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roosterforme · 26 days

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The Younger Kind Part 57 | Rooster x Reader

Summary: Bradley gets home in time to take care of you when you need him the most, and he's ready to push aside his own exhaustion to let Noah celebrate Halloween. Announcements and plans are made, including some that you're looking forward to a lot more than Bradley is.

Warnings: pregnancy topics, mentions of miscarriage, swearing, smutty blowjob, angst, fluff, and age gap (18+)

Length: 4100 words

Pairing: Single dad!Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw x babysitter!female reader

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When Noah woke up on Halloween, he made his way into the kitchen, rubbing his eyes as he went. Then he stopped short next to the table. "Daddy?"

Bradley spun around to see his son standing there in disbelief. "Hey, Bub," he said as a smile bloomed across his face. "I missed you." He knelt down, and Noah immediately trotted across the room and right into his open arms. "I made it back just in time to go trick-or-treating with you."

He kissed Noah's cheek and buried his nose in his son's soft curls, inhaling the scent of home. "We're all going to go," Noah said with conviction. "Even Skittles has a costume. And Aunt Natasha is going to get one, too. She promised."

"Then I guess it will be a party," Bradley told him, deciding now wasn't the best time to mention that you may rather spend the evening in bed. "Are you hungry?" he asked, standing up with his son in his arms, simply because he wasn't ready to stop holding him. "Do you want pancakes?"

Bradley knew it was bad when a four year old looked at you like he was convinced anything you tried to cook would be inedible. "Can Mommy make them?"

"Wow," Bradley said, trying not to laugh. He was pretty convinced five minutes ago that he'd be able to follow the directions on the box, but maybe not. "Do you really think Mommy is that much better at cooking than I am?"

"Yes. She is. Can she make the pancakes?"

Bradley laughed and kissed his cheek again. "How about I give it the old college try since Mommy is still sleeping, okay?" He held Noah while he measured out the water, but when it was time to crack an egg, he set him down at the table with a glass of milk and an activity book that you or Nat must have got for him. He looked at the egg, not quite trusting himself, and he cracked it into a bowl instead directly into the pancake mix. He ended up picking pieces of the shell out of the bowl, but once he started to stir everything together, it looked pretty damn good.

"Okay," he muttered, wondering if you'd want to eat breakfast in bed if he managed to pull this off. He should order one of those tray tables for you to use. He dumped some of the batter into the hot pan and started to look online for a purple tray when he got a little distracted.

"Daddy," Noah said, pointing to the stove as soon as Bradley smelled the pancake starting to burn.

"Shit," he muttered under his breath, setting his finally fully charged phone aside. "It's okay, I'll eat this one," he promised, flipping it over with a spatula to reveal a blackened, smoking mess. Now he paid close attention to what he was doing, and the next ones turned out pretty well, but it was too late.

"What did you burn?" you asked from the doorway with a smile. When Bradley tossed the spatula aside and rushed to your side, you said, "For a minute there, I thought it was all a dream, and that you weren't really home yet at all. But then I smelled something burning and knew you must be."

He wrapped one arm around your waist, tilted your chin up with his fingers and kissed you, hoping to convey just how badly he had missed you. He didn't stop until Noah asked, "Mommy, can you make the pancakes?"

"Let's let Mommy rest," Bradley replied, stroking your neck with his fingertips. "Do you want me to bring a plate of food into the bedroom?" he asked you.

You shook your head and whispered, "I'm okay. I might take a nap later, but I'm fine, Daddy." Then you took his hand gently in yours and brought it to rest on your belly. "So is this little one."

"I wouldn't have blamed you," he blurted out, and you tucked your face against his chest. As your arms snaked around his waist, he said, "I would have been sad, but only because I'm so excited for the baby. But I wouldn't have blamed you or been upset with you, Princess."

You nodded and whispered, "I know. It was so scary though. And I don't think I could have gone much longer without you here."

"I'm home. And I'm cooking and doing everything. You've got nothing to worry about."

"Mommy, please," came Noah's exasperated voice. "The pancakes."

You started laughing against Bradley. "Do you want dinosaur pancakes?" you asked, and Noah gasped in delight. "I'll take that as a yes. Step aside, Daddy. Watch and learn."

But he didn't step aside. He stood behind you with his chin resting on your shoulder and told you over and over again how much he loved you while you prepared the most adorable breakfast he'd ever seen in his life. You cut up a pancake to look like a stegosaurus body and added spikes made out of sliced strawberries. You used part of a banana as the neck, and added chocolate chips as eyes.

"Damn," Bradley said. "That's almost as cute as you are. Can I have one, too?" Then you cut up the burned pancake and made a much less cute looking dinosaur while he laughed the whole time. "Thanks. That's exactly how I wanted it."

"You're welcome," you told him with a smirk as you took some of the good pancakes for yourself. He guided you over to the table with all of the plates of breakfast, and Noah abandoned his book while he clapped his hands.

"Thank you, Mommy," he said as he shoved some strawberries into his mouth.

Then Bradley guided you down onto his lap and held you while you ate. "It's good to be home. When you're done eating, I want you to get back in bed and wait for me," he whispered, tracing your side gently with his fingers while he stuck his fork into his burnt dinosaur pancake.

"Oh, I'm sorry," you said softly. "We can't do that. Not for a few more weeks. The doctors said my uterus has to thicken a bit more, and I-"

"Baby," Bradley said a little louder. "No. Don't apologize. I don't care about that. I want you to rest, but I also want to show you the books I bought in Tokyo."

You looked at him over your shoulder, and he kissed your cheek. "I want you to know that I did miss you that way, too."

"I missed you in every way imaginable, Princess."

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Bradley ended up carefully carrying you to bed as you yawned, and he promised to clean up the kitchen and get things ready for Halloween.

"I want you to relax," he said for at least the tenth time as he dug around in his still unpacked duffle bag. "I'll take Noah out to buy some pumpkins in a little bit, and I'll leave you a sandwich in the fridge that you can eat when you want it. But in the meantime, look how cool these are."

He sat on the edge of the bed next to your thigh and handed you a stack of Japanese children's books. You smiled and looked at the covers. They ranged from some meant for a baby to ones that Noah would be interested in when he started school. "You were really thinking about your family the whole time, huh?"

"Every second I was gone," he promised, leaning down to kiss you. He would take care of everything, and Nat promised she'd come back later, and you really did almost feel like you could relax. But you still felt a little guilty even as he ran his lips and mustache along your cheek to your ear and whispered your name.

"You must be exhausted and jetlagged," you told him. "You're the one who should be resting."

He just shook his head, kissed you one more time and said, "I'll call Nat if I need her. Otherwise, I'm perfect because I'm with you. Rest."

Then he was gone, and you drifted off into the kind of beautiful sleep where you didn't have to worry about what time it was or when Noah needed to eat again. When you woke up after noon to a completely silent house, you ate your sandwich and then went right back to bed. Eventually Noah's laughter and the warm afternoon light that seemed impossible to sleep through had you out of bed again, but when you looked around the house, you didn't see anyone. The back door was open, and when you went into the kitchen, you saw Bradley and Noah carving pumpkins on the deck.

You walked outside in the random clothing you'd been sleeping in, and as soon as the sun hit your face, you didn't feel as exhausted anymore. "Mommy's up!" Noah cheered, jumping up to hug you with his slimy, orange hands.

"Don't touch her until you wash your hands, Bub," Bradley called out with a grimace. "Too late."

"It's okay," you told him, kissing the top of Noah's head. "Are you happy Daddy made it home in time for Halloween?"

He looked up at you with a little crease along his brow. "I knew he would. That's why we bought him a costume."

"Speaking of which," Bradley said as he kissed your cheek without putting his messy hands on you, "it's almost time to get changed to go collect candy."

"And ride in the wagon!" Noah exclaimed.

"What wagon?" you asked.

"You'll see," Bradley replied with a little smirk.

After a leisurely shower during which you didn't have to worry about anything except yourself, you dressed in your princess costume that you and Noah picked out from the Halloween warehouse and put on some makeup. Then you added your brand new crown, and you thought you looked pretty incredible. When you walked out to the living room and saw Noah dressed as a little prince, your heart melted.

"Sweet Noah," you gushed as he held onto his treat bag, all ready to go. He was wearing his yellow paper crown that Bradley managed to procure from some unknown spot in the house, and he just looked precious.

"I like your crown, Mommy," he said, pointing to the gold one you were wearing.

You smiled. "I like my purple paper crown better."

"Don't laugh." You turned to see Bradley standing behind you in his rather ill fitting knight costume. It kind of looked like he was wearing aluminum foil that was a size too small, but he had a smile on his face, and his costume crinkled when you hugged him. "Hey, Mav and Penny are planning to stop by to take some photos with Noah, but if you want me to call them back and tell them we just want a quiet evening, I can do that."

You shook your head against his crunchy costume as you laughed. "We should tell them about the baby when they get here."

"Yeah?" he asked excitedly. "You want to?"

"I mean, Nat and Javy know. Dr. Kelly knows. I think Mav and Penny should know now, too."

"I love this idea," he whispered, letting his fingers gently glide along the front of your dress. "You're feeling better now?"

You nodded, but Noah didn't really let you answer before he started clapping as he looked out the front door. "Aunt Natasha is back!"

She walked in dressed as a jester and picked Noah up to give him a kiss. A minute later, Maverick, Penny and Amelia were all there as well, and phones were being passed around along with Noah, because everyone wanted their picture with the tiny prince.

"Okay, let me take one of everyone in front of the pumpkins on the porch," Bradley said as he collected a few phones in his hands and headed outside. He smirked at you as he added, "Everyone needs to squeeze together a little bit more. Make sure both of my kids are in there."

"Both?" Penny asked before she gasped, and the first photo Bradley took was of her turning to look at you with wide eyes. "Both?!"

"I'm pregnant," you announced with a smile, and the second photo Bradley took was of everyone else with wide eyes, too. And he snapped a few more where Nat was holding Noah with a grin on her face while the others all hugged you.

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After a brief argument on your end, Bradley managed to get you and Noah both settled into the oversized wagon he bought earlier this afternoon. Then he clipped Skittles' leash on before attaching her tiny crown to her head. "There we go. The royal family is now complete."

