#i literally gasped when i was reading

[notbecauseofvictories]

More than anything in this world, I hate the fact that if you leave your apartment and go do things, it makes you a happier more interesting person. I know I make this exact text post every two or three months, I have done for literal years, and yet every. single. time. it surprises and frustrates delights frustrates delights makes me feel some sort of way.

[arson-09]

WHY DOES NO ONE EVER MENTION AMARANTHA CALLING FEYRE “Feyre Darling”

Heyy feysanders, you know your beloved acomaf “feyre darling” scene? Did you ever notice that Amarantha, the big bad, called feyre that? it is so weird and disgusting that rhysand called her that oh my god😭

[ohlexa]

she fits into every empty space my life had.

THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY — @simplykorra

[bunneechan]

IT FINALLY HAPPENED

SUKUNA FINALLY ACKNOWLEDGED YUJI!!!

[sparrowmoth]

➼ Shadow and Bone (S2E6) + Crooked Kingdom, Chapter 16

[httpiastri]

jack dw when i wrote "we just want you to be a happy paul aron:(" i ALSO was crying my eyes out that i couldnt see my phone LMAO

AND ! you broke my heart saying paul should be in the middle of our paul nation group hug too🤧

anyways

since i was sad (still am) i have a sad perfectly fine thought thats prob gonna break our hearts but i cant be alone in this so sorry guys but i gotta share.

SO ! when y/n and him were breaking up i just imagine after y/n said "i need a break" and he replied "from what? from me?" i feel like he also said/thought "are you leaving me too?" LIKE HOW MERC AND PREMA LEFT HIM AND OMFG I MADE MYSELF BAWL YESTERDAY WHEN I THOUGHT AB THIS 💔💔💔💔💔💔

AND AND when he found out that OLLIEEEE of all ppl is who y/n dates after him its like he thinks that again like merc and prema y/n just replaced him with someone "better". jesus so um yeah😁

thought of this cz i realized the time of the breakup was prob around the time merc dropped him/during winter break AFTER they did YKYKYKYK

anyways everyone cry w me now please 😘

-🧸

it breaks my heart to think of u crying but im glad we could at least cry over that sentence together 🥺 but omfg ? breaking my heart again was so uncalled for???? pls someone help me

i SOOO wish i had written it like that omfg.... help that's actually heartbreaking :(( i wrote it as them breaking up in likeee early may? but i definitely think paul still could've been thinking/feeling like that anyways because there was talk early about kimi going to f2... and maybe paul just imagined it himself (or he was told that there was a risk) that he could get replaced if kimi kept things up because he's always felt like the second choice to toto's favorite boy..... while paul needed to find his own sponsors and do a lot of work by himself, kimi just got everything handed to him, and so in some way he was expecting to lose both the academy and his team...

so finding out that he was losing yn too........... and to ollie, who not only got an f2 seat with paul's team but who's also happily secure in his own academy (despite getting the same rank as paul in f3, third, and despite "only" being fifth in f2 in 2023)(not saying that fifth as a rookie is bad but yk. paul being third in f3 in his rookie year and still losing the academy.... sorry no i will stop)......... he must've been really happy about that 🙃

[yuyuppie]

gokurakugai chapter 14 & jujutsu kaisen spoilers!

um after seeing the chapter snippets i thought a lot and came up with this parallel I WISH I FUCKING DIDN'T........... yoru's character is still pretty much unclear and i read a theory on twitter about that jin and yoru are two different personalities but. i have my own theory that jin is somehow similar to geto (dead and long gone) and yoru and kenjaku can control their bodies. NO I ACTUALLY DONT WANNA BELIEVE THIS do not take this too seriously... wait and actually yoru can't be dead because tao was searching for him. but apparently she knew nothing so this can be a possibility too. but anyway these particular scenes are so similar it hurts. the same shocked expression on tao's and gojo's faces because they met someone they lost long time ago so unexpectedly. i'm not sure about yoru's and kenjaku's smiles being the same tho bc yoru seems so genuine and kenjaku seems off. or maybe it's just me and there's no difference bc the bodies are the same. then the memories that tao and gojo had with jin and geto flashing or not necessarily flashing but just being shown. i cannot take this anymore i actually can imagine the way yoru's voice actor would say this ("from now on call me yoru. don't avoid me" according to the translation) and it hurts me just from imagining it.

will be back after i actually read the chapter to make sure that i was sooo wrong and no one actually died and they actually reunited and then beat y*mi's ass together.

