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[theshadeblindcolor]

I’m knocking these out today 🗣️

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hi! I like threadable replies, but I've noticed that mention notifications are a little different since threadable replies were implemented (I think.) If I'm remembering correctly, we used to be able to click the notification of a mention in a reply on a post & we'd be taken to the reply that mentions us. Now, we click the notif & are just taken to the post itself. This is fine if the post only has a few notes, we can scroll through and find the mention in the replies, but if it's a post with a lot of notes it can be almost impossible to actually find the reply that mentions us. I've had multiple instances where I've been notified someone mentioned me in a reply and clicked on the notif only to give up and not be able to read what they actually said to me because there's hundreds of replies and I'm taken to the post itself instead of the reply I was notified about. I'd love if this could be changed so we could get taken to the actual reply when we click on the notification.

Answer: Hey there, @ecstaticallyelectrifying!

We believe what has happened here is that before there were threads, if you sorted replies from the newest, received a notification, and soon opened the post, the last reply would be at the top.

We agree that it has become harder trying to find the comment that notified you. This is because there is currently no available option to change the sort inside the threads—and because someone might be replying to an old reply (therefore not at the top).

The great news is that we have plans to improve this soon. Watch this space! You’ll get updates over at @changes, and hopefully, it won’t be too long until you hear more on this.

Thanks for your question!

[randomfoggytiger]

1997 David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson: "Best of Acquaintances"

This is a really, really good interview that I shall paste in full here. Highly recommend everyone read it.

(As a slight aside, the line where DD explains the only reason he might consider coming back for a sixth season is... very interesting.)

INTERVIEW

US May 1997 [written late 1996]

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson By Chris Mundy

Now that The X-Files has become a full-fledged hit, can co-stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson survive a salary dispute, tabloid headlines and each other?

It's a golden globe, not a weighty one, like the statues for best drama, best actress and best actor hauled in during this year's X-Files takeover, but a gold-plated key-chain reproduction that comes gift-wrapped in a Tiffany's box and is purchased by idly rich knickknack buffs or Fox executives flush with the show's success and hellbent on sustaining a little momentum.

The trinket rests in its container, which sits in David Duchovny's tidy Airstream trailer on the X-Files set. Duchovny surveys the tchotchke for a moment and then reads the accompanying card. " 'Dear David,' " he says. "'We're proud to have you on the network.'"

Duchovny picks up the key chain, twirls it in the light and leans forward as if he's revealing a secret. "At the moment," he says, "we are the network."

A thin, almost imperceptible grin cracks Duchovny's usual stony expression and then disappears as he stands to exit the trailer. He's right, of course, and he knows it. Fox might have lured Aaron Spelling from a life of The Love Boat reruns; it might even have snatched football from CBS; but at the moment, in the midst of the show's fourth season, The X-Files is to Fox what Elvis Presley was to sun Records. Sure, there were Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis; of course, there are Party of Five and The Simpsons. But 15 million conspiracy theorists can't be wrong.

What they can be, however, is omnipresent. There is a joke on the X-Files set that crew members don't have lives, they have The X-Files. Dark humor abounds when you work 16-hour days, 10 months a year in Vancouver, British Columbia. It's tough to tell, however, whether Duchovny and co-star Gillian Anderson find such things funny. Life is different when you're the poster children for the most scrutinized television series in recent memory. "The fans read into the show a whole lot more than we ever intend," says X-Files director and producer Kim Manners. "They take it apart like a coronet."

So, if The X-Files is a program about obsession that has bred an obsessive subculture, it is also a program about paranoia that has rendered its stars a little wary. "The success of a one-hour series is different from any other success in film or television," says Anderson, who plays Dana Scully to Duchovny's Fox Mulder. "It is all-consuming. It's not this way on half-hour television; it's not this way when you do features. When you're in the midst of it, you can think oh, my God, I can't do this anymore."

Mostly it's the hours – another crew truism holds that if an episode doesn't hurt, then things just aren't working – but there's more. With fame has come not only tabloid scrutiny, which has plagued Anderson in particular this season, but a developing apprehension for both stars that while The X-Files is the acting break of a lifetime, its phenomenon threatens to obscure them as individuals for the rest of their careers. Chris Carter, the show's creator, has battled the same fear by developing a new series, Millennium, which demands much of his time; and both Anderson and Duchovny can alleviate some of the pressure by practicing their new hobby of fielding film offers. Nevertheless, both are extremely conscious of wanting to distinguish themselves from the show, which in turn means from each other.

So, when a request is made to interview the two stars together, the prospects initially do not look good. "I'm my own person," says Duchovny. "Why should we do interviews together? There's enough anxiety about the fact that Mulder and Scully seem to be on entity anyway." But, to spoil this X-Files cliffhanger, Duchovny and Anderson finally do agree to sit down for their first dual print interrogation since the show's inaugural season. Before that, though, they'll be portrayed the way they're most comfortable: separate but equal.

David Duchovny, product of a prestigious New York private high school, Princeton grad and former Yale Ph.D. student, explains his craft. "I had a teacher that gave me a really good lesson once," he says between takes of an ever-stoic Mulder imploring investigators to grasp the simple fact that it was aliens, not mechanical failure, that brought down a 747 somewhere over Pennsylvania. "He had a piece of paper, and he said, 'I like dogs.' And then he wrote down cocker spaniel, saint Bernard, beagle, German shepherd. He circled beagle, and he said, 'I love beagles.' And that was my lesson."

Blank stare.

