#eventually i will go back to my wips

[drmellking]

r/relationship_advice

u/hot_pilot84 • 2d ago

MY (40M) BOYFRIEND? (33M) IS IN LOVE WITH HIS BEST FRIEND (36M) AND IM THE THIRD WHEEL

I'm new to this reddit stuff, but a coworker suggested it, and I thought I'd give it a try. I probably should start saying he's not really my boyfriend??? We just started dating a few weeks ago, and it's been... interesting. But I really like him and he is a nice, sweet guy.

He recently came out, so I've been trying to be patient and understanding. But recently it's been hard to spend any time alone because his best friend is always there.

Now, I also like the guy, so I don't really mind, and to be honest, I kinda suspected from the first moment they were in love with each other. They both talk about each other all the time, and when we hang out together, I can't help but feel like intruding on an intimate moment I shouldn't be part of.

Like, our second date was at his sister's wedding and the best friend spent most of the time glued to our side. He has a son who my date adores, so they danced together for most of the party as well. It was cute, but again: it felt like intruding on a private moment.

Then we had a relaxing night at his place, eating take out on his couch and watching a movie.... when the best friend just, came in. No notice, no knocking. He has a key to the place and he just walked in. It was awkward at first but we insisted it wasn't a big deal so he stayed for tge rest of the night.

By the time I was leaving, my date was telling him to just get comfortable on the couch.

Another thing is. My date? Situationship? I don't know how to call it anymore. Well, I recently found out that he is the legal guardian of his best friend 's kid? In case anything happens? I wouldn’t find this weird at all if it wasn't for the fact this man has parents and sisters and other close family members that also have a less chance of dying along with him on the job. (They work together.)

Also. Recently, the best friend broke up with his girlfiend and called this guy in the middle of our date. So, he crashed again.

All of this to say, I'm not really hurt? This was new and sure, I like the guy. But to be honest my expectations were low. This is fairly recent, so it's not like my heart is broken and I just lost the love of my life. No, that's not the problem.

I just don't think these two know they're in love with each other, and it’s starting to get really uncomfortable for me. Should I say something? Should I talk with my date about it or just break things off and keep it vague, but that we should still be friends? Should I talk with both of them at the same time and confront the situation?

This is a situation I don't even know how to begin to get a handle on. Does anyone know where I should start?

rctherpcliarredditor • commented 1d ago

to be honest, i don't really have any advice for you. i just find this gay drama really hilarious. thoughts and prayers for you, my man 🙏🏼🙏🏼

twohottakes • commented 6hrs ago

definitely have a conversation alone with your date. point all of this out to him and tell him you don't wanna get in the middle if there's deeper feelings involved for someone else. all the luck to you, man!

storyreddit23 • commented 2hrs ago

talk to ur date!! and pls, post an update if u do. i wanna know how this ends.

[kanamedaite]

Assorted (bla)masu sketch dump

[ai-kova]

Ok, whatever, deconstructs your funyarinpa into tragic schrodingers cat girl ❤️

[bamsara]

maybe a weird/selfish question/request but have you considered maybe dropping fic updates on patreon when you’re comfortable? stuff like Solar Lunacy or whatever you might feel like doin, or would that still feel too tense for you? i understand if so!

I'm sorry but I can't do that for reasons even outside of my comfort zone! I'm not sure about other countries, but in mine fanwriting and fanart have different grey areas when it comes legality: fanart is more greenlight than fanwriting is. Plus i'm a very firm believer of not having fanfiction being put behind a paywall

[sluckythewizard]

TABLET WENT DOWN FORA MINUTE SO I WAS REDUCED TO USING PAPER AND PEN. so anyway ive been watchign this show thats kinda neat u guys prolly never heard o it its called wondey luts

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original song here // play undertale yellow

[stepswowdsen]

【KagePro】 KuroEne AU: Last Dance at World's End 🖤💛💙

Summary:

KuroEne AU (Summary)

KuroEne AU: Last Dance at World's End

KuroEne AU: MaryEne team-up against Kuroha (Summary)

KuroEne's Trysts

Saeru talks with Konoha in his mind when remembering Ene's dissatisfaction

Personal ship tastes and preferences

HaruTaka, KonoEne, and KuroEne Rambles

KuroEne AU (Summary)

I found this in my Notion docs from October 2024.

Not sure if I posted it here so I might as well.

Wasn't sure what to title this post considering the random assortment of rambles but I got the time to add to this.

I could talk about it more later, but here's a summary of my KuroEne AU.

