#sofie is killing me rn with this

[lovesatoru]

YOUR THEME IS SO FUCKING SEXY JESUS

STOP IT THANK U BESTIE!!! DNHJDH IM GLAD YOU LIKE IT!!🤍🤍

[killjoynest]

okay tysm for answering my other question, I've been confused by those timelines forever ! also like.. what happens in national anthem?? 😭 past chapter 4 it gets like super confusing for me.

ok so im going to summarise the whole plot as best i can issue 4 and onwards under the cut xoxo warning for general bitchiness bc jfc dude the comic was not good

so the gang have picked up kara 100/kara jeong, who is at this point injured and seperated from her husband. we get a few panels of The Scarecrow (this doesnt really matter, bc gway does fuck all with it outside of being a figure that chases the gang from this point on). theres an exchange of "you go to hospitals to die" which, ok, but its the lead up for going to see the Phoenix Witch.

we get a look at the B T global/Sterelax company, made up of different people from the old AKA gangs and their whole control over everything is... kind of shown i guess. cut back to the killjoys, we get the incredibly bad taste choice of phoenix witch and theres some weird magic-y shit done to kara to help with mike watching on. Max and Sofia are outside, arguing over if the sterelax sanitising everything is good or bad. They notice Jaime is gone - hes snuck into the cave to see what the phoenix witch is doing. the next pages are confusing, but basically its some weird mindshare thing that somehow clues mike and jaime into the fact mike is jaimes father. and then we get the startof jaime sort of shunning sofia? (like???)

so sofie tries to sneak into B T, theres a facial scanner, weirdly pings her as Maria and before she can really process that she gets caught and jumps out a window. from here is some "the killjoys are hunted" stuff, not really plot relevant tbh. They meet up with the weirdss and find old gear, theres questionable jaime interactions, the Sterelax folks catch up o them, theres a brawl, we get the next location to go to - new york

we get a brief scene of kara and max catching up, sofia and mike arguing about why maria turned up on company files, karas husband turns up but hes brainwashed(?), in a stunning show of fatherly behaviour mike laughs at jaime nearly killing a guy, jaime has a "my real mom" moment, everyone fucks off.

then fight scene -> old radio guy gets killed but like he had no plot relevance so w/e -> scarecrow still alive -> sofia tries to use her powers that dont work without maria but they do rn which! wow!

anyways they get to new york, books on tape guy is like haha before u kill me i have a surprise lol and bring out blue. we get a flashback of when mike fucked off w blues body and then handed it over to books on tape and chose to forget, jaime and mike run to this Maria whos been brought out, sofia rightly is like ok obvs this is fucked and sends kara and max to find mom+dad. they do, find out their conteolled by BT rn, get in a fight w the scarecrow and kill it and pull the plug on m&d. mikes like ready to go along w/ sterelax and the sofias like wake the fuck up man and then mike eventually realises maria is fake.

then he takes the body and... dresses it in the old clothes (thats weird!) and puts his ramones records on (get better taste pls!) and blows uo the car w the body in (my guy one of ur friends has a gunshot wound tf dude. also u drove everyone here).

anyways we get the epilogue which is mike is a manager at a store and lives w jaime and literally none of the other killjoys are mentioned/seen at all. mike watches cop chows and it ends w him and jaime going on a walk. :/

so like yeah genuinely sucked imo but w/e there were colours i guess. eh. weird anti med shit and also? the racism babes.... anyways yeah thats it

[metalbatandzenko]

since you play Skyrim, can we hear about your playtrough? favourite races, quests, builds? who did you marry?

lasjkhflkjsh oh god, I’ve probably played through the game like 12 times by now, and I have another four active rn. I actually got to a point in one game where the only quests I had left were radiant quests and I had cleared all the locations which I think is as close to 100 percenting the game as you can get.

My favorite questline is the Dark Brotherhood Questline. I also love Diplomatic Immunity and the Daedric quests. I think my favorite miscellaneous quest was The White Phial.

I also always adopt Sissel and Lucia.

Here’s a few notable characters I’ve played as:

Kiyoko was my first game. She was a khajit assassin, and relied heavily on daggers. I ended up marrying Farkas in this one because I love beefcakes and thought a cat marrying a dog was funny as hell.

Veeraza was my third playthrough. She was an Argonian, and I wanted her to be as close to a shadowscale as possible (hence her name, I gave her a backstory and everything and she’s Veezara’s little sister skdjhflkjdsh), so only daggers and sneaking. If an enemy spotted her before she’d killed them, I had to reload a previous save. The only exception were the ones who have to talk to you before they’ll fight you. She didn’t get married because my game corrupted before I could.

Morven was probably my fifth playthrough. She was a Dunmer spell sword, and relied on destruction magic and enchanted swords. I ended up marrying Janessa because she’s probably my favorite follower in the game.

Ura’dora was my seventhish playthrough. She was an orc apothecary and ranger. She mostly relied on her bow, even in close combat, but she dual wielded swords when things got sticky. She married Shahvee the Argonian because I love Shahvee. Sweet lady.

