#thanks for sending this!

[ruporas]

apologies if you've already been asked this but do you have any favorite trigun fics? i absolutely adore your art btw!

thank you!!! and i've answered this on insta, but i don't think i've ever shared on tumblr... i'm not good at reading fics, esp long ones, because my attention span is pretty bad, but from the ones i have bookmarked, i'll share some that i like in no particular order

hills like white elephants (meet me halfway) - adlvnam

pairing: vashwood word count: 1.1k, sfw, vague post v.10 spoilers ‘I read a story once,’ Vash says, unsure. ‘I’m kind of thinking about it right now.’

i like a lot of adlvnam's fics, i find them very unique and creative in their execution, and their writing is wonderful! this was the first fic i've read from them and it's stuck with me ever since. others that i like from them are in manus tuas (no spoilers) and vox dei (warning for post vol.10 spoilers).

stay - Anonymous

pairing: vashwood word count: 2.3k, sfw, no spoilers “Hold up,” Vash groans. He presses his free hand to Wolfwood’s mouth and shushes him. He’s probably going for a stern look, though between his poor attempts to stop grinning like the biggest idiot this side of the planet and the way he’s patting him, it’s hard to take him seriously. “Stop laughin’. Where’s the keys?” “What keys?” Wolfwood tries to ask, muffled by Vash’s hand, and his tongue is a little thick and slow in his mouth so… something comes out, but it’s probably not very wordy. Word-like. Not a sentence, probably. (or, wolfwood and vash get drunk, bicker, and then share a bed together.)

i enjoyed the mundanity and silliness of this fic and i think about it from time to time... i think fics where one of them or both drink together are pleasant to read.

Last Summer - varilien

pairing: vashwood word count: 741, sfw, no spoilers You are what you love.

tags on this one are "sunrises, morning routines, coffee, sentimental" which caught my attention. very sweet and beautiful.

Rain - Kokohamstar

pairing: none, wolfwood centric word count: 768, sfw, major spoilers - post v.10 Ever since he was a little kid listening to Bible stories, he dreamed of the day the world would be washed clean and wondered what the rain would feel like on his face.

as most wolfwood centric fics, it was a gutpunch and melancholic, but still soooo.. augh.... the last paragraph really does it for me.

water bucket blues - fathomfive

pairing: vashwood word count: 3.7k, sfw, major spoilers, post trimax Vash the Stampede goes on the record about a friend he once had. Also about card games, cats, family, and some other things. "Start with a piece of the whole, Meryl said. It doesn’t have to be the first piece. Start with a specific. That’s what they mean when they throw around the words human interest. I know the pieces. Believing they make a whole is another thing. But she’s a broadcast professional and I trust her advice. Maybe if I can figure out how to tell one piece—like the story of Wolfwood as I knew him—I can learn how to tell the others."

i love vash pov fics and i love it when it's first person and this one in particular hits because it's his pov and he speaks, honestly, openly, telling a tale that he can't really flub because it's about the people he loved. i love how grounded this fic is in the present of max, i love how vash grows within the 3.7k words, i love how he moves forward with the world he's living in. this fic makes me teary if i think too much about it... it's really wonderful.

it’s a summer day, and I want to be wanted more than anything else in the world - goldenglitz

pairing: vashwood word count: 3.9k, nsfw, no spoilers Vash has the lung capacity of a man who’s cried for 150 years. It isn't like Wolfwood takes more than he gives — but like with most things, he barely keeps up with Vash. He works his body to the limit, even as his lungs burn and his legs and arms give out under him. They fuck like they’re on borrowed time. All of this makes it so easy — so much easier than just talking. Wolfwood would sometimes rather pull new and interesting noises from Vash with just his mouth than do anything else with it. Their own dialect: moans, groans, and four words. “Yes” — “Please” — “Vash” — “Wolfwood.”

i love all of their vashwood fics, they only have 3 but they're all lovely and has a sort of characterization to both vash and wolfwood i don't see often. definitely one of my faves, especially when it comes to explicit vw fics.

i think these are all the ones i'll share for now!!

