#Pepper Snatcher

[theamalgaverse]

Few of the first story beats in a nutshell

[down-with-the-mafia]

aggie with @smugdance and @r3d1ke :33

[pseudowho]

Raising You

(help me find the Nanami artist in the banner, for crediting and thanks/permission!)

When the reader is de-aged by an unusual Curse, Nanami Kento is forced to raise her, and grieve the absence of his fiancée at the same time.

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The girls (twins, affectionately nicknamed the 'Nanaminis' by Satoru) played with a painted wooden truck and other cars around your feet, hampering the already limited view you had with your bump, big and still growing. Trying to cook dinner, you were flustered with sweaty strands of hair in your eyes, overstimulated by the noise from the cars, the casual bickering of the girls, your aching back, the steam from dinner, and--

"Girls, I'm home!"

You were nearly taken out by two frantic little girls tangling through your legs to run to the front door-- "Daddy! I've got two cars but she's got three and that's not fair" -- and you smiled to hear Kento, low and reassuring, tackling toy diplomacy with your daughters.

Kento walked into the kitchen and living room, loosening his tie, still having his ears talked off by his daughters. He stepped over cars, before scooting them to the side so you wouldn't slip, and hugged you warmly from behind, peppering loving kisses along your sweaty cheeks and neck.

"Daddy, rough play!" One of your daughters cried, and the other shouted her approval, both descending on Kento with screams and tiny punches. Kento dropped to one knee, dramatically groaning, feigning a fatal wound and pretending, with his head stooped, to have been beaten.

Your daughters paused their assault, and approached Kento slowly, "...daddy?" Kento stood and roared, taking one daughter under each arm and they squeaked with terror and delight, being tossed onto the sofa. Kento rolled over the back of the sofa to them, nobly defending himself in battle.

Pausing for breath while you watched affectionately, Kento hung one daughter behind his shoulders by the ankles, jumping lightly up and down while she squealed, and the other daughter held onto his ankle, yelling.

"They're just like you at this age, you know," Kento pondered, pretending to choke slam a child onto the sofa as she laughed, completely uninjured and thrilled. You wrinkled your nose into your tea.

"You make it sound so creepy when you say it like that...cradle snatcher."

Kento scoffed at you, gravely offended, continuing to defend himself against his daughters, "Behave. You know it wasn't like that."

You smirked, memories flooding back to you.

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Seven years previously...

"So what you're saying is...she went on a practice mission with Inumaki and Gojo, and now-- she's--" Nanami Kento gaped, reeling.

"...a child, yes." Shoko took a long drag of her cigarette. Behind her, in the treatment room, came the happy squeals of children playing. Kento delicately reached towards Shoko, clearing his throat. Quietly seething, and without breaking eye contact with her, he squeezed the embers at the tip of her cigarette with his thumb and forefinger, snuffing it.

"There are children around, Shoko," he hissed, darkly sarcastic. Shoko swallowed, but smiled fondly at Kento.

"It seems the Curse preferred to hunt children," Shoko purred, "obviously easier to catch, I suppose. Gojo dispatched it, but not before it had already de-aged those two in there." Shoko flipped through a pair of charts, "They're both in good health. I imagine this will wear off within a couple of days. But in the meantime...congratulations. You have to be a daddy until then."

Kento lifted the screen covering the small window in the door to the treatment room. There you were, roughly five years old, bouncing a blown-up rubber medical glove between yourself, Inumaki, and an amused-looking Satoru. Kento was filled with dread; what if you didn't come back? What if his fiancée was...gone?

Satoru beckoned Kento in. Taking a deep breath, Kento stepped into the room. You and Inumaki stopped in your tracks, round-eyed and stunned as this man, enormous and cross-looking, stepped over the threshold. You and Inumaki both shuffled closer to Satoru, who laughingly reassured the children.

"Now kids, I know Nanamin looks scary, but he's not. At all. I promise," Satoru urged, mouthing furiously at Kento; smile, damn you! Kento caught himself, dulling his own Cursed-energy, and kneeling down to the floor. He smiled at you, crinkled eyes warm and honeyed. You gave him a nervous smile back.

"We should introduce ourselves," Kento spoke softly, "I'm Nanami Kento, and I'm your-- I'm..." Kento swallowed thickly, trying not to cry, "I'm your mum and dad's friend. They've had to go away for a few days, and asked me to look after you." You stared at Kento, uncertain, tearing up.

"So, I was wondering," continued Kento, "could you help me do my shopping today? We need to make a list. You see, I don't know what treats you like, and I'm not sure what to make for dinn--"

"Eggs," you chirped, "I like eggs. Can we have eggs with dinner?" Kento smiled, heart melting, delighted by you but missing you desperately at the same time.

"Eggs. We can do eggs. And maybe we can bake something tasty to eat after?" You were warming to Kento now, your eyes sparkling, becoming more animated. You were dressed in just an adult t-shirt, all that Satoru could find in his locker, and Kento realised that he suddenly needed...everything. He had nothing child friendly in his house.

"Nanamin?" You asked him, tugging on the front of his shirt, "I've got an important question." Kento raised his eyebrows inquisitively.

You continued, "When we do baking, can I lick the bowl?"

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The old women in the supermarket were full of delighted whispers for this tall, handsome man doing the shopping with his cute daughter. Kento overheard them all, trying not to blush, as you chattered to him, stood in the trolley. Nobara had taken her mission seriously, and you were now very much appropriately dressed, albeit in very designer clothes, Nobara having taken full advantage of Kento's generous card limit.

You had, in your hand, a pen and some paper, and had written a shaky-lettered shopping list. You pointed down aisles, directing Kento.

"Eggs!" You commanded, a little dictator, "Flour! Sugar! Chocolate! Sweets!"

"Those last two definitely aren't on the list, young lady, nice try."

You huffed, dramatic and pouting, giving Kento the side-eye. Kento raised his eyebrows at you, gently chastising. Continuing round the shop, Kento had left you in charge of the barcode reader. Twice, he had needed to wrestle it off you and put items back on the shelves-- adult incontinence pads, a large bottle of bleach-- and once, he had had to stop you from trying to scan an old man, hastily apologising to the man and putting you back in the trolley.

He had allowed you to push the trolley, full of regret as he knelt, rebuilding a mountain of cans of beans-- "I'm sorry Nanamin, it was an accident, I'm sorry," you had sniffled, wiping your snotty nose on your sleeve before Kento could get to you with a handkerchief. The shop assistant supervised Kento's efforts with a tapping foot.

You had disappeared for five minutes, and Kento couldn't find you, panicking so badly for a moment that he considered knocking all of the shelves over to make it easier to spot you. Kento gave a description of you to several women, charmed by this flustered father, when you reappeared with a toy; "Nanamin, can I have this?" and Kento knelt, one hand on his chest and the other on your shoulder as his panic fizzled away.

At the tills, you packed the bags haphazardly as Kento hurriedly tried to correct the bags and be polite to the cashier and pay for the shopping and keep you from disappearing again and--

Back in the car with a sigh, Kento sat, head hitting the head rest hard, flicks of sweaty hair looping forwards over his brow. Frazzled, he let out a slow breath, until your little voice piped up in the back.

"Nanamin. You didn't do my seatbelt. The police will get you in trouble."

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"So you tap the egg here-- not there-- here-- GENTLY, gently...ahhh." Kento slapped a dishcloth to his cabinet doors as egg dripped sadly down them. You looked to him for answers, hands covered in crushed shell and raw egg. Lifting you to the sink under one arm, he washed your hands off under the tap. Putting you down, he washed his hands.

"-- then the eggy goes in there--"

"Yes, the eggy goes-- NOT THE SHELL--"

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"Make sure you eat the broccoli too."

"No. Don't like it."

"It's tasty. And it's good for you. Eat up."

"No."

"Please."

"No."

Kento sighed, a deep, weary sigh. Rubbing his fingers against his temples and counting to ten, he looked back to you with a smile.

"I'll give you some chocolate if you eat it."

Kento had never seen broccoli disappear so quickly.

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"IT'S IN MY EYES, IT'S IN MY EYES--"

"Calm down, it's not in your eyes, I'm washing it out--" Kento tried to hold you, naked and wet and thoroughly uncontrollable, still, as he poured water over your head. You stamped, spitting water away dramatically, and Kento considered he may as well have just got in the bath with you, his shirt now drenched.

"Come on," Kento huffed, trying to sound upbeat but feeling absolutely exhausted, "let's get you out and brush your teeth--"

"--I don't want to brush my teeth--"

"Well you've got to brush your teeth--"

You ran, streaking away out of the bathroom as Kento stumbled, reaching for you and missing, then chasing you down with a towel and a toothbrush.

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You padded to Kento, damp and pyjama'd as he stripped his wet clothes off and got dressed into his own pyjamas. Your teeth now brushed, and your hair neat and tidy, you looked mollified, a new book under your arm.

"Can you read?" You asked Kento suspiciously.