Sarendel was my tenth playthrough, which I remember because my brother made fun of me for it. She was a Bosmer ranger, and what I really remember her for is the fact the first quest I completed was the cannibal quest in Markarth, because I wanted her to be someone who followed the greenpact. So she only ate meat, and she ate everyone she fought. She also was a werewolf. I think I ended up marrying Janessa again.

Arwen was my previous playthrough. She was an Altmer shadowmage, and the one where I completed the game to the point where it didn’t have any non-radiant quests for me. I prestiged my illusion magic 27 times on her, because I wanted to fight a legendary dragon and those only spawn when you reach level 87 I think, so I had to level her up like 22 times which meant prestigeing the crap out of my illusion. She spent the majority of the game invisible. She married Ghorza because I really love the orc women in skyrim, they’re really funny.

Don’keh is my current playthrough, and yes it’s pronounced how Shrek says Donkey. He’s a Khajit brawler, and any close combat he’s in, he’s fighting barehanded. He uses a bow for distance. He’s married to Balimund because duh. I also had gotten all the achievements in the game with Arwen, so I installed a mod to let me adopt six kids so I adopted Sissel, Lucia, Sofie, Alesan, and Blaise. I’m leaving the sixth spot open in case of a dragon/vampire attack that leaves one of the kids orphaned. I remember in Arwen’s playthrough, a dragon attacked and killed pretty much all the NPC’s, so like...all the kids ended up in Honorhall it was really sad

[engelkeijsers]

Hi! What are your favourite scenes from Skam Italia?

ohh there are LOTS of, but my absolute faves are (in almost chronological order):

1) eva and eleonora's first meeting; the gay tension was REAL in this one

2) in episode three i think?? when ele saw the drama (?) kids talking to eva on the corridor and decided to rescue her by fake crying and just yelling, i LOVED that clip

3) the scene when silvia was supposed to have her first time with edoardo and the same night eva's mom was supposed to meet gio, so after the bell rang she opened the door and saw edo, she just assumed it was eva's boyfriend. I WAS HOLLERING. and edo's "what the fuck" killed me omg

4) eleonora telling edoardo off after he offended and made fun of silvia in front of the villa boys. in this scene i could actually tell that ele caught edo's attention and he really got intrested (yes i'm looking at some other remakes rn), especially after he looked back with *that* smile when she was leaving

5) when marti told eva that gio doesn't want to speak to her and she broke down in tears,, it HURT hurt

6) when she was mad at gio and went to that beautiful place saying she needed some space and he immediately found her, took a pic of her back and sent it to her

7) it might seem like a really casual clip, but it just really got to my heart for some reason. i'm talking about when edo saw eva running to school and offered her a ride and then when she acceoted, asked her about eleonora (but not in a pushy way, just casual). i can't explain but it's one of my absolute faves.

7) gioeva break up. only eva x jonas (besides hanna and jonas) i really ship so it was really hard to watch them split.

8) MARTINO, GUARDAMI MARTINO

9) the voicemail's opening season 2. ICONIC.

10) gio and martino's hug in the bus + their interaction in the morning. yes i'm counting that as one, don't ask why cause i myself don't have an answer for that

11) nicotini's first meeting. do i really need to say more?

12) marti and nico spending some time together at nico's apartment, especially the sofa stares (i know you know what i'm talking about). you could really tell they were falling for each other.

13) nico spitting up the carbonara and martini's face expression right after. again, don't ask

14) volleyball practice clip. marti's gay panic, nico's nervous look at him and the squad and then lying for him, elia and gio's immiediate knowing look at each other, luchino getting punched by a ball. perfection.

15) the bike ride

16) NICCOTINO'S FIRST KISS

17) the cuddle clip obviously + the red thread clip (again, counting them as one)

18) elia and giovanni being little shits at gym class to this level that mr boccia had to swap them up with someone else lmao

19) FILI'S SPEACH TO MARTINO OH MY GOD

20) argentina!clip aka when the boys were getting ready to covitti's party; luchino's weird food, elia tasting it, giovanni looking at martino and just knowing something is wrong, elia calling galvani, boys fooling around while getting ready, them taking a mirror pic and the song in the background that somehow suited the whole sequence so well

21) the party clip and boy's fight. i hate to love it so much, honestly

22) marti going to dr spera's office for the first time

23) MARTI COMING OUT TO GIOVANNI !!!

24) whole episode 7 of season 2

25) share the love clip

26) conteabbandieri going to dr spera's office together

27) ohg clip

28) the morning after ohn clip, they were sk cute and happy to be with each other in this one 🥺

29) the whole christmas sequence

okay,, season 3 and 4 i onky watched once for now, so it won't be as much as from the first two, but my absolute favorite's are:

30) ele and edo's first date/meeting (whatever she choose to call it)

31) every ele x filo scene

32) martino confessing eva that he knew giovanni was dating sofie since the weekend before or so

33) all of the clips from when ele went tk edo's party and she got stuck there

34) i will never hurt you clip

35) when she was "ill" so he cleaned up her room and wrote the radio thing for her and the ine after she woke up

36) the clip in which she told him herself what happened between her and his brother

37) THE SPECTRUM CLIP OMG LITERAL PERFECTION

38) whole last episode if the season

39) literally every marti x sana clip we got in her season, but especially the bench talk clip!!

