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mari-lair · 9 months

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Hello, sorry if I write something wrong I am using the translator not is my native language.

I love your fic, your watch is running honestly, it is my favorite fic but I saw that this is pre-canonical and I had my doubts about how the events of the manga They would develop with the relationship of Teru and Aka's fic, for example, the relationship between Aoi and Akane's childhood friends would not be there, I would like to know how the separation arc would develop because in the manga when that happens, Akane only loses his ability to control time but without major damage but here xD poor aka, and the current arc of the festival with the great clock and the blood kills supernaturals.

This has nothing to do with it, but knowing that Aka liked Sosuke's photos a lot, if he dies and is condemned at school, I only see Aka, not knowing who he is but liking his photos a lot and I would start to fill him with questions about what he was like be a human being and teru just saying: now also in is your problem.

I'm sorry if it's too long, I just wanted to get my doubts out of my head, I hope I don't bother you.

have a nice day

Thank you, I'm glad you're enjoying the Aka fic! and I am always happy to talk about it! :D

I know I used the ‘pre-canon’ tag, and while I do want their world to be the tbhk world (with some artistic liberties), I am afraid the canon plot has already been kicked so hard it is far easier to treat it as a disconnected au in the same universe.

We don’t need to go as far as the Grim Reaper Sacrifice’s arc for major changes to show up, the reason Nene met Hanako in the first place is because she wanted to date Teru, the equivalent of a school celebrity that you can only ‘score’ with magic, but by the time canon start, Teru would already be dating Aka: He is off the market.

So if she could see Teru with a lover I can’t imagine her trying to break them up to get Teru to date her, so she would not eat the mermaid scales.

The butterfly effect of this, plus Akane not existing, would be insane, and it would just pile up with time (cause I know canon teru has info about the supernatural that hasn’t been revealed yet, and since the fic is in his pov it just doesn’t work. He can't be a mysterious character with big secrets as a narrator). I just used ‘pre-canon’ so people would know Teru would be aged down, the most I’ll do is make references every once in a while about a canon thing... I’m sorry if it gave you hope for the future anon...

Your ask does make me imagine how Aka would handle meeting mitsuba and a severance though.

Poor Mitsuba would catch no breaks if his ghost met Aka, you are right that Aka would be a nightmare. Mitsuba, even when he tries to be as annoying and intimidating as he can, isn’t nearly as intimidating or cold as Teru, so Aka is completely unshaken when he is called a ‘pushy pervert!’ or anything of sorts. And when Aka learn Mitsuba took the pictures?? He’ll be unbearable (Mitsuba would be a tiny little bit happy someone like his photos so much, but still mostly annoyed) Mitsuba’s rest will have no peace.

As for the severance: Aka would be doing a school patrol with Teru during obon, and since there are no signs of struggles (Akane isn’t there to fight the supernaturals), or glasses left behind it would take Teru some time to realize someone was kidnapped, he may even be oblivious to it until Aka start cracking.

(The rest of this reply contains spoilers. Not plot spoilers but tiny information about Aka’s that wasn’t revealed in the fic yet, so it could be taken as fun facts or spoilers depending on what kind of info you value.)

Both would panic, Aka does not know about the severance and one of his biggest fears is to disappear, so watching his body crack would make him lose it. Considering Teru would panic too but try to be calm, Aka may believe this is the end and cry, (he isn't exactly a crybaby but he does cry far more easily than Akane.)

Teru would freak out because he knows how Aka’s memories work: The supernatural is a keeper of the present, so he was ‘built’ to live in the present. Memories of his day-to-day life are harder to forget than memories of something that’s detached from it.

For example: If a student graduate and never show up again, Aka will forget memories about them far easier than memories of someone he sees every week. If he is put somewhere that he has never been before and he doesn’t know anyone, he will have no connections to his school life and lose his memory way way faster so that he can avoid being stuck in the past and just enjoy the present, adapt so this new place is his new home.

So Teru is scared of just how much Aka might forget. He gives him the bracelet full of bells that he had given Aoi, and makes him promise to not take it off no matter how ‘itchy and uncomfortable’ the bells fell for a supernatural (the bells are his only guide towards whatever boundary Aka lands on).

#tbhk #I am not strong enough to calculate butterfly effect so i shall close my eyes to canon i'm afraid #I still got 20 asks to reply to pls send help... I'm not strong enough

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y0itsbri · 1 year

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tagged by @you-are-so-much-better-than-that and @heymrspatel for an artist interview!

Artist Interview

1. Do you post on Ao3? If so, how many works do you have on AO3? If not, where do you post?

none! i post on tumblr and instagram when i can

2. What is your total art count?

ever? probably in the thousands! i've been an artiste since i could hold a crayon. always drew for fun and took classes

3. What are your top 5 pieces by likes/kudos?

4. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

sometimes, but i ALWAYS am giddy abt comments, kicking my feet back n forth like a schoolgirl

5. What is your current fandom, and what was the first fandom you drew for?

mostly shameless, but i dabble in all for the game, killing eve, what we do in the shadows, stranger things, don't worry darling, twilight

i have no idea -- i didn't Post bc i was a Child, but i remember drawing fairly oddparents, spongebob, twilight

6. Have you ever received hate on any art?

i am blind to any hate so i don't think so

7. What’s a fandom/ship you haven’t drawn for yet but want to?

maneskin!

8. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

ian x mickey - -they've stuck around longer than anyone else. they just make sense together

9. Do you draw outside of fandom?

uh huh!

10. What’s the an art piece you’ve drawn that came out completely differently than you expected?

all of them... LOL. they just kinda take on a life of their own

11. Do you draw smut?

not rly

12. Have you ever had any of your art stolen or copied?

not that i know of

13. Have you ever collaborated on a piece?

yuh! did some for fun w twisha. would draw w my friends growing up. draw for fics and events sometimes.

14. What’s an idea you have that you have yet to draw?

it's a secretttt

15. What are your drawing strengths?

colors!

16. What are your drawing weaknesses?

motivation to make it precise after i've already spent so long on it

17. What’s your favorite art piece you’ve drawn?

i like my top ones. and theeeese are pretty cool

18. What is one thing you’d like to tell people about your art that they might not know?

i'm proud of most of 'em

19. What inspires or motivates you to create for fandom?

composition, colors, feelings, emotions, aesthetic, love

20. And finally, can you describe your process a little? Do you have a favourite place to draw? Do you play something in the background? Do you do research or just go for it? Give us a little insight.

i love sitting on the floor and spreading out all my tools around me. i love having a reference photo and taking little creative liberties here and there bc i usually have a hard time liking what i've made if it is fully from my imagination. i always have music playing.

#tagged

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wetbloodworm · 1 year

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i feel like i’ve said it out loud with my mouth words but idk if i’ve ever actually written it down? so a little bit of gta au lore, mostly for ivan and a little for sergey, plus an old reference image i made. tattoo post

ivan generally isn’t a tattoo kid; he’s not vain about his looks but he is very particular about how he looks, and tattoos usually aren’t part of the image of himself he has in his head. gta au is different because he spends eight years in prison. russian prison/criminal tattoos specifically were more of a thing in the early/mid twentieth century and they declined in popularity starting in the 70s and 80s, but they still like. exist. and tattooing in prison was still a thing. and ivan was simultaneously bored and stressed out of his fucking mind at all times and he needed SOME kind of distraction/external stimulation/ANYTHING. eventually he decided to try out tattoos

here’s the older reference image!

i did research on all of the meanings of his various tattoos, though obviously i’m not an expert and did this via google so take it all with a grain of salt. the designs aren’t all 100% accurate to classic russian criminal tattoo designs (the stylized eye on his stomach is supposed to be two eyes that make the dick look like the nose of a face, for example) but 1) i’m taking artistic liberties for this au that i have with my friends and 2) with tattooing for identification falling out of practice some, i’d imagine ivan would also have some room for artistic liberty. though it was always important to him that he didn’t get any ‘unearned’ tattoos.

the first tattoo he got was the ‘imprisoned as a minor’ ring, because it was small and also fairly mild because like, at this point he hadn’t decided ‘well i guess i’m just going to be a criminal now’. he did an accidental murder and he still had an idea in his head of living a normal life after this. the big obvious ‘murderer’ skull came way further down the line, when he turned off his capacity for feeling compassion for most people and did some on-purpose murders and was chill with the idea of doing more when he got out.

obviously he decided that he liked the tattoos (symbolic art he carries around with him and also he’d enjoy the experience) and just kept getting more. he was still particular about what he actually got put on his body so he didn’t go as wild as he could have, and he would really think about whether he wanted something so it was never an impulse decision.

tattoos as a method of identification wasn’t too important to him, since, again, the practice wasn’t as common now, so it was less useful. they were really just for him and also a fun easter egg for anyone who might see them and know the meanings.

the eye on his stomach, which he got as an adult just to be explicitly clear about that, is an exception. that one was straight-up advertisement. he didn’t really know how to flirt and he REALLY didn’t know how to like... pick a person to sleep with, because aggressively demisexual. so he just slapped the ‘im gay’ tattoo on himself and let other dudes approach him.

even outside of prison he used that one to pick up guys on the rare occasion he’d decide ‘i want to pick up a stranger even though i find that unsatisfying because i’m afraid of forming emotional connections since that’s a weakness and everyone leaves anyway and also i’ve reached the point of sexual frustration where i no longer care that picking up strangers stresses me out’. talking with a guy at the bar, waits for him to comment on his tattoos, eventually bring up the eye and what it means to skip the part where you’re trying to figure out if you’re talking to another queer person. or if the conversation is already flirty (or flirty enough that ivan knows that’s what happening), ‘want to see it? somewhere that’s not here?’

some of the last ones he got were the stars and crown, as it took time for him to become any kind of authority. again, had to EARN his tattoos. also the ‘served whole sentence without parole’ ring once he got closer to finally being released

his favorite tattoo is the ‘омут‘ on his left hand, because it’s funny to him, and also true.

i have an image in my head of early on into ivan and kyle talking, kyle asking about the tattoos and ivan eventually explaining that one. kyle, whose has a blind spot for red flags, just thinking it’s interesting, and ivan like ‘ha ha ha isn’t it though? )) anyway”

after getting out of prison and after settling in a little bit, ivan decided he wanted to get his tattoos touched up. because while the artists in prison could be very talented, it was still prison. the tools weren’t always great and they were done in ballpoint pen ink. he liked the blue but wanted them a bit more vibrant, and cleaner in places. he also wanted to fill in the space on his left arm, because he didn’t fully love how it looked as-is. the balance on the right arm felt fine but mmm the left could be better.

ivan was able to be a bit pickier when it came to choosing an artist than he was in prison, so he got a few referrals and did some research online as well. he got sergey’s name at some point and liked his work. also i imagine sergey has a tattoo instagram and ivan would think he was funny, because no way is sergey 100% professional on that thing. ivan got his email and they started talking shop

ivan was upfront about having gotten his tattoos in prison, and sergey would’ve recognized them anyway when ivan sent pics. sergey was real excited about it, actually, because of course he’d done research into russian prison tattoos but he’d never seen any in person before, and seeing more examples of a thing you’re interested in is always cool! he decided he wanted to take the job right away.

like, listen, maybe he’d need to watch his mouth a little bit because he knew what that skull meant, but LS is full of criminals and ivan was friendly and respectful in his emails so it’s fine

touching up the tattoos would be simple, and ivan had some loose ideas for what he wanted for the sleeve (he wanted the new ink in a different color, and a few more florals to complement the rose might be good) but was pretty open to suggestions. so sergey had fun with that, sent a few sketches for slight changes he could make to the existing tattoos to make them a bit nicer and designs for the sleeve. ivan picked out what he liked and they got scheduled

i’d imagine all of that would take a couple sessions, and sergey is talkative while ivan is friendly, so they had plenty of time to talk. ivan can be a little disconcerting but polite and sergey is charming and very difficult to bother so they got on well. also ivan was excited because sergey obviously spoke russian and ivan always jumps at the opportunity to talk with people in his language. sergey asked questions about the meanings of the tattoos he wasn’t familiar with and about what the process was like, which ivan was happy to explain. they talked about how sergey got into this career, what ivan thought about america since he hadn’t been there TOO long by that point, all kinds of stuff. this was also how ivan found out about the kotovs’ restaurant, since sergey recommended it to him and ivan was excited to check it out.

sergey would later regret that just a little bit because ivan met asya though the restaurant, and even if they got on well enough sergey can see red flags just fine where asya can be selectively dismissive of them. the two of them hanging out makes sergey nervous. he’s a BAD INFLUENCE ON HER and also potentially dangerous?? asya please

i thought i had more but that’s it apparently. post over.

edit: wait i forgot. sergey would think ivan is hot partly because he’s into muscles. i just like knowing that. sergey would have a good time tattooing him.

