#also some bad news funnnn

[uupdirector]

Today has been a great Christmas - probably one of the best I've had in so long. Wonderful fair share of gifts given and received, and I couldn't imagine having a better one in my life until now. While it was certainly great to spend time with my family, today... I had a rather positive emotional episode, feeling absolute joy for the holiday when I thought it was all but dampened at first. I actually cried in tears of joy - letting out all of my emotions at once. It was.... legitimately unexpected, and it made me even more excited for the rest of the day - even now as I'm typing this, I can't get over how raw it all felt, and I'm happy to feel something of this level after so long.

And that all extents to a very special gift - one I prepared for more than a month in advance... and it was for myself.

Folks, I'm happy to say that in preparation for my plans next year, I have gifted myself a Lenovo LOQ laptop - one that will allow me to bring better possibilities for creating content on my channels. It's a very big step, as it not only gives me a chance to bring that creative process wherever I go, but also shows what I'm truly capable of now that I have a full-time job, and after all that's happened this year, I saw it fitting to make this my reward after taking this well-deserved break.

Now, for some, this scenario may sound familiar to you all, and I'd be lying if I said that there wasn't any caveats to this special treat, and unfortunately one of them came up as of today. Turns out I was possibly given another special gift (nondiscrimitively); Covid! :'D

Yyyyyyup, got it while I was away yesterday, and miraculously the symptoms started coming up as of today (a Christmas miracle lol), once again putting a damper on my mood because sickness is just so much fun. So yeah, there's that. Don't wanna jinx anything just yet, but I'll make it through this regardless. Thank God I got mood tea for Christmas too - that's what woke up my spirits before, and I'm probably gonna be drinking tons of it. =_=

All that aside though, the other caveats of getting this new laptop stems from just how little time I have nowadays to work on things, but given I don't have to be in the same spot every day when doing so, i imagine this will increase my productivity a TON, so at least there's a positive there. Additionally, there's also the off chance this may not change anything for me immediately. But that's what therapy is for - and I'm still very glad I finally started it, because I imagine it will give me the push I need, especially after a good day like this, and I don't want to end it on a negative note because I feel like crap physically.

With that said, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas or Holiday season - despite my own setbacks as of recent, I had a wonderful one, and I know it's one I'm not going to forget. Take care of yourselves, and here's to the new year! Much love, folks! 💙

[manzaza]

perirep with airpods promoting mY WHOLE REVIEW OF THE NEW WISH SOUNDTRACK BECAUSE OHHHHH MY GOD IT GOES SO SO SO HARD (under cut feel free to listen here (also on apple music + yt do in fact give it a listen please yay) !!)

theme song (all the singing songs)

— although i can never truly let go of the og the new theme song will always be a bop

— so upbeat, so happy !!!

new yorkity york

— hazel’s va is such an amazing singer PLEASE if there’s a season 2 give them a musical episode there are not enough musicl numbers

party possum’s friendship song

— better than the chuck e cheese one i heard in the theater earlier lollllllll

— the live band version ate i liked the difference

— unhinged version was so fun the nickelodeon drummer ate up

lovely love song

— still haven’t watched this episode (i was shopping when it aired oops)

— hazel was so silly idk what happens i just remember cupid being there (idk if he was in this at the end that might’ve been hazel’s dad)

i love fries

— HAZEL’S VA SLAYING AGAIN !!!!!

— banger song so real live laugh love fries

— cosmo + wanda contributed yay let them sing

time loops

— addiction,,,,, brainrot even,,,,,,,,,

— cosmo and wanda singing yayyy !!!

— the actual little yay at the end was so silly got a good chuckle

proud of my son — dubstep remix

— this was actually the funniest thing to watch i had this episode pulled up in a panera’s and i was just staring at it like “bro just took over the world for THIS”

— dev is ten so it does make sense

— almost

a new wish (yay background music !!)

— i love all the jazz in the ost just soooo so good

— reminds me of a sam and max kinda intro

— listening to this + the rest just makes me want a video game for ANW so so bad it would genuinely be so much fun to play (will genuinely plot out a tumblr post for this idea)

fly hazel

— banger warmup vibes in the intro

— love how some of the insteuments give like a fly-feeling gimmick (cause she’s a fly)

— little intro chord at the very end eats up

teacher’s pal

— might be one of my fav tracks

— nickeloxeon pianist and saxophonist are eating uppp

— 1:15 was so good

— nickelodeon symphony when

fearless

— somewhat out of place but still fits in with the show vibes

— very lurking

— fnaf 3 am jumpscare (idk i see more poppy playtime in this despite never watching or knowing anything about poppy playtime

— very cheerful kinda scary at the end (yay jasmine!!!)

wellingston hotel

— i rlly like hotel music play this at a marriott hotel NOW

— still haven’t seen this episode (i’m dying to watch it i need to see winn’s introoooo)

— sudden rich person music change

— love you nickelodeon saxophonist !!!!

dev dimmadome

— classic dev intro

— 0:54 is so cruel just label this project h whyyyyyyyy

— just sheer pain in the middle but then they remebered at the end “oh yeah he’s ten”

— it gets so intense at 1:30 broooooo

fairy heist

— i love spy music

— little dev-ness in the middle with the certain gimmick in his track (i might be crazy for this one but idk the “waeahwow” reminded me of something from his track + i think this was in the breaking into school scene idk)

prime meridian love

— literal anime ost

— eats with the dramatic intro

— it faintly reminds me of an ok ko track but just slightly at the beginning of some of the melodies idk might be crazy for this one too

peri and irep

— no way.

— actually no way.

— ship interacts once and they get their own song.

— the twist at the beginning of the track was so hype like the beat is just constantly at odds during this song (and because i’m just like that i have the track times put down too when they swap)

— to not make this any longer the noticeable parts after their intros are like 0:50–1:02 is peri-sounding and then 1:03–1:18 is irep-sounding and from then on their themes are always at a clash with more differences spotted at the end

— will say i love irep’s part at 0:32 and 1:03 that’s so funnnn ahh

— the little villainous laugh at like 1:50 was silly

— the little theme at 3:00 ahhh !!!!!

— might be another fav……. yeah def another fav my airbuds says so

viozalea

— feels so medieval at first and i love it

— quick just like viozalea’s appearance (rip)

rattlleconda

— fire western theme

— still in character with the show the beat was firee

— the soft violin gahhh sheer joy

— intense pressure put on at the end ate

love and games

— rock paper scissors core

— me when rock paper scissors

— wait i actually never watched the valentines episode

— uhhhhhhh second half might be rock paper scissors

— BANGS

— love u Nickelodeon drummer

battle of wands (FINALE)

— shut up this is too glorious of a melody

— ok intense

— oh might’ve just hit one million wishes idk how this song is following the episode

— the chaos in the rhythm eats

— littlt theme at 2:30 aghhhh won

— peri lying dead right after again idk how the episode paces through songs i can spot little scenes here and there

— banged

— little clock beat ahh the happiness

— can’t even tell what happened but good finale

OVERALL i really enjoyed the soundtrack i love how it tries and takes you through the course of the episode and it’s so so fun!! almost feels like video game music sometimes which is so so good for them like YES drop a new wish video game it would be so good !!!!

[mochatea-bunny]

hello welcome to me and my blog ^^

heres what you can expect from my posts

swearing

hyperfixations

au's that may or may not be left to die

ships

hard to swallow opinions (this is just in case)

random oc's

maybe gore but def blood

so ya funnnn also more bout my au's

harvest heart au

monster's in the dark au (mitd)

you can ask questions to my harvest heart au but not mitd as im not happy with it rn (its story keeps changing cuz im bad at sticking with one idea)

ppl in harvest heart you can ask questions to

harvest moon (aka jack-o-moon)

moon

sun

monty

dj mm

???

???

ppl in general you can ask questions to

meeee

Neptune (oc)

zodie (sona)

mocha (sona)

(note im still new to tumblr and some things i dont know how to do so please bare with me)

[lazywriter-artist]

🤍✈

List can be found here for any more asks

Heheh funnnn :3

Idrk if you wanted any oc in particular but I’ll yap abt ock some bc I like him hehehe

🤍 - Three of your character’s neutral/questionable traits

Hm, a fun thought experiment for ock bc u haven’t thought about too many in such a light X)

The main one that comes to mind is how clingy he is, it’s not always unbearably so but it can get bad at times. It isn’t often, and it’s definitely not common as ock dislikes strongly using his abilities for ‘bad’ things, but he once used his ability to dominate another’s mind and puppeteer them to prevent the man from leaving his side and being dismissed after a few months aboard Huntsmann’s ship. It took Huntsmann and berny trying to talk him down to have him finally realse the poor man. Ock isn’t a fan of people he loves being put in harms way, since as far as it goes it’s never really ended well for him. It’s a trait he’s definitely trying to make better but it’s very difficult for him.

Next is his shyness I suppose, he’s a very sort of paradoxical character as a reclusive figure too anxious to directly interact (hence why he uses his telepathy for communication most of the time when possible) but one who longs so very deeply for any sort of connection he seeks it in just about everyone willing to tolerate his silent little form shivering behind them.

Finally for this one I suppose is u g h

He can be a bit emotional at times- (sometimes VERY emotional-) so when he’s not being a shivering ball of anxiety his fluctuations have no set ways or anything of doing so.

✈️ - Does your Oc like travel or do they consider themselves a home body?

Ock definitely likes to travel! While it means he’s gotta muscle through some pain if they stumble across some areas with large crowds (telepath struggles for eel) he loves being and seeing new places as well as meeting new friends! (He must be watched or else he’s brining 30 new rats onto the ship smh)

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@ocherednoe-dno asks

💯 - share three random facts about your oc others might not know!

1) ock has a lot of little odd hobbies here and there to kill time when he’s say, experiencing one of huntsmann’s out bursts and finds himself locked in his chambers, of these hobbies ock has two major ones he’s taken a big liking to! Sewing and towel folding! They’re good things to make cuddly little friends and populate his imaginative play families.

2) kind of connecting with the earlier note Ock really likes playing with toys and things (escapism + comfort & hence why he picked up sewing) so it’s not uncommon to find him playing at someone’s feet (normally will’s sometimes Huntsmann’s) with his days plushie of choice or in his room shuffling through his massive plushie collection (some made some gifted!) to rearrange the little friends or play toys

3) Ock Is a very stunted little guy (he’s tiny in stature and build, he’s very naive, ect.) and this is included in his voice. Despite being about 18-20 for most of the ‘recent’ story, he’s got a very young sounding voice (in my mind he sounds like a young Bambi just perhaps with a slight British accent to it as Huntsmann has raised him after all and that man’s got space British thick.) mixed with his small timid stature and his very nervous tendencies those not used to him very commonly mistake him for being a lot younger than he actually is

🖤 - has your oc killed or seriously wounded anyone before? have they broken someone's heart and/or broken someone's trust?

