#this is just kinda something silly to take my mind off things ngl

[tinycowboybro]

KP ANNIVERSARY WEEK 4

favorite couple: VegasPete 🔪

heeeeyyyyy guys don’t mind me just dropping this off rq 🙂

sorry it’s incredibly domestic lmao i wasn’t sure if i wanted to post it but i need soft things in my life and i think they are allowed to be sweet as a treat every now and then (i’ll spare them the horrors for now)

vegas definitely gets that overwhelming feeling of like “holy fuck i love you ???” after looking over at pete and seeing like the curve of his cheek or the bow of his lip or the way his hair fans out on the pillow. just tiny details that only he gets to see up close and the flood of emotions that come from that realization

and of course he has no idea wtf to do with that so he’s probably kinda weird about it but like

same

so

enjoy my cringe dialogue and doodle of them 🤝

[eomayas]

new thing (pt. 4) • pcy

pairing: chanyeol x f!reader, age gap

genre: smut 18+ MINORS DNI!!!! angst, fluff

synopsis: reader is in her feelings, and so is chanyeol.

warnings: p in v, riding, unspoken feelings, unrequited feelings, reader is in her feelings, minor arguments, reader has a few unexplored insecurities, reassuring chanyeol

a/n: oh this is kinda a filler chapter ngl but it is essential to the story (in my opinion!) thanks for the patience, and i hope you like this one even tho it’s kinda short and it’s been awhile :) hella unedited btw

chanyeol sees your attitude before he experiences it. he sees it in the way you walk towards his car, hears it in the way you slam the car door and yank your seatbelt across your chest. you don’t say anything to him, not even hello, and he watches you for a moment and waits to see if you’ll change your mind. when you don’t, he shakes his head slightly and sighs. “can we just go?” you snap, arms crossed tightly over your chest.

“you can’t even say hi?” he asks, looking over at you. you stare out his windshield, not focusing on anything just not looking at him. “hi, y/n.” he says exaggeratedly.

“hi, chanyeol! can we just go, please?” you say frustratedly. you grip onto the seatbelt and press yourself into the door.

chanyeol stares over at you, confused at why you’re acting the way you are, growing tired of it quickly. “y/n, what’s wrong?” he finally asks.

“why can’t you answer your phone? i’ve called and texted you all day,” you say, your voice coming out more whiny than you intended. you feel silly and weak being upset over your calls going unreturned and your texts going unanswered, but it’s been all day. he didn’t even give you the curtsey of letting you know that he was busy.

“i was working, y/n, you know that,” chanyeol reasons, his face etched with irritation.

“you could have texted that you were busy! you didn’t even call—how am i supposed to know what you’re doing if you don’t call?” you reply, getting equally as aggravated as him. the tension between you two is thick. maybe you’re overreacting—you don’t know.

“damnit, y/n, i’m a grown ass man, and when i tell you i’m at work, i mean it. maybe you’re used to these other guys lying about where they are, but i don’t do that,” chanyeol isn’t yelling, but he might as well be with the way he reprimands you. “this is childish—you’re acting childish right now. stop it.” you clench your jaw at the name calling. he’s right, though. he doesn’t ever give you reasons to think he’s anywhere other than where he says he is.

“don’t call me childish, chanyeol,” you say, sounding like a little kid telling their bully to stop. except yours an adult woman, and chanyeol isn’t your bully.

“well thats how you’re acting. now, i’m sorry that you felt like i was ignoring you. can we just start over? i don’t want to argue,” he says and you feel embarrassed at his maturity and your lackthereof, because you can’t apologize as easy and seamlessly as he just did.

a sigh leaves your lips as a response and chanyeol scoffs, putting the car in drive and taking off. he shakes his head at your attitude but doesn’t say anything else, just turns the music up to drown out the silence between the two of you.

chanyeol doesn’t even say anything when he gets to the gas station and goes inside to pay. he leaves you in the car wordlessly and you sulk as you stare out of the passenger side window. you feel bad for being annoying to him. all you really want to do is enjoy the evening with him and his presence, but you’ve put a damper on the mood.

he gets back in the car and gently taps your arm with something cold. you look over and accept the drink he holds out for you. “thank you,” you say, setting it in the cup holder.

“mhm,” he says, and pulls out of the gas station. it’s back to silence, and you huff out a breath. everything in you tells you to apologize to him, but you’re embarrassed. with chanyeol, you always feel the need to impress him, or leave him with a lasting impression. maybe it’s because you’re not entirely sure of relationship, and the 10 year distance between the two of you. ever since you found out about his ex wife, you’ve had this weird chip on your shoulder, like you’re not totally ready for him, and that you’re some young play-thing for him, before he goes back to a woman his own age.

you’re afraid he’s going to get tired of you, and leave once he realizes that you’re not the person he wants to spend the rest of his life with, that you’re not the settling down type. you’re afraid that you’ll drive him away, somehow, whether it epiphanic, or you finally pull the straw that breaks the camels back. you don’t know, but it sits in the back of your brain constantly. and by the silence, and the way he’s gripping onto the steering wheel, you’re losing points and backing him against a wall.

you stew in the passengers seat, eyes looking out the window but not focusing on anything. chanyeol glances at you every few minutes, wanting to say something but not being able to find the words.

the car comes to a stop and you finally look up, blinking in as you register your surroundings. chanyeol turns off the car and gets out and comes around your side to open your door, ever the gentleman even though there’s tension between the two of you. you even take his hand and let him lead you into the restaurant, and lean into his touch when his hand moves to the small of your back.

a hostess sits you two in a booth, and you sit opposite of each other. like always, you fall into what feels natural: chanyeol caging one of your feet in between his ankles and you leaning across the table to annoyingly share the menu. the only difference is that you two don’t hold hands, and chanyeol doesn’t kiss you when you lean forward.

you find what you’re going to eat and drink and lean back, awkwardly looking around the semi-busy restaurant. you can feel chanyeol looking at you, so you turn your head to him. “hi,” he says, gently kicking your shins and giving you a small smile.

“hi,” your waiter comes to your table, interrupting your small moment to take your drink orders. you two order and they leave. “i’m sorry.” you blurt, gently swinging your legs underneath the table. you gnaw at the inside of your cheek, hating the tension between the two of you.

the waiter comes back to drop your drinks off. “are we ready to order, or do we need more time?” chanyeol answers for the both of you, and so you order quickly to get them out of your way so you can continue your previous conversation.

“yeah.. i’m sorry,” you say again once the waiter is gone. chanyeol gives you a small smile and takes your smaller hands in his large ones,

“i know. it’s alright,” he says and you shake your head, gently tugging him towards you.

“no, it’s not. i know you’re busy, i just…” you let your words trail off, unsure of what you want to say. you just what? miss him? like him a little too much that it’s bordering on something more serious, more real and tangible that you’re afraid to really confront these feelings? because confronting them means that they’re true, and opens the door for them to be strictly one sided and unrequited?

chanyeol looks at you with kind eyes that urge you to keep going, but you don’t. instead, you gently shake your joined hands together. the words are on the tip of your tongue, waiting to be blurted out, or screamed—admitted. you know that once they’re out, they can’t be taken back. you don’t even know if that’s what you’re really feeling, you’ve never felt this way before, not this strongly, not this soon.

rather than finishing your sentence, you change the subject to him and ask him to tell you about his day. he’s eager to tell you, going in great detail about an EP he’s been working on with a singer and how it’s almost finished, it just needs final touches. you nod along, literal hearts in your eyes as you listen to him go on and on.

later, after chanyeol takes you to the studio, he drives the both of you back to his place. it’s still a bit awkward between the two of you, all the car rides being mostly silent except for a few small comments from either of you. when you were at the studio, you sat quietly on the couch and let him work, not saying much and staying out of his way. you don’t fully feel like you’re back on his good side, though he accepted your apology.

your tactic of keeping quiet so he can’t remember to be annoyed with you seems to be working. you’re so quiet in the studio, that when somebody walks in he nearly forgets to introduce you to them. you’d take offense, if you didn’t feel like you’ve ruined the night.

now the two of you are at his house, heading outside to his jacuzzi. you follow behind him, shivering when you step out into the cold air in only a bikini and slippers, and quickly dip into the hot tub. chanyeol slides in on the opposite side, a decent amount of distance between the two of you.

chanyeol closes his eyes and sinks down into the water until it covers his lips. you watch him, chewing on the inside of your lip. there’s a lot you’d rather be doing than simply just staring at him, but you hold yourself back, not wanting to overstep where you’re not welcomed.

“why are you sitting so far away?” he questions, running a hand through his hair. chanyeol holds his arms out to you, and your heart soars at him needing you, wanting you. you slide over to him, leaving a small gap of space between you two, and he pulls you onto his lap. “you’re being shy. what’s up?” he asks, arms circling around your waist.

“nothing,” you lie and he gives you a look.

“just tell me what’s up, baby,” he says and you want to throw yourself into the water until you need to come up for air. goosebumps form on your shoulders from being above the water, and chanyeol scoops up water onto them.

“i just feel like you’re mad at me,” you admit.

“i’m not mad at you—i never was,” he says and you sigh, giving him the look.

“yes, you were. you don’t have to lie,” you say, focusing your eyes on his neck. you drag your finger across his collarbones before sighing and resting your palms flat against his chest.

chanyeol circles his arms tighter around you. “i wasn’t mad; annoyed? yes, but never mad. i’m over it, you apologized—everything is fine. we’re fine,” he says. you shift your eyes up to his and purse your lips.

“okay,” is all you can say, not feeling 100% sure of his words.

“you can’t avoid me,” he says, kissing your nose. you can’t help but smile, not expecting him to notice.

“so you caught onto that,” you state, making him scoff.

“i notice everything,” chanyeol say matter-of-factly. you make a face and he gently pinches you. “it’s true! just because you think i dont, doesn’t mean you’re right.” he adds, bopping your nose and smiling when you wrinkle it.

“yeah, whatever,” you mutter, but your stomach is flipping and your pulse is going wild at his words. you know you shouldn’t doubt him, especially since he’s never given you a reason to, but sometimes you just can’t help your own insecurities.

chanyeol only smiles and kisses your cheek. you frown at him and he chuckles, asking “what?” like he doesn’t already know the answer.

“can i have a kiss?” you ask, sliding your hands up his chest and wrapping your arms around his neck. he kisses you again, this time on the corner of your mouth, then your jaw, down your neck…

“you can have more than that,” he mumbles against your skin, finally trailing kisses up, up, up, your lips his next target. chanyeol kisses you softly, one hand holding onto the back of your neck while the other splays against the small of your back. you melt into the kiss, grateful to finally have him on you again.

like all of the touches between the two of you, it gets heated quickly. chanyeols fingers pull at the strings of your bikini that wrap around your neck, letting your top fall forward and float around your waist.

he rolls your hardened nipples between his thumb and index finger before pulling away from you mouth to attach his lips to your chest. you let out a sigh and bury a hand in his hair as he licks and sucks at your chest. “yeol,” you breathe, tilting your head back and pushing your chest upwards and into his mouth.

you feel his memeber get hard underneath your ass, and you can’t help but grind down onto him. you roll your hips, the friction of his shorts making him twitch under your ass.

chanyeol pulls his mouth away from your chest and kisses your lips, undoing one of the ties of your bikini bottoms. you help him slide down his swimming shorts and waste no time sinking down on him.

bottoming out quickly, you kiss his neck as you adjust to the stretch that you still can’t quite get used to. chanyeol gropes one of your breasts as he (patiently) waits for you to start moving. once you get comfortable, you don’t hold back; you plant your feet on the jacuzzis bench and pull nearly all the way off of him before slamming back down and doing it all over again.

“fuck, y/n,” he mumbles, drawing his bottom lip in between his teeth. chanyeol rests the back of his neck against the edge of the hot tub, his eyes rolling back when you start making figure-eights on his dick. his fingers dig into your hips and he pulls the other string of your bottoms apart, pushing the article out into the water and letting it float away so he can feel you better.

chanyeol cant help but curse and moan out your name loudly. it only encourages you and makes you ignore the fact that your legs are starting to hurt and your brain is starting to go fuzzy. “fuckfuckfuck,” he grumbles, squinting to look up at you, loving the way you whimper every time you pull him out and sit back down on him. “baby.” he says, his voice slightly hoarse.

the sound shoots straight to your core and you clench around him, a wanton moan leaving your lips. “y-yes?” you hold onto his shoulders as you keep putting in work on top of him. chanyeol chases you lips and kisses you sloppily, his hands palming your ass and moving you up and down on him.

you pant as you feel that familiar white-hot burn in the pit of your stomach. “fuck, i-i-“ chanyeol cuts himself with a groan, pulling away from your lips. you dig your nails into his skin, crying out his name without fear of his neighbors potentially being outside and hearing the two of you. “i’m a-about to c-cum.” he pants, letting his head fall against the outside of the jacuzzi.

your vision goes spotty as you chase your release. you wind your hips on him, crying out his name. “baby, f-fuck, ‘m gonna c-cum,” you whimper, dropping your head onto his shoulder as you reach your climax. you clench around him, holding his dick in a vice-like grip. chanyeol comes almost directly after you, swearing the whole time and holding you close to him.

