#does it make sense? probably not. im tired

[bloodyinkandquill]

Illumina and child figure Reader

they never specified so i’m assuming they want child reader sorry if i assumed wrong let me know if i did and ill do a new one!

to keep my theme i don’t put anything before the characters name so this is more accurately father figure illumina but oh well

sorry for my semi hiatus i haven’t had much motivation but im writing to get my mind off of the election and ive got brownies cooling on the counter, we also have a new puppy dm me for pics because she is the cutest thing oh my gods

- Sneaking into Illumina’s temple to steal food from his offerings takes some guts, or you were incredibly stupid, it could be either honestly, seeing as you were a kid probably both honestly

- When Illumina sensed someone not only stealing from his temple but one of his offerings he showed up immediately, pissed if not a little impressed someone had the nerve, then he saw you, a small, very thin, shaking little kid holding a single loaf of bread, normally he’d smite you without a second chance but something stopped him, maybe it was that your horn looked very slightly like his, maybe jealousy of some of his siblings, or maybe he was just tired, but he stopped and didn’t smite you

- He asked what you were doing, stealing from his temple, you said you were starving, you needed something to eat, and the only place nearby was his temple, you were so sorry, he made an odd sound before sighing and saying he’d get you some proper food, something that wasn’t an offering to him, realizing it was an offering you panicked and he said it was whatever, bringing you to his worshippers to make you food

- They were all a bit confused but they did so obediently and you had the best soup you’ve ever had, as you ate he asked you questions about yourself, your name, age, etc, finally he eventually said you could stay in his temple, he’d have his worshippers make sure you were bathed and fed, you were extremely thankful if not a bit confused

- His demeanor remained cold and stern but he did seem a bit more soft towards you, after he left you were given your own room and taken care of, when you saw him next you immediately ran up and gave him a hug, barely even making it up to his waist, seeing you in his follower’s robes, and the way they were too large for you, sparked something unfamiliar in him, a parental instinct

- He was unfamiliar with the feeling, but he’d heard some of his siblings describe it before, and he realized he wanted to protect you, not just have you be cared for by his worshippers, but he wanted to take care do you, so suddenly you were in his home, sort of, you think it’s his home but it looked… weird*

- Illumina isn’t the most expressive or talkative guy but you knew he does care about you, making sure you’re always properly fed and clean, if you ask for something he doesn’t respond but a few hours later you find that thing in or near your room, you always give him a hug when you do, slowly as time went on he’d touch you back during the hugs, a pat on the head, ruffling your hair, and after awhile he’d bend down to your level so he could hug you back properly

- He has some weird bird brain instincts on occasion which is why sometimes you end up sleeping in a big pile of blankets and pillows curled up next to him, he makes cooing sounds contently and you fall asleep not a worry on your mind, safe and warm, though him trying to feed you is something you do not like, at least it isn’t proper baby bird style just spoon feeding instead

- His siblings don’t know about you, okay that’s not entirely true, Ghostwalker has seen you before but doesn’t know the full extent of his brothers care towards you, but besides for him the others have no idea he adopted a mortal, let alone who he met because they stole from him

- Sometimes he disappears for days at a time, if he knows that that’s going to happen he leaves you in the care of his followers, when they first took care of you it was begrudgingly but now that you’re basically his child they treat you with a lot more care and gentleness, you also were given special robes by him so that when they do have to take care of you they know who you are immediately, that is if they don’t see your eyes immediately

- If Illumina blesses or gifts one of his worshippers their eyes go fully white like his, in your case they went a light purple instead, but same principle applies, your pupils disappeared and anyone who looks at your face can tell at the very least you have his blessings, if not that you’re more special then a normal follower who’s received his gift

- Soup is still your favorite food, it reminds you of the day you met him, even if he never admits it knowing that soup is your favorite food and when he sees you eat it it makes something warm spring up in his chest

