#they're so intertwined

[superkickme]

gently touching the bruise on his face in public, giving him an expensive personalized gift to commemorate tagging and living both of your dreams together, romance is alive

[arainesque]

I don't normally do this. But this is a one-shot that I could elaborate on, prevvie :---*

For as long as he could remember, he’d felt as if something was missing. Something fundamental. A gaping hole in the puzzle that was supposedly reality. A missing piece. Maybe an odd piece, a piece that didn’t fit anywhere. Stuck in an unreachable abstraction of space and time. Outside space and time. Whatever it was, it was missing. Provoking a nagging, bone-deep, ever persistent feeling he couldn’t even begin to describe.

The world didn’t make sense without it, but he didn’t know what it was.

Even as he reached and reached and reached to unlock it through art. Through trying to unlock the subconscious parts of his mind through reformulations. Questioning everything he knew. Restructuring the aspects of the universe, the earth, the most distant and the most intimate. The cultures of the world and the trembling fibers of his heart. He’d searched everywhere. Yet, nothing.

In search for something that was constantly out of his grasp, mocking him. Hiding. Maybe it didn’t exist at all. The missing piece was an entity in itself. Invisible, free to roam without the constraints of matter. In the fifth, sixth, seventh dimension. Nowhere at all? Everywhere all at once?

Yet.

”It’s in you.” Matty was frantic beneath his measuredly calm demeanor.

George’s eyes were peering into his own. Confused. Droplets of rain dripping from strands of hair which was clinging to his face. George’s lip was quivering as his jaw trembled in response to the cold. He was beautiful, but he wasn’t it, not really. But when Matty stared him down, finding himself hypnotized by his own reflection in George’s eyes, it felt almost within reach. If he could just jump high enough. Reach into himself deep enough. Reach inside George, get inside his skin. Behind his ribs. Exist alongside his heart.

”What do you mean?”

Matty looked down onto his feet. The grass seemed greener from when he last saw it, somehow.

”Matty-” George reached a tentative hand towards Matty’s face, touch feather light just beneath his chin, and Matty submitted to the subtle gesture for him to raise his gaze. George’s brows were furrowed, but beneath it all, he looked intrigued. ”What do you mean?”

”It’s not-” Matty paused, suddenly breathless. Water was dripping down the slope of George’s nose, collecting in the dip of his cupid’s bow. He looked like what comfort felt like. Yet through the calm, the subtle dilation of his pupils, barely noticeable alongside his dark irises, provoked Matty’s pulse to flutter. ”It’s- you’re it, for me. I think.”

”You think?” George was smiling, that smile that was almost shy in its earnestness. 

Matty could sense George’s eyes fluttering closed for just a second as he reached up to press a light kiss to the corner of his mouth. Leaving their faces close, for just a second. Feeling the heat radiating off of George’s cheek.

”You’re warm.” Matty mumbled instead of answering.

His palm pressed to George’s chest, feeling his heart beating beneath the damp fabric of his t-shirt. He forgot why they were even out in the rain in the first place.

”I’m freezing to death.” George replied, leaning down to press his face in the crook of Matty’s neck. 

”You’re still warm.” Matty mumbled, fingers coming up to tangle in the damp curls at the nape of George’s neck. ”Your skin is.”

”Deceiving.” George whispered, pulling away from Matty’s neck to cradle his jaw. Making Matty aware of how large his hand felt against the side of his face, pointer finger reaching behind his ear to curl against the skin beneath it. His touch made Matty shiver more than the temperature in the air.

”You’re warm.” Matty decided, against George’s comment. He was too aware of his own breath against George’s thumb, resting in the air just too close to his lips. It ricocheted back onto his own face, heating it up. Making his lips hypersensitive. Or maybe that was just George.

”I love you.” It was tentative. George was shy. He’d always been, Matty adored him.

The rain was falling softer now. Almost to the point where you couldn’t feel it if you didn’t actively focus on it. Matty couldn’t tear his eyes away from George’s damp skin. Soft. Right there. The words he spoke to him. The way Matty could feel the earnestness in them.

