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miibrawlerfeet · 4 months
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you ghouls still like miis, riiight? <3
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druffdurchsleben · 1 year
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I do fucking not fucking takE fucking it anymore for fucks sake, fuck FUUUUUUCK!!!!
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lonely-dog-song · 2 years
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I would like to see more adaptations of TCOMC where Edmond & Mercedes don't get together in the end.... bc it's such a predictable ending for a story with an emphasis on romance, & they don't even get together in the book........ But at the same time, the book's ending rly stung. Mercedes is so alone :·((( & I did not enjoy the romantic (??) relationship between haydee & edmond it left off on. thought it was yucky
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honeykissies · 2 years
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ugh :/ little me is feeling neglected and jealous and i’m just :/
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xx-webfoxxez-xx · 3 months
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therian dashboard simulator 🐕🐕🐕
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guys i ate a bee during a shift what the fuck should i do?
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my dearest canine descendent: are you /srs or /j rn??????
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i was /j !!! although, eating a bee shaped gummy definetly gave me a hint of the True domestic dog experience LOL :3
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The tiger prowls,
As ancient as the land itself,
Unseen, unheard,
But always felt.
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did my first successful quads jump today : DD
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Yayy!!!! So happy for you *sniffs you*
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that's so cool!! I wish i could find a way to manifest my kin in a better way, do you guys have any ideas??
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HeLLo***!!!! @nebulakin , i Am 💥💥🩷 Lonely WOMAN 🙆‍♀️🥺🩷 click Here To Chat!!!!!!! 💋💋💋
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NEBULA ATTACK 🌌🌌🌌
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YARN TAIL AND CAT MASK TUTORIALS BELOW 🐈🐈🐈
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looks at you with my autistic eyes
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you're confused about your emotions ? me too babe, here's a quick reading
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I chose random images from my pinterest to read into your energy so you can choose randomly aswell, whatever speaks to you♡ also Idk what's with the 2016 songs today but I kept hearing random ones throughout this reading maybe there's some resonance for you
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The Moon🌜
first off I'm hearing that song "we don't talk anymore" by Charlie Puth. So maybe you're dealing with some kind of loss right now, maybe a breakup, a fight with a loved one, a new chapter meaning you have to leave someone behind a little... if this is the case, or similar, allow yourself to be "thrown off" a little, those kinds of situations take adjusting and remember that nothing has to be forever. where I come frome we say : "thunderstorms clear the air" meaning that after a fight there's great potential for healthy communications and solving problems once and for all, for a peaceful and harmonic environment♡ A reading about your emotional state and I pull the moon, how well fitting. The answer truly lays on the inside with this one. no one can tell you how you truly feel exept for yourself! (and maybe your therapist) I think for most of you there's a new season starting and you're realising that it can't be all returning characters. Take some time to heal your relationship with relationships and analyze what and who is truly of good value to your life. you got this!
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four of swords🗡 and page of pentacles🪙
for you I'm hearing that song "cold water" with Justin Bieber. And you actually need to take a jump into cold water. There's something you've been manifesting and now that it's slowly getting closer you're resisting the change. Maybe by refusing to let go ? It's like little kids now around Christmas, you can actually watch this happen with slight alterations, all the time. Their parents take them to the toystore so they can see what they like, and they child ofcourse find something but their parents tell them okay now time to go home and wait and see if Santa will bring it. But the kid clings to the shelves and doesn't wanna leave behind the thing they so desperately wanted. Little does it now that their parents just need to get them out of sight so "Santa" can buy the gift and deliver it WHEN IT IS TIME. let go of obsessing, overthinking and trying to "go the right path" and just let the story unfold, take it step by step even if its a little scary and you'll find yourself where you're supposed to be, you're so close already♡
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seven of swords🗡
It's too heavy darling you can't carry all of that. You might think you do and you think you're so strong and abundant and successful for "having" all of that but then you wouldn't be feeling like this, would you? A burden, too much responsibility, too many goals or to do's for a person who only has 24hours in a day. I know the card typically speaks about actual betrayal but in this case it feels a little paranoid, like you're desperately trying to do it all on your own because your scared of beeing betrayed or someone messing with your vision or even catching evil eye. For you I'm hearing "Lady Marmalade" yk from Moulin Rounge !? I'm not sure how that fits in here and I never watched the movie but oh well, maybe you know what to do with this information. There could be something about sisterhood and sharing a problem (could be workload or talking about problems...). You might have that lonely wolf mindset, but no matter how strong you are, out there, beeing alone can get you killed. I keep seeing pictures of spiritual communities and churches, you might wanna be looking for something like a mediation or yoga class, bible study group, a coven.... depending on your beliefsystem! you're right not everyone is your friend but also not everyone is your enemy!
ps. reading back this comes off a little weird and I feel like I need to say this. please don't join a cult lol. If you are in some kind of group and things feel off, please take care of yourself♡
hope that helped <3
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electric-friend · 1 month
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coming up with the sappiest fucking AUs as a coping mechanism lol. stede and izzy having been childhood friends, izzy a little older.
izzy ran away, snuck onto a ship. stede said he’d come but his father locked him in his room and he never turned up. izzy couldn’t miss his chance and left anyway. they’re both heartbroken about this.
they aren’t reunited until their canon meeting but they don’t recognise each other at first because it’s been so long. when they do recognise each other, they both end up keeping it a secret from each other because they believe the other has forgotten them and they cannot stand the thought of letting the other know how much they love them if they don’t remember.
stede used to call izzy bee, derived vaguely from basilica. izzy used to call stede bonnie for bonnet, and then bunny, and then cottontail.
izzy’s x tattoo is a kiss from stede. he got it because that’s the place stede always used to kiss him, and he missed stede.
sometimes stede would cry about the way children at boarding school or his father treated him. izzy told stede that if stede was ever lonely, all he’d need to do was imagine izzy’s hand in his, and izzy promises to feel it and hold stede’s hand in return, no matter how far apart they are. sometimes over the years they both think they can feel each other holding their hand.
stede and ed probably get together before stede and izzy manage to communicate about their problem. ed listens to stories about stede’s bee and he’s going to be so fucking shocked when izzy overhears one day and comes running in and calls stede by an old pet name and they finally properly reunite after months of pretending to be bitter or indifferent to each other because those stories were about iz? my iz? those soft stories?
izzy’s good with kids. he was good with kids when he was one.
this isn’t really like… in character that much. i don’t care it’s purely for comfort reasons.
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Now that you've watched s2, I'm very curious to hear your opinion about it as an honourable IB shipper
My feelings are very mixed, while their flashbacks were pretty cute, the "confession" scene felt TERRIBLE to me. Why would these two old bureaucrats sing a cheesy song at each other in front of their respective courts 😭 Why were they speaking like 13 year olds. The ending just ruined the relationship becoming canon :(
Really long answer incoming lol.
Okay so. Essentially, yes. It was jarring/cringe because it was so VASTLY different than the vibe of their relationship that I had built in my head the last four years. I've always thought of them quite a bit more mature, sometimes combative, and really fucking kinky. But I wouldn't say it ruined it for me, and I'll explain why.
Initially it seemed SO out of character, the lovey-dovey, almost childlike affection they had for each other. But it's exciting for me to consider what if this WAS in their characters all along, they were just never given the opportunity/felt safe enough to let that side of their personalities be seen. Which is HEARTBREAKING but there's some subtle evidence to back this up.
We all know Bee is an angry, annoyed, high ranking demon with a lot on their plate. Even Crowley said "because they're always such a ray of sunshine" to Shax because it seems common knowledge to all of Hell that Bee is, well... an angry little shit. But they ARE a ray of sunshine when they're with Gabe, away from hell, away from their daily stresses, away from the expectations of running Hell. LOOK AT THEM.
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We saw a hint of this in S1, when they showed a moment of vulnerability. When? In front of Gabe, at the airbase. They can't show weakness in Hell because they can't weaken their position as Prince (Grand Duke?), but Gabriel is the only other being in the entire cosmos they feel is an equal, and they can therefore let their guard down like they did at the airbase, and like they do a little bit more at every meeting with Gabe following Armageddon. Until they were actually showing the real Bee- who is a little unsure, kind of quiet, and a worrier. I always headcanoned that Bee absolutely WAS soft, underneath all their posturing, but only ever in private and only ever with Gabe. AND THEN I WAS GIVEN THAT HOLY SHIT.
Okay now on to Gabe. I always headcanoned that after Armageddon, he fucking broke. He snapped. He was SO TIRED of working toward goals, leading the host of Heaven toward said goals, and then the biggest one of all ended up a failure and essentially it fell on his shoulders. And that's basically what did happen in canon! It started, just like it did for Bee, at the airbase, when it was all falling apart, he turned to the only being he could that would understand his frustration.
He was always the hard-ass boss, albeit an idiot and a dick, but the memory wipe proved there was a sweetheart in there somewhere. Before the season aired, I assumed the memory wipe was what would show Gabe the error of his ways, and he would learn to be gentle and generous and loving through that trial. But it turns out HE ALREADY LEARNED IT BY THE TIME OF THE MEMORY WIPE.