Ig this could also count as a fun fact people might not know but, Ock has killed a man and it haunts him— Ock, unsurprisingly, isn’t a very violent little guy and doesn’t really use his abilities to harm all that much if he can avoid it. So imagine his surprise when, at huntsmann’s demand, he is forced to execute a man with his abilities. He was reassured the man was a heretic and that he deserved the emperors hand, but it didn’t stop the screams of the man or the pleads both internal and external that Ock had to listen to during hurt any less. Broke the poor little guy for months, he was shut down for a while that even Will couldn’t really get him out of it and really still comes back to haunt him from time to time (it was mostly a measure by Huntsmann to A. Really get a feel for Ock’s abilities and B. See how willing Ock was to use them for harming others among other things-)

Mh, I think he’s maybe broken someone’s trust before, mmm I think perhaps a guardsman or acquaintance or two upon the whole being an inquisitor’s psyker ordeal. Definitely has pushed a few people away even if it’s a bit out of his control

💔 - what are three of your oc's negative traits?

U h hm. Honestly a toughie for ock— shockingly I don’t think I’ve given him many negative traits

Or well, I’ve not given him any Ergh, awful traits? Ock has some traits I’ve seen listed as negative in various listicles sure but idrk if I’d personally categorize some of them as negative? It’s a question very strongly endowed with one’s own personal sense of morality ig is the trick here for my brain?

Like- ock isn’t the typical negatively associated asshole jerk man but then again people don’t tend to always be either and they still have negative traits ya do ya know? Idk- it’s a bit hard for me personally to classify things like positive and negative traits as I feel anything taken too far/in the wrong ways ect. Can be labeled as positive or negative-

I suppose for ock, based around various listicles of “negative traits” we can go with

1) Needy (not gonna do this for every one I don’t really see this as a negative bc well ik it comes from a place and so it’s hard for me to place it as negative when I don’t think it’s like— bad? It’s just how ock has been impacted by the world and as such more of an obstacle to be worked around and yadda yadda character’s flaws aren’t errors but merely features to be enjoyed this and that- though ig this also hinges on the interpretation of negative meaning negative for those surrounding him and not just for ock himself too which I mean these traits can be negative heavily for ock as well which might end them up with the label here and dependent on the interpretation that it’s classified by simply flaws that hurt and—) - kind of following with his clinginess guy really tends to take what he can and hoard it up. I will say he isn’t like— complain and whine about not being given something he could grab himself spoiled child levels of needy, but he is again very clingy and will sometimes not realize when he is over stepping and demanding a bit too much of someone’s attention.

2) cowardly - little guy lacks a back bone pretty often- it’s really when he tends to serve as just a little guy wandering around behind huntsmann and maybe sometimes sort of as communication but he’s more huntsmann‘s proof of concept of ‘I can keep it alive and keep it compliant with the inquisitions/imperiums usual bullshittery’ more than a fighting weapon (that’s what his field his for-) so it’s more in personal situations than battle

3) absent minded - while definitely not all the time ock does have a bit of a habit of being a bit locked out in certain times, settings, days, ect. And just be lost in his thoughts (sometimes leading to an anxious spiral-) and just over all leaving him very ditzy from time to time.

🐈- does your oc prefer a wide circle of friends or a few close friends?

He’d really like to have a larger group of friends though that’s hard for him for numerous reasons and he does a lot better with smaller groups anyway.

He kind of had a ‘larger’ group already considering he finds most people he bumps into and grows attached to friends even if they aren’t so or he may never see them again but we ball

And that kind of leads to why he is just better suited for smaller groups over all as larger ones aside from stressing him out (telepath moment) for a number of reasons inside and out, he’s a very easily attached and DEEPLY attached guy so if for whatever reason he holds some level of less close less attached relationship with someone he is very very attached to (not hard to be- breath near the little guy and you’re half way there-) and he doesn’t have that reciprocated he tends to flip out a bit and not feel to great

Which really is another reason of many hunts tends to keep him on a shorter leash.

[strangerhands]

go to a wedding, go to a party, go to a museum with the moon boys🫶🏻

7. go to a wedding with, go to a party with, go to a museum with

eeek okay, i want to say go to a wedding with marc, but i feel like he would not want to be there😭😭 but also, i would not really want to be there either, so maybe we would just chill quietly in the corner together and eat and drink good stuff. marc definitely seems like the type you can people watch with, while also having your own fun yet chill conversation, and thats what i personally would love to have in a setting like that (that makes us both kind of uncomfortable and anxious) i feel he would relate to how you feel, and we would find comfort in eachother🥺 and god just imagine him all dressed up🫠 and the both of you getting all hot at how the other looks🤭 and the yearning.. the desire for your own wedding together,, hooo boy

i would definitely go to a party with jake, i think if/when given the chance (like in the comics) hes super fun and laidback, and loves to hang around people. i saw a post the other day saying jakes the type who would stay by your side the entire time if you get anxious around people/at parties and it made me want to cry ngl because i think thats so true😭😭 he would just love to be with you, and would want you to be safe and comfortable and happy, and gaaaah i need that so bad. and i think that if i were comfortable enough in the environment to loosen up a bit and let myself have fun, we would have funnnn. i can see him getting rowdy for sure, and i might just join him😋 i think hes a touchy flirty goofy loud drunk for sure lol we would definitely have a good time😏

and of course i gotta go to a museum with steven,, i mean. who woulda guessed. but i actually love going to museums and art galleries, though i havent had the chance many times in my life. i would love hearing his thoughts on things he knows about, and his tangents and info dumping. i think he would have really insightful and unique thoughts on some things, and id just love to learn from him. he would definitely have some cheeky facts too. i also think seeing and learning about new things together, or telling him about something he doesnt know, would be really great too, i think he just loves to listen and learn as well, and just enjoys being with you and talking about things you both like together. itd be such a sweet time🥺🥹

thank you for this ask!! so fun thinking about all of this lol i did not think id write that much about it all🧍woop

[sevicia]

wip compilation April to present day, not including those OC duo sketches I posted the other day nor unfinished references

1. Agnes + Mary flesh prison - I started this one April 4th (I checked) and honestly has been in wip city for such a long time you MIGHT be inclined to think I've abandoned it but I really haven't because I want to render all that stupid flesh stuff sooo bad I just get sidetracked everytime I blink

2. Mary moment - From somewhere in July, I did the sketch (+ a second one for a companion drawing) on paper and only decided to start coloring recently and I reaaallly need to figure it out but we move

3. R1999 fav. character meme - Sometime this month (all drawings from here on out are from August LOL) I found a fave character template and it sounded funnnn so I just need to color them in. ehe

4. Idiot comic thingy - Least likely to be finished I just think Domi looks cute here sorry. He's a regular at the library that Lulu helps out at and he's friends with the librarian. She recommends him supernatural romance books LOL he's ruining his own tough guy personality >:(

5. Proseka fav. character color wheel - I like to play and draw :3 one fav chara per color of course

6. Agnes doodly thing - I did a sketch for this one in class with a bunch of stuff flying out of his head and it's fun but also just a way for me to scribble almost mindlessly 😭

7. Paula + Alice moment - I just think they're neat... and also I want to try a dif. coloring method LOLL

8. Agnes + Mary thing - I've chosen to refer to this one as Fluster Him Friday even tho I'm not sure what day I initially drew it but once again just having fun with different ways of drawing :3

9. Agnes and Mary again (sorry) - This one's just her being bored while waiting for her lame ass boyfriend to come back to life after he blew his brains out (see drawing #6) because I think it's cutesies

10. New guy - He's just new guy and I wanted to draw him doing some bullshit

TED Talk over it is almost 9 AM. My bad

[badasgirlfriend]

my point stills stands, after reading the new chapters my most toxic trait is the fact that I would’ve forgiven both Yeri and Yunjin 😞. BUT I NEED PEOPLE TO HEAR ME OUT (I’m constantly a villain apologist) Like yk, what they did was beyond fucked up BUT, Yeri was not lying when she said she had no choice, and for some reason I felt like the whole exposing thing for her was too extreme 😞, ik bada was probably fuming but something in me says she didn’t deserve that, LIKE I FELT HER ANXIETY THROUGH THE SCREEN, I don’t think that everyone hating her will compensate for what she did, it’s just like revenge but in a cruel kinda way. Pookie didn’t deserve 😞 and also she was not really the only culprit, people actually confessed things, she just posted them by their request.

Now, with yunjin is diff because miss girl is actually very guilty and so very sick in the head. But hear me out, when she said that she constantly felt like she was Nari’s shadow, and mentioned her mom, somehow most of her attitudes make sense. Wanting validation can fuck your head so much it’s surreal, and I think that deeply she acc feels remorse by it, but she was fueled with jealousy and desperation. I think that what broke my heart the most was when she was left all alone 😞. Somehow I feel like her character is complex and at that precise moment she also needed some type of reassurance from friends to understand that what she did was terrible albeit the reasons. I feel bad for her because, imagine always feeling like someone’s shadow, and in the end, everyone you love ends up taking their side and leaving you, further pressing that feeling that in the end you will always be her shadow, and people would prefer her over you. And I know in this case Nari’s feelings al probably all over the place due to the betrayal, but imagine how yun feels too 😞.

In conclusion, I support their rights and wrongs, waiting for their redemption arc so I can be an apologist outside the trenches. (sorry for the rant but I just love character dynamics so much 😞 and specially this one for me has so many layers)

okay so yeri was actually threatened to post those abt nari but she wasn't threatened to post the others she did it for fun u can see that she says i liked it at first she did this for funnnn and in a way its called bullying too like imagine someone posting all ur darkest secrets and the whole school even the ones who dont attend see it

no matter how jealous yunjin got she shouldve never done and she cant be forgiven bc she isnt 12 to make those mistakes if she rlly was good and loved nari she wouldve either told her she likes bada or keep it forever inside her feelings go away yk

she wasnt sorry in the end she accused nari stealing bada from her which aint normal😭 maybe in the future she'll forgive her (not rlly😩) but she'll never forget

[miles-is-so-gay]

self portrait

so guess who got a new ipad and new apple pencil!!!!

but also guess who just let his dad pick it out for him instead of researching it all so he ended up with a tablet that only works with gen 1 apple pencils and the usb-c pencils THE LATTER OF WHICH DOES NOT HAVE PRESSURE SENSETIVITY

its me :)

I also just got something funnnn from humble bundle which includes a 12 month liscense for clip stuido paint so i'm gonna be able to hse it again! yippie! i just need to get an adapter for the pencil and new case bc gen 1 pencils arent magnetic, so, yippie! i might also just get a new gen 1 pencil while im at it. thats bc my mom has my old tablet and i think her getting into doing some digital art would be cool.

but lack of presssure sensetivity be damned, i needed to draw so bad last night so i just did. if you recognize me from this drawing no you dont /j/lh

[sttoru]

Hello, Anya!! ♡ How are you? I feel so bad, even if you're patiently waiting for me. (◞‸◟) I'm a lot better now, thank you!!◝(ᵔᵕᵔ)◜And I hope you are, too. <333 You're always so sweet, I don't even know how to respond.

My jjk favourites are Yuji, Megumi, Nobara and Satoru heheh. But I really like many many others!! The following arcs are going to hurt (I'm not a manga reader, but I... know (v_v)), but I'm still excited!! (•̀ ᗜ •́ ) Yeah, the movie was great and entertaining, I was just surprised hahaha!! (>ᴗ<)

My parents have been trying to find a solution for the ants, but nothing seems to work... I hope we figure something out soon, I've had enough of insects. "( - ⌓ - )

Update on the ecological bird park trip: I went there with my family yesterday and it was amazing, the birds are so beautiful (there were some very cute bunnies too) and it was very worth it!! ^_^ I really enjoyed my day and I really want to visit it again soon. <3

I missed you more, there isn't a day that goes by without me thinking of you and hoping life hasn't been too hard for you. ♡(ᴖ̈) You better take care of yourself all the same and stay well. (It's pretty much always hot where I live, but I went to see my doctors and I'm taking my vitamins and following their health suggestions, so I'll probably be doing even better soon!!)