”I love you.” There was a conviction in the words that was foreign to Matty. Passing his own lips. He felt like he’d never uttered a sentence he truly meant as much in his life. True and important.

They stayed like that for a while. Matty perplexed by George’s face. The subtle movements of his eyebrows, the slight tremble to his lips. How he bit his lower lip from time to time, in the rare moments the eye-contact they’d established was broken. He was lost in George’s eyes. They were a portal closer to it than he’d ever been. Maybe it’d been there all along. Close. Maybe close was close enough. Maybe he never needed to reach it at all.

”Can’t get enough of you.” Matty found himself saying. Too honest. Too dramatic for early twenties. ”You’re- you make me think.”

”I make you think?” 

”You make me think.” Matty reiterated, resting both hands against George’s chest. It was heaving slightly. He could swear he was able to feel George’s heart thumping against his fingertips, between his ribs. Beating onto his very fingertips. Intimate. ”You’re different.”

”That’s clichéd, Matty.” George’s eyebrows were furrowed, hand still fitted perfectly against Matty’s jaw. Tightening his fingers around his earlobe. ”You say that to all the boys?”

”You know I don’t.”

George seemed as lost in Matty’s eyes as Matty was in George’s. Perplexed, transcending a threshold neither of them knew the position of. Perhaps it didn’t matter. Maybe they were both insane.

”I do.” George sounded confident. He rarely was.

”When you touch me-” Matty began, feeling his cheeks heating up. He wasn’t usually shy about things like this. Maybe because they usually weren’t earnest. There was a difference between telling someone to ”fuck you” just for the sake of it and telling someone their touch felt like you’d been transported to a dimension where everything suddenly seemed to make perfect sense. George’s face seemed to be getting closer, the tips of his fingers pressing against the back of his head. It was more intimate than anything Matty had ever experienced. Out of body.

”When you touch me,” He tried again. ”It makes sense.”

”I get it.” George’s voice sounded breathless. Almost as if overwhelmed by the storming thoughts in Matty’s head. As if they were intertwined in the most fundamental of ways. One. ”It does.”

The depth of George’s eyes made sense, then. The subtle pressure of his fingertips against the back of his head. The way his face tilted down to bring their faces closer together. Initiating a kiss in the way only George could. As if it was the most natural thing in the world. A kiss that meant something, without conditions. No before, no after. A kiss. 

Lips against lips, in a way that satiated everything Matty’s brain was craving. The wet skin of George’s bottom lip between his own. The hand against the back of his head, fingers tangling in the hair at the nape of his neck, tugging at it. Gently. Matty did the same. Hands and lips and faces. Closed eyes and heaving breaths. The unreachable hanging between them. More persistent than ever.

And maybe George’s touch was just a distraction from the absence of it. Maybe it was it. Maybe it was the closest he’d ever get to it. A gateway. A preview. 

Somehow it felt like it didn’t matter.

[sherbertilluminated]

TIL Knobloch definitely read Dichter und Kaufmann & the writing teacher definitely inspired one of his digressions about education

[tinylilvalery]

haha babe how romantic would it be if i totally framed you in MY murders. haha babe what if i put your dna at the crime scenes and implicated you without you even knowing so when you find out it's a happy surprise and we're kinda married because of it. haha babe what if you're an fbi agent and i'm secretly a serial killer and you get obsessed with me and start stalking and fixating on me and i pretend like i don't notice but i do. babe that would be so romantic babe

[starry-bi-sky]

ive been hesitating to ask this bc youve been on a roll with the clone^2au (which i am frothing over) but could i poke you for some childhood friend au? bc GOD i wanna see how danny reacts to reuniting w jason or how the rest of the batfam react to learning jason never told danny of his resurrection or wondering if dannys gonna put jokers dead body on a display/offering to jasons grave. i havent been normal about this since i first read it and was wondering. thank you for your writing.

RAAAAHHHH DON'T BE HESITANT I AM JUST AS FERAL OVER MY CHILDHOOD FRIENDS AU AS I AM WITH CLONE^2 I AM DELIGHTED BY THIS. Like.,,,, i literally love them,,, so much. I can't listen to The Crane Wives without thinking of them.

