#ok ok I'm sorry for that last one

[cytharat]

Mean Girls Bodyguards [2/?]

[iero]

src. (taken from IG live) 

[gurinpotte]

Please more buff aang I'm thirsty 🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♀️

well i hope these will quench ya....

i had wayyyy more fun with this than i should have had. i was giggling and kicking my feet nonny, it's my first time doing quenching drawings like that. i'm not that great with manly muscles so i'm sorry for the messyness and mistakes. thank you sm for this ask my dear thirsty anon! also sorry if the kataang wasn't that you expected but in this house we serve kataang at every chance

[tricoufamily]

ygyth has its own tag now <333 i'm updating my compilation though i wanna see em all put together again look at them LOOK AT THEMMMMM they're multiplying!!!!

[aubdrewanchel]

OM! Nightbringer players, I have a serious question. How do you play Ruri tunes?

[deiaiko]

#18.1 Rak

Rak let out a huff and sat down next to Agni. Agni peeked over at Rak, who was looking far ahead, as if his past were replaying right before him.

TW: Self harm and suicide…in a way? (Sorry if it gets too dark. I put the TLDR on the tags)

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"I met him back when I was young, about a hundred years ago," Rak started.

Agni was taken aback at how long the gap between their time travel was. He wondered how much his Rak had changed.

"It was getting cold, which meant it was hunting season. I got bored and picked a fight with the toughest and biggest prey I could find."

Agni hummed when Rak paused for a moment too long, "Let me guess. You underestimated it and you lost?"

"The river was slippery!" Rak crossed his arms defensively. "And I didn't lose!"

"Sure," Agni rolled his eyes, one corner of his lips upturned. "How come?"

"I didn't lose, but I didn’t win either." Rak looked away, probably in embarrassment. "Another spear pierced its head before mine. That's when I met him."

From the way Rak's expression turned fiery, Agni had a suspicion that that exact moment had affected Rak more than what he spilled out. It didn't surprise him however, since he knew Rak’s ego.

"He was around for a while, acting like he cared about me." Rak huffed again, more fondly this time, eyes closed and arms still crossed. "He taught me a few fancy tricks with rocks and how to hunt better. He talked a lot about turtle this and turtle that. There were so many, I don't remember. But Black and Blue turtles were the ones he talked about the most, saying something like 'no one else will be more worthy prey than them.'"

Agni felt his chest tighten. To think that their Rak had acknowledged them and even bragged about it…it filled him with a sense of pride and longing.

"I didn't believe him then, since turtles are boring and no way they could do what he said they could." Rak paused and untangled his arms, eyes focusing and turning predatory, "But when he said that these turtles were unlike what we had there, I have been wanting to meet those turtles he told me about and hunt them."

Rak's story was intriguing. But even if it flattered him, Agni was more curious about his Rak's whereabouts. "What happened to him then? Wasn't he…badly injured?"

Rak frowned and went silent. But when he found his voice, it lacked its previous vigor. "He was. It looked fresh and so impossible to walk with, but he did. I asked if it was painful, but he said he didn’t feel a thing."

Third-degree burn. Agni thought to himself. But there was no way it spread evenly. Some areas must've been painful.

"He definitely lied," Rak voiced Agni's thought. "He was just acting to look tough."

The edge of Agni's lips twitched in an attempt to suppress his smile. That's him alright. And of course Rak could figure his own self easily. 

"One day he challenged me in an all out duel," Rak's gaze turned dark. "His wounds had weakened him over the months, and it was obvious who would be the winner."

Agni frowned at the implication.

Wordlessly, Rak called out his arms inventory which held a familiar looking spear that shouldn't have been in his possession at this point in time. Agni would recognize that design anywhere, "...Mad shocker."

"He said he wanted to test me, and he gave me this." Rak glared at the spear as if it was responsible for his misfortune. "And later told me that I should be proud, for only a true hunter was allowed to defeat him."

Agni felt his throat going dry, and gulped. "He died, didn't he?"

Rak's eyes sharpened. Whether it was in regret or anger, Agni couldn't tell. "I killed him." 

Agni didn't know what to feel about that. On one hand, he could empathize with how much pain Rak must've felt from the injury, especially with the lack of proper treatment that could cure or even just lessen the pain. But on the other hand, it meant that his Rak was truly gone, in such a way, and he still couldn't wrap his head around it.

