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coffeeghoulie · 5 months

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heaven's grief, hell's rain

or 2.5k about Aether's bracelet, Mountain's garden, and Dew's grucifix.

special thank you to @forlorn-crows for helping with the flowers, hope you enjoy <3

title from Just One Yesterday by Fall Out Boy

It's not a decision Aether makes lightly to stay behind. He's tired. He's been working doubles, between serving the band, the papacy, and serving in the infirmary. And, if he's honest, he thinks he's more useful at the Abbey, using his Lucifer-granted gifts to heal. He's always been taking care of his pack, he's good at what he does.

His pack takes it... well enough. Cirrus gracefully takes over his duties, leading the band pack as they get ready for this next tour, taking the two new summons under her wing. She takes his hand, kisses his cheek. Cumulus takes his face in her hands, presses their foreheads together, whispers that she's proud of him. Rain offers him a smile and a handshake, and Swiss kisses him between his horns and draws him into a tight hug. Sunny grins, bright like her namesake, happy someone else from the band pack is staying behind with her.

His mates, on the other hand? He can count on the claws of one hand the number of times he's ever seen Mountain cry. Dew's hands curl into fists, so tight he can smell the blood where his claws pierce his palms.

Dew storms out, the ends of his hair flickering with flame, smoke billowing from his nostrils. He hasn't been this out of control of his element since those first early days, after they knew he was going to survive the transition, barely out of the woods. Mountain follows, his steps uncharacteristically loud. Dew slams the door to his own room shut, and Mountain flees to his greenhouse.

Aether wishes that he could split himself in two, standing there, struck dumb as his mates turn their back on him. He honestly can't blame them. He fidgets with his bracelet, running his fingers along the silver chain, torn between two directions.

He goes to Dew first. Fire is far more volatile than earth, and he was Dew's before Mountain was summoned and joined their pack.

The door, surprisingly, is unlocked. It's dark, curtains drawn tight, and there's a Dew-sized lump underneath the covers. It's dusty in here, Dew spending most of his nights in Aether's oversized bed, big enough for three ghouls.

"Dew? Darling?" Aether breathes, the tension so thick he can almost taste it, the sulfur smoke scent of Dew's distress heavy on his tongue.

Dew sits up, copper eyes shining in the dark. "What are you doing here?"

Aether furrows his brow. "Checking on you, Dewey."

The fire ghoul shakes his head, covering his face with his hands as his shoulders shake. With silent laughter or tears, Aether can't quite tell. "You should have gone to Mount, Aether. I've never seen Juniper that angry."

"Dewey, I'm here," Aether breathes, taking a hesitant step towards the bed. "I'll go to Mounty, but I know you're upset too. Please."

Dew growls under his breath, grumbling as he shifts on the bed. "Don't want to lose you, Aeth," he whispers, pulling the blankets tighter around himself. He clutches the silver grucifix he always wears so tightly his already pale knuckles go white.

"You're not," Aether promises, sitting down next to his mate. He goes to wrap his arm around Dew's waist, but hesitates. "Satanas help me, Dewdrop, you will not lose me."

Dew sniffles, swallowing with a click as he grabs Aether's wrist, starts playing with the silver bracelet. He counts the links like a rosary, rotating the slightly-too-loose jewelry around Aether's wrist, lips moving in a silent prayer. "You promise?" Dew asks, voice small, not tearing his eyes away from the bracelet. Aether doesn't have to pry with his quintessence to know who he's thinking of. He's thinking of them too.

"Cross my heart," Aether says, letting Dew trace his claws along the lines of his palm.

They sit there in silence, Aether pulling Dew carefully against his side, even though the fire ghoul hasn't been fragile in a long time. "Dew," Aether breathes. "I love you so much, you know?"

Dew hums, his broken tail wrapped tight around his own thigh. "I know."

Another long lull of silence. The tension not quite broken. He pulls Dew closer, turns and presses a kiss to the sharp edge of his obsidian horn.

"Go to Mount," Dew breathes after a while. "Junie needs to hear this too."