(which is my fault - the ao3 fic of them has literally only crane wives lyrics for each chapter title and summary (posted AND the ones not written) so of course im gonna associate with them.)

(if you wanna listen to some of their songs while thinking of cfau here are my recommendations: "Once & for All", "Here I Am", "Hollow Moon" is a Danny AND Jason song to me, this would be my go-to song for an animatic of CFAU if i had the skills for it. "Tongues and Teeth", "Curses" and "take me to war" is a heavy cfau danny song to me, and of course, "the moon will sing")

Like they're BEST friends dude, they're two sides of the same coin and when they were kids they would do this thing where their 'fingers crossed'/'double-crossed' was them hooking their index fingers in the fingers crossed gesture.

and i'm actually currently rewriting my original post into a more fic-like format, and when I'm done I'll post it on here under the cfau tag - with the original post still in tact. But its,,, gonna be so long dude,,,, the original behemoth was just over 9000 words,,, and I've written 3k words already of the new one and we haven't even reached Jason and Danny reuniting at the gala yet,,, i need to get back to that,,,

and then to answer your questions!! god im almost hesitant to answer because i dont wanna spoil the little fic i had planned for it but also like,, its not like im gonna spoil everything, right? and answering the questions isnt the same as writing the scene down so!!

i love danny and jason's reuniting, like i've thought about it SO much and I've thought about it happening after Danny kills the Joker. I know the reveal could have been before that, and it could have been equally just as dramatic but like??? Thematically, doing it after danny kills the joker is SO good. To me at least.

Because like?? Jason's been in somewhat denial about danny's plan to kill the joker for months. ever since danny told him that he wanted to at the gala. And from Jason's pov its not even technically a plan. He sees his best friend for the first time after five years and his best friend still isn't over his death. He hasn't stepped foot in Gotham since his funeral and now suddenly he's here.

And he's still so full of grief over his death that he tells a masked vigilante that he's going to kill the guy that did it, who lives in said masked vigilante's city. And danny's got that look in his eyes that Jason knows so well that means he's being serious. And yet he still doesn't know if he should believe him or not.

And then he does. Danny kills him. And Jason can't fucking believe it. And when he goes and sees Danny, Danny's hands are still covered in blood. And that reunion? God like a fucking firework show. Danny's so fucking angry, and pissed, and hurt, and so goddamn overjoyed that he's alive and here that he sends them both to the ground, and if he doesn't calm down he's gonna take out the power in a five block radius.

there's just so, so much yelling on Danny's end. And then so much crying, first from Danny and then them both. because god, you're alive. you're here. i've missed you so much. i'm never letting you out of my sights again.

and Joker's death! God I don't want to actually say too much about that, but the way I have it set up thematically makes me actually not want danny to take any part of the joker with him as an offering. and he may actually forego that particular ghost etiquette and offer something else as an offering to Jason in substitute to not bringing him the Joker's heart/head/ritualistic body part.

Because you know what the last thing a man whose been spending the last two decades of his life building himself up to be larger than life would want? A death that's unremarkable. :) and that's all i'll put on the matter for now.

and the batfam!! they technically already know that jason hasn't told danny he was resurrected, and plenty of them have mixed feelings on them. largely bruce and dick i think, considering they saw firsthand how close jason and danny were when they were kids.

Dick was honestly surprised at first when he found out that Jason hadn't told Danny he was alive - and on one hand he understands the reasoning for it, and on the other hand he isn't sure if it was such a good idea. Especially after he sees Danny again after he arrives back in Gotham and sees just how badly Jason's death was still affecting him. But it's not like he's going to try and convince Jason to tell him - he can make his own choices, even if Dick has questions about them.

Bruce has much the same thoughts as Dick, so there's not really much to add here other than he might bring it up once or twice to Jason like, vaguely. And then immediately drops it when Jason shuts him down. He might actually somewhat...?? prefer that Jason hasn't told Danny because that raises a lot of questions and could jeopardize their identities. However, again, Jason can make his own choices and there's not much Bruce can do about it other than disapprove from afar.