"I-- of course I can read."

"Good," you stated, chin out, "we can do my bedtime story then."

You plodded away to the spare room, while Kento placed both hands over his face and screamed into the void for a few moments.

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"Was the bear hungry? Or did he just want to be friends?"

Kento pondered, closing the book thoughtfully, "I think...he just wanted to be friends. He was lonely in his cave."

"Or hungry."

"Or hungry," Kento agreed, "but if he were that hungry, he'd have run faster, don't you think?" He asked, tickling under your chin as you squirmed and kicked, giggling.

You rolled over to face Kento, your little hand on his cheek. He rolled over to face you, taking in your little nose, round cheeks...all you, but so far away from the you that he was in love with, and so unable to share that burden with you, that he felt his nose sting with tears again.

"Nanamin?"

"Hmm?"

"Do you have a girlfriend?"

Ah, "I do. We're going to get married soon."

"Ooooh!" You squeaked, your hands coming up to cup your own cheeks, before your little face dropped. Kento peered at you, one eye open.

"But where is she?"

"She's...away working at the minute. But she'll be home soon. I hope."

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The next morning, the sunlight glinted in past the curtains, the room warm and comfortable. Kento slept the sleep of an exhausted parent, never quite enough to catch up. You were draped uncomfortably over him, head in his armpit and legs stretched out across his tummy.

Kento woke, a warm feeling spreading over him as he reached out a sleepy hand, patting you on the head. This was a really warm feeling, a bit wet--

"Nanamin. I've had an accident."

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The days had ticked by, and you seemed a little bigger every day, growing up at an accelerated rate. Kento settled into this bizarre, unwilling parenthood, wondering where this left you as a couple once this was all over. Fear twisted like thorns in the pit of his stomach, wondering if the romantic love you'd shared would be sullied by this paternal love he had been forced to convert to.

Kento met often with Satoru, now inadvertently raising a tiny Inumaki, talking-shop together as unlikely new fathers. Aside from Satoru having to occasionally put out fires caused by Inumaki's Cursed-speech, the playdates were soft, sweet even; babyccinos-- "marshmallows please, Nanamin!"-- in little cafés, pushing-- "higher, Nanamin, higher!" -- on swings, teaching-- "like this? Or this?"-- you both how to control your Cursed-techniques.

It was only at night, when you were asleep, and Kento was decompressing from the eternal labour of mealtimes, laundry, and emotional regulation, that Kento allowed himself to cry. Your little voice called out in the dark. Kento wiped his eyes, fixing a reassuring smile on his face, as he went to resettle you-- "It's alright, you're safe. I'm here."

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The days turned to weeks. The curse was wearing off, but slowly. By Shoko's estimation, you were about thirteen years old now. You had been raised by the motley crew of Jujutsu High-- being taken to theme parks by Yuuji and Nobara, running through the woods with Maki, helping Shoko organise her medical equipment-- around Kento's work days. He went to work now with new trepidation, having you to consider if he was injured, or killed, and overtime was a thing of the past. Kento's tie only ever came off when he walked through the door to your warm welcome.

Shoko kept thrice-weekly checks on your growth and progression, reassuring Kento constantly that you were on your way back to yourself. You both did and didn't retain memories of the previous days and weeks. Some days you treated Kento as if you didn't even know him, a stranger to you, wondering where your parents were. Some days, you seemed to recall events from days (years?) previously where Kento had cooked something special for dinner, or bought you a new outfit. Some days, you seemed haunted by memories that were yours, but not, too big for a child of your age to handle-- losing friends in battle, fighting Curses and Curse-users, failing tests and exams-- and Kento reassured you through your screams and cries in the night.

Raising you had been a confusing, tender whirlwind. Now that you approached your teens, you would see fit to argue with Kento over the barest of insults or inconveniences, pushing boundaries and being hurtful without true intent or realisation of its effects. Kento stayed outwardly calm throughout, an unshakeable presence in the turmoil of your bizarre second childhood.

When Satoru had suggested you come to live in the Jujutsu High dorms and attend classes, as you would have done at this age the first time, Kento found himself bitterly protective.

"No missions, Gojo," he threatened to Satoru one day on a park bench, you and Inumaki swinging and chatting idly in the play area that you both suddenly seemed much too big for.

Uncharacteristically serious, Satoru agreed immediately, "I wouldn't do that to her, Kento, you know that. The way I see it, these two," he gestured to you both, sipping his coffee, "are...recovering from injuries, I guess. But Inumaki's nearly caught up to where he should be...she's got a bit further to go. Shoko can watch her more at Jujutsu High. She can have peers. And maybe you need a bit more separation as she gets closer to your version of her."

And so, you went to Jujutsu High. Kento dropped you off like a concerned father, carrying your suitcases to your room, helping you unpack and put up shelves. His heart clenched with fear, waving you off, and you acted as if it was nothing, making it so much worse for him. He loitered by your room, in case you called him back...but you didn't.

At home again, Kento folded and packed away little clothes, smoothing them over with his big warm hands, musing how you really had only been tiny, what felt like yesterday. He gave you some distance, but gave Shoko none, her phone pinging at all hours, asking for updates, asking her to check on you.

Within a few days, Inumaki fell asleep. When he didn't wake after 24 hours, he was carried to the treatment room. Kento hung around the corridors of Jujutsu High when he heard, hungry for news of Inumaki's condition, deeply concerned about how you would be at the same stage. Shoko was cool and collected, certain that Inumaki would wake up his own self again. Kento worried he wouldn't wake up at all.

Shoko, as always, was right. Inumaki woke as if from a long dream, after two days. Kento visited him, bringing gifts of manga and sweets, while Inumaki recounted his odd half-memories of having been raised by Satoru, alongside his true memories of his first childhood.

Fighting the urge to go and see you, knowing that you were traversing your teenage years again in a way that was too intense for him to offer help with, Kento swallowed down his guilt, his longing to see you, and left. He passed your room reluctantly, his gut wrenching as if caught on your door handle, and remaining there, stretching, pulling, as he walked away from it.

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Another week passed. Shoko was sure your long sleep was close. She recounted tales of you to Kento, seeming excited that her old friend was nearly back to the her that Shoko knew. Kento's voice seemed tight and reluctant as Shoko suggested he come and see you. He declined, feeling awkward about seeing you in almost the form that he knew you.

Passing through the ground of Jujutsu High, ready to drop off a report to Yaga, Kento rounded a corner and bumped into a young woman, reaching out to grab her wrist before she fell to the ground.

"Oh, I'm so sorr-- Nanamin!" Kento stuttered, flustered, resisting pulling an eighteen year old you into his arms. Before he could step back, you threw yourself into his arms with a happy squeak, hanging on around his neck, flush against him and clinging for dear life.

"Oh Nanamin, it's been so long," you breathed, flushed and excited. You gripped his hand, somewhere between a little girl and the you he was still madly in love with, "come on, let's go and get coffee! My treat." You pulled Kento's hand, bright eyes full of delight.

"As if I'd let you pay," Kento grumbled, straightening his suit and tie with one strict hand, his other still clasped by you. Reluctantly, trying not to blush, Kento took you for coffee. He was done-for within thirty minutes, reminded of exactly why he had fallen in love with you in the first place. He restrained himself easily, remaining kind and fatherly, but...distant, in a way you found confusing.

You looked at him through new eyes, wondering how you had ever seen him as a father-figure as a child, lost in thought as to how he still looked so young. His huge, warm hands, the way he was built, so much of a man beneath the confines of his suit, and you felt something stir in you that you never had before, an alluring obsession, a delicious agony of needing to know him differently. Kento's stoic distance was magnetic.

When he drove you back to Jujutsu High, you were full of blushes, unable to take your eyes off his hands smoothly turning the wheel, the sharp cut of his nose and jaw in profile, the stretch of his tan trousers against his thick thighs.

Kento had bricked a stone wall around his affections rapidly. You remained, to him, a little girl under his guardianship. You were the girl he had fallen in love with, but not the woman he was in love with now. His mathematical mind found separating the two of you easy. Grown men did not fall in love with little girls.

As he walked you back to your room, he asked you if there was anything you needed. He pulled you in for a gentle squeeze. He kissed you on the forehead. He bid you to call him for anything. He waited until you were safely home before he left. You were besotted. Completely smitten.

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Kento sat in the staff room, legs crossed, reading his newspaper. The door clicked open, and he heard a satisfied "ah!" as you slipped in, locking the door behind you.

Kento looked over his glasses at you, eyebrows raised in questioning. You smiled at him, demure, curious, before idling over to him. As you sat beside him, Kento felt a strike of dread through him like ice, and he tensed, frowning at you.

You made light conversation with Kento, thigh to thigh on the sofa, your heart fluttering with anticipation. You spoke about the news, his insight so mature and informed, and you hung onto every word, desperate to be closer and you leaned against him, pretending to read the newspaper with him. He remained sincere, measured, neither pushing you away nor pulling you closer.