Heaven seems so cold and lonely, and my god the scene where he says no one had ever given him anything. My heart ached for him. Heaven didn't even give him a desk. MURIEL, a 37th order, was given a desk but he wasn't. Away from the cold sterility of Heaven and his obligations, he heard Bee say they liked something, and he realized how happy their enjoyment made him. So he decided he liked it too. He never got to enjoy things (other than clothes), or his time around others, and Bee provided him that escape, simply by saying "I like this song." And then he miracled the song to play because he wanted to make someone, other than himself, happy. And he was ready to swan dive into Hell, give up the clothes he loved, because he knew he'd be okay, he and Bee would be okay if they were together.
Yes, their relationship is way different than I pictured it would be. But I'm framing it instead of being ooc, maybe we weren't seeing the real Gabe and Bee in S1. We were just seeing them as the result of their respective situations.
And the confession, to me, was used as a juxtaposition for the husbands confession, which uh. Did not go nearly as well.
So yeah, the singing to each other and their soft, innocent affection was cringe. But Bureaucracy has always been cringe, Bee is a gremlin and Gabe is an idiot. I'm looking forward to exploring their new dynamic in fic, and maybe filling some of the gaps that took them from where they were to where they are now.
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wannab-urs · 8 months
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The Spreadsheet Digest - Vol 16
Howdy folks,
I went into a state of psychosis this week and read a truly absurd amount of fics... again. I don't even know where I'm finding the time, truly, but here we are. I didn't spend as much time keeping up with the WIPs I'm reading, so honestly that's probably it. Also I had a lil monsterfucking moment one day this week. I'll highlight those green so if you want to avoid reading the summaries/thots on those they're easy to spot.
You can find my Spreadsheet here and all my previous recs here! Do feel free to tag me in your works and I will happily give them a look and most likely you'll see them here the next week!
Recs below the behind the scenes Joel!
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SNAFU - a Frankie series by @theywhowriteandknowthings
The Triple Frontier boys as Shifters!!! This honestly makes so much sense? Like they work SO well with this dynamic. I adore Pope and Reader's bond like right out of the gate. What I really, really fucking loved though was Reader and Frankie, of course. I love how they characterized him and I really love the way that Frankie and reader bonded over time. Frankie being grumpy is so fun lol. A lot of the little details in this fic are what really make it good, ya know? The pack dynamics, the bonding moments, the badass reader, reader's uhhh issue (spoiler, I think, so I'll be quiet here) but yeah. Just. Wonderful. Can't wait for more.
only daddy that'll walk the line - a Joel one shot by @millerscoffee
So this request was sent to two different blogs and I read them both and loved them both. I read this one first. I really fucking loved Reader's dynamic with Joel in this. Joel is such a dick lmao. I thought the situation with reader's dad was done well and I also loved the hinting at Joel's trauma. And of course... the smut. God that was hot. Joel is so fucking dominant. The spitting? please. and Reader keeping up the brat thing just really fucking makes it. She needed Daddy Joel to make her behave lmao. SO GOOD
Little Bee - a Joel one shot by @atticrissfinch
And this is the other version of this request that I read. I related to the specifc brand of Daddy Issues in this one lmao. Dad who doesn't want you so you look for a protective older man (why am I like this). I loved the way reader antagonized Joel in this. The denture comment is hilarious. The bee motif is fuckin great, also. I like that Joel kind of initiates things in the mess hall. The smut is so god damn hot man. Like jesus fucking christ. And then the post nut clarity really made me giggle. "should not have done that" PLS
Closer - a Joel series by @beardedjoel
Hot neighbor!joel!! This is a smut marathon style fic with a good bit of feelings. The smut is sooooo good!! I really liked her friend Sofia too. I'm about halfway through this and I can't wait to see how reader and joel's relationship develops!
Rises the Moon - a Joel one shot by @psychedelic-ink
(monsterfucking, but you're the monster! also monster is being used very loosely here) mermaid reader x lighthouse operator joel!!! I really enjoyed this. The mermaid reader was super interesting. I wanted to know more about her background, honestly. And the way poor lonely Joel so desperately wanted to care for her UGH. It was seriously lovely. I also really liked how reader didn't commit to like... giving up being a mermaid for him (even just once a month), and he didn't ask her to. The ending is really lovely. (And the smut is hot idc if I couldn't quite imagine how it worked, it was perfect).
Playing with fire - a Joel one shot by @beskarandblasters
Super hot smutty lil dad's best friend one shot. I love when Joel gets all pissy. Makes me want to tease him even more lmao
Cupid's Chokehold - a Din one shot by @deathwife
I haven't read a body swap fic before and I must say the dynamic with it being Din, so reader can't see his face even though it's her face, and also the smut was just like... really good. I was fascinated the whole time + the smut was hot as hell. It's really fun to read it from the perspective of the dick owner lmao. I really adored their relationship and just overall thought this was lovely. Reader calls Din "Djarin" so if you're like me and marrying Din would give you an awful name (Din Gin....), you're not alone. <3
I think i know - a Joel one shot by @pascalisbaby
OMG Reader's sister is so mean in this she fucking deserves Joel cheating on her. Yes this is Sister's Husband!Joel. And yes it's really fucking hot. Reader is a menace to fucking society in this prancing around half naked and seducing a married man and I support every second of it. I know what Joel said at the end but I think he'll be back for more....
close your eyes, pay the price for your paradise - a Joel/Tommy series by @ozarkthedog
Raider (?) Tommy and Joel are so fucking hot. Read the warnings on this one kids, it's gonna be a rough one. Nothing happens in this part though, really. Basically you're stranded on the road (post outbreak / pre tess) and Joel and Tommy roll up in their truck and take you to their cabin.
a day in the filth - a Joel one shot by @toxicanonymity
This is pure filth, as the title implies. It would seem you're Joel's little sex toy, essentially. Brat tamer!Daddy!Joel. There's a lot going on here and it is all unreasonably hot.
Bodily Exchange - a Pero Tovar one shot by @absurdthirst
I finally caved a read a mafia fic and somehow it wasn't Joel. I really loved how much of a fucking dick Tovar was and how bratty reader was. The end was so much sweeter than expected, which was a nice surprise. Such a filthy fic with a sweet happy ending!
New York or Nowhere - a Joel series by @beskarandblasters
BODEGA JOEL!!! I love when you're trying to help your friend come up with a fic based on a very specific request and somehow you come up with a completely different fic altogether. New York transplant Joel owns Beldro's Deli. You think he's really hot but your friends think he's a creep. I personally think if he's a little bit of a creep that just makes it better, but then again I'm a little insane <3
Shiver and Shake - a Joel one shot by @multiversed-daydreamer
I have ADHD and literally do the thing where I have thought spirals during sex. I loved this take on that experience and mean ol dom Joel being there to bring your focus back where it belongs (on him). Super fucking hot ugh. And it was their first TLOU fic and I thought the QZ Joel characterization was spot on <3
Roads - a Joel series by @milla-frenchy
Baby's first fic!! So you grew up with Tommy, best friends and all that. You get to know Joel as an adult and there's a spark right away. The first installment here takes place 3 years before present day, after Joel breaks your heart and you literally move to get away from him. The promise of so much angst has me salivating almost as much as the really hot smut.
Promise - an Ezra one shot by @criticallyacclaimedstranger
MONSTERFUCKING! I had a little binge this week.. you'll see. Anyway Ezra is a literal actual dragon in this with a big ol dragon dick and everything. This fic includes so many wild ass kinks I simply do not (or did not know I?) have. And yet I still loved it. Thought it was super fucking hot. I really liked the imagery of the castle and the bedroom. Also the end was kind of sweet?
Common Courtesies - a Din one shot by @juletheghoul
More monsterfucking -- demon!din! I fucking love Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen in general. Mr. Darcy is one of the literary loves of my life. This little Pride and Prejudice-esque Demon!Din fic hit every mark. I loved it so much. Din is so charming and mysterious and sexy ugh. I would marry him in a heartbeat.
Solum - a Dave York one shot by @ezrasbirdie
You guessed it! Monsterfucking. Demon!Dave York!!! I really enjoyed the blending of the movie plot with the demon arc! It was so well done!! Dave was super sexy in this ugh. I too feel a strange pull toward extremely dangerous men covered in blood. Reader gets me. I am her. She is me. Demon!Dave can take me as his little human sex toy any day, idc. I also kind of loved that he was so sweet on Carol in this? Like usually in Dave fics he kinda hates her or cheats on her or she's his ex, but in this one the whole catalyst was keeping her and his girls safe. Very sweet.
Sell My Soul For You - a Marcus P one shot by @absurdthirst
--monsterfucking-- Marcus is so sweet. So sweet that Reader is getting a little aggravated he can't be a less sweet in bed. (Girl have you tried like... talking to him about it?) Anyway, sweet, impulsive, reckless Marcus finds out you feel this way via buttdial and does he like... work on it with you and slowly learn to be better? No. He goes out and sells his soul to a demon to be a better Dom. Idiot. He's cute tho, so I'll let it slide. The smut is super fucking unreasonably hot, of course.