My KuroEne AU takes place in canon-verse, but Ene can manifest in the real world by going into the motherboard via a Wi-Fi connection (located in the head of the android body that Saeru made)

(I came up with this AU in the first place back in April 2024 cuz I was trying to come up with ways for them to kiss in the real world /lh)

I'm glad I came up with such a creative and fun concept ^^ Ene being out in the real world is much more interesting for exploring her multiships' relationship dynamics and potential.

Kuroha/Saeru possesses Konoha's body much earlier in the Route (and drops Kenjirou's body much earlier), meets Ene, and proposes that he can make a humanoid android body for her.

I imagined that after all the time loop resets, Kuroha figured out a way for Ene to transfer her consciousness into a humanoid android body for certain periods of time. Whenever the body runs out of battery, she goes back to the cyber world.

Saeru is the embodiment of knowledge that possesses knowledge of the beginning of the world all the way to modern science (according to Novel Route), so he should be able to pull this off.

Kuroha/Saeru bonds with Ene, seduces his partner with carnal pleasures, and eventually becomes intimate with her.

As the Routes go on, he gets better and faster at making her body because he remembers memories of previous Routes (including past memories of being together with her). He has VERY intimate knowledge of his partner's motives, feelings, desires, etc.

And so, in each new Route, he constantly gets to add to his knowledge and experiences, and makes improvements to her body (so the battery charge goes from lasting an hour to a whole day, etc.)

KuroEne AU: Last Dance at World's End 🖤💛💙✨

I named my KuroEne AU, "Last Dance at World's End," because Kuroha/Saeru calls their intimate encounters/bouts of passion, "Dances" and "Games" and "Trysts"

It's on purpose, since it's a direct acknowledgement to Takane/Ene's "Dancer Girl" and "Gamer" themes.

Note: Takane's full online gamer name was “Lightning Dancer Ene” or “Dancing Flash Ene” (閃光の舞姫・エネ, Senkou no Maihime - Ene), where Maihime (舞姫) means “Dancer Girl” or “Dancing Princess”

KuroEne is so sexy as a ship. Like the circumstances of HaruTaka and KonoEne's context, Kuroha's omniscience and knowledge, desire, and a craving/yearning for warmth, touch, and affection and companionship on Ene's end, and the pull she feels for him because of the vessel he uses (Haruka/Konoha's body), and his intimate knowledge of her.

Cuz Saeru possesses such intimate knowledge of his partner due to his knowledge of previous Routes (timelines), he knows all their memories together, and possesses her desires and secrets, etc.

KuroEne AU: MaryEne team up against Kuroha

One of my biggest KuroEne AU Routes is a Route where Kuroha/Saeru possesses Konoha's body before the others can meet him, pretends to be an Eye Ability User (because he's in possession of Awakening Eyes), and joins the Mekakushi Dan.

He pretends to be everyone's friend while working towards his goals to kill everyone at the end, and have Mary rewind the world for the sake of keeping up his own pseudo immortality.

After killing off the rest of the MekaDan members on August 15th, Mary and Ene are the only ones left at the end, and decide to team up against him and sneak into his base (underground laboratory) to have their final confrontation with him.

Ene asks Kuroha for answers on everything she's wanted to know (his true motives to make Mary rewind the world, why he's doing all of this, why he played the game with her and made her body, etc.)

Since it's the end (grand finale), Kuroha sates her curiosity and answers her questions, and tells her his motives.

I think my KuroEne AU name, "Last Dance at World's End" is fitting. They'll give into their longing/yearning and passion for each other, one last time, before the world resets, to provide some form of closure for them.

KuroEne's Trysts

Saeru refers to their intimate encounters as "trysts"

So I imagine he uses 逢瀬 (ouse, "rendezvous; tryst; (lover's) meeting; (secret) date") and 逢引 (aibiki, "clandestine meeting (of lovers); assignation; tryst; (lovers') rendezvous")

They're not commonly used words, and kinda old-fashioned.

Describes it perfectly. A secret meeting with a lover.

Since I imagine in all Routes where Saeru doesn't meet with the rest of the MekaDan on August 15th, then he just keeps their relationship secret and meets with Ene in secret (since he lives with her)

My Ship AUs

I personally prefer dealing with all of my multiships in separate AUs. I do this for every single series I'm into, because it's much easier to work with, at least for me.

It reduces the scope of what I have to write and makes it much more doable for me, so I can just focus on my faves.

This is why I don't really delve much into MekaDan interactions in my AU until the "end game" of a Route, since I mainly just focus on the ship itself.

This is also why I separate my Ene multiships (ex. KuroEne, AyaEne, MaryEne) into different AUs.

