so i was thinking about this post, specifically the comparison between Ianthe/Babs and Silas/Colum. because on the surface, they're both necromancers whose relationship to their cavalier seems wholly consumptive. but: Silas differs from Ianthe on one big, key point -- he refuses to ascend to lyctorhood. he has been indoctrinated since birth to view his cavalier as only a tool for him; Colum was quite literally made for him, the 8th house breeds batteries, but when the chips are down silas refuses. he tried to kill Ianthe for it!! like, he was the only one in the room who thought what Ianthe did was so fucked up that she should die for it.
and this is so fascinating!! because one could potentially interpret the 8th house's treatment of their cavaliers like Mercymorn trying to innoculate her house against the grief that destroyed her for 10,000 years. she loved Cristabel too much, and she never wanted that to happen to anyone else. but the thing is, I don't think it worked. at best, I can see Silas becoming like Augustine "human plex" the First. you are not immune to grief etc.
and i think this is going to be important like, idk. the 8th house is the only dead Canaan House pair that hasn't yet had their arc concluded. and IMO, i think the 9th house wasnt the only house to have their dynamic be challenged by and radically shift due to the events of GtN!! that scene where Silas invites Gideon to "take tea" and then tells Colum to kill her -- Colum refuses, Silas lets Gideon go, and we never see the conclusion of that fight. and of course, despite refusing to wholly consume his soul, when fighting Ianthe Silas falls back on old habits to steamroll Colum's agency, and ends up opening the path for the River Devil that comes and kills them both. I think it is very intentional that this is framed as a consequence of Silas overriding Colum's agency and treating Colum like a tool and not a person, and I think the rest of their arc is going to address this. in HtN, when Silas fled Harrow's bubble, I am convinced that he went to go find Colum's soul.
im very interested to see where their arc leads re: forgiveness, atonement, etc, especially in the context of Gideon's forgiveness of Harrow in the pool scene, Hot Sauce's forgiveness of Nona, and Ortus & Harrow's mutual forgiveness of each other. how do we make it right when it can never be made right, how can we move forward without ever being able to erase what we have done to each other?
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𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐘𝐒𝐔𝐒 (𝟑𝟔𝟕𝟏)
𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑙𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑥𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛
Dionysus is the Greek god of wine and festivities and has the power of driving mortals insane. In my opinions, wherever this asteroid is in your chart can show how you are when intoxicated/drunk
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⌂ Houses
𐃯 1st: Loud and the life of the party, want all eyes on you, may become the centre of attention, may start getting into drinking competitions at parties, may become a little annoying to some people because they can become a little egotistical and start bragging about themselves, they also love talking about themselves when drunk.
𐃯 2nd: Possessive, they may become a little passive and isolate themselves in a corner, there's a tendency that they can get a little sleepy or tired as well. May not want to socialise at all and may want to leave the party early or if they're alone, will call it a day and do the irish goodbye, could also end up accidentally buying things (me lol).
𐃯 3rd: My cousin has this placement and she gets so chatty when she's intoxicated, she
will go on long never ending rants about any topic under the sun. May get really giggly
and flirty, at times may even gossip quite a bit about others, love meeting new people
and socialising especially at parties.
𐃯 4th: Can get a little scattered and get very emotional, a little bit of a crier and all their
emotions get amplified, big laughs, big cries, just feel everything all at once. You can
become very appreciative of your friends and can become a little lovey-dovey as well as
clingy.
𐃯 5th: So much fun, larger than life energy, they kind of become the host, will talk to
everyone, mingle, the type to be in the middle of a dance circle and absolutely kill it. May
become dramatic but it's humorous and playful, may also talk/think about their plans
for their future in regards to their family life when intoxicated.
𐃯 6th: Can become a little cranky and irritable over small things, can feel uncomfortable
so they may not drink or indulge in general, the type to be the mom friend even and may
like taking care of others even when they need to more, helpful, compliments flow
easier but they can also become a little candid with their speech (a little mean).
𐃯 7th: My friend has this and they do start thinking about their past relationships and
ranting about their exes, also the kind to dial their exes but overall so much fun, they
love to tease others, and can get really creative when intoxicated, especially when it
comes to aesthetics. Also make friends so easily holy shit it's insane, need to teach me how!
𐃯 8th: May like playing games related to gambling to be honest, they'll not be very
different from how they usually are and may have a high tolerance, seem calm and
composed, can make impulsive monetary decisions as well. Can come off as a bit intense
when drunk, emotionally like in a good way they may make big emotional decisions too
like telling someone they love them romantically.
𐃯 9th: They start talking about life and existence and very philosophical topics, I've met
some people with this sign who get really political and at times get kind of pushy about
their views and opinions. Fun to talk to if you want to know their opinions on life and what it means, can get sleepy quite fast frankly speaking.
𐃯 10th: Emotional, can become a little demanding and authoritative, ordering people
around low-key. Can be kind of a party pooper because I see 10th house Dionysus as
people who can get a little angry/aggressive when drunk and also a little selfish, for
example if they're at a party with their friends they won't let them talk to other people
or something along those lines.
𐃯 11th: Honestly my personal faves, they're so creative and the ideas they have are
brilliant, they would probably love talking about stuff related to the science fiction or
fiction in general. They get extremely social and are the type of people who would get a
lot of numbers if they want, would also make a lot of new friends, they may get cold
easily when drunk/intoxicated too.
𐃯 12th: Get kind of lost in their own world, they unintentionally ignore people because
of how consumed they are with their own thoughts, can get really silent and passive,
and may get very distracted and sort of unaware of their surroundings, bumping into
things unintentionally and stuff like that, maybe daydreaming a lot.
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i love ur yan kokichi omg i need more... plot can be whatever u want go crazy babe
I hope this turned out okay- I decided to mess around a little and came up with this plot. A bit cheesy and short, but my brain isn’t working well.
Title: Frayed Edges of Sanity
Pairings: Kokichi Ouma x Reader
WARNINGS: Yandere themes, Kokichi is a ghost, murder
Summary: Are you losing your mind, or is someone behind all of the hallucinations after all?
“Fighting the fear of fear
Growing conspiracy, myself is after me
Frayed ends of sanity
Hear them calling”
-From “Frayed Edges of Sanity” by Metallica
“So this is the place,” you wrinkled your nose a little as you looked at the decaying house.
A patchwork roof riddled with holes, peeling paint, a generally displeasing aura… that about summed up the manor you were met with.
But it was a house. And it was free. What kind of person would turn that down?
Apparently your great uncle, who you had never met, had entrusted this house to you for some reason. The whole thing seemed like a scam but here it was- an actual place to live. No strings attached.
There was no path to the front door, so you walked through the yard, grass crunching under your boots. The yard is choked with weeds and the grass is turning brown. The entire property is one big mess.
“This is going to take a ton of work,” you groaned. You should’ve known this would be a little too good to be true.
But still, it was a house. Not your tiny, musky, thin-walled apartment or an extra room at your parents’ place.
You unlocked the door and pulled it open, ignoring the ear-splitting creak it gave you in reply. There was a mirror in the entryway and you nearly walked by it, when something in your peripheral vision flashed in the glass. You took a step back, but the mirror didn’t show what you thought you’d seen.
No dark-haired boy in sight.
You shook your head, banishing the thought from your mind. It had simply been a trick of the light, that’s all.
Your therapist had suggested you keep a journal to document your mental state. Since you were starting over your life in a new home, you might as well start a new habit.
January 8th
Got a new house! Finally out of that awful apartment.
Looking forward to a brand new start.
—-----------------------------------
January 26th
I feel like someone’s watching me. And all night, I hear giggling.
I think I’m going insane.
You put the pen down and buried your face in your hands. Every day, you felt like you were slowly going crazier.
Your furniture kept rearranging itself, your possessions kept disappearing, you kept hearing a voice whispering in your ear, telling you to turn around, only for you to find nothing there.
You climbed into your bed and pulled the covers up to your ears. You closed your eyes but the feeling that someone was watching you was overwhelming.
You opened your eyes and were met with a pair of purple ones.
“Good moooorning, sleepyhead!” A playful voice met your ears. Your blood ran cold- that voice was the same one whispering and giggling in your ears since the day you walked in.
The dark-haired boy was floating upside down, arms behind his head as he regarded you with amusement.
“Who… What are you?” You demanded, scooting back on your bed until your back hit the headboard.
“I’m Kokichi Oma,” the boy replied. He puffed out his chest and added, “I’m a ghost.”
“Why am I only seeing you now?” You asked suspiciously.
“Get up,” Kokichi’s grin grew, “Get up and you’ll see.”
He held out a hand to you, but you waved it away from you, anger bubbling up inside of you. He’d been bothering you for weeks, making you think you were insane.
You slowly stood up, watching Kokichi carefully. He merely gave you a closed-eyed smile and pointed behind you, “Now turn around.”
You obeyed him and, as soon as you did, your entire body froze.
There, on the bed, lay your body.
Your eyes were open, unseeing, glazed over with death. Your skin was several shades lighter than it usually was and a dribble of blood had dried on your lips. A knife was driven through your chest, blood soaking through the shirt in the area around the blade.
“I’m… dead…” You stared at your body, realizing only now that you were just a spirit, “Kokichi… what happened?”
“I killed you,” Kokichi supplied cheerfully.
“What?!” You shrieked, “Why?”
“So you could finally be with me,” Kokichi pouted, “You couldn’t even see me while you were alive. But I hung out with you for a while and decided that we should be together!”
“What is wrong with you?” You screamed, “You killed me because you wanted me to be able to see you?”
“That’s not the only reason,” Kokichi said, “Now, I have you all to myself.” Kokichi let out a loud giggle, “If you don’t believe me, try talking to anyone else. They can’t hear or see you.”
“I’m all you’ve got left.”
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get this.
So, ever since my first day at school, I had been searching for an exit, I knew that the atmosphere and environment of any given classroom was simply not one I would excel or even coast in. Realizing at a very young age, that I was simply not built in a way where a typical, classroom setting education was even a possibility, I had an insane feeling overwhelm me when I’d think about the fact that this would be my life for the next 11 years. Which was more time than I had even been alive. And I had acknowledged, faced and overcame this reality YEARS before any adult in my life was even ready address it.
School was hell for me. Burning hot in my seat never able to sit still, fidgeting constantly and being made to feel a freak because of compulsions I could not control. All while completely incapable of making any lasting connections with kids my age because, to call my social skills “stunted” would be a lie, they did not exist. I was entirely on my own in this ever shrinking mental box of locked down possibilities. And the only release I could find at any given day, at any given time, was to act out in a way that I knew would provoke authority figures so that I could be removed from the class space. So that’s what I did, and I chased that feeling from age like 4 to 16. Always LOOKING for an opportunity to do something not only against the rules, but stuff that would make people invent new rules around my terrible actions, because the worse it was - the more likely I’d be removed from class. I never did anything to other students or teachers really (other than talk back and be a dick in general) I’d just do dumb, annoying Shit, and disrupt class. Not for attention or any reason other than I’d much rather light my entire body on fire than sit silently in a classroom
Fast forward to middle school I got expelled like 2 weeks before the end of 8th grade and sent to the kid jail I’ve talked about on here before, where I would spend the next 2 years, from the kid jail I went to an alternative high school. Needless to say things only got worse. I loved breaking rules. I learned very early on how easy it was to get away with stuff you shouldn’t do. But also how to reap the benefits of intentional misbehavior.
To this day, I am the only person I know who has been asked to stop coming to school, Like formally requested. Like “I can’t stop you from showing up, but this is pointless and a waste of everyone’s time, so maybe just don’t come back?“ and I was like r u srs??? Best walk home of my fucking life. I felt free for the first time since school started. Little did I know I was trading one prison for another. Complete with its own unique horrors and expectations. A prison called WORK.
Trying to break out of this one is next to impossible. I’ve been at it for years. While simple in theory, they’ve got a unique approach to this particular captive space, there’s actually a tangible reward for going.
A paycheck. Which if you aren’t aware, is a little rectangular piece paper that you take to a dystopian building in order to redeem the fruits of your labor, an arbitrary number that equates to your value as a human. The most difficult part of all of this is the fact that without increasing this number, you can’t eat or fund any kind of shelter to live in, so I’ve been sticking too it and biding my time trying to find cracks in the system, but they’ve got a pretty air tight hold on things as it turns out.
Getting the house, food, security and daily comfort without the currency stuff, that we insist on making so much more important than it is in practice, is almost impossible. It almost feels like it’s set up that way intentionally. Like they make it so you have to produce something of value to a person who makes waaaaaay more of those currency numbers than you do, just to live a somewhat decent life.
Not to mention the fact that if the slightest possible thing goes wrong, weather it be medical, financial or a family emergency, you’re more than likely fucked 10 ways to Sunday because no one has more than $20 the day before pay day. Add that to the fact that a huge portion of all your earnings get taken by the “government” whatever the fuck that is, which they use to commit atrocities around the globe, and if you don’t like it and don’t want to give them that money, they will put you in an actual prison, which from what I’ve heard, sucks.
I’ve considered diving into the freedom of not having one of these annoying ass jobs but prior to doing so I decided to prospect the lifestyle and talk to some people who were experts in not having them. And life is like, insanely hard for them, in ways I don’t think I could cope with. So when I decided that wasn’t an option I started looking at the people doing the job work stuff really well and tried to study their tactics. Turns out, it’s not all that hard to “climb the ladder” or whatever the fuck they call it. In fact most times just having good attendance will find you thrusted into a position of power that you didn’t even want. But the thing is, the only way to get more paper money stuff is almost always to take advantage of someone with less than you. I learned in practice, that I morally just cant do that.
So now I’m at a job where I work with a very small number of people, work with my hands silently and with no opportunities for advancement, only very thinly veiled pay bumps that are always an insult to the amount of work I actually do. And I must grovel to obtain them. All while working for a billionaire who owns multiple vacation homes that are probably bigger than the entire square footage of any apartment complex I’ve had the privilege of renting a one bedroom in. And now I live in a 10x7 room with my grandma, because even the apartment became too much to maintain financially.
And this is where I’m at until I figure out how to get out. Hiding a scowl with a smile. Sharpening knives in the dark. Waiting for the day I can lash out at whoever put us here. The moment I get shed my skin and expose my true nature to those who’ve wronged me. Waiting for the moment I get to bleed my oppressor. And I hope you get to do the same to yours.
💕Thanks for reading💕
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Happy 8th of July!
When - we’ve jumped in time to the Prison Era, during that nice interim that for reasons I am making months long.
Genre - fluffy and fun. It’s the Fourth (Eighth) of July! You and Glenn want to make it a good one for people, then you enlist Dary-bear to help. He doesn’t realize it’s to set off fireworks, though. (Was that a double entendre? Might could be...read to find out :D )
Relationships - mangy hick be admitting something big to himself and it’s a huge step for him (Daryl x reader). As always, found family and slight adherence to Bechdel also means we focus on you and the gang! In line with your character, you have yourself an adopted younger brother, now, too.
Pronouns - neutral time, y’all
Perspective - I did the 2nd person you and 3rd person him thing again
TWs - just some casual crude language
Word Count - enough to explain why setting off fireworks is in fact a great idea
Plot references - the water pistols you found in Bad things happen*, you and Daryl discussing holidays in A f----n’ great Christmas, your medical skills (friend, they are increasing), T-Dog and Daryl’s growing friendship as has been hinted at (esp in It was a pragmatic cigarette.)
