#i volutneer

[twilightlane-archived]

Valentine’s Day Application

Name: Copperhead

Age: Late 30's

Do you like to cuddle?: Very much so, especially when my partner has a warm body. Hopefully you don't mind scales. Or tails.

Can we make-out?: 

A night in or dinner out?: At this time of year, a night in sounds cozy.

Whip cream or chocolate syrup?: Whipped cream seems less sticky...

Chocolates and roses?: They are nice but I'd rather spoil my partner in giving them than receiving them.

What makes you a good Valentine?: I'm quiet and don't require much maintenance. Positive traits include being attentive and interested in my partner as their own person instead of who they are or what they have.

Would you cook for me?: Yes, just let me know if you have any allergies or food intolerances beforehand.

Would you let me cook for you?: Of course, though some meals may be more difficult to eat than others.

Where would you take me on a date?: Somewhere relevant to your interests unless you are interested in 'obtaining' certain valuables? Imagine the thrill, sneaking in and out of a guarded complex where we take what we please.

Who’s paying?: The people/business we're stealing from (or rather their insurers...)

What did you get me for Valentine’s Day?: It's not Valentine's Day yet so that would be spoiling the surprise.

[XOX]

Liz quirked an eyebrow, intrigued as she looked over the application. And the metahuman who applied. And damn, was she missing out on a whole other experience.

"Honestly cuddling with a tail sounds so cozy. Plus I hate the cold. Despite me dressing like this every season." She gestured at her revealing catsuit with a grin. "What was that meme? 'A hoe never gets cold.'" She snickered.

Getting back to business, blue eyes skimmed back over the paper.

"You're obviously a sweet guy. Making sure I don't have food allergies and all that. And that talk about obtaining valuables, the thrill of sneaking in and out, making the real banks of the world pay for our lovely get away? That has me swooning." She smiled. "And I do love surprises."

"Stop by my place. My bedroom window will be unlocked. Especially this spring time." She winked.

[baccan0pe]

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[imonthemoonitsmadeofcheese]

hi I'm learning destiny lore the hard way and I've seen you in my notes, who's Eris Morn? What's her deal? This is an invitation to infodump you seem like the person to ask XD

Oh wow! I will answer your question, despite feeling unworthy to do so, but before I do, since you mentioned you're learning the lore, this is the Eris page from the Ishtar Collective website: https://www.ishtar-collective.net/categories/eris-morn It gives a list of main plot points for Eris up until just before the Season of the Witch and links to all Eris lore that exists in-game, going into far more detail than I can in one Tumblr post.

The Ishtar site pulls a large amount of its info from the D2 API and then supplements anything it can't get from there with human volutneer transcribers pulling from sources like the Destiny Lore Vault: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqJlWJF0IucG7HXcEao78Cw .

If there is lore you can acess in-game, now or in the past, Ishtar has it and it is searchable via keywords. It is official lore, not someone's interpretation of it, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.

However, not everyone realizes that the Ishtar Collective also has a Discord: https://discord.gg/v8GsggCV

And that Discord is full of lore nerds who you can just go to and ask obscure lore questions and they will happily answer them (or sometimes get into adorkable near-academic-level debates over them, with citations as well as historical and philosophical references) because that's their definition of fun. They are, for the most part, genuinely lovely humans and I adore them all.

Everything I know about Destiny I learned from either playing the game or reading that website or asking those people.

Now, to answer your question, I'm going to give you a short quick answer and then a longer more in-depth answer afterwards.

The short quick answer is a quote from a story I wrote (A Dance with Vengeance) where I have the Drifter explaining where Eris got her eyes to an Eliksni character I made up:

Please note: this is fanfiction. This conversation never happens in lore, and the closest we've gotten to Driferis in-game is a delightfully sweet hug buried in the lore tab for a sparrow vehicle, but the events the Drifter is narrating (with a bit of dramatic flourish) did happen to Eris in-game.

