#I forgot I could change the font

[sky-dragon-03]

Bumbleby week

Day 2: Jock and Nerd

Hope y’all like it 💜🐝

[jackfromthefairytale]

true drifters code in the erra font

[melanchoire]

g!p jealous ceo giselle please?

cw: anal, blowjob, breeding, creampie, degradation, deep throat, hair pulling, handjob, humiliation, spanking.

ceo giselle would be the ceo who gives the worst headaches because she knows how to get under your skin

you can’t complain about your job as a personal assistant and secretary because it’s a good job, the pay is good and you need the job. over time you obviously got used to her, but she is still the same undisciplined ceo with a shitty attitude and passive aggressive comments that she was on the day of your first interview

typing, preparing and collating reports was one of the most exhausting tasks you could have, you would always much rather answer calls and respond to messages than deal with all the paperwork full of words that mean absolutely nothing 😮‍💨 when you go to giselle’s office and leave the papers on the table, she gives you that demeaning look and a mocking grin that you despise so much. she always looks for even the smallest mistake and focuses on the small details to minimize your work

“the word you used here is informal. change it.”

“you forgot to put a full stop here.”

“i don’t like the font you used on this document. please write the report again. i want it tomorrow at the same time as today.”

but you have to keep a good attitude and behavior!! so keep a smile if you don’t want to be fired 😄 nodding at her command and walking out of the office, crumpling the paper into a ball and throwing it in the trash as soon as you leave her office

she also treats you like her slave 💀 your job as a secretary also requires you to take on receptionist duties in addition to your administrative responsibilities. for example, greeting clients arriving for conferences or meetings and being the person who helps visitors settle in, bringing refreshments, taking notes during client meetings, etc. in addition to scheduling meetings and conferences, your job was also to take responsibility for organizing and leading meetings. yes, giselle often forces you to participate in her conferences

but giselle treats you like you’re a maid, snapping her fingers followed by a “get me and the men a cup of coffee. you know how i like it: hot and not much sugar. be quick.” and you don’t know if it's her attitude that puts you in a worse mood or the way the businessmen are looking at you

but here we go again, keep a smile if you don’t want to be fired

but today was different. you felt like men were making fun of you because they looked at you with funny expressions when you talked, interrupting you to ask stupid questions or comments that were slowly making you angry. they even gave you glances from head to toe without worrying about being discreet, this being the only thing that seemed to bother giselle

“we’re thirsty. go get us some fresh water. room temperature.” another snap of her fingers, but giselle’s tone is more demanding and that makes you feel… turned on?? you never liked her orders, or well, you didn’t like to admit that you liked listening to them, but that’s a secret 🤫🤐

men collectively directing their gazes at your body as you leave the meeting room 💀 giselle getting so pissed off that her tongue hits the inside of her cheek to keep from telling everyone to fuck off, but her anger is so big that she ends the meeting immediately and throws all the men out of the room

ohhh and giselle is pissed as hell and you notice it when you get back to the conference room she grabs you by the arm and practically throws you against the table

“giselle, what the fuck is your problem?”

“what the fuck is your problem? acting like a slut in front of all those men, seriously? do you have any idea how that could affect my company’s image? you’re a whore, (y/n)…”

and of course you get upset by her accusations!! giselle always tries to be on your ass all the time, and you try very hard to remain professional, but she exhausts your patience and you dare to respond

you dare to answer. answer to giselle

“why don’t you go fuck yourself, giselle? i’m sick of your smug, shitty attitude.”

so giselle gets upset because you dare to talk to her in a bad way and decides to shut you up by making you give her a blowjob? WELL YES—

as she forces you to your knees you give her a dirty look, trying to stand up but she grabs your hair in a ponytail and gives it a hard tug SHE ALSO SLAP YOU WITH HER THICK COCK?!?! giselle just loves to see the death stare you give her…

giselle smiles in amusement as she sees your pathetic attempts to free yourself from her grip, placing your hands on her thighs and trying to push her away, but giselle places both hands on either side of her head and pushes you down onto her cock, moaning as she thrusts into your mouth and uses you like a fleshlight 🥴

looking down to meet your tear filled eyes looking up at her, the obscene noise of you choking on her length and the feeling and her head hitting the back of your throat and your nose tickling against her pelvis with every thrust 🤤 but she doesn’t cum in your mouth, instead she pulls out a few seconds before cumming, jerking off her cock and shooting thick ropes of warm and sticky cum onto your face 💕 mainly by dirtying the lenses of your glasses because since she saw you using them when you were in front of the computer or reading documents, something in her brain changed completely 😊

then she pushes you onto the table without bothering to remove any papers or documents from it, placing one hand on the back of your head to push your face into the hard wood and using the other to push your skirt up to your waist, drooling at the sight of your perfect ass and soaked panties 😵‍💫 giselle doesn’t waste any time and squeezes your asscheeks and then gives one of your cheeks a hard smack that leaves the print of her palm in a bright red tone, it’s something gigi has wanted to do for a long time and has always been resisting, so today she is going to take advantage of the opportunity!!

fucking your ass because she says your pussy doesn’t deserve her cock :( making you beg and whimper at how much your pussy was leaking and clenching around nothing

“you can go and ask one of them to fuck you, you know? i bet you even fuck my employees when i’m not looking, don’t you?”

and even when she is destroying your ass she doesn’t stop being rude to you 😔 pulling your tie just enough so that it tightens around your neck and takes away your breath for a moment, grabbing your tits from behind and squeezing them over your shirt, groping your ass and digging her fingers into your skin…

cumming inside you and pulling out of your ass with a filthy “pop”, forcing you to open your own cheeks to admire in detail how her creamy essence slowly oozes from your hole and maybe forcing you to push it inside you again using two fingers 🥴

collapsing without air on the large table in the meetings room, only for giselle to adjust her suit and tell you “tomorrow there will be a job interview to recruit new office workers, try to look presentable. oh, and later i will send you the paperwork i need you to fill out, it’s due on monday.”

but you wouldn’t complain about hard work if it means getting a good fucking from your boss later

[beesorcery]

hello here is 3.29-3.31! absolutely devastating for my bingo

hello it's part 3 of 3 for my cool fun graphic design adventure!! part 1 and part 2 got too long. to recap i am recreating this t-shirt design but with the magic 8 ball songs instead of city names:

here is the current draft, updated through 3/27 (pittsburgh) (!!!!)

[justliketoreadsowhat]

Captured ☁︎︎

☁︎︎𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐬

☁︎︎𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐛 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐞, 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭

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“𝐃𝐨 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲’𝐥𝐥 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐌𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬?“

“𝐈’𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐈 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞“

“𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐮𝐦.. 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐈 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭?“ 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐤, 𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡.

With summer almost coming to an end, it was only right to sneak in a few more side quests before your two worlds became obstructed with sports & school. Overtime you and Paige learned to never take these moments for granted, as she would soon be making her way to the WNBA, where things would never be the same.

“Bought a camera and don’t even know how to work it” Drew snickered, watching her older sister struggle to his amusement. “I told you to keep the instructions”

Side eyeing Drew she bantered “I don’t need instructions and I definitely don’t need to listen to a 10-year-old”

The two were indefinitely the same people in different fonts, but nevertheless, the core memories being created made up for everything else that happened in between.

"I'm sure you'll get some good pictures once the lights dim a little bit. besides the scenery is way too nice for the camera to give it enough justice" you appealed to the view, sitting in the row watching the players move swiftly to hit the ball to the opposite side of the net.

"Yeah you have a point, I jus wanna have these moments to keep with me" admitting to her thoughts slipping out from her mouth. Paige loved experiencing new things, cherishing them with the people that she loved. Most importantly, you.

"I get it, we can go get them printed out afterward" The suggestion molded your mind into the memory of when you first met Paige. Her room was filled with polaroids and old cameos adorned with her friends and family. She talked for hours about what happened during each one, as she wrote dates on the back in case her memory became clouded.

A smug look grew upon her face and she examined your expression, she knew you all too well. it became like a 2nd nature to her to notice when you were in a thinking daze. "You should let me take some more of you, I'm having withdrawals"

Your eyebrows furrowed in confusion "Wha- Paige you took pictures of me when we went to Aaliyah's game"

She scoffed at your allegation "That was over a month ago!" Truth be told she was a true lover girl at heart, she could never get enough of you. Religiously keeping small pictures in the back of her phone case to keep you close to her heart even though you were miles away.

"Okay okay fine, but you need to take some of yourself too, you look beautiful” admiring the way her ponytail fell perfectly down her back as two strands framed her face.

"Sooo...we all just forgot about me? I would like some cool flicks too" Drew asserted, removing the camera from Paige's hands quickly changing the settings.

"We'd never forget about you Drewski" you laughed as you watched him hold up the camera extremely close to his sister's face.

"Say cheeseee" he dragged, the sound of the camera clicking, clashing with the bright flash blinding everyone in sight.

"Shit I'm gonna go blind" Paige muttered rubbing her now sensitve eyes.

"You're already blind P"

"Ayee that was a good one" Drew lit up with excitement, reaching across to shake hands in agreement.

"Alright now nobody's getting pictures since you two think it's so funny" Her protest grew weak as an announcement over the intercom haltered the crowds' attention.

"No Flash Photography Please, Thank You"

"You sure you don't need those instructions?"

"Just let me live bro" she groaned placing the camera back around her neck. “They’re definitely gonna fine me now”

“S’okay, it’ll all be worth it”

𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬.

[cnidocyst]

they forgot to make the punk hazard body swap stuff about franky Specifically . for me

[ID: Doodle page focused on Nami being body swapped into Franky's body and Franky being body swapped into Chopper. The main drawing is of Nami in Franky's body, freaking out as she timidly raises her hands up in front of her chest. Her knees are creaking and her hands keep clicking. A speech bubble containing only Nami's head making the same frightened expression is drawn over her head. The notes are: "-Going through the onslaught of losing more nuanced muscular movements, half of organs being replaced with mechanical parts constantly whirring, using cameras for eyes and the stark change in vision/color quality that comes with that, and a rubbery tongue. All while having to adjust to a body three times her size and constant soreness of the knees and spine having to support all of that. Scared of accidentally shooting bullets and stuff". Right beside her is Franky in Chopper's body, who is sweating profusely and looking down with a frustrated expression as he frantically waves his right arm. His other hoof is covering his left ear. A speech bubble of Franky's head making the same angry expression appears above his head. He's only wearing a backpack and shorts. His notes are: "-Everything is too hot, too loud, and too much . smells. -No dexterity/clumsy movements. Going from mostly naked to full fur coat is overwhelming". In the top left hand corner is a small doodle of Chopper in Sanji's body. He's just standing there with a big eye and a cat mouth. There's a doodle of Franky as Chopper nervously walking on all fours in brain point. He's thinking: "gosh i sure hope a hole doesn't open up beneath me and i drop into the ocean that i now cannot swim in. A truly frightening thought." as someone beneath the ground under him starts to saw a circle around where he's standing. There is a secret low opacity clip art of Wade from Garfield behind him. There's a sketch of Nami as Franky accidentally swinging one of her arms into the back of Luffy's head while she's talking. This drawing is captioned: "Dangerously clumsy". There's a drawing of Franky as Chopper talking to Nami as Franky. He tells her: "Nami i am just letting you know my flashback arrestor is not currently up to code and i haven't replaced it so i recommend you do not use any fire functions or you could blow up which would also blow me up . and i would not care for that". Nami starts quietly panicking. Lastly, there's a doodle of Robin sitting down while Franky in Chopper's body nuzzles up against her right shoulder like a cat would on all fours. He's looking up at her, smiling and wagging his tail, and says: "You can pet me if you'd like". Robin grips him by the abdomen with her right arm while lightly pushing him away with her other arm. She looks upset and refuses to look at him. She responds: "Stop talking." in a red horror type font. /END ID]

[maleyanderecafe]

I'll Find My Happily Ever After with the Smothering Love of the Yandere Nobleman - Anthology

Created by: Rito Yanagi / Inaru / Kabashima Rirako / Shiwori Hiromoto

Genre: Isekai/Historical

I'll be honest, even though we uploaded the first story, I kinda...forgot to write a recommendation for it. That's my bad. The first two stories are out as of writing this with more coming along the way, though currently they're both on the lighter side (I would argue the second one doesn't really count as a yandere). I went a little crazy with the fonts since my translator said I could change every font that I wanted so I just went crazy. The main theme of this anthology is yandere of course and otome isekai based stories. If you like our stuff, please donate to us on Ko-fi for more yandere stuff.