There are more plot references in the story to be found in the series, so click on this here link: The Masterlist. It’s got what you want, slowpokes :) And as always, feedback is savored greatly.
“This is insane.”
“We’d drive real far away, way passed the three-mile mark—which means no kid walkies, we’ll need to use the police radio. And the booms wouldn’t attract nothing here because we’ll be settin’ them off so far.” You’ve got a whole list of reasons to convince him. “And it’ll help us and the Woodbury group and all the new survivors bond with each other more.”
“No, I meant ‘insane’ as in I love it!”
Yes! You raise your hand for a high-five, which Glenn promptly returns.
“So, which direction?” he asks.
“North.” You point out in the direction of the old radio or maybe utility tower several miles in the distance.
“Okay, I’ll see about clearing out the north guard tower so people can have a better view. Dude, the kids are gonna love this.”
“I hope it makes people smile.”
His smile then changes into an unsure kind of grimace.
“Glenn?”
“What do you think Rick will—are our asses gonna get handed to us for this?”
“No, Rick’ll love it, too!”
Nah, Glenn’s unconvinced.
“I’ll shoulder the blame when—if—it comes to it,” you’re quick to assure him, adding with a shrug, “You know I get a moderate pass when it comes to him.”
After he scrunches up his nose in hesitation, he relaxes and elbows you. “Just don’t mess up the problem shoulder again if you do.”
You check the time on Dale’s watch. “Let’s leave to set it up at 3, Eileen’s appointment will be done by then and you’ll be off-duty. That’ll leave us plenty of time to go back to that house, go to the spots, set them up, and still grab supplies. We can probably get paper goods from the Bojangles near it...”
“...And there’s an office building across the street from the Bojangles. Looked fairly un-window-smashed, should be some good supplies there.”
“That’s perfect, offices tend to have pills and other useful medical stuff in the desk drawers.” Maybe another epinephrine injector to stock up?
“And there’s that crate of soda I forgot to take out of the Chevy last time, so we’ll bring that in, too. Make us look very productive.”
After another high-five, the plan is set, and you two stare out from the guard post.
“I can fill up the water balloons at the stream if I rinse off one of the siphon hoses. Will you do the water pistols?”
“Surely can! If only we had…” your stomach grumbles almost immediately, “Hot dogs.”
“And burgers.”
“And marsh—”
“—Marshmallows!” he finishes for you. Sighs. He’s been wanting rice crispy treats since you’d first met him at the quarry. “Oh my God, I miss marshmallows. Carol told me she once made them from scratch.”
“What?”
“Dude, right? She said she’d show me how, but it uses a stand mixer.”
“Can’t you mix it by hand for her?” you playfully complain.
“It’d be worth it.”
Maggie’s voice pipes in from down the stairwell. “What’d be worth it?”
“Mixin’ homemade marshmallow batter stuff by hand,” you call back.
“It’s ‘mixture,’ Y/N,” Glenn snorts to you.
“Marshmallow batter?” Maggie repeats, now at the top of the stairs.
Glenn is over there and kissing her before you can blink. Giving them privacy (somewhat), you promptly turn your eyes back to the fence and walls around the prison’s perimeter.
“Y/N and I were talking about how Carol said she’d made homemade marshmallows before,” you hear Glenn say.
“Ah, I see.“
She joins you in staring out at the perimeter. Still beaming, her smile at him is so sweet that it’s probably got more sugar than a whole bag’s worth of marshmallows.
And you aren’t jealous by any stretch, that wouldn’t be an accurate word for it. You’re as happy as can be for them, you love them both!
You’re simply feeling that (annoying) longing to have that yourself, too. That must be you still feeling all hopeful following their wedding.
And you’re not slipping into thoughts about your redneck friend, no sir. That would be...just don’t. His friendship is a blessing, you love him as your friend, leave it at that. Besides, he doesn’t have an interest in you that way. He’s probably into Michonne if anyone; they’ve been out tracking a lot, she's gorgeous, and they're both the silent, strong badass type with an underlying softness. Or Carol, they’re buddies.
And you're not slipping into more thoughts about how wonderful his growth as a person has been from how he was when y’all first met at the quarry and how insanely attractive that is, no way.
Caleb is more likely to house an interest, to be honest, and you spend plenty of time with him training. There’s no reason for you to feel disappointed at that prospect. Caleb is a great guy and easy on the eyes, just like Dar—oops, there you go again.
“It’s too bad we haven’t done that inflatable pool idea yet,” Glenn comments, bringing you back topside.
Maggie shakes her head and grins. “We been a tad busy.”
“We got the kiddie pool. It’s passable for soakin’ your feet to cool off,” you offer.
“At least we found those water balloons.” His breath catches when he adds, “And kept that bag of mini water pistols from that day on the highway. They’re finally gonna be used.”
What a day that had been. Screw that day. Sophia, rest in peace, little one. But yeah, at least they were being used now.
Oof, you need to stretch your back and arms. Rounding your shoulders and bowing your head down, you take a deep breath as you feel the tension easing. Next, you stick out your chest and pull your arms back to stretch the other side. It is nice to not have your problem shoulder acting up.
Then, it hits you. “Oh, Mags, since you’re here, this means my shift is over!”
“Why, got big plans?” she teases.
You share a look with Glenn, then peek back at her with a tiny grin. “Might could.”
“What have y’all been up to?”
“Scheming, Mrs. Rhee,” is all you say as you sprint down the stairs and back toward the main hub.
Moses, it’s hot out today. Great for what you have planned later tonight, if the skies stay clear, but absolute torture during the day.
“Hello, Y/N!”
“Hey, Patrick!”
He’s leaning against the cool cement wall in the shade, the water bottle in his hand nearly empty. “Are you off guard duty?”
“Mm, thank goodness. Though, Glenn and I are gonna head out in about two hours for a quick supply run. What about you, y’all done with the pigs?”
“No, I still have to get them fresh water, I just n-needed some water myself.”
Yeah, you were thinking he looks a little queasy. The kid’s prone to getting heatsick.
As you step up next to him, you reach out and feel his forehead just to make sure he feels normal or cool, not too hot. Heat stroke is no joke.
Okay, he still feels damp and clammy, and as gross as that sounds, it’s a good sign.
“Let me refill this for you, you just rest here,” you tell him, having him finish the dregs in his water bottle before you take it. “I don’t want my favorite little brother passin’ out from dehydration, it ain’t fun.”
Overheated as he may be, he reddens a little more. That shy kid gets that way every time you remind him that you consider him family. Pat just looks so much like Shane did when he was a freshman in high school (tall, lanky, messy dark hair, Irish given name) that you couldn’t help but adopt him when you found him.
There are so many new faces as you make your way to the outdoor dining area that you don’t quite have the names down yet.
Well, Eileen and Sra. McLeod are easy because Eileen is pregnant and Mrs. McLeod is the only other resident of advanced age here other than Hershel.
You head to the water cooler and fill the bottle. Sasha is walking over, too, and by the looks of it just finished up clearing walkers at the fence. You reach for a fresh cup and fill it for her.
“Wanna sneak away to the stream to cool off? I’m gonna fill up the water guns in a bit.”
“Water guns?" she repeats before taking a big gulp of the water and sighing. "The stream sounds perfect—hey, thank you for the drink.” She empties her cup in seconds and wipes the sweat off her upper lip and forehead. “But if I have to see one more biter within the next hour, I’ll scream, and you know we’ll see at least one out there.”
“Shower it is, then.”
“I cannot wait. Cold water!” She refills her cup and drinks it all down just as fast. “Oof, I’m smelly, too,” she murmurs to herself when she gets a whiff of her underarms.
You scoop two spoonfuls of sugar into Patrick’s bottle, then add ¼ of a spoonful of salt, cap it, and shake it up.
“You look patriotic, Y/N.”
“It’s the Fourth of July!”
“It is?”
“Eh, the 8th. But we missed the 4th entirely and it rained the past two and a half days. Check it out,” you say, holding up your wrist so she can view the little date dial on Dale’s watch that states Jul 8. Giggling, you add, “Don’t worry, Hershel’s date book confirmed it. You know how I tend to forget to wind this thing.”
“Well, guess I gotta find me some red to put on.” She already had a white t-shirt and jeans on, so she’s ⅔ ready. “Y’all have fireworks planned or something?” she jokes, filling her cup a third time.
You don’t have a response at first. She notices.
She turns her head but keeps her eyes on you. “Y/N?”
“Fireworks would be great, wouldn’t it?”
She’s trying to look friendly but is nervous, it’s plain to see. “But it’s loud. If you set off fireworks near here, I’d whup your ass, tell you what.”
“Ah, but what if it wasn’t near here at all, but was in fact far away?”
She raises her brows. “Oh my Lord. Did you and...” Finger pointed, she figures it out quickly. “Nah, it has to be you and Glenn if it were anybody.”
Your grin must look as awkward and guilty as it feels. “...Wanna help?”
She’s shaking her head but smiling. “Now I know why your group calls you ‘troublemaker’ every so often.”
Nooo, not the nickname. Ugh. “I ain’t a troublemaker,” you mumble, half-serious. Then, taking her by the arm, you start to walk away with Pat’s refilled water bottle. “Come on, I need to get this back to Patrick. I’ll walk you to the doors on the way there.”
“And I’ll go to the stream with you after I shower and decompress a little, if you can wait maybe an hour?”
“Yeah, Eileen’s got her check-up, anyway. How’s 1:45ish?”
“I’ll meet you at our usual table.”
Once you drop her off, you see that Caleb is with Patrick. “Hey, Dr. Subs. I brought him this. Two regular spoonfuls of sugar, about ¼ teaspoon of salt, are those ratios good?”
“They’ll do great for now, he just got sick.”
“Oh, kiddo!”
“It happens, Y/N,” Patrick groans, trying to sound upbeat.
You start to rub his back, mindful of the vomit on the grass near him. “See? We both got kinda weak stomachs, Pat, runs in the family.”
“Relax in your cell for a while, okay?” Caleb instructs. “I want you to lay down for at least 30 minutes before you go back outside in the sun. Have a snack and some more to drink, too.”
“Yes, Dr. Subramanian, sir.”
Caleb snorts. “You keep calling me ‘sir.’ I’m gonna have to start saluting back, man.”
“Sorry, sir.”
The doctor blinks. You hold back a giggle.
Giving you a dry look of amusement, Caleb then reminds you that Eileen is having a checkup and to be washed up and ready for it, after which he escorts Patrick inside.
Meanwhile, you jog to your guard tower to wash up, set the egg timer so you can zone out read for 20 minutes, then pick through your growing stack of medical books. All the midwifery, prenatal development, and obstetric books you take, plus the Merck Manual and your notepad before you jog back down and across the yard to the doors.
Hershel, on his way there also, holds the door for you and for Maggie after he notices her hurrying down to join you. Carol is most likely already there, she always beats y’all to it. You personally may or may not have a minor competition going with her, but dang it if she doesn’t always seem to arrive first.
Fast forward, the check-up is boring and uneventful, just as you all want the check-ups to be; mother is good, baby seems good, all is as it should be.
And it’s 1:45. You need to fill those water guns at the stream with Sasha, grab lunch, then it’ll be time to head to the cars!
Him
Still didn’t find the bastard.
Michonne and him shared their usual disappointed sigh and choice of cuss word before turning around to head home. He lit up a cigarette, as usual. She declined his offer for a puff, as usual.
They had a good thing going, minus the part where they still hadn’t found that psycho pirate sumbitch.
Y/N came a few times a week on days when, you know, there weren’t baby checkups for the pregnant chick or Judith or other medical stuff or regular duties conflicting.
Sometimes, he felt this stupid feeling almost like jealousy when he saw them together, Y/N and the new doc. Which was dumb, because Caleb was teaching Y/N all sorts of important stuff and they’d become friends with each other in the process.
And Y/N and Daryl were good friends and had been for a while, so what was the problem?
Maybe it was more of a want-type of thing, he didn’t know. Not that he was lonely, but sometimes he felt this weird kind of…loneliness.
It’s just—he’d heard Y/N mention once that the doctor was “nice lookin’.” Sure, Caleb was a fair-looking dude, true. Seemed real decent, he’d spent some time with him, too. But...nah, ain’t nothing, I’m being dumb. With a glance up at the sky, he added T-Dog, can it.
Anyway, the days when Y/N came along or when they went on a hunt for food or to forage, those days were always nice. He enjoyed those days a lot. Less quiet, generally, but there were a lot more smiles. It was better with them.
“Why are you lookin’ all happy?” Mich asked. “I’d love a good reason to smile.”
“Just how Y/N reminded us to wear red, white, and blue.” Y/N tried to convince him to wear T-Dog’s red Dawgs shirt. He said he’d put it on it after he got back. Didn’t want to rip it or nothing.
“Well, I’m still loving rockin’ the socks Y/N tossed me.”
He had to snort a little. Yeah, Mich had on one red and one blue sock, both ankle-length and worn over her pants to show them off.
“Heard ’em say it was your favorite holiday?” she said, inspecting something on the edge of her sword-thing. ‘Cabana’ or something, right?
“Yeah, used to be.”
She sheathed it and started walking faster to the car, waving him to pick up the pace, too. “Too bad we can’t hit up the beach, light some sparklers.”
He matched her pace, feeling the disappointment kicking him in the nuts again. “That or light a firecracker up the governor’s ass.”
You
“Mischief managed, mothafucka.” He’s holding his hand up for a victory high-five.
“Mischief managed, mothafucka.” And you return it enthusiastically! “I’ll grab the police radios when I bring Mr. Greene the yarrow. I’ll drop one off with you before Daryl and I leave, yeah?”
“Cool, and Maggie and I will check out the north tower.” Glenn then awkwardly tries to follow this up with, “We’ll, um, c-clean it and stuff.”
Why did that seem a little forced...
You don’t intend to give him a look and blurt out, “Y’all gonna have sex in it, aren’t you?” but you do in fact blurt that out.
And he probably doesn’t mean to make that goofy, I-just-got-caught laugh in response before elbowing you with a very lame, “Shut up, dude.”
Yeah, so either he’s suddenly sunburned or he’s blushing.
Groaning, you call back “Just name your first baby after me!” as you go to check on Judith. She should be waking up soon. Beth has had her most of the day today, she's due for a reprieve.
Time to give baby Lori dinner and bring her to see her mom.
Him
“Nice shirt, Daryl. It’s been ages since I’ve seen you not in a cut-off button-down. You’ll get you a nice farmer’s tan.”
He turned around to wave hi when—lil’ asskicker? Shit, he needed to put out his cigarette ASAP, you can’t just smoke around a baby, that’s a trashy-ass move.
“We’re downwind, you’re cool, man. You’re still working on cuttin’ back.”
“Exactly.” He dug that thing into the dirt until the smoke was gone.
He’d been down to only five a week, ain’t that something? Then…T-Dog and Lori died, and he found his brother again, and then his brother was killed by that asshole, then so was Andrea.
He’d smoked over half a pack and had taken down almost an entire bottle of vodka before Carol and Y/N found him and brought Hershel. That was one hell of a time. Real hell of a morning after, too, fuck.
Anyway, sometimes he shared a smoke with T-Dog at his grave.
Y/N visited the graves every day. Generally, they’d bring Judith while feeding her. They’d sit and just hang out, read, or if the baby was with them they’d do that ‘tummy time’ thing and practice standing.
Carl was usually with them, too, but water balloons and water guns had appeared out of nowhere, so he was having fun with the other kids. Surprising, but good that he was acting like a kid, at least for today.
