society, I don't get it

毎食ドット ファニー インダストリー道理 混濁ドーミー for Me 賞味 ソーリー 暴利ストーキング！ Every meal dot, funny Logic of an industry Muddled dormy for me, an appreciation Sorry, it's usury stocking!

背徳ノット 甘美 見出す脅威 承認 コンタクト産み 長期投資 勝利 合理苦 ショウミー！ The knot of corruption, so sweet Discovering threats, acknowledging them Creating contact, a long term investment Success, rationality in pain, show me!

やめてください やめてください えー ブンブンブブン ブンブンブブン は？ Please stop, please stop, yeah Buzz buzz b-buzz buzz buzz b-buzz, huh?

やめてください やめてください えー ブンブンブブン ブンブンブブン は？ Please stop, please stop, yeah Buzz buzz b-buzz buzz buzz b-buzz, huh?

やめてください やめてください えー ブンブンブブン ブンブンブブン は？ Please stop, please stop, yeah Buzz buzz b-buzz buzz buzz b-buzz, huh?

やめてください やめてください えー ブンブンブブン ブン Please stop, please stop, yeah Buzz buzz b-buzz buzz

は？ Huh?

最速回答 聡明じゃないの？ 判断遅いよ は はいは はい The fastest answer, it's the most sensible, isn't it? Your decision's so slow, ha, yeah ha, yeah

愛読愛用 スーパー問う賛と ノーマル問う散に学びなさい A favorite reading, please learn from A super accusation of praise and dispersal of a normal accusation

単発バイト お金がないね 仕方がないね ヤるしかない It's a one-shot job, there's no money in it, huh There's no way around it, huh, I have to do it

催促回答 どう？ ねえ？ しないの？ 判断遅いよ は はいは はい Demanding answers, how about that? Hey? Won't you do it? Your decision's so slow, ha, yeah ha, yeah

退職ボット バーニング 皆苦労人 同士 御社不当に 奉仕飲み 飛び込みローディング！ A resignation bot, burning Everyone's so wise, colleagues Your company unfairly drinks up the bargain Plunging into loading!

愛毒ノット 堪忍 見た？ ストーリー更新 網膜調子 推しの身 お搾り 庶民！ A knot of poisoned love, endurance You saw it? The story's update The state of the retina, your favorite's body, an aperture of the common folk!

契約もっと パーリー 人格統制 狂信 鉱脈通り ツルハシ 売り撒き ダンシング！ A more pearly contract Personality regulation, what fanaticism The flow of the vein, a pick-axe A distribution of sales, dancing!

感謝 出会いに感謝 人類全員感謝 毎度 収入 お布施 恒例 脳脆 当然 放置！ Gratitude, gratitude for meeting All of humanity's grateful Every time, receipts, offerings, customs A sentimental mind naturally leaves it alone!

やめてください！！ やめてください！！ Please stop!! Please stop!!

えー ブンブンブブン ブンブンブブン は？ Yeah Buzz buzz b-buzz buzz buzz b-buzz, huh?

やめてください やめてください え－ ブンブンブブン ブンブンブブン は？ Please stop, please stop, yeah Buzz buzz b-buzz buzz buzz b-buzz, huh?

やめてください やめてください えー ブンブンブブン ブンブンブブン は? Please stop, please stop, yeah Buzz buzz b-buzz buzz buzz b-buzz, huh?

やめてください やめてください えー ブンブンブブン ブン Please stop, please stop, yeah Buzz buzz b-buzz buzz

はあ。 お人よしなんて言葉ヅラだけはまあいいが ただ 「自分自身さえ我慢すれば」 「それで全部済むならいいや」って 一回二回小さな侵略を許すうち 気がついたら 唯一の聖域をお前らに何もかも めちゃくちゃにされた Hah.* (*sighing) It'd be acceptable if people's significance was just a term but Only "If you have patience with yourself" "Then everything should be fine once it's over" they said Once, twice, when I noticed the forgiveness of small aggressions The sole thing off limits caused Everything unreasonable to happen to you guys

断れない！断れない！断れない！ 嫌われたくない！ ああ！そのせいで！そのせいで！そのせいで！ It's unrefusable! It's unrefusable! It's unrefusable! I dont want to be hated! Ah! Because of that! Because of that! Because of that!

何もかも終わった Everything's over

断れない！���れない！断れない！ 嫌われたくない！ ああ！そのせいで！そのせいで！ そのせいで！ It's unrefusable! It's unrefusable! It's unrefusable! I dont want to be hated! Ah! Because of that! Because of that! Because of that!

