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even-disco-baby · 11 months
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INSULINDIAN PHASMID — You will not benefit from my closeness for very long. My neurodegenerative camouflage will hurt you. It makes me sad.
YOU — You can’t stop it?
INSULINDIAN PHASMID — No. I am just an insect lacking a startle display. I cannot change in the ways you can.
You can choose not to bare your teeth or raise your voice. It is the one thing about you that I envy.
YOU — It doesn’t always feel like I have a choice. Sometimes I think I’ll spend the rest of my short life lashing out at people and die alone.
INSULINDIAN PHASMID — You are not lashing out at me. Your closeness has no detriment to me. Only to you. And yet, here you are.
YOU — …Here I am.
INSULINDIAN PHASMID — You must not linger here. But for now, it’s nice.
YOU — It’s nice for me, too.
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becca-e-barnes · 1 year
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any chance you could write stepdad!steve catching you sneak back in from a party?
Pleaseeeeee 🤤 This is a lil short one but I might give it a second part
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"What time do you call this?" You knew you were fucked when the taxi dropped you home and the light in your kitchen illuminated the drive way. Your mum made a habit of turning it off every night and you were only getting away with this if everyone was asleep.
It was well past the time your mum and stepdad usually went to bed. Hell, it was well past the time you usually went to bed yourself. You didn't often stay up to 2:37am and you absolutely never stayed out that late. Despite the fact you're in your 20's, your new stepdad had set the rule that you were to be home by 1am every night. No exceptions. Asshole.
It usually wasn't hard to follow his rules. No boys in your bedroom. Don't stay out late. Fill up the fuel you use in the car. Nothing really out of the ordinary. But then again, he kept telling you that you weren't the rule breaking type anyway.
"Sorry, I lost track of time." You did your best to avoid looking at your stepfather while you lied through your teeth. You'd known damn well what time it was and you'd had every intention of staying out until the lights in the club came back on. You just didn't think you'd get caught.
"Mhm." Steve's hum almost sounded convincing, pausing while he folded his arms, his navy blue pyjama top straining around his biceps. "You expect me to believe that? You're a bright girl, sweetheart. I know you can tell the time."
Damn your own body for betraying you like this. His praise makes your tummy flutter and you know it's so damn wrong.
"I know you want to be a good girl, don't you?" He pauses again, waiting for your response and he seems satisfied when you nod. "Always so well behaved for me. You know what? I'll let you pick your own punishment. Just this once." His eyes are trained on your face, watching for any sign of discomfort at the way things are progressing.
"Option 1. I confiscate your car keys." Fair enough but that would be really inconvenient. "Option 2. I confiscate your phone." Oh no, absolutely not. "Option 3. I confiscate that shitty little vibrator you keep in the drawer beside your bed."
How does he even know you have that? It's mortifying enough that he feels able to punish you but this is a step further than you were expecting.
"No need to be shy about it, honey. I get it. You've got needs. Nothing to be embarrassed about. And if it makes you feel better, I could show you how a real man should touch you. You'll forget that little plastic thing even exists."
Fuck, that's an offer you could only ever have dreamed of. In fact, it's painfully close to what you imagine while you're frantically rolling the vibrator in question over your own clit.
"If you'd rather lose your car keys or your phone, feel free. Choice is yours." Steve sounds awfully nonchalant for someone who's just made a proposal like that but there's no chance you're turning down his offer.
"Option 3." Your voice is barely a squeak and you almost think you've made the wrong decision when Steve raises an eyebrow.
"Good girl. Go get it."
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mistressaccost · 6 months
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web weave about… uh. yearning to start again? trying to break the time loop? wishing to know then what you know now? something like that.
ghosts by henrik ibsen / rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead (1990) dir. tom stoppard / the three sisters by anton chekhov / “brand new city” by mitski
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tkachuktkaching · 7 months
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Matthew Tkachuk joins NHL Now
Florida Panthers Right Winger Matthew Tkachuk joins NHL Now to discuss what he expects in the upcoming season for himself and the team
October 10, 2023
Highlights of What He said :
Physically Feeling 100% he couldn't be happier & he's ready to go, on Thursday for the Panthers first game, he was worried that wouldn't be the case early on this summer.
