I just saw a tik tok talking about the vibes of when they first get to the cottage in episode six and how the first long shot really highlights the awkwardness of that moment. I also remember shane's inner monologue of that scene in the book where he was explicitly thinking about how awkward he felt.
I kinda really like those vibes and was wondering if anyone had fic recs that explore or feature them navigating initial awkwardness of getting together after just hooking up for so long. Like they don't really know how to just be around each other or what to talk about (like ok mr. i have really good water here)
I think he would maybe be into history, especially Russian history. He obviously has a very complicated relationship with his country that involves a lot of conflicts with its current state, so maybe history is way of engaging with it and it's culture that he always felt safe in.
After their public launch as friends with the Irina Foundation, but before they get outed, Ilya takes Shane to Moscow so he can visit one last time and Shane can have the chance to see where Ilya grew up.
I imagine Ilya taking Shane to all of his favorite art & history museums in Moscow. Since everything is written in Russian, they spend hours strolling through them while Ilya excitedly but quietly explains every exhibit, points out his favorite artists and pieces, and details the most interesting moments in Russian history.
Shane does absorb some of it, but history has never excited him like it does Ilya. He spends most of the visit staring lovingly at his boyfriend with stars in his eyes, in awe at the chance to see him so passionate. And honestly extremely turned on by his display of intelligence.
Even though they have to be discreet, Shane has never had a better vacation.
Shane is out on IR so he is staying with Ilya in Boston for a few days. During that time, Boston has a game that Shane is planning to watch from Ilya's house.
After the Bears' morning practice, the boys are in the locker room talking about how nice it is to wake up with your girlfriend/wife and Ilya mentioned that he woke up with his girl that morning because she is staying with him for a few days.
The boys are kind of ribbing him about it and asking if that means she's coming to the game! He says no, that she's injured and working from home while she's with him. They make a joke about how serious it must be if she's injured and they can't *wink wink* but he still let her come over. Ilya says its not that severe of an injury, she's just not having to go into the office.
The boys let it go and start to go home to rest before the game, but Ilya has to stay at the rink to deal with some stuff with the coach and captain's duties. Some of the boys (Marlow and maybe a couple others) decide that since Jane isn't too injured and in Boston, they'll go to Ilya's house and bring her to the game to surprise him!
Shane is just getting out of the shower and hears the doorbell ring and, knowing that Ilya isn't coming home between morning practice and the game, is confused but assumes its just Amazon or something. So he opens the door, dressed in a slighly oversized Boston Bears t-shirt and Adidas track pants, in the middle of toweling off his damp hair.
Cue intense confusion, lots of gasping, hyperventilating, Marlow understands immediately but has to walk his teammates through the implications here.
I imagine they cook up some hilarious yet discreet way to let Ilya know what happened, like Marlow texts him a photo of his front door with the caption, "tried to do something nice, but Jane prefers to watch from home...and refuses to be seen in public with your jersey on ;)"
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I will never write this, but someone else is encouraged to. Pleaseeeee let me know if something like this already exists!!
This book has gotten a lot of hype, so I was hesitant going into it. I hate being disappointed by books with a lot of cult-favorite type of reviews, but I absolutely was not disappointed.
The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
I was not ready for the emotional ride this book handed out. This was a badass novel about all sides of being a woman, and in particular about being a young woman in high school. The Female of the Species has been on my list for months, and I finally read it when a friend gifted it to me for Christmas. It was dark, it was funny, it was real.
As Alex enters her senior year of high school, she’s finally pushed out of her routine path of not being friends with anyone through a series of unexpected events. What those people don’t know about her, however, is that she killed the man who raped and murdered her sister four years earlier. Alex doesn’t feel like others are safe around her, so she hides. But as the year continues, her newfound friends will come to see the darker parts of her hiding in a broken and driven girl.
Let me just tell you right now, you will never see the ending coming. Not in a million years. It unfolded so fast that I could barely believe it. And secondly, I love Alex. She is the character that I think most girls sick of being a girl in this world want to be. She punches guys who make rape jokes. She doesn’t slut-shame. She attacks men who roofie. She says what she thinks and ignores everyone with something to say about her. This novel is just excellent all the way through. It switches between three perspectives, which creates a really interesting dynamic as we get to see Alex from the two sides she presents to two different people. I can’t say enough about this book. McGinnis confronted so many things we deal with today and presents them in so many lights. She confronts what girls think and say about each other and why that is. She confronts the realities of rape and its effects, presenting different sides of the coin on what justice is appropriate for those who commit such acts. All I can say is that this book is worth the read. I don’t care who you are, what gender you are, how old you are. Read this goddamn book.
Trigger warnings for rape mentions, death/murder/violence, guns, blood, date-rape drugs/roofying, fire, and mentions of sex.
Just a thought that I had that can also be used as a prompt if anyone wants to write it
When Clarke leaves at the end of season 2, Bellamy decides that the adults can handle keeping the rest of the 100 safe and goes with Clarke. Instead of just Wanheda becoming a legend, it's the pair of them roaming the ground and assimilating into grounder culture.
