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[barry-j-blupjeans]

taakitz and 15?

15. “Was that supposed to hurt?”

((50 dialogue prompts here!))

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As soon as he walked into the gym, Kravitz could tell Taako was in a bad mood. He would have liked to say that he knew it by the way Taako's face was twisted into a harsh snarl or just by the way he was standing, tense, with his shoulders up to his ears. But, to be completely honest, it was pretty obvious just because of how fast and hard Taako was hitting the punching bag. And because of how he turned, boxing gloves raised, when Kravitz popped open his locker. The tension in his shoulders drained out a little bit when he saw Kravitz, but not too much because he turned back around to keep going on the punching bag.

By the time Kravitz exited the locker room, decked in his practice gear, Taako's flurry of blows had slowed down a bit. He was huffing out breaths as Kravitz approtched him.

"Rough morning?" Kravitz asked. Taako glanced at him out of the corner of his eye and scoffed.

"You've got no fuckin' clue," Taako said. "Up for a spar?"

"Let me warm up first," Kravitz said.

He ran through his stretches and warm-ups with Taako watching from the corner of the room, prowling around but not actively going towards the punching bag. It intimidated Kravitz, just a little bit. It made him feel more like a zoo attraction than Taako's boxing partner. Finally, Taako cut him off halfway until into his pad work and said,

"Kravitz, my guy, I gotta get outta here by noon so are we gonna spar, or are you just gonna make me watch you the whole time?"

"It's not a bad view, I bet," Kravitz said, grinning. Taako rolled his eyes. Kravitz couldn't tell if Taako flushed from his workout or from the comment.

"Uh-huh," Taako said. "C'mon."

Taako hopped up onto the ring that was in the corner of the gym, helping Kravitz pull himself up.

"Any chance you wanna talk about your morning first?"

"Let me get a good few hits in and I'll see where I'm at," Taako said, grinning.

They fell into an easy pattern. Kravitz could tell when Taako wasn't really trying too hard, so he matched his pace, mostly focusing on his defense while Taako got his hits out. He did get a few good hits mostly against Taako's arms, but Taako very easily fought back. It was only when Kravitz managed to get a good jab against Taako's chest that he fell back out of Kravitz's range and called a time out.

Taako set himself on the floor of the ring, leaning back on his hands, and closing his eyes. Kravitz took the time to take his gloves off and wring out his wrists.

"My sister is a fucking dumbass," Taako said finally.

"I thought we knew that already," Kravitz said. He moved over to the edge of the ring, where they had left their water bottles, and brought them back over to where Taako was sitting.

"We did but it's still annoying," Taako said hotly. He snatched the water bottle from Kravitz's hands and took a long swig. Kravitz took a drink, too. "So she was supposed to go on a date with Barry last night, right?"

"Right."

"It literally couldn't have been more romantic if they had tried," Taako said. "Moonlight dinner. Walking on the beach. No one else around. And she hasn't called me the whole night, so I'm assuming they're finally fuckin' making the move on each other. Only for her to wake me up in the middle of the night when she gets back and asks me if she can pass off kissing him on the lips as a friend thing."

"No," Kravitz said.

"Yes," Taako said, flinging his hands into the air. "And! Even worse, somehow! Barry drops by in the morning because Lup forgot her jacket and when I ask him about it, what does he say to me?"

"Do I want to know?"

"He lies to my face and says that if Lup wanted them to just be friends, then that was fine by him!"

"Oh my god," Kravitz said. "What's the hell is wrong with them?"

"Right?!" Taako demanded. "So I've had to deal with that clusterfuck all morning and Lup being like "friends kiss each other all the time, Taako!" as if she's ever done that to fuckin'... Magnus or Johann or whoever!" He takes another sip of his water, snapping the lid shut when finished. "If I liked someone, I'd just go up to them and be like "hey, let's fucking date!" Wouldn't you?"

"Uh," Kravitz said as if he wasn't sitting in front of the person he wanted to say that to. "Yes?"

"Kravitz," Taako said, looking at him intensely. "Please."

"Maybe it's more complicated than you think it is?" Kravitz said.

"There is no way you're defending Lup right now," he said. He scooted forward a bit. Kravitz very much hoped that he looked flustered from the fight and not from Taako, in general.

"I'm not defending her, I just..."

"Hey Kravitz," Taako said, scooting forward a little bit more. Kravitz scooted himself back some. "Question for ya."

"What's- what's up?" Kravitz said nervously. There was a very, in Kravitz's opinion, homosexual energy between them right now. Taako took a second like he was deliberating on what he wanted to say.

"Can you talk to Barry?" he asked finally. Kravitz let out a breath of relief. "'Cus I'm deffo not getting through to him and there's no way he's gonna believe me even if I make Lup admit her feelings in front of him. Please."

Kravitz was starting to think that Lup wasn't the only one with the problem of not knowing when someone was into you.

"Sure," Kravitz said, looking away from Taako to suddenly become very interested in his water bottle. "I can do that."

"Thanks," Taako said, scooting back. He stood up, stretching. "I do gotta go to work now, though, so, uh. Thanks for listening. And for letting me punch you."

"No problem, Taako," Kravitz said.