The longer answer:

Eris, a former Hunter (and Ahamkara wish-dragon slayer), is the sole surviving member of the First Crota Fireteam, a team of six guardians looking to avenge all the friends and loved ones who died in The Great Disaster (when humanity sent an army of guardians to try to reclaim the Moon from the Hive) and, in particular, to avenge the death of a badass Titan named Wei Ning (Eris' friend and lover of Eriana-3, the fireteam leader). Their goal was to kill Crota, the then-leader of the Hive forces on the Moon (Crota is the son of Oryx, who, himself is both a Hive god and the Taken King, brother to the other Hive gods, Savathun, Hive god of Lies, and Xivu Arath, Hive god of War).

Everyone on the First Crota Fireteam except for Eris died horribly and Eris was lost in the Hellmouth on the Moon for a century. Eris' ghost (Brya) killed itself to protect her and Eris no longer has access to Light-based guardian powers. She killed a Hive acolyte and took its eyes (cutting out her own) since she had wished on her bone to know the way out of the Hellmouth but could no longer see. (Ahamkara wish magic is always tricksy - they're basically wish-granting genies who always twist what you ask for into the worst possible outcome.)

Eris has a few titles: "The Forgotten Blade," "Bane of the Swarm," "Crota's Bane" and, more recently in Season of the Witch, "Hive god of Vengeance." She is our main point of contact on the Moon (the Shadowkeep DLC is fantastic and the Moon is awesome and creepy and one of my favourite places to go in-game - I could go on and on about my favourite spots there).

Eris has devoted the rest of her (now mortal) life to exterminating the Hive and has guided the Guardian (the player character) to do so through many adventures, notably the Crota's End raid (where we kill Crota and finally accomplish what her fireteam set out to do), the Kings Fall raid (where we kill Oryx), the Pit of Heresy dungeon, and the Scarlet Keep strike (where she has one of her infamous fantastic lines: "Do you feel it as I do, Guardian? A hatred as pure and potent as sunshine, soaking through your skin?"

Season of the Witch is all about Eris becoming the Hive god of Vengeance to deal with Xivu Arath. If you've ever watched Full Metal Alchemist, the logistical problem with Xivu is the same: going to war with something that feeds off of violence and death just makes it stronger. Season of the Witch is still available (at the time I'm writing this) and there's some amazing scenes in there. I highly recommend playing through it but if you can't, here's an 8.5 minute video of the 3 main cutscenes including the ending [i.e. this is a spoiler if you haven't played it yet and still want to!]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVUWu-DqZvU

Eris' storyline in-game is all about recovery from trauma. Many of her quests are either helping her seek vengeance or helping her find peace (such as recovering mementos of her fireteam from various spots on the Moon). She is haunted (literally) by the ghosts of her past (here's 19 seconds of her yelling at them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcs1io-kvdg ) and her recovery from that has made her the unofficial trauma therapist for the Vanguard.

In Season of the Haunted (sadly no longer playable) she guides Zavala, Crow and Cabal Empress Caiatl through combatting and laying to rest their own nightmares-of-the-past-made-real. Here's a link to a 9 min video of the main cutscenes from that season (there's more content if you watch a full playthrough): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWHphu-iT3w

Eris taught herself how to wield Hive magic from a combination of her century of wandering on the Moon and the journals of Toland the Shattered (one of the members of her fireteam who betrayed them to the Hive and is now a floating sparkle-ball who sometimes helps us and sometimes just insults us on the Moon).

Eris is the Vanguard's Hive expert and Darkness expert. She is also one of Ikora's Hidden (Ikora is the Vanguard spymaster and the Hidden are her network of spies.) One of Eris' main story elements is that most people don't trust her, and not without cause. Another D2 character, Elsie Bray, aka the Exo Stranger, has been living her own personal Groundhog Day time-loop hell where she has watched humanity fail over and over against the Witness and then goes back in time to try to stop it. In most of Elsie's time loops Eris succumbs to her trauma and the corrupting nature of the Darkness powers she wields, goes full Hive, and leads the forces of evil to wipe out humanity in what is referred to as "the Dark Timeline."

