#way more than 3 sentences

[bnesszai]

kunichuuzai + "where have you been?" <3

Ask Game

"Where have you been?"

"Answer your phone, asshole."

Kunikida blinks at his partners, who got right up in his face the moment he stepped foot through the door. He hasn't even cleared the entryway, much less taken his shoes off.

"I was running some errands."

"And you couldn't answer your phone?" Chuuya says, and Kunikida can hear the panic easing its way out of his voice.

"And your schedule said you were coming straight home for dinner," Dazai says, a mask of nonchalance on their face. Kunikida isn't fooled by it anymore. "It's very unlike you."

Behind his back, Kunikida grips the bouquet of flowers and the bag with crab and Chuuya's horribly expensive wine in it. "Why the hell were you looking at my schedule?"

"'cause they're a piece of shit," Chuuya answers. Dazai pouts, loudly. "Shut the fuck up, Osamu. Doppo--"

"Ah, sorry," Kunikida can see it now. Two people riddled in scars, with ghosts over their shoulders, with nothing solid to stand on since the moment they could stand at all. He sees it now, the trembling fear that they both push down and away like poison.

He sees the ways in which that fear crushes their hearts.

"I just wanted to surprise you," Kunikida says, but he places the flowers and bag on the group. He wraps them both in his arms, pressing featherlight kisses to their hairlines. "I'm sorry for causing unnecessary worry."

[jmrothwell]

📚 The Devil Searching For Redemption for the ask game? :D

"Bah dah!" Luke happily cheered with a sweep of his hand as he opened the door revealing the interior of the apartment. Much larger than she was anticipating and definitely way outside of her price range.

"Oh, my." Julie exhaled hesitant to even step into the place, only moving because Alex and Reggie gently push her. The three of them are smiling, looking so proud of themselves. "Guys this place looks amazing, but--"

"But what?" Luke cut her off, his pride slipping off for a second. Only a second though he soon recovers. "This place has everything you wanted and more, a spacious kitchen with great appliances."

"An amazing shower and tub big enough to almost swim in." Reggie said as he hopped onto one of the counters.

"Sound proof bedrooms." Alex said unapologetically as he leaned on the counter beside Reggie, and making Julie's face go a few degrees warmer.

"And that all sounds great. And I really appreciate your help." Julie said hoping no one caught them practically breaking into the place. "But there is no way I can afford this. Could you imagine the rent on this place?"

"The what now?" Reggie asked, and Julie turned to see three faces in varying states of confusion.

"What's to afford, it's yours." Alex added with a shrug.

She was about to argue, when she remembered when they'd originally offered to help her find an apartment. 'We'll get you a place' they had said and she'd foolishly assumed they misspoke.

"Oh my gosh, did you guys steal this place?" She barely managed to keep herself from shouting.

"Stealing implies someone was using it." Reggie was quick to say.

Luke emphatically nodded from nearby, "Man's right, can't steal it if it was empty to begin with."

"What?" She looked between the two of them, though they seemed confused by why she was upset. "You can't just go around breaking into empty apartments."

Oh, oh god, they needed to leave. They needed to leave right this second, this place was bound to have some sort of security system they must have triggered some time ago.

The other three did nothing to help her get them out of the place. Continuing to argue with her as she did her best to hurriedly herd them out.

"Jules. Julie, wait." Alex managed to break free from her grip at the door, pulling out a small stack of paper seemingly out of nowhere. "The place really does belong to you."

"What?" She screeched, immediately feeling the sound tear at her throat. She snatched the papers from him.

"Well, it belong to all of us technically. " Alex amended as she looked over the documents in her hand.

Sure enough, the title clearly declared her, Reggie, Luke, and Alex as not just renting, but owning the very apartment they were standing in.

How was she going to explain this one?

[badassindistress]

First sentence for fic:

It was not quite a matter of life and death, but it was one of lace and damask, which was equally dire.

It was not quite a matter of life and death, but it was one of lace and damask, which was equally dire.

The Fate of the Nation hung on a thread with inconvenient frequency, but never before had that thread been so annoyingly literal (and lacy).

If only the Grand Marshall hadn't been such a slight, stooped figure. If only his emergency last minute replacement hadn't been so admirably tall. And built like she could lift half the High Council on her entirely too broad shoulders.

