#sk8 bowl

[syssyadmin]

every good skate must end like this ✌️xP✌️

[brettbewerb]

17. BRETTBEWERB 2024

14.09.2024 | SKATEPARK | NAUHEIM | HESSEN | GERMANY

Eintritt frei, spektakuläre Tricks und jede Menge Spaß!

Zum 17. Mal findet am Samstag, den 14. September 2024 der “BRETTBEWERB” Skateboard-Contest im Regionalpark Rhein-Main in Nauheim statt. Unter freiem Himmel und bei freiem Eintritt erwartet die Brettsportbegeisterten ein geselliges Sportevent mit erstklassigem Street- und Bowlstyle-Skateboarding, fachkundiger Moderation und heißen Beats von den DJs Sapiko, Wäxs und Kapin.

Contest

Sowohl Profis als auch Anfänger haben die Möglichkeit, ihre Fähigkeiten zu präsentieren und in verschiedenen Wettbewerben ihr Können unter Beweis zu stellen. Skateboarder*innen aus Nah und Fern messen sich ab 13.00 Uhr in A- (Sponsored), B- (Unsponsored) und C-Gruppen (Unsponsored) im Streetstyle- und Best-Trick-Contest. Bewertet werden neben Trick-Level und Gesamtnutzung von Park und Bowl, die Kriterien Kreativität, Konsistenz, Style und Flow. Vor der Siegerehrung können sich alle Anwesenden auf den Bowl-Contest im neuen Betonpool freuen. Bewertet wird die Best Line und der Best Trick. Die Jury, bestehend aus erfahrenen Skateboardern und und Experten kürt die Gewinner am Abend.

11.00 Uhr: Anmeldung / Registration der Fahrer

13.00 Uhr: Runs C

14.00 Uhr: Runs B / Girls/LGBTQ (Unsponsored)

14:30 Uhr: Siegerehrung C

15:00 Uhr: Runs A (Sponsored)

16.00 Uhr: Runs Runs B / Girls/LGBTQ (Unsponsored)

17.00 Uhr: Runs A (Sponsored)

18.00 Uhr: Best Trick Street

18.30 Uhr: Best-Trick-Contest Bowl

19.00 Uhr: Siegerehrung A, B und Girls/LGBTQ

19.30 Uhr: Ausrollen

Schnupperkurs für Einsteiger

Auch die jüngeren Skateboard-Fans sind auf dem Brettbewerb herzlich willkommen. Neben dem Brettverleih der Jugendförderung, bietet ab 14.30 Uhr Kamilo Peña vom X-Presso Team einen offenen Schnupperkurs für Einsteiger an. Unter fachkundiger Anleitung kann jeder der auf einem Brett stehen kann seine ersten Rollanläufe auf eigenes Risiko probieren und sich von erfahrenen Skateboardern inspirieren lassen. Am späten Nachmittag kann der Nachwuchs seine Tricks präsentieren.

Hunger und Durst

Für alle Durstigen und Hungrigen gibt es Süßes, Snacks und Getränke zu fairen Preisen. An den Ständen rund um den Skatepark gibt es Allerlei zum Probieren und Mitnehmen.

Eintritt und Anmeldung

Der Eintritt für Besucher ist frei! Wer am Skateboard-Contest teilnehmen möchte, sollte sich ab 11.00 Uhr vor Ort im Park anmelden. Das Startgeld für Fahrer beträgt 3,- Euro.

An- und Abreise

Der Skatepark an der Berzallee in Nauheim liegt im Herzen des Rhein-Main-Gebiets unweit von Mainz, Wiesbaden, Darmstadt und Frankfurt Airport entfernt. Er ist mit dem Bus (RMV Linie 61 - Neue Ortsmitte) und Bahn (RB 75 - Bahnhof Nauheim) erreichbar. Ganz in der Nähe befinden sich zwei Campingplätze am See.

Organisation

Veranstaltet wird das Skateboarding Event von der Jugendförderung Nauheim und der "Brettbewerb” Skateboarding-Initiative mit Unterstützung von TITUS-Wiesbaden, B´Skateboarding, Jugendkulturbahnhof X-Presso und dem Sanitätsdienst des DRK-Nauheim.

More: www.x-presso.de

[thesk8doctor]

Congratulations #mylesgarrett on a great season, thank you for putting it all on the line every Sunday..... #clevelandbrownsfootball #gobrowns

• #dawgpound #dawgnation #brownsfootball

2023 ProBowl

[olderthannetfic]

Do you, or anyone actually, know where/when the '-bowl' sufix started being used in Fandom? Because I can't find any kind of origin, and surprisingly Fanlore doesn't have a article about it (as far as I checked maybe I didn't search well?). I just found and know that it's used for kinda old and relatively new fandoms, thanks to a two-year-old Reddit post.

For anyone who doesn't get/know about the '-bowl' sufix: is basically an All × One thing. For example, if you encounter 'Dekubowl' this means that Deku, the character, is shipped with everyone or that at least everyone else have a crush with Deku.

I can only think of the 'Super Bowl' (just as one comment in that Reddit post suggest) for its origin, but when we talk about Fandom culture we never know. It could have originated from anything no-related to the Super Bowl, LOL.

--

Ooh, interesting. I've never heard of this in my life, and I have no idea what a -bowl suffix is supposed to mean, even if I guess it has to do with the super bowl.

It's not surprising Fanlore doesn't have this if it's coming from BNHA or somewhere similar. Fanlore is fantastic on the history of Western "Media Fandom", zines, K/S, etc. It's much weaker in areas that OTW early adopters haven't spent as much time in.

You should write the -bowl article yourself!

--

I went into AO3's tag search and looked for 'bowl'. I found 1311 tags, 90 of them canonicals.

I'm seeing a ton of references to the Super Bowl, dust bowl AUs, pet play with pet food bowls, Dream in the fishbowl, unending uses like "I'm crying into my bowl of cereal as I write this", "bowl of honey nut feelios", "bowl of pornflakes", "me shaking the food bowl of sbi wilbur-centric angst: come get y'all's juice", etc., and plenty of references to YOI katusdon bowls. Lots of fandoms and episodes have 'bowl' in their titles.

Zeroing in on more related things, I'm seeing BNHA over and over and not much else...

EXCEPT!

Fruit bowls!

I see scattered references to "let's add him into that whole fruit bowl" and "the whole fruit bowl is here" and so on. Some of them are crack fic where everyone is a banana, but a lot of them seem to be a metaphor for "everything together".

Okay, I just spent far too much time trying to categorize tags. Out of the 'bowl' ones, about a third appear to be this kind of sense (counting by number of tags, not number of works).

Game of Thrones has a bunch, but they refer (as far as I know) to which characters will hypothetically kill each other and emerge victorious, not to group shipping.

Some tags I found, like 'edelbowl' sounded more like a group ship than an X/everyone. I also found a scattering of tags that were like 'all of them in a bowl together', which is probably related.

But mainly, what I found is that this is from BNHA and it's recent.