Call him soft but he loved that shit. Except for the part where seeing ’lil ass-kicker kicked into gear that weird feeling of want. And it got so much damn stronger when she was with Y/N.
Shut up, T-Dog he told the memory in his head.
“Michonne said today you found evidence of somebody havin’ camped out in a car wash?”
“Could’ve been anybody, though.”
“Could’ve been that unhinged, one-eyed sex abuser, too.”
For what he almost did to Maggie, Y/N saw red. Hell, he himself saw red about that kind of shit.
Their voice sounded gentler when they told him, “So don’t lose hope, Daryl, that ain’t like you. We got us a cell with his name on it ready to go.”
That damn feeling twisted in his stomach when they’d placed their hand on his arm.
Okay, maybe he actually did need a long drag from his smoke. He curved to the side, quickly lit up again and took a nice, long inhale…okay, he felt better.
…Actually, he didn’t feel better, he felt more nervy. He put out the cigarette and pulled the neckline of his shirt forward and back to get some damn airflow. It was balls-dripping hot outside.
Then he stole a peek over at Y/N as they began to burp Judith, regretting it almost immediately because that feeling surged through him again. He swallowed, hoping to tamp down the understanding he wasn’t sure if he could put the name to yet.
But he also wanted to talk to them. “Mich and I also checked out a liquor store. Other than peach schnapps and Natty, guess what we found?”
“Capri Suns?” flew out of Y/N’s mouth almost immediately.
He laughed. “Two shotguns and a pistol.”
Their eyebrows went up. “Where in the store were those hidin’?”
“Under the register counter.”
“All three right under the front register?”
“Plus a taser and a knife.”
Making an oo with their mouth (don’t stare at their lips, come on), Y/N tutted, “Pity the soul who tried to rob those guys.”
“Mmhm.”
When they moved to start feeding Judith again, he held out his arms to take her instead.
It’d been like three days since he fed her, and he missed it. That feeling tugged at his chest again, but he didn’t mind it so much, not when he had the little girl in his arms.
“Hey, Daryl? We need to do a thing tonight, okay?”
A thing? “What thing?”
“A late run.”
“Might as well, I guess. What d’you mean by late?”
“We should oughta leave around 8:00…”
“…Why?” Sure he was on board, but what was Y/N up to? He jiggled the bottle in Judith’s mouth to get her to start drinking again, she’d gotten distracted.
“Non-disclosure agreement. Can’t say.”
“Weirdo.”
Their first reaction was a smile, but the next second it was as if it blew away in the breeze. That had been their big brother’s nickname for them. Hearing it from somebody else got to them sometimes.
“Sorry,” he apologized. “Troublemaker?”
He got a playful whine out of them for that one. Not their favorite nickname either, even though Dale had been the one to give it to them.
Maybe, maybe he’d bug them with the dumb thing he’d called them that time...“Slowpoke?”
At that one, Y/N cracked up. Leaned forward and kissed the baby’s head, even though they had to lean over him to do it. “Your Uncle Daryl’s a mangy hick.”
You
You’re almost there, you can make out the first set. You lightly shake Daryl’s shoulder and signal for him to pull over.
He stops the bike, puts the kickstand down, and turns his head back to face you as he pulls down his bandana.
“Gonna tell me what we’re doin’ in the middle of nowhere?”
You gotta take off your helmet before anything else, ugh, it’s so hot in there. Then, you click on the radio to let Glenn know you both got there safely.
“Hey, we’re good. Made it,” you murmur into it.
Then, you look up at Daryl and try to look innocent and casual as you explain, “Please drive slow for the next quarter-ish mile, then once we’re at the spot, I’ll tell where to park the bike. We need to do the thing, then head up that way,” you tell him, pointing up toward the radio tower.
Okay, and maybe you might could’ve not actually told him was going on just then, but…you don’t want him to get huffy or not help, is all.
He says nothing, only squints at you.
You copy it.
He grumbles.
And instead of copying that as well like you usually might, you bite your lip and point to the first set of fuses.
Why are you getting all nervous? He’ll be cool with it.
He squints again, but this time because he’s actually trying to see what it is. “Y/N, what is all that?”
Him
Whatever they responded, he couldn’t hear.
“Huh?”
They repeated it.
Fireworks.
Fireworks?
What the fuck. No way.
He kicks down the stand, hops off the bike and stalks over to what they’d gestured to.
Fireworks, holy damned hell. Glenn had to have been in on this, too. This had those two written all over it, hot damn…
“Y/N,” is all he said because he didn’t know what else to say as he slowly steps toward them.
“Yes?”
He cleared his throat, reaches them again, and spreads his feet, hands on his hips, fully expecting (and proven correct) that they’d just stand up and mirror his stance.
“Y/N.”
“Daryl.”
And before he could say anything else, they held up their finger and stumbled their way through a whole lot of explaining.
“We’re seven miles away from the prison, so the risk to them is minimal.” They took a deep breath. “The set-ups are every 25 feet heading north, the wicks Glenn and I attached get longer the further back we go. The plan is to light the wicks, run to the next set, so on and so forth. Then, there’s a paved path that leads up to that radio tower where we’re gonna speed for when we’re done, on the bike. But the final set up of fireworks is way far away over there with super long wicks, or fuses, whatever they’re called.”
They then pointed opposite of the utility tower. “That way the final boom will get any walkers drawn towards the noise and lights to get shufflin’ in that direction, away from the tower. That way, after a spell, we,” Y/N pointed from themself to him, “can mosey on home without them following us back like baby ducklings please don’t be mad!”
Well, that was a whole lot at once. Y/N seemed out of breath, they nervous or whatever?
“Don’t be mad, friend, it-it’s your favorite holiday! And our new people need a pick-me-up, you remember how awful it was to lose the quarry, and, and the farm? They just lost their homes and loved ones, so...” Yeah, they were nervous, just look at that awkward grin they’ve got on. And that stutter.
“Ohp, he’s started smiling—hey guys, Dary-bear is smilin’!” they called out next because, yeah, he couldn’t help it. In a softer voice, they checked, “You ain’t mad?”
“I ain’t mad,” he decided to grumble. ‘Decided to grumble’ because on the inside, he was actually so fucking stoked for this, oh my God. Fireworks!
Y/N then got all excited.
That made him feel that same weird but good feeling in his chest, even though he should probably be feeling dread or worry or telling them no or something. But fuck that, it’s the 4th of July!
Well, the 8th.
“Come on, I’ll show you the route, we’ll put to rest any walkers we come across—oh, speak of the devil. I can do it, or would you like to?” There was one stumbling down the road as if on cue.
“I got it,” he said. Y/N still counts them, even after all this time, so he tried to get them first when he could.
He set up a bolt and aimed his crossbow at the geek…done.
They begin to walk to the body to get that bolt back. “Thank you.”
“So, when are we gonna start this thing?” he asked, secretly pumped completely resigned.
“When the lightning bugs come out,” they reply, closing their eyes to pull the bolt out of the skull. “We’ll need it dark enough. Won’t be too much longer.”
You
It’s getting darker and darker.
This is gonna be awesome! Minus the all bugs, and the amount of insect spray you’ve inhaled. Daryl lit up a cigarette to deter them, too.
He taps you on the arm and points. “Hey, firefly over there. We gonna start?”
You click on the police radio and hush to Glenn back at the prison. “Ready.”
That delicious sensation you get while a roller coaster approaches the first drop starts to spread through you as you pull out your matches from your satchel. “Got your lighter handy?”
He rummages through his pocket. Pulls out a Zippo.
And surprising you, he full-on giggles, “Alright, slowpoke, let’s do this!”
Him
The two of them lit the fuses, sprinted toward the next set, lit them, and kept going like that as the booms and whistles sounded from behind them. He felt like a little kid again, it was so…this was fun!
Y/N and Glenn had found a ton of fireworks. And shit, Y/N was fast, he’d forgotten just how quick they could get. He had to work to keep up the pace.
And he was having so much fun as he and Y/N sped off on the motorcycle toward the last setup, the one far in the opposite direction of the radio tower, that he almost didn’t notice their hands wrapped tightly around his waist instead of on his shoulders like they'd always done before.
But once they’d lit the final, very long fuses together and zoomed off toward the radio tower, that their arms were squeezing his middle was suddenly all he could think about.
He liked it.
A lot.
And he wasn’t good about physical touch, most people knew that pretty quick about him. But Y/N doing that didn’t feel like too much. It felt good. Safe. Natural.
T-Dog, shut up, he again thought in his head, tossing a glare up at the sky as he pressed down the kickstand and turned off the motorcycle.
You
After pushing aside this silly desire that popped into your head that told you to keep holding onto him, you hop off his bike and sprint to the radio tower stairs and climb the stairs and ladder as fast as your legs will carry you. You don’t want to miss the finale!
“Pick up the pace, dude, here I thought I was the slowpoke,” you call down to Daryl.
Rushing up the ladder only made your ‘problem’ (read: previously injured and reinjured and now permanently funky) shoulder pinch a little.
At the top, you reach back into your pocket to take out your matches and light the final firework duct-taped to the railing—but you discover that all the excitement’s rendered your hands and fingers tingly and shaking.
“There’s another?” you hear Daryl pant. He takes the last step up the ladder with a groan as he stands up and joins you.
“This one’s to let Glenn know we made it to the top okay. Just havin’ trouble here, my hands are all wobbly.”
“I got ya, let me.”
His hands are shaky, too, you notice. Must be all the excitement catching up to the two of you.
Him
The firework had a very short wick and shot up just a few seconds after he’d lit it.
With a high-pitched hee, the green flare soared before it fizzled into a small shower of sparkles.
He’s just glad he had a Zippo so he could light it in the first place; his hands were shaking.
Shaking! That shit didn’t happen to him.
If he didn’t have what T-Dog told him that time chasing around his thoughts all afternoon, he would think it must’ve been solely due to all the running around and fun.
But when Y/N took his arm and pulled him to the other side of the radio tower and stared expectantly into the distance, he couldn’t help but accept how it felt right.
They’d touched his arm before, he’d casually touched theirs, too, no big deal (anymore). They’d hugged him before. Gave him a massage, hell, he did that for them when they had migraines or when their messed-up shoulder was causing them grief. They even danced together after Glenn and Maggie got hitched.
T-Dog. This is your fault. Merle, you too.
All Merle had asked him in the woods that day was if he’d turned “All soft for the square?” And when he didn’t answer the right way, his big brother had snickered, “Shit, I guess findin’ another prude is what finally done it for you.”
But it’s what T-Dog had said to him that kept poking through his memory.
“You know what the word for it is just as much as I do, man. Now, I ain’t gonna say the word out loud, though, I think that’d be too much for ya. But I’m looking forward to the day you own up to it. Y/N is worth it. And so are you, brother.” Then he’d cracked up and added, “And obviously I’ma want your first kid named after me. Theodore, Theodora, it all works.”
So, he tried not to look at Y/N.
Not that he didn’t want to look at them, but fuck, man, it was getting real. He wasn’t gonna be able to not ignore this much longer.
He wouldn’t even want to ignore it anymore, and that was the scary part.
Until he realized that it didn’t feel scary.
Not when the finale began and Y/N squealed and flung their arm around his shoulder while doing a little victory dance. Not when they stopped jumping and relaxed, moving their arm from around his shoulder to around his back as the last of the fireworks shot up and lit the night sky. Not when his arm wrapped around their shoulder, either, as they watched the lights fizzle away.
Everything about Y/N felt safe.
Cheers began sounding through the police radio on Y/N’s belt along with a louder voice that was Glenn’s, although nothing was coming through clearly with all the background noise.
He could feel Y/N breathing heave up and down against his side, could feel them giggling as the last of the adrenaline wore off. Their head leaned against his chest for a moment, then pulled back.
They unhooked their arm from around him.
He didn’t want that, he wanted them to stay that way.
Fuck.
If he had any balls, now would be when he would kiss them.
You
If you weren’t so careful and if you thought he’d want it, now is when you’d probably kiss him. But, that’s just the adrenaline and the longing talking.
“So, good news,” you stammer, a wide smile stretching across your face. “The house Glenn and I got all that from? There’s more fireworks in there. The folk who lived there must have sold illegal fireworks on the down-low or bought in bulk to stock up or some such,” you babble. Adrenaline.
You angle your head up to see if he’s happy about it and to hear what he thinks, but he’s just looking at you. Not in the eyes, but lower, by your chin? You don’t have soot on your face, do you? You brush off your mouth and chin just in case.
Likewise, you brush away the idea that he was staring at your lips. It’s adrenaline and longing, calm down, Y/N.
“M’sorry, what’d you say?” he asks, then blinking a bunch of times and stepping back.
Oh, got it, he must not have heard you. The booms were noisy, you suppose. Must be tired, too.
When you repeat what you’d said, his eyes crinkle and he makes that shy smile you love where just one corner of his mouth peeks up. “Next year, I want in.”
“Awesome! I almost asked you to help this year, but figured a surprise was better the first time around. You, you told me it was your favorite holiday, and you’ve been havin’ a rough go of things…”
Him
“You know what the word for it is just as much as I do, man. Now, I ain’t gonna say the word out loud, though, I think that’d be too much for ya. But I’m looking forward to the day you own up to it. Y/N is worth it. And so are you, brother.”
His hands were still tingly. His stomach may have floated away, he wasn’t too sure. He was sure about one thing, though. Finally owning up to it in his head, at least.
That his friend that he loved and was goddamned in love with was standing there smiling and chatting away while he couldn’t seem to find any words at all.
“We can probably go home in like 10 minutes, what do you think? And do you want me to drive us back? You seem a little out of it. You’ve had a long day, I don’t blame you, and I haven’t ridden in like tow weeks, I’d be cool with it. Oh, and we gotta use the secret side entrance, I’m being silly about keepin’ Rick without concrete proof about whodunnit—don’t worry, it’s my head on the chopping block, you and Glenn are safe from the guillotine, as it were.”
After a very deep inhale and a shake of their head while they exhaled, they then apologized. “I think I’m still a little jittery from all the excitement, sorry for gabbin’ on. On that topic, when we get back, I think we should have beer. I,” they shrugged, “I hid three in my tower, one for me, two for you. You said ‘hot dogs, fireworks, and a shit ton of beer’ were what you liked about the Fourth. Two beers ain’t a lot, I know—but you know me, dude, m’kinda a square. I care about you and your liver.”
Y/N then crossed their arms and relaxed on the guardrail. He had enough brains at that moment to lean next to them, arms crossed just the same, his shoulder close to touching theirs.
“What did you and Merle do on the 4th of July? Lots of good ’ole American fun? Your Uncle Jess must’ve been there, too. What about your, um, your father?”
“What about you, with your brother and sisters, foster siblings, nieces and nephews? Must’ve been a damn powwow. Carl was prolly there, too, with Rick and Lori? Grandma Jean?”
He wanted to keep hearing them talk, to look at their smile and not need to think about anything other than Y/N.
He didn’t want anything else other than Y/N.
All the fireworks that night, and the thing that was giving him the biggest thrill was the person standing next to him.
He barely took notice when “Happy 8th of July!” got shouted particularly loud over the police radio next.
Pausing mid-sentence and still smiling bright, Y/N lifted the radio between them. “On three, yeah?”
He wondered what it would be like to kiss them right then and there.
But instead, he nodded and held up three fingers, counting down.
Three, two:
“Happy 8th of July!”