Eris is constantly dealing with accusations that she's crazy, that she's evil, that she's unstable, and every time it's proven she's not, but people still find her untrustworthy and it isolates her from most of humanity, noteworthy exceptions to this being Ikora, Queen Mara, the player character, and the Drifter.

I am (obviously) especially enamoured of the relationship between Eris and the Drifter, and their in-game banter is absolute top-tier (he flirts and Eris roasts him and it is glorious), but the very core of their relationship is built on comfort and understanding. He trusts her (something almost no one else does) and she gives him hope (which is genuinely impressive and beautiful because the Drifter's own backstory is brutal and bleak as fuck).

Throughout most of Eris' narrative in-game she is a recovering survivor, but in Beyond Light (the DLC where we get our not-ice magic Stasis powers) we get to see Eris not just psychologically and emotionally recovered, but also getting to be a badass in battle. This is, in my opinion, the best cutscene in the entire game: (it is 1 min an 35 seconds and far, far too short): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAD6E_vESJY

I love this cutscene not only because it is visually spectacular, but because Eris has, for most of her narrative, been an injured survivor needing the player character to fight in her place because she no longer can. But in Beyond Light she is now able to kick ass and, perhaps even more importantly, be a part of a fireteam again.

There's more but I'm going to stop there. Eris is badass and amazing and creepy and fantastic. She uses the weapons of the Hive against them. She uses her own traumatic experiences to heal others. Her dialogue lines are evocative and snarky and brooding and poetic. The voice acting for her is some of the best I've ever heard anywhere. Her character has a complex, empowering, healing, hopeful, and beautiful narrative. And I love her intensely for it.

Ideally, this has answered your question at least somewhat, but do feel free to ask me any follow up questions you have about this or anything. I maintain I am not an expert in D2 lore. I am a writer and I don't just have biases, I use them to make art. But I do love the game and while I am not an authority on anything, I have immersed myself in much of the lore with wild abandon and will happily point you to places where you can find more information where my own understanding is limited.

And with that, I leave you with another fantastic Eris quote that so many people have connected with and found beautiful but that also encapsulates "who is Eris Morn" pretty well on its own:

"Recovery is a spiral, not a circle. You may return to the same patterns, but you will break free." —Eris Morn

[beatrice-otter]

Signal boost: "Be more democratic, be more autocratic, OTW" by chestnut_pod

Holy cow, you guys, go read chestnut_pod's amazing meta about democracy, infrastructure, the OTW, and anti-racism, it is incredibly insightful and is making points that are really important about the OTW's internal structure and how it works against any change (even changes everyone agrees are good and right and necessary). chestnut_pod has a ton of practical experience in organizing community groups, and it shows. For some background: the entire OTW was started by Astolat and her friends. They were (and are) a group of very competent and dedicated people, and that's awesome! but none of them had experience with managing large groups of people, or organizing groups at a large scale, and holy cow it showed. When AO3 started growing beyond what their small cadre could reasonably handle, things started getting dicey behind the scenes. None of the policies and procedures scaled up very well, they didn't listen to people outside their own sphere, there was huge burnout among volutneers, incredible lack of transparency, and a whole host of other problems. This led to major conflict over elections in 2011 and 2015 (the 2015 election was pretty wild), the latter of which ended with the entire existing board flouncing in a huff which allowed a whole new cadre to come in, and many of that completely-new-board had experience with large nonprofits. Things have been better since. But, and this is the crucial bit, there was no restructuring of the organization. The people running those structures knew way more about how to competently administer large organizations than the previous group had. But the structures were still the same ones that had been fine back when AO3 was tiny and just getting started, but really need to be updated and modernized. And that's never happened! There is no transparency, there is almost no accountability, and if Astolat-and-company didn't foresee something as being a potential problem back in 2008 there's no way of making sure it gets handled unless it is some volunteer's pet project and something they can do by themselves with minimal support. chestnut_pod does a great job of laying out why this is a problem, why it's getting in the way of anti-racism initiatives and everything else the OTW wants to do, and what could be done about it. Here are some of my favorite bits:

