#and the total would go up to 561

[laugtherhyena]

Today i was bored and decided to check just how many Nijiue family related sprites I've made over the years and these are the results;

Counting every version of each character Hitaru has 126 sprites, Jiro 110, Akemi 90, Iroha 30, Emina 50, Ayato 34 and Mako has 78.

So 518 sprites total,, Wow-

[extinctionstories]

On April 19th, 1987, a bird known as Adult Condor 9 was captured in the Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge, near Bakersfield, California. After decades ravaged by the threats of lead-poisoning and pesticide exposure, and intense debate over the ethics of captivity, it had been determined that captive breeding was the final hope to save a species. As his designation might suggest, AC-9 was the ninth condor to be captured for the new program; he was also the last.

As the biology team transported the seven-year-old male to the safety of the San Diego Wild Animal Park, his species, the California Condor, North America's largest bird, became extinct in its native range. It was Easter Sunday—a fitting day for the start of a resurrection.

At the time of AC-9's capture, the total world population of California condors constituted just twenty-seven birds. The majority of them represented ongoing conservation attempts: immature birds, taken from the wild as nestlings and eggs to be captive-reared in safety, with the intention of re-release into the wild. Now, efforts turned fully towards the hope of captive breeding.

Captive breeding is never a sure-fire bet, especially for sensitive, slow-reproducing species like the condor. Animals can and do go extinct even when all individuals are successfully shielded from peril and provided with ideal breeding conditions. Persistence in captivity is not the solution to habitat destruction and extirpation—but it can buy valuable time for a species that needs it.

Thankfully, for the California condor, it paid off.

The birds defied expectations, with an egg successfully hatched at the San Diego Zoo the very next year. Unlike many other birds of prey, which may produce clutches of up to 5 hatchlings, the California condor raises a single chick per breeding season, providing care for the first full year of its life, and, as a consequence, often not nesting at all in the year following the birth of a chick. This, combined with the bird's slow maturation (taking six to eight years to start breeding), presented a significant challenge. However, biologists were able to exploit another quirk of the bird's breeding cycle: its ability to double-clutch.

Raising a single offspring per year is a massive risk in a world full of threats, and the California condor's biology has provided it with a back-up plan: in years when a chick or egg has been lost, condors will often re-nest with a second egg. To take advantage of this tendency, eggs were selectively removed from birds in the captive breeding program, which would then lay a replacement, greatly increasing their reproduction rate.

And what of the eggs that were taken? The tendency of hatchlings to imprint is well-known, and the intention from the very beginning was for the birds to one day return to the wild—an impossibility for animals acclimated to humans. And so, puppets were made in the realistic likeness of adult condors, and used by members of the conservation team to feed and nurture the young birds, mitigating the risk of imprintation on the wrong species.

By 1992, the captive population had more than doubled, to 64 birds. That year, after an absence of five years, the first two captive-bred condors were released into their ancestral home. Many other releases followed, including the return of AC-9 himself in 2002. Thanks to the efforts of zoos and conservationists, as of 2024 there are 561 living California condors, over half of which fly free in the wilds of the American West.

The fight to save the California condor is far from over. The species is still listed as critically endangered. Lead poisoning (from ingesting shot/bullets from abandoned carcasses) remains the primary source of mortality for the species, with tagged birds tested and treated whenever possible. Baby condors are fed bone chips by their parents, likely as a calcium supplement—but, to a condor, bits of bone and bits of plastic can be indistinguishable, and dead nestlings have been found with stomachs full of trash.

There's hope, though. There are things we can change, things we can counteract and stop from happening in the future. It was a human hand that created this problem, and it will take a human hand to fix it. Hope is only gone when the last animal breathes its last breath—and the California condor is still here.

-

This painting is titled Puppet Rearing (California Condor), and is part of my series Conservation Pieces, which focuses on the efforts and techniques used to save critically endangered birds from extinction. It is traditional gouache, on 22x30" paper.

[yurislotusgarden]

Hii! could I request ranpo and chuuya with a fem s/o who makes cute bento boxes for their lunch at work? (I was curious on how this would go, feel free to add any details you want!)

My bento!

ʚїɞ Separately! Nakahara Chuuya, Ranpo Edogawa, Sigma x F!Reader

ʚїɞ Keep in mind English is not my first language, so you may find mistakes!

ʚїɞ word count: 1764 (Chuuya - 537, Ranpo - 664, Sigma - 561)

ʚїɞ Have Sigma as an extra bcs my ass forgot it was meant to be Ranpo instead of him after I was done with Chuuya's part

ʚїɞ Tw’s: None! Just pure fluff, pet names are used (barely), reader’s gender is not specified that much

Nakahara Chuuya!

ཐིཋྀ He loves the bentos so much, well more like the fact that you take time to make them for him

ཐིཋྀ Tries to always eat them

ཐིཋྀ Once, when you started making them, he didn’t eat the food because he was so busy that day, and when he had a little free time, Chuuya decided it was a better idea to go on a stress smoke break (He tries to limit smoking to the minimum he can if you don’t like smoking/the fact that he does it. He knows it’s because you care about his health)

ཐིཋྀ It ended with you fussing over him eating almost nothing that day and he doesn’t like causing you stress or making you worry so he makes sure to eat those bentos😭

ཐིཋྀ He may be an executive but this man is not embarrassed at all to eat those bentos in front of people, no matter how colorful or cutesy the food looks

ཐིཋྀ Food is food, he’s not gonna not eat cause you to worry just because the bento is one that doesn’t look like someone like him would eat

///////////////

“Lad, may I ask where do you get those bentos from?”

It was a long time since Kouyou noticed Chuuya’s bentos, and she tried to ignore just how much she wanted to try one. The only reason why she didn’t is because she doesn’t know where he is getting them from.

The young woman looked at many shops in Yokohama and saw a few places with similar bentos, but it was easy to see that none of the stores were the ones where Chuuya kept getting his lunch from.

…She really wanted one for herself, especially with how obvious it was that they were delicious, kept quiet about it tho.

Chuuya turned towards the older woman, whom he came to see as an older sister over the years.

“They’re not bought from a shop.”

“You don’t buy them?”

“Not a single one of them. Actually,-”

Kouyou was confused. Where did he get a bento from every single day? She knows the younger of the two probably wouldn’t bother spending his free time making food for lunch definitely a day before, even if he did, it wouldn’t be so colorful or detailed. There were even rice balls decorated as bears and stuff, it obviously took time to make one. But if he wasn’t buying them,  then the only other option that came to her mind was-

“- [Name] makes them for me.”

“She does?”

“Yeah, and she’s yet to make one I dislike.”

It all makes sense now to the red-haired woman. You have more free time most of the time compared to Chuuya, and you were probably aware of the eating habits he had before.

The fact that you take time, quite a lot it seems if Kouyou was to guess, the bentos are even detailed, in a very cute style if she was to say, made a smile appear on her face.

“Mhm, you wanna try?”

“How could I refuse such an offer?”

The food was even better than she thought. Kouyou made a mental note to ask you if you would have a problem with making two bentos from time to time.

Edogawa Ranpo!

ཐིཋྀ Another reason as to why he’s dating you -you give extra homemade sweets to the Bentos-

ཐིཋྀ He doesn’t even need to try to remember to eat it because he ends up eating it before lunch anyway -the reason behind you making more than one bento usually-

ཐིཋྀ He fucking boasts to everyone about the food😭

ཐིཋྀ “See what I have here? HAHA! Something you don’t and probably never will!” ← totally not Ranpo to anyone else -and totally not him to Dazai and Atsushi about the fact that they will probably never have homemade food like him-

ཐིཋྀ Don’t make the bentos with him in the kitchen unless you have prepared double the amount of food you plan to use. He uses any opportunity to snack on the not-ready-yet bentos

ཐིཋྀ BUT! He will share with you if he notices you’re hungry or just generally wanna eat it <3

///////////////

“C’mon give me just a little piece!”

“Nope! [Name] made it for me! Make your own if you want a bento at work, Yosano-san!”

“I can’t make such a bento Ranpo-san!”

“Not my problem!”

With a pout, the brunette turned his chair away, trying to eat his food in peace. It’s one of his favorite bentos! You put his favorites in this one! The only thing he doesn’t like in it is the veggies which Ranpo would ignore or throw out but he knows that he won’t get his favorite candy made by you anytime soon if he does (the others will snitch if he throws them out, especially Dazai and Yosano they did that the one and only time he did so. He learned a lesson from that after you didn’t cook his favorite like you said you would that morning)

Ranpo could practically feel the eye-roll done by Yosano. “It’s not like it’s the only bento you had today.” It’s true, he ate a similar one 2 hours earlier. “Doesn’t matter. It’s my bento either way.” A sigh came from the woman.

And right when one would think his problem was solved, another arrived. 

“Ranpo-san! What an interesting bento you have there!”

“Go away Dazai. I’m not giving you a single piece of my food!”

“Oh c’mon! You can spare a little!”

“Nope! Especially not when it’s [Name]’s cooking!”

Seriously, can’t they leave him alone? He knows your cooking is good, everyone at the agency knows that! But he wishes that you’d never let Dazai taste your food. The bandaged man has horrible eating habits, you both know that, and yet he always tries to get his hands on Ranpo’s bentos. The audacity!

Ranpo could tell that Dazai's annoying mouth was about to open again before someone interrupted him.

"I can make bentos for you too if you like them so much, Dazai-san"

Isn't that his angel who came to visit him at his oh-so-tiring job? Lovely timing, if Ranpo was to say, but there was one problem.

Among ‘hello’s and ‘hi’s from others upon noticing you, gasps could be heard, from 2 men specifically.

"You would do that for me?!"

"Excuse me?!"

What is this?! There's no way that you’re gracing anyone else with the perfection that are your his bentos!

“Hm?” It’s easy to see for anyone in the room that you were confused.

“[Name]-chan, if you could be so nice, could I ask for a bento with cra-”

“No no no! Shut up Dazai! She’s not making you any bentos! In your dreams!”

In the end, while Ranpo and Dazai at first thought that you wouldn’t make the taller brunette a bento after your conversation at that moment, you indeed did as a surprise. 

The best detective in the world didn’t like that but he allowed you to after bribing him and reminding him that if you can get Dazai to eat, you will, no matter if Ranpo will allow you to make a bento for him or not.

Dazai's happy scream the next day could probably be heard throughout the whole building.

Sigma!

ཐིཋྀ He didn’t think he’d be able to adore you more than he already does, and yet you found a way to make him do so

ཐིཋྀ He tries to eat the bentos every day but it isn’t that rare that he forgets about eating altogether when faced with a mountain of paperwork or problems in the casino

ཐིཋྀ He loves how they look and taste. He, at one point, will ask if you can teach him how to cook. Like not even necessarily a bento, just to learn since he doesn’t want the kitchen to end up in flames one day, he’s aware he sucks at cooking

ཐིཋྀ He probably would be a little embarrassed by eating it. Not because of how colorful or cutesy they are, but because of the looks he gets from people who see it. 

ཐིཋྀ The stares aren’t criticizing or anything, others just don’t expect that their boss/the manager of the casino would eat food that looks like that

ཐིཋྀ Someone was probably jealous because he has homemade bentos like that and they have some store-bought sandwiches 💀

///////////////

“It’s mine actually. Sorry, I forgot to take this from here earlier.”

The man standing in front of the bar was shocked.

He’s been sitting there and drinking not too much for some time now. At one point he noticed the bartender taking out a bento from under the bar, the lid see-through enough to see the food inside. He has to say, the detail and overall look were very cute, it definitely took time to make it look so.

The man had thought that the bento was made by someone for the bartender (In his mind it was a fair thought as he didn’t think that one could buy a bento like that anywhere close to a place like this. Especially if you work there).

The slightly shorter man changed his thought upon noticing that the bartender didn’t touch the food he had taken out (later on the lunch break he took out something else to eat)

Around 2 hours after the lunch break, -the bento still untouched, he noticed- the man decided to finally ask, curiosity winning over after all the time spent at the bar seat.

“Excuse me, who is the owner of the bento? I couldn’t help but notice that it hasn’t been touched at all.”

And he really chose the worst time to ask that question didn’t he? Right as the person to whom the bento belonged to, came.

“I-It’s yours sir?”

“Yes, why?”

How is he supposed to answer? That he didn’t think that such a cute-looking bento -that if he could he would consider stealing, it looks delicious and definitely better than his sandwich- can belong to the ever so stoic and calm manager of the sky casino?

“No reason! Was just that curious, that’s all! after all, the bento was lying here for the past, almost, 3 hours by now.”

“Ah, understandable then”

The bi-colored-haired man turned to the bartender, who was already giving the box over to him.

“Thank you for keeping it here for me, Shuichi-kun”

“no problem, Sigma-san. [Name]-san also told me to tell you-”

Yeah, the man needs a break from the confusion and shock for the next week.

And Sigma? He’s just happy you leave the bentos somewhere he can take them from when you know he’s busy.

Notes, comments, and reblogs are greatly appreciated <3

Do not copy or translate my works on/to any site

[hamsteriffic]

Miraculous Fandom Stats

Ao3 Wrap Up 2023

I don’t know if anyone has done this, I hope I don’t step on anyone’s toes. Here a wrap up for 2023 for Miraculous Ladybug!

