#YESSSS this is on my dash again!!

[sehnsuchts-trunken]

Save a Horse, Ride a (Space) Cowboy

tom ryder x reader 2.2k words

summary: Tom in his space cowboy outfit really does something to you. Something that makes you forget about everything else.

tw! almost smut. really basically smut.

(THE PICTURE HAS BEEN UPGRADED YESSSS!!!!! thank you all for bearing with me <3)

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It's hot. It's unbearably fucking hot. You're sweaty, your shirt is sticking to your back, your sun hat seems to have no effect at all anymore and that Tom is running around right in front of your face in that gods damned space cowboy outfit is not helping at fucking all to cool you down.

Fucking hell.

It's genuinely not funny anymore.

Tom himself had you rubbing your thighs together more than often enough, but with that fucking cowboy hat on too now? Holy shit.

The only good thing about the desert heat is that you can blame the sweaty stickiness you're feeling on the temperature, the sun and the sand. Maybe not how you've soaked through your underwear, but... It's a start, at least. It's probably why Tom hasn't subjected you to one of his scrutinising stares yet - one of those with raised eyebrows and his whole attention focused on you.

You're restless because of the sand. Sweaty because of the sun. Avoiding his gaze because you're so uncomfortable in this blazing hot weather.

...Yeah.

"One more take and we're done", Jody shouts. You can hardly bite back a groan. Wonderful. One more time you'll have to watch Tom run around in that fucking outfit. At this point, it's close to torture. A part of you wants to just dash back to the trailer and take a very, very, very cold shower.

But you can't, this is your job, so you close your lips around the straw sticking out of your water bottle and watch. Watch Tom in that goddamn cowboy hat save his alien princess.

"You're drooling", Venti whispers, startling you so badly you flinch away from her. God, she has a fucking talent for appearing in places she shouldn't be.

"Fuck off", you mutter, your eyes clinging right back to Tom as he wraps his arms around his co-star. Oh, you'd very much like to switch places with her right now - even in this boiling desert hell.

"You know, technically, he's your boss", Venti goes on, entirely undeterred by your not-so workplace friendly language.

"Technically, he's my boyfriend", you bite right back at her, trying hard not to get weak in the knees as the camera zooms in closely on Tom's face, all big eyes and chiseled features appearing on the display next to you. He's fucking marvellous, goddamn him.

You still don't know just how he's your boyfriend. Venti's right - technically, he's your boss. You'd applied as his assistant one day and now here you are, dating the most famous action star of the moment. And he really does have it all: the face, the fame, the green. You're not quite sure he's even real, to be completely honest. A tiny part of you is constantly dreading that when you open your eyes in the morning, it'll turn out he's nothing but a fever dream after all. Or a hallucination. Maybe you're crazy.

"Alright, we got it!", Jody shouts, pulls you from your thoughts - from the way you'd been ogling him - and drags you back to reality. You hadn't even realised you'd started chewing on your lip. "Great shot, really, well done, we're gonna take a break before we shoot the next scene!"

The word break echoes in your mind like a fucking hallelujah. With a start, you rush towards Tom, almost stumbling over your own two feet as you grab his water bottle and hold it out for him.

"Here", you breathe, hoping, praying you don't look as debauched as you feel. Then again, you've sweated through the few layers you're wearing, so you probably do.

"Thanks, love", he smiles, reaches for the bottle and takes a sip. Then he looks you down. And up. And down. And up again. And your hoping, your praying crumbles right down to nothing, because he gives you that very stare you'd been dreading, the one that shoots like x-rays through your body and lays you bare for him. "You feeling good? You look hot."

Fuck, you are hot. Just not because of the blaring sun.

"I'm fine", you lie, even though you can feel your cheeks warm further. Just watching him close up on a screen is already enough to get you wet, but to have him this close up? That's even worse. "Just the temperature, I guess."

You shrug for good measure, but he still doesn't seem all that convinced. He eyes you once more, trailing his gaze down your body, then up again. It's hard to keep upright at this point. God, that outfit he's wearing really does something to you.

"Do you want to eat?", you blurt out, anything to get him to stop scrutinizing you. And to actually do your job. "I could get something from the buffet, take it to the trailer or-"

"I could eat", he interrupts, the corners of his lips tugging up. His sudden grin distracts you. Mindlessly, you nod along.

"Sure, I'll find something you like", you mutter, ready to turn and plunder the buffet table when his hand closes around your arm. Your heels all but dig into the sand below. He really has too much of an effect on you. You could easily slip out of his grip if you wanted, and yet you're frozen in place.

"You know what I'd like right now, baby?", he asks, his voice barely above a whisper as he takes a step closer. Fuck, he's so handsome. "You."

Barely three minutes later, he's got you pressed against the inside of the trailer door, cold metal against scorching skin as you try to catch your breath. You're panting, cheeks surely flashing red, and you'd like to blame that on the sun, on the sand, on the desert - but it's him, it's him, only him. It's him and that goddamn space cowboy outfit they'd put him in.

"Tom", you breathe, your fingers cramped around the collar of his shirt, clenched so tightly that your knuckles have turned white. He's real, he must be. You just can't quite figure out how.

"You good?", he asks, his voice deeper and a little breathy around the edges.

"No", you chuckle truthfully, your fingertips dipping beneath his collar and brushing over his skin instead. Your eyes drag right after them, drinking in the bit of bare chest his costume exposes. And that fucking golden necklace, just dangling from his neck like it's not driving you fucking insane.

