#had this in the waiting for some time

[archived-kin]

grooming lucifer's wings (a piece that contains remarkably little actual wing-grooming)

note from kin: inspired by an ask someone sent me AGES ago that i can’t find because tumblr’s search feature is not good at all might do more of the boys in future, this was pretty fun to write… anyway, everyone come get your dose of soft lucifer here!

i keep trying to make the reader character more ‘blank’ so that y’all can properly project yourselves onto them, but it never works… so in this one you’re a silly goofball who is so very full of bad jokes and and also full of love for your demon bf

fandom: obey me!

character(s): gn!reader, lucifer

pairing(s): lucifer/reader

warning(s): nope!! though my interpretation of lucifer will probably seem ooc to some of you

genre: fluff

you know how most types of bird will have a moulting season, where their feathers all fall out and then regrow?? yeah lucifer gets that with his demon-form wings

it happens roughly every decade or so, give or take a few years

and lucifer HATES it

for one thing, because his flight feathers are either gone or still new and too small, he can’t fly in demon form like usual

it’s not like he flies that often anyway, but it just feels bad to know that he doesn’t have that option

and the pin feathers are also indescribably annoying - his wings are constantly prickling and itching, and they keep stinging if they brush up against something too hard

it’s not like being in regular form helps - he feels the prickling/pain under his skin instead, which is even more agonising than just feeling it in his wings

basically when lucifer’s wings are moulting he just wants to lock himself in his room and just lie there in demon form until it’s over

but since the entire moult lasts for roughly three weeks, he can’t do that if he wants to keep on top of his work

everyone else can generally tell when it’s moulting season because lucifer gets about 10000000x more irritable

you don’t realise though because he’s been avoiding you like the plague :((

but it turns out it was just because he doesn’t want to be mean to you! :D

it literally feels feels like someone’s constantly stabbing drawing pins into his back, so it’s hard NOT to get bitchy during moulting season - which is why he’s choosing to avoid you rather than accidentally hurt your feelings

except avoiding you also hurts your feelings, which he forgot to account for when he made that decision (lucifer you absolute goddamn buffoon)

in the end, the other brothers stage an intervention for their eldest brother, during which satan nearly hits him with a shoe and belphie calls him an idiot at least twenty times

lucifer’s inclined to punish them all for the impertinence, but he also realises that they kinda have a point

(and also it’s touching to him that his little brothers care about you so much, to the point where they’ll ALL actively start telling him off for hurting your feelings)

anyway, his moult is already coming to an end around this time! most of the pin feathers are gone, and the new feathers are still a little tender, but at least the constantly-being-stabbed feeling is mostly gone

so, he thinks to himself, he’ll make sure he gets a good night’s sleep and arrange a nice date to make everything up to you tomorrow

except it’s that very evening that you decide to burst into his room and start pummelling the stuffing out of his arm

he figures out by piecing together your broken speech that you’ve been given the low-down on the whole situation by his brothers, and that you’re REALLY mad at him for not just telling you that he wasn’t feeling well

and you’re ESPECIALLY mad that he instead chose to silently stew in his own misery like a frog in a boiling pot, because doesn’t he KNOW that you’d rather DIE than let him just be in pain indefinitely like this

the dramatics are unnecessary but lucifer literally loves it so much because it reminds him how much you love him and it makes his ego swell like 10000x, because to him there is no greater honour in the world than your love

anyway, once you’ve calmed down, your attitude does a complete 360

you hop onto his bed, give your lap a crisp slap, and order him to lie down in it immediately

you are very lucky that he loves you so much, because if anyone else tried this they’d be ground to dust in seconds

as it stands, all lucifer does is put up an extremely weak little fight (i.e. scoffs and gives that trademark ‘seriously?’ look) before immediately doing as you say

literally three-quarters of the tension leaves his body as soon as he does and oh wow why didn’t he do this sooner

he’s in such a state of relief that he doesn’t even think twice about complying when you tell him to switch to demon form for you

and, after all the tension of moulting season, loosening up and going demon form for a bit sounds like a really good idea actually

so he does!