"It took me a while to figure it out, too," says Duchovny. "What he was saying was that if I like dogs and I love beagles, if we're having a conversation and you mention beagle, I will perk up and pay attention. It's a way of creating a full human being with weird interests. That's the challenge of creating a subtle character that doesn't have to scream out, 'This is who I am!' "

The director signals that he is ready for another take. Duchovny smiles and walks toward the set. "Come check out the scene," he says. "You can watch for my beagle."

In person, Duchovny's This is who I am is as much a whisper as it is onscreen, and therefore much of your time with him is spent searching for clues. He is into basketball and yoga, and he reads voraciously. He has had parts in many movies, including Kalifornia and Beethoven, as well as a break-through role as a cross-dressing detective on Twin Peaks. He will play a drug-addicted doctor in the upcoming film Playing God and has kept his ongoing role as the narrator of Showtime's steamy Red Shoe Diaries (I'm the only one with my clothes on," he says. "I'm like the loser at the hot-tub party who brings a bathing suit"). And not least, he has been linked to more than a few actresses, including Winona Ryder and Naked Truth star Téa Leoni. But despite these tangible guides, it is clear that the 36-year-old Duchovny lives less in Vancouver than he does inside his head – a more private location, without the horrendous weather; and it is his quiet confidence and thoughtfulness that both attract others and keep him at a safe distance. On the set, he is friendly, accessible and funny, while always maintaining a separateness born more from internal detachment than from the external barrier of his being one of the show's stars.

"He's really sensitive in terms of knowing what's going on around him," says Jason Beghe, Duchovny's best friend since ninth grade and co-star of the upcoming G.I. Jane with Demi Moore. "That's what makes him smart, not that he can tell you about Jude the Obscure. He's a beautiful man, and what makes him extra-beautiful is that he doesn't have to walk in and show you that."

It's now late afternoon, and Duchovny, having just finished his onscreen duties, has retreated to his trailer to trade Mulder's designer suit for his own jeans and a sweater. He pulls the sweater over his head, then sits down for a one-on-one interview. It is midway through the fourth season, and he understands that the challenge he faces is less how to maintain the show's cult fervor than how to sustain his own intensity. It is not easy to unleash the beagle continually, and no matter how many casual references he has made to Freudian theory over the course of the day (three, for those counting at home), even Duchovny knows that there are only so many ways to hold a flashlight.

You created this character early on. Now, since each show is driven by strange, outside story lines and you don't delve very personally into your character, has it gotten boring? I like that it's not a melodrama. I haven't had two marriages and gone to AA. Yet if you were to torture yourself at the end of five years and watch 120 X-Files, you would sense that it was a complete human being.

Does the idea of taking a break and making a movie out of your full-time job seem appealing? No. It's not appealing, but it's...

Lucrative? Well, it will always be lucrative. It will be lucrative five years from now. It's because I want to be done with the show at the end of five years, and I don't, at that point, want to do the movie. So, if I bite the bullet and do the movie this year and then we finish the show next year, I'm free.

What makes you feel trapped? I don't feel trapped. Even if I was the guy in Quantum Leap, where he got to be different characters each episode, I would still want to be out after five years. It's just grueling, and it's enough, already. I'm proud of the show, but at a certain point it becomes just about turning out product. The only thing that would make me consider coming back for a sixth year would be Chris' leaning on me and using our friendship as a lever. And I don't see him doing that.

You contributed ideas for an episode... Four.

Is writing something you'd be doing anyway? I think it is, but I had an in with this show. I knew the producer.

Isn't it often the death of a show when the stars start saying, "Wait, I have an idea"? Smashing Pumpkins came to visit the set, and Billy Corgan was wondering the same thing. He said, "Is it like when Elvis got writing credit just to appease his ego, or did you really come up with any ideas?" But I actually did the work and storyboarded the shows with Chris. Ultimately, I would like to write.

As obsessive as your fan base is, that obsession seems like the kind of thing that would annoy you. Does it? It depends. It's no annoying that people love the show. It's not annoying even that people are into every little detail. The only thing that's annoying is when what personal life you do have becomes consumed with dealing with those things.

Like what? People that confuse you with the character. When I first came to notoriety with the show, I struggled against it. I wanted to say, "I'm smarter than Mulder, I'm more interesting." But that's infantile, and you get over that after about a year and a half, and you realize, that's what people want. They want Mulder.

You recently filmed 'Playing God.' Was it a business decision to show you can do other things? It was more of a spiritual decision. You're Mulder to so many people that you want to say, "I'm a Chippendale's dancer, for God's sake. Let me be." The movie was my way of saying, "I'm not Mulder; hear me roar."

How much of a personal life are you allowed? Not much. Just do the math. There's a lot of hours. I'm in a city that I came to for the job. So, it's not like I have a base of friends. But I can see the light at the end of the tunnel now.

What have you learned? I've never run a marathon, but I imagine, the first time, you feel like you're going to die. Now, it's tiring; but it's not scary anymore. Before, I feared for my life, in a way. It sounds a little melodramatic, but I'd get up in the morning and not know if I could make it.

The way your life is now sounds lonely. It is lonely, but I'm not going to sit here and ask for sympathy. It's lonely, but in a Spartan way it's fulfilling. I like having the responsibility and having so much work to do.

Are you able to trust in friendships and romantic relationships, now that you're well-known? I never had trust. [Laughs] I'm not interested in that many people, so it's not like I have much weeding out to do.

Did living in New York give you a tough shell? My nickname in high school was Hayseed. I was from a different neighborhood, and they thought I was innocent like a farm boy. I hated it. I knew what was going on; it just didn't seem like it. What New York does is make you very aware of what's around you but at the same time unaffected by it. It's a real neutrality.

