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[spacebarbarianweird]

Could you please write more about pregnant Tiriel? Your writing about her finding out she's expecting and about Astarion hearing the baby's heartbeat were one of my favorites?

Synopsis: Astarion takes care of pregnant Tiriel.

Tags: dadstarion, pregnancy, fluff

Thanks @themadlu for beta-reading!

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“I think I am going to die in childbirth,” Tiriel says, pressing her face to her knees.

Astarion would sigh if he could. Tiriel sits shoulder-deep in a bath of warm water, as the vampire washes her hair and rubs her back.

“You aren’t going to die. You are a half-elf and I am sure the child is rather small. Look at your belly, you are in your last month and it’s not really showing.”

Tiriel turns away. Well, to call her belly small would be an underestimation – her slim body is currently betraying pregnancy. It’s covered in stretch marks that won’t disappear, ever. But again, Astarion has seen many pregnant human women in Daggerlake within the last five years and Tiriel has definitely been spared, carrying someone who takes after their elven ancestors.

But once Astarion thinks he’s managed to cheer her up, Tiriel sniffs.

“What if something is wrong with the baby? You are a vampire! I love you and all that, but you are still undead! What am I even carrying inside? And what if the child is sick? Or deformed? Or…What if it is going to kill me?”

“I can promise you, if something goes wrong, we are saving you,” Astarion splashes water on her hair.

“Thank you.”

He kisses her shoulder. “Don’t worry that much, the last thing you need is to cause a complication.”

Tiriel touches his fingers. 

Astarion adds more soap to the tub. The scent of vomit and sweat still lingers on Tiriel’s skin and Astarion takes a clean piece of rug.

Tiriel has been feeling so bad in the last few days she barely left her bed. Her legs hurt, she couldn’t eat without vomiting, and she hardly slept because of back pains. She finally made herself go out that evening to eat properly, but, the moment Tiriel finished her dinner, she felt nauseous and everything Astarion had cooked for her ended up on her home shirt.

That moment, Astarion had enough of that and carried Tiriel to the bath. 

“I'm sorry,” she says.

“What for?”

“I look disgusting.”

“Nothing is disgusting about a pregnant woman,” Astarion says, rubbing her left ear. “Besides, I’ve seen and done much worse things than giving a bath to someone I’ve knocked up. Your condition is my fault and I am taking full responsibility! Now, let me wash your front.”

Tiriel presses her back against the tub allowing Astarion to get to her belly and legs. Astarion smiles seeing the visible bump and carefully rubs the skin.

He is so close he can hear the second heartbeat. 

It is not clear to him when the child is going to be born. Elves are pregnant for two years, but Tiriel’s body is hardly capable of doing so. Humans need nine months for the same process, but Astarion has learned from the healers in Secomber, the closest big town to Daggerlake, that it’s never clear with half-elves. And it also depends on the child – Astarion tries to think about the baby as an elf with just a bit of human ancestry (still enough to fuck up the gentle elven biology).

But in reality…

The child is half-him, half a vampire anyway. And that should bother him.

He is afraid of that moment. He waits for that moment to come. And he also misses Tiriel in sensual terms. He wants her blood (which is out of reach for him till she stops breastfeeding), he wants her body (they haven’t had sex ever since she got pregnant). 

And he wants her to stop being in such pain daily.

“I look ugly,” Tiriel chuckles. “Don’t try to say it’s not true.”

“It's not. You are beautiful!”

Suddenly Tiriel flicks his nose. “My eyes are here.”

Astarion realizes he’s been staring at her swollen breasts and small droplets of white liquid on Tiriel’s nipples.

“Stop all this nonsense, Tiriel!'' Astarion takes her leg and stretches it to wash it better. “I like caring about you. I like how you look. And I absolutely love that it's me who did this to you. It all feeds my vampiric possessiveness, after all!”

“And I love that it was you who did this to me,” Astarion feels Tiriel’s fingers on his cheek.

“Now, get out of the water before it gets too cold!” Astarion brings towels. “Is food still out of the question?”

“I want something hot to drink.”

“I will make you herbal tea, then.”

Astarion, after making sure she is dry, carries Tiriel to bed.