The first story starts out with Alicia running to break off her engagement because she heard her younger sister had a crush on him. Afterwards, she consoles her sister Lenalee afterwards, with Alicia stating that she'd rather have her sister happy then marry someone that she loves. We later learn that Alicia gets another engagement request from an acquaintance of the father's and travels to him after hearing rumors that he's essentially a shut in. Despite this, Alicia thinks that it's at least proper to greet him, and after she does he tries to leave hastily. Alicia wanting to spend time with her future fiance asks to hang out with him more to get to know him and the two end up growing much closer as a result. The two of them have a nice picnic together and her fiance, Noel remarks after she states she wants to eat some of his food that he'd be happy if she did since he would make something that eventually would be a part of her, thus having her belong to him. Alicia reacts to this as a joke and ends up tripping and hitting her head after realizing that she has a crush on him. Once she wakes up, Noel remarks that its part of the curse he has because of his black hair, though Alicia doesn't believe in that nonsense stating that she is naturally pretty clumsy before telling him that she likes his natural hair color. Once the engagement party starts, Lenalee tries to confront Noel about how she actually likes him, though Noel shuts this down pretty much immediately, revealing that Lenalee did in fact plan the break up with her previous fiance. Lenalee starts to have a tantrum basically yelling out that she deserves everything that Alicia has and tries to get Alicia to give her Noel instead. Alicia starts crying after realizing that her sister has always been against her while she has always supported her and Noel defends her, humiliating her in front of the rest of the guests. Noel goes to comfort Alicia revealing that he planned the annulment of her previous engagement and that he had fallen for her ever since the two were young, stating that she can not run from him anymore. Regardless of this Alicia is happy that she would end up with Noel and that her sister could not take her away.

The second story starts with twin sisters, Daniella the extroverted sister and Lucia, the more introverted one. In their kingdom, being a twin is considered cursed, so Lucia is treated horribly as a result, with her grandparents even going so far as to trying to get Lucia killed, only stopped by her parents who ended up dying when she was a child. Lucia essentially works at a servant for Daniella, who is getting ready for the crowned prince's arrival. Daniella gets mad at Lucia for touching her stuff, because she might get cursed and even pulls out Lucia's beloved book only to throw and crush it on the ground. Lucia runs away crying and clutching her book and we get a flashback to when she was a child. She got lost in the market and nearly was kidnapped by a bunch of guys only to be stopped by another child. To calm her down, he read a book from his kingdom about two angel sisters. The story goes that the older angel plucked the wings of the younger one and cast her down onto Earth, where a prince saved her from the pond she fell into and took care of her until her wings grew back. After returning to heaven, she requested that she get married to the prince that saved her. Lucia asks that twins are not cursed in his kingdom and when he says they are blessed, she wishes that she could have been born in his kingdom. She explains to him that her grandparents and older sister tried to get rid of her but because of her parents, she was able to live. The boy is disturbed by this, asking if he should get rid of them, but she defends them stating that she still cares about her parents, with the boy responding that he barely gets to see his parents. Lucia calls him her prince and he introduces himself as Al. As a gift, Al gives Lucia the book and promises to come looking for it when he's older. Soon after, the prince arrives to greet the twins, with the butler stating that they are looking for the girl who owns a storybook he gave her. Daniella immediately understands and runs into Lucia's room to take the book away from her, but is immediately caught by the prince. Daniella tries to claim that she is the one who owns the book, and the prince asks her to tell what happens to the older sister. Unable to give the correct answer, and trying to beat her younger sister, the prince takes her and the grandparents away. The prince reveals that he is Al, and Lucia is brought to his kingdom to get married and we learn at the end of the angel story, the older sister was tossed into the demon realm as a punishment.

The theme of this anthology is yanderes and otome isekai genre, so we can kind of see it going on now. The first two chapters aren't really too heavy on the yandere portion as of yet, mostly ranging from overprotective to a bit obsessive, though based on the raws I've seen on later chapters, there are some that seem to get a bit darker. I'm going to start talking about the first story and then move onto the second one.

The first one probably has more of the yandere action in it, with Noel not only being rather manipulative, planning to break the engagement with her previous spouse before as well as having lines of wanting her to eat his food so that he can be a part of her, but overall its generally pretty light. The unfortunate thing with the first story is that there aren't a lot of things that are explained: how did Noel plan the breakup with her previous suitor, what's up with the curse and why is the sister kind of a dickhead? I feel like this and the second story both use the concept of curses, but this one barely brushes it off, basically only using it as a way to explain that his parents died and thats why everyone is wary of him. The sister in this one suddenly turning on Alicia also doesn't really make that much sense, because we really see no reason to have her try to monopolize all of her suitors. Honestly, I think a lot of those things feel very under baked even for a oneshot. One of the things I do like is the gradual relationship with Noel and Alicia and seeing how Alicia falls for him. Initially with Noel being shy and Alicia being the more active participant its very cute seeing how they end up together. It's kind of funny to see that Alicia doesn't even really care that Noel planned to break off her engagement in the end or that he manipulated her in the slightest.

The second one has a better story overall as there's less plot holes, but I honestly don't think Al is that yandere. The best we can see is that he's kinda overprotective, but given that Lucia has been abused by her sister and grandparents for most of her life, it feels a lot more justified. I guess you can say that he might have ended up torturing the family afterwards given what happens at the end of the storybook with the older sister angel, but because we never see that, we just don't know. I still think that this story is more solid overall though, the thing with the curse is kinda fun though it does fall into the trap with the older sister being a jerk, even if she has kind of a reason as she thinks the younger sister is cursed. I kinda wished they expanded on that too, like if the older sister blamed the younger one for their parents dying and that's why she acts the way she does. I guess that might make her too sympathetic but I think it would have added more interest and nuanced to the story. Other than that we don't really get to see the relationship between Al and Lucia all that much besides when they met that one time when Lucia got the book. The fairy tale story was also pretty cool though.

So overall, there are some nice light yanderes, but I don't think either of these will be my favorites moving forward. I am excited for the other stories since I want to know what other scenarios will end up happening in the future, whether they be darker or if they have a more interesting premise, like with magic systems or even regression. There's a lot of good ideas that could come out of it!

[cradle-of-darkness]

hey!! I have lots of stuff I made for cfco (this thing!) that I really want to share and also just keep in one spot, so here's kind of a cfco """artbook""". LOTS of rambling about my ocs up ahead!!! you have been warned!!!!

old code foretold co-op art under cut ↓

first up is this little thumbnail of a mock up poster/book cover! this was made while cfco lived only in my imagination, before I actually started to seriously consider making it into something tangible. little did I know that I would eventually repurpose this design into the title art 😈

I realized this design wouldn't work vertically if i was gonna make cfco in google slides so I switched some stuff around and boom!!!! more detailed sketch!!!!!

here's a placeholder background I slapped together and used while testing out how I wanted things to look (textbox design, font, color palette, sprites). if you look closely at the background of jay and raziel's infocards you can see I used this for those since I didn't have the actual backgrounds drawn at that point. there were actually some earlier textbox designs with a little icon that was supposed to show the face of whichever character was speaking to make it more clear, but ended up cutting that since i thought it'd be unnecessary extra work for me

here's a thumbnail for what was supposed to be the final slide! I kinda wished I finished this but honestly I kinda forgot about it 😭 plus there wouldn't be a lot of room for the text in this design. I also think it's a little misleading because it implies evelyn is still In The Walls when she is not. she is elsewhere now. hopefully in therapy

some of the first iterations of jay my stupid clown son who I love oh so dearly. oh god where do I even start with him. well for starters these sketches are from OCTOBER!!!!! of LAST YEAR!!!!!! WILD!!!!!!!! anyway as you can see he's pretty different here. I can't talk about his design without saying that from the very beginning he was designed to be a foil to sylvie and I tried to get that across in just about anywhere I could. at first I just thought the idea of an "anti-sylvie" would be cool, but then that idea quickly evolved into a completely separate character.

I picked his epithet, "sunshine", to contrast "drowsy". I didn't wanna go for the exact opposite word to drowsy like "awake" or "energetic", but it got me thinking about night/day parallels and I figured I could do something with that, which made me land on "sunshine"

jay is a clown who dropped out of school and doesn't want to be taken seriously because he's exhausted from the restrictions his family put on him! meanwhile sylvie is a psychologist who graduated early and wants to be taken seriously because he craves respect and validation (possibly out of a lack of respect from his family). parallels!!! I could honestly go on and on about everything in jay's personality that foils sylvie's but I'll just stick to his design because idk if anyone else wants to hear all that 😭

so yeah uh back to his design. his mask used to cover his eyes! I changed it to cover his mouth since sylvie's glasses cover only his eyes, I thought it'd be more fitting if jay's mask covered whatever sylvie's glasses don't cover

he also had a star motif! I felt like this didn't line up with him being sun themed so I scrapped it

lots of jays!!! they're all squished together on one image because tumblr image limit

because his color palette is based off of an inverted version of sylvie's, I already knew I wanted his main colors to be blue, red/pink, black, and brown/bronze. I messed around with this palette a lot before I got it to look ok. there's some earlier versions of his design where he's more pink than red

his design here differs a little from what I ended up sticking with!!!