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T/N

1- the bye towards the beginning, since its in katakana it makes sense for it to be a casual drawn out bye but given this is a magnetite song & a series song at that i cant ignore the possibility of it also being a play on 場合

2- the ha hai ha hai parts, i think given the spacing its more of bitter laughing or sighing than a y-yeah/y-yes type deal.

3- i translated oshi as your favorite but its used for someone you support or are a fan of, similar to stan or bias but i wasn't sure those terms fit the mood of the song

4- this is more of a fun fact series wise but the 8 times 7 times repeating pattern for yamete kudasai and bunbunbubun respectively is the same pattern as the repeating parts in laboratory (kaete, koete and yamete, tomete respectively)!

5- another series note, the sono sei de is very similar to the sono sei wa in kugutsu ashura so while i translated it as "because of that" saying "in that world" may also be an intended double meaning!

[doughma]

twst- idk reaction to sugar scrubs and maybe skin care routines? their s/o and or crush using or showing them their scrubs? who would be interested in sugar scrubs and who wouldnt care? idk implied fem reader for a few parts i just got the idea when i was bathing one day 💀

♡[Savanaclaw] ♡[Octavinelle] ♡[Scarabia] ♡[Pomefiore] ♡[Ignihyde] ♡[Diasomnia]

♡Heartslabyul♡

♡Ace: Would deff not care. Ace seems like the type that also wouldn't care to use lotion so I doubt he would be interested in anything else other than basic dollar bar soaps. I could almost see him teasing you over it because the idea of rubbing sugar on your body is just funny to him. And if you tried getting him to use some on his scaly ass body he would make a fuss, and say it smells too sweet for him. 0/10 stinky axe™️ smelling ass, try to get him to use men's lotion now in a darker colour for men first before you try anything else

♡Deuce: A little better than Ace, but not so much. He does more for his skin kinda, but in the three in one shampoo face and body wash kinda way. Would get embarrassed if you brought up your bathing habits tho, like chill my friend. It’s just body scrub. Would get even more embarrassed when you pass him the sugar scrub and explain to tell him this is what makes your skin so soft and smooth and here Deuce, touch me! See??? You make him awkwardly rub your arm. Has more of a 'Ahaha, that's neat' reaction, a bit embarrassed at first but indifferent to the idea of it really. Could probs get him to use some, but would forget about it most of the time. He feels like a fast shower kinda dude. Would deff forget to use lotion after, and become dry like Ace, when he uses it. Would probably be more interested in smelling them. Deuce feels like the kinda guy that would want to smell every candle in the store. 5/10 he at least, would try

♡Cater: Knows what they are, knows what they do, and when you tell him you like to use them and that's why your skin is soft he's just like 'Oh, that makes sense' and that's it really. You ask him if he would like to use them too or try any out, and he's quick to say no before walking off with his nose in his phone. How odd. ???/10 you don't know how to feel about this

♡Trey:  Would show interest in your body regimen as he has his own with his teeth. Before dating, showing him this is what makes your skin so soft and supple and let him have a little feel for himself…. It would make him slightly more attracted to you, and make him start to notice and take note of the little things you do for yourself and body. After dating I can see him getting a lil excited when he hears you in the bath or plan to take one, and can't help himself but touch you a lot more when you're fresh from the bath and put all your products on. Likes how soft and plush you feel and wants to enjoy it as much as he can. Would deff start to use it after you've shown him. 9/10 one point taken off because you end up sharing products, and sometimes you get in the bath before realizing you barely have any scrub left. oops, he forgot to remind you to get more

♡Riddle: idk, I just feel like no matter what scenario, he wouldn't care. Like, he doesn't hate it but he just doesn't care? No opinion? It's just another step in your routine in his mind, like whatever makes you happy. The only way to get him to comment positively I think, you would have to show him one that is rose scent and shove it in his face to smell. Riddle feels like he would obviously be used to and enjoy the smell of roses, so it would be the only way to get him to approve and comment on it. Tho, if you were to change up your whole routine and scents to only be rose scented products he would start commenting how good you smell on the daily. Esp right after bathing and you swing by so the smells are still stuck on ya, and it’s to the point the rest of the Heartslabyul take notice and tease him over it. You unintentionally got Ace collared for a week, oh well. He may, or may not use it. Maybe if he's not in a rush, and it's the weekend he might use some of yours and relax a bit. Does remember to use lotion after, won't catch him looking dry or scaly. 4/10 has the potential to become more tho

[evajellion]

I have to get this off my head, I don't even like Family Guy anymore; "This reminds me the time I was transported to a dead world with six others." *Peter Griffin, Homer Simpson, Bob Belcher, Philip J Fry, Hank Hill, Axe Cop, and Jay Sherman faces off the King of Demons* "What's your name before I end you dirtbag." "A webcomic gets two seasons while I only get one!" *Ennis Hofftard reveals himself* "Sit Down, Shut Up? Boy, hate is at the bottom." "Like I give a sh!t, Jay." *Peter shoots Ennis*

Okay, this is quasi-related to the goofy script shitpost you just sent, I need to go on an unironic tangent about Family Guy- I NEED to get this off my chest.

