#Happy birthday Karma

[poppylovestowrite]

hii could i please request a little hurt/comfort drabble where reader feels sad during christmas season but forces herself to at least pretend to be happy because karma’s birthday is on christmas day :( but karma notices how her smile doesn’t meet her eyes and stuff and asks reader about it!

Smile For Him | Karma x Reader

Pairing: Karma x Reader Summary: Your life has been falling apart due to the recent events of your parent's divorce. But since it's Christmas and your boyfriend's birthday, you tried to act as if everything is okay, but Karma sees through your fake smile. 

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It's supposed to be the happiest time of the year. It's your boyfriend's birthday and Christmas. The holiday spirit has to be overflowing you by now. But, it isn't, no matter how much you wanted it to be. Last year, you were spending time with your family. Everything was perfect. And here you are, one year later, living with your mother, talking about what the two of you would be doing on Christmas.

A Christmas without your father. He's out of town. Separating from your mother took a number on his mental health, so he is spending the holidays with your grandparents. You won't see him until January. 

Of course, your mother understands that this was hard on you, but promises you that Christmas with her could still be fun. You guys talked about it a bit more but decided that you would rather spend Christmas with Karma instead. 

She tried not to get too offended and figured it was for the best. 

You did feel better knowing you would be spending the day with him. However, the pain of your parent's separation stopped you from being fully content. 

When you saw him, you made sure to keep a smile on your face. It's Christmas and it's his special day. You can't have your personal problems ruin his day. Especially since Karma has already been your rock throughout the entire divorce procedure. 

"Guess which hand is holding your gift." Karma smiles, keeping both of his hands behind his back. 

You looked up from your hot cocoa and blinked. 

"Oh. You didn't have to get me anything." 

"It may be my birthday, but it's still Christmas. What kind of boyfriend would I be if I didn't give my favourite girl anything?" 

Normally, you would internally swoon when he calls you his favourite girl, but not today. 

"Now hurry up and pick a hand." He urged you. 

You weren't really in the mood to play this game with him, but, it is his birthday. The least you could do is play along. 

"Um..." Your eyes lazily darted between both hands. "The left one."

Karma grinned. "Correct." He reveals your gift that looked perfectly wrapped. "Actually, I was using both hands to hold it so either way you won."

You strained a smile and accepted the present before putting your hot cocoa on the table. 

"Thanks, Karma."

Before you can even open it, Karma places a hand on your lower back to push you forward to let you rest your forehead against his chest. 

"You don't have to pretend everything is okay for my sake," Karma spoke softly with a smile and a gentle pat. "I mean, it's cute that you're trying, but I don't want to see a fake smile on your pretty face."

His hug and gentle words caused you to reach your breaking point. 

Unable to control yourself, you started to shake as tears were building up until it all came pouring out.

You cried and cried, even if you promised yourself you wouldn't today, worried you would ruin something that was considered a magical day. 

Karma didn't think you ruined it, though. Just having you try and make his day special was enough for him. 

When you stopped, you were able to enjoy Christmas with Karma somewhat. 

Maybe next year you will be in a much better place. 

[moonstoria]

[squidpedias-fanart]

Omori Genderbend designed by me and my friend (1/6)

In honor of Mari’s birthday, Makoto gets to go first

I forced my friend to play omori and then we got together and brainstormed how we would want to genderbend the cast. She was in charge of Mari, Hero, and Kel, and I was in charge of Sunny, Basil, and Aubrey. She drew the one for today (her art can be found under the karma art tag). Happy birthday 🎂 he born !

[cryptidwithacopiccollection]

More attorneys!

This is fanart of my two favorite scenes from @vonpharma's fic Take One Down, I love the writing sm and i may or may not have re-read it like 4 times.

Happy birthday Wendy!

[taylornation]

Karma is a cat, coming to let you know it’s Taylor’s birthday!

Which means 13% off at store.taylorswift.com now through 11:59 PM ET tonight, or while supplies last! 🫶🎂

[ominaterthegreat]

My sister, who spent four years at Mailchimp, just got laid off yesterday. She called me sobbing to let me know she got the email. No amount of a fat severance package can fix the damage to her psyche this job did imo. Her birthday is coming up soon. So i made her this cake.

