#let me ship what i want to ship romantically dammit

[theneighborhoodwatch]

002 - Popstar, Franklydear and whatever we call what Wally and Home have going on

(send me a character/ship to hear my thoughts)

i've gotten Multiple asks about all of these pairings, so let's not waste anymore time. under the cut bc unsurprisingly this got Long.

POPSTAR

when or if I started shipping it: i think it first Really started with this pokemon AU post clown made talking about what he thought they'd be up to in that universe... the language he uses in that post really caught my eye, and it just kinda snowballed from there, especially as canon started picking up and we saw more of them interacting 1-on-1.

my thoughts: i feel like we don't really get a lot of yuri in this specific Type of horror (i.e. cute thing is secretly fucked up), at least not in the west. i think that's a crying shame, but i believe popstar has the potential to truly open the floodgates. unless i'm forgetting herstory - idk i feel like there's definitely some rpgmaker game out there that'll prove me wrong but you know what i mean. more mascot horror yuri NOW.

What makes me happy about them: i think it's super cute that they both kinda geek out whenever one of them asks the other for help, like they're being asked by this big huge celebrity and not, like. their literal next door neighbor lol. sally in particular - as bullheaded as she is, her insistence on trying to put poppy in the spotlight more often isn't because she thinks poppy is untalented and needs to train up, but because she genuinely thinks poppy is Just That Stunning And Talented And Beautiful, and doesn't want that to go to waste. nepotism has never looked so romantic <3

What makes me sad about them: sally seems to enlist poppy's help Way more than poppy does sally's, and while sally clearly Wants to take poppy seriously, she has a hard time not immediately brushing off other's concerns in general because She's An Auteur, Dammit, She Knows What She's Talking About. it does make me very worried for poppy! i think things between them are gonna get Way worse before they get better lol. not dysfunctional enough to be toxic yuri but certainly painful enough that it will Get Me when it happens.

Things done in fanfic that annoys me: THAT NOBODY WRITES IT

Things I look for in fanfic: MORE OF IT

My kinks: again, serious in-depth answers go on the nsfw blog only. i will say i think they're definitely those people who keep trying to set up roleplay scenes only to get distracted by trying to figure out the technical aspects and/or getting so in-character that they forgot what the end goal was.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: poppy partridge if you read this im free on Thursday night and would like to hang out. Please respond to this and then hang out with me on Thursday night when I’m free.

My happily ever after for them: after a series of trials and tribulations, complete with at least one breakup arc, the two of them reconcile in an appropriately dramatic apology-that-looks-suspiciously-like-a-marriage-proposal scene. i don't really know what happens after that. i was going to say they go on to become lesbian statler and waldorf, but i think they would both be too invested in trying to give actual constructive criticism, so maybe they just mst3k it instead.

FRANKLYDEAR

when or if I started shipping it: i dunno! i don't remember ever being opposed to the ship, but there was definitely a period of time where my approach to it was more "hmmm i wonder what this ship being canon means for welcome home's Themes" and less "ough fuck they make me so sick," as opposed to the current day where it's a pretty even mix of both.

my thoughts: god what haven't i said about them. i think i peaked with this post. i don't think anything i say can summarize the appeal of their relationship to me more succinctly than that.

What makes me happy about them: when it comes to eddie, frank is like. frank is so fucking funny bc he seems to be under the impression that he's being subtle. yeah get mad whenever anyone who isn't you makes fun of that beautiful big breasted mailman to the point where you'll even defend his honor in the merch advertisements and also when you Do make fun of him be sure to be gentler than you would be with almost anyone else but also don't let up entirely bc then you won't get to see him be adorably flustered and also enforce a surname-only basis with him so people don't think you're getting too chummy but ALSO drop the surname-only basis whenever he seems genuinely upset to let him know that you're worried about him and want to help. and also do this in front of everyone at a holiday party. nobody will suspect a thing. and the best part is that IT WORKS ON EDDIE. EDDIE ALSO THINKS FRANK IS COOL AND TRUSTWORTHY AND RELIABLE ENOUGH THAT HE AUDIBLY/VISIBLY RELAXES WHENEVER FRANK ENTERS A SCENE.

What makes me sad about them: EDDIE'S ASS IS NOT PREPARED FOR THE DAY THAT IT'LL BE FRANK IN THE PROVERBIAL LOVESEAT OF TORMENT. arguably neither is frank but like given how eddie saw frank at the end of the homewarming special? it's going to FUCK him up.

Things done in fanfic that annoys me: when i click on the eddie dear/frank frankly tag. and i filter out all mentions of wally darling. i should not still be seeing wally darling. do u understand. get that little yellow cunt OUT of here!!!!!!!

Things I look for in fanfic: pre-established relationship hurt/comfort or angst. i realize i may be alone in my interpretation of franklydear as not being Together together yet, but i am stubborn.

My kinks: i wonder how many times i can say "ask for my nsfw blog" without it getting old.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: GOOD QUESTION. i don't think either of them would particularly struggle to find a partner if they didn't end up with each other, but i also can't see either of them being attracted to any of their other neighbors.

My happily ever after for them: these two images specifically. in general they should get to be huge cornballs for at least a little while should they successfully endure The Horrors.

HOME AND WALLY. HOMEWALLY? WALLYHOME? WHO KNOWS.

when or if I started shipping it: an old friend of mine made a joke about it once in 2022, waaaay before there was any like, huge fandom presence outside of a few scant discord servers. i thought about it too hard and now i'm here.

my thoughts: romantically or not, THEY ARE SOOOOO DOOMED, DUDE. THEY ARE SO FUCKING DOOMED. and i don't mean, like, "yeah they have some stuff that makes their current relationship less than ideal but i'm sure they can work things out ^-^" no i mean DOOMED. there's only one way this relationship can end and it is in BLOOD and TEARS. and i will be there with a tissue box and a big ol' bucket of popcorn. i've written about them so much on this blog already but by god i will write more.

What makes me happy about them: the obsessive aspect to their relationship, like. it feels very mutual. it would be so easy to make home coldly imposing 24/7 and/or just have them be taking advantage of wally's love for them, but. no. they seem just as attached to their inhabitant as he is to them, for better or worse. i get a lot more mileage out of a relationship where both parties Love each other and desperately want to be all-encompassing for one another in All aspects of relationships, but live in a reality where that simply cannot be, and their relationship is wildly unhealthy as a result. home is a monument to a past that either never existed or cannot be revived without Severe consequences. but wally doesn't care about that. all wally cares about is that he is his home. see also: this post.

What makes me sad about them: [copypastes the entire above paragraph]

Things done in fanfic that annoys me: most wally/home fic is either pure crackfic or fic in which home gets hit hard with the ron the death eater treatment. like jesus, he's already pretty morally ambiguous in canon by just Standing There, you don't need to make him an actual rapist to establish that his and wally's relationship isn't exactly ideal.

Things I look for in fanfic: i don't look for it because i've pretty much given up on it being there at all, but i hope more folks write some actual character study-adjacent stuff about them some day!

My kinks: i do have actual answers to this but no way am i stating them here. again, i have a separate blog for that.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: LITERALLY ANYONE ELSE.

My happily ever after for them: you know that's not gonna happen.

[virtie333]

Let's talk Damerey.

I ended up being a VERY general fan during the SW sequels. Like...none of the ships bother me. FinnPoe? Fine. Damerey? Fine. Kylo and whomever, sure. I guess. I just want them to live and be happy.

Anyway, when did your Damerey journey start? I think I read at one point they had thought about making Poe and Rey a thing? But I guess the visions of the differing directors didn't allow for it? Did I make that up in my head?

I understand the appeal of that ship as well as FinnPoe or whatever it's called. I mean, it's Poe, so who wouldn't be obsessed lol

Anyway, thoughts?

Also, do you like to stick to Damerey fics for Poe or do you also like xreader with Poe?

Oh, boy. This might take a while.

I can honestly say I've been Damerey a lot longer than I've been a fan of Oscar Isaac. I became Damerey right after The Force Awakens. But here's the thing, I was Reylo, too. What? Okay, let me explain. I love the 'good girl falls for bad boy' trope, but I've always been realistic about it; the bad boy can't be horrible bad and has to become good eventually. I loved the idea of Rey bringing Ben back from the Dark Side, but... what he did to his father (my first love and still the one I compare to all other crushes) is unforgivable. I knew Ben Solo would NOT have a happy ending. Therefore, Rey needed to have her happily ever after with someone else. Finn or Poe? I loved them both, but I do have a thing for pilots, so I chose Poe.

The Last Jedi only increased my interest in both ships. The connection between Rey and Ben was fascinating. But... that last scene between Rey and Poe? I remember commenting to my brother after our first viewing, "They have to be planning something between them after that! Right?"

I went into the last movie wondering which way (if either) they were going to take it. I told myself I would be happy with either, and even if Rey chose no one; after all, she doesn't need a man to make her happy. But I am a hopeless romantic. After the first argument between Poe and Rey, where I nudged my brother (who I saw all 3 movies with) and said "They're just like Han and Leia!", I had hopes.

But... they failed to continue with that bright start. And with the kiss between Ben and Rey at the end, I was pretty much resolved to settle for Reylo. And that was my focus for the first couple of month after the movie. But then something strange happened. A fellow Reylo fan, who had defended the first two movies despite all the hate going on, started bemoaning how 'Rey would never be happy now,' and she 'would never get to have babies,' etc. etc. And that pissed me off. Big Time. She had options, dammit! She could stay single and raise Force sensitive orphans. She had Finn. And of course, she had Poe. So, I wrote Rising, my first fanfic in almost 20 years.

When the pandemic hit, and I ended up working part-time, I decided I needed to continue with this post-movie world I had created. I still had a soft spot for Ben, and it shows up in my early works, but I wanted to make Rey and Poe find their happily ever after. Then something else strange happened. In one of my stories, Kennera, I wrote a scene from Poe's POV. Suddenly, I wanted to know more about the actor who portrayed him. And I found this...

That was that. I was hooked on this man. I started watching everything I could with him in it. And I continued to write Damerey, falling more and more deeply into that ship. Reylo became less and less interesting to me, and now I could care less about it. Damerey is everything to me. And it's been that way for almost three years now. I just freaking love them with everything in me.

To answer your question about the ship almost becoming canon, yes it almost did. Colin Trevorrow's script The Duel of the Fates almost became the third movie, and it included a lot more Rey/Poe interaction, even a kiss or two. Some say it's why that scene at the end of The Last Jedi was added, to introduce that attraction. But alas, it didn't happen.

If you had asked me two years ago if I had read any Poe x Reader stories, I would have scoffed at you. I am a reader of novels and I write in the same style and always will, so why would I read that? But... I've read several amazing writers that write in that style since then, and I have become addicted. I know I will never write that way, but I will enjoy others.

I think the fact that I don't write that way is the reason why no one on Tumblr (other than a few trusted friends) ever reads and shares my stuff. It's a bit lonely sometimes, but it is what it is.

Damerey forever!

Art by @greysmartwolf

[carnivoraformes]

//Wishlist Shipping Edition From The Perspective Of Someone That Drank To Much Caffeine Before Bed And Their Favorite Word Starts With F and end in K™ (feel free to reblog if anyone wants to):

A. Running From Love

Person A is a fuckboy/fuckgirl and is only comfortable with friends with benefits or whatever and slowly falls for another person and it is reciprocated. Person A tries to run like hell away from love because emotional intimacy is not what they signed up for, meanwhile Person B is like 'oh fuck no, get your fucking ass back here and fucking love me and let me love you motherfucker'. Will it work out in the end? Maybe, maybe not but it's a wild ass ride.