[idk-bruh-20]

Hey, what if Avengers (*cough* Irondad and co *cough cough*) had a family account on Spotify or whichever other app where such thing is possible? I don't know how that works, sorry (too broke for this 💀) but I guess that would lead to a few funny moments

I agree!!! my brain is broken rn and I can't think how to expand this into a fic idea (I, too, am too broke to have experience with such things lol), but I fully headcanon that this should be true & hope someone takes this thought & runs with it

[nucrests]

If Michael were to dye his hair what color/colors or style(Ombre, half, full) would he go for?

Michael would definitely go for an ombre style and maybe add a pastel pink for fun!

[chaotikanvas]

can we get a B8 expression for Dawn (Accidentally Undercover AU) please? - @clxckwork-sun-n-moon

I see you, Clockwork heheh~

Agent Dawn! From Accidentally Undercover AU by @lavenoon !

[hayscodings]

everything you have ever said about svetlana never fails to amaze me, i feel like you understand her character better than most. i have to ask, what do you think her life was like pre-3x06? i know we know some things about it, but do you have any headcanons/theories or anything about her? i wrote a fic (and never published it) about her once, but i feel like you have better insight on her character so i’m asking you. what was her life like in russia? what was her father like (awful)? what did she endure to make her the way she is? etc.

Ah, thank you! That’s the ultimate compliment. I rewatched Shameless for a second time recently, and am on my third rewatch now, so I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about Svetlana.

We didn’t really get any information about her life on the Southside pre-3x06, but there are a few observations I find helpful when trying to piece together what it must have been like: (1) she seemed genuinely excited to marry Mickey; (2) she wears the same purple dress that we are introduced to her in— and see her at work in— while she’s at home, pregnant, in S4; and (3) the fact that she was married to Yvon at some point means that she can’t have been in the U.S. for very long when we meet her.

With respect to (1), part of her excitement can be chalked up to the fact that getting married meant that she could finally qualify for a green card, but I think it’s more than that. She didn’t look relieved; she looked happy. The way I interpret this is that she considered moving into the Milkovich house a step-up from her current arrangement— which, considering the Everything We Know about the Milkovich home, paints a pretty bleak picture of said arrangement.

My guess is that she was sharing a very small space, perhaps even a single room, with many other working girls, since we know that Sasha was not paying the girls a living wage. It is also likely that the conditions in that place were very poor, as I’m sure whatever slumlord they were renting from was taking full advantage of the fact that they were undocumented. So, not a great situation.

I find (2) particularly interesting because I’m sure it was intentional on the wardrobe department’s part to have Svetlana rewear the same dress multiple times. But what’s really telling is that she doesn’t just wear the dress— a short, fitted, strapless dress— to work at the massage parlor. She wears it when she’s home in S4, too. And this time, not only is she several months pregnant, but it’s also winter.

When she and Mickey go to visit the massage parlor, she’s wearing the same dress with a coat and tights and a thin little scarf even though it looks freezing out. So, not only could she not afford maternity clothes, but she was also unable to dress properly for the weather. All of this to say: it was clearly bad for her financially. And at this point she’s been living in the Milkovich house where she’s presumably better off, so it must have been worse before.

Finally, (3) is a tricky one because I don’t believe for a second that the writers planned to reveal that Svetlana had been married before in Russia when they introduced her character in S3. Initially, I would have assumed that she had been in the states for at least a couple of years by the time that we meet her, but the whole Yvon business really complicates things.

For starters, Svetlana is only 19 when we meet her. This is relevant because marriageable age in Russia in 18. There are exceptions to this, but only under special circumstances, and even then, children cannot get married if they are under 14. In addition to this, Yvon was old enough to pass as Svetlana’s father (There is a 14 year age difference between Pasha and Isidora, but Isidora was playing ~14 younger than her actual age, so that makes the age gap roughly ~28 years). It seems very unlikely, then, that she would’ve been married to him younger than 18. Which puts her in the U.S. for only one year before the events of 3x06. This makes sense for several reasons I won’t get into because it’s not relevant and I’m already rambling too much.