#ivan tag #sergey tag #gta au tag

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surveys-at-your-service · 2 years

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Survey #527

“i’d pull the sun from the sky to freeze the future of time, & drift as one through the infinite”

Do you know anyone who is a firefighter? Nope. What’s your favourite alcoholic beverage? Sangrias. When was the last time you saw a photo of your ex? Around a month or so ago? Our mutual friend/old roommate hosted a get-together for something, and he shared some pics on Facebook. Jason was in one. Very weird seeing him with a full-on beard and moustache. Still recognized him in less than a heartbeat, though. How many push-ups can you do? None lmao. Have you ever received a compliment from a stranger? BRO most recently I deadass got like, seven compliments from different people in the ER and psych hospital about my hair, ha ha. Have you ever shaved your face? Let's be real, women get the "lady 'stache" that I think most women, myself included, tend to, especially with dark hair like me. Do you take the stairs or the elevator? I literally have to take elevators unless there are VERY few steps. Going up or down, it doesn't matter. My legs can't handle it. I've crumpled over on stairs before at school. What was the last vaccination you got? Moderna for Covid. What’s your favourite song at the moment? I am preeeetty obsessed with "Cyberhex" by Motionless In White rn. Have you ever been to Germany? I fuckin' wish bro. Are you in high School? I've been out of high school for like, six or seven years. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas. What do you hear right now? I'm watching John Wolfe play Elden Ring. Do you regret your last kiss? Nope nope nope. Have you ever taken a karate class? No. Who was the last person to tell you "I love you?" Girt! :') Have you ever been to the Statue of Liberty? Nah. When was the last time you went to a library? It's been a year or so, since I was the school newspaper photographer and taking some artistic shots. Do you have any nieces or nephews? I do! The only kids I ever want. Do you like techno? I actually do enjoy it. Would you ever live with any of your friends? I'd love to live with Sara if I didn't have Girt. I wouldn't want to move into a place for only a little while; especially after the hospital, I am just really, really attached to him. It's obvs too early right now, but I sure as hell hope we live together one day. Would you ever dye your hair blonde? No. If you took a drug test right now, would you pass? FUN FUCKIN' FACT Y'ALL, the hospital staff was suspicious I was lying about being clean because I had to take a drug test, going to the hospital and being suicidal, because the results had evidence of a certain drug component I can't remember the name of. As it turns out, it was from my anxiety med Klonopin, as well as one other I was on. They were both perfectly legal and prescribed to me though, so all was fine. Would you rather have a stomachache or headache? THE LATTER. I canNOT handle stomach pain whatsoever. Do you enjoy sleeping late? No. What was the last thing you dreamed about? I actually don't remember. Do you like to draw? I mean I do, even though it can very easily stress me out because I'm not accomplishing what I picture in my head. I wanna practice more, though. Is there someone you have been constantly thinking about? If yes, who? I've just been really, really grateful for my boyfriend lately. He was so supportive while I was in the hospital and always made me smile and laugh on the phone. Do you sleep with or without clothes on? On. I would feel WAY too vulnerable naked. I mean I slept w/o a shirt or bra back in the apartment when I was actually fit, but I don't think I could ever do even that ever again because I just hate hate hate my body. Have you heard a song that reminds you of someone today? Actually some lyrics in "Cyberhex" really make me think of Girt. Something you’re happy about? I'm just happy to be back home, bro. Meet anyone new this year? Patients at the hospital, yeah. Are you afraid of commitment? I've never struggled with that. Are you scared of growing old alone? YES. Do you get depressed about things easily? I have chronic depression, my man. How did you get your last bruise? It wasn't a bad bruise, but nevertheless I got one the last time I got blood drawn, and my vein decided to hide, which rarely happens. So the nurse had to move the needle around trying to find it until she relented and poked the other arm. Does anyone think you are a bitch? Oh, I'm sure Colleen does. I think the same of her, so whatever. Do you know anyone who is pregnant? I wouldn't say I know her, but one of the patients that came in the night before my discharge was pregnant. I don't think there's anyone I really really know that's expecting? What’s the background on your cellphone? The lock screen is the Halo of the Sun from Silent Hill, and my home screen is a pretty moth aesthetic. Do you like anyone? I love him, a lot. Do you play video games? Not really, but it's a hobby I want to get back into. I watch video games all the time, but I want to stop doing things so passively and instead do. Do you liked grilled cheese? Hell yeah. Are you going to college right now? No, but I'm trying to go back and go easy on myself with one class at a time! If so, what is your major? I actually don't think I'm going to pick a major right away. I want to explore classes I'm actually interested in and just... get a feel for what I want. I'm almost CERTAIN it will be a form of art, but who really knows. Do you like school? I actually have warm memories of the school I was last at, which is one of the reasons I want to go back. Do you watch anime? If I watch TV with someone, it's a pretty good bet. I find they tend to have interesting stories. Can you cook? No. I really should take the time to learn, though... Like it'd be nice to be able to make some yummy things for whenever I move out. Have you ever written a song or poem? Lots and lots of poems since middle school. Have you ever written a short story or novel? A short story, yes. I'm considering being an author... but I'm unsure and somewhat doubtful that will be my true pursuit. Do you like apricots? No. What's your favorite song by Bullet for my Valentine? Either "Your Betrayal" or "Say Goodnight." Can you knit? No. Have you ever vandalized something? No. Have you ever violated a dress code? Accidentally. Ever been in/seen a riot? No, that shit sounds terrifying. Would you ever take up yoga as a hobby? Yet another thing I wanna get back into... It really did make my body feel good. I could use that. What is your favorite wild animal? Meerkats, duh. What's the oddest band name you've ever heard? Maybe iwrestledabearonce. Or Ninja Sex Party. What’s the longest song you've listened to? How long was it? Ummmm I'm actually not sure. Maybe a Metallica song. It would definitely be a classic metal piece with guitar solos. What is your favorite toaster strudel flavor? I like the chocolate and strawberry ones. Where do you like to be kissed the most? alskjflk;qwejlarj;l that's confidential Have you ever eaten raw pumpkin? Ew, no. I don't even like pumpkin-flavored things. How much older is the person you’re currently interested in? He's two years older than me. Remember the first time you kissed the last person you kissed? Yes. Is there a secret you’ve never told your parents? Yes. Name one song that always makes you want to dance. "Cha-Cha Slide" is as far as it goes, ha ha. Do you have a doctor's appointment coming up soon? Yes, in just a few days after leaving the hospital. I don't exactly know why I need to see my primary care physician when I was there for my mental health, but whatever. List three things that inspire you. Music, seeing other people do great things, and looking at art motivates me to make something. What was the most creative thing you did in the last 24 hours? I planned out a character's appearance in my notebook at the hospital last night. I was too excited to go home to sleep 'til late in the night, so I found a way to pass time. How often do you bathe? I'm not gonna lie, I'd rather not share right now. It's not enough because of primarily how horribly painful showering is for me with my legs (keep in mind that I prop my legs up to clean them and even just balancing is difficult, and cleaning a foot requires being on just one), but also my depression was just so godawful that I didn't have the motivation for proper self-care. I literally just got home from the hospital today with a healthier mind, so we'll see how that changes. There's also a decent chance I'll be getting a shower chair, which would help immensely. It sounds so stupid, I know, like how much effort can a shower REALLY take, but I swear to god it is a feat of strength for me. What skill do you possess that you are most proud of? I'm probably most proud of my writing ability. What three things do you look for most in a partner? Kindness, understanding, and loyalty are up there. Do you like crowds? Absolutely not. Would you risk your life for your best friend? (not lover or family member!) Absolutely. With who was your most important romantic relationship? Jason, my first "real" boyfriend. Where do you stand on the death penalty? If the case is extreme enough, especially for recurring criminals, I'm honestly 100% for it. Some people just plain and simply don't deserve to live. What are your political beliefs (anarchy, communism, democracy etc.)? I'ma be real w/ you, I'm not even educated on this to really tell you. Is there any race/religion you particularly dislike? Why? Race, of course not. As for religion, I'm just gonna be real, I am just not a fan of Christianity. I'm sure this is partially due to it being what I'm most familiar and experienced with, but there is just a LOT that I hold issue with about it. I won't go into detail and I absolutely won't judge a Christian just by their label, but regardless, I'm not a fan. How would your ideal partner look? g o t h Do you ever want to have a family someday? With children? Sooooo I'm coming to find I apparently consider kids when I'm in love with someone. Which I've realized I am with Girt. Like I 100% wanted kids with Jason, and now I'd probably say I'm like, 10% into the idea with Girt. HOWEVER, I can just about guarantee it will not happen. I know i do NOT need to be a mother; I'm just too mentally ill for that, and even if I improved to a truly stable point, what if I relapsed? I'm not going to ruin the life of another, little person because I can't properly raise them. Girt doesn't want kids anyway, so it works out. We're fine being an aunt and uncle. What do you see yourself doing next year? I don't know! But for once, I'm excited to see. What do you see yourself doing in twenty years? Now that's a bit too far ahead. Would you ever have an affair? No. When I date someone, I'm loyal to them. Would you ever have a one night stand? Nah. Would you ever choose a career or job where your life was at risk? No. I worry about that enough with my sister. She meets some CRAZY fucking parents. Are you a loyal member of any organizations? No.

#survey #surveys #random questions #lyrics: ''cyberhex'' by motionless in white

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jetcimes · 3 years

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𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐒 + 𝐏𝐋𝐎𝐓 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 ! damn near made it on the unfollow list but i’m here ! this is 𝖑𝖔𝖛𝖊 𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖚𝖆𝖉, an alternative r&b/neo-soul artist who’s been in the music industry since she was seventeen ( 2009 ) the london-bred artist is signed under interscope records and preparing to release her first album since ( 2016 ) below you can find some additional info about her along w/ some wanted plots i took the liberty of writing up. im’s open !