B. Bad Romance, Cowards!

It is dark, toxic and just fucking not healthy. Maybe mutually abusive, both are manipulating each other or mutually self destructive but you fucking know what, they think that is fucking hot. The toxicity isn't one sided, both stand on equal grounds and if they blow up they do it together. They are like a fire burning to hot, to fast and if they self destruct they do it together and they want it that way. Is it sad? Of course, but these are terrible people spending time probably destroying other people's lives and they aren't good enough for anyone else. SO LET THEM BE FUCKING HAPPY INSTEAD OF RUINING EVERYONE ELSE'S LIVES FOR A LITTLE WHILE DAMMIT.

C. Good girl/boy/person x Bad girl/boy/person!

Tried and true. Does the good one save the other from damnation? Does the hell raiser drag the saint to hell? Do they find a happy medium? Does the mistakes of the past and bad habits keep them apart, take one of the away to soon? Does the hellion not want saving and it just becomes to much? Do they have a happy ending? Is it a tragic romance? That all depends on them and how hard they want to fight for a happy ending together.

D. They had potential to be something romantic but there was always something keeping them apart and now that is gone so what happens now?

What was keeping them apart? Obliviousness? Not believing the feeling was requited? Fear of ruining a good thing? Secrets? Right person, wrong time? Insert other legitimate reason here because it is late and I should have been in bed a while ago but caffeinated squirrel brain is fucking screeching.

Equally important now that thing keeping them apart is gone, what do they do now? Do they finally get together? Has that ship truly sailed? Does it turn out that maybe it was just not meant to be? Who the fuck knows but let's find out.

E. Unrequited Love But The Person Who's Feelings Aren't Requited Isn't A Fucking Little Bitch About It

THE PAIN, THE DRAMA, THE RESPECTFULLY WATCHING THAT RECIEPENT MEET THE PERSON OF THEIR DREAMS AND STILL BE A HAPPY SUPPORTIVE FRIEND BECAUSE GUESS WHAT? JUST BECAUSE ROMANTIC LOVE ISN'T RECEPRICATED DOESN'T GIVE ANYONE ANY EXCUSE TO BE A FUCKING DOUCHEBAG. IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE YOU CAN BE A NOT-PRICK ABOUT IT.

-Respectfully and Adoringly,

The Gremlin that Runs This Blog.

[anxietywriter]

friends?

always. this is a list of all the negative or presumptuous dialogue/blurbs of things regarding close friendships. so it's like. assumptions of dating and shipping of friends who don't feel anything for each other. It's also interspersed with my vent feelings

so lil tw for venting and if people pushing friends to date bothers you!

"Would you ever date me?" "Pfft. Absolutely not." "Damn so harsh haha." My apologies for being blunt and not wanting to lead you on and feeling the need to be more firm after being asked the same question SEVERAL times. It's not me denying my hidden feelings.

it's growing up and having a bunch of friends, regardless of gender. It was always who was the nicest. Who'd run the fastest. who can go the farthest on the monkey bars or play pretend the best. it's getting older and hearing whispers of you dating a friend. it's getting older and slowly having less friends of the opposite gender. it's being nervous about talking to any guy because you don't want the hassle of everyone around you cooing about how cute you'd be as a couple.

it's feeling uncomfortable. of constantly having to set everyone straight. and having conversations about the same thing over and over again, of insisting that there's nothing going on. of being questioned teasingly about anytime the two of you hang out as if it were a date. it's distancing yourself. because that's the only thing that works because the less interaction the better

"I don't think I could ever like date someone, break up, and stay friends. Even if we were friends beforehand." "That's sad." "... Is it? I don't think it is." the person who told me this has never seen me in a relationship but has an opinion on how I should feel a lot

it's the placating "you'll find someone" after saying you're single. like I get that it's meant to be comforting. but it is genuinely disconcerting seeing how many people feel like they NEED a relationship. not as in, "oh haha if we're still single by 30 let's get married instead" bc that's actually sane. It's more of a companionship thing. There are people who'd literally rather die than be single like, what?? I'm sorry you apparently can't appreciate anything or anyone else? you deserve to feel loved. and sometimes it comes from a platonic relationship rather than a romantic one and that's okay dammit.

when you're affectionate with everyone and everyone knows that but for some reason everyone is under the impression that you and the one other person in the group who happens to have the same interests as you are made for each other and said affection is proof. Of how it doesn't matter if you do that with everyone, it's different with them. and there is nothing you can do to convince them otherwise unless you just straight up fucking lie about being aromantic or something because they won't listen

jealous partners completely ending the friendship and losing all your friends because they, reasonably, suspected something was going on. Because the group could not stop shutting up about how surprised they were that you weren't their partner instead. Or joking about how affectionate you used to be and the obvious crush

being pushed and asked about a romantic relationship all too soon and needing to distance yourself because you had a rough breakup. and instead of being able to talk about that, you're stuck denying this fictional attraction to someone else you just met

when you're affectionate and playfully flirty with friends and people assume you're in a relationship and insist that there's something there. but it's laughably untrue because anyone that's known you while you were in a relationship... you acted differently. A lot sweeter, more genuine. The playfulness still there, but completely swamped by the soft endearments and sickening sappiness

the paranoia of not wanting to hurt your friend but also not wanting to be close to them after they ask again and again if you have feelings for them. Because you're afraid they've developed feelings and want to distance them from you for their own good

[aguinhaac]

Huh another one huh? Well let's do this, today we will be revealing the sixth episode of season 5 Determination

But, before it starts, I want to read the synopsis of this episode real quick.

“Adrien and Marinette reflect on their emotions. As Marinette struggles to persuade herself that she must stop loving Adrien since it is interfering with her performance as a superhero, she learns that she has feelings for another boy (chat noir) Who has undergone a significant transformation recently. Still, Adrien is more drawn to Marinette. Could it be that she is more than simply a friend?”

Just the fact that this is an episode that still on this relationship thing, that they are still using this for drama, we are 5 seasons in, and the writers still can’t think of anything better than this? They will keep on this “Marinette struggles to talk to Adrien” “Marinette don’t want to be in love with Adrien anymore” “Adrien thinks Marinette is just a friend” I know this is a show that its base is romance, the show lives because of its romance I get it, but there are a billion ways to give the love square something to do with instead of just flipping it and hope everyone will love the variety. With that said, we can already assume this episode is gonna be great.

We start the episode with Marinette driving Kagami to her fencing class, look I am not European but I think that you can only drive if you’re 18+, it is a scooter BUT IT STILL A MOTOR VEHICLE, AND EVEN IN CONTRIES LIKE AMERICA THAT THE AGE TO OBTAIN A DRIVER'S LICENSE IS LOWER MARINETTE STILL HAS 14 SO IN EVERY WAY THIS IS ILEGAL, HER PARENTS SHOULD BE IN JAIL. IT’S AWSOME HOW I AM YOUNGER THAN MARINETTE AND I HAVE MORE COMMON SENSE THAN SHE AND THE WRITERS OF THIS SHOW.

Adrien gives Marinette a simp look, ya know what I’m talking about. And Mari drives away, which is completely justified, IF SOMEONE LOOKED AT ME LIKE THIS. I would be terrified.

Adrien simps a bit more and we have a time skip after the class. Kagami sees Adrien staring at a Marinette watercolor painting that Kagami made. Man, since when Kagami makes watercolors? I thought her art style was with graphite, and the way she asks Adrien if he liked it really looks like she didn’t tell her friends yet, unless she is trying out this style. But it looks awesome to be a beginner’s work. writers? The hell?

Adrien simps a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittle more over the painting and Kagami tells him to just call Marinette out.

Kagami: you are going to ask Marinette out.

Adrien: huh? But why?

Kagami: because you obviously have feelings for her. call her

Adrien: of course I don’t. she’s just a friend

Kagami: you look at her the way I wished you looked at me. Call her.

Adrien: no, you’re wrong!

Kagami: there are not more blind than those who will not look themselves at the mirror, call her

Adrien: but, ask her out? How? And what do I say?

Kagami: if your feelings were as clear as you’re pretending. You wouldn’t have any reason to hesitate like that.

Adrien… SHE JUST ASSUMED SHE STILL HAVE FEELINGS FOR YOU. HOW THE GOD DAMMIT YOU JUST CHANGE THE SUBJECT? DIDN’T THE WRITTERS WANTED DRAMA? HERE’S THE PERFECT DRAMA. ADRIEN AND KAGAMI BREAK UP. HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT IT, HOW THEY DELEAD WITH IT, HOW THEY CAN MOVE ON AND JUST BE FRIENDS. REAL FRIENDS. MAYBE JUST MAYBE THEY COULD GIVE SOMETHING TO DO TO THEIR SECOND-BEST CHARACTER THAT ISN’T JUST BE THE OTHER ROMANTIC INTEREST AND SHIPPING FUEL?

With Marinette she goes to Luka’s boat house to give some kitty section themed stickers. Marinette then receives Adrien call and answer him in Spanish for some reason? So, she knows Spanish BUT DON’T KNOW CHINESE THAT IS THE LANGUAGE THAT HER MOTHER IS FLUENT? W H A T? or this was a mistake while translating the episode to English. Or Marinette is one of the 9% of Parisians that speak Spanish. Adrien says that his feelings for her have changed and asks her out to go to the wax museum. Marinette at first deny but because of her friends pressure she accepts

Kagami: the wax museum?

Adrien: yes why? Did I do something wrong?

Kagami: on a romantic date?

Adrien: you told me that my feelings were unclear and you we’re right. Something changed but I don’t know what, but somewhere around the time we went to the wax museum

And then... they play the puppeteer 2 wax statue kiss scene. What can I say? This is the most idiotic, retarded, horrible, criminal. I DON’T HAVE WORDS TO DESCRIBLE THIS. Adrien always showed he don’t like this kinda creepy fan stuff, he got uncomfortable when Lila did this. He got uncomfortable when did it. He got uncomfortable when fans did this. He got uncomfortable when his now ex-girlfriend did this. He doesn’t like this kinda stuff. THEN WHY WOULD IT BE DIFFERENT WITH MARINETTE. “Oh, because Marinette was his friend that’s why he wasn’t uncomfortable.” AT SEASON 2 ADRIEN KNEW MARINETTE FOR 4 MONTHS AT MAX. HE KNEW CHLOE FOR MUCH LONGER AND STILL GOT UNCONFORTABLE WHEN SHE TRIED TO KISS HIM (bubbler) SO IT JUST DOSEN’T MAKE SENSE, WHY INSTEAD DON’T YOU DID ADRIEN DEVELOP FEELINGS FOR MARINETTE IN MULTIPLICATION? THAT EPISODE HE REALIZED MARINETTE HELPED HIM A LOT. WHY DON’T SAY IT WAS THIS INSTEAD, AT LEAST IT WOULD MAKE SENSE. Also why is the show ok with Marinette doing it? The writers called out Felix for sexual harassment, why don’t call out Marinette too? She basically did the same as him, ok she thought it was a statue BUT STILL. Well, apparently can’t call out girls for sexual harassment.