He glad he's got a brother that doesn't take it easy on him, he passed every test Brady threw at him, he tested that sternum good!
They want a fresh start great memories of the playoffs but didn't end the way they wanted it to they want to rewrite a new story this year, he wants to finish the job.
He learned it doesn't matter how you play it's getting to the playoffs & getting off to great start that counts, you have to play the right way, you also need luck & good health.
He says the injuries to three of the top players gives others the chance to show what they can do.
Mixed emotions good & bad memories of the playoffs.
He loves the mix of players they have at the Panthers this year.
He had a Great Training camp but hardest camp he's been apart of but tough (as it was last year with Paul), He makes the camp tough & miserable not the easiest but they leave smiling happy & enjoying being there all together again.
He loves to watch Hockey even though there's a million things to do in Florida. He doesn't think he'll see the Vegas game (last night's games) but the two games before.
He's not a night owl so goes to bed early but he's got of the guys over tonight for dinner a nice home cooked meal (however not cooked by him!) before the road trip.
He lives quite close to Ekblad & one of the two of them usually host the boys most often.
Highlights of his summer of course Brady's wedding, it gave the excuse to have the whole family together even some that came down from Canada for that one week was the most special for him.
Matthew's a big Halloween guy, not giving away his plans yet still bouncing ideas around & it falls on his sister's birthday so they've made a big deal of it since she was born in his family. Last few years he's had too much make up involved it's tough to get it off the next day!
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seatokki · 2 years
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waking up :)
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tblsomedoodles · 1 year
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More spider boys b/c it was funny
shortly after everyone finds out (maybe a few weeks or so.) The twins have been sneaking out to meet with Big Mama, trading information (while secretly trying to figure out if she really cares for them or if she's lying.) Raph and Mikey have been sneaking out to meet with her to bond (via bringing cookies to trade for baby stories/baby pictures.) One day, both groups accidentally meet on the same day (who ever could have arranged that? Oops. Oh well, that just means Big Mama gets to see all four of her boys at once.)
family web au masterpost
dialogue b/c its a bit hard to read.
Mikey: Sooo...you 2 been sneaking out to see Mama too?
Donnie: Purely for information purposes
Mikey: We've been trading cookies for baby stories
Donnie: ...What type of stories?
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theplottdump · 6 months
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Poppy: Flying in! Vera: Nice! Let's finish this 009!
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Agent 009 vaulted off the freshly fallen tree and launched herself into the air- the frozen wind stinging her face as time seemed to pause once again, as it often did.
Vera and Kate had been working up in the mountain all morning as Poppy had waited impatiently at the base, prepping for this exact moment.
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Being the linchpin wasn't the most exciting or glamorous work, but it paid the bills.
What it did give Poppy was the opportunity to do what she liked best- steal the show.
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shieldofiron · 1 year
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I’ve got a soft one this time ❤️‍🔥
Billy that survived, and doesn’t have full mobility anymore (I personally have burn scars and they tend to limit my arms mobility) so he just stays inside, doesn’t go out
Billy is living with Hop, and he tries his best to get billy to use his cane, but self hatred and all- Billy refuses
One night, Steve comes over with a shit ton of stickers. While Billy is sleeping, he decorates his cane with stickers from all his favorite bands and puts a sweet skull on the handle
A perfect surprise to wake up to ❤️‍🩹
"If I order blueberry and you order chocolate chip we can split them and create the perfect pancake experience," Dustin whispers.
"What if I want more than half the chocolate chip?" Will whispers back, his hands digging into the window frame. He's nearly as big as Steve now, which meant their landing had been a little less graceful last night when Will had climbed into Billy's window and thumped to the ground.
"I will get you both blueberry and chocolate chip," Steve frowns, "Zip it. He's waking up."
