#im not tagging this as spoilers the book is like 100 years old

[beybaldes]

one single thread of gold tied me to you

sejanus plinth x gn!reader

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summary: Sejanus Plinth sits on the steps of the academy with you by his side. Things may be bad, but there are worse places you could be

warnings: NO relation between reader and snow I might die if I see another fic where reader is his twin (not that they aren’t good fics, they are so good!!! I just don’t look like him at all 😭😭😭 free me), little angst but mostly fluff, ONE use of y/n, hehehehehe i posses evil powers

an: okay I know Ive not posted in like forever but I saw BOSBAS and fell in LOVE 🥲 technically spoilers and won’t be 100% book/movie accurate im going with straight vibes for this one :D enjoy!!

Sejanus Plinth was never meant to cross your path, let alone take violent root in your heart. In every other universe he never left district two and you never bumped into him on the playground at 8 years old, wondering where on earth he must have come from. There wasn’t such a thing as a ‘new kid’ in the capital, and yet, you had found one.

Or rather, he’d found you. You’d been chasing Arachne Crane around the playground in a game of tag, too focused on trying to catch her and not focused enough on the tree root that stuck out of the ground in front of you. There’d been no time to react, but sweet, gentle, wonderful Sejanus Plinth had caught you by the arm, his grip so firm you’d had his fingerprints bruised into your skin for weeks after. But he’d saved you from scraping your knee against the ground, and he held you up until you’d steadied yourself, and then he’d walked away without a word. Arachne had disappeared from your sight and you were suddenly infatuated with the mass of brown curls that were walking to the far side of the playground; you felt as though you had no choice but to chase after him instead.

Shivering at the thought that in another life you’d befriended the likes of Felix Ravenstill or Festus Creed instead, you reached out for Sejanus’s hand between the tables the mentors were made to sit at to watch the games. Surprisingly, he was receptive to your touch, tightly interlocking your fingers and hoping it would provide him with more comfort then you both knew it ever could.

As Lucretius "Lucky" Flickerman, the capitals weatherman, began to introduce the game to viewers watching from the comfort of their homes, Sejanus’s grip on your hand only got tighter, his hands beginning to tremble slightly as the screen at the front of the grand room began to show the tributes entering the area. As images of the tributes being pushed, dragged and shoved into their starting places crossed the screen, your thumb ran across the back of his hand, hoping you could make the shaking of his clammy palm against yours stop.

Slowly the cameras in the arena moved their focus from the tributes waiting for the games to start, and instead zoomed in on Marcus, hung by his bloodied hands on the fallen debris caused by the rebel attack.

“Oh my God.” Gasping the words out, you couldn’t tear your eyes from the sight, and you would’ve held onto Sejanus’s hand tighter if you were still holding it. Instead his hand was torn from yours as he stood among the other mentors, flinging his desk and device across the room with a rage you’d never seen in him before.

“You’re monsters!” He cried, hands scrunched into fists by his side, tears filling his eyes as he addressed the room before him. Peers, Sejanus didn’t dare call them friends, and teachers alike stood in silence, refusing to feed into his outrage and refusing to speak against the regime they had been raised in. Though some of them had never known anything different then a life with the hunger games, it didn’t take anything more then a heart in your chest to know how wrong it was. Even if Sejanus hadn’t known Marcus from his time in district 2, he was the same age as him, he had a family and friends back home hoping he would return to them, he was a living, breathing person who shouldn’t have had to fight for his life because his name was drawn from a hat. “All of you!”

Sejanus stormed out of the room, and you would’ve been hot on his heels if Coriolanus hadn’t grabbed you, holding you to your seat. “Just wait.” You didn’t understand at first, furious that Coriolanus would try and stop you from going after Sejanus to see if he was okay, but as he silently pointed at Mr Flickerman, you understood. Following Sejanus should wait ten seconds while Lucky counted down to the official beginning of the Hunger games and you could sneak away unnoticed. While you were never particularly fond of Coriolanus Snow, you could appreciate his brain and how it ticked.

