#he told her himself

[ch3rryknots]

overslept | lando norris | ˗ˏˋ꒰○꒱

lando x oc | fluff | set during winter | gilmore girls -esque

i always oversleep, i'm always next to u. do u see me in ur dreams? 'cause i see u see me too—but i got u, i got u

a/n : this is dedicated to the dearest mo ♡!! [ @lomlando ]

though citlali loved the night before, dancing in the club, drinking until dawn, and cheering lando on after he convinced the club into letting him dj, the late mornings spent dazing in and out while being held by lando were incomparably better.

lando stirred, still half asleep, and softly asked, "are you cold, lali?"

"yeah, a little." she responded.

he rose from the bed and headed to the linen closet just outside their room. returning with yet another blanket, he crawled back into bed and wrapped it around the two of them, placing his warm hands over her cold ones.

she hummed in delight, snuggling back into him, and soon drifted to sleep once again.

as citlali woke from her warm slumber, she turned around to check if lando had woken up, only to be surprised by the empty right side of the bed.

glancing around the dim room, citlali sat up, trying to clear her foggy mind and recall whether lando had a media day today or not.

she was sure he hadn't.

just as she slipped out of bed to search for Lando, the door began to sway open. lando, using his elbow to open the door, entered with a small thermal mug in each hand.

"goodmorning, lali. i made us some hot cocoa." he said, smiling so gently that citlali could cry at the sight before her.

"lando...” she said, completely enamored, just as she felt the first time she saw him years ago.

he placed the cups on the bedside table before taking her into his arms and giving her the softest of kisses. lando was always so gentle with her, making sure she always knew that he cherished her beyond time.

he smiled, "Iali, it's the first snowfall of the season today."

her eyes lit up, "today? what!!"

lando nodded his head, "yes! i've set out a beanie and mittens for you. get your coat, and we can go out."

"you're too good, lando." she said, peppering kisses on his cheek before rushing to her closet to grab one. she stumbled into her bathroom, attempting to brush her teeth and slip into her coat simultaneously.

meanwhile, lando brought the mugs down to the kitchen, where he used the spare time to prepare quick pb & js.

lali rushed down stairs, sliding the beanie onto her head, “okay, lando, i'm ready! are you?"

lando turned around, humming, "mhm.”

the two enjoyed their sandwiches and sipped on their cocoa as they made their way out to the front yard.

citlali's eyes sparkled as the snow fell upon their beanies. she thought lando looked so pretty with snowflakes falling over him.

citlali sank to her knees, gathering snow into small, lumpy piles. after creating two, she stacked them on top of each other. she turned to lando and asked, "isn't she lovely?"

lando nodded, “yes, of course. though, she’s missing a friend.”

“really?”

lando mirrored her previous actions, creating yet another lumpy snowman right beside hers.

“look at them. they’re definitely in love.” lando confirmed.

“right! look at her little blush.” lali said, gently carving blush lines into the snowman's cheeks.

"and," lando said, stumbling through the snow to grab a stick with leaves. he returned and placed it behind his snowman's back, "-he's ready to surprise her with a very romantic, one-of-a-kind, leaf bouquet."

“oh, how cute!” lali smiled

they continued to enjoy the snow, creating little scenarios with their snow people. although lando initially wanted to name them kirk and kirkette, inspired by the odd, but fascinating, character from the show they had rewatched countless times, they eventually decided on luke and lorelai.

[cubbihue]

It would be nice to hear from Wanda and Cosmo! It is kind of nice that you guys have two children like your own family does. Are you two still close to your siblings? Wanda has a sibling and Cosmo also have a sibling just like Timmy and Peri. Do they share some sibling stories to your children?

Wanda and Cosmo both reconnected with their siblings shortly after having Peri. Or, well. More like Blonda reentered their lives once she realized she had a baby nephew. Eventually, they slowly patched things up the more Blonda came to visit Peri.

Schnozmo was dragged back kicking and screaming. Mama Cosma refuses to have her sons live estranged lives now that she has a grandchild in the picture. Schnozmo doesn't know how to handle children, but he's doing his best.

Peri likes Schnozmo because he makes silly noises and funny stories. But he prefers Blonda's theatrics much more and loves playing Dress Up with her.

