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#goodnight <333#new will imagine tomorrow or the next day i think#also if people wanted to send reqs iād appreciate that#iāve only ever gotten like 3 requests#i want more please š š š#em needs to shush sometimes
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Yeah, I don't know about you, Fidds, but I'd fold at this š
Previous!!
Next!!
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#no Stan don't use the puppy dog eyes Fidds won't be able to say no!!!#yeah I don't know where this is going but i made more lol#should i keep going i actually don't know#are you guys liking this PLEASE ANSWER ME šš#stan has hit the luck goldmine in his lifetime of the exact opposite#the last time he was this lucky he was born and even he's not too sure how lucky that actually was š#Fiddleford does NOT want to rebuild that portal guys š#i have a feeling that he might anyway though š¤šāāļø#cole's art#art#gravity falls#grunkle stan#stanley pines#gravity falls comic#yeah cause i am drawing comics now#that small drawing i did as a joke has really run away from me..#fiddleford hadron mcgucket#fiddleford mcgucket#fiddlestan#vampire fiddleford#werewolf stan pines#werewolf stan#gravity falls halloween au#i love you guys that followed me for this š#why is stan spilling his guts about pushing his brother into an interdemensional portal to the first shmuck that walks by??#well..... idk he sees Fidds and hears that he knows Ford and he sees him as Ford's friend and he thinks oh man he deserves to know#mullet stan
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"Well, this is a bad idea," Tim says, hands on his hips as he surveys the mess theyāve made in the cave.
"Nah," Danny replies, twirling his screwdriver in the air in what is probably meant to be an impressive trick to inspire confidence, except he fumbles it and it clangs to the floor loudly, "we good. If a younger version of myself hasn't come forward in time to stop me, how bad can it be?"
"Shouldn't it be the other way round?"
"What?"
"Normally, it's an older version of yourself going backwards in time to stop you, right?"
"Not in my experience."
Danny's grin is impossibly feral and a shiver runs up Tim's spine.
"This is definitely a bad idea."
#dpxdc#dcxdp#batpham#dead tired#dead tired ship#there is a more expanded upon version of this with actual backstory and context rotting in the recesses of my brain#but its only half on paper and the conversation made me laugh so#here: have some feral danny leading tim down a path to disaster#danny: this is going to go so well! i have such a good feeling about this!!#tim: this is going to go so poorly. i have such a bad feeling about this.#danny: š„ŗššš#tim: i never said we werenāt doing it. i just reserve the right to tell you i told you so when it inevitably goes wrong#danny: leave that to younger me - he always makes very valid points in the form of fists to the face!#tim: can you stop talking please this is making me want to do it less#danny: no.
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Classic Zelda games: "So Link doesn't talk because he's meant to resemble you the player š„°"
Echoes of Wisdom: "Link doesn't talk because his ability to speak was physically taken from him by a dark force"
(edit: since I need people to understand Link can't talk at all. It was forced out of him. It's not a choice. That part of him was consumed)
#there's something genuinely so terrifying about suddenly not being able to talk anymore no matter how hard you tried#im still in the process of playing the game so no further spoilers#i just wanted to ramble about this#we're actually getting more lore on link and i think its so cool#legend of zelda echoes of wisdom#echoes of wisdom#spoilers#echoes of wisdom spoilers#eow spoilers#im going to try not rambling too much about the game until i complete it or in a month or so#legend of zelda#scamperin shroom spouts nonsense#the angst potential is so real. i also got some wholesome headcanons when i was playing already#i dont draw enough zelda content and im sorry for that. im one of the biggest zelda fans. please believe me š#eow link is like ariel š
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āØāļø goddess āļøāØ
Cirrus my love~
#This is half photo manip cause Iām eternally lazy with backgrounds#but I started this over vacation and wanted it out of the wips#cirrus is such a babe#I should really draw her more#tumblr please donāt nuke me for classical artistic nudity š#the band ghost#my art#nameless ghouls#cirrus ghoulette#nameless ghoulettes#ghost band
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Some Miles Upshur fanarts that I made in 2020-2021
#miles upshur#outlast#red barrels#my art#fanart#Was working on that one meme with Miles and Rayman and realized I haven't posted more of my boy in this blog yet so here it is š#Here's for more Miles breadcrumbs next year š#Please RB I miss my boy so much#I just want to see my undead reporter again-#Also in case somebody knows identity v and was wondering why Miles is wearing grave keeper's outfit#It's because I saw an artist drew Andrew in Miles clothes and pretend that it's him instead to make it less scary when playing outlast#And I thought a clothes swap of Miles wearing Andrew's outfit would be cute haha#I DO have outlast x idv ideas rotting at the back of my head but someday#maybe someday I'll be crazy enough to draw it
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@nowfallc PICTURE!! FOR YOU!! PLEASE TAKE IT!! <3
#agh Iām so so nervous but Iām big and strong and you all agree with me <3#plus itās nearly 6 in the morning and I pulled an all nighter to finish this. which Iām sure is not helping my stress levels At All!#ALSO!#Iām gonna do another one!#you will NEVER know which picture so get fuckin ready HELLLLLLLLL yeah!!!#<- as for those of you who were Present when I said which picture I was gonna do. ummmmm. shut up! say nothing!!#ALSOā¦..2!!#wanted to share how I did the scuff marks cuz I felt like it. and also I said I was gonna do it. anyway!#what you wanna do is get a real textured brush. ideally something pencil adjacent#and a mid grey color#and with LIGHT pressure you follow the edges of whatever metal bit youāre rendering#you can go a little heavier on the corners if you desire#from the corners you take a smudge tool and gently blend in the opposite direction of the corner if that makes sense#and then take an eraser (IDEALLY one thatās the same as your rendering brush)#and gently erase back towards the corner. but with a much smaller brush size#add little scratches and pick marks as you please#and thatās it#you know maybe this would make more sense with an actual diagram Iām so so bad at explaining stuff agh#Iām gonna shut the hell up now š#trigun#nicholas d. wolfwood#trigun stampede#trigun fanart
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I still think about how Leoās ideal day out for the famās venture into the Hidden City was basically just an effort to get some rest and relaxation because boy does he never get that ever.