I actually like Family Guy- mainly old Family Guy when I was 11, I think that's something most people agree with nowadays.

But that's not the thing I need to yell into the void about. You see, Family Guy genuinely has one of the best adaptation parodies of "And Then There Were None".

For those that don't know, "And Then There Were None" is a murder mystery novel by Agatha Christie (that originally had a very "eugh" original title but it was changed, for the better). Not gonna spoil what happens so people can check it out for themselves if they somehow already haven't.

"So Family Guy did a parody of a novel/film, so what? They did it with Star Wars already–"

Nononono– the characters that are killed off here are killed off for good. They do not reappear after this, no episodic reset. James Woods invites every cast member over (they all hate him) and then he gets murdered. Mystery and finger-pointing ensue.

You got the usual Family Guy cutaway gags and references, but nothing too distracting from the big picture. This was a serious episode, complete with an original soundtrack that sounds amazing.

This was a 2010 episode, from Season 9, an hour-long special premiere. Most of the episodes after Family Guy's first few seasons from the 2000s were definitely stinkers, but not this one. The only actual criticism I have is a few animation errors that are easy enough to ignore.

Not going to spoil what happens. I want people to watch this for themselves.

I wish the show did stuff like this more often, but I think if they did that, then this episode wouldn't feel as special.

2010… good god, I can't believe this episode is already 12 years old. I was 14 when I saw the premiere.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

also like does winston have to deal with his algorithm's failure being blamed for the mess at mpc. does he have access to it to see that someone clearly like added in various [NOT] edits (also....doesn't seem like a guarantee anyone else would Get to access the code beyond like an on/off switch or other "front end" kind of adjustments? but). i guess either way it's not like this Extra thing they asked from him was ever even meant to be his Main Thing, as discussed (though now again wondering about the details, if mpc was supposed to get his best shit, if this was an adjustment To it rather than a kind of extension added without having to alter that main event? i don't think billions cares either way. and he presumably could just make something new)....and, again, does axe global retain some contract with him? which winston has no reason to Want to be the case? a typical battle between whether everyone forgets he exists or else their contempt and eagerness to use him to affirm their own superiority means making sure to hold on to him Just Because of that, not even the value, which was never enough to offer him more in the first place or try to keep him from quitting

meanwhile, once again basically every time taylor makes a move towards more autonomy / doing their own thing, winston has a crucial role. coding solo for them in a basement which gave them the investors / Billions they needed to start tmc, making & backing the project that led to the c standing for carbon, now that his algorithm had this key role in the move that ultimately landed them Billions again, personally this time, & tmf (cassandraed! via: taylor mason fucks) but it's just that this time it was taken from him and fucked with, though already the "no credit" part was underway after his role in the mase carb shift translated to all of "for no reason other than wendy's ableism moments, we're Only considering firing You. here's your new best personal bully friend who is instantly & forever preferred personally & professionally" like yeah thanks. billions at least letting us know he got single digits millions for it but like, sorry did anyone start a secret fund stash for winston? seems unlikely, even though spyros the [universally hated guy even beyond winston] and sole prince loyalist here who was actively trying to thwart the sabotage, gets a share just fine, don't even worry about it. all this and how dubious it is billions was trying to be at all "nice" by having winston quit (and then be treated like that in a plotline that only existed so wags could have fun and We could have fun in that too!) when it's like "oh of course he can't just Be Here" like sure whatever. he should get to be away from there but i'm not sure billions is on the same page as to Why when a correct character informs us that actually rian was always being Too Nice by telling winston "shut the fuck up forever r word" whenever he breathed instead of at least keeping it to herself forever instead; don't think we're given room to suppose rian has reflected on this when she chooses to leave after her ""friendship"" with winston did fuckall for her Not helping hurt him even when he's entirely somewhere else & she supposedly cares At All. so even negative attention is supposedly "nicer" than being ignored (it isn't) and yet winston gets to just Not be mentioned, show up, speak, be spoken of....best thing for Someone Like Winston being if he may as well not exist but maybe his coding output just manifests in the hands of people who deserve to benefit from it

[balillee]

tommy's character gets far too much shit.