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Henrys birthday / March symbolism.
To start off I'm sure I've mentioned it a million times before but March is a "special" month in Hawkins according to me. Not only is it the month of Henry's birthday, but its the month the Creel's officially moved to Hawkins. This is how I'm explaining the repeating theme of March in the Stranger things canon.
( Including Will's birthday, Billy's birthday, and the entirety of Season 4 beginning in March and, as an update, I think its very interesting that the reveal about the stage play being focused on Henry's childhood was announced in March, right on my birthday actually ! The March theme specifically surrounding Henry continues ! Not to mention they're calling it "The first Shadow," I do stay winning. )
I don't know how canon is going to explain any of that, if its not just a coincidence, but since I'm insane and I love creating patterns and symbolism I've already decided to go a little nuts with it and so here are some more thoughts on that: I'm putting the date the Creel's officially moved into the house in Hawkins as March 2nd, because thats my birthday and I'm allowed. Henry's birthday is March 8th, which is also when Henry had his first "encounter" with "The Shadow" (The Mindflayer.)
So again, march 22nd is Will's birthday and in my headcanon, also the day Henry discovered his extreme psychic abilities, and March 29th, which is Billy's birthday, is the day Henry killed his mother and sister. Thats their symbolic importance to him.
Something else I also mentioned in other posts is the fact that Stranger Things, particularly Season 4, drew a lot of inspo from Western / Christian mythology and my insane provocative to mirror this and this is no different. March and April tend to be thought of as significant months therein because of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, March being the preparation for Jesus' resurrection and April being the month in which that took place. I'm mirroring this with Henry in March as the period where Henry encounters the MF and develops his powers and April being the month when Brenner kidnaps Henry and he wakes up from his "coma" in Brenner's care.
I also think I mentioned this once before in passing but I wanted to mention it again: In my headanon the one and only time Henry was ever actually “diagnosed” with anything, despite having a long history of difficulties with school and thus repeated doctor’s consultations, was after moving to Hawkins, fairly late into the month, maybe more around the middle, after Henry's encounter with the MF. They diagnosed him with childhood schizophrenia. Obviously this was a misdiagnosis but it was the 50s and it was common for ASD to be misdiagnosed this way back then.
That being said, one of the big factors in Henry’s diagnosis was his “strange thinking” and “unusual perceptions.”
If you’ve read my post here, you know I have a running theory that the being known as the Mindflayer by the party ( Who I perceive to be the Stranger Things version of The Serpent from DnD ) was able to “commune” with Henry long before he ever got to the Upside Down thanks to Henry’s latent psychic abilities and this was what really woke those abilities up and certainly amplified them in a way we haven’t seen with any other psychic character in the series. ( Once again, look up DnD Vecna and “The Serpent” from DnD, I promise it all makes perfect sense )
In my headcanon Henry kind of... Did try to express to his parents what he was “experiencing” but of course this was extremely difficult for him because unlike Will, Henry’s environment wasn’t a loving, open, accepting one. Henry’s mother didn’t believe him or take him seriously on anything and this was a pre-established thing which made it hard for Henry to actually try to communicate anything with his family in the first place. He was seen as suffering delusions and mental illness.
No, He didn’t really know how to explain it as a 12 year old boy, but most pressingly the knowing that no one would understand or even want to understand or believe him meant Henry was withdrawn, defensive, deflective and standoffish even if he really did want to talk to his family and be “more cooperative” with them, so to speak. On top of this, Henry found himself frustrated by his family's “superstitions” particularly when his own attempts to explain things where thought of with such concern.
Victor was the only one who gave Henry any heed, especially as Victor himself felt something was wrong, but even then Henry wasn’t taken very seriously by the family at large and again, a lot of the goings on of the house were blamed on a “demon” which Henry had a lot of contempt for given he knew a lot of the things in the house that were upsetting his family were somehow coming more from him and his anger with them, but he couldn’t really explain how or why he suddenly knew the things he did or could do the things he could do, or could see the things he could see.
In his retelling in the show, Victor explicitly confirms that he could see “[Henry] knew something was wrong.” And we also know Victor went to the EXTENT of having an exorcist preformed on the house, also confirming Victor himself both believed Henry and knew something wasn't right either.
When Will is “possessed” by the Mindflayer in season 2, he talks about how he suddenly knows things, things that he didn’t know before but he doesn’t know how he knows them. I imagine Henry encountered a similar phenomenon when he was subconsciously linked to the Mindflayer in his childhood. Henry began to know things he couldn’t explain and he did “SEE” the Mindflayer cloud in dreams / visions as well.
None the less, Henry's “diagnosis” at the back end of all this was the big factor in his mother getting into contact with Brenner, who at the time was labeled a leading “expert” in the “human mind” as back in the 50s, neurodivergence and mental illness was not well understood and due to the societal and political climate, particularly in the US, Virginia saw institutionalizing Henry as the “best option”.
WHICH brings me to a post I made last night that I'm going over really quick because I think its relevant. There is a lot of supernatural repetition in Vecna's "curse" and his behaviors. He often repeats moments on his trauma, projecting them onto this victims who then live them too, and the scene with Max in the Piggy Back episode seems to be an INCREDIBLY interesting instance of this. Why ? Because Vecna says this:
❝ Is that ... All true ? You wanted Billy to die? You ever have thoughts like that about me ? Normal people don't fantasize about killing other people, Max. You realize that, right? I thought you were getting better - but you're not, are you? You are sick. Maybe it is good he takes you. Maybe its for the best. In fact, I'm glad its going to be you. You will be the chosen one. The Fourth. The final sacrifice! Its going to be you that BREAKS THE WORLD. ❞
Now let me just direct you all back to the scene with Will and Joyce in season 2 when Will begins to explain the thoughts he's having and the things he can see after being "contacted" by the Mindflayer. He begins to talk about killing people and people dying, and the horrible things he's seeing.
Joyce reassures him and protects him, like a good mother would - but you know who has been HEAVILY suggested to have NOT had a good mother, and instead, canonly described his mother as hating him and who seemed to just want to blame him ? Who just wanted her son "taken away" by a doctor to be "fixed" ? And thus would have ultimately sacrificed him to maintain her ideal of normal, happy family ? Henry. Who is the one who has actually been "chosen" to "Break the world" ? Henry. I heavily feel like what Vecna said to Max as Lucas was yet another clue about what happened to him as a child and what is ultimately going on in the plot.
More than that, the way he explicitly called Max a "sacrifice" is interesting, particularly when you put it with the scene in season 3 when flayed!Billy, who is widely believed to have been under the control of Vecna at the time, which I do agree with, incapacitates Eleven and instead of just killing her he goes to the effort of taking her to the mindflayer's Proxy body and offering her to it, as if an act of propitiation.
And we also had a previous scene of Flayed!Billy, talking to Flayed!Heather, in which SOMEHOW Flayed!Heather knows who Eleven is and Flayed!Billy is furious because she bested him and he could have been killed so Flayed!Heather has to reassure him that "they'll" win. Interesting shit to think about there. Like, this isn't ONE single entity speaking through the flayed, its apparently TWO and they're having a whole conversation with each other.
Anyway ! With that aside, on to that old Astrology crap copy-pasted from my original post on it back when:
Basically I’m giving Henry a birthday and instead of being a normal person and just saying the the date and fucking off I’m gonna be a crazy person make it too deep. I decided he’s sharing the same month as Will ( March ) and I’m pretty sure I’m going to go with the date of the 8th because it is parallel to Will’s birthday of the 22nd. ( I know the D*ffer brother’s seem to be planning to change this bc they forgot but idc ) It also makes Henry a Pisces which is very sexy to me as both a fellow Pisces and someone who loves filling shit with meta and symbolization because I’m insane like that.
Pisces, a water sign, is the last constellation of the zodiac. It's symbolized by two fish swimming in opposite directions, representing the constant division of Pisces's attention between fantasy and reality. As the final sign, Pisces has absorbed every lesson — the joys and the pains, the hopes and the fears — learned by all of the other signs.
This makes these fish the most psychic, empathetic, and compassionate creatures of the astrological wheel. With such immense sensitivity, Pisces can easily become swallowed by emotions and must remember to stay grounded in the material realm. Pisces is ruled by Neptune, the celestial body that governs creativity and dreams, and these ethereal fish adore exploring their boundless imaginations. In its more nefarious form, however, Neptune also oversees illusion and escapism.
Neptunian energy is like the energy of the ocean: magical, mysterious, and often scary. When the fog is thick on the water, the horizon is obstructed and there is no differentiation between the sea and the sky. A mutable sign, Pisces effortlessly adapts to their surroundings. These visionary fish have unparalleled access to the collective unconscious through their clairvoyance and make incredible artists and creatives.
In my big fat opinion this all fits who I perceive Henry to have been as a human. And it also works as a very tasty dark mirror of what Henry becomes as Vecna. Which is particularly spice given the Mindflayer itself is clearly a metaphor to the Shadow self and I have talked about this a few times before. I’ve always hated the popular depiction of Pieces as people tend to only focus on the preposed "sensitive, shy, artistic traits," and no one ever focuses on the terrifying depth of a Pisces or the devastation that can be done by having both the most expansive imagination and the most refined ability to perceive and understand other people’s emotions or insecurities. Like I really gotta be out here doing everything myself.
There is a frightening duality of the Pisces and the two fish swimming in opposite directions can also draw parallels to the yin and yang. The Pisces being represented by water is suited in the amount of forms water can take. Most people view water as gentle and healing. However, water can be as fiercely destructive as any other element. The form of a clear stream, an inviting lake, a refreshing shower and gentle waves can easily become a raging river, a dark ocean, a violent storm and a devastating tsunami. We’ve seen this very duality from Henry, and Vecna is his shadow self; the darkest most monstrous version of him in physical form.
Henry’s status as the first test subject, the oldest and the most powerful also fits well with the Pieces being considered the last and most mature of the zodiac on different ends of a spectrum, with Henry also being the first and oldest test subject, representing the beginning and end. The Alpha and Omega, so to speak. I’m sure I don’t have to go into all the spicy symbolism of Pisces being linked to alternative dimensions and being a traveler and a link to said dimensions because I think thats damn obvious. Same to be said about the representation of dreams and illusions.
I also think its very funny that Venca / Henry had an early design phase where he was heavily based on fish and water. I’ve personally always had the water relations in my portrayal because thats just how he’s hittin me but this further links some things together really nicely.
Lastly the dual fish are often considered to be a symbol to a Pisces soul considered to be in two pieces. We can again draw this back to the yin-yang aesthetic but I’m intending it entirely to represent how Henry is clearly an inverted parallel to Will and how they are “linked.” To me I also draw from the aesthetic of Silent hill and Alessa and Cheryl, again with Alessa being the dark mirror of Cheryl and the two being soul-connected. Alessa the dark half and Cheryl the light half.
With Henry and Will I see this linking of “souls” or whatever to have taken place through the mindflayer, who previously to infecting Will had merged with Henry. Since Will’s abduction and apparent “resurrection” he’s shown some type of psychic ability, which seems to have come from whatever “”part”” of Henry was in the mindflayer and invaded Will creating this weird connection they have through Wills ability to perceive the "hivemind". ( We also literally saw human Henry was VERY similar to Will particularly in terms of being sensitive, artistic “loners.” )
Metaphorically, I get the sense the mindflayer’s dark influence is suppose to represent hatred, abuse and pain, rejection, isolation and essentially a caution about the perils of someone experiencing trauma without a support network, allowing negative emotions and suffering to corrupt someone’s soul which is very symbolic to Henry/Vecna, while Will parallels and inverts this as someone who is also a societal outcast and a minority, etc, but unlike Henry he had a support group, this didn’t let the darkness win or rather he wasn’t driven toward it and was instead pulled away from it.
Side note: If the mindflayer is sentient and I believe it is, yes, I view it as something that “preyed” on Henry due to being an outcast and yes, it is using him but at this point he’s using it just as much.
Their relationship is both parasitic and symbiotic, which seems to be a contradiction but we’re dealing with over-powered psychics, alternative hellish dimensions and eldritch entities here, so far its working out for them but I def wouldn’t say all of this has been most beneficial to Henry. I mean ... look at him. But yeah, I have a whole bunch of crazy thoughts on the MF and how it functions to me that I'm not covering here because those are different posts.
Anyway, Henry and Will also share the aesthetic of wizardry and ‘returning from death’; Will as the “Zombie boy “ and his Dnd character being a Cleric and Henry as “Vecna” the all-powerful demi god-lich.
I’ve spoke about Henry’s parallels to DnD’s Vecna before as well as mentioned the likeness of the Mindflayer to both the “elder brain” of the Dnd mind-flayers and the “Serpent” associated to DnD Vecna, but to paste from Dnd beyond in regard to the Cleric:
Clerics are intermediaries between the mortal world and the distant planes of the gods. As varied as the gods they serve, clerics strive to embody the handiwork of their deities. No ordinary priest, a cleric is imbued with divine magic. Divine magic, as the name suggests, is the power of the gods, flowing from them into the world. Clerics are conduits for that power, manifesting it as miraculous effects. The gods don’t grant this power to everyone who seeks it, but only to those chosen to fulfill a high calling.
Harnessing divine magic doesn’t rely on study or training. A cleric might learn formulaic prayers and ancient rites, but the ability to cast cleric spells relies on devotion and an intuitive sense of a deity’s wishes. Clerics combine the helpful magic of healing and inspiring their allies with spells that harm and hinder foes.
They can provoke awe and dread, lay curses of plague or poison, and even call down flames from heaven to consume their enemies. For those evildoers who will benefit most from a mace to the head, clerics depend on their combat training to let them wade into melee with the power of the gods on their side.
This kinda fits everything about Will and Henry having a soul-link connection through some “divine” other-wordily force. Henry is linked to the mind-flayer entity and so is Will, so Will is also linked to Henry, meaning the three of them are joined in weird psychic soul-bond horror and the existence of the "hivemind."
Also If Will’s birthday remains the 22nd ( and it should ! ) he is an Aries, the “first” sign of the zodiac which adds further parallels to, and is repeatedly symbolic to the “beginning” and “end” as I've said. ( Will being the beginning, everything “starting” with his abduction in the first ep and Henry being the “end,” introduced last in the recent season and will be what the series ends with, as well as with the last season ending around Will just as the first season began around Will, like you see where I'm at with all this fhjdkfg. )
Aries is also a fire sign, opposite of Pisces as a water sign. Will is heavily related to fire in the canon of the show and I like that because I think its about time the water-element gets to be the mean, “evil” one and the fire-element gets to be the nice, “good” one bc the inverse of that is beat to hell as a trope, evil water-people represent.
Some people do argue that Henry/Vecna/the MF is represented by fire as well but nah bruh, fire, light, heat: they all harm the MF, Henry was set alight with Molotov's for a reason, the MF and by extension Henry are dark, shadowy and MOIST and thats a fact, quite literally, source: the damp squelching sound effects and the need the ST make up crew had to be constantly redosing Jamie in lube as Vecna to keep the slimy affect of his skin.
Basically Henry ( As Vecna ) is a perilous bog, a shadow, cold and dark while Will is the light and warmth, a torch and a cleansing flame. Henry/Vecna is the curse and Will is the cure. And thats my essay on that and I HOPE the duffers and ST writers go as hard with this as I think they should.