This study only assesses the fanfics posted by the last update, so if there was an older fic that was from 2021 that was updated in 2023, this would be captured by this study.

📈 The data presented here is a snapshot of the Fandom on: 05 Jan 2024

🖤 Works posted to Ao3 in 2023

In 2023 there were 10,515 fanfics posted (including crossovers and all languages). The median word count per fanfic was 2,268 words. In general, each fic received 5 comments, 561 hits and 36 kudos (median).

A majority of fanfics were not crossovers (Fig 1). The peak of Ao3 posts for Miraculous Ladybug was in 2021 with a total of 11,350 fanfics. Fanfics with crossovers have had a steady rise in popularity from 2018 with a peak of 2,609 in 2021.

Fig 1. A total number of fanfics posted to Ao3 in 2023 for the Miraculous Ladybug fandom without crossovers (blue line) and with crossovers (dotted line).

Note that this analysis will excludes crossovers (a separate analysis to come!).

Fig 2. Total number of completed fanfics (red) and incomplete fanfics (pink) posted to Ao3 in the Miraculous Ladybug fandom for 2023 (excluding crossovers).

Fig 3. Total number of words per fic published or updated in 2023. The median word count per fanfic in 2023 was 2,268 words.

The most frequently used tags for 2023 were (in descending order):

Fluff (1495)

Angst (1040)

Identity Reveal (982)

Aged-Up Characters (968)

Alternate Universe (732)

Hurt/Comfort (700)

Adrien Needs a Hug (510)

🏆 Highlights in 2023 include

Miraculous Ladybug Season 5 Finale, s05e26, Re-Creation (Part 2) (First Airdate: July 01, 2023) [2]

Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie (Released: July 05, 2023) [3]

Miraculous Paris Special (Preview Screening: October 15, 2023) [4]

🖤 Most Tagged Side of the Lovesquare in 2023

Fig 4. Percentage of fanfics tagged with different sides of the Lovesquare.

Note that these are only taking into account fics that use this tag. There may be fanfics that have sides of the Lovesquare that are not indicated. This analysis also includes tags for Marichat May, Ladrien July etc.

Adrinette (34.5%; 737 fics)

LadyNoir (32%; 677 fics)

MariChat (23.5%; 501 fics)

Ladrien (10%; 213 fics)

🖤 Top 10 Characters Pairings on Ao3 (excluding Lovesquare)

Alya/Nino (927 fics)

Luka/Marinette (734 fics)

Juleka/Rose (405 fics)

Nathaniel / Marc (337 fics)

Felix / Marinette (317 fics)

Gabriel / Nathalie (286 fics)

Adrien / Luka (269 fics)

Felix / Kagami (183 fics)

Adrien / Kagami (159 fics)

Kagami / Marinette (158 fics)

There was a large shift in a number of pairings, in particular there was a dramatic increase in the number of fics tagged with Felix Fathom / Kagami Tsurugi (see below the cut for Season 5 spoilers). Other notable mentions are also Marinette Dupain-Cheng / Zoe Lee with a 2.5 fold increase in fanfics posted in 2023 (63 in total) compared to 2022 (26 in total).

🖤 Conclusions

It’s been a big year, and one that is controversial in many ways. I was just curious to see if there’s a decrease in activity since the season 5 finale, but it looks like the fanfiction writing is going strong. But are fans tuning out? Or are we trying to create more fix-it fics? (I will delve into that in a different post, since this was quite labour intensive).

There have been some interesting changes in relationship tags as well as tags for Sentimonsters (below the cut).

Methodology, References and Season 5 Spoilers below the cut:

Warning: Season 5 spoilers below:

🖤 2023 was also the year Feligami became official

This has lead to a dramatic increase in fanfics for the power couple.

Fig 5. The total number of fanfics posted on Ao3 for Felix / Kagami, represented per month saw a dramatic increase since the release of Season 5 in 2023 (blue). In contrast, I have plotted the total number of fanfics per month 2022 (red).

💔 2023 was also when the sentimonster theory was confirmed

Fig 6. Fanfiction that have used tags for Sentimonsters since 2018. Note that this is not a cumulative plot and that the numbers are individual works from each year tagged for Sentimonster.

In 2023, there were 192 works that tagged for Sentimonster Adrien, and 95 for Sentimonster Felix and 34 for Sentimonster Kagami. Recent usage for the tag 'Adrien is not a Sentimonster' was also observed (21 cases).

Please don’t be mad at me. I’m just a stats hamster.

Methodology

Filtering

The analyses start from Sep 05, 2012 when the first promotional video (PV) for Miraculous Ladybug was publicly leaked [1].

Since the website is very active, the information may change as this data is best considered to be a snapshot of the fanfics posted at this point in time. Also note that the filter is also for last update, and not first posted, so that older fics may be captured in later datasets. But for the purposes of this study, I am assuming that if the author is updating, then they are still active in the fandom.

To get an idea on what was posted to Ao3 this year, I have filtered for last published date 01 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2023. Note that while there was only an option for selecting by Last Post Date, which meant that works originally posted earlier (pre-2023) would still be captured if it was updated within the bounds of these dates.

Furthermore, it is also possible to backdate works on Ao3 which may also give false results. However, it may be likely that if this did happen it would only be a small percentage of fanworks. As such the data is an approximation of fandom activity during 2023.

Relationship Tags

I have followed the Ao3 rules so that / are taken to mean romantic relations and & for platonic relationships. In this analysis, I have combined the numbers for Felix (PV), Felix Graham de Vanily and Felix Fathom.

References

[1] Miraculous PV (https://miraculousladybug.fandom.com/wiki/Ladybug_PV)

[2] Miraculous Ladybug Re-Creation (s05e25) World Premiere (Switzerland) (https://miraculousladybug.fandom.com/wiki/Re-creation_(The_Final_Day_-_Part_2)#google_vignette)

[3] Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10364034/releaseinfo/)

[4] Miraculous Paris Special (https://miraculousladybug.fandom.com/wiki/Miraculous_Paris)

[darkicedragon]

Fanfic: Pace the Night [Disconnect]

Fandom: Noblesse Summary: M-21 wanted Tao away from the computer; Tao's not really convinced. Rating: G Genre: General Word count: 561 Total word count: 34,900 Status: Work in progress Other parts in the collection

Tao stretched out with a yawn, M-21 curling tighter around him.

"Yeah, yeah," Tao said with a laugh, reaching across to pat M-21's fur. Tao might have been pointedly dragged from his own room and away from his computer (again. Twice in a row even!) but M-21 seemed to tolerate his phone. That didn't count apparently.

And M-21 did make a great backrest.

He felt M-21 stiffen and when he looked over, M-21 was alert, his ears pricked and pointing towards the window.

Hm.

"It's too late to be a squirrel…" Did South Korea even have squirrels? Tao wasn't sure if he'd seen any recently and he should set up some cameras to-

His thoughts halted as M-21 growled, tensing even further.

Definitely not a squirrel then.

Just as Tao was getting up to check what was outside, there was a thump at the window, a face appearing at the glass.

Short werewolf snout, brown fur, a mohawk that disappeared past the top of the window.

A friendly face, even if Tao had never seen it like that. M-21's growl didn't go away.

Kentas looked at M-21, then down at the window frame.

"No!" Tao dashed over, hoping he'd read Kentas right. "No, no no, don't come in that way!" From the little he could see, Kentas wouldn't fit through the window without the windowsill, let alone with. "Go to the balcony-" Tao pointed to the right, Kentas' eyes following. "-and I'll let you in there."

Kentas' ears flattened before he nodded. Phew, crisis ove-

Kentas leaped to the next windowsill, the thump reverberating through the house.

Tao winced, fingers already flying over his phone screen as he hurried out the room - the heads up text was done and sent by the time Tao reached the balcony, Kentas crouched on top of the railing.

He wasn't sure how the railing hadn't buckled under Kentas' weight yet, but Boss might have reinforced it. Who knew with Boss.

Tao had to jerk the door open when Kentas leaped towards him. "Someone's impatient, huh?" Tao said as he locked the door again once Kentas was inside.

But Kentas did have a good reason to be - M-21 was worth it.

Tao knew M-21 had crept out his room not because he heard M-21's growl, but because Kentas' tail started beating hard enough to almost knock Tao off his feet.

Uh oh. Was Kentas going to start chasing?

Kentas was gone in a second but there wasn't a following clatter (or torn up carpet) and when Tao reached M-21's room, the pair were already curled up on M-21's bed, M-21 up against the headboard while Kentas next to him. M-21 was doing a rolling growl that didn't seem to be deterring Kentas who was grooming him while his tail thumped against the bed.

Tao watched for a few more seconds, but M-21 didn't move away or snap at Kentas and Kentas didn't stop either so it didn't seem like it would dissolve into a fight.

Tao tested the bed and it didn't collapse under their combined weight. Maybe Boss made their beds too.

It had been warm enough next to M-21, but Kentas was toasty.

Tao sank into Kentas' fur with a sigh. So there was some benefit to not being connected to the PC…

[fiftytwotwentytwo]

Leviathan Wakes

Author: James S. A. Corey

Science Fiction

Page Count: 561

How did I come across this book?:

Library Book #3

I grabbed this book for 3 reasons:

It was big and bulky with a larger page count - nice little challenge.

The book looked "well loved" based on the battered cover.

I also believe I heard people claim this to be highly acclaimed book/series.

Beyond that - I have no clue what it is about other than George R. R.Martin called it a "Kickass Space Opera" - well, technically the quotation says "It's been too long since we've had a really kickass space opera" - George didn't explicitly said this book was Kickass - it was an assumption by myself. Who knows maybe Mr. Martin read this book AND still feels like he needs a Kickass Space Opera.

Review:

It took me a while to get into the book. To be honest I am not even sure what was going on with Miller until he joined up with Holden. I could not piece together his passage of time or what was happening with his work.

Holden and his crew - that I could keep up with - so to say the first handful of chapters for me was kind of wishy-washy and a rollercoaster of comprehension would be the kindest way to put it.

But, a quarter of the way into the book - everything clicked and I began to really enjoy Miller almost better than I enjoyed Holden.

I will say the book is well written and the action scenes really drive, but you will get hit with bouts that drag (mostly the bureaucratic moments).

I am not big on sci-fi so I am not sure if this would be a good introduction to the genre - some wording/context has a Hard Sci-Fi feel but if you take a step back it is actually pretty tame and borders closer to Soft/Speculative Science Fiction.

I discovered while reading this book that the story has become a beloved franchise and has been adapted into a equally loved television series. I will say I did enjoy the book, but I am not sure if liked how the ending played out (specifically Miller's story arc) - because of this - I do not believe I will continue into the series or seek out its episodes.

Personal Rating: 6/10

Yearly Book Total: 51

Total Page Count: 19,533 pages

[dexthtoyounglings]

I posted 2,183 times in 2022

That's 2,183 more posts than 2021!

561 posts created (26%)

1,622 posts reblogged (74%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@zoeykallus

@rexxdjarin

@inkrabbit

@moodymisty

@undyingghoul

I tagged 487 of my posts in 2022

#paula rants - 135 posts

#my 🖤 lover - 97 posts

#my fire ghoul lover - 35 posts

#star wars - 35 posts

#my mountain ghoul - 28 posts

#the band ghost x reader - 27 posts

#my weather ghoul lover 🤍 - 25 posts

#star wars x reader - 21 posts

#the bad batch - 20 posts

#ghost band x reader - 18 posts

Longest Tag: 118 characters

#i know half the people that follow this blog would lick the dirt out of the crevices on the bottom of crosshair's boot

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

The Distant Scent of What Felt Like Centuries

Dewdrop Ghoul x Reader Fluff

Part Two

Summary: There's a certain ghoul that stalks you like predator to prey. But really how confident is he when not seducing another?

Warnings: Dewdrop being slightly creepy you could argue, flufffff, much flufffffffffff

A/n: I do wanna write something fluffy but I've been falling back into insecurity and I just want some love from a fire ghoul. Also, long title go brr.

GIF NOT MINE!!

•--•

As horny as he was, you'd expect he'd be the most charismatic ghoul out of the bunch. But no, it was Swiss that was the most charismatic. Dewdrop, not by choice, was the worst at flirting when he wanted something romantic.

I guess it might be easier to think with your dick than it is your brain.

And throughout the past month you'd caught his stares at you, raking you over with something not of desire and lust. He looked at you like he wanted twirl you on your feet and surround you like a bubble. And you felt your heart warm from them, not the pit of your stomach.

Though, the past two days you were surprised at how difficult of a time he had genuinely speaking to you.

You'd noticed it, of course you had noticed it. The ways his hands fiddled and his posture would shift. The usual stoic nature of him and his body both faltered when he approached you the first time, and every time after that. It was like he couldn't sit still when face-to-face with you.

You remembered the way you got immediately warmer when he was, in that moment, greeting you with a "hello" (after just being shoved into your direction by Aether). You would totally say that you were warm due to yourself blushing, cause you certainly adored his rambunctious nature and the way he terrorized the other ghouls, but it wasn't just that. Him being flustered must've heat up the air around him, with you being directly in front.

Whether he noticed or not, you couldn't tell, but it made you like him all the more.

Now you felt yourself warm whenever his eyes were on you, this time from all the heat rushing to your face. Especially when he was in places we would never be normally. Like today.

