#i’m glad he included this part in there though it’s very important

[vicktoryscreech]

i put on quinton reviews most recent video then fell asleep only to be woken up by baby jennette mccurdy screaming and crying and stabbing a stuffed animal twice

[huboi]

POLY! SATOSUGU ˖ . ☆

MINORS DNI!!!

╰┈➤ includes; poly satosugu ft gn! reader, a separate part where reader is afab and how they comfort you during period time, shoko is included because she’s a #girl boss, separate nsfw part, they didn’t have the kfc breakup in this so dw

╰┈➤ a/n; the shibuya arc destroyed me and I’m in desperate need for fluff, reader’s a sub (sos to all the tops/switches, I’m just a sub at heart)

these guys are complete opposites

but in a good way that they pretty much compliment each other

when you entered their life, they were smitten

they were both dating before you came into their life, they never thought of having another partner but then you came along and boom

satoru is a clingy bastard

this goes for both you and suguru

neither of you guys are safe from the menace that is satoru

he’s clingy but you guys love him for that, cause that means cuddle piles 24/7 when you’re all free and not busy with killing curses etc.

suguru is the peace keeper in a sense, he’s the most chill

like if there’s ever an argument between you guys, he’s usually the one that encourages communication

my guy knows that communication is very important in order to maintain a healthy, happy long lasting relationship

suguru shows affection more subtlety than gojo

instead of rushing towards you as soon as you come home, he instead has food ready for you if you’re hungry, if not then he just puts it in the fridge for later

one thing suguru loves is having his hair played with, you can brush it, braid it, anything, he’s like a Barbie doll

speaking of hair when you guys are sleeping, 9 times out of 10 you will find sugurus hair in your mouth, even if it’s tied in a neat bun (which he doesn’t usually do since he likes having his hair down when sleeping/relaxing)

geto is very caring and reminds you of a mother/father figure, since he always asks you and gojo wether you’ve eaten, had something to drink etc.

not in the overbearing way either, he just wants to make sure his loves are in top condition :3

shoko is the no.1 wing woman, like she roots for you guys all the time, she’s so glad that this chaotic duo found you

if you ever wanna hang out with her without the boys, you usually have to sneak out since gojo is really reluctant on letting you go without him, not in a toxic way, he’s just really fucking clingy and so wants to be around you as much as possible

but as soon as you tell him suguru’s coming home when you’re gone, he instantly plans out the little date they have whilst you go out with shoko

speaking of dates, they’re either spent in a fancy ass restaurant for dinner, or a causal night in with take out whilst watching a movie, gojo insisting on horror even though you and suguru both know he’ll piss his pants and hide behind a pillow throughout the whole film

shoko fourth wheels you guys a lot, even though suguru tends to not show affection outside of the house, gojo lives for PDA

like when you guys are walking, he’ll slither between your bodies so he’s in the middle, only to grab both of your hands and intertwine them🥹

gojo is also a big fan of cheek/forehead kisses

yes he loves kissing you on the lips but that’s more so for in the house

gojo tends to get very grumpy when you don’t reciprocate his affectionate gestures, but dw you can cheer him up by bribing him with his favourite sweets, it usually works, if not that then you can make it up to him in the bedroom *wink wink*

when sleeping gojo tends to spread out his long ass limbs as far as they can go, which leaves you and suguru barely any space

gojo defo snores, man sounds like a whole ass tractor at best, at worst a bloody horn that you hear on ships

suguru doesn’t snore, he just mumbles in his sleep sometimes, which is cute low-key

gojo is a light sleeper (due to his six eyes) and suguru is a heavy sleeper, like you have to suffocate him with a pillow to wake him tf up sometimes

whenever you have a cold/are sick, the boys become so doting, satoru somehow becoming even more clingy even though you keep on warning him that he may also get sick too, cocky bastard claiming ‘I won’t since I’m the strongest’ only to, unsurprisingly, have the exact same illness once you’re better

if you struggle with mental health a lot, the boys will do pretty much anything to help you out

gojo usually prefers to buy you loads of sugar/sweets if that’s your thing, if not then he will cuddle you and just be there for you

suguru understands since he has struggled with mental health in the past and is there for you if you want to vent/rant to someone

if you are neurodivergent then they will try their best to help with your needs

eg. if you’re overstimulated they will bring you to the closest quiet area and help you calm down wether via hugs and kisses or giving you some alone time

same goes for if you have a disability eg. you use a wheelchair etc. they are very supportive and they don’t care as in you’re still the love of their life no matter what

IF READER HAS A PERIOD (feel free to skip this if you don’t get periods)

they obviously don’t understand how painful periods can be, but they don’t make any negative comments about it

when you have terrible cramps their hearts ache as they can’t really do much other than giving you medication, hot water bottle and tea

suguru tends to place his hand on your stomach if you want to of course

if you’re craving foods, they will get them for you

mainly gojo tho cause he also loves food

when you get emotional they kinda just stand there like 🧍

one time you cried over suguru giving you a forehead kiss, he was very concerned

bro was worried he somehow upset you :(

they definitely go to shoko for some more advice on how to comfort you when you’re on your period

gojo defo says ‘apperantly orgasms can relief period cramps sooo’

you slapped him in the face

NSFW SECTION!

CW: DOM/SUB DYNAMICS, SWITCH! GOJO, BRAT! GOJO, SPANKING, SOFT DOM! GETO, BRAT TAMER! GETO, SUB!READER, AFTERCARE

when it comes to sexy times, geto is always the one in charge

sometimes gojo gets ahead of himself and forgets his place, only to be spanked till his ass is red by suguru

suguru loves praising you so much, he hates it when you misbehave and he has to spank you

gojo loves spanking you on the other hand, he also loves receiving a spanking from suguru

if gojo misbehaves one thing suguru loves to do is tie him up and make him watch as geto fucks you dumb

gojo cant touch himself, and if he does then he has to have a vibrator on his cock and not cum for 30 mins whilst watching geto fuck you yet again

satoru has a high sex drive and can seemingly go on for hours on end

suguru has a high sex drive too, but it’s not as high as gojos’

gojo’s a horny bastard :(

sometimes you will find yourself being woken up by gojo giving you head in the morning

yes suguru does find out, one way or another, and punishes gojo for giving you head without getos permission (dw gojo and geto both have ur consent to do sexy stuff to you whilst you sleep, you guys all agreed on this in the beginning of the relationship)

suguru prefers giving head over receiving, since he loves making either you or gojo moan out his name whilst he gives you delicious head

gojo prefers receiving but sometimes enjoys giving

gojo mainly prefers receiving from you since unlike geto you don’t tease him

geto’s a fucking tease in the bedroom, to both of you but mainly gojo since he’s so bratty and suguru hates that (secretly loves it)

sometimes gojo will fuck you whilst he gets fucked by geto

aftercare is a MUST for both gojo and geto

especially after an intense session

sometimes you end up slipping into sub space which can be a problem since they both hate seeing you that way

they instantly cover you with kisses, hugs and so much praise

bath time always happens after, the boys joining you

you even have a little snack or a big snack depending on how rough the session was

after you’re all taken care of, the boys and you hop into a clean, fresh bed and fall asleep in each others’ arms <3

© content belongs to @huboi on tumblr, DO NOT REPOST ON ANY SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS WHATSOEVER

I ONLY POST ON TUMBLR, IF YOU SEE MY FANFICTION ON OTHER WEBSITES LET ME KNOW ASAP

[thesiltverses]

Hello! I found the silt verses about three weeks ago and have listened to it several times since. I have a few things to say.

I absolutely adore that episode about the national grid workers. I think it’s my favorite episode of any podcast I’ve ever listened to. My favorite part of that first episode Paige is in is how she justifies not standing up for Vaughn, that cognitive dissonance that you wrote so well. This episode gives me what I wanted from that episode, the workers all banding together to stop the wasteful sacrifice of one of them. The actor who played the foreman did an incredible job as well. I think that having him discuss which of his workers he would sacrifice was such a significant moment, despite how brief it is. It cuts right to the big question that I took away from the podcast which is, “How much is someone willing to sacrifice in order to maintain their comfort?” And the utter disrespect of Glodditch (apologies for the spelling) refusing to cancel even the radio but asking grid workers to kill themselves for 200kw/h! Top tier episode.

I grew up in the south and went to college in Appalachia. I saw the disparity in technology and “advancement” if that makes sense that poverty brings, and the way you set up the world invokes that feeling in me again. You are an amazing world builder and storyteller.

I really enjoyed the cameos - I’m a big fan of malevolent/devisor, Old gods of Appalachia, and all of Jonny sims work, so hearing familiar voices was an absolute delight. Harlan Guthrie as an acolyte of the snuff gods might have been a bit too on the nose with some of the things that man writes, though… /pos

I’m transmasculine, and something that I really appreciate is how you manage to make a trans man do some objectively awful things, but still manage to make him a complex, full character that I was rooting for very frequently. Brother Faulkner is so, so important to me as a character. Paula Vogel has a play called “Indecent,” which is about the true story of a troupe of I believe German Jewish actors between the years of 1910ish and 1940s putting on a show called “God of Vengeance” by Sholem Asch, also a Jewish man. “God of Vengeance” has queer themes and received a lot of criticism from the Jewish community for showing Jewish folks in a “bad” light at a time when there was already so much hatred for Jewish people. Brother Faulkner being as complex and, in my opinion, malicious and cutthroat as he is at a time when trans people face so much bigotry, especially legislatively in the United States, brings this conversation about “God of Vengeance” up again for me. I also love how normalized non-binary people are in this world, without question. “Sibling this or that,” the hunter, adjudicator Shrew - big thanks from me for all of this.

All of this to say, I love this podcast. Can you talk more about the rhetorical gods? Is Babble one? What makes them one if they are, or why aren’t they? I’m fascinated by them. Can you talk more about the propaganda gods too?