If only she had been less gifted in the physical, the National Assembly room would not now be filled with stressed lacemakers and peevish embroiderers, hastily repairing the giant tear in the Ceremonial Robes (including delicate lace ruff) as the rest of the High Council fretted, the Third Minister stalled the visiting dignitaries by talking about architecture, and the newly minted Grand Marshall laughed bashfully as she attempted not to move a muscle, lest the sleeves of her damask robe fall off again.

[lloydfrontera]

i mean this in the least weird possible i promise but. i think that you get an extra layer of delight in reading tged and 약 파는 황태자 if you're used to consuming korean content. i'm not saying you're missing something important from them if you don't do this but,,,, i do think there are certain little details and humor that probably don't hit quite as much if you're not familiar with some of the culture and humor lol

it's just the little things, like lloyd calling javier "this punk" or "this guy" even while talking directly with him, because it feels sorta awkward in english, but if you're used to watching series or movies in korean you can almost hear the tone in which he's saying it.

or when javier is teasing lloyd and he hits too close at home and lloyd just goes "hey" but you can almost heart the "야" which is very close but not quite. or this little 'haah' he does when he's kind of frustrated or thinking hard about something.

or that you don't quite get why it's such a deal that julian started calling lloyd 'older brother' cause the translation doesn't use the word 'hyung'. or that the point of javier and lloyd's bet was that if lloyd lost he would call javier, someone younger than him, 'hyung' which would imply he's older and is a form of showing respect or affection. which is completely different from the 'master' they used in the translation. or how sweet and kind of sad it is that theodore still calls rakiel 'hyung' even when the whole court expects them to be against each other.

or just in general the way the dialogue flows feels much more natural when you consider that it was originally written in korean and not in english

it just,, small things that you don't quite notice unless you already have experience in dealing with a different language than the one you were raised with akjshdkja

[broke-on-books]

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The live action Scooby-Doo movies?

I did not see this ask until RIGHT now (first time on desktop since crab day, second time since Nov 5 2020 [which was DOUBLY experience since I got my phone taken the same day]) so I'm going to assume this ask got eaten on mobile because tumblr, HOWEVER you poked a bear with this ask anon (as I'm sure you knew when asking) SO without further ado: my Scooby Doo live action opinions

So when you say 'live action Scooby-Doo movies' I'm assuming you're talking about the James Gunn films, starting with Scooby-Doo (2002) followed by Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, just due to like, generally popularity and also the fact that I have actually seen those films. However shoot another ask if you wanted me to include Curse of the Lake Monster in this (because I will if anyone cares and turn this into a live-action scooby dissertation, i'd just need to like. watch the movie first) But anyways where I'm going with this is that this post is about the Gunn movies aka the ones with SMG, Freddie Prinze Jr., Linda Cardellini, and ofc our #1 man, Matthew Lilliard.

Okay so my take on these movies is... complicated. I wouldn't say it's as complicated as my feelings towards SDMI, because I watched the live actions way less as a kid and generally care less about them, but still no matter how much shit I throw at these two movies there are parts that I generally like (even love) that stops me from totally condemning them wholesale. Like the fact that these movies are FUNNY! There's so many moments from this duology that are just beyond iconic "like, that's one of my favorite names!" the whole thing with Scooby in the dress at the airport, ET. CETERA (like I can go on!)

The Gunn movies are genuinely SO fun and I can 100% see and understand how they've stood so well in the public view as a representation of Scooby. HOWEVER, this is where you start to see my problems with them. For the general American, (because that is the audience I'm familiar with) ESPECIALLY millennials and younger, who happen to make up the majority of both people on this site AND people I talk about Scooby with in real life, these movies, and the elements they introduced as "quintessential scooby tropes" are the base of their understanding of the Scooby franchise, along with likely some miscellaneous WAY episodes and maybe SDMI.

Which is where I get pissed off. In the pushing of the narrative of "breaking away" from the Scooby norm, Gunn basically invents (aka totally makes up) an idea of what classic era Scooby was like, cementing an idea of classic Scooby into the public mind that is totally disingenuous and just straight up false. For example, in attempting to portray Daphne as having taken strides to be seen more seriously in solving mysteries and defending herself, it pushes the narrative that in the classic era she WASN'T taken seriously, and only existed as a damsel-in-distress prop of a character, which is just not true??? Like yes, Daphne is clumsy, that's a part of her character, and her friends (because, fun fact, the gang ARE friends) joke about it sometimes because that's what friends DO. Framing that in some kind of sexist "that's all she does" lens is just total bull, especially as gang members fall into secret passageways/get lost etc. in WAY ALL THE DAMN TIME because that's how the plot functions! Like are we calling Velma ditzy for losing her glasses every other episode? Of course not, and Fred falls into passageways all the time, not to MENTION Shaggy and Scooby and all they get up to. Also one last thing on the topic of Daphne, like this idea of her mystery solving skills not being respected by the gang is just so supremely bullshit it amazes me sometimes, especially when she was the LEADER (or leader adjacent) through pretty much all of her appearances in the 1980s [Not that James Gunn could look at '80s era Scooby without spitting on it, but I digress]

