June 26, 2025 • 37 mins
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Pairing: KrBk, Fandom MHA, Rating G
Summary: "He was in his third year at UA when Mina got him into a new game, Stardew something.“The fuck is this,” he asked, gesturing with his nose to the page he had pulled up full of villagers with empty hearts by their avatars.“Oh, intimacy levels! So there’s eight for everyone to start but then some villagers you can romance” she wiggled her eyebrows with a laugh, “They can have up to ten if you’re into each other, and even more when you’re actually married.”She pinched his cheek playfully, “Gotta up those hearts if you’re gonna be the best, blasty.”Katsuki squinted at the console in his hands.He could fucking do that. He was a goddamn delight. And so would his badass farmersona be.
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Katsuki plays Stardew Valley and realizes some things, Or, One Morning Bakugou Katsuki awoke to find he had been turned into someone who is deeply Loved."
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Pairing: KrBk, Fandom MHA, Rating G
Summary: "He was in his third year at UA when Mina got him into a new game, Stardew something.“The fuck is this,” he asked, gesturing with his nose to the page he had pulled up full of villagers with empty hearts by their avatars.“Oh, intimacy levels! So there’s eight for everyone to start but then some villagers you can romance” she wiggled her eyebrows with a laugh, “They can have up to ten if you’re into each other, and even more when you’re actually married.”She pinched his cheek playfully, “Gotta up those hearts if you’re gonna be the best, blasty.”Katsuki squinted at the console in his hands.He could fucking do that. He was a goddamn delight. And so would his badass farmersona be.
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Katsuki plays Stardew Valley and realizes some things, Or, One Morning Bakugou Katsuki awoke to find he had been turned into someone who is deeply Loved."
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi everybody, and a welcome back. Sorry if it's a
little bit louder than usual. I have accidentally recorded the
last four or five fix with my microphone backwards because
I put the stand the wrong way and forgot that
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that was not how it goes because it was new,
So it might be a bit louder. It's hotter nol
in this bitch right now. It is so hot. It
is so hot today. I'm very sensitive deep in general,
but like, it's fucking it's hot. It's so fucking hot,
so bear with me. Also, I'm not recording this on
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my birthday. I'm recording this before my birthday, but it
is airing on my birthday. Happy birthday to me. I
am thirty. I'm also I grew up in Germany and
we're very A lot of us are very superstitious about
birthdays in a very morbid way. I've been told. I
didn't think it morbid until I had to tell Americans
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about it, and then they were like, what the fuck,
and I was like, oh, it's yeah, I guess that
is kind of weird. We don't like it's like a
superstition thing of like not ever congratulating someone before their
birthday on their birthday and not acknowledging the birthday as
such before it happens, because it's kind of like counting
your chickens before you had, just like jinxing it, which
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in the context of a birthday means that the core
belief is that I'll die and not achieve what you're
congratulating me for, and you know, so that's yeah, I
see how that's kind of dark. It's hard for me
to get over, but I'm trying. The first time I
went to the United States as an adult and my
birthday was like a month away, like I was like, oh, yeah,
it's my birthday this month, like at the end and
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somebody said happy birthday, I was like, are you trying
to kill me? Like what the fuck? But it's very normal.
I know, it's very normal, especially in the States and
most countries probably very normal to say happy birth before
and I don't mind it. I don't have any problems
with it, Like if you've sent me a happy Birthday,
I just I'm just waiting until it's my birthday to
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say thank you. So don't worry, I got it. I'll
reply to you soon or when you're hearing this, I'll
reply to you today. I'll have replied to you already,
so yeah, I'm stoked. I'm very stoked. I am. I'm excited.
I wonder. I obviously I'm not recording this on my birthday,
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so I'm like, I wonder what it'll be like. It'll
be fun, and I'm celebrating technically asynchronously with you guys
in my very favorite way, which is sharing a new
podfick with you guys. I love doing this. I love
recording the pod Fix, I love writing the Fix. I
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love everything about this. This is what I love to do.
And today we're sharing a fic that's actually very important
to me because it was originally well, actually originally almost
none of y'all might have even gotten it, because I
had originally planned to make this a zine and I
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already I have the sketches and stuff. Still, it's just
that I realized that the art style that I wanted
for the I art directed it, because I've done that
enough times to be like, yeah, I got this. And
then I looked at it and I was like, I
don't got this, bitch. This isn't your art style, Like
you can't do this, at least not yet. No, I'm
not a pixel artist. I don't That's not how I illustrate.
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I don't know how to do that. I tried, it's
real ugly. I saved the ugly first pancakes, though, because
I'm like, if I ever get to do magazine for this,
even though the fick is already out there, so it'll
be mostly for the art and the format and stuff.
But like, if I get to makeazine of this the
way that I had planned, I will include the ugly
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first attempts because I think it's funny and I think
it's fun and I think it's important for people to
see the process behind things and the learning curve behind things,
because you know, learning curves are just a part of
human made shit, which is the only shit that matters.
So today we're gonna be reading ten Heart. Event. I
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love Starty Valley. I play Stardy Valley a fucking lot.
I actually currently I play Coral Island the most. Love
Coral Island. Shout out Coral Island, my beloved, my pooky.
But I love playing games like that of paying Animal Crossing.
I love paying Stardy Valley. I love playing Coral Island,
you know. And then I'll turn around and you know play.
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I was gonna say scary games, but I used to
get scared of Luigi's mansions, so sliding scale of what's scary.
And I do own the blair Witch game, but I
bailed because I thought I could do it, and I
was like I was at the time unmedicated for my
heart condition and I was like bedridden because it was
so debilitating. And I decided to play an absolutely terrifying
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game for the very first time. And then I quickly
realized that I actually have quite the ceiling. It's a hard,
concrete ceiling for how scary a game I can play,
although I still have it, and so I'm holding out
hope that one day I will be able to play
the blair Witch game. Because I love the movies. I
don't know why it's so much scarier to play the
video game than it is to watch a movie. I
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don't know if it's the same for you guys. If
you guys, if anybody plays scary games or watch the
scary movies but can't handle the other, like think someone
is like worse than the other. Which one do you
think is worse? Because I guess my and maybe it's
the autism. I feel like when you're in the video game,
I feel like it's happening to me and it's in
my control, and it's up to me that all of
the pookies in the game do not die, you know,
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Like when I play Alien Isolation, I am like so
tense that I eventually had to start keeping the ign
like guide open in a tab on the side because
I would get so scared thinking the alien could come
at any minute, when it's just like, damn well, not
programmed into the game for you to have an encountered
with the alien for a certain amount of time, so
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there's not even remotely a boss ability that could happen.
But I didn't know for sure, so I had to
keep the guide open so that I would know that
this area does not like, this part of the game
does not have the alien it so I can try
to just focus on the mission of the game. Otherwise
I'm just I don't know. I think I watched so
many horror movies. Maybe that's what makes it hard for
me anyway video games. I love Kotski. One of the
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main reasons that I have always just loved him in
his silly little brain so much is because I loved
that little detail that he sees so much of his
life like it's a video game. We see it a
lot in the anime and in the manga. One not
as often talked about things. When he's talking about an
attack he's going to do with totor Roki and he's
trying to explain it to him, is you see these
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little like eight big characters of them like they're in
a video game, floating kind of over the screen as
he explains it, And it's kind of like that's how
he sees it, and that's how he's explaining it, and
I think that that's really cute, and I kind of
thought about that, and I thought about, how, you know,
we have that cool die Germs Die sequence where you
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see the little like vintage arcade style shooter like germs
getting eviscerated by him brushing his teeth, which I think
about very often when I'm brushing my teeth because I
think it's just so funny, like I just remember it
so often. And so all of that together and me
playing started valleys so aggressively and so much, and then
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we got ten hard Event, which is a fit I
really love and I actually I've been working on for
a long time because I was waiting to do the zine,
and then eventually I was like, girl, it's not happening
like this, so let's let's share it with the people.
Let's finish and share with the people, and then, you know,
let's do everything in its time. So long spiel up
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ahead that we've done now. Although I say that I
looked at the clock, it's actually not nearly my longest intro.
