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moonstruckme · 8 months

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I feel like Poly!marauders are sooo caring so maybe a dynamic where the reader is like an overly-insependent person and is not used to this kind of care and affection. Maybe it is reader’s first relationship so they have a hard time with the concept of leaning to others for support. Thank you in advance love!

Lmao this came wayyy too easily because I've definitely done all of these things! Thanks for requesting lovely <3

modern au

poly!marauders x fem!reader ♡ 1k words

"Where you headed off to, gorgeous?" Sirius looks up from his laptop as you step into your shoes.

"Grocery store," you say. "I'm thinking of making souffle tonight, would you want some?"

"Yeah, that sounds great." He grins at you in that way of his, and you know he knows your knees just went wobbly. "Want a lift?"

"Thanks, but the bus goes almost directly there."

Remus looks up from his book with eyebrows already furrowed in disapproval. "It's nearly dark out, love. You shouldn't be walking around by yourself this late."

You roll your eyes. Men. "I can handle myself, been doing it for years," you say as reassuringly as you can, slipping out the door before either of them can argue with you further. "I'll be back soon!"

You keep a hand close to the rape alarm attached to your bag as you maneuver your way through the shadowy streets. You've been tired since you woke up that morning, so a ride would have been nice, sure, but you don't want to become one of those girlfriends who relies on her boyfriends for everything. That was your biggest concern with getting into a relationship: losing the sense of self-reliance you've cultivated over your life. You don't need help from anyone, even if the big, strong men think you do. You huff a laugh to yourself.

The grocery shopping goes quick, soon you're back at your own front door. Sirius and Remus are almost exactly as you left them, both curled up on the couch, but now James is home from the gym. You know this, because he apprehends you as soon as you walk through the door, hair wet from the shower and dripping on your paper grocery bags as he attempts to take them from you.

"I've got them," you laugh, dodging him.

James gives chase. "You're carrying three! Let me take a couple."

"I can handle it." You kick at his ankle playfully, sniffling.

He pauses, and you take the opportunity to whisk the bags into the kitchen, setting them on the counter victoriously. "You feeling alright, sweetheart?" he asks.

"Yeah." You wave him off. "It's just chilly outside. Go relax, I'm about to start dinner."

James pouts but goes, flopping dramatically over the side of the couch. His head lands in Sirius' lap, and the other boy starts combing his fingers through the tangles of James' wet hair absentmindedly. Satisfied, you start setting out the ingredients you'll need, but a moment later Remus materializes beside you.

"You've been running around all day," he says. "Let me make dinner. You go relax."

"I don't mind," you say, slightly affronted. "I can handle dinner."

"Baby," Sirius pipes up, turning to look at you over the couch, "just let him do it. Take a—" he stops as you sneeze. "Are you sick?"

"No," you sniffle. "I don't think so."

Before you can move away, Remus has a hand on your forehead. "You're warm!" he says, in the same tone as one might say You're killing people and burying them in our backyard! A bit dramatic, in your opinion.

"Oh," you say, covering your face with your elbow as you sneeze again.

"Aw, angel," James says, your sole ally as Remus and Sirius look at you accusingly, as though they suspect you've been keeping this from them on purpose. Which....to be fair, isn't outside the realm of possibility. "Come sit with us, let us take care of you."

"Go," Remus says, moving his hand to the back of your neck and pursing his lips at whatever he feels there. "I'll make dinner, and some tea for you, yeah?"

You shake your head. "That's alright, I can—"

"Don't say you can handle it."

You huff, but it's clear you're not going to win this one. You go to the couch, where James accepts you with eager arms.

"Our poor girl," he coos, kissing every inch of your cheek sloppily. "Fuck, you are warm. You just need to take some time to rest, yeah?"

You sniffle grouchily, but Sirius pokes at your side, eliciting an unwilling snicker. "You could stand to let us help you out every now and then," he says, already seeming less upset with you. You suspect you have your illness to thank for that.

"I can take care of myself," you argue, but the fight is going out of you as you finally give into the cold you maybe sort of knew was coming on all day.

"We know you can, dove," Remus chimes in from the kitchen. "And that's what you've always done, but letting us take care of you sometimes isn't going to suddenly make you helpless, either." He shoots you a knowing look, too perceptive for his own good. And yours, apparently.

You sneeze again, jerking away from James so you don't spray on him. You feel disgusting, and pathetically vulnerable. Is this what they want you to succumb to? "I don't want to get too used to this," you say, voice small as you sniffle, wiping your nose on your sleeve, "and forget how to manage without your help."

Each of your boyfriends, even Remus, softens like butter in the sun.

"Baby." Sirius wraps an arm around you, looking at you with eyes so soft you feel like you could cry. "You won't forget. You're tough, and that's not gonna change just because you let us do some things for you, yeah?"

You look at your lap, contemplating. He's not not making sense. The idea of accepting help is so unfamiliar to you, it feels like a betrayal of your core values. But you love Sirius, and Remus, and James, and if what they want is to help you, maybe you can try to let them. Some of the time, at least.

Sirius curls a finger under your jaw, his thumb resting on your chin as he tilts your face up to his. He must see the concession in your eyes, because he smiles softly. It's almost an apology, and you know that he's aware of how difficult this is for you to give up.

"You're gonna have to get used to this, sweet thing," he says lightly, pressing a kiss to your overwarm forehead. "Because we're not letting you go."

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been-taking-muay-thai-classes · 1 year

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Because I Love You

This story was inspired by @love-thanatopsis Jamil angst. Go give it a read so you can have the full context (also because it’s really good, like their whole library is sooooo gooooodd) as this is meant as a sequel.

You know Jamil doesn’t love you, not like you love him, maybe not at all. But you don’t need him to love you, you know he’s hurting and angry, so you try to give him your love to help him heal, to know that he is cared for, wanted.

And you know he doesn’t take it to heart, to him it must be a ploy to make yourself look better. But you don’t care so long as he allows you to tend to his broken heart and tired mind and help him however you can. It’s not perfect and it’s not easy, but slowly you think he’ll feel better, maybe even trust you for real.

Because you love him.

One day you overhear him asking himself why he indulges your crush, he doesn’t understand how you can love him when you barely know him, the true him. You want to laugh, that is just the thing he would think. Because you knew him. He was brilliant, hardworking, cunning, quick witted, overbearing and mistrustful. He couldn’t believe that someone would care about him for him but he also believed he was so much better than other students. It’s funny and sad how much being forced to live in Kalim’s shadow has affected him.

So you come up with a plan. Jamil doesn’t like letting Kalim do things on his own because he doesn’t trust he can handle the responsibility and it’ll end up being more tasks piled on his already busy schedule. Really you think it might be a bit much, it’s putting a lot more responsibilities than necessary on Jamil and forcing Kalim to rely on him for probably the rest of his life. Being this overbearing won’t do either of them any good. So you decide to “kidnap” Kalim to teach him to be more self-reliant. What better gift for Jamil than that? Well, a paid vacation to some foreing country but you lack the funds for that.

Kalim seems happy enough, peeling and chopping fruits to bake a tart for Riddle’s unbirthday party that you invited him to. Meanwhile you guide him closely, ensuring he won’t cut his fingers or burn his hands. But you can’t keep your eyes on him because eventually Grim gets bored and tries to eat some of the ingredients so you have to stop him and Kalim is both trying to focus on his task and laughing at Grim’s antics.

He cuts his finger.

Just a nick mind you, nothing serious or deadly, but it is noticeable. You panic, thinking of how annoyed Jamil would be if he saw this. You can practically hear him reprimanding you both ‘How could you be so careless to leave Kalim unattended? And you, I told you Kalim not to hold knives!’ Immediately you grab his hand and run it under the faucet to clean it. You tell Kalim to stay there while you retrieve your first aid kit.

It takes less than two minutes to patch him up and soon Kalim is peeling fruits again. You asked him to stop so he won’t hurt himself again but he says his thumb barely stings a little and that he wants to keep cooking with you, so he doesn’t have to burden Jamil with this all the time ‘Besides I know what I did wrong, I should’ve drop the knife when I started laughing but I wanted sooo bad to finish slicing this apple. It won’t happen again though, so don’t worry!’ Seeing his proud smile, you let him continue. Even if this was your plan all along, you still feel a bit guilty seeing him work with the bandaid on his finger. Guess it’s true what they used to tell you “sometimes you must hurt in order to know”.

A few days later, you and Kalim are meeting at the library to study together. Riddle and Azul offered to help you catch up on the history of Twisted Wonderland and you asked Kalim if he wanted to tag along so he could review for his upcoming exams. He agreed happily and now here you were, searching for the Housewarden duo.

Azul signals for you from the back, a stack of books already splayed open on the table and a couple of notebooks filled with neatly organized notes waiting by their sides. You and Kalim sit in front of them and pay close attention to their explanations…well you more than Kalim who gets distracted every once in a while. Still your study is going well, Kalim gets a lot of answers right and you learn a lot of interesting facts about this world. All in all it was a good evening with your newest friends.

Today you are visiting Scarabia at Kalim’s behest. He asked that you help him prepare a surprise for Jamil since he classified for the basketball team’s starting lineup for the upcoming tournament. Naturally you said yes immediately, wanting to give Jamil a nice surprise for finally showing off some of the skills he has honed so much through the years but was never allowed to actually show.

So here you are, in Scarabia’s kitchen preparing a dinner with all of Jamil’s favorites. Curry for the main course and some kleicha cookies with walnut paste instead of date. Kalim had instructed some of the other students to decorate the lounge and you managed to convince him to ask for something light instead of the usual spectacle he liked to put on banquets, since Jamil himself doesn’t particularly like the more bombastic parties.

Ace and Floyd had been tasked with keeping Jamil occupied until everything was ready and in exchange, they’d get to partake in the party. A pretty good deal considering Floyd’s mood swings meant he could have just rejected the offer all together.

All in all, everything was coming out pretty well.

You two were finishing the last dish when Jamil arrived and made his presence known ‘What are you two doing?’ Kalim jumped from the surprise, not expecting him to return so early. You on the other hand were more worried about the tone of his voice, there was something off about it.

‘Jamil! We didn’t expect you here so soon!’ Kalim responded with a big, bright smile. He clearly saw nothing wrong with his answer since it was the truth but to Jamil it was almost a confession of something terrible.

Truth be told, Jamil had noticed how in the past few weeks you had been spending more time with his charge. At first he didn’t care, it simply meant he had more free time if you two could get your social needs met together instead of separately, two birds one stone and all that. Unfortunately, soon he realized just how much time you two were spending together…without him.

Now he wasn’t jealous, why would he? He didn’t have actual feelings for you and he certainly didn’t mind having to babysit Kalim less, but he still felt something ugly and hot twisting in his stomach whenever he spotted you giggling carelessly with that idiotic, clumsy, pampered little rich boy.