The library was fairly quiet. When brothers and sister settled down for a book or studying, they were most respectful. So, when you felt his presence and heard his confidence footsteps across the marble, you knew he was looking at you. Nobody was that blatantly out of place when in the library, but him.

"Excuse me, Sister," he spoke, finally next to you. You never even noticed the air heating up around you when he approached, your face flushed with blood.

You coughed suddenly, "Oh, hi Dewdrop," you peeked around the corner of where he turned from to see that there were no ghouls in sight like there usually were when he was pushed in your direction like you were a dance circle. They were never amazing at hiding, so this was truly something that he had come up to you all on his own.

His knee was slightly twitching, not enough to where his whole self was bouncing but enough to see out of the corner of you eye.

You slipped the book you had taken from the shelf back in - not of your taste at that specific time. Lately, all you could do was read gothic romance novels, and you couldn't tell if it was just a switch of preference or if you just craved Dewdrop's attention so much more than before that you seeked it in novels as well.

"You- Uh well, hello," he sputtered his words out, the height he had put on when standing tall and confident breaking when his neck hunched at his first mistake in speech. It was cute.

"I was just, I just wanted to tell you that.. well you have very beautiful, um, beautiful eyes."

Your lips curved into a smirk, looking at him start to wipe his slick palms off onto his pants. Turning your body to him, you smoothed out his jacket. You could feel him burning holes into the top of your hair as he watched you like a vulture, the heat around you consuming more and more of any chill you'd felt in the library.

"Thank you Dewdrop, are you always this sweet to every woman you meet?" you ask, a mischievous glint in your eye as you met his.

He huffed out a breath, turning his head away from yours. You felt bad in a way for embarrassing him. There were few women he had genuinely tried for, Aether told you about the stories of the roles reversing where they didn't want something real with him and Dewy only getting his heart broken.

You wanted to change that, you wanted to ever since you'd felt his looks. He was truly a ghoul to want.

"No.. mm, it's only y- it's only you," he mumbled. But you still heard it nonetheless.

You didn't know what really to say, but the moment you felt his words register, you grinned widely, placing your hands on his shoulder and planting a kiss on his masked cheek.

Now it felt almost suffocatingly hot, making you almost take a step back but Dewdrop reached up to grab your wrists in his hands and he pulled you towards him. His arms locked you to his chest and you felt his nose press against the top of your head.

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#4

Hii! I really liked your Dew fic and how sweet the reader was. Most fanfic writers end up making the Sisters of Sin as some whores, but its so nice to see a change in this. I am very awkward and I really dislike swearing, so seeing those characteristis represented in your readers is a breath of fresh air.

Anyways, can we please get a second part of that Dewdrop fanfic? Where else will he leave his scent next?

My love!! Hi!! I'm actually really surprised at how much traction my Dewdrop fic got cause I though people would be upset I strayed away from his main trait (horny). And thank you, I love writing soft readers!! You are not the first who wanted a part two - so here it is!!!

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For Eternity

Dewdrop Ghoul x Reader Smut

Part Two of "The Distant Scent of What Felt Like Centuries"

Summary: You don't smell like him anymore. How could Dewdrop ever fix a problem like that?

Warnings: Paula (me) gets really sucked into describing Dewdrop's room, fingering, knotting, creampie, feral Dewy, horn pulling, just very sweet love making, hair pulling

A/n; So, I also had a request for maybe some "activities" in part two, so this is gonna be long enough that you get the sweet and spicy taste (hopefully).

GIF NOT MINE!!

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When you woke up, you expected your day to be normal. Though with the thought of Dewdrop consuming you, your mind started second guessing. And you should've seriously listened.

The moment you stepped foot back in the library to help set books away like you had every morning, you saw the same sweetheart you did everyday, hunched over her oval desk in a stressed fashion.

"Sister Katherine, are you feeling alright?" you asked, voice toned down to a bare whisper as to not disturb her loudly.

It almost sounded like she growled when she let out a long groan, but when she sat straight and showed her face, she was smiling, "Finally, you're here."

You twisted your eyebrows, looked at her more closely. You'd never seen her look more distressed in your whole time at the ministry. She was always such a lighthearted girl, stubborn but sweet to the core. And here she was, looking like she hadn't closed her eyes at all last night.

"Your little ghoul, the one that's been following you, is giving me a headache!" she complained, pressing the flat of her palm to the table and reaching for your hand with her other.

She took you closer to her, "He seems really excited to see you, Sister, I promise... because he keep changing the temperature drastically and you know I hate the heat."

You offered her a small smile, hiding a giggle, "I am really sorry, Sister, I'll talk to him about that-"

Then you felt it, the warmth wash over you. Sister Katherine groaned and took her hand from you, pressing it against her head. You whispered out an apology before turning and seeing Dew waiting outside of the library doors, one opened.

You rushed towards him with fast steps. He tilted his head at you stepping back with a widened grin spreading on his face.

"Dew, you have to stop getting so excited..." you said, holding his forearm and dragging him away.

Though dragging was more a hyperbole than it usually would be, as he eagerly walked to follow next to you, "You know I can't help it. It's.. it's uncontrollable Sister."

You sighed and stopped some ways away from the library. It wasn't connected to the ministry, only linked by a stone path. You led Dewdrop away to a big willow tree between the two buildings, turning and looking up at him.

He beamed down at you while your back was mere inches from the trunk.

"I think you very much can, you know I would've found you after my duties-"

"I didn't know that, what I did know is that if I caught you doing your duties, you would tell me that you'd find me. So I would know," he said, hands folded behind his back like he was restricting himself from touching you.

You rolled your eyes, reaching your hand up to smooth out his vest, "You're high maintenance."

Like your fingers had animated him, brought him life, Dewdrop's hands snuck up to bring feather light touches over your waist. His face leaned closer to yours, kissing you on your cheek.

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598 notes - Posted October 15, 2022

#3

Can I request ghost reactions to you having a nightmare and you leave your bedroom to clear your thoughts please?

Wawawaw. Hi. I'm having a good time eating dry cereal so I'm gonna work on some requests. I don't have nightmares often, but when I do, I can never go back to bed so this will be fun! (All of these are established relationships, I don't know if you wanted that or not - my apologies!!)

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How The Ghouls React To You Having A Nightmare

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You woke up in a cold sweat, breath coming out if you heavy and hard. It was like you'd run a marathon, though you almost wished you were panting from exertion.

Instead it was from stress. A nightmare encased in darkness and indescribable to anyone. You couldn't tell if it was a feral beast or it was only a brush of wind. But no matter what it was, your heart shook from it.

Your shirt was soaked through, forcing you up. It wasn't like you'd be going back to sleep anyways. You took it off, clawing at it like it was infected with the plague. You found a tank top, opting to put that on. Who would care, Copia had heard of your nightmares, calling them messages from Satan. If they were anything, they were messages from the Lord of Paranoia.

Walking out of your room, your bare feet padded along the marble floor. Your pajama pants kept your legs warm, but the cold floor sent chills through your feet. It reminded you of the danger that the ministry reinforced for staying in after curfew. But you weren't scared of the ghouls.

Especially not when you held a soft spot for one of them.

~Dewdrop~

He had smelled your fear before you woke up, not being able to ignore the way you seemed to suffocate in panic. He slinked out of his room and the ghoul's wing, creeping around the ministry, looking for you from deep shadows in corners. And when he finally found you, he watched you take deep breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth.

Your eyes scanned decorations, looking for a distraction. But it wasn't hard for them to catch on one you certainly hadn't seen before. Glowing yellow eyes in the corner of a display case.

You felt it wash over you; his reassuring warmth. You sighed softly, holding out your hand, "Dewdrop."

He walked out of the darkness with short steps, and then he finally came into view, mask having been stripped from his face, dark purple hues under his eyes and his long, blonde hair flowing off his shoulders, tangled in few placed. He only had pjama pants on, but you knew by how worn out he was that it wasn't on purpose.

"You're scared," he said, soon standing in front of you. He only stared at you, tilting his head, "You have nothing to be afraid of here, I hope you know that."

You smiled up at him in a way that was meant to reassure him, but you could tell he didn't feel reassured at all.

"I just had a nightmare, I needed to take a walk to clear my head, alright?" you looked up at him with softened eyes, "Go back to sleep, you look so exhausted."

Dewdrop's hand moved to yours so fast you almost didn't believe it happened. The glow of his eyes had intensified in that moment, radiating light that gave his eyelashes shadows.

"Only- Only if you come to bed with me," he murmered, slipping his nimble fingers around your other wrist and pressing both of your hands to his chest.

The ghoul shivered at the contrast of your cold fingertips against his warm chest. Rain was right about it being a cold night. But as he expected you to say no to the words that were so bold from him, you just nodded.

You could definitely go for some snuggles.

~Aether~

He felt the presence of you as you walked past the ghoul's wing. What could you possibly be doing so late? Especially around here?

He threw the blankets off of himself fast, tugging a long sleeve on and rushing out of his door. It closed with a creak, but he didn't care about the noise echoing through the hall. Something had to be wrong and he was determined to figure out.

You barely even noticed where you were going though, still trying to shake off the feeling of your dream. The ministry was probably the single handedly most creepiest place you'd ever roamed at night, but it was the most relaxing.

Well, until you felt a strong arm wrap around your waist, and a second closing around your mouth. Most likely to muffle your screaming, which it did. You were pulled back into a strong chest and you wanted to cry for a moment before you looked up.

And staring down at you was his soft yellow eyes. "Aether..." you said, still muffled. He let it down and slinked his second arm around your waist with the other. "You scared the living hell out of me."

"You scared me worse," he spoke, kissing along your jawline, "You shouldn't be walking alone this late. I'm so glad it was me that scared you instead of someone else..."

You knew the other ghouls would never hurt you - Aether would eat them alive for it. But he never stopped worrying about your safety.

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#2

Don't Fuck With The General

Anakin Skywalker x Reader Smut

Summary: Anakin loves disobeying orders and disrespecting his higher-ups. But he certainly hates when you give him a taste of his own, vulgar medicine.

Warnings: filthy filthy SMUT, p in v, inappropriate use of the force???, chokinggggg, degradation, mentions of exhibitionism, praise kink, oral (m!receiving), hair pulling, edging, use of the word cunt (I think some people don't like that word), masochism?

A/n: I know the title isn't really a good one but like, I don't have much brain left today.

GIF NOT MINE!!

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Anakin was stubborn and confident, so confident that he was one shove away from crossing the thin line between confident and cocky. But you never minded, you actually liked cocky men. And you liked bringing out that side of Anakin, you loved being that push to force him to the other side of that thin line.

And right now, staring up at Anakin while you lay completely naked under him with a smirk plastered on your face, you never loved it more. Anakin was also naked as the day he was born, though the metal hand didn't exactly come out with him. But needless to say, his face contorted with anger. His blue eyes flickered between a still ocean and roaring waves, dominance consuming you whole. Yet you still had a shit eating grin on your face.

"What's wrong Ani?" you asked, looking up at him with the most faked innocence the galaxy had ever seen. And he knew it.

Anakin pressed his hard-on into your thigh with a growl, "You know exactly what the fuck is 'wrong'."

The smile vanished from your face as his hand reached up, fingers curling around your throat. He applied delicious pressure that made you breathe out a groan. His head tilted as he watched your face, "You disrespect me in front of my men, you never do anything that you're told, you're off the rails whenever I am directing the missions."

Anakin's shifted his hips, his thick length pressing against your cunt in the most teasing manner. You attempted to grind up into him, your hips bucking subconsciously. But as soon as you whimpered out at the pressure against your clit, you found another pressure in the way that the force kept your hips against the soft sheets.

"All you want is my attention, don't you? As much as you love being praised, you seem to enjoy being bad. Is that what you want me to call you? Cause that's exactly what you are, a bad girl," he said, face inching closer at the last words, grip on your neck tightening a bit more to make you sputter.

The way you were choking for air couldn't have been hot - it wasn't to you, but you soon felt Anakin's cock twitch against you, eliciting a moan out of your mouth. You slick was still dripping onto his dormant member, the force keeping you still, his hand keeping you silent, and his gorgeous face keeping you enticed.

He loosened up a bit on you, index finger stroking the side of your neck with a sweet scrape of his nail before he would trail up to stroke his finger back down. "I'll give you what you need. I'll give you my cock, filthy thing. Is that what you want?"

You smirked, you had everything that you wanted from him. Wrapped around your finger like a ring. Though, you didn't have him on a tight leash - he still had full reign over you, but you knew that he was exactly where you wanted him. At least you thought.

Anakin reached his metal hand between your hot bodies, wrapping it around the base of his length as he guided it towards your wetness. Pushing the tip of his thick cock in, you let a strangled moan slip out of your mouth. He felt so incredibly good already, you had needed him worse than you thought.

Anakin looked up at you, smirking in a way that made goosebumps spread out over your skin. He was so fucking perfect, handsome in every way possible, his hair flowing off his head in dirty, golden locks. His teeth were showing, incisors sharp in the dim light.

"Haven't even put half of it in you and you're already making such sweet noises," he mocked you while chuckling, "Maybe I should've just taken you right in front of my men. If you need a cock in you so bad, maybe I'll bend you right over the holotable and let all my ARC Troopers watch your eyes roll back into that pretty head of yours."

You clenched around the head of his cock, making him inch into you further. He shook his head with a shit-eating grin, "Always knew you were a fucking slut."