40) somebody that i used to know clip

41) sana making up with the girls

42) sana and malik's talk about religion

43) hide and seek scene

44) and SO MUCH MORE THAT I SUDDENLY DON'T REMEMBER

45) every clip from the last episode, EVERY CLIP

ooff this came out wayy longer than i planned, sorry lmao

[banrions]

all my terrible wips in one place

okay, so @youngbloodbuzz tagged me & it's quarantine & i got nothing better to do (that is a lie, i should be looking for a job, always) so this all her fault!!

i have SO MANY!! WIP ideas that will likely NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY AND/OR ARE VERY DUMB! but now you all gotta deal with my nonsense titling & terrible ideas, i guess!.

Rules: Below are the names of all the files in my WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous*. Please send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and I’ll post a little snippet or tell you something about it!

okay so some of these are just on my FIC-TO-WRITE list as ideas, but a lot of them also have some semblece of a plot/outline/stuff already written as well. FAIR WARNING. i title things super weirdly with like... no spaces and such?? I DUNNO WHY!

the wips that i have stuff already posted but have not yet finished are:

pansmione slow burn/chirp on about good bones series

peggy!cap au

clark&kara.au companion piece

adult saccharina talking to cara abt laz & catherine

(technically, only pansmione au is... the one that i'm like, i HAVE to finish it. the peggy!cap series i HAD planned on doing all the movies after finishing what i have posted, but sort of gave up, but then changed my mind and wanted to finish SO WHO KNOWS. the other 2 oneshots are like, the ones i WOULD LIKE to add to things i've written already, but aren't like, incomplete as is)

and then ALL the wips that i'm either actively writing/have stuff plotted out for, have on my ever growing FIC-TO-WRITE list & writing folders (which GODS there are some i haven't looked through in YEARS until rn, so that was fun) that i have not posted anything at all for yet are:

d20.bigBang.ruby&rina stuck road trip au

crown of candy.west wing.au

triptych.rina&ruby&jet.canon povs

au!jet lives!!

sofie bikes living her best bi life post campaign

bad kids college au disaster fic

moonshine & marabelle!lives!au

crick feelings & moonshine

beau.jester.yasha.modern.ot3.au

vex.velora.postc1.au

Keyleth and velora, after everyone else has left

Cass AND percy travel with VM au

clexa!!p&p.au

clexa.season 3 fix it

faking dating prank war clexa au

capfam.prewar.nonlinear au/apricity

wip.5 times hawkeyes stitched each other up

kara and alura learn to have a relationship on earth

hayley.elenaAU

katerina&originals.oneshot

wip.red riding/teen wolf

wolves&girls.series

allison argent snow white au

shaw.oneshot post finale

killed myself when i was young

jtv rock band au

marisa pre.series character study

sansery.political.au?

trc.rule63

morgana.arthur.oneshot

1950s au merlin

wynonna & nicole bond roadtrip to get back waves au

vale&lucia post aam au

west wing rule 63 au one shots

rule 63 studio 60

i’ll tag @jadeandquartzes, @myclericalromance, @storybook-souls,  @dealanexmachina, @professorspork, @ratherembarrassing. but don’t feel pressured, do it if ya wanna.

[decindra]

All of them!!

I asked for it, you delivered :p

1: 6 of the songs you listen to most?

Blood in the Cut - Kflay

Bestfriend - Sofi Tukker

Hollow - Belle Mt

FML - Kflay

Hang you up - Yellowcard

Curious - Hayley Kiyoko

2: If you could meet anyone on this earth, who would it be?

uhhh um idk lets just say Hayley Kiyoko because hello

3: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 23, give me line 17.

“Our conscious mind thinks it’s in control, but it isn’t”

4: What do you think about most?

Honestly, how much I like hugs and how i do not get enough tbh

5: What does your latest text message from someone else say?

“nope worst friend ever”

6: Do you sleep with or without clothes on?

With, i’ll sleep without a top in summer but that doesn’t happen often

7: What’s your strangest talent?

I have no strange talents lol

8: Girls… (finish the sentence); Boys… (finish the sentence)

Girls are all just so perfect….Boys are yeah they just are

9: Ever had a poem or song written about you?

lol yeah it wasn’t a nice poem either

10: When is the last time you played the air guitar?

Just before in the car

11: Do you have any strange phobias?

I AM TERRIFIED OF CHICKENS

12: Ever stuck a foreign object up your nose?

Uhh not that i remember atleast

13: What’s your religion?

x

14: If you are outside, what are you most likely doing?

Walking around probably, or if i’m at home outside I’d be either gardening or playing tennis

15: Do you prefer to be behind the camera or in front of it?

Definitely behind

16: Simple but extremely complex. Favorite band?

uhhh idk I don’t really have favourites

17: What was the last lie you told?

x

18: Do you believe in karma?

Yeah

19: What does your URL mean?

At the time i made my blog i was watching game of thrones and i was seriously depressed hence Game of Darkness

20: What is your greatest weakness; your greatest strength?