With Marinette she talks to Luka that she is confused and that she can’t be in love with him, Luka gives Marinette some advice and Mari ends up inviting him to go with her. They arrive at the museum, we have a lil misunderstand that Adrien thought Marinette was dating Luka and Mari thought Adrien was dating Kagami nothing important, just to fill the episode. They enter the museum and go to the famous wing or something, I wasn't paying attention, listening to music, what? The episode isn’t one of the most interesting one, can you blame me? They end up bumping into Adrien’s statue, this scene is just to make Marinette uncomfortable and the audience mad, and it is working so let’s just skip this before I

Marinette starts tries to justify herself even getting a tape out of nowhere, what?

Adrien and Luka talk about Adrien and Mari character flaws and decide that as good friends they will let they talk when they are ready, one step at a time into maybe they can- NOPE MAKE ADRIEN JEULOUS OVER MARINETTE IS SO MUCH BETTER, like I would understand if it was with someone else but Adrien is known for not standing up for himself so what was the plan here? Make him sad?

The scene cuts to Veronique talking to the mayor that I forgot the name and I don’t really care either. The mayor says that they should close the museum because of the temp hero statues and that can cause akumatizations? What? Akumatize who? Ladybug? I don’t see why anyone would get sad over this. Like yeah, they would remember that Ladybug lost the miraculous, BUT IF ONLY BECAUSE OF THIS SOMEONE GETS AKUMATIZED I WILL PUT THE BUTTERFLY RIGHT ON THE SIDE OF THE PEACKOACK AS THE MOST POWERFULL MIRACULOUS OF ALL.

Marinette tries to avoid talking to Adrien, and then Kagami and Luka think of a very healthy way for them to talk without they getting uncomfortable, NOP LETS TRAP THEN ALONE SO THEY ARE FORCED TO TALK EVEN THOUGH ADRIEN HAS SHOWN MANY TIMES THAT HE PROBABLY HAS CLAUSTROPHOBIA. GREAT FRIENDS I WOULD SAY, look I wouldn’t take this seriously if the situation was another. Like Marinette is a stalker, it was made to be a joke so I will take it as a joke. But this? Ugh.

Monarch then akumatizes Veronique witch she tries to deny but she ends up accepting the akuma becoming Manipula

Her design is not bad. Is actually pretty good, the best of the season so far. At first, I didn’t get that she was supposed to represent wax but still 7.5/10 ice cream hair

About her powers, she is able to bring the hero statues back to life using some pamphlets, hmm where did I heard THAT before? this is just the puppeteer 2 but with a bigger arsenal, but like at least the puppeteer’s puppets could trick people, BUT THESE, THEY HAVE PAMPHLETS ON THEIR FUCKING FOREHEAD, WE CAN EASILY SAY WHICH IS WHICH

With Marinette and Adrien, Mari starts panicking

Adrien: everything’s ok Marinette, I’m here

Marinette: exactly, you’re here, that the problem

Adrien: I’m the problem?

Marinette: NO, you’re not the problem I’M THE PROBLEM, every time I get close to you, I make a mess, I ruin things I make disasters.

Adrien: of course not. Kissing me while you thought I was a statue was not disasters at all trust me.

At this point, I won’t say anything, for the sake of mine and your mental health I will just shut up and cut to the next scene.

Manipula shows up and start bringing up the statues back to life, Marinette and Adrien then transforms and go after Manipula that was going to the city hall. Manipula then tries to convince the heroes to give up their miraculous so monarch would stop akumatizing people, she heroes deny (obviously) and Manipula then guiltrip Ladybug making her sad for losing the miraculous, chat noir then assures Ladybug that he will always be there for her, I know what u doing writers, you are trying to make Adrien look good again, it will not work.

Manipula sends Rena rouge and Vesperia to attack the two idiots which they immediately defeat them, because of that we find out that a bunch of the wax statues were an illusion created by Rena’s statue, ok clever way to show the statues have the same powers as their holders. But, Writers? Are you aware that they have the Bunny, rooster, goat and pig miraculous, SHE IS OVERPOWERED. like just time travel would end this battle. Well, it’s not like this is a show that tries make sense amirite?

Manipula then runs away and Ladybug rip one of the pamphlets just to some akuma dust fly away, why? Why they didn’t make like Simon says? This just makes another one of things that makes the audience say “why the hack monarch doesn’t use It more often?” this is kinda op. like this makes the battle last longer. Why don’t he use it more?

Manipula then sends the heroes to chase Ladybug and chat noir while she dialogues with the mayor.

Manipula: Mr. mayor, you’re going to allow my museum to open the hall of heroes

Mr. Bourgeois scared: yes, I-

Chloe: daddy no!

Mr. Bourgeois still scared: mam I’m truly sorry but I can’t.

As a normal person I think this is a bad scene, BUT AS A CHLOE STAN THIS IS... CHLOE CARES ABOUT HER FATHER, SHE ALREADY PROVED THIS SO MANY TIMES, LIKE IN MEGA LEENCH SHE TRIES TO APOLOGIZE TO HIM, OR IN MIRACLE QUEEN SHE SAYS TO HAWK MOTH DEAKUMATIZE HER PARENTS. SHE IS SPOILED AND DOES HORRIBLE THINGS BUT SHE ISN’T AN IDIOT, SHE IS CLEARLY A DANGEROUS AKUMA. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

With ladybub and chat noar they defeat the wax statues one by one collecting the akuma dust Ladybug fucking flirts with chat, wha? Ladybug never shown any romantic thing for chat, well eventually they arrive at the city hall.

There they find wax versions of themselves, the waxbug activates her lucky charm that it’s the same to every evil Ladybug, a sword and they start to fight, chat noir defeats the waxbug like super easily, like I know we are 17:00 minutes in and need to defeat the villain AND resolve that romance thing but, could you make chat noir fighting waxbug a little more interesting? I love the concept of heroes having to fight a copy of themselves/their partners, because most of the shows make the copy have same combat style, same techniques, sometimes they even make the clone better, and it gives as an awesome battle most of the times, take steven universe for example, in the episode “Ocean Gem" lapis makes water clones of the crystal gems and they struggle a lot to pass them, because the clones copy their fight style, their powers, their techniques, their strategy, plus the water powers that lapis gave them it made an awesome battle. But here the clone appear is defeated and that’s it, and it isn’t just in this episode, every single episode of miraculous that a clone of them appear is just not a big deal. (Sleepwalker, Ladybug, etc.)

Ladybug then catches the waxchat with her yoyo and… when I say every human in this show is a moron, that is what I’m talking about, just, just see this.

Waxchat: my lady, it’s me.

Chat noir: It’s just an image my lady, a wax copycat, I’m your real partner

I remember some years ago, when I was just a kid watching reviews of season 3 because my parents didn’t had money to buy the closed channels, I remember I saw a theory that Ladybug was actually blind, at first, I said “no way”, but after this scene, I can just say, conglatulations for the person that made this theory, you predicted the future.

Ladybug, Marinette, Marineta, THAT THING HAS A GOOD DAMMIT PHAMPLET ON HIS GOD FOR SAKE FOREHEAD, IT’S OBIVIOUS THAT THIS IS THE FAKE, YOU ARE NOT DORA THE EXPLORER TO DON’T SEE SOMETHING THAT IS ON YOUR FACE. NO REALLY, I CAN’T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE WRITERS WANTED TO DO WITH THIS, “Oh ThIs iS A LaDyNoIr sCeN- NO, THAT DOES NOT PROVE THAT LADYBUG LIKES CHAT NOIR, BECAUSE WE DIDN’T HAVE A SINGLE HINT OF THIS EVER BEFORE LADYBUG NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER SHOWED ANY ROMANTIC ATRACTION BETEWEN CHAT NOIR, NOT IN THIS SEASON OR IN ANY OTHER, LADYBUG ALWAYS TRATED HIM AS A FRIEND,

Waxchat then attacks Ladybug but chat then saves her and they have a clime… ugh, you know what? I’ll just shut up, shut up and skip ahead.

Ladybug activates her lucky charm which is a bowling ball

ball? Ball? BALLS?

Sorry.

Ladyblind and chat noar go find Manipula which was just chilling and she says she will just let Chloe and Andre go if he authorizes display the heroes’ statues

Ladybug: why wouldn’t you allow it?

Andre: uh Chloe honey, I don’t think that was a very good idea

Chloe: all this is all because you were lame Ladybug, and you lost the miraculous because of your lameness, if you had kept me queen bee this would never happen, and now you get what you deserve ladylame

Chloe: since you’re a super hero you have no choice but to protect me from that villain, so who is the lamest one of all?

Chloe she is the wurst, like she is despicable, like she is just pure evil, she deserves to have an abusive mother and an absent father, right Astruc? Can I lick your shoes king of good writing.

Ladybug tries to find the sens- I mean she tries to find the good writin- I MEAN she tries to find what she was supposed to do with the lucky charm but fails, chat noir then actives his cataclysm more Manipulates grabs him and tries to get cataclysmed, mam don’t do this, chat already has history of trying to cataclysm people DON’T ENCOURAGE.

she gets cataclysmed but nothing happens because she has the ox miraculous, which sucks, wasn’t the black cat and Ladybug miraculous the most powerful of all? How a secondary miraculous is now stronger? It’s not like emotion that like “emotions can be stronger than others” yes determination is strong but not THAT much.

Chat noir then gets captured by the Ivan superhero form wax statue, I SHALL NOT SAY HIS SUPER HERO’S NAME. and Ladybug tries to save him just so she is gets captured too.

Ladybug then gives up but chat says she can do it and she figure out a plan she does a bit of effect domino and hits Manipula with a chandelier, so the ox can just protect from superpowers? Man, now THAT’S a bad miraculous, just don't win the worst miraculous awards because the dog still exists.

Ladybug then rip the last pamphlet and catches the last akuma dust, now that butterfly must have suffered, turned into dust? Man, that must have hurt

Ladybug then uses her miraculous Ladybug and gives Veronique a magical charm, so Andre decides to support the opening of the museum and Chloe jus stands there without saying a word? Again Chloe, my queen, W h a t ?

Ladybug then thanks chat noir and says that she couldn’t break that statue since the heroes went to buy cigarettes her feelings for him have changed, which he JUST IGNORES AND THEY NEVER TALK ABOUT IT AGAIN, DUDE, THE HECK??? TWO GIRLS JUST CONFESSED TO YOU AND YOU DO NOTHING? IS ADRIEN STUPID OR SOMETHING?