- the cuffs of his sleeves and his gloves got their colors switched around

- the clown nose on his mask became an actual separate piece instead of just a flat red spot

- the ruffles on his undershirt. gone

- slightly simplified bangs

- no more blue streaks in hair!!! I actually kinda wish I kept these :(

he was actually supposed to be much more outwardly malicious. like one of these characters who does whatever sounds the most fun at the moment regardless of the consequences or their morals. I thought it'd be cool if instead of the usual little shine I give characters on the side of their eyes, jay had a triangle shape towards the top of his eye that looked like a shine, but then when he gets serious and narrows his eyes, it's no longer visible and it makes his eyes look like there's no light in them

I gave him a subtle X motif because I thought it was like the opposite of a swirl. a swirl curls in on itself while an X sticks out sharply in different directions

near the top of the image is an idea for jay's "phoenix design". his powers aren't shown a lot in cfco, but I like to think that after he's defeated in a fight, he can revive himself for a short period of time... like how a phoenix is reborn 😱😱😱😱 anyway this design was supposed to be what he might look like after reviving. it needs some work but I like his hat

the bottom of this image is sketches for his sprites!!!!

and speaking of his sprites...... here's some quick sketches I made for some of his poses!!!!! I wanted his sprites to mirror the poses of some of sylvie's portraits, but with a contrasting emotion. when sylvie's angry he stands up straight and holds his arm out in an accusatory pose. when jay is happy he jolts up and reaches out his arm in delight. when sylvie is proud of himself he leans forward and gestures towards himself. when jay is nervous he jerks to one side and brings his hand to his collar out of uncertainty. can you tell how much I wanted jay to parallel sylvie

by the way while I'm on the topic I think it's worth mentioning: jay and sylvie are...... kinda maybe sorta oc x canon......... (LOUD BOOING SFX) I wrote them as friends and that's how they'll stay but I really love them together and I like imagining, in a scenario where they're both in better places mentally, they're in a qpr. ok. so what. sue me.

moving on from jay, here's one of raziel's first designs all the way from december of last year!!!! this was around when I started to roughly construct the plot of cfco in my brain. i really like how he looks here but I had to leave behind some elements of this design to prevent it from feeling too cluttered and to make them easier to redraw multiple times for their sprites. the design of their sleeves was actually based on a jacket I saw around this time that I thought looked cool

and finally here's evelyn! the first image is one of my first drawings of her along with an idea for what she would've looked like in the past. then the second is a sketch of her portrait compared to the final one. there's actually a lot I want to say about her and by extension cfco as a whole

in my head, cfco was a lot different. it just existed as little collections of scenes I would imagine that I thought I could string together and form a cohesive story out of. these little scenes started to evolve and become more complex, which made me realize I would not be able to make them into anything in that state.

cfco was going to have a much deeper plot centered around evelyn discovering a secret about how epithets function. this secret would have been a lot for one person to handle and being burdened with this knowledge would have caused her a great deal of stress, so she made a nearly impossible game which would reveal this secret to whoever wins it so that someone else can share this burden. I realized while writing the draft of cfco that at my current writing ability, I wouldn't be able to pull a story like this off, and also that whatever I made this secret would probably end up being not possible in the world of ee as more lore gets revealed, so I switched some stuff around and now it's not about that anymore, but I think a consequence of that was now the plot feels a little rushed and unpolished 😭 oh well

the mark on her chest was also originally a scar from something related to this version of the story. I wanted to keep that part of her design even though it's not a scar in the current version of her character, so it's a birthmark now

I thought the themes of "forbidden knowledge" accompanied by vague religious imagery were cool for the original idea and I had integrated these themes into the characters and story so much by that point that it'd be a waste to turn it back around so I figured I should just keep them in even if it makes less sense

raziel is very angel themed! the straps on the back of their jacket are supposed to look like angel wings. the circles all over their outfit is supposed to give the feeling of halos, or the many eyes of a seraphim. evelyn has a pomegranate shaped necklace and her hair is supposed to be shaped like a pomegranate. her surname even used to be plague-odd, pun on "play god" (which I ended up changing to a similar sounding name). raziel and evelyn also have angel numbers associated with them. raziel's is 111 (intuition) and it's present in his birthday, while evelyn's is 444 (protection) and is present in her age and birthday

that's about it!!! if you read this far thank you so much 🙏 even though it's not very good, I'm glad I made cfco after spending so long being scared to write something and share it online. not to be that guy who wants people to ask him about his ocs but if u wanna know anything else about these guys 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 u can ask 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 I love talking about them (especially jay. if you couldn't already tell he's the favorite child)

by the way here's all of jay and raziel's sprites. the links should hopefully work????

jay

raziel

[mintywolf]

A Long Road Home - Page 92 Author Notes

Page 92

The flavor that Imogen/Laura gives to her Dissonant Whispers spell (which inflicts psychic damage and on a failed Wisdom save causes the target to flee involuntarily from the caster) is that she is reflecting all of the pain and noise of other people’s thoughts back outwards, which is a great character detail. Mechanically it’s the psychic damage hurting Laudna, but even though she can tell it’s not Imogen’s voice throwing all those hateful words at her, she’s heard them directed at herself enough to want to run because what follows them is usually violence.

I made a point of using different fonts for Imogen’s Dissonant Whispers to keep them distinct from Laudna’s creepy message whispers. Appropriately enough, the names of her fonts are “Spiritual Lightning” and “Haunted Moon.” (Laudna’s are “Restless Soul,” “Echoes,” and “Witch Girls.”) :)

My original plan was for the cleric (seen back on page 65 as just a hooded eisfuura figure in yellow) to be a devotee of the Everlight but I changed them to a cleric of the Matron of Ravens as a means of preserving some essence of a plot arc I ended up cutting from this chapter because it was just way too long at the script stage. It involved Imogen and Laudna finding shelter from the cold (which they are shortly going to be sent out into, sorry) in a town centered around a temple of the Duskmaven. They are treated kindly there at first, while Laudna is hypothermic enough to be mistaken for a genuine corpse, but once the clerics realize she’s only mostly dead they get caught and Imogen is put on trial for necromancy. This plotline survives in Come In From the Cold (in the most recent chapter, in fact) and, aesthetically, I really liked Sister Iseult, the piebald raven eisfuura paladin who serves as the arbiter of the trial and regretted leaving her out of the comic. I considered including her in place of the cleric here, but since the dragonborn with the gun has already kind of been established as the leader, preventing the cleric from getting the character arc she will have in the fic, I decided it wouldn’t be a satisfying use of a good design. But since the point of that arc was to establish Laudna’s fraught relationship with the Raven Queen (who despises necromancy, which Laudna assumes must include herself, an undead, and not just the necromancer who made her that way) I decided to make the cleric here one of her followers, who is doing nothing to disabuse her of that belief.

Conveniently, there is canonically a notable group of Duskmaven worshipers who wear yellow cloaks, so I didn’t even have to change that, although why this lone member of Paragon’s Call would be so far away from Bassuras is a question I will have to answer later, haha. They could just be wearing yellow to compliment the gold on their tabard.

Speaking of yellow, the rogue was originally supposed to be thinking "Dibs on her bandana," which was just a silly throwaway line (like obviously it's part of her character design she's not going to lose it in a prequel) but since I forgot to work it into her outfit in the previous scene I had to change it to the bounty hunter planning to steal her coat, which Laudna made for her, and now it comes across as a lot meaner than intended.

[cannibal-walleye]

Okay WOO I'm back. Hasn't quite been 8 hours of sleep, but like, who cares about the specifics??

Okay first, I just want to say amazing chapter as always. First and foremost. It will never cease to amaze me how Impulse and Skizz are completely different characters. You do such a good job of creating individual voices for them, but yet in a way that doesn't feel like a dramatic change? I don't know if that really makes sense? Reading from each pov feels different, it feels like it's genuinely a different person we're viewing, but it also feels like they're one in the same. Like they're the same person in a different font, like they genuinely are made for each other. I'm getting way off track and over analyzing something as simple as an author writing multiple pov's. Okay then. Back on track. This chapter was a delight to read, and knowing most of it probably wasn't even planned and just. Spiraled into existence is very funny to me. Never been this excited to see Skizz's chapter because the things you have the potential to do. My god.

Okay now talking about the ACTUAL CHAPTER!! I'm assuming this takes place the same day as the apology pastries, but I could be wrong. Having Tango as the TA is genius and genuinely threw me for a loop because I forgot Impulse didn't personally know him at first. My first thoughts were something like "wow another blazeborn thats cool. To bad its not tango, or impulse would have thought about him directly by now". And then it. Was Tango. SHAKSJK. This could majority effect the plot or just be a silly thing to add onto the miscommunication pile and I love it. (Also impulse calling him Tongo?? Fucking amazing.) I don't really have much to say about Tango right now, but I'm very excited to hopefully see more of him in the future

Impulse physically counting down the minutes before he gets to leave class, and more importantly, look at the messages skizzley sent? He is incredibly real for that, but also, that man is down BAD. Impulse thinking about and then proceeding to RESEARCH angle culture. The WINGS. His CLAWS. I hate him. I hate him so much. An angles ability to sense others emotions? Walleye the things you've done and set up in a relatively short chapter. Insane.

Now the main thing i wanted to talk about. Certainly not last, and potentially the furthest thing from least, Impulse can see enchantments. First, that is SO insanely cool. Only certain species can see enchantments?? That's such a cool thing?? Not only as a plot device (i see what you're doing. I will be talking about it in a second.) But also just, a super cool thing? I know I'm repeating myself but, I love that?

I'm not really going to try and sort out my thoughts about how this will effect impulse as the classmate because I will be here for a while, and instead just focus on how GENIUS of a miscommunication plot point this is. The moment I read the line "this time noting the white feathers" I knew it was all over. Of course impulse would specifically say white feathers, he wouldn't be able to see enchantments through a picture. Of course he wouldn't have any reason to think Skizzley is an angle, much less his classmate (yes he does. He DOES. he has EVERY REASON TO THINK THAT-) and this is just touching the surface of everything you've set up within this single conversation.

Impulse is now way more attracted to his online friend, he knows he has wings, he doesn't, even for a SECOND, consider the possibility of skizz being skizz, and on top of that. You made Impulse indirectly insult Skizz's wings.

Now, this might not be important, it might not effect anything, I might be reading too far into it. But from skizz's perspective? He shares a personal picture for the first time, it includes a snippet of his wings, and his online friend whom he's grown so very attached to, says some other guy, who ALSO has the name skizz, has prettier wings? Keeping in mind skizz can't sense or feel any emotions online, he has no way of knowing Impulses true intentions. He has no real way to tell if impulse is playing it up for the bit, or if he genuinely thinks this other guy, in every sense of the word, is more attractive. Again could mean nothing.

While I'm here I might as well scream about the emotion thing a bit more. Stepping away from the chapter and plot points, not being able to tell what Dipple Dop is feeling must be so refreshing and so fucking terrifying at the same time. Anyway, back to the story. We know skizz doesn't know what exactly impulse his classmate is feeling towards him. (Something something everybody loves skizz and skizz loves everybody, he doesn't know the different between platonic love and romantic love because nobody has ever cared about him as a person that much vs a really good friend etc etc) he can't know what dipple dop is feeling. For the first time in probably a long time he is almost completely in the dark. We're assuming skizz hasn't put the pieces together what so ever about another skizz with wings, hey! I'm a skizz! I have wings! Because, well there probably wouldn't be over 20 more chapters if he did SKSKAJ

Also SCREAMING AT YOU. SCREAMING AT YOU SO HARD BECAUSE RAAHAHHAHJ if the knowledge that angels can sense emotions gets to impulses head, there is a very high likelihood he will start to avoid his classmate, also maybe gaslight himself into trying to feel anything other than attraction to this man, which would make skizz think he did something wrong, etc etc. Impulse now firmly believes skizzley is somebody else and it's just an insane coincidence. Skizz is one devious author away from spiraling into a mess. There are so many other directions this could go I just DONT KNOW HOW TO PUT THEM INTO WORDSS. There are so many other THOUGHTS that i dont know how to explain. There are so many different paths i can see this taking. you make me so mad. In a good way. I'm angry that you're writing a story that is basically specifically tailored to drive me insane/pos. There are so many more things i could probably talk about from this chapter alone but ive forgotten them because the only clear thing right now is just "they should kiss. For fun. As a reward. Let them kiss".

