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@doveofdeepspace
lads sideblog ★ sometimes nsfw, mdni ★ mostly queued
ot6 enjoyer; raf main ★ player since feb ‘24 ★ tags below cut
Spicy Leon request if you’re feeling it?? He’s back from a mission and she’s feeling needy/touch starved but doesn’t want to smother him because he’s probably exhausted and has a few places needing bandaging so she tries to solely focus on doing that and the whole time he’s feeling just as needy as her and is like I just need my girl. Feel free to make your own changes and write the spice as you want lol thank you in advance!!!
♱ cw. 18+. soft smut. established relationship.
an. omggg my first leon piece. hope you like it anon <33 thank you so much for this request!
he comes home at two in the morning, which is normal. the state of him is also normal, which is the part that never gets easier. jacket torn at the shoulder, a cut above his brow that’s dried dark, moving like his ribs are aching. you’d been awake on the couch pretending to watch tv and the second the door opened you’d felt the knot in your chest loosen just slightly.
“hey,” he says. like he just got back from the grocery store.
“hey,” you say back. like your heart hadn’t been sitting in your throat for six days.
you get the first aid kit without being asked and he sits at the kitchen table and lets you, which means he’s more tired than he’s letting on. you start with his brow, tipping his chin up with two fingers, and he looks at you from under your hands with those tired blue eyes and you focus very hard on the cut and not on the fact that you’ve missed him so much it’s been almost physical, an ache that sat right behind your sternum the whole time he was gone.
“this one needs steri strips,” you say.
Concerned because I can't stop thinking about:
18+ | Desperate Cowboy Caleb waiting for you to f*** him
[Inspired by "Shoot the Lock" by Graham Barham]
He knew by the tone of your text, there would be no sleep that night.
If the picture of your stocking clad legs had anything to do with it, well, he wouldn't say.
#BRINGBACKVALKO
one kiss each!
Take Me Back To Eden
the sheer harrassment, bullying, and dismissal of dark-skinned players while they were reaching out to infold to fix the horrible lighting (that not only broke immersion, but felt like mockery, it was that bad) should never be forgotten.
these players, particularly africans, were also dragged for no fucking reason by valko antis on the CN side when his trailer was released.
and when valko's cancellation was announced, wallahi i was going through every social media platform. they were the first to rally against infold, demanded he be brought back which paved the way for many of us who felt hopeless, to join them.
so now that a bunch of valko antis & global meatriders of #them are trying to accuse these people for being "performative" & "not putting this effort into the lighting issue" despite never ONCE speaking about it, you best believe getting flamed to hell is the only valid reply.
genuinely it is one of the worst moves valko antis & randos who try to act indifferent can pull because where the hell were you when dark-skinned players were, and still have been, getting cyberbullied & harassed? now you're trying to act holier-than-thou in a vain attempt to use the lighting issue against them? the hypocrisy is actually insane to me wtf
anyways my heart goes out to all the dark-skinned players. even if valko is back i won't touch the game if the lighting still sucks because after everything you guys go through in a fandom filled with bigots, you were the first to advocate for his return. the least infold can do is fix the lighting. it's indescribably unfair how dark-skinned players are always getting the short end of the stick
I wanted to see him tilt his head 😞
I know that I'm a blip of a blog in this fandom. I know my opinion doesn't matter much, but I need a place to get out what's in my head.
Infold fucked up. That's the short of it.
I don't care if you liked or didn't like Valko, because what it boiled down to was greed. Plain and simple.
I said at the very beginning Valko's sudden appearance was weird and rushed. We were always set for a sixth LI eventually, but how they dropped him felt like we were getting a new puzzle shoved with an old one.
Valko was growing on me, I won't lie. His Peter Paker playfulness had me intrigued.
When the livestream dropped, I was also disappointed that, once more, the main feedback had been ignored. No ways to grind diamonds, no updates outside of Valko (which I was actually excited for, because I wanted to see how it all connected), no orbit updates, and a slap sticker "it's coming" update for Sylus and Caleb.
Also...the fifteen minutes of music was weird.
This felt frantically thrown together, and I know I wasn't the only one feeling that way.
But still, I was excited. Valko would add something new into the game again, and the constant banners were causing burn out.
Then to wake up to him being fully yanked? That's wrong.
Plain and simple.
Valko has become the scapegoat for Infold dodging actual issues that they should've been addressing. Hell, this is the same company that was deleting users last year for sending hate birthday messages to the LIs, so what the hell happened?
Why are we turning tail so quick?