He looks outside. What he loves about his house in the underground part of Daggerlake is the big windows. There is no point in hiding from the sun, and Astarion can enjoy going outside whenever he wants. Besides, the biggest part of the town is underground too, and Astarion also doesn’t feel like an outcast.

And his neighbors have seen much worse things than vampires who know the law.

Suddenly Tiriel yelps. He turns to her and notices the night shirt she’s put on is wet. 

But wasn’t Tiriel's skin dry when he took her from the bath?

Tiriel hugs her belly and lets out a cry of pain. 

“Tiriel…” Astarion rushes to her. No, not today. He still needs time to get ready.

Tiriel grabs his shoulder. “Go to the healer… I am.. Gods…”

The child has decided to be born today. ------ You can read what happens next in Little Bundle of Darkness --

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[vimbry]

updated my theme ehehe

#shamelessly ripped off an idea from a carrd I saw once where the link directory was front-facing colourful rotary phones bc it was very cute #the only problem is no matter which space character I input for the ''my art'' tag in the html link - tumblr directs that to a broken page #which shows the url its redirecting to as my-art with a hyphen instead of a space #it Does suggest a link to the correct tag in the error message fortunately but it's still a bit of an annoying step #might just change my art posts tag to one word #I do still have my art-only blog I've just been too lazy to! ironically make a graphic for that lol #everything on there is currently in my tag here anyway

[acekindaneat]

some wawa art from twt :]

#raaaa finally posted smth on tumblr again #sorry for neglecting you guys CRIES #i still very much love tumblr than instagram i'll admit that pfft #but anyway life decided to fuck me over and everything is currently a dumpster fire in my life #but im fine i'll manage i'll get a job i'll get a driver's license i'll fix my bank account i'll- #ok thats all thanks heres normal tags #serizawa katsuya #mp100 #mp100 fanart #serizawa #mi art stuff #mob psycho 100 #art

[incorrect-riordanverse]

im so mad that this is a side blog account and not a main account. i started this blog when i was still relatively new to tumblr and i think i was… like. fourteen years old or something. i never thought i would continue for this long, and i never knew so many people would like the content i put out here (i have over 9k followers which is literally mind-blowing, like wow….).

because this isnt a main account, i cant respond to replies left on my posts, i cant really reply to anyone unless i reblog !! i cant even follow people with this blog, it just comes up as my main blog (which is not pjo-related… rip my failed attempts at organising my fandoms to different blogs). so my avenues of interaction with a lot of you are seriously impeded.

so i just want to say i am so thankful for all of you, i read every single person’s tags who reblog my stuff, i read all of your replies and every time im crying screaming rolling around on the ground in agony over the fact i CANT REPLY!!

i know my posts are super inconsistent these days, im glad so many are still here! i think i may change some of my content eventually (never gonna get rid of the incorrect quote stuff, i’ll just be adding some other things like pjo headcanons or analyses or something), just to spice some stuff up on here.

#also! im currently writing a fantasy book rn and have been so stressed over the fact that authors are expected to have a following before— #—reaching out to agencies with a manuscript. and i seriously stress about creating a following. #so my backup plan is literally you guys. my four year old pjo account on tumblr with its silly little quotes 😭😭 #and like. if that works. could you imagine. that you guys may actually save my future ??? like?? i love you guys for just following me bc ?? #YOU MAY SAVE ME FROM THE CAPITALIST PRESSURES OF SENSATIONALISING ONES OWN ART FOR INVESTED SUCCESS YAYYYYYY #anyways im not going to promote it now bc its still in the first draft area. not near for me to even go thru revisions yet. i may never- #-promote it on here. i dont want to annoy people with suddenly changing tracks. and i def wont transform this blog into a self promo for me- #-thats never going to happen! i would make another blog for it but for now everything’s just an idea! #i just wanted to say thank you because this has been giving me so much anxiety especially since graduating high school. the problems of— #—trying to be an author have become more pressing and immediate for me. i hope it will happen one day but who knows #you guys give me confidence though. and i literally cannot thank u guys enough (I HATEEEEE THE CAREER ANXIETY) #not riordanverse #not incorrect either #for followers #rewriting #sorry for the whole essay in the tags ☠️

[crunchchute]

holy moly. just hit 1k. thank you!!