"Still because of the heat, baby?", he asks, grinning widely when your eyes flicker back up at his face. His tone borders on mocking. Goddamn.

You should have known.

You should have known that he knows.

Because of course he knows. Of course he'd realised that you'd been fidgety and hot and bothered for entirely different reasons than the rest of the crew. Not because of the sun and sand and desert, but because of him. Because of him and that outfit.

"No", you admit quietly, your eyes dropping back down to his necklace as your fingers work open the first buckle of his vest. There's no way you could possibly lie to him when he's got you this close. "Not because of the heat."

It's honestly a miracle that you can even talk while you're undoing his clothes.

"Oh?", he asks, his hands tightening on your waist as you open his vest and rest your palms against his button-up for just a moment. "Because of what, then?"

You bite down on your lip to keep your grin at bay, even as his thumbs sneak below the hem of your shirt. His fingers graze your skin and, as if he hadn't already done enough to you, shoot sparks right down to your core.

"You", you mutter truthfully, drag your palms up to his collar again and begin loosening the buttons of his shirt. You want your hands on him. You want to finally touch him. You're basically melting for him, melting into him, and you want to get that shirt open now. "And this fucking costume. Space cowboy, who had that idea, anyway?"

Tom chuckles at your sudden honesty.

"Jody", he says, all matter-of-factly as you scoff at him and pop open one button after the other. By now, you can feel yourself dripping down your thighs. You're not sure whether it's sweat or not - you're just sure that you need to touch him and him to touch you. Now. Or you'll end up a puddle on the floor.

"Fucking cheers to Jody", you mutter, tearing his shirt open, steadying your palms against his bare, so very, very bare skin and taking a deep, deep breath in. Fuck. He's gorgeous. Drop-dead fucking gorgeous. All abs and hard muscles, warm and sweaty against your fingertips, so enticing, so inviting. You run your hands up, then down his torso, slowly enough to take in every inch you can touch. You could do this for the rest of your life.

"Didn't think you'd be so into it, baby", he murmurs, his fingers dragging fully beneath your shirt now and trailing over your stomach. Usually, he's got you naked and begging within seconds - but he always does like it just a little too much when you marvel at him this openly. It's an ego boost he doesn't need.

"Fuck, I'm into you", you whisper, your eyes catching on his necklace again. O-fucking-kay. So it's definitely not just him. As if in reflex, your finger hooks into the chain dangling from his neck. God, you've been waiting to do that ever since you'd seen him in this damned outfit for the first time. "But the cowboy hat has its effect."

Tom grins and grabs at your waist, pushes you firmly against the door and fuck, he's hard, he's-

"Just the hat?", he asks as your finger tightens around his necklace, as you tug. Tug him right into you, tug him so close that you can feel his breath on your lips.

"No", you smile, your eyes fluttering shut. "Not just the hat."

And then you pull him in and kiss him.

He's pressed against you, his shirt open, his hands on your waist, and he's all but crowding you against the door. His beard scratches against your skin in such a heavenly way you can hardly keep from pushing back against him. He really shouldn't be such a good kisser, not when he's also that good-looking, that talented, that famous, and that rich. He's truly got it all. And you can't do anything but melt into his arms, melt against his body, melt... quite literally.

"Tom", you moan, barely above a breath as you pull at his necklace and drag your free hand down, down, down to his waistband. Your fingertips catch on the button of his pants. "Fuck me."

He's just pulling his arms away from your waist and grabbing for your thighs, grabbing to wrap your legs around him when there's a sharp knock at the trailer door. You startle so badly you flinch and so does he, stumbling further into the trailer, knocking against each other, tripping over each other, steadying yourselves in just the right moment before the door opens.

Gail.

Standing in the bright light of the sun, her sunglasses high on her nose, her expression nothing short of frantic, one hand on the doorknob and the other curled like she's trying to strangle the fucking air.

"Ryder", she seethes, then pauses and takes a deep breath. You're so shocked you can't do anything but stare at her like a deer caught in headlights. "Take off your fucking mic before you hook up with your girlfriend."

Tom scrambles to pull out the tiny, fuzzy microphone stuck to his vest. He holds it in his hands for one, two seconds, his eyes wide as he stares at it - then he chucks it at Gail, who doesn't even make a move to catch it before it lands on the ground.

Embarassment shoots through your veins, glues you into spot and if you hadn't been flushed, sweaty and trembling already, you surely would be now.

Holy fucking shit.

Tom had been wearing his mic.

He'd been wearing his fucking mic during all of this.

The entire fucking crew had listened in on you and him making out.

Gail turns around and lets the door fall shut, one deafening thump of metal against metal that tears you from your spiralling mind and hurls you straight back to reality.

"Tom", you gasp, balling your hand into a fist and hitting him right in the chest with it. "You didn't take off your fucking mic?"

He doesn't even have the decency to look apologetic as he shrugs. No, there's already a grin licking at his lips again, a grin that tells you he's neither embarrassed nor going to remember taking his mic off the next time.

"I had so much more important things to think about", he chuckles, wraps his arm around your waist and pulls you close again.

He's still half-naked.

You feel your breath hitch.

"Tom", you mutter, your fist resting against his chest. He can't be fucking serious. He cannot be fucking serious. You're burning with embarrassment, petrified with shock - and he's already pulling you in again, his palms rubbing into your back. "You horny bastard."

He's already pressed his lips to yours before you can finish, and despite yourself, you have to grin.

"Promise you'll take your mic off next time", you mumble into him, then you're throwing your arms around his neck and pushing into him.