The other fandoms where I found it were:

Demon Slayer, Dr. STONE, Naruto, South Park, Fire Emblem, Genshin, HP, Lego Ninjago, My Next Life as a Villainess, She-Ra, Teen Wolf, Tower of God, VLD, A3! (Video Game), Assassination Classroom, Avatar, Batman, Black Clover - Tabata Yuki, Bleach, Blue Lock (Manga), BTS, Bungou Stray Dogs , Dangan Ronpa, Danny Phantom, Detective Conan, Dragon Age, Durarara!!, Fate/Grand Order, How to Train Your Dragon, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Kaiju No. 8 (Manga), LEGO Monkie Kid, Osomatsu-san, Ouran High School Host Club, Percy Jackson, SK8 the Infinity, Soul Eater, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., Toilet-bound Hanako-kun, Tokyo Revengers, Virtual Streamer Animated Characters, Warcraft, Xenoblade Chronicles 2

That's giving me a very distinctive picture of a fan who's probably in their 20s or 30s, mostly like anime and some video games, and is not the type that edits Fanlore.

There's nothing actually old here: it's recent anime and stuff that is still a megafandom, like Naruto.

I'm seeing a scattering of 'dekubowl' from 2017 and then other character tags taking off in like 2019. This is definitely a recent trend in terminology, at least on AO3.

[adrawer4ever]

LBX SK8 PARTY INTEREST CHECK

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[giggly-squiggily]

🧍‍♀️ behold, it is I, again.

Okay oKAY LAST ONE I SWEAR AKSNDKBCJDB

okay sk8 pART TWO

OKAY OKAY SO !!!

I think that Hiromi is someone who grew up in a lower class household. He’s never understood the lives of those who grew up differently.

He totally follows behind the kids in the restaurant, turning off every light that they leave on. “We don’t own the utility company!” He’d say.

Here’s the HC-

Hiromi is always the first person on EVERYONE’S mind whenever they are at a place with mementos.

At the bookstore? Langa’s buying him the newest volume of his favorite manga.

On vacation? Reki is buying the DUMBEST tourist trap knickknacks. (I’m talking a sticker that says the name of the vacation destination but it’s misspelled and there’s clip art of a lobster on it)

At the grocery store? Cherry is buying a box of brownie mix and some walnuts so that he can make him a little treat. (Joe gets absolutely LIVID over the fact that Cherry would insult him by buying boxed mix)

THESE ARE JUST A FEW SILLY IDEAS 🤭

ILY SQUIGGLY THANK YOU FOR DOING WHAT YOU DO

{Headcanons to Dabbles: CLOSED!}

SHADOW BELOVED KLJRJKEKJRKJERKJEWJKRJKE I freaking love this-GAWD! ILY too Ducky- these are so beyond sweet and I'm grateful for the kind words! I've gotcha covered :3

Growing up in a low income home, Hiromi made it a point to practice fugal behavior in his day to day life. It was rare he ever treated himself or let himself be treated to nice things.

 On Hiromi’s shelf, an assortment of items sat.

~~~

“Langa! Turn off the lights when you leave a room! You don’t pay the- oh, you’re in here.” Hiromi blinked when his gaze fell upon the blue haired teen. “Sorry- I should have checked.”

“It’s fine. I erm- I have something for you.” Langa shuffled on his feet before shoving a bag forward, pressing it into Hiromi’s hands. “You’re reading them, right? The newest issue came out- and I figured you’d deserve a new copy instead of those bent ones you always buy. Okay later!” He was out the door as quick as he came.

Hiromi stared down at the bag, eyes wide as he pulled out the crisp manga. “Oh…he remembered…wait-LANGA THE LIGHT!”

~~~

“We’re BACK!” Reki yelled in glee as he walked into the hotel room, a bag of souvenirs over his arm. Miya shuffled in after him, eyes glued to his gaming system before he tumbled into the bed, still playing. “They had the coolest things, Shadow! Look what I got!”

“Reki, I know you like knicknacks, but don’t you think they’re a bit of a waste? They’re so overpriced-is that a dog?” Hiromi blinked as Reki cackled, waving the dog statue keychain around in glee. “‘Welcome to Shiboobya.”

“I KNOW! What a wild find!” Without much warning, he pressed the keychain into Hiromi’s hands, closing his fingers around it. “I couldn’t find one with your name on it, so you are now called ‘Hito’! Take pride in your new identity!”

“You should see Reki’s. He’s now known as “Rin”.” Miya shrugged, earning another round of cackles from the redhead.

~~~

“You FIEND.”

“You’re just mad I thought of this first.”

“That’s not the issue- BOXED MIX? Who do you think you are, bringing that trash into this house?”

“Tch. So dramatic.” Cherry rolled his eyes as he poured the remaining brownie batter into the greased up tray, pushing the bowl and spoon over to Hiromi with a cheeky grin. “Boxed batter is just as tasty as homemade, you elitist gorilla.”

“Oh that is RICH coming from the guy who’s favorite snack is Castella!” Joe fumed, shaking his head as Cherry put the brownies into the oven. “I hope they’re as burnt and dry as they look on the box when they’re done.”

“Good, they’ll match your complexion.” Cherry snickered, laughing harder when Joe tasered his ribs from behind.

Hiromi watched them with a soft smile, taking the abandoned spatula and giving it a lick.

Joe really was being dramatic. Boxed brownies were delicious.

~~~

A manga- the only one in the series with crisp edges still, a fading Hachiko Statue with a misspelled city and wrong name, an assortment of pictures of their slightly dry but delicious brownies, and a framed photograph of all of them together. 

These were Hiromi’s treasures.

[cherryblossomsandhydrangeas]

Sk8 Rewatch Ep4

Cherry, babe, you should focus on more important shit than this asshole. He’s not worth it anymore. Dare I say, he’s never been worth it.

God, my skin is crawling. Move away from the children you son of a bitch. Now I remember why I could only watch a couple episodes at a time the first time I watched this.

Joe, babe, you don’t really think that three bowls of ramen are gonna be covered by a 1000yen do you?

Aww, Miya not wanting Reki to get hurt. 😢😢😢

So, Shadow would have had to stop by his house to get his costume and makeup before taking the boys to S. I wonder what the kids thought of his house.

Ok, so in the previous ep, Adam was pretending not to know Miya, but then it’s revealed in this one that Adam just, talked to him from above the training area and started showing up every now and again giving advice. Ok. Wanna tell me how nobody thought it was strange (Miya’s coach mayhaps who should be watching him) that this politician kept showing up to talk to this one kid like a devil over his shoulder.

“So he’s [Langa] the reason Adam returned?” Kaoru, darling, playing ignorant is not a good look for you.

Shadow probably worked a long shift at the flower shop so it’s no surprise that he fell asleep in the car while Reki practiced, but it is still cute and funny.

I wanna have a word with Miya’s parents and coach about this so called “diet”.

He just...gets ready in the car like batman.

Tadashi: Hey, you have work in the morning. You sure you don’t want to postpone mauling this teenager? Adam: Shut up, dog, this won’t take long!

So, Adam was slightly considering beefing Cherry and Joe at the same time before Reki interrupted. Cherry said Adam already knew what they were betting, and Adam pretended to forget, and then Adam was about to put his own bet on the table.

Cherry is far stronger than me. I would have swung on his man, swear to god.

Love how Adam’s is gonna call Cherry boring later for using Carla, but he relies on Tadashi to tell him where skaters are on the cameras. It’s almost as if he was talking out of his ass.

Please release him, oh my god!

Langa stole that guys bike (and his phone) to save Reki. Oh no, baby, you’re gonna be too late.