So, in sum, I imagine that Svetlana’s life pre-3x06 was very bleak. Recently immigrated, undocumented, still learning the language, just 19 years old with no family and under the control of her traffickers who severely underpaid her. Probably living in a small room ten other girls in her same position, dealing with violent and or aggressive customers like Terry with no real protection, just trying to survive. I think she was very numb during this period of her life, maybe more so than ever before, and tries not to think about it often. I don’t believe Svetlana could have survived everything that she did without repressing and compartmentalizing a good chunk of it, honestly.

As for her life in Russia, I still need to give it more thought, but it seems like she was very close to her family as she speaks of both her parents favorably and named her son after her father. She also tells V at one point that in Russia “family is family”, and we later see that she is in contact and seems to be on good terms with her aunt. She also mentions using her grandmother’s recipe for borsch in S6.

Apart from this, we can assume that her family was poor given that her father sold her to a pimp for $300 when she was just 10 years old. At one point Svetlana says something about owing him for keeping a roof over her head and food on her plate, so it’s clear they definitely struggled. She also tells Kev and V that she “grew up in his bar”, when they’re under the impression that Yvon is her father.

Now, obviously Yvon ended up being her husband, but she was acting as though he was her father at the time so I think the bar tidbit can be taken as true. V had to learn everything about Svetlana when she married her in order to pass the INS interviews, so Svetlana would have had to use the truth in order to sell the lie.

So, here is this little girl growing up poor in Russia with a family that she is very close to. She’s extremely smart and probably does really well in school and it’s not an easy life but she is still very grateful for it because things can always be worse. She knows this— she’s seen it. And she’s probably been told it by her father many times.

Svetlana loves her father, but he is not a good man. The facts we know about him are these: he raped her as a child, locked her in a closet with a potato sack over her head, and sold her into sexual slavery so that she could work street corners when she was 10 years old. All of these things paint the picture of a violent, abusive man. Still, Svetlana insists that he had good qualities too, and she feels indebted to him for providing her with food and shelter and for paying smugglers to get her into the U.S. She also says that she learned everything she knows from him.

I think Svetlana’s father was the type of abuser to make a buddy out of his victim. He probably convinced himself that he was a good father and that everything he did, he did out of love. Maybe he was an alcoholic, surely he had his own demons— at the end of the day, he probably pointed to these very things to justify/make sense of his behavior.

I can picture a young Svetlana thinking of herself as his protege— always by his side, helping him with the bar, doing anything that she possibly could to be useful and contribute to the family. Listening to his stories, heeding his advice, learning his lessons. And when he hurt her, she probably blamed herself. Or maybe she attributed it to her father’s own trauma— something stronger than him, beyond his control— something that had nothing to do with her. Or so perhaps he said when he apologized. I can see her feeling sorry for him.

I think Svetlana was too young to reconcile the abuse she suffered at his hands with the part of him that seemed to care for her well-being. And I imagine that it is still very confusing for her as an adult, and something that she hasn’t wanted to confront or revisit. Because it’s far too painful, and she’s doing just fine in her opinion.

In sum, Svetlana is a girl who grew up too fast. She’s a girl who never got to be a kid and who wasn’t afforded the protections that she should have been afforded by her guardians. She’s a girl whose formative years were filled with violence, and who continued to know that violence well into young adulthood. She’s a girl who had to make sense of this violence, and be able to live in it day to day. She’s a girl who learned to repress, and to compartmentalize, and downplay, just so she could stay alive. But most importantly, she’s a girl who never let any of this turn her into someone who would repeat the cycle with her own child.

[mijikai12]

@need-a-name-pls

[genrerolereversal]

#so might as well play with the trope. have a woman surrounded by hot and attractive dudes vying for her attention #she could be average looking, or older, or charismatic

I've seen some examples of this in media aimed at straight women, although the woman is always young & attractive too since that's the default for women in media lol.