AND THIS IS JUST DAPHNE! Like the perceptions pushed towards Fred (and Velma, but mostly Fred) through these movies are just as bad! Like okay, with Fred---In these movies Fred is just an asshole. I hate Gunn Movies!Fred. I mean yeah he can be funny but it's almost always so mean! Almost nothing makes me madder than a mean Fred by the way. If he's putting other gang members down (even halfway, like with his whole "dorky chicks like you turn me on too" line, which... ew) then to me something has gone very, very, VERY, wrong in your basic understanding of Frederick Herman Jones as a character. Like he's the cheerleader! He puts himself in between his friends and danger! He loves nets, and traps, and Elvis impressions, and wrestling, and the trapeze, and cars, and most of all he LOVES sharing the things he loves with his friends! (Sometimes to a bit of an extreme. No one wants to hear about your net facts, Fred) And the live action movies just don't understand that at all. And I know there's maybe something to say I suppose in that some of those aspects of his characterization hadn't been "established yet" by the time "Scooby-Doo" came out in 2002. But it's there if you look. For Fred Jones, being the leader means being the caretaker, (he's the Mom friend what can I say) and any version where he's cruel and arrogant and just DOESN'T CARE about his friends in the way he's shown to in the Gunn movies is just so far from Fred to me it's not even funny. And what makes it even worse for me is that this (or at least something similar) is the idea of Fred that has really spread to the popular culture. Just the "leader", the jock that makes the rules, the one that [insert X adaptation here] finally gave a personality and made interesting (something that has been said more times than I can count for pretty much every gang member, save Shaggy and Scooby).

And I haven't even touched on Velma, and how they gave her a bit of a early 2000s smart superiority girl complex against Daphne, plus the whole makeover thing and etc. etc. The Gunn Movies are pretty much what would happen if you took someone who hadn't seen Scooby since they were 7 years old (and honestly had a pretty negative outlook against it then) and tried to "fix" it, only his memory was so bad he just made up problems (and threw in a good helping of early 2000s style sexism with it) convincing pretty much the entirety of the popular culture that said problems exist and that Gunn was absolutely brilliant for fixing them (and then bringing up said "problems" whenever anyone wants to talk about Scooby) and this entire rant has been without even fucking MENTIONING what is probably the reason you, anonymous tumblr user sent this ask in the first place, to I, Swishy "Scrappy Doo Redemption Arc" Broke-on-books (dot tumblr dot com), which is his HIGHLY SUCESSFUL and utterly sadistic character assassination of my number one man, Scrappy Doo.

And I am going to try my damnedest here not to get totally into my highly passionate opinions over what James Gunn did to Scrappy in the first of his Scooby movies and how thoroughly it has pissed me the fuck off because I have been writing this post for over an hour now and if we start to really get into my feelings on this topic it will certainly be a couple of hours more but like. That Fucking Bitch. I give James Gunn personally a solid eighty-five percent of the blame for making my life as a Scrappy Doo fan UTTERLY unbearable with this stupid fucking movie alone, and just his Scrappy crimes would honestly be enough for me to say that I hate this movie, not even considering the numerous Scooby crimes I've been talking about here for the past million paragraphs, but the part about this movie that makes me the MOST mad the most pissed off is that it's actually a good fucking movie. James Gunn wrote two hilarious and entertaining movies that have become beloved in the popular culture for their successes in that arena, while at the same time pissing all over the core themes and messages of the franchise of which it was based, that of friendship.