[m0llygunn]

hi ma’am, what happened to the friends w baby benefits or something fic u were writing 😭 i was so excited for it. is it like not happening orrrrr still working on it? not trying to be annoying i just rly loved the idea!!

omg shhhh don't call me out so loud LMAOO i stopped working on it but i can start again!

Thank you for being excited for anything I do, thats a crazy concept to me cause whattttt who cares about me lol and you're not annoying at all, don't even say that!!!

Just for you, I put a little 500 word present under the cut <3 (it's from the draft so it might change) (18+!)

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Just friends. What a silly concept.

Friends through high school, friends after high school, and now, as two grown adults with grown adult jobs, you and Eddie are just friends.

Friends who, in a partially drunken stupor, hooked up. It was four months ago and obviously wasn’t planned. You two had just gotten a little too tipsy, then a little too handsy feel-y, and then… it just happened.

The morning after you two had parted with an awkward avoidance of eye contact, fidgety hands, and an overemphasized amount of distance between the two of you as you both made the agreed promise to never do that again. 

Never is nearly as silly of a concept as just friends.

––––––––

Four months ago you ordered extra cheese pizza with a side of garlic knots.

Tonight you ordered the same.

Feeling parched from the savoury dinner, you helped yourself to a coke from the fridge. The first thing that caught your eye, Iron City Beer– a brand of beer that you haven't seen in this home since four months ago. Four months ago when you drank just a little too much of it...

Four months ago you and Eddie sat around in his living room watching an R rated movie.

Tonight, you do the same– except this time, you don't drink. You do, however, burn all the same.

This time, the choice R rated movie has been using jump cuts to tits and overzealous sex scenes to cover its low production value. 

This time, Eddie’s sprawled out on the floor, shirt off, sweatpants dangerously low on his hips, arm propped behind his head.

This time, you’re all too aware of the bounds of friendship, but this time, you couldn’t care less.

The movie cuts to a particularly raunchy scene. Normally you’d laugh it off, but tonight, you practically groan, pushing the heels of your palms into your eyes. The moans of some D lister fill the room and you grow impossibly bothered.

Silent on the floor, Eddie pays you no mind. His oblivion is your virtue. You let yourself focus on him. The lights from the TV glow over him in the darkness of the room. Shadows cast along the outline of every muscle making them look more defined and extra sculpted.

It's taunting.

It's not how friends look at each other. Friends– what a silly concept.

Wandering gaze trailing down his torso, with a thick swallow your eyes sweep down, down, down. 

Down, looming around the wispy patch of hair that starts just below his belly button.

Down, lingering at the low rise of his sweatpants. 

Down, until your mouth drops agape and you can't help the gasp that escapes your lungs.

With a crane of his neck, Eddie looks back at you before his hands cover his crotch, hiding his very prominent boner. 

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I'm editing the rest of the first chapter, but i have a test tomorrow so I have to switch focuses for a bit.

Thank you for your message!

[cave-monkey]

Tripitaka, when confronted with the most indescribably beautiful young woman on the planet: >:( Hey! Wukong said there weren't any people around here!

[dangerous-advantage]

if you’re in the rise fandom and see this:

go read “all the ashes in my wake” by @crows-murder right now.

(yes, that is an order, and yes, pun intended.)

this post serves as a fic rec, but mainly to let me gush about how much i love this fic without filling up the author’s inbox with a small dissertation (/joking).

for the fic rec part:

leo. cursed. ella enchanted type cursed.

if you have any interest at all in absolutely phenomenal angst, clever writing with a style that’s easy to follow and smooth as butter, on-point characterization and dynamics, and basically anything you could ever ask for of a rise fic,

go. read. this. fic. right. now.