Rak put his pipe back to invisible mode, like looking at it had brought him so much grief. "I've never used that spear since."

The silence stretched, with only the loud noises coming from the training ground to fill it. Agni wasn't sure how to reply to that without being overly friendly nor physical, and he definitely wouldn't do that to Rak, who only met him today.

Sitting beside Rak like this reminded him of their chat before the workshop battle, on the balcony. It was when Rak truly let him see his buried feelings, his desire to climb the tower together with him and Grace. And with that, the grief finally started to dawn on him. The scar on his face felt itchy and his hand was already clawing at his mask before he registered the motion. He sighed and put his hand back on his knee, pushing the tangled feeling to the back of his mind to be dealt with later. And since the silence had stretched out for too long, he asked; "What was he to you?"

"A rival," Rak looked thoughtful before adding, "and family."

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[crossbackpoke-check]

Why I Am Not Coming In To Work Today [abridged], Jess Zimmerman

part one | part two

[callowcadet]

nooo babe don't start rereading the entirety of durarara for the fifth time and making stupid memes because you don't know how else to cope with your brainrot you're so sexy aha

[fluffalpenguin]

Happy Shun Duel Links Day!!! (party popper emoji)

[kinnbig]

Jeff and his lollipop | Dum Dum (ดึมดึม)

[yourthirdparent]

jason's gay awakening being nico but not during the cupid scene or anything like that, it's after jason dies and he finally makes it through the long ass line for judgement and he gets to elysium and nico visits him there after a while so he's all mature and shit and jason's just like oh. oh he's hot. i like guys.

[astarlightmonbebe]

i'm only at the beginning of li tongguang's descent into obsession (eps 17-18), but already it's both hurting and hitting. hurting, because we know li tongguang's capabilities, and his level headedness, and the potential he has, that he seems to throw out due to this obsession. hitting, because when you think about it, the obsession storyline and characterization does make perfect sense. obsession like that is a double edged blade, which can turn from love to hate, childish belief and joy to embittered rage in a second.

on one hand, it's painful to watch ltg's childlike desperation when faced with ruyi again. we want to grit our teeth and think of him as idiotic, unable to take a hint. but the reality is that it's a completely normal response to be expected from him. i mean, it's a dream come true, to see the person you 'love' the most in the world to be whole in front of you. it's probably what he could only dream about, especially being the one to apparently find her bones and bury them.

on a deeper level, ltg's initial reaction is very much a manifestation of his inner child, almost peter pan-like in the 'child that never became an adult/grew up' way. by that i mean to say the desperate urge to please, the constant worrying, and the oscillation between hot and cold moods are all so indicative of someone who grew up in an insecure/unstable environment, usually with volatile or simply unavailable authority figures. from what we can gather, he had no father, his mother wasn't in his life ("she doesn't want him around, nor can she bear for him to be away, so that's why he's like that" per empress zhaojie's words to ruyi). the one authority figure that entered his life to offer some semblance of guidance was ruyi, and even though it's clear that she held care for him, she was also a twenty year old assassin used to training subordinates, not children. her mentorship style is clearly so different when you hold ltg and yang ying side by side, and we know from ruyi's own mouth that she doesn't consider herself to have taught ltg well, and wants to remedy that through/with yang ying (i'll probably make a whole different post comparing this and the affects of this after watching some more episodes lol - there are bullet points in the drafts). so even though ruyi was his authority figure, she was still an emotionally unavailable one who couldn't meet ltg on the level he probably needed at that time in his life, and which no one probably ever did. hence his up and down reaction and actions.

it intrigues me, too, because i think, in a very subtle way, ltg is very much a character foil to ruyi in that he reflects some of her worst attributes, or more accurately represents the sort of person she was, or at least acted like (yuan lu's comment about how ltg has ruyi's gaze was meaningful outside of the jealousy arc - to me at least). i saw someone make a really interesting comment on how ltg's devotion to ruyi parallels ruyi's own devotion to empress zhaojie, which i'll also probably comment on more later.

obviously, ltg's obsession stems from an issue much larger than ruyi herself - she just happens to be the unfortunate target of it. and, clearly, i know his descent into it will be ugly, if understandable. i understand ruyi wanting to leave that part of her life behind, but also - to think that maybe many of the issues faced in future eps could have been avoidable if she'd been upfront with li tongguang about her identity early on.

