#I'M CRYING BC BABY

[petrichorandroses]

"The captions are curated by the CR editors." No notes, 🥔/10

Edit: it's giving 🍎🐝👻🔁

[princema-k]

siblings will be siblings

[sassyfever]

I couldn't sleep because I kept thinking about this scene; so I doodled this all night instead of sleeping

[redgoldblue]

so assuming Avery is actually pregnant / doesn't early-trimester miscarry (which is not a given), there's two reasonable ways this can go, right. number one is she gets an abortion, the plotline is used to pull them all back together again, and they all have some collective hurt/comfort about it. number two, the one i would write - don't get me wrong, i'm all for women getting career-driven abortions, but hear me out - is the one where she does have the baby. under the cut bc it got long.

she goes to med school at first while pregnant - Max is right, it can be done, people in my cohort did it - and either gets lucky with the timing of the actual birth being during holidays, or just works her way to getting time off for a few weeks around it. And then... there's a baby. And you know what else there is? There's two dads (because we're 100% Mamma Mia-ing this bitch. they never find out who the bio dad is and they never seriously try. Baby comes out with Avery's exact skin tone so that's no clue.), and an entire cruise ship worth of backup babysitters. So Avery goes back to med school, and leaves the baby with Tristan and Max.

And, yes, raising a baby while also running an infirmary with a rotating cast of temporary substitute nurses filling Avery's role isn't the easiest thing they've ever done, but Robert loves fulfilling grandparent duties any time he's not on duty; Rosie gets one of those strap-on baby carriers and walks her (i don't know why i've decided the baby is a her but i have now) around the engine room pointing out parts and explaining concepts and hey, the baby never complains about her Michigan stories; Corey gets a cart and a bundle of clean sheets and pushes her down the corridors until the smell of laundry powder automatically makes her start laughing.

Max and Tristan make a pact to send Avery at least two photos a day - which ends up getting supplemented by everyone else who's with Baby - and FaceTime her most days, and whenever she gets a few days off she meets them in port. (The most expensive part of baby-raising ends up being her flights to wherever the Odyssey happens to be at the time, at least until Robert finds out and figures out a way to start paying her 'maternity leave', despite her insistence that the whole point of this is that she isn't maternity-leaving and he should probably be paying himself that and anyway, isn't she technically not an employee right now?)

And the thing is, during this time, Max and Tristan start... realising some things. Like how neither of them feel like they've lost their only partner, because they.. haven't. Like how the co-parenting's been working out better than either of them expected, because they fell instantly (minus a few minor bumps) into a shared rhythm. Like how sometimes they look at the other one holding Baby and feel like their heart's about to explode.

Also, they've both started sleeping in Max's bed. Because Baby's spent so much time sleeping in the corner of the infirmary that now if she wakes up at night and can't see both of them, she starts crying inconsolably. And obviously Max's suite is more suited to multiple inhabitants, and they're usually too damn exhausted to even remember the first time they were in this bed together.

(usually. most of the time. and when they're not, they don't make it the other's problem)

So at the end of the first year of this, the last two days of the year's last cruise have been packed with crisis after crisis after demanding patient after crisis, and as soon as they finally wave the last passenger off they hand Baby gratefully over to Robert and go crash out in Max's bed.

Avery was supposed to be meeting them on board tomorrow, but her last exam gets unexpectedly moved up by a day (believe me, med school loves to pull that kind of shit on you), so a couple hours after the passengers have gone, she shows up to surprise them. And finds Robert (a known ody3 shipper) first, who lets her take Baby with minimal captainly sulking about it, and while she rocks and kisses Baby, tells her (as a known ody3 shipper) that the two dads will be on the Pelican deck, but they're probably asleep.

Avery kinda frowns at him, but doesn't question it, and takes Baby up with her to Max's suite to find them. And they are both fast asleep, on either side of Max's bed with a space carefully preserved between them (because it's usually where Baby would be and they're both terrified of accidentally rolling onto her in the middle of the night). She's also exhausted after exams, so she crawls into it, lies on her back with Baby on top of her chest, and goes straight to sleep.

Tristan and Max wake up before her, and when they look across at each other, at Avery and Baby between them, they both simultaneously realise, oh. oh. oh, this - this three, two-and-half, four people, all together - this is it. this is the love, this is the children, this might even be the home - the second, third, fourth bucket list items to happen in this bed.