Adam devoured Reki’s blood. Canon demon and there’s nothing you can do to convince me otherwise.

[x3kurohyoucafe]

Double-Sided Sk8 the Infinity Halloween Ice Cream Bowl Charms!!! One side of each charm has the characters in a halloween costume, while the other side has them in their regular clothes.

Reki - Vampire

Langa - Werewolf

Miya - Cat

Cherry - Mummy

Joe - Frankenstein

[freeced]

REKI RAP // "Over It" (SK8 the Infinity)

How can I make it? I'm able to skate But if skating means just getting by then I hate it . . .

Okay, it's the Reki post!! Stream of consciousness here because I'm too busy to overthink things as much as I normally do. It's a Sunday. Sundays are for tuning vocals lifted off a fresh bowl. Sundays are for the gays. Sundays are for flying kites in the park with your best pal. Note: see if Caro wants to go fly a kite in the park later. So, you know, no time to be writing longwinded essays in the face of preserving whatever whimsy is left to be grasped in the wild. But here's what I got!

For as long as I can remember, I've been keenly aware of what it feels like to be second best, late to the party, falling behind, forever catching up...and Connor Quest wrote a perfect song about that years ago. There's even a remake that I played piano on. So this song isn't that, at least not completely. Actually, as it came together in the in-between-uploads rush it came together in, I noticed it really being about creative burnout as much as anything else. When I watched SK8, I think what stuck with me the most about Reki's rough patch wasn't just his feelings of inadequacy as a skater compared to what Langa and the others were capable of, it was that however much he tried not to care, he ultimately couldn't help it. It's a crush of conflicting emotions when you think you no longer care about your passions, yet being away from them hurts just as much.

Musically: I've been working on an album for way too long now, and most of the tracks on it are some kind of boombap song or have a similar feel. It's the style of rap I'm most comfortable with, the style I usually enjoy performing the most, and the kind of beat that tends to make me feel the most creative. I don't think it's what comes close to performing best on my channel (electroswing has kind of taken that over pretty handily), and that's why I've mostly contained it to the album lately, but I wanted to put out at least one more track like this before letting my channel be what it probably needs to be if it's gonna grow. There are some Freeced listeners who have been around asking for a SK8 track for a LONG time, and while this may not be the only one I ever do, it's nice to get it out there before this turning point. I'm also not sad about narrowing the focus of my channel, because collaborating and being involved in other projects (like Out After Winter) as well as learning new skills and continuing to work on my album is keeping me pretty sharp.

In fact, since releasing this song, I think I've found a little more peace with my relationship to burnout than I had at the time. I think it is something that can come and go, and maybe it's okay to sometimes measure my worth by more than just what I create. I don't need to dread being pulled back to the things I love doing, just as I don't need to dread losing my passion for them at times. Lately I've been focusing on the dynamics of my music as much as the content, and I'm starting to see the highs and lows of my compositions reflecting back the peaks and valleys of living an ordinary life.

Anyway, I never know how to end these, but there are some of my thoughts! I hope you like the song, I know it kinda died on YouTube but I don't really mind, if it's the kind of song that someone will find five years from now and relate to, then it's doing what it's supposed to do! And not to sound like a content creator, but, you know. Big things coming.

Big things coming.

[curejiraiya]

idk if I've said this before but Taiga's voice actor Tasuku Hatanaka is very cute 🥺 He's great as Taiga but he's also Reki in Sk8 and he's fucking fantastic as him gah he's a very cute man I love his constant bowl cut idk very cute man

[mocha-moth]

thanks for the tag @ossified-hypothesis !!!

Current Things

3 Ships: shiguang (cheng xiaoshi and lu guang from link click) are. my biggest most brainrotting ship rn. I love them so very very much and I am absolutely not normal about them in any way. itafushi (yuji itadori and megumi fushiguro from jujutsu kaisen) I am also currently utterly insane about them, especially currently making my way through the manga. wangxian (wei wuxian and lan wangji from the untamed/mo dao zu shi) because they just keep coming back I love them so much I've gone through like 3 phases of being mad about them. honorary shout out to renga (reki kyan and langa hasegawa from sk8) bc I love them too very much

Last Song: turbulence from the link click soundtrack!! I've been listening to that soundtrack a lot it's very nice!

Currently Reading: in terms of physical books, mo dao zu shi, I'm about halfway through book 3! it's such a good series. online I'm reading the jujutsu kaisen manga (I'm yet to read 180+) and losing my mind about it, and also I started omniscient reader's viewpoint yesterday that I'm 18 chapters into. loving it so far, kim dokja my beloved.

Last Movie: I think it might have been jujutsu kaisen 0? very good movie, hurt me deeply, I Would Die For Yuta Okkotsu

Currently Watching: sk8 the infinity I am very close to finishing, link click for the second time, and I'm gonna start given once I finish sk8. also this exact second I'm watching dylan woebegonepod stream :DD

Currently Craving: honestly I'm not sure :O nothing edible. probably sleep, because I did not sleep until gone 4am last night

Currently Consuming: bowl of cereal! got snacky! I love cereal! in terms of media i'm not watching or reading, I'm catching up on malevolent podcast bc I got a few chapters behind oops, I also need to listen to the new find us alive episode. and I'm playing sky cotl.

tagging!!: @inactivemcgee @kittvampic @vizzyfitzroy @bardicwanderlust @strawberryking @ty-bayonet-betteridge @mxinferno @pride-dragon42 if you wish to participate, also anyone else who wants to!!

[ty-the-trainwreck]

Ronancetober

Day 5 (but i forgot to post yesterday)

Multiverse AU

Sk8 the infinity (but not really and a little bee movie at the end)

-

The polyurethane rubber of her skateboard wheels slid against smooth concrete. Robin breathed heavily as she kicked her feet against the tail of her board and the nose landed on a railing. As she slid from one end of the rail to the other, she kept her arms out, balancing and preventing herself from falling.

Robin let her skateboard take her back to the bowl, where her water bottle stood right next to her backpack. She jumped off her board and kicked it into her left hand, sitting down and taking the water bottle into her hands she took a sip and stared off into the trees.

"Whatcha doing?" She heard someone call from above her.

She turned her head so fast she was scared she snapped it. "Oh! Hey, Nance." Robin smiled, placing her water bottle down and standing up. "Hi, Rob."

Nancy rolled her sleeves up, gripping her skateboard and taking off. Robin stared as she circled the skatepark, her curly hair flew behind her, and Robin was mesmerized.

As Nancy did a scarily smooth manual to Robin she stopped before she could go too far. "What are you waiting for?" Nancy placed a hand on Robin's shoulder. Robin grinned, placing her skateboard down and pushing towards the exit of the park. "Last one to Steve's house has to buy the other a smoothie!"

"Just you wait, Buckley!" Nancy threw her board down and bolted towards Robin. The night breeze tickled their faces as they sped down the road. Nancy could feel a thin sheet of sweat as she sprang over a rail, turning her head to watch Robin tre-flipped onto the sidewalk.

"How's life over there, Nance?" Robin called.

"Quite nice! I'm thinking about what juice I want.” Nancy retorted, squinting to see her face. Robin made an attempt to seem annoyed, but smiling at the other girl.

“Don’t speak to soon, Wheeler.”

