#im not like. a lawyer. but in the sense that it's office work and not trades or physical labour

[soldier-poet-king]

Actually the whole work thing would be infinitely less stressful if I actually knew how to navigate the white collar world and was not from a working class background and I have no idea how anything works because we were poor! No one in my family has done shit like this!

[paperphobe]

Im tired of the debate about criminal minds and it’s lack of consistency, I’m making the official decision that Aaron Hotchner was born in 1965! 

I just spent a freakish amount of time crafting up a general timeline of his (very crowded) career and life in general based on his birth year being 1965 and I think it works. 

Apologies for any inaccuracies in advance, I know nothing about any of these jobs or the American education system, and I haven’t slept in almost two days so this could very likely be absolute nonsense. 

The most recent birthday shown in the show for Hotch is November 2, 1965. Because of this, and the fact that it logically makes more sense (I will explain later). 

Hotch was born on November 2, 1965 in Virginia.

This means that Hotch would have started kindergarten, in 1971 because of his late birthday. This also makes sense with Haley’s age reportedly being a year younger when the show had him born in 1971 and her in 1972 according to the wiki. Not sure when/if this is mentioned in the show and I cannot bring myself to look for it.

From the very confusing sources i found online, from the start of school to high school graduation in Virginia is 13 years. Kindergarten then grades 1 through 12, totalling 13 years of schooling. 

This means he graduates high-school in 1984. This is consistent with Emily having been born in 1970 and graduating high-school in 1989. 

Let’s say he did a three year undergrad as most undergraduate programs are 3-4 years long. He graduates in 1987, writes his LSATs then attends Law school. 

Law school takes another three years which brings us to 1990. 

I don’t think that internships or apprenticeships are required but to be safe let’s just say he started working as an intern of sorts at some point during his last year of law school. 

We know hotch is highly intelligent, has a lawyer father and it’s implied he comes from money. So it would take no significant time for him to find himself a good position and begin working as a prosecutor very quickly. 

Let’s say he worked as a prosecutor for 4 years before he decided it wasn’t enough and he wanted to catch killers instead. 

He was a sharpshooter for SWAT at some point according to some notes on his character, and a mention in season one. He clearly is a VERY good shot as seen in  4x5 and 9x3 so I’ll say he spent about a year doing that before he made his way to the Seattle field office in 1995.

He was the case agent for the Womb Raider case in 1997 and that is when he met Rossi. 

Rossi had been retired approximately 10 years before making his return in 2007, and Hotch and Rossi are implied to have worked in the same BAU office. Let’s say Hotch transferred to the Quantico Office sometime soon after that case, worked with Rossi until about 1998, leaving Gideon in charge. 

That means that in season one (2005) Hotch had approximately 7 years in the Quantico BAU, 10 years in the BAU total, add his time in SWAT and that is about 11 years total in the field. 

Plus his 4 years or so as a prosecutor and he has 15 years (approx) in a law related field. 

Though it’s never specified when Hotch became the unit chief he is referred to as such in the first season. So I think the most logical and most common theory is that Gideon stepped down after the bombing (occurred in 2005 according to the wiki) and Hotch took on the role as, besides Gideon, he has the most experience as a profiler. I don’t know exactly how long it would realistically take one to become a unit chief, but this explains why Hotch would hold the position regardless of his age or years in the bureau. Plus the BAU was still relatively “new” compared to other units, so Hotch would likely be first choice to lead regardless, given his experience. 

Hotch being born in 1965 would make him 40 years old in the first season.

Nameless, Faceless says he is 43 on his patient chart, the patient chart was shown after he was identified. Nameless, faceless takes place in 2009, and we can safely assume that this is before his birthday because Haley is killed November 25th of that same year, many episodes later but not even a month after Hotch has his 44th birthday. 

There are a couple small issues plot wise with him being born in 1965. Primarily with the way his relationships with Sean and Haley are described. 

Haley and Hotch were highschool sweethearts, they met in junior year and there has never been any indication that they have been separated for any reason since. Theories about a break in college, or while Hotch was in Seattle have no canon evidence behind them and are just theories. The idea that Kate Joyner and Hotch hooked up (“liaised”) is also not confirmed and results purely from jokes made by the BAU team and the fact that Haley and Kate look alike so we should just discard any separation theories. 

The divorce papers say they were married in 2000 and then divorced 8 years later in 2008. Which means they would have dated for about 16/17 years before getting married and 5 years later having a child. Though to most this is probably a bit unconventional considering both Hotch and Haley seemed to want a very typical nuclear family, white picket fence, kids, stay at home mom, yada yada type of situation. But the idea that they didn’t want to get engaged right during Aarons undergrad/law school isn’t far fetched, they might have gotten engaged during his 4 year period as a prosecutor, but delayed the wedding because he was in Seattle and maybe she wasn’t. I find this and the career timeline more probable than Hotch being younger, with a crunched career timeline and 10/11 years before he married Haley.

As Haley would have been 40 when Jack was born, it’s very realistic to say they could have wanted to try for a baby any time after the marriage and it might have just taken longer because of her age. 

Now the Sean plot hole is not explainable. Sean is about 25 in the first season, we don’t know his birth year but a year difference in this math won’t change the outcome. We know Hotch is 40 in season one. This means Sean is 15 years younger than Hotch. Yet in Brothers Hotchner, Aaron claims he was sent off to boarding school when Sean was in the 1st (I think) grade. Which is not possible with a 15 year age gap. 

I could be somewhat more possible if Hotch was born in 1971, as it would mean Sean was born in 1980 and would be 10 years old when Hotch graduates high school in 1990 so the boarding school stuff would make a lot more sense here. But this is really the only thing that birth-year makes accurate. So we can probably just write this off as another criminal minds inconsistency that has to be ignored instead of explained. 

This took me multiple hours of surface level research so it certainly could be wrong, it’s just what I’m assuming based of the most probable and most canon things. Also the fact that him being born in 1971 makes him YOUNGER than Emily, and I’m not sure if it’s explicitly said he is older than her or not, but it’s heavily implied. Also 1965 makes him a lot closer to Thomas Gibsons age, and since Hotchs age isn’t really relevant to anything in the actual show itself they probably just gave him a generic “he’s around TG’s age” typa thing until they had to give him a birth year. Which they also didn’t really care about enough to keep consistent. 

Once again, really basic google searches and my overtired brains recollection of details in the show are what provided me with the information used in this. So corrections are welcomed. 

I assumed that Virginia schools start kids in school based on if they were born before or after September as I think many American schools tend to do that. It also made sense with Haley’s birth year so I let myself go with that assumption. That’s not how schools and ages work where I live so I hope I did that correctly. I also saw that there was only a year of kindergarten and then grades 1-12 (also not how it’s done where I live) so that could be all wrong. Or he could have gone to some fancy school and started or finished early. Who knows, who cares. It’s too hard to think about. 

Also assumed that he didn’t need an internship or placement post law school. 

Here is a non-detailed version:

Born: November 2, 1965

Started school: 1971

Schooling (13yrs): 1971-1984

3 year undergrad: 1984-1987

Law school (3yrs): 1987-1990 

Prosecutor: 1990-1994

Swat sharpshooter: 1994-1995

Seattle: 1995 - 1997/8

Quantico BAU: 1997/8 - 2005

Unit chief BAU: 2005 and we know what happens after that 

[scariercnidaria]

another kerapin modern au where lapin is a medieval history professor at a uni and keradin is a financial lawyer who took one of his classes because he was interested in the crusades and he needed a history credit 8 years ago. he ended up dropping the class after a semester and a half at his therapist (pastor) (who just so happened to be a friend of the police officer assigned to the case) polite "suggestion" (restraining order threat), after developing a bit of a psychosexual obsession with lapin and doing a little trolling (targetted harrassment/stalking). in the interim keradin got another therapist (real one) (court mandated) and is on mood stabilisers now but still has not stopped seething about professor cadburys evil woke cultural marxist agenda.

lapin in this scenario is living with amethar in theos Eternal Bachelor Pad. he was living with amethar and caramellina (with reduced rent in exchange for tutoring jet and ruby who are probably like 14 in this scenario [so sorry for de aging them all a little bit i know im committing old men yaoi crimes it just makes slightly more sense this way. itd still be like. lapin 56+, keradin 31, amethar 44, theo ~46, caramellina 49]) until The Divorce (over finanicial disputes - amethars business is crumbling and is bringing caramellindas down with it as she just cant keep funnelling profits from her business into amethars in order to keep it afloat any longer; amethars purported unfaithfulness is not really an issue here because um This is just politics).