He's a lost cause. You know that. But it never hurts to try.

[hellfiresky]

Where’s the Delta Squad? Good question. Read what went down behind the scene below!

This crack is based on a conversation I had with @orangez3st! Keep reading!

Boss: alright, picture time! Everybody move move MOVE! Goddammit these non-clones are moving like kriffing conduit worms. DIDN’T YOUR BUIR TEACH YOU HOW TO MARCH? MORNING ASSEMBLY? NO?! Karking hell. Of course you lot had normal childhood.

Sev: TALL PEOPLE AT THE BACK. MONSTERS, SPACE KAIJU, Everyone!!! No, not you Batcher. You’re not a monster. Your handler is.

Fixer: The fuck was that?

Sev: sniper business

Boss: first Atin, now Crossy?

Scorch: Mmmm. Everyone’s here, yeah? I feel like we’re missing something. Don’t you think?

Fixer: we’re missing four actually

Boss: yeah.

Sev: Fives, Hardcase, Fox, and Bly

Scorch: Riiiiiight. Totally, yes. Yep. Who else, huh?

Fixer: not us, we ain’t canon.

Boss: we were in that one episode though, remember?

Scorch: AHHH YES! Where Fixer stayed at the ship?

Fixer: yeah I was busy

Sev: busy watching Kaminoan sex ed

Fixer: you shut up *pokes Sev*

Sev: aye, I don’t judge

Boss: EVERYONE SHUSH! We need to take the photo!!!

————

Kit Fisto: are we good? Do you guys need any help? 😀

Sev: no, no, sir. We’re good.

Fixer: damn he looks good. How is he always so happy?

Scorch: probably because he doesn’t work with you

Fixer: I WILL WHOOP Y-

Boss: DELTA I’M TRYING TO GET SOME GOOD ANGLES. BE HELPFUL FOR ONCE!

Sev: *ten seconds sighs* fine. *grabs a lighting set*

Scorch: Oh I can do that! *takes the lighting set*. Sir, do you want a light boom? Or an explosive party?

Fixer: Nah, that’s my job *takes the lighting set and starts setting it up*

Scorch: Booooo! Okay. I know what i’m good at. EVERYONE MOVE CLOSER TO EACH OTHER. YES LIKE WE HAD SAID EARLIER, TALLER PEOPLE AND MONSTERS AT THE BACK. YES, ZEB, YOU CAN GRAB A CLONE. THAT ONE BITES, BE CAREFUL! NO, JAR JAR YOU CANNOT GET ON REX’S SHOULDERS HE’S SENSITIVE. GREGORRRR YESSSS REPPING US COMMANDOS!!! COMMANDER WOLFFE, YES I WILL SHUT UP. YES, SHINY WITH THE OLD ARMOUR YOU CAN STAND AT THE FRONT WITH THE CUTIES. CAPTAIN HOWZER, YOU LOOK DASHING, COME CLOSER A BIT.

Scorch (to Delta): Damn, Howzer really looks nice. How does he do it?

Boss: He moonlights as an underwear model

Scorch: we should go to GARber and get the Howzer cut tomorrow

Fixer: that won’t fit you, you bantha fodder

Scorch: LOOK BABY WOOKIEE!

————

Sev: *holds at least a dozen datapads* I’m afraid my hands are full, sir. Yes, Senator Amidala, you’re an exception, hand me the datapad.

Quinlan: One more one more! Come on, man. Just one more datapad. This is spiPhone 16, better than Boss’ camera.

Fixer: *coughs* fuckin spiPhone users

Boss: OKAY EVERYONE READY????

Wrecker: THREE TWO ONE SAY YEAAAHHH

Scorch: I thought I was the director

Sev: you got anything better to say?

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Rex: *side eyes Jar Jar* COME ON GUYS BE QUICK

Kit Fisto: My teeth are drying here 😀

Fixer: lighting ready

Scorch: We’re not using Wrecker’s line

Boss: got anything better to say?

Scorch: SAY RED GREEN REEED AFTER ONE!!! GOT IT?

Scorch: THREE. TWO. ONE

Everyone: RED GREEN REED

Scorch: OKAY NOW EVERYONE SAY YEAAAAAH

Everyone: YEAAAAAAAH

————

Sev: HOLD THAT POSE. HOLD THAT POSE, PLEASE. YES, INCLUDING YOU, ZIRO. YOU’RE GOING BACK TO PRISON. I STILL HAVE FOUR MORE DATAPADS *takes more pictures using people’s datapads*

Quinlan: OH THAT’S MINE! MAKE IT GOOD I’M POSTING IT ON SPINSTAGRAM

Sev: Fucking guy *takes pictures anyway* AND DOOOONE.

————

Boss: Okay, what did Cody promise us again if we did this impossible group photo job?

Fixer: A confirmation that he and General Kenobi are official. Did you boys see them? They stood beside each other!

Boss: Seriously? That’s the only reward?

Sev: there’s a betting pool, we all voted yes, and now we have a hard evidence. We’ll bathe in credits

Scorch: Then we can go on a holiday! To Kashyyyk!!

Sev: Too soon, you di’kut!

[screams-in-writing]

Oops my hands slipped again

The end of the smg4 movie struck me with inspiration.

Note for this snippet:

This could technically take place in the performance enhancing coffee au world, if I ever get to that point and it somehow works out. But I desperately wanted to write something with Mr. Wpnz and Mr. Puzzles in it and then I went. Ah yes. Lemme just Introduce that Mc to the former and freak out the latter yessss.

