@decayingundead thank you for an amazing lunchbox! I love the halloween themed and the penguin ghostyyyyy 🐧👻 🖤 You truly are the best!! I love you 🤍 🤍 🤍 🤍
Made a widened version of this painting since other sites didn't like to let me post it without either the worst crop or crunching it to a single blurry pixel
katsuki is fresh from the shower and still wrapped in a towel when you come in, and at the sound of your voice, his interest in fiddling with his hair quickly fades.
he doesn't turn around to stare at you fully—at least, not at first; his eyes meet yours in the mirror and widen, almost imperceptibly, before tracking down the expanse of your reflection. you told him about the costume you'd ordered, but his response had been simple, acknowledgement more than anything, and now—
the slow simmering flush on his cheeks is more obvious when he finally faces you—and it's a bit too high on his cheekbones to be from any hot water.
katsuki clears his throat before he speaks, swallowing once. "the hell're you wearin'?"
you shrug, and though you can tell from his body language that he doesn't dislike it—a shyness pools in your belly, suddenly too seen under his warm gaze. you fiddle with the cheap material, tugging lightly at how it sits on your hips.
"my halloween costume!" you try to remain upbeat regardless, smiling widely at him as you pose appropriately, to show off the full effect. "what do you think?"
his mouth screws up in a way that could come across as disgust to the wrong person, but you know him better than that; this is him trying to keep control of his face when he doesn't know what to do with it. instead of answering right away, he crosses the bedroom until he's standing in front of you, poking at your headband and the blocky, plastic jewelry that came in the package.
at his side, his palm runs across the towel on his waist. like he's sweating.
"'s'cute." katsuki finally mumbles, dropping his eyes to the neckline of your costume when you grin. you feel him tugging lightly, too, on the material at your hips, before settling on your waist.
you'd kiss him if it wouldn't ruin your makeup.
"i'm so glad you think so," you tell him, genuinely, leaning forward to lightly boop his nose with yours—and when he only hums in response, softened, you hit him with the truth. "because i bought you one to match!"
Hey so I’ve mentioned this a lot of times on my main blog, but I wanted to put this out over here since it is Hallow’s Eve. I always give out little tchotchkes on Halloween along with candy. This year, I’ve completely switched over to 100% doohickeys and doodads— think mechanical pencils, shaped erasers, little notebooks, squishes, vampire teeth and spiders rings and all. It started years ago in college when I signed up for a dorm Halloween event where kids from an area that was too dangerous to really trick or treat through got bussed in to trick or treat at our dorm. I bought some candy and dollar store Halloween themed stuff with what i had. And you know what the kids went ape shit over?
Motherfucking. Mechanical. PENCILS!!
These kids could not get enough of them. They literally went “PENCILS??!” I had never seen kids get so hyped up for pencils lmao. They were the first things to go. Candy is fleeting; the little pencils you can bring to school to flex are eternal, until you inevitably lose one of the refill parts and then they aren’t but listen, in that one moment they are infinite. And its nice thinking that maybe some kids who don’t always have access to school supplies not only get them, but get them in fun shapes and designs.
Anyway. I recommend people to give out fun stuff like this not just because kids seem to genuinely enjoy them, but also because there’s this thing called the Teal Pumpkin Project here in America. You can put out a teal pumpkin to show that you are giving away non-candy items and sign your address up so parents of children with allergies know that there are houses their kids can safely and happily trick or treat at! It’s a win-win! Plus, if you accidentally bought too much, it’s not like candy— just pack it away, pencils and fidget spinners will be good next year, too! :)
i had a whole two kids dress up today so i’m just annotating a passage on the board in a hammerhead shark costume looking absolutely insane as i lecture to a room of people in normal clothes
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