#i love them sm ur honour

[clouduyu]

they overslept

[kindwhispers]

I always think about Inuyasha’s process of healing & how far he has come from initially being at sea with his lingering grief & sorrow & guilt from Kikyo’s demise, convinced he was undeserving of a smidge of hope nor to be in the great hands of Kagome’s heart as he needs to repay Kikyo with his life— even though he has started to find peace through Kagome’s presence. Like, “Kagome was born so I could meet her and I was born for her” was insane. He is responding to Kagome’s resolve in 176 and acknowledging when she said even though she is Kikyo’s reincarnation she is her own person & owns her heart.

Inuyasha has always known he had to settle his own pain first so he could finally face his love for Kagome… from “I am not supposed to be happy and have fun” to Kagome taught me to live around it & learn I can be loved & I can love in so many ways and forms by & with the people I hold dear and Kagome held his hand through it all…

Rumi was right, the wound (Inuyasha’s pain) is the place where the Light (Kagome) enters you.

[penguingardenfan]

this moment was everything to me

[sidxreus]

a little edit i made for aurora and a.starion ( @divinelght and i cry over this ship every day askljddsfjj) ;-;

[gumbootillustrations]

REALLLLLL

in my verion, vylad never shows emotions like ever, he is always stone faced until blaze does something stupid which is often. Very often

nothing can make vylad mad like blaze can

the ref

[darththrog]

jadon was the only person to stay in the pitch while Marco made his lap of honour he really is his son 😭

[stregoniconiconii]

thinking about Robin trying check on Steve when the guards threw her in the room with him in season 3 and then her calling for Steve when the vines got her in season 4

punching the wall rn those are some insane moments also "don't touch him"

[thelovelybitten]

just incase the stendy nation needed some fuel- I give u my master playlist <3 all the songs are so them idk what else to tell u

[brother-genitivi]

13, 14 and 17 for Destian please!

13 was answered here!

14. Do they enjoy PDA, or are they more private with affection?

Both of them are more private with it. Likely the most you'll see them do in public is link pinkies as they walk, quick kisses, whispering things to each other and giggling at things no one else is privy to. Though, if Destan is trying to piss people off, she'll sit in his lap and drape her arms around the back of his neck, all the while glaring daggers at those who pass by.

17. How well do they communicate? Are they open with their feelings/thoughts or more reserved? Why?

Sebastian is very open. In contrast, Destan is very good at seemingly saying a lot whilst giving away very little. She thinks she'll get hurt less that way. Meanwhile, Sebastian thinks he has nothing to lose by being honest. They do communicate well. They always make sure they understand one another, and reframe what they're saying if they don't.

[maplesyrupsainz]

˖⁺｡˚⋆˙lucky charm | LH44˖⁺｡˚⋆˙

pairing: lewis hamilton x fem y/n reader (she/her)

genre: social media au, age gap

warnings: age gap, brief mention of sex but barely

summary: in which you find love on your travels

a/n: me when i finally get a lewis request 💃💃💃

request!!!: Lewis age gap insta au with Cindy kimberly face claim please

my masterlist

fc: cindy kimberly

instagram ->

carmenmmundt 📍 rome

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carmenmmundt when in rome... 🇮🇹

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user7 perhaps…

yourusername 📍 rome

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user18 OMGGGG

user19 he loves her your honour

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user21 guys.....how old is she lol

user22 didnt even think about this

user23 she's in her 20s i fear

user24 …no comment

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lewishamilton 🤷‍♀️ call me old fashioned

user25 yea old fashioned coz she's like 10 yrs younger than him 😂😂😂

user26 💀 violation

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lewishamilton 📍 budapest

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lewishamilton back up on the podium, what a weekend!