You can make it platonic if that's your style but I'm a shipper at heart so I imagine they eventually get their shit together.
the recent timeline events from quackitys streams as i see it
Disclaimer: everything i talk about here (including shipping, personality, events, etc) is purely about characters ✨not real people✨
the people that have come up with the dreamsmp and plot are incredibly talented and creative, but the created and the creators are ✨separate✨
also id like to say that the quackity lore isnt the only lore right now nor the most important its just something ive been really invested in. ALL MY LOVE AND SUPPORT TO ALL THE CONTENT CREATORS AH I LOVE THEM
Before the elections - the talk with Wilbur
72 hours before the visit - visit with Sam. attempting to convince sam to kill Dream
48 hours before the visit - trying to blow up The Egg
24 hours before the visit - talk with George. discovers they made Kinoko Kingdom without him
making a deal with Glatt
the visit
Quackity taking down the El Rapids sign
things that fit in this time but i dont know exactly when
Qs talk with BBH on Punz tower
the three horsemen
writing the message at Wilburs memorial
key points
Q wants dream dead but knows no one will allow it if dream is the only one with the knowledge of the revive book
Q might want to get the information so he can finally kill dream? he also might want to bring schlatt back to use him as a political puppet, he wants their roles reversed so he can use schlatt but have all the power for himself
Quackity is power hungry. he has been forced into the shadows for too long. he wants control.
its possible Karl didn’t tell Quackity about Kinoko Kingdom because he’s almost forgotten him. the only reason he still remembers anyone else is because he sees them on a regular basis, but Q was away for a while so the inbetween could’ve potentially started to erase Quackity
Sapnap didn’t tell Quackity either because he hadn’t seen him since Q left to build Las Nevadas
my theories
Quackity doesnt know about Karls memory problems and therefore thinks Karl and Sap just left him behind. because of the trauma he went through from his relationship with Schlatt he always felt like the third wheel and needed reassurance that his fiancé’s really loved him
since they got engaged during a war they never had actual rings. Quackity was going to propose for real this time. he used his earnings from the start up of Las Navadas to buy rings and was hoping to have the three of them control the entertainment business
now that they made a kingdom without him he assumes he’s been left behind and doesn’t go through with it. i think this is what could really kick off his villain arc
he refuses the request to join Kinoko Kingdom. he no longer has anyone to hold him back, calm him down, or help him work through trauma. so boom now he might turn into the Onceler. 🎶how ba a a ad can i be🎵 vibes yk
Karl and Sapnap don’t push him because they think he just needs time and they have their own problems to work through. Karls memory has quickly been worsening along with the stress caused by time travel. Sapnap and George have to deal with the fact that their best friend, someone they’ve known since they were kids, is locked in prison for heinous crimes and just killed a guy to see if he could bring him back. their lives aren’t looking great right now.
i think quackitys main focus now will be to get the book information from dream so he can
kill dream
revive schlatt and use him to expand business
even though he wants to be the front man, Quackity is good at working from behind the scenes. i heard theories about him controlling from the shadows, influencing people and manipulating them so he can get money and power and reach his objectives
id like to see more of Ranboo, Michael(if anything bad happens to that zombified piglin i swear-), the Tubbo Administration, and the Syndicate (even if there isn’t a government to take down i just like them)
id also like to see more lore from the gals, idk what kind of stuff they could do currently in regards to lore but everyone has a different story obviously the Las Navadas arc doesnt have to be the central point of the dreamsmp, but im sure they’ve got something planned and im waiting to see it because we support women ❤️
anyway this was just kind of a brain dump im not really sure how much of it is accurate and i will probably change my opinions later but this is how i feel now haha
sorry if it was confusing or too long i mostly did this to explain it to myself so it works for me lol
thanks for reading if you did stick around, feel free to add more
It took me about two seconds to fall for James. I want that man to rail me
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JAMES WAS TOO SEXY TO DIE LIKE WTF WE GOT DILFNAP AND KARL SAID HAHA NO HOT AND SEXY DAD FOR YOU IMMA NEED SOME RECONCILIATION IN THE FORM OF HCS (pretty pls 🥺🥺)
My brain since TTFTS stream:
James James James James James James James James James James James James James James James James James James James James James James James James James James James James James James-
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brainrot headcanons - james (tales from the smp: masquerade)
my dumb thoughts abt this goddamn man ... done super quick because it's just rumbling thru my head rn just. spinnin' around. also TEDDY I GOT YOU BECAUSE IM LITERALLY UEOGHRSG:SRUPORGHP IM (SCREAMS) ITS JUST JAMES ITS JUST JAMES GOING ON IN HERE
warnings: karlnap / karlnapity mentions as well as x reader stuff, nsfw (+18) under the cut, lots of alcohol mentions, rich people hate
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- the idea (not mine originally) that karl grows fond for every single one of sap and quackity’s reincarnations despite slowly forgetting them.... god. the whole "have we met before?" thing affects me so so much,, there’s also something so satisfyingly tragic about karl having to dance out of those reincarnations lives only to start forgetting his sapnap and quackity... sobs
- ... i mean, james has been left by his family and he’s attending this party, probably one of the first since the divorce based on billiam not knowing about it, and he just wants to forget everything and there karl is, soft and friendly and familiar, what else is james to do besides become infatuated with him??
