#gdi I need like. ten more tags

[tadbitfooled]

friend got done with the fight and I was talking about the romance scene...But like. Soft faces?? love them. I just love the expressions in this game in general.

[keirou-kun]

y'know what, fuck it. Because I feel like it. Some of my tags probably seem random AF to anyone who's looking at them, and I like the stories behind them so I'mma tell some of them and you can't fucking stop me because this is my blog and I do what I want around here.

But I’ll at least shove it under a cut bc it’s longish XD if you want to know about a tag I didn’t mention, there’s an askbox somewhere around here owo

General Tags: Audible Emotion is my music tag, because I have said for almost four decades that music is what emotions sound like.

So Let It Be Written is my positivity tag, because gdi we need this shit and it felt right to use that even if some of the positive stuff in there isn't actually written or a wish, it's just positive, feel-good shit.

Ship Tags: Gunblade, because at one point I think that was the actual ship name for them. Yes I was a Homestuck. No I am not ashamed of this fact. The fandom was a trash fire but the story was damn fucking good.

I Know, because that is one of the rawest, most emotional replies you could give in that context to someone confessing their love and to this day I adore the fact that that was Harrison's idea to say rather than have Han tell Leia he loves her too. Also it just defines their entire relationship.

Shadowed Flame, because Hughes is Roy's shadow and also it sounds damned poetic, fight me.

Mirrors of Wisdom because I stole it from a friend after 'And they were roommates' got old XD And because they are. Haitham himself admits that Kaveh is his perfect mirror [though naturally never to Kaveh's face XD]

Fox and Hound because well -gestures at them- Tighnari is a fox, Cyno is Anubis-coded and his constellation is 'Lupus Aureus' which translates roughly to 'Golden Wolf', I mean come on.

Raining Fire because of Ayato's Burst making it rain in an AOE effect and Thoma being a Pyro user. Also it sounds pretty and it's a very evocative phrase.

Hurricane because I mean have you met them? Anemo plus Hydro with Electro = Storm.

Disarm because of an old Wolfwood AMV set to the song of the same name by the Smashing Pumpkins and, honestly? The more I see of the pair the more that song fucking fits them and it hurts.

Persona Non Grata because I think I'm funny. It's also a dig at Akechi that my Joker would 100% use.

Cross-stitch because that's the actual ship name for them and it's still funny almost ten years later.

Character Tags: Stay Frosty because it just sounds like something Kaeya would say, the smartass.

Hydro Bastard Man because that's what I've been calling Tartaglia for ages and it amuses me.

Anemo Twerp because he's a fucking twerp. Also he uses Anemo, but mostly he's a fucking twerp XD

Stranger in a Strange Land because A: I love the way it sounds and always have, and B: it's what he is.

Little Lost Firefly, because in Japanese her name is Hotaru. Which means Firefly. [His name is Sora, for Sky, if you're curious]

Himboni because well, have you met Itto?

Fallen Captain because it is 100% how he sees himself and I can't think of anything better for Dain. I'm working on it.

Cousin Keiji because my personal P5 Protag is named Keiji, and my sibling's friendgroup has this thing where all their Protags are related [generally various iterations of sibling-hood] so I just declared mine to be a cousin since his last name is Kyouraku rather than either canonical one. Thus, Cousin Keiji.

Wisteria Warrior because one of the kanji in Saitou's name translates to 'Wisteria', and I think it suits Hakuouki!Saitou.

Eyes of Sky because have you seen Gojou Satoru's eyes? They are unfair to the extreme. Also I couldn't think of anything better.

SHSL Average Joe because have you met Hinata Hajime? He's so mediocre he'd get an Honorable Mention at a mediocrity competition. And he knows it.

[dirtbag-linecook-kyloren]

I just found your diner AU? (Sorry not sure what it's called) but it's amazing. I'm invested in stressed out student Hux and grumpy line cook Ren/Ben. Please tell me is Rey is the owner who inherited the diner from Luke or Leia, are finn and poe general managers, what's phasma's roll? Is Rose their maintenance or HR person? And is there more to read? Thanks.

(The fic tag on my blog for this is Hands off Hands out, because that's what we say when we finish an order, and then when we need servers to get it out of the window. Hands off we don't say much, but it can be helpful, but Hands out is probably said seventy times an hour at lunch, because something about lunch makes servers lazy about running food, especially when no one is on window and Expo is trying to do both jobs)

HELLO I NOW WISH IT HAD BEEN A DINER

i have worked in a lot of restaurants but the first one was called broadway diner in Missouri where I went to school, dropped out, and turned to the food service industry so i didn't have to move back home. It had seven booths and a ten seat counter and I was a sassy waitress it was great. During a hippie film festival one year I rented a sailor costume from a local shop and we had a special small menu and it WAS the peak of my serving career I was so cute. I have the diner acumen I could have done this gdi

BUT, this is definitely a steak house based off the one I work at now. We have an open kitchen, because the restaurant was founded when those were cool, and the whole thing is build around a wood fire grill at one end that honestly? It's so hot but does cook a very cool burger and we get to keep a shopping cart full of wood that we 100% stole from a walmart around. (It used to be a costco cart but those are too big, it was taking up to much space. I have never asked how we got the walmart cart here, as the nearest walmart is a mile away, while we're right next to a costco)

Our line is one section, and then theres a dividing wall, and right behind it is the prep area, or true back of house, as it were. there are technically two kitchen doors, but I've deciding that clarifying which one their going through at any time would be more confusing than just trusting the reader to go with me on this journey. The dish pit is off one, as is the server alley, and the management office and back door is off of the other. The only cues will be context or something

BUT, time for the actually back story. Leia Organa is the anakin, an anthony bourdain-esque figure who was not great to his wife and died of an overdose because the industry is rife with substance problems. this likely wont be covered in the fic, but it's fun backstory. She, having learned to love the industry but also learning from her father's mistakes, started opening restaurants and not doing drugs, and she eventually hired Han Solo as a manager. They fell in love, but she's a professional, so she sold the restaurant to someone to open another, and they started dating. Eventually, they got married and opened some unnamed restaurant. They sold that, and opened this restaurant, and everything was going great. Ben is conceived and grows up in this restaurant, and also comes to love food. Then a recession hits, and business is bad. Han and Leia start fighting, argue about management and other things, eventually they divorce. Han buys out Leia's half of the restaurant, she starts doing her own thing with those funds.

Right around this time, Ben is trying to break into the industry, and he doesn't want to work for his dad, so he starts working at the restaurant that his uncle Luke manages. Doesn't own, because he thinks owning a restaurant is a seperation from truly being in it, or something dumb. This Does Not Go Well. He leaves and works a shitty, back breaking minimum wage job at a NOMA-esque restaurant run by snoke. Maybe he develops a coke habit, but there's definitely a drinking problem, because he's working fuckin 70 hour weeks and barely has enough energy to breathe let alone take care of himself. He absolutely burns out, walks out during a shift and never goes back.

After a month of moping, he comes to work at the millenium falcon, the restaurant our story takes place in. It used to be called something else, but Leia kept the naming rights to the previous restaurant, so there was a rebrand. It wasn't a petty thing, the name was incredibly sentimental to her, but idk enough about star wars to make up that name. I'm open to suggestions

Which Brings us to your actual question, which I 100% have an answer to, because I've assigned most of the main characters their staff positions.

Hux, obviously, is lead host. I doubt he has a key to the restaurant, but he's the guy who makes sure all of the servers are doing their side work and organizes the alley. In return for this work, he makes $4/hour instead of the state minimum $2.13, which isn't much but is something, and since he's 100% not claiming his cash tips, it doesn't affect him too much, come tax season.

Ben is a key holder, and mainly manages so that his dad can have some time to hang out and not be in the restaurant. You can love a place and still get tired of being there.

Han is the owner-operator. If something goes wrong, ultimately, the fault runs up to him. He hates this, wishes it was still Leia's problem, but understands her decisions. (They still talk, she comes in every once in a while. It's a cordial relationship.)

Rey is the Front of House Manager. This means a couple of things. 1) she does the ordering for things like liquor and bar cordials, and probably also glassware and flatware. She decides how sections are set out, what reservations windows look like, and which POS they're going to use. (Han doesn't care as long as it uses paper tickets. Big order screens kind of ruin the open kitchen look.) She's also the person who tries to calm a table down when their food is taking too long or someone gets too drunk, and she's Very Good At It.

Mitaka is Lead Host. If you make a reservation, you're likely talking to him. I haven't decided if the restaurant will have bussers, yet, because we don't, and if not, Mitaka will also help clear and clean tables to create a faster turnover rate.

The Knights of Ren all work various positions on the line. They exist as periphery characters because a restaurant this size needs a lot of people to function. They'll all get nicknames because they have silly star wars names and I can't handle them, honestly.

Poe is a bartender. Look that man in the eyes and tell me he's not a bartender. You can't, because he is.

Finn is a tough one for me. Right now, he's a server, because it was plot convenient for me. Originally, I had him doing togo orders, because togo is the bridge between FOH and BOH like he is between the first order and the resistance, and it made sense for me. He may end up serving as both, because we have a few people that do that.

Rose is another character that mainly exists in the background? I don't know much about her so I just have her as a server, and she may end up developing an importance but as of now, she's just rolling silverware and taking orders in the miasma of this story.

Phasma, my sweet, lovely, wonderfully tall queen, is a pantry cook. They do salads, fry, and dessert and are often one person doing the job of two. I'm a pantry cook, I'm putting a lot of love into her, because I fuckin love pantry, as I am a mad woman.

(If you were wondering Ben is competent at all of the stations but he mainly works expo or grill. Han can do all of them, but he prefers dish, because when you're on the line all the time being a dishie for a day is a fuckin vacation. It's a day where no one is yelling at you unless they need plates and everything can be solved pretty easily. my first BOH job was a dishie job at a dennys I have a soft spot for it.)

Realistically, I need a few more people to fill out the actual story, and I may just straight up borrow my coworkers bc we have some wild people.

And I'm not kidding when I say most of the major plot points are things that truly happened at my restaurant. It's been a great source of inspiration.

Also please let me know if any of my terms aren't common knowledge and need to be explained? Like I don't expect people to know a santoku by name but beyond that I'm really trying to feel out what the general knowledge base for restaurants in the regular world is. not even in a pretenious way but in like a "why would regular people need to know what a cambro is, and that while yes, cambro is a brand name, when used as a improper noun, refers to a 22 or 12 quart container like this

[evak-fic-rec-turtleanon]

Evak Fics - Pining

I’m posting half of this list first because I started it a long time ago and it’s taking me a while to go through all the fics. So I will update with more later. 

*** Mutual Pining *** Pining - I might put mutual pining under pining if we don't see much of the other person pining. *** Bonus - The pining is not between Evak 

For the anon from this ask.

I will try my best to separate out the mutual pining fics but I think it will be tricky if it's not tagged as that. So bear with me and let me know of any mistakes or fics I missed out on.

. First Posting : 11 July 2021. Under 15k fics.  .

******* Mutual Pining *******

Even the Illustrator by eavk (SERIES, 3 fics) - An AU where Even’s an illustrator who draws what kids describe to him for YouTube, and Isak is the smitten father of a six year old with a wild imagination.

Postcards by HedwigsTalons (1k words) - Isak's wall is covered in postcards. Isak is supportive of Even's career and he cherishes every postcard but the long distance relationship hurts.

Feelings Come and Go, But Not With You by ultimatelawrence (1.9k words) - It was meant to just be a holiday romance. A fling. Nothing like love. But now it was six months later and Even was still pining over the angel he had met in Paris.

let's pretend into forever by Bellakitse (2.3k words) - “Let me get this straight,” Even starts. “You lied to your boss about having a boyfriend, told her it was me, and now you need me to go with you to your science nerd dinner?”

i will love you until the very, very end (and you were my best friend) by traumatic (2.4k words) - Isak and Even share something in the cool waters of a spring fed pool that no one, not even their fiancées, could ever understand.

Breathe Me by photographer_of_thoughts (4.5k words) - A high school reunion brings Isak and Even together after ten years, and neither of them can forget what happened when they were both seventeen.

Everything comes back to you by MermaidsandMermen (4.8k words) - Light pining. A dribble oneshot for Halloween, full of fluff and Even and Isak and a tiny pinch of angst. Because we need some Halloween fluff. That's all.

Fuck Tha Police by MacksDramaticShenanigans (5.2k words) - “This,” Eskild said, spinning the photograph around so everyone could see it, “is a picture of the latest piece of vandalism from our favorite little street punk.” he finished with a heavy sigh. They are both cops.

i tried to be strong but i lost it (i knew it was wrong, i’m beyond it) (6.3k words) - Even has a thing for his intern, Isak has a thing for his boss, they're both a bit clueless and their friends just want them to get their shit together.

all I see is you by littlemovie (Lejla) (7.4k words) - “Aren’t you gonna ask me why I’m a bad person?” Isak somehow whined and demanded at the same time. Jonas blew out a breath in amusement, which made the dark curls on his forehead move with his breath. “I’m guessing it has something to do with that guy, Even, from the coffeeshop?”

