#But also if I don't post this now I'll forget about it

[sevgilimsatoru]

Leaning on you

Summary: Sick reader x Caleb

Tags: Sick reader, Caleb x reader, fluff, kind of self indulgent

Word count: 700

Caleb has a new message for you!

I never hear you say, you miss me. Should I take this as a sign that you do?

Caleb is the type who gets stressed over your health more than you'd like. It's annoying, really.

But what can you do when he is so concerned over a little cold? Comforting and cooing at you like you are going to die or something.

He stood in infront of you in your living room, lecturing you for the third time about how you should stop being so careless and how important your health is.

"I'm fine, Caleb. It's just a cold." You said, sniffling. Your nose felt stuffy. Your body felt warm and just so tired. You didn't feel like doing anything. "You'll catch a cold too if you keep this up," you said, warning him to not get too close, too comfortable, but when did he ever listen to you?

"It's not fine. If you keep shrugging it off, you aren't going to get better, you know?" Caleb said, shifting to stand beside you. His hands holding your face gently, caressing your cheek with his fingers.

"Did you eat breakfast?" He asked, squishing your cheeks. A small smile graced his face. When you nodded in return, he gently picked you up, taking you to your room.

He gently lays you down on the bed, tucking you under the sheets, and moves to sit beside you. His warm hand sliding in your hair, massaging your skull.

That felt relaxing.

"If you catch a cold, don't blame me." You said, leaning into his touch. Hoping he won't ignore your words like he did before.

"I won't catch a cold because I know how to take care of myself, unlike you." Caleb replied, leaning down to kiss your forehead. "Do you feel hungry? I can make you some soup; it'll make you feel better."

"No, thanks. I just don't feel like eating right now." You said, tugging the sheets upwards to cover your mouth. Your nose was stuffy; you couldn't even breathe properly.

You hated this.

"That's okay… You don't have to force yourself. Just tell me whatever you want to eat when you feel like it. I'll make it for you, honey." Caleb replied, patting you on the head.

There was a comforting silence between you two. Until Caleb stood up and walked out of the room. He came back a minute later, a glass of water in his hands.

"Here, drink some. Your lips are dry; you keep forgetting to drink water." He said, gently helping you sit up and drink the water. When you were done, Caleb placed the glass on the bedside table.

"I'll let you rest, okay?" He said, turning back to walk out of the room. You sat up, grabbing his arm. Caleb stopped in his tracks, turning his head to look at you.

"Can you stay, please? Can… can we cuddle, just for a little bit?" You asked, looking up at him. You didn't want him to get sick, but you didn't want him to leave either.

"Of course, sweetie." Caleb said with a smile. Slowly, getting up on the bed. He lay down beside him, pulling the sheets over him. Tugging you close.

He was warm.

His chest was pressed against your back, one of his arms wrapped around your waist, and his cheek resting on your shoulder. He placed a kiss on your cheek, covering your hand with his own.

"I would love to cuddle properly, but I doubt you'd be able to breathe like that with your stuffy nose." He said, his legs tangled up with yours. "Such a pretty girl." He mused, placing chaste kisses on the skin of your neck and shoulder.

"It's fine; this is okay." You replied, a smile on your face. You could stay like this. You moved your head to press a small kiss on the back of his hand.

It felt good.

Comfortable.

He felt like home.

A/N: Hey everyone. I know I'm not posting as often, I really don't like doing that but I keep trying to re-write the spin off chapters that have already been done. I don't know why. Also, I got sick, again. So this was a really self indulgent drabble. The area around my ribs is suddenly hurting a lot and when it happened last time, I ended up in the hospital for like a week so yeah. But I'll be fine. Have a nice day and take care of yourself!!

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[forsaken-headcanons]

Hello!! First submission. You can call me Bird Anon, because I really like birds. Like. A lot. But we're not here to talk about that. Here's some Chance + Two Time headcanons for now!

• Two Time is not good at comforting people. They can try, but they rarely genuinely succeed in doing so. As a result, they leave situations of needing to comfort someone to another survivor.