Bad Moon Rising - a Jack series by @wardenparker
--werewolf!Jack-- This fic is actually so fucking sweet!! So part one, Reader doesn't know Jack is a werewolf and he just kinda shows up on her ranch and they hit it off immediately. There's lots of lovely animal references and stuff and it's all really hot. I love the plot too!! this is not just werewolf porn! Shit is incredible! I love the characterization. But anyway if you're not into monsterfucking just read part one. Part two tho... oh boy. Full on werewolf sex. And reader has a kink for it! She's just like me fr.
Kudzu - an Ezra one shot by @beskarberry
--weird alien hybrid ezra-- I have lots of emotions about this fic. First of all, read the warnings. They're extensive and they're there for good reason. I love a good horror fic, which is kind of what this felt like? Like the weird tension and unknowing and the freaky way Ez is talking and that arm. I was thoroughly freaked out (and I love that!!). There were so many clever and interesting things going on in this fic AHHHH, Oh and the ending is just like super sweet and wonderful and so good? The end balances out the kind of horrific nature of the rest of the fic. Also if any of that sounds insulting I really don't mean it that way, I promise. I went in to it expecting to be freaked out and it delivered so well.
Yes Father - a Joel series by @chloeangelic
Your boring catholic husband doesn't fuck you right and you really want to leave him, so Father Joel helps you satisfy your needs so you don't destroy your marriage and go to hell. I love blasphemy. It's hot idc. I think my favorite thing about it is Father Joel randomly admonishing you for foul language and taking the lord's name in vain while he's literally got some part of his body buried in yours. I giggled. I really adore this. It was super fun and super hot.
Pillow Talk - a Joel one shot by @theboredinsomniac
Joel is soooo the jealous type. This fic is basically y'all having an adult conversation about him being an insecure jealous little bitch and it's got the most adorable ending.
Born to Run - a Marcus Pike series by @whataperfectwasteoftime
Penny's Marcus is just perfect. Every damn time. Unless I'm mistaken, this was her first Marcus fic? I was in the mood for a sweet multichapter thing with some hot smut and I was sooooo not disappointed by this. I'm on chapter 8 now, so about halfway through. Marcus is so sweet and precious and still impulsive as ever, but unlike Theresa, reader is right there with him. I really adore that this fic takes place in KY (and it really captures the vibe of Kentucky too) since I'm from there! I very much do not relate to the fact that reader is a marathon runner, but that's okay. I think it's really cool and I love the way they meet and that Marcus isn't fully a white knight? She can take care of herself. Super fucking cute fic ugh. Oh yeah and the smut is to die for jesus christ Marcus is hot.
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mitskijamie · 14 days
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Tbh most of the guys on the team weren’t really victimized by Jamie beyond his general obnoxious and self centered presence. They deserved an apology for the toxic locker room (and Sam and Nate deserved 1000 apologies), but most of them were in his clique, and Roy was the only one who stood up for Sam and Nate, so acting like personal victims of his evil (10 year old bully actions) is a bit silly imo.
Also “you got us relegated” ? Skill issue idk
I've said this before and I'll say it again: I really think the majority of them were more upset about being relegated than they were about anything Jamie did to them or to their teammates. They all started yelling at him after Isaac brought up the relegation, which made me think that that was really the big issue for most of them 🤷‍♀️ also Jan Maas explicitly said "I don't know you, but I don't like you," so there was definitely an element of mob psychology/follow-the-leader there lol
The toxic locker room environment was definitely largely Jamie's fault, because he was like. the queen bee, obviously, but the only reason he was able to create that atmosphere was because people were following his lead. In s1e4 Ted was talking about how the team was "divided" between Roy and Jamie, meaning that Jamie was not actually a rogue lone bully traumatizing everyone else, but rather the popular ringleader of a large clique that included at least about half of the team.
Everyone who was involved with Jamie (with the exception of Isaac, who did undergo substantial character growth) basically shirked accountability for their roles in the toxic environment by switching up and scapegoating him after he came back to Richmond, which sucks because there were a whole lot of them who were also contributing to that environment who I thought really owed apologies as well
I'm not trying to defend Jamie or his actions, I just wish we saw more accountability from everyone who stood there and watched/laughed while Jamie fucked with their teammates or even actively bullied others for Jamie's entertainment (COLIN.) I don't think that encouraging and enabling bullying is actually much better than being a bully yourself, which is precisely why I think Jamie still owes Nate a personal apology even though he wasn't the one actually messing with him
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t-nd-rfoot · 1 year
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SUNFLOWER aka The Secret Valentine
There's something special about the happiness that comes from flowers.
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Pairing Bob Floyd x female!aviator!OC/reader (callsign: Honey, but he calls you Bee)
Theme fluff
Warnings Valentine's clichés (ish); love triangle (ish); mentions of drinking; Hangman does something OOC (but roll with it please); edited a million times but I'm sure there's still a typo or two
Word Count 5.9k
Note Oh my goodness. This was....a headspinner to write, to say the least. First of all, so many thanks to @avaleineandafryingpan for requesting this and being so patient and kind!!! This was supposed to be a quick Valentine's drabble and lol. Look at the word count. And I'm about a week late from Valentine's Day. Secondly, a quick thanks to bestie @hangmanbrainrot for giving me advice on writing OCs! I'm not sure if Honey ended up being an OC since I wrote it in reader's POV but hey, I'm learning 😅 anyway, I hope you guys enjoy this!
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It started with a sunflower.
One lonely sunflower sitting on the railing of your porch, its bright and yellow petals made it hard to miss on your out of your house on your way to the hangar.
How did this get here? you wondered aloud as you picked it up.
You looked up and down the street, hoping to see its owner, but it was still too early for anyone to be up. A few officers here and there were on their way to work just like you, but there was no other sunflower in sight. None on their porches, none on the ends of their walkways, none in their hands.
Shrugging it off, you took it as a sign for a good day. You figured it might make you late if you looked for a vase to put it in, so you placed it on the passenger seat of your car along with your work things and headed off.
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“Happy love day, ladies!”
Hangman’s voice boomed as you, Phoenix, and Halo walked in the tactical auditorium. The guys were all scattered around the room and talked in groups, seeing as Maverick was running late to brief all of you on today’s drills.
‘Happy Valentine’s Day!’s and ‘thank you’s echoed around as all of you greeted each other.
“Happy Valentine’s Day, Bee,” Bob greeted as he walked up to you. You smiled as his special callsign—he refused to call you by your real callsign, Honey—rolled off his tongue, always teasing him about the adorable blush he sported whenever he said it.
“Thank you, Bobby, and Happy Valentine’s Day to you!”
He looked at you, a small grin forming on his face, though he never said a word.
“What? Why are you looking at me like that?” you laughed.
He shrugged. “Nothing. You just seem extra happy today,” he pointed out.
Smiling even wider at the memory of this morning, you replied, “Well, it’s a happy day today, I guess. I found a sunflower on my porch this morning.”
“You mean you actually found it? Or do you mean ‘you found one in a flower shop and bought it for yourself’ kind of ‘found it’?” he teased.
You shouldered him playfully as he apologized. “I found it-found it. I have no idea how it got there or who placed it there, but I’m not going to question it. I got a free flower this morning and that’s all that matters,” you laughed.
Bob was one of your closest friends in and out of the Navy, graduating from the same TOPGUN class and working in Lemoore together before he got reassigned to North Island for the uranium plant mission. No matter where the two of you ended up, though, you somehow always found your way to each other as it wasn’t long till you were called back to TOPGUN as well. Though you missed being in the plane with him, the two of you were just happy to be working together again. Things between you picked up right where they left off, though the two of you had gotten closer—always sitting together at The Hard Deck or in the ready room, having lunches with Phoenix, and even going on morning jogs together down the beach. He even ditched Mickey as a teammate at pool, always calling first dibs to join you instead.
You turned to your seat when you saw that it had been decorated, and you noticed that Phoenix’s and Halo’s were as well. They were laughing with the others over the appropriately hand-drawn cards that were placed on the seats, along with a few small cut-out hearts. Clouds and wings were drawn around Halo’s cursive card, and Phoenix’s was drawn with fiery lettering.
The most detailed one, however, was yours—it was a full scene with a garden with flowers and bees in the background, and honey dripping down the block letters.
“Oh my gosh,” you cried out, “this is adorable!”
“You’ll never guess who made them,” Bob whispered.
Your eyes scanned the room and pointed to all your suspects. “Fritz? Coyote? Fanboy?” and all were denied with the shake of his head. Just as you let out a sigh of defeat, Bob pointed to the blond aviator who was talking to Phoenix.
“Hangman?!”
Bob nodded as you continued staring at Hangman. “He was one of the first ones here,” he informed you, “Just barged in with the cards and markers told us to help set it up.”
Overhearing your conversation, Harvard chimed in, “it felt like a pre-school in the locker room, or some weird Santa’s Valentine’s workshop.”