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Another little headcanon dump because I'm in the mood. To start off I'm sure I've mentioned it a million times before but March is a "special" month in Hawkins according to me. Not only is it the month of Henry's birthday, but its the month the Creel's moved to Hawkins. This is how I'm explaining the repeating theme of March in the Stranger things canon. (Including Will's birthday, Billy's birthday, and the entirety of Season 4 beginning in March) I don't know how canon is going to explain any of that, if its not just a coincidence, but since I'm insane and I love creating patterns and symbolism I've already decided to go a little nuts with it and so here are some more thoughts on that:
I'm putting the date the Creel's officially moved into the house in Hawkins as March 2nd, because thats my birthday and I'm allowed. Henry's birthday is March 8th, which is also when Henry had his first "encounter" with "The Shadow" (The Mindflayer.) March 22nd is Will's birthday and also the day Henry discovered his extreme psychic abilities, and March 29th, which is Billy's birthday, is the day Henry killed his mother and sister.
Something else I'm also mentioned in another post is the fact that Stranger Things, particularly Season 4, drew a lot of inspo from Western / Christian mythology and its my insane proactive to mirror this and this is no different. March and April tend to be thought of as significant months therein because of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, March being the preparation for Jesus' resurrection and April being the month in which that took place. I'm mirroring this with Henry in March as the period where Henry encounters the MF and develops his powers and April being the month when Brenner kidnaps Henry and he wakes up from his "coma" in Brenner's care.
NEXTLY, I want to be fr with everyone and make sure you all know Henry's still out here murdering people and preforming supernatural psychic cannibalism even if he's not actually Vecna in the escape verses.
One of the concepts for my escape AU which was mentioned briefly in one of my threads recently is that once Henry "returns" to Hawkins, he starts to target anyone involved in the Lab that has remained in the town. 3 murders of people who were somehow involved with the Hawkins lab would have taken place, replacing the murders of Chrissy, Fred and Patrick in season 4's canon.
The news papers have been trying to report on it but the government has been doing its best to keep things quiet, however, most of the town has become "aware" there is a "serial killer" on the loose and this is extra troubling because this serial killer seems to be "copying" The Creel Family murderers of 1959. The Hawkins Demon, Hawkins Angel of Death and The Boogieman are popular monikers for "the killer" around the town.
I would also kind of like to keep the element in canon that the murders are weakening the barrier between the Upside Down and Hawkins, in fact I think it would be interesting and fun plot wise if Henry killed a 4th person and, just like in canon, Hawkins suddenly rips apart like big oopsie.
BUT TBH, I have kind of been leaving things vague because even though I have a lot of ideas I haven't been bothered to sit and write them all down specifically yet but I know they would make for a pretty fun group AU where characters like Chrissy and Eddie get to live on but yeah whenever I get more brain power I might sit down and map out all the events of my AU and my ideas / concepts through season 1 to 4.
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For Fanfic for the New Year! Feel free to answer either as an artist or writer or both!
Very curious about #8 and #23.
Hiya, Romaine! Oh, yes! I think it'll be fun to mix up for fic and art, so I'll run with that.
8. Is there a story idea in your mental vault that you’ve never been brave enough to try writing? Is this the year? Can you tell us about it?
I've answered this for one fic idea here, but I am more than happy to go into another idea from my filing cabinet of chaos.
So...I think about a decade ago, I used to run a multi-media community for a Drarry series (inspired by the Shoebox project, WTF Drarry, etc.). Back in the LJ days, I had about 200+ followers who tuned in for 8th year shenanigans, and lord how many letters and fics I even wrote for that. There were lots of letters between a lot of people, and the ficlets together made up about 12k.
Obviously, RL gets busy, I had to put it on indefinite hiatus and yeah. It’s still up for archival reasons. The writing does make me cringe now, but the concept is still intriguing and a fun one.
I’d love to doing something more on a smaller scale for that. Maybe for a bunch of different HP characters so they each have a short story. I do have an outline already to see if I can work this out for Perciver. I haven’t gotten too far into this yet, but there’s sooo much potential. Since my writing style has changed, I think it’s doable but it’s more on the how. And making sure I can reign it in before it gets big (writer problems, of course).
Multi-media is definitely a huge commitment though, especially when it comes to letters, now that we have screen readers. So there would definitely need to be some alt text or AO3 skins/coding needed for this. Since I’m already writing a Teen Wolf fic that uses the latter, that’s going to be my test run to see how multi-media goes for me!
If we’re talking about art stuff...goshhhh, if I had time to make more comics I would. For any ship. Comics are soooo hard though and since my style has matured, it definitely takes more time to complete. Besides last year’s Career Fair Drarry piece, my last comic was a spicy Perciver one for Kinkfest in 2020 (I did this while sick and buying a house at the same time lol, insane, yes). So yeah, when an idea and the timing lines up, maybe that’s when I’ll poke at making more comics again. The key is being invested and having enough uninterrupted time to draw up all the panels! Easier said than done, I know.
23. Would you like to go on a writing retreat?
HELL YES. 100000%. Meeting folks and talking with them about fic and writing in the past has been so cool. I’d love to see more of this workshoppy/discussion vibe and learn how others write and apply some of that to my own writing, for sure. Even sprinting together or whatnot could be really fun.
I’ve talked about this option with a few friends, and maybeeee for 2023, that could be a thing. Even if it’s a small get-together where we just work on writing stuff. Though, I might have to longhand it since there’s no way I can bring my big ass desktop PC with me, and I kind of hate writing on tablets.
Thanks for the ask!
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Previously asked: 8, 11, and 12
Have a question? Send a q for fanfic asks for the new year!
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Monday
It’s Memorial Day. Normally I’d try to post something moving and meaningful but you’ll have to give me a pass this year. I’m going to pretend that everything is fine for a few hours and avoid thinking about or talking about anything that brings me to tears. I need a break from the insanity of mankind. Mercury is in retrograde until June 3rd, so the hippie part of my heart wants to blame everything on that. Just for this afternoon, I’m going to let it.
SO...
I’ve been out putting cages around the tomato plants because they’re growing like crazy. While I was chatting them up and letting them know that the cages were for their own good I was doing some back yard dreaming. I picked the spot for my Jane Magnolia, I’m wondering of we want to expand that little patio (it would certainly be cheaper than expanding the tiny deck and I wouldn’t have to stain it), and thinking about a pretty outdoor rug and some chairs. It’s already looking more like home, at least on the outside. I’ve got flowers planted, a pretty hanging basket paired with a hummingbird feeder, and I’ve tidied up most of the mess left behind. Most. It all makes me smile when we drive up to the house. It’s not perfect, but it’s a start.
As far as the inside of the house goes, I have BIG news. We finally have an installation date for the flooring! Floors will start on June 1st. That meant that we had to push back the furniture delivery a couple of days, but I’m still doing a happy dance. The dishwasher will be delivered on the same day as the furniture and will complete the kitchen appliances - hallelujah! As if all of that isn’t a bundle of wonderful, we have a crew coming to paint starting June 8th. Pinch me! I must be dreaming. I’m nervous about the paint. I spent a lot of time moving samples around the house, testing them in different types of light, holding swatches up to the flooring...and I think I love my choice. If I don’t we’re going to have to live with it. I knew that I wanted a soft, soothing, gray-green-blue sort of color. I thought it might be Sea Salt, but in bright light, which we have a lot of on the bottom floor, it turns too minty. I finally settled on Austere Gray. It was previously named Woody Rosemary (much prettier) but every so often they update the names to appeal to their target audience. I must not be in that group, I prefer Rosemary over Austere any day. I’ve decided to call it Austen Gray for Jane Austen, it makes me happy and confuses Mickey. Anywho, not sure how this will show up on your screen but this is the color that will cover nearly every wall of the house.
Here’s a pic of it in a room with lighting much like our living room, similar furniture, but the floors pictured here are warmer/more orange than what we’ll have.
That space is more grand than what we’re dealing with, but gives a better idea of the color. Kind of a rain washed, foggy, soft, calm, seaside garden vibe. Or maybe that’s just what I see.
With those changes on the horizon we can turn our attention to things like kitchen counters, getting the cabinets painted, and just living here. Things are already back to normal-ish. Once Mickey was back at work and my days fell into the same old routine - cook, clean, laundry, cook, clean, laundry, repeat- it started to feel like home. Some things never change and those things are a comfort at times. Like meals! My veggie eggs for breakfast, my vegetti and fake crab for lunch...
Even though I’ve got that vegetti smothered in Old Bay I’ll bet if the locals found out I was eating fake crab they’d make me turn in my Maryland driver’s license. They take their crab very seriously here.
Speaking of my driver’s license. My photo turned out as I’d imagined. I look like I smell something bad.
Also delighted that my double chin made a cameo. I spend so much time goofing off that when I have to take an official photo - passport, employee ID, driver’s license, whatever I don’t know what to do with my face. It usually goes one of two ways, prison matron or lunatic on the lam. This one is 100% prison matron. Not the kind that runs off with an inmate, the kind that tells you to pipe down.
Just thought of another food tradition we have - popcorn! Every night, after the house is tidy, the dishwasher is running, I’ve had my bath and I’m in jammies watching some silly show - Mickey makes popcorn. It’s my favorite time of day. Oh, I know that we’re not supposed to snack in the evening and blah, blah, blah - but popcorn is my love language and when Mickey hands me my little bowl it’s as good as this...
Sorry, not sorry. At the end of my days when my life flashes before my eyes I’m pretty sure Mr. Darcy’s lake scene will be part of the highlight reel.
This is how I look at popcorn.
Okay, I’ve gone off the rails and I’m sure there are chores that need to be done before dinner. Heck, I might even do them.
Stay safe, stay well, seek happiness.
XOXO,
Nancy
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To a stranger that I knew for one evening, and may or may not ever see again: I wanted to at least remember the details. So I wouldn’t forget
• Friday night, December 8th, Marco island FL, Sand bar
• the bachelorette party, & the scratch off ticket
• your brother stason initially trying to approach me with his wedding ring on- him then introducing us, and us immediately grinning at each other the moment our eyes met
• you putting your arm around me in front of your dad, uncle, and brother and everyone else at the bar
• the way you took me into the men’s bathroom and guarded the door for me while I peed
• talking to your dad about agriculture & my mom. Your dad wanting to meet my mom
• you kissing me before you left the bar and asking me “are you having fun?” Before you did it
• me picking you up at 1:30 am in my moms rental car
• I take you to our condo and you ask “what are you doing in a place like this girl?”
•walking along the sea wall
• walking past the private property lines and cutting behind fences
• you saying “you are the literal worst at trespassing”
• we stopped on an empty plot of land and sat down
• you opened both corona bottles with your teeth? lol
• you are 22, you are born on February 9th 2001. You’re an Aquarius. Your middle name is Hunter your last name is Reuland
• you taught me where the Little Dipper is and where Orion’s Belt is not lol
• both of our dads names are Jim, both of our moms names are Kelly
• we saw 2 dolphins together while sitting outside
• there was an insane shooting star, you could literally hear it
• we were laughing, and making out, and talking for hours. You told me a lot about yourself & your life
• you’re a farmer, you help your family who owns all the land in Illinois. You hardest corn & wheat & hay
• you play hockey & fish
• you want a tattoo of mountains on your arm
• you like country music
• you laid your head in my lap and looked up at the stars.
• you pretended to throw me over the edge at least 3 times lol
• you taste like gin, you smell like laundry detergent and the most enticing and subtle cologne
• your drink is gin, sprite, and 2 limes
• you have very nice teeth
• you have a southern accent, very Matthew McConaughey
• you told me we were gonna buy a house on that plot of land. We imagined where our bedroom & guest rooms would go
• we were out till 5 am before heading back
• in the car I asked you if you were trying to have sex and we both kind of agreed we didn’t want to. So instead you left me with a gnarly hickey on my neck & chest
Not sure where this leads, perhaps nowhere. And that’s fine. But we’ve been texting every day since and exchanging music & photos. If one day we stop talking, just know I had a really good time with you. I thought you were smart and charming and daring. At the bar I told you ‘you remind me of someone’ and it was my first love. Someone who was social and outgoing but also was a rebellious kid who always loved to break rules. My favorite kind. If nothing else we’re two strangers who enjoyed a great night together. But I really would like to see you again: one day.
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My sun, mercury and saturn is in his 8 house, what does it mean ?
Oh I'm sorry I rarely use this acc, so I didn't see your ask in the earlier days. So, I'll answer this based on my experiences. Having sun in 8th house in synastry can mean both ways because I have this with 2 guys. I have my sun in guy 1's 8th house and I feel like I have to protect him and nurture him as his mother. I also feel a strong connection between us which was unseen by others. I feel like I understand him best in this world and that he needs me and only me. I also feel as I can help him in every problem. I feel like he is also physically attracted to me because he touches me a lot. Also I give him support in cases which he was not understood by other people. He once also told me that I am the only one who supports him with body and soul and who he can open up his feelings to. I felt a bit unstable and wanted to leave him because I felt like I had to give out a lot of energy towards him but I never couldn't leave him. In next case, I am the house person and guy 2's sun and saturn fall into my 8th house. I feel like a child who has strict parents when I am with him. I can't express myself clearly because he always criticizes my opinions and my feelings. He also thinks I am a bit childish but that can also be due to the age difference too but somehow I still feel like I am trapped and I wanted to escape but couldn't. I was sexually attracted to him a lot tho. But I think that is saturn which makes me feel like I'm in water, drowning with my own emotions and him not even lending a hand for me and instead even mocks at me and has some authority over me. Mercury in 8th house in synastry can be that you two can communicate really well, have mutual interest in certain topics and can exchange both of your thoughts each other comfortably. I have this with guy 1 and I can discuss or talk about any topic with him and I feel as if I have found my soulmate or something because we have very similar perspectives in life. I also can understand his taboo and death-related thoughts (not about suicide but it's just so fucking dark) and he also opens up about things that he had never told anyone before to me. And I also like his intellectual mind but sometimes, I feel like he brings out these kinds of topics towards me just to get my attention but I'm not really sure tho. So, yeah that's all I have but 8th house is mostly mutual and not one-sided so both of you are going to feel some intensity whether you are just friends or whatever. You just need strength to handle 8th house synastry because it can go really insane if you can't handle well. If you don't have scorpio placements or 8th house placements or pluto dominance in your natal chart, you have to be really careful. For me, guy 1 has mars in his 8th house in his natal chart and he also is scorpio rising, so he seems like he doesn't feel this intensity as much as I do but still he finds me interesting and unique and as the one who can understand him the most. I also feel as I am responsible to take care of him. So yeah thank you for asking and I hope this helps you in some kind of way. Stay safe! <333
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Neptune: Deep Dive
Pink petals
fallen onto
night shaded
waters.
Nothing is ever as it seems.
Wood turned to metal.
Reality turned to dreams.
-Natasha Reeves
The planet Neptune I think is most famous for two things - illusions and dreamy or ethereal associations. A lot of negativity is also commonly associated such as addiction, insanity, guilt, sorrow, denial, and doubt. This planet is complex and just like all the other planets has a huge array of associations. What prompted me to do a deep dive in Neptune? Well for one I’ve been going through the transit of Neptune in Pisces crossing over my IC which has been powerful and I am at the end of my progressed Moon in the 12th House. Also in my own chart I’ve been paying more attention to my natal Neptune placements... which are a lot more prominent and worthy of my attention than I’ve understood and noticed in the past. Honestly I spend a lot more time analyzing others’ charts vs. my own, and I really should have looked more closely at some of my own aspects. I have had a LOT of experience with Pisces influences throughout my life, intense ones. I want to make it clear that Pisces DOES NOT = Neptune. I’ve always wanted to write a whole essay about my experience as a Pisces friend, lover, family member, enemy, etc. An outsiders opinion but that isn’t this. This is a disclaimer because this is going to be both theory and my own experiences. This is a deep dive.