- He’s not much of a talker, but he enjoys listening to you ramble on about anything and everything, even if not that coherent it’s pure and childish, maybe what you did that day, the story behind a drawing you made, the story you’re currently acting out with your toys, which speaking of are sick, he had almost never interacted which children before you so he basically got you everything, going form a homeless street child to owning basically every toy in existence was a pretty sweet thing

- After a few months he teaches you how to preen him, you’re not amazing at it but you have plenty of time to learn, and your small hands make it so you can be a lot more careful, after you preen him though he immediately starts brushing your hair and straightening your clothes, it’s his way of preening you back, since you don’t have wings (yet) of your own so taking care of your hair and cleaning you up slightly is the closest he can get

- On very rare occasion he returns home with injuries, usually from fights gone too far with Darkheart, or maybe once or twice Venomshank, either way you watch from his doorway as he bandages himself up hissing in pain as he cleans and dresses his wounds, after he finishes you come in with a stuffed animal handing it to him and gently crawl into his lap, it relaxes him and you fall asleep in his nest with him that night, every stuffed animal you give him during those times ends up in his nest, he treasures them, in his own way, when he’s a very stoic guy it’s not obvious but you’ve learned to read him, he also lets himself show more emotion around you, since you are just a child who can’t understand him that well normally

- When you first saw him appear that day in his temple, you thought for sure your life was over, but instead you gained a father, and even if you never said it, you were eternally grateful for all of it, falling asleep curled up next to a deity who was almost twice your height was never your plan, but you were happy it happened

i am stressing over this election but i’m tired now, imma go to bed, ALSO

i made a friend in this community and they offered to help with this blog, idk if it will happen but on occasion they may do a request for me ill say if they do it’s not a guarantee but just letting you all know there’s a chance i might get some help on these here and there

* according to soda illumina kind of has a house ‘it’s weird’ what that means is unclear

[tertiaryapocalypse]

did i post tgis here

[gayve-strider-man-rider]

hate when you're getting into it and it's like,, man I probably sound hot as fuck rn. too bad there's literally no one else here :/

[phagodyke]

the masculine urge to take a saucepan off thr draining board and bash myself repeatedly over the head with it until I pass out and no longer have to experience feeling Bad 😍

[mithomite]

had the most braindead repetitive conversation/argument with my parents. buzz cuts are too masculine but if you dye a design on it it become effeminate which is bad because then you look weak and if youre weak then society falls apart (all societies ever that have fallen apart for any reason are actually because of feminine men) and we start sacrificing babies. and also all mental illness is invented because only 4 people had anxiety in the 90s and covid was made up so that we would all become gay and trans and then the government can control us better and be joe biden's little sex slaves. and also i need to keep my hair long because my father finds it attractive. what

[dnangelic]

was actually thinking about the nature of daisuke's curse again and the school morning after riku accidentally discovers that dark == daisuke and gets told by riku that they 'can't be together' because they'll be separated is like....

this paneling is gorgeous (sugisaki's art is always i always say this) but to emphasize dark's, or rather, the fallen angel's black wings as daisuke's essentially lamenting the fact that 'not everyone's wishes can come true' and that he 'still likes riku.' smth smth the hikari and their loveless lives VS the niwa and their insane erik phantomopera circumstances of tragic loves and loves that can't Be, yet still always loving and loving and loving Despite Everything

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

i’m so frustrated with people’s lack of common sense about wildlife. if you’re interacting with wildlife, you’re not having your disney princess moment. you’re not forming a magical bond. that’s a wild animal who is potentially terrified; maybe it’s curious if it’s young enough, but that just means you should minimise interactions as much as possible to make sure that animal lives a normal life. if your kid comes in holding a wild animal, don’t pick up your fucking phone to videotape it. bring the animal back outside and educate your kid to leave animals alone. you know what happens when you take in wildlife as a “pet”? either you keep it and do damage because even though it’s “tame” it’s a wild animal who is in no way meant to live in that setting unless it’s being kept by a trained and licensed rehabber who knows the housing and feeding requirements (and even then i’ve seen some who are keeping animals irresponsibility), or it ends up at a wildlife rehab when you inevitably harm it enough that you don’t know what to do, or when no vets see you, or when the animal becomes too aggressive for you to handle. and then we either figure out how to rehabilitate an animal whose temperament and/or body you have massively damaged or we euthanise it because the damage is too extensive. start treating wildlife like wild animals rather than a dog or cat. they’re not pets, they’re not domesticated, leave them alone and let them live happy lives as they’re supposed to.