“y/n,” he pants, kissing under your ear as you lazily continue to grind on him. “i l-lo-“ his voice cuts out quickly, snapping shut and burying his face in your neck to hide his almost slip up, praying you didn’t catch it.

but of course you do. you movements falter, the rhythm of your hips getting lost in his words briefly. you want to say something, to ask him what he was going to say. but you also don’t want to risk getting embarrassed or getting ahead of yourself.

you know what he was on the verge of saying. you tell yourself that it was probably the heat of the moment, because you rode him the best you ever have in your entire relationship. it was lust talking—he doesn’t really feel that way about you.

you tell yourself this after you get out of the hot tub and shower together. you remind yourself of this when he fucks you again under the water, when he kisses you so tenderly, with so much passion that you feel like ripping your heart out of your chest and hand delivering it to him. you keep telling yourself this when he gives you clothes to wear and makes you dinner. when he takes you upstairs and spoons you until you both fall asleep. you tell yourself that he probably wasn’t even going to say what you think he was, when you wake up in the morning with his arm draped across you, and your legs entangled.

you keep telling yourself that it was the cusp of a freudian slip. you don’t bring it up to him, and he doesn’t mention it again, except when he nearly slips up again a few nights later when you’re play fighting on his couch and he pins you into the cushions. this time, his cheeks tinge and he quickly kisses you and removes himself from on top of you and magically has work to do. you sit there, dumbfounded, wishing he would just fucking say it, so you could finally say it back to him.

previous chapters: 1, 2, 3

[boysbeloving]

BL People I Desire Carnally

tagged by the sweet @toxicrevolver and the lovely @i-got-the-feels

*cracks knuckles* aight we got a game that speaks to my cunt heart...y'all can tap out any time if it gets too carnal for y'all to read hhheeeeheee

(warning: i'm gonna start off STRONG and then it'll get mellow)

Kinn Anakinn Theerapanyakul from KinnPorsche the Series

just full naming him makes me THROB and the man looks like THIS...i want him to just pull his dick out of the zipper when he's wearing his ombre suit and fuck me silly <3 i want his nipple shadow to shelter me from the sweltering heat, i want to sleep with my face buried in his armpit and i want to smell his pubes after he's had a long day at mafia, i want to lick his happy trail and kiss his nose mole

okay i think the weak-hearted must have tapped out by now lol.....the rest of you, let's continue

2. Jeng from Step by Step

OKAY THIS MAN IS A MATTRESS AND A BLANKET AT THE SAME TIME COZ HE'S SO FUCKING BROAD....i'd love to be on him, i'd love him on me and one thing i do desire is to ride his thigh...i think that'd be fun (thigh riders please confirm)

3. Khun Yai from I Feel You Linger in the Air

OMFG THIS TOOK ME BY SURPRISE ISTG but also not so surprised...if you give me a soft, tender, understanding (and a bit oppressed but trying his hardest) man in (relative) power with an awesome bod AND AN EYEBROW SCAR then what do you expect from me...WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM ME.....you know when you're young you think you'd 'make love' and not just 'fuck' coz one of them is on a superior ground? ya....maybe it'll be making love with khun yai coz it just be like that sometimes??? anyway i would like to be in his lap while he's on his knees thrusting into me softly (and maybe not so softly) with his laboured breath lingering on my lips

4. Lian from Cutie Pie

eyebrows....he's one of the eyebrows people so yeah....gonna lick them :)) i want that tongue inside my mouth and other places...also, he's insatiable and i love that...keep it hard, boy! ngl i want the entire sex scene from the series for myself...thanks

5. Payu from Love in the Air

oh man this is one bad boy i wouldn't mind inside me...also that half ponytail earns him SO MANY BONUS SLUTTY POINTS....i'd fuck him just for that hairdo lol....BUT! he's also got the upperlip mole going for him and the cheek scar (it doesn't help that he's a dork irl and i simply adore him)

6. Togawa from Old-fashioned Cupcake

OH I COULD USE HIS THUMB AND OTHER BODY PARTS IN MY MOUTH....if he indulges me with an anti-aging routine where we go on dessert dates and spend peaceful time together then he's absolutely allowed to be a total freak in bed (which i know he is...he just is)

7. Kurosawa from Cherry Magic

he is so understanding and loves so deeply and quietly and is so sincere and i KNOW he would fuck with the same sincerity and intensity..i think it would those cuddles + fucks kinda thing? but yeah, he makes me feel warm

8. Sky from Love in the Air

OKAY THIS BOY I WANNA PEG BIG TIME..i want to feel him squirm under me as i hit his sweet spots, i wanna watch his face as i jerk him off and he's not allowed to touch himself, i want to her his gasps when he comes....i want this lovely bottom in my life i'd treat him so well istg

9. Ida from My Love Mix-up

again, i think it's the sincerity along with those sharp features that do it for me....he's open, straight-forward, willing and takes action.....he'd take sex very seriously imo lolololol....would have to tell him that it's okay to chill hehheehhe

10. Sean from Not Me the Series

there's something so raw and gritty about him...i would love to bite him a bit coz that's exactly what you're supposed to do to him...i think i'd like him doggy style and more than anything else i want him to fall asleep on my boob

this is not an exhaustive list lolololol but here are 10 boys at least hhehehhee

no pressure tags: @guzhu-furen @smittenskitten @aana210 @wildestflower9 @baby-droll and anyone else who wants to do this!

i formally tag @imminentinertia in this as well 💚💚💚💚💚💚

[lemurzsquad]

Music to Owl Ears (Ch 2)

Ch 2: Lunch Break

Pairing: Bokuto x musician fem!reader

Summary: As you're finally getting settled in on your first day, your lunch break is swiftly crashed by the usual pair of volleyball players.

A/N: This chapter is both silly and with slight angst, and writing my own thought process is kinda wacky ngl. Also, if you couldn't tell near the end, I have no idea how y/n gets home lol, I haven't thought far enough ahead to decide that yet, so the magic of ambiguity is my friend today. Idk why Akaashi is easier to write than Bokuto, but this chapter was a struggle, and it will continue to be a struggle for the foreseeable future

Word count: 2929

cw: overthinking (this is a reoccurring theme lol), self-sabotaging thoughts, Akaashi is not paid enough for this

"Bold for English"

"Not bold for Japanese:

- Masterlist -

< Ch 1: Jogging Laps | Ch 2: Lunch Break | Ch 3 (coming soon) >

The voice rang through the bustling classroom of students preparing for lunch.

“HEY, HEY, HEY!! Y/N!”

You were startled out of your ruminations to see a familiar figure standing in the doorway, waving enthusiastically in your direction. You gave him a small wave in return, the look on your face showing how taken aback you were that Bokuto had appeared again. You would have assumed he would have forgotten you by noon—assumed he had better things to be doing than being here—assumed he had plenty of friends to be hanging out with and that were waiting for him.

But no, he was here, smiling without a care in the world as he trotted up to your desk. He pulled out the chair of another desk to sit in it backwards in front of you, arms propped on the back of it.

Before you could get a word in, he starts asking, “How were your first classes? Have you made any friends yet? Are you going to lunch? Do you need help finding the cafeteria? Are you eating here? Are you eating with anyone? You should come eat with me and Akaashi if you haven't met anyone yet!”

You were far from oblivious of the looks and whispers of the other students in the room. You hesitated for a moment, subtly glancing around before replying, “It's fine. I'll probably just eat here.”

He frowned at that, his hair seeming to deflate a little. “By yourself?”

You felt a pang of something not-so-pleasant in your chest. Oh, you thought, I know that look. He was pitying you—or at the very least, he felt sorry for you. You were alone, you hadn't made any friends, and you probably weren't going to make any anytime soon. It made you want to shrink away. On one hand, you almost wanted him to just leave you alone, to not saddle you with this feeling that you were intruding upon his day. But on the other hand, in the back of your mind, you hoped desperately that he would stay, that he would drag you with him, that he would insist that you come with him, no longer asking but telling.

But you just closed your mouth into a half-hearted smile. You took off your glasses and pulled out a cleaning cloth so you didn't have to see his reaction. “It's fine,” you repeated in a deadpan.

You rubbed the lenses until they were hopefully clean enough and no longer had any dust or smudges. In your periphery, you saw movement and heard Bokuto shuffle. He set something on your desk that you couldn't quite identify until you put your glasses back on.

You watched as he unwrapped the cloth that covered his lunch and began to eat. Your brows furrowed; he was taking up half of your workspace and intended lunch table.

“What are you doing?” You asked, perplexed.

He looked up with an expression that made it seem like you were the one being odd. “Eating my lunch?” He posed it as an obvious observation.

You squinted at him. “But why are you doing that here? You said it yourself that you were eating with Akaashi.”

“Oh, great idea!” He perked up, grabbing for his phone.

Starting to take out your own lunch because you knew you would run out of time to eat, you stated, “You didn't answer my question.”

As much as you were making it blatantly obvious that you wanted him to leave, you wanted nothing more than that he wouldn't—that he would stay to eat lunch even after everything you know you're going to regret saying. You didn't know why this seemed to happen whenever you had to make friends, but you were starting to feel both annoyed and endlessly grateful for Bokuto's persistence—or ignorance, you weren't sure yet.

He seemingly sent a text on his phone before putting it down and answering, “Well, you didn't want to come with me.”

“And that constitutes staying here and eating lunch how exactly?” Your voice had lost the majority of its edge, instead opting for a more conversational than confrontational approach.

“I didn't want to just leave you here by yourself!” He put his hands on the desk and sat up, mouth ajar in a silent gasp.

“What does me being by myself have anything to do with you?” You opened your lunchbox to get your thermos. Unscrewing the lid, you finally started to eat. You were thankful for the company.

He tilted his head from side to side, replying, “I figured that, since you're new, you don't have anyone to sit by yet. Plus, I still gotta make up for this morning! Wouldn't be right if I didn't.”

“You really don't have to…” You murmured. So it is just to make up for this morning, you commented to yourself. Go figure. Somehow, that just made the tight feeling in your chest tighter. Why would he want to just be friends with me? That doesn't just happen to me. A frown unknowingly stretched at the corners of your lips, adding to the already blank face you wore. You stared down at your food.

“Oh, come on, of course I do!” He broke you from your thoughts. “What kind of friend would I be if I didn't?!”

You looked up, perplexed once again.

He went on and began to ramble, “Well, we're not friends yet, but if we were friends or were going to be friends, I would feel bad not having completely made up for running into you. Friends wouldn't do that, right? They would make sure everything was scored away and taken care of. Like if you spill something on the floor, you wouldn't just leave it there—”

Your blank stare flicked between his golden eyes in search of what could possibly compel him to be here, to call you a friend intentionally or unintentionally. It made you forget for a moment how uncomfortable the eye contact was. You thought that if you had to listen to more of his speech you would surely have dropped your jaw in sheer bewilderment, which is why you were grateful for Akaashi appearing at that very moment.

The classroom had mostly cleared out by then, making Akaashi's footsteps easy to hear as he stepped into the doorway. “Bokuto-san, why did you ask me to come here– oh, Y/n, you're here, too.” His tone was even with just a hint of surprise.

Bokuto waved cheerfully, and you also gave a subtle, relieved wave. Akaashi approached your desk, lunch in hand. “Are you eating here?” He directed the question to Bokuto curtly.

He received a nod and wide smile as confirmation while you let out a little breath—not quite a sigh, but close enough. You looked at Akaashi and silently mouthed ‘help me’. You were certain that he saw it, but your plea went unanswered.

When he, too, pulled up a chair from a nearby desk with a sigh, your table space was further diminished. You wore an expression similar to betrayal when you asked, “How could you?” You also wanted to see just how much English he knew—how much he and Bokuto knew, at that.

Akaashi glanced at Bokuto briefly before unwrapping his own meal. “I am picking my battles.”

“Ah,” you said, “I see. That's probably for the best.” You went back to biting into a cucumber slice before Bokuto started pouting.

“Hey, you guys can't just have a secret conversation without me!” It confirmed your suspicion that Akaashi knew more English than he did.

You pursed your lips and raised your eyebrows, directing your gaze off to the left and out the window. It was Akaashi's turn to deal with him now, you decided. “I was just saying how I may as well stay to eat because you asked me to come here.” He wasn't entirely wrong.

Bokuto squinted, jutting out his bottom lip in suspicion; his gaze shifted between the two of you a near comical amount of times. He didn't press the topic any further, however. Instead, he asked suddenly, “Have you picked a club yet?”

You looked up from a slice of fruit you had just taken a bite of, wide-eyed eyes saying ‘huh’? You took a moment to finish chewing and swallowing your food before asking, “Why would I join a club?”

Bokuto and Akaashi both stopped their own eating to stare at you at that. Akaashi was the next to speak up, “Most people join a club. It also helps with making friends.”

You shrunk down a little bit. “Well, I don't know how much time I'll have to join a club. I got into this school because I auditioned for the music program, so I—”

“Oh, then you do have a club!” Bokuto interrupted.

You tilted your head. “Band and orchestra aren't considered classes?”

They looked at each other and shrugged. “No, I don't think so,” Akaashi said.

A quiet ‘huh’ passed your lips, finding the difference in school organization interesting. “I'm supposed to get my ensemble placement this week I think. If I'm not mistaken, I'll either make it into the full orchestra or I'll end up in the band.” You grabbed another fruit slice from the little container you had brought in your lunchbox before continuing. “I'm hoping to get into the orchestra because I've spent so much time in band, but I don't think I'd mind either way. I'd have more people to cover my part with me in band compared to orchestra.”

Neither seemed to quite understand what you were talking about. “What instrument do you play?” Bokuto asked with chopsticks still in his mouth.

You realized you were just mindlessly talking about music, so used to almost exclusively talking to fellow band kids. The thought pained your heart with a dull ache of what was missing.

“I play bassoon,” you put simply. “I don't remember the Japanese name for it off the top of my head right now.” You didn't really feel like searching it up again either. You almost felt bad not knowing the name of your own instrument in the country you were currently living in, but you had had bigger things to worry about like actually moving.