Then we cut the scene to Marinette and Adrien in the museum which Adrien simps a bit and Marinette goes away, which is actually a good lesson to teach kids, if you see a simp just

Adrien then tells Kagami that he is in love with Marinette and Marinette is with chat noir, the square has officially flipped. And that’s there the episode ends…

This episode is not good, and the square flip…look I don’t care if you’re gonna flip the love square, it is a fast cheep lazy way to give some drama, yes, but that’s ok, BUT SHOW, SHOW MARINETTE MOVING ON FROM ADRIEN, SHOW LADYBUG JUST HANGING UP WITH CHAT, SHOW SOME ONE SIDED MARICHAT, SHOW LADYBUG FEELING SOMETHING SHE NEVER FELT WITH CHAT BEFORE, SHOW MARINETTE NOT CARING ABOUT IF PEOPLE SHIP LADYNOIR OR NOT, SHOW MARINETTE THINKING ABOUT SOME GOOD TIMES SHE HAD WITH CHAT, SHOW MARINETTE FINDNING OUT SHE HAS THIS FEALINGS AND DENING IT, AND FOR LAST SHOW MARINETTE ACEPTING THAT SHE IS NOW IN LOVE WITH CHAT. THIS IS THE BASE TO EVERY LOVE INTEREST FLIP. EVEN I THAT AM NOT SUCH A FAN OF ROMANCE KNOW THIS, WRITERS YOU HAVE TO SHOW MARINETTE DEVELOPING THINGS FOR CHAT, DON’T JUST TELL IT IN ONE EPISODE AND ACT LIKE THIS WAS FORESHADOWED BEFORE. SHOW DO NOT TELL IT’S NOT SO HARD. And with Adrien… IT SUCKED EVEN HARDER, ADRIEN ALWAYS SHOWED HE WAS UNCONFORTABLE WITH THIS KINDA STUFF, THE BUBBLER WHEN CHLOE TRIED TO KISS HIM, HE WAS UNCONFORTABLE, WHEN KAGAMI HIS GIRLFRIEND FORCED HIM TO KISS HER HE GOT UNCONFORTABLE, EVEN IN THE EPISODE WE CAN CLERALY SEE AFTER THE KISS HE WAS UNCONFORTABLE. SO WHY THE HECK DID THE WRITTERS THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA. AND EVEN IF HE DID FALL FOR HER THERE WHY STILL TRIED THAT HIM AND LADYBUG OR HIM IN KAGAMI WERE A THING?????????? AND EVEN IF HE WAS JUST CONFUSED ABOUT HIS FEELINGS IT DON’T TAKE SO LONG TO REALIZE THIS KINDA STUFF, WRITERS IS NOT SO HARD, JUST MAKE SENSE !

That’s what I have to say, I’ll give this episode a 4.5/10 give ladybub some glasses

Thank you for seeing, see you in the next post

[invisiblegarters]

Never Let Me Go Ep 7

Pfft, no, Palm. Listen to Nueng and your mom. Let him do things by himself. Let him learn how to be a real boy! 

Oooh, pillow fight tension. I would be cheering kiss him but we all know it ain't going there. Instead Palm will just hover over him and they'll just stare at each other for nineteen minutes until someone inevitably walks in on them.

See? I better get some damn kisses this ep or I will be very grumpy.

Palm's mom's expression is great though.

"Employee/employer my ass"

Wait, wait, wait. Nueng wants to buy a phone to listen to music? Not to, I don't know, try to find out wtf happened to his mom? Am I the only one who cares about Tanya here? 

Palm, you keep flirting and it keeps going nowhere.

Man, this Phum dude is way too happy about the prospect of Nueng being shot. I get not liking his family but that's…a lot. And he was entirely the one who made the banner - he's too damn smug for it not to be. He does have a point about Ben, I have to say - even if I understand why Ben did the thing it's still cowardly, and he knows it. 

Aw, Chopper to the rescue. 

Man Ben sure does react weird whenever touching Chopper is on the table. I still really want to know what went down there. More and more I'm believing that something did. Something a bit more than friends growing apart. There's just something about the way they interact, man.

Dammit, Chopper. Stop breaking my heart here.

I honestly can't tell if Ben is being deliberately obtuse when he asks why Chopper would do such a thing for him, though. It almost feels like he's prodding him but I don't know if that's just my wishful thinking or not. Yes I ship it but I'm not sure how much of that is me just wanting Chopper to get what he wants. I just adore him. 

Meanwhile, in "Nueng has completely forgotten Ben's existence" land…Nueng is very busy completely forgetting Ben exists and offering up Palm's stretch of paradise so one of the tourist couple can propose to his boyfriend and using the opportunity to flirt with Palm and look at his lips a lot and needle him about romantic moments. Both of them are being ridiculously unsubtle to be honest. Just make out already, you two. Stop dancing around it and playing the questions game and just do the thing already so that we can get to the angst about whether you mean it or not. 

Man, Nueng just keeps poking and prodding at Palm, and I genuinely can't tell if Palm's being deliberately obtuse or if he's sincerely not getting it. I don't doubt he's head over heels because he says untrue things like "all I've ever seen is your nice side" or this:

and only love could explain either of those, but he's so passive and so reserved that I actually feel like Nueng. I want to see that passivity shaken (but first I want to see more angst from Nueng about whether he's just following orders because I like that stuff). 

Him reaching out in the night to hold onto Nueng was sweet though, and a definite, broad hint to his true feelings. No reason to do that other than he wanted to, after all. 

Pfft a little on the nose with the bad fortunes, show. 

Ah so Chanon sold himself and then Palm into servitude to Nueng's family to save Palm's life, eh? I know I should find it heartwarming or it should make me feel a little better about Chanon but nah. Still no. I do like Nueng being like "no one owns your life", although I do sometimes feel like what he says doesn't match up with his actions. He might think that, but he certainly does like to act like he owns Palm whenever Maggie shows up. Granted I think he wants to own him in the romantic sense (and be owned by him just as badly), but I'm not sure Palm quite gets the distinction, and Nueng's spoiled brat act whenever Palm pisses him off doesn't help. 

Okay, Tanya is in critical condition with organ damage. Thank you for finally informing me, show. 

I legit cackled with delight through the entire press conference. Kit blowing all the smoke about how amazing Nueng is and how he desperately wants to find him. I mean, I do think he wants to find him, but not to make sure he's okay. 

Holy crap that one reporter clearly doesn't want to live forever. I love Kit's "how very dare Tanya is my family" reaction to the question, though. Plus Chopper's awesome side eye:

Now that's a good headline photo. “Clearly Guilty Man’s Son Thinks He’s Clearly Guilty!”  

And I guess I was wrong, Kit totally did order the attack. Score one for Nueng. 

Oh, Chopper's devastated little face when he realizes his dad actually did the thing is killing me.

This show is just full of kids who are too good for their parents. I knew Chopper would be the only one who really cared what happened to Nueng. 

I feel for him, and I really really hope he doesn't break bad for his asshole of a father, because that up there is not a face of a dude who wants to get to the top the way his father is choosing. The poor thing is so miserable and I hate that for him. 

That shirt really suits him though. /shallow 

Please Chopper stay sweet and decent. I know I keep saying that I'll be okay if you go evil but I'm a lying liar who lies. 

Speaking of lying liars who lie...Palm, you are so full of crap, my dude. I believe that you don't know what love is, maybe, but that there's nothing between you and Nueng? Nope, not buying what you're selling. 

And neither is his mom, ha!. I love her prying about whether they've kissed or not, and while I have my suspicions that she's gonna sell them down the river eventually because of her debts (there are no good parents in this show), I am actually loving her and Palm together right now. She's not really a mom but she's fun and she isn't afraid to share home truths, like your dad is an ass, you clearly have a thing for that boy, and please don't suffocate him with your love because otherwise he’ll run away like I did (okay maybe that last one is a little projection but). The entire scene with Palm at the wedding was gold. 

Okay I'm kind of impressed with Nueng. Dude has let all the wedding stuff make him brave.

Nice piece of acting here: the way that Nueng wrings his hands together slightly before asking for what he wants. A nice, subtle way to portray how nervous he actually is. 

And Palm can beep boop what is love (baby don't hurt me) all he wants, but he once again kisses Nueng like he's starving. And this time, when the kisses are supposed to be real, they both reach for each other exactly the way they wanted to the first time and didn't. Although Palm’s "is this how couples kiss?" is hopefully going to burrow into Nueng's mind and generate some delicious doubt and angst. 

Also Nueng did this:

So now we have a self-imposed time limit to deal with on top of the angst inherent in Palm being the Most Protective and Most Willing to Do Whatever Young Master Asks making it hard to tell what he’s doing because he wants to and what he’s doing because Nueng wants him to. I would be lying if I said I wasn't into it. 

The last bit made me laugh, and I don't think it was supposed to. Chanon is so bad at his job. So bad. And now Kit's gonna finger him for the shooting and also probably Nueng's dad's murder while he's at it.

And next week, more Chopper. Oh and some action stuff and Maggie laying down some more truths but mostly, Chopper. My priorities are fine, thank you. 

[borreloadsavagedragon]

alright tell all of us your thoughts about kaito :)

I did not forget… I have just been con crunching but now I’m free to become the worse

Minor Zexal and Arc V spoiling ahoy

How I feel about this character:

Oh no you’ve opened a floodgate… welcome to oversharing hour with Jay

I’m very normal about Kaito, just ignore the two full cosplays + the EVA foam Orbital work in progress I have mapped out, the wall scroll that’s at my work computer, my ita pin bag, and the fact that I’ve done everything I can to make his deck competitive viable and god dammit am I still trying please print this deck a god damn banger starter, Konami, I can’t keep doing this without your help-

Short story but I used to be suuuuper YGO Vrains favoring from 2020 into early 2022, but I found myself drifting from it because one can only tolerate so much subtweeting and catty behavior over personal preferences, and I’d never really finished Zexal before, just has a half baked idea how it ends, like I watched a chunk of it when it first aired but never finished and proceeded to forgot most of it, so I picked it back up after deciding to pick up Kaito to write in an RP server with some friends because I remembered liking him and… well I didn’t stand a chance when I got back to him fjdhdhd

I deeply relate to the theme of self-inflicted loneliness because it’s easier to be by yourself, just getting walked out on, left in the dark, or even being shafted for reasons out of my own control, I really get that

Also taking on too much if it means the people you love will be ok even if the ending result is you’re not ok, where he is after his Duel with Yuma at the end of Zexal I and getting to repair all of those relationships he was damaged by is where I want to get to in life

Bonus fact that’s minor spoilers for another spin off, but I’m… not a huge fan of his portrayal in Arc V, I like that he’s there and acknowledge that it’s a different Kaito and I love all Kaito Tenjos as they exist, including the Structures Cosplayer, but… yeah, not a fan, I’m a big fan of showing vs telling and Arc V to me feels like it’s ALL telling for all of its supporting cast most of the time

All the people I ship romantically

The better question is who I don’t honestly because that list is far smaller, but if I had to pick favorites I’m very partial to Ryouga, Mizael, and Edo-

Something about rivals to lovers resonates with my very being, even if Edo is less of a rival and more of an enemy until Arc V does it’s usual-

I’ve written for Challenge and AntiHero both already actually, my docs is 99% Challenge Wips that are slowly coming along tbh, and GalaxyMaster takes more time to write since most of those are… you know what I’m getting at LOL

I stg Gallop's one mission was to make Kaito Tenjo a dating sim protagonist because I have no other excuse for why they gave him so many boyfriends and even girlfriends across Zexal and Arc V, Yugioh’s surprising most eligible bachelor

My non-romantic OTP

nervous laughter

Chris.