Pff, he should have seen this coming, really. Why would you settle for him once he proved unfixable when you could just move on to the friendlier, richer Kalim. It still stung though, even knowing that deep down it was his fault. Maybe he could’ve been more attentive, more careful when spending time with you. But at the same time you claimed you liked the real him, and the real him didn’t feel like putting in a lot of effort in a relationship he entertained mostly out of pity and pride.

This relationship was bound to fail from the get go. Jamil wanted to be number one, and while it annoyed him having to care for you, he knew he was number one to you, so he kept coming back no matter how tired he was. You on the other hand wanted to fix him, be seen as a kind and caring person for helping the guy who betrayed resident sunshine boy Kalim. And yet…a tiny part of him hated that thought. He wanted to care, really care and he wanted you to care too, despite his venom.

His mood, high from seeing the results of the basketball lineup, hadn’t been shaken in the slightest by Ace and Floyd’s antics, stealing his clothes and forcing him to run around the locker room trying to get them back. But seeing you two so close together, cooking curry like you’ve done this before… Jamil wanted to scream yet felt undeserving. ‘And why would that be? Did you plan something without telling me?’ Really the rational part of his brain told him he was being paranoid. Kalim may be oblivious to a lot of things and he may be careless but he was no traitor, surely this was just a friendly hangout. He saw Kalim’s arm drop a knife (didn’t he tell him not to touch knives?) onto a cutting board full of sliced onions and drape across your shoulders.

His ire rose. Enough so that he barely heard what Kalim was saying.

‘We’re almost done here Jamil, so why don’t you go ahead to the lounge and wait for us there? I promise you won’t want to miss what we have to show you!’ Was he being cryptic on purpose? Or was he taunting him? No, Kalim lacks the bite to do that… Jamil wants to scream again, what is going on here?! Why won’t you meet his eyes and soothe his fears? Sure, he’s never been the most attentive boyfriend but you promised you didn’t mind that, and besides he still treated you better than those two idiots and a half that always followed you around, so say something! Tell him this is all just a misunderstanding, a prank, anything to calm his racing mind!

‘Actually Kalim, I think it’d be better if he stayed here. Otherwise it may ruin…it’ Surely Jamil was losing his mind. There was no way you were giving Kalim a seductive look…you told him you saw him like a puppy or a little brother, nothing like you saw Jamil… No, he was sure you were giving Kalim a look, you two were hiding something but he couldn’t decipher what and it was driving him crazy.

‘Alright, if you think so. Jamil, please stay here for a moment while I go check on everything. And don’t worry, (Y/N) made sure to prepare your favorites!’ Kalim left the kitchen in a flash, dropping his apron on the table and pushing him closer to his partner.

Finally alone, Jamil opened his mouth- ‘I can’t tell you, it’s a surprise for a reason’ You spoke before he could utter a sound and caught him by surprise. He frowned, thinking of how else to phrase his questions so he could get answers but, once again, you seemed to know what was on his mind ‘Don’t worry Jamil, it’s nothing bad. Just a little something we wanted to make for you. Kalim and I had to convince a bunch of the students to help since they are still unsure on where they stand but in the end I think this will really help your standing in Scarabia, what with all the good times Kalim reminded them of’

He took a few steps closer, just enough to be at arm's length from you ‘Since when are you and Kalim so close? I’ve never allowed him to hold a knife and yet here he was, peeling and cutting like it’s a regular occurrence while chatting with you like an old friend’ He hoped the accusation on his voice was imperceptible and maybe to someone else it may be, but to you it was obvious. Now that you heard it closely and saw his reactions to Kalim’s words and movements you understood what was off about his voice earlier.

Jamil was jealous.

You couldn’t help the smirk that pulled on your lips. Oh this was amazing. Jamil, full of venom and mistrust, afraid that you only liked him as a project instead of as a person, was succumbing to his feelings for you. This was too good to pass up.

‘I’ve been teaching him a few things these past weeks, cooking and cleaning mostly since he wanted to be more independent and I thought it might help you too, not having to do his every chore for him. He’s a fast learner’ You praise the boy earnestly, Kalim really is a good friend, always doing things with a smile, eager to do his best. You can see why everybody in Scarabia is conflicted over who to chose, Kalim is a natural leader, knowing when to defer to others, motivating people to give their all to whatever they have to do, while Jamil was a specialist, doing anything with great skill and showing the others how to do the same, even if they never quite reached his level of expertise.

‘Hmph, could’ve fooled me with how long it takes him to learn a few incantations’ Jamil’s murmur was loud enough that you heard it and chuckled, there it was, his mean side was oddly charming to you. He stared at you when he heard your chuckle and it made you self conscious. You ordered the utensils in the kitchen to hide your blush but Jamil simply kept staring at you as you moved around the kitchen.

‘Jamil! We’re ready! Come on out!’ Kalim’s yell wasn’t enough to break the staring but it did give you an excuse to leave the suddenly too-tiny kitchen. He followed you closely.

As soon as you two entered the lounge, a chorus of ‘Surprise!’ greeted you and Jamil’s eyes finally left you to focus on his dorm mates congratulating him. He looked confused for a second so you quickly explained ‘We heard that you classified for the basketball team’s lineup so Kalim and I decided to make you a dinner to congratulate you, seeing how hard you work all the time’ You could tell he was speechless from the way his mouth closed and opened. You wanted so bad to know what was going through his mind right now.

‘Thank you…all of you’ Jamil addressed the rest of the dorm but his eyes returned to you in the end, searching for something. ‘Ace and Floyd helped too, though I’m not sure if their method was all that great seeing how you got here before you were supposed to’ You explain as you signal to his teammates standing near some pillars laughing animatedly. He made a comment about them taking any opportunity to play pranks on him but how he’d get them back before he turned around and grabbed your hand.

You let him drag you to the table, sitting side by side as everybody started eating. Some Scarabia student’s congratulated him as he served himself some curry and one even commented how he would make their dorm proud in the tournament. Jamil smirked, thanking them for their support before eating from his plate. The curry was delicious and he hated that it was because it meant that you and Kalim truly worked well together, but he also loved it because you made it just the way he liked it and so he had to grab another plate.

When he was done with the curry, he ate some cookies, happily surprised to find that they had no date paste, sure it was the traditional recipe but he couldn’t stand dates after the bug incident.

At the end of dinner, Jamil excused himself to go take some air, he needed to think.

You had done so much for him these past few weeks, things that proved that you did know him. That he was your number one priority, even if he didn’t give you the attention you deserved. Damn his traitorous heart, beating wildly on his chest at the thought of you doing all of this so he could feel relaxed, appreciated…seen. He is no longer invisible. No longer overwhelmed. Jamil can take a step back and see the stars, the stress slowly leaving his body.

When he hears you approaching, his heart beats faster. He has to admit it, he wasn’t sure what to make of your admission in the kitchen, but the more he thought about it and about how he felt seeing you with Kalim, the more he knew he didn’t want to lose you.

‘Did you enjoy the party? I told Kalim to not go overboard since I didn’t want to overwhelm you’ You sit beside him on the sand and wait for his reply.

Jamil looks at you silently, debating whether to say what’s on his mind. You look at him with so much adoration he can’t help it, he has to be selfish, for his own sanity. ‘I don’t want you and Kalim to cook together ever again’

‘Huh?!’ Of all the things you expected to hear from him, that was not one. ‘Wh- What do you mean? Why?’

Jamil smirks at you, one hand grabbing you by the chin and the other caging you by the waist ‘Because I love you’ In his kiss, you understood at last. Jamil doesn’t love you like you love him… You love him enough to spend your days lessening his burden, he loves you enough to burden himself for you.

#twisted wonderland #twst mc #jamil viper #jamil viper x reader #I wrote this as soon as Ciel gave me permission #it took me like 3 hours (in the am because I have no sens eof responsibility) to finish and I gotta say I'm pretty happy with it #the brainrot is real #could have queued this but I have no self control #hedgehog originals

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that-one-anxious-mango · 1 year

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Heyyy ☺️ I love this series sooo much, it is so nice to see Austin stories that involve a black reader. Not having to edit the story in my head to make it fit me is wonderful 🥰. For your Drabble event could you do either first date or a special date that they have had? Thank you 💕 💕

20 Questions.

Summary: It’s a in-house date night with Austin and his best girl. Where you get to know them and they get to know each other!

Contents: Fluff ofc! Mentions of deceased relatives. Little angst if you squint. Slight steaminess. Austin and his best girl being the cutest.

A/N: Hi Beautiful Humans! It’s me! I hope y’all of you are having a wonderful time. Just wanted to go ahead and drop this off for you guys and also give some special shout-outs to:

@pennyroyalcreep for not only this lovely prompt, but also for your continued love and support with my work. ❤️

@purejasmine one of the sweetest people I know and a absolutely amazing writer. Thanks for always supporting and creating.

I also wanna thank @adoreyouusugar , @denised916, and @homebodybirkin2003 whose comments never cease to make me smile.

And to everyone else who I may have missed. THANK YOU. I truly appreciate it.

Moving on I am also officially starting a tag list. As I plan to upload some things this week. So if you’d like to be added please leave a :) in the comments.

Thank you all!

P.S Everyone feel free to PLEASE comment and reblog. Also send me letters with idea and prompts. Love hearing from you all. Much love! * hugs*

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Today was Friday.

Which also meant it was date night.

And with it being quite gloomy outside for the usual LA weather the two of you had decided that it'd be the perfect day to have a in-house date night. You insisted that tonight you would to try and cook for your man a simple meal of grilled cheese and tomato soup.

A skeptical but supportive Austin would go on to happily watch you not only blacken all attempts at the grilled cheese, but also burn the poor tomato soup that you forgot to add enough water to.

And once the tears started rolling, in real Austin fashion he'd wrapped you in a blanket and placed you on the couch promising to return. After cleaning up your food fail he pulled out all the ingredients he needed and made a hell of a good pan of pasta.

After some feeding, cuddling, finger fucking , and napping. The two of you had decided that a more PG-13 activity was in order. With that you suggested a game that you'd been wanting to play with Austin for a while. Let's get deep: 20 question edition.

" Okay. Here we go, number one." You listened to Austin while you giggled staring down at the stacks of cards in front of you and then back up at Austin, who looked on in amusement. " What movie was so sad that you would never watch it again? " He asked.

" Mmmm." You thought for a minute, there were plenty but really you could only narrow it down to two, " I think I would definitely have to say either Dumbo or Fruitvale Station. I can't choose. You can only watch both once." You affirmed.

" Watching Dumbo is a traumatizing experience that no child of any age should be subjected to at all. Like just the first thirty minutes was enough for me to need a lifelong therapist. And as far as Fruitvale Station goes...I feel that the content overview speaks for itself. It's a beautiful movie, but I could barely make it through til the end." You explained.

Austin nodded, " I seen Dumbo a long time ago when I was little and all I remember is this very strong urge to go hug my mom after watching. " He said making you smile, " But I haven't seen Fruitvale Station. No particular reason why, it's just never happened."

" Understandable." You nodded reaching to grab another card off one of the piles.