The Sea’s Love and Wrath
Neptune in a lot of mainstream media is described as gentle but this planet can be unpredictable and harsh, with erratic energy that could rival Uranus. Neptune can be about tolerance and kindness, seeing past the ego and material. Neptune can embody or promote unconditional love and forgiveness. Because Neptune can be about dissolving and merging this planet allows us to see ourselves in others, maybe even in everyone allowing for compassion, empathy, and the ability to love very freely and openly. But the illusion and deception of Neptune is its shadow.
Romanticizing and idealizing can be one of Neptune’s downfalls. Many times this is described as putting other’s on a pedestal but this can be applied to any area of life from work to places to ideals. From this those with strong Neptune aspects or prominent placements can find that disappointment is a frequent visitor. Neptune square, opposite, or conjunct Venus can quickly fall for others, trust others, and gravitates towards those they want to help or who have a strong personality they can meld with. Neptune opposite or square Mercury may face the frustration and disappointment of frequently being misunderstood or finding that they easily misread others or trust their words. After feeling tricked there can be wrath to these oceanic bodies.
Where will their vengeance or anger land? It isn’t fair if they idolize you to get mad at you... sometimes their anger is self-loathing and self-destructive, other times they take you down with them. But the lesson is that Neptune can be as soft and as dangerous as the sea.
Enlightenment and Madness
Coming down from the high, was getting lost in Neptune’s blue. Dreams and visions dancing in the back of my mind, when reality is so hard to chew. Sensation used to distract and pieces of stories stitched together to where nothing is fact.- Natasha Reeves
There are many influences that can grant us wisdom or enlightenment throughout astrology, but I don’t see too many writings or posts about Neptune and its connection to enlightenment, nirvana, or eurekas and on the flipside also insanity and denial. Neptune can pull away the fog to give us clarity - especially when looking at the whole of things, the big picture. Neptune can famously also be the fog.
The transit of Neptune crossing over my IC/4th House brought a lot of light to my childhood and how I was raised. However my IC is in Pisces, while Pisces isn’t the same as the planet, and many astrologers believe Neptune is not the ruling planet of Pisces - it is a sign known for illusions, confusion, and vagueness much like Neptune. I came from a place of a lot of secretiveness and vagueness, but when the “planet of illusions” crossed over I found myself accepting the instability and moments I felt lost or clueless in my life as well as looking back with remembering and understanding.
Neptune can represent the part of us that is hard to grasp and understand, it also faces us with the idea that it is okay to have unanswered questions, to not have closure, that many times we have to create that closure or solidity ourselves. Neptune much like Jupiter is a matter of faith whether in ourselves or a higher power.
It should be noted Neptune doesn’t always mean outside sources. Neptune is an introverted, intimate actor. It can represent how we lie to ourselves, trick ourselves, or how we push responsibility off of ourselves. Neptune also allows us to see, understand, more importantly feel what we easily ignore or can’t see.
Life’s Extremes - Our Extremes
“Neptune moves between the greatest extremes: from the highest spiritual awareness through imagination, fantasy, and illusion, to the depths of deceptions and disillusionment. The planet of mysticism, glamour, and enchantment, Neptune exerts a hypotonic fascination.” - Judy Hall.
When many think of extremes they probably think Pluto before Neptune. The blue sphere isn’t going to take away the icy orb’s reputation - Pluto holds tightly in terms of extremes, but Neptune is far from a level-headed, consistent influence. Let’s touch on fantasy and illusion - two things that tends to warn of foolishness or impracticality, but fantasy is part of everyone’s life, no matter how pragmatic or mature an individual claims to be. From coping to manifesting to understanding to enjoying, fantasy is a natural human thing. Think of how often you daydream in an hour, how many books, movies, and games you indulge in, how often you find yourself being tempted by gossip, and how often you find yourself painting a picture of another in your head - negative or positive.
Neptune symbolizes the abstract, importance, and rawness of our fantasies. Individuals with prominent Neptune aspects can find themselves easily tapping into their imagination, falling into escapism frequently, or have a great use for their wild ideas. If you think of the subject of fantasies or illusion as an extreme - it makes sense. You aren’t going to get an interesting story without the gods and monsters. Our sleeping dreams often are filled with strangeness or strong emotions. Clarity to madness, hopeless romantic highs to deeply wounded sorrows, and dissolving/surrendering to becoming whole/complete are common extremes this planet centers around.
I have Mercury Square Neptune which tends to make one doubtful of their own opinions and intellect, can increase misunderstandings, and make communication difficult for the individual. Mercury Square Neptune can make someone highly persuasive and deceptive but it can also make one easily confused, tricked, and manipulated by others. Rationality and intuition can conflict. One experience I have with this aspect is usually swinging from extremes to being very withdrawn and quiet to interrupting others, chatting away. I’ve been described by those in my life as always saying something they didn’t expect - few words but impactful or strange ones. This is an example of the more everyday way Neptune can present itself.
“Neptune-attuned people possess glamour in the old sense of the word: the ability to bewitch. They are also impossible to categorize or pin down, demonstrating the planet’s elusive quality. Lacking strong boundaries, Neptune-attuned people are susceptible to outside influences.” - Judy Hall. It is from these lack of boundaries and fluidness we see Neptune’s extremeness. Neptune aspects can have us take on the traits of others and there is intensity in that. Let’s say we are talking about a Neptune to Mercury aspect, here may be someone who is easily energized or put down by the mood of another. Neptune to Mars can create a volatile person who fights, guards, and pursues based on their inner circle.
Alice: Imagination and Dreams
Personally I tend to associate Alice in Wonderland with Gemini themes. But I’ve seen her used as a metaphor for many placements and influences, such as Scorpio and Pluto. Neptune’s lostness certainly relates to the character and story. Neptune can be the planet of dreams. Challenging aspects to Saturn indicates someone who struggles to get in touch with reality while easy aspects to Saturn indicates someone who can marry big dreams or imagination to practicality.
Neptune to Moon aspects can indicate powerful dreaming - almost intuitive or helpful in processing stress or trauma. So does Neptune in the 12th, 4th, 8th, and possibly 9th. Neptune in the 2nd can mean imagination or even dreams themselves act as a resource, maybe this is through inspiration or increasing one’s belief or confidence. Neptune in the 3rd may find themselves always remembering their dreams and keeping a journal. Neptune in the 5th blessed with all of the fun dreams of flying or dreaming of a favorite fictional character. Neptune in the 6th or 10th may find strikes of inspiration, knowledge, problem solving, or important foresight in their sleep. Neptune in the 11th may find comfort or realize important information about self and/or society in their dreams.
Neptune is a newer planet, many times called the visionary, healer, or spiritual link or messenger. Traditional astrologers can approach the planet with a lot of skepticism. Its exaltation is in creative Leo, detriment in practical Virgo, and fall in usually praised as “visionary” Aquarius. Neptune is still new enough to be a hot topic of debate. You will find many astrologers don’t even agree on the planet’s exaltation, fall, and detriment. Leo is considered one of the most creative sign and on the topic of imagination and dreams Neptune can feel amazing in this sign. It feels confident and shinning in its ideas, fantasies, and magic. Elusive and ever-changing Neptune doesn’t feel comfortable in stable and structured Virgo. But Aquarius is an unexpected challenge for Neptune. Aquarius is about collective action - unity that Neptune also is familiar with. But Aquarius is a cold sign and despite its unconventional side can be highly practical and may dislike unrealistic ideas or approaches. Saturn is Aquarius’s co-ruler after all. Neptune wants oneness as in intimacy, not oneness in action or rebellion like Aquarius. Neptune is the magical moonlit spring to heal all your wounds, especially the emotional and spiritual kind. Aquarius is the soul forge in Asgard from Thor: The Dark World or the hypospray in Star Trek. Aquarius is modern medicine most of the time and when Neptune is dressed in Aquarius’s colors at its best it is advanced medicine we don’t understand yet but are working towards. Neptune in Aquarius can be a genius, but it is about ambitious realism to help others, Neptune at its heart is about helping the individual on the most personal level. Aquarius is random strikes of lightning coming from an active mind while Neptune flows from one spot to another, always connected and coming from an original primal, emotional place. Aquarius is the future, Neptune is outside of time. Aquarius is intellect and Neptune emotions and intuition. Aquarius is rebellion, riot, revolution, Neptune is peace or death and rebirth - Aquarius is the noise and Neptune the silence.
Some believe Neptune’s fall is in Capricorn, which the struggles exist with Capricorn’s strictness and clinging to reality and control. Neptune in Leo is Alice looking regal like a queen or warrior going to fight the jabberwock, Neptune in Virgo can get dark, feeling uncomfortable and maybe in pain, but still important and empowering. Alice in Aquarius or Capricorn is likely a totally new story, adult Alice putting away the tea parties and white rabbits for a lab coat or pantsuit.
What about Healing and the Spiritual?
Let’s get to what Neptune may be most known for. That otherworldly connection, the power of love, transcendence. Neptune is dramatic and it is soothing. Neptune embraces all aspects of the human experience so we can focus more on the soul. Neptune is all about healing and how healing can come in a million ways. It can be fast and hard or slow and revealing. It is painful and messy, it goes in cycles, loops, falls and rises.
Neptune whether the aspects are easy or challenging, whether in a house focused on the self or others, it gives everyone ways to heal and to connect. As an outer planet it gives a lot of insight into generations but in the unique placement of one’s chart it touches us with humanity.
Pretty speeches, enchanting metaphors, crazy nights, and charming lovers lead us to our doom and a raw poem, crying ourselves to sleep, old medicine, late night graveyard walks, and maybe a rebound help us pick up the pieces. Neptune many times shows us that the unexpected is what tears us down and what lifts us back up. It teaches us nothing is inherently bad like substances, manipulation, honesty, authority, it is how it is used. Neptune shows us that you are the hero to some and the villain to others.
Regret, shame, guilt, feeling trapped, isolation, addiction, grief, and sorrow are closely linked to Neptune. I believe many times this is due to the healing process or spiritual associations of the planet. These emotions are heavy and life-changing but they are emotions that many times need to be faced with a lot of bravery and work. They are feelings that also help us come to realizations. Neptune is associated with rebirth and if you examine emotions like regret or shame, sometimes rebirth is the only way you can shed those feelings. Neptune’s fluid nature also allows us acceptance, which is needed to deal with such heavy emotions.
While we always talk about the lack of boundaries as a dangerous or bad thing... and it can be, these lack of boundaries like I mentioned above can allow for a very giving love and empathy, it also allows us to feel or interact with a higher power, magic, and the spiritual. Whatever your beat is - religion, magic, or the belief we are just star stuff, Neptune symbolizes our relationship with it.
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please do more backyard au hcs this sounds lovely
PEOPLE AND AGES
- Tommy (5) Kindergarten
- Techno (11) 6th grade
- wilbur (18) Senior
- Tubbo (4) Kindergarten
- Schlatt (19) Just Graduated, goes to Community college
- SapNap (7) First grade
- Punz (13) 7th grade
- Dream (12) 8th grade
- Gogy (15) Sophomore
- Ranboo (6) Kindergarten
- Fundy (15) Freshman
- Niki (16) junior
- Puffy (17) Senior
- Purpled (5) Kindergarten
- Big Q (14) 8th grade
- Karl (13) 7th grade
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SPECIES AND RELATIONSHIPS (put into friend groups)
- Tubbo (Ram, Schlatt's son)
- Tommy (Racoon)
- Ranboo (enderman, kind of a street kid)
- Purpled (Purple Sheep, Dream and Puffy's younger brother)
- SapNap (Demon, Bad's son, Punz's baby brother)
- Techno (Piglin)
- Dream (Ram, Puffy's younger brother)
- Punz (demon)
- Gogy (Mooshroom)
- Big Q (Duck)
- Karl (Parrot hybrid)
- Wilbur (Blue Jay)
- Schlatt (Ram)
- Puffy (sheep - Schlatt's cousin)
- Niki (fish? mermaid?)
- Fundy (Fox)
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I think that Philza minecraft just slowly keeps finding kids in his backyard, and he slowly grows very attached to all of them
Just like every afternoon his backyard is FLOODED with kids
And he doesn’t understand why he’s the house everyone goes to, but he’ll feed them
He just slowly finds himself being really endeared by each of them
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And before he knows it, Phil’s warning SapNap and Ranboo away from the water, and balancing Purpled and Tommy on his hips
And he knows all their allergies
And all their favorite foods
And he’s keeping track of the high schoolers grades, bringing Dream, punz, and techno to their games
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CARPOOL
SOCCER MOM
Mr. Philza Minecraft
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Dream: Basketball
Punz: Football
Techno: Baseball
Puffy: Softball
Small children: Baby Soccer
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- Phil keeps track of all of boys' games and practices. Because goddamn it, these kids deserve some sort of parental guidance
- Dream, purpled, and Puffy don’t have present parents
- Puffy had to step up to the plate
- Ranboo’s a street kid
- No one really knows if he has anyone
- Bad just chilling in hell
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Schlatt is really working himself thin, but he tries hard, he really does
And everyone can see how much he loves Tubbo
Sometimes Phil will wake up and see schlatt passed out on their couch. He got off at midnight
But as soon as he gets home from work, Tubbo is immediately in his Dad’s arms
Schlatt animatedly talking to the boy
But you can just see how much love he has for his boy
He’s just a bit too young to bare the burden alone
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And the thing is, is that all of these kids are so like, independent
Like Phil just needs to feed them
And tend to the youngest ones every so often
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I think it’s like musical chairs
To see who’s sleeping at Phil’s house in the morning
Like - who’s on the couch? An air mattress? Guest bed? Sharing a room with one of his kids?
All of the small children like to pile around SapNap, who is also a small child, cause he’s warm
Punz also always has children flocking him
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Punz is also that teen who throws the kids in the pool
he cant go into the water himself, prefering to lay on the grass and in the sun, but he does love just chucking kids in
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Phil drives a beat up mini van. It’s baby blue
It's always filled to the brim with passengers
very dirty
many crumbs
has balls just thrown in it all the time
Footballs, basketballs, baseballs, soccer balls
it fucking smells, we all know it does
Phil owns like 4 of those kid car seats despite only having one kid in that age group
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Also if you couldn't tell
Niki basically lives in the pool
she's a fish hybrid
so its a salt water pool
instead of chlorine because its better for Niki
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Tommy, Tubbo, purpled, Ranboo, and SapNap play baby soccer
its the best part of this au
It’s so adorable, and Tommy picks at flowers the entire time
Sometimes. Ranboo will come and entertain him for a little. Try and get him back in the game. He gives up when Tommy sits down tho
Ranboo will more often then not join Tommy
cause mmmm grass
Tubbo is insanely competitive as a little kid
we been knew though
When he gets older Tommy gets really into it
But as a baby
He just chases bugs
Plus he’s a raccoon hybrid, so shiny
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HE HOARDS SHIT
UNDER HIS BED IS A MESS
he as in fucking baby racoon Tommy
whats the word for baby racoon
small baby kit
Phil 1000% calls him kit
BABY RAMS ARE CALLED BUCKS
FUCKING EVERYONE CALLS TUBBO "BUCK"
THATS SO CUTE IM LOSING MY SHIT
Things go lost? Go check tommys room
Bermuda Triangle of a bedroom
Very much like - Phil has to have a talk with him about it
And he’s like “ I know you feel like you have to take them Kit, but they’re not yours”
“If you want it, just ask me and I’m
sure we can figure something out.”