#taakitz #taako #kravitz #taz #blupjeans #mine #asks #boatwizard2 #ise cube writing #welcome to: ise tries to write about boxing despite knowing nothing about boxing #edit: i have once again completely forgotten to add the prompt to this #i just got too focused in on the homosexual energy !!!

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[nothorses]

I saw your post about transtape, I like to do hiking and swimming and other activities that require mobility,like climbing over rocks, I get a lot of dysphoria not wearing a binder for these activities, would transtape be a good choice?

Yeah! It doesn’t impact lung capacity, and you can get wet and sweat in it. I wear mine for hiking & horseback riding without a problem.

#transtape #boatwizard2 #Ask

[talos-stims]

dice stimboard in blue, green and orange for @boatwizard2!

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#talos stimboards #stimboard #stim #dice stim #green #blue #teal #turquoise #orange #yellow #red #irl hands

[onenicebugperday]

@boatwizard2 submitted: I saw this tiny guy who is he (southern ca)

A little man! Get a load of those arms, he must work out. Looks like a buttonhook leaf-beetle jumping spider :)

#animals #bugs #spider #arachnids #submission #jumping spider #buttonhook leaf beetle jumping spider

[barry-j-blupjeans]

41 with lup and taako? :)

41. “I feel like I can’t breathe.”

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When Lup woke up, it was dark. Not pitch black, but unsettling dark all the same. The ground below her was firm, with a slight give, and velvety, sort of scratchy against her arms.

Lup shut her eyes. She counted to ten in her head. The texture against her hands wasn't bad but she didn't want to be feeling it. It sent a sick feeling into her stomach, which bubbled up and threatened to come out as a sob in her throat. She counted backward from ten. And then into the negatives. And then back up to zero again.

"Lup?" someone said nearby. Lup kept her eyes squeezed shut. "Are you awake?"

"Where are we?" Lup asked. She started up to ten again, in Elvish this time.

"Living room, I think," the voice said. "Let me turn on the light."

There was a flash of light that got through her eyelids. Lup screwed her face up, not ready to open them yet. The texture beneath her fingers was driving chills up her arm. Someone grunted and then touched her shoulder.

"Lup?" the voice- Taako, she knew Taako's voice- said. Taako could see her. That was a good sign. Taako could touch her. A great sign, even. "Are you... how- how can I help you?"

"I feel like I can't breathe," Lup whispered.

"Hey," Taako said. Something shifted by her head. A warm hand ran through Lup's hair. "Breathe in as I count to four. Ready?" He didn't wait for a response. Lup wasn't sure if she could give one. Instead, she just inhaled as Taako counted up. And then exhaled as he started back from zero and made his way up to four again. They followed the pattern a few more times before Lup had to interrupt with,

"Where am I?"

"Living room," Taako reminded.

"No," Lup said. "Am I on the floor or-"

"Couch," Taako said. "On a blanket, technically."

She sat up, eyes still shut, drawing her hands into her chest. The velvet feeling against her vanished as she did so. Lup let out a shaky exhale.

"Get rid of the blanket," she said. "Please."

"'Course," Taako said. There was a slight shuffle, where Taako's half of the couch lifted up like he had stood. Something soft fell on the floor behind them. Taako's hand caught hers, intertwining their fingers. "S'gone."

Lup peeked an eye open, squinting. She was facing the door that went into the kitchen. There was a potted plant nearby that held a poorly maintained succulent. The tall backed leather chair Magnus had forced upon Taako was settled in the corner. And Taako himself was at her side, sort of awkwardly crouching between the couch and the floor. She opened the other eye, too.

"You good?" he asked, squeezing her hand.

"I wanna burn that fucking blanket," Lup said. If Taako was upset about that at all, he didn't show it.

"Lucretia gave it to me, so burn away," he said. He paused for a second, seeming to hesitate. "For real though, is... are you okay?"

Lup settled herself back into the couch now that the blanket was gone. Taako lifted himself up next to her. They were close enough that their thighs smushed together, their hands still connected. Lup sighed.

"Reminded me of the umbrastaff," she said, quietly. Taako's ear twitched. "And it was dark so I thought..."

"Yikes," Taako said. Lup let out a wet chuckle, using a free hand to rub at her face. "Yeah, we can deffo burn that. You gotta pay for the new one, though."

"For sure," Lup said. And then, "I'm- my bad, Taako."

"For what?"

"For-" she gestured vaguely with her free hand. "I don't know! I thought I was getting better at shit and this is just like, a whole step back. So I guess I'm sorry for doing that on your couch? It's a pretty good couch, though. I really like it."

"You don't have to be sorry for that, doofus," Taako said, nudging her shoulder with his. "If I let you get away with that, then you're gonna start making me apologize for like, panic baking in your kitchen. And you know cha'boy isn't gonna apologize for panic baking. Even if I use all your almond flour."

"I'm not gonna make you apologize for panic baking," Lup said. "That's how you cope."

"And I'm not gonna accept you apologizing for being traumatized on my couch," Taako said. "Them's the breaks, Lup."

"Thank you, then," Lup said, rolling her eyes.