But I'm really excited about sharing this one. You almost
got a way longer spiel, by the way, you might
get one at the end. We might do an en
I know we never do enjepiels, but I think I
think we're gonna do an end spiel at this because
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I did have something else and I wanted to share
with you guys, but I didn't want to take up
too much time up ahead of what you're here for.
So I think we'll do it at the end. Okay,
if I remember, we'll see. Imagine I released this and
you guys are waiting at the internet just out stops
because I forgot this could happen to you, this could
happen to me. Okay, So this is rated G general audiences. Boy,
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it's hotter. Fucking this bitch. Sorry, I'm like really sweating
because of all the cabbing. The relationship is Boko Ko
Kotski kish my Adro, and the characters in it are
Baka Kokatski, kish my Adro, Ashi, Doomina, Cumini, Dinky, Jiro, Koka, Ariozumomo,
Sarah Hunta, Midori Zuku, and Toto Rookie Shotto. Additional tags
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Katski plays start your valley, getting together, affirming friendship, sweet fluff, humor,
I love them all, Kotski's tendency to see life like
a video game. Fucking nerd. This is very cute and fun.
Kotski realizing he has been tricked into caring. And by
that I mean he realizes his friends love him and
he loves them, and he loves Kiroshima specifically. And first kiss,
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so as you can tell, it's very sweet. All right,
without further ado, now I've gapped for almost ten minutes.
See now this is more. This is more like it,
all right. Summary. He was in his third year at
UA when Miena got him into a new game. Started
something focus this, he asked, gesturing with his nose to
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the page he had pulled up full of villagers with
empty hearts by their avatars. Oh, intimacy levels, So there's
eight for everyone to start. But then some villagers you
can romance. She wiggled her eyebrows with a laugh. They
can have up to ten if you're into each other,
and even more if you're actually married. She pinched his cheek.
That's a really difficult one for me to say. She
pinched his cheek playfully. Got up those hearts if you're
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gonna be the best blasty Kotsky squinted at the console
in his hands. He could fucking that. He was a
goddamn delight, and so would his badass farmer sona be.
Or Kotsky plays Stardo Valley and realizes some things. Or
one morning Baka lu Kotsky awoke to find he had
been turned into someone who had deeply loved beginning notes.
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I like the idea that Baka Go sees hearts break
people when he talks to them, like he's in a
dating sim kind of like how I had how he
had a video game in said when he brush his teeth.
So here we are and here we go. Kotsky likes winning. Duh,
There's not much he can't turn into a competition of sorts,
even if it's just within himself. Especially then really, he'll
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conquer germs like their targets on a screen when he
brushes his teeth, he plays his mental bets on his
stats when he trains and sees an eight bit dynamite
sliding down a flagpole to a victory song when he
beats them. Everyone has their own way of seeing the world,
and this was his. He'd always liked video games, things
with clear rules and objectives and conditions and fictional stakes
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to take the stress out of things. From time to
time he was in his third year at UA, would
Meena gote him into a new game, started something and
challenged him to make it into a competitive game. She
bet he couldn't. You're on, he had grinned, beginning a
new save foul with confidence as he explored the controls,
and she pointed out aspects of the game that she liked.
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The fuck is this, he asked, gesturing with his nose
to the page she had pulled up full of villagers
with empty hearts by their avatars. Oh, intimacy levels. They're
the best part of the game. The more you talk
to the villagers and give them things. They like the
closer they feel to you. Every other heart you feel.
Unlacks a cut scene where you get to know each
other better, so there's eight for everyone to start. But
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some villagers you can romance. She wiggled her eyebrows with
a laugh. They can have up to ten of your
into each other, even more if you're actually married. She
pinched his cheek playfully, and he pretended to squat her away,
but her easy grin gave the friendly exchange away for
what it was. Got up those hearts, If you're gonna
be the best blasty, she teased as she leaned back
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and grabbed her own switch again. Kosky squinted at the
console in his hands. He could fucking do that. He
was a goddamn delight, and so would his badass farmer
sona be. In the end, he played up until it
was his bedtime, still eight thirty on the dot, because
he's got something called self disciplined pinky. Maybe try it sometime,
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and he could admit it was a pretty fun game.
He could work on making the best farm with the
best produce and animals, and he'd make everyone fill their
stupid hearts, and then he'd win. Easy he'd even, although
he'd deny it, already picked a villager to marry, this sweet,
athletic type who lived with his grandparents, personable, kind of goofy,
smarter and stronger than he gave himself credit for. No,
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Kotsky doesn't have a type fuck off. Maybe it was
because he played so late. Maybe it was because of
the way Kotsky had always used video game to make
sense of the world. And maybe he'd have some kind
of what's horrible about me turning the microphone around so
you can hear me properly? Is that now when I
fuck up, you can really hear it. I feel like
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some of you at least are like girl we could
hear before. Anyway, maybe he had had some sort of
stroke in his sleep that was dead set on ruining
his life. But when Kotski woke up something had changed. Kiashima, Saro,
and Danky were still out on missions. They'd be home
later in the day, so Kotski didn't have his usual
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breakfast with them, But when he came downstairs to grab
his usual he froze in his tracks. Totorok and Dekku
were sitting in the kitchen, obviously in from an early run,
and besides, their heads were fucking hearts. Totoroki, half a
head shorter than Dekku but still a chunk taller than Katski,
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glanced over and gave him a small nod, eyes softened
in recognition. Seven hearts, seven, seven hearts, well, Kotsky frowned.
Totaroki did always say Kotsky was his best friend, and
when it was first, he'd been among Kotsky's first too,
not that he'd ever own up to it. Well again,
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he had once after a rough mission where they'd saved
each other's lives so many times counting would be a
waste of breath, and when they'd had a moment, just
a moment to stop moving, baku go, you're my Yeah,
I know, he'd cut him off, wheezing still from a
stinging kick to the chest. The villain given him No,
I'd like to say it. We almost don't have to.
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I baku go want no, Kotsky had growled, before Totoroki
had rolled his eyes and deflated slightly. Fuck, I fucking
love you too. You're my fucking friend. I'm not saying
that shit again. I don't care if you do. Almost die,
got it? He helped out, pretending to have to look
away to rub his chest. Tartikoki had been so silent,
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Kosky had briefly wondered if he had killed him when
he heard a soft exhale. Okay, Bakako think. Kotsky boxed
him around the ear immediately to shut him up, and
they devolved into a scuffle, the likes of which several
toddlers would have been proud had that been it. Kotsky mused,
maybe their six heart event or something. He glanced over
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at Deku, and his frown reaffirmed its place in his face.
You're fucking kidding me, he thought. Eight hearts, eight hearts
over that broccoli head ass. Eight He didn't need to
think about when that had happened. There were too many
moments in there s true to count disgusting eight hearts,
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gross morning Khatan. Deku waved, and Kaski grunted and returned.
Don't let it get to your head, he barked, as
he stalked past them to grab one of his prepped
meal containers from the fridge. Deku sighed along, suffering sigh. Okay, gotcham,
what's he talking about, Totoroki asked, with a confused expression,
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but Decka just shrugged. No clue, doesn't have to make
sense to anyone but him. Fluck. Krotsky scowled as he
grabbed a fork and headed outside with his food. Fucking
Nerd knew him too well. He felt a warmth creeping
up his chest at the way the two had just
accepted his early morning antics with fond exasperation, and he
began eating more forcefully than usual. Blasty having a picnic
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without me. Kotsky looked up to see pink hair blowing
around in the breeze ahead of two darker figures, Momo
and Jiro, both girls much less energetic than their friend
for the early hour. Huh, fuck are you up so early? For?
His brows furrowed as they approached where he sat. Mina
and the others were in loose, comfortable clothing with rolled
up mats under their arms. While Mina was all smiles
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and excitement, Mamma was quiet, with her greeting soft in
her sleepiness, whereas Giro radiated mild irritation and shaustion. We've
been wanting to do morning yoga for ages, but our
schedules never lined up, Mina smiled, you want to join.