Thank you so much for the thoughtful and kind words!

I'll check out Indecent, it sounds really interesting and I'm very glad to hear Faulkner works for you as a character. I think the topic of how to include and write queer characters who are capable of terrible things and thoughts (because, after all, these characters are human beings and not tutelary exemplars), within the context of both a rising movement of transphobia right now and centuries-old scapegoating / pathologising portrayals more generally, is a really knotty but a really important one, and I always want to make sure I'm approaching it with care and due responsibility as well as a sense of humility around the limitations of what, as a cis writer, I can actually achieve.

To that end, I don't want to ever take the audience response for granted, but I'm always really grateful to hear that the portrayal is working for a listener!

Propaganda gods: gods whose prayer-marks or ritual verses are fed directly to the enemy, enforcing destructive or sabotaging changes to reality (so rather than sending a destructive saint or angel to rampage over the foe, you might drop pamphlets or send radio messages to the enemy to 'convert' them).

Rhetorical gods: gods whose followers possess reality-warping powers of language itself (which is why 'rhetorical god' is a polite way of saying 'liar's god'). In other words, the paranoia around them comes partly down to the fact that a disciple like Val may appear to be a limitless shaper of new forms, rather than shaped into a limited form of their own, as a result of their worship.

[burningfairytales]

On Bokuto being Fukurodani’s captain

I promised myself I wouldn’t make another Bokuto defence post, but I’ve been reliably informed the Fukurodani tag is lacking posts and I’m here to contribute.

We’ve probably all seen it - the post that is like, “every captain acts like a father figure to their team, and then there’s Fukurodani”

And I mean, it’s funny. It got a good chuckle out of me, too, because that is how jokes work. Jokes have to be funny, they don’t necessarily have to be true.

Because yes. For Karasuno, whose line-up consists of three first-years, and the dynamic duo Tanaka-and-Noya, sure, Daichi is more of a father figure. So is Kuroo, I suppose, for Nekoma (though where Daichi is the tough-love kind of dad, I see Kuroo as the “hey x, i’m dad” kind of person.)

And it works for them, because that’s what those teams need.

They’re young. They’re chaotic. They need a voice of reason (Karasuno) or, failing that, at least someone who’s capable of mediating in a fight. Who’s willing to tell the children to suck it up and make up, even if they weren’t in the wrong (Nekoma).

A captain should be what the team needs, after all.

But that is not how Fukurodani works.

Fukurodani has a completely different dynamic than Nekoma and Karasuno. Sure, they bicker. They probably fight, too. But listen. Save Akaashi and Onaga, the entire team is made up of third years - and we all know that in terms of maturity, Akaashi is on their level if not higher.

(Sorry Onaga. I’m afraid I don’t know enough about him yet to include him in that statement. Doesn’t come across as particularly childish either, for what it’s worth!)

So you’ve got an elite team. A team of more-or-less adults. The millennial kind of of adults, maybe - the “i need an adultier adult” kind. But a team of people who know when it’s okay to fool around and when it’s time to call it quits.

In a team like that, what use is a father figure?

And then there’s Bokuto.

Bokuto who is very much not mature at all. Bokuto who doesn’t know when to stop, when to call it quits. Bokuto who goes out to play not for the sake of winning, but to enjoy playing. To have fun. Winning is just the result of that.

Bokuto who looks at his teammates and gives them permission to just fool around and have fun, just for the sake of it. Want to try a cool spike? Great! It worked? That’s awesome, teach me how to do it.

Didn’t work? Too bad, try again.

Bokuto who gently and sometimes not-so-gently pushes his team. Try harder. Do better. Not because it’s disappointing if they don’t, but because it’s more fun if they do - because Bokuto firmly believes that they can.

Fukurodani is a great team. An elite team. They know they’re good. Maybe sometimes, just “good” feels like enough to them - but never to Bokuto. If you run three laps today, you might make it to four tomorrow. Maybe five laps the day after.

Bokuto is the kind of person who reaches, who moves forward, who doesn’t want to stop improving.

He’s also the kind of person who motivates his teammates to try harder simply because that’s what he does. They don’t want to fall behind. If Bokuto can do it, then so can we.

I think it’s such in important scene, at the end of the match against Mujinazaka, when Bokuto shakes hands with Kiryuu - not just because, despite their loss, Kiryuu can honestly say that he’s glad he played his last match against Bokuto, though I’d say that says a lot about Bokuto in general. It’s not a bad thing, losing to him. It’s sad - of course it’s sad, but it’s not frustrating. They played a good game. Hell, they had fun. It’s an acceptable loss.

But the really important part, to me, is when Bokuto holds onto his hand and tells him, “you should tell your team to give you better tosses. Even if it’s asking too much. You should still do it.”

Because not only does that show that Bokuto isn’t an idiot - he’s very much aware of what goes on on the field. He noticed that most of those tosses sucked. Kiryuu is amazing for managing to hit those, and Bokuto isn’t afraid of telling him that.

And it’s not even that he’s telling his opponent, hey, you’re already pretty incredibly and you could spike better if the set-up worked in your favour. (Because contrary to what seems a popular opinion, Bokuto’s “I’m the best!” Doesn’t mean “everyone else sucks.” I don’t understand why people tend to make him egoistical. Bokuto stops at nothing to tell others when they’re doing well and compliment them.)

No, the really important part of that exchange is that Bokuto is also saying, you aren’t letting your team improve if you keep letting them keep get away with this.

And it’s true, isn’t it. You can help your classmate cheat or do your coworker’s work for them - it saved them in that moment, maybe, but they will not learn. You’re taking away their opportunity for improvement.

Kiryuu can tell his team, it’s okay if your tosses are shit, I will hit them anyway. But at the end of the day, those tosses are still going to be shit. It doesn’t make them better players, and if any of them want to keep playing after high school they’re going to be in a lot of trouble, because not everyone will be able to hit them - or be even willing to try.

So no, Bokuto is about the farthest thing from a father figure. But he pushed his team to do better. Forces them to pick up the pace one way of another, sometimes maybe through his bad moods, but also by motivating them to stop accepting “good” as “good enough.”

And look, I’m not completey oblivious. I’m fairly certain Bokuto is probably not great at handling the official side of being captain - club applications and funding requests and whatever needs handling. But he’s not doing it alone, is he?

And of course Akaashi is impressive, making vice-captain as a second year. And I’m willing to bet Bokuto was the first to insist he’d have to do it.

So you’ve got the captain who pushes and the vice-captain who keeps things level. I’d say that’s the kind of team Fukurodani needs as their captains, don’t you?

[bvnniz]

⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪ bunny!reader x vox , bunny!reader & carmilla carmine

𝜗𝜚 warnings: forbidden love, bunny’s soul is owned by carmilla, more fluff then anything, idk how aging works in hell but bunny ages like a normal person does, same thing with carmilla’s daughters

A/N: i feel as though this story could have a part 2 ( which would probably include smut ngl . . . ) so please comment & tell me if that’s something you guys would want !!

flashback, twenty years ago when bunny first appeared in hell

carmilla and her daughters had been on a walk when they heard a couple of sniffles coming from an alleyway, clara immediately let go of her moms hand and went running towards the sound.

“clara!” carmilla yelled before following with odette, that’s when they finally found the source of the sniffles when they saw little five year old you crying in the alleyway.

“bunny!” clara practically yelled while pointing at you. “indeed she is, where are your parents, sweetheart?” that just made your sobbing start again “they aren’t here.”

carmilla had taken pity on you, mostly due to the fact her daughters begged for a bunny sister. so she took you in and made you apart of her family.

twenty years later, four months before next extermination

“vox, valentino. glad to see all of the vee’s finally have decided our overlord meetings aren’t good enough for them.” carmilla spoke, clearly annoyed causing you to try not to let out a laugh

vox wanted to state he was purely only there for you. truth was you and vox met a couple months ago, went on a couple dates and have been dating since. except no one knows, especially carmilla.

she was your mom for the past twenty years and if there’s one thing she hated more than anything it was the vee’s. she didn’t even want you coming to the meeting because she was told all three vee’s were planning on attending.

your mother glared at the three before turning to you signaling for you to make your exit, she knew odette & clara would be fine if something were to happen but you were always very sensitive, crying at the littlest things. she wasn’t making you leave to be mean, she meant it to be so you didn’t get upset over yelling.

you nodded before leaving the board room and heading to your room. vox making some excuse which got him out of staying before he materialized in your room.

“voxxy!” you practically screamed before pulling him into a hug. “hi princess.” he smiled back at you. “how’d you get here without my mother noticing?”

he just shook his head in response “i barely see you anymore you really think i’m gonna let her try to get me from seeing my little bunny less than i already do?” he pulled you into a kiss which lasted about a minute before you pulled away “what if my mother comes in?”

he sighed before sitting on your bed “you know valentino and velvette are gonna make that meeting way longer than it needs to be.” you nodded before sitting on his lap and pulling him into a kiss.

the kiss turned more heated after a while, vox laying down with you still on top of him, you grinding against him.

although it only lasted a little while longer before your mother walked in “sweethe- what the hell?!” you had immediately pushed yourself off vox standing in front of your bed “mom, it’s not what it looks like i swear!”

“really because it looks like this tv head has decided to leave an important meeting to try and fuck my daughter.” you just stared at the ground for a second before replying “okay so it is what it looks like . . . but he’s fine mom! i swear! we’ve been dating for months and he hasn’t even done anything bad! we haven’t even actually had sex yet!”

carmilla took a deep breath before continuing “you two have been dating and you kept this from me? you know how i feel about lies.” you tried to reply but you couldn’t find the words, you just stared at the ground more, trying to keep your tears in

“carmilla. do not take this out on her. i asked her out, i only even came to this stupid meeting so i could see her. i love this little bunny more than any stupid sinner could. i know you don’t like me and i know you don’t like me dating your daughter more but i love her and i’m pretty sure she loves me. so please don’t make her stop talking to me or something.” you looked back at vox, him meeting your gaze with a smile

“do you love him?” you turned to your mom and nodded “more than anything.” she nodded back “i’ll allow it, but you so much as hurt her and you will be unplugged.” with that she left.

you immediately turned back to vox before climbing back on his lap “you got her approval!” you cheered before peppering his screen with kisses causing him to chuckle. “we got the approval, bunny.”

