My Jaw Has Disconnected From The Rest Of My Skull. I’m Going Insane, Chewing On The Walls Of My Enclosure

If a Beel/MC/Belphie sandwich is called "The Attic Club Sandwich," could a Simeon/MC/Solomon sandwich be called "The Purgatory Panini"

i want to eat this art. i love him

BG3. Wyll.

I love him so much. On a fannish level, I think he's my favorite.

okay, can i just say…wow????? like, actually holy mother of everything i would want in a love story??? not to mention the fact that namjoon is my ultimate bias, but the way that this was so beautifully written really made my heart explode. i could NOT STOP SMILING the ENTIRETY of the story, and i think it will be my favorite for a very long time. i have seen @fresh-outta-jams’s work popping up on my dash for a while now, and i finally took the time to really go through & read their amazing work. i really fell myself falling in love in this and it’s not even real? thank you, so, so much for this masterpiece 🥺🥰💞

Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Part 1

Namjoon x Reader Author: Mo Summary: You’re in college when your soulmate tattoo finally shows up: an address. Sending a letter couldn’t hurt, right? Warnings: A couple of swears. Soulmate fluff. Word Count: 2.7k

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,  Epilogue

You stared at the letters in disbelief. They weren’t there last time you rolled up your sleeves. Obviously, they hadn’t been. But they were there now, and they were real and dark and when you rubbed them, they didn’t budge, inked into your skin like a tattoo.

Eyebrows furrowing in confusion, you licked your hand and rubbed at them again, expecting the ink to smear, and yet it didn’t, and you knew deep down that it wouldn’t. Somewhere along the way in your twenty-one years, you’d convinced yourself that you would never get a sign of your soulmate, and so far you hadn’t, but staring at the words, no, an address written in your skin, you knew it couldn’t be anything but that.

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BLINK BLINK. WHAT THE HELL THIS IS GORGEOUS UGH

in my dreaming you'll be drowning Hells below God above all drunk on my love

frighteningly accurate, even. laezel “githyanki would slice you from navel to neck” and karlach “if i’m ever not here to cover it, you leave your left flank wide open”

fucking weirdos (endearingly)

the tadfools + text posts

Some of the responses to my last post have made me realize that maybe Bakugo's trauma isn't as well understood as some of the other characters', and, because I have free time today, I figured I might as well break it down in chronological order and work from there (warning you now: this will be long).

To begin with, there's a lot of obvious things about the Sludge villain incident that would be traumatizing for basically anyone. And as much as Bakugo tried to shove off the after-effects, we know he was scared:

But there are a lot of Bakugo-specific reasons why the Sludge villain really fucked with his confidence and sense of self-worth. For one thing, while we see Midoriya getting attacked, he's rescued by All Might almost instantly. He barely has time to realize he's suffocating before he's free. Bakugo? Not so much. It's unclear how long, exactly, the Sludge villain holds him hostage, but it's at least a few minutes. Which doesn't sound very long until you remember that Bakugo was fourteen, couldn't breathe, and, because he isn't stupid, was completely aware that multiple pro heroes were basically standing around watching him be brutalized and doing absolutely nothing to help.

The only person who did help was Deku. The only person. The only person who gave enough of a shit about Bakugo to try and save him was the person he has the most complicated relationship with: his rival, his victim, his childhood friend, the person he feels both the safest and most exposed with. The person he measures himself against constantly, and internally finds himself lacking. So not only is all of this happening, but Deku—who just hours earlier Bakugo was mocking for being weak—is the one person strong enough to try and do something, and gets front row seats to Bakugo's own weakness.

Then All Might shows up and saves Bakugo from what is, at that point, the most humiliating, terrifying thing that has ever happened to him. But of course Bakugo isn't happy about it; he never wanted to be saved by All Might, and meeting his hero for the first time the way he did? What Bakugo wanted, desperately, was to prove himself to All Might, and instead he's just another dumb kid that got saved from a villain attack by the greatest pro hero who ever lived.