I like to think of them more as divorcees who are just fine staying apart

Also gestures vaguely at the first answer

My unpopular opinion

I don’t know if I have many tbh, besides disliking Arc V’s rendition of him / not liking mentor at all lol— Like maybe how I genuinely believe he’s the strongest rival bc his record was the best even after he was put up against forces behind human understand and was even considered dying majority of the time of Zexal while remaining arguably mostly human, Zexal’s wack

One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon

Oh my god, the duel I hate the most in all of YGO is Kaito’s duel against Heartland because not letting Kaito win against someone who’s become representative of the garbage he was put through is SO UNSATISFYING

Yuma coming in and finishing it up is symbolic in its own right because of the importance of bonds, but to me that was and always should have been Kaito’s moment, let Yuma and Astral show up literally any other time and I’m fine with it

ALSO WE DON'T GET THE RYOUGA AND KAITO GRUDGE MATCH, though Kaito solos everytime, I’m so sorry Ryouga

[pers-books]

Top 10s Meme

I was tagged by @thisbluespirit - thanks for the tag (I think! 😜)

Rules: List your “top 10” (or up to 10 if you haven’t written that many) fics ranked by kudos on AO3. Are you surprised by what’s most popular to your readers? Then, under a cut, provide your ranking of your personal top 10 fics (with explanations if you want!), and then tag a few fellow writers!

My top 10 fics by kudos:

Letters to a Naturalist (Holby City) (30,350 words) Kudos: 203

Jason Haynes: Matchmaker (Holby City) (17,560 words) Kudos: 186

The Red String of Fate (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV)) (51,896 words) Kudos: 183

One Life Stand (Holby City) (33,815 words) Kudos: 161

The Hacktivist, The Agent, and the Clairvoyant (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), Thor (Movies)) (35,849 words) Kudos: 155 

The Locum (Holby City) (9,202 words) Kudos: 148 

Bean and Gone (Holby City) (11,880 words) Kudos: 147 

It's not a date - it's just dinner at a fancy restaurant (Holby City) (9,100 words) Kudos: 138 

Action and Reaction (Star Trek: Discovery) (1,783 words) Kudos: 135 

Berenice Wolfe's Romantic Heart (Holby City) (6,000 words) Kudos: 13

I guess my only surprise is that there’s only one Disco (Star Trek: Discovery) fic in there, but it’s rather nice that apart from #3 and #5, they’re all Sapphic fics! Actually, I’m slightly surprised there are no James Bond (Craig)/M (Dench) fics in my Top 10 - in fact, I’ve just checked and I’d have to list my Top **40** before I hit a Bond fic - and then it doesn’t even have 100 Kudos! (Mind, I’m not complaining that my Holby fics are vastly more popular!)

I haven’t really considered which are my Top 10 fics - I like things when I’m writing them, then I don’t tend to give them much thought because I’ve already moved on to writing something else!!

But, that said (and in no particular order because Dammit, Janet, I am not gonna try to rank my own fics!):

Letters to a Naturalist (30,350 words) (Holby City) - this one is ALWAYS gonna be a fave because it was a fic I wrote over several months, sending copies of physical letters used in the fic to a member of the Berena fandom and at the time I got a great deal of pleasure and satisfaction out of doing it that way.

Snapshots: Four New Beginnings (12,960 words) (Holby City) - I had great fun giving Bernie different careers in the Arts and finding ways for her and Serena to meet.

The Name's Wolfe, Berenice Wolfe: 007, Licensed to Thrill (3,200 words) (Holby City) - and on the topic of AUs, Bernie Wolfe as a 007 Agent was just a fun way to combine an old fandom (Bond) with a new one.

The Long Road to Happiness (8,140 words) (Holby City) - oh look ANOTHER AU! Quelle surprise! 😜 This time Bernie and Serena were child actors together and Bernie fell in love, but Serena gave up acting, got married, had a child, and Bernie continued to carry a torch...

McKinnie and Wolfe: Monster Hunters (6,000 words) (Holby City) - written for a Holby Monster Mash and inspired by a collection of short stories by a favourite author, I just had great fun with this one.

Lascia Ch'io Pianga (Let Me Lament My Cruel Fate) (750 words) (James Bond) - the first time I’ve ever written a fic with an ambiguous ending. Funny thing is, some readers asked me to write a second chapter or sequel fic and I did try, but I just couldn’t make it work.

Sing In Me, Muse (1,362 words) (Star Trek: Discovery) - this was an AU fix-it for S1 of Disco and I love its simplicity and tenderness.

Beyond the Battle at the Binary Stars I (768 words) & Beyond the Battle at the Binary Stars II (1,379 words) (Star Trek: Discovery) - another AU fix-it for S1 of Disco in 2 parts that I found deeply satisfying to write.

Joy Is Not Made To Be A Crumb (8,500 words) (Doctor Who 2005) - a rarepair ship (Kate Stewart and Martha Jones) that I’ve always known will never attain any kind of popularity, but I don’t care - I just love writing them!

The Winter Queen, The Summer King, and the Spring Knight (9,536 words) (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) - this only has 30 Kudos, but I like it because it takes the mythology of AoS and combines it with fairytale and I think I did that rather neatly.

Who to tag? Well: @slightlyintimidating @doctorjameswatson @lapalfruity @daisydoctor13 @ceridwyn2 @riversofmars @meluisart @onaperduamedee @backjustforberena @hokuspokusthings - with the usual caveat that you don’t have to participate if you’re not feeling it.

[writer-and-artist27]

003 for robin and musashi !

Hi Lu (=ﾟ▽ﾟ)/ Thankie for the ask! And... Big Robin and Shii-chan? Oh goodness.

(￣▽￣)ゞ Here we go then!

003 | Give me a character & I will tell you:

Robin Hood (Fate)

How I feel about this character: I love him. I really really really love him. He's Big Robin - the Archer who helped me through the beginnings of FGO for me and more, not to mention the main catalyst for me to get more seriously into FGO to begin with through my writing. Not to mention his episodes in Last Encore had me tempted to cry with how he was trying to stay loyal to Dan's spirit. Add in his sarcasm, poison-use (that is SO cool to me, along with his archery skills) and Heart of Gold throughout Summer 3, SERAPH, and Salem? I couldn't help but love him more, especially since he reminds me of my boyfriend <3

Any/all the people I ship romantically with this character: If not counting Mastersona Vy/Vy Duong who I write for in Passing Days? Um. Maybe Female Hakuno if she ever summoned him in Extra? Just because I've seen plenty of fanart of them together in Pixiv and that's the only ship I'm okay with.

My favorite non-romantic relationship for this character: Billy the Kid, Geronimo, and EMIYA. Just because all three bring out different sides of banter with him and it's really fun to see. An honorable mention to Mata Hari too, since he calls her "sis" in the Salem manga and I find his deferring to her and respecting her prowess really cute.

My unpopular opinion about this character: He really shouldn't be shoe-horned into being the lackey for very despicable characters. Big Robin deserves better than being a fucking lackey. Heck, I loved seeing his dynamic with Dan - the devs taking it out in CCC and putting in BB and his own (forced, by the way) abuse of Passionlip was not fun. Only reason I'm okay with Ibaraki and Melt in FGO canon is how Ibaraki and Melt are both shown later on to have their good sides, compared to BB who I still want to punt off the moon and into the dead of space to suffocate on her own data.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I wish we could see him try to apologize and reconcile with Passionlip. Because from what little I've read of CCC, in any other circumstance, he would've never acted the way he did towards her. Not to mention I want to see him kick BB's ass and succeed, because BB is a bitch and Passionlip deserves better.

Favorite friendship for this character: Billy the Kid. No doubt about that.

My crossover ship: Hm. I'd be tempted to try seeing how Yukiko from Persona 4 would react to him, but I still need to finish Persona 4's anime to gauge that.

003 | Give me a character & I will tell you:

Miyamoto Musashi (Fate)

How I feel about this character: Shii-chan... I wasn't expecting to love her the way I did, but let it be said by the time I was at the end of Shimosa, I was tempted to scream at the same time as Guda and begging her not to go. Olympus didn't help. At all.

Any/all the people I ship romantically with this character: Probably Guda? That's the only one I can think of right now.

My favorite non-romantic relationship for this character: Mash and Holmes! Because I love how she helped both of them out with their confidence and fighting prowess in Olympus. Also Muramasa, because of how she calls him "Gramps." :>

My unpopular opinion about this character: She did not deserve to go out in a Deux Ex Machina boss fight to Chaos. Chaos was contrived, pointless, and unneeded. She was confidently bi and I WANTED TO KEEP HER, DAMMIT.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: DATA LOST MY ASS, I wanted to see Guda be successful in resummoning her in canon, goddammit. It's why I wrote things the way I did in Passing Days, because I'm so fucking tired of fake gods taking friends away like they're dominos on a board.

Favorite friendship for this character: Katou Danzo, Kotarou, Guda, Mash, the list goes on. :>

My crossover ship: Hm. Not sure on this one.

Thankie again, Lu <3 I needed to write all that out.

[havoc-warband]

vague idea that i have yelled at horncleaver about but i want a record of it here as well because i think i am onto something significant and it’ll very likely make it into my own canon as soon as i get it out of the jungle, so

havoc airship. name tbd but it’s either something super on the nose like Havocbringer, something punny like the Flying Ascalonian, or if they let Sivris name it, Bolt (short for “one bolt away from being a giant hunk of scrap metal” she will tell anyone who cares to ask)

they salvage one from maguuma a short time after mordremoth. being on the airship (after the events leading Into the jungle) is scary but so was the feeling of being in the jungle and having so much Stuff surrounding them at all times, so the open air is pretty refreshing, actually.

i’ve been describing scenes with havoc as taking place inside of/in front of a large squad-size tent with small individual compartments, separated by curtains. i want more Scene Diversity dammit. an airship should be (slightly) bigger than their field tent. AND it can move by itself AND sivris would absolutely baby the thing. she would decorate it in her incredibly dubious style (spikes. it would involve spikes. and flags in weird places) and because no one else has the mechanic’s skills or sheer daring needed to rappel over the edge of the thing to remove the spikes, they stay. sivris is also temporarily patching up some of the vine-holes (just until they find large-enough scrap metal, she keeps saying) with suspiciously skull-patterned knitwork. (it’s ako’s)

they can take their airship places and they would use her instead of borrowing various other characters’ ships where the canonical Commander does in the story. they could (Temporarily) Adopt People depending on what i want the layout to be like and if they have spare room. 

this is an opportunity for me to come up with More Guys for the Crew bc we all do trust sivris but we also still want to hang out with her so we should hire someone to mechanic our ship full time. perhaps this mechanic also comes with a little crew themself. i’ve already halfway designed a romantic interest for tavryn amongst this crew and i am dreaming of this being the merging point of the vigil magic-user squad and the warband.

at some points they go back to the jungle and reclaim more ships, with their extended crew. the second ship they yoink will be the stable-ship, because that is Renfrac’s one and only condition for traveling with them this way and Scothin’s getting real glib with his asking about taking Elyra with them.

i am not at all planning out a whole airship village in my brain already, what do you mean, aha

[chocochipbiscuit]

Let's start at the top for the writing asks:

1, 5 and 7?

1) do you know how you want the story to end when you start, or are you just stumbling through the figurative wilderness hoping to find a road?

For short fics, like smut or one-off ideas, I don’t mind just writing and seeing where it ends up; I usually have an idea of how I want it to end, but am more willing to surprise myself. (Though arguably, because they’re short, I already usually have an idea of how I want it to end, but don’t feel the need to meticulously plot and bullet-point it out!)

Otherwise: I need to know how a story ends before I feel comfortable writing it. I want to have a clear image of the final scene and the emotional beats, because it’s easier to craft my entire narrative towards it. And because I love happy endings, I have to think about how the characters will resolve their conflicts to earn that happy ending.