≋ 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖒𝖚𝖘𝖊 /

𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄. — love solana persuad

𝐕𝐎𝐈𝐂𝐄. — solange

𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄. — june 24th, 1993. ( 27 )

𝐙𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐂. — cancer

𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐓𝐘𝐏𝐄. — the bohemian. & the goddess.

𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐒. — intuitive, manifesto, self-protective, candid, stubborn

𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐍𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓. — chaotic neutral.

𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓. — phlegmatic

𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐎𝐖𝐍. — london, england

𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄. — 2009-

𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒. — motown, sade, erykah badu, n.e.r.d. , groove theory

𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍. — love is preparing a return to music after five years of silence due to becoming a mother in 2017 and establishing her company prema records which works alt-music upstarts. she is a heavy force behind the scenes, credited in songwriting, music video direction and record production. she’s also known to take long breaks from releasing music due to her battle with obsessive-compulsive disorder which causes her to have heavy anxiety during an album cycle.

≋ 𝖜𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖉 𝖕𝖑𝖔𝖙𝖘 /

i’m open to anything if nothing here interests you but you’d like a connection with the muse. if these plots do interest you, IM me and i’ll send you the full written plot !

𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖘 𝖎 𝖎𝖒𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖉 — muses were in a relatively short relationship/fling that ended with love being pregnant. muses tried to make relationship work in wake of the expecting child but were in two different headspaces in life. ( CLOSED / OPEN )

𝖆𝖑𝖒𝖊𝖉𝖆. — the muses are best friends, bonding over their non-conforming approach to the music industry. two anti peas in a pod. ( OPEN )

𝖉𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖒𝖘. — the muses had a mentor/prodigy relationship during the start of the muse’s career but as the began to rise in popularity, pride got the best of them and they begin placing themself on a higher pedastal than love. ( FEMALE / OPEN )

𝖇𝖎𝖓𝖟. — prema records isn’t a management label but a music support group that helps indie upstarts fund their projects, tour, gives them cheaper spaces to record music, and gets them festival opportunities. all in exchange for ten percent of artist’s earnings. reaching out to prema is a must for those fresh in the industry, thinking of going indie and having label issues.

𝖏𝖊𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖉. — muses were married at a fairly young age during the ‘honeymoon phase’ of their relationship and of course ended up divorcing very shortly after. the two rekindled a friendship in recent years and maintain a ‘working’ relationship, collaborating on music with one another. ( MALE / OPEN )

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ask-the-clergy-bc · 4 years

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How would the papas + copia propose to their s/o?

I actually did a whole answer to this over here --> [Here] !!

But the question got me thinking of proposals in general! So I hope you don’t mind the artistic liberty I took for a new addition to it!

Like I mentioned in the other post, rings during a proposal is not necessary in the Ministry. They are often over looked for other means! But I was thinking... what if they DID propose with a ring the traditional way?

Papa Nihil: The ring is in his colors with the finest stones, but the shape is very important as well! He chose the stones around the topaz to resemble a star- like the Morning Star. A reference to the Dark One Below and your union together under His unblessings. Nihil likes his tokens of affection to be incredibly big and over the top. He wants you to have something nice!

Papa I: His might seem more modest in materials, but his ring is picked out with much thought. If he is going to do this, he wants to make it count and have meaning. Papa chooses a very well made, sturdy metal with two rubies and a black onyx in the middle. The rubies represent both of you, while the onyx like stone in the middle is Lucifer- who binds you both through your faith and unholy union.

Papa II: The ring is expensive yet not gaudy- over the top but tastefully so. Of course it’s an emerald. Both because it’s his color and so that anyone who sees it know you are HIS betrothed. Papa likes knowing he can give you such an expensive and fancy ring. It’s both an ego boost for himself and a chance to spoil you, since you mean so much to him! What better way for him to show off AND make you happy?

Papa III: Even though his proposal is very personal and private, the ring is certainly not! If there is one thing he wants to get right with a ‘traditional’ wedding, it’s the huge over the top DIAMOND ENGAGEMENT RING! Papa scours countless jewelers until he just gives up and designs his own. Nothing is too expensive for his soon to be fiance. He wants to give you a ring that’s so big it would make royalty jealous! Papa wants it to be perfect and for you to feel special and spoiled. Nothing but the best for you! Besides,w hat better way to honor Lucifer and your bond by being totally indulgent and opulent?

Cardinal Copia: Prefers a more simple stone with some color, like a ruby! It’s no where as big as what Papa II or III would get you, but he likes how tasteful and well designed it is! Copia likes a little luxury, but he would also like a ring that wasn’t so heavy you could barely lift your hand! There is elegance and class in having a more refined and simple style but with a bright color on display! Copia was very happy when he became the lead for Ghost because he could drop a pretty penny on you without having to worry about his expense report! Definitely grins like an idiot later when you gush over it!

#the band ghost #ghost bc #Ghost headcanon #fluff #ghost fluff #reader insert #papa emeritus i #Papa Emeritus II #papa emeritus iii #papa nihil #cardinal copia

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letterboxd · 4 years

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Milking It.

Peerless American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt talks to Ella Kemp about her new film, First Cow, her favorite animal performers, and getting down to the nitty gritty of things.

We’re resharing this post to mark the arrival of ‘First Cow’ on VOD. The interview took place timed to the original release of the film in March, prior to the coronavirus pandemic.

With little fuss, Kelly Reichardt has been making some of the most tender and thoughtful films about American loneliness for decades. The quietly acclaimed director, writer and film lecturer began her feature career in 1994 with River of Grass, a runaway story of a couple caught in a tragedy, and now celebrates her ten-title milestone as a filmmaker by gifting the world the peaceful and moving portrait of another pair of nomads in First Cow.

Reichardt has earned her reputation as one of the most impressive and reliable American filmmakers with knockouts including the stripped-back heartbreaker, Wendy and Lucy and the stunning portrait of feminine isolation and frustration, Certain Women. There is always a common thread—and there is often Michelle Williams—but then, also, each film is a rich, vivid new tale that feels like it belongs to you and no one else.

Based on the 2004 novel The Half-Life, written by Reichardt’s frequent collaborator Jonathan Raymond, First Cow has been coming together for over a decade, and feels like the culmination of Reichardt’s finest skills and sensibilities. The story follows Cookie (John Magaro) a taciturn cook travelling alongside fur trappers in 19th-century Oregon, whose ambition comes into focus when he meets King Lu (Orion Lee), a Chinese immigrant. Together, they develop not only an essential friendship, but also a delicious business model, which involves slyly stealing milk from a cow owned by a wealthy landowner. It’s a film of subtle gestures, of deeply tender attentions, with a sharp eye across endless landscapes, and already has devoted fans on Letterboxd.

“I have never felt so well cared for by a movie,” writes Liz Shannon Miller in her Letterboxd review. Zachary Panozzo appreciates the way the film tackles American capitalism as a system, writing that “First Cow, in the most pleasant and honest way, calls bullshit on that.” And Phil Wiedenheft observes: “It feels—like all her work—so simple and elegant that it’s a wonder how [many] histrionics so many other filmmakers have to perform to end up saying less.” And, everyone wants those butter-honey biscuits.

First Cow premiered at the Telluride Film Festival last year and went on to the New York Film Festival shortly after, before impressing European audiences last month in competition at the 2020 Berlinale.

Sharing memories of the writers who shaped her movies, the first film that proved that cinema could show a different view of the world, and the greatest animal performers of all time, Reichardt chats with our London correspondent, Ella Kemp.

Orion Lee as King-Lu and John Magaro as Cookie in ‘First Cow’.

How did you choose where to strip The Half-Life back, to get to a film-sized story? Kelly Reichardt: The novel goes through four decades and they sail to China, so it was way outside the realm of what we could do. It also has a contemporary thread, and that just became a prologue and we settled into the 1820s. We found the main mechanism, the cow, which doesn’t exist in the novel—in the novel they’re selling the oil from beaver glands to China. So once we had the narrative element of the cow, we could work our own way into the script while still using a lot of the themes and stories from John’s novel. And the other thing John did, which was great, was to combine two characters from the novel. King Lu is actually a fusion of two people in the novel.

On paper, First Cow might seem like a straightforward Western but in practice it feels much softer. How do you see it in terms of genre? I didn’t feel any limits by a genre, and I wasn’t really thinking of it as a ‘big W’ Western. I actually see it as a heist film if anything. When I made Meek’s Cutoff, we were dealing with bonnets and wagons and the desert and people crossing West. That felt like having to deal with the whole history of the Western while we set up the camera, but I didn’t feel like that at all here. I just felt like we were telling an intimate story about two people. We were in the minutiae of trying to find out as much as we could about the Multnomah tribes that lived on the Columbia river, and we had fashioned Toby Jones’ character—the Chief Factor—after John McLoughlin in the [retail business group] Hudson’s Bay Company. It was more about researching the beaver trade and definitely taking artistic liberties, while also really trying to stay pretty true in the details to the period. It was such a little world we were building, I didn’t really have the feeling that I was confined in a genre at all.

Kelly Reichardt. / Photo by Jens Koch courtesy Berlinale

You work with outdoor landscapes a lot, particularly in Oregon. There are similarities with Meek’s Cutoff but also with Wendy and Lucy—the nomadic loners, the animal companion… What keeps you coming back to these places? I’ve actually worked outdoors much more than I’ve worked indoors. It’s really the indoors which was really fun to shoot here, because with Tony Gasparro, who was the production designer on First Cow, he and I were able to design these cottages and interiors and build around what [we] wanted to shoot, which is really great and a first for me. But outdoors is where I’m usually mostly shooting. It was recognizable to me at different points in the film that we were recalling Old Joy and Meek’s Cutoff and Wendy and Lucy. It was like the ‘Best Of’ of my movies.

There were some echoes of the other films for sure. It’s interesting to think how that’s happened. Because really, John’s novel The Half-Life is the first thing I ever read of his, and I wrote to him asking if he had any short stories—because I knew the novel was too big back in 2004—and he sent me Old Joy, the short story, which became the first thing we did together. But in between all that we’d been musing together for a decade, whenever there’s a lull in whatever we’re working on, we’d ask ourselves how we could do The Half-Life. It’s been cooking on the back burner for a long time, so maybe it’s bled into other films along the way.

Would you ever consider working in the city? I’m definitely ready to do something contemporary. It could be anything. I will just say on the practical side I do enjoy going away with a crew and feeling somewhat off the grid while making a film, separate from everyday life. When you say a city, I immediately think of New York. Never say never, but it’s just the practicalities of it… even if you can hire the crew you want, it doesn’t jump out at me as the most inviting thing.

In First Cow, your central characters are two men. Did you encounter different things in delving into male psychology after shaping so many rich female characters across your filmography? I don’t think of it in terms of gender, more in terms of personality. Maile Meloy’s short stories that I was working off for Certain Women focus on isolated women, a theme in some of her writing. But it’s really more about getting down to details on all levels of filmmaking for me. You have at some point the bigger picture, but I like to get down to the nitty gritty of things, in the story I’m telling and the people I’m making the story about and not worry about what gender anybody is. It’s more about who are these characters. A big draw to The Half-Life was that the Cookie character was so great. King Lu was totally fascinating as well. So it was more about keeping track of what they wanted, what they were to each other in the minute-by-minute, more even than in the big sense.