-x

Mr. Puzzles was deep in a conversation with his new…’friend’, a fellow by the name of Mr. Wpnz, who had provided Puzzles with quite the show for him to watch from afar. Quite a violent, action packed one at that! And at times, both heartbreaking and heartfelt. 

Oh, the way some of it had pulled at one’s emotions!

And with the name Mr. Wpnz, Puzzles couldn’t help but feel a certain kinship with some else who’d chosen to use ‘Mr’ as a part of their name.  

But that was a minute detail, at present. 

Right now, Mr. Puzzles engaged with this previously beaten-up mostly-mechanical being, now mostly put back together after puzzles had offered a hand in the ‘put back together phase’. After all, Mr. Puzzles had to maintain a partially mechanical body as well, though not one as mechanical as Mr. Wpnz. 

This meeting was the next step; it would be a test to see how this…friendship could pan out. 

With the newly put back together-recuperating weapons man who had all kinds of, well, weapons, packed everywhere on his person, Mr. Puzzles was certain the two of them could have quite a productive meeting.

Really.

How ever could that Karen not want to have such an interesting man about? Even with the violent tendency to fire upon others when things got, well, heated and dangerous, it seemed like Wpnz was someone who could have your back.

If properly motivated, of course. 

Mr. Puzzles sure did hope that he could convince Mr. Wpnz that he himself was a showman, a behind the scenes man, and not a fighter (at least not in the real world; Puzzles’ mind, however, was another matter altogether).

Of course, making any sort of progress in the conversation was dashed by the door suddenly being slammed open and someone very familiar to Mr. Puzzles yelled his name.

“PUZZLES WHERE IN THE WORLD HAVE YOU BEEN?! I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD THIS WHOLE TIME!”

Mr. Puzzles hastily reached out to press down on the gun Mr. Wpnz suddenly turned his hand into, already prepared to fire. 

“And here you are, conversing with some weapon toting weirdo in a dark warehouse?what the heck, Puzzles?” The voice continued on, upset. “Why didn’t you at least let me know you were alive?!”

“I thought there wasn’t supposed to be anyone here but us?” Wpnz growled under his breath at the tv-headed man as he moved his arm out of Puzzles’ grasp, deactivating it. 

“I have been…dating them, before that ah, incident occurred that I told you about. I had yet to inform them that I hadn’t ended up buried under all the rubble.” Mr. Puzzles spun and clapped his hands together as he flashed a nervous, uncertain technicolor smile your way. “Hello, my dear. It has been too long. I do so apologize for not contacting you straight away. I was not in the best of places. You know how I…got, at times, and I’d rather you not see me like that….”  Puzzles voice dropped low, nearly inaudible, and toneless, despite the smile he showed outwardly to you and Wpnz. “Still not in a good place, even now.” 

You looked like you weren’t entirely happy with his explanation. It was likely that you  understood he had been doing his best to not get carried away with his pursuit of a five star rating again, although the theme park HAD gotten a teensy-tiny bit out of hand and it had slipped his mind that you’d be worried about him and-

“-and how’d ya meet this guy? He as interestin’ with his tv shtick as he seems to imply?”

Mr. Puzzles stiffened, whipping his body around, tv head first, to show off an incredibly displeased expression. He didn’t bother to hold the twitching or the strained smile that appeared on his face.

How dare this weapon maniac so causally greet you! Mr. Wpnz didn’t know that you couldn’t be hurt like the rest of the denizens of this world could be. 

“Oh yes I remember!” Mr. Puzzles answered before you could, frantic to have you step away from Wpnz. “We met when I was at my lowest, languishing in recent defeat, and I was shown quite the kindness while I recovered, after some misunderstandings were cleared up. Made some friends in the process, and even a little something more.” Mr. Puzzles pointedly flashed a winning smile to you, hopeful, and continuing to really, really not like the way you were so close to a being more metal than flesh, even more than he. 

You gave Mr. Puzzles a searching look, then turned to Mr. Wpnz, and waved him down to whisper at him.

Puzzles bristled at this, but waited. 

Impatiently. 

He didn’t particularly care for the way that Wpnz began to smirk, his lips curving up and his sharp teeth baring in amusement at whatever you had said to him.

Oh…

No.

no no no.

Mr. Puzzles did not like that one bit. He was very tempted to take the pair of you into his television mind and keep Wpnz there while he attempted to sort things out with you and-

“You serious?” The incredulous tone was genuine; Wpnz was looking at you uncertainly now, all weapons pointed very carefully away from you as he reassessed something, even if he remained stooped. “That’s quite a claim. If it’s true, this ain’t a safe place for ya to be.”

You muttered something again.

…Mr. Puzzles really didn’t want Mr. Wpnz to know about your vulnerability here, but it seems you may have spilled the beans already. Puzzles was upset when you inexplicably allowed Mr. Wpnz to pick you up. Mr. Puzzles spluttered in response, until Wpnz hooked a thumb over a shoulder and the sudden noise that was not something Puzzles wanted to hear with you near.

Why in the world was there a random shootout with reptiles suddenly?

Mr. Puzzles was completely certain there had been no one around when he’d arranged this meeting with Wpnz.

“Get your stuck legs moving!” Mr. Wpnz called, suddenly some distance away with you.

Seeing you wave at him, Mr. Puzzles hastily pursued, long legs allowing him to keep up. At the very least, Wpnz was at least attempting to not jostle you as he ran along.