[vodika-vibes]

CONGRATS ON 500!!

Long time lurker, I am here every morning around work, and have reread most of your fics at least 3 times. Your writing is amazing!

Okay I'll stop gushing 🙈

For the follower event, I was thinking Kix, Emerald, and late night.

Thank you, and congrats again!! 😊

I'll Wait Forever

Summary: When an emergency makes Kix late to pick you up for your date he’s incredibly apologetic. What he doesn’t know, and what you need him to understand, is that you’d wait forever for him.

Pairing: Post-Stasis Kix x F!Reader

Word Count: 830

Warnings: None

Tagging: @trixie2023 @n0vqni @imabeautifulbutterfly

A/N: Thank you for your nice comment! I'm so glad that you like my stories enough to come back to them! I hope this is close to what you wanted, you didn't specify, so I chose to go with Post-Stasis Kix rather than TCW era Kix. Both are swoon-worthy. My goal is to keep all of these under 1000 words. I wonder how I'll do, lol.

The fall of the Empire, and the rise of the New Republic, has made you a very wealthy person. Wealthy enough that you, and a group of your friends, were able to repurpose a Lucrehulk Class droid control ship into something a little more useful. 

As of now, and with the permission of the New Republic, the ship is home to over two million displaced individuals (many of Alderaanian descent), it’s also home to a massive shopping center, and is the home point for this sector's Bounty Hunters Guild.

It is a point of some pride, yes.

And, at this point, it basically runs itself. Which means that you only have to do a little bit of work to make sure it stays running smoothly. Which, for you, means that you have to play nice with the politicians in the New Republic.

But that only happens every so often.

Which means you’re able to focus on more important things.

Like writing your novel…and spending time with your boyfriend.

Both are very important to you, though you’re not ashamed to admit that Kix, your boyfriend, is far more important to you than anything else that you own. Including the ship that you currently call home.

He travels a lot, and you don’t mind, because in the end he always comes back to you. 

Speaking of said boyfriend, he said that he was going to take you on a date tonight.

You tilt your head back to catch a glimpse of the chrono on the wall, and you release a sigh, though there’s a smile on your face. It is well past closing time for all but the seediest of restaurants, which means no going out tonight.

Ah well. Such is life.

You flick your gaze back to the first draft of your novel, and you make sure to save your work before you set it to the side.

Time to make dinner, and if you’re lucky, Kix will join you for dinner. 

You meander into your kitchen and you put some water on the stove for the pasta, before you dig around your pantry. Might as well make a proper meal.

You’re about to put the pasta in the boiling water when the door to your suite slides open. Absently you pour the whole box into the water, before leaning back to look into the main part of your suite, and a bright smile crosses your face.

Kix is gorgeous. 

Tall and broad, with thick curly hair and an equally thick beard. The tattoo under his hair just barely peeks out at his temple.

You’d quite happily follow him into hell, if he asked.

Not that he ever would.

“Welcome home,” You chirp from the kitchen, “I started pasta for dinner, do you want cheesy bread or garlic. I have both because I have no self control when it comes to bread. It’s a problem.” You check the water and then leave your posting in the kitchen to walk over to him. 

He sets his helmet on the table next to the door, and then casts his gaze to you, something akin to guilt crosses his face when he takes you in, “I’m late.”

“I don’t mind.”

“You got all dressed up for me.” Kix says, his lips turning down.

“I got dressed up for myself. The fact that you also appreciate it is just a bonus.” You grin at him, and slide into his arms, your arms twining around his neck, “Now. Garlic bread or cheesy bread. This is a super important decision, Kix.”

His arms tightens around your hips, “I’m sorry, love.”

“It’s just bread, Kix. It’s not really that important. I can make both.”

He laughs softly, but there’s something almost broken in his voice, “I’m sorry for missing our date. Again.”

“It’s okay.”

“It’s not. It’s really, really not. You deserve better than…this.” He vaguely gestures to himself.

“I don’t want better. I want you.”

“Even though I neglect you?”

You slide your hands to his face, and you lightly brush your fingers under his eyes, “Hold on there, mister. You don’t neglect me. I have never once felt neglected.”

He tilts your head back, “How can you say that?”

“Kix,” You grin at him, “You still don’t get it, do you?”

“Get what?”

You stand on your toes to brush your lips against his, “I’d wait forever for you. You’re worth it. I’d follow you into hell if you asked.”

He exhales sharply, his breath washing across your face, “I love you.”

You beam at him, “I know, I’m very lovable.”

Kix arches a single brow, and he moves his fingers to your sides, lightly tickling you, pulling a startled giggle from your lips, “Is that all you have to say?” He asks, a smile playing on his lips now.

You hop into his arms, his arms sliding securely around your waist to support you, as you kiss him deeply, “I love you too. Always. Forever.”

[canonmisogynyvictimstournament]

PROPAGANDA

ALEX DEWITT (DC COMICS)

1.) The term “fridging” is literally based on Alex and what happened to her. She was killed off violently by a bad guy trying to get at her boyfriend only a couple issues after she was introduced (making it obvious they only brought her in to kill her off for shock value). Her death did very little to the narrative other than hurt her boyfriend Kyle and was done in an exceedingly horrifying and violent way. (Bad guy came to the door with flowers and threatening note, broke in and attacked her, choking her to death, before [off panel] chopping her body up and sticking it in the refrigerator as a “surprise” for her boyfriend. This obviously is really fucked up and she deserves better and should win this actually (a vote for Alex is a vote for all fridging victims [in spirit])

2.) It doesn’t get much worse than being the character whose death originated the “fridging” trope. In Green Lantern Vol. 3 #54, Kyle Rayner comes home to find that Alexandra, his girlfriend, has been killed by the villain Major Force and stuffed into the refrigerator.

Alexandra DeWitt is the character whose misogynistic treatment coined the term where a character, usually female, is killed off purely to make the main character, usually male, feel bad. Even if there are other characters who have been subjected to similar levels of misogyny, Alexandra DeWitt’s treatment has been essentially immortalized.

3.) I know she’s not going to win but shout out to my home girl, literally the trope namer for women shoved in fridges. All anyone ever knows about her is that she was Kyle’s girlfriend and got murdered for his character development, even though she had plenty of potential to be her own character.

AMBER VOLAKIS (HOUSE MD)

1.) Holy shit thank you for reminding me about Amber. Her nickname that almost everyone calls her to her face every day is Cutthroat Bitch. When she & Wilson start dating there are so so so many jokes about her keeping his balls in her purse & having him whipped & etc etc just bc she’s assertive & confident. & then the whole two-part episode where they fridge her (which is. not quite house’s fault directly but he definitely contributed to it) they make it completely about house & wilson & maybe 2% about HER. I’m still mad forever

2.) After being fridged, she does show up in later seasons! As a hallucination. She shows back up to be the devil on House’s shoulder when he is hurtling towards a vicodin-induced breakdown. Literally only shows up to steer him into making bad decisions (including almost killing Chase (allergic to strawberries) by inviting him to a party where the stripper is wearing strawberry scented lotion that sends him into anaphylaxis)

3.) im so glad someone else submitted amber because she fits so well for this poll but i couldnt get my words out right but im going to try again anyway. i think an important aspect of how ambers character is treated and written for the audience has to do with if a man did what she did, hed be opportunistic and ambitious, if not a bit of an ass, but because shes doing it it makes her ‘bitchy’. “cutthroat bitch” “coldhearted bitch” etc is practically her canon alias at this point by how much she is referred to that way rather than her name. she is probably the most humanized out of wilson’s canon relationships and its mostly because theyre paralleling her to house. she deserved so much better she deserved the world and more

[avesque]

hi sweet darling my my myyy i adore your writing so very much and wanted to know if you are still taking requests from that one post you linked? if so i would love to see something with tsu’tey for the “i am in love with a moment we never had” + angst? something about him with some angst just scratches an itch in my brain idkkk lots of love btw mwah !<3

across the stars — tsu’tey

INCLUDES fem!reader, human!reader. angst. 1.1k words.

NOTE anon you are so sweet omg thank you so much! <3

jakesully hands tsu’tey a note one afternoon after the battle, a crumpled piece of folded paper with specks of dirt on the edges. it looks tiny and, tsu’tey admits, unimportant.

he refuses to take it.

the olo’eyktan sighs, pushing the scrap back in his direction. “come on, brother. it’s important.”

tsu’tey begs to differ, taking a step back and scowling at the chief. a small, immature part of him is still stingy about the turn of events; how he had no choice but to pass his title to jakesully when he was on the brink of death.