- consider the gatsby implications. (ignore that it’s the wrong era) he’s rich. luxurious parties, luxurious gifts ... not the most interesting taste in jewelry (because rich people suck and that’s one of the reasons why) but he’d be unafraid to shower it on the people (karl... you...) he wants to spend it on,, thinking abt him hand feeding grapes and strawberries after a long hard day of exploiting the working class
- i like to think that he still tries to see his kids, probably a little bit after the divorce (if he wasn’t ... like... murdered lmao) and he’s a lot better with them than the time period would suggest, so every week or two he has the kids over even if the fact that his family literally repeatedly leaves him hurts a lot. he did buy them those old big-front-wheel bikes though
- he’s grizzled ig but we know he’s got a heart of gold (“do you have.. alcohol 🥺...” *realizes he’s rich and powerful* “where's 🙄 where's 😤 your wine 😤”) and obviously it takes him like 2 seconds to start obviously caring significantly about the people around him
- dancing to the merry-go-round of life, half intoxicated and bodies so loose it barely counts as a formal dance
- i ALSO like to think that when karl jumped off the balcony/railing thing james caught him and then they did the shocked-staring-into-each-others-eye while holding each other and then james just kinda... let him slide down and off of them while they dazedly looked at each other.
- doesn’t know shit about anything when it comes to the economy so idk maybe you can romance him into bribing government officials into legalizing unions
- something about him is just lost lmao idk how to explain it but it means he definitely melts when his mask is taken off and someone rubs their hand through his hair
- secret meetings in the stables so you can go riding together? i think so
- this isn’t a head canon i just like thinking about how james asked if lord sebastian was alright with genuine care and then turned around and went “karl!?” with so much relief in his voice after the second time the lights went off
18+ below
- the outfit was sexy we all know this. i love that fanart has given him dilf chest hair and made his shirt fall open and loose like that,,,, PLEASE consider being at a gala or some other high-end party where he's loose from the wine and leans forward to make some low comment to the group and his chest and nipples and torso are just covered in lovebites and bruises
- someone suggested that he has geralt from the witcher titties and i haven’t stopped thinking about it since.... and its not like its wrong because he canonically has a “clearly built body”
- when he leans back to moan but you can only see half of his face because the mask covers the rest... and it’s just this gorgeous dichotomy between static and moving, expressive pleasure...
- i have now processed that built dad bod actually has TANGIBILITY NOW. HELLO? the man has got to be shoulder heavy with the firmest of arms... like ohgfjkdhgjkf just let me think abt the cut of his hips and the tucked in shirt that might be messily untucked later into the night....... nervously rolling up the sleeves so you can see his thick forearms... the suspenders over his shoulder (screams)
- u know when🧍♂️when he was trying to get karl to drink the wine. imagine james with his hand severe on your chin and jaw (or karl’s, whichever floats your boat better), eyes intense as he pours wine down your mouth and throat, the red liquor slipping slowly from the expensive glass and hitting your tongue gently... and he wipes your stained lips with his thumb while staring at them, thick hand sliding down to hold your neck, controlling you even in the kiss
- UH. HOLDING THE BROKEN GLASS FROM A WINE BOTTLE UP TO YOUR NECK WHILE HE FUCKS YOU IN THE WINE CELLAR? (once again applies to either you or whoever you want him to be fucking, ex: c!karl) it’s sharp and it glints off the candlelight but its not going to cut you ‘cause james is careful enough even when he’s fuck drunk and he calls you pretty after he comes with a gruff sigh
- the beds. would be very nice. canopies of decadent fabric and impossibly soft sheets that tangle around him... the morning sun split by the curtains falling over the swells of his body as he fucks you open sleepily, face pressed into your hair and hand over the front of you, keeping you place
- and to complete the image of sexy hedonism: he’s spilled alcohol all over himself on purpose, pouring it over his face and tits chest while the music roars and cymbals crash – i was originally thinking chase atlantic but in case it’d be Only Classical music there’s also khachaturian’s masquerade suite waltz – and his skin is sticky and hot with it when the clothes come off, his whole body ravenous and his hair messy
Since c/Karl doesn’t have control of when and how long he time travels what if right before his wedding he is a nervous reck, but then he is flung into the future where he’s already married and gets to experience that good domestic life for a bit and then returns right before the wedding crying tears of joy knowing that it will all be ok.
thinking about the fact that the first thing we hear about james is 1) he’s divorced 2) his fam is gone and karl’s first instinct was to flirt with him