When the ten long seconds were finally up, you sprung from your seat, a whispered thank you to Coriolanus as you snuck around the outside of the seated mentors, all of whom were enamoured with the screen. As you left the building in search of Sejanus, you briefly worried he’d be nowhere to be found, having run far away from the academy in hope he could escape everything. However, he’d been quite easy to find, hunched over himself on the steps of the academy, his arms wrapped around his knees and curled into himself as his shoulders jumped with strained breaths. A part of you prayed you’d never have to see him like this again.

“Sejanus?” His head snapped to face you, furiously wiping away the frustrated tears that had rolled down his cheeks and forcing something that tried to be a smile on his face. A frown pulled on your lips as your met his eyes, quickly crossing the steps until you were beside him. “Oh, Sejanus.”

“Did you see what they did to him?” His voice trembled as he spoke, hiccuping in breathes as he tried to tell you what he was thinking, tried to nullify the crippling ache in his chest. With the escape of a whimper from the back of his throat, your hands came to cup his face, caressing his cheeks and simultaneously wiping away any tears that crossed your path. “What they’re doing to all of them?”

“I know, I know.” You cooed, knowing there was nothing you could do to change things. All you could do right now was make your Sejanus feel better, though you worried even your best wouldn’t be enough. “It is wrong and cruel, so, so cruel, and one day people will see just how right you are.”

“They won’t.” He scoffed, his eyes turning to stare at where his shoes met the ground, avoiding your gaze. “They think that this is life, that this is how things are. And no one else sees an issue with that, at least not here in the Capital.”

One of your hands turned Sejanus to face you, not allowing him to look away as you spoke, while the other fervently soothed his curls away from his face, hoping a combination of the two could begin to make him feel better.

“Thousands of people will have seen your outrage at the games tonight, and if even one of them has been affected by it, then you will have made a change.” Sejanus’s features softened as you spoke, and while you knew his boiling rage was only reducing to a simmer, and that at the end of the day it would still be inside of him, you knew that he was allowing himself to get through this moment with your help. “Rome was not built in one night. Change will come, it just takes time.”

Silence didn’t have the chance to settle. “Why are you so nice to me?” That surprised you. It didn’t seem like a question that needed answering and it didn’t seem like something Sejanus would ever ask you. It felt too obvious. “No one in the capital has ever accepted me as one of them, and yet, my own district won’t recognise me as theirs either. Most of the people at the academy don’t even acknowledge me, and sometimes I feel like Coryo only tolerates me, but you? You are nice to me, like now. You didn’t have to come out here, you chose to. Why?”

Strangely, you’d never been so scared. You couldn’t help but think that you’d said or done something to make Sejanus think that your friendship towards him was fake or conditional, but it couldn’t be further from it. How did you put into words how much you loved him for him, without saying it just like that? Plain and simple?

“You are kind, Sejanus. You don’t see a lot of that around here. From the very first day I met you you have been nothing but kind - not only to me but everyone around you, even when they didn’t deserve it.” Your hand against his hair had moved back down to his cheek, the gentle caress of your thumb against the apple of his cheek turning more and more loving with every word you spoke. “You bring your Ma’s sweets to share, even when they’re the ones you really like, you recite your favourite books to me just because you want to talk and you know I’ll listen, you stop me from going home with scrapped knees and grazed hands everyday, and-“

It was like you’d suddenly become dangerously aware of how close the two of you had got, not only physically on the steps of the academy, but in your friendship over the years. Maybe more then a friendship if either of you were brave enough to say it. You couldn’t breathe and you couldn’t think about anything but his lips against yours. Removing your hands from his face and placing them neatly in your lap, you tore your gaze from his face and looked to the sunsetting sky. “Sejanus plinth, it seems I have grown quite fond of you.”