Tim who knew of Danny from stalking the Wayne family shares similars sentiments of being surprised that Jason didn't tell Danny, but again, yeah, understands the thought process to some extent. Doesn't bring it up ever.

Everyone else who hadn't seen firsthand how close Danny and Jason are don't really have much opinion on it -- Jason didn't tell his best friend he was alive, great, he also didn't tell them either so it's not like its that much of a surprise. It would've been more of a surprise to them if Jason had told Danny before he told Bruce and co. Damian may make a comment or two about Jason not telling Danny, but its not about how he can't believe he didn't tell him or anything like it.

[enbysiriusblack]

i do like regulus and enjoy various ships and friendships with him in. but pls. he is not a marauder. pls don't replace peter with him. i mean i think i liked it more when people just left him out rather than replacing him with regulus. like sure, you can make him friends with them if you really want, but don't just blur peter out and slot regulus in there. peter deserves better <3 like sure peter did dumb shit he shouldn't have but so did regulus alright? and peter is actually a marauder, not regulus. sirius, james, and remus are actually making grabby hands to peter because they want him back and regulus has left them to go read about true crime. like,, honestly cannot imagine regulus even playing a prank. he'd hate that kinda stuff. whilst peter lives for it,, cause he's literally a marauder. y'know at this point i'm just gonna shove peter and regulus together and make them snog and make up.

[glambots]

Kind of a personal HC, but I really like the idea that Moon speaks in "we/us" pronouns and Sun speaks with "I/He" pronouns. Moon is constantly of the mind-set that he's a part of the DCA and no matter how badly Sun wants to pretend that he can, he can't just erase him from existence. And Sun, of course, wants to do what he can to try and separate himself from Moon as much as possible. Sure, he's technically him, but He's the other him, which makes him not as bad, right?!

[zehecatl]

DunMeshi perfectly nails the found family trope, by the way. every character is equal, but distinctively different and makes up a part of the whole. Senshi feeds the party, because that's what he's good at, and what he knows. Chilchuck might scold everyone for being idiotic and stupid, but that's not because he's their dad, it's because that's his personality. there's no hierarchy or structure, no roles for the characters to fall into

it's a family by choice, and i fucking love to see it

[brenna]

Good Omens + Text Posts, Part II (they are a set; do not separate)

[danwhobrowses]

So after four months, Bell's Hells are off the moon

0.5/5 Stars - Some of the locals were nice but activities were shit and needs new management.

But what's this? Aabria with a steel chair!? She's probably cackling looking at the socials right now

[fighting-these-demons]

Hello Internet Stranger looking up G Gundam on Tumblr dot com!

This is an idea for a fic set in an Alternate Universe involving Queer Non-Canon Relationships between the characters of the series.

If you are not looking for this content please scroll on.

If you ARE looking for this content - and you're ok with reading my and other's Headcanons for this Alternate Universe I've haphazardly spun up -

Then go ahead and feel free to:

Check The Tags Of This Post For The Pairings

and click the Read More below!

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Ended up outlining a completely different fic as a Segway for an explanation instead of making progress on the Royal Flush Haunted Honk AU's Clown Motel Fic like I wanted to but uh....

For y'all's review for the AU: A Prequel Outline - Divorce Saga Domon

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Hey real quick - I'm thinking of maybe changing the timeline to 2 years post canon as opposed to 3 years and change post canon.

The reason being: I had a thought that this scene could either be part if the fic or if it's getting to big then it could be a stand alone tie-in prequel fic as part of this AU but - like

Immediately Post Divorce Domon Needs Space and runs off. As one does. And he runs to Earth because he just wants to Get Lost for a while.

He has Argo smuggle him out to avoid detection.

Argo has Andrew help stow Domon in a storage hanger of a Neo Canadian supply ship that's returning to the US - they have trade often enough and share agricultural resources - which leads to Domon ending up in New York when he hits Earthside pavement.

He's privately worked on his English the last couple of months and after being dropped in New York with a different hairstyle, outfit, and accent he's unrecognizable. 

