#with a lot of comfort afterwards

[sandinthepipes]

Ok but what if aziraphale turns Crowley back into an angel without asking or anything while Crowley is still sulking on earth?

One moment he's hugging his pothos, the next he's in heaven burning his sins away.

And some drama and big angst moment happens between the eyes of the two, because OF COURSE. And despites falling was the worst pain Crowley ever felt, unimaginable suffering, traumatizing to his core. This time he chooses to fall again. All in front of aziraphale's eyes.

[goldensunset]

most insane thing ever to me is people saying like ‘i still can’t get over this media’ or ‘i know this is kinda old now but i can’t let go’ and it’s from literally two months after the thing’s release??? still prime hype time?? bestie that is a newborn…

[bunnihearted]

🌷🕸️

[danieyells]

ALRIGHT TIME FOR ME TO GET A TOUCH NASTY FOR A MIN noncon warning

I'm pretty sure Jin's stigma does not work on the pc but god

God

The power to command people to do things and be obeyed? Really? They gave him that!

Like imagine if that worked on the pc? Imagine if he grabbed her by the wrist and commanded her to kneel and she had no choice but to do so? If he commanded her to, she'd be forced to strip in front of him, to undress him, to pleasure him or sit still and be used like a good toy.

Imagine having her abuse coldly narrated and forcefully obeyed because of a power she couldn't control--not her fault but also only possible because of her.

Or being made to stay by Jin's side, hand in his, while he uses someone else? Being told to stop crying about it because "I'm not doing anything to you"? even though she's complicit and being used to rape someone else?

Like. COMPLETELY OUT OF CHARACTER FOR JIN. I don't think he'd do anything like this. No need to force someone when he has a perfectly good boyfriend plethora of people who i'm sure would happily sleep with him.

But consider.

It'd be hot.

[northern-passage]

Genuine thought as a fellow trans dude, I’ve seen a lot of (obviously non-serious) questions on other blogs about characters’ genitals such as “how does it look like?” and similar, and I think we all know & understand that such questions are extremely inappropriate to ask and (I hope) no one would actually go around asking these questions irl. Idk, I think we should treat trans characters just like cis ones, without any special “precautions”, so to normalise them and not make cis people treat them like fragile boxes, a thing which happens to a lot of us irl. Hope this doesn’t come off as an attack or anything lol.

no worries, i didn't take this as an attack at all. i actually agree with you, that's why i mentioned feeling conflicted about it and also mentioned that i've changed my stance on how i felt about handling Noel and Clementine in game and in explicit intimate scenes.

however, for me the problem comes from the fact that people... don't ask these kinds of questions about cis characters? i suppose people do get cheeky "who is the biggest 🤪" asks but i would hardly compare the two. to be a bit crude, no one is going to be asking if a cis character has a dick or not, or "what does it look like". of course it's natural for people to be curious, and i honestly encourage the open discussion and am happy to see trans bodies being talked about more in a positive way, but not everyone is going to be comfortable with it due to the inescapable transphobia online and in the community. sending me that kind of ask is like sending out an invitation for a debate or a discussion that i don't necessarily want to have. i also just don't think people should default to asking a random IF author on tumblr dot com to describe what bottom growth looks like.

and with most of these asks typically coming from someone who is anonymous, i have no way of truly knowing what the tone is, what their intentions are or why this is being asked - is it another trans person? or maybe someone who is just genuinely curious? or, more likely in my experience, is it someone who is going to immediately follow up this message with something transphobic after i answer? do i want to roll the dice and find out?

so while i agree with what you're saying, it's important to consider the context and the reality we live in. the IF community is not kind to trans people or trans characters. and as a trans person, my first priority is protecting myself and my mental health. so what i mean when i say "precautions," is that those precautions are for me, because i've had to deal with transphobic harassment here for years now, and i try to mitigate it as much as i can. it's also for my personal comfort - again, to be blunt, i'm simply just not comfortable discussing a trans character's genitals with anonymous strangers on the internet. it makes me feel vulnerable.

also i do want to say i didn't mean for any of that to come across as a dig at other authors - if you're comfortable answering those kinds of questions, that's really only something you can decide for yourself. like i said, this is just coming from my own experiences in IF and for my own personal comfort - i have previously talked a lot about trans stuff and gender and sexuality here, when i'm feeling up to it, but it is something that is very draining for me and can also be very upsetting.

basically: i do agree that it's important not to other trans characters or treat them any differently than cis characters, but i also think there are ways to do it that don't require me answering invasive questions or questions that i don't feel comfortable with as a real life trans person, you know what i mean?

