sometimesweareturtles

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[sometimesweareturtles]

give my heart a chance

呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime & Manga) | 5,680 words | 1/1 Chapters

Itafushi

Fushiguro Megumi/Itadori Yuuji, Fushiguro Megumi, Itadori Yuuji, Sukuna | Ryoumen Sukuna, Alternate Universe - Supernatural Elements, Werewolf Fushiguro Megumi, Vampire Itadori Yuuji, Vampire Sukuna | Ryoumen Sukuna, Itadori Yuuji & Sukuna | Ryoumen Sukuna are Siblings, Oblivious Itadori Yuuji, Courting Rituals, Canon-Typical Violence, Humor, Temporary Character Death, i promise this is not angsty, Misunderstandings, minor sukuna/uruame, Self-Harm

On the best-worst day of Fushiguro Megumi’s life, Itadori Yuuji reached into his own chest and yanked out his heart.

“For you,” he’d said, a spectacularly large grin on his face, the blood from the still-beating organ dripping through his fingers and forming a cushion on the muddy soil, before he’d toppled over and died.

OR, fledgling vampire Itadori Yuuji desperately wants to court 'fellow vampire' Fushiguro Megumi, and goes about it in a totally, definitely, 100% non-traumatizing or questionable way.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83033241

[sometimesweareturtles]

scent of you

呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime & Manga) | 5,020 words | 1/1 Chapters

Inuokko

Inumaki Toge/Okkotsu Yuuta, minor itafushi nobamaki, Okkotsu Yuuta, Inumaki Toge, Zenin Maki, Kugisaki Nobara, Fushiguro Megumi, Itadori Yuuji, Panda (Jujutsu Kaisen), Gojo Satoru, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha Okkotsu Yuuta, Beta Inumaki Toge, Non-Traditional Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, The Shibuya Incident Never Happened (Jujutsu Kaisen), Oblivious Okkotsu Yuuta, yuuta stays in africa for 3 years and comes back post graduation, Pack Dynamics, yuutas nose is uber sensitive and toges scent is the only thing that calms him ;), Attempt at Humor, but also yuutas insecure, Didn't Know They Were Dating, mightve fucked up the tenses in this one sorry icant be assed to fix it

Yuuta’s been dreaming about this day for months.

He’s been separated from his friends for so long that this needs to be perfect. He’s had it all planned out, imagined every scenario four weeks prior, solidified his every movement mere hours after he got the announcement that he was finally, finally coming home after all these years. He’d fold himself back in so neatly into their lives it would be like he hadn’t been gone for three years, and he’d finally have everything he’s been dreaming of again, never too late. His own pack, welcoming him with open arms.

So it’s rather unfortunate that the second he walks through the airport doors and catches a whiff of alphaomegaalphapanda, he promptly spews the entire contents of his stomach all over the tiled floor.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82777546

[sometimesweareturtles]

is it just me or does the name of the "watchers" remind anyone of the constellations from orv...

pieces of media where people are put into horrible situations for the pleasure of those viewing; the way the love of stories is both a positive and a negative. the gourmet association's consumption of stories, dokja's love for yoo joonghyuk keeping himself alive but also keeping joonghyuk suffering. someone else's story can give you strength and teach you skills but there's also a feeling of exploitation in the way the constellations treat incarnations. traffic smp's livestreaming, the adding of different challenges and scenarios to make things exciting to the viewer; the struggles that they have with their fandom playing favorites, starting drama, complaining. i love the idea that the audience is also somewhat of a stand in for the watchers, that within the lore of the series itself there's a commentary on the way the massive audience on youtube both has made this entire thing possible and also continues to throw these people into impossible situations for their own entertainment. that these stories can be so meaningful and give so many strength, but also cause direct harm to the creators and the players and the people consuming the media. i keep seeing jokes about the watchers playing favorites and thinking abt the differences in views and likes across the creators. the concept of double life's soulmates and the audience having certain groups they prefer to see together. i see the flashbacks within animatics and the idea of jimmy's "curse" and think of orv's stage transformation, which makes it more likely for the current situation to follow the favor of the past. if past life is going to be a lore heavy series, im so curious about what that lore might be trying to say.