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THE END 💙

[scoopstrooptm]

@gunspluraltm sent: “Hey.. Robin. Are you busy tonight?” Who was she kidding of course Robin wasn’t busy tonight, but she wanted to play it safe. What with all of their friend group who knows who would steal her away for her special day. It was just a matter of being first - or at least trying to be first. “I’m wondering if you’d like to go to a movie tonight. Just you and me - no one else. Like of course obviously to everyone else we’d be going as friends but- for us, for you and me. I wanted to treat you for your birthday but as my- uh-“ the hesitation isn’t shame for Nancy, no, it was more or less how her head was still reeling from the most recent development in their relationship together. And she bites her lip before she slightly squints at Robin - unamused at the trip over her own words before she steps forward. A slow movement before she lifts her head and veeery gently pecks a kiss on her cheek. Then Nancy can’t help the sheepish smile. “That…” and before Robin can respond her brow twitches before she meets her eye again. “Oh- and .. Happy Birthday… yeah..”

       Even just on its own, hanging out with Nancy Wheeler was a strange turn of events that Robin was trying to get used to. But with the... unexpected way that things had developed between them as of late, Robin still felt like maybe she was going to wake up any minute and discover that it — this, them — was just a dream. And yet even if she pinched herself right now, stood just outside of her front door, Robin would find that she'd still be in this spot right now, perfectly awake. Perfectly sane.

       Except she wasn't. Not on the inside. Not about any of it, and certainly not right now.

       “ Oh, uh, no, I'm not... I'm not busy. ” Steve couldn't get the day off at Family Video to take her out somewhere tonight, so he'd already promised that they'd make up for it at the weekend ( besides, shit, she still needed to tell him about this ), and... and who else would want to take her out somewhere on her birthday? Her parents, sure, but that wasn't the same as going out with her girlfriend. And just as that word fizzed and bounced off of the receptors in her brain, Nancy leaned in for a kiss on Robin's cheek.

       While her brain may have gone into meltdown at that very moment, Robin still smiled a little at the way that Nancy — brilliant, determined, fearless Nancy Wheeler — was stumbling over her words. She reached out for the other girl's hand, giving it a gentle, but comforting squeeze. “ No, I get you. Friends at the movie theater. That...” She trailed off with a knowing glance. “ Later on. ” You couldn't be too careful in Hawkins, after all. One day she'd be free of it. Hopefully with Nancy and Steve in tow. She smiled again. “ Thanks, Nance.”

[n0bluev]

The night sky can only be overshadowed by a star (its star.). A star of all things, the one thing that cannot be allowed to see the night of the sky, angled to be hidden away behind dawn and dusk. The night leaves quietly (but is cursed to come back ; avoiding is just like following when an orbit is shared.)

A star can only go off explosively, spectacularly. (Then, collapsed in on itself, away from the world to see (finally part of the shadow the night cast) it seems the bare core is at peace with never bringing day back : darkness soothes.)

Gojo is like a star - bright, hot, shining. Geto is like the night sky - mysterious, deep, endless.

[love-belle]

saw ur mom at the grocery store !!!

*ੈ✩‧₊˚ in which their post break-up era is them hanging out with each other's families.

or

for when you find out that your second family is actually your ex's family. ˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚

social media au // charles leclerc x fem!reader

sequel - well, i'm still in love with you ·˚ ༘

warnings - language

author's note - hello!!!! a short one but i hope u like it <3 thank u sm for reading i love you <3

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arthur_leclerc pineapple is mad. i repeat pineapple is mad

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username no bc all jokes aside i wonder how y/n and charles must be feeling with yk, both of them being close to each other's families and friends like

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charles_leclerc vacation with ex in-laws ❤️

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username no bc he got the grandparents too

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[to-thelakes]

like momma (dad!carmy x reader)

prompt; day eight, 'autumn leaves'

content warning(s); pre-established relationship, major fluff, reader has a kid with carmy (called charlotte)

summary; your daughter, charlotte, desperately wants a pretty leaf to display in her room.

word count; 683

promptober masterlist

the wonderful sonia ( @notsonian ) and her dad!carmy fics (i love them sm) inspired this little work, but i really just wanted a cute little fluff of carmy and his little girl hence this :) i love them ur honour (also this is very unedited, it's bedtime for ruby)

You weren’t sure how you ended up on a walk with Carmy and Charlotte but when Charlotte had run up to you already tucked up in her winter jacket with a grin on her little face, you couldn’t deny going for an autumn walk with them.