Greatest weakness and strength would be my kindness

21: Who is your celebrity crush?

yeah rn Hayley Kiyoko, my dudes the Curious music video killed me

22: Have you ever gone skinny dipping?

x

23: How do you vent your anger?

I talk about it with whoever made me feel like that, or i just write it down

24: Do you have a collection of anything?

I just started collecting magnets from where ever i go

25: Do you prefer talking on the phone or video chatting online?

Video chatting

26: Are you happy with the person you’ve become?

I weirdly am, and i know that it is just gonna keep getting better. It’s a weird feeling which i have never felt before it’s nice

27: What’s a sound you hate; sound you love?

I hate scraping sounds and I love people’s voices

28: What’s your biggest “what if”?

ehhhh nah

29: Do you believe in ghosts? How about aliens?

x

30: Stick your right arm out; what do you touch first? Do the same with your left arm.

Right arm is the computer screen and left arm is Nicks laptop

31: Smell the air. What do you smell?

Berries

32: What’s the worst place you have ever been to?

umm idk honestly

33: Choose: East Coast or West Coast?

I’m guessing this is america and since thats where i currently am i’d say East, Australia the west

34: Most attractive singer of your opposite gender?

I uhh Brendon Urie

35: To you, what is the meaning of life?

Friends and family….forming close relationships with people you meet who make you feel good

36: Define Art.

Honestly is everything not art

37: Do you believe in luck?

Nope

38: What’s the weather like right now?

Overcast and absolutely lovely

39: What time is it?

5:15pm

40: Do you drive? If so, have you ever crashed?

x

41: What was the last book you read?

I’m currently reading Scandalous Women by Elizabeth Mahon

42: Do you like the smell of gasoline?

Yep

43: Do you have any nicknames?

Bella, Lee, Lee Lee

44: What was the last film you saw?

The Greatest Showman

45: What’s the worst injury you’ve ever had?

lol a sprained wrist…broken toe?

46: Have you ever caught a butterfly?

nope

47: Do you have any obsessions right now?

nah not really

48: What’s your sexual orientation?

Lesbeen

49: Ever had a rumour spread about you?

Not that i’ve heard

50: Do you believe in magic?

Not in the conventional abra cadabra way

51: Do you tend to hold grudges against people who have done you wrong?

Nope not at all

52: What is your astrological sign?

cancer

53: Do you save money or spend it?

Save it

54: What’s the last thing you purchased?

Chapstick

55: Love or lust?

Love

56: In a relationship?

loooool no

57: How many relationships have you had?

2

58: Can you touch your nose with your tongue?

barely

59: Where were you yesterday?

At Izzy’s place most of the day

60: Is there anything pink within 10 feet of you?

nope

61: Are you wearing socks right now?

yeeep

62: What’s your favourite animal?

uhh cats

63: What is your secret weapon to get someone to like you?

I have no secret weapon

64: Where is your best friend?

Sitting right across from me

65: Give me your top 5 favourite blogs on Tumblr.

@makingmyown-history

@faberryttanaaf

@awkwardnerdygay

@moonbudclub

@lexaofthemyscira

honestly so many more but herrreee

66: What is your heritage?

well i know i’m ¼ italian but who the heck knows that else i have

67: What were you doing last night at 12AM?

Playing 7 Days to Die

68: What do you think is Satan’s last name?

Satan Mabacon

69: Biggest turn ons?

Any kind of touching honestly, i love it

70: Are you the kind of friend you would want to have as a friend?

I think?

71: You are walking down the street on your way to work. There is a dog drowning in the canal on the side of the street. Your boss has told you if you are late one more time you get fired. What do you do?

Get fired fuck work

72: You are at the doctor’s office and she has just informed you that you have approximately one month to live. a) Do you tell anyone/everyone you are going to die? b) What do you do with your remaining days? c) Would you be afraid?

A) uhhh I’d tell the people i’m close with

B) Absolutely nothing I’d probably just keep going as i usually would and say a few goodbyes maybe

C) Not at all

73: You can only have one of these things; trust or love.

Trust

74: What’s a song that always makes you happy when you hear it?

Bestfriend by Sofi Tukker

75: What are the last four digits in your cell phone number?

6617

76: In your opinion, what makes a great relationship?

Solid communication, and trust

77: How can I win your heart?

Honestly if im comfortable with you then youre pretty much half way there…just be nice, and a little touchy

78: Can insanity bring on more creativity?

Yeah I’d guess so

79: What is the single best decision you have made in your life so far?

Leave and go to america for 6 months

80: What size shoes do you wear?

9

81: What would you want to be written on your tombstone?

She tried

82: What is your favourite word?

bumblebee

83: Give me the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word; heart.

Love lol gross

84: What is a saying you say a lot?

It’s allllll good

85: What’s the last song you listened to?

Hollow Belle Mt

86: Basic question; what’s your favourite colour/colours?

I love purple

87: What is your current desktop picture?

dude idek i think it’s space

88: If you could press a button and make anyone in the world instantaneously explode, who would it be?

idk

89: What would be a question you’d be afraid to tell the truth on?

x

90: Turn offs?