Tommy also loses interest as soon as he gains it tho
Tommy chitters at them
They nod liek they understand and go
“Uh huh, sounds mighty interesting Kit,”
And then they pick him and let him climb around them
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So much rough housing
like SO much
they're hybrids man
Tommy also teethes ok. Chews on shit when his canines grow in
so does Techno, and SapNap, and Punz (Punz and Techno's canines already grew in though, but they still chew on shit)
The rams
Rub their heads against stuff
Head Itchy
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A lot of Phil’s days off are just spent by the babies, just who are growing in hybrid traits
He scratches Tubbo, sapnaps, and Puroled heads
They’re all growing in horns
Gives Tommy things to chew on
Purpled. Never gets full horns. They are always little stubs just barely sticking out of his hair. His ears looks more human than ram too.
Just for some reason never really grew into his hybrid traits
And purple eyes
He gets so upset about it too, when Tubbos horns outgrow his, because he’s older
He’s a bit different. But it’s like being brunette in a family of blondes. It’s not unheard of
He just is tearing up and Phil is just like “oh Bud, come ‘ere”
They're like 8
And Tommy just gives Purpled the biggest hug, because Tommy is a sweetheart as a kid
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I think that even the older kids wrestle
Like obviously Dream, Techno and the rest of the middle school gang do
Because they’re so fucking competitive
Dream is so quick to just. Grab someone and wrestle them to the floor
No warning
But like, you’ll catch Wilbur and Schlatt jumping at each other
Or Wilbur throwing Fundy over his shoulder
Or anyone just man handling gogy
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Phil gets to a point where he calls them all his kids
And asks where they are when they aren’t At his house
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Puffy bringing them (Dream and Purpled) over after school. They go outside and play. Puffy sighs and collapses at the dining table. Phil silently hands her a coffee. “I’ll keep em busy” he says “you get some homework done”
She looks up, and puts her head in her hand, “Dream has basketball practice in an hour”
Phil just pats her on the back. “I got it.”
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Also let’s talk about how much food Phil needs to buy
Like even if it’s just lunch
That’s like 15 growing boys
He can afford it, He just has to watch out for allergies
He buys so many fucking snacks man
Whole damn store
He goes through like crates of those little chip variety packs
Tubbo only likes the crunchy Cheetos
Tommy likes barbecue
Niki likes salt and vinegar
Punz likes Doritos
He knows which ones they all like
I’m just imagining Phil calling out for the kids
And they’re like lining out of the kitchen
Oldest to youngest so that Phil can help the little ones
They can eat anywhere in the yard, but Ohil has the little ones eat at the picnic table
They’re all dripping wet from coming out of the pool, and he needs to make sure they eat their fruit
and popsicles, they have tons of popsicles.
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Phil totally takes Dad tax
Like a chip from every plate
And a tatertot from each breakfast
very dad of him to do
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Not not Phil kissing each of their foreheads goodbye
And “drive safe”
And “have a good day"
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He’ll still pick up Texhno
And Dream and Punz, right by the armpits
And tucks them into bed
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Tommy when he gets wet
He loves swimming but the poor baby: his fur
It’s hard to get him in the water but once he’s in it’s hard to get him out
Because he feels all heavy and sticky afterwards
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Adventures in the woods
TOMMY IN HID NATURAL HABITAT
Small boy makes hidey hole
You may be asking Does. Does Tommy crunch on the leaves
He does
Like on ever y single one
Carefully
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All of the little kids
And even technos group
Just bonk heads
Because of the goats
They all just do it
Sometimes softly
Sometimes roughly
Techno always does it roughly tho
Rough houser
Dream doesn’t mind
Makes it feel like he has a
herd
Feeds a primal instinct for ram playmates
Feeds a primal instinct for ram playmates - Small boy
And puffy has outgrown it
But a young piglin brute? Perfect playmate.
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AND THATS THE AU
YOU'RE WELCOME
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what are your thoughts and words of advice on/for these placements?:
Virgo Sun and Mercury (7h), Pisces Moon and Ascendant (1h), Scorpio Venus (9h), Taurus Mars (3h), Libra Jupiter (8h), Pisces Uranus (1h), Aquarius Neptune (12h), Sagittarius Midheaven and Pluto (10h), Capricorn Chiron (11h), and Leo Lilith and Saturn (6h)
Hi darling! Thanks for the question and sorry about the wait. I don't mean to sound weird at all, but we have so many similar placements, it's insane. I'm wondering if you were born a few days after me...
Anyways, I've already gone over the following placements! Click on each one to find each respective post:
Virgo Mercury
Scorpio Venus
Leo Saturn
Pisces Uranus
Aquarius Neptune
Capricorn Chiron
Moving on, your Virgo Sun Pisces Moon combination makes you logical and idealistic, with a strong and vibrant imagination. You are very opportunistic, so you know how to make the best of whatever comes your way. You are definitely someone who can trust in both your intuition and your intellect. You provide very deep and important insight on a variety of matters, so people often turn to you for advice. You are quite logical as well as a person who can trust your hunches. You are quite a wise soul; you can be thrust into almost any situation and you already seem to know what to do. You can deal with concepts and meanings that are difficult for most people to understand.
Your Sun in the 7th means that being in a romantic relationships is very important to you. Being with someone in that sense brings out the best in you as you can mirror and compliment the other person(s). However, this can make you miserable and feel as though you are without purpose when single. You only know how to base your personality and behaviours off someone else rather than being your own person and finding out who you truly are. You would like a career where you work with the public, but this may prove a challenge as you are heavily influenced by what other people think of you.
Your Mercury is in the 7th too, which makes you someone who prefers to solve problems by communicating and talking through what went wrong. You want to get the point of view of whoever else is involved in the issue rather than solely focusing on yourself. You are quite sociable and much prefer to be out and about rather than being stuck at home (I dread to think how you're coping with the pandemic, good lord). You easily become bored when left to your own devices. Your relationships tend to be very healthy and successful because you know how to properly communicate with the other person. You quickly come to an understanding with the other and frequently share ideas with them.
You have your Moon in the 1st House, which means you are rather emotional and delicate, not that this is necessarily a bad thing, mind you. You are constantly thinking of others and of how you can help them, regardless of how well you're doing in your own life. You are ready to jump up and lend a helping hand at a moment's notice. You aren't too worried about always having a plan to follow; simply going with the flow doesn't tend to stress you out much. You are honest about your feelings, not really one to hide them or be ashamed of them. Your heightened sensitivity can cause relationships issues as you have the tendency to overreact to certain situations and people.
Your Pisces Rising makes you a very optimistic person who also wants to share that positive attitude with the world. You may view things with rose-tinted glasses which can lead to you having expectations which are way too high. Just remember to stay realistic while keeping your optimism. You feel things very strongly but are rarely aggressive. You get along with pretty much anyone due to your friendly and relaxed manner. You assume that others always have good intentions, which may be a nice outlook to have on people, but can put you at risk of being manipulated or exploited by others.
Your Venus in the 9th means that you might be one to fall in love too easily, especially if its with someone who brings something new to your life. You are very appreciative and interested in others' cultures and want the people around you to be the same. You are very warm and adaptable, and love having freedom and independence in your relationships. You are definitely not clingy or needy. You will not hesitate to end a relationship if the other person is restricting you in some way. Your ideal partner needs to be open to adventure and new experiences. You don't tend to appreciate what you have now, always looking to the future and what it might hold for you. This can mean that precious moments slip right past you and you don't even realise it. Learn to love the present for what it is every now and then.
Your Mars is in Taurus, which makes you quite comfortable with who you are as a person. You prioritise the things in your life that make you happy, not too worried or focused on the things you do just because you have to. You're definitely here for a good time. Though that's not to say that you're reckless or anything like that. You also want a future that is stable and secure as well as fun and exciting. You're very driven to achieve this for yourself and are willing to work hard for it. You are a bit materialistic and can depend on your possessions too much at times. Comfort of the utmost importance for you.
You have your Mars in the 3rd House, which means you a pretty straightforward with your communication. There's no beating around the bush with you, that's for sure. You're not in the least bit afraid to talk about sensible and serious matters, and are also unafraid of expressing yourself how you see fit. You are always ready and willing to open other people's minds. You're very energetic, almost to the point where you have this kind of nervous energy about you. You find it very difficult to just slow down and rest. You have a strong faith in your own ideas and have enough ambition to want to pursue them. You always want to experience new things.
Your Libra Jupiter makes you have a deep desire to have everyone just get along. You're not really a huge fan of conflict. However, this desire can make you miserable as you feel guilty if you don't get along with someone. It's important that you understand that it's completely normal to not get along with some people and it doesn't mean that you're doing something wrong or that you just need to try harder. This placement can make you somewhat of a wandering spirit. You love to meet new and interesting people, partly just for the joy of it, partly because you're desperate to meet your soulmate.
Your Jupiter in the 8th means you are quite spiritual and sociable, and definitely someone who seeks pleasure from all areas of your life. Your intuition is on point and highly accurate, which makes you very good at determining the root of a problem. It's because of this that you may find that people often turn to you to help them deal with issues. You absolutely love solving complex mysteries, always happy to test your mind. You really do mean well but you can be overly emotional at times. You're also prone to manipulating others, whether you realise you're doing it or not.
Your Uranus is in the 1st, which makes you an eccentric at heart. You are someone who wants to support the people around you in becoming more confident in their identity and originality. People may consider you to be ahead of your time. You might find that a lot of unexpected things happen to you in your life; you'll definitely have a lot of stories to tell when you're older! You don't care much for rules, especially when they start to restrict who you are as a person and how you express that. That doesn't mean, however, that you don't want to help and care for the people around you.
You have your Neptune in the 12th House, which means that you're easily misunderstood by others. This is because while you do mean well, you don't tend to express your true nature. In reality, you are extremely kind and compassionate, you just struggle with putting this out there. You can be quite pessimistic, always focusing on what's wrong in your life and stressing over everyday issues. You should try to look after your own happiness and wellbeing more. You're very empathetic, but this can mean that others' negativity affects you deeply. Remember to put up boundaries if and when you need them; your true friends will understand.
Your Sagittarius Midheaven makes you someone who has a great love for life and everything it has to offer. You constantly want to learn more about anything and everything and then share that knowledge with others. People are attracted to you thanks to your friendly, sincere and energetic persona. You love chatting to people who are very different to you as you love learning about others' life experiences. You like to look at theories and then try to make sense of them, or to simply make up your own. You may often ponder the big questions of the universe and try to decide your point of view on it all. Despite this, your mind is always open to new ideas and you love to hear what other people think.
Your Pluto in Sagittarius means you are very spiritually attuned to the world; spirituality is just something that comes to you naturally. You can tap into your innate power with ease. You absolutely have the ability to help change the world for the better. You are constantly on the lookout for new experiences, always wanting to do things you can look back on and smile about. You are very free-spirited, not really one to be happy to just follow the rules as they are without good reason. You dream of a bright and happy future and you have to realise that you can absolutely make this happen.
Your Pluto is in the 10th, which makes you extremely focused and driven to achieve your goals. You are determined to overcome the close-minded views of the people around you. Your career is extremely important to you, always wanting to improve and advance within that area of your life. You are very good at devising goals and at planning your course of action. You assess and manage risks incredibly well and are confident in everything that you do. You research and search for knowledge that can improve your life in any way possible. You are quite the perfectionist, which is good because it pushes you to achieve your full potential, but can mean that you overwork yourself too often.
You have your Chiron in the 11th House, which means that the friends you normally attract want to help build you up as a person and want to see you do well in life. This means that you can absolutely rely on your friends to support you no matter what. They also provide you with close friendships that can run very deep. They may be a little insecure so make sure that you hype them up just like they would with you. Your friendships are mutually beneficial in that you help each other to become the best versions of yourselves that you can be.
Your Leo Lilith makes you extremely confident in yourself, almost to the point where you become self-centred and egotistical. It's important that you learn to dial this down without diminishing your self-worth. You might view yourself as someone who is generally better than most people, and regardless of whether or not this is true, you shouldn't let it influence your behaviour. Everyone deserves the same respect as you. It can be hard to talk sense into you sometimes as you tend to become very disillusioned at times. You constantly seek attention from others which can lead you to do some rather stupid things in order to be seen.
Your Lilith in the 6th means that you are somewhat of a workaholic, never knowing when to stop and just take a break. You are very composed so you're good at censoring yourself and stopping yourself from saying or doing something you know you'll regret. However this skill can also manifest as preventing yourself from expressing your true self, which can become very problematic. You love to record things that you've done, whether that's by keeping a diary or by filming everything at any opportunity. You may have the tendency to change your job the second you become bored, which can be good as it keeps you stimulated, but can be an issue as the boredom you experience might just be momentary.
Your Saturn is in the 6th, which makes you hardworking, disciplined, and mature enough to want to grow from your past mistakes. You're not someone to cover up or ignore your past failures as you recognise that they are always a good learning opportunity for you to improve yourself. You may tend to have issues related to your health, but of course I don't want to scare you or anything. Just remember to try and lead a healthy lifestyle where you can and you should be okay. You might face a few issues at work, whether that's something to do with your colleagues, environment or something else entirely. You do tend to have a bit of an attitude so just watch that and know when to dial it down.
Words Of Advice:
Don’t take everything for granted.
You need to learn how to put yourself in other people’s shoes every now and then.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Life is there to be enjoyed, so enjoy it!
Sometimes showing your emotions proves to others how genuine you are.
Identify where you need to change as a person in order to succeed.
Be more responsible when making promises.
Your value is not solely based on what others think of you.
Don't be afraid to try new things.
Do things that bring you satisfaction in a spiritual sense.
Learn to take more risks in order to creative more positive changes.
Make loving yourself a higher priority in your life.
Be careful when making financial investments and decisions.
You can express your opinions without offending people.
Don't force yourself to get on with every single person you meet.
Stick with your commitments.
Use your great taste to help others more often.
Prove to others that they can depend on you.
Try to differentiate your internal criticism from what other people actually think about you.
You can express your opinions without hurting others' feelings.
Keep close to those who you consider to be your family.
Learn how to communicate effectively with people who are different to you.
You can be self-confident without having a massive ego.
Think through why you're bored of something before doing something about it.
Remember to take breaks more often.
Thanks for the question darling and I hope this helped! Sending good vibes your way and have a wonderful rest of your day!
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this week’s fics! feat. bakeries, bookshops, bisexual awakenings of the angsty and fluffy sort, wolfstar goddads being tender as hell, desi harry reconnecting with his culture, domestic drarry, a lap dance set to akon’s smack that, and more!