Carmy had made a comment that morning - at breakfast - about the autumn leaves coming out and Charlotte had decided it was her mission to get one to display in her bedroom. You were never going to stamp out her curiosity and Carmy was nothing if not an enabler of your daughter’s antics.

So, as she ran around the park deciding what leaf would be the best to display, you were sitting on a bench a little away. You were watching Carmy as he herded her around and every time she held up a leaf, he gave his opinion like it was the most important thing in the world.

There was a child-like nature to how he acted in moments like this. The sparkle in his eye and the grin on his lips when he looked at your daughter made your heart swell. You loved seeing him so happy.

And when Charlotte ran up to him with a deep red leaf, exclaiming that ‘it like mamma’s car’ he was nodding along and holding it up in the late afternoon sun. He inspected it before nodding, agreeing with her.

Charlotte had Carmy’s eyes and when they both looked at you, you felt like you were seeing double. Even though Charlotte had got most of her features from you, her eyes were so distinct that you sometimes had to take a moment. Charlotte was then running up to you with her leaf in hand and climbing up onto the bench to sit herself in your lap. She held the leaf up in your face.

“Look momma,” She said as she waved it in front of you. Carmy sat down beside you.

“Think this will look good in your room, Honey?” Carmy asked Charlotte as she settled in your lap. She stared at the leaf and tilted her head before she nodded her head, turning to look up at you.

“Do you like it?” She asked. You nodded your head and wrapped an arm around her to tug her into you.

“I think it’s very pretty, Lottie. But do you like it? You can pick any leaf, don’t just have to pick this one because it reminds you of mommy,” You responded, brushing her hair out of her face as you looked into her eyes. Charlotte took a moment, staring at the leaf before she looked at you.

“No, I want it,” She said firmly. You nodded and pulled the hat down on her head. Her nose was running but before you could pull a tissue out, Carmy was already lifting Lottie’s chin up and gently wiping the snot away with a tissue of his own.

“Just wiping away the snot from your nose, Honey. Better?” He asked as he pulled the tissue away. He bundled it up and put it in his pocket to discard when you all got home. Charlotte nodded.

“Can I play for a bit longer?” Charlotte asked, looking between the two of you. You nodded.

“Course you can, baby,” You responded, pressing a kiss to her hatted head. Charlotte grinned and slipped off your lap to the floor. She then rushed off into the leaves while you and Carmy stayed at the bench. You couldn’t help the grin on her face as she bounded around, throwing leaves up into the air around her. She seemed so happy and that’s all you had ever wanted.

“You cold?” Carmy asked. You nodded, unable to help the redness of your nose and the way you were shivering a little. He wrapped an arm around your waist and pulled you into his side, “Can’t have momma be cold, come here,” He insisted. You sighed and rested your head against his side. With a soft sigh, you curled into his side a little, sharing his body heat and you felt content.

[darththrog]

Ratleti scored 2 goals but one was from our own and the other was practically a deflection so scientifically speaking we did run it back

[gay-dorito-dust]

hi😼

so like y’know how bi han is like a rlly big meanie (i love him (๑╹ω╹๑ ) ) soooo can i pls request a bi han hurt/no comfort fic

like imagine the IMMENSE guilt he feels after something bad happens to reader like i live for that.

but please don’t feel obligated to do this request if u r not comfy!! thank u so much i love ur writing sm^^

Bi-Han is a big meanie for sure but then tell me why are his tiddies screaming at me to lay my head on them? Or squeeze them wait- also sorry if this is shit.