“First of all,” Hangman walked up to you, “my niece actually deserves fifty percent of the credit for pretty much bossing me around to do something nice for the ‘pretty ladies who always give her chocolate,’” he quoted as he slung his arm around you, “and naturally, I get forty-five percent for listening to her. The guys can split the other five for helping.”
Just the image of Hangman sitting down and cutting out paper hearts with his eight-year old niece had you giggling. “Aww, who knew Bagman had such a soft spot?” you pinched his cheek.
Hangman flashed his million dollar smile at you, “Honey, you know I always have a soft spot for pretty ladies.” He threw a quick wink at you before walking back to Phoenix and Fritz.
Could he have left the sunflower? you thought. This definitely was not the first time Hangman’s flirted with you. Knowing him, you always thought it was just light banter, but now, you were second guessing.
“Actually, his original plan was to decorate your lockers, but you can probably see how that might look like a problem,” Bob told you once Hangman was out of earshot.
“Probably,” you hummed sarcastically.
He was about to say something else when Maverick burst through the auditorium doors and rushed to the front of the room. You and the rest of the squad rushed to your seats before Maverick allowed you all to sit.
“Morning, guys. Sorry, I’m late. Had some…motorcycle problems.”
Rooster cleared his throat. He gestured tiny circles at the side of his own neck. The older pilot looked confused until the young Bradshaw mouthed ‘Penny,’ and his eyes shot wide before he cleared his throat and tugged up the collars of his flight suit.
“Let’s get to work!”
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The squad rushed out of the locker rooms as soon as they could so they could get ready for their dates. Yale had just finished talking about his plans with his date when the others started talking about their plans.
“How about you, Honey? Got a big date for tonight?” Coyote asked as all of you walked out the building.
“Mhm, I got McDreamy and McSteamy waiting for me at home right now,” you joked.
Halo laughed from beside you. “Now that’s a threesome I can get behind,” she joked.
“Ouch, a Grey’s Anatomy marathon on Valentine’s Day?” He whistled lowly.
“It’s not as bad as it sounds, okay?” you defended yourself, “At least there’s a Valentine’s Day episode! And besides, I didn’t hear you say anything about a ‘hot date’.”
He held his hand, feigning offense. “You wound me, Honey. And I just so happen to have one waiting for me as we speak!” And he rushed off to his car.
“You know, the more you try to hide her from us, the more we think she’s not even real!” Payback called out. Coyote didn’t even look back at the squad as he flipped the bird and drove off.
“Coyote has a girlfriend?” you asked.
Rooster snickered, “an imaginary one.”
“He says he met someone months ago, but he’s not giving us anything else,” Fanboy added, “no name, no story, nothing. Just that every other week or so, he meets up with her.”
“Or so he says,” his best friend quipped. “The fact that even I don’t know about her is something, and he usually never shuts up about someone he’s interested in.”
The group decided then to go their separate ways to get their Valentine’s Day started, but Bob walked all the way with you to your car.
“So, you really have no date for tonight?” he asked.
You shook your head in reply as you loaded your things in the backseat of your car. “It’s not that I don’t like Valentine’s,” you suddenly found your self ranting, “it’s just that no one’s asked me this year, and I’m fine with that. I’m not gonna sit around and wallow—well, I’m going to sit around and have my Grey’s marathon, yeah—but I’m not going to wallow! And it’s not like it’s the end of the world that nobody’s asked me to be their Valentine…right?”
You looked up at Bob to find his big blue eyes staring back at you, clearly at a loss for words from your little spout.
“Oh my gosh, I sound so pathetic,” you muttered. “Please, please forget I said anything, I—”
Bob burst into laughter and hugged you tight to try and calm you down.
“This isn’t funny, Bobby!” you said, though you couldn’t hold back your own laughter.
Looking up at him once again, you found his blue eyes already on you, though there was more sincerity in his gaze this time. And something else, but you couldn’t put a finger on it. You and Bob have both looked at and hugged each other a million times before, but the way he looked at and hugged you now felt different. Suddenly, you were both aware of the position you were in and pulled back. He ran his finger through his hair nervously while you crossed your arms, unconsciously missing the warmth of his embrace.
You stole glances at him as you cleared your throat. “So, um…how about you? Do you have a date tonight?”
It took a few seconds for him to answer. “Yeah,” he mumbled, suddenly finding the stray gravel on the pavement more interesting than you.
A small ‘oh,’ escaping your lips, you put on a poker face. “Wow, um, since when?” you asked.
“Oh, um, it’s been…awhile, I guess.” he trailed off.
Relationships weren’t a strange topic for either of you, but looking back, you were more open about your love life than he was. Maybe he met someone before you arrived. Maybe he didn’t want to let anyone know, especially if he thought the others were going to tease him about it. Maybe he didn’t say anything because you never asked…until now. Knowing Bob, he never dated casually, so this must have been serious. But he never kept things from you. Not in his emails, not in his texts, and certainly not in person. But you weren’t insulted, just confused, if you could ever admit.
“Well, whoever she is, she’s a lucky girl,” you assured, “I’m really happy for you, Bobby!”
You climbed into your car before your emotions started to show, but just before you stepped on the gas, Bob knocked on your window and you let it roll down.
“You’re not pathetic, Bee. In fact, you’re far from it, not even close to it. Anyone would be lucky to have you.”
Your lips turned up graciously at your best friend’s words of encouragement.
“Thanks, Bobby.”
“And if you ever start to feel that way again, just think about your sunflower,” he gestured to the plant in your passenger seat.
“It’s wilting,” you pointed out disappointedly.
“So?” he shrugged, “it’s still pretty. It’s still a sunflower.”
With a small grin, he pushed himself off your car to let you get home and waved goodbye.
You were about to pull up to your driveway a few minutes later when a delivery driver showed up and asked for your name.
“Yeah, that’s me?” you said before they handed you a bag. “Um, I don’t remember ordering anything…”
“Don’t worry, it’s all taken care of,” they informed you with a kind smile.
“By who, if I can ask?”
They shook their head, “Sorry, I was given specific instructions to not say anything. Though from what’s in the box, I’d say you have a secret admirer!”
After they left, you walked in your kitchen to open the bag. Inside was a stark white box with neon squiggles.
“Sugarlust,” you read aloud the sticker that sealed it. The bakery Coyote always goes to, you recognized.
A small card with a printed message was also stuck to the box ‘I’m no TV surgeon but I hope you find these just as good!’ No name.
Sure enough, it was a box of the salted caramel cookies you loved from the last time he bought a box for everyone. A quick flashback of Coyote’s proud smile popped in your head, of when you couldn’t stop raving about it and his promise to buy more next time.
You picked up the sunflower from the table and twirled it in your hand. The hours it lay in the heat showed in the paling yellow petals, and though you had no idea how to care for it, you placed it in a watered vase anyway.
Maybe it was Coyote, you thought. It certainly checked: he had your address, he knew you liked sunflowers, and he remembered the cookies you loved. But he said he’s on a date…unless he was pretending? The other guys definitely thought he was.
Refusing to confuse yourself any longer, you gave one last glance at the sunflower, took a bite from your cookie, and hoped that Derek Shepherd and Mark Sloan could distract you…for now.
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“I'm in love with Teddy. I love her.”
“You're like Lexie with the inappropriate feelings for inappropriate people.”
“What can I say? My heart lives in my scalpel.”
The Seattle Grace Mercy West surgeons were trying to play baseball when your phone chimed. Phoenix and Halo were currently messaging the squad group chat.
Bassett Hound 🐾💗 date was a bust. reservation got screwed and they refuse to go anywhere else told them i refuse to waste this outfit hard deck anybody?
Pixie Nix 🧚✨ aw hales 😞 sorry to hear that if it helps, my date spoke more words to the waiter than to me don’t have to ask me twice
Bassett Hound 🐾 hbu @Mamma Mia 🍯🍯 ? we’ll be your valentines ❤️
Glancing between the half-eaten box of cookies and the Grey’s Anatomy theme running on your screen for the fourth time in a row, you decided that maybe it isn’t too late to salvage the holiday.
You showed up feeling a bit more refreshed from earlier. You opted to dress up just the slightest bit more than usual since you figured Phoenix and Halo would be too, coming from their dates.
The bar wasn’t crowded—a lot of the regulars you recognized were probably out on dates—but it looked like a haven for lonely hearts, single people dotting the bar or nursing their drinks at their small tables. You spotted some introducing themselves to others, and one lucky couple just escaped through the side door. The pool table, however, was as lively as ever with some of its usual suspects. Halo and Phoenix had already started a game, but you were surprised to see a few of the others there as well—Rooster and his girlfriend, Omaha and his wife, and Bob—who all cheered as you approached the table.
“Come here often?” Phoenix fake flirted.
“Only when I’m summoned with magic,” you came back and hugged her. “What brings the rest of you here?”
“We didn’t feel like going home just yet, then I saw Halo’s text in the group chat and she wanted to say hi,” Omaha explained and gestured to his wife as you went around greeting the others. “Rooster’s car broke down about a half mile up the road.”