(when dealing with large groups of people) It is impossible to have really free and fair elections without proper representative structures. Those representative structures will sometimes mean that the people you elect are going to make decisions in the moment that you don't like. But those same structures will ensure that, when the next election rolls around, there is something you can do about that. In the absence of representative democracy and structures that channel a large base into smaller, more nimble, but inherently rotating, core of decision-makers and buck-stoppers, "direct democracy" ends up just looking like an equally small group of decision-makers undemocratically decided upon via inertia, a group who can't be easily ousted, but who also can't make decisions quickly when called for. The worst of both worlds! It is my impression that this is absolutely what happened within the OTW wrt the 2020 statement. (For what it's worth, I think it has happened in the past with things like "podfic streaming" and "dealing with certain spam works" -- it's just that those were far less consequential problems and so didn't gain this much traction or attention when the OTW failed to quickly and adequately address them.) Again, credit where it is due: the OTW has a very complicated job which they never really expected to grow to this scale. It was founded by a small group of people who all knew each other and had similar positions on most matters. It was the late naughts. All of this is true, and also, it's now 2023, the AO3 specifically is enormous, and the world has changed! It is simply not workable any longer to have some committee chairs who are not elected and have no term limits, no easy onboarding for new volunteers, and no clear hierarchy between the Board and the committees and between the committees themselves. ... In short, each of the broken-down problems begs a certain number of questions, the answers to which we do not know, because the OTW has either not seen fit to try to answer them, or has never shared their answers broadly. This is a major problem either way, and I think it is the first thing that needs to happen, because having accurate knowledge is the first step to solving any problem, much less one as complex and multifaceted as the multiple facets of racism as they appear in OTW spaces. Having a good grasp on what the problems really are, whom they most affect, and how, is fundamental to enacting solutions that actually help, and, at the very least, proceeding with the knowledge of how these solutions are incomplete and imperfect, as they inevitably will be. ... I think where the OTW has fallen down most is in not making that space to hear and listen. A lot of the solutions people propose out there in the wide Internet -- most notably anything about new mandatory tags of in-fic content moderation -- get shot down immediately as impossible. As I argued in the previous section, I don't think we actually know what is or isn't possible, because the OTW has done a terrible job telling us clearly what the impediments are to a variety of proposed fixes. Moreover, the discussion around those suggestions easily becomes acrimonious. Moderation isn't a dirty word; it's vital to having constructive conversations. Just like how having representative structure makes a space more democratic, moderation makes speaking out more democratic, because in an unmoderated space, the loudest voices drown out the rest.

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[f1-disaster-bi]

https://open.spotify.com/track/5FszlpnRPDgNksCwFXyYJ5?si=fiTlDDJ3Q6yc8fhxD3MhDw

This song gave me an idea for an au where maybe Lando has spent his whole life in the hospital battling a serious illness which he knows eventually will take his life and then maybe volunteer Daniel comes along and they grow attached to each other's and Daniel doesn't know how to say goodbye to whenever Lando eventually passes.

Anon this made me tear up. I couldn't respond when you sent this because it unfortunately corresponded with some bad news I got but I love this idea

Lando having been sick since he was born. He has never known a life without pain and hospitals and near death experiences. He's been in and out of hospitals his whole life. He has planned his funeral, he has listened to family say goodbye, and by the time he reaches his twenties, Lando is exhausted because he wasn't meant to make it to ten let alone twenty and his quality of life is poor

Yet there is one bright spot after he turns twenty-one and it's the new volunteer that is on his service and never fails to make him smile: Daniel

Daniel having had an illness or having lost a family member to an illness when he was young, and the one thing he remembered being good was the volutneer and the nurses that always made them laugh and smile even on the darkest days

So Daniel grows up and volunteers so he can give families a little bit of cheer. And thats how he meets Lando

They never expected to fall in love, but they do, and Lando hates himself for it because he knows that he is dying. He knows it could happen any moment and that he will be leaving Daniel behind to deal with that

[give-grian-rights]

A bit late to the FIRST hype train but another shout-out for the FTC teams. My school didn't have the shop or the funding for the big FRC bots (loved to see those robots at world's in 2016). But we still had a blast building our bot and competing at quals and super quals.

