#hes either super discreet about it or just straight up hands the gifts over and says what they're for outloud

[pinkniz]

I have a very weird hc that Freddy one way or another learned how much periods hurt and after finding out he developed a very weird habit of giving ibuprofen or chocolate to all his afab teammates

And the real weird part of the hc is that since hes a wolf he can smell the hormone changes so he probably knows when its gonna happen before they do

Like imagine you are new at the decree and suddenly a massive werewolf hands you some ibuprofen and leaves without saying anything

He doesn't actually understand how any of it works, he just kinda wants to help thr members of his "pack"

[whistlesanbells]

Community Headcanons

Just a random list of headcanons I have, organized by character (feat. A lot of Britta x Annie)

Jeff

I saw someone mention that Jeff might have an ED, and given what we see with his relationship with food, and how he is willing to go as far as to hurt himself to be the best at something (in this case be the best looking) it makes a lot of sense.

A lot of people headcanon Jeff as bi but honestly I just take him as cishet. He has many many issues but I don’t think sexuality is one of them, because half his personality is his attraction to every woman that breathes lmao

Exudes top energy but really the minute someone else tops him, he gets insecure for a bit but ends up really liking it.

Britta

Raging bisexual. I feel like she’s known for a long time, but never told the group because it would just be another thing for them to poke fun of about her.

In the same vein, I believe Britta’s parents were very homophobic, and that’s why she cut ties. I think she came out to them at a younger age and it was messy. It would make sense that she would refuse to tell the group why she didn’t get along with her parents: because she wasn’t ready to come out to the group yet. Instead it gets framed as her just rebelling for no reason.

We hear almost nothing about Britta’s past, except for a few offhand comments about a dinosaur-related trauma. Britta is incredibly quick to deny talking about her past, which led me to believe that she has some kind of trauma. Personally, I believe she was r*ped in her childhood, which would explain her extra effort to comfort troy when he lied about it. It would also explain why she is so fervently for women’s rights, especially when it has to do with bodily autonomy.

Dyslexic!Britta makes so much sense to me, because her parents were likely unsupportive, so she didn’t get much help or accommodations in school at a young age. This probably led to her habit of going out of her way to do poorly in a class so it looks like she’s just not trying, so she doesn’t have to face the reality that she never developed good study habits and she would have a lot of trouble in school even if she tried. Even though she doesn’t do well in school, she’s really smart, she’s just not great at articulating her points :))

She was a tomboy in elementary school before it was considered socially acceptable, and she was bullied ruthlessly for it. In her true, “stick it to the man” fashion, she never grew out of it.

Britta is terrified of Annie finding out that she won’t do well in school even if she DOES try, because she’s afraid Annie will lose respect for her.

Annie was the only one in the group she came out to, because she trusted her to keep a secret and not to judge. Annie asks her a LOT of questions, but Britta puts up with it.

Acts like a top, is really a bottom.

She has a crush on Annie from 21st century romanticism on, but never expresses it because she doesn’t want to make Annie uncomfortable.

Troy

Gay lmao

I definitely feel like he had a crush on abed around end of season 3/ beginning of season 4, but it was unreciprocated.

Troy has an inherent sensitivity that makes him the heart of the show, but it took a while for him to feel comfortable with that. I feel like he had a lot of parental pressure to be perfectly straight and masculine, since he was raised under a strict religion.

Troy never wanted to be an athlete. I believe he wasn’t allowed to explore his interests because he demonstrated talent for sports at a young age, and that’s what he was pressured to do for the rest of his life.

Troy doesn’t always understand how Abed functions, but he is always accepting, supportive and understanding. Instead of trying to understand how his brain works, he memorized the patterns of what bothers him and what doesn’t, and uses that to help his friend in the best way he can. It’s super sweet :))

Abed

Aro/ace Abed rights!! I haven’t seen this one as much, but I really like it. I genuinely don’t think abed has much interest in relationships, which has absolutely nothing to do with being neurodivergent. I think he feels pressure from the group to date, because that’s what they think is “normal.”