Examples I know of:

Bloodbound 2 from Choices: Stories You Play app has a cover with the LIs (including 1 of the female LIs) surrounding her whilst she's sat down.

Finding Twilight webtoon from the Lezhin website/app has a cover where the guys literally have half open shirts whilst the f!MC sits on a throne lol.

Lady & Maid from Tapas website has a cover where the female character is sat in a suit whilst the male characters are sat around her in maid costumes.

Love & Thirst, an upcoming otome game has a cover with the f!MC sat on a chair surrounded by guys.

"Reverse harem" books seem popular on TikTok so maybe there's more there?

Thank you for the tip, Anon! And sorry for the late reply, I kept wanting to add more to the post haha. I don't want to derail the original thread so I will compile the examples here.

(^ Finding Twilight)

I'm always down for women in suits :P And I like that the guys are casually wearing maid outfits, not looking humiliated or embarrassed.

Baka-Updates also has a number of reverse harem stories, though it might take some effort to find the ones you like.

As for the ones I know... There's Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, a josei manga by Fumi Yoshinaga. It's an alternate history of Tokugawa Japan, depicting the shoguns from this era as female. It starts with polyandry as the premise, explained as the result of a plague reducing the number of men in society. Because the shoguns are now women, the inner chambers employ hundreds of men as concubines.

(The live-action adaptation)

I would argue that Ōoku is more diverse than average when it comes to women who aren't conventionally attractive. One of the shoguns, Ieshige, has a speech defect and other health problems like her historical counterpart. The rest of the court underestimates her because of it, but she isn't dehumanised or vilified by the story (imho).

Baka-Updates was actually how I found out about Queen's Palace/Empress's Harem :D It's set in a matriarchal society, has a dominant female lead, and a whole bevy of other GRR stuff/flipping gendered tropes. It's one of my personal favourites.

Like you said, many of the examples are still young, light-skinned, conventionally attractive women, so I'd love to see more variation. And for the men too--they don't have to be skinny anime boys or muscle-bound hunks all the time :P

[tuituipupu]

🎶 when you get this, put 5 songs you actually listen to, then publish. Send this ask to 10 of your followers (positivity is cool) 🎶

hey this is super cool, thank you! ♡

i can give my recent recs as so much cool music has come out in the past week it's actually insane !!

ruoska - käärijä, erika vikman.

2. mute - shygirl, lolo zouaï.

3. la noia - angelina mango.

4. sinceramente - annalisa.

5. wife - (g)i-dle.

[theaceofarrows]

Zane Julien is asexual. That is all

I'm in 100% agreement with you anon, could not agree more. May I also respectfully add to this demiromantic asexual pixane?⬇

[kneadingwater]

15, 16, 17, 18 :)

15. a song or album from the 60s:

folk roots, new routes by shirley collins & davy graham

favorite song: hares on the mountain (introduced to it through maria's october playlist <3)

16. a song or album from the 70s:

la era está pariendo un corazón by silvio rodríguez

i was introduced to this song by the irma vep soundtrack (which is amazing btw); not only is it a poignant song, it's actually also relevant to my research on nueva canción!

17. a song or album from the 80s:

endangered species by wayne shorter

the first time i heard this song, it was actually as a cover at the domi & jd beck show this summer. so groovy!

18. a song or album from the 90s:

post by björk

favorite song: it's oh so quiet (i maintain that some of her best songs are her covers of jazz standards)

[lesbianlotties]

The kids are arguing (again) and since it’s going nowhere, they decided that they need a judge:

“Alright, let’s go to Steve”

“No way, Steve plays favourite. And Dustin’s his favourite”

“Robin?”

“You’re basically her sister, Max”

“Nancy. She’s my sister and she definitely gets annoyed by just us knocking on her door and distracting her”

“Nancy’s not good either”

“Why???”

