#Perfect Mate

[flusteredfools]

Today's Fan Art Friday Features Ninox_galaxy's Perfect Mate Moon & Sun! With baby Aurora.

I absolutely adore this fic and I think it might have been the first DCA Mer fic I read and I'm still re-reading it often! Close up under the cut and you can read the fic here:

Perfect Mate - Ao3 Fic by Ninox_galaxy

[fated-mates]

We’re talking shifter romance! We go back to the beginning and touch on all the shifter/Lycae business that we dealt with in Season 1, and then we talk about all the ways werewolves have evolved into were-other things and then into DNA-splicing experiments. The recs get wild, the plots get weird, and there’s a lot happening!

[freuleinanna]

no but you do not understand we collectively spent YEARS heartbroken over donna! and doctor never ever got over losing her! and now they are together, and they have chosen each other for family, and donna's family has warmth enough for him, and they are happy and having dinners, and 14th is casually sneaking his niece away on adventure while making sure not to tell donna because she would obliterate him and IT'S OKAY THEY'RE CHOSEN SIBLINGS IT'S WHAT THEY FUCKING DO.

listen. LISTEN.

donna's every day was taken away from her.

the doctor has been running every day ever since.

and now they get to spend time together. not a brief trip in a tardis. not a reunion before parting forever. but every. day. every day, one after the other. and they are finally home.

[mexcine]

"Your stepdaughter is young, healthy and not giddy. She'd make a good wife!" (I Loved Real Confession Stories 28, 1949). I know that "not giddy" would be on my list of most-wanted attributes in a life partner.

Little known (made-up) fact: the song "Young and Healthy" from 42nd Street (1933) was originally "Young and Healthy and Not Giddy," but they changed the lyrics because it didn't scan.

[dargeereads]

Perfect Mate by Jennifer Ashley

 5 stars

I love Cormac! He is just, such a bear, and Nell, well, she’s such a bear too, and together, they were perfect. I loved how Cormac just knew, acted on it, and stubbornly refused to be waived from his goal, making Nell his mate. Nell is just as stubborn, but she slowly lets him past her defenses. Shane and Brody are along for the ride, encouraging Cormac, and their mom. A great interlude in the LV Shifter community!

[rarepears]

Hey, instead of parental mother hen!Shen Yuan the crane, it's "I'm your hubby now!" Shen Yuan the crane.

Okay, so female birds are not so colorful to blend into the background (so predators can't spot it so easily). Shen Jiu is dressed in green white beige colors, check.

Shen Jiu can fly, check!

Shen Jiu... spots a crane while flying on his sword and does a few sword maneuvers to get closer to the crane (you know, to study the bird a bit better so he can paint it later) accidentally engages the crane in a mating dance... which Shen Yuan the crane accepts!

Shen Yuan the crane is in fact kind of shy that this female bird initiated the offer, but oh man look at this female crane's stunning long black feathers! Truly one of a kind! And look, this female crane has a bunch of baby cranes following behind - clearly her mate is dead else this female crane wouldn't go do a mating dance for Shen Yuan. Shen Yuan is more than happy to be stepfather crane to this little babies!

Unfortunately for Shen Yuan, his bird brain is more in control of all his decision making until he's found himself living on Cang Qiong with his "mate", the Qing Jing peak lord Shen Qingqiu, for a few years "raising" the "baby cranes" together when his human brain goes online and realizes, oh shit, he was a human in his past life and this is the scum villain!

And their youngest "chick" that he keeps trying to preen right now for having such "unruly" curly feathers is none other than the protagonist!

[black-pussy-supreme]

What an arc. I love apocalypse Mom and Dad.

[beaulesbian]

One Piece Live action season 1 + hints or similarities to future One Piece moments (specifically after East Blue saga) - part 1: episodes 1-3

This wasn't meant to be a comparison between the live action and the animanga, but more so seeing these added/modified scenes that differ from the manga, yet with some of the acting/writing includes clues and hints to different and future canon material, or even characterization that necessary doesn't fit East Blue yet, but fits well enough into later arcs.

Luffy not knowing his world directions both in Opla (ep 1) /// Skypiea arc, in anime ep 168. But it could be for honestly any other arc (Funny thing is, in Opla he rang the bell that unfortunately alerted Alvida's crew, and only when I was rewatching that scene it made me connect it with the great Luffy moment at the end of Skypiea.)

The matches that Zoro has on the Island of Sixis in Opla ep 1, possibly manufactured on Baldimore (?), with a name Beast of Baldimore. /// After Sabaody Archipelago Franky was sent to Baldimore by Kuma, finding Vegapunk's homeland and laboratory, and also developing more of his science projects, as well as causing funny incidents, such as the Burning Beast. (It has probably nothing to do with the matches, except for the 'tiger on fire' motif and the name of Baldimore, but the details of Opla are just so fun!)

Zoro's first meeting with Luffy in Opla episode 1 is really different but fun nonetheless, especially with wording of the line that he doesn't want to 'play pirates' with Luffy. It's such a great setup line for his development to truly be one of the very first to understand how much Luffy means everything he's doing /// Zoro in ep. 323 Post Enies Lobby arc, making sure both his crew and the audience know how seriously he takes being part of Luffy's crew and what it means for future arcs.

Opla ep 2, Luffy mentioning Shanks' way of thinking about fighting (or not fighting someone who's not worth it) /// ep. 146 Jaya arc, Luffy saying to Zoro not to fight Bellamy's crew, which was direct influence from Shanks not fighting the Mountain bandits in the first chapters of the manga. It's interesting that for both of these scenes both Zoro and Nami are there to hear this.

