I always think it's a little surprising, irritating, endearing, something when big, tough men find solace in being gentle with their daughters.
There's reason to do tough things with them, too, to make sure they grow up strong and independent, but I think of a man like Simon "Ghost" Riley, who spent a huge percentage of his life being beaten down consistently by almost all the men who were around him.
And sure, he trusts the men in his task force with his life now, no question about it, but... I think the sudden calm he experiences when he starts to raise a daughter is beyond strange for him, but also weirdly... healing, too. Enjoyable.
That's not to say he doesn't, and hasn't, enjoyed the boyish things in life, the watching sports, the playing in the dirt, the pretending to hold guns part of growing up... but he finds himself sitting through your daughter's ballet class, overwhelmed by the calm that surrounds him, actually able to focus on the intensity of her pliers, her releves, the way her pink skirt ripples when she leaps into a sauter.
It's a new realization, a new kind of war (between him and learning how to be a parent), but it's one that doesn't revolve around the consistent anxiety that warps his stomach when he watches boys, little or not, teeter the line between roughhousing and fighting, picking on one another for shedding accidental tears that, really, cause no harm.
With your daughter, he's set in charge of watching her play with her friends and finds there is no lump in his stomach when she giggles with them, no dark possibility drifting in the back of his mind that she'll reach out and get her arm broken by someone she trusts--the fights she fights with her peers all between the characters they play and not between their fists, their games of laughter and drama and screaming but not of raging violence.
There's people who ask him, people who joke, wouldn't a man like him prefer a son? He must've been so disappointed... Yet, Simon still has yet to think of the best way to tell them that he honestly enjoys having a daughter a little bit more, that she runs to him and not for a second is he afraid she's hiding a snake up her sleeve, because she's only ever greeted him with flowers.
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did a piece for the ISAT discord's tarot collab project!!! I drew the card for Temperance, featuring the awesome Madame Odile :D
thanks so much to the super awesome collab organizers (i'd tag but I don't know if y'all have tumblr i'm sorry :'D) for putting everything together and having me aboard!!! this was a blast to make <3
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Ayoo Naff!
Hope you're doing well! I'm sending you hugs and good vibes regardless ♥️
I got a little orca Eclipse question~
I'm very curious about what his voice sounds like, it's described in the fic a little but I still want to ask you about it. I have ideas but I'd really like to know more about how you imagine it sounding. How human is it, how animal is it, how deep, how growly?
If you can't tell, I'm very normal about him hehe
Also, if you have any video or audio examples I'd LOVE to hear them
Heya Meep!!! I'm doing good, I hope you are too!! Wah, thank you, and I'm sending all the hugs and lovely vibes right back! ♥
Hehehe, we're both very normal about him, I think! ♥
Ahh, okay, so, his voice is more human than animal when he speaks, but it is deep and husky with musical undertones. He does make sounds that are orca-like such as clicks, pulses, jaw claps, and whistles, but that's not direct speech for Y/N to understand though that does slip into his conversations with them.
I can't find a video that depicts exactly what I'm describing as I think Eclipse's voice is unearthly in its sound, but I did find this and I love the lower, creature sounds the Orcas make, and that feeds into the vibe that Eclipse has! When the orcas are saying 'hello', I especially imagine that more crackly, deep voice to be close to Eclipse's!
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badly summarised wip tag game
rules: summarise your WIPs as badly as possible, then ask your followers to vote which one they'd like to read most.
tagged by my lovely @duquesademiel and @pinkierre - thank you so much for thinking of me, darlings!! 😍 this tag game is my new favourite thing EVER, omfg.
so with no* further ado...
* some important caveats: in this list, i have not included any WIPs that are already available on AO3 (because i'm pretty sure that the idea of this post is that people vote for fics that they DON'T know about yet.) i have also not included my PWFE fic, firstly because ✨ keep it secret keep it safe ✨ and secondly because, well, it's going to be revealed soon anyway, so voting for it is a bit of a moot point.
apologies (but not really 🤭) for being INSANE xD
now! to share the fun and pass this one along, i'm going to tag @boxboxbrioche, @hourcat, @francophonesfictions, @ilspredestinato, @radiocheck, @yukierres, @your-littlesecret and @chaesonghwas - but also anyone else who sees this and wants to do it, please feel free to tag me in yours, because i'd LOVE to see & vote for some of your amazing ideas <3333
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