Part 2

Bi-Han had always made it apparent to accompany you on missions, regardless of it’s scale and his full confidence in your abilities to keeping yourself safe, seeing as he took it upon himself to train you in the most efficient methods he knew. However there was this constant need that ate away at the back of this mind, telling him that he needed to stay nearby in the instance where you would have him to fall back on to make up for your shortcomings in battle. Bi-Han had promised you this and you knew that he’d always honoured his word, especially more so with you and yet he had felt that in that very moment he had failed you within that regard as he sat himself down by your bedside.

His hand immediately finding your own, holding onto it as though you were going to slip through his grasp. He was fearful that no matter how hard he tried in keeping you close and relatively unharmed, you would inevitably slip through his grasp regardless of his efforts. Bi-Han feared that he was being shown how unfit he was to being your protector by fate itself. Bi-Han was stood outside at the time, awaiting patiently for your return to Lin Kuei with news of a successful mission upon your lips and a sparkle in your eyes, but something told him that it wasn’t going to be a joyous reunion and instead a somber one, and yet he pushed it aside for he had waited long enough for you to come home to suddenly become speculative of your condition.

‘I should’ve been there.’ Bi-Han said to no one in particular. ‘Had I knew beforehand of how bad things had gotten, I could’ve been there to prevent you from ending up in the medbay, where I await for you to awake.’ He adds on, feeling immense guilt, immense shame towards himself for your current predicament, as though he was personally to blame for you fighting for your life.

‘How were you meant to know brother?’ Kuai Liang had said from the doorway, unable to see such heartbreak upon Bi-Han’s face. Many had said that his brothers’ heart was encased in ice but Kuai Liang was lucky enough to say that wasn’t true when you came into his life, you had all but melted the ice that had once entrapped Bi-Han’s heart and nurtured it to embrace the warmth, and for that Kuai Liang was eternally grateful to you for being there for his brother when he couldn’t. ‘How were you meant to know this would happen and even if you did, how would you have been able to prevent it from happing.’ Kuai Liang then gestured to your heavily injured state.

Your wounds had mainly consisted of several lacerations, stab wounds and many other serious afflictions that when the medics had seen to you, they called it a miracle that you were still somehow alive. ‘The gods have their eye on this one, Grandmaster.’ One of the had told Bi-Han, who had been watching over the entire procedure with a watchful eye. ‘Had they been brought to us a fraction of a second later,’ they paused briefly as though to let the severity of the situation sink in, ‘we wouldn’t have been able to save them. We were extremely lucky that fate was on our side this day.’ Bi-Han had held his tongue upon hearing that you had been so close to death, instead bringing himself to focus on the fact that you had been brought back to the Lin Kuei just in time; For he wouldn’t know what he would do had you been just that fraction of a second late.

‘I could’ve saved them Kuai Liang!’ Bi-Han snapped, glaring at his brother and holding his gaze before looking back towards you where his eyes became warm. ‘I could’ve saved them.’ He said for a second time but it came out a lot more sombre, mournful even as he squeezed your hand, raising it raised to his masked lips before resting his forehead against it, his eyes clamped shut as he prayed that he would awake from this seemingly never ending nightmare, hoping to seeing you free of injuries and accompanied with a face full of life.

‘Get some sleep brother, they’ll want you at full health for when they awake.’ Kuai Liang said almost pleadingly but he knew Bi-Han was way beyond reasoning with now that the one person who could talk him out of his self destructive tendencies was laid out on the bed before him, unable to speak sense into him and to go to bed.

‘No. I must stay here, stay with them until they awake.’ Bi-Han stared firmly, keeping his emotions clearly concealed under a stone cold demeanour. ‘I must do better. I almost lost them today and I must.do.better. No.’ Bi-Han clenched the fist that rested in his lap, blunt nails digging into his palm so that he may feel something, anything instead of the numbing sensation that had already begun to spread throughout his chest, ‘I need to do better. So until then, my eyes don’t deserve to rest while they’re consenting fighting for the chance to open theirs.’