Unless I'm writing an Ene harem on the side for funsies (which is completely separate from my main AUs for them), since it's fun to think of Kuroha -> Ene <- Ayano (especially since those two have a tense dynamic)

I'm very passionate about my fave characters and ships, and it's fun and good to explore fun and interesting/compelling dynamics, so I make them the face of my profiles cuz they're what I plan to center my fan works around.

That's why, for my ship AUs, it's focused mainly on the ship itself. But relevant secondary/background characters or ships may make cameo appearances in my AUs.

For example, in my KuroEne AU, HaruTaka (and KonoEne, depending on the Route and if Ene got to meet Konoha before Saeru possesses him or not), are relevant background/secondary ships (for obvious reasons) to set up my AU.

The 9/6 Trio Ships 🖤💛💙

I personally prefer KuroEne over KonoEne, due to my ship tastes (what I look for and favour in ships)

And also because I'm not really satisfied with how... one-sided and "unrequited" KonoEne feels in canon.

(I love them too ofc, but I have my preferences. I prefer dark and intense ships, while HaruTaka and KonoEne are very soft and gentle.)

KonoEne hardly have time to interact and meet in the main plot BECAUSE we basically only see them interact on Death day!!! That's not enough time to see how their actual dynamic works with each other.

It's definitely a criticism of mine (irt KagePro's writing), that KonoEne, the ship that is the alt version of HaruTaka, hardly gets any meaningful interactions in canon-verse.

Minimal interactions - hardly anything for the two of them (Konoha and Ene) to reflect on. And it never gets brought up again.

How about the fact that Saeru has an uncanny resemblance (in appearance) to Haruka, too, not just Konoha?

It's so odd that Ene only makes the comparison to Konoha in MR1 ❓

Especially with Haruka's ponytail here.

It's true that HaruTaka works better as a ship dynamic in comparison to KonoEne.

Haruka and Kuroha/Saeru are the perfect counters to Takane and Ene respectively, because those two can actually manage to meet her competitiveness and level of intensity as characters.

(At least imo)

I prefer Kuroha/Saeru for Ene because he perfectly fits my character and ship needs for dark eroticism (via a villain/antagonist character who serves as an "obstacle" to their S/O who clashes with them) 🥰

And also because he would be more reactive and confrontational around Ene.

Like Saeru brings out the competitive side of Ene that doesn't really come out with KonoEne imo. So KuroEne would both be pretty reactive and confrontational with each other.

I have a craving for competitiveness and tension in my ships, and Saeru fulfills my tastes.

He is perfect to be paired with my wife ✌️

Art: Highspeed Fujimori (@/highspeed_f)

Colour Edit and Slight Redraw Edits: Sen (@/stepswordsen)

This is why I personally prefer KuroEne and HaruTaka the most out of the 9/6 pairs.

Unlike Konoha (imo), Kuroha/Saeru and Haruka can actually manage to match Ene and Takane's level of intensity and competitive nature as charas.

I always felt like Ene purposefully imposes and creates a distance between her and Konoha.

The distance that Ene imposes is not only cuz of her tendency to avoid confronting her more negative feelings and keep them to herself (to avoid worrying others), but also directly a response that comes from her grief and regrets over Haruka.

She wants to try to protect/shield her wounded heart and hurt feelings, and her love, and desperately hold onto those feelings (because she can't move on from her past memories, those happy times)

Kuroha/Saeru is the only KagePro chara that can provide the kind of tension and conflict that I prefer in my ships.

Saeru aligns perfectly with my Meow meow mf character preferences (as a chara with dark urges) and my ship tastes, so he's a natural choice/pick for my wife 💖🌟✨

KuroEne's personalities/dynamic mesh well together 🖤💙

Their personalities are pretty balanced, so they don't clash too much, which is why they honestly work way better than KuroTaka (whose personalities are pretty imbalanced. They'd clash too much)

I also prefer that Saeru is more dangerous, thrilling, and intense, and also more reactive towards Ene.

KuroEne is a ship that's filled with conflict and tension and hostility, due to Ene's conflicted feelings...

One reason that I love them is because the ship just has higher stakes.

The realization that Ene has that her lover is the one bringing about the end of the world is especially tasty... The world is hanging in the balance here.

I love imagining them riling each other up on purpose... Saeru teasing Ene to see her flustered reactions, and Ene getting bold and feisty with him... 🥰💞

Saeru's existence as a character just solves the issue that KonoEne would run into, with Ene putting a wall around herself.