#i didnt prepare anything for 1k honestly #this feels like it happened so quick even though its been over the course of several months #i believe when i came back here i was at around 70? then got to like 200 and then it just went up #800 for the daves i guess. and the few that came here for other stuff #and honestly i dont know what this blogs about now i just wanted to post everything here. and i like the tagging system so if you dont like #something you can mute it i guess? im not big into fnaf rn as theres nothing for me currently. if theres a hw dlc i might hop back in #as well as for any new games coming out #but hw2 was so short lived since the gameplay was out i a day and theres not much to theorize about etc. replayability is fine but #its not something to help me stay. and the movie did nothing for me and im worried i wont like the second either so im just focusing on #the games i guess. but then again no william no interest now. just how it be.. thats why im so whiny about the tse game #lotsa thoughts #on a positive note i luv sam and max now and if theres new stuff for sonic scu over the year i will bring that maybe #as well as sonic x shadow gens but thats a long way to go still #anyway. tldr thanks for following i hope theres something on my blog that will still interest you 🫡

[theragamuffininitiative]

🌃

#sometimes i forget what website i'm on when looking for something bc i searched 'acna church' #aka the church i am currently happily attending #and everything here is very antagonistic and anti #and to avoid putting it in the tags you can easily see why if you just google #why did the acna split from american episcopal church lol #meanwhile i'm the prude going to the acna church instead of the episcopal church for um #well precisely those reasons #but anyways i was raised baptist so there really isnt much solidarity to be found #with my current long list of questions 😅 #this post brought to you by my dad visiting my church tomorrow for the first time #and i'm mostly ok with it but whoo boy it could be a doozy of a time #ragamusings in the tags

[singsweetmelodies]

alright anons

#i might answer some of you in more detail in a bit #but i'm currently sat in a rather boring meeting which i can't QUITE type proper replies during #but you can get some notes in the tags so long #bcs like i said. this meeting is BORING #right. so #@ that anon who talked about piarles and carlando not really being comparable - oh i do agree with you #at least to a certain extent #yeah; pierre and charles HAVE known each other for far longer and yeah; they haven't ever been teammates in f1 #so agreed: the friendships are very different in that sense #but i'm going to compare them anyway because this is TUMBLR DOT COM and i'm not here to be reasonable at all #so: piarles is better <333 in every way. #then @ that charlos anon who came in here to try and tell me that they get on really well ACTUALLY #lmao #that is all i have to say to you really #(to be quite fair; i don't think charles and carlos properly HATE each other. but friends in the same way as piarles? or even as carlando? #nah.) #@ my T anon 🥰❣️ i agree with YOU completely #everything you have said -- perfect. FACTS. olivia wilde nodding dot gif #andddd then finally @ that really intense carlando anon #bestie 😭😭 firstly go to someone else's inbox; you're blocked now #and secondly... you DO realise that these are rpf ships right? rpf as in real person FICTION? fiction as in THEYRE NOT REAL??? #you do realise that right... #🥲 i genuinely do wonder sometimes #anyways! anons please do continue to entertain me 🤣❤️ like i said this meeting is VERY boring #and though some of you are a little...... intense (😅) you are entertaining me quite a lot too 🤣👌 so pls carry on tyyyyy x #katie rambles #@anons

[stickyspeckledlight]

i knew it i fucking knew it

seeing how she's erudition, that prob means she isn't the fua buffer I was looking for, so prob gonna save my jades (HAH!) for topaz instead.

but..................that intro and ESP that art...I was already having thoughts but now....no, I will wait until 2.2. I will stay strong. The thoughts will be reined in. for now.