[berryberrytaeberry]

Not to be THAT ungrateful bitch but obviously aftg is leading up to a Kevin trilogy rIGHt???

Ahem, i will present my case:

We begin our story with Neil, whose mind is essentially: exy, i have my father's eyes, and Kevin. He is so primordially entangled with Kevin that he has a scrapbook shrine to him and 34-57% of us thought this was a kevneil arc. (Not to mention that in another universe it actually is kevandreil). It's like we are getting the introduction to our true mc from the sidelines. In tfc we are also building up not so much towards Neil's healing (moreso his claiming of a personal self thats not Nathaniel) but rather towards Kevin's healing: he covers his tattoo, he confronts his father. We had to start with Neil pov at Palmetto to get this sideways glance at Kevin.

Then we move to Jean at USC. Someone who knows Kevin even more. Our sideways glance becomes direct. But, we still have distance because Kevin played with the plot and sent resident frenchboy to the other side of the country. But so many of Jean's choices, fears, and hopes are informed directly by what Kevin did or didn't do. We are still being toyed with about the unknowability of Kevin Day, yet he is the plot device causing all the strings to be pulled in this story. He calls Jean his brother. Are we assembling Kevin's family?

If trilogy 3 were to focus on Kevin, here's the payoff we would get: the now minor characters (Neil and Jean) have completed their arcs and its put Kevin on a stage to complete his own (you and me both know that man is TWEAKING despite the "ive never been skiing" and queen tattoo. Our man is not on solid ground). We also get to go back to the foxes and potentially watch more development towards some satisfying dismantling of the moriyamas(?) (Unless that happens in Jean's trilogy). Not to mention that the numerology counts down: Neil: 4, Jean: 3, Kevin: 2 all the way to the true number 1.... the inventor of exy: Kayleigh Day.

The last piece of the Kevin family puzzle: his mother.

Neil Josten let his cigarette burn to the filter without taking a drag. He didn't want the nicotine; he wanted the acrid smoke that reminded him of his mother.

And wouldn't it be quite a full circle ending to how we began?

[sometimesweareturtles]

okay ik tgr just came out and yes i have still not emotionally recovered yet but aside from everything else this book rlly cemented kevin day as my favorite character

and ik we just got new content but pls pls pls im begging a kevin day trilogy. doesnt even need to be a trilogy !! even just one book id owe u everything

and considering how much kevin seems to rely on old coping mechanisms and recreating the nest at palmetto, consider: kevin day book(s) about him after he's graduated and entered the profession exy world. no andrew to keep up the buddy system, no wymack who understands him and his alcohol, no neil, no monsters, no foxes, no jean or jeremy, just exy, and it should be fine, no? except of course it isn't

[sometimesweareturtles]

id like to put out predictions here for jeremy's backstory in tgr, based solely on what i remember from my first readthrough with no actual backing

take this all with a grain of salt

so we know it's a family conflict, and that jeremy's (step?)father is a political leader of some sort, but when he thinks about his siblings and being raised he only really mentions his mother. we also know that his siblings blame him for ruining the family and that one of the girls (either cat or laila i forgot) hesitated when naming the number of siblings he had to jean. we also know he dislikes jokes about suicide and that his stepfather makes him take receipts of everything he buys, even though their doesn't seem to be a limit to his spending, except that he's probably not supposed to use it for other ppl (him giving money to the girls after his haircut in cash). we also know that his sister is afforded (assumably) more freedom than he is considering that she lives alone all of the time while he is forced to spend time at home. we know he avoids his brother (whose name i also forgot) with the help of the family butler and that he was completely horrified by the idea that jean's father physically abused him, so it's not that.