Does your focus come out of that? If you act as much as I do, which is every day, as opposed to four months out of the year, you can't stay in character all the time. It makes you learn how to focus 100 percent right away.

It all sounds very controlled. It depends whether you think control is a nice word or a dirty work. A lot of people say, "Oh, control freak." For me, I get enough nerves and wild release just thinking about what I do and how many people are going to see it. What I do in my own head can be fun. I don't need to sky-dive.

You talk like someone who has been in therapy. I've spent time in therapy. I've spent time trying to figure out who I am with the help of other people. It's so weird how things change. Self-knowledge used to be what the journey and odyssey was about. You went through all this s- - - so that you wouldn't foist yourself on others and hurt them.

Is it hard now that people can't relate to your reality anymore? My own family has trouble with it. So, it must be true. I've asked my mother, "Is it weird that I'm famous?" And even when I say, "I'm famous," it feels like I'm lying. And she said,"Yeah, it's weird. It's weird that people talk about you and people print stuff about you. You're mine."

Is there a responsibility that comes with celebrity? I don't know. I think you have a responsibility to develop some kind of integrity of your own and be true to yourself in some way. The most important thing you have to sacrifice when you become a celebrity is that you rally can't be that whimsical anymore.

Doesn't that make you incredibly self-conscious? [Long pause] Well, I guess you have to consider how long it took me to answer that question. [Laughs]

What's been printed about you that's been hurtful? Specifically, nothing, really. What it is, it's just a lot of noise. And noise can get in the way of personal relationships. It makes it harder to focus on the issue when you have all this noise around you.

What are some of the stranger requests that have been sent to you? People send me wedding invitations. I just think, how odd. Why don't I show up and get drunk and try to f- - - the bride. "You know we did invite David Duchovny, but he got drunk, made a pass at the bride and then got in a fight with the groom."

Gillian Anderson's trailer is much larger than David Duchovny's, but then, she comes with more baggage. There is the type that makes her happy – they type that comes with sharing a space with her daughter, Piper, and the 2-year-old's nanny. And then there is the variety that makes her want to bolt the door and never emerge – like the tabloid stories of her marital separation from freelance art director Clyde Klotz and the sexual-assault charges (made by other women) facing a man she had supposedly been dating. So, if Anderson's on-set accommodations are more plush than her co-star's, she certainly deserves the cocoon in which to escape.

It's 4 o'clock, and we've just now reached the midday break. In a short while, Anderson, 28, will be lying prone on a makeshift operating table; but at the moment, she is warming lunch in the microwave and popping a cassette into the VCR while Piper naps in the trailer's second room. The video is for a one-off dance single she has cut with an ambient-music group called Hal, and the video, well..."It's all me," says Anderson. "All me in every respect, and it's a bit too erotic for what I need to be doing right now." She laughs. "It's going to change."

The single (a spoken-word, not singing, debut) came about as a lark after Anderson narrated a nine-part BBC series called Future Fantastic and loved the show's background music. During this X-Files season, Anderson, who is simultaneously cleaning up her daughter's mess in the kitchen and writhing on the television screen, also has plans to film two small movie parts, as an alcoholic in The Mighty, with Sharon Stone, and as a Southside Chicago woman in Hellcab, with John Cusack. Clearly there are enough sides to Gillian Anderson to ensure she will never be called a square.

"She has a deep intensity about her; it's a real dramatic focus," says Shawna Franks, a close friend of Anderson's since the two were drawn to each other as punk rockers at DePaul University's Goodman Theater School. "But that's just one side to her. She's funny and spontaneous and warm, and there's a spiritual side to her. She can be incredibly goofy."

Anderson's shaping bean in Chicago before her family moved to London and then to Grand Rapids, Mich. "I think it all made me stronger" says Anderson of the relocating. "I never really had close friends. It forced me to rely on myself and become a stronger person." Along the way, she discovered the pains of adolescence and plenty of bad habits, before eventually turning the emotion outward by working in theater in both Chicago and New York. Then cam a few minor parts (in the TV series Class of '96 and the film The Turning) before she got her break with The X-Files.

On the set, Anderson bides her time by mothering her daughter and the rest of the crew. At one point, when director Rob Bowman is unhappy with a take and throws down his headphones, Anderson walks behind the lens and says, "Rob? Sweetie? Are you OK?" It is as if Anderson's own fragility disappears when she takes on the responsibility of others. Where Duchovny exudes a detached confidence, Anderson is all warmth and uncertainty. When there is no one in front of her, her gaze can suddenly drift away as if she is hypnotized; yet when others are near, she is extremely attentive. She smiles and laughs easily; and when you talk to her, she speaks slowly, as if she wants to make absolutely certain you understand.

Do you feel like you're the same person you were when the show started? No even close.

Is that a good thing? It's a very good thing. Everything was very heavy for me for most of my life, continuing into the beginning of this show. I carried a lot of things in my head and in my heart. Over the past two years, greatly due to Piper, my perspective has changed. Suddenly there was a very palpable, important reason for me to get better and to grow up.

You seem more melancholy than I would have guessed. Is that accurate, or is that just a mood? That's accurate. But on the set I tend to be up and goofy and having a good time, just trying not to spend too much time in my head.

Do you know where that comes from? For whatever reason, I came into this world restless and with a certain degree of disease. Wow, I'm trying to find out how to get around something and make sense at the same time. A lot of things have happened in my life. Some is stuff that has happened, some is stuff I've created, and some is stuff that could have been prevented. When things take place that you feel you have survived in some way, there is always the fear of some kind of cloud or doom.

How much have the marriage troubles and tabloid stories forced you to change the way you deal with things in your life? I have adopted a new policy to not comment whatsoever on my personal life. I just need to do that because stuff has been so misconstrued. I say purple and they print pink, and there's nothing I can do about it.