Kotsky squinted at her, and sure enough, seven, no, seven
and a half hearts. Oh, he blinked, and suddenly uh,
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he blinked, suddenly feeling a bit blindsided as he glanced
at Momo Jiro, who had five and six hearts respectively. Oh,
he thought again, as he reciprocated everyone's greetings with a
nod and a shrug. Why not, he shrugged. Someone's gonna
make sure you don't kill ears with your screeching. And
Jira must have been really tired because she didn't even
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blink at the nickname, instead nodding and plopping onto the
grass beside him. As he finished eating, and the other
two began setting up their mats, Momo gently prying Giro's
out of her arms and setting it up for her.
They probably had nine hearts for each other, at least,
Kathy realized. He wondered if they'd noticed already, they'd have
to be pretty stupid. Not too, he vigered. They were
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a little stupid, but he decided a few hours later,
when Momo had gone inside to make them some iced
tea to cool off, Mina was sprawled out on her
I'm sorry, sorry, it's my own fucking writing. But the
moment I read that sentence, my room was like I
wish I had some fucking iced tea. It's hot as fun. Ah,
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you can't even have iced tea anyway. Mina was sprawled
out on her mat, eyes closed, and enjoying the sun,
singing along to some song playing off her phone. Kowsky
glanced and saw the heart was a little bit fuller,
and he looked away again before he could think too
much about it. So brainiac, huh, he mumbled, knowing Jiro
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would hear him loud and clear. Her eyes snapped open,
and she glanced at Mina, who hadn't heard them before.
Relaxing shut up, she signed I'm back eh, and Kowsky
bit back a smile. Her ears were so sensitive. Sometimes
she preferred nonverbal communication. She'd been the first person to
be able to sign with him when he'd started needing to.
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Of course, by now the whole class was fluent, but
still she had been the first. You're ringed chicken shit,
he signed lazily. She's crazy about you, dumbass. She blushed
and shoved at him lightly, and he let her you
think so, She signed with a raised brow, only because
I have eyes he snorted as he signed, I thought
you were a hero. Aren't you supposed to be brave?
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She rolled her eyes but smiled, Yeah, yeah, we can't
all have perfect boyfriends. Who's got a boyfriend? Mina perked up,
having opened her eyes and caught the tail end of
their conversation that had Kotsky frowning in confusion. As Giro
managed to distract Mina before Momo finally returned, Kotsky took
his glass of tea with the muttered thanks and headed
inside without further announcement. Kots Get annoyedy the hell she
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was talking about, but luckily he didn't have time to
think about it too much. Oh before he was reacting
to a sudden shout and ducking as a flash of
tape shop passed his ear. Sorry, b damn it, Danky,
I told you not to fucking tickle me. Sarah pulled
his helmet off and spit and pushed his sweat slicked
hair back as he gave a snickering Danky a light
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shove with his elbow. You shouldn't have tried to go
for the Blueberg Andola bar man. If he'd stuck with Raspberry,
it wouldn't have happened, Danky shrugged with a smile half
the aforemationed granola bar in his cheeks, fucking mannerless heathen.
Kotsky's eyes narrowed as he clocked both of them with
matching rows of eight hearts filled to the rim. Fuck, God,
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damn it, God fucking catch on, my dude, are you blushing?
Shut up, spark plug, don't fucking talk with your mouthful. Honestly,
who raised you? He snarked, while trying to calm the
redness in his face and the heat in his chest
as he processed. Okay, the danky had eight hearts for him,
wasn't a surprise, Not really. The guy wore his heart
on his sleeves, surrounded by neon signs and giant arrows.
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Just in case you missed it, he was incredibly expressive.
In addition to that, the guy was so deeply kind
he could probably make friends with inanimate objects. It wasn't
surprising that he decided Kotsky was eight heart material. Sarah, though.
Sarah's quieter, less obvious about well everything, observant, less obnoxious
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about how charismatic he could be, more on actions than
a words guy. Oh more in actions, than a words,
guy suited Cosky just fine. He just wished he hadn't
gotten so comfortable with it so as to have never
noticed consciously that Sarah had become one of his closest friends.
Definitely one of his most earnest friends. Oh sorry, definitely
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one of the most earnest friends Koski had ever had
in his life. Come to think of it, that was
the danger, he supposed being a quieter type. Koski felt
like kicking himself or not realizing it sooner, but he
had come to just expect Sarah to be there, to
tag along the way everyone else tended to be his
friend like he had been, while the other is like
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Danky or Mina or Jiro got Kotsky's active attention frequently
for one reason or another, either being obnoxiously in his
face or specifically never obnoxiously in his face, and then
Sarah could slip through the cracks. Well, that wouldn't fucking
do tape Sarah. Tomorrow we're sparring, I'll kick your ass
and then we can have a lunch at that place
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you fucking like so much. I got the next istion
of I got the next issue of the Mongo You
were reading too, if you want to borrow it. Sarah's
eyes had initially widened upon being addressed, but we're now
settling into a much more familiar expression, drooping deceptively with
ease as Baka Goll recognized that spark of competition behind
the almost lazy demeanor. Sounds good. I'd love to, of
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course you would, Kotsky nodded with a grin that Sarah
easily reciprocated. Great job, Bakao, says a voice in his
head that sounds suspiciously like Kiroshima as he walks away.
Then being back can only mean one thing, So without
further delay, Kotsky loaded up on snacks and his expensive
sore m cream and headed over to Kishima's room, letting
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himself in and getting comfortable in the bed like he
had countless times. The shower was still running, but only
for a few minutes before the redhead himself was calling
out to him. Back, ago you there, man, Who the
fuck else would it be? He tossed back as he
began to heat up his palms carefully. I saw a
thing one and two downstairs, his shoulders still healing. Thought
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you'd want me to massage it again or whatever. He grunted,
heat spreading across his cheeks at Kishima's extended sighs, the
water turned off. Fuck, yes, please, the last guy I
took down really dug into the ground. Sorry, the last
guy I took down really dug into the fucking ground.
I took out some pavement, dragging him away. He stepped
into view a moment later, hair wet and hanging around
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his shoulders, fresh shorts on, and a T shirt in
his hands as he smiled at Katsky. Nine and a
half hearts floating happily beside his head. Nine and a
half's I mean, had said, So there's hearts for it,
So there's eight for everyone to start. But then some
villagers you can romance. They can have up to ten
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if you're into each other, Kotsky blinked, If you're into
each other, Katsky. Huh. Kotsky shook himself slightly to snap
out of his days, but Kishima laughed and damn near
put him right back into one. Nine and a half. Huh.
Kotsky mused internally, he could be better than that. Sit
down already brought that muscle oment too, But that last
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guy was just a cherry on top. Ho may needed
you take on by yourself? Huh. Kishima rubbed his neck
and sat down on the bed, bare back facing Kotsky
as he spoke, Oh my god, I like had a
little continuity, or I gave him a short and I
took it away. Well, let's just pretend took it off
for the missage five. But it wasn't a big deal.
The guys did a lot too. He turned to face
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Kotsky a little over his shoulder to catch his eyes.
He smiled, I am pretty sore now. Katsky flicked him
on the forehead. Don't twist your ne idiot, you'll hurt yourself. Relax.
He scooped up some of the muscle oinmen and began
working it over Kyoshima's back and shoulders, slowly, using the
residual warmth in his hands to help Askaroshima all but
melted under his under his touch. Fuck you're the best,
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he groaned in relief, and Kotsky smirked. I know, he said, simply,
and Kishima chuckled, eyes still closed, Yeah, but you like
hearing it right? He opened his eye. He opened an
eye to squint up at the blonde with a teasing
lite through his voice. When he caught Kotsky's gaze, however,
his eyes opened and surprised to see Kotsky already staring
at him contemplatively, Kotsky allowed his fingers to cool and
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slid a hand up to massage Kiushi must scalp by
the nape of his neck gently, and Kashima's lips parted
as he relaxed further, but kept Kotsky's gaze until his
fingers slowed and he was basically left cradling Kiashima's head.
