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prequel to this iguess🤥

I love them sm 😞

people hating on free harmless fics is lowkey weird, you're getting a free 400k+ words amazing literature just go have fun bro...

In an alternate universe….we could’ve had them as our second gen starters

you professed to offer greenflower but secretly you severed the bloom of its roots and placed the stalk in barren soil

you monster

I am very glad to be included in the list of people insane abt your aus. Anyways, tell me something about your graveyard shift au. It seems vast and I’ve been a little nervous to go figure out what the deal is, but everything you’ve been saying makes me very curious. How did Lloyd meet(?) ghosts. Does Red ever get mad at QuietOne over shapeshifting? How are the three of them friends AND enemies (delicious, but. how)? What’s Harumi’s whole… deal?

Also— would you like me to make some sort of sign off so you know it’s the flirty anon even when I’m not being particularly flirtatious?

Oh wow yeah so TGS is VERY complicated but I will answer to the absolute best of my ability. Yap session incoming:

How did Lloyd meet(?) ghosts? < so, this is pretty early. Lloyd is something called the Conduit (original I know) which means he's a liminal person with unfettered access to the Veil's energy - basically, he's the death avatar. he doesn't know this, though, because Misako's been keeping it secret by having him wear a vengestone/deepstone ring (i haven't decided which kind of stone to use yet) that suppresses this stuff. he also lives in a very not-liminal area. however, after getting moved to Jamanakai, he's surrounded by liminal energy. Harumi, who rlly wants him using his powers, gets him to take a job at the local graveyard. a few weeks in, he's shot while going home late at night. when he wakes up, he discovers he can suddenly see ghosts. He meets the Ninja ghosts bc he decides to go back to the graveyard to 'confront' his trauma after being shot, only to find five different ghosts Very Excited to bother him haha

Does Red ever get mad at Quiet One over shapeshifting? < hmm idrk? I haven't thought ab this one too much haha. she definitely hates Harumi post-reveal, and hates Quiet One on principle, but I don't think she has much beef with the actual shapeshifting so much as the steps taken to get there (aka murder and cannibalism sorry Harumi babe). Honestly, she's more pissed off about being lied to and manipulated than anything post-reveal, and pre-reveal she just doesn't want the fucking world to end. Also, Q is annoying. that's. that's the whole thing of their relationship pre-reveal, Q play-flirts with Red and Red finds her annoying lmao

How are the three of them friends AND enemies (delicious, but. how)? < fantastic question! so, this au was completely upended from being just Lloyd and Harumi centric with a side of Akita to full on Lloyd, Akita, and Harumi because of the anime SpyxFamily I'm not even joking. So, basically: in 'civilian' form, they all attend the same school. Lloyd meets both of them his first day, and gets super attached immediately bc they're actually Nice to him (he doesn't have friends what a loser /j). He doesn't know either's true identity. Akita gets attached to Lloyd as well bc she's been isolated for a while, and for a hot minute she and Harumi are Friend-In-Laws. Harumi is purposefully manipulating Lloyd, but eventually her love for both of them becomes real. Once ghosts start Doing Shit around town, Lloyd starts Vigilante-ing to protect Harumia and Akita, following a school-wide possession. The Quiet One is trying to kidnap him for his powers, and is the one summoning said ghosts. Red is trying to kill them both - Harumi, bc she's actively trying to end the world, and Lloyd simply bc he has the potential to (an 'eliminate the threat' situation) - to protect Harumi and Lloyd. So: Harumi knows Conduit is Lloyd, doesn't know Red is Akita. Akita doesn't know either identity. Lloyd also doesn't know either identity. It's like Miraculous but with murder and body horror