hi tumblr. i'm gonna need a few bitches to spread this post everywhere, essentially because i want someone, or just tommy really, to see it. so if you really want, you can screenshot it and post it on twitter, reddit, link it everywhere - go absolutely buck wild. i know he reads the VODS comments a lot, but they're chock full of people just insulting him, his character, his writing and everything about his story in the dream smp simply because they don't understand it and because they refuse to acknowledge his character's perspective (mainly because they only care about the pig). reading that many critical comments on something you've created can only make you feel worse about it eventually, and in light of all the awful techno apologist takes on his character, i wanted to basically just word vomit about how wonderfully crafted c!tommy is, as well as compile some other tumblr posts about his character.

there is a massive fuckin community of people who enjoy the character of tommy, because the character is incredible. i myself have made post after post after post commenting on and analysing tommy's character because i find that there's so much to pick apart. but that enthusiasm for his character only seems to be found on tumblr. reddit and twitter seem to hate his character, the VODS seem to be filled with comments from people who only care about techno's perspective (and treat techno as a reliable narrator, which, is the furthest thing from the truth - that guy lies through his teeth all the time), and the smp wiki is a hellscape of godawful takes and mistruths, not even on just tommy's character.

c!tommy is brilliantly acted and brilliantly written, and almost everything he does is either justifiable or has been rectified or admitted as a mistake. you can clearly make connections as to where he got his conclusions from. you feel what his character experiences, as a member of the audience, vividly.

if you look in the more objective sense, c!tommy, and this is especially in the context of him being the youngest character, is a scapegoat. people claim he's awful and destructive when in reality he's a lot less destructive than most characters on the server. a moment that comes to mind is where he diverts schlatt and quackity's attention from pogtopia by breaking part of the flag in manberg, and then replacing it so as to buy tubbo some time - he literally monologues after it about how he doesn't want to destroy but instead rebuild, and how he feels as if nobody else seems to understand that.

his arc in season two was incredible. it was very character driven, and it gave a spotlight to his motivations. at the start we see him in new l'manberg, and he's enjoying his time there, he's skeptical of his friend's presidency, but his main goal is to get back the discs so that he can stop dream and eliminate that threat. he made one screw up that didn't even matter to george, and he paid for it tenfold, even after dream had spent a while with puffy griefing the server and framing it on tommy - what tommy and ranboo did was convinient. then, in exile, we see c!tommy straight up get abused. he's gaslit and conditioned into being c!dream's friend, and in his brain he teaches himself that those acts of abuse are moments of bonding, and it eventually brings him to the point of wanting to end his own life - he's been torn away from his friends and his support system, and nobody will visit him consistently anymore because they only showed him pity, and all he had left was dream, who had hurt him.

but he doesn't die there, because while he didn't understand the full gravity of it back then like he does now, he recognises that dying isn't an escape, and he can beat dream, even if he doesn't know how. so this is where he goes to techno's place, and here's where the fandom starts to misinterpret the situation wildly.

it's the problem similar to when your parents tell you that they're owed something back because you put a roof over their head, despite that being Not How It Works. techno took tommy in and severely mistreated him emotionally. sure, and i understand this, c!techno is a bad communicator who isn't really that empathetic to anyone who isn't phil or wilbur, but that doesn't excuse the blatant lying to c!tommy's face, the guilt tripping, the friendship buying and the degrading. the day before the festival, tommy finally does something violent in his interrogation of fundy, and only then does techno tell him,,,,

that tommy's not equal to him, that techno doesn't respect him all that much, and that they're not friends.

from techno's perspective, and at the time, this was viewed as a positive development in their relationship. oh, he's starting to warm up to tommy! this friendship could really blossom!

no. from a more objective standpoint, what techno has just said to tommy is : 'i respect you only a little bit more now, because while you're starting to act more like me, you're still annoying and a burden.'

and i haven't even touched on the whole 'erasing the words 'Destroy L'manberg' from techno's to-do list' thing, because that instantly refutes the point of 'techno was upfront with his intentions the whole time' - because he wasn't! he may have said it the first time, but you also know what else he did? he repeatedly told tommy that they'd 'air the details out later' whenever the discs were brought up, and from a tommy viewer's perspective at the time, it was framed as if techno was no longer going to do that.

and i also haven't dared touch the 'i would have fought them all for you', because that's major guilt tripping if ever i've seen it.

so, the day of the festival comes, and here's where c!techno and his apologists completely misread c!tommy's thought process, and why he makes the decision he does.