#she's going to be so slimy i can't wait #so far her vibes have been capitalist yae #seeing all of the ten stonehearts really makes topaz even more impressive #honestly baffled at how topaz of all ppl climbed the corporate ladder and up the IPC SID ladder at that #oh wait #is she a yae sakura expy or something? #hi3 players start cooking and explain your theories to me like I'm 5 #anyway #i will posit a few thoughts here in the tags since I'm already on a long tirade #dragging up a poor destitute darling and giving them EVERYTHING they've ever wanted #till hunger dirt and even fear to an extent become a long distant dream #but then they start to get more and more #more than they asked for #and when they confront jade asking if they need to pay her more and more or something #she simply smiles #“The IPC will give you everything you want. And even what you don't want. In short...there is still value to extract.” #they don't want to return to their life and desperate they ask what they need to do so that they don't fall again #“Nothing hard. If anything you're graduating to an existence even more effortless than the one you currently live. All you need to do...” #“...is to become my treasure.” #speckled questions sexuality #speckled blabbers #speckled word vomits in the tags

[beananium]

The Problems

#vent #grandmother is demanding 100 dollars a week when my ssi is only 500~550 a month + i have to buy certain things on my own #you didn't treat my sister like this. when she had a part-time job + was living here she only had to pay around 50 dollars for rent.. #what the hell makes me so different?? fuck man #by the way for those uninformed: she collects ssi in my name currently #with the trade off she gives me money when i ask for it #and i can't hold a job due to my disabilities making me overwhelmed by Everything a normal job throws at me #(down to the damn applications) #i need to. wait i need to divert for a second why are pr/o ed tags being recommended to me. bite my happily fat ass. anyways #i need to get out of this fucking household i am. this close. to biting my arm off

[stupidfags]

Wow as it turns out discussing politics with your leftist friends develops your ideas on it a bit more. Shocker I know

#ive been talking to my friend about shit #and shes an anarchist so obviously we dont agree on everything #but im learning a lot about her ideas and getting input to develop mine #wow growth over here #idk why this took me so long to talk to them about it their my best friend? #anyways im thinkin deeply tonight on this shit and im rambling on here in the tags #she just had to pull me outta a depression spiral about current state of things so lol #squeaking

[lightfulonion]

tagged by @skijjiki THANK YOU!!! <333

List 4 characters you match the energy of!

Top Left: Yachi Hitoka from Haikyuu!!

Top Right: Stede Bonnet from Our Flag Means Death

Middle: Usopp from One Piece

Last: Jiro Sakana from Sakana

This took me so long for the sole reason of not knowing myself good enough apparently shajdgshhj Let's not talk about how many times I had to redo this because I wasn't satisfied..... (it was 4 times u_u)

I picked all of them for various personal reasons but mostly because almost all of them have anxiety lol

Also because of their hero's journey and their role as characters but that's a little too sentimental for me rn lol lmao

This was hard!! But it was also a good chance for me to reflect a little! Thank you so much again for the tag!!!

i tag @horson, @livingonyoghurtandspite, @raph-red-fan and @clementinethekitten in case any of you want to do it!! (∩^o^)⊃━☆

#please tell me if the IDs are bad in any way this is my second time writing them and i'm still not very good at them ^^' #onion talks #get tagged #i was so so tempted to just post haikyuu and mob psycho's logos and counting it as 2 characters... it was so hard to just pick orz #i love these kinds of questions tho #they always make me think about what i find the most relatable in characters #i almost picked tsukishima at one point but there were a few more relatable ones oof #hirugami from hq and serizawa from mp100 were here at the first draft BUT i don't know them all that well yet #i need to finish both of these manga but i do know enough about them to (almost) put them in this list soo #ANYWAYZZ #please read sakana!!!! it's my favourite comic ever and it's currently on hiatus till the end of the year probably and it's really good!!!! #my favourite character there is taisei but we don't share as many similarities as with jiro and I WISH I WAS HIMM #as well as suga and reigen and hinata and bokutou #ANYWAY I AM RAMBLING AGAIN #thank you so much skijjiki for tagging me again i owe you everything (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ) #if you are reading this btw i always read your username as sky + the greek word for cicada so that's you in my mind now #THANKS AGAIN BYE #queuing this to leave a little breathing room between tagged posts

[kalmeria]

have been thinking about obbligato x death, thrice drawn by the scary jokes. specifically as being about the beginning and the development of tatsumi and kaname’s fated relationship, with himeru’s perspective cut in. in general the religious/apocalyptic imagery would fit tatsumi and the reimei revolution. while the chorus is tatsukana before it all went wrong, the last verse is himeru in the aftermath of it.