Kento turned to you, your face centimetres from his now, and you leaned in eagerly, his lips brushing against yours as your fingers grazed his jaw--

"No." Kento grabbed your hand, turning from you and pushing you gently away by the shoulders.

You froze, stunned. Cold embarrassment crept through you as if you'd been kicked in the stomach by Kento's immediate, categorical rejection. Kento folded his newspaper, standing and putting distance between the two of you. His back was to you, one hand clasped over his face and mouth as he sighed. Was he angry? Disappointed? Disgusted? You couldn't tell.

Hot tears of rage and mortification rushed down your cheeks, your vision blurry. Your hands twisted together in your lap. You heard Kento clear his throat lightly, and looked up to see him knelt in front of you, his face smooth and unreadable. He gently pressed a neatly folded handkerchief into your hand, and clasped his hand firmly around yours to close it.

"I'm sorry you feel this way about me, and I'm flattered. But I don't feel this way about you, and you shouldn't trust any man my age who pursues a girl your age."

Anger coursed through you as you stared furiously at him, still crying; "I'm not a girl," you snapped, standing and tossing his handkerchief to his feet. Kento sighed, collecting his handkerchief, rising from the floor beside you.

"I thought we had something-- I thought we were--" you stammered, your throat thick and constricted with humiliation. Kento nodded, understanding.

"You are special to me, and always will be," he assured you, the unspoken words remaining apparent as he shattered the pretences of any romance between you. You seethed with embarrassment.

"Like this fiancée of yours?" You shot, cruelly, with intention to wound, "You told me about her years ago. Where's she, all of a sudden? Did you shove her away, too?"

Kento's stern face gazed down at you, impassive, unreadable, and he spoke to you with measured coolness, "I appreciate you're upset. I don't believe my fiancée has any further place in this discussio--"

"Well I doubt she's coming back!" You spat, furious tears still threatening to overspill, "And I'm not interested in you either. Stay away from me."

You rushed from the room without looking back. The door slammed, a sudden waft of air ruffling the pages of Kento's newspaper. Speechless and devastated by how he had failed you, Kento sank onto the sofa, his elbows on his knees and his fingers sinking  into his neat hair.

Kento sat like this until the sun went down, oranges and reds glowing like embers against his suit as the day died away.

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Kento threw himself into work immediately. Working overtime for any distraction, his days were long, and whiskey soothed him to sleep as it had before he had fallen in love with you. Another week passed, a blur of Curses and liquor. He sprayed your perfume onto your pillow. He had kept your pyjamas, unwashed, sleeping with his nose in them and terrified as the smell of you slowly faded away. He still cooked for two, just in case you were to come home, fearing you never would.

It was late, when Kento received the phone call. He was already three large drinks deep.

"Hello?" His voice blurred with exhaustion and drink.

"Nanami. She's...asleep. Has been for nearly two days now. Why haven't you answered your phone?" Shoko chastised. Kento swirled the glass in his hand, the smooth amber roiling in the glass like a little whirlpool. Kento couldn't answer, his throat constricting with unspoken fear- because what if she never wakes up? What if she does wake up, and doesn't know me? What if she does wake up, and doesn't love me?

Kento swallowed thickly, and opened his mouth to talk, words failing him. He heard Shoko sigh.

"Just...come. And bring her some clothes."

A click and a dial tone as Shoko hung up. Kento's hand shook as he laid down his glass, and dialled for a taxi.

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"Inumaki is exactly as he was before this Curse," Shoko pressed, walking with Kento to the treatment room, "and she will be too. I mean it." Kento looked tired, dishevelled, grieving. His tie hung loose, his shirt partly unbuttoned, smelling of whiskey and unwashed from his day's work. Shoko walked him into the treatment room, and pressed him down by the shoulders into the chair beside your bed.

Kento laid eyes on you, drinking you in, hope trickling into him as he studied you, looking exactly like you had when you had left for work that day, just a month ago but feeling like so much longer. With a trembling hand he reached out for yours, examining your hand in his own. He stayed this way until you woke up.

"...Kento?" You woke from your strange, long dream to your fiancé, bedraggled and teary-eyed, and smelling like a dirty bar, looking at you like you were a gift made just for him. Kento's shoulders heaved with sobs, the dam breaking as he gripped your hand in his and pressed it to his eyes.

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You curled on the sofa with Kento, warm and familiar, as he finished recounting the events of the previous month. Stroking his hair the whole time, with his head in your lap, you felt like this was therapeutic for him, and you leaned down to kiss his forehead. His eyes drifted closed, reaching a hand up to keep your lips against his forehead for a little longer.

Pulling himself up, Kento grunted as he felt something hard press into his back. Reaching past the sofa cushions, he pulled out a painted wooden truck. You laughed, embarrassed and charmed.

"Did you actually keep everything?" You asked, touched. Kento hummed to himself, rolling the truck's wheels, his trauma still bearing faintly whimsical overtones.

"I did. I just...couldn't bring myself to get rid of them."

"Well, that's good. It will probably come in handy, one day."

"Really? Why--...oh. Oh," Kento bent over you, blushing and delighted, leaning into your love and promises for the future that he had missed so much.

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Kento sat up, swinging his legs deftly out of his daughters' bed, and left the room, pulling the door closed to a pair of soft snores. He made his way to the living room, passing a dresser covered in photo frames. His eyes paused on an image of one sunny day seven years ago, a smile crinkling his eyes as he passed by on his way to you.

He hadn't yet explained to his daughters, who this other girl was who looked just like them, feeding the ducks with their daddy, one fine summer's day.

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[on-a-lucky-tide]

Nikolai tells Alejandro about the day he met Price for the first time.

cw: none.

The safehouse that sat just outside Chicago was pretty tidy, all things considered. The sofas had stuffing in them, there was a pool table with most of its balls and three cues, and there was a kitchen stocked with an adequate number of pots, pans and miscellaneous utensils. Miscellaneous, because the only three things Soap ever saw fit to use was knife, fork and spatula. The cutlery was optional.

Unlike Nik, who had been holding out with his previously undisclosed talents, and was currently whipping up dinner for the three senior officers. Gaz, Soap and Rudy had ordered pizza from a decent looking joint in Chicago town, and the four empty boxes and half drunk Pepsi bottles still sat scattered on the low coffee table as they watched Price, Alejandro and Nik chatter in the kitchen.

Ghost was asleep on the sofa, one arm slung over his face as he dozed before his meal. The fact that he had stolen several slices of pizza as well had surprised precisely no one.

After some fiddling, Alejandro managed to get the small stereo on the kitchen counter to work, the crackly voice of Madonna rising above the sound of sizzling garlic and onion with ‘Like a Prayer’. It was back in the charts thanks to some new superhero movie in the cinema.

“I remember when this was released,” Nik said. “March 1989. A few months later the Berlin Wall fell and I had my first kiss with a German girl from the west, an American radio station was playing in the background, this.” He chucked a handful of peppers into the pan, stirring them into the onions.

Price grinned fondly, his eyes crinkling at the corners. “Always a hopeless romantic. Couldn'ta had any hairs on your chin even, Nik.”

“I was fourteen. Almost a man.”

“Ha, I was four. I always forget...”

Nik winced. “Oozush, you make me feel like a… what is it you say?”

“Cradle snatcher.”

“Yes, that,” Nik said, deadpan.

“Did ya kiss random girls in the street a lot, or was the fall of the Soviet empire a special occasion?”

“You make me sound like a pervert…”

“Ahh, ignore him, Nikolai. These young officers have no concept of romance and the… emotional power of revolution, of history in the making,” Alejandro chimed in, “a kiss exchanged on the cusp of a new dawn, it is a powerful thing.”

“Thank you, colonel.” Nik slapped Price’s hand as he reached for one of the cherry tomatoes on the edge of the chopping board, and weathered his baleful gaze with a placid stare. “Has the captain ever told you the story of how we first met?”

“Oh, bloody hell, Nik, I really don’t–”

“No,” Alejandro said, grinning. “I would love to hear it.”

Nik raised his eyebrows at Price, who covered his face with his hand, groaning into his palm. “Not my finest hour…"

Nik cut open the mince and passata before he continued; revenge was best extracted at a leisurely pace so it could be enjoyed. “I was sitting in the Prince of Wales after my shift had ended at the embassy, minding my own business, when this young, baby-faced man sat on the stool next to me and ordered a pint of bitter.”

“Nik–” Price warned, but without heat; the embarrassed smile made his whiskers twitch.

“He was wearing his beanie, his civilian clothes, but he had British military written all over him. He might as well have arrived in his parade uniform. I knew MI6 would be sending someone to meet me that day, but a young man straight out of Sandhurst was a surprise. He was trying so hard not to look at me and I decided to see how long he would last.”

“Two years out,” Price corrected, his cheeks reddening in preparation for what came next.