But That’s History by @ebbet - 54k - T
Harry Potter starts his first year as Muggle Studies Professor only to find that Draco Malfoy has been hired to teach History of Magic.
listen to me. this is one of the funniest drarry fics i've ever read. i was cackling in my bed at 2am because harry’s internal monologues throughout this fic are unhinged. insanely quotable. “what was he, a lothario” and “you were crushing me with your muscular thighs!” are lines that live rent free in my empty head. harry has never played anything cool a day in his life. there’s a faculty meeting where the teachers are planning the yule ball and debating the merits of a DJ when harry decides he must defend his muggle-music-loving honor by dancing seductively to akon’s smack that while a blushing draco loses his mind. i fucking screamed. and the best part is that in between the comedic scenes threading the overall story, you have extremely tender moments of like, padma patil helping harry become a more rooted desi by sharing their cultural traditions, harry proudly donning his sherwani. draco wrestling with his past, going to harry’s lgbtq+ club for students, being sheepish with ron and hermione. ugh, comedic writers with emotional depth are clever and talented as hell!!
Realities, Unfurling by @ebbet - 45k - M
Draco Malfoy is released from Azkaban into a changed world.
incredible collage-fic told from multiple povs. 8yrs post-war and everything’s changed. the current state of the magical world unfolds via slice-of-life snapshots from a truly stunning cast. non-binary harry whom is running a non-prof org dedicated to building tolerance and establishing equality for marginalized identities. post-prison-release draco whose life will be changed by the internet. neville’s tender relationship with blaise. andromeda’s fiercely protective mothering. remus and sirius being alive and very hot and just, the tender goddads harry deserved. cho chang being brilliant. baker pansy’s softened edges. found families abound. harry being flustered by their crush on draco and making personalized playlists on an iPod nano.
that all might sound narratively cluttered but the author more than pulls this off. glorious, start to finish.
Knead by @jovialobservationanchor (an @hd-erised fic) - 83k - E
This is not a story about Harry renovating Grimmauld Place. This is a story about coffee shops and brewpubs, about Ginny and Luna on a farm with creatures, about magical Oregon, coastal road trips, flying, friendship, and Draco Malfoy's lean arms.
cinematic. a love letter to oregon’s expansive landscapes and lively cities. it’s harry finding home in unexpected places and people. in the vast silence of rolling fields, endless coasts, and starry night skies big enough to feel like you’re adrift in space. and it’s also the lingering, intimate quiet of early mornings in a bakery, sitting on a park bench overlooking the city as you eat ice cream next to your crush. it’s harry watching ginny and luna dance and work around each other like bees. it’s the slow unfolding of harry and draco’s relationship as they fill each other’s quiet. finishing this fic is like waking from a good dream. transporting, immersive, lovely.
Harry Potter and the Bisexual Awakening by @writcraft - 20k - E
Harry is perfectly content being single, heterosexual and living in Godric's Hollow with his very clingy rescue dog, Snitch. When Draco Malfoy turns up on Harry's doorstep demanding that Harry teach him how to drive, things quickly become a lot more complicated.
first of all, i feel very seen by draco being a gay-who-can’t-drive. it’s called representation. but mostly i love the ease of harry and draco’s banter, a flustered harry discovering his sexuality, and the way this fic addresses biphobia. also very emo over this exchange: “I think I might be scared of you, but probably not for the reasons you think.”
“Yes.” Draco stares at Harry. “I think I might be scared of you too.”
Forged through flowing water by @tedahfromtayla (an @hd-erised fic) - 40k - E
When Hermione sets up a diplomatic mission to begin repairing the damage British colonisation did to Indian magical communities Harry isn’t going to pass on the opportunity to visit and help his family’s home country. Maybe he should have asked a few more questions about the personnel she had recruited for it before signing on because Malfoy surely has an ulterior motive to be there.
so much to love about this fic. the beautiful settings, from kolkata to mumbai, to the holi festival and colorful lively streets, to remote cave settlements and old intricate temples. it’s harry in the homeland, reconnecting to his family’s heritage and confronting the weight of imperialism in his history. it’s nipping the white savior complex in the bud. this part:
That is what England left behind. That is what it still stands for, despite whatever mask of respectability and honour it presents. . .You don't get to step aside and let someone else deal with the mess. You have to listen and learn and then act, Malfoy, you need to learn how to fix your own mess. This is why we're here.
my indigenous ass cheered. HP certainly sells the british fantasy but HP fanfic?? fuck jkr, fuck the crown. i love that this fic doesn’t romanticize england’s history. i love that we get to see the vast resilience and beauty of post-colonial india.
Purity Control by yrfrndfrnkly - 28k - T
In which Harry tries to ignore his trauma with fantasy Quidditch but Malfoy's Thereness™ is distracting and all his classmates want to talk about are unicorns, virginity, and Muggle music.
tender 8th year fics where they go from bristly as fuck to understanding and soft 100% guaranteed to make me emo as hell. all the teens have traumas and no one wants to talk about it but eventually Things are Talked About. it’s good of the adults to finally notice. everyone just wants someone to hold their hand. and this part: “You’re the only person around here who’s a bigger mess than I am.”
“I thought maybe we could be a mess together,”
pls don’t look at me as i weep over their gentle empathy.
Advent, a comic by dustmouth - WIP - T
It's Harry and Draco's first Christmas together and Draco is determined to live his full yuletide fantasy, come hell or high water.
dustmouth, patron saint of whimsical drarry. whose illustrations singlehandedly reinvented wizarding fashion. whose cheeky and tender comics are like a soothing balm to the utter depravity of this carnal world. harry and draco being domestic, draco’s xmas spirit brand being “traditional unhinged”!! extremely my shit. we’ll absolutely be reading this all december.
Little Spaces by @dracoladon and @lazywonderlvnd - WIP - E
Draco's back from France and working on the spell damage ward at St Mungo's with Hermione, who invites him over for dinner. Without telling Harry. This is a roleplay, which means Harry is written by one author (lazywonderland) and Draco by another (dracoladon).
the switch in distinct character voices works so well for this fic!! tonally i feel like i'm watching an episode of the office. i personally love harry and draco being Pissed Off at how much they want to bone each other. the battle of the tapenade was the most riveting dinner scene i've read in a minute. clever, hilarious, emotionally tense. can’t wait until that inevitable moment post hate-sex when they’re gonna be like “oh noooo it’s a Heart Boner as well!! >:((” hell ya we’re subscribing for chapter updates.
Dragons Don’t Know Paradise by @teacup-tai - WIP - E
In 2004, when Remus spends two scary weeks in the ITU due to complications of pneumonia and his HIV condition, Sirius walks around the house like a ghost and Harry finds comfort and strength in Draco through a chat in an online LGBT forum. Harry falls for him, but Draco has a lot of secrets and, before long, will need to come clean—even if he believes that no one is able to understand a dragon.
non-magical bookshop AU. remus and sirius’ relationship is a marvel. the ease of their affection with harry makes me so emo. draco’s friends being insistently present even as he tries to isolate himself. this is a story about acceptance, found families, and falling in love at a distance. the intimacy, the longing, the tenderness. what a fic!! i keep coming back to this part:...he looks at ease, inside his body, a body he needed to fight for. He’d made peace with his struggles and his scars. And Draco realises he wants that. He wants to be at ease inside his body, the body that now carries a virus. He wants to be at peace with his own existence.
you hurt for draco so deeply but you get moments like these where he affords himself a kindness that feels foreign and it’s just!! the boys navigating grief and learning to be vulnerable. so good.
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Your writing is so sweet!!! Made my day :) i’ve got prompts if you want some: tag me if you write them i’ld love to see
-hair dye and braids
-« they all think i’m someone i’m not and i feel like you’re the only one that sees me as i am »
Okay this is more of a headcanon (and i got a bit carried away) but: Harry’s love language is feeding people and act of services because that’s the only way he was deemed worthy when he was a child. / Draco’s is gift giving and words of affection because that’s what he got as a child. That makes them perfect for each other because what Harry missed the most during his childhood was material things and being told he was loved so getting gifts and being told he’s loved makes him so happy. Also i can just see him losing his mind after Draco tells him ‘bye i love you’ after being friends for like a day, in 8th year, or bought him expensive gifts. Draco missed acts of service more in his childhood because even though he was told he was loved and was spoiled rotten, his parents would never ever care for him like that. It would have been house elves and then he would have been expected to do everything on his own as soon as he could and had always been expected to care for himself. Like if he forgot a jacket and got cold, his parents would have told him to learn from it so he loses his mind when Harry casually packs an extra sweater for him. His parents would spoil him with expensive things but they would have never spend hours cooking a complicated cake just because he says he misses it but can’t find it in any store (which Harry does because Harry’s Harry) and would only have said to him he should get over it. What makes it even better if that they don’t realise how important the things that they do are for the other person because it’s not a big deal for them.
Firstly thank you so much for your compliment. I loved the idea so much that i poured out everything I could in this one prompt. Here's a little song I heard that fit perfectly well - say you won't let go by James Arthur. For you @iamactuallya-cat ( also I'm not sure what hair dye and braids meant , if it was a prompt I'm sorry, just tell me I'll do that too )
Habits of my heart
" I believe Someone somewhere is made just for you; Love is about finding the missing half, the one person who will complete you "
" and you actually believe that ?" Harry asked as he rowed the boat to the center of the lake.
" If we're going to put the flaws in the idea of love then the whole idea of being in love is flawed Harry but to answer your question yes I do " Draco smiled.
" And do you also believe in love at first sight ?" Harry asked passed Draco the sandwich he had packed for this.
" No, I don't think the man I will end up with will be the same man I fell in love with at first sight. You can have strong infatuation at first sight but love, no " Draco replied with a smile.
" me ? Love just happens. That's all I believe in. I don't believe that there's only person out there for you, I think love is about going with the flow, giving someone the whole of you and them doing the same for you" Harry replied. Harry actually did not know what he thought of love someday's. To him it felt like love was something to be lost one day, like everyone he had lost but then there was love like Ron and Hermione and Ron's family. Maybe love was after all Caring, he used to think.
" and what do you believe ?" Draco asked him.
Harry didn't realise when did malfoy one day turned into just Draco malfoy. When did Draco became someone he created space for at the table or when did he became someone who's anger bothered him very much or when did Draco's Inconsistent behaviour became a problem or when did he became someone he would save the last bite of pizza for or when did he became someone he couldn't study without , he didn't know . Or Maybe he knew it , Maybe it was one of those days when Harry and Draco with their friend's were just sitting and playing games or maybe it was after that one time they celebrated their tied match of quidditch or maybe it was during one of those Muggle studies lessons or maybe it was during one of the hangouts in the school garden or maybe it was after that one time Draco had absent Mindedly said " I'm gonna go now. Bye . Love you ". Whenever it was Harry decided Draco bothered him very much and he wanted to be bothered very much. His appreciation about Harry, his words of encouragements, his support after the prophet wrote something shitty about him or his little scoldings to harry after he got into a fight and his little I love you's In a friendly way made Harry's heart skip a beat and he loved it. He loved it whenever Draco told him that he's much more better than people say or that he deserves all the kindness in the world or that he deserved to be cared for, Harry loved It from the moment Harry and Draco became friend's. Harry adored Draco, the way Draco said that the best thing about Draco was his hair or the way Draco thinks that one of his hand was shorter than the other or how green colour suited him the best, and even if all of it was wrong Harry adored each and every bit of it. Harry never thought he could feel this way about Someone but when after school Harry and Draco remained in touch he knew it wasn't friendship he looked for with Draco, it was so much more. But when Harry had gone through so much he didn't wanted to waste even a single day wondering if Draco felt the same way or not, he asked him out as casually as possible and when Draco said yes, he planned the date just how he knew Draco would've liked it .
It was soon when they developed a habit of showing love in different ways. Harry understood that for Draco love meant showing him how much he loved him by taking them out on a beautiful date and telling him constantly he loved him very much. It was in kissing Harry on forehead whenever he woke up next to him. His love was in writing letter to harry during work . His love was in supporting Harry in his work but telling him how dangerous it is for both of them. His love was in proposing Harry with the most magnificent speech and ring. His love was in making love with Harry and not just casual sex. His love was in dressing up nice for Harry's parties. His love was in words and whispers . That was his love for Harry and harry thought he loved it more than he even loved Draco. He never understood what love meant coming from his unrequited love experience but when he was with draco he understood love was something more than just Caring and it meant an incredible deal how nonchalantly Draco did all of this without having even the slightest idea how much it made Harry fall in love deeper everyday .
And Draco understood for Harry, love was packing an extra sweater for Draco whenever they went for a casual hangout , it was giving him his jacket whenever Draco got cold , it was putting a blanket over him when he fell asleep on the couch reading. To him love was feeding the kids at the orphanage because he knew what it felt like being an orphan . To him love was making a gift for Draco because he loved seeing the priceless smile on Draco's face . To him love was going to every bakery in the world to find that one recipe of the cake loved so much and staying up all night to make it for Draco after 97 fail attempts. To him love was listening to all of Draco's stories . To him love was Washing Draco when he got fractured . To him love was showing Draco off to the world that he was the love of his life. To him love was putting a warming spell on Draco's tea whenever he left for work early. To him love was putting up a nice bath for Draco after he had returned from a stressful day. To him love was folding the corner of the top of the magazine when he felt Draco would've loved that page. And it was his love in simplicity that made it much more meaningful because Harry did all of this out of habit but a habit for Draco. Draco loved how incredibly unaware Harry was of all these things and did this almost everyday. Draco had never known a reciprocated love , he thought affection could only be bought from expensive gifts or eating his favourite food made by the elves. He never knew that love could be more than just dealing with your mistake, or it could be more than just big houses or it could be much more than spoiling himself with shopping or gifts but with Harry he understood that you can learn from your mistakes, you don't have to punish yourself for your mistake you didn't intend to make, he understood with him that love could also be bought in preparing dinner together , he understood it could also be in small house's , he understood that love could also be in people. He understood that when you love, you really do love . He understood love was so much more than just 4 letters, it was the green eyes, the bronze skin ,it was the beautiful laughter, it was the scar on his forehead, it was Harry. Love was Harry.
It drove both of them insane of how less it mattered them both of how they expressed their love but that was the thing about their love . They loved each other so deeply in an unknowing way that nobody could understand. And all of this made them so perfect for each other. Their love wasn't out of a fairy tale but their love was like a story that people would pass on as a beautiful significance of love , a personal story grandparents would share with their grandchildren when asked what love is and the answer would be " love is what they had "
They all said you can't love him or you're not good for each other or that you don't belong together but after being together for 29 years Harry still feels the same way he did when he was 18. Somedays he feel like he's still stuck in time and time never really moved on but it's been long, long time after that first date but even after all these years Harry still dreams of waking up next to Draco.
This happened during one of their evening tea time when they had to babysit for their grandchildren . Harry was just listening to music and Draco was simply reading out to Rosslyn when she asked " how did you know you were the one for each other ?"
Harry and Draco turned to each other smiling.
" I knew it when he saved me on the night of the war. Because despite being enemies for the longest time he still saved me. And when I knew I just knew he was the only one I wanted to grow old with " Draco told Rosslyn with a charming smile.
" they all thought of me as someone I'm not but Draco was the only one who saw me for me and that's when I knew it. I knew it then that he was the only one for me " Harry smiled looking at Draco instead of Rosslyn.
" you guys are still so in love. I want your kind of love " she sighed. Harry took her in his lap and said " you know Rosslyn I believe Someone somewhere is made just for you; Love is about finding the missing half, the one person who will complete you and when you find them, you know it " Harry kissed her cheek softly.
" really ?" She asked curiously.
" yeah " Harry smiled at her and then vaguely looked at Draco who was affectionately looking at them . And to him Draco still looked the man he fell in love with when he was 18 and will be the man he would be in love with when he's 80 because that's his love and this was their love story.
I will cry if this doesn't get notes tbh
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hair dye and braids
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