#rottmnt#rottmnt leo#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#Leo is that one kid whoās like yeah dude Iām chill Iām laidback#and on the inside heās just in a constant fetal position rocking back and forth#at least the others got a good amount of time spent in Tahiti but Leoās out here like please god just one spa day ššš#no but tbh? itās genuinely a great look at Leoās character that he wants to go to a spa to basically just sleep in the sun#itās not bombastic or flashy or anything he legit just wants a good place to get proper rest and care#that hair spa can catch these hands LET MY BOY HAVE HIS SPA DAY šŖ#HONESTLY EACH PERSONāS CHOICE OF WHERE THEY WENT FOR THEIR DAY OUT SAYS A LOT#like raph wants to emulate who he perceives as those in justice in a desire to become more like the hero he so desperately wants to be#leo goes off on his own in order to let his guard down and actually rest for more than a lackadaisical facade#donnie goes with april not only to salvage his pride and condemn magic but also to hold onto his self worth and genuinely help out#and mikey thrives in family and specifically the harmony within family and how that is portrayed through the act of simply being together#in this essay I will-
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If nautical nonsense be something you wish š¶
#my quest to find a tub big enough to fit at least most of me comfortably has finally borne fruit š#I just think we as a society need more bathtubs designed to accommodate hot girl baths instead of like just bathing kids#please ignore all the schmutz in the bath I had to jump in a lake to help my friend when his kayak flipped over#damn lake gunk got all up in my hair and didnāt want to come out in the shower I guess š#gpoy#gpoyb#I took more pics ft. my ass but they didnāt fit the theme so theyāre going str8 into the vault for nowā¦
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People who enjoy neighbourly shenanigans on Hermitcraft! May I recommend False and Ren:
Theyāve got lore (Demise 2, Minister stuff, Big T), infrastructure (rivers and helping out with each otherās bases), lots of pranks and shenanigans (both pranking each other and other hermits)
They twaddle and hang out at each otherās bases so much. Falseās second channel FalseLive is filled with vods of her and Ren just hanging out. Like thereās sooo much stuff of them to binge (and more to come because they will inevitably collab again)
They pretty much end up near each other at some point in every season so theyāre a reliable duo if you get invested in them. They were neighbours in HC6, started out neighbours in HC9 then did Blue River Raceway with Etho, and theyāre sticking close by each other in HC10
All their storylines are so wholesome and cute :3 The famous MCC9 Blue Bats (which is their favourite shared moment), Ren getting the final kill in Demise 2 for False, Ren saying he cannot think of a more worthy winner for BRR, Falseās Minister of Transport sign being the only one that remained after the Ren explosion slash execution, Ren giving False a multipass to her base, and on it goes
Shared motifs: winning things, races, crowns / royalty stuff, rivers / ravines (HC6 ravine neighbours, HC9 river raceway, HC10 Big Business rivers), flowers (Ren seems to love throwing flowers at False? Like that time he prank spammed her base with flowers. And of course gifting False her fav Minecraft flower for her birthday :3)
Ren hasnāt been in a MCC team with False after 2021 but MCC has always been their thing (Ren saying heāll only play when on a team with False, False saying she misses Ren and going āwhereās my teammate š„ŗā)
Sometimes in the middle of their episodes, theyāll have a short segment of them pranking the otherās base. Thereās no explanation or connection. It is what it is.
