( Chapter 333: Pages of My Life )
( Chapter 332: Owner of a Lonely Heart )
( witnessing fault to every pawn in the game )
( memories in cold decay )
??? Okay, anyone wanna explain to me why the Joker used a flower symbol of a yellow iris? The hanakotoba I’m getting from multiple sites are ‘loyalty, good news’, and occasionally some other positive things? The closest thing is maybe knowledge, like, seek enlightenment and after you find it I’ll take my revenge, or mayyybe at a stretch ‘finally my day of revenge has come, this is good news for me’, but, like??? From its place in the story I always kind of assumed it was a similar meaning to the orange lily.
( i played soldier; you played king )
( being on the other side *hurts* )
tag: title is not a joke, this is your warning the feels train is approaching
( (they can) )
This isn’t where I thought the chapters would be broken up but it works better this way I think.
( memory hauntings )
Facts: 1) Before today, I had never seen Mean Girls. Just not my thing. 2) A friend had me watch it. 3) The best friend gay character is great, and also somehow this happened. 4) Also still Yakuza lyrics (Pride from Despair) for no discernible reason. Though also Vicious by Halestorm.
( this is survival )
prompt: shaun realized that he was in love with desmond after he died. Once they could read others’ memories, he snuck a sample and started reliving desmond’s memories, trying to trigger the bleeding effect so he wouldn’t be so alone. At first, desmond is like “this is pathetic” but feels a little less bad when he sees shaun have a grieving breakdown. 'course, it's an open question whether it's actually him.
...Cold Stone because that’s the first thing I think of when I think of ice cream cakes, and also DC has a Cold Stone. Is it close to their apartments? No clue.
cut this sentence because it twisted the timeline to the point of near-breakage: But between you and my therapist (and maybe my friends pounding it into my skull) I might finally get through to him, and I hope you can too.
Oof, and what makes it worse for Jotaro is that ‘you’ll go and visit some Japanese woman and have an affair and won’t even meet your grandchild?’ No wonder he was so angry when he was talking to Josuke. He really has never been sure his grandfather even loved him, huh.
*incoherent screaming* at least buffy and willow can get through to xander. a bit. this has become my favorite relationship to write and there’s a lot of stiff competition.
Mostly this was a combination of ‘they want this kind of relationship in their lives while also being really really genuinely happy for him’ that didn’t make it into move in circles with ‘oh duh of course Buffy would know exactly what’s going on in his head because they’re so similar, ouch’.
( supportive friends )
xander has yet to work out it’s because leon loves him. xander has yet to understand love, i think. it’s not like he got a good view of what it actually means from his parents.
this was meant to be a companion to learning curve before it got really angsty. it still might be, i'm not sure.
this could probably be seen as this ‘verse’s version of Slayer’s Mad Whelp’s To Build a Home, only it’s not as stable a situation. It’s a little elaboration, really, on themes in stolen inheritance and son of a gun. As such, there are warnings. He’s trying to take care of himself, sort of, but he’s a complete disaster, and only about half of that is Constantine’s fault, the poor kid.
porting to Ao3 is going well! though, uh. there's a lot.
( and Kakyoin can't help but tease him over that fact )
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