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something hardly human
Reigen from the fanfic Symbiosis by ruthwrites (https://archiveofourown.org/works/9079465/chapters/20645497)
If you like mob psycho 100 and Venom/horror symbiosis stories…THIS ONES FOR YOU! It’s SO GOOD. READ IT!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
chainsaw man | denji, power, hayakawa aki, gen, 5k | on ao3
“It’s just…” He stopped. “You really don’t care about tits?”
There was a long silence, punctuated only by low buzz of Aki’s desk lamp. “You care about tits,” Aki said finally, “an unusual amount.”
(or: Time off work means that Denji gets to spend a lot of time thinking about what exactly it is that he likes about tits, anyway. Gender is involved. Power helps.)
inspired by my roommate’s headcanon that denji is a trans lesbian and doesnt know it yet! this fic takes place after the international assassin arc but before ch 73.
trigger warning for denji making transphobic statements due to the fact that he doesnt know that being trans is a thing, internalized transphobia, and body dysphoria. general disclaimer that i am not a trans woman but have been known to experience a gender from time to time. enjoy!
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They’d all been given time off work, after the Darkness Devil. A leave of absence for Aki to recover, for Power to get her head screwed back on straight, and for Denji to sit and wait for them to be well, since he wasn’t allowed to go on work missions by himself. It was coming to an end soon— Aki had acclimated to his one arm pretty well, and Power didn’t wake up screaming anymore, so they’d be back to work soon.
Still, Denji was running out of ways to fill the empty time. Having nothing to do made him sizzle with nervous energy, waiting for something to do, for a task and directive to achieve. Aki provided the direction of reading materials, movies, and chores— but it still gave him too much time to think.
So it was a lazy afternoon, not long after lunch but still too early for another meal, when Denji asked Power a question.
“Hey, Power,” he said. “You took over a dead body, right?”
mp100 | serirei, reigen arataka, serizawa katsuya, kageyama ‘mob’ shigeo, AU, 6k | on ao3
It doesn’t really matter, he reminds himself. He’s making a change, just like all of Reigen’s clients. What’s on his hands isn’t set in stone. He just has to make sure Reigen doesn’t see it— even if it might feel nice to have that steady attention, Reigen’s hands that are so much nicer than Serizawa’s folding around his.
(or: Reigen starts offering palm readings as a service, leading to Serizawa having to confront his feelings for his boss.)
this is pretty fluffy, only real tw is some self deprecating depression thoughts from seri.
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One day, when he comes into work, Serizawa sees Reigen industriously spreading a new poster on the wall, next to the monthly specials.
“Oi, Serizawa,” Reigen says, head half turning, first in acknowledgment, then in focused interest. “Come help me finish putting up this poster— I can’t get the last corner. Or well, I could,” he allows, stepping away from the wall as Serizawa approaches, “but I don’t want to get the step ladder out of the storage closet, it’s always such a damn pain to dig it out. You had really good timing, you know…”
Serizawa comes in at the same time every day, so he hardly thinks it counts as good timing, but he doesn’t say anything. Reigen passes over a thumbtack that he’s been holding between his teeth— a terrible habit, one that always makes Serizawa’s stomach start doing awful twists when he sees him doing it— and Serizawa takes it, stepping to the wall.
It doesn’t really matter, he reminds himself. He’s making a change, just like all of Reigen’s clients. What’s on his hands isn’t set in stone. He just has to make sure Reigen doesn’t see it— even if it might feel nice to have that steady attention, Reigen’s hands that are so much nicer than Serizawa’s folding around his.
here’s some art to go with my new serirei fic, HEART LINE. serirei oneshot where reigen picks up palmistry and uses it as an excuse to hold hands. READ IT HERE
Some Symbiosis Doodles
if you havn’t read it yet, you should. it’s p good.
also I have like 5 different drawing styles what the heck.
Hi, friends, if you’ve ever felt like randomly giving me money, you can do that now. I have a ko-fi! Check it out here, if you’d like: ko-fi.com/ruemilly
How about a happy serirei fic to wash away the tears
trapped behind the mirror
<http://archiveofourown.org/works/12586144>
mp100 | serirei, AU, 2.8k
another drabble belonging to the series our endless numbered days, this one taking place about five years after the end of holding. wrote this a while ago, but held off on posting it. pre established relationship.
warnings: alcohol, mentioned major character death
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Whenever Reigen drank, Serizawa resigned himself to getting him home.
It didn’t matter what he drank, how much he drank, or when he drank, but inevitably Serizawa would find himself supporting his weight as they walked the distance back to their apartment. Rather, as Serizawa walked— Reigen generally seemed to lose all capability to move his legs about in a reasonable manner. He simply would sling an arm around Serizawa’s shoulder and keep a running monologue in his ear. His warm breath, strong with the scent of shochu, would always tickle Serizawa’s ear.