…perhaps not contacting you straight away to let you know he was still ‘alive’ hadn’t been the the best decision. (Don’t think about Wpnz being an assassin while the man was carrying you)

At least you were being taken away from danger, even if the rude bastard happens to shoot a weapon over his shoulder past Mr. Puzzles with unerring accuracy. 

Mr. Puzzles hadn’t expected the retaliation from the outset behind, and let out an undignified shriek when one of those reptiles shot in their general direction. Another gasp, this one of affront, at Mr. Wpnz’s audacity to backtrack and scoop Puzzles up, tossing him over a shoulder like he weighed nothing. 

“Don’t break my beautiful face!” Mr. Puzzles shouted over the gunfire that was getting closer. 

“Yeah, yeah, don’t break ya face, I heard ya the first time.”

Puzzles’ expression turned aggrieved at the way Wpnz held you in the crook of one arm, from the way your legs hung down, as Puzzles found himself looking backward at the ruckus going on. Then, Mr. Puzzles heard you laugh. A mix of an exhilarated ‘wtf is this’ laugh, and a ‘oh no I’m in danger’ nervous laugh. 

Hmm.

Well, he much preferred your laughter to any disappointment. Mr. Puzzles would have to use the time in this (humiliating) retreat to think of how to explain himself more than excuses.

-x

Another note:

The following is what happened later once all three of ‘em get to safety (with some ridiculousness), but I didn’t finish writing it out entirely because my eyes said no more to screen time atm:

MC, inexplicably brandishing the smaller Mr puzzles plush: how could you leave me and your son without knowing you were all right? (Joking around but Mc still upset they were meant to think puzzles was dead dead this past time).

Mr puzzles, absolutely floundering for a response: *utter confusion then faint amusement over the plush*

Mr. Wpnz, watching this familiar yet not familiar back and forth: *misses his wife and kids but knows he can’t have his shooting assassin career and them. Plus he’s bitter about what happened. Pushing away *those* thoughts to deal with at another time, Wpnz decides to be a shit* “yeah how could you?” Drops a hand on mc’s shoulder and shakes his head, motioning at the mc. “And to a face like that?”

‘that’ being mc’s pout of disappointment while still holding the plush of puzzles

Mr puzzles is scandalized that he’s being teamed up on and how dare you let that Wpnz so casually stand next to you (aka tv man doesn’t realize jealousy hitting him in the face)

Wpnz sees something is up but those thoughts are crowding in so he doesn’t notice the jealousy rising up off tv man

you notice it and dramatically lean against Wpnz while lamenting that it’s so difficult to go on in life without knowing if you were ever going to see him again.

puzzles is despairing when Wpnz plays along for nothing better to do.

Mc is just going ah yes new friend with a distressing amount of weapons who seems to know my tv man bf this will be interesting.

puzzles laments ever meeting with Wpnz as he would have rather you avoided meeting him.

[c-kiddo]

GOT SO EXCITED SEEING YOUR POSTS POP UP ON MY DASH AGAIN LIKE YESSSS C-KIDDO IS BACK

aw thank you thats good ! im glad youre happy to see them again though idk why they stopped showing up thats weird !

[kryptonitejelly]

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All I can think is Flyboy!Jake 😭😭

😭😭😭 this is so cute :’) i’m so happy you thought of flyboy!jake because yessss. something more from Jake’s POV

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Jake’s eyes are darting across the small crowd the moment he slips out from the hangar. The main welcoming party was on the other side of the building where the ship was docked, with only a portion of the crowd, all of whom were waiting for an aviator of sort, here. He has never had trouble picking you out from the crowd and manages zeros in on you immediately.

It takes you a moment longer to spot Jake, but within seconds of him locking onto you, your gaze is fitting in with his. It makes the corners of his lips tick upwards, a smile unfurling itself on his face, Jake can feel his heart hammering in his chest, legs beginning their stride towards you. It is the same for Jake every, single, time, he sees you - whether it is after 6 months away, 3 months away, 2 weeks, or even a day, the surge of warmth in his chest is always the same.

Jake sees your face mirror his, your lips growing into a smile.

I’ve missed you - he mouths from afar, and from the way your gaze softens, Jake knows you’ve gotten the message. He is content to hold your gaze, the world feeling like it has only the two of you in it, but his trance is dashed by a shriek - one of his other loves.

Jake’s gaze drops down to the little blonde head sprinting towards him with determined green eyes just like his own, the excited shrieks of “daddy” falling from her lips in a continuous babble. He bends down as she nears him, and feels her little body slam into him a moment later, an excited giggle rumbling through her body as she knots her arms around his neck.

“My Daddy,” she all but shouts, beaming excitedly, body squirming against his chest. Jake looks over her head to see you making your way towards them, letting your daughter enjoy her moment with her father.

“Hi bug,” he kisses her on the cheek before she pats his face, words falling out of her mouth faster than her brain can process them, not all of it makes sense, but Jake is content to listen.

“You’re my hero Daddy,” she yells just as you approach Jake.

“Is he your hero?” Jake hears you ask and he extends his other hand towards you, he waits for you to slot yourself against his free side and the moment you do, Jake feels right again. He lets his body sag against yours just that little bit - tension easing away.

“My Daddy is my hero,” your daughter nods firmly before squirming to be let down. Jake obliges because as much as he loves her, he wants his hands on you in the moment - Jake would never play favourites among his children, would never claim to love them less than he did you, but to him - you came first, it was his one firm and steadfast rule. The moment her feet land on the ground, Jake has his arms around you, pulling you towards him; he feels your arms slot around his waist.