Lucy, the very good girl in Reichardt’s ‘Old Joy’.

Evie, the titular cow, is a terrific performer. What is your favorite animal performance on film? Oh god… Lucy! My own beautiful dog in Old Joy (2006), actually. No, of course there’s others. The animal that probably made the biggest impression on me as a kid was in Mike Nichols’ The Day of the Dolphin (1973). That dolphin was everything. You’re always afraid the animals are going to come to some demise. There’s [Vincente] Minnelli’s Home from the Hill (1960), which has the tragic hunting dog there. But it’s such a beautiful film. Whenever a film is named after the animal, you know it’s bad news for the animal.

Do you have a favorite film to teach your students? I’ve been teaching since 1998 so I wouldn’t call anything a favorite, but one film I’ve used in a sound class a lot is the opening scene of McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), where we’re just listening to the sound, and we turn off the image and the students describe the space. And so by doing that over the years I have René Auberjonois’ voice so firmly planted in my head, as he’s the bartender in the opening scene. I had the great pleasure of working with him on Certain Women and we wrote a little part for him [in] First Cow where he’s the cranky guy in town with the raven.

What is the film that made you want to be a filmmaker? When I was a kid and I saw Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) on TV, and there was a scene on a beach at night that happened in black and white. It was the first time I’d seen the ocean in black and white—I grew up in Miami. It was the first time I became aware that people could do something as far as film went. I think when I was in art school, Stranger Than Paradise (1984) came out, and it probably opened the door to a lot of people’s minds—like a lot of people who saw the first band who played their own music and not cover tunes, like, ‘maybe I could tell my own story on film’. It made something seem possible, for myself anyway.

‘First Cow’ is in US cinemas now. An international release is yet to be confirmed. Kelly Reichardt’s films ‘First Cow’ and ‘Wendy and Lucy’ feature in Letterboxd’s Official Top 100 Narrative Feature Films Directed by Women.

#kelly reichardt #first cow #american film #american cinema #capitalism #animal performers #hollywood animals #female filmmakers #directed by women #52 films by women #female director #letterboxd #interview #q&a

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esotericworld · 5 years

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Holy shit, this is terrifying. An American citizen (who happens to be white) exposes the total abuse of power by the Depatment of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection. LOL at “customs”. The most doublespeak term I can think of after reading this.

Source: https://theintercept.com/2019/06/22/cbp-border-searches-journalists/

“...That was just the beginning. The real abuse of power was a warrantless search of my phone and laptop. This is the part that affects everyone, not just reporters and people who keep journals.

IN GENERAL, LAW enforcement agents have to get a warrant to search your electronic devices. That’s the gist of the 2014 Supreme Court case Riley v. California. But the Riley ruling only applies when the police arrest you. The Supreme Court has not yet decided whether the same protections apply to American citizens reentering the United States from abroad, and federal appeals courts have issued contradictory opinions. In the absence of a controlling legal authority, CBP goes by its own rules, namely CBP Directive No. 3340-049A, pursuant to which CBP can search any person’s device, at any time, for any reason, or for no reason at all. If you refuse to give up your password, CBP’s policy is to seize the device. The agency may use “external equipment” to crack the passcode, “not merely to gain access to the device, but to review, copy, and/or analyze its contents,” according to the directive. CBP can look for any kind of evidence, any kind of information, and can share what it finds with any other federal agency, so long as doing so is “consistent with applicable law and policy.”

Sophia Cope, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has sued CBP over its warrantless device searches, told me that the agency “has for sure said no” as to whether there is a right to counsel during secondary screening. “They’ve been pretty consistent. You don’t get a lawyer. A lot of people have tried to push back, particularly after the Muslim ban. People were like, ‘I have a green card, and you’re putting me back on a plane to Iran. I need a lawyer to come down to the airport.’”

CBP has been doing warrantless device searches since the advent of the modern smartphone, Cope said, but the practice has increased by some 300 percent since Trump took office. In late 2017, EFF teamed up w with the American Civil Liberties Union and filed a case alleging the unconstitutionality of the administration’s blitz of warrantless searches. Anecdotally, CBP appears to be targeting typical Trumpian scapegoats, including Muslims, Latinos, and journalists, but anyone reentering the United States can be subject to these searches. The 11 plaintiffs in the EFF and ACLU case are a computer programmer, a filmmaker, a graduate student, a nursing student, a limousine driver, a businessman, an engineer, a professor, an artist, and two journalists. All are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents who had experiences similar to mine.

“The secondary inspection environment is inherently coercive,” the complaint says. “Travelers are not free to exit those areas until officers permit them to leave.” Travelers are usually exhausted, sometimes ill, and may be under pressure to catch a connecting flight, anxious to get home to kids, or needed at work. Forcing travelers who are not suspected of any wrongdoing to cough up their passwords, on pain of having their devices seized, violates the Fourth Amendment right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures, the plaintiffs argue, and also infringes the First Amendment right to free expression and association by means of government intimidation and surveillance. “Regardless of whether you have embarrassing information on your device,” Cope said, “it’s about personal autonomy and living in a free society and not a police state.”

... I DIDN’T KNOW all of this when I was being held by CBP. When the officers told me they only wanted to check my devices for child pornography, links to terrorism, and so forth, I believed them. I was completely unprepared for the digital ransacking that came next.

After I gave him the password to my iPhone, Moncivias spent three hours reviewing hundreds of photos and videos and emails and calls and texts, including encrypted messages on WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram. It was the digital equivalent of tossing someone’s house: opening cabinets, pulling out drawers, and overturning furniture in hopes of finding something — anything — illegal. He read my communications with friends, family, and loved ones. He went through my correspondence with colleagues, editors, and sources. He asked about the identities of people who have worked with me in war zones. He also went through my personal photos, which I resented. Consider everything on your phone right now. Nothing on mine was spared.

Pomeroy, meanwhile, searched my laptop. He browsed my emails and my internet history. He looked through financial spreadsheets and property records and business correspondence. He was able to see all the same photos and videos as Moncivias and then some, including photos I thought I had deleted.

At one point, Pomeroy was standing over my laptop on the desk. I couldn’t see the screen, and he had such a puzzled expression on his face that I stood up to see what he was looking at. “Get back,” he said, clapping a hand on his sidearm. “I don’t know if you’re going for my gun.”... I thought I heard him call for me to come over, so I did. “Stand back from my gun,” he said... Pomeroy pronounced words to the effect that he was subjectively forming a reasonable belief that I might grab his service weapon.

It was an implicit death threat and a rhetorical move on part of the police that will be familiar to people of color: I’ve got a gun on you, ergo, you’re a threat to me. Speaking of which, I’m certain this whole experience would have been worse had I been black or brown instead of white. And that is to say nothing of migrants and refugees, whose treatment at the hands of CBP on the U.S.-Mexico border is another matter altogether. But it does go to show that you can’t contain a culture of aggression to one part of an armed agency...

It was around 4 p.m. when Moncivias finally finished up and informed me, anticlimactically, that I was free to go. I couldn’t wait to get outside because the detention area was freezing. No wonder Spanish-speaking migrants call CBP detention la hielera — the icebox. I took my phone and laptop and silently packed up my luggage, which still lay disemboweled on the desk, underwear and all. Pomeroy was gone by this time. As I was walking out, I said to Moncivias and Villarreal, “It’s funny, of all the countries I’ve been to, the border guards have never treated me worse than here, in the one country I’m a citizen of, in the town where I was born.”

“Welcome back to the USA,” Moncivias said.

Update: June 24, 2019

After publication, The Intercept learned that a CBP supervisor was incorrect when he told a reporter that a U.S. citizen may be forbidden from entering the country for refusing to answer a CBP officer’s questions. The piece has been updated to clarify that CBP does not have the power to stop American citizens from entering the U.S.

Source: https://theintercept.com/2019/06/22/cbp-border-searches-journalists/

#united states #DHS #CBP #immigration #border patrol #freedom #privacy #government

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pcygoldenchild · 5 years

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Not A Thousand Words

✨summary: You and Sehun weren’t close at all but somehow he was in your apartment confessing his deepest feelings to you.

��warnings: NSFW, slight dirty talk, cunnilingus, sexual intercourse.

The days where you feel like you’re on a continuous loop are the worst. You wake up and get ready for a long day of assisting at SM to come home either super exhausted or starving. This seems to be the routine now except the weekends which usually involve you staying in sleeping or binge watching some show. That’s your life and to say you thought taking this job would be different is an understatement. Sure it’s not that bad but it’s very demanding and all your time is spent worrying about the artists. At least you’ve made some friends and aquaintances along the way.

It was almost 10pm and you were just getting home. Luckily it was Friday night and you could sleep in tomorrow. All you wanted to do was order take out and chill in bed until you fell asleep. So that’s what you planned on doing.

You walk up to your door and notice your keypad was lit, meaning someone used it within the last hour. Slight panic set when you realized someone might be in your apartment or tried to get in. You figured it was the latter since no one knew your code. You typed it in and opened the door. Thankfully you cleaned your place last night so coming home to a clean place was a blessing. You took your shoes and coat off and started heading to the living room. You gasped when you saw a figure sitting on your couch.

“Hey Y/N.” said the man. You went to turn the light on to see Sehun sitting on your couch watching TV.

“Um...hey Sehun.” The look on your face must have told him exactly how you were feeling since he started to explain exactly why and how he was in your living room.

“Sorry, I should have asked or at least told you I was here. I just got bored and I knew your code from when I had to drop off our schedule. I thought you were here but you weren’t so I thought I’d wait.” You still didn’t know how to react since he never did this before and is usually the last of all his members to even talk to you.

“Oh um yeah, sure. Is everything okay?” Something must be wrong for him to be here.

“Yeah everything’s fine, I just wanted to see you is all. I guess I should get going since it’s late and you’re probably tired.” He got up and turned the TV off and started walking towards you.

“No i-it’s fine, you can stay. I just didn’t expect to see you of all people here. Um... I was getting ready to order take out if you want to join me.” You didn’t mind that he was here. In fact you were kind of happy he thought you were close enough to just enter your home. And you did like him a bit, he was just a little cold sometimes and confusing.

“Sure I’d like that, my treat since I technically broke into your apartment.” He said smiling shyly standing now in front of you with his hands in his pockets. He looked so shy like he didn’t know what to do. Usually Sehun could be very aware of his looks and make everyone else shy away. But now he looked almost nervous.

After the food was delivered you sat on the couch and started watching a show but got distracted by your conversation. It was easy to talk to Sehun for some reason. You thought since he never really talked to you in the office, he didn’t like you that much.

“You know, I always thought you hated me.” You laugh lightly to disguise your slight embarrassment. He had no reason to hate you. So how could you assume he did?

“What, why?” He said with furrowed brows, looking up at you through his lashes as he chewed.

“You are always the last to talk to me or you don’t at all. You never really make eye contact with me either.” You shrugged. Clearly you were wrong if he was sitting here eating with you in your apartment.

“And what about now? What do you think of me now?” You didn’t really know what to think of him now. You didn’t think of it much so you just said what would lighten the mood.

“Now you’re in my apartment eating takeout with me.” you chuckle to yourself. He laughs too and puts his container on the coffee table in front of the couch. You do the same since you were now finished and sit in a momentary cloud of silence.

“I actually came here to talk to you about something.” he said suddenly, tone more serious.