His eyes locked with yours again and you croaked, "I- I just wanna show them how good the General- nhh.. is at- at fucking me." You could barely speak while he was filling you to the brim, bottoming out completely in you. The way he filled you made your toes curl, and you could've sworn you felt him all the way in your throat.

Anakin's hand tightened around your throat once again. "I'm sure they already know how good I fuck you," he recoiled his hips till he was barely inside of you, "Especially when you're always giving me fuck-me eyes. They all know that their little medic is a fucking slut for the General."

And with that, Anakin's hips met your own faster than you could process the way his words created sparks in your belly. You reached up to cup your hand over your mouth, a noise that was far from something you'd ever made bleeding through the cracks of your fingers. But your daring Jedi Knight had no patience for you.

Taking his hand from your throat, he snatched your hand and pinned it above your head, snatching up the other to join it. Anakin was thrusting into you like he'd been waiting to fuck you for years. And with the way the head of his cock pounded into you, he could've easily convinced you that he'd never touched you before this. You had completely lost your mind.

You felt your thoughts melt from your head, but your mouth still babbled senselessly, "Fuck- 'm your slu- nhaa! Yo- Your slut, Ani!"

Your stuttering and the noises slipping from your puffed lips amused Anakin beyond keeping a straight face. He practically laughed in your face at the state you were in, snickering as he drilled into you, "Only mine, Sweetheart. What a good girl, knowing your place. 'Wanna just keep you forever, my best girl. My pretty little slut."

You'd never felt your release creep up like this, but you whined, "Ani- I- think 'mm gonna cum."

And with eyes of a killer, he pulled out of you and used his flesh hand to slap you. It was soft, at least as soft as he could be. Squishing your cheeks together, his nose scrunched as he sneered at you like a playground bully.

"You think you get to cum just like that? You think you have it all fucking figured out. Obviously there's not a single thought in that head though, I'm not your bitch," he hissed, metal hand sifting through your hair before grabbing a fistful near the base of your scalp, pulling your head up like a puppet.

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My #1 post of 2022

❛ would you like to go somewhere a little more private? ❜ with Anakin? (A girl with a big metal hand kink as I have one as well)

-- I love the metal hand as well, it's just so yummy. Thank you for sending in a request!!

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Good Resolutions

Anakin Skywalker x Reader Smut

Summary: You and Anakin never found a way to get along. With your feuds and the war occupying your minds, you were convinced Anakin Skywalker only cared about himself. So maybe you should try as well. And you did.

Warnings: Anakin does make fun of the reader!!, violence, injury, blood, Metal hand kink, Dom!Anakin, brat tamer!Anakin, rough sex, p in v, oral (m receiving), slight humiliation, slight praise kink, inappropriate use of the force, hair pulling, soft ending :)

GIF NOT MINE!!

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You didn't want this war. It had caused pain to everyone; to you, to Obi-Wan, to the clones that knew nothing more than fighting and to the civilians that had to endure it all. You felt horrible for all of the factors in this war. It had caused yourself grief and stress, things that the Jedi were forbid of, but you never understood how the Jedi just saying, "Hey, just don't feel anything and you can stay in our cult of magicians!" would fix any of your emotions from straining against your mind.

And him. Oh him. If you weren't a Jedi, you would've ripped Skywalker's face apart. You hated him, more than you had hated anything. There were only few things you let yourself hate, and one of them was no doubt him. He crawled under your skin, biting at you, irritating you. And the council always thought it was a good idea to bring you two together. In their eyes, the more you had to see him, the more you two "got along" (and the less they had to deal with his bullshit). And through the war process, you hated him even more.

The flirting, oh you couldn't stand the flirting. You didn't dare say anything to the council, you didn't wanna hear about your snitching from him everytime you walked beside him. You'd rather the unnerving silence that was always there till he wanted to brush his gloved hand against your arm, move a piece of loose hair from your face, have the audacity to correct your stances everytime you found yourself in battle. The way he called you 'pretty girl' whenever it was just you and him. You fucking hated everything about him and his stupid, handsome face.

He was really at your throat this whole week though. You'd been sent to Geonosis, another secret imperial base had been made for them to perform their various meetings. It also was supposedly a site for explosives construction on their half. So, you were happy that meant not blowing something to smithereens due to the possibility of very fatal explosives.

As the 501st communicated with your battalion of calm soldiers, you had to stand beside the rat they assigned you to help. You wished that Rex would find a question for you, so you could talk to him instead. You walked in silence with Skywalker, only few of your most skilled men behind you - Commander Tank, Reaper, Mitch, Magma and Cub.

Your men talked to you a lot, they loved jokes and sarcasm, but they didn't like bothering their General, especially when you were next to the man you hated more than anything - in those moments your shoulders were so tense your men thought you were about to punch something. But you honestly wish your men didn't care for your sanity because them being a distraction was better than them being silent and watching your back as Skywalker walked confidently next to you.

"Do you always breathe that loud?" Anakin peeped up, looking over at you. His face was blank but you could tell he was holding in a devilish smirk that you swear to maker you always wanted to slap off of his face.

You looked over at him with pure confusion, "What do you mean?"

"You sound like you're suffocating, is it too long of a walk for you little miss princess?" he asked, purposefully mocking you, just needing to get to your head, to tickle your insecurities.

Your nose scrunched up at his comment, "I've been breathing perfectly fine this whole time, Master Skywalker. Don't you have better things to listen to than my breathing anyways?"

"Well, when you're being incredibly loud, I can't focus on those 'better things'."

You turned away from him, your face hot. Did you really breathe that loud? No, he just wants to get to you. But what if you did really breathe that loud? You felt embarrassed beyond belief. All you wanted to do was fall back and escape to the transport ship that had left what seemed like a millennium ago.

Before you could think too far into it, one of your boys, Mitch, spoke up, "I don't think you breathe that loud, General."

The clone outfitted in white and a forest green fell into step next to you. You smiled widely at him, looking up. It was funny, the clones being taller than yourself - yet they only listened to you. You'd seen other people attempt to boss around your clones, but they had hard heads and they liked to knock them against anyone other than yourself.

Anakin muttered something under his breath, eyes averting away from your figure. You would've asked him what he had said if it weren't for you just simply not caring about his opinion on anything.

Mitch fell back into step with the rest of the men, leaving you in the same atmosphere that you were in before he trailed up on you; in Skywalker's restrained silence. You knew he wanted to say something else, he always wanted to say something about your men being "kiss-ups", just wanted you to give them your full attention.

'If you really want to insult me, don't do it in front of my men,' you spoke through thoughts. You'd think you'd have a force connection with someone you liked, someone that made you cherish their time and attention. The one between you and Anakin was unnecessary and stupid - that's why you never got into verbal arguments. It was almost like texting someone over a holopad, except you could hear their voice almost as if it were in a dark chamber, echoing off the walls of your mind.

He didn't respond, his eyes forward, watching the trail with carefulness that he only faked. He just didn't want to look at you is what the problem was, cause when he did, he would say something nasty. 'Come by my quarters when we get back to Coruscant, then I won't have to say a single word in front of your men.'

For once, you were up to the challenge of talking to him. You always denied his offers, which only sent more teases your way, more glares. The less you interacted with him, the more he mocked you. 'Fine, then I will.'

You watched out of the corner of your eye, a smirk spreading across his face.

It did take long to find something, the hideout that everyone was speaking of. It was small, carved into a peak. "Great, we'll be lucky if we don't find tunnels in this thing."

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Has Pekka ever had a bad day?

"Not many. Sometimes, after a bad game, when we haven't played well, he has occasionally thrown the goalie mask around, and it's funny how it changes the vibe in the locker room. Everyone just freezes, they don't even dare to move, they're so shocked."

(Juuse Saros, Total NHL Forever podcast, December 28, 2021)

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#3

Roope Hintz: on skating, style and growing up

So, the episode of the Finnish podcast Total NHL Forever with Roope Hintz was full of so much pure gold that I want to share some of it here. The episode came out on Tuesday 15 February, 2022.

This is a big chunk of text, sorry for that, but if you're interested - here you are:

Roope is from Nokia, the neighbouring town of Tampere. He started his actual hockey career in Tampere, playing for Ilves. (Yes, Nokia is also the home of the rubber products (boots and tyres) factory that later became an international tech giant and is now the name sponsor of the new hockey arena in the bigger Tampere.)

He got a big boost for his skating when he played in Florida for a team called Tampa Bay Juniors in EMJHL in 2012-2013, after junior high school (yläaste), at approx. 16 years of age.

"I wasn't a great skater when I was a kid, but I went to Florida to play hockey, and we had a Russian lady who coached some of us in skating 3 or 4 times a week, teaching us skating technique. The level of the game in the league wasn't too high, I don't know what Finnish league to compare it with, but it was good to get out there, see the world a little, learn the language, and the skating coach helped me develop a lot. I shared an apartment with a couple of players and attended online classes, and I had an English tutor a couple of times a week."

Ilves Tampere was his junior team growing up, and he played a little over one season for them in the men's Liiga team before moving to Helsinki to play for HIFK in 2015, after his NHL draft.

"I wanted to challenge myself in a bigger organization, and a lot of players have moved on to the NHL from there. Also, I got to live on my own, move away from home. HIFK has the reputation that you grow from boy to man on that team, and I thought that it is a challenge that I want to take. The finances [Ilves was near-bankrupt at that point in time] had nothing to do with it. I made the decision based on where I thought I would personally develop best and what would be the best next step for me. I had great mentors there, Juhamatti Aaltonen and Siim Liivik for example. Liivik took me under his wing, he was kind of a big brother for me, and we have remained good friends."

About WJC 2016:

"The team spirit was great from the start. We all knew each other, we had been on the same path [the youth NT development program] from very young, and it all peaked in the home tournament, and we got the brightest medal, it was amazing. The fan thing after that was so huge, we'd be asked for pics and autographs everywhere after that, got recognized on the streets even though we were only the junior team. But you learned interacting with fans there, it's just a thing that you do, take the pics, sign the autograph, and go on to do the thing you're there to do."

"I have some kind of contact with everyone from that team basically, and of course with some the contact is more frequent. When we play each other, we'll at least meet up after the game. Lately we haven't had the chance to go to dinner because of the corona situation, but that's what we usually do."

The closest friend(s) from the WCJ team:

"I have pretty many. Pulju, Pate, Sepe, Mikko, Kassu. [Jesse Puljujärvi, Patrik Laine, Sebastian Aho, Mikko Rantanen, Kasperi Kapanen] I'm very close with all of them."

About the NHL:

"My mindset was that I'll play that one season in the AHL but I want to be ready to play in the NHL after that. I went back and forth on the next season, and I was never told what I should specifically focus on improving, the message was just that they want me to get more minutes."

"Little by little I got more responsibility and playing time on the Dallas Stars. In this and the previous season, we have found a good line and learned to play well together."

On playing with Robertson and Pavelski:

"We see the game similarly. We all are like, when you pass to the other guy, you know there's a chance you'll get the puck back. I try to use my speed to our advance, and Pavelski is a magical goalscorer, he is one of the best close to the goal in the whole league. And Robertson, he's not necessarily the fastest guy on the ice, but when the computer he has starts to run, his game IQ is just ridiculous. When I know that he has the puck, and find the space for us, I know that he will find his way there.

Pavelski is special.

"He's easily the best golfer on our team, and his hand-eye coordination is amazing with the puck. He practices his shots every morning. I have noticed that his will to win is outstanding. When the stakes are high, there is a big game or a clutch moment, he has the ability to play his best game right at that moment. He can do things that not everyone can. He's not too over-the-top pump you up hype guy, but he will say "we're doing fine, let's just keep going." I'd say he's the biggest leader of our team, in the locker room and on the ice.

Who leads the Finnish Mafia?

"Miro on the ice, in the locker room we Finns are not the loudest. When we're just Finns? I don't know, maybe Esa, he's been here the longest, but we stand our ground against him pretty well when we need to. It's unique to have 5 finns on the team. When I was in the AHL team, I was the only Finn. It's great to be able to communicate on your own language, and we are all alike and like the same things, we like hanging out together. We all except Esa live in the same building, Esa has his house a little further away."

The hardest D-men to play against: Makar, Hedman, Josi. The hardest Finns to play against: Last year it was Hakanpää.

The most stylish player in the NHL [when it comes to their game I think]: Patrick Kane and Panarin.

"Panarin is always a threat when he has the puck. He can pace and control the game, and he's pretty skilled too."

About style and fashion off the ice:

"Style is important to me. I like to wear clothes that not everyone has, I pay attention to that kind of stuff. I have been like that ever since a kid, I have always paid attention to my outfits. We have to wear suits on game days. The dress code was looser last season but now it's suits again. I think it should be the same as in the NBA, you can choose what to wear. I liked last year, you could choose more freely and express yourself with your clothes a bit."

"You've got to love how Pate (Patrik Laine) comes to the arena in his yellow glasses and different hats. Pate is who he is, he's himself, he doesn't ask what other people think."

"Older players like it too, that younger players dress differently and show personality. Out of older players, Radulov is really stylish. When he puts his teeth back in his mouth after the game, he's a totally different looking guy."