(i only decorate a cake like once every few years lol don't come for me)

She started in customer support, and sure enough was skilled and talented enough in apprenticeships with a higher up team in a different department that she was happily brought onto the team.

She ran events, improved entire workflows that saved the company thousands of dollars, delivered tasks on time and of high quality, and was highly praised by leaders of other teams and from those above her boss. She kicked ass and took names.

On that team, she spent two years experiencing bullying and discrimination for having ADHD. Yes, arguably the most common ND condition out there just about. She had to take 2 months off for mental health leave to get her ADHD diagnosis to defend herself from all the corporate bullying. She documented her boss literally making things up and her coworker refusing to communicate with her and then blaming her for things not being done how she wanted. They actively ignored all the times she went above and beyond expectations and all the times she did receive praise from other teams. I watched two corporate goons crush the confidence my sister had finally closed together for herself.

The CEO of Intuit called her and 1800 other employees that were laid off "low performers" in a public statement. A convenient 10% of Mailchimp was completely laid off. We knew this was coming because over the past year or so, Intuit has been forcing managers to label a specific percentage of people as "Does Not Meet Expectations" on year end reviews to justify letting people go, no matter how much they actually did meet expectations.

I look in the Intuit Mailchimp tags and only see one post about them Union busting. The only posts are just geared towards companies comparing and contrasting products and marketing strategies. Reddit isn't much better because the only sub on there is the official one modded by MC themselves. This isn't the biggest fire rn by any means but it's once again proof that the people behind these corporations are as soulless and evil as the corporations themselves. No matter how much good you do they will never appreciate you.

I hope the company eats shit and dies. Intuit is ruining everything people liked about MC, from the product to the culture. Fuck you.

[sugaaz]

akabane karma ☆ happy birthday elle @175karma ♡

[metiredlr]

Wishing them a VERY happy birthday ( ˙꒳​˙ )♡

[heyhellohihowareyou]

Reminder that I love Sugino a lot. I really don’t talk about him enough. I adore this dude okay!? He has all the traits of a Hailey blorbo in the making!

He’s nice, he’s supportive, he cares about his friends, he has a dorky little crush, he’s an older brother, his reactions are funny as hell, I adore his smile and he’s a baseball boy! I love baseball boys. Leon from Danganronpa, Hinata from Angel Beats!, Mihashi from Big Windup, and this lovable guy right here!

GOD WHY DON’T I TALK ABOUT HIM MORE!?

[cassiferlynnart]

Franziska Von Karma x Maya Fey requested by @lesbianladyblackhawk

Day 28: dress

[organic-water-molecule]

SO THANK YOU

FOR COMING TO MY BIRTHDAY PARTY,

I AM 5 YEARS OLD TODAY

Happy birthday Neotheater

[moonstoria]

[suchine-toki]

Thoughts about Sougo

Sougo was a mixed bag for me on my first watch. The impression he gave me at first was that he has a quirky personality and likes to tease Hijikata a lot. He's also a strange character in the sense that sometimes he's treated like an adult and sometimes like a child.

In Mitsuba’s arc it's shown the reason he “hates” Hijikata is because he took the attention away from his sister and Kondou, which I found very childish. At the same time, it becomes clear how much he loves Mitsuba, the only person with whom he shares his most vulnerable side.

In Shinsengumi Crisis his ambitions to be vice captain are explored, though his respect for Kondou is much greater and he's willing to leave Hijikata in the position when he realizes Itou's conspiracy. Here his sadism is explored in it's darker side when he kills his companions.

This is one of Sougo's most standout traits, although it seemed a bit random to me that he was a sadist when he'd a fairly peaceful life and grew up in a loving environment. His sadism also extends to BDSM jokes with women he doesn't know (like Urara), but it's later revealed it's because he doesn't know how to interact with people.

It's for this reason that he has no friends at the beginning of the series and has to bribe ask Gintoki to pretend to be his best friend in front of his sister. It's not until he meets the Yorozuya that he begins to open up more to other people. He looks up to Gintoki, has a cordial relationship with Shinpachi (the only boy more or less his age) and a friendship/rivalry with Kagura.

He's a wacky character, but also caring in his own way. He has a lot of things figured out, but he also has a lot of growth to do. I would've liked him to interact with more characters, but overall he served his purpose and I think the ending was appropriate in his case.