“it’s from y/n.”

tsu’tey stills. his ears fall back in his hair at the mention of your name, tail swishing in curiosity.

you were one of the researchers — a biologist, he remembers you saying — alongside grace who studied pandoran flora and fauna. before the war, you had wormed your way well into the clan with your bright smiles and tinkling laughter. despite being one of the sky people, no one was able to resist you.

you were magnetic.

tsu’tey prides himself in his great resolve, his firm judgment. he is as untrusting as one can be; calculative when needed and always skeptical.

though he cannot deny how even he was left defenseless to your charm. it pains him to admit it but he grew fond of your excited chatter, especially the way your little demon face would light up at the mere mention of new plants, among other things.

he snatches the paper in jakesully’s hands and leaves without a word.

the note has been tucked under the woven mat in his hut for days now. tsu’tey has convinced himself there are far more important things to focus on than your flimsy little gift, and as dawn breaks over the moon, he finds himself grappling for excuses he can tell himself to prolong the inevitable.

a frustrated scowl mars his face, jumping off his hammock and kneeling on the floor, lifting the carpet to reveal the folded scrap. it seems almost threatening as it sits there, staring back.

he chooses to get it done and over with.

he turns it over a few times, looking for something; anything, but all there is is smeared dirt. finally, with bated breath, he slips a finger in the crease and unfolds it.

the paper is filled with your neat handwriting, dark ink nearly glowing on the white background. his heart sinks a bit as he sees how little you wrote but he ignores the feeling.

my dearest, tsu’tey, it reads.

his hands shake and the paper crumples beneath his fingers.

you may be reading this while i am already off this moon, or you may be reading this with a scowl perfectly painted on your face with me in front of you. either way, i just hope you’re reading this.

i would first like to thank you for your warm welcome.

tsu’tey grunts at that, shifting on his haunches, something ugly bubbling in his chest, one he cannot name.

i know how difficult it must be to accept someone like me yet you did not push me away. (you did, but you are unsuccessful! i am just stubborn, and i’m glad i am.)

the countless moments i have spent with you are everything to me. i will hold them close to my heart forever.

from the deepest crevices of my heart, thank you. i appreciate all the things you’ve done for me. for showing me the flowers and telling me about them, letting me come with you on hunts, and for merely walking with me in the forest. i hope you enjoyed those moments as much as i did.

the sky people are going back on earth soon and i have decided to come with them. before i go, i will tell you a secret.

my heart has grown too fond of you. sometimes, i fear you can hear the way my heart beats a little faster when you’re near. you have enraptured me. you are the most beautiful creature i have ever laid my eyes upon.

but i —

the letter is cut off, scrawled over by strings of ink. it starts again below, and the words sends an arrow straight through his heart.

i am in love with a moment we never had. not entirely, i suppose, since i do not go over our moments the way you do. i do not experience them in a… friendly way, shall i say? the way you do. it does not translate the same way between us.

i have spent nights with you clouding my mind, the sound of your voice a hazy lullaby in my head. i have dreamt of holding you, of kissing you, of telling you i love you.

i see you, tsu’tey. even when i am no longer in this moon, remember that somewhere in this vast universe, someone out there sees you.

thank you for sharing a part of yourself with me.

yours, y/n.

the letter is nearly balled up in tsu’tey’s firm grip. it is miniscule compared to his hand, and it is a reminder of how small yours had looked in his when he guided you over rocks that one time he showed you around.

something sits heavy in his heart. guilt, he’s come to know. the sky people left just two days ago and jakesully had given him your letter a week before.

he falls back on the floor of his hut, the mat digging under his left thigh.

had he known of your feelings… had he conquered his fear and read your letter earlier…

because tsu’tey may be known for his great resolve but all it took was your blinding smile to spear through his walls. he was untrusting as one can be but the trust you have shown you had in him had him wavering.

he suppose it is just right that he was stripped of his title. one so mighty will not cower before a piece of paper, but he had, and he missed the one chance eywa has given him to let you know of his feelings that had grown and bloomed over the course of your moments spent together.

he has nothing of you to remember by except this letter and the guilt that has taken root over his chest. he knows it will stay right there as long as he lives.

[ringsreforged]

Season 2, Episode 6 - Nat's Rambles

Okay – SO – Paulina is still on holiday, and I’m obviously DYING OVER HERE (Natalie, in case you hadn’t guessed) so TUMBLR. I HAVE RETURNED.

Truly though, I don’t think I’ve done this since S4 of The 100 which probably aired 100 years ago at this point…what has this show done to me…

ANYWAY. My immediate thoughts on Season 2, Episode 6: WHERE IS HE???????

Paulina Voice: All opinions herein have nothing to do with me, so only judge Natalie for them.

Important Note: I have only watched once, in a haze of stress and emotion, so I reserve the right to delete all of this later if I change my mind on any of it.

Arondir – Hello! Nice to see you! Glad you’re joining us for the battle!

I did like the detail of confirming that not all the orcs are on board with Adar’s war, but I was mostly laughing that ‘running through the trees’ is how the show has reminded us a character exists for two weeks in a row.

Rhun – I think this was the first episode where I was like GO AWAY, RHUN, NOT NOW. Though, I want to stress that I am super excited to see the conclusion of this, probably in episode 8. The Dark Wizard, the Gaudrim, the fate of the Stoors (honestly, I’m assuming they’re all going to be massacred tbh…which…the optics…but we’ll worry about that later…). In today’s episode, it just felt a bit like ‘hey, these characters still exist.’

I did love the little snippet of Tom and the Stranger, though I felt like it could have just been included in their previous scenes. He is 1000% Gandalf, and I stand by my opinion that this isn’t supposed to be a twist or a surprise. It’s just the narrative telling the story. Destiny or friend is super intriguing to me. It’s very Luke and Yoda from Empire, but I do wonder if his destiny IS to choose his friend…and in so doing, THAT is how he finds his staff…

Nori talking with the Gund was very sweet, and her willingness to give herself up to protect everyone was super in character. Poppy and Merimac were cute (I pray to all the gods that THIS was the kiss Morfydd teased but I doubt it very much…), and Poppy wanting to fight for the Stranger made me pretty emotional. However, I have some bad news…

Guys…I think I’m adding Poppy to DEATH WATCH. And I HATE IT. BUT I CAN’T UNTHINK IT.

Moving on…

Numenor – This continues to be the choppiest of storylines this season, but I do think the broad elements are super on point. And, actually, where we end up makes the Eagle sequence make more sense in retrospect. Pharazon didn’t have things locked down, Miriel is very much still a player on the board, and Mr. Eyebrows is THE BIGGEST HYPOCRIT.

Then again, if you told me I’d see Halbrand in the Palantir I’d probably touch it too…

Ahem. Loved that detail by the way! Part of the reason I felt like Halbrand would be his Numenor form was the small scene he shared with Pharazon back in S1, while Galadriel was taking out the guards. A connection was formed then – perhaps his eyes even bored a hole – and if Halbrand rocks up as an enemy of the elves, that’ll only make him more appealing.

Everything with Miriel and Elendil was absolutely stunning. He was willing to give his life for her, she was willing to give hers for his. WHAT ABOUT MY HEART. Honestly, from the way Owen and Cynthia talked about this season, I felt like they weren’t going to get anything at all romance coded. But I’m just starting to think people in TV only see active kissing as romance, because HELLO?? THAT’S THE SCRIPT????? THAT IS ABSOLUTELY ROMANCE????

I’m very excited to watch the sequence with the sea worm again, and to really let it wash over me (heh), because I was starting to get time anxious at that point in the episode (my brain starts panicking ‘don’t end, don’t end.’ Honestly, my brain SUCKS). But it was incredible, the implications were wonderful, Elendil’s relief was beautiful, and so was Pharazon’s rage. Also, the whole sequence was UTTERLY STUNNING, WOW.

Note for the show overall, or maybe just for myself, though – PLEASE stop spoiling so much of the season through promotional material. My biggest gripe with this episode is that I felt like I’d already seen/put together 90% of it.

Anyway, I’ve left Earien until last because this was a MUCH better episode for her (though, not letting her have any reaction to Valandil’s death was CRIMINAL). To the point that I’m now reforging (heh) my thoughts on last week – who directed her to have such bratty energy last week? Weird.

Anyway, we saw much more of her conflict and fluidity in this episode. She isn’t Faithful, she believes the new order is the way to go, but she’s also struggling massively with it. Her desperate hug with her father broke my heart, I had instant tears in my eyes, but then I also cheered when she brought Miriel in! What a great surprise that was! I’m REALLY interested to see where she goes from here…I’m assuming in the finale? I was sure she was locked onto a super dark path, but she witnessed Miriel survive the Valar’s judgement…will that sway her back around?

I’m going to finish this section with something that’s maybe a bit controversial…Elendil sucks as Earien’s father!!! Now, I’m willing to put this on pacing/editing issues, because I don’t think the show really wants us to feel this way. But good god, man. HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH YOUR DAUGHTER. I really enjoyed their cell scene, but sweet lord baby jesus, these two needed a deep conversation in episode 3. Watching him turn to go when Miriel walked in, and just forget Earien was even there hurt me man…even though I enjoy the Miriel aspect VERY much…

Like, I know you’re mad at her, but you’re all she’s got left…and your pride might mean she watches you die…can you be a little kinder to her???

Dwarves being dwarves, AKA perfect – Flawless. No notes.

The initial sequence with the Durin’s and Annatar was PERFECT. Annatar being rejected (that Balrog glimpse was SO EVIL), and Baby Durin’s flicker of hope. But then the reveal that Daddy Durin is deep in the shit because he’s really just being greedy. My gooooodnesssssss. The show has done SUCH A GOOD JOB setting this up, because we know Daddy Durin isn’t this way! We feel Baby Durin’s pain!

Then Daddy Durin has his IT’S MINE moment with the ring and swats his son away. Anguish. And the anguish only anguished harder when we cut to Durin and Disa. Disa talking about her love for her father-in-law, and her own father, and then DURIN’S TEARS. UGH. UGH. UGH. I was weeping, honestly.

I feel like Durin being suss of the rings this early on is a pretty big change (don’t quote me on this) but I’m for it. Watching Disa turn back Narvi and the others (poor Narvi) was beautiful and then that I LOVE YOU. UGH. UGH. UGH. PERFECT, I SAY.

I doubt Disa has anymore bats to summon, though, so IDK how the heck they stop what’s coming next. Is Durin going to get drawn away by his desire to help Elrond, leaving Disa alone and vulnerable?

I REFUSE TO PUT DISA ON DEATH WATCH, SHOW. I REFUSE. DON’T YOU DARE.