Are you more guarded in friendships now? Oh, God, I have learned so many lessons. Three times in the past couple of years, I have been in a completely open, trusting situation with a friend and just been in shock that they were a different person than I knew. It's scary because you don't want to be so guarded in your personal relationships, but I have not and will not talk to anyone about anything. There are only two or three people in my life that I know that I can trust.

You were a rebel. Did you really go to depths, or was it pretty standard rebellion? The punk-rock thing was an exterior representation of what was going on inside. I never took it to the extreme that I was a huge vandal or beat up on people. But the inside of that went as deep as it could go.

At the beginning of 'The X-Files,' how competitive were you in terms of wanting attention equal to the amount David was getting? It really didn't start out equal. I was coming in off of very little experience. He'd had a great deal of experience in film. So, it was just a given at the beginning. As the show started becoming more and more popular, it wasn't so much that there was competition; it was, "Hang on a second; is it not the two of us?"

The obvious example is the salary discrepancy. So much attention has been brought to this lately, and it was something we were trying to bring up among my representatives and Fox very privately. It started out, rightly so, that I was making less than half than him because he was coming off a lot more credits. That was acceptable at that point, but it has become unacceptable because of the nature of my involvement in the show and the popularity of the character.

Initially, was 'The X-Files' to your taste? No. I was snobby. I swore that I'd never do TV. And this has been incredibly rewarding. I couldn't have asked for a better extended period of time in which to learn a craft.

Were you a sci-fi fan? Never.

Because if this show wasn't done so well, it would be the dumbest show on television. Definitely. I had never watched an episode of Star Trek in my life; I had no interest whatsoever in sci-fi. I was fascinated by certain spiritual aspects of the paranormal – people being able to increase their body energy to the point that they can start fires or heal people. That was fascinating, but it wasn't something I was addicted to.

You play Scully, but do you like her? Yesterday you said she doesn't have a personality. There are many layers to Scully we haven't seen, but I like her mildness. And there's been room now and again for humor and sarcasm.

Does she still have a brain tumor? Yeah.

Does this bode well for her survival? I have no idea.

Aren't you afraid that the contract stuff will not get resolved and suddenly they'll say, "Oh, by the way, Scully's dead"? Honestly, then it would be time to move on. There's nothing for me to worry about.

Of course there's something for you to worry about. You might be off a show that is extremely popular. Of course it would be sad. The closer we come to the end of the show, the sadder it gets. But if it's something they decide they want to do, that's the way the cards will be played. I've got other work to do.

People might know they'll fly when they leave the nest, but that doesn't mean they want to be pushed. At the beginning of the fourth season, I wanted out more than anything. I didn't talk about it with many people, but I was so ready to walk. I have mended that feeling of restlessness. I tend to have an open-minded approach to my life. I believe that we are where we're meant to be at any given time. If I'm not meant to be a part of this show anymore, then there's more to be revealed.

When David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson finally sit down together for an interview, it is politely, like family members who come together a few times a year purely out of obligation but who nonetheless recognize each other's importance in their lives.

It is midafternoon the following day, and the show is on location at a drive-up-style motor lodge that will play home to some suitably strange X-Files behavior, stranger even than Duchovny and Anderson's being queried together. We duck into a rented room and, because the only furniture in sight is something that will later double as an operating table, slide onto the worn shag carpeting in the room's corner.

Duchovny has talked Anderson into the two-for-one interrogation, but now that the time has come, he is slightly more impatient, answering tersely and waiting for the next scene to be completed, because then he will be done for the day. "I'm sorry," he says before we start, "but the second we finish filming, I'm not staying a minute longer." For her part, Anderson seems content to speak at length, if only to ensure that the story is told correctly.

They are not similar people, Anderson and Duchovny, but they are forced together in a coupling that the public views as idyllic, and because of this there is an oddly conspiratorial feel to their interaction. "It's a difficult relationship because it's like an arranged marriage," Duchovny says. "We didn't choose to be together." When the first question is asked – "How has your personal dynamic changed over the course fo four seasons?" – they look at each other as if to make sure they're on the same page, and Duchovny begins speaking.

"It changes all the time, right?" [Anderson nods in agreement.]

Duchovny: It's not that it used to be one thing and it's another thing now. It's cyclic.

Are you in an up cycle at the moment? Anderson: Today, yes. Duchovny: Or else we wouldn't be here.

Is it really that day-to-day? Duchovny: It's like any relationship, only intensified, because we can't take a break. I can't say, "I'm going for a walk." [Anderson laughs.]

There's a feeling that fans want you to be great friends off the set. Duchovny: Or to be fighting.

What's the reality? Duchovny: We've never socialized. Since the pilot, we've not gone out even once.

Why is that? Anderson: Soon after we started, I got married and had a baby. On top of that, after working so closely during the week, the days off are time to spend with other people.

Do you every communicate with each other through the press? Anderson: Well, most of the time when we have discussions about the press, it has to do with mending things and saying, "It's not how I feel." Duchovny: Like, "When I said you were an a - - h - - -, I meant to say mother f - - - er." Anderson: Exactly.

Why don't each of you say what strengths the other brings to the show. Anderson: This is like a therapy session. Duchovny: I think there should be a therapist that works only with television ensembles. Like Dr. Katz, TV therapist, sitting down with the cast of Friends. [Anderson laughs.] Duchovny: OK, I'll start. At this point you can't imagine anybody else playing that part. There's not just one thing she does. She's made it her own part. So, there's nobody else to do it. She brings whatever her talents as an actress are.