theo is trying to find an excuse to kick lapin out without making amethar feel worse about the situation but the only thing he has on him is that hes a bitch and smokes weed outside the laundry room sometimes but its been legalised and anyway lapin is never late on rent cause he has like 700 jobs (on top of being a history professor, lapin also has a side hustle leading bdsm/consent workshops at the library and also moonlights as a professional dom at a local sex club) (he also is still tutoring jet and ruby (for money this time) and has a positive relationship with caramellinda (they bitch about amethar) but she wont let him move back in because she "needs space"). theo thinks they have a weird gay thing going on (and hates it) and lapin is aware that theo thinks this and plays into it (because its funny) (and also hates it)

meanwhile in the keradinosphere, he has been consistently working ~60 hour weeks at his one (1) job at the same law firm for the last 5 years with no (0) promotion. his life is literally: work (10 hours), gym (2 hours), commute (2 hours each way), doomscroll on The App (5 hours), sleep (3 hours) every day forever.

on saturdays he works from home and on sundays he has church and then spends 3 hours sitting on a bench at the park "chilling out" (staring into the distance) (he doesnt own any books) before going to his court mandated weekly therapy session. his apartment is a textbook r/malelivingspace populated with an absolutely obscene collection of anime posters, lifting equipment, nerd shit replica medieval weapons or something and also an ever-rotating cast of Windowsill Plants Of The Month because he cant stop accidentally killing them and bursting into tears. his therapist tells him this is progress and that his drywall & security deposit will thank him

at some point some disaster hits keradin or something and they make him take sometime off work, and strangely without spending 10 hours under high stress bullshit every day + some melatonin he is actually for once in his life able to get more than 3 hours of sleep per night. at the same time, keradins The App experience starts being psy-op'ed by a memepage called xXsugarPlvmF4IRY_ who has infiltrated his niche internet tradbulb /fit/ microculture and begun flooding it with """ironic""" grecian gay sex "RETVRN" propaganda. this is a big hit as far as engagement among terminally online perpetually enraged historypilled incel-adjacent men such as keradin, and 6 hours of seething at ancient femboys combined with 8 hours of sleep and his brain unshrivelling somewhat results in him starting to have Gay Sex Dreams, which metastatises into him having Regular Gay Thoughts in the conscious world. he is too mortified to tell his pastor (because it is a liberal church and hes worried hell be supported) so he tells his therapist instead in hopes that they will recommend conversion therapy.

spoiler alert they dont. they encourage him to test the waters at his own pace by passing him a flyer for a consent workshop at the library later in the week in hopes that it will help him Get Comfortable With Sex As A Concept. keradin shoves the flyer in his sock drawer hoping to ignore it but is so haunted that he stays up all night doing some inspired googling and eventually learns about bdsm and is like woah! just like bulbo from my self-flagellation! he tries his best to resist the urge but he cant stop thinking about it and hes found he quite likes getting 8 hours of sleep and this New Stress is compromising that. eventually he looks up the number for a local sex club and books an hour and a half-- the following day, so he doesnt have time to chicken out-- with "father candi" (priest roleplay) ($120 out of pocket) (he tries not to think about having to face his actual pastor after this).

keradin goes there and surprise surprise its lapin.

keradin thinks he seems a little bit familiar but he cant quite put his finger on from where... so he discards the thought, and lapin straight up doesnt recognise him either so it all goes ahead.

lapin asks about boundaries and keradin is like "what are boundaries" so lapin spends the first hour and 15 minutes explaining boundaries and trying to get keradin to come up with something, anything dear bulb please. eventually they settle on a very rudimentary list and lapins like. ok that took ages we have 15 minutes left if you want to try and scene and keradin made it this far he isnt going to leave without at least trying gay sex It Would Kill Him. so they do an incredibly light d/s scene involving a confession booth or something and keradin comes within 2 minutes and then hits lapin with the old "if by my life or death i can protect you i shall". and lapin is like. um ok. thats nice. your time is up tho do u want a warm wet towel and a glass of water. ok. cool (<- his ass is clocking out immediately)

keradin immediately goes home and books another time slot precisely one month to the hour after the last one. during that month he goes back to work, is assigned to do some donkey work noone else wanna do on some fraud investigation around some local failing businesses, replaces his windowsill plant again, spends marginally less time on The App and somehow manages to look his pastor in the eye. he doesnt tell his therapist about the experience but they do ask how the consent workshop went and keradin lies and said it was good it was interesting and they ask like is that it so he badly paraphrases something lapin said about boundaries to get them off his back. they give him a flyer for the next one and keradin still doesnt go.

the month passes and he goes back and has another epic gay sex moment with father candi. and it becomes a regular occurance. every month, on the dot, like clockwork. for a while keradin is fucking crushed under the pressure of trying to come up with a non-gaysex reason for why he has to leave work before 7pm for once every month on the exact same day but nobody actually cares enough to ask him. and hes relaxed. hes not on The App. his windowsill plant lives for 2 months this time. so its just. like. good. its just a good situation.

...maybe too good.

[EXTREMELY LOUD BULBIAN GUILT SFX]

lapin, largely unaware of this, thinks the whole thing is pretty amusing. he knows that keradin works some stuffy office job and has some major religious hangups but he mostly just wants to be beat up a little and then praised and he always walks out 5gorillion % less stressed than he came in and its like ok. lapin can do that. its literally the least weird thing anyones ever asked him to do in a scene. yeah keradin is hot but mostly lapin wants to put him under a microscope and study him like a bug. its like having a favourite customer. he doesnt really think about it outside of when he knows its coming up its literally not that deep.

besides, he has other things to worry about like more pressingly: that amethar is being investigated by the IRS for being bad at running a business and if he goes to prison then theres no way theo will let him keep staying at his flat (the novelty of playing along with theos "weird gay thing" suspicions wore off, like, so fucking quick). he could go stay with his old scene partner "sugar plum mommy" but her whole place looks like serial experiments lain and he will not be able to grade papers over the sound of her bumping grindcore out a subwoofer she stole from a nightclub 4 years ago for 13 hours straight while she joshua citarellas the target audience for europa universalis into getting gayer than they already were.

meanwhile keradin literally cannot stop thinking about hot gay sex gay religious old man sex in your area click here right now and he feels crazy wazy and conflicted and awful about it and on the verge of getting psychosexually obsessed again. he decides to bring it up with his therapist finally because what are they gonna do? court mandate that he gets More Therapy? they end up being like ok yknow what would be really good for this actually is if you Went to the consent workshop ive been telling you about all this time. it would definitely help. its at the library its free. theres one in 30 minutes. ill drive you there (maybe not precisely).

either way. keradin goes. and guess whose fucking running it.

keradin stays but sits in the back and only feels slightly awkward but for once its like. no this is. it would be a good thing if father candi saw that i was here. i am listening and learning.

and he sits there.

in the back of the library.

set out like a lecture hall.

listening and learning.

and it slowly dawns on him exactly why "father candi" seemed so familiar.

[storiesofsvu]

Alright. It’s Thursday let’s see how tonight goes…

Weird opening that’s for sure

That blue suit on mechad is fucking gorgeous

Wtf is happening?!!!!?? Is this gonna be one of those twisty episodes? We’re only halfway through…

YES! SAM! Give her more screen time PLEASE

The like, main thing here would be finding the dancer, yes?

The lawyers have a good point with this recording, but it’s all speculation at this point…

I KNOW I know this defence attorney from somewhere… hold pls while I try to figure it out lol

Goddammit it’s not on imdb yet…

Okay so defence found the witness and honestly that just made everything way more complicated. YES, he killed the guy in (self) defence/trying to help/save the girl, BUT he’s still a racist pos who strangled the guy for three minutes after he stopped breathing. Also what was going on with the vic on the train? Cause he defs seemed out of it…

Ohhkay, an asthma attack, that makes sense. Reaching for the inhaler. Got it

Okay, y’all I’m sold on the new DA guy who came from scandal.

What is it with cop shows having very racist/sexist people/witnesses and choosing to send in their poc/women to figure details out.

OOHHH WE LOVE A GOOD UC STORYLINE! IS THIS GONNA BE A MULTI EP ARC?! A CROSSOVER?! (I know im clowning over a crossover, you don’t need to tell me)

That was a really good ep tbh.

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Okay we all know I’m ignoring TO.

If anyone has any good ideas for a relatively affordable vacation over July/august that wouldn’t be too fucking hot, pls lmk.