I volutneered at an FTC competition one year! As an FRC student with no local FTC teams in the district I didn't really get FTC until I went to volunteer at one. That was the uhhhhhhh 2019-2020 game? I think? and it was SUPER impressive. Big respect !!

[wenamedthedogkylo]

Dusk @ Laudna: “When you’re ready, I hope you find someone that makes you feel less awkward.”

Me throwing my hand so high into the air: mE ME ME ME I VOLUTNEER

[hyungkyun]

im that beyonce gif except it says "ABS?????"

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Anyway uh, if anyone wants to know what truly caught me off guard today my work place giving me a £25 voucher as a late christmas gift was not something I expected.

[leahcee]

sororities are just a glamorized cult that ppl praise college students for joining

[augustgf]

normalise only drinking water when it's a competition

[soldier-poet-king]

anyway instead of working on my paper i just read a lengthy article on the housing crisis in toronto and now im 1) bawling 2) angry

people always ask why i hate toronto and 1) i can never afford to live here even if it didnt lack green spaces which means i dont even WANT to live here 2) (middle class + affluent) torontonians are rude, selfish, and SO full of ‘toronto pride’ bc we’re a developing ‘first class’ city or whatever, and we’ve got fancy sports teams and a lot of movies and shows film here, while completely ignoring the cost to the people on the fringes of society, the poor, the refugees, the ill, who get trampled under this unending need for ‘progress’ and ‘development’

im just?? im sick of it? the author makes an interesting point - illness, tragedy, poverty - things that often lead to homelessness, these aren’t new phenomena, but the mass homelessness facing the city is 

it doesn’t take a genius to figure out why

[captainkirkk]

(Not the same anon) I think an ao3 volutneer responded to the article on tumblr,pointing out that it was irresponsible specifically to imply that harassment and the like leads to policy changes and reactions.

That’s a good point actually. On one hand, yes the fic has changed the discussion around how ao3 operates, but that doesn’t mean this fic author or any of these behaviours are okay or should be endorsed

[kaeyafanclub]

*Sees "Fatui Underlings Needed" Poster*

Traveler: I hate the Fatui. I'd never join them.

*Remembers that all the Fatui are smoking hot*

Traveler: ....I VOLUTNEER AS TRIBUTE.

*angry Venti and Diluc noises*

[darling-i-read-it]

Coming With

Malcolm Bright x reader

Word Count: 1.2k

Warnings: spoilers for the newest prodigal son episode but not really?

Author’s Note: I really loved writing this one I have so much fun writing Malcolm. This show is iconic I love it. Thank you for requesting and being so NICE!

Requested: by @topstory21 ,Hello first of all I really enjoy your stories especially Psychic Lover with Malcolm Bright it's one of my favorites! Anyway I was wondering if I could request a Malcolm Bright x Reader where the reader is a detective and goes to the prison hospital Martin is living at to interview a different prisoner or maybe even him alone and the hospital goes into lockdown and Malcolm freaks out cause there's no way to get into contact. So kind of like episode 7

Summary: the request!!

Genre: FLUFF

(not my gif)

You had promised yourself that you would do this stupid interview. You promised Gil you would come to the hospital in a prison to get one interview out so that Malcolm wouldn’t volutneer to do it before anyone else.

You drove up to the side of the building and sighed, grabbing a notepad. You should have asked someone else to come down with you so that you could have some company in that grimy place.