“‘Ow’s yer English?’ he asks,” Nik’s impression of Price was perfect and Alejandro chuckled into his beer, “and I reply–”

“--how's your Russian?” Price added, pained. "It was bloody nonexistent, wasn't it? What a wanker."

“The flush was enough. I was not sure whether MI6 intended me to provide him with intelligence or take him to bed, I am certain either would have satisfied their goals at the time.”

“I was trained as a soldier, not a bloody spy. You were my first big mission in that area...”

“A honey trap,” Alejandro said, knowingly, and Price's face turned a darker shade of red.

“Da. A very sweet one, with such serious eyes for such a young face. But they had done what I asked; sent a soldier I could talk to, not a spy to manipulate me. We talked for hours, and every time I tried to bait him, he remained stalwart and honest to his mission. It was impossible to say no. It is for John Price that I turned informant.”

Price tipped his beer in a toast and then necked the rest. Perhaps to hide the look in his eye from Alejandro, but the colonel was far too shrewd to have missed it. He was also, however, a gentleman and didn't push for any further acknowledgement.

Nik finished up the bolognese with fresh pasta, some mushrooms, tomato puree, spices and red wine, before serving it up onto four plates. “Lieutenant!”

Ghost rolled off the sofa, kicking Soap's feet out of the way, and dragged himself up to a kitchen stool. “Smells good,” he grumbled. “Wassis about you bein’ a honey trap, sir?”

“Thought you were asleep,” Price murmured, shaking salt and pepper over the top of his meal. “It's classified. Strictly need to know.”

Ghost hummed as he rolled his mask up to his nose and tucked into his dinner. He would ply Nik with bourbon for the intel later, because he absolutely needed to know.

Nik pulled up the stool closest to Price’s side, and they sat shoulder to shoulder as they had fifteen years before in the Prince of Wales. Back then, Nik had been full of fear and uncertainty, his conscience a writhing mess inside his chest, the spectre of depression darkening his eyes.

They had tried to turn him in Copenhagen but he had resisted. He had known they would try again when he was stationed in London and he had been ready to resist unless they met a specific set of his criteria. Nikolai had thought it unlikely, until Lieutenant John Price, young, completely out of his depth despite being so clearly brilliant, but so determined to get it right, had talked him into believing there was hope after all.

Nik's hand found Price’s knee under the table, his thumb stroking over the top, and the backs of Price's fingers passed back and forth over his weathered knuckles in return.

Nik had bound his destiny, his soul, to John that day. He had only realised it some years later when his head had cleared enough to listen to his heart, but since then, he had never looked back.

[alekthethirdish]

Had a funny idea, Lupgang HC’s for the reader getting kidnapped, them going to rescue Reader only to run into the reader breaking out as they are breaking in. Not cause they didn’t think they would be rescued, just the kidnappers left them the perfect window to escape and why wait?

This took so many rewrites, so I hope this version does your ask justice!

Lupin:

-Lupin has gotten kidnapped himself more times than he can probably count.

-So when you get kidnapped he already knows the signs to look for.

-He's an attentive partner, and always has a hand around you, if he's not directly holding your hand.

-Lupin notices instantly if you're gone.

-Of course he's on top of things, tailing your kidnappers, and planning to reign hell down upon them if they even consider touching a single hair on your head.

-When he sees you climbing out a window two stories up, he can't help but smile.

-Lupin meets you halfway down the building, he needs to make sure that you're alright.

-When you've landed safely on the fire escape that he's standing on, he'll look you over for any injuries before pulling you into his chest.

-"Are you hurt? I swear, if they even touched a hair on your head I'll -"

-"Lupin, I'm fine. They were idiots, they didn't even know how to tie rope. They left me in a room with an open window."

-Once he's sure you're alright, he'll lead the way down to the ground, offering his hand to you along the way.

-For the next week straight, he is peppering you with kisses and showering you with gifts. Anything to help you get your mind off of your kidnapping, even if your snatchers sucked.

-Your kidnappers will have found an empty room and then received a note from Lupin, containing a thinly veiled threat.

Jigen:

-Jigen is fiercely protective of you, after all you're his lover.

-Once he's made aware that you've been kidnapped, either by you just missing, or a ransom note; he will raise hell to get you back safe.

-He's tracked your location down to a building and is prepared to go in, guns blazing, when he sees you calmly walking out of the building.

-At first he's confused, why would they let you walk right out?

-He pulls you into an alley as you pass, intending to ask you how you managed to walk right out; your fist in his face is the greeting he gets.

-When you realize it's Jigen who pulled you aside, you start apologizing profusely for punching him.

-"Are you okay, my love?"

-"I should be the one asking you that."

-"Oh. Yeah, their security was shit, they clearly did not know how to tie someone up."

-Jigen, sure that his nose is okay, brings you into his chest, hugging you tightly.

-"I was worried about you." He admits it so quietly, but you hear it anyway.

-"I'm okay. Honestly I was able to walk right out, one of their guards was sleeping. Seriously, they should consider a new profession. They suck."

-He chuckled at that, wrapping his arm around you tightly, guiding you to the car.

-"Anywhere you want to go, my treat."

-He will spoil you for the next week; Jigen will be silently by your side even more than usual.

Goemon:

-When he finds out that you've been kidnapped he is beyond pissed.

-He is tracking your kidnappers down even before they can think to send a ransom note.

-Goemon is prepared to do anything to get you back safe and sound.

-He has infiltrated the building that you're being kept in when you run into him, quite literally.

-His face is a sea of emotion, going from anger, to shock, to relief.

-He sheathed his Zantetsuken before bringing you into a tight hug.

-"Are you alright? They didn't hurt you, did they?"

-"I'm okay, I promise."

-As soon as Goemon is sure that you are unharmed, he'll lead you out of the building, Zantetsuken drawn just in case.

-When you are far away from the building, he asks, "How did you manage to get away?"

-"They only tied my hands and feet and left me unguarded. Not very smart of them."

-Goemon will stay close by your side until you both return to the hotel or safe house.

-While he's not generally openly affectionate, he will link his arm with yours or hold your hand afterwards. Anything to make sure you aren't going anywhere.

-"I am glad you are unharmed, I was worried for your safety."

-Goemon will take you up to the mountains as a way to distract and distance the both of you from what happened.

[the-ghost-bracket]

Last time! The 75 most submitted characters:

Danny Phantom - Danny Phantom (24 times)

Sissel - Ghost Trick (16 times)

Napstablook - Undertale (14 times)

Cole - Ninjago (13 times)

Papa Nihil - The Band Ghost (13 times)

Noah Czerny - The Raven Cycle (13 times)

The Captain - BBC Ghosts (10 times)

Lewis Pepper - Mystery Skulls Animated (9 times)

VikingPilot - Dominion SMP (9 times)

Spectra Vondergeist - Monster High (9 times)

Ghostbur - DSMP (9 times)

Heather Chandler - Heathers the Musical (9 times)

Morro - Ninjago (9 times)

Gerard 'Gerry' Keay - The Magnus Archives (8 times)

Perona - One Piece (8 times)

Takeru Tenkuuji - Kamen Rider Ghost (8 times)

Casper - Casper the Friendly Ghost (8 times)

Commander Wake - The Locked Tomb (7 times)

King Hamlet - Hamlet (7 times)

Joe Hills/Beetlejhost - Hermitcraft (7 times)

Hua Cheng - Heaven's Official's Blessing (6 times)

Mary - BBC Ghosts (6 times)

Mia Fey - Ace Attorney (6 times)

Polly Geist - Monster Prom (6 times)

William Wisp - Just Roll With It (6 times)

Chara Dreemur - Undertale (6 times)

Robin - BBC Ghosts (6 times)

Aradia Megido - Homestuck (5 times)

Pat Butcher - BBC Ghosts (5 times)

Scratch - The Ghost and Molly McGee (5 times)

Beetlejuice - Beetlejuice (5 times)

Ben Hargreeves - The Umbrella Academy (5 times)

Gengar - Pokemon (5 times)

The Snatcher - A Hat in Time (5 times)

Spooky - Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion (4 times)

Max Jagerman - Hatchetfield (4 times)

Del the Ghost Rapper - Gorillaz (4 times)

Mari/Something - Omori (4 times)

Mettaton - Undertale (4 times)

Zero - The Nightmare Before Christmas (4 times)

Fanny Button - BBC Ghosts (4 times)

Hanako/Yugi Amane - Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun (4 times)

Luke Patterson - Julie and the Phantoms (4 times)

Obi-Wan Kenobi - Star Wars (4 times)

Reggie Peters - Julie and the Phantoms (4 times)

Reimi Sugimoto - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (4 times)

Thomas Thorne - BBC Ghosts (4 times)

Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Tracks (4 times)

Banquo - MacBeth (4 times)

Church - Red vs Blue (4 times)

Malachi - Minecraft Diaries (4 times)

Malcom Crowe - The Sixth Sense (4 times)

Skull in a jar/The whispering skull - Lockwood & Co (4 times)

Starscream- Transformers (3 times)