"Have fun!" Nat called out, waving from the front porch with the bowl of candy, already crowded with neighborhood kids looking for their treats.

"I don't need to be pulled in a wagon all night," you protested as Bradley scoffed.

"What kind of knight would I be if I wasn't doting on the two of you." Skittles barked, so he added, "I meant the three of you."

"Four," you said, pointing to your belly as he pulled the wagon down the driveway.

"My point is," he said loudly, "I will be doting on my entire family all night long, and there's nothing you can do about it. Please keep your arms and legs inside the royal carriage until we come to a complete stop."

He very dutifully pulled up to each house before lifting Noah out and taking him up to collect his piece of candy. Bradley got the chance to enjoy so many of his neighbors telling him how sweet his son looked, and he kept reminding Noah to say thank you. After about an hour, two treat bags had been filled up with candy, and you looked like you were having fun. You even started waving from the wagon at everyone you passed like a real princess would.

"This is really fun," you said, holding on to Noah as Bradley turned another corner.

"I love Halloween!" his son shouted.

Truthfully, it was a bit of a challenge for Bradley to pull the wagon, keep Skittles from barking at the other kids, and take Noah up to each house and back, but he wasn't about to complain. Not after everything you'd done and been through while he was in Japan. But he would sleep well tonight. That was a given.

"I think this was the last house," Bradley said, stifling his own yawn. "Feel like chatting about our wedding on the way back home?" he asked as Noah yawned as well and settled down in the wagon with you.

It was hard to read your face in the darkness. "What do you want to chat about?" you asked softly.

"How soon will you let me marry you?"

You laughed and said, "How soon do you want to get married?"

"Tomorrow?"

"Hmm," you hummed. "Seems like that would be short notice for wedding guests."

"We don't need wedding guests," he said, and he meant it. "You still want to use our backyard?"

"Yes."

Bradley slowed down over a particularly uneven part of the sidewalk. "Are you still set on Valentine's Day? Because I'm thinking Christmas."

"Christmas?" you repeated. "Like less than two months from now?"

Bradley pulled the wagon up the driveway past the Bronco, and of course Noah was sound asleep. As soon as he scooped his son off of your lap, Nat came rushing over from her seat on the porch. "I can get him changed and put him in bed."

He didn't argue with her, rather he handed Noah off and focused on helping you out of the wagon. "Yeah. Less than two months from now. I keep thinking about how you threw me a Christmas in July birthday party. We could have a Christmas wedding, too. And after that, we can start the adoption process."

You moaned his name as he took your hand and headed for the house. "You know the way to my heart is through Noah."

He straightened out your crown, still rather fond of your purple one which was sitting safely on his dresser. "Is that a yes?" he whispered, kissing you softly while a few remaining kids ran down the sidewalk laughing. "We can make it official? And I can take care of you forever?"

"Yes."

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Bradley helped you out of your princess costume after he stripped out of his knight costume, and his lips met the bare skin of your shoulder immediately. "I love you," he murmured, taking you by the hand and leading you toward the bed. But it didn't feel sexual. You knew that wasn't why he was being exceptionally wonderful right now.

"I love you, too."

His forehead came to rest against yours, and his hands were so gentle on your hips. "I'm just relieved to be home. And I'm sorry I wasn't here last week. If something worse had happened to you while I was gone, when you really needed me, I don't know what I would have done."

"We're all okay," you whispered, pushing him until he was sitting down on the bed looking up at you. "And I feel a lot better since I've been resting more." Your skin felt warm and tingly as he kissed you. Six weeks was a long time, and you knew Bradley hadn't even had access to all of the photos and videos on his phone to keep him company. And you did want it to feel sexual, because you missed every bit of him.

"Lay back on your pillow and wait for me," you told Bradley with a smile, using his words against him.

He did as he was told and patted the spot next to him as he said, "Does that mean you're ready to snuggle with me?"

"Something like that, Daddy."

As soon as you licked your lips and reached for the front of his sweatpants, his eyes went wider. "No, Baby. You don't have to do that."

"I want to," you promised, pulling the fabric down to reveal his soft length. He still looked delicious even like this. You desperately wanted him in your mouth. You met his eyes and whispered, "Please?"

He was panting softly, the rise and fall of his chest so alluring even through his undershirt. He moaned your name and made a strangled sound before he reached for your hand. When he sat up slowly and kissed you gently, he placed your hand on his cock, and he immediately throbbed for you.

As you rubbed your thumb down his length and along his balls, he grew harder. "You missed me touching you like this," you sang in a quiet voice, watching him as he watched your hand. When his eyes flitted back to your face he nodded. "Tell me you did, Bradley."

He swallowed hard, and his voice was so raspy, your hand faltered. "I missed you like this. I thought about your body when I touched myself, but my hands aren't as soft and perfect as yours."

"Daddy," you whimpered, leaning down to kiss away his precum before taking him between your lips.

But he continued on as you sucked, driving you as wild as you were driving him. "I thought about you with a pregnant belly. I thought about how much I'm going to love fucking you when you're big and round. Big because of my baby."

You took him deep, letting him tap the back of your throat as you saw stars along your vision. "Fuck! Princess! I'm not even gonna last."

Slowly, you let your lips glide back up his length, sucking all the way to his tip. "Then just go ahead and come, Daddy. I want you to."

When he collapsed back against the pillow and tucked one arm beneath his head, you took him deep again. He wasn't kidding, because you could see the veins in his neck as his face grew pink, and you knew he was already close. You didn't rush him along, but you bobbed to a pace that left him grabbing at the bedding with his free hand.

"Baby!" he whined, rolling his hips up until you were starting to gag, and then he came. You were sputtering, swallowing him down as quickly as you could as your name fell from his lips over and over again. "Come up here," he demanded, and when you crawled toward him as you licked your lips clean, he gathered you carefully in his arms.

You never felt as loved as you did when you were with him. His body was perfectly warm and everything you had been missing. His voice calmed every part of you. "December," he whispered as he played with your engagement ring. It took you a moment to realize what he meant as he kissed at your lips. "December. We'll get married. We'll all be Bradshaws. Me and you and Noah and the baby. That's all I need."

"And Skittles."

"Please. She's my best non-human friend. It's unspoken."

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When Bradley promised to meet you at your lunchtime appointment with your obstetrician on Wednesday, you were a little skeptical.

"Even if I have to flip off Admiral Simpson and tell him to go fuck himself, I will be there."

You had laughed at the time, but you should have known he wouldn't miss a chance to interrogate your doctor in his flight suit. He stood next to you as you were told to lie back on the table for a pelvic exam, and he kept his eyes on you through the uncomfortable experience, looking down at you like you were the best thing in the world.

"Does she need another progesterone shot today?" he asked softly as you reached for his hand. "And are you going to monitor her with more appointments? And will we get to see an ultrasound?"

"Yes, yes, and yes." Your doctor looked at you and said, "We'll monitor you more closely even after you're done with the injections. We are going to consider you high risk."

"High risk?" you gasped. "That sounds very bad."

"It's not!" he insisted as he guided you to sit up a little bit. "It just means you and the baby get extra attention."

Bradley looked the doctor in the eye and said, "She wants to go to Disneyland for a day or two. Is that even okay?"

You were ready to pout and tell both of them that you felt fine now. There had been no more blood. You were getting plenty of rest. Then he said the words you'd been hoping to hear. "Disneyland would be fine. Just don't overdo it."

"Yes!" you cheered. "Noah will be so excited! Let's go for Thanksgiving!"

Bradley opened his mouth, and you could tell he wanted to protest, but your doctor started to spread gel on your belly, and then the baby was visible on the screen on the wall when the ultrasound started up. "Oh damn," Bradley whispered, suddenly mesmerized by what he saw as he gripped your hand tighter. "Look at the heartbeat. Look at the baby."

"Does he or she look healthy?" you asked, mesmerized as well.

"Very healthy, but we will keep a close eye on things."

When Bradley walked you back to your car which was parked next to the Bronco, you pulled him to a stop. You wrapped your arms around his waist, and your scrubs rubbed gently against his flight suit. "Will you please let me plan a few days at Disneyland?"

"Two days," he replied immediately, clearly already resigned to his fate. "And you have to stay hydrated. And if you even start to look tired, I'm going to push you around in a wheelchair. And if you say anything hurts, we're leaving immediately."

"Disney!" you practically screamed as you bobbed up and down in his grasp and kissed his cheek. "I can't wait to tell Noah! I'll see you at home later, Daddy."

"I'll pick Noah up along with dinner. When I get home you better have your feet up and a glass of water in your hand."

"I will," you promised, matching his serious expression with one of your own. "I'll be very careful. And I'll plan our little vacation. And you'll take exceptional care of everything else."

"You know I will."

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We should all have a Bradley in our lives to let us rest and heal when we need to. That man is going to take care of everything and probably plan a wedding, too. Is Nat also going to Disneyland? Thanks @mak-32 and @beyondthesefourwalls

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stone-stars · 3 months

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Murph: Anyway, Emily, you've really been going off on this um, piece of steak fat that you just-- I believe you called it, uh, a meat slug? Emily: (laughs) Yeah. [Caldwell laughs] Murph: That you just ate? Emily: A little-- I think I said a little slug of fat. Murph: A little slug of fat. Emily: Cause it was like a little slug. Cause I saw it, I'd just cooked this steak, I was like "oh, it's nice and warm, I'm saving some of it for later, but the fat's not gonna be good if it's refrigerated." The other-- you know-- the other stuff will be fine. So, I was like, "I'll just real quick slurp-- I'll just real quick rip off that piece of fat--" Murph: Just a quick slurp. Yep. Emily: "--and eat it." Like, you know, like it's a piece of string cheese or something like that! Caldwell: I feel ya! Sometimes I'll wake up in the middle of the night and go into the kitchen for a little midnight slurp. Murph: (laughs) For a little… For a little fat slug? Emily: Yeah! Well, don't eat a naked fat slug because it upset my stomach immediately. [Caldwell laughs.] Murph: How-- How big was this slug of fat? Emily: You know like, wax lips that you can buy? Murph: Yeah! Yeah. Emily: It was like, that big. Caldwell: Love 'em. I give 'em out for Halloween every year! [Emily laughs]

#8bbc #8 bit book club #emily axford #brian murphy #caldwell tanner #naddpod #8bbclips #‘naked fat slug’ is CURSED

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Tell Me What Changed Drabble #1: Couple Costumes

I'm sorry, no one asked for this but it just happened. Very first TMWC drabble ever, more to come eventually. Enjoy!