It was clear neither Bokuto nor Akaashi knew what a bassoon was, so everyone just went back to quietly eating. The atmosphere was suddenly both awkward and comfortable in the momentary silence.

It was Akaashi that broke the conversational stalemate this time. “How long have you been playing your instrument?”

You tried to recall, counting back school years and summer breaks, before shrugging. “Around seven years or so, I think.”

Akaashi mouthed ‘wow’, remarking, “That's a long time.”

You shook your head and argued, “Not really, considering people who play piano or string instruments can start as young as four years old. Bassoon is too big for kids that young to start learning.” You started mumbling to yourself, adding, “Unless they're weird and start playing tenoroon or something, which would just be excessive.”

You figured your music rambling wasn't what they wanted to hear or talk about, so you changed the subject instead. “You said that most people join a club. Does that include you two as well?”

Bokuto perked up at that as a confident smile stretched across his face. He smugly put his fist on his chest and upturned his nose when he announced, “You're looking at Fukurodani's amazing, number 1 ace!”

“Volleyball. We're on the volleyball team,” Akaashi elaborated. He turned to Bokuto and added, “And there can only be one ace, so you're number 1 by default regardless of how good you are.”

Bokuto looked offended for a moment before grumbling with crossed arms, “But I'm still the best.”

“Well, yes, you can't be the ace without being the best,” Akaashi stated matter-of-factly, but it still seemed to boost Bokuto's ego based on the way his grin only grew wider than it had been before.

At that point, they started to talk about something related to their team, leaving you to continue eating in peace. You tuned them out naturally to think about nothing in particular and stare blankly into the surface of your desk. It was nice being able to not think about anything for a little bit, having the two volleyball players running as background noise and some band piece you can't quite remember the name of playing on repeat in your mind while you focused entirely on your lunch. It was far from the forefront of your thoughts, but you were thankful they were there.

After a long while—you didn't notice the time passing, so you had no idea how long it had been—your name and a waving hand pulled you from your zone.

“...n. Y/n? Y/n!”

It was Bokuto, his hand passing back and forth in front of your downturned face. You turned your gaze up to him, wide-eyed, with a question of ‘What do you need?’ clearly painted in your expression. You picked up your phone, glancing at the time and realizing lunch would be ending soon.

“Sorry, what did you say?” You asked.

“I was just saying we’re about to leave. You didn't hear me?” His tone didn't have a hint of offense in it, to your surprise; you would have figured he would pout that you weren't listening.

“No,” you answered bluntly before you could think about how it sounded, “I tuned out when you guys started talking about volleyball. Sorry.”

Bokuto just shrugged, already getting up. “You must have been bored, then. Promise we'll talk about something other than volleyball next time!” His expression was surprisingly warm, the sunny smile somehow the cherry on top.

Next time? You tilted your head and furrowed your brows before you could think about it.

“Yeah, tomorrow!” Bokuto answered what you then realized you had said out loud.

You sent your gaze to Akaashi, who was halfway to the door as students from your own class were filtering in. He sent an unreadable look back before stepping outside and standing beside the doorway, presumably waiting for Bokuto.

Who still stood in front of you, leaning down with his hands flat on your desk. He gave you one last beam before bounding towards where his friend had left, shouting, “Bye, Y/n!” on the way there. With a final enthusiastic wave, he, too, vanished from your class.

Once again, the suspicious, curious, confused eyes and murmurs of your classmates were not lost on you. Now, however, it was clear it would be significantly longer-lasting. The realization dawned that you had gotten yourself wrapped up in a mess that wouldn't be easy to get out of. An evidently popular guy who's presumably one of the top players on a sports team who had essentially made a promise to come back the next day? That was someone you would have never guessed in a thousand lifetimes you would end up being involved with, yet here you were. Seemingly stuck with him for an indeterminate amount of time.

You hoped that maybe both volleyball players would get bored of you like you half expected they would—the same expectation you had with everyone. Maybe they would forget you by the next day, and you would be left to your own devices once again. You would be starting from square one with making friends, but that wouldn't be so awful, right? You tried your best to ignore the nagging voice at the back of your mind that practically shouted, This is your one chance to make friends, and you didn't even have to go out of your way to meet them. Throw this away now, and you're practically dooming yourself to be alone for the rest of your time here.

You ignored it. As you always did. Letting people in was never your specialty, but keeping people out certainly was.

That nagging voice held out hope, however, that they would come back—that they wouldn't give up on you no matter how much you told yourself that they should. Gosh, if only they would keep appearing, keep bothering you, keep dragging you along.

For now, though, you continued on with your day as if nothing had happened. You fiddled with a pen while absentmindedly taking in whatever the rest of your teachers said. By the end of the day, you were exhausted; you were surprised by just how draining it was to have to consciously understand a language you had basic conversational skills in.

With one earbud in your ear to feed you music you could recite word for word, you traveled home from school for the first time. The map pulled up on your phone instructed you where to go so you wouldn't get lost.

The sun was slowly creeping down towards the horizon bit by bit, thankfully behind you so you didn't have to stare at it. But it turned the sky ahead a gradient from pale yellow to blue to indigo in a tiny sliver just above the buildings littering the view in the distance. A handful of clouds were illuminated in gold and seemed to glow an angelic white.

You stopped for a moment to breathe in the moment. This is life now, you remarked to yourself. Bittersweetness clawed at you, leaving you with something between a fond, hopeful, grateful smile and a nostalgic, heartbroken, lonely frown.

You blinked away the condensation that seemed to cloud your eyes. Unconscious footsteps carried you forward. 

Because that's all you really could do: keep moving forward.

Thank you for reading!! <333

- Masterlist -

< Ch 1: Jogging Laps | Ch 2: Lunch Break | Ch 3 (coming soon) >

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[nono-bunny]

Thoughts from watching the ATLA live action!

I initially wanted this to all be one post but. It got too long and also Tumblr accidentally posted it once instead of just drafting as I asked while I was writing it and I had to reconstruct the whole thing so I'm just going to make one post per episode I think.

So, episode 1!

Oh my god the show really opens on just showing the letters "Capital City", genuinely that's kind of hilarious?? I kinda always thought of it as Caldera City collectively because Capital City sounds dumb (very The Hunger Games of them, ngl) but like... I do recognize that it's only technically the rich district- even so I feel like maybe they should've reimagined that one in particular because honestly it's always been confusing for the capital to have two cities in it (Harbor City is the other one, basically the poor people district). Anyway not a big deal overall, just... Kind of funny to not change this

Truly a weird way to start the show with just some random Earth Kingdom revolutionaries, but based on the fact that I've heard they're not in it I'm just headcanoning it to be Haru and Tyro lmao otherwise it's just. A truly bizarre choice

Oh never mind they're??? Opening before the war??? They literally have Ozai in the first season, why wouldn't they just have a menacing Sozin in a war room, with like maybe some very subtle hints to him grieving someone who died disagreeing with him, and him going forward with it anyway? Idk it's genuinely very strange to open a show with such iconic and recognizable characters by focusing on some random mostly irrelevant people you're never gonna see again because the story takes place a hunder years in the future. I mean, it was a cool fight scene (when I could see it lmao, I wish it wasn't so dark- would've looked great in a cinema but this should have been made for people watching on home screens) but?? Why should I care about these people or what they're doing, either as a veteran who knows they don't matter or as someone new to the story who DOESN'T know that they're never going to see them again?

Oh shit wait, AGAIN??? They keep zagging on me lmao this is like. Exactly what I wanted!! I read they started things off with a lot of fighting and showing the war so I thoght this was what it was but no!! The random guy meets non other than Sozin... Who genuinely looks incredible and does a fantastic job at portraying exactly what I wanted!! I think there's something in the eyes specifically? Like, there's a certain sadness mixed with idealism there, which works really well with how determined, calculating and cold he otherwise is. He feels 100% like the sort of guy who'd reasonably be the ancestor to the mess that is the Royal Family we see during the rest of the show, and I'm genuinely really happy about it! Sozin feels like the sort of madman who believes in his own just and it's perfect, like, the exact vibe I got from him in the original!

Is Gyatso talking to Bryke rn or...?? Lmao fr Aang never learned any of the things he mentions which is why he was a bad Avatar, and why in the end I don't like canon OG Aang. Addressing it in the first episode is extremely bold of the LA tbh, but you know I love to see it! Also everyone was talking about how Aang wasn't silly enough, but literally in the OG he was too silly and never learned to take responsibility or work with others so?? This Aang that is already blending a whimsical air with what seems like a degree of emotional intelligence the original lacked is!! Such an improvement in my eyes, actually! I'm hoping they manage to properly resolve these things this time around, but already their direction with him just within minutes of meeting him feels a lot more palatable to me. Also they rewrote that scene in a way that makes Gyatso infinitely more likeable because now he actually GETS it, OG Gyatso was a kind man but in the end... He was wrong, he coddled Aang too much. Here, in a universe where the Air nomads want to help defend the rest of the world, he recognizes that while Aang is needed, he genuinely isn't capable of helping yet which!! Also feels like an improvement in terms of co-nation relations, it feels like there actually used to be a harmony of sorts before! It will help make the Air Nomads feel less out of place and "out of sight out of mind" in the bad way they were in the original. The Air Nomads already planning to get involved also feels like a way to rid Aang of his idealistic and childhish views of his own culture in a much more direct way than the more subtle approach just showing Gyatso surrounded by skeletons of people he likely killed. Also, again, saw people complain aboit the Air Nomads wanting to get involved being ooc and?? Okay, so? Have you maybe considered that them being so insular that their loss was barely felt in the original whenever they didn't need to make Aang have an emotional moment was a bad thing??? Like, I get that it isn't in line with their characterization, but personally? Them choosing not to get involved in an attempted genocide was always a bad look tbh, and as far as I'm concerned, this is a fix and a way to make them look much better than just like. Hermits unconcerned with the world- they care, they want to help! Honestly overall everyone in the Air Nomads looks so much better here, this feels like a net good in terms of like... Idk Air Nomad publicity lmao. Also, showing the different temples coming together to celebrate is!! Incredible, I wholeheartedly love that addition to the lore!

Ngl tbh so far this feels like a fanfic I'd read, in like. Literally the best possible way

Yo the "Gyatso and Roku were friends" theory looking realll possible rn with that "you will always be my friend" line 👀

Ah so I see what people meant about Aang's characterization in this episode being a bit tell-y rather than show-y, that's fair. That said, it was a really nice scene that established the bond between him and Appa quite well imo! Also now I'm genuinely curious as to whether they'll have him get a bit drunk with power like in the original considering the focus they're putting on how much he needs to NOT do that!

To everyone saying Aang running away was important and should not have been cut- no, it fucking wasn't, it was one of his biggest unresolved character flaws that got ignored when the destroyed his character arc in season 3 and I'm fucking glad it's gone. I do find it interesting that here Aang basically only just finds out about being the Avatar before getting frozen rather than having a bit more time to get used to the idea and see how it changes things for him- it makes it that in a way, this Aang has both a lot more and a lot less baggage! Essentially his entire journey of discovery of what it means to be pronounced the Avatar will happen alongside people who never knew him as anything but, it's an extremely finite and dramatic closing of the chapter of his life where he wasn't the Avatar- it kinda shows he has no room for confusion anymore, he must now become The Avatar because that's essentially his people's last request of him. It's a very different sort of vibe from "I wasn't willing", it's "I wasn't ready", and that is much more easily fixable in a shorter show! Also the og literally just "solved" the willingness issue by having him enjoy the benefits and refuse to do any of the work so. Not sad to see it go at all

Battlefield Sozin?! Firebending rockets?! Wilhelm scream?! Cool battle scene all around tbh, really heartbreakin and difficult to watch, which means they did a good job with it! I do still wish it was brighter though lmao

Uhh forgot to type anything for a while because I was crying but. Yeah I generally really liked the portrayal of life on Wolf Cove! There are definitely some very noticeable changes with our two leads here, and I actually don't think they're necessarily bad, they just feel very strange and might take a bit to get used to. Katara actually isn't passive, which is weird considering that's how a lot of people described her? She's just extremely cautious. All of her defining traits feel like they're still there, but some of them do feel like they're lying a bit under the surface due to her situation which! Makes sense as an alternative way of writing her! Sokka genuinely feels like such a big brother here, I like the emphasis on his sense of responsibility and how he doesn't quite know how to be a real leader yet- it goes very well with a Katara who desperately wants to be a fighter but can't and has to try and blend in. Both of them have very clear aspirations and the traits that will eventually allow them to get to where they want to be, but they're very far from reaching them at the start. A lot of the scenes do feels kinda awkward tbh, but idk, I think they do a fine enough job at what they attempt to.

Now, hearing that Katara wasn't the one to break Aang out in a fit of anger wasn't a deal breaker for me actually, but? Honestly the way he gets out is just needlessly confusing here, genuinely unclear if Katara did it or he just... Idk somehow reacted to another bender's presence or whatever. Idk, it felt extremely weird and I think just like? A bit of clarification here as to what happened could've saved this scene without it having to happen via anger if that's the way they wanna go with Katara, and specifically her relationship with Sokka (which, again, does really feel authentic and well done here imo!)

