A, Bee, and Sea coming in clutch with some good advice, but it’s always easier said than done. Team finally found a place to keep him safe from his nightmares, but what if he ruins that by asking for something more of the relationship than Win is willing to give?
So he’s not ready to lay his heart bare and confess. But instead we do see him trying to convey his feelings more. He tries to address a source of his insecurity: how their relationship started. Lust does not necessarily lead to love. They’ve had sex more than once but what does it mean? I think he’s still afraid of the answer because he overheard Win say that he meant for their hook up to be casual. So he never finishes his question.
I thought that was going to be the end of it. But this boy still tries. He’s always been hesitant to show just how much Win means to him. But he’s doing his best to keep him, and so he tries.
And I love him for this. I love that we see him taking a step forward (no matter how small that step may seem).
Then at the end of the episode he asks Win to go see the Christmas lights with him (a date in my book especially since there’s two other couples having their Christmas lights dates). And he shows how happy he is when Win accepts, which contrasts with the beginning episodes where he is always hiding his smiles from Win.
TLDR: their relationship might feel like they’re moving at a snails pace, and they lack some communication, but there is some very satisfying progress imho.
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dear miss padfootastic: harry learning he's gonna be a dad and promptly losing his mind and going to the only person he can think of for dad advice: sirius.
gosh miss imp i have so many thoughts about this!!!!!! (i wrote almost all of this and realised that i did it post birth lol bc that’s the moment that made the most sense to me but we can easily doctor it to be pre birth as well!!)
- the first time harry holds james sirius in his hands, he has to dip out in three minutes flat to puke all over the nearest washroom. it’s sirius holding him, brushing his hair back, and soothing him on the dirty hospital floor. tells him that he did something super similar when he held harry for the first time too. it doesn’t hit harry then.
- when they’re all back at home, the first few days, it’s all a sort of frantic autopilot where he has no time to think. it’s only when things calm down a bit that he realised how his hands shake and his pulse races when he thinks about being a father. it’s not…debilitating bc it’s his duty, one he asked for, and harry’s never been one to back down from a duty. but it’s still—he doesn’t want to be a passable dad, he wants to be a good one.
- so he goes to the best one he knows: sirius.
- the thing here is, harry thinks he’s gonna be a terrible dad. he was abused and neglected in his most developmental stages of life, never really knew what unconditional love felt like let alone parental, and does not trust himself around a vulnerable defenceless child. knowledge of his anger and it’s consequences does not help.
- but also to consider: sirius had almost an exact similar experience. he was equally terrified to be a godfather for harry bc he never trusted himself w delicate things. so he knows, intimately, what’s it’s like to fear yourself.
- it doesn’t get better with one conversation. sirius knew this going in. what he does, instead, is help harry become confident by being there, always, without fail. makes him see that he’s got this down pat, and his child loves and trusts and adores him and there’s no greater privilege than that. he’s there every single time as a safety net, to tell harry that nothing will go wrong, yes, but also to prove he doesn’t need anyone else.
- it’s also a whole lot of ‘omg this is so difficult, you did this for me?????’ and just. realisations about ‘omg u changed my diaper??? i peED ON YOU??????’ that basically make it impossible for him to look sirius in the eye for a few days.
- another point to consider: harry sees sirius with jemmy from an outsider pov yeah? and he can finally see what others have all this time: how sirius looks at someone he loves wholeheartedly, how much he adores his children. and it’s humbling and awe-inspiring and a bit terrifying. imagining the full force of that love directed towards him, making him wonder what he did to deserve it
- there’s a loooooot of midnight/asscrack of morning firecalls/mirror calls etc for emergency assistance bc ‘are babies supposed to sleep like tho at! he’s been farting all night sirius iTS SO BAD! omg his poop is green padfoot is my baby toxic?????’ ykno. normal new dad stuff.
(and this is random but there’s also one,,,,forbidden conversation with sirius about it he’d ever hated him bc harry had some very unsavoury thoughts in the beginning when he had teddy that he hates himself for to this day and if he has to hear his godfather say he didn’t want him to get rid of them then he’ll do it. it’s a tough but necessary one)
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Redsmoke tells the kits the tales about the old Chimera Defenders— No one thinks much of his stories of long forgotten ‘fairy tales’, though it is curious how… immersive his stories are.
I touched on the idea of those with the blessing of the Chimera but I’ve fleshed it out more!
More lore of this Phoenix Mythos au (still working on a name for this…) under the cut
The Chimera Defenders were warriors blessed with immense strength and power. They were the perfect warrior— strong, capable, steadfast and filled with seemingly endless stamina. It was quite easy to spot one with the Chimera’s blessing: Large, sharp saber fangs, poisonous quill like spines or large monstrous paws with claws to match. They are easily 2-3x the size of an average warrior.
They were invaluable in protecting the clans from large threats from dire wolves to mountain lions, and in some rare cases, even bears. The flip side of such might, was their uncontrollable emotions. Often, once a fight with a defender began, it took every might of the defender to exit their bloodlust. It is not a reflection of any said defender’s character for them to lose control—it is the curse that comes with such immense power. Because of this tendency, every Chimera Defender is paired with their own mediator—a cat who is close and comfortable with the defender and exudes a calming energy. They help bring the defender’s down from their rage and ground them back to reality. These cats are often paired the moment a defender’s blessing presents. It isn’t uncommon for defender’s mediators to be close family or even lovers in some case— the role of the mediator requires deep trust after all!
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As much as I’ve moved on from the ncis/tiva fandom, I will try my best to bring myself back for edits because good knows I miss the good old days in 2012 where we all were still united.
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sent a reply / just saying “hi, / you’re a nice guy, / I’ll think about it maybe, / xo baby”
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Person in my inbox: don’t post memes about the queen dying it’s disrespectful >:(
Me, the author of a story where the protagonist’s entire deal is to be a foil for the divine rights of kings by being a divinely designed king-slayer whose literal purpose in life is to free as many people as he can from tyranny and oppression in whatever form, by any means necessary, doesn’t care who he offends or makes enemies of in the process, contemplates regicide in the second book of twenty-eight, and is explicitly shown to be the closest thing to morally pure in a fundamentally grey universe: 😐
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fun thing that folks really apparently don’t want to acknowledge if we’re discussing canon Jiang Cheng and the thing I think people are truly failing to grasp in regards to fans of his and why they care about him. His actions throughout the story repeatedly, over and over again, belied his words. Yes, he has a harsh exterior that is used as an armor against this world that repeatedly took everything from him. He uses words as a weapon at times, but his actions say everything his words don’t.
Additionally, he fucks up. He doesn’t always do the right thing, but that’s the thing about MDZS, not a damn one of these characters were in the right 100% of the time. But he cares and he works hard to do what is right by his sect and his family and yes, at times, those two groups come in conflict and he makes tough decisions because of that, but regardless he still repeatedly shows his love.
And it may take an additional time through the story to see that, but the narrative supports that fact time and time again despite the fact that Wei Wuxian as the protagonist doesn’t see it (but their struggles in communicating and understanding one another’s actions and intentions is a whole different discussion).
And that’s not even mentioning the whole plethora of cultural context that is being ignored, but again. different discussion.
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