Idk what would be a good title….
summary: you get a haircut
Pairings: Natasha x Reader
Warnings: idk reader has short hair now I guess
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You feel the breeze on your neck as you walk through the compound’s entrance. You only make it a few steps inside when someone steps out in front of you.
“Who are you? How did you get in here?”
“Haha—very funny,” you roll your eyes and Bucky flashes a big, bright smile.
“You finally did it,” his smile doesn’t break, “it looks so good!”
“Thank you! I’d hope so,” you run a hand through your new hair and let Bucky do the same.
“How does it feel?” Steve walks up, Bucky is too busy ruffling your hair to pay him any mind.
“Like I’m going to save a lot on hair products,” you grin.
“No one can grab your hair in the field anymore,” Bucky adds, falling in step with you as you walk towards the common area. Tony skids to a halt when he sees you.
“Looks like my Barber did a good job,” Tony sounds so smug, but you can’t blame him.
“Definitely,” you palm the back of your neck, reveling in the way your tapered neckline feels under your skin. You’re too enamored with your new hair to notice Natasha walking in.
“What’s all this?” Natasha asks only seconds before she realizes. The boys part for her and she’s only inches away from you.
“You look really good,” she says lowly, sincerely too.
“Thank you,” your jaw couldn’t be any more stiff.
She reaches out a cautious hand, waiting for your approval. You try to nod as casually as possible and she runs her fingers through it.
“Soft,” she mumbles, you count your breaths as she scratches your scalp. You have to stifle a shiver as her nails tickle the skin right behind your ears. Natasha steps back and your nerves have to bungee jump back into equilibrium.
Natasha leaves, only giving a curt nod to the boys before she reaches the doorway. She gives you a parting glance, her eyes traveling from the penthouse to the basement in her view of you.
It’s only when you can’t hear her footsteps anymore that your lungs finally fill with air again. Bucky gives you a nudge to reel you back into reality.
“I should cut my hair more often.”
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honestly, i dislike shipping without substance as much as anyone does. i adore picking apart characters and love worldbuilding more than anything else in the creative field -- but i think it's incredibly unnecessary to be as hostile as i've seen people be toward the recent uptick in dunmeshi interest (as if people are advertising it solely for the lesbianism). even if that were the only case drawing fans in, there are plenty of other games and shows that have been praised/offered up for (at most - implied) gay men & from that, posts that have the gag be "what do you MEAN there's murder in my gay show/game/etc.!" as an indicator that's been their first and only impression.
i haven't seen nearly as many people critique such incidents with disco elysium, for example, despite that being my own first impression due to the surface art i've seen (whereupon only searching for a game summary i realized there was so, so much more). i really don't see why we're suddenly so scandalized and concerned that people are overly excited to praise an interesting (if romantic) dynamic with two main girl characters - which feels rare for a lot of trending media in the first place.
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was Elizabeth Wydeville one of Margaret of Anjou's ladies in waiting?
Hi! No, she wasn't.
"The popular tradition that Elizabeth Woodville herself was one of [Margaret of Anjou's] ladies seems to have been pure invention. As long ago as 1935 Smith observed that the earliest reference to this was made in Thomas More's History of Richard III, and that attempts to identify her with the 'Isabelle Domine Grey' of Margaret's accounts are misguided given that this married lady was among those accompanying Margaret from France and thus could not be the 8-year-old Elizabeth Woodville. Moreover, the Elizabeth Grey 'daily attendant on the queen's person' was recorded in June 1445 as the widow of Sir Ralph Grey, and their son, a minor, was in the king's household." (X)
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