Adar and Galadriel – I wish we’d gotten more, especially because they released a clip yesterday that I obviously couldn’t resist watching, but what we got was JUICY.

I felt that Adar knew Halbrand was Sauron back in the premiere, or at least suspected it. Getting that confirmation paints their scene with the talk of the wine, the tears, and the kneeling in such a different light. TASTY.

I’ve seen people question this, because why did Adar not try and kill him there and then? To my mind, that’s pretty straightforward. He killed him once and it didn’t stick. And last time he had the element of surprise. He knows that Sauron is powerful enough to get out of his chains/to not get caught by orcs, which means he’s here for a reason. If Adar tries to kill him, best case scenario Sauron is off the board for another few centuries, but he’ll likely take down some orcs with him on the way out. And for what? For him to just come back again?

I think Adar decided to play the long game. I think talk of Eregion and Galadriel let him know that something more was going on, and he was biding his time to act.

So, Sauron promised Adar children. Honestly, the Adar/Sauron/Galadriel dynamic that played across this episode was the stuff of my dreams. Adar is holding his own relationship with the fella up against hers, and there’s so much subtext for both dynamics. Was there romance between both? Was it solely manipulation for both? Is Adar what Galadriel might become if she succumbs?

Galadriel definitely wasn’t being entirely truthful with Adar when she mentioned that Sauron promised an army, because that was more what she thought she could get out of Halbrand. And yes, sure, Sauron might have nudged her that way. But Sauron’s true offer came later on the raft, after the army had been delivered. Adar even acknowledges that she’s not being truthful, that she needs to let go of her pride. I feel like we’ll see that play out over the last two episodes for sure…

The line that really stuck with me from a Hal&Gal perspective was Galadriel finishing Adar’s line about the world with Sauron being full of colour, and without him it’s a dull grey. It fits with how Galadriel has come across to me this season. Since Elrond shut her out, she hadn’t had anybody to open up to, and she’s certainly not being fully honest with herself yet. That dull grey speaks to how she’s mostly been…quite contained? The only moments where she’s truly come alive were with Nenya, and when she was fighting.

Later in the episode, she DOES put aside her pride. She calls Adar Uruk!!! She opens up and sees the possibility of an alliance. And I think this goes back to Sauron too. She’s had a taste of darkness and the temptation of it, she knows she’s not secure from succumbing, and so her perspective of Adar – who was once an elf – has massively shifted. However, when he asks if he and his children will be able to return to their home…we all know the answer to that.

I actually never stopped to consider that Adar would be the one manipulating/tricking Galadriel, which is silly in retrospect. Because this much better explains how she ends up in a cage facing the elves (sorry guys, I don’t think she’s bait for Sauron…she’s facing the wrong way…). I’m looking forward to watching this bit again, as I feel it was a bit rushed on first watch. I would have liked to see these two chat for a good two scenes more, honestly.

Adar is falling into the trap, which is pretty devastating, and Galadriel is the one seeing through it. Honestly, I really don’t know how things roll out in the finale. I flip from it making no sense for it to be a S1 rehash, to being sure she’ll defiantly resist, to being sure the show is setting her up to not be able to. I JUST DON’T KNOW. I wish I’d never seen those stupid leak spoilers…the promo makes me think they are real, but then we MUST be missing full context.

Adar is still on DEATH WATCH but like…a little bit less than before, honestly? Mostly because I don’t see how we have time to get ALL the confrontations into the last two episodes. When Adar goes out – and he will – he deserves the biggest death.

Random aside: I am pondering sharing something of a Haladriel ramble/rant but I’m also like…IDK if I want the hassle, so we’ll see.

Celebrimbor and Annatar

Oh, Brimby. My heart aches. The sequence with him forgetting Mirdania’s name was so heartbreaking and watching Annatar isolate him so completely was chilling. First, by taking away the other smiths, then with the illusion.

I actually don’t think I have a lot to say on this section, because it’s been rumbling along all season and we’re just about to reach the climax. Sauron is Sauron’ing his hardest in this episode.

I am now quite convinced that Mirdania is not Celebrian (I already didn’t really believe it, but it’s firmer now) and I do think she’ll die. I think she’ll either be killed by Sauron himself, or she’ll be caught in the crossfire of the siege, and as she dies she’ll make eye contact with him and he’ll just coldly leave her. I feel like there has to be some sort of climax to the whole…you look like Galadriel thing, but I’m not really sure what that could be?? I don’t think there’s going to be a lot of time next episode, so maybe that really was a one and done so the viewer understood he’s thinking about her…

Celebrimbor trying to snap on Annatar, and that flash of true rage in Annatar’s face…oh god, next week is going to be soul destroying. I honestly can’t wait and dread it at the same time. Celebrimbor has fought so hard but then comes the illusion, then comes the lure – more talk of the Valar, of his work, of Feanor and the Silmarils. CELEBRIMBOR. GET OUT, PLEASE. GET OUT.

Sauron was then absolutely buzzing at the end there, as war came, and I wonder if there are more twists to come or if things play out fairly straightforward from here. We know the elves will charge the orcs. Does that happen straight away? Is there any communication? Because it’s complicated, isn’t it? On one hand, let Adar and the orcs try to take our Sauron…but then, you know innocents are being killed. You have to save them, surely?

And that’s that, I think? PHEW.

I must say, it’s harder to get through this season being in fandom because I KNOW SO MUCH MORE and I WANT SO MUCH MORE and people STRESS ME OUT. But, at the same time, it feels nice to love something this hard again?

Let’s get episode 7 and [redacted] out of the way fast, though, yeah?

[daiki1k]

“familiarity breeds discontent.”

Daiki, Guardian EXO’s prized human - the handsome eye catcher of season 39!

Daiki, Guardian EXO’s prized human - the handsome eye catcher of season 39!

After 7 years of working in various scenes, EXO enterprise’s most favored human has won its first round. Daiki has been seen on many jobs provided by Guardian EXO, these jobs include: modeling, commercial use, singing (venues, parties, private events, etc.) and [INACCESSIBLE.]

move forward with the interview now.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DAIKI!

You’ve been in this industry for a while, how do you enjoy it?

Yes, I have been huh? And I’m so grateful for all my fans~ now. . of course I enjoy it. I get to express myself and make Guardian EXO proud. Being able to interact with cute fans is also a pro♡

How do you feel after your first round on <ALIEN STAGE>?

So very proud of myself and thankful to Guardian EXO for providing me with all the tools needed to get where I am now. It’s a shame to see a talent like Tallis gone, though. If only he was more . . . popular. hm.

You take part in many forms of entertainment! What’s your favorite?

I do like modeling, especially showing off things fans send me. I’m always put in the most amazing outfits, I’m glad you all like seeing me dolled up~!

What’s your favorite memory in <ANAKT GARDEN>?

Meeting a good friend of mine, this friend has helped me with so much.

Is your relationship with your guardian good?

Of course~! A good bond between pets and their owners is so important. Without Guardian EXO I wouldn’t be here. (sighing) Everything they’ve done for me is so appreciated, I hope you’ll all support them and the newest <EXO CLUB> opening. Maybe I’ll see you all there soon~?

END OF INTERVIEW!

Tallis: @lookatmysillies

Season 39: @season39

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Missing In Action 13

Chapter 13: Regret

It’s time for RED team to reflect on what they know now, and to find out if Spy is okay.

TW: Some gore, heavy angst. Forgot to call the last chapter a doozy, but this one is too.

Medic remembered the day that Spy outran the BLU team’s Scout. Everyone had been celebrating Spy’s abnormally impressive contribution to the team. It wasn’t everyday that one killed so many BLU’s, got the intelligence, and got out; he didn’t even need assistance until he got into the main battle outside and the BLU Scout shot his leg.

But he hadn’t stayed to celebrate with everyone, instead going to the smoking room. Heavy had gone to check on him, and mentioned to Ludvig that Spy had part of a piece of paper sticking out of his lapel. It smelled like he burned photographs in the fireplace when Medic walked past the next day. They didn’t know exactly what happened at BLU base, but someone took a picture that Spy didn’t like. Heavy said he looked panicked and disgusted.

Heavy had noticed that Spy froze up when Ludvig showed them the BLU Spy’s head, and put two and two together. It was actually Mikhail that convinced the team to let Ludvig keep the Spy’s severed head until he got bored. It wouldn’t be more than 2, 3 weeks. Even Medic wasn’t stupid enough to butcher or torture an enemy teammate under Helen’s watchful eye.

So it was surprising that Spy led the charge in getting BLU Spy’s head killed so he could be free. Ludvig knew the team was scared of his experiments, and that they didn’t like him keeping the head. But he’d expected to be able to keep it at least a week before they came up with some yarn to get him to release his captive. It took 4 days.

Spy basically tried to shake keys in his face by giving him an animal to experiment on instead. But it was one of his pets; a very old crab that was not edible. Spy didn’t look as though he really wanted to give it up, so it must have been deeply important for him to free the enemy.

Medic had assumed that it was fear of more information getting stolen, despite BLU Spy always being stuck in the fridge and unable to hear well. He knew better now.

He wouldn’t be surprised if Spy was plagued by nightmares about his enemy suffering a terrible respawn failure. Being too cold, or not connecting back to his body, or just not being able to control his body because of a botched reconnection.

It seemed that BLU team might be thinking about how lucky their Spy was to be alive and healthy; he sure looked haunted. Ludvig decided they would just feel guilty if he told them all the details about how their teammate was freed. So he wouldn’t.

He was glad someone stopped him from keeping the head, in any case. Sometimes he needed to be stopped.

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All of RED team froze with bated breath as BLU Medic came out. Except Scout, but that made the most sense. Engineer could feel the anxiety radiating off of him. “Did he make it? Is he okay?” The Medic blinked at him in surprise.