Billy gets up with military precision. He explained it the first night he had stayed over with Steve, and Steve had woken late in the morning to Billy nervously perched, fully dressed, on the edge of his bed.
The alarm goes off and Billy rises slowly to sitting, his head hung low. He stretches his shoulders with a little wince and reaches for the cane. Hopper had told them Billy used it mostly in the morning, when Hopper and El weren't up and about but it would disappear until night time.
It takes a moment for Billy to notice something's different. He yawns, and then blinks at it for a moment, reaching out slowly and resting a single, scarred finger on the little skull Will had sculpted out of white clay.
Billy picks the cane off the ground, and while he does Steve can admire all the work they had put in. Anthrax's logo is centered perfectly above the drawing Will had made from the photo, Max, El and Billy all grinning like goofs. Skeletons dance in the bare spaces between the biggest logos, and the boring black cane is is now multicolored, wild and brash. Like Billy.
Steve reaches up slowly and knocks on the glass, and they all wave when Billy turns his head.
You never know what reaction you might have with Billy. He's emotional, a storm stuffed into the body of a person. Steve and Will keep waving, while Dustin just grins.
Billy sets the cane down and presses hard on it to stand. He's faster with it, Steve registers with a smile.
Billy comes over to the window, leaning down, "You gonna pretend you don't know how to open this?"
The words are harder to hear since Steve started losing a little of his hearing in his left ear, but he catches them anyway. Dustin slips a little metal shim under the window to loosen the latch, and Steve and Will push it open for the second time.
"You like it?" Will asks, "I had to make the Metallica one myself. And Steve ordered the sticker paper special from Chicago, but if it starts to fade you let me know. And... uh..."
Steve leans on the window, "How's it look?"
Billy smiles, a little wicked, and taps a finger on the skull, "Pretty fucking badass."
"So you like it? You'll use it?" Steve props himself up on his tiptoes, trying to get a little closer."
"Yeah," Billy's eyes glisten a little, but he just smiles wider, "I'll use it."
"Great!" Dustin smacks the window frame twice, "Come on, Steve is buying us all double pancakes at the diner."
Billy's face freezes for a moment, and then he taps the skull again, "Double pancakes sound great."
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Fluffy like pancakes lol.
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rosie-b · 4 months
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Because I can commiserate with dental work annoyance (mine was last Wednesday) for the drabble ask:
Ladybug + Adrien, Dentist
Dental work buddies! <3
Thanks for the ask @magicalotterlady! Here you go (it’s a bit longer than a drabble haha):
Ladybug was getting concerned. She’d gone out to get some fresh air, and she’d noticed Adrien slowly wandering the grounds of the mansion as she passed by on her yo-yo.
Two passes later, and he was still there, despite the fading sunlight. He’d stopped walking long ago, and was sitting not on a bench but on the damp grass of the yard. Clearly, something was wrong!
She hesitated only a moment before swooping down and landing inside the tall fences of the Agreste mansion.
“Hello? Adrien, are you okay?” she called, marching over to him with a concerned look on her face.
He jolted upwards, offering her a tiny, toothless smile. “Ladybug! Didn’t expect to see you here,” he said. He seemed happy to see her, but didn’t move to stand, just pulled a fluffy blanket tighter around himself.
Ladybug stared. “If you don’t mind me asking, what are you doing out here? I’ve seen you in the same spot the last two times I, uh, passed by on patrol.”
Adrien tilted his head. “You did? I didn’t know there was patrol,” he mused, bringing a hand up to his cheek but wincing and dropping it back down. “Uh, I just came out for some air! My room was feeling stuffy.”
He offered her another tight smile and stretched his legs out in front of him. Ladybug crouched down near him.
“Oh. I guess that makes sense,” she said, sweeping her eyes over Adrien’s slightly puffy, pale face. He looked exhausted. “Did anything happen to you?” she blurted out.
Adrien nodded miserably. “My father scheduled a dentist appointment without telling me when it was. I found out last night that I’d be getting my wisdom teeth out today, and now my jaw hurts and I’m really tired.”