"Now that I'll accept," Taako said. "Are you gonna sleep more or should we go burn that shitty blanket? 'Cus I'm in the mood for s'mores and if we're burning shit then we might as well."

"I could go for a s'more," Lup said.

#lup #taako #taako and lup #taz #taz balance #mine #asks #boatwizard2 #ask to tag #ise cube writing

[barry-j-blupjeans]

13 with blupjeans. shatter my heart. please

13. “I thought you were dead.”

((50 dialogue prompts - still accepting!!))

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Barry's funeral took place on a cold, rainy Thursday in late spring. It's a closed casket and there were tulips everywhere, despite the fact that they were rarely associated with death. Kravitz had very carefully arranged the bouquets at his mother's shop and he gave her one personally, to take home afterward. Lup put it on the counter in their- in her apartment and watched as they slowly decayed over the course of a week.

Barry's death had Lup in an iron-tight grip for months and months, until Taako convinced her to move in with him and Kravitz, and forced her to, at the very least, sit outside sometimes. The horrible, terrible days lessen into just "terrible" and then into "uncomfortable" and then into "maybe slightly less than okay". She still reached for Barry's hand when driving, only to find Taako's, or Kravitz's, or Magnus's, or whoever's. A lot of his things sat in Lup's closet because she wasn't really ready to get rid of them yet, even as the "less than okay" days turn into "fine" days.

Barry had been dead for seven years when Lup got a call in the middle of the night from an unknown number at three AM. She had long since moved out of Taako's apartment, but he had roped her into planning his and Kravitz's wedding next fall. Instead, she had gotten distracted watching The Office on Netflix again with the wedding planner opened in the next tab over. She only really picked up the phone because she expected it to be Taako coming to snap at her for getting distracted again.

"Hello?" Lup said into the phone, pausing the video. She clicked back into the tab and propped her phone up on her shoulder, pressing it to her ear.

"Oh my god," a voice that is definitely not Taako said back. "Lup?"

"Who is this?" Lup asked, now a little weirded out. The voice tickled the back of her brain and Lup had to take a second to fully absorb the fact that the person who called her sounded like-

"It's Barry!" the voice said back. Lup stalled, her hands still on the trackpad of her laptop. "Lup, I- uhm, I, uh. How are you?"

Lup almost laughed. Almost. Not quite. Instead, she took the phone into her hand and turned it on speaker.

"Barry?" she repeated, not believing her ears.

"Y- yeah, Lup?"

She hung up. As soon as the call was over, she dropped the phone onto her bed and scooted away from it. In less than a minute, it was ringing again. Same caller ID. Lup let it ring. By the time he was making a third attempt, she had gotten her thoughts in order enough to talk.

"Lup," the voice said- not Barry, Barry was dead. "I'm-"

"Who the hell do you think you are?" Lup demanded into the phone. "Do you think this is funny?"

"It's really me!" the voice said desperately. "Lup, I- I swear to God, I know it's insane, but just listen to me, please- I can- What will make you believe me?" The phone line crackled a little bit. "Please. I've been trying to reach you for years, please just give me a chance."

Lup paused. The voice was taking heavy breaths over the line, as if trying to prevent himself from spiraling into a panic attack.

"What happened to the engagement ring you gave me?" Lup asked finally, squaring her shoulders as if that'd help her be more confident.

"You dropped it down the sink," the voice answered with no hesitation. "So we tried to get into the pipes but then I unscrewed the wrong thing and water started coming out. And then you cut your hand really bad on the exposed end of the pipe so we had to go to the ER to get you stitches."

Lup took a deep breath in. It shook slightly on the exhale. She looked at the scar on the palm of her hand.

"Six stiches," the voice contuined. "We told Taako that you cut yourself while cooking 'cus it'd be embarrassing if we said that we broke literally our entire sink and your hand while looking for a ring we never even found." The voice paused. As an afterthought, it added, "the second ring was from the thrift store and it had a tulip carved into it. I got one that had a way too big of a fake ruby on it because I wanted a new one, too, and it was the only one that'd fit my finger."

"Barry?" Lup asked.

"Yeah, babe," Barry said, tearfully. "I know."

"I thought you were dead," Lup said into the phone. "Who- how the hell-"

"It's a long story," Barry said, laughing slightly.

"Where are you?" Lup said. "I can- I'll meet you there, I need to get dressed-" She launched herself out of bed, going for her shoes.

"I'm in Nevada, babe," Barry said. "Though, uh, I probably need to get outta Nevada pretty- pretty fast, uhm- where- are you still in Illinois or?"

"Vermont," Lup said. "I'm in Vermont. I'm- I'll call off work and get Taako and Kravitz if I can, just-" She slipped her shoes on, grabbing a suitcase out of her closet. "I'll be there as soon as I can, I swear. I'm not gonna leave you there."

"I trust you," Barry said. Lup's heart clenched. "The town's called Alamo. It's kinda near Los Vegas, I guess? I can- if it'd be easier, I can meet you in Los Vegas-"

"Whatever works for you, babe," Lup said, shoving a pile of shirts into the suitcase. "I'll see you soon, I promise."

"I'll see you soon," Barry said. Lup could practically hear the smile in his voice.