(Spicy hot take: I’m not someone who’s drawn to tragedy, in part because I feel like tragedy makes an ending too easy. I already know all the ways that the characters can fail or that the world can hurt them, and I would rather see them triumph. I already know the ‘bad endings’ and consequences, but dammit that’s not what I want to write!)

5) have you ever made a playlist about something you were writing as an elaborate means to procrastinate when you could have been actually writing and if yes drop a link, son

Absolutely not because I know myself too well and even writing ask games like this are dangerous for me because I am so keenly aware that any minute I spend writing an ask meme feels like ‘oh yes, I’ve written today! Validation!!!!’ while not actually putting any words into my WIPs!!!!

….though I will say that I, like many sappy sapphics before me, have been listening to a lot of Howl by Florence and the Machine to psyche myself up for werewolf AU!!!!

7) tell us about the plot of the first fanfic you ever wrote

I don’t have the notebook anymore, but my earliest memory of what would be considered fanfic was some ‘Misty and Jessie totally become friends!’ idea. I loved Pokemon and I don’t think I was actively considering them as a romantic ship, but I remember very clearly being upset that the two main girls in the anime never got to be friends! So I wrote something about a landslide and Misty and Jessie getting stuck together in an underwater cave and having to cooperate to find the way out.

(Questions are from this ask game!)

[high-dragon-bait]

Oh who is Eshana’s stepdad!?

OKAY tbh I don't know too much about him yet, but here's what I have:

His name is Lucian Hale, but he likes to be called Lucy. He's a human, a sailor/dockworker guy and I have no idea where he's from but I imagine him with a Scottish accent cause Why Not

He's got an excellent sense of humor, I feel like that's a requirement for Fenris honestly, he dosn't hide the fact that he's caring behind the humor. He's just very... raw. Honest. He is who he is and doesn't apologize for it.

He also likes to call Fenris "m'lord" cause it annoys him.

Eshana's story is centered around her running away and the adventure she goes on as a result, it's solely from her point of view and so Fenris is only present at the very beginning and the very end. However, because I'm me, I do have an "alternate" story from Fenris' point of view during the time she was gone, and she's gone for awhile, a year. Obviously... Fenris was not doing too hot during that time.

Lucian was one of the first dockworkers he talked to when he realized there's a good chance Eshana tried to board a ship. Fenris was frantic, terrified and angry, the other dock workers were too uncomfortable/afraid of him to approach. It was Lucian who actually took the time to listen to what was wrong, and because of that was able to spread the word about a missing girl to the other workers quickly.

Still that one encounter doesn't really... establish much. After that Lucy goes back to sea and comes back a month or so later and decides to see if that girl is okay, and asks around, when he finds out that they still haven't found her- that's when he gets more involved. I have this idea in my head for him going to check on Fenris and Fenris who has not slept this entire time very much does not remember him. It's delightfully awkward but does at least establish Lucy in Fenris' mind as someone who cares enough to check in on that raving stranger he met once on the docks. That means something

From then on Lucy makes a habit out of it, and it's at first something Fenris goes from being too tired to resist to actually looking forward to until it's something he relies on. He does not see him as a romantic interest yet though, just a nice man, and then a friend.

It's not until Eshana finally comes back (lets herself be found really) that their relationship grows. Fenris takes Eshana home with the mindset that he is going to use this as a clean slate. He will not forget what the past year taught him. He's going to make up for his mistakes and mend his relationship with his daughter. He can finally, finally breathe again.

And then that night he wakes up at like 3am and just thinks "Fuck... I'm in love."

Eshana absolutely ADORES Lucian by the way. She thinks he's the best. Fenris would ask Lucy if he'd like to stay for dinner and Eshana would be distantly yelling "WOULD YOU LIKE TO STAY FOREVER?"

I also have one scene concept in my head of Lucian visiting Avis Hawke's memorial and asking for her blessing to marry Fenris. Promising to love him for her, with her, for the rest of his life. When he gets to the end of it he sees a hawk fly above him and takes that as the blessing. It's a very cliche scene but I think it's sweet leave me ALONE

Anyway, I think I've talked enough about this random Dragon Age OC for now. I just want Fenris to be happy dammit. I put him through so much he deserves to be happy in the end

[frankmillerturnonyourlocation]

oh dammit i also need to build two more pages. Sigh okay as a reminder to myself and also because i want to talk about them messily here's my two wills that ive been procrastinating on giving tags:

Will Stanton!

From The Dark Is Rising (book series). Wildly dense British fantasy from the 70s that's gonna require more nuanced understanding of western European history to fully analyze and appraise than I have in me to give. With what I've got: it's, uh, definitely a British fantasy series from the 70s, with pieces of all the flaws you'd expect and possibly some exciting new ones, but it's good-hearted overall, and damn if it isn't beautiful.

I picked up a really old copy of the second book in the series from an elementary school that was giving them away during possibly the coldest, darkest, most socially hostile period of my college experience. Real leaving in the dark and coming home after dark vibes. I ended up finishing the book in the following semester, on a bench in town right before a beautiful spring storm. So, like, of course it's tattooed onto my heart.

Will is a twelve-year-old boy who lives on a farm and is also the last of a group of ancient, magic, impossibly wise guardians of all things ontologically good or whatever and he's no longer counted among humans as one of them and he's a little shit to his big sisters and he sings soprano. He walked into the woods with a teenager who wanted to hurt him and he never again acted entirely like a child. He tried to tell his favorite brother about it once. His brother didn't understand. He is the only one of the series' many child heroes who will remember any of it, and he will remember it forever, because he will not die. and im his weird time-lost best friend babysitter he shares a soul bond with and we have small companion dragons that are manifestations of our souls and its rad as fuck okay dont worry about it istg this is as far outside of canon compliance i have gotten with a self ship thus far

and thennnn.

William Shakespeare! (THE CHARARCTER FROM SOMETHING ROTTEN!)

Musicals are so fucking fun. It's like, cool, this thing rewired my brain, and I'm never gonna see it again. And we just do this to ourselves on purpose because live theater is so special and powerful like that. We do this on purpose.

And THEN it's like cool, cool, I'm researching contraceptive methods from the renaissance now, awesome. I'm spending my one wild and precious life thinking about meetcutes with Literal Playwright William Shakespeare. Nobody unfollow me for this. It's barely even rpf.

He's a little BITCH and a PLAGIARIST and a ROCK STAR and a CYNICAL ROMANTIC. I am CROSSDRESSING as a TEENAGE BOY to safely and legally CROSSDRESS AS A WOMAN to play BIT PARTS and get HECKLED onstage. And we slowburn until we develop a deep reliance on each other as two people with few healthy and reciprocal relationships with anyone else.

At some point, he lets me write some scripts and have them performed under his name. We all fucking hear me right now, right? Jesus Christ. It's not historical rpf. But I am saying that I would allow fictionalized, slutty William Shakespeare plagiarize my writing if he let me direct a little bit and also we were in love about it. I am saying that. And we're all still here.

[drowninginredink]

Hey 👋 Do you have any hcs or thoughts about any of the Quagmire triplets? :)

(Idk if u like asks so feel free to delete this if u don’t want to answer! :) )

I love asks! That said, not really! I'm not big into the Quagmires. I honestly only remember the Quagmires even exist because of how much the fandom likes them. Like, I think the fact that I've never cared about the Quagmires should have been a tip off to me that I was aromantic and aplatonic because they very much were only written to serve as the Baudelaires' friends and love interests, and I don't care about those two things! I think that's a lot of why I'm still obsessed with this series, honestly. It's a lot of weird relationships that can't really be labeled, and also family, and I am weirdly not afamilial. I do have a soft spot for Quigley because God, his story. I love Quigley and Jacques. But even then most fic with the Quagmires is very much romantic fic so I am solidly uninterested.

I feel like in terms of fic, this fandom really has 3 genres/circles: the Quagmire people, the sugar bowl gen people, and the violaf/klolaf people. I really am not a Quagmire person (all power to y'all, I'm just too aroapl for it). Most of what I write—okay, let's be honest, most of my ASOUE ideas are either only on FFN and not uploaded to AO3 yet or aren't written at all and are only in my head. But. If we look at that, I write a lot of stuff that's really just about the Baudelaires, which I feel like there's not quite enough of to form its own subgenre, but God I love it, and a lot of sugar bowl gen stuff. And then as for the Olaf shipping side, I do really love to read it, because I am absolutely a sucker for unhealthy relationships and putting characters through pain, but I doubt I'll ever write any of it. Other writers have covered and will continue to cover that ground really thoroughly and I have nothing to add. But I am aware that because I don't write it people might be like "oh, don't worry, it's not part of *that* side of the fandom" and like, no, I do in fact like problematic stuff.

I do have my fair share of ASOUE headcanons, though! There's the aroace Bertrand one I've posted here; Lemony having picked up smoking from Kit (who picked it up from Olaf); Jerome and Esme very much being a lavender marriage; I'm the one person who thinks we should keep referring to the Henchperson of Indetermine Gender with the it/its pronouns from the book because dammit, that's sort of it/its representation and I want to reclaim it; I absolutely following the school of thought some fic writers have that absolutely everyone in VFD was sleeping with each other because like... How else do you cope with knowing that you're going to die young and are embroiled in a fight that started before you were born and will continue after you die? (although granted, that one may be aroallo bias, as I'd love to be sleeping with everyone all the time with no solid relationships anyway). So I love ASOUE headcanons, and you can bug me about them all day, but not necessarily Quagmires. I'm always glad to watch people be enthusiastic about things, though, so I'm very glad people love them so much.

Anyway idk, I kinda just wanted an excuse to talk about my 3 main types of ASOUE theory. So thank you for that!

[eryiss]

Fairy Tail Rare Pair Week: Laxeel Drabbles

Flowers: Someone has been leaving flowers for Gajeel, and he's determined that to find out who. Dancing: When Laxus is drunk, he dances with people. And Gajeel isn't jealous. Not at all. Secrets: Laxus and Gajeel have been sneaking around for a month now. The danger makes everything more exciting. Especially the screwing around.

Notes: Hi all. These are my submissions for the Fairy Tail Rare Pair week event, hosted by @ftguildevents. Rather than one fic per prompt, I’m going to be doing some drabbles for some ships I like based on the prompts. Hope you all enjoy.

Links: FFN, Ao3, FreedGeer Drabbles, BixFreed Drabbles, Lokibi Drabbles

Flowers: A Lily A Day

Gajeel looked down at his meal with a glare.

He had ordered a bowl of the stew that was being served in the guildhall. That had been what he'd gotten, but Mirajane had also placed a single black lily beside it. She had walked away before he could ask, and Gajeel sat staring down at the rose for a few moments. He couldn't help but glare at the flower, because these flowers had been appearing around him for days now.

It had started with one taped to the door of his apartment a week ago. Then, after a workout in the guild gym the next day, it rested on his towel after he got out of the shower. Next, halfway to a mission in a far off town, another had been tucked into his rucksack. Every day, there was a new one, and Gajeel didn't know how to deal with it.

How was he meant to deal with this when he didn't know what it was?

He had thought it was a prank, but the roses were pretty pricey for a joke without a punchline. Maybe it had been a spell of some kind, but it was a really weird spell and oddly specific. So, after exhausting all the other explanations for the randomly appearing flowers (not that there were many explanations) Gajeel knew he had to deal with the reality. Someone was crushing on him, and they thought the best way to let him know was by sending him flowers.