“Robin is her favourite”

They biked to Eddie

Robin 👏 is 👏 her 👏 favorite 👏

this is so accurate shfjdsshgfjdk

Nancy is totally the type that would try so hard to be objective and rational but one look from Robin and that's it for her i mean how could she say no to this

[piedoesnotequalpi]

Ignore that. I forgot numbers. Crutchie, 4 and 7 for the ask game.

(Character ask game!)

Howdy! 🤠

4. If you could put this character in any other media, be it a book, a movie, anything, what would you put them in?

*slowly slides the Bachelorette au out of sight*

For an actual answer...I've suddenly forgotten every media I've ever consumed, but I feel like he'd be a good member of the Baker Street irregulars (from the original Sherlock Holmes stories) if I'm remembering the function they served correctly--he has the acting abilities and social awareness to either get people to tell him things or eavesdrop in plain sight, depending on what the situation calls for.

For a non canon-era answer, it'd be cool to see him in a spy novel of some sort.

7. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like?

I appreciate when people talk about Crutchie being a bit (a lot) of a menace with his slingshot, loud whistling, etc., and also I really enjoy the headcanon that he knows every resident of the lodging house's business. Let him take up space!

[tormentedsoldier]

“You belong to me” -hailhydrasheads

@hailhydrasheads

Part of Bucky felt like he should have protested, but he never did and if he was being completely honest, he didn't really want to either. Somehow he knew, Steve would have expected him to tell Rumlow or any other Hydra agent to go to hell, to insist that he was free from their influence, though he didn't give a damn about what his best friend might think. This wasn't about him anyway. This was about what Bucky wanted and he wanted to escape that horrible feeling of loneliness, of being useless and alone. He longed for something familiar, something he knew would give him a reason again in a world he otherwise felt like he didn't belong and Brock could give him that.

So instead he simply gave a single nod of his head in response as he looked up at the man in front of him just like he had done so many times before. "I know" he agreed, a hint of a smile tugging at his lips. "Only to you."

[nucrests]

Hi love i hope you’re doing fine ❤️ i’m currently looking through your recent gp posts that i missed and i love them as usual! this post made me giggle with the immediate “who do i need to hurt” comment 😂 also can you remind which is who with the twins? i mix them up lol (/728466715731787776/look-girls-want-to-see-your )

Hii anon! I've been doing well just really busy with my job and life per usual but I appreciate you checking up on me 🤍

Hehe I made myself laugh when I was in the process of editing that post lol but Dominique is very protective over his sisters!

[enruiinas]

@chatcambrioleur sent:

        hc + coffee (Send me hc + a word of your choosing and I’ll write a headcanon relating to that word! // accepting!)

        I've been holding onto this one for a bit, but it finally occurred to me they don't all have to be really deep/super meaningful hcs, so here are a few scattered thoughts I have on Law & coffee!

        1. Law was absolutely the kid that both very much looked up to/wanted to be exactly like his dad and loved acting more grown up than he actually was, so I can absolutely see him insisting he wanted coffee for breakfast one random morning - and no, he didn't want any cream or sugar in it, he would drink it black, just like his father, thank you. He hated it, but was too stubborn/hardheaded to let it show.

        2. I think this would have been fairly close to "the end", so it wasn't something he had time to make a regular habit of. There wasn't even time for it to become a running gag.

        3. The first time someone offered him coffee among the Donquixote family, he came | | (<- this) close to a random meltdown thinking back on that moment. Little, unpredictable reminders of his life before were the things that always hit him hardest, and I think for those years, Law wouldn't have been able to drink coffee at all.

        4. It would be years later, probably during his stay at Wolf's house (or even at the clinic he worked at in Pleasure Town, as Wolf is shown to drink/offer tea more often than not), that Law finally overcame this and reached a point where he could find some sort of comfort in those memories instead of just pain. He started drinking coffee regularly at around 14 or 15 and hasn't stopped since.

        5. It's as much an emotional comfort thing as it is a caffeine dependence. (It's routine, Penguin, leave it alone. @cptnslog)