“Excuse you, the Bronco doesn’t break,” Rooster interrupted, “It just…swerved off the road a little. But it’s fine. Just needed to stretch our legs a little.” His girlfriend giggled silently as he pulled her close to his torso and started whispering in her ear.
You took your usual seat on the stool next to Bob’s. “So I’m guessing Coyote’s date was real? Since he’s not here, I mean.”
“Looks like it,” he agreed as he sipped on his water. Noticing your lack of banter, he studied the pensive look on your face. “Why’d you ask?”
Your train of thought broke as he spoke. “What? Oh, um, it’s nothing,” you said nervously, “Forget I asked.”
“If you’re thinking about it this hard, it’s probably not nothing,” he egged on. “What is it?”
You could never say no to Bob. He was your best friend and you trusted him. Even though you were a little hurt that he kept his girlfriend a secret from you, you just couldn’t bring yourself to make it even. “Okay, so you know how I found a sunflower this morning?” you said in a low voice.
He nodded silently, letting you continue without being interrupted.
“I didn’t want to think anything of it at first. I just figured that someone—I don’t know, ‘neighborly person’ in a Valentine’s-y mood, I guess—left flowers up and down the street. But no one else had one so I just brushed it off. But then there was Hangman this morning with the cards and the flirting, and I thought it felt different. But it’s Hangman. You can never really tell with him, right? So I brushed that off. Then when I got home, get this: I get a delivery of cookies from Sugarlust. Coyote’s bakery. And it wasn’t just any cookie, it was the salted caramel cookies that he brought to that one dinner, the ones that I loved. What really did it for me, though, was the card. Something about him not being McDreamy but he hopes I love the cookies just as much. He was the one who commented about my Grey’s Anatomy marathon. And now I’m thinking if he was the one who gave me the flower, and…I don’t know,” you sighed, “I guess I was just hoping to see him here tonight to ask if it was him.”
And like this morning, he was dumbstruck again at your rant. You grew conscious of yourself at his reaction so you changed the subject.
“But enough about me, though. How about you? Where’s your date?” you asked as normally as you could.
Halo stood up after her turn. “Bob had a date?”
All eyes landed on the spectacled wizzo in his usual corner. “Oh. Right. My date.”
“Since when? And how come I don’t know about her?!” Phoenix asked, echoing your conversation and thoughts from earlier.
“Uh, awhile,” he said again, though he sounded more nervous this time, “but it’s okay, um, I don’t think it’s gonna work out…”
Your heart dropped after seeing how dejected Bob looked. “I’m so sorry, Bobby.” You put an arm around him, and he returned your small smile with one of his own.
Phoenix pushed herself off the pool table and handed him her cue stick. “Welcome to the club, Bob.”
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Customers came and went in the two hours you have been there, but the eight of you had stayed. Rooster took over the piano, crooning blues covers with Halo, while his girlfriend and Omaha’s wife were talking with Phoenix. You were back on your stool after winning the last round of pool against Omaha, who was now playing darts against Bob.
The lack of a crowd allowed for cool night air to linger inside, that you had borrowed Bob’s jacket to keep you warm.
“What the fuck, bro?!” Omaha groaned in disbelief after Bob hit his fifth bullseye of the night.
“Target locked, and direct hit,” Bob retorted while he picked off his darts from the board.
Omaha took his place as he got ready for another game. “Best of nine,” he challenged and threw his darts immediately.
“Roos baby, I love you, but you’re kinda killing the mood here,” his girlfriend laughed from across the room while he and Halo were in the middle of singing November Rain by Guns N’ Roses. And without missing a beat, he started playing Little Richard’s Tutti Frutti. The lively melody brought the empty bar to life and the four girls started to dance with each other.
Halo called out to you, “Honey! Join us!”
“In a minute, Hales! I’m on dart watch from Omaha,” you pointed your thumb to the brunette who had just lost another game to Bob. He was practicing his aim when Bob took his seat beside you.
“Let me know when you’re done warming up, Vikander,” he taunted, his competitive side coming out now that he was more relaxed.
“Gonna make you eat your words, Floyd,” Omaha came back.
You and Bob entered your little world again from your seats. You watched as he chugged his water, his glasses slipping from the bridge of his nose.
“How’re you holding up there, Bobby?” you asked.
He let out an exhausted laugh. “You’d think darts wasn’t exhausting, but I think Omaha might as well have me running a marathon if he’s making me play this much.
“We’re aviators,” you snorted, “everything’s a competition.”
“I woke up the beast,” he sighed.
Taking a sip of your own water, you repeated his sentiments back, “You woke up the beast.”
A few beats passed in comfortable silence when he turned to you. “How about you? You don’t wanna join the others?”
“You might be surprised at how much five straight games of pool can do to your legs and back.”
He chuckled, “Well, you better hope you don’t get any push-ups tomorrow.”
It wasn’t even midnight yet when the bar was nearly empty. The jukebox played in the background seeing as Rooster and Omaha joined in on the dancing on the other side of the bar, but you and Bob remained in your seats. Usually, the two of you would be conversing non-stop—talking about the latest podcast he was listening to or your vivid dream from the night before, people watching the tourists, betting on who fellow aviator was going to do what predictable act for the night, or singing along to the music.
But you could sense some slight tension between you two tonight, thinking it might have been from the whole Valentine’s date conversation from earlier. Bob never brought it up afterwards so you didn’t think anything of it too, but now that the two of you were alone, you could see the somber expression return to his face as he stared at the floorboards.
You placed a comforting hand on his shoulder closest to you. “It’s gonna be okay, Bobby,” you said.
He looked up to your encouraging smile, and his empty hand crossed his body, his fingers brushing yours in a silent ‘thank you’.
“Who was she? If I can ask,” you said, “but you don’t have to talk about her if you don’t want to, I don’t wanna pressure you—”
“It’s alright, Bee,” he said softly. He took a deep breath as he turned his eyes back to the floor. “She’s just someone I liked for awhile now.”
“How’d you meet?”
“The usual, you know. Work,” he shrugged.
“So she’s a local?” you inquired.
“Nah, she moved here from upstate.”
After placing his now empty water cup on the ledge behind him, he sat up straighter in his seat. “Guess that makes two of us now.”
Your eyebrows raised in confusion when he let out a low laugh. “Valentines-less,” he referred to your little blather from this afternoon.
You let out your own laugh as you jogged up the memory. “We can be pathetic together,” you jested. “Well, not entirely true, I guess. Halo and Phoenix decided to be my Valentine’s to get me to come here, but I think they’ve got each other covered.”
Bob looked back to see what you were talking about, to find Halo and Phoenix drunkenly belting out Love is a Battlefield a cappella with Rooster’s girlfriend while the aviator just watched their performance. The two of caught a glimpse of Omaha and his wife waving at the two of you just before they exited.
“Besides, it doesn’t seem fair that I have two Valentine’s and you have none,” you continued.
“So what are you suggesting? You give me one of your Valentine’s?” he played along.
You looked up, pretending to think, “Hm, I don’t know if they’d appreciate being someone else’s Valentine without them knowing, so what do you say, Bobby? Will you be my Valentine?” you proposed playfully, even looking up at him through your lashes for added effect.
He smiled tightly. “I don’t think you’re gonna give me a choice, anyway,” he mumbled playfully and you elbowed him, “but sure, Bee. I’ll be your Valentine.” You spotted just the slightest bit of a blush creeping up his neck.
Finally regaining some strength in your legs, you were ready to go home. “Well, I hate to cut our date short, my Valentine, but I think I need to call it a night,” you said, “I hate that you reminded me about the push-ups.”
Bob got up with you. “No worries, Valentine. And trust me, I think the three of them might have it worse than you tomorrow,” he said about your co-workers still in the middle of their impromptu karaoke.
You dug out your phone, wallet, and keys that you kept in his jacket pocket when something else fell out. You picked up a small velvet box tied with a white satin ribbon. What caught your eye was the tag—instead of a name written on it, there was a doodle of a tiny, squiggly, buzzing bee.
Like how the bees looked on Hangman’s card.
You looked up already finding Bob staring at you nervously. His mouth had been drawn in a thin line and the tension that you felt earlier increased tenfold.
Though he never outright said the gift was for you, he watched as you tested him, slowly untying the ribbon. Even as you pried the cover off the box, he never stopped you.
“Bob…?” you whispered in disbelief as you stared at the gift. It was a golden bracelet—two delicately thin chains connected by a shining sunflower charm.
“Hey, you guys okay?” Phoenix called out from the piano.
Neither of you spoke as you continued to stare at him. Seeing as you didn’t respond, Bob replied for the two of you. “Yeah, we’re all good.”
“We’re gonna get going, if it’s okay,” she notified you. All of them had their things gathered, and the bartender on shift was already wiping down the counters.
The two of you waved your goodbyes at them as they headed out. Halo blew flying kisses in your direction as the door shut.
“Take care!”
“Happy Valentine’s!”
“See you tomorrow!”
And then there were two.