“You’re my hero too you know,” he hears you mumble into shoulder of his flight suit.

“Not going to call me Daddy?” He muses as the top halves of your bodies pull away from each other. Jake finds you looking into his piercing greens, he knows you can see the wave of emotions hiding behind the dose of mischief playing on his lips.

“Thought we would save that for later,” he feels you mutter against his lips. It makes him groan slightly as he lets your love engulf him, his daughter running in circles around the both of you in a train of giggles.

[andypantsx3]

andie!! so happy to see you gracing my dash again and i hope you can rest well after your trip ㅠㅠ

i have to hop onto this shouto-boyfriend-utility conversation real quick bc 1) the bnha brain rot has snuck up on me and 2) the weather changed from sunny and summery to rather autumnal in like a single night here, so now ofc i keep thinking about my faves giving me their hoodies and cuddling me :] shouto ofc has the added bonus of being perfect for which ever way the weather swings

that’s all my input for now… and if you keep seeing me in the tags of your fics, no you don’t jsjshs (i really just wanted an excuse to come talk to you :3c)

Holly my love!!!! And omg yessss space heater boyfriend Shouto!!! He really is the perfect multipurpose man, like the swiss army knife of boyfriends...

[literaphobe]

Omg you like elementary??? This show is everything to meeeee aaaah I need to rewatch it, thank you for putting it on my dash again!! 🧡🧡🧡

YESSSS ur welcome!! been having a blast binging it… i stopped for like at least a few days to sort out tvl but its been so good…

looked through my email inboxes today and I realized I had written joanlock fic that I deleted off ao3 (long story) and I didn’t read it but I skimmed through and I just feel like. I could have done a much better job now esp in terms of characterization and storytelling and just really being a lot better language wise. i probably won’t but. i love their dynamic loads

[elwensa]

Thanks again to share your art with OW fandom on tumblr. I'm so happy to be able to reblog your comics on my dash <3 Have you seen that for Zevent, one of JDG's goals is playing Outer Wilds theme with some streamers ? I hope they will do it bc this game is such a gem and it would be a beautiful experience on live and between the streamers who played it too.

Yessss I've seen that! I hope JDG manages to do it as well! That would be such a sweet moment!!

I'm still thrilled that in his Outer Wilds video, he was wearing a tshirt I made for him back in 2018. Never thought that much of a coicidence would happen lmao

[azuredrg]

can you do #11 for any of da gunslingers or for the story itself 💭

YESSSS HAPPILY TY PIPPPP

11) What was your inspiration for your OC?

I want to go down le listtt.... at least as i remember it

GUNSLINGERS itself.... I took inspiration from silent hill 2 and clock tower 3. (i wish i could implement more ct3 because it is such a funny game but again,,, story evolved too much that it felt side villains was simply Not Possible.) and also old testament (the main characters are literally named adam and eve) AND ALSO TRANSGENDERISM AND MY TRANSGENDER EXPERIENCE!!! i think as i transitioned more socially is what really made gunslingers evolve into what it is today as i kept implementing more of my experiences.... ok i'll put chara inspos under da cut so it doesnt clog the dash. but TL;DR: adam did his own thang and everyone else i built off of him

I made Adam years ago (gunslingers is 3! i went to check and just learned... wow) but i vividly remember his inspiration being bayonetta. at least visually.

maybe the resemblance is still there...... ?

he also was partially inspired by a black butler character (shamefully...), but i cut that part out of his story as it began to make less sense as the story evolved. i think a bit of his personality still clings on thouuu...

i genuinely cannot remember what inspired Cain, i remember toiling for a long time over his design, but i can't remember what i looked at to finalize it? (he was made shortly after adam was, but he came to me a lot harder... and somehow i forgot all of it) I definitely took inspiration from Beowulf, because it's on his shirt. I mostly wanted Cain to be a complimentary character to Adam, so they have similar palettes with like... Adams bigger emphasis on white while he (and really, every other character) has a lot more black than him.

so basically cain and eve look the way they do because adam looks the way he does. so i cite adam as eve and cains inspirations (at least design wise...)

Eve is inversely Adams complete opposite in every single way. i struggled a lot with her since forever because eve was a lot of different things while i was developing gunslingers. but i finally settled on her having a role like maria sh2 but i guess a lot more on the nose than what the game tries to portray... she also got a lot of her personality borrowed from ashley re4 (<- ashley also influenced a lot of her previous design before i landed on this!!!) i wanted her to be very much "ps2 horror girl protag"

and finally dracula... i think he was the easiest right behind adam... he is dracula.

just straight up regular vampire dracula. he was going to look exactly like bela lugosi. in my mind they have the same face.... but couldn't deny making him look a little like adam, so i gave him longer hair to kindof mirror that aspect.... i think this was also because of dracula castlevania looking cool, but i never played it and this is very loosely his inspiration...

[skibasyndrome]

Hey ! It's your birthday ??? Happy birthday to you !!! I wish you the best for today and all the others ! I'm very happy to have you around 😊

(Would have I known about your birthday, I would have kept my silly gift to you for the occasion 😁 But there is already a 🎀Wille🎀 on my dash today and she is stunning, so you win anyway !)