#blupjeans #barry bluejeans #lup #taz #taz balance #modern au! #also im incapable of writing anything completely angsty sorry sldfsdf #asks #boatwizard2 #mine #ise cube writing #we're goin to vegas baeby! #long post #sorry sldfsd

[foxgirldick]

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[barry-j-blupjeans]

3 with blupjeans ? :)

3. yes I am a vampire sorry no the sleeping upside down hanging off the ceiling thing was just a bit

((no longer accepting but u can find the prompts here!))

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Barry was extremely nervous but, for her part, Lup did arrive at exactly eight PM. He was half expecting her to be late, or to not show up at all, but she came. She looked a little bit sleep-deprived in the failing lights of Barry's living room, but he decided not to comment on that. Especially since the binder that Lup took out of her bag was heavy enough to make a thump on his coffee table. Now that he had to ask about.

"Uhm," Barry said. "Can I ask about the binder?"

"Oh, this?" Lup said, slapping the top of it. "This bad boy has all my research in it. And this-" she took out a thin watch and passed it to him, "is a heartrate monitor. Do you mind putting it on?"

"I don't really have a heart rate," Barry said but took it anyway. He snapped it around his wrist.

"I figured," Lup said. "But it's worth a try anyway, right? Now, uh." She flipped through the binder, unclipping the rings and sliding a notebook out. "I've got a few questions. Gonna try to be professional, of course, but they might be a lil' weird? You don't have to answer them if you don't wanna. Ready?"

She uncapped her pen and looked up at him, grinning. Barry, suddenly feeling very flustered, cleared his throat and said,

"Go for it."

"Question one," she said. "How long have you been a vampire?"

"Well, uhm, sixty years, at most?" he said, scratching his head. "I was born in 1910 and got bit a few weeks after I turned fifty-two, so, yeah, sixty years."

"So it's been a while," Lup said. She wrote something down. "That's good to know. Do you remember being bit?"

"Uh," Barry said. "I mean, yeah, of course." He paused but Lup was still looking at him expectantly so he continued. "I mean, I was coming home from work- I was a lawyer at the time, and stayed late to finish up my paperwork. And the guy just kinda got me in the parking lot, uhm."

"Can you describe how it felt?" Lup asked.

"Painful," Barry said. His hands were shaking a little. "Very- very disorienting. Almost like dissociation? But I could feel my body dy- dying like that," Barry snapped, "but my mind just wasn't there. I think I was in shock for most of the night, just sitting in my car? And then I was like "oh my god, did that just happen?" I couldn't really go talk to anyone about it, the laws for this type of thing back then were, uh... they weren't great. The fact that you wanna talk about it with me is huge, honestly."

Lup clicked her pen, staring at the paperwork for a second in thought.

"I'm sorry you couldn't talk to someone," she said when Barry was just about to start getting nervous that he had said too much. She looked back up at him. "Or get help. You've got my phone number now, if you ever wanna chat about stuff or whatever, I'm here for you."

"Thanks," Barry said. He tore his eyes away, picking at the string of his chair. He really needed to sew this bit back together. "Next question or...?"

"Next question," Lup said. She flipped through the papers briefly, finding one deeper into her notebook and turning to that. "A lotta the beginning ones are kinda uncomfy so we're gonna skip around a bit. These questions come from the general public, so be ready for that. This one specifically is from a girl in the fourth grade."

"Oh boy," Barry said.

"Fourth-grade girl asks: Do you sleep hanging down from the ceiling like a bat or is that just a movie thing?" Lup asked. Barry could tell she was trying very hard to be professional still, but she was very bad at suppressing her smile.

"God I wish," Barry said. "I'd feel like that'd fix my back problems better than sleeping in a bed would."

"And no blood to rush to your head!" Lup said. "So no lightheadedness issues!"

"Exactly!" Barry said. "I should learn how to do that, that'd be- that's really smart actually. But it's a no, I, unfortunately, cannot hang from the ceiling like a bat."

"Damn," Lup said, writing a very quick note. "Alright, this one comes from a second-grade boy in Tennessee. He asks: Can you use echolocation and, if so, does it help find the things you need at the grocery store?"

Barry laughed, leaning back in his chair. Maybe the night wouldn't be as stressful as he had thought.

#barry bluejeans #lup #blupjeans #taz #taz balance #mine #asks #boatwizard2 #ise cube writing

[barry-j-blupjeans]

15 Taakitz!

Image ID: Two more asks requesting Taakitz and prompt 15. One is from @boatwizard2 and the other is from a different anon. End ID

15. nothing against your choices at all, honestly kind of enthralled, but the fishnets and thigh-high boots and pirate blouse seems like a lot for this 8am class

((30 incredibly specific AU prompts here - send some in!))

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Taako was starting to regret telling Lup that he'd go to her classes while she wooed Barry. Knowing her, Barry would not only not be wooed, but they'd somehow be even further away from confessing their feelings than they already were. Also, Lup had classes in the morning, because she was a morning person. At least Taako had the sense to have most of his classes in the afternoon instead.

But if Lup could get up a the asscrack of dawn to go learn about music theory, Taako sure as hell was going to do that too.

That doesn't mean he'd pay attention, though.