Addicted by endlessandinfinite (8k words) - They’re both completely, overwhelmingly, and incredibly...addicted. Best friends to lovers.

Calleth You, Cometh I by Kollakolan (8.4k words) - “Isak!” Mikaels pipes up. “Didn´t you two have a thing?” he turns to Even. A thing, Even thinks to himself. Yes, Isak and him definitely had a thing. They actually had a low-key thing going for years, but it never really turned into something more. The timing was never right.

In Vino Veritas by Sabeley (9.9k words) - After seven years apart, Isak wakes up to find Even in his bed and a wedding ring on his finger.

Let Me by GayaIsANerd (10.6k words) - Summer brings a lot of things. The smell of sunscreen. The sound of children playing in the shallow part of the lake. The taste of cold beer. The sweet tang of weed. But most importantly, summer brings Isak.

Something Borrowed, Something Blue by BluebeardsWife (10.8k words) - Fake dating AU, you know the drill. Even hires Isak to pretend to be his boyfriend at his ex's wedding. This Means Nothing to Me by cuteandtwisted (10.8k words) - Isak and Even are friends and roommates who don't believe in love anymore (after they both get dumped by other people) until they do. Aka the Friends/Roommates-To-Lovers Don't you let me go by solarpower21 (12.2k words) - In this universe, Isak and Even are roomates and nothing more. Except that there is something more between them and they both know that but are too stubborn to admit it. Too bad it takes a very unfortunate event for them to face the truth. Burn Down The Disco by TheGirlNoOneKnows5 (12.2k words) - A 'Black Mirror: Hang The DJ' AU in which Isak and Even decide to rebel against a futuristic dating system that pairs users up with various people in order to find their perfect match.

La Petite Mort by EvenbechNeiheim (13.4k words) - Even Bech Næsheim is one of those cool and very hot media students at Uni who might just got the task to make a film project. Eskild is the best wingman and things like accidently falling in love with an asshole media student happen. Based on the FIRST KISS YouTube video that gave the internet an entire meltdown. 

when your heart is bleeding, i'm coming to get you by orphan_account (13.5k words) - Isak doesn't exactly expect his hookup from last week to be the love advice columnist at the school newspaper he's working at. He also doesn't expect to fall even harder for him than he already has, which is a shame, really, since Even's crushing on someone else. 

Heal My Heart for Christmas by iwritetropesnottragedies (recklesslee) (13.5k words) - It’s been ten years since Isak left his small town for the big city of Oslo with his father. He hardly even thought of his time there anymore. Until he received a letter from his mother asking him to come home for Christmas for the first time since he had left. 

Love in the Time of COVID: Battlestar Edition by sweetasmaple (14k words) - Isak and Even find each other again during the COVID-19 lockdown, one Battlestar Galactica episode at a time. 

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******* Pining *******

never seemed so alive by retts (1k words) - Nothing special, just four letters strung together to spell out E V E N but they made Isak's heart race and his face blush and his hands tremble.

Hopeless by waitineedaname (1k words) - Light pining. There was no way in hell Isak would be able to talk to Even. He was tall and cool and handsome, and Isak was pretty sure talking to him would make him spontaneously combust.

i could probably just curl up in you. by milominderbinder (1.3k words) - Isak is away at a cabin with the guys when he gets a text from Even. 'hey, babe, did you take my favourite hoodie?' He is, of course, outraged that Even would accuse him of such treachery. The fact that Isak is wearing the hoodie at that very moment has nothing to do with it.

stuck on you (what did i do?) by itjustkindahappened (1.8k words) - It’s not that Even doesn’t try to be friendly with him—Isak just makes it so hard. Whenever Even approaches, Isak either makes up a fumbling excuse to leave, or just becomes really stiff and refuses to acknowledge Even’s existence.

now and forever (i will be your man) by thekardemomme (2.2k words) -Warning for pain. 3 times isak kisses even +1

i be up in the gym just working on my fitness by orphan_account (2.3k words) - Even knows that he's quite literally going to die when he finds his crush sweating on an elliptical, reading a book with his glasses slipping down his nose.

You know where I stay by nofeartina (2.4k words) - Warning for pain. Isak is so beautiful first thing in the morning. When he still has creases in his face from the pillow, when his face is red and puffy from sleep, his hair all messed up and curly. Even prefers this Isak. This is his Isak, this is only for him.

won't you be my livewire by itjustkindahappened (3.2k words) - "i've been tryin to grab your attention in class for over half an hour by poking you and throwing things onto your desk and you're refusing to acknowledge me and gdi all i wanted to do was tell you that you look cute and now it's gone too far and i can't go back"

Cookies and Cream by GayaIsANerd (3.5k words) - Isak has a crush on the barista. He's too scared to do anything about it, but luckily there's a blizzard coming up.

i can feel the weather in my bones by EvenbechNeiheim (3.7k words) - Isak and Even are childhood friends. There’s a boyfriend sweater and Isak is just desperate to wear it.

On the silver screen by Lokkanel (4k words) - Isak was really not in the mood for this. He had a long week at work, and all he wanted was to relax with his friend, drink a few beers, maybe even smoke some weed and just chill. But no. When Jonas called him to say that he won tickets to the coolest indie film festival in Oslo, Isak knew he could forget his plans for a quiet and simple weekend.

I want to love you (in my own language) by fauu_stine (4k words) - “Okay. Maybe I’m not happy,” he admits in a resigned whisper. “Do you need a shrink discussion or a best friend discussion?” "I think- I think it’s more of a friend with benefits kind of talk."

Don't be an ass by Julieseven (4.1k words) - Even really tried to forget about him. It started out as a harmless little crush, really. He saw him at the karaoke bar SYNG one night, singing "I don't want to miss a thing" at the top of his lungs, clearly drunk out of his mind, but looking like an angel with his messy dark blond locks and crooked smile.

Little Black Book by Laika (4.3k words) - Isak Valtersen is studying his third year at the University of Oslo and having the time of his life. Enter Evy Bech Næsheim, straight out of Nissen, in his stockings, mini skirts and bubblegum scented lip gloss.

cracks in our foundation by towonderland72 (4.8k words) - “You know, like a thousand years ago, men used to wear makeup?” Even asks, as Isak gapes at himself.

Safest With You (Green Curtains) by eavk (5.3k words) - Isak keeps staying up too late studying at the library, but luckily there's an escort service that gives students a buddy to walk with to keep safe at night.

the one with the prom video by thekardemomme (5.5k words) - Even has been in love with Isak since they were younger, but he never intended for Isak to find out this way.

Senses by Lokkanel (5.5k words) - Sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste… Or Even falling in love with Isak, one sense at a time.

you're the one i wanna grey with (5.6k words) - They've only been dating a month, so Isak shouldn't be pathetic enough to miss Even this much when he's only gone for a weekend.

Orion's Nebula by thekardemomme (5.6k words) - Light pining I think. Even Bech Næsheim was enrolled in an astronomy class for one reason and one reason only: the cute ass boy he saw standing in the registration line.

with the taste of a poison paradise by chasingflower (6k words) - It’s routine by now. Isak hangs out with his friends during the day and at night he kisses the Dream-Even that lives on the other side of the door in his living room, and basks in the warm fuzzy feelings he gets as a result of the attention. Coraline Au.

How to Get Your Man - A Plan By Even Bech Naesheim by Evakkk (6.1k words) - When Magnus drops a big secret in front of Even... Even comes up with a brilliant plan to get Isak to reveal his true feelings. All it takes is one little lie, and one crazy family reunion.

To Burn With Desire by photographer_of_thoughts (6.1k words) - AU in which Isak and Even are neighbours and Isak's father has a secret job that unintentionally helps Isak realize he's in love with his best friend.

Watermelon Sugar by MermaidsandMermen (6.6k words) - A little tribute to fruit and touching. To sex, and friendships and finding what you were looking for all along. And of course inspired by Harry Styles latest video offering, just because.

The Fake Boyfriend App by Crazyheart (7.2k words) - AU where Isak is desperately pining for his flatmate Even, and downloads a fake boyfriend app to get over him. When he discovers that the Fake boyfriend is a human, and not a bot, he is sceptical.

That look you give that guy by Lokkanel (7.4k words) - Isak and Even love each other in secret. It is almost thrilling at first, but when hiding and lying to their friends begin to take a toll on Even, Isak decides to end it all. He thinks he has taken the right decision, until Even eventually moves on with someone else.

my longing drives me crazy for you (7.7k words) - Isak's mum worries, Isak makes bad life decisions and Even loves Isak. It's a fake dating au.

I'm Always Here by nofeartina (9.3k words) - “Did you know that Even is working this summer? At that pool at the Plaza?” Jonas says. Isak actually sits up in excitement at this. “Fuck yeah!” Oh, a pool. Actual water they could go swimming in and cool down. And also, Even.

a garden for your love by eggsntoast (9.3k words) - He’s learning to breathe with them, even if he ends up with a floor full of violets by the end of it all. They remind Isak of him, and that’s all that matters. That’s what makes it worse. or: a Hanahaki au ft. Isak heavily pining after Even. Lots of angst.

I wrote an angry letter to the void, and the void responded (9.5k words) - Monday comes, and the book is still there. Isak looks around, content to find the floor practically empty, before giving the book the finger. Fuck that book. - a book finds it's way to Isak's sacred study spot. this proves to be a major distraction.

a constant state of closeness by chevythunder (9.7k words) - “What is it about this dude, anyway?” Elias asks. “You’ve barely even talked to him, right?” “I don’t know,” Even says. “I just got this feeling, you know? Just- I want to make sure he’s okay and safe and… stuff.” - It starts with a hug.

Is This Our Time? by Evakkk (9.9k words) - This is a world where everyone is born with an indistinguishable soulmate mark... it only changes into something recognizable, once you have physical contact with your soulmate, and it's always something meaningful to the relationship. Both partners will bear the same mark. Isak is about to turn 18... and he's the only one in his friend group who still hasn't found their soulmate. But what happens when he goes out one night, gets drunk... and wakes up with his soulmate mark?

Is This What You Wanted? by cuteandtwisted (9.9k words) - Isak is filthy rich and Even is a hardworking male model who just got signed to his father's agency. Even gets an awful offer from Isak: one night with him in exchange for money, and begins to despise him. Little does he know that everything he thinks he knows about Isak is wrong.

Just like in the movies by Lokkanel (10.5k words) - As he began taking in his surroundings, Isak realized he was in one of those small theaters that programmed independent and artsy movies, even old black and white films. He was ready to turn around and walk away when he heard a deep voice say, “Halla.”

my tiny heartbeat in his ear by riyku (11k words) - Now, about a week after the longest day of the year, the empty house across the street has stopped being empty. most beautiful things by scarletbluebird (12.7k words) - This fic is a whole ass journey. Warning for pain. This isn’t a fairytale, Isak tells himself. Even is standing at the bend in the road. He looks like a metaphor for immortal life: the youth a god would kill for. Ambrosia eyes, the universe trapped in the curve of his mouth. He looks like every warning from his mother about strangers you run into after dark. 

One week by Lokkanel (12.8k words) - This thing going on between Isak and Even, whatever they called it - fuckbuddies, friends with benefits - was simple, fun, nothing more. They were friends, they were both free to do whatever they wanted with other people. They’d just meet and have sex whenever they felt like it. Simple. Until what was bound to happen eventually did and Even fell for Isak. 

Plum by Jamz24 (13.2k words) - Femme!teacher!Even asks masculine! plumber!Isak to fix a broken shower on a scorching hot summer day...And if you think it sounds like the start of a porn film you're absolutely right! There's LOADS of smut but ... with LOTS of feelings 

Never be the same by nofeartina (14.2k words) - It starts with a bet - one of those really stupid ones: can they last an entire month without any kind of sex?It’s been 22 days – and Even is dying. 

Somewhere I’ve never been by MinilocIsland (14.6k words) - The first time Even meets Jonas' best friend, nothing goes according to plan. 

If I Should Fall Behind by MinilocIsland (14.7k words) - The plan for tonight had been crystal clear. Stay close to his best friend, and steal her away if needed. Hold her hand through the ordeal of meeting Noora again for the first time in years. Then Even shows up – and suddenly, nothing goes the way it was supposed to. 

All I Ever Wanted by MinilocIsland (14.8k words) - Isak is such a good friend. Probably the best there is. How else could he explain that he's agreed to join Magnus to this place deep in the woods for six full days of silence, meditation, and utter boredom? One thing, he knows. There's nothing exciting for him there. Right? Or: the silent retreat AU. 

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******* Bonus *******

Season 3: Jonas by Laika_the_husband (WIP, SBB 2021 fic) - There is a scene in the end of the script for season 1, where Jonas and Isak kiss each other on a dare. This story is a retelling of season 3 in a universe, where that kiss happened and completely changed the way Jonas sees Isak. Written in Jonas' POV, the story examines sexuality, love, friendship and coming to terms with never getting the boy you shouldn't have fallen for in the first place.

What the fuck is wrong with me? by notanugget (11.6k words) - The five times isak felt guilty for being in love and the one time he didn’t 

thanks for the weed, thanks for everything by evak1isak (13.1k words) - Jokael. Jonas' dealer has moved to Denmark, and Even recommends his friend's weed. What Jonas didn't expect, though, was to develop a crush on a boy, on Mikael. 