Aang saying that Katara is the only one who tried to fight for him is fucking wild, but I guess that's the impression he got given that Gyatso told him he had to go away and he didn't hear the meeting about him here. Still a wild thing for him to say, felt really weird right alongside Sokka being the bravest person he ever met. Idk that whole exchange was off and awkward and just... Strange

Iroh doing his best to help and teach Aang when he can is very sweet. Idk how to feel about how hard he's already going in on the whole "your daddy doesn't love you" thing with Zuko tbh, because it does make Zuko appear much less lost when he's got someone who's giving him the answers rather than leading him to them, it's kinda a book 2 vibe from them? It's strange. Also a straight talking Iroh feels so strange in general, literally his only "eccentric" quality so far is loving Jasmine tea and very clearly not being down with the war, it's... Certainly A Choice, but not one I'm really enjoying so far tbh

There's something really interesting about Katara immediately relaxing and allowing herself to be silly and mischievous around Sokka here, it's kind of a flip from their dynamic in the original but there's something really fun and sweet about seeing those hidden aspects of her come out around the one person she knows and trusts to accept and protect her just as fiercely as she would him. It's definitely different, but I'm genuinely really enjoying the unique spin they put on their relationship and how it correlates with their own individual personalities and how they perceive and present themselves.

Taking the burden of always being the only one who can bring Aang out of the Avatar State away from Katara feels like a big relief. Also in general I like the way they still kept Aang's attachment to Gyatso and his parallels with Katara, while also solidifying Sokka and Aang friendship which wasn't really... A thing in the original? Having Sokka protect and reach out to Aang feels much more personal here in a way than it did originally, I think maybe the weird scene where Aang praises them kinda worked to serve that? Idk I've read people saying they don't feel like a family but more like friends here but. They never did in the original in season 1 either tbh. If anything there's a sense of everyone being equal here which the original lacked in places, I like how both Sokka and Katara support and save Aang in equal measure here and how they look out for each other as well. Aang is kinda naturally a mess this whole episode but here's hoping he returns the favor for them for once in the future!

Edit: dammit Tumblr literally just did it again I didn't mean to post this yet, but I'm kind of at the end of the episode so fuck it, it stays I don't wanna reconstruct it in the drafts again. If I have anything to add it'll go after this.

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

OOOKAY WELCOME BACK, apologies for the week-long delay, I was sick all week and had to deal with some other family stuff, but! I’m more than ready to watch now and might actually watch two eps, but we’ll see.

what is this episode six? SEASON 4 EPISODE SIX HERE WE GO

before i get started I’ve been thinking about Azure way too much and now I’m suspicious of how sketchy they make him and am second guessing my guess that he’s up to something, it’d sure be nice if they’re just doing that to throw us off and he fr is just chillin or doing his best, STILL SEEMS SKETCHY BUT AAAA

okay okay

so we got Tang, we got Mei, we got a glimpse of Mk, so this ep might be Mk and Pigsy? or maybe just one of them and they run into somebody else? Heck if i know LETS SEE WHAT ITS CALLED

oh

OHOHOHOHOHO

OKAY

ITS PIGSY AND SANDY THEN

SHOW ME THE MONSTER

OH EXCELLENT

BIG OL MASSIVE GIANT SWORD HOLY HECK SKELLETONS

RIP PIGSY FOR LANDING HEREBGD;SLFKMASDF

SHA WUJING TIME BABBYYYYYYYY

I love that Pigsy has his rake now and it looks natural for him to summon it but he still doesn’t identify as being Zhu Bajie, hang on WHAT IF THE TITLE IS ACTUALLY ABOUT PIGSY AND NOT SANDY WAITBGSDL;FM

HECK THAT’D BE INTERESTING BUT I DOUBT IT ANYWAY LETS WATCH THIS HECK I’M

its been a week my mind is whirling I HAVE TOO MANY THOUGHTS

SANDY MOMENT :D!!!!!

SCREAMS!!!

OKAY OKAY

SO

HECK WHATS GONNA HAPPEN?

HE ALRIGHT?

HE CRY

IS IT A TRAP?

SKETCHY?

HECK IF I KNOWGBS;LKFMAE

A H?

BABY???

Pigsy: ahaha, hang on a minute- Pigsy, internally: holy heck this ain’t good-

CAN’T EVEN REMEMBER SHA WHATS HIS NAMENBGLS;DMF

WHATEVER LEFT ALL THOSE BONES?

:D

SANDY RIGHT?

MAKES GRABBY HAND S

SANDY WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOINGBGLSFD;AWEF WHEEZINGNBSDLKMSDMFMODS

I’M

*star wars voice* ITS A TRAP

Nah that’s p funny dude whats with the uwu voiceHGL;KASJFSD

Those are some fire eyebrows ngl

AH YES NOT SO GREAT PIGSY GOTTA FIGHT TIME GHSD;LFJ

“uh.. yeah sure”

Pigsy fr

HELPGMLSDMFF

FINALLY A WORTHY CHALLANGER

U H

“oh nuts”

WHAT DID HE JUST

CALL THEMGNSDL;F

GIBRONIES??

HELP??

giant bros is what i got out of that for some reasongbsdl;fmks

ALSO MAN

U H

THAT’S A LOT OF DEAD GUYS KILLED BY SHA WUJING

POOPER SCOOPERSNLKDSF

OH LETS GO SHA WUJING TIME

HORRIFYING WE LOVE TO SEIGSD;LKSMF;OE

A FREAKING WRESTLING MATCHGBDSF;LMOEWF

OKAY CALLED IT THO PIGSY AND MK EP GOT IT

I AM

KINDA FILLED WITH MORE FEAR FOR MK THAN PIGSY RN FOR SOME REASONGNSDLFM

SWORD GIRL GUYGBDSFLK;MAOWE

Mk absolute beloved

I love how they’re animating him in this season actually he’s so shaped

SCREAMS

WE’RE HERE

OH PLS

THE

THE FLASH THERE

WITH MONKEY SMILING AND HANGING OUT AND SHOWING OFF

OH HECK MORE FLASH HANG ON FRAME BY FRAME TIME

paused on Wukongs smiling face and y’all I am normal about this monkey *nods nods*

Okay so stonneeeee again, cracking open like an EGGG

OH AND NOW WE GOT A LITTLE CARVED SONE MONKEY IN SOMEBODY’S HANDS CUPPED IN SOMEDOYS HANDS

kay well its not wukong’s hands, that sleeve is too flown, and the hanfu looks green nd gold hmm interesting

WELP YUP P MUCH CONFIMED MK STONE MONKEY OF SOME KIND IG WHICH ONE IS HE?? IS HE LIKE?? ONE OF THEM?? OR??? ANOTHER THING ENTIRELY?? WHAT APPROACH ARE THEY TAKING HERE?? AAAAAAAAAAA

AND THEN INK MONKEY MOMENT

is it monkey king… isss ittt- I mean it looks like him but it’d be funny if it just turned out to be ink Mk or something though I don’t know how that’d work GHSDLKF;JSD

Mk is big worried

oH BOY WE’VE GOT THE SILLIES, THE DORKS, THE PEOPLE THAT GREETED WUKONG AT THE DOOR GHSDLKFJAWEF

“FIFTY YEARS??”

B

BETWEEN THE TWO OF US

I’M

ECK

I’M GONNA CRY WHY THAT’S SO FUNNGYSBFAL;WEFM

MK

“Wowwww…” IMGMSDMNFL;SDKF

ALRIGHT

CALING HIM HEADBAND

MAYBE I CAN GIVE YOU POINTERS ON THE OTHER SEVENTY

THATS SO SILLY I LOVE HIMGNSD;LKFM

Its so funny how he’s just unphased by those guys, bruh’s been through enough that nothing anybody could say is impressive or threatening in this momentn;lsdkmfwe

THE SCREAMING BEHIND THE DOOR PLS GHSDL;FJ;SDF

AH MK SMILE

OH BIG SHADOW HELLO

OH OLD MAN SCOOP

HE’S SO EXCITED

PLEASE DON’T KILL HIS EXCITEMENT

.

AYO??????

SIR?????????????

YOU’RE NOT EVEN THE REAL GUY ARE YOU?? HOW DO YOU KNOW???? CONFUZZLEMENT??????? PARDON???? EXCUSE ME????? EXCUSIE MOI???

OKAY WELL BACK TO PIGSY AND SHA WUJING IG LETS GOOOO

Sandy’s biggest regret, all the lives he’s taken ig

OH

;-;

oh man

heck

here we go i’m gonna love this exchange probably

SO

OKAY

WELL

I ADORE THAT

PIGSY IS “well I aint’ that” *shrugs* LIKE

I LIKE THAT Y’KNOW

OKAY BUT NOW I’M WAITING FOR LIKE

EITHER SOFT MOMENT

OR BIG PIGSY MOMENT

SITS AND WAITS

I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO WHATEVER IT IS

FIGHT THE SANDY

AAAA PIGSSYYYYYY

OH THE WAY THEY ANIMATED HIS EXPRESSION DURING THE ALL THE WAY HOME PART PLEASE THAT’S EXCELLENTNBGGKMSDF

SKELLENTONS STILL YELLINGSDNF,MSDF

WHOAH HEY

HEY

OKAY WAIT

PAUSE PAUSE

KAY IS IT GONNA BE

THE YOU WANNA SEE A MONSTER

AND THEN HE GOES BIG

OR

IS IT GONNA BE DO YOU WANNA SEE A MONSTER AND HE SHOWS HIM A MIRROR TYPE THING

SORRY I JUST LOVE THESE CHARACTERS SM

AW

THINKS PIGSY’S WORTHY THAT’S SWEET- OH GENUINELY THO PIGSY BEING JUST AS POWERFUL MAKES ME HAPPY IG BGS;LDKFMSOF

OH BACK TO MK

YEAH HOW DO YOU KNOW SIFU

“there is little i do not know” OH YEAH ALRIGHT, THANKS GOOD EXPLINTION I’LL TAKE IT BGSL;DKFM

HEY WHY WHACKY

HEY

HEY R U D E

HOLDS MK IN MY ARMS GENTLY

DON’T HUSH HIM HE’S DOING HIS BEST AND HE TALKS WHEN HE’S NERVOUS

AND HAPPY

AND JUST IN GENERAL HE’S A DELGITHFUL LAD

STUTTERING VOCALLY OUT LOUD RN

“I’m I to believe Sun Wukong is the greatest master in history?” WDYM WHAT

HEY STOP HITTING MY BELOVED LAD

AND SHUSH HE IS PRETTY GREAT |;A;/ THATS HIS SIFU YOU TALKING ABOUT

HELPGMLFS

OKAY THERE WE GO

ITS I AM THE GREATEST

GOTCHA FAM YOU’RE DOING GREAT

HAHA

NOT THE ONLY REASON

SIR PLS HE’S THE MONKEY OF THE MIND ITS HIS THING

WHEEZINGNLSD;FKMSD

HELP

THIS MAN AGGRESSIVELY ASKING ALL THE QUESTIONS EVERYONE WATCHING THE SHOW’S BEEN ASKING PLS HGSLDFJ

DOES MK REMEMBER ANYTHING??

HECK WAIT I’MNOT READY FOR THIS IT’S BEEN FOUR SEASONS AND WE’RE GETTING ABCKSTORY I’M NOT READY

AW HIS FACE

PLS

SCREAMS

HE FR

HE FR

LOOK

OKAY I NEED AMOMENT

GIVE ME

TEN MOMENTS

AAAAAAA

|;A;/

ITS LITERALLY THE PICKING HIM UP OFF THE STREET AND GIVING HIM NOODLES TROPE I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT SINCE SEASON 1 PLS

anyway tho lad covered in mud, stone crack, yup, this lad a stone monkey BUT HEY I’M

HECK

WHAT DO I EVEN THINK ABOTU THIS WE FINE

Pigsy smiling at the little lad tho ;-; pls

i REMEMEBR PIGSY

AH??????

AH???????????

OH VERY WELL

HANG ON I’MJUST

WHAT IS THIS

HECK

HELPGFMDS

MK JUST THROWS UP

A H???

KAY WHAT AM I SUPPSOED TO THINK ABOUT ALL THIS HANG ON

IT FEELS LIKE ITS GOING SO SLOW AND SO FAST AT THE SAME TIME

HIS LITTLE FLASH THERE WITH LADY CRAFTING ANIMALS????

BROKEN STONE MONKE ON GGROUND???

WHAT IS ALL THIS HECK I FEEL LIKE I DON’T RECINGIZE ANY OF THIS RN ITS BEEN TOO LONG SINCE IV’E READ THE BOOK

Pls just give this lad back his mentor ;-;

HECK ALRIGHT PIGSY TIME

WOW

PIGSY ACTUALLY

VIBIN

OH

OH HECK HE HAD A MOMENT

|;A;/

HECK I DON’T HAVE ENOUGH BRAIN TO REALLY APPRECIATE THESE BITS RN

HYPE PIGSY MOMENT

THE BLUEST GUY I KNOW

;-;

YEAH

WELL

;-;

OH sha Wujing buddy

AW MO

PLS

AW

JUST TOOK MO

THE POWER OF THERAPY CAT

PLS

HEART SHAPED FIREWORKS

YUEAH LAND ON PIGSY

I LOVE YOU AL

AW HUG MOMENT

COME ON

YEAH ALRIGHT

SOFT MOMENTS

TANG SCREAMINGNLDSFDS

OKAY WELL THEY’RE SUS OF AZURE NOW TOO IG NICE FUN OKAYGBSDLFK

AAA WHERE’S MY MONKEEEYYY WHERE’S THE #1 MONKEY OF ALL TIIIIMMEEEE

we probably won’t see him huh

SO

LOOK

KAY

gimme a sec I need to think about this

it was used to form another okay

lays down hmm

hmmmmm I’m not sure

hoooowwww i feel about that

Y’know?