Nancy spoke no more words and took the turn onto Steve’s road. She could hear Robin spouse a few curses and heard another pair of wheels loudly scratching against the pavement behind her. Nancy turned her head to stare at the other girl. Carefully taking in her features she realized that Robin’s hair glowed every time they went under a streetlight.

She lowered her gaze to see Robin playing with her rings, spinning them and picking at them.

Nancy reached out, grabbing hold of Robin’s hand and intertwining their fingers. "What kind of juice do you like?" Robin turned to Nancy at the question.

"I like apple juice, orange juice is bleh." Robin fake gagged whenever she said orange juice. Nancy laughed into her sleeve. "Well, now I feel like I can't tell you my favorite juice." Robin took a moment before she realized what Nancy was saying. "You like orange juice?!" Robin yelled, she was distraught at the fact that Nancy Wheeler liked orange juice.

"Yes! I love orange juice! Apple juice on the other hand is not my kind of thing." Robin gasped.

"How dare you! Apple juice is one of the finest juices in the world! Orange juice is way too sour!" They went back and forth about whether or not orange juice or apple juice was better.

And Nancy hated to admit it, but Robin was winning her over with her points. But maybe Robin was winning her over in more ways than just this debate.

"Plus! Apple juice goes way better with ice-" Robin yelped as her wheel collided with a large rock laying on the pavement. "Robin!" Nancy quickly stopped and ran to the other girl's side. "Yikes, you fell directly on your knees." Nancy pulled out a bandaid from her pocket, rolling up Robin's jeans. The latter winced as she felt the fabric scratch against her bruised and scarred knee. "Ouch.."

Nancy pressed her lips into a straight line. "I'll bandage you really quick, and then I can carry you to Steve's. He's like 5 houses down so it won't be long." Nancy softly blew on the wound, trying to see how severe the injury was. Robin only slightly flinched, "Hey, Nance?" Nancy hummed in acknowledgment as she placed the bandage on the scratch, lightly pressing down to make sure it wouldn't move out of place.

"Thanks." Nancy paused for a moment, her left hand on Robin's knee and the other holding onto her ankle. "Anytime, Rob. Well not anytime because I don't want you to get hurt again but like anytime as in I'll always help you." Nancy waited for Robin's response, slightly nervous as the only light on the street was the streetlamps and the blue shadow cast from the moon.

"Nance, I understand. Also! You're rambling more!" Robin smiled at the curly-haired girl. Nancy laughed softly, sitting down next to Robin and tucking herself into her shoulder. "I guess you're rubbing off on me."

Nancy could stay like that forever, sitting in Robin's presence and watching the stars sparkle from below on one of the many roads stretching across Hawkins with the moon shining on them.

That was until Robin spoke again.

"I just realized I left my backpack at the skatepark." "Oh, you got to be kidding me."

--

(NOW IT'S TIME FOR BEE MOVIE, and when I mean bee movie it's like one sentence)

"Buzz buzz buzz.." Robin whispered into Nancy's ear, hovering right above her earlobe. (THAT'S ALL OF THE RONANCE + BEE MOVIE I CAN HANDLE PLS)

Sorry this was literally a day late, I'll be more on schedule with ronancetober because I truly love them

[thelastfunctioningbraincell]

Hey Nobody!! I figured I’d respond to your tag in an ask.💙

I don’t watch a lot of anime but I was OBSESSED with naruto as a kid and have been rewatching! (And buying all the merch I couldn’t growing up 😅 it’s a very comfy sweatsuit and the pants are so cute! there’s like a bowl of ramen on one leg with noodles stretching up — incredible)

I just started One Piece (Matt’s favorite which has like a bajillion episodes), have you watched that one?? Also any recs for someone just really getting into anime?

sending lots of love 💙💙💙

Urdjjfdhokrxujhes dats sooo cuuutteeee ....yess Naruto is my all time fav.

One piece is Amazing...I love it!!!! Say hii to Matt btw <33

YESYESYESSSS I've got a lot of recs for ya

First of all watch all the Makoto shinkai movies they're literally so aesthetic n the animation is just perfect....for sports anime watch Haikyuu! The characters are so wholesome...oikawa n kenma are my favs ... they're my two personalities lol. Alsooo I recently watched horimiya which is cutesy rom anime. I'm not much into rom but this one's kinda wholesomeeeee

Also sk8 the infinity.....I LOVE it

Aww yee sending hugs and chocolates<3 I hope you've been doing greattt

[t3nzin]

tenzin’s masterlist

Demon Slayer:

Giyuu - fish bowl

Kokushibo - hey, baby

Sanemi - unbuttoned buttons

Tanjiro - one sided (hcs)

Douma - hey, baby II

Muzan + Upper Moons - quite the opposite (hcs)

Hashiras - accidental touch (hcs)

Hashiras - cutie (hcs)

Genshin Impact:

nothing yet...

My Hero Academia:

nothing yet...

Hunter x Hunter:

nothing yet...

Jujutsu Kaisen:

nothing yet...

Attack on Titan:

nothing yet...

Sk8:

nothing yet...

Death Note:

nothing yet...

[mechazushi]

Salt Kick {a Sk8 the Infinity story} [Renga]

Preamble] I'mma be honest with ya'll.... I don't like how this turned out. I made this almost three? years ago I think? and I just.... some parts of this feel off. I hadn't finished Sk8 the Infinity ( I still haven't, mainly because I had watched all the crack vids on YouTube before I watched it so I already had a jist on how it goes. I just wanted to have the ability to say I watched it and finally figure out what scenes went in what order. I stopped at the beach episode, I know what comes next and I still can't bring myself to watch 😭) But I had enough of a hyperfixation to push this out. Much like giving birth, the more you make, the easier it gets, so consider this my first child that had me completely unprepared for the amount of labor I was about to go through and might of screwed up the initial parenting on. I will say this... I only really hate it because Reki feels out of character, but that's because I sacrificed his development to push a more Langa focused story (its entirely from Langa's perspective) I only threw in a few lines on his end because I wanted to imply that the pinning might be mutual without outright saying it until the end, but I hate how I handled it. That being said, this will not be getting a rewrite. I passed GO and collected the money years ago and this is how it will be staying. Hopefully, I will have finished the show before I write the next ones.

Notes] Nothing here to worry about, really. Just Renga. And Kissing.

Summary] Langa develops the worst salt tooth, but can't find anything to satisfy it. Can he figure it out before it drives him into an asylum, or is he past the point of no return already?

Can somebody who's in the Sk8 the Infinity fandom read this because I want this peer reviewed before I put this on Ao3.

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From the moment Langa woke up, he felt off. He wasn't sure what it was about exactly, just… nothing clicked into place inside his head this morning. Which, if you knew him, is pretty much par for the course. He went through the motions. Got dressed, got his bag and school work together and met his mom at the table for breakfast.

"Morning Langa!" his mother, Nanako chirped, plateing something from a pot that was simmering on the stove."You ready for another day?"

"Morning." he said simply, sliding into his seat at the table, his brain seeing it only fit to process the bare minimun today.

"Now, I know you're a little hesitent when I try cooking new things, especially first thing in the morning, but taste tests show that this might accually be pretty good!", she said, confidently putting down a bowl of congee in front of Langa, cooked in chicken broth and served with eggs, bacon, and sauteed mushrooms, arranged like how a ramon bowl would. Langa, absent of mind, started spooning the meal into his mouth.Wait. Hold on. This was... good. Not that his mom ever made anything truly horrible; anything she made was, for the most part, edible. It was...just... missing something? He reached for the salt shaker, dusted his next spoonfull with it, and...