What about David? Anderson: One thing I don't think people realize is a lot of the humor in the character of Mulder is not only heightened by David but a lot of times he will add his own lines. A lot of Mulder's dry sense of humor comes more out of David than anything the writers can conjure up. Duchovny: So, what we've come away with is, I'm just f - - - ing like my character, and Gillian is a wonderful actress. Anderson: [Laughs] That's not what I meant.

Do you turn to each other for career advice? Anderson: There have been defining moments over the past four years where we have, not necessarily for career advice, but when we have both been there for each other for support.

Examples? We love examples. Anderson: Well, I won't give any. Duchovny: When my goldfish died. Anderson: But most of the time, we have our own separate support systems and deal with things in our own way. Duchovny: I guess the only thing we'd talk about now is when we want to do the X-Files movie. I think we both want to do it as soon as possible so we can get it over with. [Anderson looks genuinely startled.] Duchovny: Oh. [Pause] I don't know if you do. Anderson: Have we talked about it? Duchovny: We did a little bit early in the year.

So, who will make the final decision about the movie? Duchovny: We're all gambling on Chris right now because he has to come up with a script. Both of us are holding out on other things out of loyalty to him. But it's going to be ugly if we don't do the movie and end up not having anything to do during the hiatus because we waited. It won't be a happy set.

Duchovny stands. There has been a call from the director, and the two stars glance at each other as if they are pleased to have survived something together They walk out, one after the other; and a few minutes later, as the scene starts and the camera rolls, Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny immediately morph into Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, the partners considered to be one of television's most romantic duos. It is a feat of incredible closeness, considering the two characters have never even kissed and, stranger still, considering how naturally it happens once the camera rolls.

As Kim Manners explains it: "They're totally different human beings, but they can just look at each other and know exactly where they're going in a scene." He stops for a moment before continuing: "It's weird. David and Gillian are best of acquaintances; Scully and Mulder are best friends."

CONCLUSION

Bits that caught my eye:

-David and Gillian are both melancholic, driven people who spend more time in their heads than not.

-They are both also humorous, with his aptitude leaning towards dry wit and hers towards "goofy" antics.

-David convinced Gillian to do the interview.

-Gillian is always in a cycle of eagerly signing on a project, despairing mid-way through, then becoming anxious about leaving or ending it (post here.)

-Gillian doesn't know how the cancer arc will resolve (a sentiment often repeated on the show by its writers and actors.)

-David's remark about Carter not using their friendship as leverage made me pause. (One wonders if that's exactly what CC did-- which contributed to his and DD's distance in Season 7-- and tried to do with GA during the Revival.)

[biggymeatpie]

Heyy darling i was wondering if i could request Inho x reader who is younger (ofc over 18) and plays games. And when inho was undercover as player 001.

Let’s say another voting finished and reader was a but scared for night and she asked inho if she can snuggle with him for protection and it ends in some smut (of course if you write that) if not just some cuteness maybe just kissing than

Mr. Young-il

Hwang in-ho x reader

Oneshot!!

Warning: finger, getting eaten out, death, mentions of death, nervous reader, cursing, some angst I think? Sorry if the writing is bad

masterlist!!!

Summary: young-il is one of your team members. He promised to protect you and that's what he does.

Every player stood on the platform as it spun and sang a familiar childhood. You had made it to the 3rd game with the help of your group.

You held young-ils hand since he said he would protect you from now on.

Young-il was like your knight in shinning armor, He was handsome to. He was quite older than you but you didnt

The platform stopped almost causing you to fall. But young-il caught you.

"Ten players"

The lights started flickering as you held onto young-il. You looked around as other groups came to your team

"How many are with you?" Gi-hun asked player 120 (hyun-ju)

"Four" she grabbed her team.

"Hey we are five people!" Another team told gi-hun before they were grabbed by some other group.

Your group combined with 120's group was only 9

"We're running out of time!" You told gi-hun

"We need to go gi-hun" young-il grabbed 456s shoulder.

hyun-ju quickly grabbed player 044 and you all ran off the platform

"Room 44! The light green room!" Gi-hun yelled

"Light green room!" Dae-ho yelled.

Your heart was pumping as you ran with young-il hand in hand. The whole thing felt like a horror movie. It was chaos everywhere. People were getting pushed out of room, they were on the floor.

Everyone ran into the room and the door locked shut. The timer ran out and all you could hear where screams and gunshots.

You were shaking as you looked at the people in your room.

"Every person in here owes me their life!" 044 yelled.

"Oh my...you almost gave me a heartattack" jung-bae sighed, she looked at 222 and her belly. And then glanced at gi-hun

"You are here for a reason. You were draw. By destiny." 044 smiles. You looked out the window of the door and saw the dead bodies get taken out.

"Dont worry, i wont let anything happen to you" young-il reasured you.

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The doors unlocked and a new round began

The music filled the room. You lookrd around, you were so anxious, your palms were sweaty and you clung onto young-il.

"Ring-a, ring-a, ring-a, ring-a,ring-a"

The music suddenly stopped

"Five players" everyone looked around. You counted quickly. It was 6 people, you looked at young-il before he quickly let go of you.

"What? What are you" you muttered.

"4 people i need 4 people!" Young-il walked away.

"Young-il!" You yelled as gi-hun grabbed you.

"Cmon we dont have a choice!" Dae-ho said and You guys ran to a room.

"Young-il!" You yelled out the little window thing trying to see if he was alone.

The doors locked and gi-hun quickly pulled you away as gunshots rung through everyones ears.

"Hes ok" jung-bae reassured you and gi-hun.

You just nodded and went to jun-hee (player 222)

"Are you ok?" You asked player 222 and she nodded "did you hurt the baby?" She shook her head.