So yeah theyāre really funny and sweet together :3 I also like how they work on builds and infrastructure together, itās satisfying watching them come up something on the fly and then they somehow make their madness into reality
#hermitcraft#this is propaganda š you want to watch them so bad#falsesymmetry#rendog#weāre losing the ancient texts (mcc9 blue bats)#i donāt want them to get like zero recognition in another duo poll when they in fact do a lot of stuff together#please join the madness with us like none of us fans are normal because every now and then we get something even more insane#twitter imploding over grumbo divorce meanwhile ren literally gave false access to his whole base
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DANIEL RICCIARDO | Pre-Race, Mexico City GP 2023
#daniel ricciardo#mine#m:gifs#dan#mexico23#after emma reblogged the video i went into my archive and realized there were no gifs of this moment????#(or at least no gifs by any creators that i would want to reblog today <3)#so look at me firing up photoshop for the first time in who knows how long!#anyways more of this please. so so so much more š
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would be funny, if Nina had a gf, and due to Johan's tendency to see him and nina as the same, he'd drop by casually, disguised or not, while nina is away. What's wrong? Nina is him and he's Nina! There's no complications with kissing him! You're basically kissing his sister! (Eaten ask)
your brain anon...........like EXACTLY. exactly. God this is sooo hot and weird which is johan's brand. He is karl marxing the fuck out of his sister's girlfriend. What do you mean "meet my girlfriend"? You mean meet OUR girlfriend. right? (tw: nonconsensual kissing, yandere)
Could you imagine bidding your girlfriend, Nina, goodbye after she spent the whole evening at your place? You whine and beg her to stay longer, clinging onto her, but she rolls her eyes playfully and insists she has to go.
She gives you a loving parting kiss on your lips, then plants even moreā on your nose, cheeks, and finally your foreheadā before she reluctantly pulls away. Any more, she jests, and she wonāt be able to leave.
"You know I hate leaving you like this," she laughs softly. "But don't worry, I'll make up for today once my exams are over. Okay?"
She gives you one last final kiss before finally leaving, waving at you as she walks down the street.
You sigh and close the door, already missing her.
You really love Nina, but sometimes it feels like she doesnāt have much time for you. You understand she has her exams, a part-time job, and aikido training, which doesnāt really leave much left for you. Still, you canāt help but feel a bit greedy, wishing sheād at least dedicate a part of her to you. You're her girlfriend, after all.
You sigh one last time. No use.
Sheās already spread too thin, and you know if you tell her your concern, sheāll worry and try to double her efforts to make time for you. No way in hell are you going to give her any more stress in her life. Although today was just half a day together, you're grateful. Even if it left you unbelievably craving, aching for moreā¦
You hear a soft knock on your door. Is it Nina? Did she forget something? Oh, your prayers have been answered. You just wanted one more second with her. You open the door immediately, an excited smile on your face.
"What did you forget this ti-"
"Missing me already?"
You freeze, standing dumbfounded. In front of you is not, in fact, your girlfriend, but a tall, blonde man smiling softly at you.
"I'mā¦ I'm sorry. I don'tā Do I know you?" you ask, trying to stay cool. He must have the wrong house to ask something like that so proudly. Youāve never met him before.
His smile doesnāt falter at your question. He continues looking at you, his eye contact unwavering.
"You do." he answers, calmly leaving no explanation, still smiling softly.
Youāre getting nervous. He keeps staring and smiling at you. You try to get a good look at him. Is he a mutual friend? An old classmate? A person you pissed off once? Youāre at a blank. Thoughā¦ the more you look at him, the more you notice how similar he looks toā¦ to yourā¦ what the hell.
Why does he... look... a bit like Nina?
No. You chalk it off. He just has blonde hair and blue eyes, and the fact youāre missing your girlfriend terribly doesnāt help. But even then, their facial features strike a matching resemblance. Itās a bit uncanny.
You let out a nervous laugh and smile sheepishly at him. "Look, Iām really racking my brain here. Have we met before? Iām really sorry if I canāt recallā¦"
You give him his cue to introduce himself, to remind you who he is, to be offended at you forgettingāanything! Heās just standing there, staring down with that same smile. Your eyes dart around, seeing if this is a prank. A small uneasy pit forms in your stomach.
A beat passes by. You still wait for his reply.
You can't help but start feeling creeped out. Stupid. Always ask whoās there before opening the door. Just ask him what he wants with you and get it out of the way.
"Hey uh, I-"
He kisses you, his lips softly crashing against yours, hands gently cradling the back of your neck. Heās not forceful, but his hold is steady. You squirm and try to break free, but he quickly shushes you and holds you closer, entrapping your lips in another long kiss.
You think of quickly think of biting him, but he gently pulls away right before you can go through with the thought. His hands come up to tenderly cup your face, his thumb softly brushing against your cheek as he looks at you.
Your vision begins to blur from your tears, your legs wobbling from the fear of the situation.