At this point I've been here over an hour trying to make sure this is somewhat readable because to be honest I haven't fully woken up and it's way to early for me to try and use my brain for sophisticated thoughts! but! We persist! Because you have completely taken over every thought of mine with half baked concepts and ideas on how insanely stupid these idiots are. And if I don't get them out I won't be able to do anything today. I hope you're happy, I hope you're proud of what you've made me (don't stop. I'll gladly embrace insanity if skizzpulse miscommunication college au is the result/silly)

Hi hi hi!!!!!! have I ever told you how much I love your comments and things because I love them dearly and read them regularly for motivation :))

That said, you need to SLEEP. It is critical for your mental and physical health, and you need to be in peak physical condition to handle what the next chapter holds ;)

ALSO THANK YOU SO MUCH I TRY SO HARD TO GIVE THEM UNIQUE VOICESSSSSSS. they ARE made for each other, soul mates, destined to be together in every universe <3 But I appreciate you noticing this so much you have no idea, and I'm thrilled that you liked the chapter :D and I'm glad you're hyped for the next one ((EVEN IF IT"S BEEN A MONTH AAAAA-)) because it's coming soon to an archive near you

That last chapter did happen on the same day as the pastries, you're correct (though, I'm not gonna lie, I haven't payed attention to the timeline at ALL until recently, things just kinda vaguely happen at some point in the week. That said, I did make schedules for each of them that I might release soon). Also YES ta Tango is one of my favorite things, because Impulse needs more friends 👍 (ngl Gem and Pearl were added in the spur of the moment for the same reason because I decided he was going to be in a group project now lmao. That had NOT been the intent when I started the chapter, I can tell you that much). Impulse calling him Tongo made me laugh so much tho, it's just so stupid and I giggled every single time I read it xD

He is down bad, and it's far too late for him to recover >:) I just thought, "what would a stupid idiot do if he had a massive crush on someone?" and the answer was, of course, do extensive research on every aspect about the man that he can think of. Totally normal and not at all obsessive behavior, not at all.

Hehehehehe I love adding little things like demons being able to see enchantments (they can see something else, too, but you'll find out what that is soon enough...). I love adding niche worldbuilding things just because I can :D And demons being able to see enchantments just so happens to be majorly relevant to the plot >:)

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE the enchantments don't go through the screen >:))))))))

honestly, I wasn't expecting everyone to get it immediately, but ig my readers aren't as dumb as Impulse is (/lh). I also love how angry everyone is over this little thing, because he has absolutely no reason to be comparing the two in his mind, now that he has what he believes is solid evidence that they're not the same person--not that he would have ever thought that in the first place. It's simply a coincidence that they have the same name :)

(also, side note for this lil moment: it was directly inspired by the post that started this whole thing from Chipper, which said that Impulse knew they both had wings, but thought that online Skizz was a dove hybrid or something)

oh my, Impulse indirectly insulting skizz's wings? ......

I'm sure that won't come up later :)

I'm not going to confirm or deny any of your theories on how Impulse may or may not behave given that Skizz can sense emotions, but that said, I love your theories and eat them up for breakfast, please please keep them coming. Impulse avoiding him and Skizz spiraling into a mess would be funny though, wouldn't it...

Thank you thank you again for sending this ask in!! I love every bit of it, and also some of your thoughts have inspired me to make... slight edits, let's say, to future chapters ;) What those edits are, you'll never know. because I'm evil.

Look forward to the next chapter in the coming days ((potentially even hours if I get around to it O.o))

[fairlyang]

Helping Miles 🕷️

In which you and Miguel help Miles with his Spanish

w/c: 1.6K

pairing: miguel o’hara x mexican!reader

tags: fluff, Spanish lesson, you're dating Miguel

notes: free spanish lesson 💅🏼💅🏼

I was walking over to Miguel's office to look something up on his screens when I hear some running towards me and I turn around. "Oh hey Miles! You alright?" I ask letting out a chuckle seeing him try to catch his breath.

He puts a finger up and I nod. He calms his breathing down and I nod. "H-Hey Y/n"

"What's up?" I ask raising an eyebrow.

"You're Mexican like Miguel right....? He trails on and I nod.

"Yeah... Why?" I ask curious.

"Well I was wondering if you could help me with some Spanish...." he says looking down at his shoes.

"Spanish?" I ask and he nods.

"Yeah sure why not. What do you need help with specifically?" I ask walking towards Miguel's office.

"Maybe some pronunciation on big words, ohh the difference between ending a word in o and a." He says and I nod.

"That sounds easy enough. This'll be fun!" I say with a smile and he grins.

"I wanna surprise my mom by not talking in ‘spanglish’ like she says." He explains and I chuckle.

That's understandable." I say and open the door to Miguel's office letting him go inside before me.

"Ah- are you sure I can be in here-“

"It's fine you're with me! If he bitches l'll get it under control." | reassure him and he slowly nods.

I smile and motion for him to sit on the chair by Miguel's desk. I pull another chair and sit next to him.

1 pull up Miguel's laptop and get on a blank page on word. I make it so the font is big so we can both see it well. "Alright to start things off, in Spanish adjectives usually end in o and a. Words that end in 'o' are masculine. Words that end in 'a' are feminine." 1 explain and he nods along.

1 type it in simple terms and write examples below it.

"So if I were to say 'Mayday is pretty'."

"Mayday esta bonita?"

"Exactly! How about 'Miguel is tired'." I ask and look over at him.

"Miguel esta c-cansado?" He responds and I nod.

"Good job! See these are easy and simple. Now something people always mess up by accident is the word embarrassed-"

"Oh my god- listen I did it a couple times- but it's not my fault the word pregnant in Spanish sounds like embarrassed!!" He says and I laugh.

"It's not your fault, they do sound similar. Do you remember what the word for embarrassed is though?" I ask and he closes an eye and thinks.

"No I forgot it again but I know it's not embarazado." He says and I chuckle.

"Indeed it isn't. It is avergonzado. Or avergonzada. Or even the word vergüenza, which is like 'being embarrassed." I say and type it all out.

"And vergüenza wouldn't change to an o right?" He asks and I nod.

"Exactly. Your knowledge is good Miles! What else do you need help with?" I ask and turn to face him.

"What the fuck is vosotros?"

"We ignore that completely, and yes they'll say it's important in school, no you won't ever use it unless you happen to go to Spain." I say jokingly and he laughs.

"Alright well hmm... oh what is cho-"

"What the hell are you doing here?" Miguel's voice makes us both jump a bit but Miles shakes a bit even after.

"I'm teaching him some Spanish!" I say turning around to look at him and stand up while he scoffs.

"Shouldn't he already know-"

"I do! But what they teach in class is a bit different." Miles says and widens his eyes after he realized he interrupted Miguel.

"In my office?" He asks with a hand on his hip looking directly at him.

I stand in front of Miles and he stands up. "I was already planning on coming here but Miles asked if I could teach him and here we are." I explain and he raises an eyebrow.

"Plus this is good practice for our future kids." I tease and his eyes widen with his cheeks getting all red.

Miles snickers behind me and I quickly look at him and give him warning eyes. "So wanna help out?" I ask turning back at him and motion for him to join us.

He sighs and walks over to us. "What are you teaching him?"

"The basics, las palabras femeninas y masculinos." I explain and motion towards his laptop. (The feminine and masculines words)

"Y usaste mi compu-" (and you used my lapt-)

"Yeah? I thought it was easier than your iPad." | say biting my lip and his mouth is agape.

"You were gonna use m-"

"We could do this all night love, c’mon what else can we teach Miles?" I ask.

"How many bad words do you know?" He asks with a slight smirk making me roll my eyes.

He leans down and whispers in my ear, "Those are literally the basics cielo." I roll my eyes once again and take a sip of water from Miguel's bottle.

"Uhh I know what coño is and I wanted to ask what chocha is?" (pussy ×2)

I spit out the water and laugh. "Do not tell him, his mom will kill us-"

"Well there's a day in a young man's life-"

I punch his arm and give him a warning glare. He sighs and leans over to Miles whispering in his ear.

"MIGUEL O'HARA NO TE ATREVAS-" (DON'T YOU DARE) He pulls away with a smirk and I shake my head.

"Si me mata te culpo inmediatamente." I threaten and he smiles. (If she kills me l'll blame you immediately)

"Que romántica." He says and kisses my forehead. (How romantic)

"Wait how would you properly pronounce inmedia-inmidia-"

"Say it slowly kid. Think of the syllables and split them up." Miguel says and towers over me to type it out.

He makes it bigger so Miles can see how to pronounce each syllable. "Try that."

"In-me-dia-ta-men-te."

"Good now try it all together, slowly" Miguel says and Miles nods.

"Inmediatamente." Miles says and I clap.

"Yay Miles!" I cheer with a big smile.

Miguel nods at him and tries to hide a smile. "Now say it normally"

"Inmediatamente."

Miguel covers my mouth before I could cheer for him again and I gasp. "Say it in a sentence."

"Uh- me tengo que ir inmediatamente." Miles says and I clap. (I have to leave immediately)

Miguel moves his hands from my mouth and I lean over to hug Miles. "You did so good! I'm so proud of you!"

Miles laugh and cautiously hugs me back. But after a few seconds he does it normally and I grin. I pull away and look at him, "practice makes perfect okay?"

"Pronunciation is a bit hard especially for longer words but if you split them up and do it slowly you'll get the hang of saying bigger words!" I say and give him an encouraging smile.

"Thanks Y/n, thank you Miguel I really appreciate the help! We should do this daily" He says with a big smile and I nod.

"I'm down whenever, I wanna see that Spanish grade improve alright?" I say and raise an eyebrow at him.

He laughs and nods. "How about a few more words?"

"Sure. Mmm oh-" I say and type American in Spanish on my laptop.

"What on earth is that?!?" He asks with wide eyes and I chuckle.

"American."

"It's not just americano??!?!" He asks dumbfounded and I laugh.

"| mean you can say it like that but this way is more proper I guess. Here try doing what Miguel did and separate it out in syllables." I say and move the laptop closing to him.

He nods and looks closely at the letters. Miguel was right behind me and he put his hands around my shoulders. I watch Miles and smile. He's a smart kid.

"Okay I think I got it?"

"Let me see." I say and move the laptop in front of me on the desk.

"You did it perfectly! Now can you say the syllables?"

"Es-ta-do-un-i-den-se"

"That's good kid now say it slowly." Miguel says encouragingly and I smile.

"Estadounidense"

"Good. Now in a sentence"

"Gwen es estadounidense?"

"Good job kid!" Miguel says with a chuckle and pats him on the back. Miles smiles up at him his eyes filled with glee.

I look down at the laptop and type his next word. Miles looks over and waves his hand. "I know this one. Tristemente. Tristemente ya me tengo que ir-but actually I have to go back for dinner!!" He says and runs off out the door.

Then he comes running back in with a wide grin, "thank guys!! I'll be back soon!" And runs off again. I smile and saved the file and label it 'Helping Miles'.

"You did a good job teaching him." Miguel says and sits down next to me.

"You did as well love, thanks for some compassion." I say genuinely and reach over to hold his hand.

"I mean he got really excited to learn. Can't hold that against him." He says with a shrug.

"I'm proud of you. It's a step forward and you'll be able to properly have conversations in Spanish with someone else at HQ besides me!" I say and grin.