Like I’m all for cool monkey past and all that, v neat and stuff, but like :T I’m a big fan of swk being one of a kind, like who’s going there grabbing his rock and compressing it into another little monkey? unless it was like… he was designed spiciifcally to beat swk, if you know what i mean

u h

hang on hmmmmmmm

oKAY I’LL PROCESS THIS LATER MOVING ON

CAN’T BELIEVE THEY REALLY LEANED INTO NO PARENTS NO NAME FOR MK

.

actually big fan of that bit, i like that a lot

he’s gonna say something wrong and get hit in the head again right? I am-

MONKEY KINGNGSL;KMFSD

YEAH ALRIGHT

WELL THANK GOODNESS ITS NOT THAT

HGDSLKFJL;DSKAF

W RO N G

HMMMMM

INTERESTING

WELL

OKAY

SO WE’RE NOT GETTING A STRAIGHT ANSWER

“not even I know what you are” WELL THANKS THAT’S REAL HELPFUL

“I’m just Mk!”

“The Monkey. Kid?”

*surprised pikachu face* /j /j /j

HM OKAY HERE WE GO WHAT NOW

OH INK MOMENT HI

OH BOY

HORRIFYING THANKS

YOU NEED TO GET ON OUT OF THERE MATE

OH THE SHADOWY EYE THING

OH HI

MK OR MONKEY KING INK

AHA

MK INK

SO WHY AND HOW?????

OH THAT

OH I LIKED THAT THO

THE HEADTILT THING

BIG FAN

ALSO BIG FAN OF HIM NOT BEING WHAT MONKEY KING IS BUT SOMETHING ELSE THAT’S NEAT GLAD THEY DIDNT’ LITERALLY MAKE HIM LIKE

I DUNNO ANYWAY

UH

RIGHT

SO

RIGHT

U H

I FEEL LIKE I GOT EVERYTHING BUT ALSO MISSED A LOT Y’KNOW????

I’M STILL NOT SURE HOW I FEEL ABOUT MK BEING PART OF MONKEY KING’S ROCK EGG THING OR WHATEVER THE HECK HAPPENED THERE

BUT THE INK MONKEY MK LOOKS EXCELLENT

I DON’T KNOW WHAT HE’S DOING THERE THO SINCE LIKE

U H

ITS A JTTW BOOK HE WASN’T THERE DURING JTTW WAS HE??

I’M CONFUSED AS TO HOW THIS SCROLL WORKS MAN BUT MOVING ON

MONKEY MK REAL WE BEEN KNEW

OKAY I JUST WANT TO WATCH THIS WITH MY BROS NOW SO I’LL END THIS HERE

MIGHT WATCH EP 7 LATER TODAY OR THIS WEEK SINCE I DIDNT’ WATCH AN EP LAST WELL AS I MENTIONED, U H

SANDY’S BIGGEST REGRET, KILLING A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF PEOPLE, I DO FIND IT FUNNY HOW THERAPY CAT AND NOT SPEECH WAS WHAT IT TOOK TO SNAP HIM OUT OF IT GJDSFLSDF

MAYBE A BIT OF BOTH

I THINK THE SPEECH SAID MORE ABOTU PIGSY THAN SANDY THO GNEUINELY AND I’M VIBIN WITH THAT

ALSO I NEED TO CRY OVER PIGSY TAKING MK IN SCREAMS

I LIKE THESE CHARACTERS, BIG FAN OF THIS SHOW FR

HECK I REALLY WANT MORE PIGSY AND LITTLE MK MOMENTS, LIKE DESPERATELY, THEY SHOWED UP ONE MORE TIME I WANT LIKE A REAL FLASHBACK SO BADLY BUT I DION’T HTHIK WE’LL GET IT AAAAA

OKAY KNOX OUT

[axolotl-arsonist]

No Matter What

Annie x GN!Reader

cw: not proofread, best friends Sasha, Connie, & Jean if you squint

A/N: I’m ngl.. This is a filler 💀 I been lazy and I haven’t written out that other Annie x Reader I promised y’all 💔 but don’t worry, I’ll get to that at some point.. this is a little something else I made for y’all. I got inspiration from this one Annie x Reader I saw but I don’t remember who wrote it. Anyway imma stop talking, enjoy!

Y/N walked into the dining hall, grabbing their tray of food. They looked around at all the tables, noticing Sasha wave them over. They were about to go over when they noticed Annie sitting by herself. They grinned and rushed over to where the blonde was sat.

“Hey Annie!” They said, sitting down beside her.

Annie rolled her eyes and contemplated getting up and leaving but decided not to because why should she have to leave her table? If anything you should leave.

“Hi Y/N.” She said flatly.

Y/N looked over at where Sasha had called for them and noticed her Connie and Jean already looking at them knowingly. Y/N just chuckled quietly to themselves before looking back at Annie.

“So Leonhart, what’s uuuuuuup?” They said playfully, taking a bite out of their bread.

Annie huffed as she glanced over at Y/N.

“How are you always this upbeat and energetic?”

Y/N shrugged and laughed a bit.

“I dunno, I just am. But I’m honored that you noticed.” They said, wiggling their eyebrows and tossing an arm around Annie’s shoulders.

Annie was quick to push their arm off, a scowl forming on her face as she spoke again.

“Why do you keep doing this? I’ve already told you multiple times that I don’t like you.”

Y/N just smiled.

“Well I don’t know if you recall blondie, but I told you I’d get you to like me no matter what.”

From that day on, Y/N did make it a point to try and befriend the blonde, though it was usually to no avail. Then came the day where everyone had to choose which regiment they’d be joining.

“Anyone who’d willingly join the scouts is an idiot. Why would you want to throw your life away?” Said the blonde, the conversation had started with Y/N asking which regiment everyone would be choosing.

“I actually think it’s kinda noble and brave. The scouts risk their lives protecting everyone inside the walls. I’d rather risk my own life than sacrifice the lives of the people I care about.” Y/N said.

“Then you’re an even bigger idiot than I originally thought. If you want to do that, then by all means. But just know you don’t have my support in that decision.”

And so the time to make a decision finally came. All those who didn’t want to join the scouts took their leave, including Annie. She lingered behind a bit, almost expecting you to follow her. When you didn’t, she frowned a bit, though it was hardly noticeable. She continued to walk as she realized this meant you were leaving her behind. Part of her was relieved, but another part of her was sad that you didn’t end up following her like you usually did.

The usually silly and lighthearted Y/N was eerily serious and quiet as they stared up at the large, female bodied Titan that was coming right for them. Jean and Armin couldn’t help but take note of this. Y/N was clearly in their own head, otherwise they would’ve noticed Reiner continuously asking out of place questions about Eren the whole time. Their eyes were locked onto the 14 meter tall beast that was sprinting toward them. Y/N, still having a one sided staring contest with the blonde Titan, moved forward, abandoning the formation. The others called out to them but to no avail. A million thoughts were racing through their mind as they went headfirst toward the Female Titan. When they figured they we close enough, they abandoned the horse and grappled their way up to the titan’s face, landing right in the space between its eyes. Y/N kicked it a few times.

“Come in you stupid thing, look at me!” They yelled, attempting to pull its attention away from its primary target. After doing this a few more times, Y/N huffed.

“Alright, I know what’ll get you to look at me.. what if I said, I know who you are!” They exclaimed, staring into the Titan’s left eye. Almost immediately they saw the icy blue orb shift it’s focus to them. They smirked a bit.

“I knew that’d get you. Did you honestly think I wouldn’t notice Leonhart? How could I not when I was always staring into those gorgeous blue eyes? The way your nose curves perfectly? That solemn look you always have on your face that hides that beautiful smile I have yet to see..”

Annie stared at Y/N as they spoke, wondering where they would go with this. She noticed the small smirk on their face dissipate, now having been replaced with a frown.

“If you need me to cover for you Annie, I’d do it in a heartbeat. You know that. I said I would do whatever it takes to become your friend and I meant it. So if it means keeping your secret then that’s what I’ll do. But I’ll be damned if you die by the blades of these babbling idiots! So I need you to promise me one thing Annie.. don’t you dare die! Do you understand me?!” They shouted.

Annie was taken aback by the serious expression on Y/N’s face. It was a side of them she had never seen. Her icy blue eye glimmered in a way that no one else would have understood but Y/N. They immediately knew that was her silent promise. The once serious expression now forming into a soft smile.

“I love you Annie, I hope you know that. And I want to see that smile before I die so take care of yourself okay? Oh and I need you to do me one more favor. I need you to swat me like a fly.”

The emotion in Annie’s eyes shifted, if she had been her normal self right now, she’d have deadpanned at Y/N. They already knew what was going through her mind so they quickly added,

“I’ll be fine don’t worry, if I just go back without either of us having put up some sort of fight, they’re gonna know something’s off.”

Annie took a moment to think about it before raising her large hand. Y/N looked over and noticed the giant hand coming their way so they braced for impact. In less than a second they were sent flying. They tried to get themselves situated mid air as they attempted to grapple onto something before they could get hurt. They successfully managed to grapple onto a tree before landing, lessening the impact but still hurting themselves nonetheless.

“Damn that hurt a lot more than I thought it would..” They said sitting up. Soon they heard the sound of their blonde haired friend calling out to them.

“Y/N!” Armin shouted.

Y/N looked up to see him, Jean, and Reiner all rushing toward them with their horse in tow.

“Oh my goodness are you okay?! What happened?!” Armin asked frantically as he hopped off of his horse to check Y/N for injuries.

“I was trying to get her to eat me.” They huffed, feigning disappointment. Armin just looked at them in disbelief before helping them up.

“Why did she swat you away like that?” Asked Jean. Y/N shrugged.

“Can’t believe I’m saying this but, I guess she got tired of me.”

The three boys shook their heads.

“Classic Y/N, always finding time to make jokes even in the heaviest situations.” Reiner added.

“You know me.” They shot them their signature grin before getting on their horse.

“Cmon, let’s go catch up with the others.” Armin said, getting back on his own horse.

The four of them rode off, wondering what more was to come of this Female Titan.

[cbsxreader]

just a silly little thought after seeing the Pirate CBS au, because I kinda like it ngl just like imagine S/o is like a siren thing, prolly got lost in one of his island, and who know maybe he found them (human form) and like few days later found out they arent even human (by how they act in stuff ig-) its just a silly thought however...

Hehe silly thoughts go brrr

Pirate!CBS x Siren!S/o!!

Christian grinned as he pointed his machete and ordered his men to cause havoc on a poor village he had brought fear into.

As the pirates stormed into the village, a lone, single person didn't run. They immediately caught Christian's eye as they looked around in confusion. Amidst all the screams and panic, Christian approached this strange person with a grin.

"Not scared of pirates, are ya?" His dark voice rang through their ears. They kept quiet as they backed away from him, only for him to step even closer. Just as they were about to be backed into a wall, they ran for it.

Christian quickly ordered for a few of his men to follow him to hunt the poor thing down. The cheering and yelling from the bloodthirsty pirates only encouraged this mysterious person to run faster, eventually disappearing out of sight.

When Christian and his men stumbled onto the reef, they were confused. No sign of this person whom they had chased.

Just before Christian was about to turn back, he threw his weapon into the water out of anger. But just as he did that, something big in the water got disturbed and he could clearly see a dark spot quickly swim away from the shore.

Over the next days, he wandered the entirety of the island, searching for the one that got away. But he got nothing. It was strange, him and his crew could've seen anyone leave the island, so where had this one person suddenly gone?

Though it was one night while sleeping in the raided village when he heard faint sounds that sounded like singing. He didn't mind "visiting" people to release pent up desire from being out in sea for so long. He went to investigate without a second thought.

He followed the alluring voice and he stepped onto the sandy beach again. The moonlight shined on a figure sitting on a boulder slightly off the shore line. He could sneak a few steps further before the figure looked over their shoulder. His eyes widened, it was the person he had scared off.

"Captain. You seem a bit less glamorous than the last time I saw you." This time, this mysterious person spoke up and sounded rather confident, peaking the captain's interest.

"Well...you did call me unexpectedly." He said with a raised brow.

"I didn't call you." They bluntly replied.

"Oh, but after hearing such a beautiful song, I couldn't resist." He headed more towards the shore, looking a bit smug.

"I've heard a lot about you, Captain. I take it you go out in the sea often?" Their voice dropped by an octave, sounding more seductive.

"The sea's my home, don't really have anywhere to return to." He replied, shrugging his shoulders and stopping right before the water hit his toes.

"How sentimental. Can you come a bit closer? I'm having trouble hearing you over the waves." They soothed, turning more to face him to tempt him.

He smiled "Sea water's must be in your ears, darl', I can hear you just fine."

Their brows slightly knitted together "Well, I cannot. I-"

"I've met creatures of your kind before, the first one fooled me, but you won't." He interrupted.

With a bit of a pause and a confused look, they sat there in disbelief "...That's why I wanted one of your men instead." They growled under their breath.

Eventually, they got to an agreement and the siren got closer to him while he sat on a rock. Christian gladly told his stories to them, secretly growing a liking to them. They seemed too curious about him and humans in general, so it was a rather...peaceful interaction.

Always up for an adventure, Christian decided to visit his beloved siren numerous times, each time the conversation becoming more and more light-hearted but also more flirty. Each time they met, the siren got more and more above the water, only to get compliments from the captain.

And when they got on the same rock, the tension was undeniable. One thing led to another and Christian had the siren's chin in his hand and he looked deep into their sparkling eyes. "You can get a kiss from me, if you promise you won't drag me down to the bottom of the sea." "I can't promise that..." "That's good enough for me..." And with that, he made his sweet, cold-skinned siren have hot cheeks.

When the sea called him again, Christian made an offer to his now S/o: Either they split ways or they follow his ship. After that, the next morning, he set sail again, secretly thinking it's just him and his crew again.