Aether nods, pressing another kiss to Dew's cheekbone. "I love you, darling. Nothing's gonna change that."

"Love you too," Dew whispers as Aether opens the door. He smiles at his mate, slipping out of his room and heading to the outside door.

It's a long walk down to Mountain's greenhouse, the glass building nestled right at the edge of the forest surrounding the Abbey. The heavy glass door is unlocked, much to Aether's surprise, and he pushes it open slowly, the old hinges creaking as it swings inward.

Mountain doesn't turn to face him when he enters the greenhouse. He plucks the baby spider plants from their vines, moving the seedlings to smaller pots.

"Sweet thing," Aether breathes, watching the way Mountain's back stiffens. He feels his heart clench as he sees the thorny vines wrapped tight around the base of Mountain's antlers.

"Aether," Mountain says, voice even and bitten back.

"Mount, please," Aether says, taking another step towards his earth ghoul.

"You didn't talk to any of us before making this decision, even though you know it affects all of us," Mountain says, still not turning back to face him. The shears snip, metal on metal, and Aether winces.

"I'm sorry, Mount. I knew-"

"You knew what?" Mountain says, and the worst thing is that there's no anger in his tone. Just cold, still, evenness. "That if we knew that you were gonna stop touring, we'd stay behind too?"

Aether squeezes his eyes shut. They sting in the humid air, or are those just tears? He can't really tell.

"Do you mean to tell me, Aether, that you don't remember what the clergy did to Ifrit when he said no? What they did to Omega, your fucking predecessor? What they did to Zeph?" Mountain's voice cracks, fingers ghosting over a silver striped leaf, the entire vine trembling under his touch.

Aether takes a long breath. The silence is thick, never mind the humidity. "That's why I didn't tell you. I thought that if it were just me, and something happened, even though Papa promised me nothing would happen," Aether stresses, "You two would be safe and away from here. And if I came with, I would crash and burn and they would get rid of me anyways. I'm tired, Mount. I'm sorry."

Mountain turns to face him for the first time, and Aether almost stumbles back a step. Mountain's eyes are red rimmed and puffy, tearstains streaking down into his stubble, lower lip trembling. "Nova," Mountain breathes, so quietly Aether almost thinks he imagines it. "I know you went to Dew first. He'd break if you were gone. If we lost you like we did the rest of our pack. But I need you to know it would break me. I'm your mate too."

Aether can't hold back the keen that he makes when he sees his mate in distress. "They need me in the infirmary, I'm not going anywhere, sweet thing," Aether swears. He starts to twist his bracelet around his wrist, trying to keep himself level. Mountain sets down his shears, tail thrashing behind him, distress rolling off of him in waves like the scent of rotting vegetation.

"You can say that all you want, Aether, but we both know."

"Mountain," Aether says. He runs a hand over his face. "Mount."

"What do you want me to do, nova?" The earth ghoul says, voice wavering like branches in a breeze. "The decision's already been made. You're staying here, while your mates and the rest of our pack leaves. And let's be honest with ourselves. Neither of us know if you'll be here when we come back."

Aether feels something shatter deep in the core of him as he watches Mountain's steady shoulders start to shake. He rushes forward just as Mountain's knees wobble, wrapping his mate up tight in an embrace, guiding his head down into the crook of his neck as he begins to sob.

He rubs his cheek against the velvet coating Mountain's spring antlers, unable to keep his own eyes from watering as he rubs Mountain's back, every muscle tense. For once, he doesn't know what to say. He just holds him, lets him cry.

Eventually, he coaxes Mountain back behind the curtain of hanging vines to his living area, a daybed big enough for the giant and his mates, a small table and chairs tucked next to a basin sink. They sit down on the daybed, their sides pressed flush together. Mountain turns, tucks his face back in the crook of Aether's neck.

"Sweet thing," Aether breathes, praying to the Father Below he can keep his voice level. "What can I do?"

Mountain sniffles, takes a second before he answers, pulling back from Aether's throat. "I miss them, Aeth. I miss them so much."