"I don't know you!" you practically scream out. Your desperation kicks in as you continue to panic. "P-Please. please. please. I'm sorry. I don't know you. I don'tā¦ I don'tā¦ pleaseā¦ I-."
You cry softly, pleading with him. He just continues cradling your face in his hands, looking at you with that godawful eerie smile. He leans back in, slowly murmuring,
"Shhā¦"
He continues peppering kisses all over your wet cheeks. "You do know me," he whispers, kissing your nose. "And you know I need to make it up to you," he says, kissing your forehead. He hums softly and leaves another final chaste kiss on your lips.
"And you know I hate leaving you like this."
#WAHHHHHHHH EVERYBODY SAY THANK YOU ANON FOR THE FOOD š#LIKE ANON U GET ME. THIS SHIT HAS BEEN VIBRATING IN MY MIND FOR SO LONG. I AM BARK BARK BARKING#comrade johan#HAHAHHAAH#I want to expand on sooooo much more of this it's insane. I lobe him. I want to lock him out the door while it's raining and just watch him#To think i was actually going to make this wholesome and comedic and have nina walk in accidentally.#or have her introduce you to him and the first thing he does is kiss you on da lips.#either way she is there the whole time like >:O!!!! what the FUCK johan!#anyways first attempt at fic writing.....pls be kind ;3;#anon please come back we need more ššš we love it.#yandere johan x reader#johan liebert x reader#nina fortner x reader#johan x reader#anna liebert x reader#yandere johan liebert x reader#yandere johan liebert#yandere johan#c.nina fortner#c.johan liebert#f.monster
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"it's just a one off" "i'm not asking you to join us again"
LIAR. anthony lockwood, i can practically see it in your eyes.
tell me that wasn't him trying to ask her to come back!!!! bc it totally was!!!!!
#maybe i'm delusional#or maybe not#who knows#i hope lucy will have rejoined l&co by the end of the book#no spoilers though please šš#i'm literally on chapter 6 and its so good#but i'm trying to savour it bc after this i only have one more book#and then what am i going to do with my life#lockwood & co#lockwood and co#lucy carlyle#anthony lockwood#locklyle#l&co#also i miss george and his sarcasm already like please i want it back#their dynamic is so <33333#and george missing lucy omg#actually not okay#george karim#george cubbins#lockwood and lucy#anthony and lucy
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Your Favourite Author's Favourite Fic
in no way is this me sneakily trying to get fic recs out of people, but here's my new tag game!
Rules! When tagged, reblog with the fic you've written that you love the most
Not the fic with the most kudos, or the most comments, or the most hits, but the fic that you're the most proud of. I'm talking about the story that kept you up at night, the one that you still think about, the one that you wish more people would read
So, it's time to show off! I strongly encourage - in fact, I demand - that you give yourself some compliments, a well-deserved pat on the back, and tell us all the reasons why it's your favourite!
Then tag five people and make them go through it, too š„°š©·
I'll tag @wolfjackle, @tourettesdog, @gilbirda, @die-erlkonigin6083, and @thewritingowl to get us started, please and thank you!!
#tag game#fic game#fanfic#ao3#fic recs#look. i've had a summer where i've not been able to catch up on anything#so this is my not so sneaky way of asking for your best reads lmao#also!!!! the fic that pops off is not necessarily the one that you think is the best!#a lot of what gets popular on ao3 is pure luck (like anything!)#and what you like the most might not be what's popular#and i would really love to give the chance for authors to showcase a fic they're proud of but might not get the most likes#or w/e idk - again i just want to read things š¤£#please link something š#also there's so many people i could have tagged up there#i decided on 5 so it would make it easier for other people to tag but like....#honestly might go back or reblog another chain of this with some more people š
#there are so many authors i love in this fandom ARHGHG you're all so talented!!!#i am incensed!! i want to tag more people!!!!#i'm coming for you fic authors#i'm gonna get ya with me tag games#anyway i'm gonna go to bed my tags are getting too rambly i am sorry#have fun!!!! thank you for playing!!!!
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Atypical Occurrence [1/?]
Happy birthday to my dear friend, @caughtintherain!! I wanted to give you some Vincent suffering to chew on for the occasion, so please take this fic (or, first part of a fic) as a gift <3
this is an OC fic -Ā hereĀ is a list of everything Iāve written for these two! chronologically, this fic takes place a month or so after the last installment leaves off :)
Summary: Vincent shows up late to a meeting. It just goes downhill from there. (ft. fake dating, the flu, a house visit)
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Vincent is late.
Yves tries not to stare at the empty seat across from him. The meetingātheir first meeting of the dayāstarted five minutes ago. If thereās anything Yves knows, itās that Vincent always comes in early.Ā
In stumbles Cara, handling a morning coffee with probably more espresso shots than anyone should have at 8am. Then Laurent, briefcase in one hand, paging through a folder of files in his other. Then Angelie, Isaac, Garrett, Ray, Sienna. Then they get started, and Yves turns his attention towards the graphs projected onscreen at the front of the room, and tries very hard not to think about Vincent.