Secretly, he thought that was the end of it, he got on his ship, set sail and didn't look back. So, when he was just relaxing on the deck by himself and he heard a familiar voice, his ears perked up and he looked over-board. There was his S/o who had clinged onto the ship to keep them in one place.

He was happy to finally have a partner in his life, so happy in fact, he kept it a secret from his crew to make sure he gets to keep a siren all to himself. They continued all their little talks and flirting and sometimes Christian even gave his S/o a gift from his treasures.

His S/o knew it was over for them when he seemed to be the one luring them in instead of the other way around. Even when Christian takes a moment to himself and lights a cigar to smoke, they seem to not be able to resist poking their head out of the water to let him know they're there.

After one visit, he suggested for his S/o to come on board. And after climbing an itchy rope, his S/o suddenly found themselves in his captain's cabin. "Are you sure Captain?" "Don't worry darl', no one's allowed here but me~"

If his S/o noticed a storm or another ship ahead, they made sure to inform him. And sometimes they got something in return from him, either a fish or a poor sailor's liver. Same goes for when he walks someone off the plank and his S/o gets to drown them.

If they take things to the next level and are really in love, Christian might actually present his S/o to his crew as his partner. They get their own outfit and everything along with a threat from Christian to his crew to not even lay their eyes on his lover.

Sorry for taking a while on this!!

[asexual-spongebob]

The Waves That Lap The Shore - Chapter 26 - Cyclone Patrick

Notes:

Paani my beloved genderfluid fail. also I’m sorry for the lack of Shellie and Peso lately. But I bet they’ll have more focused on because of the whole Edda thing. ALSO HOLY SHIT BUD? Yeah >:3 I love bud <3 their just a guy. Love their sibling dynamic w/ pancake. So here’s my hc for him :) Bud - they/he, demiboy   This is so random but I watched some episodes w/ bud so I could get a good idea of his character and how he acts and such and I gotta say. I love him. Silly guy :) I watched the Caddisfly episode and it gave me a good idea of how him and pancake’s dynamic works. Ngl I absolutely adore it <3 I like to see it as older sibling and little sibling kinda dynamic :3 also random but I’ve been very excited to release this chapter.

•••

Shellington, Peso, Kwazii and Paani were chilling at Paani’s house. 

“We should show them the stones.” Peso whispered, Shellington nodded 

“We  found these stones at the bottom of the Moon Pool.” Shellington said, placing them on the table.

“We think that they mean something because they’re shaped like our powers.” Peso added “I’ll take this thanks.” Paani mumbled, snatching the one that was shaped like a lightening bolt, Kwazii then snatched the one shaped like a burning fire.

•••

Later 

Paani was in Kwazii’s room. He had went back with the other fish dudes to the Octopod. He pulled out his bracelet kit and started making an anklet for himself. 

He felt, unusually uneasy after he had put the anklet on, he felt knots form in his chest. 

Hm… this feels kind of weird… 

Maybe I just need to go for a swim. He thought 

Paani rushed down to the Launch Bay and went out for a swim on her paddle board, she hoped  it’d clear her mind.

Paani went out to sea, surfing near Mako Island during the sunset. But then, the full moon rose. Paani stared at it as if she was staring into someone’s soul.

They snapped back to reality after being knocked down by wave. 

Paani could feel clenched their hand into a fist, huh?? I don’t think I moved that? 

However, soon his hand was clenched tight. Strong winds began to form, the water became rougher and rougher by the minute. 

I need to stop this! Paani thought to himself, trying to unclench his fist, but he couldn’t. No matter how hard he tried.

A huge boom came from the sky, huge strikes of thunder came from the dark gray storm coulds,  heavy rain pouring down. 

Paani backed away, he had started a huge storm. 

He didn’t know how to stop it!!!

The winds blew faster and faster, it had turned into a cyclone! and Paani was trapped in the eye of it. 

•••

Dashi was in the HQ with Tweak. “Hey Tweak. The storm tracker is picking up some strange activity. This huge cyclone just formed off the coast of Mako out of nowhere-“ Dashi remarked nervously , Tweak spat out her sweet tea “Oh me oh my!” Tweak gasped.

“Dashi, sound the Octo-Alert!” Tweak urged “got it Tweak!” Dashi replied, hitting the Octo-Alert button.

Octonauts! To the Launch Bay!!!!

“What seems to be the problem, Dashi?” Captain Barnacles questioned, him and other Octonauts looked at her nervously. 

“A- a g-giant cyclone formed o-off the coast of M- Mako Island out of nowhere! Dashi stammered “Cyclone Patrick!” Dashi exclaimed. 

“THEY NAMED IT CYCLONE PATRICK?! FUCKIN’ CYCLONE PATRICK?!” Kwazii laughed, everyone gave him a disgusted look. 

“Kwazii! This isn’t a laughing matter!” Dashi scolded, turning to the cheeto colored cat “Sorry Dashi..” Kwazii apologized “Jumpin’ Jellyfish! Paani must’ve looked at the full moon!” Shellington blurted “What does Paani have to do with this?” Captain Barnacles questioned, raising an eyebrow.

“Oh shit. Um. We forgot to tell you but um. Paani became a merperson-“ Tweak answered, Captain Barnacles just gave her a thumbs up in response. He proceeded run his fur throw his paws. 

“Dashi, Tweak, you go take the Octo-Ray and find them.” Captain Barnacles commanded, “aye aye cap!” Tweak saluted. 

“IM GOING AFTER THEM!” Kwazii proclaimed, jumping into the Launch Bay tank. “But Kwazii! It’s dangerous!” Dashi began “you should stay here!” They insisted “I’m going after Paani if you like it or not. He needs me right now.” Kwazii insisted. “We’re going to.” Shellington proclaimed. “Fine…” Dashi sighed.

Dashi and Tweak hovered over in the Octo-Ray. 

“It’s hard to drive through these damn winds…” Dashi frowned. Tweak nodded in agreement. 

“We’re right below ya Dashi.” Kwazii meowed, “got it!” Dashi replied, giving the cat a thumbs up. He then hung up on her.

Kwazii lead Shellington and Peso to the cyclone. 

“Kwazii what  do you think you’re doing?!” Shellington gasped “Saving me partner.” Kwazii said sternly. 

“Where do you think they are?” Peso questioned “I think she’s in the middle” Shellington guessed 

“Paani!!” Kwazii called out “g-go a-away…” He heard a faint stammer in a horse and nasally tone.

“Shiver me whiskers! Paani is trapped in the middle!!!” Kwazii yelled, his voice muffled by the strong winds. 

The waters began to soften, so did the winds.

It had become calm enough to where Kwazii could swim through. 

Kwazii pushed himself through those rough, horrible waters. Until he was able to reach Paani. Kwazii swam over and placed a comforting paw on the macaque’s shoulder “it’s okay matey, we’re here for you!” Kwazii assured, Paani gave Kwazii a glance of uncertainty.

He had eyeliner running down his face, Poor thing….Kwazii thought with a frown. 

Shellington and Peso swam close. 

“It’s okay, we understand how you feel right now.” Shellington reassured, Shellington noticed the moon start to set, making way for the rising sun.

I- I can’t do this a-anymore. 

Then. After one last huge blot of thunder came from the clouds, Paani collapsed his hand unclenching, and Kwazii catching him in his paws. 

“PAANI!” Kwazii screeched, this was like the “Kwazii burnt Mako” incident all over again! But this time, Paani was the one whose powers got out of control, not Kwazii! 

Peso rushed Paani to the Octoray, Kwazii was sobbing like a baby, Shellington was comforting him.

“It’s okay Kwazii. Everything will be okay.” Shellington soothed as he stroked the cat’s back, Kwazii sobbed even more. 

“But what it’s not.” Kwazii croaked “trust me, Paani is in good hands, or shall I say, flippers. Peso will take good care of them.” Shellington assured, handing Kwazii a tissue.

“T-thanks Shellington.” Kwazii sniffled, blowing his nose. 

He felt like he’d been punched in the stomach, this is your fault. He blamed himself.

•••

Paani awoke, what happened last night? They asked themself glancing around the sick bay what the hell were they doing here?

Hm… that was a weird dream. Paani thought 

Paani got up walked into the HQ. 

“I had such a weird dream last night.. I had started a cyclone.” Paani recalled, then directing his attention to the television screen. 

“Mysterious cyclone “Patrick” formed out of nowhere on the coast of Mako Island. It is not known what caused cyclone “Patrick” the news reporter said in a thick Australian accent.

Paani felt his stomach drop.

“Y-you mean it w-wasn’t a dream? It was all real? Paani began to tear up. 

“Hey it’s alright pancake!” Kwazii mrrped, pulling Paani into a hug. 

“No. It’s not. I could’ve put everyone in serious danger!” Paani cried in Kwazii’s shoulder. 

“M-my parents s-should’ve named me “Paani Shithead Macaque.” Paani sobbed into Kwazii’s Spice Girls shirt. 

“Matey. Do not fucking say that about yourself.” Kwazii meowed sternly.  “You are not a shithead.” He added.

Paani pulled himself away from Kwazii. 

“I FORMED A CYCLONE!!! ITS NOT FUCKING OKAY!!! I SHOULD’VE KNOWN BETTER!” Paani wailed “IM SUCH AN IDIOT!” Paani grunted. “Well you’re my idiot” Kwazii mewed softly, hoping it’d make Paani feel better.

It didn’t… 

“No. It’s not okay Kwazii. I could’ve hurt someone!” Paani sobbed, he started to sound like a broken record. His thick eyeliner running down his face into a black river of tears. 

“But you didn’t! Everyone was safe in the end!” Kwazii assured. 

“I know. I just feel so guilty. This whole situation could’ve been easily avoided..” Paani sniffled “is it okay if I step away for a moment?” Paani asked “of course pancake, take all the time you need.” Kwazii answered softly, “I’ll be here if you need me!” They added.

Paani went to Kwazii’s room and cried into Kwazii’s pillow. 

Tunip and the vegimals could hear the sound of sobbing from Kwazii’s room “what should we do?” Tominnow questioned “hm… maybe we should bake some fish biscuits for Paani? That might cheer them up.” Grouber suggested, the others nodded in agreement.

They rushed to the kitchen, Pikato, Halibeet, and Sharchini were in the kitchen with Shellington.

“Howdy dad, we’re gonna bake some of ‘em fish biscuits for Paani. We heard him sobbing and we thought it might cheer him up” Codish explained “Aww, that’s very nice of you” Shellington smiled. 

The Vegimals got to work, soon they were finished mixing the ingredients and the fish biscuits were ready to bake.

Tunip popped them in the oven.

Paani could smell something sweet coming from the kitchen is that fish biscuits? He questioned, sniffing a few times.

It was!

Paani jolted out of bed and rushed down to the kitchen “Howdy Paani. We heard you weren’t feelin’ too good so we decided to make you some fish biscuits. We hope you like ‘em” Codish smiled “aww thanks Vegimals.. I appreciate it very much.” Paani smiled back, getting a warm fuzzy feeling inside. 

•••

A few days later

The news of the crazy cyclone Patrick had spread like wildfire. Everyone was talking about it. 

Paani and Ryla sat on the dock drinking grape juice. Meanwhile Kwazii and Shellington were playfully fighting and Peso was eating his lunch. 

“Hey Paani. Did ya hear about cyclone Patrick? Absolutely crazy how it formed out of nowhere!”

“Oh um… about that… I need to tell you something.”

“Oh? What is it?

“I formed cyclone Patrick…”

“How?”

“Oh um- this is gonna sound really weird but- I went to this place on Mako Island became a merperson- just like Peso, Kwazii and Shellington but he became a merman at those Irish Sea Caves-“ 

“Oh- well I’m glad everything didn’t get out of hand with the cyclone!”

Paani nodded in agreement. 

••• 

Paani was in Canada with Bud, who he kind of saw as a younger sibling, he hadn’t known him for that long but he still felt that way.

Everyone had mentioned Cyclone Patrick. It was almost inescapable. Everyone they’d spoken to since the event had asked them if they’d heard about it. 

When Paani was down in Florida with Dashi, Tweak and Ranger Marsh, Ranger Marsh had asked him about it. 

“Hey Paani, lad, did you hear about cyclone Patrick in Australia? Sounds like something that would’ve happened  here in Florida.” 

When Paani was chatting with Tracker in the DMs, Tracker asked them about it. 

“Hey Paani, did you hear about cyclone Patrick ? Natquik told me about it”

When Paani was chatting with Pearl, even shementioned it. 

“Did you hear all about Cyclone Patrick? Shellington told me about the crazy cyclone!” 

Bud and Paani had been chatting as if they were siblings. Wow.. Their like the little sibling I never had. Paani thought to themself.

“Did you hear about cyclone Patrick? I heard about the crazy story on the news today.” Bud mentioned why does everyone keep bringing up cyclone Patrick wtf Paani thought with a sigh.

“Is something wrong?” Bud asked, noticing Paani’s sigh. “Oh um… can I tell you something?” Paani sighed again “yeah sure go for it!” Bud said.

“Well um.  You know how Peso, Shellington and Kwazii are um… merpeople right?” Paani began, Bud nodded in response “well um..” Paani paused for moment this is such an awkward conversation… He thought “basically I’m also a uh.. fish.” Paani finally said.

“Oh cool!” Bud grinned well that went smoothly Paani thought relieved.