(that said, i am now going to ramble about my specific thoughts concerning the fic and it’s plot, so. possible spoilers beyond this point?)

there have been a growing number of fics in this “sub-genre” of the rise fandom involving a character (generally leo) getting cursed, and then facing off against angsty odds that make you go, “oh. oh, shit.” (/positive)

these curses also tend to involve the phases of the moon in some way, which i think is a very fun and interesting trend

i’ve enjoyed all of the fics that i’ve read which fit into this, but this particular fic may be my favorite yet

it follows a simple formula, neatly tying the a plot (the curse stuff) and the b plot (leo’s conflict with leadership and the strain it’s putting on his relationships) into a neat little bow.

while the idea of leo getting “ella enchanted” is fun on its own, it’s doubly important to the plot and the characterization, as it forces him to have to fix one problem to address the other.

in the first chapter, the author constructs the roots to this, by contrasting leo’s wily, independent nature against the inevitable conflict that will stifle his attempts to act on it.

watching him brush his brothers off, make his own choices and go off on his own, builds this wonderful sense of tension. it hooks you — what’s going to happen when that string is cut?

it plays perfectly into the underlying conflict. leo needs to find a way to overcome his fears of leading the team, or else the rift between him and his team will only continue to widen.

so what does the narrative do? it forces him into a position where he is no longer gets to choose.

this incapacitation is a powerful tool, not only because of the external force of the curse, but also that it plays off of the weaknesses of his character.

this isn’t something that he can just handwave, or take care of on his own. it’s a situation where he needs to ask for help.

but this is leo we’re talking about. of course he isn’t going to go to his brothers about this, or even tell them! but by hiding it and trying to fix it himself, he ends up caught in a deadlock of his own making.

and since it doesn’t look like he’s going to get over himself very soon, it seems more likely that he’ll end up cornered in a very sticky situation indeed (something which i am very much looking forward to seeing, if that is the plan).

it’s genius! to fix his problems with the curse, he has to address his issues with his family first.

my attempts to sound smarter than i actually am aside (/lighthearted), i am so glad this fic is addressing the conflict between raph and leo. not only that, but in a way that feels true to their characters.

unlike other iterations of the tmnt, the roles here are reversed. it’s not the stolid abs responsible leader pitted against the broody loner who wants to be leader, but isn’t the right fit.

it’s rise!raph, who cares about his little brother and wants to support him, and rise!leo who, on some level, doubts his own ability in this new role on the team — to be anything more than “the face man.”

it’s not often where you come across a fic where the a plot and the b plot are equally engaging, but this is one of those rare cases where everything just works. it’s like i’m witnessing the first steps of some great machine, meticulously crafted, a hundred disparate parts working in tandem.

in the third chapter, the angst just works. the pay-off there feels so real, because you get it. you relate to this character. when raph is there, waiting up for him, you know shit’s about to go down. you can feel it.

if the necklace (and therefore the curse) acted as both a narrative device and catalyst, leo’s swords represent the other side of that: the last bit of freedom he has left in this godawful situation.

they’re the last bit of freedom, his only hope of escape. raph taking them (or, rather, leo being compelled to surrender them) has just glorious undertones in the narrative as a whole.

if you were to consider the katanas a representation of leo’s autonomy, it makes sense why him being forced to give them up hits that much harder.

not only is it a tense situation, where leo is fighting back but ultimately unable to overcome the curse, it cements this underlying feeling of helplessness the author has been seeding since the chapter previous.

now that we’re here, with both the a plot and b plot coming into direct confrontation with what leo wants, we recognize that leo cannot continue how he is.

sure, he’ll keep on fighting it (abs i am very much looking forward to seeing how that goes), but this is the point where we know, there is no escaping.

leo is now truly stuck. without his katanas, fubdibg the necklace to break the curse on his own is basically impossible.

and he recognizes this.

leo’s characterization throughout this fic has been some of the best in the business. he’s smart, witty, independent, calculating — probably one of, if not the best true-to-character representations of rise!leo thats i’ve seen so far.