“Yes. He’ll be asleep while his body heals for the next couple of days, but he’s alive with a good outlook.” He looked around at the relieved RED team’s faces. “I can never remember right… did this tape include your Spy’d respawn failure too?” They shook their heads.

”Oh dear, I’m terribly sorry! If I had known it was the fatal respawns only, I would have shown you the backup footage first!” He rummaged around for another tape “Malum extra reel”. Putting it in the TV, the BLU Medic fast forwarded to the Sniper respawn failure.

Spy had apparently respawned around the same time as the Sniper, because both the Medic and other teammates were asking him if he was okay. He kept shaking his head no. They were watching a camera on the BLU Medic’s glasses. He suddenly hesitated and looked at Spy.

“You have not said anything for a while. Is your mouth okay?” Spy made a shooing motion and pointed at Sniper. “He’s stable for now, we have the medigun rays on him. Can you open your mouth please?” Spy saw that it was useless to refuse, so he sheepishly opened his mouth.

Blood and teeth poured out like a running facet and gradually weakened to a dribble. Based on the footage, it looked like he lost his full set of adult teeth. “Oh Spy, sweetheart! Are you okay?!” “Et dowsen mattaw! Sniwpew’s dyinm..” He snapped at the doctor, who realized that he might as well go back to working on the more damaged teammate.

Fast forwarding a bit, there was a before and after showing that Spy was able to get fake teeth put in without it going wrong. They weren’t made to look exactly like the originals though, so he lacked the buck teeth that Scout must have inherited.

There was also footage from the BLU MedBay of Medic waking him up after giving him the fakes. “Sniper’s dead?” He asked. The Medic lowered his head sadly. “I’m sorry. It was like Mr Soldier’s case, the hearts and spine should have been usable… but..”

“Why do they make you do ze surgeries all alone? That was awful, they should have had someone to focus on ze spine and someone to focus on ze hearts. I mean, did they make you fix me, on top of Sniper? When he hadn’t been dead long?”

“I do not know. Ms Administrator only gave me clearance. I do sometimes wish for the help. It feels like there must be someone better suited for saving these patients.” There was a pause. “You fixed my teeth. I do not know how.. impressive that feels, but you are not a teeth doctor.”

“That’s true. I do not think it’s enough to try organ donors if there’s other respawn failures to come, but I think that might help. I couldn’t get your real teeth to stay, but these artificial ones worked. It may be that something leeches into the patient’s body during a respawn failure. If that is the case…”

The BLU Medic removed the tape. “I didn’t recognize your team’s Spy as the same person.” He looked pretty sorrowful. “But he grew up, and he looked so different…. I guess I look different too.” Engineer knew what was coming. They were gonna have to tell BLU team why their Spy was 25 years younger. And that meant Scout had to know too.

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Everyone had been afraid to tell Jeremy that younger Spy was his missing old man, except Soldier and Pyro because they didn’t know. They looked like they were bracing for him to bite their heads off for it. That was so crazy to him. Yeah, he’d been mad at Spy in the plane but… did they really think he’d get mad like that at anybody?

“You guys know I’m not gonna freak the hell out on ya… You know that right?” He hoped they did. “Scout.” Heavy started. “It is not that ve thought you would be as angry as vhen we took the ride to base. But you ve’re just hurt deeply by vhat Spy hid from you, and ve knew that it would hurt more even from coworkers.”

“We.. we weren’t familiar with younger Spy. He had never told us why he left yer mother, so…” Engineer paused. “Fer all we knew, you’d confront him about it and he’d say somethin terrible.”

“We might not have know yer pa that well,” Sniper added, “But we knew he regretted leaving by the time we met him. The thing was, if you heard him as a young snot saying you or yer mum weren’t worth his time, or something to that effect…. An apology from his older self would feel hollow.”

“We could all tell that Spy wanted to reconcile before he disappeared… And… And we wanted to bring him back without you being worried he’d never be put right. We didn’t want you and younger Spy to be at odds either..” It was so weird hearing Medic sound sorry for something.

“So he… he really didn’t tell anybody about Malum. Do ya think he was still afraid of Admin? Is that why he always called her ‘the voice’?” Scout asked. He hoped Spy didn’t live in fear of her for 25 whole years.

“I think… that the Malum/Admin tragedy made him less open to new people. We don’t know who his Frigidus teammates were or if they helped him with his grief. But he has never been as open with us as he seemed to be with his original team.”

“Less open than that since…” Heavy glanced at Scout and stopped. “Ve have made grave errors before vith Spy. Heavy in particular… pulled a bad camera prank. That is vhy Spy keeps his rooms so hidden, even from us.”

“Well um…” It was hard for Jeremy to speak, his voice felt tight. They were standing around Spy’s hospital bed in BLU Base. He was asleep, but it didn’t look that peaceful. Had to have the big bandage over his chest visible too, and all those wires and tubes… “Would you guys be okay with me staying with him all night? I know more than one of us is supposed to be allowed but..”

”It’s okay, Scout. He’s your dad.” Sniper said. “It’d be hard for us not to argue about who gets the other chair anyway. We might pop in to check on y’all later, but mosta the time we’ll be in the BLU rec room.” Engie sounded like he was trying to cheer him up. It didn’t really work, but that was okay.

It was gonna be a long night.

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Spy looked like an angel who got his wings stolen and then fell. He was paler than Scout thought possible for someone with such reddish skin. His hair was long enough that Jeremy kept having to brush it out of his eyes. He didn’t have to… but it felt right.

He knew Spy would live.. But the others said the curse could only be lifted if they showed Spy his life in order. Ma might know where to send them, but he couldn’t promise it. They were gonna have to tell Spy that Admin had died and who Pauling was. They were gonna have to try to convince him to take them to his house and see what he had to jog his memory. And that was assuming he hadn’t moved house since then.

What if Spy never got his memory back? Would it be worse for him to know he and Jeremy had been fighting? That he was angry with him, but not be able to remember why? How would he feel about having a grown son whose life he missed? There was a tight lump in the back of Scout’s throat. He could see why the others didn’t want him knowing before.

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Somehow, Jeremy fell asleep in his chair. He wasn’t sure why. He found himself in one of the smoking rooms with younger Spy. He was dressed different. Still maskless, but wearing his older self’s black suit and scarf from Halloween. They didn’t usually spend Halloween at Bread base.

Spy turned to face him and was holding a familiar metal bucket.

“Scout, can I ask you to do something for me?” Oh no. The bread thing. He’d forgotten all about it! Jeremy tried to say no but his body was moving on autopilot. He was gonna do it again, whether he wanted to or not. “I’d like you to ask everyone for their dying wishes. Some of them might not want to come, like Engineer, but… have everyone else come to the poker table.”

Suddenly they were all there, except Medic and Engineer off fixing the death issue. Scout knew what he was about to do. He knew the prank was gonna be awful, especially since it was younger Spy. But no matter how hard he tried to kick and scream, and reach over to throw the bucket away, he couldn’t move from the chair or undo the smug look on his face.

“This is a bucket. It contains everyone’s dying wish.. everyone at this table anyway. Please set your watches together. We only have 70 hours left to live. But we’re mercenaries, and we’re a team. If anyone has a chance to fulfill all 7 wishes, it’s us. Let’s begin.”

This was his last wish, wasn’t it? To be with his Fortress teammates before they died and he went to reconnect with Malum. Maybe he wanted to be buried with Malum so his ghost could find them. But if he didn’t see the team at Fortress again, and if Scout was buried somewhere far away by Ma…

“First is desert Scout.” Spy looked at him, nodded and grinned like he was toasting at a party. The worst part was that older Spy did the same thing. This time he didn’t even ask if Jeremy really got the wishes. Younger Spy trusted him enough not to.

“He’s..” The smile faded as Spy stared at the card. He looked up at Scout, like a puppy that just got shot with a BB gun and hasn’t figured out it’s a betrayal by the owner. Jeremy wanted to scream, wanted to say “I’M SORRY!”, but he couldn’t. He could only watch.

“Drawn a picture of me getting hit my a car.” Nobody said anything. Scout couldn’t turn to look at them, but he hoped they were staring at him in disapproval. “There’s.. lines coming off me?” Of course he didn’t know what it was, he wasn’t a comic reader or American. Maybe older Spy was the same, he just didn’t know what the stink lines were.

“Yeah, those are stink lines! That’s why the car hit ‘em, cause he smells!” This time at least, Jeremy could look where he wanted to, which was at Spy. He looked disappointed and embarrassed. “I…” Spy sighed in frustration and picked up the next card. “Ze next card is-“ This time he didn’t say what Scout had drawn. But he remembered. It was disgusting.

Spy’s eyes slowly rose from the card to Scout, looking cold, disgusted, and disappointed with him. He stared through him like that for what felt like a full minute. Spy flipped through the cards without saying anything. Then he slammed his hand down, hesitating with his eyes on the cards pinned under his fingers.

“Did he even ask you guys for your last wishes?” Nobody said anything, apart from Scout’s laughter that he hated. Spy started looking from person to person, waiting for an answer. Scout looked back at them and they weren’t helping Spy at all. They still wouldn’t even say anything to him.

Jeremy had forgotten that nobody answered Spy. He knew he was the worst, obviously but… Why hadn’t anyone called him out? Why didn’t they say “No, sorry.” Or anything like that when Spy asked them? He hadn’t paid any attention to that the first time. He knew Engie wasn’t there, but Heavy was. And it wasn’t like Demoman and Sniper always agreed with him either. He could understand Pyro and Soldier staying silent, but not the others.

Turning back to look at Spy, Jeremy saw that he was surrounded by the ghosts of team Malum, all of them mangled. A Medic whose head was twisted backwards, a Soldier who was still on fire, a Heavy who had an injury like Spy’s, a Sniper who was bent in an odd way because of his spine.. A Pyro and Engineer who were conjoined at the head, a Scout cut in half, and a Demowoman who was barely held together chunks.