A piece of Valentine ball tension for you 🎁

Yessss hehe it is!!! Thank you so much, merci, Margot!!! 💜💜💜 Thank youuuu, I really hope that your day was good as well! (and that all your days are <3) I'm so happy to be here and to have YOU around 🥹🫂🥹🫂🥹🫂🥹🫂

Oh please, we can absolutely say it's an early gift. And she was soooooo beautiful, thank you so much again 😭😭😭🫂🫂🫂 but YES!!!!!!! Y E S !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was blessed with a wonderful 🎀Wille🎀 today and I still can't believe it 🥹

but AHH!!! my other love!!!!!!!!! ball scene my forever beloved 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 let me go ahead and break the tension

[insomniakisses]

I followed you a long time ago for your vampire diaries/originals/legacies stuff and now you’re popping up on my dash again with a bunch of sports stuff that I have no idea about but I still love it so much bc your writing style is so good and I see your posts that are like “roommate leah would be such a perv” and I’m just like “omg yessss she would” even tho i have no idea who you’re talking about

anyways I love your writing sm even if I don’t know the people it’s about <3

Haha im sorry if im flooding ur dashboard too much, esp with todays posts, but im glad your liking, at least somewhat i hope, the new content haha

And thank you! It means alot to hear.

Just to give u a little background Leah Williamson is a footballer (or soccor depending on where your from)

Heres an edit or two because who am i to withhold Leah content.

Edit one // Edit two // Fuck it u get a 3rd edit too

[booasaur]

Are you watching True Detective? Prior to this season I was never really interested in the show but certain gifs I’ve seen floating on my dash have changed my mind lol. The mystery is fine but I’m not really one for mysteries anyway, what I’m really loving, is getting to see various women be kind of awful and not overwhelmingly punished for it. Also the leads aren’t hard to look at which helps lol

I am, yeah. I saw the first season and then tried and dropped the second season but came back to it after watching Kelly Reilly in Britannia but I don't think I even knew it had a third season.

I was already looking forward to this fourth season, though, not just for Jodie Foster or because the trailer made it look like two exes forced to work together again, but because I AM a fan of frozen mysteries. They're such a great addition to the classic closed room mysteries like country houses or islands, it's just that now it's the whole of the Arctic (or Antarctic) that's keeping everyone isolated. There's something so ominous and alien about their surroundings, as if the cold itself is a second killer. Space is like that too, the more we get of those...

The first ep, not gonna lie, did worry me a bit, I thought it was pretty clumsy and too direct, but it's really nicely settled in now. I'm hoping there are supernatural forces at work, but I think they'll probably Yellowjackets us and leave it open.

And haha, yessss, awful women! Danvers is roughhhh. She had me balling my fists a few times but you do see her perspective and she's a great detective. They're both very nice to look at, can't deny that at allll.

I always find it interesting when you have female characters who behave and are treated like male leads get to be, messy and brilliant, tragic pasts that get to define them and not someone else. Like Amy on Vigil too, she's allowed to be very focused on her job and approach her investigations in this stern, no-nonsense, almost rude way like male leads do. It was refreshing!

Usually there's still a sort of softening, e.g., a reminder that the character's still a loving mom or really compassionate to victims, that kind of thing, and even then, viewers are harsh in a way they wouldn't be to the same character as a man, but lol, Danvers! Such a demanding boss, the opposite of an understanding mom, definitely was cheating on her late husband, and kind of racist to boot. She's the definition of Unlikable, but still compelling. I might feel different if the show cosigned any of that, but it's very clear in its stance so I don't feel conflicted, I'm just enjoying them unwrap all of her and Navarro's layers.

[thegeminisage]

i tried to do it right at midnight and it said i was still too early lol i had to wait an extra thirty seconds

ok, i guess i'll do bullet point liveblogs so i don't make 1000 posts on the dash...

fucking LOVE that we get to play as link. unexpected surprise and pleasure

3D Z-TARGETING FROM THE TOP-DOWN PERSPECTIVE...oh the camera is about to get so funky. love that we have infinite arrows too. be nice not to manage it for a bit

this platforming is gonna be good practice for bed jumps later

AND i just noticed he's got full hearts...

FULL BOMBS WHICH CAN BECOME BOMBCHUS

organ coming in as we get close to ganon what a loving touch

oh there's my girl

HE TALKS??????????????????????????????????????????????

i don't think he'd done that since the snes era.................holy fuck

it's you AGAIN?

SCREAM? SIX HEARTS PER HIT???

I WAS JUST THINKING DAMN WHAT A SHAME GANON HAS TO BE EASY SINCE HE'S AT THE START OF THIS GAME. NO!!!! MORE THE FOOL I.

aaah i can hear alttp's ganon battle and zelda's lullaby in here...great job team

starting to wonder if it was scripted to lose lol...i got him w one heart left

YESSSS I GET TO BREAK OUT OF THE CRYSTAL ON MY OWN

FEMINISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i know it's so stupid but this means so much to me. it's literally her turn. my turn. The Girls Turn. To Break Their Own Crystals

that was. very satisfying :')

BOYFRIEND CLOAK

ohhhh that whole sequence was amazing. it calls back so strongly to the end of ocarina of time and then the opening of botw...

i love the body language of the guards even though they're so stylized and then the spooky rift after they leave :')

ok, new post before this one gets too long. only 15 minutes into this game and already chefs kiss. mwah

[pastafossa]

pasta i met charlie on saturday and im still recovering

he is So Sweet and his hands are So Big And Warm and he hugs So Good

YESSSS! There's DEFINITELY a floaty dopamine period after meeting him! And then you get little shots of it every time you think of it or see the pic or have a chance to go 'I MET HIM!' when you see him on your dash!