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******* WIP *******

Baby, why do you have to shine so bright? by Lilacpotter - Even knew he was radiant, and he was used to people always wanting to be around him, enchanted by his captivating words and glowing smiles, as if he was the tantalising sun. But then one day, he comes across someone who shines much brighter than the sun itself in Even’s eyes.

Lonely Hearts Club by EndingsNotTheStory - The Hearts Club. A show run by Isak and his 3 friends. He's kind of had enough with hearing about people's relationship issues and giving advice. Until the guy from his theatre class and Isak's totally not crush Even calls, dealing with relationship issues. pining

[headgehug]

give me tag team fic with dennis and charlie. tag team fic with dennis and charlie me. tag team fic with dennis and charlie now. me a tag team fic with dennis and charlie needing a lot now

dude ily but I'm going to write a chardentress fic hopefully at some point and idk if I have it in me to do More dennis. he's nice to look at from like ten feet away <\3 ok although a post gets stranded situation on the plane is still bouncing around like a screensaver in my head. gdi... tentatively adds to the list I have not completed anything from in weeks

[ethelphantom]

Love You Like Nothing I’ve Had Before || chapter 1

Hey yeah, here I am, unable to not write about soulmates because gdi soulmates are great ok. This is the prompt fill for day 9, soulmates AU. I hope you enjoy it! If you want to be tagged to my Daminette December prompt fills, just hit me up, and if you only want to be tagged to this once I get the next chapter done (the fic got a little out of hand and I decided to cut it for now), you better say you only want to be tagged to this. 

Ao3 || Chapter 2

This is Maribat fanfiction. Don’t like; don’t read.

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There was a meter that told something about one's soulmate printed somewhere on everyone's body. Everyone had one, whether it be romantic or platonic, but just because everyone had a soulmate didn't mean that everyone had a happy ending. Life was cruel, and sometimes you lost all the colours in your vision before you saw them, sometimes your soulmate's name got smudged and their meter went to zero before their time. Sometimes people lost their soulmates much before they ever even had the chance to meet them. Even children knew this, but it was rare that parents told their children what the meter meant until they were older. There was a reason to it, and a good one at that.

That was also why a little girl with black hair tied into pigtails looked at her wrist with confusion and bewilderment before she walked to the kitchen where she knew her parents would be.

“Huh…? How is my meter so high… Maman, what does it mean when your meter is full?”

A simple, innocent question asked by a young child, likely no older than five years of age, who only knew the pattern on her arm was a meter that told something about her soulmate. She didn’t know what it was for, her parents had never told her.

There was also their first name under the meter, but Marinette couldn’t read it. Originally she thought it was because she just didn’t know how to read in general, but then she learnt the alphabet well and realised they weren’t even the same letters they used in France.

Her papa had told her that was because her soulmate’s native tongue wasn’t French or any other language she spoke. They had different letters in their language, he said.

“Are you sure it’s high, dear?”, her maman asked, never once stopping to look at her daughter. It was understandable, she was baking, but maybe, just maybe, little Marinette would have wished her maman would have paid more attention to her.

“Yes, maman. I drew a picture, too.”

That was right. Only she could see the meter or the name on her arm, that much she knew since she had tried to ask her parents about the name but they told her they couldn’t see it. You could only see your own and your soulmate’s one.

She also couldn’t see her parents that well.

Well, of course she could, but they looked so boring to her. They were colourless, just like everyone but herself. Herself she could see in colour, the bright blue eyes and the black hair. Only after meeting her soulmate would she see the world in colour, but even then other humans would remain monochrome, stay in the eye colour of her soulmate. She could only ever see herself and her soulmate in full colour, or so she was told.

And who was she to say her parents, her grandparents, teachers, everyone, was wrong? She was still a child, she didn’t know much, just like all of them always said.

“Let me se—” Her maman just stopped as Marinette handed her the drawing. She’d made everything as similar as she could, and finally, finally her maman looked at her.

Marinette did not like that horrified look in her eyes.

“So, I suppose it is time we explained what the meters mean, honey. It tells you how dangerous your soulmate is. Perhaps not to you, but in general. It can get lower and higher over time, depending on how dangerous your soulmate is at that moment. Usually the meter gets higher over long periods of time, and they only get to this level if the person does martial arts, but I have never heard of a meter this high on a child. That is a little... concerning. I wonder if your soulmate is alright.”

“What does dangerous mean?”

“If someone or something is dangerous, it means they can cause you harm and hurt you really bad. For example, touching a hot oven is dangerous if you don’t have oven mitts. Going with a stranger is also dangerous.”

“Oh okay. Can I have a cookie?”

“Sure, dear. You can have one.”

⬷۵⤐

The next time Marinette thought about her soulmate more was when she met a person who was writing something that looked a lot like the name written in shining blue ink on her wrist in the park. A nine-year-old Marinette was aware of the stranger danger, of course, but she thought it wasn’t too bad if she asked the person if they could help her find out what the name was. It was her approaching them, she was in a public place and she wasn’t going to go anywhere with them, it would be fine.

“Excuse me, monsieur, but could you maybe help me?”

The man in question looked at her before he smiled at her and put his notebook aside. “Of course. What do you need help with?”

Marinette sighed in relief and sat down on the bench next to him. “Well, I saw what you were writing and it looked a lot like the name on my wrist. If I tried to write it down for you, could you tell me what their name is? I cannot read it and I don’t even recognise the letters so I cannot look it up myself”, she explained with a smile, hoping the man would help her. She didn't know what else she could do to find out their name. The man handed her his notebook and pen and told her to write the name there. She did. It took her a few minutes, but she managed.

“I’m sorry it probably doesn’t look very good, it’s difficult for me to write”, she apologised as the man read the name.

“Don’t worry, mademoiselle, you wrote it just fine. Anyway, their name is Damian. I wish you the best of luck with finding them, child”, the man told her. He was kind, she decided, so she pulled out a box of macarons and offered them to the man.

“Here, you can have a few as thanks. They’re from the Dupain-Cheng patisserie, and it’s the best in Paris!”, she said happily and stood there, waiting for him to take up her offer.

He did, eventually, which made her happy. Especially the expression he made when he took a bite was great, he seemed to enjoy it a lot. Marinette was glad, she loved seeing people smile. If there was something she found worth living for, it was making people smile and helping them find joy in life.

She waved the man goodbye before she left. After all, she’d agreed to meet Nino soon, she didn’t want to be too late.

⬷۵⤐

Marinette woke up with a choked gasp and shot up in her bed. She was panting and had her pajama shirt in a tight grip. She felt like choking and could almost taste blood in her mouth. There was a piercing pain in her chest. It almost felt like someone had impaled her chest with a sword and tried to inflict as much pain on her as they could.

It took her quite the while to be able to focus her vision on anything. Everything was blurry and dark. But, when she was finally able to see something, the first thing that caught her eye was that her meter had gone down and the name under it was smudged. She had studied the Arabic alphabet, so she could now read it by herself, but there was no way she could understand the name anymore.

Then she realised she couldn’t see the colour of her shirt or hands anymore.

Marinette’s eyes widened and an ear-piercing scream escaped her lungs. Her parents rushed to her room and found their little girl in her bed, crying so much her tears ran freely down her face. She was hyperventilating and clutching her shirt in her hands, her tiny body outright trembling.

Her maman ran to her and lifted her chin up with her hand, horrified when she saw her eyes were glassy and unfocused. It was most definitely worse than a simple nightmare. There was something actually wrong with her.

“Qiānjīn, breathe. Talk to me, please, tell me what’s wrong”, her maman told her, pulling Marinette in her embrace and squeezing her tight against her chest. She kissed her forehead and wiped her tears away as her papa turned on the lights so they could see better.

“They— he— his name— I can’t read it! It’s smudged! And I can’t see colour… The meter went down— he’s… He’s... gone.”

She could barely get the words out of her mouth, but she somehow managed by summoning all her will power, her voice quieting down with each word. The last word Marinette could barely even breathe out. Once more she broke down sobbing and buried her face to her knees, curling up in a ball.

Her maman and papa didn’t know what to say to that — their little girl, merely ten years of age, had woken up only to find out her soulmate was dead.

There was truly nothing they could say to make it better, and so they just stayed there and let her sob her heart out.

⬷۵⤐

A numb emptiness had settled itself in Marinette’s chest after her soulmate died. She couldn’t dress in her favourite clothes because they were all bright colours and she couldn’t bear to dress in such things when she couldn’t even see them well. It hurt too much to remember that the one she was destined to be with was gone forever.

“What happened, ‘Nette? I can’t remember the last time I saw you wear anything but these dark colours — is it all black?”

That’s what her best friend asked her one day in class. Nino was worried about her well-being. She could barely get the words out to tell Nino that her soulmate was gone, that she would never meet them again (it felt too final to say it out loud), but when she finally managed to, Nino smiled at her sadly and hugged her tight, saying he was there for her. He was. He kept coming over to talk to her and do her favourite things with her. Even if it didn’t make her smile, she appreciated it.

A few weeks later, her teacher had one day pulled her aside and asked how she was doing, concerned about her as she’d noticed Marinette only ever dressed in black now and there was never a smile on her face anymore. She still never failed to be kind to others, but that kindness no longer included a smile to everyone. Chloé had toned it down as well for even she knew that losing one’s soulmate was a horrible ordeal, something no one should ever have to go through — and especially not at such a young age.

Marinette started wearing gloves at all times, scared that if she caught a glimpse of the smudged name on her wrist, she’d break down crying and that she’d no longer be able to stop. Sometimes it happened regardless, and during those times, it took Marinette her all to ignore the aching in her chest and the burning tears in her eyes. And each time, each time she tried not to choke on her sobs.

In bed, she often curled up in a ball and tried to cry, but she’d run out of tears a week after her soulmate’s death. She dragged her nails down her legs, hoping to distract herself from the burning in her throat, but it never helped.

She was hurting, and there was nothing that could help her feel better.

⬷۵⤐

It took a her a few months before she dared to look at her wrist again. She’d refused to do it under any circumstances, but after those months, she told herself she needed to bid her soulmate adieu.

And so, she took off her glove and pressed a light kiss on the meter. Marinette looked at it and forced a small smile on her face, hoping he wouldn’t be too mad at her for faking a smile. After all, she was doing it for him.

But, once she managed to bat the tears away from her eyes, she could clearly see the name on her wrist again. The meter’s levels were high again, which then prompted her to pay attention to the colours on her. At first she thought the universe had chosen her a new soulmate, but the name was exactly the same in the exact same handwriting, so no, her soulmate had simply come back to life. And…

She had a chance to see them again.

Either they’d only now come back or she’d been unable to notice them. It wouldn’t have been surprising, she had been trying to ignore the missing colours to the best of her abilities, after all.

Marinette rushed downstair to her maman and papa, smiling more brightly than she had in weeks, in over a month. They were surprised to see her be so happy but they were glad about it regardless.

“So, what made you so happy, honey?”, her papa asked her as she danced around the living room before stopping in front of her parents.

“He’s back! The meter shows high levels again, the name is back and I can see colours again!”, she laughed and threw herself at her papa, hugging him as tight as she could. Her maman came around and hugged them both, smiling into her hair.

“I’m happy for you, qiānjīn. Your soulmate better never do this again or I will have to find them and exchange a few words with him about making you sad”, her maman told her as her papa squeezed them both. Marinette laughed at her mother, imagining her short mother glare at her soulmate she suspected was taller than either of them as she scolded him for hurting her little girl.

Marinette knew she once again had a good chance at finding happiness, and so she smiled. A tear escaped her eye but, for the first time in a month, it wasn’t a tear of sadness, no. This time, it told the world of her happiness.

⬷۵⤐

Years later, when she was 16 years of age and suffered under Lila’s reign in the class, she ran into a young man while trying to find the Wayne Enterprises and fell down on the ground. Her class had left her behind, but that was fine.

Well, it wasn’t, but she got to see more of the city, and that was certainly nice.

Besides, better it was her who was left behind rather than anyone else, as she was the only one who could for sure defend herself if necessary. After all, she was Ladybug, she had been that for years already — she had enough training.

“Je suis vraiment désolé— I mean, I am so sorry, I didn’t mean to run into—” And then she had to cut herself off because the world shouldn’t look like what it did.

There were colours.

There were actual colours all around her.

She could see the blue of the sky and the green of the trees. The cars that were of oh so many different, beautiful colours.

And, when Marinette looked up from where she was, she could see the young man towering over her and offering a hand to help her up had frozen in place, but what truly mattered was that she could see him in colours. His green eyes stared at her before they softened at the sight of her as he understood who this was, and Marinette could feel her cheeks hearing up.

“Does your— Does your name happen to be Damian?”

The man nodded before asking a question in return, “And can I suppose you are Marinette?”

Marinette smiled and gave him an enthusiastic “yes!”, grabbing Damian’s — her soulmate’s — hand and let him pull her up to her feet. “It’s lovely to finally meet you, soulmate.”