You ran out the room once the doors were unlocked.

"Young-il! Young-il!" You shouted. And looked around

"Mr. Young-il!" Dae-ho shouted before young-il came with a smile on his face

You ran to him and hugged him

"What the fuck is wrong with you!" You pushed him

"Oh thank god!" Jung-bae hugged him and everyone smiled.

"I was worried for a second. Im glad you made it" gi-hun nodded

"People say im very friendly you know!" Young-il smiled

"Hey.. so i just realized if the next round is 6 players, we wont need an extra one!" He laughs

"Huh?" Everyone looked around confuses before jung-bae laughed

"Ohh! Becausee the baby" jung-bae explained and everyone laughed

"Oh but what if their twins!" Dae-ho laughed

You smiled and the next round started.

The rest of the rounds were a blurb.. only until the last one. All youremeber was the ladys voice shouting 2 players and young-il was dragging you to a room.

Another player yanked you off of young il. You quickly recovered and saw young-il open the door. You ran inside the room and froze at what you saw.

Young-il quickly came into the room and closed it until he realized what you saw.

"Hey! We were here first!" The man stuttered and looked at young-il.

"W-what do we" you looked at young-il until he put the man into a choke hold.

You stared and held the door closed before it locked shut. You closed your eyes when you heard a crack from the mans neck.

You mumbled something but the gunshots covered over your words.

The round was finally over.

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You sat next to young-il when voting was happening. You were scared he was going to pick stay. He said he wouldnt but you didnt know if you can trust him

Your still kind of scared of how easy he killed that man

"You know...if i hadnt did what i did we wouldve been dead" young-il spoke in your ear.

"I..." you gulped slightly

"I know... you did what you had to" you nodded quickly

"I dont want you to hate me... i did what i had to." He pointed out.

"I know!" You shouted kind of. You were annoyed of the conversation

"We all have blood on our hands in here. Its fine" you snapped at him before your number was called

"Player 103" the guard spoke and you walked to the machine.

Your sweaty palm smacked the X button and put the patch on.

When it was young-ils turn he looked at you. You made an X with your hands and so did gi-hun. You prayed he would press X, and closed your eyes when you heard the button.

You waited a few seconds when you heard some cheers around you and saw him with the X patch. You let out a sigh of relief and he came to you.

The voting was finally over. Half the players voted to stay here. Once again.

You were kind of mad at 001 because you wouldnt be here if he voted X the first round.

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Gi-hun made a plan to steal the guards guns and find the control room. You prayed it would work and end the games for good.

The plan was smart but would risk alot of peoples lives.

You were shaken by the thought.

The lights were out and you were silently crying. You wiped your tears and went to young-ils bed.

"Young-il" you stood infront of his sleeping form and shook him a few times

He lets out a groan and opens his eyes "hm?"

"Im scared. Can i...stay with you for now" you whispered.

"Okay" he nods and scoots over for you can lay near him.

You tugged on his blanket and went under it. You were making a bold move but you wrapped an arm around him and put your head on his chest.

His breathing hitched for a moment before he carresed your hair.

"Itll be ok. The plan will work" he whispered sweet things into your ears.

"What if something bad happens to you?" You sat up on your elbow.

He shakes his head "how about... if something does happen. I make up for it now?" He smirked slightly

"What?" You muttered but was cut off when he slammed his lips into yours. You quickly kissed him back, and he got on top of you

"Wait..here?" You quietly smiled. The thought of having sex in public turned you on but you were still scared.

He quickly covered himself with the blanket and tugged your pants and panties to your knees. He hid between your legs and let his tounge work his magic.

You bit your lip trying to not moan. His hands gripped your thighs to make sure you dont squeeze them around his head.

You made all kinds of faces as you tried to not be loud. You let out shaky breaths and gripped the bed sheets. You looked arkund to make sure everyone was asleep but gi-hun was guarding everyone.

You looked the other way to make him not be suspicious. Young-ils tongue slipped into you and his fingers played with your clit. Right before you were about to have an orgasim he got out the blanket. You let out a sigh and rubbed your red face

"Whyd you stop?" You whispered to him and he pulled your pants up. He laid beside you and slipped his hand into your pants

"Its easy like this. And nobody will catch us" he smiled and kissed you next before slipped his fingers into your wet aching pussy. You opened your mouth and gasped.

It was kind of loud but nobody caught it. His fingers where like magic. He knew every spot to hit. Every move to make.

You quickly cummed on his fingers and you let out out a shaky sigh.

He licked his fingers clean and then wiped the rest on his shirt.

You quickly put you hand and his pants and stroked him. You wanted him to be at ease to, since he helped you.

"Thank you... for protecting me. And taking care of me" you hands went into a faster pace. He let out a small whimper.

You smiled and went faster before he let his load out onto your hand. You licked it off and kissed his tip clean.

He went in to kiss you before a scream broke out. You both turned your heads to where the scream was and gi-hun woke everybody up. And warned to hide under the beds.

Your legs were shaky but young-il quickly pulled you under the bed.

Their plan just began, and you did not know the horrors you had ahead of you...all you knew was that young-il better be ok after whatever gi-hun decides.

[fyeahhollanov]

irasachsfilm Connor Storrie, actor, filmmaker.

[emilsendo]

SPECIAL FOR ALL THE PEOPLE THAT SUPPORT ME/OR LIKE MY WORKS! ❤️❤️ Love ya, guys! 👀✨️ I realize I'm not here often. But that's because of school(studies) and a lack of time for more creativity. For that, I apologize and give you an "early Valentine's Day special."