THERE. Right there. That's what this was missing. What he felt like he was missing all morning. Salt. He was just salt deficent. Which was odd for the amount of junk food he injested on a daily basis. Langa then preceded to almost violently shake the salt over his bowl of food.

"Wow. I know I forget to season things sometimes, but I thought it was okay?", His mother said, somewhat astonished at the speed her son was shoveling the now overly salted breakfast into his mouth currently. Langa paused and looked up at her, taking a second to think about what she just said.

"Oh! Sorry, I'm just… Really in the mood for salt today.", he said.

"I can see that.", Nanako quietly chuckled. The meal was quickly wrapped up, with the mom needing to head into work and Langa to school. Before he left however, he snagged a bag of potato chips of the top of the fridge, not stopping to see what flavor they were. Langa grabbed his skateboard and raced to his spot by the lampost, eagerly awaiting his… well, to be honest… he couldn't really think of Reki as a friend anymore. It had just been a few months after the race. The one against Adam… The one after Adam, too. And a WHOLE lot of other races afterword as well. Fun, personal ones. Just between Reki and him. Gun to his head, Langa would describe them as… almost… intimate. Crusing through the hills and tracks, the morning light or the evening dusky atmoshere blanketing them…just the two of them and whatever bubble of a world they found themselves in whenever Reki and Langa skated together, oblivious to everyone and everything. Maybe you wouldn't even need the gun to get him to say it.

' You might have to with Reki, though.' Langa thought as his personal ray of flaming sunshine came cruising down the sidewalk.

"GOOOOD MORNING LANGA!" Reki cheered, power sliding to a stop in front of him. They did their morning fist bump ritual and proceeded to cruise down the hill toward their school, with Reki leading the way. This was how it almost always went, Reki in the lead and Langa not far behind. Unless he had a trick he though he could pull off that would impress Reki, Langa almost never pulled ahead. Content to let the impressively red-headed high schooler light the path forward. Just the two of them, skating infinitely together. Langa popped open the bag of chips as Reki managed to land a rail grind in his somewhat restrictive school uniform. How he managed to fit his hoodie of the day under the jacket, Langa will never know.

He knew Reki didn't think of himself like this, but Langa always found him to be impressive and talented . He was always aware of how Reki's skateboard building skills were amazingly inventive, since he was the proud owner of a truly custom board. He felt Reki's talent was practically unmatched, next to Oka's of course. But Oka more or less just filled in paperwork and managed inventory, he hardly completed the boards he started nowadays. It was Reki's eye for detail and constant desire to improve everything that made all of Dope Sketch's boards unique.

That was another thing about him. Constant determination. It never mattered what it was applied to, Reki could always set his mind to the grindstone for it; you know, when he wasn't being completely scatterbrained and actually had motivation. Langa could go on forever about all the hidden strengths he thought his skating buddy had, but he knew Reki wouldn't hear them.

'Getting Reki to accept a compliment is like trying to teach someone to ollie for the first time' Langa chuckled at the thought, 'It takes a few tries, but it gets though. I know.'

After everything their friendship went through, they promised each other that they would get better about talking to each other. Not letting feelings bottle up and fester and making attempts to communicate genuinely. Neither one wanted to go through that feeling of loneliness and abandonment ever again. This was mostly for Reki's benefit, but Langa guessed he would have to lead by example if he was ever going to get Reki to open up in the first place. Speaking of open, he put a chip in his mouth and recoiled.

"BLAAA, wasabi flavored." he said, disappointed.

"You OK?" Reki said, turning to look at him.

"Yeah, I'm fine, just picked up my mom's wasabi chips by mistake. You want them?"

"Yeah, sure. Could use the wake up this morning.", Langa sped up to hand off the bag to his friend.

"Do you think we've got time to stop at a vending machine before we head in?" Langa asked.

"Why? Didn't get the chance to inhale the whole fridge today?" Reki said jokingly, pouring the contents of the bag in his mouth and wincing.

"Ha, ha, very funny. Just felt like something salty before class." Reki's presence had managed to distract Langa from his cravings for a short while, but the chips had caused his brain to hop back on its unyielding track.

Which, of course, got worse as they neared the school grounds and heard the final bell for class

"Whelp, guess thats a no!" Reki laughed.

Langa groaned, thinking that this better not somehow ruin his day.

The pair sped to class and, by a miracle, both of them made it in without repercussions. The two sat down and settled in as the teacher walked in to start the lesson.

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The day went by as you would normally expect. Take notes, change classes , raise hands or duck questions depending on if they could answer them or not. You would think that the day would pass by uneventful, right? Yeah... about that.... This was Langa's third class period, and this salt addiction of his was really starting to grate his nerves.

'Only one more period, then lunch. Few more minutes and I can have all the salt I can get my hands on. I can survive until then. RIGHT?', Langa panicked in his head.

This wasn't just bad, he felt like he was shaking.

'Maybe I can play this up and head to the nurse's office. There's a vending machine along the way, I think?'. At this point, he lost all capability of paying attention. 'No, That's stupid. I'm not going to let this control me.' Langa felt a little tap on his arm and looked at his classmate.

Reki held a small piece of paper between two pencils, held like chopsticks. Langa took the note quickly, as the teacher turned around. He opened it up and read it.

"U OK?"

"Need Salt :(" Langa scribbled quickly before taking two pens and, in a similar fashion, snuck the note back to Reki.

Reki shook his head and handed the note back again, this time writing "THAT BAD?!? BRUH." Langa couldn't believe it either. Cravings never got this bad. He actually couldn't remember the last time he HAD a craving.

While running memories through his head, an important reminder popped in the forefront of his mind. He had packed a snack in his bag for emergencies. This was days ago so he wasn't sure what they were, but Langa would take anything at this point. As stealthily as he could, Langa leaned forward and tried to sneak his hand into his bag that was hanging off the hook connected to his desk. It was so tantalizingly close.

Now all he had to do was find what should seem like a snack package. Books, notepad, erasers, more notepads… There! Langa pulled out a small bag of… something. He had Reki tell him what they were and had practiced pronouncing it several times. Jagar…something. All he could remember was that it was made of potato and, most importantly, was SALTY.

He tried to open the package as quietly as he could, but it made a bit more noise than he was comfortable with. Had Langa been his right mind, he wouldn't have be comfortable with this at all. It's amazing what addictions can do to a person, cause this stopped being a craving the second he stepped into class. Reki caught onto this as well, looking at Langa like he had lost his mind.

"Dude?" He mouthed, wondering why Langa thought now would be a good time to risk it all for food. While this was Langa we're talking about, the craving had just become too much. Langa was so close. He forced himself to clear his throat loudly as he opened the package the rest of the way. This little maneuver earned him some strange looks from class and teacher alike, but thankfully no one interrogated him about it.

Reki threw his head back in dramatic disbelief as Langa tried his best to shake out some sticks from the pouch. A couple of sneaky handfuls later and Langa felt another tap on his shoulder. Reki made a pitiful attempt to persuade Langa to hand him some as well. Langa looked around the room nervously, wondering if he should take the chance. Looking back, Reki had turned on the puppy dog eyes on full blast, causing all doubt to be cast from his head. Of course he should. Just because he's severely salt deficient, doesn't mean he should leave his friend out to starve.