Not only that, but this was in public. It was televized. Bakugo was made so famous for it, people recognized him years later on the street based solely on his face. And while theoretically that's great exposure for him, imagine if the worst, most degrading moment of your entire life was broadcast on live, national television, and constantly brought up like some funny anecdote by people who don't even know you. He was fourteen years old being physically assaulted and strangled in front of the entire country and unable to do anything about it. Not only did that damage his pride, but it really fucked with him mentally. Look at what Midoriya even says about him:

That's not even to begin talking about how much pressure he puts himself under to be the best, no exceptions. He has a full-on panic attack when he loses in Deku vs. Kacchan 1 because he ties his self-worth so completely to winning he thinks of himself and worthless without it. Look how deeply it affects him:

That's not just bruised pride, that's Bakugo dealing with every single one of his insecurities being laid bare in public again. It's gonna just keep happening, too. And sure, like with this fight, sometimes he brings it on himself, but. Holy shit, this poor kid.

Then, of course, we have the kidnapping.

Despite their misapplication of their information, the LoV actually understands Bakugo pretty well. By that I mean, they figured out what affects Bakugo the most and capitalize on it to try and win him over to their side. They attack his image as a hero. Which seems kind of lame and generic, except it really hits home. Why?

Because that's his biggest insecurity, his deep, dark shame: Bakugo doesn't think of himself as heroic.

He's an excellent fighter and strategist, he's fearless, able to work well under pressure, adaptable, quick-thinking, and extremely powerful. All incredible traits for a hero. What he doesn't have is an instinct to save others. Deku does; he'll reach his hand out to anyone, without thought, no matter the cost to his safety/happiness. But Bakugo consistently struggles with this aspect of being a true hero. He's very aware of how important it is—every time he talks about Deku looking down on him, the thing he was laughing at Bakugo for? Yeah, this is it—and how very much he lacks it. And the LoV rubs his face in the fact that not only do a bunch of villains see him as being villainous, but the public he's supposed to be well on his way to protecting do, too. Yeah Aizawa defends him, but of course that whole experience negatively affects Bakugo. Especially because of what comes after.

Deku vs. Kacchan 2 is probably the closest Horikoshi comes to stabbing the audience through the brain with a knife labeled "Bakugo's trauma".

The whole fight is just Bakugo baring his soul in the most raw, heart-wrenching way possible. Look at what he asks Deku:

None of these lines should be ignored. This is Bakugo admitting that he is terrified that every bit of praise he's ever received is meaningless in the face of reality, which has proven that he is not worthy. All Might didn't think so, otherwise why wouldn't he have picked Bakugo to be his successor? Every ounce of skill, all the effort Bakugo has poured into his dream, it all means nothing. Why? Because Deku is inherently heroic, and Bakugo is not. Bakugo knows it, Midoriya knows it (why else would he be laughing in Bakugo's face if he wasn't intimately aware of his failures?), All Might knows it—hell, the whole world knows it. And because Bakugo is his own worst critic, he's gutted that someone like him, someone unworthy, destroyed the Symbol of Peace. His hero.

Does this not look like trauma? Does this not look like a kid poorly dealing with PTSD who's lashing out and trying to punish himself? And trying to purge his emotions the only way he knows how, through fighting? Who is desperately seeking some kind of compassion and connection in Deku, because he is losing his mind and can't keep going? He's a kid who's been given basically zero support, who's been expected to deal with not only being kidnapped and psychologically tortured, but also being the direct cause of Japan's sudden criminal uprising. That is so much pressure to put on a child. Any single bit of Bakugo's experience would be traumatizing by itself, but put together? It's like a personalized hell for him.

And then we have the Moment. The my body just moved on its own moment. Bakugo is so afraid for Deku leading up to this:

And afterward? It really affects him.

He's scared for Deku. He's beating himself up for not supporting him better, for not getting over himself and taking Deku's hand. He thought his closest person was going to die in front of his eyes, and then that person ran away. Of course that traumatized Bakugo.