Ps: happy 3k!!! ♡ You have the best ideas and I love the way you always treat everyone with respect and kindness. <33333

Pps: your new theme :cc (I adore it)!!

- ☀️

HAIII IM SORRY FOR BEING LATEE T_T i was contemplating on how to respond for days and every time im like ‘oh ok got it, im gonna respond now’ i get distracted and forget about it 😭😭 ILY TY FOR BEING PATIENT W ME TOO MWAH

ur favs aaaaa i expected u to be a megumi girlie kind of tbhhhh hhehehe but damn not the ants still stalking u :/ i hope they disappear from ur house soon enough ewewew

THE PARK TRIP SOUNDS SO CUTEEEE im glad u had funnnn!!! it must be a while ago for u now since sending the ask but i still hope u enjoyed that day & also made v fun memories kisskiss

BUT PLEASE BAEE stay safe & healthy ☹️ take ur vitamins and follow the doctors’ advice ! i wish u nothing but the best in life & want u to stay happy no matter what ilysmmmm

[morning-star-joy]

I’ve come to rave about the new you know the killer doesn’t understand chapter. I’m obsessed. I would pay money to read this like I’m so in love with it. I already love joel and reader’s dynamic so much. Also she’s sooooo sweet, I love her! I loved the little interaction between her and the elderly neighbor! It was so cute and it really helps to see just how sweet she is cooking for her neighbors 🥰 and I have a soft spot for elderly people so I loved that! Grumpy joel trying to avoid her was so funnnn lol I swear I loved this chapter so much, I can’t wait for more!

AHHH thank you so much my dear!! I'm so happy you enjoyed the new chapter! It's been so much fun to write so far, I haven't explored this kind of dynamic in a Joel fic yet so I'm really glad you love it because I love exploring it.

Hehe that interaction popped into my head and I knew I had to write it for this chapter, it makes me happy that it helps to show her character even more. And omg yes, Joel is so grumpy and trying to avoid her soooo bad. Trying to figure out ways to force him to be in a room with her right now for the next chapter, I got some ideas brewing!

[moonlit-imagines]

Headcanons for Friends to Lovers with Rodrick Heffley

Rodrick Heffley x reader

warnings: mentions of a bad home life

a/n: YALL I FUVKING DID IT AND IM TERRIFIED OF THE REPERCUSSIONS

prompt: y/n and rodrick have been friends for a long time, so long boundaries seem to be blurred

you’ve actually known rodrick since elementary school

it all started when he asked you to join his band

“i can play drums, you can play the tambourine because that’s the only other instrument i have! it’ll be wicked!”

your band lasted a week and only had one gig, it was for rodrick’s parents

who LOVED you by the way

they somehow permitted you to sleepover almost every other day, you practically lived at their house

FOR YEARS you did this

terrorizing lil greg

“what’s he gonna do, pee his diaper?”

“rodrick!!!”

always trick or treating together, exchanging candy when you got back go his house (or occasionally yours)

you guys didnt like hanging at your house, your parents were kind of....a lot to handle

starting middle school together, wreaking havoc on all the teachers

rodrick did it to impress you, according to mr. and mrs. heffley

but he’d give you a stupid little smirk from across the classroom after he got scolded so you believed them

whenever anyone gave you shit at school, rodrick wouldn’t hesitate to step in and show them who’s boss

“rodrick, you’re gonna get detention again!”

“yeah, well, i’m not gonna let them be mean to you”

you went to his house after school most days, sometimes you’d get there first while he was in detention

mrs. heffley had after school snacks

“y/n, why don’t you play some video games with greg while you wait for rodrick to get home?”

playing wii sports with greg, who cried when you won

you also had time to do homework while you waited, rodrick usually copied afterwards

when rodrick came home, he’d drag you to the garage to show you his drum skills

he hit himself in the head with his drumstick

“ooh, that’s gonna leave a mark”

next step was high school, which was a weird step up

but you guys had each other

you still spent most nights at the heffley residence, but you had to sleep on the couch instead of on the floor in the attic (aka rodricks lair)

“you two are growing up, so we think it’s best that you don’t sleep in the same room together, right?”

rodrick emptied one of his drawers for you to put your clothes in

but you still end up stealing his clothes half the time

“i wish i could be mad, but you wear all of my clothes better than me”

subconsciously doing couple-y things without realizing it

like rodrick would pull you closer to him when you two were together, put his arm around you, give you his jacket, etc

“are you guys serious? you’ve got to be dating!” -everyone

“rodrick, when are you and y/n going to get together?” -mr. and mrs. heffley

the answer was always the same: “we’re just friendssssss”

watching his band practice and cheering him on no matter what

you’re his guest vocals ☺️

when he got the van, it was a whole new world for you guys

you could go out wherever whenever

(with parent approval usually)

“wanna go ride around for a little while? hit a gas station and get a bunch of candy?”

“do you even have to ask?”

watching scary movies in his room

“platonic” cuddling in his bed

stuffing your face in the crook of his neck during scary scenes

“come on, y/n! it’s not that bad!”

him having to hold onto you for comfort so you’d keep watching with him

sometimes falling asleep together and his mom or dad coming to check on you later

“alright, time for bed! y/n, you get your usual couch...”

laughing your ass off at rodrick when he messes with greg

manny loves you, sometimes rodrick is jealous of the attention you give to his baby brother instead of him

rodrick scooping you up in his arms when you least expect it, never fails to make you scream

“hey there, hot stuff”

“you’re impossible!”

roller skating together, he held your hand the whole time bc he was worried you’d fall

his friends ENDLESSLY taunt him over your relationship

when he makes plans with others, he always says “let me ask y/n first” which just SENDS his friends oh my god

“dude, that’s your s/o!”

“no, they’re not! shut up!”

hating being apart a lot its so stressful

sometimes you’d have a pretty hard time at home and show up to his house at odd hours, but you were always welcome

you have your own key

“hey, what’s wrong?”

“my parents...they’re just the worst”

rodrick knows its bad when you start crying

he took you up to his room and played some music (quietly as not to wake the house)

you laid on top of him while he rubbed your back and told you that he was there for you

dozing off on him, as per usual

dude, the amount of pictures you have? astronomical

you playing his drums, the two of you going 🤘, an actual nice picture of you guys, him carrying you on his back, kiddos on your first day of school by year, you kissing his cheek “platonically”

comforting him when he was having his own hard times, whether it be an argument with his parents/greg, difficulties with musical inspiration, or anything else

“come here, you need a hug”

“i need several”

“you’ll get ‘em”

talent show! talent show! talent show!

you completely cussed out the rest of his band before they went on bc they had the audacity to replace him

but greg managed to save the day

“greg, my dude, give me a high five, that was awesome”

he wasn’t actually half bad but like, his mom kinda stole the show

more joyrides in the van

absolutely BLASTING the music in there while you and rodrick sat on the floor in the back and ate the taco bell you’d just picked up

“dude, you gotta try my potato griller, it’s a godsend”

“okay, but try this slushie, its so good. i mean, not as good as a 7-eleven slushie, but it’s up there”

finishing your food and laying in the van for another hour bc you just loved each other’s company

but after sitting together alone for so long, you felt like there was something left to do, what was it?

you and rodrick were moving around a bunch and ended up next to each other sitting against the wall of the van

you looked over at each other and hesitated before leaning in to kiss

and you guys kissed for a while

okay, so, you made out on the floor of his van with led zeppelin playing in the background

✨magical✨

it wasn’t awkward or anything, just long overdue

okay it was a little awkward actually

“well, that was” *clears throat* “that was cool or whatever”

“yeah...wanna do it again?”

“oh, for sure”

not like it was a surprise to anyone when you announced you were FINALLY dating

“wait, you guys just started dating? i thought you’d been together for like, at least 5 years” -mr. heffley

“this is great! obviously, we’ll need to set up some boundaries so that everyone is comfortable and safe, but yay for young love!” -mrs. heffley

“gross” -greg

mrs. heffley wrote a column in the newspaper about you titled “my teenage son’s fantastic significant other”

not much changed after you and rodrick got together, just kissing, “i love you’s” and more teasing from friends and school faculty

“we were all rooting for you two, actually!” -the teachers

summer vacation with him

it was always SWEET

going to the pool together, he’d usually lay out on the chairs with you but you were able to drag him into the pool a few times

“come onnnn, it’ll be funnnn”

“you’re lucky you’re cute”

hugs from behind!!! kisses on the top of ur head!!!!

PROM AH HAH HAH

seeing rodrick in a tux was too funny for you, you almost couldn’t stop laughing (especially at the eyeliner he insisted on wearing)

but he just couldn’t stop staring at you

“rodrick!”

“what?! you’re stunning!”

honestly, prom wasn’t all it was cracked up to be

you danced like maniacs for a few songs and ended up ditching early on

but you did end up renting a bunch of movies and getting tonssss of snacks and changing into pajamas as soon as you got to his house

im talking popcorn, candy bars, ice cream, cans of pop, chips, chicken nuggets and so on

and also passing out on each other

“i think i love you a little more, i didn’t know that was possible”

“i have that effect on people”

he makes u breakfast before his mom gets the chance though

“pancakes? for me?”