What’s Harumi’s whole… deal? < hoooo boy. so... hm. okay. Gonna do this rlly fast and simplistically so if you want some deeper info send me more asks. So: at 6, she contracts Veil Sickness (Veil-based disease that affects liminal ppl) and dies. Her parents find the Preeminent's cult and give up their own lives to resurrect her - this has not been replicated. This is the story she is told when she wakes up in a pool of blood. In reality, her and her parents were targeted as part of the cult's experiments with resurrection. She is told she is evil bc to bring her back, her parents' souls have been broken beyond repair, and cannot move on to the afterlife. They're trapped in eternal agony, tied to their decaying bodies. fun. Eventually, it comes to light that Harumi has developed the ability to shapeshift into anything she kills and eats the corpse of. She is manipulated into using her unique powerset to aid the Preeminent's escape from the Veil. She's manipulating Lloyd bc the Conduit is the only one who can power the Realm Crystal, which is the only thing that can bring the Preeminent through. She thinks the Preeminent will fix her parents if she does this. Obviously she won't, but. y'know. In the AU proper, Harumi is: Harumi the best friend, Quiet One, Jade the stray cat, Brad the eventual boyfriend (oof), and mysterious shooter. She's very very fun to me personally I love her so much and istg she gets a redemption arc. the entire fic is her redemption arc even if it doesn't look it I SWEAR

I love your asks sm anon and I would love a little sign off. Ty for having such beautiful deep asks for me <3

march 29, 2024 — not enough

the shower i took tonight was cold

thought of the words you said the other day

the way you said it still makes me fold

you felt what i did, had no more to say

i don't like thinking about it much

easily makes me cry and such

i know the years are good enough

but you know you can't blame me for not acting tough

and i'd like to teach this one day

making the most of something means

you'll never get enough of it

so bittersweet feeling this way

you're always gonna miss every little bit

and i hope that in another reality

we'd never have to live through calamity

palms could breathe without fatality

and you'd smile without the distance i see

— reddestofscarves, 11:46pm

bruh i need help-

i just read in another life EVEN THOUGH I DON'T WATCH HAIKYUU!!

uuughhh i'm fucking crying sm rn ;-;

i don't even watch haikyuu!! yet bokuaka is like my fav ship UUGHHHHH WHY DO I DO THIS TO MYSELF

anyway how's your night going? :')

what could have been

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Day 61, 62, 63

Yearning

I've missed plenty, but never this way, it feels like a part of me left and has yet to return. I can't help but feel incomplete whenever I'm not with you.

Come home love,

R.

Things I have cried at this past month:

That one episode of Doctor Who with Van Gogh

The Supernatural episode where Sam tells his imaginary friend he doesn’t need him anymore

The Haikyuu fanfiction In Another Life

Things that should have made me cry but didn’t:

Episode 25 of Banana Fish

The sad gay I love you

In another life I would be feeding seals right now

im dying laughing rn

i binge watched 911 like two weeks ago and yk now im just watching some edits whatever and theres a clip from the episode where buck is unconscious after being struck by lightning and i dont remember the number of the episode so i look in the comments and some is like s6 e10 and e11, i think nothing and go look up the name so i can find fics about it and tell me why

i looked up s6e10 read the description to make sure its the right episode, stopped and went "huh, i dont remember ever watching that"

I NEVER FUCKING SAW THE ACTUAL EPISODE WHERE BUCK GETS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

i always just thought it happened off screen, im dying rn, that feels like such an important episode, like bro literally dies and they have to bring him back and i just never saw it

In another universe, we'd still be exchanging paper rings and letters to each other down the hallway. In another universe, we graduated together, our names honored in our speeches. In another universe, you would still take me home by letting me ride on your motorcycle, using the hot pink helmet you bought just for me. In another universe, we moved in together and bought a golden retriever, we named her Honey. In another universe, I proposed to you. I proposed to you in front of our friends and family and a candlelit dinner. Just the way you envisioned your proposal to be when you were thirteen, I read your journal, you didn't know. In another universe, we were happy. Content. Satisfied with our life. We were happily discussing bills and taxes, I would hum your favourite songs in Sunday mornings to wake you up, you would cook us breakfast knowing I burned anything I cooked as long as I was in the kitchen, we danced to slow songs, we kissed each other good night. In another universe, I was content with a life of simplicity, but in this universe, I did the math. There was no solution that didn't require risk. In this universe, we didn't like risk. We didn't like risk to the point that I lost you, and you lost me.