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[darthstitch]

Castlevania Netflix Season 2 Review: All My Bloody Tears

Yeah. Uh. SPOILERS. MASSIVE GINORMOUS SPOILERS. Consider yourself warned.

I'm kind of a complete mess as I write this because PAIN! PAIN AND SUFFERING! TEARS! BLOODY TEARS!

While it's not without its flaws, the second season of Netflix's Castlevania is incredible and lives up to the promise of Season 1. This, gentlebeings, is how you set up a sequel and leave the audience wanting more, but still walking away satisfied with what we've currently got.

The Good Stuff

The thing about Castlevania - as the game series by Konami - is that it's pretty much a patchwork quilt of everything goes. Think your favorite fan fiction peeve on AO3, the ones with the ten million tags before you even get to the goddamn story. So on one hand, it's got its clear inspiration from the classic Hammer and Universal Horror renditions of Dracula. But the game series is Japanese, so you have your beautiful anime-esque artwork by Ayami Kojima and the obvious anime influences.

I've played a few of the games, but I'm not going to claim gamer-god status. I just play for the fun of it and I don't hesitate to use walk throughs as a map of sorts, basically figuring out where to go, because the general castle layout is set up like a labyrinth and it is INSANE and FUN at the same time. So far, I've played and finished Symphony of the Night and two of the GBA ones: Harmony of Dissonance and Aria of Sorrow. I'm still trying to master the ones on the NDS. But basically, the premise is the same: You're the hero/heroine, you need to enter the big spooky castle, gather weapons and/or spells to make you stronger and add to your abilities, take down monsters and Major Bads - including Death Himself - and hopefully prevent Dracula from resurrecting and covering the world in Eternal Night. The main timeline basically has Belmonts, assorted Not-Belmonts who also hunt vampires and of course, pretty, pretty Alucard.

Then, there was your AU timeline in which Gabriel Belmont goes to defeat a Big Bad and becomes DRACULA ... and Trevor Belmont is his son, a.k.a. Alucard. Yeah, wrap your head around THAT one.

In short, Castlevania canon is fucked. To quote our Trevor, "Snake-fuckingly insane."

So Warren Ellis does the smart thing and basically picks up what works from the "canon" and crafts a damn good story out of it.

The Disaster Trio that is Alucard, Trevor and Sypha, end up bonding even closer together and spend much of this series in the Belmont Basement...er.... I mean, "Hold," trying to do the game equivalent of gathering spells and weapons to storm the castle with. We learn a few more interesting things about the Disaster Trio. Trevor actually ended up losing his family at a way too young age. Sypha and her people have some pretty "interesting" views about God. Alucard has artistic talents and basically acts his real age, which is a traumatized snarky 20 something year old, who's barely holding on to his composure with his shiny fangs and claws. There are epic moments such as "Treffy" and I would absolutely LOVE to hear the Belmont family story that explains how the hell a book of "penis spells" ended up in the Belmont Family Library.

Seriously. Fan fiction writers, don't fail me now!

Also, Lisa gets a few more minutes to shine and break our hearts at the same time. This is the woman who managed to charm and get one Seriously Scary King of Vampires wrapped around her tiniest finger. She's snarky and sassy as before, but so real, so kind and just basically trying to be a decent person in a Crapsack World. She loves her husband but she knows he can be monstrous. She loves her son but as Alucard himself puts it, she wants him to be able to be himself, be happy and not be overshadowed by his father. Seriously, as long as each season gives us something more about Lisa, I'm gonna be content.

We also get introduced to a few more new characters, who basically make up Dracula's Court of Evil. Hector and Isaac are humans but sociopathic enough to despise their own kind and willing to take part in their death and destruction. They both have their requisite tragic and abused pasts. Hector, however, has an element of naivete that makes him an easy target for the machinations of Carmilla, the only general in Dracula's court who's figured out which way the blood's flowing and wants to make sure she comes out on top. Isaac, however, is somewhat the mirror of Alucard himself. This is the guy who gives his unconditional love and loyalty to Dracula and refuses to abandon him no matter the personal cost to himself or his remnants of a conscience or whatever he has that passes for a moral compass. I figure that it's there, it's just not one that I would recognize. Isaac is a scary, scary mofo and it looks like he and Hector are gonna be back for season 3.

In fact, if Isaac ends up becoming "Death" in this entire series, I'm gonna be evilly delighted.

And then, there's Godbrand, who is basically the vampire equivalent of YOLO. Basically, all he wants is to fight, fuck, drink blood and make boats out of things he shouldn't make boats out of. Generally, he just wants to have a good time, rule the world like a king and make sure the humans know their place.

So okay, let's give Carmilla her due. Evil? Check. Manipulative? Check. Sadistic, vicious and cruel? 10 across the board. In the absence of a Certain Fanged Someone taking a more active role in what should be "The War on Humankind," Carmilla wants to make sure she's keeping things moving, spinning her webs of intrigue and plans upon plans, thinking she's going to come out the winner and make herself the new Queen of the Damned.

Here's the problem. Dracula figures that out, easily enough.

Here's the OTHER problem. His Fanged Nibs is all out of fucks to give. He's done. Finito. Finished with everything.

Yeah, about that.

While the humor of this series is a gift that keeps on giving, the drama and the feels will DESTROY you.

You know that moment when you realize Dracula isn't just waging a war on humanity, he's waging a war to destroy all vampires too? Because in that moment when he lost his beloved Lisa, he hated not only humans, but he also hated HIMSELF. He hates the fact that his life of evil, wanton death and destruction, wrought this price on the person that he loved. And she damn well didn't deserve that treatment. He hates the humans who killed her but he also hates his own kind, who are just as monstrous as he is.

So when Godbrand basically asks him, "If we're killing all the humans, what are we going to EAT?" Dracula basically tries to fob him off with some excuse or the other. Yeah, His Fanged Nibs is a LYING LIAR WHO LIES. Also, this lying liar who lies is actually spending most of his time sitting, brooding and being HUNGRY. Because he's not drinking blood. At all. Any blood drinking we see from His Fanged Nibs is in flashbacks.

Let that sink in for a second.

Aluard accuses his father of basically doing history's longest suicide. Yeah. It is - Dracula wants to take EVERYBODY down with him.

The fight scenes are worth the wait. I was screaming when the classic "Bloody Tears" started playing in Episode 7, an episode that I'm gonna watch like ten thousand times more, because OH GOD THE EPICNESS OF IT. The sheer badassery. The fact that Alucard is actually the secret identity of Moon Moon.

And then, the final fight between Dracula and our Disaster Trio is just as epic as expected. Even when he hasn't drunk blood, the trio is outmatched and outclassed and this is where you remember that if Dracula had only roused himself long enough to give a flying fuck about something, Carmilla's head would have been rolling on the floor a long time ago.

But then: "My boy.... I'm killing my boy. This is your room. Your mother and I painted these walls, made these toys. Lisa.... it's our boy. Your greatest gift to me. And I'm killing him. I must already be dead."

GDI WARREN ELLIS HOW VERY FUCKING DARE YOU.

The only way they take down Dracula is because he basically wants to die. So he lets his son kill him and end his misery. And when his rotting, decaying, corpse seems to be reaching out to his son for some kind of last embrace, Trevor, thinking that Alucard's going to be hurt, takes Dracula's head off. Sypha burns off the remains.

And it's done.

Castlevania is a game with numerous endings, all depending on how you played the game and whether you got this artifact or what not. The series pays homage to it because Trevor bequeaths the Belmont Hold to Alucard and asks him to be the last defender of it and his father's Castle. It's not going to be Alucard's grave, but his home now. Trevor and Sypha wander off into the sunset, for more adventures and mischief and Alucard lovingly sends off his BFFs with a fond "Fuck you."

We check in with the villains who survive and of course, we know there's gonna be sequels, because, hey, that's kind of the point of each and every Castlevania game. There's always gonna be a new Big Bad coming around. And trust me, Dracula's gonna be back. He's not just going to lie quiet in his grave.

And just when you think you can end this series with a satisfied sigh, our very last moments are spent with Alucard. Who is haunted by the ghosts of the parents he loved so much. Who gets to relive one happy memory with his mom, who loves him with all her heart. And she's so proud.

And Alucard finally breaks down into heartbreaking sobs.

We grieve with him.

The Bad Stuff

Yeah, okay, so I need to get this explained. Why bother to have all these interesting character designs for Dracula's other generals AND NOT HAVE THEM TALK? I'm serious. Not one of these fascinating-looking vampire bastards HAVE ANY GODDAMN LINES. Netflix, FFS, DON'T WUSS OUT ON YOUR CHARACTER ACTORS. YOU CAN'T BE THAT POOR. GIVE THEM VOICES. PAY YOUR CHARACTER VOICE ACTORS. OMG.

They basically just get killed off in the end, but while we know they were pretty scary and formidable, we don't really know anything about them other than: Vampire, Scary, Dracula's General. They were just pretty much Red Shirts, because the heroes never did get to confront Carmilla, Hector and Isaac directly.

There was evidently so much story to be told here, like they seem to have come from all over the world, even as far off as China AND THEY'RE. NOT. TALKING. The only ones with any dialogue are Carmilla, Hector, Isaac and Godbrand and none of these guys even get to share screentime with the Disaster Trio. Godbrand doesn't even make it to the final battle.

I mean, if these guys were just going to be cannon fodder, then let's just use any of the voiceless Major Bads from the games. Put some requisite scary music and sound effects and let the Disaster Trio take care of them. Let them speak in mysterious archaic languages or whatever, since we're not going to care about them anyway.

The Conclusion

Apparently, this is gonna be a pattern for this series. It's going to be good, it's going to be GREAT but there's always going to be that ONE THING that would drive us batshit crazy. But not enough to wreck my enjoyment of it.

The best parts of this series is the faithfulness to character, the layers upon layers of motivations and feels you're going to uncover as you rewatch it, the fact that it's not afraid to put tongue in cheek and leave canon at the door, while still being true to the source material.

So. "What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets. But enough talk! Have at you!"

[somnilogical]

HAHAHA HEEHEEHEE HOOHOOHOO

[23:32] somni: afasrtawetasrysdrysutdutdsut

[23:33] Nathan: ?

[23:33] somni: trees with clarity sometime?

[23:33] somni: the textrees

[23:34] Nathan: Yesss

[23:36] somni: it seems like lots of people want to speak in trees but no one is sure how to

also i want to speak treely

hm

[23:37] Nathan: Hmmmmmmm

[23:38] Nathan: So I think what you want is less a tree.... and more a graph? of sorts

[23:38] Nathan: I think it would be useful to be able to like...

[23:39] Nathan: Okay so Alice makes a post, Bob Carol and Dan all reply to Alice's post but not to each other, Emily comes along and wants to make a reply that's directly in response to both Alice and Carol

[23:40] somni: mhm!

[23:41] somni: yes! i think i was worried people wouldnt be interested in this

[23:41] somni: 4chan does this

[23:43] somni: hmmmm i think it might be nice to have replies sequential by default with the option to swipe sideways?

so if alice says 'hello there are two conversations going on here' then bob or carol can branch their replies sideways

[23:43] Nathan: I am ambiguously people and definitely interested

[23:44] Nathan: So what I'd do here

[23:44] somni: i am definitely  interested i think it is possible to do without having things be too complex

[23:44] somni:

[23:46] Nathan: is I'd have a button on a post that says 'reply' and when you hit that, you go into [compose box] and it says 'replying to [name]'s post "[first ten characters]..."' and you click that and have the option to check all the little boxes you want for 'which posts in this graph are you replying to'

[23:46] Nathan: or if you don't want to do that you just leave it alone

[23:47] somni: hmm so you click on each post's reply button?

[23:48] Nathan: like 'by default you are replying to one post, if you hit this button you can then hit buttons for more posts and be replying to all of them'

[23:49] somni: (oh! an alt view of the graph could be nested channels! hm somehow)

[23:49] somni: it would be nice to have a [change mode] menu so you could view the graph in several ways

[23:49] somni: like a brainstorm thing

[23:50] somni: hmmmm but then you have to index all the posts in the textbox reply thing and give them each a button?

[23:51] somni: why do humans want to reply to several posts?

because several people are doing kind of the same thing and they have a response for all of them

[23:52] somni: ..........pacing is a thing

it would be nice if things were as fast as irc or discord and not slow like reddit

[23:52] somni: hmmmmmm a lot of graph-y things seem to slow down

[23:52] Nathan: Like you know how there's a button on discord where you can show a reblog graph?

[23:52] somni: yeah!

[23:53] Nathan: Something that displays similarly to that might work

[23:53] somni: and if you hover over a thing you can see snippets of text

[23:53] Nathan: OH you know what else looks right? that polyamory graph thing

[23:54] somni: !!!!!! the one with the spring physics interface?

[23:54] Nathan: Yeah!!

[23:54] somni: that is nice

[23:55] somni: hm how would you represent a graph as nested folders

[23:57] somni: i guess you could have an expanded linear view where things look like 4chan and a condensed linear view where you swipe left to get to the next branch of the first branching node above the post you are swiping left on

[23:57] somni: and also reddit threadview?