Alex Mercer - Julie and the Phantom (3 times)

PJ - Paranatural (3 times)

Tikal the Echidna - Sonic the Hedgehog (3 times)

Madhouse Mike - Cryptid Crush (3 times)

Bow - Inanimate Insanity (3 times)

Candy Diver Cookie - Cookie Run Kingdom (3 times)

Abigail - Don't Starve (3 times)

Mad Mew Mew - Undertale (3 times)

Leon Stamatis - Greater Boston (3 times)

Annie Sawyer - Being Human (3 times)

Julian Fawcett - BBC Ghosts (3 times)

Das Kleine Gespenst - Das Kleine Gespenst (3 times)

Spike - Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel (3 times)

Percy Reed - Hello from the Hallowoods (3 times)

Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde (3 times)

Carrie - The Amazing World of Gumball (3 times)

Alther Mella - Septimus Heap (3 times)

Leon Stamatis - Greater Boston (3 times)

King Boo - Super Mario (3 times)

Slimer - Ghostbusters (3 times)

Lup - The Adventure Zone: Balance (3 times)

The 19 most submitted fandoms:

BBC Ghosts (49 times)

Danny Phantom (33 times)

Undertale (26 times)

Ninjago (22 times)

Ghost Trick (19 times)

Pokemon (19 times)

Monster High (15 times)

Julia and the Phantoms (14 times)

Heaven Official's Blessing (14 times )

The Band Ghost (13 times)

The Raven Cycle (13 times)

One Piece (11 times)

The Locked Tomb (11 times)

DSMP (11 times)

Kamen Rider Ghost (10 times)

Dominion SMP (9 times)

Mystery Skulls Aninated (9 times)

Heathers (9 times)

The Magnus Archives (8 times)

[astorytotellyourfriends]

Chrissy snores and Eddie loves to tease her about it

Or

Eddie wakes up to Chrissy wrapped around him like a koala

how about BOTH 👀

Eddie's nose tickles when he first wakes up. He gets that funny feeling like he's about to sneeze, but it disappears when he turns his head and can rub the back of his hand against his nose.

He groans softly as he slowly blinks his eyes open, realizing the reason for the almost-sneeze is because Chrissy's head is tucked against his chest. He must've had his face buried in her hair.

A smile spreads across his face as he presses his lips to the top of her head, curling his arms around her as he settles again and closes his eyes. She's warm and soft against him, pressed up close with her leg hitched up over his hip and her cheek resting on his chest.

It's perfect. Eddie's pretty sure he's gonna fall back asleep any minute.

But then Chrissy snores, louder than he ever would've expected. His eyes snap open and he pulls away from her a little, like he has to make sure it really is Chrissy. Was she replaced by some awful clone while he was asleep like he's woken up in some bastardized version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers?

How the hell did someone so small make that kind of noise?

Eddie watches her closely, waiting for her to make another sound. When it happens, he can't help but laugh. He tries to keep quiet, to not disturb her, but it's just so funny that he can't help himself.

Chrissy groans as she stirs, waking up not only from the sound of his laughter but his whole body shaking underneath her, and she gives him a grumpy look when she lifts her head.

"Sorry, baby," he murmurs as he cups her cheek and kisses her forehead. "M'sorry, didn't mean to wake you."

"You did," she answers with an unhappy grunt as she rubs her eyes.

"Yeah, well," Eddie hums, still laughing a little as he lets his head fall back against the pillows. "You were snoring."

Chrissy freezes, her jaw falling open in astonishment.

"I don't snore."

"You do."

"I do not!"

"'Fraid you do, baby doll." Eddie grins. "Loudly."

"I don't snore!" she says as she thumps her hand against his chest, huffing angrily before she whips around, turning her back on him and curling up into a ball on the other side of the bed.

"Baby..."

He reaches out to her but she shrugs his hand away, huffing again as she tugs one of the pillows closer to her.

Eddie shakes his head and heaves a sigh before he rolls onto his side, fitting himself to the shape of her back as he buries his face into the crook of her neck. She stays stiff instead of leaning into his touch, but as he keeps nuzzling against her skin, she slowly starts to relax.

"I don't snore," she mumbles.

"You do," he says, pressing a kiss to her neck. "But it's cute," he adds before she can protest.

"Snoring isn't cute!"

"Everything you do is cute," he argues as he tickles his fingers into her tummy, making Chrissy squirm against him and whine his name in that little voice he loves so much.

"Stop!" she says, her voice laced with giggles.

Eddie peppers her with kisses until she turns her head and meets his mouth with hers, humming contentedly against his lips as her hand comes up to press against his jaw.

"Do I really snore?" she asks softly.

"Yep," Eddie says, pecking another kiss to her lips. "But don't worry, I still love you."

Chrissy rolls her eyes. "Thank goodness for that."

[pastself]

Peter is an adult when Tony comes back. Not much younger than Tony was when he became Iron Man, and it is so jarring Tony doesn’t know what to do with it.

Because, sure, now Peter has a PhD (just one like a normal person who doesn’t enjoy torturing themselves, looking at you Bruce Banner) and he's confident in his speaking in a way that's different. But he still loves LEGOs – he has a small room in his apartment totally dedicated to sets, alongside photos of the ones he'd sold. He's still a New Yorker and can't fathom the idea of living elsewhere. He still is Spider-Man, eating burritos on rooftops and webbing up purse snatchers and occasionally helping with bigger things when needed. He's the same as he was at 16 in so, so, so many ways.

Especially in the sense that he's still incredibly in love with Tony Stark.

That much is painfully obvious. And before, when Peter was a teenager, it was so easy for Tony to ignore that. But now Peter is a man, and Tony can’t pretend he'll grow out of it – because apparently 15 years passed and Peter didn’t change at all.

And honestly, neither did Tony's feelings. Those were there, 2 months ago, when Tony had died only remembering the ghost of a teenager he loved more than he should have. At the time, Tony had worried he was a pervert, and had shut that down, turned it off and completely ignored it. Because it couldn’t go anywhere. Peter wasn’t for him.

In a way, he’s relieved to discover that his own feelings were independent of Peter's age. That he would have fallen for Peter no matter what; even meeting him now, had he had the chance to revisit time travel.

But it is also terrifying, because now Peter is old enough to understand the looks Tony gives him, and understand that the feelings are mutual. He’s old enough to want to act on them. And that’s scary for reasons that have nothing to do with Peter, and everything to do with Obie, and Pepper, and Howard – and every other failed attempted relationship he's ever had.

Peter may be an adult now, but he still deserves better.

[imsociallyanxiousgetoverit]

