#it was terrifying

[ominouspuff]

Kote’s House

Kote’s first house is a pathetic thing, and he is incurably proud of it. The twi’lek he purchased it from very evidently could not make up his mind what to do with a man that grinned while he haggled, but it was the first time Kote had haggled over a purchase of his very own. He had thoroughly enjoyed it.

The house is built for one being, and a compact being at that, but Kote doesn’t have much. Moving in is quick, and most of his efforts during the next few days after go into attempting ambitious repairs for things he doesn’t know the first thing about. 

His plumbing is an issue, he knows. Something is getting blocked up. Somehow while trying to fix the kitchen tumbler, his fresher spout explodes.

He hadn’t kept his new house a secret from anyone by any means, but it is still surprising when Fox barges in through his jamming front door. He finds Kote on the floor in his cramped kitchen while the fresher rains water in the adjacent room, laughing so hard and so crippled with delight that he can’t get up.

He tries to explain how wonderful it is —

“I-I have to fix my plumbing on my own, vod—”

—but judging by Fox’s single raised eyebrow he knows it doesn’t translate.

Fox, it turns out, is moving into the neighborhood. Kote doesn’t ask about the house Fox already has — the house he has visited, which is very nice and fancy — or point out that Fox’s contract there cannot possibly be up, which begs the question of why he’s here in Kote’s neighborhood — except that Kote already knows the answer to that question. So he doesn’t ask.

Fox doesn’t show him any grace or forbearance, though.

“Don’t even know how to fix a damn pipe, front lining show-off—” His brother snarls, but it is muffled; his top half had to go down beneath the floor they’d pried up to get at the plumbing issue.

“So that’s what they had you doing all these years.” Kote says, because he really is in a criminally good mood. He barely ducks the foot-long pipe Fox throws at his head, feeling giddy.

He makes dinner that night in thanks. Fox stays, ostensibly because now that he’s fixed the fresher he intends to use it, because his new house isn’t hooked up properly yet to all the supply lines and power grids. 

They choke on homemade tiingilar (vode-style; Kote can’t pretend at the real thing yet) so heavily spiced it’s got grit to it that sticks between the teeth. It’s disgusting, but Cody had bought fifteen different spices and while usually he likes to keep his approach to the unknown more cautious, more methodical, he couldn’t think of anything he wanted to do more than use them all at once for the first time. 

Wolffe joins them not long after; brings a few others along by recommending the apartment he picks out, so that soon most of the complex is taken up by vode, Kote hears, but he doesn’t visit yet. Everyone’s too busy coming over to his house, it seems; filling up his kitchen and asking why he hasn’t fixed the trash disposal yet, why he doesn’t have a couch, doesn’t he know they’re all the rage among civilized folk?

Kote fixes the trash disposal with Rex, who is better at it than he is but says it’s only due to Skywalker’s influence on managing all things mechanical. 

“How is Skywalker?” Kote asks, and gets more than he bargained for over the next hour. At first he’s a bit off-put, because he’s trying to get dinner sorted again and he’s not been very fond of Skywalker at the best of times, but Rex is snorting out a story and laughing and it’s contagious, so Kote just resigns himself and settles in to enjoy.

Skywalker has little ones, now. Obi-Wan is the only one that can get them to sleep. Ahsoka is distressed; she knows better, but every instinct in her is apparently in agony over the little ones’ inability to eat meat yet. She obsesses over nutrients in their diet — which, given what tiny natborn humans primarily ingest in the early stages, makes for some slightly awkward conversations.

Rex helps with dinner afterward, and they take turns being incredulous over natborn baby facts, shoving around one another in the tiny, uncomfortable kitchen.

“What’s your next project?” Rex asks at one point, glancing sidelong with a cheeky look, and Kote levels his vegetable knife at him (he’s got a vegetable knife. Specifically for vegetables. It’s a very new concept). 

“I make everyone’s dinner on Tuangsdays.” He says. “I’m productive.”

Rex’s sharp-toothed grin turns thoughtful. “Yeah” He says. “Everyone loves coming here, you know. You could be the new 79’s.”

Kote knows. He plans and plots, and puts more work into researching recipes than he’s put into any research whatsoever in months. It feels a bit like coming out of a shore leave; his thoughts quicken and his excitement grows. He hunts down a market. He brings a bag. He shops, bargains, and returns victorious.