• Chance has like. Some random deck of cards on them. Think of the ordinary cards you can buy for relatively cheap in certain stores. When they get bored he'll do some card tricks. They can get quite creative with these tricks! He'll also start card games in-between rounds if they're in a good enough mood at the one table in the cabin. However, he does have more "cooler" decks at home. Just none of these decks are with them.

• Speaking of Chance, headcanon that due to working at a casino, they became really good at reading people. He knows when it's fine to be cocky and whatnot, but they also know when they need to watch that he says. Doesn't mean that they always listen to this, unfortunately.

• I JUST REMEMBERED ONE THAT I KEEP FORGETTING TO ADD TO MY DOCUMENT!! Final Chance headcanon for today. Headcanon that Chance wears their glasses because "the eyes are the windows to one's soul". And since nobody can read their eyes, it allows him to believe that others will struggle to read their like. Actual thoughts and stuff. Their eyes don't betray their actual emotions, don't reveal whatever terror he might occasionally feel. As a result, Chance willing showing their eyes is like. A sign that he trusts you a bunch. But getting to that level of trust would take a lot of time. I hope that makes sense!!

• Two Time has a black bag that they put the dagger into when they're not actively using it. The actual bag is black, and I imagine that the spawn symbol is stitched or sewn onto the front in white. Very neat, minor noticeable mistakes, looks like a lot of time was put in making the symbol. The bag itself looks very in-tact. I imagine it as like. A cross-body bag of sorts. When they first got forsakened, the bag was looser, but after a few rounds, they tightened the strap of the bag so that the bag wouldn't bounce as much when they were running (+ now that they're a Sentinel, it wouldn't give away their position when they're crouching). However, when they're actually carrying it, they'll use the bag as storage for smaller items that they find and might need later.

I'll be back with more headcanons eventually. Sorry if most/all of these have been said. Bye bye!! Thanks for reading (and thanks for posting this submission) :D

Hello hello! Welcome to the blog. I like to think that Chance has an absurd amount of different card decks, always having a different one on his person at all times. Each day, he switches up the deck of cards depending on if he wants to do some impressive card tricks, or just shuffle the deck that day.

[elderwisp]

Hi wisp, I was wondering if you have any beginning editing tips. I am unable to get shaders but would love crispy cool sims. Thanks. Hope that makes sense.

Hi! Yeah! I'll make this into a master list and kinda go through the process starting from programs, your game settings to editing in a photo editor and any little details. I want to try and make it as accessible as well, normally I use photoshop. However, for this tutorial, I'll be trying out Photopea!

Programs and Optimizing your game:

☆ Here I have a list of free editing programs!

☆ This posts links a majority of my editing tuts but this one in particular has a texture pack which I'll be using in this tut

☆ Here I go over SWRE settings. Pictureamoebae goes into depth about the program/links it here. It isn't necessary but it does help maintain the quality of a photo without needing to crop it. I won't be using it in this tut but it could be something you try out in the future!

☆ I do run my game with custom settings, here's a picture of that! Edge smoothing is off for reshade purposes but for this tut, it's on high as well

Angles and Lighting:

☆ For this tut, we'll be working with Rowan! The composition of a picture is always an enjoyable part for me, I'd be lying if I didn't say I spent at least 25% of the whole process setting up a photo. The first photo shows the environment more and almost makes Rowan look smaller in a bigger world. Meanwhile the second, it feels like we're at Rowan's level and seeing the world through his eye. Both are good, it's just what do you want to communicate? I was actually gonna go with the first but I sorta like the second now and that's because of the sky

☆ Which leads me to the next part, the lighting. Lighting sets a mood for everything and I could yap about color theory for days but for now, I like the color of the evening sky. The purples look nice against the orange and greens! Lighting indoor is trickier but you can still manage with the placement of lighting fixtures. I don't like to use overhead lights in game because it just gives my sims weird shadows with reshade but it could be different for you. Also here is this neon light set I love using in case you want to use color indoors! They're a lot more vibrant that just the regular old ea lights

Editing:

☆ I felt like the easiest way to go about this is a video! I tried to keep it to the basics but as time goes on you can add different skills like drawing in hair, going in depth with color grading, etc. I did forget to include the curves layer because in photoshop that's grouped into Camera Raw Filter but honestly, for this tut I think that's okay. Curves layer just allows you to get really precise with how much highlight/shadows/whites/blacks are pulling in the photo as well as a brief intro to color grading. Anyways here is that video backed by the beautiful soundtrack of SKYRIM-