He really is absolutely the sweetest, 100% nicest celeb I've met. And hands are hooooly shit yes, BIG (my hands felt so small, it was lovely) AND HIS ARMS ARE ABSOLUTELY PERFECT FOR HUGGING.

I need to make a bunch of money so I can go again and get another photo. 😂

[50cal-fullauto-astarion]

what smiley face would they use the most if they had a phone (changing this to emoji in general)

hobby or interest they are most embarrassed about (PLEASE tell what brings shame to the Durge Boy)

what mundane human job would they have in modern society to pay the bills and do they like it

their top 3 songs on repeat name a toxic trait of theirs that is really just a beige flag at best

THANK YOU BABE EHEHEHHEEH ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 I’m going to answer for both of these smelly bitches bc I can dghj

1. what smiley face would they use the most if they had a phone

Yder’s a definite tie between 🖕 and 😐. Yder is constantly expressing annoyance, whether fondly or genuinely.

Scorpio oh man. I feel like he’s by and large a FaceTime or voice note sort of dude, and his emoji game is fuckin whack and inscrutable fghhd. He’s giving me HUGE 🔫, 🔪, 👊 vibes though, with a dash of 🙇, 🤡, and 🥰. Also maybe a few of these 🐂 bc I feel like he’s got an obsession with the strange ox and he just NEEDS ppl to know he’s thinking about it again.

6. hobby or interest they are most embarrassed about

HUEHUEHUE YESSSS. Oh god this hit me like a ton of bricks, and it’s making me cringe in sympathy embarrassment, but I feel like my poor Durge baby Scorpio has a REALLY pretty voice. Like REALLY pretty, nice and gravelly and deep. Anyway where I’m going with this is smth smth he narrates erotica and/or creates porn ASMR audios. Slaps them on Patreon, makes a mint even though he’s just doing it for fun, but if ANYONE caught him recording whimpering audios, he’d send himself straight to hell. I owe him a formal apology dfhh. He sounds like Ghost Call Of Duty |’:

Real time life update I almost got shit on by a fuckin bird

YDER. So I had to think about this a minute - NOT bc she doesn’t have shame, she has that in spades, but omfg she’s so like Go And Do that she wouldn’t have time for a hobby, let alone an embarrassing one. Oh god no I figured it out. She’s low key kind of a furry/scalie and she’s got sonas for each that she doodles a lot. One’s a water monitor and one’s a mongoose 😭😭 YDER I’M SO SORRY. I’ll give her one redeeming quality, her art Twitter is fucking insane. SECONDARY EMBARRASSMENT: this is the actual one bc it popped in my head but I think the furry thing is funny enough to leave, but she has a huge assortment of romance themed pinboards that she likes to edit and curate and if ANYONE saw them, she’d ruin their life.

15. what mundane human job would they have in modern society to pay the bills and do they like it

Yder’s is boring and immoral, but she’s a computer hardware engineer for fantasy!L*ckheed M*rtin while she’s pursuing her master’s. ): She likes it bc she’s good at it and it pays a lot, but not on its own merits.

Scorpio — my brain IMMEDIATELY said barista and dog walker?? *ETA: also is a bouncer at a shitty dive bar known for violent patrons. I mean he’s probably super married to Gale and living in luxury in Waterdeep like a trophy wife, so he’s just doing both of those to have something to do and some pocket change, even though Gale 8000% gave Scorpio a black card tied to his accounts that he can use freely. Plus he’s got the Patreon audio porn racket going on, he’s just doing shit for a laff at this point lol.

19. their top 3 songs on repeat

THIS ONE IS SO GOOD. All Spotify links!

Yder: Hot Knife - Fiona Apple (gives her Astarion feels, Abs she’ll annoy him by tugging his ear and going, “If I’m butter, if I’m butter, then he’s a hot knife.”) Беспонтовый пирожок - Grazhdanskaya Oborona (THIS SLAPS THANK YOU FOR THE REC WARDS!!). Ederlezi - Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra (this version is so fuckin good it got me to change her name).

Scorpio: Dirty Harry - Gorillaz. Anywhere I Lay My Head - Tom Waits (ANY Tom Waits song lbr, but this one is special and probably the song he associates most with Gale). Coal - Dylan Gossett (he’s my loves-country boy, and this song makes him feel seen).

27. name a toxic trait of theirs that is really just a beige flag at best

THIS one really had me thinking bc they’re both literally decimated with toxic traits, but bending them into beige flags is a trick dghj.

Yder: oh god so her selfishness and manipulative tendencies are omnipresent and bulletproof, but 💀💀 safe really DOES use it to improve the lives of the ppl she cares about. She’s an insular, horrid woman who rarely cares if she has to kill to get her way, but she’ll put that to use to beg, borrow, steal her friends’ ways into better lives. It’s a nice bonus if it sets her up nice, too.

Scorpio: He is EXTREMELY fucking clingy and possessive—whether it’s Gale, his friends, or just someone he considers ‘Mine Mine Mine,’ like the Finding Nemo gulls. But uhhh woof his loyalty is SERIOUSLY unmatched. And you’ll never be lonely if you have his number and want to hang out!

Bonus: they’re both in insanely codependent relationships 🤪🤪 but it makes their partners feel loved, wanted, and secure! That’s kind of like getting an A in relationships, right?

[aptericia]

BESTIE the stock reference account reblogged your fat Partitio!

YESSSS I SAW THAT! I follow them so when it popped up on my dash I was like “oh razz must have rb’d it again—wait ADORKASTOCK??”