They never got the chance to get together and do everyone’s last wish. The ones who wanted to retire never got to. The Soldier didn’t get to meet Spy’s family. All Spy wanted was to make sure that didn’t happen again with Fortress.

But… the team’s silence showed that they weren’t really interested. And there was something worse about going and sitting down for the speech, for the song and dance and just staring. Showing that you feel indifferent to a guy’s face by giving them hope that you care first. They should have just sent Scout to say they weren’t interested.

“Then this has been a waste of my time.” Spy didn’t bother to grab the cards as his hand slid off the table. He looked offended, hurt, and angry. “Forget it. Just forget it.” He almost started to cry but opted to leave instead. But as he left, a gash formed in his chest and blood dribbled from his mouth.

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RED Team could hear Scout weeping again. But this time they were at BLU Base, so whether he would get embarrassed or not, they needed to go check up on him. It seemed the BLU teammates also debated whether or not to go in and check, because there were many of them standing at the doors to the MedBay, pacing and looking worried.

When they went in, he was slumped over Spy’s sleeping chest, arms out and trying not to bump the important wires. The fact that they could hear the weeping when he was face down was a testament to how loud it was.

Engineer made his way over first, laying a hand on his chest as it shuddered with sobs. “Scout? Is everything okay?” “No! Nothing is-“ He was having trouble speaking, understandably.

“Well, what’s worrying you the most, lad? Might help to tell us.” Jeremy shrank closer to Spy. “Me.” They didn’t know what to say to that. It wasn’t enough information to reassure him. “Yourself? Is it because we didn’t tell you-“

“The bread thing.” Several eyes widened. They knew exactly what he did to Spy with the last wishes. Heavy knew he’d eventually remember, but he’d been hoping it would be a day or two. Hoping he’d have time to process some of the rest. He should have thought before nearly bringing it up.

“A lot of us were bad about the bread thing.” Sniper said. “But you remember how you apologized, and Spy helped you with your date?” Scout looked up at him, confused. “For what it’s worth, I don’t think Spy would have helped if he hadn’t forgiven you.” Demoman gave him a look.

“I guess, but… I was awful about the hanging n the.. n the Tom Jones thing…” Heavy came over and moved Scout back into a chair. It would help to get him sitting upright, get the oxygen flowing. “Well, the good new is that Spy will wake up in a few days, and y’all can start to talk about it. It’s gonna take time to get his memories back, but that doesn’t mean we won’t try.”

“Don’t be discouraged. It is not over yet.” Heavy said.

They stayed together in the Rec Room after that. Scout was worryingly upset with himself, and they hoped that talking with Spy once he was fixed would help.

[kebriones]

Hi!! I know we haven’t interacted, but I’ve seen a lot of your Alcibiades posts - and I’ve gotta say, I’m very intrigued!! I’ve tried googling around a bit to see what the main sources he’s featured in are, but I’ve sort of pulled blank multiple times. Is there any book/essay/anything you’d recommend starting with? [[and I love your art btw - you’re so talented, and your effort really shows!! :) ]]

WELL WELL WELL you've come to the right place! First of all, I am so glad that my posts about him made you intrigued! Alcibiades propaganda is the purpose of my life. Anyways.

Here's an earlier post I've made on the topic, with links: https://kebriones.tumblr.com/post/729395530643472384

But I'll elaborate a bit here as well because i have time to kill until i have to go catch my ship to athens!

The "Life of Alcibiades" by Plutarch, available in English online, is a roman-era biography of him. Definitely a good starting point. Many of the anecdotes inside are to be taken with a grain of salt since this was written a few centuries after Alcibiades' death, but it paints a very complete image of his life

Thucydides. Alcibiades features at the final part of his work, and I don't recommend you go read Thucydides unless you're obsession levels of interested in Alcibiades. But he is our most objective and most reliable source on Alcibiades. He had known him and had lived through the events he writes about.

Plato is another very important source, though more literary rather than purely historical. He also personally knew Alcibiades, and Alcibiades features in multiple of his dialogues including most importantly the symposium and the first Alcibiades

These are the three Main sources on him, but there are many others like Xenophon, some orations and writings from others, contemporaries, or people from a few years after his death, or roman-era authors.

In the post I have linked there's a link to Jacqueline deromilly's book on Alcibiades, which is my favorite modern biography of him, though I've heard very good things about other biographies too, which I haven't personally read yet and can't comment on

I recommend staying away from other modern sources like podcasts, youtube videos and articles about him. There's a lot of misunderstandings and misconceptions about Alcibiades that keep getting propagated, so i definitely recommend starting with the ancient sources like Plutarch and plato, and with that basis moving onwards if you want.

There's a lot of mentions of him here and there in all sorts of ancient texts, just the other day I came across an anecdote i had never seen before in my 2 years of obsessively researching him, so it's definitely a very fun and rich rabbit hole to go down into!

[tenabrye]

Okay so.. how would it be like, being married to (Stampede) Wolfwood 🫶

Side note- I’m in love with your blog 🤧❤️❤️

I'm so glad you enjoy the writing. It makes me happy to hear that. :D

Being married to Wolfwood isn't the easiest thing in the world, considering that you know his profession, but it's exciting and you love it. Aside from all of the gunfights he'll oftentimes get into--which are mostly caused by you-know-who--life is sweet. He's sweet. He loves starting sentences with, "My wife/husband and I," and he always gets a cute little grin on his face. He also enjoys letting everyone see the ring that's on his finger and makes it his job that they at least notice it.

He's more protective of you and is a force to be reckoned with if someone, anyone, even dares to harm his spouse in any way, shape, or form. Even if you can fight, he's still throwing down for you. That's just how it is. Also loves saying, "That's my wife/husband," any and every single time you're fighting someone, which usually happens in a bar. He will also be more of a shield to you, putting his body between you and anyone he feels is the tiniest bit of a threat, or if they are.

Always puts you first no matter what. He did this prior to getting married, but he does it a lot more now. You're his spouse, the love of his life, and you're definitely a lot more important than some of the jobs he has to do. That being said, his intentions are always laid out bare for you, and he always wants your opinion on each and every little thing he can't make his mind up about.

The man becomes more of an open book to you. You know all of his secrets, and I do mean all of them. He has no reason to hide anything from you. Well, unless he knows it might hurt you. If that's the case, he may dance around the topic with you in such a discreet manner that allows him to know how to tell you. If you thought he hated seeing you hurt or in any sort of pain before, now that you're both married to one another, it's as though it doubled.

He's more of a show off when it comes to fighting, but then again, he was also a bit of one before marriage. It tripled after he put a ring on it. Not that you mind, right? Any chance he gets to show off to you, he takes it, even if it does make him look like an idiot. He doesn't care, though. The man just wants to see your eyes on him with a smile on your face.

He's a lot softer with you now. Not that he wasn't before, but he's a lot more open to letting you see his bad days more than anyone else. This includes him crying. He normally doesn't like you seeing him in such a way, but it can't be helped. He's very appreciative of your support and the way you've stood by him for so long, and how you've promised to continue doing so. Til death do you part.

He hates that the one downside of marriage is how much of a target you have on your back. It was easier before when it was just him and how his enemies would only be out to harm him. But now that you've been thrown into the mix? He doesn't like it. He absolutely hates it. It's not that he doesn't want to protect you--believe me he loves keeping you safe--it's that he just doesn't want you watching what he does to the people that come close to touching you. It's not pretty, I can tell you that.

The absolute best thing about married life for him is that he feels a bit of normalcy in his life. It hadn't felt this way until you entered it and eventually sealed the deal by saying yes to marrying him. He often thinks back to the day he proposed and it warms his heart. You've made him become a little bit more of a sap with certain things, but he wouldn't have it any other way. You've changed this man in a lot of ways, for the better, and he loves it. He loves it and he loves you.

[thylacines-toybox]

i love love love love the chimera character in your icon!! did you make them? if you did, do youve detail pics and/or wip pictures? i really want to make / modify a sensory plush for myself so i love the addition of things like the teether tail and would love to see all the little beastie's features and learn more about them if youre ok with sharing!! and in general, do you ever post WIPs or tips abt sewing?? thanks for your time and sharing your amazing work with us!

First off, yes I do have a few bits and pieces of sewing advice in my plushie advice tag! There could always be more, though…

I’m glad you enjoy my chimera, I love him too! He was such fun to make and come up with all the babyish details for, and I’m very proud of him.

I don’t really have wip pics of the chimera (since I was kind of in The Zone making him) but I can take you on a, uh, short tour of his features, that sounds fun!

The baby boy himself… lots of pictures and words under the cut!

Here are the first doodles of him as I came up with his design! I was trying to make a cute lion/lamb (the meanings of the two parts of my irl name!) which is basically a chimera already, and the combination of primary colours, rainbows, and a cloud-like wool mane made the weather theme just happen.

Obviously I just had to sew this! He already looked just like a colourful baby toy.

Here is his lovely little face. I took style inspiration from a lion toy I had already, and to keep him accurate to a baby-toy style, I used embroidery stitches to make his face rather than any “choking hazards” like plastic eyes. I’ve not really used embroidery before so it was pretty hard to do neatly!

He’s also got ribbon loops for whiskers (or are they sun rays?) and you can also see a bit of star-textured minky fabric on his face and ears. Fun textures are important!

His mane is made with a super soft and fluffy fur fabric. Maybe not strictly “baby safe” since it can slightly shed fibres, but it’s very nice, and I’m not exactly a real baby lol. His horns have a nice ridged texture, you’ll see what those were made from in a moment…

Oh, I also added a banana scent chip from Build-a-Bear into his little head, because I love that smell. He’s a multi-sensory plush alright.

His front paws have some noises in them! In the red one is a squeaker, and the blue one is a rattle. You can buy these especially for putting in toys, but the rattle I used in him was actually just a little plastic capsule with a few beads inside like pictured!