“i put chocolate chips in them too, you’re gonna love them”

(they were a lil bit burned, still good tho)

you guys really did just spot on get each other

okay but i know you also roast each other sometimes so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

relationship goals, honestly

fresh outta ideas 🤠 goodnight

[wildshadowtamer]

my thoughts on MWCA as i watch it:

TL;DR: i adore this show, their brilliant singers, the dialogue and voice acting is brilliant, i’m glad it didnt make me like irving, and i’m never going to get over this. please go watch it if you havent already & like phineas and ferb.

my god, monogram and carl's interactions are so accurate, i love them. also carl is adorable

i totally waved back when carl waved at the screen god, the greenscreen is so flawless oh my god??? phineas' voice??? i swear thats just vincent im terrified this show will make me like irving YEAH THE EXTENDED THEME 'mml season 3' OW 6 minutes in and i already love this show i love how they use some of the shows sound effects their voices are so accurate ferb bringing up the pistachion thing from mml, clever! jesus their such good singers candace's actor is on POINT i've never seen legally blonde but this is the only version of ohmigod you guys i'll ever listen to again AWWW PINKY adggfds buford and baljeet i love them YEAH AGENT P I LOVE HIS OUTFIT HASFGHGFD MONOGRAM I LOVE HIM every single human perry au just got validated, including mine jesus heinz' energy is already so chaotic and on point i adore him not to be panaesthetic on main, but heinz' hair 👀 yay norm's here!! again, heinz' voice is so accurate ah, norm's acting is so good "i thought you being rhetorical" ASDGHGFDS "HA. HA. HA." sdfghhgfds brilliant norm wow perry's actor can chitter well perry looks so norm lmao i've never heard Ya Got Trouble but this is so chaotic i adore it Heinz is a true mad scientist in this i love it haha he has backup dancers fuck yeah does he have a lisp? ooo i'll take that hc thank you HSFGFDS PERRY "with a capital E and that rhymes with P and that stands for poolinator" probably my favourite line in the song kickline! perry's so done at all times i love it "inevitably" ah yes, cuz they wont fill it up (such an accurate doof plot) vaness'a actor wow perry's my favourite i love it "you'll see *long gasp* you were right!" his acting is so aggressive i love it ooo are vanessa and candace gonna be at the same dance? yeah build montage!!! ASDFGHGFD THE BOYS RUNNING FROM THE BABY HEAD IS THAT DELIVERY DRIVER VINCENT MARTELLA????? THAT IS ISNT IT YEAH BIG FUNNNN i'll never understand how isabella va's get their voice that high "im coming for YOUUU" HAHA PHINEAS "sorry that is my bad...sorry" AW BALJEET perry's not even trying to get out hes so done LMAO ooo a news segment dink winkerson adggfds "i say fritten'!" yes hello i love that line delivery wait, is doof's plan gonna WORK? hell yeah! hell yeah, norm being a great son "my husband" woo dink! perry's so tired asdghgfd "this is uhhhhhhhh" haha i love him "and the worst PERISHHHH" this is the  best thing ever linda and lawrence are couple goals YEAH GO DOOF HIS PLAN'S WORKING oop nvm ASDFHGFDSA DOOF POOR GUY thanks for the fact ferb god i love these parody lyrics their so good wow i love coltrane's voice i think heinz gets more unhinged every time he's on screen and i love that for him oh god please dont make me like irving HAHA A.U.D.I.E.N.C.E shows dont usually get this many near laughs from me, this is great AWWW PINKY (x2) YESSSSS THE O.W.C.A Y.M.C.A PARODY I LOVE THIS!!!! shotuout to the person in the lobster(?) suit this is my favourite thing since i found the show YEAH CARL TAP SOLO dammit monogram dont stop him from tapping SWAMPY!! DOOOF'S BACK!! wait his hair's actually gender envy thank you for the brillian impersination norm go heinz!!! honestly this is a good plan haha buford having a tux shirt under his regular shirt only appropriate to have a grease song jeremy's chugging that respect women juice i can just tell HAHAHA BUFORD i appreciate baljeet's oversized bowtie yeah go for it isa- aw bob dont interrupt her i appreciate stacy's dancing canderemy for the win! get yourself a man whos that supportive haha doof has two phones dammit johnny ohhh doof's trying not to call it an inator so it doesnt fail god i love vanessa's hair i'm taking this ferbnessa stuff entirely platonically thank you uh oh norm's here oh candance no thats not vanessa AW LARRY HE SOUNDS SO SAD uh oh phineas' getting mad oh god candace im so sorry AW NO IM SO SORRY JEREMY YOU BETTER FOLLOW YOUR GIRL YEAH FERB HIT THAT NOTE oh my god are they gonna meet heinz yay heinz is back!!! AW NORM AWWW NORMMM AW NORMMMMMMM other-dimensioninator- DAN!! damn stacy, harsh, but true wait if heinz and candace are doing a scheme together, what will perry do? oh hello vanessa's singing voice i'm gay YEAH BUSTED YEAH SINCERELY ME YEAHHHHH CONFESSIONN oh phineas no oh phin dammit no oh isa im so sorry IS THIS GONNA BE BUJEET????? PLEASE LET THIS BE BUJEET "once my nerd always my nerd" thats so gay buford dammit it wasnt bujeet oh i am absolutely taking the ducky mogo doof hc OHMNO PERRY HIDE ohnoohnoohonoohnoohono oh wow its actually working good job heinz aw lawrence i'll go antiquing with you yeah buford break that door! YEHAHHH DOOFENSHMIRTZ BASEMENT jeremy's the best communicate, damn you two yeah jeremy gets a song! wow impressive highkick YEAH KISS AWWWW POWER COUPLE YEAH BALJEET jesus, baljeet uh oh perry VANESSSA???? OH NO HEINZ SAVE YOUR DAUGHTER PERRY DO SOMETHING YEAH VANESSA'S SINGING AGAIN oh my god they even included the farmers couple hell yeah a bit of vanessa rapping Heinz: *celebratory screaming* heinz is so chaotic i love him [ignores the blatant romantic subtext of this ferbnessa plot] new friends! awww sibling bonding AWWW oh phineas YEAHHHHH PHINABELLA KISS HAHA FERB MROWING aw phineas bluescreened well 10's a bit too young to be in love in my aromantic opinion agreed buford bujeet????? bujeetttt???????? YESSSSS YESSSS BUJEET BUJEET RIIIIIIGHTS YEAH SUMMER BELONGS TO YOU hello milo i see u god their voices are so good im glad i still hate iriving tho this...may be better than the original props to the person holding the tree i haven't had this much serotonin in weeks best musical ever YEAH GITCHEE GITCHEE GOO hello cookie i love you brilliant job everyone, i adore this job, best thing since the original show aw this credits song is adorable AWWWW THIS FINAL SONG COVER IS AMAZING god i hope these songs are on spotify why do i feel like crying to the end of this

[riverdale-retread]

 Riverdale S4  E7 (Spoilers!) 

-  Thanksgiving  & the Ice Storm!  Archie is mourning Fred (as are we all, still). Hiram is now Mayor of Riverdale. Jughead is away at school. Dodger is in a coma in the hospital.  

- I appreciate the fact that Riverdale confronts the reality of many relationships, which is that they are inorganic and people have to force them to continue, sometimes powered by delusion and nothing else.  Jughead has a girlfriend who can’t be happy for him to have a great educational experience, but he has decided that she’s his happy place. Bret knows Jughead is obsessed with Betty but has decided that he has to make some sort of play for him.  FP has known for decades that Alice AND Gladys are destructive and bad news, but he has decided that he’s obligated to stand by mothers of his children (well, that he knows of) (he has more than three, he has to), so he stays with these shit women. Veronica has decided that Archie is good, and so she is subservient to a level that would otherwise be unimaginable, and in the face of his blank disinterest.

Jughead

-  Jughead’s hardheadedness and stubborn insistence border on suicidal. He knows that his classmates are evil people, that something has gone very wrong with Chipping, and that Dupont built his fortune on some sort of lie, and yet he directly confronts Dupont about Chipping’s death and his own accusation of plagiarism.   

Jughead is such a fabulous character because he’s so painful to watch - he keeps acting like he has nothing to lose, despite also working and trying so hard all the time, and fate always answers his actions by making him lose everything. 

- Jughead truly loves his Stonewall Prep experience.  Even after getting locked overnight in a coffin and witnessing a terrifying suicide, Jughead loves it there. He’s confident and happy there, all the time.  The visit from Betty is icing on the cake, cherry on top of the sundae, of course, but the fact of having the campus to himself, Stonewall without the preppies, is what is getting him really excited.

Bughead

- Bughead get a mystery to solve and a conspiracy theory to mull over, so the Hive Mind is very pleased with itself.  

By the way, Jughead says Baxter Franchise is worth $200M,and I am not sure what I’m supposed to think about this number. A cursory google search of Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series do not yield any sort of simple answer on valuation of book series. Like, I know how much JK Rowling is worth, but that doesn’t seem analogous.

- I got such a kick out of Betty this episode though. She’s all in Action Barbie mode.  She needs to get it on now, HIT SAVE JUGHEAD.  Notice (sorry Bugheads) that this 17~18 year old teenage boy would rather keep typing. Regardless, OH their chemistry is such a tonic, I love it.    They’re wearing his ‘n’ hers t shirts and matching pajama pants. Betty giggling as her lips meet Jughead’s?  Delightful.  Jughead may bring the devotion and romance to Bughead, but the heat is all Betty.  I appreciate you girl. 

- Hot sex is good for Betty, because post-coitus Betty even has an actual sense of humor, which she normally doesn’t.  Her  YES!! when she gets excited about the prospect of a junk food Thanksgiving before she gives Jughead what looks like a powerful wallop of a smack was terrific.  Betty’s sarcastic rejoinder about the bunny-face ‘prank’ that Bret tried to pull, “Oh yeah... funnnn,” was tip-top!   She punctuates her telling off of Bret as she stitches his scalp back together with an extra hard snap  of the thread was so satisfying. Girlfriend needed to get laid more often.  

- Oh yeah: BETTY BASHES BRET’S HEAD IN WITH A GOLF CLUB.  Her huge blazing eyes, communicating What the fuck is happening?  and Are you ok? and I love doing violence, I am so high right now!  all at the same time?  CHEF’S KISS. I just so love this about Betty.  She sees a baddie go in the direction of Jughead, and she’s so efficient - find weapon, approach, attack.  Normal people might call out a warning or whatever, but Betty Cooper is going to use her goddamn Serial Killer DNA, thank you very much.

- The Quill & Skull secret society is introduced and  Jughead has theories on what may have happened to Chipping.

Bret --> Jughead

- Let’s take a minute to discuss Bret.  Bret is stalking Jughead, and really only hurting himself, because he has to listen to Jughead say “Hurry up and get here already!” and “I love you” to Betty.  Unrequited love sucks, Bret, let it go.  I haven’t had this experience of being fixated on someone I shared close quarters with but damn, it’s gotta be painful. It must have stabbed Bret in the heart to see Betty in the stonewall sweater.  Bret sets up the sex tape cam in the room, and I really wonder if he hasn’t just been filming Jughead all the time.  This tape that eventually gets sold later in the season may be the most, um, commercially viable, but I have to think there are just hours and hours of Jughead, sleeping, reading, doing homework, changing in and out of clothes, in Bret’s personal archives.

- The choice of the bunny head costume. I first thought they’d picked it for like Donnie Darko (movie I haven’t watched) mixed with sly commentary about Jughead’s dental situation, but now I think it’s sexual.  Hey Jughead, let’s go at it like rabbits.

- Bret bites down on a leather belt while Betty is stitching him up, not because he needs it, but because he wants to bite leather in Jughead’s presence. (Um, do I need to put like a Minors DNI  here?)

- Thanks to Donna’s assist, Bret actually gets to do the Gotcha, I Win narration that Jughead attempts to do all the time, to Jughead, who is looking so pissed off (and so pretty  - how are his lashes so long?), green eyes furious. After delivering a couple lines that you know Bret workshopped with Donna (“Chipping’s death was a suicide driven by a guilty man’s fear  of exposure.  Case closed, Detective Jones.”), Bret does the most touching Bret-ish thing ever. He moves his hand to Jughead’s arm like he’s going to touch him, maybe give him a WASP 1% asshole pat, but he can’t bear to, he doesn’t dare, so he sort of does a hand gesture below the sightline of the camera and then moves away. Meanwhile Jughead has no idea Bret has hands. Poor Bret.

Bughead v Donna 

- Never Have I Ever.  Jughead Jones HAS NEVER DONE DRUGS. (Taking a quick sob break thinking about S5A).  But he’s all for underage drinking, which surprised me.  In the course of this game, I at first thought that Jughead was not being subtle and doing the Poirot confrontation  when he brings up the secret society in a way that nobody would ever fall for, but  N!o! it was a plan to let Betty go do some sleuthing by buying time. (And also get a big gulp of alcohol. Oh no).