[localgirlbecomesobsessed]

Haru’s birthday

How each of the OC4 celebrate the king Haru’s birthday.

Xena and Haru are just friends I think.

Cathrine and Haru have something strange going on and it’s hard to tell what’s going on.

Karma and Haru could be a thing; they really could be.

Olivia and Haru obvs are a thing the cuties ~oli’s is a bit suggestive.

Xena 🫥

She couldn’t believe she’s done this.

She stood leaning against a tree as the anomalous purred at her, rearing its engine happily as Towa hugged its wheels.

Xena was impressed with her own mind sometimes, watching as the vagastrom students set up for the event. They were in the more emptier fields of the nature reserve, two monster truck anomalies enjoying the space as the vagastrom students excitedly chattered and prepared, despite the fact it was currently 4AM.

They had to be quiet, Haru just went to sleep and they had only three hours to get everything organised. Half of the students who volunteered were doing the chores, being directed by Ren and partly Xena as Towa helped build the arena.

She wanted to ensure Haru was treated like a Roman king for the day, the guy was way too overworked and needed a decent day of rest, so she turned all of his alarms off, she’s not sure that’ll stop him from actually waking up but it’s worth a try.

She had Sho cooking him up a breakfast extravaganza and lunch…and dinner.

Leo didn’t really want any part of it but did want to livestream the monster truck event so he’s there for that and Alan…

Lovely lovely Alan.

Helped her co-ordinate the whole thing and in a rare outward showing of excitement took care of the trucks and helped them ease into the new terrain, he took both for a spin and Xena had a feeling it was more of a wanting to take the trucks for a ride than Haru’s birthday, but she’s happy if they’re both going to be happy.

Haru awoke around 7AM and immediately came running over to them in a frantic fashion thinking something nefarious was occurring, he was about to go flying into them before Towa grabbed onto him, holding him down as Xena patiently explained to a struggling Haru what the plan was.

“Ahahahah XeXe but we can’t just close the park down for my birthday?”

He was disappointed at the fact, he desperately wanted to see how it would all go down, the trucks themselves were quite adorable and more like excited huge puppies than monsters.

“Who says we’re shutting down the park?”

She grinned coyly at the perplexed red head as she ushered Alan over, she whispered something to him as a small smile came over his face. Towa hummed happily as Xena presented a leaflet and a cheque to Haru, the gobsmacked man looked between the papers and the grinning Xena erratically.

A one night only leaflet with a picture of the trucks, a night of promised eccentric activities and fun with a huge sold out stamp in bold red on the flier.

The cheque nearly gave Haru a heart-attack;

3,831,825,118.00 (£20million)

“Of course we’ll have to half the profits between Jabberwock and-“

Before Xena could finish Haru broke free from Towa’s cage and brought her into a bear hug, nearly crushing her as he spun her around.

“You-you are the best-best person-inspector-everything in the world XEXE~!”

Xena gave him one of her rare genuine smiles as she hugged him back.

“Don’t worry bout work either! You have vagastrom doing the chores today-“

He activated his stigma spinning them around faster in a state of excitement, xena laughing maniacally as it felt like being on a rollarcoaster. She was going to mention how excited the volunteers were to hang out with animals all day but the thought was lost in the whirlwind of Haru.

He slowed down not letting go of the dizzy Xena as Sho approached them, ready to lead the birthday boy to his extravaganza.

“Your breakfast awaits my liege.”

Sho dramatically bowed as Haru stared at them in disbelief.

“You made me breakfast?!?”

Xena nodded huffing out a laugh as she and Towa lead Haru to the start of the festivities…

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Cathrine 🧪

“What am I looking at right now?”

Both Romeo and Rui cautiously approached a mumbling Cathrine, her hair a birds nest as she fiddled with the back of her latest contraption.

She’s been sat outside bar for a while, they were waiting for her to come in, needing an extra set of hands to help prepare the place for Haru’s mini birthday party; they could hear her swear and mutter as bangs and crashes followed.

“A Robot.”

She answered bluntly as she turned a cog, grease stained fingers delicately switched the flip as the smooth penguin shaped robot came to life.