I LOVE Annie and Abed’s friendship but I definitely don’t ship them. Sure, they kissed once, but she was attracted to Han Solo, not abed. Annie was attracted to dean when he was actually like Jeff too, but she DEFINITELY wasn’t attracted to dean lmao. Instead, I think they’re both really close because they’re both neurodivergent, and Annie understands him more than anyone else in the group, albeit not entirely. They also have a special handshake you can see at the end of season one :)

This isn’t a headcanon but it’s *technically* never stated in the show but Abed definitely has autism. l DO headcanon that Annie has his safe foods written down in a list because she’s the only one who knows how to cook in the apartment, and she knows it’s important to him.

Abed has all of his friends’ likes and dislikes memorized and written down, as well as their birthdays, as a result of psychoanalyzing them. He gives the best birthday gifts and never forgets.

Definitely was the ACB (creds to film theory on that one)

Shirley

I don’t have a lot of theories for Shirley, because we see a lot of her personal story in canon. However, I do believe that she wasn’t always such a devout Christian. I think she was raised with Christian ideals, but it wasn’t central to her personality until Andre cheated on her. After she went though a dark period of (likely) alcoholism, I like to think that’s when she turned to Christianity, and it gave her hope. She loves it so much because it genuinely did save her from a bad time in her life.

I think she is a big part of the reason why Troy, Abed, Britta, and Annie are afraid to come out to the group. They assume she would never see them in the same light, when truth be told, she would love them all the same. I think she would be uncomfortable at first, but either she would come to the realization or britta would convince her that it is inherently Christian to love everyone, no matter what. Her motherly instincts take precedence over her Christian ideals.

Shirley views Annie as the daughter she never had, but is very careful not to tell her for fear of hurting her feelings. She very much enjoys helping her navigate college and seeing her mature. She also loves all their girl talk since this is the aspect of parenting that she doesn’t get with three boys. In the same vein, she loved teaching Britta how to have friends who are girls, and she likes to think she played a part in raising her.

Pierce

I don’t like pierce enough to psychoanalyze him lmao

Annie (saddle up, this is gonna be long)

Lesbiannie, obviously. Annie’s romantic tendancies SCREAM compulsive heterosexuality. Annie’s relationships with men are always schoolgirl crushes, and she even admits to abed that she never really liked Jeff, she just liked the idea that he was available and willing to love her. It also makes sense that she can’t stand the idea of not being perfect in every way, including heterosexual (because she confirms that her parents are bigoted and that’s likely what she was taught). I think she would have a lot of internalized homophobia, and she would be very insecure about her sexuality, seeing how she acted during the STD fair.

I would love to think Annie also had her first ever real, I like this person for themselves and not just because they’re attainable crush on Britta. She always looked up to her because she was so cool and far less uptight than she was, but as they grew closer, she saw her in a different light. I ship them hardcore lmao.

Annie has ADHD!! I could talk for hours about this, mostly because I have very similar struggles to Annie’s canon character arc (minus the drugs lmao) and it’s mostly due to my adhd. Long story short, she was likely raised undiagnosed until she discovered it herself, which led to trying adderall and overdoing it because she was unsupervised. She was likely very insecure about her ADHD, which led her to overcompensating academically. Because she masked so much in academic settings, it’s likely she didn’t have much of a social life because that’s where her symptoms presented themselves more.

In addition being friends with abed has made her far more comfortable unmasking. If you watch her in studies in modern movement you can see her stimming (flapping her hands, rocking back and forth and swinging her arms) way more than usual. She normally fidgets by fiddling with her fingers by her waist and pulling her elbows tight to her sides in a position suspiciously similar to raptor arms. Not only is this a common and discreet way to fidget, it is easily passed off as good posture. This makes sense, as it is Annie’s trademark resting position.

Annie reads YA books and a LOT of fanfiction for fun. The group expects her to be more well versed in classic literature, but the girl just loves her some vampires. It’s where she learned a LOT of her....dnd tricks ;).

Top energy that Jeff never let her use DEFINITELY comes out with Britta.

She helps Britta study and teaches her all the study habits she had to learn, and Britta’s grades improve a little bit!!

Switched to pantsuits because of britta, I like to think she had some influence on that.