[23:57] somni: oooh everyone should be able to give the trees their own nicknames too

[23:57] somni: to make things less confusing if a confusing name is chosen by the maker of the tree

1 May 2018

[00:00] somni: also it would be cool to have an information overload version where you look at everysingle new reply to things in parallel

[00:00] somni: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/mspaintadventures/images/4/43/Complete_Bullshit.gif/revision/latest?cb=20180322211926

[00:09] somni: i think the MAIN one will be the swiping left one

[00:10] somni: oooooh what if its like the google play store and people can make their own userinterfaces and use them???????

[00:11] somni: for too long have people laboured under the chains of not being able to change what their user interface looks like from their end or modify nicknames of their friends or give nicknames to channels!!!!!

[00:11] somni: being able to give nicknames to channels would skim some stuff off of the dabate about channel names

[00:12] somni: um you would have to have some convergence if you are talking about them with other people

[00:12] somni: oooh

[00:12] Nathan: omg

[00:14] somni: what if when alice nicknames #politics to #arguing and then talks to bob (who nicknames it #agora) and says 'this conversation is going on in #arguing' bob sees 'this conversation is going on in #agora'??

[00:15] Nathan: YES

[00:15] Nathan: channel ID numbers, server-side

[00:15] Nathan: nicknames, client-side

[00:16] Nathan: 'set default nickname' for inputting a name when creating a thread

[00:18] somni: ooh and line-segments of posts should be able to be hyperlinked to too! like a use-mention distinction

(replying to a set of posts is use and linking to them is mention)

and linking to them makes the line-segement you are linking to glow gold (or another colour) and centers your linear view on the first post in the line-segment

[00:19] somni: hmmm do threads have names?

ooh i think line-segments or [line-segments with all descendents of the last node] should be able to be given nicknames and put in a folder

[00:20] somni: so you can come back to them or get alerts on them?

[00:20] somni: hmmm alerts might be ouch after a while, but muting things would be an option

[00:21] somni: so likeee you take clippings of the graph and make those a kind of channel if you want and you can name the clipping and also save it in a client-side folder system

[00:23] somni: ooohhh and if there is a line-segment/tread(?) you want to reply to later you can take a clipping of it and put it in a folder in the sidebar to respond to later or see if people replied

[00:24] Nathan: hee

[00:24] Nathan: this sounds extremely complicated I love it

[00:25] somni: okay! how to do alerts? hmm maybe @-ing people is good?

people can get alerts on their clippings or mute them

[00:25] somni: the folder system for threads is like channels and in the sidebar

[00:27] Nathan: Hmmmm, yeah, collapsible folders will be a needed thing

[00:29] somni: on the sidebar there would be like the public universe of graphs and then below that the folders of threads that you make

[00:30] somni: and you could maybe have an optional bot that puts threads into an archive folder after a bit of time (but remembers their original folders so you can revert it)

this could help things from being a mess

and also you could have threads that you pin to folders and are not swept by the bot

[00:32] somni: !!!!! >public

this reminds me, people could set their reply to a post to only be viewable to certain people and all replies are only viewable by these people

or they gain mod powers over the descendents of a thread

and its noted on their post and all descendents who is modding the thread(edited)

[00:33] somni: that way you can get discussions with different moderators on the same graph

hmm

[00:36] somni: and people can mute users or threads and descendents of threads and have their posts be collapsed into [posts blocked] nodes

[00:37] somni: i think the hyperlink thing would be really good for having longer discussions and not forgetting things that much

[00:39] somni: umm like if a thread made a good point everyone could link to it instead of repeating things, wikilike

ooh you could have a copy/paste option for threads in your sidebar that allows you to link to them

[00:46] somni: extra-special bonus feature: you can export threads to wikis and it take everything (unless it is a thread under different mods in which case the mods need to approve) in the thread and everything they link to and everything that stuff links to and uploads it to a wiki for lots of people to peruse

[00:48] somni: --

ooh and an option to have tabbed threads!!

[00:48] somni: or horizontally parallel threads

[00:50] Nathan: .......gdi

[00:51] Nathan: I want to talk more about this but also I have therapy tomorrow so I need to like... actually sleep at all before then

[00:51] somni: nodnod

[00:51] somni: .........maybe your therapist would have some ideas about this

[00:52] somni: okay yes

[01:03] somni: hm i guess with threads replacing channels your nickname for a thread would link to a threadset and display as a your nickname to other people unless other people gave it another nickname (less certain on this)

[01:05] somni: ooh and getting snippets/line segments and storing them on the touch screen could be easy if you go into brainstorm view and draw a line across the graph and then lift up your finger and it gives you a prompt to label the thread and after its labeled it [less certain] goes in a default folder and can be afterwards resorted[less certain]

[01:09] somni: hmmm, or you could have a popup that allows you to give it names and tags (seperated by commas) and the tags sort the threads like folders?

tags seem to be better than folders (and kind of replacing them?) because sometimes a thread is relevant to more than one folder?

[01:10] somni: oooh and definitely all the nicknames and tags and threads and graphs and stuff can be colour-coded client-side too

[01:13] somni: -- also a rectalinear graph format like for family trees

also a twitter-like format where all the latest threads are stacked

[01:15] somni: --

[01:16] somni: hm how to format/display posts that are replies to multiple previous posts in linear format?

[01:20] somni: oh and when you change threads you can create a clickable link that takes you right where the node you branch off of is and put a link on your post below the node that takes you to where the end of the conversation happened

[01:20] somni: (this is just the hyperlinks!)

[01:21] somni: okay and when a post gets deleted, i gets replaced with a post that reads [deleted] but retains its connections

[01:22] Nathan: Nodnod

[01:23] Nathan: Um right sleeping >.>

[01:23] Nathan: Zzzzzzzzz

[01:23] somni: *switches off the lights*

[01:24] Nathan: what about edits do we want edit history like facebook has or edits with a label that just says it's been edited or

[01:24] Nathan: Um zzzzzzzzzzzz >.>

[01:24] somni: (hm and you can release your mod-powers from affecting a sub-graph, but once there are no more mods, no one can retroactively claim mod powers)

[01:26] somni: i like the discord edit system but edit history could be nice. OOH! for longer time-scale things/ slower rate you could have a bunch of editors for one post

[01:30] somni: ooh and also the giving people mod powers over graphs within a universe would be cool for collaborative blogs and stuff

[01:32] somni: and people can do the hyperlink join to create a seed of a new graph; but probably it would be a pain to allow people to copy/paste threads and continue them elsewhere? um what is the point of that? they can just start another node in response, declare mod powers and block people who they dont want to interact with

[01:37] somni: ooh another super special awesome export feature: exporting threads or graphs or subgraphs to textfiles

with threaded notation or something like 4chan reply things

[01:39] somni: another cool think would be to have a splitscreen, one with a brainstorm graph view and one with a linear view

and clicking different parts on the graph view gives you different parts of the linear view

[01:40] somni: and selecting a thread by drawing on the graph puts textcode in the textbox that hyperlinks to the thread (kind of like how links to names work in discord) and can give a prompt for a name and tags

[01:41] somni: (maybe that might be too much mental pressure to have the popup show every time)

[01:41] somni: im thinking that its about as intrusive as discord's autocomplete for names

[01:45] somni: (if you don't give it tags or give it the null tag, it doesn't enter your sidebar of threads)

[01:46] somni: (maybe having the tag and name choices come up each time you want to hyperlink to a section isn't the best)

[01:48] somni: --

OH YEAH METADATA CIRCLES

[01:49] somni: you can opt in to seeing whatever metadata you want on posts

[01:51] somni: like hearts, emotions reacts, up votes down votes, probability estimates, embedded buttons that let you donate money to the poster, tags

[01:52] somni: and then you can subscribe to metadata groups and see like all the ways a group of people up vote or downvote a thing and the people in the metadata ring decide who has membership in the ring

[01:55] somni: and then you can search, order, and filter posts by metadata from rings you subscribe to

[01:56] somni: !! like there could be a ring that tags posts with trigger warnings

[01:58] somni: so if you want to avoid posts with a certain kind of content, you subscribe to a metadata ring that tags for that kind of content and then block posts that have the tags you want to avoid

[01:59] somni: and if one group is bad at tagging for the thing you want to avoid, you can switch to subscribing to another ring or to two metadata rings at once and block posts when either tag it with your trigger!

[02:01] somni: and the metadata plug-ins dont come with the chat program but can be downloaded as plug-ins and anyone can upload a meta-data plug in

and you dont see the metadata unless you have the plug in and have the particular meta-data toggled to visible

[02:02] somni: OH! and bots can be members of meta-data rings

[02:03] somni: -- i expect rings to follow the power law where there is a big ring that lots of people are in and lots of people subscribe to by default and then there is a long tail of more niche rings

[02:06] somni: -- and metadata can be stuff like how much money taggers (as distinct from subscribers) in a given ring tip to a given post (and you can sort by tip amount OMG eeeeeeeeeee)

and it can be stuff like displaying how many child nodes a post has

[02:08] somni: (um which i guess is a little different because no rings, maybe really deterministic plug-ins like this can have a no-rings option or maybe just let people ignore (or not if they are interesting to them) any human rings that form)

[02:08] somni: also emoji reacts on discord and slack is an example of post metadata

[02:09] somni: hmmm maybe have an option such that you can set your metadata to public and people can form their own rings out of their friends with public metadata

[02:10] somni: [this feels like minutia] {okay but its exciting!!!!!}

[02:11] somni: and there should be a default ring with no mods that anyone can join for each metadata but people probably dont subscribe to because it ends up being terrible?

[02:12] somni: -- and then in settings you can configure where all the metadata symbols go on a given post

[02:16] somni: --

okay some metadata is filter-shaped and helps you Notice things

like you could download a filter that helps you notice haikus in posts and puts a green dot on the upper right corner of posts with haikus

[02:18] somni: (or set the dot to whatever part of the post you want in [settings]! (maybe want non-intersection with other filters/metadata??))

[02:20] somni: or you could set the metadata to invisible on posts but be able to search for posts such that haiku:1 in the search bar

[02:22] somni: which gives all the posts that have haikus in them

[02:28] somni: depending on how metadata and filter algs are run, this could slow things down a lot if you have a lot of them i think?? but the idea is you have a long tail of metadata and filters and most people only use one or two. but it's fiiiiiinee. allow :clap: people :clap: to :clap: break :clap: their :clap: minds :clap: with :clap: information :clap: overload :clap:

[02:29] somni: | want to be able to toggle {(visible, invisible), (active, inactive), (installed, uninstalled)} for metadata and filters

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one - ten !!

welcome to 2k18 rp meme — no longer accepting lmfao

thank u to shannon for being Extra and sending me literally every question in this meme, ily

ten faceclaims i’ve used in the past

ooh boy. this is a hard one. daniel sunjata (as paul briggs), chloe bennet as skye (bc we didn’t know her as daisy johnson then lmfao), and everyone on my (currently) inactive list. EDIT: i forgot, shannon purser!!! god i love her tbh i miss her.

nine faceclaims i want to use in the future

answered here!

eight present/past characters

i’ve had so many characters it’s hard to even remember them BUT I SHALL TRY.

cait scott, a character from a wip of mine who won a contest to appear on a teen television show and was catapulted to fame (i’ve toyed with revamping her and bringing her here also yes her name was a play on ‘great scott!’)

madison caverly, my very very first rp muse. i made her on an oc blog in 2013 and she was my first foray into the rp world. she’s got a few flaws but i have an immense soft spot for her and i brought her over to indie with me.

nadia johnson, my character that i made for my very first d&d campaign. i quickly fell in love with her and even though we’re not playing that campaign rn, i brought her to indie and she’s one of my favorite characters i’ve made for anything. she’s so resilient and brave and has so many layers i have to explore.

owen wheeler, one of my first characters i made on this blog. i had no idea what to do with him until @warmhcney suggested this plot idea and suddenly, owen sprang to life. he’s now a real person in my head and i can never go back. my life has been changed by him, as weird as it is to say. thank you, del, for suggesting owen and molly, because without them i wouldn’t have owen as he is today.

silas trask, another one of my early muses for this. i honestly don’t know where the idea for him came from, really. but he’s honestly a person of his own and a lil shit. every time i write a reply for him the words fly off my fingers, his sassy retorts taking shape on their own. he makes me laugh every time, and i love him so much.

max wheeler, my lost boy. i made him for a group rp and then i realized… dude. what if he’s owen’s younger brother? the rest is history. max is constantly searching, constantly hurting, constantly falling apart. and god, he just needs to be loved. this is just my daily reminder how much max needs love and it’s also an excuse for me to cry about him, thank u.

i also just remembered two old characters from a novel, quinn & nadine. i made them when i was still struggling with accepting my sexuality, and they were an outlet for me to express that. i rly need to do something with them soon bc they were so important to me.

seven characters i want to play

oH BOY OH BOY

ok. so i want to play this cop that’s too soft to actually be a cop, yanno? i think this was inspired by a reddit thread or smth. but i have had this idea for a while, just struggled with the actual execution of it.

i don’t have enough actual bad muses, i rly struggle with playing those, so this is just a general umbrella that i want to do that.