Now, the reason Bakugo's trauma often gets overlooked (both in canon and in the fandom space) is, in my opinion, because he doesn't express his trauma in a way that's easy to romanticize. It often comes out as anger and violence, loud and obnoxious and toxic. His trauma responses hurt other people, specifically Deku. And in a character that isn't going for poor little meow meow bloodthirsty vengeance-based criminal or abused child with terrible social skills but a heart of gold, it's hard for people to wrap their heads around the fact that Bakugo isn't really a bad kid so much as he's a kid who has had a lot of crap dumped on him and hasn't been given any tools to heal. He doesn't know how to express his feelings easily or clearly when he isn't in the middle of a fight, and he has very few coping skills to help him deal with his crippling self-loathing and inferiority complex. So when he reaches his mental limit, he—pun intended—explodes.

That isn't to say that Bakugo isn't responsible for his trauma responses, the same way every other character is. He absolutely deserves to be taken to task over them, and the narrative has done a good job of giving him one consequence after the other. But at the same time, he really is just a child who is doing his best in a fucked up situation. And while his actions definitely have hurt other people, the amount of mental torment Bakugo finds himself in on a regular basis deserves more sympathy than I think he sometimes gets.

I understand why characters like Shoto get more of the poor baby treatment, because he's the perfect victim: faultless, and his anger is almost 100% directed at the perpetrator, his father. Comparatively, Bakugo's trauma is messy and overflowing and directed at all the wrong people. But that's neither unrealistic nor even all that surprising, given what we know about him. And part of that is because his trauma isn't nearly as straight-forward, since it's so wrapped up in his own self-esteem issues that he blames himself, and then tries to refocus his hurt and anger on Deku to mitigate his own pain.

It's a big part of why I like Bakugo so much; he represents the unappealing side of trauma responses that are so common, but so often get overlooked because they're unappealing. He's a victim who doesn't act the way we want a victim to act, but rather the way they usually do, and for that I applaud Horikoshi on his realism.

i am such a barbatos lover it’s not even funny. “my little tiramisu” in the epilogue had me rolling around with a dumb smile on my face it was so cute.

WOOOO BARBATOS SUPREMACY WOOOOO

THE THREADS THAT BIND

MASTERPOST

GN!MC x Barbatos - Complete

SUMMARY: You're staying at the Demon Lord's Castle when you're bound to Barbatos because of a curse. The curse affects you in odd ways as you work to find a way to break it.

OTHER CHARACTERS: Solomon, Diavolo, a demon OC attending RAD, an OC sorcerer

INCLUDES: Angst and drama, but a happy ending. Some distressing content such as nightmares, will be tagged in the warnings on each chapter.

NOTES: Takes place sometime after season 3 of the OG and includes spoilers for season 2 in later chapters. All chapters with spoilers will be tagged. Also I definitely took some artistic liberties with the mechanics of magic... because I like making stuff up lol. You can find more about my OC Arsenios here!

CHAPTERS

Chapter One | word count 1,182 | includes violence and injury, sorcerer OC

Chapter Two | word count 2,181 | MC recovering from previous injury

Chapter Three | word count 1,829 | Solomon appears

Chapter Four | word count 1,261 | MC has nightmares

Chapter Five | word count 1,217 | a time skip

Chapter Six | word count 1,271 | MC has some troubled sleep again

Chapter Seven | word count 1,024 | spoilers for OG season 2, demon OC

Chapter Eight | word count 1,407 | demon OC

Chapter Eight and a Half | word count 1,377 | a bonus chapter

Chapter Nine | word count 1,775 | demon OC, sorcerer OC, magical violence, MC in pain

Chapter Ten | word count 1,159 | demon OC

Chapter Eleven | word count 1,271 | some angst as MC struggles with their feelings

Chapter Twelve | word count 1,410 | a lot more angst, MC is crying

Chapter Thirteen | word count 1,187 | the final scene

Epilogue | word count 1,910 | nsfw mdni, oral & penetration (reader receiving), pet names, some cheese lol

masterlist | Thank you for reading!

WOOOOOO

People are calling women who read ‘spicy’ novels porn addicts on TikTok and when women responded “um. That’s not what addiction is.” People are going “the first symptom of addiction is denial” like okay buddy.