"Nice of you to join us, Morior," the professor said, barely looking away from the whiteboard as someone came in late. Taako looked up from his game of snake and met eyes with possibly the most absurdly hot man he had ever met. He had on gold eyeliner, and thigh-high boots, with a blouse Taako could only describe as something a pirate might wear. He was wearing fishnets at eight in the goddamn morning. Even Taako hadn't put that much thought into his outfit.

And, to his absolute luck, he sat two seats away from Taako, pulling out his laptop to take notes. Taako was now acutely aware that he had no idea how Lup interacted with her classmates. He shut down the snake game and opened up his texts, shooting Lup a very quick,

"What's your relationship with the fishnets guy?"

And he waited. Fishnets was now opening up a new word document to write in. He squinted down towards the board and started to type. Taako's phone buzzed as Lup responded with,

????? Please don't talk to anyone, I just need notes.

I'm gonna talk to him, Taako shot back, he's rr hot. And then, as an afterthought, he added, was I supposed to be taking notes???

There was another buzz but Taako had already shut down his phone. He scooted towards Fishnets, so there was only one seat in between them now, and started with a very simple, "hey." Fishnets looked up at him, somewhat quizzically.

"Hi?" he said.

"Nothing against your choices and all, honestly kind enthralled, T-B-H, but fishnets and thigh-high boots and a pirate blouse seem like a lot for an eight AM class."

Fishnets mouthed the words "pirate blouse" to himself. Taako's phone buzzed three times in quick succession. He stuffed it in his pocket.

"I have a lot of time to kill," Fishnets said, smiling slightly at him. "You're not the one who usually sits here, are you?"

"No," Taako said, propping his elbows upon the armrest and putting his face in his hands. "Is that a problem?"

"Not at all," Fishnets said smoothly. "It's very nice to meet you...?"

"Taako," Taako filled in. "And you're?"

"Kravitz," he said. "I'd love to talk more, but I do have to take notes. I'll speak to you after?"

"Oh yeah, deffo," Taako said, still very much enthralled. His phone buzzed again and Taako tore himself away from the moment to answer it. Kravitz grinned at him. At the very least, Taako had a good amount of eye candy for the rest of the class.

#taakitz #taako #kravitz #taz #ise cube writing #mine #anon #asks #boatwizard2

[barry-j-blupjeans]

13 14 or 18 with taako and lucrecia? I cant pick a favorite

14 angst. “Can you shut up for once in your life?”

((sentence starts - please send some in!!))

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Lucretia knew she was not on the best terms with Taako, even now. It'd be idiotic of her to think they would ever be as close as they once were on the Starblaster. At the very least, they had both accepted what she did. A younger Lucretia had once tried to argue that fact. She would have thought that Taako deserved to be angry at her, deserved to yell at her more than he did, deserved to give her the cold shoulder for as long as he wanted to.

Now, Lucretia couldn't really bring herself to care.

It had been three months since Magnus died. Died, died. No more cycles, no resets, no coming back. Lucretia knew she wasn't going to last much longer, so the day Lup showed up at her house, Barry in tow, she started counting down the days. Davenport arrived next- and Gods, part of Lucretia wished that he was angry, too, but she couldn't bring herself to say that- swiftly followed by Merle, who sat at Lucretia's bedside in the afternoons and sang Pan hymns to her.

Taako arrived last.

"Could I get a moment, old man?" Taako was leaning up against the doorframe of her bedroom. Merle had just finished another hymn, something about flowers and sunshine that had completely gone past Lucretia's head. Merle glanced at her and she smiled.

"It's alright," she said and Merle shut his book, hopping off the bed.

"We've still got one more!" Merle said, scooting passed Taako as he came further into the room. "It's about flowers in bloom if ya know what I mean-"

"Gross," Lucretia said, at the same time Taako said,

"Gods, please, just go."

And Merle left the room laughing, shutting the door softly behind him. Taako didn't sit on the bed. Instead, he scooted the armchair by her bookshelf a little closer to her bed and sat down in that. He stared at her. Lucretia stared back. Taako looked away first.

"Nice to see you," Lucretia said. "It's been a while."

"It's been like, two weeks," Taako scoffed, but he didn't actually disagree, so Lucretia counted it as a win. They lapsed back into silence.

Taako had changed in the years since they defeated the Hunger. His hair was a little longer, his cheeks were fuller. He had the sparkle back in his eyes that Lucretia had so selfishly taken away. There was a scar that ran across one of his fingers, on his left hand, and Lucretia realized she didn't know the story of it. She didn't know a lot of things about Taako, nowadays.

"Taako," Lucretia began. Taako looked up at her again. He was a little teary, but she ignored that because he had done the same thing with Magnus. "I just... I wanted to tell you that I'm still- I'm still apologetic for what I did. I'm not sorry that I did it, not anymore, but I'm sorry you went through what you did because of it. And I'm sorry that I wasn't there to help you when you needed me."

"Can you just... shut up for once in your life?" Taako asked and Lucretia laughed a little. "I'm angry at you. Is that what you wanna hear?"

"Not particularly, but I'll take it," Lucretia said.