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Sepe's Backyard Spa

Sepe denies the cameras his athletic body* because he doesn't like to go to sauna or the hot tub before game days (*their words not mine)

Seth was very punctual, If Sebastian said they'd leave at 9 am he'd be ready and waiting for the ride at the bottom of the stairs 8:59

Seth was a little wary about the sauna the first time, "He crouched down when I and Teuvo kept throwing water on the heater, is this normal, but he got a hang of it soon and started suggesting it himself, would it be a sauna night this evening."

"He became a half Finn, I wouldn't be surprised if he moved to Finland after he retires."

Says that there is a lot of leadership in the team, many guys are hard workers but cool and fun off the ice

Doesn't remember what he says to opposing players on the ice, "some curse words can be exchanged in a heated game"

The stuff stays on the ice, the hothead guys aren't the same outside the game. "Tom Wilson is a good example, he plays rough and sometimes testing the rules, but we were teammates at the All-Star game and he was an awesome guy."

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[tuckevr]

Approximately .5% of prisoners are innocent in the United States, that's 11,500 people serving time in jail for something they didn't do. There are about 195,000 new convictions across the country every year, that means about 975 innocent people are being locked up every year. That's an average of more than two people every day.​ Those innocent people have a chance to be exonerated, even though most of them won't be.

Now, from 1973 to 2023 a total of about 109,242 inmates have been on death row. That averages to 2,142 people being on the death row list at all times. If we use the .5% estimate that means about 11 innocent people on death row every year. This means that close to 561 innocent people have been on deathrow since 1973. But, in those 51 years, only 200 people have been exonerated from death row.* Keeping in mind some of the inmates were absolved of all crimed only after being killed. Of those 200 exonerated, 130 in total were people of color and of those 108 were black.

This should come as no surprise as 75% of people who are dubbed wrongfully imprisoned are black. Of the nearly two million people in prison in the United States currently, about 1,360,000 (68%) are non-white Americans. Of those, 640,000 are black, which is 32% of all imprisoned. Making race a significant factor in imprisonment and a significant factor in wrongful convictions.

If what I've said so far somehow means nothing to you let me appeal to your human decency and your knowledge of the eighth amendment. The eighth amendment, for those of us that can't remember them by number, states as follows: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” While the first two are also constantly violated, we're going to focus on the latter. To do so we have to look at more numbers first. Since 1982 there are approximately 61 well known cases of is called "botched execution." Including a case from February of 2024. While these are the most well known, it is not the entire number. The details of these incidents take about 2 years to become public, if they ever do. Right now there are 4 types of execution legal around the country. Those being lethal injection, electrocution, hanging, and lethal gas. This includes those that have not been used in recent years, but are still listed as legal in some states. A botched execution is defined as “those involving unanticipated problems or delays that caused, at least arguably, unnecessary agony for the prisoner or that reflect gross incompetence of the executioner.” Some examples include being administered the wrong dosages of specific drugs for lethal injections/lethal gassing, inmates catching fire while being electrocuted, and being strangled to death during hangings. Some well known botched executions include Donald Eugene Harding in Arizona 1992. He was sentenced to death by cyanide tablets when it was already well known that is a sentence of asphyxiation. His death was not pronounced until 10.5 minutes after the cyanide tablets were dropped down his throat. During the execution, Harding thrashed and struggled violently against the restraining straps. One reporter who witnessed the execution suffered from insomnia and assorted illnesses for several weeks; two others were “walking vegetables” for several days. Another, is the execution of John Marion Grant in Oklahoma 2021. At the time Oklahoma had just enacted a three-drug-lethal-injection protocol. Mr. Grant’s legal team (along with attorneys for about two-dozen other Oklahoma death row inmates) had previously argued that the state's new protocol would cause unnecessary and excruciating pain. After the first drug was administered (midazolam), Grant convulsed and vomited for several minutes. Associated Press media witness Sean Murphy said that “Grant’s body shook and jerked nearly two dozen times before vomit spurted from his mouth and spilled down his neck.” After his death the autopsy report found pulmonary edema (wet lung) and intramuscular hemorrhaging (internal bleeding) of the tongue.

This last point involves your money. Each death penalty inmate costs the state of conviction 1.1 million dollars while, a general population inmate with a life sentence costs 315,159 dollars. That's 1.1 million dollars of citizen taxes being used for the care of a single inmate on deathrow. At least one state has had to raise funds in order to afford an inmate. Why does cost so much? There are many expenses involved in a death penalty case the first being legal costs. Most people who face the death penalty cannot afford their own attorney. The state must assign public defenders or court-appointed lawyers to represent them and pay the prosecution representing the state as well. Then we have Pre-trial costs. Death penalty cases are more complicated than general cases and take longer to go to trial. Experts will be needed on forensic evidence, mental health, and the background and life history of the defendant. County taxpayers also pay for added security and longer pre-trial detention. Jury selection in these cases are much more time consuming and expensive and death penalty trials can last more than four times longer than non-capital trials. This requires juror and attorney compensation, in addition to court personnel and other related costs. Most death rows involve solitary confinement in a special facility. These require more security and other accommodations as the prisoners are kept for 23 hours a day in their cells. To minimize mistakes, every prisoner is entitled to a series of appeals. These costs are paid by taxpayers. Appeals are essential in death penalty cases, because some inmates have come within hours of execution before evidence was uncovered proving their innocence.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

All information is available through deathpenaltyinfo.org

"The Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public with data and analysis on issues concerning capital punishment and the people it affects. DPI does not take a position on the death penalty itself but is critical of problems in its application."

[ashleybenlove]

Title: In Dragons We Trust

Prompt: Dragons

Summary: Hiccup and Dagur discuss Toothless’s name and his trust in Dagur.

Fandom: How To Train Your Dragon

Pairing: Dagur/Hiccup

Word Count: 561

Rating: General

Warnings: None

Disclaimer: I don’t own the source material in this fanfic. That’s to whatever company or person owns it. I would never claim to own it.

Notes: There are probable influences from fandom and whatnot in this story. Written for Dagcup Week @dagcupweek, the prompt for July 1/Day 5: “Dragons”. The title is directly lifted from the Riders of Berk episode of the same name. This is set in Race to the Edge, post-season 4.

More Notes on AO3.

Also below.

 Hiccup and Dagur watched Toothless play with Sleuther and Shattermaster. There were various local Terrible Terrors nearby. Dagur had his arm around Hiccup’s shoulders.

 It was a sunny day with a light breeze, a nice day overall.

 Hiccup chuckled at a silly jump Toothless had made and exclaimed his name.

 Dagur nudged him.

 “Hmm?” Hiccup asked.

 “You know, I’ve never heard the story,” Dagur said.

 “Of?” Hiccup prompted.

 “Why you named him that,” Dagur said. “I mean, I’ve seen his teeth. They’re right there. He can be pretty scary with them. Are you being ironic or something?”

 Hiccup laughed.

 “So, when I was a young lad of fifteen,” Hiccup said. “And I shot him down, I went to the crash site to find him, considered… killing him. And I couldn’t. Obviously.”

 Hiccup took a breath, glanced at Toothless having fun, and smiled.

 “So, I set the good boy free. He yelled at me,” Hiccup said.

 “Yelled?” Dagur asked.

 “Roared in my face,” Hiccup replied.

 “Anyways, totally didn’t faint at all,” Hiccup lied. He winked at Dagur.

 Dagur chuckled.

 “Soon afterwards, I had a question gnawing at me. Why didn’t he kill me? Because Gobber had said in training that they always go for the kill,” Hiccup said. “So, anyways, I find him in the Cove, where he’s kinda stuck on account of the fact I shot him down. So, I go and feed him a fish.”

 Hiccup chuckled when he saw Toothless’s ear flaps perk up at the word ‘fish’.

 Hiccup gestured to Toothless to come over, which he did.

 “So, I have the fish in my hand, Toothless has his mouth open for it, and he’s all gummy,” Hiccup said.

 Toothless opened his mouth to illustrate the lack of teeth.

 “And I noted that! I made a ‘Toothless’ comment and then just as I was like, ‘I could have sworn you had teeth’, I didn’t even get to finish the sentence, because…” Hiccup gestured at Toothless.

 Toothless’s teeth popped back up from his gums.

 “He did that, and took the fish.”

 “So, it is kind of an ironic name,” Dagur noted.

 “I’m nothing if not incredibly sarcastic,” Hiccup said. Hiccup caressed Toothless’s face with his hand for a moment and then pulled his hand away.

 Toothless then looked at Dagur and made an encouraging coo at Dagur.

 “Dagur, please give Toothless the pats he so deserves. He’s such a good boy, and an excellent judge of character,” Hiccup said.

 “I’d be a fool not to listen to him, right?” Dagur said, to Toothless.

 Toothless cooed in response.

 As Dagur patted Toothless on the head with his free hand, Hiccup smiled fondly.

 “You know, Toothless letting you ride him to save me was such a big deal to me,” Hiccup said, softly.

 Dagur stayed quiet, continuing to pet the dragon, but eyes focused on Hiccup.

 “It was one of the things that had me unsure how I felt about the whole thing,” Hiccup said. “If my dragon was willing to trust you, despite everything, and I trust Toothless profoundly, by the transitive property, I should be willing to trust you.”

 He looked over at Dagur and smiled at him.

 “And here I am, sitting next to you, with your arm around me, and my dragon is making you pet him constantly,” Hiccup said.

 Hiccup then tenderly kissed Dagur on the cheek.

[fistsoflightning]

ABOUT FFXIVWRITE | FILLS TAG

total word count: 19567 words longest fill: cross (3175 words) shortest fill: confluence (253 words)

/playdead... ‘tis done! i finished 4 more fills than i did last year, iirc, which i am going to take as a w b/c the planets went gatorade like halfway through the month & almost took me out, which may explain the amount of wolcred i wrote this year lmao. i’d like to come back to a bunch of these & expand - the fills for tepid, attrition, deiform, vicissitudes, and fuse, mostly - so plfti in the hopefully near but probably distant future??

01. CROSS | perfect balance thancred/zaya | 2.2 | implied alcoholism cw | 3175 wc. zaya and thancred have a late-night spar.

02. BOLT | stardew fantasy tehra’ir & valdis | post 6.0, no-real-spoilers MSQ mention | 719 wc. tehra’ir and valdis are on the hunt for a thief. in their beachwear.

03. TEMPER | how hard could it be valdis & alisaie, minor lumelle/alisaie | nebulously 5.1 | 336 wc. alisaie tries to temper chocolate. valdis is just here for the show.

04. FREE DAY ✧ ASSIDUOUS | forge ahead zaya & a’dewah, minor thancred/zaya | 6.0 end of MSQ spoilers | 985 wc. a’dewah continues to pick up the pieces of his friends after every adventure.

06. ONEROUS | old burdens elidi-themis & atalanta | 6.0 4th area MSQ spoilers | 2353 wc. themis and atalanta, before and after the sundering.

07. PAWN | the best defense minor thancred/zaya | post 6.0 no spoilers | 630 wc. zaya helps thancred out on the checkered battlefield of chess.

08. TEPID | still anything i can do thancred/zaya | lightwarden bad-ish end AU | body horror cw | 1823 wc. thancred goes to visit the last lightwarden.

09. YAWN | the deed is done minor thancred/zaya | 6.0 post lv. 83 duty iykyk | 499 wc. there's something zaya needs to do before they sleep. thancred disagrees.

10. CHANNEL | home point zaya-centric | between 2.2 - 2.5 | 1057 wc. zaya hasn’t been able to attune since the calamity.

12. MISS THE BOAT | end of the world who? lunya & zaya | pre-endwalker/very first quest | 836 wc. there's no better time for fishing than the present, even if it makes you miss the boat to sharlayan to stop the apocalypse!

13. CONFLUENCE | testing in progress thancred/zaya | early 6.0 MSQ, pre 1st dungeon | 253 wc. good ol aetherial sickness strikes again. (6.0 thavnair branch spoilers)

14. ATTRITION | let it all be said thancred/zaya | 6.0 lv. 85 - 86 MSQ | 1582 wc. thancred and zaya have one last conversation before they’re a world apart (again).

16. DEIFORM | peripeteia hermes & “a visitor” | 6.0 lv. 87 MSQ spoilers | 387 wc. when a sneeze sends the chief overseer flying, a visitor is out to save the day.

17. NOVEL | stories told along the way haruki/a’dewah | post 6.0, no spoilers | 561 wc. a’dewah gets a delivery of novels in exchange for being mortally embarrassed.

19. TURN A BLIND EYE | the wind on high zaya & ardbert, zaya & g’raha | 5.0 lv. 88 - 89 MSQ | 804 wc. ardbert lends an ear to zaya’s troubles for lack of a way to not do that.

24. VICISSITUDES | bereft of hearth and home zaya-centric | 2.3 MSQ | 485 wc. the refugees outside ul’dah have it hard. zaya would know, having lived with them.

26. BREAK A LEG | walk forth thancred/zaya | post 6.0 MSQ | 389 wc. when zaya’s bedridden, the scions shouldn’t completely trust thancred to keep them from escaping.

27. HAIL | find your way zaya-centric, zaya & sadu | pre-calamity steppe, lv. 65 dungeon | 873 wc. zaya’s echo wakes seven years before the calamity.

29. FUSE | light up the dark zaya & g’raha | post 5.0, quest ‘for every child a star’ | 583 wc. g’raha recruits zaya to help with katliss’ fireworks show.