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Svu time!

Woof talk about a dark open

Also… it’s giving little mermaid…. The whole hazy can’t see her but she’s rescuing him and keeping him safe??

…pants around the ankles? Okay wait so something else happened in there?

WHERE! IS! VELASCO!

FFS

“EVERYONE IS ON MANDATORY OT” REALLY?! I REPEAT WHAT I JUST SAID!!

If they’re gonna be fucking rotating cast members, they should be rotating the ones who aren’t officially part of the squad. Curry was on last week, she should be gone this week.

Oh it was a man in the little mermaid vibes, my bad lol

….at least bruno’s here..

Okay… this girl’s apartment layout is the same as olivia’s (old?) one? (the one where noah was a toddler and up on the counter stealing cookies..) they really all about reusing sets aren’t they? Yet they make olivia’s apt completely different each ep…

Also I lowkey love all the fairy lights and art she’s got up, she’s made this place super cozy and calming and I dig it. Like I legit want that little tree with the fairy lights she has… catch me on amazon later.

Okay but like, if you were beat that bad and fighting for your life, there’s definitely a chance of hallucinating someone..

Bruno can yell at me any day…. Just sayin.

Why cant the girl with agoraphobia just fucking zoom/face time into the trial??? Like, they did that shit for younger witnesses/victims, for people already in prison/stuck in hospitals and that was all BEFORE covid…. I get that this is some kind of progress for her/olivia and more building for liv but it’s stupid…

Shout out to liv for making her office a complete safe space with the blinds drawn and candles and shit. Cute.

Okay that was an okay episode, we’re getting there slowly. I just wish we would go back to court for once. I miss my defence attorneys…

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Lowkey hate this flashback, ngl.

 Okay…I NEED to know how old joe stabler is supposed to be. Cause the actor’s age isn’t listed on wiki/imdb, but there’s a couple pages/articles that say he’s super late 40’s, early 50’s but he could pass for late 30’s so im SO confused lol.

Ahh… okay. Glad the drugs are his and not eli’s lol

Ugh I love bell so fucking much

I really hope Bobby’s leave was written in cause the actor had another offer that he wanted to take and not one that screwed him over.

Yaaasss cragen with the distraction save!

“I thought it worked…” bruh it sure did lol

God I miss cragen’s sass and quips. Im super glad he’s open to guest star

Bell being a complete bad ass like always. Yaaas queen

Speaking of bad ass women… nicely done chief…

Oh fuck….

Okay, well that was a decent night of l&o tonight!

[fxirysforesight]

Paid Readings Reviews

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[lolitastories]

————-Maybe———-

Description:

You work alongside Matt and Foggy at the law firm. Of course as one of the most successful lawyer in the city the one and only Tony Stark would recruit you. As you are trying to find a meaning of your life you find life in someone. It’s may be a rocky start for you two but maybe it’s worth taking.

Chapter 2:

“Goodmorning, How can I assist you this morning?” The young lady at the front desk asked me.

“Hello, I am here to see Agent Penelope Garcia” I check my phone and verify if she has responded but nothing.

“Am sorry I don’t recognize that name”

“Of course. She and her team are here on the doppler case” Come on.

“Oh yes.” Thank god. “Let me lead you to the office she is using. I nod following right behind her. Once we arrive I give her thanks and she lets me walk in alone.

“Why haven’t you responded to any of my messages?” I can’t help but smile as her usually bubbly self engulfs me into a hug.

“Im sorry, I just wanted to get these papers filled out so I can have enough time to shop around before leaving tonight”

“Well new york is surely the place to walk around and shop”

“Sure is, so what's up” I take a seat next to her. She always made every place she was in hers, no matter how long she was in them. She was the one to bring the cases into a new level with a sense of emotion. We met here about 2 years ago when they requested my help. One of their agents was in trouble and needed to get his case resolved. He was being wrongly accused and working alognside her the most was the best. Since then we have kept in touch.

“My client was found dead last night from an apparent suicide, and my partner and I know that was not the case. He left a note behind and photos of the scene were taken.” one of the things I hate doing is asking for things, more when they haven’t asked anything of me.

“They took you off the case and they are just treating it as a soon to be closed one since he probably admitted guilt in the note” She surely is a smart bee.

“Yes. So my question is if you could..” Why does asking for help have my heart beating faster and wanting to punch myself?

“Get you the pictures? Sure. Give me a couple seconds” I let out a short laugh seeing her move her fingers magically over her keyboard. “I will send them to you using an encrypted address, so no one knows it was sent to you and no one can take them off your phone” After a short conversation I bid her goodbye. I was so lucky she was in town. I drove back into the office and straight into Matt’s.

“Hey got the pictures, did you get the videos?” I see him shake his head but move a file towards me. I open them up and see death certificates.

“There is no video eveidence in or around his home and the officers are of no help, but they did mention that” I see him point at the papers again. All in alphabetical order, all the suspects' death certificates. All killed one day during the week prior to Miller’s death. “Foggy spend his morning looking them up and even confirmed it with the families”

“Why would they kill Miller and the suspect in question? Eitheir we never got the right guy in our suspect list or they don’t care who they kill, loved one or not '' I throw the papers to the desk. It's like if I was driving down a road and had three ways to go. One was the easy way, just a straight paved road. The other one was a road that would take me days to drive. I would have to take a car, then a boat, a plane and finally walk on foot to reach. The third one I could see the destination but the bridge had just broken. The train broke. Everything is falling piece by piece. What was supposed to be our advantage and a step ahead brought us closer to nothing, nothing. Anyways, that just confused me more. I get up, popping open my phone. “I got the pictures of the letter and you are right it was definitely not a suicide note”

We spent the whole afternoon trying to figure anything out. Any connection to the Miller to the suspects or any of them to the 3 guys mudered and finally we got a lead. One of the suspects had the same marking left on the note and the three guys that were murdered. We looked back on the guy’s pictures and with the help of Foggy and Karen now we came to find that the suspect was close to another guy with the same marking on his wrist.

“I will send over the information to the lead officer” I nod at Karen. Our next step is to wait for them to take them into custody and wait for him to talk. Let the police do their jobs and have him give as much information as possible. What did that marking mean? Who was the suspect to him?

“Now what?” Foggy asked, as he is seated next to Matt and I. I take my phone out to check the time.

“Well it's 4:45. I say we take a break and resume this as soon as we hear anything from the police. I can’t miss Tony’s party and neither can you three” I part to my home to get ready. I rush home quickly, taking a shower and fixing myself up. Supricenly I look into the mirror and it doesn’t look like I havn’t slept well for the past 2 weeks. When I arrived at the tower the time hit 7:10. I took the elevator to the floor where they were having the party. It was a long way up but I finally made it.

“Look who’s here” I hear Tony scream from across the room. I would have turned right around but I notice Nat and Steve now behind Stark as he walks towards me.

“I brought you your succulent but those guys in the entrance took it from me” I say feeling his arms wrap around me and pulling towards the way he came from. “Happy birthday” I say quickly returning his smile.

“Thanks. I know you are a no show to parties but I want you to enjoy yourself tonight” I was about to argue with him but he always has to get his way or he won’t stop. “Come on do it for me. It's my birthday!” He grabs a drink from the waitress passing by and with that he walks away.

“I understand you’re his lawyer but that doesn’t mean you have to be his friend” I laugh at Nats words as I hug her, than Steve.

“I know I am not the most uplifting person but someone how in his little weird way he makes me like him. Plus the pay is good so if I have to come to these once every year I can take it”

“Well it's good to see you,” Steve says, handing me a drink. “So what has been keeping you busy from visiting us?” Nat and I follow him as he leads us towards the bar.

“I had this case that has been going on for 3 weeks and just this morning my client was found dead. Now it seems to be a murder but the officials want to pronounce it as a close case because some letter states he admitted fault” Damn I am going to need more alcohol.

“So they just want to throw him under the rug and call it a win?” I simply nod towards them stealing two cups from a waiter. “So what is the reason you think it was a suicide?” Before I could ramble on about what we figured out a tall figure walks behind steve and places a hand on his shoulder

“Hey man, I need to talk to you” The deep voice belonged to a dark-haired guy. Build with a strong stance. A vibridium arm. Call me crazy but I don’t even know how to handle my thoughts right now. Being in the presence of the avenger is not new. I know everything can be expected but not me becoming so infatuated with only looking at this guy for the first time. Who was he?