[imjustabeanie]

Here’s the infir for our trade:

My style has a rockstar gf vibe. Sometimes softer colours too. I'm hourglass shaped and almost curvy, but I spend lots of time training (MMA) so instead im lowkey athletic with some muscle. I've got dark gray almond shaped eyes and medium lengst wavy blonde wolfcut with (renee rapp-style) bangs. Ironically (for Hazbin) I often hear that I look Angel-like? Like, even from strangers on the street?? That or that I’m intimidating. Ngl, that strokes my ego a bit (as all the other times I had strangers compliment me, tho I try to be neutral abt it bc ofc I’m pretty), but idk what really makes me come across that way. Got some casual makeup on usually. I’ve got some scars and bruises from training, don’t mind most, not too fond of my scar from a sword fight (long story), bc it’s big (and I hate that somebody might think that I lost it; my ego >>> my body - with injuries like that). Also, got a hidden tattoo. Yeah yeah, my youth group (idk how to actually say it in eng) doesn’t allow it, I’ve got my rep but give me some sweet hypocrisy as a treat (/hj), I think the tattoo looks awesome (yeah, it was diy). I’m social & extroverted. I write songs and am in a band. Other than that I like to tease ppl if given the opportunity; others say I’m flirty - bold with it at that. I’m ambitious too. I don't take shit from ppl, im far from meek. I have npd (if you want to look it up without reading scientific papers, go on tumblr, bc the rest of the internet is filled with ‘demonic narcissism’ bullshit) and it influences the way I am. I care lots about my image, don’t have a ton of empathy etc. I don’t kick puppies, but it‘s noticeable how I lack in this department. Sometimes people say I’m ’too nice to have it’ cause i do well with kids and do all the youth group volunteering. Kinda skeptical of serious romance cause I had lots of it & I don’t mix well with a lot of people. Maybe I could do something serious for once if I had the right person. I try to be responsible and respectful but I have no issue finding my place at a wild party or something. I can be soft-er if I want, like with children or ppl I’m close with (I've got many friend groups but struggle to make meaningful connections). Usually I just stay my analytical, laid-back self and say my silly little comments every once in a while. Heard I’m pretty funny if I want to be. My love language is acts of service. I like small things and I do them a lot. I can do praise too, but I don't care for it in return. Like, you can be an asshole (up to a limit, I know my worth) and it’s cool with me if I see you have your ways of caring like putting on a song I like in the car. Unrelated but some say I’m kinda closed off and ‘mysterious’ or wtv . Hate it when people push me to open up and be emotional; love music and I unironically had a few guys play songs AT me and I actually like that too, tho I get why ppl clown on it; despise the ‘I can fix them’ trope, it just feels wrong; obvi love my band, we are awesome; Deal breakers r: boring ppl, too romantic or sentimental, ppl who can't be casual with me, ppl who only approach me bc of my looks (yeah they are important, but my personality’s too good to ignore in the long run, come on), for Hazbin - no Val. I like ppl who are more negative than me and aren't afraid to shittalk everything. Just saying whatever, not caring if they offend ppl (up to a point, some issues aren’t debatable ik). I like to join in sometimes. They have to be at least a little funny. And determined abt their goals, like a lot, no matter what it is. Don't really care for morality (to a certain point, again) if you're charismatic and fun to be around, I’m along for the ride and happy to support whatever you get yourself into. Like, my perfect dynamic is usually when the other person says the wildest shit and I just go like ‘yeah, go baby’. Ppl try to argue? I pull out the ‘who?… who cares?’ card.

1/2, just a few sentences got cut

-★🎶

Hellooooo! Here's my part of the trade!

Your match for hazbin hotel is.....Velvette! With Adam as a close runner up lol

Okay so as I said in messages, Velvet would be a perfect match for you (with adam as your very close runner up). You said you don’t like sentimental or boring people but you like them ambitious and audacious. Tell me how it’s not our dear Velvette. Now okay, given her little screentime there’s a chance she approached you first for your looks but put her in her place and there you go. A nice enemies to lovers’ story. Who asked the other one first? Her. She was pushed to the edge by the other V’s teasing.

Something that fits you both in the relationship is that you don’t expect the lovey dovey atmosphere. It’s more like…that’s my demon, fuck off. She likes that you retaliate and doesn’t get hurt easily because she won’t have to watch her words. It’s not uncommon to find both of you bickering but if anyone dared to try and side with one of you they’d get hurt. Velvette love language is probably gifts and fancy dates. She likes it when you do small things for her and will show it off by saying find a better lover than mine or something similar. Your relationship will be public but the amount of photoshoots you two do together depends on you, she won’t force you into an influencer life.

Now Velvette likes your style and you two give me the same vibes. But you know what she likes more? Matching outfits with you. She will probably offer to do your make up for you if you let her. As for the tattoos, if the relationship gets serious then she will get one for you. In private, she does fuss over the bruises you get during training and even proposes to….take care of your opponents. If you do any matches she will clear her schedule and assist.

Besides her brutal honesty, Velvette is the best critique you could ask for. She will help out your band as much as she can. Leave the costumes and decorations to her lol. Now onto some personal headcanons, I think that Velvette would enjoy a lover that’s stronger than her (physically. In termof powers idk) but wouldn’t abuse it. Someone who’d pick her up and spin, her around or just someone with who she can get lost in their arms in private. A lover who won’t judge her and accept her with all her flaws. I also think she’s the type that enjoys late car rides with full on music to destress. But for all of this to happen and for her to let her real walls down the relationship would have to become serious. You’re both in it for fun and it’s easy to get backstabbed in hell after all.

Hope you like it. I tried to include everything

[reides]

for reidesypoo as well :D — 14, 15, 22, 32, 47!

FINALLY DOING PT 2 OF BREE'S EPIQUE QUESTIONS thank you my fwend  ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ 

💌 sixty-nine questions for your ttrpg characters!

14. what keeps them up at night? right now he's extremely nervous about fucking up his status as his homeland's ambassador. it's been his dream to thrive in this role for a long, long time - even when it was just a like... long-shot silly fantasy. if he does a bad job at it, he's worried it'll ruin all the positive developments he's had with his family as of late (especially regarding his father lmfao), or that it'll endanger his home (WHICH HE LOVES!!!!! he looooves laverathia so much).

LIKE. reides is a confident person most of the time but he's made a lot of big choices lately. he was at a crossroads and he made a choice to start walking down a specific path. and it's the path he WANTS to take! more than anything!!! but now he's dealing with the responsibilities that come along with it. he was previously the type to run from his responsibilities as quickly as he possibly could so you know. big changes. big challenges. ;LDFKDLKG it's the most serious he's ever been about anything and he's gonna do his BEST but he's genuinely not sure he has it in him. lots and lots of fears circling around him rn!!! sleepless nights aside, he will meet them head-on >:)

15. is there something that never fails to make them laugh? as cheesy as it is, he loves aske's silly stories a lot. because......... he loves aske. 😳 LDKGDLGK otherwise i think he gets super, super happy every time he learns a new spell - especially when he manages to teach himself one. as a teenager his process of trial and error was a lot more funny, since his experiments would have some wacky little results, but he still has those bursts of joy whenever he succeeds at casting something new!

22. how would they decorate their living space, if they had a chance? he would probably opt to have it on land for convenience's sake, but having some sort of indoor pool for a water portion of it would be ideal for sure, since there's some stuff he'd likely want from laverathia which wouldn't be too well-suited to the surface world! and he would also definitely like to be close to the sea, too - so maybe the inside of this water zone has some sort of connection to the sea...? a sea pool? idk. technicalities. but that would be The Dream. a shrine to persana in that pool would also be ideal since reides is very faithful to him. ;^; that's his GOD!!!

but layout aside, the room would resemble a big study with tons of books and bottles of ink and various writing utensils!!! and it'd be decorated with a whole lot of whimsy!! lots of colourful furniture and paintings that make reides happy, prob with a bit of a nautical theme... and there'd be a lot of random objects (TREASURES!!!) that he picked up along the course of his adventures. along with a huge bed. huge beds are one of reides' weaknesses i'm ngl. it's the princely background showing. LMFAO

32. which of your decisions led to their voice being the way it is? i don't really put on a specific voice for reides - at most it's just like, a tone to accomodate his mannerisms - but in terms of how i speak as him... honestly it just comes to me with how i characterize him!!! i knew i wanted him to be kinda ditzy from the get-go, and i wanted him to say fun things very often (he definitely has no qualms with speaking his mind LOL)... so he generally has a cheerful, casual quality to how he speaks. and when he's angry, i want that anger to surge and crash!!! much like a storm. he's very emotional as a character so it's fun when i get to show off his volatileness. there's also usually a bit of a mischievous edge to him that i really love portraying hehe.

47. what could they talk about for hours on end? there's the obligatory wizard answer here (his magic), which is absolutely true, but on a more personal level? his home!!! laverathia!!! he never really gets the chance to talk about it (it's. you know. secret. for the most part. like most of the ppl up on the surface have no idea it exists sooo you know it's just not something he gets to talk about often. and he doesn't want to jeopardize its safety so he's not about to go off about it unprompted LMAO) but if anyone he trusts were to ask him about laverathian stuff he'd literally go on and on and on. it's crazy because he would deflect so much about it in the past but now that he's reconnected with it, he's just full of love for it. he will tell you all about the shipwrecks he explored and all about the stuff his fellow tritons craft and all about persana and all about EVERYTHING!!!!

[spiderlilac]

thank u for tagging me @offdutym0del !!! good to know you’re a fellow spanish speaker 🥰

How many works do you have on AO3?

nine ! hoping to post another halloween one today though lol

What's your total AO3 word count?

98,890

What fandoms do you write for?

only hotd at the moment

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

born from delicate violence

ornery, scandalous & evil

the tides talk to me

life is a willow

take you to promised lands

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

i do and i always will, even if it takes me a year to answer lmao. i highly appreciate anyone who takes the time off their day to comment on my silly stuff, and there’s just something deeply adorable in them saying what their favorite part was, what part made them feel this way, that way, etc. i wish i could kiss everyone who comments because they deserve it !

What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

i think it’s the third entry of the tides series, ornery, scandalous & evil. ngl pretty much all i had in mind was that i wanted it to be angsty and cram together as much characters as possible. i think it worked lmao. it also helped to set background on said characters too — like helaena and her kids, daeron and daemon. and the arrival of the very expected lucemond baby which was kinda ruined by luke. oopsie

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

weirdly enough, i think the grace of a rotting corpse is the happiest one. of course circumstances aren’t looking good, but both luke and aemond are tucked away in their happy little moments (which are kind of gross), and as long as alicent doesn’t know, they’ll be fine.

Do you get hate on fics?

lol the first time i posted omega aemond i got flooded with weird comments that suggested i was somehow disrespecting omega luke (??? 💀) but after that, everything was fiiiiiine.

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

i do, the freaky kind— mostly because i like building up ‘intense’ scenes that end up in smut one way or another lol. the smut itself is just smut, but i enjoy the gymnastics around it.

Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

nope. if i ever did i don’t remember. i haven’t found two ‘fandoms’ or universes i’d like to mix personally

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

nope!

Have you ever had a fic translated?

yeah! someone once requested to translate one of my oneshots into portuguese for another fandom and i said yes. i felt so honored

Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

no and honestly, i feel like that’s just not for me. i’ve got a very disorganized writing ‘process’ that is organized FOR ME so if i tried cowriting with someone who does it differently it would not work lol.

What's your all-time favourite ship

i feel like this changes every few months tbh. lucemond is my current fave, although there are other asoiaf ships i read about too like rheanicent

What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

oof. born from delicate violence maybe? listen, that fic was my baby. i loved it and i loved writing it last year, but as weeks went by i got into some bad thoughts and realized that this fic was written at an specific time of my life that i didn’t necessarily want to remember, and between the things to remember, was the inspiration for this fic. i still like it and i do think i still have the original doc for the finale, so perhaps i’ll post it one day, but i feel like posting an ending that’s not even properly edited just for closure will not make me feel right. i also don’t want to post anything that i consider lackluster, since i know a lot of people followed the story last year.

besides that, i had this lucemond thingy in the docs that was very angsty, during the dance era and all. i wrote an entire summary and started the first chapter. i finished and then i just didn’t like the idea anymore, so i left it there.

What are your writing strengths?

not sure about this one. i’d like to think dialogue, or maybe to set a scene. i’m very passionate about setting scenes lmao

What are your writing weaknesses?

definitely typos. also, i finish writing something, i read it a couple of times more to ‘edit’ then post it, so i feel like i don’t spend much time actually editing it ?? hopefully that makes sense. i don’t know how to write fluff without making myself cringe either, so it’s a constant battle

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

in fics that are not mine? i love it. for example, in hotd fics we see a lot of high valyrian stuff and i love when other authors use it as a creative resource. if translations are not available on the fic itself, sometimes i look up the word, sometimes just go with the context of the fic instead. the same with other languages; i don’t have a problem with it. now, writing it for my own fic is a whole different story. i don’t have the patience to add high valyrian in my fics, i prefer to dodge it or just refer to it instead lol. besides english i speak spanish, and if i feel a fic needs dialogue in another language, i’d choose spanish right away instead of trying to use a translator and butchering the poor language.

First fandom you wrote for?

omg i have no idea. i’m pretty sure it’s between marvel and some creepypasta fanbase.

Favourite fic you've ever written?

so far, my absolute favorite is mean bad dog. i love aemond’s clinginess and instability. i love luke’s moral dilemmas and how he tries to fix it all in his head. yum

i’m not tagging anyone but if u want to do it go ahead!!!! reading and making this thing were veeery entretaining.

[stayarmytinyzenmoa-l]

Y'all wanna hear some tea?

(Very long... under the cut)

There's this guy in my class who's a total Nice Guy (derogatory). Like, I'm talking "All women want are men who are shitty to them" Nice Guy. And I was a fool enough to be nice to him so he didn't idk murder me with an axe or whatever, so I admit that that was my fault there because I'm one of those "be nice to everyone until they give reason for you not to be" you know?