30. SOJOURN | wherever the wind blows thancred/zaya | nebulously post 6.0 | 1237 wc. thancred and zaya have a nice dinner at the quicksand before they set out on a new adventure.

[shsl-fander]

I'M SO SAD LOGINCE WEEK IS ALREADY OVER :[ HAPPY LOGINCE WEEK DAY 7 @loginceweek2022

Prompt: Teaching/Learning

Au: Human

Pairing: Logan and Roman

Roman smiled to himself softly, gently plucking the strings of his guitar. He leaned against the wall as he continued to play a small tune on his guitar. He glanced over towards the time, 4:35. Roman frowned with a small hum, "he's usually home by now-" he mumbled. His husband Logan worked at a nearby college university as a science teacher ; but his classes were all over by now. Roman stared down at his guitar as he continued to play it.

Suddenly Roman perked up, hearing a click of the front door. The door slid open, and Logan slipped inside with a sigh, shaking his head miserably. "It's freezing out there," he muttered.  Logan glanced over towards Roman, smiling a bit. "I'm sorry I'm late, someone needed extra help and-" he started to say before he was interrupted by Roman standing up and shaking his head.

"Nope, shush. I get it, teach." Roman replied, placing a soft kiss to Logan's cheek, "just glad you're okay. But, now you need to take a break ; and I had just the idea!" He exclaimed, grabbing his guitar again.

Logan stammered, shaking his head "no no, Roman I really don't have the time," he insisted, frowning.

Roman scoffed, "nonesense Nerd! I get it, you're Mr serious scientist blah blah blah," he started, "but that doesn't mean ya know everything! Plus, I'm not a total idiot, I know some things." He said, sitting down on the couch, gesturing for Logan to sit too. "I'm not gonna shut up until you go along with me, Specs."

Once Logan plopped down next to him, Roman wrapped an arm around Logan. Roman gently strummed one of the cords, "There are a few things I can do, act, sing, play. So! For once I'm switching how everything goes and teaching you something!" He kissed Logan's nose gently.

Logan felt a light blush creep into his cheeks, he stuttered ; but he wasn't going to deny this. As much as Logan had work to do, he knew his husband would insist on taking a break until he finally did. Plus, Roman was really cute. Logan leaned against Roman, nodding.

Roman grinned, playing another string, "see this, this is a C. You know the basic scale right?" He asked, to which Logan nodded. "Great!" He took Logan's hand, gently running over the strings with his hand. "Now, you see this next cord? This is a D"

Logan's eyes darted from the guitar up to Roman's face, the corners of Logan's lips fought back a smile. He gazed at Roman lovingly as he continued to talk before Roman snapped right in front of his face.

"Hey! Hey! Earth to nerddd," Roman sang before he noticed Logan jump, snapping himself back to reality. "Ya know for someone so smart you seemed to be getting distracted, so who's the idiot now?"

Logan sighed, rolling his eyes at his husband, "still you. But it's alright, because I love you. Apologies for zoning out, where were we?" he asked, focussing his attention back onto the guitar.

The two spent the rest of the night playing Roman's guitar, eventually Roman sang a song for Logan, the fire place crackling throughout the night. Maybe they had gotten distracted from the music with a few kisses occasionally...but no one needed to talk about that.

Word count: 561

[sunseteyes]

haru again!! idk if your requests are closed but can you do how zenitsu would react with he finally gets a s/o? if you understand what i mean (^_^)

Umm so i saw that request are open I don’t know if I asked this before if i did then plz ignore anways may I request a zenitzu x reader fluff?if thats okay with you...I don’t really request alot so I don’t really know how to but uhhh yeah also you’re a great writer!!! — @sabi-agatsuma

relationship headcanons

ㅤㅤ ↪︎ STARRING: zenitsu agatsuma; gn!reader

ㅤㅤ ↪︎ THEMES: fluff!

ㅤㅤ ↪︎ WORD COUNT: 561 words

ㅤㅤ ↪︎ INTERMISSION: since both have kind of similar, i decided to join them together :D also, thanks so much for the compliment and support! hope you’ll enjoy reading~

we all know zenitsu had been dying to have someone he could marry or call as his significant other for quite a long time

and it must have been probably because of how he has endured being alone throughout the years and he just wants someone who could stay by his side in the incoming years to come

it’s not wrong of him to do so. after all, he’s just desiring something he didn’t had in the past.

so when he finally had someone--you, he was beyond ecstatic. actually, he was too joyful, excited, kinda anxious, and starstruck to know what he would react.

it is only natural that he would stare at you and just have this lost look, as if his body and mind was still deciding whatever he should express first

for short, he’ll malfunction

zenitsu.exe has crashed, please try again

kidding aside, zenitsu would be a good s/o, you just have to call him out a few times to prioritize himself because he tend to always put you first all the time;

if you’re a demon slayer or a normal citizen, he would always be by your side to protect you, prioritizing you over his own safety. no danger shall come your way.

“don’t worry, (y/n), i’ll protect you. i’ll always protect you.” i can totally imagine him saying that.

and if you’re a demon, like someone who didn’t kill anyone out of your own judgement and not instincts or so, he would accept you, nonetheless, and do expect him to be always on your side.

“(y/n) is a good demon, they wouldn’t kill anyone!” “if you’ll kill them, you’ll have to go through me!”

zenitsu’s very sweet, such a sweet boy who would always ask how you are, greet you good mornings, afternoons, evenings, goodnights. he could also be really clingy. expect him to act as your husband already because he says “it’s just the same anyway, i’ll marry you in the future, right?”

being zenitsu’s s/o also meant that you get to be with the kamaboko squad most of the time, and being with them will be really fun because their personalities balance out and there’s no some sort of clash… most of the time.

there are times though that zenitsu would want you all alone for himself and well he gets kind of whiny about it during these moments.

dates with him would be the usual ones such as going to the festival together, going to restaurants, or even walking at the park. he truly enjoys each and every moment with you and he’s really glad to have you in his life now.

he would be kind of awkward at first though, since he doesn’t know a thing about dating, no matter how more “educated” he is than tanjiro or inosuke. although, all you have to do is guide him to your own needs and routine and he’ll catch up real quick! maybe even as quick as his breathing techniques lmao

all in all, zenitsu’s the usual sweet type of boyfriend who would pretty much do anything you say, so it will be you who would say the limitations and be responsible to show that zenitsu can decide on his own or say his opinions because he is his own person, no matter if you’re his beloved s/o

[sugarcubetikki]

why are you in my friend’s clothes?

Summary: Firstly, Chat Noir has had a bad day. Secondly, why the hell was Ladybug in Marinette’s clothes?

Notes: Wrote this little one-shot to celebrate 500 followers (more like 561 now) but tysm! I literally don’t even know how I have these many-I swear most of the content I post is like random shit. But thank you! I really appreciate it so here’s a treat : D

P.S. THIS IS POST MR. PIGEON 72

AO3

Adrien Agreste was shaking with that feeling of utmost disappointment, that feeling he had harboured getting used to. 

Once again, that was another dreary, awful day that he was drowning away into oblivion through a warm lactaid beverage.

He chugged his flask of milk under the thick layer of clouds that masked the ethereal twinkle of the stars embedded in the night sky. Huffing frustratedly into his warm woollen scarf (the only worthwhile present his father had gotten him), he lounged lazily on the rooftop in solitude.  No Ladybug there to brighten up his world even in the murkiest times. 

But it was fine. It was fine. She really needed it. Being guardian was weighing down on her. He understood that. She could miss as many patrols as she wanted.

He still really missed her though.

Restlessly, he sprang to his feet and languidly leapt across the rooftops, the cold rush of the wind pounding in his ears. But he didn’t really care. He was used to that too. 

He took little sips from his flask at regular intervals between each jump. It was solace to all the unpleasantness that was swirling within him right now. 

At about the fifth jump, when he was chugging down some milk, quite a strange sight caught his eye.

It was Ladybug.

And she was on Marinette’s balcony.

In a polka-dot bathrobe with a towel wrapped around her head. 

What?

He choked a little, and the milk in his mouth sprayed out, accompanied with some rather loud coughs. And it seemed that he had caught the fair lady’s attention.

Her eyes widened and her face blazed red at his presence. Lips spreading into a sheepish smile, she waved reluctantly. He simply stared at her with his mouth agape. A blur of questions bursting into his head.

“M-milady?” He leapt to Marinette’s balcony, landing right in front of her. As he met her eyes once again, he noticed the large pair of glasses perched on her nose. “What are you doing here?”

“Oh! Hi! Hi, Ch-chat!” She squeaked, her voice an octave higher than usual, an uncannily wide smile, and her arms splaying all over the place. “I-well-you see… I’m here to relax, you know. Marinette and me…w-we’re friends! Yeah. We’re friends.”

“You are?” He arched his brow.  A painful pang struck his heart. He just didn’t know what to say…when she said, she couldn’t make it, he wasn’t really expecting this. He expected her to be busy with guardian stuff or something. Not that she shouldn’t relax! She totally should! She was completely allow-

He just didn’t know. 

He didn’t really know why he was upset. He just was. He didn’t expect her to be on Marinette’s balcony like this. And that…didn’t make him feel so good…

“W-w-well. Y-you s-see. My kwami loves sweet stuff! And M-marinette pretty much lives in a bakery. So, I come here often to get snacks for her! Absolutely.” Ladybug replied frantically to his question, and took a long sip into her mug of…hot chocolate?

He bit his lip and looked her up and down again. She was in Marinette’s clothes. Why was she in her clothes? He had the most insane hunch gnawing at the back of his head. He could just say those couple words now. But he didn’t want to jump to conclusions just yet, so he went…

“Did she lend you her clothes?” He asked stupidly, slurping into his flask of milk, gloved hand perched on the railing. 

“I-oh-yeah. Yeah, she did. Like an hour ago or so, she’s not here now though. Went to her best friend’s place for a sleepover…hahaha” Amidst her rambling, Ladybug reached out to place her own hand on the railing. Mere inches from his own. He had the urge to reach out and caress it under his own. But with everything in his head, he lacked boldness in the moment. “Sh-she was nice enough to…you know.”

“I know.” A smile glittered onto his face. “Marinette’s incredible.”

For no reason, Ladybug’s face grew a brighter shade of red at that compliment. One that wasn’t directed towards her. But he chose not to question it, and instead turned to the murky sky, his mind whirring for a surreal joke to cover up all the awkwardness. After all, he didn’t really have anything else…valid to say.

“Do you- “

“I’m really- “

They simultaneously say, voices overlapping over one another, making them stop and stare at the other sheepishly.

“You go first.” Ladybug said, fidgeting with a loose strand of her hair.

“No, milady, I was about to crack a stupid joke.” He tells her with a gentle smile. “I’m sure whatever you have to say is far more important.”

Hesitantly, she stared at him for a moment, with doubt plastered in her eyes. He widened his smile at that, letting her know it was okay. Satisfied, she reciprocated his smile, and her uncertainty faded away into amusement. Playfully leaning in, she hooked her arm around his own.

“Thank you, kitty. Make sure you reserve the joke for later.” She bopped his nose affectionately. “You know I love them.”

“Good for you then, you’re never getting rid of this clown of a partner who’s crazy for you.” He played along with a wink.

Eyes filling with joy, she lightly chuckled and took a sip into her mug of hot chocolate. Making her laugh always filled this sense of pleasure within him.

“So…” she continued. “I just want you to know that I’m really sorry for bailing on you today at patrol…I-I j-just I didn’t mean to intentionally h-hurt you or anything. It’s just th-that I needed some time to myself…to relax…and by relaxation, I didn’t expect myself to be a mess on a-uh-civilian’s balcony. It…well…just happened.”

Her apology caught him off guard with a little gasp. But he was able to compose himself and gave her a brighter and even more genuine smile than before.

“I-thank you for apologising, milady. I appreciate it and I do understand.” He shot her a gentle glance taking a sip into his flask. “I have to admit…I was hurt by seeing you here but I…I felt better when you apologised. I mean it when I said I really appreciated it.”

A mixture of surprise and shock filled her face, his genuineness had her stunned, but it was short-lived. Her face melted into a very pretty smile and it made her face shine even more brighter under the golden glow of the balcony light.  

He really was glad that she had apologised though. If his father was in her place, he would’ve ignored it completely and turned the blame on him, saying he was too sensitive for feeling hurt over something so trivial. 

Like he’d done today when Adrien found out that his Chinese lesson had been cancelled and neither Nathalie nor father had informed him of this. He’d sat there waiting for his teacher for ages. He didn’t even know it was cancelled until dinner when Nathalie told him.

It was one of the few days his father sat to have lunch with him. And the only thing Adrien had done was express his disappointment on how he missed walking home with Marinette today unnecessarily. 

His father wasn’t amused. And had said that he shouldn’t be feeling hurt over missing such trivial events. Of course. Spending time with a friend was so trivial to father. How could he have forgotten? 

It hurt. It wasn’t fair. It was these evenings that hit him with the constant reminder how difficult it was for him to have fun.

That’s why he really appreciated that he was spending the last hours of the day with his lady. Where most of his fun moments lay.

“You’ve got a milk moustache.” She chuckled and leaned in to wipe it off with her gloved hand. “There you go.”

“I am a cat.” He playfully remarked, raising his shoulders in pride. “This is how we cats drink milk. Milk moustaches are the best way to go.”