" My turn. Two. What's the weirdest thing you find attractive in a person?" You moved your eyes to look at him in curiosity.

Almost immediately he said, " People who floss."

Amused in question you went, " Really? Why? "

" Yeah. I don't know. But in a weird way to me. It shows that you care about yourself. Like babe, do you know how many people don't floss. Ever." He explained.

And the more you thought about it, he was right. Gross.

But lucky for you, you didn't have that problem seeing as your upbringing had made you a bit of a dental freak. So you hit all the points in that department.

" Yeah. I guess I see your point. " You said just as a thought passed in your mind, " So, do you find it attractive when I floss." You goofed biting a bit of your upper lip.

Laughing at you he leaned over to plant a hardy peck to your lips, pulling away to say, " Makes my dick jump every time, sweetheart." He half whispered sending the two of you into a short fit of laughter.

" Alright alright alright. Next. Three. " He moved to pick up a card, " Describe our relationship in three words." He asked.

Even though you had to think a bit, it didn't take you long before you had your three words, " Meaningful.....Honest.... Adaptive. " You answered.

Eyes glimmering in happiness and satisfaction Austin questioned, " I know these are suppose to be short but, care to elaborate please."

" Well, I feel it's meaningful because literally almost everything we do has some type of meaning behind it. Like when you got me the fern. Or when I gave you the blanket. There's always some type of love behind everything. Plus you mean so much to me and in-turn I mean so much to you, which I guess in general terms makes us meaningful..right?" You giggled trying your best to explain your thoughts in the best way you could.

But Austin understood what you meant, he felt his heart swelling bigger and bigger by the moment, " I see. So what about honest?"

" I feel our relationship is also built around honesty. I know I've told you this before but throughout my life I've encountered a great deal of liars and that's something that I really didn't wanna come into my adult life with. Unavoidable I know. And especially in a relationship. " You began, " But with you, from the day that we sat down, listening to you be so open and honest with me when at the time I was just a complete stranger to you. It made me feel something. And from then on I've never ever had to second guess anything or feel like your keeping things from me. It's refreshing and I value that." You explained.

Austin listened intently thinking back to the first hours the two of you had spent together talking after he'd finished reading you the book. Hearing you talk about how surprised you were hearing Austin talk the way he did shocked him a bit. He hadn't really ever realized just how personal the two of you had gotten in that short amount of time. But to him now, that was just proof that this was something special from the start.

" And finally I think we're adaptive because whether it be your schedule or mine that keeps up from doing traditional couples stuff. We make it work. We adapt to whatever challenge we face together. And that's important." You finished offering a smile.

Austin return your feeling of content displaying a smile of his own. He was so happy to be with you. And to be building the kind of relationship where it's foundations were things like these. Things that would help the two of you last, because all in all. That was goal.

" I think all of that is really accurate and beautiful, mama. I love you." He said reaching for your hand to bring it to his lips and press a gentle kiss to it.

" I love you, Aus." You returned reaching that same hand to palm his cheek.

The two of you continued your little moment before moving forward.

" Number four. Name something that you wish you could do but can't." You asked.

Teasing Austin said, " Gain the ability to say no to you."

You rolled your eyes playfully. " Be serious, Austin."

Laughing some more he says, " I am being serious, woman. You have no idea the power you hold over me. It's like you just know all you have to do is bat those pretty lashes at me and say please, to turn me into a sucker." He informed.

Your smile widen, " Really? "

Austin nodded leaning back against the couch, " Awe don't be coy. Really, mama."

You sounded a ' Hmmph '.

" Well I'll just have to keep that in mind then, huh?" You said shooting him a glance.

Smirking he replied, " Don't go getting too many good ideas."

" I won't."

With that he leaned up to send a squeeze to your thigh before reaching and grabbing another card.

" Mm. This is a good one." Austin's lips twitched up into a smirk while he shot you a look.

" Oh god." You laughed rolling your eyes, " Dare I ask? "

" Yes, please dare." He wiggled his eyebrows and you laughed, " Go ahead then."

" Five, If there's a particular part of you I should touch to get you in the mood. Where would it be?" He questioned.

Playfully humming while placing your pointer finger to the corner of your lips, the curiosity of wanting to know where he thought it was himself popped in," Before I answer where do you think it is, Mr. Butler?"

" Well, honey." He sighed leaning back against the couch," Based on months of bountiful research and exhausting observations. I'd have to say it'd be your neck."

Dammit.

He was right. You loved when he touched your neck. It always left you breathless in more ways than one.

" You sure, " You challenged figuring to keep your cool," Because if I recall your always touching my thighs."

And it was true. If the two of you were laying down to read or watch a movie Austin either had to have his head rested in your lap or hands stuffed between the crevices of your thighs. In the car, Austin only drove with his left hand because his right was specially reserved for your thigh. Whenever your being a little bratty or you say something about yourself that Austin isn't fond of, you better believe he is going to send a good little pinch to your thigh before kissing the spot all better.

" That's because their my particular part of you that gets me in the mood." He informed looking at you while gliding a singular finger up your thigh to the hemline of the shorts you wore. Still never dropping eye contact he continued, " But I know it's your neck because whenever we make love and I run my hand across your neck or decide to take a good little grip on it. That my love, is when you come for me the hardest." He finished.

By now that same finger had turned into a full hand that had found it's way up to get a nice gentle but firm hold on your neck. He softly used it to pull you to him and place a nice sloppy kiss to your lips making a moan release from your throat.

Pulling back he let go with a smug grin on his face to your annoyed but disheveled expression before motioning for you to draw a card while you tried to collect yourself.

Once you had settled the waves below, you a bit shakily grab the next card, clearing your throat, " Okay. Six. What is one activity that makes you feel alive?"

Without a doubt Austin knew his answer, " Easy. Horseback riding. Nothing like making that bond with a horse, the trust you build with them is pure. And then being out and open with nature. Clearing your mind and body. It's refreshing." He explained. " I think that's why filming The Shannara Chronicles was one of my favorite projects so far." He furthered grabbing a sip of the Yerbamate on the table.

" Yep and I'll have to take your word for it, babe." You quickly chirped making Austin sigh.

Ever since you and Austin had stumbled on the topic of horseback riding one day and you had revealed to him that while you thought horses were absolutely majestic and beautiful from a distance, under no circumstances would you ever consider getting on one. Period. And to him this was a great injustice...almost as big as when you told him you didn't like PB & J's.

You shuddered at the thought.

" Baby for the thousandth time. I'm telling you it's not as scary as you think it is. And you won't know until you try it. That thing with the girl was just a freak accident. That's a exception." Austin tried to argue but still you just shook your head unphased. You knew what you'd witnessed all those years back and you were good.

" Austin." You started, " The poor girl broke her back and part of her collarbone after one of them threw her off and fell on her. I seen it happen. It's like he WWE smushed her ass on the ground." You recalled watching a friend of a friend in high-school's scary interaction with the creature. It was terrifying. " Plus I'm pretty sure that she wasn't exactly ever the same in the membrane after that either." You added thinking about some of the antics the girl had gotten into post injury.

Austin blew out a breath, " Honey, while I think the situation is terrible. I'm pretty sure there was other factors that went into the happening. But I'm telling you that it's not normally like that. You just have to trust yourself and the horse."

Hearing him you still you were unchanged and really wanting to chance the topic so you came up with the compromise, " Okay okay okay. I hear you, Aus. And I'll think about it some more okay." You suggested shooting him a look to send the message that you were ready to move on.

Taking the hint he settled for what you were giving with a somber smile and moved to pick up another card, " So the next one is a little heavier, if that's alright?" Austin questioned staring down at the card.

Feeling like you could fully trust him you nodded, " Go head, babe." You prompted preparing yourself.

" Seven, in your opinion which is worse. Emotional or physical cheating? " He asked looking directly into your eye line.

" Oh." You spoke. It wasn't like you couldn't answer or that this wasn't something the two of you hadn't discussed. It was just a bit of a uncomfortable topic was all.

" Well being honest..." You trailed looking over to his face that was locked in on yours.

" Yeah." Austin encouraged.

Taking a second to collect your thoughts you began, " Like I said before, cheating no matter what is a deal breaker for me. But, being honest I think their equally as bad in opinion. I know anyone can argue it anyway. But the way I see it is that it takes something emotional in the first place to drive someone to cheat physically. I feel like if we're in a exclusive relationship where we're trusting and committing our bodies to only each other and you go and share that part of you with someone else it's a betrayal. And same thing with emotional. If we're in a relationship and I'm giving my all to let you know that there isn't anything that you should feel like you can't come to me about, and you still go and share those parts with someone else. That's also pretty bad so..." You finished looking him directly in eye.

Austin nodded taking in what you were saying completely. This wasn't his first time hearing you express your expectations when it came to this type of dishonesty, but it was good to hear again all the same, " I hundred precent agree with everything you've said. And vice versa over here. I think our communication is good enough to where we can communicate our needs effectively to each other. But I still want you to know that we're never going to get to that point, honey. That's one of the reasons that ring is on your finger. It's a promise." Austin sincerely confessed making your heart expand.

You peaked down at the promise ring on your finger and then back at Austin.

" I know."

" Good."

" Alrighty moving on. Eight. Is applesauce suppose to be warm or cold? " You posed.

" Cold." Austin immediately responded, " That's the only right answer."

You nodded, " I whole-heartedly agree. And I'm glad to know that you aren't a nutjob. "

" Noted. Next." Austin laughed picked up a card, " Nine. What is something that you wanna like but just can't? "

You sighed in faked despair, " Saunas. I really wanted to be that girl. The insta-fit chick that has the whole sauna self care bit going. But I realized how much I really don't like being sweaty unless absolutely necessary. " You informed to a smirking Austin.

Before he could open his mouth you reiterated, " I SAID ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY."

His hands shot up in defense while he snickered, " All I was going to ask was if you wanted to get sweaty later. But seeing as that wouldn't be absolutely necessary. I guess not." He shrugged.

Smacking your teeth you grabbed a pillow to childishly toss at Austin while you tell him that getting sweaty with him will always be absolutely necessary in your book. " I'll hold you to that." He says shooting you the infamous look.

" Look forward to it. But first we have to finish this before we start something else, " You remind him picking up a new card, " Ten. Name the most fond memory you have with your moth-" You stopped mid- question instantly regretting asking, you hadn't meant to bring it up. Idiot.

Quickly you tried to shift and grab another card while shooting him a sympathetic look, " I'm sorry, babe. I- I should have read the card in my head before I read it out lo-"

But he halted your movement softly grabbing your hand, " It's okay It's alright, B-"

" No, Austin it's not I sho-"

" You should just go ahead and let me answer. I promise it's okay. Matter of fact..I want to." He said holding your eye contact to show you he was sincere until you agreed leaning back.

" I know I've said this in interviews before, but growing up not to faraway from Disney and Knotts Berry, my mom and I would go all the time. Finish all my homework earlier in the day and then drive over. We used to spend hours riding the rides or just sitting on the park benches and talking. Because I was so shy and homeschooled on top of it she was bestfriend. I could sit and talk to her about anything....God I miss her." Austin reminisced bringing a smile to his face. You could see the tears forming in his eyes and in return yours did the same.