Saeru would immediately see through and be able to figure out Ene's true feelings. He can read her feelings better than anyone else can, exactly because of his knowledge, observational skills, and ability to read people.

Someone that can see past Ene's outer exterior/front that she shows to people, and confront her so that she can be more honest...

When it comes to Ene, Kuroha/Saeru works the best for that. 😌

Especially when Kuroha/Saeru is the type that's insanely good at reading people. It's his specialty. Ene is done for /lh

Saeru knows exactly how to bait/goad people to get under their skin to get what he wants (and get reactions out of them)

This is why I say that Kuroha/Saeru weaponizes knowledge. He wields words as weapons, too. Knowledge is power.

And he possesses the most knowledge in the entire world. ✌️

Like this character (Saeru) just solves all problems for me (other than the ones he created lmfao) with his wit and character set-up.

(Yeah there's the murder and betrayal ofc and Saeru encouraging his S/O's descent into moral corruption by feeding their carnal urges, as well as causing the deaths of their loved ones. His love only results in destruction at the end - his love could only manifest in this way. But that only makes them more interesting to me...) ☺️

Saeru talks with Konoha

I wrote a dialogue script about this that's still in the drafts.

So I'll sum it up for now.

I feel like, at some point, Saeru would be the one to point out to Konoha (similar to how he talks to Konoha in his mind in MR2) about Konoha's selflessness and lack of exclusitivity of affection

Saeru tells Konoha that the way he treats everyone as just a "friend" is exactly what he finds so boring about him.

And because he (Saeru) witnessed Ene's disappointment/disatisfaction about this in previous Routes (since Ene would definitely want to be treated as more than just a friend, but wouldn't know how to express it)

Saeru begins to muses to himself. The cause of this disatisfaction? Obviously, it must be because of everything that he (Konoha) lacks...

What he deems as Konoha's "defective" need to protect his friends even at the cost of his own life.

And so he just tries to take away everything Konoha had/gained for himself.

"You're always so equal and impartial. How dreadfully dull."

"Don't worry... I'll take your place..."

"I'll take care of your most beloved one."

My Fave Ship Tastes

I have an obvious Antagonist Meow Meow x Soft empathetic S/O bias (all of my main fave ships are this ship trope LMAO)

I love ships that are intense and dangerous and full of conflict and tension. I love competitiveness for my ships.

My chara prefs: That's why I favour evil meow meow mf charas with dark urges. I favour the charas that are the most interesting to read/watch. Morally gray charas and villains have such theatrical performances, it's like watching a stage show. And they are often the most interestingly written/designed charas.

With my ship tastes, I prefer ships that are darkly erotic.

I love dark and twisted charas (as long as they're compelling).

I love sadistic meow meow mfs with a desire for domination and control (in general and in bedroom intimacy) 🥰

The intensity and dangerousness of their dynamic is exactly what appeals to me about them, and I think this aspect of having more tension and conflict, and/or intensity and danger, is present in all of my main ships.

My favourite type is when the Meow Meow Mf chara is a menace to the world and/or their lover 🥰

So basically, I prefer when one or both charas are trying to kill each other (and/or, others)

[znthra]

don't mind me... playing tuoys...

[twinkuraba]

Haven't been able to art much, so have some twewy FFX AU WIPs I'm 90% certain I haven't posted outside of a discord server.

[stargatebarbie]

WIP Wednesday

Thanks as always to the lovely @spurious!

Current WIPs

Sinkhole fic 🫣 Resin Flowers Adventures in Babysitting

This week's ✨WIP Wednesday Theme✨ is...

WIP the Rainbow!

Send a coloured heart emoji and I'll search my WIPs for a sentence where that colour appears and post it. If it's not in the WIP, I have to add a sentence to the draft.

Please feel free to join in with your own wips too!

[aashidoodles]

And here is my plot summary doodle leading up to the end of act 1

To any newcomers interested in reading some more rf5 doodles, here's the masterpost

[wooahaes]

hi, i hope you're doing okay. i miss you xo

hi nonny im hanging in there!! lots of stuff has been going on between grad school work + health-related stuff so i havent rly been able to sit down to work on longer writing like i would for this blog

i am still active over on @nonranghaes tho if u arent aware!! its all unformatted shorter stuff that i kinda write off the cuff when i feel like it (sometimes vent-y since it helps with (gestures vaguely to everything))

miss u too tho ill eventually try to write and post for this blog again i hope :(

[philtstone]