(because I know damn well that I will forget to post it on Valentine's Day🧍‍♂️)

TOKYOREV!CHARACTERS REACTING TO YOUR PROPOSAL TO THEM

Type: Fluff❤️

Characters: Manjiro Sano(Mikey), Ken Ryūguji (Draken), Baji Keisuke

Part: 1! (I am planning to do more parts as a form of my apologize)

Gender of reader: Male

Warnings: swearing, crying from happiness/emotions ofc, emotional, fluff, romantic/chaotic, mentions of marriage (I mean-), male reader, homo/gay couple, mentions of death(who watched manga know that Mikey still remember), etc

‼️ALL CHARACTERS ARE ADULT AKA 22+, NO DEAD CHARACTERS‼️

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Mikey stares at you for a good 10 seconds in absolute silence.

His black eyes grow as wide as saucers, his mouth slightly parted, and the dorayaki he was holding falls into his lap and shatters into pieces.

He doesn't say anything. He just stares.

Inside, his brain is doing a short circuit "He just… what? He proposed to me? Me? Me?!"

He, who had never thought beyond "another fight, another party with Toman, another death of someone close," suddenly has a vision of… marriage. With you.

After those 10 seconds, he suddenly throws himself into your arms with such force that you almost fall off the park bench/off the couch in your apartment/etc.

"Y/N… seriously? Seriously?! Do you want to be with me… forever?!"

He hugs you so tightly that you feel every muscle in his arms, and at the same time, his voice trembles like a little child who's received a dream gift.

He starts showering you with kisses – cheeks, forehead, nose, lips, neck – everywhere he can reach.

Between kisses, he repeats over and over: "You're mine. Mine. Only mine. No one will ever take you away. Never."

If you had a ring with you, he puts it on his finger immediately and never takes it off.

He looks at it constantly, twirls it, and smiles like an idiot.

If you didn't have a ring (because, for example, you proposed spontaneously), the next morning at 6:03, he's already dragging you by the hand to the jeweler.

"Pick something simple for me! I don't like flashy things... but I'll take anything from you!"

And in fact, it makes you buy two – one for him and an identical one for yourself, because "we're supposed to be the same."

Mikey isn’t thinking about a normal wedding.

He's thinking about something like: a ceremony on the roof of a skyscraper in Shibuya at sunset or at a racetrack, with motorcycles in the background or at the old Toman headquarters, because that’s where it all started. Draken has to be a witness (and he has to cry because Mikey tells him to), Baji and Mitsuya have to make a bridge out of swords (because why not), Emma has to be in charge of the flowers and decorations.

After the first wave of euphoria, he grabs your chin, looks you straight in the eye, and says quietly, but with such intensity that it sends shivers down your spine:

"You know that once you say 'yes,' there's no going back, right? I'll never let you go. Never. Even if you try to run away, I'll find you. Even if you die, I'll find a way to bring you back. You're mine forever, Y/N."

And he kisses you so hard it hurts, like he wants to devour you.

From that moment on, Mikey practically never leaves your side. He sleeps at your place, or you at his—sleeping separately is not an option. If you leave for the store after 5 minutes, he calls three times, "Where are you? I miss you." If a stranger looks at you for more than two seconds, Mikey immediately places his hand on the back of your neck and glares at you. "He's mine. Look elsewhere."

The first time after the proposal is... different.

Mikey is both desperate and gentle. He hugs you as if he's afraid you'll disappear. He whispers things in your ear like: "You're my husband... my husband... keep saying it.", "Say you love me. Say it again. Louder." "You're finally mine forever... I love you, you idiot!"

But at one point, his voice cracks and he just nuzzles into your neck, trembling. "Don't ever leave me... please."

Mikey and the Thought of Kids (unexpected but true🧍‍♂️):

A few days after the proposal, as you're lying in bed together, he suddenly says quietly, "I want kids. With you." You look at him like he's crazy, and he just shrugs. "Not now. But someday. I want a little Y/N who looks just like you. And rides my CB250T."

And he smiles so sweetly that you forget it's the same guy who once smashed someone's face in with a single kick.

Toman's Reaction?

Draken – shocked, but happy. He hugs you both and mutters, "Finally, someone put an end to him."

Baji – yells, "MIKEY'S FUCKIN' GETTIN' MARRIED!!!" and immediately plans a bachelor party with hundreds of beers and illegal races.

Mitsuya – tailors your suits/jacket and cries secretly because "it's so beautiful."

Chifuyu – takes pictures of everything and cries openly.

In the middle of the night, when he thinks you're asleep, he hugs you from behind and whispers into your hair: "Thanks to you... I don't want to die anymore. I want to live. For you. With you. So don't ever leave me, Y/N. Because if you leave me... I'll truly fall apart."

Draken totally didn't expect the proposal.

Ken is the type who always thinks he should be the one making the grand gestures. In his head, he's the one who's going to propose someday – probably somewhere nice but simple, with a ring he'd buy with his hard-earned money from the garage.

When you suddenly drop to one knee in the middle of your date (maybe on the roof of the old parking lot where they like to hang out in the evenings, or at the little ramen joint that's become their haunt), Draken literally freezes.

He looks at you, eyes wide, mouth slightly agape, and his mind is in total chaos: "Wait... is this happening? Now? Holy shit."

At first, he thinks it's a joke.

Draken: "Y/N... stop, fuck, don't do this to me..." (laughs nervously, but his voice cracks)

You: "Ken, seriously. Marry me."

Draken: He's silent, looking at the ring, then at you, then back at the ring.

"...You... you're not joking, are you?"

His physical reaction is louder than his words.