[mikakuna]

do you think some random toddler has come up to jason, looked up at him, lifted their arms until jason picked them up and then just latched onto his nipple through the shirt? when the milk doesn't come, the kid just starts rubbing his chest and wondering where it is.

all of a sudden jason has a handful of a sobbing toddler while the toddler has a handful of his left tit

[cowboylikeyouu]

just watched the spn s5 finale i'm gonna jump off a cliff now, everything i own goes to my mutuals, goodbye

[sodaneko]

yk not much can take me out of a fic. idc if y/n runs a drug cartel, if they're an aerospace engineer, if they suck three dicks for breakfast, if they're described as literally any personality trait to exist. they could be insufferable and unrealistic but it's whatever, i'll vividly live through all of them because i read for a good time

but a good relationship with their parents? nah

[eatsbooks]

When did loa start trusting Eris with her secrets? Hc for the first secret?

i'll say i don't think loa ever really does come to fully or willingly trust eris with her secrets, and to her, whatever sense of trust is between them is more like ... a tentative truce—even though eris would never, ever do anything to put her in harm's way. she doesn't know that, and she wouldn't believe it even if he said it right to her face. he is beron's son, and he has proven that time and time again. she believes he will ultimately do anything it takes to serve his own needs and has no real capacity for caring for anyone to the point of prioritizing them above himself. that's what makes his devotion to her and his brothers so devastating: she can never see it that way because she refuses to see him as anything more than what beron made him into.

when eris was a youngling, loa was extremely wary of saying the wrong thing in front of him, even when it came to pushing against the bigotry and classism beron was teaching him. if he repeated what she said in front of beron in the way children thoughtlessly tend to, they would both be punished; it was a risk she couldn't take. then eris was snugly in beron's pocket for his entire adolescence and even into his young adulthood. he was always so eager to prove himself to his father, who he idolized, and he believed everything beron told him without question—because why would he even think to question his father? why would his father lead him astray? how could his father be wrong? loa firmly believed he would have relayed whatever she told him to beron in a heartbeat if he thought his father would disapprove/he thought it would ingratiate him to his father.

so i think what happened ultimately is just—eris was too perceptive. even as a youngling, he was too quick, too smart. he would hear things or see things, and he just never forgot them, so he was able put information together across time in a way most other fae couldn't. offhandedly in conversation with loa, he would reveal how much he knew about various members of the nobility—things that he had no reason to know at his age—or (often correct) conclusions he came to based on tidbits he had gathered. he would always know his brothers' secrets, too—where they secreted away their treats, how they snuck out of their rooms at night and where they went, etc. and loa began to see how he would keep these secrets close to his chest up until he had use for them. if he wanted to keep his brothers in line, it certainly would be a shame if father were to hear of your nightly proclivities, or if he wanted to instigate, interesting. that isn't what carmine expressed to me.

which meant that when the day came when eris, who was still too young to swallow down the amount of anger he always felt, got upset with his mother and made an offhanded comment about her affinity for the sunlight, loa knew that he had been collecting her secrets for much, much longer than she realized. and that he had been keeping them—for what purpose, she couldn't yet know. but she knew that all she needed to do to get him to continue would be to incentivize him, to convince him that not saying anything would be more beneficial to him than revealing it. and so their fraught, tentative truce began. she thought she was playing the game with him, and he let her, because he had no language to tell her how much it gutted him that she thought of him in this way: a threat to be managed. but it just comes down to ... how can you ever fully trust someone who holds a sword over your neck?

[mortifying-macaroni]

Please tell us about Alma? *w*

SO! As I've mentioned in my "Random Facts About Gretchen" post, Alma is the female Blood Brother variant made from Andrei's Koldunism and Gretchen's Thaumaturgical powers. The male counterparts were called Verdelet. Prior to the Chinatown siege, masses of mortals had to be kidnapped as the first step of the process. They were all sculpted to look like Gretchen and Andrei's hypothetical adult children (Andrei gave them some features from his mortal appearance). The reason stemmed from him deciding to delve deeper into Gretchen's mind to unveil her deepest desires without her knowing. He found out that behind her front as the stone cold, merciless warrior she presents herself as, there was this puncture in her heart that bled for the mortal luxury of starting a family. Normally, Andrei would scoff at the sentiment, deeming it as just a pathetic whim not worth holding onto - a betrayal to her beast and Caine's gifts. However in that moment, he couldn't help but pity Gretchen, knowing that he was unable to give his love everything she ever wanted, even if she didn't ask him herself. So when the ritual took place, Andrei wished to at least temporarily grant her that experience, no matter how artificial it seemed. He'd be lying if he said he wasn't just a tiny bit curious to see what their offspring would've possibly looked like, had things been different.