He considers making his way west to get some solitude in the wilderness, but something about that initial plan feels off now that he's on the ground.

Chibodee is also Earthside for a special series of prize fights aimed at raising charitable appeal for the US in the eyes of Neo Americans.

Domon decides to hit up Chibodee for a fight on a day between matches hoping it'll clear his head and give him the clarity to decide on a course of action. What ends up happening is an unexpected heart to heart via blows and a breakdown.

Domon is happy for Rain and Kyoji, and he knows it's not true; but he feels like he lost a piece of himself when his relationship with Rain fell apart.

Domon's instinct is to run after that but Chibodee knows this city and Domon doesn't hide out for long before Chibodee drags him back to his place to stay and just "Chill out and breathe. You don't have to be anyone but yourself here. You can take as long as you need to find out what everything changing means for you." Friends and teammates stick together.

So Domon spends a few weeks with Chibodee sparring and hanging out in New York. Chibodee does a frankly awesome job at containing his feelings because he's focusing on Domons feelings and being a good friend first and foremost. Whatever he's feeling can wait until after Domon is done going though it.

There's a bit of a twinge in Domon's heart as he leaves that he can't really place.

After he returns to Neo Japan and gets settled back into life with his family, The Dreams start.

They're mainly set in New York. Small things first like noticing Chibodee's smile and his eyes. Then sparring sessions that begin to turn lurid.

He thought these kinds of dreams would stop after he was married.... he doesn't know what to do about this.

I just figure it gives more clarity and sense of time for the journey from Comphet Marriage Dissolution to Feelings to Confession. Idk.

But I got stuck on a bit and then had this thought and needed to get it down before I lost it and it was so long it made sense to make it its own post as opposed to several replies.

The Maize and Clown Motel will probably still be 3 years and change post canon for clarification.

@thedragonchilde @amplexadversary @youreaclownnow

[introspectivememories]

whenever i read a fic and shanks doesn't mention buggy even once it always feels soo ooc bc like what do you mean shanks isn't vibrating with the need to see buggy at all times??? at the very least, shanks should be thinking about buggy passively, if not actively. like buggy lives that man's mind rent fucking free. buggy should be charging appearance fees for how often shanks thinks of him. like all it would take is one (1) denden call, where buggy shaky voiced goes "shanks... please... i need you" and shanks would be hauling ass across the grand line to get to buggy

[sobselpop]

I've spent my life hunting this guy, Morty.

(Inspired by Dante and Virgil in Hell by William-Adolphe Bouguereau)

[infizero-draws]

girl what do you feel about kris' and noelle's relationship in snowgrave i want to know

OK OK. first of all thank you for specifying "in snowgrave" because if you just said their relationship in general i would literally never stop talking.

second tho, im really bad at putting how i feel about character dynamics into words because often there's just soooooo much to be said and different ways of looking at it and i get overwhelmed if i try to make some all-encompassing analysis. so let it be known that whatever i say here is not the full picture and there's so much more i could say.

putting this under the cut because i already know im gonna talk for way too long:

that being said oughghghhgh. where to fucking begin. i'd say the most fascinating (and disturbing) thing about their relationship in snowgrave is the weird romantic undertones. the fact that you have to pressure noelle into the idea of riding the ferris wheel with KRIS instead of with susie, her actual crush.

one of the most overt symbols of this weirdness is definitely the thorn ring. i know it isnt the only ring you give to noelle to equip, but this is the one that's mandatory for the snowgrave route. in order to do the route, you have to make KRIS give NOELLE a RING. a ring that literally HURTS HER TO WEAR. if that isnt a metaphor for a forced relationship i dont know what is

however perhaps the most damning and obvious one is of course this option:

i would say something about this myself but @/sorrybutiforgothowtomakecontent's tags on another one of my posts really summed it up:

im also aromantic so this really resonated with me. but yeah just going back to the first point they make. you literally HAVE to say "we're something else" in order to do the snowgrave route, which seems to make it pretty clear that this kinda subtext was intended. snowgrave can only exist with kris and noelle being "something else" because that's literally what snowgrave IS.