Ladybug’s jaw dropped. “He did what? Adrien, that’s awful! How are you feeling? No, never mind, you shouldn’t be out here in the cold when you’re still recovering from surgery! Why haven’t you gone back inside yet?”
Adrien winced. “The stairs,” he said dully. “I’m not allowed to go upstairs by myself for twenty-four hours. It’s only been nine, and no one saw me sneak out, so no one’s come to bring me in, and I’m stuck. This was such a dumb idea,” he moaned.
Ladybug frowned and leaned forward. “I find it hard to believe that no one saw you sneak out—which I can’t believe you did, by the way! You need to rest up! But since nobody’s come to get you, do you mind if I take you back in?”
Adrien nodded twice. “Oh, please! It’s almost time for my next dose and I do need to get inside again. I don’t really know what I was thinking, coming out here,” he admitted.
Ladybug shrugged as she stood and picked Adrien up, gently cradling him princess style. “Well, it doesn’t matter now that I’m here to take you back in! Do you think it’d be okay for me to swing you right up to your room? That way your father will be less likely to find out.”
Adrien, who was blushing, nodded as he rested his upper cheek on her shoulder.
“Thank you so much,” he whispered.
Ladybug’s mouth fell open for a moment as she looked down at him, happily cradled in her arms.
Then a soft smile spread over her face, and she bent to plant a kiss on his forehead.
“You’re welcome, Adrien,” she said, and was rewarded with a small, but telling smile.
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corazon-sanador · 3 months
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21.01.24
Time moves fast, life moves at its own pace. Sometimes you blink and four years have passed, sometimes it's only four seconds.
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isatswap · 1 month
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(in stars and time spoilers, full game. also this uses a slightly hidden act 5 dialogue so beware)
Regrets
TTOS version of the act 5 bathroom monologue from ISAT
(Enough monologuing.)
(Enough monologuing!)
(...Fine. Since it is what you are led towards right now.)
(And a little amount of spiraling never hurt anybody, right?)
(You're sad.)
(You're alone.)
(Everyone left you behind because you're such a horrible terrible disgusting person you thought it'd be fine to just let go of yourself and let all these words flow out.)
(None of what you said to them was true. It's just an impulse. Your craving for things to go faster, different.)
(What kind of a person you are? To think you can just mold your family, people around you, the world to suit your needs?)
(And hiding behind the Universe leading you during all of that.)
(And it was like that every other loop. The only difference is that the strings you are trying to pull are no longer obscured.)
(Everyone now knows how terrible you are.)
(But it's not you fault, right? That you're stuck here? Forced to find any semblance of change, being forced to try to change things?)
(But it feels like it's your own fault too. Because you also wished for this, haven't you?)
(A chance to always remember this adventure with them.)
(To continue)
(For-)
███████████
(End of monologue.)
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kateubanks · 7 months
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blue month
i can feel it coming, like the vibration of the earth precedes a stampede.
my world falls dull, leeched to greyscale, and i drown the whirring gurgle of their departure with pillows.
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dynjas · 5 months
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Ao3 Version above, Tumblr version keep reading ❤️
(I wrote that in an hour at 1am. It's pretty short 🙈)
Bear hugs
Halsin X female OC, fluff, hurt/comfort, act 2
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“He needs you.”
Serafinas eyes snapped open at these words while she shook from her trance. She knew that voice. She heard the boy mumble in his restless sleep.
Her green eyes wandered to Thaniel, who was still sleeping. Just a few hours ago Halsin went into this goddamn portal to rescue the nature spirit, but something was off. Halsin said that a part of him was missing and they urgently needed to be reunited. The plan was to settle in early because everyone was exhausted from protecting the portal so Halsin and Thaniel weren't lost forever.
But as Serafina let her eyes roam the shared space with Halsin, the other druid was missing. Was Thaniel speaking to her in her trance, because Halsin wasn't there? Was he in trouble?