Langa shook a few pieces into his hand under the desk. They had to wait for the teacher to turn around, which was taking forever. For a moment the teacher turned around to write on the board. He waited half a second to make sure he wasn't going to turn around, stretched his hand out and-

"Mr. Reki. What do you think you're doing?" The teacher called.

Well, shit. The happiness Langa felt by not being found out was immediately replaced with fear as he nor Reki had an excuse on hand to give the teacher.

"Well?" He said, waiting with an air of exasperated patience.

"Aahh, erh… uhhh?", Reki uttered, floundering for a response.

"I was… asking him a question." Langa belted out in defense.

"And why didn't you direct the question to me instead?", The teacher replied, questioning the legitimacy of the answer.

"Because?… It was a… dumb question?" Langa replied, shrugging into himself. The teacher sighed as threw his head back in aggravated contemplation. The air was thick with tension as the two waited for a response, wondering if today would be merciful. The teacher drew his head back into position and decreed,

"Whatever it is that you're doing, stop it. Do it again, and I'm holding you both after class.", pointing to the two of them before turning around and resuming teaching. Langa and Reki let out a sigh of release after which they exchanged the handful Langa was holding onto and didn't acknowledge each other until passing period.

"Okay, are we going to talk about what happened or…?" Reki said, leaning against the locker neighboring Langa's as the snowy bluenette changed out books in his book bag.

"I wanted a snack, I got a snack. Just… not used to sneaking in bites in class."

"Yeah, as much as you eat, you know better than to pull that kind of shit during class. What is up with you today?"

"I don't know. I'm just… really salt deficient today.", Langa replied, shutting his locker and walking away.

"No, that can't be it. You're not acting like you're deficient, you're acting like a crack addict jonesing for another hit. I know I shouldn't really be concerned, but I'm getting concerned." Reki said, hop-walking to catch up to Langa's long legs. Over the din of the bustling hallway, the pair heard Reki's text alert go off on his phone, causing the two to momentarily pause to see what it said.

"Oh, cool! Joe just sent over a game plan before we head to 'S'. Looks like we're meeting up with Shadow at the restaurant and carpooling over." Neither of them had to work that night, so after a change of clothes and dinner at Reki's, meant a long, glorious night of high-octane fun and excitement with the whole group!

"Sounds great! Can't wait to get out of here.", Reki said, looking up and catching Langa's smile.

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"Come on! We're going to be late!" Reki yelled, blazing down the smooth sidewalk.

"I don't know why you're worried. Its not like they're going to leave us behind.", Langa yelled back

"Shadow's the one driving and I wouldn't put it past him!", the redhead shouted back, pushing forward for more speed. Langa threw his head back and laughed, thinking that it does sound accurate.

"Maybe you shouldn't have done such a good job washing the dishes!", Langa retorted.

"After you ate mom out of house and home? It was the least I could do!" Reki threw back with a laugh in his voice.

The two continued to speed down the sidewalk onward to their destination without a care in the world, despite the desperation in Reki's tone earlier. Langa started to feel more like himself than he had all day. Nothing felt more grounding than skating behind his friend, his partner, his infinite companion. It was moments like this that he caught himself thinking things differently… about the two of them. Langa wasn't unfamiliar with thinking that, maybe, he and Reki could be… more than friends. Langa thought it was unavoidable at this point.

The two of them and been through so much, taught each other so much. He had long since came to terms with him thinking like this, feeling this want, this…longing? Yeah. You know what. That's what this was. Longing to tell Reki, to show Reki, that deep inside… Langa loved Reki. Again, he felt it unavoidable. Felt like that this was what he felt all along. Ever since the night at the skate park where they made up. The two hadn't ever said anything explictitly to each other, but it had come up in conversation once or twice that Langa might be into guys differently than most others.

To him, He felt Reki was trying to say the same thing too. With his preferred phrase being "Straddling the fence about it." Langa was never sure though, with his brain always coming around and saying that it's just wishful thinking. That Reki didn't want to say anything controversial, or it was just his way of trying to show support to Langa. He wasn't sure, and in the end just figured he'd play it safe. It wasn't like he wanted to change what they had, just thought they could make it a... special brand of better? Yeah, that sounds... right?

"Man, this salt kick is messing with my head if I'm thinking like this." Langa thought.

The friends finally made it to the restaurant a little later than they were supposed to, but found out there was a saving grace waiting for them.

"Joe went to the bathroom, since it looked like you two were going to be a little late tonight." Cherry mentioned, leaning on the side of Shadow's new van. The surprising reasoning behind the decision to carpool tonight.

"Sorry!" Reki laughed, "The dishes sorta piled up on me tonight. "Nice van Shadow! Looks very roomy."

"Thank You! Its technically the 'company' van, but my name's on all the paperwork and stuff. And another thank you for ACTUALLY appreciating it, unlike SOME people!", He said, pointedly nudging a small, occasionally bratty catboy.

"It's pink and it's got fold down seats. What's there to compliment?", said Miya Chinen, the brat in question.

Like most nights, these two started to argue like they do every time they get together. Everyone began to ignore them as they waited for Joe to come out so they could leave. Which, if the time frame was anything resembling the situation of Joe coming out of the closet about his feelings to Cherry, this could take all night. And with the wait, came the resurgence of Langa's salt deficiency. He bounced around on his toes as Reki and Cherry talked about new board designs they've seen. Suddenly, Langa quietly excused himself and went into the restaurant looking for something. The Sia La Luce might be a fancy Italian restaurant, but it wasn't above salt shakers at the table. However, these were fancy crystal shakers and Langa was pretty sure Joe wouldn't look too kindly hearing about Langa swiping away with one.

But he has bought take-a-way here on nights when he or his mother didn't feel like cooking. There was a counter close to a side door where you pick up your food after you ordered it. And if he was right, there should be a container full of paper salt packets they throw in as a courtesy. Making sure no one was looking; which, how could there be, the restaurant was closed. He leaned around the counter and grabbed a small handful before booking it out of the building. As Langa jogged-walked back to his group of friends, Joe finally emerged from the mysterious depths that was the men's bathroom.

"Great! Everyone's here and we can finally leave!" Shadow grabbed Miya by his jacket, tossed him in the van, and slammed the door before the now rabid child could retaliate. Cherry locked his bike and everyone piled into the comfortably roomy van.

The group finally arrived at S. The place seemed absolutely thrumming with energy tonight, almost bordering on sensory overload. Had someone come up to a younger Langa and told him that this place would become one of his most favorite spots on the planet, he would have considered them crazy. The wild flashing of the light, the pounding of music and voices, the heavy scent of… everything. One would have a hard time placing a scent, let alone describe it. And the night air, whipping up everything into a frenzy on the moutain. This place was the definition of free and untamed, and Langa loved it. He was itching to hit the race strips, but there already seemed to be a line for the top. Reki asked Joe and Cherry to reserve them a spot as the pair signed a waiting list, then the longtime friends hit a different path to the factory.