Still in shock, you held the box as securely as you could while your mind was still reeling. Bob? The sunflower this morning. The sunflower on the bracelet. The bee on the card. This has to be a coincidence, right? Maybe this was meant for his date? Maybe he’s holding on to it for someone? Maybe he’s—
“Can we talk about this?” You didn’t even realize you had asked it out loud until Bob turned back to you. His eyes grew big, the same way they always did when he started to panic during a drill or a mission.
“Uh, yeah. Sure.”
He led you out to the parking lot where it was still a bit bright from the street lights. The cool breeze bit at your skin when you remembered you were still wearing Bob’s jacket. You had barely taken it off when Bob tugged it securely back on your shoulders.
“It’s freezing,” you insisted, but Bob just shook his head.
“I’m fine,” he muttered.
It was hard to ignore the elephant in the room. Your thumb ran over the bracelet still in its box and the thoughts you had previously came flooding back.
“I don’t even know where to start,” you mumbled.
Bob wiped his face with his hands. “I don’t think there’s any other way of saying it except that it was me. I never had a date, and I was the one who left the sunflower at your door.”
Happiness. Relief. Frustration. Love. You could have been feeling all of those things right now, but no. You were just as confused as ever. “So when I was talking about all those other things, about Hangman and Coyote…”
“That was me too.”
The two of you took a seat on the bottom step of the bar’s front deck. “Hangman and the other guys were cutting out the paper hearts when he told me to bring out the cards from his bag. I didn’t have anything to do, so I just started drawing the garden on your card.”
You toyed with the hand-drawn bee on the card still hanging from the ribbon. “I guess I should’ve known from the card that it was you,” you said, mostly to yourself but loud enough for him to hear. “You’re the only one who calls me ‘Bee.’ Who was the guy from TOPGUN again? The one that you nearly decked—” you smiled trying to stir the memory.
“—But I didn’t—and it was that asshole, Shadow,” he groaned. “Ugh, I’m never gonna forget the way he called you that day.”
“But I still don’t get why you don’t call me ‘Honey.’ Everybody else does. I don’t mind it, you know.”
“I know, I know,” he nodded. “But if I’m one less person to remind you of that day, then I’ll call you ‘Bee’ until you truly forget about it.”
You couldn’t ignore the fluttering in your heart at his confession. You actually haven’t remembered that incident until now, but it was sweet that Bob always tried to make you feel better about it, even if you didn’t realize it.
“That’s real sweet of you, Bobby,” you said warmly. “But speaking of sweets…”
Bob winced jokingly, “Ah, thought I was in the clear.” He had a distant look in his eyes as he recalled, “I still remember the look on your face when you tried the cookies. The two of us alone wiped out half the box before dinner even started. You even begged Coyote to go back for another box after Fanboy ate the last one.” The grin on his face only grew bigger the more he looked back at the memory.
You barely even notice yours did too.
It all made sense now. Bob had been a constant presence in your life ever since the two of you met, even moreso now that you were together back where your friendship started. How you even thought of Hangman or Coyote before you suspected him was beyond you.
There was still one question you needed answered, and it had you on the edge of exasperation. Your voice was small as you spoke, “We were with each other the whole day, Bob. Why didn’t you say anything?”
Just as frustrated as you were, he let out a big breath. “I don’t know. I’m a coward, I guess. I was right there on the sidewalk outside your place, fully prepared to ask you out. Even had a whole speech prepared and everything,” he confessed. He spoke slower and softer, his eyes never leaving yours, “about how I saw the bracelet in a window the other day, and how it reminded me of the sunflowers you painted on my arm that one time I visited you in your hometown. And how I wanted you to have a sunflower on your own hand, then I’d ask you to be my Valentine.”
He looked down at the ground in shame as he continued, “But I got scared. I didn’t want to ruin the friendship, especially since you’ve only been here a month. So I figured after I left your house that it might be easier if you didn’t know it was me, and that’s why I lied about the date. Just in case you were, I don’t know, expecting something…more. Than just me, I mean.”
Taking the box in his own hands, he twiddled with it. “I thought I lost my chance this morning, but then Halo messaged asking you to come. So I came here thinking this could be my second chance until you started asking about Coyote…thought I was done for. You wanted him while I’d stay the idiot that lost you forever.”
Your heart no longer fluttered but burst at his words. A love you had for him that didn’t know was already there had finally surfaced as you shut him up with a gentle kiss on his cheek.
“You’re so much more than what I could ever want, Bobby,” you whispered, scooting closer to him on the step.
A weight had been lifted from his shoulders, and you swore you’ve never seen him smile so widely. Gently lifting the bracelet from its box, he undid the clasp. “May I?” he asked.
You rested your outstretched arm on his knee, allowing him to put it on you. Your nerves awakened at the soft touch of his fingers against your wrist, sending even more shockwaves throughout your body as he clasped his hand around yours afterwards. The bracelet was cool against your skin, but you felt nothing but warmth allover—from his jacket, from his touch, and from the loving feeling dancing inside you.
The moon shone high above you as midnight quickly approached, and you decided to make the most of the last minutes of the day.
“Hey, Bobby. I believe you have one last thing to ask me.”
“Is it the something you actually asked me first?” he teased, but quickly surrendered at the funny look you gave him. Hee gazed sincerely at you, “Bee?”
“Yes, Bobby?” you pretended.
He leaned in close to you till your noses were touching, and whispered slowly, “Will you be my Valentine?”
“I don’t think I have a choice anyway,” you mocked his earlier response as you both laughed, “but yes, Bobby. I’d love to be your Valentine.”
His lips found yours not a second later, fireworks exploding with every kiss that landed on your lips.
The moon stood brightly above, indicating the beginning of another day. Though your days from this point would never be the same, now that you had Bob and Bob had you.
All thanks to a flower given on a front step.
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solarfawnn · 1 year
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Looking for mutuals to make this place less lonely (I am currently talking to my cat)
What I like/post/reblog - in no particular order
The Sandman (show on Netflix, have not yet read the comics)
The Umbrella Academy
First Kill (rip)
Stranger Things
Studio Ghibli
Books
Fantasy in general
Neil Gaiman
Goblincore
Dark Academia
I'm a sucker for anything that looks nice tbh
Art
Drawings
Fan art
Classic art
anything that looks nice
Art History
Ancient Greece (+ the Roman Empire)
Greek mythology
Myths in general
Halloween
Over the Garden Wall
Bee and puppycat
Gravity falls
Adventure time
The Arcana (Julian Devorak<3)
Sally Face
Fran Bow
Undertale
Minecraft
Sims (occasionally)
Music (not even going to try and be specific, ask if you want to know lol)
And a lot more probably
I'm up for talking about any of the listed things, so if you happen to stumble into this: Hi! I'm Geo :]
Edit: thats a lot more people than i expected holy, I'll try and follow everyone in the comments/dms, but sorry if I miss any
(if you dont feel like saying anything you can also like the post and follow and I'll add you back no pressure<3)
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mariana-oconnor · 4 months
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The Lion's Mane pt 1
Merry 26th December, hopefully you're all having good winters so far. Strangely, I was a little busy yesterday, so we're still playing catch up. Lol.
It occurred after my withdrawal to my little Sussex home, when I had given myself up entirely to that soothing life of Nature for which I had so often yearned during the long years spent amid the gloom of London.
OK, so I knew that this was going to be Holmes' retirement, obviously, but also comparing and contrasting this statement with his previous diatribe about the evil lurking in the countryside, insidious and unseen, is very strange. Has he suddenly lost his aversion to the bucolic scenery and isolation that make such crime go easily undetected? Or has he perhaps decided that as long as he isolates himself sufficiently, he won't have to deal with them.
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As it is, however, I must needs tell my tale in my own plain way, showing by my words each step upon the difficult road which lay before me as I searched for the mystery of the Lion's Mane.
Firstly, the lengthy paragraph you have provided so far is anything but plain. Secondly, I think there might be a plant called Lion's Mane... is that what this is about?
Research has informed me that I am wrong. There is a plant called Lion's Tail, which is quite pretty, but there is a mushroom called Lion's Mane, so maybe that's what this is about.
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Fingers crossed everyone gets high. But I suspect they won't be the fun kind of mushrooms, just the murder kind of mushrooms.
My house is lonely. I, my old housekeeper, and my bees have the estate all to ourselves.
I feel very sorry for the housekeeper in this arrangement. Imagine having only Holmes and some bees for company. Not that Holmes is bad, necessarily, but you've got to admit you'd need something to break up your exposure to him.
There's a lot of swimming going on here in the beginning. I'm not surprised that Holmes swims, because honestly the idea of there being any activity that Holmes hasn't tried is weirder to me, but there is a lot of swimming.
Fitzroy McPherson was the science master, a fine upstanding young fellow whose life had been crippled by heart trouble following rheumatic fever. He was a natural athlete, however, and excelled in every game which did not throw too great a strain upon him. Summer and winter he went for his swim, and, as I am a swimmer myself, I have often joined him.
Here we see the difference between Holmes' narration and Watson's. If this were Watson describing him, Mr McPherson would have had at least another two sentences dedicated to his toned physique and golden looks. Perhaps this is what Holmes meant by 'plain'?