Story: Tell Me What Changed Characters: Alex & Jungkook Words: 1800 CW: Language, references to sex, their conversation may give you a headache

“Ok, hear me out, I have our Halloween costumes planned for this year,” Jungkook said, collapsing onto the bed beside her to interrupt her doom-scrolling. He showed her the picture on his phone and said, “This is me. This is totally me.”

“You and every other guy this year,” she scoffed and rolled her eyes. “Seriously? Ken? It’s not even a little bit creative.”

“Alex, I can’t not be Ken. The public will expect it. I’m perfect for it. I’ve got the abs, I’ve got the tan–”

“And the hair?”

“I’ll go blond for it. That’s how serious I am. And you, baby girl, will be the hottest Barbie–”

Alex pushed up to her knees and interrupted, “Let me stop you right there. There is a Barbie in this relationship, and it is not me. I will be wearing that for Halloween,” she said, pointing to his phone. “For I am the Ken, and you shall be the beautiful Barbie.”

“Huh?” His face screwed up, adorably confused, and Alex felt her certainty grow that this was the way better idea. “But… you’re Barbie and I’m just Ken.”

“No, you are Barbie. You go through every day with main character energy, you’ve got great hair, great skin, and the balance to walk on your tip-toes everywhere.”

“No, babe, it’s a feminist thing,” he said, reaching for her hand. “It’s all about the reversal of the patriarchy and how Kens are defined by the female gaze and their association with a woman and the Barbies are the like, brains and power and–”

“Your summary of this movie is… incredible,” she snickered. She’d gone down many a rabbit hole reading all the think pieces after seeing the movie in theaters…. Twice. And she’d sent some of them to Jungkook but was not sure he’d read them. “It’s not really an inversion because there is no historic oppression of Kens, no dowries, no rape, no skewed physical demand placed on the Kens to have children–”

“You get the idea. You’re putting me on the spot! But it’s proof I’m the Ken! You’re the one who read that big New Yorker article out loud to me while I cooked you dinner and pretended to listen,” he pointed out. “I’m the abs, you’re the brains! There’s not really anything more to me than my relationship–”

“Hence why you must now have your journey to discover your worth and identity, Barbie,” she insisted, shoving his shoulder. He didn’t budge, of course.

“I can’t, I’m too busy taking selfies at the gym, Barbie. Everyone will expect me to be Ken –it doesn’t matter how many other guys do a shitty job at it, I want to go all in. For the ‘gram.”

“So you admit you think you’re hotter than me,” Alex said, crossing her arms under her boobs as a distraction tactic.

“Uh… what? No, I–”

“So you recognize that by demanding I be a Barbie with some kind of remarkable trait or inherent counter-culture statement because I couldn’t look less like Barbie, while you get to be just a Ken so you can show off your abs, you are feeding into the concept that women must be all that and a bag of chips while men get to just be hot and walk through the world like someone else will figure it out for them.” Alex tried her damndest to keep a straight face. She thought she had just made some excellent points… somewhere in there. Honestly she wasn’t too sure about her own execution of a point but she appreciated the blank look on Jungkook’s face as he tried to trace her reasoning.

“Wait no, the whole point is that you’re the main character. Of my life. I love you,” he said, the corners of his mouth twitching as he tried to commit to the bit. Alex’s chest bounced as she tried to suppress the laughter. “You’d sell out. It would be like Taylor Swift tickets if they made an Alex Barbie.”

“Oh my god.”

“That’s why I’m saying I am your Ken and you, the sunshine of my life, are Barbie.”

“But that’s so narrow-minded of you. I want to be ogled and you should be allowed to be thoughtful and achieve something,” she insisted. “Unless you’re saying I’m not hot enough to be Ken? You don’t think people want to see me in a little vest?” She pouted her lips at him and sank back on her heels because her knees were tired, but also because she tasted victory. She could see it in the nervous way he was fumbling, trying to make sure he didn’t accidentally say something offensive. She thought it was hysterical.

“So… you think Barbie can’t be hot?” he clarified. And narrowed his eyes. “Babe, it’s the twenty-first century. Barbie can be anyone and anything.”

“So you’re saying I should go as Bimbo Barbie, reduced to nothing but my boobs, just an object to be looked at. How forward-thinking of you!”

Now she’d lost him and he defended, “That’s what you said you wanted!”

“No, I want to be Bimbo Ken. It’s totally different!”

“How is it different? You think Barbie can’t be just a piece of ass?” Jungkook demanded. “Wait, no! Only if she wants to be! Obviously she’s so much more.”

“That sounds like a great caption for the photo you’ll post of your Barbie Halloween costume,” Alex beamed.

Jungkook flopped forward, arms pressed to his side. He rolled onto his side and back, a re-enactment of Barbie’s crisis in the movie.

“But I want to wear a fuzzy white coat and headband and two pairs of sunglasses and have everything think I’m hot and socially aware,” he whined.

She reached out and patted his back with a stiff hand, “I’m sorry, baby. You’ll look great in a pink jumpsuit though.”

“I guess there’s only one thing to do,” he sighed dramatically. And avoided eye contact, which was suspicious.

“What’s that?”

“I guess we just have to be one of those couples who break up because of the Barbie movie and then we can both be Kens for Halloween. Don’t be sad, sweetheart, we can get back together on November 1st.”

“Shut up,” she laughed and kicked his ass over and over until he rolled away, shielding his balls from accidental assault. “You’re an idiot if you think I’m letting you roam free for Halloween night. You think I don’t know how you used to spend those?”

“Same way I intend to spend this one,” he grinned. “Balls deep in a real doll–” She didn’t know if he was laughing too hard at his own audacity to continue or because she’d kicked him in the stomach a little bit.

“You’re so gross! And also aren’t those things crazy expensive?”

“I wouldn’t know, never needed one…”

“I can’t believe you’re joking about what a fuckboy you were and yet you want to be Ken? You dare tarnish the reputation of the man who has eyes for no one but Barbie?”

“And the other Kens,” Jungkook quickly corrected. “It’s not gay, it’s patriarchy!”

“I… don’t think we watched the same movie,” she giggled, and at this point just flopped across him. He wrapped his arms around her and wrestled her over to pin her down.

“Alex,” he said. “Let me be Ken. Be my Barbie in sexy sparkly hot pants.”

“That’s… who you think Barbie is?”

“You said you want to be sexy lookin’ Barbie!”

“No, I specifically want to be Ken.”

“Barbie Ken?”

“Oh my god I am getting stupider every second of this conversation,” she laughed.

He grinned and rubbed his nose against hers, taunting, “That’s right, baby, feel the power of a true Ken.”

“Jungkook!”

“JungKen,” he murmured and tried to kiss her. When she was laughing too hard, he kissed her jaw instead, and then tried to get to her neck to really make her squirm.

She shoved at his face and gasped, “Oooh what if you’re Alan?! You’re just my buddy! And I’m Ken. Obviously.”

“Alan?! No way! And then who’s Barbie?”

“I’m sure there will be dozens of Barbies.”

“And I’m supposed to just stand around with my hands on my hips in flipflops while you chase after women?!” he argued, rolling off her with a definite sulk.

“Which is different from most days how?”

“Aleeeeex.” He slid his hands up her arms, pinning her wrists over her head. “Please. What do I have to do to get to be Ken? Don’t you want to help me oil my abs?”

“That’s just a day at the pool.” He kissed her, succeeding only in a momentary silence, because hey, how else was a girl supposed to react as Jungkook slid over her, all hands and lips?

“I’ll convince you. I’ve got time.”

“I don’t know, it’s already August…” she teased.

“Oh shit your birthday is coming up,” he realized, pushing up into a plank.

“See? A true Ken would never forget Barbie’s birthday because what else do you have to think about?”

“Barbie in sparkly hot pants. I spend a lot of time thinking about you in sparkly hot pants… ah, I want it so bad…”

“Ok, give me some of that plastic and I’ll think about it.”

“Uh… you mean… by plastic do you mean… I mean, that’s not plastic. That’s all man muscle–”

“Oh god, you really are a Ken,” she sighed.

“Thank you. You’re a Ken too sometimes,” he assured her.

“Wait, is that a red flag? If we’re both Ken?”

“Ok, no more Buzzfeed listicles for you,” he snickered. “But look, I’ll spend the next two months convincing you, it’s fine, you can enjoy it. What about right now? Should I, uh… keep this going? Were you in the middle of something?” His hand slid up the side of her shirt, fingers a question at the band of her bra. “Why are you still wearing this? You’ve been home for hours! Let me help you get more comfortable.” He undid the hooks with one hand.

Alex let out a roar of a yawn and stretched her arms, hands behind her head, “I take it back, you’re Thoughtful Barbie. But yeah, keep it going.”

“Alex. Admit that’s a Barbie line. You’re my Barbie!”

She hated how much she actually liked to hear him say it. God, was something wrong with her?! Was it about being the mass-produced mainstream doll that she had never looked anything like? White, blond, and teeny, all the things she wasn’t. Even Curvy Barbie was still so thin, what the fuck?

Or was it something about being Jungkook’s sex doll….?

“All right, Ken, you win, now keep going, this Barbie wants her–.”

“Yesssssss.”

“Don’t interrupt me again.”

“Sorry, sorry, Barbie.”

#tell me what changed #tmwc #jeon jungkook x oc #jungkook x oc #jungkook fanfic #jungkook established relationship #jungkook fluff

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apirateslifeforbudgie · 2 months

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I'm having a bit of a rough time lately...Can't really focus on any writing or one single piece of art for too long - I just keep jumping all around and it is exhausting. So...I just decided to talk about my main character since I'm feeling more comfortable with sharing things about her. And be warned, this will be all over the place as well.