Bitties Series: [Start] > [Previous] > [Next]

[chaoticas-hell]

I like how Nora tried to make us believe there was something between Renee and Jean like- no- that's a lesbian collecting traumatized gay men to be her friends like they're Pokémon

[carouselunique]

They had a bit of a chance encounter on a day where Blueblood was dealing with something that was very difficult and was so caught up in his emotions he didn’t even care that he was in the garden getting grass stans on his coat and Ditzy, with her natural impulse to cheer ponies up, didn’t even notice or care that she was flying into the palace gardens when she saw someone sat in the rain.

At first he was definitely going to call the castle guards to come apprehend this strange filly with the odd eyes who was intruding when this was the last moment he’d want to entertain any desperate debutantes, however she surprised him by not fawning or anything, not even caring about his status, just putting one of her fluffy wings up and asking if he needed somepony to lend an ear.

“Don’t let my eyes fool you, my ears work just fine!”

She was incredibly disarming and while he didn’t reveal everything about why he was upset, he found himself talking about his feelings to her. And she made such cheerful remarks, and was very comforting. In the end, he felt better and she came to check on him the next day, even sharing a blueberry muffin with him. He remarked that he’d never seen her around before, and that he wouldn’t mind terribly seeing her more often.

The rest, as they say, is history.

[monkayy]

[introspectivememories]

sorry but do you ever think about the fact that the bernard we have today is a direct amalgamation of everything that happened in his past and i know that sound like such an obvious statement to say but it actually kills me to know that you can draw a direct line from who he is today all the way back to that sixteen year old boy who watched his best friend bleed out. like it is the defining moment in his life. it fundamentally shaped who he is and the person he's become. he is the bernard we know and love not despite the grieves shooting but because of it. because the gangs all got together and shot up his school. because tim walked out of that room with nothing but a baseball bat. because his darla got shot. because he watched her gasp and cry as she died. because he watched the blood coagulate around the wound. because he sat there and held her hand as her life drained out of her. because he walked into school that day with a joke he knew would make her laugh and her nose would scrunch up and she'd snort a little and tim would roll his eyes at him and call him ridiculous and instead he walked out with a bloody white shirt, blood under his fingernails, and two friends less. because, even now, almost half a decade out from the shooting, he thinks that if he closes his eyes, he will always be that stupid, scared little sixteen year old, holding the cooling body of dead best friend.

[akiacia]

the sun shines after every storm (like clockwork, hope, and maybe fate too)

[clambuoyance]

[DC] doodled these two a lot this week

[chessb0r3d]

i cracked the code.

[imperfectcourt]

Omg that last post is making me think of Neil and Andrew actually having to get their autograph signatures just right

Kevin: you can't just sign every piece of fan merchandise the same way you sign a check >:c what if someone uses it to steal your identity

Neil to Kevin: They can fucking try. Can you imagine Brownings face if someone did?

Neil to Andrew later: I have an identity to steal 🥹

[sweepingboy]

sweeping general

[theloveinc]

I always think it's a little surprising, irritating, endearing, something when big, tough men find solace in being gentle with their daughters.

There's reason to do tough things with them, too, to make sure they grow up strong and independent, but I think of a man like Simon "Ghost" Riley, who spent a huge percentage of his life being beaten down consistently by almost all the men who were around him.

And sure, he trusts the men in his task force with his life now, no question about it, but... I think the sudden calm he experiences when he starts to raise a daughter is beyond strange for him, but also weirdly... healing, too. Enjoyable.

That's not to say he doesn't, and hasn't, enjoyed the boyish things in life, the watching sports, the playing in the dirt, the pretending to hold guns part of growing up... but he finds himself sitting through your daughter's ballet class, overwhelmed by the calm that surrounds him, actually able to focus on the intensity of her pliers, her releves, the way her pink skirt ripples when she leaps into a sauter.

It's a new realization, a new kind of war (between him and learning how to be a parent), but it's one that doesn't revolve around the consistent anxiety that warps his stomach when he watches boys, little or not, teeter the line between roughhousing and fighting, picking on one another for shedding accidental tears that, really, cause no harm.

