sel, happy iwa day!!!! 🫶 To celebrate, the word coincidence?
hello starry!! thank you for celebrating with me!!! 🫶
coincidence
“aw hell no,” you decidedly pivot as soon as your eyes land on a familiar figure across the room.
oikawa tuts behind you, wagging his finger as he effectively blocks your escape, “nu-uh, you promised!”
sure you did. stupid, dumb, two-hours ago you did promise; but that was before—
—before you knew what you were getting into.
—before you knew that coming to this party would bring you face-to-face with a part of the you that used to exist.
—before you knew that you’d have this oh-so-coincidental chance encounter with the good part of the past five years of your life.
“i hate your ass,” you mumble under your breath as oikawa urges you forward.
“ouch,” he pauses for a split second, “good thing it’s your ass heading there now then.”
you’ve known oikawa for most of your life; he’s nosy, annoying, and at his worst, a traitor when he feels the need for it. you’ve known oikawa for most of your life, and for all the years gone by, you know he’s a good friend—the meddling kind that makes coincidences happen like he holds fate in his hands.
tonight, it seems that he’s decided to hold yours.
“tooru,” you sigh, turning back to face him, “i already told you.”
“sure,” he seems unfazed, “told me you both are being so stupid about this.”
you frown, flicking him on the forehead.
“iwa-chan isn’t a quitter,” he stands his ground, “and neither are you.”
you want to cry, if you’re being honest. standing here in the middle of your university’s farewell party, you blend in with a sea of faces you’ve become so familiar with over the past four years. it makes you think of the vastness ahead of you, of the unknown that lies ahead once you step outside of this room.
and it’s instinct, when you search for the familiar spiked hair and that damn green sweater. it’s instinct when iwaizumi stands out so clearly among everyone else—
it wasn’t going to work. you both have different directions, different paths. the past five years were great; they were fun—some of the best years of your life, but you and iwaizumi have decided to mutually end it for the chance of maybe even better years ahead, without either of you tying the other down.
it hurt to admit, and a part of you, small as it was, had hoped that he would be stubborn enough to tell you no, that he was willing to fight tooth and nail to make it work. but the fact of the matter is that he didn’t, and, well—it really only meant one thing.
“it was a mutual decision, tooru.”
“okay,” he proceeds to push you ahead, “tell me that after you talk to each other honestly.”
you wonder why he’s being so insistent when you come close enough to observe iwaizumi properly—his hair disheveled and a look of fatigue beyond belief; there are red spots around his eyes, almost as if he’s kept in tears waiting to be shed. iwaizumi often has a drink in his hand at parties like this—just a cup that he’s filled at a level high enough to refuse more but low enough that it looks like he’s taken a few sips. it’s meant to be a sign of social drinking, but tonight he only holds a bottle of water.
he looks lonely at the end of the room—smiling with sad eyes as people pat him on the back and congratulate him for his offer to move.
when you and iwaizumi agreed to break it off, he had listened to everything you said and made no rebuttals to argue. you’d rehearsed what you wanted to say enough times that you were confident you wouldn’t break down while saying it; you didn’t want to give him a reason to feel bad about anything at all.
but looking at him now—it makes you want to take back everything. you’ve built yourself up to be strong about many things, but not this.
“you know, for some of the smartest people i know, i didn’t think you’d both be so—“ oikawa starts, but is promptly drowned out when a pair of those familiar green eyes land on you.
you’re eyebrows shoot up, caught, but the look iwaizumi gives you makes tears flow down your cheeks like the trickling of water down the sides of a too-full cup.
his lips curl up softly, sending you a gentle smile; his eyes, although a little sad, hold the same love you’ve received over the past five years.
you don’t deserve it—you don’t deserve it when he moves to the side, leaving a space for you to occupy should you come closer. only if you want to.
I saw it and was over the moon with how they adapted everything and so very charmed by the practical effects and the score and everything in between 😭💕💕💕💕💕💕
I'm not as familiar with trigun (mostly know through moots and your writing in particular), but I am so excited for your AU 🥹 I'm assuming vash will be the central character, and that it will be an xreader (?) but what else are you thinking? 💓💓💓💓💓 Will he be Grace, navigating space alone and contemplating the value of his life and experiencing the heights of friendship and community? Will he be Rocky, endearing and reliable alien that finds companionship and a savior for everything he loves? Will it be more abstract, pulling on ideas and themes from PHM but standing as its own world characters? I'm vibrating, I love your writing and I am. So excited. I'd be excited for any more works but. Movie. My movie 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 oughhhh
Please, crumbs, please spare some crumbs 🤲🤲🤲 I want to hear everything and anything
Hi hello hi!
I LOOOOOOOVED the movie, and that means a lot cause I'm not a huge movie fan! Nothing against them, I just don't go out of my way to see them all that often, especially in theatres. But Project Hail Mary was amazing, just stunning and creative and clever and heartwarming from beginning to end. I need to read the book now!