To sum up a long story, I genuinely do not feel comfortable around this guy. At all. Never have all of the red flags in my head flown up at the same time until I met this guy.

Like, he's super nosy, for one. I was feeling really uncomfortable so I made up a fake ex-girlfriend on the spot since from my experience that usually gets Nice Guys to stop but not only did he ask "Gay or bi?" but he also asked how often she and I "did it." Mind you, I just met this guy, like, why did he feel entitled to know that shit? Then, he sits next to me in both class and discussion, and he's super touchy. Like, I'm okay with my friends tapping me or nudging me, but I just met this guy and he's poking me constantly and making the same remarks to me that close friends make, it's really... really off putting. Not to mention, he's kind of... unhygenic. And he's an anti-masker, go figure, he was coughing up a lung next to me in the study room, but that's another thing (my university is still under mask mandate for reference).

And maybe this is me being mean but like, one he called himself goofy unironically, two he calls himself silly unironically, and three he used trolling in today's day and age of 2022, like, what? It's clear that this dude is always on discord too because he's in 30 servers (trust, he showed it to us) and, get this, his favorite thing to say is "I'm lonely, I don't have friends here right now" (yup)

Okay, wait, back track, I met him a year ago in an English class, actually, but we only spoke once because we proofread each other's essays and that is a black hole in and of itself because he would not stop DMing me the creepiest things like lowkey fetishizing my height (p*do much?) and kinda being a literal white savior as soon as I mentioned I was Asian. Like, did I ask? It's nice to hear "I'm sorry you have to go through that" but I don't want to hear the way you want us to deal with our problems, you know? He also made a very inappropriate condom joke to someone who btw only met him because she needed to proofread his essay (thank god this was during online school btw) and, not to mention, he even asked for my body count (in terms of sex). Like? What the fuck??

Needless to say, I obviously cannot forget how much of a creep he is so when I ran into him on the first day of classes in person I was kind of already off put, but I figured, maybe he had some character development or whatever.

He didn't. He's still creepy as hell but only this time he's also a Pick Me Boy. The whole day yesterday he was being really kinda creepy. He's part of our study group so we hang out a lot to study (for reference). But me and my friend (also in the study group, let's call her F) had to drop by the book store really quick to buy some supplies so the three of us left together. The whole time he was like 5-10 steps behind us, ngl, it kinda made him look like a stalker or something, so periodically me and F would ask him why he was so far or to catch up with us (he's significantly taller than us so it'd be easy for him to just take like two or three steps to catch up). He'd say yes then proceed to not do it so like what could I do, you know? We even started walking slower so he could catch up but he didn't so whatever. Anyway, flashforward to the book store, we're buying our materials and we get caught up in conversation with an incoming freshman so we were giving tips and all so she wouldn't feel too overwhelmed and all, and, suddenly, NG goes missing. Like me and F couldn't find him anywhere in the store so we figured he went back to the study room without telling us (rude much?) we couldn't see him outside either so we just did our thing and left.

Anyway, as we're walking out of the book store, we start making our way back to the study room and, get this, NG was literally hiding from us behind a pillar. Like... what the fuck? So F and I were like "hey so that's where you've been! We were looking for you! Let's get to the study room" and he was like "okay sure!" so we did that and we were talking so it sounded like he was okay again and F and I were just like "huh okay?" but, as we're about to enter the study room, I kid you not, this guy goes "sorry for being so mopey today" with the 🥺😒 face like WHAT. So I'm like "It's fine, we all have our days" like what elSE AM I SUPPOSED TO SAY I don't know this guy! And boom he's "mopey" again. And the whole time he was doing long sighs and longing glances, basically the thing people do when they want you to ask them what's wrong but... buddy... we're studying for P-Chem rn and we're all on the verge of failing, not to mention we don't know you, we're not going to ask because it's not one of our concerns rn (as horrible as that sounds-). And, get this, he's older than me.

So, me and F were talking at the end of the day and I was like "hey so what happened to him? did he tell you?" and she was like "yeah, he said he was feeling left out" ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Wait, wait, so his solution was to further leave himself out? Like, I get it, but he's an adult. Every time we did something, he made the active choice not to come along/participate regardless of whether or not F and I encouraged him to come along, so how the fuck is it our problem?

TL;DR, this guy is mentally and emotionally immature, he doesn't know physical and personal boundaries and gets butthurt when you set them, and he thinks he's entitled.

Or maybe I'm being the bitch here, I don't know, all I know is that I don't feel comfortable around him and I would die before being in a room alone with him.

[vulpiximisa]

bocchi the rock review

So my initial impression was that id be getting something as good as Yuru Camp or A Place Further Than the universe. (Two CGDCT animes but on totally different spectrums). I enjoyed Bocchi the Rock but it didn’t hit anywhere as hard as the mentioned too. It might be a little more in line with Lucky Star, and probably K-On but I haven’t actually seen it. 

The first episode was funny seeing Hitori being an absolute mess but the more you watch you realize, oh, she really does has problems. Like anxiety isnt that funny quirky ness. But maybe it is because the girls feel really anime in a way where I can’t really take Hitori’s spiraling seriously and Kita and Nijika just think “haha shes funny”.

I feel bad because I think if I ever had to deal with Hitori as a person I wouldn’t be able to stand it. Which is saying something because I saw a lot of myself in her when I was that age. Maybe not to that extreme but there were times where I wouldnt be able to say what I was really feeling and got dragged into something I didn’t want to. 

I thought Nijika and Kita would get some sort of character development or something. Kita seemed almost too perfect and I wished she had some sort of flaw because she’s too pretty and outgoing and friendly and cute and literally she was like too perfect. The only thing she did “bad” was that she submitted the School Festival form without Hitori’s consent but she owned up to it and it was painted in a way that “she did it for Hitori’s sake” and it did turn out for the best. You could say her flaw was being pushy but hm.

Nijika we didn’t see too much of even though she was there. I guess her thing was with her sis. 

Oh speaking of, maybe I’m old but I think the older cast really are the best. Love how supportive they were, even if drink girl is tropey as hell. I’m reminded of the sister and teacher in Yuru Camp, but Bocchi’s adults are more anime. Oh, Hitori’s parents are… there I guess. I don’t think they were unsupportive but i dont think they were the best in trying to get her to grow. Theyd really just leave her and go “oh, shes being Hitori again”. They’d really let her grow mushrooms on her head huh.

Ryou might be the fan favorite but I kind of can’t stand her. I don’t mind the kuudere/cool persona she gives off but I hate when the think they can get away with inconveniencing someone because it’s quirky and funny (to the audience). Unfortunately Karakara is one of my favorite songs in all of Kessoku Band album.

The visuals are… a little too bubble for me to take seriously. I looked up a few of the manga scans and I guess they translated them okay but I was hoping it’d be like Yuru Camp where the character designs are just to be anime but the girls feel more real but I just needed to stop hoping for it to be Yuru Camp. The band animation were pretty neat and the jokes when they just do silly stuff with Hitori’s imaginations were funny in a way that I would have laughed more at it 15 years ago if I’d never seen Gintama. 

I know the original source was a 4koma and theres probably more content not covered by the anmime, but I kind of wished they’d ended the 12 eps with the school festival? I mean getting her new guitar felt a little anti climatic to wrap up the cour. 

Oh, ngl, I was kinda rooting for Hitori/Kita but I don’t think Kita’s crush on Ryou ever went away but whatever.

Bochi the Rock was fine, it’s not the 10/10 Ive seen MAL give it, probably the majority of the audience thought it was funny. It was amusing in places but the humor kind of wore off after a few episodes. (Kinda like Asobi Asobase)  I made a mistake having high expectations, but I don’t regret watching it. 

[toraleistripe]

So I finally got around to watching the Food Fight episode of the new series that the official Monster High channel posted. It was alright, I might watch it a few more times to get more of a feel for it, y’know.

More of my random thoughts about it under the cut.

I didn’t hate it, that’s for sure, the new character designs are starting to grow on me or maybe I’m just plain getting used to them lol and I think the voices all sound pretty good, although I wish Clawdeen and Draculaura still had their accents ngl. Lagoona sounds like she still has some sort of accent, but it’s certainly not Australian anymore, which is a shame. AND SPEAKING OF ACCENTS, WHY THE HECK DOES TORALEI, OF ALL CHARACTERS, HAVE ONE NOW?!?! SHE’S JUST BRITISH FOR NO REASON?!?! Like, why take away some character’s accents, but then give one to a character who never ever had an accent at all?? It makes no sense to me. I’m not hating on the voice actors, don’t get me wrong, I think they all did great, it’s just the switched up accents that threw me off and I just simply don’t understand the decision behind it.

I’m okay with Draculaura wanting to be a witch, but once again, adding something to a character that was never part of their character before is taking some getting used to, but it’s fine, I don’t mind it. Plus her and Dracula’s relationship is adorable, I really hope we get to see more of them together. We need to see more monster parents in general, really.

Clawdeen being half human is still weird to me though, I mean, aren’t werewolves kinda already half human, sorta? IDK, but it’s just one more thing that I’m going to have to get used to.

Frankie...Frankie is awesome, they’ve grown on me the fastest out of all these new versions of the characters. The frustrating thing for me though is having to remember to say they/them now, I’m so used to Frankie going by she/her that I still get messed up sometimes, but I’m learning.

The main plot about Draculaura bringing the food to life was silly, but fun. I’m really hoping that each character gets an episode centered around them, kinda like they’re already doing with the music videos, that would be really awesome, plus it would be a great way to get to know these new versions of the characters even more.

When I first saw a clip from the episode I honestly wasn’t sure how I felt about it, but now after having seen the whole thing, I think I’ll be watching more episodes when they come out and maybe I’ll keep posting my thoughts about them here.

[emp-blast]

Caustic for "send me a character" 👀

omg hiiii Mar :]

(you already know this is gonna be long lol)

First impression: okay to be honest, I kind of was neutral towards him. I just thought of him as some random old guy 💀

Impression now: now i am obsessed with him. I haven't talked about him recently, but i still luv him. He has so many problems and his superiority complex is kinda funny ngl. like yes, Alexander Maxwell Nox, we get it, you're like super smart or whatever. doesn't change the fact that you take yourself too seriously for your own good. also i think he is very attractive,,, i mean he's got dilf energy sdjsjdjsjdsd

he's tall and chunky and has a beard and has a nice voice (coughs included) like,,, UGH he has no reason 2 be that attractive.

and his voicelines oh My GOD,,,, he can literally use me for any of his silly little science experiments idc 😩

Favorite moment: hmmm, i found it SUPER funny when pathfinder caught him on his murder spree,,, he literally yeets himself outta there like:

(i tried 2 find a gif but you know what part i'm talking about)

this situation is also funny because caustic was like "give me humans 2 test my dangerous chemicals on" and his boss was like "no lol" and caustic got so butt hurt that he chose to manslaughter everyone in that facility lmao. like??? that's NOT how you deal with situations sir, but go off ig.

another favorite moment is when he told the apex organizers that he'd take care of the oil spill problem in the water on king's canyon but just,,, Lied(tm) about it. he got this whole facility and just started making gas??? he just goes off and does his own thing with regard to literally no one.

ohhhh, also that one time when he wanted to gas the entirety of solace city. like i have NO idea what was going on in that man's mind but wattson came over and knocked some sense into him (she literally just shocked him lmao). i think if he were to get shocked everytime he did something Not Good, then he'd turn out fine. give that man a shock collar/j

also, i found this comment when looking back at the secret message thingy:

-I have a plan

-My plan is to gas Solace city

-THE END

like???? JSDJSJDS that's literally it.

Idea for a story: i literally just want to see him and crypto become brothers. that is all i ask for. literally that's it. but he is just SO stubborn.

Another story idea is something to do with him and his mom. like,,, i would like to see more of what they're relationship is really like. I'm not saying that Mystik was a bad mom or anything, but I have a feeling that something happened between the two that caused some sort of falling out.

Unpopular opinion: the fact that,,, that i,, i find him handsome 0_0

(at least i don't think a lot of people like him in that way???)

Favorite relationship: hmmmm, tbh i have NO clue. i had hope for him when he was starting to become friends with wattson, but in true caustic fashion he messed that up for no good reason. and in all honesty? he 100% deserved that.

lol can i say him and crypto??? like they are SO mean to each other. again, for no good reason. bet, one day caustic is gonna learn korean just to spite crypto and to figure out all of the mean things crypto has been saying about him.

Favorite headcanon: hmmmm,,,

i like the headcanon that he is bi,,, but like he literally is just barely figuring this out

Caustic: "Hmmm, it appears that finding men attractive and admiring their features is not a common occurrence amongst other men. I shall study this phenomenon further..."

he is oblivious but also he's in denial maybe he even has some internalized homophobia idk

hmmm, he's lying when he says that he doesn't get lonely. he says he's too smart to be around anyone else but i think he uses that as an excuse. like sir, you need friends...

another hc is that he likes cooking and is actually pretty good at it! He often doesn't do it because it's a "waste of time". but also because he doesn't have anyone to cook for and he gets a bit sad when he sets the table for just himself

he also likes to look at art, specifically paintings. on very rare occasions, he allows himself a break from his lab to go to an art gallery or museum. there, he'll spend hours just analyzing the art pieces.

he's a cat person. he'll probably never keep one as a pet as he doesn't see the point in that. but he will admit that they are not as bad as most other animals.

okay one more- he often overthinks things. This isn't out of anxiety or anything like that. That's just the way he's accustomed to analyzing the world around him. He has to consider each and every variable (lol) and thoroughly evaluate anything and everything. that's just how his brain works