Lost interest in Jeff after Basic Sandwich

Knew that Abed was the ACB the whole time, she definitely had it figured out in that binder lmao

Anyways enjoy, just figured I’d write this down somewhere haha

[ragwitch]

Birthday Cakes In Bars

Happy birthday to @idontgettechnology !! I hope your day is full of delicious treats and that this is one of them for you. <3s

Pairing: why it's Darcy/Steve shieldshock of course!!

Words: 1647

Rating: M for language and general shenaniganry

Darcy was working her way through the collection of naughty themed alcoholic drinks - she liked the name of Sex with An Alligator, but so far the Leg Spreader was her favorite - while the rest of her party hollered at the man who was rolling his stomach on the stage, slowly stripping out of his construction vest.

Darcy grinned as he revealed a little belly, furry and undefined, lights bouncing off the reflective tape on his orange vest.

Natasha had picked the venue. Called it ‘authentic’ which Darcy had squinted at until they’d pulled up in Pepper’s SI arranged limousine and the awning had declared it ‘Amateur Night.’ And it was kind of the cutest thing she’d ever seen. These guys were so earnest and nervous with the women cheering for them.

And earnest and nervous really did it for Darcy.

The construction worker - she was pretty sure he was an actual city construction worker who she’d passed on 11th in the past week or so - finished up in a pair of clean tighty whiteys, his tool belt, and work boots. Darcy giggled as she watched Maria Hill slip a twenty into the front of his belt as he thrusted and winked at her.

“I have a surprise for you.”

Darcy spun her chair to face Natasha who had slinked backstage a couple acts ago.

“Oh?” Darcy asked, and tried not to wince.

“I can see your eye twitching,” Natasha said. “Come sit at the front, please.”

She wanted to be a good sport about it, she really did. It wasn’t Natasha’s fault she didn’t know that Darcy had a perfectly good view waiting for her back at the Tower.

“I called in a favor,” Natasha said, as she pushed Darcy down into a chair at the very front of the audience.

The lights were dim on the stage as the announcer came over the loudspeaker.

“We have a very special performance tonight ladies and gentleman. A special group of fellas came all the way out to Brooklyn to make a birthday girl’s night just that much better. Daisy Lawerence-” Natasha winked at her with the name change, “-Here are…The Avengers!!”

The audience screamed behind Darcy, who sat stunned in the chair as the lights rose and a line of scantily clad men in chintzy Avengers masks stood on either side of an enormous sparkling birthday cake prop. Darcy blinked at the largest of the group. She knew that twelve pack. She’d seen it more than she really even wanted to, if that was something that could be said about Thor’s physique.

“How many favors did you call in?” Darcy asked as she realized that the men behind the masks were in fact The Avengers. Well, most of them.

And they were all thrusting their pelvises in a somewhat synchronized pattern in her direction. Sam had moves. Clint was hopeless, all flailing. And Bruce was … subdued but in time. Tony was maybe a little over enthusiastic. But Bucky and Thor were doing pretty well and Darcy was outrageously charmed by the winter soldier imitation sleeve covering Bucky’s real prosthetic.

And Natasha had choreographed something to Strange Times by the Black Keys which may not have been the sexiest song, but it was a favorite of hers and a fairly simple beat. Which Tony was adding a lot of flair to. Dear God. Pepper rushed the stage and Tony met her at the edge, squatting obscenely for her to tuck a hundred dollar bill into the waistband of his red and gold boxer briefs.

“Okay, you win,” Jane said across Darcy to Natasha, voice raising to be heard above the din of women behind them.

“Where’s the Captain?” Someone shouted from the back.

Yes, Darcy wondered. Where was Steve? She had a sneaking suspicion.

“Incoming,” Natasha whispered in her ear and then Bucky and Thor were both reaching down into the crowd to lift her up onto the stage.

Darcy tried to bury the cackling laugh as Bucky started grinding against her side and Thor turned his back to her to flex his ass cheeks in her direction. She couldn’t. It was a lost cause and she ended up snorting and hiding her face behind her hands as they traded places with Clint and Bruce. Bruce patted her sympathetically on the arm as Tony and Sam sandwiched her between both of them. Tony was grunting in concentration as he worked out an elaborate routine against her.

“Oh my god,” Darcy said, mostly to herself, trying to see through the stage lights to find Natasha.

“Up onto the cake, Darce,” Sam said into her ear, lending her a hand as she walked up the layers of the cake - red, white, and blue, with fancy little LED candles that shifted colors.