"I can't- Lucretia, I'm gonna live for hundreds of years after this," Taako said, fidgeting with the loose string on the arm of her reading chair. "Thousands of humans and orcs and dwarfs or whatever will die in that span of time. I'm not at peace with what you did yet and we both know that, right?" Lucretia nodded. "But it'd be real stupid of me if I tried to figure all that shit out while you're still alive. Does that make sense?"

"Not really," Lucretia said honestly.

"It's gonna take me ages to really process this," Taako tried again. "And I've already done some, seeing as I'm in the same room as you and not blasting your wrinkly ass with a buncha magic missiles-" Lucretia cracked a grin. "But if I let that get in the way of us hanging out, then I'm gonna be really bitter when I finally do process it. Like, oh wow, I finally get it, or whatever, let's go hang out with Lucretia- oh wait. Y'know?"

"I think I know," Lucretia said. Taako looked away from her again, sinking into the armchair. "Thank you for telling me that, Taako."

"Yeah, well, someone had to," he said.

"Someone had to," Lucretia agreed. "I love you."

"Love you too," Taako said, pulling down his hat over his eyes. "I gotta go pick up groceries. You've got absolutely bare minimum food here and Lup's stomach is now literally a bottomless pit, so."

"Go," Lucretia laughed, waving him away. He stood up, scooting the chair back into place. "I'll still be here when you get back. Probably."

"Probably," Taako said. "Last meal ideas?"

"I want macaroons so bad," Lucretia said, gripping her fist and shaking it in the air. "So bad, Taako! No one will make them for me!"

"I'll consider it," Taako said, grinning. "Nice knowin' ya."

"It's been a pleasure, I'm sure," Lucretia said.

#lucretia #taako #taz lucretia #taz taako #mine #asks #boatwizard2 #ise cube writing #ask to tag #im vv :D w this

[barry-j-blupjeans]

blupjeans 8 from the angst list? :)

8 angst. “Is that blood?” “…..No?”

((sentence starters - still accepting!))

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"Almost there, Bar, hang tight."

Y'know, sometimes things just didn't go as planned. For example, sometimes Barry would have liked to eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but he spaced out and put mayo instead of jelly. Or, as another example, sometimes his theories about how the light works fall through, and he has to rework an entire experiment. Just little things like that.

Sometimes, you go out on a scouting mission and end up half-dead at the bottom of a ravine because apparently magic is illegal here. Normal, everyday stuff.

At least for Barry.

The sky in this world is a constant light pink and there hasn't been a day so far where the temperature has gone lower than seventy Fahrenheit. So really, he's in the best conditions someone could hope for when being left for dead. The rational part of his brain is screaming to get up, to try to go looking for the crew, to make it easier for them to find him- or maybe that's the anxious part of his brain. Or maybe they've combined into one, slightly larger part just for this purpose. Unfourtently for them, Barry's injuries are getting to him.

He was laying halfway in the stream that ran through the bottom of the ravine, his head pounding. There was a ringing in his ears that wouldn't go away. He was pretty sure he wasn't supposed to feel as numb as he did, but, well, he wasn't really in the position to get up and do something about it. He knew, at the very least, that there was something wrong around his stomach.

His Stone of Farspeech crackled next to his head. Barry hadn't been able to reach it before, but it had turned itself on. When he hadn't responded to Davenport's words- his brain and mouth really hadn't been working together- they had sent out a search party. They had specifically sent Lup and Merle.

Maybe his anxious brain wasn't teaming up with logic, after all, because where he should have been focused on getting their attention, he was instead focused on "oh gods, Lup's gonna see me like this. That's embarrassing."

And, like an angel, Lup appeared at the top of the ravine. Outlined against the pink sky, she was the perfect picture of beautiful and amazing and powerful and goddamnit Barry was in too deep-

(Merle was like a smaller, asthmatic angel, but Barry was happy to see him, too.)

"Comin' down," Lup said through the Stone of Farspeech. Barry watched as they trekked their way down the steep slope towards him. He tried to push himself up, but something about that shot pain through his abdomen, so he had to lay back down.

"Is that blood?" Lup asked, rushing towards him. Merle stumbled on the last few steps, falling behind.

"...no?" Barry said, because he honestly hadn't noticed he had been bleeding. It made sense, at the very least, that he'd bleeding from his wounds. That sounded right. But he couldn't bend his head in the correct position to check.

"Oof," Merle said. "Yowza kid, they did a number on you."

"Did they?" Barry said, a little more than anxious now.

"You're fine," Lup and Merle said at the same time. Merle glanced at Lup. Lup contained with,

"You're gonna be fine, Bar." She held onto his hand and squeezed. Barry could feel that, at least. "Merle will help."

"Glad someone has faith in me," Merle said, rolling up his sleeves. "Lup, can you sit him up a bit?" Barry tried not to tense up too much as Lup heaved him into a slightly more upright position. He was leaning up against her now, his head supported against her shoulder. Now that he could see his stomach- actually, no, Barry didn't want to see that. There was something protruding from it that looked suspiciously like the weapon he had been attacked with.

"Hey, Barry, look at me." Barry snapped his gaze back to Merle. "I'm gonna heal that gash in your stomach first, okay? Count of three. One-" Barry gasped as Merle pulled the weapon out and pressed down on the wound. In a second, it had knitted itself back up again. It was incredibly sore, but no longer open. Barry let out a shaky breath.