Itās five minutes later that the door swings open, near-silent.
Siennaāwhoās presentingāstops, for a moment, to look back at Vincent from where heās standing in the doorway, which means that of course, everyone looks.
Cara turns around in her seat, raising an eyebrow. Angelie frowns at him.Ā
āSorry Iām late,ā Vincent says, quietly. āIt wonāt happen again.ā
Isaac shrugs. Angelie looks a little concerned, but she turns back to her work, anyways. Sienna resumes her presentation. All in all, itās nothingāor it should be nothing. Probably traffic, on the way here; a particularly unlucky commute. An unlikely occurrence, butāto anyone elseānot anything worth dwelling over.
It might be a sufficient explanation, if Yves didnāt know better.
Vincent takes care to close the door quietly behind him, then heads over to the only open seat, across from Yves. He unzips his briefcase, quietly, unobtrusively, and takes out his laptop. Yves tries to focus on what Sienna is sayingāsheās giving a review of a clientās current investment strategies; heād reviewed her work on this just a couple days ago.
Vincent asks good questions throughoutāhe always has a good sense of what areas still lack clarity, Yves has found. Today is no exception. He takes part in the meeting with such calculated precision that Yves almost misses it.
Almost misses: the slight stiffness to his shoulders, as if itās taking more than the usual amount of effort to keep himself upright. The way in which he clears his throat before speaking, like it might actually hurt. The way he rests his head on one hand, halfway into the meetingāas if even now, barely forty minutes into the workday, heās already exhausted.
Itās subtle enough to go unnoticed, subtle enough that Yves wonders if heās just reading too much into itāif, perhaps, Vincent is fine, after all.
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He doesnāt see Vincent again until lunch.
Or, more accurately, he doesnāt see Vincent again until heās headed down for lunch with Cara and Laurent. Vincent is already on his way out of the cafeteria, a takeout container in hand.
āYouāre not going to eat here?ā Yves asks.
Vincent doesnāt look at him. āI have some work to get done at my desk,ā he says. He clears his throat again, like itās irritating him.
āOkay,ā Yves says. Vincent turns to leave, and Yves thinks of a hundred ways in which he could possibly prolong this conversation, and then decides against it. Vincent is already so busy.
āYou look tired,ā he settles on, instead.
He expects Vincent to dismiss this, to reassure him that it isnāt true. But Vincent looks up at him at last, blinking, as if heās surprised that Yves noticed at all. His eyes are a little dark-rimmed underneath his glasses.
He doesnāt deny it, which is as much of a confirmation as Yves needs.
āThe sooner I can get this work done, the sooner I can go home,ā he says. Yves supposes he canāt argue with that.
āI guess Iāll see you around, then,ā Yves says, even though he wants to say more, even though he feels like thereās more that he should be saying. āDonāt work too hard.ā
Vincent nods, at this, and resumes walking.
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Yves is probably overthinking it. There isnāt anything concrete, really, to justify his concern.
Vincentās lateness to the meeting could just as easily be the consequence of an alarm heād forgotten to set, his exhaustion just as easily a side effectāof recent late nights in the office, of arbitrary changes to the projects heās on, of last-minute demands from clients.
The next time he sees Vincent is at the end of the work day. Yves always takes the elevators on the north end of the buildingātheyāre ones that lead directly out into the parking garage. When he gets out to the hallway, Vincent is already standing there, waiting for the elevator.
Yves watches Vincent stiffen, slightly. Watches him raise one hand up to his face to shudder into it with a harsh, āHHihHāiKKTSh-hUH!ā
A thin tremor runs through the line of his shoulders, as if heās too cold, even though the office air conditioning is no colder than usual. His hand, cupped to his face, remains there for a moment more before he lowers it.
He sniffles, then, rummaging through his pocket forāsomething. When he doesnāt find it, he just frowns a little, sniffling again.Ā
āBless you,ā Yves says.
āYves,ā Vincent says, his shoulders stiffening a little. He clears his throat, turning around so that he can address Yves properly.
Itās only a few seconds later that heās turning sharply away, tenting both hands over his nose and mouth forā
āHh-! hHiHāHIHhāDZSSschh-uhh! snf-!ā
āBless you again.āĀ
Vincent sighs. āDonāt bother.ā He really looks exhausted, Yves realizes. During their brief interaction at lunch, heād already sensed as much, but the harsh white glare of the bright corporate lighting only makes it more evident.
Vincent looks a little paler than usual, if only slightly, and thereās a slight flush that spreads itself over his cheekbones. He looksāwell, nearly as put together as always, distilled only by the slight crookedness of his tie, as if itās been on too tight; the near-invisible sheen of sweat over his forehead. The slight redness to the bridge of his nose, the slight shiver to his hand as he reaches up to adjust his collar.