- But then the Bughead urge to go CONFRONT before they are fully ready is not something they can overcome, in the end.  And Donna is smarter than all three of them.  Donna the character is a great actor - her distress and tears are fully so convincing, even though the music and Betty’s reaction makes it clear i’m not supposed to believe her.

- Donna Lies About Being Assaulted.   Girl who lies about sexual assault is a misogynist trope they need to fucking retire already from all media forever altogether. For fuck’s sake. That is lazy.

- So Donna goes to talk to the head master to head off any further action by Jughead. 

I take it from my cursory search nobody ships Donna and Jughead, but I sort of do, in the same way I sort of ship Veronica and Jughead.  Both these dark haired girls share things in common with Jughead and are smarter & more capable than he is, and I  kind of want to see Jughead coping with that.

Choni pull a Titus Andronicus

- Choni - well actually, Cheryl - plan to dump the body of uncle Bedford before the Sweetwater River freezes over in the ice storm.  Cheryl goes AND THEN THE SALMON CAN GOBBLE UP HIS EYES and Toni is squicked out but pretends that that;s not the problem and says she feels she’s being watched. 

- Style note: Cheryl in the tightest reddest dress is so very beautiful.  And how does she find lipstick that matches her clothing so well.

- They pretend to have cooked Bedford into pies and fed them to the other Blossoms, and then fake out, it’s lamb. As a person who absolutely loves savory pies, I am always happy to see meat pies in pop culture, but ... why do a fake out? It’s not like it’s not something Cheryl would think of doing.

- Best part of Choni is Nana Blossom telling a story about an event that happened in the last 19th or early 19th century like it just happened to her last year.  Nana Blossom is an immortal.

I cannot ship Falice

- The show keeps trying to make the point that FALICE = Parentdale Bughead and All~ Of the No.

- FP’s straight job takes a total turn for the worst. He needs to take orders  from Hiram as mayor and he has the same inability to compromise with reality as his son.  He delivers the news that he has to, as Sheriff, and then tells the kids to disregard him. 

- The Whatever You Decide I Back You 100%  is the kind of statement that’s gotten everyone in a tizzy over on Bughead, and it turns out Betty gets this from Alice. Eww.  Later in the booth at Pop’s, FP is doing something I have not seem him do with Gladys- that caressing one shoulder thing that Jughead does all of the time. Is this genetic?  And Alice cannot resist the urge to make FP erupt into violence.  This is also exactly the same as Betty.  (Oh wait, is this... is this meta commentary by the show? That if Bughead really do stay together into their 50s it will become this?)

- Parentdale foursome:  Hiram, Hermione, FP and Alice all at  Pop’s. (Why can’t Pop’s go home for Thanksgiving? Are all the Tates waiting for him to close up the Diner to do their own family dinner?) Bret Donna Jughead and Betty in another place. in what’s supposed to be a parallel and I don’t like this.

-- Inevitably, FP attacks Hiram with a bottle. He’s no good at punching people by the way, and so I posit once again that the Serpent King is not about how well you fight, it’s about something way more Romantic. FP has a lot of Romantic ideas and yanno I feel like tv drunks are frequently wounded dreamer types, whether or not this is actually true in real life.  (Oh and S5 Jughead is also a wounded dreamer drunk, so yeah.)

-Is there a rule that says you can’t be sheriff AND Serpent King? Actually yes, Alice, there is. The rule is called COMMON FUCKING SENSE. Alice wants to be Serpent Queen, and wants to relive her youth as being the ‘bad’ girl because the decades spent being the ‘good’ woman and ‘middle’ class went very badly, and then the attempt to be ‘spiritual’ also sucked.  So Alice invites the Lodges to join them, because being the sheriff’s girlfriend is just a tad too tame for her. I hate Alice.

Veronica in Doormat Mode is Upsetting

- Why is there such food insecurity in Riverdale, where the main problem that Veronica’s community center (because Archie isn’t doing fuck-all actually for it) deals with is childhood hunger?  How long has it been this bad? 

- Of course, Veronica is the one who provides all the food for the free food night.  All Archie brings is the fryer for the turkey. Veronica says, religiously:  You’re too good for this world Archiekins.  I mean.... compared to WHO?

-  Before we get to the bullshit with the Dickinson crime clan:  Mary is a shit lawyer.  Hiram has done something to prevent Archie’s feeding the kids etc, and she is like Yeah sure disregard the ordinance.  An attorney  is faced with a mayoral action and reacts with  empty mind, free of thoughts.  Why not try for an injunction, you know, contact the judges, or look into the ordinances to examine on whether Hiram can actually do this or not.    Ugh.  And because everything Archie touches turns to absolute shit, she ends Thanksgiving by pointing her gun at a woman and threatening to kill her.   And Veronica stabs a man in the hand, because whenever Archie gets involved in your life you end up in violence.  

- Anyway the center gets invaded by the Dickinson clan.  Dodger’s mother seems 5 years younger than Dodger and I don’t know why they couldn’t make this story about his WIFE.  Or maybe in the Dickinsons, Mother is an honorific like King /Queen are in the Serpents?  Also why is she from a whole different region of the US than Archie and CO?  Anyway the kids, to protect Archie, do a I AM SPARTACUS reenactment, which was cute. 

- When it’s all over, there’s a bit of a highlight.  Archie laughs so winningly as he remembers good times with his dad, of all of them falling asleep on the couch after Thanksgiving Turkey, and I am moved.  Am I just a sucker for a pretty face? (Yes, yes I am).  He’s so beautiful and lovely, and I want all the best for him (Fuckin’ A - I am Jughead in  this sentiment, goddamn)   Mary continues to be a moron and thinks that Fred was trying to communicate / watching out for them through a deep fryer, and Archie smiles about it. 

- Archie dedicates this center, that was gifted to him by Hiram and funded by Veronica,  to Fred  Fred Andrews, with a plaque that calls Fred  a ‘humanitarian.’ Absolutely none of this is earned.  Bless Fred, but he WASN’T any sort of humanitarian.  Well at least humanitarian is spelled correctly, and we get to look at Luke Perry’s smiling face one more time. (Plaque is dated November 2019).

Please give Sweet Pea a name, for the love of god.

I don’t know if Dodger is or becomes actually important again, so I will take the opportunity to note that stupid Dodger, rote bad guy villain of almost no consequence, has a last name, but Sweet Pea does not.  (When the hell is the show going to fix this??)  Oh and Mr. Chipping’s first name was Rupert. (Seriously, show, give Sweet Pea a name.) 

[laddieseddiemunster]

Could I please have a smidgen of Star dating the (she/they) reader but still being cool with the boys and maybe you and Star kinda co-parent Laddie headcannons? Cuz lets be real, he's a little kid and he still prolly needs someone to tie his shoes when he wakes up at night 😞👉👈 if not that's literally okay, how ya doin?

Your wish is my command :)

and I’m doing well! how about you?

Star x Fem!Reader Co-Parenting With Laddie

when you first approached star, you assumed laddie was her brother. she was quick to let you know that he wasn’t, and that they had no relation. just friends. when star first introduced you to laddie he immediately brought you into a hug. he looked up resting his chin on your stomach and said “hi! i’m laddie! what’s your name?”

as time went on you became a third parental figure to laddie. at first the boys considered killing you, but soon realized that that was out of the question. laddie adored you and he’d be heartbroken. obviously so would star, but David originally wanted to kill you because you took star away from him. Now he can’t. So it’s safe to say david isn’t a big fan of your addition to the family.

even with the times laddie had no problem with you and star dating. you made star happy and you made him happy, so he had no reason to complain. when you and star go on dates, dwayne watches laddie so he doesn’t interfere with your alone time with star. laddie usually catches on. with a small cheeky smile on his face he’ll walk away with dwayne and say “have funnnn.” laddie’s not dumb. he knows what a ‘date’ means.

you found out their little vampire secret from laddie. it was his first time spending the night over at your place and once it was midnight you noticed laddie was not tired at all. in fact, he didn’t even yawn until it was six or seven in the morning. you ended up asking star why laddie wasn’t tired and she explained to you the situation. she felt terrible about not telling you before, and she was surprised when you understood. it made sense to you. the boys only come out at night, they stay away from mirrors, and at a specific time of the night they leave to do...something.

sure, laddie is a great little kid, but he can be a trouble maker. you lost count on how many times laddie has ran into where you work with one of the boys chasing after him because he stole one of their motorcycle keys (it would be dwayne’s, paul’s, or marko’s cause laddie wouldn’t dare steal david’s). “[name]! help me!” he yells as he’s running as fast as he could away from whoever’s chasing him. they’ve gotten kicked out so many times that they mine as well be banned from where you work.

laddie also has the tendency to sneak into your house at random times. you have no clue how he gets in without a key, but he does. one time he snuck in and saw you and star asleep in your bed, and he climbed on and slept in between both of you. neither of you knew when or how he got in but you didn’t complain.

besides dwayne, you and star are the only ones who know how to cook, and cook well. the boys don’t have a kitchen so they can’t really eat anything healthy. laddie doesn’t remember the last time he had something other than fast food. the only time you let the boys use your kitchen was when your house/apartment almost burnt down. you learned that paul and marko can’t be trusted with your oven. instead, you decided to make them all dinner. laddie had missed his biological mother’s cooking, but your cooking reminded him of it. he even preferred it over eating out.

another thing to realized was laddie didn’t have a lot of toys. all he had was a teddy bear that his mother gave him. so you decided to take him to a toy store with star. you had just gotten a bonus from your job and you chose to spend the money on toys for the boy. you told him that he could get five toys, and it didn’t matter what they were. unfortunately for you, laddie is a smart kid, and you ended up spending almost 400 dollars. there was one toy which was a robot that needed to be plugged in, and he was devastated when star told him they had no where to plug it in at the cave. luckily, you told him he could play with it whenever he came to visit your place, and he was happy again.

laddie loves it when you get him new clothes. he’s been wearing the same clothes for a while and he’s even getting sick of them. you and star will buy him a whole new wardrobe and he’ll love it, but he’ll still put on his leather jacket over his new shirts because the boys gave it to him. laddie loves pajamas more than anything since it’s uncomfortable sleeping in his regular clothes along with the jacket.

going back to laddie’s teddy bear he cannot sleep without it. it’s the only object that he has left from his mother and it means a lot to him. one time paul was doing his usual tickle attack on laddie and to distract paul he grabbed his teddy bear and started to hit paul with it, but paul accidentally grabbed the bear too hard and one of its arms slightly ripped. laddie had started to cry and paul didn’t know what to do. luckily, star knew how to sew, so laddie sat in your lap and watched as she fixed the bears arm. when the bear was good as new laddie hugged star as a thank you, and he didn’t leave her side for the rest of the night.

star loves laddie, and she isn’t afraid to stand up for him. if some older kid picks on laddie she will tell them off. laddie is the baby of the group and no one hurts him and gets away with it. if you and star gang up on a bully then watch out. david doesn’t give laddie too much attention, but when laddie gets picked on he’ll give the bully a dirty look. dwayne just takes laddie out of the situation, and will buy him ice cream to make him feel better. paul will tell the bully to back off, and he’ll take laddie away like dwayne. marko doenst care if it’s a little kid. his fists are ready to punch anyone who makes fun of laddie. it’s safe to say that anyone who picks on laddie mysteriously disappears. if you ask what happened the boys will just change the subject.

david at first didnt like you for taking star away when he was trying to win her over. he slowly started to accept you when he realized that you made star happier than he ever did. once he got to know you he started to notice that you weren’t bad to be around. you were a nice addition to the group even if he didn’t like you at first.

dwayne had zero problem with you. the fact that you took care of laddie when he couldn’t, or just whenever you had the time to was enough to win his trust. occasionally you both will talk while taking care of laddie. there isn’t much communication between you two, but there isn’t any drama either.

paul mainly likes you because you’re really nice to laddie and everyone in the group. paul likes to mess with you, but that’s just the way he is with friends. he’ll make fun of you and star for your relationship, but he actually really ships you guys. he just won’t admit to it. paul is a trouble maker, so i wouldn’t suggest riding on the back of his motorcycle.

marko never really had a problem with you. he never wanted to kill you especially since you’re friendly to laddie. when he talks to you he usually falls in the same category as paul. he likes to mess with you. but, at times he’s calm and easy to talk to and befriend. he’s also pretty protective. he’d beat someone up for you.