“Ok sure. What’s on your mind?” You were hoping he was okay and that whatever problem he had you could fix. He did come to you, which you would have thought was the last person he’d think of.

“Well you. You’ve been on my mind Y/N.” He wasn’t making eye contact with you. Instead choosing to look down at his fidgeting fingers in his lap.

“Me? What about me?” Your heart had a sudden murmur at his words. What could he be thinking about you for? You could think the obvious that maybe he liked you, but if he did he had a funny way of showing it.

“I don’t know. I didn’t know how to tell you this.” He slightly turned so he was now facing you only a couple inches away.

“I get really nervous around you. All those things you said earlier were true but not because I hate you. I can’t make eye contact or speak to you for too long or my whole body heats up. I kept pushing it off as something else but the more I’m around you the more it’s clear.” You had to take in what he was telling you with cautious ears. If you read correctly, this was Oh Sehun telling you he had a crush. A crush on YOU! And not even a couple hours ago you thought he hated you.

“W-what’s clear?” You know what it is but you need to hear him say it so it’s real.

“That I like you Y/N, a lot actually. I’m not the best with describing or showing my feelings. I tend to keep my feelings to myself. I think about what makes me feel so distracted, so confused and other things. And I have been thinking about you for months now.” Wow. This was a lot. But wait. He’s been thinking about you for months?

“What do you mean?” The way he said it felt like he meant something else. You could have just been reading too much into it but you couldn’t help but feel something else in those words.

“Exactly what it sounds like. Y/N you’re a beautiful girl. And since I am coming clean, I want to let it all out.” He clears his throat and suddenly he looks different. His eyes are dark and he licks his lips before placing his hand on your knee.

“Y/N you have been driving me crazy since the day I met you. You wear such tight clothing to your office and they hug your body perfectly. At first I felt like a pervert for watching you but then I figured you were doing it on purpose. You walk around swinging your hips like you want me to stare. Your shirts are always unbuttoned at the top and I’ve never wanted to mark someones neck as much as I do yours. And when you come to practice with us I lose it. You in tights is a sin. I’m sure it’s obvious to you that we all stare but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t watch your every move.”

“Sehun I-I don’t...” you are a little out of breath. His hand is slowly creeping up your thigh and you are not ashamed of the way you feel yourself pooling between your legs.

“I’m not done. If only you knew the thoughts I have about you when I’m alone. I’ve dreamed of having you, tasting those beautiful lips. It got so bad that I had to imagine you to make myself cum. Y/N I think I’m going crazy just off of your presence.”

“What t-thoughts do you h-have?” You were a mess and that was all you could say. You really wanted to know what Sehun thought about doing to you that would get him to cum but that’s the last thing you wanted to talk about right now. Your head was spinning from the tension building in your stomach begging for you to do something. Anything to give you a release.

“Well since I’m not great with sharing my thoughts, why don’t I just show you.” he said then ravaged your lips before you could even process what was happening. He was fast and hungry. His hands came to cup your face as you started to kiss him back. You wrap your hands around his neck as he starts to lean into you, pushing you back on the couch. He pulls away and looks at you.

“Y/N tell me you want this. Tell me you feel the same. Tell me I’m not crazy and this won’t ruin us.” He was so afraid you didn’t feel the same, like you were just going to break his heart after.

“Sehun I want this. I want you.” That was all you had to say before his lips were on yours again. His hands roamed freely on your body and through your hair as if he wasn’t sure where to put them but wanting to feel all of you at once. He pulled your shirt off and instantly began kissing all over your neck and chest. You did the liberty of taking off your bra and unbuttoned your pants. He paused and sat up to look at you and your half naked form before throwing his own shirt and sweatpants off. You took in his body as he slid your pants and panties off. He lifted you by the waist and walked blindly to your bedroom with your directions.

You were so wet that the thought of fucking Sehun right after he confessed to you didn’t even bother you. You laid on the bed with your fingers teasing your clit as you watched him slowly take off his boxers releasing his hard cock. You took in a bit of a choked breath at his size making him smirk as he slowly walked over to you tugging on his anaconda. Your body went flush as you closed your legs out of habit at the sight of him.

“Don’t worry. I’ll take it easy on you. It’s not as bad as it looks.” he says as he comes onto the bed pulling your legs apart. “I think you’ll be just fine from the looks of how wet you are for me.” He takes a finger and glides up your folds before tasting you. The action making you even wetter.

He lowers himself between your legs and kisses your thighs slowly making you squirm. He’s teasing you.

“Sehun please.” you whisper ashamed of how needy you sound.

“Please what sweetheart?” he smirks. God he was beautiful.

“Please taste how wet you make me.” you moan out before pushing your hips up. He smiles then kisses your clit making you shiver at the feeling. He licks up and down your folds collecting all of you while looking you in the eyes. He goes down on you for what felt like forever just teasing you, not letting you cum. He’s been slowly fisting his cock listening to your moans and watching you break under him.

“Sehun you wouldn’t have to fuck your hand if you’d just fuck me already.” you say agitated at his teasing.

“I’m just savoring the taste I’ve been dying to have. But since you’re more than ready to take my cock, I’ll give it to you. Hard and fast because I can’t take it anymore.” he says as he jumps up on you. You laugh at his neediness given that he was the one teasing you for the past half hour. You wrap your legs around his waist as he lines himself up to your hole. He pushes in slowly filling you up so much you close your eyes and look away. You didn’t want to let him see you struggling to take him in after you practically begged him to fuck you. He grabs your chin and makes you look at him.

“Open your eyes and look at me. I want to see the way your beautiful face looks as you take my cock. You’re so tight and I won’t last long. I need to see your face for all of it. Keep it locked away in my memory.” he says as he slowly starts to thrust in and out of you. You moan as he increases his speed making lewd sounds come from your wet core. He’s looking you in the eyes as he fucks you hard repeatedly saying your name. You let out little whimpers as you feel your self cumming.

“Ahh shit Sehun!” you scream as you close your eyes and scratch up his back. He pulls out and cums on your stomach in long white spirts. You watch as he stares at your cum covered stomach while rubbing the tip of his cock on your clit. He looked good like this, after sex glow making his body shine and his face relax.

“You’re beautiful.” you whisper to yourself as you trace his face with your hands. He looks at you and kisses you softly.

“You’re beautiful. The most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.” he says as he caresses your hair. He kisses you more and gets up to grab a wash cloth and clean you up. He sits on the bed and begins cleaning your cum painted stomach.

“Now that you’re my girlfriend, I have a lot of fun dates and stuff planned for us.” he said smiling that beautiful cat like smile.

“Who said I was your girlfriend Oh Sehun?” you tease making him glare at you.

“I just did. Do you need me to make you say it yourself?” he said getting you to straddle his lap.

“Hmm I don’t know Sehun. It might take all night. Maybe even tomorrow.” you say smiling at him.

“We’ve got all weekend beautiful. I’ve got great stamina. But you’re already mine.” he laughs before kissing you.

Oh Sehun, a thief in the night. He stole your heart without even really trying; not even saying a thousand words. But even then, you knew how he felt.

#exo #exo smut #sehun #sehun smut #sehun x reader #sehun fanfic #exo fanfic

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[ 365 Days of SasuHina || Day One Hundred Fifty-Six: Curious Animal ] [ Uchiha Sasuke, Hyūga Hinata, Hyūga Hiashi ] [ SasuHina ] [ Verse: River Runs Deep ] [ AO3 Link ]

Ever since her rather...supernatural visit, Hinata has been on edge.

Part of her wonders if the nekomata wants it that way. To pop back up again in a moment she least expects it. He seemed to enjoy her nervousness...after all, they aren’t known as very friendly spirits. Quite the opposite, really: making playthings of the dead, eating people, or carrying them away into the mountains…

Does she really want such a beast as a husband?

Her immediate reaction is no! Of course not! To be the bride of a yōkai seems a terrible fate. Would she have to live on the plane of spirits and kami? Surely she’d be in danger in such a realm, would she not? After all, a great many yōkai enjoy devouring humans...nekomata among them! What if this is all just an elaborate ruse for a meal?

...and yet...this seems a great amount of effort to eat one human woman. But what does he want from her…?

He said something about her ‘talents’ being useful, but...she’s not even sure what he means. She can see spirits, yes...but how could that be of any use to a spirit? He can see them just fine!

...is her sight a sign of something else lying dormant within her…?

She doesn’t want to think of such things...all Hinata has ever wanted was to be normal! Her mother, too, had seen spirits...and her husband thought her mad! If only she’d not stared at the cat spirit...if only he’d never noticed her. Then, maybe, she could have gone on pretending not to see into the plane of the gods. Find a husband, and try to live a normal life!

...and yet…

Can there ever be a normal life for someone like her? Even if she never told anyone else of her sight...it wouldn’t stop the power. She would still see, no matter how vehemently she denied it. Does she truly want to live a life that’s so much a lie?

“Hinata.”

Looking up from her contemplative perch in the rear garden, Hinata sees her father. “...yes?” Has the nekomata spoken to him?

“I thought I told you, no animals in our gardens!”

She blinks. “I...I’m sorry, what…?”

Sighing curtly, Hiashi points. “Did you let that vermin in here?”

Following his gesture, she stiffens. Bathing in a corner...is the nekomata. And while she knows Hiashi can’t see the cat’s twin tails, the sight still startles her. “I...no, otōsama. It must have wandered in on i-it’s own. I know not to break your rules.”

“Hn...I’ll have one of the staff remove it.”

Looking up, the yōkai considers them both before arching his back, hissing.

“...w-wait!” Hinata raises a pleading hand.

“Why?”

“...I...t-that is…” Her mind races for an excuse - why?! “...cats c-catch mice.”

“...and? Are you insinuating there are rodents in our home?”

“No! But...perhaps it would be, ah...wise to keep a defense against them? Just in case? Surely if a cat were to sit in our garden, no mouse would dare to enter!”

Hiashi stares at her, then glances to the cat. Still he remains tensed. “...rather curious animal, isn’t it…? I’ve never seen a cat with hair so untamed. What if it carries a disease?”

“But...it appears healthy, otōsama. I think...it just looks that way because...it has no one to care for it. To brush its fur. See? Its eyes are bright, and its weight healthy. If it were ill, s-surely it would appear so…?”

Hiashi is silent for a long while. “...very well. It may stay. But I refuse to feed it. If it gets hungry...it can catch those mice you’ve promised it.”

“Y...yes, otōsama…” Head bowing, she remains hunched until Hiashi leaves.

“Tch...what an opinionated old bastard…”

Startling, Hinata looks up to see the nekomata back in a human guise...save for his ears and twin tails.

Said ears pin, lip lifting with a hiss. “To call a cat a vermin...I ought to -”

“Please, d-don’t hurt him!” Hinata begs in a hush. “...yes, he is stern...but he is my father…”

“...trust me, a father is not always a blessing.” With that, he turns from the path Hiashi took, heading further into the Hyūga clan gardens. “...sometimes...you are better off alone.”

Expression hesitant and yet somber, Hinata watches him.

Arms folded, he then looks over his shoulder to her, ruddy eyes flickering over her face. “...it’s as I said, isn’t it?”

“W...what?”

“Your father knows, doesn’t he? And see how he treats you? You’ve eyes gifted by the spirits...and he treats you like a monster. Calls you mad, does he? Calls you a liar?”