Original and Edited (without field blur/with field blur):

[cursed-candlehop]

This man is entirely too pretty for his own good

[licorishh]

double ?? upload ???? yeaaaahh i've gotten FASTERRrr for whatever that's worth so complementary blyla because guess what i miss them too (nobody was surprised by that)

[numbuh424]

in my defense, I did not think I would get this far

[the-halfling-prince]

I need to give every angsty bad boy character glasses. To humble them.

[yangjeongin]

the fact that hyunjin's birthday is over is actually making me so sad u guys don't understand my life has revolved around his birthday since like october KLJSKDJFSDLKLDG what do i do now..........write and shit????

[cidnangarlond]

I definitely have some kind of undiagnosed personality disorder I am Not normal

[teufelme]

You ever just want to talk about Bertl,

[itsnotgoingtotranslate]

SASHA if you recommended me one film ..thats not twilight. what would it be

VISI luv hi!!!! i'm the worst person to ask sorry bc before castaigne hacked my new years resolutions 2023 i was living like a nun literally the only movie i watched in the past like 7yrs was call me by your name.....

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

not really that important, but i was able to find a favorite song that i sort of lost for a little while and now the actual story of the bio portal au has a name

yay :]

[m00ncrabcrap]

I've only been at work for 2.5 hours and I'm already completely exhausted. Those children with just two educators are too much to handle. It's extremely exhausting, physically and mentally. I've just read her message and it makes me hold my head up higher. I don't really wanna die. It would just be the simplest solution. I know I'm strong. I know I want to be alive. But at the moment... It's just barely possible to stand firm. I know the most draining is my workplace. It's a vicious circle. Because of work, I simply don't have the energy to look for a new job. What should I do? Only the private life alone could take all my energy but I have to work...

[s0ngsandstars]

The worst part of being in a somewhat bad situation is feeling like I'm not allowed to be happy.

[just-a-space-duck]

So About That Armor…

I regret to inform myself that I like it.

If you haven't seen it:

I'll give you time to take it in. This is a static, (hopefully) eternal text post, so take your time.

Ok so before I go further, you are allowed to have any and all opinions about the armor. Do not listen to me; I am a stranger on the internet who attaches himself to fictional murder cyborgs and treats them like kitty cats.

So first of all, it's weird. And I like it for that. Even if I found it to be the most infuriating piece of costume design ever, I still wouldn't be able to help but respect it for how strange it is.

When it comes to fanworks, adaptations, new installments in a franchise, or even just different takes on the same trope, I love it when creators take things in an unconventional or even seemingly unrelated direction that upon closer inspection still relates to the base or original concept. To get what I mean, think goth interpretations of Rarity or Cosmopoliturtle's Pokémon redesigns. The TV series armor sits alongside these for me, because this was the thought process of the designer, Tommy Arnold:

First of all, it is so funny that The Company would just brand their armor and by extension their secunits, their combat/security products, like Louis Vuitton bags. Also, the logo of The Company strikes a nice balance between being simple enough to be easily reproducible and recognizable, but complex enough to read as a logo and not just a simple shape or pattern. Plus, The Company logo being mostly just concentric Cs, clever there.

But there's also some worldbuilding and character expression in this design.

The Corporation Rim is just capitalism but more. A company slathering everything and everyone they create and own in mountains of logos, even when it's potentially impractical, showcases just how extensive corporatism is in this setting. Additionally, this design could be something of a status marker. Secunits are high end additions and/or alternatives to other security measures. Much like how logos on purses, tennis shoes, and cars serve to tell observers, "I have the fancy, expensive version of [insert category of thing here] ergo I am a very wealthy/powerful/cool person", a secunit covered in corporate logos communicates the high status and access of the client(s).

Now what was one of the first things we learned about Murderbot in the books? It disabled its governor module, the thing preventing it from defying orders and having any level of freedom, but instead of doing what it could to leave The Company, Murderbot just stayed with it and kept doing its intended function. For over four years. What else do we learn in the first book? That it feels most comfortable in the armor because this prevents humans from seeing its face, from treating it more like a person or human rather than a tool or bot. This makes the armor being composed of the logo of the group that both created and hurt Murderbot very symbolic.