He's not looking at him, and Aether turns to follow Mountain's line of sight. He's staring almost blankly at the flower garden that blocks off this section of the greenhouse. There's a raised bed underneath one of the rafters, with a dozen hanging baskets that create a curtain of greenery. It's a visual cacophony of colors and shapes, but it's Mountain's pride and joy. Aether knows what this garden means, who each plant represents.

There's hanging baskets of oak-leafed geraniums, dotted with little purple flowers, and ones with fuzzy clusters of edelweiss. Deep purple, almost black irises shoot up from the main bed, petals ruffled and curled at the edges, broken up by bee balm and spider lilies and white and red snapdragons. A trellis of delicate yellow jasmine blossoms stands at the edge of the bed, surrounded by daffodils and catchfly and calla lilies and baby's breath.

But Mountain's eyes are drawn to the hanging cissus discolor vines, the silver striped, deep green leaves. Aether knows exactly who Mountain's thinking of.

"I know, sweet thing," Aether breathes, staring at Mountain's garden. "I miss them too."

Mountain tears his eyes away from Zephyr's plants, snapping to face Aether. "I don't want to miss you, nova," he says, just the slightest growl at the edge of his voice. Aether cups Mountain's cheek, runs his thumb over the prickly, tear-damp stubble there.

"It'll be okay, Mount. I'll be right here with Sunny when you and Dewey come home, promise."

He takes a long, shuddering breath, eyes fluttering shut as he tries to calm himself. "Aether, you and Dew are the only ones of the old pack I have left. Please, nova, you gotta understand."

Aether doesn't respond, just pulls him tight into another tight hug, big hand cradled against the back of his head, guiding his face back to his neck. "I know, Mounty. I know."

They sit there until the sun sinks below the treeline, and eventually, they return to the pack. Aether starts his shifts in the infirmary as his mates start rehearsals with the new ghoul and ghoulette. He has a lot of time to think, intake and discharge paperwork always on his desk, about how best he can soothe his mates with their upcoming departure. He fidgets with his bracelet as he thinks, and he lights up as it hits him. That's it.

He borrows Swiss's utility knife, flipping it open to the needlenose pliers, staring at his bracelet, a little too big for his wrist, how the silver matches the metal of the grucifixes he and his mates wear around their necks.

Aether waits until the night before the pack and Papa are due to leave to act. It takes a little finessing, because while Mountain takes his necklace off when he goes to bed, Dew never stops wearing his, but a little quintosis to put the fire ghoul in a deeper sleep doesn't hurt. He works quickly as his mates grumble in their sleep, subconsciously reacting to the empty space in their bed. Aether sets the necklaces in his nightstand when he's done, muttering under his breath as he struggles to reclasp his bracelet around his wrist one handed, fingers smelling of silver polish and metal.

Once he gets it clasped, he climbs back into bed, holding his mates close as he too sinks into a deep sleep. He's going to miss this, and that's the last thought he has before unconsciousness takes him.

He's woken by Dew scrambling in his arms. "It's- it's not here, I don't- Aeth, Mount, my grucifix-" He paws at his own chest, feeling for something under his oversized shirt that isn't there.

Aether sits up, taking Dew's face in his hands softly as Mountain groans and stretches behind them. "Sorry, love, I took it off while you were asleep. I didn't mean to make you panic, I wanted to do something for you and Mounty before you two head out."

Dew's eyes are still wide, chest heaving as he tries to calm himself down. "Aeth, what do you mean? Where's my grucifix?"

Aether nods, palms up and open as he climbs out from the tangled mess of their limbs. "I have them, they're right here," he says, opening up the drawer of his nightstand, pulling out the two necklaces. Aether sets Mountain's down, turning back to Dew.

"Let me?" Aether asks, avoiding Dew's outstretched hands. Dew takes in a shaking breath, staring up at his mate, and nods. Aether loosens the adjustable cord, slipping it over Dew's head, pulling his sleep-mussed braid through, and sets the freshly-polished grucifix right over his mate's heart.