Here is her SBS trivia:

And below the cut are lots and lots and lots (and I mean, a lot) of details of development, fun facts, and further info on my girl.

🌙 Carmen is incredibly morally grey - I place her very firmly as a chaotic neutral.

🌙 Some cute, lighter things before I get in too deep with her character: As a child, she was very much a daddy's girl. She loves to make things; especially jams, wines (jet fuel, save for a lavender wine that is surprisingly pleasant), suncatchers, jewelry, and the occasional tambourine. She can read the stars. She really likes sweets - her favorite flavors being caramel, honey, and cherry. And she really loves peaches - her Devil Fruit was once a peach. As mentioned above, typically in a real-world setting, her mother is from Japan, so Japanese is usually a second language for her, but it hasn't come in One Piece. But she also really loves miso soup, especially when it reminds her of her mother's cooking. Her mother brushing her hair is a very fond memory for her, and she grew it out for her mother - playing with hair is a major sign of affection for her. She really likes the ocean and she misses swimming.

Anyway...

🌙 She won't hesitate to become violent - there's confidence in her abilities that can even overflow to arrogance at times. In fact, Carmen was so similar to Kid, I had to tone some things down. For example, in Gundam, she had the short choppy hair (which she gets at some point in every insert, but more on that later) and she always wore goggles either on her head or around her neck. She was a mobile suit pilot and she loved working on her machinery, so I took the tinkering and mechanic aspect away from her. Although...I do still have an old mechanic pin-up drawing I did a few years back...

🌙 Carmen still thinks robots are cool, though! Didn't take that away from her. She also likes dinosaurs, dragons, comics. Since the only one I'm aware of in One Piece is Sora Warrior the Sea, she's an avid Sora fan and goes straight to the strip whenever the paper drops. She also really likes anything considered scary and strange. She likes to catch spiders, lizards, insects. As mentioned above, she has a fascination with Thriller Bark. Her favorite holiday is Halloween - she loves all things Halloween. In the real world, the Monster Mash is one of her favorite songs.

🌙 Also...in a real-world setting, she fucking loves ALF??? (She's watching ALF all the time in Gundam)

🌙 Beyond her interests and sense of humor, she herself is also incredibly...weird? Strange? Off-putting maybe? Franky will describe her as sketchy earlier on (Wandering Star, episode 5), even as she warms up to everyone, I'm not sure that opinion really goes away.

🌙 Very much a trickster - it's her base for how she functions even later in work and play. If you've read any of Wandering Star, you know she absolutely cannot be trusted - not unless you truly get to know her, at least. But before that, she knows how to read people due to her job and absolutely will use it to her advantage.

🌙 She has ridiculous willpower when it comes to reaching her goals. Originally, she wasn't going to have Conqueror's Haki, but after reading more about it, I realized it would be absolutely fitting for her.

🌙 I kept with my other rules though. No Future Sight, she can't hear the Voice of All Things, and she is not a "D". Her middle name for well over a decade has been Dolores, so I removed it entirely for that purpose. While she is good with Haki because of her upbringing in a powerful kingdom with a Haki-based military and her family being personal friends with the Captain of the Guard who would train her from a young age, she is far less reliant on it now. However, she does often pair observation Haki with her powers, and has pretty much ceased use of armament. Her whole thing is just "don't get hit", which usually works out for her with her speed and precision - but is absolutely not always the case.

🌙 She doesn't like to use shields or wear helmets, even in battle. That was a big thing that came up often in her insertions for Berserk and Gundam. With armor, she just likes to keep everything light.

🌙 She doesn't like to wear shoes. That's just always been a thing with her. She will compromise with some black flats or comfy sneakers though.

🌙 I've noticed she's always incredibly nomadic. In AOT, it was the Survey Corps. In Berserk, she was a mercenary. In Gundam, she was Airborne. She holds rank across the board, too.

🌙 On that note, I'll say she feels very much like a natural-born leader. While she can be crude and cold (often) she still always very much cares for her men, and they give love and loyalty in return. In One Piece, you'll see what she was willing to give just to be sure her men had adequate training (for victory and survival), food, clothing, and shelter. Her and her men are always like a family, that's across the board. They like to sing a lot, especially around their campfires.

🌙 Singing and dancing is something that has carried over for her since I was a child. As much as I hate it, it is a major part of her as a character and has been from the start. In One Piece especially, after certain events you'll see she'll use singing to kinda self-soothe (also I've noticed when she sings, unless she's performing, it's always sad songs or love songs???), and dancing is very freeing for her. In stories across the board, she's always working at a club of some kind that leads into the main story. For Berserk, it was pretty much the same as One Piece when the Band of the Hawk came through. In Gundam, she was working in a far sleezier little place, stole a cop car to attempt to drift it to try to impress a guy and got arrested - with current world events, they gave her the option of prison or military. She chose military and went on to become a Major, and yes, at least one war crime was committed on her part. To further illustrate her brand of violence even from back then, there was one scene after she had just lost one of her men where she stepped on ground soldiers with her mobile suit, smearing a few of them.

🌙 The pilot thing always carries over in some way shape or form. If it's not a mobile suit or an aircraft, it will be a black Jeep or a black horse. In One Piece, she will come to find she adores sailing ships.

🌙 Another really big thing that will always carry over across the board is at some point, she will lose her hair. In Berserk, she willingly cuts it off out of grief. In Gundam, her hair is already short for the main story, and you get the event in a backstory OVA. For One Piece, I know exactly when it happens. Which, across the board, it is devastating because of how special hair seems to be for her.

🌙 Also for appearance, her weight can tend to slightly fluctuate as well. In the main story for Gundam, her stomach has a bit of softness. During WS, she's very toned, bathes often. Post-WS she's still fit, but her stomach is softer, she doesn't bathe as often (maybe every 3 days). Some TMI, she's not a dancer anymore, so she doesn't have to keep everything clean-shaven down there, and she doesn't. In WS, her scent was like a sweet spicey vanilla amber on her skin and flowery/fruity for her hair. After WS, she just smells like sea salt and her captain. Even though she has a pretty bad scar between her shoulder blades (that's new for her) she will probably get the moon phase tattoo down her back that she had in Gundam.

🌙 Aside from appearance, there are plenty of core story elements that have always and forever carried over and translated to the worlds, but I think that's all I'm willing to give for now while I'm actually posting Wandering Star.

🌙 For some more character development info: If you've been following me, you've probably seen me mention a handful of times I've had Carmen since kindergarten. My first memory of her is on the playground and she was a VeggieTales OC at the time (can you believe???) But her first full, actual insertion was Sonic the Hedgehog when I was in second grade. Fun fact: her eyes are still purple to this day because of her Sonic insert.

🌙 On that note, while she's gone through many changes and developments over the past couple of decades, you will see plenty other artifacts still shining through from her inspos. Esmeralda from Hunchback of Notre Dame was one to the point where it permanently affected part of her style (fully, depending on the world. But I love her One Piece insert because it somehow let her two distinct styles come together and kinda fuse).

🌙 If you've read episode 2 of Wandering Star, her meeting everyone was based off Esmeralda's dance, and even her family house words "Let Justice Be Done" spill over from that character. And those house words have been used in multiple inserts. Though I will say, over the years I've noticed she's developed her own darker sense of justice. Oh, also the Thane family crest carried over from Berserk (it's just Skull Knight's sigil - don't tell anyone).

🌙 Another huge impact for developing her to who she is today was Lara Croft (I was just...so into Lara Croft as a child...all the Tomb Raider games...man) - that whole 'tough girl' thing has stuck, but more importantly, it was the beginning of her dual wielding that was solidified with her Attack on Titan insert. Between the two, I've had her current fighting style for a while and was delighted when I saw how similar it was to Killer's own fighting style. Fun fact: when I make her in video games, I play as her - go for the choices she would make, the armor she would wear, the weapons she would use. In my thousand plus hours of Monster Hunter World/Iceborne and Rise/Sunbreak, I have only touched dual blades for serious gameplay.

🌙 Beyond dual-wielding, duality is a major character element of her I have picked up on over the years - how she's incredibly cold-blooded and brutal with enemies, but how she has such a sweet and devoted loyalty and a gentle heart for those she loves. I noticed duality even manifested itself with her power use in the world of One Piece, even as far as the attack names themselves in the form of a big scary word and a really pretty word (i.e. Eschaton Aurora). That's how it goes for all of her attacks, except one that isn't an attack - it's the softer, loving side of her power use and it's called Honeymoon, though it's never really said. So, there ya go.

🌙 Even further, she always has twins - Rae and Ciri (Raemond and Cirilla). BUT! Interestingly enough, if (and that's a really big IF) she reproduces in the world of One Piece, it'll just be a boy instead of the twins that's she's been having for over two decades. Which...i can't figure out why...But! I do have a name chosen for him! However, I came into this planning to kill her off before she reproduces - it was a rule when I gave in to her insertion. Think I'll just let things play out like I always do.

Anyway...that's enough for now. If you made it this far...wow. All I can say is I hope you like her! I realize she won't be for everyone, but that's okay! Her and her stories keep me going.