Kaoshimu's eye slickered down at Kotsky's lips, which were already
slightly parted. Was it now the right moment? Should they
just blassi? Mina said to ask, if you want to
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come out of a movie night? Odadaka called through the
bedroom door, and the two boys parted again, the moment
dissipating into the air. No. Katzky growled, choosing to ignore
how she knew he'd be in Kiroshima's room. She's going
to pick legally blonde again and they get fucking weird
about her grades again, Watch it, miss congeniality, Ododaka shot
back as he heard her footsteps fade, and Kirishimus snorted,
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Miss congeniality, Sandra Bullock is a goddamned delight. Katsky shoved
a hidden lazily smirking in Kishima's laughter as they easily
relaxed into their back and forth again until lunchtime. The
time would come, Katsky figured unskippable unskippable cutscenes. Right later
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that evening, Katsky found himself in his dorm room, laid
comfortably on his couch with his new game and cursing
the creatures in the caverns. After his Farmersona had passed
out again, he signed, deciding to just go give the
sweet athletic character his daily gift of one raw egg
freak and call it a day. When there was an
unexpected knock at his door, he squinted as he recognized
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the hesitant knock of a nervous Kishima. True to expectation.
When Katsky opened the door, there stood Kiushima and his
pajamas sweats and in his pajamas sweats and an old
Crimson Riot T shirt, smiling at Kotsky as he shifted
his weight on his feet, grinned, sheepish and shy, but
excited too. Kotsky knew exactly how he felt. I was thinking.
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I mean, no, I don't think I'm reading this wrong,
but you can always tell me. Karashima shook himself for
a second and let out a deep breath, clearly stealing
himself as Kotsky watched, but mused, I care about you
so much, man, and earlier, for a moment I thought
you were gonna kiss me. His breath came out a
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little shallow at the end of the admission, but his
smile persisted, brightened even at the memory, and he lifted
his gaze to old Kotsky's firm and I thought I
should tell you that I wanted you to I want
you to still you like me or something Kiroshima. Kotsky
shifted his weight and tilted his chin up with a
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self as shured grin. Kiroshima rolled his eyes in response,
though he was grinning too, and the tension released from
his shoulders or something. He stepped closer into Kotsky's face.
I should have known you'd be like this about it.
You already knew, didn't You ain't exactly a tough guy
to read. Kotsky stepped closer to meet him. Didn't figure
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it out until today, though, so don't give me too
much cut up. Kiashima barked a laugh as his hands
came up to cradle Kotsky's face. There's some manly dude,
he said, as he began to lean in, only for
Kotsky to suddenly jolt in his hands and burst out laughing.
You're about to kiss me for the first time, and
you called me dude. Kotsky raised a critical eyebrow, and
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Kiashima groaned through an unwilling chuckle of his own. Shut up, God,
you know what I meant. He rolled his eyes and
pulled Kotsky's hand down, using the other to hold the
back of Kotsky's head, and leaning down to finally kiss him.
Kotsky didn't need any hearts floating around to know how
special this moment was or how lucky he was. He
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wrapped his arms over Kirie's shoulders, kissing him back and
wondering what an acceptable amount of time between now and
asking if Kirishim wanted to co op a farm together
and have their parmisonas get married would be the end
end notes. I actually wrote ninety percent of this over
the last two and a half years, but kept it
unfinished because I was planning on releasing as part of Cilozine.
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But hey, I'm not nearly good enough of Pixelar yet
and beat I'm so tired, so I decided to just
finish it and release it for everyone to enjoy, which
you guys already know. So I hope you guys enjoyed
this one. I really really love it, like so much.
It makes me so happy, and I'm really happy to
share it with you guys. I did not forget that
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I had something I wanted to talk to you guys
about at the end of this recording, so I have
heard you. I did a poll where I asked, you know,
what kind of stuff would you guys be interested in
seeing on the patreon if you subscribe to the patreon,
So yes, this is about the Patreon. You can listen
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to it and here's some cool tidbits of some sneak peeks,
or you can listen to it later, or you can
you know, bail and I'll see you next week. No worries,
no our feelings, all as well. All is fine. I
appreciate all of you. But if you want to keep listening,
I thought that I would share something that I have
now implemented in a little bit more detail than I've
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expressed before. So I heard you guys say that the
thing everybody voted most for that they would want or
that would make them think about joining the Patreon is
sneak piece of ongoing whibs headcans, et cetera. So I've
implemented that. I've mentioned it before. If you have heard
that one before, I've mentioned it, And basically it is
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now a weekly thing. Every Thursday I have. I have
like sixty something or more of these queued up. Okay,
so that's sixty something weeks. It's over. You're already in
advance of sneak peaks. That's how many fucking whips I
have that were ready to have an excerpt town, even
though that's definitely not all of the whips that I have.
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So I thought I would tell you guys the name
a brief premise of all of the sneak peaks that
have been released so far, and to actually read the snippets,
of course, you would have to be a part of
the Patreon. But I thought, you know, if you know,
maybe it'll pique your interest. We will see. So I
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have an excerpt from Mister Bombastic a Kiribakufe about fans sick.
What does it look like for fanfic that Kotsky wrote
as a superhero fanboy in his youth to come back
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to bite him a little bit in the ass in
his thirties as a pro hero, especially if he had
an oc that he shipped his little self insert with.
That's an awful lot like our sturdy hero. So that
excerpt is out, came out in May. Then we have
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an excerpt from and this is for you y Hawk
show fans, because there's none. It's not easy to find
new shit for us. Okay, we are living on old rations,
but they're delicious. I have an excerpt from my ongoing
thick called like my ongoing work in progress called What's
up Funny Looking, which is a koolbara and you are
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meshy work in progress about them and the process of
realizing feelings. Because Jesus Christ, these are not emotionally intelligent people.
I mean, Kobara is on his own, but not not
when it comes to your Ameshi. So then we have
an excerpt from a Kakashi Yuruka fic from the kandom
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of Naruto called obsessed. Kakashi and Yuuka are freak for freak,
thank god, even if they don't know yet. Then we
have let's see. The next one that came out was
uh possibly the most popular one so far, a Kiribaku
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whip called how I Reverse Psychology in My Crush into
Tutoring me an almost failed math, And it is based
on the I think it's the novelization where we actually
get to see Baku Go tutoring Kiroshima and the fact
that he does not seem to actually be good at
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it at all, because because it makes everything that comes
out of his mouth makes absolutely no sense. And I
was thinking, hmm, kashim is a smart guy, he doesn't
have bad grades. But what if he pulled a Mean
Girls and pretended to be a little bit worse at
something just to get Baca Go to tutor him, And then,
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much like in Mean Girls, what if Bacca Go actually
is very good enough? I like Mean Girls, but is
maybe not so good a tutoring. I think it's a
really cute one's It's definitely high up there on what
I would like to work on next. Then I have
an excerpt from a currently untitled Pirate Captain's Macha Blossom ayu.
So if you like Pearl Diver, but you wonder what
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would it be like if Cherry and Joe did grow
up together like in Skate, but they became pirate captains
and went their separate ways, only to reunite again as adults,
where one of them has been knowingly in love with
the other and the other one is still in denial.
This one's going to be a multi chapter. Then we
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have my Shinbaku not Safe for Work as Fuck by
the way, not Safe for Work as fuck whip called
walking HR Violation, which is actually an alternate universe kind
of to the Adventures of Red Riot where what if
there's no superpower beings and Kirishiman evermovesicity so it's And
also what if Shinso was new at the company instead
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of already being at the paper for a super long
time as their HR rep? What if there was a
new HR rep? And what if he's been carrying a
secret torch for baccco since they were younger but Bakuo
does not remember him and this leads to some shenanigans.
Then we have what's going to come out next? Oh
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my god, wait, that one's going to come out next Oops. Well,
to be fair, that one actually already has a whip
snippet out, so that's actually the second one that's coming out.
I'm showing two snippets from that work in progress, and
the second one is coming out. Actually, by the time
this is out, this will have already been out. So
never mind. I could have not told you, guys that
I'd messed that up, and you would have never known.
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But I am nothing if not transparent, So I gotta
stop there. I cannot tell you the rest it's coming out.
You'll just have to see for yourself if you want,
and if you can, no pressure, no worries. I just
thought I would share. I'd listen to you guys, and
I thought it was a really great idea, and I
have plenty share. Also important note I edited together Number
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one Most Annoying Customer. All three chapters are available as
one full audiobook that's one hour and thirty seven minutes
straight through, without the gabbing in between, just a little
at the beginning, at the end, till you know what
you're reading and who's reading it. So the audiobook version
of Number one Most Annoying Customer is available either for
five dollars in the Patreon shopp just buy once you
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have a period, or it's available with the five dollars
tier of my Patreon as along with everything else. So
if you're part of the Therapeut Bacca Go benefactors, you
get it anyway. You don't have to buy it extra.