Yves frowns, taking this all in. āYou look kind ofā¦ā
āTerrible?ā Vincent finishes for him.
Yves winces. ā...Well, terrible is a strong word. I was going to say, you look like you could use some sleep.ā
āIāmā¦ feeling a little off,ā Vincent says, staring straight ahead, as if itās not an admission at all. But Yves suspects, from the way he avoids eye contact, that perhaps it was something he was intending on keeping private. āYou should keep your distance.ā
The elevator dings. The sliding doors part, and he steps inside.Ā
āFirst floor?ā Yves asks, hesitating next to the panel of buttons.
āYes,ā Vincent says. Then, quietly: āThanks.ā
āYou know, now that busy season is over, the world is not going to end if you take a sick day,ā Yves tells him. āEven if you do like, twice the amount of work as everyone else on the team, if you needed to call out, Iām sure something could be arranged.ā
Vincent smiles at him, a little wryly. āI must look pretty bad if youāre saying this to me.ā
āYes, I was lying,ā Yves says. āClearly, you look terrible.ā
It isnāt true at allāeven here, even like this, Vincent doesnāt look terrible, not even in the least. But Vincent still smiles, at thisāa tired smile.
The elevator doors slide open.
āText me if you need anything,ā Yves says, impulsively. āSeriously. Tissues, soup, medicineāwhatever. Itās not far of a drive.ā
āThatās very considerate of you,ā Vincent says. āI will see you tomorrow.ā And then he steps out of the elevator, and Yves is left with an inexplicable sinking feeling in his stomach. As far as he knows, it has no place there. Obviously, Vincent can take care of himself. Obviously, Vincent can handle a cold. Yves has nothing to be concerned about.
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The next day is rainyāa constant, torrential downpour, which makes his commute to work take almost twice as long as it usually does. It wouldnāt be spring here, Yves supposes, without dreary weather like this.
Back in uni, when he rowed crew, theyād practice out for hours out in the rain. Now that he spends the majority of his day inside, he supposes he canāt complain. The shelter of the office building is a reprieve.
Vincent doesnāt show up.
āI think heās out sick,ā Cara says, when Yves asks. āYou know, itās funny. I donāt think Iāve actually seen him take a sick day before.ā
āFor how hard he works, he definitely deserves one,ā Garrett says.
āHe seemed fine yesterday, when I saw him,ā Cara says, with a shrug. āProbably came on quickly.ā Yves nods.
But that isnāt quite right, is it? Vincent hadnāt seemed fine, had he? Yves thinks back to the things heād noticedāVincent, uncharacteristically exhausted during the meeting, though it was clear heād been just as engaged as usual. Vincent, shivering in the elevator, telling Yves to keep his distance. How poorly had he been feeling already, yesterday? How poorly does he have to be feeling today to have called off of work for it?
He finds some time just before lunch to text.
Y: how are you holding up? Y: yesterdayās offer stands if you need me to bring you anything!
He doesnāt get a response from Vincent, which is a little concerning. He checks his phone halfway through lunch, and then twice more, in between his afternoon meetings, just in case heās missed a notification.
āAre you expecting a text from someone?ā Cara says, looking a little curious.
āJust a friend,ā Yves says, which is and isnāt true.
To make a pointāto Cara, and possibly to himselfāhe shuts his phone off. He very pointedly does not look at it again for the remainder of the hour.
Itās not until mid-afternoon that he finally gets a response.
V: Sorry to get back to you so late.
Yves sits upright, fumbling with his phone to get it unlocked. The text bubble pops up again, somewhat intermittently, to show that Vincent is typing.
V: If itās not too much trouble, thereās a blue folder on my desk labeled 2-A.
Yves blinks at this, a little disbelieving.
Y: youāre asking me to bring you work files? Y: arent you supposed to be resting š¤Ø Y: paid sick leave, remember? as in, leave your work at work??
V: I meant to pack them yesterday.
Y: thatās like a genie grants you 3 wishes and you ask for an extra day of assignments Y: terrible waste of a wish if you ask me
V: As a genie, youāre quite judgmental
Y: ok ok Y: as your loyal lamp dweller iāll be over around 8pm with folder 2-AĀ Y: you need anything else?Ā
V: Nothing else V: You can just leave them outside my doorĀ
A beat. Then Vincent sends:
V: Sorry to trouble you
Yves thinks of twenty responses he wants to send to that text. Then, thinking better of himself, he shuts his phone off and gets back to work.
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Itās a little past seven when he finally checks out of the office.
Outside, the rain hasnāt even begun to let upāit falls, straight and heavy, in large, globular droplets. The streets gleam with water. Yves leaves his umbrella in the trunk, tunes out everything but the static of the rainfall, and drives.