Sejanus placed two fingers beneath your chin, turning your face to make you look at him, like you had done just minutes ago. “I have grown irreversibly fond of you, y/n y/l/n.”

As Sejanus leaned closer to you, and you tilted you head so your nose would slot perfectly against his, a crowd of mentors came out of the academy, causing the two of you to jump apart. Sejanus looked more disappointed than you think you’d be able to get him to admit, and he stood from the steps almost instantly. “I have to go.”

If you’d been any less dazed by the almost kiss shared between the two of you, you’d have chased after him once more, but you found yourself frozen on the steps of the academy. Sejanus was going to kiss you. Maybe, if you were lucky, you’d find the two of you in such a position once again and maybe that time your lips would actually meet.

A part of you is certain you don’t even know the boy exists in any other universe. And yet, you find that you would plead before the Gods themselves to have the fortune of knowing him in every one.

An: thank you for reading!! Would anyone want a part 2 about Sejanus going in to the arena and reader and Coriolanus teaming up to get him out? I might write it anyway lol but please give me feed back and let me know what you thought!! Mwah <333

part 2: I swam a lake of fire, I’d have walked across the floor of any sea out now!!

[obsob]

okay but if three beautiful women came into my room when i was sleeping to drink my blood i too would just let them 

[mooncactus]

Hey I haven’t seen much activity on the tags in terms of valdug (might be because this fandoms small and I’m avoiding spoilers so I’m not very aware if anyone’s mentioned anything lmao) but I don’t generally see anti valdug vs valdug shipper fights? Is there usually tension between the fandom over this?

before the first series ended? All the fucking TIME, BRO. I won’t throw other valdugs under the bus, it was all me being a very aggro 16-17 year old and deciding I needed to fight everyone lmao. it was not my best decision. (but I’m now friends with the people I used to fight and they ship valduggery now so like........ all’s well that ends well?) what ended up handing circa lsodm was that a lot of people started reading the books *for* valdug, or at least were only involved in the fandom for the ship and therefore were producing a lot of fanwork. that shifted the tide in valdugs favor, people started being afraid of rocking the boat and upsetting anyone, especially all the great new fanartists. and also we were all getting older and tired of internet drama bsby the time phase 1 ended valduggery was literally the only ship left standing. and so there was nothing to even fight about. it was over. valdugs read TDOTL and thought they were endgame, antis read it and felt it was platonic.THEN PHASE 2 HAPPENED. and now there are new people to ship val and skul with! and even more than that, the way we talk about ships we don’t like in 2018 is vey very VERY different than we did in 2014. reylo in its ENTIRETY didn’t even EXIST when TDOTL came out. Now you have people running entire blogs dedicated to hating a ship, and now there’s all of this morality tied in, and now you’re a bad person for wanting val to kiss him when she’s 100, because guys, she was 12 once!nothings happened yet I’m just noticing people getting... rowdy. confident in making posts because they think they have the ~moral high ground~ and that gives them permission to be a dick.im trrrrrying to stay in my lane and learn from my younger selfs mistakes. a lot of the new antis are like 14, and don’t really know any better. so likely I’m just gonna write and draw valdug fanwork out of spite. the healthiest choice!

[heavensxfire]

Tagged by my love @crystallinee-waters​ Thank you dear

Da rules: -Always post the rules - Answer the questions given to you by the person who tagged you (since u tagged me twice I’ll answer your 22 questions) - Write 11 questions of your own. - Tag 11 people.