Murderbot has internalized the message that it is a dangerous weapon and not a person deserving of care to the point that, at least at the beginning of the series, it shies away from anything that insists that it deserves the same kindness that humans do. It's only ever been taught what the company built it to do, so it doesn't know what to do next once it's obtained some semblance of freedom for itself by disabling its mental shock collar and so keeps doing what it's always done, even though it very much would rather not be in such a situation. Even by the most recent book, System Collapse, Murderbot is still wrestling with the idea that it matters beyond how it can assist others. Murderbot finding comfort hiding behind the very thing that will not let you forget the company that enslaves it, is just juicy theming.

Also, the helmet looking so weird works well with how many humans don't know what secunits look like, with some not even thinking they have human-like faces. If you had no context for this image, you might very well assume this is a fully robot character or even a statue.

I have my own gripes and worries and hopes concerning the upcoming show, but I just couldn’t get this fun bit of character design analysis out of my head. Shouldn’t have watched so much TB Skyen.

[celestialgalaxyglow]

Batfam and Danny, part 1

Jason was at first hesitant about the floating white-haired green-eyed child that offered to be his sidekick. Evermore so when the kid told him that he knew that Jason had been dead. He explained that he could tell because he himself was half-ghost. Despite his hesitations he decided to take the kid on for a trial period.

The kid proved to be skilled, and knew how to deal with the many criminals that made business in Gotham. Over the last month he found himself growing closer to the boy, and upon learning that his parents tried to kill him for his half-ghostly nature, he decided to take a page from his old man's book and "legally" adopt the kid, this black-haired blue-eyed kid, his new son, Danny.

Now came the hard part, introducing him to his family. He had sent Alfred a message saying that he would make an appearance for the weekly family dinner with an additional guest. The following day they arrived at the manor. As they walked into the dinning room the rest of the family were already seated, he and Danny made their way to their seats.

Alfred: Master Jason, thank you for joining us tonight.

Jason: Of course Alfred. Jason looked at Danny and stood. Everyone I would like you all to meet Daniel, he goes by Danny. He's my new sidekick... and of a week ago my adopted son.

The rest of the family stopped eating and looked at Jason.

Bruce: You... adopted?

Damian: I'm rather surprised, I would have expected Richard to be the first on of us to adopt a child, he is the most like father. Nevertheless I shall take my new responsibilities as an uncle with great humility.

Dick: Damn, Damian what did I ever do to you? How am I the most like dad?

Bruce: What's wrong with being like me- No, where getting off point. Jason you adopted?

Jason: I did.

Bruce: I- hi Danny, welcome to the family.

Danny: Hi grandpa!

Snickering could be heard across the table.

Bruce: Hi kiddo, so how you two meet?

Danny: I followed him home and in through the window. I became his sidekick, then his son, and now we're here.

Jason: Danny is a meta, an experiment gone wrong caused him to become half-ghost, it's a little complicated, but he has some neat powers.

Tim: What happened to your parents?

Danny: They tried to kill me because of my powers.

Cass (signing): We know our next targets then.

Bruce: Cass no. Jason how did you even adopt Danny?

Jason: I stole one of the pre-notarized adoption papers you keep in your desk.

Bruce: Ahh. Well I'll still ask Barbara to make that 100% official.

Stephany: Don't worry Danny at one point or another all our adopts legally were questionable at best.

Danny: Ok.

Bruce: Well it's good to have you here with us Danny. You two are welcomed to spend the night and join us for training in the morning?

Jason (looking at Danny, who was looking at him): Sure.

Alfred: Splendid, now let's eat, supper is getting cold. And I don't want Master Daniel's first dinner as part of the family to a less than perfect.

They all started eating.

Danny: Oh, I'm also the Supreme King of the Infinite Realms, High King of the Ghost Zone, and King of all Ghosts.

Jason: I knew I was forgetting something.

Danny and Jason went back to eating as the rest of the family looked at them bewildered.

(Master Post)