All four paws have a bumpy rubbery texture on them. Rather appropriately, they are made from actual baby socks! I found a multipack of different colours that matched my planned colours perfectly by sheer luck.

The ridged horn material came from the top of the red sock!

Here is the tummy, also made with a star textured fabric. It has a cylindrical chime inside which makes a lovely musical jingling sound when he’s tipped around.

While bean filling probably isn’t baby safe either, I did put a beanbag in his bottom because I like a bit of weight and it helps him sit nice.

The wings have matching dimple textured minky on one side and smooth minky on the other. I feel like dimple minky is a must if you want to make a babyish toy!

Inside the wings are some pieces of (clean) cereal packet to give them a light crinkle sound. You can buy crinkly material especially for this too, which can be a lot noisier! He’s actually very quiet as crinkly toys go, but I’m okay with this.

He’s got some little raindrop patches made from dotty cotton, with more embroidered edges which I recall having a lot of difficulty with… looks good though! As well as textures, you gotta include some fun visual patterns in a baby toy too.

And finally, the tail! A thick rainbow ribbon holding a cloud shaped teether - another lucky find in a baby shop! It came attached to a squeaky sun and crinkly rainbow, currently held by another toy.

Originally I’d simply stitched the end of the ribbon in place around the teether, but then I got some plastic snaps (for making bandanas with!) and found they gave it a much nicer finish.

And that’s about it! Hope you enjoyed getting to know the little chimera and his features!

[neverniko101]

Captured- Short fanfic thingy

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The cold didn’t usually bother him, but something was different. Perhaps it was the damp, bleak stone walls that made up the dungeons, the thick iron bars coated with frost, the thick blanket of negativity that seemed woven into the very fabric of the AU…or the knowledge that no one was coming to save him.

Ink and Blue had taken one of the rare moments of peace in the multiverse to throw something called a “slumber party”, dragging the Swap bros’ ungodly amount of party supplies from their attic.

“Ink, you’re on decorating duty!” Blue had said, the tiny artist jumping into an exaggerated salute. “I’ll go pick up some snacks, and Dream…just get some rest, okay?” The Positivity guardian had blinked, startled at his friend’s request. “You’ve been working non-stop for the past week and a half! We can both tell you’re low on magic, no matter how much you try to hide it. Just-” Blue gently took hold of his shoulder, “just take care of yourself, okay? For us.”

But Dream, foolish as he was, had slipped away from the house while Ink wasn’t looking. He sensed a twinge of negative somewhere deep in the multiverse, portaling to said AU to take care of it. He would be back before they missed him! He just needed to help this one last person, he thought, striding confidently through the snow-- right into Nightmare’s trap.

And now, here Dream was, sitting in the freezing castle dungeon. His friends must have noticed he was gone by now…how long had it been? Hours? Days? Weeks? He couldn’t tell. His positivity levels had dropped to the point he was feeling physical effects, his bones shivering with fatigue and his insides rumbling at an embarrassing volume. Not that there was anyone around, though; his brother’s gang only came by for a few minutes, one at a time. Checking he was still there. He supposed it was also Nightmare’s way of giving him little scraps of emotion, just enough so he didn’t starve. No, that would be too boring a death, he thought bitterly. His brother would never let that happen.

He tilted his head back, leaning it against the unyielding wall. He should have at least told someone where he was going…his friends would have to search the entire multiverse before they found him. What was he going to do…?

Dream must have fallen asleep, because he woke up. Not in a pleasant way either- Nightmare’s aura had wreathed itself around his throat, choking him until his eyes were forced open. He now sat, leaning forward, glaring at his brother as he tried to regain his breath. That, and as he tried to not panic. Nightmare had brought his entire gang with him…whatever he was going to do, Dream had no doubt it would involve large amounts of pain and possibly some bloodshed on his end.

“Had a nice nap?” Nightmare cooed, tentacles curling in threatening contrast with his sickly-sweet tone. “I’m glad you find your living quarters so comfortable…”

The Positive Guardian was distracted by the presence of the others behind him. Four, not including his brother…their emotions weren’t positive by a long stretch, but at his current state, any emotions were better than none. What had been so important that his brother had risked Dream gaining power?

Nightmare seemed to realize this, too, as his expression and voice grew more serious. “Let’s get straight to business. We have good news and bad news for you, dear brother. I’ll start with the good news because you cherish your positivity so dearly…we’re letting you go.”

Dream blinked, unsure if he heard correctly. “What?”

“Wonderful, right? The power of mercy and friendship and all that…shit…”

The caged skeleton narrowed his eye sockets in suspicion. “And what’s the bad news?”

“Ah! The best part: you’re going to be working for me, now.”

Now Dream was really sure he was hearing things. He was so startled that he actually laughed. “You…you have to be joking?”

“Oh, but I’m not! Who better to help us plunge the multiverse into eternal darkness than the Light himself?”

Dream sputtered in disbelief. “But- I’d never-“

Tentacles ripped through solid metal like it was nothing but paper as Nightmare tore through them to seize his brother. Slimy appendages wrapped around Dream’s legs, arms, chest, body, and throat, filling his entire being with shivering cold. The dark twin dragged his brother inches from his own face, twisted smile replaced with a gaping maw.

“I have bent countless souls to my will, are you so arrogant to assume you’ll be different?” he hissed. Dream could do nothing but tremble with fear.

The Guardian was dropped on the floor unceremoniously, still shivering with a cold that pierced his very soul.

“Dust. I trust you to see to our guest,” Nightmare growled. “Make sure he doesn’t die and is in working shape to begin…training tomorrow. Other than that, do with him what you like.”

The tall skeleton nodded, seizing Dream with blue magic and dragging him down the hall as golden tears poured down the guardian’s face.

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Yay I wrote my first fan fiction

Is this any good

Ink by Comyet

Dreamtale twins by Joku

Blue by…the undertale community, I think? Idk

Dust by Ask murder sans

I have to go implode now, adios

[moophinz]

I’ve made a post on this already, but after acquiring heaps and reams of knowledge, I’ve decided to go at it again.

(From Mine’s TV Tropes page.)

I cannot stop anyone from wanting to view Mine as bi, and my intentions don’t lie there. But instead, I wanted to bring up that it hardly seems like the intentions of the devs and especially Yokoyama. Mine is a pretty big deal in being a heavily implied gay character regardless of having been a villain, partly due to how he’s just as masculine as his peers and his love for another man is a core part of his characterization where sympathy comes into play. On top of that, they do not shy away from heavy handed hints in his total lack of interest in women romantically and sexually.

Yokoyama is not only a non stranger to commentary on how much he loves Mine, but he’s also made remarks that imply he finds it funny that women are attracted to him though they can’t have him.

RGGO is particularly revealing about this thanks to how much room it gives to focus on character elements they couldn’t do in the actual games.

—A beach event in Okinawa has Kanda wanting to throw a party and see who between them can invite the most women. Mine is less than uninterested, but still winds up getting a few women interested in him. He can’t seem to outright reject them, but gives them very bland answers.

—This is a big trend in other Mine centric stories. Upon being asked by a woman if he’s by himself, he gives a slightly roundabout answer instead of outright saying anything more direct. He agrees to do something with her despite his ongoing lack of enthusiasm.

—As told, he’s gone on dates with women thanks to being unable to turn them down (he’s interestingly kind enough to women even though there’s some popular jokes about him being a misogynistic gay man). But if he sees a woman once, doesn’t really see them again. All in all, this is incredibly different from many other yakuza men who adore women as they slot into the three important status symbols: power, money, and women. All things that Mine brings up at the end of 3 as stuff that wasn’t really giving him any meaning or purpose in life. His line about having any woman he could want goes largely misunderstood. Especially after he ends that line with saying living life that way was a lie.

Comparing an outright love confession to Mine being thankful to have had Katase around feels almost laughable. On one hand, I’m at least glad the person who wrote this acknowledges the romantic feelings with Daigo, but on the other hand… “heavily implied?” With Katase? No… Not every meaningful statement or even so much as breathing the same air as one another between a man and woman is grounds for love.

Genuinely, it feels like they’ve done nearly everything but outright use any direct wording for his sexuality. He’s the only character they’ve gone this far with. Others get more vagueness or subtlety.

(From Majima’s)

(From Zhao’s)

I’ve talked to @04tenno quite a bit about this. And as usual, they’re the reason I know quite a bit, too.

Majima’s section is bizarre to me for immediately throwing out there that he’s a huge ladies’ man. (This was listed elsewhere in his section). Which is just… hilarious. Sure, plenty of irl female fans adore him, but in universe, he’s nothing of the sort and often interacts with women by using a more friendly tone of voice (probably to seem less intimidating) along with other behavioral changes. I also take up issue regarding the way the person who wrote this seems to completely downplay Majima and Kiryu’s relationship to the first game. But that’s a whole other conversation…

Zhao’s section feels incredibly different compared to the other two due to how the person writing it seems to completely lean into the potential signifiers and stereotypes surrounding him and includes other instances beyond that. There’s nothing about him being in a hostess club automatically meaning he’s attracted to women. As such, even a lot of dudebros seem to openly view Zhao as not being bisexual, but instead, straight up gay. This seems to be due to the fact that Zhao is never shown playing into the typical mainstream macho type stuff as opposed to Mine.

I didn’t take a screenshot, but Daigo even gets the assumed-to-be-into-women-because-he-was-next-to-one-treatment. While he went to hostess clubs, he looks so extremely despondent and out of the moment when we see him there. I can’t find it in me to assume he’s attracted to women just because he went to those types of clubs. His sexuality is totally up for debate as several others are as well. And we can all see him however we want. But, overall, immediately assuming things for such and such reasons starts to feel a little off to me. All in all, Mine gets this treatment the worse thanks to his sexuality actually being a big factor in his character.