In the midst of the battle between the Sabbat and the Anarchs in Ming's domain, one Blood Brother in particular didn't share her siblings' hive mind. When Alma took note of the numbers on her side dwindling, she hopped over the fence and ran far, far away, never looking back. Nowadays, In the East Coast, some say they spotted a young woman with short raven hair and piercing blue eyes with a frigid stare to match, roaming around, a lone nomad going nowhere in particular. Others say that she was no stranger to making random kindred disappear, while disregarding their political alignment. She was made to be a tool against her parents' enemies, albeit Alma came to the conclusion that they were a blight, every vampire in existence was a blight begging to be exterminated so no one could create any more warfare to do their bidding.

[meganechan05]

"Let me see your face"

[diz-eaze]

MONDSTADT QUEST SPOILERS!!!!

Bro did u just predict that albedo makes a baby in the new quest😭😭 u literally manifested it!!

5.6 SPOILERS !!!

IM GONNA GO CRAZY.

[mister-random]

I saw TMNT Mutant Mayhem yesterday and I completely fell in love, I was already a TMNT fan, but that movie totally revived my love for them

LOOK AT MY BABY BOYS, MY GOD PLEASE I NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THEM SO BADLY THEY'RE JUST KIDS BABIES EVEN WWWAAAAAAAAAAAA

I'm going to draw myself adopting them, they're my baby brothers now, u got beef with them u got beef with me

[m4rs-ex3]

actually gonna take a mini break..... which could mean i won't go on tumblr at all or it just means i'll only be making simple posts and not reblogging, and it could be for the rest of the day or it could be for a number of days (this is significant i promise usually i would be yapping like CRAZY rn)

i don't like disliking my show. i don't need to hear about everything they did wrong when i want to be celebrating everything they've done right for 7 seasons. i can't expect everyone to decide that positivity is the only way and i can't expect people to not want to share their opinions when i can't seem to stop talking about my opinion on that. i don't want to do what i did when season 4 came out and i tried to forget tdp existed for months because i couldn't stand being a fan of something others didn't like. tdp is everything to me. i'm not letting this part of my life go because i care too much about what everyone else thinks. and i know that's nobody's fault but my own, but still. i'm hoping it dies down, but even if it doesn't, i just need to step back and remind myself why i love this show, and that that is all that matters.

i know it is NOT that deep but the finals week stress + mourning-in-advance + insane adrenaline rush and joy while watching followed by + immediate feeling of dread and incredible sadness and confusion and anger after i've already had a rough couple and months and tdp was the sole thing keeping me going, it has all just been a lot, as i'm sure you can imagine. it sounds so excessive and sensitive and it probably is those things, but it's how i feel. mainly i just really needed to get this off my chest lol

[jessythebunny]

Dunno I'm just bored so I drew my boys as babies! ❤💚

I kinda feel bad about Monty😢😢.

[timothyslucy]

the way tim rubbed kojo and gave him a few good pats after lucy left almost makes me think he had him trained to bribe her into not leaving lol. 😅

[spittingspite]

I'm still shaking I can't believe this I just can't believe it. God after all these years. I've been watching people's reactions on YouTube for at least an hour I'm so jealous of everyone who got to see the reveal live on stream. I cannot believe my eyes I keep expecting to wake up because this is a dream come true for me. I've told just about everyone I know. Everyone who definitely does not give a shit. And it's not enough it's not enough I need to tell the whole world about it I need one million videos of people whose reaction to the trailer is just screams. God I have stuff to do but all I want is to go home right now and play okami I want to watch one thousand streamers and let's players play okami I need an okami drug injected directly into my bloodstream no one will ever know how much this means to me I'm sick I'm hysterical I'm going to dig to the centre of the earth I will never be normal again knowing a sequel for okami is in the works