TLDR; The Live Action Scooby Doo movies (written by James Gunn) are highly entertaining and fun pieces of media to watch, and are widely loved by the general public and looked at with fondness and nostalgia because of that. However, as a hardcore Scooby Doo fan (writing that phrase sounds so ridiculous but oh well) the existence of these movies and their impact on the popular culture can be extremely frustrating (despite any personal nostalgia said fan may have) due to their spreading of a misinformed picture of what "typical Scooby Doo" looks like. This picture is especially frustrating due to the fabrication or exaggeration of problems present in classic Scooby (such as sexism in regards to the girls), as well as giving more ammunition to other problems in Scooby fandom (such as oversexualization, and sexualization in general, which no one wants to see in regards to their children's cartoons, like HONESTLY.) Discussions of sexism and sexualization in Scooby (both of which ARE present and are issues, although not at their worst in WAY) can often lead to an overlooking of the issues that are very present and clear in WAY and have continued since then with far too little resistance (I'm 100% talking about the racism here) HOWEVER that topic deserves at least a dozen posts of its own that I am no way informed or qualified enough to even begin to think about writing. The Gunn Movies are frustrating to many longtime Scooby fans because of these reasons, but for me, and fellow Scrappy Doo fans there is also the added aspect of the demonization of Scrappy Doo in the live action movies and the affects that has had on the popular culture as well, making it uniquely inhospitable to like or enjoy the character of Scrappy. End post.

[hella1975]

this isn't meant to like. make you give your opinion on Discourse™️ or anything I just wanted to ask, but I keep seeing people upset about taylor dating mr. 1975 and I can't figure out if it's bc he's a terrible person or just a greasy alcoholic 😭😭😭 do you know what's up with that guy??? like on one hand I like not knowing things about celebs and I should keep it that way. but also

i, unfortunately, do know what's up with that guy and it's that he's said something problematic about every faction of society at least once. for me i have some weird, reluctant fondness for him because he is just a train wreck and he's such a twat all the time that at least it's nondiscriminating, and i also like that when he sings about mental illness it's bc he's actually BEEN THERE and been publicly a mess bc of it and been addicted to drugs and acted like a dick, and he ACKNOWLEDGES THAT, but also at no point am i gonna jump on the 'he's an amazing person' parade bc generally he is just a sleazy idiot. it is weird watching people suddenly dragging up every single thing he's ever said to be like 'look! this is why he's bad for our tay tay!' when the running joke with matty healy is that he's just a prick. like u dont need to expose his moral fibre. u can just say he's a prick. and also as funny as the jokes are she's still a grown woman who's been around the block a few times when it comes to dating. i think she will be okay maybe

[fastcardotmp3]

Hi, could I get some golden afternoon for the wip game? Happy writing!

you sure can!!! in fact thank you for asking <3

🍂bully me into working on my wips🍂

“Dude, wait, is it hollow?” 

“Kinda needs to be so it doesn’t explode when it gets fired,” Steve shrugs before sealing up his hot water bottle and joining Eddie on the couch. 

His hips throb from the way he sat in one place on a stiff stool for so many hours without moving today, stiff and painful just because he got too focused on a piece different from the small depiction of a leafless tree Eddie is holding with just the very delicate tips of his dexterous fingers. 

“Explode?” Eddie makes a face, something like a wince he’s playing off as being about the conversation and not the gingerly way Steve has to lower himself to sitting, the grimace as he places the hot water bottle leaning against his hip closest to Eddie. 

It was a demodog that fucked this particular part of his life up. Teeth around his ankle and Steve’s helpless hands flailing for purchase in dry, dusty earth as he got dragged halfway through the woods of the Upside Down. 

Hopper had eventually been able to hack into the thing’s neck with a hatchet. 

Hopper had been the only reason Steve didn’t become dog food that day. 

[linguenuvolose]

I do a lot of translation in my job and I've started enjoying it so much more since I started letting myself be a bit more free in my translations. Communicating the message and the vibe is more important than the phrase structure or wording being exactly the same.

[dullahandyke]

sigh actually whatd fix me is getting into shit that nobody i know knows abt so theres no expectations or whatever. my blade of the immortal arc was soooo good for me

[rosemirmir]

akira/hayami for 3 sentence fic?

Bursting right through the door into Akira's office with a yell, Hayami was greeted with a sight that was all too familiar by this point— he was fast asleep on the couch, arms wrapped around two women that he somehow convinced that spending time with him was a good idea.

Akira yawned groggily as he stretched, "Oh, Hayami! What brings you here?" Taking a look at his surroundings, fixing up his wrinkled clothes when suddenly, a cheeky expression formed across his face.

Hayami braced himself for whatever complete nonsense he was about to say.

"Are you perhaps... Jealous?" His hands gestured towards his guests.