Instinctively you reached out to him which he accepted offering you a spot on his lap.

You held onto him in silence drinking in his warmth and touch while enjoying the quiet comfort you were offering through the silent intimacy. The two of you stayed just like that for awhile. Your head against his chest listening to the melody of his heartbeat and feeling the weight of his head rested on yours. His hands ran up and down your spine gripping and rubbing.

You felt oddly harmonious with each other.

The two of you stayed like that before you let go when the brilliant idea of desert popped in your mind. Remembering that Beatrice had dropped off a royal raspberry drizzle cheesecake. You went to the kitchen coming back with two plates carrying carefully sliced pieces. You were sure this would lighten the mood.

Austin smiled taking his plate and offering you a " Thank you, baby." And a kiss to the temple.

From there you resumed your game.

" Eleven. What is the most precious or important thing you own? " Austin asked before taking the bite of cheesecake you were offering.

" Um. " You sounded setting the desert plate on the coffee table, " Well, babe. I'm gonna have to cheat a little bit." You confessed.

" Oh. How's that." Austin inquired.

" I'm gonna have to list some things." You confirmed.

Smiling Austin says, " I'll allow it."

" Good. Okay so the most precious and important things I own in no particular order is my promise ring, the blanket my mom made me, our fern, my mother's ring, and my lucky smiley hat." You listed.

" You know I love when you wear that hat." He laughed, " You always look so cute. Remember when you wore it when we went to go see the jazz band in the park. Everyone tried to steal it off of you."

" Yeah it was quite interesting. Having to fight off people with John Coltrane playing in the back."

" But anywho. Twelve, If we were role playing. What would you dress me up as? " You bite your lip waiting on his response. You were extremely curious to hear his answer.

You had to adjust yourself a little bit as you felt the gates to your 'oasis' starting to open up even more than earlier from the way he was looking at you.

" Honestly? " Austin's eyebrow raised.

" Of course. Wouldn't want it any other way." You responded.

" Well, even though it may sound cliché. In my younger years," He laughed, " The whole French maid thing intrigued me for a bit."

Your mouth twitched in a smile, " Know what. I'm not surprised. That checks out."

" What?! What's that suppose to mean? "

You laughed at his playfully offended expression while he clutched his chest, " It means that you seem like a french maid kind of man, babe. Classy. You already have this old school charm to you. So it's on-brand that you'd be into that." You elaborated.

He looked at you a second before saying a simple, " Thats fair. "

Tilting his head at you he continued, " So, if a little french maid outfit just happened to appear in your size around here somewhere. And I called to say my office may need some dusting...would you be willing to oblige." He suggested leaning over and biting at his lip.

You leaned in and said, " Oui."

He groaned and blushed a bit in response moving to grab another card only to laugh when he read it, "Right on topic. Thirteen. How many children do you want someday? "

" Um...uh..well it really depends. When I was younger I always wanted to be like cheaper by the dozen or the mine, yours, and ours family. " You giggled thinking about how you wanted a brood of children to homeschool, make three meals a day for, and be driven absolutely crazy by. But as you got older and life took it's fuzzy fun filter off and you began seeing the true colors of the world, that life started to seem less and less ideal.

You caught Austin's face which was mixed with curiosity and glee. Even though you guys had had some conversations here and there that involved kids he'd never heard this from you before. He was intrigued, "Seriously you wanted twelve kids. You with twelve kids?" He repeated for emphasis.

You laughed, " Yeah. Believe it or not. I like kids and I love my nieces and nephews even though I don't get to see them as much as I'd like. So, in a perfect fantasy world. But being realistic though. I think I would like two or four. I wanna have enough but not too many to where I won't have the energy or the time to give them all as much equal time and attention." You explained.

" I get that. And I like that it's even numbers. So no one will ever be left out of games and they'll be able to pair up when we go out to fairs or do activities." He added with a gleam in his eye.

Austin couldn't lie and say that hadn't thought of what life would be like settling down with you and hearing little footsteps roam the halls. Some could say it was too soon to be thinking about things like that, but he couldn't help. You made him want a future with you.

And vice versa.

" Exactly. Don't want anyone getting lonely." You agreed trying to play off the blush that had captured your face. You pulled a card, " Fourteen. What's your favorite thing about me?" You asked.

" There's so many different things, honey." Austin sighed trying to rack his brain to be able to just pick one thing, and then he said it, " Your unflinching ability to be kind to everyone."

Your twisted up your face, " Really, you think so? "

It wasn't like you were saying that you thought you were mean. I mean sure you did your best to try and be nice and kind to everyone you came across, but you weren't the type to just stick that label to yourself.

" YES REALLY. " Austin emphasized, " You'd literally give anyone the clothes off your back and shoes off your feet. You never cease to amaze me with the grace you have with people even when they don't deserve it. Especially in that situation with the Paps the other week. I know it took a lot not to respond to the name calling and picking but you just kept going and even told the man to have ' a blessed day'." Austin recalled the icky interaction you'd had with paparazzi while out with some friends.

Shaking your head you waved him off, " I just do what I was raised to do. It's a natural thing. Can't sweat that." You said.

And that's exactly what I want you to teach our children. Austin thought.

" Yeah, babe. I know. But it still adds to your amazingness. " He concluded picking a card, " Alright. Fifteen. Where is somewhere you've always wanted to go, but never been? "

Your answer was almost instant, " Italy."

Austin blinked fast smiling, " That was fast."

You shyly grinned, " Yeah I know. I didn't mean to say it that fast but that's my number one. I've just always been fascinated by the food and culture. And I really feel like I wanna go and immerse myself in it. Ya' know experience it for myself." You told him of your dream.

It was true too. You could see yourself having authentic pasta and taking walks along the rivers. Finally trying pure gelato. Visiting different museums and taking rides on the gondola. It might sound like cliché tourist behavior but you wanted it all.

Austin was taking note of how you lit up while talking about the idea of visiting and decided to slip that note into his pocket for later.

Once you'd finished your mini ranting you picked a card, " Sixteen. Name something that you're weirdly good at? "

Austin noodled on the question. Then you watched him grab one of the unused napkins as he started to twist and pinch it in his hands.

Curious you asked, " What're you doing, my sweet baboo? "

Feeling fuzzy at the name he responded, " You'll see. Just wait a second, honey."

So waited and watched him. You found it cute how concentrated he looked.

And before you knew it. He was handing you a beautifully crafted rose napkin.

" Awe Austin." You gushed. " It's so cute. How'd you learn to do that? "

" Ah'. It's just something I randomly picked up once. But I think I've gotten pretty good at it over the years." He said.

" I hope you know I'm going to force you to do this with all our napkins now, right." You teased.

" That's fine. Anything for you, mama." He moved closer to you now wrapping a arm around you.

You didn't know why but him saying that, had made something jump in you. Something hot.

And the closer he got, the more you looked at his face. And the more you looked at his face, the more you wanted to sit on it.

Not being able to help yourself you managed to move in and capture your his lips with yours. They were always so soft.

After a minute almost reluctantly he pulled back catching apart of his breath, " Woah, Mama. Wait a minute. As much as I'd love to keep going. Don't you still wanna finish the game first? " He asked cupping your face with a hand.

"Nope." You popped the P, " Not really." You spoke before pulling him back in. He groaned in your mouth at the added friction you brought by started to grind slowly into his lap.

Still once more he found the strength to move away, " You sure?"

You nodded, but just then a funny little tease came to mind, " Know what. Actually, I do have one last question honey." You said running your against his cheek.

" Go for it, darling."

" Final question. What's your favorite sex position." You questioned positioning yourself up some more. You could see the fire dancing in his eyes and from the way he licked his lips you were sure there were fiery thoughts that accompanied them.

He sighed biting his bottom lip, " Well. If you must know. As old fashion as it may sound. I'd have to say missionary." Taking a squeeze of your ass.

" Why? " You coyly asked.

" Because I like to be able to look you directly in the eye when I make you come over and over again. The faces you make, always looks like art. Care to be my muse? " He asked taking his hand away from your face to move it along down to your throat.

And with that all you could do was nod before you found yourself on your back, on the couch looking a pretty man in the eye while he gave you pretty amazing orgasms.

#austin butler x black! reader #austin butler #dayofourloves #austin butler imagine #austin butler x reader #austin butler fanfic #mangoasks #mango answers #austin butler x black reader

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sammywolfgirl · 2 months

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Ok so with the update here’s what I can say for sure-

1) yeah elder faerie may live but he is probably on permanent bed rest since it looks like thr gang haven’t heard back to crispia yet and since I gave an obligatory condition where only millenial tree can heal elder faerie of dark moon magic curse corruption goop, if that monster attacks he cannot help. Sooo spider lily do something!

2) matcha will not appear in the marshmallow fluff soul jam event I’m working out, because either she hasn’t been baked yet or just hasn’t gotten the thing(tm) that makes her a fluff foil. I’m instead decided that event is when DE gets the ingredient to start her experiments to replicate Oven Magic.

3) matcha is gonna be gummy bears favorite person oh my god he’d adore her he loves his creepy auntie they’re going to make sinister potions together it’ll be so fun!!!

4) god please let butter roll stay on team bad guy DE can’t loose more minions and if she is planning to double cross the motherfucking BEAST COOKIES she does not have the manpower for this like GIRL PLEASE.

Anyways I’ll post a full thingy on matcha lore and butter roll thoights and if I’ll do anything about modifying DEs plan or just keep it as is and let her make bad choices lmao

#it me #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #cookie run au #cookie run oc

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nevarroes · 2 months

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Me AGAIN. But your recent art (it's beautiful) got me thinking. I'm worried for his heart. Do you think he's already replaced it with one of his own inventions? Karlach's was a prototype and it sort of makes sense that he'd create one for himself, right? Or is Cas just keeping him alive on potions? Which I can also see, as it'd give Cas more control.

thank you first of all💜

hmm to me it's like this, Gortash COULD replace it potentially I'm sure but he'd most likely have to go back to the hells 4 it, either to have it installed (probably some infernal magic shit involved imo also he can't exactly do surgery on his own heart) or to get the means to make a high functional heart like that. I assume Karlach's was a prototype yeah but moreso for his inventions and not meant as a... actual person thing in the long run. So the issue is that Cas doesn't exactly want him to go to the Nine Hells, considering that Cas is sooo fucking hunted by Mephistopheles who still holds a grudge against him (especially since Cas can't shut up and sometimes sends assassins back with a little errr.... message to him), nd people know about him and Gortash's little conquering adventures on the mortal realm too so it's quite likely that, if Gortash attempts to make another deal, he'll just get fucked over and sold out to Mephistopheles so he can get his hands back on Cas😖

So with that in mind, he hasn't replaced it, no. I don't see Gortash as like... insanely unhealthy just because I think his body can endure a lot so it's less "keeping him alive" and more "keeping him from getting worse" but yeah to me it's mostly potions and just them accepting it. I suppose you can argue that normal health potions would do the trick but I like to think that Cas has them made very specifically just because he has the means and access to infernal magic and ingredients still. It's some form of control, sure, but less in the "if you don't do what I want you to I'll make you worse" way and more in the "give your body to me and I promise I'll take care of you" type of way, if that makes sense

#blakemail #gortcas lore #health play #a little bit I suppose #health mention #smth to be said abt that fact that Cas very much wouldnt let him die or get majorly harmed of this #and he does have the means for it #its smth he very much verbally promised too #it plays a lot into the “eternal suffering over murder” torture thing cas has going on so u could see it as cruel in itself #but he still very much does this out of love

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idyllic-affections · 4 months

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WAH I LOVE MAMA XIAOYUN IDEAS, that is soooo cute! And i would pay for you to actually make it a series just like the Kaveh Dad AU

So here’s some scenarios i had thought of when reading 🐉 and 🐌 anons take on it. Ok so first of all, i hc that [name] would inherit Xianyun’s hobby of tinkering and making devices, like they may not be a half adepti nor have homicidal urges like their sisters but the kid is a curious gremlin who would be the type to break apart a toy because their curious on how it works. Just imagine Xiaoyun and [name] bonding together by making their first machine together, [name] would give little toys to their sisters like maybe a small toy Qilin or crane?