Rude peope

91: You accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what’s even cooler is that they endow you with the super-power of your choice! What is that power?

Teleportation

92:  where are your parents from?

uhhh well they were both born in Australia, my nonna is from Italy on my dads side i know that much

93: You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?

x

94: You have the opportunity to sleep with the music-celebrity of your choice. Who would it be?

Yeah nah i’m not gonna answer this

95: You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere. You have to depart right now. Where are you gonna go?

Ireland

96: Do you have any relatives in jail?

Lol one of my cousins probably is

97: Have you ever thrown up in the car?

nope

98: Ever been on a plane?

a fair few times

99: If the whole world were listening to you right now, what would you say

x

[byunlucid]

Umm I'm the og sofie-l? 😤 just saying, since all these newbies are popping up in your askbox 🚶 (also are we starting to mention when we're promoting ourselves cuz I'm promoting myself rn 😋😏😜) (guys this is literally the most sarcastic/joking ask I've ever sent don't kill me)

Im u saying ur being sarcastic but not really 😜😜also yeah, ur the founder and head of the sofie-ls 😤 respek

[5hfanfiction]

mean girls pt.4

IV.

Camila is never late. You can’t get far in life without planning ahead and therefore she always makes a point of arriving at least five minutes early to wherever she needs to be. It’s not her fault that Sofi had decided to throw a temper tantrum this morning and, by the time Camila had managed to calm her down, they only had ten minutes to get to school. She always needs to drop Sofi off first, which is why she’s now running through the hallways, trying to make it to AP Government on time.

She somehow manages to walk inside the classroom as the second bell is ringing, so there are no consequences for her tardiness and she just gives the teacher a quick apology before taking her seat on the row by the window. Pulling out her notebook and her pencil case, she places her phone between her legs to let the girls know she’s alive and is surprised to see she has more texts than she’d expected. Both Normani and Dinah have blown up her Whatsapp notifications.

China Jane [8:16] are u here yet??

Mani [8:21] Where are you?

Mani [8:22] Did something happen?

China Jane [8:24] ok bish we headin inside c u after 1st period

Mani [8:25] Is everything okay? You should be at school by now

China Jane [8:26] where tf r u walz

China Jane [8:26] GURL U NEVER GONNA BELIEVE THIS SHIT

China Jane [8:27] YOU GOTTA SEE THIS

China Jane [8:28] get yo ass to the lockers rn!!!!!

Mani [8:29] Shit. Did you see it?

China Jane [8:29] DA FUQ U AT

Camila stares at the screen in disbelief. Of course the girls couldn’t have been kind enough to drop a photo or a snap of whatever they wanted her to see and now she’ll have to wait until class is over to catch up on the latest gossip.

With an annoyed sigh, she grabs a pen and starts copying the notes on the board.

Camila doesn’t notice anything out of the ordinary as she leaves AP Government, sending a quick message to the Clique’s group chat so they’ll meet at her locker. She’s vaguely aware that there are people watching her and pointing and muttering under their breaths, but there are always people doing that and she’s learned not to care about it.

After all, it’s much better to be the one people talk about than to have nothing better to do but talk about someone else.

She saunters up to her locker and opens it to pull out her Psychology textbook. A folded paper falls to her feet and she lowers down to pick it up, keeping it between her index and middle finger as she finishes what she has to do. It isn’t the first time, nor will it be the last, that someone leaves random messages through the slit of her locker. She shuts the door and leans against the wall of lockers, hoping the girls won’t take too long.

Camila isn’t quite prepared for what she sees as she unfolds the paper and her chin drops before she can regain control of her muscles and facial expressions. What she has in her hands is a very poor excuse for a student president campaign poster, limited to a printed out color photograph on A4 photocopy paper with a slogan underneath in what looks like a bland Arial font. She would be appalled at the unprofessionalism of it all if it weren’t for the shocking content.

It’s a photograph of Lauren fucking Jauregui. And sure, the photograph is flattering, but Camila couldn’t care less if Lauren had plastered her face all over school or decided to hand out nudes at the cafeteria. No, what really gets to her is the slogan:

No cliques: for a fair high school experience

Camila sees red in that moment. She’s gritting her teeth so hard, middle-school Camila would be worried those two years wearing braces had been for naught.

She knew Lauren would come for her, but there is a difference between coming for her and attacking her friends. This is personal.

“There you are!”

She snaps her eyes up to face Dinah walking towards her with Normani in tow.

“I see the hottest news has found its way to you,” Normani says, wincing. She places a hand on Camila’s shoulder and softly allows it to travel down to her wrist. Camila feels some of the tension inside her fade at the gesture and tries to give Normani a smile. She fails.

“That bitch,” she breathes out instead. “I’ll fucking kill her.”

“I’m kind of impressed, actually,” Dinah says, prying Camila’s fingers open to grab the poster and check it out. “Girl legit pulled this outta her ass from one day to the other.”

Camila glares at her, not wanting to hear anything even remotely positive about Lauren. “Did you even read the stupid slogan, Dinah? This is not just about me, she’s coming after us!”