While the factory was considered part of the race track, that consideration only applied to the upper levels. The ground floor had plenty of debris and obstacles to pull tricks off of. Langa and Reki blew most of their collective energy grinding on the broken rails and kick-flipping off old wooden boxes. None of this was of course safe, but then again, when has that ever stopped them. As Langa popped off junk left and right, not caring about what the tricks were, just happy to be in the air, he was interrupted by a stranger.

"Hey You! You're the one they call Prince, Right?" A blonde, thin gym rat looking man in ripped jeans and an equally ripped sleeveless white denim jacket approached the pair in the far corner of the building.

"Yeah, I guess." Langa replied plainly, stopping his board to face the guy. "Prefer Langa though."

"Heard you're a good racer. One of the best around. That true too, 'LaNgA'?", the newcomer mocked, clearly showcasing how new to these parts the stranger was.

"Depends on who you talk to. Why?" Langa already had an idea what the stranger wanted. It's what all people new to "S" wanted, a beef with the legend that went against Adam and won. Honestly, this was already considered tiring, nearly turning onto outright obnoxious. But he was Canadian, it was polite to ask. Who knows, maybe he would get a break this time.

"I challenge you to a beef with ME!"

Nope.

Langa sighed in disappointment loud enough to attract Reki to his position.

"Oh, balls, not another one." Reki whispered to his friend. Knowing how tired his friend was of this and proceeded to take over the conversation.

"Look man, I know you want this to be personal and all, but we're signed up to go next on the track." He said, gesturing to the two of them. "Either you race against the BOTH of us, or you wait. And it's a long line tonight, by the way."

"Fine enough. It's not like it'll matter anyway, since you'll both be eating my dust!" the blonde asshole laughed.

Langa and the stranger shook on it, (again, He's Canadian), And the pompous douchebag walked off to take his place at the starting mark.

"Can't ever just be a nice night, can it?" Langa moped.

"Ahh, the cost of being talented… Wouldn't know what that's like!" Reki laughed, nudging Langa playfully and racing him to the starting mark.

The three of them, as well as others, took their places at the starting mark. The tension began to run high as everyone was waiting on the final signal light to drop. Lights flashed green as honed, practiced reflexes took over all the skaters as the beef began, with the main three in question taking a big chunk of the lead for themselves. Langa blasted out front of everybody, sacrificing style over speed in the hopes to make it a quick race. Only to see the stranger pulling up rapidly behind with Reki in the back, phasing in and out of their combined dust trails. Langa and the stranger began fighting for dominion of space on the high, sharp turns. Trying not to get too close, as at this speed, getting either board too close to each other would surely result in a wipe out.

'This guy is better than he looks.' Langa thought. He took a second to dance his board over some rocks that would have caused him to crash, just to see his opponent kick flip off a boulder and gain the lead.

'Of course this wouldn't be a problem, if I actually got my head in the game!' He screamed to himself.

Over a hundred of these races, against hundreds of skaters, professional and otherwise, and this one is practically kicking his ass because he can't stop thinking about salt! Langa pulls out a stolen salt packet from his pocket, only to lose it to the tailwind of Reki passing him as well. Reki had seen Langa pull it out and, thinking it was important, managed to snatch it from the air. Upon closer inspection however, threw Reki into a fit of laughter.

"Still going on about THIS?" He yelled back. "Well, if this is that important to you, guess you're going to have to catch me for it!" Reki turned on his board and angled his body in such a way to gain a burst of speed.

Langa made it a point to ignore the irrational part of his brain that kept saying he had more in his pocket and used the indignity of the situation to fuel his need to regain the lead. Popping over a bush, chaining the jump onto a ledge that lead to a short grind and using the momentum to launch himself from a tree branch over a small cliff, all linked together to form the most impressive retake of a gap in the history of "S". The order was now having the stranger being in the lead with Langa and Reki being neck to neck, if only for conversational purposes.

"Head back in place yet?" Reki playfully catcalled.

"It will be after I win!" Langa confidently declared back.

"If you lose, I'm taking your illegal salt stash away!" the cocky redhead wiggled the snatched salt packet threateningly.

Langa just snorted and continued to try and over take the talented new guy, finding it disappointing in himself that the threat was motivating. Having skated through this track so much he could do it blindfolded, Langa knew that the finish was only half a kilometer away. And at the speed at which the finalists were going, it was arriving frightfully soon. As they were coming out of the final turn, Langa gained enough momentum to fully flip himself over his opponent, rightfully gaining back his lead. The joyous moment was soon dissipated as the stranger, feeling indignified at the reality of the moment, had decided to pull out one last trick up his sleeve.

Reki's hackles began to raise as he saw the newcomer pull something out of his pocket. Langa couldn't see and Reki wasn't about to find out what it was. He could only manage an incoherent shout of warning before he sped up and rail grinded around the stranger to tackle his friend out of the way. As Langa looked back to see what the was doing that had caused Reki to warn him, the redhead was bent forward as his hands locked around Langa's waist in a defensive position. The combined momentum caused the two of them to slip out of control and break the railing to their right.

Langa's initial panic was swayed by the fact that he had been in this situation before. This was like Adam's Love Hug all over again. Langa took charge of the moment, righting his boardsin air and made his friend place his feet in line with his. He managed to land the board on to a beam under them and had to keep the balancing act up as they rail grind down its length. Their hands instinctively fell into the unmistakable tango position and held each other close, causing the wind to be sliced past their combined closeness.

As they reached the end of the beam, Langa planted a foot onto it and used the other to launch the board in front of the two of them. Reki pushed off as well, using whatever momentum they had to circle langa around to fling him into the air and toward the main track. Langa grabbed the board and tossed it down to the metal walkway, planting his feet solidly onto it. Keeping the momentum going, he turned to face Reki and guided him back onto the board, barely keeping them both upright as the skateboard zoomed past the positively stunned strange.

This is how they won. The two of them, absolutely inseparable since they met, just as so passing the finish line into the gathered crowd. All were cheering for their dramatic upset. They slowed their skateboards to a stop as the partners looked at each other, faces visibly showing the shock at what had occurred.

"Did you… just… Love Hugged me? And save me with it?" Langa asked as he stared at Reki, stunned by the experience and finding himself refusing to let go of his hand.

"Uhhh… yeaaah? Maybe? Look, all I saw was the asshole was reaching for something and I panicked and,-"

"Hey! Its… okay. You're… okay. We're both okay… Thanks to you." Langa professed soothingly, taking Reki's other hand in an attempt to ground them both. They tried to take a breather, but with the crowd closing in, along with the stranger starting to riot at his unexpected loss, the friends were starting to get overwhelmed. Along came the rest of the friend group, with Cherry and Shadow doing crowd control and Joe dealing with the stranger causing a fit. Taking the chance to slip away, Langa led Reki outside the old factory to a metal bench at the far wall and sat down in between other people. Langa started to rub his face in his hands. "That… got crazy there, right?" mumbling

Reki straddled the low bench, laying his board over his knees and nodding his head. "Honestly, yeah. Didn't know I had it in me to pull.. whatever that was off." Reki went on to fiddling with Langa's board and inspecting the trucks for damage.

Langa just sat there, watching Reki with unfocused eyes. His mind drifting back and forth, between the last five minutes and to the stash of salt in his pocket. To holding hands with Reki and back to his addiction to salt. Lapping between those two trains of thought, like waves on a beach. Almost like the salty water he soaked in on his vacation that he shared with Reki. Like how he and Reki liked to pass sauce containers on a skateboard when they shared a salty chicken nugget meal. Like when Reki passes his tongue between his teeth when he's concentrating on fixing his board. Similar to what he's doing now. Those teeth that are brushed with salt… crystal… toothpaste. Oh no.