therefore my guess is that something happened with one of his siblings (perhaps one unnamed, or perhaps the 3rd/4th that we don't really see much of that i remember), likely having to do with suicide, which is then blamed on jeremy. it is possible that it was jeremy himself who attempted this which is why he is kept on a shorter leash by his parents. it could also definitely have to do with the emphasis his family seems to put on respectability and the themes of homophobia that have run throughout the entire book. i don't think we know exactly when his step father came into their lives, but there's a lot of parallels between shitty fathers throughout the entire series, so i wouldn't be surprised if that had something to do with it (perhaps with parallels to riko and the moriyama's control over jean). to pull in other notable elements from jeremy's character, it could also possibly have to do with a sibling who was disowned and perhaps homeless, which is why there's an emphasis of him giving that man a cafe gift card in the beginning of the book. there could also be something to do with pets, with the emphasis of him really wanting a dog, but that could also just be a hint for the future (pls let them get a dog).

[bidokja]

do you ever think about how we absorb little bits and pieces of everyone we have ever been close to? how it echoes. how heavy and wonderful that is? how we still remember inside jokes with people we no longer talk to, and the favorite wild tale of an ex-lover, and how we say that word a specific way because a friend did that and...and, anyways, totally irrelevent, but ever think about kim dokja just happened to take in the story fragments of a swordmaster and a dragon.

[sometimesweareturtles]

sometimes i wonder whether the oldest dream being taken away doomed kim dokja and company

when their identity is finally revealed, dokja has this epiphany where he realizes that the story has been so willing to accommodate him was because (of course) it was part of his own child-version's imagination who wanted him to win.

but once dokja becomes the most ancient dream (or even during that short part where there isn't one), suddenly the story cannot go his way anymore. and we all know that dokja surviving was never part of his plan.

so were those limitations something that were already in place? or did dokja impose them on himself, because that's what he believed needed to be done?

[sometimesweareturtles]

do you ever think about how the presence of 999th's turn uriel, namwoon, etc. continues to push orv's narrative of "salvation is damnation" (or whatever you want to call it)

because objectively you might think that the people who would transverse worldlines for revenge would be the ones who were betrayed or were pushed aside, like the 41st's shin yoosung. instead, it's the people from the 999th turn - the turn that dokja himself claims to model after, the one whose yoo joonghyuk sacrificed every part of himself so that his companions could reach their ending. it was dokja's favorite turn, but it's the people who were technically saved that cannot find peace when even the 41st shin yoosung does. she doesn't even break into another worldline on her own accord. considering all those "extras" never appear as characters in dokja's worldline, might they even be more content than those who joonghyuk tried to save?

those who are on the receiving end of self-sacrificing salvation never end up happy in orv. and yet the narrative remains ever understanding of those who try, and the audience can't help but support and even participate in their attempts anyway

[sometimesweareturtles]

all that i was meant to be

Boku no Hero Academia | 8,635 words | 3/? Chapters

Bakudeku

Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki & Toogata Mirio, Bakugou Katsuki & Shinsou Hitoshi, Bakugou Katsuki, Midoriya Izuku, Toga Himiko, Toogata Mirio, Shinsou Hitoshi, Kaminari Denki, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Class 1-A (My Hero Academia), Quirkless Bakugou Katsuki, midoriya izuku has explosion, My Hero Academia: Heroes: Rising Spoilers, Angst, Slow Burn, Angst with a Happy Ending, Complicated Relationships, Jealousy, Quirk Theft (My Hero Academia), essentially bakugou gets ofa at the end of heroes rising but gives it back to deku, and since it's a stacking quirk, deku gets explosion, Insecurity, Insecure Midoriya Izuku, It Has To Get Worse Before It Gets Better

Katsuki doesn’t know how or why, but somehow, as his hands spark to life, something deep and resigned inside him says, This is it. This is the last time you’re ever going to feel this sort of power at your fingertips. He just knows, without cause or reason, that this is it for him. After this last explosion, his quirk is going to be gone, snuffed out like a candle under a flood.