“Yeah of course” Steve got up, excusing himself from the table. “I will be back soon” I nod watching them both leave

“Bucky” I hear from the side. Quickly I noticed I was having a staring problem so I looked towards Nat with an awkward smile. “Well James Buchanan Barnes. He was stationed with Steve back in the 40s. We found him as the Winter Soilder”

“Oh yeah. You told me some details, before he had to go to Wakanda '' Nat mentions some things here and there but with her missions and my cases we prefer to leave our work lifes behind most of the times we hang out.

“Yeah. He seems much better now but I know its a struggle for him to get used to this world now” As she continues talking I can’t help but move my eyes discreetly towards them. The lights were low but when he was close I could tell they weren’t brown. His face was emotionless as he walked away but he tried to direct a smile towards us as he spoke to Steve. Being on the bad side most of your life and having to work for it now is not simple. “You like him.”

I shake my head, “No, no, just curious” It was true. He was the mysterious, cold looking, low voice guy in all of my books I have read before and fell in love with but I am too smart to know that something like that would work out. Boys in my books fight for what they want while battling their demons. When I see him I see a guy who has demons he has yet to overcome because the main demone is himself. He is struggling. His arm twitches and his head turns at every noise. He has things he needs to fix and if all my books are correct a woman may help but they want their space. Also the woman in the books does everything for them not to be alone and helps them fight their demons but I am not one to do so. I get scared and run away at the first look of difficulty. I am not the one to be placed with someone's trust and love. I can’t give you a correct response. I am not someone’s needs.

“Stop analyzing everything” She laughs while handing me another drink. “Is you were to stop anylizing eveythning and just go for it you would see how wonderful life could be '' She was right. Every move I make has to be foreseen by a pro and cons list. A breakdown of cause and effect. I break down my decisions and take the best route, even if my heart is telling me not to.

“Am a lawyer, that's what I do” I take a sip shrugging her off to change the conversation.

“Well how about for tonight you can be a girl in a little black dress who everybody in the party sees as carefree” I smile at her words. Of course I am not the one to let go but fuck it. Right?

“And what do you suggest, Miss. Romanoff?” She drinks her last glass and pulls out her hand.

“I suggest dancing like nobody's watching?” And that is exactly what we did. We dance past midnight. Many guests had left and while the rest were drinking and talking Nat and I were the only ones on the dance floor.

“Girls! The DJ needs to go” We both turned booing at Tony who was speaking through the microphone. “Don’t boo me! Go get some water!” We both laugh making our way to the other avengers. Which was only Steve, Wanda. Vis, Bruce and soon I knew Tony was going to come over.

“Hey I know you are not in the right mindset but I have something I would need help with in the morning?” Steve asked innocently which I only nodd to trying to gulp down a whole water bottle. “Its nothing just a ticket” I burst out laughing and soon the others follow.

“Goody two shoes got a ticket?!” Of couse Tony was the one with the nickname although everybody was thinking it.

“It wasn’t my fault! I was fed up with Nats feet on the dashboard and didn’t see the light was red”

“Well it wasn’t my fault either. You could just have ignored it but you chose to remove my feet yourse-'' We were caught off guard as the big windows outlooking the terrace blew up. I don’t know if they were the drinks or if I was just that tired but I don’t remember anything else from that night.

A/N: we are introduced to Bucky!!!. I am going to start writing the next part tomorrow and I want them to have a sort of enemies to lover kind of relationship but I don’t know how to get there. If you got any ideas feel free to comment. Thank you♥️

[irrigos]

i was not expecting that post abt ahistorical fiction to get any notes lol. but since it's on my mind i AM gonna talk a little shit about the regency letter larp i was in. yes i will do it on my fl sideblog you are not the boss of me

really i guess it's my fault for expecting more from people but i s2g sooo many of these people got their knowledge of the regency era from like. memes. yes i too read that twitter thread about how beau brummel ruined menswear, but i did one picosecond of research after that and learned that thats literally not true at all. "beau brummell made it all boring :/" look at a fashion plate from the 1830s and tell me menswear got boring in the 1790s and never recovered. try it. please. "its his fault that menswear is only black or navy suits :(" literally when was the last time you saw a man wearing a suit regularly. like... my dad wears one to work sometimes? but he's a lawyer. that's not really what menswear looks like anymore!! that used to be the daily work wear for everyone, but honestly if i wore a suit into the office every day, people would think i was incredibly strange. we're just less formal these days!

but also like. im sorry i know all your ocs are soooo special and smart and right about everything so somehow they all have modern opinions about every topic. but most of them would probably be into beau brummell. they would think he was stylish. because that is what was stylish at the time. why don't you also tell me that your girl characters don't wear stays or corsets because #feminism while you're at it 🙄

i just don't really get the appeal of writing historical fiction if you're not actually interested in engaging with the reality of the era? i mean, i know it's all fantasy. it's play. but why choose THIS setting then? i honestly had more respect for and more fun playing with the people who were open about the fact that they didn't know much about history, and just wanted to rp a romance between fancy people. at least they weren't trying to convince me that it makes perfect sense that their character held these really anachronistic views about their own era that just so happen to align with what you, a modern person, think about it retroactively

anyway tldr: 🙄

[soulbornincoldandrain]

tag game shenanigans huh [rubs hands] thanks @catmanbowser its been a while since ive thought about my blorbos of days past

10 character/ 10 fandoms (this is actually very interesting because ive never rlly though abt them? i kinda just frantically slide them into their slots in my brain so)

1. sebastian debeste/ ace attorney : who would i be without my emotional support lawyer of choice. while i have my favourites from the games i think seb deb remains on top for like. one his relationship with his dad (hngh) two his relationship with himself as a person, his sense of self esteem and how it is affected by his entitlement, his lack of awareness etcertera and three god his Design rlly gets to me for some reason i love the owlish eyes the hair the baton that's really only there because he's icky abt touching gruesome evidence like. girl he's my best friend he's Me

2. danny rand/ ultimate spider-man : transed my gender when i was thirteen. saw him on d*sney xd and i was never the same. iron fist animated ver did so much for me as a person he was my coolguy surfer-vibe snarky but kind prettyboy crush

3. peppermint patty/ peanuts : honestly its not like peanuts is like a revolutionary piece of work but it gets me every single motherfucking time man. peppermint patty is kind of an asshole but i love her character and also gay gay holy shit i was a small queer kid once and so is peppermint patty (also marcy schrodinger charlie ily beloveds)

4. murtagh morgansson (and nasuada!!)/ eragon (the inheritance cycle) : the tragedy of murtagh morgansson effectively changed me as a pre teen i enjoyed the entire series so much (don't talk to me about eragon and arya hngh) but murtaghs arc as a person filled me with so much love like he loved his brother!! he was chained to his blood father!! he loves his dragon!! he made difficult choices for them both despite everything!! even his romantic interest was so well done i genuinely loved him as a character and i still do (and yet i like nasuada more i just think murtaghs character had more weight in the story)

5. frederick the great knight/ fire emblem awakening : cannot explain how much i would've played the entire game all over just to romance frederick instead of my girlboss crown prince chrom i had such a Massive Raging crush on him it's not even funny

6. jung heewon/ orv : yeah okay ideally it would be dokja because he's the sort of parasite that's latched onto my brain but god. god. i never recovered from jung heewon as a character i never will recover. she loves her friends so deeply (as does the entirety of kim dokja company if we're being honest) but god she is so powerful in her love and i think it's ridiculous how much i love her favourite ever jihye x hyunsung x me are so right in having a massive crush on her hngghghh

7. michelangelo/ teenage mutant ninja turtles : ive only ever watched the cartoon series and that was like a solid six years ago but i wanted to be him so bad it was fucking hilarious. i thought he was coolest shit since sliced cheese. mikey my belovedsest hngh i loved donny too but mikey just has a special place in my heart

8. boss/ underworld office : THIS GAME OH GOD. think the only time i ever spoke about it was with shiro but oh God oh god this game got me so good and im still rusty on the names and such but boss as a character was so incredible and im a sucker for a good powerful character who is the looker after of their friend group but also Every Single One of those characters were so good and i literally cannot recommend that game enough the art animatics and story is so good hngh (ticket system kinda frustrating but i can forgive them for it dammit)

9. hannibal/ nbc hannibal : ideally the title should go to freddie lounds and frederick chilton for being my favourite characters of the show but because i have a deep intimate relationship with hamball i guess he takes first spot. i talk abt him way too much anyways so i refuse to elaborate. the elaboration is that i also sniff people. that is all.