#one piece #one piece oc #one piece original character #my oc #original character #wandering star #carmen amsel #oc: carmen #one piece fanfiction

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n0brainjustvibes · 6 months

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Tagged by @vikugnavikugna!

coke or pepsi? beverage BITE miette?? beverage STING her tongue like the insect??? jail!!! jail for beverage for One Thousand Years!!!

disney or dreamworks? dreamworks did HTTYD, right? them.

coffee or tea? tea

books or movies? books hehe

windows or mac? never used mac so windows it is

dc or marvel? ok, exposing myself here, worm was like my 2nd superhero media ever. i haven't read either 🙈 i have seen a few marvel movies but i'm not sure whether that should count for or against them

x-box or playstation? mine crafdt on my laptop

dragon age or mass effect? mass effect bc incuriouscat on youtube makes sick ass fan PMVs

night owl or early riser? night owl

cards or chess? chess, you can narrate stories about the pieces and thoroughly annoy your opponent (sibling) even as you lose >:3

chocolate or vanilla? chocolate all the way!!

vans or converse? wgat

Lavellan, Trevelyan, Cadash, or Adaar? I can't tell if these are fantasy names or antidepressants

fluff or angst? uhhhhdfcgvhbjnk gonna have to say fluff

beach or forest? beach

dogs or cats? cats 100%! (or secret third option: fish...)

clear skies or rain? clear. god. please... 🙏🙏

cooking or eating out? cooking :P

spicy food or mild food? Mild by any sane standards, but spicy according to my family and/or BBC Food haha

halloween/samhain or solstice/yule/christmas? chris mas :))

would you rather forever be a little too cold or a little too hot? uuuhhhh .. hh. hard one here. gonna have to also go cold

if you could have a superpower, what would it be? SUPERSPEED!! Or time powers. My irl friend has convinced me of their usefulness.

animation or live action? animation

paragon or renegade? renegade, it's the name of my serial killer dark forest!hollyleaf fanfic (only half kidding...)

baths or showers? shower

team cap or team ironman? hm. remember when I said I watched a few marvel movies? yeah none of them were this one :(

fantasy or sci-fi? fantasy baybey!!! but I adore both

do you have three or four favourite quotes, if so what are they? oh god okay. hm... "Where did we learn it, this talent for insatiability?" from The Handmaid's Tale still Lives In My Head from high school english. If song lyrics count, then, "You don't know me / don't you question my love" from Berlin, Without Return. "Sometimes a hypocrite is just a man in the process of changing" (I don't recall the exact wording) from... Oathbringer? is my fav cliche cosmere pick. Oh! And I forget the episode or even who said it, but at some point during the s3 All Might/AFO fight in MHA, one of the side characters stuck on guard duty said "You're confusing difficulty with importance", and that changed my life.

youtube or netflix? youtube :) it has fun little AMVs

[REDACTED] [Clearance Level 9]

when do you feel accomplished? when I bake something! making concrete stuff is really fulfilling, especially if I'm baking for other people.

star wars or star trek? spaceballs (jk, star wars, but I haven't seen star trek so sw wins by default)

paperback books or hardcover books? paperback

to live in a world without literature or without music? [sad character song assigner noises]... without music.

who was the last person to make you laugh? that would be @ty-bayonet-betteridge with several lines in their riley fic hehe

city or countryside? city! much as I complain about missing nature :') ideally a city that's near the sea

favorite chips? anything plain sea salt and properly crunchy 🤌

pants or dresses? pants, though dresses are fun for fancy occasions!

libraries or museums? is it a natural history museum? pleamse?? if so museum! otherwise library all the way.

character driven stories or plot driven stories? I don't really have a preference ngl

bookmarks or folding pages? i was one of those heretical kids who just plonked their books face down open 🙈😭 and now I mostly read online so... idk? Probably bookmarks.

Dream job? honestly would love to be on the management council for a small nature conservancy. second choice would be ecological research, but data-based, not fieldwork (animals scare me >.<)

What gives you comfort? thinking about The Characters...

what are some of your favorite song lyrics? literally ANY pun or double meaning lyric by idkhow!! gonna go with "lose yourself inside the city / lose your mind inside a week".

favorite ice cream flavor ever? chocolate my beloved...

first fandom? warrior cats......

deep ocean or deep space? (personally, i gotta pick ocean, because theres fish in there 👍😊)

Your desert island band?

@thesternest @seroquelfan @chaoticrushu, but no pressure to answer, and anyone is welcome to join! add your own question at the end if you answer :]

#tag game

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odiesbun · 1 year

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Halloween: Stray kids ver.

There may be mistakes in the text because my native language is not English. Thank you for your likes!

WARNINGS: fluff, Halloween, costumes, pumpkins, house decorations, etc.

Number of characters in the text: 5571

Chan He's probably going to be the one who does nothing. He doesn't consider Halloween to be a holiday that can be considered very big or his favorite, no. The most he'll do is dress up in a costume and hang a garland of shards over your bed. "I thought it suited me to be a vampire, and also those shards were really cute, so I wanted to hang them in the living room." He's five years old… So if you make him a pumpkin or a Halloween card with your own hands, he'll be over the moon. "Wow, you really made that yourself? Wow!!! You're so good, thank you so much, I'm happy!!!"

Lee Know The king of acting. He'll probably want to make a little video of his transformation and how skillfully he'll scare you and the younger members in the dorm, so expect trouble. "BOOOOOO! HAHA, were you really scared?! What a laugh, are you really that scared?" But of course, he'll only do it as a joke. He has a lot of scary stories. But most of them he makes up as he goes along, to make it much scarier and more interesting. "And then I turn around and there's a woman standing there in all white and with her hair slicked back on her forehead and she's reaching out to me! Boo! That's exactly what she did, and then I ran away, but I kept hearing her standing there still saying boo! Ah, come on, I didn't make that story up, it really isn't made up!" Sexiest and most provocative Halloween costume. For example, an incubus or other demon is literally ready to go with his bare torso to embarrass you. "Come on, don't stare, baby~ You see me almost every night, isn't my body enough for you?"

Changbin He's hungry. He's hungry all the time, so all he'll be doing during all of Halloween is helping you cook and eat. In fact, while cooking, he eats, too. "I don't understand why people don't like the taste of raw dough, it's actually really good, especially if it's chocolatey! Ah, you think I'm weird?" I have a feeling he's going to be made to dress up in a ridiculous costume. Like a rabbit or a pig or Dwaekki. "Does pink look good on me? Yes? If you really like it, I'll wear it all the time."

Hyunjin He hates Halloween because he will be the one who gets pranked the most on this holiday. For example, suddenly a toy spider is tossed up to him by the scruff of his neck or accidentally jumped out from around a corner, then Hyunjin is already screaming at the top of his voice and running away. "AAAAAH, THERE WAS A HUGE SPIDER, A SPIDER! I'M NOT GOING TO BE THERE, PLEASE GET ME OUT OF HERE, I'M SCARED." He's the one who will have the best costume. And he'll brag about it all the time, thinking it's his virtue, because it's a costume he made himself. "You really like my suit? Thanks, honey, I made it myself~ Next year I'll make you one just like it!"

Han I have a feeling Han is a big anime fan, so he will definitely have a costume that is like a cosplay on a certain anime character. "OMG, look, I'm Gojo Satoru! How about we get you a uniform costume from Attack of the Titans and the two of us can be like cosplayers?"He really likes to nag for candy, whether he does it with the older members of the group or with you, he just HAS to get candy, preferably more than five pieces. But if someone doesn't give him the candy willingly, he'll steal it sooner or later. "HONEY, I STOLE CANDY FROM LEE KNOW-HYUN, WE HAVE TIME TO ESCAPE, LET'S RUN."

Felix The one who does spontaneous Halloween shopping. He literally flies up to you with phone in hand, happily shoving it in your face for you to look at what he ordered for decor. "Look, look! These are scented candles that smell like fall and coffee and pumpkins, they're made in the shape of crockpots, they're so cool, right? And this plaid, which also has shards and pumpkins, it's very pretty too, isn't it?" More than anything, he loves to cook, so he does that on Halloween, too. For example, he might bake some cupcakes, draw eyes on them and things like that, and also make mulled wine, which he associates with fall and Halloween. In short, a lot of food. "I decided to add pumpkin seeds here for beauty, but they turned out to be too oily for that…"

Seungmin Will Seungmin do anything during Halloween. No. He's literally the epitome of the smiley face "🧍", he does absolutely nothing. "Why do you need another garland in black and orange when you've already used one? Don't you think that's enough? Oh, are you still thinking of making pumpkins? Why?" He knows you like the Halloween atmosphere, so he'll definitely make you go with him to walk around the night city and take lots of pictures in the park. "Yeah, that's a great angle, honey. Bring the pumpkin a little closer to you, that's it, well done. Great shot, you're adorable."

Jeongin He's definitely someone who will share a lot of candy with those around him and won't keep any for himself. Most of the time, almost all the candy goes to you. "Hey, baby," he whispers, poking his head through the doorway and showing you a bucket half full of candy. "I found some more candy for you, take it." Starts the holiday preparations a week in advance, like Felix, but doesn't do spontaneous shopping, but considers with you whether you need it. "I saw a beautiful garland of black and orange pumpkins in a store near our company, I think you might really like it. We can go out this weekend and pick out what we need together."

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cryptomiracle · 1 year

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Hello!!!! Could you do masky with a teen daughter around 14-16 he adopted?? 👀👀

OOOO YEAH!

Masky with an adoptive daughter

THE GIF LMFAOO

(wholesome headcanons only 💪‼️)

I think if he had a daughter, he'd be one of those dad's that try to do a ponytail with a vacuum 😭

But eventually he'd learn how to do hair properly.

He's a very supportive dad.

He doesn't judge, he might give you a side eye every now and then, but it's never in a truly condescending way yk.

He's an amazing cook.

Idc idc, he's great at it.

He makes you a birthday cake every year.

He waits till you go to sleep, and takes hours making sure EVERYTHING is perfect for when you wake up.

When it comes to everything that happened w marble hornets, he tries really hard to keep you away from it all.

He's very vague when, and if, you ask him about it. he believes it's his business (not in a rude way) and the only thing you should have to worry about is school.

He can be a bit overdramatic, when the situation has anything to do with you.

Let's say you get McDonald's right, and you get a 10 piece chicken nugget, he'd literally make you count the chicken nuggets to make sure they're all there.

If one is missing he'll, walk back in and find you that missing nugget.

When it comes to smoking, if you asked him to, he'd try to stop.

When it comes to drinking, he'd NEVER drink anything around you, not until you're like 23 or something lmao

I think if you want/got a piercing he'd be cool with it, he'd buy you a piercing kit, so you could learn to pierce yourself cause "the piercing gun thingy looks unsafe"

I can see him teaching you how to cook, you two are always in the kitchen together.

If your school had a bake sale, he'd help you bake those cookies, and cupcakes like it was his life's mission.

I'm talking about, sprinkles, colored wrappers, all different flavors, 3 kinds of icing, etc etc.

He loves Halloween, so I can definitely see you two matching costumes.