You get it an addition all of the exclusive fix
and in addition to all of the sneak peeks in
the pools, et cetera. But if you don't want to
do the recurring thing, you just want to have it once,
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you want to have it all at once, nice to
listen to whatever, Go ahead, go grab it on the
Patreon store. All the links and stuff are in the
description below. As always, I hope you guys enjoyed. Thanks
for letting me out at you guys and laugh at
you guys a little bit extra. I'm about to sneez.
Please don't sneeze on the recording. I have no idea
how loud it would be. Okay, I gotta go, I
gotta go. Sneeze. Bye,
Hi everybody, and a welcome back. Sorry if it's a
little bit louder than usual. I have accidentally recorded the
last four or five fix with my microphone backwards because
I put the stand the wrong way and forgot that
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that was not how it goes because it was new,
So it might be a bit louder. It's hotter nol
in this bitch right now. It is so hot. It
is so hot today. I'm very sensitive deep in general,
but like, it's fucking it's hot. It's so fucking hot,
so bear with me. Also, I'm not recording this on
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my birthday. I'm recording this before my birthday, but it
is airing on my birthday. Happy birthday to me. I
am thirty. I'm also I grew up in Germany and
we're very A lot of us are very superstitious about
birthdays in a very morbid way. I've been told. I
didn't think it morbid until I had to tell Americans
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about it, and then they were like, what the fuck,
and I was like, oh, it's yeah, I guess that
is kind of weird. We don't like it's like a
superstition thing of like not ever congratulating someone before their
birthday on their birthday and not acknowledging the birthday as
such before it happens, because it's kind of like counting
your chickens before you had, just like jinxing it, which
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in the context of a birthday means that the core
belief is that I'll die and not achieve what you're
congratulating me for, and you know, so that's yeah, I
see how that's kind of dark. It's hard for me
to get over, but I'm trying. The first time I
went to the United States as an adult and my
birthday was like a month away, like I was like, oh, yeah,
it's my birthday this month, like at the end and
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somebody said happy birthday, I was like, are you trying
to kill me? Like what the fuck? But it's very normal.
I know, it's very normal, especially in the States and
most countries probably very normal to say happy birth before
and I don't mind it. I don't have any problems
with it, Like if you've sent me a happy Birthday,
I just I'm just waiting until it's my birthday to
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say thank you. So don't worry, I got it. I'll
reply to you soon or when you're hearing this, I'll
reply to you today. I'll have replied to you already,
so yeah, I'm stoked. I'm very stoked. I am. I'm excited.
I wonder. I obviously I'm not recording this on my birthday,
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so I'm like, I wonder what it'll be like. It'll
be fun, and I'm celebrating technically asynchronously with you guys
in my very favorite way, which is sharing a new
podfick with you guys. I love doing this. I love
recording the pod Fix, I love writing the Fix. I
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love everything about this. This is what I love to do.
And today we're sharing a fic that's actually very important
to me because it was originally well, actually originally almost
none of y'all might have even gotten it, because I
had originally planned to make this a zine and I
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already I have the sketches and stuff. Still, it's just
that I realized that the art style that I wanted
for the I art directed it, because I've done that
enough times to be like, yeah, I got this. And
then I looked at it and I was like, I
don't got this, bitch. This isn't your art style, Like
you can't do this, at least not yet. No, I'm
not a pixel artist. I don't That's not how I illustrate.
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I don't know how to do that. I tried, it's
real ugly. I saved the ugly first pancakes, though, because
I'm like, if I ever get to do magazine for this,
even though the fick is already out there, so it'll
be mostly for the art and the format and stuff.
But like, if I get to makeazine of this the
way that I had planned, I will include the ugly
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first attempts because I think it's funny and I think
it's fun and I think it's important for people to
see the process behind things and the learning curve behind things,
because you know, learning curves are just a part of
human made shit, which is the only shit that matters.
So today we're gonna be reading ten Heart. Event. I
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love Starty Valley. I play Stardy Valley a fucking lot.
I actually currently I play Coral Island the most. Love
Coral Island. Shout out Coral Island, my beloved, my pooky.
But I love playing games like that of paying Animal Crossing.
I love paying Stardy Valley. I love playing Coral Island,
you know. And then I'll turn around and you know play.
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I was gonna say scary games, but I used to
get scared of Luigi's mansions, so sliding scale of what's scary.
And I do own the blair Witch game, but I
bailed because I thought I could do it, and I
was like I was at the time unmedicated for my
heart condition and I was like bedridden because it was
so debilitating. And I decided to play an absolutely terrifying
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game for the very first time. And then I quickly
realized that I actually have quite the ceiling. It's a hard,
concrete ceiling for how scary a game I can play,
although I still have it, and so I'm holding out
hope that one day I will be able to play
the blair Witch game. Because I love the movies. I
don't know why it's so much scarier to play the
video game than it is to watch a movie. I
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don't know if it's the same for you guys. If
you guys, if anybody plays scary games or watch the
scary movies but can't handle the other, like think someone
is like worse than the other. Which one do you
think is worse? Because I guess my and maybe it's
the autism. I feel like when you're in the video game,
I feel like it's happening to me and it's in
my control, and it's up to me that all of
the pookies in the game do not die, you know,
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Like when I play Alien Isolation, I am like so
tense that I eventually had to start keeping the ign
like guide open in a tab on the side because
I would get so scared thinking the alien could come
at any minute, when it's just like, damn well, not
programmed into the game for you to have an encountered
with the alien for a certain amount of time, so
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there's not even remotely a boss ability that could happen.
But I didn't know for sure, so I had to
keep the guide open so that I would know that
this area does not like, this part of the game
does not have the alien it so I can try
to just focus on the mission of the game. Otherwise
I'm just I don't know. I think I watched so
many horror movies. Maybe that's what makes it hard for
me anyway video games. I love Kotski. One of the
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main reasons that I have always just loved him in
his silly little brain so much is because I loved
that little detail that he sees so much of his
life like it's a video game. We see it a
lot in the anime and in the manga. One not
as often talked about things. When he's talking about an
attack he's going to do with totor Roki and he's
trying to explain it to him, is you see these
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little like eight big characters of them like they're in
a video game, floating kind of over the screen as
he explains it, And it's kind of like that's how
he sees it, and that's how he's explaining it, and
I think that that's really cute, and I kind of
thought about that, and I thought about, how, you know,
we have that cool die Germs Die sequence where you
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see the little like vintage arcade style shooter like germs
getting eviscerated by him brushing his teeth, which I think
about very often when I'm brushing my teeth because I
think it's just so funny, like I just remember it
so often. And so all of that together and me
playing started valleys so aggressively and so much, and then
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we got ten hard Event, which is a fit I
really love and I actually I've been working on for
a long time because I was waiting to do the zine,
and then eventually I was like, girl, it's not happening
like this, so let's let's share it with the people.
Let's finish and share with the people, and then, you know,
let's do everything in its time. So long spiel up
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ahead that we've done now. Although I say that I
looked at the clock, it's actually not nearly my longest intro.
But I'm really excited about sharing this one. You almost
got a way longer spiel, by the way, you might
get one at the end. We might do an en
I know we never do enjepiels, but I think I
think we're gonna do an end spiel at this because
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I did have something else and I wanted to share
with you guys, but I didn't want to take up
too much time up ahead of what you're here for.
So I think we'll do it at the end. Okay,
if I remember, we'll see. Imagine I released this and
you guys are waiting at the internet just out stops
because I forgot this could happen to you, this could
happen to me. Okay, So this is rated G general audiences. Boy,
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it's hotter. Fucking this bitch. Sorry, I'm like really sweating
because of all the cabbing. The relationship is Boko Ko
Kotski kish my Adro, and the characters in it are
Baka Kokatski, kish my Adro, Ashi, Doomina, Cumini, Dinky, Jiro, Koka, Ariozumomo,
Sarah Hunta, Midori Zuku, and Toto Rookie Shotto. Additional tags
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Katski plays start your valley, getting together, affirming friendship, sweet fluff, humor,
I love them all, Kotski's tendency to see life like
a video game. Fucking nerd. This is very cute and fun.