Yves has only ever been to Vincentās apartment onceāto pick him up for the New Yearsā party Margot hostedāand even then, Vincent had met him at the door. But he recognizes the unit, nonetheless.
For a moment, he considers leaving the folder of files outside of Vincentās door and taking his leave.
But itās windy, and heās afraid the papers might fly away, torn up by the biting wind, and get lost face down in a puddle somewhere, which would defeat the purpose of him coming here in the first place, and would probably also breach some employee confidentiality policy. So instead, he knocks.
Itās silent for a moment. Rain beats down on the slanted rooftops, a constant thrum.Ā
Yves is about to reach out to knock again, when the door swings open.
There stands Vincent, in a pale blue hoodie and loose-fitting pajama pants, with neat rectangular cuffs.
He looks tired. Itās the first thing Yves registersāthe unusual fatigue to his expression, which he canāt quite seem to blink away; the flush high on his cheekbones. The way he holds himself, his shoulders stiff, carefully, defensively; as if despite his exhaustion, thereās a part of him which wishes to appear presentable still.
Itās only a moment later that heās taking a halting step back, ducking into a hoodie sleeve. Yves catches the shiver of his expression, his eyebrows pulling together, before it crumples, and his head jerks forward with a harshā
āhHihhāGKkTTā! Hh-!! iHH-āDZZSCHh-uuUh!ā
The second sneeze sounds louder and harsher than usual, even muffled into the fabric of his sleeve. It betrays his congestion all at once.Ā
āBless you,ā Yves says.
Vincent emerges, sniffling a little. When he speaks, he sounds a little hoarser than he did yesterday. āI thought I said you - snf-! - could leave them on the front step.ā
āYou did,ā Yves says, glancing down at the folder in his hands. āBut itās windy, and itās raining. I figured youād prefer to have your files intact. How are you feeling?ā
Vincent blinks at him. Heās leaning heavily against the doorframe, Yves realizes, one hand gripped tightly around the frame, his knuckles white from the pressure, as if it would take him too much effort to stay upright otherwise.Ā
āAlright,ā he answers. āThanks for making the trip here. Iā¦ it mustāve taken longer, in the rain.ā He squeezes his eyes shut, as if his head hurts, as if the light coming from outside is exacerbating his headache. āIf you ever need me to pick something up for you, I owe you.ā
āYou donāt owe me anything,ā Yves says. Despite himself, he reaches up to press his hand against Vincentās forehead.
The heat under his fingertips is alarming, to say the least. Yves blinks, lowering his hand, and tries to keep the worry out of his voice. āHave you taken your temperature?ā
Vincent shakes his head. āI donāt think I have a thermometer.ā
āHave you eaten, then?ā
Vincent averts his glance, looking sheepish. āIā¦ was planning to stop for groceries, yesterday,ā he says. Planning to.
Yves thinks back to the elevator ride yesterday. Vincent had probably already been feeling very unwell, then. And yet, heād talked with Yves as if nothing was out of the ordinary. Iām feeling a little off, heād said, as if anything about his current affliction could possibly be characterized as ālittle.ā I will see you tomorrowāas if he had really, genuinely been intending on showing up at work.Ā
āSo I take it that thereās nothing in the fridge, either,ā Yves says.
āIf itās any consolation, youāll be pleased to know that I slept,ā Vincent says, in lieu of answering.
Then he shiversāthe sort of concerning, full-body shiver that is a little concerning, coming from someone who is usually unaffected by the coldāand Yves is immediately reminded that the door theyāre speaking through is open.
āCan I come in?ā he asks.
āYou probably shouldnāt,ā Vincent says, before his expression scrunches up, and heās ducking away with aā āhhā! hHih-IIāTSSCHHh-UH! snf-!ā, smothered hurriedly into the palm of his hand. He sniffles, emerging with a slight wince. āThis came on pretty quickly. It might be the flu.ā
āItās fine,ā Yves says. āI got my flu shot in the winter. And anyways, Iāll be careful.ā
Vincent is quiet, for a moment. Then, frowning, he says, āIād feel terrible if you caught this.ā
Thatās the least of Yvesās worriesāhe doubts heās going to catch this. Even if he does, it will just mean a few days off of work. Not the end of the world, by any means. Nothing to warrant the expression on Vincentās faceāVincent looks upset, as if heāll really canāt think of anything worse than Yves catching this. Like even the thought of it is worth being upset over.
Yves shakes his head. āDonāt worry about it, seriously.ā He pushes past Vincent to step inside and shuts the door behind him. āHere, Iāll set these down on your desk. Where is it?ā
āDown the hallway, to the left,ā Vincent says.