Fuck; that kinda pissed him off.

If he was gonna date someone, he wanted someone with a spine. And if this person, whoever it was, was in the guild then they had to have a spine. You couldn't be a working wizard in Fairy Tail if you didn't have guts. So why weren't they talking to him face to face?

Dammit, he was done with this. He had fought off the temptation for long enough. He picked up the rose and brought it to his nose.

He knew that scent!

——

"Dreyar!" Gajeel yelled as he stormed through the courtyard. "You got something you wanna say to me?"

Laxus looked up to see Gajeel with a face of thunder, and his heartbeat hammered as he saw the flower that was in his hand. Gajeel didn't look happy, and a small part of him wanted to turn tail and flee rather than deal with this situation. But he needed to do it, because if he didn't then there was a good chance, he'd be buying Gajeel flowers for the rest of his life without confronting him.

At least it was only the two of them, so his rejection wouldn't be totally humiliating. He was going to be rejected though, because nobody looked as pissed off as Gajeel did if they wanted to start up a relationship.

What had he been thinking?

Laxus wasn't a romance guy, not in any way. He had never expected to fall for someone, and yet Gajeel had this magnetic draw to him. Something inside of Laxus told him that this was the man who he was meant to be with. Maybe it was fate, or his dragon instincts, or just his fondness for a feral man with a good body. No matter what it was, Laxus had experienced his first crush, and had to figure out how to deal with it.

He had turned to his friends for help, kind of. He'd read through some of Evergreen's romance novels and listened to the story of how Freed got with his boyfriend, and the commonality was romantic gestures. So, Laxus had decided to give Gajeel flowers.

Even when he was doing it, it didn't feel quite right, but what else could he have done?

"What do you mean?" Laxus asked, turning to face Gajeel and hoping his cheeks weren't red.

"I mean this," Gajeel said, raising the flower so that it was in front of Laxus' nose. "The fact that these things keep turning up wherever I go. The fact that all of 'em smell real damn strongly of you. The fact you apparently lost your balls, because you did this shit instead of talking to me."

"Don't know what you're talking about," Laxus rebutted, weakly.

"Yeah, you do," Gajeel argued back. "If you wanna go out with me, you ask me face to face. You don't get all sneaky and shit when it ain't your style."

"You think I wanna go out with you?" Laxus scoffed, but even he knew how bad a rebuttal it was.

"I do," Gajeel challenged, then took a step forward so he was in Laxus' space. "You gonna ask me or not?"

What? Gajeel wanted him to… what?

"Y-You wanna go out sometime, with me?" Laxus asked, cursing the stammer.

"Tonight, meet here at seven. I'll take you someplace nice," Gajeel answered, smirking. "Wear something that shows off yer ass. It's yer best feature and I want people droolin' over what they can't have."

"Right," Laxus said, then what Gajeel had said struck him. "Seriously?"

"Yeah," Gajeel grinned. "I like a guy who can speak his mind. You'll figure it out."

Gajeel then placed a hand on Laxus' shoulder, which trailed down his arm. When it rested on Laxus' bicep, he squeezed and let out a pleased little 'hm' before grinning at Laxus with a feral look. His gaze wandered over Laxus' body for a split second, before he stepped back with an evil, beautiful grin on his face.

"Remember to show off that ass, boy," Gajeel instructed. "If ya do, and I'm impressed, you might get to see somethin' of mine."

With a wink, Gajeel turned and walked away. Laxus watched his retreating figure with a swirling mind, and a small smile on his face. Maybe not everyone's idea of romance was flowers; for some people, tight pants were the key. Laxus could deal with that. In fact, that seemed pretty damn good to him.

Dancing: From the Sidelines

Gajeel wasn't a jealous person.

Okay, he was totally a jealous person!

But in this situation, it was okay to be jealous! Just because he and Laxus hadn't told people that they were a couple, it didn't mean that Gajeel should be expected to stand on the side of the Guildhall's dance floor while Laxus danced with everyone in the guild who asked him to. That was bullshit, and Gajeel was getting more and more pissed off by the second.

He hadn't expected this; Laxus wasn't a dancing guy. He had thought that, when he was invited to the guild's formal dance, it would be an evening of him and Laxus making fun of the idiots on the dance floor. He hadn't expected Laxus to get tipsy and start dancing. Dancing pretty good, too!

It was Bickslow's fault. Just as Laxus was getting to that giggly stage of his drunkenness - where his cheeks were so red and flushed that Gajeel loved looking at him - the tattoo faced idiot walked over to Laxus and asked him for a dance. Gajeel had expected Laxus to tell the guy to go to hell, but Laxus had taken Bickslow's hand and walked to the middle of the dancefloor. Gajeel had watched with wide eyes as Laxus gilded Bickslow through a slow dance, anger roiling at just how close they were getting. Did they need to be so pressed together?

Then, there was a fucking queue to dance with him! Evergreen went next, then Cana, then Loke. Why did everyone wanna dance with Gajeel's boyfriend all of a sudden?

It was just as Reedus finished his dance with Laxus - Reedus! How the hell had that happened - that Gajeel was reaching breaking point and wanted to grab his boyfriend and claim him on the stage. This was also the moment that Freed, who was the only person who wasn't lining up to dance with Laxus, walked over to him and sat beside him.

"You look ready to attack him," Freed commented, and Gajeel huffed.

"Fucking assholes," Gajeel snarled. "Touchin' what ain't there's."

"I hardly think that he'd mind if you danced with him, he might even let you jump the queue," Freed commented. Gajeel didn't look at him and glared at Juvia as she took a turn dancing with him. "Or at least you can stop watching and distract yourself."

"Why the hell are they all so keen to dance with him?"

"It's always been a thing," Freed mused, taking a sip of his own wine. "Laxus rarely dances, but when he's drunk, he suddenly loves doing it. It happens so infrequently that it's seen as something of an event," Freed leant back in his chair. "You know, if it's bothering you, he will stop."

"Ain't bothered," Gajeel lied. "He can do what he wants."

"I suppose so," Freed agreed, and they watched the end of the next dance. Once it was done, Freed stood up. "Looks like it's my turn."

"What the hell!" Gajeel exclaimed.

Freed sort of knew about his and Laxus' relationship after walking in on them. Sure, they'd told him that they were hooking up and nothing more, but he thought Freed was a smart guy. Surely the bookworm must have figured it out that there was a reason Gajeel wasn't happy! Asshole.

"I'm not a good person, Gajeel," Freed shrugged. "You should know that by now."

And so, Gajeel had to watch as Laxus and Freed embraced each other and started to dance around the dancefloor. Gajeel would have no qualms with punching Freed in the face when they were done, and the fact that Freed was whispering something into Laxus' ear as they danced made him even more pissed off. Yeah, Freed needed to have a goddamn bone broken for pulling this shit!

But, half way through the dance, they pulled apart. Freed was pulled into someone else's arms and continued to dance, and Gajeel watched with horror as Laxus slowly walked to him with a smile and an outstretched hand. Laxus didn't want him to - oh no.

"Heard you were being a bitch about me dancin' with other people," Laxus commented. He was a little louder than normal.

"Don't know what yer talkin' about."

"Y'see, this is how I see it. I don't wanna hurt my Little Dragon's feelin's," Gajeel flushed red at the nickname. "But I also don't wanna stop dancin' yet. So, you gonna dance with me all night, or should I go back to Freed?"

"Dance with whoever you want," Gajeel grunted.

"Really?" Laxus asked, and Gajeel nodded curtly. "Great."

Gajeel found himself jerked up and yanked onto the dancefloor. Suddenly he was in the middle of the room, with Laxus' arms around his waist and a slightly drunk, goofy little smile on his face. Gajeel couldn't help but smile at his boyfriend's expression - Laxus was damn cute when he was drunk - but he quickly shook it off. They weren't out yet, and Gajeel knew that he shouldn't let Laxus do this when he was drunk.

But runes shot up around them, and suddenly people were paying no mind to them at all. It was as if they were in their own little bubble, and when he caught Freed's eye, the rune mage winked. Hm… maybe he didn't need a broken bone. Just a fracture.

Well, if nobody was going to pay attention to them, maybe he could indulge himself.

Resting his head against Laxus' chest, he allowed his boyfriend to slowly rock him in time with the music. Their dance wasn't as intricate as the others, but it was intimate and soft in a way Gajeel had quickly associated with Laxus. The man was large, but gentle at times, and Gajeel loved those moments.

Maybe dancing wasn't so bad, he thought as they drifted through the dancefloor. With Laxus wrapped around him, looking at him like he hung the moon, he couldn't think of a better way to spend the evening.

Secrets: Sneaking Around [ADULT]

"Yer gonna have to be quiet," Laxus purred.

Gajeel could only groan as he rucked his ass back into Laxus' crotch. The two of them were inside one of the guildhall's storage cupboards. This had been Laxus' idea, and he had pushed Gajeel up against the door the moment they were inside, his hands roaming all over Gajeel's body without shame nor restraint. Gajeel could feel all of Laxus' huge, delicious body pressing against him, and he wanted to moan.

Laxus wouldn't let him, of course. Just because they were the only dragon slayers in the building, didn't mean they couldn't be found out. That was why he'd taken a strip of cloth from one of the shelves and forced it into Gajeel's mouth, tying it up. He had gagged him, and Gajeel knew he'd get revenge at some point.

But he didn't care at that moment.

He could feel Laxus' cock against his ass, hard in his boxers and tenting to get out, and all Gajeel wanted in that moment was to get fucked by him. He wanted it as rough, as hard, as nasty and as twisted as Laxus could give him, and he wanted it now.

Every part of him felt on fire. It always did with Laxus. They had been together for a month and had been sneaking around for all of that time. There was just something so fucking hot and exciting about nobody knowing what he and Laxus were doing. Having to lie to his guildmates and make up stories so he could meet up with his boyfriend was thrilling, but not as thrilling as spending time with Laxus.

For all the guild knew, he and Laxus barely spoke. But Gajeel had been balls deep in the man's ass, licked cum off his abs, and made him scream louder than he ever thought possible. That had all been in one night, too!

"Fuck me!" Gajeel demanded, but the gag made it a mess of gurgles.

"Fuck you?" Laxus whispered into Gajeel's ear. "Ask nicely."

"Fuck me or I'll kill ya," Gajeel snarled. Laxus laughed and pushed him hard against the door.

"So brash," Laxus taunted. "You're lucky I like you."

Laxus' large, calloused hands roamed around Gajeel's body, and suddenly they yanked his pants and boxers down to his mid thighs. Gajeel gasped a little at the coolness of the closet, but as Laxus' hands groped his ass, he leant into them and groaned. He was resting his head against the door and whined into the gag, rutting back into the large hands that squoze his ass.

With some more shifting, Gajeel heard Laxus' fly being unzipped. He groaned in anticipation, shoving his ass back further to make Laxus hurry the hell up. Laxus chuckled, then grabbed Gajeel by the waist and shoved him hard against the door. His cock pressed against the wood, pre-cum dripping down it.

"You ready Lil' Dragon," Laxus asked. "Because I'm gonna be rough with ya."

Gajeel nodded, groaning as he tried and failed to push against Laxus' hand. Laxus simply laughed and then had the balls to slap Gajeel on the ass. God, the next time they fucked, Laxus was bottoming and Gajeel was gonna put him through hell!