When you walked in you let your gun go at the door, along with other sharp objects you may have brought in and mostly anything to protect yourself. The guard at the door reassured you that there was guards there already that would protect you but you weren’t to worried about that. You just needed to be in and then out.

You walked down the long hallway, your shoes and your guard escort the only noise you could hear. You weren’t there to interview Martin Whitly but you thought about him as you walked.

You and Malcolm had gotten really close since he had joined the force with you and the team. Your relationship had been stricly work right now but you had been edging toward other things during steakouts and coffee research nights. That was the real reason you had been here. You were trying to keep Martin away from his son as best you could. You could see Malcolms deteriorating mental state and thought it was best.

Still you wish he had been here. It would have made the interview easier.

The guard didn’t leave the room and the prisoner was strapped to the wall when you began asking the questions. It was easier than you thought it would be. It was going smoothly, answers were throuough even if you had to pry a little to get them out.

Until the lockdown. It all happended so quickly, doors staying shut when you tried to open them.

“What do you mean we can’t get-” Your voice was cut off by your phone ringing. You paused, wondering if it was Gil to check on you or something but wasn’t surprised to find Malcolms face light up your phone.

He had changed his name in your phone to ‘Mal’ because you when you joked around thats what you called him. Even in the crappy situation, it made you crack a smile.

“Hey Malcolm,” you spoke tiredly. His voice on the other end was rushed and panicked

“Are you here?” he asked. Your eyebrows furrowed.

“Where?” He groaned.

“Are you at the hospital Y/N,” he asked. You walked back to the door and looked out the inforced window.

“Malcolm are you?”

“You’re here. Oh God you’re here. Are you okay? What room are you in?” There were voices speaking behind him that were muffled. You couldn’t make anything out. You were just surprised he was here in the first place. You had come here so he didn’t have to.

“Mal I’m fine are you okay? Are you in your dad's cell? Malcolm take a deep breath.” He paused and did as he was told. You could hear him inhale and then exhale.

“Yes. I’m in my dad’s cell on the thirs floor. Where are you?” You turned to the guard who was standing at arms length of the prisoner.

“What floor are we on?” you asked and the guard held up 3 fingers. “I’m on the third floor two. Do you know what’s going on?”

“Someone escaped, killed a guard I-“ His voice cut. “Shit my phones dying.” It cut out again.

“What? I can’t hear you!”

“Be,” static, “eful I’ll co,” static, “et you!” Then he was gone. You sighed frustrated.

“Dammit!” You turned to the guard. “How far away is Martin Whitly’s cell?”

“Down the hall just a little. Why? He didn’t break out did he?” You shook your head and put your hands on the door, feeling around it for a weak spot. You weren’t surprised when you didn’t find one.

“Let me out.” The guard looked skeptical.

“I can’t do that.” You looked annoyed.

“You don’t understand my boyf- my friend is out there and he doesn’t go well under this kind of pressure. He’s in the Whitly cell. Let me go to him.” The guard still looked apprehensive.

“For all we know the guy that broke out is Whitly.” You thought over your options. You had to get to Malcolm. The guard was right it could have been Whitly who caused the alarm and that would be worse for Malcolm. You took to long steps to the guard.

“I will knock you out and take your key card.” The guard heard the seriousness in your voice and let you take it off him. You walked back to the door. “It’ll lock behind me,” was all you said before leaving the room.

The hallway was dark except for some red lights flashing at the end, illuminating your vision for a few seconds at a time. You wished you had your gun. You walked forward and attempted to remember where Martins cell was. As you turned the corner a man fell before you with a thud. You screamed and all defense went out the window. You were going to run when the camera in front of you dropped and your vision focused. A patient was on the floor and Malcolm stood in front of you.

He dropped the camera and let out a sigh of relief. You fell into each other’s arms and you heard him sniff like he had been crying. You cradled his head and he buried his face in your neck.

“I thought you were gone, I thought he might have gotten you, oh Y/N I thought-“

“Shhh,” you shushed him. His voice died down and you held each other for a second.

