I think something's wrong with my copy of Super Mario World
i only realised now that this was a submission and not a drawing prompt because i just noticed your signature on the top left 💀 take it as a testament to how well your pixel art miku blended in!
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10-year age-gap akeshu AU in which, after an especially bad night, 16-year-old akira’s family situation has degraded so irreparably that he finally runs away to tokyo, like he’s always planned to. still in bad shape from his escape, he gets reluctantly picked up by a woman not that much older than him and recuperates at her apartment, where he meets her very hostile, very overprotective son.
it takes a while for 6-year-old goro to realize that akira isn’t one of his mother’s usual “clients”. despite akira’s flight-or-fight instinct button-mashing RUN out of fear of stagnating in one location for too long, in typical joker fashion, he stays with the akechi family to help them through hard times—praising and pampering goro when his mother is too tired to acknowledge him, and pulling mamakechi back to reality when she teeters between picking her poison: a rope hung from the rickety ceiling fan, a long, cold bath, a step off the balcony… he’d barged into their life a year before things would have broken permanently, and patiently patched up the cracks that would have deepened into permanent fissures.
goro in particular takes a liking to the new addition in their household. akira is the only other person he has met who treats him so nicely and gently and attentively—even more so than his own mother. he always seems genuinely happy to see goro come home from school, and frequently offers to take goro out on “adventures” to tour museums, visit aquariums, pet the alley cats, and so on. with him around, goro doesn’t have to wait at the bathhouse anymore. he grows to revere akira as the darling guardian angel his mother had brought home just for him.
in the end, having satisfied the selfless side of his nature, the selfish side has akira running away once again. he thinks his role has been fulfilled, and that he shouldn’t keep disrupting a family that isn’t his. he couldn’t have been more wrong.
and so, goro grows up with a doting mother and an awful, gaping hole where half of his heart should be. that is, until he meets a familiar stranger in Mementos—then again, in an innocuous coffee shop halfway across tokyo.
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a look at the top ten men’s basketball rpf pairings on ao3
(Important Note: I collected data from 2011-2024, but in doing so I excluded five fics in the tag. The first fic ever uploaded to the tag was from 2004 (!!) and it would have skewed the rest of the charts.)
On ao3, the top ten tagged relationships in the men's basketball rpf tag are as follows:
Stephen Curry/Klay Thompson (160)
Stephen Curry/LeBron James (97)
Kevin Durant/Russell Westbrook (46)
Kyrie Irving/LeBron James (34)
DeMar DeRozan/Kyle Lowry (30)
Anthony Davis/LeBron James (30)
Pau Gasol/Juan Carlos Navarro (22)
Juan Carlos Navarro/Ricky Rubio (20)
Jaylen Brown/Jayson Tatum (12)
LeBron James/Dwyane Wade (11)
The last two pairings should be "Nikola Jokić/Jamal Murray (14)" and then "Jaylen Brown/Jayson Tatum (12)" but for some reason ao3 hasn't updated the tag (I do not know why).
Stephen Curry/Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry/LeBron James are the most popular pairings in the tag. Ironically, the huge spike in 2022 was caused by one single ao3 writer, who uploaded 35 fics for that pairing alone.
75% Steph/Klay and 95% Steph/Bron fics were in English!
(Note: I am not the most familiar with Warriors lore, so I assume the spike in 2019 is because that year had peak Steph/Klay vibes, but I digress.)
Every pairing other than Steph/Klay and Steph/LeBron are "rarepairs" (including any other Warriors pairing).
The maximum amount of fics for a rarepair have only ever reached twelve fics in a single year. Other rarepairs in the tag outside of the top ten have less than twelve fics in total!
Before Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and LeBron James, the tag was dominated by Spanish national team players: Juan Carlos Navarro, Pau Gasol and Ricky Rubio. Combined all together, these players have over 40 fics attached to their names!
Anthony Davis/LeBron James is mostly a foreign language ship. Out of the 30 fics for that pairing, there are only four English fics!
Lots of fics were created after the players for that pairing stopped being teammates: for ex. KD/Russ, Kyrie/Bron and DeMar/Kyle!
If you'd like to see more analysis of the men's basketball rpf tag on ao3, you can look through my #nba rpf analysis tag! ✨
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