10. jiro horikoshi/ wind rises : idk if he counts as a fictional character but miyazakis version of him was- and i cannot stress this enough- so incredibly gender. also i was fascinated by aeronautical design and engineering and also the vintage male fashion rlly got to me man. one of my favourite ghibli movies till date

and that's ten!! that's not all of them but boy i really fucking love to talk huh (also a lot of these were difficult because all my favourite characters are my favourites in context of other characters so many of these should've involved more than one character but whatever) anyways thanks so much for the tag cymber i hope i didn't ramble too much :]

[readymades2002]

still on about 2-4 miles! putting this under a cut because it is quite long and uninteresting. i promise i have thoughts on this case that arent just Mad i will try to word those better to share soon

i DO feel like i am being childish because i’m very very upset about that one thing that happens at the beginning of the trial but i hope it’s not that...i fell like. i’ve talked before about how aa flinches away from implying anything that miles actually Did during his time as vk’s protege and how i think that’s kind of cheap (if you are going to say phoenix became a lawyer for these reasons then COMMIT!!!) and even though i like miles very much (shocking to hear im sure) its very clear that these games ALSO like him and so don’t want him to be wretched. that shows up in most of his other appearances in these games! it feels obvious

so! of course, having said that! 2-4! WHY DID HE SAY THAT! i have wracked my brain trying to come to terms with this! i’ve finally played the part where the game attempts to justify this and well whether it’s because i’m biased or because it’s genuinely not good, i am not pleased about it. the leap this game takes just doesnt make sense, whether you interpret the jumping point as 1-4 (as originally intended) or 1-5. it is hard enough to take this scenario as it’s written, because before asking “how would these characters behave in this situation”, you have to CREATE the situation, and the situation created here is: bad! and i tend to dig my heels in and go “i’m not going to acknowledge that this happened because it’s shocking for shocking’s sake and i hate it”, but this method doesn’t really work as you’re playing the situation obviously

the most direct address of the response to adrian’s refusal to talk about herself in court (which, by the way, every character who talks about it is also mystified that miles said That Thing He Said. just want to note that) goes something like “That wasn’t like you at all. You could have made her testify as many times as you wanted, but to go that far...” To which miles says “But she wouldn’t testify about That until I said something. The courtroom is a garden of judgement. I am putting myself on the line when I stand in there. And that’s why I made the witness do the same...it’s only natural.”

which. HOOTS. this is quite an explanation and at the same time that it’s incredibly INCREDIBLY rife with implications i don’t buy it as an excuse for the game doing that fhksdj

i don’t think this is the worst explanation and in fact i think there are ways in which it could work. in the previous game, miles floated the idea that he followed in manfred’s footsteps to punish himself. following that line of reasoning, this is SURE something. as we know already, he and adrian have this common ground of Choosing Death. when he returned, he almost immediately got told that he should have stayed dead by maybe the two most important people in his life. because of 1-5, we’ve also already seen how the judgement he faces has affected him (and my god i have some thoughts on that but i don’t want to get into it here). putting the pieces together, him dredging up adrian’s past in detail is a lot of things. it is a way to drag her down with him, it is a way to deflect judgement onto her, it is a way to punish them both for being Weak(TM)(TM)(TM). when he talks about his Departure later, even though it’s the most honest he has been about it yet, he still refers to it as “leaving the prosecutor’s office”. when talking to adrian, though, he refers to her ideation as “choosing death”, which like. is the same wording he actually used when he left. that makes it feel like...he won’t acknowledge it himself, but when faced with adrian, he sees something that means they’re both on the line. it’s got some Implications! justice for all has been a pretty decent game for characters not saying what they mean. i think that theoretically this works.

HOWEVER and i’m sure you guessed there was going to be a However, i don’t think this makes sense for miles after the first game! not after 1-5, CERTAINLY, and not even really after 1-4. frankly, this game starting after 1-4 originally is borderline nonsensical. some really, REALLY good character shit comes up as a result of miles’s storyline in this game, but it’s also so transparently here for drama. it’s very very frustrating! i think the discussion between phoenix and miles during phoenix’s crisis of faith in this case is rich, but i also think in the context of this series as a whole, it is kind of soup! investigations comes later and clarifies that years later, miles is still struggling with what he wants to do (which kind of rules and also i think points to how restless his role as a character is). actually, looking at j4a miles after playing investigations is sooooo much. investigations says he has this desire to find the truth that has persisted even under manfred’s teaching, even though he gets punished for it, and turns his face turn in 1-3 into this thing that has been gnawing at him his whole life coming back into the light (even as he tries to bury it). there’s not really anything in j4a miles that is represented that isn’t done better in another game. this place where he is  quietly leading phoenix to draw his own conclusions about what he wants to do is interesting, but it also doesn’t feel like miles.

there is SOMETHING here that isn’t really in any other miles iteration, though, and this IS relevant to me, and it is the thing that has been like. hammering on me the entire time i play this case. which is the adrian stuff. him doing this to put adrian on the line as well as a statement of punishment towards the both of them doesn’t make sense to me. not everyone has to immediately grow and learn from their mistakes once identifying them, but to have miles disappear and figure out for himself what his role means only to come back and immediately use it to punish himself by proxy again doesn’t feel like it rings true. and, of course, for him to use this to punish adrian...is cruel. it’s abjectly cruel. it is a cruelty he doesn’t display in any other case, really. not as a rookie, not with sebastian, not in any form that we ever see. everyone who knows him and HAS known him in his previous forms is still upset and stunned by this, and, being in the future where other games have come out to expand on this character, its like. this stands out! this stands far out! this stands out like lorikeet stands out among pigeons!

i hope this isn’t me just...being mad that a character i like is bad, i think i’ve made it clear that i wish the game would push him on his worse traits more and that i think wanting every character you like to be always right and good is boring so if this is just that same urge manifesting i’ll be very embarrassed. but i just don’t think this needed to happen like this! i don’t! with everything else, with EVERYTHING that the game says about adrian and celeste, “my mentor was a strong woman she wouldn’t do this over anything”, “she’s a person who depends on other people”, adrian hating herself for her perceived weakness, most of the other women that appear in this series as bit parts, this feels like just another manifestation of that misogyny along with the pointless Shock that has accompanied miles’s entire role in this game.

i think that you COULD suggest that this makes sense. it could. if you ignore that this was written by someone, and you accept the explanation offered along with the other character work done in this game for miles, it’s not NOTHING. miles is kind of a hypocrite. he’s cryptic and indirect when talking to phoenix. it is possible that he regresses after returning and being greeted pretty coldly. not all development is linear. it is also an artifact of the games being made that his portrayal in 1-5 came about long after this game was written. but overall i just feel like. i really.......i really think this case is just Bad. the game’s overarching themes and character arcs are something, the themes introduced in this case are Something (adrian has what fandom klavier wishes he had essentially), but it all feels like its just a cudgel to excuse the deluge of abuse and exploitation heaped on celeste and adrian and it sucksssssssssss

tldr (attempt) i dont think this miles interpretation is without foundation. but it feels cruel in ways the game has never committed to showing anywhere else BUT in portraying the women in this case, and if they’re trying to actually go “see? demon prosecutor” it is FAR too far along to be doing that and it never shows up anywhere else so i’m not buying it. don’t write a game in one month next time

[chillichats]

HIYA CHILLAY buckle up this is gonna be long ok basically. yesterday was election day. the 2 main presidential candidates are the son of a dictator and a woman who is Not the child of a dictator (lol ill explain more later)

the dictator implemented martial law back in the 70s and ruled for like 2 or 3 decades, stole BILLIONS worth of dollars and left our country in debt. in 1986 there was a peaceful revolution called EDSA People Power (u can google that) and then he was exiled to hawaii and then he died there i think. his son, whos running for pres now, had every opportunity to pay back all the debt but hasnt, paid people to attend his campaign rallies, and is rly just a bad person all around woohoo (also he didnt even go to college LL)

the other candidate is a human rights lawyer, and is also currently vice president. she's a critic of our incumbent president and early into her term she was removed from some cabinet positions solely cause she spoke up against him. even if she had limited funds and resources, the office of the vp was able to accomplish a LOT esp in the pandemic. soo yes

now the whole other thing is that our elections in general are a shitshow, son-of-a-dictator basically rigged the whole thing (like there are ballots prepared so that they enter as votes for him no matter what u put) AND. AND. 2000+ vote counting machines across the country have been sabotaged, or at any rate are not working, so there are ppl who lined up for literal hours to vote and then it turned out the machine was broken 💀 so mainly they were told to leave their ballots w staff to be entered as soon as the machines were fixed, obviously presenting a big chance to invalidate the ballots if a certain candidate isnt on it.