more secret agents & mob bosses in general; i live for that shit.

i rly want this spoiled billionaire daddy’s girl, but i haven’t figured out how to play her w/o me actually hating her guts, so that’s on hold for now.

an actual douche boy that actually fucks a bunch of people, but i have a hard time again figuring out how to play him w/o me actually hating his guts. i have a lot of internal problems can u tell i also keep giving my muses soft sides gdi

one half of a married couple where someone plays one half and i play the other idk just throwin that out there ;) ;) ;)

i rly wanna play bex taylor-klaus as well, plus just add more butch muses to my repertoire in general

six plots of the past/present

well like i mentioned above, owen wheeler was basically spawned from a plot involving a “grumpy secret agent” having to take care of a younger spoiledish girl basically? i think ??? i’D HAVE TO FIND IT but that was a pretty iconic plot omfg (hi del)

i’m a very big hoe for the childhood friends to lovers trope, @hiitchhikers​ and i have riley & lorelai and the og, gianna & leo that fall into this and im in love

idk why i’m suddenly blanking rip

most of the plots i have rn have been super organic from the chemistry that has happened between our muses? that doesnt mean i don’t like doing plots that are in my wishlist tag (bc i LOVE it), but i also like winging it!!!

five plots i want to do in the future

like i said, i would love to do a preestablished-type marriage plot with someone (if we were discussing this already, i’m so sorry, i’m trash. pls nudge me again)

i also was thinking how much i would love to make muses who have siblings with other mun’s muses? @lucywrites​ and i did this with silas and flora trask and it was the best decision of my life

i’ve also rly wanted to do some celebrity plots??? something like this tbh or anything rly

i also was thinking about the cast of tv shows and how they literally are a family and someday i want to do a mumu based on that. imagine all the relationships !!! the drama !!! everything

i also love all those single parent + kindergarten teacher plots — my single parent muses luna & sebastián would be perfect for this, or even joss who takes care of her younger brother

four ships

listen, i tried to pick, but it ended up being IMPOSSIBLE. i love you all so much, thank you for giving me these ships. to everyone who ships with me, you mean the world. 

three friendships

lyra, lorelai, & jack – @hiitchhikers & @niallhcran

wesley, sally, & heather – @peytrps & @warmhcney

nadine & savannah, katy & molly, celine & the wheelers – @warmhcney

p.s. — i want more platonic ships… pls come @ me

two roleplays

i’m going to say @epochhq & @sundridgehq! both have such kind souls and i’ve met so many good people through them. 

one partner

again, picking would be impossible. thank you all for shipping, rping, and interacting with me. i’m sorry for being so slow & sucky at replying to messages & threads, but i love you all so much. it means so much that you’re here, thank you for sticking around. I LOVE YOU!

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if you like it (put a ring on it)

“Why are you so jittery, Jungkook? It’s almost as if you’d lost the engagement ring you were supposed to propose to Jimin with tonight or something.”

“... Wait, oh my god.”

Pairing: jikook/kookmin

AU: established relationship, proposal AU

Tags: really fluffy gdi, jungkook messes up (like always), attempt at humor

Word Count: 2332

you can find it here on ao3!!

Today was the day.

Jungkook fidgeted with his shirt sleeve, running his thumb over the button as he bit the inside of his cheek. Even the clattering of the dishes that came from the door that led to the kitchen couldn’t bring him out of his reverie. It was cool in the restaurant, but he was sweating buckets by now, occasionally having to bring up the back of his hand to wipe his forehead messily. Their dinner date was supposed to start one minute and twenty-eight seconds ago; Jimin wasn’t here. Park Jimin, the man Jungkook was supposed to fucking propose to, wasn’t here to see his boyfriend stammer and shake nervously in his seat.

“Where are you, where are you,” he hissed, running a hand through his hair (the hair which had taken a full half an hour to style, but now it was just a bird’s nest on top of his head.) Jimin was late for a date for possibly the first time in the four years they had been together. His boyfriend’s attendance was always impeccable-- Jungkook was usually the one to run into the room ten minutes late, apologizing profusely and kissing Jimin’s pout away.

Something salty blossomed in his mouth; it was blood from Jungkook’s tattered inner cheek.

When Jimin finally appeared, it was four minutes after six. He smoothed out the front of his shirt as he plopped into the velvet seat in front of his date. “Oh gosh, Kookie, I’m so sorry. I forgot my wallet at work and I couldn’t just leave it there for someone to steal, you know?” He leaned in. “That Taehyung kid in the cubicle next to mine has always looked kinda suspicious. I hope you didn’t mind, babe.”

Jungkook shrugged it off. It wasn’t like he was planning on bursting into tears if Jimin hadn’t appeared in the next few seconds anyways, haha. “It’s… It’s fine, hyung. I’m okay.” The full-lipped smile that his boyfriend gave him next was enough to make him forget all about Jimin’s lateness.

“I’m glad, I was seriously worried about you. I got my wallet, though. But really, Jungkook, you went all out tonight. Five-star restaurant? You dressing up all fancy in that dress suit and those black pants? Is there something going on that I don’t know about? I’m used to brunch dates at that lamb skewer stand around the corner. Maybe it was closed today or something?”

“No, no, I just wanted to… make tonight special… no reason.”

He didn’t look convinced, but seemingly shrugged it off anyways. “You could have atleast told me what to wear. I’m stuck with this scraggly old shirt.” He turned his attention to the menu on the table in front of him. “Man, this looks good…  this better not be too expensive though, or I’m literally gonna kick your ass. We’re not rich yet, kid.”

It always amazed Jungkook at how fast Jimin could change subjects, at how fast his face could light up and his mood could change. It was one of the many things that made Jungkook fall in love with him, the boy with the raven hair and the shimmering chocolate eyes and the beautiful smile. He cupped his chin in his hands and rested his elbows on the table and just watched, watched Jimin’s ringed finger trail over the laminated page. His Park Jimin. His boyfriend. And then his future husband, if all went well.

When the waitress had arrived to their table, set with a blinding smile, Jungkook was still staring. Get yourself together, what’s up with you today, Jimin had giggled, snapping his fingers. Jimin ordered lobster while Jungkook went for clam chowder. He didn’t necessarily enjoy clam chowder, but it wasn’t like he was going to eat much anyways. (“Jungkook, why’d you order that? You hate seafood.” “Um, I guess tastes change? Don’t worry about it, hyung.”)

The rest of the night went by with relatively no casualties, except for, you know. Jimin knocking over a glass of water and having to deal with the angry-ass waiter rapping his fingers on the table. Jungkook taking a cautious bite of his food and choking on it before spitting it into a napkin in the presence of at least ten people. Jimin volunteering to do the heimlich maneuver, and Jungkook denying his assistance while he coughed into his chowder. No life-threatening casualties, at least; and then it was time for Jungkook to hide the ring in Jimin’s meal, like he had seen in thousands of cheesy k-dramas and romance novels (don’t tell his boyfriend he still has those books-- he’d literally die of embarrassment.)

“Hey, uh, hyung?” Jimin’s head snapped up, fork paused halfway to his mouth. “Can you, like, get me a napkin? I think there’s some clam chowder on the table and I wanna clean it up before the waiter comes back.”

Jimin raised an eyebrow. “You have a napkin right in front of you, Kookie--” but Jungkook pushed him away anyways, saying some bullshit like the napkin was already used (even though it obviously was clean.) Once the brown-haired boy was out of the picture, Jungkook shoved his hand into his pocket and fished around for the ring.

“C’mon, where is it,” he breathed, watching Jimin head up to a passing waitress out of the corner of his eye. He had no more than a minute to get the ring, lean over, slide it into the prongs of Jimin’s fork, and return back to sitting in his seat to pretend like nothing had happened. But-- he couldn’t feel the cold metal of his ring. It wasn’t in the deep crevices of his right pant pocket, nor his left; it wasn’t even in the one in his shirt, which was his last resort.

Cue excessive trembling and a whole lot of cursing. It wasn’t there-- the ring wasn’t there, the ring he had spent two months saving up for, the ring he bought because the jem reminded him of how Jimin’s eyes sparkled whenever he laughed-- it wasn’t there, and now Jimin was heading back to their table with five napkins clutched in between his fingers, and it was just too late.

“Here are the-- Jungkook, are you okay?” But he was already up out of his seat, hands clenched into fists and eyes slightly wet and legs shaking. He mumbled something about having to pee and then pushed past his boyfriend, ignoring his pleas and heading straight towards the double doors with the words MEN stamped on it.

Jungkook had barely made it inside the bathroom before he collapsed against a wall, near the sinks. It took great effort to guide his feet to take him to the nearest stall, where he closed the door with a bang and sat on the cover of the toilet seat. This couldn’t be happening; he’d planned so much, and everything seemed so perfect, and now it was all ruined… why couldn’t he have checked for the ring before Jimin had arrived? Why did he have to mess everything up?

He took a few deep breaths before he took out his phone, punching in digits and putting it against his ear.

“Jungkook! Hey! How’s the date going? Have you popped the question yet?”

“N-no, hyung… hyung, I--I need to--”

“Why are you so jittery, Jungkook?” Hoseok’s voice was full of amusement. “It’s almost as if you’d lost the engagement ring you were supposed to propose to Jimin with tonight or something.” Silence. “Wait, Jungkook, you… you didn’t really, right?”

The boy sighed, and he felt the air between them immediately tense up. “... Wait, oh my god,” was all that came from the other line.

“You were supposed to--to set everything up, Hoseok-hyung! How could you mess something up like this?” Jungkook tightened the grip on his phone. “You were the one that put together my outfit, and I specifically… I told you to put the ring in. I-- I called you multiple times, hyung! Now everything’s just ruined and I won’t be able to propose and Jimin’s going to hate me, and we’ll break up and it’s gonna be all your fucking fault!”

“I swear I put the ring in your pocket, Jungkook-- shit, did you take the wrong outfit? You took the clothes on the chair, right?”

Jungkook stilled, eyes wide, and lowered his tone when he heard the bathroom doors swing open and someone’s feet patter across the tile. “...What?”

“Jungkook! Are you in here?” It was Jimin, and Jungkook ended the call with a trembling finger. What was he doing here? Oh god, maybe he’d figured it all out. Maybe he knows how big of a mess-up Jungkook is, how big of a fucking loser his boyfriend is for accidentally taking the wrong damn suit.

He heard the stall doors slam open and the sound get nearer and nearer to him, but he couldn’t bring himself to get up and lock his own door. Jungkook waited until the footsteps stopped in front of him, and he could see black vans peeking out from underneath the metal barrier.

It swung open, and there was Jimin, in all his glory, the corners of his pretty pink lips turned down in a frown. It was enough to make a tear trail down Jungkook’s cheek.

“Babe, what’s wrong?” Jimin was just too kind as he wrapped his arms around his boyfriend’s still figure, all warm and fuzzy, and it was enough to make Jungkook’s heart plummet. His petite hands were running through Jungkook’s black locks, like Jungkook hadn’t just made the biggest mess-up in all of history. “Tell me what’s wrong, Kookie. Why are you crying? Don’t cry, baby, don’t cry.”

“Jimin hyung, I--” he brought up the courage to say it then and there. To tell him how horrible of a boyfriend he was. If Jimin broke up with him, then fine. As long as Jimin was happy, Jungkook would be, too. “I was going to propose to you tonight. Over dinner.”

Jimin pulled away, arms going slack. His eyes were saucers. “Jungkook,” he whispered, but Jungkook couldn’t look at him in the eyes.

“I was going to, but I was dumb and I didn’t bring the ring. Hyung, I didn’t bring the damn ring! I’m so sorry, I ruined everything, didn’t I? I took the wrong clothes and the ring’s in the other one and I chose that ring just because it reminded me of your beautiful eyes, but now it doesn’t matter anymore, doesn’t it? You’re gonna break up with me and I totally understand, hyung. Go ahead, lay it on me. I’m a big boy, I can take it.”

There was uncomfortable silence, where Jimin just stared at Jungkook and Jungkook stared at Jimin-- and this was it, Jungkook thought solemnly, an end of an era, and he’s gonna miss Jimin. He’s gonna miss their cuddle sessions and their shared kisses and Jimin’s cute little button nose, and waking up to the smell of freshly-made waffles and getting a handful of flour in his face after jokingly insulting Jimin’s cooking (even though Jimin made the best damn waffles in the whole wide world.) Or their weekend shopping sprees, when Jungkook would make his boyfriend try out millions of oversized sweaters and coo at how the sleeves went past his fingertips. And Jimin, Jimin, Jimin. He loved him so much-- he would never move on. Jimin was his every breath, his sun and his moon, the only source of his pure, unadulterated happiness.

And then Jimin flicked him on the forehead. And, wow, did it hurt.

“You big fucking idiot,” he sighed exasperatedly, as Jungkook rubbed his bruise, and were Jimin’s eyes wet? “You goddamn overreacting asshole. You made me think something seriously bad happened to you. I’m never going to forgive you, Jeon Jungkook.”

What? Jungkook thought, furrowing his eyebrows. “What?” Jungkook said.