Kotski realizing he has been tricked into caring. And by
that I mean he realizes his friends love him and
he loves them, and he loves Kiroshima specifically. And first kiss,
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so as you can tell, it's very sweet. All right,
without further ado, now I've gapped for almost ten minutes.
See now this is more. This is more like it,
all right. Summary. He was in his third year at
UA when Miena got him into a new game. Started
something focus this, he asked, gesturing with his nose to
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the page he had pulled up full of villagers with
empty hearts by their avatars. Oh, intimacy levels, So there's
eight for everyone to start. But then some villagers you
can romance. She wiggled her eyebrows with a laugh. They
can have up to ten if you're into each other,
and even more if you're actually married. She pinched his cheek.
That's a really difficult one for me to say. She
pinched his cheek playfully. Got up those hearts if you're
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gonna be the best blasty Kotsky squinted at the console
in his hands. He could fucking that. He was a
goddamn delight, and so would his badass farmer sona be.
Or Kotsky plays Stardo Valley and realizes some things. Or
one morning Baka lu Kotsky awoke to find he had
been turned into someone who had deeply loved beginning notes.
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I like the idea that Baka Go sees hearts break
people when he talks to them, like he's in a
dating sim kind of like how I had how he
had a video game in said when he brush his teeth.
So here we are and here we go. Kotsky likes winning. Duh,
There's not much he can't turn into a competition of sorts,
even if it's just within himself. Especially then really, he'll
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conquer germs like their targets on a screen when he
brushes his teeth, he plays his mental bets on his
stats when he trains and sees an eight bit dynamite
sliding down a flagpole to a victory song when he
beats them. Everyone has their own way of seeing the world,
and this was his. He'd always liked video games, things
with clear rules and objectives and conditions and fictional stakes
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to take the stress out of things. From time to
time he was in his third year at UA, would
Meena gote him into a new game, started something and
challenged him to make it into a competitive game. She
bet he couldn't. You're on, he had grinned, beginning a
new save foul with confidence as he explored the controls,
and she pointed out aspects of the game that she liked.
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The fuck is this, he asked, gesturing with his nose
to the page she had pulled up full of villagers
with empty hearts by their avatars. Oh, intimacy levels. They're
the best part of the game. The more you talk
to the villagers and give them things. They like the
closer they feel to you. Every other heart you feel.
Unlacks a cut scene where you get to know each
other better, so there's eight for everyone to start. But
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some villagers you can romance. She wiggled her eyebrows with
a laugh. They can have up to ten of your
into each other, even more if you're actually married. She
pinched his cheek playfully, and he pretended to squat her away,
but her easy grin gave the friendly exchange away for
what it was. Got up those hearts, If you're gonna
be the best blasty, she teased as she leaned back
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and grabbed her own switch again. Kosky squinted at the
console in his hands. He could fucking do that. He
was a goddamn delight, and so would his badass farmer
sona be. In the end, he played up until it
was his bedtime, still eight thirty on the dot, because
he's got something called self disciplined pinky. Maybe try it sometime,
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and he could admit it was a pretty fun game.
He could work on making the best farm with the
best produce and animals, and he'd make everyone fill their
stupid hearts, and then he'd win. Easy he'd even, although
he'd deny it, already picked a villager to marry, this sweet,
athletic type who lived with his grandparents, personable, kind of goofy,
smarter and stronger than he gave himself credit for. No,
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Kotsky doesn't have a type fuck off. Maybe it was
because he played so late. Maybe it was because of
the way Kotsky had always used video game to make
sense of the world. And maybe he'd have some kind
of what's horrible about me turning the microphone around so
you can hear me properly? Is that now when I
fuck up, you can really hear it. I feel like
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some of you at least are like girl we could
hear before. Anyway, maybe he had had some sort of
stroke in his sleep that was dead set on ruining
his life. But when Kotski woke up something had changed. Kiashima, Saro,
and Danky were still out on missions. They'd be home
later in the day, so Kotski didn't have his usual
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breakfast with them, But when he came downstairs to grab
his usual he froze in his tracks. Totorok and Dekku
were sitting in the kitchen, obviously in from an early run,
and besides, their heads were fucking hearts. Totoroki, half a
head shorter than Dekku but still a chunk taller than Katski,
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glanced over and gave him a small nod, eyes softened
in recognition. Seven hearts, seven, seven hearts, well, Kotsky frowned.
Totaroki did always say Kotsky was his best friend, and
when it was first, he'd been among Kotsky's first too,
not that he'd ever own up to it. Well again,
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he had once after a rough mission where they'd saved
each other's lives so many times counting would be a
waste of breath, and when they'd had a moment, just
a moment to stop moving, baku go, you're my Yeah,
I know, he'd cut him off, wheezing still from a
stinging kick to the chest. The villain given him No,
I'd like to say it. We almost don't have to.
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I baku go want no, Kotsky had growled, before Totoroki
had rolled his eyes and deflated slightly. Fuck, I fucking
love you too. You're my fucking friend. I'm not saying
that shit again. I don't care if you do. Almost die,
got it? He helped out, pretending to have to look
away to rub his chest. Tartikoki had been so silent,
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Kosky had briefly wondered if he had killed him when
he heard a soft exhale. Okay, Bakako think. Kotsky boxed
him around the ear immediately to shut him up, and
they devolved into a scuffle, the likes of which several
toddlers would have been proud had that been it. Kotsky mused,
maybe their six heart event or something. He glanced over
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at Deku, and his frown reaffirmed its place in his face.
You're fucking kidding me, he thought. Eight hearts, eight hearts
over that broccoli head ass. Eight He didn't need to
think about when that had happened. There were too many
moments in there s true to count disgusting eight hearts,
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gross morning Khatan. Deku waved, and Kaski grunted and returned.
Don't let it get to your head, he barked, as
he stalked past them to grab one of his prepped
meal containers from the fridge. Deku sighed along, suffering sigh. Okay, gotcham,
what's he talking about, Totoroki asked, with a confused expression,
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but Decka just shrugged. No clue, doesn't have to make
sense to anyone but him. Fluck. Krotsky scowled as he
grabbed a fork and headed outside with his food. Fucking
Nerd knew him too well. He felt a warmth creeping
up his chest at the way the two had just
accepted his early morning antics with fond exasperation, and he
began eating more forcefully than usual. Blasty having a picnic
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without me. Kotsky looked up to see pink hair blowing
around in the breeze ahead of two darker figures, Momo
and Jiro, both girls much less energetic than their friend
for the early hour. Huh, fuck are you up so early? For?
His brows furrowed as they approached where he sat. Mina
and the others were in loose, comfortable clothing with rolled
up mats under their arms. While Mina was all smiles
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and excitement, Mamma was quiet, with her greeting soft in
her sleepiness, whereas Giro radiated mild irritation and shaustion. We've
been wanting to do morning yoga for ages, but our
schedules never lined up, Mina smiled, you want to join.
Kotsky squinted at her, and sure enough, seven, no, seven
and a half hearts. Oh, he blinked, and suddenly uh,
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he blinked, suddenly feeling a bit blindsided as he glanced
at Momo Jiro, who had five and six hearts respectively. Oh,
he thought again, as he reciprocated everyone's greetings with a
nod and a shrug. Why not, he shrugged. Someone's gonna
make sure you don't kill ears with your screeching. And
Jira must have been really tired because she didn't even
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blink at the nickname, instead nodding and plopping onto the
grass beside him. As he finished eating, and the other
two began setting up their mats, Momo gently prying Giro's
out of her arms and setting it up for her.
They probably had nine hearts for each other, at least,
Kathy realized. He wondered if they'd noticed already, they'd have
to be pretty stupid. Not too, he vigered. They were
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a little stupid, but he decided a few hours later,
when Momo had gone inside to make them some iced
tea to cool off, Mina was sprawled out on her
I'm sorry, sorry, it's my own fucking writing. But the
moment I read that sentence, my room was like I
wish I had some fucking iced tea. It's hot as fun. Ah,
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you can't even have iced tea anyway. Mina was sprawled
out on her mat, eyes closed, and enjoying the sun,
singing along to some song playing off her phone. Kowsky
glanced and saw the heart was a little bit fuller,
and he looked away again before he could think too
much about it. So brainiac, huh, he mumbled, knowing Jiro
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would hear him loud and clear. Her eyes snapped open,
and she glanced at Mina, who hadn't heard them before.