“I’m not a cat but I do agree with you.” She said with a spark of confidence in her eyes. Her competitive self took a large gulp into her mug of hot chocolate. Upon lowering the mug, she grinned triumphantly with a thick layer of brown spread above her lips. 

“That’s naughty.” He reached to wipe off her moustache. “You got one intentionally.”

“It was still bigger than yours.”

“Still intentional.” He pouted in faux annoyance, and she laughed, her hand automatically coming to rest on his chest almost to contain herself.

As usual, there went the freezing of his breath and rapid beating of his heart. Something about Ladybug that he would’ve never expected in the start:  she was a very touchy person.

Sure. She laid all hands off him during akuma attacks and when she was in an all-business mode. However, it was moments like these where she would open up, where he got to see more of the girl behind the mask. And he really treasured these moments.

Her laughter came to a halt and her eyes focused on her chest. Fingers crawling up to play with the ends of his scarf, she gazed at it quite fascinatedly. Too fascinatedly. 

“I-is that Adrien’s scarf?” The words bluntly slipped out of her mouth.

“Wh-what? A-adrien?”

“Uh-“She sprang away from him, seeming startled that she had said that out loud. “I-well-you know-that looks like Adrien Agreste’s scarf!”

“I-uh-well- “He tensed and looked at her with wide eyes. There was no way he could reveal his identity like this. “I-I-borrowed it from him! You know! Just like you did from M-marinette!”

“Ah- “Her mouth flapped open and closed a couple of times. “Th-that m-makes sense.”

The bluenette turned away with pursed lips and speechlessly stared ahead.

“Yeah.” He replied in relief. Good. No identity prying questions. Now, she wouldn’t know he’s Adri-wait a minute.

“H-how did you know this was Adrien’s scarf?”

Her head merely turned to him with a dumbfounded expression and she heavily blinked.

“I-well-I recognise the stitching! You know! I’m good with this kind of stuff-very into fashion-and he wore it a couple of times when I saved him you know!”

“I- “He didn’t recall wearing the scarf anytime around her. Had he? He wasn’t sure. She had saved him as Adrien plenty of times. He didn’t remember everything so maybe…it was plausible. 

“Oh…okay then.” He simply said. “Looks like we’re both wrapped up in clothes lended from a civilian friend, right?”

He wanted to bonk his head onto the railing right then and there. Stupid thing to say, Agreste.

“Y-yeah.” She replied uneasily. “F-from civilian friends.”

“Marine-Oh!” Another voice shook the tense atmosphere, both heroes turned around in alarm.

A surprised Alya Cesaire greeted them as she peeped out from the trapdoor. 

Hold on a second.

“Alya?” He questioned in shock. “I thought Marinette was at Alya’s place for a sleepover, but if she’s here then- “

He suspiciously arched a brow at Ladybug. Her eyes widened for the umpteenth time that night and she blankly looked at Alya.

“A-alya! W-what are you doing here! I th-thought M-marinette and y-you were meant to be at a sleepover at your house! Right?” Ladybug mimicked a dramatic tone of surprise. But he wasn’t falling for it. 

“Ah…right…you se- “

“I think I know what’s going on.” He cut Alya off. The two girls hastily exchanged frantic glances.

“Look, Chat- “Ladybug commenced. 

“I know she didn’t tell you bu- “Alya began to explain at the same time.

“You’re dating Marinette and Alya’s the only one that knows.” He cut both off. Feeling relieved to finally let go of that hunch. 

“What?” Both girls yelled flabbergasted.

“It all makes sense! You’re on her balcony! In her clothes- “

“It’s not-it’s not what it looks like-I-wait up-you’re in Adrien’s clothes?” Ladybug paused in a frenzy realisation. “If you’re saying me being Marinette’s clothes means I’m dating her, is that confirmation that you’re dating Adrien?”

“What! No-I-you didn’t deny it.” He took a step forward and pointed accusingly at her. 

“That’s not the point!  You’re the one who’s dating Adrien.” She reciprocated his body language. 

“Well, you’re dating Marinette.”

Brows narrowed with competitive expressions. They stood toe-to-toe with Alya giving them a what-the-hell look.

“I’m not even going to get involved in this…” Alya facepalmed and disappeared under the trapdoor.

“You’re not denying it!”

“You’re not denying it either!”

They bickered back and forth about the whole dating chaos, taking swigs from their beverages every now and then, from the way they argued, it was almost like they were drunk on milk. The clouds began to clear the sky, and the moonlight began to cast a lovely glow on the city.

“Look…to resolve this…let’s never talk about this night again, got it?” Ladybug concluded, taking one last sip into her mug. 

“Fine.” Chat raised a hand in surrender, sipping onto his own flask. “I have to make my leave anyway.”

“Okay.” Ladybug huffed. “Have fun seeing your boyfriend!”

“Well…you have fun seeing your girlfriend, milady.” He fluttered his eyelashes playfully. “I’m sure she’s just as nice, pretty, and talented as you said.”

“I never said tha- “ 

“See you, milady!” He cut her off again and leapt away on his baton, catching one last glimpse of an adorable pout on her face.

It was nights like this that always brought a smile onto his face even on the most miserable of days. And that’s exactly why he loved spending time with her.

Despite the whole situation with her thinking he was dating-well-himself. Ugh. 

Wait a second…

She was dating Marinette.

The multitalented, insanely kind and endearing Marinette.

Oh crap. He was screwed. 

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#5

hello! can you write an enemies to lovers with harry potter where they are partners in potions (they’re assigned a task) which forces them to study and spend time together and their feeling develop yk? oh also this is set in their 5th year. the reader can be in any house and i’ll leave the rest of the plot? to you :) thanks!

Thanks for the ask buddy, I'm sorry it took so much time tho.

Love at first assignment.

A/N: here it is, now I'm not really used to this type of story but, well, I'm a gryffindor and I like to take risked in life okAy??!? Also Ive choosen the house as gryffindor (I hope that's ok, I love all houses equally don't worry)

Warnings:fluff and enemies, Snape being a meanie, mentions of blood and self harm.

Y/N Y/L/N. A gryffindor, who hated Harry Potter.

Sounds unbelievable? Well it's the truth. Y/N has never liked the choosen one and swears to never will.

But was it true?

It was just the usual potions class with Snape grumbling away and just being, well, himself.

Unfortunately for Y/N, thus wasn't having the best of days. First off, her owl decided to ruin her favourite meal by dropping a very important letter on it, which was then ruined.

Second, fred and George had decided to pull a prank on her in front of the great hall, which embarrassed her to hell.

Third was that she failed in defence against the dark arts and the pink toad decided to punish her.

All she could hope for was a nice amd quiet potions. But the universe was against her.

"Today, all of you will be grouped with a partner"Snape drawled on.

And guess whom he decide to group Y/N with. That's right, Harry freaking Potter.

"Great, just great' Y/N mumbled as she sat down with Harry.

They both worked silently, focusing on the potion instead of their partner which worked well with Y/N.

The assignment would be lasting a week. Judging by how she had an okay time with Harry, she would be fine.

Right?

Surprisingly, she felt a little better after potions.

A slight blush creeped up on her as Harry agreed to meet her at the common room for the assignment.

"You're totally whipped girl!" Ginny exclaimed as Y/N plopped on her bed.

"Nonsense" she glared at Ginny, who flashed a mischievous grin.

"I'm just stating what's true" Ginny said, falling asleep.

Y/N shook her head. It couldn't be true.

Could it?

The next evening as agreed, Y/N waited at the common room.

Five minutes later, no sign of Harry.

Thirty minutes later, still no sign.

Y/N groaned in annoyance, picking up her books. She was about to leave when Harry appeared. He looked disheveled and was panting heavily. Y/N would not admit it but she did feel a little bad for him. But she was still angry at him.

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79 notes • Posted 2021-08-23 06:30:24 GMT

#4

The new potters

Chapter 3: Hey there

Summary: Now having revealed that they are going to be parents, Harry and Y/N couldn't be happier. Or can they?

warnings: Crying, cuteness overload

Author's POV

Harry rolled around and buried his face between Y/N's neck. She chuckled softly and held onto Harry's hand. She swore she could feel him smile. But pregnancy means sleep and just as suddenly she'd woken up, Y/N went out like a light.

Harry's POV

"Good mornin-"

I had just gotten out of bed and was about wish Y/N when I saw that she was still sleeping. I took this time to admire her. I would've admired her forever if our owl hadn't tapped vigorously on the window pane.

I sighed and let the owl in. I figured that Y/N would want some breakfast so I went downstairs to make some. Should be easy right?

Guess I was wrong.

Reader's POV

I was woken up by sunlight streaming into our shared bedroom. I turned over but I couldn't find Harry. He must've gotten up. Just as I was about to get up, the distinct smell of smoke wafted into my nose.

Oh boy!

I got up quickly (as quickly as I could at least; which let me tell you was not very quick) and rushed into the kitchen, to see Harry frantically running around trying to somehow organize the kitchen, but was failing miserably.

I ran in, grabbing my wand and muttering a spell, water gushing out from the tip of my wand and splashing onto Harry, the frying pan and toaster.

Once everything was settled we both burst out laughing.

"Well, I guess breakfast was a fail," Harry said, trying to shake his head dry.

"Next time you want o make breakfast, call me I'll have a fire extinguisher with me," I said, giggling.

"But I wanted to make you comfy" harry held me close whining, with his puppy dog face, only making me giggle more.

"Sorry potter, but I'm not risking burning down the house"

"Ok fair enough, but sti-"

Before Harry could say anything I silenced him with a short kiss. We both melted into the kiss.

It felt good.

"As much as I'd like a good snogging session, think we should make breakfast," I murmured and moved to sit at the kitchen counter, taking out the burnt toast.

"I agree"

---

We both sat in comfortable silence, munching on our toast. Harry had been gently stoaking my growing belly as I sat on his lap. Just then I remembered.

"We have an ultrasound today, did you check the owl post love?"

I jumped up from my place on harry's lap and he did the same from the couch.

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84 notes • Posted 2021-09-20 04:23:25 GMT

#3

The new potters

Prologue: the beginning

Harry Potter x reader

Summary: The wizarding war is finally over, the dark lord gone forever. Harry Potter can finally have the life he had always wanted, starting with marrying you.

Warnings: fluff, wedding fluff, mentions of the war, also daddy Sirius is ALIVE. I don't think there's anything else, let me know if there is.

A/N : Woohoo 🎉 my first reader insert series. I'm so nervous. Hopefully I do Harry some justice cause the guy really needs some love. Might be a pretty long one at that. (Warning this is VERY long). Also the links for their looks are given where ever I have mentioned it.

Author's POV

The wizarding war was finally over. As Harry stood at the bridge, connecting Hogwarts with the forest, he felt free. Voldemort was gone, finally. The one person he had been fighting with to avenge his parents' death, was finally, gone. As he stared at the great expanse before him, he felt relief, and hope for a better future. But as he turned to see Hogwarts, all he felt was remorse.

There was hope yes, but he couldn't help but feel guilty for this war. So many died, just because he dragged them to this war. But, the guilt felt different, as if he was proud, as if he knew they were proud and deep down, Harry knew this feeling was right.

As twilight approached slowly, Y/N searched around for Harry. Right after the war ended she and Harry had spent a few minutes together, crying and laughing. But they eventually had to separate, but not without promising to see each other, the very moment they were free. As Y/N searched around the front yard of Hogwarts, she spotted him all alone.

Reader's POV

As I saw Harry standing alone, I could only feel love for him. He faced so much through his life at such a young age, yet he never gave up. He never stopped loving. But it was time that he forgot about all of his "chosen one" business. That started with relaxing. I approached him from behind and covered his eyes. I could tell that he was relaxed enough to not hit me with a spell 😂. He laughed and tried to pull my hands away from his face but I giggled and kept my hand firmly on his face.

Harry's POV

As I stood on the bridge reminiscing about the war and my future, I felt a pair of hands cover my eyes and I relaxed after guessing who's it was. I could hear her distinct giggling, the same one I had fallen for during my 6th year and still fall for every time I hear it.

"Guess who?" The voice asked playfully. "Oh I don't know, maybe Hermione?" I said wanting to play around a little. "Guess again" the voice said again. I knew that if I said another name, I would probably make Y/N angry and I do NOT want to face that so I replied with a "Y/N" and the hands slipped away. As I turned around, I saw her, smiling. To be honest, I felt guilty, she was all bloodied up because of the war, her Y/H/C hair was tangled and covered with dust. But more than that I felt love for her. I smiled and kissed her. God, that felt good. I lifted her up and spun her around (probably was dangerous, but we still did it). We laughed and kissed like crazy, after what seemed like years. If I had to pick an ending to my life, this would be it. Just me, Y/N and Hogwarts.

2 year later

Today was the day. The day I make Y/N my wife. If this was two years back I would never have thought I would get married, giving some excuse about finding death eaters and such. But, now I can't even imagine life without her. I sat down in Ron's room at the burrow, where I was getting ready. God, this was real wasn't it. I started to panicky a little, my hands getting sweaty. But as I thought back to the time I proposed, it melted my very being.

It was a beautiful Starry night. So we both decided to go star gazing to a nearby field. The night was a beautiful one, that was for sure but something even more beautiful was Y/N. She twirled around the grassy meadow, her hair flying about. So I decided that now was the time to ask her. As she stopped and came closer to me I got down on one knee.