my favorite way to view snowgrave is through the lens of an arranged/forced marriage. again, the ring. it just feels so gross, especially because it's not just a regular marriage but an abusive marriage. snowgrave is abuser simulator (2021). im sure i dont need to explain that part

but the thing is, SNOWGRAVE IS NOT JUST ABOUT NOELLE and that's what makes it SO BAD. not only is noelle being forced to go through all of this, but KRIS is being forced to be the one who does it to her! kris clearly is EXTREMELY upset about snowgrave judging from the constant opportunities to choose more "normal" dialogue and abort the route, and from afterwards when they meet back up with ralsei and susie:

kris, under no circumstances, wants to do ANY of this. but they literally do not have a choice. snowgrave isnt kris manipulating noelle, it is US forcing kris into manipulating noelle. no one is winning here. they're both traumatized, and kris physically cannot even talk to their friends about it or show the true extent of their hurt. it SUCKSSSSS

and when you consider the idea that kris and noelle's friendship may have become strained specifically due to dess' disappearance, and kris possibly having something to do with that with the bunker and whatnot..... well now you're just forcing kris to hurt their friend AGAIN, when in the normal route this could've been their chance to finally reconnect. ahghrhgrhghh

going back to the marriage stuff, it's just so uncomfortable to see these two forced together like this. noelle is in love with susie. we dont know kris well enough to know if they have a crush on anyone (or if they get those kinds of feelings at all), but that doesn't matter. the fact is these two are likely not romantically interested in each other at all, and they are being forced together BY THE PLAYER. and it's horrific. (and even if one or both of them felt that way, this is still entirely wrong. they do not get a choice here)

@/hellspawnmotel's tags on this comic of hers will always haunt me, bcuz like. yeah. this is it:

there's also the fact that kris is naturally kind of a goofball; they're a prankster, especially it seems when it comes to noelle, as can be seen with the stepping off the button thing or the many, many examples from their shared childhood brought up by noelle.

but in the snowgrave route, kris drops this entirely. all of the alternate dialogue options to abort the route, which are very likely FROM kris, are very genuine and apologetic. kris is scared they're going to lose their friendship with noelle completely because of what you're making them do, and it's like they panic and all of their usual goofiness and sass is just dropped for genuine emotion. it's really sad to see honestly, esp in a full snowgrave route where you know that their efforts will be in vain.

OH OH ALSO. can't believe i haven't mentioned this yet. the fact that NOELLE KNOWS SOMETHING IS GOING ON WITH KRIS. THAT'S one of the things that really makes me insane.

noelle goes through ALL THAT, seemingly AT THE HANDS OF HER FRIEND....... and yet. she knows that something is wrong. she KNOWS kris, and she knows that they don't act like this. you'd think she would instantly cast kris off, it would be the right thing to do, but she doesn't. because she knows that something is off.

i cannot stress enough the fact that noelle is the ONLY one who seems to have noticed just how strange kris has been acting. sure other characters comment on kris seeming off or doing something they usually wouldn't do, but it is NOELLE and NOELLE ALONE who takes such notice of it and decides to actually DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

"i have to figure it out" is a mission statement, it implies that noelle (at least in the snowgrave route), is going to actively try to figure out what's going on with kris, WHICH IS CRAZYY and i feel like not enough people are talking about. not even kris's own mother has fully realized something's wrong. like she says, noelle seems to be the only one who's noticed just how off kris has been acting, and the only one who might try to understand and help them. genuinely makes me insane thinking of where that might go in this route oaugurhghh

im gonna stop here because im exhausting myself but. in conclusion I LOVE CHILDHOOD FRIENDS GONE WRONG!!!!!!!!! FAVORITE TROPE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!! anyways read this comic (all 3 parts) and you'll get it

oh also "kris, why are you wearing my watch?" still makes me go fucking insane

[akaashism]

i can excuse kagehina not being lovers but i draw the line at kagehina not being best friends

[natjennie]

OKAY why do yall have to have the worst nastiest most rotted bad faith interpretations of things ever the episode was incredible what the fuck is wrong with you