theres also video evidence of ppl being paid to vote for the son-of-the-dictator, and despite the evidence our comission of elections has done nOTHINGG to stop it also a lot of the people in comelec (comission of elections) are very close to son-of-a-dictator and/or are being bribed

ALSO son-of-a-dictator is alr acting like he won even tho the vote counting isnt done yet 💀

according to the official vote count son-of-a-dictator is leading by like. 10mil votes? which doesnt even make sense when u compare the number of votes from our previous elections to the ones now. also the 'official' vote count supposedly coming from comelec is actually from an unknown source, so most likely not real. people have volunteered to manually encode the ballots to make sure that the votes are fair.

and thats just the presidential elections; in our senatorial elections the candidate leading is a fOCKEN ACTOR with zERO political experience

its basically a shitshow circus and my only hope rn is the manual vote processing cause i highkey dont want son-of-a-dictator to win shahsfiew

also if u want to know more if ever u can search here on tumbl 'halalan2022' (thats filipino for elections2022) ppl have made a bunch of posts explaining it ahsufew

im. okay. holy fuck. thats. wh. okay. okay. wait a second. okay. holy fuck yes i think i will search up the halalan2022 tag this sounds infernal in the original sense of the word

[the-firebird69]

Another lawyer from Trump’s orbit slams her former client

I've never heard of a president taking this kind of a beating and staying in office I mean I think Trump is for the character Clinton who had one girl screw around with him and that was it enough for him to get pushed out of office is ridiculous the pushed to do the job and did the job now they can't control him. And the max for some reason don't see that he's not doing what they want it's very odd the situation but we should take advantage of it and hit the max as much as we can to use these people as an excuse while we can.

Zues Hera

We are using him as an excuse and cover and shield for many projects and he's falling quite steadily but you're right this guy got kicked out of office for some dress incident and it made no sense and he was not allowed to run again but they decide to treat him badly and poorly to inspire him and I can't get him out of it stupid race if someone paid him a million dollars a second he's still sitting there and you can't get them off our son and daughter sort of if you paid him a million dollars a second it's ridiculous this guy is the biggest addict on Earth I don't want to work on the addiction anymore I'm just going to work on pretty little s*** decided to be a little s*** and he is a big prick. Im issuing orders for him to be removed from the neighborhood permanently and his son and the clone. It really is one reason is time management and sanity the guy is a huge print but he's still here we're going to use them I guess you idiotic Max and we have jobs.

-we Began our attacks last night and into this morning and it is to soften to raid and take stuff all over the world practically every city it's like 70% of the area and we pummeled them. And yes under The shield 50% of it is under the shield and the empire does nothing they're not even trying to stop us from pulling things out and you can see us these people are weird but they have some sort of radios plan like Dave and they're going down hollering about it. going to go after they're going to go after Stan as he has a lot of large ships and death stars the majority of what he has left no but is half the firepower not really it's real death stars and they're very big and out of all of them to body has half and Max Daddy has a fleet that's like 1.5 billion and he has a few death starts he has a quarter. But out of the whole field then Arnold has the largest fleet and has become his process of taking over death stars and is going on now so far he took about 20% from both of them. And yes all the clans of macs

We're going to publish that keep messing with it

Thor Freya

Olympus

Zues

Good

Hera

[storiesofsvu2-0]

l & o thursday

Okay…. Happy Thursday. Y’all know the drill.

Also yay city tv for airing these in the wrong order as per usual… I don’t know how much of a 2 parter svu and oc are but we’re getting oc first here…

Ah. Yes. Okay. They are completely and totally related and im getting part 2 first. Love that. Why is citytv like this?

Are we just jumping into this without addressing the Kathy hallucination or whatever that was? Seriously?

Ah! Okay, here we go. Thank you.

Ugh god. Elliot just get over your manchild bullshit already. im sick of it

Elliot reacting like that over Oscar papa… homeboy clearly doesn’t know about William lewis…

k… I lowkey trust bell talking with the perp but like… her lawyer is there, she’s lawyered up… any ada on svu would be having a field day right now… like… these are two cops. They can’t be making deals. Just cause they say they wont press charges or whatever the da might still have to…

man… I adore Ayanna so fucking much. I also love how little she holds back facial expressions, like… same girl… same…

bruh… if you thought this was a JOKE why would you put down FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS?!

Bobby and his sandwich LOOOLL.

“it’s attempted murder not the express checkout line.” Yup. Bell has the best one liners.

This episode is giving major criminal minds vibes. And then amanda is going to be brought in as a “profiler” like… cmon… (also I don’t even wanna talk about that… like…her being a professor is already ridiculous. But to also be a profiler? Like… sure she’s smart and has a forensics degree but she aint that smart…she would be a terrible profiler…)

They’re STILL making fast and furious movies?! Jfc.

“carisi can’t keep his mouth shut” and “she left me a message” ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Like, those two were BESTIES, and you’re telling me they wouldn’t actually keep in touch?! Esp over something like this? Like noah, billie and jessie had play dates all the time, they hungout together, carisi still works with liv. This is so fucking dumb. Like… yes I get it, if you leave a job you start another one and might not keep up with the people you used to from the previous ones, but the ones who really mean something keep in touch. This is something that drives me INSANE about tv shows cause a cast member will leave and it’s as if the characters will NEVER see each other again. I get it, sometimes the actors can’t come back or don’t want to, but like… a mention here or there, a sense of reality?? It’s no wonder Liv is always alone and mopey over shit. Life is a two way street ma’am, if you keep shutting out people who “leave” you then guess what? You’re not gonna have anyone left! (still don’t condone Elliot’s behaviour but like… we don’t’ care about him here)

Mothership:

“you’re bleeding.” “yeah… bullets’ll do that to you” *proceeds to collapse*

So naturally I was not paying that much attention, but why tf did they only charge him with one count of murder? He should have also been charged with attempted murder of the other girl and attempted murder/assault of a police officer?

Anyway. Now it’s svu time. Bring me my bebes.

Jesus that’s fucking terrifying. Could you imagine coming across that on a run?! Jesus.

Carisi was so friggin cute when he spilt the beans to liv, fucking adorable.

I got distracted making gifs. Oops.

Loving muncy and churlish partnered up, their banter and shit is good, I accept

Liv being all “doesn’t everyone in staten island know each other” and carisi pulling her chain is hilarious

Omg these girls are both like fucking 5 foot nothing and 90lbs and elias is a giant this is not gonna end well…

Thank god churlish kept the gun on him, smart girl.

Okay I think some of this is less intriguing to me because ive already seen OC

Oh god..joe is yelling… im turned on…

They literally put muncy in a plaid shirt that has the bisexual flag colours on it… COME ON.

HOLY SHIT. Christ. I KNEW SOMETHING LIKE THAT WAS COMING. Muncy needs a hug, and probably some therapy…

I absolutely do not want Velasco and muncy together. That being said. I would adore muncy and churlish or Velasco and churlish.. but I cant decide which one I like more…

Welp, that’s it for tonight. Maybe see you next week.

[bunnywritesmarvel]

hey bunny! been super busy these last few weeks of march:( but i thought i’d stop over real quick considering it is thursday😈😈😈

just the fact that matt always likes to be in contact with you, like wrapping your arm with his, or keeping just like his hand resting against yours at the table, or resting his foot against the outside of your ankle under the table, real innocent sweet stuff he does subconsciously to feel connected to you and stabilize himself.

he never really notices he’s doing it bc it’s honestly just instinct, but you ALWAYS notice, especially before you’re officially “together.” before you guys get together, every time he touches you it’s like ELECTRICITY YOU KNOW THAT FEELING. and it always get you hot and bothered when you’re close to him or whatever.

but matt always kind of notices when ur body temp spikes or whatever but he never thinks much of it other than like nerves (ig im imagining like the new lawyer! reader au so he maybe just thinks you’re nervous around new people or on edge because you don’t want to mess up, etc etc) but you’re there late at night with him alone working on a case and the air is like thick with tension and every time he hands you documents his fingers brush yours and matt’s foot brushes against yours for like the hundredth time and you’ve had ENOUGH so you just snap like “why do you do that?” and you legit have explain to him how hot and bothered you get by all his touches because he doesn’t even know he’s doing it/that it bothered you and from then on he does it 10x more and always teases you about it. he especially loves to sense you get all flustered in front of karen or foggy in the office

BAHAHA srry that was OBSCENELY LONG i just feel like i’ve been gone forever miss you guys:(

-🪡

MATT IS SUCH A TEASE I LOVE IT SO MUCH

thirsty thursday: matt edition!