But, then Gajeel felt the familiar press of Laxus' fat cock against his hole. He leant into it with a groan, knowing just how good it was going to feel. Laxus laughed at him, then grabbed him by the hips. He didn't do anything for a moment, other than pressing his lips into the back of Gajeel's neck in a little kiss.

Then, he began.

He pushed himself deep, and Gajeel moaned loudly into the gag and pushed back. He could take Laxus' full dick and they both knew it, and Laxus laughed as he pushed his dick completely inside him. Gajeel's eyes were wide open, relishing the feeling of Laxus' body pushing against him. Fuck, Laxus was so big in every damn way. He had the strong muscles and a large cock out of Gajeel's fantasies, and fuck he loved it!

With a sudden movement, Laxus began to fuck him. He was fast and aggressive, viciously unrelenting as he pushed deep inside of him, pulled out half way, then pushed back in. Gajeel's hands were flat against the door, and he whined into the gag as he was fucked.

This was so good! It was wrong and dirty and Gajeel fucking loved it!

Laxus' hands intertwined with Gajeel's, and his fucking got faster and more powerful. Even though they'd barely started, Gajeel could feel the rush of pleasure flowing through him already. He met with Laxus' thrusts and fucked himself off on the cock. It was splitting him open in the best way possible, and his quivering dick started to burn with pleasure.

"Laxus," Gajeel tried to say over the gag. "Close."

Laxus ignored him, fucking harder and faster still. Gajeel groaned and suddenly it hit him. Pleasure and lust and need mingled together, and suddenly he was seeing lightning and nothing more. He moaned loudly and unabashedly as he came, spurting his cum onto the door. Riding through the orgasm, he kept pushing back. Laxus was so big inside of him.

Suddenly, warmth filled his ass. Laxus grunted and bit into Gajeel's neck to stifle his own moans. He could feel his boyfriend's cum filling him and he loved it, and the tight hold Laxus had on him drove him wild. He'd never clicked with another man like this, and he was addicted.

"Holy shit," Laxus whispered as he took the gag out of Gajeel's mouth. "That was fucking good."

"Hell yeah it was," Gajeel panted. "You're a fucking animal."

"Yeah I am," Laxus grinned. "Just like you need."

"Don't be cocky," Gajeel smirked. "Ready for round two, old man?"

"Fuck you," Laxus laughed. "Brat."

They both shared a glance, then smirked and leant in for another kiss. Yeah; sneaking around was fucking hot.

[lambourngb]

a skeleton of something more [malex wip]

Inspired by the promo/trailer for season 3. Spoilers and speculation ahead. 

A tumblr work-in-progress

Pairing: Michael/Alex, Alex/Forrest

Summary: Alex goes undercover to seek out Deep Sky. Starts mid-2x13.

Alex leaned his back against the solid wood of his front door, letting the heavy oak take up his weight. He kept making the standard uneven bargain with his body, of giving just a little more, going through the motions for a little longer, and then it would be over. But the tally sheet his body held was long, overflowing with so many unfulfilled promises that it seemed ever more likely he would end this journey in the red. 

If it ever ended.

At least, tonight, he had haggled wisely for some space to breathe. On the other side of the door, he had managed to escape Forrest’s hopeful and not subtle attempts to follow him inside, toward the bedroom for a long-awaited reunion. A reunion that Alex had deftly avoided without a trace of guilt. He had used the bland excuse of fatigue from a long, cramped ride from Holloman Air Force Base to Roswell on a bus that had predated the ADA by a good thirty years. It was transparent but still true, written on every line of pain in his smile as he had said “Not tonight.” that even Forrest could read it, even if only Alex knew the real source of his fatigue. 

He waited several long moments, before turning to look out the peephole to watch Forrest’s Prius silently reverse out of his driveway. Exhaling out long and low, the tension he had started carrying a little more than a year ago slipped away, letting the calm certainty of safety of his house slip down his body as he released the facade. 

Alex was almost done with this assignment, he reminded himself, as he rubbed the back of his hand against his mouth, scrubbing away the taste of Forrest Long from earlier. 

Just a little while longer, and he will have enough good will built up to finally meet the leader of Deep Sky face-to-face, after all who could resist the request of a senior member, especially one with the last name of Long? It had been a lucky find that Alex had made in cleaning out his father’s house after his death, a ring and an old photo of the members. In washed out Kodak colors was the cabal of Deep Sky. Former military men with names Alex had memorized off the salvaged hard drives from the Caulfield prison. Linked not by overlapping time on the alien project, but what had become of their careers after their military service had ended. All of them vowing to carry on the protection of Earth against an alien threat, but without the oversight of the government. 

The photo in his dad’s desk had been expected, but the silver ring? He had remembered clutching it, his hands still sore from tearing down the shed with Michael, and feeling the imprint of the symbol press deep into his skin. Searing across what Mimi had called his long-love line, singular and deep on his palm. Searing even deeper inside with the recognition that the symbol matched the ring Forrest Long wore.

The genial historian with the loose-fitting cardigan and blue-streaked hair, who had shown flattering interest in Alex, had worn the same ring. Easy on his hand, flashing in the bright sunlight when he had eagerly met up with Alex at the paintball fields with sharpshooter skills. After that date had crashed and burned thanks to a mishmash of his father’s voice and the feeling he had whenever he thought about kissing someone, not Michael, well, Alex had figured that would be the last he would see of the man. 

It hadn’t been. 

Suddenly, Forrest was everywhere he was, the Crashdown, the Wild Pony. It should have been suspicious to Alex, after months of sharing the same town with the other man without a single encounter. His heart was still bounding uselessly after Michael, while his hands had been full of his suddenly feeble father, and he had missed the snare of the trap. Not just the one his father had laid. Then after his kidnapping, two things had become clear to Alex, his father would never change from the hateful man he was, and Alex’s heart would never change when it came to his feelings for Michael.

Alex pushed his leaden body away from the door, tottering on his feet for a moment before the new prosthesis shored up his balance and he took a deep breath for the strength to move forward.

Fuck. That was a mistake. 

His house smelled like rain. Michael. The unexpected consequence of having Michael watch over his house while he had moved around the country, playing up the role of the grieving scion of the Manes family legacy. After a year of brief trips back to Roswell and long stints on the road, the house now smelled like Michael. 

Alex sucked in greedy gulps of air, chasing the taste of green and petrichor with his tongue to wash away his previous actions at the bus stop. His security system, his reinforced door and window locks, the weight of his gun still tucked in his back holster, none of it made him feel as safe as the smell of Michael in his home. It was the smallest crumb of promise, but it filled him.

Moving toward the kitchen for a drink, he clocked the changes Michael had made in his absence. His heavier luggage, shipped ahead of him, was already stored, including the set of crutches and the charging station for his back-up prosthesis. The lights in the kitchen came on with a single touch, all of them bright. Dammit, Michael had fixed the two burnt out bulbs, along with the slightly weeping fitting on the sink faucet.

There was zero sign of neglect in his house, no matter where he looked. Not even the faintest trace of dust on his guitars. The house looked warm and well tended. Loved. 

The rush of tears welled in his throat, an impossibly large lump, as Alex fought to keep from breaking down. Don’t fucking cry, don’t do it, that’s for at night, he swore creatively at himself. Tears were only allowed under the cover of dark, in hotel rooms or visiting officer quarters, not in the middle of his brightly lit kitchen.

A knock sounded on the front door.

Abruptly, every drop of tortured longing was gone, as Alex straightened his shoulders and crossed the threshold back to the door. He pasted the right amount of faked aspiration mixed with real annoyance on his face as he yanked the door open, expecting to see Forrest back on his step with a weak excuse concocted to overcome the earlier rebuff.

Michael looked up in the porch light, his black hat in hand and his curls wild with nervous raking. “Uh, hi.” He scuffed his boots against the concrete before growing still under Alex’s gaze.

He looked over Michael’s shoulder nervously, for the distinctive truck that everyone in town knew belonged to Michael, but his driveway was empty.

“I parked a few streets over. I don’t think anyone saw me-” Michael’s explanation was cut off short as Alex grabbed his wrist and yanked him inside. Stumbling from Alex’s strong grip, Michael fell forward, and then back as the front door slammed shut with them both safely inside out of view. His mouth was still open in surprise as Alex covered his lips in a kiss. 

The surprise was short-lived. Michael came alive under the kiss, opening and yielding to Alex’s hungry lips and tongue. Alex brought his hands up into Michael’s curls, cupping his head protectively as he pressed Michael firmly against the door, drinking in every sound Michael was making. 

Hours before, he had kissed Forrest at the bus station, playing up the role of a dutiful boyfriend returning home. It was the tariff he paid with his body to get closer to the roots of Deep Sky, but this, feeling Michael whole and safe under his hands, tasting him now, that was sustenance. Lifeblood. There was an evolution of difference between the two, like comparing simple bacteria wiggling toward complexity and the finished product of a man, standing upright. 

It was both a reminder of why he was doing this and a reinstatement of focus, as he slowly broke the kiss with reluctance. Michael chased at his lips, his mouth red and wet, his eyes dark with want. He could feel the heat coming off of Michael’s thin brown shirt, his hands itched to pull it off, to descend back into the physical, but Alex knew that he owed Michael an explanation for earlier.

“I’m sorry about earlier. I didn’t know he was going to be there to meet my bus. I thought it would be okay for you to give me a ride,” Alex explained quietly, as he ran his hands from Michael’s neck down to his fingertips, drinking in all the changes that had happened while he was gone. Michael looked thinner to him, as if he wasn’t eating enough despite the healthy amount of work and money. “I guess he wanted to surprise me and thought it would be romantic.” 

Michael made a face at the idea of surprises ever being considered romantic, especially to Alex. He turned sweetly toward Alex’s palm, kissing the center as Alex pushed a stubborn curl out of his eyes. “Are you sure that’s all it was? He wasn’t testing you, was he?” 

“I don’t think so.” Alex couldn’t pull his hands away from Michael, and leaned in to kiss him again. It started soft and shallow, trading breaths with Michael, lips against lips, licking deep into his mouth as his previous weariness disappeared now that Michael was here. “He saw you watching us. Now that I’m back, he’s worried about losing my attention to you. He hasn’t hidden his jealousy that I asked you to watch my house last year.” 

“Did I look sufficiently broken-hearted?” The question was light, but Alex could hear the grain of truth under it.

“You did.” Alex closed his eyes, the guilt of the situation flooded back inside. The statue of his father looking down on him didn’t make him feel nearly as sick as having Michael’s eyes on him as he let Forrest kiss him in front of the town in a cinematic homecoming moment. It was a cruel reminder to Alex that he had never been able to give Michael that, a public welcome that spelled out who they were to each other, not once in ten plus years of deployments and duty station assignments. Trading a glance across the Wild Pony was as close as they came. “I wish it wasn’t like this, sneaking around, pretending-”

“Hey, I agreed to this, right at the very beginning when I was your only back-up. Remember?” 

“We were just friends back then, you couldn’t have known that things would end up like this.”

Michael laughed, his head tilted back against the door, casting an attractive line of his throat to his collarbone. “We’ve never been just friends, Alex, but I knew what I was signing up for when you told me what you planned to do to smoke out Deep Sky. We’re in this together.”

*** to be continued... here