he’s just starting to wonder exactly why you wanted him in demon form when he feels you start running your fingers gently through his feathers

you know that noise that cartoon characters make when they get blown/yanked up into the air really quick?? that’s the sound that plays in lucifer’s mind

no WONDER practically every animal with fur or feathers likes being pet in one way or another. it feels so good

you’re working your way through the rows and rows of somewhat crooked new feathers, veeery gently teasing them into neat lines, and then smoothing them over with your palm

it’s slow and methodical, like you’re working to some sort of beat, and

like at one point you make some stupid joke along the lines of ‘guess those pin feathers were really NEEDLING you haha’

honestly lucifer wants to be mad, but he can’t bring himself to be

tbh he can never get mad at any of your bad jokes, because they were part of the reason he ended up falling for you in the first place

this was basically how it went back before in the earlier days of you two knowing each other:

you: “hey lucifer, do your socks have holes in them?”

lucifer’s brain: okay look, we know that the human has a VERY nice face, but we have standards, and our standards are high, ESPECIALLY for personality, so do NOT fuck this up and do NOT start falling in love with the human

lucifer, out loud: “no they do not, why would—”

you: “then how’d you get your feet in them?! hahahahahahahahaha—”

lucifer’s brain: shit. they’re meeting all our standards. i think we’re in love with the human now.

based on the impression he gives most people, one would think that lucifer thinks you’re an idiot and doesn’t like you

but not so! what lucifer actually thinks is “my partner is an idiot and i like them SO MUCH”

basically your laugh makes his heart do somersaults, and whenever you lose it at one of your own jokes it makes him want to smile so wide his face starts aching

anyway back to the wing-grooming!

grjklhrjkhrlKJHKJSHFK DO YOU HAVE MAGIC IN YOUR HANDS???

AND YOUR VOICE APPARENTLY because lucifer can hear you cooing ‘ooooo what pretty wings’ under your breath, and it’s making his own breathing do funny things

you call him a gorgeous boy multiple times and he doesn’t even feel talked-down to, like he’d have assumed he would if ever addressed like that - he just basks in the compliment like ‘🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 you’re a gorgeous human tooooo’

obviously he doesn’t say that, nor does he really let it show on his face, but deep down in his soul he’s practically yelling it

you should really cherish this moment, because even if lucifer’s softer than pure cotton for you, it’s rare for him to be practically snuggling into your lap like this

there’s a combination of factors here:

1. he hasn’t had much contact with you since moulting season began, so he’s making up for lost time

2. doing all that work while simultaneously being in constant pain is EXHAUSTING and this is a great chance to wind down

and 3. man do your hands feel good

he straight up just falls asleep there in your lap after a while

some time later, he wakes up at a tiny hour of the morning, with you having fallen asleep sitting up

his wings are positively sparkling, you’ve done an absolutely fabulous job of neatening and smoothing out the new plumage

but now luci feels kind of bad because you look kind of exhausted

so he carefully eases himself out of your lap and climbs into bed properly, rearranging everything so that you’re nice and snug in his arms, with his wings wrapped around you like an extra protective layer of blankets

and now he kind of wants to cry because wow this cosiness just hits different. sleeping in your lap was great, but this is even GREATER. maybe he needs to sleep with you in demon form more often???

oh shit his horns make it pretty hard to put his head on the pillow comfortably, never mind

though, if you really like sleeping wrapped up in his wings like this, he’d be totally willing to put up with the pillow discomfort

it’s not awful, anyway - absolutely nothing compared to the everything about moulting season, actually

so lucifer drifts back off to sleep soon enough, fully aware of the fact that he doesn’t have his alarm set and that he’ll probably oversleep tomorrow, but also fully aware of the fact that he doesn’t care

sweet dreams you two <3

[vendriin]

Poltergeist (1982)

[black-and-yellow]

Mic short hair. Short hair Mic.

[tellmeabtspinos]

thinking abt halloween.........

[mihai-florescu]

What the actual fuck is going on in the northern european countries and not feeding guests. Do not equate us south/eastern europeans with those barbarians please🙏

[pangur-and-grim]

in the spirit of ‘spending all my money on animals’, I think the chicken coop is due for an upgrade, and this looks appealing!

there’s an avian flu outbreak right now, and currently sparrows (a possible disease vector) can fit through the bars of my run and eat the spilled chicken food. this custom-built coop + run would solve that, as there’s no gap small enough to fit through, and it continues into the ground a bit to discourage the digging of rats or raccoons.

[gottagobuycheese]

Under the fireworks brightly dyeing the night sky, Han Sooyoung's chilly, sharp dagger gleamed dangerously.

"You, just who the hell are you?”