Hayami desperately wanted to smack that grin off his face more than anything— but the matters of warriors were much more important right now.

Groaning, "No you idiot! It's Darkzied!" Grabbing Akira by the wrist and dragging him out the door as he desperately clawed at the furniture to stay in place. "Come on already..."

"Wait! Hayami! I was going to take them out to brunch!! HAYAMI! "

[bobzora]

yeah femc has some really solid romance routes but i just cannot be assed to care too much because there are some crazy level yuri goings on in this game

[fourgods-nobrakes]

fic meme - Horus/Lorgar, role reversal AU?

Horus' voice rolls like thunder through the mountains, offering blessings to all the assembled Legions in the names of the Gods he has pledged himself to, and the ringing confidence in his voice shines on the faces of his listeners. 

"Well spoken, my brother," Lorgar says when he finishes, clapping a hand on his shoulder and turning to the assembled warriors. "If our brothers cannot see the truth of the False Emperor's actions, then the black sands of Isstvan V will be their graves!"

[greyias]

Tagged by: @captainderyn -- thank you for the tag! Tagging: @meanbihexual, @keldae, @queen-scribbles (no pressure!) From the little au that could...

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Valkorion had looked down at his progeny with ill-disguised contempt, lightning dancing at the tips of his fingers as he attempted to silence what he saw as the only threat in the room. He didn’t even look up until the cold barrel of a blaster buried itself at the base of his skull.

Which brought Theron back to where he wasn’t supposed to be.

Here.

Standing in someone else’s moment, stepping into a destiny that wasn’t his, and about to set into motion a cascade of events he had no hope of understanding. He was a disgraced spy. A Jedi washout. The Force-blind son of someone else’s greatness. A man always destined to live in the shadow of others.

“Do you really think that pathetic toy will hurt me?”

[shrinkthisviolet]

Before the beginning?

BEFORE THE BEGINNING — three sentences (or more) about something that happened before the plot of my current project

For the Morgan AU, since the written stuff starts around age 7 for her (when Tina starts raising her pretty much alone), this is before that:

In Morgan’s opinion, her dad was the smartest, most amazing person in the universe, rivaled only by her aunt. He always knew the answers to all of her questions, even if he sometimes did the annoying adult thing of telling her to go seek out the answer herself.

Most importantly, though, he always told her to never be ashamed of how smart she was.

“I used to do that,” he admitted to her one night. “Make myself small for the sake of others. There’s no honor in that, my sweet Starlight, except with me. I already know how smart you are…but to everyone else, it looks like weakness. And what have I always said?”

“No weakness in front of strangers,” she chirped, remembering that lesson well.

“That’s my girl.” Her dad kissed the top of her head. “Sleep well, Starlight.”

This is during the time when things are at their best between Eowells and Morgan. She’s grown up past Harrison’s memories of her, so Eowells is starting to love her on her own terms.

(Unfortunately, as we all know, that won’t be enough, given the conditional nature of Eowells’s love 😭)

no excuses ask meme!

[seithr]

heartbreaking: this user enjoys characters who have a romantic relationship that breaks off permanently in favour of a different one, but really hates when fans of the second one get really weird and hostile about the first one, so they're never fully satisfied

[banditchika]

i'll give you several and you can pick and choose which ones you want to do: any rishi ship of your choice, 'place in the sun'; tzia, 'raise the stakes'; pearlina, 'the moment you've been waiting for'

"Put your hands together, Inkopolis!" Pearl crows into her mic, the ocean of pink-teal lights below her roaring its approval. "The moment you've been waiting for--hit it, Marina!"

Marina slides her claws down her keytar, striking the opening keys to Muck Warfare.

Their fans, impossibly, get even more hyped. It's hard to tell with her eyes half-closed, but she thinks she spots someone crying in the front row. Their excitement is the best kind of validation, a feedback loop that has Marina sinking to her knees like a real rock star, throwing her entire body into her playing.

And Pearl, who has always lived for attention, eats it all up. She shimmies across the stage, tossing her head to the roars of the crowd. She's giving their fans the full MC Pearl experience, all quick clean movements and sharp smiles, but even on stage, there are some things that Pearl saves for Marina alone. Marina doesn't need to see to know when Pearl is near, and doesn't flinch at the blazing heat of Pearl's small, blocky hand brushing across her shoulders.

"Freakin' amazing, 'Rina," Pearl murmurs, for her ears alone, before dancing back to their adoring audience.