Love and Deepspace has been a comfort for me. It got me writing again, and I've met some amazing people through this. We're all hurting. We're all trying to figure out what to do next.
I am asking for grace for fandom creators right now. As my lovely friend, Amy, reminded me, fandom is bigger than the game or show itself.
I will continue writing for LaDS, as it is still a source of comfort for me - Sylus especially. I had a couple ideas for Valko as well, and maybe they'll be fully written one day, too.
But please, be kind to your fellow fandom people who are hurting. And if you are one that is hurting, like many of us, please be kind to yourself. Step away if needed. Make sure to eat and drink something.
We will figure out how to move forward - because humans are resilient like that.
DMs and Anon is open if you just need a safe place to chat or vent or have a moment.
xavliz ✩°🌊⋆⸜ 🎧✮🫧
Reminder that fanfic writers are people and not your personal fantasy machine. I’m not an AI that you can type your prompt into and get an emotionless response from. You have to actually talk to fic writers like we’re people with feelings and not a fucking robot. Some readers have a habit of making a request while not saying a word about the fic they’re commenting with said request on. So it’s incredibly dismissive of the work that is already there! And then the audacity to demand a fic while doing so! If you want someone to do something for you, you usually get better results when you’re kind about it.
Also, how are we to know you won’t treat the request the same way if it actually does get written? How are we to know you’re even going to say a single kind word? We don’t, because you’re behaving in an entitled way that shows you won’t. The amount of requests I’ve taken in good faith where the person who requested it never said a word about it is astounding. Not even a thank you.
Just quit the bullshit. You act entitled, mean, and ungrateful, and then whine and complain when writers stop posting, because you lack the self awareness to see that it’s your behavior causing that. You want endless fic but refuse to engage with the writer in any kind or respectful way. Stop it.
Leave meaningful comments or even keyboard flailing.
im waiting to see how this whole situation plays out, but tbh im not going to be satisfied with JUST bringing valko back as an LI. If the other valid concerns — poor lighting for POC players, no new ways to farm grind diamonds, slow updates to the orbits/main story, no new bond/content for sylus & caleb — are not addressed soon, then the game is a wrap for me. i was already reaching burnout with the game due to these issues, but it’s only escalated tenfold with the current situation. i have a lot of love for my mc and rafayel, but not everything good can last and I fear infold may have put the nail in the coffin.
if i do repurpose this blog, it’ll just become a gaming blog overall to keep all my gaming interests somewhere but DAMN the state of gaming rn sucks too with Sony not selling physical copies of their games anymore. Xbox continuing to not have physical copies… idk im depressed at the state of it all rn.
Issues players had:
-no way to farm diamonds after you reach a certain level
-focusing more on home than anything else
-nothing for the battle girlies
-lack of communication
-lack of main story updates
Devs solution:
-cancel a LI 9 days before he comes out
considering everything, i can't help but feel valko ended up being the scapegoat to avoid addressing these issues.
rant/vent below the cut
You’re 100% right about that this sets a dangerous precedent for the other LI. It’s more than possible that if people bitch enough about a LI they could pull the plug on that character too. This is so bad especially in a fandom known for fan wars between different LI mains.
don't get me wrong, i know lads has a LOT of issues we all want fixed, and we all want main story updates, but i feel like so many people weren’t considering that valko was necessary for main story progression, and by getting rid of him, EVERYTHING will have to be reworked, and main story updates will take EVEN LONGER and likely need to be redone completely to make the lore linear and make sense
and not only that, but i feel like this is SO disrespectful to all the people that worked on valko, it's CLEAR they put a lot of work into this update, making multiple memories for him, putting in all the quality time features, home features etc, and now all of that hard work will have to be scrapped because some big cn spenders didn't like him bc it was "rushed" or they wanted main story (which they're not getting??) or he looked too western or he was too tan or whatever.
like are people forgetting how much fans didn't want ANY new LI being introduced?? are we forgetting the backlash sylus and caleb got when they were announced?? and now they are SO loved by the fandom.
i wasn't around for sylus' release but i was there for caleb's and the backlash was INSANE!!!! SO MANY PEOPLE HATED HIM!!!! and now people love him and are so insane about him
and now they're completely scrapping him, not even holding off and pushing back his release and working on other issues in the mean time (which imo would be the best compromise)
this is an INSANELY bad move on infold's part
TLDR;
disrespectful to the people who worked on it
all content is now gonna take SO MUCH LONGER bc EVERYTHING will have to be reworked (and potentially retroactively reworking memories)
people got over themselves before, let them do it again
sets a bad precedent
man's gorgeous.