I'm not actually doing X Reader for this one! It crossed my mind, but this storyline fit a Vash and Wolfwood AU so, SO well that I couldn't not do it.
Wolfwood will be filling the space of our wonderful Ryland Grace, and there are quite a few story tweaks that'll need to happen to make it work. Ryland Grace is very much a charming and dorky intellectual, and while Wolfwood can be quite charming and quite dorky, he's not exactly a biologist. I'll get to have a lot of fun making little tweaks to both him and to PHM to make it fit!
And of course, Vash is already pretty much an alien. Lets make him a little bit more alien! Rather than a rock monster, Eridian Vash is going to be a small, skittering, feathered thing, not quite like Rocky in appearance but definitely in behavior and tone! There are plenty of artists who already love to draw Vash as a weird little skritter (dubbed 'Creature Vash' by the fanbase) so art by people like julynoahth and krematic (both on Twitter) are serving as my inspiration.
It'll pretty heavily follow the movie's general plot beats, but with these two playing the main characters instead. I haven't completely decided how much I want to change and add my own flair on, but I have a few more out-there ideas for things I'll probably tweak. I do already have a teeny little blurb for this AU written though (almost more like a proof of concept), so it may go up on here sooner rather than later.
I have other fics in the pipeline too, mostly more X Reader stuff that should hopefully see the light of day some day soon! It's been so nice actually enjoying writing again, and I can't wait to share more with you all.
HOW WAS PROJECT HAIL MARY :DDDDDDD?????? Yayayayayyayyay did you go see it in theaters? The newly dropped online streaming? 🦜🏴☠️?? What did you and boyfie think?? Excuse my enthusiasm, it's my joy and privilege and duty to pester every mutual who mentions phm within earshot, I love it so much!!! (But it's ok if you don't or thought it was just ok, I love talking about that too!!!)
IT WAS GREAT!! we went to see it in theaters last minute since it was a long weekend and we didn't really have any plans lol.
i only went in knowing that ryan gosling was in it and that he was in space and that was about it LMFAOOOO i did not expect to get so attached to that damn pile of rocks. was genuinely tearing up so many times towards the end ghdfjklghfld
idk if people care about spoilers so i'll blab more under the cut
i'm really glad they didn't kill rocky or ryland off 😭😭😭 it really looked like they were going to kill either of them off for the longest time, but i would genuinely be more devastated if rocky was killed off (specifically when ryland went back for him) bc it really feels like it would've been an especially fruitless endeavor for ryland to go all the way back and sacrifice his planet for his friend that died yk.......... BUT i really liked the ending!! after finding out that ryland was like noncon'd onto the mission it really felt like he didn't have any obligation to go back to earth....... i'm really glad he got to live out a chill little life with rocky and being a science teacher again ghdljkghsf
I heard KNY requests were in season and I came running. Hear me out.
Modern college AU Rengoku/Reader fluff where you drop your phone on your way to class (with the student id and everything) while listening to music (so it's open). You're a wreck when you realize, only to find you get an email from "yourself" saying that they picked up your phone and want to meet up with you at X building.
You can draw out the pre-reveal banter as long as you want, but yada yada, you go after class all frazzled to be met with the most jaw-droppingly gorgeous man you've ever seen. He apologizes for going through your phone to get to your email but you're too overwhelmed with gratitude and awe to care. Thus, meet-cute.
You can end it however you wish, but this has been rattling in my head for a while XD
BIG BROTHER NATSUO!!! I feel like my eyes have been opened, it's never occurred to me but it feels like a puzzle piece has slid into place 🧘♀️
NATSUO IS LIKE. THE ULTIMATE BIG BROTHER FOR ME despite not going to bnha like that fjskskksk
back when i mostly lurked/before i started writing i would read sooooooo much about fics with him bc the way writers would write about he feels sooooo much shame about you is always peak. i need him to be on the verge of throwing up over how guilty he feels
Hi 🥺👉👈 I heard you wanted prompts for writing practice so I came to offer help 🤲🫡
It can be for any character (maybe whoever has the nearest birthday if you can't choose?), but the word is "salmon" 🎏💦
P.S. Do you pronounce it "sam-men" or "sayl-mon"?
hi there! thanks for sending in a prompt! 🥺 i'll do kiri! hehe and i pronounce it as 'sah-mon' 🥹
help me get back into the writing groove!
send me a character + any word and i'll write a short blurb about it!
contains: food (salmon), brief mentions of cheating (of a diff couple)
kirishima + salmon
"mama, what does love mean?" you ask your mother, wide-eyed and full of wonder.
you were 10 when you first truly wondered what love meant. in your small town, it was hardly ever the grand things. handpicked flowers from the side of the road, sometimes fields if the seasons permitted; baked goods prepared in the early hours of the morning, its scent wafting down your neighbor's porch.
it was the soft goodbye kisses that your mother would give your father as he left for work, and his insistence that she makes the best damn pie this town has ever seen (even though he's allergic to blueberries). love was simple, and it was easy.
so when you moved out of your small town at 18 and faced the big city, you were shaken by the reality that that wasn't always the case.