“I love you.”

You could barely hear it over his sniffles and your heavy breathing but you heard it. You smiled but he couldn’t see it.

“I love you too.” You let him go slowly and he grabbed your hands, looking into your eyes. You smiled softly.

“I know this might be to soon but my dad’s back there and my sister and her boyfriend who’s slowly dying if you wanna join us,” he told you nonchalantly. Your eyes widened.

“Yeah okay let's go.”

You were glad Malcolm was here. You should have asked him to come with you at the start though, would’ve saved some time.

[espship18]

Kpop Shop for trulyunbosomed

*sighs* my friends, I am sad to share that my self-isolation period is over and I’ll be returning to work tomorrow- but that won’t stop my fun ^-^ I have a ship for @trulyunbosomed and I’m really excited for this one!

Based on your request I learned these things about you: 

You’re 5′1 with black shoulder length hair and brown eyes, and you have fair skin

You’re a law student can you be my lawyer if I need bailed out? lol

You’re an ISFJ, Virgo, and a Slytherin HECK Y E S 

You enjoy watching old films and biography films

You also enjoy writing

 You also enjoy cooking and cleaning (: 

And in your request, you asked to be shipped with EXO ! Like I said, I’m very excited about this one, so let’s get into it!

EXO: Xiumin 

Okay hunty, the love is about to go down. When I read that you were a law student, Xiumin smacked me in the face and said “I VOLUTNEER AS TRIBUTE”. I am a weakling, so I agreed with him and here we are! To be honest, one of the reasons why I ship you with Xiumin so much is because you two are scholars. But the conversation of you two being scholars opened up all of these ideas in my head and I’m screeCHING. Okay, you seem like you would be the type of couple that would be intellectual and reserved, but you have crackhead Minseok energy in the apartment, so you two can have a chill time with hours long study dates, but then you have hyper Xiumin wanting to wrestle at the end of the date. He’s also got some bad jokes that always lift the mood. I also am gonna call it, you and Xiumin would be domesticated as FUCK. Imagine it bro, some nice house plants, a fur baby, you’d have such a good life! You two would share a nice sized apartment, but the home office and kitchen would be the most used rooms in the whole apartment. Eating out isn’t as much of an option compared to other couples, and you two would bicker over who gets to cook for dinner, so you two would have to come up with a schedule on who could cook that particular night. Then some nights if you’re either 1) not too tired to do something at night or 2) needing a sugar rush to finish assignments and notes, that’s when you two will experiment together in the kitchen with some sort of dessert. I also wanna make this little note, in your office, your desks would be faced away from each other. Reason being, if your desks were facing each other, you wouldn’t be able to get any work done because you two would be too busy gushing over each other! IT WOULD BE SO GOSH DERN CUTE I SWEAR! You two also would nap so much, and tbh, you deserve it. An amazing part about that is that Xiumin would teach you how to take the good naps, and not the 20 minute power naps. And, if you enjoying cleaning, every Sunday is cleaning day, featuring a home performance with brooms and dusters(plus some sneezes). Date night is always movie night, change my mind on this, I dare you. Date night includes making some snacks from Tasty, bc why not, and watching a classic black and white movie- the good ones, ya know? BONUS, if it’s spooky season, you’ll watch a classic horror movie and get some extra extra cuddles(bc omg classic scary movies are terrifying smh). And lastly, PDA with Xiumin, I feel like, is more possessive than you’d think. Of course, he wouldn’t do anything that would make you feel uncomfortable, but he’s so close with you, and he would prefer to have you close to him at all times. This means that he always has some arm wrapped around you at all times, whether it’s your thigh, waist, or hand, he’s got you. He always keeps a sharp eye on you, and he’s a MASTER at stealing a kiss or two. And I’m more than certain you’re gorgeous and boys will gush over you, so I bet you ten bucks that Xiumin would kiss you in front of a boy to make it clear that you’re in a relationship. (: 

~STA