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I'm sending you 42. and 80. (because this gotta be funnnn) for the trope mash-up, but only as long as you don't forget that you also kinda promised to write the pregnant-neighbor-comes-begging-for-food thing. Because I won't forget about it. :)

The lovely @laschatzi is talking about this post. I cheated a little bit but I hope you’d like how because now we have

Hungry pregnant neighbour + The Big Damn Kiss + Green-Eyed Epiphany 

Family Recipe;  ~ 5, 500 words; FF.NET || AO3

previous: wilderness/survival + I Didn’t Mean To Turn You On &Detective AU  + Awful First Meeting

Killian is somewhatashamed to admit that he has become something of a take-out guy.

It’s just… it’s one ofthose things he never got back into after losing his hand. Like volleyball. Orplaying the guitar. Or arm wrestling Will. Or the black nail polish. Or goingto the beach. Or hitting on that cute girl at the bakery around the corner. Orgirls,period. Or basically anyone he didn’t already know before the accident.

But anyway. Cooking.He never got back into cooking. He was never all that good at it to begin withbut it gave him a funny sort of pride and he enjoyed it.

He enjoyed having togo to three different stores to manage to collect all the herbs and spices fora proper curry. And lying all his products out – basically filling everyavailable space and then having to push stuff around to have somewhere toactually cook. And chopping histomatoes really fine – concasse, was it? – and his onions not quite because hedid not enjoy crying over their massacred corpses. And – never to be revealedto another living soul – making a mini forest around his chopping board withthe broccoli and the cauliflower. And the whole kitchen smelling for two daysafter. And basically making a mess of every horizontal surface – and thevertical ones that one time when he was learning how to spin pizza dough.

Yeah, he enjoyed that.And then he didn’t. Couldn’t. Didn’t.

And now here he is,sipping his beer and scrolling down his take-out app as if he doesn’t knowhe’ll get the Chinese because he had pizza twice during the week and they’vetotally ruined the Mexican place and Liam says he is a masochist but he is nota ‘take-out sushi’ level of masochist.

He looks outside.Checks his watch. At least two more hours of solid daylight. He wasn’t evenhungry yet. He could get some tortilla chips to snack on while trying to see ifhis oven still works.

Really… what couldhappen?

///

Mrs Lucas has spoilther.

It is the only reasonEmma is even contemplating this. That and the fact that it smells really good.

And look here, Emma isnot one of those girls that needs to always get what she wants. She iscertainly not used to getting whatshe wants. It’s just… her baby doesn’t seem to have followed in her footsteps.

It might havesomething to do with said baby not even having feet to walk with yet. Or… shethinks – tries to remember what she’s been readying semi-obsessively and thenthrowing under the bed as if the books are judging her for her singleness andbrokenness and the general dinginess of her apartment – maybe it has feetalready?

They’re definitelyforming but definitely not usable hence no following in any footsteps anytimesoon. There. She’s leaving it at that. Maybe she’ll dig out that last book fromunder her bed tonight. After she has some dinner.

Which brings her rightback to the problem at hand.

She is pretty surethat 5C is one of those bachelors that live on beer, pizza and whatever elseyou can get delivered to your door; has a football or poker night with the guysevery month – see the football she is sure about ‘cause those walls are fuckingthin and those boys are fucking loud but she likes to imagine the pokeras well ever since she saw the guy in this super slick vest that she is sureonly people who can actually step into a casino and somehow manage to not look sleazy own; occasionally blaststoo loud music but not often enough to warrant a complaint; puts Netflix on loud enough and regularly enough that her brokeass is hoping she can keep up with the new season of Stranger Things simply bymoving her couch next to the wall his TV sits against; never brings girls backto his place.

Honestly, Emma is notjudging (or stalking – the walls are thin).She’d probably be giving 5C a run for his money on the easy single living, ifshe wasn’t pregnant and broke and grumpy half the time and hungry the otherhalf – which also makes her grumpy, and generally disillusioned with humanityand the world and the idea that one might actually be able to enjoy life andnot struggle through it at every step and did she mention broke? She is brokeand constantly hungry and constantly trying to fool her baby into thinking thathe likes overcooked pasta and whatever fruits are on sale this week.

He doesn’t. He likeswhatever 5C is cooking.

///

This was a disastrousidea. The kind of disastrous idea he hasn’t had since he was 4 years old andthought that if he puts snails on Liam’s bed they’d stay there and not like…make their way all over the room that Killianshared with Liam.

This is worse thansnails. This is a dozen utensils in the sink already – because of course hetosses a spoon in the sink the second after he has used it once, of course, why put it to the side and use it again when hehas to stir his unholy concoction, and half a dozen plates – one of those inpieces in a trash bag by the door because your one hand being a slippery one isnot the situation in which you want to be handling porcelain.

He has a sizeable cuton his big toe where he stepped on one of the pieces and his t-shirt issticking to his back from the effort of grinding bloody vegetable – Jesus, heused to run miles without breaking a sweat and now blasted carrots are gettingthe best of him, and all he has to show for all his work is what he hopes is apassable mince.

Now for the mash. Hestill has three limbs and 14 uninjured digits to go…

///

Look, Emma doesn’thave much but she has her pride, ok? And this kid growing inside her has madeher relinquish her hold on that enough to knock on Mrs Lucas’s door and ask herwhat it was she put in her cookies because apparently Emma – or someone else, was addicted to it nowand it was not cinnamon. And that hadtransitioned into Emma becoming almost a firm fixture at Granny’s on weekendsand then into Emma busting tables for a month until Granny gave her a nononsense look and told her she won’t be doing this in a few more months, andafter a week of asking and listening and string pulling and cookie bribing, shegot her a job at August’s bookstore even though he still grumbles that he doesn’tlike anyone else ordering his books.

And, yes, this allworked out pretty well but Mrs Lucas was the one that came to her door on her first week in thebuilding with a plate of those cookies that by this point Emma can barely lookat.

(It’s what she does.She falls in love with peanut butter and then eats so many PBJ sandwiches thatnow she almost gets sick at the mere sight of a jar on the counter. And shehears the The Kooks coming from 5C’s wall and goes on to listen to them onrepeat for two weeks. Mind you, not even everything but just Junk of the Heartbecause she is mental like that. And she starts Modern Family, when she stillhad a freaking Netflix account, and binges the whole damn thing in a couple ofweekends and a few late week nights.)

So, yeah, Emma mighthave some addictive tendencies – the legal kind, and some impulse controlissues.

But Emma would neveractually go to someone’s door – someone she has never exchanged a single wordwith despite sometimes hearing their voice float through her wall – and, yeah,he has a pretty voice but what’s that gonna do for her? shitty people can havegreat voices, she is sure – to ask them forthe love of all that is good and holy, what they are cooking because it smellsso fucking good and she has to know and she has to have something that at leastcomes close to it.

She’d never.

///

It’s in the oven. It’sover. Well, all he has to do now is make sure he doesn’t burn the damn thing toa crisp. But if he managed to put it together in the first place, for the firsttime tonight, Killian thinks he can maybe pull this off.

///

It got worse. Worse asin better. Fuck, it got so much better. And now her stomach is grumbling andshe has made for the door three times in the last five minutes and for thefirst time tonight Emma is coming to the horrible realization that she probablywon’t be able to survive this day with her dignity intact.

///

He is just about todig into his plate – fancy plate set and fancy napkins that he didn’t even knowhe owned and the second episode of American Gods queued up and-

There’s a knock on hisdoor.

Killian freezes withhis fork in the air, eyebrows bunching together. Who on earth? He knows hehasn’t invited any of the guys over and Liam knows better than to just drop infor an unexpected ‘we are going out and getting you someone to go home with’visit by this point.

He waits. Nothing.Maybe he imagined it?

///

“There, happy?”

Emma glances down ather slightly rounded stomach and tries on her best ‘mom look’. She thinksshe’ll definitely need to work on that one before the baby comes out because heis already too stubborn for her owngood.

She glances at thedoor with 5C on it one more time, raises her hand and then drops it again.

No. She knocked. Thisis a sign. For once the universe is sparing her the embarrassment and-

“Yes?”

No, of course, not.Why would the universe ever spare her anything?

///

She must be the onethat knocked. 5B. His sweatpants neighbour.

Killian tries not tofeel bad about the nickname. They’ve never been properly introduced and… well,he has mostly seen her back disappearing inside her apartment or her back goingdown the stairs with laundry or her back rushing below his window on a jog. Sohe’s never seen her in anything but sweatpants. He’s not judging. It’s just…the only thing he had to go on.

She is in sweatpantsnow as well but as he looks at her to ask what she needs, he is taken aback byher green eyes. He is taken aback by the sudden realization that his neighbouris this young and very pretty woman and her eyes are the kind of eyes you can’thelp but notice.

It’s… interesting. Hehas heard the soundtrack of her daily life through the wall they share for afew months now but somehow he never imagined the face and body that must gowith those sounds.

As he thinks his gazeslides down almost involuntary and he doesn’t know what catches his attentionmore: the fact that she is a few months pregnant or the fact that she came overbarefoot.

The latter is trulyendearing, the former a tad disheartening for some reason.

Not that he hasanything against kids. Or pregnant women. It’s just… it’s not every day yourealize your neighbour is a pretty girl about your age and currently standingat your doorstep. But he shouldn’t have just assumed and anyway he doesn’treally… that is… is she ever gonna say something?

///

“Lass?”

Emma shakes her head alittle and wants to slap herself back into reality. You know that space andtime continuum where she is not attaching thisman to every sound she has ever heard come through their wall.

(She is convinced heplays air guitar when blasting Bon Jovi hits and that his eyes blaze reallybright when he is swearing at something about “bloody this” and “bloody that”.)

“Umm, hi. Sorry. I…”

He raises an eyebrow.She doesn’t really appreciate the mix of amusement and expectation. Then again,she is standing on his doorstep. He probably has some right to expect anexplanation. Why on earth didn’t she rehearse what she’ll say if he opened thedoor?