"he said he still loves me," your first roommate cried to you, heartbroken as she held out the text on her screen. she had caught him with another girl just hours prior.
at 20, the consensus among your friends was that good sex was just as good as love itself.
"dating these days is fuuuucked," yuki plops down on your couch. at 23, the dating scene has proven to be a challenge for most of your friends.
it's either someone isn't enough or they're too much. sometimes, the truth comes later, months into a budding relationship, and the rest of the group has yet another name to add to the growing list of "people who deserve to eat uncooked rice and stale bread".
you agree, but also don't. because you've lucked out, it seems.
though kirishima believes it to be fate more than anything.
who would have thought that spraining your ankle in sophomore year would land you here, now, sharing an apartment with the cute, kind boy you so embarrassingly tripped in front of.
from across the room, you listen vaguely to yuki rant the third time about the girl who stood her up for the guy who was leading her on for months. you've already set out a plate for her to join you and kirishima whenever she's ready, but you know that it won't be until she's told the story the fifth time that she'll notice she's hungry.
the meal in front of you is miso glazed salmon, a favorite in your apartment. you don't make it so often because salmon is expensive, especially the good kind, but kirishima believes that life is all about the treats you let yourself have once in a while.
there's only one slice of salmon left on the serving plate and it's a given that it belongs to yuki. with how busy work was for you today though, it's hard to hide that you're still a little bit hungry.
and kirishima sees it, in the way you attempt to scoop up any remaining sauce on your plate with your spoon; in the way you go for a bit more rice, even when it has nothing to go with anymore.
so he takes one more bite and cuts off the rest of his slice, scooping it up to place it on your plate.
you look at him, confused, furrowing your brows at the fact that there is no way he's done eating; kirishima eats twice as much as you do, thrice even, on heavier gym days. but he only gives you a sweet smile, red eyes twinkling as he motions for you to go ahead and finish it.
warmth fills you in this moment, fuzzy flutter feelings swirling in your belly.
it reminds you of when you were 10, asking your mother what love meant, and she said, "sometimes, it's when they give you the rest of their food even when they aren't finished, and especially when it's their favorite."
I CLICKED THE WRONG BUTTON I DIDN'T MEAN TO UNFOLLOW I AM SO SORRY
But for the this or that event (TWST):
<Couples Stretching and Trust exercises with Jack> or <Matching Couple Outfits/Accessories with Cater>?
(No worries! I didn't even notice before you had a chance to fix it, haha!)
OOOOOHHH, this one's really tough for me! Both of them sound really, really cute. I think... I'd probably go with Matching Couple Outfits/Accessories with Cater!
"Ooh! What about hats?"
Cater peeks around the clothing rack to beam at you, holding a baseball cap in each hand. Each of the hats has two springy coils jutting out from the top, each adorned with sparkly hearts. You wrinkle your nose a bit.
"They're not exactly 'day-to-day' wear. I'd like something that we could wear everywhere. Did you see these about phone charms? The teddies are really cute."
Cater quickly ditches the hats on a shelf and moves to your side, taking one of the dangling teddy bears from your grasp to study its lopsided eyes. "They are!... Shoot, my new phone case doesn't have a charm loop, though. We could put them on our backpacks, or..."
He trails off suddenly, gaze caught on a display back by the far wall. You follow his gaze and find a pair of mannequins hand-in hand, clad in matching sweaters each emblazoned with an asymmetrical diamond pattern. One of them is red with a large, black diamond, the other its colors inverted. The two of you look to each other, and judging by the grin splitting Cater's face he's thinking the exact same thing that you are.
so cute! I'm so happy you're happy and having a good day sel ☺️🥰 let's play for kiri 🥺?
hello my dear!! 🥹 thank you so much, you are so sweet!!! 💗 and for sending kiri too omg— you're after MY HEART!
kiri is a massive cuddler, as in—will engulf your entire body with his. he sleeps like a brick so good luck getting out of his arms in bed 🥺 (he holds you like a kid clings onto their favorite pillow at night). he'll walk around shirtless in the morning and drape himself over you like he doesn't weigh A TON from all that muscle mass 😭. when you try to tell him you have to get ready for work, he instead, waddles you 😭 full on penguin walks you to your shared bathroom.
he does the same when he comes back from the gym, all icky and sweaty and tired but still as stubborn on wanting to hold you 🥺
send me a character and i’ll tell you a cute relationship thing they do!