Dew furrows his brow as Aether pulls away, fingers going to touch the new addition to the necklace; a small ring, plain, unadorned, but the same gleaming silver as the grucifix. "Aeth, is this..."

"Hmm?" Aether asks, grabbing Mountain's and humming as he clasps it around the earth ghoul's neck, his antlers too wide for an adjustable cord like Dew's. He settles the grucifix and a matching ring over his heart as well.

"Your bracelet, nova," Mountain breathes, putting voice to what Dew's unable to.

Aether nods, eyes flickering down to said bracelet. "Thought you might like to have something of mine close to you when you go."

Dew grins, even as his eyes flood with tears, and tackles Aether into a fierce hug. "You're a sappy fucking bastard, Aether," he says, even as his own voice wavers, cheek pressed to Aether's throat.

"Love you too, Dewbug," he says, catching Mountain's equally misty eyes over his shoulder. Mountain has a hand pressed to his chest, pressing the grucifix and ring against his heart. "And I love you, sweet thing."

Mountain grins, standing and wrapping his long arms around both his mates, the three of them soaking in these last moments before inevitably they have to go their separate ways.

Aether's right. Mountain and Dew don't take off their necklaces for a long time, long after they return from tour. They keep that tiny piece of their mate close to them, to where he lives inside of them no matter what happens.

#constantly having feelings trio feelings #did i ignore my wiplist and send this one straight to the top? yeah #anyways #the black irises are omega #the calla lilies are mist #spider lilies are alpha #bee balm is ifrit #aether ghoul #mountain ghoul #dewdrop ghoul #the band ghost #the band ghost fanfiction #dot's writing #aether/mountain/dewdrop #also I wanna see if my Venn diagram of ‘fob songs I’ve titled fics after’ and ‘fob songs I’ve heard live’ will be a circle again lmao

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alstroemeria-fox · 4 months

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i was "just one more egg"ing my way though my current stash and was rewarded with a one-off xyy with some very pretty colours AND matchy eyes

#flight rising #dragon share #kuro.txt #charcoal/lavender/mist for the curious #also i have such a love-hate relationship with bee bc its easily my fave secondary but it makes scying g1s murder

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m4g0rtz · 2 months

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Today's polish is a beauty! 😍😍😍 This polish has a blue base with a green to blue shifting shimmer. What I love about this shimmer is that it gets darker and more blue towards the edges of my nails, making them almost look like I did a radial gradient on them. I wish I'd had some sun when I took these pictures too cause I bet this one really sparkles in the sun. This is Mind the Mist from Bee's Knees Lacquer.

#nail polish 467 #manicure #bees knees #mind the mist #blue #shimmer #holo

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aaaaaaaaaaaa-hey-its-jude-or-bee · 8 days

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HELLO!!! LOOKS HERE FOR RULES AND STUFF!!

Introduction!!

HiHihI my name is Bee,, or you can call Cedric Or just Brian.

My pronouns are He/His/Him, and I'm a 🏳️‍⚧️trans man🏳️‍⚧️ trying to get through life,

I'm 🇨🇦Canadian indigenous🤍💛♥️🖤🇨🇦

I probably will write HCs, small stories and other things for you if you ask nicely

Let's get into what I will and won't write.

What I won't write

Female readers and female characters DNI PLS YOU HAVE A LOT OF OTHER WRITERS WHO ARE WOMEN. THIS IS FOR MEN AND GAY MEN.

First up, Noncon/Con-Noncon(BC it feels icky,,)

Rape ykyk not good at all BC wtf

Pedo

Incest

Child/adult(Like what the fuck.)

Ageplay (like?? Ion wanna write some character or reader acting as a child bff??)

Any kinks that have liquid other than cum(BC it's SPERM.)

Domestic abuse(Ion deal well with that)

Abuse

Pregnancy kinks or just pregnancy in general

Giving BIRTH???

Nothing to do with child birth or child death or anything to do with children dying or abuse or whatever.

