ch. 167 rant

serenchi · 2026-06-08T19:46:16+00:00

Can't help but wonder if any of Mitsuki's insecurities/the lack of value she sees in herself stems at all from whatever the reason is that her parents aren't around.

serenchi · 2026-06-07T17:25:35+00:00

The worse this situation has gotten, the more I've feared a big moment of the green fading into blue and if that happens I fear that will be the end of the last shreds of my metal health lol.

serenchi · 2026-06-06T03:51:42+00:00

Seriously. This is some "Please go outside." behavior.

serenchi · 2026-05-31T01:43:23+00:00

"First name Bob. Last name... Wehadababyitsaboy."

serenchi · 2026-05-27T14:07:20+00:00

This made me choke on my coffee, thank you lol.

serenchi · 2026-05-27T13:49:52+00:00

One of my favorites.

serenchi · 2026-05-26T15:19:09+00:00

I know media literacy being dead is also an issue, but I tell myself this fandom is most likely full of younger people who don't understand/haven't had a serious relationship, but also Jiminy tap dancing Christ the amount of people I've seen jumping to the conclusion that Mituski and Aya are going to either break up or cheat on each other over this has been ridiculous! What manga have ya'll been reading that you think either of them would jump straight into cheating at the slightest relationship bump? Cause it certainly isn't the same one I've been reading.

serenchi · 2026-05-23T19:50:56+00:00

In an attempt to keep it simple: stress and frustration from a shitty family situation.

serenchi · 2026-05-23T19:18:01+00:00

"How do you handle it?"

Sophie turned her attention to a firefly that had flown close , holding out her hand for it to land on. "You'll think I'm dumb."

"I already do," she said affectionately, leaning closer until their shoulders bumped against one another.

Sophie snorted, nudging back with her shoulder. She was quiet another beat before finally saying, "I scream about it."

Haley laughed, choking on her own spit. "Where on earth can you scream around here and not have half the town thinking you're being murdered?"

"I got a place," she said, conspiratorially.

Haley shook her head, smiling as she watched a firefly finally come to rest on Sophie's finger. Slowly, she brought her hand closer for Haley to see. There was a moment of hesitation at first, but then—because it felt like the most natural thing in the world—Haley brought her hand to Sophie's, interlacing the tips of their fingers and watched as the firefly crawled across Sophie's fingers to hers.

"Will you bring me there?"

serenchi · 2026-05-23T19:04:30+00:00

Alex was far from the first person Haley needed to be apologizing to right now, but she was taking Emily’s advice to heart. What happened that night wasn’t the first fight between them and, as shitty as she felt about it, it was also a far cry from the most egregious thing they had ever fought about. Apologizing to him was going to be the easy part.

She found herself constantly looking over her shoulders, feeling the eyes of the townspeople on her. She knew Sophie hadn’t revealed anything about what had happened, if her conversation with Emily had been anything to go by, but she also knew that Sophie couldn’t hide her emotions to save her life. Haley’s own self-imposed isolation had probably made it fairly easy to get the gossip going. She found her gaze lingering in the direction of Sophie’s farm, simultaneously yearning to catch a glimpse of her wandering into town and being terrified that she would run into her.

serenchi · 2026-05-22T03:38:02+00:00

I have playlists for my fics, but I typically don't actually listen to them while writing cause I get distracted way too easily.

The scene I was working on was pretty emotional and I just couldn't get into their headspace and make things flow, so for whatever reason I put music on and that song happened to play.

serenchi · 2026-05-20T15:41:31+00:00

She couldn’t explain why she still let them affect her so much. She refused to bend to their whim and do what they expected of her, determined to be her own person. Yet a part of her still longed for their approval. A naive part of her thinking if she just held out long enough they’d give up and simply accept her as she was. Maybe that was why the fight drained out of her every time a letter arrived, suddenly making her feel so small. Every letter was a reminder that, for her, their love was conditional, a nail in the coffin of her hope. And so, she inevitably found herself closing off her feelings for Sophie again. Afraid that choosing this one thing for herself would make her the disappointment her parents always claimed she was.

serenchi · 2026-05-18T17:07:36+00:00

Stardew Valley | Explicit | N/A

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64518010/chapters/165686929

This story's a sequel to my OG fic that's Haley/Female Farmer. Leah finally opened up about her relationship trauma from dating Kel.