1. Do you have any pets, if so what’s their names? Pics pls ;w; I dont have pets sadly, my mom is extremly alergic *cries* 2. Favorite way to wear your hair? Down and I love it when it has my natural curls (like right after I washed it) 3. Last fanfic you read? Hit That Sweet Tooth by (You) 4. Cat or dog person? You make me choose between two cute things sent from heaven? very cruel 5. Three words your friends would use to describe you? loves books and movies more then herself, batshit crazy, never has fights (like literally never) (okay this aint 3 words but does it count?) 6. Favorite movie of all time? like I said I cant choose from my children cause I love them all more than myself so I’ll just list some that come to my mind atm: The Breakfast Club, Lolita, Plush, Sucker Punch (list every movie starring Emily Browning I love her so much shes so underrated), Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Butterfly Effect, The Boy In Stripped Pyjamas, The Help, Fight Club, Unfaithful, Black Swan, A Cure For Wellness, Fifty Shades (sry not sry), Wonder Woman, Suicide Squad, (I’ll stop myself here or I’ll list fuckin 100000+ movies) 7. If you could see the future, would you choose to look? Yea propably 8. You can change the ending of one movie, which one would you pick and what would it be? Idk maybe the ending in Before I Fall or Me Before You but I wont say what I’ll change cause spoilers (clue: ppl die and I would keep them alive cause I literally did not ask for them to die) 9. If you got to spend one day with a celebrity/idol, who would you choose? Melanie Martinez or Lana Del Rey or Halsey or Marina Diamandis (cant choose between my indie queens) 10. Which pattern (on clothes, accessories etc) do you like the most: floral, space, plants, store/brand logo, geometric or simple monochrome? Floral and Space looks noice 11. Fave food? Everything 12. What is your biggest goal right now? To read more books that I have on my shelf and stop buying new ones XD *goes and buys new ones* 13. Choose your power: super speed, invisibility or ability to fly? Invisibility 14. If you were a color, which one would you be? Gradient/nuance? Like idk I’ll be a mix (so like Gradient) of all but with lots of black 15. If you could learn any language instantly, which would you choose? Spanish maybe 16. Preference: Slow burn fanfic or quicker pace? Slow burn cause I love suffering *but then still gets mad that they dont fuck in the second chapter* 17. Which charity organization appeals to you the most? I dont know 18. Favorite Disney movie? Just to pick a few: Aladdin (I just adore everything with arabian nights and it all leads back to Aladdin), Beauty And The Beast (like when you know my otps they all lead back to this fairytale tho and I love both old and new version), Tarzan, Lion King (1&2) (I love the second one more and god it gave me major sexual frustration as a kid ahem I was so attracted to Kovu and Vitani like yes I was fucked up even then and tbh I cant be alone on this), Hunchback Of Notre Dame (this became my fave movie when I got older cause when I was a kid the beginning made me so angry and sad I always avoided the whole movie), Tangled, Frozen (yes I still love it and still ship helsa), Princess And The Frog, ATLANTIDA (its so underrated and honestly IT NEEDS A LIVE ACTION REMAKE DISNEY TAKE NOTES), Mulan (made me a feminist even when I didnt know what feminism was back then) I think I’ll stop here I named too much like I love all disney movies all animated movies 19. Which song is your “theme song”? Propably something by Lana Del Rey pick one XD 20. Introvert, extrovert or in between? The test I just did says Im a public introvert and a private extrovert and its kinda true 21. You can go back and change/alter one event in the world’s history. Which one? (keep in mind it will affect the future) Oh well I would like to kill Hitler before he could start the genocide :)) , or I’d kill Columbus and prevent him from “finding” America and also escape major genocide and honey I dont care If some of these events would lead to my parents never meeting cause its worth it 22. Do you believe in aliens? Yes, like there are so much galaxies in space its simply impossible that we are alone in this world so like where do I sign up to get taken??

My questons: 1. Whats your favourite book and why? 2. Something you identify with your childhood? 3. Do you like musicals & musical theatre? If yes what is your favourite and name your top 5 songs (must not be from one musical) 4. If you suddenly god lots of money what would you do with it? 5. Would you change your gender for 24 hours? 6. Guilty pleasures? 7. If you could meet with one dead person who would it be? 8. Do you enjoy sour & spicy food? 9. What do you hate in a person? 10. What do you love in a person? 11. If you had a chance to fall asleep and wake up 100 years later would you and what do you think the world will look like in 100 years?