"Como ya tengo ganas de enseñarles a nuestros hijos..." he says and my eyes widen. (I kinda now wanna teach our children.....)

"Really?" I say with a happy expression.

"Yeah." He says with a bright smile and I wrap my around him hugging him and kiss his cheek.

"Te adoro, te amo tanto. Vas hacer una mamá increíble." He whispers and I feel tears coming in. (I adore you, I love you so much. You're going to be an incredible mom)

"Serás un papa fantástico, amor. Te amo." | say and kiss his cheek again. (You'll be a fantastic father, love. I love you)

He wraps his arms around me as we stay like that having me wonder and dream of our future little bilingual babies.

[miimo96]

Thoughts on TBHK Chapter 117

Ok I'm starting to think you guys love torturing or something because once again you didn't remind me that a new chapter was out, I mean it's already hard enough trying to keep up as it is without spoilers, So you guys could at least do me the favor and cut me some slack by letting me know when a New chapter is out, I mean you guys KNOW how I feel about this series and that I wanna talk about it just like everyone else, So Why F$#K DON'T YOU GUYS REMIND ME!? like c'mon guys 🥺 also I see that we're back to using the original font style tho so that's a plus at least, I wonder shenanigans we're gonna get up to in this chapter tho, ooh! I wonder if well see hanako or if yashiro will even talk about what happened with him being a teacher now or that she even had an encounter with him, I highly doubt it because she knows how much Akane and teru hate hanako so maybe she'll keep it to herself, welp only one way to find out

Ngl I was a little caught off guard at 1st with them calling her Akane instead of Aoi, maybe because I'm So used to the anime calling her aoi and him Akane, but eh it's whatever tho 😅

I completely forgot that in this timeline he and Aoi are in a relationship, so his reaction to her texting him is So Hilarious to me, it's just like "Oh shit, I forgot 😀" 🤣🤣

I KNEW IT! I knew she would be conflicted with leaving things as it is and maybe even not wanting to Rest the timeline, OMG I ABSOLUTELY CALLED IT RIGHT ON THE EFFING MONEY YEAH! *Does happy dance*

Omg i didn't even think of it like that, but yeah who's to say that everything that happened in the previous timeline, won't just happen again, like a Canon event or something, Omg Aidairo's understanding of time travel is really Amazing, Iike the way it just plays with all the concepts and rules without making too confusing is just Genius, and ya know what it really does bring into question of "What if this could happen " and "would this lead to that" like omg aidairo well done golf claps all around 👏👏👏 Also no offense teru but I don't think hanako would really care that much, because hanako's whole thing is about making yashiro happy, like even if he couldn't be with her or if he had to do something drastic like killing one of her friends to extend her life like he tried with aoi, he wouldn't really care because as long as she's alive that's all that matters, I mean sure he would get lonely, but as long as she's happy, he couldn't ask for more

Omg this Panel is so GOOD like look at it OMG I want this to be animated sooo Baaaadd!! 😖

OMG Teru is such a bitch for this, he legit called her to make it look like Akane and yashiro are a thing, which would never effing happen to begin with, but all in the name just to fuck with him like Omg teru, you're such a bitch like Wow just Wow, also I love that even tho she's with teru, she still gets jealous if she sees.Akane with someone else, like it just shows that she really loves him Awww 😊

Phff 🤣🤣🤣 they legit hit the "ewww no he like a brother to me" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Also i love how aoi is immediately wanting to know about yashiro's love life, She's such a gossip Girl Lol

Omg Now THAT is a confession, yashiro needs to take notes, Holy shit was not expecting this, Hell yeah Aoi Aoi is back! ^^

Yo I effing hate this dude like I just wanna Slap him at times like bro shut yo ass up, like how do you go from being so clutch and awesome last chapter but such a dick in this one like this is what I don't like about this guy, like I'm starting to think he's bipolar like LOOK AT HIS FACE, LOOK AT HIS FUCKING FACE!

Wait we're going to the Red house, Omg the Next chapter can't come any sooner like I'm So excited, I wonder what changes have been made or if THAT is never meant to change like what if This is what teru was talking about how things are eventually meant to happen, Oh my gosh I can't wait ^w^

My initial reaction to this scene was "ah this is nice, just 2 of my favorite character's having a nice stroll and being an absolute adorable couple" before IMMEDIATELY turning into "WAIT I RECOGNIZE THAT STREET!" Because if you have an encyclopedia knowledge of this series like I do, then You'd KNOW exactly where that street leads, Ah Shit I'm really starting to think that Kou's earing might be bad luck or something because this the 2nd time this has happened to him, ya know maybe that's why mitsuba hates it so much, Omg I hope it isn't what I think it is, but the fact the he said it had a Red roof is already confirming my suspicions *bites nail* 😰

F%#$k I KNEW IT! Omg these 2 can't catch a break like WTF also I SEE that it has the keep out sign at that it's looks pretty abandoned almost burnt so i guess teru was right and things eventually Are meant to happen, Ah shit I'm so scared for Next chapter, Damn it Aidairo leave them ALONE PLEASE!? Welp, looks like shit's going to go Down next chapter, and I guess I'll be right here to cover it ^^;; wait a minute I just realized something, we haven't seen Sakura or Natsuhiko yet so could next chapter finally be them and confirm my suspicions of Sakura being a ghost or Kannagi and Natsuhiko being her protector!? OMG NEXT CHAPTERS GONNA BE AMAZING!!!

[purplephloxpress]

总有一天 a place to hide (can't find one near) - yiqie

That’s just the thing, isn’t it? Wei Ying feels nothing. He doesn’t feel anything, and this emptiness should scare him. He knows he should be scared. He wants to be scared. He isn’t. Fear itself is never scary; fear is just a response. It means that your body wants you alive. It’s the absence of terror that scares him.

I had SO MUCH FUN with this bind! This one had a lot of firsts for me, and is one that I really poured my heart into due to its particular emotional impact on me (tl;dr - I was a piano major in college, burned out, this fic helped me fall in love with music again). It's an Untamed WangXian Pianists AU (TW for anyone interested that it deals with attempted suicide and life following that) and I tried to tie that into the design details literally everywhere I could think of. Black and white cover paper, music note scene breaks, and my absolute favorite part to create: sheet music title pages. The particular song used for that is a recurring motif in the fic and one that means a lot to me personally, and I knew I wanted to include it somehow. Unfortunately I couldn't find an existing image of the sheet music that was high enough quality to use how I wanted, so I used a sheet music program to input it myself!

This book was my first time doing any sort of edge decoration, and I had fun figuring out how to splatter paint with a toothbrush (Spouse: is that supposed to be blood? Me: no but also... kind of?) and it was also my first time doing endbands! (Shout out to the friends who walked me through it over voice chat one evening, and then rolled their eyes when I announced that I'd torn them out and done them over again. Twice.) I went with red and black for both of those parts to match the main characters canonical color scheme, and also because I liked the dramatic pop of color against the black and white cover.

Spine titling was done once again with a foil quill, and I decided to paint the Chinese title of the fic on the cover. I couldn't find a paintbrush that let me get as fine tipped and detailed as I wanted so I may or may not have used a toothpick to paint it on.

I prevailed over: somehow deleted half of my page numbers and had to reprint the WHOLE THING! Forgot to measure the boards as part of my spine width and had to do surgery with 2mm strips of paper! (Thankfully had allowed plenty of hinge because I didn't realize until I'd finished ALL of the titling and I would have cried if I couldn't salvage it) Truly this is my child and I adore how it turned out. Is it perfect? No. Are there things I would change? Sure. But I learned and I did and I'm so goddamn proud of it!

(See below the cut if you want specific details on the binding)

What pieces went into making it:

Fandom: The Untamed

Pairing: Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji

Pairing: Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji

Bookcloth: black Brillianta

Cover paper: black and silver marbled lokta

Endpapers: red cardstock

Titling: foil quill, acrylic paint, acrylic paint pen

Endbands: leather cording for the core, DMC embroidery thread for the bands

Body font: Adobe Garamond Pro

Title fonts: Long Cang and Canva Holiday

Text message font: Nirmala UI

Scene breaks created in Canva

Title page sheet music created using MuseScore

[hexpea]

Ch. 6 - Dinner

When the two of you arrived at the restaurant, car pulled into the valet spot, Gojo swiftly and smoothly got out to grab your door just as he had when you departed from the hotel. He offered you his hand with a classic 'Gojo' smile plastered on his face.

As you swung your legs out of the vehicle, glaring directly through that damn blindfold, you opted to use the car's door as a stable surface rather than his hand. Feeling dejected, he quickly put his hand away, flattened his facial expression, and closed the door to quickly follow you into the restaurant. 

You stepped inside and were immediately welcomed with the familiar soft glow of candlelight that cast shadows on the intricately designed wallpaper. The melodious notes of a grand piano echoed through the air.

"Hello," the maîtred' greeted politely with a cheeky smile as you as the two of you entered, "do you have a reservation?" It seemed like a frivolous question considering you had to have a reservation to get in.

"Hey, Yuki," Gojo greeted the host on a first name basis as he strolled up behind you. You ground your teeth and glared up at Gojo through the side of your eyes. 

It was clear the host 'knew' Gojo with how quickly her expression changed and how her cheeks turned bright pink despite the dim lighting of the restaurant. "Satoru," she blushed, "of course, right this way." She nodded to the two of you and began to make her way through the restaurant.

The two of you followed her to one of the private terraces at the back of the restaurant, outside where the summer's night could be enjoyed. She kept her eyes trained on Gojo the whole time as she seated you, even as she slowly closed the door to the small, enclosed patio. Her smile was unmistakable, just as with nearly every woman he encountered, she was completely smitten.

The patio itself had just enough room for the glass table and metal chairs. The few private patios were separated by black, wooden outdoor dividers. A few flowered bushes were placed in the corners to create a comfier environment. The metal chairs also came with plush cushions so the two of you wouldn't be sitting on something cold and hard. The only light came from the lit centerpiece and the already dim restaurant lights coming from the window on the door to inside.

"So," Gojo started as you began to browse the small menu, the font as tiny as could be despite the sizable paper it was typed on. You both sat across from one another, a sense of tension in the air. "You and Seiko-"

"Do you have the papers?" You suddenly asked in order to cut him off, your eyes quickly flickering up to meet his blindfold. "Please don't tell me you 'forgot' them."

He smirked and leaned back in his seat before reaching into his jacket to grab them from the inner pocket. "Now, sweetheart, what would make you think I'd forget them?" He placed them on the table in front of you and gave them a little pat. His face held a seductive grin. 

You snatched and unfolded them. They were just a bit wrinkled and still no signature. Before you could request he sign them again, the waiter quietly entered the room and began pouring ice water into the small glasses in front of you, momentarily breaking the tension. 

"Can I get the two of you anything to drink?" The waiter asked as he finished pouring, politely looking between you. "For reds, the night's special is a dry Malbec. White is a sweet Malvasia. And we, of course, have our usual variety of hard liquors."

"Just water," you answered quickly, already knowing Gojo would decline to drink as he always did. Out of respect, you didn't want to order anything alcoholic.

"We'll take the Malvasia, the bottle, please," Gojo answered at the same time as you, voice a little louder. You snapped your head toward him at attention. The waiter nodded and quickly slid out of the area and back into the restaurant. "What?" Gojo shrugged, clearly proud of himself. "We're going to need it with all that we need to unpack tonight."