Relaxing shut up, she signed I'm back eh, and Kowsky
bit back a smile. Her ears were so sensitive. Sometimes
she preferred nonverbal communication. She'd been the first person to
be able to sign with him when he'd started needing to.
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Of course, by now the whole class was fluent, but
still she had been the first. You're ringed chicken shit,
he signed lazily. She's crazy about you, dumbass. She blushed
and shoved at him lightly, and he let her you
think so, She signed with a raised brow, only because
I have eyes he snorted as he signed, I thought
you were a hero. Aren't you supposed to be brave?
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She rolled her eyes but smiled, Yeah, yeah, we can't
all have perfect boyfriends. Who's got a boyfriend? Mina perked up,
having opened her eyes and caught the tail end of
their conversation that had Kotsky frowning in confusion. As Giro
managed to distract Mina before Momo finally returned, Kotsky took
his glass of tea with the muttered thanks and headed
inside without further announcement. Kots Get annoyedy the hell she
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was talking about, but luckily he didn't have time to
think about it too much. Oh before he was reacting
to a sudden shout and ducking as a flash of
tape shop passed his ear. Sorry, b damn it, Danky,
I told you not to fucking tickle me. Sarah pulled
his helmet off and spit and pushed his sweat slicked
hair back as he gave a snickering Danky a light
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shove with his elbow. You shouldn't have tried to go
for the Blueberg Andola bar man. If he'd stuck with Raspberry,
it wouldn't have happened, Danky shrugged with a smile half
the aforemationed granola bar in his cheeks, fucking mannerless heathen.
Kotsky's eyes narrowed as he clocked both of them with
matching rows of eight hearts filled to the rim. Fuck, God,
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damn it, God fucking catch on, my dude, are you blushing?
Shut up, spark plug, don't fucking talk with your mouthful. Honestly,
who raised you? He snarked, while trying to calm the
redness in his face and the heat in his chest
as he processed. Okay, the danky had eight hearts for him,
wasn't a surprise, Not really. The guy wore his heart
on his sleeves, surrounded by neon signs and giant arrows.
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Just in case you missed it, he was incredibly expressive.
In addition to that, the guy was so deeply kind
he could probably make friends with inanimate objects. It wasn't
surprising that he decided Kotsky was eight heart material. Sarah, though.
Sarah's quieter, less obvious about well everything, observant, less obnoxious
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about how charismatic he could be, more on actions than
a words guy. Oh more in actions, than a words,
guy suited Cosky just fine. He just wished he hadn't
gotten so comfortable with it so as to have never
noticed consciously that Sarah had become one of his closest friends.
Definitely one of his most earnest friends. Oh sorry, definitely
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one of the most earnest friends Koski had ever had
in his life. Come to think of it, that was
the danger, he supposed being a quieter type. Koski felt
like kicking himself or not realizing it sooner, but he
had come to just expect Sarah to be there, to
tag along the way everyone else tended to be his
friend like he had been, while the other is like
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Danky or Mina or Jiro got Kotsky's active attention frequently
for one reason or another, either being obnoxiously in his
face or specifically never obnoxiously in his face, and then
Sarah could slip through the cracks. Well, that wouldn't fucking
do tape Sarah. Tomorrow we're sparring, I'll kick your ass
and then we can have a lunch at that place
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you fucking like so much. I got the next istion
of I got the next issue of the Mongo You
were reading too, if you want to borrow it. Sarah's
eyes had initially widened upon being addressed, but we're now
settling into a much more familiar expression, drooping deceptively with
ease as Baka Goll recognized that spark of competition behind
the almost lazy demeanor. Sounds good. I'd love to, of
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course you would, Kotsky nodded with a grin that Sarah
easily reciprocated. Great job, Bakao, says a voice in his
head that sounds suspiciously like Kiroshima as he walks away.
Then being back can only mean one thing, So without
further delay, Kotsky loaded up on snacks and his expensive
sore m cream and headed over to Kishima's room, letting
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himself in and getting comfortable in the bed like he
had countless times. The shower was still running, but only
for a few minutes before the redhead himself was calling
out to him. Back, ago you there, man, Who the
fuck else would it be? He tossed back as he
began to heat up his palms carefully. I saw a
thing one and two downstairs, his shoulders still healing. Thought
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you'd want me to massage it again or whatever. He grunted,
heat spreading across his cheeks at Kishima's extended sighs, the
water turned off. Fuck, yes, please, the last guy I
took down really dug into the ground. Sorry, the last
guy I took down really dug into the fucking ground.
I took out some pavement, dragging him away. He stepped
into view a moment later, hair wet and hanging around
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his shoulders, fresh shorts on, and a T shirt in
his hands as he smiled at Katsky. Nine and a
half hearts floating happily beside his head. Nine and a
half's I mean, had said, So there's hearts for it,
So there's eight for everyone to start. But then some
villagers you can romance. They can have up to ten
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if you're into each other, Kotsky blinked, If you're into
each other, Katsky. Huh. Kotsky shook himself slightly to snap
out of his days, but Kishima laughed and damn near
put him right back into one. Nine and a half. Huh.
Kotsky mused internally, he could be better than that. Sit
down already brought that muscle oment too, But that last
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guy was just a cherry on top. Ho may needed
you take on by yourself? Huh. Kishima rubbed his neck
and sat down on the bed, bare back facing Kotsky
as he spoke, Oh my god, I like had a
little continuity, or I gave him a short and I
took it away. Well, let's just pretend took it off
for the missage five. But it wasn't a big deal.
The guys did a lot too. He turned to face
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Kotsky a little over his shoulder to catch his eyes.
He smiled, I am pretty sore now. Katsky flicked him
on the forehead. Don't twist your ne idiot, you'll hurt yourself. Relax.
He scooped up some of the muscle oinmen and began
working it over Kyoshima's back and shoulders, slowly, using the
residual warmth in his hands to help Askaroshima all but
melted under his under his touch. Fuck you're the best,
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he groaned in relief, and Kotsky smirked. I know, he said, simply,
and Kishima chuckled, eyes still closed, Yeah, but you like
hearing it right? He opened his eye. He opened an
eye to squint up at the blonde with a teasing
lite through his voice. When he caught Kotsky's gaze, however,
his eyes opened and surprised to see Kotsky already staring
at him contemplatively, Kotsky allowed his fingers to cool and
(25:39):
slid a hand up to massage Kiushi must scalp by
the nape of his neck gently, and Kashima's lips parted
as he relaxed further, but kept Kotsky's gaze until his
fingers slowed and he was basically left cradling Kiashima's head.
Kaoshimu's eye slickered down at Kotsky's lips, which were already
slightly parted. Was it now the right moment? Should they
just blassi? Mina said to ask, if you want to
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come out of a movie night? Odadaka called through the
bedroom door, and the two boys parted again, the moment
dissipating into the air. No. Katzky growled, choosing to ignore
how she knew he'd be in Kiroshima's room. She's going
to pick legally blonde again and they get fucking weird
about her grades again, Watch it, miss congeniality, Ododaka shot
back as he heard her footsteps fade, and Kirishimus snorted,
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Miss congeniality, Sandra Bullock is a goddamned delight. Katsky shoved
a hidden lazily smirking in Kishima's laughter as they easily
relaxed into their back and forth again until lunchtime. The
time would come, Katsky figured unskippable unskippable cutscenes. Right later
(26:47):
that evening, Katsky found himself in his dorm room, laid
comfortably on his couch with his new game and cursing
the creatures in the caverns. After his Farmersona had passed
out again, he signed, deciding to just go give the
sweet athletic character his daily gift of one raw egg
freak and call it a day. When there was an
unexpected knock at his door, he squinted as he recognized
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the hesitant knock of a nervous Kishima. True to expectation.
When Katsky opened the door, there stood Kiushima and his
pajamas sweats and in his pajamas sweats and an old
Crimson Riot T shirt, smiling at Kotsky as he shifted
his weight on his feet, grinned, sheepish and shy, but
excited too. Kotsky knew exactly how he felt. I was thinking.