The truths make her shrink. “...I-I…”

“...I told you, miko...you don’t belong here. In the human realm….you are an outsider.”

“...so too would I be an outsider in the world of the gods. I’m not a spirit...I’m...in between.” Head bowing, she looks to her upturned hands. “...I don’t belong a-anywhere…”

“Then carve a place for yourself with your hands. If the world will not afford you one...make one. Life is not for the meek. It is for the strong. Only those who take what they need will find it. Begging for scraps will get dirt kicked in your face.”

“...is that what happened to you?”

Sasuke jolts a hair, staring at her.

“...some say that a nekomata is a cat that has live a hundred years. Like many things granted a spirit form when a c-century has passed. A cat mistreated...hurt…” White eyes lift to stare back. “...is that...what you have become…?”

Ears pinning, he hisses at her. “What would you know? You’ve never begged a day in your life, have you? Rejected though you may be, your father keeps you. But I...I was…”

“...left behind…?”

Abruptly, he spins back around, arms still folded. “...some say we cats are harbingers of death. Bad luck. Some cut our tails when we are born to ensure they never split. If we’re kept too long, we’ll turn into monsters...so they abandon us. Leave us in the mountains where we’ll never find our way home again. So when the world turns its back on you…”

Again he turns, staring at her with one glowing, blood-red eye. “...what choice do you have but to become a monster…? It’s fight...or die.”

Staring sadly, Hinata then lowers her gaze. “...I’m sorry for the pain you’ve been given, Uchiha-san...any life is precious, and should be given love.”

...is that why he wants a bride? To steal the one thing he never had?

To take and capture love…?

“...I don’t need your pity.”

“That’s n-not what I offered.”

His eyes narrow.

“...you’re right. I don’t know that pain...but I sympathize. I wish I could take it from you. But...I can’t. No one can undo the past. They can only shape the future.”

Considering her, Sasuke strides to stand at her fore. He takes a knee, lifting her chin with a claw-clad finger. “...every life should be given love, you say…? Then give me yours.”

“...I can try.”

“...try?”

“Love isn’t something you can...demand. It’s like…” Looking around, she nods to the garden. “...like a seed. You must tend to it carefully. G-give it what it needs. Shelter it, give it light, feed it...and be patient as it grows. Then, when your work comes to fruition...you’ll have something beautiful.”

Matching her gaze, Sasuke frowns. “Love...grows…”

“...yes.”

For a moment more he considers it, then stands in a fluid motion. “Then...I will feed your love. Give it whatever it needs. Until it’s the most beautiful love under O-Amaterasu-sama’s light.”

His reaction, admittedly, takes her aback. Part of her is convinced he doesn’t yet fully understand...seeing this more as a simple task than a delicate process. But, at least he seems...determined?

With that, he alights atop the garden wall, staring out into the mountains beyond. Both tails flick in thought. “...wait here, bride of mine.” Turning back, his cheshire grin returns. “I’ll come back for you.” In a blink, a two-tailed black cat leaps down into the field below.

Hinata, still a bit dazed, considers his words in silence.

“...what a curious animal, indeed.”

.oOo.

Oh gosh it's late and I'm bushed, so I'll be brief @~@ A sequel to day 148, A Cat Walks Past. I managed a BIT more reading about nekomata...still not sure I'm 100% on their lore yet, so some of this MIGHT have a little...artistic liberty. But overall I really like how it turned out. Poor little kitty Sasuke...he got no love :< But while he might not have QUITE the right idea yet...surely he'll help Hinata's love grow! Watch him take feeding it too literally and bring her fish. "What is this?" "I'm feeding your love." "Uchiha-san.......no." ANYWAY...I really need sleep, so I'ma bounce! I'm ALMOST done with my event, so I'll be able to devote more time to these come Friday! Until then, please be patient with me - I wrote a 5k drabble today alone, so I'm a LIL pooped :'D But, either way...thank you for reading!

#sasuhina #uchiha sasuke #hyūga hinata #hyūga hiashi #river runs deep [ au ]#365daysofsasuhina

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Hey! What do you think of OPM season 2? I still love it & am looking forward to next weeks new episode but i just wish Saitama had more screen time ;-(

hey nonny~!

apologies for the late reply, its a combo of not getting notifications (tumblr u useless trashbucket) and being on surgery rotation (i miss sleeping so much)

firstly, i am truly glad you still love it and look forward to the new episodes!!! 💖💖💖please dont let anything i say from this point on dissuade you from that enjoyment

THAT BEING SAID

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ive only watched up to the second episode, and i am having Such Difficulties convincing myself to keep watching. i know my rxns to ep 1 were overall pretty positive and I stand by it but the more i watch the more the Cringe/Hypercritique starts take over.

Turns out, the art style had a bigger impact than i thought on the length of which i enjoy shows. personally, i just really like when anime/shows have a happy marriage between writing and artwork. and when show directors know how to interpret writing, how to set up a scene (the angle, the music, the pacing), and then communicate with artists who have the skills to bring that idea to life using the medium they’re given -- that’s when writing becomes storytelling. OPM’s writing is still fantastic since they’re going off ONE (whereas GoT has the opposite problem where the production value is 4K and the writing is early 2000s livejournal/fanfiction lol god why is everyone dropping the ball in 2019??)

As for the art, since opm switched to jc staff and shingo natsume & co. left for other projects ( ;;_____;; im emo ), its inevitable we would see a drop in animation quality and i find myself constantly getting distracted by things i never used to get concerned about in the first season (bc of the high bar of expectations set by s1 artists/directors, like theres just no way jc staff would match up it to all of that and i feel bad for them, they’re trying their best but that doesn’t mean theyre immune to critique on the artistic liberties that they’ve taken that i feel as a viewer, may not have been the best choice?)

the shading: no, just, unnecessary and distracting and why is it the center of saitamas face, im by far no expert in lighting but a bish can tell something doesnt look right???

the shading pt II: color choices. just gonna say i was not expecting sai’s ‘hair shirt’ in ep 1 to be bright-ass neon green, it was a little jarring at first and i miss him in red ;-; i get hes supposed to have poor fashion choices but i dont see him as the type to pick something that stands out so much in the crowd, like he likes to be left alone. NEON doesnt really relay ‘hi dont mind me im just barely existing here lol’

the shading pt III: genos arms/neck. okaY so the bby looks good in screenshots. like he’s shiny and nice to look at when nothings moving. bUT this is animation?? movement of objections is different from still life manga so making every single scene almost 99% like murata’s panels translates a little awkwardly to the screen (like staff is lucky bc murata’s a force of nature with his panels playing out like a movie for ref). but when genos moves, the arms are just distracting bc everything around him is drawn simply without shadows so they stand out by themselves and i (visually) forget about the rest of him haha.

the pacing: it feels scripted, person A says this so we’ll show person A in the shot, then person B is saying something so we have to cut to person B, etc etc like keeping pretty steady to manga lines to the point where i was starting to get bored bc i knew what was coming. it was really intervaled? like someone had to be saying something at a certain effect and i think s1 had more dramatic pauses (lol) but thats how you can place emphasis on scenes to have an emotional impact if the character doesnt say anything and just let the soundtrack do some talking and the cadence of the script will change too (im 10000% talking about the sunset scene in s1 god bless. like it was slow, there was MOOD there wasn’t any rush and really gave the viewer time to think about the relationship between the two characters and what that moment meant to each of them) i feel like there were several scenes that could have been more like in the scene where sai protected fubuki, could have been a little more dramatically emphasized (aka just a pause) so the viewer could get a chance to understand that he purprosefully shielded her or when genos says that strong heroes are drawn to saitama--bUT nope its the same pace, like c l o c k w o r k just like my t eARS--

the fight scenes: how do i even start. the one scene that got me INTO opm (like watching the anime, reading the manga, drawing fanart, writing fanfic, reading fanfics etc) was kickstarted by the fight scene between genos and saitama in s1 that was circulating on tumblr a while back. i thought the characters were interesting and the fight was badass and it just looked SO COOL. (also the forehead flick at the end just kinda sealed my fate). going from that to s2 fight scenes where its mostly cut scenes and freeze scenes?? where theres a cut out behind the characters back?? during a fight scene????? this isn’t a calling card or an anime opening??? i dont understand. when they dont do cut scenes, its interesting but my initial impression is just underwhelmed. i can find good parts but it feels like i have to replay the scene to notice it? theres also an overwhelming amount of graphics/cgi manipulation that overpowers the actual art sometimes. its lacking some of the fluidity that comes from hand drawn fight scenes from first season. OTL

the sound directing: so i thought that the mood just felt off for certain scenes and the sound didn’t seem to support the scene as well (unless it was like the character’s theme or smtg) and i looked it up and the sound director was also replaced (Yoshikazu Iwanami replacing Shoji Hata). i have no idea if the sound director is also in charge of character lines but there were parts were fubuki was monologuing and i had no idea she was inner monologuing, i thought she was talking out loud and that just took extra effort on my part to re-orient myself (im nitpitcking i know but its just how i watch shows lol)

there are still some parts i like about the animation:

fubuki looks bangin and i love her👌👗

all of this just made me realize how insanely lucky we were to have an amazing s1 and just have it exist and how i really could not care less if they had just waited forever to make s2 as long as we had the same crew come back. but anime is still a business and the quicker they dish out merch/seasons, the more money they can bring in. which they do in the short run but they would bring in more if they spent a little more on quality in the long run and it becomes one of those classics that ppl will rewatch and keep recommending to ppl who want to get into anime and oh my god we’re never gonna have that now, are we. if im gonna rec it to a friend its gonna be ‘read the manga!’ or ‘just watch s1!’ uGH. its just an unfortunate situation, its not one person’s fault either, so many factors go into what made opm s1 so spectacular and seeing s2 just made me appreciate s1 more. i guess im happy to have a s2 regardless?

i’ll still watch to support (and bc i like suiryuu and wanna see sai in a karate gi and wig lol). maybe i just have to get used to the new style.

so in summary,

#this got outta hand real quicc #sorry nonny u really didnt ask for this😅😅😅#i just have paragraphs of emotions #my inbox is open hit me w discourse if u disagree lol #this is just imho #Anonymous

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3x13 Reaction / Commentary

Yeah I'm aware, stop judging X___X

I feel the need to point this out. Apparently it's common practice for the Praetor to just, kill off their more troublesome charges. Interesting. But Jordan has a different work ethic which is a) apparently not usual for praetors and b) something at least Nick attributes to his past and not, idk, common decency. Just how savage is the Praetor exactly?? (Also let me add this to the list of things why 3x15 makes no sense at all.)

Okay, so they found another mundane dead by Heidi's hand...... why exactly don't they call the Shadowhunters? Aren't they obliged to? I mean?

True, but it sure as hell is her responsibility how she handles them. But we established already that she has a serious perception problem and always sees herself as the victim.

I mean, prime example, if she could have made that smooth exit through the vent where the werewolves couldn't follow, why didn't she just do that from the start instead of attacking Nick? Because she wants to cause trouble and not just “live her life in peace” as she's pretending to.

More like, he didn't have the guts to face Alec like that. Also does that mean he draped Izzy on the couch like that in that cliché sleeping pose with one hand under the head? At least he took off her boots like a sane person.

“I'm just drained.”

Haha it seems Alec isn't the only Lightwood sibling with a shitty sense of humor.