"What's there to unpack?" You shook your head with confusion and a bit of irritation. The divorce was already finalized once. This time, all you needed was a signature.

"Let's have a drink first," Gojo reassured you, putting a hand out as a motion to calm. "Then we can talk all we want." 

The waiter had made his way back, showing the two of you the label of the bottle before uncorking and pouring it into your empty wine glasses. The two of you sat in awkward silence as he placed the bottle at the center of the table. Gojo was the first to grab his glass, taking a confident sip as you looked on with a bit of a shocked expression.

"Drink up," Gojo nodded with a crooked grin, motioning with his glass. He hid the grotesque expression he wanted to make from the taste of the bitter liquid, despite it being a sweet white wine.

In the same moment, he comfortably let his blindfold down, revealing his icy, blue eyes. A shiver had run down your spine and your pulse quickened with his intense stare. You hadn't realized just how he was looking at you from behind its fabric, he was piercing you with that gaze. 

You narrowed your eyes at him, but picked up your glass anyway and took that first sip. Right away your taste buds were flooded with the intense taste of fruity alcohol. You could taste the flavor of white grapes with hints of pear and citrus. It reminded you of a warm summer's night. It's scent burned your nostrils as you finished your prolonged sip, visions of fireworks danced through your imagination taking you back to a certain moment in time as you watched your white-haired dinner partner. 

You began to place your glass back down, realizing that his choice of drink was somehow deliberate, but before you could Gojo's fingertips had stopped you. He gently applied pressure to tip the glass back toward your lips as you continued sipping, the warmth of the alcohol incredibly welcoming. His grin taunted you as you began to feel the subtle effects setting in, your tolerance for alcohol very light. He had joined you, still sipping down the wine while reaching across the table to you, his stare almost paralyzing you. What's the harm in loosening up a bit? It's Tokyo anyways.

"Brings back memories, doesn't it?" Gojo licked his lips as he put his finished glass down and went to pour himself another, no water in between.

"Gojo," you shook your head as you placed your nearly finished glass down. 

Gojo began to fill it for you. At that point you could feel it starting to mess with your vision, your temperature already rising. You hadn't had much to drink that day, your dehydration making it hit you a bit harder quickly.

"What?" He asked you in a higher pitched voice before sipping on his second glass. He nodded toward you as a signal and you found yourself listening. "I simply want to remember with you, remember us and what we had together."

"We didn't have anything," you rolled your eyes with a smile, taking a break from your sip. At that point, the waiter had arrived again and briefly took your orders before slinking away. "We were...friends, forced into something our parents wanted us to do," you continued once you were alone again.

"Was it really that forceful for you?" He asked genuinely, a hint of innocence in his voice. His smile had only momentarily faded before growing again. "I care for you, Y/N. Forgive me if I want to reminisce a little, there's very little in my past that's positive. Having you in it was one of the highlights," he chuckled and pressed the glass to his lips again, beginning his third glass and this time swallowing a bit slower. 

You found yourself blushing. You blamed the alcohol. "Fine," you mumbled into your glass, your voice muffled as the tart liquid hit your tongue.

The evening was meant to be about signing the divorce papers, a final chapter in a relationship that had long since run its course. However, the somehow nostalgic atmosphere, coupled with the subtle allure of fine wine, led the two of you down a different path. Time slowly progressed, and as the conversation flowed, you both found yourselves getting a little too tipsy a little too quickly. The wine had a way of rekindling old memories and making even the most painful moments seem bittersweet.

Between sharing those bittersweet memories, Satoru shared stories of the chaotic missions he'd been on, leaving you in near stitches, and he laughed heartily at your anecdotes from your time apart. The awkwardness that had initially hung in the air between you had transformed into a sense of camaraderie. With every glass emptied and refilled, the food doing little to sober you up, your inhibitions softly slipped further and further away. You reminisced about the silly arguments you used to have, your quirks that used to drive each other crazy, and the small gestures of attempted affection that you admitted once meant so much. 

As the night reached its peak, you found yourself completely intoxicated and smiling obnoxiously at your dinner partner. He, too, didn't hesitate to return the favor as the two of you sat in silence. Just the soft piano music could be heard through a small speaker attached to the wall near the door to inside. Satoru's expression shifted, somehow even more playful than it once was.

He came to a stand next to you and offered his hand. His playful smile shifted to one of sweetness and warm invitation. You stared up at him, visibly enamored by his height.

"Care for a dance?" He offered with a sly grin as you stared. Without a verbal answer, you gently took his hand while keeping your eyes trained on him. 

It was an offer drunk-you couldn't resist despite the small patio with little room for movement. His hand enclosed around yours while his other found your waist and hugged you tightly to his body, his abdominal muscles feeling very present against you despite the white button-up and black jacket. Your opposite hand found his neck, gently resting your fingers at the base of his undercut and over top of the blindfold he had pulled down around his neck earlier. As the two of you swayed delicately to the music the area around you seemed to fade away, and, for a moment, it felt as if nothing had changed between you. 

After some time, you found your closeness becoming closer. Your clasped hands had released, yours finding the opposite side of his neck and his the other side of your waist. You could feel the pressure of his fingertips against your pelvis, bringing you closer to him. Heat rose to your face, more than it already had that night, as your breasts pressed against his chest. Even in marriage, you had never found yourselves this close besides that one, single night.

"This isn't where I expected the night to go," you murmured and looked away as soon as you realized how close Gojo's face had gotten. You could feel his breath over your face, coated in alcohol.

The two of you had ceased your movement at that point as Gojo slyly held your chin between his index and thumb, bringing your attention back to his low lids, a reminiscent sensation from that single night. He was grinning from ear to ear, his cheeks as red as could be from the wine. 

"Seiko seems good for you," he whispered, leaning down toward you and brushing the shell of your ear with his lips. He peppered it repeatedly with feathery kisses, each one sending shivers down your spine. 

"Satoru," you muttered with your brows furrowed, fists clenched against his chest, quickly realizing how far Seiko had gone from your mind. 

Satoru lowly chuckled as he squeezed you even closer, his head beginning to tilt downward toward your neck. You swore you could feel something hard against your thigh as he lessened the already barely-existent gap between you.

Without another peep out of you, he pressed his warm lips against the soft skin of your neck, his kisses becoming more urgent and demanding. You could feel your pulse from your carotid thumping against his kiss. You found yourself melting completely at his touch, a delicate sigh escaping your lips as your eyes began to close. As you felt his tongue press and begin to suck against your neck, your knees began to buckle. He prevented your fall by holding you even tighter and allowing you to fall into him. You gripped the collar of his jacket for dear life as you felt the hickey forming above your clavicle, a mark of his fiery desire.

He met your eyes as he pulled away, his gaze filled with desire and longing. You were in a complete trance, hypnotized by his allure. In an instant, you were teleported away. Now finding yourself inside of his flat, on the other side of the door this time. The living area was dimly lit, the glow of the city illuminating portions of the room from the floor to ceiling windows. He had released you, letting you stand on your own despite the dizziness.

"This is a bad idea, isn't it?" He asked you, his voice nearly a whisper, his eyes burning with intensity.

Your jaw was slightly agape as you dreamily looked up at him. He was so right...for once. You so badly wanted to agree right then and there, things had already gone so far, too far. But you found yourself closing your mouth with a certain confidence, your mind going to mush from the alcohol. 

"Fuck it," you replied in a single exhale before clashing your lips to his. On the receiving end, Satoru's eyes went wide as he captured you in his arms once again, his hands beginning to relentlessly explore your body with a burning desire.

[perfectlovevn]

Perfect Love Devlog #28

For some reason, I feel like I didn't actually do this much this week, but I did have to set up all of the layered images, so I should probably give myself a bit of slack. I'm realizing that most of these dev logs will pretty much be the same of just drawing sprite stuff, showing part of the extra story, maybe show something else on the third week. Is that kind of boring? I have no idea. Maybe I could spice it up by doing some music and sfx for some parts, I'm not sure yet, haha.

Anyways, I realized I was going to do some smaller differences with each of the extra stories, with Emil having little emotes like sparkles (and one other thing) and Iya and Desmond having more split up sentences so I can add more changes in sprites (as if I don't do that enough lol). Like with Emil's story, I had to transpose some of the pieces of other sprites onto Iya's sprite because I was too lazy tm to redraw them and transport them into the game. I also did some very basic sprite editing with Iya's sprite, changing the line width of her sprite as well as added the line I forgot to add into Desmond's sprite as well. I'm realizing Desmond's old sprites are still being limited so I might have to draw some more expressions for him as well. I also need to give Iya her own nametag design as well.

As you can see above, the text is kind of... glitching? A bit when clicking through, which is weird because previous devlogs I recorded doesn't do that and I have no idea what's causing that. I think I might try replacing the font around now because it has been causing problems in the past and glitching out, and I've been kind of putting it off.

I drew some small things for Emil's route but I haven't put it in yet, so I'll do that after posting this devlog. I think I might need to change one of the sprites/wordings for it to work.

[amberjazmyn]

happiest memories 🫶

pairing : oscar piastri x fem!reader

summary : all it took was just one photo, a photo from oscar and alessandra piastri's recent wedding that set off four of the couple's happiest memories together.

warnings :   just a lot of fluff

a/n : the photo in question will be first and then the memories will be in 'order' and in italics so it makes more sense and the present time will be in normal font. also, claps for me cause this is my first o.p one-shot outside of the f1 grid one-shots! 

f1 mclaren driver, oscar and his wife alessandra piastri had just been rearranging their house when alessandra stumbled upon some of her and oscar's wedding photos from 2023. the photo she saw though, in particular, sending good shivers down her spine. the photo in specificity was taken during the speeches at the reception. oscar and alessandra had a very fancy but private sort of wedding in australia. the photo was taken in the hall that held their reception and after party in oscar's hometown of melbourne, victoria. both oscar and alessandra were seen clearly in the photo however, oscar had pulled himself into alessandra since the person saying the speech had made him cry, and it was during that moment that the photographer had taken the photo whilst alessandra giggled lovingly at her husband. a big talk of the wedding was the fact that alessandra had two separate dresses, her ceremony dress, a simple satin, silky long-line dress, and her reception dress, a short dress with sparkling fringe all over it, screaming y2k whilst oscar just changed from his suit jacket to his white button-up, rolling up his sleeves and taking off his bow-tie for the reception.

"...wow, i had completely forgotten about this photo..." alessandra trailed off as she looked up to her husband who could only smile and nod his head

"...i did too to be quite honest. forgot that they had the full shot of me crying *giggles* i thought this was the one where you were the majority of the photo and just a slither of me crying and you laughing at me!" oscar joked as alessandra smiled at her husband, also laughing at him 

"i mean, in all honesty, i like this photo a lot better than the other one you were talking about. you're cute when you get emotional," alessandra giggled as oscar smiled, shaking his head as he giggled

"i have to say though, this may just be my favourite photo from our wedding..." oscar trailed off as that intrigued his wife

"...how so?" "you'll see," oscar smiled as he opened up a photo album that was titled best friends to lovers

2017

alessandra was new to england but more new to the secondary school that she had just been in. it was lunch time which meant that all the students excitedly flocked outside whereas the older kids tended to take their time. not feeling the need to rush like the thirteen-year-olds who were in their first year of high school. however, alessandra had joined this new high school in year 11, at sixteen and she barely knew anyone. 

well, that's a lie. she did know of people who were in her classes but none of them were respectable enough to welcome her into their groups. so, sixteen-year-old alessandra just walked around aimlessly, trying to find her way around the new school that, realistically, she'd only have this year and next year in since she would be a year 12 next year meaning she'd then be graduating. so, in her mind, it didn't bother her too much that no one was making the effort to befriend her when she wasn't making any effort back. 