“Did you needsomething?”

Fuck.

“I just… ummm, am I botheringyou?”

“Not at all, lass. But,to be frank, I’ll probably be more capable of answering truthfully, if you toldme what you are here for.”

The hell? Was hetalking like that on purpose?

“I-“

Come on, Emma, like aband aid, nowhere to go now unless you wanna be the weirdo asking for a cup offlour.

“What you arecooking?’

///

“Oh.”

Oh. Bloody hell.

Killian can feel hischeeks heating up and focuses half his attention on keeping his hand at hisside and not scratching his damn ear.

“I apologize. I didn’tconsider the smell might bother some-“

“No. No, no, no. Ilike it! So… I was wondering what it was.”

She likes it? Thattimid feeling of pride he felt when he took his dinner out of the over and it wasn’t burn to a crisp grows threetimes.

“It’s just ashepherd’s pie. Slightly altered recipe. My mum’s. Supposedly, probably muckedit up along the way and it’s twice altered now but yeah… Shepherd’s pie.”

“Oh.”

///

Great. She was hopingfor something along the lines of a lasagna. Then maaaybe she could’ve boughtsome frozen crappy version from the supermarket and tried to cheat her bodyinto thinking it was the real thing.

But no, of course,not. It had to be shepherd’s pie. Family recipe edition. Just her damn luck.

“Well, thanks. Andsorry! I was just… curious. Sorry to bother you.”

///

She turns to go andthis might have been the most bizarre conversation he’s had this month.Including that guy on the underground with the orange hair.

Did she just want toknow what the smell invading her home was? She did say she liked it. Maybe-

She is already half toher door so Killian just thinks to hell with it.

“Would you like some?”

He sees her stop deadin her tracks and cringes, hoping he isn’t now the biggest weirdo of her month.And not in a good way.

The blonde turnsaround and he knows the second he sees her face that she would indeed likesome. But Killian likes to think of himself as at least moderately intelligentso he keeps his smile to himself and instead prepares for the distrust in hereyes that is obviously warring with her appetite.

“Do you usually offerfood to unknown women who come knocking on your door?”

“I can’t say, you arethe first.”

He doesn’t actuallysee her cheeks change colour but then again he thinks it might be because shehas been blushing this entire time.

“I didn’t mean tobother-“

“It’s no bother, love.Truly. Now that I feel knowledgeable enough about your intensions to say so.”

She rolls her prettygreen eyes in a way that has his pulse speeding up a bit.

“Plus I just made adish more people share with a family of four. For myself. I think I can sparewhatever you can eat.”

It’s a gamble thatpays off when he sees her eyes blaze up and let’s himself grin at herteasingly.

“I’m sorry, was that achallenge to how much I can eat?”

He steps aside andwaves her in.

She only hesitates fora second.

///

OK, first of all, hisapartment is waaay better than hers like, both bigger and with more naturallight coming in but also simply more tidy and colour-coordinated. Also, ifpossible, it smells even better inside and Emma’s eyes immediately zero in onthe dish on the kitchen counter.

She hears 5C chucklebehind her and tries not to feel even more embarrassed. Her capacity for itmust be running out by this point. Thankfully, he doesn’t make a comment butjust moves around his kitchen island and takes out a plastic food container.IKEA guy. Cute.

It probably takes hera bit longer than it should – what with her still mostly trying to pretend sheis not hustling her nice and pretty neighbour for food – but eventually Emmanotices the peculiar way he moves around his kitchen and operates only with hisright hand. A quick inspection proves that it is because he simply has no leftone to assist him.

“No shit!”

The guy startles ather words and turns around and probably follows her gaze because in the nextmoment the limb is tucked slightly behind him and he is giving her a tensesmile.

“Shit, I’m afraid.”

She honest to Godcovers her mouth. Better late than never. Or not.

“Shit. I mean, sorry!Sorry. I wasn’t- I was just- you cook?!”

5C frowns at her as ifher person skills are something that would only befit a visiting alien. He’sgot her there.

“Sorry. Again. But,like, I can’t cook for shit even with two hands.”

To be fair, the crapproducts she can afford probably have something to do with it but Emma is gonnabe a single mom pretty soon and she is pretty sure that “to be fair”s won’t cutit when she has to cook for her kid.

But makes-food-that-smells-illegally-good-single-handedlyneighbour seems to relax a little.

Foot – partially outof mouth.

///

Killian tries to unbunchthe muscles in his neck and not keep his right side weirdly angled towards her.It’s fine. Really, it’s fine. She was bound to notice eventually.

“To be honest, this ismy first try in quite some time.”

“Seriously?”

“Indeed. So if you getfood poisoning or something, I’m not to be held accountable.”

The thought gives himpause and he turns to her with his eyebrows all drawn together and almostreluctant to hand her the container in his hand.

“Actually, are youallergic to anything? I mean… I don’t think there’s anything too weird in itand everything I used was fresh but-“

He can’t help butglance down at her stomach. Gods, she ispregnant, right? This will be just the kind of thing-

But the blonde’s handcomes up to her stomach and she smiles at him almost shyly and Killian breathesout a quiet sigh of relief.

“I’m sure it will befine. I mean, the things I’ve been feeding myself… I’m pretty sure someonemight get a bit of a shock from the home-cooked food but definitely not the badkind.”

He tries not tooveranalyze the “feeding myself” part and instead nods and finally hands thecontainer with half of his shepherd’s pie inside.

“Whoa. You really arechallenging me.”

He laughs and dips hishead to the side to admire the way her eyes widen a little.

“It should keep for acouple of days if you put it in the fridge. And you can always just feed it toSmee.”

“Smee?”

“Oh.”

His cold ring grazeshis earlobe and dammit, he forgot to watch out for the damn tick.

“I named the cat thatalways hangs around behind the building.”

“Oooh, ok. And hellno.”

She hugs the food toher chest almost protectively and Killian laughs again and bloody hell, is hecoming across too giggly or something? What else can he say? He-

“Well, I shouldprobably let you finally eat your dinner. Whatever you have left,” she beatshim to it and juts her thumb at the door and he can’t really do anything butnod.

///

She is alreadystepping outside, teeth embedded in her lip and what do you say to the cute neighbour that fed you dinner but not inthe date sense?

“Oh. I’m Emma, by theway. Emma Swan.”

His eyes light up andEmma finally gets to put a mark in the ‘didn’t fuck it up’ column.

“Pleasure to meet you,Swan. Killian Jones. Always at your service, though I must warn you, myculinary repertoire is quite limited.”

Killian Jones with thefancy words and delicious food. Fuck.

///

She uses her employeediscount on something other than baby books for the first time.

He finds the bookwaiting for him outside his door. The post-it note says “This is why peoplelike home-cooked food. Who knew.” And the book is Neil Gaiman’s Fragile Things and it takes him a momentto connect the dots and remember that he was watching Amarican Gods the othernight and, yeah, maybe it makes him feel kinda good that Emma Swan noticed andremembered that.

///

He tries some Mexicannext and it’s 100% because his favourite place has gone to crap and not at allbecause he once saw their delivery guy in front of 5B.

She opens the door andhis face is half-obscured by an IKEA container and he says it’s just a not sosubtle reminder that she hasn’t returned the other one yet and she pretends tobelieve him.

///

She reasons that youcan’t return food containers empty so she tries to bake muffins because muffinsare supposed to be easy.

He hears the firealarm and five second later he is banging on her door and having a veryflustered Emma Swan dragging him inside and pointing at her oven or what can beseen of it behind the cloud of smoke and explaining how it’s all his fault.

///

He’s been looking fora not food-related reason to knock on her door for a week and coming up emptyand he is damn rusty when it comes to talking to pretty girls but then againshe is pregnant and the fact that he didn’t see a naked man in the middle ofher kitchen the one time he was there for 10 minutes doesn’t mean anything somaybe that’s for the best.

She knocks on his doora day after Stranger Things comes out with three bags of popcorn, explainingthat only one of them is for him, obviously.

///

She lives to binge andyet here she is trying to stretch an 8-episode season over more than a week.

He honestly debatescalling Netflix and begging them to somehow somehowrelease more episodes of their damn show.

///

He has been thisscared exactly once in his entire life and that situation included headlightscoming straight at him.

She has a freakingstomach ache, probably from too much popcorn, and she is almost as embarrassedwhen she comes out of the doctor’s office as she was that first night sheknocked on his door but Killian doesn’t really seem to care how she is ok as long as she is.

///

She is scrollingthrough her Instagram at work and she is so bored and distracted that shealmost misses it but then she goes back and blinks and then goes to the accountto check this is not some sort of ridiculous surveillance thing or she doesn’teven know what – but sure enough, there – on @cutestparentstobe, is a pictureof her very pregnant self, eating ice-cream on the beach with one KillianJones.

He doesn’t know how heworms his way into a doctor’s appointment, he just knows that when the nursecalls him “daddy” Emma kinda sputters but doesn’t say anything to contradicther and he sure as hell keeps his trap shut and just smiles and nods when theygive him an ultrasound picture all for himself.

///

They’ve been doingwhatever they are doing for 4 freaking months and within the first couple ofweeks they were already using like only 30% of his couch for the both of themand in a month they started venturing outside the bubble of their apartmentsand Emma never thought she’d be thehand-holding type but yeah, they kinda hold hands all the time and they hug,like, every day and they text all the freaking time while they are at work andshe meets Liam when she is 7 months pregnant and convinced that he is gonnahate her on sight for saddling his little brother with herself and he doesn’treally but he also doesn’t seem to love her on sight and Killian is verypointedly unamused by the lukewarm reception but honestly, Emma is just glad tobe given a chance here, and he goes shopping for baby stuff she can barelyafford with her and then he goes shopping for baby stuff by himself and shegets kinda angry and they kinda break up or whatever at least twice, basicallyeach time Emma decides that this is ridiculous and he can’t just date a girlthat is having another guy’s baby and that’s twice the size she should be andthat he’s only known for a few months and one night Killian lines up fourfreaking shepherd’s pies outside her door and if she even keeps her door closedto that then she must be dead inthere and one night he lets it slip about these therapy sessions that he issupposed to go to but doesn’t and she basically makes an appointment for himand drags him out of the door and maybe threatens him with not coming to herdoctor’s appointments anymore, if he doesn’t go to his.

And through all that and then some, they never actuallykiss.

Sure he kisses hercheek when he wishes her goodnight and she kisses his head when he falls asleepon her during Lord of the Rings and he kisses her hand placatingly every timehe tries to dissuade her from helping him with dinner and she kisses hisforearm in the park that one time he freaks out on her because she is on hisleft side and goes to hold his arm and he kisses her stomach the first time shegrabs his hand and lets him feel the baby kicking but-

They’ve never properly kiss and it’s this lastfrontier and maybe he is waiting for her to cross it but she just can’t seem to.

And then she is givingbirth and he is there when she is givingbirth and they haven’t even kissed.