(absolutely phenomenal job there, i cannot stress this point enough.)

in fact, all of the characters in this fic are so well-written? i’m already seeing roots for character development within casey sr. (which i am so here for, oh my gods you don’t even know), and you can’t help but be invested in all of these relationships

we’re constantly being reminded of the emotional conflict, how much of a strain it’s putting on the relationships, not just between raph and leo, but between all of them.

leo sees this, understands something has to change, but feels paralyzed by what that could mean. for him, and his family.

not to beat the metaphorical dead horse, but that scene after leo surrenders his katanas abs flees back to his room? damn. i felt that on a visceral level.

being so tired, so miserable, so helpless, when a part of you knows you’re being irrational, but having your own pride and fear get in the way of that?

not to project all over these characters or whatever, but fuck. it feels like this was written to call out me, specifically (/j /lh)

and urgh! the detail work in this is incredible!

maybe i’m just a slut for somewhat contrived narratives, and definitely contrived foreshadowing, but the way it’s done in this fic comes off as so clean and organized.

it’s like... weaving threads in a tapestry. you can see where the connect, though you’re not quite sure where they’re going, until you can step back abs look at the picture as a whole.

it genuinely feels masterful in some places, like, mother of god, leave some talent for the rest of us!! (/lighthearted)

i could probably keep talking about this forever, but i do have other responsibilities i should be taking care of, and i kind of want to reread the three chapters that are out (as of writing this) again.

who knows, maybe i’ll revisit this in the future, when i have a better basis and understanding of the underlying themes here.

for now, dear author (if you are, for some reason, reading this),i hope you don’t mind my pretentious and meandering thoughts and/or assumptions. you’ll probably see me again, gushing in your comment sections. yours is just the kind of fic that deserves to be gushed about.

[kyoghurts]

Kenji, dear beloved Kenji. Happy very belated bdayy :((( I can’t believe I missed it, but I just wanted to drop by and say that I’m happy to know such a beautiful soul and another amazing writing mutual such as yourself. I appreciate you for also sticking around since our wattpad days, since that was the first time I interacted with you.

I know you’re probably gonna face many trials and tribulations irl, and many more research torments (trust me, as someone who went though that, it gets really dicey and difficult) but ik you’ll do just fine, I treasure you lots even if we don’t talk a bunch due to being busy.

This is getting too long TT excuse my cheesiness, I just wanted to show a bit of Kenji appreciation because I really don’t think I’ve expressed a lot of it, I hope you enjoyed your bday!! <333

lots of love and support, Kou 💌

you see me tearing up like this and its all ur fault kou

[spooksier]

a kinda funny kinda sweet thing that's happened since i got insane over botw/totk is that i keep seeing authors i know from other fandoms popping up in the ao3 tag and idk it's just a nice reminder of the community and creativity of fandom spaces :-)

[helianthus21]

i can't believe the sentence i just read in a book (upper image) and the one i wrote like months ago (lower image)

[thefabelmans2022]

i like to play a little game with myself called "am i feeling weird in a normal way or am i having a seizure"

[soap-ify]

babe i just wanna tell you that your tags when you reblog my posts/asks/comments make me GIGGLE- ILYSM 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

i was so scared to start posting stuff but you have genuinely made it SO FUN, keep writing, istg you make the COD fandom so much fun to be apart of

ESTELLE. OH MY GOD !! you big sweetheart i'm literally gonna teleport there (somehow) and give you the biggest hug ever this is so sweet. literally made my day aaa :(

honestly i love your work so much it literally makes me bite my fist YOUR OWNER!PRICE AND PUP!READER AU IS LITERALLY SO GOOD. every update makes me so excited !! and i feel like i don't properly say my thoughts in the rbs BECAUSE I DON'T WANNA SPAM THE TAGS WITH KEYBOARD SMASHES even though they perfectly express my mind while i am reading your work. BUT AA IM SO HAPPY YOU LIKE IT i adore commenting on your work so much.

I'M SO HAPPY YOU ARE HAVING FUN WITH WRITING AAA that's literally the best compliment i could ever recieve. I AM SO GLAD YOU ARE SHARING YOUR WORK WITH US ESTELLE.

gonna throw lots of flowers and chocolates towards you !!! mwah

[orcelito]

after this

the chapter then ending on this

has me big time feeling like. this.