"I'm not sure you know how to count to three, Merle," he said weakly.

"You'd be too tense if he waited for three," Lup said. She patted his shoulder. With that pain gone, he was now acutely aware of how close he was to Lup. "He does the same shit with Magnus."

#blupjeans #lup #barry bluejeans #merle highchurch #taz #mine #asks #boatwizard2 #ise cube writing #idk how i feel about this one but here it is anyway sldkfsd

[barry-j-blupjeans]

19 or 26 with barry and the birds? sorry for sending so many

26. hahaha no worries, it's not my blood

((no longer accepting but you can find these prompts here!))

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Barry was in a strangely good mood as he staggered back into the Starblaster. It had been... what? Three months? Three and a half? It had been a while out there. Being kidnapped halfway through a mission was definitely not the way he wanted to spend this cycle but it wasn't awful. Like, Barry's been kidnapped before, but at least these people had the decency to give him water every once and a while. Overall, not a bad stay. Six-point-five out of ten stars.

Actually, maybe seven stars, because he had the Light and he was only moderately wounded. If you didn't count the emotional stuff.

But he was in a good mood nonetheless.

There were low voices talking from the kitchen area and he caught a draft of a very nice smell. Barry's stomach rumbled. He'd been eating the bare minimum for the past few months, so he was real excited to finally get some proper food in him.

"Uh, hey," Barry said, stepping into the kitchen. They were eating dinner, hell yeah. Even more of a hell yeah with the fact that they were all still alive. They stared at him. Magnus dropped his fork. "I, uh, I got the Light?"

"Oh my god," Davenport said.

"Yeah, I know it's-"

"Holy shit!" Lup said, flinging herself out of her chair. Barry stumbled slightly at the force that she threw herself at him. He laughed, only feeling slightly bruised as Lup hugged him. She pulled back, cupping his face in her hands. She looked tearful. "Barry, babe, how- I thought you died!"

"Sorry to disappoint," Barry said and she squeezed his face a little harder, shaking her head. Before she could respond, Magnus came and swooped them both up into a hug. Barry laughed again. And then there was Taako on the right, and Lucretia, and Merle, and Davenport, holy shit, he had missed everyone so much.

"Put 'em down!" Merle said. "You're not the only one who missed him, Mags!"

"Sorry," Magnus said, not sounding sorry at all. Very gently, he placed Barry back on the floor. Merle gave him a half-hug around the waist.

"Do you need like..." Lucretia grimaced, looking him up and down. "Medical attention, or like, uh. Clean clothes?"

Barry looked down at his shirt. It was extremely bloody. He had forgotten about that.

"Oh, don't worry," he said. "It's not my blood."

"I mean, that's- that's good," Lucretia laughed. "But you are kinda, uhm..."

"Gross," Taako offered. He gingerly patted Barry's shoulder and then wiped his hand off on Lup's jacket. "And sweaty."

"Very sweaty," Lup agreed.

"That's- that's fair," Barry said, not really caring at all, because he was back and Lup was here and he was alive and- "I should shower." His stomach rumbled again. "And eat probably."

"Go shower," Davenport said. "Please. We'll save you some."

"Right," Barry said. He held up the Light. "Someone should... do something with this."

"I'll put it in the lab," Lup said, taking it from him. With her free hand, she pulled him into another hug. Barry rested his face against her shoulder. "Be quick, okay? I don't want your food to get cold."

"I'll be as quick as I can," Barry said. Lup pulled back and he caught her hand, squeezing. "Missed you."

"Gross," Taako butted in again.

"Missed you too," Lup said.

#barry bluejeans #lup #blupjeans #taz #taz balance #dont wanna tag everyone else sdlkfs #n dont be sorry for sending a lotta prompts!!! i love prompts sldfsd #the only way i can write anymore /hj #asks #boatwizard2 #mine #ise cube writing #i'ma just... post this now ig

[barry-j-blupjeans]

also 7 from misc with blupjeans too if you want to :)

7. “If I die, I’m haunting you first.”

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As much as Barry loved Taako and Lup, he still really hated adventuring. The whole situation with Sizzle It Up was... well, they didn't really talk about it, but it had been bad. And now that they couldn't rely on merch sales to pay their stay anywhere, they had to make do with other jobs. Lup and Taako, of course, had done adventuring before. Barry doubted there that there was a job in existence that Lup and Taako hadn't already tried.

But before this, and before Sizzle It Up, Barry worked at a university science lab. He wore rubber gloves and lab coats and safety goggles. Someone tell him why adventurers didn't have safety goggles when your eyes were a weak point right in the middle of your face.

"A lil gold for your thoughts?" Lup asked, nudging his side.

"I'm not in the mood to die tonight," Barry said before he could stop himself. "We were gonna have pot roast."

"We'll still have pot roast," Lup said. "This is just... a detour."

"A detour is like, going past the park instead of going past the drugstore," Barry said. "This is going to slay a terrifying beast instead of getting carrots for pot roast."

"It can't be that bad," Lup said. Barry ignore the very tight grip she had on her umbrastaff. "I'm a kickass wizard, you're... you've got plenty of skills-"

"Thanks."