Imma tag: @smilesofinsanity​ @miskhalie​ @crystallinee-waters​ @duunkelbuntes-leben​  @cristir1987 @teamfeyre @i-hate-you-beastie @hiccstridhaddock01 @duckseatpizza @hufflepuff-socks @mistakenvalkyrie​ well and I tag everyone who likes my questions and wants to answer them

[andymull]

WWE SummerSlam 2018 - Preview & Predictions

Hi all, welcome back for what now will be the longest night of the summer, so many matches on the card and kick off show so lets get into it and get out quickly.

ALSO, Tumblr YET AGAIN is playing up and has been for me the last 2 hours trying to get this done, 8 times ive tried so its just the text sorry

Brock Lesnar (c) vs Roman Reigns: WWE Universal Championship Match

Please let this be the last match between the two, please, we’ve had enough. Just let Reigns beat him finally for the title and move on with the title being defended more on tv, and IF Lesnar agree’s to a new deal lets all hope he gets it put in the deal that he gets to have fresh challenges in the future.

So, Roman wins the match as well as the belt the crowd boo’s like mad, Braun appears and cashes in his MITB contract and walks out of the show as the new champion with the fans going wild. This quickly moves the title with the fans not caring as someone they like has the belt in the end, Roman finally conquers Brock and gets that monkey off of his back, and they traverse well from Reigns/Lesnar straight into Reigns/Strowman so that Brocks move back into the UFC isnt the big story. - REIGNS

AJ Styles (c) vs Samoa Joe: WWE Championship Match

This will be an awesome match, the friends here have great chemistry together in the ring from working in different companies against each other.

I really want Joe to take the title tonight but I dont think its time just yet, plus I think there could be ALOT of potential title changes on the show so they may hold off as there’s plenty of room to explore in this feud over the next month or two - STYLES

Alexa Bliss (c) vs Ronda Rousey: WWE Raw Women’s Championship Match

Im surprised they've been able to keep theirselves from getting the title on Ronda so long, they probably should have waited longer but this seems to be her coronation time. All eyes will be on her tonight, dont be surprised if there’s a late decision on match order for the show with this coming in as a late contender for the main event slot if there’s going to be a title change. Personally im not sure if this is the perfect timing for it or maybe they should have it be the main event at the Evolution PPV........I know spoilers are out there for that show already but Ronda winning the title there might be bigger overall in impact than their current plans.

With so many bouts on the show I see one or two turning into pretty quick squash matches, this is potentially one of them, they just have to be careful of destroying Bliss by doing so but then again she could do with time away from the title after the past few years of her on Raw and Smackdown with the belts - ROUSEY

Braun Strowman vs Kevin Owens: Winner By Any Means Takes The MITB Opportunity

I dont think there’s much of a chance here of an upset win for Owens, he got that last month in the cage match, and really this is just a stop gap feud for Braun before his cash in.

Sadly Owens isnt the guy in focus at the moment on Raw but does his job so well that he will get used alot to help others, hopefully he still remains a threat in managements minds and doesn't get looked at differently for being so useful - STROWMAN 

Dolph Ziggler (c) w/ Drew McIntyre vs Seth Rollins w/ Dean Ambrose: WWE Raw Intercontinental Championship Match

Dean’s new look wasn't that impressive for them to update the image for the match obviously lol

I think the title changes hands here and we move into these four guys interchanging in different matches, so Drew/Rollins and Dolph/Ambrose then tag matches - ROLLINS

Becky Lynch vs Carmella (c) vs Charlotte: WWE Smackdown Live Women’s Championship Match

Im kinda gutted that this was altered into a three way match with Charlotte being added, it felt the perfect setup for a one on one bout with Becky winning the title back finally. Now it has that weird feeling to it with her ‘best friend’ Charlotte around and them eventually fighting each other, hopefully the crowd stick with Lynch throughout and dont pick Charlotte to cheer and her to boo, hopefully.