"...hey...umm, you're alessandra kaminski? the new student in year 11?" an out of place australian accent rang out, catching alessandra's attention

looking behind her, she smiled as she saw a boy. it was a boy who was in the same english literature class as her. she thinks his name was oscar? he had gorgeous brown eyes and what looked like blonde, maybe light brown hair with a nervous look in his eyes and smile. 

"hi...yeah, i am alessandra, you're....oscar, right?" 

"yeah, i'm oscar piastri. i take it you don't know anyone here either?" he smiles shyly as alessandra smiles and nods her head, scooching over so he could sit with her, a smile forming on his face as he quickly took the seat, ignoring the wolf whistles of a second person who was most definitely one of oscar's friends 

"yeah...is it kind of obvious at how i'm aimlessly wondering around?" alessandra chuckled dry as oscar laughed and nodded his head, the two of them sharing eye contact 

"a little bit, yeah..." oscar chuckled as alessandra did as well as she shyly moved some of her hair behind her ear 

"...well, damn, that needs to change then..." 

"...hey, osc, i was just looking for you..." 

"...oh, i...i am so sorry. was i interrupting anything?" another different, clashing accent rang out suddenly, alessandra shifted her eyes to see who looked like one of oscar's friends standing in front of them

"oh, no, not at all. oscar just noticed the way i was aimlessly wondering around and introduced himself to me. sorry for being rude, i'm alessandra kaminski, the new year 11 student," she introduced herself as she stood up so she could properly shake hands with oscar's friend who smiled back at her - oscar watching at how effortlessly she had just done that 

"oh, i was wondering who the new girl was, mind my arrogance for not introducing myself earlier, i'm hamish!" he smiled and introduces himself as alessandra smiled too, it made her feel like she was now suddenly making progress and it seemed as though oscar and hamish noticed that as well 

"it's totally fine, hamish! it's kind of my fault too since i'm not making any effort either! but, would you like to stay with us or did you need to grab oscar for something else?" oscar and hamish were shocked to see how kind the new girl was after all the rumours they had heard, the two smiling at each other 

"i can stay with you guys, that's totally fine! i was just trying to find osc is all as one minute i was talking with him and the next second i look back and off he's gone somewhere else," hamish giggled which made oscar's face heat up - he seriously bailed out from his friends to introduce himself to her? 

"no kidding? anyway, that's cool you can stay with us. besides, still weird that i'll only have this year and next year at this school..." alessandra trailed off as oscar couldn't help but smile at the girl that was sitting very close to him - wanting to find out everything he could about her 

"...where did you move from? and why here in london, why didn't you finish high school before moving here if it's just for your last two years?" oscar stammered out nervously, worrying he had overstepped as alessandra smiled 

"honestly? my dad's in the army. he had been stationed in australia then italy then spain and now london with some countries inbetween that i'd rather not remember so yeah. it's kind of annoying the round the world trip but, apparently they've promised that this is the last place he's being stationed at so we can actually live outside of the army living quarters so i actually live in an apartment with some friends who are at university," alessandra smiled as oscar listened and held onto every single word she had said, hamish smiling slightly 

"wow, that must be really intense. but you're not from australia originally?" hamish asked this time since oscar couldn't seem to find the words this time

"no *giggles* i'm french, i was born and raised in montmatre but left when i was around five as that was when my dad was first deployed and it was to australia. then italy throughout primary school with spain in that as well as i was in spain towards the end of primary school and the beginning of high school with a few other countries sprinkled throughout and now london for my last two years of high school..." alessandra trailed off with a smile, oscar and hamish now understanding the girl's hybrid accent a lot better than they did before the explanation 

"...ahh, that makes a lot more sense. but does that mean you're like fluent in many languages?" oscar finally found his voice again as alessandra giggled 

"ehh, kind of. my main three are french, english and italian. i'm getting a little better with spanish but not so much but, very slowly i am getting there," alessandra smiled as the bell ending the lunch break rung, signalling it was back to classes as the three teenagers sighed, slightly disappointed their conversation was cut off too early 

"well, that was a buzkill but, what class do you have next, aless?" oscar asks as alessandra smiles, his friend clearly realising the slight crush oscar was building 

"languages, you?" alessandra giggled at the irony as oscar smiled, pouting though as he noticed he didn't have that lesson but math instead 

"the both of us have math but, since it's literally two doors down from languages, we could walk you there? i mean, we're basically best friends so, because of that, best friends don't let other best friends walk to class on their own," oscar smiled shyly as alessandra nodded her head smiling as oscar helped her up from her seat 

alessandra started the walk back to the block of classrooms, turning around to see oscar and his (their) friend hamish stalling behind her, giggling, she spoke up, "you boys coming or are you gossiping about your new friend, already?" oscar and hamish paused before shaking their heads 

"we're coming alessandra!" they both shouted out which made the three of them giggle, alessandra turning around to continue to walk in the direction of the lockers, leaving the two boys to themselves 

"you are totally in love with her osc!" hamish chuckled as oscar rolled his eyes, pushing his friend as they started to speed up to catch up to alessandra 

"no, i am not!"

"just wait a year, maybe less..."

"...osc, babe, what were you thinking about?" alessandra rubs her husband's back as he smiles

"2017, when we first met in high school when you were the new kid," oscar smirked as alessandra giggled, showing the photo he had found that had been taken later that day

"holy crap, that feels like it was forever ago now!" alessandra chuckled as oscar nodded his head in agreement

"it really does, hamish really was right..."

june 2018

it was their high school graduation, and maybe one of the very last times the class of 2018 would see each other ever again since, after this, some of the seventeen year olds were moving onto university, others gap years to travel whereas oscar and alessandra were two graduates who were not entirely sure what was going to happen. only because oscar's motorsport dream was becoming more real since he was getting real good in it. whereas, alessandra, she was lost in the middle of whether or not she was going to follow oscar everywhere or if she was going to stay in london after having to move so many times throughout her adolescence due to her father's military job. at their graduation, alessandra was getting an award. of course, she had some knowledge of it but, because they didn't really tell her whether it was for academics or sports or anything else, it just kind of floated away to the back of her mind. she had a feeling it could have been a who's most likey to superlative award of who's most likely to become a couple alongisde oscar but, at the same time, she really didn't think too much of it. because, that would just throw so much more fuel into the fire because technically, that would be the wrong superlative for alessandra and oscar. the last two years, ever since they met for the first time, oscar and alessandra had grown extremely close and was rumoured throughout the whole high school to be dating since they were always seen throughout the school and outside school together. which, when it came to rumours around the high school, people were shocked that hamish wasn't trying to ruin it since it was usually him that would jokingly throw fuel into the fire about the love lives of his two best friends. but, to be funny, oscar and alessandra started to put more fuel in the fire by constantly amping up their hangouts inside and outside of high school.

for the first time this entire night, however, alessandra had walked off from oscar and their table as she had spotted hamish chatting with his older sister lois, fondling her wine since she was over eighteen. 

"...hey hamish, lois, can i sit?" alessandra asked sweetly, the grad ceremony not even begun filming or even started yet, hamish & lois' eyes moving from their glasses to the girl, both of them smiling back

"hey aless, course you can," hamish smiled, lois smiling too

 "where's osc, thought you'd be joint at the hip," lois chuckled before the three composed themselves, so as to not create too much noise

"of course you did, lois. but, nah, since the cameras aren't rolling, and before the evening starts, thought i'd just frolic around and talk to some people before the ceremony starts, ya know? just to release some nerves," alessandra smiled, making hamish and lois smile back as they empathised with the girl

they knew she was getting an award as well as her graduation certificate and they knew it frightened her. especially because technically, she could've still been named as the "new kid" since oscar and hamish were really her only best friends. after that first meeting, those three were as thick as thieves, never leaving each others line of sight. 

"fair, i mean, graduation awards can be quite stressful," lois smiled with a shrug of the shoulders since it wasn't her first time seeing an award ceremony attached to the graduation

"do you think he's realised you've left him?" hamish chuckles at alessandra, playing around with his wine that he was seemingly having trouble even drinking as the french girl chuckled

"i mean, i feel like if he had he'd be going on a manhunt right about now but, i think right now he hasn't noticed, why do you say that mr barker? you suspect mr piastri and i have a thing going on?" alessandra narrowed her eyes at the boy, bringing her hands underneath her chin as her elbows rested against the table as she moves closer to the englishman who giggles hysterically and moves back instinctively, his sister quietly giggling, the three of them thanking heaven that they weren't being filmed right now

"no, why would you think that? am i that obvious?" hamish cackles, his head flailing backwards making alessandra and his sister shut him up so no one else would hear them as they also start giggling

"sssh, unfortunately, yes, you're not as slick as you like to think you are mr barker," alessandra giggles as the three of them calm down

then, just as the three of them calmed down, the principal of the high school made his way on stage to announce the beginning of the graduation service and that the cameras were about to start filming. this then worred the crap out of alessandra, the colour draining from her face since it was the first time at any sort of 'graduation' that she'd also be getting an award outside of her graduation certificate since they didn't do those in any of the other schools in the other countries she lived in. both hamish and lois noticed this and asked the girl if she was okay. 

"...aless, you okay?" hamish questioned, snapping alessandra out of her disassociation as she smiled at him and his sister

"yeah, i'm fine, why?" alessandra responded as the two looked at each other in worry

"do you want me to get oscar or do you want me to walk us back to our table for the grad ceremony?" hamish then asked as she smiled and nodded her head

within minutes, hamish with some water had reached oscar and alessandra. downing the two drinks, the trio walked back to their tables for the graduation ceremony. 

let's just say that for the rest of the ceremony, oscar and alessandra did not leave each other's sides after the first time failed. that was until it was time for the actual moment the graduates were all called up to get their certification of graduation as well as the award ceremony when alessandra was given her award. and just as she suspected, it was a joint award with oscar but it wasn't the one spoken about earlier. it was an award that gave them the honourable "best friends forever" superlative. and, although oscar won't admit it and didn't for a few years until their eventual wedding, he got a little teary eyed and had a little cry after coming off stage after getting that award alongside alessandra. 