At this moment we saw the man himself. His head showed above the edge of the cliff where the path ends. Then his whole figure appeared at the top, staggering like a drunken man. The next instant he threw up his hands and, with a terrible cry, fell upon his face.
I get that this is probably him dying and as such it's dramatic, but at the same time, it's a little amusing... y'know? There is a touch of the slapstick about it.
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One glimmer of life came into his face for an instant, and he uttered two or three words with an eager air of warning. They were slurred and indistinct, but to my ear the last of them, which burst in a shriek from his lips, were "the Lion's Mane." It was utterly irrelevant and unintelligible, and yet I could twist the sound into no other sense.
The weird thing is why would he know he'd been poisoned my lion's mane mushrooms if he had in fact been poisoned by them. To know the specific type of mushroom would be weird because if you knew what it was, you wouldn't eat it.
Is there a lion's mane jellyfish? I feel like I remember a lion's mane jellyfish as well. That would go with the swimming, and also would make sense. Jellyfish are nasty.
Oh, yep. One quick search also shows that there's a lion's mane jellyfish, which is also kind of pretty - sadly that probably means its extremely deadly.
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The prettiest things are always the deadliest when it comes to animals. Alas, blue-ringed octopus, the forbidden friend.
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woe.
Then he half raised himself from the ground, threw his arms into the air, and fell forward on his side. He was dead.
And we're back to slapstick again. Throw your hands in the air like you just don't care (that you're dying).
The man was dressed only in his Burberry overcoat, his trousers, and an unlaced pair of canvas shoes.
So, ready for a night clubbing, got it.
As he fell over, his Burberry, which had been simply thrown round his shoulders, slipped off, exposing his trunk. We stared at it in amazement. His back was covered with dark red lines as though he had been terribly flogged by a thin wire scourge.
I feel like I've cheated by looking up the jellyfish. Sorry. I just half remembered hearing about a jellyfish with a name like that and since it didn't seem like mushrooms made sense...
Yeah, I'm 100% on jellyfish now.
But has a crime been committed? Did someone deliberately lure him into a (what's the collective noun for a group of jellyfish? A children's party? -- a bloom or a fluther, apparently) bloom of jellyfish. Or did someone release their fluther of pet jellyfish out into the bay knowing that Mr McPherson would be swimming there?
Or is it all just a horrible accident?
...we found that Ian Murdoch was by our side. Murdoch was the mathematical coach at the establishment, a tall, dark, thin man, so taciturn and aloof that none can be said to have been his friend. He seemed to live in some high abstract region of surds and conic sections, with little to connect him with ordinary life.
I get that I'm supposed to be suspicious of this man, but I know enough mathematicians and have done enough maths myself that I immediately love him and will not hear a word against him. Even if he did deliberately release an entire fluther of deadly jellyfish into the sea to attack Mr McPherson, I am sure he had his reasons. They would have been entirely logical and well thought out and he could back them up by showing his working.
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On one occasion, being plagued by a little dog belonging to McPherson, he had caught the creature up and hurled it through the plate-glass window
OK, no. I hate him now.
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Giving mathematicians a bad name. Shame. SHAME!
What is with the dog abuse in these stories? Holmes and John Wick should have a team-up.
"Were you with him? Can you tell us what has happened?"
"Well, I constructed a catapult and then hurled jellyfish at him..."
The latter fact proved that he had made all ready to bathe, though the towel indicated that he had not actually done so.
Or, when emerging from the water covered in jellyfish stings, he decided that drying himself off was less important than finding help. Maybe. Possibly.
And the reason for his change of purpose had been that he had been scourged in some savage, inhuman fashion
Emphasis on inhuman.
Who had done this barbarous deed?
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Good luck getting the cuffs on the perpetrator.
Stackhurst was, of course, still there, and Ian Murdoch had just arrived with Anderson, the village constable, a big, ginger-moustached man of the slow, solid Sussex breed—a breed which covers much good sense under a heavy, silent exterior.
That's closer to a Watsonian description, but honestly, it's not insulting enough.
I will be there, you may be sure. MAUDIE.
Alas, poor Maudie, she knew him, Holmes.
...nothing had been found in the small caves below the cliff, but he had examined the papers in McPherson's desk and there were several which showed an intimate correspondence with a certain Miss Maud Bellamy, of Fulworth.
Also alas, poor Maudie, her private letters are being read by random guys she's never met. Let's hope they weren't too intimate.
Reasons not to be murdered: people look through all your stuff. Yikes.
"Ian Murdoch held them back," said he. "He would insist upon some algebraic demonstration before breakfast. Poor chap, he is dreadfully cut up about it all."
We're definitely supposed to suspect Mr Murdoch, puppy pitcher. Not sure how he'd commit murder by jellyfish though. I'm guessing my catapult idea wouldn't be ideal, and if you're going to release a bloom of jellyfish you've got to first keep the jellyfish somewhere. Does he have a saltwater aquarium in his rooms?
"I seem to remember your telling me once about a quarrel over the ill-usage of a dog." "That blew over all right." "But left some vindictive feeling, perhaps." "No, no, I am sure they were real friends."
I've never had a dog, but I feel like if someone got mad at you and then threw your dog through a window, you'd be kind of vindictive towards them. One might even suggest vengeful. I went up to check if it was through an open window or literally through glass and it says 'through a plate glass window', which implies that there was a certain amount of smashed glass involved. I'm not sure how you get past that. Clearly Mr McPherson didn't care very much about his dog, either.
Fuck 'em both, I guess.
"Some human hand was on the handle of that scourge, if indeed it was a scourge which inflicted the injuries."
Ah yes, a human hand.
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Yeah, I definitely spoiled this one for myself. If they do manage to come up with a way for it to be murder rather than misadventure, I'll be impressed. Jellyfish catapult is always a possibility.
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firein-thesky · 7 months
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cielo!!!! ur drabble game is so COOL!!! if i may send a character hmmm what about (fallen) angel megumi??? 😳 (doesnt have to be fallen too!!!) thank u so much 🥺
sel!!! hello my dear!! 💕 thank you for requesting!!! fallen angel megumi 👀👀👀 ohhhh i’m in love already. idk what this is….just go w it lol.
i hope you enjoy!! 💕
fallen angel!megumi
cw: blood
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The shadow of wings; huge and all encompassing, an eclipse of your own world in the holy shape of him.
Half-holy. Once holy. What do you become after holiness? Deserted? Transformed? He’s still as beautiful as ever, perhaps more so; maybe it is your own sin to find such loveliness in the new raven shade of his wings.
And now you think, the dove-like wings never suited him anyways, even if they were grey and violet and twinged with twinkle, darker on him than most. No, you’ve never realized how stunning shadows were until they clung to him.
“What are you doing down here?”
“I found you—“ you breathe it out, fluttering to him like a bird.
“You shouldn’t have.” He’s terse and just shy of being too harsh.
“But I did,” you counter, “and I’m here, with you.”
“It’s dangerous,” he grits out and you see the barely-there flash of his teeth. The little growl in his voice. Has he already changed so much with the fall? You have a thousand questions for him—did it hurt? Were you lonely? Did you think of me? Did you long for me, a heaven away? You step nearer to him and he rears back slightly, wary of you.
But you can’t help yourself and now that he’s so close, in front of you finally. You reach up to touch him.
He catches your wrist before it can dip into the soft downy of his dark wings. He grips it tight, a low growl in his chest like a warning.
“I missed you,” you say softly, in the face of all his hardness, “Megumi, I miss you.”
His eyes, like the depth of the sea shift and shimmer, soften only fractionally.
“You shouldn’t have come,” he says again, breathes it now, harsh and desperate. “This world is not for you. Why did you come?”
“Because I missed you,” you say again and his grip relaxes enough that your fingers skim just the edges of the feathers. Silky on one edge, but going against the grain—
“Ah!” You gasp and your finger swells with blood.
And he goes to shift away from you, but in a flash, you’ve lurched forward. You can’t lose him now.
You sink your hand into the feathers, gentle, sweet as ever. You feel the warmth and the threat of them; you feel the muscle beneath. Strong. Glorious.
What do you become after holy? You wonder—something else entirely.
“You shouldn’t have come.” He says again and his voice hums and throbs around your temples like a stinging bee. When he grabs you tight this time, you feel the burn of his hands on you—it sears.
You cry out, high and sharp and scared. A squeaking bird in the talons of a predator.
You grip the feathers. Your hand darkens with rivers of blood that slip down your wrist, your arm.
“Megumi—!”
His eyes are depthless, unfathomable.
“I cannot let you return now.”
His wings flare wide and you fall into their shadow.
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thank you for requesting!!! 💕
send me a monster and a character and i’ll write a drabble!