This is just a fun bit, but seeing Nami excited about having a bath was cute. Opla ep 3 /// anime ep. 326, just after they get Sunny and everyone was finding out what space there is for them.

Garp and Koby playing the game of Go, Opla ep 3 /// CP0 agents playing Go while discussing the outcome of Strawhats & Oden's crew's raid on Onigashima against Kaido. It seems like a game that maybe Marines play more/enjoy (?) & above, up to CP ranks.

Usopp 'retelling' a story about eating a dragon, Opla ep 3 /// Punk Hazard ep 580, Zoro killing the dragon and planning with Luffy what's the best way to cook and eat it. Lol. In next chapters Luffy was carrying a big chunk of it, seemingly ate a bit part of the dragon already.

This one is self explanatory. Zoro is so gone for Luffy in Opla it's insane. Every time I remember that I get emo. ep 3. /// One of the first really fond smiles that Zoro keeps smiling at Luffy, a mixture of proud and understanding how Luffy works. ep 63, but it's just so much better in the manga, just look at it. Smitten™ (ch. 104)

[teddybeartoji]

satoru fucking you in a mating press and resting his forehead against yours as he fills you up with a moan😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[rottengurlz]

try to be gentle when you are ripping me apart 🔪

w/ @kashisun

[marimeeko]

After the fifth time that Katsuki pops up at UA, surprising Izuku with Bento for lunch, calling him "sensei" in a cocky(affectionate) tone, Kouta just stops at Izuku's desk on his way out of the room and asks him point blank,

"So are you and DynaMight actually dating, or what?"

Izuku sputtering and dropping all of his paperwork and avoiding the question out of sheer dumbfoundedness.

Then, the sixth time that Katsuki barges in, as he is thrusting the bento into Izukus hands as usual, Kota raises his hand, and stands up from his seat and yells out,

"DynaMight, sir!! Pardon me, but are you dating Deku-Sensei??" And the whole class gasps and whispers. Katsuki appears just as dumbfounded as he looks wide-eyed at Kouta and the students.

"Kouta!" Izuku balks, but then Katsuki suddenly grins mischievously. Izuku doesn't trust that look...

"Well, brat, maybe I SHOULD date him, then I could make sure Sensei doesn't forget to eat every day, right??" Katsuki looked entirely too pleased at the louder gasps and chatter that came from the students. He has a wicked grin as he turns his sharp red eyes back to Izuku.

"K-Kacchan, what are you doing?!" Izuku stammers, beet red and grabbing his arm. "This is not the time for--"

"If you don't want me disrupting your class, then stop leaving your Bento in the fridge!!" Katsuki scolds Izuku before swinging himself back out of the open window. There was a fresh wave of gasps and excited murmuring at the insinuationthat the two lived together. "We're ROOM MATES, OK?" He adds hastily, pointing his finger at the noisy classroom of kids.

He drops out the window and blasts off.

Izuku is left, stood at his desk, hands planted and hanging his head, trying to collect enough of himself to quell the riotous theories now flying around his classroom.

Kouta stands at his own desk amidst his unruly classmates, eyes narrowed as if he had just realized something, "I knew it!" He hisses.

"You're the worst," Izuku texts Katsuki later.

"I know" katsuki replies.

"Now eat your fuckin food or I'll stop making it for you."

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I think I was inspired by this art post ^^;

[spockvarietyhour]

Bodily taking you to the Dolphin Room.

[notquitejiraiya]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT, MATE!!! WHAT!!!

WHAT!!!

AHHHHHHHHH

Holy cow this is incredible you are incredible I am in PIECES RIGHT NOW ASSHDJFJFOSDJDIDJ THANK YOI ♥️♥️♥️♥️

'Through the steam and the condensation, he stood unblemished and carefree. From his tilted head to his toes, he flushed a gentle, rosy pink where the warmth hit him and the steam lingered. Thick black hair clung to his neck but was long enough now to try and fight against the water to pull free. His hands ran through it, combing away the final remnants of shampoo under the hot water until it ran clear as the droplets clinging to his skin.[...]

She’d press against him, let her touch scald him so fiercely he’d be begging, whining by the time she found his lips and lowered carefully to her knees to take him into her—

“Masha, are you still there? Can you hear me?”

Temari came to in her hotel bed, a telephone cord twisted twice around her index finger. The bed’s wrinkled sheets clung to her body, sweat stubbornly refusing to dry or absorb as long as her mind raced for what was in the next room. Her cheeks flushed, and she sighed, tugging the sheets higher over her chest.

“Yes, Yasha, I can hear you.”'

Grandmaster on ao3 by @notquitejiraiya

[eshden]

okay but,,, Blake encouraging Yang to take that next step? creating that safe space for her? Yang saying it’s like a cliff and if i do it, i’m just gonna fall, and Blake responding i think we’re already falling. it’s Blake letting Yang say it first, and not even pausing to breathe before saying i love you too. it’s Blake letting Yang take the step but holding her hand out the whole way there, assuring her that she would never let her fall. not alone

[not-the-living-ghost]

there is truly a special place in my heart for all of the alive roommate payneland AUs. something about them just capture the queerplatonic nature of their relationship so well, i swear

[spinnysocks]

still love the fact that reirei has beef with a literal teenager

they are absolute chaos, whether they're working together or against each other