tommy instantly regrets valuing the discs over tubbo, and it's framed as the culmination of tommy having become all the people he said he would never want to be like. and what does he immediately do? he tells tubbo to give up the disc, and he sides with tubbo. he puts his value in his friends, and, by proxy, l'manberg. and when he betrays techno, he tells him 'i'm sorry'.

from a more objective standpoint, tommy's time with techno is him valuing the discs over almost anything else. so, in leaving techno to be with tubbo again, he is valuing people above the discs. so when, on doomsday, techno says his 'discs aren't people' line, what he doesn't realise is that he himself fueled tommy's valuing of discs above people when attempting to fuel tommy's vengeance against tubbo and l'manberg. techno doesn't realise that he was an unhealthy presence for tommy, and an even worse influence.

what techno also doesn't seem to understand is that tommy never hated tubbo or l'manberg - tommy recognises, now at least, that his exile wasn't a product of tubbo, but a product of dream's manipulation, likely in part because at the time, especially with dream lying about tommy blowing up the community house, tommy was the only one who could see it because he had experienced it firsthand. so when techno sides with dream, it's like kicking tommy in the teeth.

and i want to mention that betraying someone doesn't necessarily make the person who was betrayed good, or in the right, or even justified, because tommy was entirely justified to leave techno. you know who else was betrayed? schlatt. but i don't see many schlatt apologists around angry at quackity for joining the rebellion.

tommy stole the axe of peace? good. it was a moment of tommy defining his self-worth, instead of having it defined by others. gone is the age of c!techno belittling him and deciding how much c!tommy should be respected. NEXT!

here's a moment i wanted to talk about that will forever be funny to me.

'i am a person.'

techno's very famous line from doomsday. techno says to tommy that discs aren't people, and that tommy should value people, despite not understanding that by leaving techno, he did just that. and what does tommy say in return, which has been omitted from every c!tommy-critical analysis, and every animatic?

'yes you are, but so are we.'

an acknowledgement of techno's hurt, to which tommy has already apologised for. a statement that says 'your hurt does not excuse, nor justify, the hurt you have inflicted onto us.' an acknowledgement that tommy has already learnt the lesson techno seems to be trying to 'teach' him. but you can't teach him anything by destroying.

c!tommy has had almost everything he has ever owned or built either taken from him or destroyed. ranboo even points out that the only two things of tommy's left standing are his house and his hotel, and if i'm honest, his house is dissheveled. it's a labyrinth of terror due only to how many times it's been torn apart. l'manberg being blown up didn't teach anyone anything about anarchy, or about valuing people over possessions. logstedshire being blown up didn't teach tommy to be obedient.

i could honestly ramble for ages about how nuanced tommy's character is and how much depth and complexity there is to his character's process and his relationship with others, but more than that, c!tommy is forgiving. he invites almost everyone who hates him to the grand opening of his hotel - if that isn't an indicator that he just wants friends, and not to be treated like the embodiment of evil, then i don't know what is. he holds grudges, but he doesn't really actively hate anyone, other than c!dream. but, we'll let him. c!dream deserves nothing but to be pummeled into the floor.

tommy doesn't spoonfeed his character nuance, and he doesn't really spell it out for his audience. he'll mention things like trauma and triggers in passing, but a lot of analysis on his motivations has to be picked up from what is said in passing or from what can be seen in between the lines.

i'd be here for hours if i were to talk about everything i love about c!tommy, because honestly he's one of my favourite characters, and there are so many angles you can look at his character from in terms of his age, his relationships with others, his motivations, his personality, his character arcs etc etc. so instead of doing that, i'm going to compile some much more specific analysis posts below to skim through because they highlight so many good aspects of his character.

^^ A thread about the 'yes you are, but so are we' line.

^^ About how shit the VODS comments are.

^^ A comment on how c!Tommy is actually pretty peaceful, and is actually less destructive than most characters on the server.

^^ Possibly the best c!Tommy analysis thread I've ever seen in relation to his trauma, which gives multiple perspectives.

^^ About how c!Tommy is treated as a scapegoat, and how, from an objective standpoint, he is no more violent than any other character, it's just that the little violence that is committed is blown far out of proportion.

^^ Tumblr user flypaw being a bad bitch, as per usual.

^^ c!Tommy being incredibly intelligent, and talking about wanting to rebuild and not destroy. A very underrated monologue of his.

^^ Something short about c!Tommy and c!Wilbur's relationship in Pogtopia.

^^ Less about c!Tommy, more a meta on L'Manberg. Really interesting to think about.

^^ A take on Doomsday.

I'll add some more posts in a reblog in the notes, but if anyone's post(s) is on this and they want me to take it off, let me know and I'll do that for you! Feel free to add your own banger c!Tommy takes or ones that you've found.