[orangesand-lemons-234]

jojo x buttons is underrated, anyways, ANGST.

TW: Nightmares, Past-Abuse

JoJo still remembered his family. Sure, he was dropped off at the convent when he was only 11 years of age, but things said and done to him before that time would stick with him forever.

It always hits him at night. Random nightmares would strike him out of nowhere and in the most inconvenient of times in his opinion.

This night was especially bad.

His brain seemed to have brought him right back to the afternoon it happened. He was only 9 at the time and had been sitting at the kitchen table. His mother and father were fighting in front of him and didn't seem to be stopping anytime soon.

They were screaming at each other, a bottle in his mother's hand that she was swinging around as she fought. Something about finances and taxes, he didn't totally understand at his young age.

It was when his father went to hit his mother when JoJo started to cry, standing up and yelling at them both to stop. This would prove to be a bad idea when suddenly a glass bottle was thrown in his direction.

He narrowly dodged it, the glass shattering behind him, leaving him near enough paralysed with fear.

His father started walking in his direction, but he was unable to run away or fight back, he just stood there.

"Josephino, what'd I say about trying to intervene in grown-up conversations?" His father inquired.

JoJo tried to speak, but no words came out. He couldn't respond to his father no matter how much his brain was yelling at him to.

"Josephino, answer me!" He shouted. "Joseph. Josephino, are you listening?"

"Josephino, listen to me!"

"JoJo?"

"Joseph Andrew De La Guerra, answer me before I make you answer me."

"JoJo, you're okay, just slow down for a second."

JoJo shot up from his side of the bed, grabbing onto the blanket as tight as his hands could. His head was spinning, and his breathing was although he'd just ran a marathon.

When a hand was suddenly placed on his back, he nearly fell off the bed trying to move away.

"Hey, Jo, it's just me. It's Buttons, okay? I'm right here." Buttons whispered, moving in front of him. "It was just a dream honey, it wasn't real."

JoJo crawled into Buttons embrace, wrapping his arms around his shoulders tightly, as if he was his final lifeline.

"No, Buttons, he was- he was right in front of me, and he was gonna- he was gonna hurt me again, the same way he did to mom and- look, I promise I'll behave-" JoJo stuttered, the memory replaying in his mind again.

"It's over now, you're safe, I gotcha now." Buttons hushed, brushing his hands up and down JoJos back. "Take a breath, just slow down for a second, okay?"

JoJo took a deep breath, calming his heart rate as much as he could. Buttons ran his fingers through his hair, spinning a strand around his finger.

"You have these a lot, don't you? Nightmares about your parents?" Buttons asked quietly, not wanting to frighten him more.

"Mm." JoJo whined. "It's the same thing over and over, it's always that same evening again and again."

"But it's over now. And I hope you know that I will be right here anytime it happens to help you afterwards." Buttons said calmly.

JoJo smiled into his shoulder, manoeuvring himself to be a little more comfortable in his arms. Buttons ended up pulling him back down under the blanket again, but still holding a tight grasp around JoJo as he did.

"They can't hurt you now. You got the nuns, you got Jack, you got Race and Albert... you got me. And we won't let them ever touch you again." Buttons uttered, smiling slightly as he did.

"Thank you, Buttons." JoJo replied, grabbing onto his hand.

"Anytime Jo. Now go to bed, it's still 2am."