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casp1an-sea · 25 days
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MOOTS AND TAGS
(If your name isn’t Kren, Edie, Sunshine, or Bee your tag will probably change eventually lol)
@xen-blank (#xe.Lu.le :))
@theosb0rnway (#Goblin Junior :>)
@distant-velleity (#Kai :))
@l7k-a (#Luka :))
@krenenbaker (#I’m just Kren 😎🌾)
@edith-is-a-cat (#Edxiety bear <3)
@vivislemonade (#Vivi :))
@femmefaeryboi (#Silas :))
@v-anrouge (#Aster :))
@dove-da-birb (#Dove :))
@magics0up (#Crowman >:))
@shinysparklesapphires (#Sapph :))
@messylxve (#Amortentia :))
@keii-starz (#Kei :))
@kirans-wonderland (#Kiran :))
@ravenwing0110 (#Raven :))
@hyperfixation-or-death (#Bee movie script 🐝)
@cheezy-moon (#Novah :))
@sunshinechildskywalker (#sunshine 🍭🌈)
@fizzydreamz (#fizzy :))
@xentari94 (#North :))
@ferris-the-wheel (#ferris :))
@kw4ziicat (#tao :))
@thehollowwriter (Quinn :))
@cimonim-crunch (Chef Wendell 🥣)
@elenauaurs (Elana of Avalore 💃)
@the-banana-0verlord (Lillian :))
@diabollicallyangelic (Eli :))
@notakoolladz (Ladz :))
@snowy-yoshi (snowy :))
@i-like-forgs (Ryo :))
@octo-doofus (Vee :))
(I love making friends so please ask if you wanna be my moot <3)
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antlerx-art · 9 months
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GOOD OMENS 2 EPISODE 6 REACTION - CONTAINS SPOILERS‼️
THE EVERY IS IN THIS EPISODE. YES I’LL KEEP CALLING IT THAT UNTIL IT HAPPENS. IM GOING INSANE.
starting it 👍🏻
aziraphale you’re standing a little too dangerously in that circle remember last time
“you’re not welcome here” DEEP VOICE OOOOOH pity crowley isn’t here to hear it my guy would’ve fainted
HIS ANGEL OUTFIT 💀THE WAY HES RUNNING
yes maggie ROAST her 🙏
“i’ve spent my life being scared of things” 😭
“BRAVER THAN ANYONE I KNOW”YEEEAHHH MY LESBIANS
shax don’t hurt maggie don’t you even THINK of hurting maggie or nina
“my god you lot are pathetic” LOUDERRR GO MAGGIEEE GOOOOO
no wait why can they get in
MAGGIEEEEEEE WHAT HAVE YOU DONEEEE
hehe aziraphale is “perfectly prepared to take defensive action” 😼
“STAY BACK 😠” OHHHH WOW
“you can all leave now, and nobody will be hurt” SO BADASS YEAHHHHHH
rip eric
lol there’s no miracle apparently michael and uriel just can’t notice crowley
noooooo muriel is lonely :(
also crowley comparing angels to bees and aziraphale feeling lonely when he realized he’s an “angel that goes along with heaven as far as he can” in ep 2 is making heaven look like some sort of hivemind and it’s really cool, it also explains why aziraphale is a bit uncomfortable with not having someone to report to after becoming free
CROWLEY WAS AN IMPORTANT ANGELLLLLLL I KNEW IT OHHH MY GOD I THOUGHT IT WAS A STUPID THEORY BUT IT SEEMS TRUE?
aziraphale using the way he discorporated in s1 to discorporate other demons hehe silly
i was about to say that demons can’t possibly be that stupid but aziraphale is reading my mind i guess
AND HE DOESNT HAVE ANOTHER PLAN!
“amen” okay??
gabriel saying nah???? to heaven winning?????
crowley is so doctor who right now
“ARMAGEDDON THE SEQUEL THATS A NAH” 😭 IS THIS WHAT HE WAS PUNISHED FOR??
aziraphale MENTIONING THE FIRE???????
NOOO IT’S TRAUMATIC FOR HIM ☹️
they had a TRIAL?
saraqael knows it’s crowley AND KNEW HIM AS AN ANGEL WHAAAT
“severe measures” no aziraphale you have to say extreme sanctions
“CROWLEY’S EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANGEL”
shax stop making fun of my angel
THE METATRON AT THE TRIAL
UHH why doesn’t gabriel give a fuck about this
“GUYS ENOUGH”? OH MY
“one prince of heaven cast into the outer darkness” DO YOU MEAN. DO YOU MEAN CROWLEY? WAS HE A PRINCE OF HEAVEN????????
junior recoding angel😭 HES ONE CLASS UNDER M U R I E L
crowley’s little punch on their shoulder HES A NICE GUYYY OH HES SO CBBSBDBBD
gabriel is so casual about the trial?? like he just got fired but he didn’t like the job anyway
aziraphale what are you doing
IS HE GOING TO BECOME BIBLICALLY ACCURATE?
THE HALOOOOOO
HE STARTED THE WAR
“YOU WOT?”
just kidding no war apparently
and why is the box full now?????
THE FLYYYYYY that’s what he was writing
BEELZEBUB INVOLVED I K N E W IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT
HEHEEHEHEHHEHE INEFFABLE BUREAUCRACY
yayyy memories are back
SEASON ONE???????
OH GOD THIS SHIP IS REAL?
arma bloody geddon
ahh and they’re too tired to fight so they agreed to just refuse to do it i guess?
and gabe then went to aziraphale’s bookshop because he was the first one to go against armageddon
A PROPOSAL TO MAKE
yes that’s what i thought
i can’t believe gabriel has a deal with beelzebub this fandom keeps winning this season truly is a shipper’s dream
THE SCENEEEEE from the trailer
he actually goes there just to look at the statue for hours💀
THEY WERE AT THE PUB!!! i keep predicting
romantic ineffable bureaucracy date if they *every* before aziracrow i’ll be dead on the floor laughing
GABE PUT THEIR SONG ON
FINGERS TOUCHING
“it’s bigger on the inside” CAN BRITISH PEOPLE STOP. BEING. BRITISH. (jk i love y’all keep making these silly shows🫶🏻)
ROOOOMANCEEEEEE THE WAY THEY LOOK AT EACH OTHER
HES BACK!
if they kiss istg
“SILLY SILLY ANGEL”
HANDS HOLDING???? WHY IS EVERYONE CONFESSING BEFORE AZIRACROW WAKE UPPPPPP
WHY DID IT TAKE YOU GUYS 6000 YEARS AND INEFFABLE BUREAUCRACY MADE IT IN?? SOME MONTHS?
“you will speak one at a time” yummmmy
ALPHA CENTAURY THEY ALWAYS WANTED TO GO THERE
still cant believe they’re canon
THATS THE METATRON
NINA AND MAGGIE TELLING CROWLEY TO CONFESS OOOOOH YESSSS
NINA CALLED MAGGIE ANGEL
ah i suppose the metatron offered aziraphale to be some sort of archangel but hes gonna decline because he wants to be with crowley
ITS ABOUT TO HAPPENNNNNN
no aziraphale HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND?????
yeah as i said
AZIRAPHALE HOW CAN YOU STILL THINK THIS I THOUGHT YOU HAD SOME BIGGER CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
CROWLEY’S CONFESSION IM NOT OKAY
“oh crowley nothing lasts forever” shut. up.
CROWLEY PUTTING THE GLASSES BACK ON AS A SHEILD
YOU GUYS WERE SUPPOSED TO DINE AT THE RITZ AZIRAPHALE YOURE RUINING EVERYTHING
“i need you!” THEN STAY YOU DUMBASS
NO NIGHTINGALE? STOP IM ABOUT TO THROW UP
WE COULD’VE BEEN US
THE EVERY
THE EVERY OH GOD
THE FUCKING EVERY HAPPENED OH MY GOD BUT ITS SO SAD WHYYYYYYYYY
THIS IS WHY I DIDNT WANT IT TO BE IN THE LAST EPISODE AND EVEN LESS IN THE LAST SCENE I NEED HELP
“I FORGIVE YOU” / “DONT BOTHER”
NEIL GAIMAN PAY MY THERAPY BILLS
aziraphale touching his lips.
GO AFTER HIMMMMMMMMMM YOU IDIOT
i hate this
i need a moment
SO.
i know that in cinema the middle part is usually the sad part so since this show is a three season thing i was already considering the possibility of a sad ending for s2
BUT IT DID NOT. HAVE TO BE THIS SAD.
i have to say it did feel quiet gentle and romantic compared to season one, BUT THIS ENDING. THS FUCKING ENDING???? THIS COULDVE BEEN SO PERFECT WHY DID THE METATRON SHOW UP WHY DID AZIRAPHALE ACCEPT
neil i’m in your walls IM UNDER YOUR BED
AND WHAT IF WE DONT GET A SEASON THREE?
good omens and ofmd both ending with them separated this is too much why can’t gay people be happy
and when i had seen the every i couldn’t wait to see the contentx BUT OHHH I ALREADY MISS THE TIME WHEN I WAS CLUELESS I DIDNT NEED THIS CONTEXT
crowley i’m with you btw aziraphale needs to do the apology dance a million times
alright i’m rambling bye everyone i’m gonna go stare at the wall for seven hours
tagging @neil-gaiman but this time it’s to send him my therapy bills not the reaction ❤️
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