They looked at her puzzled still as she sighed, hands maniacally gesturing to the robot as if that helped, she produced a bow from her lab coat pocket and gently placed it on the head of the bot.

“Ta da~”

Romeo took a picture flabbergasted as Rui crouched down as the small bot made its way over to him.

“Who’s it for?”

The penguin bowed as it held a flipper out to greet them, it was rather cute and explains why she’s been AWOL for two days.

“It’s for Haru’s birthday? PEN13 is going to be Jabberwock’s new helper! It’s reinforced to be ab-“

Romeo cut her out as a smile flickered onto his face.

“That’s not its name.”

Cathrine smiled smugly at him as she nodded.

“It’s a bit silly but Haru will be able to change it, but that’s their name for now as making a penguin shaped robot was the biggest pain in my neck ever, but I love PEN13 and I would die for them if anything happens.”

It was a slight warning to Romeo as she grinned proudly next to her awfully named robot, Rui grinned taking a picture of Cathrine and her new friend as Romeo cackled at her.

“Catty, why a penguin if it’s so hard?~”

Rui asked curiously as Pen explored the area.

“Well, I like penguins.”

She shrugged as if that’s enough of a reason, Rui sighed fondly as he opened the door for Pen, who waddled around with grace and agility as it looked around.

They heard steps approaching them as they all looked at eachother panicked as they rushed back into the bar.

Cathrine ordered Pen to help decorate the place as the little guy swiftly got things arranged perfectly, he realigned the banner, the balloons somehow got blown up and spread across the bar, the wine testing area was set up and the gifts Romeo and Rui got him were nestled nicely next to Pen.

“Hey~Hey~hey…wow”

The three blew the foiled whistles at a surprised Haru as he took in the sight before him.

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRRRU”

Rui and Cathrine exclaimed as Romeo went to pop the first bottle.

Pen immediately wheeled themselves over a flipper extended to an extremely estactic Haru.

“Greetings~master Haru, I am P.E.N.1.3, I am your gifted assistant from Cathrine *redacted*.”

Haru graciously took the flipper both shaking hands for a very long time as he pet the smooth head of the robot.

“Alright! Lovely to meet you mate-wait what was your name?”

He asked slightly shocked as realisation took him.

“P.E-“

Cathrine interrupted coming over as she petted both of their heads.

“You can change it.”

She smiled tiredly at Haru, as he snorted at the mad scientist.

“Okay!! How bout Penny?”

Pen thought for a second, a flipper coming to their face before they nodded in approval.

“That is subbbblime~ Penny will now fetch the welcome drinks.”

Penny waddled away grabbing a tray and the drinks from Rui as he laughed at the adorable creature leaving Cathrine and Haru to stand in awkward silence.

Haru was never one to be submitted into awkward silence but something about Cathrine always put him at unease when the two were alone, it was the same for Cathrine with Haru, they enjoyed each others company but couldn’t quite grasp eachother.

“Happy birthday Haru.”

She quietly said under the loud chatter of Romeo, Rui and Penny.

Haru smiled gently at her pulling the surprised woman into a tight hug as she hesitatingly wrapped her arms around him.

“Thanks Catty.”

Penny interrupted the two with drinks as they quickly jumped apart, the two gratefully took the drinks, blushing clear as day as Rui and Romeo snickered at them.

They clinked their drinks and downed it in one.

“Cheers.”

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Karma 🎨

He had the gift wrapped up and under his arm as he balanced a cake in the other, grinning to himself as he marched his way through Jabberwock, searching for the birthday boy.

“DODGE OUT THE WAY!”

Haru’s voice called out to him as Karma luckily hopped out of the way in time, the fox anomaly was trying to dive at Karma aiming for the cake as Karma held it high in the air.

“Back away foxilicious-this is not a fight you want.”

The fox gazed at him sizing him up before turning away, their head held high in the air as it ran away.

“Hey handsome, look what I’ve got for the birthday boy~”

Karma spun around smiling at Haru who just stared at him in disbelief, why the fuck did the fox listen to him?!

“You didn’t have to get me anything!”

Haru huffed out as he ran over to Karma, grinning cheekily as he handed the cake over. Karma fumbled into his tote bag and grabbed two spoons as he started dragging Haru to the shady spot under their favourite tree.