“You seriously think I care so much about a ring, Jungkook? How shallow do you think I am? I don’t care if you threw a brick through our window back home that had a sticky note with the words ‘Marry Me’ written on it in pink glittery ink. I would still say yes, a million times yes, because I love you. You spent so much money on making a reservation at this restaurant, which I was late to, and put so much effort into planning everything and making sure that my night was absolutely perfect. Even you almost dying over your clam chowder couldn’t have made me less happy about tonight. Fuck you, Jeon Jungkook, really, honestly, and I hope you find a dead spider under your pillow when you sleep tonight for making me freak out over you so much. God, I love you so damn much, I want to spend every living second with you and only you.”

Jungkook stared, gaping. Jimin’s eyes were really shimmering, as if someone had taken all the stars in the night sky and gave them to him, and he was smiling. He was smiling so hard it wouldn’t be surprising if his jaw fell off. “Jimin hyung… are--are you saying what I think you’re saying?”

His boyfriend chuckled, shaking his head. “Yes, Kook. Let’s get married.”

Then he pulled Jungkook up from his seat on the toilet cover and kissed him, really kissed him, hands clutching his cheeks and eyes closed. It wasn’t open mouthed, and they’d kissed so many times before that moment; but right then and there, Jungkook knew that this was the kiss he would remember for many lifetimes. It wasn’t fireworks exploding or anything, but it was Park Jimin, and to Jungkook, that was all he really needed.

When they parted, Jungkook looked at his fiancé sheepishly. “I proposed to you in the bathroom of a five-star restaurant.”

Jimin doubled over in laughter, punching Jungkook’s shoulder lightly. “And whose fault is that, huh?”

“Mine,” he admitted easily, the corners of his eyes crinkling.

What a great story to tell the kids.

[dhampir72]

What Are You Writing?

What I’m Writing 

Do Dis: List all the things you’re currently working on in as much or little detail as you’d like, then tag some friends to see what they’re working on. This can be writing, art, vids, gifsets, whatever.

I was tagged by my wife @zombiisheep, who does way more stuff than me

Fics I’m Actually Writing Now (instead of doing all the other writing I should be doing)

Gotta say, I’m terrible at titles, so pretty much everything in quotes is how it’s organized in my documents folder. When the government creeps on my drafts, they must really wonder about me...

Untitled “All of the neighbours know they’re gay before they know they’re gay” - (Aaron Hotchner/Spencer Reid); set sometime in the earlier seasons. When Hotchner and Haley separate, Reid offers Hotchner a place in his home. My excuse to make them roommates and then something more :)

Untitled “kinda like soul mates but not really” - (Aaron Hotchner/Spencer Reid); think Sense8 style, where Hotchner and Reid “visit” one another as they grow up. It’s only when Reid joins the BAU that they meet in person and things get more complicated from there... 

Untitled “sexy snuggling?? idek” - (Aaron Hotchner/Spencer Reid); dom!Hotch, sub!Reid. More of an exploration of their emotional relationship rather than their physical one, but that is not to say they won’t (eventually) get it on.

Untitled “Not a Magic-Healing Cock Story but okay maybe a little?” - (Aaron Hotchner/Spencer Reid) fic for @rigel99, who placed the winning bid in the Fandom Trumps Hate charity auction; this is the one where Hotch and Reid bond over their losses and come together. Set after Garcia’s Dia de los Muertos party. A short fic despite the slow(ish?) burn so...

Working Titles “Desert Storm” “love is a battlefield” “idk they’re in a warzone” - (Aaron Hotchner/Spencer Reid) fic also for @rigel99. who was just so generous in the FTH charity auction. Plot is pretty loose as of now, mostly because I am writing the cute scenes ahead of time to reward myself as I wade through all the research about the US military. Basically Hotchner is sent to Afghanistan. After some sort of case-related thing happens (?? still working on this) Reid joins him on location. 

Untitled “that Historically Inaccurate Spartacus AU” - (00Q fic where Bond is taken into a ludis to train to become a gladiator and Q is the slave of the Dominus; they fall in love, of course) although I’m not actively writing it all the time, I do add to this one more often than others. I really wanted an excuse to do another historically inaccurate AU and this is what happened...

À la recherche du temps perdu - Widowmaker (Overwatch)-centric short story that’s basically sad just for the sake of being sad because I can.

Fics That I’m Returning To Soon (A.K.A the fics I should be writing)

Crystallise - (00Q, in which Q is a figure skater and Bond is a sports journalist; written for the 00Q Reverse Bang with art by the fantastic @megaikemen​) Keep putting this off mostly because every time I sit down to write it, I end up watching skating videos for like three hours and then it’s time to go to bed...I really just need to take a weekend to finish... I am so sorry for everyone who has waited ten thousand years already D:

Always Alright (Aaron Hotchner/Spencer Reid; basically Hotchner pining like a Nordic forest until he admits his feelings) the first story needs a quick cleanup because grammar apparently was hard for me when I posted...then I have to figure out if I’m splitting the second story into two or just leaving it as is... 

Fics That I Keep Putting Off (A.K.A gdi dhampir why can’t you just get your shit together?)

Favours (00Q, Spectre Fix-It; this one from Bond’s POV) I keep messing with this one on and off because every time I compare it to Q’s POV, it’s just not as good. When I stop being a perfectionist I will eventually complete and post.

Satin and Lace (00Q lingerie “smut”) mostly putting this off because I’m hella bad at writing porn. It was my attempt to try because @frillsandcoffee does such inspirational work...unfortunately all of my attempts to write something “sexy” have failed, so it’s just sitting in my drafts folder to be poked at with a stick every few months in case it rouses my creativity. 

A King and His Knight (00Q, royal!Q, knight!Bond) I love this fic, but I put it off because the last “chapter” turned into a full length story somehow? I need the time to actually go back and make sure that the plot holes aren’t big enough to jump through. Also research about things, despite the historical inaccuracy tag. Um, basically, I really just don’t know when I will do this. Maybe after reading some more lit set in this time period, I will be inspired again? -hides-

I taaaaag...everyone? If you’d like to do this, please do, and tag me! I’d really like to see what everyone is working on :)

[suspiciouswarriorhonmayan]

I saw your tags. YOU HAVE A MAJI DND AU???!!

@sleepingkuroneko Yes I do!

You can check out the small tag in the au section I have on my blog. But here is the original post that started it all lol

I’ll talk a little bit more about it under the cut

I’ll talk about Maji 4 Rappapa since I haven’t decided the kind of play style Maji 1 Rappapa has yet (even though I have their character sheets up already).

So for this game Otabe is obvs the DM. She usually plays by the book and sticks to the rules. However, because her players are just so ridic most of the rules just end up going out the window. She has the role of playing many npcs and building worlds and she’s not too bad at it but at times the rest of Rappapa has to bring her back because she tends to get way too long winded on some of the descriptions and/or dialogue. If she was a player, the class I would pick for her would either be a blood hunter( because they inflict a lot damage to themselves to do the majority of their attacks and somehow I feel that self sacrifice falls in line a lot with Otabe’s character lol or some type of magic caster possibly even a bard (provides support buffs and inspirations to others but also at higher levels bard magic can be very clutch when it needs to be)

Ok so first on the list of players is Yoga. She plays a elf druid who constantly wants to be in the forefront of battle. The problem with that is shes pretty much a squishy magic caster and she should be in the back casting but instead charges into battle headfirst and is often the closest to always dying (second only to Sakura). Otabe just facepalms and tells her she should have chosen a different class if she wasn’t going to be in anyway strategic about this. Yoga’s trying though and when she levels up she’s definitely a force to be reckoned with. It’s just at those lower levels where it was rough going for a while.

Bakamono is a dwarf barbarian who is constantly raging everywhere even outside the battle field (which I feel she would bond with Geki since both of their characters are of a barbarian class). She put the highest of her ability scores into strength and constitution and her lowest on intelligence which happened to be 6 which means she has a negative 2 to all intelligence rolls. That disadvantage can be troublesome and even debilitating at times when tact is needed, yet it proves for interesting game play because despite her characters low intelligence Bakamono, from time to time, has a spark of brilliance and somehow her stupid plans work to which Otabe responds “hOW???”

Magic is a Tiefling rogue. Magic is the type of player that is constantly fighting the DM for the littlest things. Example:

Magic: “There’s a rock near that enemy guy I totally get sneak attack on him!”

Otabe: The rock isn’t a sentient being, you asshole!”

Magic: “You don’t know that!” and then it devolves into arguing for next ten minutes.

She also tries to cheat a lot but somehow Otabe always knows. Magic doesn’t even know how she knows but she does and because of this Magic’s character always has some sort of penalty inflicted on her. Magics character has a high dexterity and is very good at dodging, sneaking, and stealing, but her charisma and strength are low so whenever she’s trying to charm or intimidate she fails spectacularly. She’s stubborn though so trying to convince to give up on ever trying to charm or intimidate anyone is a fight no one will ever win.

Salt is surprising because, well first, its amazing that she plays at all with them but second is that of all the classes, she chose to be a cleric(half-elf cleric to be exact). Otabe suspects its because Salt essentially determines who lives and gets healing or who dies a painful death. By her logic, if you ran into the battle without a plan and get hurt then that’s your fault and she’s not going to waste healing you which sucks because more often than not that’s usually the case for most of the characters’ injuries. She also derives some amusement from seeing the others try to beg her to heal them. Of course if they are at the brink of death, Salt relents and actually provides the group with the necessary healing. She’s pretty strategic too and usually hangs back observing other’s actions before reacting. In dnd being a cleric doesn’t mean your weak and squishy on the contrary, they are more than just support but have their own fighting abilities as well. Salt’s spells can be truly devastating when she really gets into it. 

Sakura who recently joined their game is an red dragonborn fighter. She honestly doesn’t understand a lot of the intricacies of the game. Sakura has no tact and just attacks like everything she ever encounters to the point where even Bakamono is like “pls chill”.

Example: Yoga: Ok so I want to negotiate a truce with the bandit leader-

Sakura: I attack the bandit leader as he’s talking with her”

Everyone: GDI SAKURA!

Because she is usually leaping into the fray without any sense of plan or direction she’s constantly getting the group into even more danger and always at the brink of death. She’s the type of player that tends to have little regard for the lives of her teammates and anyone around her. The group probably has an intervention because it gets to be too much at one point. She eventually learns to be more of a team player but the process was a long and rocky one.

Wow this got very long so I’m gonna stop there. I apologize to everyone on mobile for this long winded nerd rambling.

[cupkayke]

Cupkayke Rewatches/Liveblogs Boueibu!

Season 1, Episode 3

So I dropped off the face of Tumblr for awhile, sorry guys! I also rewatched the entirety of Yuri on Ice with my boyfriend and he now likes ice skating anime so that took some time lol But I am back JUST IN TIME FOR YUMOTO’S BIRTHDAY OMG HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRECIOUS CHILD. So, have a liveblog/collection of my stupid thoughts about one of the more ridiculous episodes! Yay! 

Also, I apologize in advance- some of this episode’s subtext led to an impromptu dissection of the boys’ sexualities/orientations and there are some brief mentions of unsavory teachers (because what kind of teacher holds a pretty boy contest???) so if any of my terminology/speculation is incorrect or you find any of my discussions potentially triggering or in need of tags PLEASE inbox me and I will tag the post as such/correct any misinformation! I am a literature student- I like to analyze things. Sometimes I get carried away~

I SAW THE PREVIEW IMAGE FOR THIS EP ON CRUNCHYROLL AND IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT ‘HERE WE GO I REMEMBER THIS EPISODE IT’S GONNA BE A TRASH PARADE AND WTF CITY LET’S GO’

Okay- I always wondered about the pretty boy contest… like why? What purpose does it serve? Why are there posters put up in a fucking BATHHOUSE advertising the local boys’ high school’s PRETTY BOY CONTEST. .3 seconds into the episode and it’s ridiculous. 

What do you mean ‘weight with the ladies’ c’mon man I have a hard time believing you care ANYTHING about ‘the ladies’ -eyebrow waggle-

He’s doing pirouettes in a towel… okay seriously bro I danced ballet for like 10 years and I never pirouetted in a towel OKAY THAT’S PROBABLY A LIE BUT YOU CAN’T PROVE IT OTHERWISE

"EWWWW TEACHER DICK”

Aww Yumoto. So innocent. So naive. So willing to point out he just saw his teacher’s penis-

...well that’s an odd question. Yumoto why would you ask-

Oh, shew, it’s because you’re not ashamed of bodies! How sweet and innocent and refreshi-

WAIT BACK UP NEVERMIND YUMOTO WTF THAT’S CALLED VOUYERISM

Those are the faces of some senpais that just came to the realization that their kouhai has probably been checking them out.

Well he got dressed fast.

How do you hire someone by accident?

Took the words right out of my mouth, Atsushi.