[spurgie-cousin]

I would keep an eye on your mom, I think if the Scientology channel is available to her it means she chose it as part of her package. I could be wrong, though.

I appreciate the concern lol but no it's included with her plan, as are a lot of evangelical channels tbh. She basically lost her sister to a smaller west coast cult and has a lot of contempt for cults bc of it so I think it would be a cold day in hell before she gave the scientologists even a dime of her money.

Her reaction literally was like "is this legal?? Should we call someone?" like she was prepared to sick the law on them 😭

[danganronpa96]

Okay but what if the killers and victims swapped..... how would the story play out then in either of them...... (e.g. krabs kills mario or walter kills hiroshi instead)

This is a pretty interesting but big ask so I might as well just summarise each scenario.

DR69

Mr. Krabs -> Mario: Luigi would become devastated that someone he thought was doing good by creating a crew of people would go and kill his brother in an act of total greed. I don't think he'd find it in him to forgive Mr. Krabs, but eventually becomes numb to what happened as the killing game goes along.

Dedede -> Ashley: I would imagine The Conductor rips into Dedede for killing a young girl, even if it was in an act of self-defense (or not). Some of the girls are upset at seeing Ashley's body (like Fluttershy and Miku). Parappa further internalises his fear that he'll be targeted next from their similar small size.

2D -> ???: This is a bit confusing. Technically, Miku was the one to kill 2D. But, if 2D ended up killing her somehow, the killing game would be... over. Unless, Teto takes over the supervision of the game proceeding her death. Or, Miku actually fakes this route as well, framing 2D as the killer and executing him (jesus christ this man cannot catch a break).

Peter -> Sans: This is genuinely the worst ending possible (/hj). Brian gets pissed off Peter went and killed someone because a crime like his would be caught in under 12 seconds in the trial. Nagito feels empty, confused how such a thing could have happened, and blames his luck for it all.

Fluttershy -> Brian: I cannot see this as a malice-fueled kill (unless Fluttershy went coo-coo) so this would either be an accidental kill, a murder in self-defense, or a mercy kill par Brian's request. It's really hard for everyone to suspect the Ultimate Kindness of murder during the trial, and things are just as depressing as canon.

DR96

Walter -> Hiroshi: I actually talked about this scenario in this ask here! (The part about Walter killing Hiroshi is in the 3rd paragraph specifically). Jesse is hard pressed to be trusted for a while proceeding the trial.

Retsuko -> Kaidou: To be honest, Retsuko was already at a disadvantage as a potential killer considering her options for victims were heavily limited. However, if she managed to kill Kaidou, oh, Saiki would not be happy. Before Bojack can go on a monologue about how much he did not expect Retsuko to be the killer, Saiki is just. Well. Do you even want to know? Everyone tries to forget that trial often.

Ena -> Natsuki: I already kinda talked about this scenario in this post here too. Yuri goes beast mode and all is hell.

Yuri -> Mai: So you know when I said you don't want to know what Saiki did? Well you definitely don't wanna know what Kurumada did. Latte goes into a pure state of disbelief a student killed someone she loved dearly, and Hayasaka... I don't know if he'd be able to investigate Mai's case all that immediately.

Bojack -> ...Bojack: Guys what if Bojack Horseman killed Bojack Horseman instead? I mean, if Bojack made Bojack do all that in the canon case, then could you even imagine what Bojack could do to Bojack? I don't think Jesse would be able to handle it, yo.

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

anyone else ever get struck with a sudden feeling of distaste or being tired of someone who you usually really like/are friends with for literally no reason whatsoever? or is that just me

[crimeronan]

canon amity finding out about what her princess luz AU self is like through AU hunter's gleeful descriptions and just progressively melting further onto the floor hands over her face in abject horror muttering "i am so fucking sorry" Over And Over And Over Again

hunter letting this happen for maybe like ten or fifteen minutes before he's like alright the novelty of amity blight apologizing is wearing off and you're so nice that i'm starting to feel bad about it. relax. it's literally fine that my universe's version of you is the devil.