"...osc, do you remember when we said goodbye to one another when you left for formula 2 for the second year?" alessandra suddenly asks her husband as he tilts his head, trying to rack his brain of the memory

"i'm trying very hard, why? what happened before i left for formula 2 for the second year?" oscar questioned, leaning against the table as alessandra pointed at a photo that showed the two of them together in the middle of laughter with the other f2 rookies in the background

airport 

just one glance was all it took for alessandra to forget what she was about to say to oscar before he would leave for his second season with formula 2. leaving her to take care of their london house whilst she stayed back since she finally decided that she wanted to study paramedicine. all the whilst she happily let oscar grow to become a formula 1 driver now that he was in his second season with formula 2 and seemed to be getting closer and closer to a contract with an f1 team. 

with the other rookies and their loved ones watching, it was obvious why alessandra lost all of her train of thought and why it had taken all but one glance to do it. and oscar wasn't so slick either. the two had been trying to find words to one another before oscar's depature for at least five minutes when just as alessandra had finally thought up of something to say, one look into oscar's eyes and it had completely left her mind once again. it was obvious why it was so hard for alessandra to say goodbye to oscar. because it took her back to the days that she'd have to farewell her dad before he'd fly away with the rest of his fellow soldiers when he was in the military. and the same thing would happen, alessandra wouldn't know what to say for so long that when she thought she'd finally had it, it took all but one look between the father and daughter to have what alessandra planned to say to her dad to slip her mind. 

finally, after barely finding the words she originally wanted to say again, alessandra spoke up, "...damn it oscar! okay, for those who were wondering, the reason why i forgot what i had planned to say for that long was because of oscar piastri! we were making eye contact, like usual, when oscar just really made eye contact with me, catching me off guard and then everything just went to shit, and i forgot what i wanted to say to him. so, i apologise greatly my dear fellow rookies and rookie family members!" alessandra giggles into one of the rookies cameras since formula 2 wanted it to be filmed so it could then be uploaded to their social media, the drivers returning or joining their first season as she then turned to notice oscar suddenly get all bashful and red in the face 

laughing cause she could hear the other rookies giving him some stick, alessandra spoke up again, "now oscar's getting teased by the rookies which is the funniest thing in the world but, it is your fault, oscar!" alessandra joked to the camera as oscar shouted an apology which caused everyone to laugh again, the rookie just continuing to film 

"i'm sorry, okay aless?!" oscar shouts as alessandra and the rookies and their families laugh, resulting in the couple, nicknamed oscsandra, also bursting out into laughter

"i know, i was just playing with you, osc!" alessandra giggled as oscar let out a dramatic sigh of relief, the both of them really just teasing everyone at this point

"i take that back actually..." alessandra huffed as oscar's entire body shook in laughter, his head flying back as alessandra had a sly smirk that was twitching at her lips before she also broke

"...you wish!" oscar snickered after he had composed himself from his full-body laugh as alessandra groaned and rolled her eyes after she had composed herself from her laughter as well

"well, shit, i can't win this and, now i'm supposed to let you leave without me? how unfair!" alessandra huffed as oscar and everyone else found this entire interaction between the couple hysterically comedic

"that's because you never do, i always win these things! i would've thought you'd know this by now babe, come on now!" oscar teased, not realising that he had just outed him and alessandra's relationship on camera for the fans of formula 2 and potentially formula 1 to see

as well as the other rookies and their families, causing everyone to scream bloody murder. alessandra's eyes widening and nearly giving herself whiplash from how quickly she turned towards her boyfriend and the camera.

in an attempt to stop the rookies from freaking out over this new revelation, alessandra tried to lessen the imapct, "oscar! no, guys, calm down, oscar and i are not dating..." trailing off at the end only because she knew that there was no way this could be fixed, oscar had seriously just outed his own relationship with alessandra after keeping it private for at best, a year

"...yeah, nah, there is no way we can hide it now, sorry aless!" oscar hushed out after alessandra finished talking to the camera, the rookie completely shook, causing the girl to smile, grabbing her boyfriend's face and kissing it

"it's okay babe, i think it was starting to stress us out a little too much so, i don't mind that everyone knows now..." she trailed off as oscar's face lit up, not just in excitement but also due to the fact he was blushing

"...cool, i agree..." oscar trails off as he giggles, before pulling alessandra in for a kiss causing the both of them to giggle even more as they touched foreheads before hearing the click and seeing the flash of one of the rookie's camera's, making them giggle more

"...babe, i had never felt such fear until that moment i accidentally outed us on camera, in the airport in front of the formula 2 rookies!" oscar chuckled as alessandra giggled hysterically, nodding her head in agreement as they looked at the photo where the memory had come from

"i know! i was mortified but, by the end of it, i didn't care anymore since it did stop the internet from constantly making rumours about us just to stop them from mentioning the other f2 wag rumours," alessandra giggled as oscar nodded his head, giggling too

"honestly, at that point, i think i was too since we were so used to seeing those silly rumours in the magazines for the wrong reasons, i guess we also wanted to prevent that and how it could have potentially ruined f2's image," oscar smiled as he rubbed his hand against his wife's back before giving her a kiss on the cheek and getting up to make dinner whilst alessandra continued to look through the photo album

2023

"...wait, your full name really is oscar jack piastri?" alessandra chuckled

she was currently staying with oscar in london and right now they were at oscar's childhood home he had grown up in after moving from australia to england. she had picked up a photo frame that she hadn't seen until this moment - a baby photo of oscar that had his first, middle and last name engraved in the photo frame

"yeah...it's been like that my entire life, what about it baby?" oscar scoffed as he turned around to see what his wife had gotten into when he realised what she was holding

"why didn't you ever tell me that jack was really your middle name?" there was sort of a sad tinge in alessandra's voice when she asked that and, it saddened but at the same time confused oscar, who had placed the tea towel down and left the kitchen to check on his wife

"i...i'm not sure babe, i guess our middle names really haven't ever come up in conversation since our wedding, why are you asking that babe? i thought it was common knowledge that jack was my middle name. is there something you haven't told me yet?" oscar was genuinely concerned as alessandra scoffed slightly as her husband tilted his head

"jack was the name of my brother that uh, that was stillborn because of an illness that had developed in mum's bloodstream..." alessandra trailed off in embarrassment, placing down oscar's baby picture as she sighed heavily - oscar was never told about that and, whilst it broke his heart, it worried him more so than anything else

"...how many weeks was baby jack, if you don't me asking, when he was born still, babe?" oscar's face was genuinely a look of concern as alessandra smiled slightly as she placed her hand palm down against the old cabinet that had the old childhood photos, including that baby photo of oscar amongst other ones of him with his three sisters, scattered all over it

"at thirty-five weeks, he was also a big little boy..." she trailed off and it was very obvious to oscar that this was a thing that she rarely spoke about and he respected that but, it still hurt his heart as he never knew his mother-in-law went through something like that

"how...how did you and the rest of the family react? how did dad react?" oscar stuttered, feeling like he shouldn't have been asking so many questions but, he couldn't help it and alessandra was slowly smiling - as if talking about this trauma that she had shoved so far down was actually helping her relieve the trauma it gave her

"we were absolutely devastated over it at first. i mean, of course we were. i mean, i refused to talk to her and honestly, sometimes i still do as it's something my step-mum has trouble shutting up about at every family function even though it was a couple of decades ago now. dad was devastated. he was just excited that we were bringing in the eighth kid as we all were however,it started to become obvious that due to the illness in mom's bloodstream that it was either save the baby but kill mum or have a stillborn but still have our mum. and, obviously, we chose the latter," alessandra trailed off as oscar's face fell into furrowed eyebrows with a saddened look on his face

"wow, that...that's awful and, i bet if he was still here, baby jack would have been the sweetest little brother ever!" oscar smiles softly, placing his hand over the top of his wife's who smiled back as she nodded her head

"thanks, osc, never knew i'd reveal that especially so soon after our wedding as it isn't technically my place but, i guess it's just been weighing me down lately..." alessandra trailed off as oscar's smile grew prouder

"...and i'm proud of you my love... also, what's your middle name? you didn't tell me at the wedding so i had to stand there red-faced whilst my full name was recited out but yours wasn't,"

"for god's sake oscar, it's aurelia-rose..."

"...have i ever told you that your middle name is absolutely gorgeous?" oscar just randomly blurts out as he mashed up the sweet potatoes as alessandra giggles and furrows her eyebrows in confusion

"excuse me what?" she cackled as she went back to folding up clothes that had just been washed, oscar giggling softly as they kept an eye on the noise in the play room

"your middle name bubs, it's very pretty," oscar spoke as alessandra blushed as she giggled out in embarrassment

"awe, thanks my darling! i love it as well," she giggles softly as she places the folded jacket into the wash hamper

"who gave you your full name?" oscar then asked, his focus more on his wife's name than the sweet potato mash, making alessandra giggle

"dad did actually. he had always loved those three names, alessandra, aurelia and rose. and, of course, cause he's polish and french, he did want a traditional polish name over a french name. but he just realised that those three names all had a good flow together when he put it together with the polish last name. and, when he'd say it out loud to people to see if he and mum should really have that as my name, they all agreed saying it was just nice and satisfying to say. so, a little less than a week later, they decided to name me, alessandra aurelia-rose kaminski, with aurelia and rose being hyphenated," she smiled, shrugging her shoulders as oscar bit his lip - yeah, he still loved the hell out of his wife

"that's adorable. i love that your dad chose it, i'm guessing that gave daddy the upper hand in the department of the favourite parent?" oscar giggled as alessandra nodded her head as she huffed some hair out of her face that was starting to become red

"oh, for sure. daddy's girl from the start!" alessandra giggled which made oscar chuckle as well as he then continued on the sweet potato mash for his family's dinner

wedding day, daddy/daughter dance, 2023

it was time for the daddy/daughter's first dance at oscar and alessandra's aussie wedding and, let's just say, she was so very excited and, it was mainly due to the song choice. she had elvis can't help falling in love as a surprise for her dad as that song was the song he would sing her to sleep with every single night.

the song started and straight away, antoni kaminski, alessandra kaminski's father couldn't hide the tears that had built up in his eyes as his little girl wiped them away. instead of her father singing the lyrics to his little girl, alessandra surprised her father and sang the words to him.

"wise men say, only fools rush in but i can't help falling in love with you..." alessandra sang softly as the father and daughter duo glided softly on the dance floor, oscar watched on as he danced with his mother with a tearful smile on his face

"...like a river flows, surely to the sea darling, so it goes, some things you know, are just meant to be..." the duo sang together as they hugged and swayed side to side in tune with the music

"...take my hand, take my whole life too, for i can't help falling in love with you, for i can't help falling in with you, yeah..."

humming the melody of elvis' can't help falling in love, alessandra continued to fold clothes as oscar heard his wife, "...you alright babe?" oscar whispered, hugging her from behind as the chaos of their two kids started to filter away into white noise as alessandra smiled at her husband

"mhm," alessandra mumbled back, turning her head to smile at her husband as she then took notice of her and oscar's eldest daughter, aurelia

"aurelia! could you get your brother ready please, daddy's just about done with dinner!" alessandra called out, a happy squeal leaving aurelia's mouth as she neatly put her toys away before gathering up her brother's toys as well

"coming mamma!" aurelia calls back, herding her younger brother upstairs to wash their hands for dinner, giving the husband and wife a few more minutes together alone

"mmm, you think aurelia and jack will react well to getting another brother or sister?" alessandra announced casually as oscar's eyes widened

"what? seriously? you're pregnant again babe?" oscar gaped in shock as alessandra giggled, nodding her head

"yep, i'm five months, just short!" alessandra squealed as oscar picked up his wife in pure excitement

"WE'RE HAVING ANOTHER BABY, ALESSANDRA!" oscar screeched from just about the tops of his lungs as the husband and wife chuckled, hearing the increased pitter patter of feet meaning that most likely, aurelia and jack had heard their daddy scream

fin

okay, whilst i'm proud of myself for finally writing for oscar "pastry" piastri, i have got to say that i love this one-shot too much to not attempt to do a part two that includes the third baby and maybe the rest of the f1 grid as well as like uncles. 

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