He forced him to sit down, the two quietly chatting about their day as karma leaned his head on Haru’s shoulder. He pulled the gift from beside him handing it over to Haru, plopping it onto his lap, he kept his head on his shoulder staring hard into the distance as a herd of the bull-like anomalies grazed on grass in the distance.

He heard a light gasp as Haru unravelled the packaging, lightly tracing the painting on the back of the denim jacket, it was of the nature reserve, one of their favourite spots where flower beds surround a tree, wild flowers dancing in a soft breeze, he included peekaboo under the overhanging tree with the fox and a herd of bulls in the distance.

“It’s stunning Karmie.”

He breathed out pressing a kiss to Karma’s head as he slipped on the denim jacket, karma leaning back on the tree as he watched Haru try it on.

“Ya look good in it Ha-ru.”

The red haired man grinned blushing at Karma as he looked at the flower details all along the arms, a little peekaboo peeking out of the front pocket.

“Happy birthday! Pretty boy~”

Karma winked at him as he fed the blushing man a piece of cake, licking the leftover icing off the spoon as he watched Haru flush even more.

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Olivia 🐼

Olivia was helping out at jabberwock for the day, she wanted to ensure Haru could finish up as early as possible as the R&R paperwork and her gift weighed heavily in the tiny backpack she carried with her. They were nearly done, she just had to feed the koi-like anomalies and he just had to feed the bus.

They were to meet back at the dorms once done and Haru thought they’d just chill out and eat some cake but Olivia had found a food festival for the two of them to go too and afterwards she had booked a private onsen and a hotel room for the night(which she is 100% stressing about but ignoring.) The hoops she had to jump through to get Hyde to get it approved will haunt her but she got there and she just hopes Haru will like it.

The koi’s devoured the food as she hastily made her way back, Ren has hopefully dropped her bag off at the dorm, she had it all prepared and she hid it behind a plant pot for Ren to swipe on his way home from work.

Haru was already there humming to himself as he quickly did the laundry, whilst simultaneously feeding Peekaboo, she leaned against the doorway watching him for a while with a content smile on her face.

“Oliiiii~come join us! Why ya just standing there?”

Haru spun around as Olivia raced over to them, peekaboo cooing at her as she took the sling off of Haru.

“I was just enjoying the view…”

She smiled shyly up at Haru, a blush thick on her cheeks as she went onto her tip toes to give Haru a kiss on his cheek.

“Ohhh…!”

Haru swooped down as she pulled away, kissing her on the lips as Olivia let out a quiet noise of surprise but melted into his kiss as he cupped her face gently.

“Boo!…boo!”

Peekaboo squealed at them as they giggled pulling apart.

“Erm…I’ve arranged something for us cause it’s your birthday and I want to erm wait it’s in my-“

She scrambled to reach behind her, Haru gently taking her hands away as he reached into her bag.

“It’s the paperwork.”

He pulled it out and gasped as he saw the overnight R&R paperwork.

“How’d you even-.”

She awkwardly coughed interrupting any questioning.

“Don’t worry about it ahahah, I erm-there’s a food festival and then this private onsen and I got-I got Ren to agree to babysit peekaboo-if you’d like if you don’t want too then we don’t have too...”

She was nervous.

Way too nervous.

It was so stupid to be this nervous, Haru cupped her face again, peppering kisses all over it as he tried to kiss the nervousness away.

“Pretty Oli, of course I’d go anywhere with you-why ya so nervous.”

He littered her face with more kisses as he brought her into a soft hug, not wanting to crush peekaboo as Haru nuzzled into her the crock of her neck.

“When do we go baby?”

His hands met her hips as he gently rubbed circles into them.

“Hmmm~whenever ya want, the food festival is till midnight, the onsen is connected to the hotel…”

She pressed another kiss to Haru’s lips. He called for Ren as he grabbed peekaboo off of her, running to his room as she giggled at his eagerness.

Ren came out with Haru and took the sling off of her, handing her the bag as she went to get changed, Haru following suit.

Olivia was wearing a short red dress with a cropped neon yellow bomber jacket and trainers as she forgot to bring a change of shoes, the necklace Haru got her hung around her neck. Haru was wearing a dark green button up with the outlines of suns and moons printed on them, he had a yellow belt on and dark purple trousers with black boots.