[olexxx]

hiii lex i am curious if you have any ideas on what the toon maitlands would look like/what they could add to the show/what their role would be? i’ve never watched the cartoon (in part because they aren’t in it /lh) but i’d love to hear your input :3

i have thought about it previously, but if im honest i could never come up with a good idea/design for them, since cartoon seems to be such a seperate media from everything else

while theres some continuation and reoccuring characters, basically no one has a backstory there, not to say that we cant just make things up, im just having trouble weaving their lore into the cartoon

[duck-in-a-spaceship]

"Kill your darlings!"

Uhm... why would I want to do that they're LITERALLY my darlings????

[detective-frog]

Maybe i can....embrace being awkward?

Like, i feel like (sub-)consciously I'm always trying to learn how to become more socially fluent, which isn't bad in itself necessarily, but every time I'm struggling and feeling awkward in a social interaction i have this ranking thing/ -10hp feeling. And then of course that contributes to me always assuming that other people are 'cooler' and more 'grown up' than me or whatever. A.k.a. It makes me feel inherently lesser.

So maybe i could try to embrace me just being like that and feel less disappointed every time because I'm holding myself to standards that are slightly too high?

Especially bc when I feel i fumbled a social interaction i didn't do anything rude or harmful (I think). Mostly i was just being confused.

[riggedbones]

insane how much zuko centric fanfic there is out there btw like i know hes a well written and popular character but holy shit. and i bet the prevalence of zuko fics inspires more too like damn read a few good ones and that fuckers in ur head. the autism reading got me

[snowychicken]

In the changes blog, where the staff post changes to the site, they mentioned that they were bringing icons back. Everyone seems super excited about it, and I was wondering if you know why.

Okay, gotcha, thanks for clarifying! I think it was mainly an issue on desktop, so maybe you wouldn't know about it if you're just on mobile, but staff removed most of the user icons for a bit (idk if that was for everyone or just a few people), so you couldn't easily see who was on your dash, and everybody was pissed off about basically not being able to really see their friends on their dash. Another way staff was fucking up the site, you know? But apparently they actually listened to everyone's feedback on it and put the icons back. So basically everyones excited bc it's just a small win that makes the site slightly less shitty

[thrilling-oneway]

something i said to a friend before sekaibest uploaded the story is that putting MMJ in the credit system makes a lot of sense in terms of plot structure and such. here's the thing, everyone gets aged up by a year at the next anniversary which means Airi and Shizuku go into third year, and then you get down to what happens in every generation of love live and what has been the plot of WxS' story for the last year - the inevitability of the group leaving school and having to either work around that or disband. Now MMJ isn't going to disband unlike WxS, but eventually Shizuku and Airi will graduate school, which is going to interfere hugely with MMJ's activities. Like the most obvious part is that they practice at Miya Girls when not in sekai, and Shizuku and Airi won't be able to just walk in and practice with Haruka and Minori after they graduate. But if MMJ all takes the credit system, they don't have to be in school all the time, they can all graduate at the same time assuming they all rack up credits at the same rate, and due to the amount of time credit system can take to finish you can probably manage to squeeze out at least 6 years worth of content.

[succession-thoughts]

"The future is real but the past is all made up" he lived his life that way and now he's dead and he has no more future, he didn't reflect on the past because he was always looking for more, and now there's no more

[waywardsalt]

the dilemma of having ideas that would be best expressed as comics but being afraid to draw

[beholdthemem]

The universe saw fit to gift my grandmother with a lovely case of covid for Christmas because of course it fucking did, so the past few days have been, uh...

Busy.