“Yeah?” Dinah shrugs. “I’m 100% Team Mila but I can’t say it isn’t exciting to have someone challenging us.”

Normani snickers at that and Camila struggles with her instinct to stomp her foot like a spoiled toddler.

“You have to admit this school isn’t exactly home of the brave material,” Normani prods, hand moving to entwine their fingers. “I don’t think this is a big deal, it’ll be just like in freshman year when Richard Baker tried to run against you for class president. It was more of a formality to pretend there was some sort of race going on when, lol no.”

Camila squeezes Normani’s hand, grateful for her words and for how her presence helps relax her.

“I’m still going to kill her,” Camila announces after a long moment of silence, lips quirking up in a dangerous smirk.

“I can’t wait for that.” Dinah grins triumphantly, putting her hand up for Camila to high-five.

“And I’ll be right there to step over the bitch’s dead body.” Normani’s eyes are glinting, bright with mischief.

On second thought, Camila says to herself, this could turn out to be a lot of fun.

Camila spends most of her Psychology class obsessing over the poster. She can feel the weight of it inside her blazer’s pocket, even though it’s just a piece of paper folded in four.

This is an affront she can’t let slide, and while she wants to confront Lauren about the whole thing, she doesn’t want to come across as angry and hysterical. Lauren doesn’t deserve the satisfaction of feeling like she has affected her in any way.

She tears out a page of her notebook and starts listing possible scenarios so she can both calm herself down and come up with a viable action plan. She scribbles several brilliant lines of monologue and memorizes them right away, feeling quite pleased with herself. She doesn’t know how Lauren will react but she trusts her quick wit to present her with some decent retorts. As long as she keeps her cool, everything should be okay. The idea is to make Lauren lose her cool.

Now she only needs to think of the perfect setting to enact her little speech. A confrontation in the hallways is out of question because she doesn’t need any more attention placed on the two of them together. There’s already plenty of that to go around. Checking her schedule, she realizes she has AP Lit next and smirks.

That’s something she can work with.

Camila enters room A012 three minutes before the bell rings and is satisfied to see Lauren is already there. Unfortunately, so is her table partner, which forces Camila into a less smooth approach.

Standing next to him, she offers a saccharine smile. “Scram.”

The boy looks up at her, eyes open wide, and hurries away, finding another seat. It’s a good thing Mr. Keating doesn’t care about fixed placements - never a time when that hadn’t been convenient.

Camila beams at Lauren and sits next to her without asking for permission, ignoring the incredulous stare Lauren is throwing her way. She removes the poster from her pocket and unfolds it, placing it on the middle of the table. “It has come to my attention that this is a thing that is happening.”

Lauren just raises one eyebrow, not bothering to reply.

“I’m actually glad you’ve decided to run against me” Camila continues, counting a victory point when confusion flashes across Lauren’s features. “It does get a bit tiresome to have the world bow at your feet without question.”

“Oh please,” Lauren huffs, with an eye-roll.

“But, Jauregui, if you’re going to run against me, at least give me the pleasure of a challenge?” Camila tilts her head to the side, smiling lazily and enjoying the turmoil behind Lauren’s eyes. “Here.” She points at the poster, her finger falling between the photograph and the slogan. She thinks it’s very kind of her. She could’ve easily just tapped one of Lauren’s eyes with her fingernail, which is closer to what she would like to do to the girl. “Photocopy paper, seriously? How cheap.”

“I would like to see you bringing a campaign to life overnight, Cabello,” Lauren counters, swatting Camila’s hand away from the poster. “In the last twenty-four hours, I’ve signed up for student body president, studied the students’ council regulations and policies of the past three years, wrote down a draft of the plan for my presidency and created a campaign from scratch. All by myself.”

“Photocopy paper makes the photographs look pixelated and scrunched up, so unpleasant,” Camila carries on, disregarding her in spite of the somewhat impressive list of achievements. “And Arial for the slogan’s font? What is this? The first group project for middle school?”

Lauren is seething at this point and Camila’s chest swells with pride. She’s doing this. She’s the one aggravating Lauren and she’s loving the hell out of it. “I’ll give you kudos for the slogan though. That was… brave. It will get you attention, for sure, which will last you for today and maybe until the end of the week. But it isn’t memorable.

"I mean, if you’re this bad at posters alone, how do you expect to hold up against me when it’s time to present your campaign video in homeroom? Or for the debate before the election?”

Mr. Keating arrives in that moment and Lauren fixes her with a glare that would probably be considered intimidating if Camila were someone else. “Are you done with the lecture? Can you go now?”

“No,” Camila answers, surprising them both. “You smell nice. I think I’ll stay here for today.” She grins, delighted by Lauren’s startled expression and her obvious loss for words as she shifts her attention back to the lesson.

Camila didn’t think it would be possible, but if she enjoyed messing with Lauren’s head over her subpar poster, she’s now overcome with glee, arguing against every single interpretation Lauren has for the poems they’re studying today.

Mr. Keating notices it but doesn’t stop them. The man has strange ways and he seems to value intelligent discussion over appeasing the belligerent tension in the room. Camila appreciates it.