He also loves slasher movies, so the both of you dress up as ghost face (billy and stu) and scare people almost every year.

He has a pet cat, named porkchop.

(cause I had a pet cat named porkchop, and porkchop deserves some recognition 🙏🏽)

I like to think he's not the best artist, but he likes to draw little doodles.

So just about every birthday card you get from him, has a little doodle in it.

If you want to dye your hair, go for it, he doesn't really care what you do with your hair.

But don't let him help.

He knows absolutely nothing about hair dye 😭

Overall, he's a really good dad.

He might be a little "rough around the edges" and tense at times, but he really just wants the best of you.

Sorry this was so short, and took me so long to answer, i started writing it at like 2 am, and I've also been working on about 4 other stories while writing this 😭

Ty for reading - M

#creepypasta #headcanon #creepypasta headcanon #fanfic #marble hornets #creepypasta masky #masky

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pumpkzsafeplace · 7 months

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pumpkin talks 🍰: a week in anon's life! (11-17th) - hello honeybees & welcome back to another installment of a week in anon's life! are we ready? well then lets get into it! <3.

[ emojis are linked to the titles, ⭐ state for unclaimed anon asks!]

pumpkin updates ⭐ - decorated for halloween. 🍰

we finally decorated for halloween! ahh! it looks so cute & spooky! i made some home made decor too which just adds to the cuteness! plus could be a cute activity to do whilst little! so i'll share some pieces of monday hehe! <3.

❀•°❀°•❀ - mental health update. 🍰

i've been feeling a lot better mentally this week! <3. i'm still taking things one step at a time though, but i just wanted to celebrate the small victories! <3

❀•°❀°•❀ - suprise coming! 🍰

we finally got comfirmation on some pretty amazing news!! ahh!! i'm so so so excited to share it with you all sometime next week! <3.

❀•°❀°•❀ - my new obsessions/recommendations! 🍰

my current new obsessions are the new guts album! (go listen if you haven't) & a tiktocker called 000, they've really helped lift my spirits these past couple of weeks, so go show some love if you can <3. also thank you for the baking recipe! once i do it, i'll tag you with the results hehe! <3

anon updates ⭐ - new followers. 🍰

hello new anon's"! welcome to our little positive side of the internet! feel free to babble till your heart is content! no need to be shy or nervous (although i do understand, hehe <3). the emoji taken list has been updated! so if your chosen emoji wasn't on there- pick a new one and let me know so i could add you to our little family! <3.

❀•°❀°•❀ - mabon plans 🌷

not going to lie, i was super duper excited to plan for mabon & then life hit me and mr x a little so we've had to do quick plans this year pft! but one of our main plans is to have a big feast which i'm excited since both of will be cooking it together! what about you, what are your plans?

❀•°❀°•❀ - no time for being little 🎬

i'm sorry to hear that honey <3, sometimes our lives get a little hetic & we can't have dedicated time for our little selves. in those cases, i try and incorporate things that my little self would love in my day. for example, eating some candy- or maybe sending/finding things to do when i will end up having time <3. hopefully that helps a little <3

❀•°❀°•❀ - take care friday & school panics 🌕

honey, if you can't do certain friday tasks then thats okay! as long as you're trying, then that's the main thing! im proud of you regardless <3. i'm sorry to hear about school though <3. i hated maths in science too- it used to hurt my brain so much. & i promise you're not over-reacting, you feel emotions for a reason love and that doesn't make you feel bad, it makes you human. maybe you could try some anxiety breating techniques to help? or have something you can fidgit with- that helped me alot in school <3. daddy also says thank you for the sweet messages <3

❀•°❀°•❀ - vexdragoncat compliment ⭐

thank you for the super sweet message, it really did made my day <3. i hope you're having an amazing day too <3.

❀•°❀°•❀ - cg problem ⭐

coming from someone who suffered with horrid trauma & flashbacks from previous caregivers, the best thing you can do is take things slow and steady <3. ask them what theyre comfortable doing, and if thats only a couple of small things then do that <3. communicate your feelings through out too so that you both know where each other stand <3 always praise & celebrate those small victories! and just know that some days will be super hard, but it will get better i promise <3. i have a main link post too- if that'll help -> here

❀•°❀°•❀ - graduated friend ⭐

i'm sorry to hear about what you're going through <3. i know that going through something like that can be hard, but take it day by day okay~? maybe you could have phone calls with your friend during the week? maybe friday? to give you the mental push you need to get through it <3. just know we're here & you're feelings are valid okay <3. big change can be scary, you've got this <3 & who knows, something bright might be coming over the hill for you <3

❀•°❀°•❀ - choir & icky 🩵💜

i'm sorry you feel icky & sick, i hope you're feeling a little better today <3. if you can, please rest & look after yourself the best you can- we are all here to support you if you need it <3.

❀•°❀°•❀ - the agere server 🌈

i'm sorry that you went through so much with that server, you didn't deserve that <3. but don't let them dim your sparkle, okay? you still deserve to regress & join and make friends in other servers! <3. one bad egg doesn't account for them all, okay? you've got this <3.

❀•°❀°•❀ - big storm & agere server 🌒

i hope your server adventures go well! & i hope everyone is safe too after the storm, you're so brave for going through it <3. i'm sorry that school sucks tho, can't you talk to anyone about it? or maybe you could join some groups you have interest in to make some friends! <3.

❀•°❀°•❀ - birthday wishes 🎏

i hope you had a fabulous birthday and got spolit with everything you want!! big big big hugs from all of us!! <3

❀•°❀°•❀ - mean people at school 🩵

you're not overreacting love, i can promise you that. you're not over reacting- they shouldn't be so cruel to you and throw water on you. please not only tell your friends but a teacher or something too, you don't & never will deserve that <3. big big big hugs <3

❀•°❀°•❀ - bad anxiety & big episodes 🎨

i'm sorry thing are so rough for you right now honey <3. i get what you're going through, when things get super bad for me it feels like i want to scream out into the world but the words just wont come. something that helps me is writing like a word a day- just one word, and by the end of the week, it'll form a sentence that you can use to potray your feelings & hopefully get some validation or ways to help <3. & for the big episodes, rememeber to breathe and remind yourself that this is just temporary, things will change. you're a lot bigger and braver than this feeling and you will conquer it in time. there are also helplines if you need them, i've used them- there is nothing wrong with asking for help <3 remember to ground yourself, use breathing techniques & remember you have people around you who care about you <3. you've got this i promise <3

❀•°❀°•❀ - professor emails ⭐

i don't think you've messed up honey- honestly, i think it was a super wholesome interaction & they probably thought the same thing <3. i don't think what you said came across angry or aggressive or anything- so don't worry! honestly, i think you've probably made their day! & i'm so proud of you for being so kind <3. we need more of that in the world <3

❀•°❀°•❀ - big changes & big emotions 🐅

i know things have been super tough for you lately <3. & i just wanted to say how proud of you we are for be so strong to keep fighting <3. i know things & plans have changed, but you've kept fighting nonetheless & we appreciate you so so much for all the hard work you're doing <3. we've been here from the start & we're not going away any time soon- so you'll alwasy have us here cheering you on in the background! <3 it's okay not to feel strong sometimes, but that doesn't take away from the victories you've won & i'm glad you're feeling a bit more optimistic and reaching out to others suffering through the same thing- it goes to show that there will always be light, no matter how dark the day may seem <3. keep fighting love, take it one day at a time & you will get there in the end <3

❀•°❀°•❀ - new cg & different time zones ⭐

i know time zones can be difficult honey, but you can still have a good dynamic relationship! (platonic or not). make things that fit your routine, for example: daily challanges they can do, ask for updates through out the day, plan them routines that they can do when you're busy. why don't you both communicate some ideas and come together with some plans that work for the both of you? and maybe plan out one day a week where you both can be avaliable to chat and stuff? <3.

❀•°❀°•❀ - small victories 🪐

i'm so so proud of you after reading your message! i'm so proud of you for looking after yourself so well & also putting your happiness & comfort firt and wearing what you want to go to uni. you've got this honeynee! & i hope you get that digicam too! oh & happy early or late birthday! <3

❀•°❀°•❀ - UK little friends - Evan ⭐

yes yes yes! i want some UK little friends my age so we can have cute play dates, buy plushies and buy too many sweets hehe! i hope you're having a good day & thanks for the sweet message heh! <3

❀•°❀°•❀ - nails 🎥

oh- did they turn out well? pink and glitter just sounds like an amazing combination! ahh! i'm so so jealous! i hope the both of you are having a good day! <3.

❀•°❀°•❀ - bunnies 🍯

bunnies are adorable aren't they! i hope that you do get that bunny- it sounds adorable! have you thought of any potential names yet? <3

❀•°❀°•❀ - trouble with regression 🦢

hey honey i'm glad you're enjoying school! & i'm glad you've got a nice therapist too! (also regarding your question! it is completely normal to have trouble regressing. sometimes our body & mind just dont want to- especially if stressful things are happening in the background <3.

❀•°❀°•❀ - halloween excitment 🍊

ahhh! i'm also excited for halloween! we're twinning hehe- also i love scooby doo so much! they've been such a comfort show & movie of mine since i was a teen <3.

❀•°❀°•❀ - little work & lab ⚗️

you're comment was so so sweet- thank you so much <3. i completely understand too! when i used to do lab work for forensic science, i had to be super duper careful with all the equiptment! i was always so scared i'd accidently drop them pft <3

❀•°❀°•❀ - halloween question 👽

i LOVE halloween- it's the perfect mixture of cozy and spooky! hehe, what your favourite thing about halloween? mine has to either ben the movies or the super yummy sweets, hehe <3.

❀•°❀°•❀ - shark tooth necklace 🦈

i'm glad it came through! it sounds adorable! <3 i've never physcially had a chew necklace before, are they good? i feel like it would be such a help for my anxiety and when i'm overwhelmed <3.