List of all SDV and SDV:E (Stardew Valley: Expanded) Giftable Items

Horseradish

Daffodil

Leek

Dandelion

Parsnip

Cave Carrot

Coconut

Cactus

Banana

Sap

Large Egg

Egg

Milk

Large Milk

Green Bean

Cauliflower

Potato

Garlic

Kale

Rhubarb

Melon

Tomato

Morsel

Blueberry

Fiddlehead Fern

Hot Pepper

Wheat

Radish

Red Cabbage

Starfruit

Corn

Rice

Eggplant

Artichoke

Pumpkin

Bokchoy

Yam

Chanterelle

Cranberry

Holly

Beets

Ostrich Egg

Salmonberry

Amouranth

Pale Ale

Hops

Void Egg

Mayonnaise

Duck Mayonnaise

Void Mayonnaise

Clay

Copper Bar

Silver Bar

Gold Bar

Iridium Bar

Refined Quartz

Honey

Pickles

Jam

Beer

Wine

Juice

Clam

Poppy

Copper Ore

Silver Ore

Coal

Gold Ore

Iridium Ore

Wood

Stone

Nautilus Shell

Coral

Summer Shell

Spice Berry

Sea Urchin

Grape

Spring Onion

Strawberry

Sweet Pea

Common Mushroom

Wild Plum

Hazelnut

Blackberry

Winter Root

Crystal Fruit

Snow Yam

Sweet Gem Berry

Crocus

Red Mushroom

Sunflower

Purple Mushroom

Cheese

Goat Cheese

Cloth

Truffle

Truffle Oil

Coffee Bean

Goat Milk

Large Goat Milk

Wool

Duck Egg

Duck Feather

Caviar

Lucky Rabbit’s Foot

Aged Roe

Ancient Fruit

Mead

Tulip

Summer Spangle

Fairy Rose

Blue Jazz

Apple

Green Tea

Apricot

Orange

Peach

Pomegranate

Cherry

Bug Meat

Hardwood

Maple Syrup

Oak Resin

Pine Tar

Slime

Bat Wing

Rusty Blade

Swirl Stone

Solar Essence

Void Essence

Void Pebble

Void Shard

Void Soul

Fiber

Battery

Dinosaur Mayonnaise

Roe

Squid Ink

Tea Leaves

Ginger

Taro Root

Pineapple

Mango

Cinder Shard

Magma Cap

Bone Fragment

Radioactive Ore

Radioactive Bar

Ancient Fiber

Bearberry

Conch

Dried Sand Dollar

Ferngill Primrose

Golden Ocean Flower

Goldenrod

Green Mushroom

Four-Leaf Clover

Monster Fruit

Monster Mushroom

Mushroom Colony

Poison Mushroom

Red Baneberry

Salal Berry

Slime Berry

Rafflesia

Sports Drink

Stamina Capsule

Thistle

Void Root

Winter Star Ross

Dewdrop Berry

Aged Blue Moon Wine

Blue Moon Wine

Aegis Elixir

Armor Elixir

Barbarian Elixir

Gravity Elixir

Haste Exilir

Hero Elixir

Lightning Elixir

Pufferfish

Anchovy

Tuna

Sardine

Bream

Largemouth Bass

Smallmouth Bass

Rainbow Trout

Salmon

Walleye

Perch

Carp

Catfish

Pike

Sunfish

Red Snapper

Herring

Eel

Octopus

Red Mullet

Squid

Seaweed

Green Algae

Seacucumber

Super Seacucumber

Ghost Carp

White Algae

Stone Fish

Crimsonfish

Angler

Icepip

Lava Eel

Legend

Sandfish

Scorpion Carp

Flounder

Midnight Carp

Mutant Carp

Sturgeon

Tiger Trout

Bullhead

Tilapia

Chub

Dorado

Albacore

Shad

Lingcod

Halibut

Lobster

Crayfish

Crab

Cockle

Mussel

Shrimp

Snail

Periwinkle

Oyster

Woodskip

Glacierfish

Void Salmon

Slimejack

Midnight Squid

Spookfish

Blobfish

Stingray

Lionfish

Blue Discus

Baby Lunaloo

Bonefish

Bull Trout

Butterfish

Clownfish

Daggerfish

Dulse Seaweed

Frog

Gemfish

Goldenfish

Grass Carp

King Salmon

Kittyfish

Lunaloo

Meteor Carp

Minnow

Puppyfish

Radioactive Bass

Razor Trout

Seahorse

Sea Sponge

Shiny Lunaloo

Snatcher Worm

Starfish

Torpedo Trout

Undeadfish

Void Eel

Water Grub

Dwarf Scroll 1

Dwarf Scroll 2

Dwarf Scroll 3

Dwarf Scroll 4

Chipped Amphora

Arrowhead

Ancient Doll

Elvish Jewelry

Chewing Stick

Ornamental Fan

Dinosaur Egg

Rare Disc

Ancient Sword

Rusty Spoon

Rusty Spur

Rusty Cog

Chicken Statue

Ancient Seed

Prehistoric Tool

Dried Starfish

Anchor

Glass Shards

Bone Flute

Prehistoric Handaxe

Dwarvish Helm

Dwarf Gadget

Ancient Drum

Golden Mask

Golden Relic

Strange Doll

Strange Doll

Prehistoric Scapula

Prehistoric Tibia

Prehistoric Skull

Skeletal Hand

Prehistoric Rib

Prehistoric Vertebrae

Skeletal Tail

Nautilus Shell

Amphibian Fossil

Palm Fossil

Trilobite

Emerald

Aquamarine

Ruby

Amethyst

Topaz

Jade

Diamond

Prismatic Shard

Quartz

Fire Quartz

Frozen Tear

Earth Crystal

Alamite

Bixite

Baryite

Aerinite

Calcite

Dolomite

Esperite

Fluorapatite

Geminite

Helvite

Jamborite

Jagoite

Kyanite

Lunarite

Malachite

Nepunite

Lemon Stone

Nekoite

Orpiment

Petrified Slime

Thunder Egg

Pyrite

Ocean Stone

Ghost Crystal

Tiger’s Eye

Jasper

Opal

Fire Opal

Celestine

Marble

Sandstone

Granite

Basalt

Limestone

Soapstone

Hematite

Mudstone

Obsidian

Slate

Fairy Stone

Star Shards

Fried Egg

Omelet

Salad

Cheese Cauliflower

Baked Fish

Parsnip Soup

Vegetable Medley

Complete Breakfast

Fried Calimari

Strange Bun

Lucky Lunch

Fried Mushrooms

Pizza

Bean Hotpot

Glazed Yams

Carp Surprise

Hashbrowns

Pancakes

Salmon Dinner

Fish Taco

Crispy Bass

Pepper Poppers

Bread

Tom Kha Soup

Trout Soup

Chocolate Cake

Pink Cake

Rhubarb Pie

Cookies

Spaghetti

Spicy Eel

Sashimi

Maki Roll

Tortilla

Red Plate

Eggplant Parmesan

Rice Pudding

Ice Cream

Bluberry Tart

Autumn’s Bounty

Pumpkin Soup

Super Meal

Cranberry Sauce

Stuffing

Farmer’s Lunch

Survival Burger

Dish’O’The Sea

Miner’s Treat

Roots Platter

Triple Shot Espresso

Seafoam Pudding

Algae Soup

Pale Broth

Plum Pudding

Artichoke Dip

Stir Fry

Roasted Hazelnuts

Pumpkin Pie

Radish Salad

Fruit Salad

Blackberry Cobbler

Cranberry Candy

Bruschetta

Coleslaw

Fiddlehead Risotto

Poppyseed Muffin

Chowder

Fish Stew

Escargot

Lobster Bisque

Maple Bar

Crab Cakes

Shrimp Cocktail

Ginger Ale

Banana Pudding

Mango Sticky Rice

Poi

Tropical Curry

Squid Ink Ravioli

Mushroom Berry Rice

Big Bark Burger

Flower Cookie

Frog Legs

Glazed Butterfish

Grampleton Orange Chicken

Mixed Berry Pie

Baked Berry Oatmeal

Void Delight

Void Salmon Sushi

[thegraveyardhotel]

Answered by Moonjumper! :) It's a bit long since I'm very wordy, so I've put it under a "read more" cut.

1. It depends on the tea. Typically with black teas, earl gray, or anything in that general flavor profile, we like it with milk and sugar. However, with green teas, we like it with just a bit of honey. As for coffee, apparently all of us prefer it exceptionally sweet. Personally, I really love this one blend of green tea we have that has lemon and ginseng added in it. It's my favorite drink at the moment, it's very good with honey. :)

2. Hard to say for certain! French or Italian sound like very fun languages, though Spanish also has a lovely sound to it and would be more practical for where we live.

3. Usually around 9am, noon at the absolute latest.

4. I think we liked Sonic Underground! Though, I can't seem to remember all that clearly.

5. Winter, since we like being able to wear hoodies, though most of us actually prefer Fall.

6. I'm personally a pessimist, though I know I have a few optimistic headmates in here, and most of us are realists.

7. I prefer the rain in theory. I like being able to sit inside with tea and listen to the rain, and I love the smell of petrichor, but I don't like the hassle of needing to keep our supplies under an umbrella to make sure nothing gets water damage. Add in wind that's strong enough to upturn our umbrella, and you have the perfect recipe for a very annoyed Moonjumper!

8. With a loose piece of paper, since we, for some ungodly reason, don't own a proper bookmark. That would be a wonderful idea for a project, now that I think about it. Making a bookmark for us sounds delightful! I'd probably draw Snatcher and myself on it, since we're the only ones who bother to read physical books instead of exclusively fanfiction.

9. Black, ankle high boots that have zippers on the side.

10. I would be Moonjumper scented! Jokes aside, I would love to always smell like petrichor, tea, and old books.

11. Silvery, almost seeming to glow in the moonlight, with little red markings everywhere.

12. I love writing in cursive, though the body is very out of practice.

13. I don't know, none of us are very knowledgeable on Star Wars.

14. I would like to think I'm defined by my politeness.

15. Roller skating is extremely fun from what I remember, but I would love to try out ice skating!

16. The body has a younger brother.

17. Red strings that can puppeteer whatever creatures they latch onto, but can also be used like normal strings to grab objects. I use them when necessary but try to avoid puppeteering things needlessly, as I doubt it's a pleasant experience.

18. In headspace, I wear reds, whites, beiges, golds, and purples! The body, however, has exclusively black and white clothing, with minimal hints of color accents. I would like to diversify our wardrobe colors in the future.

19. I would love to have a pet crow! They're very intelligent and playful creatures, from what I've heard. :)

20. I would use a bow and arrow as my main weapon of choice, though I would keep a sword on me just in case close quarters combat was unavoidable.

21. Coffee!

22. Salt and pepper for basic flavoring, obviously, but the specific spices used depend on the dish. We like using dried chili flakes, paprika, and cayenne pepper in a lot of our meals, but those wouldn't go very well in something sweeter, like oatmeal, in which we would use cinnamon instead.