“I don't have the same preexisting condition.” “You mean my addiction?”

No, Izzy, he obviously means your fashion sense, keep up. Seriously, who wrote that stupid ass line of dialogue.

I found it pretty hilarious that Simon, Clary's literally oldest and bestest friend since kindergarten, feels the need to apologize to Izzy for taking up so much time with his Clary-reunion and blocking the path for her. The Clizzy Energy is Strong.

“Hmmmm hot hot hot Clary, please show me more.”

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY HAHAHAHA PERFECT

Also, Morningstar.... didn't Val name his dumbass tanker ship in S1/S2 Morningstar? Guy really has it with name repetitions, first Jonathan 1 and 2, now Morningstar Ship and Morningstar Sword... I bet he named all his stuffed teddys Mr Snuffels 1, Mr Snuffels 2, Mr Snuffels 3.....

The way he delivers this line me might've as well said “Please cut out the emotional disgusting bullshit my skin is crawling already from this I can't take any more mushiness PLEASE GO AWAY.” Gotta love Alec.

MAGNUS RAGE PUNCHING THE KEYBOARD IS THE MOST RELATABLE THING I HAVE EVER SEEN

Magnus opening up about missing his magic MY HEART OH MY GOD

(Sidenote though: No wonder he got frustrated with the pretentious Shadowhunter Technology, I mean, look at it. There are only runes. Runes may be called runes, but they don't actually make up an alphabet. Why the heck is there a flexibility rune on the screen? It makes no sense.)

This whole scene (and Izzy's lipstick lol) is absolutely perfect. I love everything about it, especially Magnus and especially Izzy. I'd be really surprised if Magnus didn't find a way to get her that weird root thingy anyway, because he surely doesn't buy the “feeling a lot better now” line.

(Edit: Now thinking about it I realized two things, a) she probably didn't take him up on his offer to go to another warlock because she felt like that was unnecessarily rubbing in that he can't do it himself anymore* and b) with that line she probably meant she feels lighter already for sharing what happened and just <3<3<3<3<3)

*The only think that would have made this scene more perfect is if Izzy hadn't skimmed over his magic comment without acknowledging it in any way. Though with this thought in mind, that she rejected his offer to spare his feelings, I find myself placated.

Also I love how Magnus pretends he's going to look for pen and paper when really he's running straight to Alec to tell him all about this (and to prevent a repetition of 2x09 form happening.... and now I made myself sad again).

#effortless (Also reminds me of that post about fire message mechanics that I still owe a certain someone. Where is the time.)

HAHAHAHA

???????????? How do they know that? More importantly, does Alec know? Will he hear through the Shadow World grapevine??? So many questions.

I mean, I have sympathy for her. But like, she's too smart for me to buy that she genuinely can't see any other course of action. She just does this because it's the least effort for her, not because she's truly clueless what alternatives are there for here (aka not running around, killing mundanes, starting a fight with everyone). She just thrives on chaos.

Also “Wolves don't just attack without cause. Not in New York” ? Seems like all Institute except the NY one do a shit job since supposedly keeping peace between the Downworld factions is part of their responsibility. Yes, I am still salty about 3x15. (Also, if anyone's confused by this weird foreshadowing, I wrote notes for this reaction post while watching 3x13 when it first aired, but only got to finish it now after 3x19 aired and I can't keep my chronology-screwing bitterness to myself while finishing up the post. But mostly these are my thoughts from then.)

Yeah something tells me she's not gonna be totally uninvolved in that.

This and the fact that Russel wants to stop Bat from even leaving the Jade Wolf are the final proofs that all the werewolves actually live at the Jade Wolf and pile up in a giant snuggle pile in the kitchen at night. This is further cemented by the fact that Luke and Maia claim to have flats of their own but we never actually see them. Clearly they're both dirty liars that just wanted to mislead.

*late Jocelyn's late friend Eliot #rude #whatever

.......why the hell would Elias code that shit in Circle short hand? So other Circle members, who Jocelyn was hiding from, could easily open that super important safe? So smart! Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Luke in the Circle as well? Shouldn't he be able to read that, too?

1) Eliot is such a loser and a showoff for ostentatiously writing that J in Jocelyn 2) His hint is seriously “Don't open with brute force.” Wtf kind of hint is that man are you even real.

I'm sorry, okay, but everytime I see / hear Bellicosi I think Maxi-Cosi XD

*glares at 3x15* Will I ever tire of raging about that episode? Unlikely.

Why.....? Since he didn't have any problem 100% blaming Raphael for everything Heidi did (not unjustified, but I'm just saying he's suddenly changed his mind). I mean, if he'd said she's dangerous to him and his family that would've been another matter.

These are all runes that I don't remember seeing on the Shadowhunters' Wiki Rune Page. Please tell me more.

Jace: “Clary, you've been going nonstop since you came back. You need to take a minute.”

lol if only Jace would implement the same advice himself.

“Wow I suddeny remember I had a life before I was 10.”

German Dubbing: Yeah, the ones Consul Penhallow categorically ignored. Honestly. Who dubbs this shit. Wtf.

Listen I love everything about this scene. (Fun Fact: In the German Dubbing she says vampire addiction, not venom addiction lol as if she was addicted to vampires XD)

Alec Lightwood, best brother of the year. Btw he's been holding that title since birth. I also don't think Alec would ever judge Izzy for her addiction / look at her as if she's weak, so the fact that she thinks that says a lot about how the addiction affected her self-image.

Too bad Alec forgets this for the next few episodes and acts like a total tool in that Clave Investigation Thing, smh.

Good to know.

Haha that was witty.

Oooooh why don't they ask another warlock then? For example one who's actually always the smartest person in the room?? Who's also willing to work on this??? Just a thought tho, don't let me interrupt the Maruke Bonding. No, you know what? I hate the shipname Maruke, it's shit, so I'm calling it Luryse as it should have been called. Then again, when am I even gonna talk about that pairing? We shall see.

“Outrageous, just because people around me keep turning up dead! It's ridiculous, really, that they'd think I could have something to do with that. It's as if they're not aware this is a TV show and supporting characters die because *Moriarty Voice* THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE DO!”

“That what the kids call it these days when they get kicked out on their ass?” She literally says “From one exiled to another” so she clearly realized he's full of shit.

“And that's why in two episodes Imma get myself arrested by behaving like a dumbass and then chill in prison as if it's my greatest accomplishment.” Honestly Luke, so many No-s. I can't even.

“Wow I can't believe I have to see this Luryse bs up close.” Hah, now I used the right shipname and can move the f on from bashing that pairing. Sorry about that. I'm sleep deprived. That always makes me extra salty.

“When you're alpha you need to make the pack your first priority. Your personal life needs to take a back seat. And mine never did.” I applaud Luke for admitting he was a shit alpha because he didn't proritize the pack. Hindsight is 20/20.

Wow Luke so helpful <3<3<3 Just like I know and love you.

I also love how nobody questions that Heidi bit that mundane and then chilledly made a phone call at the scene of her Accords-violating crime. How frakking convenient.

But their runes aren't on the same side. Sloppy work. Also, if the illustrator obviouly takes artistic liberties, then the rune missing on the second pic doesn't have to mean anything. Maybe they just forgot to draw it. Then again this isn't even the most flimsy conclusion-making I've wittnessed on this show so I'll let it slide.

lol Jace and Jonathan are basically playing tug of war with Clary: Jonathan burning himself, Jace activating her healing rune XD

Ooooh brainless S1 Clary, how I have not missed you. Srsly now? Carve it out? That didn't work for Simon so why should it now? lol she should ask the seelie queen if she has some handy floor mosaic thingy in her courtyard to help with that.

In his defense, he moved.

It's not gonna work is what it is. Srsly how dumb are they? Why the hell does she think something so powerful can just be carved out?? Wtf.

Woooow they're using a rune removing device, color me impressed. I really thought they'd just put a scalpel to it. So, at least points for trying.

Uuuuh get some morphin, try again. I mean. But anyway.

*break up

......didn't she just break up with him because pack reasons? Where is that not a Shadow World Reason? Please explain. (Also choosing an unflattering screen cap of Simon because he annoys me? Absolutely. I am petty like that.) The easy way Simon accepts their break up really makes me wonder. If Maia hadn't said anything, would he have broken up with her? Since apparently things “changed” and they could “both” “feel” it. Honestly. He literally calls her his girlfriend at the start of the scene as if to draw attention to how ridiculous this is.

You know what, I don't even have the energy to rage about this. Their relationship was so great, they were so supportive of each other, they had great chemistry, great communication, they always stood by each other. And just because Sizzy has to be endgame there were suddenly weird-ass tension between them for no real reason – none that 3A Saia wouldn't have worked through like pros anyway – just so this break up wouldn't come out of absolutely nowhere. It's shit treatment of both their characters and their relationship and I'm just so exasperated with it all. (Also not the way to endear me to Sizzy. But at this point I feel like a broken record.)

Discount? It was free. Which I'm still finding super hard to believe by the way, that a werewolf establishment would just give out free food to vampires who don't even work there. But what do I know, right, I mean it's not like they just mentioned a few minutes ago how werewolves and vampires hate each other? Right?? Hahaha.

Wow. This actually takes the time to highlight that this break up wasn't as amicable as Simon thought. Maybe he thought that they were breaking up for human reasons, but Maia clearly feels she threw her relationship away for the pack and it's hard for her. And Simon's tirade wasn't really encouraging her to let him know that. I really appreciate that detail.

Other things I want to say: 1) I didn't like that Maia just flat out broke up with him. She should have informed him that she was going to step up for the pack and would have to prioritize that over their relationship and then leave it up to him if he wants to put up with that or not. By breaking up she made the choice for him. Her course of action is ic, I'm not critizising that, but from like, a personal stand point I don't like it. 2) Foreshadowing: Since her whole pack gets slaughtered, if that would have been the only reason to break up with Simon she coulda just gotten back together with him lol. Haha sorry I'm trash. I know.

Wow he's really dumb. He knows Heidi's brand of crazy and still he doesn't realize this was a trap. He said himself that Heidi must have done something for the Preator to be after her, and when the Praetor tells him she's been leaving copses left and right he...... takes this as his cue to ally himself with Heidi??? Wtf?????? Does he not believe what Jordan said? Again, he suspected something like that himself and since the Praetor are playing at being the Downworlder Police they wouldn't just make something like that up with no proof. The heck. I don't get you, Boss Vampire Guy.

Also, thumbs down for the Praetor, if they'd just told them their source was Heidi herself (on the phone) this could have been prevented. But, ugh. With how things are I can at least kinda buy that no working communication between vampire clan and Praetor exists.

Still, if the Praetor wants to be accepted as some kind of Shadow World Institution they should really work on their manners.

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I I don-- I can't. *sigh* I can't believe I just had to watch this with my own two eyes. Have they not been trained for a case like this? A fellow shadowhunter injured in the field? That activating the healing rune should be the first thing you do? Before lovingly prying information from the dying person?? I mean, if that's not Plot Convenience then I don't know what is. Sure, he needs to give them a snippet of info, but not too much. But please, please, couldn't writers have found a way for this that didn't make them look like the stupidest of idiots in the entire frikkin world?! Wtf. WTF. I can't believe it.

Uuuuuuh how did she know how to turn those things if all she had to work with was Don't use brute force?? Do I have to understand that?