She’s on a winning streak anyway.

When Camila finally makes it home that evening, after spending two hours in the library finishing her History essay, she falls face first on her bed with a groan. Her phone beeps from somewhere in her bag and she shoves her hand inside to try and find it without having to change position. She succeeds after a very frustrating minute and looks at the screen to see Normani had texted her.

Mani [6:33pm] I have a feeling this presidential race is gonna be more interesting than we thought

Camila blinks and then frowns, unsure of what Normani is trying to convey.

Mila [6:34pm] what do you mean?

Normani sends her a link to a tweet and Camila opens it, a feeling of dread coursing through her veins. 

Her first reaction is relief because she was expecting much worse, but then she clicks on the twitter account, realizes it’s been created earlier that day, sees a tweet with a picture of her campaign poster side by side with Lauren’s and a few other incendiary tweets, and she lets out an undignified wailing sound.

Great. This is just what she needed in her life.

* * *

Camila doesn’t think too much about Lauren for the next two days. Or rather, she doesn’t allow herself to, forcing her mind to drift somewhere else as soon as the obnoxious girl pops up in her thoughts. She smiles inwardly when she notices that most posters have been replaced with classier versions of the original, taking her suggestions into account. The slogan is still the same but Camila doesn’t believe that will stick for long.

For all her effort to remain collected about the events of the past week, Camila’s also aware that, for the first time in her high school experience, a person that she’d condemned to ostracism had bounced back from it like it had been nothing.

Social media had played a big part in that, what with the stupid @sipthegreentea twitter that keeps people obsessing over the campaign and that rat Zayn Malik interviewing Lauren for the school blog. She thought no one followed that thing, but apparently a six-minute video of Lauren being charming and eloquent, and making sense in a few of her points, had been enough to gather it some attention. Lauren Jauregui had gone from persona non grata, from the absolute bottom of the social hierarchy to somewhere… slightly above that.

Camila would be lying if she said that didn’t unnerve her a little bit.

In all fairness, most of the school is still avoiding Lauren like she has the plague and she knows some of the popular kids have fun throwing insults at her every now and then - which, kind of makes her uncomfortable but she has done nothing to prevent. However, Lauren’s become a champion of sorts for the underdogs and the wallflowers, the kids too weak to make a name for themselves, and so she isn’t alone by any means, as had been Camila’s original intention. And if Lauren isn’t alone, if she’s defied the school’s natural order and survived, Lauren is dangerous.

That’s why Camila is keeping track of what’s going on with Lauren by ensuring some underdogs remain loyal to her. She may be willing to act as if Lauren is beneath her and nothing she does phases her, because that both irritates Lauren and allows her to be perceived as the still reigning president, influential and untouchable. But smart people keep their friends close, and their enemies closer. Being two steps ahead is not enough of a waypoint as far as Camila is concerned.

And thus, she weaves a web of nerds and drama kids and almost pretty girls, people she’s always been nice to and who’ve always liked her. One should never underestimate people’s willingness to betray their own in exchange for the approval of the powerful majority.

It’s Friday and Camila’s lost in thought in one of the bathrooms of the second floor when she’s approached by a girl with long, copper-colored hair.

“C-Camila?” she stutters.

Camila fights the urge to roll her eyes because in these times of political need, she can’t afford to act however she wants. “Hi,” she says, turning to give her attention to the girl with a smile on her face. Camila knows she’s the current sophomore class president until election day but can’t remember her name even though she should. This girl is one of those who would sell her soul for popularity. “Can I help you, hum - what’s your name again?”

“Katie,” the girl replies, not at all offended that Camila didn’t know that. She checks the stalls before she speaks again. “I thought you should know that Lauren is planning a campaign event.”

“Oh, is she?”

“Yeah. I don’t know when it will happen but there’s been talk of getting a catering service so they can give away cupcakes while handing out flyers and buttons.”

Camila narrows her eyes, studying the girl. “Catering service?”

“Some kid’s mom owns a bakery and he said he could get a few batches of cupcakes for free. To help with the campaign, I mean.” Katie keeps shifting on her feet, nervous energy coming off of her in waves.

“What kid?”

“Jacob Sartorius.”

“Jacob Sartorius?” Camila shakes her head. “Who even is that?”

“He’s a freshman,” Katie says, shrugging. “Skinny, wears those thick-framed type of glasses, hair makes up half of his height?”

Camila snickers. “Do you know this boy?”

“Yeah, like, we say hi in the halls and stuff?”

“Good.” Camila places both her hands on the girl’s shoulders and stares deep into her eyes. “Tell him to meet me behind the gym at 4:30.”

Katie nods, and Camila finds it a mix of cute and sickening that she looks like she’s been given a life-changing mission.

“Will do, Camila!” she says, bobbing her head up and down until Camila releases her shoulders and signals for her to leave with a thanks. “Bye!”

“You’re late,” Camila drawls when she spots a lanky boy with his hair two inches up in the air walking towards her. She repositions herself so only her shoulder is leaning against the wall as she faces this Jacob creature.