#anyone knows the song. #anyways of course having three people and making it nonlinear too changes what some parts would mean #the everything you know is all wrong part is current day himeru @ tatsumi #unbaptized decline is kaname when he loses the special student status and first seeks out tatsumi in the catacombs #or no better yet it’s the scene in the dorms specifically. kaname’s breakdown #anyways you can try and play a little animatic in your brain. mine doesn’t really work like that but i have a vague idea of it #enstars #obbligato #fingers crossed me misinterpreting a song a bit doesn’t show up in its tag:| #but yea. come join me in never escaping obbligato #i read some stuff i posted here after reading it bc i know that i fact checked myself #this way i didn’t have to go back to my screenshots. that would be too much for me and i wouldn’t be able to sleep

[haeroniel-doliet]

ayo ive been posting art on my tumblr since 2013. like. this account (the name changed once at least ofc) but my god what a relic. in half a year we going on 10 years here. i wonder what 13 year old me would think yknow?

reminded of this bc im revamping the blog and i thought id for sentiments add my old art tag as a link, bc it has a few sketches from earlier in the year and like. idk. some level of transparency that i’ve taught myself and i’m crap actually lol. realized there is art beyond what is in that last tag, and just found what i think was my first art tag (archive shows ive posted stuff even before i knew or cared to tag them as my own loll)

some parts of me are playing w the idea of making an art dedicated blog, so people who want could follow that and not have to get all my misc posts too. (i had an art blog at age 15 that i promptly abandoned hahah) so yeah, seeing as im not exactly consistent rn, i dont think its necessary. and theres something sweet about having all of me on this one blog, soon 10 years of my personal growth yknow??? anyway peace out, if youre reading this i love you <3

#haeroniel talks #thats probably my current chat tag that one im way less mindful of historically lol #welcome to history of this blog there are a few mutuals whove been here basically since the beginning yall are the real ones #also feel free to take a look at my shiny new theme btw i tried #i even made a color palette for it im thinking to make a doodle w it as a challenge bc its very pretty and needs appreciation #oh and news!! i figured out how the stupid tags work i think. turns out if its not in the first 20 it doesnt show up in any search for it. #FUCKED RIGHT? anyway fortunately the browser version lets you like move tags #ok i think thats everything love you byeeeee

[intearsaboutrobots]

ok thing to do before i go back to school: figure out ANY way to stay organised, bc i definitely have stuff i should do to get ready but my brain is but porridge in a sieve

option 1: anything digital/phone based. pros: i always have it w me cons: my phone is immensely too distracting

option 2: notebook/journal pros: writing things good, separate place from my phone and distracting things, have had moderate success in the past cons: will forget and/or lose it many times, making it less reliable

option 3: write on the back of my hand/arm pros: CANNOT LOSE THIS. useful to remember stuff short term cons: very public, limited space, hard to get off

#brought to you by: while i was writing this #i re-remembered i had to submit a thing for a criminal record check #went and did that #then came back to write these tags #i thought i used to be better at remembering stuff but i think i just had a pretty reliable schedule #and as i have now learned: when i deviate from my current schedule #everything leaves my head forever #original content #anyway. if im missing an idea here feel free to suggest it #im thinking it probably has to be a combination of 2 and 3 #write stuff on my hand til i can write it elsewhere

[possum-tooth]

if youd have asked me how i thought this week was gonna end i wouldnt have been able to tell you

#currently packing. its 12:48a. #i just wanna go to bed but i feel like an animal being hunted for sport bc his sister wants to come out here to confront us (mostly #my bf) but her chickenshit bf wont let her. like just get it over with for gods sake. #anyway i didnt bring near enough boxes And its gonna take Multiple trips to get everything to the storage unit :( anyway. #taking my trashbags tho bc /i/ fucking bought them theyre MINE! i Should take the paper plates and cups too but im not That petty. yet. #if they start shit then yep im taking them :) fuck you! also she doesnt understand 'asap' but thats another story. anyway #talk tag