I will not write fucking sexual assault, BC it makes me iffy.

No female parts pls,,, (like for trans ppl I'll give you a dick but I don't wanna write abt the female parts.)

In between

Age difference (Not a fresh adult BC ....creepy) I'll write like only readers 25 years of age to whatever age the other character is at.

What I will write

Fluff & wholesomeness

Smut and angst

Natural kinks (not too graphic or high...)

A little bit of choking but not full on choking.

Small knife play if you're interested in that but not fully gonna stab you or hurt you like??

Bondage is ok if both parties consent.

For the smut I might go full if you want or just small if I'm not feeling up to writing a lot of smut(depends on the character too)

MLM and TMLM yes I'll write.

Some hybrid and monster au stuff too!!

A lot of fluff and just sweet stuff BC silly :3

Ion mind anything!! But beware that some people will send smut asks so!! I'll try n just add a photo before it so you won't have to accidentally read it and I'll add words to it for you guys!!

Fandoms omg!!

Stardew valley (+Expanded)!!

Dead by daylight!!

Slashers

TF2 (I'm trying to know all characters pls bare with me for this one)

Left4dead (+2)!!

Call of Duty and Cold war!!(I love sims and Adler from cold war,,, and I LOVE Gaz sm from modern warfare,,)

Marble hornets

Animal crossing

Ok Movie fandoms.

OCTONAUTS!!!!!

stranger things

The walking dead.

Sweet tooth

Titans (with Dick Grayson and Rachel ykyk?? Not like the anime, I never seen that)

Black summer

The rain

TAU

The mist

I SEE YOU LIKING THIS POST YOU OCTONAUTS FANS.. SAY HI TO ME PLS IN THE COMMENTS OR IN AN ASK PLEASE I'M NOT SCARY ☹️

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cinnamontoads · 1 month

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love that mgsv offers you the chicken hat if you die enough times during a mission. i genuinely love when games include a mechanic for you to still be able to progress through the game even when you’re dogshit at something. like do you want to talk to the cafe barista in rhythm heaven. do you want your little bro luigi to beat the level for you. do you want to wear the chicken hat so guards will laugh at you. even better do you want to wear the lil chick hat

#mgslb #i wore the chicken hat for the first time during the honey bee mission except it literally helped nothing because by #that point i was already past all the sneaking i literally just kept getting swarmed by mist zombies on my way out LMAO #i did die enough times though that it offered me the lil chick hat but i had to maintain some semblance of dignity so i declined

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jillraggett · 2 years

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Plant of the Day

Thursday 2 June 2022

This beautiful flower arrangement on the theme of ‘Pollination’ was created by Jane Belcher and incorporates the blue flowers of Nigella damascena (love-in-a-mist, bird's nest, blue spiderflower, kiss-me-twice-before-I-rise, lady in the bower, love-in-a-puzzle, love-in-a-tangle). This upright, annual has feathery foliage with flowers followed by decorative, inflated seed capsules which are also useful for floral displays. The work received a well deserved Gold medal at the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show, London.

Jill Raggett

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shsenhaji · 1 year

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📚 December Reading Round-Up 📚

I was able to read a good amount of books this month, and I also had a lot of fun tearing through the Greenwing and Dart Series by Victoria Goddard (I re-read the books I’d already read and finished the ones I hadn’t gotten to yet). I also continued my foray into the Vorkosigan Saga (though I skipped ahead in the chronological reading order). I also finally got around to reading At the Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard (the sequel to The Hands of the Emperor, which I highly recommend)!

- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (an amazing fairytale retelling, lyrical, haunting, great characters and themes, loved the ending, achingly beautiful)

- Stargazy Pie (re-read, delightful, emotional, made more sense the second time around)

- Fullmetal Alchemist Fullmetal Edition Volume 4 by Hiromu Arakawa (hilarious, fun, understated and dark humour, Izumi being awesome, the parallels!!!)