23. Whatever font the website uses, I think? Unless you mean in Google Docs, in which case, most of us like to use crimson text or courier new.

ask game that tells a lot about you.

how do you take your tea / coffee?

if you could be fluent in any language at the snap of your fingers, which one and why?

when do you wake up?

what was your favourite tv show as a kid?

summer or winter?

realist, optimist, or pessimist?

rain or sunshine?

how do you mark your spot in a book?

what are your favourite shoes like?

what would your non-perfume/cologne signature scent be?

if you were a dragon, what would you look like?

is your handwriting more print, cursive, or a mix?

what colour would your lightsaber be?

what is your defining personality trait?

roller skates or rollerblades or ice skates?

are you an only child? oldest / middle / youngest?

what would your superpower be? how would you use it?

what’s your clothing colour palette?

pet snake or pet bird?

weapon of choice in a medieval battle

the best ice cream flavour

what spices do you always use when cooking?

default font when typing?

[theamalgaverse]

Im going back on the grind but I also have this

[horrormovierevue]

31 For 31 Day 27: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Another classic that I was glad to finally see.

Spoiler review under the cut.

A great alien invasion movie that manages to utilize dread and distrust in a fantastic way, as well as peppering in practical effects and body horror to drive home the horror.

While my favorite horror performance of Donald Sutherland's is in Don't Look Now, this is a close second. He does such a fantastic job of showing his fervent desire for the female lead, and a realistic look at how long it would take to recognize that those around you are being replaced.

This movie is filled with a great cast outside of Sutherland, with Nimoy, Goldblum, and Adams all doing fantastic work.

Credit is also due to the effects team; the pod creatures themselves (especially the dog/human hybrid) were haunting and revolting.

Overall, another film that solidly deserves its place in horror history. 9/10.

[theuniverseawakens347]

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The 64 most submitted characters:

Danny Phantom - Danny Phantom (24 times)

Sissel - Ghost Trick (16 times)

Cole - Ninjago (13 times)

Napstablook - Undertale (13 times)

Papa Nihil - The Band Ghost (13 times)

Noah Czerny - The Raven Cycle (12 times)

The Captain - BBC Ghosts (10 times)

Lewis Pepper - Mystery Skulls Animated (9 times)

VikingPilot - Dominion SMP (9 times)

Morro - Ninjago (8 times)

Gerard 'Gerry' Keay - The Magnus Archives (8 times)

Ghostbur - DSMP (8 times)

Perona - One Piece (8 times)

Spectra Vondergeist - Monster High (8 times)

Takeru Tenkuuji - Kamen Rider Ghost (8 times)

Commander Wake - The Locker Tomb (7 times)

Casper - Casper the Friendly Ghost (7 times)

Heather Chandler - Heathers the Musical (7 times)

Hua Cheng - Heaven's Official's Blessing (6 times)

King Hamlet - Hamlet (6 times)

Joe Hills/Beetlejhost - Hermitcraft (6 times)

Mary - BBC Ghosts (6 times)

Mia Fey - Ace Attorney (6 times)

Polly Geist - Monster Prom (6 times)

William Wisp - Just Roll With It (6 times)

Aradia Megido - Homestuck (5 times)

Chara Dreemur - Undertale (5 times)

Pat Butcher - BBC Ghosts (5 times)

Robin - BBC Ghosts (5 times)

Scratch - The Ghost and Molly McGee (5 times)

Spooky - Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion (4 times)

Max Jagerman - Hatchetfield (4 times)

Del the Ghost Rapper - Gorillaz (4 times)

Mari/Something - Omori (4 times)

Mettaton - Undertale (4 times)

Zero - The Nightmare Before Christmas (4 times)

Fanny Button - BBC Ghosts (4 times)

Hanako/Yugi Amane - Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun (4 times)

Luke Patterson - Julie and the Phantoms (4 times)

Obi-Wan Kenobi - Star Wars (4 times)

Reggie Peters - Julie and the Phantoms (4 times)

Reimi Sugimoto - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (4 times)

The Snatcher - A Hat in Time (4 times)

Thomas Thorne - BBC Ghosts (4 times)

Zelda - The Legend of Zelda: Tracks (4 times)

Starscream- Transformers (3 times)

Malachi - Minecraft Diaries (3 times)

Alex Mercer - Julie and the Phantom (3 times)

PJ - Paranatural (3 times)

Tikal the Echidna - Sonic the Hedgehog (3 times)

Madhouse Mike - Cryptid Crush (3 times)

Bow - Inanimate Insanity (3 times)

Candy Diver Cookie - Cookie Run Kingdom (3 times)

Abigail - Don't Starve (3 times)

Mad Mew Mew - Undertale (3 times)

Church - Red vs Blue (3 times)

Leon Stamatis - Greater Boston (3 times)

Banquo - MacBeth (3 times)

Annie Sawyer - Being Human (3 times)

Julian Fawcett - BBC Ghosts (3 times)

Das Kleine Gespenst - Das Kleine Gespenst (3 times)

Spike - Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel (3 times)

Ben Hargreeves - The Umbrella Academy (3 times)

Percy Reed - Hello from the Hallowoods (3 times)

The 22 most submitted medias:

BBC Ghosts (48 times)

Danny Phantom (32 times)

Undertale (25 times)

Ninjago (21 times)

Ghost Trick (19 times)

Julia and the Phantoms (14 times)

Monster High (14 times)

The Band Ghost (13 times)

Heaven Official's Blessing (13 times )

The Raven Cycle (12 times)

One Piece (11 times)

The Locked Tomb (11 times)

Kamen Rider Ghost (9 times)

Dominion SMP (9 times)

DSMP (9 times)

Mystery Skulls Animated (9 times)

Pokemon (9 times)

The Magnus Archives (8 times)

A Christmas Carol (7 times)

Kamen Rider Ghost (7 times)

Heathers (7 times)

Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun (7 times)

[gameguides]

Potionomics Ingredients List

Welcome to our Potionomics Ingredients List guide. This guide will show you all the ingredients and the magimins colours ABCDE (red, green, orange, blue & purple). We know that there are people who have a hard time finishing the Potionomics game. If you are one of those who find it difficult to finish the game, let's take you to our Potionomics guide. #Potionomics