Reader's POV

"Y/N I first met you on my to charms class, since then I had a special place for in my heart. The last couple of years my love for you grew stronger each day and now I can't imagine my life without you. So, Y/N, will you marry me?

I still couldn't believe that Harry had proposed to me, even on the day I was getting married!

As I admired myself in the mirror at the burrow, the door to the room opened, I turned around to see my BFFs Hermione, Luna and Ginny. All three of them stared at me with the biggest smiles in their faces.

"If Harry doesn't cry when he sees you, then I don't what will!" Hermione said, clasping my hands in hers. The girls and I giggled and talking about old times. Everything had changed hadn't it ?

Authors pov

As Y/N walked down the isle Harry thought she was literally a goddess. Her dress framed her body perfectly, the veil flowing down to her back. Her hair was pulled back into an elegant bun with wisps of hair falling out.

As they both stood together at the end of the isle Y/N couldn't help but admire Harry. For once in his life he wore a proper pair of glasses. His suit fit snugly on his body defining his features. But he kept his hair just as messy as ever, a classic for Harry.

The pair smiled at each other and Harry went in for a little peck. "Ready?" He whispered softly. "As I'll ever be" she said and the pair turned to the minister. "Welcome friends, family members and all present here today to witness the union of Harry James potter and Y/N Y/M/N Y/L/N. The strength for their union is strong, their love undeniable. Now, if you please Mr. potter, the vows. Harry turned to face Y/N, the happiest of smiles he ever had.

" Y/N," he said, already tearing up a bit, "gosh I don't know where to start. When I first came to Hogwarts, you were the first person who didn't know my name. you were always the friend who was concerned about me, but who also enjoyed the risk, the adventure. And that's what loving you ever since sixth year has been, an adventure. You are my home, the one person whom I thought about throughout the war, the one person I wanted to kiss and hug the most. You're the one person I can see my future with. If I can have the happy family my parents shared I would always have it with you Y/N.

As Harry finished, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, were already sobbing while Y/N was full on crying. Sirius smiled at the couple remembering James standing and saying his vows to Lily so many years ago

"Now miss Y/N,"

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96 notes • Posted 2021-07-07 07:25:36 GMT

#2

The new potters

Chapter 1: Surprise!

Summary: Morning sickness can be terrible, but the reason behind it can be life altering

Warning : fluff, morning sickness, food, vomiting, maybe a little sad? If we squint really hard?

Reader's POV

It was probably the fourth time I went to the bathroom for the night. As I crouched over the toilet and puked out all of the contents of my stomach, I felt my husband, Harry hold my hair in a makeshift bun and rub small circles on my back.

"That's it love, let it out"

Finally after about an hour, I washed up and just practically died in bed. But what I didn't know was that someone else was still wide awake.

Authors POV

Harry was really confused. Y/N had been acting strangely lately. One moment she was having a bucket of ice cream claiming she was starving, the next moment she would be throwing up. She was also quite whinny lately.

But as he stared quietly at his sleeping wife he sighed softly, he placed a kiss on her temple as he finally settled under the covers, although he still continued to worry.

Reader's POV

It was a new morning and I felt fresh as a daisy. I got up, careful not to wake up Harry and walked to the kitchen. As was making the batter for the omelette, I immediately felt nauseous and rushed to the bathroom. Boy, this was getting tiring! Finally, after what seemed like an hour of me throwing up, I came out of the bathroom. I was really confused, why was this happening. I looked at the calendar, my period was late!

I completely zoned out as I looked at the dates. It was two weeks late. I would've looked at the calendar forever if Harry hadn't woken up and bumped into me. I turned around and started giggling, as Harry tried to find his glasses.

"Love have you seen my glasses? I bloody lost them again."

I giggled at his antics and grabbed his glasses out of his reach and hid them behind me. Harry smiled knowingly.

"Love, I need my glasses"

"The only way to get it is to catch me."

"Oh yeah, well then let's see how you escape me"

We ran around the living, the only things which showed a speck of childishness in our hearts. Finally, Harry grabbed my waist as I slowed down, sneakily grabbing the glasses. He kissed the back of my neck, as we both swayed together, to an imaginary tune.

"Love, are alright?" Harry asked, as my breathing got a little heavier.

"Yeah I'm fine, think I'll just go to the medical store"

I put my coat on, heading outside. The weather was crisp outside making me feel slightly better.

As I entered the store, I suddenly spotted my good friend Hermione. I smiled at the thoughts of our fun adventures at Hogwarts. I walked up to her, tapping her gently on the shoulder. She immediately whirled around and smiled as she saw me.

"Y/N!!!"

"Hermione! You're a sight for sore eyes, what are you doing here?"

"I needed some first aid supplies, so I came here, what about you?"

I bit my lower lip, fiddling with the hem of my shirt as I said, "I was thinking of buying a pregnancy test"

Hermione gasped lightly as she held my hands in hers.

"How about we go to my house to check, Ron's probably not coming home anytime soon, so I have an empty house"

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131 notes • Posted 2021-08-01 09:34:03 GMT

#1

The new potters

Chapter 2:First steps.

Summary: After receiving the news that they were gonna be parents, Harry and Y/N decide to share it with everyone.

Warnings: family fluff amd maybe some sentimental Harry 🙈 and Sirius

That night, while Y/N basically passed out on bed, Harry was to happy to sleep. Throughout the entire night he stared at his wife smiling until it hurt.

There was only one thought on his mind, he was going to be a dad.

Reader's POV

The warm rays of the sun, woke me up to a pleasant day and how could it not ? Finally me and Harry were going to be our own little family!

I rolled over to my right expecting to cuddle up with my husband but the bed was empty. I tossed around in bed a little and was about to get up when I saw Harry. He had a huge breakfast in bed tray overflowing with food.

He say down beside me and put the food down. He chuckled as he saw my perplexed expression.

"What, can't I make some breakfast for my wife?"

"Well, yes, but you could have at-

Harry cut me off by kissing me deeply.

"Just eat now will you" he teased returning back to his toast. I shook my head, giggling.

"Always the charmer, eh Potter?"

X-X

It had been a month, since we found out about my pregnancy, and bow was it the happiest month of my life. Harry had been the biggest support, doing anything and everything for me. And before we knew it, we were to spread the word.

The first person, Sirius Black.

Having lost his parents at a tender age, Harry had never known a father figure, except Sirius. So we knew that we had to let him know first.

As I packed up my hand bag with a couple off essentials, Harry rubbed my arms protectively.

"Are you sure you want to apparate there, we can take a cab or something" he asked, tremulously.

I smiled and turned over to him.

"I'm fine, love, really"

"Bu-

"No buts, lets go already"

Harry nodded. Taking my hand in his, we both apparated away, 12 grimmauld place.

Authors POV

Grimmauld place was looking, quite merry for the holidays. Kreachure and dobby had been hanging tinsel every where z while Sirius had been cleaning up the house.

Just then, he heard the sudden pop of someone apparating and he movee to open the door.

He smiled as he saw his godson, Harry and his wife Y/N at the door step.

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[twstgameplay]

🦈 Mod Furoido’s Alt Account Adventures - Vargas Camp Edition! 🦈

Sorry that it took so long to post this, but ngl it was a pain to find teams that work with the limited resources I had to level up different R cards.

I mostly used SSR’s without maxed magic or buddy as support.

Honestly though, just forget about drop bonus and choose your strongest friend.

Let’s say you have 500 Kanpan (Hard Biscuits), that would mean you can either run Extra Battles 1 to 6 Lv.1 (cost: 15) 33 times or Lv.2 (cost: 20) 25 times and Extra Battles 7 and 8 Lv.1 (cost: 30) 16 times or Lv.2 (cost: 50) 10 times.

Which will give you the most Vargas Ticket and Material drop?

For those that like Math, here are some numbers for you (considering the 500 Kanpan example above):

33 runs on Extra Battle (1/3/5) Lv.1 with both Sebek and Ruggie gives you a total of 561 Vargas Tickets and 627 of the Material (Wood/Fish/Stone Fragment) dropped in that area.

25 runs on Extra Battle (2/4/6) Lv.2 with no drop bonus gives you a total of 450 Vargas Tickets and 500 of the Material (Wood/Fish/Stone Fragment) dropped in that area.

25 runs on Extra Battle (2/4/6) Lv.2 with just Sebek gives you a total of 500 Vargas Tickets and 550 of the Material (Wood/Fish/Stone Fragment) dropped in that area.

25 runs on Extra Battle (2/4/6) Lv.2 with just Ruggie gives you a total of 550 Vargas Tickets and 600 of the Material (Wood/Fish/Stone Fragment) dropped in that area.

16 runs on Extra Battle 7 Lv.1 with both Sebek and Ruggie gives you a total of 592 Vargas Tickets.

10 runs on Extra Battle 8 Lv.2 with no drop bonus gives you a total of 500 Vargas Tickets.

In other words, efficiency-wise, it’s better to farm Lv.1 than Lv.2 if you’re not able to clear it with both Sebek and Ruggie.

The ideal team for drops is [character A] and [character B] + Camp Sebek + 2 Camp Ruggie (your own and support).

Example:

(This team is strong enough to beat all 3 Extra Battles [Lv.2] for Wood, Fish and Stone Fragments, that’s because Dorm Tweels are both maxed in terms of magic and can finish the other team’s HP before I’m forced to use my weaker moves)

However, not everyone can replicate that. So what should those without maxed SSR’s do?

In this post, I’ll show some team examples that you can adapt with your own cards (do yourself a favor and don’t limit your teams to have only R’s and Camp Sebek).

WOOD FARMING SPOT

Extra Battle 1 [Lv.1] - Tree / Water / Null

This one is still manageable with non-maxed Camp Ruggie support and 5/5 Magic R Cards, give preference to Tree element as it will either deal Neutral or Strong damage. Try to use the Water magic when the enemy uses Null, give preference to hitting Water with Tree unless you notice that the battle will be long and the next magic will all be at disadvantage and you might die.

Extra Battle 2 [Lv.2] - Tree

This one is kind of tough in the sense that it only has Tree element, so having both Sebek’s and Ruggie’s Water might result in defeat if you don’t have the firepower (quite literally) to finish the other team before you’re forced to use your Water magic. You might want to remove one of them, if not both, in order to clear the stage more easily.

Here are some team examples that work:

FISH FARMING SPOT

Extra Battle 3 [Lv.1] - Water / Fire / Null

Thanks to Camp Ruggie and Camp Sebek having both Water and Tree magic, Fish is, by far, the easiest material to farm. There isn’t much to say here.

Extra Battle 4 [Lv.2] - Water

You can easily clear this stage with the same team as before, I only switched PE Vil with PE Sebek because he’s double Tree. Bless the amount of good R’s that are either Water/Tree or double Tree. I recommend looking for a Camp Ruggie support for that neat drop bonus, but if you can’t find one or are having trouble with the battle, Dorm Leona is your next best pick.

STONE FRAGMENTS FARMING SPOT

Extra Battle 5 [Lv.1] - Fire / Tree / Null

Once again, I managed to do the Lv.1 Extra Battle with both drop bonus characters. It’s mostly Fire, so you have to be really careful with your Tree magic and use try to use them against their Null, giving priority to using Fire against the opponent’s Tree.

Extra Battle 6 [Lv.2] - Fire

This one was a real pain. Only double Water R is Ortho and I didn’t have many Fire/Water R’s leveled up. I allowed myself to use SR Deuce once because I chose another SR as support (Grim is great if you maxed his Magic btw). Other than the 2nd team (4 turns thanks to having 2 Attack SR’s), all battles ended on turn 6 and with very little HP left. For the team with Dorm Azul, I’d have replaced Epel with School Uniform Jade if mine wasn’t Lv.1 (the ATK UP M he gives Dorm Azul is beauté).

Next Farming Spot will be under the cut in case there are still people that haven’t finished the Event Story.

VARGAS TICKET FARMING SPOT

Extra Battle 7 [Lv.1] - Tree / Water

After many many tries, I finally managed to clear this one. Not worth the trouble to have 2 drop bonus characters, really. Do it only if you can win without having to rely on rng giving you the right elements at the right time. Go with your strongest cards.

Extra Battle 8 [Lv.2] - Fire / Tree

As you can see, I said to hell with using only R’s and used the only SSR I actually leveled up + 2 of my starter SR’s. The biggest problem with this fight is that if you can’t defeat your enemy fast enough, he’ll heal and heal and heal and also buff and buff and buff... and kill you. You need high ATK to end the battle ASAP and also enough HP to survive until you can do it. Even when I chose Dorm Riddle support, I still couldn’t win because I didn’t have enough firepower to defeat the enemy before my HP was down to zero.

The Guts also didn’t help. If you can’t finish the battle on turn 5, turn 6 usually has the enemy healing over 2k HP and also attacking first, so unless you have enough HP left to survive another hit or can heal, you’re likely to die. That happened way more times than I’d like. And as if that wasn’t enough, he can also recast it after the effect wears off on turn 5.

Just so you can have an idea, even my main has trouble with it (because I insist on having max drop efficiency) if I get bad rng. I need to hit the Fire DUOs on Tree magic or I get killed by all the buffed neutral damage taken.

I once died even though I had a maxed Lv.100 Ruggie as support, all because rng decided to give me all the wrong element matchups. So really, don’t feel bad if you can’t win this battle.