And yet, just as he's resigned himself to dying on this battlefield, early, as most heroes tend to, there's the smell of burning caramel from far away, and the boom of a massive explosion, one that causes the sound of the city and the battlefield to white out in Katsuki’s mind and that burns so brightly it blinds his eyes.

Deku.

Or, after the events of Heroes Rising, One For All does not just return to Deku's body without consequence. Instead, it takes with it a stowaway: Explosion. And what is a boy who had everything supposed to do when he is left with nothing?

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[sometimesweareturtles]

buzzfeed unsolved/ghosthunters! ushiiwaoi

where iwaizumi is the cynic who claims not to believe in ghosts but at the same time flips out over every little noise. he screams and grabs the other two when the flashlight goes out.. every other line is just a bleep because he’s so terrified in videos, but at the end he still stands by his beliefs

oikawa who believes in and is fascinated by everything. there is not a single bit of fear in his body. he sees a dark tunnel? he goes in and turns off the flashlight. the doll that’s said to possess people? he’s poking at it trying to get it to do something. while iwaizumi screams he’s excitedly trying to talk to the demons. he nerds out every video and treats each encounter like a fancall with his favorite celebrity.

ushijima who is the confused middle ground. when oikawa goes off on rants about the lore of their visits, he asks so many questions it almost loses its magic. the lights were flickering in the hotel room? shouldn’t someone outside see? what color was the carpet? does the demons voice sound familiar? he gets lost in the haunted house and ends up stealing oikawa’s precious ghost encounter. while the other two flip out (in either fear or excitement), he ponders the architecture of the building to the camera.

[sometimesweareturtles]

ushiwaoi is one of those ships with endless chaotic possibilities. like obviously one cannot neglect their nuances and complicated, tangled storyline, but also ushiwaka was literally obsessed with oikawa for years and is also utterly oblivious to most things, so you know he’d easily be caught in oikawas web and drawn into trouble. he would spoil oikawa rotten, all the while iwaizumi desperately tries to keep order and convince the two idiots that no, they cannot live their entire lives off milkbread or practice volleyball for 24 hours straight, and they absolutely should not paint every surface of their apartment aoba johsai-blue except he’s also a dumb volleyball boy who enjoys fucking around and ends up being convinced of their schemes unless they threaten to cause actual damage

also just imagine the three of them fondly-but-also-jealously gossiping about kagehina. what an absolute vibe

[sometimesweareturtles]

everyday rlly is just a collection of humiliations isn’t it

[sometimesweareturtles]

thinking about way older iwaoi, who had trouble staying together across the sea and instead decided to break up after too many big fights. oikawa hits the age where the peak of his career is over and after fighting the new generation for his spot on the team for few years finally decides to retire. lost without professional volleyball, he travels back to japan to figure out what he wants to do with the rest of his life and reconnects with iwaizumi who is an athletic trainer at a college. there he realizes there’s more to volleyball than being on the top and that maybe distance isn’t a deal breaker if it’s with the right person. it’s a story about starting a new chapter in your life and relearning both yourself and another person and the sport you’ve dedicated your whole life to

[sometimesweareturtles]

all that i was meant to be

Boku no Hero Academia | 6,003 words | 2/? Chapters

Bakudeku

Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki & Toogata Mirio, Bakugou Katsuki & Shinsou Hitoshi, Bakugou Katsuki, Midoriya Izuku, Toga Himiko, Toogata Mirio, Shinsou Hitoshi, Kaminari Denki, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Class 1-A (My Hero Academia), Quirkless Bakugou Katsuki, midoriya izuku has explosion, My Hero Academia: Heroes: Rising Spoilers, Angst, Slow Burn, Angst with a Happy Ending, Complicated Relationships, Jealousy, Quirk Theft (My Hero Academia), essentially bakugou gets ofa at the end of heroes rising but gives it back to deku, and since it's a stacking quirk, deku gets explosion, Insecurity, Insecure Midoriya Izuku, It Has To Get Worse Before It Gets Better

Katsuki doesn’t know how or why, but somehow, as his hands spark to life, something deep and resigned inside him says, This is it. This is the last time you’re ever going to feel this sort of power at your fingertips. He just knows, without cause or reason, that this is it for him. After this last explosion, his quirk is going to be gone, snuffed out like a candle under a flood.