Also I LOVE the idea of [name] and Yaoyao having a friendship like Cloud Retainer and Madame Ping, like there’s [name] who would go head first to do something reckless or chaotic and then there’s Yaoyao being the voice of reason then there’s Xiangling encouraging [name] behavior for the sake of good ingredients so now Yaoyao have to look after two chaotic people. Also like with Ganyu and Shenhe, [name] would also give Yaoyao some toys that they made themself and they would play with the toys together. WAIT WHAT IF XIAOYUN ALSO MADE [NAME] A PLUSH THAT IS LIKE YUEGUI TO PROTECT THEM, omg that would be sooo adorable! Maybe Yaoyao and [name] would have a tea party with both of their stuff animals as the others guests?? Idk but the idea of Xiaoyun making them a stuff animal that has the same function like Yuegui is soo cute, idk what kind of animal would it be thought.. maybe a crane..? Or maybe a chicken? Because baby cranes are called chicks..? (Im just pulling straws here also i just like the idea of [name] having Sushang’s chicken from HSR)

Would Shenhe introduce [name] to Chongyun? Like how Xiaoyun is pushing [name] to be friends with Yaoyao, Shenhe is doing the same but with Chongyun. Chongyun being confused with situation but nevertheless still get along with the kid his auntie introduced. And then he introduce them to Xingqiu and a chaotic duo was born.. I’ll let you think of the shenanigans the both of them have done :)

And about Moral Injury, personally i dont really want that much other than [name] bonding with Collei and their interactions with Scaramouche back when he was being experimented by Dottore BUT I do like the idea that maybe in an arc where they’re on the run, they come across Diluc when he left Mondstadt. Idk how it would go but maybe Diluc was injured from doing whatever mission he did regarding the fatui then [name] came across him and healed him up before quickly leaving him alone once they saw his delusion. Like when healing him, they saw his delusion and qucikly try to finish healing him because curse their bleeding heart! If he has a delusion, then that means either he’s a fatui agent or has some connection to the fatui. They instantly book it to the next nation and changed their identity. Diluc sometimes thinks about the kind stranger who helped him, although not because of how they help him, its because of their subtle reaction towards his delusion and how they became a ghost when he tried to find any information about them.

So yeah that’s all. Im honestly kinda scared rn because in a day or two, im going to go back to school which i am not ready for but here’s to hoping that we wont get any tests next week! Hope you have a good day/night though!

- 🐱Anon

i am trying SOOOO hard to not start writing this series yet...... she isn't even playable yet...... Please

YEAH NO EXACTLY!!!!!! i like to think that in the first few days of them living with xianyun, she builds them toys that do cool and fun things.... the mechanics are simple to her, but they should entertain a child well enough, no..? well, later, she walks in to the room she's given them find that [name] has meticulously and carefully pulled the toys apart to peer at the internal mechanics. and they apologize profusely when they realize she's there because they weren't trying to destroy the toys, they just... wanted to know how they worked. and xianyun just hums, settling on the floor next to them (which is perhaps something quite uncommon for someone like herself), picks them up, sets them in her lap, and goes on to explain it to them and teach them how to put it back together <3 bonding activity <3

eventually it becomes a hobby of [name]'s, and xianyun invites them to help with the things she's working on too. mama xianyun often pursues little projects for her child (though i like to think she doesn't immediately realize that this is another child of hers, like her older daughters. maybe ping points it out to her and she thinks about it for a second, but then nods and agrees. she's not embarrassed. she has two older daughters! so.... it wouldn't be the first time). and [name] would totally make cute little trinkets for their big sisters!!!!!

YEAH HAHA CHAOTIC [NAME] REAL AND TRUE. MEANWHILE YAOYAO IS ABOUT TO HAVE A HEART ATTACK AT THE AGE OF, IDK, 7????? BECAUSE OF THE THINGS HER FRIEND KEEPS DOING...... but [name] would definitely make a cute toy for her as an apology!! OH AND I WHOLEHEARTEDLY BELIEVE XIANYUN WOULD DO THAT...... maybe it would be a little crane that almost, vaguely seems to resemble... herself, but in her adeptus form? huh, how odd. must be a coincidence (it is not, in fact, a coincidence. xianyun does this on purpose). but i also think [name] having a little chicken would be so cute <3333 mama crane and her little chick...... Sighhhhhh

YES SHE SO WOULD i think shenhe would teach them exorcism, to a certain extent. mostly so that they can effectively protect themselves against things... beyond the living world. so she would most certainly introduce them to chongyun! and i think they would honestly cause problems for him at first. slipping jueyun chilis into his food (like xingqiu...... teehee) and stuff, but then apologizing kindly and offering him a popsicle afterwards. they do know where to stop. he would introduce them to xingqiu and it would be OVERRRRR for him HELP

moving onto moral injury... OH MAN [name] and diluc do have an important (angstful) interaction later on, but adding this in prior to it would give that interaction a lot more depth. thank you for the suggestion, lovely!!!!! i will definitely be adding this in. also, some variation of "curse [their] bleeding heart" would be a good chapter title. thank you for reminding me of that phrase!!! i forgot it existed tbh

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cannedbabs · 1 year

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how’d you think jack would be havin a business rival? enemys to lovers (except they still hate eachother very much, and are still DEFINITELY enemy’s) kinda vibe

Cracks knuckles I LOVE MAKING JACK A COMPLETE ASSHOLE SO LETS GO!!! (Using ‘you’ as the business rival!!)

•Honestly depends on the business, but if it’s food/baked goods related he’d be even more hasty to be just rude for no reason. Like always an outdo you sort of deal? “My cinnamon bread reached all high sales this week-“ “And you sell those internationally? Hmm??” “Not yet, but I’m almost-“ “Hmph. Thought so. I couldn’t imagine being such a small company!” And ensue your rage

• It would very much be like.. a romance only coming from the adrenaline of it all. Like 2% lovers in this situation. I can imagine you leaning over his desk and getting so fed up with fighting that you grab onto his tie and pull him close and threaten him but it flabbergasts him so much that he’s stunned into silence (for once). Maybe smooches optionally that’s all tongue and teeth and venom

•He would SOOO copy whatever creation you made. Your making like cookies for a holiday special? Oh, suddenly Jack’s company is too (or just altering said special for pies since it’s a.. pie company). And he always does better in you in sales, that’s a given. His factory allows for MASS production of stuff so you can’t do much about it (but personal reviews typically always say yours taste better 😘)

•Jack, knocking over a pie when your visiting. “Look at the mess you’re making! I’ll have to charge you for that. 😇” or alternatively he purposefully spills it on your clothes (either completely smashing it to your chest or something similar) and just shrugs as if it was no big deal. Maybe alterior NSFW moment of “Hm. May have something to clean that with in my office” wink wink.

• VAGUE NSFW but,, can’t describe it better than hate fucking. That’s about it, no lovey stuff. Probably not even many kisses, or if it’s tried he would definitely turn his head and scoff at you. Occasionally he may give in but 🤷‍♀️

•It’s sort of implied romance one day and the next it’s back to him sabotaging you somehow. He definitely would’ve asked one of his workers to go into your shop while you two were “talking business cough cough” and just dump ingredients on the floor and steal. This man is a CRIME LORD, he’s wanted for a reason 😭

That is definitely a lot of the thoughts I have, idk how to rly end this but I hope this is what you were hoping/looking for!! And I hope it suffices 🥺❤️❤️ I can always make these longer if y’all want!

#big jack horner #jack horner x oc #jack horner x reader #jack horner #big jack horner x reader #big jack horner x oc #Jack Horner headcanons #self ship #self insert #puss in boots #puss in boots: the last wish #puss in boots the last wish #pib the last wish

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silverbladexyz · 1 year

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Hellooooo dazai-gojo-kinnie!! Thank you, sometimes I don’t like my writing >~< and I wrote this for Dazai, since I don’t have a really good grasp on Gojo’s personality

The image does not belong to me. It belongs to it’s original owner

TW: Mentions of suicide (I mean it’s Dazai, sooo)

Shopping with Dazai, writing his name on his palm, slow dancing with him, and getting souvenirs from travelling

Going shopping with Dazai:

-When you two go shopping, expect Dazai to sneak/wander off and look at bandages and crabs n whatnot

-Orrrr he goes and browses around to see which items he could use for his next suicide attempt :/

-But he will stop if you ask him to. Dazai likes suicide, but he values his time with you above that, so he’ll probably buy those said items in his own time

-When you two are shopping for food, Dazai either deliberately forgets to bring the shopping list or he just sees what’s on discount and puts it into the trolley. Many times you had to make him put stuff back since the food was almost expired, but Dazai is a sneaky bastard. Good luck making him return every single nearly expired food item

-He will be serious sometimes. Dazai volunteers to push the trolley while you pick out which ingredients were the best, because let’s be honest Dazai isn’t the best cook out there 😶

-Probably sits in the trolley and asks you to push him around the store. Whack him for Kunikida please, thank you very much 😀

-When you two are shopping for clothing, Dazai mostly looks at the section with trench coats and shirts. Sometimes he even drags you along and gets you an identical trench coat to his so you two can match <3

-Literally gets any clothing that he thinks would look good on you. I feel like Dazai would have great fashion sense if he tried, unless he’s screwing around (which most of the time he is lmao)

-Dazai never fails to make a boring shopping trip interesting :)))

Writing his name on his palm:

-We all know how Dazai likes hands. Have you seen him with the waitress and Higuchi? He was already tracing his finger down their palms and asking them to commit double suicide with him lol

-And since you’re his s/o, you’re no exception. Dazai loves your hands, no matter what size or shape they are. Whenever he’s bored, he would be stroking your palms and intertwining his fingers with yours

-But one day, when you two were cuddling, you pick his hand up and starts tracing letters on his palm

-Dazai is curious, and probably teases you that you were flirting with him. But you kept tracing the same shapes and letters, and it doesn’t take long for his sharp mind to figure out what you were writing with your finger

-Literally goes all drama queen. ‘Waaah, I didn’t know you loved me this much, my dearest Y/N!! Oh, your love is too much for my poor heart to handle!’