“You brought coffee, after all.”

Look she's so ashamed she even turned away from the screen haha. Also it's so refreshing to see grown ass people approach a relationship like idiotic teens. (Yeah, that was sarcastic.)

“And right now I wanna do you.” Hahahaha sorry, too good to pass up, you can bet your ass imma turn this into a dumb comic XD

“I love you, Clary. And I'll love you until I die. And if there's a life after this I'll love you then, too.”

Okay, I wanted to roll my eyes at their love confession, but what Jace said was actually really sweet <3

Alec: All our people were accounted for at the time of the murder. Izzy: We think it was a Clave hit.

Oh couldn't have been one of the millions of Shadowhunters from another Institute? No, I'm sure Alec checked that on their neat little Shadowhunter Intranet, that all other Shadowhunters all over the workd were accounted for as well. Honestly.

Also, Maryse says “By the angel,” but in the German Dubbing she says “What the angel” which makes it seem as if Shadowhunters curse by replacing dirty words with “angel” and just... what the angel XD

Why the hell are they all so obsessed with Latin? Ugh. Exhausting hobby.

Btw lol, please rewatch that scene, the background music is weirdly reminiscent of the Stranger Things Theme hahahaha. (Also omg I'm peeking into the German dubbing and it doesn't even make SENSE hahaha what the shit.)

LOL that's like the soulmate trope but in painful XD basically the creepy incest edition XD But honestly can we appreciate what a nice hand Jonathan has with a knife and with his left hand?? Prodigy.

This is it, the final proof that they actually all live at the Jade Wolf hahahha.

...................................? Why the f is she happy to see Jordan? Last time they saw each other she clearly stated she hated him?? Do I need to understand?? Oh right. In the books Maia and Jordan get back together. Right. Stupid, why am I even surprised by this??

Wtf isn't he the clan leader? Why the hell is he acting so submissively to Heidi all of a sudden? Literally half a day ago he threw her out of his clan, knowing his place. And now he's like a puppet on her strings. Wtf. But I guess that happens when you treat characters as plot devices. They get inconsistent even if they only have two scenes. *sigh*

Awwww would you look at that, werewolves and vampires fighting with fists like mundanes. (Okay some of them had like, daggers, but where are the fangs and the claws? Honestly.)

Okay I did her injustice in my trailer reaction since this is a vamp and a legitimate fight situation.

Wow that actually surprised me. But Jordan also dies in the books so, oops. Just didn't think they'd skip the getting together.

WOW that really surprised me. I thought Maia would challenge him and they'd have an epic fight to the death or something. (Also wtf Griffin guy, what's with that creeper face.)

To be honest I find it hard to believe that Maia acts like this. Scared out of her mind, yeah sure. But she acts helpless, and she's never been that. When she got that pipe thing I thought she'd use it as a stake. Using it to block the door is smart, too, but why didn't she get another to have a stake? Her whole posture, uselessly hangig over Jordan screams damsel in distress and I don't like it at all.

Edit: I had certain fears how this plotline would be developed in 3x14 which thankfully didn't come true, but my conflicted opinion on this ending scene remains.

Anyway let’s take a moment and appreciate Maia’s Killer Boots.

BTW watched the 3x14 trailer and just.... what. Why the f would Magnus ask Lorenzo of all people for help? He can't be trusted. As if he wouldn't use that opportunity to break Magnus even further! WTF! Where's Catarina? Oh, let me guess, another Drunk Doctor Conference *epic eyeroll*

#shadowhunters #3x13 #clary fray #magnus bane #alec lightwood #jace wayland #isabelle lightwood #simon lewis #maia roberts #luke garroway #maryse lightwood #kyle #heidi #reaction

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Out Of The Woods (1/?)

This multi chap fic has been one that I've wanted to write for a while. I'm hoping to connect a few loose ends, since my series is getting closer to the end. Don't worry, I still got a couple of fics left in me. I'd love to thank @xerxezra whose conversations with me are always inspirational. I'd also like to thank @dorkydisappointment whose writing got my creative juice flowing.

References to the woman in the journal is from What You Found Amongst The Pages.

In this fic the reader tries to uncover the mystery of the artist behind Zeta-7s portrait.

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Chapter 1: A Glimpse Of The Past

For some time, Rick had been looking forward to taking you here; to the middle of nowhere, in the northwest, where enormous pine trees lined the roads, and evergreens could be found as far as the eye could see. Initially, you weren't sure what you were expecting. A Bob Ross worthy getaway perhaps? Maybe, though unlike the paintings done on PBS, there were gas stations and convenience stores which broke the harmony of trees, roads, and sky; as few and far between they were.

The drive itself was fantastic, and the surrounding area was nice, though you had little to no cell phone reception. And since you couldn't pass the time exploring the weird parts of Reddit, you stared out the window while Zeta-7 sang along to silly travel tunes; the kind that kids would enjoy, but we're actually music recommendations from Tall Morty; another good Rick. You giggled when he sang ‘He had high apple pie, in the sky hopes’, but he didn't seem to mind, he was excited.

However, you were curious as to why Google maps couldn't find the address to the place you two were going to, but Rick seemed to know the directions. Honestly, as long as it wasn't like anything you'd saw in Gravity Falls, then it was going to be fine.

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“W-we're here.”

Nope. This couldn't be right. Jumping out of the passenger's seat, you were taken aback and a bit creeped out by the amount of moose statues and decorations which surrounded the place as though to protect it. Could they be part of the security system perhaps? And if they were, was it generally safe to even be here?

“We are? Really?”

“Y-you bet.”

Before your thoughts ran away with the idea, you turned towards him. “Rick, do you need any help with the luggage?”

Opening a portal, he stepped through carrying all the luggage, then reappeared in front of you a few seconds later. “No, it's - I already took care if it.”

It was just like him to be one step ahead of you. How unfair. “Rick, I could've helped you know. I'd hate for you to hurt yourself.”

“True,” he admitted matter of factly. “but if I didn't do it, then I couldn't d-do this.”

To which he then took your hand and pressed a soft kiss on it. “I-I needed to make sure you had a warm hand t-to hold. It's cooler out here th-then it is back home. ”

You gave him a playful shove in return, which made him laugh wholeheartedly before he went on explaining the brief history of this place all the while giving your hand a light squeeze.

The moose lodge, as it was named, looked more like a tacky cabin at the edge of the woods instead of the forgotten shack amidst a family of trees. It was located almost two hours away from the nearest town, and the easiest way to get there was by taking a single dirt road right off the state road twenty miles back; both of you agreed that using his portal gun would've been more convenient. The house itself used to belong to an old colleague of his, but Rick bought it a few decades ago and used it when he wanted to get away from the city, and think about life and so forth; as well as paint. Walking up the steps, he commented, “I-I know it's not much,” unlocking the front door with a moose-shaped key. “but I hope y-you'll like it.”

You really didn't want to tell him that the place looked like a tourist trap, but he stood there, waiting for your approval, nibbling on his bottom lip.

Oh, you didn't like the overwhelming amount of moose decorations, but you smiled nonetheless. “I'm sure I will. I mean, I guess I didn't know what I was expecting, but at least it will be peaceful. Right?”

“Th-that's right.”

Whatever opinions you held about the exterior design, the interior was a different story. When he opened the door, your senses were invaded by the scent of old paint and aged wood, with hints of pine and decades-old smoke. Following right after him, you gasped at the sight of the walls; each inch of wall space covered with paintings. There were scenes and landscapes, hidden figures in the brush, creatures you couldn't begin to describe, flowers, trees, and anything which had and might still be alive; his own private art gallery. With a few clicks on his phone, the curtains opened up, allowing the light to chase away the shadows.

And when the light settled on a particular painting, you walked past him, towards the furthest wall, nearest to the master bedroom, where a large painting hung above the fireplace; it was a portrait of him, done in the romanticism style. “Oh my God. Rick, that's…. did you paint that? I can't believe it, it's amazing.”

“N-n-no, I didn't paint th-that one, but I-I wish I did.”

You found it hard to believe because it captured his essence so perfectly. It was of his form illuminated by the mid-afternoon light, kneeling next to a flowerbed, holding an unopened rose, kissing it gently as though to bless it. His hands were covered in dirt, and his loose fitted, round-collared shirt allowed for a few chest hairs to peek out. As always, when he was around his plants, he was in this trance-like, reverent state; the quintessence of his being; peaceful and alluring in the fact that he didn't seem so broken. The closer you stood to this work of art, the more you felt as though you were staring at a historical figure rather than a throwback photo of your boyfriend.

The posture featured you'd seen him do on multiple occasions, when he took a moment to meditate, appreciating the beauty of life, and all once, you were envious of the one who got to see him this way, taking their sweet time, appreciating the inner beauty of this soft, tender, but complex man. It also reminded you that Zeta-7 had been young once, and handsome even though he thought otherwise. Touching your shoulder lightly, he sighed. “I-I know. Time hasn't been kind t-t-to me.”

“What are you talking about? You look great, but I can't believe this is the first time I'm seeing this. It's gorgeous.”

“Gee, that's - th-thank you.”

“When was this done? You look so young there.”

“Hohoho, not - not that young. It um - it was painted a-about thirty years ago, by a very good friend of-of mine.”

A good friend? Rick didn't have many good friends. “Were they an artist?” you wondered.

Scratching the back of his neck, he avoided your gaze. “While she'd never claim t-t-to be, I thought she was. I um - why don't y-you make yourself comfortable while I make us s-something t-to eat.”

She? You had many other questions you wanted to ask, but knowing him and how he changed the subject, it seemed that that was the end of that; for now. “Okay,” you acquiesced, determined to bring it up at the first opportunity. “but can I pick any room I want?”

“Out of the two bedrooms? Sure g-go ahead.”

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After a simple dinner, you two went for a walk. There was a slight chill in the air, but thankfully you had a sweater and a warm hand to hold as you two followed the trail. You were glad to find that you were in better shape than you had anticipated, but that's what adventuring with a mad scientist will do. Here and there he found mushrooms which he took note of to return for later, and at some point, you climbed a tree, much to his disbelief, and teased him to come after you; he did, but you received a scolding which he then after profusely apologized for.

Later, after returning, you delighted in a warm bath and thought it would be a good time to unpack. Rick had disappeared somewhere around this time, which made you wonder if he had an underground lab here. Casually, you walked past the living room, with no intention of stopping but that larger than life painting caught your eye again. Unlike the other paintings along the walls, there was no artist signature. Hmm, what a tease the artist must've been.

In comparison, Rick hadn't changed very much over the years, except for the wrinkles of course and well his hair used to be darker. Still, you couldn't help but stare at that painting, envious of this old friend of his he had mentioned. Who was she? Was she beautiful? Did she love him too?

You thought more about it as you unpacked your stuff in the small bedroom next to the art room. It wasn't so far fetched to believe that he could've had his fair share of lovers, but then you had yet to see any feminine influences about his house except for a few treasured belongings of his mother. There was the woman from his journal, but he never brought it up and you had never confessed to having invaded his privacy, so you still weren't at liberty to do so. How was it that after all this time, there was still this bloom of mystery about him? Well, because he was humble and reserved, and only shared information which wouldn't hurt him.

Oh well. You'd have to get over it someday, but was it so wrong to be jealous of someone you never met?

TBC

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