- Labyrinth by Lois McMaster Bujold (not as stressful as I’d initially thought, beautiful at times, Miles being Miles)

- Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold (gripping, emotional, funny, a little tragic, loved the outsider POV, great characterization, loved the ending)

- Bee Sting Cake by Victoria Goddard (re-read, hilarious and heartfelt, healing, loved all the clues and allusions to future books and past relationships)

- Whiskeyjack by Victoria Goddard (fun, cathartic, almost cried at the end, very emotional, loved the references and allusions)

- Blackcurrant Fool by Victoria Goddard (half of a re-read, funny, emotional and compelling, great character work, fun plot twists, loved the last quarter, much of the foreshadowing paying off, fealty!, the ending!!!!)

- Love-in-a-Mist by Victoria Goddard (Beginning made me laugh, cozy murder mystery, many reveals, characters coming into their own, loved the discussions of fashion)

- Plum Duff by Victoria Goddard (A bit more quiet but in the best way, still a lot of adventure, many revelations, more mysteries, characters fully coming into their own, lots of promises for future books)

- At the Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard (Brilliant, funny, starts off with a bang, all the connections and feels, emotional and made me cry, doesn’t wrap everything up, some Thoughts but overall very positive)

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fantastic-fr-scries · 1 year

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Skydancer Female

Mist / Orchid / Ice , Starmap / Bee / Ghost

Shadow Rare

#flight rising #flight rising dragon #flight rising scry #scrying workshop #flight rising skydancer #mist orchid ice #starmap primary #bee secondary #ghost tertiary

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i-ashhart · 10 months

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Asking me what my true personality is like asking a cuddle fish what color it its

#giving mysef a exadenchl crisis #am i plurl?#idk if im singular #idk if theres rely anony one in hear #im ver high #im like a swarm of bees or mist monster #im liquid

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earthenterran · 11 months

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15, for the book ask meme

15. recommend and review a book.

OH, here's one. Ico: Castle in the Mist, by Miyuki Miyabe (trans. by Alexander O. Smith).

it's an adaptation of the video game ICO, and about a boy with horns offered to a castle as a sacrifice bc they thought him an evil omen, and he escapes his imprisonment in said castle and helps this ghostly glowing girl escape as well from the queen of said castle. The game itself has like, no dialogue, and there's story but not like, exposition. Not much of it from what I remember. Definitely not what's in the book.

The book offers a lot more exposition and character talk. It's been ages since I read it tbh but the experience was special. I read it while playing the game, pacing it so I was at the same points in both the game and the book and going through it as I did. It just really enhanced the story. I got the wonderfully written story expanding the original ICO while interacting in the world with the beautiful soundtrack and giving myself time to go through both at my own pace.

I think the book itself is quite nice on its own, and a good extension if you enjoyed the ICO game

#terran replies #whichdockter #appreciate the ask bee!#ico #ico castle in the mist

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mundane-miracles · 2 years

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Photos taken out by the harbor. The sunset was perfect. A wonderful walk.

Fall is beginning and summer will end.

But soon there will be new miracles to see and explore.

#mundane miracles #ocean #bees #spiders #moon mist sky #cotton candy clouds #photography #nature

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nightlight-doodle-corner · 1 year

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some collection of doodles I’ve done over the past couple months, some from my normal account that I still enjoy some images including a very dear friend of mine by the name of @p1pm0nster

and a couple of my oc

#tiger salamander #ln oc #nightlight sona #bee children #humus #humy #messenger dragon baby #strange eerie dragon #mist colors #eyestrain #stardew valley #tiger #fighting ring au #even though the au was on my main blog #gonna use it here too for anything

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asknarashikari · 2 years

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Sakura and Reika meeting just so they can rattle about how cute their girlfriends are

Also: Magine and Hana arguing about which of their gfs are better before agreeing that they will look better kicking ass together anyway

#kamen rider revice #igarashi sakura #natsuki hana #otp: queen bee and karate girl #kamen rider saber #shindai reika #kikai sentai zenkaiger #magine #otp: magic robot and mist swordsman #ask #askrikkaiandhyotei

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