-But please don’t stop. He loves the feeling of your fingers on his palm, and he would also do it it return

-Whenever he’s stressed, you would trace his name in his palm, and it always helps to calm him down very quickly

Slow dancing with him:

-I feel like Dazai would be able to slow dance very well

-Because 1: He’s a genius and a prodigy and it doesn’t take him long to learn something and get good at it 2: He’s a womaniser, so he probably would’ve learned it from other women and 3: He probably had to learn it for some missions when he was still a Port Mafia executive

-Dazai is more of the type to do slow dancing at home with you, when it’s dark, romantic music is playing and there’s only you and him

-But if you wanted to do slow dancing at a ballroom or a bar, Dazai wouldn’t really mind. He gets to show off his S/O and his superb slow dancing skills to everyone. Two birds with one stone, am I right?

-If you’re new/not very good at slow dancing, Dazai will teach you. He’ll take the lead, slowly spinning you around and making sure that you could keep up. He also teaches you in a way that after a few lessons, you were able to take the lead yourself

-It’s times like these that Dazai cherishes more of his time with you. When you two are slow dancing, there’s either some talk or it’s comfortable silence. He might even light some candles and aromatics to make the atmosphere more romantic

-Sometimes, if you and Dazai are feeling slightly more energetic, the slow dancing quickly turns into a fast tango, and at the end the both of you would be laughing while sitting on the couch tired out

-Dazai can’t wait to dance with you at your future wedding with him. He’s already got his eyes on a ring 💍

Buying souvenirs on travels:

-Dazai would probably buy the most random stuff while shopping for souvenirs

-Such as ‘Hey Y/N! Let’s buy this rope! It’ll be great for a suicide~’ or ‘Y/N Y/N Y/N! Look at what I found! This pine leaf would look great in our kitchen!’ Again, please whack him for me, thank you (unless if you agree to his random souvenirs then in that case enjoy ^-^)

-He probably also buys canned crabs just to keep them with the other souvenirs that you bought, and it makes you go ???

-Like Dazai... it’s canned crabs... I get that you like eating it but you could get the same type in the local convenience store ten minutes away

-However, sometimes he will stop being goofy and buy actual souvenirs with you. Like matching mugs, matching rings, matching everything basically

-Or he would take loads of pictures with you, as a memory of the trip. Be warned though, he might show everyone at the Agency and annoying them to death about how cute you look when you were literally this close to smacking him

-Dazai probably buys bandages for souvenirs too

-In short, Dazai doesn’t really mind whatever souvenirs you two get. Just getting to spend time with you is enough for him <3

I hope you have a great day/night too :)

@dazai-gojo-kinnie @i-just-like-goats @the-mourning-stars @ashthemadwriter @pixyys @pianotross @fi-nn-losofia

#bsd x reader #bungou stray dogs x you #bungou stray dogs x reader #dazai x reader #dazai fluff #bsd fluff #silverbladexyz

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clumsyexpression · 2 years

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Some One Piece Men and the Fast Food Restaurants they remind me of

A recommended read if you are super bored and have a good handful of time to kill

[[ This is me being very biased and a little nonsensical but also kinda serious in a goofy way =u= ]]

Law - Starbucks

I feel that you have to have a lot of patience and really know the menu with how specific people may request their coffee and how batshit crazy they can get if there’s even the slightest thing wrong with it. You have to have patience and high tolerance for annoying ass people, and even though Law lacks both of those qualities I think he’s perfect to be a barista. Law does actually tolerate a lot of craziness though fr fr cause sometimes I don’t think I could last 6 minutes being around Luffy if I’m being completely honest lol

Kuzan - Cookout

They always have it together despite the line going around the entire parking lot and into the street and being the only restaurant open after 8:30pm until 3am AND the food is always on point AAAND the employees are never rude. Kuzan for sure, because he’s such comfort kind of guy, and Cookout is also comfort food to the max and neither really disappoint, so

Smoker - Wingstop

They gave me undercooked chicken one time and it honestly ruined my excitement for them. I like them a lot even though everyone else thinks they’re really gross. I dunno how to really explain it further than that but.. this had absolutely no relevancy whatsoever to Smoker but really, when you think about it, people clown him for getting his ass handed to him all the time but that doesn't take away how he's still cool..welp, there ya have it - this is relevant after all pffft

Buggy - Long John Silvers

Yoooo they are trifin as hell and they could care less. If only that cod wasn't bangin, I wouldn’t give them another dollar of mine. If you told me Buggy was the manager, I would believe you. I am super amazed that they haven’t been shut down yet, but here we are in 2022 and they are still somehow thriving.

Doflamingo - Dairy Queen

The one Dairy Queen that was around when I was growing up was shut down repeatedly and the management had the nerve to plaster a sign on the window stating how they had to close down but will re-open when the staff learns how to be sanitary and clean their hands. Sooo out of pocket. So is Doflamingo. These two walk hand-in-hand in that respect.

Mihawk - Checkers (or Rally’s)

I bet he would ‘treat’ himself to some Checkers to get away from Perona the castle a little bit, just as a small change of pace. Just sitting in the car, eating some burger and fries and funnel cake fries. A small and super secret guilty pleasure is all.

Sanji - Chipotle

I never had a bad experience here, and the food doesn’t taste bad. Because of the ‘’’’healthiness’’’’ of the ingredients and just the nature of the business, I think Sanji would probably work here and maybe even hook you up with some extra ingredients. Actually, he would totally be that guy who would give all the girlfriends extra stuff and probably overcharge the boyfriends and argue when he tries to dispute. I guess I should feel bad..but I would get extra queso..so that’s tough for those of y’all who get overcharged.

Killer - White Castle

I only had the White Castle cheeseburgers they sell in the freezer section at Sam’s Club and if I’m not careful I will legit eat all 36 burgers cause they're so amazing and I can only imagine what a fresh, ready-made White Castle cheeseburger would taste like. That’s how I feel about Killer. He’s so amazing but I only really know a little about him. Anyways, his mask matches the White Castle color scheme and he could totally man the grill with no problem – he is totally a slider kind of guy.

Basil Hawkins - Little Caesars

I’ve actually never had Little Caesars because I don’t hate myself that much to where I want to ever put it into my body, and that’s kinda how I feel about Hawkins. I really don’t like him but I don’t really have anything to really base my dislike of him on..ya feel me? Either way he’s gross and low-tier.

Bege - Five Guys

The food is typically really good though a tad on the greasy side and I’m almost certain that like, 2 of the closest locations near me have some type of shady side business going on, so. I can tell you it certainly is a crime for the amount of money you have to pay for fries – JUST fries – before you even get to the sandwiches lmao Bege is aight but not a favorite. Same with Five Guys.

Franky - Sonic

I’m pretty sure everything on the menu just came out of the freezer and straight to the deep fryer and probably soaked in the grease 20 minutes longer than necessary but that’s why I pay them to do it instead of wasting my own cooking oil and getting mad about it. Okay so I made this sound (probably) as disgusting as it sounds but the limeades are banging and the service is always great. Franky is great, too. I’m fairly positive that he would tear Sonic up.

Marco - Burger King

Chicken fries are the only reason. That is the only acceptable reason anyone should ever go to Burger King. And whenever i see his talons, it makes me hungry. For chicken fries.

Crocodile - KFC

They don’t even know what they're doing anymore, man. Hate to see it. This…has nothing to do with Crocodile but I often imagine how if his businesses failed, he would go bankrupt and have to start at entry level and I just picture him in a garish chicken costume- oh shit nevermind I got the perfect restaurant for him-

Crocodile - Bojangles

Every time I pull up to the menu, I never order anything because its always more than im willing to pay for some fast food fried chicken but I absolutely LOVE when the employees do their Bojangles schtick and let me know ‘IT’S BO-TIME!!’. This. I wanna see Crocodile do this with his Bojangles uniform to boot.

Usopp - Subway

I’m really not trying to be funny but Subway is really gross and I loathe it with a passion but for some crazy, inexplicable reason out of nowhere, I will start fiendin for a meatball marinara and end up eating three of them within a week’s time. All of this to say that I think Usopp would love working there since he would wear the title of ‘Sandwich Artist’ like a badge of honor and unironically enjoy the food. Food is trash but Usopp isn’t. I mean, he can make some very trash decisions, most definitely, but he’s aight.

Luffy - McDonalds

I’m sorry lmao but McDonald’s is just something I can only have in small doses cause they’re such a mixed bag of experiences. If that isn’t Luffy to a T-

Rosinante - Dominos

Best pizza franchise ever, love the garlic crust even though I don’t ever eat pizza crust and it makes me feel happy.

Zoro - Popeyes

Once upon a time I used to say that KFC will always be better than them, but that was before I actually gave Popeyes a chance and when the Popeyes employees would argue for the sake of arguing and I guess because they had the time for it lmao I think Zoro would be the perfect candidate for drive-thru because he would be the absolute worst at it; and even though it wouldn’t matter if the manager sides with him or not, I feel like he would enjoy the altercations pffft - especially since Popeye’s overall reputation kinda gives him the license to be himself

Scratchmen Apoo - Panera Bread

I bought a small drink from here once and it was like, $6, and then the line came to a stand still for 15 minutes, only for me to get to the window and wait another 20 minutes because someone left midshift and then be informed that they didn’t have what I ordered so I had to pick something else which was a little more expensive and a lot less tastier. Honestly it wasn’t really anyone’s fault. But it was an exceptionally hot, summer day, I had my dog in the car, and I’m 100% behind the sentiment that Panera is glorified hospital food. Sorry I really just wanted to vent about that, but anyways fuck Scratchmen Apoo I feel like he’s lame, too.

Ace - Taco Bell

I can go months without wanting to ever see a single Taco Bell establishment ever ever ever again but then they bring the toasted chalupa back and it’s a game changer..until they change the menu again. Have a feeling that Ace would feel the same. I think he would have a love/hate relationship with Taco Bell, even though his stomach is a bottomless pit and he probably doesn’t discriminate on the arrangement of how his 4 Taco Bell ingredients hit his stomach lmao

X Drake - Chick-fil-A

Waffle fries are bangers when fresh and the only way to eat the chicken sandwiches are spicy. Tame. Just tame.

Blackbeard - Arby's

From my experience with Arby’s, if you were to tell me that Teach was the manager of this establishment, I would 100% believe you without a shadow of a doubt because the parallels are uncanny; no one like Arby’s except for 1 person that I know, no one really talks about it, and the most seediest of characters are always hanging around the building doing, uh, not very savory things. So both are very forgettable until it’s dredged up again in an unwanted conversation.