Ren grimaced at the two of them when they excitedly bid him farewell, peekaboo wrapped up in his arms as they ran to get the galaxy express.

They explored the food festival, chatting and laughing throughout the evening and they dined on anything they could grab their hands on. They tried to find the strangest food they could but got way too distracted by test and taste chocolate stand that had over 100 flavours and had different beers to pair with it.

Once they tried nearly all of the flavours, the two ventured to the private onsen, Olivia waiting for Haru to get in first as she grabbed the gift. She hid it behind her back as she approached him, sitting cross legged on the side of the bath as Haru leaned his head back to look her, smiling in content and bliss as she ran a hand through his hair.

“Olllli~come join me, look there’s even a floating sake tray.”

He pointed to the floating tray in front of him, it had a bottle of strawberry flavoured sake and two ochoko cups that were already filled.

“I will Ru, but first…”

She slipped the box next to him as she waited for him to open it, he looked surprise as he went to open the box, Olivia didn’t want to put too much pressure on him by watching. She fiddled with Haru’s hair as she gazed at the plants and rocks that stood just next to the bath, it was an outdoor bath and the evening chill made it the perfect time to take a dip.

She heard Haru lightly gasp as he opened the box, taking the moonstone ring out.

She risked a glance towards him as he shook slightly holding the box tightly as he gently placed the box to the side, he grabbed onto her hand tugging her into the onsen. His face was flushed a bright red as he kept glancing towards his gift.

“Let me get my robe off first aha.”

She shook off the robe settling in next to him as he placed her onto his lap. His gaze didn’t leave the box, as she kissed his cheekbone, playing with his hair as she waited for him to say something.

“Could you…put it on me?”

He asked nervously, gulping as she went to grab the box, taking his left hand as she slid the ring on. It was a simple silver ring with a moon stone running thickly through the middle. She put it on his middle finger, hands slightly shaking as she did.

“If you erm don’t want to wear it as a ring I got a chain for it too and if you do-“

He cut her off as he swiftly pressed his hand to the back of her neck, gently pushing her forward as he feverishly kissed her. Startling Olivia before she turned to face him, hands lost in his hair as the cool metallic feeling of the ring against her skin spurned her on.

It wasn’t until the tray of sake bonked into her back that she pulled away, Haru whining at the loss of his wife girlfriend.

“We should probably try the drink aye?”

She grabbed the cups and she was about to hand Haru one when his hand found itself gently holding on to her wrist.

“Oh no, it seems you’ll have to feed me the drink Oli~my hand has become too heavy from this gorgeous ring on my hand and my other is in our suite ahahah~~”

He lead Olivia’s hand to his lips as he poured the drink into his mouth, licking his lips as he then pressed a kiss to her hand and then to his ring. Olivia held her breath as she watched him, mesmerised at the beautiful man underneath her, he clasped their hands together, pressing more kisses down her arm, leading all the way to her neck as licked a strip up to her ear.

“Ohhh…Oli Aren’t you gonna drink?”

He purred into her ear as he nibbled at the shell of it.

She mutely nodded too flustered as she downed her cup.

He pressed wet kisses to her neck, humming happily to himself as he kept their hands clasp.

“Ru…do you like it?”

She was still nervous he seemed to like it but what if he was just entertaining her, she wasn’t sure if a ring was too much but she knew it was what she had to get him…if she only has a year…she might as well.

He paused his ministrations, unclasping their hands as he cupped her cheek. How could she be so silly? Of course he loved the ring, the fact he now has something that claims him as Oli’s was driving him slightly crazy, in the best way possible.

“Oli, You’re so precious to me…”

Haru murmured out as he rubbed a thumb across her cheek.

“I love your gift baby.”

He kissed her.

“I love you.”

He kiss her again and again and again, licking at her lips to gain entry, deepening the kiss.

“I love you too…”

She pulled away wrapping her arms around his neck as she gazed lovingly at him.

“Happy birthday!”

[im-a-dragon-cawcaw]

Everything falling apart but the tarot cards said to stay silly

[sugaaz]

akabane karma ☆ happy birthday nikki @missmakaalbarns ♡