"So we'll be fine," Lup continued. They reached the end of the street, a few feet from the alleyway where the horrifying, disgusting monster that had been terrorizing Phandalin lived. It was getting dark out. Taako was going to be incredibly upset that they were taking this long to get carrots.

Lup reached into her bag, searching for something. Barry hadn't brought his sword because he hadn't thought it was necessary. He kind of wished he had now. Scratch that, he really wished he had, because now Lup was pulling out brass knuckles and handing them to him. They were pretty heavy and a little bit tight on him, but it'd make do.

Inside the alleyway, something made a growling sound.

"This is a bad idea," Barry whispered nervously, adjusting the brass knuckles and choosing not to ask why Lup carried these around with her.

"It's fine," Lup said reassuringly, readying her umbrastaff. "It can't be that bad or we would have already heard about it. Phandalin isn't that big, right? You ready?"

"If I die, I'm haunting you first," Barry said seriously. "I'm ready."

Lup passed him a grin (he ignored the funny feeling in his chest he got from it) and stepped towards the alley. She cast Dancing Lights and a few balls of light popped up around them. The thing inside the alleyway hissed. Lup turned the corner, pulling Barry in with her. The Dancing Lights filled up the alleyway, showing them, clear as day, the monster lurking inside.

"Oh, hell no," Lup said. A small, scraggly-looking cat hissed up at them. Barry could practically feel the relief pouring into him. "I'm not killing that thing."

The cat let out an admittedly terrifying yowl. Lup softened.

"It's not, uhm. It's not as bad as I thought it'd be," he said. Lup crouched down and the cat backed up a few feet. "We- we can go now, right? It's just a cat."

"Barry," Lup said, glancing up at him. "Look at it."

Barry looked again. It was very... cat-shaped. It sent a glare in his direction that made Barry understand why other people thought it was a terrifying monster. When he looked back at Lup, she was already making her way towards it. He knew that look in her eyes.

"What happened to pot roast?" Barry asked.

"Taako will appreciate a cat much more than he'd appreciate food," Lup said. And while Barry didn't necessarily know if that was true, he really couldn't say no to Lup. For anything. It was starting to become a problem. If anything, the cat was the least of his worries.

"What's the plan?" Barry sighed, slipping the brass knuckles off.

#blupjeans #barry bluejeans #lup #taz #mine #asks #boatwizard2 #ise cube writing #i feel. weird about writing recently #hopefully this is at least semi in character but idk sdlkfsd

[foxgirldick]

for the blorbo game, taz balance bc ive been hyperfixed. also feel free to do bloodborne too if you want to even though I know nothing about it

TAZ Balance:

Blorbo - Lup Taaco My Beloved. I kin her so much

Scrunkly - Angus McDonald my sweet boy

Scrimblo Bimblo - Garfield the Deals Warlock

Glup Shitto - it's been a while but that quiz robot. Hodgepodge?

Poor Little Meow Meow - Lucretia and Barry are my poor little meow meows in different ways

Horse Plinko - Jenkins would be fun to put in horse plinko

Eeby Deeby - also Jenkins because i think he'd be funny about it. i don't dislike Jenkins he's just such a funny little man

Bloodborne:

Blorbo - i so badly want to just say all of them but I'll say Lady Maria or Eileen the Crow OH AND TGE MOON PRESENCE <3 those characters are my three genders

Scrunkly - Gilbert and Oedon Chapel Dweller

Scrimblo Bimblo - Arianna... idk if she counts as underrated but still

Glup Shitto - this one's odd bc most characters in Bloodborne are a bit fleeting but im gonna say the Bloody Crow of Cainhurst OH ALSO the Queen Killer

Poor Little Meow Meow - Oedon Chapel Dweller is my poor little meow meow in that i think hes just a little guy and he deserves better but Father Gascoigne is my poor little meow meow in that hes a fucked up guy and hes a little pathetic <3 also all the creatures in the research hall and the Living Failures. and the Orphan of Kos. and Micolash. lotta meow meows in bloodborne and they're mostly bosses

Horse Plinko - also Micolash and Patches the Spider, for different reasons; Micolash the same way i would Jenkins, Patches because i hate him

Eeby Deeby - Patches. maybe Gehrman for funsies

#asks #boatwizard2 #thank you for the ask it's been a while since I've listened to TAZ so i didn't go super in depth sorry #but i relish every opportunity to talk about bloodborne

[foxgirldick]

c1# pure vibes alone please tell me if this is accurate

oooh definitely a fun one!! glad i seem to be vibing with the Burial Blade :3

#the armor is the Crowfeather Set #it's what Eileen the Crow wears #she's a hunter of hunters which means when a Hunter becomes blood-drunk and needs to be executed before they can fully become a beast #she hunts them down and deftly and skillfully cuts them to the quick #Burial blade meteorite scythe. it's one of my faves #the rune... i haven't actually used that one in game #it's Beasts Embrace i think? smth like that #if i recall it boosts temporary transformation which is a mechanic i truly know fuck-all about #i like the vibes though. feral psychopomp innit #asks #boatwizard2 #bloodborne