This is disturbing on several levels. Pedo Principal? -shudders-

FEET SHOULD NOT BEND THAT WAY

GUYS. GUYS. GUYS. AKOYA AS A BALLET DANCER OMG. IMAGINE. HAS THIS BEEN DRAWN? THIS NEEDS TO BE FANART SOMEWHERE. HE’D BE SO PRETTY JUST IMAGINE HIM IN TIGHTS BEING THE PRINCIPAL MALE LEAD IN SWAN LAKE OR FUCK EVEN IN A FUCKING TUTU BECAUSE HE’D BE GORGEOUS IN EITHER ROLE I CAN’T EVEN AWKEJFLASJFASLDJFOSIJFOAJ -Cupkayke Explodes-

Arima speaks truth

Io why do you have an exact copy of the calculator I use at work that’s terrifying.

RYUU YOU ARE LYING YOU GO TO AN ALL BOYS SCHOOL THAT IS APPROXIMATELY 0% WOMEN TRY AGAIN

Io looks so disappointed he can’t talk numbers with Ryuu

THEIR CHEESY CATCHPHRASE AGAIN

Side note I feel like the quirkiness of the school got toned down in later eps but perhaps that’s my faulty memory. Which is why I’m rewatching it lol.

Pretty and savage AF

PINK RIVALRY! I mean seriously, “you can’t seem to take your eyes off of me?” Maybe not even a rivalry but something else ohohohohohoh I’m alone on this ship

Okay this creepy teacher apparently calls all the boys ‘sweet honey’ which is disturbing on its own level but that got cranked up to 11 on the creep scale when he referred to YUMOTO as sweet honey. 

Yumoto is a precious cinnamon roll you freak

Paper airplane contest lololol why do I feel like this happened at my school back in the day?

Wombat sounds like a jealous lover lolol

OH BOY! PUNS!

RYUU AND AKOYA TIED FOR THIRD???

HOW DOES AKOYA NOT WIN IN THE LINEUP OF THE SC???

LIKE SERIOUSLY KINSHIROU????

AKOYA IS TEN TIMES PRETTIER!

This school must have a thing for ice princes I s2g

En's boredom is dangerous. I mean... the face says it all.

Ryuu is all “this is NOT up my alley”

A bit slow on the uptake, Yumoto.

Io that’s so sweet... I guess? Well Ryuu seems to think it is- look at his face!

...nevermind. His expression is all “Thanks... I guess...”

Either Yumoto was hoping his senpais would teach him how to be popular with the ladies, or he’s just confused as to what in the hell it is that older boys want. This entire scene is just a clusterfuck of innuendo BUT I’M GONNA OVER ANALYZE IT ANYWAY.

The surface meaning of En and Atsushi’s statements here- or what the audience is supposed to get- is that being popular with girls will only get you so far. It may get you ‘love’ but having a girlfriend means jack squat if you don’t have guy friends (most likely to brag to). 

It also could be taken that En at least would rather appreciate women than exert his energy into making them lust after him, which is rather sweet if you think about it.

Atsushi’s point also draws attention to the fact that stereotypical displays of machismo are much more well-received by other men than women- ie outward displays of strength, aggression, bragging about sexual encounters... er- yeah. No need to go on, there.

So. In order to be a well-rounded man, a man needs to be popular/be admired by other men! So you aren’t a lonely loser the rest of your days.

Buuut... because I’m me... LET’S LOOK AT THE SUBTEXT IN RELATIONSHIP TO THEIR SPECULATED SEXUALITIES 8D

En basically says straight up it’s more beneficial to be admired by men. Putting aside the above statements about admiring women... En’s likely gay. Fosho.

And the top screencap of Yumoto, instead of just clarifying his senpai’s intentions, that could mean that he’s more interested in girls. HOWEVER-

With a c: face, Yumoto admits his heart flutters watching rugged young men!

Bi Yumoto anyone? (He also unironically uses the word ‘flicks’ but that’s either a translator thing or another example of a mysterious dialect but ON TOPIC-)

At least within the context of this scene, Yumoto implies he’d be interested in being popular with girls and he is attracted to at very least a certain type of man. Buuut the rest of this episode (which I will get to later) potentially directly contradicts this implication as to Yumoto’s romantic and/or otherwise attraction.

It’s too bad that we don’t get Ryuu or Atsushi’s opinions on the matter- although Ryuu makes his attractions pretty clear just from his character (and then the subtext with Io). Atsushi is a bit of a mystery, for now. 

As for Io, we get this  exchange-

Le sigh. Io is moneysexual. Anyway...

Wombat so salty- I guess helping Ryuu win a contest is more entertaining than being superheroes.

Me about halfway through this post

En's expressions in this scene are great.

Tho does anyone else now headcanon En as really into athletics when he isn’t being lazy?

Like him really liking competition just fits so well but without a goal he’s just like ‘why bother’

Atsushi sounds so awkward calling him Yufuin

“I can’t just announce him as Enchan that’s weird but I don’t think I’ve ever said his last name ughhhhhhhhh”

Io is NOT playing by the unspoken one urinal in between rule

ALSO I JUST NOTICED YOU CAN SEE THE GUY ON THE LEFT ACTUALLY PEEING WTF

Water go swoosh swoosh

Also their bathrooms are fancy AF

GDI why does Io make the best seduction face

Even tho it’s more predatory here still...

THEY WERE REALLY HEAVY HANDED WITH THE INNUENDO IN S1

The triplets WHY ARE THEIR EYES SO WEIRD

WHAT IS IT WITH THIS SHOW AND SIDE CHARACTERS WITH WEIRD EYES

Ryuu so destructive lol

I TAKE BACK WHAT I SAID ABOUT EN BEING ATHLETIC RYUU DOES FUCKING KARATE

Sparkles

Ibushi is still savage AF

I had to giggle and cap his character card because the image of Atsushi doing gigantic jigsaw puzzles was adorable

YOU’RE A TEACHER WHY DO YOU WANT TO BE A PRETTY BOY?

LIKE SERIOUSLY WHY DO YOU WANT TO BE VALIDATED BY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Did he get scorned and that’s why his self esteem is in the toilet???

1579th pretty boy contest??? Damn Pedo Principal is thirsty AF I am still shuddering at the implications

Tho seriously that’s -does math- ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY ONE YEARS OF PRETTY BOY CONTESTS WHAT THE FUCK

And that isn’t taking into account there would probably be a month or two where school isn’t in session on the 27th to have the pretty boy contest. Like December wouldn’t they be on break? And don’t they have a summer holiday at some point?

IT ISN’T JUST ONE PEDO PRINCIPAL IT’S A DYNASTY

EWWWWWWWWW.

YUMOTO AND RYUU BROTHER RELATIONSHIP I FRIENDSHIP IT LOOK RYUU IS BLUSHING

Yumoto knows he’s a lil shit

What the fuck kind of sound effect is swan swan???

I’m suddenly reminded of Kronk doing his own theme music-

Ryuu so salty he wanted to know the winner

Yumoto that writhing mob of students is pretty gross I agree

SO ZUNDAR WANTS THE ENTIRE WORLD TO BE GAY

THAT’S HIS EVIL PLAN TURN EVERYONE GAY

HE SOUNDS LIKE A SHITTY GROSS POLITICIAN

With that shot angle I was just waiting for him to lay a fucking egg but thankfully that didn’t happen

The subtitle is inaccurate- he actually said ‘GIMME HUG’ which is slightly more unsettling.

EN YOU WANT TO MARRY IT WTF

Yumoto still just like c: “I have no idea what’s going on”

I NOW PRESENT TO YOU THE BEST BOUEIBU SCREENCAPS IN THE HISTORY OF SCREENCAPS 

ATSUSHI SO GRACEFUL

SO ROMANTIC

EN IS JEALOUS

THEY’RE ALL RIDICULOUS

Speaks for itself

And here is where Yumoto contradicts his earlier implications. Okay. 1) Writers make up your minds, although 2) ...shades of gray here.

Perhaps Kurotori’s feather spell represents sexual love (Eros for all you YOI fans~) and Yumoto is either a) too young/innocent to understand or b) somewhere on the ace spectrum. The others were affected because they are either simply older than Yumoto/past puberty or allosexual to the point where the spell could manipulate their feelings despite their existing attractions whatever those may be.

Yumoto’s earlier comments, then, could be taken to mean simply romantic attraction, even though his wording of his “heart fluttering” thanks to Yakuza men is a bit misleading in that respect. (Disclaimer: I am not on the ace spectrum so perhaps I am misrepresenting/misinterpreting here- please correct me if I have made a mistake in my understanding of asexuality- I definitely do not want to offend anyone! Just analyzing~) 

Though to play the other side, En’s comment about marriage, even though he’s under the influence of a spell, also indicates that the spell has romantic components as well as potentially sexual ones. If the spell plays to BOTH- wouldn’t Yumoto be affected as well, based on his earlier assertions?

OR PERHAPS- if it is both, Yumoto is ALSO potentially aromantic and his comments were purely of an aesthetic nature or self projection (that is, he wants to be a dashing Yakuza heartthrob, not necessarily date one). Or he was simply trying to relate to his senpais and was bluffing the entire time.

Damn, this episode can seem REALLY deep if you squint hard enough. Headcanons, abound!

Moving on- WHEN IN DOUBT, HUG THE ENEMY!

Now I’m starting to see some cleverness on the part of the writers- hear me out below- but first- MORE CUDDLES

With this, Yumoto can be read several different ways. 

On the surface and probably most importantly, regardless of what Yumoto’s personal attraction/orientation is (if he’s even figured it out at this point), he knows love at its purest form. He loves his brother. He loves his senpais (even though at this point they barely know each other- Yumoto probably latches on quickly). But more importantly, he is so in tune with his own feelings he realizes that self love is at the core of any type of love. That if you aren’t secure in yourself, if you don’t care about yourself on some level, how can anyone else care about you either?

This is another reason why I love Yumoto even though he can get a bit heavy-handed at times and seem like a one-note character; HE ISN’T.

Yumoto is incredibly introspective and even though his senapis make comments about how he just kind of shoves everything together to fit the situation he really does understand the monster-ified characters’ insecurities.

(Which can lead to some sad headcanons about how Yumoto has probably felt all of these things at one point or another... oh no...)

But back to my over-analysis of Yumoto’s orientation- with this... it’s really up to interpretation.

He can be read as a young character who hasn’t figured things out yet, he can be read as interested in romantic relationships of any variety but not necessarily anything else, he can be read as only interested in platonic relationships- anything. And while the inconsistency in his portrayal can be a bit maddening- it’s GREAT headcanon opportunity.

Thus, unless s3 gives Yumoto a canon interest- he’s whatever you think he is. Which is AWESOME! DO YOU SEE WHY I LOVE THIS SMOL CINNAMON ROLL?

Aaaand some closing, not very deep thoughts to wrap up-

SO BLUSHY. MUCH ANGELIC. WOW.

En you’re always tired

Kinchan... why do you want people to grovel at your feet...?

That’s certainly a random question, En- but for shits and giggles; these are their responses if I’m hearing their voices right:

Atsushi - My neck, I guess?

Yumoto - My arms

Ryuu - Armpits

Io - The nape of the neck.

My brain hurts so I have NO idea what these could mean but I highly doubt they’re throwaway lines- SO YOU GUYS TELL ME. Over-analyze what parts they wash first LOL

OKAY WOW THAT WAS LONG AS FUCK AND I GOT TOO DEEP. Again, let me know if I fucked anything up or need to add tags~ And let me know what you think/what your headcanons are/if there’s something from another canon source that could add to this!

I’ll try to get ep 4 up today as well since it took me forever to get back to this but this shit takes longer than I thought. I watch the ep first and take notes, then go back and re-watch and screencap and take more notes, then copy/pasta everything into tumblr and add more thoughts and make it readable. Shew.

[mango-studies]

playlist tag

my brain is fried from math, chemistry, and my flute sounding really bad so this’ll be lackluster (warning in advance)

tagged by @aetudes <3 (yeah I’m so wrecked from studying I can’t even do the myth thing)

Rules: We’re snooping on your playlist. Set your entire music library to shuffle and report the first ten tracks that pop up! Then choose ten additional victims.

(wow most of my playlist is Vocaloid music, looks like I should really expand my horizons)

Pomp and Circumstance (Ifuudoudou) // Umetora

Meltdown (Roshin Yuukai) // iroha (sasaki)

Gekokujou // Ichigyou-P 

EveR ∞ LastinG ∞ NighT // Hitoshizuku-P and Yama△

World’s End Dancehall // wowaka

Corrupted Flower (Haitoku no Hana) //  Hitoshizuku-P and Yama△ 

Madness of Duke Venomania (Venomania-kou no Kyouki) // akuno-P

Judgment of Corruption (Akutoku no Jajjimento) // akuno-P 

SHOOT ON TOKYO! // SCL Project

Just Be Friends // Dixie Flatline

considering that my playlist is 80% music by Hitoshizuku-P and Yama, I’m surprised I only got two of their songs on here lol 

In other news, Danzas Cubanas (Robert Sheldon) came up as #11 and I was WAITING for it to be one of the 10 gdi (Danzas is my most favourite wind symphony song ever)

-goes through my list of mutuals- tagging: @einstetic @victoryrolls @gradespiration @studyhelen @st-uhdying @perasperaadmed @echostudies @studyoncaffiene  @word-candy-studies @m-ediblr  

//i need more mutuals LOL that’s gonna be my post exams mission