Sure enough, at the top, Steve’s shield sat, facing up, and wavering slightly with his movements below. She bit her lip as the music kicked up a beat, and the shield tilted up, revealing Steve wincing out of his Captain America cowl, blush spreading out and down his neck.

“You’re supposed to come out,” she said, trying to fight her grin.

He grimaced but started shimmying up out of the interior of the cake. The room exploded beyond them with sound, screams. Dollar bills fluttered through the air to land on the stage, and Clint was quick to crawl around and gather them up.

“Do you want to come in instead?” Steve asked, as his now extremely shiny pectorals peeked up out of the brim of the cake. She couldn’t hear much of the words but she could see them on his lips and the nervous glance he gave the audience.

She held her hand out to him and waggled her eyebrows.

The song was almost over. And the money on the stage was either going to be buying her birthday drinks or - more likely - going to charity.

Steve sighed and rose up, revealing miles of tanned, buffed, oiled skin and the smallest and most patriotic male thong she had ever seen.

“Oh god, yes,” she said, opening her eyes wide and covering her mouth with her hand. Natasha had bedazzled it. She was positive that this was Natasha’s work.

Steve’s hips were swirling, or attempting to, the motions slightly stiff and jerky. Darcy leaned into him, pressing her lips to his ear so he could hear her over the din. “You’re usually a little more into this part.”

Steve leaned back to give her a narrowed eye look before stepping out onto the first cake tier and crowding into her personal space, his thighs bracketing hers on the narrow step. He placed the shield in front of them, boos rising up from the crowd, and proceeded to raise a blush up Darcy’s neck and cheeks for the last few seconds of the song.

“Can I get a Quick Fuck?” Darcy asked, sliding up next to Steve at the bar and pointing up at the billboard above them.

Steve stared at her as the bartender nodded. He’d appeared in the crowd a safe amount of time after his debut on stage and while he was definitely getting attention from almost every woman in the bar in his jeans and stupidly fitted shirt no one seemed to connect him to her cake topper performer.

“It’s a drink,” she said, smiling at him.

He raised one eyebrow. “Natasha thinks you have a crush on me.”

Darcy grinned. “Well, we knew she was observant. That’s why she talked you into doing this?”

Steve turned his smile down to the bar and nodded.

“Well it’s a great gift, thank you,” she said, and she tapped her hip against his where he sat.

“That’s not my gift,” he said, turning on the bar stool and stretching a leg out to the empty seat next to him so she was trapped between him and the bar.

“Oh yeah?” she asked.

He nodded slowly. “My gift was going to be a private strip tease.”

“Well this may have been public but it wasn’t too far off,” she said.

The layered shot slid across the bar to Darcy and Steve signaled for it to go on his tab.

“Oh I wasn’t going to be the one stripping,” he said, his cheeks pinking even as his stare on her face made the room feel about ten degrees hotter than it had a minute ago. “But I promise you would have enjoyed it.”

“Lemme get this straight,” she said, turning and taking a step closer. “I strip. You tease?”

“I’ll do more than tease, Darce,” he said. Then he stole her drink, shooting it back with one quick motion. He set the glass back down on the bar and quirked an eyebrow, “Is that melon?”

“Midori. I’ve been drinking a lot of Leg Spreaders,” she admitted. “Wanted to stick with the flavor.”

He blinked. “Umm…Well, I had an idea but…I mean, should it wait till tomorrow? I don’t want to take advantage.”

She shook her head quickly. “Nope. No. Nope. I drank more water than alcohol and I’ve been looking forward to birthday sex all night. This super hot Captain America impersonator got me all worked up on stage.”

“Can’t have been as good as the real thing,” Steve said, forcing a frown.

“Well no, but I liked his outfit.”

“Right then,” he said, dropping a generous bill on the bar counter and standing, hand pooling heat on her lower her back as he filled up the space around her with the warm coconut smell left on his skin from the oil. “I know where to find a fairly discreet dressing room backstage.”

“Natasha is very observant,” she warned. “We probably won’t be a secret if you give me a birthday fuck in a dressing room.”

Steve shrugged. “But do you wanna?”

Of course she wanted to.