Yves takes the folder, leaves his shoes at the door, and heads inside.Ā
Vincentās bedroom is small and organizedāitās the kind of bedroom thatās tastefully minimal, in the sort of unified manner that implies that everything in it has been carefully arranged. Thereās a small white desk in the corner, a stack of files arranged neatly next to Vincentās laptop, its lid halfway to shut. Thereās a bookshelf, leaned up against the wall far; the bottom shelf looks to be filled with textbooks; the top shelf lined with books, both in Korean and in English. The walls are painted slate gray, the carpets lining the floorboards picked out to match, and there are pale blue curtains hanging from the windows, pulled tightly shut.
There are signs here, too, of his illness, but they are subtle. A tissue box, nestled between his pillow and the headboard, half empty. A waste bin at the foot of the bed, conveniently in reach. A small bottle of aspirin on the bedside counter; an empty packet of cough drops sitting at the edge of his nightstand.
Yves sets the folder at the end of Vincentās desk, next to the rest of his files, and turns to face him.
āYouāre not going to work on these until youāre feeling better, right?ā he asks.
āOnly if I canāt sleep,ā Vincent says, which Yves supposes is a satisfactory answer. Then he twists away, his eyebrows furrowing, lifting a loosely clenched fist to his face to cough, and cough.Ā
The cough is harsh and gratingāhis entire frame shudders with the force of it, his breaths shallow and raspy. He really sounds awful. This must have come on quickly, Yves thinks.
If itās upsetting, seeing Vincent like this, itās even worse to be standing here, in his room, doing nothing. Soāif only to make himself useful, if only to convince himself that thereās something he can doāYves ducks out into the kitchen.
The pantry is meticulously organizedāglasses lined up in neat rows; stacks of bowls sorted by size. He fills a glass with water, shuts the cabinets, and takes it back to the bedroom.Ā
By the time he gets back, Vincent is sitting at the edge of his bed. His glasses are folded neatly, left at the very edge of the countertop.
āHere,ā Yves says, crossing the room, holding out the glass for him to take.Ā
āThanks,ā Vincent says, taking it gingerly from him. He takes a small, tentative sip, and then anotherāhis hands are a little shaky, Yves notices. āYou - snf-! - should really go.ā
āIām not entirely convinced youāll be fine on your own,ā Yves says.
āOf course I will be,ā Vincent says, with all of his usual certainty. He lays down, pulling the covers over his body. āI have been fine on my own for years.ā
Itās meant to be reassuring, Yves supposes. But he doesnāt feel reassured in the least.
āThank you again for bringing me the files,ā Vincent says, at last, shutting his eyes.
āYou couldāve asked me to get you groceries,ā Yves says. āThereās a supermarket not far from here, right? And youāre out of cough drops.ā He takes a few steps over, towards the desk in the corner of the room. āTheseāā He examines the bottle of ibuprofen on the table. āāare expired.ā
āJust because youāve extended this kindness to me,ā Vincent tells him, ādoesnāt mean I should take advantage of it.ā
Yves blinks, a little taken aback. āItās only groceries. I wouldnāt have minded, really.ā
āSee,ā Vincent says, with a note ofāsomething in his voice. It sounds a bit like resignation. āThatās just the kind of person you are.ā
Yves doesnāt know what to say, to that.Ā
Before he can think up a fitting response, Vincentās breathing evens out. Yves lets himself listen to the shallow, steady cadence of it. Lets himself acknowledge the heavy, painful feeling in his chest for just a moment. Then he shuts the lights off and heads back out into the hallway.
[ Part 2 ]
#snz fic#sneeze fic#sneeze kink#snz kink#snz#i wanted to end somewhere more conclusive but i was falling asleep at my keyboard trying to end this so#please take this for now š#my fic#it is very late rn so i am scheduling this for the middle of my work day tomorrow... now i need to run to sleep T.T#i will finish off the latter half of the house visit in the not too distant future!#yvverse#ps caughtintherain if you are reading this ily and i am so grateful to you for letting me consult you abt these two šš and i hope it's#okay for me to post this as a gift jafkhjfslk ANYWAYS pls read this at your leisure and happy birthday again!!!
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uhaam. like a dog by ferry. rk noah. Am i insane
I saw this ask, blacked out, and woke up to this on my screen.
So I think we're both a little insane. (The song, for context.)
#for real i don't know how this ended up on my screen. someone send help.#anyway the joke of dog-themed songs has just become something more i guess? because that's eerily fitting.#it's not a joke anymore šØš³#imo the song's a little more fitting for rk!alejandro? since it seems like it's from the perspective of someone holding power over the 'dog#and also likening themself to a dog as well i guess? but the singer definitely holds the majority of the power in their dynamic.#maybe i just want alejandro to tell noah he'll always come running back to him ālike a wounded dogā. maybe i'm crazy.#maybe i'm born with it. maybe it's maybelline. š¤·āāļø#also please don't mind me linking the 'lullaby' version it just has the clearest/most coherent vocals. š#total drama#td alejandro#td noah#alenoah#rice krispies fic#ophe doodles#replies
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