Potionomics Ingredients List

All the ingredients and the magimins colours ABCDE (red, green, orange, blue & purple)! Ingredients List & Guide These are all the ingredients, arranged alphabetically in a list with the proportions ABCDE: - Amethyst Ore 66 66 0 0 33 - Amphithere’s Shadow 44 0 44 0 0 - Antlered Jelly 30 0 0 0 0 - Arcane Quartz 84 0 0 84 42 - Arcane Truffle 0 42 42 42 42 - Avalanche Cricket 24 24 32 32 0 - Banshee’s Bloody Tongue 0 40 0 0 0 - Barghast Canine 0 30 0 0 10 - Basilisk’s Cornea 0 22 0 0 0 - Bioplasm 0 48 32 16 0 - Blackfrost Lobster 0 0 0 0 44 - Blightroach 0 42 42 42 0 - Body Snatcher’s Sloughed Skin 0 0 0 66 22 - Bog Beet 0 27 0 0 0 - Bogeyberry 30 0 0 0 0 - Bubble Ooze 9 9 12 12 0 - Celestial Ore 0 0 16 0 0 - Charredonnay 48 0 48 24 24 - Chimera Waste 0 0 64 32 0 - Cobweb Crayfish 10 0 20 0 0 - Copper Dollop 15 15 15 15 0 - Copper Dollop 15 15 15 15 0 60 95 - Cosmic Cassava 0 66 0 0 0 - Cosmic Quartz 66 33 0 66 0 - Courtier’s Orchid 8 24 24 0 0 - Crag Crab 0 0 0 0 32 - Creeping Mildew 16 0 0 0 48 - Cubic Ooze 3 3 3 0 0 - Cyclops Skull 0 0 42 42 42 - Daredevil Pepper 0 32 0 32 0 - Daydream Pomme 0 24 8 0 0 - Dazzling Mana 42 42 42 42 42 - Death’s Embrace 33 33 33 0 33 - Delirium Shroom 0 0 48 0 0 - Desert Metal 0 12 0 0 0 - Diamond Salt 33 0 0 0 11 - Djinn Blossom 24 0 0 8 0 - Dragon Dung 0 0 88 44 0 - Dragon Tear 0 33 33 11 0 - Dragonblood Tick 132 66 0 0 0 - Dragonbreath Blossom 33 0 0 11 0 - Dragonegg Citrus 0 22 0 0 66 - Dragonfire Pearl 0 0 0 44 0 - Dropspider’s Shadow 0 0 30 20 10 - Dwarf Kraken 40 0 0 0 0 - Ectoplasm 0 70 70 28 0 - Elder Being’s Tusk 0 66 0 0 22 - Electrocution Eel 10 10 10 0 0 - Ember of Mana 24 24 24 24 24 - Ember of Mana 24 24 24 24 24 120 165 - Fairy Flower Bud 12 0 0 0 0 - Fairy Flower Bulb 4 0 0 0 0 - Feyberry 6 0 0 0 0 - Figment Pomme 0 18 6 0 0 - Fire Flower 40 0 0 20 0 - Frog Leg 0 0 24 12 0 - Fulgurite Ore 0 0 0 30 0 - Geode Citrus 0 16 0 0 48 - Ghostlight Bloom 18 0 0 6 0 - Giantstool Mushroom 0 20 0 0 0 - Giantstool Mushroom 0 20 0 0 0 20 40 - Glass Ore 0 0 0 18 0 - Gold Dollop 33 33 33 33 0 - Golem’s-Eye Diamond 0 12 12 0 0 - Golemite 18 12 0 10 0 - Harpy’s Snare 24 24 24 0 24 - Harpy’s Snare 24 24 24 0 24 96 150 - Hoarite 55 55 0 22 0 - Hocus Locust 28 28 140 28 0 - Horned Jelly 18 0 0 0 0 - Hydra Vertebra 9 9 9 0 0 - Impstool Mushroom 0 4 0 0 0 - Jelly Blossom 0 0 0 0 30 - Jelly Blossom 0 0 0 0 33 33 55 - Jotunn’s Frozen Heart 22 0 0 44 0 - Kappa Pheromones 4 0 4 0 0 - Lamia’s Shed Scales 0 0 0 48 16 - Lazuli Ore 64 48 0 0 32 - Leech Snail’s Shell 12 12 0 0 0 - Lethal Injection Eel 42 42 42 0 0 - Lich’s Femur 0 0 70 70 28 - Liquid Metal Ore 0 44 88 0 0 - Lustrous Pearl 0 0 0 32 0 - Malachite Ore 30 10 0 0 20 - Mana Blaze 50 40 30 20 10 - Mana Conflagration 35 45 55 65 75 - Mana Heart 28 28 28 98 28 - Mana Maelstrom 98 28 28 28 28 - Mana Singularity 28 28 28 28 98 - Mana Vortex 28 98 28 28 28 - Mandragon Root 0 30 0 0 0 - Mandrake Root 0 6 0 0 0 - Manwyrm Root 0 18 0 0 0 - Mass Grave Enoki 56 112 112 56 0 - Medusa Spore 0 48 0 16 0 - Miasma Spore 0 18 0 6 0 - Mosquito Plant 10 0 20 0 30 - Mosquito Plant 10 0 20 0 30 60 105 - Moss Berries 0 10 0 20 0 - Mote of Mana 15 15 15 15 15 - Murkwater Pearl 0 0 0 12 0 - Naga’s Fang 0 48 0 0 16 - Nessie Pheromones 20 0 20 0 0 - Nether Ore 0 0 22 0 0 - Nightmare Pomme 0 33 11 0 0 - Nuclear Shadow 0 70 70 28 0 - Ogre’s Shadow 32 0 32 0 0 - Orchid of the Ice Princess 11 33 0 33 0 - Orchid of the Ice Princess 11 33 0 33 0 77 116 - Orchid of the Witch Queen 28 70 0 70 0 - Pandemonium Shroom 66 0 0 0 0 - Phoenix Tear 0 24 24 8 0 - Photonic Spore 0 10 0 30 0 - Pixiedust Diamond 0 4 4 0 0 - Platinum Slime 42 42 42 0 0 - Posion Quartz 64 48 0 32 0 - Puckberry 18 0 0 0 0 - Qilin’s Tri-Horn 0 0 24 0 0 - Raiju Droppings 0 0 30 10 0 - Raiju Droppings 0 0 30 10 0 40 55 - Raven’s Shadow 0 10 12 18 0 - Reef Radish 0 30 0 0 0 - River Calamari 8 0 0 0 0 - River-Pixie’s Shell 4 4 0 0 0 - Rotfly Adult 0 0 20 0 0 - Rotfly Cocoon 0 0 12 0 0 - Rotfly Larva 0 0 4 0 0 - Rottermelon 0 0 0 64 0 - Sack of Composite Slime 0 0 30 0 0 - Sack of Hive Slime 0 0 18 0 0 - Sack of Slime 0 0 6 0 0 - Salamander’s Fiery Tongue 0 24 0 0 0 - Saltwatermelon 0 0 0 40 0 - Scimitar Crab’s Shell 32 32 0 0 0 - Sea Salt 30 0 0 0 10 - Sea Salt 30 0 0 0 10 40 55 - Selkie Lice 10 20 0 0 0 - Selkie Lice 10 20 0 0 0 30 50 - Sepulcher Widow 0 0 0 0 48 - Sequined Custard 0 0 32 0 16 - Serpent’s Slippery Tongue 0 8 0 0 0 - Shadowveil Pearl 0 0 0 20 0 - Shadowveil Pearl 0 0 0 20 0 20 38 - Silver Dollop 24 24 24 24 0 - Sinfandel 80 0 80 80 40 - Slapping Turtle’s Shell 20 20 0 0 0 - Slapping Turtle’s Shell 20 20 0 0 0 40 46 - Snowflake Spore 0 66 0 22 0 - Sorcerite 70 70 0 28 0 - Sorcerite 70 70 0 28 0 168 232 - Space Nautilus’s Shell 44 44 0 0 0 - Spark of Mana 33 33 33 33 33 - Spark of Mana 33 33 33 33 33 165 215 - Sphinx Flea 12 6 0 0 0 - Spider’s-Bait Diamond 0 20 20 0 0 - Spriggan Antler 0 0 40 0 0 - Squid Vine 20 20 15 0 15 - Static Spiderling 0 0 0 0 30 - Swamp Fish 12 0 0 6 0 - Swamp Octopus 24 0 0 0 0 - Thunder Quartz 30 10 20 0 0 - Thunder Quartz 30 10 20 0 0 60 72 - Thunderbird’s Molted Feather 0 0 30 0 10 - Thunderbird’s Molted Feather 0 0 30 0 10 40 60 - Trollstool Mushroom 0 12 0 0 0 - Underworld Pomegranate 28 28 28 140 0 - Unicorn Horn 0 0 8 0 0 - Venous Witch-Trap 28 0 70 0 70 - Warg Pheromones 12 0 12 0 0 - Watchdog Daisy 0 16 0 48 0 - Weeping Metal Ore 0 32 64 0 0 - Wendigo Antler 0 0 88 0 0 - Widowmaker Pepper 0 44 0 44 0 - Witchbramble Vine 42 42 42 0 42 - Wraith Orchid 0 0 0 12 0 - Xenoplasm 0 55 55 22 0 - Xenoplasm 0 55 55 22 0 132 166 Recipes List In case you are interested we also leave you the recipes: - Potion Health 1 1 0 0 0 - Potion Mana 0 1 1 0 0 - Potion Stamina 1 0 0 0 1 - Potion Speed 0 0 1 1 0 - Potion Tolerance 0 0 0 1 1 - Tonic Fire 1 0 1 0 0 - Tonic Ice 1 0 0 1 0 - Tonic Thunder 0 1 0 1 0 - Tonic Shadow 0 1 0 0 1 - Tonic Radiation 0 0 1 0 1 - Enhancer Sight 3 4 3 0 0 - Enhancer Alertness 0 3 4 3 0 - Enhancer Insight 4 3 0 0 3 - Enhancer Dowsing 3 0 0 3 4 - Enhancer Seeking 0 0 3 4 3 - Cures Posion 2 0 1 1 0 - Cures Drowsiness 1 1 0 2 0 - Cures Petrification 1 0 2 0 1 - Cures Silence 0 2 1 0 1 - Cures Curse 0 1 1 0 2 Read the full article

[rubys-forest]

Ty for tagging!: @subconhollow

Three ships: Snatcher x Ruby, Snatcher x Oc, Lucine x Jinx

First ship: had to be Vincent fnaf x my oc 💀 don't ship it anymore though.

Last Song: Montreal by Penelope Scott

Last Movie: Uhdhd probably Across the Spiderverse

Currently Reading: nothing rn! Sorry!

Currently Consuming: Strawberries and Cream Dr. Pepper

Currently Craving: pumpkin pie qvq and sesame chicken.

Tags: @anyone who wishes to participate in this! Idm!

9 people you would like to get to know better

was tagged by @lagomorphlady! wanted to make my own post for it because the og was very long and kinda fucked up? at least whenever I tried to look at it... anyway!

Three ships: Klapollo, Casphardt, Homuruu

First ship ever: Razaya (how fitting for me that it's a rarepair)

Last song: THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND by Bad Omens

Last movie: Resident Evil: Damnation

Currently reading: The Last Dogs: The Long Road (it was probably the first chapter book series I ever read, and it thankfully holds up very well!)

Currently watching: Fairy Ranmaru (for like, the third time)

Currently consuming: mac and cheese and a glazed cinnamon roll :3

Currently craving: there was this one really good restaurant in my hometown that had the BEST steak fries... I wonder if it's still open...

9 tags: @roseverdict @corvinho @tomaturtles @cinnamon-bunni @corvidfool @aroacenanami @rosethorn-zz @arithemadlad @strzygoncze