And then there’s Henryand they both kiss him plenty but-

///

they don’t kiss whenKillian refuses to hold her baby and she is hurt and offended and so confusedand kinda angry and then he says he can’t, he can’t hold him with one hand andshe is just sad and, yeah, maybe still kinda angry but also eerily calm as shebents Killian’s elbow and gives him the kind of look that makes him shut hismouth audibly and places her son in his arms

they don’t kiss whenKillian barges in on her breastfeeding and twirls around on the spot, slappinga hand over his face and sputtering apologies while all she can do is laugh andlaugh and tell him to stop acting like her tits are a big deal and make her acup of that crappy decaf coffee and he does and he also makes sure to look herdirectly in the eyes and then wink very poorly when he says that her tits are a big deal

they don’t kiss when Henrystarts teething and Emma is up at all hours of the night and she looks likefucking hell and Killian tells her so in no uncertain terms and basically,somehow, taking advantage of her sleep-deprived brain, manages to rope her intoa teeth-sharing plan which basically includes her passing half of her insomniaonto him and Emma can’t forgive him and at the same time can’t love him enoughand yeah, she loves him now and they’ve known each other for a year and they haven’t fucking kissed and what ever

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they don’t kiss whenshe asks him if he thinks maybe, possibly Liam would like to meet Henry and allKillian can do is nod and swallow and start planning the kind of lecture he’llgive his brother, if he dares to voice any of his doubts about the soundness of the situation, but Liamseems to think that if his brother is spending half his day around a certainbaby – no matter whose it is – it probably isn’t a terrible idea for him tomeet said baby and Liam Jones may be a military man and he may have nevergotten over the fact that he didn’t manage to protect his little brother fromall the evils of the world and he may have been determined to give Emma Swan ahard time for even the slightest hint of her using Killian but he is also puttyin the hands of Henry Swan within 10 minutes

they don’t kiss thefirst time she uses the key to his apartment and sneaks into his bedroom in themiddle of the night – baby in her arms and her hair into the messiest bun thathas ever been twisted and her damn sweatpants and her eyes all puffy and herwhispered worries all about not being able to do it and being all alone and notbeing good enough and he just folds himself around both of them and tries tostart the process of getting each ridiculous notion out of her head

they don’t kiss when shetells Henry to spot throwing his food all over daddy and Killian just standsthere – carrot puree all over his t-shirt, and watches as she continueswhipping the eggs in front of her as if she didn’t just- and he loves them bothtoo damn much to point it out and risk having her take it back and bloody hell,he loves her now and they’ve been together for all intents and purposes forover a year now and they haven’t bloodykissed and good lord

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She comes back fromthe store and heads directly to Killian’s apartment and tries to calculate ifshe and Henry are spending more time at her place or at his at this point. Butas soon as she opens the door and the smell hits her, her calculations are leftoutside in the cold and it’s all she can do not to moan out loud. Turns out itwasn’t just the little guy growing inside her that made her love Killian’spies.

She hears the lowmurmur of Killian’s voice and decides to tiptoe into the kitchen as quietly aspossible. She wants to look at them without giving her presence away just yet,when it’s just them.

And sure enough Henryis tucked into Killian’s left arm, his little fist twisted into the hair at theback of her boyfriend’s neck (god, he is not her freaking boyfriend, along withHenry in his arms he is her entire fucking universe).

She knows what theyare making already but she narrows her eyes as she realizes that she has neveractually seen Killian make his shepherd’spie.

“This is the only wayI can make your mom eat these, Henry.”

He twirls a broccoliin front of her son’s little nose and Emma rolls her eyes. Partially because it’strue and partially because the broccoli version is not her most favourite.

“When you are oldenough I’m gonna teach you how to make it on your own but for now I’ll justshow you how to make yourself a little forest.”

She honestly doesn’tknow if it’s the implication of years tocome in his promise, the fact that he says it so confidently, so easily,without any doubt, without any caveat of “if we are still together”, withoutany alternative in his mind. Or if it’s the fucking forest of broccoli that heis arranging around his chopping board like the most precious human being thathe is.

Emma honestly doesn’tknow. But she does drop the bag she is carrying on the floor and she crossesthe space between them in the time it takes Killian to turn around and open himmouth to greet her. And then she finally finallyfeels his lips under her own.

He tastes even betterthan his damn pie.

[is-i-halloween-yet]

Mayor Damien Day 06: During WKM

Warning: ANGST, BAD EDITING, BUT HOLY SHIT IT WAS FUNNNN, also it starts to get longer

(AN: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I LOVE this and the next part, also also I am sorry I am a million days late.. You do not have to reblog this but it was fun to write!! I wanted to finish it...Final? Part? Tonight? Or Tomorrow?)

“Mark.” You smiled brightly, hugging him tightly as he tensed slightly, “It is so good to see you.”

You could feel Mark tense under your arms, not hugging you back only pulling away, his whole being shaking as he looked you up and down, “You are not supposed to be here Y/N… You didn’t get an invitation… You’re not supposed to be here! What are you doing here?”

“I haven’t heard from you in years brother.” You forced a smile though your words broke at his words. Still you grabbed his arm, more for his support than yours, “Brother? What is wrong? Are you ill?” You were moving your hand to his forehead to feel for a temperature, but he caught it, squeezing it tightly before you could even reach, “You-Your freezing...”

“You NEED to leave.” Mark squeezed tighter as his words got harsher.

“Mark... Mark you’re hurting me...”

“YOU NEED TO LEAVE NOW Y/N!”

“Sorry I am a little late.” The voice of Damien caused both of you to jump, Mark dropping your wrist and Damien handing you your bag, “You left it in the car. Mark! My dear friend.” Damien held out his hand, grabbing Mark’s still shaking palm before he could even reply, “Hopefully this is not an issue, you said i could bring a plus one and i assumed your sisters invitation got lost in the mail so... Are you alright old friend?” Damien dropped his hand walking closer to Mark as his feature expressed concern, “You’re as pale as the dead.”

Mark said nothing, only forced a smile as he backed up the stairwell, a strange laugh being released from his mouth, “I am fine! Just got to get ready! Ha! Go have some drinks I will be right down! Ha-”

“Mark wait-” You caught his hand, squeezing it tenderly with one hand and reaching for the chain around your neck , “Mark we have something we need to talk to you about. Something by private…”

He sighed placing his free hand over yours as he smiled gently before making a elegant show of shoving it away walking to the top while mumbling, “Later darling sister. Later.”

Defeated you sighed, clutching the staircase as both exhaustion from defeat and your aching head drowned your bones, your other hand clutching the chain as Damien came from behind you practically sensing your distress, wrapping a hand around your waist and placing a hand on your forehead as your hands played with the chain gently. He sighed, pulling you into his chest were you rested your head weakly, “I thought you said you were going to go to the doctor?”

“No time.” You replied gently, a small smile on your features, “I wish I could understand why he won’t talk to us… Why he didn’t send me an invite?”

“You weren’t exactly subtle.  Not that I mind.” He smirked, pulling the chain out of hiding, his hands falling to the ring, “You are however, still sick… Get some rest. We will talk to Mark later, but you look like you are going to be sick again. Butler!” He hollard and guided you to the man, “Take her to our room please? I will fetch her later.”

But you stopped, ushering the butler away, waiting till he was out of earshot before you grabbed one of Damien’s hands, his free one going to the already devolved bruises from where your brother had gripped you, “Are we... I mean-?”

“Yes.” He cut you off, “We are. This is the best choice. All of us will be happy should he consider this. And he will.” He leaned foreword and kissed your forehead, trying not to shutter at the heat it radiated but he still pulled away with a smile, “Rest now. Worry later. Benjamin!”

The butler nodded as he came back into view and shoved you away, Damien shifting awkwardly with his cane until the detective approached him, boring conversation about town ensuing until someone came into sight.

“Oh hello old friend! How are you settling into your new office?”

“Y/N don’t go in there.”

You were exhausted, weak, still in your night clothes as you did not leave your bed since the night before and you were more concerned about your hunger than the words and harsh stares you were getting. Some were questioning but from the DA and Butler they were full of pity, Damien stepping in front of you to prevent you from walking into the room. This, however only made you push further. 

“This isn’t funny you guys, Damien, I would like to get through please.”

Damien did not reply only grabbed your shoulders and massaged them though you kept shoving, “Y/N-” 

“Let. Me. Through.” You spoke weakly, forcibly shoving past him with the last bit of energy, falling to the ground, my head hitting the ground harshly, whining and Damien kneeling beside me, slowly pulling me into him but not before I saw the corpse in front of me.

“Hey... Y/N..”

But I did not listen, or could not hear as I crawled to Mark, checking his pulse, but was repulsed at how cold and grey it was, pulling back my hand as I crawled to the nearest garbage can and vomited. 

“Y/N.” Damien tried again, his voice delicate, gently kneeling beside me and wrapping his arms around me with intent of picking me up, though I gently attempted to move away but to no avail, “Y/N I am so sorry.”

You tensed as he picked you up, “Is this a joke?” You looked away from Damien, having only briefly seen his sad eyes so you settled on everyone else, “It’s a really realistic mannequin. I will give you that.” 

“Y/N-”

You chuckled darkly , struggling against Damien's strong and loving embrace, full of support you couldn’t bring yourself to accept but he wouldn’t let go, “Awh where is Will? He organized this didn’t you?”

“Y/N-”

“Just come clean... Or better yet come on out. Mark! Mar-”

“Y/N!” Damien spoke loud but firm with no form of malice. It was enough to pull you out of your panic and up into his teary eyes, quickly echoing his tears as you leaned into his chest and wept, his lips meeting the back of your head, “Sh... Will you excuse us?”

But he didn’t say a word, just walked you into your bedroom and held you for an hour until you fall asleep.

“Yes we are engaged! Yes we came here to ask Mark to break things off with Celine, but he was my brother and I hadn’t heard from him in years, I would never harm him. Ever.”

The detective snickered, clearly not believing your words as Will held you back, “Well clearly-”

“Enough!” Celine exclaimed in range, “Come with me Y/N we need to talk.”

You looked to Will as he let go of you, nodding gently to you as you weakly followed her into the library to which she promptly shove you against the wall by your neck, “I warned you to stay away. And you even have the the audacity to come into my home and ask my husband-”

“You.. Don’t… Love him… Wh- Is F-f-f-ine bu-b-b-b-but you broke his-hear-” But you couldn’t  continue from lack of air, bile rising up, and hands getting tighter.

You thought this would be the end, you were almost certain of it when Damien burst into the room and Celine dropped you, leaving you crawling to a garbage nearby as you began to vomit, Damien going to you to hold your hair back. “What is the meaning of this?” Celine said nothing only walking out of the room leaving the two of you alone, “Y/N? Are you alright?” But you couldn’t speak after you finished, only leaning against his chest whimpering as you closed your eyes, the world going dimmer, “Will! Someone get in here! Get in here! Take her to her room!”

But none came and the darkness grew, your vocals suddenly returning to say a final, “I love you.” to Damien before it all consumed you.

The complete panic on his face being the last thing you saw.

“What are you doing Celine?” Damien stared at his sister with as much anger as he could muster at his twin, “First Y/N, then the DA? Are these things you are meddling with?” Celine said nothing, only gesture for Damien to sit as she held out her hand, “I will not help you with these games until you ans-.”

Celine grabbed Damien’s hand forcing him into the chair with strength he did not know she had, her other hand placing Dark’s over the ball. “There is no other choice.” She murmured and with a final glare and smirk, Damien was trapped and surrounded in darkness, his last thought going to Y/N.

“This is the only way.”