Hugtober Day 9/9 - Can You Really Call This a Hug, I Didn’t Receive Physical Affection or Anything

[ID: A piece of digital fanart depicting Han Sooyoung and Kim Dokja from Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint. Han Sooyoung is dressed in a purple jacket, dark grey t-shirt, and a pair of black sweatpants and shoes. She kneels in the grass and pins Kim Dokja to the ground with her right hand, holding her dagger aloft in her left as the colorful lights of the fireworks light her figure from behind. Her hair is disheveled as she glares down at him, baring her teeth, though her ferocious expression betrays the faintest glimmer of fear. Kim Dokja, meanwhile, is sprawled flat on the grass, reflexively throwing his arms over his face. His legs kick up into the air by the force of Han Sooyoung’s initial tackle. He is dressed in his signature white coat, black button-up and slacks, and black shoes, which are partly lit up from the light of the fireworks. /end ID ]

(Credit for the fireworks brush set goes to bybaobab!)

[thatsitso]

I am a genius,,,,,,,,,

Brushroom? Mushbug? Brushmush?? I love him ksskdjdh

[tearlessrain]

I think of all the approximate categories of animal, fish are unbeatable in terms of how much it would suck ass to be one. you’re basically the most edible creature on god’s earth and literally everything else wants in on that. like yeah everything eats everything but at least if you’re a bird that lives in the sky you mainly just have to worry about being eaten by other things that are in the sky, but fish? other fish are only the beginning of your problems. not only does everything in the ocean that’s bigger than you want to eat you, so do most things on land given half a chance. there are things in the sky that evolved specifically to come all the way down just to eat you. and you don’t even have arms to punch any of them with you just kinda have to sit there going :o as you’re carried away into the beyond. you have no limbs at all, in fact, so if you ever leave the water you can’t even get back to it like, if something that’s not supposed to be in the water gets in the water it can at least try to swim to shore and get out, but fish are just like “guess I’ll die.” pour one out for fish. they did not ask for this.

[sualne]

"Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!"

He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:—

"Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!"

[freaky-flawless]

Here's Clawd and Deuce! 🐺🐍

[Image Description: Two drawings of Clawd Wolf and Deuce Gorgon from Monster High. Clawd is tall and muscular with brown skin, golden glowing eyes, and black curly hair styled into an afro. He's wearing a black and pink tank top with the Monster High logo on it, light blue ripped jeans with a teal colored belt, and gold, black, and teal sneakers with gold paw prints on the tongue.

Deuce is standing with his arms crossed. He has tan skin, and green snakes sprouting from his head. He's wearing a black t-shirt under a green flannel with spikes on the shoulders, gray jeans with zippers above the knees, black combat boots with bright green laces, and round red rimmed sunglasses.]

[batarangsoundsdumb]

remember my social media au? 

[anna-scribbles]

Hi, i was wondering if peach commissioned you for metamorphosis or you're just doing it for fun/because you're obsessed with the fic (which considering thr fic itself is a valid reason to lol) ?

this is the reason

also you got me looking in our chapter cover brainstorming dms so here is Five Times @peachcitt Read My Mind (And One Time She Didn’t)

[halfahelix]

If you kiss one, you kiss both

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Stills under the cut 👇

[welcometogrouchland]

We all assign Lilith as the Philip parallel when analyzing the similarities between the clawthorne sisters and the wittebane brothers. But have we stopped to consider for a moment that Belos saw Lilith as the Caleb in her situation? An older sibling who makes a selfish decision (in Philip's eyes) and betrays their younger sibling, leaving them a monster outcast from society??

We as the audience know just how different those situations were, but from Belos' pov...

I'm not saying Lilith was seen as so disposable and worthless by Belos, not just bc she was a witch, but because she was a Clawthorne whom Belos saw as a mirror of Caleb...but that's exactly what I'm saying and I'm realizing that Belos must've hated Lilith's guts more than we thought

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

not to project onto Scully too much but sometimes I think about how she grew up with a parent in the military and how that canonically shaped her in a lot of ways (the need for approval and structure, attachment issues formed probably largely from moving a lot among other things) and how throughout the course of the show she seems to be, and to assume she will be, the first one to leave. in moments of deep intimacy (the parking garage in Little Green Men; the opening of Paper Clip; Paper Hearts; the hallway scene in Memento Mori; multiple times in Elegy; even at Mulder's apartment in FTF) Scully is the one who walks away first. it's like she expects it of herself, even, and maybe she does: she has attachment issues that in a way come down to a fear of being left behind. she (like me) has almost always been the one doing the leaving: moving around growing up, leaving the way she talks about in All Things (which touches a lot on her constant movement, actually) bc she thinks it's the best thing to do, and it does a lot to how she reacts to people coming and going — even as early on as Beyond the Sea, with the loss of her father.