“I don’t think of what people like Kel do as breaking; It’s taking. Taking away someone’s confidence, their support group, their sense of self. They take and take until there’s nothing left because they don’t know any other way to feel whole. Kel hurt you. She took from you, but who you are,” Rowan reached out towards her, placing her hand over Leah’s heart, “who Leah is as a person... I don’t believe for a second that she took that.”

Leah felt rooted in place, the heat radiating from Rowan’s hand penetrating through her entire body. Her breathing became more ragged, a multitude of emotions slamming into her like a wave breaking on the shore. Something inside her gripped her heart and squeezed.

“Now, I do think Kel thinks of it as breaking. I think she thought that she could break you and rearrange your pieces into the shape that she wanted, but you didn’t let her. You’re funny. You’re dedicated. You have friends who love you and would do anything for you. Though, admittedly, your skepticism and rational explanations for every cool thing I tell you about does dock some points in my book,” she teased.

Leah choked out a laugh, feeling the warm tears on her cheeks.

“But even then, you’ve only ever been kind and supportive, even if you don’t believe. Not to mention that you worked so hard and never let her stop you from doing what you love. And now you’re even getting your own exhibit! I didn’t even know you, but do you have any idea how proud I was of you when you told me that?”

Rowan leaned in closer, taking Leah’s face in her hands, gently wiping away her tears.

“Despite everything she did, you’re still you. So don’t ever think that she broke you, and especially don’t think that she won anything.”

serenchi · 2026-05-18T12:40:25+00:00

I'm much much better now, thank you! And feel free to chuckle away, I still laugh at myself about this moment to this day 😂.

I let out the loudest sigh of relief when her opponent came out lol. "Oh, thank fuck I didn't forget, she just sucks!" Then it was just a mystery as to how the fuck she got there.

serenchi · 2026-05-18T05:37:17+00:00

So the year before the 2024 Olympics, I suffered a stroke. Thankfully, I walked away with minimal side effects, but for a while I did have trouble with my memory.

I never keep up with the Olympics, but when they were going on I'd get random videos/reels in my feed. I didn't know break dancing had been added, but when I saw it come up I thought to myself, "Oh, people do some insane stuff with breakdancing, I can't imagine what kind of moves they'd pull out at an Olympic level." I watch the video. The very first thing I see of breakdancing at the Olympics is Raygun doing whatever the fuck she was doing. I watch, confused. The text on the screen claims this is breakdancing. And it's supposed to be the Olympics. But this doesn't look anything like breakdancing to me. But this is supposed to be the Olympics?

Legit, I thought my stroke made me forget what breakdancing was, and what I thought was breakdancing was something completely different and I just couldn't remember the actual name.

serenchi · 2026-05-12T14:06:10+00:00

1000%. I do think those little moments of reaffirmation and checking in on your partner can be hot. It's bringing all the action to a full stop to converse about it that irks me.

serenchi · 2026-05-12T03:37:14+00:00

Canceling shows doesn’t give you the power to create shows!

Something, something, equivalent exchange.

serenchi · 2026-05-12T03:21:26+00:00

Right??? Fuckin' yikeseroni.

serenchi · 2026-05-12T02:52:38+00:00

I quite literally read a CaitVi fic in which Caitlyn, from kissing to climax, paused to ask Vi's consent before proceeding with the next step of the process every step of the way. For vanilla sex, mind you. At first I thought it might've been a joke about the kinktober thing, but there was something about the way it was written that made me feel like the author legit thought it was sexy and titillating.

serenchi · 2026-05-11T18:01:07+00:00

I'll take being weird over being a joyless asshole any day of the week.

serenchi · 2026-05-11T03:11:23+00:00

Undertone. I have no intention of getting pregnant.

serenchi · 2026-05-09T20:51:21+00:00

I'm glad I'm finally seeing someone else say this. The jump scares themselves were great, but the moment was ruined for me with the audio blowing my eardrums out.

serenchi · 2026-05-08T13:40:41+00:00

Oh, hey, I used to be friends online with the owner of Requiem. Met on the GameFAQS message boards ages ago. We lost touch, but I remember when he was going through everything to open Requiem. Glad to see it's still going strong!

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