❀•°❀°•❀ - colouring pages 🧭

ahh those sound amazing! i love it! <3. i've always adored colouring! its so so soothing- both me & my mum love doing it so so much <3. & daddy says thank you too, hehe! i hope you have lots of dun at the renfair! you'll have to tell us how well it goes! <3

❀•°❀°•❀ - book trouble & paranoia 🧵

regarding your book troubles - don't read the book if its a triggering subject. see if google has any notes you could use to get the basic idea of what it's about. then you can go in and explain to the teacher that it's too triggering for you to read <3. also paranoia can be incredibly hard- i get that. something that helps when i'm having my bad days is to ground yourself with some of your favourite objects & remind yourself that those things aren't real, you're safe <3.

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i hope you liked this weeks anon talks! until next weeks honeybees~ <3

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alexs-moon-garden · 2 months

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Writing Patterns

Rules: list the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!

fingerguns at @sweetcandyholic :3

I only started back with writing fanfic like 2 years ago QuQ and all of them are OC driven! But you still get 10! (or 9 and a personal oc drabble) I think I'm already aware of the patterns tho--or maybe bad habits jkjk

Dayton smiled at her handy work, it had taken her all afternoon, but she'd finally gotten the friendly faces that were the Daycare Attendant pretty much shined and put back together. ( The Salvage [Pt1] / FNAF )

“Oh, do you really have to go? We miss you when you’re not here.” Sun asked, as he finished his stacking of the remaining musical, topple-over cans in a nice neat corner. “We could have a sleepover! It would be so much fun, fun, fun!” ( Keep Away / FNAF )

Dayton had managed to get out of the garage, though not without bruise. ( The Salvage [Pt2] / FNAF )

Dayton's eyes kept wandering to the doors, and out the glass windows surrounding the daycare, a jaunty tune blared over the speaker system, but her stomach kept doing flips. (The Rabbit / FNAF )

One dark, stormy, Halloween night rolled around at the Pizzaplex. ( The Storm Will be Over Soon / FNAF)

Dayton sat idly by behind the security desk, the largest source of light in the whole room when the lights were dimmed. ( Little Signs / FNAF )

It was evening time, and not being in the mood to cook, Mike ordered a pizza. ( Pieces Left Behind / FNAF Movie )

“You want to play hide and seek with moi?” Rook asked with exaggerated movement. “C'est magnifique! The thrill, the intrigue!” ( Four shots he missed and the one he didn't / TWST )

Fluer assumed something bad was going to happen, but she didn’t think it would be something like this. ( Hellfire / TWST )

Childish laughter rang out as quick footsteps followed. ( Pickpockets Parkour / OC )

I will say that you will never not know who's involved in the beginning of a tale, that's for sure!

tagging @faetotesalive and @determination-saved

#invisible trend but- before I remembered the twisted wonderland fics i had a bunch of personal drabbles #those ones didn't often start with the character names #so I guess if it's insert ocs I gotta make sure you know who and what's going on #otherwise I can let you explore and figure it out a little further in lolol #thanks for tagging me #this was neat!

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nancypullen · 7 months

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Hello, October!

Oh, how I've missed this beautiful month. October is the best month of the year and you can't change my mind. What other month spends thirty days painting the world with jewel tones and then ends it all with a big costume party? I love my birthday month, but I do consider it just one long October Eve. And speaking of costume parties, I know a little girl who is very excited about dressing up for Halloween. Let's start at the beginning. Our precious grandgirl started kindergarten in September. She loves it. A couple of weeks into school the kids were tasked with bringing a "Me Bag" for Show and Tell. They were supposed to bring a few things at home that are special to them and basically tell the class about the things they like. A short time later there was a sort of open house at the school and this is what Tyler sent us.

Just a few short days later, she was out shopping with her parents and the very same girl who had been saying that she wanted to go trick-or-treating as Jasmine spotted this and declared that she had found her Halloween costume. I wish I could show her face because she is quite pleased with herself in the photo. Looks like she wore it right out of the store.

Is that a precious little witch or what? I wonder if her classmates went home and told their parents that there's a witch in their class. Much like her Grancy she may end up on prayer lists far and wide. Too funny.

While we're on the subject of magic, guess who colored her hair? I thought about it for a long time. I'd grown out the white for a year and though I didn't hate it, I also didn't love it. I suppose I just wasn't ready. I placed an order to Sally's (the closest one is about 40 minutes away) and chose a color I'd safely used over and over. Good ol' 9NN. I'm telling you, when I mixed the color and developer I felt like a junkie cooking up fix. I couldn't wait. The color is not what I remembered. Yikes. Maybe it seems darker because I spent so long with white hair. But I'm fine with it.

I hope that neck wrinkle is caused by the seatbelt and not old age. Pretty sure it's age. Oh well. I was actually on my way to a dinner with women! You guys, I'm trying so hard to break into this town and find friends. It really shouldn't be this hard. I swear I don't stink and I'm really very nice. I have even applied for a job. It's with the library, the same library that kept turning me away as a volunteer. I'm more than qualified, do you think I'll even get a call? I'll be surprised if I do, but I'll keep hope alive and try to keep positive thoughts. If it doesn't happen, life will still be dandy. Besides, I know a little witch who might be able to cast a spell for me. Alright, enough of this prattle. My bag is waiting by the door and I'm heading to bed early to try to sleep before our early morning wakeup. I can never sleep the night before a trip. I suppose I could nibble a gummie. I have to leave those behind because Ireland has very strict rules about any sort of cannabis product and I really don't care to be nabbed at customs and thrown in prison. I've seen enough episodes of Locked Up Abroad to know that I'm too nice for prison. Looks like I'll be popping ibuprofen for a couple weeks. A little discomfort in exchange for castles and the Cliffs of Moher That's a good trade. Oh, the word comfort reminds me. One of the many gift cards I received on my 60th was an Amazon card. One of the purchases I made with it was this outfit to wear on the flight.

I will admit, that for just $29 I did not have high hopes - but it's fabulous!! So comfy, so soft and light. It's wonderful! Four pieces, the jogger pants, a short sleeved tee, a tank, and a cardigan, all in a lightweight jersey-type fabric. I love it so much that I'll definitely buy it in another color (my set is basic black). It runs true to size, so just order your regular size and it should fit just fine. Here's a link:

I'm really leaving this time. Going to grab a book and hopefully read myself to sleep. Tomorrow will be a long day. Because of an airline schedule change we have an extremely long layover in Toronto, like most of the day. Maybe that will work in my favor and I'll conk out on the flight to Dublin. I rarely sleep on planes and that makes me bleary-eyed on arrival. This might be just the thing to make me tired enough to get some shut-eye on the way over. Fingers crossed. Next post will be from Ireland. Our Air BnB supposedly has excellent wi-fi, probably better than many of the hotels we've stayed in on past trips. That's good news. Brace yourself for too many photos. Stay safe, stay well. XOXO, Nancy

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oflights · 1 year

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i would like to know about: 🍰 and 🍦!

yesss i was hoping to get the dessert one haha

🍰 what’s your favorite dessert to eat? do you have a favorite to make?

i love red velvet cake (mostly as a vehicle for cream cheese frosting, my beloved) and also anything apple-based, so apple pie, apple crisp; my friend makes candied apple shortbread cookies and they are amazing.

in a similar vein, i love to bake apples. i stuff them with cinnamon/crushed graham crackers/butter plus whatever i might have on hand and bake them until they're all soft and syrupy and delicious. i'm more of a chef than a baker and that fits my dessert skill level nicely haha.

🍦 what are ten things you love about yourself?

aww this one is sweet, okay, let's think about this:

my skin! i have really good skin with a very simple (out of pure laziness) skincare routine, hashtag blessed

my tattoos, especially since we're coming up on the one year anniversary of my hobbit hole tattoo, which i adore

listen, i love my own cooking. i love to cook, and ray will literally eat anything i put in front of him because he's a human garbage disposal (affectionate), but i personally love everything i make and love catering to my specific tastes. i don't like lemon so i don't put lemon in things! etc.

i love reading and can read super fast and i love that for me tbh. i tend to hit a point with most books where i just gulp the whole thing down in one sitting and then forget i live in the real world and it's great.

my wardrobe is an excellent place right now. i have a few fun, exciting pieces to wear when i go into the office or somewhere fancy and feel like feeling myself, but have also built it out to be centered on feeling cute and comfortable over anything else, thanks to wfh most of the time

i have the same taste in music i've had since i was like 19 and i will never change it and i am very happy with that

i hate driving and have fully accepted that i'm just not a driver and don't want to be and that's what my car-obsessed husband is for

i love my birthday? is that about me? i love fall and having a fall birthday; it's a week before halloween so i usually do something spooky or some kind of seasonal activity and it's just A++ timing. i was supposed to be born close to christmas and wound up really premature and i like to think i engineered that somehow

this is really hard okay my hands? i play the piano and i've been told my entire life i have good hands for playing the piano 🤷🏻‍♀️

god this is so long. my writing!! i like to writing. i find it impossible to just...not write. i write all the time, a lot (clearly) and i would've stopped doing it ages ago if i didn't think it was any good, haha. there we go.

ask me love things!

#asks #geesenoises #god this is a novel i'm sorry #ask meme

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brightgnosis · 2 years

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Enid yesterday was amazing; we'd planned to go to a few shops but only wound up going to a couple because the two we did visit were just full of so much stuff, we really didn't expect to spend all day in the two shops we did.

The first was the Metaphysical store we'd gone for in the first place. It was great; it was the first shop I've stepped into where you didn't immediately feel judged, and the energy was just wonderful. So crisp and vibrant. It was unfortunately full of your standard Native American and chakric appropriative stuff, and the herbal selection was very wanting. But I loved the book selection and how she actually carried so many of the older books and authors that we grew up on- along with some of the middle-era names and a few newer ones I actually like so far (like Crosson and Keynes). We also like that, while we were in there, some people came in and were actively asking her questions about, if they were interested in x, y, or z, what she'd recommend, and she was actively pulling book recommendations and stuff for them- though we tried not to eavesdrop.