Worry gnawed at her and she rose to her feet. Her long white and green hair - now wavy from her usual braids - fell loose over her shoulder until nearly her knees. She tied one of the threads around her hair, so she created a ponytail, careful with the wooden duck attached to it.
Once she left the tent Serafina searched the camp for her former Master - but couldn't find him.
“Where did he go?” She mumbled under her breath, trying not to wake anyone.
While she thought about all the possible locations Halsin could be, her feet already carried her into a certain direction. As if nature itself was leading her.
After a short while she found herself at the small dock where she fought just hours ago.
And there he was - sitting silently on the wet wood of the dock and staring into the water.
His expression was tense, brows furrowed and lips in a thin line.
Carefully she walked forward onto the dock but came to a stand a few feet away. She didn't want to invade his personal space while he was in such an obviously bad mood.
“Halsin…” She tried softly, but the druid didn't respond. So she took a deep breath and went further to him, until she could lay a hand on his shoulder. The large elf startled at the touch and he whirled around in his sitting position, looking like he just saw a ghost. “Serafina…” he breathed out.
“I'm sorry, I didn't want to startle you.” Serafina apologized. “But you were gone when I woke from my trance and I was worried. We need to search for Thaniels other half. You need to rest…”
She went down to sit on her knees while resting her long strands on her lap, so they didn't get dirty.
Halsin's eyes followed her every move, seeming to not be completely with her at this moment. But then he found his words again.
He's turned again, so he could continue to stare at the water. His expression returned from surprise to a grim one again.
“I can't concentrate.” He began. “It's just…we have Thaniel, but his other half is missing. We need to find him at all costs. And then Ketheric Thorm - how are we supposed to find a way to make him mortal? What even makes him immortal?!”
His hands balled into fists and he took a deep breath. It was all just so overwhelming.
But if it would be so easy to break the shadow curse he would have done so already. And here they were - they had saved Thaniel from the shadowfell! But with one problem solved it seemed that two more were showing! Halsin felt like he was not one step closer at rescuing these lands.
A warm hand laid itself reassuringly on his fist and Serafina smiled sadly up to him.
“Halsin…” her other hand joined the first one on his left hand and she leaned into him.
“You know, it's okay to feel overwhelmed. When it all just becomes too much. It's okay not to be okay. That's what you always tell others - tell me.”
At that the druid let out a dry laugh.
“Yeah, telling others to let go is always easy. But this here “ his free hand gestured in the air in general. “This is my fault. Because I failed.” He let his hand fall and pinched the bridge of his nose.
“I'm sorry Serafina, but I don't want to talk right know. I really appreciate your concern for me, but I just need…a moment.”
He squeezed her hands in his left one but didn't get himself to pull away. He liked her company. He didn't want to be alone, but he didn't want to speak either.
When Serafina rose to her feet and took her warm hands with her, he already mourned the loss of her touch and warmth.
He was about to tell her that he didn't want to hurt her feelings and that he was sorry, but the woman took her wild shape form and before him stood a big white bear.
“Serafina, what are you doing?” Halsin looked at her confused but the bear just settled behind him so he could rest his back on her middle. Her nose nuzzled his hand before she laid her head on her paws.
She would be there for him, even if he didn't want to speak. Sometimes the touch of another was enough and she knew that.
And Halsin was usually the one who took his bear form to console others, now it was his turn to cuddle with a bear for comfort.
Realization dawned at Halsin and he smiled thankfully down at her before he settled his head on her shoulder.
After some time she could feel the man shaking into her and she could smell his salty tears.
So she decided to shift her body so that Halsin was encased in her white fur.
His strong arms wound themselves around her thick neck and his face followed suit. It didn't take long for him to get his bearings together and he himself shifted into his cage bear form.
He poked her nose with his and cuddled up beside her, so their bodys were touching everywhere. She knew this was his form of thanking her and accepting her comfort wholly, so she laid one paw over him to make the bigger bear the little spoon.