He sends out a few comms., and can’t help but shake his head and grin at how different the responses are. 

What a marvelous idea, Cody. His general — ex-general — says.

Yus pls, Ahsoka sends back, with some sort of strange tooka vidclip that dances with wiggly gyrations Kote can only assume indicate excitement.

Where is your house, Anakin says, blunt and to the point, and Kote can appreciate that. 

He sends the address. He cooks all day. The sun sets, and Fox and Wolffe arrive, already bickering, Rex trailing behind with a long-suffering look sent to Kote, begging commiseration.

“Ugh, don’t you ever stop smiling, now?” He gripes when Kote just grins at him. 

“Nope,” Kote says, unrepentantly.

He leaves the soup on the stove, simmering, and takes his cup of caf to the window. He leans on it, breathing in cool air, and just listens — listens to the squabbling as Wolffe gets on Fox’s case for not washing Kote’s dishes correctly the last time they visited. Hears the soft thumps of Rex sneaking into the cramped room Kote has set aside for plants and the sole pet he has; a pastel goullian, fins swaying ever so gently, permanent scowl in place. Thinks he catches, distantly, the sound of his remaining three guests (Padme couldn’t attend, and had made him feel very awkward by how thoughtfully she apologized for it) plodding up the hill. 

“Cody!” Ahsoka cries, coming into view and waving. 

Kote’s cheeks have stopped aching from all the smiling he’s gotten used to, so it’s easy to let another through.

[james-spooky]

tmagp 10 out of context

[incorrect-maraudersaandco-quotes]

Emma: And remember, the greatest magic of all. Do you remember? Regulus, who has been spending too much time with James: Friendship Emma: Emma: What the fuck is wrong with you?!

[apollos-boyfriend]

played a house md kahoot series on tiktok where you had to guess what house would say next with apollo and he literally had like a near perfect score. there were at max 3 quotes they were not able to guess. what do i do if my boyfriend is fluent in gregory house.

[chloedoesart]

When the Book of Bill came out, there was a trend on the r/GravityFalls discord server where people would change their pfps to their OCs being possessed by Bill!

Of course, as someone who shook his hand back in 2016, he's been possessing me on and off ever since, so it was only fitting that I jumped on the bandwagon.

Clean version (no distortion/noise) below the cut vvv

[permanentbottombunk]

Falling asleep to markiplier (3 scary games playlist) and he starts saying my fucking name.

Hearing markiplier softly shouting the nickname your family uses for you from the darkness is terrifying.

[kilarthmac]

Sometimes I think about the fact that someone recognized me under an Astarion video comment section once

[howzaboutsomewaterysalt]

Tv vs tape worm

[syn4k]

last night i dreamt that i made a tumblr post and i had somehow gotten so many followers that it got 1k likes and like 36 comments in like fifteen seconds and the very next thing i posted was "hey what the fuck is going on"

[caty3440]

the last one is genuinely the funniest thing that ever happened the prompt was "papyrus people" and my buddy thought the best idea was .. Those creatures?

[book-nerd-emi]

i just drive for the first time!! it was only slightly illegal. and i only ran into the curb once in the high school parking lot!!!

@a-menace-to-society-01 be proud of me. i actually did smth and beat the woman allegations

[a-is-for-arson]

We're waiting for our score, aiming for 3rd

[dumpster-fire-sapphic-failgirl]

Me: Well, I’ve seen The Seven, and it’s only game of thrones meets Candyland. How heartwrenching could it be?

Narrator: Quite heartwrenching, actually

Me: Okay, I’ve seen A Crown of Candy, i know what Brennan is capable of. I’m prepared for EXU: Calamity

Narrator: She was not prepared

Me: Well, Calamity was basically a horror game, how much worse could an actual horror game with Brennan and Luis and Travis and Marisha as players be?

Narrator: Girl do you even listen to yourself?

[strawbubbysugar]

Oh that must've been so scary for June, feeling his own organs grow cold because Goodbye was freezing Can Hello feel the cold through June too? Or does that kind of soulmate feeling not transfer?

Hello can feel it, he just doesn’t have a frame of reference for it! ‘Cold’ felt numb to him, but he’s never felt cold before, so he wasn’t sure how to respond! :)

[carcasscounty]

Had this weird and trippy-ass dream, and the only thing I can remember for sure about it was that something from Weird Al Yankovic was playing on loop the entire duration of the dream and I woke up in a cold sweat