And yet, just as he's resigned himself to dying on this battlefield, early, as most heroes tend to, there's the smell of burning caramel from far away, and the boom of a massive explosion, one that causes the sound of the city and the battlefield to white out in Katsuki’s mind and that burns so brightly it blinds his eyes.

Deku.

Or, after the events of Heroes Rising, One For All does not just return to Deku's body without consequence. Instead, it takes with it a stowaway: Explosion. And what is a boy who had everything supposed to do when he is left with nothing?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34905088

*chapter 2 now up

[sometimesweareturtles]

Ten Degrees Warmer

Boku no Hero Academia | 3,471 words | 1/1 Chapters

No Archive Warnings Apply, Bakugou Katsuki/Kaminari Denki, Bakugou Katsuki, Kaminari Denki, Class 1-A (My Hero Academia), Bakusquad (My Hero Academia), Didn't Know They Were Dating, Bakugou Katsuki is Whipped, Sleepy Cuddles, Touch-Starved, Touch-Starved Kaminari Denki, Huddling For Warmth, Humor, Fluff and Humor, Fluff, Dramatic Bakugou Katsuki, Dramatic Kaminari Denki, Quirk Side Effects (My Hero Academia), todorki is a lukewarm water bottle, sorry it had to be done, for the good of the plot, bakugou & kaminari's quirks both make them warmer than the average person, and thus good for cuddles, i want cuddles

Kaminari Denki’s body temperature is ten degrees higher than the average person’s, which doesn't matter most of the time, but it means everything else is cold in comparison. Including people. And as someone who's overly touch-starved and hates being cold, he really has no option.

He has to ask Bakugou for cuddles.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/36518668

[sometimesweareturtles]

all that i was meant to be

Boku no Hero Academia | 2,808 words | 1/? Chapters

Bakudeku

Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki & Toogata Mirio, Bakugou Katsuki & Shinsou Hitoshi, Bakugou Katsuki, Midoriya Izuku, Toga Himiko, Toogata Mirio, Shinsou Hitoshi, Kaminari Denki, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Class 1-A (My Hero Academia), Quirkless Bakugou Katsuki, midoriya izuku has explosion, My Hero Academia: Heroes: Rising Spoilers, Angst, Slow Burn, Angst with a Happy Ending, Complicated Relationships, Jealousy, Quirk Theft (My Hero Academia), essentially bakugou gets ofa at the end of heroes rising but gives it back to deku, and since it's a stacking quirk, deku gets explosion, Insecurity, Insecure Midoriya Izuku, but like... you're gunna have to wait a while, sorry - Freeform

Katsuki doesn’t know how or why, but somehow, as his hands spark to life, something deep and resigned inside him says, This is it. This is the last time you’re ever going to feel this sort of power at your fingertips. He just knows, without cause or reason, that this is it for him. After this last explosion, his quirk is going to be gone, snuffed out like a candle under a flood.

And yet, just as he's resigned himself to dying on this battlefield, early, as most heroes tend to, there's the smell of burning caramel from far away, and the boom of a massive explosion, one that causes the sound of the city and the battlefield to white out in Katsuki’s mind and that burns so brightly it blinds his eyes.

Deku.

Or, after the events of Heroes Rising, One For All does not just return to Deku's body without consequence. Instead, it takes with it a stowaway: Explosion. And what is a boy who had everything supposed to do when he is left with nothing?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34905088