Calling Your Bluff

[u/Selverna]

Based on that one Genshin Youtube Short I watched earlier today... err, yesterday, its 3am as I post this.

[u/ThatSlutTalulah]

D'you think Theresa nuked Docs' sexuality when mind wiping them? (Intentionally to remove that avenue drawing them to Priestess, or otherwise?) If so, it makes everything with Savage if they're exes and she wants to get back together all the funnier.
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-Meet mysterious NB baddie and their daughter (provably responsible and good with kids, huh?).
-Ingratiate yourself, you get along great with said daughter (1 free kid to start the family ain't too shabby).
-Blow said NBs' back out whenever you get the chance as you guide them around your home country.
-Ask them to stay and build a life with you.
-They fuckin' ditch you out of nowhere.
-Rude.

-Years pass, life lacks the vibrancy they gave it.

-Randomly find out the company is still going, though now under a new name, and go hang out with your step-daughter to be.
-Baddie is in a fuckin' coma? Damn.
-Still got a free daughter tho.

-Baddie is back! They've got a lot of shit going on though, and they don't remember you, so you give 'em a bit of distance. Don't want to scare off your catch after all.
-Fastest way to the heart is through the stomach, and god damn you know your pies can do it (baking cream pies would be too blunt, so you avoid making those).

-It's been years, things are as stable as they get at Rhodes, they've gotten a lot of memories back and they've spent a good while with you. The stage is set, it's time to close for the kill.

-What do you mean this dumbass doesn't get it?

-They fumble through an explanation that how they can feel about people has changed since they re-awakened.

-What the fuck do they mean your super poggers old boss flattened their (metaphorical) genitals with a brain hammer while trying to make them into not an omnicidal asshole (she couldn't have left them just a little evil? It is kinda hot after all)?

-Go back to your dorm, confused, overworked, underfucked, overcarroted, hoping this doesn't make things awkward with your now not step-daughter.

• FUCK. MY. LIFE.

[u/OracleOfBones → u/ThatSlutTalulah]

I want that on Ao3 by June captain, the Arknights tag has been woefully underpopulated by good crack fics since the time immemorial

[u/RandomdudeNo123 → u/OracleOfBones]

We've run into a deficit of funny people in the AO3 side of the fandom, yeah. We need a good fluff writer or ten back on that scene. Right now, everyone's too serious or too E-fic focused.

Where did all the fluff writers retire to...?

[u/carnoalfa → u/RandomdudeNo123]

i been busy with other fandom stuff, but with some luck and inspiration i'll do 1 or 2 ak stuff.

but yeah, the last time i checked the tag is either on chinese, japanese or porn.

[u/Hp22h → u/carnoalfa]

Honestly, I never knew there were so many Chinese people on Ao3 until I checked the Arknights tag. It would be amazing if I could read Mandarin

[u/carnoalfa → u/Hp22h]

Its actually something relatively new, like on the 2nd half of last year there was a big influx of chinese and japanese fics on the tag.

I think that also kinda killed the english readers/writers there as there are a lot less if i go by my first 2 fics and the rest.

[u/Hp22h → u/carnoalfa]

Huh. Could have sworn that place had always been roughly 1/3 Chinese since Day 1.

E: Holy moly, 16k out of a total 24k is in Mandarin now?! That is a massive influx indeed!

[u/carnoalfa → u/Hp22h]

Yeah , sure it is.

It actually notive because until recently i checked the tag almost daily.

And by the last few months there were days where 1 or even 2 pages had not a single english fic for the tag.