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I mean, no, I don't think I'm reading this wrong,
but you can always tell me. Karashima shook himself for
a second and let out a deep breath, clearly stealing
himself as Kotsky watched, but mused, I care about you
so much, man, and earlier, for a moment I thought
you were gonna kiss me. His breath came out a
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little shallow at the end of the admission, but his
smile persisted, brightened even at the memory, and he lifted
his gaze to old Kotsky's firm and I thought I
should tell you that I wanted you to I want
you to still you like me or something Kiroshima. Kotsky
shifted his weight and tilted his chin up with a
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self as shured grin. Kiroshima rolled his eyes in response,
though he was grinning too, and the tension released from
his shoulders or something. He stepped closer into Kotsky's face.
I should have known you'd be like this about it.
You already knew, didn't You ain't exactly a tough guy
to read. Kotsky stepped closer to meet him. Didn't figure
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it out until today, though, so don't give me too
much cut up. Kiashima barked a laugh as his hands
came up to cradle Kotsky's face. There's some manly dude,
he said, as he began to lean in, only for
Kotsky to suddenly jolt in his hands and burst out laughing.
You're about to kiss me for the first time, and
you called me dude. Kotsky raised a critical eyebrow, and
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Kiashima groaned through an unwilling chuckle of his own. Shut up, God,
you know what I meant. He rolled his eyes and
pulled Kotsky's hand down, using the other to hold the
back of Kotsky's head, and leaning down to finally kiss him.
Kotsky didn't need any hearts floating around to know how
special this moment was or how lucky he was. He
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wrapped his arms over Kirie's shoulders, kissing him back and
wondering what an acceptable amount of time between now and
asking if Kirishim wanted to co op a farm together
and have their parmisonas get married would be the end
end notes. I actually wrote ninety percent of this over
the last two and a half years, but kept it
unfinished because I was planning on releasing as part of Cilozine.
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But hey, I'm not nearly good enough of Pixelar yet
and beat I'm so tired, so I decided to just
finish it and release it for everyone to enjoy, which
you guys already know. So I hope you guys enjoyed
this one. I really really love it, like so much.
It makes me so happy, and I'm really happy to
share it with you guys. I did not forget that
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I had something I wanted to talk to you guys
about at the end of this recording, so I have
heard you. I did a poll where I asked, you know,
what kind of stuff would you guys be interested in
seeing on the patreon if you subscribe to the patreon,
So yes, this is about the Patreon. You can listen
(30:21):
to it and here's some cool tidbits of some sneak peeks,
or you can listen to it later, or you can
you know, bail and I'll see you next week. No worries,
no our feelings, all as well. All is fine. I
appreciate all of you. But if you want to keep listening,
I thought that I would share something that I have
now implemented in a little bit more detail than I've
(30:44):
expressed before. So I heard you guys say that the
thing everybody voted most for that they would want or
that would make them think about joining the Patreon is
sneak piece of ongoing whibs headcans, et cetera. So I've
implemented that. I've mentioned it before. If you have heard
that one before, I've mentioned it, And basically it is
(31:08):
now a weekly thing. Every Thursday I have. I have
like sixty something or more of these queued up. Okay,
so that's sixty something weeks. It's over. You're already in
advance of sneak peaks. That's how many fucking whips I
have that were ready to have an excerpt town, even
though that's definitely not all of the whips that I have.
(31:29):
So I thought I would tell you guys the name
a brief premise of all of the sneak peaks that
have been released so far, and to actually read the snippets,
of course, you would have to be a part of
the Patreon. But I thought, you know, if you know,
maybe it'll pique your interest. We will see. So I
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have an excerpt from Mister Bombastic a Kiribakufe about fans sick.
What does it look like for fanfic that Kotsky wrote
as a superhero fanboy in his youth to come back
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to bite him a little bit in the ass in
his thirties as a pro hero, especially if he had
an oc that he shipped his little self insert with.
That's an awful lot like our sturdy hero. So that
excerpt is out, came out in May. Then we have
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an excerpt from and this is for you y Hawk
show fans, because there's none. It's not easy to find
new shit for us. Okay, we are living on old rations,
but they're delicious. I have an excerpt from my ongoing
thick called like my ongoing work in progress called What's
up Funny Looking, which is a koolbara and you are
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meshy work in progress about them and the process of
realizing feelings. Because Jesus Christ, these are not emotionally intelligent people.
I mean, Kobara is on his own, but not not
when it comes to your Ameshi. So then we have
an excerpt from a Kakashi Yuruka fic from the kandom
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of Naruto called obsessed. Kakashi and Yuuka are freak for freak,
thank god, even if they don't know yet. Then we
have let's see. The next one that came out was
uh possibly the most popular one so far, a Kiribaku
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whip called how I Reverse Psychology in My Crush into
Tutoring me an almost failed math, And it is based
on the I think it's the novelization where we actually
get to see Baku Go tutoring Kiroshima and the fact
that he does not seem to actually be good at
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it at all, because because it makes everything that comes
out of his mouth makes absolutely no sense. And I
was thinking, hmm, kashim is a smart guy, he doesn't
have bad grades. But what if he pulled a Mean
Girls and pretended to be a little bit worse at
something just to get Baca Go to tutor him, And then,
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much like in Mean Girls, what if Bacca Go actually
is very good enough? I like Mean Girls, but is
maybe not so good a tutoring. I think it's a
really cute one's It's definitely high up there on what
I would like to work on next. Then I have
an excerpt from a currently untitled Pirate Captain's Macha Blossom ayu.
So if you like Pearl Diver, but you wonder what
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would it be like if Cherry and Joe did grow
up together like in Skate, but they became pirate captains
and went their separate ways, only to reunite again as adults,
where one of them has been knowingly in love with
the other and the other one is still in denial.
This one's going to be a multi chapter. Then we
(35:06):
have my Shinbaku not Safe for Work as Fuck by
the way, not Safe for Work as fuck whip called
walking HR Violation, which is actually an alternate universe kind
of to the Adventures of Red Riot where what if
there's no superpower beings and Kirishiman evermovesicity so it's And
also what if Shinso was new at the company instead
(35:27):
of already being at the paper for a super long
time as their HR rep? What if there was a
new HR rep? And what if he's been carrying a
secret torch for baccco since they were younger but Bakuo
does not remember him and this leads to some shenanigans.
Then we have what's going to come out next? Oh
(35:52):
my god, wait, that one's going to come out next Oops. Well,
to be fair, that one actually already has a whip
snippet out, so that's actually the second one that's coming out.
I'm showing two snippets from that work in progress, and
the second one is coming out. Actually, by the time
this is out, this will have already been out. So
never mind. I could have not told you, guys that
I'd messed that up, and you would have never known.
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But I am nothing if not transparent, So I gotta
stop there. I cannot tell you the rest it's coming out.
You'll just have to see for yourself if you want,
and if you can, no pressure, no worries. I just
thought I would share. I'd listen to you guys, and
I thought it was a really great idea, and I
have plenty share. Also important note I edited together Number
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one Most Annoying Customer. All three chapters are available as
one full audiobook that's one hour and thirty seven minutes
straight through, without the gabbing in between, just a little
at the beginning, at the end, till you know what
you're reading and who's reading it. So the audiobook version
of Number one Most Annoying Customer is available either for
five dollars in the Patreon shopp just buy once you
(37:00):
have a period, or it's available with the five dollars
tier of my Patreon as along with everything else. So
if you're part of the Therapeut Bacca Go benefactors, you
get it anyway. You don't have to buy it extra.
You get it an addition all of the exclusive fix
and in addition to all of the sneak peeks in
the pools, et cetera. But if you don't want to
do the recurring thing, you just want to have it once,
(37:22):
you want to have it all at once, nice to
listen to whatever, Go ahead, go grab it on the
Patreon store. All the links and stuff are in the
description below. As always, I hope you guys enjoyed. Thanks
for letting me out at you guys and laugh at
you guys a little bit extra. I'm about to sneez.
Please don't sneeze on the recording. I have no idea
how loud it would be. Okay, I gotta go, I
gotta go. Sneeze. Bye,
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