“Sorry,” he mumbles, blushing. “I thought this was a prank.”

Camila smirks. “I can see why you would think that but no, this isn’t a prank.”

“Am I in trouble?”

“Not if you help me.”

“I don’t see how I can help you, I’m sorry.” To his credit, Jacob looks genuinely rueful. The poor thing has no idea what he’s doing, talking to Camila Cabello in secret.

“I hear your mom owns a bakery, is that true?”

“Yes.” He moves closer and stands next to her, hands behind his back as he also leans against the wall. “You need a catering service too?”

“Too?”

“Well yeah, Lauren Jauregui–” Camila cringes as Jacob mispronounces the surname but he doesn’t notice, “–is doing some campaign event next week and she asked if I could get her some free cupcakes so I figured you were after the same thing?”

“If I ever need cupcakes from your bakery, I’ll make sure to pay your mom for her excellent service,” Camila informs him, smiling sweetly. “In fact, do you have a card or is there a website I can visit?”

“Place is called Baked Bites,” Jacob says, returning her smile. “You can look it up on Facebook or Instagram.”

“I will,” she assures him. She’ll order a box of goods to take home to her family, at least, and make sure that reaches Jacob’s ears. Favors are paid with other favors. “Now there is something I would like you to do for me, if you’re up for that?”

“Sure. What do you need?”

“Those free cupcakes that Jauregui is getting for her campaign…” She pauses on purpose, gauging his reaction. “What would have to happen for them to be… less than perfect cupcakes?”

“What are you getting at?” He squints his eyes, suspicious. “This is my mom’s business we’re talking about. I don’t want to cause her trouble.”

“Oh, you wouldn’t, don’t worry!” Camila cuts, eyes wide with innocence. “Ally Hernandez loves baking, I’m sure she’ll do her own batch for the event. We’ll blame it on her.”

Jacob laughs at that, his hair shaking with his movements. “Alright. I guess I could be persuaded then. What’s in it for me?”

Camila’s lips curl up smugly. “Name your price, Jacob. I’ll make it happen.”

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A/N: slytherin!camila: rise

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Show recommendations no one asked for

• Between

It’s a drama/mystery w a cool plot imo and plenty of characters to love and get attached to! The acting is a bit wonky sometimes in season 1 but all the characters’ personalities show more in season 2 and you can tell the actors have grown more into the characters then! Unfortunately it’s on a permanent hiatus and ends on a cliffhanger, but it’s still 100% worth the watch!

My fave characters:

Ronnie Creeker (❤️)

Pat Creeker

Franny

Tracey Creeker

Chuck Lott Jr

Adam Jones

Wiley Day

WARNINGS:

Character deaths

Violence

Blood

Sex

Rape-attempt (happens in one episode)

Drugs

Alcohol

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• Valemont

You’ll surely like this if you love supernatural dramas with vampires! Just like Between the acting gets weird sometimes but with its only got 1 season and a main character you can root for so it holds up! Lots of delicious plot twists for people who love those. It’s available to buy on plenty of sites and there’s also a (bad quality) version up on YouTube with Portuguese subtitles if you can’t afford to buy the box set.

My fave characters:

Leonardo (❤️)

Gabriel

Sofie

Poppy

WARNINGS:

Force/violence

Blood

Sex (mild)

Character deaths

• Crawford

An awesome comedy show about a family and the strange things (almost always involving raccoons) happening to them! It’s a CBC show with one season so far but by the looks of it it’ll get more seasons in the future and it’s very funny! Available on some steaming sites but sorta hard to find if you’re not in Canada.

My fave characters:

Don

Bryan

Honestly the whole family they’re all great

WARNINGS:

Honestly can’t think of any rn, it’s safe

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• Misfits

A supernatural comedy/drama! Incredible writing and amazing characters, I’d definitely recommend it if you like supernatural/superhuman shows with both drama and comedy in the mix! After the 3rd season the quality of characters go down and some wouldn’t recommend watching the rest, but I’d say do it if you like the new characters they introduce. Available on Netflix and other streaming sites!

My fave characters:

Nathan Young (❤️)

Kelly

Alisha

Simon

Curtis

Rudy (❤️)

WARNINGS:

Violence

Sex

Blood

Character deaths

Drug- and alcohol-use

Rape (implied/mentioned in a few episodes)

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• That’s My DJ!

A web series with 3 seasons so far, each season follows a DJ on their journey to or through stardom. Each episode is around 2-5 minutes so it’s definitely a quick watch but I like it! It has comedic moments as well as drama and ooo, pretty lights. I haven’t gotten around to watching season 2 and 3 but the first season was great and I highly recommend it, especially for those who don’t feel like committing to a show with 30+ minute episodes and several seasons. All episodes and seasons are available in high quality on YouTube!

My fave characters:

Kyle (❤️)

WARNINGS:

Sex

Drug-use

Alcohol

Flashing lights

•••

I might recommend more shows later, anyways please tell me if you decide to watch any of these shows or if you’ve already watched any of them (especially Between)! I’d love to know what people think!

((❤️ = my ultimate fave in the show, will fight anyone for this character, will kill a man for this character))