“shoutout to ice age fr” has my curiosity piqued 😂👀

im pretty sure i wrote about this one in the last wip meme as well and i havent made any more progress on it (rip) but "shoutout to ice age fr" is titled thusly because in my mind ice age is the quintessential road trip fic and this story -- as it manifested in zainabs dms like 6 months ago -- is a canon divergence road trip au in which pre-series post-college juliet o'hara gets cold feet about taking her detective exam & with the weight of her daddy issues on her shoulders flees miami with a backpack no destination to Avoid Her Troubles.

this of course overlaps with the canonical years of shawns Travels, so they run into each other at some random truck stop in savannah and make a pact to road trip together for 2 reasons: shawns bike has broken down and hes out of cash; juliet has cash but is getting increasingly uncomfortable accepting rides from strangers as a girl alone. she very tentatively decides to trust him (even a juliet who is actively fleeing her daddy issues is incapable of escaping her narrative curse) and shawn in turn accepts the sudden and new presence of a person who like. has expectations of him. he's also obviously on the run from his own daddy issues and also obviously incapable of escaping them. kismet or whatever.

where is gus in all this? you may ask. well, in this universe, to Prove He Can Make Something Of Himself gus did not take the obvious pharmaceutical job in SB but, post shawn departure, went out in the world to be an entrepreneur and has failed spectacularly. but he cant bear to return home in defeat so he is not fleeing from daddy issues per say but he is certainly fleeing.

they run into him in like, wisconsin or something. shawn convinces him to come along on their roadtrip and there are a lot of excellently-vibed montages of the three of them wheeling around shawns busted bike and waiting around to be picked up by passerbys and falling asleep against each others shoulders in the backs of pickup trucks.

THEN, in some random town in the middle of nowhere, theyre almost arrested for loitering. shawn gets them out of it by claiming hes a psychic.

suddenly

they realize

they can like. make money. by offering people "psychic readings". money that they need for food and motels and bike fixing. so they do.

what follows is a chaotic road trip of self-discovery and friendship and feelings! and learning how to be brave! also they run into lassiter in like fresno or something bc hes transferred there post-divorce and he doesnt come with them but juliet starts sending him post cards.

here's an excerpt from the 3 sentences i have written:

“You have no phone, Shawn! You’re basically unreachable!” “I am not!” “Functionally, you are unreachable. You are! I can’t call a pay phone!” “Who carries a cellular phone around on them at all times, Gus?” “Working professionals!” “Which neither of us are, clearly — ow —!” Shawn twists away from Gus’s – yes, Juliet is seeing correctly – pinching finger.  “It’s the principle!” “Those things are so ugly and huge! Where would I even put it?” “On your belt. It goes on your belt.” “I don’t have a belt.” “You are wearing a belt right now —”

[ethosiab]

Guys I have ocs too. Check her out she's been the thing keeping me hinged since I was 12

[delta-piscium]

blatantly making [DnD character’s] backstory a steddie fic for wip weekend please I am so intrigued!!

oh thank you!!! You have no idea how excited I am that you requested this, this fic is my (very neglected) baby !! (and based on my favorite PC who is a human bard called Max in a modern campaign setting, i just wanted to share that lmao)

“Steve? Eddie?” Someone calls from the other room and they spring apart. “Where did you go?” “Uhh,” Eddie says and Steve rolls his eyes. “Just getting water,” he calls back, “we’ll be out soon.” “Get me an ice cream too,” the someone, who Steve now realizes is definitely Dustin, shouts before he hears the back door sliding open and then shut again.  He waits a couple of seconds to be sure they're alone again and then raises an eyebrow at Eddie. “Uhh,” he parrots. “There’s not a lot of blood in my brain, kinda difficult to think” Eddie snipes back but he’s smiling. Steve tilts his head, “I make it hard for you to think straight?”  Eddie gives him an unimpressed look, “that’s the worst thing anyone has ever said to me Harrington, and I had an angry mob with pitchforks after me.” Steve shrugs, “what are you gonna do about it?” Then he lets a slow smile spread across his lips, and glances down at Eddies ‘no blood in his brain situation’ “big boy.” Eddie’s jaw audibly snaps shut and when Steve looks up he’s giving him a wide-eyed look. ‘Yeah, got him back for that one’ Steve thinks, satisfied to have some leverage back between them.  Eddie closes his eyes and takes a deep breath. “You are gonna have to stay so far away from me Harrington, or I will jump your bones and traumatize all our friends even more than they already are. Then when everyone has left I will deal with all,” he waves a hand between them, “this.” “You keep calling me Harrington,” Steve points out, “what, no more baby? Sweetheart? Princess?” Eddie turns on his heel.  “So far away,” he shouts over his shoulder.

(very late) WIP weekend (Wednesday)/make me write

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