Penguin - Dunkin

I don’t care what anyone says but Dunkin is actually really good and I consider them my best friend and it’s always just…there. I feel like that’s Penguin. He's just...there but you can tell he's ride or die. What? What about Katakuri?

Katakuri - Krispy Kreme

Sure we’ll take it. Super cliché but whatever. A tad bit overrated, and the closest one is still an hour away and I just can’t justify the gas for that. But not Katakuri – he’s totally worth it ehehe ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Kid - Wendy’s

Better than Burger King and I could eat the chili every single day but wouldn’t because I hate beans and picking the beans out gets tiresome after the third cup. Same goes for the chili cheese fries but I wouldn’t mind as much. Since the food is a little more on the ‘’’’’spicier’’’’’ side of things, it reminds me of Kid, and also because this one lady was soooo rude for no reason other than I guess she could get away with it?? Yeah. The closest Wendy’s around here always has a terrible line around the building and equally terrible customer service but the food is worth it sometimes. Oh yeah, Kid would fit in perfectly as the window drive-thru employee

Urouge - Zaxby’s

He’s always smiling but kinda scary but also seems pretty cool. So are the people at the Zaxby’s I go to. Never had a bad experience and the food is always good and they never forget the Zaxby sauce. Don’t know a whole lot about Urouge to be fair but I have a feeling he’s a solid dude.

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utenaposter · 9 months

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i realize that i have no idea what has protein in it i just drank like a full carton of berry juice and read the ingredients and there was 0g protein. and the whole time drinking it i was like mmm vitamins and protein. what. i also basically only eat pasta al pesto and there is like no protein in that either i think. i think every fruit and vegetable has sooo much protein it could sustain me forever. but thats not true

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enigma-the-anomaly · 1 year

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Mika Wish Ritual

(I’ve never made a wish ritual b4, but it seems fun and I’ve got mutuals who rly want him but r struggling sooo here we are!)

Make two dishes (or check if you already have two) that have fowl as one of its ingredients, can be two different dishes (like sweet madame and butter chicken) or two of the same dish—for the chicken boy :)

Go to the woods near Andrius’ fight and use Razor (or any other character you deem thematically appropriate) to get hit by a boar 4 times— Razor and Andrius are for the Wolfhook needed to ascend Mika, getting hit 4 times is cuz he’s a four star!

Heal the boar-attacked character with ONE of the dishes previously prepared, use a different dish or other healing method if still not fully healed

Take any or all characters that have the ‘nearby resources are marked on the minimap’ passive talent (e.g. yanfei, qiqi, tighnari, etc.) to Dragonspine and have them succumb to sheer cold—Dragonspine sheer cold for Mika’s cryo, characters with that talent because it’s Mika’s passive

Teleport to the peak of Dragonspine and use either Rosaria or Kaeya to plunge attack off the mountain and sacrifice them—Rosaria is best because she is also a four star cryo polearm from Mondstadt, but Kaeya being a free cryo character with a Mond vision can also work, or any other character that has any combination of Mika’s traits (e.g. Shenhe being cryo polearm, Chongyun being four star cryo with medium male model, etc.)

Heal any sacrificed characters completely so Mika won’t feel bad :’)

Wish!

If you get Mika, feed him the second dish mentioned in step 1. If you don’t get him, you can either give it to another character or save it for your next wish(es) for Mika.

(Optional) Listen to a Kagamine Len or Kingdom Hearts song before, during, or after the ritual—cuz of the Len and Sora comparisons :P

so yeah! That’s all I got, good luck loves and happy wishing :3

#mika #genshin mika #mika schmidt #mika genshin impact #wish ritual #genshin wish ritual #me? main tagging? whaaaat

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variousqueerthings · 5 months

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Can I be a teeny tiny bit terrified

ghosts! mysterious creatures! misty forests! psychics! good ingredients, it's "Hide"

sexism rank objectification (female character is ogled/harassed/turned into a sex joke by the doctor and/or a lead we’re supposed to root for and/or the camera): 10/10

sexism rank plot-point (lead female character is only there to serve plot, not to have her emotional interiority explored, or given agency to her emotional interiority): 7/10

interesting complex or pointlessly complex (does the complexity serve the narrative or does it just serve to be confusing as a stand-in for smart, this includes visually): 6/10

furthers character and/or lore and/or plot development (broader question that ties into the previous ones, at least two of these, ideally three should be fulfilled): 6/10

companion matters (the companion doesn’t always have to be there, but if the companion is there, can they function without the doctor– and overall per season how often is the companion the focus or POV of the story): 8/10

the doctor is more than just “godlike” (examines the doctor’s flaws and limitations, doesn’t solve a plot by having it revolve entirely around the doctor’s existence): 9/10

doesn’t look down on previous doctor who (by erasing or mocking its importance, by redoing and “bettering” previous beloved plotpoints or characters, etc.): 6/10

isn’t trying to insert hamfisted sexiness (m*ffat famously talked a lot about how dw should be sexier multiple times, he sucks at writing it): 9/10

internal world has consistency (characters have backgrounds, feel rooted in a place with other people, generally feel like they have Lives): 6/10

Politics (how conservative is the story): 6/10

FULL RATING: 73/100 (if I can count….)

this one's a bit hard to rate, because I don't strictly think all of these needed to be very high, but there were definitely things -- more related to pacing than anything -- that could be improved upon

OBJECTIFICATION: there are three ladies in this episode, Clara of course, Emma Grayling, and the witch-ghost (who is actually a time traveller/spacefarer called Hila) all of whom are chill. Honestly feels like we're beating the curse of the Kissogram at this point!

PLOT-POINT: sooo Emma is kind of mainly there to be psychic/empathic -- she does feel feelings about it, and to be fair, the other guy isn't a super fleshed out character either

Clara has some feelings about being very scared but still quite brave, so she doesn't feel emotionally vacant from the episode + she gets this cryptic warning about the Doctor from Emma (he has a sliver of ice in his heart), which at least gives her a bit of POV

but there's still that annoying overhanging "Clara is a mystery" which is the whole reason it turns out they're there, even though it only comes up at the end + we do get a bit of how Clara might feel about the concept of ghosts, as she questions the Doctor about how they see people -- both living and dead at the same time, all the time: "to you I havent been born yet. And to you I’ve been dead 100 billion years. Is my body out there in the ground? To you I’m a ghost… we’re all ghosts to you. We must be nothing."

it gives the idea of her being introduced as "a mystery" a tad more depth, because in some ways all mortality is a mystery to the Doctor

Hila's interiority is on the whole less explored, which I think is a bit of a shame, because this episode has a bit of pacing drag here and there, which could have been used instead to give her a bit more depth

COMPLEXITY: this is another thing related to the pacing, although it doesn't annoy me much, I will bring it up! for pedanticism! there's a mystery about a ghost that's actually something bleeding through from a pocket universe, so they go there, bring her back, the Doctor is stuck there and it's oooh the creature there is spoooky, and then that kind of takes awhile, and then right at the end we squeeze in the actual plottwist, which is that there are two creatures trying to find their way back to each other

there's a lot of travelling forwards and backwards in time with the Tardis to first discover that Hila is the ghost, which in itself isn't bad + gives the quite neat interaction about people seeming like ghosts to the Doctor generally, but then once they're in the forest it's made out to be creepy in a way that doesn't quite pay off, and spends a looot of time on, comparatively

and there's never enough time given to looking at the creature, until the very last shot (which! I do love!)

CHARACTERS/LORE/PLOT: soooo Clara is "just" an ordinary girl, confirmed. and Clara is getting some insight into how the Doctor might see mortality, and having some kind of feelings about that

COMPANIONS MATTER: yeah, she's very proactive! so proactive in fact that she calls the Tardis a cow, twice! it made me gasp, I tell you, but actually an antagonistic relationship with the Tardis is quite a fun change (also possibly slightly related to her being a Time Anomaly - the Tardis isn't a fan of those, canonically)

anyway she strongarms the Tardis into helping her help the Doctor, which is quite fun. also this little interaction, when the Doctor asks her to accompany him ghost hunting in the spooky house:

The Doctor, after she's willfully not engaging with him: Im giving you a face. Can you see me? Look at my face Clara, giving in: Fiiine. .. dare me! The Doctor, grinning: I dare you. No take-backsies

it's very siblings energy, I enjoy that she's not just running into everything without caring of the danger. sometimes you're scared!

“GODLIKE” DOCTOR: the Doctor gets this one wrong so many times, it's a running gag. one more win for the "just some guy" Doctor fans!

PREVIOUS DOCTOR WHO: there's a fair few Easter Eggs to both Classic!who and Nu!who in it, which is fun if you know what to look for

“SEXINESS”: SIMILARLY ARE WE FREE OF THE CURSE!???

INTERNAL WORLD: a tad rockier, big spooky house, interesting backstories to the characters, check, then pocket universe of spooky forest, cooolcoolcool, but there's something a little sparse about it for me. Nitpicky, but this is the rating to nitpick with!

POLITICS: mmmmm I guess don't judge a book by its cover, and sometimes the spooky alien is actually just not someone you're used to seeing. otherwise kind of a simplistic episode on the whole, although I like the link between the young woman who describes herself as an "assistant" and her many times great granddaughter who's a space pioneer

(although, I've gotta be honest, there was a moment where I wish we could have cut out the guy and made this a lesbian cross-time romance instead, it would have been great and focused the episode a little!)

FULL RATING: 73/100 (if I can count….)

the biggest best thing of this episode is the cool alien design, and also the space-faring woman who is thought to be a ghost, and these are unfortunately the bits we get the least of. but that's not to say this episode is terrible

it's a very fun little episode, with more bits between Clara and the Doctor exploring their dynamic, as well as Clara and the Tardis! (not enough companions have a lot of feelings about the Tardis in my opinion, if I were travelling in the Tardis I'd be cooing over her 24/7)

anyway, another strong contender in the second half of the season!