Tomorrow would bring a new day and they would step closer to defeating Katheric Thorm. But that could wait for a few more hours.
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filopay · 7 months
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LORNA TINKLEWALD
twenty-three | she/her | 146 cm | Dwarf | Brandurag
I cannot be bothered to be friendly And why'd you keep on calling me your baby? You ain't doing nothing to impress me So now is not the time for you to test me — Cher Loyd
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Prompt from: @oc-tober2023 ' [ I am not following the same order ]
~ Foreigner
"The Queen has lost!"
All conversation instantly stopped the moment the young dwarf had stormed into the Bulky Mule. Then murmurs arose and there was uncertainty in their gazes. It had been a change that they had wanted, but was it a good change?
Lorna placed the mug down she was currently drying and raised her voice above the whispers. 
"Who took her place?"
It was not difficult for her to be heard, she always had a certain confidence. With her words, the murmurs stopped around the filled tavern, everyone wanted to hear the answer.
The young dwarf by then had walked towards a table and taken one of the filled mugs to drown it in one go.
He dried his mouth with a swipe of his sleeve, before looking into the round. "Some foreigner. From the east, I believe."
"Is that a good omen?" "What if it's a dwarf!" "More likely a dragon."
"There is nothing to worry about." Lorna quiets the many questions going around, "It is a change, that's more of a chance for us than we ever hoped. We will find out more about this foreigner and see if we can get our voices heard. We need to start early however, the sooner the better, before once more it becomes common to ignore us. Show this new ruler that we are not easily silenced and don't even give the chance for us to be forgotten."
There were nods and some 'hear, hear!' The overall worries seemed to be eased and that is when Lorna waved the young dwarf that had spoken over.
One of the barmaids addressed him and escorted the confused dwarf inconspicuous through the tavern and into the back room. Lorna was already uncovering the map that was hidden beneath a simple tablecloth. It showed the whole of northern Aestricca, the north with the fortress they reside in right now, below that the harbour city, their neighbour and far in the west divided by water, lay on another land. Their once home.
Lorna however, only uncovered the eastern part, beyond pointy mountains and the vast forest of Rania, lie Bullmar. On the map, indicated by an empty region. 
Not much was known of the east that even the map was incomplete. It was always described as harsh and unwelcoming, but then again, that's what they said about the north as well. She didn't give much about rumours.
"You said this foreigner comes from the east." She points to the empty spots on the map, "We need to find out what their aim is. Why leave the east to become a ruler of the north."
Her hand drew back over to the west. "So we can finally reclaim our home and no longer be foreigners ourselves." [ words ~461 ]
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ryuzatodraws-archive · 11 months
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8. ''You're awfully close now, are we going to kiss?'' With Primo and any earth ghoul. Pls.
Tag : Mountain X Primo, fluff
“You’re awfully close now , Ghoul. Are we going to kiss?” Primo asks playfully, only meant to tease the taller ghoul.
Mountain couldn’t help but blush and leans back a step or two, his tail wagging low behind him as he tries his best not to say yea. “Sorry Papa!” He could only mutter that in hope that the elder one couldn’t read his mind
Mountain always wanted to help Primo out in the garden, but he’s always stuck in the studio practicing or jamming away with his peers. Legend has it that all Earth ghouls are bounded to Primo whether there are summoned by a different Papa or a Cardinal.
Mountain brushes it off as a hoax. His feelings rooted much deeper than a contract binding spell.
It’s in the feelings like what Swiss always said , and in the feelings it is that Mountain feels so much comfort within close range of Primo.
“Ghoul, help me with the big pot over there”
Mountain is on it, it’s just him and the old Papa today and he’s very much ecstatic to help him out. There were a few ghouls out of the greenhouse tending the front garden but only the two of them in the greenhouse.
Primo notices Mountain’s excitement has caused some of the flowers nearby to even bloom, he smiles at that and invited him for a little tea break.
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okay i just really love this little collage i made today for a new lock screen ❤️ my three favorite boys and some of my favorite cartoons!
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