[sxfik]

han seo headcanons (part 3)

yeah it's exam day for me (lol one 3 hour one and another 2 hour one w barely a break in between gang, fuck college board not even giving us time to eat) and i dont want to think about it and im heart broken that vincenzo is over so writing about han seo it is! i hope you enjoy this installment, so we can all forget about the events that totally didn't happened in the story.

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it's been almost a month since he started working with jipuragi and the plaza residents. he was comfortable with them now, the jovial energy of the plaza residents infecteous

he was roped into all their traditions and antics in the plaza everyday: helping the pawnshop couple deal with customers as she was pregnant, coming early to taste hee-soo's food, helping young ho film his YouTube videos.

of course, the only one he avoids is the angelic pretty pianist, especially after she caught him pacing the plaza avoiding the snack bar a couple weeks ago

but every single time she visits the firm, whispering with lawyer hong cha-young, his eyes unknowingly drifts towards her

he can't help but admire her elegance, the way she floats from place to place, her silky hair moving ever so slightly as she walks

not to mention the cute clips in her hair and the way she would fidget with her hair as she sits at the piano, looking at the note sheets.

it was an early morning, way too early for any human being to be awake. he was exhausted from fixing babel's mess from the night before and stayed up working in his office and looking over paperwork.

despite this, he walked in early to the firm, his hair a mess and ungelled, his eyes barely open as he stumbled in

and then he jumped back, startled at the sight of the very pianist he's been avoiding, sitting at the table hunched over a very expensive laptop and frantically typing

he stares for a moment, unsure what to do. should he run? nah, its just a girl isn't it.

he’s met plenty of girls in his 28 years of life, this can’t be too hard should it? but she’s so pretty it makes him stutter and get his heart racing and forget all sense and—

“you can sit down, you know” her voice rings out and he jumps back again, her voice startlingly melodic

“ah- uh- yeah, yeah of course,” he smiles and moves towards the table.

i’ll sit across from her, perfectly distanced from her right? but just his luck, the seat across was stacked with paperwork and he was forced to take the seat beside her

he swallowed as he sat next to her, even her sitting this close making his heart race and his ears close up to just the sound of his heart pounding

he cleared his throat “ah uh what are you doing, this early in the office” she spared him a quick glance as she replied “just some quick work”

he leaned over, attempting at a better look at her computer screen and it looked... complicated to say the least. lines and lines of code and window jumbled together in what seemed illegible to him

“that looks... complex” he answered out as his eyes slid over to her face, masked in concentration. she turned around to face him and quirked an eyebrow, almost challenging him to ask what exactly she’s doing,

"you're wearing your hair differently today" she said, tilting her head slightly as her eyes drifted to his bangs that covered his forehead

but he was frozen, her face so close to his that he could see how her eyelashes fluttered as they blinked and how smooth her skin is and how is this proximity not affecting her like it is him. he swallowed then and parted his lips to ask and—

the doors slammed open and he jumped back, swallowing hard as he attempted to look as unaffected as possible

“what are you two doing here” the female lawyer asked as she walked in, the heels clacking against the tiles. “it’s so early”

“ah noona–” “ah unnie–” they both started in sync, and he whipped his head to look at miri, before quieting down to let her speak

cha-young looked amused as she looked between the two of them, and then miri piped up “i was just here before lessons, working on what you asked for”

cha-young let out one of her exaggerated squeals then, reaching around miri to hug her smiling, “thank you!!”

and miri laughed and he was a goner.

her laugh was melodic and light and it rung in his head for the rest of the day as his mind raced over everything that happened that morning

as the week passed by, he saw glimpses of her through the glass of her piano place, longing to make a move, to have an excuse to speak with her beyond pleasentries

he went to lunch and then to dinner with vincenzo, today being one of their weekly makgeoili nights

they stayed later than usual, drinking and talking about mundane topics

he was halfway drunk when vincenzo asked him “so, you have a crush on miri?” and han seo choked and sputtered

vincenzo patted his back, and soothingly rubbed as he started to breathe normally

“how did you know? am i that obvious” he asked, trying to hold back the slight slurring of his words

vincenzo nodded then, poured him some more makgeoili

“i’ve noticed you looking through the glass every time we pass by her shop, so i took a guess”

“ahhh” han seo, drank the alcohol in one go, before setting the bowl down, sagging against his seat as he sighed

“yes, hyung, i like her, but i have no way to even speak to her” he sighed as he scratched his head dejectedly.

a brief moment passed as vincenzo looked at him with a calculating gaze before he piped up “do you want my advice”

and at that, han seo snorted. “hyung, no offense... but you’re a hopeless case. if i take advice from you, i’ll be stuck pining for mrs. seo forever, sending her longing gazes across the room”

“yah, han seo you brat” vincenzo snapped at him and surprisingly (and possibly because of the alcohol in his veins), han seo laughed in reply

“hyung you can’t even deny it, you are clearly hopeless. you’ve known noona and had every opportunity to make a move. you work with her every day, for chirst sakes.” he laughs, before continuing, “everyday, noona and you dance around each other, her sending you looks, you sending her looks and mr. nam and i pretending like nothing is happening between you–”

“yeah, okay okay,” vincenzo makes a face at him “but, still this is something that actually worked, okay?”

han seo grinned at that, leaning in and asking “ahh hyung you have advice other than ‘watch her until she makes the move’”

vincenzo swatted his arm, and he giggled playfully before gesturing towards vincenzo to continue

“get her a gift, something meaningful to her. it can be small or big or anything really, but it’s an excuse to treat her, and every time she wears it, you can see she wore something you picked for her,” vincenzo avoided his gaze, opting to look out the window.

han seo grinned, knowing he was thinking about a particular lawyer and her affinity for those golden earring and necklace that she wore on the days she went out with vincenzo

“you know hyung, that’s not half bad” he laughed at him as they continued their bickering into the night

for the next week, han seo spent his time after helping the firm and his job at babel at various shops, searching for pretty brooches and hair clips

don't look at his search history, because they're all filled with searches like "what clips do girls like best" "how to give a gift to a girl you like without making it obvious" "best types of hair clips"

it's not like han seo was completely clueless, he's had plenty of crushes and slept with girls before but he's never made an effort beyond that

he knew deep down that most of those girls liked him for his money and status and everything that came with his position

not to mention how fucked up his family is and how fucked up he is, he couldn't dream of bringing a girl that he truly liked into the mess of his life

but for the very first time, it didn't matter. it didn't matter what his brother or his coworker or his family said to him, all that mattered was his new family and the pretty girl that he couldnt stop thinking about

so he clutched the hair clip in his hand, as he walked out of the store that day and stuffed it into his briefcase that he brought in everyday with him

he was nervous the morning of, spending an hour looking at every aspect of his face and hair, making sure everything was held down properly. he grabbed the clip from his briefcase, slipping it into his pocket

he was fidgeting the whole way up the plaza, the nervous feeling in his stomach only growing as he got closer and closer to miri's shop

he paused, steeling himself as he looked through the glass, watching as miri's elegant fingers glided across the keys, the melody haunting the halls of the plaza and then he opened the door

the chimes rung and her head whipped toward him as he stepped in. he paused as he glanced at her, taking in her long dress that reached her ankles and her cardigan she always seemed to wear as she roamed the halls

he closed his eyes for a second before opening his mouth and rushing out the words before he lost courage

"i, uh, realized that i never got you anything since i came here and i had got something for the residents and i wanted to give you something and i hope you like it" he rushed out the words, avoiding her gaze as he got the hair clip out of his pocket and thrust it towards her, his hands slightly trembling

he looked down shyly, as he noted the moment of silence between them and her frozen in shock at his gift. his heart was thundering and his chest full of anxiety

"we can always exchange it if you don't like it, i saw it at a shop and thought it suited you and im sorry if it's not your sty—"

"it's beautiful" she whispered out to him, her hand ghosting over the clip in his outstretched hand. he looked up at her then, seeing her face fully.