#im watching nu!who #im watching eleven who #episode hide #the measurement

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whentherewerebicycles · 1 year

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made mung bean soup over brown rice and oh man I am FULL. it was very very good but I feel a little sick now—I didn’t eat THAT much but I think the beans have a shitload of fiber and that plus the brown rice might’ve been a little much. mm but I’d definitely eat it again especially on a cold rainy day—super warm & spicy & filling.

the best part is that I modified the original recipe and it turned out sooo much better. I’m at a point in my learning-to-cook journey where I can look at a recipe, imagine what it’s going to taste like, and figure out modifications either ahead of time or during the cooking process as I taste & adjust. the base recipe I used for this one was very easy but seemed super bland so I added a bunch more curry spices, doubled the garlic + ginger, chopped up celery and threw it in for a nice little crunch, squeezed in some tomato paste because a commenter suggested it, and added fresh lemon juice to taste at the end because I thought it needed a little extra zing (and I was right!!). I also feel like I’m getting much better at evaluating the doneness of various ingredients by sight/smell/taste rather than relying on timers and fixed heat settings, which is one of the things samin nosrat talks about in salt fat acid heat. I’m also getting a more intuitive sense for like… oh this ingredient’s denser so I need to add it before these other ones, or this veggie has more water so I want to add it at this point rather than this point, or spicing the onions now will draw out more flavor than waiting till that later step, or whatever, even if my sense of what to do lightly contradicts the recipe… and so far I think it’s producing better results than when I’d follow recipes religiously but produce pretty bland or uneven meals.

idk man! cooking is fun! I started this learn-to-cook project because I wanted to be able to 1) make easy healthy mostly-vegan meals and 2) teach my kids basic cooking skills from a young age, but I guess I wasn’t expecting it to be so much fun as like, an intellectual and creative challenge yknow? like obviously I am a person who loves to learn new subjects but I don’t really learn new skills all that often, and I’m surprised by how engaging it is (and how novel it feels!) to get slowly but steadily better at something where you can really see/evaluate your own progress. I guess writing is one of my favorite Hard Skills to work at but idk it’s just different! writing doesn’t give you the same type of immediate built-in feedback you can get from cooking… and also idk with writing it’ll often be weeks or months or years before you finish the thing you’re working on, whereas with cooking you’ve actually made something within an hour or two and you get to enjoy the product of your work right away or share it with others. anyway!! really enjoying this year of focused exploration & skill-building in cooking.

#I want to start thinking too about how to structure my learning a bit more #like honing in on specific discrete skills and then engaging in structured/deliberate practice to improve #and then there are also areas I’d like to expand my repertoire #like I am amassing tons of great dinner recipes #but I’d like to have a wide repertoire of simple delicious salads & healthy desserts #I’d love to be able to invite people over for dinner and serve courses! not crazy levels of complexity just like #salad or veggie appetizer & then the meal with a side or two & then a little dessert #cooking #unbelievably easy plant based meals

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inksoakedsquids · 2 years

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HEY YALL!!! FINALLY GOT ANOTHER BANGER FIC!!!

With a benatar focus too!!! its about benapuffs 2month Anniversary

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Around noon, a sweetly strange scent wafts through the band's cramped bus.

And It smells like cookies.

While it isn't uncommon for Benatar to bake, seeing as whenever he has the time (and the scarcely found resources) to do so, he really enjoys baking.

Be it from surprising his friends with baked goods to the scents of the ingredients mixing together, to even being able actually to enjoy what he makes, there's just nothing quite like it to Benatar.

And since he's home alone (could you call it a home if it's a bus?) and surprisingly has the supplies, he decides to do something a little special.

That "something special" has to do with the current date.

About a month ago, upon FINALLY realizing their feelings, both Benatar and Puff confessed to each other at the same time. It leads to some good laughs on their part, (which, Benatar absolutely ADORES Puff's dorky laugh, and he will admit it unlike Puff) and makes for a good memory.

And today is the day that the two celebrate their one-month anniversary!

So... being the loving boyfriend he is, he made sure that tonight would be extra special- to show how much he cares.

He's not too sure how Puff feels, but, he just wished that he didn't always seem so cold and uninterested all the time. He's aware that Puff will do the same, but, he knows that's just how Puff is.

It's not like he'd have him any other way, either. He finds it... very endearing despite what most others would probably say... Not that it mattered to him. And that's because he was /far/ too worried over his current task (tasks?) in order to make today extra special.

As of right now... he's baking a special batch of cookies that he's learned over time-

That is, Lemon flavored sugar cookies.

He's decided to make these cookies in particular because they're Puff's absolute favorite. Anytime Puff finds him baking, he'll ask every single time if it's those special cookies he "loves sooo much," regardless of what it smells like in the kitchen. Or, kitchenette? Benatar prefers to think of it as a genuine kitchen, seeing as it gets the job done well enough.

Benatar always tries to go above and beyond for Puff, even if their relationship has been... very secret. Ben personally wouldn't mind telling the other two, but, he stays quiet for Puff.

Puff has this... weird-not-so-weird need to keep this a secret, and Ben's unsure if it's because he's got some weird inner conflict about being gay with Ben, or if it's because he doesn't want them to tell Tig.

Speaking of, Puff seems to be more distant from her than usual...

Ben smiles at the thought. He swears to himself it's totally not because he's jealous of Puff constantly chasing after her or anything like that.

He just isn't all too close with her.. sort of.

Either way, he'd rather focus on finishing up these cookies before everyone else gets back (at an unknown time to Benatar, seeing as they all just left at separate times... excluding Puff. Ben asked him to leave and wait at a nearby park)

Ben hums a soft tune to himself, (likely that of "Alien," which is Benatar's favorite song) as he sets the batch of cookies into the oven, and closes it.

Washing his hands, he makes sure to set a timer and collect all of his things.

Let's see...

Basket with other goods inside? Check.

A small, yet pretty bouquet of Puff's favorite flowers? Check.

The sappy little card he figured would make Puff laugh? Check.

Most important of all... the blanket!

Wait.. where was it?

He began to look around for the red-and-white checkered blanket, which he /knew/ meant a lot to Puff.

Frantically searching, he almost forgot about his cookies- up until he heard that awful, loud ass alarm.

He sped walked over to the kitchen (trying to keep himself calm, trying to reassure himself it was bound to be near Puff's bunk or something) area to open the oven.

He opened it to find...

Nearly perfectly baked cookies! Er- by Puff Puff standards at least.

Grabbing some potholders, he proceeded t very carefully remove the cookies from the oven.

And then the door slammed open.

"Holy shit-!"

Benatar scrambled to collect himself, nearly burning his arm on the pan and dropping a few cookies.

"Yo dudes!! How's it hanging?"

It was none other than Axel. Who.. was missing his shirt? And a shoe...?

Benatar's lips pressed together into a thin line.

"Aw damnit, it's just you Benatar." He slurs out, fumbling with the door.

Brushing him off completely, he sets his cookies down to resume his blanket hunt.

"What the ff..fuck are you doing?"

"Looking for somefin'.."

"Like what your- your fuckin'.. doll?" Axel laughs to himself.

"Good one." Benatar mumbles, annoyed at the sheer stupidity of his fellow bandmate. There's no way he's not drunk, considering how shitty that was. Axel usually had far better material, all things considered.

"No really, what are you looking for though?"

"That red checkered blanket… I'm trying to do some laundry."

"Oh yeaah that old thing! Well, it's," he hiccups, holding his head, "uh, fuck I… Wait, that wasn't a towel?"

Benatar froze, eyes wide in horror at what his stupid fuck of a roomate said.

"Are you talking about the white blanket with red checkered patterns and white tassels near the ends?" Benatar asked with major concern.

"Uh.. sounds about right.. check the towel cabinet I think? pretty sure that's where it was last."

Benatar quickly made his way to the bathroom area and opened the cabinet to find…

A slightly damp, folded "towel" that looked exactly like Puff's blanket. He prayed that it was because of their busted up dryer not working completely, and not because one of those stupid fucks used it for drying off…

He grabbed it from the cabinet, and shoved it by the basket and the rest of his things.

"W.. Wait, why do you even wanna know man?

Isn't that Puff's raggedy old thing? And what's with that basket?"

Benatar turned to him, doing his best not to seem like he was lying.

"Er, laundry, remember?"

There was a pause between the two of them.

Axel looked around… at the cookies, at the basket, the blanket and a very nervous looking Benatar…

And then smiled.

"Oh, right, dude! Thanks for the cookies by the way. Puff and I love these kind!"

Axel gave his signature grin, nabbed a cookie and hobbled off.

Benatar breathed a sigh of relief, hoping that Axel was far too stupid (or drunk) to really realize what he's planning.

So before Deejay can also make it back to question him, he grabs a small container, chunks the cookies into it, (with love of course- he's not about to ruin a shit ton of work) and sets it quickly into the basket.

He makes sure he has everything together… after making a final mental check, he grabs his things and dashes off.

—--

As he begins his walk to their "secret date spot" (dubbed by Puff himself) he shoots his boyfriend a text letting Puff know he's on his way.

A grin plastered wide over his face, he starts to speed walk over to the park. He just can't wait to surprise him- especially knowing how much Puff loves to be spoiled like this. It's not like he doesn't do his fair share either, he just likes to be on the receiving end because "he deserves it-" and Benatar doesn't disagree. Ben loves to see the look on his face after he shows him some tickets he nabbed for Puff's favorite show, or after telling him that they're going to this huge amusement park, so on and so forth.

Before he knows it, Benatar's rounding the corner to see: Puff Puff sleeping under a tree, the evening glow on his face just perfectly to where it shows off how pretty he is. (At least in Benatar's eyes, that is.)

He smiles softly, setting his things down and softly shaking Puff awake.

However, Puff does not wake up gracefully.

"W-What the fuck?!-" He almost shouts, eyes darting around the area.

"Relax dear, it's just me." Benatar smiles warmly back, trying not to laugh at how brash his boyfriend is.

"Oh, uh- Well, g-good morning… dick." Puff huffs out that last bit quietly.

"Love you too. Close your eyes really quickly, for just a second?"

"The hell? You tryin' to get me to go back to sleep? …Well, sounds fine enough. I guess..."

Benatar rolls his eyes, grinning as he stands and unfolds the blanket, laying it out in front of them.

"Can I open my eyes yet, or are you not done setting up whatever gay shit you got planned?"

"Just a minute, 'kay?"

Puff grumbles out a "whatever" in reply, as Benatar continues setting up their picnic. He tries to quickly set up some of the flowers, plates with little sandwiches (crustless since Puff Puff is picky as hell) and drinks out, and finally finishes up to look back at Puff.

Smiling, he grabs a red rose he figured was especially perfect.

"Darling- No wait, don't open your eyes yet!- You may already know this but, today is the day of our two month anniversary… while some consider it to be a not so monumental-"

"Dammit Bentar!! Quit with the sappy shit or I'm gonna lose it!" Puff interrupts, and Ben can tell he's trying not to get a little emotional- he's always been that kinda guy behind closed doors.

"..Alright, Alright love, today's our two month anniversary and I figured… I would do something' special for today. You can open your eyes now."

Puff does as much, and sees Benatar on his knees with a rose in hand, surrounded with an assortment of all sorts of things prepared just for him.

Puff's eyes begin to tear up a little and he hugs Benatar fiercely, smiling and laughing.

"Oh, uh- sorry to make you upset, I didn't-"

"Benatar, you're such a stupid asshole! God, thank you for all this man… I can't remember the last time somebody's done this kinda shit for me.." Puff sniffs, burying his face into Benatar's shoulder and wrapping his arms around him- into a tight, loving hug.

Benatar blushes when he realizes what's happening, and slowly hugs him back. He rests his head onto Puff's, and they lay there for a comfortable period of time.

Yeah, this was definitely a good way to spend their anniversary.

#benapuff #benatar yfm #puff puff yfm #axel yfm #yfm #this took AGES to write

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