Initially, Serizawa had found it charming. Now it was sort of exasperating.
But still charming.
And tonight, he couldn’t really bring himself to be annoyed with Reigen.
“Graduation,” Reigen said, shaping the word with exaggerated slowness. “Can you believe it, Katsu? Seems like yesterday Ritsu was just this moody middle schooler.” Serizawa attempted to straighten the suitjacket Reigen still kept on his shoulders, but then Reigen slumped into him. “Now he’s a moody high school graduate.”
19. and 26. for year end fic asks!
19. any new fics to start next year
I HAVE A LOT OF WIPS TO FINISH, TBH, but they’ll honestly seem new to some people….. I have a few one shots I might come back around to, and then I realllly want to get the ball rolling on my ace attorney crossover. I know there’s… a few floating around out there right now… But I made art for it before. I’ve been here longer. and hey two cakes is better than one and all that
26. number of favorites/bookmarks you made this yearSO I READ AND LIKE A LOT OF FICS I DONT BOOKMARK, which is a really horrible strategy. don’t do that. i literally have Seventeen Whole Bookmarks, and i believe i made 12 of them this year. BUT I HAVE MANY MORE FAVORITE FICS THAN THAT, HAHA……. a lot of them too were fics i’ve read before that i found again and bookmarked so i wouldn’t lose again. so i bookmarked…… 8 new fics this whole year.
1, 3, and 5 for the fanfic asks?
1. favorite fic you wrote this year
SO I WROTE A LOT OF FICS THIS YEAR, but i think my favorite is tarnishing, the last fic i wrote. it’s an idea i’ve had for a while and I’ve talked about it extensively with a friend… i wasn’t sure i was ever going to be able to figure out a way to execute it satisfactorily but i’m really happy about how it turned out.
3. favorite line/scene you wrote this year
THIS ONE IS TRICKY, but i think probably it’d be this from holding:
Something like a laugh shook Reigen’s shoulders. “The same thing,” he said. “I’m doing the same thing, all right? Because I want to have been able to fix this, or stop it from happening. But I couldn’t have. I know that I couldn’t have done it, but I can’t make myself believe it.” He sunk to his knees in front of Ritsu. “Does that sound familiar, Ritsu?”
“Stop it- I don’t-”
“And, hey, if that kid died, then what the hell am I here for, right? I didn’t deserve to survive that. If he didn’t survive that, then there’s nothing fair in this whole world.” The words were rushing out of Reigen, bursting like water through cracks in a stone wall. “And there isn’t. There isn’t anything fair, but if there was then that kid never would have even cared about me. He never would have cared about a single person in this whole shitty world. You think that too, right?”
I wish I’d been a bit more patient on the execution in some of the things in this fic, since I think there’s a few scenes I could’ve paced out a bit better, and tbh this scene is one of them. But I like this specific bit of Ritsu and Reigen’s exchange. I love… character parallels……… this is probably too long to be a line and too short to be a scene but oh well!!!!!!!
5. most popular fic this year
symbiosis is TECHNICALLY INCLUDED IN THIS, since I finished it in January, so it’d be that one. but BESIDES THAT it’s release.
the margin, though. it’s wide.
since it’s december, i thought i’d make a little end of the year ask meme for fanfic writers and readers! reblog and ask away
*feel free to specify fandoms or a fic depending on the question.
Omg blease I beg
Tagged by the lovely @cosmetreee (who it won't let me tag for some reason? tumblr is. a mysterious website)
Rule: post the last line of your current WIP and the tag as many people as there are words!
Mine, unfortunately, is rather boring:
He came to a stop with the fog swirling thick around him. The world was white.
I don’t follow enough writing tumblrs to tag people (still need to get on that) but consider yourself tagged if you want to do this!
Let’s go.
So, Tarnishing, by ruthwrites/ @ruemilly DESTROYED me last night. I was sitting in bed just stunned with every single paragraph. Literally, gasping and squeaking and grinning and very much glad that I have a private place to read fanfiction.
I have SO MUCH I want to say about this fic and this likely won’t be the only post I make, but for this post, I wanted to dissect why I loved the phase ‘Keiji please!’ used the near the very end. Because it was THAT phrase that was my absolute favorite phrase. It was delivered in the middle of stuff happening and should’ve been easy to move on past but it wasn’t. And I decided to pull it apart to try to figure out why.
Spoilers for the fic below the cut, so Read the Fic First, ladies and gents.
I don’t usually draw fanart of fanfiction, but when I do, it features my favorite character(s) in intense pain.
This is for the MP100 fanfic “Tarnish” by @ruthiswriting. It’s basically about if Mogami possessed Reigen instead of Minori. (Be sure to read the tags before diving in; it’s a horror/thriller)