"i, uh, i can help you put it on if you'd like" and to his shock, she nodded.

he stepped closer to her, his chest tight at the proximity and she smelled like cinnamon and sugar and god it was killing him being this close

he reached one hand to her hair, which was just as silky to touch as he had imagined in his dreams and the other went to put in the clip. the clip he had chosen for her.

the moment only lasted a couple moments but for him, the time seemed to stretch forever.

his hands moved away from her hair after he adjusted the clip but he was stuck in that position, looking down at her face as he memorized her features

the way her eyelashes brushed against her cheek as she blinked up at him, her doe-eyes soft and caring, her skin smooth and her cheeks tinted red

and her lips.

he wondered how it'd feel to brush his lips against them, how smooth they would feel-

and the chimes rung once more, making the two jump back , and whip their head towards the door

Mr. Nam was peaking out, "Mr. Jang Han Seo, Hong Cha-Young byeonosanim was asking if you had any more details about the Jason fund..."

"ah yes, yes i can tell her more about the fund" he turned around from her, avoiding eye contact as he stepped towards Mr. Nam and away from Miri

but as he walked away, he watched as Miri's ghosted over the clip, silently, and that was enough to fuel him for another week

to be continued.

[relaxxattack]

So I've noticed there are certain stereotypes associated with certain blood colors in homestuck, do you have a list of any kind? I'd rather choose than just go off of birthday.

oh boy. it's very hard to explain in one shot-- they have a whole class society based off this in homestuck, and each color is a class level. each color has unique powers as well as a general place in society, and they're all very racist towards each other about their blood colors (although i think the correct term is "hemophobic")

here's my very very general summary:

the classes go in rainbow order, with red being the lowest slaves of society and fuchsia (pink) being the rulers/royalty.

there's only a few living fuchsiabloods at any time, but there's like millions of rustbloods being their slaves. but highbloods lifespans are much much longer then lowbloods (im talking thousands of years)

also their minds become more wack the higher up the caste ladder you go-- rustbloods are kinda normal, but highbloods often crave blood and violence and just act really off-the-rocker.

rustblood (red): lowest point of society, killed by highbloods for fun. they are very physically weak, but often have mild mind-powers like telekinesis. often related to the dead/ghosts

bronzeblood (orange/brownish): pretty much as low as the rusts, sometimes just also called rusts. can have psychic connections/communication with animals a lot of the time. are often called not that smart.

goldblood (yellow): just barely above rusts. still low class. they have telekinesis as well. they're associated with tech: a lot of them hack or create computers or something like that. they also have fucked up mind powers a lot of the time-- like, their stong telekinesis hurts them. they also have heterochromic eyes because gemini 

limebloods (bright green): were all killed off thousands of years ago, dunno anything about them

olivebloods (desaturated green): lower-middle class. often related to cats. they're usually good hunters and a lot of them take jobs as assasins.

jadebloods (jewel green): a rarer color (?). they all live underground and help raise hatching children. they're all like, babysitters and teachers, and they make sure the eggs hatch and get given to their animal guardians. they also usually have a high sense of fashion. well-off but not rich.

tealbloods (turquoise): high/upper class. usually work as doctors, lawyers, officers, etc. they're very smart and work hard. they all have a thing for justice and law.

ceruleanbloods (blue): these are rich people. they can all do pretty much whatever they want, which often involves stealing/killing since they are high enough of a color to crave blood. some of them can mind control people. they're also very hot (<- this is my opinion)

indigobloods (dark blue): nobility/EXTREMELY rich. these guys are super super physically strong. also can and will kill a lot. generally considered somehow nicer then cerulean though.

purplebloods (dark purple): literal clowns. i don't mean they're dumb: all purple bloods are actually part of a religious juggalo cult in canon. they drink faygo that's largely implied to be made with other troll's blood. they also go into a crazed violent rage if provoked. they're extremely murderous, but also never punished by law, because they are the HIGHEST land blood caste. they're the 1% of the land trolls. they're very fucking creepy.

violetbloods (purple-pink): seadwelling mermaid trolls. they hate land trolls and would probably commit genocide if they could. there's not really a lot of them and they don't interact with land trolls that much, but they're essentially royalty.

fuchsiabloods (pink): actual royalty. there's usually only two alive at any given time; the adult empress one off destroying galaxies and the princess on the planet.

each color also corresponds to a zodiac sign in order. rustbloods are aries, bronzebloods are taurus, and so on.

hope this helps, sorry it's a lot ;_;

[oeakenshield]

long story below abt this old man in my building who fetishizes me and general vent about like being an asian woman in america lol.

thinking about this old man in my apartment building. building is divided into 4 sections with 6 apartments in each section, all sections are connected through the basement. the building overlooks a parking lot the tenants share. I'm in section C on the top floor and he's in section D on the second. sometime last year at night he came to my door and knocked and asked for help with his internet. i'm too nice and trusting of people so i agreed to come over and take a look. he was literally missing a whole cable which just didn't make sense then but unfortunately makes sense now. he wanted to talk about what ""kind"" of asian i am, where my parents are from, my """culture""" and shit like that. i entertain it because i feel sad for old people. finally i say idk i can't fix this sorry and go home. he gives me his card cuz he's a lawyer.

over the next several months i run into him in the parking lot maybe once a week. i usually tried to pretend i didn't see him purely from a "i don't want to socialize" standpoint. one morning, as i'm leaving for work, he comes outside a minute after i do and i don't make it to my car before he catches me and says hi. he's holding an small empty plastic trash can. we chat. he refers to me as "our asian guest" which. gross. eventually i say i have to go to work and while i'm in my car i watch him do literally nothing with the trash can and turn around and go back inside.

so at this point i'm pretty sure he's been watching me come and go to figure out my schedule and he times when he'll be outside to see me.

then a couple more months pass. it's maybe october 2021 at this point. i'm at home in a tank top and sweat pants because it's 9:30pm and i'm winding down for the night. i hear someone LABORING to come up the steps and eventually stop at my door. he knocks and it scares the shit out of me then i go look through the peephole and see it's the guy. i know he can hear my tv from the hallway so i decide to just see what he wants.

he's looking for his cellphone and asks me to call it. he says to wait a second while he runs back to his apartment to see if he can hear it. i say ok sure so he gives me his number but i download a burner phone app cuz i don't want to give him my real phone number. as he's leaving he tells me i look "wonderful" and that my boyfriend is "lucky." again, gross disgusting violating etc. i literally changed completely out of what i was wearing to something that covers me all the way up because i'm so grossed out.

so i call his number from the burner app, no pick up, 5 minutes later i hear him struggling up the stairs again. he says it's not in his apartment, but it might be in his car. it's about 10pm at night now. it's dark outside. i do not know this man and he's already made me comfortable. he offers to pay me $40 to go out in the parking lot and look in his car. i ask, there's no one home in your section that can help? what about the apartments below me? he said oh no ones home, i knocked but no one answered. but this is the kind of thin walled apartment building where you can hear everything--ESPECIALLY someone knocking on doors. i know he didn't know on anyone elses door. i very firmly say i'm not comfortable he says oh i don't want to make you uncomfortable so i said ok bye then and shut the door in his face.

i hear him finally go knock on someone else's door and a man helps him out and i guess his phone was in the car. but im still suspicious.

i reported the incident to the landlord immediately the next day because i was feeling very uncomfortable and violated in my home. the landlord tells me the guy has already come to the office and told him, and also tells me that he has autism so probably he just wasn't picking up the social cues. like sure. fine.

BUT i have not run into or seen this man a SINGLE time since this incident months ago. i like to think he is just being respectful of the boundaries i set which i can appreciate. i can sympathize with being unsure about social cues and such. i get it.

but. it was really really clear to me, and me alone, the male landlord didn't really get this, that this man had been targeting me because of some weird asian fetishization he had going on in his head. i could feel it every time he looked and talked to me and treated me like a foreigner.

and like the problem is that a lot of older white men like him truly believe that's an acceptable way to treat young asian women--as exotic specimens. like. fuck. the number of old white men who have come up to me to tell me about their asian wives. ugh. ugh ugh ugh.

i'm still bothered to this day that my landlord dismissed me so easily. like i think the man can be both autistic and a weird racist creep to me. am i crazy for that like. lol.

and it's really the fact that i haven't seen him at all that gets me, because it confirms my earlier suspicions.

i don't even want to say "idk i'm overreacting" because women are told and i WAS told i was overreacting!! but i still feel that way and i hate it!!! he made me uncomfortable and made me feel violated in my own home because he definitely saw me as a cute little asian sex doll. fuck. i hate it so much. do men not realize i can immediately sense when they're just talking to me for fetish shit?? because it's really fucking obvious. i'm just so sick of it.