Carmella’s reign has been worrying sadly, she’s ended up on commentary far too often lately when really she should have been added to some of the tag matches that have occurred. It really doesn't feel like they 100% trust her which is madness after they gave her the title, and its all on managements heads to be honest. When she won the MITB briefcase they should have had her in matches most weeks going 10 minutes or over with solid wrestlers to get her ready and improved for the eventual title reign, instead she got hardly any ring time to help develop herself and is now being found out at the time she needs the help the most.

Lynch should take the belt and have a good title run after not seeing the belt for a decent amount of time - LYNCH 

Daniel Bryan vs The Miz

Some great time and segments have gone into this feud over the years and hopefully the match lives upto it, not sure if this will be a feud that will continue for longer or it may be one that dies down after the finish only to be picked up again afew months down the road when one of these men get nearer to the world title scene.

I see Bryan winning here and maybe moving onto a feud with Nakamura or possibly Orton, him moving upto the world title scene wont occur yet, they haven't confirmed his new contract just yet so be prepared to wait till Mania time for them to pull the trigger big time to have him back at the top of the card - BRYAN

Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs Jeff Hardy: WWE Smackdown Live US Championship Match

Hopefully this match doeskin end again with Randy Orton interfering again and they just leave the two have a solid 15 minutes, they seem to have some good chemistry together and freshness - NAKAMURA 

Finn Balor vs CUNTstable Corbin

I hate that this match is taking up time on the show, nothing against Finn as I love the guy and have supported him for years, but this bout is only happening because of the companies stupid booking and making everything 50/50. Finn should have gone over strong in the first match and then won the second, then have Corbin use his position to have Balor go against bigger names. Instead we have to have them beating each other all the time so that nothing ever matters, if Corbin is in a management position then he doesn't so much need the wins at the moment as he should be using his position more - BALOR

The Bludgeon Brothers (c) vs The New Day: WWE Smackdown Live Tag Team Championship Match

Im not sure of anyone really knows the direction they want to go with these belts, the Bludgeons should have been wrestling more as their reign hasn't really felt anything special which is sad for them. Whoever wins will most likely end up feuding with the same old names again, lets hope it gets changed up alittle and The Bar get involved more - BLUDGEON BROTHERS

Elias Performance

Im including this as I see it leading to a beat-down from Bobby Lashley

Cedric Alexander (c) vs Drew Gulak: Cruiserweight Championship Match (Kick Off Show)

Drew won the opportunity at the title after winning a fatal 4 way match and aims to end the rule of Alexander, it just doesn't feel right for a change here. The show still seems to be finding its way as 205 Live are doing great at booking small time feuds, but there really doesn't feel to be a longer plan in mind as to who takes the title next and where it goes from there - ALEXANDER

Rusev + Lane vs Zelina Vega + Andrade Cien Almas (Kick Off Match)

Im gutted for Rusev, he goes from fighting for the world title against Styles one month to being relegated to the pre-show the next, him vs Andrade should have been on the main card in a one on one match allowing them both to have a show stealer and impress everyone that still hasn't seen much of what Almas can offer.

Instead we have it built around the managers and Aiden English all not getting along, the less we talk about Lana having to act or wrestle the better, infact just go back at the second incident they all had and notice that they had to cut Lana’s bump out of the replays because it was that bad - ANDRADE/VEGA

The B Team (c) vs The Revival: WWE Raw Tag Team Championship Match

After retaining their titles on Raw The B Team have to defend their titles again against the Revival, this feels like one of those occasions where they will have the match here and then re-do it again on Raw, just that the title change will wait till Raw I predict - REVIVAL

I wonder if we get any surprise names around the show, maybe an NXT call up tonight or tomorrow???

Enjoy

Bye for now

Andy