[blue-eli]

Old au drawn pre-Playernort being disproven, but it’s cute so have it anyway. Explanation under cut:

So basically this Player is the part of Xehanort’s heart that remembers being Player. Also the part that has morals. While Terra is possessed he finds himself on Xehanort’s heart station and is approached by this Player, who seems sorta out of it but friendly. Terra comes to the conclusion that Player is in a similar situation to him and befriends them. They keep each other company and Player tries their best to make sure Terra isn’t lonely, but slowly but surely they start slipping- both in their facade and mentally. Eventually they come clean: they aren’t trapped here by Xehanort they are Xehanort, but at this point Terra doesn’t really have anything else besides the memories of his friends and Player has been nothing but nice to him (plus triggers his Big Brother Instincts™️) so he’s a lot more forgiving then he probably should be.

Some facts about this Playernort

-minor shape shifter, can only take forms they took when they were alive.

-when particularly distraught they turn into a young Xehanort, mainly chess Xehanort but sometimes child Xehanort, always grey-eyed.

-is very much purposefully deceiving Terra about not being Xehanort at the beginning, their reasoning for doing this isn’t necessarily bad but it’s still not great.

-Terra ends up enjoying their company more when they look like chess Xehanort, it’s the form where they seem the most honest and some part of him is oddly comforted by the fact that Master Xehanort was once this kind young boy.

And a little thing I wrote:

Xehanort: ...

Xehanort: I want you to be happy.

Terra: what?

Xehanort: not all of me, what I’ve done to you is proof enough of that but...

Xehanort: the part that I am, the part that is here, I want you to be happy. You *deserve* to be happy.

Terra: ...

Terra: ...thanks

[theeflowerofcarnage]

Update on my emperor solo romance run- at this point im just failing upwards as bhaalspawn i failed to stop isobel from getting kidnapped so the slayer got forced on me by the butler 😓 and the first time i transformed was in front of the emperor in the astral plane....everyone had a lot to say after that

But look at us who would've thought .... not me :)))

[thehappiestgolucky]

Me: Listening to a song on repeat

My Brain: Pspspsps

Me: No-

My Brain: Markoth and Xero don’t fight, they’re mature adults and any disagreements get sorted without drama. But the infection grows and they’re getting stressed, they’re getting worried about their family and the kingdom.

Markoth’s getting worried for Xero - his symptoms getting worse as he keeps pretending that he’s fine. One of the biggest symptoms being heightened aggression. These times are few, but when a discussion starts getting heated the difference is almost unbearably noticeable - the worst part being that the words hold no venom, they just want the best for each other. They want each other to be ok.

One time Xero slammed his fist against the table as he raised his voice, startling everyone around. It was silence after that, the two uncharacteristically sleeping apart. Perhaps Markoth heard Xero mutter to himself, wondering why he keeps getting so angry lately - frustrated knowing there isn’t anything he can do. The morning they apologise, unspoken knowing, that the fights could get worse the more the infection progresses in Xero. Xero, as horrible as he’s feeling nearly all the time, is determined to keep it in check. They can’t let it get worse. They won’t let it.

They know, at the end of the day, that any of these more heated arguments are never out of hatred, never trying to harm. They can hold each other afterwards, knowing that they can forgive each other for it’s never in malice, that the emotions stirring are causing everyone grief.

The whole family knows this is a matter of circumstances - they know Xero isn’t aggressive, they know the two aren’t so ready to pettily bicker about things, they know they hate when these few louder arguments happen.

Few times these fights happen. And to this family, a few times too many

Me:

[madamescarlette]

Absolutely wild how much more meaningful and warm and kind and gentle life becomes when there are people you love in it!

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

Okay, but consider: Rex is caught in a time loop on Umbara, as the only one

TW for Umbara's everything, except I traumatize Rex even further. I intend this to be something of a fix-it or at least hopeful, but like, there's implied suicidal thoughts and. lots of um. Heavy Angst. ask to tag please

The first time is horrible. Like. canon. Then he wakes up again at the beginning of the campaign and-

He's wary, and tries to tell himself that it's a dream. He knows it's not. He tries to change things but it doesn't end up too different than before.

He wakes up again. What's going on? He's still trying not to aggravate Krell too much, these lightsabers tearing through his men still haunting his dreams. He stands his ground more often than not but it's a dangerous game - again he loses.