Bunny Solomon supremacy

here’s my thing: i’m a broke college student who really doesn’t do much with her time in between classes, so om! is a perfect hyperfixation. i play twice a day for each 12 hour ap flash; i get my tasks done for 18 dp on the first flash, then spend the second flash ap on doing events/collecting items/what have you. i don’t mind the 2 dp loss, as it’s gained back pretty easily. however, i’ve gone through all 60 lessons, which took me quite a long time because of difficulty building strength within my cards. at this point, i have a UR card (or even two) for every sin in both battle & memory cards. the devil tree percentages are all around 70 since i don’t have multiples of the UR (which is another issue in itself), and the levels are all maxed at 100. this is BARELY enough to get through lessons 40-60 with glowsticks. my question is: how much time & effort is going to be required for the next season? i don’t want to spend money & im thankful that i’ve gotten as far as i have being f2p, but the game is becoming quickly unplayable for me. the strength of the battles in level 60 are on the high end of the 300k range, which i can only reach with the glowsticks on high powered URs. it takes 100k grimm to unlock another 10 levels on a UR card past the 100th level, and to do that for each sin in just the battle cards is 700k grimm- NOT COUNTING how much it will cost to ACTUALLY up the levels. are you joking? the monetary system was fine even a year ago because progressing in the game wasn’t locked behind the fortress of a paywall that it is now. listen- i played mystic messenger. i’ve unlocked every route & played through every DLC. that definitely cost me, but i have not spent over $300 for that game which i’ve had for FIVE YEARS & unlocked ALL THE CONTENT for. the writing is good in mysme, and i was satisfied with every purchase. for om! i cant say that i would be satisfied with any purchase (besides merchandise), which makes me sad :/

We deserve better.

I say this every time and I’m going to say it again: Obey Me needs to make money. I do not mind that fact. I do not mind that some cards are locked behind a paywall, like the charge missions and such. I get it! A free game needs to generate income somehow, and those that contribute to it get special bonuses as incentive. I get it, and that’s cool.

However, it’s gotten a little ridiculous.

This is the second thing that’s been hidden behind a gacha pull requirement. Last time, it was the memory card that required you to get the limited gacha UR without upping the odds a little bit. That was crazy, but I let it slide because at the end of the day, it was just one memory card. Not a big deal.

However, to have a set of home screen images and make some freebies after logging in a certain amount of days (Satan’s) and some needing a gacha requirement (Lucifer’s) is kind of ridiculous. Make UR cards hard to unlock, that’s fine! It feels like if some Devil Tree unlocks just gave you another card. Frustrating, but forgivable. But the fact that there are multiple of the same item, the only difference being which character it features, that requires you to spend some sort of in-game currency while others do not, is ridiculous.

This is coming directly after Lucifer’s birthday event, which not only included a key system many users (at least, those on twitter) have complained very vocally about, but also increased the amount of points needed to get Lucifer’s birthday event UR. 

The events are becoming near unplayable for f2p people and those who do pay but cannot constantly shovel money into a mobile app. Honestly, the writing in the later seasons (actually even in the first season) isn’t even worth money to read. On top of that, even though I love the undateables, as they try to add more screen time for more characters, their poor writing gets stretched even more thin. I love the game, I love the lore, but the quality is not worth the effort it takes to participate in any part of the game. 

The events are too difficult to get any good rewards from unless you get the luckiest gacha pull every time - and even then, you might not be able to get an event UR.

The stories skyrocket in difficulty for most players I’ve seen (that weren’t here from the beginning), and levelling up cards takes so much grim and so many materials that it takes weeks just to get one up - and that still might not even give you the strength you need.

Rewards and challenges are almost always locked behind some kind of paywall, to a degree, and gacha rates are abysmal for a game that is now so reliant on the outcome.

I don’t know why exactly (other than greed) this is happening now. If we need to back off on the anime and the unit songs to get funds directed towards a more playable game, I feel that’d be a fair trade. It’s fantastic to see characters we love get more recognition, but the foundational content sucks. In my opinion, it isn’t worth a penny to read the terrible writing for 15 seconds with an anime beau. But I shouldn’t be locked out of progress for not wanting to spend money on this game.

I don’t know. I’m so so tired and frustrated, and I get that, again, since I have not spent money on the game I don’t have the same influence in my say. But this is ridiculous that the entire game is nearing unplayable. Something needs to change.