Overall it was actually a nice shop and I did come out with some things:

Mugwort and Jasmine (as part of the herbs I need for my ritual on Halloween; unfortunately I had to order the rest online)

A tiny Incense Burner and some Charcoal Disks (for the same Halloween ritual, since I chose a loose incense and forgot I didn't have anything to burn it on anymore)

Incense: Crafting & Use Of Magickal Scents by Carl Neal (which I've been waiting to buy for ages, and she had it for a decent price)

Magical Aromatherapy by Scott Cunningham (which I'd intended to purchase secondhand later, but Abe Books' lowest price was about $12 most times I've looked and she had it for $8 so I snatched it)

Backyard Garden Witchery: Creating Magickal Space Outside Your Door by Laurel Woodward (which seems a good mix of practical and magical, and I've never heard of this author, but I snuck a peak after seeing it on the table, so I assume she recommend it to someone else in the shop. And it seemed interesting. So I decided to take a chance on it)

Vintage Raider-Waite Tarot by Lo Scarabeo (which was a gift for my Husband, who unfortunately fell prey to one of those scam tarot Etsy shops earlier in the year when he tried to buy a vintage patinaed Tarot for himself to start learning)

She did have Crosson's Pagan Family, but I was disappointed she didn't have Wild Magical Soul. Otherwise I'd've purchased that one too because I'd just been looking online at getting a physical copy of it for my shelf because I'd liked that one a lot. Womp.

We did have a lovely chat with her at checkout about why she opened her shop, though. And how she'd had her first experience with a Metaphysical shop in the 80's, and how the energy there was just so wonderful and she knew she wanted to have a place like that some day. It was really sweet, actually.

We went over to a big antique mall afterwards and oh man ... I think I discovered where all of my city's Tea Cups have vanished off to in the last decade. Because it was filled with Tea Cups everywhere- and all at, like, a quarter of the price we'd usually find them here, and especially online.

My old Covenmate wound up snagging two for herself, and I snagged another two for me- plus a few other items I couldn't resist:

One USSR piece for $24 that I about cried over when I found (USSR China is so rare, let alone finding it in person)

An Old Folly for $5 (another company I'm unfamiliar with).

A Czech Crystal bell with the most beautiful sound (to replace the crappy Christmas Ornament bell I've been using for rituals since last year)

Good and Easy Cook Book by Betty Crocker, published 1955

Secrets of Better Cooking by Reader's Digest, published 1973 (which is an absolute gold mine of simple herb garden food recipes that all sound so wonderful)

It took us like 3+ hours to walk around the whole place, it was huge; we're used to our Antique Mall, here- which is big. But this place is like double its size. I'm going to have to bring my Husband back at some point because he'd absolutely love it.

At the checkout, though, the woman working beside the guy doing the register asked about my pentacle necklace in a way that made me think she hadn't caught it. Then said she "liked my hair" and asked "is it a headwrap or a veil" and I was halfway through my answer before it clicked that the way she asked it meant she had, in fact, caught on, and was trying to suss out if I was actually a practitioner or not without outright asking 🤣 I'm such an idiot, ha.

Needless to say there was a brief but excited chat that followed, about us being up from a smaller town to check out their metaphysical shop. And then we stopped at Davinci's for Coffee afterwards (tradition for me, any time I'm in Enid)- where I found out the original location closed down during the Pandemic. But the coffee was still good, regardless, even if it wasn't the original (I'm going to miss it; so many childhood memories there, because I'd been going since I was like ... 14?).

After that we headed back because it was getting late and we were both exhausted and our feet were killing us. But it was just ... A lovely outing. We're definitely planning more- like a tour of Tulsa and the multitude of shops it has out there at some point (including the one I used to frequent in Sand Springs when I lived in Tulsa, and another in Owasso I didn't know about). Plus some Tea Parties or something for ourselves; I think we're both definitely starving for friend-attention, ha.

#Personal #Daily Life #2022 #Religion and Magic

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dashawfrostart · 6 months

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This Week In "Time & Again" #3: Gettin' Technical... Again?! And A Little Cynical

Hello again! I must admit... My weekly blog posting schedule has slightly shifted - first, because I posted the Halloween poster a.k.a. The First Teaser a bit later due to the creepy holiday itself, and second - because a bunch of life stuff is happening (yup, don't underestimate me, I do have a life outside artworks! 🤣). Usually everything has been fairly straightforward and gradual in my life, but there's a bit of certain activity going on in it right now, more than usual. And potentially also non-artistic side projects in my life. Because of that, I didn't get a chance to draw as much as I anticipated to during this week (already last week?! wowie!!!.. time flies, indeed!). But nevertheless, I tried my very best to go ahead with "Time & Again", for this is a project of the greatest importance to me. Slower or faster it's reaching its "well done" state - it doesn't matter. As you know, I'm not big on time limits 😁 At this point of time, the product is still very undercooked, so I'll be cooking it until done (even though I absolutely can't stand it when the packages say "cook until done"... because would you PLEASE be more vague?🤣).

To my surprise, I do not have an awful lot to say today. One might even say I'm ruining the format, for the previous posts I made had quite a (relatively) high word count. That said though - and some people close to me know this very well - every time I say I don't have much to say I end up writing twice or thrice as normal. Which leads us to conclusion that, perhaps, I actually do have things to say?!.. Either way, I'm sure you're not yet tired of me rumbling on and on about strange things that only some people - primarily digital artists - understand... Namely my habits of work. I am sure quite methodical in the way I draw, perhaps oddly. So I'll continue being technical for a while, until I run out of techy topics to talk about. And when I do... then I'll just spam more pictures 😁

However... A small demonstration of progress would be good for a wee little "teaser" of sorts:

(Note the layer names. I often make typos when I rename the layers - and I just don't bother and leave them as is, because it doesn't really matter. Pains me as a languages and grammar nerd, of course, but also entertains me a bit 🤣 Also, the cigarette smoke has been drawn on a separate layer as well, and it humorously states how I feel about this particular habit of this charming dirtymouth individual. Eeeew, Lothar. Not cool.) I do not always do that, but sometimes I start off drawing the outlines of the characters' bodies and end up "wrapping" clothes around them afterwards, like on the screenshots above. I think the reason why I completed the work on Chapter 3 so unbelievably fast last year was due to the fact that on majority of the frames Lothar appeared topless... Because I've noticed that when the characters don't have much clothes on them, it takes significantly less time to draw them. But of course!.. In this case you don't have to draw every single fold and wrinkle on shirts and skirts, extra seams on jeans, or additional stylish detail on any piece of garment that looks far too plain without it... Drawing characters naked - or half-naked - sure saves an artist a TREMENDOUS amount of time and effort. ... I suspect this is also the reason why in a lot of modern comics and mangas - and animated shows, too - the artists tend to include a lot of nudity in their projects... Why yes, isn't it obvious?! Because who, pray tell, wants to spend extra hours drawing all the clothes anyway?! Come on, clothes are overrated! I'm sure of it now.

... That was plenty enough of cynicism and sarcasm for a single post, I guess. Alas! I'm rumbling, again! That was not planned by me! So let's move on to the main part of this post now! Finally, on to the techy stuff, as promised! Yum! 🤤

First of all, I would like to mention a very important change in the way I work on my graphic novel now. One fine day, not long ago, I have discovered something... that turned my digital artist's world upside down. And the name of the phenomena that shattered my whole life was... Krita's weighted smoothing for the brush. (ok, ok... that sounded very exaggerated and pompous. But oh well!)

The screenshot on the left shows the brush settings I used all the time prior to Chapter 5. I used amazing Krita's Stabilizer smoothing, because I found it quite useful back in the day as I only started to use my Huion graphic monitor. I was so fascinated with it... It truly felt magical after a few years of using "a blind", screenless Wacom drawing tablet (which I will never ever go back to, for, to be honest, I have no idea how I was able to draw anything 🤣... tried using it a couple years ago just to see the difference, and I ended up exclaiming, "How in the ❤❤❤❤ do you even draw on this thing?!", and I set it aside for good... to collect real thicc layers of dust on the shelf 🤣). The right screenshot depicts the current settings I use for the weighted smoothing. Those are the Krita defaults.

An unskilled eye would probably not even notice any remarkable difference between the two as they watch somebody drawing in real time - or if they compare my older works versus the very latest ones. I must admit, the difference is sure very subtle. But to me, there's enough of a difference in how it FEELS when I'm drawing. The lines turn out better overall, somehow it makes me feel as if I'm drawing on paper rather than on a slippery screen. I could say, to me weighted smoothing imitates pencil drawing on paper very well. Which ultimately means... it's easier to draw in general. Thus, the digital artworks look more like my regular artworks on paper. It makes me happy that I can just be me when I'm drawing on both paper and on the graphic monitor. Back in the day, I was very worried about how switching to digital format was gonna impact my peculiar art style. Turns out it hardly does. ... Not that drawing on a graphic monitor has ever been challenging to me, for I learnt pretty fast, and yet, at times something felt a little off. So right now, I ponder, there's gonna be much less "off" and much more "awesome". Which is indeed lovely.

Now I question myself on why I've never used this brush smoothing before, for I truly think it would've made the process of work much faster and the final result a tad nicer. This proves that one needs a perspective, a few types of materials to compare before springing to any sort of conclusions. Seems like back in the day weighted smoothing simply didn't get enough attention and any sufficient "test drive" from me. But I am very happy I discovered this wonderful thing now. And I'm gonna stick to it - quite possibly forever from now on, as I will keep working on the rest of "Time & Again" chapters as well as everything else including random little arts with the other characters that I love to sporadically work on every so often, and the pieces for my online greeting cards store, and such.

... Like I already mentioned in the beginning of this post, as I write - I might get seriously carried away. And I see this post keeps growing bigger and bigger in size, again, so I should better wrap it up and save a little more exciting information for the next post (that I will hopefully try to schedule properly in order to restore more or less consistent posting timeframe, for now it's aaaaaall over the place!.. no promises tho).

I'm afraid, no animated gifs today. But for a nice goodbye, I'll drop a little "teaser" picture - a very rough sketch for some other "Time & Again" artwork that I'm going to finish up shortly (hopefully).

You will most likely see the end result of this particular artistic torment as a layout element on my social pages.

And for now - doooooodly doot doot! - I wave goodbye and leave the online world for a while to keep working on my obsession... and to eat some peanut butter, too, of course. See ya next time! 👋

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