"Heeeyyy… Reki?" Langa asked tentatively.

"What's up?" Reki chirped, looking up from his skateboard maintenance.

"Do you… still use salt crystal toothpaste?"

Reki craned his head back in disbelief. "Aww Ma gawd, LANGA, salt again! Are you hoping it'll fix something in your head or is this considered a last resort?" Langa just shrugged as he weighed his options. If he followed through on this absolutely crazy stupid idea of his, this would totally change the course of their friendship, for better or for worse FOREVER. BUT, this might be the one thing that cures him of this obnoxious salt kick, if he's RiGHT. Thus, the risk.

"Reki, would you mind if I… did something potentially…stupid?"

"Depends. Does it involve me?" Reki replied, innocent of Langa's intentions

"Yes." However, at the rate his brain is degrading from the lack of salt intake, this might just have to be a risk Langa will have to take.

Langa scooted closer to Reki, straddling the bench as well. He took his friend's face in his hands. God, he was so nervous. Langa could barely look him in the eyes. Those beautiful, incandescently golden eyes. The ones gazing into his, filled with innocent confusion and... awe? Before his nerves completely blew a fuse, Langa used his thumbs and pulled Reki's headband over his eyes as he dove onto his lips. He was gentle with it, not wanting to do anything to completely scare Reki, but hopefully enough to see if Langa wasn't crazy.

Crazy to think that this was what he was craving all along. The kiss lasted less than a second, with Langa only briefly making contact and just lightly sucking on Reki's lower lip. If Langa was in his right mind, he would have broken this off. Took his hands off his friends' face and apologized. But... he wasn't. Langa was not in a logical mindset in the slightest, for the smallest, slightest taste of Reki's lips was everything and more.

It was everything he was craving all day and everything he didn't know he was. Salt with sweet cherry chapstick mixed with spices from dinner earlier and… just… Reki. Some sort of flavor that couldn't be described, only named. Something so explicitly wild and spicy and sweet that it could only come from a source just as superb as the taste itself. Langa immediately swiped another kiss, this time whispering his tongue over the bottom lip again before forcefully pulling himself back from his friend. He did it. Langa kissed his best friend. Someone he vowed to skate forever with. And now he's gone and thrown a potential wrench in the mix.

Reki leaned back as he lifted the headband off his eyes. All they could do was stare at each other, expressions filled with more shock and awe than ever before. Cheeks were turning hot and red at the realization of the moment, and all they could do was just breathe and stare. A lifetime had passed between them before Reki decided to be the first one to break the silence.

"Sooo, uhhhh…. Was it everything you were looking for tonight?" He said, sheepishly. Surprising Langa by not turning and running for the hills.

"Would you believe me if I said… yes?" Langa turned his head away, not sure what to do with himself at this point. He was honestly shocked that they were still talking.

"Honestly… not really." Reki said with shocking confidence. Langa whipped his head back up, wondering why, of ALL responses, he would say that?

"To be fair, that kiss was kinda short, so I can't really believe that you actually tasted anything. Sure you don't wanna… try again?" Langa was stunned. Stunned that his friend, the one that always said that he 'wasn't sure', didn't express that he was interested in him EVER, would say something like that so casually.

"But… I thought…" Langa said. Confused, but grateful at the miracle that landed in his lap.

Reki righted his headband before taking a breath and spoke, "Look. I know I talk about girls a lot, and that I've been 'straddling the fence' about this. But that kiss...and everything that happened tonight and maybe during some moments that we've had together over the past month or so just... made me realize that... I'm not as much on the fence as I previously thought. And I want you to know that this... is okay." Reki took one of Langa's hands and brought it over the skateboard and held it, curling the blushing bluenette's fingers into his and lightly stroked his thumb over the knuckles.

"So… is this an open invitation to… try again?" Langa muttered, leaning in close to Reki. Their foreheads almost touching.

"Well, yeah! Gotta be sure and all. Else you're going to screw up your taste buds devouring salt packets all night!" The two of them quietly laughed at the thought before leaning closer in, sensing another intimate bubble world forming around them and this moment. Just the two of them, all over again and again. Langa rubbed his nose next to Reki's, hoping to indicate that he would like another kiss. Reki got the hint as they started to lean closer to each other and-

"I get this is probably a first time for both of you, but could you not? It's disgusting." Miya said. He was the only other occupant on the bench at the moment and was playing on his switch while chilling in the now shockingly brisk air.

"I'm… sorry?" replied Langa.

"exCUSE YOU?" screeched Reki.

"It's not that I'm against you two getting together or anything, but can you really not find a better place to do… all that? I'm trying to concentrate here." Miya said, drawing his hood over his head and returning to his game.

"Well, tough luck pussycat! I'm going back for another round." Reki almost threw his skateboard from his lap, He indignantly grabbed Langa's collar and went back to kissing him forcefully, pushing his "Prince" down flat on the bench and crawling onto his lap. This essentially traumatized Miya, especially after Langa joyfully started to reciprocate.

"JOE! CHERRY!! SAVE ME!!!" the child screamed in terror as he ran into the surprised arms of his (unofficial) surrogate parents that had just turned the corner, looking for the oblivious pair. Joe picked up Miya and held him close, wondering what could cause him to scream like that, Cherry began scanning the tree line, preparing to take his board and swing for the fences when he found the violator, only to see Reki and langa committing a mild case of public indecency.

"Are they-?" Joe said first, finally seeing the familiar red and blue mass on the bench.

"It appears so. Honestly? About time." Cherry replied, putting Carla down.

"Make them stop!" Miya whimpered, shivering in disgust and looking away.

"Avert your eyes kid, it's only going to get worse." Joe shifted Miya to one arm as he and Cherry walked away and back into the building.

"Should we warn Shadow?" Cherry asked.

"Na. With the way those two were going at it, he'll find out soon enough."

The three of them went out the other side, up the path to the top and left the intertwined teens to their now and forever present need for privacy.

[rekikiri]

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hi aerie!! thanks for the ask, my dear <3

dish

ooh okay. so not going to mention desserts but some of my favorite dishes are this one specific salmon bowl from red lobster (it’s the soy salmon bowl, it’s amazing), pilly cheesesteak stromboli (or just philly cheesesteaks in general, they’re so tasty), pineapple fried rice w/ tofu, and sushi in general:)) (also LOVE steamed dumplings…)

game

I’m going to answer this with video games but my favorite video games are hollow knight, stardew valley, spiritfarer, and Pokémon (specifically heartgold as my favorite)

blorbo

oh god one of the biggest blorbos in my brain will forever be neil josten, the man that you are…

but if we want to acknowledge the characters that have ~built me~ we have kirishima from my hero, reki from sk8 the infinity, and suga/noya from haikyuu. my username is a mix of the first two, suga is my profile picture, and noya is the pfp for my Twitter <3 ofc there are others but these felt fitting to mention

book

goodness aerie you’re killing me /j

the two stand-alone books would that immediately come to mind as favorites are a far wilder magic by allison saft and under the whispering door by tj klune :)) not gonna even go into series lmao