With your daughter, he's set in charge of watching her play with her friends and finds there is no lump in his stomach when she giggles with them, no dark possibility drifting in the back of his mind that she'll reach out and get her arm broken by someone she trusts--the fights she fights with her peers all between the characters they play and not between their fists, their games of laughter and drama and screaming but not of raging violence.

There's people who ask him, people who joke, wouldn't a man like him prefer a son? He must've been so disappointed... Yet, Simon still has yet to think of the best way to tell them that he honestly enjoys having a daughter a little bit more, that she runs to him and not for a second is he afraid she's hiding a snake up her sleeve, because she's only ever greeted him with flowers.

[dykedvonte]

One of my mutuals opinions is the "bro code" thing, that Curly is one of those guys who wouldn't care about the victim because the perpetrator is his friend and I'm really banging my head on the wall like that other anon. I've only played through the game once but Curly's behaviour/reactions etc read completely different from the "bro code" thing and I have to wonder if my mutual and I even played the same game.. like the constant digs at him from Jimmy, his body language in his face reveal and so on like you mentioned in your post. While this game is a little different obviously, it kind of reminded of a point in Alice Madness Returns that makes it very clear that Alice's pain blinded her to the abuse of the other children and her failure to act earlier because of it. Curly is guilty of a similar inaction but it doesn't change the fact he was a victim of Jimmy too. I don't think I can look at it any other way because both of these games have really stuck with me.

I genuinely think it really is the idea that people want a simple easy to blame problem and the idea that the only relatable victims of abuse are those that "surpass" it or do a lot to help others. When it comes to victims, especially those that don't fit the typical demographics, who either accidently perpetuate it, enable it or aren't ideal in some way shape or form, people jump to ignore what they went through as it's easier than dealing with those conflicting sentiments.

The bro-code conversation in Mouthwashing stems from a concept I generally dislike that there had to be something about Curly that made him meet or keep being friends with someone like Jimmy. I think people genuinely underestimate how many like decent and good people just know an asshole or are friends with someone who is really bad outside of their view/established dynamics. The game makes it clear none of the inaction against Jimmy is because of a lack of care, it is a lack of understanding from the privaleged postions they have as men to not have to worry about what Anya does/went through and the type of extremes men like Jimmy will go through to cover it up. They are all too preoccupied in their own strifes.

Another thing I see being oversaturated the idea that you have to be a freak, misanthrope or have a disorder to do the thing Jimmy does. The game is an escalation, it's a spiral that I don't see people comment on that Jimmy was not likely having the mood swings and episodes of rage/frustration we were seeing in the game. This is after they all start experiencing the worst moments in their lives that he got THAT openly bad. Of course, this is just my interpretation but much like in real life, people that go to extremes like that usually live mundane lives. It's a pressure cooker affect to where the stress made them pop. It's self inflicted but still the case.

I really think people need to be more willing to acknowledge that not everything needs to be an extreme or in black and white or easy to understand. It doesn't need to be happy or have an answer or solution, especially in the cases where the abused sadly helps perpetuate what they experience. It's not he should've known better from experience or shouldn't he have known what could've happened because victims tend to not like to think in matters of the worst. Not to mention, especially in cases of abuse where it feels so personally directed that you don't expect to happen to someone else.

[mamawasatesttube]

one thing about cassandra cain is that you Know she's susceptible to every deez nuts joke ever. she can tell from someone's body language there's a punch line coming but she has no idea what it is. shes hanging out with kon and he's like btw have you ever tried sugondese? and she's like . sugondese? and kon goes SUGONDESE NUTS LMAOOO GOTTEM and cass just stares at him for a minute and then honest to god loses her shit

[stagefoureddiediaz]

23 years!! So Eddie hasn’t been to confession since he was around 10?!

Well if that isn’t interesting!!! That feels so pointed because that is a very young age to stop going to confession - unless you’ve started to realise you’re different - that the church as been teaching you the things you’re feeling and realising about yourself are not ok according to their teachings and beliefs and the best and easiest way to avoid religious wrath, not look at yourself too closely and bury your feelings is to just stop going to confession (assuming he was still going to church with his parents as I can’t imagine they’d not have him go to church every Sunday at 10!)

[hylialeia]

you don't get it. she loved him once. she didn't have a maester, she had a brother. he sold their mother's crown to keep them fed. he said Dany, please. she loved him, once.