He wakes up again. This must be some sick joke. Fives and Jesse - they know something is up. He tries to save as many men as he can, tries to stop the friendly fire before it can really begin - not much changes. It's him that kills Krell, but at what cost?

He wakes up again. He barely gets to his feet. He can't see themm all die again. He goes regardless, because what if he makes a difference this time? What if he manages to save them? The time loop is irrelevant as long as he gets another chance. He fails.

He wakes up again. Nothing works. He doesn't want to get his brothers killed, but he loses control of himself. Appo takes him aside, puts him on the side lines for this - they don't want to risk losing Rex. Everyone is worried. Rex just stumbles along like it's a fever dream. (If only.) Few things change.

He wakes up again. He just wants to scream. He tries a more offensive approach - Krell nearly loses his temper then and there. A part of him wonders if it would be better now than later, when even more have died. It sends the same as any other time.

He wakes up again. He doesn't have the energy to fight anymore. It's no use. But then Krell sends them against the 212th again - he snaps, he stops it from happening, and he directly confronts Krell once more. He refuses to back down. Krell reveals himself and - this time, Rex ends the day with a lightsaber through his guts.

He wakes up again. He can barely keep himself upright. He keeps feeling the phantom pains of his death - he keeps trying to push through. Nothing works out.

He wakes up again. He doesn't even try anymore.

He wakes up again. He can't do this anymore. He barely registers what's happening - he knows how it ends anyway. He struggles to separate this time from all the previous ones. He it hit by a stray bolt; Kix makes it to him just in time to see him die. At least this time he doesn't have to watch everyone else die.

He wakes up again. He barely speaks, drinks, does anything more than going through the needed motions to appear alive. He won't talk to anyone concerned about him. He can't do this anymore. However this ends - he just wants it to end. It doesn't.

He wakes up again. He shoots Krell on sight. Except Krell reflects the bolts back to him - Rex dies laughing and under the horrified gazes of everyone around him. What use is there in carrying on?

He wakes up again. His body refuses to get up. He doesn't care either way. Skywalker pries out of him what's up - it's a long and gruelling process, but the Force tells him that Rex speaks the truth. They try to change things, but even Anakin knows he can't just attack Krell like that. He still has a hard time actually believing it, too. He sends Ahsoka instead of himself and stays, and they end up with less casualties.

Then he gets called to the battle above the capital in an Umbaran fighter - he's the best pilot, after all. Rex stays, and it's going so well - but everything keeps gnawing at him, his living nightmares keep resurfacing, he crashes.

It's an Umbaran that hits him, but at least he now has an idea of how it might work. Maybe, if he's lucky, the time loop breaks when he saves them.

He wakes up again. Approaches Skywalker directly. Krell is greatly displeased when he sticks around and... it seems to work. And still, when Anakin is forced into the medbay, he sends them against the 212th. But Rex knows. He tells his men, has them marching without helmets on. They don't start firing and got to arrest Krell. This time, they have Skywalker on their side - and Krell still murders many of them, but only a fraction of the casualties of the other times. They execute him for treason - and with a Jedi on their side.

Then he wakes up again.

And for a horrible moment he thinks it's all starting again, it's not ending - before he notices he's still at the post they set up.

He stopped caring a long time ago, and as the realization hits that it's over and they made it and they're still alive he starts laughing and crying almost hysterically because... because they're alive.

And it's finally over.

[happy10thousandyears]

Why is it the older I am the harder it is to forgive my mom but at the same time I care less about whether I'm going to forgive her or not ..

[absentmoon]

it just makes his unascended ending even more UURRRRK like his whole image & presentation has been shaped and controlled by cazador for literally hundreds of years he doesn't remember who he used to be or even what he looked like but he still takes it back from him. its so aauuughhh

[a-steamy-roll]

You know maybe I should have known I was trans when I liked putting on girl's clothes in the dress up as a kid and only stopped when my dad called me a sissy and made me feel bad about it

[flitterywings]

I’m so tired 🫠

[patrice-bergerons]

idk all you can ask from people is that they do their best but some days the energy it takes to deal with earnest efforts that fall short of the mark is prohibitively high.