When he realizes this is actually happening, Draken does something very uncharacteristic of him – he starts crying. He doesn't sob like a child, but tears just stream down his face, and he doesn't even try to hide them.

He grabs you by the shoulders, pulls you close, and hugs you as if he's afraid it'll all disappear.

"Fuck... yes. Yes, I'll marry you." (His voice is shaking, but there's so much relief and love in it that it hurts.)

The first thing he says after "yes" is something very Draken-esque.

"But you know that when we get married, I'll be the one carrying you over the threshold, not the other way around, right?" (He tries to joke to lighten the mood, but everyone knows he'll get carried anyway.)

He doesn't let go of your hand for the rest of the evening. He holds so tightly it hurts, but you don't even point it out. Draken keeps glancing at the ring on your finger (because, of course, he put it on yours first to see how it looks like), then at his own (You had to force it on him because Ken was too moved to do it himself).

Every now and then, he mutters, "I can't believe this is happening..." or "You're mine... forever, fuck."

He's already planning the wedding in his head (and immediately panics).

"Mikey has to be a best man. If he's not there, I'll find him and drag him in by force."

"Mitsuya will make our suits. There's no way anyone else can do it."

"I want the ceremony to be at the workshop. Where it all began."

"...and fuck, how am I going to tell my 'old man' that I'm getting married to a guy? Although... I think he'd be happy." (Masawei mentioned)

At night, when you're already in bed together, Draken suddenly whispers,

"Y'know... I always thought that if I loved someone enough to propose, I'd be afraid. But now... I'm not afraid of anythin'. Because it's you."

He pulls you even closer, nuzzles his face into your neck, and adds quietly,

"Thanks for wanting to be with me for the rest of my life. I don't deserve you... but I'm not givin' you up."

The next morning, he wakes up first and looks at you sleeping.

He gently touches the ring on his finger, smiles like a lovesick idiot, and whispers to himself,

"My fiancé... damn, that sounds amazing."

Bonus headcanon (because I couldn't resist, I love this man-):

When Mikey finds out about the proposal

Mikey: "Draken... you're gettin' married? To a guy? Seriously?"

Draken (with pride in his voice): "Yes. And if you don't like it, you can get the fuck out."

Mikey (smiling broadly): "Easy, bro. I'll be the best man. But Mitsuya's suits for you two have to be black. And I want a cake with a flag on it."

Draken: "...you little dick."

When you pull out the ring and say those words, Baji freezes for a second, his fork halfway to his mouth (because, of course, you were eating ramen at some smoky restaurant or yakisoba on the street)

He looks at you with wide eyes, then at the ring, then back at you.

"...you... seriously? SERIOUSLY?!"

His voice cracks slightly, but not from emotion – he simply can't believe that YOU did it. "Fuck, Y/N, it's not fair that YOU said it first!"

It turns out Baji had been carrying an identical (only slightly more "baby-like") ring in his inside jacket pocket for a good few months.

He was planning to propose to you on New Year, on the roof of his old school, where he met you.

Now he's furious with himself for getting ahead of himself by six months and that YOU are the first one to get down on one knee.

First, he tries to play the tough guy: "Well... well, since you're askin' me like that... I guess I have no choice, huh?"

But after just three seconds, his cheeks turn red, his ear burns, and he quickly looks away and mutters under his breath: "...yes. Of course, I do, you idiot."

The ring is put on immediately. He doesn't have any "I'll think about it" ceremony.

He snatches the box from your hand, puts the ring on his own finger, then grabs your hand and does the same to you – firmly, a bit clumsily, as if afraid the ring might disappear.

He looks at your hands with the rings and suddenly breaks into a wide, wild smile – that old, fabulous smile with teeth. "So now you're officially my husband, do you understand?"

From that moment on, he emphasizes at every turn that you're practically married. He walks into the apartment and yells from the doorway: "Hey, Chifuyu! I just got engaged, so you better congratulate me or I'll beat you up!"

(Chifuyu, of course, had known all along and just rolled his eyes: "Congratulations, but please, don't throw me a Toman-style weddin'...")

The night after the proposal – Baji can't sleep

You're lying in bed together, and he keeps twisting the ring on his finger and constantly waking you up to ask: "Hey, Y/N… do you really wanna be with me forever? Even when I'm old and bald?", "Do you really wanna have my last name? Will you be Y/N Baji? (OR "Do you really wanna give me your last name? Will I be your Keisuke L/N!?"), "And if we ever have kids… what will we name 'em?"

And so it goes until 4 a.m. There's no way to silence him.

He wants the ceremony to take place in Musashi Shrine(where Toman meetings were) He absolutely doesn't want a suit – he'll be wearing a black leather jacket from Toman and a white shirt open at the neck.

The best man will be Chifuyu ("because he's the one who kept me alive all these years").

The maid of honor will be... Kazutora (Baji thought it would be "therapeutic").

The wedding will include lots of grilled meat, beer, and loud music – no boring toasts.

The most adorable moments after the proposal: When you think he's asleep, and he suddenly pulls you close and whispers in your ear: "Y'know... I never thought I'd have someone like you. Thanks for being here."

He starts signing documents "Baji Keisuke ♡ Y/N" – even on store receipts.

He buys you both matching dog collars with engraved names (yes, he wants a dog. He'll name him "Toman").

A few days after the proposal, you're riding together on his old motorcycle. He stops in the middle of the bridge. He takes off his helmet, turns to you, kisses you hard, and says, "Y'know what, Y/N? If someone had told me 10 years ago that I'd be standin' here with an engagement ring on my finger, plannin' a wedding... I would have punched 'em in the face. And now? Fuck... I wouldn't trade it for anythin'."

[destinedfighter]

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