she has the expectation, particularly in her relationship with Mulder, that she will be the one leaving — whatever way that means. their exchange in Paper Clip (just before Scully walks away!!) is really telling: "I told your mother you would be alright" / "How did you know?" / "I just knew". at face value it's just... a lot of hope and trust and faith, but at the same time there's this layer of... almost denial?? that i think is touched on more in those deleted scenes with her mother and Melissa — she doesn't want to accept that Mulder is gone and she's the one left. I would even go as far as to say that her abduction and then later her cancer affect this. both those times, Mulder is the one who is and will be left behind, and particularly where it comes to the cancer arc, that affects a lot of how she acts about it. she's obviously afraid to die, but there's also this sense of acceptance in her; but with Mulder, she's so much more openly concerned for him and what will happen to him once she — in her way of thinking — leaves him. there's a sense of slight guilt there and I think it's a part of why she keeps him at arm's length for much of the latter half of s4.

btw I'm not really taking into account more circumstantial instances of leaving/being left here — Mulder ditches Scully so many times we all kinda just keep a tally, but that's not the times that really... matter as much? it's the weighty, meaningful times; i keep coming back to Paper Hearts, for some reason. maybe it's just that it's never sat completely right with me that Scully just... walks away? and it's a very obvious instance of this odd little thing: in more trivial, case-related circumstances, Mulder ditches her a lot; but in moments that really, deeply matter, Scully is often the one to leave first.

she even tries to do it again in FTF; she's upset, yeah, but she's extremely calm about essentially leaving Mulder. (to be fair: it was never about leaving him. she would never stay away for him for long, no matter either of their status at the Bureau, it was always about leaving the WORK, which Mulder wrongly interpreted as her leaving him entirely, as he often does; see also: Never Again) she's... resigned to it. prepared. it's not something she ever intended, but it's something she kind of knew would happen in some way: she was always going to be the one to leave first.

there's that Siken quote, "Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story." and that's really what it comes down to. that is and has always been Scully's mindset, possibly (probably) in large part due to growing up in a military family. she's internalized that way of life so deeply that she fits herself into that role. she is someone who leaves first. this is a very old story. there is no other version of this story. until there is. there is another version of this story, and it shakes her to her core. she carries a very fierce kind of calm nearly all the time, and the quickest we ever see her walls stripped down to absolutely nothing is at the end of Requiem. it's a very, very sudden change going into season 8 because she's just so raw, split apart and incredibly open for once. she's constantly tearing up, more than we ever see before she loses Mulder (once, twice, how many times).

and like quite honestly I think him leaving in s9 was really the (beginning of the) last straw for her, because it was a conscious, intentional decision they both made. it was fully in their control. and like yeah they agreed on it, yeah they thought it was the only way to be safe and ever be together again, but he left. and that more than absolutely anything up to that point completely tore Scully apart. she spent so long expecting to be the one leaving, even the narrative of the show frames her as such very often, and now she's Not. and that can be and is devastating. the real (end of the) last straw, though, is William. bc it's another conscious choice to be the one who is left behind, and it's so much deeper a pain than... basically anything else tbh. and combined with Mulder leaving at the top of the season, it winds up being the absolute edge of how much she can handle. it truly is Scully's last straw and she cannot handle anymore.

WHICH IS WHY (and I didn't expect to get this far in this rant, it was supposed to be just one paragraph RIP) I think she leaves between IWTB and the revival. like... she is constantly afraid of being the one left behind, whatever that means in any given circumstance, and she's already reached her breaking before they're ever in the Unremarkable House. she sees Mulder disconnecting and hiding and it hits just enough of those fears of rejection and being left that she. leaves first. because (like that OTHER Siken poem) it's written down, memorized, all she knows. "I say the phrases that keep it going and everyone plays along," etc.

Scully is still, at any given point in the series, in some way at heart the daughter of a Navy captain. that's how she was raised, that's who she is, and that's... a lot. a lot a lot. someone has to leave first. this is an old story. there is no other version of this story. and given her upbringing, given the major events of her life and relationships (especially with Mulder), it makes so much sense that she seems to so instinctively expect to be the one who leaves first. it's easier for her; it's what she's familiar with and in a way comfortable with, so. she leaves first.